Unless you want the whole country to know you are an American tourist, leave your shorts, gym clothes, and clunky white American tennis shoes at home. No one, other than maybe cruise ship passengers would be caught dead sporting this type of attire outside of a gym. Sadly enough this includes yoga pants. Italians dress nice, so if you want to blend in plan to wear modest skirts, tops, boots, sandals, and even dark slim sketcher-type tennis shoes if you're worried about aching feet.
If any of your shirts show even the slightest hint of cleavage, toss them out of your suitcase right now- Trust me, Italian men don't need much encouragement and any part of your girls peeking out from the top of your shirt will cause lots of unwanted attention. Italian women are probably born with this knowledge and dress accordingly, most take it a step further by covering themselves with scarves and pashminas. I rarely see a female without one and I'm betting the scantily clad women are probably unaware Americans. Many of the chapels don't even allow women with as much as exposed shoulders inside. So prepare to mummify yourselves.
Showers in Italy leave a lot, a whole whole lot to be desired, even in the nicest hotels with some so small they make turning around a challenge, even for a small person like me. And water pressure- forget about it. Ok maybe I'm just a little spoiled by America's overindulgent fancy dual showerheads, extra jets spurting out enough pressure to remove several layers of skin… and perhaps even a little sin- you know from baring our shoulders during mass.
On the plus side, there are the bidets which more than make up for what the showers lack, leaving me wondering- Why in the world are these ingenious little contraptions not more popular in the states? Anyway, maybe it's just a cultural thing, the same reason washcloths don't seem to exist in Italy. Do they even make them? I don't know, but I've yet to see one.
And while we're on the subject of bathrooms, Always carry loose change. What does that have to do with bathrooms you wonder. In many places you have to pay to pee and being one who rarely carries any cash, I find this super frustrating, especially in public places like the train station. Even the free bagnos have attendants responsible for keeping them squeaky clean and you'll likely come face to face with one when exiting a stall. She'll offer you lotion, cologne, mints and you will want to give her a little tip, why because she looks like someone's grandma and because her job stinks.
So you've bought an Italian phrasebook and have been practicing. Be prepared when you try to impress someone with your new language… And they actually understand you and Oh my gosh- Respond. What now because you have no clue what they are saying and flipping through your phrasebook isn't going to help because they're still talking 100 miles an hour and probably at this point laughing at you as you frantically flip the pages trying to figure out what they are saying.
Also, the Italian men who speak at least some English will rarely admit when they don't understand what you're saying. It takes a lot of practice to watch their expressions and signals to learn they have no idea what you're talking about. Make sure when you meet English speakers, you skip the slang terms- You will cause a misunderstanding if you say "Oh that stinks," unless you really mean something smells bad. Don't use contractions either, say cannot instead of can't. When there's several variations for a word, stick to the most proper word, i.e. instead of belly, tummy, gut, use stomach.
Learn the phrase Non capisco (I don't understand) so you don't appear rude when someone's trying to speak to you in Italian. It also helps to smile when you say it.
If you're a solo traveling woman, Repeat after me- Ho un marito (I have a husband). Even if you don't, it will at some point come in handy.
The coffee here will kill you. Ok, not really but it conjures up images of hot jet fuel on the palate and no amount of sugar and cream can help. The only way I get it down is to dilute it with half hot water. Most places do offer great mild cappuccinos.
Water is either still or with gas (sparkling), even in the convenience stores, so pay attention when buying it, especially if you have a strong preference.
Italians eat small continental-type breakfasts, usually a pastry or some type of bread with their morning jet fuel. I'm guessing they don't want to dilute the caffeination effect, which for me means quivering insides and hands to shaky to even hold my camera.
Learn to like or at least tolerate olives. They're about as easy to avoid as candy at Christmas and are in every dish, growing in almost every yard, everywhere. There's no escaping them. At some point you will at least accidentally ingest one, embrace it.
Prepare your palate for the lack of 1,000 calorie salad dressings, a staple in every American restaurant, only oil and vinegar here.
Fish here is expensive, I mean really expensive, like sell a kidney kind of expensive. Doesn't matter that every restaurant I visit is a stone's throw from the sea where there's an overabundance of them. I guess I should have realized when I learned it was sold by the gram, you know like cocaine. With that being said, it is worth ordering especially in a place where you get to choose your catch from a tub of ice or window display, wait for it to be buried and cooked whole in a pan of salt, then cleaned and drizzled with olive oil at your tableside. Delizioso.
In the Amalfi region, delicious Lemoncello and Wild Fennel Liquor apertifs are often served with lunch and dinner, hmmm no wonder the Italians take an extra long lunch.
Beds are extra firm and bring back memories of childhood camping- on the ground, so when you leave home, prepare to bid arrivederci to the comfort of your pillowtop mattress. On the plus side, whenever I travel Europe or stay in European hotels in the states where brick beds are common, I notice my achy back seems suddenly healed, at least until I get back home and all snuggled up in my squishy softness.
Italian hotel rooms offer less amenities than Americans are used to- many have no television and if they do only offer a few channels, I guess they expect visitors will actually be out doing things rather than laying in bed watching the televisione. Many rooms don't offer alarm clocks or booklets of information. Recommendations on things to do, places to eat will have to come from hotel staff or you could just take your chances and go explore.
If driving or riding in NYC leaves you on anxiety meds, prepare yourself, and bring your meds along. I'm not even sure why those pointless traffic signs are placed along Italy's roadways, since no one, except maybe foreigners even pretend to obey them. Stop simply means slow down and yield means accelerate enough so you can beat the other guy heading in the same direction. If drivers see a sight they'd like to explore, they simply stop the car in the middle of the mountainy road, get out and take their time looking over the edge. No worries about the other drivers, they will go around, usually after a few horn honks and unusual gestures. If you find yourself on a one-lane road speeding head on towards another car, bus, or moped, don't be intimidated. Remember, he who shows fear first loses… and will have to back up, even if it means driving around a treacherous mountain in reverse. Don't be a chicken. And on the highways as far as speed limits go, don't bother trying to see if there are any actual signs posted, you'll be going to fast to notice anything but blurs. Speed is dictated by the bumper of the guy in front of you, no 3 to 6 second following rule here.
Italians take pride in their jobs and well, just about everything. Waiters, hotel employees, the whole hospitality industry is paid well and it shows in their work. You will never see a waiter reach across you or act like your being there is bothering them. The ones I've met have made careers out of their jobs and have no desire to do anything else. It's as if they were born for this job. In America we only expect college students or job hoppers to have these type of positions and we pay them accordingly. When tourist season ends, some of the towns basically shut down and the hospitality employees take a nice long break. Also, expect a nice long lunch break each day from around noon until 2:00 or 3:00 as most businesses and shops shut down for a few hours.
In the states most of the smokers I know shamefully hide their habit and are about to start their 675th attempt at quitting. I guess the whole lung cancer/ cigarette smoking connection hasn't caught on in Italy because everyone smokes. On the bright side, the vino flows freely here and it's common to see house bottles on the tables during both lunch and dinner. This I can gladly adapt to.
Putting aside all of my cynicism and silliness Italy in all its splendor, welcomed me with open arms, taught me to breathe, to just be still and take in her magnificent wonder waiting for me around every corner, in every town throughout my journey. Italy taught me, the Italians are right, there is no better place on earth.
In a couple of months, I will be heading back for more. I am counting down the days til we meet again….
Great recaps… I crave my return to Italy and indulging in Panna cotta, vino and Zucchini Flowers and just discovering what treasure lies behind the next alley and corner.
There are some really awesome tips here!! Something that I would add (I'm an exchange student in the Napoli region) is to read up on where you are going. Different parts of the country have different customs, sayings, foods, etc. Also, IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND STICK DEODORANT. Here, most everyone wears this spray on stuff that, to me, seems to do very little. And the biggest shock for me – tampons. That's right, tampons. Italian women do not use them. So if you are planning on staying awhile and don't like using pads, bring a pack or two. Oh, and if you are staying for any amount of time where you should pick up more of the language, I suggest buying a dictionary (vocabolario) and grammar book along with the phrase bool. It really helps. I hope this has helped! Ciao!
Loved your article. You are informative and funny at the same time – which is a lot more than most people manage to do when trying their hardest. Keep on writing!


Govinda and Kader Khan had one of the most successful collaborations of the 1990s. The duo mostly appeared in David Dhawan's blockbuster comedies. Hearing the news about Khan's demise on Tuesday, Govinda shared his memories of working with the veteran actor.
"Kader Khan sir is no more with us. He was not just a mentor but also a father figure to me. He had such finesse that whichever artiste he worked with or collaborated with, became a star, in fact a superstar. The entire film industry and my family cannot express the loss in words. I pray to God to grant peace to his soul, and may he find a place in heaven," Govinda told indianexpress.com.
Bollywood veteran actor-screenwriter Kader Khan passed away on Tuesday in Canada at the age of 81.


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Qatar and Omnibalancing Escaping the Saudi Regional Hegemony
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Taking as its backdrop the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of economic sanctions on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies in June 2017, this thesis examines the sources of the turbulent relationship between Qatar and its larger neighbor: Saudi Arabia. The thesis analyzes this critical relationship from the perspective of Qatar. Its aim is to explain why Qatar has historically pushed back against toeing the Saudi foreign policy line; and why it has largely succeeded in achieving this feat. The thesis interrogates Qatari contemporary history and its external relations in order to discern the factors that encouraged, and enabled, Qatar to pursue a policy of balancing against – rather than bandwagoning with – Saudi Arabia. The thesis draws on the theoretical framework provided by the International Relations theory of omnibalancing. It argues that Qatar's historic alliance with the United States and its close relationship to Iran (at least in comparison to the other Gulf States) were driven by a Qatari quest to deter any possible Saudi military intervention and (more broadly) to escape Saudi regional hegemony. A brief comparison between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar regarding their stances towards Saudi Arabia shows that Bahrain bandwagoned with Saudi Arabia due to regime security calculations. Kuwait and Oman maintained more independent foreign policy stances, but without defying Saudi Arabia. Qatar was the only Gulf state to challenge Saudi regional hegemony. The thesis argues that the political, economic, and military ties that Qatar established with regional (Iran) and international actors– as well as its oil wealth and reliance on "soft power" – supported its quest to balance against Saudi regional hegemony.
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New gaming regulations in China are partly political, partly social and entirely straightforward to circumvent
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Zhu Jingtong was shocked. A manager at a games publisher in Shanghai, Zhu and her colleagues were blindsided. "We didn't know anything beforehand," she says. "We found out at the same time as everyone found out." Xinhua, China's national wire service, had just announced new limits on the time that Chinese children could spend playing online video games.
Those under the age of 18 can now only play for one hour, between 8pm and 9pm, on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays. These are by far the severest restrictions on game-playing of any country where internet access is widely available. Many online games in China require ID registration, and for minors signing in, the system logs the time spent playing. If a child exceeds the time limit, a window pops up, leaving little choice but to stop.
The rules impact every game published in China that can be downloaded or accessed online, affecting mobile games and PC games. (Console gaming remains a relatively tiny part of China's enormous gaming scene.) Some 743.5 million people play games in China, according to market research firm Niko Partners, of which around 110 million are under 18.
"The restrictions were already strict," says Zhu, referring to 2019 regulations that had already proscribed minors to playing 1.5 hours on any day, and three hours on holidays. "To push it even further, it's really unexpected," she says. "It's going to hit the industry hard." Zhu's colleagues were scrambling to update their games' backend, to ensure their titles complied with the new rules, which went into effect just a few days after the announcement.
The new measures are designed to prevent minors from becoming addicted to online games, which are a "widespread concern" that "the majority of parents agree with," according to a document issued by Chinese authorities. The four-page announcement mentions "anti-addiction" or "addiction" nearly two dozen times in language that is targeted and repetitive, and says that "teenagers are the future of the motherland."
The blow to gaming stocks was relatively mild after the announcement, as children are not a major source of revenue for gaming companies, and restrictions were already in place for minors. But analysts predict long-term consequences. "What we've learned from the historic console ban in China is that consoles remain a niche in the region, even now," says Chenyu Cui, a senior games analyst for Omdia, a tech-focused market research firm.
"When these restricted younger players grow older it's possible that games will not play as big a part in their consumption of entertainment media, meaning the industry – particularly mobile – could start shrinking after perhaps ten to 15 years."
Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst focused on China and Asia for Niko Partners, says these regulations are part of an ongoing trend to control the popularity of online games in China and is part of a wider push to more tightly regulate gaming for minors.
In recent years Beijing has sought to bring China's sprawling online gaming ecosystem to heel with measures including formalising and strengthening ID systems, and boosting censorship controls. And the social impact of gaming, as it has grown, has come under increasing scrutiny.
These restrictions are also taking place amid a wider crackdown on China's entertainment industry, which include punitive measures against online fan clubs and celebrity fan culture (such as the sale of merchandise and websites which rank celebrities), and on tech firms such as Tencent and DiDi. Analysts also predict that live-streaming and video apps will see greater government regulation to tackle "internet addiction," in a national Marxist revival under Xi Jinping's leadership.
In short, Beijing wants people to spend less time eyeing celebrities and content that could draw away their admiration. The revival included introducing "Xi Jinping Thought" into the national curriculum, from primary school up to university, so that "teenagers establish Marxist beliefs", according to guidelines released by China's Ministry of Education in 2018.
The recent crackdown on internet companies is another step in this re-emphasis as Xi promotes his vision of "common prosperity." As Bloomberg reports, this policy – "one where the interests of investors take a distant third place to ensuring social stability and national security" – has enormous consequences, and has already wiped billions of dollars off the value of some of China's biggest tech companies.
Ahmad also mentions the underreported issue of myopia in relation to the restrictions. According to official statistics, over half of children in China are short-sighted, and rates appear to be on the rise. In 2018 an official survey found that 72 per cent of children aged between 12 and 14 had myopia, an increase from 58 per cent in 2010. Causes of this have been attributed to children not spending enough time outdoors and too much time in front of screens, a growing problem around the world. In 2018 Xi declared myopia "a major issue related to the future of the country that we must attach great importance to and not allow to develop".
Many in China will support the crackdown. "I think it's great," says Ji Liwei, a 34-year-old English tutor based in Beijing. "Most teenagers, especially boys, like to play video games, and they can't focus on study or cultivate other hobbies." Support is one thing – but will the restrictions have the desired impact of tackling perceived addiction to gaming? Chinese newspapers often report on examples of addiction which leads to "concern of the whole society over minors' excessive gaming", says Chungdi Zhang, an analyst for market research firm Ampere Analysis. "I think this new rule shows that the majority of Chinese society still has a bias against games, and parents overly blame games for problems arising in children's development, which became the main driver for the government's increasing regulation of the games industry," Zhang adds.
China is not the first country in Asia to impose restrictions. South Korea enacted the so-called "Shutdown Law" in November 2011 to combat gaming addiction, which was designed to prevent under-17s from playing games between midnight and 6am. (The law was recently repealed as it was discovered to be ineffective as it didn't apply to mobile games.) Officials in Japan are also worried about excessive gaming among children, which appears to be a growing problem. But the introduction of any restrictions is unlikely due to strong protections in Japan's constitution to prevent government overreach.
And even in China the ban may be relatively easy to circumvent. Steven Jiang lives in Beijing and is in his second year of high school. The 16-year-old's favourite games are Genshin Impact (developed by Shanghai's miHoYo) and the enormously popular Honor of Kings (published by Tencent Games). Despite spending an average of four hours a day playing these games Jiang believes the restrictions are overly prohibitive. "Games are games, study is study," he says. "Not everyone has lost their ability to control their time." But perhaps more pertinently he says the restrictions don't really affect him.
Jiang says he and his gamer friends – "mostly boys, some girls" – all use boosters. Also known as accelerators, many gamers in China use these VPN-like apps, which connect Chinese players to overseas servers, to get access to titles not released in China. So far the government appears to be turning a blind eye to the use of these boosters.
Ahmad also believes China's gaming minors won't be so easily constrained. "Kids are kids, they will continue to find loopholes," he says. "This isn't the end of gaming. The government will introduce regulations as they see fit, but it's still a growth sector."
As for Jiang, he thinks the government should allow children the freedom to develop their own ability to control their time. "It makes me relaxed," he says, about his hobby, "and it's a good way to socialise, playing with friends. Next year we'll have the big test [the college entrance exam] and we will all try to give up games. We're human – most of my friends we like to play. But studying is the first thing we need to do."
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Aim: To build the children's desire to use all of their talents and assets to do good works in Jesus' name.
Advance Preparation:Select a small and large bill of money (say, $1 and $20 in U.S.A.). Or, print a "pretend" $1 and $100 bill by loading this PDF file ( ), print the first two pages, then reverse the printed sheets and print the last two pages. Cut out one $1 and one $100.
"Accordian fold" the large bill as shown, and place some double-sided tape or glue on the spot indicated. Pre-fold the small bill (in preparation for tearing during the presentation), then attach the large bill in the spot indicated.
Practice picking up the bill with one hand, such that the "large" bill is hidden by the four fingers. For a more convincing demonstration, also practice showing both sides of the "small" bill, by artfully keeping the "large" bill covered while flipping over the "small" bill.
Read Luke 12:42-43 . Emphasize that good works cannot save a person who does not know Christ ( Ephesians 2:8-9 ), but that a disciple of Christ does earn rewards in heaven for good works. Ask the children for suggestions on what the reward for good works might be. Then read Luke 12:44 . The reward for consistent good works is greater responsibility and opportunity to serve God more fully.
To demonstrate, pick up the prepared bill ($1, with the folded $100 bill secretly attached) and if desired, show both sides. Explain that many people have few possessions or talents, and may consider it best to keep what they have for themselves. A wise person, however, will use all that they have to serve Christ - even if it means "using up" all of their time, money, and talents.
While you discuss this, tear the bill along the three pre-folded lines, moving the portions not attached to the "large" bill well apart (to emphasize they have really been torn) and then adding to the front. Finally, with the four torn pieces of the "small" bill stacked in your hand and the folded "large" bill in back (toward you), fold the portion of the "small" bill above the "large" bill down toward the audience, then fold the portion above the "large" bill up toward the audience to make a tightly folded wad of paper.
The wise person may have less in the short run, but he has invested in the future wisely. As you talk, casually transfer the wad of paper to your other hand, surrepticiously turning it over so that the folded "large" bill is now toward the audience. Now slowly unfold the "large" bill, keeping the torn and folded "small" bill under four fingers of one hand. The audience will believe the torn $1 has been restored as a $100 bill. Explain that he who is faithful with small things will be given charge of greater things, as you casually pocket (both) bills.
Finally, ask how the master would react if he returned to find a new manager, one who he did not know, managing his affairs. Even if the unexpected manager was doing a good job, would the master reward him? No! The master would say "I don't know you", contact the police, and have the strange manager cast into prison. Similarly, a person who does not know Christ should expect no reward for good works (again, emphasizing that salvation is not a reward but a gift, which can only be accepted, not earned).
First, a person must join God's family and receive his commission to serve Christ. (Offer an opportunity to discuss this after class with a counselor, if possible.) Only after receiving the free gift of salvation from Christ can one begin to build treasure in heaven by doing good works in His name.
Application Questions: Have you joined God's family? If so, you are now commissioned to do good works in His name! If Jesus returned last night, would He have found you watching and faithfully serving Him? What will you do different this week? Are you using all that you have to serve Him every day? What changes will you make this week?


RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Felician University delivered a steady performance on both sides of the net in capturing a 3-1 (25-15, 21-25, 25-18, 25-21) non-conference women's volleyball victory over visiting Assumption College on Saturday afternoon at Job Gymnasium. Felician (1-4) was playing in its 2018 home opener.
For the first time in the 15-year history of their program, the Golden Falcons defeated a member of the Northeast 10 Conference. Felician had been 0-33 all-time against current members of the perennial Division II power, including 0-4 versus the Greyhounds.
Freshman outside hitter Kahea Aea (Mililani, Hawaii/Kamehameha) paced a balanced Felician performance with nine kills, 15 digs and five assists. Classmate Melissa Marte (Bloomfield, N.J./Bloomfield) put down seven kills. Assumption sophomore outside Mary Campbell (Plainville, Mass./Bishop Feehan) topped all players with 11 kills.
The Golden Falcons took control early in Set 1, turning an 8-7 deficit into a 16-9 lead. Felician hit .229 for the set and held the Greyhounds to a negative attack percentage. The visitors flipped the script in the second set, evening the match by jumping out to a 10-3 edge and withstanding a late Felician charge.
During the pivotal third set, the hosts trailed, 13-12, before winning seven of the next eight rallies. Felician prevented Assumption from earning consecutive points for the balance of the set and went on to a 2-1 edge.
Set 4 was tied on seven occasions, the final time at 18-18. A Greyhound error and a kill by Aea gave Felician the opening it needed. Later, a Raamiah Edwards (Bloomfield, N.J./Bloomfield) kill followed by a service ace from Katie Asbery (Mililani, Hawaii/Mililani) put the Golden Falcons ahead 23-19. Moments later, Felician ended the match on the fourth block of the afternoon by Jazlyn Pipkins (Paris, Texas/Paris).
Edwards gave Felician a lift off the bench, recording five kills and two blocks in two sets. Freshman setter Sierra Gallagher (Honolulu, Hawaii/Kamehameha) turned in 16 assists and 10 digs for Felician. Assumption (0-6) received eight kills, 13 digs and four aces from sophomore Ariana Orcera (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico/Marista).
Felician is in the midst of a stretch of seven home contests out of eight. It returns to Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play when it hosts Caldwell University on Tuesday at 7 p.m.


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Årsjögård är ett arkeologiskt friluftsmuseum i form av en rekonstruerad vikingagård, belägen på Brudberget i Årsunda, Gävleborgs län. Gården ägs av Sandvikens kommun och den ideella Vikingaföreningen Fafner ansvarar för driften.

De första byggnaderna uppfördes 1996. Gården omfattar idag (2019) bland annat långhus, smedja, kokhus, visthus, fähus och en kultplats.

I omgivningarna finns ett flertal fasta fornlämningar, bland annat Gästriklands största vikingatida gravfält Söderby.

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Posted on May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021 by rachelmbryant
Reckoning with the City Charter – Social Justice and the City, Tertulias Fredericton, May 5 2021
On May 5, I was invited to speak about the Saint John City Charter and the Treaty relationship as part of the run-up to the New Brunswick municipal elections. This talk was part of a panel on Social Justice and the City that also featured presentations by Julia Woodhall-Melnik and Valerya Edelman, who spoke on the gentrification of the central peninsula in Saint John and on New Brunswick's urban addictions problem, respectively. All three talks are available in video form on the NB Media Co-op website. I'm grateful to Tracy Glynn for inviting me to speak, to the organizers of the incredible Tertulias series and to the NB Media Co-op team for everything they do to engage and inform New Brunswickers.
I mediated my discussion of the Charter through Shalan Joudry's poem "Another Poverty," which is from her 2014 collection Generations Re-merging. The full text of my talk, complete with slides, has been added below.
Tonight I'm speaking about the Saint John City Charter, which is a document through which my ancestors and maybe some of yours consolidated themselves and their ideas and interests against unceded Wolastokuk, against their responsibilities to co-exist with Indigenous people, and against the interests of their Wabanaki partners in Treaty.
I am interested in the Charter because of what it says but perhaps more fundamentally what it represents. My background is in literary history and I want to mediate my discussion of the Charter through a poem titled "Another Poverty" by the Mi'kmaw writer Shalan Joudry. There is of course this long history in the northeast of non-Indigenous people speaking for Indigenous people, of wanting to be both sides of any conversation or supposed relationship. So here is a Mi'kmaw woman turning those tables, speaking from the position of people with family histories like mine, saying –
Tonight in my discussion of the Charter I want to reference back to this idea of the machine I work automatic each day, upholding systems and structures that cast Wabanaki people as intruders in their own unceded homelands.
In my research I'm exploring some of the ways in which my ancestors lived in relationship with Wabanaki people before the arrival of the Loyalists. [Note: this is not to say that the relationship between British and Wabanaki people was "good"; it was often adversarial, and periods of peace were often fleeting and came on the heels of theft, encroachment, and disagreement.] I appreciate John Reid's work on the 1760s where he shows that "British hegemony" had not been "consolidated conclusively" in Wolastokuk and Mi'kmaki before the arrival of the Loyalists. Even if the British were trying to consolidate their hegemony, this was still, as he puts it, "debatable territory," which is part of why we see this negotiating of rights and responsibilities over the course of decades in the eighteenth century, these processes where the British continuously tried to assert themselves beyond what they could defend and Wabanaki people pushed back hard.
However grudgingly, then, the British lived in relationship with Wabanaki people until they didn't have to anymore. Until they had sufficient numbers on the ground that would allow them to feel like they no longer had to share. And the Saint John City Charter is emblematic of this shift in the thinking and behaviour of the British in this part of Wolastokuk. In 1783 the first wave of Loyalists flooded into this harbour, and in May of 1785 the city of Saint John was chartered under the authority of George the 3rd through this now very famous process, the first common law municipal corporation in Canada. Canada's first incorporated city. And Thomas Carleton explained why the Charter was needed a month later, in June of 1785, in a letter to the British Home Secretary.
Essentially he was afraid that all of these people who suddenly lived here, if left to their own devices, might create something new, a governance structure that wasn't British. So they drafted a Charter to "[secure] the perfect Obedience" of the area inhabitants, and it was based on "the . . . plan . . . of the City of New York, when Under His Majesty's Government" (50). Carleton used templates from colonial New York a lot when setting up structures and institutions in New Brunswick because this is how the English common law works – it's a system based on precedents. You build on precedents and you modify and adapt them and this is how English models of governance and society reproduced themselves in these kinds of fundamental, structural ways all over the world.
But as you might expect, the relationship with Wabanaki people, the Treaty relationship, is nowhere to be found in this Charter. The so-called "freemen and inhabitants" that are herein defined and granted rights have no responsibilities to Wabanaki people – their responsibilities are to the perpetuation of this structure into tomorrow.
And here you see the Latin inscription on the frontpage, and this remains our city motto today, O fortunate ones whose walls are now rising. And through the Charter we established those mythological walls that would enclose the city space and protect the rights and powers of all the fortunate ones within.
And this structure could be amended or adjusted over time to change or improve conditions within the space – in the British North American Legislative Database there are five search result pages of amendments like these, adjustments made to policing, to business practices, to the granting of liquor licenses, to policy around road repair, etc. etc.
And we spend a lot of time doing this today, don't we, figuring out how to bend or change regulations within this structure to clarify or improve how things work or make the lives of the people inside this space better. And yet we don't go back to the foundation of the structure, to what we are ultimately upholding through these activities, or to what this structure itself tells us about our relationship with Wabanaki people.
And if pressed on this issue we might raise the assimilation of Indigenous peoples into this structure as a solution. We might say that Wabanaki people are welcome in Saint John – a Wabanaki person could even be elected as a city councillor or Mayor if they wanted, if they got enough votes. If they wanted access to the cruise ship economy, they could apply for a vendor's license just like anybody else. And yet this is not sharing. This is offering Wabanaki people a choice between exclusion and assimilation in their own unceded homeland.
And our defence might be that we don't think about it this way; we aren't taught to step outside of these walls and scrutinize the structures themselves. Maybe we don't know about the treaties or understand our relationships to them today or how they remain so fundamental to this land. And to be clear, I am not above any of this — I am a law abiding property owner in Saint John paying my taxes and my parking tickets and helping to uphold and consolidate this mythological grid of private property and municipal regulations against Wabanaki land in my day to day life too because we collectively enforce this structure as the sole means of participation within this space.
So we need to figure out how to reckon with this problem because right now the Treaty relationship isn't really on our collective radar in Saint John. We don't think about the fact that through our consolidation of this structure our very real responsibilities to share this space in the spirit of Treaty have been perpetually deferred, generation after generation. And in our defence we were just born, or we just moved here from another municipal structure, maybe one that rhymes with this one, or we came here from someplace else and no one taught us about the treaties, and these were the systems in place here, and if they've been here for hundreds of years then surely these systems are generally good and worth protecting, and so now we're working them — we're working these systems and making adjustments to try and make life better within this structure.
And we sometimes speak with regret from within this structure about past wrongdoings, maybe we even formally acknowledge that this is unceded Wolastokuk or Wabanaki territory, and yet we continue to work these systems without any sense of shame or understanding or self-awareness. And
in my defence i will tell you
i have been taught this machine
and work it automatic each day
And of course we can amend and adjust and improve this structure. We can work this machine against Wolastokuk in perpetuity, believing all the while that what we are doing is neutral or even noble. How could what we are doing not be noble? We are trying to make the roads safer for kids to bike to school! That is an objectively good thing to do. I want this for my kids too, absolutely I do. But from another perspective what we are doing is continuously reconsolidating a colonial structure against unceded Wolastokuk and against our promise to share.
"We do, for Us, our Hiers and Successors" forever, claim "all the lands and waters thereto adjoining or running in, by, or through" the city space, herein defined and enclosed. And there's a lengthy description of the vast amount of land around the river and harbour that's being claimed here.
We displace Indigenous stewardship, replacing it on the land with ourselves, appointing ourselves "the conservators of the water and the river, harbour and bay," granting ourselves "the sole power of amending and improving the said river, bay and harbour" (18).
And we declare that the fisheries "shall be and forever remain to and for the sole use, profit and advantage of the freemen and inhabitants" of the city (31) although Wabanaki people, we well knew, had been fishing seasonally in the harbour for millennia. Fishing rights are herein granted to the freemen and inhabitants of the city "to the total exclusion" of "all others under any pretense whatsoever" (32). Any pretense whatsoever; that's pretty definitive.
And so we enclose this land and define this system, we declare our rights and privileges with respect to access and property and resources in very Locekean terms, we enumerate the laws that will bind the space together using a template from seventeenth century New York, and then we put ourselves in charge of arresting and punishing anyone who breaks our laws.
And in our freeman oath, we promise to remain vigilant against anyone living among us who might challenge or seek to overthrow our Charter: "you shall know of no gatherings or conspiracies made against the King's peace, but you shall inform the Mayor thereof, So help you God." (35) O fortunate ones whose walls are now rising — but there are a lot of problems with this house we're building, and there are a bunch of people outside our walls who we are deliberately consolidating our power against because we are too afraid to share.
And we can make amendments to this system over time. We can work this machine. For example, just because the original Charter openly excluded Black people from participation in the city doesn't mean we have to do that forever once we realize we shouldn't be doing that. And so in 1849, an amendment was passed, and section 20 of that act reads, "any black person or person of colour may become a free citizen of" Saint John.
And this is a good example of how problems are addressed within a structure like this. We said in 1785 that Black people couldn't be free citizens of Saint John. We said they couldn't fish in the harbour and that they had to apply for special approval if they wanted to do business inside city limits. Sixty four years later, we're ready to amend those rules. Our walls are up; the machine is up and running now, and so we can magnanimously declare that Black people can come in and join the fortunate ones who made all the rules and who have had a 64 year head start when it comes to establishing themselves, their businesses, and their families here.
So there is no reckoning in this amendment. There is no willingness to relate to the structural exclusion of Black people, to understand the kind of social space and environment that a six and a half decade exclusion of Black people might produce, or to make meaningful amends, and so Black people remain at a structural disadvantage. So this is how an exclusory system re-asserts its norm and continues on into tomorrow in a way that doesn't undermine its own control over the space. Today we somehow remember this amendment as though it absolved our ancestors of crimes that at the same time Black people in New Brunswick have never been able to get meaningful satisfaction for.
And if municipal leaders went to council next Monday armed with the knowledge that there's something troubling about our motto, O fortunate ones whose walls are now rising, understanding that our walls were raised at least in part to keep Black and Indigenous people out, then we might draft a motion to get rid of the motto. That's how we so often address perceived problems while ultimately protecting the integrity of our system. And that wouldn't be changing, it would just be covering our tracks.
And so in my research I'm trying to learn from the ways in which my ancestors lived in relationship with Wabanaki people before this, before the arrival of the Loyalists. A time when the colonial municipal structure did not represent the sole means of participation in this space, a time when we were far from perfect but we used a different model for living here together.
Before the arrival of the Loyalists, however grudgingly, the British lived in relationship with Wabanaki people, and we lived that way until we didn't have to anymore. Until we had sufficient numbers on the ground that would allow us to proceed into tomorrow as though we no longer had to share. But we promised to share. The Treaty relationship was forgotten with the Charter and now we have to decide to remember it.
And so how could the structure of our city be changed to facilitate and help us remember the Treaty relationship? This is a conversation we need to begin with our Treaty partners. Indigenous people are tired of settlers acting like we are both sides of every conversation. That's why Shalan Joudry wrote that poem about us! The Treaty relationship is a partnership, and we hear this from Wabanaki Chiefs when GNB stumbles. We hear that we are not being good Treaty partners.
And being a partner is a lot of work. We put continuous work into the personal relationships that matter to us. Our relationships are not always good, and when they aren't good we tend to them. We do the work. Experts tell us this and it makes intuitive sense to us – if we want good relationships we have to work at them. If we ourselves harbour toxic traits that hurt or undermine our relationships then we know we have to work on ourselves. And when we do that work on ourselves we show our loved ones that we care more about them than whatever conveniences or benefit we enjoyed through the toxic behaviour, and we create a foundation upon which trust can be built or re-established.
Being in a healthy partnership is a lot of work, but it is also liberating and rewarding. You don't have to have all the answers – you just have to give up some control. You don't have to solve problems by yourself – you just have to share. And maybe your partner knows the answer to the problem you've been struggling with.
Daniel Paul wrote about this in his book years ago – he said that non-Indigenous people today are trying to re-invent the wheel in many cases, struggling within the confines of these Western structures that we imposed upon Wabanaki land to find answers that are already present in Wabanaki social, political, and cultural structures.
There is a new book, The Gatherings, about the relationship between settlers and Wabanaki people. And it opens with an epigraph from Elder Miigam'agan that I want to close with. This is a concept that just lives in my head now along with the question of what it would take for an entire city or a region or a province to rise to the level of generosity that is present in this one word.
After all of the ways in which we settlers have forgotten our promises to Wabanaki people — Miigam'agan says there's a word in Mi'kmaq that we might translate into English as "forgiveness" but it means, "we return to that original place, and let's start again."
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George John Memorial Trophy, round three: Hitchin Town Supporters 0 AEK Letchworth 2.
Division One Cup, round two: Whitwell Res 1 AC Malone 3.
Division Two Cup, round two: Dynamo Letchworth 2 Kcinsatop Res 3.
Premier Division: Cannon v Bar Absolute Willian (off), Kcinsatop 2 Whitwell 1, Wanderers 0 The Well 4, The George Hitchin 8 Crown Stotfold 1.
Division One: JCA 3 Cannon Res 5, Hitchin Town Supporters Res 2 Radcliffe Arms 0, Offley Rangers 1 Engineers Henlow 3, SMU 2 Angels Reply 1, The Boot Baldock v Crown Henlow (off).
Division Two: AC Malone Res 0 The Boot Athletic 2, Walsworth 0 Wanderers Res 1, Wilbury 0 Ocean's XI 4, Paynes Park Superstars 1 White Horse Arlesey 3.
Premier Division: Crown Stotfold v Cannon, Hitchin Town Supporters v Wanderers, Kcinsatop v The Well, The George Hitchin v Stotfold Sunday, Whitwell v Bar Absolute Willian.
Division One: AC Malone v Offley Rangers, Angels Reply v Radcliffe Arms, Cannon Res v JCA, Engineers Henlow v Whitwell Res, Hitchin Town Supporters Res v The Boot Baldock.
Division Two: AEK Letchworth v Ocean's Eleven, Dynamo Letchworth v AC Malone Res, Kcinsatop Res v Paynes Park Superstars, Walsworth v The Boot Athletic, Wanderers Res v Wilbury.


Hulu has updated its Hulu Plus iOS app, fixing a number of bugs and bringing a host of new and improved features.
The update comes after Hulu, the second largest online video service in the world, moved its Hulu Plus paid subscription service out of beta and slashed the monthly subscription price to $8.
The app has been updated to include split screen functionality. The split screen will allow users to watch videos and browse certain sections of the app at the same time.
The app displays all shows available on the service but not available on the app. To watch these shows, users will have to visit the Hulu website.
Hulu Plus also comes with updated queue and subscription management features, enhanced playback performance and a much improved settings option, Mac World reports.
Hulu has announced that its service will be supported by all Roku networked media players.
The service, which is already available for iOS devices and Sony's PlayStation 3 games console, will soon be available on a series of Blu-Ray players, HDTVs and Microsoft's Xbox 360.


Marvel has outdone themselves with the newest alternate universe version of Spider-Man, asking a question no comic fans ever would – or should. In bringing the disturbing Spiders-Man to life, they've shown that you don't need to be human to be a hero… you could be a pile of thousands of spiders squished into a spandex bodysuit.
All things considered, the origin story of Spider-Man proper, Peter Parker, treads easily into the realm of body horror. And in creating Marvel's current 'other' Spider-Man, Otto Octavius (the "Superior Spider-Man" as his friends call him) Marvel embraced that same genre. But now, even Otto Octavius and Peter Parker swapping bodies has been topped in Spider-Geddon, thanks to a nightmare many Spidey fans will wish they could un-see.
Readers won't need to know all the details surrounding the nature of the larger Spider-Geddon event that this reveal is tied into, simply that an army of various Spider-Man variations from parallel worlds is being assembled to fight a cosmic threat (as usual). And in Marvel's Spider-Geddon #3, one of the recruited heroes stands out.
The cowboy Spider-Man may be entertaining, as well as the human-spider hybrid Norman Osborn of Earth-44145. But we're of course referring to the introduction of "Spiders-Man. Thousands of spiders that believe they are Peter Parker of Earth-11580." What isn't clear from that text box is whether this hive-mind-formed version of Spider-Man is an oddity on its homeworld, as it would be on any decent one, or if Earth-11580 is one upon which ALL superheroes are composed of thousands of spiders writhing inside of a super-suit and collectively willing a singular identity into existence.
Would he– would Spiders-Man be more or less unsettling and the stuff of nightmares if the reader could never actually see any of these reported spiders? It's probably impossible to say. What can be confirmed is that that many pounds of spiders all trying to co-exist inside of the suit takes a toll, as the component parts can be seen crawling out of tears and holes at every point of the story. Oh, and of course, this colony of spiders clearly wants to eat humans – starting with the young Petey Parker of Earth-91918.
Fans will have to hand it to Christos Gage and Dan Slott for this… memorable addition to the wide array of Spider-Man variants. On a broader scale, it raises some intense questions for fans to ponder. For starters, does one have to actually be Spider-Man to play the part? Or can anyone or, say, any colony of insects or arachnids believe they are Spider-Man hard enough to make it so? Does great power given to thousands of spiders in a spandex suit come with great responsibility? And most troubling… where did the spiders get the suit?
Spider-Geddon #3 is available now from Marvel Comics.


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Benjamin King, Carlos Parra, Matthew Wilson, Robert Ogg; Spatiotemporal Patterns of Intraocular Tumor Occurrence in Children with Retinoblastoma. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):3974.
To map the spatial distribution and foci of origin of intraocular retinoblastoma at the time of diagnosis in a prospectively enrolled patient cohort.
Orbital MRI in 98 consecutive retinoblastoma patients(39 bilateral) was analyzed in axial, coronal and sagittal imaging planes(Syngo Viewer, Siemens AG, Germany). The central visual axis was approximated relative to the optic nerve and the polar angle and visual angle of eccentricity were measured for a series of points along each tumor margin. The tumor outline was interpolated on a polar coordinate system centered at the fovea. Tumor maps were digitized and the centroid of the mapped area was calculated to approximate tumor focus of origin.
Eyes were excluded from mapping(31) for globe filling disease or inadequate tumor visualization on MRI. Mapping failed in some eyes(21) secondary to extensive retinal detachment and vitreous seeding. Mapping was successful for 178 tumors in 85 eyes from 63 patients(35 bilateral). Cumulative tumor burden was highest within the macula and posterior pole and was asymmetrically higher within the ventral and nasal hemiretinas(Fig. 1). Tumor location varied with age at diagnosis(Fig. 2). Tumor occurrence in patients <6 months was highest within the macula and superonasal periphery. Most tumors diagnosed at 6-9 months were in the inferotemporal quadrant of the posterior pole. Tumor occurrence shifted into the inferonasal quadrant in patients 9-16 months and extended diffusely throughout the nasal periphery in patients >16 months. Clinical information for 38 of the unmapped tumors showed that only 5 (13%) involved the superotemporal quadrant, consistent with the asymmetry of mapped tumors.
Precise mapping of tumor on the retina revealed a complex spatial pattern of occurrence which evolves with age. The spatiotemporal distribution of tumors may provide valuable clues regarding the cell of origin, the developmental context that facilitates tumorigenesis, and the impact of disease on vision in children with retinoblastoma.
Cohort cumulative tumor burden over the mapped the retina. Left eye nasal-temporal coordinates were inverted, color indicates number of tumors.
Distribution of tumor centroids. A) Location by laterality (triangle=bilat), area (size= quartiles), and age (young-to-old quartile=pink, orange, blue, green) B) Estimated tumor density relative to a uniform density over the mapped retina.


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Love on Myself ( für "Liebe für mich") ist ein Lied des deutschen DJs Felix Jaehn, in Kooperation mit dem britischen Popsänger Calum Scott.

Entstehung und Artwork
Love on Myself wurde gemeinsam von Andrew Bullimore, Felix Jaehn, Vincent Kottkamp, Tom Mann und Josh Record geschrieben. Die Produktion erfolgte durch die Zusammenarbeit von Jaehn und Kottkamp, als Koproduzent unterstützte Mike Spencer die Produktion. Jaehn und Kottkamp zeichneten sich darüber hinaus für die Instrumentalisierung (Keyboard und Schlagzeug) sowie die Programmierung verantwortlich. Bei den meisten dieser Aufgaben wurde das Duo ebenfalls durch Spencer unterstützt, der ebenfalls das Schlagzeug einspielte, als zusätzlicher Keyboarder im Einsatz war und speziell für die Bass-Programmierung sich zuständig zeigte. Spencer übernahm des Weiteren in Eigenverantwortung die Abmischung des Stücks. Das Mastering erfolgte unter der Leitung des österreichischen Tontechnikers Nikodem Milewski. Als Toningenieure fungierten Cam Blackwood, Lorna Blackwood sowie Martin Hollis, wobei sich L. Blackwood nur für den Gesang verantwortlich zeigte.

Auf dem Cover der Single ist – neben Künstlernamen und Liedtitel am rechten Rand – Jaehn, zu sehen. Man sieht lediglich seinen Oberkörper, während sein Kopf leicht nach links geneigt ist und er mit seiner linken Hand an seiner Halskette zieht. Er trägt eine schwarze Jacke und ein T-Shirt in Regenbogenfarben darunter. Seine rechte Körperhälfte ist dabei wie ein Stück Papier weggerissen, anstatt der rechten fehlenden Körperhälfte sieht man eine Karikatur Jaehns, der auf einem Berggipfel sitzt. Über dem kompletten Coverbild sind des Weiteren Lavendelblüten und Schmetterlinge verteilt. Die Fotografie entstammt von Viktor Schanz.

Veröffentlichung und Promotion
Die Erstveröffentlichung von Love on Myself erfolgte als Einzeldownload am 28. Juni 2019 durch das Musiklabel Virgin Records. Verlegt wurde das Lied durch Collaection und Warner/Chapell Music Publishing, als Sub-Verlag trat der Neue Welt Musikverlag in Erscheinung. Der Vertrieb erfolgte durch Universal Music.

Hintergrundinformation
In einem Interview mit den Stuttgarter Nachrichten verriet Jaehn, dass er Love on Myself bereits vor einem Jahr geschrieben habe und seit dem auf der Suche nach einem Sänger dafür gewesen sei. Einer der Gründe, warum seine Wahl dabei auf Calum Scott gefallen sei, war, dass dieser sich ebenfalls wie Jaehn im vergangenen Jahr als bisexuell geoutet habe. Jaehn sei es wichtig gewesen, dass es jemand sei, mit dem er sich auch identifizieren könne. Daher habe er sich "sehr gefreut", dass Scott den Titel und deren Aussage gut fand und Lust hatte das Lied zu singen. Beim Videodreh in Berlin hätten sie sich erstmals getroffen, die Stimmung sei sofort super gewesen.

Inhalt
Der Liedtext zu Love on Myself ist in englischer Sprache verfasst. Der Titel bedeutet ins Deutsche übersetzt soviel wie "Liebe für mich". Die Musik und der Text wurden gemeinsam von Andrew Bullimore, Felix Jaehn, Vincent Kottkamp, Tom Mann und Josh Record geschrieben beziehungsweise komponiert. Musikalisch bewegt sich das Lied im Bereich des Deep House und Tropical House. Das Tempo beträgt 122 Schläge pro Minute. Aufgebaut ist das Lied auf drei Strophen, einer Bridge sowie einem Refrain. Das Lied beginnt mit der ersten Strophe, auf die eine Bridge sowie anschließend der Refrain folgt. Der gleiche Vorgang wiederholt sich mit der zweiten Strophe. Nach dem zweiten Refrain schließt sich die dritte Strophe an, ehe das Stück mit der sich wiederholenden Zeile "Hey, how you doing? Yeah, I hope you're well – Love on myself" ( für "Hey, wie geht es dir? Ja, ich hoffe dir geht es gut – Liebe für mich") endet. Der Hauptgesang des Liedes stammt von Mann und Calum Scott, wobei Mann nicht als offizieller Gastsänger ausgewiesen wird. Im Hintergrund sind die Stimmen von Lorna Blackwood, Bullimore und Muntu zu hören. Jaehn wirkt lediglich als DJ an dem Stück mit.

Inhaltlich befasst sich das Lied mit den Themen "Selbstakzeptanz" und "Selbstliebe". Die wichtigste Aussage die das Lied transportieren soll ist, dass man sich zuerst selbst lieben müsse, bevor man andere lieben könne. Jaehn selbst beschrieb die Veröffentlichung des Titels mit den Worten, dass Love on Myself seine bislang persönlichste Veröffentlichung und ihm sehr wichtig sei. Er selbst zu sein fiel ihm immer ziemlich schwer und tue es manchmal immer noch, dass sei aber OK. Ihm ginge es zur Zeit richtig gut und er sei glücklich darüber, dass er die Kraft gefunden habe, in seiner Musik über seine Gefühle zu schreiben. Das sei der Anfang des zweiten Kapitels und er könne es kaum erwarten, endlich alle Lieder rauszubringen, an denen er seit der Veröffentlichung seines Debütalbums im vergangenen Jahr gearbeitet habe.

Musikvideo
Das Musikvideo zu Love on Myself wurde in Berlin gedreht und feierte am 15. Juli 2019 seine Premiere auf YouTube. Inhaltlich soll das Musikvideo die aktuelle, persönliche und musikalische Reise Jaehns widerspiegeln, in der er in das nächste Kapitel seiner musikalischen Karriere schreitet, die sich um echten künstlerischen Ausdruck und musikalische Integrität drehen soll. Das Video konzentriert sich sowohl auf Jaehn als auch auf Scott, wie sie sich "anmutig" durch ein Lavendelfeld bewegen. Hierbei soll eine tiefe Verbindung zwischen den beiden Musikern und dem Zuschauer geschaffen werden, die die Zuschauer dazu ermutigen soll, den beiden zu folgen und sich Zeit zu nehmen, sich zu verstehen, zu akzeptieren und zu lieben.

Mitwirkende

Charts und Chartplatzierungen

Love on Myself erreichte nach seiner Veröffentlichung in Deutschland zunächst nur mehrere Wochen die Single-Trend-Charts. Erst Mitte August schaffte die Single den Sprung in die offiziellen Single Top 100 und erreichte dabei in zehn Chartwochen mit Position 58 seine höchste Notierung. Bereits im Juli schaffte die Single den Sprung in die deutschen Dancecharts und erreichte hierbei mit Position 14 seine höchste Chartnotierung. Darüber hinaus konnte sich die Single mehrere Wochen in den iTunes-Tagesauswertungen platzieren und erreichte mit Position 14 seine höchste Notierung am 14. August 2019. In Österreich und der Schweiz verfehlte Love on Myself den Einstieg in die offiziellen Hitparaden. In den deutschen Airplay-Jahrescharts erreichte die Single Rang 31.

Für Jaehn als Interpret ist dies, inklusive des Charterfolgs mit seinem Musikprojekt Eff, der 14. Charterfolg in Deutschland. Als Musikproduzent erreichte Jaehn hiermit zum 13. Mal die Charts in Deutschland, in seiner Autorentätigkeit zum zwölften Mal. Bullimore erreichte als Autor mit Love on Myself zum fünften Mal die deutschen Singlecharts. Für Record ist es nach Lullaby (Sigala & Paloma Faith) und Blah Blah Blah (Armin van Buuren) der dritte Autorenerfolg in Deutschland. Scott erreichte mit Love on Myself nach Dancing on My Own zum zweiten Mal die deutschen Singlecharts als Interpret. Für Kottkamp und Mann stellt Love on Myself den ersten Charterfolg in den deutschen Singlecharts dar.

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The program studies the climate and hydrology in Zackenberg. The core of the program builds on several automatic weather stations, including a double-mast setup in the Zackenberg valley and a hydrometric station at the Zackenberg river. The Zackenberg river is unique in a monitoring setting, as the outburst flood (GLOF) from a glacier dammed lake runs through the system with ca. one flood per year.


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College Hill DayCare Co-Operative
Building Name: College Hill Daycare Co-operative
Other Names: College Hill Daycare
Civic Address: 850 Montgomery St.
Sod Turning: March 1994
Opened for Use: 6 September 1994
Official Opening: Unknown
Architect: Architect Design Group
Named for: The College Hill Day Care Co-operative, Limited
Renovations/changes/additions: Unknown
Notes: The Status of Women at UNB (1979) identified the need for child care services operated or subsidized by the university. It was believed that affordable and convenient daycare facilities would allow more women students to continue their education. It wasn't until fifteen years later that UNB made a significant financial contribution and College Hill Daycare was created to handle the needs of UNB and STU students and faculty with children. The 4,000 square foot building was six years in the making, having originally been proposed in 1988.
Leroux, John. Building A University: The Architecture of UNB. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2010, p. 117-118.
University of New Brunswick. Task Force on the Status of Women at U.N.B. The Status of Women at U.N.B.: Task Force Report to the President. Fredericton: UNB, 1979: p. 18-19.
UA Case 123; Section 3, Box 1; College Hill Daycare Co-operative.
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Oxford researchers have discovered a quantum effect in which excited atoms can be turned on their head to create superabsorbing systems to make the ultimate camera pixel; University of Tokyo researchers have demonstrated a colossal optical isolator effect driven by spin helix that holds promise in future high capacity communications.
August 26th, 2014 - By: Ann Steffora Mutschler
Making light work of snaps
'Superradiance', a phenomenon where a group of atoms charged up with energy act collectively to release a far more intense pulse of light than they would individually, is well-known to physicists. In theory the effect can be reversed to create a device that draws in light ultra-efficiently. This could be revolutionary for devices ranging from digital cameras to solar cells. But there's a problem: the advantage of this quantum effect is strongest when the atoms are already 50% charged – and then the system would rather release its energy back as light than absorb more.
Now a team led by Oxford University theorists believes it has found the solution to this seemingly fundamental problem. Part of the answer came from biology. The lead researcher said he was inspired to study ring molecules, because they are what plants use in photosynthesis to extract energy from the Sun. What they discovered is that they should be able to go beyond nature's achievement and create a quantum superabsorber.
At the core of the new design is a molecular ring, which is charged to 50% by a laser pulse in order to reach the ideal superabsorbing state – that needs to be kept in that condition. For this the team proposes exploiting a key property of the ring structure: each time it absorbs a photon, it becomes receptive to photons of a slightly higher energy. Charging the device is like climbing a ladder whose rungs are increasingly widely spaced.
Superabsorbing ring could make light work of snaps.
(Source: University of Oxford)
Eventually, harvesting sunlight in a highly-efficient way might one day be possible using superabsorbing systems based on this design, but a more immediate application would be building an extremely sensitive light sensor that could form the basis of new camera technology.
High capacity communications devices
With promise in future high capacity communications, a research group at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering have discovered a new optical functionality of helical electron spin structures that emerge in matter and by which the optical absorption of counter-propagating light beams is greatly differentiated.
When a helical spin structure shows up in matter, the light coming from the left side transmits, but the light coming from the right side is absorbed on the resonance of the electromagnon.
(Source: University of Tokyo)
The research group found that the electromagnon, a kind of collective spin motion, emerges in the gigahertz to terahertz frequency range when the helical electron spin structure is present. Due to the helical electron spin structure possessing both "magnetism" and "chirality," it was further discovered that the electromagnon exhibits a colossal magnetochiral effect. Using this magnetochiral effect, the research group succeeded in altering the extinction coefficient by up to 400% depending on the propagation direction of light beams.
According to the researchers, R&D of optical devices for control of light (electromagnetic waves) in the frequency region including the higher gigahertz and terahertz, which is expected to be used for applications including future high capacity communications. They said the current result may be used for the development of optical devices such as isolators that only permit light to pass in one direction and optical devices for the control of light via external electrical and magnetic signals.
Tags: helical electron spin structures high capacity communications Oxford University quantum superabsorber University of Tokyo
Ann Steffora Mutschler
Ann Steffora Mutschler is executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.


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Letyat juravli (; br Quando Voam as Cegonhas) é um filme soviético de 1957 sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial dirigido por Mikhail Kalatozov e estrelado por Tatyana Samojlova e Aleksey Batalov.

Sinopse
Veronika e Boris estão apaixonados, mas a Segunda Guerra Mundial leva Boris para os campos de batalha, enquanto Veronika o aguardar sem receber nenhuma carta. Em um bombardeio alemão, ela perde os pais e sua casa, e passa a viver com seu futuro sogro, Fyodor Ivanovich, médico do exército soviético. Na mesma casa vive Mark, sobrinho de Fyodor, que tenta se aproximar de Veronika, traindo seu primo. Sem notícias de seu amado, ela rende-se a Mark. Mas a o avanço do exército alemão faz com que todos se mudem para a Sibéria.

Elenco
 Tatyana Samoylova ... Veronika
 Aleksey Batalov ... Boris
 Vasiliy Merkurev ... Fyodor Ivanovich
 Aleksandr Shvorin ... Mark
 Svetlana Kharitonova ... Irina
 Konstantin Kadochnikov ... Volodya
 Valentin Zubkov	... Stepan
 Antonina Bogdanova ... Babushka
 Boris Kokovkin ... Chernov
 Ekaterina Kupriyanova ... Anna Mikhajlovna

Prêmios
O filme venceu o Palma de Ouro em 1958.

Filmes dirigidos por Mikhail Kalatozov
Filmes da União Soviética de 1957
Filmes de drama romântico da União Soviética
Filmes em preto e branco
Filmes sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial
Filmes premiados com a Palma de Ouro
Filmes em língua russa
Filmes de drama de guerra da União Soviética
Filmes de ficção histórica da União Soviética


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Dmitry Yuryevich Petrov (; born 16 July 1958 in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region) is a Russian self-proclaimed polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster, and teacher. He is a host of the reality show Polyglot on the TV channel Russia-K. Finished Translation School of Moscow State Linguistics University where he teaches, as of 2016, at the Department of Translation Studies and English Translation Practice. Since 2012 has his multilingual language school called Dmitry Petrov's Innovative Communication Linguistics Center that works using his 16 academic hour method Polyglot 16, implemented in eponymous course books and mobile applications.

Biography
Dmitry Petrov got into Moscow State Linguistic University in 1975. According to some sources Dmitry Petrov worked with Soviet and Russian presidents. He was an interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin.

He says he can read in 50 languages and speak in 30, but in general, he works with 8 languages besides Russian: English, French,  Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, Greek, Hindi. His language school website says he mastered over 30 languages. To date, the only language besides Russian Petrov has ever been heard speaking is Spanish.

His wife is from India. Her name is Anamika Saksena (Rus. Анамика Саксена). She was a student of the same university when he was already a teacher there. Her father had worked in Moscow, but left, and she stayed to study and eventually married there. They have two sons and a daughter.

In 2014 Dmitry Petrov won a prestigious TEFI television award for his reality show "Polyglot" on the national intellectual non-profit TV channel Rossiya-K (Russia-K, with K standing in Russian for Kultura "Culture"), teaching English, Chinese and other languages to small groups of popular singers and other media personalities. Each course is supposed to last only 16 hours, which attracts potential students from the stage and general public, but critics say this length will not be sufficient for any real mastering a language with its hundreds of lexical items to learn for even elementary proficiency. As of summer 2020, according to his language teaching center and the TV channel's websites, there have been 8 seasons of his show: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Hindi/Urdu, Portuguese, Chinese.

References

Literature

External links
 Personal site of Dmitry Petrov
 Language courses that Dmitry Petrov teaches personally

 Dmitriy Petrov Linguistics Center
 "Roman Holiday with Dmitry Petrov"
 How to teach a polyglot a new language? Interview with Dmitry Petrov
 Leading the show "Polyglot" Dmitry Petrov: "Difficulties with Gaius Germanicus? All of us with her features somehow get along "  Evening Moscow, 10 January 2014
 Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 1 Forbes.kz
 Conversations with polyglot Petrov – 2 Forbes.kz
 Dmitry Petrov broadcast «Radio Mayak"
 Dmitry Petrov in the air of "Echo of Moscow" radio station
 Dmitry Petrov Vokrug TV
 Exercises for the lessons of Dmitry Petrov English course ″Polyglot 16″

1958 births
Living people
People from Novomoskovsky District
Russian television presenters
Soviet translators
Russian translators
Moscow State Linguistic University alumni


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