National Immunization Awareness Month may have just ended, but with the school year underway it is just as important this September to know your immunization options with these vaccine basics.
According to the CDC, getting your children vaccinated can protect both them and their classmates from 16 serious diseases. Luckily, this life-saving medicine doesn't have to break the bank. The Preventative Care Act –2010 health care reform legislation– requires new health plans to cover preventative care without cost sharing for select services.
The coverage you get for certain vaccinations can vary depending on your insurance provider, and your individual health care plan. This leaves the question of how you find out what your plan will cover. The Immunization Action Coalition lists five easy steps to find the answers you want, and get the vaccinations your kids need this school year.
Call your provider: Simply find out if your provider will cover the cost of immunizations is to call. Most new providers and plans are required by law to cover preventative care, some older institutions aren't yet required to cover these services.
Make it the only reason for your appointment: If you list vaccination as the primary reason for your visit, there is a good chance that your plan will cover both the costs of the appointment and vaccinations.
The Vaccines For Children Program: If you happen to be uninsured, or your provider doesn't cover the cost of vaccination, The Vaccines for Children program (VFC) may be able to get your kids the medicine they need. The VFC provides vaccines for doctors who serve eligible patients. Those eligible include Medicaid-qualified patients under nineteen years old and American-Indian or Alaskan natives without insurance.
Vaccination for adults: An easy way to keep your children safe from preventable diseases is to get vaccinated yourself! If you are uninsured, it is advised that you look into cost-effective plans and the Affordable Care Act.
For Medicare beneficiaries: If you are 65 or older and on Medicare, your plan might cover the entirety of your pneumonia, flu, or hepatitis B vaccination.
Keep children safe by getting them vaccines for preventable diseases. For more information on how to keep your kids safe and healthy this school year, check out our blog post.
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On Saturday, July 28, 2012 the most respected minds in the cocktail industry will gather to recognize national and international nominees across 17 prestigious categories.
After a thorough selection process, the top four finalists have been chosen for the Annual Spirited Awards® Ceremony. The Spirited Awards® honors the bars, bartenders, writers, experts and other members of the cocktail industry who have exiled above their contemporaries for the 2012 year. As a part of this years Tales of the Cocktail® 10thAnniversary celebration, the top four finalists per category are invited to attend the award ceremony on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans.
The finalists will travel from around the world to gather together and celebrate their positive impact on the cocktail world. Each award recipient will receive an exclusive Riedel Crystal trophy.
Please see below for a complete list of the top four nominees according to category.


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Made in Canada: Emily Haines collaborates with Rudsak
The Metric frontwoman on designing a leather jacket with soul.
by : Liz Guber- Mar 10th, 2016
Rudsak founder Evik Asatoorian and Emily Haines.
I'm in an Uber driving down Montreal's Saint-Denis Street, on my way to meet Metric's Emily Haines, when the band's hit single "The Shade" comes on the radio. I inform my driver of this coincidence, but he doesn't seem to care. Clearly, he hasn't been a diehard fan from the moment he heard "Combat Baby" or signed up for fan-club newsletters lovingly penned by Haines herself.
When I sit down with the singer, she radiates the giddy energy of a rock star fresh off the stage. But instead of bringing a crowd of thousands to their feet, Haines has just completed her first design project: a leather jacket for Rudsak. The collaboration is a natural fit – who better than Canada's indie-music queen to lend her vision to a brand rooted in rock 'n' roll? Haines brought her dream jacket to life with the brand's founder, Evik Asatoorian. The final product is top secret (to be revealed later at World MasterCard Fashion Week in Toronto), and the singer is so excited to tell me about it that she nearly spoils the surprise.
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"My first leather jacket takes me back to the early days with the band, when we lived in L.A. and played the Silverlake Lounge," says Haines, getting nostalgic. "I found it in a vintage store and then lost it somewhere on the road; this jacket is an attempt to get it back – an updated version."
Reinventing a classic leather jacket had Haines turning to the modern woman for inspiration: "It doesn't matter whether you're a student, a mother or a rock star; I always see women dealing with all these purses and pockets, feeling weighed down."
I imagine a garment built for utility – although Haines doesn't say it outright – with countless pockets and compartments. And, when I finally get an up-close look at it at Rudsak's spring/summer 2016 show, I'm pleased to be proven right.
When I pull open the long, sleek topper, I notice pockets of every size and shape – or lipstick, a tablet and a phone – lining the inside. In keeping with Haines' splashy onstage style, the inside of the jacket is metallic. And, for a final touch, long leather fringe hangs down the sides. (Spend enough time watching Haines perform live and you'll notice she has a thing for the swinging embellishment.)
Haines is, foremost, a singer-songwriter, and the words she used to describe her creation during our chat that day were as lyrically poignant as any of her band's albums. She called the jacket "soft armour," adding, "If you're a bit subversive, there is just something about throwing on a leather jacket that reasserts your identity; it says 'I'm here.'"
The limited-edition Emily Haines for Rudsak leather jacket is out in March at select Rudsak stores ($1,295, rudsak.com).
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Euro Winners Cup
Euro Winners Cup 2021 starts its engines!
67 of Europe's top beach soccer clubs are ready to compete in Nazaré
Nazaré, one of the top beach soccer locations in the world, is alive with athletes and delegates ready to contend the biggest club honour on the continent – the Euro Winners Cup.
The ninth edition of the Men's EWC, and the sixth of the Women's EWC, will see no less than 182 matches over the course of seven action-packed days! The games will take place from 12 to 18 July in the ultimate beach soccer venue and top of the range stadium in Nazaré, Portugal, to create another year of sporting history.
Numerous debutant sides will be making the trip, including 11 new men's teams and seven new women's teams, showcasing once more the consistent growth of the sport.
A draw on Wednesday 7 July organised the 67 (50 men's and 17 women's) European beach soccer clubs taking part in the 2021 Euro Winners Cup into groups.
The men's first round of matches will feature 11 groups of four and two groups of three, as defending champions Kristall (RUS) are set to be tested against Marseille Beach Team (FRA), local club GD OS Nazarenos (POR) and CD San Francisco (ESP) first.
Angelo Schirinzi's men arrive in Portugal straight after reclaiming the Russian league, one of the world's top domestic competitions, and will be confident in the fight to retain their title. The men in orange will face stiff opposition, including a potential meeting against their old rivals SC Braga, one of highest-quality fixtures in the sport between two of the highest-ranked teams in the world.
Both clubs have claimed three of the nine editions of the Euro Winners Cup, meeting in the final twice, and victory in the 2021 event would put one ahead in the race for European dominance.
As well as local Portuguese side Braga, Kristall will also have to see off claims from Viareggio (ITA), winners of the 2016 edition, who make a triumphant return to the European championships, as well as the winners of the first ever Euro Winners Cup and Russian rivals, Lokomotiv Moscow.
In the women's competition, the 18 teams will play in three groups of six. The reigning queens of Europe, BSC Mriya 2006 (UKR), burst onto the beach soccer scene in 2020 when they won the competition on their debut appearance, and their first three matches will be against CFP Cáceres Femenino (ESP), Madrid CFF (ESP), New Team Brussels (BEL), CD Futbol Playa Huelva (ESP) and Casa Benfica Caldas De Rainha (POR).
However, they also will have to fend off previous winners, as AIS Playas de San Javier from Spain make a return to Nazaré after missing out on the 2020 edition, as well as Russia's Zvezda
The Men's and Women's Euro Winners Cups will take place in Nazaré, Portugal from 12 to 18 July, where a total of 68 teams will battle for the 2021 edition.
For updates and more details on the Men's and Women's Euro Winners Cup, head to beachsoccer.com. https://beachsoccer.com/
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Tag Archives: Mystery
"You left me alone but you're still my own."
The key to a good suspense/mystery novel is similar to that of a good horror film. The characters reactions to things have to be realistic and make sense. That doesn't mean they have to necessarily be smart or follow basic common sense. It means they have to make sense given what we know about the character's past experiences and personality. That way, when everything goes pear shaped, it feels like these things are being experienced by a real human and not merely a vessel to move the story forward. Pretty Girls hits the nail on the head. I hate to use a cliched term like "non-stop thrill ride," but reading this book was a lot like riding a roller coaster. I found myself having to take a breather from this book every once in awhile because it got too intense.
Lydia and Claire are two sisters who have not spoken in twenty years. Their relationship slowly deteriorated after their sister Julia disappeared without a trace from her college campus one night. The incident destroyed their once happy family. As the book begins, Claire's husband is killed in what appears to be a botched mugging. This sets in motion a series of events that throw the two sisters back together as are drawn deeper into the mystery, not only of her husband's death but of their missing sister.
Aside from being a hell of a good mystery, this book depicts the emotional toll taken on a family when a child goes missing. It packed an emotional wallop throughout. I will give a warning for extremely graphic depictions of murder and rape. It's rough material but given the themes of the book I don't think it's extraneous.
tagged as #cannonballread, #cbr9, #KarinSlaughter, Mystery, Suspense
The WomanGirl on the Cabin 10 Train
I picked up this book on a recommendation from one of the Book Riot podcasts that said it was a great closed door mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie. While it certainly was a closed door mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie, I'd probably only call it fair to good rather than great. The premise is great and there are some moments of real tension and suspense. But I found the execution somewhat lacking and I saw the "twist" coming pretty early on.
The story follows Laura "Lo" Blacklock, a travel reporter who is trying to rebuild her career after a serious bout of clinical depression nearly got her fired. She's given a chance to report on the maiden voyage of an exclusive high end cruise ship. The first night of the voyage, Lo believes she hears the woman next door in the titular Cabin 10 being murdered and thrown overboard only to discover, when she calls ship security, that no one is staying next door. Like most protagonists in mystery novels, Lo is unable to let go of the problem and continues to search for clues. She is hampered by the fact that she drank to much the night of the alleged murder and by a home invasion that occurred shortly before the voyage started making her an unreliable witness in the eyes of the ship's security officer.
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It was fine. It was a perfectly good mystery story. I really don't think it deserved the hype it got. Like I said above; it's good but certainly not great.
tagged as #ruthware, CBR8, Mystery
Less Scooby Doo, more Shirley Jackson please.
I realize now that I'm pretty difficult to please when it comes to ghost/haunted house stories. This book had all the elements; an old farmhouse, possibly haunted woods and a long dead person's diary. In the end it just didn't deliver for me. Possibly, it just wasn't what I was expecting, or the fact that none of the characters really resonated with me. Overall the book was good, but not great.
The Winter People follows two stories concurrently which occur 100 years apart. In 1908 we follow Sarah Harrison Shea who struggles to accept the death of her daughter Gertie. In the present day, we follow the story of Alice, who lives off the grid in the same house in the present day with her mother Alice and her sister Fawn. Alice goes missing, which propels Ruthie's story forward. Naturally, the two narratives are connected in ways you may or may not have expected.
I think my issue I had with this book was that I was expecting the creepy atmosphere and building tension of a ghost story, and what I got was essentially a mystery story with supernatural elements. I'll admit there were a few twists that I did not figure out right away (most notably, the deal with Ruthie's parents) and the book was interesting enough to keep me reading. It's a good solid story if you like a supernatural mystery. I think it was just a bit of a letdown after some of the great reads I've had this month.
tagged as #supernatural, #thriller, CBR8, Mystery
Pants Waits for Next Book in Series
I'm fairly picky about which mystery series I follow. They are formulaic by design so if there aren't engaging characters and interesting stories, I tend to lose interest pretty quickly. The story of Constance Kopp and her sisters: Norma and Fleurette caught my interest immediately and is that start of what I hope will be a fun, somewhat historically factual mystery series.
The story takes place in 1914 New Jersey. On a rare outing into town, the somewhat reclusive sisters' buggy is run down by a reckless silk factory owner in his automobile. Constance attempts to get the man to make restitution and she and her sisters are quickly subject to threats, intimidation and harassment in the form of bullets and bricks aimed at their farm house. Constance, whose height and ambivalence toward romance and domesticity set her apart from the average woman in 1914, takes it upon herself to resolve the situation. There's tension, family secrets and a picture of domestic life in the early 20th century.
There are a lot of things I appreciated about this book. First of all, Constance and her sisters, the silk factory owner and the dispute over the buggy are all real people and events that happened. Though Ms. Stewart obviously fills in the blanks that the public record leaves. The relationship between the sisters whose personalities are distinct and dynamic. Though Constance herself has no interest in the typical trappings of 1910s domestic life, she in no way scorns it and has a great friendship with her sister-in-law who is practically a model 1914 housewife. Also, the imagery of the three German sisters living a rural life in the early 1900s made me nostalgic for my grandmother, who came from a similar background (though I'm reasonably sure Grandma Schneider never shot a revolver at anyone). The second novel in the series was released today. I'll refrain from giving the title as at does give a bit of a spoiler about Constance's fate.
tagged as #amystewart, #koppsisters, book review, CBR8, history, Mystery
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry, But that's alright, because I love the way you lie
If books with an unreliable narrator has taught me anything, it's that everyone is a dirty, lying secret-keeper and that you can't trust anyone. It's a trope that's been overused thanks to the success of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train (speaking of overused tropes, can we stop having titles with "girl" in them for awhile?) and Crooked Little Lies isn't a particularly groundbreaking addition to the genre. But the characters are compelling and the action moves quickly (getting a book read in under a week is a rarity for me with my schedule) making it a relatively light read for a book that centers on a missing person.
The story centers around the disappearance of Bo Laughlin, a generally harmless mentally ill man who wanders the small town of Hardy's Walk. Sissel wisely keeps Bo's exact psychiatric diagnosis vague. Our protagonists are Annie, Bo's step sister and Lauren, our unreliable narrator and one of the last people to see Bo before he goes missing. Lauren is a more sympathetic character than our more famous narrators. Unlike Amy Dunne, who is an unrepentant sociopath or Rachel Watson, who is a falling down drunk, Lauren suffered a fall from a bell tower while working for the architectural salvage business she shares with her husband and suffered a traumatic brain injury. She subsequently suffered an addiction to Oxycontin as a result of the pain she suffered from her head injury. Though she is now sober, her memory is unreliable at best. It's difficult not to sympathize with someone who, despite her best intentions, simply can't remember things she did despite being awake and sober at the time.
I have to say, I pretty much pegged who the worst of the lying secret keepers was pretty early on. But it still made for an interesting read and a nice break from some of the heavier subjects I'd been delving into recently. If you've run out of beach reads for the summer, I'd pick this one up.
tagged as book review, CBR8, Mystery, unreliable narrator
A Surprising Adventure
I added this book to my TBR pile because it was described as an early example of Gothic Horror combined with psychological realism. The description is spot on. I started reading with the expectation of a spooky little Victorian thriller. What I got was over 600 pages of intrigue, madness, and of course, a love story. The Woman in White is a surprising work of fiction that needs to be made into a PBS miniseries, stat.
Though the story is centered around the fortunes (and misfortunes) of Laura Fairlie, she is not a particularly interesting character. Those that surround her and move the action forward, Walter Hartright, Marian Halcombe and even the insidious Count Fosco, are infinitely more interesting. It is them that move the story from London, all across the English countryside and even to the madhouse (the Victorian repository for inconvenient women). Though there are a couple of slow spots, The Woman is White is, overall, a pretty thrilling read that kept me up later than I should have been on more than one work night.
tagged as book review, CBR8, Classic, Mystery
The Girl Needs an AA Meeting
This the third or fourth book that I've managed to blaze through in a couple of days. I'm not sure if I've just been lucky with my book selection or I've got amazing commitment to Sparkle Motion/CBR8.
It's difficult to read this book and not draw comparisons to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Aside from the similar titles, both feature a story told from the point of view of multiple narrators and at least one narrator is unreliable. In the case of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, the main narrator is unreliable not because she is a lying sociopath, but because she is an alcoholic prone to blackout spells. It's on the night of one of these blackouts, that another of the protagonists goes missing.
This book struck an emotional chord with me due to the fact that a good friend of mine recently checked himself into rehab because he was the same sort of alcoholic as Rachel, the main character. It was very frustrating to watch the same bad decisions, the same swearing off of alcohol only to backslide within a day or two and the general sloppiness that went along with it (my friend is 5 months sober and doing great BTW). The mystery that self isn't particularly hard to figure out, but the story itself isn't about just the whodunnit. It's about the relationship between the three protagonists, the men in their lives and the way our perspectives can change and be manipulated.
tagged as book review, CBR8, Mystery, Suspense


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The Best PC Gaming Graphics Cards You Can Buy Today
When it comes to PC gaming, which graphics card you buy is just about the most important decision you can make in terms of performance. It's important you pick the best graphics cards to buy in 2019 as this would be the powerhouse for your PC gaming.
Fortunately, it's also the most modular of components so you're free to change your mind and upgrade whenever you want without worrying too much about motherboard compatibility, what sockets it uses, or any of the other potentially fiddly sides of gaming.
Ultimately, the graphics card you choose is going to come down to price. The more you spend, the better your PC gaming frame rates. For those who want to game at 1080p or lower, a budget graphics card will do. Anything shooting for AAA games at 4K will have to fork out for a top-tier graphics card.
Here we've outlined five of the best graphics card to buy in 2019, ranging from the best budget GPU all the way up to the best that money can buy. We will continually update this article as better options at these price points become available, including the imminent launch of the GeForce RTX Super and AMD Radeon 5000 series.
AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB – Check Prices
Suitable for: 1080p
For gamers on a tighter budget, you can now buy a Radeon RX 580 8GB for a price approaching dirt cheap. Variants of the 8GB model are available for as low as $169 and offer fantastic 1080p gaming performance. For those gunning for 1080p/60fps, the Radeon RX 580 8GB is a graphics which will absolutely do the job for the foreseeable future.
Solid gaming performance at 1080p in AAA titles can be had, pipping the GeForce GTX 1060 and delivering performance within a hair of the $210-230 GeForce GTX 1660. Pair it with a Ryzen 2200G and you've got yourself a potentially fantastic 1080p gaming build for less than $500 all-in.
Best Price to Performance
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB – Check Prices
While it could easily be dismissed as the inferior cousin of the RTX 2060, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti offers up its own distinct advantages. The GTX 1660 Ti utilises a similar Turing GPU core to the 2060, sans ray-tracing and DLSS support. This means you can find a GTX 1660 Ti for a much cheaper price tag, while still offering gaming performance which absolutely steamrolls through 1080p gaming. The GTX 1660 Ti could even be used on 1440p at a push, but it's at 1080p where it excels. Its low 120W TDP also makes it this graphics card fairly cool and power efficient and makes a gray pairing with a mid-range processor such as a Ryzen 2500X or Intel Core i5-8500.
Best for 1440p
AMD Radeon RX 5700 8GB – Check Prices
Suitable for: 1080p, 1440p
Behold, a new contender for the middleweight crown. What the Radeon RX 5700 lacks in raytracing features it more than makes up for with fantastic price to performance at 1440p screen resolution. You can pick a Radeon RX 5700 up for as little as $329 right now, a full $100 cheaper than an RTX 2060 Super which offers almost identical performance.
Whether you're after 1440p/60fps or 1080p with high refresh rates, the Radeon RX 5700 is a fantastic all-rounder and a great comeback from AMD which knocks some of the more expensive members of the GeForce RTX 20 Series off their perch.
Best for Ray-Tracing
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB – Check Prices
Suitable for: 1440p, Ray-Tracing
Obviously, the more powerful your graphics card, the better it'll be for titles with real-time ray-tracing support. However, when balancing up price to performance, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super hits the sweet spot at 1440p. It's a phenomenal QHD graphics card in its own right and it can top-notch performance in current RT-compatible titles.
Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 Super hovers very closer to the more expensive GeForce RTX 2080, yet it can be found for a relative bargain with prices starting at $499 for AIB models.
Best for VR
Suitable for: 1080p, 1440p, High Refresh Rate & VR
VR was demanding when it first arrived, and not much has changed since. The likes of Valve continue to push up the resolution and therefore the graphical demands. In order to enjoy VR without compromise, a very capable graphics card is required. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 Super fits the bill perfectly, offering up extremely capable performance paired with 8GB high-speed GDDR6 VRAM.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Super has come along and knocked the RTX 2070 off its perch. While the RTX 2070 still holds a narrow performance advantage, the RTX 2060 Super is available for $70-100 less. It's not the fastest graphics card in the world but it's certainly enough for the demands of virtual reality these days.
The Fastest Graphics Card
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti – Check Prices
Suitable for: 4K and High Refresh Rate
It's now well over a year old and the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is still the absolute performance champ. For those who want the best of the best, no expense spared, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the big daddy. In terms of gaming performance, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is untouchable right now. It's here where you'll find top-of-line single-GPU 4K gaming performance, as well as the most reliable ray-tracing frame rates.
In terms of value for money, you're paying a price premium for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in order to guarantee the best of the best. With the GeForce GTX Super series on the horizon, it may not remain the best for long though.
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1) Update on Positive Cases of Contractor Staff and Other Updates from the AIT COVID-19 Task Force
Email from Director, Office of Academic Administration on 7 May 2021.
We hope that all of you are keeping well and staying safe in the midst of the fierce third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you must have been following in the news, COVID-19 is raging in Greater Bangkok, including several crowded communities in the capital. The number of COVID-19 cases in Greater Bangkok has now surpassed those in 73 provinces combined. As conveyed in our earlier message, Pathum Thani – where AIT is located, has been categorized as a dark red zone and designated as "Maximum and Strict Controlled Area" with almost daily new cases, so we must all take extra precautions to keep ourselves and the AIT campus safe.
Positive Cases of Contractor Staff – We would like to provide an update of the positive cases of contractor staff. In our 30 April message we had reported that three technical contractor staff who work at OFAM and reside off-campus tested positive for COVID-19. Two more technical contractor staff and one janitorial contractor OFAM staff, all of whom reside off-campus, have also tested positive for COVID-19—the most recent one on 2 May. All six of these contractor staff are undergoing treatment in hospitals.
All five technical contractor staff work in the building maintenance section. Based on their work timeline, these staff mainly worked outdoors on their own and some had very limited interaction with the AIT community aside from their team. The persons who were in contact with these staff have stopped working, are under self-isolation, and have all tested negative for COVID-19.
The janitorial contractor staff works in the clothing store area and is a relative of one of the technical contractor staff who tested positive for COVID-19. She is not a campus cleaning staff. The janitorial contractor has conducted a rapid test (blood check) for all the rest of the 66 janitorial staff with no antigens detected in any of them.
As a precautionary measure, OFAM has sanitized and deep cleaned the areas where these staff visited. OFAM has also warned other contractors in OFAM to be aware of the situation and to take extra precautions. The contractors have been told to limit their work on campus to the most essential and emergency in nature, and to inform their staff to minimize their contact with others—whether with other contractors or AIT staff or faculty or students, and to not socialize or wander around campus. We will continue to update the community. Our thoughts are with these staff and we wish them a speedy recovery.
Face-to-Face Meetings – AIT is in a WFH mode until further notice. Everyone is discouraged to meet, visit or talk with others in person. This includes students' consultations with faculty advisors and other staff members. These should take place online. If extremely necessary, please always observe proper social distancing and wear face masks.
Contact Sports – Although outdoor team sports—non-contact—are still allowed, please be reminded that this applies for AIT community members only. No non-AIT players and no spectators are allowed and all indoor playing areas like the China Center are currently closed.
The Task Force reminds all players to exercise judgement, and maintain a high level of precautionary measures, like washing your hands before and after play, avoiding high fives, handshakes, fist bumps or hugs, covering your coughs and sneezes, and not spitting.
The outdoor sports fields and other sporting facilities are RESTRICTED for use by the AIT community only. NO outside visitors will be permitted to use these facilities until further notice
Visitors / Guests – NO overnight visitors are allowed on campus, even at the AIT Conference Center Hotel. International visitors/guests are NOT allowed on campus
As communicated in the 7 April TF message, all visitors / guests – including day visits – will only be given access when an AIT resident host signs them in. Contractors, vendors, and service personnel will be signed in by OFAM. Other casual day visitors (e.g. to buy take-out food, coffee, etc.) will have to make arrangements with the concerned establishment, which are allowed to ONLY make deliveries at the Main Gate.
Golf Course – The TF has decided to keep the Golf Course open with strict hygiene and sanitation standards.
Please check with the Task Force if you have any queries and also visit the Intranet page where all COVID-19 related information and updates from the Task Force are available. We urge you to continue to maintain a high level of safety and hygiene measures, avoid large crowds, and please visit the AIT Medical Center if you feel unwell. A final piece of advice, if you feel unwell but it is judged that you do not need to take a COVID test, you should stay in your quarters and minimize contacts for seven days if at all possible.
We thank you for your continued cooperation.
2) AITE Webinar on Global Supply Chain Outlook Post Covid-19
Date: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Time: 10:00 AM Thailand Time
Speaker: Dr. Nick Vyas, Executive Director of the USC Marshall Center for Global Supply Chain Management, USC Marshall School of Business
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/5342p8x4
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WEIRD BUT TRUE
By Marsha Kranes and Post Wires
They will not be cowed. More that 300 locals in Limoges, France, protested in support of a farmer who was ordered to pay $32,000 in damages to a newcomer neighbor offended by his cows' mooing and movements.
"If everyone has to muzzle their cows, it's going to change the face of the French countryside," said the farmer's lawyer. "As for the smell, what is he supposed to do? Put diapers on them?"
This is what you call "high" octane.
A sheriff's deputy in Carlsbad, N.M., became suspicious when a van carrying two women and five kids ran out of gas.
A little checking revealed the gas tank had a secret compartment that was packed with 72 pounds of marijuana – which left very little roomfor fuel.
There was meth-od to their madness.
Cops in Macon, Ga., couldn't understand it when three people refused to leave their burning car and had to be pulled out forcibly.
The reason for their reluctance soon became evident – the cops discovered a working methamphetamine lab in the back of the car.
Three employees of the Houston morgue have been fired for losing the body of a 4-week-old baby boy.
Investigators had hoped to find out what happened to little Octavius Freeman by checking the video cameras that monitor the morgue – but the cameras hadn't been loaded with videotape.
A Seattle computer programmer is weary of all the referendum proposals tax rebel Tim Eyman manages to put on the ballot year after year – so he's campaigning to have a referendum on Eyman.
The question he's proposed: "The citizens of the state of Washington do hereby proclaim that Tim Eyman is a horse's ass."
Neighbors in a suburb of Stuttgart, Germany, were concerned because a local store run by two rather odd women was rarely open. So they asked police to check.
The cops found the skeleton of one woman, 89, propped up in bed. The other woman, her 54-year- old niece, said she had died in June 2001. The niece was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
CITY: METS OWE $3M IN TAXES


On Labor Day weekend, Don Peebles, Washington native and the founder and chairman of a multibillion-dollar real estate development company, hosted a charity benefit at his 10-acre estate here.
The former whaling village is part of New York's Hamptons, the affluent beach community on Long Island that has been attracting wealthy summer residents for decades.
Against a backdrop of serenading Juilliard School violinists, a mix of celebrities and business executives mingled under an illuminated tent on a property fronted by a wrought-iron gate and entered through an alley of oak trees.
The fundraiser was to benefit Give Back for Special Equestrians, an organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding and equine-assisted scholarships for children and veterans with disabilities, including paralysis and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Peebles and his wife, Katrina, were drawn to the charity, in part, because of their teenage daughter, Chloe, who is an avid horseback rider.
"It's an enormous amount of work to organize, but it's a labor of love for us," said Peebles, 58, the son of a mechanic, who has built a real estate empire that includes a $5 billion portfolio of condo projects, hotels and office buildings.
The event raised nearly $50,000 for the charity and illustrates Peebles's rise from modest roots in Washington to power broker in elite social circles and the competitive world of real estate.
The benefit also put his Hamptons home on display. He and his wife have listed the estate for sale through Douglas Elliman for $10 million.
The 7,140-square-foot residence was designed with Gilded Age amenities such as French doors that open to wrought-iron Juliet balconies and a Versailles-style double staircase off the back of the home that overlooks a large manicured lawn. The property includes three fireplaces, a pool and two guesthouses.
The 7,140-square-foot residence, with touches of the Gilded Age, is where the D.C. developer and his family kick back.
The couple purchased the six-bedroom home in 2007 for $5.3 million and say they plan to buy a smaller Hamptons property closer to the ocean when it sells.
"We've built a life in the Hamptons with our family and don't plan to leave," said Peebles, who shuttles to Sag Harbor by helicopter from the family's Manhattan townhouse or by private plane from homes in Washington and Florida.
The property's appeal goes beyond summer, said Katrina Peebles, a former public relations executive Peebles met in Washington and married in 1992. She's principal and creative director at Peebles Corp.
"Fall in the Hamptons has always been more about family time for us, and less about socializing or parties," she said, recalling family softball and football games played on the lawn.
"We love cooking Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners here," she said, pointing to the large French country kitchen with copper sinks on the home's lower level. "It was designed with a chef in mind, with two big islands and multiple ovens and counter space.
Peebles recently opened an office in the District, run by his 24-year-old son, R. Donahue Peebles III. He said the company plans to invest $1 billion in the D.C. market.
The company is about to break ground on a nearly 250,000-square-foot mixed-use project in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood.
The development at 901 Fifth St. NW will include the 176-room SLS Hotel, an adjacent 45-unit condo building and 10,000 square feet of retail space. As part of getting the development approved, the company agreed to build 61 units of affordable housing off-site.
"I've watched D.C. evolve into a world-class city, as opposed to just the nation's capital," he said.
Peebles grew up in the District's Petworth neighborhood until age 8, when he moved with his mother to Detroit after his parents divorced. But the family eventually resettled in the District.
He dropped out of Rutgers after a year of pre-med studies to work as a real estate agent and property appraiser. His mother, who was 19 when Peebles was born, worked in real estate after her divorce, giving him early industry insight.
His real estate experience caught the eye of then-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who appointed him chairman of the city's real estate tax appeals board in 1984. Peebles, 24 at the time, said he benefited greatly from Berry's mentorship.
"He opened doors for people like me at that time, when the doors of opportunity were closed for many African Americans in D.C.," he said.
In 1986, still in his early 20s, Peebles started his career as a developer. His first project was a commercial office building in Anacostia, a once-bustling area that had endured years of neglect.
The project was a success and made Peebles an instant millionaire. It also led to the purchase of his first home: a $1 million property in the District's Embassy Row.
After a $48 million office-building deal fell through in 1998, Peebles moved to Miami.
His redevelopment of the Royal Palm Crowne Plaza Resort, a 420-room hotel in Miami Beach, became the nation's first major hotel developed and owned by an African American.
His company is now one of the largest black-owned real estate development firms in the country.
Years of political and corporate connections have helped fuel Peebles's ascent. A congressional page in high school who interned for then-U.S. Reps. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.) and Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), Peebles became a staff aide for then-Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) before college.
Peebles has used his influence and wealth — estimated to be more than $700 million by Forbes magazine — to raise money for politicians including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
He twice served on President Obama's national finance committee and is a former chairman of the board of directors of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Peebles, author of two popular books on wealth and investing, and a regular on cable television, is mulling his own bid for public office.
He's contemplating a run for mayor of New York, a campaign he considered last year after consulting with former Obama aides and pollsters who worked for former mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"My interest would only be in a place where you could be transformative, and I think that's at the chief executive level," he said.
Meanwhile, the Peebleses are enjoying their getaway in the Hamptons.
The home was designed by Peter Cook, a Hamptons architect who has created several celebrity homes on the East End.
Peebles initially rented the property in 2004, before purchasing it in 2007.
The layouts of the rooms inside the home "are exceptionally well thought out and rather old school," Katrina Peebles said. The main floor includes the formal dining room, with French doors on either end, the drawing room, a solarium and a large foyer.
The living room has furnishings from interior designer Todd Hase, including two gray mohair sofas. "I call it the tangerine room," Katrina said, referring to the walls, which are painted in orange hues. She recently turned the space into a TV room after hiding a plasma TV disguised as art above the fireplace. "The interior stylings reflect a clean and very contemporary feel," she said.
In the foyer, a walk through double French entry doors reveals views of the grounds and gardens behind the main house. A large charcoal figure painting hangs above small antique tables that rest between two French-style chairs covered in Scalamandre fabric. "The decor is me having fun with scale and pattern," she said.
The recreation room, with a full-length, handcrafted billiards table is on the home's lower level.


As the population in the United States ages, cognitive health software development continues to attract growing attention from established healthcare providers and startup companies seeking to create new software products. At Ayoka, we've served clients that come to us with highly innovative ideas for solutions that will help them with early detection, disease management, and more. We're fortunate to bring an extensive background in medical software development to the table to help healthcare organizations achieve these goals.
Here are some real-life examples of how the right software can improve care for an entire generation of patients.
Cognitive impairment is a common symptom for a range of medical conditions including Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and head trauma. Routine screening for signs of cognitive deterioration are intended to be a regular part of annual physical exams for senior patients. This proactive approach helps detect mental deficits as early as possible and increases the chance of successful intervention.
With this in mind, Medicare added a new benefit in 2011, called the Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) [HCPCS codes G0438 or G0439]. This wellness visit requires an assessment to discover if a patient has a cognitive impairment. While the legislation did not specify which cognitive testing product to use, the Alzheimer's Association brought together healthcare experts to develop Algorithm for Assessment of Cognition. This algorithm incorporates data from a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and recommends processes for observing patients and performing more structured procedures and queries for cognitive evaluation.
However, the lack of standardized control over cognitive testing procedures may mean that not all patients receive the same level of care. Manual data collection (with pencil and paper) also makes it difficult to collect and use screening results in a meaningful way on a large scale. Looking for patterns and trends that could point to emerging cognitive issues are unfeasible when screening is inconsistent and results are not digitally stored. In addition, there are well over a dozen cognitive assessment tools in use in the VA healthcare system; entrepreneurs have found several recurring limitations with the current tools. Limitations include difficulties in administering tests, inconsistent recordkeeping of procedures to consistently score test results, tedious processes to measure cognitive functions, and biases in language, education, or culture.
Companies see these as problems that can be solved with web application software or a mobile app. Through the creation of a mobile application to deliver a battery of cognitive tests in digital format, results are delivered directly to a Web-enabled relational database complete with analytics and reporting functions. By imprinting processes within the software, test protocols can be automated and controlled for consistent administration. Mobile devices have also allowed Ayoka's team to use the speaker and microphone to provide instructions and store responses in languages (e.g. Spanish as spoken in Mexico) appropriate to the patient.
These aren't far-fetched ideas. These are real-life examples of applications that Ayoka has developed.
Do you have a medical software concept that could advance our understanding of a disease or even revolutionize patient care? Ayoka is here to help you make that idea into a reality. Contact us today to begin exploring the possibilities.


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Q: Symfony - query sum I am writing a query  which will return amount of total spent money for that user. Total spent = sum of all transaction amounts, where type = spend. I have set my type field in a base to 'spend'..
It returns

Invalid parameter: token type is not defined in the query.

My code.
public function getTotal(User $user, $type)
{
    $query = $this->getSpendingRepository()
        ->createQueryBuilder('p')
        ->select("sum(p.amount) as total_amount")
        ->where('p.type = :spend')
        ->andWhere('p.user = :user')
        ->setParameters(['user' => $user,
                         'type' => $type])
        ->getQuery()
        ->getOneOrNullResult();

    return $query;
}

and this is sql that is working so I don't know what am I doing wrong..
select user_id, sum(amount) as amount
from transaction
where type = 'spend'
group by user_id

A: Replace
->where('p.type = :spend')

with
->where('p.type = :type')

A: I fixed it.
 public function getTotalSpent(User $user, $type = 'spend')
{
    $query = $this->getTransactionRepository()
        ->createQueryBuilder('p')
        ->select("sum(p.amount) as total_amount")
        ->where('p.type = :type')
        ->andWhere('p.user = :user')
        ->setParameters(['user' => $user,
                         'type' => $type])
        ->getQuery()
        ->getOneOrNullResult();

    return $query;
}

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Places in Russia. Facts about Russia
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This category would be useful for those professionals who need to learn basic figures about Russia. However, tourists can get basic information as well. We provide them with pieces of advice and the list of Russian holidays.
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How many people there are in Russia
How many people there are in Russia? Nowadays the country has a population of 146.3 million people...
Immigration to Russia: Why Everyone Wants to Get a Job in Russia
Russia is the biggest country attractive to migrant workers, giving way in the number of migrant workers only to the USA. Statistics of labor migration to Russi...
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Russia is home to more than 200 nationalities Most nationalities belong to large or small nations of Russia. But there are some surprises. Of course, the overwh...
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It is widely believed that there are not that many religious people in Russia. In reality the situation is quite the opposite. Number of Religious People in Rus...
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Russia is №1 in the world in mineral resources. Russia is №1 in the world in natural gas production. Russia is №1 in the world in natural gas exports. Ru...
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On the Russian flag there are 3 horizontal colored stripes. The colors from bottom to top: red, blue and white. The Russian coat of arms depicts a two-headed ea...
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Four people competed for every seat in higher educational institutions in Russia in 2012. That is 2 times more than a decade before. In higher educational insti...
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Large businesses that struggle to attract skilled IT security experts are paying up to three times more to recover from a cyber security incident, a report has revealed.
This model is likely to continue for some time, according to information professionals' organisation, Isaca. "You can't fully outsource cyber security and you can't really have a fully sustainable plan for insourcing cyber security," said Christos Dimitriadis, chair of Isaca's board of directors.


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Kewal Singh
Kewal Singh (1915–1991) was an Indian diplomat, Foreign Secretary and India's ambassador to the USSR, Pakistan and USA. He was a 1955 recipient of the Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri.[1]
Kewal Singh was born in a village in the Lyallpur District of West Punjab in 1915. He was educated at the Forman Christian College, Lahore, the Law College, Lahore and at the Oxford University. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1939 and served in Punjab in administrative positions until Independence after which he opted for the Indian Foreign Service.[2]
Diplomatic career
Kewal Singh was appointed the first Indian chief executive of Pondicherry after the French handed control of the territory back to India and served as French India's High Commissioner from November 1, 1954 to 1957. He later served at Indian missions in Stockholm, London and in Germany.[3][4]
Kewal Singh was India's ambassador to Portugal in 1962 when India's annexation of Goa led to the breaking off of diplomatic relations between the nations. A similar fate befell him in 1965 when, as high commissioner to Pakistan, he had to leave that country after the cessation of diplomatic relations following the Indo-Pak War of 1965.[5]
He served as India's ambassador to the USSR from 1966 to 1968 and as Ambassador to the United States from 1976 to 1977. He succeeded T. N. Kaul as foreign secretary, serving from November 1972 to October 1976.[6][7] India took over Sikkim, its protectorate, following prolonged internal disturbances there while Singh was foreign secretary.[8] During his tenure, India signed an agreement for demarcating the maritime boundary with Sri Lanka and led a series of talks with the then Pakistani Foreign Secretary Agha Shahi on normalising communications and travel between the two countries.[9][10]
Death and legacy
Following his retirement as the ambassador to USA, Kewal Singh taught at the UCLA and at Kentucky University's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce where he was distinguished world statesman in residence until his death in 1991.[11] He authored a book, Partition and Aftermath: Memoirs of an Ambassador.[12]
↑ "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
↑ Singh, Kewal (1991). Partition and Aftermath : Memoirs of an Ambassador. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. p. 6.
↑ Singh, Iqbal (1998). Between Two Fires: Towards an Understanding of Jawaharlal Nehru's Foreign Policy. New Delhi: Orient Longman. p. 272.
↑ Das, B S (2010). Memoirs of an Indian Diplomat. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill. p. 45.
↑ Budhwar, P K (2007). A Diplomat Reveals. New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley. p. 71.
↑ "FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969–1976, VOLUME E–8, DOCUMENTS ON SOUTH ASIA, 1973–1976". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
↑ Kux, Dennis (1992). India & the U. S.: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991. Washington DC: NDU Press. p. 471.
↑ Sen, Sankar (2006). Reflections And Reminiscences Of Police Officers. New Delhi: Concept Publishers. p. 94.
↑ Lyon, Peter (2008). Conflict Between India and Pakistan: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara. p. 195.
↑ Bhasin, A S (2001). India-Sri Lanka Relations and Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict Documents 1947 - 2000 Volume 1. New Delhi: India Research Press. p. 190.
↑ "Kewal Singh Memorial Fellowship". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
↑ "Partition and Aftermath : Memoirs of an Ambassador". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
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Very professional staff, polite and helpful. Will definitely go again and take more family members with me!
Brilliant service, easy to book and no problems with the attractions and obtaining tickets. Well recommended!!..
Everything went perfect - Booking, queuing and entry.
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ROYALISTS TO ROMANTICS. Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles and Other French National Collections - Catalogue d'exposition du National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, 2012)
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée par le National Museum of Women in the Arts, à Washington, du 24 février au 27 mai 2012.
" The rich collections of paintings and sculptures by women in the Louvre, Versailles, Fontainebleau, and other venerable French collections present an outstanding opportunity to explore the important contributions that women artists made in France between 1750 and 1848, a period that saw the waning of the ancien regime, the traumas of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the restoration of the monarchy.
Royalists to Romantics features some seventy-five paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings by thirty-five French women artists of this era. These stunning works both illuminate their makers' careers and offer a new narrative about the art world of the Revolutionary period.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, this beautifully illustrated book examines eighteenth-century French theories of sexual difference and their influence on the 'woman-artist question ; paradoxical Revolutionary attitudes toward women artists, who encountered as many new limitations as opportunities ; and the complex ways that women marketed their reputations and managed their cultural positions in France's intricate social and artistic hierarchy.
Londres, Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2012, cartonnage, jaquette illustrée, 136 pages.
9781857597431/978-1-85759-743-1
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Olegário Mariano Carneiro da Cunha (1889-1958) was a Brazilian poet, politician and diplomat. He was born in Recife, the son of José Mariano Carneiro da Cunha and Olegária Carneiro da Cunha. He attended primary and secondary school at Colégio Pestalozzi in his hometown, and soon moved to Rio de Janeiro. He frequented the literary circle of Olavo Bilac, Guimarães Passos, Emílio de Meneses, Coelho Neto, Martins Fontes and others. He made his literary debut at the age of 22 with the volume Angelus, published in 1911. His poetry strongly identified with the precepts of Symbolism.

He held a variety of government roles, both at home and abroad. He rose to become Brazilian ambassador to Portugal in 1953–54. But he also remained a significant literary figure. Much of his work was collected in the two volumes of Toda uma vida de Poetry (1957), published by José Olímpio. In a contest promoted by the Fon-Fon magazine, in 1938, he was elected by intellectuals from all over Brazil as Prince of the Brazilian Poets, replacing Alberto de Oliveira, who had held the title since the death of Olavo Bilac. He was also known as the "poet of cicadas", because it was one of his favorite themes. He wrote for many years in the magazines Careta and Para Todos, under the pseudonym of João da Avenida.

Mariano was the third occupant of Chair 21 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, to which he was elected on December 23, 1926, succeeding Mário de Alencar and received by Academician Gustavo Barroso on April 20, 1927. He in turn received Academician Guilherme de Almeida.

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Summoned
Back on Earth…
At the Ferris Aircraft quarters, Hal is working in his post in the Control room, monitoring each field and directing each pilot to their place, "Sectors A-3 you're clear to take off… Aircraft 12 take it slow and steady… Pilot Air 36 you have permission to land…" Hal said to the microphone while wearing the headphones to hear from the other pilots, then noticed Harold twisting and twirling around the rolling chair, bored.
"Hey sport, would you do me a favor and monitor the perimeters from the area coast?" Hal asked before he went back to his post, Harold rolled his eyes,
"Whatever," he said as he rolled himself to the monitors, he looked at the buttons, switches, and screens in front of him; not very good at many high tech hard wires like his father,
"I still prefer the monitors the Guardians made back in Oa," Hal said humoring himself, when Harold heard it he became annoyed, as he placed his arm on the panel, didn't really pay attention to the control setting as his elbow accidentally pressed some random buttons, which suddenly…
Hal started hearing some statics through his headphones, unable to communicate with the other pilots,
"Aircraft 2, can you hear me?" he said, as he noticed the jet is moving to the wrong lane,
"Aircraft 2, you're going the wrong way… can you hear me?" Hal said, but kept hearing statics through the line.
"How did…?" Hal looked around him, then he turned to Harold and his arm is on the control panels,
"Harold, you're on the control panels!" he said, which made Harold quickly moved his arm away as his father got up, and fixed the control panels that causes the static between the communicators, then went back to his post.
"Can you hear me Aircraft 2… okay then, just turn around and return to base… copy that," Hal said as he got everything set before anything goes wrong, otherwise, his wife will come after him if he ever cause any damage to the planes. He took off the headphones and turned to Harold,
"Sports, you got to be more careful with the panels, they can get easily messed with if you pressed a single button or two, and could easily be tampered with it which will cause a big disaster. If it's anything like that space ship back in Oa, who knows what would happen if you-" Hal explaining to him, which was cut short when Harold interrupted him,
"Would you quit that already!" he said to him with an anger tone, Hal looked at him as he continues,
"I'm not into this type of stuff, and you need to stop treating me like a kid,"
"Well frankly, you're still a young child, even by the time your birthday comes after your mother's, but you're old enough..." Hal said, until Harold interrupts him again.
"Old enough to what dad? Keep listening to you, and that stupid 'phony boloney Green Lantern' story you never shut up about," Harold lashed out him,
"Now wait just a minute, none of my stories are phony and you can't keep talking to me like that, I'm your father," Hal became offended, Harold got off the chair,
"Well father, why don't you get it through your thick head for once in your life, and know that I'm not like you and I never will be," he raised his voice, and begin walking away from him
"Harold, come back, we need to talk about this," Hal said with deep concern, Harold stopped and turned to him,
"There is nothing to talk about, I just wish I was old enough to get as far away from you as soon possible," Harold said,
"...I know you don't mean that, I just don't understand why you're acting like this, to me," Hal said,
"Then let me enlighten you, how about you do me a favor and STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!" he said and yelled with anger before he stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind him, leaving his father shocked and hurt.
In Space...
A small unidentified flying object is flying through space as it headed towards Earth, and slowly breaking through the atmosphere...
Back on Earth, Ferris Aircraft outer field...
Meanwhile, Harold was walking through the outer field of the perimeter, away from the station, still mad and fed up about his dad and his Green Lantern stories. He stopped as he started mumbling to himself, kicking some rocks and dirt, and pacing from left to right, steaming out of his anger.
"He so doesn't get me, I'm almost 16 and he keeps treating me like a kid," he said after he picked up and threw a rock from a distant,
"He makes me so mad, and criticizes me. It's always, 'Harold, stop picking fights after school,' 'Harold, stop being mean to your sister,' 'Harold, why can't you be more like your cousin from Philadelphia'..." while impersonating his father, the object from space appeared through the cloud, and falling right towards the spot behind Harold. Unaware of it coming right towards him, when...
"Oh, and let's not forget, 'Harold, you can't expect everything to come to you, because certain opportunities won't come crashing through the sky'," he said and then...
CRASH!
"AAHHH!" he screamed as the impact blew him away, but not far enough for him to be away from it.
Back in the Station, Control Room...
Hal continues his work, but mostly stares at an old photo of himself and Harold when he was five years old, back when they were the best of friends and love to spend time with each other, as father and son,
("I'm not like you and I never will be,")
He'll never forget those heartbreaking words,
"Where did I go wrong?" he murmured to himself, as those words he heard from his son hurts him deeply; he missed the good time he spent with Harold, long before he reached puberty. By then, that moment was put on hold as something caught his eye, he turned his attention to the monitor as it detected a strange object at the outer field near the perimeter.
"What the…?" Hal said while looking at the monitor, it is not a plane or jet, but something else.
Outer Field...
Harold slowly got up after being blown away, his clothes got all dirty but he's completely unharmed, he turned to the smoke from that impact that took place. He began to walk towards it as the smoke cleared up, he spotted a crater from that impact,
"What the…?" he said, before he slowly walked and carefully climbed over the crater, he looked down and spotted a strange looking pod, damaged but still in one piece. From that moment, he slid down the crater to get closer look at the pod, then looked through the window to see if there is anyone, or anything, inside. But instead, all he could see is a bright green light, which he can't seemed to get a clear view inside, so he decided to look around the pod to find something to open it.
Station...
Hal is on his phone trying to call his son while he gets in the shuttle, but couldn't get a hold of him,
"Come on sport, pick up," he said as he started the shuttle and began to head towards the location where the object is to check it out.
Harold's cell phone is vibrating on the ground, it fell off of Harold's pocket when that impact came, Harold on the other hand is busy trying to open the pod, which took him a short while, until…
"Yes…" he said, as find and pressed a button that opened the pod, he quickly moved back as the green light became brighter.
Still trying to contact Harold, Hal drove the shuttle to the spot, until he hit the brakes, when he spotted that bright green light appeared from a far distance. He recognized that light from years ago, back when he became…. then a thought occured to him…
"No…" he said, before he immediately stepped on the pedal and drove to the light as fast as he can.
The light was too bright for him to see, but it didn't stop him to get closeer look at it again,
"Hello… is someone or something in there…?" he asked, then the light slowly dimmed down, enough for him to see what or who is in there. Then suddenly discovers... no one, not a single being inside the pod, nothing except… a small green ring floating in mid air,
"A ring…?!" he said, looking unsatisfied.
Hal drove the shuttle with full speed heading toward the light, discovered it gone down,
"You better not be there sport," he said, in hoped Harold is not there, fearing he might actually become a...
Harold looked at the floating ring,
"I might of expect an extraterrestrial with one eye and maybe three tentacles, but instead I discovered an accessory from outer space," Harold is not at all pleased, then he noticed the ring floating towards and stopped right in front of him,
He examined the ring, as it strongly resembles the ring his father told him from his stories of the Green Lantern,
"I'm not really a fan of jewelry, but I could give this to mom as an early birthday gift," he said as he try grab the ring, but instead, the ring swiftly slipped right on his middle finger.
"Hey!" Harold said, he didn't wanna wear it, so he try to take it off, but for some reason, it's stuck on him,
"What gives!" he said, then he looked at the ring, examining the lantern symbol, then suddenly… it glows, and a hologram appeared in front of him, show an inscription in his language.
"Huh…" he said, while looked at the words, then started reading it aloud,
"In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight…"
Hal made it to the crater, and quickly got off the shuttle, then he spotted and picked up Harold's cell phone.
"Oh no," he said before he quickly ran and started climbing up the crater,
"Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power…"
Harold continues reading as Hal reached over the crater and spotted Harold near the opened pod, but...
"Green Lantern's light!" Harold said the oath. And then…
A bright light from the sky appeared, beaming where Harold is standing, and it blew Hal away from the crater and on the ground. The beam lifted Harold off the ground and up to the air,
"Harold!" Hal yelled as he saw his son being taken away,
"Dad!" Harold cried, as it was the last moment he saw his father from above, and being taken further and further away from the ground, through the sky, through the atmosphere into outer space.
Harold hurled through a portal, being transported away from his planet into a ship in a far distants throughout the galaxy.
Hal got back up after the beam disappeared, he stare at the sky where his son was taken from him, from Earth. His fear may have come true of his son actually may follow in his footsteps by becoming the new Green Lantern.
"Harold," he said with distress, as he may never see his son again.
A few light years away…
Harold mumbled regaining consciousness from that beam, he found himself lying on a floor in some kind of chamber, all by himself. As he got up, he discovered himself not wearing his own clothes, but a uniform; a green/black long-sleeve shirt with the lantern symbol in the center, white long gloves and green boots, black pants, and a mask similar to his father's.
"Where am I?" he said while looking around, then got startled when a door behind him slid opened before him, a bright light shined. Without a second thought, Harold walked towards the light, and it later cleared out…
His eyes grew wide and became stunned, as he find himself surrounded by numbers of aliens and lanterns, above and below. Some walking, some flying, and some glowing, Harold couldn't believe his eyes, as he tries his best not to freak out and slowly back away from all of this, until…
He bumped into someone, and quickly turned to apologize but discovered he bumped into a big, tall, buff, young Bolovaxion, who looks exactly like his father with his pink skin, big chin, two small ears and two gnaw-like teeth, and wearing a Green Lantern uniform similar to his father's but in his own style. He looked down at Harold with his red eyes, "Hey! Watch it, poozer!" he yelled at him,
"AAHHH!" Harold screamed while immediately back away from him, but failed to watch his steps, he slipped and fell over the edge.
Harold falls, which is a few floors down, and then…
He fell into a water container, filled with fishes, who are also aliens, he almost screamed but kept holding his breath, until he felt something wrapped around his ankle and got pulled out of the water by a large alien squid, with 12 tentacles and 4 eyes,
"Young man, there will be no swimming in the aquarium," he said to him through his tentacle mustache,
"ALIEN!" he screamed at the alien, while he's upside down.
"That is Mr. Alie'on, and I will not tolerate that type of behavior, thank you very much," he said, before he dropped him to the floor and left. Harold brought some attention around, being surrounded by a crowd of lanterns, more aliens and other creatures before him, he was on the ground, drenched,
"WHAT IS ALL THIS? WHY AM I HERE? WHERE THE HECK AM I?" he panicks, thinking they might either experiment him, torture him, or eat his brain and internal organs just like in the movies.
"I believe we have the answer to your questions, young man," he heard a voice, and he turned to see the Three guardians who are in charge of the ship,they appeared throughout the crowd,
"You can understand me?" Harold asked, being surprised to talk to an alien speaking his language,
"We all can," the First answered,
"And judging by you inaccurate performance, you were summoned from Earth," the Second said, Harold got back on his feet,
"How do you know where I'm fr-?" Harold asked then stopped himself when a thought occurred to him. Then at a moment of silent...
"Oooh, I get it… this is all a set up! Courtesy of my old man just to teach me a lesson," he said, leaving the guardians and aliens confused.
"Okay dad, the jig is up, jokes over, you can come out now," he yelled all around, calling out his dad, thinking he's hiding somewhere,
"What is he talking about?" the Third asked the First and Second, but neither of them knew of Harold's action. He continues yelling,
"I have to say, you really have me going there, with all this technology, the geddup uniform, especially the actors in alien costumes," he said still trying to call his father out, many of the lantern just looked at him all puzzled by his words,
"Geddup?" the First said looking offended,
"Actors?" the Second said looking confuse,
"Costumes?" the Third said looking confounds.
"I mean, they all look great and all, but they're obviously fake," Harold said, before he turned to another young Bolovaxion, only she's a young female, who looks very much like her mother, with her short red hair, pink-grayish skin, large teeth stinking out of her mouth, red eyes, black lips, and also wearing a Green Lantern uniform with her own style. Harold observed her, believing it's a costume,
"Like this one, only more chubby and triple chin down under," he said. She gasped and covered her chin, she turned to her brother with tears, "You told me nobody would notice," she said, before she ran off crying. Her brother however turned and glared at Harold again,
"You making fun of my sister, poozer," the brother said,
"Don't flatter yourself big guy, she's not even type, let alone 'my species', you feel me?" he joked, making it worse for the brother as he balled up his fist and gathered his strength,
"Feel this!" he yelled and...
PUNCH!
He punched him to the face as he flew backwards and…
He crashed through the wall, where he lays on the ground, severely hurt from that punch, his vision became blurry and is being surrounded by female aliens this time. Apparently, he crashed through the female's locker room, filled with startled female lanterns; Green, Blue, Yellow, Star Sapphires, even Red. He slowly direct his attention to the Red Lanterns, and his eyes were set to a young female Volkregian, who looks like her mother but resembled more like her father. Her skin is pale toned, has black markings around her eyes, matching her black eyeliner and her short hair, lavender lips, blue eyes, and a slender-curved figure, wearing a Red Lantern uniform similar to her father's, but in her own style. She looked down at him with her eyebrows crooked, and can tell he is losing conscious,
He looked up to her in clear vision, and gave her a warm smiled, "Hey cutie… you have such pretty eyes," he complimented her right before he blacked out. She examined him, and noticed the symbol on his chest,
"A Green Lantern," she said, glancing at the unconscious human, wondering if he is similar to what... her mother told her a long time ago.
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Keep your precious kitty's health in check -- always.
If you recently brought home a sweet, bouncy little kitten, not many things could put a damper on your mood worse than witnessing her having a seizure. A variety of different and potentially dangerous factors can cause little felines to experience convulsions, from kidney failure to epilepsy.
Epilepsy is one of the most common culprits behind kitten seizures. The neurological condition causes a cat to experience frequent and consistent convulsions. Seizures can happen seemingly at any moment, and are abrupt and random episodes of uncontrollable behavior and activity. Some examples include dilated eyes, mouth foaming, excessive drooling, breathing problems, twitching muscles, and aggressive, jerky body movements. In some cases, seizures also take shape as severe and unexplainable changes in mood -- think uncharacteristic hysteria or rage in your typically mild-mannered and gentle kitten. If you notice any of these signs, immediately seek emergency medical attention for your pet.
If your little kitten accidentally ingests a poisonous substance, she may also have a seizure. Toxic plants are a big cause. Other toxic, everyday substances that can trigger seizures in kitties include insecticides, rat poison and antifreeze.
Liver and kidney disorders are also often behind kitten seizures. If you are worried that your precious pet may be suffering either from liver or kidney failure, look for other signs such as appetite loss, exhaustion, throwing up, halitosis, dry coat and anemia. In these situations, waste no time in seeking out immediate veterinary attention for your little fluff ball.
Seizures are quite often a serious symptom of a bigger medical condition. Because of this possibility, it is crucial to always immediately take your pet to the veterinarian if you notice any unusual symptoms, behaviors or episodes. Kitten seizures are sometimes related to ailments including diabetes, heat stroke, brain tumor, hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus.
Nutritional deficiencies can also occasionally lead to seizures in growing young kittens. If you suspect that your kitten lacks certain vitamins that could be causing her seizures, speak to her veterinarian about putting together a well-rounded, protein-packed nutritional plan to get her back on the path to glowing health. B vitamins in particular, like niacin and thiamin, are especially important for young felines.
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Kick Off Summer at The Ridgefield Playhouse with Jon Batiste and Stay Human on June 21
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Kick off summer with dinner, open bar and a great night of live music at The Ridgefield Playhouse Summer Gala, featuring "Late Show" band leader Jon Batiste and his band Stay Human on Friday, June 21 – the first day of summer!
The gala, which benefits The Playhouse (a non-profit, 501 (c) (3)), begins at 5:30pm and includes dishes prepared by local restaurants, beverages provided by local brewers, wineries and distilleries and a chance to bid on fabulous silent auction items outside under a tent on the baseball field next to The Playhouse. Jon Batiste and Stay Human will perform in the theater at 8pm.
Batiste is a globally celebrated musician, educator, bandleader and television personality whose musical skill, artistic vision and exuberant charisma make him a triple threat with unlimited potential. Recognized for his originality, jaw-dropping talent and dapper sense of style, he transitions from commanding the piano with virtuosic skill to soulfully crooning to wailing on the "harmonaboard" (a kind of harmonica and keyboard) to curating unique "social music" experiences all over the world. Born into a long lineage of Louisiana musicians, Batiste eventually went on to receive both his undergraduate and masters degrees in piano from the Juilliard School and formed his band, Stay Human. This show is part of the Moffly Media Evening of Art Wine & Jazz Series and Pepsi Rock Series powered by Xfinity. Media sponsor for this show is WFUV.
The Ridgefield Playhouse is grateful for the support of Silver Sponsors: Berisford & Stockel Families, Ann & Steve Carlson, De Clercq Office Group, Adam R. Rose & Peter R. McQuillan and Lisa & Michael Shinall; Restaurant Sponsors: Atria Senior Living Culinary Chefs, Bareburger, The Cake Box, Odeen's Barbecue, Some Things Fishy Catering, Southwest Café, Tablao, Tequila Escape, The Village Tavern and Whistle Stop Bakery; Beverage Sponsors: Asylum Distillery, Campari, Corona Premier, Founders Brewing Company, Got Attitude Vodka, Half Full Brewery, Nod Hill Brewery, Pacifico Clara, Pera Wines, Reverie Brewing Company, The Wine Trust, and Treasury Wine Estates; Additional Support by Abbey Tent & Party Rentals, Hollandia Nurseries, Pepsi, Reliance Merchant Services & Reli-Bid.
Band leader, Jon Batiste has performed with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, and Mavis Staples. The Louisiana native began as a percussionist in his family's band The Batiste Brothers Band at the age of eight. He switched to piano at age eleven and in addition to taking classical lessons began transcribing songs from video games such as Streetfighter Alpha and Sonic Hedgehog. He studied with Trombone Shorty at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and later attended Julliard. He made his debut at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam at age 20, producing and performing his own show and went on to conduct music classes and clinics throughout the Netherlands, eventually returning to play Carnegie Hall in New York City.
For Batiste's latest album Hollywood Africans he worked with the legendary T Bone Burnett. Batiste states, "The goal was just to collaborate on something that felt authentic to both of us. What we came up with was an intimate, stripped-down portrait of who I am, and the lineage of musicians and performers who are really vital to my work and to his. On this record, I want us to bop, dance, laugh and cry to the sound of the music while we remember our black heroes and wield the superpowers they left us with. Because of them, I don't have to wear a mask. I get to be who I am."
For tickets ($75- $175) call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.
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Jamestown Harbour is a low-density luxury housing development of 73 homes in Poplar in East London, situated between Poplar Dock and Blackwall Marina, and to the north of Wood Wharf. It is spread across three cul-de-sacs: Landons Close, Bridge House Quay, and Lancaster Drive.

History

The development was designed by WCEC Architects for the Wates Group and was completed circa 1985. Jamestown Harbour was one of the first housing developments of the original London Docklands regeneration scheme. With its brick built warehouse style exteriors and distinctive blue and red balconies, it was designed to recreate the appearance of traditional river and dockside warehouses.

Jamestown Harbour is surrounded by five heritage waterways:
Poplar Dock and its sole ancillary structure (Grade II listed)
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Blackwall Basin and its two ancillary structures: the Blackwall Basin Entrance Lock, and the Blackwall Basin Graving Dock (all three are Grade I listed).

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Around The U.S., Voting Technology Is All Over The Place
Pam Fessler
Remember all that new voting equipment purchased after the 2000 presidential election, when those discredited punch card machines were tossed out? Now, the newer machines are starting to wear out.
Election officials are trying to figure out what to do before there's another big voting disaster and vendors have lined up to help.
During their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, state election officials previewed the latest voting equipment from one of the industry's big vendors, Election Systems and Software.
ES&S expects a huge surge in buying very soon. It hopes its new ExpressVote machine will appeal to those who want convenient voting as well as the security of a paper ballot that's counted separately.
"We're seeing a buying cycle that's starting now, and will probably go for the next maybe four or five years," said Kathy Rogers, a senior vice president at ES&S who used to run elections for the state of Georgia.
Rogers says companies have to be more flexible than they were 10 or so years ago. Both the technology and how people vote is changing rapidly.
"Some are moving to all vote by mail; some are increasingly becoming early vote sites," she said. "We have some that have moved as far away from direct record electronics as they possibly can, and then we have others who love that technology."
That technology is those touchscreen voting machines that many states bought after 2000. Some states including Maryland are scrapping them in favor of paper-backed equipment, because of security concerns. But in a sign of the times, Maryland is leasing its new equipment from ES&S, instead of buying — just in case something better comes along in a few years.
"I don't have to tell you all, the technology is old and it's ancient by technology standards," said Matt Masterson in an address to the election officials. He helped run Ohio's elections and is a newly appointed commissioner on the federal Election Assistance Commission.
Masterson says most current voting equipment was purchased three years before the iPhone was introduced. Officials now have a lot of catching up to do.
"The public's out ahead of us on this one," Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill said. "I mean, they are amazed that we don't have them being checked in with laptops at the polling places, for example; it's all still very much manual labor with people crossing off lists with pencils. And so ... the public is expecting more."
Like the convenience they see today when they shop or bank. The big problem is figuring out who's going to pay for all these new machines. After the 2000 elections, Congress gave states $3 billion, but no one expects that to happen again. Merrill says state and local governments will have to figure out what to do, and soon.
"Because it could become a national embarrassment if we continue to have the problems we've had," she said. In her state, those problems include computer card failures.
Vendors say they're well aware that there's a tough sell ahead — that people are searching for something that's easy to use and accurate, but also cheap. This is why George Munro of Democracy Live says his company is pushing off-the-shelf technology that can be adapted for voting.
"So a voter can come in, use any Windows 8 tablet, it's not connected to the Internet or anything, but they can mark their ballot right on the screen and then print their ballot off," Munro says. He says it costs a lot less than regular voting equipment. And when it no longer serves its purpose, he says the tablets could be donated to schools or other government departments.
It's an idea that's gaining some attention, but not necessarily customers, yet. Election officials — at this conference, at least — are still just looking.
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