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4 new horror movies releasing this week plus Tim Burton premieres "Wednesday" on Netflix
We're nearing the end of the year, which means we'll soon be looking back at the best horror shows of 2022. As always, we're planning plenty of year-end coverage to carry you through the holiday season, but don't count 2022 just yet. There are still a few upcoming movies that should be on your radar, so we're not done yet looking forward…
Four new Thanksgiving horror movies are being released this week, but the biggest new release of the week is an all-new take on a classic TV series from a legendary filmmaker.
This is the new horror launch November 22 – November 27, 2022.
First, Shudder made his debut in the new original vampire movie blood relatives The day I direct it and so do the stars Noah Sejan (Deadgirl, Knives Out).
In the film, "Francis, a 115-year-old Yiddish vampire, still looks 35. He's been cruising the American backroads in his muscle car for decades, keeping to himself, and he likes it that way." Teenage girl Jane. She says she's his daughter, and she's got the fangs to prove it. They go on the road, deciding whether to sink their teeth into family life."
Noah Seguin plays alongside him Victoria Morolis.
Megan Navarro wrote in her review of Bloody Disgusting, "Noah SeganHis distinctive appearance brings a soft, charming twist to the vampire story, favoring daddy jokes and affecting bonds over brutal bloodshed." Megan adds: "As a perfectly sweet love letter from a new dad to his kids, blood relatives It goes into the jugular with its charming and infectious horror comedy."
Mark Strong And the Chai Fonasir.
sobs Manager Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kaganic reshape to Bones and everythingconditioning Camille DeAngelisThe novel hits theaters from MGM on November 23.
The film is a story of first love between Marin, a young woman learning to live on the margins of society, and Lee, a severely dispossessed vagabond. A free-spirited road trip of two young men coming alone, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a world fraught with dangers they cannot stand their own.
Timothée Chalamet And the Taylor Russell star side by side Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlberg, David Gordon Green, Jake Horowitz, Francesca Scorsese And the Chloe Sevigny. Music Trent Reznor And the Atticus Ross.
Megan wrote,Bones and everything Makes a sumptuous and sensual feast. There is a reality to blood, and cannibalism is likely to repel mainstream or unsuspecting audiences. But beneath the guts is a tender and poignant story of first love and discovery. They are as elegant as the flesh and omnivorous, and will take a bite out of your heart if you let it. "
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After winning the American Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nikiato youacclaimed horror movie Nanny Picked up by Blumhouse and Amazon, it will come to first to select cinemas this Wednesday, November 23, 2022.
Nanny It will debut on Amazon Prime Video on December 16, 2022.
"Anna Diop (we) plays a Senegalese immigrant nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in West Africa, her presence invades her violent reality, threatening the American dream she so painstakingly works on."
Michelle Monaghan (Craft: legacy), Sinkua Walls (At 15:17 to Paris), Morgan Spector (Gilded Age), And the Rose Decker (mare east town) star too Nanny.
Tim Burton returned withWednesday," which will be shown on Netflix on Wednesday.
Jenna Ortega The new series stars as Wednesday Addams, with Louis Guzman Gomez's play Catherine Zeta-Jones Playing Morticia in Tim Burton's Netflix series.
Christina Ricci He will also appear on the show, playing an entirely new role, with Fred Armisen He recently joined the cast as Tim Burton's own version of Uncle Fester.
"Wednesday" is described as "a dark and supernatural mystery that charts Wednesday Adams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy". It is said to follow…
Wednesday attempts to master her budding psychic ability, thwart a brutal killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that has troubled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and deeply intertwined relationships.
Alfred Goff And the Miles Millar ("Smallville") are the writers and showrunners.
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Anyone come across some cheap/scrap equipment that might be fitted with these type gears. I need a 12mm bore through them, it doesn't matter if the bore is smaller as long as they have enough meat to be machined to that size. To buy gears on their own is horrendous, but these days mass produced items sometimes have hidden gems inside them. The final use is to drive an ER-11 collet spindle, so not huge torque, however metal gears prefered. I will be testing my idea with printed gears first, but only for running the spindle... NOT cutting.
Thanks Andrew, I should have said 1:1 or 1:1.5 I have a varied collection of angle grinder gears that got used in model heli gearboxes. I will give ebay a go.
I think Rich would need more than a feel for a set of their gears and they are only down the road some, from here.
Just wondering what these would be used in or where they would be repaired I think I'd try someones shop bin.
Tom, I have been looking up industrial sewing machines, internal components for motorbikes and small engines. They are used in milling machines, where you have a horizontal or vertical conversion head. Basically what I am trying to do here, I could use straight cut bevel gears but they would be noisy and prone to vibration.
Keep looking and see what junk turns up, I can print gears, just wish 3D printing in metal was as easy.
Might even have to re think my plan as it's do able in a few ways.
I may have some from a mobility scooters diff , will have a measure tomorow as I am out today .
Thanks Jeff, I took a look at mobility transaxle parts. Most of the diffs I saw use straight cut bevel gears, but the searches did pull up India for sprial bevel gear sources. The main drive gear in mobility transaxles are helical gears and look very meaty, will keep that in mind for the future.
I'm no expert in gears but... could you buy 2x sets of matching angle grinder gears, and just use the small (or large, if you've got room) pair? That'd give you 1:1 wouldn't it?
LOL if only, the gears aren't at 45 degrees, so they don't meet at a right angle.
The other slight fly in the ointment is that the matching gears need to be a mirror image of each other, so two large flat gears will have opposing spiral directions when brought together. If you look closely the pinion spiral is going opposite way to the larger wheel. Tons of subtlety in this gear making malarkey.
Being able to 3D print gears is a great teaching aid, but when it comes to making them... Wow, watch some of the YouTube videos on spiral bevel gear making... Fascinating.
I once owned an indexing head. A mate 'borrowed' it and it ended up on his mill hobbing gears.
Sadly I don't have any pics of it, but we later got Y slaved to X and, with the indexer at an angle, were able to cut helicals.
You think that the maths bends your head, then you look at the calculations needed to cut just about anything on a manual hobbing machine and realise that this CNC lark isn't so bad..
How did the printed gears work?
They are only used to position and test parts fit. I can try combinations of parts and ideas, such as the spindle housing. I don't yet have any final gears for the finished head, so that is dictating my design.
I will look in my scrap box tomorrow for you as i think i have a gear or three in it..
An alturnative is to use two sets of angle grinder gears lock the pinions to a shaft , but you will loose power driving the first pinion .
This is all on the little SU1 mill. I am fed up swapping the motor and spindle around. In horizontal setup the speed is too high, so am making new pulleys to halve the spindle speed. The plan then was to run a second belt to a line shaft in the overarm and drive a much smaller ER11 vertical spindle at higher speed. This is where the spiral bevel gears come in, I have machined a new boss that fits where the old vertical did and it is bored to take a 10mm shaft. The arrangement will be something like a miniature Schaublin 13 mill. I can develop and 3D print the vertical head casing before fabricating it in alloy. I also have a vague notion that the line shaft through the over arm can be used to power other accessories like a slotting head.
Oh, nearly forgot, thanks to everyone for the offers of help.
The motor has recently had a couple of hiccups and snapped an end mill. I am looking at replacing the motor and speed controller with an industrial sewing machine servo motor. They are compact, reliable and cheap. Very good option for a Mini lathe refit.
This has been bugging me since you first posted it, but I have finally remembered another source of spiral bevel gears. They can also be found in the gearbox at the bottom of outboard motors. I'm fairly sure I have the gears from a 6hp motor somewhere. I'll try and dig them out later today to check on the ratio.
That is good to know Russell, suspect the gears might be a tad large for my little mill. Would still be interested to have dimensions though, bet someone else would also have a use sooner or later.
Sorry the gears i thought i had have gone walkabout..


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'There's no direct evidence that the lockdowns are working'
Dr John A Lee on why we need to keep questioning the response to Covid-19.
Topics Politics Science & Tech UK World
The UK government has extended its lockdown for another three weeks. But could the shutdown of society be doing more harm than good? In fact, is there any evidence it is doing any good at all? Dr John A Lee, a recently retired professor of pathology and NHS consultant pathologist, has repeatedly called for a critical and dispassionate examination of the evidence in relation to Covid-19, raising questions about the government and its advisers' interpretation of the data. spiked caught up with him to find out more.
spiked: You have been a relatively lone voice in questioning mainstream assumptions about coronavirus. Why have you found it important to speak out?
Dr John A Lee: As a doctor and a scientist my entire career, I believe that medicine and science have improved life immeasurably over the past 200 years, and especially over the last 50 years. But in the particular mix of science, medicine and politics that we are seeing now, I am not absolutely sure that is the case. I think it is more important than ever to try and look at this issue in a clear way in order to make sure that we are really doing the right thing on the basis of the right ideas. And it isn't clear to me at the moment that we are.
spiked: What problems do you see in the way figures are currently being recorded and reported?
Lee: The figures are just so unreliable. It's very difficult to understand when you are looking at figures from different countries, and figures in isolation about things like death, what they really mean. And obviously, if we can't understand what the figures mean, it is quite difficult to then know what we should do about them.
These figures are then fed into models of the disease and the epidemic which are being used to influence and inform public policy. But those models are only as good as their input data and the assumptions they make. And there are so many unknowns which means the models' outputs are really quite questionable. And given that we have now got ourselves into this situation, for a variety of reasons, getting ourselves out of it using the same models and predictions is even more questionable. So we are in a very difficult situation.
For example, we are currently in lockdown for two reasons. One is that the initial figures suggested that we were dealing with a very highly virulent disease. The World Health Organisation initially suggested that the case-fatality rate – the proportion of people diagnosed with the disease who die – would be 3.4 per cent. This is a very high number which would have caused a huge number of deaths. But as we have had gradually more and more data coming in, those percentages have been falling. In many examples, more complete data are now suggesting case-fatality rates of 0.4 per cent. My guess is that it will end up between 0.5 and 0.1 per cent, and probably nearer to the lower end of that. So if the disease isn't as virulent as was originally thought, the number of deaths will be correspondingly lower.
The second reason that we were then put into lockdown is that it was assumed that this new virus was going to rip through the population, and a very high percentage of people were going to be infected quickly. This would cause a big surge or peak of cases which healthcare systems wouldn't be able to deal with. The lockdown is supposed to reduce that peak, to enable health systems to cope with it. We had various pictures from Italy, Spain, New York and other places showing that health systems weren't able to cope. But of course, in lots of other places, health systems have been able to cope with it.
The real point is that there isn't any direct evidence that what we are doing is actually affecting the peak. It is possible to make arguments that sound reasonable that a lockdown should affect the peak. And yet other places which are doing different things seem to have similarly shaped graphs. It is only an assumption that the lockdown is having a big effect on the virus spread, but this is not a known scientific fact.
As far as I can see, Sweden, despite not having anywhere near as severe a lockdown as we have had, actually has a very similar curve to ours. And Sweden's death rate per hundred thousand people is roughly half of ours at the moment. So it is not a given that what we are doing is either working or is having all the right effects.
spiked: Has the media given us an accurate picture of what might be going on?
Lee: I suppose that depends on what media you are looking at. It seems to me that there are two types of media: there is the investigative-journalism type media that tries to find out whether the facts and the interpretations of stories are really true. And then there is the less critical type of media which essentially illustrates a story that it thinks it already knows. And I think in the case of Covid-19, because of what originally came out of China and the pictures that were beamed around the world, people felt that they already knew that this was a highly virulent and dangerous disease. So pretty much the entire media coverage has illustrated this as a very dangerous disease.
Don't get me wrong, it is clearly a nasty disease, but it is not as nasty as it was originally thought. Unfortunately, the media have tended to reinforce the initial ideas about what this disease was like which have not necessarily been borne out by the numbers since then.
I think that there has not been enough questioning of the story that has been placed out there by governments. Governments were placed in a difficult position. Because of the amount of fear and panic and apparent severity of this disease, they felt they had to do something. But of course, having done something, they are now in a position of having to justify their actions.
We can reasonably question the assumptions of the models, for example. The accuracy of the models, and their predictions of how many people will be infected and die, depend on things like the transmissibility of the virus. But that isn't something we know very accurately at the moment. It also depends on population susceptibility. The UK models, as I understand it, said that 60 to 80 per cent of the population would be infected by the virus in a short period of time. Whereas in fact some of the evidence from enclosed populations, such as the Diamond Princess cruise ship, suggests that only 15 per cent of the population may be susceptible. Maybe that is because the virus spreads in a different way than we thought. Maybe some people actually have immunity based on other coronaviruses that are already out there in the population.
If you change those numbers, it makes a huge difference in the number of cases you would expect in a given time. Really, the case for lockdown depends on the number of cases coming through, which is very important for people to distinguish from the number of people who are going to die of this virus. The fact is, Pandora's Box is now open. This virus is spreading in the population. There is no evidence whatsoever that we are going to be able to put it back in its box. So it is going to spread through the population at a certain speed. And after a year or two, the number of people who are going to have died from it is probably going to be similar either way – it is just a question of the speed at which those people are dying.
The real question, therefore, is what are the downsides of the treatment that we have chosen for this virus? Do lockdowns actually have side effects that could be even more severe than the virus we are trying to suppress? And I think there is clearly a serious worry that they could have.
spiked: Is the lockdown sustainable?
Lee: If you still believe that this virus is incredibly virulent and therefore is killing a high percentage of people that it infects, it might be reasonable to stay locked down. For example, in the plague that spread through Europe in the 14th century, it is reckoned that maybe one in three people died. Obviously, if we were facing something like that, it would be reasonable to take very extreme measures. But this is a disease that is maybe going to kill 0.3, 0.2 or 0.1 per cent of people that it infects. And it may only infect a relatively small proportion of the population. We just don't know.
So we do have to ask what are the side effects of this treatment. And the fact is, they are clearly huge, but they have been largely unassessed. It seems incredible to me that we are not equally as interested in the effects of the lockdown on lives and livelihoods as we are in the actual virus itself. I think we are guilty at the moment of being a bit monomaniacal and focusing only on one thing, and really not focusing enough on the consequences that are coming out of what we have done to face this one thing.
spiked: Will governments find viable exit strategies?
Lee: I think it's difficult because governments, having gone down this route, are stuck between two rather difficult places. One is the worry that any relaxation of the lockdown which causes an increase in the scorecard number of deaths will be criticised.
But also, the very fact that the lockdown was put in place, despite the huge set of side effects, means that the government has to justify having done it. In a way, that actually makes it harder to come out of a lockdown. If it subsequently becomes apparent that the lockdown – or at least the severity of the lockdown (I do agree with temporary, limited social distancing for vulnerable groups) – was overdone, then the government is going to come in for criticism from that angle, too.
I think personally that we should aim to relax the lockdown faster than some commentators are suggesting. The government's reticence to talk about this is based on modelling assumptions of numbers which we know are fraught with uncertainty. It is equally possible to make a case that relaxing the lockdown more quickly than is currently being suggested will have beneficial effects overall, even if the number of viral deaths ticks up again. Time will tell, but they are going to have to try to do the right thing soon, which means not prolonging this unnecessarily.
Dr John A Lee was talking to Fraser Myers.
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Airtel, Idea & Vodafone make up 64% of total active mobile connections in India – August 2015
The top three telecom operators in India – Vodafone, Airtel and Idea Cellular – added 4.25 million active connections in August 2015, accounting for 64% of active connections, and 545% of total active added connections.
Their growth is outpacing the rest, as, together, they accounted for more active connections during the month (64%) than all the telecom operators combined, while some of the rest lost connections.
Reliance Communications (RCOM), lost 0.60 million active connections during the month. It still forms a significant part of the top four telecom operators, which together account for 76% of India's active mobile connection base.
– Airtel, Idea & Vodafone account for 64% of total active mobile connections in India – March 2015
– Airtel, Idea & Vodafone account for 64% of total active mobile connections in India – January 2015
– Airtel, Idea and Vodafone account for 64% of total active mobile connections in India – December 2014
– Charts: Market Concentration in Telecom in India – November 2014
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"Fort Concho has long honored the accomplishments of its soldiers. In particular, we have honored five men who served here and also were awarded the Medal of Honor. Between Headquarters and the Quartermaster Building stand a stone interpretive marker and five "in memory of" Medal of Honor headstones, the only ones in the nation that are not in a federal, state or local cemetery. They were put here because in 1992 the burial locations of these five men were unknown. And while these five are the only ones so memorialized they are not the only soldiers from Fort Concho who received the Medal of Honor. Currently research has uncovered twenty-eight men who both received a Medal of Honor and served at Fort Concho."
Evelyn Lemons, Historian, Historic Fort Concho, San Angelo, Texas.
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Q: How do I make a Jbutton in a GUI open a new GUI window? We are making a Bananagrams game. We want to use a mouseListener (which we can't figure out how to write) to click on a JButton, which will in turn open a new window in GUI. How can we do this?
Code: This is my code for Bananagramz!!!
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class Gui extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
   //private JPanel pane;
    private Container  pane;
    private JButton start;
    private JRadioButton five, fifteen, ten;
    private JLabel welcome,instructions, ins, inst, instr;
    private int i;
    public Gui() {
        this.setTitle("BANANAGRAMZ");
        this.setSize(500,500);
        this.setLocation(100,100);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    pane = this.getContentPane();
    pane.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
    five = new JRadioButton("Check here if you want 5 minutes to play!");
    ten = new JRadioButton("Check here if you want 10  minutes to play!");
    fifteen = new JRadioButton("Check here if you want 15 minutes to play!");

    welcome = new JLabel("Welcome to Bananagramz!");
    instructions = new JLabel("You will be given 50 tiles randomly chosen from a pot of 144.");
    ins = new JLabel ("Your goal is to make a grid of (real) English words,");
    inst = new JLabel ("which will be checked (for realness) at the end, within a time limit.");
    instr = new JLabel("Think hard, and beat the clock!");
    JButton start = new JButton("Go!");

     pane.setForeground(Color.YELLOW);
     pane.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);

    pane.add(welcome);
    pane.add(five);
    pane.add(ten);
    pane.add(fifteen);

    pane.add(instructions);
    pane.add(ins);
    pane.add(inst);
    pane.add(instr);

    pane.add(start);
    }
    public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e){
    i++;
    System.out.println(i);
    }
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
    System.out.println("mouse cliekd");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Gui g = new Gui();
        g.setVisible(true);
    }
}

A: The problems as I saw is you declared
private JButton start;

but in your constructor you did
JButton start = new JButton("Go!");

it should be
start = new JButton("Go!");

and register a listener to the button like below
start.addActionListener(this);

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Our Homestay "SuJa" located in Subang Jaya, Sukabumi. Surrounded by the regency of the same name in the southern foothills of Mount Gede, in West Java, Indonesia, about 100 km (62 mi) south of the national capital, Jakarta. Together with the communities we started a collaboration to build local libraries and play ground site in our farm area.
You can participate and experience the activity, and planting organic veggies in our homestay backyard. As soon as you arrives you will get our welcome drink "Wedang Sereh" (LemonGrass Tea with Palm Sugar) from our farm. You can sip and enjoy fresh air surround of SuJa. You have time to wander around and enjoy our local made gingersnap.
You can learn how to make traditional Sundanese food while helping preparing the food. Sundanese people love to eat raw vegetables and fried fish served with "sambal goang", you can experience enjoying dinner in the big banana leaf to bring back the togetherness.
The next morning you can enjoy our traditional breakfast "Buras" (rice steamed with banana leaf) and fried tempeh or steamed banana. After breakfast we take you to take walk to our rice paddies, and enjoy the moment. After trekking at the rice paddies we will take you fishing for your lunch with the family before you say goodbye.
Hi, My Name is Raul and this year i've lived 34 years in this planet. I was born and raise in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. In the middle of my carrer as an officer, i've found that live could be much better if we have clean air, access to clean water, closer to nature, and raise a family with a simple life style, After 4 years of research i've found Sukabumi to be my new Home, started farming, grow my own food, exploring the nature's beauty. Learn to cook traditionally, learn to speak sundanese.. and many other new things. So here I am want to share the experience with you.


It must be a slow news day because I've received an inordinate number of calls about Google's purchase of video compression provider On2 Technologies for about $106.5M, a relatively small sum in the heady world of Internet valuations, for a company that's been steadily losing money on less than $20M in annual revenue. But the On2 purchase may be the clearest indication yet of the designs Google has on video beyond the PC, especially the living room, and what it believes will be necessary to win there.
Still, YouTube has been slow to penetrate the living room, where the real money is. Working with microprocessor designer MIPS Technologies, Google has already positioned Android for set-top deployment (see NYT coverage here), while also raising its involvement with addressable TV advertising with pioneer Visible World (see WSJ coverage here). The cable industry's Canoe Ventures has played into Google's hands by suddenly halting its already delayed addressable TV project. Make no mistake: bringing some Google targeting magic to TV ads could still be the company's next gold mine.
First, Google gets some important embedded infrastructure. On2 brings a wealth of online video distributor relationships who have been licensing its technology for some time, including Adobe, whose Flash platform continues to power the majority of online video (although Adobe has recently been migrating Flash from On2 VP6 to H.264), and, perhaps even more significant for TV, Sun Microsystems, whose JavaFX platform is embedded in the infrastructure of most standard advanced television platforms. Although On2 compression faces strong competition from H.264 from the MPEG group, Google can use it to help ensure that video compression remains competitive and non-exclusive. It may chose to open source the technology to achieve these goals, as has been its pattern with other core technologies, but in any case they can use the acquisition to assure the quality and economics of online streaming continue to improve.
Second, it's even more important to Google's living room goals that the public Internet continues to develop into a reliable way to deliver high-def video to TVs in a "net-neutral" way: in other words, without cable, satellite, or IPTV telcos charging for quality of service or otherwise limiting video access to screens. This would allow Google, for example, to deliver "out-of-band" advertising options to broadband-connected set-tops that could be targeted using Google technology. Offering household targeting to broadcasters and advertisers, Google could beat Canoe Ventures to a lucrative exchange for targeted TV ads. But for that to happen, video compression needs to continue to make strides while remaining low cost. Many other things need to happen as well, such as the penetration of broadband TVs and STBs. Needless to say, this is a very disruptive notion for TV, so resistance will be strong. But compression could be an important factor.
All in all, I think more "ads by Google" on video screens beyond the PC are coming fast.


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ISABEL TREMBLAY
ANIMAL COMMUNICATION - INTUITIVE COACHING
INTUITIVE COACHING
FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS
What if creating positive changes in your life was just a matter of releasing what no longer serves you?!
Since everything is energy, wouldn't that make sense that by learning to let go of accumulated low frequency emotions such as guilt, anger, frustration or regrets, we would raise our own frequency?
And by raising our own point of attraction, we would then have access to better quality thoughts, people, and situations.
But the thing is, we were conditioned to think that hard work, struggles, and challenges were making our life more valuable.
And so, we go through life avoiding who we truly are, dismissing the messages our body is sending us, and running away from the turmoil of emotions.
We do whatever we can to escape the feelings of our fears, and by doing so, we project those exact same fears upon our world.
Humans are sentient beings, but yet, they are afraid to feel their very own emotions.
The problem with that is that you cannot run away from them.
By ignoring them, pretending that XYZ situation didn't bother you, you're just giving your power away to the exact thing that you fear!
After all, if you were to feel an emotion, what's the worst that could happen?
Discomfort? Pain? Tears?
Emotions are NOT bottomless cave where you'll be engulfed forever!
At some point, they will run out of fuel, and that's when the magic happens!
It is worth considering that your emotions might just be the key to a better health, a more fulfilling job, healthier relationships, and overflowing abundance.
We always have the choice: feeling the discomfort now and be done with it , or spending our time running away from our own shadow.
When Was the Last Time You Updated Your Personal Instruction Manual?
What About Emotional Trauma in Pets?
It's Not What You Think!
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Dere Evil Exe Sequel HopBound is a Psychological Horror Game with a Retro Aesthetic
On Jun 11, 2020 3:20 pm, by Ash Mayhew
HopBound, from AppSir, Inc, is a visually arresting psychological horror game that's just arrived on the Google Play Store. It's the follow-up to the well-received Dere Evil Exe…. Continue reading
Sky Dancer endless runner is now available on Google Play Store
On Jan 20, 2017 2:21 pm, by Naail Zahid
Pine Entertainment have launched their new free-to-play title, Sky Dancer, onto mobile platforms. The game is an endless runner, which isn't anything new as there are countless other titles in this genre on the play store – however this game brings with it a unique aspect as it marries sky diving with parkour, and features some beautiful visuals.
[UPDATE: Game Released] Don't Be Squared from SuperHippo Games arrives this week
On Jun 29, 2016 3:46 pm, by Jaymes Carter
The last game we reported on from SuperHippo Games was Pirate Legends TD. Their latest release isn't a tower defense game. It is a side-scrolling action game that has plenty of intriguing characters, and a game mechanic that will have you rapidly drawing paths to overcome obstacles in the game. Don't Be Squared is set to release this Thursday, June 30th for Android and iOS.
Don't Be Squared from SuperHippo Games arrives this week
Musical Odyssey Lost in Harmony is available for Android today, World Cancer Day
On Feb 04, 2016 10:38 am, by Jaymes Carter
Using the medium of video games to create a compelling story has been happening for many years now. The ability to tell a story and mesh it with a game, can work well if the story is right, and the gameplay elements are designed properly. Digixart Entertainment has done just that with Lost in Harmony. It is a beautiful and engaging game that tells an important and heartwarming story. It is now available to download in the Play Store.
[UPDATE: Game Released] Mount your steed. Arcane Knight is coming to Android in the near future.
Corvus Games will soon release a fascinating action-based endless runner game entitled Arcane Knight. Yes, another endless runner. Though the endless runner genre is overcrowded with games, if it looks fun to play, I can't help but download them to try them out. I for one never tire of endless runners. There is always space on my devices for one or two really good ones. Especially when they throw in a little twist. Corvus games has done that with Arcane Knight. Mount your steed and get ready for combat in this impressive looking medieval combat game.
Wind Saga 3D is in closed beta, but you may be able to play this excellent action game now.
On Jan 15, 2016 11:33 am, by Jaymes Carter
There seems to be quite a number of side-scrolling action platformers being released these days. We have another one to bring to your attention. Wind Saga 3D by Tencent Mobile International Ltd., is currently in closed beta. If you are lucky, it may be available in your region to download.
Rayark teases two additional new games that will be coming to Android in 2016
On Dec 08, 2015 12:04 pm, by Jaymes Carter
We are very close to the end of the year. Now is the time for some studios to begin showing their upcoming projects. Rayark has had a banner year with Implosion. We know they have an Implosion movie in the works, and now, they have released trailers for two new games coming to Android/iOS some time next year.
Dream Dodger is a Triple-A endless runner from indie developers Digital Faces
On Oct 07, 2015 10:26 pm, by AndrewH
Digital Faces is an indie developer that has released their first mobile game onto Android called Dream Dodger. This is an endless runner style of game that has been in development for the last two and a half years. In fact the story behind Dream Dodger is actually pretty interesting, but that will be for another article. To give you a hint though, the challenge was to code a Triple-A style of endless runner with having very little in the way of coding experience. Like we said, it's an interesting story.
Collect gems while avoiding pitfalls in Floor's Lava, now available from Google Play
On Oct 05, 2015 9:32 pm, by Ryan Ballard
Released by MonkeyTemple, Floor's Lava is a new endless runner that's now available from Google Play. Players control a retro-looking character that adjusted to be stylized after Indiana Jones, seeking to collect gems that are spread out over lava infested caverns.


Gallery Yamaki Fine Art is delighted to present the works of Kazuyo KINOSHITA (1939-1994), who made a striking impression on postwar Japanese art. Her reputation has recently continued to grow worldwide. Throughout her career, KINOSHITA had consistently questioned the concept of "vision, understanding, existence, and the divergence between them". She also aspired both modernity and primitiveness in her works; Modernity, which pursues autonomy of art, and primitiveness, which depends on the bodily expression of brush strokes. This is a rare opportunity to view her works diachronically. We hope to see you at our booth.


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Top Stories: 'Thinner and Lighter' MacBook Air, Smaller iPhone 13
We continued to hear a lot more about Apple's plans for its Mac lineup this week, including word of a high-end redesigned MacBook Air and the return of an SD card slot as part of the upcoming MacBook Pro redesign. It also sounds like Apple has been working on Face ID for Mac, but it won't be appearing in a redesigned iMac this year as originally planned.
This week also saw rumors about the iPhone 13 getting a smaller notch, and Apple is just about ready to unleash a set of operating system updates including iOS 14.4 and macOS 11.2, as Release Candidate versions of all of the updates were pushed out to developers and other testers this week. Read on for details on all of these stories from the past week!
Apple Working on 'Thinner and Lighter' High-End MacBook Air With MagSafe, Could Launch in Second Half of 2021
Following up on last Friday's batch of rumors, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman came out with a new report this week sharing a few more details on Apple's product plans. Most notably, Gurman says that Apple is working on a thinner and lighter MacBook Air that could launch later this year or sometime next year. The new MacBook Air will include an updated Apple silicon chip, MagSafe charging, and perhaps a smaller body enabled by shrinking the display bezels.
The redesigned MacBook Air is said to be a high-end model that will be sold alongside cheaper models that continue to use the current design. Apple reportedly considered making a 15-inch version of the MacBook Air to go along with the popular 13-inch size, but has opted not to move forward with the model, at least for the next generation.
iPhone 13 Rumored to Feature Smaller Notch, Sensor-Shift Camera Stabilization on All Models
Apple plans to combine various Face ID components into one module to allow for at least a slightly smaller notch on iPhone 13 models, according to DigiTimes.
The same report claims that Apple plans to extend sensor-shift optical image stabilization to the entire iPhone 13 lineup, compared to only the iPhone 12 Pro Max among current models. The technology stabilizes the camera's sensor instead of individual lenses for even greater image stabilization. Coupled with a larger sensor, users can expect even better photo quality.
Earlier this month, DigiTimes reported that the LiDAR Scanner will also be expanded to the entire iPhone 13 lineup, while mmWave 5G is expected to become available on iPhone 13 models sold outside of the United States.
Face ID for iMac Likely Pushed Back to Second Iteration of Upcoming Redesign
Gurman also shared that while Apple has been working on developing Face ID technology for its Mac lineup and was planning to introduce it in the upcoming redesigned iMac he discussed last week, Apple has decided not to include it in the initial version.
In addition, he says that Apple has tested offering cellular connectivity for its Mac lineup, but it sounds like that's not coming soon either.
Next MacBook Pro to Feature SD Card Reader
Redesigned MacBook Pro models are also in the works, as reported by Bloomberg last week, and one of the tidbits from that initial report was that the new designs will include more ports than the current models.
This week's report expounds upon that claim a bit, specifically claiming that the new MacBook Pro models will include the return of an SD card slot, making it easier for photographers and other users of the popular removable storage standard to directly use the cards in their Macs without the need for a separate card reader.
iOS 14.4 Release Candidate Now Available
Apple this week seeded the Release Candidate version of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 to developers and public beta testers. This version should mirror the final release of the software updates coming soon.
iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 are relatively minor updates. Apple's release notes confirm that iOS 14.4 introduces a notification for when the camera is unable to be verified as a new, genuine Apple camera on the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max, and there are several other bug fixes. The update also enhances Handoff functionality with the HomePod mini.
Apple has also seeded Release Candidate versions of macOS 11.2, watchOS 7.3, and tvOS 14.4 for testing. All of the software updates should be released to the public in the near future.
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The company is one of a handful of fintechs that have expanded internationally and the only US company to our knowledge planning to tackle the Indian market.
When we talk to domestic fintech companies and ask them about international expansion the response most often is that they see the opportunity so great here in the US that they are not looking to expand overseas. There have been a few exceptions of course, with companies opening offices in countries where there are less barriers to entry like Canada, the UK or Australia. The latest announcement from Kabbage breaks that mold as they have expanded their small business lending operation to India. To our knowledge Kabbage is the first US-based lender to enter the Indian market.
Kabbage has opened an office in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) and plans to have 125 employees by year end. For comparison, the company has about 350 employees in their Atlanta headquarters. Kabbage co-founder and CEO Rob Frohwein gave us a glimpse of the team and office last week in a LinkedIn post.
According to a Business Standard article, the India team is operating as a captive technology unit for now and is still waiting to officially begin offering small business loans in India.
We love the market…but there are certain things that you need to ensure when you go in. One is to obviously get a full feel of the landscape. You have to understand the regulatory makeup which includes understanding the non-banking financial company (NBFC) makeup.
Frohwein also shared that there are only two markets that Kabbage is looking at and India was one of them. He is aware of the challenges they will face in both acquiring and servicing their customers and that they need to find partners to leverage data in order to officially enter the Indian market. This has been Kabbage's key to success here in the US.
There are many things working in Kabbage's favor as the Central Bank is looking to modernize the country. One of the most well known initiatives is Aadhaar, a universal identification system. Once Kabbage is able to officially launch they still will face competition from Indian based companies such as Lendingkart, Capital Float and Flexiloans.
Kabbage is one of the great fintech success stories here in the US and it's going to be interesting to see if they can do the same in a very different market. While some fintech companies are operating in multiple countries it is rare to see anyone operating at scale across geographies. Kabbage has raised a huge amount of money, close to $500 million in equity to date, so they are well positioned as they move forward with their plans.
A new report by economic research firm NDP Analytics shares data on how online lenders are helping small businesses thrive.
Today a new report was released on how online lenders are helping small businesses which in turn is creating economic activity across the US. The report titled "The Economic Benefits of Online Lending to Small Businesses and the U.S. Economy" was put together by NDP Analytics and was sponsored by the Electronic Transactions Association, the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA) and the Small Business Finance Association (SBFA).
Most of us are aware of the importance of small businesses in the US economy. Small businesses employ over half of private-sector workers in the US, so access to capital for small businesses is critical to their success. Fortunately, online lenders such as the ones mentioned in the report have focused on serving the needs of businesses and activity has picked up over the last few years. Both awareness of these alternative options and the amount lent on these platforms is increasing. Originations at five leading online small business lenders increased by 50% in three years, from $2.6 billion in 2015 to $3.9 billion in 2017.
Nearly $10 billion of funding was provided to 180,000 small businesses from 2015 to 2017 according to data which included leading platforms OnDeck, Kabbage and Lendio. This activity has generated $37.7 billion in gross output, created 358,911 jobs and $12.6 billion in wages.
Another highlight of the study was reporting on where these small businesses are operating. Almost one third of small business borrowers are in lower-income communities and about 24% of this borrower demographic are micro businesses with less than $100,000 in annual sales.
About 42 percent of small businesses borrowed between $10,000 and $50,000 from five online small business lenders with the average amount being $55,498.
One of the most interesting data points from the research was that on average, for every $1 lent to small businesses, sales for these small business borrowers increased by $2.31, creating $3.79 in gross output in local communities across the country.
The economic benefits of online lending are far reaching and extend beyond the funding used by small businesses to maintain or expand their operations. As these businesses succeed, so do the communities around them. Small businesses are increasingly turning to online lenders to help cover inventory, payroll for employees, and other expenses at critical junctures in their growth. The loan impacts not just the borrower, but those who work and engage with that business.
The small business lending market looks vastly different than it did 10 years ago. Not only are there more lending choices for small business owners than ever before but these choices are quicker and more convenient than in the past. The platforms included in this study and other innovative online small business lenders have been the driving force behind this shift. It's a great to see a report put together which highlights just how impactful access to capital can be and it is a sign of great things to come as this market continues to grow.
It was the worst kept secret in fintech. There were rumors flying around during LendIt Fintech earlier this month and then Bloomberg published this story a couple of weeks ago about the pending deal. Well, today it became official. In a press release this morning it was confirmed that Kabbage, the leading tech-focused small business lender, will acquire Orchard.
I met Matt Burton, the CEO and Co-founder of Orchard, at the very first P2P lending meetup in New York in early 2013. This was before Orchard even existed but right away it was clear that we both shared a true passion for the burgeoning online lending space. I invited Matt and his fellow co-founder, Angela Ceresnie, to speak at the very first LendIt in June of that year. I still remember their presentation on institutional investing and how they were building tools to make the investing process easier. Orchard was officially founded in August 2013 and since then they have gone on to become the leading connector of capital between loan originators and institutional investors.
It was back in February when I first heard rumors that Orchard was for sale. I was a bit surprised because they had closed a $15 million Series C just a few months before. They had also recently released their new Deals platform to facilitate both primary and secondary market loan transactions. But from what I have heard, and the Bloomberg article seems to confirm this, their new platform has failed to get the traction they had hoped.
Mobile devices have changed consumer expectations. People now expect that you can have access to anything you might need right from your mobile device. While this has historically been the case for consumer financial apps, Kabbage released data today on small businesses which shows they too are leveraging mobile to better manage their business.
Today, 17 percent of all small business loans and nearly 15 percent of total dollars accessed via Kabbage are through mobile. At this rate, Kabbage predicts one of every five dollars funded to small businesses will be through a mobile device by the end of 2018.
Kabbage has always been a forward thinking small business lender so it isn't surprising to see them interested in researching mobile usage so heavily for their small business borrowers. They currently allow small businesses to apply, qualify and withdraw funds from their app which is available in the App Store and through Google Play.
The growth of mobile lending is evidence of an enormous change occurring in this industry. Small business owners are increasingly digitally savvy and are adopting new technologies faster than ever before. Lending is no different. Kabbage is pioneering this shift in lending by making it a priority to meet small business owners where they are and integrate seamlessly into how they're already running their businesses.
While some people may not be surprised that a fintech company offers a mobile app it's important to realize that Kabbage is not your typical small business lender. Try applying for a small business loan from any traditional bank through an app on your mobile device. We've also seen significant investments in mobile on the consumer side. Companies like MoneyLion are taking more of a mobile first approach to lending. I think this strategy is going to serve these companies well over the long term as mobile adoption for loans eventually overtakes the desktop experience.
We reached out to the top women in fintech to share their thoughts on what it takes to be successful.
This year LendIt hosted their first annual awards ceremony. Among the awards was the recognition of top female leaders in fintech with our Fintech Woman of the Year award. All of the finalists have had a significant impact at their firms which have now turned into thriving businesses. To help inspire others we reached out to the finalists to get their perspective on what it takes to be successful.
Set audacious goals. Be driven and motivated to build, do or achieve something truly extraordinary, that challenges and requires you and your team to stretch your limits and grow.
Collaboration and teamwork. Attract and work with people who are talented, committed and complementary, who speak their minds and share common values.
Picture the end before you start. Think long term, choose what really matters and be relentless.
Innovation in fintech is disrupting financial services and filling gaps in lending, some of which emerged after a crisis largely brought on by short-term thinking. As investors in the sector, we seek to align incentives and strive for long lasting win-win scenarios where borrowers, lenders and investors all benefit to create a sustainable ecosystem which ultimately will ensure the long-term success of this nascent industry.
And finally, remember to have fun and enjoy what you are doing!
While there are many different factors one can attribute to success, three qualities I believe are core to attaining it include patience, resilience, and tenacity. It's important to celebrate the small accomplishments, as well as the big ones, and to remain focused on your goals in the face of obstacles. As any successful businesswoman will tell you, challenges will always exist – how you handle them and what choose to take away from these experiences can have a significant impact.
I have found that hard work and success go hand in hand, there are only so many hours in the day and I try not to waste any of them. I also believe authentic and transparent communication with your team, your clients, and your stakeholders is critical to your success because it builds trust and confidence in you as a leader. Lastly, I do my best to forgive myself for all the mistakes I make – I simply learn from them and focus on the future.
OnDeck, Kabbage and CAN Capital, members of the Innovative Lending Platform Association have unveiled their disclosure box for small business borrowers.
The ILPA along with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) engaged small business stakeholders, owners and advocates along with other lending platforms, policymakers and not-for-profit organizations to create the new SMART Box. Kathryn shared that their conversations also included OCC and Treasury officials.
SMART stands for Straightforward Metrics Around Rate and Total cost. It provides consistent verbiage and standardization of pricing across loan products including total cost of capital and annualized percentage rate. The ILPA have broken out three versions of the new disclosure box for different loan products: term loans, lines of credit and merchant cash advances. Each disclosure highlights the differences of each product while communicating standard pricing and consistent verbiage to the borrower. There will also be third party validation done by Navigant Consulting, who will validate APR calculation methodologies to ensure they are consistent with principles of Regulation Z (The Truth in Lending Act).
An in-depth look at each disclosure box is available on the ILPA website. Kathryn noted that each disclosure is a living document and there will be subsequent versions to improve them.
The first part presents basic elements of the finance option under consideration, including the amount financed, the funds disbursed, the total repayment amount, the expected term, and the frequency of payback (as applicable).
The SMART Box also breaks out the prepayment policy, if applicable on the loan. If there are prepayment fees that are are not captured in the SMART Box there will be a reference to the loan documents where any additional fees are outlined. There is also a breakout if prepayments will result in any reduction in interest or applicable loan fees.
SMART box will be rolling out in early November. Here is what Kathryn had to say when we asked her to summarize what the SMART box means.
The SMART Box is all about transparency. We want to enable the small business borrower to have a complete look at all the details of their financing. It is also a sign of maturity in the online small business lending industry.
Providing disclosures like the SMART Box is simply the right way for online lenders to do business. Disclosing full transparency around the cost of credit in the small business space, especially with a merchant cash advance products, is something that hasn't been done adequately before. The ILPA isn't the first organization to have announced such an initiative as Fundera announced their disclosure box last month. Hopefully we will see the trend towards transparency continue. While this will please regulators, more importantly, it will provide small business borrowers with all the information necessary to make an informed decision about their credit needs.


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Mullin, Elizabeth and Patricia Wardrop. "Bruce Carey". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 July 2017, Historica Canada. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bruce-carey-emc. Accessed 21 January 2020.
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Bruce Carey
Article by Elizabeth Mullin, Patricia Wardrop
Published Online May 10, 2007
Bruce (Anderson) Carey. Choir conductor, baritone, teacher, b Millgrove 16 Nov 1876, d Hamilton 8 May 1960; honorary D MUS (Moravian College, Pa) 1936. He studied piano with J.E.P. Aldous and voice with Mrs Bruce Wickstrom in Hamilton and voice with W. Elliott Haslam in Toronto.
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Bruce (Anderson) Carey. Choir conductor, baritone, teacher, b Millgrove 16 Nov 1876, d Hamilton 8 May 1960; honorary D MUS (Moravian College, Pa) 1936. He studied piano with J.E.P. Aldous and voice with Mrs Bruce Wickstrom in Hamilton and voice with W. Elliott Haslam in Toronto. In 1900 he went to London where he studied voice with Albert Visetti and choral and orchestral conducting with William Cummings at the GSM. He later continued his studies of opera (summers, 1908 and 1913) with Isidore Braggiotti and Carlo Carrobbi (or Corelli) in Florence and of lieder with Heinrich Neidhardt in Munich. After his return from London in 1901 he was choirmaster at a succession of Hamilton churches (Erskine Presbyterian, St Thomas' Anglican, Knox Presbyterian, St Paul's Presbyterian) and in 1905, in the hall above the George W. Carey Piano House, he established the Elgar Choir (later Bach-Elgar Choir), which he directed until 1922. Carey was one of the triumvirate of administrative officers 1907-17 of the Hamilton Conservatory (RHCM) and supervisor of music 1918-22 for Hamilton schools. He taught during the summers 1918-22 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and served 1922-43 as director of vocal music at Girard College for Boys, Philadelphia. In 1926 in Philadelphia he led the Festival Chorus of 6300 voices in several performances during the six-month celebration of 150 years of US independence. He was director 1926-34 of the Mendelssohn Club, working in association with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A US delegate at the Anglo-American Music Educators conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1931, he directed the conference's mixed-voice choir. Carey was director 1933-8 of the renowned Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was the national organizer of music for the United Service Organization in 1943. After his retirement (1945) he lived in Florida.
See also Whitfield (George) Carey, Edith Carey, Clara Carey, Vernon Carey, Bertha Carey, Talbert Carey, Flora Carey, and Estelle Carey (all members of this musical family).
Bartlett, George. 'He blended 6,300 voices into one,' St Petersburg Times, 3 Mar 1957


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Week-long UA STEM Entrepreneurship Academy Gives High School Students a Head Start in Science and Related Areas
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From July 18–22, some 40 high school students from schools throughout West Alabama got a jumpstart on some of the most important areas in society in general and higher education in particular — math, science, engineering and technology — in the weeklong STEM Entrepreneurship Academy at the University of Alabama. The camp demonstrated in meaningful, memorable and enjoyable ways some of the most important tools and concepts in modern society.
On Wednesday, the students learned more about engineering at a lab in the Science and Engineering Complex at the university. Surrounded by state-of-the-art equipment, they observed the process of combustion and other areas of science and technology that might one day become their life's interest.
Several students echoed the words of Xavier Turner, who'll be a junior this fall at Sumter Central High School. Turner told a Tuscaloosa News reporter, "I wish this was longer. I could be here a while."
The big sell of the program, according to program director Dr. Rosianna Gray of the Center for Community-Based Partnership (CCBP), is that it gives science exposure to students who otherwise may not get it. This was the third year of the program.
Campers also got to see and use many campus facilities, including Morgan Hall, the Bashinsky Computer Lab, Farrah Hall, the Biology Building, and the EDGE Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Schools represented were Amelia L. Johnson High School in Thomaston; Aliceville High School; Greene County High School in Eutaw; Hale County High School in Moundville; Holt High School; Oakman High School; Pickens County High School in Reform; and Sumter Central High School in York.
"This camp is one of the premier activities of the Center for Community-Based Partnerships," said Dr. Jim McLean, CCBP executive director. "The message it conveys with respect to potential careers and skills learned are critical to the future of our state."
The four colleges responsible for organizing camp activities are The College of Arts and Sciences, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, College of Education and the College of Engineering. Camp faculty included Dr. Jim Gleason, associate professor of mathematics; Dr. Marcus Ashford, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Dr. Ryan L. Earley, associate professor of biological sciences; Jonathan Corley, computer science doctoral student; Adriane Sheffield, educational psychology doctoral student; and Douglas Craddock, higher education doctoral student.
Ed Mullins Receives Special Achievement in Journalism Award from Auburn University
Retired UA Journalism professor, Ed Mullins, received Auburn University's Distinguished Special Achievement in Journalism Award in April 2007.
Dr. Ed Mullins, retired journalism professor and volunteer associate at the Center for Community-Based Partnerships, received the 2007 Distinguished Special Achievement in Journalism Award from Auburn University's Journalism Advisory Council at an awards luncheon at the AU Conference Center on April 6.
Mullins is a former dean of the College of Communication and Information Sciences, which he led to national prominence from 1983-2006. He continues to serve the University as an instructor in the Knight Fellows Teaching Newspaper program at The Anniston Star and as a volunteer for various community projects.
The award cites Mullins' work in community journalism at both the UA campus and at The Star and his work as a founder of Alabama Center for Open Government. He was also recognized for more than 30 years as a journalism educator and administrator.
Carrollton native Roy Bain, former journalist at the St. Petersburg Times and former adjunct journalism faculty member at the University when Mullins was chair of the department, is chair of the AU Advisory Council's Honors Committee which presents the annual awards.
"Dr. Mullins fully represents what the Distinguished Special Achievement in Journalism award intends to recognize: a distinguished career that supports, enhances and beneficially influences the practice of journalism in Alabama," said Bain. "He has been a force in Alabama journalism for 30 years, and in particular in Community journalism and in statewide journalism leadership. He has been a trend setter for our state. He richly deserves this award and his recognition raises the bar by which future recipients will be evaluated."
"I am honored to be recognized by Auburn's journalism program," Mullins said. "My father, one of my brothers and many of my nieces and nephews are graduates of Auburn, and over the years I have worked with many AU journalism faculty "" taught a few of them, in fact "" in the press association and in open government work."
As a volunteer with the Center for Community-Based Partnerships, Mullins works with students who extend their classroom experience by conducting research and working as community journalists in Alabama's Black Belt.


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An exotic paradise, honeymoon spot, adventurous and romantic hill station, tropical beach you name it, it's all what makes Kerala, one of the must see places in the world.
Kerala tourism department offers all tourists who wish to visit Kerala an opportunity of a life time; Slashed rates To Kerala with 'Visit Kerala Bid Wars' campaign.
An online bidding game that allows visitors to bid and the winner will be the one who makes the lowest bid winning a holiday package to Kerala.
The bidding system is called 'lowest unique bid' where the holiday package is made available to the visitors through social media mainly the official facebook page of Kerala Tourism and the 'Visit Kerala Bid Wars' application.
The winner will be the person who bids the lowest and unique amount, if in any case two people bid the same amount, that price will be cancelled. The bidding is mostly aimed at domestic travellers within India.
To make things more clear, a person who bids Rs 11 for a Rs 15,000 holiday package gets a lowest bid and becomes the winner. If nobody bids lower than Rs 11 then he will be awarded that holiday package just for Rs 11 only.
Where is 'Visit Kerala Bid Wars' available?
The 'Visit Kerala Bid Wars' includes packages starting from Rs 8,000 to Rs 80,000 ranging from two days to ten days; the bidding happens for one package at a time and the details and the worth of the package are included in the official Kerala Tourism Facebook page or android application titled 'Visit Kerala Bid Wars' available for download in Google Play.
Although Kerala experience more tourists all-round the year, this online bidding game which has gone viral gives them more opportunity and a reason to Visit Kerala again making the bond even stronger.
The bidding will be made available to the public for few days and after announcing the winner the next bid will be open.


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I've been thinking a lot about my dad telling me I didn't have a wedding, I had a party. That the State of Washington didn't recognize me as married. I've been trying to determine how that lessens what I've chosen. I got married even when there was absolutely no financial benefit. I got married despite the fact that the state is going to pretend I didn't. I got married as a symbolic manifestation of my heart, of my fidelity. I got married without privilege. And I married despite these inequalities.
If I lived in New York, and the state recognized my wedding as lawful, would my father? His position on state ratification is spurious, surely. A privilege denied me. Another way to judge the legitimacy of my relationship. My affair, as he named it. I've been thinking that in many ways, he honored me at last, by trying to belittle the fact that I chose these things without advantage. Because that's the best part of what Mary and I did. We married in the company of our friends and family, at the feet of our community, and vowed our devotion. Not in some cold judge's chamber in the rote tedium of the first time round. It's like telling the woman she isn't a witch if she drowns. You aren't married if you choose to be bound together before witnesses, to share your lives, unless the state notices and agrees.
No. That isn't right. I am married. I have married well and happily, at last. I would be his daughter even if he weren't married to my mom. I would be his child in spite of any legitimacy recognized by the state. You cannot tell me I am not married. I know you to be wrong.
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That was beautifully written. I agree that you & Mary are married. I am sadden that your father doesn't accept that. I hope that someday I can have the courge to be that bold to my father. For now, all I can do is quietly love Jessica. Thank you for being a great voice for all of us.
Thank you, Amy. I wish you and Jessica well.
Devon Kelley
I was married to a woman for seven years; two weeks ago, I married a man.
What's painful to me is when people, mostly well-meaning, ask "So what's it like to be married?!" When someone asks me this question, they discount the legitimacy of my first relationship, whether they realize it or not. I WAS married, and it WAS real, even if it didn't happen in a church or with a clergy person or with a toner-smelling license from the government.
I'm not married to her anymore, but I won't discount the trueness of our relationship. I called her "wife" and she answered to it; and that's good enough for me.
It's an awful thing to attempt to rank love. To sort and file it. This is more real than that. These are more legal than those. Absurd. Wrong.
In happier news, congratulations, Devon. I meant to tell you the other day at the park. Best wishes for you and your love.
Red Zorah
It is like that town hall meeting last week where the Secretary of the Department of Whatever was explaining how they were cutting food benefits for certain groups and she kept saying "and these children aren't illegals" and I wanted to scream "CHILDREN CAN'T BE ILLEGAL!"
How can a marriage between two enthusiastically consenting people be illegal?
Ha! I love that your comment has my photo, Mary.
Jill Malone
Jill Malone grew up in a military family, went to German kindergarten, and lived across from a bakery that made gummi bears the size of mice. She has lived on the East Coast and in Hawaii, and for the last seventeen years in Spokane with her son, two dogs, a hedgehog, and a lot of outdoor gear. She looks for any excuse to play guitar. Jill is married to a performance artist and addiction counselor who makes the best risotto on the planet.
Giraffe People is her third novel. Her first novel, Red Audrey and the Roping, was a Lambda finalist and won the third annual Bywater Prize for Fiction. A Field Guide to Deception, her second novel, was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley, and won the Lambda Literary Award and the Great Northwest Book Festival.
Author: Jill Malone
Genres: LGBT Coming of Age Fiction, LGBT Family Life Fiction, LGBT Fiction
Tag: My Books
Between God and the army, fifteen-year-old Cole Peters has more than enough to rebel against. But this Chaplain's daughter isn't resorting to drugs or craziness. Truth to tell, she's content with her soccer team and her band and her white bread boyfriend.
And then, of course, there's Meghan.
Meghan is eighteen years old and preparing for entry into West Point. For this she has sponsors: Cole's parents. They're delighted their daughter is finally looking up to someone. Someone who can tutor her and be a friend.
But one night that relationship changes and Cole's world flips.
Giraffe People is a potent reminder of the rites of passage and passion that we all endure on our road to growing up and growing strong. Award-winning author Jill Malone tells a story of coming out and coming of age, giving us a take that is both subtle and fresh.
Genres: LGBT Fiction, LGBT Literary Fiction, Women's Psychological Fiction
In Jill Malone's second novel, A Field Guide to Deception, nothing is as simple as it appears: community, notions of motherhood, the nature of goodness, nor even compelling love. Revelations are punctured and then revisited with deeper insight, alliances shift, and heroes turn anti-hero—and vice versa.
With her aunt's death Claire Bernard loses her best companion, her livelihood, and her son's co-parent. Malone's smart, intriguing writing beguiles the reader into this taut, compelling story of a makeshift family and the reawakening of a past they'd hoped to outrun. Claire's journey is the unifying tension in this book of layered and shifting alliances.
A Field Guide to Deception is a serious novel filled with snappy dialogue, quick-moving and funny incidents, compelling characterizations, mysterious plot twists, and an unexpected climax. It is a rich, complex tale for literary readers.
Red Audrey and the Roping
Genres: Contemporary Women, LGBT Literary Fiction, Psychological Fiction
Occasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its readers back on their heels. Red Audrey and the Roping is one of that rare and remarkable breed. With storytelling as accomplished as successful literary novelists like Margaret Atwood and Sarah Waters, Jill Malone takes us on a journey through the heart of Latin professor Jane Elliot.
Set against the dramatic landscapes and seascapes of Hawaii, this is the deeply moving story of a young woman traumatized by her mother's death. Scarred by guilt, she struggles to find the nerve to let love into her life again. Afraid to love herself or anyone else, Jane falls in love with risk, pitting herself against the world with dogged, destructive courage. But finally she reaches a point where there is only one danger left worth facing. The sole remaining question for Jane is whether she is willing to accept her history, embrace her damage, and take a chance on love.
As well as a gripping and emotional story, Red Audrey and the Roping is a remarkable literary achievement. The breathtaking prose evokes setting, characters, and relationships with equal grace. The dialogue sparks and sparkles. Splintered fragments of narrative come together to form a seamless suspenseful story that flows effortlessly to its dramatic conclusion.
Winner of the Bywater Prize for Fiction, Red Audrey and the Roping is one of the most memorable first novels you will ever read.
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Spring weather can fuel brush fires
John Barry The Bulletin
NORWICH – A sunny and breezy spring day may be lovely, but it also may be perfect weather for a spark to start a brush fire.
Three small brush fires were reported on Tuesday in the area.
Preston firefighters put out a brush fire that started when a hot ember in a backyard fire pit caught some leaves on fire, Preston Fire Chief Thomas Casey said. The fire was quickly contained after burning a 30-feet by 40-feet area, he said.
Crews from the East Great Plain Volunteer Fire Department put out a small brush fire between Dunkin' Donuts and Granite City Electric on West Main Street in Norwich.
A third fire was reported in an area behind Griswold High School at about 4:30 p.m. It was put out in about 15 minutes, according to Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications.
This has been a fairly typical spring fire season, said state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection forester Chris Martin, although because snow covered the ground longer than usual, it was late starting.
The spring fire season normally runs from March 15, when the ground dries out from winter and the trees are still bare, to May 15, when new leaves on trees are big enough to keep the sun from heating up dried leaves and twigs on the ground, DEEP Eastern District Fire Control Officer Rich Schenk said.
"We call them one-hour fuels," Schenk said, meaning on a sunny spring day with low humidity, they are small enough to become dry in an hour. "The fuels are receptive to any kind of ignition."
Depending on how windy it is, these spring brush fires can spread very fast, he said.
On the other hand, they do less damage to forests than the drought-driven summer brush fires do, Martin said.
On April 16, a fire started in a barn behind a home on Spaulding Road in Plainfield. Driven by wind, it spread to surrounding woods and into the neighboring Pachaug State Forest. Although firefighters controlled the barn fire quickly, it took more than three hours to put out the brush fire.
The state DEEP rates the forest fire danger every day on a scale ranging from low to moderate to high to very high to extreme. In the spring, the rating is based on the air's humidity and how wet the ground is, Martin said.
Forest fire danger conditions can change rapidly in the spring, Martin said.
"You can go from low to high in 24 hours," he said.
Humans start almost all fires in Connecticut, Martin said. Common causes include campfires that aren't completely out and discarded cigarettes.
"One of the big causes of fires we get is debris burning," Schenk said.
"I would be very careful about any outside fires right now," Casey said. "If a person is burning brush, that's allowed, but they need a permit from the town."
Applying for a permit lets fire officials inspect the place where the fire will take place, Casey said.
If the fire danger is high, very high or extreme, permits aren't valid, and the burning will have to wait until conditions improve.


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Next German Government Says It Will Legalise Cannabis
As the Angela Merkel era ends in Germany, the country's incoming coalition government says it will create one of the world's biggest weed markets, and phase out coal by 2030.
by Max Daly
An activist from the youth wing of the Freed Democrats (FDP) in 2016 – the party is now in government. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Germany's incoming coalition government has confirmed it will legalise cannabis, turning the country into one of the world's largest legal weed markets.
The move, agreed by the centre-left coalition led by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, was included in plans published Wednesday. On cannabis reform, the coalition agreement said: "We are introducing the controlled supply of cannabis to adults for consumption purposes in licensed shops. This controls the quality, prevents the transfer of contaminated substances and guarantees the protection of minors."
A Dumb Scare Story Could Lead to the Creation of Europe's Largest Legal Weed Market
Max Daly
Ironically, the legal weed plan agreed by the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats, was spurred on by a misinformed belief that the country's weed is being laced with heroin.
Nevertheless, Germany, the most populous country in the European Union at 83 million, is set to become one of the biggest single weed markets globally, ahead of Canada and California. Mexico, which approved a bill to legalise cannabis in March, would represent the world's biggest legal market with a population of 130 million.
The next step will be for Germany's three coalition parties to formally approve the plans before drafting a bill, getting the new law approved in parliament and overcoming European Union and United Nations drug law regulations. The plans could feasibly become law by this time next year.
With Luxembourg becoming the first country in the EU to announce it will be legalising weed, drug reform in Germany could set in chain a rapid expansion of Europe's cannabis market which is projected to be worth €3.2 billion (around £2.7 billion) by 2025.
"The implications of this coalition announcement are huge," Alastair Moore, co-founder of Hanway Associates, a London-based cannabis sector advisory firm, told Vice World News. "We now have a situation where Europe has the foundations for a major legal recreational cannabis market. The Overton window has shifted and the conversation is now about treaties, timelines and regulatory models. Boring maybe, but better than prohibition."
Moore said that the weed legalisation dominos were toppling in Europe, as they did in the US: "A cannabis cultivation experiment ongoing in the Netherlands, a legalisation pilot project in Switzerland, reform in Luxembourg, and now legal access on the cards in Germany means legal markets in Europe is no longer a distant possibility but a looming reality.
"This progress across the continent is analogous with the situation in the US in 2012 when Washington and Colorado legalised cannabis for adult use. Slow, scrappy, but steady reform allows policymakers and the public to see that the sky does not fall in when they move towards progressive drug policies. We're only at the start of this journey, but it has started."
The coalition also agreed to make the climate emergency a top priority, agreeing to phase out coal in nine years.
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