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Inside Out 2012
Lesbian Scene Analysis: 'Black Swan'
At Inside Out 2012, Toronto's LGBT Film Festival, I struck up a conversation with a woman – about lesbian scenes, no less. As tantalizing as the premise sounds, she eventually digressed into a rather scholarly discussion about how most of these scenes are sensationalized, how they objectify women, how unrealistic they are, and, of course, …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Margarita' is a potent cocktail of heart, humour, and humanity
Margarita Directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert Written by Margaret Webb and Laurie Colbert Canada, 2012 In the Canadian dramatic comedy, Margarita, the titular character (Nicola Correia-Damude) is a Mexican maid, illegally working in Canada for a posh couple, Ben and Gail (Patrick McKenna, Claire Lautier) and their tenacious teenage daughter, Mali (Maya Ritter). …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Melting Away' eventually succeeds in its war of emotional attrition
Melting Away Written and directed by Doron Eran Israel, 2011 It's rare to see something you've never seen before, and even rarer to see something that you categorically have. Doron Eran's Melting Away, a story about a family rocked by cancer and transexualism, falls into the class of the latter. Schmaltzy, saccharine, and emotionally manipulative, …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Beauty' is a picture of uncompromising dark complexion
Beauty Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus France/South Africa, 2011 From across the room, François (Deon Lotz) witnesses a paragon of unequivocal beauty. With a painstaking allure and an irresistible smile, François is immediately, and unmistakably, enamored beyond all control. To him, this is love at first sight. Already married, François approaches his extramarital muse …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Bye Bye Blondie' is suffused with libertine barbarism and moral ambivalence
Bye Bye Blondie Written and directed by Virginie Despentes France, 2011 Perhaps a paean to the 1960 stage musical and its 1963 film adaptation, Bye Bye Birdie, Virginie Despentes' Bye Bye Blondie tries to be the social satire its American counterpart was. But with a protagonist suffused with libertine barbarism and a narrative of moral …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean'; or if Fellini made a Dolce & Gabbana commercial instead of La Dolce Vita
Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean Written and directed by Matthew Mishory USA, 2012 Let's posit a hypothetical – what if the iconic James Dean was gay? Well, let's answer one hypothetical question with another – what if Fellini made a Dolce & Gabbana commercial instead of La Dolce Vita? What does one …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Woman's Lake' is a film you'd much rather look at than see
Woman's Lake Written and directed by Zoltan Paul Germany, 2012 It's quite a simple rule of thumb – people in glass houses shouldn't have affairs. Set in the charmingly quaint hinterlands of Germany, this is exactly what happens to a pair of lesbian couples in Zoltan Paul's Woman's Lake, but as compelling as the premise …
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Inside Out 2012: 'The Mountain' is a spellbinding meditation about love and loss redeemed
The Mountain Written and Directed by Ole Giæver Norway, 2011 On the snow-covered precipice of a Norwegian mountain, Solveig (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) and Nora (Marte Magnusdotter Solem) are parlously exposed – not to the elements themselves, but to each other. Full of emotion, angst, and reticence, Ole Giæver's The Mountain is a spellbinding meditation about …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Speechless' adheres to a gimmick that never fully surpasses its novelty
Speechless Written and Directed by Simon Chung Hong Kong/China, 2012 If a picture's worth a thousand words, than what can you say about a picture named Speechless. Devoid of meaningful dialogue and any excuse for doing so, the protagonist in Simon Chung' Speechless adheres to a gimmick that never fully surpasses its novelty. The protagonist …
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Inside Out 2012: 'She Monkeys' straddles the precarious equilibrium of genius and insanity
She Monkeys Directed by Lisa Aschan Written by Lisa Aschan and Josefine Adolfsson Sweden, 2011 Oscar Levant once said, "There's a fine line between genius and insanity". Perhaps Levant was a genius (or perhaps he was insane), but the truth within his aphorism is both pithy and well documented. In cinema, the most notable auteurs …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Kiss Me'; a classic tale of love destined to become a classic of its own
Kiss Me Written and directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining Sweden, 2011 Like in Mulholland Drive, the first intimate encounter between the two female leads is delicately depicted. Perfuse with undeniable eroticism and composed with such seductive elegance, this moment is mediated on absolute and instinctive passion. Framed amongst the forbidden circumstances of their carnal convergence, the …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Facing Mirrors' solidifies Iran as a cinematic powerhouse
Facing Mirrors Directed by Negar Azarbayjani Written by Negar Azarbayjani and Fereshteh Taerpoor Iran, 2011 For time immemorial, Iran has been synonymous for many things – most of them pejorative, none of which has to do with cinema. However, Iran's cinematic reputation has reached a prestige that was hitherto unprecedented in 2011, with films like …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Keep the Lights On'; a powder Blue Valentine
Keep the Lights On Directed by Ira Sachs Written by Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias USA, 2012 Keep the Lights On tells the story of Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt), a gay Danish documentary filmmaker living in late 90's New York City. While not filming, Erik likes to patron the city's phone-sex lines, soliciting no-strings-attached one-night …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together'; when Jamie met Jessie
Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together Written and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton USA, 2011 It's long been said that men and women can't be 'just friends'. In many Hollywood films (When Harry Met Sally, Friends With Benefits, Friends With Kids, ad infinitum) this axiom becomes a pursuant theme, which they always, and invariably, succumb …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Stud Life' is as inauthentic as its cross-dressing protagonist
Stud Life Written and directed by Campbell X UK, 2012 Written and directed by Campbell X, Stud Life tells the story of JJ (T'Nia Miller), a butch lesbian with ample swagger and confidence. Living with her flamboyant gay best friend and assistant wedding photographer, Seb (Kyle Treslove), JJ looks for the perfect woman. When she …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Mosquita Y Mari' is an essay on young love that unquestionably makes the grade
Mosquita Y Mari Written and directed by Aurora Guerrero USA, 2011 What can you say about teenagers? Ask a parent and they'll likely say they haven't a clue. Ask a teenager and they'll likely say the same. Understanding them is a dissertation of its own and very few filmmakers have ever shown an adequate propensity …
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Inside Out 2012: 'My Best Day' is as American as a McDonalds apple pie
My Best Day Written and directed by Erin Greenwell USA, 2012 At one point in the film, Karen (Rachel Style) says that, "I'm sick of all the bullshit streaming out of everyone's mouth. Including my own". Out of all the ornate, haphazard, and abject silliness that happens in Erin Greenwell's My Best Day, this statement is …
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Inside Out 2012: 'North Sea, Texas' is a gay coming-of-age story that's appropriately queer
North Sea, Texas Directed by Bavo Defurne Written by Bavo Defurne and Yves Verbraeken Belgium, 2011 A wistful mother and her seventeen-year-old son take in a gypsy traveler as a house patron. After a slew of ceremonious courtesies, the mother and her son pit themselves against each other, in hopes of seducing the same man. …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Cherry' gratuitously indulges on the license of its premise
Cherry Directed by Stephen Elliott Written by Stephen Elliott and Lorelei Lee USA, 2012 For adult entertainers working in the San Fernando Valley, a transition into the business of tinsel town has proven to be fruitless. For an industry that doesn't require much acting, and even less writing, porn stars, like Sasha Grey in The …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Hit So Hard' occasionally does
Hit So Hard Directed by P. David Ebersole USA, 2011 Among the many accreditations that Courtney Love and her rock band Hole have garnered, the one she's most proud of is the recognition for having a female drummer – a lesbian drummer, to be pedantic. A rarity in the music industry heretofore, Patty Schemel is …
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Inside Out 2012: 'My Brother the Devil', the British kid with a bike
My Brother the Devil Written and directed by Sally El Hosaini UK, 2011 Although from East London, fourteen-year-old Mo (Fady Elsayed) and his older brother Rashid (James Floyd) speak an entirely different language. On the treacherous streets of Hackney, England, gang members are endeared with familial names, with people often calling each other 'fam' or …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Bullhead' is a raging bull of a picture
Bullhead Written and Directed by Michael R. Roskam Belgium, 2011 In French, it translates to, "me parlez-vous?" In Dutch, it's "spreekt u aan me?" Set in Belgium, with dialogue in Dutch and French, Michael R. Roskam's Bullhead is a taut, uncompromising character study and organized crime thriller that masterfully translates Scorsese's magnum opus quote, 'are …
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Inside Out 2012: 'Cloudburst' epitomizes its name by being a film of fleeting and short-lived qualities
Cloudburst Written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald Canada, 2011 The story of a gay couple battling against social stigma has become an old, tired genre, so it's only appropriate that in Thom Fitzgerald's lesbian road trip film, Cloudburst, the two leading ladies share a combined age of about 140. Although it's initially humorous and deeply …
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An absolutely magnificent wine from Christian Moueix and his son Edouard, this wine is right up there with their 2009 and may eclipse it in terms of its potential longevity. Dense purple, with a near-liqueur of crushed rocks and chalk intermixed with blueberry, black raspberry and cassis, this wine is very full-bodied for a Belair, with ethereal complexity and impressive texture and length. I believe this is the first vintage of the wine to be released in an engraved bottle, which seems to be the direction of all the top estates in the Jean-Pierre Moueix stable. More evidence of concerned Bordelais attempting to stop criminals intent on producing fraudulent bottles of these limited production wines. Forget this baby for 7-8 years and then look for it to evolve over three decades-plus.


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June 01, 2014 Arts & Culture » Visual Art
Parting Shot: Edward Hopper
By Melissa Nau
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Josephine N. Hopper Bequest 70.1348 © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by Whitney Museum of American Art Digital Image © Whitney Museum of American Art
Men Seated at Café Table, Edward Hopper, transparent and opaque watercolor, pen and ink, brush and ink, and graphite pencil on paper, 1906.
Born in Nyack in 1882, Edward Hopper is one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent native painters. After studying illustration and fine arts in New York City and traveling to Paris and Spain, he returned to the States, living in Massachusetts. Eschewing the Cubist style in vogue at the time, Hopper developed an iconoclastic aesthetic, becoming one of America's foremost realist painters of the 20th century.
However, Hopper's career began long before brush strokes. Like many of us, his parents urged him to secure a source of steady income, leading him to commercial art. His illustrations appeared on the cover of magazines like Scribner's, Everybody's, and Country Gentleman, along with film advertisements and patriotic posters. Hopper's 20-year career in illustration is still scarcely known to the public. He left no written documents shedding light on his commercial work—what has remained are his original proofs in published form. As stated by Hopper, "Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world." "Unknown Hopper: Edward Hooper as Illustrator" brings us a closer look into Hopper's inner life, presenting his rare illustrations at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, June 7 through October 26. (413) 298-4100; Nrm.org.
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The Enchanted Garden: Colors in Motion - Sculptures of Dorothy M. Gillespie
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50 Years - Share Your Bigfoot Jamboree Memories!
The 50th Annual Bigfoot Jamboree is approaching quickly. One of our loyal supporters suggested we ask everyone to share their memories of Bigfoot Jamboree. It is a great idea! What better way to celebrate 50 years of Bigfoot Jamboree than with stories from loyal patrons. Please share your stories in the comment section below. We'll publish as many of the short stories as we can in the 2016 Bigfoot Jamboree Brochure. If you'd like to remain anonymous, please send your stories to hc.bigfootjamboree@gmail.com and let us know you don't want your name published.
Don't forget to come to the River Park this Labor Day Weekend in Happy Camp, California. We'll see you there for Kids Day at the Park, Bigfoot Queen Coronation and Raffle Drawing, Live Band on Saturday Night, 5k Dash, Pancake Breakfast, Sunday Parade, Tots Sunday Fun Day, Ducky Derby and much more!
I remember the first one - the street was closed off between the theater and the dance hall and there were booths along the street. I was just little but the mememories are sweet. My favorite was always the things the volunteer fire department had for kids. Throwing softballs at milk cans and darts at ballons.
Bigfoot Days is like one giant family/friends reunion. Loved every one of them since we move here in '98. Looking forward to being at the 50th!!!


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PEOPLE v. BARETTA
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Isidore BARETTA, Defendant-Appellant.
Decided: October 19, 2004
TOM, J.P., LERNER, FRIEDMAN, MARLOW, GONZALEZ, JJ. Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Lisa Lewis of counsel), for appellant. Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald A. Zweibel, J.), rendered August 2, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court erroneously concluded that Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 [1986] does not apply to discrimination against males (see J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127, 141-142, 114 S.Ct. 1419, 128 L.Ed.2d 89 [1994] ). However, the record is clear that the court, which employed the phrase "in any event," made an alternative ruling that defendant failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination. The court correctly concluded that defendant's unpersuasive and unsupported numerical argument did not raise an inference of discrimination (see People v. Smocum, 99 N.Y.2d 418, 421-422, 757 N.Y.S.2d 239, 786 N.E.2d 1275 [2003]; People v. Brown, 97 N.Y.2d 500, 507-508, 743 N.Y.S.2d 374, 769 N.E.2d 1266 [2002] ).
The court properly denied defendant's request for a missing witness charge since the uncalled officer's testimony would have been cumulative to the testimony of the officer who did testify at trial, as well as to photographic evidence depicting defendant's appearance at the time of his arrest (see People v. Gonzalez, 68 N.Y.2d 424, 427-428, 509 N.Y.S.2d 796, 502 N.E.2d 583 [1986] ).
Following a hearing, the court properly determined that a witness's viewing of photographic arrays that pertained to a totally unrelated matter, that did not contain a photograph of defendant, and from which the witness failed to make an identification, was irrelevant, so that the People had not violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 [1963] or CPL 240.20(1)(d) by failing to turn over the arrays for inspection by the defense (see People v. McBayne, 160 A.D.2d 735, 555 N.Y.S.2d 608 [1990]; see also People v. Higgins, 178 A.D.2d 199, 200, 577 N.Y.S.2d 269 [1991], lv. denied 80 N.Y.2d 832, 587 N.Y.S.2d 916, 600 N.E.2d 643 [1992] ). The hearing record establishes that there was nothing in the undisclosed photo arrays that could have undermined the reliability of the witness's identification of defendant.
We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.


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'Rainbow' dinosaur had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird
Posted by fossilpro2 on January 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil with feathers so well-preserved that they were able to see the feathers' microscopic color-bearing structures. By comparing the shapes of those feather structures with the structures in modern bird feathers, they're able to infer that the new dino, Caihong juji ('rainbow with the big crest') had iridescent rainbow feathers like a hummingbird.
Birds are the last remaining dinosaurs. They're also some of the most vibrantly colored animals on Earth. A new study in Nature Communications reveals that iridescent feathers go way back — a newly discovered species of dinosaur from 161 million years ago had rainbow coloring.
Caihong juji was tiny, about the size of a duck, with a bony crest on its head and long, ribbon-like feathers. And, based on analysis of its fossilized feathers, the feathers on its head, wings, and tail were probably iridescent, with colors that shimmered and shifted in the light. Its name reflects its appearance — in Mandarin, it means, "rainbow with the big crest." The new species, which was first discovered by a farmer in northeastern China, was described by an international team of scientists led by Dongyu Hu, a professor in the College of Paleontology at the Shenyang Normal University in China.
"When you look at the fossil record, you normally only see hard parts like bone, but every once in a while, soft parts like feathers are preserved, and you get a glimpse into the past," says Chad Eliason, a postdoctoral researcher at The Field Museum and one of the study's authors. Eliason, who began work on the project as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, added, "The preservation of this dinosaur is incredible, we were really excited when we realized the level of detail we were able to see on the feathers."
When the scientists examined the feathers under powerful microscopes, they could see the imprints of melanosomes, the parts of cells that contain pigment. For the most part, the pigment that was once present was long gone, but the physical structure of the melanosomes remained. As it turns out, that was enough for scientists to be able to tell what color the feathers were.
That's because color isn't only determined by pigment, but by the structure of the melanosomes containing that pigment. Differently shaped melanosomes reflect light in different colors. "Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you'd only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see," explains Eliason.
The scientists were able to match the shapes of the pancake-shaped melanosomes in Caihong with the shapes of melanosomes in birds alive today. By finding birds with similarly shaped melanosomes, they were able to determine what kinds of colors Caihong may have flashed. The best matches: hummingbirds.
Colorful plumage is used in modern birds to attract mates — the rainbow feathers of Caihong might be a prehistoric version of a peacock's iridescent tail. Caihong is the oldest known example of platelet-shaped melanosomes typically found in bright iridescent feathers.
It's also the earliest known animal with asymmetrical feathers — a feature used by modern birds to steer when flying. Caihong couldn't fly, though — its feathers were probably primarily used to attract mates and keep warm. While modern birds' asymmetrical feathers are on their wingtips, Caihong's were on its tail. "The tail feathers are asymmetrical but wing feathers not, a bizarre feature previously unknown among dinosaurs including birds," said co-author Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Science. "This suggests that controlling [flight] might have been first evolved with tail feathers during some kind of aerial locomotion."
But while Caihong's feathers were a first, it had other traits associated with much earlier species of dinosaurs, including the bony crest on its head. "This combination of traits is rather unusual," says co-author Julia Clarke of the University of Texas at Austin. "It has a velociraptor-type skull on the body of this very avian, fully feathered, fluffy kind of form."
This combination of old and new traits, says Eliason, is evidence of mosaic evolution, the concept of different traits evolving independently from each other. "This discovery gives us insight into the tempo of how fast these features were evolving," he adds.
For Eliason, the study also illuminates the value of big data. "To find the color of Caihong's feathers, we compared its melanosomes with a growing database of thousands of measurements of melanosomes found in modern birds," he says. It's also broadened his own research interests.
"I came out of the project with a whole different set of questions that I wanted answers to — when I open up a drawer full of birds in the Field Museum's collections, now I want to know when those iridescent feathers first developed, and how."
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We're not sure what it is about size with you fellas, but you always seem to be preoccupied with it. And diamonds are no exception. If you've found the one you want to spend the rest of your life with and that certain someone happens to love sparkle, you need to get the most you can get out of a diamond. Only thing is, those dazzling rocks can come attached with a price tag that may or may not be friends with your budget. Want a bigger rock for your dollar? We at Abby Sparks Jewelry are the experts at figuring out how to best maximize diamonds.
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Out of the Four C's of diamonds, you might think of carat when you think about the size for her diamond. While carat does refer to the diamond's weight – and generally the higher the carat number, the bigger the diamond – it is not the only factor that influences how large a diamond appears.
Cut is just as much a key element as carat. How proportional the diamond is cut, how the diamond is shaped, and how effectively it catches light can make all the difference in stacking up larger in comparison to other diamonds, even if they bear the same carat weight.
Fancy cut diamonds (princess cuts, emerald cuts, pear cuts) or any other creative shape that isn't a traditional round stone are the perfect option to rock a unique and impressive ring. Their brilliance doesn't just stop with facets that can allow for a greater amount of shine. Fancy cuts can cost ¼ less than their round cousins and waste less material. Thus, you can purchase a fancy cut diamond with the same carat weight of a round diamond. It's very much possible to get a bigger diamond that's still easier on the wallet.
Elongated shapes reign supreme for the most massive of fancy cut diamonds. Princess cuts, marquise cuts, emerald cuts, oval cuts, and cushion cut engagement rings grip onto more weight in their table, making these cuts appear larger than a round diamond. Just admire how the diamond's presence gets elevated in The Lauren pear cut engagement ring, or through the cushion cut on The Kristin. Need we say any more?
Don't just settle for one diamond: instead, make it plural.
Diamonds on diamonds equates to more shine on an engagement ring, and ultimately gives the visual illusion of a bigger stone. This blinged out tactic has emerged extremely popular with the bride-to-be community within the recent years. With a setting of smaller diamonds that encircle the center diamond in a halo, as seen with The Julia above, or are packed alongside the band in a pavé, a la The Nataliya engagement ring shown below, a fleet of diamonds can prove that more really does mean more.
Smaller diamonds are less expensive than larger diamonds through and through. Price goes upwards with the carat number, not by the quantity of diamonds on a ring. Thus, two ½ carat diamonds will cost significantly less than a 1 carat diamond because they are less rare.
The options are sky high. Her halo can vary stone sizes. Modifications exist where the halo acts like a bezel and protects the diamond in an cupped circumference. Or it can be suspended so there is space seen in between the center stone and the glory of the halo. Accent stones can glisten next to the main diamond or anywhere else on the band. Just think of these smaller set of diamonds as the sidekick to your main stunner.
For a diamond ring that hooks people's attention yet ensures you don't break the bank, go team halo.
What do you get when you cross glitz of a diamond with a stone that's moderately priced and conflict free? Why, it would be none other than a moissanite stone!
Moissanites are birthed from the stars. Well, ok… meteorites if you want to be technical. Found only in these resources from the tops of volcanoes, natural moissanites are a rare breed to come upon, so instead their likeness has been recreated in labs straight from silicone carbide substances. By this concept, lab-grown moissanites are much cheaper per carat than other diamonds and gemstones, meaning you can purchase yourself a bigger stone.
Check out how it's done below: we've got The Sara with a 1.42 carat lab-grown moissanite, a lab-grown moissanite clocking in at 2 carats on The Laura, and 1.53 carats on the Caroline's stone.
Side-by-side, lab-grown moissanites and diamonds seem virtually the same, yet a closer glimpse will tell you that lab-grown moissanites contain a different kind of fire and brilliance to their surface. With a different and more detailed faceting pattern, lab-grown moissanites tend to have a higher scintillation, giving off rainbows of color, more than that of a diamond.
To discover more on how the two crystal clear rocks compare, read our previous blog post on everything you need to know about lab grown moissanites.
When you pair a thick band with a modestly sized diamond, the difference can be fairly noticeable. A mass contrast between the stone and band will work to have onlookers perceive a small diamond even smaller. The Colleen as pictured above is the perfect example of what to do in order to make the most of the diamond's size on her engagement ring.
A thin band gives an idea that it's taking all the might of the metal to have a colossal diamond hanging on by a thread (of course, we're talking metaphors here. The band should still be structurally strong). Chunky metal can overtake a diamond, so hush down the band so the stone can take lead.
It's probably obvious by now that shine and sparkle has everything to do with how sizable your diamond seems to be. If you didn't know, now you do!
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The black lace romper, while being a slightly controversial option on the day where bright colors are vigorously encouraged, plays the chic femme fatale, its sheer upper body laced panels an elegant segue for its counterpart; the grunge element.
The equally loud and bold tartan cardigan, viewed as a universal insignia for the style with which it connotes, is one of my favourite newly acquired item this new year. What with my predilection for anything maxi and statement, I was sure I couldn't find anything else to love about the piece until I saw it on the racks of a Malaysian concept store. Its original selling vantage: a modest three-quarters dress.
I am widely known in my personal social circles for my love of reusing pieces of clothing for purposes they are not designed for, such as wearing a maternity nightie as a dress or using a bathrobe as an outer piece, so when it dawned upon me that the button-down could be worn as a dress as well as a cardigan, it went straight into the shopping basket, no questions asked.
Accessorizing to complement both styles, my signature choker and a pair of earrings are thrown into the mix. The look is finished off with a pair of stiletto heels, the fifth piece used to outweigh one of the distinct elements and determine the final overall style.
The Lunar New Year is celebrated over a period of 15 days by the end of which a full moon shall grace the sky and families shall reunite over dinner. Between the first and the last day, house hopping, lion dances and lots of eating will be observed traditionally. Lots of OOTD shots and selfies will be observed modernly.
Whatever the case, I'm wishing all of you who celebrate a Happy Lunar New Year!


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Back in 1970, the Johnny Cash Show Featured the Soul Music Genius, Ray Charles
Johnny Cash Show: ABC Television Music Variety Show
In 1970, the Johnny Cash Show featured Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, and Tammy Wynette. In the show's 19th episode, Ray Charles performed a version of "Ring Of Fire", and a short version of "Walk The Line."
The Johnny Cash Show was a television variety show that was hosted by one of the most prestigious country music artist Johnny Cash. It had 58 episodes that started airing on June 7, 9169 to March 31, 1971, on the ABC Television Network.
"Hello, I am Johnny Cash" was Cash's customary greeting as the opening number was concluded. The show's other regular members were Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three, with Australian born musical director-arranger and conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers usually perform in between comic interludes and an instrumental version of "Folsom Prison Blues" was used for the opening credits.
The television series featured other folk-country musicians. This included: Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kriss Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and Tammy Wynette.
Johnny Cash was asked by ABC to host a television show following the success of his live prison albums, At Folsom Prison, and At San Quentin. The show started as a summer replacement for the Saturday Night Extravaganza "The Hollywood Palace." The show also featured some of the showbiz royalties such as Bob Hope, George Gobel, Kirk Douglas, Burl Ives, Peggy Lee, and Lorne Greene.
The Johnny Cash Show was recorded at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium which was the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Bill Carruthers served as the executive producer and director for the first season. The show also was a product of Stan Jacobson who also was its producer. The first episode featured Joni Mitchell, Cajun "fiddler" Doug Kershaw, Fannie Flagg and Bob Dylan.
The Johnny Cash Show had a segment called "Country Gold." This featured music industry legends that were never seen or was rarely seen on the television scene. Some of the legends featured were Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys.
For the whole duration of the show, ABC had some "network anxieties." But Johnny Cash persisted with the network and what he believed would work. For example, Cash refused to cut the word "stoned" from Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down." Moreover, Cash stood with his Christian faith despite ABC's network anxieties and persisted that the show featured Pete Seeger, whos anti-Vietnam Wat Song caused a "firestorm" with another record.
This song was originally written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore. June Carter is Cash's wife, she wrote this song with the background of her relationship with Johnny. During the early stages of her marriage with Cash, Johnny was involved in drug addiction to which Carter wrote was like an experience around a "ring of fire."
The song was written by Price when she was driving around aimlessly one night thinking of the devastating ways that Cash is in. She vented out her frustrations with the line "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns." After four years, Cash's life would be saved by his marriage with Carter.
Ray Charles is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. He is often referred to in the music industry as "The Genius."
Charles is known as he pioneered the soul music genre during the '50s. He combined the sound produced by blues, rhythm, and gospel. He also contributed to the country music scene by contributing his crossover songs on ABC Records. These started the crossover hits that added the styles of pop, rhythm, and blues to the traditional style of country music.
Charles was able to bag his first of the three songs that he had to peak at the number one of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with the song "Georgia On My Mind." In 1962 his album "Modern Sounds in Country And Western Music" became the first album of Charles to top the Billboard top 200.
With his award-winning career, Charles was able to bag 17 Grammy Awards. He was also honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1957 together with 10 of his songs to be a part of the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Johnny Cash is one of the best selling music artists of all time. Cash was able to sell 90 million records worldwide. His genre featured the styles of country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. With this wide coverage of Cash's songs, he was able to captivate the wide audience of Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music.
Cash was born in Arkansas to a poor cotton farmer family. After serving for four years in the United States Air Force, Cash rose to fame in the prominent music scene in Memphis Tennessee. Cash had a deep, calm bass-baritone voice that enabled him to produce a distinctive sound. To complement his voice, Cash's band the "Tennessee Three" was known to produce a unique sound, of chugging guitar rhythms.
Cash also had trademarks with the rebellious characteristic that was complemented by an increasingly somber and humble demeanor that he had, he also had free prison concerts, and an unforgettable trademark of having an all-black wardrobe which later on earned him the nickname "Man in Black." As he performed in his concerts, he was known to start off with his famous line "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" that was to be followed by his signature song "Folsom Prison Blues." This trademark wasn't just evident in Cash's concerts but was also adopted to his television variety show that started with the same pattern.
Cash's songs revolve around the themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. This was much evident through the later years of his career. Cash had signature songs like: "I Walk the Line", "Ring of Fire", "Get Rhythm", and "Man in Black". Cash also wrote some humorous songs such as, "One Piece at a Time" and "A Boy Named Sue"; a duet with his future wife, June Carter called "Jackson" (followed by many further duets after their wedding); and railroad songs including "Hey, Porter", "Orange Blossom Special", and "Rock Island Line".
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Community Water Fluoridation
AADOCR supports community water fluoridation as a safe and effective, evidence-based intervention for the prevention of dental caries. While fluoride occurs naturally in water, fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to community water systems to the level recommended for caries prevention. The practice of adding fluoride to community water supplies began after Dr. H. Trendley Dean – the first director of what later became the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research – observed that residents of communities who drank from naturally fluoridated water supplies experienced less tooth decay than those living in communities without naturally fluoridated water. What began as a small trial of the controlled addition of fluoride to water in Grand Rapids, Michigan has now reached 75% of the United States population who drink from a community water system and has resulted in a significant decrease in dental caries.1, 2
"AADOCR supports community water fluoridation as a safe and effective, evidence-based intervention for the prevention of dental caries."
Dental caries – the destruction of dental hard tissues – can result in pain, infection and tooth loss. Caries is caused by acidic byproducts produced from bacterial fermentation of sugar. Dental caries is a very common disease that affects both adults and children. Over one-third of children ages 2-8 experience caries in their primary teeth. One in 5 children ages 6-11 and over half of adolescents ages 12-19 experience caries in their permanent teeth. On average older adults can expect at least one new decayed tooth surface per year. Children with poor oral health are more likely to miss school and suffer academically. Parents may also accrue absences from school or work to seek treatment for their children. Both children and adults with caries may experience embarrassment, exhibit withdrawal, have difficulty eating and sleeping, and limit facial expressions and behaviors that facilitate social interaction. 3-9
Many studies point to the effectiveness of community water fluoridation in decreasing dental caries. A systematic review of 20 studies by Cochrane, an independent group that reviews medical research to inform evidence-based policies and health guidelines, showed that water fluoridation decreased tooth decay in both the primary and permanent teeth of children and increased the number of children free of decay in primary and permanent teeth.10, 11* Another review by the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF), an independent panel of public health experts appointed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that starting water fluoridation decreased caries in children ages 4-17 by 30-50% and that stopping water fluoridation increased caries by 18%. 12 Furthermore, reducing childhood caries experience and severity may have benefits into adulthood by halting disease progression that can result in adult tooth loss. Lifelong exposure to fluoridated water has been associated with reduced tooth decay in adults.13, 14
Community water fluoridation is a cost-effective method of delivering caries prevention to a large population. A systematic review by the CPSTF compared the cost of fluoridation to the money saved on dental restorations in communities that drink from fluoridated water sources. CPSTF found that water fluoridation is cost saving. In other words, the savings from fewer dental restorations are greater than the cost of fluoridation for communities of greater than 1,000 people, and the larger the community, the greater the cost saving.15 A 2016 analysis confirmed this finding.16
Community water fluoridation may also reduce oral health disparities. Children and adults from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to suffer from dental caries and are less likely to be treated for the disease.6, 17 When added to drinking water, fluoride can be delivered to community residents regardless of socioeconomic status or ability to access dental services. Some studies have shown decreased inequalities in caries in communities that drink from a fluoridated community water source, revealing that children of a lower socioeconomic status who have access to a fluoridated water source have less severe tooth decay and require less expensive care than children of lower socioeconomic status who do not drink fluoridated water. More research is needed to determine the circumstances in which water fluoridation reduces disparities, as not all fluoridated communities show reduced disparities.10, 18
Starting water fluoridation decreased caries in children ages 4-17 by 30-50%.
The United States Public Health Service recommends a concentration of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water to achieve caries prevention while minimizing the risk of dental fluorosis.
Community water fluoridation is a safe method of delivering fluoride on a population level. There have been numerous systematic reviews on claims of the potential adverse health effects of water fluoridation. None has concluded that there is a significant or consistent association between water fluoridation and the outcomes examined, including neurologic conditions, cancer or osteoporosis.19-23 Dental fluorosis resulting in tooth discoloration is the only known adverse health effect of water fluoridation. Teeth are only at risk of fluorosis until about age 8 during enamel formation. The United States Public Health Service recommends a concentration of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water to achieve caries prevention while minimizing the risk of dental fluorosis.24 While people who drink from fluoridated water sources are at greater risk of dental fluorosis, most people who drink fluoridated water do not develop dental fluorosis. The cases of dental fluorosis that do develop are very mild, such that discoloration is not usually visible to the naked eye and does not affect the function of the teeth. Severe cases of dental fluorosis are rare. Some studies have shown that Black/African-American and Mexican-American children are at greater risk of developing dental fluorosis. However, this has not been clearly linked to fluoridated water and may be due to cumulative fluoride intake from various sources, such as toothpaste, supplements and food and beverages prepared with fluoridated water.10, 17, 25
Community water fluoridation is supported by various groups, including the American Association of Public Health Dentistry, the American Public Health Association, the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, among others. Additionally, in 1999, the CDC identified community water fluoridation as one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century because of its effectiveness and ability to distribute fluoride equitably and cost-effectively.26 Information about the fluoride concentration of communities participating in water fluoridation can be found on the CDC website "My Water's Fluoride".27
While AADOCR always welcomes research on water fluoridation safety and effectiveness in the current context of fluoride availability, the balance of evidence currently shows that community water fluoridation is safe, effective and cost-saving and in some communities, reduces oral health disparities. Therefore, AADOCR supports community water fluoridation and recommends the fluoridation of community water sources to a level of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water.
*The authors of the Cochrane systematic review determined that the evidence for community water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries was low quality and that many studies were conducted before 1975. The Cochrane review method considers randomized clinical trials as the gold standard of evidence and automatically rates common methods for evaluating public health interventions as low. However, randomized trials are usually not feasible for interventions at the population level. The authors noted this gap in their evidence grading system and that the evidence pointed in the same direction of fluoridation reducing tooth decay.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Water Fluoridation Basics. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; [accessed 8 September 2017]. https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/basics/index.htm.
Gutmann JL. The Evolution of America's Scientific Advancements in Dentistry in the Past 150 Years. The Journal of the American Dental Association. 140:11S-15S.
Low W, Tan S, Schwartz S. 1999. The effect of severe caries on the quality of life in young children. Pediatr Dent. 21(6):325-326.
Seirawan H, Faust S, Mulligan R. 2012. The Impact of Oral Health on the Academic Performance of Disadvantaged Children. American Journal of Public Health. 102(9):1729-1734.
Jackson SL, Vann WF, Kotch JB, Pahel BT, Lee JY. 2011. Impact of Poor Oral Health on Children's School Attendance and Performance. American Journal of Public Health. 101(10):1900-1906.
Griffin SO, Jones JA, Brunson D, Griffin PM, Bailey WD. 2012. Burden of Oral Disease Among Older Adults and Implications for Public Health Priorities. American Journal of Public Health. 102(3):411-418.
Griffin SO, Griffin PM, Swann JL, Zlobin N. 2004. Estimating Rates of New Root Caries in Older Adults. Journal of Dental Research. 83(8):634-638.
Griffin SO, Griffin PM, Swann JL, Zlobin N. 2005. New Coronal Caries in Older Adults: Implications for Prevention. Journal of Dental Research. 84(8):715-720.
Dye B, Thornton-Evans G, Li X, Iafolla T. 2015. Dental caries and sealant prevalence in children and adolescents in the United States, 2011-2012. NCHS Data Brief, no. 191. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.
Iheozor-Ejiofor Z, Worthington HV, Walsh T, O'Malley L, Clarkson JE, Macey R, Alam R, Tugwell P, Welch V, Glenny A-M. 2015. Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. (6).
Rugg-Gunn AJ, Spencer AJ, Whelton HP, Jones C, Beal JF, Castle P, Cooney PV, Johnson J, Kelly MP, Lennon MA et al. 2016. Critique of the review of 'Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries' published by the Cochrane Collaboration in 2015. Br Dent J. 220(7):335-340.
Truman BI, Gooch BF, Sulemana I, Gift HC, Horowitz AM, Evans CA, Jr., Griffin SO, Carande-Kulis VG. 2002. Reviews of evidence on interventions to prevent dental caries, oral and pharyngeal cancers, and sports-related craniofacial injuries. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 23(1):21-54.
Griffin SO, Regnier E, Griffin PM, Huntley V. 2007. Effectiveness of Fluoride in Preventing Caries in Adults. Journal of Dental Research. 86(5):410-415.
Neidell M, Herzog K, Glied S. 2010. The Association Between Community Water Fluoridation and Adult Tooth Loss. American Journal of Public Health. 100(10):1980-1985.
Ran T, Chattopadhyay SK. Economic Evaluation of Community Water Fluoridation. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 50(6):790-796.
O'Connell J, Rockell J, Ouellet J, Tomar SL, Maas W. 2016. Costs And Savings Associated With Community Water Fluoridation In The United States. Health Affairs. 35(12):2224-2232.
Beltrán-Aguilar ED, Barker LK, Canto MT, Dye BA, Gooch BF, Griffin SO, Hyman J, Jaramillo F, Kingman A, NowjackRaymer R et al. 2005. Surveillance for Dental Caries, Dental Sealants, Tooth Retention, Edentulism, and Enamel Fluorosis United States, 1988-1994 and 1999-2002. Surveillance Summaries. 54(03):1-44.
Burt BA. 2002. Fluoridation and Social Equity. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 62(4):195-200.
McDonagh MS, Whiting PF, Wilson PM, Sutton AJ, Chestnutt I, Cooper J, Misso K, Bradley M, Treasure E, Kleijnen J. 2000. Systematic review of water fluoridation. BMJ. 321:855-859.
Jones G, Riley M, Couper D, Dwyer T. 1999. Water fluoridation, bone mass and fracture: a quantitative overview of the literature. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 23(1):34-40.
Demos LL, Kazda H, Cicuttini FM, Sinclair MI, Fairley CK. 2001. Water fluoridation, osteoporosis, fractures—recent developments. Australian Dental Journal. 46(2):80-87.
Whiting P, McDonagh M, Kleijnen J. 2001. Association of Down's syndrome and water fluoride level: a systematic review of the evidence. BMC Public Health. 1(1):6.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2001. Toxicological profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, and Fluorine. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Panel on Community Water Fluoridation. 2015. U.S. Public Health Service Recommendation for Fluoride Concentration in Drinking Water for the Prevention of Dental Caries. Public Health Reports. 130(4):318-331.
Martinez-Mier EA, Soto-Rojas AE. 2010. Differences in exposure and biological markers of fluoride among White and African American children. Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 70(3):234-240.
Division of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. 1999. Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Fluoridation of Drinking Water to Prevent Dental Caries. MMWR Weekly. 48(41):933-940.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My Water's Fluoride. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; [accessed 3 February 2017]. https://nccd.cdc.gov/DOH_MWF/Default/Default.aspx.


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ACLU statement on decision to delay hearing in Freedom to Marry case
CONTACT: Tyler Richard, (402) 476-8091 x104, trichard@aclunebraska.org
Lincoln, NE _ The following joint statement was issued by the ACLU of Nebraska, the ACLU of Missouri, and the national ACLU regarding the 8th Circuit Court of appeals decision to delay the hearing on cases involving challenges to the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage until after a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the same issue, which is expected by the end of June. The ACLU is counsel in the Missouri and Nebraska cases, which, along with cases from North Dakota and Arkansas, were scheduled for oral arguments on May 12.
Every day that same-sex couples continue to be denied the protections and dignity that come with marriage causes serious harms to families. But after yesterday's arguments in the marriage cases at the Supreme Court, we are hopeful that very soon all Americans will have the freedom to marry the person they love regardless of their sexual orientation. As the landscape rapidly changes, more and more businesses, faith leaders and policy makers see that the discrimination enshrined in the constitutions of Nebraska and Missouri is contradictory to Midwestern values. Same-sex couples have waited too long for their love to be recognized. The ACLU will continue our efforts to end discrimination faced daily by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Midwesterners.


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Q: Citation with ACS style and superscript I'm using biblatex and biber to generate my bibliography:
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=chem-acs]{biblatex}

but it doesn't look like proposed here: http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem/biblatex-chem-acs.pdf
It rather looks like shown here: https://de.sharelatex.com/learn/Biblatex_bibliography_styles
As I understood the style is set automatically. Does that mean it is the new standard ACS style or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you

Thank you for the prompt answers and sorry for being unprecise. For the first link how I expected it so see it with the superscript and reference listing is as follows:

The second link provides how I have it in my thesis

A: biblatex-chem does not modify the behaviour of \cite, it still gives a normal citation number (this is in line with what most other styles do as well). Ideally you should use \autocite to get citations as desired by the style, in case of chem-acs you then get superscript citations as desired. \autocite is at a higher level of abstraction because its behaviour can be changed with a simple option.
As mentioned in the comments the round parentheses you see in the bibliography are in compliance with the style required for the J. Am. Chem. Soc. The ACS also has some journals with a slightly different style that requires a dots after the numbers. The option biblabel can be used to control the format of the label number in the bibliography. The default settings of chem-acs give you the parentheses, but earlier versions of the style documentation biblatex-chem-acs.pdf would load chem-acs with the option biblabel=dot (from version 1.1v 2018-09-06 onward, biblatex-chem's style documentations use the normal settings of their respective style).
The following MWE shows chem-acs with the settings for the J. Am. Chem. Soc.
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Q: How do you take a square root of a matrix that contains zeros in python? let's say we want to compute the square root of the identity matrix, how would you do in python? I have tried numpy.sqrt() but it didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks a lot!

A: You can try this:
my_matrix = np.array([[1.0, 3.0], [1.0, 4.0]])

np.sqrt(my_matrix.data)

A: You can do it with a package called scipy. See the code below:
from scipy.linalg import sqrtm
my_matrix = np.array([[1.0, 3.0], [1.0, 4.0]])
sqrt_my_matrix = sqrtm(my_matrix)

A: If you want to do this element wise you can use
import numpy as np
my_matrix = np.array([0, 4, 9])
sqrt_my_matrix = np.sqrt(my_matrix)
print(sqrt_my_matrix)


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Tastemakers Toast To The Chic New Maria Cher Store On The UES
by Freya Drohan April 1, 2022
written by Freya Drohan April 1, 2022
Ruby Aldridge, Maria, Hannah Traore (Courtesy)
Argentinian brand Maria Cher has just landed on Madison Avenue, with an elevated and elegant boutique that fits in snugly with Manhattan's most well-heeled zip code. Now sitting pretty between 80th and 81st streets, the divine 1,000 square foot space is a calming and serene blend of textures, finishes, and furnishings, conceptualized by the designer's fellow countryman, architect Lula Galeano. The surroundings are the perfect backdrop for Maria Chernajovsky's collections of contemporary pieces which are rooted in both '70s and '80s silhouettes and interpreted through the aesthetic of her hometown of Buenos Aires. With just one glance inside the door at the leather, concrete, and wood interiors—not to mention the delicious puffy De Sede sofa—we instantly needed to hear more about the 20-year-old brand and its plans for US domination. Here's everything you need to know…
Congrats on landing on Madison Avenue! What does this mean to you?
Thank you! Our store at Madison Avenue means so much to me because it was such an intense creative process; the intersection of design and style and creation of a space that at once is harmonious with our brand's aesthetic but also the store's own geographical and cultural positioning. We sought out expression in the form of diverse shapes, textures, functionalities, and experimented with conceptual materiality. It was our goal that within the space the objects we had curated were lent a sense of timelessness, abstractly dreamt, and seemingly unplanned, all through the lens of pre-constructed beauty. We are so proud of this space and atmosphere it creates as a window into our world and collections for our US customers.
Tell us about the design of the store.
This store is a remarkable accomplishment of interdisciplinary creative sharing. We were able to gather a combined organic vision, matching the narrative of our design team together with the perspective of Argentinian architect Lula Galeano and the outstanding craftsmanship of artist Giovanni Valdeavellano.
What do you want people to feel when they enter the space?
We want to evoke a warmth that makes you feel at ease, yet also be inspired by the new design elements—a particular blend of aspects that are both familiar and surprising.
For those who don't know, tell us a little about your backstory and when you founded your brand?
Maria Cher began its journey in Argentina 20 years ago and now we have grown to enjoy a global presence. Our brand is known for never adhering to trends, and always forging our own design vocabulary. Embracing opposing sensibilities—soft feminine with tough masculine styles and striking yet effortless designs—balancing two perspectives, and a point of view that resonates with women the world over.
How has your own global background shaped your identity and style?
My view has been shaped by personal experiences around the world. This includes my design training at the prestigious Central Saint Martins in London and an early career in acting and dance, which inspires the drama and fluidity of my clothes. My trips all over the world, which are often driven by my deep passion for architecture and design, also have a profound influence on my own style and what I design for Maria Cher customers.
Maria Chernajovsky
We've never been to Buenos Aires! Can you share your top five recommendations?
-Visit the Delta of Paraná River: it is an amazing chance to take a boat trip through a huge maze of rain forests and rivers containing over a thousand of tiny islands. This is just one hour from Buenos Áires' downtown.
-The MALBA (Museum of Latin American Art) is filled with the largest collection of Latin American art with avant garde 19th and 20th works. The museum showcases pieces by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Antonio Berni, among others
-Taste the best experience of traditional Argentinian grill at Don Julio. It is selected year after year as the best restaurant in Latin America.
-Visit "Casa Curuchet" at La Plata (only 50 km from Buenos Aires). It is the only constructed building designed by Le Corbusier in South America. A masterpiece of modernist design and declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
You design for women all over the world. What's one thing that unites your global muses?
To me, it has to do with a sense of freedom to move forward. Our women across the world are united by a taste that balances urban common sense with avant-garde.
Is there one piece from the collection you can't stop wearing on repeat?
The heavy cotton trench, and the tailored jackets and vests over printed pieces: a continuous interaction of feminine and masculine.
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What else do we need to know about the collection and the artisans you partner with?
Working with only the most luxurious fabrics and expert makers and responsible production is a core belief for us at María Cher. Sourcing and production takes place globally; fostering long term relationships with select partners located primarily in South America and Europe. The majority of the collection is made in Argentina. Knitwear is expertly made in Uruguay with small-scale family businesses as well as more established producers. High quality silk is sourced in India and Europe, leather from Turkey and Argentina, cotton jersey from Peru, and cotton gabardine from China and Belgium. And jewelry is handmade in Los Angeles.
What's your favorite thing about visiting NYC? Where are your usual go-to spots?
I love visiting NY and have since I was a teenager! The best thing about NY is the unique energy I feel whenever I arrive, the creative spirit, and the diverse culture. I love to run in Central Park, walk around Tribeca, Chinatown, and Brooklyn; where I have lot of friends. Some of my favorite things to do include dinner at Stella and Dante, brunch at Sant Ambroeus, and visiting the MoMa.
What's next for the brand in 2022 and beyond?
My dream is to really grow Maria Cher in the US. I am so excited about this, we have opened two incredible stores in such a short space of time. And then I think next stop will be Europe…
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Throwing shoes for free speech!
Being a political activist can be fun. About 15 of us enjoyed throwing shoes in a Sydney Stop The War Coalition action on November 8 outside the US Consulate. We were protesting against the AUSMIN war talks with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Melbourne. Protesters threw shoes at cardboard cutouts of Gates, Clinton, PM Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
Don't deport refugees to danger
As a former refugee, I can understand and share the concerns of the many Afghan asylum seekers currently facing deportation back to Afghanistan, the very country they had to flee from. This would send them into the hands of the very people responsible for much of the insecurity and threats to the lives and livelihoods of these asylum seekers. It is unbelievable and preposterous.
Matiullah Khan: 'Our man' in Oruzgan, Afghanistan
Matiullah Khan is reportedly illiterate, but he is a very wealthy man. A warlord accused of mass murder, rape and abduction, the June 5 New York Times reported that Matiullah earned US$2.5 million a month through highway robbery, drug trafficking and extortion. The news that members of his private army were training in Australia — revealed by the Sydney Morning Herald on October 29 — exposes the reality Australia's "nation building" project in Afghanistan by putting a spotlight on a key local partner.
Arundhati Roy: 'They are inciting mob anger against me'
World renowned novelist and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is facing escalating threats of violence in India because of her support for justice in Kashmir — the disputed region partitioned between India and Pakistan and occupied by military forces in the area India controls. Roy faced sedition charges for comments she made about Kashmir at a public meeting in October. The government has since indicated it would not pursue the charge.
United States: Dems to blame for right gains
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Britain: Millionaires' government declares class war
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Warlord militia trains in Australia
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THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast bitterlake
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THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 99: White Reconstruction w/ Professor Dylan Rodríquez
In this episode we speak with professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Dylan Rodríquez. I came across professor Rodríquez's work through a mutual friend and really appreciated a lot of what professor Dylan has to say to about state of things in this country. The role of empire and capitalism, and of course we discussed his current book "White Reconstruction: Domestic WArfare and the Logics of Genocide" and his previous work, "Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide and the Filipino Condition". About 'White Reconstruction': We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts—from Freedmen's Bureau documents and the "Join LAPD" hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater's hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike—Dylan Rodríguez counter-narrates the long "post–civil rights" half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and "multiculturalist white supremacy."Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodríguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving. You can find Professor Rodríquez's, 'White Reconstruction' here:http://www.fordhampress.com/9780823289387/white-reconstruction/ Professor Rodríquez's previous work, 'Suspended Apocalypse' here:https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/suspended-apocalypse Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now :https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitter:@TIRShowOakland Instagram:@thisisrevolutionoakland Medium:https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 98: Can't Pay, Won't Pay The Power of Debtors Unions w/Hannah Appel of the Debt Collective
"Between 1980 and 2007, household debt doubled as a percentage of GDP, with most of the growth in residential mortgages, although auto, credit card, student loan, medical and criminal legal debt also grew precipitously. In the first months of 2020, as the pandemic took hold, household debt rose to $14.3 trillion, $1.6 trillion higher than the record set in the middle of the financial crisis. Today, more than 40 %of indebted households use credit cards to cover basic living costs, including rent, food, and utilities. Some 62% of personal bankruptcies in the US are linked to illness and health care costs."-Taken from the book, "Can't Pay Won't Pay" In this episode, taken from our Tuesday livestream (1/5/21) we'll be speaking with Hannah Appel professor of economic anthropology at UCLA and part of the Debt Collective, and one of the co-authors of "Can't Pay Won't Pay".From here bio:"How can we expand the field of economic possibility in an interconnected, power-laden world? I am also fundamentally committed to ethnographic research as a vibrant method for asking new questions and formulating new answers about the world in which we live. " You can get the book, "Can't Pay, Won't Pay" Here:https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now :https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitter:@TIRShowOakland Instagram:@thisisrevolutionoakland Medium:https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e
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Discussing the power of movements with homeless rights advocate and therapist Kelvin Martinez
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 96: End of the Year Show w/ Touré Reed, Cedric Johnson, and Pascal Robert
Well, 2020 is almost over, and I feel comfortable saying that all of us, except for about 600+ billionaires can't wait to bring in the new year.2020 will be forever known as the year of tragedy. COVID-19 ripping through the world killing over a million world wide, and over 330,000 in this country alone. Infecting 1 in 1,000 Americans t could there be hope on the horizon with breakthroughs in vaccines?While we were locked down to attempt tot flatten the curve of the pandemic we saw the country stand up to what many feel is the scourge of state violence at the hands of law enforcement. With these urban uprisings a new conversation of defunding police arose. Were these protests and uprisings the birth of a real movement to change the way we look at policing or has it been co-opted by a class of foundation careerists? The Trump era for many is over with the election of Joe Biden, but will the architect of the 1994 Crime Bill be the answer to state sanctioned police violence with his (and his party's) austerity record?We'll intorgate these questions AND SO MUCH MORE. Cedric Johnson Clip:https://youtu.be/Sg7mSGJVM-g Touré Reed Clip:https://youtu.be/LGj4PgDCIQ4 Pascal Robert Clip:https://youtu.be/fjbz7htz6Dw Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now :https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitter:@TIRShowOakland Instagram:@thisisrevolutionoakland Medium:https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep.95: Does Marxism Have Value for Black People w/ Dr. Asatar Bair
In the midst of a deadly pandemic that to date has infected a total of 17,314,834[1] people and taken the lives of 311,150 U.S. citizens, we have a governing body that is too busy protecting the interests of capital and not that of its people. Of the 311,000+ dead, Black, Hispanic and Native populations are not just dying at a higher rate, but they are dying YOUNGER[2]. With the contagious virus ripping through cities at an unparalleled rate, a shut down of the economy was in order to try to stop the intense spread and flatten the curve. Without a strong moratorium on rent and mortgages coupled with a one-time payment of $1,200, evictions have already started in many U.S cities. A study from the Aspen Institute this August said we're looking at possibly 30-40 MILLION people evicted from their homes increasing an ever-growing homeless problem in the richest nation in the world. With a possibility of another round of one-time payments from the government and no universal healthcare on the horizon, the controlling duopoly is failing the majority of poor and working class Americans. The incoming Biden administration ran on "restoring the soul of America". With a cabinet filled with firsts (first Native Woman, first openly Gay Man, etc.) trotting out people of various ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations means little when the politics of these incumbents is in line with protecting the empire and capital much like their predecessors. After watching president elect Joe Biden scream at a panel of leading Civil Rights leaders about the merits of his administration and his record, a record that has done everything from ramp up incarceration in poor and Black and Brown communities, to preventing cash strapped citizens from adding student loan debt in their bankruptcies, Biden might be the most racially tone def president in modern history. He equated racial justice to "mixed race couples in commercials". Is now the time that we as black people look towards a different economic system? Fred Hampton often spoke to the fact that you can't fight the scourge of capitalism with "black capitalism", yet many voices in the Black community are constantly trying to close a racial wealth gap by using the rhetoric of entrepreneurship and bootstrapping uplift. I feel that now is a good a time as any to ask the question, "Does Marxism have any value for Black People?" [1] These figures are from the WHO as of 12/20/2020[2] These data support the conclusion that US populations of color die of COVID-19 at younger ages as well as at higher rates than the non-Hispanic White population. Study done by Mary T. Bassett, Jarvis T. Chen, Nancy Krieger In this episode we're going to ask the question about the usefulness of Marxism for Black people. With the two party system failing we're going to take a deep dive into this question with Professor Asatar Bair. Here's a clip of Dr. Bair on the show: https://youtu.be/RDeJuEaEwHA Documentaries/Clips with Black Marxists: Thomas Sankara, "Land of Upright Men" https://youtu.be/G7Vlt41HPUE Kwame Touré, Angela Davis, Fanny Lou Hammer on Black Journal w/ Tony Brown: https://youtu.be/MojDoeloUTc Here's a show from my hood, the SF Bay Area "People are Talking" from 1988. Huey Newton/ Ishmael Reed/ Jawanza Kunjufu: https://youtu.be/4IGCyN7esO4 Lorraine Hansberry Documentary: https://youtu.be/1iTJ09klm2w Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now :https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube:https://www.youtube.
THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 94: Jim Crow Joe Biden Screams on the Civil Rights Establishment
Audio AND VIDEO leaked of Joe Biden talking to various Civil Rights leaders in a meeting is making many of us look at the man that has vowed to "Restore the Soul of a Nation" with a serious side eye. I will be speaking with good friend and journalist Pascal Robert about this, and much more.Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now :https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch:https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitter:@TIRShowOakland Instagram:@thisisrevolutionoakland Medium:https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e
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