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Kainate Receptors Trigger Hippocampal Long Term Potentiation
A new type of long-term potentiation that is controlled by kainate receptors has been reported by scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Central Lancashire. The finding could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia.
Human brains contain around 100-billion nerve cells, each of which makes about 10,000 connections to other cells, called synapses. Synapses are constantly transmitting information to, and receiving information from other nerve cells.
The process known as long-term potentiation (LTP), increases the strength of information flow across synapses, and is crucial to the process of forming memories. Having a large number of synapses communicating between different nerve cells forms networks. LTP intensifies the connectivity of the cells in the network to make information transfer more efficient.
This LTP mechanism is how the brain operates at the cellular level to allow us to learn and remember. However, when these processes go wrong they can lead to neurological and neurodegenerative disorders.
Kainate Receptor Long-term Potentiation
Exactly how LTP is initiated is a major question in neuroscience. Traditional long-term potentiation is regulated by the activation of special proteins at synapses called NMDA receptors. This study, by Professor Jeremy Henley and co-workers, details a new form of LTP controlled by kainate receptors.
Henley, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in Bristol's School of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, said:
"These discoveries represent a significant advance and will have far-reaching implications for the understanding of memory, cognition, developmental plasticity and neuronal network formation and stabilisation. In summary, we believe that this is a groundbreaking study that opens new lines of inquiry which will increase understanding of the molecular details of synaptic function in health and disease."
The advance highlights the flexibility in the way synapses are controlled and nerve cells communicate. This, in turn, raises the possibility of targeting this new pathway to develop therapeutic strategies for diseases like dementia, in which there is too little synaptic transmission and LTP, and epilepsy where there is too much inappropriate synaptic transmission and LTP.
The findings will have far-reaching implications in many aspects of neuroscience. Dr Milos Petrovic, co-author of the study and Reader in Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire added:
"Untangling the interactions between the signal receptors in the brain not only tells us more about the inner workings of a healthy brain, but also provides a practical insight into what happens when we form new memories. If we can preserve these signals it may help protect against brain diseases.
This is certainly an extremely exciting discovery and something that could potentially impact the global population. We have discovered potential new drug targets that could help to cure the devastating consequences of dementias, such as Alzheimer's disease. Collaborating with researchers across the world in order to identify new ways to fight disease like this is what world-class scientific research is all about, and we look forward to continuing our work in this area."
The new pathway involves the metabotropic action of kainate receptors and activation of G protein, protein kinase C and phospholipase C. Kainate-receptor-dependent long-term potentiation enhances synaptic recycling of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors to increase surface expression, and elicits structural changes in neural spines, such as increased growth and maturation.
Milos M Petrovic, Silvia Viana da Silva, James P Clement, Ladislav Vyklicky, Christophe Mulle, Inmaculada M González-González & Jeremy M Henley
Metabotropic action of postsynaptic kainate receptors triggers hippocampal long-term potentiation
Nature Neuroscience (2017) doi:10.1038/nn.4505
Image: Joanna Wardyn, Wellcome Images. Confocal micrograph of live hippocampal neurones in culture with astrocytes.


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The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is to award Joaquim Chissano, the former President of Mozambique , the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The largest individual award in the world . It comprises of
US$5 million over 10 years and US$200,000 annually for life thereafter and up to US$200,000 a year for 10 years towards the winner's public interest activities and good causes . The award was ostensively to reward Chissano achievements in bringing peace, reconciliation, stable democracy and economic progress to his country .
Kofi Annan stated that "it is his role in leading Mozambique from conflict to peace and democracy that President Chissano has made his most outstanding contribution."
From the pen of Issa Shivji commenting on this hypocrisy .
"...It is for the people to decide who is a good or a bad leader and how to award a good one and punish a bad one. I certainly cannot imagine Mozambicans (or any African people for that matter) awarding a 5-million dollar prize to Mr. Chissano. First because Chissano's goodness itself is, I am sure, a contentious issue in Mozambique. Secondly, Mozambican people, if at all, would have awarded their leader by including him in a list of honour or putting his picture on a postal stamp. And if they had 5 million dollars to spare, they would have probably built secondary schools to produce future good leaders rather than give it away to Chissano to "live a better life" and invest in business (which is what Chissano said in a BBC interview he would use the money for.)
The worst disappointment in the prize saga has been its uncritical and unqualified celebration by scribes and even academics and intellectuals. Since this prize to a retired president was for stepping down from power or "good governance' or bringing democracy and peace to his country, it was expected that analysts would go beyond the superficial and the obvious to a deeper understanding and explanation of issues of war and peace and democracy and dictatorships in Africa. Before we celebrate, we must understand what it is that we are celebrating. Before we applaud this prize to Chissano we must understand the history, politics and forces which underpinned war and peace in Mozambique.
...Chissano took over from Samora and under the tutelage of Washington steered the neo-liberal course. It is under this new direction that the former freedom fighters like Chissano's family and Gebuza and others (with some honourable exceptions) began accumulating wealth and became businessmen. Chissano's son Nyimpine, a businessman, was implicated in the murder of a journalist Carlos Cardoso who was investigating the fraudulent disappearance of 14 million dollars from the Commercial Bank of Mozambique in 1996. The story of wealth accumulation by political leaders in Mozambique is not that different from what we have been witnessing and debating in Tanzania. It is even on a larger scale...
...So, when our leaders receive prizes for their democratic achievements we should ask ourselves for which and whose democracy they are getting a prize. Are they getting the prize for a neo-liberal democracy under which the World Bank and "development partners" (read: developed predators!) impose privatization of national assets and resources; under which their diplomats pressurize our ministers and governments to sign utterly one-sided contracts with the likes of golden sharks; under which the parliament is literally ordered to pass laws which have been drafted by their consultants ...
...Mr. Mo Ibrahim: you have made millions of dollars from the sweat and blood of the African people. If you want to return a few million to the people, build schools, dispensaries, and water wells in the south of your own country rather than giving them to Chisasanos of this world. Do not add insult to injury by robbing (poor) Peter to pay (rich) Paul. "
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Julia Ducournau's feral serial-killer genre hybrid Titane seeks salvation in notions of domesticity.
BY KELLI WESTON | October 31, 2021
Consider Titane a reverse-slasher: not merely because in place of the usual murderous man-child in gender distress, fueled by psychosexual rage to terrorize mainly (or most enthusiastically) his female victims, we have a gender-bending woman serial killer, primarily attracted to automobiles, and as heartlessly prone to disposing of men as well as women. (Her weapon, too, is bisexual—a metal knitting needle adopted as a hairpin—outwardly phallic, functionally feminine.) But structurally the genre is also flipped. We begin with violence and end on domesticity, the family home: the very site the villain endangers, or—depending on your perspective—that endangers the villain, for this is the birthplace of their depravity and their queerness imperils its "natural" order. This may well be the key to Julia Ducournau's follow-up to Raw: a violent, determinedly graphic, sometimes illegible portrait of a wandering woman, trapped in her scarred skin, blindly grasping for something she cannot name because she has never known it. Perhaps, put that way, it sounds much less interesting, but underneath all the outlandish trappings—car-fucking, serial murdering, machine pregnancy—there is a simpler, almost poignant tale of what curious, unwieldly parts might make up a home.
Naturally, what has been most feverishly discussed about Titane is the car-fucking. Admittedly it's among the most unique sex scenes to ever grace the screen, but precisely how this consummation works—that is, what goes where and how the act manages to yield a pregnancy—is left a mystery. Slipping between close-ups and long shots, the film captures Alexia (Agathe Rousselle), our mechanophiliac, clinging to the seat belts as she and the car bounce up and down. The next morning she finds her panties soiled with motor oil. As a child she had been in a terrible car accident that required a titanium plate sewn into her skull. This may or may not be the source of her dysfunction, for she already shows traces of misanthropy and a fixation on vehicles in the film's early moments. Eyes vacant, she hums to mimic the sound of the car's engine, petulantly distracting her aloof father (an almost wordless but eerily effective Bertrand Bonello, a pillar of the New French Extremity to which Ducournau also belongs). Fathers turn out to be a rather crucial force here. In any case, he takes his eyes off the road to scold her, which causes their crash. But upon leaving the hospital, a crane-shaped scar forever engraved above her ear, she embraces the car.
This is how we come to find Alexia, now an adult, dancing professionally at an auto show. Given her particular affinity for the work, she has amassed a fan base of salivating men, one of whom stalks her into the parking lot after a show. When he assaults her, she slips the metal pin out of her hair and fatally stabs him in the ear. This, apparently, is her modus operandi, and sexual overtures, encouraged or not, only provoke her. Another human dalliance ends in a pile of dead bodies, and Alexia becomes a wanted woman. At the same time, her own body has begun to betray her; her belly grows at such an accelerated rate that the skin begins to itch and tear, seeping inky fluids. When she stumbles upon the digitally aged portrait of a boy named Adrien Legrand, who went missing a decade earlier, she decides to impersonate him. She shaves her head, breaks her nose, and straps down her breasts and burgeoning belly under baggy clothes, but later one suspects that it would have taken much less to convince the boy's long-grieving father, Vincent (Vincent Lindon), who refuses a DNA test and readily brings Alexia home with him.
At this point, even the most charitable viewer may begin to feel duped; Titane reveals itself as being composed of two seemingly disparate parts. Aside from a cardinal commitment to abjection (the objectified-turned-monstrous femininity with all its flesh-ripping, orifice-leaking, and so on), the serial-killing half has little to do with the family-melodrama half. But there are hints that we were always watching the latter. After all, the film begins with one father's remoteness and resolves with another's dogged intimacy. Life as Alexia concludes when she shares one last silent, lingering look with her withholding birth dad—their communication exclusively a series of these fraught, mute glances, an unspoken chasm between them—right before she locks her parents inside their bedroom and sets the house ablaze. In hindsight, all signs point to Vincent: the aging, steroid-addicted captain of a firehouse, from the flame-decked Cadillac that Alexia grinds against to this past-scorching fire. Reborn as Adrien, she finds Vincent—appealingly charged with the ultramasculine legacy Lindon has forged for himself in French cinema—so mired in grief, so desperate for connection, that he emerges as an unexpectedly nurturing figure, custom-fitted for Alexia/Adrien's peculiar maladjustment.
Unlike her own father, he pleads, then demands Alexia/Adrien speak to him; when that fails, Vincent insists his son dance with him, holding Alexia perilously close. In the past, intimacy had been a trigger, and predictably Alexia pulls out her killing needle, but Vincent bests her, physically and somehow emotionally. As much trapped in her new role as she is intrigued by all its new possibilities, Alexia slips into a strange domesticity with Vincent where filial boundaries are continually blurred. In one scene, she awkwardly injects him in the hip with steroids, and in another dancing scene—doubling the former, their bond fully cemented now—he loops his arm between her legs and lifts her onto his shoulders. Titane is at its richest here, where Ducourneau, an instinctively kinetic filmmaker, can build a fascinating tableau that pivots on its ambivalence. Sexual or not, ultimately we have a partnership of stunted souls, starved of affection—literalized through their brutally punished, bruised, helplessly transforming bodies—and who can each perform for the other the primal roles out of which they never grew: father and child.
Elsewhere, Ducourneau's tendency to leave the implications behind her compositions unexplored does not work as well. Gender is a central preoccupation, albeit regrettably uninspired in its observations (of which there are few anyway). There is, of course, the car's obvious links to sex and the presumed kinship between manhood and automobiles, which conceals the truer twinship between women and cars as objects of male fantasy and, more importantly, homosocial camaraderie. Curiously enough, the car is immobile here, rendered entirely symbolic. It no longer represents emancipation, and the home is no longer purely the province of trapped women. It is through Vincent and the hermetic, male domains into which he leads Alexia/Adrien that she first discovers the range of human communion. For better and worse, family dynamics are replicated at the firehouse, specifically in a sibling rivalry between Alexia and another firefighter, now displaced from Vincent's attention. But if Alexia is never quite freed from her fetishized body—she still finds herself a gendered spectacle at the film's end—these closing moments reveal where the film has located its truest interests: the not-merely-physical space in which families are made. 🩸
KELLI WESTON
has a PhD in horror cinema and her work has been published in Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and MUBI Notebook, among others.
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How to see Titane
Titane opened in theaters on October 1, 2021, and is now available streaming and via Blu-ray.
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Veselin Vlahovic, an alleged Serbian war criminal who is wanted for over 100 killings during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, has been arrested in south-eastern Spain on an international warrant
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After the war he was arrested in his native Montenegro for an armed robbery in May, 1998, and for an alleged shooting in a bar in Serbia. But he escaped from prison in June, 2001.
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Willie Watt: Passing From Death to Servant of God, At-Risk Youth
Written by Paul R. Kopenkoskey on 14 May 2016 . Posted in Local
Willie Watt, Jr., standing ringside at Escape Ministries: "I've always stated for me to ever believe in a God, He'd have to show Himself to me."Growing up in the West Side of Chicago, Willie Watt, Jr. personally witnessed humanity's savage side.
But, adds the 49-year-old, he's also seen how the Holy Spirit can supernaturally bridge the chasm between the yearning to die and a craving to live for the Lord, from knowing only heartache to embracing love, from a steady diet of mistrust to an unshakeable faith in God Whose peace and love knows no boundaries.
"God has had my back so many times," said a tearful Watt, founder and executive director of Escape Ministries, a nonprofit at 202 East 32nd St., in Holland, that diligently works to give at-risk, marginalized young people alternatives to joining gangs. Details about Escape Ministries will be covered in an upcoming story.
Hardscrabble life
Watt can't remember a time when he didn't live a hardscrabble existence in the West Side of Chicago in a community called K Town, a nickname for an area in North Lawndale between Pulaski Road and Cicero Avenue where the names of many north-south avenues begin with the letter K.
"I've seen death very early," said Watt. "I've seen abuse very early. I still remember when I was three years old, my dad beating my mom constantly. He was an alcoholic and he was very controlling. If any man looked at my mom she would get the beating for it.
"It was very hard being in a home like that."
According to Watt, his father, Willie Watt, Sr., help found the Black Disciples, a street gang of mostly African Americans based in Chicago that engage in drug trafficking, theft, robbery, gun trafficking, murder, embezzlement, money laundering, and racketeering, in addition to other criminal activity.
Watt eventually joined the Black Disciples at age 11 without his parents' knowledge, largely to protect his sisters from sexual assault.
Part of gang life is killing people. Watt said he dodged that bullet.
"The only thing that kept me from killing someone is my mom did take me to a Baptist church even though I didn't believe in God," said Watt.
"I remember hearing our pastor say if you kill someone, you can go to hell, so I didn't want to go to hell. So when I was asked (by his gang) to kill somebody, I would shoot them but I wouldn't kill them."
Shot, molested, pistol-whipped
Through the course of Watt's young life, he was shot three times, molested by his sister's friend, witnessed a friend get pushed and killed by an oncoming train by rival gang members, was pistol-whipped and somehow endured the heartache of his sisters dying in a traffic fatality.
"I had to live with an attitude of what my father instilled in me, which is never love, love can get you killed, never to trust, trust can get you hurt," said Watt.
Eventually Watt's mother remarried and together the family moved to Dowagiac in 1978 where his stepfather worked as a deputy sheriff. Watt was 13 years old.
In 1982, Watt's two older sisters were driving to Dowagiac to pick him up to spend time together. But they never arrived. They were killed while trying to pass a semi-trailer truck and collided head-on with a vehicle in the opposite lane.
Watt was devastated. He blamed himself for their deaths because they were coming to get him.
'I'm sorry'
"I'm on the front porch crying," recalled Watt. "All the pastors in the area started coming over. To do a double funeral in a small town is a big thing. They came to console my mother and my stepfather was the only one person who actually said anything to me. One lady said 'I'm sorry.'"
Watt was 17 or 18 when his mother and stepfather said he had to move out of the house since he wasn't doing anything with his life.
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He drove to Holland in 1985 with $500 in his pocket and landed a job at a fast-food restaurant.
Fast forward to 2007. By then Watt is married but he started cheating on his wife.
"I told her if you leave me I'm going to kill her," said Watt. "She was in the basement for 12 hours. She said she was done (with their marriage) and I knew she was done."
Despondent, Watt decided to commit suicide by driving head on with a semi at the corner of U.S. 131 and James Street.
But instead of smacking into the vehicle, something unexpected happened.
God reveals Himself
"Here's where this story gets unbelievable for some people," Watt said. "I've always stated for me to ever believe in a God, He'd have to show Himself to me.
"I stepped on the gas to hit this semi and there was no way this semi could have missed me. When I opened my eyes, the semi was on the other side of the road screeching to a halt and I'm in the middle of the road and the car is not moving at all. So I got there but somehow stopped."
Overwhelmed, Watt drove to receive help from a Christian co-worker, who in turn referred him to a counselor. The counselor urged Watt to admit himself to Holland Hospital.
Instead, Watt was arrested for threatening his wife's life.
"So I'm in jail now and looking at 25 years for felonious assault," he said. "No one comes to help me."
The woman he was seeing on the side eventually bailed Watt out. Released from jail, Watt noticed two people were waiting for him: his girlfriend and the Christian worker who had been witnessing to him.
'People were praying for me'
He chose to go with his co-worker.
"He took me to my car and I didn't have no place to go so I parked my car in the back of the church that was next to the field where I once coached football," Watt said. "Little did I know it was Christ Memorial Church where my friend was a member and people there were praying for me."
Homeless, Watt lived in his Jeep Cherokee at the church parking lot for a time and eventually attended a worship service there.
"I'm sitting in the back of the church and the pastor is preaching and he came right up to me he hugged me and said, 'you don't remember me? You coached my son five years ago in rocket football,'" said Watt. "I was his son's favorite coach.
"What he didn't realize is I never received a hug from a man in my entire life and it shattered my heart," added Watt. "My soul is cracked enough to hear if somebody needs prayer to come down in the front."
Watt responded to that invitation to come to the front.
"I remember hitting the floor and crying and there were hands over me, praying for me. Three and a half hours later, those people stayed in that service to pray for me.
"God showed himself. I was on the ground crying and heard some one say 'Buckie.'
Buckie is Watt's nickname.
"I thought somebody was talking to me. 'I'm here with you. Give me your life.' I could feel the vibration in my heart."
God revealed to Watt how He guided him in the tough, horrible times of his life.
"I've saved you over and over again," Watt recalled God telling him. "I felt everything I had ever done in my whole life. There's so much shame and pain and some people can't deal with that because they can't take feeling anymore. But I had people tell me that I was God's child, that I was somebody.
"I wanted to be a servant."
These days, Watt works an average of 60 to 70 hours a week at Escape Ministries to make a difference in the lives of at-risk youth.
This, despite the fact he received a cancer diagnosis that said he would be dead within a year. That was five years ago.
"I can submit to an illness and submit to what doctors say because of prostate, brain and now lung cancer," Watt said. "I'm working 60-70 hours a week, sometimes in incredible pain, but God keeps me working until He calls me home.
"I made a commitment the first day I heard His voice and I've kept that commitment. My whole purpose in life is to do His work."
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Vidal Sassoon on Desert Island Discs
Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran hairdresser Vidal Sassoon. He developed the architecturally precise bobs and cropped styles that were a defining look of the 1960s. Mary Quant, Mia Farrow and Twiggy were among the glamorous clients who came to his salons in London and Beverly Hills. His scissors and ambition lifted him out of the grinding poverty of his childhood - he spent six years in an orphanage because his mother could not afford to keep him at home. Now aged 83, he says:" I've had the best adventure you could possible have, for a kid that started from nowhere."
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BBC - Radio 4 The Listening Project - Fathers and Daughters: Alan and Sophie
Alan and his youngest daughter Sophie talk about their evolving relationship http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-listening-project/conversation/p01jzhyw
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FriComedy: The News Quiz 02.08.2013
Television, Trip Advisor and Tory tangles - Sandi Toksvig and her panel of guests comically review the week's news. From fracking to Manning, and online reviews to geographically confused. Joining regular panellist Jeremy Hardy: Justin Moorhouse, Roisin Conaty and Bob Mills. Producer: Sam Michell
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Meet David Sedaris - Series 1 - Episode 3
US humorist David Sedaris reads his essays Picapocketoni and I'll Eat What He's Wearing.
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Jon Ronson on Confirmation Bias
Jon Ronson wonders why he keeps noticing the time is 11.11. Is it confirmation bias? http://jonronson.com/ronsonon.html
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Jon Ronson on Brainstorming
Suspicious of respect for loud extroverts, Jon Ronson asks if brainstorming really works. http://jonronson.com/ronsonon.html
Jon Ronson on Being Normal
Jon Ronson puts a new manual of mental disorders to the test. http://jonronson.com/ronsonon.html
Jon Ronson on Undeserved Rewards
Jon Ronson investigates why the least deserving people often get the richest rewards. http://jonronson.com/ronsonon.html
Jon Ronson on Pride
Jon Ronson investigates how having pride in your work can backfire. http://jonronson.com/ronsonon.html
BBC - Podcasts - The Life Scientific - Pat Wolseley 14 Aug 12
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Tony Benn: The Security Services
Political veteran Tony Benn shares private recordings from history's frontline. Bumbling spooks can't manage surveillance. Benn finds that his actions are being monitored by security forces, and his son Joshua is perturbed by events. Originally broadcast 8th Sep 1995 23:45-23:59 (Radio 4).
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Supermarket Symphony
Nina Perry's composed feature 'Supermarket Symphony' reveals the beauty, musicality and personal stories found in supermarkets over a day. Specially composed music and the sounds of the supermarket are interwoven with some of the human encounters to be discovered along with the weekly shop. Amongst stories and rituals of shoppers and supermarket workers, we hear from Michael, a theatrical cheese counter assistant, who now in his 70's reveals his many past lives, and the happiness he finds serving people with cheese; Father Pat, a priest who enjoys the chance to connect with his local community whilst wheeling his trolley down the aisles and Julie who works on the tills, and has a gift for turning a frown into laughter. Produced by Nina Perry A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
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First on 4 Extra. The American essayist brings his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 Extra for a series of audience readings. This week: 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' and 'It's Catching'.
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Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition. Recorded on location in Fremont, New Hampshire, Jon meets the sisters who were part of the girl group from the 1960s 'The Shaggs'. Created by their father, the sisters were home schooled and made to practice every day. Their album, Philosophy of the World was ridiculed and a flop, but remarkably many years later they were re-discovered and hailed as way ahead of their time and a major contribution to music. The other story in this programme is told by Simon Hollis who recalls the time he worked as a designer in Calvin Klein's New York flag ship store and made a major mistake with too many red candles. Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs An Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
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The Unbelievable Truth - Episode 6, Series 7
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents. Arthur Smith, Tony Hawks, Rhod Gilbert and Charlie Brooker are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Ears, Divorce, Badgers and Ice Cream. The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. Producer: Jon Naismith A Random Entertainment for BBC Radio 4.
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In the not so distant future, we will all use T-Shirts featuring laser cut designs. Screen printed apparel will be a thing of the past. Feasible? Probably not. Possible? Absolutely. In fact, a new brand called PERF Last Cut Apparel is doing exact that right now in 2011. You don't even need to wait for the no so distant future.
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Estheticians Luna, Maya Banks (spa owner) and Anastasia at Kiwi Spa, 1919 Grand Ave., Suite 1L, in Pacific Beach.
The first thing you notice when you enter Kiwi Spa is, well, the kiwis. They're everywhere. On pillows, on the wall, and even on the earrings that spa owner Maya Banks wears. The scrubs that Banks and her estheticians, Luna and Anastasia, wear are kiwi green. And Maya's nail polish? Yep, Kiwi green.
Banks calls it the "Kiwi Lifestyle," and explained why she chose the name for her spa: "First, when you look at a sliced kiwi, it's one of the most amazing patterns that nature created and it's so rich in nutrients. Second, when people are in depression and they look at a picture of a kiwi, it increases the serotonin in their brains. I have one in my bedroom, I have one here. It makes one happy. It has a special energy like a green sun. Third, green is the color of life and symbolizes something organic and natural. And when you say Kiwi Spa, you can remember it."
Kiwi Spa is at 1919 Grand Ave., Suite 1L, in Pacific Beach.
The spa opened two years ago at 1919 Grand Ave. in Pacific Beach . It's a dream come true for Maya after a world tour of working in different spas. "My life has taken me to 23 different countries where I've been practicing and improving my knowledge," she explained. Growing up in Ukraine, her first inspiration was her grandmother who was an organic esthetician, she said. "She would go into the forest and pick roots and plants, and she healed skin issues for people whose doctors couldn't help," Banks recalled.
At age 18, she followed her boyfriend to Israel. By that time, she finished cosmetology school and got her first job with his sister, who was an esthetician. Banks worked in Israel for five years, until the spa franchise opened a location in Croatia and sent her to be the manager/esthetician. Next, she did the same at a new spa in Cyprus, then in the Dominican Republic. While there, she said: "I did a facial for one guy from the United States, and he started to come to me regularly. We got married and that's how I came to the States."
At that point, she was ready to open her own spa, taking the best from each spa she managed and combining it all at Kiwi Spa: "It was always my dream to have something that belongs to me ... something organic and all natural so people can see the results immediately ... and it doesn't cost a lot of money."
Kiwi Spa uses only vegan and organic ingredients — nothing synthetic — and Banks explains why: "When you apply commercial moisturizers, they have ingredients that make their shelf life very long, but when they penetrate your skin, they don't dissolve. They're stuck, like little microscopic pieces. As you use them over the years, the ingredients build up and close the entrance of oxygen, so you start to age from the inside."
Banks also believes in the power of machines, and uses only the latest, state-of-the-art technology. She recently purchased the Jet Peel machine, which no other spa in San Diego County has. (Only two spas in Beverly Hills have the same machine.) Jet Peel is a touch-free, needle-free transdermal infusion technology from Israel. It combines oxygen and saline in a high-pressure jet stream that penetrates the skin deeper than a needle. Banks said the speed of the jet stream is 777 miles per hour. The jet stream of micro droplets exfoliates the skin's surface and is infused with serums to stimulate collagen and elastin. Jet Peel delivers instant results with no downtime or skin irritation.
Another popular machine-based procedure is the Hydrokiwi Facial, which combines micro-dermabrasion and oxygen infusion to improve sun damage, acne, rosacea and the effects of aging. There are dozens more unique facials available.
Instead of botox, Banks uses starfish infusion. "It's all natural, but it works like botox," she said. "It relaxes your muscles in a natural way and you don't feel like your muscle is dead, but you feel all plumped, and the results are amazing."
Other ingredients used include rose water, coconut butter, witch hazel, cocoa butter, raw organic honey, white clay, chamomile and green matcha tea, and even coffee. "I invest a lot of time in my customers because I really love what I do," she said. "If a customer comes for a one-hour facial, I invest half an hour on consultation, an hour for the facial, and another half hour to give them recommendations to go home with and some samples."
Banks plans to open a Kiwi Spa in Solana Beach this year, and eventually, hopes to franchise her brand.
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Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay's research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian's Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.
"This work will be of interest to specialists in the topics covered, but also to amateurs who can find in these different snapshots a way to understand life on the Roman frontier...this tome is a fitting tribute to the career of [Allason-Jones] by her colleagues."
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Electronic Arts and LaLiga Announce 10-year Partnership Renewal
by BusinessWire | Jun 24, 2020 | BusinessWire
EA SPORTS FIFA Continues to Bring the Most Authentic and Innovative Global Football Experience to Players Worldwide
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) and LaLiga announced a long-term partnership that will continue to offer unrivaled authenticity to EA SPORTS™ FIFA players for the next 10 years. Under the partnership renewal, EA SPORTS will remain the exclusive Official Video Games Partner of LaLiga while the two organizations will expand their efforts to create world-leading football entertainment. This includes a joint commitment to grow fandom and esports participation through LaLiga's official esports competition, eLaLiga Santander.
The new agreement comes as the world is playing and watching more EA SPORTS FIFA than ever before as football fandom continues to grow. EA SPORTS FIFA 20 for console and PC is the most-played game in franchise history. Unique players have increased 10 percent year-over-year and daily active players reached an all-time engagement high. Fans are watching record volumes of EA SPORTS FIFA content as more than 12 billion minutes have been viewed on Twitch since launch--the equivalent of more than 133 million traditional football matches. The 260 percent year-over-year growth* in EA SPORTS FIFA content viewership was also fueled by the recent global EA SPORTS FIFA Stay and Play Cup that aired to millions in more than 100 countries.
"Our vision is to grow the love of sport through our games and services, and with strategic partnerships with iconic organizations like LaLiga, we're uniquely positioned to deliver unrivaled authenticity and innovation in the years to come," said Cam Weber, Executive Vice President & Group GM, EA SPORTS. "Our joint commitment will enable both immediate impacts for the next EA SPORTS FIFA experience, and long-term opportunities to continue to strengthen LaLiga fan engagement over the next decade."
"This renewal enables us to grow the reach and popularity of LaLiga to more and more fans around the world that play EA SPORTS FIFA every day," said Javier Tebas, President of LaLiga. "We have built a collaborative partnership with EA SPORTS for more than 20 years that has seen both organizations become leading international brands. Our new agreement signifies our commitment to maintain this growth and create the best entertainment for football fans worldwide."
The EA SPORTS FIFA and LaLiga partnership will help deliver the most authentic and comprehensive global football interactive experience in the world. Only in EA SPORTS FIFA can LaLiga's millions of global fans represent their favorite clubs in interactive entertainment. Both organizations will continue to advance sports innovation, building upon recent successes such as LaLiga's EA SPORTS Atmospheric Audio for LaLiga match broadcasts.
LaLiga continues to fuel significant player engagement across the EA SPORTS FIFA franchise. LaLiga is one of the most popular leagues selected in online play, has the biggest in-game fanbase across 70 nations worldwide and LaLiga clubs were used in more than one billion matches. FUT fans will continue to engage with unique LaLiga in-season content only found in EA SPORTS FIFA including Team of the Week (TOTW), Player of the Month (POTM) and Team of the Year (TOTY).
Future details on EA SPORTS FIFA and eLaLiga Santander will be announced later. For more information about EA SPORTS, please visit www.easports.com.
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About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The Company develops and delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.
In fiscal year 2020, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $5.5 billion. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, EA is recognized for a portfolio of critically acclaimed, high-quality brands such as EA SPORTS™ FIFA, Battlefield™, Apex Legends™, The Sims™, Madden NFL, Need for Speed™, Titanfall™ and Plants vs. Zombies™. More information about EA is available at www.ea.com/news.
EA SPORTS, Battlefield, Apex Legends, The Sims, Need for Speed, Titanfall and Plants vs. Zombies are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. Madden, NFL and FIFA are properties of its respective owners and used with permission.
About LaLiga
LaLiga is a global, innovative and socially responsible organization, a leader in the leisure and entertainment sector. It is a private sports association composed of the 20 teams in LaLiga Santander and 22 in LaLiga SmartBank, responsible for the organization of these national professional football competitions. In the 2018/2019 season, LaLiga reached more than 2.7 billion people globally. With headquarters in Madrid (Spain), it is present in 55 countries through 11 offices and 46 delegates. The association carries out its social action through its Foundation and is the world's first professional football league with a league for intellectually challenged footballers: LaLiga Genuine Santander.
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Unofficial Doctor Who Television Companion Republished
By John Freeman on October 21, 2002
The acclaimed Doctor Who reference book The Television Companion is being reissued next year by Telos Publishing.
Rather than being a straight reprint authors David J Howe and Stephen James Walker intend to rework some of the material from the Virgin Doctor Who Handbooks into the reprint with the aim of making it the definitive guide to the TV series. It will also have some material reinstated that did not make it into the BBC Books edition.
The unofficial and unauthorised Telos edition will retail for £15 in A5 paperback, and will be available from May 2003. There will also be a limited edition hardback, numbered and signed by the authors available.
Meanwhile, Telso have also announced their licence to publish Doctor Who novellas will cease in 2004, as BBC Worldwide have declined a request to extend the license for the books beyond that date.
"We are shocked and of course deeply saddened by BBC Worldwide's decision," commented David Howe of Telos, "which we know will greatly disappoint the thousands of regular readers of the Doctor Who Novellas. However, having discussed this with BBC Worldwide, we are resigned to the fact that there is nothing we can do to persuade them to change their minds."
• Telos Publishing: www.telos.co.uk
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Paul Magrs celebrates the Doctor Who annuals in all their, erm… glory?


I have a huge problem, A number of times, you might have come across an.
Saturday, February 17, 9: It's been the only way to install my audio drivers. AC97 Driver, the original, no fakes! I downloaded the driver installation information from that I received from Modek available to download on its website. I am not positive my change did the trick here, but a driver loaded and I now have sound.
Friday, June 16, 7: Need a solution NOW!!! Hopefully this audio driver issue is fixed in the final release. I went the same route as everyone else on this mess. Modem, Conexant, Modem Driver, Download. Where have you found anything different???
Try pressing F8 at bootup and then choose the option for disabling digital signing. I signed up for the beta test program and went through the painful and ridicules process of trying to work around a number of driver issues. Thursday, August 17, 2: I have a zd from HP mdv1 love it.
Monday, June 12, 9: Updating your drivers with Driver Alert can help your computer in a number of ways. So I figured that it must be a problem in the operating system, some sort of driver corruption or maybe even duplicate drivers that are not being shown in the device manager even using the "show hidden devices" option Monday, October 2, 8: The bit version of Vista does not allow unsigned drivers to load by default.
What i have to do is start it up in safe mode, uninstall the realtek ac'97 driver without deleting it restart, load the driver again, and follow your procedure again.
I have three drives that wont install as well All those things were already there, but not from Microsoft.
I finaly got the sound to work on my HP pavilion dvus frist cobexant this http: Below, is the information that loaded to give me audio within Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate bit. Mpdem the missing drivers and even the slowness of the computer, I decided that now is not the time to move to bit Vista. Like you I started with a clean machine due in part to a notebook Hitachi IDE rpm cluster failure.
I tried to update the driver manually by mapping to the directory or folder of the self extracted files.
Microsoft and the other companies aren't ready yet, to play with x64 bit. Tuesday, February 20, 9: Tuesday, January 2, 3: This should allow you install your sound driver.
Saturday, June 17, 7: So, I went to Device manager, right clicked on the Multimedia device that had mvc1 exclamation point, said reinstall driver and pointed it to the directory where I installed the 'defunct' audio drivers. These instructions worked for my Gateway MX http: Discover the magic of the Internet.


BetVictor has continued to increase its profile within the sport of snooker, having secured the rights to sponsor two more UK events; the Northern Ireland Open and the Scottish Open, which are both part of the Home Nations series.
Earlier this year, the Gibraltar-based bookmaker sponsored the English Open for the first time and following the success of that deal, they will be expanding their links with the sport, starting with sponsorship of the Northern Ireland Open, which is held between November 12 and November 18 at the Belfast Waterfront Hall. The Scottish Open, hosted by the Glasgow Emirates Arena will be staged between December 10 and December 16.
Speaking about the new sponsorship deal, the Director of Sportsbook at BetVictor, Matt Scarrott, said that the move would enable BetVictor to tap into the global fanbase of snooker, giving them the opportunity to reach an international audience in what is a growing sport.
Both of the Home Nations tournaments will be available to snooker fans on Eurosport's channels and additional coverage will be provided by Quest TV. There will be 128 players taking part in the two competitions, including big name stars such as John Higgins, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Selby and Judd Trump, with a prize of £70,000 on offer.
Commenting on the link with BetVictor, the Chairman of World Snooker, Barry Hearn, said that he was delighted to be joining with the bookmaker and expressed his gratitude for their support, which has previously included sponsorship of the Welsh Open between 2013 and 2017.
The Home Nations series is a relatively new addition to the snooker schedule, but has proven popular with snooker fans and both the Belfast and Glasgow events are expected to attract plenty of support.


Home » Telugu » News » AWE director Prashanth Varma to take over the direction of Queen Telugu remake?
The remakes are being produced by Manu Kumaran under the banner Mediente Films and is co-produced by actor Parul Yadav.
And speculations are now rife about Neelakanta opting out after the latest reports. Emerging reports reveal that the makers have now roped in young filmmaker Prashanth Varma who directed AWE which was produced by Nani. Reports reveal that Prashanth will join the team soon and begin shooting the remain parts of the Queen remake.
The remakes are being produced by Manu Kumaran under the banner Mediente Films and is co-produced by actor Parul Yadav. The unit of the film recently returned from France where all the lead actresses shot for their portions of the film, and all of them seem to have had a great time canning their scenes. Parul started shooting for the remake of Queen, Butterfly, back in June this year and interestingly the shooting kicked off on the birthday of the Sandalwood actress. "It's the most overwhelming feeling that I get to start this very important film of my career on my birthday. It has been a wonderful journey so far, but I am really looking forward to this new chapter that will unfold in my life," Parul had said.