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Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications: New Times
Critics' Group: Phoenix Film Critics Society
29% 200 Cigarettes (1999) [Director Risa Bramon Garcia] gets sharp, funny work from her hot young cast. - New Times EDIT
3% The Mod Squad (1999) It's a terrible movie, really, but I'm not hard-hearted enough to condemn it, because it brings back some of the scrappy feel of '70s TV action series. - New Times EDIT
92% Shakespeare in Love (1998) [A] cheeky, delightfully playful romantic comedy. - New Times EDIT
87% The Blair Witch Project (1999) Easily the scariest horror picture of the '90s, a movie that can take a place among the most potent and inexorable of modern shockers, like Night of the Living Dead or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. - New Times EDIT
28% Lost in Space (1998) The actors are good sports. The standout, inevitably, is Gary Oldman. - New Times EDIT
96% The Iron Giant (1999) The film isn't as blisteringly satirical as The Simpsons; it's warmer. And while its nostalgia isn't simplistic, it is affectionate. - New Times EDIT
83% Lakeboat (2000) Forster is the reason that even non-Mamet-heads might consider giving Lakeboat a shot. - New Times EDIT
15% Scary Movie 2 (2001) Most of it is incredibly, gleefully crude and tasteless, but it is also good-natured and harmless, and there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself laughing. - New Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Jul 5, 2001
85% The Closet (Le Placard) (2001) An expertly acted divertissement. - New Times EDIT
42% Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) A modest family comedy, probably fun for kids and reasonably cute, or at least not too insufferable, for most of the grownups who will take them. - New Times EDIT
53% Let It Snow (2001) A derivative but likable romantic comedy. - New Times EDIT
53% The Fast and the Furious (2001) The movie may be intellectually sophomoric, dramatically adolescent and morally vacuous, but it's good fun while it lasts. - New Times EDIT
11% Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) It would also be hard to imagine a less exciting movie. - New Times EDIT
33% Just Visiting (2001) A crude, visually ugly, and peculiarly over-plotted movie, but the blunt, pungent, physical shtick is often pretty funny. - New Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 5, 2001
21% Pokémon 3: The Movie (2001) If you don't take an intiated kid -- and if you don't, why are you going, you freak? -- expect to be perplexed. - New Times EDIT
14% Tomcats (2001) It's often uneven, but Tomcats delivers the requisite laughs and horniness. - New Times EDIT
44% Get Over It (2001) It's incredibly insipid, but it isn't offensive or wretched to sit through. - New Times EDIT
23% See Spot Run (2001) What's amazing about See Spot Run is that, granting how wretched it looks from the trailers and TV ads, it's actually so very much worse even than that. - New Times EDIT
15% Sweet November (2001) [Reeves] gives the worst performance in Sweet November, and he's the best thing about it. - New Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2001
61% Recess: School's Out (2001) Some of the jokes are cute, and the plot ... is admirably convoluted. - New Times EDIT
32% All the Pretty Horses (2000) It all feels disorienting and truncated. - New Times EDIT
85% The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Much of it -- most of it -- ranges from very funny to hilarious, and director Mark Dindal maintains a fine, headlong pace. - New Times EDIT
57% Godzilla 2000 (2000) This film may just be about as much brainless fun as you're likely to have at the movies this dreary summer. - New Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
83% The Hurricane (1999) The screenwriters, Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon, and the director, Norman Jewison, couldn't find a focused structure out of which to deliver emotional payoffs to the audience. - New Times EDIT
33% Price of Glory (2000) Despite the plot hokum and the self-consciously ethnic dialogue, this leisurely paced, handsomely shot film...is ultimately satisfying - New Times EDIT
21% Duets (2000) A highly likable movie. - New Times EDIT
19% Pokémon - The Movie 2000 (2000) A lot of children's movies ... amount to little more than commercials for merchandising. The difference with Pokémon 2000 is that the kids seemed to realize it. - New Times EDIT
76% Rugrats in Paris - The Movie (2000) A very good kids' movie from a grown-up standpoint -- it has a coherent plot, a good pace and well-defined characters, and a funny monster-movie spoof at the finale. - New Times EDIT
62% The Tigger Movie (2000) The Tigger Movie seems pretty cheesy. - New Times EDIT
64% Dinosaur (2000) Tougher-minded children among us may find it hard to sit, without embarrassment, through this bizarre mixture of paleontology, preposterous anthropomorphism, and fuzzy-headed New Age myth-making. - New Times EDIT
— The Emperor's New Groove — Rugrats in Paris - The Movie — Recess: School's Out — The Fast and the Furious — Just Visiting
— The Tigger Movie — Pokémon - The Movie 2000 — Pokémon 3: The Movie — Dinosaur — Sweet November


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Scientists Discover That Warp Drive Is Possible – Theoretically.
Humanosity says….This article is sure to bring joy to all sci-fi fans and demonstrates how that genre is actually driving real science, especially new developments that seem to suggest that the fabled warp drive is possible….
As our understanding of our place in the universe has grown, so has an interest in reaching out to the stars. In fact, if humanity wants to survive we will eventually need to become a spacefaring civilisation. Earth faces a number of threats that could easily mean the end of humanity. These include asteroids, solar flares, nearby supernovas, wandering stars and planets – the list goes on.
However, the problem with space travel is the immense amount of time it would take to travel between them. Using the best means of propulsion that we have now would take us tens of thousands of years to reach our closest star.
The main problem seems to be the cosmic speed limit discovered by Einstein. This says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Star Trek got around this problem by inventing the Warp Drive. The basic idea of a warp drive is that rather than travelling through space at faster than light speeds (impossible according to the Theory of Relativity) a warp drive would shrink space in front of it and expand space behind it. By manipulating space you could move much faster than the speed of light as you would shrink the distance you had to travel.
The Alcubierre Drive
Proposed in 1994 by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, the drive has become known as the Alcubierre drive. "By a purely local expansion of spacetime behind the spaceship and an opposite contraction in front of it, motion faster than the speed of light as seen by observers outside the disturbed region is possible."
By expending truly enormous amounts of energy to contract the space in front of it, the drive could create a bubble around the ship. The normal rules of physics would still apply within the bubble but the bubble itself would ride the wave of contracted space in front of it.
The New Developments
The energy required to create an Alcubierre bubble would be immense. Some scientists believe it would require more energy than available within the universe. However, more recent studies have shown that amount of energy required can be significantly reduced.
Joseph Agnew, a mechanical engineering senior at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has been crunching the numbers. He found ways of reducing the energy required to about the size of the total energy of the mass of Jupiter.
He believes that we now have the technology to try and create a tiny warp bubble in the lab. This would serve to confirm the physics involved. It would also allow us to understand what is required to produce a stable bubble which could then be reliably scaled up.
However whilst the science seems to be suggesting this is possible there a few more hurdles to overcome before anyone gets too excited. One is how to produce the negative energy required to make this possible. Second is how to ensure that humans could survive the huge amounts of radiation that the theories predict would occur.
Sources: www.popularmechanics.com, Anderson institute, UAH
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Current and former PTDT dancers! As a part of the 30th Anniversary events, we would like to invite you to fill out a survey about your experience as a PTDT dancer. It's short – just a couple of questions. Mainly, we want to know (1) How did/does dancing in PTDT impact your life? and (2) Is there a particular dance that stands out in your memory?
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Coca Cola Polar Bear Essay
Everyone feels good drinking an ice cold Coca-Cola on a hot summer day. Except for Polar Bears, they seem to enjoy drinking them out in the Arctic where its booger freezing cold. Well at least that's how the commercials tend to show it. Or is it that the Polar Bears are drinking an ice cold Coca-Cola because it's too hot in the Arctic? Who knows? But one thing researchers do know is that the climate has changed, and Earth is getting warmer. The Polar Bear population has decreased drastically because of the increased warmth of the Earth and it is melting the sea ice in the Arctic Circle. Many more factors contribute to the decrease in population of Polar Bears. Which only 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears are estimated to be left in the world as of 2008. Other factors such as: hunting, offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, and pollutants that are also in the Arctic Seas make impacts on the polar bear population.
To begin with, there is a controversy about whether the Earth is warming up or not. But science proves that Earth is indeed warming up and it's causing Arctic Sea ice to decrease every year. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the major releases of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causes those gases to trap heat from sun radiation which then increases the warmth of the planet. While the Earth warms up, the sea ice in the Arctic Circle melts and some of the melted ice does not freeze in time before the next summer begins. This causes a huge problem for Polar Bears because they rely on sea ice for survival.
Polar Bears travel miles out into the sea in search for food. They use the ice to go farther out into the sea to hunt seals that come up from the ice through a hole to catch their breath. The Ringed Seal is the polar bears primary food source. Polar bears sustain their diet with the blubber that the seals hold. Scientist predict that by the year 2037, the Arctic Circle will no longer have sea ice for the first time in human history. Without the ice, Polar Bears end up starving to death and in some cases drowning because of rough seas. Even though Polar Bears are excellent swimmers, they cannot swim for long periods of time for which they could become hypothermic and drown. Like...
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Maribeth Meluch Named Litigation – Intellectual Property "Lawyer of the Year" By Best Lawyers® 2023
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KJK is proud to congratulate Litigation and Intellectual Property Partner Maribeth Meluch on being named Best Lawyers in America® Lawyer of the Year in the Litigation – Intellectual Property category for 2023. Only one attorney receives the "Lawyer of the Year" distinction in each category and location, and the title is awarded to the lawyer that received the highest peer reviews in that category.
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For the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 12.2 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 71,000 leading lawyers honored in the new edition."
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More about Maribeth Meluch:
Maribeth Meluch is an experienced business law attorney with a unique and diverse skillset. She is experienced in intellectual property and employment law and provides guidance and representation to businesses on a wide range of legal issues, including IP, employment, litigation, wage and hour, OSHA and other regulatory matters.
Maribeth assists her clients in protecting their valuable and sensitive business assets by protecting their intellectual property rights through filings on copyrights, trademark and patents, and enforcing those rights through intellectual property litigation, negotiating of licensing agreements and drafting contracts to protect confidentiality of sensitive information, including non-competes and other agreements, as well as to restrict competition by employees and contractors.
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There was quite some damage around the house but nothing major. As you can see in the pics from just outside our house, even a lesser than Cat 5 hurricane will pack a punch. Down the road from here in Hiatus, for the length of a whole block, the power lines are all down, the poles just snapped and the power lines are all over the street.
Thank you, Lord, and please bless those who got injured, and bless the souls of those who lost their lives.
I will be back with my regular posts soon.
← Hopefully, This Is To A New Beginning……..
So glad you are okay after the storm. Sorry for all of the power outages and flooding. Prayers for everyone affected by Irma.
Thanks for the pictures. Glad you are safe.
Thank you, Godfrey. Cheers !
That was an awful storm. So good to hear that you and Bella are okay.
Thank God ..u r safe.
Very happy to hear it, Hans. My elder son lives and works in Orlando, so I had even more interest in developments. A large part of southern Florida heard for Orlando, it seems, because they are inland, are on higher ground, and have 60,000 bedrooms. There were only a few branches down near him, and some local flooding, so he did not need to use his "Harry Potter space" (windowless cupboard under the stairs).
His most amused moment was in the supermarket, where water and milk were going. One woman saw him standing near a shelf of barbecue sauce and, with an aggressive look, pushed past him to collar three bottles. Mercifully, wrote my son and heir, the British food section was unravaged, and there were plentiful supplies of digestive biscuits, mushy peas and custard for those in need.
By the way, was that Bella in one of your pictures?
So glad you and Bella made it through Irma. My family lives in the Fort Myers area and they too, had very slight damage. God is good. Blessings and thanks for sharing your culinary secrets with us.
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Peter W. Schmitt (né le  à Offenbach-sur-le-Main) est un compositeur de musique de film allemand.

Carrière
Bien que passionné de musique, Schmitt est d'abord travailleur. Il fait de la composition son métier principal à partir de 1990.

En 1984, la comédie musicale Einer von uns – Uno Come Noi est créée au Kammerspiele de Francfort-sur-le-Main.

Filmographie sélective
Cinéma
 1983 : Kassensturz
 1987 : Schloß & Siegel
 1987 : Vorfall am Fluß
 1992 : Die Liebesreise des Herrn Matzke
 1996: Echte Kerle

Téléfilms
 1986 : Die Stadtpiraten
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 1995 : Les Anges et le démon
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 2001 : Quatre femmes à marier
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 2003 : Attention papa revient
 2003 : Helden ohne Heimat (documentaire)
 2005 : Quand l'amour vous joue des tours
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 2007 : Papa et moi
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 2011 : Hitler et sa police (documentaire)
 2012 : Le Test de paternité
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Séries télévisées
 1990 : Lauter nette Nachbarn'
 1990-1999 : Käpt'n Blaubärs Seemannsgarn (180 épisodes)
 1993-1999 : Käpt'n Blaubär Club (24 épisodes)
 1998 : Castillo - Ein Drache mischt das Mittelalter auf 2018 : Leopard, Seebär & Co.'' (5 épisodes)

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Compositeur allemand de musique de film
Naissance en juillet 1954
Naissance à Offenbach-sur-le-Main

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That Time the Society for American Archaeology Blocked Me on Twitter
Chris Polt made me this amazing meme. I love it.
Last night, @SAAorg blocked me on Twitter. I figured it was coming -- after resigning my position as the Media Relations Committee chair in light of the #SAA2019 #MeToo fiasco earlier this month, I've been vocal about changes that are necessary for the Society to repair its relationship with its members. Not just on Twitter, either.
I've written emails to SAA President Joe Watkins and the entire Board of Directors, pleading with them to read the tl;dr version of what happened on April 11 and continues to happen. As anthropologists, we are trained to understand past events as part of a process, and we are trained to synthesize multiple accounts of the past in order to approach a truth, so I was optimistic that the Board would see what I saw. That they would see what thousands of us saw unfold on Twitter, Facebook, at the conference, and by email, and what thousands of us signed an open letter protesting.
But two weeks on, I am no longer convinced that I can get through to the SAA Board of Directors.
They haven't listened to me, in spite of my years of public education experience, which actually won me an award from SAA and which the SAA asked me to use when teaching an online seminar for them last year in "outreach, engagement, and advocacy."
They haven't listened to Jason De León, who is a MacArthur Genius award winner and co-chaired the #MeToo symposium at this year's conference. [His statement is here.] Or Pamela Geller, the other #MeToo co-chair. [Her letter is here.]
They haven't listened to Holly Norton, the archaeologist for the state of Colorado, who resigned her position on the Committee for Government Affairs. [Her letter is here.]
They haven't listened to Sarah Rowe, who bravely spoke up in the SAA business meeting and also penned a letter to the Board [here], or to Justin Walsh, who publicly resigned his membership [here], or Brad Lepper, an SAA award winner and committee member [here], or Sara Juengst [here].
They haven't listened to their Student Affairs Committee. [Their letter is here.] Or to the Queer Archaeology Interest Group. [Here] They haven't even listened to the SAA's own Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology. [Their letter is here.]
But most importantly, they haven't listened to the three women most traumatized by this: Norma Johnson, Annalisa Heppner, and Liz Ortiz. I would encourage everyone to read what they have to say.
Finally, for those of you who haven't followed this for the past two weeks, here's one last attempt to summarize what happened and what continues to happen. (Feel free to skip down if you know all of this, or feel free to read the full timeline, curated by Liz Quinlan.)
Norma, Annalisa, and Liz were attending the SAA conference in Albuquerque. They all had checked for weeks to make sure that archaeologist David Yesner had not registered for the conference, as they were three of the nine claimants against him in a Title IX case at the University of Alaska Anchorage. That case was public knowledge in archaeology circles for months, and about a week before the SAAs, UAA banned Yesner from campus and from any events involving students in light of their finding of Title IX sexual harassment/assault violations he had committed.
When Yesner is first spotted at the SAAs around 8am on Thursday, April 11, the women frantically text one another and decided to enlist the help of their UAA faculty members, including Ryan Harrod and Gerad Smith, as well as that of journalist Michael Balter, who is at the conference to participate in De León's and Pamela Geller's MeToo session that happened on Sunday, April 14. In order not to "out" themselves, the women ask Balter to intervene on their behalf with SAA staff, in an attempt to have Yesner ejected from the conference.
Balter goes to the SAA press room and talks to PR/press coordinator Amy Rutledge about Yesner. According to him, Amy does not tell him about any official reporting channels but does say she will look into it and get back to him. When Amy does not handle this situation in a swift manner, Balter decides to ask Yesner to leave and walks with him until Yesner is outside the conference center. Balter continues to try to extract information from Amy, who has given him her cell number and invited him to ask for updates, and is met with silence.
By late afternoon on Thursday the 11th, Twitter and Facebook are lit up with posts from people shocked that Yesner is there, that SAA hasn't asked him to leave, and that Balter is being stonewalled. The SAA is silent on both social media platforms, publishing only what appear to be scheduled posts. And the UAA Chancellor, Cathy Sandeen, attempts to contact the SAA Executive staff, on Thursday after Liz alerts her, but cannot reach anyone.
On Friday morning, Balter is ejected from the SAA conference by executive director Oona Schmid, as Yesner (or perhaps Amy?) appears to have filed a harassment report against him. Oona suggests that Balter can talk to her about his concerns after the conference is concluded.
Also on Friday morning, Amy suggests via email to Norma, Annalisa, and Liz that the previous day's reporting of Yesner was not official, and they should file an official report. Norma attempts to make a report at 9am, and finds that the conference room where harassment reports are to be filed is occupied by an unrelated event. At 10am on Friday, as the three women are filing their report, they are on the phone with UAA Chancellor Sandeen, who was still unable to reach anyone on the SAA executive staff by phone.
Throughout Friday the 12th, the women and their supporters attempt to get an update on whether or not Yesner has been ejected, as they grow more fearful of seeing or having to interact with him. Journalist Kristin Romey of National Geographic inquires in the press office when getting her badge if an announcement will be forthcoming, and is told that it will be eventually.
By 5pm Friday, the time of the SAA Business Meeting, the three complainants still have no answers, social media outrage swells to epic proportions, and several people at the meeting report that then-president Susan Chandler was dismissive of the reports and refuses to say anything more, even after Sarah Rowe speaks up in the question period.
Over the next few days, the SAA says almost nothing on social media, while the claimants get more and more upset that no one at SAA has responded to their official or unofficial complaints. Even by April 16, the Tuesday after the conference was concluded, none of the three claimants has been contacted by SAA except to confirm that they filed a report.
Meanwhile, national media covers the controversy between April 12 and April 18 -- The Scientist, KTVA, Science Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Science Magazine again. And, according to a reputable source, Oona sought recommendations for a crisis management PR firm on April 14. It's unclear if SAA ever engaged one, though.
[EDIT (5/9/19) - The crisis PR professional SAA engaged is Adele Cehrs. I learned this when she accidentally tweeted a personal link to the SAA's Twitter account on May 6. She has since deleted that link as well as her LinkedIn profile. I also learned that Cehrs is the one responsible for blocking SAA members on Twitter.]
On April 17, the SAA puts out a statement about Yesner laden with falsehoods about the timeline of events. Both their Twitter and Facebook accounts are blasted with corrections and outrage. SAA starts quietly deleting some Facebook comments, and removes the "rate us" feature on Facebook due to the overwhelmingly negative comments about their handling of the situation.
On April 18, whoever runs the SAA social media accounts implies that Balter's report of Yesner on Friday the 11th was not credible as he was not participating in the meeting as a journalist. Later that day, Joe Watkins delivers a short video and text statement that engenders hope in many SAA members who have been frustrated with the opacity of the organization for the past week.
On April 22, the SAA finally talks to Norma, as well as Chancellor Sandeen and others from UAA, about what happened. Norma reports that the call was unproductive, and there is a general consensus that the SAA, specifically Oona and lawyers, are preventing real change and healing from happening.
Shortly afterward on the 22nd, the SAA tweets (and then a few hours later deletes) the suggestion that "UAA inaction put its students in a hostile environment." Norma forwards a screenshot to Chancellor Sandeen, who forwards it to UAA legal. UAA public relations and a KTVA reporter are astounded by this insinuation and publish a response.
As resignations roll in and other professional organizations (RPA, AAPA, AAA, SHA, CAA, SEAC, and more!) re-commit themselves to their anti-harassment policies, the SAA is largely silent on social media.
On April 23, SAA posts an announcement that they've been in contact with the survivors - which is demonstrably untrue as Annalisa still has had no proactive contact from anyone. Once people begin to call them on this tweet, the SAA deletes it and blocks an archaeology undergrad student.
The person running the SAA Twitter account (who I can only assume is SAA staff member Amy Rutledge) continues to block people over the next few days -- Elizabeth Smith, Hanna Marie, Akshay Sarathi, the Alternative Archaeology Conference folks, me, and Michael Balter.
My badge of honor!
The social media person then deletes all of the SAA's previous tweets -- everything between the April 18 posts of Joe's video/text and a new April 25 job post is deleted. Dozens of us had responded to SAA tweets encouraging engagement. Those responses ranged from dispassionate to constructive to angry. Not one of them was ad hominem (I mean, it's hard to write ad hominem tweets to a person who does not reveal themselves!).
As others have said, the last two weeks have truly been a masterclass in how NOT to engage in PR with members of an organization. The damage done by the lack of a swift response to the Yesner situation at the conference is being compounded by the completely incompetent social media and PR done on behalf of the SAA.
Joe has said repeatedly that he and the SAA are listening. But SAA staff are demonstrating the exact opposite.
[EDIT 5/9/19 - A leaked email has been published by Michael Balter in which Joe responds in writing to an SAA member (maybe of the Board?), providing point-by-point explanations in response to that person's questions. It's fairly damaging, as it suggests the SAA Board/staff are still trying to place blame on UAA and/or the women. It also echoes Joe's repeated calls for "civility" and "being nice", making it clear to me that he does not respect people who use social media for outreach, activism, or change. It also shows that Joe does not think the working group's petition for a bylaw referendum is appropriate. His desire to move at a snail's pace and drag out the status quo is clear.]
So. Where do we go from here? I truly don't know.
For two weeks, I was willing to give Joe the benefit of the doubt. After all, he inherited this mess when he took over as president in the middle of the conference. And I was willing to give the Board the benefit of the doubt, as the vast majority of them are not on social media, and they are not empowered to speak on behalf of the SAA -- only Oona Schmid and Joe Watkins are.
But they've all been informed of the timeline. They've all had time to see what went on, and to read about the SAA staff's roles in ignoring the Yesner situation, in not informing the Board in a timely manner, in lawyering up, and in covering their asses by putting out incorrect information and shutting down social media dialogue. And yet all Joe and the Board have done is set up a task force -- that's currently shrouded in secrecy and, let's be frank, is just doubling down on something SAA already had and something that didn't work to prevent or fix this situation.
The main failure in this whole debacle is clearly the inaction of SAA staff at the conference.
Can the membership remove the staff, whose salaries are paid by our dues? Based on the bylaws, it doesn't look like it. We can remove Board members per the bylaws (and talk of this is ongoing), however.
What we -- all of us -- can do at this moment is to pressure Joe to do what's right:
talk to the survivors;
tell the entire membership what's going on; and
remove and/or reassign any staff members who are not contributing productively to the inclusivity goals of the SAA.
Perhaps if enough of us email Joe with our concerns (joe.watkins.saa @ gmail.com), he'll start listening. If he doesn't, I'll be leaving the SAA for good and encouraging others to do the same.
Hector Neff said…
I have followed this, but I wasn't at the SAA meetings. One possible place to start it seems to me is with removal of Oona Schmid, who I infer orchestrated the inappropriate responses of SAA staff during the meetings.
Jon Lohse said…
That seems like the most important place to start.


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Citizens shall be seen but not heard.
Anyone who has attended a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing in recent years will have sensed there is something rotten in the state of our democracy.
It's the odour of a system orginally designed to allow citizens to be listened to before a Bill is passed, decaying into a ritual where citizens are seen but not heard – and indeed, this week, have even struggled to be seen.
The machiavellian behavior of National, Labour and NZ First MPs surrounding the signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is a prime example.
The process went as follows:
Minister David Parker signed the deal in Chile in March of last year.
Nothing in the wording of the deal, we were told ,could be changed.
It went to a Select Committee stacked with largely National and Labour MPs who were absolutely determined the CPTPP would be passed,as is , into law.
It was a rigged set of hearings where nothing any citizen could say – however learned they may be (and I am thinking particularly of Professor Jane Kelsey here) – could affect the outcome.
And so our law- makers let us down. By contriving NOT to listen to the citizenery and draw on wise and experts opinions, a Treaty was pushed through that is legally and morally flawed.
That's not Democracy, it's Shamocracy.
More recently we have seen National members of the Finance and Expenditure committee stand outside the meeting room so a quorum could not be called and a day of meetings was lost and greatly inconveniencing the citizens who had turned up to be heard that day.
And just this week the Labour MPs on the Justice Select Committee, inquiring into foreign interference in the 2017 election and 2016 local elections ,voted to block China expert Professor Anne-Marie Brady from making her submission on the grounds that her request to be heard was late.
No matter that in the time the committee took to argue the toss about whether Prof. Brady's submission could be heard or not they could have axctually listened her expert opinion.
I recently interviewed author Max Rashbrooke about his new book GOVERNMENT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
During our conversation we agreed the interface between government and its citizens was not working as it should. (I will put the interview up on New Zealand Public Television this evening)
There's a reason parliament is called The House of Representatives . It's because the people we elect to it are there to represent us.
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Public and Private Sector Approaches in Nigeria
Sada Danmusa | October 2015
Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015
Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Nigeria accounting for a quarter of maternal deaths. In an effort to reduce this burden, the Nigerian government became, in 2006, the first country in Africa to register misoprostol for the prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. In 2009, a seminal study of community-based distribution of misoprostol in Zaria (Northern Nigeria) demonstrated that misoprostol can safely and effectively be used by women in their homes. To support these efforts, the MacArthur Foundation made a series of grants, providing support to both a public and private sector model of distribution of misoprostol. In the public sector, Ahmadu Bello University worked with the Ministry of Health and the Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria to scale-up the successful interventions that had been used in Zaria: community sensitization and engagement to gain support and create demand; distribution of misoprostol directly to the women in the communities through trained lay workers doing home outreach; and supplying the product locally through "drug keepers". In the private sector, the Society for Family Health/PSI worked to raise awareness about misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage, train health workers in its use, and ensure access to the drug. A process evaluation of these projects, carried out by the Public Health Institute in 2014, identified challenges to scale-up that both approaches faced: significant concerns about the use of trained lay workers to distribute misoprostol; concerns about the potential use of misoprostol for abortion; and, the many challenges inherent in ensuring that a quality misoprostol product is consistently available at a reasonable cost. Framing community-based distribution of misoprostol in a way that resonates with key constituents and integrating community-based distribution into existing structures are the challenges that now lay ahead in Nigeria.
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TOPICSTOPICS: Antenatal Care Commodities Maternal Mortality Postpartum Hemorrhage
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Disability and Rehabilitation- Impact Score, Overall Ranking, h-index, SJR, Rating, Publisher, ISSN, and Other Important Metrics
Title Disability and Rehabilitation
Abbreviation Disabil. Rehabil.
Subject Area, Categories, Scope Rehabilitation (Q1)
h-index 119
Publisher Informa Healthcare
Disability and Rehabilitation is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, which seeks to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability and to promote the rehabilitation process. The Journal publishes Review Articles, Experimental and Clinical Research Papers, Case Studies, Clinical Commentaries, reports on Rehabilitation in Practice and major Book Reviews.
The Journal encourages submissions covering the widest range of topics on disability and rehabilitation, including the severity and magnitude of disability, clinical medicine, gerontology, psycho-social adjustment.
About Disability and Rehabilitation
Disability and Rehabilitation is a journal covering the technologies/fields/categories related to Rehabilitation (Q1). It is published by Informa Healthcare. The overall rank of Disability and Rehabilitation is 6662. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.715. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come. SJR acts as an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (or an average number of citations received in last 2 years). This journal has an h-index of 119. The best quartile for this journal is Q1.
The ISSN of Disability and Rehabilitation journal is 09638288, 14645165. An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique code of 8 digits. It is used for the recognition of journals, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines in all kind of forms, be it print-media or electronic. Disability and Rehabilitation is cited by a total of 3742 articles during the last 3 years (Preceding 2021).
Disability and Rehabilitation Impact Score 2021-2022
The impact score (IS) 2021 of Disability and Rehabilitation is 2.38, which is computed in 2022 as per its definition. Disability and Rehabilitation IS is increased by a factor of 0.22 and approximate percentage change is 10.19% when compared to preceding year 2020, which shows a rising trend. The impact score (IS), also denoted as Journal impact score (JIS), of an academic journal is a measure of the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is based on Scopus data.
Disability and Rehabilitation Impact Score 2022 Prediction
IS 2021 of Disability and Rehabilitation is 2.38. If the same upward trend persists, impact score may rise in 2022 as well.
Year wise Impact Score (IS) of Disability and Rehabilitation. Based on Scopus data.
Disability and Rehabilitation h-index
Disability and Rehabilitation has an h-index of 119. It means 119 articles of this journal have more than 119 number of citations. The h-index is a way of measuring the productivity and citation impact of the publications. The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given journal/author has published h papers that have each been cited at least h number of times.
Disability and Rehabilitation ISSN
The ISSN of Disability and Rehabilitation is 09638288, 14645165. ISSN stands for International Standard Serial Number.
Disability and Rehabilitation Rank and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
The overall rank of Disability and Rehabilitation is 6662. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.715. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come.
Disability and Rehabilitation Publisher
Disability and Rehabilitation is published by Informa Healthcare. It's publishing house is located in United Kingdom. Coverage history of this journal is as following: 1978-2021. The organization or individual who handles the printing and distribution of printed or digital publications is known as Publisher.
The IS0 4 standard abbreviation of Disability and Rehabilitation is Disabil. Rehabil.. This abbreviation ('Disabil. Rehabil.') is well recommended and approved for the purpose of indexing, abstraction, referencing and citing goals. It meets all the essential criteria of ISO 4 standard.
How to publish in Disability and Rehabilitation
If your research field is/are related to Rehabilitation (Q1), then please visit the official website of this journal.
Canadian Mineralogist journal 12973 Mineralogical Association of Canada 83 0.76
Cytogenetic and Genome Research journal 11300 S. Karger AG 91 1.99
Cuadernos Electronicos de Filosofia del Derecho journal 22452 University of Valencia, Human Rights Institute 2 0.13
First Monday journal 10463 First Monday 74 1.19
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"The Smithsonian has so many moving parts," said Clough. "I've made 25 visits to different parts of the Smithsonian and had a chance to see the people who make it work. And everywhere you go there's always some surprise." One of those surprises, Clough said, was learning of the impact the Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) is having on the travels of the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, now in their fifth year of rolling around Mars. Accompanied by NASM director Jack Dailey, Clough observed images from both rovers that had just come in from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. As one of the leaders of the group directing the rovers' mission, CEPS chairman John Grant has participated in selecting many of the sites the rovers have investigated, and receives data from JPL daily.
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Like the construction of the first phase of the Udvar-Hazy Center, the new $74 million hangar, which will also include space for Museum archives and a conservation laboratory, is to be privately funded. Work began in October. The $311 million Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, which opened in December 2003, was the largest construction project the Smithsonian had ever undertaken, and the first one funded entirely by private contributions. Those two construction projects and others at the Smithsonian depend on philanthropy, Clough noted, but there is also a critical role for the government to play.
"Jack has been a wonderful fundraiser for new construction," Clough said. "It's tougher to support basic maintenance. That's the job of the federal government.


Civil rights leader and two-time U.S. presidential candidate, Rev. Jesse Jackson was an honored guest and featured speaker at the opening of the new Museum of Free Derry in Derry, Northern Ireland.
The museum is dedicated to the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland from 1968 through 1972, a struggle modeled in no small measure after the African-American freedom movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his band of talented lieutenants, including a young Baptist minister named Jesse Louis Jackson.
During his visit to Northern Ireland, Rev. Jackson will meet with families of the victims of Bloody Sunday – the day in 1972 when British paratroopers gunned down nonviolent marchers, protesting discriminatory incarceration practices.
Fourteen people, including six children, were killed. Seventeen other marchers were injured.
Rev. Jackson visited Derry in 2011 and toured the old museum, which has been completely rebuilt on the site where Bloody Sunday took place.
Percival said the new museum is in the process of developing a "twinning" relationship with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and, "given our focus on civil rights and our growing links with the African-American struggle in the Deep South, we believe that it is entirely appropriate to ask Rev. Jackson" to "officiate" and speak at the opening.
He will also visit the gravesite of Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander and Sinn Fein political leader who helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland and put an end to the "Troubles" that left 3,700 dead in internecine religious war.
McGuinness died in March after a brief illness at age 66.
Rev. Jackson met McGuinness during his 2011 visit to Derry and likens his evolution from warrior-to-peacemaker-to-elected official to that of Nelson Mandela and the freedom struggle in South Africa.


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B.	Enter the matching price and the URL where the same product is available.
C.	Fill in the "Comment" field if necessary.
After the submission is complete it will be displayed on a separate grid in backend allowing admin to control all price matches and manage multiple requests in bulk.
All submitted requests are collected on a separate grid in backend following Sales > Operations > Price Match Requests. All requests can be easily sorted and filtered on the list. The detailed information helps admin take a quick look at records and apply necessary actions.
Edit – opens the price match request for editing.
Reject – denies the price match request with the Pending status only.
Remove – removes the chosen requests from the list.
Admin can approve submitted requests, send a coupon or reject a certain request. Let's open a request for editing and create a discount for a customer. Before approving or rejecting the request, the information submitted by the user will be available above the resolution section.
If the request has the "Pending" status the block "Resolution" will appear below the request's details.
1.	Fill in the "Response" field to add your comments to the request.
A.	Lower the product price to the requested price. The price will be decreased to the requested one. The customer will be notified by email.
B.	Send a one-time coupon for the price difference. A one-time coupon will be generated and sent by email.
C.	Reject request. The method rejects the price match request and applies the "Reject" status.
3.	Let's choose the second option "Generate a one-time coupon" and apply the changes.
If the price is lowered according to the chosen first method the original product price will be lowered and the customer will be notified by email.
You can configure the price match settings globally and per product as well. The price match settings for a product are inherited automatically. You can customize them separately within the product configuration. If you don't want your limited and cheap collection of sunglasses to be compared with your competitors, you can disable the price match per each sunglasses.
The general settings are available following: STORES > Settings > Configuration > ITORIS EXTENSIONS > Price Match.
You can easily choose the email templates to be sent to users and admin and specify their senders. Are you running multiple store views in Magento 2? The extension allows to change and translate the link label and comments in the popup. Just pick the necessary store view, make all changes and save the settings.


Forest Collective is a not for profit arts organisation focusing on contemporary classical music. We commission, create, and present various art forms, often giving independent artists a platform to develop their practice and reach new audiences, within a supportive environment. Forest Collective is run by a volunteer team of creative, young professionals who strive to enrich audiences though multidisciplinary, innovative, collaborative, experimental, and traditional art forms from new, early and mid career artists. We pride ourselves on giving a voice to underperformed and underrepresented creators and composers. Led by Evan Lawson, Forest Collective was founded in 2009 by a group of students from the VCA. Forest Collective transformed from an artist collective of like minded individuals into one of Melbourne's leading young arts companies and became a not for profit, multi-disciplinary arts organisation in 2012. Since it's first season Forest Collective has gone onto sell out performances at Melbourne Recital Centre, La Mama Court House, National Gallery of Victoria, Abbotsford Convent, Burrinja Cultural Centre and as a part of Metropolis New Music Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. Highlights of past seasons include working with harpist Marshall Maguire, commissioning and performing the world premiere of Evan Lawson and Samuel Yeo's opera Calypso, Elanor Webber's dance work Texture of It for our 2014 interdisciplinary arts festival Flooding in the Garden, Michael Bakrencev's chamber work The Virtuous Woman with the Watermelon, Evan Lawson's spralling chamber work Orpheus and the Cave, Lisa Illean's stunning And the black sea, Breaks… and Katriona Tsyrlin and Stephanie Osztreicher's physical theatre and music work Holy Dying. In 2014 Forest Collective presented their own interdisciplinary festival, Flooding in the Garden, presenting various Melbourne artists to high acclaim.


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Q: all the apples vs all apples
Who ate all apples?

vs

Who ate all the apples?

Is first question wrong?
Why after "all" is necessary to add "the"? Without "the" are they all apples in the world?
Thanks in advance.
P.S.

All the members of our family are doctors.

Is it the same logic?
Or I can say: All members of our family are doctors.

A: When we use definite article the it specifies a particular object or objects. When you ask Who ate all the apples You are talking about those particular apples(apples that you saw, or bought). When you ask Who ate all  apples? you are talking about apples in general, therefore it seems a bit awkward.

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Lock in a great price for Gili Lankanfushi Maldives – rated 9.7 by recent guests!
The resort was very well managed, they make difficult things very easy for you. I had a very memorable experience here.
I loved everything! The resort is only a short speedboat trip away from Male. The villa suites are incredible but the best thing about the resort is the staff! They go out of their way to make you feel special.
Everything was amazing! Beyond our expectations! The staff were very friendly and helpful everywhere we went. The resort itself was beautiful and very well maintained. We had the most amazing holiday and will definitely be back!
Absolutely everything....amazing place ...Paradise has a name ...Many many thanks to Nana ...one of the best butler we have ever meet .
A spot in the World there is just perfekt ... just lige a Dream.. thanks to all staf for a perfekt stay .
Our stay was very smooth and enjoyable. The design of the overwater villas was incredible and the range of activities available was really good which left us with no dull moment. The over water bar and the Japanese restaurant had excellent food. Needless to stay that everyone on the staff team was immensely helpful and friendly and I would like to emphasise on this point as it made our stay great. There are complimentary water sports and snorkelling kit. Also everything we requested was delivered quickly and in top condition. The resort itself is beautiful and we enjoyed the views from every corner. Also he transport from and to the hotel was made really easy.
Sabía que iba a ser muy bueno, pero fue excepcional. Teníamos una casa overwater, muy bien cuidada, con todo, perfecta. La comida es otro de los atractivos, muy por encima de la media de cualquier hotel. Sin duda para repetir.
Gili Lankanfushi Maldives This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
Perched over the Indian Ocean, Gili Lankanfushi offers closeness to sun and sea with its luxurious accommodations. Aside from free Wi-Fi, it also has an ocean-view outdoor pool and relaxing spa.
Featuring private sun decks and a water garden, each eco-friendly residence is equipped with a cable/satellite TV, DVD player and BOSE surround-sound system. An espresso machine and mini-bar are also included.
When would you like to stay at Gili Lankanfushi Maldives?
Spacious water villa with a kitchenette and rooftop sun deck with daybed.
This peaceful stand-alone villa features a kitchenette and a floating sun deck. Includes a private boat shuttle to the main-island.
A spacious and luxurious 5577 ft² villa nestled in the middle of the blue lagoon. It offers 360-degree views of the Indian Ocean. The 5-unit building is designed in a rustic chic style and sits 1640 feet from Gili Lankanfushi. It has a large central open-plan living area with a sea garden, water slide, private swimming pool, natural coral pool, sun decks, a cozy dining area, and a unique open-air bathroom.
This double room features a sofa, DVD player and seating area. The room has access to a courtyard with a hammock for the benefit of the guests.
This double room is located at the end of the jetty and is extended into the sea. It has a balcony, seating area and air conditioning. The room has access to a courtyard with a hammock for the benefit of the guests.
A sanctuary hidden from the world.
House Rules Gili Lankanfushi Maldives takes special requests – add in the next step!
Gili Lankanfushi Maldives accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that in case of cancelation, refund will be done after deducting the bank charges. This is applicable only for bookings released before cancelation period.
Please inform Gili Lankanfushi Maldives of your expected arrival time in advance. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation.
Cost of alcohol was astronomical .
Being barefoot, service by waiters, I crowded.
There is nothing bad about this place. It's paradise!
Because we booked 2 villas, bur they didn't arrange next to each other.
The smell of the toiletries were amazing!


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package com.typesafe.slick.examples.lifted

//#imports
// Use H2Driver to connect to an H2 database
import scala.slick.driver.H2Driver.simple._
//#imports

/**
 * A simple example that uses statically typed queries against an in-memory
 * H2 database. The example data comes from Oracle's JDBC tutorial at
 * http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jdbc/basics/tables.html.
 */
object GettingStartedOverview extends App {
//#quick-imports
import scala.slick.driver.H2Driver.simple._
//#quick-imports

//#quick-schema
  class Coffees(tag: Tag) extends Table[(String, Double)](tag, "COFFEES") {
    def name = column[String]("COF_NAME", O.PrimaryKey)
    def price = column[Double]("PRICE")
    def * = (name, price)
  }
  val coffees = TableQuery[Coffees]
//#quick-schema

//#quick-query
  Database.forURL("jdbc:h2:mem:test1", driver = "org.h2.Driver") withSession {
    implicit session =>
//#quick-query
    coffees.ddl.create
//#quick-query
    ( for( c <- coffees; if c.price < 10.0 ) yield c.name ).list
    // or
    coffees.filter(_.price < 10.0).map(_.name).list
  }
//#quick-query

  import scala.slick.jdbc.StaticQuery.interpolation
  Database.forURL("jdbc:h2:mem:test1", driver = "org.h2.Driver") withSession {
    implicit session =>
    coffees.ddl.create
    //#what-is-slick-micro-example
    val limit = 10.0

    // Your query could look like this:
    ( for( c <- coffees; if c.price < limit ) yield c.name ).list

    // Or using more plain SQL String Interpolation:
    sql"select COF_NAME from COFFEES where PRICE < $limit".as[String].list

    // Both queries result in SQL equivalent to:
    // select COF_NAME from COFFEES where PRICE < 10.0
    //#what-is-slick-micro-example
  }

  Database.forURL("jdbc:h2:mem:test1", driver = "org.h2.Driver") withSession {
    implicit session =>
    coffees.ddl.create
    //#features-scala-collections
    // Query that only returns the "name" column
    coffees.map(_.name)

    // Query that does a "where price < 10.0"
    coffees.filter(_.price < 10.0)
    //#features-scala-collections
  }

  Database.forURL("jdbc:h2:mem:test1", driver = "org.h2.Driver") withSession {
    implicit session =>
    coffees.ddl.create
    //#features-type-safe
    // The result of "select PRICE from COFFEES" is a Seq of Double
    // because of the type safe column definitions
    val coffeeNames: Seq[Double] = coffees.map(_.price).list

    // Query builders are type safe:
    coffees.filter(_.price < 10.0)
    // Using a string in the filter would result in a compilation error
    //#features-type-safe
  }

  Database.forURL("jdbc:h2:mem:test1", driver = "org.h2.Driver") withSession {
    implicit session =>
    coffees.ddl.create
    //#features-composable
    // Create a query for coffee names with a price less than 10, sorted by name
    coffees.filter(_.price < 10.0).sortBy(_.name).map(_.name)
    // The generated SQL is equivalent to:
    // select name from COFFEES where PRICE < 10.0 order by NAME
    //#features-composable
  }

}

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Recent advancements in medical and surgical technology have enabled physicians and surgeons to extend longevity, eliminate risk factors, and save lives that previously would have been lost. Despite the increased survival rates, no one wants to have surgery. It's scary, no matter how minor the procedure may be or how many times it has been performed successfully. When we must go under the knife, we trust the surgeon and his/her medical team to give us their best. When that doesn't happen, the consequences can be devastating.
Medical malpractice continues to negatively impact Norfolk patients, and a quarter of those medical malpractice cases begin in the surgery room. Safe surgical procedures require complete concentration on the part of the surgeon from the moment you are put under until you wake up in recovery. Any lapse in judgment or concentration can lead to serious injury and even death. If you've been the victim of medical malpractice, you deserve to be compensated for their negligence, but proving medical malpractice can be difficult on your own. You need an experienced medical malpractice attorney to investigate your case and hold the hospital accountable.
If you or someone you love has been the victim of medical malpractice, give us a call immediately for a free consultation. Our team of investigators will uncover the true cause of your injuries and fight to get you maximum compensation.


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Kuolemanlaakso: M. Laakso�Vol. 1: The Gothic Tapes
This album requires a little explanation: for starters, it's not a typical Kuolemanlaakso album and it's not death doom metal. As the title suggests, this album is really a solo effort by Laakso, the driving force behind Kuolemanlaakso.
The music here can roughly be described as Gothic. That term is highly variable, of course, but the sound here is somewhat familiar. It's mostly dark and heavy but played at a slow tempo and performed with rich deep vocals that suit the lyrics here very well. It's often melodic in catchy and engaging ways but not all fans will be drawn to this sound. I thought it was entertaining but this style isn't as appealing to me as the aforementioned death doom metal. Still, I admire Laakso's efforts to widen his songwriting talents. Check out "Roll the Dice with the Devil."
These songs are performed in English but Laaskso has made it clear that Finnish is officially the language of his projects outside of Kuloemanlaakso.
1. Children of the Night
2. Roll the Dice with the Devil
3. Where the River Runs Red
4. The World's Intolerable Pain
5. She Guides Me in My Dreams
6. No Absolution
7. Deeper into the Unknown
8. My Last Words
Added: September 12th 2016
Reviewer: Carl Sederholm
Related Link: Band Facebook Page


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IKEA pledges to close loop by buying customers' used furniture in exchange for vouchers
The initiative, which aims to offer more sustainable and affordable products, will launch in the UK and Ireland on Black Friday
Image: Grzegorz Czapski / Shutterstock
IKEA stores in the UK and Ireland will soon buy back used furniture from customers in exchange for gift vouchers.
This is part of a new initiative that aims to support the circularity goal of the retail giant and offer customers more affordable and sustainable options on its range of products.
Customers selling their old IKEA office drawers, tables, chairs, desks, shelving and cupboards will receive a refund card to spend in-store.
The customers who want to sell their furniture have to submit photographs of it and they are expected to receive an offer after an evaluation conducted by IKEA's team.
Depending on the condition of the furniture traded in, the voucher could be worth as much as 50% of the original price if items are with no scratches – products with minor scratches are set to be exchanged for vouchers worth 40% of the original price, while pieces with several scratches will get vouchers worth 30% of the item's original value.
The company says it will resell all the used furniture as second-hand and it will recycle or donate to local community projects pieces that cannot be resold.
The 'Buy Back' programme will begin in the UK and Ireland on 27th November, Black Friday.
Peter Jelkeby, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer IKEA UK and Ireland, commented: "Sustainability is the defining issue of our time and IKEA is committed to being part of the solution to promote sustainable consumption and combat climate change."
Hege Sæbjørnsen, Country Sustainability Manager at IKEA UK and Ireland, added: "Currently, 45% of total global carbon emissions come from the way the world produces and uses everyday products.
"Being circular is a good business opportunity as well as a responsibility and the climate crisis requires us all to radically rethink our consumption habits."
If you enjoyed this story you can sign up to our weekly email for Energy Live News – and if you're interested in hearing more about the journey to net zero by 2050, you can also sign up to the future Net Zero newsletter.
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PictureReady creates a real time architecture for high speed editorial of live feeds or transfer from linear sources, by facilitating real time replay and editing of content, 'as it is recorded'. PictureReady forms the record channel, whilst Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro is your editorial station. You can add as many PictureReady record systems as you like, provided you have sufficient bandwidth available on your storage. For centralised control of mutiple PictureReady systems, take a look at Sienna IngestControl which controls up to 15 channels on a single screen or the free 4 channel PictureReady Network Remote.
When capturing live sources, you never get a second chance, so reliability of capture and appropriate redundancy is critically important. Gallery invented the process of recording into live - editable movies with PictureReady's first release in 2004. Whilst other companies have since followed our lead, none have delivered the same reliability of capture, proven time and time again - at high profile events such as the Torino Olympics in 2006 (with NHK), Beiing in 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016 (with Televisa). PictureReady has a 1000 frame RAM buffer to store incoming video frames securely allowing plenty of slack in the storage architecture without losing a single frame.
Redundancy is another critical factor, and as such, each PictureReady channel runs on a dedicated low cost computer, to avoid mass outages with hardware failure. Suprisingly, this redundant approach is *less* expensive than other systems which try to cram up to 8 channels on a single very expensive computer and a single video card, with the inevitable total outage when the hardware fails.
PictureReady records via Video devices such as AJA, BlackMagic Design and Matrox directly into QuickTime movies, which can be edited during capture with compatible editors including Adobe Premiere Pro and FinalCut Pro. PictureReady can capture SD, HD and UHD with appropriate hardware, along with up to 16 channels of audio. Recordings are timestamped frame accurately from a choice of timecode sources including embedded RP188 timecode, audio LTC or 9-pin timecode. Most PictureReady systems are based on MacMini dual i7 CPUs, although in many cases a dual i5 Mac Mini can suffice.


Shipping container homes are currently becoming an increasingly popular alternative for home builders wanting something different. They are cheap, simple to build and have many eco-friendly benefits. For many excited architects and builders shipping containers are providing a new exciting form of architecture, where containers can be used as building blocks and major structural segments for houses, offices and even city structures.
Shipping container homes are built with sea containers. They are very affordable and strong enough to become the framework for a house. Building a overseas sea container home is very easy. Your builder places one or more overseas sea containers onto a standard foundation, cut windows and doors into the shipping container walls.
Then they insulate the modified container properly to resist heat and cold, decorate it and voila! – your shipping containers have evolved into your very own ultra modern home. The modular structure of sea containers means that they can be easily attached to each other. The very nature of this allows architectural designers to design both stunning and unique home designs.
The goods are packed in containers to be transported from ports to the cities, and because the cost of transportation would be too high to send them back to the ports, a lot of empty containers end up dumped on sites. shipping container home, container living.
These considerations should not dissuade you from building a shipping container home. They are cheap, efficient, and environmentally friendly structures that can make a unique home. But, as in all major projects, it's very important to take into account all of the snags that could come your way. By planning ahead, you can make sure that your cargo container home project gets done right. shipping container home, container living.
There are companies sprouting up that are taking containers and converting them into homes. Which means that this approach to greener building methods is accessible to all. Expensive? They are far more affordable than conventionally built homes. shipping container home, container living.
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Shipping containers can also be used for emergency housing or shelters. The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan has left 90,000 to 100,00 people homeless. Sea containers could be used to house the homeless people and provide them very much needed privacy and relief. They could also be used to create temporary schools and offices. The build time will be very short which is what the country needs right now. shipping container home, container living.
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The cost of a 40-feet cargo container is about US$1200. As you can imagine, building a house made from shipping containers is very affordable. In general, the cost to build container house is half that of the cost of building a conventional house. Container homes are low cost, very strong, have a fast construction time, easy to modify, and shipping containers are widely available. shipping container home, container living.
The point is, is someone is going to take a piece of machinery to break into your home then they are probably going to get in no matter what. However, the odds are in the container home owner that no one will be breaking into your steel can. shipping container home, container living.
And most importantly, you will need to consult with local authorities to make sure your new container home meets all local building codes. Some communities simply won't allow homes constructed out of shipping containers. If this is the case, you may be out of luck, but it's much better to find out before you invest money or begin construction. shipping container home, container living.
Adam Kalkin has designed houses out of shipping containers before, but his last one is actually a luxury dwelling for the rich. He unveiled his creation at the Art Basel Miami Beach art show in December 2005 and the attendants were surprised to see lavish furnishings and a beautifully designed interior inside a shipping container. shipping container home, container living.
Shipping containers are useful, but are cluttering our ports. Without them America wouldn't function as the America we all know. Goods and merchandise would arrive into our hands by very different means and likely a much higher price!. shipping container home, container living.
The latest craze in eco-friendly building is shipping container homes. These unique houses use new or used cargo containers as their primary construction material. And since these shipping containers are cheap and plentiful, you can build your very own shipping container house for a surprisingly low cost. shipping container home, container living.
Although his Push-Button house is only an experimental project, Mr. Kalkin has built houses that he intends to make available to the public, like his Quik House. He currently has orders for ten. These modern prefab houses are made from five shipping containers and are then loaded on a truck and delivered to the buyer. shipping container home, container living.
In this day and age, green construction methods are definitely in style. Architects, home builders, and entrepreneurs are all looking for ways to creatively reuse materials to create new, efficient, and unique buildings. Perhaps the most interesting green architectural movement of the last decade uses a construction material that is as commonplace as it is efficient: shipping containers. shipping container home, container living.
Shipping container houses are also a very popular building project using this handy material. These kinds of houses are an ideal building project because all of their architectural materials can be shipped to site, then modified to meet the particular specifications of the project. shipping container home, container living. shipping container home, container living.
Check all applicable state and local building codes before you buy materials or hire contractors. Pay special attention to building codes related to building homes using steel, since this is the most likely restriction you will find on shipping container homes. Also, when you consult your local building office, make sure that you have a specific house plan in mind before you ask for approval. shipping container home, container living.