International Live: Attacks on two Christchurch mosques left at least 49 dead Friday, with one gunman identified as an Australian extremist apparently livestreaming the assault that triggered the lockdown of the New Zealand city.
"It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, saying it marked "one of New Zealand's darkest days". "From what we know, it does appear to have been well planned," she said, adding that in addition to the dead another 20 people were seriously injured.
said three men had been taken into custody.
Two IEDs (improvised explosive devices) were also found and neutralised by the military, police said. A Palestinian man who was in one of the mosques said he saw someone being shot in the head.
"Then people started running out. Some were covered in blood," he said, adding that he joined the fleeing crowd and managed to escape. Local media reported at least nine people were dead.
Video and documents circulating online — but not officially confirmed — suggested the shooter had streamed his attack on Facebook Live. AFP has examined the footage, which has subsequently been taken down. Journalists experienced in verification techniques said it appeared to be genuine.
users not to share it.
A number of pictures were posted to a social media account of a semi- automatic weapon covered in the names of historical figures, many of whom were involved in the killing of Muslims. Police, who initially imposed a city-wide lockdown, sent armed officers to a number of scenes.
The two mosques are about five kilometres apart. It was not clear if the same gunman was involved at both sites. One witness told stuff.co.nz he was praying when he heard shooting and then saw his wife lying dead on the footpath outside when he fled.
However, anyone over 16 can apply for a standard firearms licence after doing a safety course, which allows them to purchase and use a shotgun unsupervised. Christchurch, a relatively small city in the south of New Zealand, hit global headlines in 2011 when it was struck by a deadly earthquake.


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Google Stadia Launches In November For $10 Per Month With 31 Games
Posted by Arindam Biswas June 6, 2019
Last Updated:June 6, 2019
Google Stadia is a big step towards cloud gaming. It makes high-quality games playable in your browser without any installation. But until now we knew very few details about Google Stadia. Google officially today announced a game lineup, pricing, and launch date for Stadia.
The service is launching in November and it will cost $9.99 per month for 4K 60fps HDR with 5.1 sound gaming. Google calls tier as Google Stadia Pro. Whereas the other tier called Google Statia Base will launch in 2020 which will give you access to basic 1080P gaming. We will have to buy all the games for Stadia Base separately.
In Statia Pro, we will get some of the games free. But we have to buy other games separately. So it is not a totally subscription-based model. For the $10 will only include one game, Destiny 2. Google promises to add more games later.
Total 31 games confirmed to coming in Statia at launch Here's the full list of games confirmed for Google Stadia so far:
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Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Samurai ShodownFinal Fantasy XV
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
For stable gaming in Stadia, you will need at least 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speed. With this, you will able to play games in 720p with surround sound. In order to play 4K 60fps in 5.1 surround sound, you need at least 35 Mbps connection but we suggest you have at least 50 Mbps for a seamless connection.
To play, all you will need is a device with Google Chrome or a Chromecast Ultra. You will need a Stadia controller or any controller that can be connected to your devices. You will also able to play on your mobile but it will be first in pixel devices. More devices will be addded later.
If you don't want to wait until rolling out of free stadia then you can preorder the Stadia Founders Edition today. The Founders Edition costs $129 and it comes with a limited edition Night Blue Stadia Controller, Chromecast Ultra, Destiny 2, and 3 months of Stadia Pro ($300 value). You also can buy the Stadia controller separately for $70.
Stadia will launch in 14 countries including Belgium, Finland, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the USA in November. More information about this will during E3. Keep an eye on our site for further information.
Arindam Biswas June 6, 2019

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This Sun 600 SE Camera is in great working condition and in good cosmetic condition with a few scuffs and scratches from normal use. The output unit runs well, the pressure rollers spin freely, and the flash works. The original neck strap is well attached, and everything opens and closes easily.
The flash indicator light for this model is in the viewfinder and to recharge the flash you must press the shutter button halfway. When the flash is charged the red light goes out. With a fresh film pack/batter it will recharge pretty fast but as the film pack/battery gets older it might take about 10-20 seconds. When the camera is not in use always put the flash down.
Please note that this camera has been cleaned and tested. All of our cameras have been pre-owned and therefore may have some cosmetic imperfections scuffs or marks.


Designed for an extremely busy couple, this house was conceived as a refuge from hectic lives, with the living spaces sheltering on the private side of two curving, massive brick walls.
Cement-bagged and painted white, the two walls provide a sense of containment and stillness, suggesting a presence which pre-dates the light timber framed forms comprising the rest of the house. Nautral light infuses and animates the spaces in a variety of ways: washing along soft brick surfaces, soaking down through skylights protected by outer skins of membrane, filtering in through many combinations of timber shutters, or reflecting up from the pool onto the ceilings.
Sited on a compact rear lot, the house was confined by tight ordinance controls. In order to overcome the containment of the site, the rooms open towards the adjacent park and the garden steps down towards the park to develop a perceived sense of spaciousness.
In 2003 new owners asked us to add two bedrooms to the upper level and completely refurbish the exterior and interiors of the house.


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How to buy a barbecue
By Verity StevensonStaff Reporter
Burned the burgers again? Turns out there's a lot you can blame on the machine itself, which is why you should make sure you buy the right one.
"A barbecue is something that shouldn't be dispensable," says Charles Munro, owner of Barbeque Pro, a store based in Liberty Village and Concord, Ont., that sells and refurbishes barbecues. "The amount of barbecues that are thrown out a year … is pretty atrocious," says Munro.
He urges buyers to shop carefully when looking for their next grill, as they're faced with a growing number of cheaper options.
If you're willing to invest $600 or more for a model that will last, Duff Dixon,vice president of product development at Ontario Gas BBQ recommends seeking out a qualified sales representative who can guide you depending on your needs. "If you want something disposable after one or two years, you can go anywhere you want," he said.
But despite the influx of cheaper models, consumers are still looking for quality, Dixon's colleague, Troy Foster, says.
"People are looking for really good-quality, long-lasting barbecues that are going to have the ability to build out, as far as features go, down the road," said Foster, who is vice-president of operations at Ontario Gas BBQ.
Foster says you can start out with a standard grill and build onto it as you go. Features you can add include rotisseries, smoker boxes and even charcoal components. Add-ons may be ideal if you're living in the city or have a smaller back yard.
And if you live in a condo, you can even buy an electric barbecue at about $250. But check with your property manager first — most condo buildings prohibit both gas barbecues on balconies and carrying a propane tank inside elevators; electric barbecues could be prohibited, too, in your building.
Another (environment-friendly) option is buying second-hand, Munro says, allowing you to buy higher-end products. His company cleans and refurbishes barbecues.
To ensure your grill lasts, keep it clean, Munro says. The black build-up caused by lingering food is carcinogenic and corrodes grills. "Would you eat from a dirty a frying pan?" he asks.
Whether you go big, small, old or new, Foster likens a barbecue to adding an extension to your house or your kitchen.
"Barbecuing is such a culture … your living space just increases," he said. "Everybody kind of gathers around it and it's just a reason to get outside."
'Give it a shake' and other barbecue shopping tips
We spoke with three barbecue experts and came up with a checklist of attributes you should keep in mind while you're shopping.
"Bring a magnet," says Charles Munro, owner of Barbeque Pro. A magnet shouldn't stick on stainless steel, so if it does, you know the "stainless steel" designation on your prospective purchase may just be a coating. Stainless steel is the most durable and low-maintenance material for a barbecue, says Munro. He suggests making sure at least the parts on your barbecue are stainless steel.
"Don't trust anything shiny," Munro adds. If something is, there's a good chance it isn't stainless steel. Also, "there's no such thing as 'non-stick' when something is being cooked at 600 degrees," he says, so advises that you don't trust that label if you see it.
Cast iron is another good barbecue material, especially for its ability to absorb heat. But you must care of it or it will rust.
Another way to test a barbecue's quality in the store is to "give it a little shake," says Dixon. If it rattles, it probably isn't high-quality.
Natural gas or propane
Propane may burn hotter than natural gas, but that doesn't mean it will do so in your grill. The advantage of natural gas is that you can hook it to your home's line, if it has one. These uses more gas, but you don't have to worry about replacing propane tanks.
"Charcoal is what I call barbecue; gas is what I call grill," says Munro. He and Dixon both say cooking with the bricks is an art. "It's a huge, growing category," Dixon says, citing a large section of his store dedicated to the kettle-like charcoal barbecues. People are taking their cooking talents outdoors with barbecues and often get a charcoal barbecue as an addition to one they may already have, Dixon says. They especially like cooking this way because of the flavour charcoal adds. But it's more work, Munro says.
The average size of a grill lies between 400 and 600 square inches, according to Munro. You can cook for eight people on that size and even for up to 20, if you're timing things properly.
You can get a good barbecue for $600 — about what the average buyer is willing to spend on one, says Munro. And you can get a really good barbecue for $1,000. "It is an investment — for a lot of people, a thousand bucks, it's nothing to joke around about," he says. "You're getting what you pay for," Dixon said.
Both Dixon and Munro said the best-selling brands at their stores are Napoleon, Weber and Broil King (not necessarily in the order). Napoleon is a Canadian brand based in Barrie, Ont., so parts are easy to order when you need repairs. "Buying a Weber or a Napoleon, it's like buying an Audi or a BMW," says Munro. Both brands have affordable lines.
Always look at the warranty on the barbecue you want to buy. The warranty may change for different parts. But some models have up to a 10- or 20-year warranty, which is ideal is if you're looking for something that's going to last.
Note - May 3, 2016: This article was edited from a previous version.


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The "Rwandan Genocide" happen between April and June of 1994. During just 100 days 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Some of the reasons the Genocide occurred since 1916 when Belgian colonists arrived, and produced identity cards in which Tutsis were considered to be superior to the Huts, and it was obvious Tutsis welcomed this idea because they could have better jobs, education, etc, and not surprisingly a resentment among Huts built up. More than 20,000 Tutsis were killed and many of them flied to neighbor countries as Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.When Belgium's power increased and made a Rwanda independence in 1962, the Hutus had to take their place, but during decades Tutsis were compared as scapegoats for crisis. After some time some Tutsi refugees in Uganda (that were supported by some good Hutus) formed the known RPF that is the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Their objective was to reconquer Habyarimana to have the right to return to their old home. Habyrimana was chosen to exploit a threat will bring Hutus back to their side, but Tutsis in Rwanda were accused of RPF collaborators. In August 1993, after many several attacks at least an accord was signed between Habyarimana and the known RPF, but just was for very little time.In April 1994 Habayrama's planes was shot down and was the last piece for the Rwandan Genocide, after that in Kigali the presidential guard started a campaign of retribution.
Recruits of Hutus and Tutsis were displayed all over the Rwandan. Gangs of governments soldiers hacked a way to through the Tutsi population blowing them in churches or in another ways. Hutus started to believe that to finish all, they should wipe out the Tutsis completely. Hutu civilians were obligated, in case they were Tutsi neighbors, to kill their neighbors by military.After Habyarimana's death RPF was in assault again. The UN in many cases tried to negotiate with the RPF for a ceasefire that never worked.
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Can you confirm these amateur observations of Cyrtopodion scabrum?
Type locality: restricted to "Umgebung von Tor (Sinai)" by MERTENS 1922.
Introduced to USA (Nevada) (Stocking & Jones 2017).
Diagnosis Diagnosis (= definition of genus): Digits clawed, slender, distal two or three phalanges make an angle with the proximal portion of the digits; a single series of smooth transverse subdigital lamellae; end of digit weakly or not at all laterally compressed; generally three or more rows of lateral scales on digits; no fringes or denticulations on lateral digital scales; longitudinal concavity in frontal region of head, as a rule, absent or weakly developed; usually not more than 30 scales between centers of eyes; pupil vertical with lobed anterior and posterior margins; usually two or three pairs of postmental shields, the first pair usually in contact behind the mental; males with preanal and/or femoral pores; segmentation of tail pronounced [from LEVITON et al. 1992].
Type species: Stenodactylus scaber HEYDEN 1827 is the type species of the genus Cyrtopodion FITZINGER 1843.
Etymology The name Cyrtopodion is neuter, hence the specific epithet has to be scabrum (fide CROTHER 2000).
Baig, K. J. 1998. A new species of Tenuidactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Balochistan, Pakistan. Hamadryad 23 (2): 127-132.


Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) form a heterogeneous group of neoplasms composed of pancreatic NETs and carcinoid tumors. Refractory hyper-ammonemia related encephalopathy is a condition seen rarely with metabolic liver disease and commonly with intra-abdominal shunts in the presence or absence of cirrhosis. We present here, a rare cause of medically refractory hyperammonemia, secondary to metastatic neuroendocrine tumor which was managed through interventional radiology measures. Apart from other causes of central nervous system involvement in metastatic neuroendocrine tumors, intratumoral microportovenous shunting and its management drastically improves outcomes and quality of life when diagnosed early.
Klimstra DS, Modlin IR, Coppola D, Lloyd RV, Suster S. The pathologic classification of neuroendocrine tumors: a review of nomenclature, grading, and staging systems. Pancreas. 2010;39(6)707-12.
Kulke MH, Bendell J, Kvols L, Picus J, Pommier R, Yao J. Evolving diagnostic and treatment strategies for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. J Hematol Oncol. 2011;4(29).
Weng TI, Shih FF, Chen WJ. Unusual causes of hyperammonemia in the ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2004;22:105-7.
Nott L, Price T, Pittman K , Pattersona K , Fletcher J. Hyperammonemia encephalopathy: an important cause of neurological deterioration following chemotherapy. Leuk Lymphoma. 2007;48:1702-11.
M. Mignon. Natural history of neuroendocrine enteropancreatic tumors. Digestion. 2000;62(1):51-8.
Reddy SK, Clary BM. Neuroendocrine liver metastases. Surg Clin North Am. 2010;90(4):853-61.
Vogl TJ, Naguib NNN, Zangos S, Eichler K, Hedayati A, Nour-Eldin NEA. Liver metastases of neuroendocrine carcinomas: interventional treatment via transarterial embolization, chemoembolization and thermal ablation. Eur J Radiol. 2009;72(3)517-28.
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Erinjeri JP, Deodhar A, Thornton RH, Allen PJ, Getrajdman GI, Brown KT. Resolution of hepatic encephalopathy following hepatic artery embolization in a patient with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor metastatic to the liver. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2009;31:299-307.
Turken O, Basekim C, Haholu A, Karagoz B, Bilgi O, Ozgun A, Kucukardali Y. Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in a patient with primary hepatic neuroendocrine carcinoma. Med Oncol. 2009;26:309-13.
Vandamme T, Kunnen J, Simoens M. Hyperammonemic encephalopathy in diffuse liver metastasis: is this the end stage? Gastroenterology. 2012;143(1):e9-e10.
Weng TI, Shih FF, Chen WJ. Unusual causes of hyperammonemia in the ED. Am J Med. 2004;22:105-7.
Mathias RS, Kostiner D, Packman S. Hyperammonemia in urea cycle disorders: role of the nephrologist. Am J Kidney Dis. 2001;37:1069-80.
Pavel ME, Baum U, Hahn EG, Hensen J. Doxorubicin and streptozotocin after failed biotherapy of neuroendocrine tumors. International J Gastrointestinal Cancer. 2005;35:179-86.


We are calling for the New Zealand Government to bring approximately two dozen people currently held at an immigration detention centre in Kapung, Indonesia, to New Zealand to assess their asylum claims in New Zealand itself.
This is the first case in which the publicly available evidence indicates a group of people both intended to and had the capability to reach New Zealand territory by boat to seek asylum from persecution under the Refugee Convention. Their journey, however, was forcibly and illegally stopped by Australian authorities in international waters. This was done with the knowledge of the New Zealand Government, and possibly with their agreement or even instruction. The New Zealand Government has refused to release details about the incident under the Official Information Act.
We believe processing this group's asylum claims in New Zealand is the only course of action that could meaningfully demonstrate the New Zealand Government is committed to uphold the spirit of the Refugee Convention, and is not complicit in Australia's much condemned Operation Sovereign Borders.
In May 2015, a group of asylum-seekers was intercepted by the Australian Navy and Border Force on their journey to New Zealand according to evidence published in an Amnesty International Australia report. This incident – the interception and current detention of these asylum-seekers – most recently received coverage in the New Zealand media in early 2016.
The passengers were removed from their boat and put on two smaller, less seaworthy boats bound for Indonesia. After one boat ran out of fuel, the passengers had to transfer onto the other boat in the middle of the ocean. This boat then ran aground off the coast of Indonesia and the asylum-seekers were rescued by Indonesian fisherman, and subsequently detained by Indonesian authorities.
According to the Amnesty report, the asylum-seekers suffered abuse in the custody of Australian authorities, and their journey on the two less seaworthy boats seriously endangered their lives. Significantly, the actions of the Australian forces denied the group's opportunity to claim asylum in New Zealand territory.
He said he was confident that they could have reached their destination, and none of the asylum-seekers heard the crew members express any doubts about this either. When asked if the interception was a rescue operation, the asylum-seeker was categorical: "No, we were simply caught." The other asylum-seekers agreed with him.
Given these circumstances, the pertinent question is whether these actions were conducted on behalf of the New Zealand Government. The New Zealand Prime Minister stated he had been informed about the group of asylum seekers and their ability and intention to land in New Zealand, and had engaged in discussions with the Australian and Indonesian authorities about the situation. While Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders has been rightly condemned, New Zealand's role in this policy has thus far attracted little scrutiny.
Available information indicates the New Zealand Government has been interested in establishing an offshore asylum-seeker processing regime.
In 2010, Radio New Zealand reported that "[the New Zealand] Government is open to talks with Australia about a regional solution" and was in talks with "East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key" about off-shore processing.
While this deal was never formally implemented due to a change in the Australian Prime Minister, it showed a willingness on the New Zealand Government's part to play an active role in Australia's 'turnback' policy.
Considering this group of asylum seekers for resettlement in New Zealand as part of New Zealand's refugee quota system, as suggested by Labour leader Andrew Little, would be a preferable outcome to letting these asylum-seekers languish in Indonesia in detention. However, not processing their claims in New Zealand would suggest tacit approval by the New Zealand Government of Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders which hopes to achieve just this type of outcome: forcibly turning away boats to countries that have not signed the Refugee Convention for offshore processing of asylum-seekers.
 "By Hook or by Crook – Australia's Abuse of Asylum-Seekers at Sea", Amnesty International, 2015, pp. 14-24.
 See, for example, "'Don't come back' Aust navy tells Sri Lankan asylum seekers", One News, 15 February 2016; "Refugees detained trying to reach NZ", TV3, Newshub, 15 February 2016; and "Interview with Phil Miller and Nicolai Jung" 95 bFM, 15 February 2016.
(see Nicholas Jones, "Asylum-seekers make plea for help to NZ Government", NZ Herald, 7 June 2015).
"Statement By Legal Scholars Regarding The Situation Concerning Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers ", Scribd, 7 July 2014). Similarly, the New York Times Editorial Board has written that "Australia is pursuing draconian measures to deter people without visas from entering the country by boat. In doing so, it is failing in its obligation under international accords to protect refugees fleeing persecution" (see "Australia's Refugee Problem", NYT, 4 July 2014).
 "NZ should stay out of Australia's refugee problem – Labour", Radio NZ, 8 July 2010.
 Staff reporter and AAP, "New Zealand goal for boat's asylum-seekers", NZ Herald, 10 April 2013.
 Michael Timmins, "Michael Timmins: Key's refugee policy misses the boat", NZ Herald, 12 February 2013.
 Refugees detained trying to reach NZ (at 0:55), Newshub, 15 February 2016.


In November 2017, the Fall 2017 Bucks County Real Estate Market Trends show that sales in Bucks County were up 2.6% in November 2017 vs November 2016. While some view sales as strong, there were also two other main driving forces at work in the local bucks county real estate market.
Bucks County Home Prices: DOWN 0.3% from last November.
For the year, inventory of homes for sale in Bucks County is 13.4% below last year.
The inventory of homes for sale decreased by 7.0% in Bucks County during November and is down 13.4% (370 listings) compared to last year. That one statistic alone is driving up sales because the limited inventory is causing those in the market to chose a property based on what is currently available. The Months Supply of Bucks County Inventory dropped to 3.5 months, while the number of new listings in November was down 10% (63 listings) compared to last November. So if you're looking for a new home for sale in Bucks, you found fewer homes to chose from and therefore to purchase the end of 2017.
Sales in November were down 12.9% compared to last November but are up 2.6% year-to-date. The Property Marketing Period decreased from 42 days in November 2016 to 27 days.
The median sold price in November was down 0.3% ($1,000) from last November but is up 5.5% year-to-date, a $15,700 increase per sale.
The sold price compared to the original list price in November was 97.0%, slightly above the normal range of 94-96%. The Sold Price to List Price ratio was at 98.5% compared to 97.9% last November.
During the Fall 2017, all showings in the Delaware Valley Real Estate Market were 2.2 showings per listing for properties for sale during the fall.
Note: There were some showing reservation issues with the MLS during November however all appointments in November were down from the previous year and month.
Compare Fall 2017 Bucks County Real Estate Sales against the Fall 2017 Delaware Valley Real Estate Market.
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Film Review – Hold the Dark (2018)
October 3, 2018 · by Eddie · in Eddie's Space, Film Reviews, Film reviews: Thriller. ·
Title – Hold the Dark (2018)
Director – Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin)
Cast – Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Julian Black Antelope
Plot – In the harsh surrounds of the Alaskan wilderness, writer and wolf expert Russell Core (Wright) gets drawn into an increasingly dangerous missing child case when the child's mother Medora Slone (Keough) requests his help to find her missing boy.
"What's outside those windows, it gets in you"
After two solid thriller's in the last few years, that included the critically lauded and audience favourite Green Room, hype has been growing around upcoming director Jeremy Saulnier and his unique sensibilities in crafting mood, tension and outbursts of sensory assaulting violence.
In light of this, there was growing interest in the filmmaker's adaptation of William Giraldi novel Hold the Dark, the directors highest profile and biggest budget release yet that has been championed by its distributer Netflix as one of the streaming giants premiere releases of the year.
Unfortunately for Netflix and its director, Hold the Dark becomes a rather frustrating experience, made worse by the fact there is so much to like here and in many ways the film is close to being quite good, failing however to take the steps needed to make this become a reality, not just an unachieved possibility.
Fans of Saulnier's previous works will instantly feel at home with Dark's slowly paced and well-filmed batch of thrills that takes its time in telling the story of Jeffrey Wright's wolf expert and writer Russell Core getting drawn into an increasingly ominous child disappearance case, that includes Riley Keough's depressed mother Medora Slone, Alexander Skarsgard as Medora's husband and war veteran Vernon and James Badge Dale's kindly local policeman Donald Marium, who all operate and live in the harsh surrounds of an icy Alaskan small town.
It's an intriguing set-up and a great location for such a mystery to take place in, one that allows Saulnier and his DOP Magnus Nordenhof Jonck to capture some stunning and memorable imagery, yet the methodically snail-paced approach, the often quiet whisperings of the cast and the at times frustrating blurry motivations and insights of its narrative hold Dark back from becoming the film it could've been.
Dark is a film with some great individual sequences, that includes a sojourn to the Middle East and a classily staged shoot out, that while completely over the top and unbelievable is a great showcase for Saulnier's growing talents behind the camera and this is a film that features some solid turns from its cast, that's anchored by Wright who always excels when given the chance to take a lead role but it's still not enough to fully immerse us in this world that seems so open to being explored further.
From Core's dealings and experiences with studying wolves and searching for the Slone's boy, themes of racism and social injustices around the natives that live in the small community and the relationship between Medora and Vernon, Dark fails in giving these the airtime they deserve (which from my understanding is similar to the book on which it is based) but it's still a shame that Saulnier and his long time screenwriting collaborator Macon Blair failed to maximise these facets of the narrative.
Solid and memorable moments are to be found within Hold the Dark, including its stunning location and surrounds but this is a rather icy affair that fails to invest us into its story that unfortunately keeps us at an arm's length distance throughout, making Saulnier's film another disappointing Netflix outing.
2 ½ incompetent shooters out of 5
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4 responses to "Film Review – Hold the Dark (2018)"
Ryan October 6, 2018 at 10:07 pm · · Reply →
I was very much looking forward to this film, I love Saulnier's films, but this just confused the hell out of me. Some great parts and your review summed it up quite correctly and your 3rd paragraph I couldn't agree more with that statement. Far out, I am a bit upset about it really.
Eddie October 8, 2018 at 10:44 am · · Reply →
Yeh me to mate, it should've and could've been a really strong film! I hate it when film's such as this feel like they easily could've been something more.
netflixoriginalmoviesreviewed November 16, 2018 at 9:15 pm · · Reply →
Totally agreed on the points you raise, but you're letting the film off easy by not mentioning the bizarre and pretentious wolf mask stuff. Still, cool review, thanks.
Eddie November 19, 2018 at 9:42 am · · Reply →
Yeh mate there was a lot of pretentious stuff going on here haha. Like a good metaphor here or there is fine but this laid it on pretty thick!


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What you should know: You should avoid some saturated fats, such as trans fats found in processed foods. However, fats like omega-3 have health benefits and even naturally occurring saturated fats may be good for you. Too much sugar, on the other hand, can cause your liver to become resistant to insulin, raising your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Sugar—a type of carbohydrate—appears to be the culprit for weight gain, too. A 2015 National Institutes of Health study found that eating good fats can help you burn more calories than eating the same amount of carbs.
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What you should know: We tend to think that all red meat is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease. While processed red meat, such as bacon, sausage, cold cuts or hot dogs does lead to higher risk of heart failure, this may not be the case for unprocessed meats. A 2017 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study found that people who ate three ounces of unprocessed red meat, three times a week, didn't end up with higher blood pressure or total cholesterol levels.
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Hammond Building
It was Detroit's first skyscraper, a building the likes — and heights — of which Michiganders had never seen. It was the cradle of Detroit law — and a monument to a guy who slaughtered cattle.
The Hammond Building's role in ushering Detroit into the age of the skyscraper cannot be understated. The state had never seen anything like it. At 10 stories, it towered over everything else around it for years. Gawkers literally came from all over Michigan to see this architectural wonder. It was proof that Detroit was a city destined for bigger things -- and bigger buildings.
The Hammond would be built on land that had belonged to former Postmaster and Judge James Abbott II, on which he had a brick Greek Revival mansion. Abbott said he hoped this land "was forever outside of and beyond the reach of business wants or business property" and "in future years there he and his children and his children's children could have a quiet country home," Clarence M. Burton wrote in his definitive history "City of Detroit and Michigan."
That country land is now in the heart of downtown and the city's business district, bounded by Woodward Avenue and Fort, Congress and Griswold streets.
In 1877, Abbott's land was divvied up and sold to Gov. John J. Bagley, Levi Barbour, a prominent Detroiter who helped the city buy Belle Isle, and Eliza Jane Chandler. Despite its location across Fort Street from Old City Hall, the land was said to be unproductive until Bagley and Barbour built a row of one-story buildings around the entire property - leaving the Abbott mansion in the midst. But the land would soon be cleared of its small frame buildings and white picket fencing for a building like Detroiters had never seen.
The story of Detroit's first skyscraper starts with an enterprising Detroit meat-packer named George H. Hammond. A New Englander by birth, Hammond moved to Detroit in 1854 and started a mattress factory. It burned down two years later, so he decided to try his hand with a cleaver, opening a butcher shop at Third and Howard. As the city grew, so did Hammond's fortunes, and he got involved in the wholesale and retail meat trades. His biggest success, however, came by pioneering refrigerated railcars to haul fresh meat, and he even received a patent for a refrigerator car design in 1868. He built a packing plant in Hohman, Ind., near the Illinois state line, and formed the George H. Hammond Co. in 1873. Business was booming, and by 1885, the plant was processing 3,000 head of cattle a week. The town was even renamed Hammond, Ind., though Hammond the man remained a loyal Detroiter. "By the time of his death in 1886, Hammond ranked with Swift, Armour, and Morris as one of the 'big four' in American meat packing," according to "The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914."
When architect George Edbrooke of Chicago read about the wealthy meat-packer's plans to build an office building, he went to Detroit, served up the lowest bid and landed the job. Hammond died at age 48 in 1886, just as work was getting started and putting a crimp in the plans. In 1889, his estate - in the control of his widow, Ellen Barry Hammond - bought the Chandler portion of the site for $100,000 and the Bagley and Barbour slice for $250,000. It was Ellen Hammond who oversaw the completion of the landmark, a proud memorial to her husband. It should be noted that some histories, including William Hawkins Ferry's "The Buildings of Detroit" say Hammond sold his slaughterhouse and then decided to build the skyscraper. However, Hammond died in 1886, and it was Ellen Hammond who sold the facility to an English syndicate in 1889, three years after his death. (He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.)
"Staid Detroiters were astonished when the picket fence came down," George W. Stark recalled in the Detroit Free Press in August 1938. "They were more astonished when workmen began to dig a huge hole in the ground. Up to that time there had never been such an excavation in all of Detroit."
The red giant
The red-bricked Hammond was one of the largest masonry buildings ever built in the United States. It featured heavy masonry of stone and brick on its lower floors, borrowing heavily from the school of Richardsonian Romanesque, as seen in other Detroit landmarks such as the Grand Army of the Republic Building. The front of the building, from the ground to the top of the first floor, was built with rock-faced brownstone. From the second floor to the cornice, "the finest pressed brick have been used for the front, relieved by trimmings of rock-faced and tool-finished brownstone, and the eighth story is surmounted by carved capitals of brownstone," the Free Press wrote Nov. 3, 1889. It was "fire proof and of the best character in design, material and workmanship, and especially suitable for banking and office purposes."
Edbrooke utilized many of the familiar motifs and devices of smaller commercial buildings of the time - he just built this one taller. The words "- 1889 - Hammond Building" were written in bold, large capital letters that were split across the front on three floors, separated by windows. The date - "1889" - was between the seventh and eighth floor; "Hammond" was between the sixth and seventh; and "Building" was between the fifth and sixth.
Like most buildings of the time, opulence was everywhere in the Hammond. The main hall on the first floor featured Georgia marble wainscoting. The building was finished in oak, and the interior walls on the ground floor were of brick with iron columns supporting iron girders. The grand staircase from the first to second floors was made of iron with marble treads; the stairways the rest of the way up were of carved oak. Each suite boasted such luxuries as a Georgia marble sink and a fireproof vault with an iron door and combination lock. "On every floor two separate groups of closets will be provided with Georgia marble floors, wainscoting and partitions," the Free Press wrote in 1889. "Special attention has been given in arranging wide and spacious corridors above, so as to furnish ample light and air and make all the offices very desirable."
Soundproofing in such office buildings - with their cavernous halls and marble floors - was far from a refined art at the time, and plaster and lathe did a poor job of insulating noise. But with the Hammond, "construction of the floors and partitions will be such as to prevent any nuisance of this character," the Free Press wrote in 1889. To sum it up, the paper wrote, "The building, in its fireproof qualities and all other respects, including light, heat, ventilation and perfect arrangement for the comfort of occupants, will be far superior to any building of the kind yet erected in the west."
The Hammond had two entrances: One on the southeast corner of Griswold and Fort streets and the other from Campus Martius. A corridor ran through the building from entrance to entrance and led to three hydraulic elevators that moved at 400 feet per minute. Another extravagance was the steam heat that ran throughout the building. Fireplaces alone wouldn't cut it in a building of this size, plus smoke, ash and the risk of fire were deterrents. When it was built, four large steel boilers in the basement pumped heat all the way to the 10th floor - another impressive feat for the era - and, like the elevators, "no expense has been spared to obtain the best regulated warming apparatus that modern skill has produced," the Free Press wrote in 1889.
In the era of horse-drawn fire engines, deadly blazes were a huge concern, especially in such a large building. Edbrooke had that covered: "All exposed ironwork was encased by fireproof material, and the wood floor joists were covered with fireproof tile below and concrete mortar above," Ferry wrote. That made "the structure absolutely fireproof," the Free Press boasted in 1889.
It is widely accepted that the first true skyscraper was Chicago's 10-story steel-framed Home Insurance Building, which predated the Hammond by only five years, so the technology was still very much new at the time. However, it was still an unperfected art, as the Free Press reported Jan. 25, 1890, that the building was settling and the Department of Safety was called in to investigate.
An awestruck city
The exact opening date of the Hammond is tough to nail down, as some tenants moved in before interior work was done. A Nov. 3, 1889, Free Press article reported that the Hammond Building was "rapidly approaching completion," and an Aug. 31, 1890, article in the paper said the building was expected to be "entirely completed in about a month." Nearly eight months later, an April 20, 1890, article in the paper said the "structure is finished but for work on exterior ornamental detail." One thing is certain, however: When the Hammond did open, "Detroit was astir with excitement over the completion of its first skyscraper," Ferry wrote. To celebrate, tightrope walker Tommy Davenport was hired to walk across Fort Street, a dizzying 10 stories up.
"I remember when the Hammond Building was the eighth wonder of the world as a skyscraper and a tight-rope walker walked from the City Hall tower to the new Hammond Building. Our tonsils were sunburnt for days after," Detroit News editor Malcolm W. Bingay wrote in 1935.
On Aug. 31, 1890, the Free Press reported that every window of the Hammond was illuminated, creating a "pillar of light" and a "splendid sight" for throngs of onlookers, both common Detroiters and visitors to that year's Detroit International Exposition. "The 246 offices and the stores on the ground floor have been brightly lighted up with Edison incandescent lights and gas every night during the past week to give exposition visitors an opportunity of viewing the magnitude of the building after dark," the Free Press wrote. The building was open during the day and evening to allow Expo visitors to climb to the top for "a splendid bird's-eye view of the city."
Detroiters "clamored for an opportunity to climb to the roof and look over the sprawling city," the Free Press wrote in 1938. "Up-state communities, arranging for excursions to this metropolis, began to advertise the unprecedented opportunities for a bird's-eye view of Detroit from the roof of the Hammond Building." Such excitement, festivities and awe made the Hammond a beloved landmark to Detroiters for decades.
The Hammond's height led to it becoming the headquarters of the local weather bureau. Captains of freighters headed up the Detroit River would look to the Hammond's roof, where flags during the day and oil lanterns by night signaled storm conditions on the Great Lakes. The building's main floor was used for stores and bank offices, and the rest was office space, which housed some of Detroit's most influential movers and shakers, from the Joys to the Newberrys to the McMillans. The Detroit Tigers had an office in the Hammond, and fans would look up to its roof to see whether a white flag with a blue circle was flying: That was the signal that the Tigers were playing that day at Bennett Park, which was located on the site of Tiger Stadium before the beloved ballpark was constructed.
"Even when the Majestic Building soared to 14 stories in 1896 the Hammond tenants suffered no inferiority complex," however, the Detroit Times wrote in March 1955.
The cradle of Detroit law
Affording rent in such a place of prestige would not come cheap. The first tenant to move into Detroit's first high-rise was S.S. Babcock, an attorney and man of considerable wealth thanks to his sizable share of the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Co. He moved into the ninth floor on the building's south side so he could keep an eye on his ferries puffing up and down the Detroit River. Since he was the first to move in, Babcock had to accept some minor inconveniences. Among them: He had to climb the last two floors by ladder because the grand stairway extended to only the seventh floor and the elevators had not been installed yet, the Free Press noted in 1938.
Babcock started a trend, for as he set up his law offices in the buildings, many attorneys followed. The Free Press estimated in 1938 that the Hammond was about 90% law offices in the early 1900s - and about 90% four decades later. And many of these attorneys and judges spent decades in the Hammond. One of them, Eugene L. Mistersky, spent more than 40 years in the Hammond -and stayed in Room 825 for all them. Detroit's long-time dean of the bar, Thomas A.E. Weadock, was still practicing law into his 90s in the late 1930s and was still "as strong and stable as the ancient building in which he sits enthroned," the Free Press wrote in 1938. Judge James Phelan, a man who championed the labor movement in an era before Detroit's strong unions, started his legal career in the Hammond. The Free Press called him "the most picturesque of all the picturesque jurists the town has ever seen."
But it wasn't just lawyers who roamed the building's halls. During its formative months in 1903, the Detroit Board of Commerce occupied two rooms in the Hammond until moving into the Detroit Savings Bank Building on Capitol Park that November. The Hammond also was home to a branch of the State Savings Bank for most of its life. Other tenants included the Wabash Railroad; Carmichael Bros. Cigars; Van Husan & Co. real estate, loans, and insurance; National Life Insurance; the Prudential Life Insurance Co.; and C.B. Hutchins & Sons freight car roofing. In its later years, there was John Vassil's shoe store on the ground floor, John Wiese's popular Quickie Donut and the English Tavern, which started pouring in the Hammond after Prohibition ended in 1933.
The Hammond also was home for decades to Sharpe's Restaurant, "an oasis of grace and charm," where politicians would come from City Hall and "hatched many a vote-catching nuance in its secluded back booths," the Detroit News recalled in a June 17, 1970, article. It was known as "the Corned Beef Cave" after its signature dish and location in Detroit's massive masonry behemoth.
Hell-bent on the modern
The Hammond family refused to give up the landmark for years, despite several offers as Detroit grew and the value of the land at the heart of downtown escalated. The family regarded it as more than just a building, but a memorial to George Hammond. "Although there have been many handsome offers for it," the Free Press wrote in 1938, "the Hammond Estate always insisted that the property should never become disassociated from the name Hammond, which has come to be one of the proud possessions of the town."
But Detroit was a city on a developmental tear. Where the Hammond once towered over Campus Martius, luring tourists and thrill-seekers from around the state, it was now dwarfed by the Guardian Building, Penobscot Building and others.
While much had changed in the city, the prime location that made it the perfect place to showcase Detroit's first skyscraper was still a hot piece of real estate more than 65 years later. It was announced in March 1955 that the Hammond Building was bought by the National Bank of Detroit and would be razed to make way for a $12 million headquarters. NBD said it did not have room in its leased quarters in the First National Bank Building and wanted to consolidate all of its operations under one roof. At the time of the announcement, it leased 10 floors in the National Bank Building, two floors in the Buhl Building and two floors in the Cadillac Square Building. The bank's new 14-story building marked the first major commercial construction in downtown Detroit in 25 years. Today, it is called the Chase Tower, but is often referred to by Detroiters as "the Cheese Grater." In 1995, NBD merged with the First National Bank of Chicago, which in turn merged three years later with Bank One - which in turn was bought by JP Morgan Chase & Co. in 2004.
The Detroit Times reported in March 1955 that "news of the Hammond's prospective doom struck nostalgic chords throughout Michigan." Among those old-timers in the Hammond told to hit the road were coal entrepreneur Joseph W. Dykstra, 75, who had been in the Hammond since 1903, and attorney Aldrich Baxter, 80, who moved in back in 1893. Realty developer John Palmer Frazer's family had held offices in the Hammond since it opened; the 72-year-old's father was the attorney for George Hammond's widow and took care of her affairs when she had the skyscraper built. Also out was James A. Hurst, an 81-year-old lawyer who had worked in the Hammond since 1902. "The office still has the old furniture. The rolltop desks, the ancient filing cabinet, the letter press, all the patina of antiquity about them. None of this new chrome stuff," the Free Press wrote at the time.
"The Russell House was across the street," Hurst told the Free Press. "I saw it give way to the Pontchartrain, and saw the Pontchartrain replaced by the National Bank. And now the bank is moving across the street and taking this place, too. ... Why only the other day, an old employee of office neighbors of 30 years ago came in here and asked if he could just look once more out of my windows."
Through those windows, the Free Press wrote, Hurst "watched troops march off to and return from two world wars" and saw the city around him grow from a city of about 300,000 people to a metropolis of more than 1.8 million.
The Free Press reported that news of the Hammond's pending doom caused panic among its tenants. Many had long-term leases and struggled to find suitable space downtown. The deadline for tenants to move out was moved back several times.
The last tenant to move out was W. Gordon Johnstone, president of the real estate firm Johnstone & Johnstone. The former Detroit Real Estate Board president left the building for good on July 14, 1956, relocating to the Lafayette Building.
The Arrow Wrecking Co. of Dearborn, the same company that in 1962 would level the city's third skyscraper, the Majestic Building, was assigned the task of leveling the city's first. In a six-year period, the city's first and third skyscrapers, as well as Old City Hall of 1871, the 1898 Bankers Equitable Building and other turn-of-the-century commercial buildings would be razed. The Detroit Times' headline on the Aug. 17, 1956, story read in bold letters: "Death Knell for an Era in Building."
"When work is completed, the block ... will ring with the sound of modern-day contractors erecting the 12-story structure, destined to shelter many future generations," the Times wrote.
The new bank building was to be part of a proposed $50 million "face-lifting" of downtown that was to include a multimillion dollar hotel and a smaller, combined hotel and office building, the Times wrote in August 1956. The leveling of the block also allowed for Woodward to be widened between Fort and Congress.
The giant falls
The Hammond had opened Detroit's skyscraper age, sunburned throats and awestruck a region for decades. The Detroit Free Press had even implored in November 1889 that "this building ... must, in its imposing magnitude, always remain a landmark in Detroit." But while it had played such an important role in the city's past, it was deemed worthless to its future. Old, out-of-date and expensive to maintain, the 10 stories that were dizzying more than half a century before were nothing special to most.
"To Detroit newcomers the block that apparently is doomed is a rather dingy, unimpressive sector of downtown Detroit," the Detroit Times wrote in March 1955. "To oldtimers it is rich in memories of a leisurely, gracious age."
Arrow Wrecking began tearing down the Hammond on Aug. 17, 1956. "The last hope that the building would be spared died today with the assault of the wrecking crews," the Times wrote that day. But it didn't go down without a fight.
Demolition was supposed to take 60 days but took more than 100, newspaper accounts of the time said. The sturdy old Hammond wasn't fully erased from the skyline until December, and the site wasn't cleared of rubble until January.
"Maybe the ten-story 'skyscraper' didn't seem so large in recent years, but when it's gone, it certainly leaves a sizeable void," the Detroit Free Press wrote in December 1956.
With the Hammond out of the way, Arrow Wrecking started stripping the stores along Woodward between Congress and Fort in mid-December. The Hammond's neighbor, the Bankers Equitable Building of 1898, once home to the Union Trust Co. until it built the Guardian Building, would start coming down that January. The popular Stouffer's Restaurant and seven-story Richmond and Backus Building, which also dated to 1898, bit the dust, too. Work on NBD's cheese grater began in the summer of 1957, and the bank moved into its new headquarters on Sept. 14, 1959.
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Hammond Building - Artifacts
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Greens 'Give 'em Hull' in Prince Edward Hastings
Administrator | Sep 30, 2010 | Comments 0
Roughly two-dozen Green Party of Ontario (GPO) members joined interested members of the community and GPO leader Mike Schreiner last night to select Treat Hull as Prince Edward—Hastings GPO candidate for the 2011 provincial election.
All valid votes were cast for Hull. GPO rules require a "none of the above" option to be included on a secret ballot even in the case of uncontested nominations.
In accepting the nomination, Hull reiterated his key reasons for running, including support for immediate action on the environment, vibrant communities in Ontario, entrepreneurship, a different tone in politics, and deficit reduction.
"Time is running out" for meaningful action on environmental issues such as climate change, Hull said. He also expressed "deep concern" for the financial future of Ontario and that his ultimate goal was to win the seat. "The election of even one or two Green MPPs would change the political landscape of the province," Hull said.
With his selection, Hull becomes the first officially nominated candidate running against Liberal MPP Leona Dombrowsky. Hull – who also serves as local constituency association president – intends to continue promoting the growth of the local Green organization and, once the writ is dropped, to run a campaign focusing on positive values and the need for change and better representation for the riding.
Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner spoke about the challenge of balancing prosperity and sustainability and the Greens' belief in "empowering and engaging communities." Schreiner noted that Prince Edward-Hastings has potential for the party due to the riding's demographics. "Green issues resonate here," the Green Party leader said, referring to the GPO as "Ontario's fastest-growing political party."
Later, Schreiner and Hull talked to local voters at Picton's Acoustic Grill. The two were joined by recently announced members of Hull's campaign team including Bryan Bondy as campaign manager, Lee Tremblay as chief financial officer, René Dick in communications, and Graham Sayers in membership.
Visit Treat Hull's Give 'em Hull Facebook site


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Pride Parade is perhaps the only parade out there where Christians, be they gay or straight, actually COME OUT of the closet and march in front of the world expressing their love and confidence in our Savior's love.
What Bible verse gave you that Peace? Please send us your verse so we might be able to create a booklet in time for our Pride Open House. We hope to share our stories and verses with visitors, in hopes that they might be able to experience God as we have.


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Peabody Institute Office of the Executive Secretary records
Identifier: PIRG-04
Overview The position of Peabody Institute executive secretary existed from 1911 to 1941 and was a successor to the provost, who served under the trustees' executive committee. Records in this collection include the following: correspondence concerning Gallery of Art exhibitions (1911-1928), including an exhibition in conjunction with the National Star Spangled Banner Centennial exhibition in 1914; correspondence concerning the Rinehart School of Sculpture of the Maryland Institute; minutes of Executive...
Found in: Peabody Archives
Peabody Institute Office of the Provost records
Overview Records documenting the activities of the executive office of the Institute. Includes correspondence from prospective lecturers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Fiske, and James Russell Lowell (1867-1913); correspondence concerning the library, including letters received from Abram Stevens Hewitt of Cooper Union, E. W. Blatchford of the Newberry Library, and Melvil Dewey; numerous letters from the Institute librarian, Philip R. Uhler, to the provost reporting library activities during the...
Theater Chamber Players records
Identifier: PIMS-0070
Overview The Theater Chamber Players, founded by Peabody Institute faculty members Dina Koston and Leon Fleisher, were a chamber music ensemble that featured 20th-century music and was based primarily in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 2003. The TCP records include administrative and business documents, correspondence, working files, concert programs, publicity material, photographs, recordings, scores, and reference material.
Archaeological Institute of America, Baltimore Society records
Overview The Archaeological Institute of America, Baltimore Society was the first established, local chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. The Baltimore Society was officially formed in 1888 by faculty of The Johns Hopkins University and other Baltimoreans who shared a scholarly interest in antiquities and classical studies. Though officially formed in 1888, minutes of the organization show that in 1886, an early iteration of the group was known as the Archaeological Society of The Johns...
Eugene Weston materials on Johns Hopkins University blazer
Overview Eugene L. Weston is a retired medical surgeon living in Oro Valley, Arizona, who attended Johns Hopkins University as a student in the 1950s. It is likely that these materials resulted from Weston's personal project to create an official Hopkins blazer jacket. This collection primarily includes order forms and receipts from the sale of the jackets. Also included are Weston's ledger detailing buyer information, a letter from a clothing manufacturer with a Hopkins emblem design, as well as one of...
Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. papers
Overview Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. contributed over fifty years of service to The Johns Hopkins University as a student, faculty member and administrator. The personal papers of Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr., spanning the years 1924 to 1986, include professional publications, lectures, addresses, and class and seminar notes. There are also records pertaining to Hamburger's service as Director of Centennial Planning for The Johns Hopkins University, records concerning the founding of the Archives, and files...
George Peabody Library records
Overview In 1857, philanthropist George Peabody gave the amount of $300,000 for the funding of a library in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The construction of what was then known as the Library of the Peabody Institute (also the Peabody Institute Library) in Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood began in 1858. Due to the difficulties of opening such a library during the Civil War (1861-1865), the building was not officially dedicated to the public until 1866 and 1878, the west wing and east wing,...
Gilbert V. Levin papers
Overview A native of Baltimore, Gilbert V. Levin obtained his B.E. in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1947 and his M.S. in Sanitary Engineering in 1948, and received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 1963. He is the founder of Spherix Inc., and the principal investigator of the Mars Viking Mission Labeled Release Experiment. This collection of his papers represents Levin's professional scientific career, including correspondence with colleagues, the pursuit of over 50...
Globe Poster Printing Corporation records
Overview Globe Poster Printing Corporation was founded in 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland by business partners Harry Shapiro and Norman Goldstein. The shop specialized in printing showcard posters for movie theaters, vaudeville and burlesque acts, the earliest performers of country and Western music, motorsports events, and carnivals. The company later extended its services to a variety of products such as banners, tickets, and bumper stickers, in the process reaching a clientele based in the birth of rock...
Hodson family papers
Overview The Hodson family was a prominent Maryland family that began in Dorchester, Maryland. "Colonel" Clarence Hodson, who founded the Beneficial Corporation (originally the Beneficial Loan Society), was a Hodson descendant. The Hodson Family papers consists of materials related to the Hodson family spanning 1665 to 1950, with the bulk of the materials from 1665 to 1920. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and genealogical information, but also includes newspaper advertisements,...
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Verizon issues refunds for mistaken mobile broadband charges
Verizon Wireless has been issuing refunds to customers who were mistakenly charged $1.99 for mobile broadband access they say they didn't use.
According to an Associated Press report, Verizon believes the problem to be nationwide, although a Verizon spokesman did not clarify how widespread the problem is to FierceWireless.
The problem became known in a Cleveland Plain Dealer column, which subsequently drew comments from readers who detailed their own problems of being charged $1.99. In some cases, "customers were charged when their phones were off, the batteries were dead, the phone's Internet access was blocked or even when the phones didn't have the software to go online," according to the paper.
Verizon spokesman Tom Pica told FierceWireless that the carrier has been "crediting customers for unintentional data charges as customers bring the 'error' to our attention." He said that the biggest culprit was customers mistakenly activating the Internet on their handsets, sometimes without knowing it.
"This is where we need to do a better job explaining to the customer when they buy our service how and when they will be charged for data; at the same time we need to improve the usability of data services so mistakes aren't made," he said. He added that customers may mistakenly access the Internet and then immediately end the session--an action that could cause the $2 charge.
"It is obvious to us that we need to fix this aspect of our service, but in the meantime we are gladly crediting customers if this happens to them," he said.
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Verizon to pay $1.5M settlement over 'free' ringtones
Survey: Unbilled data charges top revenue loss concerns


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John Singleton of 'Boyz N the Hood' hospitalized with stroke
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 03: Director John Singleton speaks onstage during the 70th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) - "Boyz N the Hood" director John Singleton suffered a stroke last week and remains hospitalized, according to his family. Additional details, including his condition, were not immediately available.
In a statement released Saturday, Singleton's family announced that the 51-year-old filmmaker was in the ICU and "under great medical care." Author Neil deGrasse Tyson and actor Omar Epps have been among those tweeting wishes Saturday for a quick recovery.
Singleton became the first black filmmaker to receive an Oscar nomination when he was cited for "Boyz N the Hood," set in his native Los Angeles and released in 1991. His other films include "Poetic Justice," which starred Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, and "Rosewood." Singleton's recent projects include the TV series "Snowfall," a crime drama set in 1980s Los Angeles.


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Q: Browser Support Unicode URL What is the browser support for having images, links, scripts... containing unicode characters in the domain name?
For example does IE5+, chrome, firefox, opera, safari, and  mobile browsers (Dolfin, Blackberry Webkit, MicroB, Phantom, IEMobile...) all support the following statement?
<script src=☺.com/s.js></script>

Just attempting to understand the portability of the above statement.

A: Wikipedia's Internationalized domain name article says this:

Mozilla 1.4, Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.11 were among the first
  applications to support IDNA. A browser plugin is available for
  Internet Explorer 6 to provide IDN support. Internet Explorer
  7.0[13][14] and Windows Vista's URL APIs provide native support for IDN.[15]

Considering the age of those browsers, I'd guess that any newer browser, including any WebKit-based browser, supports IDNs.

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I find that the Greek scence is annouced all the time here on campus. I see many clothing and bags people have promoting Greek life. I here that it is fun and exciting but I can not say much more about it. Most of the spots are off campus so it is hard for me to tell for sure what they are really like. I just here it is always a good time for fun and excitment.


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Alphabet Chases Wonder Drugs With DeepMind AI Spinoff Isomorphic Labs
By Jason Dorrier
AI research wunderkind, DeepMind, has long been all fun and games.
The London-based organization, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has used deep learning to train algorithms that can take down world champions at the ancient game of Go and top players of the popular strategy video game Starcraft.
Then last year, things got serious when DeepMind trounced the competition at a protein folding contest. Predicting the structure of proteins, the complex molecules underpinning all biology, is notoriously difficult. But DeepMind's AlphaFold2 made a quantum leap in capability, producing results that matched experimental data down to a resolution of a few atoms.
In July, the company published a paper describing AlphaFold2, open-sourced the code, and dropped a library of 350,000 protein structures with a promise to add 100 million more.
This week, Alphabet announced it will build on DeepMind's AlphaFold2 breakthrough by creating a new company, Isomorphic Labs, in an effort to apply AI to drug discovery.
"We are at an exciting moment in history now where these techniques and methods are becoming powerful and sophisticated enough to be applied to real-world problems including scientific discovery itself," wrote Demis Hassabis, DeepMind founder and CEO, in a post announcing the company. "Now the time is right to push this forward at pace, and with the dedicated focus and resources that Isomorphic Labs will bring."
Hassabis is Isomorphic's founder and will serve as its CEO while the fledgling company gets its feet, setting the agenda and culture, building a team, and connecting the effort to DeepMind. The two companies will collaborate, but be largely independent.
"You can think of [Isomorphic] as a sort of sister company to DeepMind," Hassabis told Stat. "The idea is to really forge ahead with the potential for computational AI methods to reimagine the whole drug discovery process."
While AlphaFold2's success sparked the effort, protein folding is only one step—arguably simpler than others—in the arduous drug discovery process.
Hassabis is thinking bigger.
Though details are scarce, it appears the new company will build a line of AI models to ease key choke points in the process. Instead of identifying and developing drugs themselves, they'll sell a platform of models as a service to pharmaceutical companies. Hassabis told Stat these might tackle how proteins interact, the design of small molecules, how well molecules bind, and the prediction of toxicity.
That the work will be separated from DeepMind itself is interesting.
The company's not insignificant costs have largely been dedicated to pure research. DeepMind turned its first profit in 2020, but its customers are mostly Alphabet companies. Some have wondered if it'd face more pressure to focus on commercial products. The decision to create a separate enterprise based on DeepMind research seems to indicate that's not yet the case. If it can keep pushing the field ahead as a whole, perhaps it makes sense to fund a new organization—or organizations, seeded by future breakthroughs—as opposed to diverting resources from DeepMind's more foundational research.
Isomorphic Labs has plenty of company in its drug discovery efforts.
In 2020, AI in cancer, molecular, and drug discovery received the most private investment in the field, attracting over $13.8 billion, more than quadruple 2019's total. There have been three AI drug discovery IPOs in the last year, and mature startups—including Exscientia, Insilico Medicine, Insitro, Atomwise, and Valo Health—have earned hundreds of millions in funding. Companies like Genentech, Pfizer, and Merck are likewise working to embed AI in their processes.
To a degree, Isomorphic will be building its business from the ground up. AlphaFold2 is without a doubt a big deal, but protein modeling is the tip of the drug discovery iceberg. Also, while AlphaFold2 had the benefit of access to hundreds of thousands of freely available, already modeled protein structures, the lion's share of molecular data relevant to drugs is siloed in proprietary databases owned by pharmaceutical companies.
There's also a big difference between models and predictions—and even promising animal trials—and drugs approved for human consumption. Most drugs fail somewhere along the line. And while investment has ballooned in recent years, the AI approach has yet to yield a banner result. Exscientia has two drugs in Phase 1 clinical trials and Valo Health has two it hopes will enter Phase 2 trials later this year or early next. It will likely be years before the full promise of AI in drug discovery is proven out.
Still, Isomorphic has a few advantages on the competition. It's backed by one of the world's biggest companies—worth nearly $2 trillion as of this writing—and is linked by "blood" to one of the top AI research outfits. If it can make a dent in today's decade-long, multibillion-dollar drug discovery process, the impact could be huge.
"Biology is likely far too complex and messy to ever be encapsulated as a simple set of neat mathematical equations," Hassabis wrote in his recent blog post. "But just as mathematics turned out to be the right description language for physics, biology may turn out to be the perfect type of regime for the application of AI."
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Jason is editorial director of Singularity Hub. He researched and wrote about finance and economics before moving on to science and technology. He's curious about pretty much everything, but especially loves learning about and sharing big ideas and advances in artificial intelligence, computing, robotics, biotech, neuroscience, and space.


What Kind Of Cake Do You Make For A 1 Year Old?
It's Lucy's FIRST birthday! Lucy is our lovely grand-daughter that I have had the privilege of caring for the past year while her parents are becoming college graduates. Like any caring parent they have carefully chosen healthy foods for her to eat. And like any strong-minded, confident person, Lucy has decided what she likes and doesn't like. Just started liking baby cereal a couple of months ago, been enjoying mashed black beans and avocados like they were chocolate with a bit of baby veggies or fruit thrown in. She loves grilled cheese or quesadillas. Scrambled eggs has been a favorite for quite a while now – with cheese is better. Oh, and speaking of cheese – well, chunks of cheese are great. You would think the child was born with an entire set of teeth – but to this day she only has two front top teeth and one front bottom. But she can gum down a grilled cheese sandwich like there was no tomorrow.
I confess I have given her a couple of Vienna Fingers here and there (I have grandparent rights). But the topic of birthday cake comes to mind …….
So, I searched and searched. You don't want the first cake experience to be totally healthy ( ***please – anyone with dietary or strong convictions on what you feed your child I really do respect that and am in no means mocking or telling you to do otherwise – as I'm sure you won't tell me I'm wrong either***). And you really may not want to totally give your babe an overdose of sugar.
As I type, the cake is in the oven, the strawberries are cut and "soaking" in sugar to extract the juices, the cream cheese for the frosting is softening in the delightful warm spring air (more like summer) and I'm thinking about eating PIE! Peach raspberry to be specific.
But here is the cake – the finished product!
The "Resting" Orchid that is "resting" way too Long!
I decided to use my hand blender on the strawberries since a toothless child was to be eating this. Soaked really well into the cake!
Did Lucy like her cake – well, she was a "Lady" when she ate it. But the adults – all six of us – LOVED it! I highly recommend this recipe. And for the next 2 days it got even better!
This entry was posted in Random and tagged babies first cake, orchids, Ree Drummond, shortcake, Strawberries, The Pioneer Woman, vanilla on May 16, 2012 by Cate B.
My husband and I moved to the mid west just 3 years ago this past February. Sigh. It's not really the "wild" west. It's more the gateway to the "wild" west. Actually, we are farther west than St. Louis, the true gateway to the west, but not quite out in the wild. Somewhere almost to Oz.
It's nice here. The climate is very similar to where I grew up in NJ except the sniff of salty sea air is lacking. The air, though, always smells great. Even the hot dry air from the west that blows in – maybe left over Oklahoma air that goes sweeping down the plain.
Since coming here I have learned to ride a horse (of course), I've developed a fear of freeways, I can find myself in and out of two different states in a matter of minutes, I'm tempted to speak in a Southern accent AND I LOVE smokers – not the human kind, the cooking kind!
Thanks to a good friend I was "introduced" to The Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond). She may very well be my favorite thing about the mid-west (next to my grand daughter). Not only do I love the way she cooks, but I love her simplicity and happiness with her family and cooking, her humor, her ranch, and did I mention her cooking?
I've learned a lot from The Pioneer Woman. I appreciate her love of food and her unashamed honesty about that love. Food is good. She has also taught me to relax and go ahead and fix that food with joy. I think I've become a better cook since I've moved here.
This entry was posted in Random and tagged BBQ sauce, Carolinas, Food, Gateway to Mid-West, Oz, Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman on March 20, 2012 by Cate B.


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Sarah Courtney, Minister for Resources
Sustainable Timber continues to grow
Sustainable Timber Tasmania has achieved its first operational profit in 10 years demonstrating the sound management of the company under the Hodgman Majority Liberal Government.
An underlying net profit of $5.948 million has been delivered for the period
The company is also now debt-free and has delivered the State of Tasmania a $15 million special dividend.
STT's operations and the forest production it generates make significant economic and social contributions including:
Payment of $147 million to businesses for goods and services provided to Sustainable Timber Tasmania. Of these payments, 75 per cent ($110 million) were made to 700 Tasmanian-based companies.
Payment of $15.592 million in wages to more than 150 staff (headcount).
Payment of $48 million to harvest and haulage contractors that are estimated as employing over 280 people directly.
Provision of forest products to 47 wood processing customers, the majority of which have Tasmanian-based operations.
While these results are positive the Government is aware that challenges remain in rebuilding the forestry industry.
The Hodgman Majority Liberal Government has been working hard to turn things around since the Labor-Green disaster, and we are committed to ensuring the industry continues to grow.
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