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This CD review was originally published in the November 8, 2012 edition of Blues Blast Magazine. Be sure to check out the rest of the magazine at thebluesblast.com
Bonnie Bishop – Free
Self released through Be Squared Records
7 tracks / 28:26
If you Google Bonnie Bishop you will find out that she is a country rock singer and songwriter out of Nashville, so you will be in for quite a surprise when you listen to her new CD, Free. This is not country music, but it certainly does rock in a soulful and bluesy way.
Bonnie earned her stripes in the Texas club scene and cut four albums before heading to Nashville to make a run at being a songwriter. She has developed into quite a good songwriter, and recently had one of her songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt (one of her inspirations, by the way). Her latest CD Free is really more of an EP, with seven tracks and a total play time of less than thirty minutes, but they are all original tunes and she had a hand in writing all of them. She is joined on this recording by Jimmy Wallace on keys, Steve Mackey on bass, Fred Eltringham on drums. The electric and acoustic guitars were played by Rob McNelley and Sam Hawksley. This tight group of musicians illustrates why so many artists choose to record in Nashville, where the talent pool is so very deep.
"Keep Using Me" is the first track, and we get a strong dose of Jimmy Wallace on honky-tonk piano and B3 and some tasteful bass work from Mackey on the bass, but the real star is Bishop's voice. I have seen other writers compare her to Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt, and though I do not think she sounds like them I do think that she has the same energy and presence as these iconic singers. I do not know exactly how to categorize this song, but the backing vocals and the story of a woman done wrong tip it over into the realm of soul for me.
Next up is another song that is hard to fit into any one genre, "Shrinking Violet." This one is equal parts funk and country rock. The distorted slide guitars on this one are brilliant, and Eltringham really keeps this one moving with his driving drums. There is continuity of the lyrics that carries over from the first song to this one, and you will find that Bonnie Bishop is not afraid to approach personal subjects and that she has quite a lyrical way of stringing words together.
The title track is a beautifully arranged ballad that slowly builds with piano, strings and a background choir. As "Free" starts out, we get to hear Bonnie's voice with a lot of the background stripped way, and it is breathtakingly emotional. If a household-name artist had recorded this song, you would hear it every 10 minutes on pop radio, and tomorrow's stars would be covering it on some reality television talent show. That is how good it is.
Halfway through Free the mood lightens up for "Bad Seed," the only real country tune on the CD. This one uses the country music time-honored tradition of telling a story as a song, interspersed with a nifty chorus here and there. This is a super catchy tune, and with Bishop's rip-roaring vocals it should also be very radio-friendly.
"World Like This" is a hopeful ballad that gets a dose of Hammond and choir to make this a fresh gospel tune. By slowing things down the listener a chance to hear the message of the lyrics, and to consider the context of love in today's society. "The Best Songs Come from Broken Hearts" builds on this, starting slowly and gaining momentum with her voice sounds time-worn that adds an extra shot of honesty to this song. Free finishes up on an inspirational note with "Right Where You Are," which is a lively tone with hammering drums and a rocking bass line. This song is soul, gospel and rock, and with the way it was recorded it almost comes off as a live track.
If she was looking for work as a songwriter, Free is the best resume that Bonnie Bishop could submit. The lyrics are personal and poignant, and the music is rich and catchy; it does not hurt that she has a great voice, a terrific band and good studio production. I am glad that she produced a shorter release with consistently good content rather than adding obligatory cover tunes or songs that were not ready for prime time. Free is a winner and you should give it a listen.
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I like all of CGP Grey's videos but most of them have to do with voting systems and so aren't really relevant to this blog. But his latest video titled "How Do Machines Learn?" is highly relevant and I thought very well done. That said, although the animations of the robots were very cute and helped to tell the story, I found them a bit disconcerting in a way that I can't quite explain.


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I Bessi erano una tribù trace che viveva nei Monti Rodopi e a sud di Filippopoli.

Questa tribù deve aver impressionato molto i Romani poiché essi chiamavano tutti i Traci bessi, ed essi erano i principali ausiliari che venivano dalla Tracia. Di loro si racconta che fossero i più feroci.

Erano una tribù associata ai Dii (per via della loro vicinanza ai territori da essi occupati), erano molto devoti a Dioniso ed erano probabilmente i Traci più alfabetizzati.

Storia

Nel 72 a.C. furono sconfitti dal proconsole di Macedonia Marco Lucullo.

Sembra che i Bessi, menzionati da Appiano di Alessandria nel corso delle campagne militari di Ottaviano in Illirico (35-33 a.C.), si arresero ai Romani dopo le vittorie da questi conseguite contro molte delle popolazioni dellIllyricum.

Nel corso della seconda campagna militare (del 28 a.C.), del governatore della provincia romana di Macedonia, Marco Licinio Crasso, i Bessi furono sottomessi, affidando ai vicini Odrisi il loro santuario di Dioniso. Ciò provocò un inasprimento dei già difficili rapporti tra i due popoli, provocando negli anni successivi una continua lotta tra le due fazioni trace. È proprio nel 19 o nel 18 a.C., che i Bessi, dopo essersi sollevati contro il re odrisio, Remetalce I, zio e tutore dei figli di Cotis V, riuscirono a riprendersi il santuario dionisiaco. E ancora una volta, un nuovo proconsole di Macedonia era costretto ad intervenire. Si trattava di Marco Lollio, che lo sottomise.

Nel 16 a.C., Lucio Tario Rufo era costretto a respingere un'invasione di Sarmati, che erano riusciti ad invadere al provincia macedonica, grazie all'aiuto dei Bessi, che avevano loro permesso di passare sul loro territorio.

Nell'anno 15 a.C. i Romani ne debellarono una rivolta capeggiata da un sacerdote fanatico del santuario di Dioniso, che aveva costretto Remetalce I a rifugiarsi nella lontana Gallipoli, e dopo aver ucciso Rescuporide, figlio di Coti.

Una nuova loro rivolta, fu soffocata nel sangue dalle truppe accorse dalla provincia romana di Galazia e Panfilia, del governatore L.Cornelio Pisone, dal 12 al 10 a.C., pur se dopo un breve successo iniziale.

Una nuova insurrezione fu domata dai generali di Tiberio nel 26. E venti anni più tardi, nel 46, l'imperatore Claudio ne decideva la definitiva annessione, trasformando l'intera Tracia in Provincia romana.

Gaio Valerio Flacco li definiva Enormi; Erodoto li descriveva come la tribù trace più forte del suo tempo; Strabone invece riferisce che erano chiamati briganti tra i briganti.

I bessi si sono spostati fra i fiumi Sava, Drina e il Mare Adriatico, e hanno dato il nome Bosna al fiume nel centro dell'odierna Bosnia, nome poi dato al regno della Bosnia Bossena; erano numerosi, guidati dal loro re Leon, da loro comincia la creazione del regno della Bossena, odierna Bosnia. Durante l'invasione slavica, la loro caratteristica era di ritirarsi sui monti per non mischiarsi con altri popoli, differenti dalle tribu slave, subiscono alla fine influenza slava e presero lingua slava e nomi, ma non si mischiavano di sangue. Lo dimostrano poi nel medioevo: usano le stesse caratteristiche costruendo le città sui monti, ebbero la loro religione, e la prima scrittura bosančica dallo slavo, e anche le loro tombe stećci, anche se il nome bessi si è modificato un po' nel tempo, bessi, bossi, bosseni, bosini, bosnjaci, bosanci, bosniaci, ma sono sempre rimasti differenti dagli altri popoli loro vicini. Così racconta Mauro Orbini nel suo libro Il Regno Dei Slavi.

Monaci Bessi nel Sinai

Nell'anno 570, Antonio Placentio disse che nella valle del Monte Sinai c'era un monastero nel quale i monaci parlavano Greco, Latino, Siriaco, Egiziano e Tracio (nello specifico Tracio-Bessico).

L'origine del monastero è spiegato in una agiografia medievale scritta da Simeone Metafraste, nella Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae nel quale lui scrisse che San Teodoro fondò sulle sponde del Mar Morto un monastero con quattro chiese, dove in ciascuna di esse si parlava una lingua differente, tra i quali il Tracio-Bessico. Quel luogo si chiamava "Cutila", forse un nome Trace.

Si è discusso se il nome "Besso" fosse usato nella regione del Sinai quale sinonimo di "Persiano", "Slavo", "Iberico" o "Armeno", ma non vi è alcuna evidenza del fatto.

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Bibliografia
Christopher Webber e Angus Mcbride. The Thracians 700 Bc-46 Ac, 2001 (I Traci 700 a.C.-46 d.C.)

Voci correlate

Traci
Dii

Altri progetti

Tribù traci

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Reflexology is the study of feet pressure points in Chinese medicine. These points are believed to cure ailments and diseases. Feet have numerous pressure points that are powerful in regulating or maintaining good health. According to the theory, every part of the body is connected to one of the pressure points on feet.
Location: This pressure point can be located by pressing your finger in the indented spot between your big and second toe. When you are close to the point where the tendons meet, it is located where it is sorest when pressure is applied.
Uses: Stress, anger, headaches, irritability, anxiety and menstrual pain.
Location: There is a depression below the joint of the big toe which can be located by pressing along your foot. Located between your second and big toe, you will find it where the pressure can be most felt.
Uses: Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, anxiety, night sweats and hot flashes.
Location: This point can be found on the inner side of your big toe about one inch from the corner of your toenail.
Uses: Dizziness, hernias and stomachaches.
Location: On the middle side and near the ball of your foot, you can find this pressure point. It can be found by pressing along the side until your reach a depression and where the pressure is felt the strongest.
Uses: Abdominal distension, stomachaches, diarrhea, dysentery and vomiting.
Location: One of the many pressure points on feet, it can be found in the indention between the Achilles' tendon and the top of the medial malleolus (inner bony bump) of your ankle.
Uses: Kidney disease, sore throat, bronchitis, toothaches, asthma and arthritis.
Location: The point can be found on the lateral malleolus, the bony bump on the outside of your ankle.
Uses: Colds, improve patience, and reduce anxiety and fear.
Location: Located about an inch below the lateral malleolus, it is below the bony bump on the outside of your ankle.
Uses: Mood stabilization, mental stress and coping skills.
Location: This pressure point can be found in the indention between the highest point of the lateral malleolus and the Achilles' tendon.
Uses: Lumbar pain, headache, eye diseases, high blood pressure, diarrhea and intestinal issues.
Location: This point is located in the thick part of the web of skin between your first and second toe. It can be found by applying pressure and is where it is felt the strongest.
Uses: Eye diseases, liver disease, leg cramps and sinusitis.
Location: Located between your 2nd and 3rd toes on the plantar or underside of the foot, it can be easily located due to the soreness felt when pressure applied to this point.
Uses: Press this point to relieve food poisoning and urinary tract infections.
Location: This pressure point in found about an inch below the adjoining web of the big and 2nd toe on the upper side of the foot.
Location: This point can be found along the exterior side of your foot by pressing and running your finger along the area until you are about a third of the way down.
Uses: Muscle cramps, apoplexy, lumbar pain, psychoneurosis, and eye conditions.
Location: Located in the center point of your big toe, it is on the upper side on the middle joint.
Location: This is another of the pressure points on feet that is located in the toe area. It can be found on the upper side of your second toe, just below your toenail.
Location: This point is found right below the toenail of your middle toe.
Reflexologists follow the wisdom that if you apply the right amount of pressure to certain points on your hands, feet or ears, you can affect different areas of a person's body. They believe that specific points affect different parts and functions of the body, as well as several different ailments. For example in reflexology, if pressure is applied to specific pressure points on feet that are directly connected to your stomach, if done right, it can relieve nausea.
Reflexologist do not claim to diagnose health issues or cure disorders, but rather to work together with other treatments to help alieve ailments. Millions of individuals use reflexology to help them combat health concerns such as but not limited to bladder function, anxiety, diabetes, headaches, nausea, asthma, heart conditions, and menopause.
This reflexology chart has areas color coded, with each one corresponding with different parts or organs of the body. The right foot is connected to the body parts on that side of the body and the left with the left side of the body. For example, the heart is on the left side of the body so the corresponding pressure points will be on the left foot.
Both considered reflex therapies, acupressure and reflexology use pressure on specific points on one area of the body to positively affect several different areas of the body. Reflexology is more orderly, using an arrangement that is reflexive of the human body and are located on the hands, feet and ears. However, acupressure outlines the body with long energy lines and utilizes over 800 reflex points.
Often people mix up massage with reflexology. While both of them use the power of touch, they differ greatly in practice and approach.
Massage works from the outside of the body, working inward through manipulation of the soft tissue covering the body. This is done by utilizing techniques like stroking, tapping, kneading and friction. The goal is to relax muscles and relieve the tension which is triggering the different ailments. A client typically removes most of their clothing during a massage therapy session.
Reflexology differs because it concentrates on pressure points on feet, hands and ears, with each one specifically affecting specific parts and functions of the body. Instead of broad techniques, a reflexologist uses micro movements to concentrate on precise areas. During a reflexology session, a client only needs to remove their shoes and socks.
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From earth to the stars: archaeologists dig more than dirt
Desert heritage in the spotlight in Karratha 6-10 August
Space exploration focus for conference
UWA launches new centre for Australia-Africa research
American whalers left rock engravings in Pilbara in 1840s
Research finds Aboriginals lived in Western Desert 50,000 years ago
When you picture an archaeologist, you're most likely to imagine them looking down - digging into history, unearthing and sifting through evidence of previous life on Earth.
It's less likely that you'll picture them looking up - way beyond Earth and deep into space - but that's just what internationally recognised space archaeologist Alice Gorman does on a daily basis.
Dr Gorman, a Flinders University lecturer who has made a unique study of the cultural heritage value of the space junk which litters our solar system as a result of decades of space exploration, will be the special guest at a day of free public lectures being held at The University of Western Australia to mark next week's National Archaeology Week.
Dr Gorman will join a series of UWA archaeology experts next Friday 24 May to share research covering everything from the first people to arrive in Australia and the arrival of Europeans in the New World, to African and Indian rock art, Palaeolithic art in Central Europe, and the significance of the thousands of artefacts now floating around space.
UWA experts will include:
Associate Professor Martin Porr, who will investigate the relations between humans and animals during the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe, as expressed in figurative art objects.
Winthrop Professor Benjamin Smith, who will explore the meaning of 80,000 years of rock art history in Africa and showcase exciting new archaeological discoveries.
Assistant Professor Thomas Whitley, who will explore the archaeology of first European contact with the New World via two archaeological mysteries which, when unravelled, provide unique insight into living conditions of the time.
Assistant Professor Jamie Hampson, who will discuss ongoing research on ancient rock paintings and ritual in South-central India.
Professor Jane Balme, who will discuss the first people to arrive in Australia, their remarkable journey and the inventive ways in which they adapted to their new environments.
Archaeologists Dr Vicky Winton and Viviene Brown will also launch the Midwest Heritage Network, which aims to bring together traditional owners, community groups, archaeologists, government and industry to publicise, research and protect the rich and unique heritage of Western Australia's Midwest region. From 3pm-4pm, members of the network will present a series of short talks on subjects including Aboriginal resource management, the antiquity of occupation in the Midwest, the Murchison Goldfields and trace elemental fingerprinting of Wilgie Mia and Little Wilgie.
Associate Professor Martin Porr said researchers currently working in archaeology and rock-art research at UWA were engaged in activities all over the world.
"This series of talks will present exciting first-hand accounts of current research from five continents by researchers from UWA, before Alice Gorman shows us how archaeology is relevant even beyond the surface of the earth," he said.
The informal day of lectures will be held at the Austin Lecture Theatre in the Arts Building, from 10am - 5pm.
Associate Professor Martin Porr (Discipline Chair, Archaeologists) (+ 61 8) 6488 2113
http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201305175656/events/earth-stars-archaeologists-dig-more-dirt

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Among the thirty signatures that were placed on the CYCOP Application for the certificate of incorporation were names that are familiar to us today. They are: Alexander Van Rensselaer; Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.; Edward R. Coleman; and Addison F. Bancroft. Ned Coleman, who owned the largest schooner Norna, was elected Commodore, Ogden D. Wilkinson as Vice-Commodore, and W. Barklie Henry, who stood number one on the roster, Rear-Commodore. Their photographs are among those with the past Commodores on display in the present clubhouse. As soon as the certificate of incorporation was granted, the organizers resigned from The Quaker City Yacht Club. So many others followed that eventually sixty resigned during the next few months to join the newly formed club.
As time went on other distinguished Philadelphia names became associated with the Corinthian Yacht Club. Names such as Edgar T. Scott, Walter Clark, Charles Longstreth, Samuel Kent, Ernest Du Pont, Walter H. Lippincott, Ralph Earle, Arthur Pew, R Fenimore Johnson, John Wanamaker, John T. Dorrance, Cyrus B. Curtis, A. Atwater Kent Jr., Fitz Eugene Dixon, and E. Paul Du Pont were listed on the membership rolls. With the establishment of the new club came the necessity to find an appropriate headquarters and/or clubhouse. A property down river in Essington with a wharf and protected harbor was found and subsequently was leased for $500 per year with the privilege of purchase. The house on the property was an old hotel with 14 rooms on 12 acres of ground. The original building was built in the late 1700's by John Shreve and was used as a taproom. In December 1893 The Corinthian Yacht Club exercised its right to purchase the property and the price paid was $9,000.
Such were the beginnings of the Yacht Club we have and enjoy today having survived over 118 years of maritime history. For more CYCOP history covering the first 75 years, see: Early Days of C.Y.C, by Robert Barrie - Published 1940 and The Later Days of C.Y.C - Published 1967. A Brief History of C.Y.C, by Albury Fleitas - Published 1996 is also available at the Clubhouse upon request.


2015 will be the third year of working on my newest portfolio of Water Portraits and to date unseen works. It has been slow going... but it would be misleading to say it only took me three years to arrive at this point. I've not been one of the lucky ones who had the opportunity to study 4-5 years in an academic setting but this doesn't mean I haven't been studying. I took classes along the way, starting with a workshop with Mary Ekroos , Daniel Greene back in the 80s somewhere, then Raymond Kinstler and then Sam Adoquei's Academic Atelier at the National Academy in the 90s while I continued actually earning a living with landscape /seascape plein air paintings. Through all of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune I kept exploring until all the puzzle pieces began to fit. My final leg of the artistic journey will be the combination of what I have been painting, water, with something I have only touched upon until now, portraiture.
So I have followed Sargent's advice, following the path for 35 years of exploring and painting everything else first and finally portraits. My kind of portrait, with water untethering the model from the restraints of reality and gravity, developing the interaction with line and color and dreaming in reality.
For those who still like to be tethered to the beach fear not, it is still in the mix, I am still working on those as well and still love doing them. The figure en plein air. There are many facets to an artist's career and the artist must be an explorer.


I really like the cut of Ari Fleischer's jib. He won't let this go.
For those of you keeping score, the seven "Farrakhan-linked" members are Deputy Chair of the DNC Rep. Keith Ellison, and Reps Maxine Waters, Barbra Lee, Danny Davis, Andre Carson, Gregory Meeks and Al Green.
Last month the WSJ reported that Ellison attended a private dinner with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan.
According to The Journal, Ellison attended the event in New York in 2013. Both Farrakhan and Iranian President Hassan Rohani were present. Ellison had praised Farrakhan in the past, but repudiated him during his first Congressional run in 2006.
When the issue came up in 2016, Ellison accused his critics of "smearing" him and called reports of his connection to Farrakhan "bad reporting," and a distraction. "We're talking about something that happened in 1995," he said, referring to an oped he'd written praising the anti-Semitic extremist.
I guess he'd forgotten about the private dinner in 2013.
It's infuriating to have a conversation with a frothing anti-gun person who thinks "semi-automatic" means "machine gun." Worse are the people who say things like "the NRA markets guns to children" and other wildly inaccurate hogwash.
Now, any call for precision and honest conversation is "always done in bad faith," according to the article.
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But these are the people who want to be the arbiters of what is "common sense" when I comes to gun laws.
Nothing says, "We want to win back Middle America" like doing GOTV plugs on a reality show about drag queens. That out to speak to the hearts of the disaffected Rust Belt electorate. Thankfully, Pelosi seems less drunk in still photos.
The truth hurts: Required viewing from PragerU.


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Unnai Vaazhthi Paadukiren () is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language romance film directed by Shridev. The film stars Parthiban, Suman Ranganathan and Mohini. It was released on 7 February 1992.

Plot
Ravi, a poor mechanic who works in the garage of and lives with his mother. He is very close to the owner so much that he sees him as his son. He is deeply in love with Priya, a rich girl. Priya hates him and flashback reveals that Ravi and Priya are married and had marital breakdown because he lied to her that his mother is dead and that he lied about his financial status.

Priya stays with her parents who resent that she is staying with them instead of taking responsibility of her love marriage. In the meantime, Asha, another rich girl, falls in love with Ravi and she proposes to him. Ravi tells her that he is, in fact, Priya's husband and is working to convince Priya to live with him. The rest of the story is what happens to Ravi, Priya and Asha.

Cast

Parthiban as Ravi
Suman Ranganathan as Priya
Mohini as Asha
V. K. Ramasamy
Nassar as Asha's father
J. V. Ramana Murthy as Priya's father
Manorama as Ravi's mother
Sangeeta as Priya's mother
Senthil
Kumarimuthu
MRK
Typist Gopu
Vasu
Prabhu Deva (special appearance)

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics written by Vaali, Gangai Amaran, Na. Kamarasan, Muthulingam, Piraisoodan  and Mu. Metha. The song "Oh Oh Oh Kaalai" uses the anupallavi of the Hindi song "Khoya Khoya Chand Khula Aasman" from Kala Bazar (1960).

Reception
S. Chidambaram of The Indian Express wrote, "Debutant director Shridev, who has also penned the story, screenplay and dialogue, is able to keep your interest intact till the interval through a suspense [..] So you feel bored when the second part drags on" and called Ilayaraja's music "redeeming feature of this movie".

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1990s romance films
1990s Tamil-language films
1992 directorial debut films
1992 films
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Films set in Bangalore
Films shot in Bangalore
Indian romance films


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A section of the water race found in Warkworth.
Researchers working on Warkworth's history have uncovered new evidence of an old sawmill, dam and water race in the area.
While there is little to be seen today of the mill or dam, the water race is visible for almost 400 metres. Browns Mill on the northern side of the Mahurangi River operated from 1844 to 1865, powered by a waterwheel fed from a race that ran from an upstream dam.
Rodney Ward Councillor Greg Sayers is excited by the discovery of another piece of the town's link to Mahurangi River.
"Most people know the river was navigated by canoes, sailing vessels and steamers, but this goes further, demonstrating how water-power was used by local industry.
"Mill Stream, Mill Lane, Brown Road, Palmer Road and Millstream Place are all reminders of the area's early industries.
Heritage places are being identified for inclusion in a structure plan being prepared for Warkworth. Because the mill site, water race and dam are just outside the structure plan area, the next step is determining if they meet the criteria for inclusion in the Auckland Unitary Plan Heritage Schedule.
Auckland Council is celebrating the unique heritage of Tāmaki Makaurau throughout October.
Extended leases mean two waste sites in Rodney will continue to operate until the end of June 2019.
Inaugural run of the 995 from Warkworth to the Hibiscus Coast.


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Tech giants pledge support for Christchurch Call
San Francisco: Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Amazon have come out in support of Christchurch Call which aims to address terrorist and violent content online via a nine-point plan.
"The terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March were a horrifying tragedy. And so it is right that we come together, resolute in our commitment to ensure we are doing all we can to fight the hatred and extremism that lead to terrorist violence," the tech companies said in a joint statement on late Wednesday.
The White House, however, announced that it would not be endorsing a call from international leaders to combat online extremism as a response to Christchurch terror attack in New Zealand.
In a statement, the White House said that it "was not currently in a position to join the endorsement."
After the New Zealand attacks at two mosques in Christchurch city that claimed 51 lives in March, Facebook claimed it removed 1.5 million videos of the attacks within the first 24 hours itself. It also said it blocked 1.2 million of them at upload, meaning they would not have been seen by users.
Facebook's Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg joined G7 government and industry leaders on Wednesday for a meeting in Paris on how to curb the spread of terrorism and extremism online.
At the meeting, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Facebook along with Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Amazon signed up to the Christchurch Call to Action.
"We are sharing concrete steps we will take that address the abuse of technology to spread terrorist content, including continued investment in technology that improves our capability to detect and remove this content from our services, updates to our individual terms of use, and more transparency for content policies and removals," said the companies.
As part of collaborative actions, the companies would develop a shared understanding of the contexts in which terrorist and violent extremist content is published and to improve technology to detect and remove terrorist and violent extremist content more effectively and efficiently.
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Michele currently serves as the Executive Director for the Volunteer Center of South Jersey. She brings a dynamic leadership style with expertise in startup firms and nonprofit organizations making vision become reality by utilizing best practice strategies in operations, sales, marketing, development and planning. Prior to her work with the Volunteer Center, Michele's leadership skills helped to redefine and established a best practice nonprofit business model for the Gloucester County Special Services Education Foundation.
Since joining the volunteer center in 2015, Ms. Epifani has streamlined the volunteer-match process by investing new technologies to allow the center to grow and accommodate the seven counties in South Jersey that The Center serves. Today over 3,450 volunteers have registered on the site and continue to be connected to local nonprofits, while building their volunteer resume. This much needed implementation allows VCSJ to provide even more training and resources to volunteers and nonprofit agencies.
Before entering the nonprofit realm in 2013, she held executive leadership positions at several tech companies, both domestic and globally. Michele has also invested several years in Higher Education with Rowan University, South Jersey Technology Park at Rowan University and, more recently, helped to establish an Events Position at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, NJ.


Lots of stuff to check out.
I have to agree, the Hecker album is outstanding. As you say, very powerful.
Have you got a chance to listen to the new MvO Trio album? I think it's amazing.
So much good music around at the moment with so little time.
am i the only one that doesn't get the kassem mosse ep?
@ Del: yes, the Tim Hecker is extraordinary. TH's horse hitched to Ben Frost's cart. You can't go wrong, you'd think - but there is more and more going on there for me with each listen. One to really spend a lot of time with in 2011. I sort of think of it like my (imaginary) intense friend the theology and mythology student. Doesn't talk much, keeps muttering about Gozer the Sumerian or something... and something about Zuul...?
Wait- Mika has a new album/ EP coming out?
That certainly seems like it should have been news!
I've not taken to an album as instantly as to Hecker's since By The Throat, it's amazing.


In Unix, there are different ways to find the sum of numbers in a file. I will explain this with help of an example.
Method1: Finding the sum using the bash script. Save the below bash script in a file and execute the file.
Method3: You can use "Awk" command to find the sum of numbers in a file.
Method4: The "bc" command can be used to do math operations. We will use the "tr" command along with the "bc" to find the sum of numbers.
Here the "tr" command converts the new line characters into "+" character. The output of tr '\n' '+' < num.txt is 1+2+3+4+5+. The "sed" command removes the addition "+" sign at the end. Finally the "bc" command finds the sum.
Method5: Using "bc" with "paste" command.
The "paste" command works same as the "tr" command except it does not produce the additional "+" at the end.
Method6: Using "bc" with "sed" command.
Here the "sed" command adds the "+" sign at the end of each line.


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The 20 Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotations
By: Katie Armour
In honor of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1844-1962), a few of our favorite Eleanor quotes...
1. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
2. "Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
3. "For it isn't enough to talk of peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
4. "You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
5. "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
6. "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
7. "The giving of love is an education in itself."
8. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
9. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
10. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
11. "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
12. "Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart."
13. "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
14. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
15. "I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
16. "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
17. "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
18. "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
19. "I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
20. "What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"
(photo: Eleanor broadcasts on NBC radio in 1948)
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3D printing bacteria
By David Bradley2013-10-08T00:00:00+01:00
New tool could change the way doctors treat multiple bacteria infections
Understanding how bacteria communicate has particular relevance to understanding how pathogenic types cause disease progression. Now, Jason Shear and colleagues at the University of Texas, US, have developed a 3D printing technique that lets them 'construct' defined bacterial communities so that short-range chemical communications and physical interactions between bacteria can be investigated more systematically than ever before.
Most laboratory studies of bacterial communications involve monitoring chemical signals, oxygen demands and other factors averaged over a large population. But specific cell-to-cell interactions could provide new insights into the way in which individual bacterial cells respond to their neighbours, as well as to external factors. This is particularly important given that pathogenic bacteria often exist in three-dimensional structured colonies of multiple species in our bodies. The 3D printing technique allows the team to organise multiple populations of bacteria in almost any geometry for their experiments.
Gelatin (red) can be printed out in 3D structures that hold the bacteria (green)
The team explains that they can use laser-based lithographic techniques with microscale resolution to carry out cross-linking of highly porous gelatin in which selected bacteria are suspended in tiny containers. The cross-linking of polypeptides within the gel locks the bacteria into position so that they can create adjacent, nested and free-floating colonies. The highly porous nature of the gelatin matrix allows the bacteria to multiply freely from the central fixed cell in each cavity within the gel. The researchers point out that this porosity also allows free movement of signalling molecules between cells and the diffusion of added chemicals, such as antibiotics.
The approach opens up the possibility of developing new experimental setups in which such 3D printed bacterial colonies are created within microfluidic devices for specific tests and assays. As a proof-of-principle, the team has demonstrated how they can create picolitre volume aggregates of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus enclosed within a shell of a second bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They can then easily infuse this system with beta-lactam antibiotics. They found that the presence of the second microbe strongly enhances the resistance of S. aureus to the antibiotics. Such findings could change how doctors treat multiple bacterial infections in people with cystic fibrosis and other conditions, the team suggests.
'There is a rapidly growing community focused on "biofabricating" the assembly of biological components into structures that will transform our ability to understand signalling phenomena at nature's length and time scales,' says bioengineer William Bentley of the University of Maryland, US. 'This is exciting work that opens new avenues of exploration that have not existed and hold great promise to provide a platform for new discovery. The problems of antibiotic resistance are huge and the right tools for study are few.'
J L Connell et al, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2013, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309729110
Cosmetics deals push skin 3D bioprinting
Interest for testing from L'Oréal, BASF and Procter & Gamble could be a stepping stone towards bespoke organs


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Podcast • September 21, 2010
Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century
Click to listen to Chris' conversation with Daniel Kehlmann (40 minutes, 19 mb mp3) Daniel Kehlmann is a very funny, very philosophical young fictionist from Germany who will make you want more like him — ...
Click to listen to Chris' conversation with Daniel Kehlmann (40 minutes, 19 mb mp3)
Daniel Kehlmann is a very funny, very philosophical young fictionist from Germany who will make you want more like him — and more playfully engaging books like his Fame, a novel in nine linked short stories, or "episodes." A number of reviewers who seem not to have read the book suggest that Fame is all about celebrity, which it's not at all. It's an imaginative probe into the YouTube universe and the always-online feel of our emergent cyber-humanity — into cell-phone effects on our self-hood, or Facebook effects on our fantasies. It is also a storyteller's bright-eyed rumination on what the digital range and speed of our lives have made possible, or impossible, in stories themselves. The new taken-for-granted info tech has realized the yearning in endless fairy tales, for example, for telepathy: if only I could whisper a word to the lost beloved… It has enabled double-lives and resurrections that used to happen only in dreams and miracles. At the same time, the ways we connect now have collapsed, among other things, the "big goodbye" scene in prose or on the movie screen. How could we summon a surge of tears nowadays hearing Ilsa tells Rick, "We'll always have Paris…," when we know that two minutes later, in today's world, would come the first text message?
Flickering in the Kehlmann background are deeper, more delightful riddles. One of the central stories in Fame introduces Rosalie, an older woman with terminal cancer, making her way to an assisted-suicide clinic in Zurich. En route she rebukes the author of her story and pleads with him to save her: "Is there no chance, she asks me. It's all in your hands. Let me live." To which the author replies: "This isn't a life-affirming story. If anything, it's a theological one."
Kehlmann's theology, in our conversation, is richer than what we've often heard about authors playing God with their characters:
Any story puts me, as the writer of the story, into the godlike position of creating people to make their life difficult, to make them suffer because I have a plan for them. The plan is just to get the story as good as possible. There is a kind of teleology in getting the story right, because all the things happening to a character, causing pain to the character, ruining the life of this character, they are there for the greater good of getting a good story. And so this is exactly the same position in classical theology where the theologian tries to justify god: we are told that yes, you are suffering, but you are suffering because there is a plan. You might not understand this plan, maybe you never will, but you should trust that there is such a plan and that's why you should accept your suffering.
When I made Rosalie protest against this, and tell the writer "don't do this to me. I don't care about your plan," it wasn't just a metafictional game. It was a very real point that in the face of basic human suffering the whole idea of a bigger plan justifying all that seems ridiculous. To me this was a very serious theologically, philosophically charged story which also had a very personal twist because Rosalie is also telling the writer "one day all this will happen to you, you will be in pain, you will be dying, you will hope that somebody, against the plan, will just save you and it will not happen." It's true, and she was not just talking to some abstract writer, at this moment she was talking about me and the fact that it will happen to me too.
… Even when I started the story, I had always intended the ending that the writer interferes and ruins the story and saves the character. Then the writer also says "I hope someday somebody will do the same for me." I think, well, as you say in English, "fat chance!"
Daniel Kehlmann with Chris Lydon at the Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, September 20, 2010
David Hoffman: A Running Tour of YouTube Nation
David Hoffman produced 88 PBS documentary features and five feature-length films over a forty-year career. But that was then. And this is a guy whose life keeps starting over. Always interestingly. We've shared before our ...
David Hoffman produced 88 PBS documentary features and five feature-length films over a forty-year career. But that was then. And this is a guy whose life keeps starting over. Always interestingly. We've shared before our adventures with the great sound-man Tony Schwartz…
We're in James Der Derian's class on global media at Brown again, and David Hoffman is pushing through the cliche that we live in a screen culture and a YouTube world. We didn't know the half of it. Today we're taking his tour of YouTube nation, peopled by more 1 billion searches every day. Hoffman, who thought he'd been around the whole block, has stumbled on a sort of "Louisiana Purchase" of the media landscape. It's homey, it's cheap, it's much much bigger than network television already, and it's barely begun to chew up what we used to call media and spit it all out.
Documentary film-making was, and is, a rich person's pursuit, as he tells us. But anyone can talk to a camera and post the result. He loves YouTube's celebration of a messy, cheap aesthetic, helping viewers learn to love jump cuts and engage raw content. No one could be happier about this victory of moving image and spoken word: "It's terrible to sit at your computer screen and read words," he says, "It's painful."
For David Hoffman, this is just the beginning of a long-needed move away from censorship and big media control over information. But it's a shift, he cautions, that demands a comprehensive new standard of media literacy.
Our conversation begins with this month's release – by Wikileaks – and its viral penetration – through YouTube – of a classified US government video documenting the alleged "indiscriminate slaying of more than a dozen people" outside of Baghdad:


Xubuntu always needs people interested in marketing and promoting the project. Our Marketing wiki lists all the current marketing and promotion projects we are working on as well as ideas for future projects.
Along with the Marketing wiki, the best way to get in touch with us is our development IRC channel #xubuntu-devel on Freenode.
The website team maintains the Xubuntu website content and code as well as the assets in the various subdomains. It also cooperates with the artwork, documentation and marketing teams in planning and creating the infrastructure for different kind of campaigns and content.
The best ways to get in touch with the website team are to send an email to the Xubuntu developer mailing list or join the development IRC channel #xubuntu-devel on Freenode.


Heisman in Heels – Thanks Desmond!
Last summer I attempted the Heisman pose in heels for A Coach's Daughter (photos courtesy of Ray Wishart). Recently, Desmond Howard, THE master of the Heisman pose himself, tweeted this promo for the Cheez-It Sweepstakes. This was quite an accomplishment considering I was wearing 6″ heels – I can't even walk in heels, period. It probably wasn't a big deal to him or anyone else, but given the fact that I'm a major sports fan, especially college football… it was pretty awesome to me.
For those of you who are not football people (probably very few if you're reading a sports blog)…. Desmond Howard is a former football player from the University of Michigan and Heisman Trophy winner (1991), NFL player and current ESPN College Football Analyst/College GameDay.
Love college football and hate to see it come to an end for this season, but the NFL playoffs are still going strong and college hoops are going on… REAL SPORTS for TRUE FANS.
I think you have the best Heisman pose ever!!!!
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City Women sign Sophie Baggaley on loan
Thursday, August 10th 2017
City Women are delighted to announce the loan signing of goalkeeper Sophie Baggaley from Birmingham City.
Baggaley, 20, joined the Blue Girls in 2014 and has gone on to make 18 appearances to date for the Midlands outfit.
An England youth international, Baggaley has represented her country at Under-17, 19, 20 and 23 level, and recently won the Nordic Cup with the Under-23 squad.
On her move to the West Country, the young shot-stopper says she is excited about the prospect of working with manager Willie Kirk and goalkeeping coach Neil Moore.
She said: "When I heard the Vixens were interested in taking me on loan I didn't hesitate to come down, look at the facilities and meet the coaching staff.
"My aim for this season is to play as much as I can and develop under a manager that values youth development, which is a massive draw of this club.
"Caitlin Leach and Aimee Watson are fantastic keepers and I am looking forward to us spurring each other on and bringing out the best in one another in the season ahead."
Kirk said of his latest recruit: "The plan was always to bring in another goalkeeper for the 2017/18 WSL 1 season to add competition to that area. By bringing in Sophie we have certainly done that.
"She is an extremely hard-working goalkeeper, who is technically very good and has strong distribution. I am excited to see how far both Sophie and Caitlin can push each other.
"We also have young Aimee, who shall continue to work hard in training with the first team and carry on developing."
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Kirk urges strength in numbers ahead of new season
Posted: Wednesday, August 9th 2017
Loren Dykes signs new contract with the Vixens
Posted: Monday, July 24th 2017


Hydrospares would like to express our gratitude for an excellent help article - written by our customer Mr Derek G Savage.
The Airbath Original has 234 'air jet' holes in the bottom of the bath, arranged in 21 circular patterns of 11 holes each, plus one group of 3 holes near the drain plug.
From misuse - bath used for showering only over a very long period without afterwards applying cleaning tablets and liquid - the holes had become completely blocked with 'gunge'.
Repeated use of lots of 'super' de-gunging tablets and grease remover fluid failed to unblock ANY holes.
Described here, for Alice Jones at Hydrospares, Redruth, who was so very helpful in providing me with an understanding of the bath construction, is what I did to unblock the holes. The Airbath functions as new.
Twist drill 1.5 mm diameter.
Vacuum cleaner with nozzle attachment.
Toytown diy-standard chuck is no use. A high quality chuck is needed to ensure a firm grip on the drill.
1. Fit the twist drill into the pin chuck and tighten the chuck.
To ensure a good grip on the drill, the chuck may tightened on to the drill using a mole grip and plier.
2. Offer the twist drill to a blocked airjet hole and rotate the pin chuck/drill 'softly' clockwise with the fingers, allowing the drill to self guide into the hole and penetrate the gunge. Do NOT push the drill into the hole.
This 'pulls' the gunge from the hole by the drill flutes, so that the gunge is on the base of the bath and the hole is clear.
Remove the twist drill from the airjet hole by continuing to rotate the pinchuck/drill clockwise and gently pulling it out at the same time. The gunge may then be removed from the bath by vacuum cleaner - a cloth would smear the gunge back into the holes.
3. Repeat (2) for all the airjet holes that are blocked.
4. Clean the bath using degreasing fluid and tablet as sold by Hydrospares, and the recommended procedure for these products, then wipe bath dry.
Don't let the drill end of the pin chuck contact the bath surface, as this COULD cause surface damage to the bath. A piece of adhesive tape/cloth could be placed over the pin chuck end, although I did not find it necessary - just gentle operation.
Care should be taken not to enlarge the airjet holes. Hole AREA is proportional to the SQUARE of the diameter, and with so many holes the total area open to air flow would be so increased by even a small increase in the individual jet area that the air blower would not be able to create sufficiently strong airjets.


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Eastman's Crafty Ladies
By Ethel Paquin
Photos by Fred Orkin
Women gathering together to do handwork is an old and well-loved tradition. Knitting in particular is an ancient art. A pair of baby booties housed in an English Museum dates back 2000 years—with perfectly turned heels. The ladies of the Eastman Craft Group gather each week to continue the tradition.
I visited with them recently to see what they were up to and to find out what all the laughing was about. There were seven women of varying ages that morning working on assorted projects and having a very good time. They laugh a lot, these ladies. Over the years the membership may change, but the concept remains the same: to indulge a love of handwork, to instruct those new to the process, and to enjoy the company of like-minded women.
The group was originally formed by the Recreation Department in the early 1990s. Emma Seres, a long time Eastman resident, managed their affairs at the start and then turned things over to Joyce Wakefield. Last year, after guiding the group for 18 years, Joyce retired and Liz Mills took her place. It was Joyce, back in 1997, who suggested that the ladies, along with working on their own personal projects, might like to knit for charity. That idea was well received. One member explained that it's deeply satisfying to provide something for someone who has very little. It makes for good karma.
Over the years Joyce identified at least 16 organizations that would appreciate receiving hand-knit articles, and each year the ladies focus on one or two. They've made blankets for hospitalized children, something a child can claim as his own and keep with him during the often grueling weeks of treatment. They knit or crochet shawls for nursing home residents to warm the shoulders of the elderly. They've made sweaters and hats for babies born to needy mothers, believing that something knitted with love can tell that mother there are people who care.
They take part in the nationwide Purple Hat project. That program is an effort to combat shaken baby syndrome and the injuries inflicted when, out of frustration, new parents shake the baby to stop what has been labeled "Purple Crying," that is crying that seems to have no cause and seemingly no end. Crafters across the country make tiny purple hats for newborns to wear home from the hospital. The hats are a reminder of the education the parents were given on better ways to handle their frustration.
When they are not working on a specific charitable program, the ladies work on projects dear to their hearts: two pairs of matching socks for a bride and groom so they can wiggle identical toes at each other, hooked rugs, a quilted wall hanging of an Eastman scene, a cross-stitch pillow. Through the years the ladies have shared in each other's lives as blankets for newborn grandchildren evolve into ski hats for kindergartners and then scarves to go off with them to college.
The crafters accomplish a lot both personally and for the greater good, but if you ask them why they keep coming back, they'll tell you it's the friendship among them. They are a warm, welcoming group, and if you enjoy working with your hands or if you'd like to learn how to work with your hands, the ladies would love to have you join them. They meet at South Cove on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Ethel Paquin has written or taught writing most of her life. She's published books, articles, short stories and essays. Her last book, Johanna Harris, A Biography, was published in 2012. When not trying her hand at poetry, she oversees the landscaping for the East Lake condos.
Eastman Community Association
This 3,600 acre lakeside community is tucked in the Upper Connecticut River Valley in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region. Two hours north of Boston and minutes from Lake Sunapee, New London, Lebanon and Hanover, residents have easy access to medical facilities, employment, educational opportunities and a multitude of cultural venues. Read More...
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A former professor of Computer Science and Robotics, this very brilliant, yet deranged scientist is adept at the creation of robotic minions known as "killbots". His maniacal tendencies increase when subjected to emotional stress, such as the deaths of those close to him. Dabbled in the occult sciences as a youth, but tends to stick with pure science for solutions to his problems. He also likes chickens.


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Radio and TV stations have been cautioned against broadcasting any material that contains hate speech, and inciting statement or comments.
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned television stations across the country against broadcasting insignia or logo of any political parties 24 hours to elections.
The warning was given by the Zonal Director of NBC in Ibadan, Mrs. Jumoke Ogini, at a debate organised for governorship candidates in Oyo State by the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Ibadan Zonal Station, tagged: The Big Debate, held at the Broadcasting House, Oba Adebimpe Road, Gbagi, Ibadan, yesterday.
Ogini also cautioned television and radio stations against broadcasting any material that contains hate speech, and inciting statement or comment, adding that reporters should refrain from reporting election results on election day when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not done so.
Her words: "The television stations should refrain from broadcasting any material that has hate speech and they must ensure it does not have any inciting statement or comment. Anything can happen within a second, if you broadcast anything that is inciting or that has hate speech. It may lead to a situation whereby many people will be killed.
"I also use this opportunity to advise reporters that when they are covering elections, they should not announce election results. The only accredited agency that is allowed to announce election results is INEC.


Please see our Facebook page at facebook.com/hillbillyhalf for up to date info.
Please see our website for packet pick up info and more!
You can sign up AT Quest Outdoors on Friday November 2 from 5pm-7pm or at the race site Saturday morning from 7:00am-7:30am.
The 5th annual JMF Trails Hillbilly Half will take place 11/03/18 at Jefferson Memorial Forest in Louisville KY. C'mon down and wallow in the hollow and see what amazing trails the forest has to offer! These trails are tough!
Aid will be at miles 2,5,8,11.
They will be stocked with water and sports drink as well as ultra style aid, like pbj, chips, pretzels, m&m's, bananas, gummys, etc.
The race begins in the Horine area.
Runners begin by running around the lake in the Horine area and then descending the Yost Ridge Trail to the Welcome Center in Jefferson Memorial Forest where they pick up the Siltstone Trail.
Runners make their way down the Siltstone Trail past Bearcamp road to a turnaround on the ridge of the Siltstone Trail.
Runners return the same way they departed, just in a lot more pain and fatigued! Ha!
It should be VERY challenging and runners should expect their finishing times to possibly be as high as 150% of their road half marathon times.
Refunds are NOT available. I am MORE THAN HAPPY to defer your registration to the following year.
There is a strict 6 hour time limit on the course. You will not be given a time and your timing chip will be removed if not on pace to finish in 6 hours. We would LOVE everyone to finish, but it isn't safe to allow runners on course after the time limit once aid stations are taken down and volunteers have gone home, etc. Our insurance requires this! We're a small community event. Thanks!


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Icons of Horror: Bela Lugosi's 7 Best Movies
Posted by Kyle Anderson on October 19, 2015
Of all the actors I've been featuring in the Icons of Horror column this month, easily the most tragic case is that of Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi, who was arguably the very first of the major horror stars of the talkie era. He experienced an explosion of amazing roles in a very short and concerted period of time, then was mainly relegated to supporting roles or B-picture leads where he was cast for name recognition only. He was living on poverty row and later developed a heroin addiction stemming from the opiates used to treat his chronic back pain, a result of fighting in the first World War. It's a truly sad case, and Lugosi, whose distinctive accent was both a boon and a detriment to his career, should have received better.
But despite the disappointment, Bela Lugosi is one of the great Icons of Horror and I absolutely have a list of my seven favorite films where he had a lead or very strong supporting role. Your list might be different, but I'm the one writing, so let's begin.
7) White Zombie (1932)
When making my list of favorite movies, I didn't look up years until I was ready to write, and so I was incredibly surprised by how many of them occurred in 1932. Three of my top seven were released in the second year of the big horror renaissance. The first one on the countdown features Lugosi ostensibly reprising his famous vampire role, this time as a scowly-eyed voodoo priest in Haiti who uses hypnosis to make zombie slaves. Many shots in this independently-produced film focus on Lugosi's face and slowly tightening hands. His character is Murder Legendre, for Pete's sake! What a great villain name! While the movie didn't do very well upon its initial release, it has since become a well-regarded classic, and is considered to be the very first feature-length zombie film.
6) Son of Frankenstein (1939)
One thing that we'll find on this list is that Lugosi was often made second banana to contemporary Boris Karloff, who became a much bigger star. This naturally irritated Bela, but what we'll find is that he's often the one who impresses more in these films despite the name lower on the bill. Here, Lugosi played Ygor, the hunchbacked lab assistant to Basil Rathbone's titular mad scientist offspring. Karloff is back to being just a hulking monster while Lugosi gets the opportunity to create a brand new character, and one that has become associated with the Frankenstein mythos ever after. While Lugosi eventually played the creature himself in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, it was his character in Son and later The Ghost of Frankenstein that makes the list.
5) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Another from the Class of '32, this was Lugosi's first foray into a film loosely based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. (Who is he, Vincent Price?!) In this, based on surely one of Poe's weirdest stories, Lugosi plays Dr. Mirakle, a mad scientist who injects ape blood into young, virgin women in order to (I guess) create a mate for his talking sideshow gorilla named Erik. It's just weird enough to work, and the Pre-Code nature of the story had lots and lots of violent and salacious scenes which were eventually cut by the studio, Universal. Lugosi is really good at playing the villain and this was before he had gotten tired of it, so he's really great.
4) The Raven (1935)
This movie may have been a very early ancestor of the Saw films. Lugosi has the lead role, but his name ended up below the title, while Karloff, who played the hulking murderer on the run, got top billing. Unfair, because it really could have been a star vehicle for Bela. He plays a brilliant retired surgeon who is implored to help a young girl after a car accident. He succeeds in mending her and they become friends, where he begins to reveal his weird and twisted obsession with Edgar Allan Poe, and of recreating torture devices like the Pit and the Pendulum. At the same time, Karloff's murderer comes on the scene wanting some plastic surgery, which the surgeon can't do but says he can in exchange for helping him kill the girl's disapproving father. When the murderer refuses, saying he wants to look normal so he can stop being a killer (?), the surgeon purposes disfigures him further, leading to a dinner party from hell. Gleeful mayhem.
3) Island of Lost Souls (1932)
This is by far Lugosi's smallest part on this countdown but it ranks so highly for me by his sheer willingness to be amazing in what he's given. In this Pre-Code version of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Charles Laughton plays the mad scientist who has lived on an island and performed experiments on animals to try to make them into humans over the course of a long, long time. One of his experiments is "The Panther Woman," who looks pretty close to human and so he tries to get her to…mate…with a human man. Gross. Lugosi plays the Sayer of the Law, the most articulate of the Beast Men who live in a village away from the House of Pain (the laboratory, not the '90s rap group). When they get restless, Moreau cracks the whip and demands what is the law, which allows Lugosi to shout the law and finish by saying "Are we not men!?" When the fit finally hits the shan at the end, and the Beast Men overthrow and murder Moreau, it's Lugosi's tortured and angry howls of "Not man! Not beast! Part man! Part beast! THING!" that gets the ball rolling.
2) The Black Cat (1934)
This is the only film on the countdown where Lugosi plays – well, I'm not going to say "hero," but where he plays a sympathetic lead character. He plays Dr. Vitus Werdegast who has been in a prison camp for the past 15 years stemming from the War. He meets a pair of American honeymooners in Hungary on a train while he is going to see his old friend, a famous architect (Karloff). After the three travelers get into a car wreck, Vitus has to treat the woman with an hallucinogen. They rest at the architect's home, where Vitus accuses him of giving away their position in the war, leading to his imprisonment. But it's so much worse than that; the architect killed Vitus' wife and has taken his young daughter as his own bride. He also murders women and keeps them preserved and stuffed in glass cases. It's pretty effed up. The utter angst and hatred on Lugosi's face when he realizes what's happened, and the glee with which he hopes to take his revenge is only matched by the tragic though ultimately cathartic ending. Easily, only of Lugosi's most emotional and impressive roles. And, holy crap, what a demented story.
1) Dracula (1931)
And, finally, what else am I going to pick here but the role that made Bela Lugosi a star? He originated the role in the theatre when the play of Bram Stoker's novel was performed in London and New York. When it was adapted into a film by Universal, they brought Lugosi in to reprise the vampiric Count. Now, I need to point one very, very important thing out: Tod Browning's Dracula is a boring movie. There are some cool shots in it and Dwight Frye as Renfield is really quite great, but the movie doesn't really make sense because so much of the movie got cut for whatever reason that the story doesn't follow. (Watch the Spanish-language version made concurrently if you want a much better movie.) That said – Lugosi is absolutely amazing as Dracula! He and Edward Van Sloan's Van Helsing have a wonderful, sparky repartee and you can totally buy people being enamored of Lugosi's charm and European class. And, let us not forget, when people pretend to be Dracula, they're usually doing a Bela Lugosi impression. He is the definitive version of both the character and of a vampire in general. "Children of the night. What music they make!"
So there you have it! Boy, that Bela Lugosi sure was great for a time, huh? Let me know your favorite Lugosi movies in the comments below, and come back next week for our final Icons of Horror article for Nerdoween, looking at the late, great Christopher Lee!
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Kyle Anderson is the Weekend Editor and a film and TV critic for Nerdist.com. Follow him on Twitter!
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Tens of thousands of migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under the Government's proposed post-Brexit immigration system.
The new measure, which would be in place until at least 2025, is designed to act as a "safety valve" for the economy and protect sectors reliant on lower skilled overseas labour.
It would be open to nationals from specified countries, regardless of their skill level or whether they have a definite job offer.
Applicants would need to apply for a visa which would be limited to 12 months, at which point a "cooling-off" period will take effect, meaning they could not return under the same route for the next year.
While in the UK, they would not be entitled to access public funds or switch to other routes, bring dependant family members or seek permanent settlement.
The proposed short-term work route forms part of the most significant shake-up of the immigration regime for more than 40 years, set out in a long-awaited White Paper that will apply following the post-Brexit implementation period, which ends in December 2020.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid (pictured) said: "Today's proposals are the biggest change to our immigration system in a generation.
"These measures will boost our economy and benefit the British people."
Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "While these proposals are not quite as bad as we had originally feared, it's no secret that companies across the UK are sceptical about whether the Government's approach will actually deliver on their practical, real-world concerns."
Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: "These are shocking proposals which run completely against the current of public opinion and which are likely to result in even more massive levels of immigration."
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott hit out at the delay in producing the paper, adding: "It will not meet the needs of migrants for certainty, it will not meet the needs of employers for a stable, skilled workforce."
Noting that the independent Migration Advisory Committee concluded there should be no dedicated route for unskilled labour, the Government's document said there is no intention to open one.
However, it said employers have become reliant on lower skilled workers from the EU for certain jobs, adding that sectors like construction and social care would find it difficult to adapt immediately after free movement ends.
The paper said: "We have listened to the concerns of businesses ... and so there will be a route allowing temporary short-term workers to come for a year."
The scheme would be open to all skill levels, with no sponsorship requirement.
It would be subject to "tightly defined" conditions and only open to migrants from "specified low-risk countries".
Numbers admitted through the route may also be restricted, while the Government stressed it was a "transitory" measure and would be subject to a full review by 2025.
The paper said it was "uncertain" how many temporary migrants may come under the system, noting that estimates for the year ending June 2016 suggest around 157,000 EU nationals and 15,000 non-EU nationals arrived for work-related reasons for between one and 12 months.
There would also be a new visa route for skilled workers, who will be entitled to stay for longer, bring dependants and in some cases settle permanently.
This would be open to migrants from all countries, provided they are sponsored by an employer.
As expected, the numerical cap on skilled workers - currently 20,700 a year - would be axed.
While the Government intends to impose a minimum salary threshold, the paper stopped short of committing to a specific figure following widespread opposition to proposals that it should be £30,000.
The new skilled work route would be opened up to workers with "intermediate" level skills. Among the occupations that would become eligible are driving instructors, plumbers and restaurant managers.
In an effort to speed up the recruitment process, employers of skilled migrants would no longer be required to carry out a "resident labour market test".
In other features of the system:
- Anyone who wants to come to the UK would need some form of permission
- EU visitors will not require a visa in advance of travel but an Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme would be introduced
- There would continue to be no limit on the number of international students who could come to study in the UK
- Existing rules on bringing family members to the country, including minimum income requirements, would be extended to settled EU citizens
Introducing the document, Prime Minister Theresa May wrote: "This will be a system where it is workers' skills that matter, not which country they come from.
"It will be a single system that welcomes talent, hard work and the skills we need as a country."
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Culture of impunity harms Dalit women
On the last day of her visit to India, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Ms Rashida Manjoo, said that Dalit women experience some of the worst forms of discrimination and oppression.
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India lost an opportunity when introducing new rape legislation recently. The legislative measures adopted in the wake of last December's brutal gang rape incident in Delhi fail to address inequality and discrimination issues that are closely interlinked with violence against women.
This is one of the messages contained in a statement from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, who concluded an official mission to India yesterday. She stressed that a legislative and policy approach is insufficient without addressing discrimination and violence and the pervasive culture of impunity in India.
Many of her observations are of particular relevance to Dalit women and women from other oppressed and marginalised communities. The Special Rapporteur mentioned caste-based discrimination and violence as some of the numerous manifestations of violence against women and girls in India. Such manifestations are rooted in discrimination and inequality, and are strongly linked to the social and economic situation of women, she said.
Ms Manjoo noted that Dalit, Adivasi and minority women exist "at the bottom of the political, economic and social systems, and they experience some of the worst forms of discrimination and oppression – thereby perpetuating their socio-economic vulnerability across generations."
In the concluding part of her statement, the Special Rapporteur summed up a number of recommendations from various UN bodies, one of which expressed grave concerns about the "continuing atrocities perpetrated against Dalit women" and mentioned the "culture of impunity for violations of the rights of Dalit women".
These observations have been welcomed by the Dalit women's rights platform, AIDMAM, which considers them "an indication of the failure of the Indian Government to protect Dalit women from systematic violence and discrimination". An AIDMAM statement adds that "the perpetrators and the duty bearers enjoy impunity, and victims of brutal violence continue to be victimised."
Rashida Manjoo travelled to several Indian states during her 10-day visit and met with officials as well as civil society representatives, including a number of Dalit women. Her report from the mission will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014.
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Madison Children's Museum (MCM) has been at the forefront of sustainable exhibit design in the children's museum field for over two decades, earning the museum several Promising Practice awards from the Association of Children's Museums as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Medal for Museum Service.
The museum's Board of Directors formally adopted an institutional Sustainability Mission Statement in 2004, which underlies all of the museum's work. In 2005, the Museum purchased a 56,000-square-foot historic flatiron building on Madison's Capitol Square. The central location and ready access to public transportation were factors in initially choosing the site. The decision to renovate the building rather than bulldozing and starting from scratch allowed MCM to conserve resources and minimize waste.
The building is outfitted with sustainable mechanicals and Daikin HVAC systems to maximize heating and cooling efficiency through Wisconsin's changing seasons. Solar panels on the rooftop allow kids to monitor the amount of energy captured by the sun. Within the building, MCM's facilities team has worked to streamline energy output and reduce waste. The museum's current site opened in 2010 and in 2014 MCM was awarded LEED Gold certification for an existing building.
Furthering MCM's commitment to sustainability, the museum's Only Local initiative guides the museum's programming and operations by focusing on the local in everything the museum does: local people, local products, local knowledge, local culture, local artistic talent and local concerns. Over 15,000 local individuals—from fabricators and contractors to elementary school students—contributed to the construction and exhibits of the museum. Green design highlights include Possible-opolis, an exhibit built with 95 percent reclaimed materials, Wildernest, an early learning play space built from locally sourced natural materials, and a four season Rooftop Ramble, a living exhibit featuring urban agriculture and environmental sciences.
MCM education programs connect children to one another and the world around them through immersive experiences that support healthy and sustainable child development, environmental education and sustainable habits, community-building, civic engagement, and creative expression. Newer program initiatives in 2017-18 focus on mindfulness, empathy and kindness curriculum in an effort to support children's social-emotional development as they forge relationships with one another and the world around them.
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