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Created in a school project. this is a short game about judo and it shows how judo is good for health. the purpose of the game is to win the black belt, in order to win, the player must remain focused. if the player doesn't know the answer, he can search for it on the internet.
This game destined to small children aged 6-8 consists of the display of several images and guessing the word that connects to the image displayed. There are three levels of the game and within each, eight images to link to the word that describes them. An image will appear each time with eight words around, the player will have to click on the right one.
Bingel.be is an online educational platform for all pupils in primary schools in Flanders (and their teachers). Bingel.be contains more than 3 000 series of exercises covering a variety of subjects and topics (maths, sciences, mother tongue, spelling, French as a second language). It's a safe, engaging and easy to use environment that motivates children to practice (at home, in the classroom, at the grandparents ...) what they have learned at school.
Descrição do Jogo: Este jogo é indicado a todos as crianças entre os 5 a 10 anos. O jogo tem como objectivo enriquecer o vocabulário infantil. O jogo é muito fácil de jogar!
Here you have the oppurtunity to learn basic english in a game completely for free! It's a game really simple to play that will give you the chance to approach to the basic words in english, like colours, family members, animals, things that you have in your house and even some song lyrics about some of these themes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed to do it! Have fun!
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Medical Fiction: Vern and the Very Clean Teeth
By Humphrey Archer
This is one of a collection of stories that are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc that leads to doom. In each story, a protagonist makes a wish that comes true with fatal results for someone, often the person making the wish. Nothing supernatural, but just how things work out. (Or is it?) The technical details surrounding the fatal (or near-fatal) event are drawn from real cases in the US OSHA incident report database or similar sources and are therefore entirely realistic, even if seemingly outlandish. The plots draw lightly from cultural beliefs around actions such as pointing at someone with a stick or knife, wishing in front of a mirror, or stepping on a crack.
Vern was always getting into hot water of one kind or another, or so his twin sister often said. He was not curmudgeonly as much as just stubborn, somewhat rigid, and struggled with coloring between the lines consistently. Vera frankly didn't see the distinction, and sometimes despaired of her brother's ways —like washing his teeth in her dishwasher. Vern had a full set of false teeth. They were not the modern kind that involved titanium pegs and space-age ceramic crowns, but the kind your grandpa might have had back in the day. These were the type that came out at night, glowed purple in fluorescent light at the disco, and inflicted pain if you got tomato pulp above the upper base. Vern was not the sort of man to blow big money on dentistry and appearances, and he never liked food with any kind of pulp or went clubbing, anyway.
Vern had two passions and really didn't care much for life beyond them. To Vern, work was a way to fund building model airplanes and going fly fishing, and he didn't seek out human contact unless directly required to. His attitudes and solitary lifestyle had never brought him into any meaningful contact with women, and he stayed a bachelor. Vern was quite satisfied with that and had moved into his parents' old house with Vera after her husband had died. A childhood infection with hepatitis B had silently corroded Grant's liver and he had developed primary liver cancer that metastasized throughout his torso before the first hint appeared at age 48. Just 204 days after the diagnosis, Grant was in the ground, and Vera was faced with paying off a second mortgage, two cars, and a Winnebago. Grant had taken out the mortgage to pay for remodeling and purchase of the Winnebago, which he said would allow them to travel the country when they retired.
Vern was pretty good at the DIY work needed to complete the remodeling, and putting their salaries together meant they could afford to keep the house and pay down the loan. Vern was skilled enough at woodworking, could handle small welding jobs, and could do the basic electrical work required. Since they worked at the same hospital, they could commute together and save money. Vera worked in the pathology lab as a technician, while Vern worked in the hospital sterilization department and mostly handled the lab sterilization equipment. The job came with some perks that Vern greatly appreciated, and which made the somewhat mediocre salary acceptable in his eyes. First, Vern got to buy any written off or retired equipment at nominal rates. This had allowed Vern to build his own drill press, lathe, and milling machine from parts of working equipment purchased at $1 a piece. Second, it enabled Vern to purchase a wide array of things for his hobbies and get the very substantial discounts afforded to the hospital by wholesalers and specialty suppliers. He also got the best service from suppliers who would not otherwise have given him the time of day. The hospital allowed him to deduct these purchases directly from his paycheck, but since it only did so when the hospital paid the invoices, it typically gave Vern 90 days to pay. The third and perhaps most important perk in Vern's eyes was the fact that he had no real supervisor or workmates, and as long as he got the job done on time and well, the lab manager was happy to just leave Vern alone.
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Vern sort of creeped her out anyway, so it was by mutual consent that they interacted as little as possible. Vera ignored his foibles, like how he wore his ID badge, his habit of not always wearing teeth, and supposedly using hospital equipment for his hobbies. Instead of wearing his ID around his neck on an approved lanyard, he tended to keep his badge in his back pocket, with an unapproved lanyard hanging out and swaying like a scraggly tail. She didn't like it, but it seemed irrelevant for somebody who never went anywhere else in the building. She wasn't sure why he sometimes didn't wear teeth, but felt it wasn't really her business to ask, and she didn't really want to confront him over it. Vera had not actually seen him misuse any equipment and had disregarded some of the more fanciful gossip. If it became a problem that she personally encountered, or there was a formal complaint, she would act. Until then, and as long as he came to work on time and did his job, she was content to leave things be. As an afterthought, she asked the cleaning staff to tidy away anything Vern or anyone else left lying around.
Vera and Vern generally got along fine as housemates. She tolerated his stinky bait and the odd dead fish in the freezer. The dentures in the dishwasher were way beyond the pale, though, and they got into a spirited exchange about it. The exchange was somewhat asymmetrical, though, and mainly consisted of Vera giving Vern a stern dressing down, with Vern making feeble defenses. But the experience had the desired effect and Vern quickly found an alternative method for denture cleaning. Part of Vern's daily work involved processing the dirty implements, containers, and instruments from the lab and three inpatient wings. In practical terms, it meant that each unit sent wheeled mesh shelving trolley carts from point of use to the sterilization section where Vern worked. Each trolley was bar coded and could be read in and out, so the managers could see the status and location of their trolleys in real time. Likewise, Vern and the sterilization manager could track utilization and efficiency. At the business end of the process, Vern operated two roll-in rack washers that were 76 1/2 inches high inside and could each accommodate up to six 24 inch by 60 inch trolleys at a time. The combined high-pressure sprayers and steam jets could sterilize a full load in 6 minutes.
Vern sometimes added a few hobby items to be cleaned, and it seemed natural to pop his dentures into a spot in an open rack to be sterilized. The result was very pleasing to Vern. Not only did the rack washers clean his dentures better than anything had before, but did so in a fraction of the time. Vern didn't mind not having any teeth in while he worked, although it made using the phone a bit tricky, but he was soon facing an unexpected problem. The sterilization process was bleaching the plastic base of his dentures and the prolonged heat was causing them to soften and slowly warp. Although Vern was relatively unconcerned about appearances, having white gums visible when he smiled or spoke might be disconcerting to some folks and cause unwanted attention. Vern had a simple solution: By opening the rack washer door, he could interrupt the washer after 2 minutes into its 6-minute cycle. A safety circuit would pause the washer as soon as the door was open, and Vern would lean a 4-foot length of 2x4s up against the door to keep it open while he walked inside and squeezed between the trolleys to get his dentures. Closing the door afterwards caused the washer to continue as if nothing had happened. It all worked fine from Vern's perspective, although some busybody kept moving his plank.
Vern was feeling a little grumpy today. His plank had disappeared and he had to waste time finding something else to hold the door open. All he could find was a metal pipe that was slightly longer than the 2×4. Vern wheeled six trolleys into the washer, putting one with bed pans and a few empty spots in last. He popped out his dentures, wiggled between the two trollies, and placed the dentures into one of the empty slots. Vern took another look for his 2×4, but soon the 2 minutes on his stopwatch was up, and he returned to the washer, picked up the pipe, and pulled open the door. It was a bit more difficult to get the pipe to lean at an angle that kept the door open, but Vern got it to stay put, and he hurriedly wiggled his way between the hot and dripping trolleys. Vern had just closed his fingers around the sparkling clean dentures, when the pipe rolled and slid sideways, allowing the door to swing shut. As the hot spray and steam resumed, Vern jerked backward in a frantic bid to get to the door, but his lanyard had hooked around the bill of a large pair of forceps, which wedged tightly between the trolleys. Repeated yanking proved futile, and Vern succeeded only in getting even more entangled in the carts as the scalding spray drenched his entire body. By the time the rest of the 6-minute cycle had run its course and the spray stopped, Vern had got into hot water for the last time ever.
Julia Ernst
Humphrey Archer
60+ three-time immigrant, whose life in Africa, Australia, and America, work with industrial and medical quality & safety, and obsession with mortality data and accidents, results in morbid short stories.

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Dario Nitti is a good friend and drummer, and one of the organizers of a fabulous project: On February 2014, Bari citizens occupied an old, abandoned, military base which is now used as an artistic and social facility. They call it Ex Caserma Liberata or, literally translated to English, Freed Ex-Headquarter.
Those photos were shot on 2nd February 2015 inside a Trullo at Valle d'Itria, where we spent some days playing music, eating rabbits, wild boars and cheese. Amazing.
Valle d'Itria by night. Low light hand held photo.


I know a lot of people are intimidated by high waisted jeans, or assume that they're essentially mom jeans. But right now, high waisted styles are trending, and they're definitely not reminiscent of mom jeans, if you know which brands to shop. I spotted this pair at Guess (whose jeans I've always been a fan of). The distressed detailing caught my eye, and it gives the jeans an edgier feel. I'm more likely to style them for casual wear, and paired them with this super soft tie front tee from LNA. Because I'm only five feet tall, I prefer to wear jeans with heels to enhance the leg lengthening effect. FYI high waisted jeans definitely work to lengthen your legs, and look good whether you're taller or shorter! However, make sure they fall at the right length and don't bunch up at the bottom. I had to have mine hemmed a few inches for the desired effect. Sooooo what do you think? Do you dig this look? Would you try it for yourself? Comment and let me know!


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January 2019: 2019 is off to a great start, with Dr. Anupom Mondal being chosen as an INSPIRE associate. The INSPIRE Postdoctoral Program at Rutgers provides mentorship in teaching and career development for postdoctoral fellows. More about the program here: http://rwjms.rutgers.edu/research/postdoc/inspire/ Congratulations and best wishes to Anupom!
Graduate student Bhavya Blaze joins the lab as a doctoral-track student of Nutritional Sciences. Welcome Bhavya!
December 2018: The lab celebrated many many holiday parties and events and made plans to travel and relax with family and friends for a few days, before beginning anew in 2019! We wish you all a happy and safe holiday season!
November 2018: Sai successfully completes his doctoral qualifiers – Congratulations Sai on officially graduating to be the first doctoral candidate from the Sampath Lab!
October 2018: Harini receives a Research Innovation grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.
October 2018: The graduate students dress up as C57Bl6 and obese Agouti mice for the departmental Halloween event.
October 2018: The lab bids a fond and teary farewell to Dr. Mary Falduto – we will miss you!
October 2018: Sai has a first-author publication in Nature Scientific Reports on the role of mitochondrial DNA repair in adipose tissue and its contribution to body weight regulation. Great work!
September 2018: Harini co-chairs Session on Metabolism at the 3rd Central European Biomedical Congress in Krakow, Poland and gives a talk on DNA repair as a novel player in metabolic regulation.
August 2018: Tas passes her gruelling qualifiers. Hooray Tas!
August 2018: Sai and Dr. Sampath attend the Kern Lipid Meeting in beautiful Vail, CO. After a day of altitude adjustment, Sai presents his work both as a poster and an oral presentation.
July 2018: Sai receives a Travel Award from the Kern Lipid Symposium and is chosen to give a short oral presentation. Great going, Sai!
July 2018: Natalie passes her qualifiers with flying colors. Congrats Natalie!
May 2018: Dr. Sampath presents the lab's findings on OGG1 and metabolic disease at the Columbia Lipids Sympsium in NYC.
November 2017: Sai receives a travel award for his poster presentation at the RCLR Symposium. Yay for Sai!


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ZABOLY, BELA (BILL)
ZABOLY, BELA (BILL) (4 May 1910-11 April 1985) made Cleveland the home port of "Popeye the Sailor Man" for 2 decades as artist for the syndicated cartoon strip. Born to Hungarian immigrant parents on Cleveland's west side, Zaboly attended WEST HIGH SCHOOL, where he contributed cartoons to the school newspaper, The West Higher.
ZAMECNIK, JOHN S.
ZAMECNIK, JOHN S. (1872-13 June 1953) utilized his experience as a Cleveland theater musician to become a pioneer in the scoring of Hollywood film music. A native Clevelander, he was the son of Bohemian immigrants Joseph and Katherine Zamecnik.
ZANGERLE, JOHN A.
ZANGERLE, JOHN A. (12 Apr. 1866-1 Oct. 1956), Cuyahoga County auditor (1913-51) and the last surviving public official of the TOM L. JOHNSON era, was born in Cleveland to Adam and Maria Reisterer Zangerle, graduated from West High School in 1884, read law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1890 before studying economics at the University of Berlin.
ZAPF, NORMAN F.
ZAPF, NORMAN F. (14 July 1911-23 June 1974), a mechanical engineer whose research in streamlining led to the design and construction of streamlined locomotives, was born in Cleveland to Herman R. and Mabel (McNess) Zapf. He entered Case School of Applied Science, studying aerodynamics under Dr. Paul Hemke.
ZARJA SINGING SOCIETY
The ZARJA SINGING SOCIETY is one of the oldest Slovenian choruses outside of Europe. Zarja (The Dawn) was established in 1916 by Cleveland members of the Jugoslav Socialist Fed., based in Chicago. JOHN IVANUSCH became musical director in 1920 and encouraged the addition of women and expansion into more ambitious musical works.
ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS
ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS was a landmark Supreme Court case upholding, in a 5-4 decision announced on June 27, 2002, the constitutionality of an Ohio law providing vouchers to Cleveland students to attend the public or private, including parochial, schools of their choice.
ZEVIN, BEN D.
ZEVIN, BEN D. (16 May 1901-27 Dec. 1984) built the WORLD PUBLISHING CO. into one of the country's leading book publishers in the period during and after WORLD WAR II. Born in the Ukraine, U.S.S.R., he came to America with his family and settled in New York City early in the 20th century.
ZHUN, ELLEN MARIE STEMPIEN
ZHUN, ELLEN MARIE STEMPIEN (17 Aug. 1922-5 Jan. 1993) was a real estate broker and one of the first female land developers in the Cleveland area when she created Foxcroft Estates in Russell Township in the early 1970s. She was also an interior designer.
ZIMMERMAN, CHARLES X.
ZIMMERMAN, CHARLES X. (18 Jan. 1865-14 Nov. 1926) military commander, businessman, civic activist, and sportsman, was born in Cleveland, the son of Charles X. and Theresa Reis Zimmerman. After receiving his education in Cleveland public schools, he joined the Ohio National Guard 8 May 1884 and rose through the ranks to become a captain. He served in the Spanish American War 1898-99 and was promoted to Colonel.
ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, incorporated on 17 Mar. 1847, helped launch 5 other Lutheran churches of the Missouri Synod in Cleveland. It began on 14 Apr. 1843 when 45 communicants from another congregation organized the German Evangelical Lutheran Church. For 5 years, the congregation worshipped in Concert Hall, on the north side of Superior Ave., between Seneca (W. 3rd) and Bank (W. 6th) streets. Rev.
ZION MUSICAL SOCIETY
The ZION MUSICAL SOCIETY may have been the first public Jewish singing organization during the 19th century in America. Formed in 1861 by Rabbi/Cantor GUSTAVE M. COHEN, the society not only performed congregational work but also sang outside of the synagogue. Rabbi Cohen was European-born and educated and, significantly, was the first trained cantor in America.
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA CONVENTION
The ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA CONVENTION (June 1921) in Cleveland was a turning point in American Zionist history, with the leadership of the ZOA changing from Louis Brandeis to a group led by Louis Lipsky and Emanuel Neuman that supported the European ideological Zionism of Chaim Weizman.
ZLAMAL, OLDRICH
ZLAMAL, OLDRICH (4 Apr. 1879-24 Mar. 1955), pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and a leader in Bohemian affairs in both Cleveland and Czechoslovakia, was born in Kokory, Moravia, Czechoslovakia to Anthony and Antoinette Roussila Zlamal. He was educated at Olmutz and Prerov, and came to Cleveland to complete his studies at St. Mary Seminary. Bp.
ZONING. Zoning in greater Cleveland developed quickly between 1920 and the present, paralleling a similar pattern in other parts of the U.S. Several significant zoning cases have emerged from the Cleveland area, including the landmark case that established its constitutionality. Early land planning and development in Greater Cleveland were unconstrained by zoning or other restrictions.
ZOO. See CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO.
ZORACH, WILLIAM
ZORACH, WILLIAM (28 Feb. 1887-15 Nov. 1966) was one of America's foremost sculptors. He was born Zorach Finklestein in Euberick, Lithuania. His family emigrated to America when he was 4, settling first in Port Clinton, O., and 3 years later on Cleveland's Woodland Ave. While his father supported them as a junk dealer, Zorach sold papers, shined shoes, and attended school through the 7th grade.
ZORMAN, IVAN
ZORMAN, IVAN (Apr. 1885-7 Aug. 1957), poet and composer, was born in Yugoslavia to John and Marie Pucichar Zorman. The family moved to the U.S. when Zorman was 4. He returned to his homeland only once, at 10, staying for a year. When he came back to the U.S., he began studying the Slovene language, attending Central Institute and St. John's College in Minnesota.
ZUCKER, HENRY L.
ZUCKER, HENRY L. (11 Mar. 1910-22 July 1998) was the head of the Jewish Community Federation for 27 years. He was born in Cleveland to Rose (Edelman) and Morris Zucker, a tailor who ran his own shop.
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According to census data in the year 2000 there were 1,552 housing units in Highlands-Baywood Park.
Of those housing units, 1,552 were located in either urbanized areas or urban clusters, and none were located in what is classified as a rural area.
Homeownership rate in Highlands-Baywood Park is about 88.9%. Average household size is 2.68 people.
The majority of houses, apartments or condos in Highlands-Baywood Park were built after 1960.


Quince. The fruit and tree of one of the pome class, known as Cydonia oblonga (or sometimes as Pyrus Cydonia). Few fruits play a more important part in ancient history than the quince, and yet there is hardly a fruit with equal or even poorer merit that in recent years has not received more attention. Scarcely a book is written on the quince and even practical mention of its merits, its culture, or its value is seldom made in the experiment station literature of America.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that the fruit can hardly be considered in the dessert class except when cooked; and yet it is said that in Persia and the near East it grows to such perfection that some varieties are esteemed when eaten raw.
The place of the quince in America seems to be a secondary one, to make marmalade, to preserve, to make jellies, and for flavoring purposes. The place of the tree among other fruits seems to be secondary also. It is seen most frequently in back yards and fence-corners and often in the lowest and dampest fruit land on the farm. In a few cases, when its merits are recognized, it is given drier richer ground and cultivatedwith judicious care. Naturally, the quince is adapted to deep rich warm soils. The fertility of the soil should be strongly emphasized, as the root, instead of penetrating deeply, spreads out extensively and consequently is near the surface. It is slow-growing on any soil but responds very quickly to good fertility. On cold damp soils the fruit is inclined to be woody and it may possibly be for this reason that the quince is not more popular for preserving purposes. On the richer drier soils the quality is much improved. The idea is very prevalent that the tree is adapted to low ground. The lower grounds, generally speaking, are richer, but in this respect only may the trees be said to be adapted to it. Excessive moisture is harmful to the quince as to other fruits. Cultivation must be judicious. In many respects it should resemble that given the dwarf pear. The roots being near the surface, cultivation and especially plowing must be shallow. It is common practice to ridge well up to the trees not only to protect the roots but to permit easy drainage; also the tree being very subject to fire blight, it does not permit of thorough cultivation with the consequent succulent wood-growth. Moderate cultivation in spring and early summer followed at once by a cover-crop or a good sod-mulch is considered good practice.
Pruning should receive careful attention, otherwise the quince tree will soon become too thick and also more or less unshapely. When set in orchard, the young tree may be pruned to a short whip, as shown in Fig. 3327. The trunk is kept very short; some growers prefer to start the top as low as shown in Fig. 3328, but the former and probably still the prevailing practice is to grow a trunk like those seen in Fig. 3329. These longer trunks are convenient if one is to use the curculio catcher, as shown in Fig. 3330. The pruning consists in keeping the top open and well spread (Fig. 3328). To cause the top to spread and to keep it low and within bounds, more or less heading-in may be practised; but as the fruit-shoots spring from the ends of the branches, clipping-in of all the tree would remove practically all the fruit.
The questions of cultivation and fertilizers are largely inter-related. Thorough tillage makes available a large amount of plant-food, and consequently less fertilizer is necessary. However, too thorough cultivation and consequent succulent growth increases blight. The question of fertilizers comes down to one of producing moderate growth of a hardy resistant nature. This means that in cultivated orchards, heavy applications of nitrates or nitrogenous manures must be withheld. Phosphate and potash on the other hand can be applied in quantity, especially on the lighter soils. The cover-crops will probably supply the necessary nitrogen. If growth is very slow, a light application of farmyard manure may be made. Lime and land-plaster can also be applied in quantity.
The fruit is sold in eleven-quart baskets, bushels, and barrels, and ranges from 75 cents to $1.25 a bushel, depending on the market and the demand. In Ontario the demand is very limited and there are scarcely any orchards on a commercial basis. In the eastern states and especially New York State, there are some orchards of considerable size (Fig. 3329). The fruit, though apparently hard and long-keeping, is comparatively easily bruised or marked and must be handled with care.
The trees begin to bear a few fruits the second and third years after planting but can not generally be said to bear a profitable crop until ten to twelve years of age. The fruit is very subject to limb-rub and disease, and must be carefully grown to look well. The ordinary practice is to spray the tree with dormant-strength lime-sulfur at the same time that the apples and peaches are sprayed and then again just after the fruit is nicely set with bordeaux mixture, to each forty gallons of which has been added three pounds of lead arsenate. Summer-strength lime-sulfur with the above amount of poison would give the same results for the summer spray. Judicious pruning also tends to thin the fruit and improve the quality. Seedling stocks— Quince of Angers—are largely imported from Europe for roots. These roots are used also for dwarfing the pear. The trees are grown much the same as other nursery trees. The seedlings are set in the nursery row in early sprmg and budded in August. By a year from the following spring, that is two years from the setting of the seedling, the trees are ready for the planter. The quince can also be propagated by cuttings, mound-layering and root-grafting, but the above-named method is the common one in practice.
Trees received from the nursery should be given the same care as other nursery trees. Heel them in carefully if the soil is not ready for planting. Plant about 2 inches deeper than the bud. Head at 15 to 20 inches. If budded trees are used and planted the proper depth, there is little or no danger from suckering.
The most damaging diseases are fire-blight, affecting the wood and especially the new growth; leaf-blight, affecting branches, fruit and foliage; and black-rot and bitter-rot, affecting the fruit. For the fire-blight, the worst disease, there is no direct remedy, but trees should not be allowed to over-grow, wild hawthorns and wild apples and pears near the plantation should be destroyed, and all affected parts should be removed promptly.
The most serious insect attacking the quince is the quince curculio (Conotrachelus crataegi). This may be controlled by spraying with six to eight pounds of lead arsenate to one hundred gallons of water, or in the place of water bordeaux mixture at the proper season. This must be done when the beetles first make their appearance and again about ten days later. This insect is found on the quince in Ontario. The same insects as attack the apple generally attack the quince and the treatments are similar. Sometimes the jarring method is employed, as shown in Fig. 3330, as for the plum, the beetles being knocked off by hitting the tree with a padded mallet.
Orange (Fig. 3325) and Champion are the leading varieties of quince. The former is the variety most largely grown in Ontario and previous to 1870 was the only variety. It is large in size, skin golden yellow with greenish or russet color around stem. The flesh is tender and the flavor good. The season is late September and October. Its origin was southern Europe. The latter variety, of American origin, is large, pear-shaped and on the tree has a distinctly greenish yellow color. The tree is larger and taller-growing than Orange. The fruit is very late ripening. Other commonly grown varieties are Bentley, Fuller, Rea, Meech, and Van Deman. F. M. Clement.
The Quince (Cydonia oblonga) is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.
The immature fruit is green, with dense grey-white pubescence which mostly (but not all) rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes colour to yellow with hard flesh that is strongly perfumed. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, 6-11 cm long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs. The flowers, produced in spring after the leaves, are white or pink, 5 cm across, with five petals.
The fruit was known to the Akkadians, who called it supurgillu ; Arabic سفرجل safarjal = "quinces" (collective plural). The modern name originated in the 14th century as a plural of quoyn, via Old French cooin from Latin cotoneum malum / cydonium malum, ultimately from Greek kydonion malon "Kydonian apple" (in the figurative sense, similar to pomodoro - Italian word for tomato literally meaning "apple of gold", pomme de terre - the French word for potato, literally meaning "apple of the ground", and the classical "golden apple"). The quince tree is native to Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and Bulgaria, but the Greeks grafted from a superior strain from ancient Kydonia, now Khania, a port in Crete, whence both the common and better-preserved genus name. The Lydian name for the fruit was kodu.
Cultivation of quince may have preceded apple culture, and many references translated to "apple", such as the fruit in Song of Solomon, may have been to a quince. Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to her. Plutarch reports that a Greek bride would nibble a quince to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber, "in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant" (Roman Questions 3.65). It was a quince that Paris awarded Aphrodite. It was for a golden quince that Atalanta paused in her race. The Romans also used quinces; the Roman cookbook of Apicius gives recipes for stewing quince with honey, and even combining them, unexpectedly for us, with leeks. Pliny the Elder mentioned the one variety, Mulvian quince, that could be eaten raw. Columella mentioned three, one of which, the "golden apple" that may have been the paradisal fruit in the Garden of the Hesperides, has donated its name in Italian to the tomato, pomodoro. This interesting fruit can also be eaten cooked or raw. They are a good source of vitamin c.
Most varieties of quince are too hard, astringent and sour to eat raw unless 'bletted' (softened by frost). They are used to make jam, jelly and quince pudding, or they may be peeled, then roasted, baked or stewed. The fruit turns to reddish orange color once it has cooked. The very strong perfume means they can be added in small quantities to apple pies and jam to enhance the flavour. Adding a diced quince to applesauce will enhance the taste of the applesauce with the chunks of firmer tarter quince. The term "marmalade", originally meaning a quince jam, derives from the Portuguese word for this fruit marmelo. The fruit, like so many others, can be used to make a type of wine.
In Spain, the quince or "membrillo" as it is called, is cooked into a firm reddish paste and is eaten with manchego cheese. The sweet and floral notes of carne de membrillo (quince meat) contrast nicely with the tanginess of the cheese. Quince juice from organic farming is available in Germany and its pleasant taste mixes well with other fruit juices. This is where the saying "A quince for you, a quince for me, quinces we shall eat," comes from. In Lebanon, it is called "Sfarjel" and also used to make jam. In Iran quince is called (Beh)and is used raw or in stews and jam. Also seeds are used as a remedy for pneumonia and lung disease.
Elsewhere in Europe, quinces are commonly grown in central and southern areas where the summers are sufficiently hot for the fruit to fully ripen. They are not grown in large amounts; typically one or two quince trees are grown in a mixed orchard with several apples and other fruit trees. Charlemagne directed that quinces be planted in well-stocked orchards. Quinces are mentioned for the first time in an English text in the later 13th century, though cultivation in England is not very successful due to inadequate summer heat to ripen the fruit fully. They were also introduced to the New World, but have become rare in North America due to their susceptibility to fireblight disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora. They are still widely grown in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Almost all of the quinces in North American specialty markets come from Argentina. A variety of quince, which is grown in the Middle East, does not require cooking and is often eaten raw.
In Malta, a jam is made from the fruit (gamm ta' l-isfargel). According to local tradition, a tea-spoon of the jam dissolved in a cup of boiling water relieves intestinal discomfort.
The quince, used as a rootstock for grafted plants, has the property of dwarfing the growth of pears, of forcing them to produce more precociously, and relatively more fruit-bearing branches, instead of vegetative growth, and of accelerating the maturity of the fruit.
In parts of Afghanistan, the quince seeds are collected and boiled and then ingested to combat pneumonia.
In Chile the quince or "membrillo" as it is called, is cooked into a reddish jello-like block (dulce membrillo), or firm reddish paste. It is then eaten in sandwiches. Boiled quince is also popular in desserts such as the Murta con membrillo that combines Ugni molinae with quince.
The film El Sol del Membrillo (Quince Tree of the Sun; Dream of Light) directed by Víctor Erice in 1992 is a documentary about a painter, Antonio López García, who spends September through December painting a quince tree in his garden.
In an episode The Simpsons, "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part 1", Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers end up eating an entire box of chocolates in one sitting, leaving behind and discarding only one piece: the sour quince log.
In Edward Lear's famous poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" the protagonists "dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon".
In the movie White Men Can't Jump, Rosie Perez's character Gloria Clemente was on Jeopardy!, and "quince" was the response to "Adam and Eve dined on this forbidden fruit".
In the play Cataplana, an aging antagonist named Ari attacks his partner, Linda, over her claim that he had a pear tree on his property—when in fact it was a quince.
Paul Muldoon's poem, "Lunch with Pancho Villa" contains the line, "The quince tree I forgot to mention,"
In the book, Ten Thousand Sorrows, by Elizabeth Kim, on page 5 line 7 Quince tea is drunk alongside a meal.
In the musical Pippin, Catherine makes Pippin a quince pudding flambé. It is this extension of domesticity that is the final impetus for Pippin to leave her.
In Plutarch's Lives, Solon is said to have decreed that "bride and bridegroom shall be shut into a chamber, and eat a quince together."
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This embedded motherboard utilized the mobile Intel 910GMLE Express chipset and I/O controller hub ICH6-M.
March 19, 2008 -- AXIOMTEK, a leading supplier of embedded computing platforms for industrial, automation, and versatile embedded applications, today announced a cost-effective, ultra low power Mini ITX motherboard, SBC86822, which supports socket 478 processors and CPU onboard. This embedded motherboard utilized the mobile Intel 910GMLE Express chipset and I/O controller hub ICH6-M which is an optimized platform with performance and scalability for cost-sensitive embedded applications.
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An exhibition of this year's A-Level and GCSE students' work from Chelsea Independent College was on show last month in the main hall of the local Stoll Foundation. The work featured a fantastic range of drawing, painting, three-dimensional work and photography. Many students, parents, teachers and Veterans of the Stoll attended the exhibition. The feedback was very positive, commenting on the talent of the students and how much they enjoyed the exhibition.


Welcome to my class. This is my 26th year teaching and my 13th year at Norco Elementary School, but this is my 1st year teaching 5th grade. I am looking forward to working with the students this year. I will teach English Language Arts and Social Studies this year.


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Daihachi Ryodan – really 30 years? 14 May, 2010
Filed under: music — johnraff @ 2:38 pm
Tags: Japan, music, Nagoya
第8旅団 Daihachi Ryodan. When I first met these guys it was a band playing on a street corner in Nagoya in 1980: wild-looking people playing some kind of one-chord dirge with atonal guitar, sort of rock beat and incomprehensible off-key lyrics. I knew immediately that this was the band I wanted to play in…
Thirty years on, (although there was a 10 year break in the middle) we now use three or four chords – sometimes more – and like to think we've improved in various other ways, but basically it's still the same band. Stardom is still just round the corner, but meanwhile we're plugging away playing mostly original stuff with somewhat odd arrangements. I like to call it "latin-jazz-rock-reggae-psychedelic-enka-punk" but who cares?
If you're in Nagoya on Sunday 16th May, come and check us out at Tokuzo!


German-born artist Karunesh migrated to the exotic Hawaiian Islands back in 1992 and clearly his tropical retreat has resulted in some very inspiring music. Merging his more commercial sensibilities with mystical meditative qualities, Karunesh has recorded four valuable albums for Real Music, highlighted by the exceptional Call Of The Mystic, released back in 2004. Enlightenment: A Sacred Collection represents the label's effort to encapsulate his four recordings in one tidy package.
The album has a total of eleven tracks with the prominent instrumentation being the percussion, the sitar, the bansuri, the violin and the guitar with label-mate Govi making three separate appearances on the guitar. The four albums are highlighted by three tracks each, with the exception of 2002's Nirvana Café that contributes only two tracks. This comes by way of the low key "Keeper Of Mystery" and the mystical "Returning To Now" that also include vocal embellishments. Meanwhile, the organic and more stripped down "Moon Temple" underscores Karunesh's Real Music debut, Zen Breakfast.
The pure strength of Call Of The Mystic must have made choice selection more difficult, attempting to differentiate one song being better than the other. The only oversight was not selecting more from this powerful album. Meanwhile, the selection process was much important when choosing from the weaker Joy of Life. Prudently, the label wisely chose the intoxicating "Flowing Bamboo," but missed the mark by overlooking the outstanding "Return Of The Rains."
That said, completing a compilation is never an easy task as someone's favorite track is always overlooked. Nevertheless, for those of you not so familiar with his trade, the label does an effective job in summarizing the music of Karunesh, making Enlightenment a good place to start. But if we are being real here, just as effective would be to purchase the pinnacle Call Of The Mystic. Either way, this is Karunesh at his best, merging his memorable melodies with his mystical meditative undertones.


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If you are tired of switching attention from a PC to a smartphone and vice versa, or just need to work with applications on the gadget using the keyboard and mouse, then look at this list of three programs for connecting Android smartphones to a PC. All applications presented here show the device on a computer screen in a separate window. Through it, the user can launch games or programs installed on the smartphone, work with them and save the results.
ApowerMirror is perhaps the most popular on this list, a convenient and simple service for connecting a smartphone to a computer. There is a paid and free version, but even without paying anything, you can easily view messages and notifications, share files, record video from the screen (up to three minutes) and take screenshots. It is worth considering that the free version of the program puts a branded watermark on these materials, and sometimes an advertisement also appears here. The paid version removes the watermark, restriction on video recording, removes ads and turns on the full-screen display mode. It is also possible to connect up to four devices.ApowerMirror works with computers on Windows and even macOS. Connecting to a PC via USB, which is much faster, or via Wi-Fi. In the first case, you need to download and run the program, find the USB Connection section, enable USB debugging on the smartphone and connect it to the PC. The gadget will ask for permissions, which must be issued, and then he himself will connect to the system. When working via Wi-Fi, the first thing you need to do is connect the PC and smartphone to the same network, then launch the ApowerMirror application on the device and click the blue search button for connection.When the program finds the computer, it will show its name on the display. Click on it and select Phone Screen Mirroring. Then again, you need to give the system the necessary permissions, and then the gadget and PC will automatically connect to each other.


Maryanne's musings: Yup, it's a Halloween special! Sometimes I fall back on similar poses for the horses so I am really happy with the middle panel of three scared horses because they're all at angles I don't usually draw.
Framing this one up was a little tricky. I would have loved a lot more frames so I could storyboard more expressions and tight shots, but it condensed down ok I think.
The bit I had to redo and fiddle with (there's always something…) was the silhouette horses in the last frame. I pondered having 3 because there's meant to be 3 scared horses, but in the end I decided one had run out of the frame. Also the silhouettes looked quite blobby. They still do, but imagine more blobby.


Discovering a suitable conveyor system for loading, unloading and transporting materials is an important task. Because this can aid in better accuracy and improved productivity ensure seamless operations at minimal expenses. But, when it comes to choosing the right plastic conveyor rollers, there are a few things you should consider like you should choose the accurate loading capacity of the conveyor according to your requirement. Apart from that, you need to check the conveyor roller condition and make sure the conveyor must carry or transport the goods without any obstructions. For more details, you can check different types of conveyors and choose the best one according to your industry needs.
A detailed review of the products to be transported and the work environment is a must when choosing a roller conveyor. Consider the following conditions when conducting the review.
Take down the outer dimensions of the product, its length, height and width should be known before choosing the plastic conveyor rollers. Also, ensure you have taken into account the direction of the flow.
You must know the weight per item and if there are multiple types of the item, figure out the maximum and minimum weight.
The products may be in cardboard cases, wooden crates or plastic boxes. The condition of the bottom surface is another aspect of the product to be reviewed.
When you choose the conveyor, you need to ask the manufacturer about the loading capacity of the machine. It is suggested to avoid overloading on the conveyors because it will damage the conveyor motor and belt instantly.
Check for temperature parameters. Along with checking the work conditions for temperature, comes moisture and humidity check as well. It is crucial to take into account the work conditions before you choose any plastic conveyor rollers.
The position in which the products or boxes will be loaded on the conveyor is crucial. As the quality of the materials should not be altered at the same time the efficiency of the conveyor must be maximized.
When choosing the roller width, base your decision off the outer dimensions of the products. Now that you have the outer dimensions of the products, add at least 50 mm to their bottom width. This would help you in choosing the right roller width.
Products with flat bottom surfaces that are wider than the roller width can be transported given that the bottom surface of these products is free of any distortion or sag.
Make sure the conveyor frame and the bottom surfaces do not come into contact while transporting the products. If the roller width is 70 to 80 percent of that of the bottom surface's width, you are good to go.
Rollers experience varying degrees of impact load depending on the work method used in regards to the loading conditions.
Roller pitch & Shaft: When choosing the roller pitch, check if there are 3-4 rollers supporting the bottom surfaces of the products. Also, care should be taken to ensure the rollers only take the allowable load. Do not exceed the allowable load limit.
Material to be used for the roller tube: A good practice is to choose between plastic, carbon steel, urethane covered or stainless steel material for the roller tube.
Bearing: Apart from reviewing the products and the work conditions, type, size, mountings and housings of the bearing also should be reviewed before choosing the right plastic conveyor rollers.
So now you can choose the best plastic conveyor for your industrial needs, and you need to maintain the manufacturer's guidelines for future maintenance of the conveyor.


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Q: Inline editing problems Inline editing seems a bit broken at the time, at least in IE 9:
SCRIPT600: Invalid target element for this operation.
wmd.js?v=5f7bc6eb2343, line 1 character 44242

is what the console tells me. Results are that the preview doesn't work and that the accelerator keys for the toolbar (which appears to be gone?) don't work anymore.

A: This is fixed now.
This is an age-old IE problem that seemingly has still not been fixed in IE 9: You cannot set the innerHTML value of an element that is contained somewhere in a table.
So far, our editor was not contained in a table, but with the new inline editing it is; that's why this hasn't come up before.
So if the browser doesn't like to go the simple route, we now detach the element from the DOM, set the content, and reattach it. Which, by the way, feels like an utterly ridiculous thing to do :)

A: I can also offer this advice:
If you're using JQuery, then you can sidestep this problem by using:
.html()
While I've not delved into the guts of the JQuery code, this seems to have implemented the necessary workarounds, and its use is almost the same in most cases.

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Do you have a spot where odd bits of stuff accumulate? A junk drawer? Or corner? Or basket? Or tabletop? Rummage around in your collection of so-called junk. Make a list of what's there. Then write about at least one thing that is on the list.


Proposals to breathe new life into the old Ayr Academy are being put to the public. An exhibition is being held at Ayr Town Hall on Thursday 19 April to highlight plans to relocate Ayr Grammar to a new home on Fort Street.
Councillor Peter Henderson, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance said the project was now at an important stage, "We want South Ayrshire to be the best it can be and for all people and places to have the opportunity to reach their full potential, and our schools programme plays an important role in that wider work.
"The plans to breathe new life into this landmark building would leave a lasting legacy for generations of families, and with the proposals submitted for consideration, now is the time for the public to get involved.
The Archive and Registration Centre will be a separate building (illustrated above) with its entrance on South Harbour Street, providing public access to archive material as well as registration services.
The public exhibition, including images and drawings of the new buildings, takes place at Ayr Town Hall on Thursday 19 April between 2:00pm and 8:00pm to give an opportunity to view the proposals, ask questions and provide feedback.


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Blade Runner 2049 Review: Fog Runner. Ponderous. Pensive. Plodding. Foggy.
This is a long film, so make sure you have snacks before setting out to read this review. Its a long review with no intention to summarise it in a word.
[SCREEN BLACK. OBLIGATORY CAPITALISED INTRODUCTION]
It's 2017. 3D is still a novelty at the cinema. As they exit the cinema, film-goers everywhere mourn as they try and adjust to the clear light of day after watching fog: blue fog, orange fog, hyperreal holographic fog and some gratuitous mud-covered nudity without direct fog, but with Jared Leto swanning around with foggy eyes.
In 2017 here at Scorkle Media we want to question the conclusion of some critics that this movie has strong female characters. Strong physically but with no agency? Face it twitterverse, this is still a movie with male protagonists and abundant evidence of the male gaze.
Ponderous. Pensive. Plodding. Foggy. Fog Runner. The film is striving for a kind of visual poetry, an aesthetic quality, and a philosophical tone.
People might be fooled into thinking that the high panoramic shots and the sonorous sounds recapture the magic of Vangelis and Ridley Scott's original Blade Runner. But they would be wrong. This is Villeneueve reusing some of the material and style he used in Arrival, with just enough of the Los Angeles city design there to invoke memories of the original.
{Sound}
If you've seen Arrival, you can feel that film being scraped for pieces to use in this altogether different film. This one has also got these really big honking whale sounds that shudder through the cinema. Our little local cinema was rattling to pieces at times as the deep throaty fog horns rumbled about. Luckily it was perfectly balanced by higher tones and bells, and equilibrium was restored.
{Design}
It's a film made to seem visually rich, but strip it back a layer or two and it's a moody crime story, with less 'noir' than the original, and more low-visibility scenes as a substitute for movement. The experience of watching the film is a long time out from the real world: something like a zen garden or reflection pond for those who like to sit on hard seats in dark rooms. Something tells me that Villeneuve's work with the misty environment of the aliens in Arrival has contributed to the idea that all you need to do to convey mystery and save on plot and effects is a bit of water vapour and smog. However, it's not all dusty and rank and degraded. The environment at Wallace's building and office is like a shot from the World's Best Interiors.
Let's not forget the deliberate product placement, laid on the superficial background images. To see it you must look past the fetish-like attention placed on bodies of all shapes and sizes, mostly artificial. This is a film where the relationship between mind and body is central: but it's mostly young bodies searching for meaning, and few older men or women play a part.
There's a whole world of history here, and the audience is taken on the road of Agent K's attempts to understand what has happened and his place in the future. Should we be focussing on a small family? Unlike the original film, the relationships seem closer and more familial, like the Star Wars Universe. So let's think about what's going outside Wallace Corp. There's an AI program that Wallace owns. If there are other corporations doing a steady trade on earth it is implied rather than stated. Like the car manufacturers that somehow survived the 'blackout' and make almost indestructible cars. Now there's a story. Who makes these cars? Are they doing it off world or on the barren earth? Do they make more money than those that make replicants? I lost count of the number of long shots of flying cars (something that survived even the almost total loss of earth's records: a marvel really). Some in light fog, some in heavy fog, some in the rain, some even in water. Whatever the case, the police force use cars, they don't worry about their nature too much.
{Themes}
The body. Naming. Immortality. Identity.
[PLOT]
The central detective story is about the hunt to find the child of a replicant. First to find him or her obtains the riches of the Replicant Industry, because they can apparently assist with the breeding and population. How? It's not clear. If they start to populate themselves does that allow easier off-world breeding or something? Will Wallace be able to speed up the birthing process or will it slow down? Wallace wants to create breedable replicants. But it might have made more sense if he wanted to stop it. After all, he treats replicants as commodoties, new models and things that you can slice up moments after they are 'born'. Why wouldn't he want to stay with the old models?
Don't be fooled by the trailers. The scenes of Drax the Destoyer (I mean, Dave Bautista, playing a character called Sapper) bashing through walls to get to Deckard/Harrison Ford are just edited sequences from disparate parts of the movie. This is part of a recent trend toward turning trailers into teasers to avoid giving too much plot away. Expect more for Star Wars 8.
For some reason, Los Angeles is the centre of making artificial people. The world in 2049 consists only of Los Angeles. No where else is of significance. Philip K Dick set his book that inspired the Movies ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep") in the aftermath of global war, with poor atmosphere, and this film is faithful to those aspects of the story. But as viewers we are given what is both a panoramic but also insulated context for what the future is.
The story is slow, gradually building up the audience's interest in who, what, when, where and why. It takes place in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, California: the city with its giant advertisements and product placement for Sony and Peugeot, then the miles of human refuse, and the glimpse of old world beyond that. On earth real plants and animals are rare (except that Deckard apparently tends to bees and plants and a dog so he has a green thumb now.
So many characters could be human or replicant: even the AI programs are trying desperately to be human. The one exception to this is Jared Leto's character Wallace, who is probably the most insipid megalomaniac artificial life creator ever seen on screen. He has no doubt programmed loyalty into the lethal killers that wait on him, but he also seems capable of making artificial humans with no ability to detect someone is about to shoot them, or knife them. They are so agreeable they seem worse than characters that are cold, psychopathic killers. The emotional range between getting your nails done and killing people is so small that it's easy not to care about it.
There's still some notional separation of Corporation and State, so the Police Force goes about their business. They want to kill the child, because apparently the police lieutenant Joshi is afraid enough to put an end to the idea of replicant reproduction. They are initially assisted by Wallace and his assistant (Luv), but they have their own motives. They break in and steal the mother's bones and nothing happens, because Wallace is everywhere and beyond control of the police. In fact, the separation between Wallace and the police gets a bit blurry because the main Blade Runners are Wallace product, so it seems odd that he would tolerate human interference. Oddly, however, Joshi will die for what she believes in, which is protecting Officer K. It makes little sense. If she believes he has killed the child, then she loses her life for little reason. If she believes he has not killed the child, then she is celebrating the end of the human and replicant distinction, along reproductive lines at least.
[WALLACELAND]
Los Angeles, or WallaceLand, is run by Nialender Wallace of Wallace Corp, who has revived the replicant industry and apparently lives quite a wealthy life. There's some subtext that new replicants will obey, but that's hardly true. They are just introverts who have trouble expressing their emotions; but they still have them, and they still have thoughts that can steer toward rebellion.
Wallace is also very weird. He's a bit of a stoner CEO, who wears his hair shoulder length and spends more time working through his existential crises with a quick knifing of a new-born replicant than he does entertaining with friends. He's not out there inspecting the work areas, or looking out the window. Everything is a dramatic presentation to him. I feel like he's been modelled on a fashion editor somewhere. The air of mystery seems to confirm Hollywood doesn't know how to do megalomaniac corporate types except to paint them as almost-there enigmas. They might secretly hope that you can be a stoner CEO, but as far as we know you don't get to be top of the pile without a lot of energy and personal time invested. Ask Jobs or Lucas or Musk or anyone who has maintained a personal involvement in a large corporation.
Because we're not given any backstory to Wallace, we don't know why he's got frosted eyes, and if he's somehow assisted to see in a particular manner by technology. There's an element of expecting us to just watch, without trying to understand.
[THE BONES OF RACHEL]
I'm going to address this up front. People who knew her buried Rachel in a box, respectfully, but were otherwise at pains to protect the identity of her child. I'm not sure how far this goes. It's a bit creepy if you think too much about it, because to arrange bones in a box you have to clean them up first, rather than just burying the body. Had the body been cremated or something, they would have tied up a few loose ends that were left open for plot purposes.
Disappointingly, Rachel in this movie is treated as a shell, a simulation of the original 'replicant' Rachel. Wallace seems to think that recreating the body of something is enough to bring back the person. He cannot possibly have recreated all of the memories of the original Rachel. Did he utilise the Bubble Girl-As-McGuffin as the memory maker? We don't know, because McGuffin Girl has no serious plot moves except passing on information to K. It's possible that she did the job for Rachel's memories without knowing the purpose, in her dreamy way. One would hope she had a picture of her mother, but possibly not.
[THE TRANCE EFFECT: WAITING FOR GODOT?]
This film is long, and slow. Are you supposed to attempt philosophical enquiry or plot review in a kind of stupor?
Even the smartest of us might be so affected by the trance-like delivery of plot that they'll forget the small bits of information because they're separate by 45 minutes or more of aural and visual muzak. Sure, the movie has a careful pace of its own, and perhaps if you let yourself go you can appreciate the artifice of it all. But that's merely a comment on our society, and our inability to create real worlds that capture quiet, reflective beauty.
In this film, we watch Wallace and his female offsider ("Gromit" for the purposes of this review) talk people to sleep, make little eye contact, and drop bombs while having nails painted. The association of austere architectural design, the vain pursuit of perfect beauty and youth with cold and inhuman types that think nothing of killing when it does not meet their short term agendas is something difficult to enjoy unconditionally. It takes such a lot of trouble to get a rise out of anyone, but then they snap in cold, controlled violence. This is exactly what happens when Gromit is left alone with Joshi, and she quietly kills her with a crush of broken glass. She sheds tears, but we are left to guess as to why. For all we know, they could be tears of joy, or relief.
That's the end result of the film for me: you will sigh with relief when you've endured it.
[SIGNS AND MEANING]
Lieutenant Joshi speaks of watershed moments if replicants can conceive, and of stopping them, but she's hardly passionate about it and the words come dryly from her mouth. Little does she know that it's the mere fact that it happened that is enough to drive the revolution, not the identity of the baby that matters. Her view is that humans are defined in one way and replicants as 'not human'. There is the notion of the 'soul' and ability to give life that exists in the human but not in the other. This ties in with a greater theme, perhaps encouraged by Wallace, that Replicants do not have a 'Soul'. But what does that mean? In that era of science, is there still a notion of a spark that allows life to create life, but even if this practical function were realised, how does that instil a 'Soul'. The potential religious or philosophical ideas that reside in society's beliefs, particularly this one, are not sufficiently explored through the film. It might be an unnecessary question to ask.
Let's say we do ask the question – what is a soul, or what do replicants need to do to demonstrate it (indirectly, circumstantially). K's character is informed by Joi that memories are not important, it is what you do. These trite remarks actually have to do a lot more work to provide a rational answer than they ought to. There is a disconnect between the idea, the plot and the character. I think this is what me reticent to endorse it as a good film. It is a patchwork, a kind of visual collage where the audience is supposed to assemble disparate pieces and construct some kind of philosophical viewpoint about both the world of the film and as a secondary matter, the world we inhabit.
Although the lines between human and replicant were heavily geared toward a distinction based on emotion in the first film, there was no reference to reproductive inabilities. This film takes up that point of differences and develops the philosophical line of thought with the ability to give birth as a central focus. Even K's AI girlfriend weighs in on the significance of reproduction for being 'special'. I wonder how that will go down with all those women who have chosen not to conceive, or cannot for other reasons have a child. These ideas are not explored in the film.
[SOME MOOD THOUGHTS]
Be prepared for a long sit in some movie chairs, and for many shots of Ryan Gosling going about in a trenchcoat with a high collar. Yes, Harrison Ford has his collar up when he first accepted the 'skin job' assignment in the first Blade Runner movie. Fashion cycles every 30 years or so it seems. Visual rhymes, poetry – I think when George Lucas dropped these terms when explaining his way to make a prequel, it somehow got taken up in the 'sequel' guide as well.
The film doesn't really convey the teeming throng of humanity that is out there colonising other worlds. It's made the world smaller, urban, polluted and somewhat grubby, except in a few opulent interiors. The prediction of future societal decay is distopian – something that we've seen elsewhere, except conveyed in a monologue by Sam Worthington's character in Avatar, as he describes the predicament on earth.
The tone and mood of the film are generally sombre. It's about loss, mainly. Or the little joys that you take comfort in when you're in a crap place. But mostly, people don't panic, or get overly stressed. The most passionate action is the fighting, and it's always a fight between superhumans, so you don't expect it to go a couple of punches, or for anyone to die from a biro stuck in the eye like Jason Bourne. It's a bit soulless in that respect. Life may be artificial, but death is hard to come by, and there are some excrutiatingly long drowning scenes to deal with.
"Sometimes you need to be a stranger to those that you love" says Deckard. Perhaps that is true of this film's role in relation to the first movie too. Too long and arduous to easily recommend itself for escapist viewing, or as a date night flick, it's something for those who aspire to be futurologists, or perhaps literary critics. It is more of a commentary on the soul-less, degrading world that is imagined for earth's future: one where the urge is to populate new worlds rather than live with one that can support life here. So busy creating images of humans, or beings 'more human than human", the mantra has become a monoptic obsession: the kind of narrow mission statement that might easily transfix a global corporation into an endless pathology of turning stuff into people that are treated as disposable, scientific experiments. Deckard voices his concern when he says to K that he didn't want his daughter found because it would not doubt lead to slicing and dicing. He would know, as would K, who have done their own share of crude slicing and dicing too.
Like a good detective story, Blade Runner 2049 carefully weaves its trance-like music of horns and rumbling, crashing waves into a tapestry of images: with a steady stream of fog-laden skies and cramped interiors. Whereas the most ornate interior of the first film was reserved for Tyrell's office, where Deckard met Rachel, in this one there's opulence in the Wallace HQ, but also a different kind of nostalgic opulence in the place where Officer K meets Deckard, although this place is past its prime but has whisky to burn.
[WELCOME TO PHILOSOPHY 101]
The plot is a simple detective story, where identity, self, the real and the unreal are all issues for the audience to interpret. That's the point, isn't it? What the characters do is hardly an aspirational existence: a distopian society where we are treated to the lives of the elite corporates and their products: the people that can be punched a dozen times and still get up again. Is the audience to cheer for them in any way? There's a thick allusion to slavery to frame their position, but it doesn't feel like an authentic oppression. The apparent class divide that exists barely registers in the reality of the city, where replicants mix with everyone else, and for all we know may be the majority. The real divide is the incapacity to have children, or be children, it seems. Lost innocence and care-giving
We're treated to footage of Elvish Presley and Frank Sinatra: the past lives on; memories can be created and faked; actual people are replaced and recycled. Yes, the era of simulation is with us and everyone should be reaching for their copy of "Simulacra and Simulation", by Baudrillard. The movie really requires a Bingo card with all the different manifestations or degrees of movement from object to pure symbol, so that the audience can spot them. There are a couple of times where the simulation is overlaid on reality – the first meal we see Officer K 'eat', and his intimate scene with his 'girlfriend' Joi. In both cases the real and the representation are overlaid with the image's edges apparent. What's odd about this is that the character is prepared to live with these two representations, plainly visible. One is not gradually merging into the other: one is the image fully formed, the other is reality, subordinated to the image, but still existing because it is necessary.
Ask anyone to summarise the film and they'll be left with sketches of images, perhaps a few choices phrases. But this is really a character study, masguerading as a philosophical text, musing on the meaning of the real and unreal, of human and non-human. For some strange reason, it gives some elevated importance to natural birth (or Caesarian at least), perhaps because that ticks off what life as it has evolved and repeated on earth has to do. Artificial life, in which every new entity arrives as an adult human being, from a factory of some sort, is certainly given the rough treatment, even though the audience is expected to marvel in the ability that these artificial beings have for empathy.
[WALLACE CORP]
Wallace Corp is the next big thing, after the demise of Tyrrell Corp. For some reason, there's lots of money in replicants. Apparently, people will buy slaves to set up new worlds. Who has that sort of money if the manufacturers of the labour force are the ones making all the money? Luckily these economic questions are put far to the bottom of the deep questions. This film is concerned with much easier ones, like "Am I human?", "Why am I here?" and "Should I get a real or a holographic girlfriend?". Notice that lifestyle choices in this film are judged from a male perspective. More on that in a minute.
Why does Wallace bother to stay on earth? On an Earth with its devastated computer records, but one that happens to have the crucial moment when Deckard meets Rachel from the first film. Who would have thought?
This is still a man's world: a man has become the progenitor of artificial life, but seemingly unable to have his female creations reproduce for him. We're told a little of the history of Tyrell after the first movie, and it provides some clues as to why Wallace wants to track down some of the characters from the first film. Most of that grunt detective work is done by Officer K, who is truly "more than human" as he reads off DNA transcript and notices identical records without the aid of a computer.
[POLICING IN LA]
That casual, dusty, grimy and under-resourced policing of the first film is gone. Police headquarters looks more like the corner accountant's office, except there's a debriefing room that determines if you're going to be fired for having second thoughts about your job.
The police force is still seemingly independent of Wallace corp, but barely. In the sequel, there's been a disaster, wiping most of the records, and there is an air of menace in the air. The cops keep drones as pets for their cars.
[WHERE'S BRYANT?]
This Blade Runner 'K' has a minder cop (Robin Wright Penn) with a new rank: Lieutenant Joshi. She's no less an enforcer of the strict psychological routines that blade runners must maintain after each job: a process of repeating control words as an automoton (not unlike the control words that programmed the Winter Soldier in the Captain America films.). She's surprisingly pleasant for someone that won't let you work unless you pass the baseline. Eventually, your number is going to be up.
[GROMIT]
This is my name for the trash that is Wallace's heavy-hitting PA, bomb dropper, cop killer and fashionista. She's actually Slyvia Hoeks, and the character is called Luv, because she's special. I like her kicks. Apparently, it takes 6 hours a day training to keep this up. If that were only true, Wallace would need more than one PA to keep his 9-world's business running. That, really is the true miracle of this film. Don't let Dave Batista tell you otherwise.
Luv is everybody's friend until she needs to get her way. She epitomises the Wallace corporation's ability to make replicants that 'obey' (or so we are told in the opening scrawl). She is a surprisingly vain and passive aggressive character. In the same way that Wallace is: quietly brooding and philosophical/poetical, then capable of sticking a knife in to his new creations and watching them die/cease to be or whatever word they come up with. Think of a slightly more introverted version of Joaquin Phoenix's character in Gladiator and you will get the idea.
[K/JOE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND JOI]
The love interests of K (or "Joe" as he is sometimes called) are simply accessories for him. Yes, he buys his girl a present but basically she's stuck with him, he purchased her and he gifts her a way for her to leave the building. Great guy.
His digital girl pines for some greater expression and play-acts a sex scene with a real woman ("real girl"), who is strangely committed to her role in getting closer to K, but nonetheless must feel a bit awkward being told what to do by a digital girlfriend. This depicted society is like a rabbit hole of slavery. How deep do you think it goes?
[GAFF AND THE ORIGAMI]
In this film we are once again treated to the paper animals of Gaff. During a very short meeting with K, Gaff creates a paper sheep, and places neatly on the table. Once again, Gaff seems desperate to be doing one thing whilst performing magic in creating a paper animal with effortless skill, producing the finished product without any obvious signs of having folded it himself. Did he buy it in advance? Did he use his powers of distraction and subterfuge? I can only imagine that anyone who had not seen the first film would be lost by the magical appearance of a paper sheep on the table, and dismiss it almost immediately.
Not me, I gravitated to Gaff's need to communicate deeply, truthfully and to the emotional heart of a character in just a few folds. I remember seeing almost immediately that he was shouting "sheep" in the way only paper can. On second thoughts, where does he get all this paper? Given that Wallace has made a name out of creating safe replicants, that 'obey', calling a replicant a sheep is probably not a message designed to enlighten. Most likely, it's just a subtle attempt at criticism. Like the chicken he made for Deckard in the first film. Here's a sheep, how do you like those apples?
[McGUFFIN GIRL IN THE BUBBLE]
She's introduced before we know who she is: the memory maker. She's important. She's one of a kind and she manages to stay outside the inner Wallace circle. Standing in full sight of him, she's the one who makes dreams and illusions. The best one may be that she doesn't actually have a deficiency in her DNA, but that's just speculation on my part. It would be an interesting twist. The story, however, sets up that there was a genetic abnormality at birth, and the adult is living a life consistently with that. A life of privilege, nonetheless. Perhaps she was the god-daughter of Tyrell as well. Who knows? All we know is that she carried a little wooden horse around for a while. Can a central character be a McGuffin? She is it. The long sought after object of the quest from early in the movie, the girl turns out to be a disappointingly zen girl, meditating on pretend worlds. She lacks sufficient interest and scope for plot or drama that even her meeting with her own father is held until the final blackout, and occurs off camera. For all I know, the two actors involved never needed to meet, since the editing only shows images looking eah way for the glass.
McGufiin, McGuffin, where for art thou?
Would you, as a story teller, focus on the guy that is the Blade Runner instead of the apparently complex world that exists, or the poor girl captured like a budgie in a bubble, alone but with some mysterious support system? She might be off grid, but she's unprepared for change. Can she even escape the bubble? Trapped in amber, it's the audience that studies her clinically, even if Wallace does not.
Deckard's daughter, the centre piece of the plot, is confined to a physical and metaphoric bubble. She can't really participate in the real world. He job involves mediating reality for others. She is the ultimate social media person : injecting herself into other people's minds the way that users of Instagram and Twitter might only dream of.
[REAL GIRL]
We meet her first as something like a 'pleasure model' like Pris form the first film, but we can't be sure it's supposed to be the same one. Who knows what proportion of Tyrrell's original model's survived?
The sub-plot that Real Girl forms part of is introduced only vaguely. A discussion amongst a group of women, to find out what the Blade Runner knows. The reveal of who she is, and the connection to the McGuffin Girl is held until later, but it's an undramatic revelation. As always, it's filtered by the barely emotional register of the Blade Runner K.
Real Girl's character is called "Mariette" and is played by Mackenzie Davis. (She's the girl who spotted Matt Damon on the satellite photos of Mars when everyone thought he was dead in the "Martian)".
I though this whole dynamic was a bit flat. Real Girl never relates to K in an authentic manner. She's either under-cover or subsumed inside some larger religious-type sect where she doesn't get a larger role.
There's a beautifully subtle nod to the original movie when Gosling's character is referred to, by 'real girl' as a 'guy that eats rice", instead of a Blade Runner. It's a nod to the scene in Blade Runner where we see Harrison Ford eating rice, but being asked to accompany the police officer back to the building. Blink and you'll miss it.
I don't think that we're shown a bevy of great female characters with control over their lives: Joi, Joshi, Luv. As other reviewers eventually admit (https://www.hypable.com/blade-runner-2049-incredible-female-characters/), none of the female characters really has any agency. Consistently with this, female nudity seems more acceptable than male nudity in Hollywood: how else can Hollywood justify the 8-storey naked digital women that are advertising AI software?
[DECKARD AND K]
We're treated to some 'getting to know you' violence between Deckard and K, a few Booby Traps and an odd scene with some disfunctional holograms in a theatre. Eventually, Harrison runs out of punches and the boys pop out for a drink. In a world of pollution, crazy replicants and megalomaniac dictators, the picture perfect view of retirement here is being able to pour whisky ont he floor for your dog, you have so much of it.
There's a nod to scenes from Gattaca as K and Deckard swim in the surf, and one helps the other.
Harrison Ford asks K near the end why he has helped him and K doesn't give a reason. What he meant to say was: if you've sat this long through the movie you'll know, but Deckard doesn't really deserve an explanation.
[THE SNOWMAN]
Who doesn't like a pair of films to be joined by more rhyme and poetry? Instead of tears in the rain, and memories lost (Rutger Hauer's fine writing in Blade Runner), this film's conclusion has K finding some peace in falling snow. No tears this time.
Cutting to the chase, who doesn't feel a little sad that Deckard is still separated from his daughter, unable to leave her bubble, a being unique for being the natural born child of a replicant, but unable to share the physical world? She lives in a fake world. She's the child of a replicant playing in a replicated world.
It's just so sad.
As Molly Meldrum might say, do yourself a favour, and go buy yourself a rice meal and a beer, and pick up a copy of Simulacra and Simulation It will be time well spent in the real world.
There are some very well written pieces inspired by this film. Kudos to the authors of these too:
[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
What We Get Wrong About Technology
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The California Department of Parks and Recreation manages more than 270 park units, which contain the finest and most diverse collection of natural, cultural, and recreational resources to be found within California. Tahoe's West Shore is home to several California State Parks, including Emerald Bay State Park, D.L. Bliss State Park, Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park, and the Ward Creek Property.
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Bass Residence (1970) is a home in Fort Worth, Texas classified as Modern architecture and designed by architect Paul Rudolph, a founder of the Sarasota School of Architecture, and he designed the home in that style. It was designed for Sid Bass and Anne Bass. The house features cantilevered horizontal shapes.

History

The home is an extravagant white multilevel structure which can be classified as Modern architecture. The single-family home was designed by Paul Rudolph for Sid and Anne Bass in 1966. Sid Bass was a billionaire who made his fortune in the oil business. Sid Bass commissioned the home while he was a young man. The grounds included a swimming pool and a courtyard for vehicles. The entrance is found at the uppermost level of the home. The driveway extends out of the east portion of the home and leads to the entrance. Above the entrance there is the dramatic feature of a horizontal  cantilevered overhang. The architect, Paul Rudolph, thought that the Bass house was the best home he had designed.

Design
The home is built around a steel frame which is covered by glass and aluminum. The design draws from those of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It reflects a minimalist approach and straight lines. There are no curves in the home. The house features cantilevered horizontal shapes overlapping each other surrounding a courtyard. Inside there are four floors which have 12 level changes and there are 14 separate ceiling heights. It is said to resemble Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater design. The building's design constructs an illusion of levitating horizontal planes: vertical planes are disguised by the cantilevered planes.

The landscape was designed by landscape architect Robert Zion. There were a total of 8 acres in the estate for which Zion was the original designer. From 1981 to 1982 another landscape architect Russell Page worked on a redesign of the estate's grounds. He stated "...the structure needs the tranquillity of an all green base." According to his plans, the grounds had few flowers, and one rose garden. The grounds also include a reflecting pool with a nude sculpture.

Plans

References

External links

 The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation - a non-profit organization representing the Paul Rudolph estate, dedicated to communicating, preserving and extending Paul Rudolph's legacy with an online archive of over 12,000 images in addition to written and biographical materials.
 The Bass Residence Project Page from the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation archives
 Bass Residence: Paul Rudolph Foundation

Further reading

1970 in Texas
Paul Rudolph buildings
Modernist architecture
Houses completed in 1970
Houses in Fort Worth, Texas

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Hydatid cyst disease, also known as Echinococcosis, is a zoonotic infection that can affect any organ and tissue but is most often found in the liver or lungs. It is most common in rural areas, where patients have close contact with cattle . Cases are generally asymptomatic and there is nearly always a delay in the diagnosis. An asymptomatic cyst or incidental findings in ultrasonography (USG) are common presentations of the disease. Here I shall describe 20 cases of hydatid cysts of multiple organs that were diagnosed by FNAC. There were no complications, and all of these cases were confirmed by histopathology after radical surgery. All but one patient recovered completely.
Hydatid disease occurs often in India, and is usually caused by larvae of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. The cysts caused by the parasite may appear in nearly any organ, though generally in only one organ at a time. The liver is most commonly involved, and the lungs are involved in 10-30% of cases . USG and CT-scan successfully pick up the entity in the majority of cases, but sometimes they are not able to rule out other possibilities [3, 4]. Complications like rupture with anaphylaxis, neurocerebral symptoms, recurrent infections and digestive problems may occur [5, 6]. So searching with various approaches (imaging, FNAC, serology, etc.) has always been there to confirm the diagnosis before surgery or albendazole-based chemotherapy or steroids. It might be best to avoid aspiration in hydatid disease, since some patients may have allergic reactions, or the disease could be spread further , but neither of these problems occurred in these cases studied by me. Previously, in a similar case study series, incidental aspiration of thoracichydatid cyst proved to be safe . As a quick and reliable diagnostic test, FNAC is being practiced widely to diagnose hydatid cyst.
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Galena, Illinois: John Martinson's West Street Sculpture Park
Welded and sculpted whimsical junk art by John Martinson, displayed on his wooded property, includes a 9/11 sculpture of a tiny plane and a giant cube.
West Street Sculpture Park
620 S. West St., Galena, IL
Southwest edge of town. From US Hwy 20 turn south onto West St. -- which is a small road -- and drive a half-mile, crossing Gear St. You'll see the sculptures on the left, in the trees. Look for the "Wow Mom" sign.
Visitor Tips and News About John Martinson's West Street Sculpture Park
An eclectic collection of mostly welded sculptures that are all the work of one man (John Martinson). Some would call it a bunch of welded junk, others would call it folk art. No need to take any of it very seriously, as the titles of some of the pieces ("The Eye Full Tower") suggest that the artist has a very good sense of humor.
[Bill Diesslin, 08/10/2014]
Mrs. Butterworth Statue of First Lady Julia Grant, Galena, IL - < 1 mi.
City of Presidents, Cuba City, WI - 13 mi.
Crystal Lake Cave, Dubuque, IA - 9 mi.
Walk-Thru Catfish, Dubuque, IA - 13 mi.
Space Needle: Star of Century 21, Seattle, Washington


Global High-Speed Cameras market size is projected to reach $326.98 Million by the end of 2024 with a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period. Key Parameters promoting the market include increasing use of high-speed cameras in research and development applications, increasing adoption rate in the manufacturing sector, growing demand for the high-speed camera in entertainment & media, industrial manufacturing segments. Increase in demand for the high-speed camera with greater than 100,000 frames per second is the major driving factor for high-speed camera market with frame rates higher than 100,000.
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North America and Europe have the highest market share among all the regions. Asia-Pacific and South America are expected to have the highest growth rate and highest market share over the forecast period.
Feb 2017, Vision Research reveals new global 4K high-speed camera for science, aerospace and defense industries.
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