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tadalafil there times;">WASHINGTON, best cialis D.C. — Dr. Rodney Smith, President of the College of The Bahamas (COB), will head a delegation from COB on a working visit to Washington, D.C. from November 8 – 10, 2015.
NEW YORK — Hon. Forrester J. Carroll, Bahamas Consul General to New York, signs the Book of Condolences for those who perished in the Russian plane crash in Egypt, at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, located on 136 East 67th Street, on November 2, 2015.
Members of the delegation include Ms. Davinia Blair, Vice President (Interim) of Advancement; Dr. Carlton Watson, Dean, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science; and Mr. Elgin Smith, Chief Information Officer.
The trip is being facilitated by the Embassy of The Bahamas in keeping with its ongoing mandate to support and bolster the work of Bahamian policy-makers and officials through resources and contacts in Washington D.C.
Following up on decisions made in the margins of the Seventh Summit of the Americas held in Panama City in April, where the COB President attended the 1st University Presidents Forum of the Americas, Dr. Smith and his delegation will meet with officials from the US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Organization of American States' Department of Human Development and Education and several education-focused non-governmental entities.
Discussions will focus on potential technical assistance for capacity building in the areas of accreditation, internationalization and expanding online and distance education as COB transitions to a university. The College also plans to engage on enhanced capacity-building opportunities through scholarships and exchanges for faculty.
Technical assistance and cooperation will be pursued during the visit to enhance efforts with respect to COB's transition to a university and its enhanced role in the ongoing creation of the country's National Development Plan.
During the working visit, President Smith will also address Bahamians in the Diaspora on "The Role of the University of The Bahamas in National Development" and make a presentation at the OAS Council on Integral Development (CIDI).
NEW YORK — Ms. Gwen Moncur, Ms. Nicole Gomez, and Mr. Artiece L. Brown Sr., all Bahamian Nationals, paid a Courtesy Call on Hon. Forrester J. Carroll, Bahamas Consul General to New York, on Monday, November 2, 2015 at Bahama House 231 E 46th Street. Pictured from left to right: Ms. Moncur, Consul General Carroll, Ms. Gomez, and Mr. Brown.
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BAHAMIANS IN THE DIASPORA FEATURE:
NICANOR E. (NIC) DAVIDSON
By OSWALD T. BROWN
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the highlights of the Bahamas independence anniversary celebrations in the Washington, D.C., area is a picnic held for the past several years on the spacious grounds of the United States Coast Guard Base in Alexandria, Virginia.
Organized by a committee headed by Mrs. Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., the independence celebrations generally also include a reception and a church service, but the event that most Bahamians in the Washington, D.C. area diaspora really look forward to and attend in huge numbers is the picnic.
The fact that it is held on the grounds of a U.S. military establishment has nothing to with a cooperative agreement between the United States and The Bahamas, but rather because Nicanor E. Davidson and Bernard Colebrook, two of the principal organizers of the picnic, are former members of the United States Military.
Davidson, who is President of the Bahamian-American Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area, is a former U.S. Army Aviator, and he gives credit to Colebrook, a fellow Bahamian and retired United States Marine, for getting him involved in The Bahamas independence celebrations.
"I had sought to get involved in Bahamian cultural activities ever since being assigned to the DC area with the military in 1994," Davidson said in a recent interview. "I met Bernie at a Bahamian Independence event back in the 90s and have always seen him as trying to do something to lift up The Bahamas in this area. He is absolutely tireless in these efforts."
Davidson was born in Nassau "in a tiny house in Rupert Dean Lane, between Meadow Street and Ferguson Street, in Bain Town and attended Woodcock Primary School. At age 11, he moved with his family to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1971, and joined the US Army in September 1978, retiring officially after 21 years, on February 1, 2000.
"My first five years in the Army were as a UH-1 helicopter mechanic and crewmember," Davidson recalls. "My remaining years were served in various capacities as a dual-rated Army aviator, flying both rotary-wing (helicopters) and fixed-wing (airplanes) platforms. My helicopter platforms were the TH-55 (Hughes 300) trainer and Bell UH-1 (Huey). My airplane platforms were the U-21 and C-12 (King Air 100 and 200, respectively) and later the C-21 (Learjet 35) and C-20 (Gulfstream III)."
Davidson's responsibilities in the Army included "numerous safety and operational roles, such as Instructor Pilot, Operations Officer, and post-maintenance functional test pilot."
Noting that he amassed almost 6000 hours of accident-free flying while on active duty, Davidson added, "I also performed numerous administrative collateral duties. These included training, security, and investigative responsibilities."
Davidson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University while on active duty and after leaving the Army, he was "a commercial airline pilot for a bit over five years, serving as a crewmember, respectively on the Boeing 727, the Boeing 737 and finally McDonnell Douglas MD-80."
"In total, I have been in aviation for approximately 37 years and have flown over 8500 hours," he said. "I joined the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in October 2006, as a Transportation Industry Analyst in the Office of Rulemaking. In August of 2008, I joined the Aircraft Certification Service as an Aviation Safety Analyst, later becoming an Aviation Safety Inspector. I currently work in the Airport Compliance Division as an Airport Compliance Specialist."
Asked why he decided to become involved with the Bahamian-American Association, Davidson said, "To the best of my knowledge, there have been numerous efforts, some more successful than others, at creating a sustained social organization for Bahamians and friends. Our efforts this time began about two years ago and we are making some headway. We wish to create a self-sustaining organization that regularly unites Bahamians and friends in the DC area for myriad social events, and also an organization that develops a great outreach potential in order to assist those in need."
In addition to Colebrook, other key members of the association's leadership are Khandra Sears, Darin Swain, Lincoln Marshall, and "a few others that we can always count on," Davidson said. "With respect to the Independence celebrations we have always tried as a group to support the local offices with those celebrations as best we can. I would like to recognize Chris Gardiner in DC, who helped greatly with our initial paperwork."
Suggesting that all Bahamians living in the Washington Metropolitan area should join the Association because "there is strength in numbers," Davidson added, "There are people with all kinds of talents out there, and we want those people to help us make this a great organization. We have a website under construction at BAAWMA.COM. We also have an email address at BahamiamAmericanWMA@gmail.com and would love to hear from anyone who would like to help us grow the organization."
Davidson currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with my wife Mia. They have two adult children, Andrew (26) and Elisa (24), both college graduates.
Oswald T. Brown is the Press, Cultural Affairs and Information Manager with The Bahamas Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Nic Davidson with Paulette Zonicle, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., at The Bahamas independence celebrations picnic held on the spacious grounds of the United States Coast Guard Base in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday, July 11, 2015.
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Nic Davidson is pictured with some children in this photo taken at Blue Nile Falls (Lake Tana) in Ethiopia Springtime 1994. He had flown an Army General from Nairobi to several locations in Ethiopia on this trip.
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The RWC2019 Debrief: Italy
Tim Etheridge	in International Rugby, Rugby Union, Rugby World Cup	 November 30, 2019 December 5, 2019 949 Words
Welcome to the RWC2019 Debriefs. The World Cup is now over and a new 4 year cycle begins, but the first stage of any cycle should be looking back at how things went – what went wrong and what went right – before looking on to how things go for the next cycle to ensure qualification to RWC2023 (if they haven't automatically qualified) and to make sure they enter that tournament in peak form.
I will be going through these debriefs alphabetically, so today I will be casting my eye over Italy.
RWC2019 Qualification
Italy automatically qualified for this year's tournament by finishing 3rd in Pool D during the 2015 tournament.
The Azzurri failed to win any matches on their way to finishing bottom of the Six Nations table. They lost again to Ireland, France and England in their warm-up matches, but managed a comprehensive 85-15 victory over Russia. Though the results weren't going their way, there were some signs of improvement throughout he squad, while back rowers Braam Steyn and Seb Negri had very good seasons to cement their place in the back row. Sadly, Leonardo Ghiraldini suffered a serious injury that eventually saw him miss out on making an appearance at the World Cup.
The Debrief
Pool Stages (3rd in Pool B)
Italy 47-22 Namibia
Italy 48-7 Canada
South Africa 49-3 Italy
New Zealand C-C Italy
Coming into a pool that contained 2 of the tournament favourites and 2 clearly weaker teams, it would have been a shock for Italy to finish anywhere other than 3rd, though they had the perfect schedule of games to build into the tournament.
Against Namibia, they had a clear dominance in the scrum and arguably should have won by a much more flattering scoreline, except for a raft of handling errors that killed a number of chances. Against Canada, they were a bit more clinical and tore the Canadians apart, with the back row trio of Seb Negri, Jake Polledri and Braam Steyn running hard and strong to give the backs a platform. Building into the tournament after missing most of the preceding season through injury, Matteo Minozzi looked like a superstar for Italy with good smart defending and a varied attack.
Finally taking on a greater test, things quickly went horribly wrong as they could not keep their props on the field. Simone Ferrari was off injured after just 2 minutes and his replacement, Marco Riccioni didn't even make it to the 20 minute mark before injury ruled him out too. Then just after halftime, starting loosehead Andrea Lovotti got himself sent off for spearing Duane Vermeulen in a clearout – an offence that sole remaining prop Nicola Quaglio was lucky to also not be dismissed for. While Steyn continued to be a star in this game, the extra man made the difference as South Africa added 5 tries to the 2 scored before the red card.
Qualification to the knockouts was still mathematically possible (though highly unlikely) if they could beat New Zealand, but their tournament came to a premature end as Typhoon Hagibis caused disruption to the tournament and led to the match being cancelled.
Well first things first, Italy need to find someone to replace head coach Conor O'Shea, who left the post after the World Cup. While results on the whole didn't go the Azzurri's way during his tenure (9 wins from 40 Tests), O'Shea's job was so much more important than that, working on Italian Rugby as a whole. Under his watch, the Italian Pro14 franchises have improved so much, the U20s are on the rise and a new generation of superstars have started to emerge, led by Negri, Polledri and Minozzi. This work must continue in order for Italian rugby to continue to grow so that they can jump to the next level.
As with many nations, these next few years will see some transition in the playing group, with Ghiraldini and Alessandro Zanni unlikely to feature for the Azzurri again and Sergio Parisse likely bowing out in the Six Nations. Even if these players do continue to play for a while longer, their time in the starting XV is surely done. Parisse is a superstar, but the trio of Negri, Polledri and Steyn have already developed a fantastic balance and it feels that the team performs better when the trio are all on the pitch. In the back line, there is plenty of quality coming through, while the vast majority of the backs are young enough to have at least 1 more World Cup in them. What they do still need to find, in my opinion, is a top level fly half. Tommaso Allan has definitely improved over the last couple of seasons, but I still don't think he has the quality to utilise the quality of the players outside him in the way needed to get more regular victories.
The tight five has been a weak point for Italy in the last few seasons, but it looks like there is quality coming through there who will grow into great players over the coming years, with Federico Ruzza, David Sisi and Simone Ferrari likely leaders in the engine room over the coming years.
The important thing right now is to continue getting regular rugby against Tier 1 nations. There has been so much talk amongst fans and pundits of how Georgia should enter the Six Nations at Italy's expense, but that is not fair to a team that is clearly on the up. If the improvements of the last few years can continue and they can continue to regularly play against top-level opposition, then this is a team that could surprise people in 2023.
Published November 30, 2019 December 5, 2019
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We support new and developing notions of comparative literature and theory, and are committed to interdisciplinary studies, intellectual pluralism, and open discussion. We are particularly interested in scholarship on the interrelations among philosophy, literature, culture criticism and intellectual history, though we will consider articles on any aspect of the intermingling of discourses and disciplines.
The journal takes its name from the Greek word symplokē which has among its various meanings interweaving, interlacing, connection and struggle. The journal's editors believe that continuing change in the humanities is contingent upon the interweaving, connection, and struggle between traditionally independent domains of discourse. One of our broader goals is to contribute to the opening of alternative academic frontiers by providing a forum for scholars of varying disciplines to engage in the intermingling of ideas in innovative ways.
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How a Commercial Printing Company Lowered Cost Per Conversion by 4.5 Times
ExpressColour is a boutique local commercial flyer/postcard/brochure printing company based in Singapore. For over 25 years, ExpressColour had been relying on traditional marketing methods to sustain its business activities.
ExpressColour's main clientele base were real estate agents. When the property market dipped in 2013, the phone lines became very quiet.
As an FMCG company, Search Engine Marketing was the most relevant and effective marketing channel. Consumers wanted their marketing collateral delivered fast and at low cost and they took to the search engines to discover and compare various commercial printing companies.
After launching a Search Engine Marketing campaign with Google AdWords and optimising the website to rank on the 1st page of Google's organic search results, ExpressColour saw a 30% increase sales volume.
Before the property market downturn, ExpressColour's clientele base was relatively small, but the sales volume of each client was large.
After attending our Google Ads course and implementing Search Engine Marketing, a huge influx of small volume orders came from a variety of industries ranging from Retail to F&B. This made up for the initial dropout of larger B2B clients and ExpressColour was able to thrive in this competitive industry.
The figure on the right depicts a monthly average search volume of 1650 searches a month for only 4 commonly used search terms.
A conversion rate of 2% would mean 33 new customers per month on average.
Challenges Faced
It wasn't all smooth in the initial phases of launching the Search Engine Marketing campaign. Competition was high and ExpressColour's pricing wasn't competitive enough.
Bidding on the keywords that included the keywords "cheap" e.g. "cheap flyer printing" proved ineffective.
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Upon removing "cheap" keywords from its AdWords Search Advertising campaign, ExpressColour was able to reduce its Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) by 4.5 times.
Before Optimisation
Note the cost per conversion at $150.92 before adding search queries e.g. "cheap flyer printing" and "cheapest flyer printing in singapore" as negative keywords.
After Optimisation
Click-through-rate dropped to 5.04% but cost per conversion decreased to $29.19 after ads did not show for "cheap" keywords.
Source: Anthony Toh, Express Colour Pte Ltd, who attended Equinet Academy's Google Search Ads course and Google Display Ads course.


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Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia, is a neuropsychological condition that causes a distortion of perception. People may experience distortions in visual perception of objects, such as appearing smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia), or appearing to be closer (pelopsia) or farther (teleopsia) than they are. Distortion may also occur for senses other than vision.

The cause of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is currently unknown, but it has often been associated with migraines, head trauma, or viral encephalitis caused by Epstein–Barr virus infection. It is also theorized that it can be caused by abnormal amounts of electrical activity, resulting in abnormal blood flow in those parts of the brain which process visual perception and texture.

Although there are cases of Alice in Wonderland syndrome in both adolescents and adults, it is most commonly seen in children.

Classification
Though not agreed upon in literature, some authors classify only symptoms involving changes in perception of a person's body image as true Alice in Wonderland syndrome and instead use the term "Alice in Wonderland-like syndrome" to classify any symptoms involving other changes in perception of vision, time, hearing, touch or other extra-personnel perceptions.

Signs and symptoms
With over 60 associated symptoms, Alice in Wonderland syndrome affects the sense of vision, sensation, touch, and hearing, as well as the perception of one's body image. Migraines, nausea, dizziness, and agitation are also commonly associated symptoms with Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Less frequent symptoms also include loss of limb control and coordination, memory loss, lingering touch and sound sensations, and emotional instability. Alice in Wonderland syndrome is often associated with distortion of sensory perception, which involves visual, somatosensory, and non-visual symptoms. Alice in Wonderland syndrome is characterized by the individual being able to recognize the distortion in the perception of their own body and is episodic. Alice in Wonderland syndrome episodes varies in length from person to person. Episodes typically last from a few minutes to an hour, and each episode may vary in experience.

Visual distortions
Individuals with Alice in Wonderland syndrome can experience illusions of expansion, reduction, or distortion of their body image, such as microsomatognosia (feeling that their own body or body parts are shrinking), or macrosomatognosia (feeling that their body or body parts are growing taller or larger). These changes in perception are collectively known as metamorphopsias, or Lilliputian hallucinations, which refer to objects appearing either smaller or larger than reality. People with certain neurological diseases may also experience similar visual hallucinations.

Within the category of Lilliputian hallucinations, people may experience either micropsia or macropsia. Micropsia is an abnormal visual condition, usually occurring in the context of visual hallucination, in which the affected person sees objects as being smaller than they are in reality. Macropsia is a condition where the individual sees everything larger than it is. These visual distortions are sometimes classified as "Alice in Wonderland-like syndrome" instead of true Alice in Wonderland syndrome but are often still classified as Alice in Wonderland syndrome by health professionals and researchers since the distinction is not official.

It was reported, by Lanska and Lanska (2013), that of all clinical cases, "Some 85% of patients present with perceptual distortions in a single sensory modality, e.g., only visual or only somesthetic. Moreover, the majority experience only a single type of distortion, e.g., only micropsia or only macropsia."

Hallucinations
Zoopsia is an additional hallucination that is sometimes associated with Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Zoopsias involve hallucinations of either swarm of small animals (e.g. ants and mice, etc.), or isolated groups of larger animals (e.g. dogs and elephants, etc.). This experience of zoopsias is a shared symptom of a variety of conditions, such as delirium tremens.

In addition, some people may, in conjunction with a high fever, experience more intense and overt hallucinations, seeing things that are not there, and misinterpreting events and situations.

Depersonalization/derealization
Along with these size, mass, and shape distortions of the body, those with Alice in Wonderland syndrome often experience a feeling of disconnection from one's own body, feelings, thoughts, and environment.

Hearing and time distortions
Individuals experiencing Alice in Wonderland syndrome can also often experience paranoia as a result of disturbances in sound perception. These disturbances can include the amplification of soft sounds or the misinterpretation of common sounds. Other auditory changes include distortion in pitch and tone and hearing indistinguishable and strange voices, noises, or music.

A person affected by Alice in Wonderland syndrome may also lose a sense of time, a problem similar to the lack of spatial perspective brought on by visual distortion. Time may seem to pass very slowly, similar to an LSD experience, and the lack of time and space perspective can also lead to a distorted sense of velocity. For example, an object could be moving extremely slowly in reality, but to a person experiencing time distortions, it could seem that the object was sprinting uncontrollably along a moving walkway, leading to severe, overwhelming disorientation. Having symptoms of time distortion is correlated with various underlying conditions, for example, substance use, migraine, epilepsy, head trauma, and encephalitis. Regardless of an individual's disease diagnosis, time distortions are often included as a symptom associated with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome since they are classified as perceptual distortions. Therefore, a person can be described as having Alice in Wonderland syndrome even if that person is experiencing time distortions due to an underlying condition.

Causes
Because Alice in Wonderland syndrome is not commonly diagnosed and documented, it is difficult to estimate what the main causes are, if there are any. The cause of over half of the documented cases of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is unknown. Complete and partial forms of the Alice in Wonderland syndrome exist in a range of other disorders, including epilepsy, intoxicants, infectious states, fevers, and brain lesions. Furthermore, the syndrome is commonly associated with migraines, as well as the use of psychoactive drugs. It can also be the initial symptom of the Epstein–Barr virus (see mononucleosis), and a relationship between the syndrome and mononucleosis has been suggested. Within this suggested relationship, Epstein–Barr virus appears to be the most common cause in children, while for adults it is more commonly associated with migraines.

Infectious diseases
A 2021 review found that infectious diseases are the most common cause of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, especially in pediatrics. Some of these infectious agents included Epstein–Barr virus, Varicella Zoster virus, Influenza, Zika, Coxsackievirus, Plasmodium falciparum protozoa, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae/Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria. Association of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is most commonly seen with Epstein-Barr virus. However, pathogenesis is not well understood beyond these reviews. In some instances, Alice in Wonderland syndrome was reported to be associated with an Influenza A infection and it is possible that there may be other unreviewed causes as well.

Cerebral hypotheses
Alice in Wonderland syndrome can be caused by abnormal amounts of electrical activity resulting in abnormal blood flow in the parts of the brain that process visual perception and texture. Nuclear medical techniques using technetium, performed on individuals during episodes of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, have demonstrated that Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is associated with reduced cerebral perfusion in various cortical regions (frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital), both in combination and in isolation. One hypothesis is that any condition resulting in a decrease in perfusion of the visual pathways or visual control centers of the brain may be responsible for the syndrome. For example, one study used single photon emission computed tomography to demonstrate reduced cerebral perfusion in the temporal lobe in people with Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

Other theories suggest the syndrome is a result of non-specific cortical dysfunction (e.g. from encephalitis, epilepsy, decreased cerebral blood flow), or reduced blood flow to other areas of the brain. Other theories suggest that distorted body image perceptions stem from within the parietal lobe. This has been demonstrated by the production of body image disturbances through electrical stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex. Other researchers suggest that metamorphopsias, or visual distortions, may be a result of reduced perfusion of the non-dominant posterior parietal lobe during migraine episodes.

Throughout all the neuroimaging studies, several cortical regions (including the temporoparietal junction within the parietal lobe, and the visual pathway, specifically the occipital lobe) are associated with the development of Alice in Wonderland syndrome symptoms.[1]

Migraines
The role of migraines in Alice in Wonderland syndrome is still not understood, but both vascular and electrical theories have been suggested. For example, visual distortions may be a result of transient, localized ischemia in areas of the visual pathway during migraine attacks. In addition, a spreading wave of depolarization of cells (particularly glial cells) in the cerebral cortex during migraine attacks can eventually activate the trigeminal nerve's regulation of the vascular system. The intense cranial pain during migraines is due to the connection of the trigeminal nerve with the thalamus and thalamic projections onto the sensory cortex. Alice in Wonderland syndrome symptoms can precede, accompany, or replace the typical migraine symptoms. Typical migraines (aura, visual derangements, hemicrania headache, nausea, and vomiting) are both a cause and an associated symptom of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is associated with macrosomatognosia which can mostly be experienced during migraine auras.

Genetic and environmental influence
While there currently is no identified genetic locus/loci associated with Alice in Wonderland syndrome, observations suggest that a genetic component may exist but the evidence so far is inconclusive. There is also an established genetic component for migraines which may be considered to be a possible cause and influence for hereditary Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Though most frequently described in children and adolescents, observational studies have found that many parents of children experiencing Alice in Wonderland syndrome have also experienced similar symptoms themselves, though often unrecognized. Family history may then be a potential risk factor for Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

One example of environmental influences on the incidence of Alice in Wonderland syndrome includes the drug use and toxicity of topiramate. Other reports of tyramine usage and the association with Alice in Wonderland syndrome has been reported but current evidence is inconclusive. Further research is required to establish the genetic and environmental influences on Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

The neuronal effect of cortical spreading depression (CSD) on TPO-C may demonstrate the link between migraines and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. As children experience Alice in Wonderland Syndrome more than adults, it is hypothesized that structural differences in the brain between children and adults may play a role in the development of this syndrome.

Diagnosis
Alice in Wonderland syndrome is not part of any major classifications like the ICD-10 and the DSM-5. Since there are no established diagnostic criteria for Alice in Wonderland syndrome, and because Alice in Wonderland syndrome is a disturbance of perception rather than a specific physiological condition, there is likely to be a large degree of variability in the diagnostic process and thus it can be poorly diagnosed. Often, the diagnosis can be presumed when other causes have been ruled out. Additionally, Alice in Wonderland syndrome can be presumed if the patient presents symptoms along with migraines and complains of onset during the day (although it can also occur at night). Ideally, a definite diagnosis requires a thorough physical examination, proper history taking of episodes and occurrences, and a concrete understanding of the signs and symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrome for differential diagnosis. A person experiencing Alice in Wonderland syndrome may be reluctant to describe their symptoms out of fear of being labeled with a psychiatric disorder, which can contribute to the difficulty in diagnosing Alice in Wonderland syndrome. In addition, younger individuals may struggle to describe their unusual symptoms, and thus, one recommended approach is to encourage children to draw their visual illusions during episodes. Cases that are suspected should warrant tests and exams such as blood tests, ECG, brain MRI, and other antibody tests for viral antibody detection. Differential diagnosis requires three levels of conceptualization. Symptoms need to be distinguished from other disorders that involve hallucinations and illusions. It is usually easy to rule out psychosis as those with Alice in Wonderland syndrome are typically aware that their hallucinations and distorted perceptions are not 'real'. Once these symptoms are distinguished and identified, the most likely cause needs to be established. Finally, the diagnosed condition needs to be evaluated to see if the condition is responsible for the symptoms that the individual is presenting. Given the wide variety of metamorphopsias and other distortions, it is not uncommon for Alice in Wonderland syndrome to be misdiagnosed or confused with other etiologies.

Anatomical relation
An area of the brain that is important to the development of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is the temporal-parietal-occipital carrefour (TPO-C), where TPO-C region is the meeting point of temporooccipital, parietooccipital, and temporoparietal junctions in the brain. The TPO-C region is also crucial as it is the location where somatosensory and visual information are interpreted by the brain to generate any internal or external manifestations. Thus, modifications to these regions of the brain may trigger the cause of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and body schema disorders simultaneously .

Depending on which portion of the brain is damaged, the symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrome may differ. For example, it has been reported that injury to the anterior portion of the brain is more likely to be correlated to more complex and a wider range of symptoms, whereas damage to the occipital region has mainly been associated with only simple visual disturbances.

Prognosis
The symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrome themselves are not inherently harmful and are often not frightening to the person experiencing them. Since there is no established treatment for Alice in Wonderland syndrome, the prognosis varies from patient to patient and is based on whether an underlying cause has been identified.

In cases of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome caused by underlying conditions, symptoms typically occur during the underlying disease and last anywhere from a few days to months. In most cases, symptoms of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome disappear either spontaneously, with the treatment of underlying causes, or after reassurances that symptoms are momentary and harmless. Some people do not experience any more episodes of symptoms after their first experience, while others have repeat episodes before symptoms resolve. Other people continued to experience episodes years after the initial experience, sometimes with the development of new visual disorders or migraines.

Treatment
At present (2017), Alice in Wonderland Syndrome has no standardized treatment plan. Since symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrome often disappear, either spontaneously on their own, or with the treatment of the underlying disease, most clinical and non-clinical Alice in Wonderland Syndrome cases are considered to be benign. In cases of Alice in Wonderland syndrome caused by underlying chronic disease, however, symptoms tend to reappear during the active phase of the underlying cause (e.g., migraine, epilepsy). If treatment of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is determined necessary and useful, it should be focused on treating the suspected underlying disease. Treatment of these underlying conditions mostly involves prescription medications such as antiepileptics, migraine prophylaxis, antivirals, or antibiotics. Antipsychotics are rarely used in treating Alice in Wonderland Syndrome symptoms due to their minimal effectiveness.

Migraine prophylaxis
Treatment methods revolving around migraine prophylaxis include medications and following a low-tyramine diet. Drugs that may be used to prevent migraines include anticonvulsants, antidepressants, calcium channel blockers, and beta blockers. Other treatments that have been explored for migraines include repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). However, further research is needed to establish the effectiveness of this treatment regime.

Epidemiology
The lack of established diagnostic criteria or large-scale epidemiological studies, low awareness of the syndrome, and the unstandardized diagnosis criteria and definition for Alice in Wonderland syndrome mean that the exact prevalence of the syndrome is currently unknown. One study on 3,224 adolescents in Japan demonstrated the occurrence of macropsia and micropsia to be 6.5% in boys and 7.3% in girls, suggesting that the symptoms of Alice in Wonderland syndrome may not be particularly rare. This also seems to suggest a difference in the male-to-female ratio of people with Alice in Wonderland syndrome. However, according to other studies, it appears that the male/female ratio is dependent on the age range being observed. Studies showed that younger males (age range of 5 to 14 years) were 2.69 times more likely to experience Alice in Wonderland syndrome than girls of the same age, while there were no significant differences between students of 13 to 15 years of age. Conversely, female students (16- to 18-year-olds) showed a significantly greater prevalence.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome is more frequently seen in children and young adults. The average age of the start of Alice in Wonderland syndrome is six years old, but it is typical for some people to experience the syndrome from childhood up to their late twenties. Because many parents who have Alice in Wonderland syndrome report their children having it as well, the condition is thought possibly to be hereditary. Some parents report not realizing they have experienced Alice in Wonderland syndrome symptoms until after their children have been diagnosed, further indicating that many cases of Alice in Wonderland syndrome likely go unrecognized and under-reported.

Research is still being expanded upon and developed on this syndrome in a multitude of different regions and specialties. Future studies are encouraged to include global collaborative efforts that may help improve understanding of Alice in Wonderland syndrome and its epidemiology.

History
The syndrome is sometimes called Todd's syndrome, about a description of the condition in 1955 by Dr. John Todd (1914–1987), a British consultant psychiatrist at High Royds Hospital at Menston in West Yorkshire. Dr. Todd discovered that several of his patients experienced severe headaches causing them to see and perceive objects as greatly out of proportion. In addition, they had altered sense of time and touch, as well as distorted perceptions of their own body. Despite having migraine headaches, none of these patients had brain tumors, damaged eyesight, or mental illness that could have accounted for these and similar symptoms. They were all able to think lucidly and could distinguish hallucinations from reality, however, their perceptions were distorted.

Dr. Todd speculated that author Lewis Carroll had used his own migraine experiences as a source of inspiration for his famous 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll's diary reveals that, in 1856, he consulted William Bowman, an ophthalmologist, about the visual manifestations of the migraines he regularly experienced. In Carroll's diaries, he often wrote of a "bilious headache" that came coupled with severe nausea and vomiting. In 1885, he wrote that he had "experienced, for the second time, that odd optical affection of seeing moving fortifications, followed by a headache". Carroll wrote two books about Alice, the heroine after which the syndrome is named. In the story, Alice experiences several strange feelings that overlap with the characteristics of the syndrome, such as slowing time perception. In chapter two of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Alice's body shrinks after drinking from a bottle labeled "DRINK ME", after which she consumed a cake that made her so large that she almost touched the ceiling. These features of the story describes the macropsia and micropsia that are so characteristic to this disease.

These symptoms have been reported before in scientific literature, including World War I and II soldiers with occipital lesions, so Todd understood that he was not the first person to discover this phenomenon. Additionally, as early as 1933, other researchers such as Coleman and Lippman had compared these symptoms to the story of Alice in Wonderland. Caro Lippman was the first to hypothesize that the bodily changes that Alice encounters mimicked those of Lewis Carroll's migraine symptoms. Others suggest that Carroll may have familiarized himself with these distorted perceptions through his knowledge of hallucinogenic mushrooms. It has been suggested that Carroll would have been aware of mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke's description of the intoxicating effects of the fungus Amanita muscaria (commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita), in his books The Seven Sisters of Sleep and A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi.

Society and culture

Gulliver's Travels
Alice in Wonderland syndrome's symptom of micropsia has also been related to Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. It has been referred to as "Lilliput sight" and "Lilliputian hallucination", a term coined by British physician Raoul Leroy in 1909.

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland syndrome was named after Lewis Carroll's 19th-century novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the story, Alice, the titular character, experiences numerous situations similar to those of micropsia and macropsia. The thorough descriptions of metamorphosis clearly described in the novel were the first of their kind to depict the bodily distortions associated with the condition. There is some speculation that Carroll may have written the story using his own direct experience with episodes of micropsia resulting from the numerous migraines he was known to experience. It has also been suggested that Carroll may have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

House
The condition is diagnosed in the season 8 episode "Risky Business".

Doctors
In April 2020, a case of Alice in Wonderland syndrome was covered in an episode of the BBC daytime soap opera Doctors, when patient Hazel Gilmore (Alex Jarrett) experienced it.

See also
 Charles Bonnet syndrome
 Cortical homunculus
Red Queen hypothesis

References

External links

Neurological disorders
Psychopathological syndromes
Epstein–Barr virus–associated diseases
Symptoms and signs of mental disorders
Hallucinations
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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I came across the latest thinking of Jem Bendell, around Deep Adaptation, when I met up with Lauren Healey in the Spring. She was working on this enquiry by the Newbridge project, into Deep Adaptation and the possibilities of an artistic response. She came to London to interview me, but I hadn't properly read his work on it. Now I've just read his interview with Dougald Hine, on the Dark Mountain website, and his latest paper and I have some thoughts.
I'm intrigued because my own position on 'things' is very similar, but my story of approach to this position is possibly longer than Jem's. When I first discovered about climate change in the 1980s, I couldn't see how the outcomes could be anything but terrifying. See my painting, above. None of my peers were making art about climate change at the time. By the mid 1990s I was questioning whether I should bring a child into the world. (I did. I don't regret it, but I worry for her future). For a long time I've argued that we should communicate in honest and dialogic ways about possible scenarios for the future. And I was the very first signatory of the Dark Mountain manifesto in 2009.
But, I have held off my 'dark night of the soul'. I have known 'future-grief' more in abstract than through being plunged into the lasting and deep terror our situation actually deserves. I have repressed myself from articulating my more negative predictions, certainly in my professional circles. Sleepless in thinking about wildfires, I wrote a blogpost yesterday, asserting that even as the world burns, we still have a choice. I still want to hold out hope, or ways that we still might live better, even if I have very little shining hope myself. I don't believe in 'living for the now' which is a consequence of either complete hedonistic abandon or nihilistic despair. Jem has a similar response, wanting to hold out options for believing in a future, by creating a map for navigating this difficult issue.
I find it really fascinating that his paper was rejected for publication by the journal he was actually an editor of, through the process of anonymous peer review. Their reasons for rejection are a case study in a tendency of 'collapse denial' even amongst those who reject 'climate denial'.
Can professionals in sustainability management, policy and research – myself included – continue to work with the assumption or hope that we can slow down climate change, or respond to it sufficiently to sustain our civilisation?
Have professionals in the sustainability field discussed the possibility that it is too late to avert an environmental catastrophe and the implications for their work?
Why are sustainability professionals not exploring this fundamentally important issue to our whole field as well as our personal lives?
What are the ways that people are talking about collapse on social media?
What could provide a map for people to navigate this extremely difficult issue?
I'm taking a break from a piece of analytical work while I write this blogpost. In this work, I'm analysing all the contextual challenges facing the UK cultural sector (climate change, Brexit etc) and then listing all the opportunities for possible action. Jem makes me wonder if I should stop trying to balance all the challenges with possible solutions. He writes "discussing progress in the health and safety policies of the White Star Line with the captain of the Titanic as it sank into the icy waters of the North Atlantic would not be a sensible use of time".
An immediate, understandable response of wishful thinking for positive outcomes for oneself and loved ones.
Overlooking emerging evidence from fields of psychology that addressing negative scenarios can increase support for climate mitigation.
A tendency towards technocratic paternalism that encourages people to take action nicely rather than politically.
Ignoring the wisdom (e.g. in indigenous peoples) that despair is a stage, a useful trigger for new insights and resolve to action.
He then outlines some of the personal and institutional factors for why environmental professionals may be some of the slowest to process the implications of the latest climate information. One of the reasons is that to face the idea of collapse goes against the projections one needs to hold on to in order to run a successful organisation. This week I've been writing a Business Plan for Climate Museum UK, and feeling the tragic irony of forming an organisation to 'exploit opportunities' in a climate emergency, to use language required of business plan formats.
He runs through lots of studies that show that 'the public' are increasingly pessimistic about the future. I so agree with his view that: "This evidence suggests that the idea we 'experts' need to be careful about what to tell…the 'unsupported public' may be a narcissistic delusion in need of immediate remedy." I've thought this for so long and am grateful for this articulation.
He acknowledges that all those people who do explore scenarios of collapse – in ways that are more or less hopeful or dire – do so in ways that conform to their own framing of the world. We are not 'logic machines'. The framing he chooses, in response to all the data and stories he has heard, is that we are facing "inevitable collapse, probable catastrophe and possible extinction".
Restoration – rediscovering forgotten attitudes and approaches to life, such as increased community-level productivity and support.
He has decided he can no longer work on anything that does not consider or embrace the Deep Adaptation Agenda. This is quite a challenge to my own constant question about what I do next. I've been talking regularly with people exploring deep adaptation and possibilities of collapse for the past decade, but daily coming back to work on contracts where this agenda is missing. If this agenda is up front in the work of Climate Museum UK, will it hit the barriers of 'collapse denial' or will some doors be open?
I am glad to see an academic lay it all on the line, but I am disappointed Jem failed to find that his suggested solutions have already been laid out. This is unfortunate, though it is in no way an accusation: Finding needles in global haystacks is not easy, particularly when the best thinking on regenerative systems is not in the realm of academia. We are still trying to get academia to take us seriously. It seems Jen does, but now he needs to align his knowledge with the full breadth of available Regenerative thinking.
The first line of regenerative thought is from Mollison (RIP) and Holmgren, circa 1978 and after. Permaculture provides a planning process that creates regenerative, what Jem calls resilient, systems. It is elegantly simple, promulgating principles of design rather than rules, and providing a design, aka decision-making, framework with which to apply the principles. This is a set of First Principles, thus applicable anywhere. Mollison later provided a huge compendium of techniques and methods for the four primary types of ecosystems published as Permaculture, A designers Manual.
Both men were aware of the various planetary issues we face. Their work came from observation of natural vs. human systems, and aboriginal vs. modern systems and concluded modern systems failed to follow the sound principles of natural systems, including aboriginal societies still closely tied to the natural world.
Permaculture, however does not effectively address large-scale governance – though the manual, published around 1983, does already suggest small communities, local economies, localization and local currencies.
Still, the reintroduction to egalitarian decision making made me explore the issue further and I also realized if Occupy did not figure out what it was finally going to be, and do the hard work of community, it would fail. I literally predicted the number of weeks till it collapsed. The problem? Nobody actually embraced that deepest of democratic systems: Egalitarian decision-making. Worse, none were speaking of Commonses as more than a piece of the solution rather than THE solution. We don't need to tweak economics – it violates multiple principles of Natural systems – we need a non-economics. The combination of egalitarian decision making within a Commons is the solution, and is what we have found among aboriginal groups (though there are a great many misunderstandings about this issue) that manage their domains effectively.
One piece was missing and it all came together in a flash: I had been advocating with Occupy Detroit for the creation of neighborhood General Assemblies (GA's) to make the Occupy movement manageable in terms of numbers and because the Detroit GA could not possibly hold 700,000 people. Yet, we have already learned a representative government does not work; power colludes to attain greater power. The solution is a network of small autonomous community groups, city-level groups and bio-regional groups. The key to this working is that decision-making is not hierarchical, but determined by problem scale. That is, anything affecting only a neighborhood or small town, e.g., is the responsibility and under the authority of that community. When issues are extra-community, those affected all work together. If large enough, the process moves to the city level. Resources and watersheds, e.g., are clearly bio-regional. It is hoped the reader has not missed the important point that these various levels of Assemblies are populated by people from those same groups down to the neighborhood. And, no decision may abrogate the well-being of any level of organization. That is, a city may not sacrifice a neighborhood to assuage the desires of those not from that neighborhood. Etc.
When we combine permaculture with Commonses, egalitarian decision making and this tiered governance, we may call it Regenerative Governance. But it must be embedded in Deep Simplicity, which is the recognition of our over-consumption and abuse of resources leading to a poisoned planet, degraded ecosystems and Rapid Climate Change (RCC).
So, I applaud Jem coming to this understanding via academia. It could not have been easy. But he is a bit behind the curve. To truly understand Deep Simplicity and Regenerative Governance, he must understand resources, Natural (Permaculture) Principles, the patterns of aboriginal communities, RCC and the power of truly restorative design.
For the planet to sustain life so that we can live in abundance, we need to learn together and fast. Our cultural values need to shift towards an ecological way of knowing.


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Wilmington honors Sean Collier on his birthday
By Dan Atkinson
WILMINGTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Wilmington officials honored Sean Collier on what would have been his birthday Monday.
Collier, who grew up in Wilmington, was an officer with the MIT police when he was shot and killed by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013. Officials placed a wreath at his tree of life at rotary park and the Board of Selectmen named Jan. 3 Sean Collier Day.
"We want to use this as an opportunity to celebrate his life, and the service he not only provided to this community, but to many other communities in Massachusetts," said selectman Greg Bendel.


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Building 1 is a 15 level, Non-Market Housing tower owned by The City of Vancouver and was designed by DYS Architecture. Building 2 (Voda At The Creek, Phase I) is a 15 level Market Housing tower designed by Rafii Architects with collaboration from Richard Henry. Voda At The Creek Presales sold out in 2015. Completion of Voda At The Creek was in February 2018. Buildings 3 & 4 (Navio At The Creek, Phase II) are 14 and 12 level Market Housing towers designed by Rafii Architects with collaboration from Richard Henry. Navio At The Creek Presales sold out in 2016. Completion of Navio At The Creek is in June, July 2018.
Building 5 (Phase III) was rezoned as an 18 level (18th level being the mechanical room) Market Housing tower at the very north of the site and is designed by ZGF Cotter Architects. The Creek also includes a public park to the west of the towers that spans from 1st Avenue to the Seawall along Ontario Street.
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College Football Final: Everything You Need To Know From Week 11's Action
By Justin Lee November 16, 2015
Week 11 of the 2015 college football season was chock full of upsets, statements and results which will shake up the foundation of the College Football Playoff picture. We're here to break down the biggest moments of the week that was with our College Football Final: Everything You Need To Know From Week 11's Action.
Welcome Back, Oklahoma
The #12 Oklahoma Sooners have rewritten the narrative of their season over the past five weeks, putting a gutting road loss to an inferior Texas squad behind them with impressive win after impressive win. Saturday was the most impressive of all, as the Sooners went into Waco in prime time and handed #6 Baylor their first loss, 44-34.
It was a back-and-forth contest like you'd expect from these Big 12 rivals, but it was ultimately Sooners QB Baker Mayfield and RB Samaje Perine who got the last laugh. Perine ran for 166 yards and two scores, Mayfield threw for three touchdowns including an effective game-sealer in the fourth after a quick Baylor score cut the OU lead to three, and the Sooners did what they came to do in statement fashion. The road doesn't get any easier with games left against #15 TCU and #8 Oklahoma State, but count the Sooners in as a major College Football Playoff contender.
Oregon Returns To Form
Did you forget about Oregon? A trendy preseason pick to return to the College Football Playoff for the second straight year, the Ducks quickly disappeared from the CFP picture after an early loss to Michigan State and an absolute drubbing at the hands of Utah. However, it's time to welcome them back to national relevance after a heart-stopping 38-36 win at #7 Stanford which effectively knocked the Cardinal out of CFP contention.
Oregon's defense has been maligned all year, and perhaps for good reason, but they gutted up right at the end -- following up a disheartening Kevin Hogan TD pass with seconds left by denying him on a game-tying two-point conversion attempt. Riding two touchdowns from QB Vernon Adams and another big day from RB Royce Freeman, Oregon has now won four straight and still has an outside chance to chase down Stanford for the Pac-12 North title if Stanford falls to Cal in next week's rivalry game.
LSU Continues To Reel
Two weeks back, the #9 LSU Tigers looked like the class of the SEC and a favorite to reach the College Football Playoff. Now, they're left dizzied and looking for answers after a pair of embarrassing defeats. One week after falling flat in a 30-16 road loss to #2 Alabama, LSU was manhandled at home by an emerging Arkansas Razorbacks squad in a 31-14 loss. Things got so bad that the normally high-strung, high-energy crowd in Death Valley started quietly filing for the exits with about ten minutes left in the game.
By the time the game ended, about 20% of the crowd was left and LSU's College Football Playoff hopes were extinguished. Razorbacks RB Alex Collins outrushed Heisman contender Leonard Fournette 141-91, marking the second straight week that Fournette has been outperformed by an SEC rival (Derrick Henry). Add in five sacks by Arkansas' defense in the first three quarters after they'd tallied just eight all season, and you have a glimpse into just how things went so terribly wrong for LSU.
The Top Four Hold Serve
We won't be surprised if there's very little drama surrounding the College Football Playoff top four on Tuesday, as #1 Clemson, #2 Alabama, #3 Ohio State and #4 Notre Dame all took care of business on Saturday. The #1 Tigers were challenged by a game Syracuse squad on the road, but eventually pulled away thanks to QB Deshaun Watson's 461 total yards and four touchdowns in a 37-27 win. #2 Alabama may have done them one better, absolutely manhandling #17 Mississippi State in a 31-6 road drubbing where they posted nine sacks on defense and enjoyed the fruits of RB Derrick Henry's second straight 200-yard rushing game.
#3 Ohio State faced barely a peep from Illinois' offense, giving up just 20 rushing yards in a 28-3 win that was much more of a blowout than the score makes it out to be. Finally, #4 Notre Dame survived its worst offensive day of the year in style, riding a franchise record 98-yard TD run by Josh Adams to an easy 28-7 home win over Wake Forest. Four top contenders, four wins. Baylor (or Oklahoma) may stake claim to one of these teams' spots, but it's not due to anything these teams did wrong.
Keep Your Eye On The Little Guys
#24 Houston and #20 Navy won't be busting the College Football Playoff bubble, but they're likely going to battle later this month for a prize that may mean just as much to both programs. Navy won its first game as a ranked team in over a decade on Saturday, blasting SMU 55-14. Houston had a MUCH tougher test against #21 Memphis, but a scintillating rally from 20 points down led by backup QB Kyle Postma (after Greg Ward Jr. went down with an ankle injury) did the trick in a 35-34 thriller.
If Houston and Navy take care of business in favorable road matchups against UConn and Tulsa respectively, November 28th's game between the two will be an all-or-nothing showdown that will likely be for a New Year's Six spot. Circle that game on the calendar.
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For the period ending November 10, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database
For the period ending November 10, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.
DVD SKUs:
4 Digital Media
11/07/17 — Released West and the Ruthless
11/07/17 — Released 19-2: Season Four (3 disc set) and Good Karma Hostipal: Series 1 (2 disc set)
12/12/17 — Sets Whisky Galore (ARR of 214 days; box office: $20,991)
11/07/17 — Released Asia 80: Lan Gio Moi (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)
Brainpie Media Productions (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Last Revenants
11/07/17 — Released Inheritance and Tormenting (aka: Poignant)
11/07/17 — Released Christmas Dreams
Candlelight Media
11/07/17 — Released Magellan
11/07/17 — Released Basketball Strength Training: Progressions & Regressions, Court Evaluation: Concepts of Reading the Court in Beach Volleyball, Individual and Team Skill Development, Steve DeMeo: Ball Screen Offense and Total Body Strength Training for Basketball
Cinedigm Entertainment
11/07/17 — Released Christmas Truce, Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, Mother Krampus and Pastor's Daughters
Cleopatra Music & Film
11/07/17 — Released Tam Cam: The Untold Story (Vietnamese)
12/12/17 — Adds Halloween Pussy Trap Kill Kill
Daljit Kalsi Productions (MOD)
10/17/17 — Released Curtain Call
11/07/17 — Released Bound
DAR-APP Entertainment (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Adventure After the Life, Crazy Family, Episode 1, Crazy Family, Episode 2, Future of the Planet, Helina and Maty the Cat, Planet of Dogs, Strange Lake and Truth in the Mirror
Dark Night Films (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Mark of Death
DreamScape Media, LLC
11/07/17 — Released 49 Angels (Spanish), 8 Murders a Day, Inflammatory Approach, Murder Capital of the World, New Juarez, Pete Winning and the Pirates, Renz Julian: Thug Scholarship, What About Me? and Where the Streets Have No Names
E1 Entertainment
11/07/17 — Released Heartland: The Complete Seventh Season (5 disc set), Heartland: The Complete Eighth Season (5 disc set), Love Triangle and This Old Machine
11/07/17 — Released Women of Grace: Saints for Your Journey: Holy Unknowns & Martyrs
Echo Bridge Home Ent.
11/07/17 — Released Demon Hole, Road and Skybound
Empire Video
11/07/17 — Released Pullikkaran Staraa (Malayalam)
Errol Magidson Productions (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Chicago's Only Castle
11/07/17 — Released Gun Runners and War Show (Arabic)
11/07/17 — Released Mail Order Wife
FilmRise (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Motherland (Tagalog), Secret Life of Lance Letcher and Truth is in the Stars
11/07/17 — Released Genocidal Organ (Japanese)
Gravitas Ventures (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released 60 Yard Line, Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story, Freeway: Crack in the System and No Man's Land
11/21/17 — Sets California Typewriter (ARR of 95 days; box office: $208,962)
Greg Scholl Video Prod.
10/31/17 — Released Eastern Steam Trips: 1950-1960s, Vintage Steam in the East and Western Steam Trips
I-Cine
11/07/17 — Released Nang Dau Lam Chieu (8 disc set), Tru Tien Thanh Van Chi, Part 1 (12 disc set) and Tru Tien Thanh Van Chi, Part 2 (12 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Limehouse Golem
11/07/17 — Released Burning Bed, Hot Touch, Mercenary, Restless Creature: Wendy Whalen (ARR of 165 days; box office: $147,780) and Te Ada
Kipepeo Publishing (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Himba
Light Source Studios (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Hapkido Part 1: The Foundational Elements of Hapkido, Hapkido Part 2: Deflections, Joint Locks and Throws, Hapkido Part 3: Kicking Techniques and Defenses, Hapkido Part 4: Ground Fighting, Weapon Defenses, and Hapkido Cane Techniques, Strip Club Nights (aka: It's Showtime) and Wrestling: In the Ring and Behind the Scenes
11/07/17 — Released Show (aka: This is Your Death)
Lotus Five Star
11/07/17 — Released Ivan Thanthiran (Tamil) and VIP 2 (Tamil)
11/07/17 — Released To Heart 2: Complete Collectin (2 disc set)
Maverick Entertainment
11/07/17 — Released Beautifully Insecure
11/07/17 — Released Spock's Beard: Snow (2 DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)
Monach
11/07/17 — Released Cinderella Christmas and Married by Christmas
Mountain Fever Records
11/07/17 — Released Summer Brooks and the Mountain Faith Band: The Sounds of Christmas
11/07/17 — Released Missa Salisburgensis
01/09/18 — Sets Polina (French/Russian) (ARR of 137 days; box office: $165,203)
PBS Direct
11/07/17 — Released Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars, Poldark: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set) and Swim Team (ARR of 123 days; box office: $4,024)
PDSD, Inc/Shami Media
11/07/17 — Released Larger Than Life: A Boyband Story, Secret Mummies of Lisbon and Whisker Seeker
11/07/17 — Released Symbols of Resistance
PR Studios/GI Studios
11/07/17 — Released Lightspeed Esper, Volume 1 (4 episodes)
Paramount Home Media
11/07/17 — Released Overdrive (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) (ARR of 32 days; box office: $7,793)
12/19/17 — Sets mother (ARR of 95 days; box office: $17,760,328)
Pocket Vinyl
11/07/17 — Released Drive. Play. Sleep.
Polestar Studios, LLC (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Blood Woods
Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Brigitte Lahaie Double Feature (2 film set: La Maison des Fatasmes, Couple Cherche Esclaves Sexuels) (French), Der Mobliere Herr (German), Freddy und das Lied der Prarie (German), Im Dreck Verreckt (German), Kleiner Mann: Ganz Gross (1957 version) (German), Kleiner Mann: Ganz Gross (German), La Anam (Arabic), Legacy of the Incas (English dubbed), Standschutze Bruggler (German) and Struggle on Hinan Island (Mandarin)
11/07/17 — Released Life After Death: Quantum Realms
Reelclassicdvd.com (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Hearts of the World (silent-1918) and Vagabond Prince (silent-1916)/Bronco Billy and the Baby (silent-1915)
Saina Video Vision
11/07/17 — Released Adam Joan (Malayalam)
11/07/17 — Released Literally, Right Before Aaron
Serpent Releasing (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Classic Action Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Jungle Man, Lady from Chungking), Classic Action Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Pilot X (aka: Death in the Air), Queen of the Amazons), Classic Action Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Tarzan's Revenge, The Fast and the Furious), Classic Action Movie Double Bill (2 film set: The Devil's Cavaliers, The Lost Zeppelin), Classic Comedy Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Bees in Paradise, Colonel Effingham's Raid), Classic Comedy Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Lady Behave, Miss London, Ltd.), Classic Comedy Movie Double Bill (2 film set: So This is Washington, The Last Three), Classic Comedy Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Spooks Run Wild, Successful Failure), Classic Drama Movie Double Bill (2 film set: Crashing Thru Danger, Drums in the Deep South) and Two Great Western Classics (2 film set: Gangsters of the Frontier, Guns of the Law)
11/07/17 — Released Darkness Rising, Killing Ground and My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Season Six (4 disc set)
12/12/17 — Sets MLB: 2017 World Series and MLB: 2017 World Series Champions - Houston Astros (8 disc set)
Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)
11/07/17 — Released Florence Lawrence Rare Shorts (12 silent short films: The Zulu's Heart (1908), The Call of the Wild (1908), An Awful Moment (1908), Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908), The Taming of the Shrew (1908), Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909), The Girls and Daddy (1909), The Salvation Army Lass (1909), Her First Biscuits (1909), The Mended Lute (1909), Mr. Jones Burglar (1909), Flo's Discipline (1912))
Smith Music Group
11/07/17 — Released Shooter Jennings: Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Sony Pictures Home Ent.
11/07/17 — Released Crown: The Complete First Season (4 disc set), Dead Still, Only God Knows and Rendezvous
Strand Releasing
11/07/17 — Released Untamed (Spanish)
Sunrise, Inc.
11/07/17 — Released Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Collection 1 (4 disc set) and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Collection 2 (4 disc set)
Synergetic Distribution
12/12/17 — Sets Brackenmore and True Love Ways (German)
11/07/17 — Released Even Lovers Get the Blues (French)
Thai Duong Productions
11/07/17 — Released Nguoi Thua Ke (15 disc set)
The Gioi Sao Online
11/07/17 — Released Lat Mat Hung Thu, Part 1 (6 disc set) and Lat Mat Hung Thu, Part 2 (6 disc set)
The Teaching Company, LLC
10/24/17 — Released History of Christianity II: From the Reformation to the Modern Megachurch (6 disc set) and Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story (4 disc set)
Thomas Nelson Productions
11/07/17 — Released Sheila Walsh: In the Middle of the Mess
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11/07/17 — Released American Dad, Volume 12 (3 disc set) and Family Guy: Season Fifteen (3 disc set)
12/26/17 — Sets Mountain Between Us (ARR of 81 days; box office: $28,974,935)
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11/07/17 — Released Camera Obscura
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11/07/17 — Released Trollhunters: Season One (4 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released 2307: Winter's Dream
Vina Entertainment
11/07/17 — Released Tam Sinh Tam The Thap Ly Dao Hoa, Part 3 (6 disc set)
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11/07/17 — Released Weight of Honor
11/07/17 — Released Grandma's House
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11/07/17 — Released Kaija Saariaho: Only the Sound Remains
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12/19/17 — Adds LEGO Ninjago Movie (ARR of 88 days; box office: $57,511,830)
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11/07/17 — Released Wayans Bros.: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)
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11/07/17 — Released Ghost Witch and Watch Over Us
11/07/17 — Released Spanish Chainsaw Massacre
11/07/17 — Released Occult Secrets of the Lost Realms: Revealed (2 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Defiant Joy
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12/12/17 — Sets Whisky Galore
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11/07/17 — Released Del Shores: My Sordid Life
11/07/17 — Released Mother Krampus
11/07/17 — Released He Walked by Night: Special Edition
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11/07/17 — Released Being, Devil's Express (aka: Gang Wars), Slithis and Witchmaker
11/07/17 — Released Julian Schnabel: Private Portrait
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11/07/17 — Released Ghastlies (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
11/07/17 — Released Motherland (Tagalog) and Secret Life of Lance Letcher
11/07/17 — Released Cheers Boys: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), First Love Monster (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Genocidal Organ (Japanese) and Handa-kun: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)
11/07/17 — Released 60 Yard Line, Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story, Freeway: Crack in the System, Love of My Life and No Man's Land
11/07/17 — Released Burning Bed, Death Rides a Horse, Hot Touch, Mercenary and Te Ada
11/07/17 — Released Gun Shy (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and The Show (aka: This is Your Death) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
11/07/17 — Released To Heart 2: Complete Collection (2 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Spock's Beard: Snow (2 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Revolutionary Girl Utena Set 2 (2 disc set)
01/09/18 — Sets Polina (French/Russian)
11/07/17 — Released Poldark: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Overdrive (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
12/19/17 — Sets mother (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
11/07/17 — Released Etoile
11/07/17 — Released Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions (4 disc set)
11/07/17 — Released Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Darkman III: Die Darkman Die, Darkness Rising (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Killing Ground (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)
11/07/17 — Released Attack Force Z
11/07/17 — Released Patti Cake$ (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
12/29/17 — Sets Mountain Between Us (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
11/07/17 — Released Alien: Reign of Man, Camera Obscura and Out of Nothing
Uni Music - Republic
11/07/17 — Released Jordan Smith: 'Tis The Season Holiday Special
12/19/17 — Adds LEGO Ninjago Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)
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Paramount Home Media Selects Dec. 19 For The Home Entertainment Release Of Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky's mother!
Writer/director Darren Aronofsky's silver screen "Rorschach test," mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, will be making its way to the home entertainment marketplace on Dec. 19 as a three-SKU array of products … so says Paramount Home Media.
The ARR works out to 95 days and box office receipts were $17.8 million.
Planned for distribution are a DVD edition, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Is mother! a horror film, wrapped in insanity? An allegory, where you must ferret-out what each character represents? A Felliniesque tale of the bizarre? All of the above … none of the above!
If you are into the cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Federico Fellini and Guillermo del Toro (among others), then Darren Aronofsky's mother! will be a visual feast; you will be right at home And it is … a visual feast.
Jennifer Lawrence is "mother" and she lives in a picturesque, but remote, home that appears to have been recently burned, or perhaps even destroyed. She shares this home with "Him" (Bardem's character), who magically restores it with some sort of crystal. Lawrence sets about to refurbish the house and it is beautiful.
One evening "Man" arrives (played by Ed Harris) and Bardem invites him to spend the night, which sets Lawrence's character on edge. The next day "Woman" shows up at the door (Michelle Pfeiffer) and she too is invited in by Bardem's character.
Without giving too much away — and it is really left to the viewer to interpret what is taking place — more people arrive, things get very bizarre and "mother" becomes increasingly unhinged.
Bonus features, which are limited to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD SKUs, are two production featurettes — "mother! The Downward Spiral" and "The Makeup FX of mother!"
Labels: DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Paramount Home Media Selects Dec. 19 For The Home Entertainment Release Of Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky's mother!
Oscilloscope Laboratories Preps DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Polina For Release On Jan. 9
Oscilloscope Laboratories will be opening the New Year with DVD and Blu-ray editions of French filmmakers Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj's film adaptation of Bastien Vivès' graphic novel, Polina.
The street date will be Jan. 9, which yields an ARR of 137 days … box office receipts for the film's arthouse theatrical run currently stand at $165,203.
Polina (Anastasia Shevtsova) is a dancer. A dancer with all of the techniques learned in a lifetime of preparting for the Bolshoi Ballet. She is a beauty with haunting eyes, but she lacks one important thing … the spark; the soul of a dancer. Teach a cyborg développés, arabesques and pirouettes and you have a dancer without the soul of a dancer. Polina is such a dancer, technically brilliant, but programmed "in body" to be so, but not in spirit.
We see her first as a child, as then as a teenager, she is now ready to fulfill her parent's dreams of being with the Bolshoi Ballet. And then she meets a visiting French dancer by the name of Adrien (Niels Schneider), and on a simple "dancer" date — they don't go to a movie or out to dinner — the pair instead attend a recital of modern dance intrepation and Polina's world comes unglued.
In a stunning moment of clarity, she abandons Mother Russia and the Bolshoi and moves with Adrien to Paris, where she meets Liria (Juliette Binoche), a dance instructor who opens Polina's eyes to dance as a living thing!
Polina is presented in French, with some Russian, and English subtitles. As a bonus feature it includes a behind-the-scenes making of featurette.
Labels: DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, Oscilloscope Laboratories Preps DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Polina For Release On Jan. 9
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They played the whole set in an acoustic/bluegrass style. It was pretty cool! It made the songs very different, which is a nice change of pace from time to time.
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A wave of formerly meat-obsessed chefs are putting veggies centre stage
Chris Johns
Published June 12, 2015 Updated June 5, 2017
(Photos by Hudson Hayden for The Globe and Mail)
The pig's foot lay on the table like a threat. It was billed on The Breslin's menu as serving two, but looked like it could feed a battalion. Stuffed to bursting with pork meat and skin, braised, rolled in breadcrumbs and, for good measure, fried in butter and olive oil, the massive trotter was all sticky, viscous goodness and fat. It represented excess and guaranteed a sleepless night. It was delicious and I would never eat it again.
The chef responsible for that fantastic monstrosity of a dish is April Bloomfield, a British import to the U.S. and the co-owner of several renowned New York City restaurants including the Spotted Pig and Salvation Taco. She made her reputation with a kind of exuberant, meat-centric cooking that includes an infamous half-pound, Roquefort-topped burger, wild boar Scotch eggs and a crispy pig's ear salad.
Consequently, it might come as something of a surprise that her latest book, A Girl and Her Greens, is filled with recipes for things like braised peas and little gem lettuce, spiced carrots with yogurt and steamed and raw radish salad. Bloomfield, an early proponent of the nose-to-tail movement, has not embraced veganism and, as her recipe for sweet potatoes with bone marrow and chili attests, she's not removing animal protein entirely from the equation. She is simply tapping into a way of eating that moves the emphasis on the plate from meat to vegetables and she's far from alone.
All around the world, chefs who made their names slinging ungodly amounts of fat-streaked meat are getting in touch with their inner vegetarian and, while not eschewing meat completely, celebrating vegetables as the stars of the plate. Last year, multi-Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse shook the food world when he announced that his flagship restaurant in the Plaza Athénée hotel in Paris would remove nearly all of the meat from the menu in favour of organic vegetables and seafood.
In Los Angeles, Roy Choi, the man who gave us Korean barbecue short-rib tacos and double-meat spicy pork burritos at Kogi, opened Commissary,a garden-themed restaurant that he describes as "vegetable-driven, but not vegetarian." Even Montreal's Joe Beef duo, David McMillan and Fred Morin, the chefs responsible for inflicting the Foie Gras Double Down on an unsuspecting public, opened Le Vin Papillon, a wine bar with a vegetable-focused menu.
For chef Hugh Acheson, whose own new book, The Broad Fork: Recipes for the wide world of vegetables and fruit, emphasizes a vegetable-centric style of cooking, the trend has both economic and social benefits.
"I live in the American South, and we've got a very big issue with poverty," says the Canadian-born chef who operates four restaurants (Five & Ten, The National, Cinco y Diez and Empire State South) out of Georgia. "We've got a big issue with food security, and the health of our citizenry is really dependent on them eating more vegetables and smaller amounts of meat."
"It's an economic thing, too," he continues. "We've seen these luxurious, beautiful proteins climb in price to a point where we just can't afford to do what we did before. We can't just walk into a fine dining restaurant and there's a 7- or 8-ounce portion of meat. We had to adjust years ago to portion size being an economy of scale and being a correct economic assumption on the plate."
Beyond any social value, Acheson admits that this new style of cooking more closely reflects his own diet. "If I have fried chicken, it's a thigh of fried chicken beautifully done, but then running down the table is succotash and sliced tomato and sautéed greens and perloo and favas and spring green beans and that spread and that multitude of choice is what people want more." Acheson believes the evolution of lifestyles and work patterns is to blame for the quest to feel healthier via a more balanced meal.
Fellow Southerner Steven Satterfield, whose book Root to Leaf also emphasizes vegetables, notes that "there's this misconception that everything in the South is cooked in pork fat or cream or butter; that Southern food is really unhealthy. But we were an agrarian society long before anybody coined the term farm-to-table. There's always been lots of farming and agriculture here. I think that's part of the history around here, but it's also a part of the trend to eat fresh food that's real food."
Satterfield's book, while drawing inspiration from the South isn't exclusively a Southern cookbook. "The focus of the book is really looking at seasonal cooking through what's being harvested at any given time,' he explains. "Fruits and vegetables, in particular, and some nuts and grains." In compiling the book, he took almost the complete opposite approach to how most chef-driven cookbooks are structured. "I thought it was important to have a little bit of meat throughout the book," he says. "But the meats are sub-recipes. I came at it the same way we build our menus at the restaurant." Satterfield, the chef at Miller Union in Atlanta, starts with the farmer's list and decides which vegetables are going to be on the plate, how they're going to work flavour-wise and texture-wise, and then pairs them with a protein.
"I have customers who tell me they decide what protein they're going to order based on the side dish that comes with it," he says. That seems like a smart strategy, especially when some of the world's best chefs are developing such a satisfyingly savoury approach to eating your veggies.
To cook up a trio of fresh vegetable recipes from Bloomfield, Acheson and Satterfield's cookbooks, download the free Globe Style Advisor app at tgam.ca/styleadvisor.
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