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VIDEO: Take a look around this £655,000 Royal Deeside gem
by Ellie House
There is something rather lovely about Glendavan House, with its beguiling sense of character and gorgeous views across Loch Davan.
Set within the Cairngorms National Park, this seven-bedroom family home has more than three acres of well-maintained garden, and borders the Muir of Dinnet national nature reserve.
It has been a haven to the Trantor and Milne family for decades, and has also welcomed hundreds of visitors from around the world. It is currently run as a bed and breakfast by mother and daughter team Moira and Becs, with many guests returning year after year to enjoy the tranquillity on offer.
Their hospitality has been awarded the sought-after five gold stars by Visit Scotland, but Becs believes that the secret to success lies in Glendavan House itself.
And whilst she has enjoyed sharing the wonders of the Victorian property with guests, it is clear that it is held most dear by those who slowly but surely brought it back to life.
"My grandparents bought Glendavan House in 1980; we had previously all lived together – this big mad family," said Becs.
"They originally thought of a holiday cottage perhaps, somewhere where they could escape at the weekends. But they knew that everyone would ask to come along, so they ended up searching for something a lot bigger.
"When they found Glendavan it was in a very sorry state. It was solid, but it had been terribly neglected and pretty much everything needed doing. My mum took one look at it and said my grandparents had to buy it, she fell in love with Glendavan.
"They didn't really want a big renovation project at their age, but my mum said that the whole family would help. That's what we did, even us children were out clearing the grounds of all the weeds.
"My mum got to work making the house habitable, and Glendavan became my childhood home. We would all descend at the weekend. After breakfast, we would be turfed out into the garden, and my granny would ring a bell when it was time to come back inside.
"I ring that very same bell for my son and I am so glad that I have been able to give him a childhood similar to my own."
If only walls could talk, Glendavan House would have quite the story to tell. Aside from its idyllic location, it was originally built for a pioneering doctor with royal connections.
The very first owner was none other than Professor Alexander Ogston, famed for his discovery of Staphylococcus. He was also the surgeon to Queen Victoria and served for her when she made visits to Balmoral.
Ogston commissioned Glendavan House to be built by architect Alexander Marshall MacKenzie, whose previous projects included Aberdeen Music Hall and Ardoe House.
"Professor Ogston was a fascinating man and I think he was very imposing," said Becs.
"The only person he was scared of was Queen Victoria. We still have the original plans of the house, and Ogston's grandchildren have even got in touch. It is wonderful to have all that history at our fingertips."
The property was let as a self-catering rental for 16 years once health problems meant that Becs's grandparents could no longer live there independently. Her mother, Moira, then opened it as a bed and breakfast in 2006.
The current set-up boasts accommodation spanning two floors and original features include panelled doors, decorative cornicing, deep skirting, high ceilings and sash and case windows.
There is a welcoming reception hall, cosy sitting room and wonderful bright conservatory. Part of the renovated servants' quarters has been turned into a wet room, while the pantry was previously used as a gun room, as Glendavan House also served as a shooting lodge.
Modern renovations sit perfectly alongside more traditional features and the dining room commands stunning views. The bedrooms have all been beautifully decorated, with some of them featuring a fireplace or en suite. Guest accommodation has been thoughtfully named, with The Ogston Suite, The Trantor Suite and The Davan Room.
"The Trantor Suite was named after my grandparents, Ogston was a nod to the professor, and Davan is thus named because it overlooks Loch Davan," said Becs.
"Guests love it here and we have many repeat visitors. We have Royal Deeside to thank for that, because we are in such a gorgeous setting. There's something special about Glendavan, though; it has been a family home first and foremost.
"We'd all gather round the kitchen table chatting away and we've always had Christmas here."
If you should ever tire of exploring Glendavan House, there are more than three acres of garden just waiting to be enjoyed. From the mature woodland to flowering rhododendrons, it really is a rural paradise.
You can enjoy alfresco dining thanks to a raised decking area, and there is also a large gravel driveway for parking. Loch Kinord and Burn O'Vat are on your doorstep, where you'll find plenty of walking trails. "We are very sad to leave but feel it's time someone else enjoyed Glendavan House," said Becs.
"We'll certainly be staying in the area and hope another family can take as much joy from Glendavan as we have."
Offers should be made of more than £655,000. Contact Savills on 01224 971110.
For offers over £695,000: A seven-bedroom country home, a private loch mooring and boathouse
This Moray home has plenty of space – it was big enough to hold a mini festival!
For offers over £730,000: Eye-catching country house ideal for rural family living
This gorgeous north-east steading is a far cry from its humble origins as a cowshed
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PagerDuty Inc.'s stock vaulted 11% in extended trading Tuesday after the cloud-computing company reported fiscal third-quarter results that topped Street estimates.
PagerDuty /zigman2/quotes/210571191/composite PD +1.90% reported a net loss of $26.3 million, or 31 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $20.6 million, or 26 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. The adjusted net loss was 7 cents a share.
Revenue soared 33% to a record $71.8 million from $53.8 million a year ago. It was the second straight quarter in which PagerDuty sales improved more than 30% year-over-year.
"There are strong signals that we are sustaining high growth rate," PagerDuty Chief Executive Jennifer Tejada told MarketWatch. "Our product innovation continues to accelerate across use cases and departments as we empower enterprises to mature their digital operations and deliver superior customer experiences."
Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected a net loss of 9 cents a share on revenue of $70.2 million.
The company also offered fourth-quarter guidance of $75.5 million to $76.5 million in revenue, representing a growth rate of 27% to 29% year-over-year and a net loss of 5 cents to 6 cents a share. FactSet analysts are projecting revenue of $73.7 million and a net loss of 8 cents a share.
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This is it…two days from now I'll be walking down the aisle, and I'll officially become Mrs. Pastrygirl. Or I suppose you can call my fiance Mr. Pastrygirl from now on!
I'll be away from Dessert First for the next couple of weeks – we're not going on honeymoon just yet, but we will be taking some time off to, well, just be married! If you send me any e-mails, I hope you'll bear with me until I come back!
"You have known each other from the first glance of acquaintance to this point of commitment. At some point, you decided to marry. From that moment of yes to this moment of yes, indeed, you have been making promises and agreements in an informal way. All those conversations that were held riding in a car or over a meal or during long walks – all those sentences that began with "When we're married" and continued with "I will and you will and we will"- those late night talks that included "someday" and "somehow" and "maybe"- and all those promises that are unspoken matters of the heart. All these common things, and more, are the real process of a wedding. The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, " You know all those things we've promised and hoped and dreamed- well, I meant it all, every word." Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this moment you have been many things to one another- acquaintance, friend, companion, lover, dancing partner, and even teacher, for you have learned much from one another in these last few years. Now you shall say a few words that take you across a threshold of life, and things will never quite be the same between you. For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this- is my husband, this- is my wife."
Surely, as one of the most popular subjects of the written word, marriage has received more than its fair share of paeans, acclamations, and criticism as well. I felt a little silly composing this post, well aware that I am not the first person in the universe to fall in love and get married! But, as they say, reading and knowing is different from the actual experience. As the week of preparations winds down, imbued with an ever-fluctuating stream of happiness, nostalgia, anticipation, joy, and melancholy, I find myself thinking not just of my own wedding, but of all the other unions that have happened before, and will happen in the future. When I get married on Sunday, I'll be partaking in a shared human experience. It's hard to explain but it makes me feel small yet exultant at the same time, like walking into a church with the light falling just so through stained-glass windows, or watching fireworks unfurl in a deep cobalt sky, or being part of a joyous crowd at a concert. You know you are participating in something bigger than you, adding your own thread to the tapestry of human emotion.
An already-married friend told me, "When you turn around after getting married to walk out, wait for a few moments and take a look to remember everyone who came to share in this with you. Everyone looks so happy for you…it's the most wonderful thing." The same happiness that has resonated at every wedding in history, that universe-affirming joy – the moments that remind us why we're all here on earth.
It's my turn. I can't wait, and I thank you all for sharing in this with me.
Weddings go so fast. Blink and it's over. Try to pay attention to every detail so it will last you a lifetime. Wishing you much happiness!
I am so excited for you both – may your day and everything that comes after it be wonderful for both of you, together.
Have a marvelous, wonderful time! And I love your description of the shared experience. Just remember to breathe deeply and enjoy!
Anita, CONGRATS!! This is great news!!
Mazel tov, and may you have many, many years of wedded bliss together. I bestow a glimmer of our 18 years upon you. Have fun just, well, being married these next couple of weeks.
Mazel tov, and may you have many years of wedded bliss. I bestow a glimmer of our 18 years upon you. Have fun just, well, being married these next couple weeks.
Beautifully said! Congratulations, may it be a joyous day, and all go smoothly!
That is so wonderful! Congratulations and thank you for sharing those words, the feelings and beautiful optimism!
So happy for you! Enjoy every moment.
I'll be thinking of you on Sunday. Sending best.
wishing you a world filled with love and happiness. May you always feel this love for the rest of your life.
Congrats. My husband and I married almost 2 years ago. Try to savor each moment of the day. Enjoy and relax. If we had it to do over again, there would be less photos and more time with guests. And don't worry, everything will come together, and work out just fine.
ok I've never posted before, but those shoes are insanely adorable. CONGRATS to you BOTH!!!
Those shoes look gorgeous. Congratulations.
Have a wonderful day! Congratulations!
Hooray! I am so excited for you guys. Can't wait to see all the beautiful photos!
Congratulation in advance! I hope you have a beautiful day. I can't wait for the pictures–especially of the cake!!
Congratulations!!! and good luck with everything.
Oh, so beautiful indeed!…..Thank you for sharing.
My heartfelt congratulations, Mr.& Mrs.Pastrygirl!
congratulation Mrs. Pastrygirl. enjoy it. Thanks for share your blog.
Anita, congratulations and I wish you the bestest of days.
Congratulations Anita! I hope you really enjoy every second of your special day.
Congrats! Wishing you many happy blessings!!!
Your next book with macaron recipes included?
Big hugs very happy for you girl!
Congrats! I hope you had a marvelous day and all the best to the both of you.
congratulations! your blog has been an inspiration since the day i started mine nearly 3 years ago.
I'm so sorry this is a bit belated, but congrats Anita!!
Congratulations to both of you! Try to really live in the moment during the wedding because you won't remember it afterward. My husband swore that a friend of ours didn't come to the wedding after she promised she would come and a month later when we watched the video, there he was, talking to her at the wedding!!
Congratulations… I wish you both the very best and I can't wait to hear and see all about it!


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Math: students worked identifying fair shares. Please practice at home and do the home connection portion on page 215 and 216.
Science: students watched two videos about plants.
Health: I would like to thank all of the parents for the fruits. Masha Allah we were able to make many different thinks with all the fruit the students brought on Monday.
We made the fruit rockets we read about but since there was so much fruit left over I decided to make other things as well. Tuesday we made smoothies and Wednesday we made pop-cycles. Students enjoyed all the different items we made in class and learned a lot as well.
Do not forget to join us this Saturday December 13th for the Fund Raising Dinner.


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TBA Software RISC OS Blog
The official blog of TBA Software back from the dead after 12 years away from the Acorn RISC OS computing scene
We are back
It's been a long time away, 12 years or more, but TBA Software has returned to the Acorn RISC OS scene. While this will probably go unnoticed (!) to the majority of the people in the computing world, as the former Lead Developer and Owner of the business in the 1990s its certainly something that I'm enjoying!
At the moment the plan is to get the old TBA Software titles running on RISC OS 5 and to then take a look at expanding Holograph (game editor) and TAG (game runtime) into parts of the operating system. Longer term there are many things RISC OS requires (decent web browser, threading, BASIC enhancements) to make it attractive for more users that we hope to play a part with.
For the developers out there, we plan to open all the source code and make it part of the open source community for everyone to use. Tentatively we are looking at creating a TAG runtime for iPhone to create some kind of income stream from the millions of iPhone users out there.
In the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time reviewing the progress of RISC OS Open and have successfully acquired, assembled, and configured, a BeagleBoard XM. In due course I'll set-up a page on getting RISC OS up and running, as there is quite a bit involved. Once running the performance is impressive. RISC OS is a tiny operating system and was designed for 8 MHz ARM 2 processors, so it absolutely flies on the latest Cortex A8 hardware and DDR RAM.
BB XM - tiny when compared with a RISC PC 600
TBA has some boxed stock from the 1990s that will go on sale shortly. For all the collectors of Acorn games in original packaging - these are genuine left over stock from the final Acorn World show. I'll put up a post with a link to an eBay shop in the weeks to come.
The TBA titles include Dragonball, Axis, Formula Two Thousand (FTT), Cyber Ape, Cobalt Seed, Command Ship, Merp/Mirror Image, Brutal Horse Power, and TBAFS. Many thanks to Peter who has put up some videos of our titles on You Tube.
Original TBA Stock let over from Acorn World1997
So far, TBAFS - the fastest compressed image file system for RISC OS with lazy writing and a tree indexed directory structure - is running on RISC OS 5. It runs like a rocket on my 16GB USB flash drive. Additionally Holograph using the TAG 3D runtime is tentatively up and running...
Holograph running in RISC OS 5
All I can say is that it's good to be back. I'd love to get back in touch with Mark (Cyber Ape author) and anyone else that remembers us from days gone past. Email me: alan at tbasoftware.co.uk
(Legal note - TBA Software is a trading name of Applet Technology Ltd, a limited company registered in England - and is not legally related to the previous partnership that was in place during the 1990's)
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Next SATURDAY (9/14), Twitter Championship Wrestling is making its grand comeback with an event so spectacular, it can only be held on social media! That's right, we're bringing you SocialSlam! Some of the best in online video game wrestling bring you the finest matches you've ever seen!
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Answering one of the biggest questions for brands and influencers. Shane will look at the real ROI of working with influencers and how influencers can benefit promoting products they are passionate about. An in depth look at how influencer marketing is shaping acquisition in the ecommerce space.
Internet search is moving away from text towards images, video and augmented reality. As a result, content creators and influencers have a variety of new monetization tools and strategies at their disposable.


Grill shark for approximately 4 minutes one side, 2-3 minutes on second side – until just cooked through.
Grill tortillas until just coloured (approximately 1-2 minutes each side).
Combine ingredients, and use salt and sugar to adjust seasoning as needed.
Blitz all in food processor until a fine paste.
Place gummy shark on warmed tortilla, top with fennel salad and finish with jalapeno salsa.
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A garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by human populations. These human-caused collections of plastic and other debris, cause ecosystem and environmental problems that affect marine life, contaminate oceans with toxic chemicals, and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Once waterborne, marine debris becomes mobile. Flotsam can be blown by the wind, or follow the flow of ocean currents, often ending up in the middle of oceanic gyres where currents are weakest. Garbage patches grow because of widespread loss of plastic from human trash collection systems.

The United Nations Environmental Program estimated that "for every square mile of ocean" there are about "46,000 pieces of plastic." The 10 largest emitters of oceanic plastic pollution worldwide are, from the most to the least, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh, largely through the rivers Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai, Nile, Ganges, Pearl, Amur, Niger, and the Mekong, and accounting for "90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world's oceans."  Asia was the leading source of mismanaged plastic waste, with China alone accounting for 2.4 million metric tons.

The best known of these is the Great Pacific garbage patch which has the highest density of marine debris and plastic. Other identified patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of south Africa listed in order of decreasing size. In the Pacific Gyre, specifically 20°N-40°N latitude, large bodies with floating marine debris can be found. Models of wind patterns and ocean currents indicate that the plastic waste in the northern Pacific is particularly dense where the Subtropical Convergence Zone (STCZ), meets a southwest–northeast line, found north of the Hawaiian archipelago.

In the Pacific, there are two mass buildups: the western garbage patch and the eastern garbage patch, the former off the coast of Japan and the latter between Hawaii and California. The two garbage patches are both part of the great Pacific garbage patch, and are connected through a section of plastic debris off the northern coast of the Hawaiian islands. These garbage patches contain  of debris. The waste is not compact, and although most of it is near the surface of the pacific, it can be found up to more than  deep in the water.

2017 research  reported "the highest density of plastic rubbish anywhere in the world" on remote and uninhabited Henderson Island in South Pacific as a result of the South Pacific Gyre. The beaches contain an estimated 37.7 million items of debris together weighing 17.6 tonnes. In a study transect on North Beach, each day 17 to 268 new items washed up on a 10-metre section.

Identified patches
In 2014, there were five areas across all the oceans where the majority of plastic concentrated. Researchers collected a total of 3070 samples across the world to identify hot spots of surface level plastic pollution. The pattern of distribution closely mirrored models of oceanic currents with the North Pacific Gyre, or Great Pacific Garbage Patch, being the highest density of plastic accumulation. The other four garbage patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between the North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of south Africa.

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South Pacific

Indian Ocean

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Environmental issues

Photodegradation of plastics

The North Atlantic patch is one of several oceanic regions where researchers have studied the effects and impact of plastic photodegradation in the neustonic layer of water. Unlike organic debris, which biodegrades, plastic disintegrates into ever smaller pieces while remaining a polymer (without changing chemically). This process continues down to the molecular level. Some plastics decompose within a year of entering the water, releasing potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A, PCBs and derivatives of polystyrene.

As the plastic flotsam photodegrades into smaller and smaller pieces, it concentrates in the upper water column. As it disintegrates, the pieces become small enough to be ingested by aquatic organisms that reside near the ocean's surface. Plastic may become concentrated in neuston, thereby entering the food chain. Disintegration means that much of the plastic is too small to be seen. Moreover, plastic exposed to sunlight and in watering environments produce greenhouse gases, leading to further environmental impact.

Effects on marine life
The 2017 United Nations Ocean Conference estimated that the oceans might contain more weight in plastics than fish by the year 2050. Some long-lasting plastics end up in the stomachs of marine animals. Plastic attracts seabirds and fish. When marine life consumes plastic allowing it to enter the food chain, this can lead to greater problems when species that have consumed plastic are then eaten by other predators.

Animals can also become trapped in plastic nets and rings, which can cause death. Plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species, including sea turtles, seals, seabirds, fish, whales, and dolphins. Cetaceans have been sighted within the patch, which poses entanglement and ingestion risks to animals using the Great Pacific garbage patch as a migration corridor or core habitat.

Plastic consumption

With the increased amount of plastic in the ocean, living organisms are now at a greater risk of harm from plastic consumption and entanglement. Approximately 23% of aquatic mammals, and 36% of seabirds have experienced the detriments of plastic presence in the ocean. Since as much as 70% of the trash is estimated to be on the ocean floor, and microplastics are only millimeters wide, sealife at nearly every level of the food chain is affected. Animals who feed off of the bottom of the ocean risk sweeping microplastics into their systems while gathering food. Smaller marine life such as mussels and worms sometimes mistake plastic for their prey.

Larger animals are also affected by plastic consumption because they feed on fish, and are indirectly consuming microplastics already trapped inside their prey. Likewise, humans are also susceptible to microplastic consumption. People who eat seafood also eat some of the microplastics that were ingested by marine life. Oysters and clams are popular vehicles for human microplastic consumption. Animals who are within the general vicinity of the water are also affected by the plastic in the ocean. Studies have shown 36% species of seabirds are consuming plastic because they mistake larger pieces of plastic for food. Plastic can cause blockage of intestines as well as tearing of interior stomach and intestinal lining of marine life, ultimately leading to starvation and death.

Entanglement
Not all marine life is affected by the consumption of plastic. Some instead find themselves tangled in larger pieces of garbage that cause just as much harm as the barely visible microplastics. Trash that has the possibility of wrapping itself around a living organism may cause strangulation or drowning. If the trash gets stuck around a ligament that is not vital for airflow, the ligament may grow with a malformation. Plastic's existence in the ocean becomes cyclical because marine life that is killed by it ultimately decompose in the ocean, re-releasing the plastics into the ecosystem.

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Not long ago I posted some pics I took of graffiti in Montreal. Painted wall art is another form of creative expression that is different from graffiti, but sometimes in only subtle ways. I'm sure someone has worked out the technical distinction between such things, but however these art forms are categorized, Montreal is a rich showcase for a great deal of both (as well as other street art variants — such as kinetic art, elaborate light shows and light sculptures — that I could not readily capture).
I have some other Montreal wall art still to share, but, at the moment, I've singled out the above piece because of the unusual medium — painted cardboard — used by its creator. By the time I came upon this contemporary take on a traditional Pacific Northwest totem pole, the work had seen better days but it still held up quite well. The brightly colored eagle, beaver and cow (a modern update for a totem pole!) are set off nicely by the intricate carvings in the corrugated cardboard.
So-called Nuit Blanche arts festivals are held in many cities throughout the world, including in Montreal and Toronto. Nuit Blanche, translates to "white night" and, more loosely, as "sleepless night" and has been typically associated with winter festivals taking place at night. This year, Montreal held its Nuit Blanche in February, while Toronto held off until just a few days ago, with its own nighttime arts festival kicking off for twelve hours starting around twilight on October 2. While I arrived in Toronto for a business trip a day too late to enjoy this first hand, the 2010 event marked the fifth anniversary for this all-nighter out on the town in Toronto. An unsuspecting visitor to the city that evening might very well have observed the wondrous and grand spectacle of this arts fete and concluded that Torontonians had gone blissfully mad.


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Q: Converting video files uploaded by user & serving it using django, python I need to take any video file uploaded by the user, convert it into flv or webM & then display it to the user. Now after doing some research I came to the conclusion that I must use ffmpeg to do the conversion but I am unsure on how to take care of the entire pipeline. Namely,

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*Get the just uploaded file by the user.

*In django backend somehow send the file for processing?

*After processing is complete remove the original file uploaded by the user & replace it with the converted file.

I just know of this broad steps but like how to connect each step in a streamlined fashion? e.g. how to start a system call to ffmpeg on CLI from python & keep on waiting till the conversion process is done. Also how to update the DB to now point to the new converted file & delete the old one. How to tell the user (live)  that the file is converted, in conversion etc, like a progress bar?
I know that this is kind of an overarching question but help with any/all bits will be great!

A: If a conversion is going to take a long time, you might want to consider passing them off to a task handler:
http://celeryproject.org/
might be just the thing. System calls in python can be done with functions in the os module, such as os.system:
>>> os.system("/bin/ls")
api-manual.pdf  C++  GUI  Java  README

or os.popen:
>>> f=os.popen("/bin/ls")
>>> f.read()
'api-manual.pdf\nC++\nGUI\nJava\nREADME\n'
>>> f.close()

there's a section on inter-process communication and so on in the python docs. I'm sure.

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Oscar Actors: Guinness, Alec–Smart Chameleon Actor
June 4, 2014 by EmanuelLevy
Alec Guinness
This year marks the centenary of Alec Guinness, the distinguished British actor and international star, who was born April 2, 1914.
I am a bit late in paying tribute to this distinguished actor, and so is the estimable Film Forum in New York, which is running a retrospective of Guinness' work throughout the month of June.
For young American moviegoers, who came of age in the 1970, the name of Alec Guinness connotes the guru Obi-Wan Kenobi, the popular part of the old wise spiritual warrior he played in George Lucas' cult movie trilogy "Star Wars," for which he received his last competitive Oscar nomination (in the Supporting Actor category). However, contrary to popular notions, the intimate association with the "Star Wars" movies did not bring a sense of joy but some resentment and even consternation; he claimed to have thrown out all the "Star Wars" fan mail unopened. (More about this later).
Young viewers may not realize that Guinness, who died in 2000 at the age 86, was one of the greatest chameleon actors of both British and international cinema, boasting a career that had spanned six decades. In his glorious career, Guinness had appeared in just about every medium of entertainment: stage (London's West and New York's Broadway), film (both in the U.K. and Hollywood), radio, and TV.
A decade or so younger than the quartet of giant British performance quartet of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Michael Redgrave, Guinness was a different kind of actor. While the others were masterful thespians—all eccentric–who liked to show off their bravura talent, range, and skills, Guinness was a more interior, perhaps even modest (if this is the right word) actor, one better attuned to the scale of everyday life and to the tricks of disguise and disappearance into his roles.
His colleague Peter Ustinov has called Guinness "the outstanding poet of anonymity." And indeed, drawing on physical appearance, which was appealing but not remarkable, Guinness could look like an ordinary man. He was an actor who relished the idea of transforming himself, quite literally sense, into being and playing every man and any man.
Despite an impressive range, Guinness is perhaps best remembered for two cycles of films, the first of which defined by its genre—comedy–and the second by its director—David Lean, with whom he enjoyed six collaborations, ranging from 1946 to 1984.
Smart Alec, the Comedian
Guinness first made his mark in appearing in the Ealing comedies of the late 1940s and early 1950s. This uniquely English genre–and pride of British post-WWII cinema– made Guinness an international star. These comedies, which were gratefully put together in the "Special DVD Alec Guinness Collection," in 2002, include: "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), "The Lavender Hill Mob" and "The Man in the White Suit" (both in 1951), and "The Ladykillers" (1955).
Though he had appeared in "Great Expectations," as Herbert Pocket, Guinness' first big part was as a heavily made-up Fagin in another Lean film, "Oliver Twist," in 1948, which he followed with an eight-role tour de force, playing every member of the noble D'Ascoyne clan, including an admiral, an elderly parson, and a suffragette, in "Kind Hearts and Coronets."
Guinness was one of three major British actors, along with Olivier and Gielgud, who, immediately after the Second World War, successfully transitioned from Shakespearean theatre in England to Hollywood blockbusters. As well as a 1957 Oscar Award, he has also won a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe, and Tony Award.
Another Guinness' British film, "Our Man in Havana," from 1959, should be singled out. Directed by Carol Reed, based on the Graham Greene novel and set in pre-revolutionary Cuba, the film combines espionage intrigue with flavorsome locations. Guinness makes for a suave spy, a profession he would later play to perfection as George Smiley, in John Le Carré's famous thriller novel.
David Lean Collaborations
Guinness won his greatest acclaim and international popularity for his extensive work with director David Lean. He played Herbert Pocket in "Great Expectations" (1946) and Fagin in "Oliver Twist" (1948), which was controversial due to charges of anti-semitism interpretation by the director. Most famously of all, Guinness played the unyielding British Col. Nicholson in the Second World War prison drama, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), for which he won a well deserved Best Actor Oscar.
Despite a difficult and often hostile relationship, Lean, referring to Guinness as "my good luck charm," continued to cast Guinness in character roles in his later films: Aran leader Prince Feisel in Lawrence of Arabia; the title character's half-brother, Bolshevik leader Yevgraf, in Lean's blockbuster "Doctor Zhivago" (1965); and Indian mystic Professor Godbole in Lean's last theatrical feature, "A Passage to India" (1984). He was also offered a role in Lean's "Ryan's Daughter" (1970), but declined, because at that time, he had come to "mistrust" Lean and considered the earlier close relationship as strained.
Guinness won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance as poet Dylan Thomas in Dyaln. Guinness made his final stage performance at the Comedy Theatre on May 30, 1989, in the play A Walk in the Woods. In all, between 1934 and 1989, he played 77 parts in the theatre.
Life of Awards
In 1959, Guinness was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, and an Honorary Oscar Award for lifetime achievement in 1980.
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Patrick K. Hallinan, Executive Director, Army National Military Cemeteries has been named Grand Marshal of the 2019 Greater Manassas Saint Patrick's Day Parade announced Patrick Sullivan Chairman of Inisfail, Inc. Hallinan will lead the 20th Emerald Year of the Greater Manassas Saint Patrick's Day Parade down Center Street in Old Town Manassas on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
"We are pleased to have Hallinan lead our parade this year and we are grateful to his service to our country and his role in honoring our veterans who have passed," said Sullivan.
About Patrick Hallinan: Patrick K. Hallinan, Executive Director, Army National Military Cemeteries, reports directly to the Secretary of the Army and is dual-hatted as a Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) Staff Principal and Executive Director of the Direct Report Unit, U.S. Army Element Arlington National Cemetery.
Mr. Hallinan served as Superintendent, Arlington National Cemetery from October 2010 to July 2013. He was detailed from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Department of the Army as Acting Superintendent from June 10, 2010 to October 10, 2010. Prior to his assignment at Arlington, Mr. Hallinan had served as the Director of the Office of Field Programs, National Cemetery Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, since Oct. 20, 2008. As Director, Mr. Hallinan was responsible for the development and implementation of National Cemetery policy, procedures, and centralized guidance related to national cemetery operations, with a 2010 total budget of $550 million. He had oversight responsibilities for five Memorial Service Network offices, 131 national cemeteries, entailing 3.1 million gravesites and 19,000 acres. He also had responsibility for the Memorial Programs Service, the NCA National Training Center, the NCA Human Resource Center, the NCA National Cemetery Scheduling Office, the First Notice of Death office and the National Safety Program. Prior to this assignment, he had served as associate director of the Office of Field Programs since June 15, 2003.
Mr. Hallinan joined the National Cemetery System as a temporary laborer at Long Island National Cemetery in New York in 1977. During a period of more than 36 years of cemetery service, he has held various positions from basic laborer to work supervisor, assistant cemetery director and director. He has had more than 27 years of direct supervisory experience. Mr. Hallinan is also one of the original 37 employees who opened Calverton National Cemetery in New York in September 1978.
Mr. Hallinan was selected to be the director of Calverton National Cemetery in August 1994. During his tenure, Mr. Hallinan and his employees were presented with the "VA Secretary's Award" by Secretary Anthony Principi for their dedicated efforts on behalf of Veterans' families whose loved ones were victims of the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Hallinan was presented the "1995 Leadership VA Award" by the VA Deputy Secretary Hershel Gober on Aug. 17, 1995 and on Sept. 26, 1996, and under Mr. Hallinan's leadership, Calverton National Cemetery won the prestigious "Robert W. Carey Quality Award," VA's highest quality management award. He and the staff he lead received three VA Scissor Awards for cutting red tape and improving services on behalf of the Nation's Veterans and their families. He was a finalist in the FY13 Presidential Rank Awards and in 2015, received a Department of the Army Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service from the Secretary of the Army, the Silver Helmet Civil Servant of the Year Award from American Veterans (AMVETS), and the Commander-in-Chief Gold Medal of Merit Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
Before joining the Department of Veterans Affairs, Mr. Hallinan served as an infantry squad leader with the U.S. Marine Corps. His military service gives him more than 40 years of federal service. Mr. Hallinan is a Vietnam Era Veteran and a life member of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV).
Mr. Hallinan attended college under the G.I. Bill during the evening while working for the cemetery full-time during the day. He graduated from Suffolk Community College in Long Island with an associate's degree in liberal arts and continued to pursue his education, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science (pre-law) Magna Cum Laude from Dowling College in Oakdale, NY.
Patrick K. Hallinan, Executive Director, Army National Military Cemeteries
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 Alberico Archinto (1698–1758), italienischer Geistlicher, Kardinal der katholischen Kirche
 Aurelio Archinto (1588–1622), italienischer Priester, Bischof von Como
 Carlo Archinto (1670–1732), italienischer Universalgelehrter und Adliger

 Giovanni Archinto (um 1732/1736–1799), italienischer Geistlicher, Kardinal der katholischen Kirche
 Giuseppe Archinto (1651–1712), italienischer Geistlicher, Kardinal der katholischen Kirche


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Article: Trust, Psychology and the Way Forward
I started writing a draft of this article as a submission to a psychology magazine, but it fell by the wayside as my life got crazy. I decided to finish it and post here. Enjoy.
If you drive down the dusty streets of Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, you will notice that many of the walls are painted with block lettering. "PROPERTY OF N. GOEL" on one wall, "THIS PROPERTY BELONGS TO A. RAO" on another. Property ownership and transfer are subject to an elaborate set of rules, which may be bent at a public official's discretion. With enforced standards, a simple painted sign can establish a claim or throw one into dispute. Lawsuits last for years and scams are common.
Unpredictable business dealings deter investment and dampen economic growth. At one Aspen Institute seminar in February 2010, senior business leaders remarked that the predictable backroom negotiations of China were preferred to the unpredictable though more official procedures in India. China, indeed, has grown consistently faster than India over the past decade. The problem of real estate in India is, at its core, one of trust.
As the world becomes a more uncertain place and the weaknesses of classical economic models are exposed, trust emerges as a dominant strategy for navigating this new environment. Trust is an expectation of the future in a situation of risk (Luhman 1988) and finite time. Change creates uncertainty, which heightens the perception of risk. Within this setting, trust is required to act. Lack of trust, as in India, makes it harder to take risks.
Why is trust increasing in importance?
We see trust everywhere around us, in our financial system, in company brands, in politics, in our social relationships, and even in our very biology which predisposes us to reciprocity. This has always been the case. In the past 15 years, certain secular and interlocking trends have surfaced that have increased the criticality of trust. First, we have seen a dramatic acceleration in the digital infrastructure. With this, the Law of Unintended Consequences has been invoked in an unprecedented manner, resulting in far-reaching ripple effects – both positive and negative – of which we have yet to see the end. Heightened uncertainty, increased transparency, and greater interconnectedness are just a few of the effects.
Second, globalization – which some commentators have noted is a dynamic tending to ebb and flow over the centuries – has generally been on the rise in the past 15 years. The cross-fertilization of ideas and institutions, in combination with global trade, has resulted in spectacular economic growth in so-called emerging markets within the span of a single generation. The resulting impact to geopolitical power structures and inevitable socio-cultural changes also increase the level of uncertainty. At the same time, the impetus to conduct business with people from other cultures who are, on the surface, "unlike" us places greater emphasis on well-grounded trust as a facilitating mechanism.
Third, knowledge as a product and knowledge embedded in products have become a substantial proportion of world GDP. Productivity growth and innovation therefore become largely driven by the sharing of knowledge through human interaction. Knowledge-sharing is an inherently trust-oriented enterprise. Therefore, distrusted firms and individuals who sit within knowledge silos can expect to experience significant disadvantage.
Finally, individuals and other non-state actors are growing in power. Historically, nation-states and the Catholic Church held a near-monopoly on the ability to influence macro-level outcomes. This is no longer the case. Furthermore, there is no way to effectively control all non-state actors. Selective and grounded trust is the only available way forward. Ironically, as we look ahead, we find cogent reasons to do what we already knew we should be doing anyway.
How do we build trust?
Based on these secular trends, being trusted appears to be a sound strategy going forward. Intuitively, behaving in a trustworthy manner – especially in an environment of lightning communication – seems to be the most effective way to achieve this goal. But this takes time, often time that cannot be afforded. Is there a way to build trust more efficiently?
This question has never been more relevant. According to dead British economist John Maynard Keynes, recovery from a downturn demands that we have a return of both credit and confidence. Confidence is the layman's term but what he really means is trust, which, unlike confidence, presupposes a situation a risk (Luhmann 1988). In some ways, a stimulus package is an attempt to initiate a virtuous cycle that returns confidence to the system.
We find some lessons in the theoretical literature. First, commitment signals are a tried-and-true method of building trust. The gift of an engagement ring, the divestment of a business, and a highly public statement are all examples of strong commitment signals. Closing off other options signals commitment to a single course of action.
Second, control is antithetical to trust. A situation of risk is necessary for trust and control removes risk. The greater the strictures, the less people will behave in a trustworthy manner when it makes selfish sense for them. For instance, if a contract is drawn with financial penalties for noncompliance, people will tend to use a narrowly rational reasoning instead of a broader frame that includes social and psychological considerations such as ethics and morality. Mortgage default is one example of this. While governance mechanisms and institutions can provide the foundation for trust, they must leave enough room for free choice that significant risk still remains.
Similarly, trust and trustworthiness are self-fulfilling dynamics. Trust engenders trustworthiness as much as trustworthiness engenders trust. This suggests that if you want someone to trust you, you should start by trusting them. Distrust is equally capable of generating a reality consistent with itself. When institutions fail, low trust results in alienation and retreat to smaller worlds of only local importance (Luhmann 1988). Because of this self-fulfilling dynamic, initial variables matter a lot. This is why an initial gift, a cultural tradition in many societies, can be so powerful (Hart 1988).
Trust is an extrapolation based on some body of evidence owned by the truster, evidence which may not necessarily be true, relevant, or contemporaneous. Therefore, the quality, diversity and quantity of information available can have a significant impact on degree of trust. Continual physical proximity can amplify trust, since voice and visual cues offer rich information. The good news is that trust can happen swiftly with high-bandwidth information flow. In virtual environments, the typical lack of voice and visual cues relegates the responsibility for trust-building to the somewhat flat quality of responsiveness, one of the reasons why it is much harder to build trust through technology-mediated interactions.
Social connection carries enormous weight in the trust-building process. It offers both high-quality information and governance mechanism. If a stranger is closely tied to the same social circle, then information about them can be collected from an array of sources. Furthermore, social interaction is both diverse and cognitively demanding. It presents significant challenges for strangers pretending to be someone they are not. People also tend to value their reputation and relationships, both of which can be damaged through a major trust default.
Finally, people are more willing to trust those who are "like" them. This is why "mirroring" can be effective in interview situations. The rational explanation for this dynamic is that the effort to gather information about people who are unlike oneself is greater, and the risk that accompanies trusting behaviour is perceived to be higher. Those seeking to build trust should consider how to engage von Economo neurons that stimulate empathy, such as finding common ground or telling a story.
What does this mean for the field of psychology?
Psychology is situated in a more than an individual, organisational or social context. It is also set in the background of politics, economics, and the sciences. Its relevance is dictated by the demands of a world larger than the pure academic discipline and a society broader than the few individuals fortunate enough to have letters after their name. The intersections are becoming the most fruitful source of productive friction – between theory and application, developed nations and emerging markets, historical context and a radically different future. To operate at these intersections, a good psychologist must become a polymath.
The intersection between psychology and economics holds particular fascination. Economists at the University of Chicago and elsewhere have ploughed the field of behavioural economics and found it rich. While Dan Ariely and Richard Thaler have written best-selling books, the field of economic psychology has stayed quiet for the past 30 years as many psychologists sought to avoid anything with the "taint of the economic."
Psychologists miss a tremendous opportunity to extend common thinking beyond the typical narrow rationality nurtured by classical economic tradition to a view of the individual that is a more accurate representation of reality. After all, the goal of the social sciences should be to help people make sense of the real world. This view should incorporate socio-psychological and biological considerations into the individual decision framework, including the human desire to maintain relationships, our natural empathy with others, the power of social status, inter-social influence, and the need to maintain a coherent self-identity. The tradeoffs we make daily to optimize our resources and time are not always made with economic motivations. They are usually made, however, using the brain's capacity for economic reasoning. While economists like to call people irrational, in truth most people's decisions "make sense" – at least for them. What cannot be measured is not necessarily invalid. The counterpoint to the economist's "predictable irrationality" is the psychologist's "unpredictable rationality."
Hart, Keith (1988) "Kinship, Contract and Trust: The Economic Organization of Migrants in an African City Slum." In: Gambetta, Diego (ed.) Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Inc.
Luhmann, Niklas (1988) "Familiarity, Confidence, Trust: Problems and Alternatives." In Gambetta, Diego (ed.) Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Ch. 6, 94-107.


Bhopal is a beautiful city and the capital of Madhya Pradesh. The city is a blend of Hindu and Muslim chic. You can find an essence of diversity in the designs and architecture of different monuments in the city. Whether you talk about the religious spots or historic destinations or artistic places, Bhopal bag them all.
Of course, in terms of natural beauty, you will be amazed by the splendid lakes of the city. Just book hotel in Bhopal and explore the richness of this city. For now, let us talk about the various lakes Bhopal has for you!
In Bhopal, you can find many tiny to huge lakes. Among these lakes, some are natural and some are man-made. They attract a huge number of tourists throughout the year.
Bhopal Upper Lake is formed by Raja Bhoj of the Parmar dynasty. It is situated in the western end of city. It is a famous tourist attraction in the city and satisfies the drinking water needs of city. According to an estimate, around forty percent city residents were served through the water of this lake that means it was around thirty million gallons each day. The lake is also called Bada Talab.
It is one of the oldest water builds in India and was constructed in the 11th century by Raja Bhoj. This huge lake is enclosed by gorgeous regal garden and Kamla Park which makes the surroundings a lot more picturesque. Moreover, this lake is a convenient source of entertainment for the local people as well as the visitors. It is a perfect place to relish water sport activities such as kayaking, canoeing, water skiing and parasailing.
Lower Lake is also known as the ChotiJheel or Chotatalaab. This Lake was constructed in the year 1794 with a purpose of beautifying the city. Several of wells which earlier were there around the lake later merged in this lake.
The lake gives a panoramic view and the visitors can enjoy beautiful sites. The entire ambience of the lake is very engaging and soothing. You can feel the gusts of refreshing airs and the whole view gets extremely gorgeous during the times of Sun rise and Sun set.
Actually, you know the splendid Upper Lake is separated from the gorgeous Lower Lake by an over bridge. Whether you talk about the Upper Lake or Lower Lake, both the lakes are brimming with beautiful sites and vistas. The visitors can also hire motorboats for a ride. Mostly people carry out their walks in these areas and of course, the sites are perfect for people to enjoy some good time with their friends and family. Whether picnic, rides, walks or site seeing, the lakes cater you the chance to do all these things.
Thus, take a break from your busy schedules and life of hustle-bustle and carry out a laky trip to Bhopal. These lakes are going to steal your soul too. Just get your rooms reserved in hotels in Bhopal India and enjoy a ravishing visit to these lakes.


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Gait Changes May Signal Cognitive Decline, Presage Alzheimer's
Written by Catharine Paddock, Ph.D. on July 16, 2012
Changes in gait, such as slower walking or a more variable stride and rhythm, may be early signs of mental impairments that can develop into Alzheimer's before such changes can be seen on neuropsychological tests, said researchers at a conference this week. They suggest diagnosing changes in gait could alert doctors to begin testing for cognitive decline.
A cluster of studies presented at the 2012 Alzheimer's Association's International Conference (AAIC) that is taking place until 19 July in Vancouver, Canada, are the first to link physical changes to the disease. The researchers suggest changes in walking pattern may start to show even before cognitive impairments appear.
Gait Analysis Could Be Inexpensive Way to Detect Early Signs
William Thies, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the Alzheimer's Association, told the press that as the baby boomer generation approaches the age of higher risk for dementia and Alzheimer's, doctors need to be increasingly aware of early signs.
"These studies suggest that observing and measuring gait changes could be a valuable tool for signaling the need for further cognitive evaluation," said Thies.
"For busy doctors who have limited time with their patients, monitoring deterioration and other changes in a person's gait is ideal because it doesn't require any expensive technology or take a lot of time to assess. It is relatively simple and straightforward," he added.
Linking changes in gait to cognitive impairment is not new: but until these studies, it has not been very clear which characteristics of gait (eg speed, rhythm or cadence, stride length) may be linked to a future cognitive decline.
Gait Cadence, Speed and Amplitude
In one of the studies, Rodolfo Savica and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA) in the US, recorded the gait patterns of over 1,300 people at two different clinic visits, roughly 15 months apart.
During those visits, the participants also underwent a battery of neurological and neuropsychological tests that assessed four areas of mental functioning: memory, executive, language, and visuospatial. 158 of the participants were diagnosed with MCI (mild cognitive impairment), and 11 with dementia.
When the researchers analyzed changes in the participants' patterns using GAITRite, a computer-based tool, they found those with lower cadence, speed and amplitude of stride length showed larger declines in overall cognition, memory and executive function:
"We observed an association between reduced gait velocity, cadence and stride length, and both global and domain-specific cognitive decline in our population," said Savica.
"These results support a possible role of gait changes as an early predictor of cognitive impairment," he added.
Stride Speed and Variability
Another study conducted in Switzerland, that analyzed measures of gait characteristics, also suggested stride speed and variability may track cognitive impairment.
Stephanie A Bridenbaugh, of the Basel Mobility Center, and colleagues, followed over 1,150 outpatients of average age 77 who were attending the Basel Memory Clinic and Basel Mobility Center, plus a group of cognitively healthy volunteers who were taking part in a Basel cohort study, from 2007 to 2011.
The participants underwent gait analysis by walking on a 10-meter long electronic track that had nearly 30,000 inter-connected pressure sensors. They did three types of walking task: one single and two dual.
In the single walking task, all they had to do was just walk normally on the electronic track. In one dual task, they walked normally but also counted backwards out loud, and in the other, they walked normally and called out names of animals they were shown.
To analyze the data, the researchers put the participants in groups, according to diagnosis: cognitively healthy, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer's dementia (mild, moderate, and severe).
They found participants' gait became slower and more variable as their cognitive function declined. For all groups, walking speeds were slower during the dual tasks compared to the normal single task.
Bridenbaugh said: "Those with Alzheimer's dementia walked slower than those with MCI, who in turn walked slower than those who were cognitively healthy."
"A gait analysis will not replace a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment to diagnose a patient's cognitive status. Gait analysis, however, may prove to be an important tool to aid diagnosis, and record treatment effects or disease progression," she added.
Other Findings from the Netherlands, US and Japan
In another study, researchers at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, found that certain cognitive functions were only associated with certain aspects of gait. For instance, speed of processing information was linked with gait rhythm, executive function was linked with pace and variability, while memory was not linked to any particular aspect of gait. Their research involved over 1,200 people over the age of 48 who were taking part in the the Rotterdam Study.
In a study from the US, researchers found that continuous in-home monitoring might be a more accurate way of assessing gait than single tests. Lisa Silbert, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland worked with 19 dementia-free volunteers and found walking speed taken at a single time point may over-estimate walking ability in the elderly.
"Our data suggests that continuous in-home monitoring may provide a more accurate reflection of walking speed and may be more sensitive at detecting motor changes associated with future cognitive decline," said Silbert.
Researchers at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan found that gait velocity declined significantly as severity of dementia increased. In their study, involving 525 community-dwelling people age 75 and older in Japan, they also measured brain atrophy using MRI, and found atrophy of the entorhinal cortex, a region that serves as a hub in a widespread network for memory and navigation, was significantly linked to gait velocity.
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
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‹‹ Alibi V.19 No.43 • Oct 28-Nov 3, 2010 ››
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Porn Festival Screwed
Film showcase blocked by zoning regulations
Molly Adler and Matie Fricker learned the word "turgid" from the city's zoning code. The two co-own Self Serve, a sex shop.
Any showing of "specified anatomical areas" turns a venue into an adult amusement establishment, according to the code. These areas include: genitals, buttocks, female breasts (including the bottom of the breast) and turgid male genitals, among others.
Adler and Fricker have had good reason to get intimate with Albuquerque's zoning regs. They've been putting on Pornotopia, an erotic film festival, since 2007. Though the fest brings in hundreds of attendees, it runs into trouble with city government every time.
This year, after months of scouring zoning maps for an appropriate venue, they decided on the Sunshine Theater. It had the right zoning for a weekend-long porn festival—or so they thought. Fricker says members of the Pornotopia planning committee checked with Zoning Enforcement and learned they could get a one-time, "special use" permit. But on the third visit—about a month before the event—she says they were shot down. A Downtown zoning overlay prevents adult entertainment use in the area.
Pornotopia is off this year. "Had we not checked our butts, had we not gone a third time," Fricker says, "we would have run the event based on the advice Zoning had given us."
So how does Knockouts strip club operate a few doors down? Anything that existed before the year 2000 is allowed, explains Matthew Conrad, Code Enforcement Division manager.
And how does Century 14 movie theater get away with the occasional bare butt? Conrad says adult establishments have an emphasis on those specified anatomical areas and mainstream movie theaters do not.
Adler says it's fascinating that body parts are so heavily regulated when violence isn't. "If two people are loving each other nekkid, for real, honestly, that's against the law, according to Zoning. If people are murdering each other violently, it's probably not even necessarily rated R."
"If two people are loving each other nekkid, for real, honestly, that's against the law, according to Zoning. If people are murdering each other violently, it's probably not even necessarily rated R."
Molly Adler
The Self Serve owners are used to resistance. Though the first Pornotopia was heavily advertised for months back in 2007, the theater hosting the festival got a cease and desist notice two hours before showtime. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico got involved in short order, and the festivities continued as planned at Guild Cinema [News, " Right to Porn," Dec. 6-12, 2007]. The Guild was cited but not fined. Potential penalties could have amounted to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail for each film shown at the festival. The venue hosting Pornotopia, not Self Serve, takes the risk.
Fricker says they worked with Zoning Enforcement to reach an agreement for the second Pornotopia in 2008. They couldn't come up with anything, she says—there was no exception to the rules and no conclusion. They went ahead with the event, and they were cited again.
The second infraction ended up in court and wasn't resolved until after the third Pornotopia in 2009. According to the ruling, Pornotopia broke the law. Fricker and Adler decided they could no longer hold the festival at the Guild.
A team of about 30 people who make up the Pornotopia committee started compiling lists of all the places with the right zoning for the festival. Most of them are heavy industrial buildings—car dealerships and garages, Adler says. But many still wouldn't work legally for a large event, she adds. What if there aren't the right number of fire exits? she asks.
Fricker says they're coming to the conclusion that there isn't an appropriate space to hold Pornotopia in Albuquerque. They're looking outside the city. "It's really unfortunate because I think it adds something special to Albuquerque to have this festival," she says. Moving it "takes away revenue and tax dollars."
From its inception, the film showcase had the full support of the Nob Hill Business Association, she adds. She also says business was good in nearby shops when the event rolled around. "Not only have we taken those dollars out of Nob Hill, we've taken them out of Downtown, and we're at the point where we have to take them out of Albuquerque."
It was suggested that perhaps Pornotopia should go underground and take place as private parties in people's living rooms. "But that's still saying porn should only be allowed in private, and it's a shameful thing that needs to be quiet and behind closed doors," Adler says. "And we're saying, No."
Though the showcase consists of international, feminist, positive pornography, they add, it's still porn—and that's OK. "People think, Well, porn, erotic films, can never be art," Adler says. But she counters that "they can never be art if they can never be shown."
Code Enforcement Division Manager Conrad says he doesn't think this is about censorship. "Freedom of speech is great, it's necessary and I appreciate that. And you're going to find that the City of Albuquerque Comprehensive Zoning Code has categories that allow this type of self-expression. So I don't believe this is censorship." Strip clubs are zoned correctly, he points out.
Fricker says the suggestion that Pornotopia should just find space at a skin house is insulting to the integrity of the festival. "That's the opposite of what we're trying to do here."
The Self Serve owners are not looking for a brawl with the city, she explains. They didn't want to become porn freedom fighters, she says, and they'd still love to work with the city in finding a venue.
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A roundtable discussion on free speech and the First Amendment
Thursday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m.
3904 Central SE
265-5815, pornotopiafilmfestival.com
Pornotopia Censored: Cirque de Sex
Satirical sketches, a zoning-code-friendly Pornotopia preview and performances from Burlesque Noir, September Smith, Cookie Fortune, the Gender Offenders and Saywut?!
Saturday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m.
120 Central SW
Tickets: $10 to $20 on a sliding scale, available in advance at Self Serve. 18+
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From afar, wildcard Australia indulges love of Eurovision
Australia is a land of immigrants, which goes some way to explaining why people across the vast continent will dress in flamboyant costumes and party hard for the carnival of camp that is Eurovision this weekend.
Beth Bicknell has hosted a bash at her home for up to 40 friends dressed in outfits from participating countries of the Europe-wide pop contest for the past five years.
"It's just a big party — it's the one party we hold every year," Bicknell told AFP.
This year, she will still have friends over but plans to follow the broadcast from Vienna more attentively as it welcomes a debut wildcard entry from Australia, to help mark Eurovision's 60th anniversary.
"It's so we can appreciate the whole spectacle, including Guy Sebastian," Bicknell said, explaining why she will tone down the hard partying.
Sebastian, Australia's first "Idol" singing contest winner, was chosen to represent the nation by broadcaster SBS as he is one of its most successful male artists, with six number-one singles to his name.
"I'm pumped," Sebastian said as he limbers up for his brush with eurofame.
"It's not every day you get to perform in front of that sort of audience — 200 million," added the singer, who has a guaranteed slot in the grand final starting at 5:00 am Sydney time on Sunday.
In Australia, parties will be held in cinemas, clubs and homes, while thousands are expected to flock to Federation Square, a large public space in the centre of Melbourne, to watch the event.
Catherine Strong of Melbourne's RMIT University said Australia's multicultural mix helps explain Eurovision's popularity Down Under. Fully 28 percent of its population, or 6.6 million people, were born overseas.
"Australia is a nation of immigrants, and all of the different countries that are represented in Eurovision have people living in Australia who either have come from or have connections to that wide array," Strong told AFP.
"For those people, it's very exciting to have something on the television that represents their culture and the places that they feel a connection to."
Sebastian himself comes from a mixed cultural background. He was born in Malaysia to parents of Sri Lankan, Portuguese and English descent, before moving to Australia as a child.
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Multicultural broadcaster SBS started screening the event in 1983 and more than three decades on, Australia's love of Eurovision is finally being acknowledged — despite the small matter of its 15,000 kilometre (9,320 mile) distance from Europe.
Last year, screenings of the semi-final and final attracted more than three million viewers on SBS as Australian singer Jessica Mauboy performed during a semi-final interval.
Australian singers are no strangers to the Eurovision stage. Before Mauboy, there was Olivia Newton-John, who represented Britain in 1974 but met her Waterloo at the hands of a new Swedish band called ABBA.
Another Australian, Gina G, was a British entry in 1996 and Jane Comerford sang for Germany a decade later. Irishman Johnny Logan, who was born in Melbourne, won Eurovision two times as a singer and once as a composer.
But as in Europe, most fans in Australia won't be tuning in for the music necessarily. The over-the-top and flamboyant style of the contest is its major drawcard.
In Australia, drinking games are centred around colourful acts, said Tiernan Creagh, who has watched Eurovision for more than two decades and writes a running commentary of the final on Facebook — which he hopes to extend to Twitter this year.
"The (drinking) rules are fairly simple — take a drink every time there is someone in a white suit, a wind machine, pyrotechnics, classic boy-band hand gestures, costume changes or reveals and unnecessary props," Creagh said.
SBS expects Australia's participation to draw even more viewers. Less certain is how Sebastian will fair, even though he has attracted positive buzz with his upbeat entry "Tonight Again".
The early-morning live broadcast could work against Sebastian when it comes to Australians voting by phone, as could voting blocs centred around European political or cultural alliances.
But University of Adelaide music professor Mark Carroll, who has been an avid fan since the 1960s, is clinging to the perhaps forlorn hope that musical talent might actually win out for once.
"He's a fine singer, and well-respected in the industry internationally," he said.
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Union dismisses GCSE plan
PLANS for bright pupils to skip GCSEs and go straight on to A Levels have been dismissed as a gimmick by a Merseyside teaching union.
Estelle Morris, education secretary, unveiled proposals today for a fast-track scheme to encourage high-achieving pupils to take AS levels in their best subjects, missing out GCSEs, as part of the Government's Green Paper on secondary education.
Ruth Knox, spokeswoman for the National Union of Teachers, said: "This does sound gimmicky and it does devalue the GCSE."
Fears that children will feel a failure if they don't get onto the fast-track could lead to GCSEs becoming perceived as the route of the low achiever.
Ms Knox said: "GCSE at A* level is very demanding and I would have thought only a miniscule percentage of the population wouldn't find GCSEs challenging."
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Councillor Paul Clein, executive member for education, agreed this could make GCSEs appear worthless.
He added: "The gap between key stage three at age 14 and GCSEs is already a difficult one to bridge - trying to jump from key stage three to AS levels will be very hard indeed."
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He said: "We can't have it both ways. We have to accept the fact this is about meeting individual needs and to regard every child as part of a large group doesn't seem the best way.
"Some will be able to accelerate quicker than others but that doesn't mean they are any better."
Ms Morris also announced by 2010 modern foreign languages will provided in primary schools but they will not be compulsory.
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