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Shutters come down on manner of lifestyles
t has once in a while been said that "war or not, you ought to pay the butcher still."
This pronouncing veracity becomes apparent with even a casual turn via the Murphy Collection, which was donated to Tipperary County Library via the Clifton-Browne circle of relatives.
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When digitized by way of Dr. Pat Bracken of Thurles Library, the collection gave a fascinating insight into the length's Irish rural lifestyles. Still, no longer inside the way the majority would have predicted.
Containing 1,053 photographic negatives referring to the duration from the 1890s to the Nineteen Thirties, the pics were taken at a time while Ireland becomes already firmly on the street to rebellion and Civil War.
Yet the sector portrayed in tv series Strumpet City and Rebellion, along with that of films and The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Michael Collins, appears nowhere.
Rather than violence and warfare, the snapshots display an own family properly included with the Ascendancy's social lifestyles.
Life goes on as regular with abundant scenes of supposed 'garrison interests' — looking, horse racing, croquet, tennis, and hockey.
Part of the minor landed gentry, the Murphys of Ballinamona House, Cashel, had been a number of the small number of rich landowning Catholics.
Taken via siblings Edmond and Kathleen Murphy, both of whom had remained single, the early images deliver the effect of a tranquil and comparatively prosperous society, worlds far away from the trauma of the Great Famine just 50 years earlier.
The gentry portrayed inside the collection radiates the unconscious charisma of electricity, even as less prosperous folks seem content material and accepting in their lot.
Certainly, there is little proof inside the pix that this is a kingdom already inexorably on the path to revolt.
The undying imagery continues with serene images titled 'Judging yearlings at the Dublin Horse Show.'
Yet this becomes captured at a time while the 1913 Lockout — initiated by way of the namesake.
William Martin Murphy — convulsed the encircling capital town.
Hints of deep-rooted but, perhaps, socially universal inequalities are furnished via two photographs from 1914.
Pigs roam unhindered via an impoverished- searching Athenry road simultaneously as a tennis party takes place at the substantial and nicely-manicured lawns of Ardmayle House.
People keep having a jolly old time even after the 1916 Rising, which was in all likelihood appeared without delay afterward as simply a blip on the street to Home Rule.
The human capacity to manage through compartmentalizing lifestyles and discounting unpalatable realities is sincerely tested via the image titled 'Cricket suit between Cashel and Tramore, 31 of July 1916'.
Players in impeccable whites stand languidly around, reputedly without the slightest care.
Yet the competition passed off whilst the bloodiest and the perhaps most gruesome war in history was at its peak at the Somme.
Certainly, the healthy couldn't have passed off had the British authorities succeeded in imposing conscription in Ireland.
The Murphys had been a military family, but a disability prevented Edmond from enlisting, even though Kathleen did end up a volunteer nurse. However, it became nearly inevitable that the youngest of the own family, Alfred Durham (Durrie), would be part of the British army.
A whole lot-adorned officer, he fought in France and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Yet issues approximately Durrie and the ever-gift opportunity of a "Regret to tell you" telegram are positioned aside at Ballinamona.
There are tennis events and visits to magnificent mansions at Tuddenham Park and Belvedere House, Co Westmeath.
Even when, in November 1917, Durrie dies in the Third Battle of Ypres, there is no trace within the collection of what should have been the family's profound grief.
The War of Independence became an uncomfortable time for the landed gentry, but the Murphys — covered, possibly, with the aid of their Catholicism — appear little discommoded.
As preventing raged, they holidayed in Kerry and took the individualistic step of journeying Great Blasket whilst renowned authors Peig Sayers, Tomas O'Criomhtháin, and Muiris O'Súilleabháin resided there. Later, they journeyed to the North as Belfast suffered its worst-ever sectarian rioting.
Apparently unfazed, Kathleen is pictured crossing the then difficult Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge with insouciant aplomb. Afterward, their individualistic spirit is emphasized with a climb of Galtymore, while woefully ill-attired to accomplish this.
Perhaps it's far the disappointingly dismal reality of Irish independence, but the glamour seems to evaporate after 1923. Gone is the cricket, croquet, horseracing, and the huge residence visits simultaneously as, in more egalitarian times, the social magnificence of those photographed turns into extra tough to bet.
Facilitated perhaps, through the motor vehicle's appearance, garrison sports are changed through much less fashionable hillwalking excursions. There are expeditions to Lough Musky, Greenane, and Coumshingaun. However, you can't escape the sensation that this as soon as the excessive-flying family is now in the twilight.
Mother of the family Mary Ellen Murphy died in 1931, and, after two poignant images of her grave, the chronicle of pictures ended quickly afterward.
In many methods, the Murphy Collection tells a melancholic tale, yet it's miles strangely heartening.
While stoically 'getting on with it' was the motto, the Murphys survived the tragedy of the Great War and the atrocity-weighted down War of Independence.
The Collection is certainly well worth a glance if most effective as it puts our present-day travails into a more true perspective.
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Smyths Toys opens in Inverness
Published on: 8th August 2014
Smyths Toys Superstores has announced that it will be opening a new store in mid-October.
Smyths will take over the former Dreams furniture and bedding store at the Rose Street Retail Park as well as an additional unit next door. This will create a store with a trading area of approximately 20,000 sq ft.
The toy retailer expects to create more than 30 jobs in the area which will range from retail assistants to management positions, with further job creation expected as Christmas nears.
Dryden Geary, marketing manager, said: "We look forward to offering the people here the best possible selection and quality of products, all delivered with exceptional service. Opening a new store in the area also allows to us to offer some fantastic employment opportunities to people in the local community."
Smyths Toys Superstores currently trades from over 70 stores throughout the UK and Ireland and expects to open a further seven or eight new stores in the next 12 months.
Smyths says it stocks all the top toy brands and the new store will officially open on October 11.
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The Night Angel Trilogy
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Assassins have targets. Wetboys have deaders.[...]Once you've accepted the contract, whatever's left of the target's life is just a formality.
—Durzo Blint
The Night Angel Trilogy is a series of fantasy books by Brent Weeks; who is currently writing the Light Bringer Series. It's about a boy (who ends up with the name Kylar, although that's not his only one) from the slums who becomes apprentice to a famed wetboy, and who inherits a magical artifact which gives him all manner of supernatural powers (and makes him effectively immortal). Lots of politics, war, and evil megalomaniacs. Major subjects include Kylar's feelings about his job (is it something that's necessary, or is it an evil that he should walk away from?), his love triangle, and the fact that bad things happen to good people (in these books, quite frequently.)
In many ways the first book reads like "Batman: with fewer scruples and some magic", from there things build to a study of faith, love, the cost of doing the right (and wrong) thing, what to do in an unfair universe, and a look at what immortality can do to a person. Add in a high amount of action, politics, schemes upon schemes upon schemes upon Xanatos Roulettes and Pileups and you have an idea of what the series is like. And add gore. Gore and rape and prostitution and torture and more gore and rape.
The first book in the series is The Way of Shadows, second Shadow's Edge, third Beyond the Shadows. Yeah this series has a thing for shadows. Brent Weeks also released a novella in 2011 in audio or e-book format only called Perfect Shadow, who else is surprised that the title has the word shadow in it?
These books provides examples of the following:
Abusive Parents: Technically, Hu Gibbet is Vi's master, not her father, but it has the same effect. She was also raped by at least one of her mother's lovers, and her mother didn't give a shit. Her test to become Hu's apprentice was to kill them.
Also, Godking Garoth sure counts.
Accidental Pervert: Kylar and Vi's wedding earrings create what are essentially highly realistic wet dreams. None of them amount to anything due to personal baggage, but they often involve one or both being a at least a little bit nude.
The Atoner: Count Drake spent his life abolishing slavery in Cenaria, because he used to be the biggest slave trader in the country.
Durzo, after the Wolf brings him back for the last time.
Back From the Dead: Durzo. After being killed by Kylar, he is granted one final life 'for old time's sake' by the Wolf.
Badass Arguably, many characters could qualify.
Durzo For being every goddamned hero of legend at some point or another.
Kylar He kills thirty highlanders (Effectively a race of big guys), four vurdmeisters (Mages hyped up on crazy amounts of power), and an aethling (A vurdmeister son of the Godking). But, he lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
Logan Gyre, resident Badass Normal nobleman. He leaps into the Hole, effectively hell on earth. And survives.
Solon Stormrider. He is commanded to halt a rebellion. So how does he do it? He sets off in a canoe to the next island over. In the middle of winter. By himself. He then puts down the first rebellion single-handedly, takes the captured soldiers home, and wakes up to find people are volunteering to take him on their ship to the next island, still in the middle of the storm-ridden winter. And he has white hair - which, according to his crew, is growing through white because the winter storms found him too tough to chew on and spat him back out. The real reason is more awesome; he uses the most powerful magical artifact on earth, the merest touch of which can kill a lesser mage, and survives.And it kills almost every single munchkin bad guy magician in a mile radius. Oh, and he fights the next guy to a standstill, with a sword on fire!
Lantano Garuwashi : Another Badass Normal A exceptional swordsman about on Par with Durzo and without the use of any talent.
Dorian: This guy rips out his own prophetic gift, becomes Godking after pretending to be a eunuch, murders many of his brothers, rips out his own vir, wields Iures and Curoch and lives, goes mad, but still manages to implant Kylar and Elene's child into Jenine.
Vi She's considered the most Talented woman to come to the Chantry in 100 years. She also opens a dam, with her bare hands and powerful magical ability.
Badass Creed: "Life is Empty. Life is Meaningless. When we take a life, we take nothing of value."
Balancing Death's Books: Sure comes back to bite Kylar in the ass.
Berserk Button: At times, Vi can get extremely sensitive about people touching her hair. At one point she turned two thugs into barely recognizable piles of meaty pulp with her hands, in a blind rage, just because they threatened her hair. She was suitably horrified that she was able to do such a thing afterward. This is in stark contrast to her numbness and apathy to much more intimate forms of contact.
Hu Gibbet, at times, when people say that Durzo Blint is the better wetboy.
Better as Friends: Dorian and Jenine really do try, but Jenine just wasn't that into it. Especially when she heard that Logan was alive.
Betty and Veronica: Kylar's love triangle with Elene and Vi has elements of this - Elene is good and pure, but doesn't accept Kylar's rather violent world, while Vi is hostile, troubled, and initially an antagonist, but comes from the same world as Kylar and therefore understands him. Kylar loves Elene, but finds himself thinking about Vi as well. The situation is resolved at the end of the third book, when Elene has a Heroic Sacrifice after saying that she Wants Her Beloved To Be Happy with Vi after she's gone. It's implied that this is how things do indeed end up.
Big Bad: Godking Garoth Ursuul in the first two books; Khali (previously the Bigger Bad) in the third.
BFS: It's not mentioned much, as both are shapeshifting magic weapons, but both Curoch and Retribution are called such. Curoch in particular, being impressive to a Khalidorian Highlander who gets his hands on it without knowing what it is.
Black and Grey Morality
Brother-Sister Incest: Terah Graesin, who is queen for a while, and her brother Luc.
Brown Eyes: Essentially, part Doll Girl's namesake (a doll-like face) and most endearing feature. This carries on when she grows into a woman, AKA Elene.
Calling the Old Man Out: Durzo teaches Kylar a philosophy of detachment, cynicism, callousness, and apathy - "love is weakness", and so forth. As time goes on, however, Kylar becomes increasingly willing to reject this doctrine.
Can't Have Sex Ever: Kylar and Elene have this problem after Vi ring rapes Kylar to eliminate Godking Ursuul. At least until Sister Ariel figures out a method.
Career Killers: Taken to a new level: Wetboys, as Blint illustrates in the page quote, are contemptuous of mere 'assassins'.
"You know why assassins have 'targets'? 'Cause assassins sometimes miss."
Chekhov's Gun: One of the first things Logan says as Kylar's friend is about how a story about Ka'Karis interested him. Guess what one of the main plot devices is?
Cluster F-Bomb: Aleine Gunder IX. Played for laughs. Poor Aleine or Niner as he is not so lovingly called by just about everyone, swears all the time. He can actually be quite creative there's only one problem, the only swear he knows is the word shit. Due to this fact, and his childish nature he is prone to rant for several minutes. This is so much the case that when he starts cursing everyone in earshot just tunes him out. It doesn't help much that he's the king and therefore no one will swear in front of him. Then along comes resident badass Durzo. It wasn't until after Niner saw the looks on his guards faces that he realized he'd been insulted.
Niner, "You're...you're shit! You shitting, shitting shit!"
Durzo, "Your Majesty, a man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious repetition of the excreta that fills the void between his ears."
Crystal Dragon Jesus: The One God. The way Elene and Count Drake act suggest that he preaches ideas very, very similar to what we would consider good Christian virtues.
There are at least two outright quotations from The Bible. Elene says the God's blessings are 'new every morning' (Lamentations 3:23, best known from the hymn 'The Steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases') and when Dorian wrestles with his conscience over whether to tell Jenine that Logan lives, the voice of God quotes Jeremiah 29:11 to him ("I know the plans I have for you").
Demonic Possession: At the end, Elene accepts this deliberately, and is then able prevent the entity from leaving again for long enough to make a Heroic Sacrifice which kills them both.
Depraved Bisexual: Rat. To be fair, he never considered raping boys until he was told to by Neph.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Earn Your Happy Ending: Kylar has to kill the love of his life. Dorian is forced to do a number of terrible things and embrace the perverse vir in order to ultimately, tear it out and lose his sanity.
Logan. His childhood love has boinked just about every boy their age, his family is slaughtered, his best friends were a spy for the underworld and one of the boys boinking his childhood love, his mentor was really a spy for a group of mages, he is forced to become prince against his will and enter a loveless marriage, his wife is murdered in front of them DURING their wedding night, and he is forced to leap into what is basically Hell Itself to survive. And that was just the first book... Justified since he ends up having the one truly happy ending (reunited with his wife and best friend, and destined to be a good King)
Either/Or Prophecy: A lot of Dorian's prophecies seem to be like this - he sees possibilities rather than facts, and people have to decide how they react.
Faking the Dead: At the start of the second book, Kylar takes a job where he does this to aid his client's political ambitions. Unfortunately, his client actually kills him instead of pretending to do so. Kylar comes back from the dead, of course, but the price for it is Jarl's death
Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Ceura seems to draw on (but not be identical to) medieval Japan, though with the standard medieval European setting as a base. Likewise with Ymmur and the Mongols, and Khalidor and parts of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Middle East.
A Fate Worse Than Death: If Logan or Kylar, ever find Trudana Jadwin. They are going to things that would make Hu Gibbet squeamish.
Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: Ulyssandra in the second book. D'awwwww.
Fiery Redhead: Viridiana.
Foe Yay: Rat AKA Roth and Kylar. It's canon that Rat wanted to engage in hatesex with Kylar to show his dominance. Rat also kept hassling Kylar and attempting to get Kylar to become part of his harem. Kylar's first kiss was also with him (albeit all part of a plot to "seduce" Rat and kill him). It's interesting to note that many, many years later, Rat tells Kylar that he never believed Kylar died, and he was constantly thinking of him and how he wished to get revenge on him.
A God Am I: Many gods are worshiped, but the only one we actually see tangible proof of is actually an immortal magician who has set herself up as the goddess Khali. And then there's the Godking, who is really seen as a god by some of his subjects.
Kylar has a few scattered moments of this after receiving the black ka'kari, allowing him to become completely invisible, effectively immortal through constant resurrection, and granting/boosting his magical powers. Subverted though in that Kylar realises this and wonders why Durzo Blint, the previous owner of the black ka'kari, didn't declare himself a God and use his power to rule. He decides that there must be a reason. It turns out there is one: the black ka'kari itself is sentient enough to decide someone worthy of using it, leaving Durzo Blint when it realizes his morals have fallen too far, and the knowledge of its very existence is a secret even to mythology and so must be kept secret to stop unwanted attention from people seeking the power of a ka'kari.
In relation to the immortality: Kylar is careless at first, much to the horror and anger of the Wolf, but constantly reminds himself that such a power must come with a downside even if he cannot see it, and so avoids dying if possible just to be safe. It turns out there is a price: that with every time he resurrects he takes the life of someone he loves in his place (although the effect can be delayed by the Wolf, it cannot be prevented).
Good Shepherd: Count Drake, in spite of his dark past. This is later brought up when Kylar informs him that while he can see guilt and sin in people, Count Drake is empty of it, and is told that he is "clean." This makes him quite happy.
Handicapped Badass: Brant Agon has to walk with two canes by the end of the series, which leads well to his Badass Boast
Agon: "You draw that sword and I'm going to feed it to you"
Inspector: "But you're an old cripple!"
Agon: "Which will make it all the more embarrassing when I do"
Heel Face Turn: Vi is initially the apprentice of Hu Gibbet, a villain, and does a number of bad things in the first and second books. By the third book, though, she's turned good, although there's still tension for various reasons.
Heir Club for Men: The Godking has lots of sons, but they keep killing each other or dying during the tests of worthiness they are given. And those who do survive are potential threats that need to be eliminated.
Heroes Want Redheads: Beyond the Shadows has Kylar very focused on Vi's fiery hair on several occasions.
Heroic Sacrifice: Done by Elene at the end.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Momma K, Shinga and Master of Pleasure, along with her bevy of whores, are actually shown as good-hearted people, and are even lauded as heroes by Logan for stirring up rebellion and taking out hundreds of Khalidorian soldiers, who were abusing and killing women daily, in the Nocta Hemata.
I Did What I Had to Do: Logan does this twice. First by swearing fealty to Terah Graesin. Later by killing Kylar
I Have Many Names: Durzo Blint's got a lot of them. because he happens to be almost every hero from the past 700 years
I Will Fight No More Forever: Kylar tries to retire with Elene at the start of the second book, but neither the goodies nor the baddies are prepared to leave him alone. Naturally, he ends up getting dragged back into everything.
I'm a Humanitarian: "You did say pheasant...right...?"
Immortality:
Resurrective Immortality: Kylar can be killed, but doesn't stay dead for very long. He's told that there's a price, but it only emerges in the third book what it is: every time he comes back, someone he loves dies in his place. Moreover, he is told which ones, and even more distressingly, which one will be chosen for his most recent revival: Elene, his true love.
Immortality Inducer: The Black Ka'kari grants immortality so long as you're bonded to it.
Also, Ezra the Mad. Although he implies that he has a limited lifespan, it's also implied that he can increase it by bringing powerful magical objects into Ezra's Wood.
In Vino Veritas: Hu Gibbet supposedly confesses genuine affection for Vi with a drunken "bitches ain't shit" combined with something of a Full Name Ultimatum. The actual verity of this is left ambiguous.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Elene. It goes at odd's with Kylar's job as necessary evil incarnate.
Insistent Terminology: Although most people would call them assassins, the people who work for the Sa'Kagé in that capacity insist that the local term, "wetboy", be used instead. Unlike regular assassins, wetboys use magic.
Interrupted Intimacy: Though not as comical as the trope can be, when Logan and Jenine's consummation of their abrupt marriage is interrupted by Khalidorian troops.
Invisibility Flicker: A voluntary example; this is Kylar's modus operandi for scaring people as Judgment.
It Will Never Catch On: Logan's Dictionary.
"You're writing it in Jaeran? Defining Jaeran words? So you'll have to already know Jaeran to read it?"
Julius Beethoven Da Vinci: Durzo. It helps that he's Really Seven Hundred Years Old.
Karmic Death: You'll be satisfied to know that Terah and Hu Gibbet get whats coming to them.
Knight Templar: The Lae'Knaught order are anti-magic fanatics - possibly not without a certain justification, given what the Godkings did with magic.
La Résistance: Women and girls who were forced into prostitution secretly plot to kill and castrate dozens of Khalidorians. Though once word of Jarl's death gets around, many other brothels get in on it, resulting in the slaying of over 600 Khalidorians, topped off with genitals nailed to the doors like trophies.
Lost Technology: Ezra the Mad created a lot of magical versions of this (including most of the ka'kari).
Feir rediscovers a lost method to reforge broken mistarille swords in order to make a 'fake' Ceur'Caelestos.
Luke, I Am Your Father: The Godking does this to Kylar and Vi. The first is just to screw with his mind, while the second might be true - but it doesn't stop her killing him at the end of the second book.
Manipulative Bastard: Godking Ursuul.
A Man Is Not a Virgin: Subverted with poor Kylar, who despises his virginity on.
Master Poisoner: Durzo Blint
Master Swordsman: Lantano Garuwashi, who has 'Eighty two kills. At least half of those are in single duels.
Durzo Blint and Kylar are also considered masters in their own rights. Kylar still has room to improve.
Mercy Kill: And boy, was it mercy.
Mind Rape: Pretty much Khali's job.
Morality Pet: Ulyssandra has an 'effect' on psychotic Vi.
My Girl Is Not a Slut: Logan's initial reaction to hearing that Serah, the woman he was in love with since childhood, had sex with his best friend. Along with pretty much everyone else.
My Master, Right or Wrong: General Brant Agon, in working for bad king Gunder. Until he kills him, anyway. Long Live the King indeed.
Named Weapons: Curoch, the Sword of Power, and Iures, the Staff of Law. The former has (or looks like a sword which has) a prominent place in one particular culture as Ceur'caelestos, the Blade of Heaven, while Iures spends most of the plot disguised as a sword called Retribution. It's implied that they may both have had other names and guises through the ages, too.
Near-Death Experience: When Kylar dies, he gets presented with two doorways - one goes to whatever comes after death, while another goes back to the world. If he selects the latter (and he does), he can never change his mind.
Never Gets Drunk: Uses 3a types in Durzo Blint and Kylar Stern. When weilding the Black Ka'Kari, they are given an inhuman immunity to all forms of poison and toxin, to include alcohol. Even after four full sacs of wine Kylar wasn't the least bit buzzed, and Durzo would spend ungodly hours at the bar to feel the least bit plastared.
When Kylar, as Azoth, "meets" Durzo for the first time, he's scrounging for coins beneath the floor of a bar. An assassin approaches to kill Durzo, saying to just let it happen since he says that Durzo has drunk several pints while he watched from the shadows. Durzo replies that he's had even more before the assassin even showed up! Leads to a Curb Stomp Battle from Blint upon the assassins once the leader decides to bring in his friends.
Older Is Better
Our Nudity Is Different: Sethi consider showing ankles to be obscene but have no problem showing breasts. In fact, Sethi wedding dresses are almost more like wedding skirts from the description. Sethi who spend too long living away from home often have trouble readjusting their standards of modesty.
Power At a Price: Kylar tells himself that there must be a cost for his immortality. The price? someone he loves will die every time he comes back.
The Power of Love: Used at the end of the third book by Elene as part of a Heroic Sacrifice.
Psychic Link: Kylar gets an involuntary psychic link with Vi thanks to some magic designed to permanently join husband and wife. It was originally intended for Kylar and Elene, but Vi applied it to him while he was unconscious - generally considered despicable, although there were life-or-death reasons at the time.
Psycho for Hire: Hu Gibbet is considered to be quite psychotic in his violence even by the standards of his fellow hired killers.
Really Seven Hundred Years Old: He doesn't exactly look young, but it turns out that Durzo was practically immortal until the events of the books, and many of the famous heroes of history and legend were actually him. Bonus Points for being actually 700.
Religion of Evil / Path of Inspiration: Khali gains her power from suffering. (It could be any strong emotion, but she simply finds that one easiest to generate on a large scale.) The extent to which this is understood and/or cared about is difficult to judge, given that her worshipers have little freedom to do anything else.
Retired Badass: Agon.
Rich Bitch: Terah Graesin.
Rousing Speech: First, Jarl's "I Say Hell No" speech to the women forced into the World's Oldest Profession, then Logan's speech to the utterly distraught Cenarians, in which he puts the women of the Nocta Hemata back in good graces with their loved ones, announces their garters will be made of the enemy's battle flags, stirs up will to fight, and announces he will not marry notorious bitch Terah Graesin
Royal Blood: Respect for royal blood is why the Duke Gyre (who'd have made a good king) didn't claim the throne. The lack of royal blood is also why Lantano Garuwashi feels such a need to prove himself despite already being a brilliant warlord and duelist - according to his culture, commoners can never achieve true greatness.
Rule of Three: Lessons at The Chantry are taught in threes, supposedly for ease of recall.
Self-Made Orphan: One of the first tasks that the Godking gives to his sons is to murder their mother.
Sequel Escalation: Lampshaded by Durzo.
So first you kill a King and now you're going after a Goddess? If you don't figure out a way to kill continents next, you're going to have to retire.
Show Some Leg: One of Vi's methods.
Smug Snake: Terah Graesin. Speaker Istariel has some of this too.
Sociopathic Hero: Durzo, Kylar, and Vi are all deconstructions and/or subversions. Word of God says that one of his goals in writing this story was to deconstruct this trope.
The Strategist: Brant Agon becomes one for Logan.
Succession Crisis: The question of who gets to be king of Cenaria is important to the plot, and infighting between possible claimants hampers the fight against the invaders.
Talking Weapon: The black ka'kiri, although more than just a weapon, fits this. (The two important actual swords don't seem very chatty.)
Thieves' Guild: The Sa'Kagé, who supposedly control all crime in their area. In Cenaria, the main setting, the Sa'Kagé is extremely powerful, often more so that the king - they could be considered the city's real rulers. In other places, the local Sa'Kagé may be little more than a few street thugs.
To Be Lawful or Good: Logan has to decide the fate of Kylar after he kills a really bad person, really bad Noble person, and is caught. He decides to sentence Kylar to death for Law, and send a wetboy to spring him from jail for Good (Kylar stays in jail). Kylar actually understood this trope in advance, and knew what the consequences would be.
Utopia Justifies the Means: The Wolf puts Kylar more at ease with killing Khali while possessing Elene by showing him what Cenaria will become because of it, a beautiful, flower-covered city of productive, happy people.
Wham! Line: The Way of Shadows has one massive one for Kylar when he confronts Durzo at the end: " Rat didn't mutilate Doll Girl. I did." The trope was actually Invoked by Durzo: he lied so that Kylar would be mad enough to kill him and thereby fully bond the ka'kari.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Dorian is fairly normal until his vir comes into play. Then you may want to find the bunker.
Women in Refrigerators: An awful lot of female characters are raped or killed (often grusomely), and then there's the prostitute fixation mentioned above.
In one instance where Vi and Kylar infiltrate the Godking's castle, they find one room where the furniture is made from stuffed dead women.
X Marks the Hero: Possibly the bane of Elene's existence is her set of scars from Rat beating her, partially consisting of a large X on her cheek, and a smaller x on her bottom lip.
You Can't Fight Fate: Possibly. When Kylar learns that Elene is going to die (see under Immortality), he tries to say Screw Destiny, but it doesn't work. This might be fate, but some people might argue Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, too.
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remixthebook by Mark Amerika
remixthebook by Mark Amerika, University of Minnesota Press, September 2011:
A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media
Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art through the mashup.
In remixthebook, Mark Amerika explores the mashup as a defining cultural activity in the digital age. A pioneering media artist and acclaimed cultural theorist, Amerika offers a series of philosophical essays that trace the art of the remix to previous forms of avant-garde and modernist art through mashups of deftly sampled phrases and ideas from a wide range of visual artists, poets, novelists, musicians, comedians, and philosophers — among them Alfred North Whitehead, Guy Debord, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, and Allen Ginsberg.
A provocative textual performance that is at once a dazzling model of the literary remix and a state-of-the-art reflection on remix culture, remixthebook captures the unique and continually shifting digital moment in which we live and situates the remix as an art form and literary intervention. To coincide with the publication of remixthebook, Amerika will launch a companion website, remixthebook.com, to facilitate new ways of participating in remix culture by inviting other artists and writers to create remixthebook mashups of their own, pushing the boundaries of art and literary culture further, beyond the current publishing paradigms.
Mark Amerika is a cult novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and VJ artist. He is the author of many books, among them The Kafka Chronicles, Sexual Blood, and most recently a collection of artist writings, META/DATA: A Digital Poetics. His artwork has been exhibited in several national and international venues, including the Whitney Biennial, the Walker Art Center, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. His literary writing and artwork have been featured in Time magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and Village Voice. He is professor of art and art history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and principal research fellow of media studies at La Trobe University.
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CBC comfortable with lower audience numbers
On a randomly chosen Monday night in January, when Mansbridge was still anchor, "The National" on the main network had an estimated audience of 734,000 viewers during the first half hour of the show, dropping to 584,000 viewers in the second half.
For the debut of the new "The National" — now hosted by Ian Hanomansing, Adrienne Arsenault, Rosemary Barton and Andrew Chang — 739,000 viewers were tuned in for the first 30 minutes on CBC, while 601,000 were still watching for the second half.
But subsequent nights saw ratings peak between the high-300,000 to low-600,000 range.
Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, says the network is "comfortable with the audience numbers and the anecdotal reaction to the program so far."
CBC TV is in a fragile position
Curiously, CBC Radio has lately begun competing with private stations, employing pop music on its second radio network and a journalistic style that is starting to sound like private radio. Commercials have even crept in.
Why? One explanation is that CBC has made disproportionate budget cuts to radio, weakening the service and prompting some unsavoury changes. More than $50-million has been lost from radio's annual budget, which in net terms has been given to CBC TV.
Today, CBC TV is the service in a fragile position. It's just one among hundreds of channels, almost indistinguishable from private competitors.
CBC sees its service as a complement to existing services such as Netflix ...
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will stream its live television stations online for free, a move that could further erode the value of traditional TV subscriptions in an era where many consumers are already cutting the cord.
On Tuesday, CBC TV started streaming its 14 regional linear television channels for free and launched a paid over-the-top TV subscription service for $4.99 per month. The premium service includes on-demand episodes without advertisements and CBC News Network, which was previously available as a standalone for $6.95 per month.
"Many Canadians are getting more and more of their content from digital over-the-top services like Netflix. We need to ensure our audiences can get CBC in the same way," executive vice president of English services Heather Conway wrote in a memo to staff Monday.
Viewers will occasionally see a title card or blank slate if CBC doesn't have the rights to broadcast content online. For the most part, CBC will substitute commercials on its live TV feeds with ads tailored for the digital experience.
CBC sees its service as a complement to existing services such as Netflix, BCE Inc.'s CraveTV or Amazon Prime Video, especially as consumers increasingly subscribe to multiple services.
Would Canadians be willing to pay for CBC directly
Mélanie Joly, the new minister responsible for the CBC, must decide what to do about our national broadcaster.
What do Canadians want from their public broadcaster? The first thing the minister should do is ask Canadians what they want from a new CBC for the future.
The CBC research project should start by asking a large, representative sample of Canadians to imagine there was no CBC TV or radio. Would people miss the CBC? Would they turn to other radio stations, if CBC Radio were no longer available? Would they just stop listening to radio altogether? Would they be willing to pay to keep it?
Would Canadians be willing to pay for CBC directly via their TV and Internet providers?
The minister should collect relevant industry data on how the CBC spends the public money it currently receives and the commercial revenue it generates. Ask experts for suggestions on how CBC could be more efficient with our money and what incentives could be put in place to increase efficiency. Should CBC be in the business of renting its buildings or airwaves to private interests? Should CBC be competing with newspapers and online media for readers and advertisers? Just how much revenue do all those new CBC Internet services generate, which CBC has never revealed?
CBC - Are we even making radio anymore?
Since its founding in 1936, the cbc has routinely been accused of stodginess. But as the broadcaster adapts to changing media conditions and grows more elaborate, it harbours ambitions that threaten to outstrip its own ability to define itself. Jeffrey Dvorkin, once a managing editor of cbc Radio News and now head of the journalism program at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, puts it this way: "When media organizations lose sight of their purpose, they embrace technology without really understanding what it is."
It's important to note that despite the cbc's cutback targets—it aims to shed 1,150 full-time positions by 2020—it also plans to hire 300 new employees "in the next years" to improve the company's digital skills. Whether that will mean more coders, more interactive journalists, or more thought leaders who would help shape the company's ultramodern ethos remains unclear.
For programmers at the cbc, the message is simple: Think about digital. All. The. Time. But making radio and TV with that in mind is more challenging. A radio producer I know there tells me that, so far, she's had little guidance about how to, as she puts it, "up the digital game." The company should appeal to younger listeners, one manager told her. That same manager said, vis-à-vis the vision thing, that in five years people will be using driverless cars, so the cbc needs to think about creating programming for people who are in cars but don't have to focus on driving. "I have honestly tried to understand our mission or mandate," she says, "but the message from management has been vague and confusing."
All she knows, she says, is that every Friday, she gets an email announcing the top digital stories for their division (often the quirky ones), and that everyone wants to be mentioned in this report and are gutted if they're not. "Our numbers suck," she says of the radio show she works on. "So a group of us tried to figure out how to better market our show. We're not marketing experts, but no one else is doing it for us." They hashed out ways to make Twitter more effective in boosting their numbers. But, she asks, "Are we even making radio anymore?"
CBC criticized for exposure
Former Olympian Nicole Forrester says the live broadcast of the wardrobe malfunction during Sunday night's ice dance competition at the Pyeongchang Games was unfortunate and unavoidable.
Forrester said she felt mortified for French skater Gabriella Papadakis when her costume became loose and revealed one of her breasts while performing on ice with Guillaume Cizeron.
The live performance on CBC was quickly followed by a slow-motion replay.
While some Canadian social media users criticized CBC for airing the footage, which was carried live around 11:20 p.m. ET, the network responded with a tweet explaining that it uses the local feed for the event and that the footage would be edited out of encore broadcasts.
A CBC spokesperson was not available for comment Monday.
CBC splits single white man's salary
CBC splits single white man's salary between two women, two minorities
Following the departure of longtime anchor Peter Mansbridge, CBC executives have decided to hire a diverse collection of hosts, each of whom will receive an equal share of Mansbridge's previous salary.
While the average pay gaps between white men and white women, and white men and minority men is less than 20%, all four anchors released statements saying that they are contractually obligated to be "thrilled" to be making exactly 75% less than Mansbridge.
CBC spent almost $900Gs on outside help to fight lawsuit
Despite having 22 lawyers on staff, CBC spent close to $900,000 on top-flight lawyers from an outside firm to fight a lawsuit that could have been settled with an apology.
As has previously been reported, CBC's legal costs to defend a lawsuit brought by filmmakers Claude Fournier and Marie-Jose Raymond topped $1 million. But new documents released by the state broadcaster show the legal firm Borden, Ladner, Gervais billed $871,769.03 for its services.
Here's What CBC Staff Told Their Bosses About The Need For Diversity
Last summer, CANADALAND published a story on the lack of diversity among CBC staff, citing an internal company survey taken between 2011 and March 2016 showing that about 90% of its employees were white.
Now, a year later, the CBC's union, the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), believes there is reason to be cautiously hopeful that things are beginning to change.
In June, the union's Joint Employment Equity Committee published a bulletin stating that over the previous year, the CBC had renewed its commitment to equitable hiring practices — and crediting the CANADALAND article with sparking the conversation.
The piece "exposed years of virtual inaction," wrote the CMG, and led CBC staff "from across the country" to send a pair of letters to CBC president Hubert Lacroix and CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire demanding changes in hiring practices.
CBC Fifth Estate film found at fault
Fifth Estate film found at fault for unfounded facts and false impressions.
If you thought that headline was a mouthful, try swallowing a damages award of $950,000 and a costs award over $800,000 as the CBC had to in the libel lawsuit brought by Dr. Frans Leenan. After winning his case in Ontario's Superior Court, Dr. Leenen said, 'Four years ago we proposed to settle this law suit for $10,000 and an on-air apology. It was refused...The Fifth Estate persisted and took me through 10 weeks of trial.'
The trial judge awarded very high damages for libel against The Fifth Estate and the CBC as well as individual reporters and producers. The CBC appealed.
CBC The Current Demonizes Israel
Alarmingly, on February 7, CBC Radio's The Current news program aired a lengthy 40+minute segment which fundamentally demonized Israel.
The program misleadingly presented itself as fair and balanced by featuring two Palestinians and two Israelis on the show, however, all these individuals were extremely hostile to Israel and none represented a mainstream Israeli perspective, nor was there a real exploration of Israel's security concerns, its painful concessions and many generous peace offers. The program gave short shrift to the daily Palestinian terror attacks, endemic incitement, unilateralism, and corruption. The Current concluded their program by claiming that "We did also reach out to the Likud Youth Party to see if one of their members would like to join our discussion but we did not hear back." And yet, that doesn't absolve the CBC of its responsibility to produce balanced programming. Of course, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people who could have been interviewed to provide perspectives from the mainstream, centrist or right-leaning voices of Israel, but CBC did not secure any of these individuals to appear on its program. They could have, and they should have.
Stop the taxpayers funding of the CBC network
The CBC takes $1.1 billion annually of taxpayers money and Canadians can not afford this any longer.
What does a television station like the CBC do to deserve our hard earned cash?? There are many Canadian networks that survive on there own, so let's sell the CBC.
The CBC refuses to even tell us what their salaries are, not to mention the pensions they get. They "investigate" themselves for wrongdoings and are not held accountable for their actions. Why are we tolerating this?
Let's send a message to our government that we no longer want to bank role a dying network.
Read the responses to this petition here.
CBC is the financial elephant in the press room
Just how should the CBC fit in a media world where it is already the financial elephant in the press room, an elephant gaining substantial financial weight with every passing year while other media shrinks?
Should it be competing virtually unfettered in the digital realm, selling $25 million a year in advertising and operating its websites like any private operator, all the while leaning on its substantial and publicly subsidized newsrooms to provide stories, photos and video?
Should it be spending taxpayers' dollars to purchase and give away CBC-branded material at parades and events like the Regatta?
Should the CBC be in the "personality" business, offering up staff in exchange for public support for the broadcaster?
Should it be using its own airtime to congratulate and promote itself for its role in charity fundraising?
Should the CBC's digital arm be expanding, as it is now doing, into opinion content, using its hefty financial resources to pay for it?
Should the CBC's primary function be public service journalism, or ratings competition with private broadcasters?
There's a huge value in a properly funded public broadcaster — it can do things that no private broadcaster does.
But public funding also means the elephant answering to the public, instead of just sitting wherever it wants to.
CBC repeatedly peddling fantastical stories
The CBC's venerable Fifth Estate has done a lot of good work on important stories over many decades. But its record has been marred by repeatedly peddling fantastical stories about the 1963 murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The most recent came on November 17, with "The JFK Files: The Murder of a President."
It might be tempting to shrug off McKenna and the Fifth Estate's obsession with Kennedy fantasies as just the eccentricities of a rogue operation within the giant CBC bureaucracy. But somebody higher up the food chain approves their budgets and their programs.
Is this really what Canadians want for news and entertainment from the state-owned broadcaster? At a cost of a billion or a billion and a half tax dollars a year? We ought to be concerned about Canadian voices drowning in a global sea of news and dreck produced elsewhere.
CBC wants more privilege and an extra $400 million
The CBC wants to be freed from the need to scrounge for advertising dollars, so it can nurture Canada's "cultural ecosystem" away from the distasteful world of competitive rivalries.
Canada's public broadcasting network has been under fire for months over its efforts to build a digital presence in direct competition with private newspapers and other media, which are struggling to survive in the face of remorseless technological change. The private operators maintain it's unfair that the CBC gets generous subsidies to steal business from them. In a world of shifting readership habits and murderous competition, every penny of revenue is vital. The CBC, they note, already enjoys a federal subsidy of more than $1 billion a year, including a $150 million annual boost introduced by the Trudeau Liberals. Private operators, meanwhile, are haemorrhaging money as the strive to keep the wolf from the door.
The CBC's response: Ask for even more money from the public purse.
The CBC has strayed a long way from its original purpose ...
The online success of the CBC should be laudable. Its website received an average of 6.2-million unique visitors last year, making it the most popular Canadian website. Around 4.3-million people visit the CBC News site each month, besting both The Globe and Mail and Huffington Post.
In doing so, the CBC has strayed a long way from its original purpose: to sustain Canadian culture when and where the market cannot. The problem is, the CBC's traditional funding model now allows it to build its digital empire unfettered by economic reality. In its last quarter, 60 per cent of the company's expenses were paid by government subsidies while just 21 per cent of its revenue comes from advertising. All media companies are struggling to adapt to shifting consumer and advertising patterns brought about by the digital age; only the CBC had $1.2 billion in government cash to fund its experiments and ease the transition.
CBC Radio Host Acknowledges that Criticisms of Israel Frequently Anti-Semitic
It's not too often that we're in a position to praise CBC for excellent reporting on Israel and the Middle East, but there are exceptions to every rule.
We are pleased to commend CBC Radio Host Michael Enright and The Sunday Edition program for producing and orating an essay on January 28 entitled: "Anti-Semitism is not just going away; it is growing" which acknowledged that criticisms of Israel are frequently used to conceal anti-Semitism.
In his essay, Enright observed (emphasis added):
In large measure, the focus of modern anti-Semitism is a hatred of Israel.
CBC president job posting re-opened
The independent committee leading the selection process for the new president and CEO of Canada's public broadcaster has asked the federal government to re-open the posting for the job to look for qualified Canadians living abroad and to align the process with new rules on government job postings.
The CBC/Radio Canada position was re-advertised in the latest edition of the Canada Gazette, published last week, with a new deadline of January 29, 2018. The original deadline for applications was August 15, 2017 — after which the first job posting was taken down.
The move comes after the search to replace outgoing CBC president Hubert Lacroix failed to produce a successor by Dec. 31, 2017, when Lacroix was due to step down.
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Heaton is an unincorporated community in Wells County, North Dakota, United States. It is located 20 miles west of Carrington. Heaton was heavily damaged by a tornado in 1907 and some blame the decline of the town on that event.

Anti-government tax protester Gordon Kahl was born in Heaton.

Starting in the late 1990s, and picking up speed in the mid-late 2000s, all remaining abandoned buildings on the townsite have been demolished, one by one. The reason is said to be because many of the properties were forfeited to the county due to unpaid property taxes, and Speedwell township took over and razed many of the properties due to health hazards. The former gas station was purchased and turned into a meat processing business, Miller Game Processing. As of 2016, the town population was 1.

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Geography of Wells County, North Dakota
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[C] It takes equal time for revolution around the earth and rotation on its own axis
[D] It rotates at the same speed as the earth around the sun
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ADIL - 6 months ago
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Sunil Kumar R from Bengaluru, India is saying It takes equal time for revolution around the earth and rotation on its own axis is correct answer
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Jessie Marlin from Raipur, India is saying It takes equal time for revolution around the earth and rotation on its own axis is correct answer
Nitish Kumar - 1 year ago
Nitish Kumar from Patna, India is saying It is smaller than earth is correct answer
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[B] interstellar dust
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[C] Australia
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[B] Equator
[C] Tropic of Capricorn
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The Bank of Israel has revised its GDP growth forecast for 2012 upwards to 3.1% from its previous forecast of 2.8%.
The Bank of Israel further predicted that interest rate in Q1-2013 is expected to be 2.5%, and that Israel's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to grow by 3.5% in 2013.
The forecast for 2012 was revised slightly upward from the December forecast of 2.8%, primarily due to positive indicators of Israel's economy which have been published recently (goods imports, expectations in the survey of business trends, and services exports).
The slowdown in growth of imports is due to several factors. First, similar to previous forecasts, we expect a marked moderation in growth of import-intensive demand components (investment in industries and purchases of durable goods).
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However, the Bank further predicts that unemployment in 2012 will reach 5.8%, and that it will note a slight decrease to 5.7% in 2013.


Home Prints The Five Points in 1859 : View taken from the corner of North & Little Water St.
The Five Points in 1859 : View taken from the corner of North & Little Water St.
Title The Five Points in 1859 : View taken from the corner of North & Little Water St.
Publishing details New York : Published by D.T. Valentine.
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted ; image 15.4 x 21.2 cm., sheet 17.3 x 23 cm.
Summary The Five Points House of Industry is shown. Detached from the "Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York by D.T. Valentine for 1860." New York, 1860, opposite p.372. The Five Points was the name given to the junction of Baxter, Worth, and Park Streets. It was an area of poverty and high crime incidence. Purchased 1909. #1909.2 (no.134).
Subject(s) Five Points House of Industry (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
Baxter Street (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
Five Points (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
Little Water Street (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
Park Street (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.
Worth Street (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works.


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The link between bullying and depression
The topic of bullying seems to be on everyone's minds these days. News outlets frequently run stories about severe bullying cases in schools. Popular TV series hit the airwaves displaying acts of bullying and abuse as common aspects of modern school life, as expected as the bells that ring to dismiss students from class.
It's not that bullying is an especially new phenomenon, but thanks to the prevalence of the internet in our daily lives, kids are finding new ways to pick on their classmates, and now the actions are nearly inescapable, no matter where the victims try to go.
Research has closer linked bullying and the development of depression, which for some, then leads to eating disorders, addictions and other unhealthy conditions.
Bullying leads to depression
According to the Megan Meier Foundation, 27.8 percent of students report face-to-face bullying at some point during a school year. Forty-three percent reported being cyberbullied. A LiveScience report linked the rate of bullying to instances of depression in teenagers – teens who experience in-person bullying may be twice as likely to develop depression through adulthood.
"There were consistent associations between exposure to cyberbullying and increased likelihood of depression," Michele Hamm, pediatrics researcher at the University of Alberta told LiveScience.
Bullying is, at its core, a version of harassment and abuse. It can range from physical violence to name calling to defamation. What's more, is Hamm and her research team found that many of the victims suffered in silence rather than reaching out for help from an adult. Many teens internalize the bullying, convinced that they deserve it and that what's being said about them must be true. It leads to low self-esteem, sadness and anxiety.
Bullying that starts at early ages can lead to depression that lasts into adulthood.
Depression manifests in different ways
While depression can impact everyone a little differently, there are a few symptoms that parents should look out for. According to the Mayo Clinic, people who are depressed may experience:
Prolonged feelings of sadness, hopelessness and emptiness.
A persistent lack of energy.
Stress and agitation.
Changes in sleep patterns and appetite.
Feelings of worthlessness and guilt.
A lack of interest in hobbies and actives they once enjoyed.
Depression is also comorbid with a number of other conditions, like anxiety disorders and eating disorders. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America reported that two-thirds of people who have had an eating disorder also experienced an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives, with 42 percent developing anxiety during childhood. Many eating disorders are not solely about appearance and weight, but also about control. People who are anxious may be susceptible to eating disorders as a coping mechanism for the lack of control they feel over their condition.
Of course, there's more than one trigger that can lead to an eating disorder. Bullying itself has been directly linked to some disordered eating – the Megan Meier Foundation reported that 64 percent of students who enrolled in weight-loss programs were victims of appearance-based attacks of bullying.
That's why it's so crucial when treating people who have eating disorders to not just focus on that specific condition, but to co-treat any other conditions that a person is experiencing as well.
Fairwinds Treatment Center, led by Dr. M.K. (Khal) El-Yousef, specializes in dual-diagnosis treatments that help patients overcome concurrent mental health issues. We also work with a number of insurance companies, including United Healthcare, Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, to help you manage the cost of treatment.
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Town of Bethany Requires Masks in Downtown Business Area
The Town of Bethany town council voted today to require everyone to wear a mask in all areas of the C-1 business area. The requirement includes the boardwalk, boardwalk plaza and along the streets. The requirement does not include the beach. Violators of the ordinance are subject to a fine of $50.00-$100.00. The ordinance goes into effect Friday morning July 3rd.
The council took the action after it became too difficult to enforce a more lax rule that only required a mask when social distancing was difficult. But as more people began to come to Bethany, and as the heavy tourist season begins the council voted to change the rule to require full time mask use. The ordinance also includes joggers and bikers passing through the C-1 business area.
Below is a map of the enforcement area. You can also download the ordinance and a map of the covered area by clicking on the PDF icon below.
The council also voted to cancel the bandstand events for the rest of the summer. They also voted to continue to hold off running the town trolley.
Beach Crowds
In an effort to limit the crowds on the town beaches, the council voted to reduce the number of public parking spaces available from 10:00am to 4:00pm daily. 250 parking spaces in public lots along Atlantic Ave which parallels the ocean, will be designated resident permit parking only. The council noted that this was their only tool to try to limit number of people using the beach.
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Brexit may result in cross-border commercial trading arrangements being significantly impacted, for example, if additional tariffs or customs arrangements are imposed on goods being imported from or exported to the UK which make the arrangements uneconomic, or if Brexit results in a change of regulatory regime applicable to the arrangements.
Commercial contracts (both existing agreements and those negotiated between now and Brexit, particularly with UK suppliers and customers) should be reviewed for certain Brexit-related risks:
Force Majeure, termination rights – review the Force Majeure clause (the one that talks about war, flooding and acts of God) to see if it is broad enough to potentially include Brexit. Broad Force Majeure clauses with language like "any event beyond a party's reasonable control" may allow a party to stop performing under the contract after Brexit in certain circumstances. For new contracts being negotiated, consider including clauses explaining how the parties' arrangement will change if a certain type of Brexit occurs, i.e. the UK leaves the EU single market and/or customs union without a free trade agreement that covers the goods or services in the contract. In some cases, you may simply want the right to terminate the contract in the event of a Brexit scenario which results in additional tariffs or regulatory requirements being imposed.
Taxes clause – Review the taxes clause of your contracts. In the event the UK leaves the EU customs union, and/or the single market, new tariffs and VAT charges may apply to goods and services imported from the UK into Ireland and from Ireland into the UK. You should seek to understand how these tax changes will affect your business, and who is liable in your contracts for increased tax costs.
Choice of law / jurisdiction – review the choice of law and jurisdiction clauses. Many commercial contracts (even those between non-UK parties) list English law as the law of the contract and give English courts exclusive jurisdiction over contract disputes. Going forward, parties that want to apply the law of a common law, EU, English-speaking country will need to choose the law of Ireland. In addition, you should think carefully before giving exclusive jurisdiction to English courts, because it is unclear how judgments of UK courts will be enforced outside the UK after Brexit. Ideally, reciprocal judgment recognition arrangements will be agreed in the Brexit negotiations. If that is not the case however enforcement of UK judgments in Ireland (or vice versa) might become more difficult. In other words, you might win a case against a defendant in an English court, but if all the defendant's assets are outside the UK that award could be difficult to collect.
Brexit poses a great risk to financial service providers who are licensed with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and offer services across the EU based on that license, as well as those who offer services in the UK based on a license from another EU country's regulator. This type of "passporting" is a benefit of the EU single market. The UK is adamant that it will negotiate continued EU passporting rights for UK financial services firms, but it is unclear how this will work if the UK leaves the single market. The UK's most likely option is to negotiate continued passporting rights as part of a trade agreement with the EU, but typically trade agreements cover trade in goods rather than services.
To ensure continued access to the EU market, UK financial services firms should take steps to become licensed with the regulator in another EU jurisdiction, such as the Central Bank in Ireland. One key requirement for gaining a license from the Central Bank is that the firm has a "substantive presence" in Ireland, which generally means that the firm is managed and controlled from Ireland. This is why many UK firms have begun moving operations to Ireland and other EU jurisdictions, to qualify for a license which will allow them to continue passporting across the EU.
Irish and other EU financial services firms which offer services in the UK should equally begin discussions with the UK FCA to potentially become licensed there, to ensure your ability to continue offering services in the UK post-Brexit.
As part of its membership of the EU, the UK's intellectual property regime has, to a large extent, been governed by European Law. This is particularly applicable in trademarks, where the EU Intellectual Property Office provides for a centralised application and granting system of trademarks, which have an effect across the whole of the EU, including the UK.
A huge concern for businesses and brand owners is whether their EU registered trademarks will continue to have effect in the UK in a post-Brexit world. Practitioners have largely been quite confident that this would have to be the case, with many feeling some sort of 'grandfathering' regime converting existing EU Trademarks into UK registered trademarks at some point down the line is a likely outcome.
The EU moved to reduce uncertainty on 28 February 2018 in the first draft agreement governing the UK's withdrawal. It sets out that "the protection enjoyed in the United Kingdom on the basis of Union law by both UK and EU 27 holders of intellectual property rights having unitary character within the Union before the withdrawal date is not undermined by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union". This would apply to the unitary IP rights (EU trademarks, registered community designs, plant varieties).
One final concern which has attracted a lot of headlines is what will happen to goods which have 'geographic indication' protection under EU law, such as the Cornish Pastie and Scottish Whiskey. What will happen to these remains to be seen, though again, most industry experts believe those rights will be preserved through bilateral or other agreements.
GDPR/Data Protection
Businesses that transfer personal data between the UK and other EU countries must review whether those transfers will be legal after Brexit. This includes transfers between your own group companies as well as transfers with other organisations. Once the UK leaves the EU, all transfers of personal data from the EU to the UK will need to be justified in the same way as transfers to other non-EU countries. The UK may be able to secure an adequacy decision from the EU Commission, which would deem UK data protection equivalent to EU data protection and allow transfers to the UK. Short of that, the UK may be able to negotiate a special arrangement similar to the EU's Safe Harbour arrangement with the US, allowing data transfers so long as certain conditions are met. However, the UK is likely to face significant political hurdles to achieving either of these outcomes and even then either outcome would likely be challenged in the courts by data protection advocates. For those reasons, you should plan to treat personal data transfers from the EU to the UK as transfers to a third country with no special arrangement, using other legal bases for transfers were available under GDPR (ie. explicit consent of the data subject, standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules). In some cases it may make sense to move data processing activities from the UK to an EU jurisdiction, to avoid GDPR compliance concerns.
Ireland is already a leading location for pharmaceutical and medical technology companies and is therefore a natural hub for businesses in this area who wish to expand their presence in the EU-27 remaining member states in preparation for Brexit. Regulatory authorisations will also need to be reviewed.
On 10 January 2018 the European Commission published an important notice warning concerning CE marking on industrial products, which will be relevant for companies in the medical devices sector. The notice advises CE mark holders to take steps to ensure that post-Brexit, where applicable conformity assessment procedures require the intervention of a Notified Body, they will hold certificates issues by an EU-27 Notified Body. Where economic operators hold certificates issued by a UK Notified Body prior to the Brexit withdrawal date and plan to continue placing the product concerned on the EU-27 market, the notice advises that they consider either applying for a new certificate issued by an EU- 27 Notified Body or arranging for a transfer of the file and corresponding certificate from the UK Notified Body to an EU-27 Notified Body.
With regard to pharmaceutical products, the European Commission has published a Notice (latest version dated 29 January 2018) and practical guidance for Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) on procedures related to Brexit, including procedures for transfer of marketing authorisations from UK based MAHs to MAHs based in the EU-27.
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Although Lisa and I were capable of walking the 1500 m or so to the train station — after all, we'd done so yesterday — Lisa had been coughing all night long and not feeling especially strong, so when a taxi in search of a fare pulled up in front of the hotel just as we were coming out the door, I decided to take it. We therefore got to Emeryville Station maybe 20 or 30 minutes earlier than expected, and that's just as well.
Based on our trip three years ago, Lisa and were not making a special effort to get breakfast, because when we boarded the California Zephyr in August 2009, sleeping car passengers were sent straight to the dining car for a special breakfast seating. I was annoyed, therefore, to see signs in the lobby of Emeryville station advising all passengers (including first class like me) to purchase breakfast before boarding, as there was no longer a breakfast service of any sort. Phooey! Worse, I'd mis-advised my friends also riding the train. I bought a breakfast sandwich and a coffee from the stand in the lobby of the station and joined Lisa, Chris Garcia, Linda, and the Harrigans outside the station.
The Coast Starlight made its station stop and headed south, and maybe fifteen minutes later our California Zephyr trainset rolled into Emeryville. This being the origin station, boarding was relatively unhurried. We stowed our heavier bags downstairs and went up to Bedroom D on car 0631 to get settled. Within a couple of minutes of the scheduled 9:10 AM departure time, our train smoothly pulled out of the station bound for Chicago.
Lisa and I had prepared special signs to post in the windows of our sleeping compartment and those of the other Chicon-bound passengers that said "All Aboard for Worldcon" and the Chicon logo. We located Chris and Linda in a roomette on our car, and Diane Osborne was diagonally opposite them. Diane had apparently had Too Much Adventure and only just barely made the train, but she did make it. The Harrigans were in the next car aft of us, with Little Harold getting a roomette of his own. España Sheriff was originally planning on taking the trip as well, I thought, riding coach, but apparently changed plans late in the game and flew. Too bad; I bet we could have sneaked her back to the First Class section later and at least paid for her meals.
Not too long after getting under way, Lisa and I went to the lounge car where Chris and Linda were setting up to play cards. They taught us how to play Guillotine, and we enjoyed playing while we rolled along the bay, over the Benicia Bridge, and across the flatlands to Sacramento. This was my first trip through the newly-relocated tracks at Sacramento, where, in order to make it more convenient for freight trains (and partially funded by Union Pacific), they've moved the passenger platforms 500 m away from the passenger station.
There were a total of eight "members" of what I dubbed "TrainCon" and we soon fell into a pattern of occupying two four-person tables in the lounge car, in what I took to calling the Con Suite. From Sacramento to Reno, volunteers from the California State Railroad Museum provide narration of the historical Donner Pass railroad route, but it was difficult to follow thanks to "George." That was Lisa's name for the guy who got on at Davis and dumped his bags into one of the lounge car tables and acted very aggrieved when the conductor told him he couldn't do that and would have to take things back to his coach seat. After stowing his bags, he came back to the lounge and camped out in a table and proceeded to drink. A lot. And to accumulate other people who were also drinking a lot. They got loud. When the CSRM narration would come on, they would get louder and drown it out. It's not as though I hadn't heard it before, but none of the others except Lisa in our group had heard it. I tried to fill in as best I could when they could hear me.
The trip through the Sierras was lovely as usual, and augured of good things to come on the rest of our trip. Everyone seemed to enjoy the sights, and we entered Reno in high spirits, waved at the Atlantis Hotel (I'd worn my Reno in 2011 t-shirt in honor of today's major intermediate stop) to the south as we passed about 5 PM, and got ready to (briefly) show off our house to our friends.


On 14 June 2015 Swiss voters will decide whether to increase tertiary student bursaries and make them a federal rather than a cantonal matter. Presently, bursaries are determined and paid by cantons and vary significantly from canton to canton. In 2013 the highest annual average of CHF 9,365 was in Vaud and the lowest of CHF 3,784 in Neuchâtel. The Swiss average was CHF 6,590, with Zurich near the high end of the range at CHF 8,335. Around 7%1 or 48,0001 students received a bursary in 2012.
The proposal would remove these cantonal differences and substantially increase the minimum living income. Those behind the initiative say it would guarantee a hefty minimum student income of CHF 24,000 a year – more than the average take home pay in a number of EU countries. They calculate the additional cost of this to taxpayers would be CHF 500,000,000 annually.
The initiative, if successful, would replace a recent agreement on bursary harmonisation that went into force on 1 May 2013, which 16 cantons have signed.
Proponents of the proposal assert that more needs to be done to ensure that everyone, even those from low-income families, can access tertiary education without going into debt. They see a need to further level the playing field.
Opponents argue that education and bursaries are cantonal matters and a federal system would encroach on the independence of cantons that better know their educational needs and those of their students.
They also worry that the proposal is unaffordable and maintain that the recent agreement to harmonise bursaries across cantons is sufficient.
The National Council voted against the proposal with 135 votes against, 58 for and 2 abstentions, and the States Council cast 32 votes against, 12 for, with 1 abstention.
The Swiss debate around keeping students out of debt is a far cry from tertiary education in the U.S. where the average annual cost of study is close to US$ 40'0002 annually and average student debts upon graduation are about the same amount2.


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Home News Science n Tech New smartphone app to help spina bifida patients
New smartphone app to help spina bifida patients
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Washington: A system incorporating a smartphone app can help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida, a disabling congenital condition affecting the spine, and improve their daily self-management skills, scientists say.
The "iMHere" (interactive Mobile Health & Rehabilitation) system features mobile reminders and messaging with healthcare providers and is feasible for use by young patients with spina bifida.
"This system holds promise for use in many diverse chronic care models to support and increase self-management skills," said Dr Brad E Dicianno of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The randomised pilot study evaluated the iMHere system in 23 patients, aged 18 to 40, with spina bifida. The patients in the study had myelomeningocele – the most severe type of spina bifida.
One group of patients received the experimental iMHere system, which combined a suite of smartphone modules and a web-based portal for healthcare providers, linked by a two-way communication system.
The modules were tailored to the key issues of spina bifida self-management, including information on medications, reminders to perform important daily self-care activities, and monitoring of mood and depression symptoms.
The other group of patients received routine spina bifida care and follow-up. After one year, use of the iMHere system and self-management skills were compared between groups, along with other key outcomes.
Patients met or exceeded expected levels of use of the iMHere system.
They were most likely to use modules that reminded them to perform self-care steps that occurred less than every day; and to remind them to take medications, which changed frequently. IMHere users "were also more likely to communicate new information or symptoms to a wellness coordinator by secure message, survey, or photograph," according to the study.
Higher use of reminders did not decrease the rate of events requiring medical attention. However, patients who were high users of the iMHere system gained new independence in certain spina bifida self-management skills.
All types of medical events tended to be less common for patients using iMHere, although the differences were not significant.
The preliminary results suggest that the iMHere system may enable young patients become more independent in managing their spina bifida – especially those who use the system frequently, Dicianno said.
The study is published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.
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This Wildlife BBC 2 Show – Fancy a personal visit?
The Elephant watch Camp and Olerai House are owned and run by Saba Douglas – Hamilton and her Husband Frank with their 3 young children.
Saba is the daughter of Dr. Iain Douglas – Hamilton, the famous and respected zoologist known for his great works on Saving Elephants in Africa and worldwide.
This Wildlife BBC2 show is set in the Samburu National Park which is famous for its wonderful wildlife such as large Elephant herds and lion prides. This wonderful programme on BBC 2 shows how they struggle to run the Elephant watch camp faced with monkeys in the kitchen, floods threatening the camp, elephants around the camp and much more.
A must watch for everyone!!
If you have enjoyed This Wildlife BBC2 show and want a closer look, you can stay at the Elephant Watch camp itself, with Ubon Safari.
Clients can visit the Save the Elephant Research Centre, wonderful game drives, bird walks, hikes with knowledgeable local Samburu Guides.
Clients can visit the local nomadic Samburu neighbours and also enjoy some epic sundowners.
To make the most of your stay we recommend minimum 3 nights to enjoy the many activities and relax and get the chance to visit and experience the cutting edge of conservation at the Save the Elephants Research Center founded in 1997 by Dr. Iain Douglas – Hamilton.


On January 6th, come celebrate Mariano Barreiro's birthday! Mariano Barreiro and Charles Gorczynski will play original arrangements and original compositions for Tango Piano and Bandoneon. They return to the Inverness ridge by popular demand!
Argentine Pianist Mariano Barreiro now based in SF, is one of the foremost new generation tango pianists in tango today. Having performed and recorded with some of the best tango musicians in the world, including Horacio Romo (Leopoldo Federico), Pablo Agri (Piazzolla), Horacio Cabarcos (Anibal Troilo), and more.
His ensembles have been recognized in the United States and Europe on international tours, and have been the featured orchestra for the Tango World Championships in San Francisco and the Red Carpet Tango Festival in Las Vegas.
Mariano has performed concerts for Tango Festivals around the world, including highlights at the International Tango Festival of Tallinn Finland, Festival of the Five Continents in Switzerland, Tangopostale Festival in France, and many other in Argentina.
Bandoneonist and leader of the acclaimed bay area sextet Redwood Tango Ensemble, Charles Gorczynski is known as a tango composer and is recognized by his Argentine colleagues as one of the best bandoneonists in the United States. His works have been premiered with Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival in Portland, and he was recently commissioned for several new tango works by Intermusic SF. Charles has toured for milongas and concerts in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Rome, Pisa, and worked as bandoneonist for Alejandro Ziegler Quartet, Tango BC Trio, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and California Symphony.