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Moonshine is bursting with the artwork of 45 talented and prolific DreamWorks Studio Art Directors, Character and Pro...
Moonshine is bursting with the artwork of 45 talented and prolific DreamWorks Studio Art Directors, Character and Production Designers, and Visual Development Artists as they create art for art's sake. The dazzling array of styles and subjects, all displayed in sumptuous full-colour, will thrill art and film fans alike.
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Express Lab, a local medical laboratory, now has two locations set-up and dedicated to test for active COVID-19 virus. At each location, extreme measures are being taken to prevent the spread of this very contagious virus.
Patients who have a doctor's order to receive the Active PCR COVID-19 test can drive to one of the two locations and receive a nasal swab while remaining in their car. Individuals who do not have a doctor's order need to call their primary physician or visit CrushTheCurveIdaho.com to obtain one prior to the testing.
Express Lab has partnered with Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls to conduct tests at 2060 S. Woodruff Avenue. In Pocatello, Express Lab has partnered with ISU/Southeast Idaho Public Health to set up a drive-thru collection site at the Dyer House, behind Reed's gym at 1245 Red Hill Road.
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Express Lab Completes Expansion
Express Lab, a local medical laboratory, is excited to announce the completion of their automation project. The Idaho Falls based laboratory which has locations in Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Rexburg began planning the laboratory expansion and automation nearly two years ago and began construction in September of 2018. The automated laboratory is the first in East Idaho.
The expansion nearly doubled the size of the laboratory and provided room for the automation equipment. With the expansion, updated equipment for microbiology, hematology and chemistry along with the robotic track system.
According to Lori Leask, Express Lab Manager, the expansion and automation project was implemented to improve speed, efficiency, and accuracy. Lori states that, "Expanding allows us to continue to grow and meet the demands of our patients and healthcare providers."
About the Automation Process
The automation, provided through Ortho Diagnostics based in Raritan, New Jersey, is leading edge technology.
The system is modular and allows for additional growth in the future. With this automation system, the specimen tubes are loaded and sorted robotically on to the processing track. The tubes are then automatically transferred to a decapper and placed back on the track for distribution to individual analyzers. When the testing is finished, the tubes are transported to a re-capping process and then to storage.
The automation allows Express Lab to continually track specimens and repeat or add testing if needed, at a much faster pace. The specialized automation streamlines our processes and helps our lab analyzers function more efficiently by utilizing software that can detect which analyzer is available to run the test at the fastest pace. This eliminates bottlenecks and wait times on analyzers while it catalogs specimens for easy retrieval at a later date. Results are then electronically transmitted back to the Express Lab computer system and then immediately sent to doctors or other healthcare providers.
How Automation Helps Doctors & Patients
The new system will benefit patients and healthcare providers by providing fastest possible turn-around for medical tests. Also, in cases where the same blood sample or specimen requires additional testing, the system automatically retrieves the tubes and processes the additional testing.
According to Leask, "By automating our lab system, we are able to keep our costs down and pass along those savings to our patients." Leask continues, "We are committed to helping keep the costs of medical care down and improving our service level to meet the high standards of the medical laboratory industry."
Free Blood Glucose Screening on World Diabetes Awareness Day
As part of World Diabetes Awareness Day (Wednesday, November 14, 2018), Express Lab and Rocky Mountain Diabetes, based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is offering free diabetes screening tests from 11:00am to 3:00pm at the Broulims grocery store located at 2730 E Sunnyside Road, Ammon, Idaho. The event is being sponsored to raise awareness of diabetes.
World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by IDF and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2006 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225. It is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. https://www.worlddiabetesday.org/about-wdd.html
LAB CONSTRUCTION EXPANSION BEGINS
Express Lab, located in Idaho Falls, Idaho has begun construction expansion of its laboratory facility. The expansion will double the size of the laboratory making way for new equipment including a robotic tract system which is the first of its kind in Southeast Idaho.
According to Lori Leask, manager of Express Lab, "We wanted to improve our speed, efficiency and accuracy and expanding our facility allows us to meet these objectives." Leask continues, "Expanding allows us to continue to grow and meet the demand of our patients, doctors and medical providers in the area with faster turn-around times."
Express Lab is a locally owned, full-service, independent clinical laboratory that is fully accredited by CLIA and COLA. Express Lab was founded in 2000 by Dr John E. Liljenquist, MD.
Express Lab is known for its customer service, friendly staff, exceptional phlebotomists, and fast turn-around times for medical laboratory results.
The automation system was provided by Ortho Clinical Diagnostics based in Raritan, New Jersey. The company is considered a leading global provider of in vitro diagnostics providing high-quality products and services globally to clinical laboratories like Express Lab.
BEST OF IDAHO FALLS
Express Lab, of Idaho Falls, Idaho was selected as the Best Medical Laboratory by the readers of the Post Register. Express Lab was nominated for the first time in this year's event. Readers of the Post Register voted for their favorite nominees in many categories including suppliers, restaurants, services and this year, medical laboratories.
Lori Leask, manager of Express Lab, said "It is nice to be nominated and wonderful to be voted the Best of 2018." Lori continues, "We work very hard to provide the best possible patient experience and it is rewarding to be acknowledged by our patients."
The Post Register is The Post Register is based in Idaho Falls and is a leading provider of local news and advertising in East Idaho. They have a combined online and print audience of more than 60,000 people in the area.
Express Lab Opens Second Idaho Falls Location
Idaho Falls, Idaho – May 29, 2018: Express Lab, a local medical laboratory is opening a second location in Idaho Falls in the Teton Medial Plaza located at 2001 S. Woodruff Suite 15B.
Earlier in the year, Express Lab opened a new location at 101 E Main St, Suite 210 in Rexburg, bringing the total sites to four; two in Idaho Falls, one in Rexburg and one in Pocatello.
According to Lori Leask, manager of Express Lab, "Due to the growing need for laboratory services in Idaho Falls, we decided to open a second convenient location. We are always trying to provide the best medical care to our patients." Lori continues, "Our goal is to keep wait times to a minimum, which is what adding the new site will provide."
Express Lab Opens Rexburg Location
Express Lab, a local medical laboratory is opening a draw site location in Rexburg, Idaho. The location is located at 101 S. Main Street, Suite 210, above Ace Hardware. This location is added to the main laboratory location in Idaho Falls and draw site in Pocatello.
According to Lori Leask, manager of Express Lab, "We wanted to be able to provide our laboratory services to the residents of Rexburg so we found a convenient location." Lori continues, "We want to provide the best medical care to our patients and now we are adding the convenience of a Rexburg location."
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The Stupidest Hugo Chavez Hagiographies From the Yanquis Who Loved Him
Absurd Elegies
He wasn't authoritarian enough. He understood democracy. He was groovy. Michael Moynihan collects five of the dumbest love letters to the departed Venezuelan comandante.
Michael Moynihan
Updated Jul. 11, 2017 11:53PM ET / Published Mar. 07, 2013 4:45AM ET
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There was something North Korean about the funeral cortege, with Hugo Chávez's casket winding through the dilapidated streets of Caracas, Venezuela, followed by a crush of weeping, wailing supporters. For this final episode of The Hugo Chávez Show (Adios, Presidente!), the Venezuelan government again made use of the cadena—the requirement that every television and radio station carry the government's propaganda feed—to send off their comandante. Mourners were interviewed, provided they were tear-stained and came only to praise their departed leader. No critics were given camera time; they never are.
So even in death, Chávez's poisonous assault on the free press was subtly on display. The Committee to Protect Journalists concluded recently that the Chávez era left "a record of repression [and] control" of independent and state media outlets, a condition that seems not to bother some of his ideological sympathizers in the foreign media. It's a predictable form of condescending orientalism: what chávismo has done to the Venezuelan media—and to civil society in general—is something his non-Venezuelan cheerleaders would never accept in their own countries.
But out they came to shout, ad nauseum, that Chávez was "democratically elected" while failing to point out that, by even the most expansive definition, he didn't govern as a democrat—that rather important second step. He was a hero to the poor, commended impressive support both within Venezuela and abroad, and spoke of his loathing of Yanqui imperialism. And many Yanquis loved it.
I've collected five of the most absurd Chávez hagiographies (and one conspiracy theory), a list that could, rather depressingly, be much longer.
(1) The most astonishing entry comes from New York University professor Greg Grandin, writing in The Nation, who allows himself to "be perverse and argue that the biggest problem Venezuela faced during his rule was not that Chávez was authoritarian but that he wasn't authoritarian enough." If nothing else, one must give Grandin points for honesty and for bolstering Polish historian Leszek Kolakowski's theory that such regimes must resort to authoritarianism to survive.
(2) In an unbylined piece at The Huffington Post, readers are told that "Hugo Chávez was a man of many talents: he played ball, sang songs, pulled out pistols, and got down and groovy—and that is precisely how we'll remember the Venezuelan leader." One can debate whether drawing a firearm counts as a talent, but The Huffington Post might want to remember Chávez's reign, which was, in the words of Human Rights Watch, "characterized by a dramatic concentration of power and open disregard for basic human-rights guarantees." How very groovy.
(3) The indefatigable British-Pakistani chávista Tariq Ali, writing in The Guardian, blubbered that Chávez "appeared as an indestructible ox, speaking for hours to his people in a warm, sonorous voice, a fiery eloquence that made it impossible to remain indifferent. His words had a stunning resonance. His speeches were littered with homilies, continental and national history, quotes from the 19th-century revolutionary leader and president of Venezuela Simón Bolívar, pronouncements on the state of the world and songs."
And those watching television and listening to the radio, as noted above, had no choice but to listen. One can only imagine what Ali would have said if, during the 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in her plummy and sonorous voice, commanded all media outlets to carry her speeches or risk being shut down. That would be fascism—but the "eloquent" and literate cadena is freedom.
4) Rep. José Serrano (D-NY) eulogized Chávez both on Twitter and in a press release: "He believed that the government of the country should be used to empower the masses, not the few. He understood democracy and basic human desires for a dignified life. His legacy in his nation, and in the hemisphere, will be assured, as the people he inspired continue to strive for a better life for the poor and downtrodden."
Congress is clotted with buffoons, so it's not surprising that the media often fails to give Serrano his due. Nor is it surprising that a man who once refused to acknowledge that Cuba isn't a democratic country ("I don't know ... I don't live there"; "It's a sovereign country"; "It's a country with a different system than ours"), and who claimed that Castro's one-party state indeed allowed freedom of speech, would lament the passing of el comandante.
5) And finally, instead of the predictable nonsense from Joe Kennedy, Oliver Stone, and Sean Penn, let us turn to one of Venezuela's many authoritarian allies. PressTV, the reliably insane news service of the Iranian regime, speculated that Chávez was offed by the CIA's give-cancer-to-Latin-American-leftists unit. The report, from former academic (and current Holocaust denier!) Kevin Barrett, isn't without a qualification, though: "Am I 100% certain that the CIA killed Hugo Chávez? Absolutely not. It could have been non-governmental assassins working for the bankers."
It's worth noting that there have been a number of very smart analyses of Chávez's legacy—start with Slate's William Dobson, The Guardian's Rory Carroll, Venezuelan journalist Francisco Toro, and The Economist. But the number of stupid columns, with the usual farrago of dubious numbers and boring bouts of semantic quibbling (dictator or democrat?), was indeed surprising, with their platitudes about Chávez not being perfect, but caring deeply about the poor (or my favorite, from an NBC News blogger, on his success in "strengthening cultural pride").
And this is Hugo Chávez's lesson for future authoritarians: make a mockery of democratic institutions, rewrite the Constitution, and persecute—and prosecute—your political enemies. But when you do so, make sure to mutter the appropriate things about poverty, "the empire," and the scourge of "neoliberalism." All will be forgiven.


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3 things in life are sure, death, taxes and garbage. If the economy in the US picks up, there is going to be more solid waste produced. This company is bidding on a big contract in New York City. It is consolidating by buying smaller waste management companies. Missed on a couple of quarters making the stock a little bit expensive but there is big leverage on operations. As the volume picks up, margins pick up.
Have a lot of people worried during 2011-2012, but it has finally broken out. Chart shows a bear phase of 3 legs down, which is now concluded and the advance can go for a considerable time. Feels this would be a safe place to be.
Has done very well recently and he would not be jumping in at these levels. They have merged the North American operations, which is good. In the past, the stock price was held back because things were stalled out in Northeast US and they were making some strategic acquisitions in that area. With a couple of more dollars increase, he would be looking at taking some profits.
Has seen some progress in this company over the last year. Very well run company in terms of costs discipline. Also, acquisition strategy has always been very good. Had been hurt by a soft environment in the Northeast US, which seems to be less of a problem today. Expects there won't be a whole lot of capital appreciation from here. Yield of about 2.4%.
Good strong management team did a good job of growing the business. Benefits from a steadily improving economy. 2.3% dividend that will grow.
Pretty good earnings but there is no question they have been helped by the improving US economy. Industrial waste is what has been really improving their margins. Big cash flow generator. Likes the dividend and that they buy back stock.
(Top Pick Jul 10/13, Up 23.93%) Acquisitions have been doing very well. There is still a little bit of upside.
Thinks there is real value here. Turned out to be a bit more of a cyclical of an industry than people had thought. When manufacturing went down, commercial waste went down which had an impact on this company. Right now conditions are good. Still an industry that is in need of some consolidation. Wouldn't be surprised to see a dividend increase in 2014. Yield of 2.36%.
Thinks this will benefit from the uptick in housing and commercial development in the US as they now have a fair amount of exposure to industrial waste. Still trades at a deep discount to its competitors. Generates a lot of free cash flow. Could be a takeover candidate down the road.
(A Top Pick June 10/12. Up 24.18%.) Seemed to have gotten their troubles in the Northeast US under control. Recent earnings have been on a more positive trend. Very well managed. Still has some upside from here, but possibly not a great deal.
Three things for sure in life: death, taxes and garbage. As the economy grows there is more garbage. More industrial and residental waste. Has been pretty quiet, then last quarter started showing signs of life. Bin still sees a lot of opportunity for consolidation, so dividends aren't necessarily in the future.
Has been out of favour. Chart shows it had a falling wedge, which is very bullish. Thinks this is just the early part of an advance.
(Top Pick Oct 07/11, Down 13.26%) Pretty recession proof business but operations are where this company got challenged here. 3% yield is safe and should have supported the stock better.
Pays a bit of a dividend and fundamentals are positive although not fully developed. If it holds here it is a support level. He put a tight stop on it. It has come off to near this support level.


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Article: Liberty Steel breached £18m loan with Metro Bank – report
Liberty Steel breached £18m loan with Metro Bank – report
Angharad Carrick, 23 May 2021
Metro Bank is reportedly still waiting for the repayment of an £18m loan from embattled steel group Liberty.
It is the latest sign of trouble for Liberty's owner GFG Alliance which is being investigated by the UK Serious Fraud Office for alleged money laundering and fraudulent trading. Its future has been in doubt since its main backer, supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital collapsed into administration in March.
But its troubles started some time earlier, with a loan secured on the steelworks as early as 2018, the BBC reported. Filings at the Isle of Man Companies Registry show that it's one of a portfolio of industrial properties, including another factory in South Wales, which were pledged as security for an £18m loan from Metro Bank.
Liberty's accounts for 2018-19 say that "due to breaches of… covenants and restrictions, Metro bank have called in the [loan] facility and have stipulated that full repayment must be made" by 31 March 2020."
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Banks fail in bid to share cost of refunding scam victims
BBC News, 30 April 2021
Negotiations between banks to create a permanent, central pot of money to refund scam victims have collapsed.
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Ten (10) stores of MR.D.I.Y. Philippines, one of the largest life and home improvement retailers in Southeast Asia, prepare treats for its valued customers in its forthcoming National Grand Opening on October 29, 30 & 31, 2021. As the economy starts to open again, shoppers can schedule their visit to any of these 10 stores to buy the essentials, home improvement, and DIY products, or even Halloween and early Christmas decors and gifts of their choice!
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I'm hoping to have an Nex-7 soon and wondering if the 18-55mm kit lens has image stabilization. The listing on B&H says no.
That's odd, the original 18-55 that came with the 5 and 3 had OSS, and to my understanding the only difference with the limited edition black 18-55 that comes with the 7 is the colour.
Unless I'm missing something (quite likely), I don't see mention of the OSS in either features or specifications on Sony's link for the kit. But going to their link for just the lens it does mention OSS under features. I also think it's a mistake in the B&H listing and have written them to confirm it. Will let you know once I've heard back.
Excellent. That confirms it for me.
(Sony USA needs to work on their website).
Well here's the reply from a B&H rep. He says the lens does have OSS but if you follow his link, you'll see no mention of the kit lens having OSS and under the specs, image stabilization states "No" although that is an error. (B&H needs to work on their website).
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Gallery Korea is pleased to announce the opening of Re-Location, an exhibition in which five artists will present installations. The film projected onto the gallery wall by Solange Fabiao provides a glimpse at the ecological disturbance that accompanies the displacement of Arizona desert by suburban sprawl. Photographs from the film mounted on steel panels focus on a dismal attempt to transplant the Saguaro Cactus that is essential for the nesting of migratory birds. Min Cho incorporates a wall, the floor in an installation, which features a steel bird watching over small islands that represent the earth. The title, "A Bird in a Cube ? Tells the Tales of a Thousand Days", indicates the compression of space and time evoked in the sculpture. The suspended sculptures of Jiyoung Chae are made from leaves and berries that are strung together on long wires. The materials are slightly modified and the work suggests a convergence of the natural and the cultural in a way that blurs the boundaries between these distinct categories. In "Archives" Margaret Cogswell explores the capacity of discarded objects to retain information and also accumulate the patina of history. Ji Seon Hwang will install objects connected with a traditional Korean funeral ceremony. Titled "Mother/Motherland" the work incorporates materials used by shamans such as paper and straw. In celebrating the memory of her mother in this way she also commemorates the passing of tradition in her motherland.
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Why CarryMinati is giving copyright claims to other roasters & youtubers?
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CarryMinati is now Asia no.1 YouTuber with more than 30 million subscribers. He is famous for his rap songs and Roast videos. He is the youngest most subscribed YouTuber. In 2020 CarryMinati created a huge controversy with a cringe social media platform "Tik Tok" because Youtuber was roasting tik tok for a long time ago so some of the tik tokers stand against YouTubers and said that tik tokers are better than YouTubers and by doing this tik tokers grabbed a big amount of attention from market however tik tok was fully exposed after doing this because their whole cringe content was exposed in front of Indian Media and carryminati also uploaded a brutal roast video which created a big hype in the market but this was later deleted by youtube because of extreme brutality and the use of cuss words but after that whole controversy Carryminati launched a Diss track against every tik toker and his rivals YouTubers which became huge hit his video received around 200 Million views and it is the most liked video of youtube now.
Why CarryMinati is giving Strikes to YouTubers?
He became too famous after that beef because he was covered by Indian mainstream Media and just because of this many other YouTubers start giving hate to him just because of jealousness and some of his toxic fans start creating fanbase videos in which they were editing his random videos and creating a new roast video by just using his voice from different videos and clip. Actually, they were creating a whole new roast video with roasting another person by using carry face and voice so just because of this a bad impact is coming of carry image and market value and it is also generating hate in the market so that's why he is giving copyright strikes to YouTubers.
Why India Banned Tik Tok after this controversy?
Many people say that the Indian Government banned tik tok because of the cringe and sexual content on it and some people also say that Tik Tok banned because they were roasting YouTubers but is it right? then the answer is totally no, Indian government didn't ban tik tok for their cringe content or for taking shots at YouTubers, They banned tik tok because Tik Tok was a Chinese app and They were selling the data to China government which was not safe for anyone so that's why Indian government banned tik tok from India
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In total, 59 apps were banned – among them popular messaging app WeChat. It follows escalating tensions along the disputed border between the two powers.
Both India and China deployed more troops to the Ladakh region in June.
Clashes have left at least 20 Indian troops dead. Satellite images also appear to show that China has built new structures overlooking the Himalayan border region.
India's Ministry of Information Technology said it was banning the 59 Chinese apps after receiving "many complaints from various sources" about apps that were "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorized manner".
"The compilation of these data, it's mining, and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures," the ministry said
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(a) Except for complaints under sections 4680, 4681, 4682 and 4683 regarding instructional materials, teacher vacancies or misassignments, and condition of a facility, the CDE shall directly intervene without waiting for LEA investigation if one or more of the following situations exist:
(1) The complaint includes an allegation, and the CDE verifies, that an LEA failed to comply with the complaint procedures required by this Chapter and its local rules and regulations, including, but not limited to, the failure or refusal of the LEA to cooperate with the investigation;
(2) The complaint relates to an agency that is not an LEA funded through the Child Development or Child Nutrition Programs;
(3) The complainant requests anonymity because he or she would be in danger of retaliation and would suffer immediate and irreparable harm if he or she filed a complaint with the LEA (except for complaints regarding pupil fees, which may be filed anonymously with the principal of a public school);
(4) The complainant alleges that the LEA failed or refused to implement the final decision resulting from its local investigation or local mediation agreement;
(5) The complainant alleges and the CDE verifies that through no fault of the complainant, no action has been taken by the LEA within 60 calendar days of the date the complaint was filed. Prior to direct intervention, the CDE shall attempt to work with the LEA to allow it to complete the investigation and issue a Decision.
(6) The complainant alleges and the CDE verifies that he or she would suffer immediate and irreparable harm as a result of an application of a district-wide policy that is in conflict with state or federal law covered by this Chapter, and that filing a complaint with the LEA would be futile.
(7) For complaints relating to special education, any one of the following shall be a condition for direct state intervention:
(A) The complainant alleges that a public agency, other than an LEA, as specified in Government Code section 7570 et seq., fails or refuses to comply with an applicable law or regulation relating to the provision of free appropriate public education to individuals with disabilities;
(B) The complainant alleges that the LEA or public agency fails or refuses to comply with the due process procedures established pursuant to federal and state law and regulation; or has failed or refused to implement a due process hearing order;
(C) The complainant alleges facts that indicate that the child or group of children may be in immediate physical danger or that the health, safety or welfare of a child or group of children is threatened.
(D) The complainant alleges that an individual with a disability is not receiving the special education or related services specified in his or her individualized educational program (IEP).
(E) The complaint involves a violation of federal law governing special education, 20 U.S.C. section 1400 et seq., or its implementing regulations.
(b) The complaint shall identify the basis, as described in subdivision
(a) above, for filing the complaint directly to the CDE. The complainant must present the CDE with clear and verifiable evidence that supports the basis for the direct filing, except as in subdivision (a)(7).
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Below are links to Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to recycling and biodegradability in the Material World strand of the New Zealand Curriculum.
Recycling and biodegradability are favourite topics from the Material World strand of the curriculum for primary teachers. Here are some helpful resources from the Hub.
New Zealand generates almost 3.2 million tonnes of waste that is buried in landfill sites. Waste disposed of in this way is an inefficient use of resources, as much of the waste could have been separated and reused, recycled or turned into compost.
The way we dispose of wastes in New Zealand has changed dramatically over the last few decades. We have moved from literal dumps and tips to complex landfill systems. The following activities cover engineering practices, a timeline of rubbish disposal, waste management and minimisation in our local environments.
A biodegradable object is one that will break down quickly and safely into harmless compounds by using the action of microorganisms. Composting is another name for biodegrading.
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When you can make plastics that have an environmental benefit or don't use fossil fuels, that gives me an extra drive and a passion to develop an end product.
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IBM to stop reselling storage from NetApp
IBM will stop buying and reselling storage technology from NetApp Inc as part of a plan to move customers to its own products.
Mon, 26 May, 2014 - 01:00
Alex Barinka
IBM plans to formally withdraw from selling NetApp's new N series systems on Tuesday and shut down development on the product line, according to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. Instead, the company will encourage clients to buy IBM-made offerings.
IBM, seeking to reinvigorate slumping hardware sales, has shifted its focus to newer technologies and product upgrades. The move is poised to be a setback for NetApp, which gets about 2% of its revenue from IBM, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While NetApp has said that its IBM relationship has presented challenges, it hasn't disclosed the reselling shutdown.
"IBM is the largest OEM customer of NetApp, and IBM is focusing more on homegrown products," Kaushik Roy, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities Inc, wrote in a May 22 note. "IBM is also losing significant market share in storage, which, in turn, is hurting NetApp's revenues from IBM."
Shares of NetApp fell 1.1% to $35.76 in New York. They had declined as much as 2.8% earlier, when Bloomberg News reported on the IBM decision. IBM's stock rose less than 1% to $185.94.
The companies entered an original-equipment manufacturing pact in 2005, letting IBM put its brand on storage products made by Sunnyvale, California-based NetApp. The agreement was meant to help both companies better compete with EMC Corp.
"IBM is focused on strengthening its Software Defined Storage portfolio to provide greater scalability to clients," Sean Tetpon, a spokesman for IBM, said in an e-mail.
As Armonk, New York-based IBM has since shifted its focus to its own storage products, NetApp's OEM sales, including those from IBM, have plummeted, falling 34 percent from a year earlier in the quarter that ended in April.
NetApp expects its OEM business to decline as much as 40% in the next year.
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ENGINEERING GRADUATES: B. E/ B. Tech/ M. E/ M. Tech/ MCA/ M.Sc.(IT/CS/SE) candidates* with no prior experience or upto 2 years of experience. Candidates should have scored min. of 65% marks in graduation, 12 th and 10th.
The above positions are for local residents of Bengaluru & Hosur only.
Fresher candidates selected, will undergo a fee-based training program offered by HCL Training & Staffing Services (HCL TSS). HCL TSS is the official sourcing and staffing arm of HCL Technologies. Candidates who successfully complete the training program will be placed with HCL Technologies with assured jobs. Job includes career streams cutting across Application Development, Testing, IT Maintenance and Support.
Note: All candidates should carry an updated resume, photographs and govt id proof for residence.
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Chris visits Fred in Maryland. We talk about Jeni's Ice Creams, The Dresden Files RPG, distribution, The Leverage RPG, Happy Birthday Robot, and the role confidence plays in marketing your games.
[1h 2m 5s] Fred and Chris catch up on the last three months, including the impending release of the Dresden Files RPG at Origins 2010 and Chris's impotent rage about not getting to order Jeni's Ice Creams for delivery. Then on to talk about how they won't be picking up on last episode's cliffhanger and instead focusing talking about VSCA's approach to publishing with Diaspora (the good and the bad) and Games Workshop's surprising attitude towards its fans.
- Is it worth the effort to sell RPGs, as a retailer?
In this abruptly shortened episode, Fred and Chris talk about Transparency. There would have been another half hour of material here, but unfortunately the recording software on each end of the call screwed up (differently), making the rest of the episode hard to listen to. We'll be publishing some "deleted scenes" elsewhere, away from the podcast's main feed, for those made of tough enough stuff to listen to our mangled blatherings.
Sadly, this means you missed out on our cliffhanger for the next episode, so we'll give it to you here: Fred asks Chris the question, "Are RPGs worth it, for a gaming retail store?"
EDIT: We missed some "this needs editing" bits towards the end there, sorry! We've uploaded a new version of the show, so if you heard the "bad" one, you can pull down the revised copy now-ish.
Now featuring much, much improved audio. If you hated the audio in episode 1, don't worry -- it's all better now.
1:10:00 Another cliffhanger for this week - "Transparency"
Show annotation provided by J. B. Mannon of At The Table.
PLEASE NOTE: The audio on this episode is CRAP. Don't judge the podcast by the audio quality here. It improves significantly with episode 2.
[1hr 6min] Season 2 kicks off with a "digital delve" into the topic of D&D Insider, PDFs, conventions, and some retail store community basics. Our sound on this was a little wonky -- a combination of Skype and the tendency of Fred's laptop fan to randomly scream at "heavy whirr" levels in the background.
1 min - Fred and Chris talk about WOTC's decision to take their PDFs off the market.
19 min - A bad economy is an opportunity. It's time to innovate.
20 min - Loop back around to D&D again: how has D&D Insider (DDI) affected the picture?
31 min - Wrap-up on the PDF/DDI topic. Send us your thoughts!
32 min - Chris is going to Origins, but Fred isn't. He has a good excuse.
40 min - What's the future of Origins?
55 min - ... only not, because we need to talk about community-building first.
59 min - "A clean, well-lit place to play"
62 min - The trap of distribution. It's not the one you're thinking of.
64 min - It's all about communication ... and it looks like mind control will be the topic of the next show.
65 min - Cliffhanger wrap-up!
Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan sit down to discuss the reinvention of That's How We Roll in the coming months. With season 2 of THWR on the horizon, it's time for a reroll.
[36min 37sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.
Part 2 of this conversation veers off of Evil Hat specifics (mostly), taking a walk through all number of topics, including a shared love of the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons.
[46min 7sec] Fred Hicks and Chris Hanrahan (of Endgame in Oakland, CA and the 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast) sit down for a conversation just a week or two before GenCon, to talk about Evil Hat, what they play, and the nature of the publisher-retailer relationship, among other things.
[Approx 23 minutes] This podcast marks the start of another category of episodes for That's How We Roll, titled Out of Town, featuring conversations we have on the road with the cool folks we know who aren't necessarily a part of Evil Hat.
On this episode, we sit down at Origins 2008 with "Have Games, Will Travel" podcaster Paul Tevis to talk about the value of ending things.
[32min 44sec] This finishes up the conversation with Lenny from our chat at the GAMA Trade Show 2008 in April. In this episode, you'll hear more conversation about the Dresden Files RPG, as well as a discussion about differing perspectives on Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age.
[45min 38sec] While in Las Vegas for GTS, Fred sits down with Lenny to talk about all sorts of things. In this first part, they cover what it means to be a game designer, the mayor of Las Vegas, and some of the things Lenny's been working on with the Dresden Files RPG.
[1hr 8min] In this episode, Fred Hicks sits down with Chris Hanrahan from 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction to talk about their impressions of the GAMA Trade Show, IPR, "the industry", selling RPGs as a retailer, and a ton of other stuff.
No show notes for the moment! In the interests of putting out something super-current, Fred's skipping that part for now. We're podcasting without a net, baby!
[1hr 11min 33sec] This past Saturday, we got all of the Dresden Files RPG team -- and then some -- together in Maryland for an Evil Hat convocation (first of its kind). Once we were done discussing all company matters, we gathered in Fred's living room for a roundtable discussion about how the day went and whatever else happened to come up. Along the way we talk about some of the development of the Dresden Files RPG, other upcoming games, independent publishing, MUSHing and Amber, how exactly Chad Underkoffler does what he does, and being honest about what it is you're best for in a collaborative organization -- among other things.
If you've ever wondered what's going on "under the Hat", here's your first peek. Have a listen.
[1hr 4min 21sec] We finish out Faith, Faces & Fingerprints setting creation with the shaving of children, a map, a discussion of magic, and much more. The setting of Donnerdam takes its full form, primed to start the game. Character creation did follow this but did not make for good radio -- lots of silent scratching on character sheets and such. So our next episode will carry a snippet of play from the first session. Stay tuned!
[50min 59sec] We're back with the second part of the Faith, Faces, & Fingerprints setting creation session. Unlike the first recording you heard, this gets into the "main sequence", where a sort of organic "freeform round-robin" question and answer session gives everyone a chance to get their priorities for the setting baked into the details.
This worked pretty well. The idea of folks who've answered questions taking a coin that prevents them from answering further ones definitely helped to make sure everyone got a chance to contribute; but we exercised a liberal "embellishment policy" that gave room for some enthusiastic discussion of the answers that were offered.
In this debut segment of "In the Lab", Fred runs a complete game of Escape or Die! at Dreamation 2008. You may recognize podcasters Remi Treuer (of the Durham Three) and Rob Bohl (of the Independent Insurgency) as two of the player voices.
Escape or Die! is currently in playtest and has a few hurdles to cross before publication, but you should be able to get a pretty good idea of how it plays from listening to this. The idea is simple: you're in a highly lethal escape movie where the only options are, indeed, to escape or die. The catch with the game is that it's run on the clock, putting a lot of pressure on players to narrate circumstances and push their characters forward quickly before their doom catches up with them. In play, this makes the game almost a "real-time RPG", in that it lasts about as long as the movies it emulates.
Like a big dork, I turned off the recorder before I got a bunch of feedback from the folks who played -- but I got a chance later in the weekend (unrecorded) to put a few of their suggestions into practice to good effect.


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Dr. Dana Katherine Scully, MD, is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists in the Fox science-fiction, supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson. Scully is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent and a medical doctor (MD), partnered with fellow Special Agent Fox Mulder for seasons one to seven and seasons 10 and 11,  and with John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons. In the television series, they work out of a cramped basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC to investigate unsolved cases labeled "X-Files." In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008, she began working as a surgeon in Our Lady of Sorrows, a private Catholic hospital – where she stayed for seven years, until rejoining the FBI. In contrast to Mulder's credulous "believer" character, Scully is the skeptic for the first seven seasons, choosing to base her beliefs on what science can prove. She later on becomes a "believer" after Mulder's abduction at the end of season seven.

Scully has appeared in all but five episodes of The X-Files, and in the 20th Century Fox films The X-Files, released in 1998, and The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released 10 years later. The episodes in which she does not appear are "3," "Zero Sum," "Unusual Suspects," "Travelers" and "The Gift" (excluding archive footage). The 11th season marked Anderson's final time portraying the character.

Background
Dr. Dana Katherine Scully was born on February 23, 1964, in Annapolis, Maryland, to William (Don S. Davis) and Margaret Scully (Sheila Larken), into a close-knit Catholic family with Irish ancestry. She has an older brother, Bill Jr., an older sister, Melissa, and a younger brother, Charles, who is never seen on the show except in flashbacks.  In the canonical 2016 comic book series, published by IDW Publishing, the two-part issue "Ishmael" revealed Scully had a paternal half-brother, named Tam Minh Nguyen. Scully's father was a navy captain, who died of a heart attack in early January 1994. Dana Scully grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and later in San Diego, California. As a young girl, Scully's favorite book was Moby-Dick and she came to nickname her father "Ahab" from the book, and in return, he called her "Starbuck." Due to this, she named her dog Queequeg.

Scully attended the University of Maryland, and in 1986, received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. Her undergraduate thesis was titled Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. Just out of medical school at Stanford University, she was recruited by the FBI; she accepted the agency's offer of employment because she felt she could distinguish herself there. After two years in the bureau, Section Chief Scott Blevins assigned her to work with agent Fox Mulder.

Storylines

Upon being partnered with Mulder, Scully maintained her medical skills by acting as a forensic pathologist, often performing or consulting on autopsies of victims on X-Files cases.

In season two, Scully was kidnapped by an ex-FBI agent turned mental patient named Duane Barry, and then taken from Barry by a military covert operation that was working with the alien conspirators, but was later returned. In season three, she found out that a super hi-tech microchip had been implanted in the back of her neck. After having it removed, she developed cancer in the fourth season and was hospitalized after the cancer became terminal. She was saved after Mulder broke into the Department of Defense to retrieve another chip to be implanted back into her neck. At the time, Scully was also undergoing experimental medical treatments and was having a dramatic renewal of her faith.

Scully was pronounced infertile during the fifth season. In the season five episode "Emily," Scully discovers that she unknowingly mothered a daughter during her abduction (in season two). Her daughter Emily was adopted by another family. Emily died shortly afterwards, and they were unable to further investigate after Emily's body went missing. In the seventh-season finale, "Requiem," Scully mysteriously became pregnant. The child, named William, after her own father, as well as Mulder's father, was born at the end of the eighth season. The show did not initially reveal the cause of Scully's pregnancy, but later episodes and movies would see Mulder and Scully call William "our son"; the pair had unsuccessfully tried for a child through in vitro fertilization. Around this time, Mulder was fired from the FBI by Deputy Director Alvin Kersh, and Scully left the field to teach forensics at Quantico. William was given up for adoption during the end of the ninth season after Scully felt she could no longer provide the safety that William needed. William was a "miracle child," of some importance to the alien conspirators. He demonstrated extraordinary powers, including telekinesis.

In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, she is shown working as a medical doctor at the Our Lady of Sorrows, a private Catholic hospital in Virginia. Early on in the film, Scully is contacted by the FBI, who are looking for Fox Mulder in the hope that he will assist them with the investigation of a missing FBI agent. In exchange for his help, the charges against him will be dropped. Unlike Mulder, Scully was apparently not considered a fugitive by the FBI. However, she did continue to maintain her romantic relationship with Mulder throughout the six years that he was on the run from the American government. In the movie, they are shown to be living together in a secluded house.

In the first episode of season 10, "My Struggle" (2016), Scully is still working as a doctor for Our Lady of Sorrows hospital, now performing surgeries on children with severe birth defects. She has extraterrestrial DNA, as the test that she performs on herself confirms. After the FBI reopens the X-Files, 14 years after their closure, she rejoins the bureau. In "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," Scully jokes that she often enters dangerous situations alone due to the immortality she seemingly obtained during the events of the episode "Tithonus." At the end of "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," Scully steals a dog from an animal control center, named Daggoo, which is named after yet another character from Moby-Dick. In "Home Again" Dana's mother, Margaret Scully, dies after suffering a heart attack. In the show's 10th-season finale, "My Struggle II," Scully is in a race against time to save humankind, creating a vaccine from her own extraterrestrial DNA.

Characterization
Throughout the series, Scully's Catholic faith served as a cornerstone, although a contradiction to her otherwise rigid skepticism of the paranormal.  Due to her career in science and medicine, she drifted from her Catholic Christian upbringing, but remained somewhat entrenched in her religious beliefs.

Scully almost always wears a gold cross necklace. Two conflicting stories exist of how Scully received the necklace. After Scully's abduction in season two, Scully's mother told Fox Mulder she gave Scully the necklace as a 15th birthday present. In season five, Scully recalls receiving the necklace as a Christmas present. Scully's sister, Melissa, also receives a similar necklace on that occasion. When she was abducted by Duane Barry, a self-proclaimed alien abductee, it was the only item left behind in Barry's getaway car. Mulder wore it as a talisman of her until Scully miraculously reappeared in a Washington, DC, hospital. After she recovered from the trauma of her abduction, he returned the cross to her.

The abduction visibly tested the limits of her faithMulder believes that Scully was taken aboard an alien spaceship and was subjected to tests. Because of Scully's skepticism, though, she believes she was kidnapped by men, not aliens, and subjected to tests. She believes she could have been brought there by Barry, and she began to exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder on a case involving a murdering fetishist named Donnie Pfaster. This psychological re-victimization continued after Pfaster escaped from prison five years later and again attempted to kill her in her home, ending only after she fatally shot him. She struggled with what motivated her actions to kill Pfaster, and questioned whether it was God compelling her to kill him, or "something else."

Sometime after her recovery from cancer, Scully began to regularly attend mass again. At the request of Father McCue, Scully got involved in a case concerning a paraplegic girl who was found dead in a kneeling position with her palms outstretched and eye sockets charred. After Scully discovered the girl was a quadruplet and two more were murdered, Father McCue shared with her the story of the seraphim and the nephilim, which Scully interpreted as a possible explanation for the deformations and deaths of the girls. Scully continued to have visions of Emily, and when the last girl died, Scully believed she was returning the girl to God. Upon her return to Washington, DC, she went to confession to gain peace of mind and acceptance for Emily's death. In confession, she regretted her decision of letting the girl go. This suggests Scully had doubts about her faith.

In the sixth-season episode "Milagro," Agent Scully's vulnerability is exposed. In this episode, the murderer takes the victim's heart out. The suspect, a writer named Phillip Padgett, has a particular interest in Scully and is fascinated by her beauty and personality. When she goes to a church to observe a painting, the writer is there and talks to her about the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During the conversation he says she visits the church because she likes art, but not as place of worship. Scully doesn't say otherwise and later she says to Agent Mulder the writer told her her life story. All this suggests that Scully isn't a devout Roman Catholic, although she attempted to approach again the Catholic community and the Catholic faith to which she was devout in her youth, after handling the strange case presented in "Revelations" and also after dealing with life-threatening cancer during the fourth season.

Relationships
While in medical school, Scully carried on an affair with her married instructor, Dr. Daniel Waterston, who may have been the "college boyfriend" mentioned in "Trust No 1." In the show, whether or not the relationship became sexual is never indicated. According to Anderson in the episode's audio commentary, Scully came very close to having an affair with the married Waterston, but left before she could break up his marriage. The end of her relationship with Waterston came about following her decision to go into the FBI. After her entrance to the FBI's Academy at Quantico, Scully began a year-long relationship with her Academy instructor, Jack Willis, with whom she shared a birthday.

Towards the end of the series, her previously platonic friendship with partner Fox Mulder developed into a romantic relationship. When Mulder was injured in a boat crash, he awakened in a hospital and told Scully that he loved her. In the season six episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," a ghost that seems to know the inner workings of Scully's mind suggests that her source of intimacy for Mulder comes from her desire to always prove him wrong. By the end of the sixth season, Mulder and Scully were increasingly shown enjoying more light-hearted activities together, such as practicing baseball, using FBI funds for a "night out" during a movie premiere, and watching a movie at Mulder's apartment. In the season seven episode "all things," Scully is shown getting dressed in Mulder's bathroom, while Mulder sleeps, apparently naked, in the bedroom. In "Trust No 1" a man reveals to Scully that he works for a new Syndicate like-organization, and his job requires him and a few other colleagues to spy on her around the clock. Due to this he knows intimate details of Scully's personal life, right down to her "natural hair color" (Titian, as later confirmed by Chris Carter). It is suggested by this man that Scully ultimately initiated a sexual relationship with Mulder, as he remarked that he was very surprised when she invited Mulder "into her bed." The last scene of the series finale featured Mulder and Scully holding each other on a bed, facing an uncertain future together in love.

In the film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which takes place six years later, Mulder and Scully are still in a relationship. Scully was concerned that Mulder's continuing pursuit of the unknown was taking its toll on their relationship, and they could not be together if he could not "escape the darkness." However, the film ends with the couple sharing a passionate kiss, and in the "secret ending" after the majority of the credits, a happily-smiling Scully is seen in a small rowboat with Mulder, both clad in swimwear, in a tropical sea, having taken him up on his offer to run away together. In the 10th season, Scully and Mulder are no longer a couple, as she chose to leave him. At the end of the season, Scully gets a vision, which is revealed to have come from her son, William,at the beginning of season 11. Over the course of season 11, Scully and Mulder search for William. Skinner learns from the Smoking Man that the Smoking Man, who is Mulder's father, also artificially impregnated Scully, thus is William's father, as well. In the third episode of the 11th season, "Plus One," Scully and Mulder are intimate again. In the season 11 finale, "My Struggle IV," she reveals to Mulder that she is pregnant with his child.

Conceptual history

Chris Carter named Scully after his favorite sportscaster, Vin Scully of the Los Angeles Dodgers. John Doggett was likewise named after Vin Scully's longtime broadcasting partner, Jerry Doggett. Scully's character was also inspired by Jodie Foster's portrayal of Clarice Starling in the film The Silence of the Lambs.

The casting for Scully caused a conflict between Carter and the Fox network. Carter had chosen 24-year-old Gillian Anderson, whom Carter felt was perfect for the role. Of her audition, Carter said, "she came in and read the part with a seriousness and intensity that I knew the Scully character had to have and I knew [...] she was the right person for the part." However, Fox executives had wanted a more glamorous "bombshell" for the part (in a 2008 interview Anderson stated that Pamela Anderson had actually been the network's first choice), hoping that this would lead to the series involving a romantic element. This led Carter to insist that he did not want the roles of Mulder and Scully to become romantically involved. Carter decided Scully would be the skeptic to play against established stereotypes; typically on television the quality was attributed to a male. Because Duchovny was much taller than Anderson, during scenes where Mulder and Scully stand or walk next to each other Anderson stood on "the Gilly-Board," an apple box named after her.

Scully appears in every episode of the 11-season series with the exceptions of "3," "Zero Sum," "Unusual Suspects," and "Travelers." She has appeared outside The X-Files on numerous occasions, the most notable being in the Millennium (also created by Chris Carter) episode "Lamentation," in which the main character, Frank Black, visits the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and Mulder and Scully are briefly seen descending a stairway. In fact, they are Duchovny and Anderson's stand-ins.

An animated version of Scully, which featured the voice acting of Anderson, appeared on season eight of The Simpsons, in the episode "The Springfield Files," as well as Canadian animated series Eek! The Cat, on the episode "Eek Space 9." The animated television series ReBoot featured characters Fax Modem and Data Nully, obvious spoofs of Mulder and Scully, in the episode "Trust No One." Anderson provided her voice work for the episode, but co-star Duchovny declined.

Reception

Anderson won many awards for her portrayal of Special Agent Scully during the ten seasons of The X-Files, including an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1997, a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series in 1997, two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1997 and a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television in 1997. In total, Anderson received for the role, four Emmy nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, nine SAG nominations and eight Saturn nominations.

Film critic Scott Mendelson, writing in The Huffington Post, cited Scully as an example of strong female characters on television, calling her "one of the most iconic characters in the science-fiction genre." Radio Times Laura Pledger also named her as a strong TV woman, placing her at No. 1. Rebecca Traister of Salon.com opined that Scully had a better character arc than Mulder. She wrote, "The very fact that her character was such a hard sell made her repeated brushes with the supernatural all the more powerful. Mulder's desire to believe was so expansive, his credulity so flexible, that it's not as though he was ever going to have either shaken from him. But Scully's surety was solid, stable, rigid; every time she saw something she thought she'd never see, we saw it crack, sparks fly from it. She was forced to question herself, grow, change." She praised her for being more "rational, resilient, [and] mature" than her partner and for their mature relationship. In a review of "Irresistible," Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club wrote that it was a cliché to put Scully in danger, as "Scully is [the show's] heart, and any time she's in danger, it feels like the show itself is about to be stabbed through the heart."

The character of Scully has become something of a sci-fi heroine due to her intelligence and resilience, frequently appearing on lists of important female science fiction characters, such as Total Sci-Fi Onlines list of The 25 Women Who Shook Sci-Fi, where she came in fourth. TV Squad named her the thirteenth greatest woman on television, while the site also listed her among the most memorable female science fiction television characters. She is also often cited as being an unlikely sex symbol, frequently being included in lists of sexy TV characters. She was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters. The pairing Mulder/Scully was ranked number 15 on Sleuth Channel's poll of America's Top Sleuths.

Angelica Jade Bastién of Vulture emphasized the importance of Scully's character in popular culture by listing all the strong female characters she inspired or may have influenced in some aspects, including: Temperance "Bones" Brennan of Bones, Peggy Carter of Agent Carter, Veronica Mars of Veronica Mars, Olivia Moore of iZombie, Dr. Maura Isles of Rizzoli & Isles, Olivia Benson of Law and Order: SVU, Joan Watson of Elementary, Sydney Bristow of Alias, Abbie Mills of Sleepy Hollow, Zoë Washburne of Firefly, Stella Gibson (another character portrayed by Anderson) of The Fall and Olivia Dunham of Fringe. Jade Bastién wrote: "Do all the characters Scully has influenced live up to her? Definitely not. Gillian Anderson's performance and her chemistry with David Duchovny aren't exactly elements that can be replicated. But these characters prove that Scully isn't only the heart of The X-Files, but also the character who had the most profound influence on popular culture."

Indiewire's Liz Shannon Miller ranked Scully as the No. 1 most important character of The X-Files, writing: "Scully's legacy is so important in so many ways, from giving us the gift of Gillian Anderson's acting, to inspiring an entire generation of young women to pursue careers in STEM. Intelligent, loyal, flawed and brave, Scully was the show's beating heart and saving grace even in its lowest years. As Chris Carter himself has said: 'It's Scully's show'."

"The Scully Effect"
The character is believed by some to have initiated a phenomenon referred to as "The Scully Effect," as the character's role as a medical doctor and FBI Special Agent inspired many young women to pursue careers in science, medicine, engineering, and law enforcement, and as a result brought a perceptible increase in the number of women in those fields. At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Anderson noted that she has long been aware of "The Scully Effect" and stated: "We got a lot of letters all the time, and I was told quite frequently by girls who were going into the medical world or the science world or the FBI world or other worlds that I reigned, that they were pursuing those pursuits because of the character of Scully. And I said, 'Yay!'" Anne Simon, a biology professor and a science adviser for the series recalls: "I asked my Intro Bio class back then how many of them were influenced by the character of Scully on The X-Files to go into science and half of the hands in the room went up. That's huge! That was saying that the show was really having an effect." "The Scully Effect" remains a subject of academic inquiry.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Dana Scully on IMDb
 The Scully Effect on Fanlore

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5 Reasons to Visit Jersey Island
June 10, 2017 May 31, 2017 • World Itineraries
Jersey Island, just a few miles off the coast of France and the only part of England occupied by Hitler during the Second World War, this southern 'sunniest place in Britain' has become an increasingly attractive tourist destination.
Here are five reasons to visit.
Several diverse museums offer an exceptional history of the island. Start with the Jersey Museum, Art Gallery and Merchant's House. Comprehensive. Located in St Helier, the island's capital, it covers 250,000 years since the first inhabitants arrived. Here you'll find archaeological treasures, a restored 19th century gas-lit merchant's house and a display about the intriguing life of actress and producer Lillie Langtry whose love relationships with Royalty titillated English people throughout the 20th century. There is also a special exhibition celebrating the work of island artist, Edmund Blampied. You'll also hear Jersey-French being spoken and learn about the famous Jersey potato and jam.
With no location being more than a few miles from the water's edge, the Maritime Museum beside the harbor of St Helier is a must-see. Such is its interactive nature, you can see, touch, hear and even smell the exhibits – feel the force of a gale, understand the tides and even learn how to design and float a ship.
Unique among the museums is the 'War Tunnels,' a mile-long underground bunker dug by prisoners-of-war after the Nazis occupied the island in 1940. Dug deep into the hillside by slave workers from nations across Europe, the tunnels contain an underground collection of thought-provoking galleries that detail Jersey's war history from resistance, through starvation and eventual liberation in 1945. Upon arrival, each visitor receives an 'identity card,' a facsimile of a real card issued to an island resident during that era. At tour's end, the person's fate is revealed on a giant display board. Prepare to be shocked. At the entrance to the tunnel stands a Stug tank named 'Hedwig' – a replica of Germany's most produced armored fighting vehicle. The so-called 'Escape Tunnel,' a separate attraction, allows groups of four to eight people to use their sleuthing skills and teamwork to escape within 60 minutes.
With such a long, winding coastline, Jersey, the biggest of the Channel Islands, offers some startling scenery.
In the south is the 16th century Elizabeth Castle as well as the promenades and sweeping sands of St Aubin's Bay with land and sea activities such as cycling, jet-skiing, wakeboarding and even family-fun with banana boat rides; the eastern coast features the medieval fortress of Mont Orgueil castle with its torture chambers and the fishing ports and harbors of Gorey, St Catherine's breakwater and Rozel; the west can be an adrenalin-filled rush with the zip wires of Creepy Valley to toboggan rides at the aMaizin! Adventure Park and wave-riding at the surf spots of St Ouen; and the north is home to Durrell Wildlife Park named after naturalist and author, Gerald Durrell, comprising rare and endangered birds and animals from Mauritius kestrels and Vietnamese pheasants to Sumatran orangutans and slender tailed meerkats. Jersey's latest attraction, Tamba Park, is also located in the north, with activities including a dinosaur trail, boating lake, adventure playground, 'Birds of Prey' center, an indoor rain-forest themed playzone and an 'African Sculpture' walk.
One way to enjoy the island's attractions is to join a walking, cycling or mini-bus tour. Try friendly and knowledgeable, island-born Arthur, the blue badge guide, who hosts a wide variety of trips, long and short, private and public, to sites as diverse as farms and castles.
Being in the sunny south, Jersey boasts a wide diversity of flora and displays it generously at the mid-August 'Battle of Flowers' carnival with wonderful designs crafted from thousands of individual flowers dyed in an array of stunning colors. 'Tennerfest' is a six-week long celebration of food, with most restaurants on the island offering special menus at affordable prices to give people a chance to enjoy culinary creations from local produce. That and the annual five-day 'Jersey Festival of Words' literary event are just three of many island festivals.
With no place more than a few miles from the water's edge, seafood is plentiful, often enhanced by island delicacies such as Jersey Potatoes and Black Butter, made from apples, local cider and spices. Best restaurants include the sea-fronting Grand Jersey Hotel and Spa for succulent steak; the stately Longueville Manor to enjoy a leisurely 'Discovery' tasting menu with paired wines; Ormer restaurant, home to Michelin–star chef Shaun Rankin; No 10, one of the newest gourmet eateries in Saint Helier; Bohemia at The Club Hotel & Spa where chef Steve Smith has created a nine-course tasting menu; as well as casual and relaxed Le Braye Café on St. Ouen's Bay, with outside benches and tasty seafood served in paper baskets.
From bedrooms with ocean views to those facing lush gardens, Jersey offers an abundance of sophisticated, lavish accommodation.
Want to feel like a local? Rent a suite at SACO apartments in the very center of the island's capital, Saint Helier. Yearn for a bucolic, Turner-esque setting with outdoor pool and gardens? Choose the elegant Longueville Manor. Searching for somewhere trendy, modern and buzzing with activity? Try the centrally located Club Hotel & Spa with spacious swimming pool and sauna, bar and fine-dining restaurant. Wanting to combine an urban stay in Saint Helier with beach activities? Split your time between Hand Picked sister hotels, Grand Jersey and L'Horizon Beach Hotel & Spa, with locations that are hard to match.
Be sure to check out the Jersey Heritage Pass, which grants access to many of the island's attractions and it could save you quite some time.
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I'm sitting in the newly remodeled Rijksmuseum lobby for the third time this year. The museum, reopened this spring after a massive multiyear remodel, is wonderful. The collection is beautifully displayed with paintings on the walls and other objects and artifacts in perfectly illuminated glass cases. However, what I'm most impressed by are the changes to the building itself.
They have enclosed the sizable inner courtyards with glass ceilings, giving them an atrium feel. It puts me in mind of the interior courtyards of Paris's Louvre (ala I.M. Pei). The new Rijks gives one the same feeling - tons of natural light, big open functional spaces for the entrance of the museum (important as crowds have been tremendous this year) and a lovely modern café complete with free wifi. I'm here in the café now enjoying the always good Dutch coffee while admiring a Henri Moore statue. It reminds me of a section of his "Vertabre" in downtown Seattle, only this one is bright white - quite striking.
Outside in the gardens there are more Moores (no pun) this time classic bronze. The gardens also sport fancy new fountains, into which tourists can place themselves if their timing it right. Its been quite warm here this summer, so I guess no one minds if they mistime their jump and get sprayed. All in all I'd say the makeover is a big success. Functional, attractive, and efficient - a reflection of the Dutch character and a fitting venue for the art of the Dutch Golden Age.