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NPR MUSIC EXPLORES METAL BANDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Filed under: Music | Tags: Absolute Monarchs, Akimbo, Black Breath, Hannah Levine, He Whose Ox is Gored, heavy, KEXP, Lesbian, melvins, metal, NPR Music, Pacific Northwest, Red Fang, rock, Sleep, These Arms Are Snakes, Triumph of Lethargy
Longtime music writer and KEXP DJ Hannah Levine helped NPR Music compile an extensive list of bands from the Pacific Northwest that favor heavier, doom-laden sounds. The result is a compelling audio mix of songs that highlights a burgeoning music scene. Bands like Absolute Monarchs, Lesbian, Black Breath, He Whose Ox is Gored, Red Fang and more are at the forefront of a heavy metal revival. There are also nods to founding fathers of the moevement (like the Melvins and Sleep) as well as recent notable acts (such as These Arms Are Snakes, Akimbo, and Triumph of Lethargy). It's a thoughtful primer to the darker side of rock in the Northwest.
NPR AND MUSIC
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These days there are tons of ways to expose oneself to new music, listen to tunes for free and participate in musical conversations. Lesser-known groups promote their music and events on Myspace. Indie-lovers head over to Pitchfork for its latest and greatest hipster hits. But one of the most well-rounded and thoughtful must-read sites is NPR, whose music sections allow listeners to stream albums for free, readers to garner more biographic information about artists and enthusiasts to purchase new music. Among all the recent hand-wringing over how to battle disastrous record sales, the death of radio and the demise of good music journalism, NPR seems to have something artists crave… they have customers who are curious and actually buy music. Several Seattle artists have recently been prominently featured on the site's "Song of the Day" section, including Perfume Genius, Ivan & Alyosha and Melvins. To read the full article about the evolution of NPR's music journalism, follow the link.
MELVINS' "I'LL FINISH YOU OFF" IS NPR'S SONG OF THE DAY
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Washington band the Melvins' latest album The Bride Screamed Murder recently cracked Billboard's Top 200, a first for this band that's been putting out music for more than 26 years, and NPR has named their song "I'll Finish You Off" the song of the day. NPR says "To this day, the band explores the pummeling low-end sounds that made its early work so gargantuan; from the cerebral sounds of Tool to the sonic abuse of Pig Destroyer, Melvins' intense vibrations are still felt throughout the world of extreme music. 'I'll Finish You Off' is loud, proud and backed with a psychedelic wall of guitar distortion, as the group continues a few tricks it's been executing on its past few albums: recording with two drummers and spreading chorus effects across the vocals. Of course, the voluminous guitar chugs only lend more massiveness to the track, but an organ pops up as the instrumentation's most surprising addition… More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners."
MELVINS CELEBRATE LONGEVITY WITH BLASTS-FROM-PAST SETS
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Hard to believe Googling the phrase "Melvins invented grunge" only calls up 160 returns. This is supposed to be common knowledge, people! The second-most famous band from Aberdeen, the Melvins were a huge influence on a teenage Kurt Cobain. "They played faster than I ever imagined music could be played and with more energy than my Iron Maiden records could provide. This I what I was looking for," he wrote in his journal after seeing them for the first time behind a Thriftway in Montesano in 1983. Twenty-five years later, they celebrate their improbable longevity with back-to-back concerts at Showbox at the Market. Over those two and a half decades, the Melvins have teetered between succinct-but-loud-as-the-sun rock and mad, punishing noise experiments, treated alternately as toxic outsiders and revered innovators.


Menlo Security just released their third annual "State of the Web" report and it's not pretty. The headline finding is that 42% of the top 100,000 sites as ranked by Alexa are more dangerous than you think.
As bad as that sounds, there's an even worse detail lurking in the pages of the report, and that concerns emails.
"It is far easier to set up a subdomain on a legitimate hosting service than use other alternatives – such as trying to hack a popular, well-defended site or to set up a brand-new domain and use it until it is blocked by web security firms. Legitimate domains are often whitelisted by companies and other organizations out of a false sense of security, giving cover to phishing sites.
The bottom line is: The web and even the most popular sites on it, aren't nearly as safe as you think.


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Hear Tucker Beathard Talk Playing Drums, Family Band With Chris Shiflett
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Tucker Beathard chats with Chris Shiflett on the latest episode of the Foo Fighters' guitarist's 'Walking the Floor' podcast.
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Tucker Beathard signed his first record deal at 19 years old, tossing aside a baseball scholarship for the chance to get into the family business. The gamble has been paying off. The middle son of hit songwriter Casey Beathard — whose credits include Kenny Chesney's "The Boys of Fall" and Eric Church's "Homeboy" — Beathard scored big with last year's "Rock On," a debut single that peaked at Number 2. He's hoping his follow-up single, "Momma and Jesus," fares similarly.
As the newest (and youngest) guest on Chris Shiflett's Walking the Floor podcast, Beathard is initially quite shy, only springing to life when he starts talking about his family and, in the interview's final moments, picks up Shiflett's acoustic guitar for a solo performance of "Momma and Jesus." That live performance speaks louder than anything else, showing off Beathard's rhythmic approach to the guitar — a byproduct of his earlier days as a drummer — and presenting him as the heir to his dad's chart-topping throne. Below, we've rounded up some more highlights from the conversation, followed by the premiere of the episode itself.
Tucker Beathard on Not Faking It, New 'Jackass'-Inspired Video
Tucker Beathard played drums on his own EP.
Long before he began writing his own songs, Tucker was a drummer, keeping time for the Beathard family band (more on that later) while paying attention to the arc of his father's career. Although he's been following into his dad's singer-songwriterly footsteps since high school graduation, Beathard hasn't lost his chops behind the kit. Fight Like Hell, his debut EP for Dot Records, features his percussion on every track, a rarity in a genre that often relies on session musicians.
"I think some people [at the label] were kind of scared by the idea, but I'm just really picky when it comes to drums," explains Beathard, adding that the instrument has influenced his guitar playing, too. "When I write a guitar riff, it's almost like I'm playing drums in my head. It's hard not to, when you're a drummer."
In the writing room, Beathard follows his father's advice.
"There's one thing I have to give credit to my dad for," says Beathard, whose days as a rule-breaking teenager served as the inspiration for his father's "Homeboy," which later became a hit for Eric Church. "When I was starting to write more, he told me, 'Man, you better come in there and bring something.' That's always how I work. I'll come in with a guitar riff or something."
A former high-school jock, Beathard formed his first band alongside his two brothers.
"Me and my bothers had a band, so we'd keep my parents up late, just jamming in my room," says Beathard, who played drums while his older brother, CJ — now a star quarterback for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, as well as a potential pick in this spring's NFL Draft — strummed the guitar and sang. The pair's younger brother, Clay, played guitar, too. After a handful of gigs at talent shows and backyard parties, two of the Beathards turned their attention back to sports, leaving Tucker as a solo act. "Man, I thought we were going to be something," Beathard says, "but they wanted to do more sports. It was never a dull moment, whether we were playing football in the front yard or music in the house. . .I don't know how my mom did it."
Signing a record deal straight out of high school isn't all it's cracked up to be.
"Basically, if i had it my way, I'd come out with three albums tomorrow," says Beathard, expressing frustration with his label's release schedule. "I got nothing to complain about, because I've got such a great team. . .The only thing I would bitch about is, I just want to get out more music. It was already tough being represented by one song for a little while, and then it felt great getting five more out, from the EP, and it's like, 'That feels right, but still, just six songs in total to really represent me?'" He's already recorded enough material for a proper album, but its release is still to be announced.
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Pietro da Cortona
Triumph of Divine Providence, 1633-39, Pietro da Cortona (sometimes called the
"Triumph of the Barberini," because of it's ceiling location in the Barberini Palace
in Rome). The headcount is close to one-hundred.
Should art be about theoretical principles, intent upon narrating a story, propounding a viewpoint, perhaps expounding upon some important social issue, or, should it be purely decorative, intent upon nothing more than exciting the senses? Before anyone comes down firmly on either side, go back and read the first word: "should." Remember, what art should be is often very much at odds with what art is. And, to add further complexity, as silly as it may have sounded at the time, Bill Clinton had a point: "It also depends upon what your definition of "is" is." The common definition involves present, momentary, facts. However, in our minds, we all too often broaden the definition of "is" to encroach upon the word "was." All to often we mentally include in the definition of "is" the concept of "always has been." That is, of course, incorrect, but nonetheless unconsciously frequent. In other words, what art "is" not only does not include what it "should" be, but also does not include what it has been. We could also get into the definition of art in general, but that's a whole other can of worms.
Pietro da Cortona Self-portrait,
Andrea Sacchi, 1650-55,
Carlo Maratta
There are those, of course, who would try to have it both ways, asserting that art should be both principled and decorative. I suppose it can be argued that sometimes this fence-straddling may be valid. Michelangelo could be said to have demonstrated that with his Sistine ceiling, yet he veered sharply to the opposite extreme with his Last Judgement, which, though heavily populated, certainly could not be considered decorative in any sense. As one might suspect, there is nothing new about this debate. Art today is mostly decorative. Outside of the comic pages, the editorial page, YouTube, and Netflix, art today seldom narrates, propounds, or expounds. Back in the 17th century, around 1637, Pietro da Cortona, the director of Rome's Academy of St. Luke (the painters guild) formally debated this question with Andrea Sacchi, who, like da Cortona, was a leading Baroque painter at the time. Not surprisingly these two "union" painters pretty much defined art as painting, with perhaps a patronizing nod toward sculpture and maybe architecture. Beyond that, they boiled the question down to how many figures should populate a painting. Da Cortona argued for lots and lots of them, in order to accomodate subplots and add depth to the central natrrative theme. In looking at his (to our eyes) over-populated Triumph of Divine Providence (top), he obviously practiced what he preached, considering his figures to be highly decorative.
Allegory of Divine Wisdom, 1628-33, Andrea Sacchi.
Compare this to da Cortona's "family reunion" depicted on the Barberini ceiling (top).
Sacchi (above) argued that painting should incorporate only a few figures since it was impossible to convey any distinct role or individuality to more than a limited number. During the next hundred years, as the Rococo era evolved from the Baroque, da Cortona's views would seem to have dominated as painting practically divorced itself from meaningful narration. Then as painting "got serious" again, during the Classical era of the early 19th century, Sacchi viewpoint seems to have won out. Of course, to us today, the whole arguement seems as silly as the arguing among medieval theologians as to how many angels could fit on the head of a pin. For starters, we no longer include beauty as a mandatory element in our definition of art. Likewise, today, painted figures more often involve prurient interests rather than either social narrative or decorative motifs. In which case, "the more the merrier" may support da Cortona's viewpoint.
Cortona may have been guilty of painting too many of them, but when it came to the human body, he certainly knew it from the inside out. He got his start in 1618 by etching anatomical drawings. Though highly accurate, the plates were considered so disturbing they were not printed until around a hundred years later. Strangely, the figures seem
very much alive. One might say that Cortona's models "spilled their guts" for him.
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This month's staff spotlight is on David Owen. David is our purchasing manager and has been with Paige's since the early 80's. He has a unique perspective on just how much things have changed since he started.


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Fritz Lang's 1931 film "M" has long been on my list of "Oh, yeah. I've been meaning to see that" movies. Last weekend, after screening of "The Maltese Falcon," Peter Lorre's presence reminded me, so I put it into my Blockbuster queue and popped it to the top.
Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (recently restored to its full magnificence) is on my Top Ten list. His innovation, his iconic long-shots, his metaphoric storytelling, I love it all. But somehow, I'd managed to miss seeing "M" for decades.
If I had seen this film before–even just a year ago–my reaction to it would have been different. Seeing it now, after the abominable crime perpetrated in Newtown, CT has entered our public consciousness, my reaction is very different.
Possible spoilers after the jump.


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Syria's next chapter
Can a war end without resolution? If so, what happens to Syria's remaining residents, warring factions and the world's attitude toward humanitarian intervention? Michael Petrou imagines future possibilities not far off.
People travel in a train towards an international fair in Damascus, Syria, September 12, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Almost eight years after it began, with 14-year-old Naief Abazid spray-painting a message on his school wall in Daraa, southern Syria, that called for the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad, the civil war in Syria is all but over.
United States President Donald Trump's announcement this week that he will bring home the 2,000 US troops now in Syria removes the only force that might conceivably have stood in the way of Assad reasserting control over the country. But no one has won the war — not even Assad, whose regime once seemed sure to follow those headed by other Middle East strongmen who were toppled in the early days of the Arab Spring ("It's your turn, Dr. Bashar al-Assad," Naief had written). He rules a shattered country, dependent on Russia and Iran, shunned by most of the world, and deprived of its most valuable commodity — the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have left the country, or died in Assad's prisons or under the bombs of his Russian and Iranian allies.
And yet those who sought Assad's removal, the marchers and demonstrators, and then the armed fighters, Islamists and jihadists, have lost. They hold shrinking territory, notably in Idlib province, home to 90,000 rebel fighters, including about 20,000 jihadists, members of a rebranded al-Qaeda affiliate among them. Some three million civilians live there, too. There is a truce, which has been violated by both sides and is in danger of collapse. It cannot last. Eventually Assad, with Russia and Iran, will retake the territory by negotiation or force.
The worst outcome for Idlib would be a military assault. Towns will be bombed. Civilians will die. Tens of thousands of refugees will flee north, to Turkey, if Ankara opens its borders. There are rebels who will not surrender, and during their final stand they will take with them neighbourhoods and those who live in them.
The best feasible outcome is a negotiated settlement that sees Turkey, which backs many of the rebel groups and has troops in northern Syria, reach an agreement with Russia and Syria. But there will still be rebels who will not, cannot, surrender, and under this scenario they will also die or flee, as will civilians who fear, with reason, their fate under Assad's rule.
Either way, the war, at least its most active face, will grind to a halt. It will do so with no real resolution. "A population that has been pummelled into submission, a government with very little legitimacy, with very few friends and very few resources," is how Paul Salem, president of the Middle East Institute, describes Syria. He predicts it will be "like a bleeding wound in the middle of the Middle East, indefinitely."
And yet if the war lacks resolution, its impact, and the impact of its end, will be enormous. The reverberations, some seemingly beneath the surface, others ignored in Canada and elsewhere, will continue for years, perhaps lifetimes. They include a general reluctance on the part of Western governments to intervene with military force in the face of mass atrocities; the expansion of Iranian power and influence in the Middle East, at the expense of the United States and its allies; Russia's return as a regional power; and the survival of the so-called Islamic State jihadist group, although now as a run-of-the-mill terrorist outfit rather than the caliphate it once claimed to have resurrected.
The greatest repercussions will be felt in Syria, in the countries to which Syrians have fled, and among those who once called the country home. The Syrian conflict began as a multi-confessional protest movement, albeit one that lacked much representation from Syrians who share Assad's Alawite faith. It devolved into a sectarian civil war in which so much blood has been shed in the name of one religious interpretation or another that it may take generations for Syria's diverse fabric to be knit back together.
If Syria's national identity is fractured, its physical infrastructure is just as badly damaged. Swaths of ancient commercial centres such as Aleppo were reduced to rubble. Rich Western countries will be reluctant to fund reconstruction as long as Assad is in power, and millions of Syrians who might have played a role in rebuilding the country now live elsewhere, in Europe, Canada, and especially in neighbouring countries in the Middle East. They have lost homes and fortunes, and, in the case of too many children, an education. The effects of their exodus will be felt for generations, too.
On October 4, 2011, after 10 months of intensified violence that followed the outbreak of protests against Assad's rule, the United Nations Security Council failed to adopt a resolution that would have condemned "grave and systematic human rights violations in Syria" and warned the government of Syria that it could face non-military measures under Article 41 of the UN Charter if such violations continued.
The vote was defeated by permanent UN Security Council members China and Russia. Other resolutions requiring Assad to step down, or threatening sanctions against the Syrian regime, were similarly defeated by China and Russia. To date, no meaningful action has been taken by the Security Council against Assad's regime.
Simon Adams, executive director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, says this reflects the "absolute failure of the United Nations Security Council and the international community to uphold [its] collective responsibility to protect."
The responsibility to protect is a concept all members of the United Nations endorsed in 2005, one that is meant to address war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and crimes against humanity. It holds that a state has an obligation to prevent such acts in its territory, and, when it fails to do so, the international community can take collective action through the Security Council to do so.
For Adams, blame for global inaction against Assad's regime in Syria lies with the Security Council members who blocked such action. There's nothing flawed about the responsibility to protect as an organizing principle. But it is one that reflects global values and the world's willingness to act on them, and these have changed over the course of the last eight years.
In March 2011, NATO members states, including Canada, and the United States during the presidency of Barack Obama, launched military strikes against forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with the goal of protecting civilians in areas rebelling against his rule from a feared massacre. The NATO mission was later criticized for expanding its UN-justified mandate and fighting to overthrow Gaddafi, who was in fact deposed and murdered by rebel forces.
Two years later, a very real massacre took place in Ghouta, Syria, where the United States estimates more than 1,400 people, including children, died in a chemical weapons attack carried out by Syrian government forces.
Obama, who had explicitly warned against the use or even transfer of chemical weapons, prepared to launch retaliatory attacks along with Britain and France, but ultimately backed off when Russia brokered a deal that would supposedly see Syria, which denied carrying out the attack, give up its chemical weapons stockpiles.
A recent BBC investigation concluded Syrian regime forces have used chemical weapons more than 100 times since the deal. Chlorine gas was allegedly the most frequently used weapon. Chlorine gas was not included in the list of chemicals that the Syrian government submitted to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and promised to give up. But the United States says that the use of chlorine with the intent to kill or harm would violate the Chemical Weapons Convention that Syria signed in 2013. The BBC concluded the far deadlier chemical sarin, or a sarin-like substance, has also been used since 2013.
"Assad doesn't directly threaten the West. He has learned he is safe so long as his victims are Syrians."
A shift had occurred. Spooked by the results of military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States was wary of getting much involved in Syria, regardless of what was happening on the ground there. Under Trump, America did launch airstrikes with France and Britain against regime targets this April, in response to another chemical weapons attack, but this was a limited strike that could not change the balance of forces on the ground or protect civilians there.
"What's become really clear over the last seven years in Syria is that it has damaged and corroded all of the international norms and principles. It is true that it has affected the way people view the responsibility to protect, but it has also affected the way people see human rights, the way people see international humanitarian law, the way people see the prohibition on chemical weapons. All these norms and principles have been under attack in Syria, and they are all at stake afterwards," says Adams.
This will matter far beyond Syria. A coalition of nations, including Canada, intervened to fight the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, at the request of the Iraqi government, and in Syria, without Assad's approval. But the Islamic State was a threat to Western nations and their interests. Civilians targeted by the group in Iraq and Syria benefited from the coalition's intervention, but their suffering wasn't what triggered it.
Assad doesn't directly threaten the West. He has learned he is safe so long as his victims are Syrians. It's a dangerous precedent.
"Perpetrators watch and they learn, and they see what others get away with," says Adams. "And Syria has been an emboldening influence on other people in other countries who have slept a little bit sounder and become a little bit more confident in terms of their own potential to violate international humanitarian and human rights laws and get away with it."
A boy looks at his friends playing soccer among destroyed buildings in the Al- Khaldieh area in Homs, Syria, September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
The primary reason Assad has survived at all is because of Russian and Iranian assistance. Both countries intervened because they judged doing so was in their self-interest. Both were right. And both will continue to benefit as a result.
Russia has been a Syrian ally since the Cold War. The Syrian city of Tartus is home to Russia's only Mediterranean naval base. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also been steadfastly against revolution-fuelled regime changes around the world, which he believes are funded and directed by the United States and its partners, and which he fears might one day threaten his own leadership in Moscow. And Russian nationals number among the Islamists fighting Assad. Helping to stamp out the uprising against Assad served a number of Russian foreign and domestic policy goals.
Claiming to be targeting "all terrorists," Russia launched its first airstrikes against rebels fighting Assad in September 2015, after Assad sent a letter requesting assistance. Putin said his forces were acting "preventatively, to fight and destroy militants and terrorists on the territories that they already occupy, not wait for them to come to our house."
Obama's White House almost welcomed Russia's intervention, believing it might become a quagmire in the way Afghanistan was for the Soviets two generations earlier, says Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"What they miscalculated is, it's not Russian ground power, it's Russian air power coupled with the ground power of Iran and its Shiite militias, and for that reason Russia has managed to do this on the relative cheap," he says.
Instead of becoming bogged down in Syria, Russia efficiently changed the course of the war, ensuring Assad's survival, and, it now appears, his quasi-victory.
And Russia has enlarged its footprint in the region in a way it hasn't since at least the collapse of the Soviet Union. "It's made itself a player in the Middle East, when, frankly, it was sort of a dying imperial power that no-one gave any regard to," says Bessma Momani, a professor at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
This comes at a cost to the United States. "Look at the number of times that Israeli leaders, Arab leaders, Iranians, Turks are now visiting Moscow instead of Washington. [The United States] has ceded enormous influence to Russia," says Sadjadpour.
There are limits to the extent that Russian influence can grow. It lacks the United States' economic clout. And backing Assad does not win Moscow friends among Sunni Arab leaders in the region. But Russia has met the goals it set for itself with intervention.
Iran set out to accomplish even more than did Russia. It had to, because Iran's stakes in the outcome of the civil war in Syria were uniquely high.
According to Hanin Ghaddar, the inaugural Friedmann Visiting Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Iran sees Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as a united corridor of Shiite Muslims over which it seeks control, notably through proxy militias such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The toppling of Assad's regime would have been a sharp blow against Iranian efforts to establish hegemony in that stretch of territory.
"You have to think what would they have lost had Assad fallen," says Sadjadpour. "And what they would have lost is their most consistent and sole ally for four decades, and the very crucial bridge between them and the crown jewel of the Iranian Revolution, which is Lebanese Hezbollah. Had Assad fallen, all those things would have been potentially lost."
Iran enlisted Hezbollah, and other Shiite militias whose members come from as far away as Afghanistan, to ensure that under the guidance of Iran's own Revolutionary Guard Corps, that didn't happen. Their strength on the ground in Syria was another significant factor in the outcome of the war.
"What have they gained? They feel that their policies have been vindicated," says Sadjadpour.
"They viewed this as a proxy war with America and their Sunni Arab rivals like Saudi Arabia. And they prevailed. So, they feel strong and vindicated." A compliant regime in Damascus, Sadjadpour notes, also gives Iran access to a direct border with Israel on the Golan Heights.
It all amounts to a reshuffling of power in the region. Old structures haven't been completely overturned. Even after it pulls its troops out of Syria, the United States will be the dominant power in the Middle East, and will remain as such for the conceivable future. But influence is drifting away from Washington and toward Russia and especially Iran.
From the very beginnings of protest against his rule, Assad framed dissent as terrorism. When those protests grew into armed rebellion, spurred on to a large extent by Assad's violent suppression of the demonstrations against him, he framed the choice in Syria as one between his rule or a Syria controlled by jihadists.
Eventually, jihadists calling themselves the Islamic State did control much of Syria. Their cause was helped by Assad and Russia focusing their firepower on other rebel groups until the Islamic State was indeed among Assad's most powerful opponents.
The group's aspirations were not confined to Syria. They declared a caliphate that included territory in Iraq, and claimed provinces elsewhere. "Remaining and expanding," their propaganda magazines boasted, and this boldness — not even the Islamic State's rival al-Qaeda claimed to have built a state — attracted recruits from all over the world, including dozens from Canada. They murdered Western hostages in Syria and launched and inspired terrorist attacks in Europe and North America.
But now the Islamic State has no state beyond slivers of desert, and it will soon lose these. The cities and countryside it once controlled have been squeezed between Syrian government troops, Turkish troops and Turkish-backed rebels, and the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of mostly Kurdish militias who have carved out their own self-governing territory in the northeast of Syria.
"If the Islamic State's territory in Syria has almost disappeared, its cause there persists."
The American troops in Syria are with the SDF. Trump says they are no longer needed because the fight against the Islamic State has been won. But active fighting against the group continues. France, which has about 1,000 soldiers in northern Syria, says they will remain. "For now, of course we are staying in Syria because the fight against Islamic State is essential," French Europe Minister Nathalie Loiseau said in a television interview. It is believed Britain also has special forces in the country.
According to Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, a research fellow at the Middle East Forum, losing territory has undermined the Islamic State's credibility among jihadists. "Even internal critics, they say the whole collapse of this project made the Islamic State a laughing stock," he says.
But the Islamic State itself will not collapse, it will simply change its message, he says. "They'll say that actually Islamic State is not about controlling territory, it's about spreading the true religion. [They'll say], 'Oh, we've suffered losses before, but were able to rise again.'"
The Islamic State has indeed appeared on the verge of defeat before. It fought an insurgency and terror campaign in Iraq following the American invasion but was decimated by 2010, in large part because Iraqi Sunnis rejected its brutality and fought with the Americans against it. The United States then pulled its troops out of Iraq, and Sunnis grew resentful because of the discriminatory policies of Iraq's Shiite government. Syria's civil war gave the group an opportunity to regroup, and it stormed back in force.
The Islamic State still threatens the West, Tamimi says. "In the case of attacks in Europe, for example, it's not a case of sending operatives direct from Iraq or Syria anymore. It could just be that you have supporters and they communicate online with Islamic State operatives via some encrypted application, and they can direct them to conduct an attack. There would still be a terrorist threat. It's just that we don't have an Islamic State with a conventional army anymore."
And if the Islamic State's territory in Syria has almost disappeared, its cause there persists. "As long as [Assad] rules Syria, he's going to attract Sunni jihadists who see him as this Shiite Iranian-backed Alawite dictator who has committed an ongoing genocide against Sunni civilians, women and children," says Sadjadpour.
"If I were a 14-year-old kid living in squalor in one of those camps and my family members were killed, we lost our homes, because of this one man backed by the Russians and Iranians, I'd probably be predisposed to join one of these groups seeking retribution against Assad."
Western countries may not avoid getting targeted by this desire for revenge. Assad and the Russians have blamed the United States for supporting rebels gunning for regime change in Damascus, but many Syrians who have suffered at Assad's hands believe the United States stood idle while Assad destroyed their homes and drove them into exile.
Syrian Democratic Forces and US troops are seen during a patrol near the Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria, November 4, 2018. REUTERS/Rodi Said
This threat from transnational terrorists commands attention in Western countries, especially as Islamic State recruits from places such as Canada return home. But the greatest effects of Syria's civil war have always been felt in the Middle East, and of course in Syria itself. This won't change.
More than 11 million Syrians have fled their homes as a result of the civil war, five million of whom now live outside the country. Some may return as Assad solidifies his control over Syria, but for many, perhaps most, the exile will be permanent.
Since the fall of 2015, about 40,000 Syrian refugees have moved to Canada, where their presence is mostly welcomed and is a source of pride for Canadians who believe their country should be a place of refuge.
This reaction tends to obscure the fact that the number of Syrians in Canada is comparatively small. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians flooded to Germany in 2015, for example. Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to accept them. The choice weakened her politically, and she recently announced she will not contest another election.
But the vast majority of Syrian refugees remain in the Middle East, in countries without the resources of Germany, Canada or other Western nations.
"The fact that Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have been able to hold it together is a miracle, and I don't think we should take that for granted," says Momani. "We need to start thinking about the long-term implications of that in all three countries."
Such implications include strain on the local job market, infrastructure and education systems. In Lebanon, which has been mostly peaceful since the end of the Lebanese Civil War a generation ago, the influx of mostly Sunni Muslim refugees upsets the country's fragile sectarian balance.
All three countries, which together host more than four million Syrians, are trying to provide schooling and support for the refugee children among them. But this can't change the fact that an entire generation has had their upbringing and education disrupted in ways that will ripple throughout their lives.
"It is not a benign reconstruction policy. I think we end up sullying our hands."
Even this pales in comparison to Syria itself. The country will probably not break up. The Kurds and their allies in the northeast have no interest in separating says, Mutlu Civiroglu, a Kurdish affairs analyst with family ties to northern Syria. They want to be part of a federal Syria, akin to Switzerland or Canada, he says. Turkey, in any case, would never tolerate a Kurdish state on its borders.
But a united Syria is still a broken and empty one. The country needs to be rebuilt. And while Canada and other countries in the West have some interest in a stable Syria, and perhaps a humanitarian obligation to help ease the suffering of those living there, none wants to bolster Assad.
"I think we shouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole, personally," says Momani, speaking of reconstruction efforts and whether Canada should be involved.
"It is not a benign reconstruction policy. I think we end up sullying our hands. The regime is intimately tied to any reconstruction efforts. They are taking a cut off the top, so in many ways you would be emboldening the regime."
And so, the Syrian war ends with the country and almost everyone who once lived in it worse off than when the war began.
It is tempting to condemn the whole enterprise — the teenagers scrawling graffiti on a school wall and everything that came after. However bad life was under Assad before the war, surely it was better than this.
That may be true. It may also be that not enough time has passed to properly judge what has happened, and what may yet occur.
"Sometimes lost causes can be worthwhile," George Watt, an American who fought against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, said in a 1965 interview with a CBC researcher. It's the sort of seemingly hollow phrase someone might say for comfort after suffering in a war that achieved nothing.
But, although he could not have known it at the time, the cause was not lost after all. Democracy did come to Spain, only a decade after Watt's interview. Would it have happened without Spaniards' collective memory of defying Francisco Franco and his fascist partners decades earlier? Could France have emerged from the shame of collaboration during World War II without a national identity built on resistance against the Nazis that, until later in the war, resulted in little except death for those involved?
It may be that the Syrian war is over, but the revolution, the movement that sparked it, isn't. There may come a time, years or decades from now, when Syrians establish a government that is not headed by Assad or someone like him, that is more democratic and less cruel. When that happens, the last eight years will be part of the story. But today, such an outcome seems a long way off.


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Archive for January 22nd, 2014
FlashStock Inc. Closes Seed Round; Develops Stock Photography Platform for Branded Content
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FlashStock Inc. is the first-ever platform to provide brands with their own affordable and scalable library of customized images built by a growing network of consumer photographers.
NEW YORK, NY / TORONTO, ON (January 21, 2014) – FlashStock Inc. completes seed stage round of financing to continue development of its on-demand stock photography platform.
FlashStock provides brands a steady stream of customized, on-brand images sourced from a growing global network of consumer photographers in real time via smartphones. The service provides simple, safe and easy to understand rights management, helping to reduce legal and ethical risks associated with the use of social media images in marketing campaigns.
Different from other stock photography services, the FlashStock model allows brands to co-create authentic online and traditional marketing campaigns using on-brand images gleaned from the collections of a select group of photographers called the FlashStock Flasharazzi. The Flasharazzi consists of consumer photographers from around the world who capture brands and/or moments that suit a brand's described concept. This on-demand service saves brands time and money they would otherwise spend sifting through large photo collections or directing expensive photo shoots. Images are quickly vetted for quality and uploaded to the FlashStock image library, ready for immediate use by client brands.
FlashStock's platform and incentive program offers photographers the opportunity to be part of a community where they can learn from one another, gain visibility for their work in advertising, and earn between $10 and $200 per month in addition to credit-based incentives. Prospective photographers may apply to join the Flasharazzi by submitting portfolios to www.flashstock.com or flasharazzi@flashstock.com. Portfolios are reviewed and evaluated based on creative merit, quality of work, and geographic location.
Brands can subscribe to FlashStock with fees starting at $1,250 USD per month.
FlashStock's Board of Directors include:
Tom Arrix, former Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions (North America) at Facebook
Chris Burggraeve, former Chief Marketing Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev; Founder, Vicomte LLC
William Campbell, former Senior Advisor at JPMorgan Chase & Co and Chief Executive Officer of Global at Citibank
Michael Scissons, Chief Executive Officer of Grid Ventures, Executive Chairman of FlashStock
Grant Munro, Chief Executive Officer of FlashStock
Additional advisors and investors of FlashStock include Kevin Colleran, Ryan Holmes, Jonathan Carson, Shane Steele, Steven Gerbsman, Simon Mansell, Mike Parker and Jonathan Lister among others.
"Marketers around the world are struggling to access high quality, customized images at a reasonable price," says Michael Scissons, Executive Chairman of FlashStock. "FlashStock offers companies a network of consumer photographers that creates the ability to build customized content catalogues based on their marketing needs."
"In my time at Facebook it became clear that high quality images (content) drove the best results," stated Tom Arrix, FlashStock board member and former Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions (North America) at Facebook. "Brands and agencies continue to struggle to deliver consistent, great content, at scale. Cost or lack of budgets to produce the content has always slowed things down. FlashStock is a platform that provides the ability to change this and I'm excited to see its impact on revolutionizing the industry."
"Far too many companies and agencies assume that it's okay to use unpaid photos shared via social media without requiring the photographer's and/or model's consent," opined Grant Munro, Chief Executive Officer of FlashStock. "In 2013 we saw a wave of litigation that continued to set precedents on these issues. Among FlashStock's key commitments, we strive to make rights management easy and safe for companies of all sizes."
FlashStock is currently accessible through an invite-only or closed beta platform. Companies/brands and photographers can request an invitation by visiting http://www.flashstock.com or by emailing info@flashstock.com. An official public launch will follow later this year.
About FlashStock Inc.
FlashStock Inc. is a provider of customized on-demand visual content to brand-based clients and agencies in North America and the United Kingdom. Working with its global network of consumer photographers, FlashStock adds thousands of client-briefed photographs to its collection each week.
The company's sales and marketing is headquartered in New York City with development based in Toronto, Canada. The company was founded by Grid Ventures, a New York-based internet advisory and investment firm.
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Coach crash prevention system tracks drivers' eyes
By Leo Kelion Technology reporter
The Dutch firm co-ordinating the trial says it does not believe the cameras are distracting
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Coach drivers' eye movements and blinks are to be tracked by computers as part of a test to see whether the tech could be used to prevent accidents on long distance trips.
Five firms have each fitted the product to two coaches as part of a trial taking place across continental Europe.
Seeing Machines' Fatigue Monitoring System is already used by miners.
However, one expert cautioned it was unclear whether it would improve safety in the coach industry.
The Australian firm's product uses special cameras installed inside a vehicle to monitor the driver's gaze.
Royal Beuk hopes to install the safety system across its fleet of coaches
If it detects they are distracted or taking "microsleeps" - naps that can last less than a second and take place without the person's knowledge - it activates a vibration motor built into their seat.
In addition it triggers an alarm in the co-driver's sleeping compartment to alert them to the fact they should take over control of the vehicle.
The patented technology uses invisible infrared light to detect the driver's eyes in the dark without distracting them, and can be used even if they are wearing glasses.
Seeing Machines' chief executive suggested the system could detect the risk of an accident at an earlier point than alternative products such as lane detection cameras and steering wheel monitoring sensors.
Seeing Machines' system can track driver's eye movements in a dark coach cabin
"Coach accidents aren't that frequent, but when they do happen they are so catastrophic that they make the [newspaper] front pages and in a lot of cases it is almost the end of the coach company involved as no-one wants to ride with them anymore," Ken Kroeger told the BBC.
"The way the technology works is that it tracks your head position and your eye aperture.
"If you turn your head beyond a certain angle for a specified duration while moving over a certain speed, it will remind you your eyes should be on the road.
"Then for fatigue it looks at the frequency of blinking, the velocity of the eyelid when it's opening and the duration of the eye closure to determine if it's a microsleep."
Seeing Machines has teamed up with the coach operator Royal Beuk to hold the trial.
The Dutch firm has installed the tech on two of its vehicles and has recruited a further four coach firms to do likewise.
Caterpillar already distributes Seeing Machines tech to the mining industry
Over the winter months the vehicles will travel from the Netherlands to ski resorts in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Then, in the summer, they will travel to southern parts of France, Italy and Spain.
"There are competitor products on the market and we evaluated a few of them," Royal Beuk's research manager Marc Beuk said.
"But all of the others required something from the driver. One system required them to wear a special hat, another involved special glasses hooked up to wires.
"This was the only device that we know of that didn't give the driver something to do - once he turns the ignition key the system boots up and it starts monitoring him."
He added that if the nine-month test was a success, his firm intended to install the kit across its 60-vehicle fleet and act as its European distributor.
Coach crashes
In recent years driver fatigue has been blamed for several accidents.
US investigators said it was a factor in a bus crash in which 15 passengers died in New York in 2011, as well as another similar incident which killed four people in Virginia last year.
In the UK, a coroner cited it as the reason a coach veered off the M25 motorway near Slough, Berkshire, in 2003, resulting in the deaths of six people.
The system pairs its cameras with an industrial computer and location and motion sensors
However, one expert warned it was unclear exactly how common the problem was.
"Crashes are very rare when measured per kilometre, nevertheless they do occur and some of these may be related to fatigue, although very little is known about the precise numbers," said Prof Pete Thomas, head of the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University.
"The trial of a driver-fatigue detection system for coach drivers will provide useful further information to help improve coach safety, although it is important the trials are properly scientifically controlled.
"Other factors such as speed and alcohol may also be important causes of coach crashes and bus operators should continue to reduce all types of risks."
It currently costs the mining industry about £10,000 to install Seeing Machines' equipment in each vehicle on top of a continuing licence fee.
But the firm said that if the trial was a success it intended to offer coach firms a "less rugged" version that would be about a quarter of the cost.
It added it was also in early-stage talks to introduce its products to the airline industry.
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With the holiday season fast approaching I thought it'd be a perfect time to share with you another easy up-do hairstyle. It seems the knotted bun has replaced my love for effortless hairstyles this season, they're just so sophisticated and I love that they can easily be taken from daytime to nighttime.
One of the most important steps to give this hairstyle that soft smooth finish is the hair prep. To achieve a soft finish I recommend using a hydrating hair mask, my go-to for years has been the Briogeo Don't Despair Repair Deep Conditioning Hair Mask, it replenishes moisture without the harmful chemicals it's a must for anyone with dry hair. In addition to a hair mask round brushing or blow-drying, your hair will lock that cuticle ensuring a smooth finish just make sure you apply a blow-dry creme or heat protectant first, I love Briogeo's Rosarco Blow Dry Perfection Heat Protectant Creme because it tames frizz while protecting hair up to 450 degrees.
I hope you found these tips helpful don't forget to watch the hair tutorial above and leave a comment letting me know your haircare tips for dry hair this winter.
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My closet is quickly filling with made-in-Estonia leather goods, in addition to WÖÖ leather backpack (see here) I now got my hands on Ida Tau leather accessories.
Wearing leather suspenders feels a lot like a throwback to five-six years ago when I was obsessed with Zana Bayne's leather harnesses and even made my own D-I-Y version for styling purposes. Always nice to "rediscover" old favourites.
Ida Tau leather suspenders come in three colours (black, white and brown) and are available at Tali store in Tallinn.
feel free to write ida-tau@mail.ee for special requests!
Nii ägedad traksid! Ideaalsed üleni musta riietuse juurde.


Being a personal trainer is a fun and rewarding career. It can be a lot of work, but when you see your clients obtaining the results they want and feeling healthier and happier, it will make you happy too. Check out these 6 great tips for more information!
Did you know there's projected to be 330,000 personal training jobs in the United States by 2026?
This is likely influenced by the alarming obesity trend. Currently, 1 in 3 people in America is obese.
If you've been thinking about being a personal trainer (or are already a personal trainer trying to improve your business), read on. Here are six tips on how to become a fitness coach that gets success.
Getting your personal trainer certification is just the first step.
You need to get a clear idea of your target market to connect with clients who will be a good fit for your services. No matter how enthusiastic you are or how desperate you are for clients, you will need to focus on the type of clients you can best help.
Maybe you won't have any idea during the first few weeks. But as you work with clients you will start to get a sense of the types of clients you enjoy training.
When you are ready to market yourself, you'll need a website. Check out My Personal Trainer Website.
Consider the needs of your community, what you are most passionate about, and your preferred training style. You may choose to take an additional course to specialize in a specific area of fitness.
With a specialty, you will have more to offer your target clients, and you can charge a little more for your services.
You may choose to work with athletes to help them get in peak physical condition. You would help them improve their balance, speed, agility, and performance.
The good part about specializing in this type of training is that you'll get clients who are serious about results. This means they may be more prepared to do what you say and give it their all.
This may be the most common type of personal training in public gyms.
The target audience is people who are overweight or out of shape. Being a personal trainer for this demographic can be rewarding. You see their physical success and their confidence grow as they accomplish something they didn't think they could.
The downside? You'll have clients that won't commit or won't do what they need to do outside your sessions together to reach their goals.
Getting some clients to drink more than a cup or two of water each day can be an epic struggle.
Eating more protein and doing extra workouts during the week can be habits that take months for clients to form.
There are a lot of different types of clients in this category that you can focus on. These include older men, postpartum women, people that are obese, and so on.
Being a personal trainer that focuses on orthopedics means you will work with clients who have knee pain, arthritis, or other physical conditions.
Medical personal training is for post-rehabilitation clients who are recovering from heart problems, muscle sprains, or surgery. You will focus on daily stretches and low-impact cardiovascular exercises. You might also include weight-bearing movements are designed to repair injured areas and increase strength.
Expect your clients to see slow, steady results. You likely won't see amazing transformations overnight with these clients. However, it feels great to know that you helped a client move towards being pain-free.
Working with kids or seniors is an option as well.
With older adults, you will help them improve quality of life and maintain muscle mass. Or you can choose to focus on children and build fitness programs that fit their age and goals.
If you enjoy spending time with either seniors or kids, combining your personal training passion with this age group can be a great move.
Whether you decide to take additional certification or just target a specific type of client, keeping up your knowledge is essential.
One of the basic personal training requirements is continuing education. It is important to stay abreast of the latest trends and practices in health and fitness.
Being current allows you to offer your clients the latest types of exercises and nutrition advice.
Even outside of your mandatory CPR recertification and required refresher courses, you should strive to learn more about your field.
Read the latest articles and books and do research into the newest fad diets. That way when clients ask about it, you will have a well-researched answer to give. Make sure to stay current on fitness trends, too.
If you enjoy learning, personal training will give you plenty of opportunities.
Taking care of your own personal health, including mental wellness, is vital for success as a personal trainer.
Being a personal trainer requires you to demonstrate a healthy, vibrant fit lifestyle. Your clients want someone who is positive and upbeat to help them feel they can do it too.
The majority of people who decide to become personal trainers are either fitness enthusiasts or former sports players who want to make a career out of helping others get fit.
Most think that spending all day in a gym is a dream job. After all, you get to workout for free and you're always in an environment you love spending time in.
However, the reality is that clients often take up a trainer's usual workout time. Being a personal trainer means getting up as early as 4 AM, with sessions at 5 AM or 6 AM being very common.
Personal trainers accommodate clients–which means clients come first.
The afternoons are often filled with administrative work such as creating meal plans and workouts for clients. You might also do more training sessions or marketing and sales work on the computer.
At the end of it all, you could be working 15-hour days. When you are done for the night, you will be too tired and spent to want to run over to the free equipment and do your own killer workout.
The result is often that you start to sleep less, exercise less, and eat worse. Almost overnight, you've dropped the ball on your own healthy and balanced life.
Beware of this ironic struggle and don't fall into this trap. Even though you might be seeking new clients, you don't always have to be a yes man.
Set sustainable session schedules for the day and week. Carve out time for your own exercise–even if it means taking an hour to go for a run or play basketball outside.
The upside is you do have the equipment and a shower at work. And you're in your workout clothes already. So make the time for you.
Make tough calls that are best for you. You might have to skip some social outings so that you can get enough sleep to be up at the crack of dawn. You might have to tell a client you don't have any availability at that time that you have penciled in for yourself.
As you build a client base and your income becomes more predictable, it will be easier to stick to your boundaries. But even in the early days, don't let yourself burn out by trying to do too much.
Yes, you might have heard it before, and you might want to jump right in with solutions. Resist!
How to become a fitness coach that gets referrals and happy customers has to do with how well you listen. This is a life skill that you can develop by practicing.
Being a personal trainer is being part therapist and part life coach. When you are a good listener, clients will open up about their health, fitness, diet, and other things in their life. This valuable information can help you target the underlying issues (almost always emotional ones) that contribute to the problem.
Knowing exactly what their hangups are will help you motivate them and create a better training program that is tailor-made for them. Plus, the client will feel understood. That translates into them telling everyone they know about how great a trainer you are.
There's a lot more to keep track of as a personal trainer than just reps and sets.
Find a system that works for you to organize client information. You will want to use fitness assessments and progress reports to give your clients the best possible experience.
Hopefully, you already have a calendar to keep track of training sessions. If you don't, start that right now. You can use a binder, a filing cabinet or go paperless with an app or software you can access from a mobile device.
And if you're not already using a calendar to keep track of your training sessions, it's time to start.
Personal training is an industry that is based almost entirely on customer satisfaction.
One of the key personal trainer requirements is to switch your mental focus away from the money. Of course, you need and want to make a living. But when you are talking to prospective clients, signing up clients for more sessions, and counting your client's reps, don't be thinking about money.
Your clients will be able to sense when you truly care about their success. This translates into more referrals and a better reputation for you.
Though it may seem counter-intuitive, by focusing on the client first, the money will come.
If you've been thinking about the idea of being a personal trainer, we hope this post has given you a clearer look at what you can expect and how to succeed.
Remember, the average salary for personal trainers is around $30,000 a year. Having said that, you can make a decent living for yourself.
You just have to put in the time and work needed towards making each client's experience with you transformative and rewarding.
Want to learn more? Keep up to date on the science of weight loss at loseweight.io.


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Mezihoří  est une commune du district de Klatovy, dans la région de Plzeň, en République tchèque. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2021.

Géographie
Mezihoří se trouve à  au nord-nord-ouest de Klatovy, à  au sud-sud-ouest de Plzeň et à  au sud-ouest de Prague.

La commune est limitée par Švihov au nord et à l'est, par Dolany au sud et par Ježovy à l'ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite du village date de 1548.

Transports
Par la route, Mezihoří se trouve à  de Klatovy, à  de Plzeň et à  de Prague.

Notes et références

Commune dans le district de Klatovy

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body issues Feb. 25, 2008
Emma Thompson Fights Miramax's Weight-Loss Demands
Hayley Atwell, as slim and trim as she wants to be. Photo: Getty Images
Ever wonder why some actresses suddenly show up to award shows all thin and sickly? (Besides for the obvious reasons, we mean.) Well, it's kind of like when guys show up with facial hair, looking inappropriately scrubby and explain that it's for a movie role: Studios sometimes ask actresses lose weight when they don't need to. (Shocker.) Take 25-year-old Hayley Atwell, whom Miramax executives told to slim down for her role in the forthcoming film Brideshead Revisited. Thanks to co-star Emma Thompson, the studio relinquished the weight-loss demand, according to First Post:
Says Atwell: "I went round to Emma's one night and she was getting very angry that I wasn't eating all the food she was giving me. I told her why and she hit the roof." The no-nonsense Thompson was so outraged that she called the producers the next day and threatened to resign from the film if they forced Atwell to lose weight. Faced with Thompson — a two-times Oscar winner — on the warpath, Miramax Films swiftly relented.
We'd also be irritated if someone came over to eat and then just stared at her food, especially when she's already thin and good-looking. It's sad younger stars don't have enough pull or forethought to get out of these kinds of demands on their own. But we love that Thompson took such a strong stand; perhaps she can start a young-actress adoption program of sorts? Anyhow, we're going to go get some hot chocolate now. And a cookie.
Brit actress saved by outraged Emma [First Post]
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What Wan Azizah Is Now Saying After People Criticised How She Responded To Child Marriages
She also outlined actions that will be taken to raise the minimum age of marriage.
By Alyssa J. Oon — 21 Sep 2018, 12:41 PM
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Cover image via Bernama/Syamsi Suhaimi for New Straits Times
Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail released a statement today, 21 September, condemning child marriages
Minister of Women, Family, and Community Development Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Image via Bernama
The Deputy Prime Minister said, "I wish to reiterate that I am against child marriages and do not condone it. The best interest of the child must always be considered."
The press statement was issued by the Ministry and can be found on its official social media channels.
Wan Azizah clarified that her recent comments on the Tumpat child marriage were a "descriptive statement of what the child explained" to her officers
"I wish to clarify my recent statement on the marriage of the 15-year-old to the 44-year-old divorcee in Kelantan which was based on a report from my officers from the Welfare Department," Wan Azizah said in the statement.
The 15-year-old girl (far right) with her parents.
Image via Syamsi Suhaimi/New Straits Times
"The report stated that the marriage was sanctioned by the Mahkamah Rendah Syariah Tumpat (Tumpat Lower Syariah Court) and is legal according to current laws.
"What I said was just a descriptive statement of what the child explained to my officers," she continued.
"Marriage should not be used as a way out of poverty."
The Minister also shared that the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) and her ministry will prepare a paper to raise the marriage age for Muslims
Wan Azizah chaired a meeting on 13 September to "discuss this issue with all the relevant stakeholders".
The paper will then be presented to the Mesyuarat Menteri Besar dan Ketua Menteri (Meeting of Menteris Besar and Chief Ministers) to garner support from the states to raise the legal minimum age.
"Selangor's move to raise the minimum age for marriage to 18 should be emulated by other states," she said, adding that a Cabinet Paper will also be prepared to raise the marriageable age of non-Muslims to 18 years old as well.
However, as amending the law will take time, the Ministry will take stricter measures on approval of child marriages in the meantime
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Wan Azizah said, in reference to customary marriages, that the respective customary heads will be informed of the dangers of underage marriages to the child's health and safety and why a minimum age is so important.
Additionally, her ministry will also be meeting with the Department of Syariah Judiciary on stricter and more thorough guidelines for Syariah court judges in approving child marriages.
"Risk factors of pregnancy and child birth at such a young age must be taken into account," she added.
"I have also instructed my officers to examine current laws to ensure (that) the welfare of children is taken care of."
The Minister agreed that amendment to laws is only part of the bigger solution
"A holistic approach must include education, welfare nets, poverty eradication, and support systems," said Wan Azizah.
"The protection and rights of children is of paramount importance to me and I will not compromise on that matter."
Wan Azizah was previously slammed by various NGOs for her response to the recent child marriage case:
NGOs Slam Wan Azizah's Response To The Marriage Of 15-Year-Old Kelantanese Girl
The Deputy Prime Minister said Putrajaya must accept the Kelantan Syariah court's decision to allow the marriage.
It was revealed in July that over 15,000 child marriages had taken place in the last decade:
Hannah Yeoh: 15,000 Child Marriages Took Place In Malaysia Within The Past Decade
Deputy Minister Hannah Yeoh said that the ministry will announce their decision on child marriages at Parliament next...
Following the recent spate of high-profile child marriage cases, a Muslim father decided to take action:
A Muslim Dad Has Started An Online Petition To Ban Child Marriage In Malaysia
The petition has garnered more than 4,000 signatures since its posting on 12 July.


Every Wednesday at 9:00 PM, we will provide a time of quiet prayer which then leads into Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Come and adore!
The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is available for private Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament whenever the Newman Center is open. It is located at the north side of the main chapel.


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La 3β-hidroxiesteroide deshidrogenasa, 3β-HSD (3β-hidroxiesteroide deshidrogenasa/Δ-5-4 isomerasa) (EC 1.1.1.145) es una enzima que cataliza la síntesis de la progesterona desde la pregnenolona, la 17-hidroxiprogesterona desde la 17-hidroxipregnenolona, y la androstenediona desde la dehidroepiandrosterona en la glándula suprarrenal. Es la única enzima en la vía suprarrenal de síntesis de corticosteroides que no es miembro de familia citocromo P450. En humanos, existen dos isoenzimas de la 3β-HSD, codificados por los genes HSD3B1 y HSD3B2, respectivamente.

También es conocida como 5-delta 4-isomerasa, que cataliza la conversión oxidativa de los hidroxiesteroides-beta delta 5-3 a la configuración 4-3-ceto y es por tanto, esencial para la biosíntesis de todas las clases de esteroides hormonales, es decir la progesterona, glucocorticoides, mineralocorticoides, andrógenos, y estrógenos.

El complejo 3β-HSD es responsable de la conversión de:

 pregnenolona a progesterona
 17-alfa-pregnenolona a 17-alfa-progesterona
 dehidroepiandrosterona (DHEA) a androstenediona
 androstenediol a testosterona

Reacción
La 3β-HSD pertenece a la familia de oxidorreductasas, para ser específico, aquellos que actúan en el grupo donante CH-OH con el NAD+ o NADP+ como aceptador. Esta enzima participa en el metabolismo de las hormonas esteroides-C21 y en el metabolismo de andrógenos y estrógenos

La 3β-HSD cataliza la reacción química:

3β-hidroxi-Δ5-esteroide + NAD+  a 3-oxo-Δ5-esteroide + NADH + H+

Por lo tanto, los dos sustratos de esta enzima son 3β-hidroxi-Δ5-esteroide y NAD+, mientras que sus 3 productos son 3-oxo-Δ5-esteroide, NADH, y H+.

Isoenzimas
Los humanos expresan dos isoenzimas 3β-HSD, la HSD3B1 (tipo I) y la HSD3B2 (tipo II). El tipo I se expresa en la placenta y tejidos periféricos, mientras que la isoenzima 3β-HSD tipo II se expresa en las glándulas suprarrenales, ovarios, y testículos.

Inhibidores
La 3β-HSD es inhibida por el trilostano.

Importancia clínica
Una deficiencia en la enzima tipo II debido a mutaciones en el gen HSD3B2 es responsable de una forma poco común de la hiperplasia suprarrenal congénita. No existe condición humana por el momento que sea vinculada a una deficiencia en la enzima tipo I. Pero su importancia en la producción de la progesterona placentaria sugiere que dicha mutación sería embrionariamente letal.

Ruta biosintética

Nomenclatura
El nombre sistemático de esta clase de enzima es 3β-hidroxi-Δ5-esteroide:NAD+ 3-oxidorreductasa. Otros nombres de uso común incluye:

 progesterona reductasa
 Δ5-3β-hidroxiesteroide deshidrogenasa
 3β-hidroxi-5-eno esteroide deshidrogenasa
 3β-hidroxi esteroide deshidrogenasa/isomerasa
 3β-hidroxi-Δ5-C27-esteroide deshidrogenasa/isomerasa
 3β-hidroxi-Δ5-C27-esteroide oxidorreductasa
 3β-hidroxi-5-eno-esteroide oxidorreductasa
 esteroide-Δ5-3β-ol deshidrogenasa
 3β-HSDH
 5-eno-3β-hidroxiesteroide deshidrogenasa
 3β-hidroxi-5-eno-esteroid deshidrogenasa

Referencias


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Q: AWS Cli - Run AWS LakeFormation Blueprint Workflow I'm trying to run my AWS Blueprint Workflow (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/workflows-about.html) through the command-line using AWS CLI. For that, I was trying to see which command is the best to do it. I was trying to get the command on the following page: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/lakeformation/index.html
And the more similar command that I've found was the was aws start-transaction, however when I ran aws list-transactions I didn't got my blueprint workflows, so maybe I didn't get the desired list of my blueprints jobs.
Anyone knows if it's possible to do this?

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Grant will fund HIV diagnostic test
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HPV panel streamlines assay qualification
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Human mononuclear cells available off the shelf
SeraCare Life Sciences has expanded its range of mononuclear cells with the launch of off-the-shelf AccuCell human cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMNCs). Viability of these cells after thawing is validated at better than 90%, says SeraCare, making these cryopreserved CBMNCs…
Vitamin D diluent contains no equine or synthetic plasma
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John Thompson predicts a bright future for Fituese
John Thompson was still crafting his skills as a horseman when he first crossed paths with Joe O'Neill
John Thompson was still crafting his skills as a horseman when he first crossed paths with Joe O'Neill.
O'Neill was in the early stages of establishing syndication company Prime Thoroughbreds while Thompson had just taken on the role of foreman for trainer Bill Mitchell.
More than two decades later Thompson, now a leading trainer in his own right, and O'Neill, still syndicating horses, appear to have a promising filly on their hands in Fituese.
The three-year-old scored an explosive victory in Saturday's Sky Racing Active Handicap (1000m), stamping herself as a horse of the future.
"When I came to Randwick with Billy Mitchell, Joe was syndicating and had just started Prime Thoroughbreds and I was foreman for Bill," Thompson said.
"We've been together a long time and hopefully a long time to come.
"I think she's a good little filly. She's just a real racehorse and she gives you 150 per cent every time with everything she does and she should go right through her grades."
Fituese ($2.70) stalked the speed for jockey Rachel King and unleashed an impressive turn of foot to race clear and score by 2-3/4 lengths over L'Cosmo ($5) with another 1-1/2 lengths to Witherspoon ($11).
King, who brought up a double after taking out the opening event on Macroura for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, believes Fituese has taken another step this campaign.
"I think she has gone to a whole new level this preparation," King said.
"It was nice to see her do that because she's shown us so much promise throughout and to do that first up on a Saturday in town, she has proven to us now she is the type of horse we think she is."
Fituese is set to be given a shot at stakes company and will head to the Denise's Joy Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill in two weeks.
Her victory continued a great run for O'Neill's Prime Thoroughbreds which also races brilliant Patrick Payne-trained filly Rubisaki.
Wangaratta races market movers – 17/1/2021


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Adds an AWS::WAFv2::WebACL.IPSetReferenceStatement resource property to the template.
**Note**

## SYNTAX

```
Add-VSWAFv2WebACLIPSetReferenceStatement [-Arn] <Object> [<CommonParameters>]
```

## DESCRIPTION
Adds an AWS::WAFv2::WebACL.IPSetReferenceStatement resource property to the template.
**Note**

This is the latest version of **AWS WAF**, named AWS WAFV2, released in November, 2019.
For information, including how to migrate your AWS WAF resources from the prior release, see the AWS WAF Developer Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-chapter.html.

A rule statement used to detect web requests coming from particular IP addresses or address ranges.
To use this, create an IPSet that specifies the addresses you want to detect, then use the ARN of that set in this statement.
To create an IP set, see CreateIPSet.

Each IP set rule statement references an IP set.
You create and maintain the set independent of your rules.
This allows you to use the single set in multiple rules.
When you update the referenced set, AWS WAF automatically updates all rules that reference it.

## PARAMETERS

### -Arn
The Amazon Resource Name ARN of the IPSet that this statement references.

Documentation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-wafv2-webacl-ipsetreferencestatement.html#cfn-wafv2-webacl-ipsetreferencestatement-arn
UpdateType: Mutable
PrimitiveType: String

```yaml
Type: Object
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
```

### CommonParameters
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see [about_CommonParameters](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).

## INPUTS

## OUTPUTS

### Vaporshell.Resource.WAFv2.WebACL.IPSetReferenceStatement
## NOTES

## RELATED LINKS

[http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-wafv2-webacl-ipsetreferencestatement.html](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-wafv2-webacl-ipsetreferencestatement.html)


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Thomas Stoltz Harvey (* 10. Oktober 1912 in Louisville, Kentucky; † 5. April 2007 in Titusville, New Jersey) war ein US-amerikanischer Pathologe und Neurologe, der dadurch bekannt wurde, dass er 1955 Gehirn und Augen vom verstorbenen Albert Einstein stahl.

Leben
Gegen den Willen Albert Einsteins, der an seinem Todestag sofort verbrannt werden und seine Asche an einem unbekannten Ort verstreut wissen wollte, entnahm Harvey in Anwesenheit von Einsteins Freund Otto Nathan im Princeton Hospital in New Jersey das Gehirn und die Augen von Einstein.

Damit jedoch geriet sein eigenes Leben aus den Fugen; er verlor seine Approbation und schlug sich als Fabrikarbeiter durch. Harvey zog von einem Ort zum anderen, immer mit dem Gehirn Albert Einsteins im Gepäck, und landete in Wichita, wo er 1978 von Steven Levy aufgesucht wurde, der das Verbleiben des Gehirns in Erfahrung bringen wollte. Erst 40 Jahre nachdem er das Gehirn gestohlen hatte, entschloss er sich, es an den Tatort zurückzubringen, wo er es einst entnommen hatte. Das Organ lagerte in zwei Einweckgläsern, so, wie Harvey das sezierte und in Kuben geschnittene Gehirn damals konservierte. Harvey stellte das Gehirn verschiedenen Wissenschaftlern zur Untersuchung zur Verfügung und beschloss 1997, es Einsteins Enkelin zu übergeben, die aber ablehnte. Begleitet wurde er dabei von dem Reporter Michael Paterniti, der darüber ein Buch schrieb. Der größte Teil des Gehirns befindet sich heute konserviert im National Museum of Health and Medicine in Chicago, die Augen in New York City.

Ab 1996 war Thomas Harvey im Ruhestand und wohnte in New Jersey.

Literatur
 Michael Paterniti: Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain. Dial Press, New York 2000, ISBN 0-385-33300-5.
 deutsch: Unterwegs mit Mr. Einstein. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-61934-2.
 Carolyn Abraham: Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain. St Martins Press, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-28117-X.

Einzelnachweise

Pathologe
Neurologe
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Albert Einstein
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1912
Gestorben 2007
Mann


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Q: Django how to send an email to the drivers after viewing thier form submission? I am newbie and just see the  django documentation of sending mail . i want to send an email to the drivers  after seeing their details if they are eligible i want them to send an email using thier email address that they submit while registering to my app . please tell me how do i send a email. i had already set the settings.py email host user all the needs of send an email its working on my other app . but not working on this app . how do i get the driver email and send an email from our company employee.
Views.py
@csrf_protect
def rentacar_carapp_sendmail(request):
    if request.POST:
        try:
            args['driver'] = driver = Driver.objects.get(id=request.POST.get('driver_id'))
            subject = "Please Register Your Car"
            from_email = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
            to_email = carapp.get('car_app_driver_id.driver_email')
            join_message = """thankyou  we will contact you later """
            send_mail(subject=subject, from_email=from_email, recipient_list=[to_email], message=join_message,
                    fail_silently=False)

            driver.save()
        except:
            pass
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/mega-admin/rentacar/driver-manager/')

Models.py
class Driver(models.Model):
    class Meta():
        db_table = "driver"
        verbose_name = "Driver"
        verbose_name_plural = "Drivers"
        ordering = ['driver_firstname', 'driver_lastname']

    driver_firstname = models.CharField(
        max_length=64,
        blank=False,
        null=False
    )
    driver_lastname = models.CharField(
        max_length=64,
        blank=False,
        null=False
    )
    driver_email = models.EmailField(
        blank=False
    )

A: Read this link, this should handle your problem: How to work with ajax request with Django
Small example code:
My html:
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="emailaddress">
Submit button for the customer

Ajax call:

If you don't understand the host_url in the Ajax call, please read the documentation.
urls.py
 url(r'^rentacar_carapp_sendmail$', views.rentacar_carapp_sendmail, name='rentacar_carapp_sendmail'),

Send_mail view:
def rentacar_carapp_sendmail(request):
customer = Driver.objects.get(id=request.POST.get('customer'))
customer_email = customer.email

# Send mail to customer
subject = "Please Register Your Car"
message = "thankyou  we will contact you later"
email_from = "your email" \
email_to = (customer_email)

send_mail(subject, message, email_from, email_to, fail_silently=False)


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Q: Calling to a method inside public method with this pointer I'm using the next syntax for private/public  methods in JavaScript:
function Cars() {
    this.carModel = "";
    this.getCarModel = function () { return this.carModel; }
    this.alertModel = function () {alert (this.getCarModel());}
}

But when I'm calling to a method alertModel its having errors because this is pointing to the window object thus cannot find it:
alert (this.getCarModel()); - this pointing to window
var newObject = new Cars();
newObject.alertModel();

I tried declaring those method in prototype also, but it's acts the same.
Cars.prototype.getCarModel = function () {
    this.getCarModel = function () { return this.carModel; }
}
Cars.prototype.alertModel = function () {
alert (this.getCarModel());
}

What I'a doing is calling it without this like that:
  Cars.prototype.alertModel = function () {
    alert (newObject.getCarModel());
    }

Is it the only way? because in others methods its works.

A: Your problem is that you've essentially declared free-floating functions inside of a scope.
You need to understand the difference between Scope and Context in Javascript. Interestingly, Pragmatic Coffeescript offers a good discussion on this. This is another good resource.

A: Try this:
function Cars() {
    var carModel = "";
    this.getCarModel = function() { return carModel; };
    this.alertCarModel = function() { alert (carModel) };
}

This way carModel will be private and cannot be accessed publicly, only by the alertCarModel and getCarModel methods.

A: try this:
function Cars() {
    this.carModel = "";
    this.getCarModel = function () { return this.carModel; }
    this.alertModel = function () {alert (this.getCarModel());}

    return {
     getCarModel: getCarModel,
     alertModel: alertModel
    }
}

var newObject = new Cars();
newObject.alertModel();


It's time for district play for most high school football team, and close to home, there is plenty of action tonight. As always there's a little backstory for everyone.
The #6 Yellow Jackets (3-2) despite two losses are still in the top ten of Dave Campbell's Texas Football poll, and so are the #4 Waco La Vega Pirates (4-2). Both teams got that respect the hard way with games against #1 Argyle and #5 Midlothian.
China Spring brings in a 4-2 record into Stephenville's annual Hall of Fame game and while they may have a better record the competition they have faced was not top ten. The Jackets are rested after a week off – some might even say restless.
The biggest question for the coaching staff might be when is it time to pull the skill players out?
If you want to see someone who is hungry to beat somebody head to Dublin tonight as Tolar comes to town after costing the Lions a trip to the playoffs last year 30-28.
The fortunes appear to have changed with Tolar having lost to DeLeon earlier this season and Dublin doubled up on DeLeon for a 46-23 win.
Coach Bob Cervetto's Lions are 5-0 and appear poised to make it 6-0.
The Tigers know about injury having lost their starting quarterback before the season got started and they are coming off a huge 57-0 win over Petrolia.
This one of those games to go and watch just because you love high school football and with the way things have played out this year it's probably going to be close.


These are some of the holidays that are being arranged for all members of the community & friends, you do not have to be a member of the East Community Complex to come along and enjoy these holidays.
If you wish to pay a little each week until it is paid in full you may do so but full cost must be paid 7 weeks prior to holiday. Always remember a little goes a long way. For more Information keep watching this page or contact Mrs Pat Braines at the East Community Complex.


This Enviro Sack Thermo Tote Bag measures 13" in width by 10" in depth by 15" in height. It is a customizable bag that is available in a range of different colors: black, orange, red, purple, lime green, pink, navy blue, royal blue, dark green, khaki beige, white, and kelly green. You can further customize the bag by printing your company's name, logo, or other important message on it. We encourage you to get in touch with a member of our design team to determine the best way to showcase your brand to the masses. This insulated bag allows you to add a special touch to any outdoor event. It is a grocery tote, but it features thermal insulation that will keep the contents either warm or cold for hours. It is made with 100 GSM premium non woven polypropylene, a highly sustainable and fully recyclable material. This tote bag also features a zipper closure, reinforced handles for comfortable and safe carrying, thermal insulation, and a black bottom board. Should you opt for the white thermal tote, the bottom board will be white. This bag is the ideal accessory for restaurants, farmers' markets, grocery stores, charities, and much more. We encourage you to choose from one of our many bold color options and to further customize the bag with your logo and company name. Each time your customers use the bag, and they will use it often, they will increase your brand awareness. Your customers will love taking this giveaway home with them and using it again. This bag truly ticks all the boxes. It is durable and strong, made from sustainable materials, and can feature your brand. This is an opportunity to set yourself apart as a company of choice in today's market place. Indeed, the bag is an opportunity for a return on investment that shouldn't be missed.


Battaglia Homes completes luxury custom home in Oak Brook. The home's beautiful façade is constructed with limestone and stucco. The home's unique and elegant interior design features include "broken glass" dining room ceiling detail, circular staircase with wainscoting to ceiling, Cambria kitchen countertops & six inch select white oak hardwood flooring. Established in 1992, Battaglia Homes is an award-winning custom home builder serving Hinsdale and the surrounding western suburbs of Chicago. For more information call 630-669-4280 or visit battagliahomes.com.
The Oak details make the home absolutely timeless!


Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle and Dragon Ball FighterZ will be having a collaboration!
Android 21, an original character from Dragon Ball FighterZ, will be joining Dokkan Battle! She'll be another card with the transformation mechanic, which lets you transform your card, giving it new abilities and stats! When Android 21 transforms ingame, she becomes the Evil 21 who absorbs Cell in FighterZ. She'll have tons of healing and boosted damage in this state, so go for that transformation!


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4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.
America's first and longest running hour-long nightly news broadcast known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.


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