The Cat Fanciers Association has released its list of 2017's most popular cat breeds – and the results might surprise you.
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Since 1906, the CFA has been dedicated to preserving and promoting purebred cats while also advocating for the wellbeing of all cats. The association is the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats, giving them a unique understanding of the most popular cat breeds.
In March, the CFA released its list of the most popular cat breeds in 2017. These rankings are based on cat registrations between January 1st, 2017 and December 31st of the same year.
The Exotic takes the number one spot for the fourth year in a row. This breed bears the distinctive flat face of a Persian paired with a low-maintenance short coat. These cats are known for their affectionate, gentle personalities.
This breed gets its name from its tendency to go limp like a ragdoll in your arms. Fluffy, blue-eyed Ragdolls are at once loving, intelligent, trainable, and playful.
British Shorthair cats are short, sturdy, and well-rounded in every sense of the word. They have round eyes, round heads, and densely-muscled bodies. Their personalities are initially reserved but later gentle and loving. They're easy-going cats who make an elegant and calming addition to the home.
One of the most distinctive breeds in the world, the Persian has a snub nose that makes them the feline equivalent of the pug dog. These sweet, cuddly cats are described as the "epitome of lap cats" and take life at a slow pace, seldom jumping or climbing. Their long coats require regular care to prevent tangling and matting.
These American cats make a big impact. They're large in every way with huge, fluffy paws, tufted ears, and are some of the longest cats in the world. They're intelligent, trainable, and make great family pets.
Click here for the rest of the CFA's 42 most popular cat breeds of 2017!
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OhPENMIIND DROPS HIS DEBUT ALBUm "PEACE AMONG WORLDS"
Any genre of music can feel like its overly saturated with similar artists once it reaches the peak of public interest. Hip Hop has found itself caught in this predicament. New artists are popping up constantly but few have the sound or appeal to stand out amongst the steady stream of homogenized artists. Luckily, once in awhile, we get a new artist that doesn't come across like he is trying to ride the coattails of anyone else and has a unique sound that old and new heads can listen to. This artist is Ohpenmiind and his debut album "Peace Among Worlds" is just what you need if you are looking for Hip Hop music that stands out instead of blending in.
The album kicks off with an entirely Spanish intro, Sustancia/Apoyo, that hits with high quality drums and production while Ohpenmiind does his best to set the tone for the album with a melodic cadence and a deep dedication to his heritage. The deep vibes set up by the first track are doubled down on with the next song "Lead" and Ohpenmiind uses Spanish and English to tell his story of struggle. The instrumental here feels so warm and the delivery is honest and forthcoming. This is a highlight of the album for those that love story in Hip Hop music. "Platicas con Wilson" is another dual language track that feels like a smoke session zone out track that gets you to think while you bounce to the instrumental and the Spanish flow hits a high point on this track. The D. Carter produced "Sueno Americano" might be the best song on the entire album. The production is bass driven and allows the album to get deeper sonically and sucks the listener deeper into the story of Ohpenmiind while the lyrics portray his story that somehow feels like its speaking for all of those that struggle to get their version of the American Dream.
The album goes back to an almost purely Spanish track, "Never Lose Hope" and Erico adds to the track with his deep tones and impassioned delivery. The song shines as an inspirational anthem to those that need something when it all feels lost. The next track, "Jerarquia/WIO", is a dope track that can get you smoking or drinking a nice alcoholic beverage while you reminisce about your upbringing while Ohpenmiind delivers his Spanish/English lyrics with an aptly laidback flow. The album feels like a complete EP at this point and could easily be wrapped up but Ohpenmiind adds more layers to the album and only enhances the previous songs. Erico comes back for the next track, "Little Drew Interlude", and switches up his flow to English and demonstrates that he is not a one trick pony.
The sleeper track, "Seattle/Tonopah" is up next. This is the track that could be the breakout song from the album. The dark sounding instrumental is a great base for Ohpenmiind to do his best lyrical exhibition. The hook is infectious and the way the song switches up feels like a Travis Scott influenced composition with its duality and unique approach. The most personal song on the track "Padre Santo" is next up. Ohpenmiind tells of personal struggles and gives insight and praise to his father and his upbringing. If you only listened to one song on the album but wanted to know and understand where Ohpenmiind is coming from then this is the song you would want to hear. The line, "My father drank tequila right from the bottle, he didn't need a chaser/ That's the same guy that made me realize I couldn't fucking change her" shows how honest Ohpenmiind can while being lyrical and poetic. The outro is titled for its namesake and Ohpenmiind does what he did to introduce you to the album, recites his personal story with Spanish lyrics and emotion that can be felt through the speakers.
This album is a great intro into a new artist. The album isn't overly produced like some can be, thus taking away from the organic appeal of the art, Ohpenmiind crafted a project where his lyrics, personal story, and talent can all coexist. There is also minimal features which allows him to stand out on his debut and not either be overshadowed by someone else. This also helps fans get to know who Ohpenmiind is before they start to hear him pop in some of their favorite artists'' songs, which is highly likely with a debut like this. If you love Spanish language Hip Hop or just want something new we recommend that you check out "Peace Among Worlds" from Ohpenmiind today!
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MediaTek Dimensity 800 SoC with integrated 5G modem goes official
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During the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2020 event held in Las Vagas, MediaTek has announced a new mid-ranger chip known as Dimensity 800 which is built upon a 7nm process.
This will be the third SoC in MediaTek's "Dimensity" series chip which currently consists of Dimensity 1000 and Dimensity 1000L. It is expected to power most of the upcoming budget-friendly 5G smartphones.
The Dimensity 800 SoC comes with an integrated 5G modem which is capable of supporting both standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) sub-6GHz networks. It also supports 2CC carrier aggregation that touts 30% wider coverage.
Some other interesting aspects in terms of connectivity include it's support for 2G/4G/5G multi-modes, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) and Voice over New Radio (VoNR). According to MediaTek, the Dimensity 800 is able to achieve an impressive download speed of up to 3.5 GB/s a maximum upload speed of 1.25 GB/s.
Under the hood, the Dimensity 800 has an octa-core configurations consisting of four Cortex-A76 cores and another four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores. All of these units were clocked at 2GHz.
On the GPU side, there will be a Mali-G57MP4 which is of the same class as the one in Dimensity 1000 SoC. The frequency of it's GPU has yet to been disclosed at the time of publishing. Similarly, there will also be a piece of technology known as HyperEngine which improves the gaming performance for smartphones.
The image sensor processor (ISP) in Dimensity 800 is able to support up to a single 64 megapixels sensor or a 32MP+16MP dual-camera sensors. Last but no the least, there are also efficient algorithms for AI-autofocus, autoexposure, auto white balance, noise reduction, dedicated facial recognition and HDR.
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Auctions getting lost in Amazon's jungle
Amazon is quietly scaling back its once high-profile online auction business, a testament to its amazingly rapid ascent and decline.
By Troy Wolverton
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 31, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT
Amazon.com is quietly scaling back its once high-profile online auction business.
In recent months, the Seattle-based company has cut staff in its online auction department, reduced customer service dedicated to it and closed its live-auction affiliate, company and outside sources say. In addition, Amazon no longer has a manager assigned solely to auctions and has turned its focus to other e-tail businesses.
"I don't think they're putting a lot of effort into (auctions) right now, and I don't expect them to," said Jeetil Patel, a financial analyst who covers Amazon for Deutsche Bank Alex Brown. "If they're looking at areas to trim the fat, obviously this seems to be one of them," since revenue from auction sales is an "insignificant" piece of Amazon's business.
Amazon's withdrawal from the auction market is a testament to the amazingly rapid ascent and decline of the industry bellwether. Its auction site was launched to much fanfare two years ago, at the height of the Internet's commercial boom and the peak of the company's grand plans to expand its empire. Many analysts and industry observers predicted that with Amazon's marketing muscle and reputation behind it, the auction site would pose formidable competition for industry leader eBay.
Initially, Amazon's site seemed to have a lot of momentum. Unlike eBay, which at the time largely focused on small sellers, Amazon courted merchants such as Cameraworld.com and Gear.com to help jump-start its auctions. Industry analysts praised the move, projecting that revenue from business-to-consumer auctions would soon outstrip that from person-to-person auctions, eBay's bread and butter.
Less than a month after its auctions launched, Amazon bought LiveBid, which had allowed the broadcast of auctions live on the Internet, to supplement its auctions effort. And soon afterward, Amazon signed a ballyhooed 10-year deal with old-line auction house Sotheby's to create a joint site for the high-end of the market.
Amazon even caught a break from eBay. Soon after Amazon launched its auction site, eBay suffered through several multihour outages that left members fuming and threatening to take their listings to other auction sites.
But despite these advantages and positive reviews from buyers, sellers and industry analysts, Amazon's auction site never took off. Although the company says its auctions carry some 800,000 listings--which would place it second behind eBay--others estimate the total to be about half that number.
eBay's share of consumers' online auction spending rose from 57.8 percent in May 2000 to 64.3 percent in May 2001, according to Nielsen NetRatings. In contrast, Amazon's share fell from 3.2 percent to just 2 percent, placing it fifth behind eBay, uBid, Egghead and Yahoo.
Since redesigning its site last summer, sellers say the company has rarely promoted auctions as one of its featured stores. The importance of this is "extreme," said Rosalinda Baldwin, who heads up The Auction Guild, an organization that publishes a newsletter on the online auction industry.
"Unless someone knows Amazon has auctions, they won't go look for them," Baldwin said. "Amazon has totally marginalized their auctions."
The problems started early. Soon after the launch, many of Amazon's charter merchants pulled out of the venture, complaining of low prices for their goods and clueless customers who did not understand the auction format. Amazon struggled to clear the auction site of listings for illegal weapons and other controversial items. Sotheby's initially had trouble with customer service and shipping orders placed through its joint site with Amazon.
And although similar problems have hit eBay, the troubles seemed worse for Amazon because they ran against the company's reputation as an easy, family-friendly place to shop.
Last fall, Amazon and Sotheby's closed their joint site. And in February, Amazon shut down LiveBid as part of an overall corporate restructuring that included 1,300 job cuts.
Although executives say Amazon will stay in the auction business, it clearly is no longer in the company's limelight. Instead, at a recent conference with analysts and investors, Amazon touted other third-party programs, such as its deal with Toys "R" Us and its Marketplace initiative, which allows sellers to offer used or collectible books, CDs and other products on the same pages as Amazon offers its new goods.
Mike George, who now heads up Amazon Auctions as part of a larger role, said while there is less emphasis on auctions, they will remain part of Amazon's strategy. George also oversees Amazon's Marketplace, the company's zShops storefronts and its deals with Toys "R" Us and Borders. George succeeded Jeff Blackburn, who moved from head of Amazon Auctions to head of the company's digital initiative, overseeing music downloads and sales of e-books.
That was not the only personnel change. As part of its layoffs earlier this year, Amazon cut back on customer service dedicated to auctions, sellers say. Although the company still provides live customer support for its sellers--something eBay and Yahoo provide to few of their own sellers--the hours have been curtailed and no one is available on weekends, when many sellers list their auctions.
"That's the one place that Amazon really stood out," said Perry Calton, a seller from Lawton, Okla. "Amazon was providing something above and beyond what the other sites were providing."
George confirmed that the company cut jobs within its auction department but declined to give details.
"We as a company publicly let go about 1,300 people. No one escaped that," George said. "We have naturally seen a change in headcount around the company. Auctions was not unique in that regard. We are actually sized appropriately in auctions."
But the cuts prompted at least one high-profile defection among the sellers. eZiba.com, which sells handcrafted goods and is partially owned by Amazon, decided in April to begin auctioning goods on eBay after previously selling on Amazon. Although eZiba's sales on Amazon were successful, the company decided to move because "the people we worked with were no longer there," company Chief Executive Bill Miller said. "They laid off all of the people we worked with."
Amazon's vision for its auction site seems to have narrowed as well. Unlike eBay, which has expanded from its core collectibles market of beanie babies and Pez dispensers into used cars and Sun Microsystems servers, Amazon is moving in the opposite direction.
"Auctions answers a certain need," George explained, but that need is limited to the selling of items that are "truly collectible or truly rare."
As the company has scaled back in recent months, glitches have broken out. In one instance, Amazon had to credit some sellers after they did not receive promotions they had paid for. In another, bidders could not use the proprietary payment system to pay for their auctions. And this spring, technical problems caused dozens of auctions, zShops and Marketplace listings to disappear from the site.
There are additional problems that have not been widely reported, sellers say.
"Lack of customer support is extremely apparent," said Spencer Zink, an Amazon seller from Torrance, Calif.
Others lament that Amazon is retreating just when it could have taken advantage of fee hikes at other online auction sites.
Earlier this year, Yahoo started charging sellers to list their auctions for the first time, causing its listings to plummet. Then eBay raised its rates--leaving Amazon as an attractive option for cost-conscious buyers and sellers.
Amazon responded by essentially raising its own rates, initiating closing fees on sellers who used its proprietary payment service. Previously, Amazon exempted those sellers from its final value fees, which are based on winning bids. The move followed a rate increase last summer that left many sellers shaking their heads.
"I think they missed the boat when Yahoo dropped off the face of the Earth with their auctions," Zink said.
Highlights from some of the major online auction companies:
eBay launches AuctionWeb, an auction site
Total value of goods sold in first quarter through eBay reaches $10.25 million, exceeding all of 1996
Yahoo launches own auction site
eBay raises $63 million in an IPO
Amazon launches auction site
eBay suffers three outages in five days, including a 22-hour outage
eBay suffers 14-hour outage
Amazon opens zShops storefronts
Amazon opens jointly operated auction site with Sotheby's
Christie's scraps plans to build online auction site
Sotheby's opens online auction site, independent of Amazon
eBay buys fixed-price marketplace Half.com
Amazon quadruples fees on auctions and zShops storefronts
eBay adds buyer's fee to high-end auctions
Amazon and Sotheby's close joint auction site
Yahoo and eBay announce new fees
Amazon lays off 15 percent of staff, cuts customer support for auctions
Amazon begins fee for payment service
Amazon closes LiveBid, an auction subsidiary
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Amazon patches auction problem, pays fees
Amazon auction sellers face new fees, rules
Amazon, Sotheby's closing jointly operated auction site
eBay riding Net auction industry's wave
Yahoo confirms auction drop-off after fees
Amazon Streamlining, Expanding Auctions
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I'm Betting On Amazon.com
Amazon vs. eBay
EBay: First Beanie Babies, now the world
What Makes eBay Unstoppable?
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Where is Unsellable Houses Filmed?
Mirza Aaqib Beg
'Unsellable Houses' follows two real estate consultants, Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb, who use their experience and skills to renovate unmarketable houses to help desperate homeowners finally make a sale. The twin sisters go around different places in the Pacific Northwest to give viewers their perspective on renovation and help them learn the ins and outs of a complete home makeover. The viewers may be enthralled by some of the beautiful locations in the series and want to know more about them. If you are also curious about the same, then we have got you covered.
Unsellable Houses Filming Locations
'Unsellable Houses' is filmed in the state of Washington, located in the pacific northwest. The state has numerous alluring natural locations like Mount Rainier, The Hoh Rainforest, Mount Saint Helens, North Cascades National Park, and Palouse Falls that attract a large number of tourists to the state. When it comes to its entertainment industry, the city is a prominent filming destination.
Movies that were filmed in the state include 'The Ring,' 'Harry and the Hendersons,' 'No Retreat, No Surrender,' 'Die Hard 2,' and many others. Filming for the show is only limited to two cities in the state, so let's have a look at them.
Snohomish, Washington
The principal photography for 'Unsellable Houses' is done in Snohomish, Washington. Located in the Snohomish County, the city was founded back in the nineteenth century. Every summer since 1913, the city hosts Kla Ha Ya Days, an annual festival that attracts huge crowds to the small town. The hosts were seen filming for 'Unsellable Houses' with protective masks and face shields, so it seems that the production was done in accordance with the COVID-safety norms.
Despite being a small city, Snohomish has been used as a filming location for numerous movies and television shows in the past. The long-list includes 'Captain Fantastic,' 'Bustin' Loose,' 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,' and 'The Fugitive.'
Bellingham, Washington, is also one of the filming locations for the show. Located in Whatcom County, the city is a popular tourist location, thanks to the easy access to North Cascades and the San Juan Islands. Bellingham's theatre culture goes back to the first half of the twentieth century. Bellingham Theatre Guild, Historic Mount Baker Theatre, and Upfront Theatre are some of its famous theatres. The filming for 'Unsellable Houses' season 2 wrapped up in the first week of March 2021, and Green House Homes shared the update with its followers on Instagram.
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Back in the bindery again after three weeks off bushwalking in northern New South Wales and south east Queensland. Time on the track is great for reflection and I've returned with ideas for new projects; some thoughts on a way forward for started but stalled projects; and an offer of some teaching at a small contemplative retreat in the Gold Coast hinterland. Spent this morning tidying up in preparation for an anticipated burst of activity, including cleaning up some bench weights that I picked up from an old wares shop on the way to the start of my first walk.
Delighted to find two BAO books waiting for me on my return - A Subversive Stitch and Snow Falling in Daylight - both by Queensland calligraphic and book artist Fiona Dempster. Some wonderful photographs of these (and other examples of Fiona's work) can be found here.


A Suffolk musician who is now married and has a daughter after overcoming blood cancer is appealing for young men to join the stem cell register.
Toby Leeming's life changed in an instant when he became unwell while on tour in America and was later diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
The Long Melford man, who is the founding member and co-writer of a band named Duologue, received a life-saving stem cell transplant and has gone on to marry his girlfriend Libby, who supported him during his treatment, and they have had a baby girl.
Toby has chosen to mark his recovery with a new music project called 'Future Present' and the band's debut single 'A Near Run Thing' is being released on Friday, November 30, in a bid to encourage more young men between the ages of 16-30 to sign up to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register.
Toby said: "When I wrote the song 'A Near Run Thing', it was me remembering how I felt when I was diagnosed.
Five years ago he fell ill in New York while on tour and his bandmates were all going home, but he had to go to A&E.
After returning to the UK some 12 weeks later he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
He was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy but was told that a stem cell transplant was his only hope of survival, but his brother wasn't a match.
Nine months later the Anthony Nolan charity identified a stranger who was a genetic match and Toby received a successful stem cell transplant at University College Hospital London.
While he was receiving treatment he was supported by Libby, who stayed by side throughout. Shortly after Toby was told he was in remission he proposed to Libby and they were married soon after.
After undergoing IVF due to Toby's treatment the couple welcomed a daughter, Margot, in August.
During his recovery Toby wrote and recorded the album 'Radio Therapy', which reflects upon his coming to terms with his recent illness and emotional journey back to health and echoes his gratitude to his wife.
In the single 'A Near Run Thing' his lyrics reveal: 'And every time that I woke, you were by my side. Well in them I must trust, but on you I can rely, I am the luckiest man alive'.
Rebecca Pritchard, head of register development at Anthony Nolan, said: "Toby's passion is heart-warming and his experience is powerfully reflected in his music.
"His recovery and personal journey is the happy story we hope everybody who receives a stem cell transplant will one day have.
"We are really happy Toby was able to find a matching donor and is sharing his experience, through music, to raise awareness for need of more people to sign up to the Anthony Nolan stem cell register – because every day five people will start their search for a matching stranger who might save their life.
Anthony Nolan saves the lives of people with blood cancer by matching them to people willing to donate their blood stem cells for lifesaving transplants.
Find out more about Anthony Nolan here.
To see a film charting Toby's journey to recovery and listen to the new single see here.


The title of Analia Saban's exhibition, 'Punched Card', hints not only at its subject – the history of computing – but also at a specific genealogy thereof: the jacquard loom, invented in 1804, which employed binary punch cards, empty or full, to mechanize weaving. In Tanya Bonakdar's ground floor gallery, two matching bodies of work, 'Pleated Ink' and 'Tapestries' (all 2018), capture the same subject – microchips and circuit boards from the 1970s – rendered in different mediums. 'Pleated Ink' are made of laser-carved paper inked and mounted on panel, whereas the 'Tapestries' are woven from dry black acrylic paint and linen thread. The works' titles identify each as a representation of a specific historical device: Pleated Ink (Computer Chip, TMS 1000, Texas Instrument, 1974) (2018) or Tapestry (256-Bit Static Ram, 4100, Fairchild, 1970) (2018). Blown up as large-scale paintings and tapestries, their pathways are recognizable as circuitry, though it is not clear why Saban chose these specific chips.
Upstairs, the same materials repeat: there are circuit boards wrapped in distressed canvas and a couple of magnetic core memory chips rendered in acrylic paint, which has been dried, rolled and woven through a mesh of linen thread like wires through a toroid. These are simply referred to as 'circuit board compositions', though one is identified in the press release as a recycled motherboard from a dating app.
The irregular, novel use of materials on display here is in keeping with Saban's larger body of work, in which she explores the tension between medium and form. In Saban's hand, marble becomes a soft, droopy matter (Draped Marble [St. Laurant, Bianco di Carrara], 2015); canvases are left un-stretched (Paint Rag, 2015); and paint bulges out from a canvas that contains it like a sack (Discharge #2, 2013). These works all subvert common properties of materials closely associated with art history. While some references remain present here – the all-over black 'Pleated Ink' series, for example, bring to mind Ad Reinhardt's abstractions – the representation of technology in these works marks a departure from Saban's pure formalism, allowing her to engage directly with material histories that her other works imply.
In the late nineteenth century, a computer was a job – a person who performed calculations. Computers were so often women that when computing machines were invented during World War II, their units of power were called 'kilogirls'. For girl-power to be used like horsepower, and for a traditionally feminine trade like weaving to be a first site of industrialized production, testifies that questions of technology have always been questions of labour, gender and their place in society. Saban's material references thread these histories together, drawing attention to the labour behind the essential goods of modern life.
'Punched Card' is named for a specific textured object which, like the 1970s microchips represented within it, transmits information. Abstract paintings and sculptures, too, are information systems to decode. Here, as always in her work, Saban is preoccupied with the meaning embedded in cultural objects, and our ability to understand them.
Analia Saban, 'Punched Card' runs at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, until 18 October 2018.


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APRIL 3, 2011: 1968 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER-THE BEST 25TH ANNIVERSARY PRESENT EVER GIVEN
The 1968 Road Runner set the bar for affordable 1960s muscle cars.
Before the 'runners hit the Plymouth showrooms a 19-year-old kid had a better chance of dating Raquel Welch than owning a late 1960s monster ride.
These 2-door sedans with attitude changed the game so a kid working at Safeway had a great opportunity to buy one on approved credit and die in a high-speed crash before his first payment.
That was then-now they make great 25th wedding anniversary presents.
Just ask Gord.
Gord has always been a huge fan of the classic Road Runner era. He was thrilled when this car came up for auction last year. In a gesture that has to be rated as a front-runner "Wife of the Century" maneuver, Gord's wife bought this car to celebrate their 25th anniversary.
She has had health problems. These issues underscored how short life really is, consequently this car and the happiness that it brought to their marriage was far more significant than the standard silver spoon collection.
Gord takes that concept seriously-this is a milestone car bought to celebrate a milestone occasion and he gets the car out to as many shows as possible because the car showcases a bigger point. A happy marriage.
The car itself is rare-it has a vinyl roof- not an option that budget minded Road Runner buyers ticked off in 1968.
The car does retain its bare bones taxicab look with the poverty dog dish hubcaps, bench seat and 4-speed but it does have one major departure from factory stock-a 440 6-pack has replaced the original 335 horsepower 383 motor.
As Gord said, "That's the way I'd build it". But the biggest factor with this Roadrunner isn't how rare or how fast it is because…many times the story behind the car far outweighs the car itself.
This is clearly one of those times…
Jerry Sutherland
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Vampire Owl: So, we have Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Vampire Bat: Did you notice that it is the name of one movie with a very long title?
Vampire Owl: Yes, do you think that there will be stories which are that long?
Vampire Bat: It doesn't seem to be about separate movies, not something like an anthology.
Vampire Owl: But the impression given is that of an anthology.
Vampire Bat: Yes, but this seems to be a story in which there are stories written about real horror which happens.
Vampire Owl: Horror has always been real. It is the only original genre in the world. The rest are not that close to reality.
Vampire Bat: Yes, who can expect thrillers and romance in life?
Vampire Owl: But horror happens to everyone, and is very much real.
Vampire Bat: Yes, if it is not present, we can always volunteer to provide them.
[Gets a marble cake and three cups of cardamom tea].
What is the movie about? :: It is the later 1960s, and three teenaged friends, Stella Nicholls (Zoe Colletti), August "Auggie" Hilderbrandt (Gabriel Rush), and Charlie "Chuck" Steinberg (Austin Zajur), prank play a Halloween prank on the bully Tommy Milner (Austin Abrams) who had been bothering them for a long time. Tommy is not someone who would take this lightly, as he and his gang chase them with baseball bats, they run to a drive-in movie theater, where a young drifter Ramon Morales (Michael Garza) hides them in his car. As he makes sure that Tommy doesn't get them, he promises to have revenge on all of them sooner or later. Ramon becomes good friends with the kids, especially Stella with whom he has an instant connection, with a special interest in horror stories, and also connecting to her troubled past when her mother left her.
So, what happens with the events here? :: They decide to visit a haunted house for Halloween, where a girl named Sarah Bellows (Kathleen Pollard) had committed suicide. After a kid had gone missing, the place was locked down by the local authorities, but the group manages to get in, only to be locked in by Tommy along with his own girlfriend who is Charlie's sister, Ruth Steinberg (Natalie Ganzhorn). Stella finds a book which seems to be writen by Sarah who was mostly a recluse, and considered by people to be mentally unwell. She decides to take it home, but on that night, she finds out that the book starts writing all by itself, and it is done using blood. Soon, they understand that Tommy has gone missing, and by finding his t-shirt on a scarecrow, she realizes that he had become the new scarecrow after being attacked by the former scarecrow according to the book. Now, before it starts writing again, she has to stop it with her friends. Can she do that in time?
The defence of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark :: The movie is well-structured, and each death here becomes a special tale of supernatural murder when we look at them, connected by one which gets written by a supernatural entity which has terrible past behind it, that needs to be revealed. The idea is a really good one, and we are immersed in it, even without it trying to do the extraordinary. Everything here is kept pretty much simple, and you can always have time to admire some simple horror. The monsters are nice, beginning with the scarecrow coming alive, and going on to add more which relates to the worst fears of the victims. The Halloween setting is a fine beginning to the tale, and it continues to score well through the haunting in the middle, reaching to the end which is pretty well done, and leading to the option of a sequel being kept open. In the end, you have more than one story in your mind.
The claws of flaw :: There is not much unique being added here though, as this does remind us of other tales, and the predictability does come in, at times. There is not much of a character development around here, and the beginning moments are kind of drag, which could have been shortened to give this movie a better pace at the start. Even though the movie is based on Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a series of three collections of short horror stories meant for children, this could have had some special additions because this is the movie version, and visuals mean a lot of horror. The book is supposed to have drawn heavily from folklore and urban legends, and so anything more can fit in here and there. Then there is the Academy award winner Guillermo del Toro's name flashed as a producer, and your expectations are even higher, keeping this movie's level below that. Well, I still want a sequel to his Crimson Peak as soon as possible, just like Dredd always needed.
Performers of the soul :: Zoe Colletti plays the protagonist, and leads the way in a horror movie amazingly well, leaving us hope for a scream queen many years later. From the beginning with silly Halloween pranks, she is someone who leads the way through the murders, and does that without doubts. Michael Garza who plays the next important character also does well, from the very moment he gets to meet the other characters. The other kids who are being hunted by the ghost with a past includes Natalie Ganzhorn, Austin Zajur, Gabriel Rush and Austin Abrams, and they all provided good support. Gil Bellows who plays the police officer also has his moments. But as usual, the ones who scores the best are the monsters, and even the book is a fine character enough. When you make good monsters, you inspire better work from the cast, unless you have The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Nun group, which works anyway.
How it finishes :: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark shows that simple scary stories do come alive, and when it does, there is great scope for horror. There is no usual anthology here when you hear that it is about stories. There are no different tales coming together from different directors this time, like they have been doing for a long time. It does take an amount of such terror, and use it pretty well, with a cast which is not much known, and it works well enough with some interesting moments of monsters to go with it, as well as a past which is worthy enough for a good haunting. The idea to bring these tales and monsters are also nice, as it becomes not a usual horror story with spirits haunting us. It makes a fine thing for Halloween, and maybe you can watch it during the witching hours, with one monster after the other, as you even feel the need to write a horror story by the end of this movie.
Release date: 9th August 2019
Directed by: Andre Ovredal
Starring: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur, Natalie Ganzhorn, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint
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A tournament without referees, Football for Hope
Their rage at the first available FIFA official and the language in which the anger was articulated made understanding Bill Shankly's comment of football being more important than life and death easier.
sports Updated: Jun 29, 2010 01:00 IST
Dhiman Sarkar
It also explained why most of the media emptied out of a room where a FIFA press conference was being held, once the Football For Hope Festival came to be discussed.
That, after all, deals with issues like AIDS, teenage pregnancies, a child's right to education, alcohol and drug abuse among children, homelessness in the United Kingdom and integrating refugees into the Australian mainstream — all through football.
Football For Hope is a FIFA programme, started in 2005, where disadvantaged children are taught ways of a better life through the game they love.
The Football For Hope Festival will be held in the township of Alexandra from July 4-10 where 32 mixed teams of boys and girls from all confederations under FIFA will take part in a five-a-side tournament.
Among them are Magic Bus from India, a combined team of children from the Balkans and one put together by Israel and Palestine (The Peace Team). The third team from Asia is the Spirit of Cambodia and comprises players affected by landmines.
There will be no referees here because their absence encourages the children's personal development and mutual understanding.
"The time has come that football makes an impact in the lives of people," said Lucas Radebe, a project ambassador.
"Many of us have become role models through football and many kids are looking up to us so it only makes sense that we are involved in some kind of community development."
Growing up in a poor area in Soweto, Radebe said the only way was to play to succeed.
He ended up becoming a central defender who led Leeds United in the English Premier League and South Africa.
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Taylor Swift To Open the 2018 American Music Awards
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Taylor Swift will open the 2018 American Music Awards.
The 28-year-old singer made the announcement Tuesday. This is her first awards show performance in nearly three years.
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Swift is competing for Artist of the Year at the 2018 AMAs alongside Drake, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons and Post Malone.
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What is Violence?
A look at the role that violence plays in maintaining the hierarchies embedded into our social order, and the potential role it can play in fighting back.
What is Race?
A look at the historical development of race, both as an enduring system of codified power relations and a central pillar for the creation and maintenance of state power.
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Direct Action is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot when describing anarchist tactics…. and rightly so, since it's one of the main ways anarchists put our values of autonomy, self-organization and mutual aid into practice. So… what is it exactly?
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Class struggle, the struggle within and against capitalism, is an intrinsic guiding force of anarchist theory and practice. This video looks at the relationship which gives rise to this struggle.
What is Mutual Aid?
In a world ruled by ceaseless capitalist competition, where people are pitted to work against each other, anarchists offer a different vision: Mutual Aid.
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Anarchist critiques of the state include the underlying social relationships and ideologies that have historically been used to create states, and to uphold their authority. One of the most important of these concepts is nationalism.
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On our first episode of "A is for Anarchy" we look at the concept of Autonomy.


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Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
(CNN) - "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" has already amassed oodles of accolades, including a near-sweep at the Emmys. But the Amazon dramedy already feels as if its act is growing a tad stale, with the various subplots inspiring the sort of indifference that merely heightens pressure on the headliner.
Fortunately, that headliner is Rachel Brosnahan in the title role, and she remains sensational as the 1950s housewife who, in season one, discovered a knack for stand-up comedy, even inspiring real-life legend Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby, seen too sparingly in the episodes previewed) to take her under his wing.
While season two continues her progression, it also seems to magnify the shortcomings of a first season that -- while loaded with wit, Jewish cultural specificity and Rat Pack-era atmosphere, down to the production design and period songs -- managed to be good and yet somehow, almost instantly overrated.
Part of that has to do with series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's rat-a-tat dialogue, a longstanding hallmark of her shows (see "Gilmore Girls" and its Netflix revival) that, frankly, is either your cup of tea or isn't. The main issue here is that everyone speaks in roughly the same voice, making the characters less distinctive or believable than simply conspicuous proxies for the writer.
Sherman-Palladino still produces plenty of funny lines, from a wedding toast gone horribly wrong to a character announcing in a loud voice "Did you bring the bag of money we use to bribe people?" at a bank. Brosnahan's Midge takes a day job (amusingly, as a switchboard operator), visits the Catskills -- where Zachary Levi is introduced as a new character -- and keeps honing her act, despite the rampant and casual misogyny she encounters amid stand-up's male-dominated formative years.
The interludes involving the personalities around Midge, however, largely prove to be distracting detours, beginning with an unexpected sojourn to Paris. Even the terrific casting -- including Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle as Midge's parents, Alex Borstein as her manager and Kevin Pollak as her father-in-law -- is challenged by the broadness of their arcs.
Amazon, obviously, has already scored fabulously with all the awards recognition, and "Mrs. Maisel" has plenty of room to operate as the narrative finishes out the Eisenhower years.
Season two doesn't deviate much from the established routine, meaning those who wholeheartedly embraced the show initially should still find a lot to like. For others more unmoved by its charms, the choice is to accept "Mrs. Maisel" on its terms, or politely wish that the series and its fans have a long and happy life together.
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" premieres Dec. 5 on Amazon.


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Home > Journals > The Journal of Arachnology > Volume 44 > Issue 3 > Article
1 November 2016 The impact of UVA on the glycoprotein glue of orb-weaving spider capture thread from a diurnal and a nocturnal species (Araneae: Araneidae)
Sarah D. Stellwagen, Brent D. Opell, Mary E. Clouse
Sarah D. Stellwagen,1 Brent D. Opell,1 Mary E. Clouse1
1Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA; E-mail: sstellw@vt.edu
The J. of Arachnology, 44(3):401-404 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1636/M15-78.1
We compared the effect of Ultraviolet A radiation on the adhesive droplets of the diurnal orb-web weaver Argiope trifasciata Forskaal, 1775 and the nocturnal orb-web weaver Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838). We hypothesized that glycoprotein glue within A. trifasciata droplets will either be unaffected or will benefit from UVA exposure, whereas the glycoprotein of N. crucifera will be degraded by UVA. In both species, the volume of fresh droplets did not differ from that of droplets that were exposed to UVA for four hours, or from the volume of droplets kept in the dark for four hours. This documented that UVA did not affect compounds that confer droplet hygroscopicity. Both dark and UVA treatments reduced the relative toughness of droplet glycoprotein, though the reductions were not statistically significant, with the dark treatment exhibiting a greater decrease in relative toughness. This study suggests that ecologically relevant levels of UVA exposure do not affect the glycoprotein glue of orb-weaver capture silk.
Sarah D. Stellwagen, Brent D. Opell, and Mary E. Clouse "The impact of UVA on the glycoprotein glue of orb-weaving spider capture thread from a diurnal and a nocturnal species (Araneae: Araneidae)," The Journal of Arachnology 44(3), 401-404, (1 November 2016). https://doi.org/10.1636/M15-78.1
Received: 13 November 2015; Published: 1 November 2016
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Sarah D. Stellwagen, Brent D. Opell, Mary E. Clouse "The impact of UVA on the glycoprotein glue of orb-weaving spider capture thread from a diurnal and a nocturnal species (Araneae: Araneidae)," The Journal of Arachnology, 44(3), 401-404, (1 November 2016)


So, I wanted to try smoking my own sea salt. Admittedly, I only have my grill to smoke foods, so I knew I wouldn't get as concentrated of smoke flavor as I would if I had my dream electric smoker , but hey. The bigger problem, and one that I could not find anything to fix,was something to put the salt into. Most of the recipes I found said to put the salt in a pie plate. I wanted something that would allow the smoke to permeate throughout the salt, as well as something that I could use to grill small things in the future. So... I decided to design one.
Now I use a wet erase marker and the ruler to mark two inches in, to make the folds for the sides.
I fold along the ruler, making the corners into triangles.
And here is the fully folded box.
I still need something to hold the corners together and down; I've decided to hand-rivet the corners with brass rivets. It'll be safe for food, but soft enough I can do the riveting by hand. First I'll have to make holes for the rivets.
I punch through at the indentations.
Here I put the rivet thru the holes in one corner, and prepare to set it with a hand-riveting set.
Here's the box on the grill, with the wood smoking away.
And here's the salt added. None of it fell through at all!
A couple of hours later, the completed salt (still hot). The box obviously looks used/smoked, but it worked like a champ.


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Golubac or the City of Golubac is a monumental medieval fortress on the right side of Danube, at the entrance to Djerdap canyon. The first records of the fortress are from 1335.
There are different legends about the origin of the name of the city. According to the one of them in this place lived a beautiful maiden named Golubana and stories of her beauty have reached to the ears of an Ottoman pasha. Pasha wanted to marry her and he sent the proposal gifts to the girl, but Golubana refused them all. Pasha then ordered, as a punishment for the girl, to tie her on the rock hill above Danube. Golubana was tortured and then left to the birds to feast on her flesh. According to the other story, in the main tower that dominates the town, the Byzantine princess Jelena was imprisoned. In order to lessen the loneliness she started to tend the pigeons, in Serbian "golub", and so the city got its name. There are also those who claim that the city got this name because of numerous wild pigeons had been occupying the cliffs and some other story tells us that the name comes from the towers that look like pigeons on the rocky hill.
Although Golubac was placed on the high rocky cliff, it had been conquered many times. Fortress was in the hands of Serbian Tsar Lazar (according to some sources Serbs had only the surroundings of the city), and after the battle for Kosovo in 1389, the town was occupied by Turks, and soon after them by Hungarians. In 1403 Hungarians surrendered the city to Serbian ruler Stefan and according to the agreement, after the Stefan's death Golubac was to be returned to the Hungarians together with Belgrade. Because of some reasons, nevertheless, the city was surrendered to the Turks. Till 1867 Golubac was mostly in the hands of Turks.
After the First World War, the road was constructed trough the fortress and by the construction of the hydropower plant Djerdap the level of the Danube was altered and the lower parts of the island and city were submerged. In this place Danube is 7 km width and people have the impression like they are at the sea.
Since the fortress has been neglected for centuries, it is in a bad condition. It is not recommended to enter the fortress, for the wooden parts of the structure are retted and ruined. Accidents did happen: a girl died when the wooden rail she was reclining on broke off, and another student was hurt when the part of the stone wall she stood on collapsed.


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Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?! - Season 3 Standard Edition (15) Blu-Ray
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Released: April 3rd 2023
Classification: 15
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?! Season 3 contains episodes 1-13 of the anime directed by Hideki Tachibana.
The rules of the Dungeon always seemed simple: Enter, avoid traps, kill monsters and gather treasure. But when Bell rescues a young vouivre, Wiene, who is capable of speaking, it changes his understanding of what the Dungeon's monsters could be.
Unfortunately, the discovery of the Xenos, a secret group of monsters who all speak, reincarnate, and are capable of rational thought, isn't welcomed by all. With many of the Familias remaining determined to destroy all monsters on sight, Bell and the Hestia Familia quickly find themselves confronted on multiple fronts, even as other Familias work in secret to exploit the Xenos for their own sinister gains. And when the Xenos are forced to defend themselves, all hell breaks loose!
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ALLIGATOR special edition DVD on September 18th!
I can finally get rid of my beyond worn out VHS copy.
Alligator: Special Edition is heading your way from Lionsgate on 18 September. This warm and cuddly movie about a gator that gets flushed down the toilet as a tyke only to grow up into a Jurassic-sized mega-gator that makes mince meat of anything it sees will get a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix, a commentary with director Lewis Teague and members of the film's cast, and a new interview with writer John Sayles. SRP is $14.98.
Re: ALLIGATOR special edition DVD on September 18th!
Coolness! I don't think I have ever seen an unedited version of this film. I've always caught it on TV.
Do any of our British members have that?


The Sydney Cove left Calcutta, India destined for the British Colony of Port Jackson, New South Wales on 10 November 1796.
The merchant ship was loaded with Indian, Chinese and European goods set for sale after what was a journey of speculation: the crew would steer the vessel on a largely unexplored route across the Great Southern Ocean.
Wild seas and gale force winds sent the Sydney Cove entirely off course to the Furneaux Group; a collection of islands off Tasmania's north-east coast and some 1000 kilometres from the vessel's destination.
In February 1797, the Sydney Cove wrecked off what would become known as Preservation Island, and a tale of survival began.
What crew was left after the wreck established camp on the tiny island and soon a party of 17 left in a long boat to find help.
The group had intended to sail the boat to Port Jackson but high seas forced them to land early and trek through hostile terrain.
Four months later, three of the party arrived at its destination. The rest had succumbed to starvation and the elements.
A rescue party of two vessels was dispatched and on 10 June 1797 the remaining crew and what cargo had been salvaged from the Sydney Cove, were collected.
Adding further to a shocking tale of misadventure, one of the vessels, The Eliza, was lost at sea.
Although noted on a map by explorer George Bass in 1804, the Sydney Cove lay largely undisturbed in the icy waters of Bass Strait until 1977 when a team of dive enthusiasts examined the wreck. In 1978, in collaboration with the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service, QVMAG took possession of an anchor and canon raised from the site.
Over the next 16 years, cumulating in an excavation program over the summers of 1991-1994, QVMAG became the repository of all excavated material, including Chinese ceramics, Indian pottery, bottles, parts of the ship such as the rudder and rigging, leather hides and footwear, and foodstuff items such as animal bones, peppercorns and tobacco.
Within the materials recovered from the Sydney Cove are what is believed to be some of the world's oldest beer, wine and spirits recovered from a shipwreck. 37 intact glass bottles, of which 22 were still sealed with contents, were brought up from the excavation site. In 1993, the contents of some was removed and samples sent to the Australian Wine Research Institute in South Australia for analysis to determine their identity and condition. Rudimentary analysis was completed and the Institute's report identified the samples as red wine and beer.
Years later in a collaborative effort, it was decided it was time to apply new science to samples and began by examining the bottle contents under a microscope.
QVMAG managed to isolate and extract live yeast used to brew beer, allowing a taste not experienced for centuries.
Find out more about the Sydney Cove at the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.
The Sydney Cove Collection is on display at the Museum at Inveresk and represents significant examples of all excavated material from the wreck.
This includes parts of the ship, material used on board by the officers and crew, and importantly, examples of most cargo carried on board.
This cargo includes pottery, Chinese porcelain dinnerware, salted meat, leather, leather shoes, spices, indigo and other luxury goods and very large quantities of alcohol such as rum and gin in bottles and barrels. Due to the way the alcohol was bottled, some original beer or wine has survived 220 years under the sea.
In addition to the material from the ship itself the collection also includes material excavated from the survivors' camp on the island including bricks, pottery and animal bones.
While QVMAG has an extensive amount of objects from the wreck, much of it such as remaining hull timbers and cannons remain on the sea floor.
The Sydney Cove's contents included tea, rice and tobacco plus more than 30,000 litres of highly-prized alcohol. The icy waters of Bass Strait allowed yeast in these sealed bottles of beer to stay alive for far longer than any previously known yeast.
Following excavation of the wreck between 1977 and the 1990s, QVMAG obtained the ship's objects including beer bottles for its collection, many of which are now on display at Inveresk.
Years later the contents in the bottles was re-examined and QVMAG worked with scientists at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) to isolate the yeast. Using skills honed working with wine yeast, the AWRI identified its genetic make-up and found it was a rare hybrid strain which differs from modern ale strains.
The yeast was then taken back to the laboratory where experimental brews were born and the journey to commercialise the product began. Completing the final piece of the puzzle, QVMAG has partnered with James Squire to produce a special limited edition beer made from the 220 year-old yeast, aptly named The Wreck - Preservation Ale.
Brewers at James Squire's Malt Shovel Brewery rose to the challenge of creating a beer from yeast that had a mind of its own. After some trial and error using modern brewing techniques to craft the centuries-old yeast, the team has delivered a Porter-style beer with hints of blackcurrant and spices, giving it a rich and smooth taste.
The Wreck - Preservation Ale will be available on tap at James Squire brew houses around the country from June 2018.
Dive pics courtesy of Mike Nash, Parks and Wildlife.


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Q: Do geodesics move along level sets? Given a differentiable function $f:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. We define the graph of $f$
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Given two elements of $W$: $(x_1,t)$ and $(x_2,t)$ and a geodesic curve $γ: [0,a] → W$ that connects them i.e. $γ(0)=(x_1,t)$ and $γ(a)=(x_2,t)$.
My questions are: Are all intermediate points of $γ(z)$  $0<z<a$, have the form  $(x,t)$ ? or Under what conditions, do geodesics move along level set?

A: Decoupled cylindrical level surfaces like
$$ (x,y,z) = (f(u),  g(u), h(v))  $$

A: $n=2$ : Here $W_t:=\{ (x,t)\in W \} $ is a geodesic. That is note that $W_t$ is in a plane $P$ So if $c$ is a geodesic curve of unit speed in $W_t$, then $c''$ is in the plane $P$ Hence unit normal is in $P$. So we concluded that $W$ is ruled surface

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Illinois workers' compensation causes contentious debate | Spiros Law, P.C.
Republicans in the Illinois legislature are saying that the new Illinois budget deal is close at hand, but several matters are still under debate, including the state's policy on workers' compensation.
Wade Keats, owner of metal stamping service provider Keats Manufacturing Co., said workers' compensation insurance is costing the company over a quarter of a million dollars annually to cover workers' compensation benefits for 70 production workers at their factory. Today, Illinois workers' compensation costs are the seventh-highest in the United States. Employers in the state said that for an orthopedic hand or wrist injury, Illinois Medicare will pay $6,676 while workers' compensation makes employers shell out $14,215. Meanwhile, for Arthroscopic surgery on a rotator cuff, Illinois Medicare pays $2,754 while workers' compensation pays $7,850.
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Here you will find information about Sanskrit language, Indian philosophies, translations, sacred sounds, hatha yoga postures, and Sanskrit names.
Here you will be presented transcendental knowledge of the most profound spiritual nature as revealed in the Bhagavad-Gita. It is the divine discourse spoken by the Supreme Lord Krishna Himself and is the most popular and well known of all the sacred scriptures from ancient India. Always being revered as a true source of spiritual knowledge it reveals the purpose and goal of human existence. In conjunction to this we will be presenting precise Vedic verification of the Supreme Lord Krishna's divine incarnations as evidence confirming His supreme position. Our purpose is to make the eternal knowledge of Bhagavad- Gita freely available to everyone all over the Earth.
Here you will find a collection of articles on the Bhagavad Gita, along with translations of the original text accompanied by various commentaries. Please read through the articles, and if you have any questions visit our discussion forums to post your queries for others to answer.
The Bhagavad Gita is technically part of Book 6 of the Mahabharata, although it is known to be a later accretion to the saga, which stands on its own merits. It is a dialog between the God Krishna and the hero Arjuna, taking place in a timeless moment on the battlefield before the climactic struggle between good and evil. The Gita (which can be found in hotel bedstands throughout India) is a classic summary of the core beliefs of Hinduism.
"The Three Branches of India's Life-Tree: Commentaries on the Vedas, Upanishads & Bhagavad Gita"
"The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita and Commentary"


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Judicial activism further delays dispensation of justice
Mubasher Bukhari February 2, 2018 759 Views
One fine day in November 2002, former Information Minister, (Late) Khalid Ahmad Kharal, filed an election petition in Lahore High Court, seeking the disqualification of his opponent Riaz Fatiana, who had won his seat for NA-94, Kamalia in Elections 2002. Kharal's petition revolved around the fact that his opponent was convicted by an accountability court on corruption charges, therefore he was not eligible to contest the elections. His petition was admitted but further proceedings did not take place for several years to come. Upon the completion of the parliament's tenure in 2007, Kharal's petition lost its legal position as Lahore High Court failed to accommodate it in time.
The scene changes. On October 9, 2016, Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted Mazhar Hussain, who was convicted in a murder case by a lower court, two years after his demise. Mazhar died of coronary disease in jail before hearing the decision. According to reports, the apex court was unaware of his death.
The scene changed yet again. Presently, it is January 30, 2018 in the Supreme Court of Pakistan where the court has finally reached a verdict on a century old property case. According to the details, the petition was originally filed in a civil court by Roshnai Begum against her brother Shahabud Din for fair distribution of property in 1918. At the time, the property and the case were pertinent to Rajasthan in India. After the partition, the property and case were transferred to Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters and great grandsons and great granddaughters of Roshnai Begum and Shahabud Din kept pursuing the case for their proprietary rights. It took the court nearly a century to conclude the case. A bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Saqib Nisar, ordered that 56 squares of the disputed land be distributed amongst the legal heirs. The court was told that the number of legal heirs includes 500 people. The case was heard by various lower and high courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan made the final decision.
These are merely three examples of such cases, while the lower, higher and superior courts of Pakistan are rampant with similar ones. There is no way to jettison the already overburdened justice system.
Currently, the judges of high and supreme courts are preoccupied with suo moto notices and passing administrative orders in the public's interest, which might be a partial part of the judges' job description. Courts in Pakistan suffer an estimated backlog of nearly 0.3 million cases across the country. The judiciary's first and top priority must be to decide cases rapidly based on fair grounds. However, it has failed to do its job. While judicial activism might be good in a corruption-stricken society like Pakistan, it cannot be worn well unless the judiciary is providing justice to the masses without delay. If the judiciary continues to overlook its prime duty, which is dispensing justice, social balance will proceed to tip. The judiciary must go back to its constitutionally prescribed role under the captaincy of the Chief Justice, Saqib Nisar, before justice is delayed for a lengthier period of time.
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Surgeon Atul Gawande's hands can wield a pen just as well as a scalpel. This author has been writing best-sellers for about as long as he has been saving lives on operating tables. Even before then, Dr. Gawande challenged the American health care system to do better through his journalism and political activism.
He also serves as a professor at Harvard University. In that role, he researches why errors in medicine occur, translating his findings into advice that improves everyday life as well as health care. After all, surgeons and doctors are not the only people who face complex problems.
His 2010 best-seller, "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right," builds on those ideas and discoveries. While Dr. Gawande is a Brooklynite by birth, his parents immigrated to the United States from India. They were both doctors as well. He now shares a home with his wife, Kathleen, and his three kids in Newton, Massachusetts.
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My latest project for Cotswold Collectibles: A Drop Canister.
The concept is simple: A canister that can be dropped by parachute into a mission area.
The design was fairly simple too. The canister would be about the size of a soda can. Two handles, one on each side, for easy carrying, and a handle on top of a twist-cap. I designed the cap to twist into a slot and the closure is nice and snug and feels great. The cap is made from two pieces: the main cap and the top.
They are designed (in this case) in Adventure Team colors: Yellow, black, red.
And the completed order. I did 30.
Ok, I'm going to confess that I like this one quite a bit.
I started with some small sketches of retro 50s ray guns. When I sketched one in pencil I quite liked, I redrew it in pen, and colored it with colored pens, on graph paper.
I scanned this image and created an image plane in my 3D modeling software package. I used that as a horizontal guide.
The one thing I didn't like was the muzzle, so I left that for last, hoping I would come up with a better idea when I got to it.
One thing I wanted to do, and added a lot of time to modeling, in this one, was to avoid having to use glue of any kind. This required carefully designing each piece to screw or bolt to previous pieces until it was solidly constructed.
That, and I wanted it to be heavy.
Recently, I created WERBLZ, a series of rolly-aliens, which I hope to make available to the general public soon. To bet these WERBLZ to roll, I used a short carriage bolt.
I sheared the rounded head off to use at the bottom of the WERBLZ to make them wobble. That left the bolts as junk, so instead of tossing those, I decided to keep them for weight in various models I wanted to add weight to.
I started with halves of a handle. Since this was a little too large to print on my Afinia H479 and H480 printers, I cut it into two pieces, using a jig-saw method to attach them nice and tightly.
Each half has three screw holes at the top, and three screw holes in the handle itself. Then there were two screw holes to screw the grip panels to.
I needed space to add a trigger, which pulled correctly, and a part for the base of a spring to attach to. This would allow for the trigger to actually work.
Once these elements were placed, the two halves screwed together: (Note I only use two of the three screws to attach the handle halves. No need for the third, but it could be used. I was running short on screws, so I skimped.
At this point a 6 inch bolt with a hex head is pushed into a space in the heat sink piece. The hex head fits into a hex aperture, while the bolt comfortably (though snugly) fits through the whole piece. The heat sink section acts as a wrench, in a way. I can rotate the barrel on and the bolt will be held in place by the heat sink.
Four screws screw into the front of the heat sink, and drill into the red rear section. Note the square nubs at the front of the heat sink section. These fit into squares in the main barrel so the barrel won't spin.
The black dial ring slips over the heat sink, and is allowed to freely rotate. This is a ray intensity dial.
I slipped a bolt inside the rear section for weight too.
Each of the rings (left) slips over the main barrel cone very snugly.
Then the main barrel is slipped over the long bolt. The four holes for bolts also meet up with four square plugs on the heat sink section to prevent the barrel from rotating.
Four small pegs/holes in the neck/muzzle keep the muzzle from rotating.
A red plug covers the screw, but has a small notch so it can be easily removed if needed.
So there are 9 #4 3/8 screws, one 6″ bolt, and six sheared carriage bolts.
It was a throw-away, but my daughter loved it, and asked for it. So it's now hers.
I bought some cheap carded laser guns at a dollar store, and they have very loud laser sounds and bright LEDs. I will have to do some wiring and soldering, but with a few changes, I could make this gun electronic.
I noticed when I completed the first print that the trigger makes an ugly springy noise like rusty bed springs. I looked at the design again to see if there was anything I could do about it.
You can see the problem. The handle frame has a post for the grips to screw into. It sits amid the handle right where the spring has to be when the trigger is pulled back. The trigger is basically a lever (with the fulcrum right under my thumb.) The end of the lever inside the gun has to hold the spring, which needs an anchor somewhere else inside the frame. There's lots of room below it, but not when the post is in the way.
The result is that when you pull the trigger, the spring is raked over that post, making a squeaky noise.
So I tried to figure out a way to remove the spring.
I used three magnets: One in the trigger switch slider (on the right) and there are two under the KILL and STUN settings.
I used three magnets, one in the plunger, one in the bottom, and one in the base.
The trigger itself has one magnet, North pole facing upwards.
Then above the trigger a third magnet, South pole up so the two North Poles repel each other as the trigger approaches, for some resistance on the back pull.
The resulting feel is very nice. No noise, good pull resistance, and retraction.


"It took me a long time to feel like I actually owned my work," says Donald Martiny, this week's profile for Under the Radar. By which he means he spent many years looking for a voice that seemed to him genuinely, uniquely his. With a few exceptions—Carol Hepper, for example, who was making adventurous signature work in her twenties—many of the artists on this site spend years searching for that approach or style or process (whatever you choose to call it). And the decades of questing may not be as unusual as you think. When I interviewed El Anatsui a few years back on the occasion of his retrospective in Denver, I was surprised to find that much of his work was rather humdrum until he found the formula for making huge drop-dead gorgeous tapestry "sculptures" from discarded liquor-bottle seals. When his works became one of the hits of the 2007 Venice Bienniale, his star was launched—at age 63.
So too with Martiny, who worked for 25 years in the advertising business, always painting on the side. Now in his mid-sixties, he is showing in galleries across the country, has landed a prestigious commission from the new World Trade Center, and any minute now is on his way to oversee an installation in West Germany.
The lesson is simple: Hang in there. Good things can happen at any time. And if you want to really push the clichés: Better late than never.
Donald was interviewed by Ann Landi of Vasari 21.
I feel I have discovered a new language and am just learning to speak. There is so much to explore and do. The work needs to lead the way. The work tells me what comes next. View the interview on the Kathryn Markel blog by clicking here.
Donald Martiny at work in the 1WTC lobby.
Could you talk a little about your interest in the painter's gesture, this impactful exaggeration of the actual brushstroke? What was your impetus to begin exploring it in your work?
First let me make clear that these works are actual brushstrokes. Many people mistake them for sculptures or molds. They are not forms that have been painted, they are pure paint through and through that I make with large brushes or directly with my hands. Brushstrokes are human, personal, and intimate. When I look at a painting by Ingres or Frederick Leighton the artist isn't obviously present. When I look at Rembrandt I feel him there, I can connect with him. I want to be present in my work. Read the rest of the article on the Woven Tale Press website.


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Konrad Ventana (literally, "Bold Counsel Through a Window") is the literary pseudonym for an American author, scientist, and visionary of international renown—an award-wining university professor and research director; a proficient inventor of medical nanotechnologies, genetic medicines, and new cancer treatments; the founding President, Chief Scientific Officer, and CEO of a U.S. Biotechnology Company that developed the first targeted genetic medeicine for cancer. This distinguished author has real-world experience with both the intellectual challenges and the social adversities one encounters when aspiring to accomplish something that has never been accomplished before. Through the "bold and perspicuous windows" of his award-winning novels, Konrad Ventana throws back the curtains of conformity, looks critically at the ideologies of our postmodern times, and examines the potential for future development. Author of the acclaimed Post-Lux Trilogy: Book 1. "A Desperado's Daily Bread," Book 2. "The Unbearable Sadness of Zilch," Book 3. "Questing for Uberjoy." Co-Author and Co-Producer of the screenplay developed for "SadZilch-the-movie." Author and Producer of an award-winning film using animation to illustrate medical nanotechnology. Konrad Ventana currently lives in Los Angeles, California.


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MEDIA PRECINCT CONTENT CAPABILITIES
The Media Precinct provides our clients with holistic solutions to suit any marketing budget. From brand strategy through to content creation and strategic media integration, we use our research to generate translatable insights to inform both short and long form content that is relevant and engages our client's potential customers.
The Media Precinct is the team behind the following campaigns:
SHORT FORM CONTENT
THE SEEING ME PROJECT
Millers is one of Australia's most iconic female fashion retailers with 360 stores across the country and more than 3 million customers. After a period of strong growth since it's launch in 1993 sales were starting to slow.
The Media Precinct identified that 90% of Millers' customers were females who had been loyal customers since Millers launch. But Millers' customers had become disillusioned with the brand. The Media Precinct was tasked with re-connecting Millers with these women.
We identified that Millers' women played a pivotal role in their family. She is the glue, but often feel women like her are invisible as they just get on with life. We determined that she needed to be showcased for who she was. And we were rewarded with a year-on-year increase of 6.5% sales.
THE EXPERTS IN HAIR SCIENCE
evolis is a scientifically validated treatment for hair loss that delivers stronger and healthier hair. They operate in an extremely competitive environment where everything from hair tonics to hair transplants are offered. evolis launched into the Australian market, with weaker than expected initial results.
The Media Precinct was appointed to design a connection strategy that Australian women and men could relate to. We discovered that potential evolis customers were sceptical and needed evidence that the evolis product range worked. Our translatable insights lead to combining science with trust to create a campaign that turned around poor sales performance and helped increase retail penetration.
WEAR WHITE AGAIN
Novasure is the brand name of an endometrial ablation procedure. Our client operates in an industry vertical where they cannot name their brand, where Australian women are 6 x more likely to be given a hysterectomy than any other western market and legally had to showcase their competitors.
Our campaign needed to focus on a very specific woman who had already had children and was pre-menopausal but experiencing severe haemorrhaging each monthly cycle.
Wear White Again was developed around the insight that many of these women had been to their GP on a number of occasions. They felt their GP didn't listen to what they were going through, dismissing their complaints, resulting in many women believing that what they were experiencing was 'normal'.
This insight led to developing our peer-to-peer education campaign, using real women to explain what they had gone through to other women, including the results of the option or procedure that they undertook. This meant we could arm women with facts that they could then take to their GP and their specialist. This resulted in an average 16% year-on-year increase in sales for Novasure over the past three years (2016, 2017, 2018).
AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH
The Jojoba Company offers a range of pure Jojoba based products. The Jojoba Company is one of very few local brands to grow their own Jojoba but an onslaught of cheaper competitive offerings were eating into their market share. The Media Precinct was charged with reconnecting the existing The Jojoba Company customer and finding a new customer segment who may be attracted to the brand.
Our insights, generated by both qual and quant research, uncovered an intelligent beauty purchaser segment. These women were 'stripping back' their regime, they wanted simplicity, they wanted to be nourished and they wanted a brand that spoke to their 'natural' values.
Konica Minolta's 'Innovators' series was designed to reflect the company mantra of 'people giving shape to ideas'. However, when talking innovation there is a high volume of competitive interpretations, misuse of the term 'innovation' is strong. In fact, the term is so overused, that most potential business partners were confused by the term.
The 'innovation overuse' insight helped shaped the design of the series. Instead of Konica Minolta talking to innovation, the concept was to take those leading innovation from within their business sectors to lead the innovation discussion with Konica Minolta as the enabler.
This led to a content series that generated inspiration, ideas and practical insight of how to drive innovation and positive change within any organisation. A hugely successful innovation event was hosted by Konica Minolta and packages of content developed into a series of webinars and short film pieces that connected with the greater business community.
The overarching impact of this series has lead to an average quality lead generation conversion 6 x greater than prior to the series starting.
STEPTEMBER
Cerebral Palsy impacts upon 1 in every 700 children and is the number one condition impacting Australian children. Steptember is the largest month long fundraising event of its type held in Australia, raising approximately $6 million each year for Cerebral Palsy Alliance to fund research and a wide variety of services, equipment and assistance. However, fundraising amongst participants was starting to waiver with the event in jeopardy of becoming an event that people participated in for its health benefits rather than the need for funds.
The Media Precinct was charged with reactivating the drive for participants to become fundraisers again. This led to the insight that the majority of participants were generated through the corporate sector via HR teams who have a desire to increase the fitness of their workforce. The need to motivate participation was minimal, but the need to motivate donation drivers was substantial. This led to a content series and editorial outreach built to educate both at a coporate HR level and at a participant level on the need for funds. Showcasing a number of recipient CPA clients and their families, corporates and participants in a peer-to-peer series that has increased donations by an average of 15% year on year since 2016.
LONG FORM CONTENT
SAVING AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Saving Australia, currently in production, is an interactive and unique documentary series that will capture the attention of Australian viewers through the individual stories' environmental, public sector and corporate organisations who are fighting to save Australia from its own people and their pollution. The series has been developed from the vertical expertise The Media Precinct has built in the not-for-profit sector.
Saving Australia utilises a combination of reality and participatory documentary style production techniques to create a unique property of this nature, leveraging personality, reality and research will help communities develop an ongoing ambassador program, inspiring Australians to become custodians of our country.
The series provides environmental data with a real sense of integrity, but in a novel and easy to understand method for the average household. The goal is to help create a living project, supporting Australia's waste and clean up desperately required to help sustain the planet we live on.