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When your clients move to Switzerland but still return for treatments having tried elsewhere first, then you know you are doing something very right. Una Jefford started out in complementary medicine, graduated with a 1st class honours degree in nursing and holds a distinction in her MSc in Clinical Dermatology. She began specialising in surgical procedures and clinical dermatology in hospital and is a clinical prescriber too. This lady has a true passion for what she does, with a thesis entitled 'Does Cosmetic Surgery improve Psychological Conditions?' under her belt, you can be safe in the knowledge that she is an expert in her field, she does her research, she can tell you what products she uses over others and most importantly she stays abreast of developments in her field, never relying on outdated information or practices. Her motto is 'learning never stops'.
Una was recommended to me by a close friend. With her fair share of celebrity clientele and even some TV work under her belt, it's only now that she's really trying to work on her own business, rather than letting other clinics take the glory.
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With a crushingly stressful year on my hands, I felt closer to 400 than 40! Looking after my my external appearance had taken a back seat to 7+ exams and homework. I desperately needed a pick me up.
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Bruce hailed for making 'obvious difference' after Newcastle win
Updated / Saturday, 20 Jul 2019 15:02
Bruce guided Newcastle to their first victory since taking over the Magpies
Ben Dawson claimed the impact of Steve Bruce was immediate as Newcastle won their first friendly since appointing their new manager.
Yoshinori Muto scored the only goal as the Magpies beat West Ham 1-0 in the third-place play-off of the Premier League Asia Trophy in Shanghai.
Bruce only linked up with the squad on Thursday but Dawson, who will now revert to his role as academy head after taking temporary charge of first-team matters, claimed there had been a big change.
Dawson said: "I think it was obvious the difference having a manager in place. He's obviously given the players some focus and direction.
"He's been able to express his expectations and the standards he wants out on the pitch to both the staff and the players.
"They've obviously been able to work on that the last couple of days and put in the performance they did tonight."
It has been a troubled summer at St James' Park after the departure of Rafael Benitez as manager, the loss of key players Ayoze Perez and Salomon Rondon, and with the continuing takeover rumours.
Bruce spoke about the need to sign new players, particularly strikers, when he addressed media on Friday but goalkeeper Martin Dubravka insists the current players also need to step up.
He said: "It has only been three days but he has been trying to describe what is his way, his style of play. Three days is not enough to know each other but we are professionals and we have to take on the responsibilities.
"We have to take risks in games and create chances. We did today. They were very well organised but that was the key."
Japanese forward Muto took his chance to shine as he turned home Jamie Sterry's cross after 34 minutes. It condemned West Ham to a second defeat of the week after losing 4-1 to Manchester City in Nanjing on Wednesday.
Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini feels the trip to China has been worthwhile, however.
He said: "We had 10 days in Switzerland where we worked in a physical way and this week in China we have played two games to see what our level is. We also gave minutes to the whole squad.
"We are working well and now we need to use the next three weeks to make sure we are a mentally and physically competitive team."
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Whether you flipped your brass rat recently or it's been a few years, there are many ways for you to engage with the arts at MIT after graduation.
A multitude of arts events happen on campus throughout the year ranging from lectures by visiting artists to opening receptions at the List Visual Arts Center. Hundreds of performances are presented during the academic year by Music and Theater Arts, as well as the Center for Art, Science & Technology. Alumni can enroll in a class at the Student Art Association or volunteer to mentor current students working to establish their own arts-focused start up business.
Sign up for a digest email newsletter covering all the latest news and details about the arts at MIT.
To let us know what you are up to in the arts, contact leaht@mit.edu.
The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.
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The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology invites MIT alumni to attend public programming affiliated with the Visiting Artist Program including artist lectures, film screenings, workshops, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical performances.
Subscribe to email alerts about upcoming events
2019 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts Exhibition in the Wiesner Gallery. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) was founded in 1972 by MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner to support the arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With its enthusiastic advocacy for all the arts at MIT, the Council's mission is to act as a catalyst for the development of a broadly based, highly participatory program in the arts, firmly founded on teaching, practice, and research at the Institute, and to conduct arts-related fundraising activities on behalf of MIT.
Hacking Arts Festival, 2016.
The MIT Creative Arts Competition is an annual contest designed to encourage arts-focused startups at the Institute. The $15,000 prize is offered as a grant to help launch the winning enterprise and enable the recipient(s) to join the ranks of MIT's successful startup founders.
Alumni are invited to mentor current students working to establish their own arts-focused start up business and also to attend the live pitch event in May, which is when the winners are selected from the finalists and awarded prizes. The distinguished panel of jurors and team of mentors includes alumni entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders in the arts.
To get involved as a mentor, contact Shannon Rose McAuliffe, Manager of Student Arts Programs
List Visual Arts Center, Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 .
Exhibitions on Campus
Entry is free at the MIT Museum for MIT ID holders (students, faculty, staff, spouses, alumni) with one free guest.
Entry is free to everyone at the List Visual Arts Center, the Wiesner Student Art Gallery, and at the many other galleries throughout campus.
On March 25, 2017, the Grad Arts Forum invited the Boston community to the 8th Annual Graduate Arts Soiree. The celebrations included works of art and live performances by MIT graduate students. Credit: Joseph Lee.
Join a local chapter of the Alumni Association
Thanks to the Alumni Association's sprawling network of clubs, groups, and classes, you can still find community at MIT—no matter where you are in the world.
Enjoy an art-related event alongside other MIT alumni in your region.
Blackstar, March 3, 2017. Credit: Justin Knight.
MIT Sounding Series
An innovative annual performance series curated by Evan Ziporyn, faculty director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), the MIT Sounding Series expands musical boundaries.
This season of MIT Sounding presents unique artists who push the envelope of their respective genres, creating new evolving music for the 21st century.
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Lisa Dwan presents "A Body of Beckett" at MIT, 2019. Credit: Leon Yim.
MIT Performing Series
A prototyping and presenting series programmed by Jay Scheib, professor for Music and Theater Arts, MIT Performing is presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and supported in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Based in Building W97, MIT's new Theater Arts facility opened in 2017, MIT Performing promotes research-based artistic practices across disciplines, fostering new platforms for contemporary performance.
Anna Kohler, Anna Martel, Adam Strandberg in Mytho? Lure of Wildness . Photo: Caleb Hammond.
Read about Alumni in the Arts
Explore alumni profiles, news, announcements, and projects by MIT alumni on the blog.
The SAA Ceramic Studio on the fourth floor of the MIT Stratton Student Center. Credit: HErickson/MIT.
Student Art Association
The Student Art Association (SAA) provides extra-academic, hands-on instruction and studio experience in the arts for all levels in a range of media.
MIT alumni are invited to enroll for a semester-long class to develop or refine artistic skills in an open and relaxed studio environment.
Registration available to MIT alumni for fall, IAP, spring, and summer classes


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Proto-teeth migrate along the developing jaw
by Nicholas Weiler, University of California, San Francisco
Smile! For the first time, researchers have captured on video how teeth find their way to the right spot in the jaw to give you that winning grin. The research, led by scientists at UC San Francisco, showed in mice that molar progenitor cells migrate to their final locations during development, rather than forming the teeth in place, as researchers had previously thought.
The findings—published online Dec. 21 in the journal Developmental Cell—should give developmental biologists a lot to chew on. They suggest that the progenitor cells that produce other organs could also exhibit as-yet unrecognized wanderlust, and could help explain how teeth and other organs ended up in such diverse configurations in different species over the course of evolution. The insights may even have implications for understanding how cancerous cells migrate to invade other tissues.
For decades, developmental biologists have puzzled over the question of how the genetic code instructs organs to form in the right places in the bodies of different animals. "It's a crucial part of development," said Ophir Klein, MD, PhD, Larry L. Hillblom Distinguished Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies, chair of the Divisions of Craniofacial Anomalies and Orthodontics at UCSF, and senior author of the new study. "For example, you need to get the eyes in the right part of the face. The limb positioning needs to be perfectly balanced. For each particular species, the teeth need to be at the right place in the jaw for the animal to be able to eat or to defend itself. But we knew little to nothing about how they get there, at least in mammals."
The assumption has generally been that biochemical signals mark the cardinal directions and divisions of the body like latitude and longitude on a map, and that budding organs are genetically programmed to form at the correct GPS coordinate. Teeth, for instance, which are commonly used as simple models for the development of more complex organs, were previously thought to grow in place from clusters of homogenous precursor cells expressing a gene called Fgf8.
Recently, however, results from fish and fruit flies have suggested that organ formation might be a much more dynamic process than was previously thought, with organ precursor cells being born in one location and then migrating together to their final destination.
"This gave us an intuition that tooth formation in mammals might be more complicated than what people had surmised," Klein said.
When Klein and colleagues began exploring the timeline of tooth development in mice, they noticed that the cells destined to become molars appeared to shift positions over two crucial days of embryonic development. When the team tracked these cells using video microscopy, they discovered that the tooth precursors first organized themselves into a "rosette"-like structure in the back of the mouth near the jaw's hinge, then broke up and flowed together on cue toward the correct spot to grow a tooth.
Additional experiments revealed that a distinct group of cells act as a target for the migrating tooth precursors. These target cells lead the traveling progenitor cells to the proper position in the jaw for tooth formation, using a signaling protein called Hedgehog as a molecular trail of breadcrumbs. Genetically blocking either Fgf8 or the Hedgehog-producing gene in mice prevented teeth from forming in the correct place.
Though the present research only demonstrated migration of molar precursor cells in mice, Klein speculated that developmental migration may be common to many organs across mammalian species. If so, it could help explain an evolutionary mystery: How does the positioning of teeth and other organs vary so much between species when the early progenitors of the organs are so similar? The new data suggest that evolution could easily move organs around within the body plan of a given species by shifting the locations of the guide cells that instruct the progenitors where to go.
The migrating proto-molars in the present study also display some similarities to certain invasive cancers, Klein said. Understanding the mechanisms that guide organ migration during development could potentially be used to block related processes in tumors.
Advances in video microscopy will continue to open up new avenues to explore these dynamic developmental processes, Klein said. "It turns out that if you want to understand organ migration and positioning, you need to actually watch things happen. As soon as we made these videos of the process, we suddenly saw something very different than what we had expected. It was one of these cases where you've been staring at something forever but never realized what was right in front of you."
Evolution of stem cells traced in study of fossilized rodent teeth
More information: Jan Prochazka et al. Migration of Founder Epithelial Cells Drives Proper Molar Tooth Positioning and Morphogenesis, Developmental Cell (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.025
Journal information: Developmental Cell
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Citation: Proto-teeth migrate along the developing jaw (2015, December 22) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-proto-teeth-migrate-jaw.html
Stem cells grow fully functional new teeth
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The New Secret Garden and Nursery is celebrating Spring at their new site on the grounds of Western Sydney University at Richmond! Come and explore our beautiful new home – a wonderful community hub that keeps growing as new groups and organisations join us on this 25-acre site. We currently have a Retail Nursery, Accessible Gardens, a beautiful pond, Farmyard Animals, Children's Playground, Fairy Garden, Mud Brick Café, Candle Making, Music Room, Recycling project, Woodwork Workshop, Hawkesbury Valley Men's Shed and Riding for the Disabled all on site.
We invite you to enjoy a delightful day out at the 'New' Secret Garden with family and friends! Experience cottage gardens, plants, Live Music all day, pony rides, fun children's activities, coffee, home-made Devonshire teas, freshly cooked Pizzas from our woodfired Pizza Oven, BBQ and fresh local food. An array of stalls will be selling their treasures on the village green with cakes, jams, candles, crystals, honey, metal art, hand-made crafts, soaps, bee hotels, old fashioned wares and recycled goods.
The "New" Secret Garden has a focus on community inclusion based on a therapeutic environment offering a safe, supportive and educational space for people of all ages and stages of life. We welcome participants and volunteers to join us and enjoy the special energy the Secret Garden has – you are all most welcome. The retail nursery has hundreds of beautiful plants that are grown as part of the Horticultural Therapy Program with the sale of these plants enabling North West Disability Services to provide support for the delivery of all our programs. Music, Art, Meditation, Yoga, Equine and a range of animal therapies will develop over time.
"We feel excited to be hosting our first Spring Fair at the 'New' Secret Garden to share with the community in this beautiful rural setting. I am sure everyone will be surprised to see the unique buildings and landscape that our many volunteers and supporters have created" confirmed the Co-ordinator, Marianne Farrar.


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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PART OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION/THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY
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Sustainable Development Goals: the UN 2030 Agenda for People & Planet
Charity, systemic change and political advocacy are the triad of justice.
The Vincentian Family is a global family founded on our primary charismatic intuition, "there is God endowed dignity in every human story and in our planet." We are a coalition of Vincentian Family NGOs that collaborates around our ministry of advocacy at the United Nations, respecting our individual identities and mandates, to strengthen the impact of advocacy we have as a family. We seek to be a united voice of the Vincentian Family at the United Nations. We advocate for and seek the empowerment of our brothers and sisters on the social and economic margins of history and society, the excluded, and our wounded Mother Earth.
The Vincentian Family at the United Nations envisions a world where the integral development of the human person is safeguarded. We promote a world of sustainable livelihoods, economic justice, social inclusion, and environmental protection, particularly for the most vulnerable and excluded, so that the dignity of each person is respected and poverty is ended. We embrace a human rights framework, to ensure that all persons can live in a world of peace, justice, and security.
After the celebration of the 400 years of our Charism (2017), we embrace HOMELESSNESS as the main focus of our advocacy campaign together at the UN to support the efforts of our entire family around the world. We will continue to adapt to thematic approaches the Vincentian Family collectively chooses to bring an end to poverty.
We share efforts and critical information around local and global concerns, in collaboration with other organizations who share our values.
We bring the voices of the most vulnerable and those we work with through our Vincentian Family to the United Nations, and take global UN concerns back to our members, so that there is mutual input towards effective solutions.
We create awareness and educate the Vincentian Family for advocacy at the grass roots, national, and global levels.
We ensure that the Vincentian Family focus will be on the formulation of policies around social inclusion, economic justice, and care of the environment.
We promote a collaborative systemic-change perspective among Vincentian Family members at all levels.
We address issues from an integrative ethical and moral perspective, with human rights, responsibilities, and personal dignity at the forefront.
Video Message from our NGO Representative:
Those of us who are spiritually rooted and grounded by our religious traditions possess perspectives that make us unique in our orientation towards advocacy and social justice. Because Jesus Christ calls us in varying ways to respond to injustice and social inequities, we can offer our communities the opportunity to engage in community service, advocacy and community education knowing that helps us build the beloved community. Our advocacy, borne out of the Gospel's call, can be and is a powerful mechanism for building and sustaining vibrant communities and strong societies.
VIN-JPIC: The international network of the CM for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation.
This is an educative and action-oriented network of the CM, to support and/or promote campaigns that promote humans rights, peace, integral ecology, social justice, etc.
VIN-JPIC is also open to publicly denounce the causes of injustice and the violation of Human Rights.
What do we promote?
The values and attitudes of justice, peace and integrity of creation on the personal, communal, provincial and international levels of the Congregation.
What do we represent?
The prophetic stance of the CM by joining its voice with those who cry for justice and by providing a voice for our planet and for those who are voiceless in the struggle for justice.
VIN-JPIC AROUND THE GLOBE
VIN-JPIC has confreres representatives in the following countries (provinces, vice-provinces and missions):
Africa/COVIAM: Nigeria, Rwanda-Burundi, Chat, Mozambique, Eritrea, Etiopia, Congo, Camerum and Madagascar.
Americas/CLAPVI: Argentina, Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brasil (three provinces), Mexico, Central America (5 countries), Puerto Rico and United States.
Europe/CEVIM: France, Ireland, Spain (two provinces), Hungary, Orient, Slovakia, Slovenia, Portugal, Italy and Ukraine.
Asia/APVC: Indonesia, India (two provinces), China, Oceania and Philippines.
The international coordination of VIN-JPIC is in the hands of our representative at the UN along with a coordinator from each of the four regions.
Laudato Si says everything is connected and Fratelli Tutti tells us we are all connected.
A Prayer to the Creator
Lord, Father of our human family,
you created all human beings equal in dignity:
pour forth into our hearts a fraternal spirit
and inspire in us a dream of renewed encounter,
dialogue, justice and peace.
Move us to create healthier societies
and a more dignified world,
a world without hunger, poverty, violence and war.
May our hearts be open
to all the peoples and nations of the earth.
May we recognize the goodness and beauty
that you have sown in each of us,
and thus forge bonds of unity, common projects,
and shared dreams. Amen.
An adequate understanding of spirituality consists in filling out what we mean by peace, which is much more than the absence of war. Inner peace is closely related to care for ecology and for the common good because, lived out authentically, it is reflected in a balanced lifestyle together with a capacity for wonder which takes us to a deeper understanding of life…. An integral ecology includes taking time to recover a serene harmony with creation, reflecting on our lifestyle and our ideals, and contemplating the Creator who lives among us and surrounds us, whose presence "must not be contrived but found, uncovered". An integral ecology is also made up of simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness …(LS # 225 and 230)
Jim Claffey - NGO representative of the Congregation of the Mission at the United Nations
Born in a Vincentian parish in Philadelphia, educated and trained by Vincentians, Jim has been connected to St. Vincent de Paul's charism to evangelize and serve the poor his entire life in different ways both home and abroad.
Jim holds certificates in Spanish language fluency and community organizing, and a master's degree in psychology. Jim worked for many years with the St. Vincent de Paul Society on Long Island, and currently also serves as the coordinator of the Vincentian Family's International Commission to Promote Systemic Change. Jim lives in New York with his wife Nalini who shares his conviction about the importance of social justice.
Jim is recipient of the President's Medal from St. John's University and an Honorary Doctorate from Niagara University for social justice work in Panama.
Chloé Bergeron - Intern
Chloé is a St. John's University senior. She is a Communication Arts major and International Studies, Social Justice and TV/Film minor from Plaquemine, Louisiana. She is currently interning with the Congregation of the Mission at the UN. She also works as a Project ID caseworker in Brooklyn, an English tutor with Reading Partners in Queens, and a freelance broadcaster with ESPN3 and FOX sports network programming.
Q and A with Vincentian Representative at the UN
The United Nations is a well-known and important entity, but what defines an NGO?
The designation NGO means a Non-Governmental Organization, the "civil society," which is the third main body of the UN, along with the Secretariat (departments/offices) and the "Member States," which are the 193 countries represented there. There are 4,000 registered NGOs at the UN, representing religious groups and other interests.
Do you represent the worldwide Congregation of the Mission, or just a certain Province(s)?
In this position I represent the Congregation of the Mission.
In addition, I work closely with four other Vincentian NGOs, namely the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Daughters of Charity, the AIC (International Association of Charity, formerly Ladies of Charity), and the Sisters of Charity Federation. Together we represent the Vincentian Family at the UN.
In the simplest terms, what is the goal, or mission, of the UN NGO Representative for the Congregation?
The goal is to promote the values and concerns of the Congregation, especially in terms of promoting justice, peace, and the integrity of creation in advancing the well-being of impoverished people around the world. I emphasize the work to end global homelessness, currently the unique common project of the entire Vincentian Family. And so in terms of priority, I am a member of (1) the Working Group to End Homelessness, (2) the Migration Committee's sub-committee on migrants in vulnerable situations, and (3) the Mining Group, working on human and environmental rights as related to extractive industries.
We realize that your position is complex, but what might a typical workday entail?
The position is complex because the UN is a highly complex organization with baffling bureaucracy and complicated process and practice. Normally the work entails networking with other NGOs and with Member States in order to advance our agenda, studying the issues, preparing reports and position papers, attending meetings, giving oral statements, and sharing relevant information with our members. During the pandemic, with the UN building closed until further notice, everything is done virtually. Therefore, we have Zoom meetings on an almost daily basis—unfortunately a slower way to accomplish the mission.
What is your background and how did you come about serving in this important position?
The confreres of the Province would know my background as a former member. Although I left the community after a difficult and painful three-year discernment process, in all subsequent employment I have tried to advance our charism of evangelizing and serving the poor, and continued great friendship with a number of the confreres. Fortunately, my wife Nalini is totally supportive of Vincentian ministry.
Working on the VinFam International Commission to Promote Systemic Change, which I now chair, has kept me close to our leadership in Rome. It still came as a surprise and an undeserved honor when Father Tomaž Mavrič, CM, and the General Council asked me to take on this role. I intend to represent the CM with the dignity and respect it clearly deserves.
Anything else that you'd like our readers to know?
Clearly, there are many ways to serve the poor. Although most of us would prefer more of a hands-on ministry, with positive results readily seen, there is an important role for the Congregation at the level of the UN. There the global reach of our international community can make itself felt in defense and promotion of poor people everywhere. There, our rich legacy of following St. Vincent in his creative networking and passionate care of the poor, and our charism of seeking practical and effective ways to serve them, can impact a broad audience of Member States, religious and other advocates for transformative change in our world.


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Anything But Love (Cupcake Lovers #3) by Beth Ciotta with Giveaway
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As my introduction to the series, Beth Ciotta has managed to catch new readers up without over presentation of old stories that would be distracting for those who have read the series. Regan, or Rae as she was known in the little Vermont town when she was off living a quiet life has much to atone for. In her retreat to Sugar Creek, she assumed a new name, and hid the realities of her life and fortune from the people she encountered and befriended. When confronted with her truths by Luke, despite her misgivings she returns to Vermont to make amends.
There was a familiarity in the characterizations and descriptions: people felt honest and real, the town has a solid sense of the small town Vermont aura that is omnipresent in little New England towns, and the everyone knows you, if not personally but by name and reputation was a solid thread running through the story.
Cupcake Lovers, as a group, are people with a sweet tooth yet that is not their only connection. Each character we meet is searching and seeking: whether it's resolution or love, to hide or to make changes, this little group of misfit children find a place and acceptance in town. Each new character introduced has an easily accessible backstory, not leaving the reader questioning or at a loss for how one fits with another. While there is a romance budding with Luke and Rae, and several other side stories from flirtatious to newly matched couples, the plot is never overly complicated or hard to follow.
An utterly enjoyable read that plays with emotions and humor in equal measure and keeps the reader entertained through every page.
Title: Anything But Love
Author: Beth Ciotta
Published by: St. Martin's Press
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For Reagan Deveraux, Sugar Creek, Vermont, and the Cupcake Lovers are a dream come true: A cozy little town where family and friends come before everything else. She's never experienced anything like it—especially not growing up with her mother, a fickle, fame-hungry heiress. But Rae's plan to hide out in anonymity for a year until she can claim her inheritance—and her independence—changes with one kiss from gorgeous pub owner Luke Monroe.
Luke's charm is legendary, but he's never been a one-woman man. Until Rae captures his attention, that is, and then disappears. With a little help from a friend, Luke tracks her down—and unearths secrets almost too wild to be true, as well as the fact that Rae lied to him, and to all of Sugar Creek. Luke's not sure if he can forgive her, but he definitely can't forget her, and when she returns to save the Cupcake Lovers from disaster, he knows it's his chance to get the truth—and get the girl, this time for good…
A copy of this title was provided via Publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.
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About Beth Ciotta
Storytelling comes naturally to award-winning author Beth Ciotta. Dubbed "fun and sexy" by Publisher's Weekly, Beth specializes in contemporary, historical, steampunk, and paranormal romantic fiction.
Beth lives in NJ with her husband, two zany dogs, and a crazy cat. A retired professional performer, Beth now pours her artistic passion into her writing. To learn more about her colorful life, visit her website at www.bethciotta.com
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THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Rudolph Valentino's Villa in 1936 in black and white photography.
Rudolph Valentino's Villa in 1936 in black and white photography.
and his sister Eve and her husband Chet Haines all circling the art deco statue,Aspiration, in 1937 during Maybelline's Art Deco period.
This beautiful vintage picture was taken at the Villa Valentino in 1937 and truly is a nostalgic piece of Hollywood history. Tom Lyle Williams sister Mabel standing next to him, is Maybelline's namesake.
Scroll down and enjoy some of Maybelline's amazing Art Deco advertisements from the 1930's, and further down you will find posts describing Rudolph Valentino's Villa in Whitley Heights after the "Great Lover's" death in 1926.
I will be posting more views from the stunning Villa Valentino all this week, so stay tuned for captivating black and white photographs of Tom Lyle and his sisters Mabel and Eva on the veranda, in the garden and looking up to the Hollywood Hills from Hollywood Blvd.
Please post a comment it would be much apprecitated. Read more about Tom Lyle and The Maybelline Company in my book The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It.


Ushaka Marine World in KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa is situated in the city of Durban.
Ushaka Marine Park is a 16 hectare theme park situated on the strip of land between Durban's Beach front and the Harbour. It opened in April 2004 and has since brought much fun, excitement and entertainment to many visitors and thus positioned itself as one of the main attractions on Durban's Golden Mile.
uShaka Wet 'n Wild is a theme park with everything form a lazy river ride to high speed slides. It has claim to the highest water slide in the southern hemisphere.
uShaka Sea World is the fourth largest in the world with 32 tanks and the underground aquarium is designed around five shipwrecks. Visitors can snorkel in the Lagoon with about 1500 fish or take part in an animal encounter in various ways. A sub-section has been included called Dangerous Creatures which includes exhibits of reptiles, arachnids and amphibians.
uShaka Beach has direct access from the park with a large pier leading out into the ocean.
uShaka Village Walk is a large shopping area designed to look like an African Market with shops, restaurants and cafés.
Tourist can find every type of accommodation in the city and surrounding suburbs. It is recommended that you book very early for April and December holidays as this area is very popular.
Senior citizens, Children & Adult rates vary between R115 and R149 for the Water Park and again for Sea World.
Combo rates for entry into both Water World and Sea World are also available.
Senior citizens, Children & Adult rates vary between R20 and R65 for Dangerous Creatures and again for Kids World. Children under 2 years old are free.
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Today we're taking a family car trip -- all in all the four of us will be in corolla together for about 7 hours. To pass the time Jacob and I are planning to read to each other from Wildwood, by Colin Meloy. It is a book we're both interested in reading, written by the lead singer in a favorite band we discovered not too long ago (The Decemberists). It is illustrated by his wife, who secured a place in my heart with her fantastic work on the first Mysterious Benedict Society book.
Do you enjoy reading aloud? It's one of my favorite pastimes. It took a while, but I've finally convinced Jacob to listen to me while I'm doing it. Usually.
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I usually prefer to read to myself. But then I get awfully car sick just sitting still so I could never read aloud in the car (I really wish I could read in the car). In those instance, I would be happy to have someone read to me. One of Neal's and my favorite car ride things is to get a book on CD or podcast and listen and pause every few minutes to discuss. We find Radiolab particularly enjoyable and thought-provoking.
Rebecca -- awesome (even if it is off-topic)! I have emailed you.
llcall -- Jacob and I love audiobooks, too! As long as they have a decent narrator. Sadly our CD player in the car just fritzed out. :( That's why we braved potential carsickness. Thanks for the tip about Radiolab, I'll check it out.
Good luck on your trip & enjoy the book!
Bethany I love that! I find myself interpreting what other readers say with different (better) inflection, too.
And the book is good so far!


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It has been several months since I put my last short story here and some concepts have finally come together into another one. This story has the same setting as others - it is preceded by this and followed by this but can be taken as stand-alone.
Kelli Ratison was contemplating crime. The current on-line discussion among her friends was on the topic of "have you ever committed a crime" and Kelli was deciding whether to enter into the fray. Many of the comments made were hopelessly "me-too-ist" in nature. Several bragged of under-aged entry into adult bars and clubs. Some were "software pirates". One friend (well more an acquaintance) even cited his chronic j-walking. Kelli wondered how much any of this counted as truly criminal.
A number of her closer friends introduced substance abuse into the discussion. This forced Kelli to bite her metaphorical tongue. Despite her student activist background and her feral cultural identity, Kelli was very critical of dabbling in illicit drugs. For her those who profited from the distribution and sale of such products were "unadulterated capitalists" who grew rich on the suffering of the addicted. She had once, at a dinner party, made the mistake of suggesting that narcotics should be subject to a consumer boycott as much or moreso than Nestle or Nike. The cold silence she got for her comment made her wary in future of dissenting, even within a dissenting scene.
No, rather than start a rant that would end in "unfriendings" on-line, Kelli decided to introduce her own kind of crime, one that would put others to shame. Her preferred crime, exiting, irreverent, but victimless, was trespass. She cranked up the volume on Mouthpiece, her favourite hardcore band, and got to composing her contribution to the one-up-person-ship.
Kelli had been introduced to the joys of trespassing by Kim, her ex. There was something indescribably tantalizing about creeping into forbidden places. Kim had moved on the periphery of a group called The Sewer Savages who were dedicated (originally) to the exploring of underground urban waterways. The members Kim hung with were more into above-ground expeditions, however, which was just as well, as Kelli was a tad claustrophobic.
The first adventure they went on together, as part of a small group, was inside the newly constructed Wingnut Overpass, which would improve access between the eastern and western suburbs. To the casual observer, the overpass was a solid expanse of concrete, but it was in fact hollow, like a necklace made of macaroni on a string. The most challenging part of their nocturnal undertaking had been getting through a small hole cut into some cyclone fencing, followed by a quick dash across scrubby ground. They had then clambered onto a concrete shelf and shimmied on tummy between huge cement components into the darkness beyond.
Kelli had been somewhat dubious of the whole exercise, but that all changed once they were inside and the torches were lit. Inside, stretching away into the distance, was a wide corridor of seeming-stone, which they carefully walked along. At regular intervals the taller members of the group would have to duck under beams at the junctures of bridge segments, but both Kelli & Kim were free of such frustrations. They were particularly impressed by those parts of the structure over the support pylons, which dipped lower and therefore were considerably larger inside, with gently sloping floors, like those of a cinema theatrette. In these spaces Kelli imagined a top-secret government military installation, while, who knows, Kim was probably entertaining notions of pagan tombs. And all this was under what would soon be a tarmac traversed by cars and trucks.
On some occasions Kim would take Kelli along to Sewer Savage group activities, but on others they would go together, alone, to some forbidden locale. On one lazy Sunday afternoon they went walking, to get away from the restrictive scrutiny of Kim's parents, and came across an abandoned aged care facility that was slated for demolition. With a bit of effort they jumped over the front fence, and from there access was a cinch. Local teenagers had already been there, as evidenced by assorted graffiti inside and outside. All the doors and many of the windows on the lower floor had been smashed open. They entered the kitchen and stepped over the crushed glass and ripped lino. It was dark inside but luckily it was a sunny day so they could see well. They were surprised to find that there were still lots of hospital-standard beds in the rooms, and Kelli found this terribly wasteful. Kim, annoyingly, muttered that the place could be haunted.
The nursing home was a bit creepy, as Kelli discovered when they eventually found the staircase to the top floor behind what had looked like a cupboard door. In the stairwell it was totally dark and, using mobile phones as lights, they ascended, only to be scared by the sudden sound of a slamming door from above. Creeping, ever more tentatively, they checked all the rooms above, relieved that the grumpy squatter they had just imagined must have been the wind whipping through the smashed windows. After that the excitement had passed for Kelli, and she convinced Kim that it was time to go.
Some weeks later they discovered that the site was intended for the future use of a childcare centre. Kelli found this ironic, given the ageing population. Kim found it inspiring and sat down to pen a story about a childcare centre infested by the youth-envying ghosts of neglected and forgotten grandparents. Kelli commented that the world was sufficiently horrifying without having to invent fictitious horrors. Kim responded that Kelli should take a chill-pill every now-and-then. The differences between them were becoming more apparent as time passed. Kelli was getting more involved in activism and finding the emo friends of Kim more petty and insular. Kim was finding Kelli more opinionated and media-obsessed. Eventually Kelli made the innocent mistake of complimenting Kim as "exotic" and somehow it was all over after that.
Kelli reflected that one always takes something away from a relationship. In the case of Kim, she had taken from that chapter of her life an abiding love of trespass, which she would continue, alone if necessary. Just a few weeks ago she had moved into a share household in an inner suburb, and on a familiarizing walk had come across a condemned brickworks. Kelli decided she needed to explore it before it was converted into apartments, and so one night she slipped into her drabbest clothes and packed some wire-cutters and a torch into her backpack. The gate was padlocked, but the chain was sufficiently long to allow the compact vegetarian to squeeze in. There she was rewarded with courtyards filled with broken bricks and three looming old brick structures filled with shadows and the dust of decades. Kelli wandered low-ceilinged passages into vaulting chambers. She climbed rusting iron ladders onto rotting wooden walkways. She was startled by – what – maybe some bats and almost fell over a loose railing.
Okay, Kelli reflected on writing about the brickworks, that maybe there are potential victims of trespass, if you consider self-harm to be a problem, which increasingly Kelli decided was the case. And then she started to consider the consequences of her actions. A stray word had precipitated the end of her last relationship. What, she wondered, would her long admission of criminal activity on the Internet do to herself or others involved? She toyed with the age-old subversive device of changing the names of persons and places in her true escapades, but then she suddenly felt very tired of the whole story. The album had stopped playing, and with it Kelli stopped writing. She sat there for a moment contemplating the shadows of her past. And then Kelli deleted what she had written. Some things, she decided, were best left as just the memory of those who experienced them.
That was fun putting together once I decided to sit down and do it. One thing I find interesting is that contemporary realist settings seem to be replacing futuristic science-fiction settings for my short fiction writing. I cannot say exactly why I have made that change but it is satisfying for now.
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Home Political Marijuana News Illinois Cannabis Cultivation Center License Announcement Delayed
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Now former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn issued a statement Monday morning talking about his decision to not award licenses to medical marijuana cultivation centers before leaving office. He instead will pass that job on to Republican Gov. Elect Bruce Rauner who was to be sworn in this afternoon.
Quinn had originally said he would make a decision on the applications of those that applied for licenses to run medical marijuana cultivation centers, by the end of 2014, but that decision did not come. He told The Associated Press on Friday that state agencies would only decide after taking "as much time as necessary" to do the job correctly.
"It shouldn't be rushed out last minute," Grant Klinzman, Quinn spokesperson said. "The agencies in charge of awarding these licenses have already completed most of the work in full accordance with the law, and the new administration will now administer the rest."
The decision by Quinn was criticized before it was even announced. Rep. Lou Lang , a Skokie Democrat who was a sponsor of the legislation expressed concern for the sick people waiting for access to medical marijuana in the state.
"The inexplicable unwillingness of Governor Quinn to finish the job on the medical marijuana program means one thing: unnecessary prolonged pain and suffering of very sick people," Lang said. "The people suffering from cancer, epilepsy will be further victimized by the governor's failure to do his job."
With the job of awarding licenses now in the hands of Rauner, it will most likely be even longer before the licenses are awarded and medical marijuana cultivation facilities are in operation. During his campaign, Rauner made the comment that the state should just auction off licenses to the highest bidders.
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Crime, Kidnaping and Prison Laws...
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tries, plants, factories, or shops for the manufacture of articles, commodities, and supplies for the United States Government; require any department or establishment of the United States to purchase at current market prices, as determined by the Attorney General or his authorized representatives, such articles, commodities, or supplies as meet their specifications. There may be established a workingcapital fund for said industries out of any funds appropriated for said institution; and said working-capital fund shall be available for the purchase, repair, or replacement of machinery or equipment, for the purchase of raw materials and supplies, for personal services of civilían employees, and for the payment to the inmates or their dependents of such pecuniary earnings as the Attorney General shall
Sec. 6. There is hereby authorized to be created a board of exam. iners for each Federal penal and correctional institution where per. sons convicted of offenses against the United States are incarcerated, to consist of (1) a medical officer appointed by the warden or superintendent of the institution; (2) a medical officer to be appointed by the Attorney General; and (3) a competent expert in mental diseases to be nominated by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. The said board shall examine any inmate of the institution alleged to be insane or of unsound mind or otherwise defective and report their findings and the facts on which they are based to the Attorney General. The Attorney General, upon receiving such report, may direct the warden or superintendent or other official having custody of the prisoner to cause such prisoner to be removed to the United States hospital for defective delinquents or to any other such institution as is now authorized by law to receive insane persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States, there to be kept until, in the judgment of the superintendent of said hospital, the prisoner shall be restored to sanity or health or until the maximum sentence, without deduction for good time or commutation of sentence, shall have been served.
Seo. 7. Any inmate of said United States hospital for defective delinquents whose sanity or health is restored prior to the expiration of his sentence, may be retransferred to any penal or correctional institution designated by the Attorney General, there to remain pursuant to the original sentence computing the time of his detention or confinement in said hospital as part of the term of his imprisonment.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said hospital to notify the proper authorities of the State, District, or Territory where any insane convict shall have his legal residence, or, if this can not be ascertained, the proper authorities of the State, District, or Territory from which he was committed, of the date of the expiration of the sentence of any convict who, in the judgment of the superintendent of said hospital, is still insane or a menace to the public. The superintendent of said hospital shall cause to be delivered into the custody of the proper authorities of the State, District, or Territory the body of said insane convict.
SEC. 9. Al transfers from penal and correctional institutions to or from the hospital for defective delinquents shall be made in such manner as the Attorney General may direct, and the expense thereof Sec. 10. The expenses incurred in the necessary travel in the selection of a site, in making of surveys, the making of preliminary sketches, and the securing of options shall be payable out of appropriation "Support of prisoners" for the fiscal year in which such expense is incurred, not exceeding, however, the sum of $20,000.
Sec. 11. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.
Approved, May 13, 1930.
(PUBLIC-No. 203—71st CONGRESS)
(H. R. 9235)
An Act To authorize the Public Health Service to provido medical service in the Federal prisons.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, authorized medical relief under the Department of Justice in Federal penal and correctional institutions shall be supervised and furnished by personnel of the Public Health Service, and upon request of the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury shall detail regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, pharmacists, acting assistant surgeons, and other employees of the Public Health Service to the Department of Justice for the purpose of supervising and furnishing medical, psychiatric, and other technical and scientific services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions.
SEC. 2. The compensation, allowances, and expenses of the personnel so detailed may be paid from applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service, such appropriations to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations of the Department of Justice; or the Attorney General is hereby authorized to make allotments of funds and transfer of credit to the Public Health Service in such amounts as are available and necessary, which funds shall be available for payment of compensation, allowances, and expenses of personnel so detailed, in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service.
(H. R. 7413]
An Act To amend an Act providing for the parole of United States prisoners, approved June 25, 1910, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in lieu of all existing boards of parole at Federal penal and correctional institutions as provided by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (chapter 387, Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 819), and all other Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto (sections 714 to 723, inclusive, title 18, United States Code), there is hereby created a single Board of Parole to consist of three members to be appointed by the Attorney General, at a salary of $7,500 each per annum.
Sec. 2. All power and authority now vested in, and all duties now imposed upon, the Attorney General and the several existing boards of parole with respect to the parole of United States prisoners are hereby transferred to the Board of Parole created by this Act: Provided, however, That this Act shall not affect the method, terms, or conditions under which United States prisoners confined in any State reformatory are paroled, except that the power to approve the release on parole of such prisoners is conferred upon the Board of Parole herein created.
Sec. 3. The said board, or any member thereof, shall hereafter have the exclusive authority to issue warrants for the retaking of any United States prisoner who has violated his parole. The unexpired term of imprisonment of any such prisoner shall begin to run from the date he is returned to the institution, and the time the prisoner was on parole shall not diminish the time he was originally sentenced to serve.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect thirty days from and after the date of its approval. Approved, May 13, 1930.
SEC. 10. The expenses incurred in the necessary travel in the selection of a site, in making of surveys, the making of preliminary sketches, and the securing of options shall be payable out of appropriation "Support of prisoners" for the fiscal year in which such expense is incurred, not exceeding, however, the sum of $20,000.
Sec. 11. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this Acto
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, authorized medical relief under the Department of Justice in Federal penal and correctional institutions shaîl be supervised and furnished by personnel of the Public Health Service, and upon request of the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury shall detail regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, pharmacists, acting assistant surgeons, and other employees of the Public Health Service to the Department of Justice for the purpose of supervising and furnishing medical, psychiatric, and other technical and scientific services to the Federal penal and correctional institutions.
Sec. 2. The compensation, allowances, and expenses of the personnel so detailed may be paid from applicable appropriations of the Public Health Service in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service, such appropriations to be reimbursed from applicable appropriations of the Department of Justice; or the Attorney General is hereby authorized to make allotments of funds and transfer of credit to the Public Health Service in such amounts as are available and necessary, which funds shall be available for payment of compensation, allowances, and expenses of personnel so detailed, in accordance with the law and regulations governing the personnel of the Public Health Service. Approved,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in lieu of all existing boards of parole at Federal penal and correctional institutions as provided by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (chapter 387, Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 819), and all other Acts amendatory or supplementary thereto sections 714 to 723, inclusive, title 18, United States Code), there is hereby created a single Board of Parole to consist of three members to be appointed by the Attorney General, at a salary of $7,500 each per annum.
Sec. 2. All power and authority now vested in, and all duties now imposed upon, the Attorney General and the several existing boards of parole with respect to the parole of United States prisoners are hereby transferred to the Board of Parole created by this Act: Provided, however, That this Act shall not affect the mosthod, terms, or conditions under which United States prisoners confined in any State reformatory are paroled, except that the power to approve the release on parole of such prisoners is conferred upon the Board of Parole herein created.


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Cross-Platform Media, A Foil For SXSW & Tomorrow's Digital Life. The Future Of Indie Cinema Is Now.
For the longest time, movies were constrained to only exist in the time and space of a single screen (albeit a theatrical or television screen). Yes, they lived on in our heads, imaginations and aspirations but the sender-receiver model remained archaic (in plain terms that is). With the "New Cinema" upon us--that sometimes dangerous, always exhilarating landscape which is truly indie film--movies have now stretched to avenues of social filmmaking, Transmedia, revitalized underground cinema and much more. The short film, for example, is no longer a stepping stone; it's a valuable entity in a new market (VOD, iTunes, Mubi, etc.). And Transmedia, with its cross-platform approach to storytelling, is quickly becoming less of a novel gimmick and more of a cultural phenomenon. In this Tribeca (Online) Film Festival piece, this popular genre is put into context: "Whether called transmedia, multi-platform, cross platform or just cross media, filmmakers from all genres no longer just make films. Aspiring filmmakers in the social documentary sphere are facing the prospect of a media campaign of overwhelming proportions. But innovative and passionate socially-minded individuals are taking chances and creating blueprints for future filmmakers."
The key is that this new "blueprint" is not only on a single screen. It's interactive. It exists in offline social groups, gaming devices, mobile devices, guerrilla marketing campaigns, DIY cinemas and so forth. The ethos behind Transmedia--which lies in telling your story in EVERY possible capacity--is something that ALL new independent filmmakers/content creators need to embody, practice and elevate. With this new era of digital filmmaking/storytelling 2.0, the indie filmmaker needs to constantly be pushing the envelope in delivering or presenting his or her content. It's not enough to just "make" your film. You need to "make" your film matter in the eyes and ears of consumers/viewers who are swept up in the sea of content that is in the theatres, on TV and on the Internet. I think a big part in achieving this comes in the practicing ethos behind Transmedia/Cross-Platform storytelling.
For guidance on executing your multi-platform story (and remember that the "story" doesn't only have to be your film; it can be your branding, your company, your online identity, your crowdfunding idea, etc.), let me point you to Julie Matlin's helpful article "10 Things To Keep In Mind For Producing Cross-Platform Media":
"1. Pick your spot. Not every film/TV project needs an interactive game, original webisodes, extended interviews, director's blog, a mobile app, mash-up tools, user-generated content, podcasts, online chats, screensavers...
2. Involve the audience. Capitalize on the unique opportunity to engage audiences more deeply through forms of interactivity ...
3. People connect with people. Digital or otherwise, audiences connect with stories through people...
4. Distribution as destination. Let your audience put your content in front of other audiences...
5. The end is just the beginning. Notions of development, production and post-production do not accurately define the realities of digital production...
6. Tailor production values to context. Do your business and your audience a favour: don't apply film or TV production budgeting to digital programming...
7. Pay attention to marketers. The most innovative and engaging programming happening in the digital medium today is being led by marketers and interactive ad agencies...
8. Tell the whole story. Or at least a digital version of the whole story...
9. Measure and report meticulously. The only way to improve on what you're doing today is to know if your content is being used at all...
10. Stay in the game. Avoid bleeding edge. Focus on content that you think can deliver value..."
In addition to successfully adapting to this "cross-platform" mindset, it also helps to learn that entities and organizations on the indie landscape are also adapting and responding to this cultural filmmaking change. For example, indie producer Ted Hope points to the Northside Film Festival as being "an answer to SXSW." As many have already discovered, SXSW in a lot of ways has grown to the mammoth scale of Sundance and can sometimes miss the initial intent: To find the TRULY independent films.
Hope writes: "The democratization of culture and the tools to create and share it is definitely been one of the more exciting trends of the recent past. We see it in all spheres and aspects of our daily life, but what symbolizes it best? Many friends and pundits characterize it as a dumbing down, but I truly perceive it as quite the opposite. People everywhere are asking all of us to look and reach up, to aspire to more, to inspire each of us to cross into new realms.
DIY filmmaking is very much a part of [Northside's] mission. It's now a given that many of the most exciting films at major American festivals are the product of a handful of friends working on a shoestring, and it's time festivals gave these films the dedicated platform they deserve."
With more niche festivals emerging (and with better curating mindsets!), more indie filmmakers challenging the narrative form and the digital frontier becoming more than just an accessory, anyone who still shakes their head at the thought of filmmaking being synonymous with "digital" is begging to be left in the dust. There is nothing wrong with our medium evolving. In fact, it's expanding--and the digital frontier, the digital life is our right of passage.
The digital tomorrow will provide us the opportunity to really get our work, our voice out there. It already has.
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VORSIVKA, Ukraine — For years, Father Vasily spent his Sundays behind the altar at St. Nicholas, a church in the small town of Vorsivka, in north-central Ukraine.
That all changed in early January, not long after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially split from the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church in one of the biggest schisms in Christian history.
Thats when the village faithful held a vote to decide whether their church should remain in the Russian fold, or join the newly created local denomination. They chose the latter, and as they did so, they also chose to replace their priest — who had advocated for remaining under Moscow.
Father Vasily found himself locked out of the church after the Orthodox Christmas service, and was soon replaced by a priest from a neighboring church. A law passed by Ukraines president, Petro Poroshenko, has allowed for a church to switch its denomination if two-thirds of the congregation agrees.
"I had a nervous breakdown," Father Vasily told POLITICO on a recent snowy Saturday, dropping his head in his hands.
The evicted cleric wasnt the only one to be upset about the change. The following Sunday, Russian Orthodox parishioners and priests from the nearby town of Malyn traveled to Vorsivka to protest the local believers decision. In the shadow of the churchs golden domes, shouting devolved into a shoving match, and it wasnt long until police arrived.
The religiously motivated quarrel in this otherwise quiet village, population 374, has made it a flashpoint in the fallout of a polarized religious struggle that — stoked by modern geopolitical tensions — risks creating major rifts in communities across the country.
It is also a sign of the challenge that lies ahead for proponents of an independent Ukrainian Church — how to convince Russian Orthodox parishes to break ties with Moscow?
The Ukrainian Church has sought independence for centuries — almost from the exact moment it fell under the control of the Russian Church in 1686.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, two splinter Ukrainian churches broke from the Moscow Patriarchate in 1991. For nearly 30 years, the two churches — known as the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate — were never fully recognized by Orthodox leaders in Constantinople and deemed "schismatic" by Moscow.
The effort to form an official independent Ukrainian Church "really crystalized" after Russias annexation of Crimea and its military intervention in eastern Ukraine five years ago, according to Christopher Stroop, an American scholar of modern Russian history and Eastern Orthodoxy.
One of the parishioners who helped organize the January vote that ousted Father Vasily from the local church in Vorsivka said Russian aggression was a motivating factor in deciding to break from the Russian Church.
As the fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Kremlin-backed separatists in the countrys east has dragged on, its become increasingly difficult to separate the centuries-old ideological conflict from the ongoing political and military conflict.
That became especially true after the movement to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church attracted a powerful new ally: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
With his popularity plummeting ahead of Ukraines presidential election in March, Poroshenko likely saw the issue as an opportunity to win back public support. With an independent church, Ukrainians would finally gain "spiritual independence that can be compared to political independence" from Russia, he said in December.
When the religious decree recognizing the independent Ukrainian Church — known as the Tomos — was signed in early January, Poroshenko hit the road with the new churchs elected head, a 40-year-old former bishop named Metropolitan Epiphanius. Ukrainians dubbed it his "Tomos Tour." Every independent Ukrainian poll since has shown it likely helped the incumbent presidents ratings.
The injection of politics into the highly fraught debate hasnt just irked detractors in the Moscow-allied churches, but Ukrainians who support the new church as well.
"Poroshenko is exploiting the Tomos absolutely godlessly, making the independence of the [Ukrainian] Church a decoration for his election campaign," Oksana Syroid, the Ukrainian parliaments vice speaker, wrote on Facebook last month.
Poroshenko has also claimed an independent Ukrainian Church is a matter of national security, arguing that the Russian Orthodox Church has openly supported the Kremlins military interventions in Ukraine and had spread propaganda to undermine the government in Kiev.
The new decree predictably enraged Russias political and religious leaders, who had exerted enormous pressure to dissuade Patriarch Bartholomew, the archbishop of Constantinople and the spiritual leader of Orthodox believers worldwide, from allowing the split.
The creation of an independent Ukrainian Church "could turn into a heavy dispute, if not bloodshed," Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow.
"We are witnessing illegal meddling in the internal life of Ukraines Orthodox Church, a rude, anti-canonical intervention in its area," Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of Russias Orthodox Church, said after the January ceremony that solidified the split.
Speaking at a Russian Orthodox Church event alongside Kirill in Moscow last month, Putin doubled down, saying Russia "reserve[s] the right to respond and do everything possible to protect human rights, including freedom of religion." The thinly veiled threat resonated with officials in Kiev who recalled the Russian leaders justification for annexing Crimea in 2014 and backing pro-Moscow separatists that same year: defending Russian speakers.
In December, Vasyl Hrytsak, the head of Ukraines main security service, known as the SBU, warned that the Kremlin is likely to use the religious fight as "a pretext for open military invasion by the Russian Federations armed forces of our country." He also claimed last week that the SBU has intelligence that Russias security services are planning attacks against 20 churches in the Moscow Patriarchate in an attempt to exacerbate tensions ahead of Ukraines presidential election in March.
Politically, the church schism deals a serious blow to Moscows historic claims to Kiev and Putins expansionist ambitions. The Russian Orthodox Church and its Moscow Patriarchate in Moscow have long claimed exclusive jurisdiction over Orthodox churches in Ukraine.
The Russian Orthodox Church now stands to lose between 30 and 40 percent of its roughly 150-million strong membership, as well as millions of dollars in church property.
More than 300 parishes in Ukraine have switched from the Moscow-aligned church to the new Ukrainian Church since January, according to Ukraines Religious Information Service. The St. Nicholas Church in Vorsivka, where Father Vasily lost his job, was one of roughly a dozen in the north-central Zhytomyr region to do so.
But uptake has been slow. St. Nicholas is, for now, effectively a denominational island, surrounded by parishes that have so far refused to flip or are hesitant about turning away from Moscow.
"We remain a church of the Moscow Patriarchate, thank god," Father Leonet of the St. Alexander Nevsky Church, a 20-minute drive south in Krasnobirka, said in an interview last month.
His congregation "will continue to practice our faith and stand firm as our grandfathers and great-grandfathers stood," he said, as mourners gathered at the church before a funeral.
"Why create another church, so to speak, in Ukraine if there is already a canonical church?" asked Father Artemy, from the St. Pokrovskiy Church in Malyn, near Vorsivka.
Russian Orthodox leaders like Kliment blame the influence of Ukraines SBU for intensifying the religious dispute.
Religious leaders from the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine are quick to point out that the 300 or so churches that have changed allegiances in the past month are a relative drop in the bucket, given there are still some 12,000 to 14,000 Moscow-aligned churches in Ukraine.


The BC Chinese Music Association (BCCMA) is proud to celebrate the 30th annual Chinese-Canadian Miracle Weekend in this May. It will present three big concerts in special honor of fundraising for BC Children's Hospital Foundation: Chinese-Canadian Miracle Concert, Dr. Jia Li Pipa Recital, Chinese-Canadian Miracle Concert Surrey. All these events are must-see spectacles.
As one of the largest Chinese orchestras in North America, BC Chinese Orchestra (BCCO) will be hosting "Chinese Canadian Miracle Concert" at Richmond Gateway Theatre on May 12th Saturday. Under the direction of conductor Peggy Hua, more than 60 members will perform a wide variety of Chinese traditional instruments (erhu, dizi, pipa, zheng, yangqin, etc.) in this concert. A list of popular classical pieces will sound familiar to many in the audience: Concerto Hua Mulan, Celebration Overture, Song of the General, Yu Mode, and many others. The concert particularly features a visiting guest musician Dr. Jia Li, the first Pipa doctorate from China Conservatory of Music. She will play the thrilling pipa concerto Hua Mulan, a timeless masterpiece composed by one the most esteemed Chinese composers, Gu Guanren.


In April 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 23andme Alzheimer's genetic test to evaluate the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease. This is the first time a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company was given the approval to market the test in the US. The genetic test looks for polymorphisms in a gene called apolipoprotein E (ApoE).
According to a factsheet by NIH, causes of Alzheimer's likely include a combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. The allele ε4 of apolipoprotein E4 (APOE ε4), is the most prevalent genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease and is present in more than 50% of patients with Alzheimer's Disease.
A study was conducted by The Stanford University Medical Centre on 2588 people who had a mild cognitive impairment and 5496 healthy elderly to find out which of the study participants had a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's. It was found that people with mild cognitive defects who carried the risk variant of the ApoE4 gene were associated with an increased risk for developing Alzheimer's when compared to people without the variant.
Which ancestry genetic testing company is the best for testing APOE variants?
23andme Alzheimer's test: Which variants of ApoE contribute to the risk of Alzheimer's disease?
23andme Alzheimer's test collectively constitutes the analysis of APOE e2, e3, e4 are three types of alleles for APOE gene. We all carry two copies of the APOE gene: e2/e2, e2/e3, e2/e4, e3/e3, e3/e4, e4/e4.
Risk of any disease is compounded if an individual has multiple risk factors associated with a disease. So if you have family history of Alzheimer's and are a E3/E4 or E4/E4 genotype, then your risk is further increased. Additionally, women who are carriers of E4 allele are at a higher risk compared to men. So, do not take genetic risk factors in isolation when disease risk is computed.
According to Alzheimer's Association, regular physical exercise and a Mediterranean diet rich in whole grains, fish, poultry, beans, seeds, nuts, and vegetable oils may lower the risk of Alzheimer's. Other conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes have shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's. Concussions has also been linked to Alzheimer's.
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