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William (2019)
So simple even a caveman could do it?
(2019) Drama (Dada) Will Brittain, Maria Dizzia, Waleed Zuaiter, Susan Park, Beth Grant, Callum Seagram Airlie, Krystle Dos Santos, Kevin Dzah, Stefania Indelicato, Jaren Moore, Ellie Harvie, David Nykl, Nisreen Slim, Christian Convery, Morgan Taylor Campbell, Sydney Bell, Finn Haney, Michael Meneer, Kurt Ostlund, Iris Paluly, Lisa MacFadden. Directed by Tim Disney
Neanderthals occupy an interesting place in pop culture. On the one hand, they are our ancestors; we evolved from them and then eventually wiped them out (or out-survived them). On the other hand, they are portrayed as both stupid ("So easy even a caveman could do it") and brutish, normally portrayed as being possessed of enormous strength and aggressiveness. In truth however, we really don't know very much about them.
Paleontologist Julian Reed (Zuaiter) would very much like to change that. He dreams of coming face to face with a Neanderthal, particularly after a colleague (Grant) of his at Wallace University where he teaches discovered a nearly-perfectly preserved body in a Pacific Northwest bog not far from the University. Bio-engineer Barbara Sullivan (Dizzia), attending one of Julian's impassioned lectures on the subject, thinks she can make it happen by cloning a Neanderthal using DNA from the remains of the Neanderthal. The two find common ground and eventually get married.
As for cloning the Neanderthal, the University brass reacts with horror. It's not just a no but a Hell, no! Being the maverick scientific power couple that they are, they decide to do it anyway, using one of Barbara's eggs as an embryo. By the time the university finds out, the deed is already done and a baby – named William, after Irish naturalist William King who was the first to identify Neanderthals as a separate species – and the university has no choice but to support the two scientists after the fact.
Barbara and Julian develop a deep rift in their relationship on how William's upbringing should be handled. Julian wants to keep the boy at the University where he can be closely monitored, whereas Barbara, once the gung-ho maverick, has turned all mom on him and demands the boy be raised in an environment where he has a shot at a normal life which in retrospect doesn't seem terribly realistic because there's no way other children are going to let up on a completely different species. William mostly tolerates the abuse although from time to time when cornered he does show an ability to more than adequately defend himself.
William also has trouble with literary interpretation, particularly when it comes to humor and metaphors. Think of Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy who didn't understand anything in other than a literal sense. William is that, only more soft-spoken and less blue. William is in all ways polite and brilliant but his shortcoming in this one department threatens to derail his plans for college – or perhaps more his dad's plans. Also, William is getting a little tired of other people making decisions about what's best for him.
While this sounds like soft sci-fi along the lines of Creator or Encino Man, this is more of a coming-of-age drama with some light science fiction overtones. This is not so much about the creation of William but of the practical ramifications of creating him. Given that some scientists believe that we'll have the ability to clone dinosaurs by the end of the next decade, the immortal line "They were so busy trying to figure out if they could they never bothered asking themselves if they should" from Jurassic Park immediately comes to mind. The premise is an interesting one and it is handled in an unexpected way which is reason enough to recommend it right there.
Brittain does a great job of making William sympathetic and alien at the same time. He's just like us, only he's not. There is a universal truth hiding in that statement; that truth is that we're all under that category. I don't know if that was a message Disney meant to send but it was one I read loud and clear all the same.
Cinematographers Graham and Nelson Talbot utilize the Pacific Northwest setting nicely and some of the shot compositions should be used as teaching tools in film school. The negative here (and it's a big one) is that the ending is completely tone-deaf with the rest of the film. Disney went out of his way to approach the subject in a unique way and then just about wipes out the good will of the audience by tacking on a cliché ending. The ending is an easy one that has the advantage of tying things up neatly more or less but it is almost like it came out of another movie – and not a better one.
Despite the disappointment of the film's ending this is still that rarity – an intelligent movie with an intriguing premise that never talks down to its viewers (until the last ten minutes) and generally takes the road that isn't easy or safe. I only wish that Disney had the faith in his own project to give us an ending that didn't feel so out of tune with the rest of the film.
REASONS TO SEE: The premise is interesting. I liked the shot composition going on here.
REASONS TO AVOID: The ending is a letdown.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some brief profanity, a bit of violence and some drug use.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Tim Disney is Walt's grand-nephew.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/15/19: Rotten Tomatoes: 50% positive reviews: Metacritic: 57/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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Dr. Schooley attended the University of California San Diego Medical School after which she completed her residency in pediatrics followed by a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Oral Roberts University. Dr. Schooley is board certified in both Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Dr. Schooley gained extensive experience as a neonatologist in a variety of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the western United States until the Midwest captured her talents. Dr. Schooley served as the Medical Director of the NICU at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita, KS before joining Sunflower Neonatology in the fall of 2005. While at Via Christi, she also served as Medical Director for the start up of land and air-based transport services from rural hospitals.
Dr. Schooley continues to be very involved in educational programs, evidenced by her continued faculty appointment at Wichita State University Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Dr. Schooley is married and has three sons. Outside of the clinical setting, you will find her enjoying bicycling, swimming or traveling.


Sky Blue FC hosted 2018 BIG 12 Champions West Virginia University in its second preseason game on Saturday afternoon at Sportika Sports. Despite a hard fought battle from both sides through 90 minutes, the match ended in a 0-0 draw.
Reddy made three changes to her starting lineup from last week's 6-0 victory over St. John's University, including Erica Skroski at left back, Naho Kawasumi on the right wing and Savannah McCaskill in for Carli Lloyd up top.
The match saw Kaylan Marckese play her first minutes in a Sky Blue FC jersey since being drafted No. 19 overall in the 2019 NWSL College Draft.
Sky Blue plays its third preseason match on Friday, March 29 when the Club hosts fellow New Jersey team, Rutgers University, at Sportika Sports in Manalapan. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. ET. For entrance into the game please RSVP online at skybluefc.com/schedule.
The Club's first official league match will be played on April 13 against the Washington Spirit at Maryland SoccerPlex and the home opener will take place on Saturday, April 20, at 6:00 p.m. ET against the Houston Dash at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers.
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Life on earth is not restricted to us humans only as there are millions of life forms on planet earth. We have the world of plants and we also have the world of animals that comprises not just the pet animals like cats and dogs but also the more ferocious ones like tigers and lions found in jungles. It is not just kids but people of all ages that love to know and see more about these animals that are found in different parts of the world. There are many categories of animals and even the birds, reptiles and insects come under the broad category of animals. You need not go to a zoo or buy an encyclopedia to know about a particular animal found in a remote part of the world as there are resources on the internet that provide all the information about animals around the world. This website is an attempt to present all the facts and information about the animal kingdom and its members in an interesting and fun filled manner through photos, Videos, and text.
If you Google about any animal you may have seen in a zoo or learnt about it in a text book, you come across results that contain information and facts about these animals. The first result is of course Wikipedia that is believed by many to be the number one resource of everything under the sky. However, it is not a website devoted and dedicated to the world of animals, and this is what makes this website different and much more detailed.
Animals are found everywhere in the world and they are also found underwater. In fact, there are more species of animals living in water than over the surface of the earth. Of course you do not encounter the wonderful fish, crabs and other creatures in your daily life but you are nevertheless mesmerized by their activities as shown in a National Geography Channel special. If you want to learn more about a particular fish, you can do it easily by logging on to this website and searching in the appropriate category. If you were fascinated by that small monkey shown in a program on Discovery channel and want to learn more about its social behavior, you now have an easy way to get all the detailed information that is also authentic with the help of this website.
Among animals there are the mammals that give birth to baby animals and also feed little ones through mammary glands. However, mammals form only a small category of animals as there are many more categories such as reptiles, fish, insects, birds, invertebrates, amphibians etc. if you know which category an animal belongs to, you can easily make a search on this website by looking inside that category. However, there is another way of searching and that is by searching in an alphabetical order.
There is a great diversity found in animals and animals belonging to a species do not look the same when you compare them in different parts of the world. For example, you will be surprised to see the different sizes and features of dog varieties found all over the world. If you are interested in knowing more about your favorite breed of dogs, you can conduct a search on this website by choosing the category and then searching through subcategories till you finally get down to the breeds of dogs.
If you are fond of animals and looking for a good resource that gives you authentic information and interesting facts about various animals, this website presents you with a good option.


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Roman Polanski facts for kids
Polanski in 2007
Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański
(1933-08-18) 18 August 1933 (age 88)
Franco-Polish
National Film School in Łódź
Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist
Psychological, Surrealistic, Noir, Black comedy
Barbara Lass (m. 1959–1962, divorced)
Sharon Tate (m. 1968–1969, her death)
Emmanuelle Seigner (m. 1989—present)
Roman Polanski (born Rajmund Roman Thierry Polanski 18 August 1933 in Paris) is a movie director, producer, writer and actor. In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist.
Polanski was born in Paris, France but his family moved back to Poland in 1937. His parents were agnostics. Because the family was Jewish, they were persecuted by the Nazis in Poland and forced to live in a ghetto. Polanski's mother died at Auschwitz. He later went to film school at Lodz and graduated in 1959. Polanski won many awards for his short movies and went on to make full-length movies in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Polanski's first marriage was to actress Barbara Lass in 1959; they divorced in 1961.
While filming the movie Fearless Vampire Killers he met an actress named Sharon Tate. Polanski married her in 1968. In August 1969, Polanski was in London, and Tate was pregnant. Tate and some of their friends were murdered in Los Angeles, California, by people who followed Charles Manson.
Polanski dated Nastassja Kinski who later starred in his film Tess. Polanski's third and current wife is actress Emmanuelle Seigner, who is the mother of his daughter and son.
Images for kids
A well-known photograph of Polish Jews captured by Germans during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Polanski's star on the Łódź walk of fame
Polanski with wife Emmanuelle Seigner at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Polanski at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for The Pianist
At the premiere of Carnage in Paris, November 2011
Sharon Tate in the trailer for the film Eye of the Devil.
Roman Polanski Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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The Latest News from Senator Rosapepe's Office: May 2021
Vaccination on demand: Help for working families
Fighting the virus: It's been our top priority for the last year to:
• Push the Governor to provide free testing on demand, as well as allowing Prince George's and Anne Arundel to protect our citizens from exposure and the University of MD to test all students and staff.
• Bring more vaccines to our neighborhoods, creating waitlists to simplify signing up.
• Make sure seniors and people with preexisting conditions can get vaccinated.
Protecting our incomes, jobs, and small businesses: This year we passed legislation to expand unemployment insurance for working people, help small businesses survive, help struggling families pay rent, mortgages, and utility bills, and help the unemployed find new jobs.
Other Key Priorities
Police Reform: To protect law-abiding citizens from police misconduct and rebuild community trust for law enforcement, our police reform plan expands body cameras, boosts mental health services to help police, and overhauls officer discipline rules.
Helping our kids learn at school – and online: This has been a tough year for our kids. That's why making our schools safe, expanding tutoring to help students catch up, and ending the digital divide were top priorities for the Biden relief funds Maryland is getting.
Protecting senior citizens: To reduce strain on seniors and their families, the new telehealth law improves access to quality diagnoses, consultation, and care. We also provided $2 million to renovate Attick Tower Senior Apartments and $250,000 for Meals on Wheels.
Lower taxes for working families: Working families and small businesses carry too much of the tax burden. Big corporations like Amazon and Facebook pay too little. That's why we gave county governments power to cut local income taxes for working people – and why we overrode the Governor's veto of the Big Tech Tax.
Fighting Climate Change: Since clean energy is critical to protecting our planet, the legislature boosted investment in electric buses, geothermal, and other innovative technologies.
Supporting our community:
• Boosted state funds for local schools in Prince George's by $48.8 million and Anne Arundel by $11.4 million.
• $8.9 million for rebuilding Route One in College Park and $6.1 million for modernizing and expanding Route 175 in Odenton.
• To fix potholes and improve local roads, we approved $14.4 million for Prince George's and $8.1 million for Anne Arundel.
• $2.5 million for Laurel to build transitional housing for the homeless and help them get on their feet.
• More than $800,000 to improve the Trolley Trail and the bike paths under Route One and the CSX Tracks.
• $5 million for flood control in the Guilford Run watershed.
We worked together on all these initiatives:
• Enacting groundbreaking legislation to reduce health disparities, addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and expanding access to care, sponsored by Delegate Peña-Melnyk, Vice Chair of the House Health Committee.
• Allowing family members safe visits to their relatives in nursing homes during emergencies like the COVID crisis, Delegate Lehman wrote the new law with rules for all nursing homes.
• Delegate Barnes, Chair of the House Education Subcommittee, worked to direct Biden Rescue Plan funds to bring kids back to school safely and end the digital divide.
• Getting vaccines to our neighborhoods, doctors and drug stores, as well as hospitals, schools, and local health departments, championed by Senator Rosapepe, member of the COVID and Vaccine Oversight Workgroups.
Please let us know if you have questions or thoughts about these or other issues. and, of course, contact us if we can be of help to you, your family or your community.
The Latest News from Senator Rosapepe's Office: January 2022
From the Office of Council Member Tom Dernoga January 2022
From the Office of Council Member Tom Dernoga December 2021


The internal quality of the fruit determines whether it will be of good eating quality when it arrives at its destination in Europe, the US and the East, and is thus of the utmost importance. However, its external appearance will play an equally important role in marketing (the final step in the export process).
One of the biggest headaches that farmers have to deal with is that each and every piece of fruit must be picked by hand. Can this cumbersome process be made easier and thus increase productivity?
Various approaches, such as picking platforms and bin-on-ground systems, are in the process of being trialled in all parts of the country. One aspect that cannot be ignored is that orchard design plays a crucial role (but more about that later).
The Hercules picking platform range from Orchard Agrimek is designed for continual harvesting. Forks at the front and back ensures that bins can be lifted while driving. This also means that the workers can harvest without interruption. The platform has an important feature: anybody can harvest while standing on the platform.
Traditionally, only the stronger and younger workers were assigned to harvest using a picking ladder. The platform enables less strong people to take part in in harvesting, which means that more members from one family can work during the harvest season and earn an income.
The OSAM BL5 self-loading bin, with hydraulic rollers, can be used in conjunction with the platform to off-load up to 10 empty bins in the orchard rows and at the same time transport five filled bins to the loading dock. (This is known as the bin-on-ground system.) With this system, fewer tractors and bin trains will be necessary, and workers will not have to walk long distances to empty their harvest bags.
When used together, these innovations lead to a much more productive harvest programme. On farms that have implemented the system, an increase of up to 50 % have been reported by the delighted farmers.
The platform can also be used during the pruning season to facilitate and speed up the pruning process.
When planning and planting up new orchards, farmers should keep mechanisation in mind. Row widths, plant spacing and a level soil surface will play a big role when doing so.


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Choir Handbells Cantatas
Praise Team Acolytes Communion
Lent/Easter Services Advent Services Ushers
Christmas Eve Services Blue Christmas Greeters
Children's Choir Audio/Visuals
Lebanon FUMC Music has flourished and expanded over time to offer multiple ensembles expressing a vast array of musical styles; yet it is the commitment, dedication, and genuine feeling of family among our participants of which we are the most proud. Our vision is to provide a place of belonging to all who want to serve through music. Lebanon FUMC has a unique and widely accepting culture in worship, and we welcome musical styles from classical pieces and traditional hymns to current praise and worship songs and other expressions as diverse as the world in which we live and serve!
Praise Collective
Men's Chorale
W.O.W. Children's Choir
Palm Sunday - March 25, 2018: "Festival Sanctus" by John Leavitt
Windell Little,
From song leader in his hometown church at the age of 11, to rock band drummer in high school, to music major with an emphasis in piano and organ in college, Windell Little has enjoyed a multi-faceted musical background. Though he explored several career choices over time, Windell has always gravitated back toward church music. He came to Lebanon FUMC in 2006 to serve as Accompanist, then transitioned to Director of Music after three years. While Windell resides in Murfreesboro with his wife, Deanna, their son, TJ, and their two furry children, Chloe and Arthur, it is here that they have found their church home.
Songs We Sing
Singing along in worship is a blessing, especially when you know the songs! Here are some of our favorites we sing in worship.
Watch the
Do You Love Me Enough Not to Choose Sides?


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Alpana Station is just a hop step and jump away from Adelaide, making it a very do-able getaway escape. It is your ideal Flinders Ranges adventure destination! Alpana's sixty thousand acre 'big backyard' includes the spectacular scenery of the Heysen, ABC and Trezona Ranges, big gum-lined creek beds, waterholes and pine-filled valleys, making it perfect for camping and exploring on foot or bike and four wheel driving.
You will find the Alpana Station homestead 5km south of the historic town of Blinman which claims the highest Post Office in South Australia, the best example of Cornish mining technique left in Australia, the Big Kibble, as well as huge Miners Pasties, beef pies and Blinman Burgers. Alpana is just 55km north of Wilpena Pound, the geological jewel of the Flinders Ranges, and 35km east of the famous Prairie Hotel at Parachilna.
Alpana Station offers scenic camping sites, powered sites with Ensuite bathrooms, self-contained accommodation in the very comfortable shearers' quarters and the bush retreat serenity of Nungawurtina Hut. There's plenty to do on Alpana with two self-drive 4WD tracks including the challenging Mt Samuel Track and the scenic Sunset Hill 665 track, guided 4WD tours in their luxury Landcruiser, tag-a-long guided 4WD tours, two marked walking trails plus acres of land and kilometres of creeks to explore on foot or mountain bike, an abundance of wildlife and birdlife, and never-ending photo opportunities around every corner. It is also a great place to relax and do nothing!
Use Alpana as your perfect base to explore the property and surrounding central Flinders Ranges region. Visit the Flinders Ranges National Park, local gorges like Brachina, Bunyeroo, Glass and Parachilna, Mt Chambers gorge to the east, Public Access Route drives in your 4WD to mine and station ruins, and of course all the attractions of Blinman, Wilpena and Parachilna. After a big day there's nothing better than a cold beer or wine with a meal and to sit around the campfire with friends and family admiring the millions of stars.


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A quarter century of Open Doors
By Art Authority	| Jan 4, 2020	| Macworld, Print on demand, Recognition
You likely now know us as Art Authority, but we got our start 25 years ago today as Open Door Networks, Inc. On January 4, 1995, Open Door's founder, Alan Oppenheimer, left Apple Computer and Silicon Valley to move to Ashland Oregon and start a company to help Macintosh users experience a new communications and information system, "the Internet." Alan had helped build the original Mac's similar system ("AppleTalk") and hoped he could bring that system's user-focus, ease-of-use and security to Mac users as they joined the fledgling Internet.
The new company, and its AppleTalk-based Internet access system, was announced at Macworld in San Francisco on that day in 1995. It's been a long, strange, 25-year trip since then. Not only was the Internet just getting started, but a new publishing and e-commerce system called the world wide web was just being rolled out as well. Open Door helped Mac users, and Apple itself, not just surf the Internet and Web, but also publish on it by turning the Macintosh into a world-class Web server. A series of server utilities followed (WebDoor, HomeDoor, LogDoor and MailDoor). Open Door also hosted a number of the earliest web sites.
Reading the handwriting written large and bold on the world wide web wall, Open Door worked with Apple on utilities to help Mac users migrate from AppleTalk-based networks to ones using Internet (IP) protocols. The next sign post was pretty clear too, reading "Be safe out there." Thanks to its initial design, the Mac was already the most secure way to access the Internet, but Open Door's DoorStop Personal Firewall helped further secure Macs against an ever-growing variety of international Internet evil-doers. DoorStop, licensed by Internet security company Symantec, became the basis of a suite of Macintosh Internet security products, including the book "Internet Security for Your Macintosh."
Meanwhile, back in our home town of Ashland, Oregon, Open Door helped the city plan and roll out a city-wide fiber-optic network, and we used that network to provide free, wireless Internet access at the local Starbucks, perhaps the first Starbucks anywhere to provide that now-omnipresent service. We also used the network for one of the first-ever July 4 parade webcasts.
In early 2004, Alan and Open Door were asked to present a keynote talk, "A History of Macintosh Networking" at the Mac's 20th anniversary celebration. The presentation was again at Macworld, where the company had been introduced nine years before.
In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, the biggest change to computing (and society in general) since the personal computer. It was immediately clear that Open Door had a role to play with that world-changing device, but it wasn't clear what that role was. We had an app available day one of the App Store (iEnvision), and would introduce over 100 apps within the first year. But by the time of Apple's next game-changer, the iPad in 2010, it was clear that our classic-art viewing app was the big winner.
We just didn't know how big! Available again on day one, Art Authority for iPad would be featured by Apple many times, and win the Apple Rewind award as best reference app two years in a row. The educational version, Art Authority K-12, would be highlighted by Apple VP Phil Schiller in a keynote at the Guggenheim Museum, and iPhone and Mac versions would follow, along with a curated version for the Apple TV, Art Channel. The Art Authority database would grow to over 100,000 works of art from nearly 1000 museums.
We were pleased and honored by the difference we were able to make at this new intersection of art and technology. Things got even more interesting when the real art authorities found us. We ended up changing the name of the company to Art Authority LLC, acquiring the pioneering fine art retailer 1000Museums, and making major contributions to the art world in which we are now so firmly entrenched. Our museum-approved archival reproductions are second to none, and we've given back hundreds of thousands of dollars directly to the art world in the form of royalties. We've also sponsored an internship program for nine years running.
From dial-up Internet to fine art reproduction over a quarter century. Quite the ride. We can't wait to find out what the next quarter century will bring!
By Art Authority	| Nov 29, 2019	| Museums, Print on demand
In keeping with modern-day tradition, Art Authority and our 1000Museums brand of museum-approved archival prints would like to help you ring in the holidays with free apps and special pricing on our prints.
Our award-winning Art Authority for iPad and iPhone apps are FREE this weekend. So if you haven't already, please go out and get them. You can then browse the collection of over 100,00 classic works of art from hundreds of museums worldwide.
And what do you do after visiting the museum(s)? Go through the museum gift shop, of course. The 1000Museums gift shop is built into the apps, or you can get to it directly at 1000Museums.com.
And did we mention everything at 1000Museums is 30-50% off this weekend? And shipping in the U.S. is free!
So what are waiting for? Happy Holidays!
Congratulations Art Authority Intern Program Year 9 graduates!
By Art Authority	| Jun 13, 2019	| Education
For nine years running now, Art Authority has sponsored a college internship program. Our interns have usually been art majors with an interest in technology. This year they were technology majors with an interest in art. And they are graduating this weekend!
Brian and Miles, computer science majors at Southern Oregon University here in Ashland, have helped us make major progress in a new mobile app which we hope to be able to have available in the not-too-distant future. As part of the SOU computer science capstone requirement, they also earned college credit and gained real-world experience with both technology and art.
We've always said that we here at Art Authority live at the intersection of technology and the arts, and we're happy to have been able to provide yet another set of internships at that intersection, just coming from a somewhat different direction.
Congratulations Brian and Miles, and thank you for all your help!
Welcome Jamie Wyeth!
By Art Authority	| Mar 25, 2019	| Artists, Press Releases
As a user of our award-winning Art Authority app line, or a customer of our 1000Museums brand of top-quality reproductions (available through museum gift shops and 1000Museums.com), you're probably familiar with those parts of Art Authority LLC. Until today, you may have been unfamiliar with the third part of our business: Fine Art Custom Printing.
FACP, spearheaded by digital printmaking pioneer R. Mac Holbert, is our brand for fine art printing services for artists and photographers. Many FACP clients are renowned artists in their own right, but rely on Mac to hone their vision into the best prints possible.
Today we are proud to announce that we have worked with celebrated contemporary realist painter and third-generation artist Jamie Wyeth to make his works directly available through our FACP program and the new web site FocusOnJamieWyeth.com. Mr. Wyeth played an integral role in designing and developing his FACP offerings, from choosing and proofing the initial set of works available to the selection of the special high-quality paper to be used.
Jamie Wyeth, Dog under Lilacs in a Downpour. 2018. ©Jamie Wyeth, 2019
We look forward to additional work with Mr. Wyeth and with other artists of his renown. So expect to hear a lot more about Art Authority Fine Art Custom Printing in the near future!
Georgia O'Keeffe at New Britain
By Art Authority	| Feb 22, 2019	| Museums
Art Authority, through our 1000Museums brand, is pleased and proud we were able to help out with a great show opening today (February 22) at the New Britain Museum of American Art. It's called "The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art."
NBMAA asked us to create a number of framed reproductions of this quintessentially American painter's key works (along with prints and postcards for sale), and we were more than happy to do so. If you're anywhere near Connecticut's NBMAA, don't miss this show!
(Just in case you couldn't tell, these photos are of the reproductions in their gift shop, not the real thing!)
The show originated at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art before traveling to the North Carolina Museum of Art as well. We were privileged to work on the show at these too fine locations as well.
Be-Sure-You-Get-It-In-Time: Apps free this week
By Art Authority	| Dec 10, 2018	| Museums, Print on demand
As part of our Be-Sure-You-Get-It-In-Time sale, the award-winning Art Authority for iPad and iPhone apps are completely free this week. We're hoping all you last-minute Christmas shoppers will use the apps (or the 1000Museums.com web site) to take advantage of the last few days you can order our 1000Museums archival prints and get them in time for Christmas* at great sale prices (30% off through promotion code INTIME30).
So, if there's anyone left on your gift list (and we're betting there is), please download the apps (if you haven't already), go to the built-in 1000Museums Gift Shop, and put in your orders. After that you can enjoy the apps for free throughout 2019 and beyond.
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Celebrating two years of (even more) giving back
By Art Authority	| Jul 21, 2018	| Community, Print on demand
Free apps! Half off on all prints! This weekend only!
Why? Here at Art Authority we're proud of how we've been giving back to the art community. Starting with an app in the App Store the day that store opened ten years ago, we've provided art lovers worldwide with access to over 100,000 classic works of art, university art history classes with (literally) a new way of looking at art, and K-12 teachers with the ability to involve their students with art in age-appropriate ways, including through free lesson plans. We authored a paper on evaluating the importance of art in the Internet era, and are in the eighth year of our summer-intern program for art majors.
And now we have something else to really celebrate:
As of July 22, we're celebrating two years since we acquired 1000Museums.com and the associated relationships with the artists and institutions that create and care for the art we all love so much. In those two years we have now given back, mainly in the form of royalties on prints we've sold, over $250,000. One-quarter of a million dollars has gone to helping current-day artists, artists estates and art museums big and small further their important missions of community, education, preservation and beauty. Some of the relationships we're most proud of include:
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You may be skeptical, but we love paying royalties. We get so much in return, starting with the ability to offer the highest quality curator-approved prints. The more royalties we pay, not only do artists and museums keep doing great things, but the more product that means we've sold. And the more product we've sold, the more great art is in the hands of our customers, and the more money we have to work with additional museums and pay still more royalties.
We hope to keep this impressive virtuous circle going indefinitely, paying more and more royalties to more and more institutions. As part of that plan, and to celebrate our two-year successes, through July 22 only, we're putting all prints on 1000Museums.com on sale for an unheard of 50% off.* Please help us give back the next $250,000 and help yourself to some of the best in fine-art reproductions in the process.
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Celebrating giving back, part 1
By Art Authority	| Jul 19, 2018	| Community, Museums | 1 Comment
As part of our ongoing 2-year anniversary celebration, the award-winning Art Authority for iPad and iPhone apps are now completely free through this weekend. Just another way we're giving back to the art community. But free apps are just a very small part of on our giving back, so keep watching this space. Here's a big hint for you:
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Q: I can't find a dynamically created RadComboBox i create some RadCombobox dynamically. After the User choose, i try to get the value from RadComboBox. But i can't find the Control.
This is my Code:
asp.net:
    <asp:Panel ID="pnlErsteMenuesAnlegenSchritt3" runat="server">

        <telerik:RadButton ID="rtbnMenuElementeHrefEingabeVerarbeiten" runat="server" Text="Weiter" OnClientClicking="CollectMenuElementeWithHref"></telerik:RadButton>
    </asp:Panel>

vb.net:
    Public Sub MenuHrefAnlegen(ByVal endVal As Integer, ByVal strArrQuerystring As Array)

    Dim width As String = "width:199px;"
    Dim count As Integer = 1
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim startval As Integer
    startval = 1
    For i = startval To endVal
        'erzeuge menü element

        Dim combo As New RadComboBox()
        combo.ID = "rcbHrefAuswaehlen" & count
        combo.EnableLoadOnDemand = True
        combo.Skin = "Metro"
        combo.Items.Insert(0, New RadComboBoxItem("Über uns", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(1, New RadComboBoxItem("Baufinanzierung", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(2, New RadComboBoxItem("Denkmal-Immobilien", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(3, New RadComboBoxItem("Photovoltaik", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(4, New RadComboBoxItem("Assekuranz", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(5, New RadComboBoxItem("Kontaktseite", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(6, New RadComboBoxItem("Impressum", String.Empty))
        combo.Items.Insert(7, New RadComboBoxItem("Benutzerdefinierte Seite", String.Empty))

        Dim hfMenuElement As New HiddenField
        hfMenuElement.ID = "hfMenuElement" + count.ToString()
        hfMenuElement.Value = strArrQuerystring(count)

        MenuAusMenuPunktenZusammengesetzt.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("

" & strArrQuerystring(count) & "

"))
        MenuAusMenuPunktenZusammengesetzt.Controls.Add(combo)
        MenuAusMenuPunktenZusammengesetzt.Controls.Add(hfMenuElement)

        count += 1
    Next

End Sub

jquery:
           function CollectMenuElementeWithHref(sender, eventArgs) {
            var VID = $('input[id$=hfVermittlerID]').val();
            var obj = { ID: VID };
            for (var i = 1; i < 9; i++) {
                var hfVal = $('[id$=hfMenuElement' + i + ']').val();

                //At this point i get Null back
                var combo = $find("<%= rcbHrefAuswaehlen" + i + ".ClientID %>");
                var item = combo.get_items().getItem(2);

                if (hfVal) {
                    obj["pa" + i] = hfVal
                    obj["href" +1] = item.get_text()
                }
            }
            eventArgs.set_cancel(true);
            window.location.href = 'VermittlerBearbeiten.aspx?' + $.param(obj);
        }

I always get Null back.
var combo = $find("<%= rcbHrefAuswaehlen" + i + ".ClientID %>");

Has this something to do how i create this controls?
I hope someone can help my.
Thank you guys for reading :)

A: To find the RadCombobox .Please check whether you are calling the javascript after the control is created
var combo = $find("<%= rcbHrefAuswaehlen" + i + ".ClientID %>");//u r doing right

OR
var combo = $("[id$='rcbHrefAuswaehlen''"+ i +"']");

HELP

A: Please try with the below code snippet.
 var combo = $find("rcbHrefAuswaehlen" + i);

Full demo code
ASPX

    <title></title>

    <telerik:RadCodeBlock ID="RadCodeBlock1" runat="server">

    </telerik:RadCodeBlock>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

            <telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server"></telerik:RadScriptManager>
            <asp:Panel ID="pnlCombo" runat="server"></asp:Panel>
            <telerik:RadButton ID="rtbnMenuElementeHrefEingabeVerarbeiten" runat="server" Text="Weiter" OnClientClicking="CollectMenuElementeWithHref"></telerik:RadButton>

    </form>

ASPX.CS
protected void Page_Init(object source, System.EventArgs e)
{
    GenerateCombo();
}

protected void GenerateCombo()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        RadComboBox r1 = new RadComboBox();
        r1.ID = "rcbHrefAuswaehlen" + i;
        r1.Items.Add(new RadComboBoxItem() { Text = "a", Value = "b" });
        r1.Items.Add(new RadComboBoxItem() { Text = "aa", Value = "bb" });
        r1.Items.Add(new RadComboBoxItem() { Text = "aaa", Value = "bbb" });
        pnlCombo.Controls.Add(r1);
    }
}

Let me know if i am not understand your question.

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Some Themes in Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Theme of Persuasion in Persuasion
Like many of Jane Austen's novels what you see is what you get and the major theme of the novel is usually helpfully pointed out in the title! In Persuasion, Jane Austen presents Anne Elliot, her father, her sisters, her friends and her acquaintances in terms of their persuadability or 'unpersuadability'. Therefore, we are here invited by Austen to judge the characters of Persuasion within this narrow frame of reference provided by its title.
Anne Elliot's seven years of suffering arise directly from her having been persuaded by Lady Russell to end her association with Captain Wentworth. The cautious Lady Russell, we are told, regarded the connection with Wentworth as 'a most unfortunate one', and 'deprecated the connection in every light'. The central passage follows; in which we find the key to Anne's subsequent misfortunes:
Such opposition, as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could combat. Young and gentle as she was, it might yet have been possible to withstand her father's ill-will, though unsoftened by one kind word or look on the part of her sister; but lady Russell, whom she had always loved and relied on, could not, with such steadiness of opinion, and such tenderness of manner, be continually advising her in vain. She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing; indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it (Chap 4).
This is where the theme of persuasion is first raised and the plot develops from here. The second example of persuasion is largely devoted to attempts to persuade Sir Walter to live within his means. Lady Russell draws up plans to help the family economise: 'If we can persuade your father to all this, much may be done'. She has no success, and Mr Shepherd, 'who was perfectly persuaded that nothing could be done without a change of abode', is able to have his plan for retrenchment accepted, not on its merits, but because it seems to Sir Walter to entail the least sacrifice. They move to Bath because Sir Walter and Elizabeth 'were induced to believe that they should lose neither consequence nor enjoyment by settling there'. Louisa Musgrove tries to impress on Captain Wentworth the contrast between Anne and herself. She knows that Anne's persuadability has caused her to forfeit Wentworth's esteem. She is determined, therefore, to appear unpersuadable, at least temporarily. Anne overhears her making her point:
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person, I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it (Chap 10).
Wentworth responds with warm admiration, and the listening Anne can take his comment on what she fancies he must think of her earlier conduct:
It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character that no influence over it can be depended on. Let those who would be happy be firm (Chap 10).
This last comment is somewhat ironic in the light of the incident at Lyme when Louisa's vaunted firmness causes her to crack her skull!:
And instantly, to show her enjoyment, she ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He advised her against it, thought the jar too great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain; she smiled and said: I am determined I will; he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by half a second, she fell on the pavement on the Lower Cobb and was taken up lifeless (Chap 12).
We learn from Louisa that Henrietta is persuadable to the point of having no mind of her own:
And Henrietta seemed entirely to have made up her mind to call at Winthrop to-day; and yet she was as near giving it up out of nonsensical complaisance (Chap 10).
We can see clearly from these examples that persuasion is central to the novel and some critics find this limiting in that we, the readers, are being manipulated mainly to illustrate this abstract principle; or to make a moral point just as the writer of a traditional fable might arrange his or her materials. However, there is more to the novel and indeed the novel is most enjoyable when Jane Austen forgets about this notion of persuasion and entertains us with closely observed social comedy and satirical touches.
Snobbery
There are also a number of other subsidiary themes in Persuasion. All of Jane Austen's novels are social comedies, and much of the comedy arises from the follies and absurdities of her comic figures. At some points in the novel, the comedy takes on the harsher tones of satire, whose main victims are Sir Walter and Mrs Musgrove. Among the recurring sources of comedy and satire in Persuasion are Sir Walter's false pride, his exaggerated notions of his own importance, his condescending attitude to those he considers inferior to himself, and his vanity in his personal appearance. Sir Walter is sometimes described as a snob. This is a person whose ideas and conduct are prompted by a vulgar admiration for wealth or social position. There are elements of snobbery in sir Walter and Elizabeth. Both of them do, indeed, defer to those of superior social standing. Sir Walter wonders whether they should present the worthy Admiral Croft and his wife at Laura Place to meet Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret:
Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins, we ought to be very careful not to embarrass her with an acquaintance she might not approve. If we were not related, it would not signify; but as cousins, she would feel scrupulous as to any proposal of ours. We had better leave the Crofts to find their own level. There are several odd-looking men walking about here, who, I am told, are sailors. The Crofts will associate with them (Chap 18).
Sir Walter also displays another prejudice of the snob: contempt for those below him on the social scale. Anne has been visiting Mrs Smith with the approval of Lady Russell, but Sir Walter is disgusted:
A widow, Mrs Smith, lodging in Westgage Buildings! A poor widow, barely able to live, between thirty and forty – a mere Mrs Smith – an every day Mrs Smith, of all people and all names in the world, to be the chosen friend of Miss Anne Elliot, and to be preferred by her to her own family connections among the nobility of England and Ireland! Mrs Smith – such a name! (Chap 17).
In Sir Walter, we are presented with a portrait of the quintessential egotist. His self-esteem and self-contemplation make it easy for us to label him a narcissist; proud of his fine appearance, anxious to preserve it, and frequently admiring it in his large collection of mirrors! Jane Austen damns him with faint praise:
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter's character – vanity of appearance and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth, and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot who united these gifts was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion (Chap 1).
Physical Beauty
Another recurring theme in Persuasion is introduced in the opening chapter, where we learn that 'a few years before, Anne had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early'. In a sense, Persuasion is about the loss and return of youthful beauty and vigour. Again and again, we find references to physical appearance, the ravages of time, the vain struggle to avert its consequences. Sir Walter thinks Elizabeth and himself,
as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else; for he could plainly see how old all the rest of his family and friends were growing. Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting; and the rapid increase of the crow's feet about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him (Chap 1).
On the steps at Lyme, Anne, 'the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind', wins the admiration of Mr Elliot and Captain Wentworth. The latter seems to see 'something like Anne Elliot again'. The 'new' Anne Elliot appears in all her radiance as she is finally secure in Wentworth's love, 'glowing and lovely in sensibility and happiness and more generally admired than she thought about or cared for'.
Old Age/Human Decay
The theme of advancing age and human decay are underlined in the numerous references to the rhythms of nature. The following is an impressive example; the reference is to Elizabeth:
Thirteen winters' revolving frosts had seen her opening every ball of credit which a scanty neighbourhood afforded; thirteen springs had shown blossoms, as she travelled up to London with her father, for a few weeks' annual enjoyment of the great world. She had the remembrance of all this; she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty, to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever (Chap 1).
The Somerset chapters are also coloured by references to the autumnal landscape, which reflects Anne's moods as she waits, without much hope, for 'a second spring of youth and beauty' (Chap 13).
The visitors to Lyme are impressed by the romantic landscape, described in almost guide-book fashion, 'green chasms between romantic rocks, scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth'. They are also invigorated by 'the fresh-feeling breeze' by the sea. The most moving 'natural' passage is that conveying Anne's feelings as she prepares to leave for Bath:
An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion-house, or look adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless verandah, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart (Chap 13).
Passages such as these make Persuasion the most poetic of Jane Austen's novels. The descriptions are not there simply for atmosphere and background; in passages like the last one there is profound interaction between external nature and the mind of the character who beholds it; for the reader, Anne's mood becomes part of the gloomy November landscape.
Murray, Patrick. Persuasion in Inscapes 13, The Educational Company of Ireland, 1978
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Mary Stenson Shanahan says:
Nice piece Vincent. I was interested in how the novel plays out the themes of physical beauty with character traits and decision-making; the embodiment and loss of youthful looks and vigour and their potential rejuvenation through moral strength and self-determination. Seems not much has changed in that paradigm! I haven't read the book, but maybe 'persuaded' to after reading your succinct introduction. Thanks for a lovely read.
Vincent Hanley says:
Thank you Mary – revisiting some of those self same issues at the moment – look out for the next instalment!!


I was getting ready for bed the other night wondering how I was going to sleep. I had chimps on my mind. I had read about the incident in Connecticut in the newspaper; a 200-pound 14-year-old chimpanzee attacked a woman and had to be shot. The story was even more frightening than I expected and left a lot to the imagination.
The chimp was said to be feeling rambunctious on his last day. He was in his house, a regular house shared with his owner, and snuck off with the owner's keys to unlock the door and let himself out. The 70-year old owner called a friend to come help corral him. She arrived via car, got out of the car, and the chimpanzee just had at her in a devastating animalistic silence of the lambs kind of way. The owner grabbed a kitchen knife, stabbing the chimp to get him to stop. He would not. She called 911. The police arrived. The chimp took off the passenger's side mirror of the police cruiser with one swipe. Then seeing an officer in the driver's seat the chimp went around to that side of the car, opened the door, and set on the officer.
I once photographed a chimpanzee. It's not the kind of job you want to fess up to having done. I was just starting out and doing work for an academic client. One of the professors was having a birthday party for his daughter and my client twisted my arm to help out the professor by photographing the party. The event for the party was the visit of a trained chimpanzee not unlike the one in the story above. The chimpanzee came from Long Island; did commercials, movies, parties on the side, and had business cards. The chimp was probably a better set up business than I was at the time.
The apartment was a typical New York City more contemporary apartment. A long hallway with bedrooms and a bathroom off it, a larger room that was a combination of living room and dining room. I have no memory of how the kids reacted or whether they enjoyed the entertainment. What I do remember is feeling terrified. The chimpanzee came out of a back room and into the long dark hallway. The owner was holding his hand. The chimp was on roller skates and when he entered the larger room where the party was the owner let go. The chimp started circling the room, drawing a perimeter around the kids. I'm sure he did stuff. I'm sure had sat down at some point and made silly faces. I'm sure the kids laughed. But what I remember most is him skating around the room faster and faster, his long arms flailing about, skating with an erratic rocking pattern, and the fear brought on by the sense of the lack of control in the room.
The day after I read about the current story I saw on my browser home page a link to CNN's story of the situation. Since it was a day later, they had the 911 call to hear. That's alright, I don't need to go there.
February 26, 2009 – Article in the New York Times, My Monkey, My Self, on people who keep monkeys and apes as pets. Disturbing to say the least.
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. Forgot about your run-in this summer.


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Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease
Sonia Michail, James F. Collins, Hua Xu, Stuart Kaufman, Jon Vanderhoof, Fayez K. Ghishan
Children's Research, Center of
Physiological Sciences - GIDP
Background: Microvillus inclusion disease is a congenital disorder characterized by secretory diarrhea. Patients demonstrate villus atrophy, loss of microvilli, and internalized inclusions of microvilli within the cytoplasm of small intestinal enterocytes. The exact molecular defect in these patients is not known. Two infants are described in this report with microvillus inclusion disease. Case I was a 3-month-old boy who developed secretory diarrhea shortly after birth. Case 2 was a 9-month-old boy who had abrupt onset diarrhea at 2 weeks of age resulting in weight loss and dehydration. Light microscopy revealed total villus atrophy with minimal crypt hyperplasia, and electron microscopic examination revealed variably shortened microvilli and cytoplasmic microvillus inclusions in both patients. Methods: Poly (A)+ RNA was purified from duodenal biopsies and RT-PCR reactions were performed. Normal human intestinal RNA was used as a positive control. Primers specific for human NHE-1, NHE-2, NHE-3 (2 sets), sodium- glucose transporter (SGLT1), and β-actin were used. Results: Results showed that NHE-1 and β-actin cDNAs amplified to similar levels in both patient and control samples. However, the expression of NHE-2 and SGLT1 was much higher in the control sample than in the patient samples. Additionally, NHE-3 mRNA was not detected in the patient samples using two sets of NHE-3 specific primers. Conclusions: The patients with microvillus inclusion disease have defects in apical but not basolateral membrane transport systems, and these defects are related to the pathogenesis of the disease.
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Reverse transcription
Sodium-hydrogen exchanger
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Michail, S., Collins, J. F., Xu, H., Kaufman, S., Vanderhoof, J., & Ghishan, F. K. (1998). Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, 27(5), 536-542. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005176-199811000-00008
Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease. / Michail, Sonia; Collins, James F.; Xu, Hua et al.
Michail, S, Collins, JF, Xu, H, Kaufman, S, Vanderhoof, J & Ghishan, FK 1998, 'Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease', Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 536-542. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005176-199811000-00008
Michail S, Collins JF, Xu H, Kaufman S, Vanderhoof J, Ghishan FK. Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. 1998 Nov;27(5):536-542. doi: 10.1097/00005176-199811000-00008
Michail, Sonia ; Collins, James F. ; Xu, Hua et al. / Abnormal expression of brush-border membrane transporters in the duodenal mucosa of two patients with microvillus inclusion disease. In: Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. 1998 ; Vol. 27, No. 5. pp. 536-542.
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Scarborough's Adonis (from Québec, and part of the Metro family) falls into my category of visiting local grocery stores when travelling. While many fetishise the food scene, latest and greatest restaurants, and by some miracle, receive an actually good word-of-mouth spot or top 10 (highly curated and self-congratulatory) TripAdvisor suggestions, nothing gives me more pleasure than walking up and down the aisles of this local – my middle-aged idea of fun (I used to be fun, sigh) – maybe my three-kid, constant marathon existence, is elevated by my blissful grocery store wanderings. In these moments, I realise the inspiration for zombie movies – I have become one.
My kids generally hate doing errands with me (because I'm not fun anymore), so I've changed the name from errands to food adventures. Seems to work. I'm tired of the new status quo where all parents need to be their kids' entertainers – somehow we've failed as parents if we don't give our kids the space to grow untethered and expand their imagination. Take away their screens, I say. Take them to Adonis.
Bread is fundamental. It unites and connects us in the present, and to our past. Despite what bread has become, in commercial ovens across the globe, warm, fresh bread still has the power to penetrate deeply into all our senses and memories. It comforts us. That is one of the many reasons I love Adonis (despite barely being able to digest wheat anymore).
While I should be quietly protesting yet another mass-produced, factory-made, non-artisan-barely-resembling-food-product, here, it is magic.
Here, it is the heart of this grocery store body-of-perfection – the pita is Adonis. My kids are mesmerised. I'm brought back to my polka-dot-behind-the-door childhood of watching how things work.
We wait silently beside the entrance to this brilliant and gleaming, clear, acrylic structure smack in the centre of the store – inside, the twisting, multilevel conveyor belt highways carry flat raw discs on their journey from dough to emerge from the raging hot ovens as puffed pillows of pita perfection.
Out of Hades' heat and covered in a fine dust of white flour, a baker comes to the door – he knows why we are here, and I feel a touch of shame that the bags of pita baked 30 min earlier simply won't do for my west-end secretly hipster self.
I drop my head slightly, and with the weight of not wanting to disappoint my kids, I say, "Four bags…please?" Wordlessly, he hands them over and I feel a surge of victory. I can't rip the bag open fast enough. I frantically head to the rows of hummus, open the cap, rip off a piece of the still warm pita, take a giant scoop, and urgently shove it in my mouth. Oh yeah, and then I give some to my kids – there is nothing civilised about this moment, and I am unapologetic.
Usually, I avoid the centre of a grocery store. It is the place where the evil, processed-almost-resembling-foods lie. I'm tired of having to fight hidden sugars and all corn-related by-product ingredients patiently hiding in my cookies only to surface years later as something carcinogenic – these are the dark sections of the grocery store where my soul turns grey. This is not my experience at Adonis.
Each aisle is another playground of tastes and excitement for me – pyramids of olive oils, mountains of fresh Ontario produce, glistening rows of olives, fresh nuts, feta cheeses, and endless fields of baklava, tanned and perfectly flaky, crunching, dripping in honey and roasted pistachios – there is real food here.
This is where, at long last, I found THE best za'atar and couscous in the city – and an honourable mention to fresh grape leaves, I've been looking everywhere. I need them for my homemade fermented pickles!
Mythological Adonis – the embodiment of youth, virility, and perfection. The bar is set high for us mortals, from which we can all measure our own insecurities (well, my deeper insecurities, anyway – sometimes I hate mythology!) where many brave souls dare to venture, the clouds open and a beam of light shines down on the torch at the corner of Warden and Eglinton. You can almost hear the choral crescendo as the light beams through, and every time I leave, I'm already planning my next trip.
EZRA BRAVES is the founder of Ezra's Pound and the president of The Espresso Institute of North America.


The 14th most popular all terrain vehicle trail in California.
In southeastern Riverside County near Palm Springs, the Bradshaw Trail is a 70 mile graded dirt road with sandy sections that is open to ATV riding.. This east-west trail begins about 12 miles east of the community of North Shore near the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. Its eastern end is about 14 miles southwest of Blythe near the Colorado River.
To reach the Western ATV riding trailhead near Mecca, CA take Hwy 111 south to Salton Sea Recreation Area. Across from Park Headquarters is Parkview Dr. Turn left onto Parkview and go about 1.7 mi. Take another left on Desert Aire for about a half mile to the canal road aka Dos Palmas Spring Rd. Follow this for about 10 mi to Drop 24 and the beginning of the Bradshaw Trail.
The Bradshaw Trail is now a 70-mile dirt road periodically graded by the Riverside County Transportation Department. Four-wheel-drive vehicles are recommended due to stretches of soft sand.
The trail traverses mostly public landand offers spectacular views of the Chuckwalla Bench and the Orocopia, Chuckwalla and Mule Mountains.
Overall, Bradshaw Trail is the 14th most popular ATV riding trail of all 106 ATV trails in California. Several of the better atv trails are nearby Bradshaw Trail including San Gabriel Canyon OHV Area, Rowher Flat OHV Area, Hungry Valley State Recreation Area, Forest OHV System / Big Bear OHV, Big Bear Lake - South and Big Bear Lake - North.
Local Contact(s): BLM (760) 251-4800; California Tourism (916) 444-4429; Academy ATV/Dirt Bike Rental (619) 840-0057.
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Home World News Russia Rostec manufactured a frameless body for an EgyptSat-A satellite
Rostec manufactured a frameless body for an EgyptSat-A satellite
Rostec manufactured a frameless body for an EgyptSat-A satellite. Image source: YouTube
ORPE Teсhnologiya named after A.G. Romashin, part of Rostec State Corporation, has manufactured the frameless body of the Egyptian EgyptSat-A spacecraft. The satellite, launched on February 21 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, is the third Russian spacecraft with a hull manufactured with this unique technology.
The Obninsk enterprise's technology is involved in manufacturing a frameless satellite body. The design features of the body allow it to accommodate thermal control panels with built-in power elements, increasing the space inside the satellite, which can be used to accommodate additional equipment. The weight of a spacecraft with a body of this type is 15% less than its frame analogs, and assembly with the required accuracy can be done in less than an hour.
"Frameless satellite manufacturing technology is the enterprise's own technical solution, implemented in cooperation with partner TAIS. It allows you to minimize labor costs and reduce assembly time, as the design and creation of the finished product takes less than three months from the receipt of the specs. Previously, the assembly process alone could take up to six months. This is a significant advantage in the implementation of large-scale projects to create orbital satellite groupings," said Andrei Silkin, ORPE Technologiya general director.
The EgyptSat-A satellite was manufactured for the Egyptian National Agency for Remote Sensing of the Earth. It is equipped with modern optical electronics with high spatial resolution. The spacecraft can film in the visible and infrared spectra in the panchromatic (black and white) and multispectral ranges. The satellite has an improved optical-electronic system and an on-board control complex, a high-speed on-board radio link and modernized solar panels. The mass of the device is about one ton. The lifetime of the satellite in orbit is 11 years.
"Rostec and its Egyptian partners have long-standing and mutually beneficial relations in various fields. We welcome the achievements of Egypt in space exploration," said Viktor Kladov, director for international cooperation and regional policy. "Rostec has a wide range of competencies and extensive experience in the development of the space industry, and we are open to expanding and strengthening collaboration in this area."
Rostec continues to implement a large-scale program for the development of civilian production under its approved Development Strategy, the main objectives of which are to increase revenue by an average of 17% in ruble terms through 2025, increase the share of civilian products in its revenue to 50%, and increase operational efficiency and yield on fast-growing global markets.
ORPE Teсhnologiya is engaged in applied research and innovative developments in the field of new materials, unique designs, and technologies. Obninsk Research and Production Enterprise Technologiya manufactures products from polymer composite, ceramic and glass-like materials for aviation, rocket and space equipment, transport and weapons. Production of high-strength glazing for railway transport is a vivid example of the effective use of military developments for the needs of civilian industries.
Rostec Corporation is a Russian corporation that was established in 2007 to facilitate the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products designed for civilian and military applications. The Corporation comprises over 700 organizations that are currently part of eleven holding companies operating in the military-industrial complex and four holding companies working in civilian industry, as well as over 80 directly managed organizations. Rostec's portfolio includes well-known brands such as AVTOVAZ, KAMAZ, Concern Kalashnikov, Russian Helicopters, VSMPO AVISMA, UralVagonZavod, etc. Rostec companies are located in 60 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and supply products to the markets of more than 100 countries. In 2017 the consolidated revenue of Rostec reached 1 trillion 589 million rubles, while the consolidated net income and EBITDA amounted to 121 and 305 billion rubles respectively. In 2017 the average salary in the Corporation was 46 800 rubles. According to Rostec strategy, the main objective of the Corporation is to ensure that Russia has a technological advantage in highly competitive global markets. Rostec's key objectives include the introduction of a new techno-economic paradigm and digitalization of Russian economy.


Welcome to Carnarvon Ball Club!
We are Vancouver Island's largest baseball and softball organization!
Carnarvon offers Baseball and Softball programs to boys and girls from ages four to 24. In addition to our regular Spring season, both Baseball and Softball offer Fall Ball and skills-development clinics in the off-season. Carnarvon Baseball also hosts elite summer all-star teams that compete for provincial and national championships.
Carnarvon Basketball provides basketball programs for girls. Depending on skill-level, players are placed on recreational or competitive Night League basketball teams. No basketball experience is required. Carnarvon Basketball takes place in local elementary and middle school gymnasiums.
Carnarvon operates in six parks throughout Oak Bay and Saanich in Greater Victoria: Fireman's, Allenby, Carnarvon, Henderson, Maynard and Windsor. Softball is anchored at Fireman's Park, while Baseball operates in the other five parks.
Our Club Sponsors are a big part of our success. They allow us to undertake projects, purchase equipment and improve our facilities. In return, our Sponsors get valuable exposure at our parks and on our website.
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