Micheal J. Fox could make cleaner lines.
Self education just means you didn't care enough to learn the right way by getting out there and getting an apprenticeship at a reputable shop. All it takes is a little initiative, patience, and dedication.
why are amature tattoo artists called "scratchers" is it like a noob in call of duty. E.G. you have to earn respect from your piers. and if a "scratcher" cant get an apprenticeship because everywhere is either busy already or to cloak and dagger to reveal so called trade secrets how else are you suposed to learn???
ok people, I have a question from the pros ? How do you know how deep to go?
i get tattoo today, i was scared, but then was no pain!
i enjoy, i almost fall to sleep but i didn't.
i have tattoo on my hand. its amazing!
you obviously scratch people from home….scratcher.
Im always dumbfounded when these people give advice (weather its about tattooing or anything else) on a subject when they are not accomplished in their field yet….THEY ARE AMATEURS AND GIVING ADVICE ON SOMETHING WHICH THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES…..THEY WANT THEIR 2 MINUTES OF FAME ON YOU TUBE.
One thing this man made certain and that is this amateur will NEVER TATTOO ME…..WHAT A JOKE.
why his hands ar shaking as hell????
@ryan10161 i agree, opinions are great if they are from a source that is tangible. you wouldnt take financial advice from someone whos always broke would you?so why take advice on tattooing from someone who tattoos from home because they arent good enough to work in a studio? thats just absurd. aside from home scratchers just fucken peoples tattoos up, its also a huge health concern..but obviously not for the scratchers seeing how they wont be bothered to learn the right way. filthy bastards.


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BLACKPINK Rosé Drops Release Date For Her Solo Debut
Mark your calendars, BLINKs!
BLACKPINK Rosé's solo debut has been long-awaited by many fans, but the wait stops now! She has finally announced a release date for later this month.
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Earlier today, YG Entertainment shared two teaser posters for the project, as well as the release date: March 12.
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Prior to this, Rosé released a teaser video for the project on January 25, as well as performing her solo track during BLACKPINK's live stream concert, THE SHOW, on January 31. However, that was an exclusive performance only for viewers, so everyone who missed out on THE SHOW has been impatiently awaiting this formal release.
Her teaser posters as well as the teaser video are dramatic, striking and emotional, so fans better be prepared for what's to come!

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Ecole des Maitres
After Interiors, Vanishing Point's Artistic Director Matthew Lenton was asked to lead the 2010 École des Maîtres, working with actors from France, Belgium, Portugal and Italy. The project which is now in its nineteenth year, is led by Franco Quadri. The school offers recent graduates from European theatre schools and academies the opportunity to work with international theatre directors over a period of six weeks in the cities of Udine and Naples.
Presentations of a work-in-progress took place in Naples, Brussels and Lisbon and in Reims in December 2010.
The 2012 production of Wonderland developed from these workshops.
Alice in Wonderland, the pornography industry and the universe of the internet were some of the themes explored during the Ecole des Maitres, resulting in the development and premiere of Wonderland in 2012.
02 August - 19 August, 2010
Stage a Udine, Teatro S. Giorgio
Udine, Teatro S. Giorgio
stage a Napoli, Spazio Körper
30 August - 07 September, 2010
stage a Napoli, Teatro Sannazaro
presentazione pubblica a Napoli, Teatro Sannazaro
presentazione pubblica a Bruxelles
presentazione pubblica a Lisbona, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
07 September - 10 September, 2010
stage a Reims, La Comédie de Reims
presentazione pubblica a Reims, La Comédie de Reims
This was a work-in-progress presentation and was not reviewed by the press.
Director Matthew Lenton
Creative Associate Sandy Grierson
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Coded Bias: How algorithmic biases affect all of us
August 30, 2021 September 3, 2021 Science Borealis
Sri Ray-Chauduri and Esme Symons, Technology and Engineering editors
If you think the documentary Coded Bias sounds like it's only for technology or engineering enthusiasts, think again. If you have ever used social media, bought something online or walked down a street of a big city, then you need to watch this film!
(Left) Graduate researcher Joy Buolamwini had to place a white mask over her face to get facial recognition technology to detect her darker skin colour. (Right) Documentary poster for Coded Bias which premiered at Sundance in 2020. Credit: Courtesy of Women Make Movies.
The documentary explores bias in computing algorithms. It begins with MIT graduate student Joy Buolamwini's discovery that some facial recognition technologies (FRTs) couldn't accurately detect faces that were female or had darker skin, including her own. Buolamwini dug deeper and found the datasets used to program these technologies mostly consisted of male and lighter skinned faces. Unfortunately, this finding turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg. Through powerful clips from an array of female leaders in the field and sobering real-world examples, the film takes the audience on a compelling journey through the hidden perils of algorithmic bias.
(Top) Buolamwini and collogues assessed the accuracy of AI based gender classification products from three major companies published in 2018. (Bottom) A follow-up study in 2019 also examined results from an Amazon facial recognition product. All products performed better on: 1) male versus females faces, and 2) subjects with lighter versus darker skin colour. The Largest Gap column in the table shows the difference between darker skin female faces compared to lighter skin male faces. IBM pledged to halt development of FRT, while Microsoft and Amazon have paused deployment of their technologies for the time being. Credit: Courtesy of Joy Buolamwini.
How does bias infiltrate computing algorithms?
In simple terms, an algorithm is a procedure or set of instructions used to perform a computational task or solve a problem. One method of programming a computer is to give it instructions on what to do. Alternatively, you could supply it with large amounts of data and let the machine figure out how to classify the data by processing the available information. This kind of computer 'learning' method works well, but programmers need to proceed carefully. Zeynep Tufeki, a social technology expert interviewed in the film, says "We don't really understand why it works – it has errors we don't really understand…and the scary part is because it's machine learning, it's a black box to even the programmers". Microsoft's 2016 chatbot experiment on Twitter (named Tay) is a notorious case in point. Within hours of release, Tay digested enough data from the Twitterverse to become a deplorable tweeter, boldly expressing a bevy of inaccurate and unimaginable prejudices. The importance of thinking about the data and examples used to teach machines patterns should not be underestimated.
We naturally associate artificial intelligence (AI) with the future, but Buolamwini emphasizes that "AI is based on data and data [are] a reflection of our history. So, the past dwells within our algorithms." These data expose and proliferate inequities that have always existed. Mathematician and author Cathy O'Neil, who is also prominently featured in the film, believes it's a problem if society puts its faith in the idea of a fair and neutral algorithm while ignoring the intrinsically biased data we feed it. "The underlying mathematical structure of the algorithm is not racist or sexist, but the data embed the past…and we all know that humans can be unfair, that humans can exhibit racist or sexist or…ableist discriminations." Transparency about how data are used, and what they are used for is critical, but so is the question of who codes the algorithm. We all carry unconscious biases, and ensuring the people involved in algorithm design accurately reflect the demographics of our current society can help address these types of discriminations in AI.
Automating hidden inequities
Buolamwini and her colleagues demonstrated bias in the FRTs they tested, but what other pitfalls are out there? The film reveals how we are constantly interacting with automated decision-making algorithms that can have a major impact on our lives beyond what we see in our social media feeds. Well-documented examples include: racial bias in tools allocating healthcare in the United States (US), bias in sentencing within the US and Canadian justice systemsand gender bias in a now defunct Amazon AI hiring tool. In 2019, even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak openly shared concerns on Twitter over possible algorithmic bias with the company's credit card.
O'Neil, who also worked in the finance industry, says if we think of machine learning as a scoring system that estimates the likelihood of what a person will do in a particular scenario (such as paying back a loan or getting a credit card), society must consider the power imbalance in the structure of the decision making. She stresses there is no recourse for people "…who didn't get credit card offers to say 'I'm going to use my AI [or algorithm] against the credit card company'. People are suffering algorithmic harm and not being told what's happening to them and there is no appeal system, no accountability."
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Accountability in the age of automation
Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) after her realization that "oversight in the age of automation is one the largest civil rights concerns." The AJL aims to lead a cultural movement towards equitable and accountable AI, calling on everyone to "become an agent of change" by running educational workshops or reporting cases of algorithmic inequality for investigation.
Ultimately, enforceable legal frameworks are needed. Right now, several cities in the U.S. have banned the use of FRTs in their jurisdictions, and legislation to ban the federal use of FRTs was introduced in 2020. An Algorithmic Accountability Act, requiring companies to conduct algorithmic impact assessments, will also be re-introduced in Congress this year.
The situation is somewhat different in Canada. Professor Christian Gideon, an expert in law and AI at the University of Calgary says that "although federal [and] provincial privacy laws have been invoked to fault the use of FRT [such as Clearview AI], these laws are general privacy laws [and do] not specifically deal with FRTs…[but] there are many other problems with FRT outside the scope of privacy laws [such as] racial and gender bias associated with the technology. These are Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms issues and…why Canada should follow the trend in the US towards a more holistic regulation (if not ban) of the technology" and suggests Canadians "can advocate for such policy and legislative accountability through their elected representatives."
The information age has provided advances of immense benefit to the world, but we should not forge ahead blindly. Coded Bias emphasizes that decisions about algorithm design cannot simply be mathematical; they must be ethical as well. You can stream Coded Bias online or arrange for a screening by visiting Women Make Movies.
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SEHWAN: Renowned social activist and theatre artist Sheema Kermani on Saturday performed dhamaal at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
A group of artists and Kermani swayed to beats of traditional Sufi poetry as they performed in front of a packed courtyard in the shrine.
The performance comes a year after a bomb tore through the shrine, killing dozens and injuring many more.


Music City Texas Theater, in Linden has been busy putting together an impressive full line-up of shows for this spring and early summer.
Randy Rogers plays an acoustic show at Music City Texas in Linden on April 3. The country star is flying solo to promote "Hold My Beer," recorded with fellow Texas artist Wade Bowen.
This is the time of year when festivals, gardens and trails present beautiful flowers in addition to the natural wildflowers seen along roadsides, and thought-provoking landscapes are part of the public garden crown jewels of the Upper East Side of Texas.
The downtown region of Atlanta, Texas, has been booming with new businesses opening their doors. Of these new businesses, Uncle Juan's Mexican Restaurant and Luigi's Italian Restaurant are a couple of the local's favorites that have rejuvenated the town's development.
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Pathologic complete response was observed in 3 (37.5%) of 8 patients—2 patients treated with nivolumab monotherapy and 1 patient treated with the immunotherapy combination.
A total of 3 patients experienced grade 3 or higher toxicity—which did not affect their resection—and no grade 4 or higher toxicity was reported.
The pathologic complete response in the patient treated with nivolumab plus ipilimumab showed that clinical response correlated with an increase in CD8-positive T-cell infiltration.
Anti–programmed cell death protein 1 and anti–cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated protein 4 antibodies have shown activity in hepatocellular carcinoma. Based on these earlier findings, researchers sought to examine the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of perioperative treatment with nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Findings from a small phase II trial were presented by Kaseb et al at the 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (Abstract 185).
A total of 9 patients were randomly assigned to receive either nivolumab (arm A) or nivolumab plus ipilimumab (arm B). All patients enrolled were treated with 240 mg of nivolumab every 2 weeks for a total of 6 weeks; patients in arm B were also treated concurrently with ipilimumab at 1 mg/kg every 6 weeks. Surgical resection was performed within 4 weeks after the last cycle of therapy, and patients continued adjuvant treatment for up to 2 years after resection.
The primary endpoint was the safety and tolerability of nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab. Secondary endpoints were overall response rate, complete response rate, and time to progression.
Eight patients were evaluable at the time of first interim analysis (5 in arm A and 3 in arm B). Pathologic complete response was observed in 3 (37.5%) of 8 patients—2 patients treated with nivolumab monotherapy and 1 patient treated with the immunotherapy combination.
A total of 3 patients experienced grade 3 or higher toxicity—which did not affect their resection—and no grade 4 or higher toxicity was reported. The pathologic complete response in the patient treated with nivolumab plus ipilimumab showed that clinical response correlated with an increase in CD8-positive T-cell infiltration—notably, an increase in two effector T-cell clusters.


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Staunton Bankruptcy Attorneys are familiar with state and federal laws regarding bankruptcy, so they know exactly what guidelines their clients must follow. By following every legal step correctly, a business or individual will not make any errors when filing a petition for bankruptcy. Errors are the major reason that petitions for bankruptcy are denied by the courts. A bankruptcy lawyer can take charge of the process of filing for bankruptcy if an individual or business has issues filing for bankruptcy. There are different types of bankruptcy, and the different types will apply differently to various individuals and businesses. A lawyer can help his client figure out which "chapter" of bankruptcy they must file a petition for.
The safest bet for individuals and businesses is to find lawyers who focus particularly on bankruptcy law and other financial issues. Some general lawyers may practice this kind of law, but it may not be their main focus. Lawyer who have the opportunity to practice bankruptcy law on a regular basis are very prepared to answer questions, file petitions, submit other paperwork and represent clients in court. It is fairly easy for potential clients to find out if a lawyer specializes in bankruptcy law or not; many lawyers specify on their websites or other advertisements what kind of law they practice most.
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Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in reference to his incarcerated body and the whale's gastric juices.
Greatly to their surprise he raised himself, looked at his watch, and remarked that, as it was now half an hour since luncheon, the gastric juices had had sufficient time to secrete; he was trying a system, he explained, which involved short spells of exercise interspaced by longer intervals of rest.
They stood still and began to laugh at him, and to ask him whether the gastric juices--but he stopped them and began to speak very quickly and stiffly.
On this occasion she refused one dish after another with a resolution which implied the rarest of all modern martyrdoms -- gastric martyrdom.
Men go happy or miserable as they have healthy or unhealthy livers, or sound gastric glands.
I only know it turned out as uncomfortably for Tom Tulliver as if he had been plied with cheese in order to remedy a gastric weakness which prevented him from digesting it.
Gastric bypass surgery was associated with more than a 50% drop in baseline rates of psoriasis and with about a 70% decrease in the incidence of psoriatic arthritis.
Twelve year, long-term, controlled study shows effectiveness of gastric bypass surgery for long-term weight loss, prevention of diabetes and hypertension, and remission of diabetes.


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"Combating air pollution is one of the most pressing and urgent tasks of our times. We can all help to make cleaner air a reality for citizens across Asia.
This campaign encourages action, tangible action, by encouraging people to take concrete steps to reduce air pollution. It also raises the issue of the need to create awareness and using that awareness as leverage for real change," said Bjarne Pedersen, Clean Air Asia Executive Director.
"If all of Asia's urban population, numbering 1.7 billion, were to replace short motorized trips that they would have made and shifted those to walking we would have saved over 1.1 million tons of CO2 per year," said CAA Board of Trustees Member, David Guerrero of advertising agency BBDO Guerrero, which developed the campaign pro‐bono for Clean Air Asia.
The campaign aims to 'nudge' urban citizens to drive less and walk more. Initially this takes the form of traffic signs that serve as reminders of the many benefits of walking, both to the individual and society. Ordinary people are thus empowered to make a meaningful contribution in the fight against air pollution by making a small change to the their daily routine.
The WALK Campaign has been trialled in Pasig City, one of 16 cities that comprise the Metro Manila megacity in the Philippines. Pasig was chosen because of the city's environmental initiatives, including a weekly car‐free day. During the inauguration of the car‐free day, WALK signs were installed on the road.
The BAQ Conference is the flagship event of Clean Air Asia, covering the key sectors of transport, energy and industry, with a particular emphasis on government policies and measures. Policy makers, practitioners and industry leaders meet at BAQ to network, innovate, learn and share experiences. The biennial event was firstly held in 2002 and attracts close to a thousand participants from Asia and the rest of the world.


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Joanna had made many long term friends at the company and many of her colleagues arrived with gifts and cards to wish her a happy retirement. Once the party was underway, the Hog Roast Anglesey team arrived and set up outside, beginning to prepare their brilliant fresh food. They cooked a classic hog roast menu for Joanna's guests consisting of a whole slow roasted hog served with apple sauce, homemade stuffing and the team's classic crackling. The meat was served in bread rolls and accompanied by a vegetarian friendly option.
As the guests enjoyed their Hog Roast, the team ensured that there was plenty for everyone to have second helpings. The team's head chefs worked tirelessly to ensure that all of the meat was cooked to perfection and the food was of the highest quality to meet to usual high standards of the Hog Roast Anglesey team's food. The team also ensured that the meat was deliciously tender and filled with lots of flavour when the guests were ready to eat the buffet. The team also kept the meat warm but ensured that it did not dry the meat out and leave it tough. This makes the Hog Roast Anglesey team a brilliant addition to any long event as they can keep the food on hold and ready to serve whenever your guests are ready. Joanna was pleased that her guests had had a fantastic night and were very happy with their catering. The party was a great way to end her time at the company and all of her colleagues had a great time celebrating this with her.
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Q: How to select a dropdown control in an ASP.NET repeater through jQuery/javascript? I have an ASP.NET Repeater control with a dropdown (with values 1, 2, 3 ) and a textbox. Thus, multiple Instances of code are generated/created in each ItemTemplate with a dropdown and a text box.
I am trying to create a function in jQuery/javascript, where whenever the value in the dropdown is selected to be 1, textbox should be get disabled. Now this dropdown can be anyone say first, 3rd, or 5th.. and repective textbox should get disabled.
Could anyone kindly guide me in being able to make this work for each row in the Repeater?
Thanks!

A: Try this
$('.dropdown').change(function()
{
   //include condition to determine "if dropdown is selected to be 1"

   var $row = $(this).parents('tr:first'); //find the row in which this dropdown is
   if($(this).val() == 1)
   {

     $row.find('.textbox:first').attr('disabled','disabled'); //assuming you put a class on your textbox
     //$row.find('.textbox:first').attr('disabled','true');
     //$row.find('.textbox:first').prop('disabled','true');
   }
   else
       $row.find('.textbox:first').attr('enabled','true'); //assuming you put a class on your textbox
});

A: If your repeater render as table. then you can try.
$("select").change(function(){
    var _this = $(this);
    var parentRow = _this.closest('tr');
    if(_this.val() == "1"){
        parentRow.find("input[type=text]").prop("disabled", true);
    }else {
        parentRow.find("input[type=text]").prop("disabled", false);
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Chris Brown and Rihanna's Relationship Timeline
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News U. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Newsletters Coupons. Follow Us. The year-old musician was set to feature Rihanna on his next album, "X. Rihanna could have made a difference. Instead, she will go down in hip-hop history as the girl who went running back.
Rihanna has appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair , shot by Annie Leibovitz, and in the candid interview, she talks about her relationship with Chris Brown, and how she wanted to get back with the rapper after an incident of domestic violence because she thought she could change him. Rihanna was attacked by Brown the night before the Grammys, and photos of the abuse were leaked to TMZ. But the singer admitted that while she and the rapper did not really have a relationship anymore, her feelings for him remained.
Rihanna and Brown danced together at a club in Paris in December Photos: Photos: Rihanna and Chris Brown. Rihanna and Chris Brown.
Rihanna dated Jameel for three years and kept much of their relationship under wraps, despite Riri being one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Rihanna, being the successful, creative and beautiful mogul that she is, probably has a very long queue of potential suitors to win her heart. These two were showbiz royalty where they started dating in However, they split when he physically assaulted Rihanna in , and the Run It singer was found guilty of felony assault. Tongues were wagging about Rihanna and Leo after they were spotted having a moment during a birthday party at the Playboy mansion in We can dream!
Smitten superstars Chris Brown and Rihanna may have rung in the new year between the sheets. The singers both posted Instagram photos on New Year's Day showing the same black-and-white polka-dotted comforter, suggesting the pair may have spent a low-key holiday together in bed. Brown's post came an hour later – perhaps a coy way to announce to fans the on-and-off-again couple is back on for the new year. The former couple – who first split in after Brown brutally assaulted Rihanna – was spotted together on Christmas day, at the Knicks-Lakers game at Los Angeles' Staples Center.
Brown, 23, and Rihanna, 24, have yet to publicly confirm their reconciliation, but haven't been shy about communicating on social media.
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Hit up SavageX. A post shared by badgalriri badgalriri on Nov 24, at pm PST. A post shared by badgalriri badgalriri on Nov 22, at am PST. Chris Brown left a comment on Rihanna's Instagram and we are shook by it. TheMorningToast pic. If Chris brown don't gtfo Rihanna's comments pic. The Navy anytime Chris Brown even think about Rihanna pic. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
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The New Arab. Date of publication: 30 January, The pictures, which were shared online, triggered frenzy in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom, where relationships out of wedlock are prohibited and considered taboo. The year-old billionaire Jameel is a senior member of the family-owned Abdul Latif Jameel conglomerate business, which owns distribution rights to sell Toyota cars in Saudi Arabia and other neighbouring countries.
Rihanna is rumoured to have a new boyfriend just weeks after she split up with her longtime Date of publication: 30 January, may shock fans who are still reeling from the split with longtime boyfriend Jameel. her widely publicised violent assault at the hands of her ex, RnB singer Chris Brown.
Rihanna and Chris Brown are two of the biggest names in the music industry. They started dating in their late teens but broke up about a decade ago, thanks to Chris Brown's rather unsettling emotions and lack of anger management. However, they seem to have found their way back after all these years. Included in their life story is tons of drama that keeps fans interested in their relationship.
Most fans want Rihanna to steer clear of Chris. Fans do wonder if Chris Brown has really moved on. They also wonder what Rihanna thinks of him these days and how Chris and Rihanna have been relating since their breakup. Yes, you read that right. Chris never really moved on. According to The Blast , the talented R and B singer has confessed that he's still madly in love with the talented and successful Barbadian beauty.
Her one and only, lover and abuser: Chris Brown. No one can forget how that duo ended. A day before the Grammys in , Chris Brown was prosecuted for brutally assaulting Rihanna and threatening to kill her. After a media-filled court case, he was issued a restraining order and court-ordered community service.
'Good morning! Still haven't slept lol,' she wrote. (Rihanna via Instagram). Smitten superstars Chris Brown and Rihanna may have rung in the.
The latest consensus? Still together. The attention was not always so positive. Four years ago Mr. Excoriated by every sector of the media, he pleaded guilty to felony assault and was given five years of probation. But now Rihanna, 25, has publicly embraced the boyfriend who once abused her, creating perhaps the most polarizing spectacle in pop culture.
From young teenagers who fell in love to domestic violence and rebuilding their relationship – everything you need to know about Ri-Ri and Breezy. They were teenage sweethearts before Chris Brown viciously attacked Rihanna , leaving her face beaten and bruised. The world might not be ready to forgive Chris for his actions – but Rihanna has openly sent him messages of support and shown public displays of affection fuelling rumours they are back together.
And following the picture of the dysfunctional couple cuddling up together on a night out, here's a complete timeline of their relationship from the first time they met in to rekindling their relationship in Rihanna, then 17, introduced Chris, then 16, to the stage for him to perform his song Run It. It was pretty awkward to watch and everyone looked really young.
There has been talk of the couple dating after Candice shared Instagram photos of them hanging out at Chris' Between The Sheets tour but Chris has kept schtum.
Fill out the form below, or call us at From the rumored relationships — such as Ashton Kutcher and Justin Timberlake — to her confirmed and longtime i. One thing is clear, Rihanna does not have a type. From sports stars, film stars and singers, she is an equal opportunity dater! Send us scoop form close button. Input your name. Input your email. Input your phone number. Enter scoop message here. Who has romanced RiRi?
There are rumors that the pair first hooked up in Tokyo where Jameel went to college back in April of The automobile entrepreneur is no stranger to dating famous women — he and Naomi Campbell were seen together for a period. It seemed to get serious when they spent that birthday at the Staples Center at a Los Angeles Lakers game — not exactly a hub of privacy! Their relationship was totally casual, according to Elle , whenever they shared an area code.
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Miller's Rexall Drugs is a landmark hoodoo and homeopathic remedy shop at 87 Broad St. in South Downtown Atlanta.
Owner Donald Miller opened a Rexall pharmacy in 1960 and moved to the present location at 87 Broad St. in 1965. Miller, descended from Polish Jews, has been cited as an example that one does not have to be a hoodoo practitioner in order to sell hoodoo supplies. The store originally opened as an ordinary pharmacy but due to customer requests for homeopathic and hoodoo remedies, Miller started carrying them.
In 1994, then-owner Richard Miller (Donald Miller's nephew) began a website and by 2010 Miller's Internet sales had risen to over $1 million per year, far exceeding sales from walk-in customers.
In 1999, Paul McCartney happened upon the drugstore, saw "Run Devil Run" bath salts in the display window and bought them. He named his next album "Run Devil Run" after the salts. The store is pictured on the album cover but with the name "Miller's" changed to "Earl's".
Miller's is one of several businesses still remaining in a block of Broad Street struggling to reverse a decline. The block was at the heart of what had been a busy shopping district including the flagship Rich's store, but which has continued to decline since the 1960s.


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ACTED Senegal
Improving agriculture, employment and local opportunities to address root causes of rural-urban migrations
Caught between the issues of territorial disparities, environmental and climatic degradation, and lack of employment opportunities, Senegal is now faced with significant migration rates. The migration phenomenon is constantly growing, with impacts at the national, regional and international levels.
Rural exodus is now a reality for a quite large part of the Senegalese population, with increasing concentration rates in the main urban centres – particularly Dakar, Diourbel and Thies. Outside Africa, the European Union is the main destination for Senegalese migrants, who settle mostly in France, Italy and Spain, considered as the three most attractive countries (2008-2013 period).
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ACTED is present in the rural region of Matam, in the North-Eastern part of the country, to support vulnerable populations. In particular, ACTED implements a project to strengthen food and nutritional security, while seeking to boost local know-how and employment opportunities in the region and address the root causes of migration.
The Matam region has been facing recurrent food crises for several years, further exacerbated by chronic droughts that leave the environment and agriculture weakened. Agriculture is the main source of income for 50 to 75% of the families surveyed in the framework of ACTED's assessments in the Matam region, for whom the vast majority of the crops are intended for their own consumption.
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Development of home gardens facilitates families' access to food (Matam region)
More and more people are choosing the migration route, most of them in search of new employment opportunities. A survey conducted by ACTED in July 2017 showed that 40% of the beneficiary families of its food and nutrition security project count migrants among their members. In more than 3 out of 5 cases, these migrants have left the region in search of employment opportunities – nowadays the main cause of migration in the region.
ACTED seeks to promote local economic models to enhance local employment opportunities and reduce poverty. The NGO therefore developed a range of complementary activities, with the support of the European Union, to help limit food expenses and even increase families' incomes by improving agricultural production. ACTED notably developed market gardening activities to complement traditional agricultural activities during the rainy season, and distributed agricultural inputs to the most vulnerable – according to an ACTED survey, agricultural inputs represent up to 35% of the families' debt. The populations also participated in agricultural, market gardening and nutrition training.
Most of the villages where ACTED intervenes are very isolated and not accessible by road. Remoteness compromises access to markets, and therefore supply of agricultural equipment. Against this background, ACTED has set up a network of community relays who are in charge of supervising activities throughout the agricultural season and to share best practices. These service agents are mobile agents who sell equipment and seeds to families who live far away from urban centres and ensure they have access to quality equipment.
With this project, ACTED was also able to support 30 nutrition initiatives at village-level, thus contributing to developing entrepreneurship while strengthening these initiatives with technical knowledge and management skills, allowing them to grow, become more profitable and provide an inspiring business model for other similar initiatives. It also supports service agents in developing their agricultural and business management skills.
By supporting these village initiatives, ACTED contributes to encouraging sustainable business models to address food and nutritional insecurity.
Women's groups in rural Senegal are putting fresh vegetables back on the menu
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ACTED and EUAV: Stories of motivation, mobilisation and solidarity beyond borders!
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Ilan Eshkeri is an award-winning composer, songwriter, producer and conductor with a multitude of projects to his name, including collaborations with rock musicians, conducting the choral symphonic suite Reliquary at a Burberry fashion show, and most recently, composing the dark classical instrumentation that accompanies the London backdrop of popular television series Informer.
"I seek work with people I feel like I'm going to have an inspirational or happy collaboration with, where I'm going to have a creative experience. Fortunately, now I'm in a position to choose," Eshkeri says.
Eshkeri's first paid composing gig was for a cheap English TV show, Young, Gifted and Broke—which he was, and it got him his first royalty check. But his first serious job was scoring the docudrama Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, with the help of a glowing, "over-the-top" written recommendation from the late composer and Eshkeri's mentor, Michael Kamen. That letter is framed today on Eshkeri's studio wall.


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BOSTON — A company that's leading efforts to computerize health care records nationwide is promising to add 1,900 jobs in Massachusetts in an exchange for a state tax break.
The agreement with athenahealth Inc. is the biggest economic development deal reached with Massachusetts in years, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
Athenahealth already has 1,100 employees at its Watertown headquarters, where it plans to add the new jobs.
Under the tentative agreement, athenahealth's workforce in Watertown will nearly triple by 2022 in exchange for $9.5 million in state tax credits. To make room for the new employees, athenahealth agreed to buy an office complex from Harvard University for nearly $169 million. The tax break works out to about $5,000 per job, which is less than other incentives the state has awarded.


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Four professors with ties to the Health Sciences Campus were named Distinguished and University Professors in 2020. Clockwise from top left, Susan Forsburg is a member of USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center; Yang Chai is a member of USC Stem Cell; and Steve Kay and Shrikanth Narayanan are faculty at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. (Photos/Courtesy, Phil Channing, Noé Montes, Gus Ruelas)
Faculty named University, Distinguished Professors in 2020
USC faculty members Estela Mara Bensimon, EdD, Yang Chai, DDS, PhD, Steve Kay, PhD, and Shrikanth Narayanan, PhD, have been named University Professors, and Susan Forsburg, PhD, Sherman Jackson, PhD, Behrokh Khoshnevis, PhD, Mahta Moghaddam, PhD, and Pedro Noguera, PhD, have been named Distinguished Professors.
"These exceptional faculty members have brought great distinction to the university," USC Provost Charles Zukoski, PhD, wrote in an email sent Oct. 20 to the university community. "Recognizing each of them is an honor for President [Carol L.] Folt and me."
Both recognitions are awarded very selectively. The University Professor distinction is awarded by the president based on multidisciplinary interests and significant accomplishments in several disciplines. The Distinguished Professor distinction is awarded by the president to those whose accomplishments have brought special renown to USC.
USC's new University Professors
Estela Mara Bensimon is the Dean's Professor in Educational Equity in the USC Rossier School of Education. She is also the director of the Center for Urban Education, which she founded in 1999. Her research has focused on improving the academic outcomes of students of color. She has worked with numerous institutions of higher education to take steps to address the structural disadvantages that students of color face when they enter college.
She is an elected member of the National Academy of Education. She has previously served as the president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and in leadership positions in the American Education Research Association (AERA). She has been presented with the AERA Social Justice in Education Award and the ASHE Distinguished Service Award.
Yang Chai is the George and MaryLou Boone Professor of Craniofacial Molecular Biology in the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC. He is also the associate dean of research and the director of the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology in the Ostrow School of Dentistry and a member of USC Stem Cell. His research focuses on molecular regulatory issues during early craniofacial development.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work has been noted for its contributions to novel bioengineered treatment strategies for patients suffering from debilitating malformations of the head and face.
Steve Kay currently serves as the director of the MESH (Medicine, Engineering, Sciences and Humanities) Academy and the director of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, and is a Provost Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He held the position of dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences from 2012 to 2015. He is a leading expert on the genetics and genomics of circadian rhythms.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society. He was named by Thomson Reuters as one of "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" from 2014 to 2017 and has been cited in Science magazine's "Breakthroughs of the Year" three times since 1997. In 2009 he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2011 he was awarded the American Society of Plant Biologists' 2011 Martin Gibbs Medal for his pioneering work in plant sciences.
Shrikanth Narayanan holds the Niki and C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is the director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute of the USC Viterbi Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds joint appointments as a professor in computer science, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, pediatrics and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. He was also the inaugural director of the Ming Hsieh Institute and a research director for the Information Sciences Institute at USC. He is known for his interdisciplinary research on the fundamental and applied aspects of speech processing.
He is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Speech Communication Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
USC's new Distinguished Professors
Susan Forsburg is a USC Dornsife professor of biological sciences and an associate member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She was formerly a Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering. Her lab focuses on chromosome duplication and its contribution to genomic stability, utilizing a combination of techniques and methods from molecular biology to cutting-edge microscopy. Because the loss of genome integrity has a deep impact, her research has contributed to our understanding of how the deregulation of cell division contributes to the growth of cancer cells.
She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the California Academy of Sciences, and an elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2011, she was recognized with the Evans Award from the American Society of Microbiology to honor her contributions to the advancement of women in microbiology.
Sherman Jackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity in the USC Dornsife College. Jackson, who teaches classical Islamic Studies, including law, theology and intellectual history, focuses his research on the realities of modern Islam in the West, especially Muslim communities in America.
Jackson is a co-founder, core scholar and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Learning Institute for Muslims, an academic institution where scholars, professionals, activists, artists, writers, and community leaders come together to develop strategies for the future of Islam in the modern world. He has been named among the world's 500 most influential Muslims by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.
Behrokh Khoshnevis is the Louise L. Dunn Professor of Engineering, and professor of civil and environmental engineering, astronautics, and aerospace and mechanical engineering at USC Viterbi. He is the director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies and director of the Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Program at USC. He is active in CAD/CAM, robotics and mechatronics related research projects that include the development of novel Solid Free Form, or Rapid Prototyping, processes (Contour Crafting and SIS), automated construction of civil structures, development of mechatronics systems for biomedical applications (e.g., restorative dentistry, rehabilitation engineering, haptics devices for medical applications) and autonomous mobile and modular robots for assembly applications on earth and in space.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Additionally, he is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Society for Computer Simulation, and a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineering. His automated construction invention, Contour Crafting, was selected in 2006 as one of the top 25 best inventions from more than 4000 candidate inventions by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the History Channel's Modern Marvels program.
Mahta Moghaddam is the holder of the Ming Hsieh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC Viterbi. She has developed approaches and algorithms for quantitative interpretation of multichannel radar imagery based on analytical inverse scattering techniques applied to complex and random media.
She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Beginning in January, she is serving as president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, one of the largest societies within IEEE.
Pedro Noguera is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of USC Rossier. Noguera is an education researcher, former public school teacher and sociologist whose research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts.
Noguera is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the Phi Delta Kappa honor society, and this year was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves as an adviser on education policy to state officials in New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and Nevada. He also served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. He recently received awards from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at NYU for his research and advocacy efforts aimed at fighting poverty.
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Inverter solutions offered by us are are ideally suited for installations that need a continuous power supply. In principle, an inverter is a device that converts DC (direct current) to AC (alternating current) and typically used in running household appliances, computing devices, electrical fittings, and even power tools. On a commercial scale, inverters are used in generating systems both in conventional and non-conventional types.
Like a veritable power output device, our range of inverters offer a steady AC output to motors, pumps, electrical implements, and any other form of electrically operated gadgets. Here it should be noted that an inverter by itself does not create power, but in actuality converts a DC input to AC output. In our case, rechargeable batteries is he source of DC power. Our inverter converts the DC source into AC thereby enabling operation of corresponding devices.
Batteries are the source of DC input for our inverters. Rechargeable batteries form the source of DC power for inverters. For inverters connected to solar source, solar cells set up the input source. Inverter thereafter transmits continuous and constant AC output to connected electrical devices. Input DC voltage is of the order of 12volt and output could vary between 120 – 240 volt AC. This is the capability of our range of inverters.
Batteries used for our inverters are of the rechargeable type, normally lead-acid. These get charged as and when they are connected to company power lines.
We sell inverters of varying output capacities. These output capacities, in fact, are determinants of the type of power inverter you might require. It must be noted, that the total output of inverters are fixed and cannot be increased. However, this output load could be reduced. A change in load would not affect output voltage in any way, whatsoever. Our sophisticated range of inverters allow controlling of output voltage subject to a maximum value.
Domestic power lines are the most common use of inverters. Depending upon load our inverters could provide back-up of up to eight hours. UPS (uninterrupted power supply) is a very common application of inverters. Computer installations running critical applications are undeniably connected to an UPS system, thereby enabling continuous availability. Operation of electric motors is another vital function of inverters. Our inverters are designed to run electrical vehicles, industrial equipments, power tools and even public transport systems.


Bee colonies in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have had a rocky past. But in December 2015, as part of Chevron's social investment in the Kurdistan region, beekeeping supplies, equipment and modern apiculture training were provided to families from local villages. In less than a year, the bee colonies—and the businesses of the entrepreneurial families—were flourishing, and have tripled in number along with growing sales of honey and other byproducts.


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Meet the Bee Bop Palooza Gang!
Nurse Betty
She is a nurse bee in the hive and is quite adept at squeezing into the tight cells of the comb to feed the youngsters as they develop. She's loves to wildly shake side-to-side when the music is playing, but with her abdomen buried deep in the cell she has been know to have banged up a few young bees in her career. For a while she had a drone named Billy for a boyfriend but he was basically lazy and embarrassed her often just loitering around the hive. She gave him the heave-ho when she discovered he really only had eyes for the queen. She now enjoys the solitary purpose of public service to the hive as a nurse to the little ones as they grow..
Bonnie and Bela
Bonnie and Bela having been hanging around together since they first met. They are expert forager bees renown throughout the hive for their ability to find the best wildflower fields with the sweetest nectar. They love to perch high in the comb to get good perspective on everything that is going on. Bonnie seems to display her abdomen to the entire gang quite often. It's not the she is shy. She has confided with Bella that she thinks it is her best side. She does have an attractive stinger!
Bella is really into rolling her head around in time to the beat. Twist and Shout, by the Beatles is her favourite tune, although she considers Beatles to be be big, ugly dirty beasts with bad body odour - or was that a Beetle? The pair have each won the the Golden Stamen Award multiple times for the most nectar returned to the hive. They work hard and play even harder. They love to dance!
Bailey is also a nurse bee in the hive and is quite adept at squeezing into the tight cells of the comb to feed the youngsters as they develop. She's loves to wildly shake side-to-side when the music is playing, but with her abdomen buried deep in the cell she has been know to have banged up a few young bees in her career. For a while she had a drone named Billy for a boyfriend but he was basically lazy and embarrassed her often just loitering around the hive. She gave him the heave ho when she discovered he really only had eyes for the queen. She now enjoys the solitary purpose of public service to the hive as a nurse to the little ones as they grow..
Nurse Bees
Upon hatching, each fledgling bee immediately cleans out its hatching cell to prepare it for the next egg. Its first duty as a working member of the hive is to care for the young: As a nurse, a young bee will feed the brood, the collective term for honey-bee young, pupae and larvae.
Undertaker Bees
Honey bees are sticklers for cleanliness. With so many live bodies coming and going from the hive, there are sure to be a few dead ones. Undertaker bees are responsible for carrying out the hive's dead, cleaning up bee parts and removing other debris.
Architect Bees
Several tasks fall under this category. As a young bee ages, its wax glands mature. When its able to secrete wax, it's able to build comb. Wax-producing bees are also required to cap pupae and ripen honey cells. Bees in this category repair damaged comb and fill cracks in the hive with propolis, a sticky substance bees collect from tree resin.
Cleaner, Organizer, and Honey Maker Bees
Some female bees are tasked with the duty of cleaning their sisters in the hive and tending to others when they return from foraging trips. These workers remain in the hive to collect pollen and nectar from returning bees, packing it into cells and putting it away for later. Some of these same bees might be put on "honey" duty. Raw nectar requires digestive enzymes from select worker bees, as well as diligent fanning to reduce moisture and create honey.
The queen's job is crucial: She ensures the future population of the entire hive. She lays up to 2,000 eggs per day, choosing where to lay them and how many of each type (worker or drone eggs) to produce. For the majority of her life, she's sequestered to the hive, only leaving with a swarm of bees or for her mating flight as a young virgin queen. Unlike a worker bee, which may live for three to six weeks during the summer or several months over the winter, a queen bee can live between two and five years.
Queen's Attendants
Not many worker bees get this prestigious status. The queen is so busy in her own duties that she's unable to groom or feed herself. For this, she enlists a dozen or so attendant bees. These workers—her daughters—care for the queen as she goes about the hive.
Forager Bees
Don't be fooled: Every role in the hive is critically important to its success and survival, but forager bees receive the most press and the most prestige. This is because the result of foraging—pollination—is one of the hive's byproducts that we humans benefit from the most (the other being honey production, of course).
When a worker bee matures, it develops a working stinger stocked with venom. At this point, it may leave the hive and become a forager bee. Foragers are the breadwinners of the hive: They're tasked with scouring a 3-mile radius from the hive for suitable nectar and pollen. Once its stomach is full and its pollen baskets filled to the brim, a forager will return to the hive to drop off its bounty to one of its sisters. Then it leaves again and starts over, continuing this cycle as long as the sun shines. This work, flying hundreds of miles per day, will eventually leave its wings torn and tattered. Foraging is one of the last duties a worker bee will perform - It will work until it collapses from exhaustion.
Guard Bees
The role of a guard bee is one of the few that requires a worker to develop a mature stinger. As a guard, a bee stands watch over any of the hive's entrances—there can be more than one—to keep intruders out as necessary. Guards allow foragers from the hive to enter, but keeps everyone else out: bumblebees, wasps, honey bees from other hives and even humans. If you're ever stung walking up to a honey-bee hive, it's likely a guard giving you a warning.
Drones have a bad reputation. These male bees are often seen as lazy, hungry and fat members of the hive that mooch off of their sisters' hard work and produce very little in return. There is a bit of truth to this: Drones don't carry their weight in the hive. They don't make honey but they do eat it; they don't protect the hive or the queen; and they don't help rear the young. Their job is outside of the hive, to mate with neighboring queens and spread healthy genes. It may seem like an easy job (and let's be honest, it is!), but it's no less important than what the ladies do. For the greater survival of the species, healthy drones are critically important. Their population peaks in spring and early summer, when mating occurs. Some drones may hang around in the hive through the summer, but any drones left in the hive come autumn are kicked out by their sisters. The harsh reality is that every hand is needed for winter's survival, and stores of honey are too precious to waste on drones whose contributions have ended for the year.
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All Alone in a Small Island
Posted on June 1, 2018 by John D. Moore
All Alone in a Small Island, by Frances (2018).
Created for a weekly game jam at itch.io under the theme "Small World," Frances's game looks at first blush like a Harvest Moon-type of time management and gardening game. That's not entirely inaccurate, either, and the game is working with that genre in the backdrop. When you first load it, the game gives you an impressive diversity of avatars to choose from and tells you that you're about to participate in a rite of passage for your culture. This is a challenge to spend 30 days on a tiny island all by yourself, staying in the island's only building, with the objective of raising one hundred orange flowers by month's end.
What the game does with this setup is special and unique and opens up a space for an examination of ritual, routines, goals, and the individual's place vis-à-vis society. It's striking that while the game's days count from thirty down to zero, the days themselves do not have time or action limitations. Suggestive text appears when you retire to your hut every night, reinforcing the themes it raises with the word "Alone" in the title, while allowing enough space with its evocative second-person language to give space to insert yourself into the narrative. How will you fill your days? How do you have a game like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley–each of which emphasizes community as much as farming–when you're, in fact, "All Alone in a Small Island?" I'd say more, but I think this is a game that is best not to spoil–its particular rhythms need to be experienced for themselves. Suffice it to say that the framing device, for me, ultimately surpasses the core "challenge" of the game. I believe this game will stay with me for a long time.
Download the game for Windows from itch.io.
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Snake Strike
Snake Strike (スネークストライク, Suneiku sutoraiku), by Udonpa (2018)
Snake Strike is a rare 2D platformer that rarely asks you to do all that much walking. Instead, aided by a fairy companion controlled with the mouse cursor, your adorable Blue Coral Snake protagonist zips through the air, utilizing the "Serpent Path" (蛇道 jadou) power to strike enemy animals, items, and targets, even passing through walls.
While the core target-striking mechanic immediately reminded me of the last decade of Sonic the Hedgehog games, the game's overall design philosophy reminds me most of Super Mario Bros. 3 in that every single stage has a design hook that makes it utterly distinct. Each themed world presents you with three stages you must clear to face off against the stage's boss, but each stage features unique enemies, environmental object, or layout patterns that mark it off from the rest. Even different screens in the same stage stand out from each other with the game apparently never wanting to repeat itself. Bosses, too, mine the game's core mechanics for surprising implementations and depth.
This level of care in the differentiation of stages and screens is lavished on the direction of other parts of the game. Like your player character, every enemy and boss is a wild animal and each animal and boss has a collectible card you can pick up in the game world, loaded with scientific facts and the species's scientific name. A particular moment that helped me realize the careful attention to detail occurred when the final stage in an arid desert world launched my snake into the air to fight the area's boss, a bald eagle. When you land back on the ground triumphantly, the desert landscape is transformed. It's snowing. You're headed to a snow world next.
Part of the joy of the game is the discovery suggested here. When you arrive in the snow world, what kind of animals are you going to meet/face off against? How will they behave?
After each boss is beaten you become friends with a new fairy that grants you a new fairy, each of which has a special power that alters the core mechanics of the game: one enables you to double jump, another gives you more health, etc. You can only use one of these at a time, though, so you can customize according to your play preferences or to meet specific challenges.
Despite all this depth, Snake Strike gives an almost willfully amateurish impression with its visuals. The game's first stages, in particular, with over-saturated, overly-intense yellow-green grass tiles and clouds with thick blue outlines, are slightly garish. Later stages tend to look more visually pleasing. The diversity of environments and animals works as an interesting counterweight to this and the juxtaposition as well as the thoughtfully polished mechanics and level design. (The music, on the other hand, is excellent throughout. Especially enjoy the laid back, J-pop beats of the Fairy Park).
The game gets very tricky in its later stages. But through its novelty it earns every challenge (one might complain that the point at the bottom of the screen that counts as falling off the screen is a little too restrictive, but that's forgivable). Snake Strike is a joy to play.
Snake Strike is available for free from Freem (for Windows)!
The game is Japanese-language only. So I've prepared a translation of some of the game's early text and most important features. You can download my Unofficial English Player's Guide as a PDF here (last updated June 1, 2018).
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粉色鱼鱼 Find the Pink Fish
粉色鱼鱼 Find the Pink Fish, by wengwengweng (2018)
You are presented with a pile of fish. The fish you see are not pink. You have been told that somewhere in this pile of not-pink fish is a pink fish. You have been told that you must find the pink fish.
The fish in the pile squirm horribly. When you pick one up to clear it out of your way, it shakes ferociously as if to escape your grasp. Do you see evidence of the pink fish beneath it?
Dozens or maybe hundreds of fish stare up at you from this awful pile. Those bubbles you hear. Are you underwater? Where are you? Where's the pink fish?
Will you find the pink fish?
Download 粉色鱼鱼 Find the Pink Fish for free from itch.io (Mac, Windows, Love).
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Daddy!, Don't Explode Me
Daddy!, Don't Explode Me, by Fi Silva (2015)
I should let readers of this blog know from early on that I have an incredible fondness for and fascination with Lemmings (DMA Design, 1991), which I'm sure will continue to come through in my posts. In my own game design, this fascination with has resulted in two decades of games that try to build on or reinvent the Lemmings formula. One of the difficulties of making a good game in a Lemmings vein is that even DMA struggled to improve on the mechanics of their own formula, only really blossoming in levels that explored those mechanics well. The eight abilities from the original Lemmings are ingeniously simple and actually quite comprehensive for navigating two-dimensional, side-view space. As you can see from numerous games that followed in Lemmings's wake, reworking–rather than just remaking–Lemmings is a challenge that partly owes to difficulty in imagining around the original set of abilities.
Made for 2015's Ludum Dare 33 competition, Daddy!, Don't Explode Me reimagines its little walkers as eager-to-please minions of a faceless villain and further reinterprets two of these abilities–the blocker and the exploder–into three abilities with an added elemental theming. The blocker turns into a block of ice, while fire can melt ice blocks. In addition to turning your little demons into ice blocks, there are ice blocks in the stages themselves. This twist allows for a different approach to the game's physical spaces, producing a distinctive iteration of an old formula. (And the adoring little demonic minions are kind of adorable.)
The bombs, mercifully, are less demanding of precise, anticipatory timing than their Lemmings counterparts since they detonate right where you click your demon. However, the timing of where to light them on fire proves more fussy, fidgety, and hard to hit precisely, leading to some frustration. Compounding the frustration, the game soon gives you very little or no wiggle room to meet the minimum number of demons that need to reach the goal of each stage (little houses they set on fire). On the whole, though, this is an incredibly charming, clever take in a genre that needs charming, clever takes.
Download for free from itch.io (Windows).
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Where the Elite Meet
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Jennifer O'Connor named her private health and fitness training business Élan Elite because she closely related to the definition of "élan" – vigorous spirit, panache, and enthusiasm.
By Janice Llanes Fabry
Jennifer O'Connor named her private health and fitness training business Élan Elite because she closely related to the definition of "élan" – vigorous spirit, panache, and enthusiasm. Add to that, entrepreneur extraordinaire, and you've got O'Connor to a T.
Her career choice as a certified athletic trainer/health and wellness specialist was cemented ever since she was an adolescent. Growing up in Lake Ronkonkoma on Long Island, she recalled, "I played everything under the sun outside, but wasn't into organized sports."
Nevertheless, she was fascinated by the internal workings of the human form and always wanted to do something in sports medicine.
"I always loved learning about the body, including anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. That covered the scientific aspect, then yoga enhanced everything in a more holistic way," explained O'Connor, who has ten years of training, conditioning, and rehabilitation experience.
Not one to shy away from a challenge, she recently completed an intensive 500-hour yoga teacher training with renowned yoga masters Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee, Enriching her already impeccable credentials, she has a Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine and a Master's in Athletic Training from Long Island University, from which she graduated magna cum laude. Setting her apart from most personal trainers, athletic training requires a college degree and 1,500 hours of fieldwork. In addition, she is a certified strength and conditioning coach as well.
After working as an Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Long Island Lizards, a Major League lacrosse team, her professional journey led her to Rye, where she was a health and performance coach at Altheus. Subsequently, she became the Head Athletic Trainer at the School of the Holy Child, where she was in charge of Impact Testing for concussion management.
These stints weren't her first foray into Rye, however. O'Connor worked at Rye Grill and Bar for a couple of years, then Elm Street Oyster House in Greenwich, while she put herself through school. Four years ago, she made Rye her home.
She said she and her husband Matthew Faucher, a former Maritime Federal Law Enforcement Officer for the US Coast Guard, who is now a Brand Specialist at Audi New Country in Greenwich, love living near the water. "We also love Rye's charm and its central location."
The fit newlyweds talk the talk and walk the walk. They work out routinely and eat local organic. While Matt does TRX suspension training and swims at the Rye Y, she practices yoga. "Back bending opens the heart, invigorates, and puts one in a better mood," she noted. "We also cook together a lot. Lately, we've been making grilled whole chicken under a brick with lots of vegetables."
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Man in the Middle: PW Talks with Kai Bird
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Bird reached back to his childhood in Saudi Arabia to examine the life of his then-neighbor, a man later known as a renowned CIA spook, in The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames.
What qualities did the CIA see in Robert Ames when it offered him a job in 1960?
Ames was just a working-class boy from Philadelphia. At the time, the CIA was expanding beyond its Ivy League roots, so Ames was partly just lucky to catch the wave. He was already learning a bit of Arabic from his stint in the Army, where he had been posted to an East African signal intelligence station.
Although the CIA knew Ames had cultivated several Arab contacts, why did they doubt his effectiveness?
Ames was good at cultivating sources in places like Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. But he chafed at the rules of the game. Some of his CIA bosses complained that he rarely closed the deal, making them into a full-blown paid agent of the agency. Ames thought it was unnecessary.
What proved to be the greatest challenge for Ames: the 1972 Munich massacre or the Iran hostage crisis?
Ames was the CIA's liaison to the White House during the Iran hostage crisis. But without a doubt, it was the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that created Ames's most challenging dilemma. The Munich events posed an existential, moral crisis for him precisely when he was trying to get the PLO's Salameh into a professional relationship. All sympathy, Ames wrote, for the Palestinians, was gone.
What part did Ames play in the historic Carter peace accords at a time when the White House denied any dealings with the PLO?
On April 2, 1977, Ames had his first highly clandestine meeting with Arafat. Initially, not even his CIA superiors knew of the meeting. Only now do we understand these covert contacts between Ames and the PLO undoubtedly paved the way for the 1978-1979 Camp David accords.
Ames was the CIA's "Mr. Middle East" early in the Reagan Administration. Did that make him a marked man?
By 1982, Ames was the CIA's chief for all analytical intelligence about the Middle East. I don't think that made him a personal target. Tragically, he just happened to arrive in Beirut the day before the truck bomb hit the embassy.
Can you imagine what role Ames would have played in the War on Terror if he had not been killed in the Beirut bombing?
His death at such an early age, 49 years old, left a searing gap in Washington's knowledge about the Middle East. After his death, Washington failed on a Reagan peace initiative. It is easy to argue that this failure indirectly led to the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror.
Did the CIA give you any help during your research?
Early on, I went to Public Affairs in the CIA and asked for some limited cooperation. They never said no, but I got nothing. But in the end, I learned a surprising amount of detail. Everyone wanted to talk about Ames, particularly those retired clandestine officers who had known him.
A version of this article appeared in the 03/17/2014 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Man in the Middle: PW Talks with Kai Bird


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Abu-Muhàmmad Sàlih ibn Yansaran ibn Ghafiyyan ad-Dukkalí al-Majirí (en àrab أبو محمد صالح بن ينصارن بن غفيان الدكالي الماجري, Abū Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Yanṣāran ibn Ḡafiyyān ad-Dukkālī al-Mājirī), conegut simplement com a Abu-Muhàmmad Sàlih, (1155-22 de setembre de 1234) fou un sufí marroquí. És el patró de la vila de Safi, l'antiga Asfi.

Fou deixeble del sant Abu-Madyan al-Ghawth, patró de Tlemcen. Després de viure vint anys a Alexandria va retornar al Marroc i es va retirar a Asfi, on va morir.

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