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Hilde Vogel-Michalik
Expressionist Paintings
Hilde Vogel-Michalik was born in Germany, where she studied English, German, and Art History at both Heidelberg and Berlin Universities, and art at the Folkwang School in Essen, where she studied painting under Professor Joseph Urbach and worked with fellow artist Anton Felderhoff. In 1955, Hilde moved to the U.S. with her husband, sculptor and master carver Harold C. Vogel. The structure of Hilde's life involved painting, reading, making bread, walking with her dog, and traveling with her sister Friedel Michalik. Hilde's paintings reflected where they had been – in colors, in medium, in light or dark, and in forms, but not in shapes that we could necessarily recognize as being Egypt or Easter Island, the Grand Canyon, Greece, or Guatemala. Hilde painted for herself, and her paintings are abstract and rarely titled: they might best be seen as her conversations with the world around her, its places, light, colors, and forms. She worked in watercolor, oil, acrylic, or encaustic, a mixture of hot wax and pigment, which was perhaps her favorite medium, with its brilliant opaque colors. Hilde played with colors and with forms. There is order, structure, and strength in her paintings, and also mystery. You will see a hint of the reds of Chaco Canyon, of the stone paving of a village in southern France, of brilliant Greek sunlight, or a moonlit landscape. Some of the pictures are intricate and linear. Others have strange black armatures surrounded by depths of gray and gold. And others look like exploding suns with big shapes and powerful colors. Hilde's works were a bequest to George Mason University from Harold C. Vogel.
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Ace in the Hole (sinngemäß übersetzt: Ass im Ärmel) bezeichnet:
 Ace in the Hole (1942), US-amerikanischer Animationskurzfilm von Alex Lovy
 Ace in the Hole (1951), deutscher Titel Reporter des Satans, US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Billy Wilder
 Ace in the Hole (2009), US-amerikanischer Fernsehfilm von Ted Wass
 Ace in the Hole (Band), US-amerikanische Countryband
 Ace in the Hole (Jazz-Standard), Jazz-Standard von George D. Mitchell & James E. Dempsey aus dem Jahr 1909

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Foreign insurers embrace China as ownership and operating barriers go on fast-track easing
Enoch Yiu
South China Morning Post 22 December 2019
Foreign insurance companies are expected to expand further into mainland Chinese market as the country removes a cap on foreign ownership and other regulatory hurdles, analysts said.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission will allow foreign investors to raise their stakes in local life insurers to 100 per cent from January 1, widening the access one year ahead of the initial target. The limit was raised to 51 per cent in mid-2018 from 50 per cent.
The People's Bank of China separately announced in July that it would scrap a rule requiring insurance companies to have at least 30 years of operations before they can apply to enter the mainland market, a boost for key players seeking a foothold in what analysts forecast will be the world's biggest insurance market by 2030.
The move comes amid sweeping liberalisation in the financial industry in the past few years, where the government has also eased ownership barriers in stockbroking and banking sectors. There were 28 foreign life insurers with varying degrees of partnerships with local investors in China at the end of 2018, according to government data.
"The removal of the ownership limit will give foreign investors the chance to buy out their local shareholders, which will give the foreign companies greater or full flexibility in determining and implementing their strategies," according to Fitch Ratings. "This should reduce internal conflicts as well as the cost of internal communication."
China to surpass US as world's biggest insurance market by mid-2030s, says analyst
While the easier rules should encourage more foreign insurers to step up their investment in the onshore market, they are unlikely to pose a big threat to local players, Fitch added. Foreign insurers controlled only about 8 per cent of premium in the life insurance business in 2018, Fitch said.
"Major local peers will continue to have a competitive edge due to their better brand recognition and well-established distribution networks," Fitch said. "It will take time for foreign-owned life insurers to build up their business profiles and distribution capabilities to compete effectively with the major local players."
Statistics from local regulators show that foreign-owned insurance joint ventures have expanded their branch network over the past year to capture more premiums from a large pool of consumers. Twelve joint-venture life insurers were approved to establish provincial branches this year, adding to seven in 2018.
Chinese insurance titan Ping An to take on internet giants as it evolves into a tech powerhouse
On the general insurance side, Beijing has already allowed two European insurance groups to fully own their business in China.
The CBIRC last month approved German insurer Allianz as the first foreign insurer to set up a new wholly owned holding company in China called as Allianz (China) Insurance Holding Company, which was set up in Shanghai.
Office workers walk past buildings in Beijing's central business district. China is set to surpass the US as the biggest insurance market by 2030s, according to Zurich Re. Photo: AFP
China's listed insurance firms could benefit as government crackdown on risky products hits rivals
"Allianz is extremely optimistic on China and we are committed to accelerating our growth plans in this strategic market," Sergio Balbinot, chairman of Allianz (China), said in a statement on the setting up of its holding company. "With the new holding structure in place, we are able to better serve an expanding middle class."
French group AXA this month completed its 4.6 billion yuan (US$657 million) acquisition of the remaining 50 per cent stake in its joint venture unit AXA Tianping Property & Casualty Insurance Co. from its mainland domestic shareholders. The deal makes AXA the largest foreign-owned general insurer in China.
Hong Kong-China 'insurance connect' plan on hold as trade war, protests hit business environment
Mainland insurance premium reached 3.45 trillion yuan in the first nine months this year, a 2.6 per cent increase year on year, according to CBIRC data. The number of insurance policies grew 54.5 per cent to 33.13 billion, it said.
Bernhard Kotanko, a senior partner of McKinsey & Co, said foreign insurers now command less than 10 per cent of market share in mainland life and general insurance markets. Their low penetration rate may be due to the lack of large-scale distribution channels, he said.
Still, China is such a big market that even a toehold in the market represents a significant business for a start, he added. A further opening up of the onshore market from January 1 is should result in a bigger presence in no time, Kotanko said.
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Foreign capital gives mainland China's commercial property a miss as global uncertainties and slowing domestic economy take a toll on sentiment
China's softer stance on insurance market entry sets the bar too high for smaller insurers, analysts say
China will open financial sector wider amid 'quite limited' impact of trade war, regulator says
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Demon Knights and Stormwatch writer Paul Cornell is teaming with New York Five and Local artist Ryan Kelly for a new Vertigo series, Saucer Country. Announced at the New York Comic Con today, Cornell described the book on his blog as "The West Wing does The X-Files."
"Those speechmarks are because she's not exactly sure what happened. But she's going to use all her staff and resources to find out. What happened to her might also be a threat to U.S. security," he said on his blog. "Saucer Country is a trip through UFO mythology, a subject I've always been fascinated with. It's a dark, suspenseful, serious thriller with, I hope, some warm, very human characters at the heart of it. Between arcs that feature Arcadia and her staff venturing into the murky worlds of flying saucer lore, we'll be featuring one-off 'true story' issues, a short version of which already appeared in the Strange Adventures one-shot earlier this year."
Watch for it in 2012, and you can see some previews pages over on Blastr.


This tournament is open to players with two game slots available at all times.
This tournament is inspired by the TO; Capture The Flag series.
The world soon descended into pure chaos, and what was dubbed "World War X" ensued as the warriors swiftly eliminated all humans who stood in their path - till only they remained. After years of endless battling across the globe with no decisive victories, the 5 factions finally agreed to settle the score through a mode of battle that was introduced in more recent times - Capture The Flag.
There are 5 factions with 8 players each. Each player must choose to represent one of the following factions - each with their own assigned home maps - during sign ups.
The tournament is split into 2 phases.
Each player will play a total of 16 matchups - 4 against each of the other 4 warrior factions.
Each matchup will begin on the neutral battleground of no man's land on the Classic map.
The player who wins the neutral matchup infiltrates the opponent's home map and attempts to capture the flag, while the opponent defends it.
If the player wins on the opponent's map, he scores a flag capture point for his team.
A General Achievement Medal will be awarded to the player with the most Flag Captures in Phase I.
After all matchups are complete, the faction with the highest number of flag captures moves on to Phase II.
With your faction now victorious, you now have to declare your faction's dominance by raising your flag.
Each round, players within the faction will be randomly placed in matchups against each other on your team's home map.
Winning the matchup earns the player 1 flag raising point.
The first player to reach a total of 10 flag raising points manages to raise his faction's flag, and wins the tournament.
Map: Classic; as well as home maps listed under [Factions] spoiler.
Total Flag Capture difference (for - against).
Total number of Capture Attempts (successful + unsuccessful).
Total number of Flag Captures in Phase I.
Total number of Capture Attempts (successful + unsuccessful) in Phase I.
If both of the above are equal, a tiebreaker game will be played on their home base map.
If both of the above are equal, a tiebreaker game will be played.
Factions have limited spaces and are given on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Players that do not indicate their desired faction, OR that choose a filled faction, will be guaranteed their spot in the tournament, but will only be assigned their factions at the end of signups, based on which factions are available.
You will not be able to change your faction once the tournament starts, so be sure of your choice!
1. I reserve the right to change aspects of the game if anything needs changing, to ensure fairness to all players or for the benefit of the tournament.
2. If you wish to withdraw from the tournament at any time, please inform me via personal message or post on this thread.
3. If you do not join the game within 48 hours, you will be replaced.
4. If you are know you are not going to be around for a duration of time, please inform me. If the period of time is short enough, I will delay all of your games.
5. For any questions, problems etc. you may voice it out in this thread or you can PM me.
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Brodie prepares for Richmond rematch Join Media Manager Sarah Allen as Collingwood Media brings you the latest episode of Team Sheet ahead of the club's clash with Richmond in round 20.
Levi Greenwood will play his 100th game against Richmond at the MCG on Friday night.
They stand 37cm apart, but the tallest and the shortest this week have something in common.
At 211cm and 174cm respectively, Mason Cox and Jarryd Blair have both been named in a Collingwood side set to take on Richmond on a Friday night at the MCG.
The pair replace Darcy Moore and Jordan De Goey in the senior side.
Round 19 Rising Star nominee Moore failed to overcome a hamstring complaint sustained before half time in his breakout game.
VIDEO: Hear from Brodie Grundy ahead of Collingwood's Friday night encounter with Richmond.
The 20-year-old forward had eight disposals, took six marks and kicked 3.2 in just 34 per cent playing time against West Coast.
Yet on Thursday Collingwood director of football Neil Balme said he hadn't been given the all-clear to retain his place in the side.
"It's not too bad," Balme told Collingwood Media.
The football department boss also described the selection of Blair as a "no brainer" after a week off with a groin complaint.
The small forward has been named on the interchange bench, alongside milestone man Levi Greenwood.
Greenwood, 27, this week reaches his 100th game after almost nine years in the AFL system.
After playing 74 games for North Melbourne, the product of Port Adelaide in the SANFL has played 16 of 17 games for the Magpies in 2016.
He had 21 disposals against Richmond in round two in a game remembered for six goals to Alex Fasolo and the late-game heroics of Brodie Grundy.
Neither team has experienced large amounts of success in the time since, with both the Magpies and Tigers out of finals calculations with four rounds remaining in the home and away season.
Collingwood was impressive in a 19-point win over West Coast last weekend, while Richmond have been the focus of media scrutiny throughout the week after being smashed by Greater Western Sydney in Canberra last Saturday.


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Pete: Drinker of Blood: Who's Got Your Belly?
I was recently telling a friend of mine about Pete, Drinker of Blood by Scott S. Phillips – a friend who isn't really big on genre fiction – describing the lovable schlub of a vampire who is our Pete, how he's the antithesis of cool or fancy or popular, kinda stuck in the 70s classic rock milieu that existed when he turned. (I've been joking with my man about how my brain keeps calling this "Pee-Drinker of Blood," which doesn't really work grammatically, but the brain wants what it wants. Like Bear Grylls.) And my friend was like, you know? That's actually really clever.
And it is pretty clever, and I hadn't really noticed. Vampires in the modern vernacular tend to be these aristocratic fancypantses, whose long life is synonymous with compound interest and vast holdings, the long con of wealth in its longest form. The vamps in urban fantasy or its kissing cousin, paranormal romance – which is UF with sex scenes, as far as I'm concerned – tend to be these tragic, fopsy folk, mired in apologetic noblesse oblige, who get thrown a bang by wide-eyed waitresses and students for being soooo soorrry that they raped and murdered their way into wealth and long life. Let me pull my sexy sadface long enough for the ladies to drop trou.
Which can be awesome, don't get me wrong. I kinda love the parts in Buffy when Angel gets all emo about how evil he was as Angelus, eating rats all soulful-like. (I might love it more when they flashback to when he was Angelus, because Boreanaz's really bad Irish accent plus the serious television-budget minimalism of the "gradeur" makes for an unintentionally funny mix.) Nobody really writes blue collar comedies anymore – I think the last one of note was Roseanne, though I don't really follow sit-coms – but they are especially thin on the ground in UF/PNR. A case could be made for the Sookie books, what with the fangbangers and all the folksiness of Sookie's Wal*Mart fashions, but that's not really a comedy, right? Certainly not intentionally, the inherent funniness of banana clips factoring into a love scene with a straight face notwithstanding.
So, Pete's a hopeless dork long before he became a vampire, and a hopeless dork for decades after. He's plugging along in a hopeless job, in a hopeless apartment, with hopeless and moldering interests. And I'm making this sound like a drag, but it's so not. Pete is finally working up to hitting on a cheerful waitress when the dude who turned him comes back to town with fell and dire purpose. Apparently, killing regular folk isn't working anymore, so Pete's sire has to pee-drink the blood of vampires to stay alive. (Or undead, whatever.) Pete's gotta get the band back together, which means heading to Club Emoglobin (seriously, best vamp club name ever) to deal with the dickweeds who constitute the sire vamp's gets. Which doesn't go that well.
Here's where the really great class commentary comes in, because there are all of these beautiful, hilarious, bathetic character sketches for hipsters vampires who have self-styled with the douchiest of names, things like Lord Greystoke, only that's not really one of them. You know what I mean, because I'm not looking it up. Pete woos his lady and does some goat-sucking, drives around in a tragic, classic car, and generally is the kind of dude who has a lot of band tee-shirts and heart. He manages to get a lot of people wearing way too much velvet to go kick some sire ass, and it's wonderful and simple and ordinary how he comes into his gross new powers and love and stuff. I just want to rub Pete on his belly. Who's got your belly, Pete?
I was writing along with the installments as Pete, Drinker of Blood was coming out as a serial novel – though I understand that the individual parts are coming down now that this is completed and edited for minor continuity errors and the like. Gotta say, I'm jazzed I don't have to do that anymore, because, boy, does that get spoilerful after about the fourth. Anyway, here's my disclosure: Scott is a friend, and my man did the layout for the final cover. (And all of the covers for the serializations are collected in the final draft, which is pretty adorable.) Pete, Drinker of Blood is an awesome, hilarious, funny bit of splatterstick horror-comedy, and I just had a blast reading it out over the last whatever months. Halloween is a-coming in. Maybe this'll do you right.
Posted on October 30, 2012 April 2, 2019 Categories books, goat suckers, Halloween, shills up and down my spine, vamps1 Comment on Pete: Drinker of Blood: Who's Got Your Belly?
Pete, Drinker of Blood, Part 1
Sometimes I get the impression the universe is messing with me. A couple months ago, I was invited to a group which has as its mandate reading serialized novels – like Dickens or wait, holy cats, Madame Bovary was serialized? (so sayeth wiki) – in the manner they were originally published and consumed. I did my thing where I joined, lurked a bit, thought about serial fiction for a while, and then decided the whole thing was too much like work for me. Now, I'm not calling you weird, Serial Reading Cats, I just lack the patience to read a million page Dickens novel, let alone to take 4987 weeks to get through one. (I know. I am a total philistine when it comes to Dickens, and I'm very sorry for it.) (And I know you're reading other stuff too.)
But I think the exercise of trying to experience a completed work of art as originally experienced is worthy, if maybe a little doomed. My main experience with serial fiction is television, of course. (Comics are another heavily serialized contemporary form, but I almost always come at them well after the serial arc has been completed.) Though this is changing as the Internets and on-demand media fracture viewerships and toss a barrage of media at us so we're always bound to miss a continuing series as it unfolds, some of my funnest watching experiences have happened in ongoing serial television. The X-Files was a Friday night destination for me, as was Star Trek, Buffy, BSG, and a bunch of other stuff that will only make me look even more nerdy than I have already freely admitted to. Half of the joy was the addictive buzz of turning down the lights, watching like a maniac, and then squealing like an idiot when the drama was enacted and then set up for the next week. There's no cheating there. I've certainly gulped down series after the fact – Deadwood, Carnivale, even re-watches of Buffy or Firefly (whose on-air experience was seriously screwed in the first place, airing out of order) – but there's something very different about consuming something that is understood to be finished (if not completed) as it happens versus after the fact. That the wait isn't really enforced, that the conversation doesn't have the same unknowing…
Dangit, it sounds like I'm totally bagging this group, and I'm not – I'm just bloviating out loud. The joys of consuming serial art while it's being produced are social, on another level – these were fictions being consumed by other people too, and the week before the next fix would be punctuated by conversations with other viewers, chopping it up, predicting, nerding out, complaining. That group could function that way for those involved, and that is the beauty of the Internet. (The AVClub's TV Club does some interesting articles as its critics re-watch series television.) My main serial television right now is Walking Dead, and it's almost a sport for me to bitch about everyone and everything on that show – good lawd, the dialogue! the "characters"! – only to tune in the next week to see if Walking Dead can pull off another sublime action sequence in among all the godamn stupid whining. And then they do! And then I bitch and praise to everyone who will listen. I didn't even watch much Sopranos, but I've gone to the homes of the HBO'd to eat junk food and watch along with the screaming fans, because it was totally fun.
So, anyway, how the world is messing with me: Scott S. Phillips – who is a friend, in interests of full disclosure – sent me this opening bit of a serial novel he's just put out. I spent some time checking for cameras, because, seriously, that's creepy that I'd been thinking about the serial format in contemporary media, and then bang! Here it is. And, based on somewhat limited research by moi, it seems like the serial novel is having a comeback in teh age of teh Internet. It makes sense: bit-sized bits that are easily and cheaply downloadable, which can function as their own advertisement, or let you know without a full commitment that you don't want any more of that. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, and then watching that basket, the writer can sell some eggs and keep laying. And then you can scramble them and…forget it, this metaphor officially does not work. You dig what I'm saying though, right?
Pete, Drinker of Blood begins the story of the titular Pete, a sad-sack vampire who is schlubbing his way through a less than glamorous LA. The principles are established: Pete, the bartender he's smitten with, and the badass vamp who is likely the antagonist of this story. The pace is good: bang! slowly revealing character and world-building, then bang! I'm admittedly biased, but I love the way Phillips tells stories, the way he turns idiom halfway so it's surprising, the tragicomic defeatism of his main character. Pete's obviously not in with the cool crowd, the Anne Riceian dudes in leather pants, who frequent a bar call the Emoglobin (hee!). He's like a rat-eating Angel, before he got cool again and found Buffy, only he's never ever been cool in the first place. There's uneaten hamburgers and classic rock, and an interlude with a tiny model windshield. I guess I don't want to say more for fear of spoilers, which is a little silly because it's not like I can spoil something that isn't even completed. But, you know.
And now the long wait until next month…
Posted on October 11, 2012 Categories books, fantasy, goat suckers, shills up and down my spine, vampsLeave a comment on Pete, Drinker of Blood, Part 1
Red: We Mate for Life and Suss out Clues, Just Like Scooby Doo
I've been re-watching Deadwood recently, because I have come across a couple of alt-history alt-West alt-magic-whatever books that have been really interesting to me. I'm no big fan of the straight Western – I was recently talking to a friend about the remake of True Grit, and admitted I had never seen the original, and he was like, well, it's been nice knowing you. But I like that I have never seen a John Wayne movie, and I'm going to keep it that way – but weird, reordered takes on the American West? I'm all there. The West is where we Americans store our weird ideas about individualism and crap. It's where we run after the Civil War to try to pretend that civilization is less than civilized, but better than the alternative of brutal, hand-to-mouth living. Or something.
Anyway, Red by Jordan Summers has some Western ornament – a scorched planet after a third world war, some compelling description of dead, fragile forests that crack to powder as you run through, the United States broken into a loose confederation of territories with a sort of U.N.ish military that polices the boundaries between this dome-city and that. Our main character, Red, is part of this police force, out shooting at Unknowns, who are people who are not citizens of whatever territory, crossing wastelands to get to the still-poor, but livable areas left in the world. Hello, Arizona, how little have you have changed! Can I see your papers?
But this is backstory, not something we're going to explore. Okay. Red goes to Arizona after some murrrderrrs that look like animal attacks, but Red's spidey sense tingles, and she is going to get to the bottom of this. She shows up in [town name, something that sounds like Urea in my mind], and starts into some seriously Scooby Doo police work. Much as I love Scooby Doo, it makes me really sad when adult fictions follow the Scooby Doo protocol of meeting the villain first, only we don't know it's the villain, because we're eight. I'm not eight anymore, so, thanks for being Captain Obvious about who the villain was. She meets the town sheriff, who is amazingly hot and makes her heart flip and stuff, but he has seeekrets, namely that he is a werewolf. And although it is obvious to him that the murders are caused by a werewolf and must have been perpetrated by someone he knows, he spends more time trying to cover up the other werewolf murders and managing his near-constant erection than spending any time trying to figure out the "mystery" of who killed them. Okay, hoss. That's some good police work.
Oh, which brings me to another thing. This is written in that third person pov character thing for the romantic leads, where we are privy to their head-thoughts and also descriptions of their clothes and relative desirableness, except for the killer-cam, which is written in the first person. The killer-cam parts of the book (except for when the killer narrates his motivations – that was crazy ham-fisted) were entirely the best written parts of this book. The book starts with a first person murder, which is tactile and seriously gross, centered in the body, upsetting. Summers, in these sections, really has a groove for the twisted, in a way that makes me hope she goes for body-horror in some later series. Body horror can get seriously boring – hello, Cronenberg – but the ways in which bodies, um, embody desire and revulsion, this can be some interesting stuff. The way the killer idolizes and then turns against his love interest, laid against the main characters' biologically determined sexual obsession/compulsion, this could have been some interesting shit. Alas, for naught. Even though this book is trying to play hide-the-football with Red's genetic legacy, I think we all know from the first page that she's somehow part-wolf or whatever, so stop playing coy.
And speaking of genetic legacy, that's something that is dealt with funny in this book. So, there was a third world war that scorched the planet, during which some government or another sought to create super soldiers, Others, people whose DNA had been mixed with animals so that they ended up with vampires and werewolves and stuff. Okay, my disbelief is being suspending here. However, even though this is understood to be something that happened – oh, hai, the gov't created werewolves – it is also understood to be secret, like no one knows it happened. Like, what? You can't have it both ways. There's this bad dude, a guy who is running for Senator (?? but there isn't a national government? What office is he running for??) who is running on an anti-Other platform, and this is like someone running on an anti-chupacabra platform – oh noes! the Mexican goat-sucker!
Certainly some people believe in el chupacabra (or ghosts, or space aliens, or…), and maybe if some politician used the chupacabra as some race-baiting tactic – Mexican goat-suckers are taking our jobs! Traffic stops for Mexican goat-suckers! – but the Senator's rhetoric is entirely Triumph of the Will pure-blood stuff, and therefore makes no sense. If people do not believe in werewolves, then they are not worried about werewolf racial mixing. I'm not saying that people couldn't work up a nice head of racism should werewolves turn out out to be real, I'm just saying they'll probably confine their racist energies to people who actually exist when in the ballot box. And, speaking of, isn't there an entire enormous problem of undocumented immigration going on here, embodied in the Unknowns? I could see him running on an anti-Unknown platform, at least how they are defined in this book, but the author drops them as a concern in a very, very frustrating manner.
Which brings me to another thing. This book pretends to some measure of science fictionality – that these Others have been created by scientists using wolf DNA to make better soldier – but, and I don't mean to be a dick here – the way the wolf behavior is presented is seriously lame, Romantic, half-googled crap. At one point, when Red figures out that there are werewolves, she thinks to herself, well, wolves have a hierarchy of dominance! Points, Daphne, for having a thought, but people have a hierarchy of dominance too! And does she do any research to back up this wild thought of maybe wolves would have specific social/biological ways of acting out their hierarchies? No. (This is despite the fact that she has some kind of digital assistant who is less useful than your average smart phone. Pretty much the assistant chimes in to alert Red when she's getting all sexually aroused by hero dude, usually in socially awkward times. I wanted to smash that thing with a hammer until it was plastic grit. Siri, get me a hammer.)
So okay, this is marginally science fantasy, not science fiction. That's fine. But if we're not using the wolf as a template for behavior, and instead using a Romantic/romantic notion of wolves which allows us to make up any damn thing about wolves and play out Romantic/romantic fantasy, why do we have to go for that stupid-ass mate-for-life garbage? The whole concept of life-long pair bonding is bullshit. Bullshit! No animal mates for life. And a woman can be marked in some unbreakable biological bond FOR ALL TIME by some teeth in her back? Fuck you, that's horrible. Red's nearly raped and "marked" by the bad guy, but the Romantic lead, while having consensual sex with her, marks her as well, even though she is unaware of the whole concept of marking, and for sure never said that was okay. So, by consenting to sex, she consents to her perpetual sexual ownership, something that can only be broken by the death of one of the partners? There's a battered women's shelter down the block full of women whose partners thought things like this.
I don't know. I feel like I've been uncharitable in this review, because much of my disappointment is based on my own misconceptions of what this book was going to be about when I came into it. I thought this was an post-apocalypse Western – and it is briefly, I guess – but it's pretty straightforward paranormal romance with dome cities and digital assistants. Disappointing to me, but occasionally interesting to read. Could have been worse.
Posted on October 9, 2012 Categories apocalypse, books, detectives, dome cities, goat suckers, mate for life, romance, science fiction, the west, What Would Scooby Do?, wolves aroooLeave a comment on Red: We Mate for Life and Suss out Clues, Just Like Scooby Doo


The Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership (ACFHP) has established a new collaborative project with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council), and National Fish Habitat Fund (Fund) to study black sea bass habitat characteristics, fish abundance, and fish diets in the Mid-Atlantic. The project, led by Dr. Brad Stevens of UMES, is titled 'Hab in the MAB: Characterizing black sea bass habitat in the Mid-Atlantic Bight.' The new study will combine SCUBA, photography, videography, controlled angling, and stable isotope analysis techniques to better understand the importance of habitat and prey community structure on black sea bass feeding ecology.
"ACFHP and our collaborative partners are excited about the unique opportunity to work together over the next few years to collect data that will inform both science and management, and support healthy fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic region," stated Kent Smith, ACFHP Steering Committee Chair.
In the summer of 2015, ACFHP applied for and received funding from the Council to manage a short-term research project focusing on Mid-Atlantic habitat (natural and/or artificial reef) and fisheries productivity. Black sea bass was chosen as a focal species because it is managed by both the Council and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), and because the species is structure oriented. ACFHP formed a subcommittee of representatives from the ACFHP Steering Committee, Council, and ASMFC Artificial Reef Committee to develop a request for proposals dedicated to black sea bass habitat research and/or restoration in the Mid-Atlantic region.
After careful review of several strong proposals, the ACFHP subcommittee chose to provide a $216,000 award to Dr. Stevens and his PhD student, Cara Schweitzer. Their study will determine if there are differences resulting in the use of artificial vs. natural habitats.
3. Determining if increased connectivity of habitat type increases fish recruitment, by experimentally manipulating connecting areas between isolated habitat patches.
ACFHP is the first of the 19 Fish Habitat Partnerships (FHPs) throughout the U.S. to support a habitat research project using the NFHP Beyond the Pond Fund. The Fund is a 501(c)3 entity created in 2015 to provide the FHPs an opportunity to connect with the private sector and maximize funding and collaboration opportunities. It supports the leveraging of resources and grassroots actions to achieve maximum impact in protecting and restoring fish habitat from the local to national levels.
Since 2006, NFHP has been a partner in 599 projects in 50 states benefiting fish habitat. The National Fish Habitat Partnership works to conserve fish habitat nationwide, leveraging federal, state, tribal, and private funding resources to achieve the greatest impact on fish populations through priority conservation projects. NFHP implements the National Fish Habitat Action Plan and supports 20 regional grassroots partner organizations.


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Teeth from every angle
By almayer
Sustainability in the News
Ann Gibbons penned an interesting News Focus article in this week's Science, reviewing research presented at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center on two Mayan communities on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico; one that was relatively wealthy and could afford soda and processed foods with refined sugar and flour, and one that was poorer and subsisted on more traditional maize-based foods. Residents of the wealthier village not only suffered more cavities (as one might expect), but far more problems with overbites, teeth overcrowding, impacted wisdom teeth, and other dental issues that often require the services of an orthodontist. It turns out that having lots of food in the diet that is coarse or difficult to chew (read: unprocessed) is important (especially for children) to help the lower jaw grow larger (allowing all those teeth to come in straight and uncrowded), and for adults to scrape harmful bacteria and plaque off of the surface of the teeth.
This special meeting focused on the "Evolution of Human Teeth and Jaws", and was very diverse in disciplines represented: paleoarchaeologists, anthropologists, dentists, and food scientists. This area is a bit outside of my expertise, but I enjoyed reading about the findings because these interesting questions, and fascinating answers, really do require a multidisciplinary team looking at the issue from many angles. Indeed, it is not only exciting to work in these kinds of teams, but just as exciting to read about the results of others.
agriculture, conference, food systems
Notes from the Field: David Flaspohler
Nasty cow pasties
Seeking Nominations: Campus Sustainability Leadership Awards
2023 Sustainability Film Series!
Announcing the Frank Chernosky Climate Leadership Award
Campus Sustainability Month at MTU
New MS in Sustainable Communities
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We have a few hundred KG of unpacked Speciosa in our posession, but under quarantine, that is being sent off for lab testing this week. However, we will not be able to open until we get a handle on our new machinery and begin working according to the standard operating prcedures we have outlined for ourselves, while implementing batch control protocols and master manufacturing records. Furthermore, we cannot operate until we at least have a method to collect payment besides mailing in a money order and crypto (echeck/ACH processing or credit card processing) and we are awaiting approvals on those as well as new labeling. Please do not expect us to have stock until the end of the first week of November at the earliest. We are excited to get back and begin sales as normal (Really you have no idea how excited we are, the last few months have been very difficult for Andrew and everyone here).


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AP Gov't, Thomas P.M. Barnett, on National Security
Thomas P.M. Barnett, who is a strategic planner, who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War and has operated his own consulting practice, New Rule Sets Project since 1998. A New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Barnett is a forecaster of global conflict and an expert on military transformation and on issues relating to international security and economic globalization. He is the author of The Pentagon's New Map and a contributing editor to Esquire magazine.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/Barnett/barnett-con0.html
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AP Gov't, Current American Military Policy
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Andrew J. Bacevich for a discussion of the new American militarism. Bacevich discusses his career as a military officer and as a Princeton trained historian. He traces his intellectual odyssey and offers insights into the forces shaping current high expectations about the military's role in international politics. Series: "Conversations with History"
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/Bacevich/bacevich-con0.html
WH, Ch. 26 New Global Patterns, Sec. 1 Japan Modernizes
Chapter 26 New Global Patterns (1800-1914)
Sec. 1 Japan Modernizes
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Homogeneous society
Section 1 Japan Modernizes
To avoid domination by the West, Japan opened its doors to foreign influences and transformed itself into a modern industrial power. The change occurred rapidly due to Japan's homogeneous society, great determination, and experience in cultural adaptation. Because it was a small island nation with few natural resources, Japan began building an empire to feed its industrial growth.
Construct a Cause and Effect chart on the Meiji restoration. Use the chart in the section as a model. Students should indicate the factors that led to the overthrow of the shogun and restoration of the Emperor in 1868. Then identify the major changes that occurred as a result of the restoration. Identify long-term effects as well.
Compare the different ways that Japan and China responded to the growing power of the West. Which policy was wiser? Explain your answer.
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Digvijaya attacks PM: How will listing Masood help when Imran Khan friends with Modi
PTI | 2 May 2019 4:36 AM GMT
India's representative to the United Nations Syed Akburuddin on Wednesday declared Masood Azhar as global terrorist by the UN.
Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh asked how designating Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist would help when Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan flaunts his friendship with Narendra Modi.
At a time when the nation is celebrating India's diplomatic victory, Singh, Congress' candidate from Bhopal, said, "How will listing (Masood Azhar as a global terrorist) help when Pakistan Prime Minister is flaunting his friendship with Modi ji. I would say, Dawood Ibrahim, Masood Azhar, and Hafiz Saeed should be immediately handed over to India."
Azhar is the head of the terrorist group responsible, notably, for the Pulwama attack on February 14, which killed 40 CRPF personnel in South Kashmir.
A global terrorist tag under the UN's 1267 committee would lead to a freeze on Azhar's assets and a ban on his travel and constraints on possessing weapons, similarly to the Al Qaida and ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
2019 Lok Sabha Elections
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Manjeet Singh Riyat (4 December 1967 – 20 April 2020) was a British emergency care consultant, and the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom.

Riyat's death from COVID-19 in the early months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England received widespread media coverage in the UK and was a call to investigate COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities.

Biography
Manjeet Singh Riyat was born on 4 December 1967. He completed his medical degree at the University of Leicester in 1992. He underwent training at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Lincoln County Hospital and in 2003 he joined Royal Derby Hospital as a consultant in emergency medicine, the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. He was appointed head of the emergency department there in 2006, and was chair of the hospital's medical advisory committee and its medical staffing committee.

Riyat taught emergency medicine and served as an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2007, becoming lead examiner for their fellowship examinations in 2016. He was also a PLAB part 2 examiner with the General Medical Council.

He was one of the first clinical research fellows in academic emergency medicine.

He was married and had two sons.

Death
Riyat died, aged 52, at the hospital where he worked, on 20 April 2020, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. In context of the disproportionate rate of COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities during the early months of 2020, Riyat's death received widespread media coverage in the UK and was a call to investigate further.

Selected publications
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References

Further reading

2020 deaths
20th-century British medical doctors
21st-century British medical doctors
British emergency physicians
British Sikhs
Alumni of the University of Leicester
British medical researchers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England
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Bike and walking path created near Walnut Beach
Jan. 25, 2018 Updated: May 24, 2019 3:43 p.m.
A bumpy section of closed roadway that leads to Walnut Beach has been paved for walkers and bike riders, and Mayor Ben Blake said signs will be installed marking it as a pedestrian/bike beachway.
The section of Nettleton Road from Monroe to Walnut Beach remains closed to vehicles but the Public Works Department resurfaced the road to make it more accessible and inviting for bikes and pedestrians, Blake said.
The section of roadway leads to the Walnut Beach parking lot, and also connects to the old dump road. The loop is a popular path for bikers and walkers. The Nettleton Road portion had, however, been bumpy, crumbling in spots and surrounded by overhanging branches and beach area vegetation.
There was also a lot of debris and concrete blocks along the path.
"This accessway to the beach was not easily accessible and not attractive," Blake said, explaining one reason for the makeover.
"As the weather gets nicer, we'll install a few additional enhancements including benches and better signage marking this pedestrian/bike beachway."
But aesthetics wasn't the only reason for the work, which was all done by city crews. Blake said the new pavement also allows access for emergency vehicles, and gives firefighters easier access to the personal watercrafts stored at the beach and used during emergency rescues there.
The parking lot at the beach has also been expanded in that area to allow for better access to the emergency equipment when the parking lot is full, Blake said.
New gates will be installed at both ends of the newly paved road so they can be raised for emergency vehicles to get through. There will be bollards installed so that bicycles and pedestrians can pass through.
Finally, drainage issues came into play. Blake said a storm water pipe in that area needed repairs, and that was another reason for the work.
The old dump road was not repaved as part of the project. But that is a state road, not a city road, Blake pointed out.
Still, with the new pavement, people can now bike or walk a nice loop from East Broadway, along dump road to Walnut Beach.


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Pseudosedum lievenii är en fetbladsväxtart som först beskrevs av Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Ernst Friedrich Berger. Pseudosedum lievenii ingår i släktet Pseudosedum och familjen fetbladsväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Le phare de Bokö (en suédois : Bokö fyr) est un petit phare situé sur l'île d'Oxnö de l'archipel de Trosa, une petite île appartenant à la commune de Trosa, dans le Comté de Södermanland (Suède).

Le phare de Bokö est inscrit au répertoire des sites et monuments historiques par la Direction nationale du patrimoine de Suède  .

Histoire
Ce petit phare a été construit en 1867 sur l'île de Bokö, devant la résidence en bois du gardien. À l'origine il fonctionnait avec une lampe à huile. En 1892, la grande lanterne métallique a remplacé le premier feu.

En 1941, le feu a été équipé avec une lampe AGA de fabrication Gustaf Dalén et il est devenu automatique. Il est maintenant alimenté par panneaux solaires.

Description
Le phare  est une lanterne cylindrique en tôle de  de haut. Elle est peinte entièrement en blanc. Son feu isophase émet, à une hauteur focale de , deux longs éclats (blanc, rouge et vert) selon différents secteurs toutes les 4 secondes. Sa portée nominale est de 6.2 milles nautiques (environ 11 km).

Identifiant : ARLHS : SWE-099 ; SV-4304 - Amirauté : C6720 - NGA : 8884 .

Caractéristique du feu maritime
Fréquence : 4 secondes (W-R-V)
 Lumière : 2 secondes
 Obscurité : 2 secondes

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Lien connexe
 Liste des phares de Suède

Liens externes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's :
Lighthouses of Sweden: Nyköping Area
  Online List of Lights - Sweden
  Sweden Liste ARLHS - Finland
  Carte d'implantation des phares suédois

Phare en Suède
Phare de la mer Baltique
Phare du XIXe siècle
Comté de Södermanland
Byggnadsminne dans le comté de Södermanland


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import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux';

import Icon from '../../../components/Icon';

import * as FormActions from '../actions';
import * as SubscriptionsActions from '../../subscriptions/actions';
import * as CategoriesActions from '../../categories/actions';
import * as selectors from '../selectors';

import { reduceErrorsToString } from '../../../utils/ErrorHelper';
import { renderErrorsFor } from '../../../utils';

class EditDialog extends Component {

  static propTypes = {
    editForm: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    selection: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    isSubscriptionSelected: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
    isCategorySelected: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
    onClose: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
    formActions: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    subscriptionsActions: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    categoriesActions: PropTypes.object.isRequired
  };

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.close = this.close.bind(this);
    this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
    this.submitForm = this.submitForm.bind(this);
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    const { formActions, selection } = this.props;

    formActions.editFormUpdate({ title: selection.title });

    setTimeout(() => {
      this.titleRef.focus();
    }, 0);
  }

  handleChange() {
    const { formActions } = this.props;

    formActions.editFormUpdate({ title: this.titleRef.value });
  }

  close(event) {
    const { formActions, onClose } = this.props;

    if (event) event.preventDefault();
    formActions.editFormReset();
    onClose();
  }

  submitForm(event) {
    const {
      editForm,
      isSubscriptionSelected,
      selection,
      onClose,
      formActions,
      subscriptionsActions,
      categoriesActions
    } = this.props;
    event.preventDefault();

    const action = isSubscriptionSelected ?
      subscriptionsActions.requestUpdateSubscription
      :
      categoriesActions.requestUpdateCategory;

    formActions.editFormUpdate();
    action(selection.id, { title: editForm.title }).then((result) => {
      if (!result.errors) {
        formActions.editFormReset();
        onClose();
      }
    });
  }

  render() {
    const { editForm, selection, isSubscriptionSelected, isCategorySelected } = this.props;

    let labels;
    if (isSubscriptionSelected) {
      labels = {
        heading: 'Edit feed',
        label: 'Feed title',
        hint: 'Title must be 50 characters or less and cannot contain spaces or periods',
      };
    } else if (isCategorySelected) {
      labels = {
        heading: 'Edit category',
        label: 'Category title',
        hint: 'Title must be 50 characters or less and cannot contain spaces or periods',
      };
    } else {
      throw new Error('Unknown selection');
    }

    return (

        <form onSubmit={this.submitForm} className="form-prominent sm-col-6">

{labels.heading}

          {editForm.errors &&

                {reduceErrorsToString(editForm.errors)}

          }

            {labels.label}
            <input
              className="field block col-12"
              id="title"
              type="text"
              placeholder="Enter title here"
              ref={(r) => { this.titleRef = r; }}
              value={editForm.title}
              onChange={(event) => this.handleChange(event)}
              autoFocus />

{labels.hint}

            {renderErrorsFor(editForm.errors, 'title')}

            {isSubscriptionSelected &&

{selection.site_url}

{selection.feed_url}

            }

            <button
              type="submit"
              className="btn btn-primary bg-blue white btn-large with-icon"
              disabled={!editForm.title || editForm.isLoading}
              onClick={this.submitForm} >
                {editForm.isLoading && <Icon name="spinner_white" size="small" />}
              Save Changes
            </button>

        </form>

    );
  }
}

function mapStateToProps(state, ownProps) {
  return {
    editForm: state.editForm,
    category: state.categories.byId[ownProps.params.category_id],
    subscription: state.subscriptions.byId[ownProps.params.subscription_id],
    selection: selectors.selection(state, ownProps),
    isSubscriptionSelected: selectors.isSubscriptionSelected(ownProps),
    isCategorySelected: selectors.isCategorySelected(ownProps),
  };
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return {
    formActions: bindActionCreators(FormActions, dispatch),
    subscriptionsActions: bindActionCreators(SubscriptionsActions, dispatch),
    categoriesActions: bindActionCreators(CategoriesActions, dispatch),
  };
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(EditDialog);

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The paper "Building Construction For Fire Protection" is a delightful example of an essay on engineering and construction. Fire Fighting and Prevention should be considered in the design phase. Firefighting is the practice of extinguishing out of control fires. Fire prevention is the process of reducing the source of ignition. In addition, it would include the education of people in society and the skillful use of different materials in everyday life. The materials used in buildings for this purpose are grouped into what is called building codes. The codes recognize that a fire may occur (Rose S.E., et al 2007). The purpose is to provide active or passive fire prevention standards. The steel frame gives the building strength. It makes the high rise building possible and safer. The steel is problematic in heated conditions. It transmits heat quickly. The steel will bend and collapse with the heat. It is important to protect the steel from the possibility of flames. The steel is covered with concrete. The firefighter also responds in other disasters. An example is that of earthquakes. The steel helps support the building in such a disaster. This improves survivability for the occupants and the rescuers, the firefighters. The concrete has steel bars plates or rods added. This makes the material able to stand the stress and not be brittle. The use makes it possible to improve building functionality. The strengths of the two materials are brought together. This composite material has a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to steel. There is a bonding of the steel with the concrete. The building walls are stronger and cooler in a fire.


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"Don't Rock the Jukebox" is a song co-written and performed by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on April 29, 1991 as the lead single from the album of the same name, Don't Rock the Jukebox. It was his second consecutive Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.  Jackson wrote the song with Roger Murrah and Keith Stegall.

The song also received an ASCAP award for Country Song of the Year in 1992.  That same year, the song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks, featuring commentary by Alan Jackson himself, for their 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places.

Background and writing
The song is sung from the perspective of a heartbroken bar patron who wishes to hear country music to ease his heartbreak. As such, he tells the other patrons in the bar, "don't rock the jukebox" (i.e. play country instead of rock).

Jackson wrote about the inspiration at the beginning of the video: "I wanna tell you a little story about an incident that happened on the road a couple years ago when me and my band, The Strayhorns, were playing this little truck stop lounge up in Doswell, Virginia, a place called Geraldine's. We'd been there for four or five nights, you know, playing those dance sets. It'd been a long night, I took a break and walked over to the Jukebox. Roger, my bass player, was already over there reading the records, you know. I leaned up on the corner of it and one of the legs was broken off, jukebox kind of wobbling around, you know. And Roger looked up at me and said...".

Critical reception
Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade," saying that the song "defies explanation" because Jackson "perfectly inhabits the song's affable weariness, and because Scott Hendricks and Keith Stegall arrange it to honky-tonk heaven."

Music video
The music video for the song premiered on May 2, 1991 on CMT, and was directed by Julien Temple, and begins in black and white, where Jackson described about the song, and then, it cuts to Jackson playing his guitar and singing the song while standing in front of a jukebox. As he does this, a seated figure in the shadows nods his head and taps the table to the beat. Several people come and dance in front of the jukebox during the song, including Hal Smith, referencing or possibly reprising his role as Otis Campbell from The Andy Griffith Show, while some people who come up to the jukebox shake it around angrily, thus prompting Jackson to sing the title line of the song. At the end of the video, the seated figure morphs into George Jones, who is mentioned in the song's lyrics several times.

Parodies
Award-winning parodist and comedian Cody Marshall released a parody of the song titled "Don't Watch the Springer", referencing The Jerry Springer Show''.

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

Songs about jukeboxes
1991 singles
Alan Jackson songs
Songs written by Roger Murrah
Songs written by Alan Jackson
Songs written by Keith Stegall
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles of the year
Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall
Song recordings produced by Scott Hendricks
Arista Nashville singles
1991 songs
Music videos directed by Julien Temple
Songs about country music


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The dollhouse is a miniature mansion with eight rooms. (Photos by Maria Matson/Whidbey News-Times)
Dollhouse for donation: Tiny house a mini masterpiece
by Maria Matson
Monday, June 24, 2019 2:46pm
Upon close inspection, it resembles a house like any other.
A grand house too — a three-story dream house with a sprawling spiral staircase, eight rooms and tasteful furnishings. Evidence throughout the house tells a story of an owner who is a passionate musician, a bookworm or an artist, or perhaps of a talented family that utilizes the music room, the art room or the well-stocked kitchen.
But take a step back, and the illusion is broken. This mansion is only three feet high, despite its detailed, lifelike rooms crafted with the smallest of features that only an dedicated builder with a obsession for details would think to include.
The artist and creator of this miniature dollhouse is Emmalyn 'lyn' DeShong. She crafted it as a labor of love over many years.
And now that she's passed away, her close friend Shirley Viall is looking for a good home for the tiny house. Viall has undertaken the enormous task of sorting out her friend's possessions and cleaning DeShong's house, and so far the trickiest question has been what to do with the dollhouse DeShong had been working on since 2001.
"People who've seen it know it's really not a toy," Viall said. "It's a work of art."
That's why she wants it to go to a place where it can be admired, viewed, preserved but not touched.
Selling it doesn't feel right, so Viall said she wants to donate it to a place such as a seniors' home, library, children's hospital or museum.
The director of Coupeville's Island County Historical Society museum, Rick Castellano, said that he stopped by for a look. Unfortunately, the miniature home didn't suit the museum's historical requirements, he said, but he was impressed with the workmanship.
"The detail and craftsmanship that went into this is stunning and of the highest quality," Castellano said in an email. "I hope it will find an appropriate home where people of all ages are able to enjoy and admire it for years to come. "
Ideally, the house will stay on Whidbey Island, Viall said, but she's been looking out-of-state as well.
Along with the challenge of preserving DeShong's work, Viall has had to deal with the loss of her good friend, whose health took a turn for the worse after a broken hip and stay in the hospital.
DeShong's friends describe her as faithful, passionate, strong, artistic, humorous and unique in every sense of the word. DeShong loved her son, her cats, her church and her friends, they say.
"If she liked you, she really liked you," Viall said. However, if she didn't like you, you could have been St. Patrick or Mother Teresa and DeShong wouldn't have cared, Viall said.
DeShong's self-reliant nature and knack for building meant that in her own home one is always within arm's reach of something she built or designed herself. She constructed the floor tiles, sewed clothes, crafted pillows, created stained-glass windows and framed her own artwork. DeShong even drew and designed the blueprints for her life-sized house, being sure to add ramps and walks all along her walls for her cats to roam wherever they pleased.
Friends who witnessed DeShong weather many of life's challenges and tragedies became close to her, including Joan Bowers, who knew her for over 35 years.
Bowers said she introduced DeShong to the hobby over 20 years ago. It eventually became a partnership and a way to pass time.
They used to go to a now-shuttered store in Seattle years ago that offered affordable miniatures, and they'd spend hours searching for the perfect small pieces to fit in their respective houses, Bowers said.
"I'll tell you something—it's been a pain in the tush having her gone," Bowers said.
DeShong and Bowers agreed that when they got invested in the hobby in the early 2000s, prices were much more agreeable than they are today.
Even though they had access to hobby stores back then, DeShong still built most of the miniature pieces herself. DeShong selected and cut the wood for the house frame, wired the lights, designed and upholstered furniture and more, making the dollhouse a true one-of-a-kind creation, according to her friends.
Bowers has no answer for when DeShong "completed" her miniature dollhouse, because, "I don't know if a dollhouse is ever completely done."
Bowers used to bring visitors by DeShong's place to see her dollhouse, telling them they've got to see it.
DeShong would be nonplussed by the response her house inspired.
"She said, 'I never thought anyone would want to see it or anything,'" Bowers said. "I said, 'Honey, they'd love to'."
Organizations interested in preserving the dollhouse for public viewing can mail "Dollhouse: C/O S. Viall –P.O. Box 1216, Coupeville, 98239." The dollhouse is not for sale.
Shirley Viall adjusts furniture located in the kitchen of the miniature dollhouse created by Lyn DeShong.
Photo by Maria Matson/Whidbey News-Times
Throughout the house, there are several cats looking content.
In the kitchen, the doors of the refrigerator open to reveal fully-stocked shelves.
The music room bookshelf contains small books with titles such as "Dracula," "White Fang" and "Phantom of the Opera."
The art room.
A living room table, complete with a lamp and a goldfish bowl.
DeShong's artistic work included stained glass windows, three of which are pictured here. She also worked with other mediums, including oils and watercolors.
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Im April 2010 begann Legal Tribune Online eine Kooperation mit Spiegel Online, bei der Inhalte von beiden Seiten gegenseitig eingebunden wurden und Spiegel QC die Werbevermarktung von Legal Tribune Online übernahm. Zum 1. März 2012 wurde die Kooperation beendet. Im Juni 2018 startete mit LTO Jobmatch ein Jobvermittlungsangebot für Juristen. Im Dezember 2020 wurden die bisher auf Legal Tribune Online angebotenen Inhalte zu den Themen Karriere, Jura-Studium und Referendariat sowie ein Stellenmarkt für Juristen auf einer eigenen Seite, LTO Karriere, gebündelt.

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Legal Tribune Online ist unterteilt in die Rubriken "Aktuelles", "Kanzleien & Unternehmen", "Anwaltsberuf" und "Justiz". Schwerpunkte der Berichterstattung sind Themen aus Recht, Justiz und der Rechtsanwaltschaft. Das redaktionelle Angebot umfasst aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergrundartikel und Analysen von juristischen Fachautoren, Servicethemen für juristische Berufe, ein rechtliches Feuilleton und eine werktägliche Presseschau zu Rechtsthemen.

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Meg's Boutique: OOTD- Hello Spring!
Okay so it might be a little early for crop trousers and sandals, but we have such 'blink and you'll miss it' sort of summers I've decided to just wack out the summery wardrobe as much as I can this year! I really love this outfit as it's perfect for casual day times like uni or dressier nights like BBQ's. The cropped chinos are definitely one of my best summer buys from last year as you can wear them when it's not warm enough to get all of your legs out, but want to feel a bit summery and the loose fit and material makes them very cool and comfy. The Topshop gladiator sandals are also one of my favourite buys from last year as they're just so gorgeous!
Have you started rediscovering your spring/summer wardrobe yet? Have you been enjoying the sunshine?
I hope you've all got nice Wednesdays planned too!
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I love those chinos, they look perfect for spring/summer. I'm loving how warm it's been the past few days, hopefully it will stay like this for a bit longer!
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Ok everybody, who is going to watch the new Nate Berkus show tonight? Hannah and I are going to watch to check it out. I love everything Nate does so I am pretty sure it's going to be a keeper.
Here is a link to the show info on NBC's website.


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Book Review: The Con Artist By Fred Van Lente
By Olympus Athens | @ | July 17th, 2018 at 4:00 pm
The Con Artist
Paperback | Kindle
Written by Fred Van Lente
Illustrated by Tom Fowler
Publisher: Quirk Books
Mike Mason lives at conventions… literally. He loves the feeling of creating something from nothing, at the behest of fans of his art. When he arrives at the biggest con of the year, San Diego Comic-Con, he has to face his ex-wife and the man she cheated on him with, plus he's hit with the news that his mentor, Ben K, has died. If only that was the worst of it! Spontaneous actions coupled with alcohol leaves Mike with little recollection of the night before. If only Danny hadn't gone and died during that time! Now a suspect, Mike is on his own case, tracking down his alibi and sketching the clues. Can he elude the fuzz and various enemies long enough to solve the crime before he is arrested?
More below on The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente.
Topics: Book Reviews, Books, Reviews
Tags: Fred Van Lente, Quirk Books, The Con Artist, Tom Fowler
Oni Press Comic Book Releases For April 27, 2016
By Waerloga69 | @ | April 27th, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Below you'll find the solicitations information and cover artwork for all of Oni Press comic book titles that were released on April 27, 2016.
Topics: Comics, News, Solicitations
Tags: Andrew MacLean, Annie Mok, Cat Farris, CJ Cannon, Feeble Wanderings, Marc Ellerby, Nick Filardi, Oni Press, Rick and Morty, Ryan Hill, Sophie Campbell, Tom Fowler, Wet Moon, Zac Gorman
Comic Review: Magnus Robot Fighter #1
By PS Hayes | @ | March 13th, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Magnus Robot Fighter #1
Art by Cory Smith
Colors by Mauricio Wallace
Letters by Marshall Dillon
Covers by Gabriel Hardman, Joe Bennett, Scott Wegener, Tom Fowler, and Ken Haeser
Magnus Robot Fighter #1 is one of those comics where you don't really know what's going on. At about the halfway point, you're bashed in the head with a totally different book, and luckily, both are amazing!!
Fred Van Lente sets up an awesome world, establishes a fantastic atmosphere, and the introductions in the book flow nicely and are very natural. Then, he punches us in the face and throws us all for a HUGE loop. But, it's all done in a good, solid, entertaining way. This is like reading a summer big budget science fiction movie, which is exactly what this book needs. I only casually followed this book in the past, and while I found it interesting, previous series never really "grabbed" me. But this issue and series is a WHOLE different ball game.
Tags: Cory Smith, Dynamite Entertainment, Fred Van Lente, Gabriel Hardman, Joe Bennett, Ken Haeser, Magnus Robot Fighter, Marshall Dillon, Maurico Wallace, Scott Wegener, Tom Fowler
Valiant Entertainment Comic Solicitations For April 2014
By Dave3 | @ | January 23rd, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Below you'll find the solicitations information and cover artwork for all of the Valiant Entertainment comic titles hitting stores in April of 2014, including issues for Matt Kindt's Unity, Greg Pak's Eternal Warrior, and more.
Topics: Comics, Features, Solicitations
Tags: Alvaro Martinez, Andrew Robinson, Barry Kitson, Bernard Chang, Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps, Bob Layton, Cafu, Cary Nord, Christos Gage, Clayton Crain, Clayton Henry, David Lapham, David Mack, David Michelinie, Diego Bernard, Emanuela Lupacchino, Eternal Warrior, Fred Van Lente, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Greg Pak, H.A.R.D. Corps, Harbinger, James Asmus, Jeff Dekal, Jim Lee, Jim Shooter, Jorge Molina, Joshua Dysart, Kano, Lewis Larosa, Matt Kindt, Michael Walsh, Mike Leeke, Pere Perez, Peter Milligan, Quantum and Woody, Raul Allen, Robert Gill, Robert Venditti, Shadowman, Tom Fowler, Tom Raney, Trevor Hairsine, Unity, Valentine De Landro, Valiant Entertainment, Vincente Cifuentes, X-O Manowar, Zach Montoya
Image Comics Brings 'God Hates Astronauts' To The Masses!
By PS Hayes | @ | September 24th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
After one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns EVER, Image Comics is teaming with God Hates Astronauts creator Ryan Browne to bring the beloved web comic to comic shops everywhere this October!
Check out the full press release below.
Topics: Comics, News, Press Releases
Tags: C.P. WILSON III, Chris Burnham, CHRIS MITTEN, Ethan Nicolle, God Hates Astronauts, Hilary Barta, Image Comics, Jenny Frison, Joe Quinones, Mike Norton, Nick Pitarra, Paolo Rivera, Rebekah Isaacs, Riley Rossmo, Ryan Browne, Ryan Stegman, Tim Seeley, Tom Fowler, TOM SCIOLI, Tradd Moore, Zander Cannon
Comic Review: Archer & Armstrong #9
By PS Hayes | @ | April 17th, 2013 at 8:30 pm
Art by Emanuela Lupacchino with Alvero Martinez
Inks by Guillermo Ortego
Colors by Davd Baron
Letters by Dave Lanphear
Covers by Emanuela Lupacchino and Tom Fowler
Assistant Editor: Josh Johns
Associate Editor: Jody Leheup
Executive Editor: Warren Simmons
BOOM! Archer & Armstrong #9 opens with a bang and doesn't even attempt to slow down! This is only the second Valiant comic that I've read since they're relaunch (shame on me) and I have to say, I was pretty impressed. Enough to delved deeper into their universe. But, that's besides the point, we're here to talk about this issue.
I've become a fan of Fred Van Lente over the last few years, and with good reason. Everything he's written, from Hercules to GI Joe, has been very entertaining. This book is no different. We get a nice recap inside the front cover and then we hit the ground running. If you're familiar with Van Lente's writing, then you'll know he excels at adding humor to his scripts and this issue is no exception. Even though Archer & Armstrong are fighting against each other, and higher forces than they can handle alone, there's some great wise cracks, and the occasional laugh out loud moments. As always, Van Lente does a great job with characterizations and writes with the artist in mind. This is a very enjoyable issue!
Tags: Alvero Martinez, Archer & Armstrong, Davd Baron, Dave Lanphear, Emanuela Lupacchino, Fred Van Lente, Guillermo Ortego, Jody Leheup, Josh Johns, Tom Fowler, Valiant Entertainment, Warren Simmons
Comic Book Art Blogs Worth Viewing: Comic Twart
By Henchman21 | @ | September 1st, 2011 at 11:50 pm
There are a lot of great comic book art blogs out there, beyond the deviantart pages of the world, and if you're a comic book fan, these are webpages that you should be checking out on a daily basis. All this week, I'm going to highlight a few that I think are worthy of your attention or are just pages for some of my favorite artists.
Today, we look at a collective webpage, Comic Twart. Comic Twart was started in early 2010 and features work by nearly 20 different artists, who generally tackle a theme each week and show their different takes on that week's theme. The artists involved include Mike Hawthorne, Chris Samnee, Mitch Breitweiser, Tom Fowler, and Dave Johnson. The theme is generally a specific character, but it could be a more general concept. Recent themes have included Giant Monsters, Power Girl, The Flash, and Space Ghost.
Topics: Art, Comics, Features
Tags: Chris Samnee, Comic Book Art, Comic Twart, Dave Johnson, Mike Hawthorne, Mitch Breitweiser, Tom Fowler


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2019 ITTF Parkinson's World Table Tennis Championships
Establishing close relations, promoting Parkinson's
The Japan Table Tennis Association Sports Science and Medicine Committee (JTTA SSMC) held its sixth international meeting on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September in Tokyo; the meeting has been held annually since 2014, the aim to establish a close relationship between the Japan Table Tennis Association and researchers from the International Table Tennis Federation.
A total of 52 personnel attended; eight members of the ITTF Sports Science Committee, three Europeans, nine Asians and 33 Japanese. This number of participants was the largest to date.
One of many International Sports Science Conferences held in Tokyo (Photo: courtesy of Japan Table Tennis Association Sports Science and Medicine Committee)
by Professor Kazuto Yoshida, PhD (JTTA Sports Science and Medicine Committee Chairman, ITTF Sports Science and Medical Committee member)
On the first day, Professor Kazuto Yoshida, JTTA SSMC Chair, opened the meeting with a welcome address. There were five speakers in the first session and eight in the second; all presented their research results and shared creative insights.
Five speakers
Following the second session, the meeting was opened and chaired by Professor Hiroyoshi Ogasa, JTTA SSMC Vice Chairman. The title was "Injury Prevention and Medical Support Issues in Racket Sports".
There were five speakers, including medical support staff members not only from table tennis but also from tennis and soft tennis. They made presentations based on their latest practical activities and study results. A lively discussion ensued.
On the second day, we started the third session, poster presentations, eight speakers; discussions were positive and went beyond the scheduled time of one hour.
Next, Prof. Miran Kondric, Chair ITTF Sports Science Committee, gave a keynote lecture. The title was "Table Tennis can be best possible therapy for individuals with Parkinson's Disease; also for patients with other modern diseases". He spoke about the possibility of table tennis having a preventive effect on Parkinson's disease from several different viewpoints.
"Table tennis is one of the rare sports activities that individuals with Parkinson's Disease and their families can do together. We hope that ITTF and other international universities and medical institutions worldwide will find resources to slow down Parkinson's Disease with table tennis activities". Professor Miran Kondric.
Later Dr. Shiro Matsuo delivered a special lecture. The title was "six years of progress, we will never stop reaching for more". After this special lecture, the Japan Table Tennis Association presented an award of appreciation to Professor Miran Kondric for his invaluable support at JTTA SSMC international meetings.
Fourth session
Following, there was the fourth session with five speakers. Finally, Professor Hiroyoshi Ogasa, JTTA SSMC Vice Chairman, concluded the meeting expressing his gratitude.
Throughout the two day meeting, everyone gave their full attention; the discussions were livelier than ever. We had a most thought-provoking and beneficial time.
Now by holding this meeting annually, we have strengthened and expanded the network of table tennis researchers. We believe the cumulative achievements of JTTA SSMC international meetings will be a legacy, not only for JTTA SSMC members, but also for all participants and will continue long after 2020 Tokyo.
JTTA SSMC and ITTF Sports Science and Medical Committee have agreed to collaborate even more closely in the field of table tennis science and medicine in the future.
Thanks to the International Table Tennis Federation each participant received a pen and key chain with the ITTF logo. We appreciate and thank the ITTF Marketing Department for their contribution to the event.
We look forward to meeting researchers and medical staff at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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During my journey between August 2007 and September 2008 for the making of We English, the bank Northern Rock collapsed and the credit crunch unfolded, events that heralded the beginning in a shift in public consciousness about the impending financial crisis. Twenty months later, I returned to many of the places I had visited and this time, the landscapes were alive not with people at leisure, but with canvassing candidates, political slogans, and echoing with warnings of cutbacks and imminent hardship.
Landscapes of Innocence and Experience explores the changes that have affected Britain economically and politically over the last three years. This 3-channel video projection, shot from the passenger window of a motorhome, documents a journey around the country during the official four-week period of campaigning for the 2010 General Election, finishing in Westminster on the morning of 7th May, when no overall political party had formed a government. The film goes in search of incidental spaces and moments across Britain's urban and rural landscapes set against a soundtrack of ambient noise and radio news bulletins. Juxtaposed alongside the large format landscape photographs from We English and The Election Project, the film explores our new predicament in this era of austerity and the shifting perceptions of the country's economic and political geography, with its many anxieties; a rediscovery and revaluation of where we find ourselves today.
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WACO, Texas The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team is ranked #2 in the country in the two major NCAA Division III Top 25 Polls for the fifth consecutive week this week. The Cru (6-0, 5-0 American Southwest Conference) is coming off a 55-0 victory over Howard Payne University last Friday.
The Cru is ranked #2 in the country in the American Football Coaches Association Top 25 Poll again this week. The Cru received 10 first-place votes and 1,234 total points from the AFCA. Defending national champion Mount Union holds down the top spot again with 41 first-place votes and 1,265 total points. Brockport (NY), Wisconsin-Whitewater and St. John's (MN) round out the top five in that poll. Hardin-Simmons University held steady at #11 in the AFCA poll with 733 points. The Cowboys fell to UMHB 26-0 two weeks ago. Texas Lutheran received votes worth two points to give the ASC three programs receiving mention in this week's poll.
UMHB also held on to the #2 spot in this week's D3football.com Top 25 Poll. The Cru took six first-place votes and 606 total points. Mount Union is #1 in that ranking with 19 first-place votes and 619 total points. Brockport (NY) comes in at #3, Frostburg (MD) State is ranked fourth and St. John's (MN) rounds out the top five. Hardin-Simmons held steady at #9 in the D3football.com poll again this week.
The Cru will now hit the road again to face Belhaven University in a 12:00 PM kickoff at the Belhaven Bowl in Jackson, Mississippi this Saturday. The Blazers are 1-5 overall and 1-4 in the ASC on the season.
Others Receiving Votes: Wheaton (Ill.), 43; Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio), 40; Linfield (Ore.), 38; Wabash (Ind.), 27; Wisconsin-La Crosse, 23; Washington & Lee (Va.), 19; Amherst (Mass.), 18; Bethel (Minn.), 14; Western Connecticut St., 14; MIT (Mass.), 13; Monmouth (Ill.), 13; Randolph-Macon (Va.), 9; Marietta (Ohio), 8; Trinity (Conn.), 7; Washington (Mo.), 7; Denison (Ohio), 4; Texas Lutheran, 2; Franklin (Ind.), 1.