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With so many reinventions during its 32 years, Phoenix must despair at the number of times it has been described as a company that lives up to its name. Certainly, the work that opens its current programme is one it could not – or would not – have danced back in the days when this was an all-male group, out to take contemporary dance by the scruff of the neck.
All Alight, Richard Alston's first work for the company, is set to a live performance of Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello. The choreography is comparatively plain – wide-tilting balances, clean-limbed jumps, softly folding turns – but finds a wealth of emotional and pictorial resonances with the music. The dark rhythms and suspended chords of the first movement translate into driving footwork and floating body shapes, while Ravel's later, rapt simplicities draw the seven dancers into moments of glowing and intimately charged unison.
The high musical standards continue in Sharon Watson's Repetition of Change. The score, also played live, is a new commission from Kenneth Hesketh. Initially, Watson's movement appears overwhelmed by the music's combative richness as well as by her own theme – the mutations of DNA. But it gathers strength in the later ensemble sections, where the dancing is carried by the score rather than questioning it.
Two short works complete the programme: Jose Agudo's Ki evokes a young man's coming of age through the gathering attack of the choreography (danced with tenderness and power by Josh Wille); while Douglas Thorpe's Tender Crazy Love is a sharply observed but sketchy realisation of its title. Choreographically, it relies too heavily on the personality of its two dancers. But this part of the programme ranges ambitiously across tastes and styles, and makes a confidently robust case for Phoenix's future.
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TechVise has taken the liberty to assemble this great list of gift ideas for PC and Mac users so when the time comes… you can take some ideas from here and gift away!
Dacasso Leather Mouse Pad
Whether you are a Mac or PC user, everyone wants a premium mouse pad, and it doesn't get much more premium than Dacasso. With a walnut construction and top of the line leather, this Dacasso mouse pad will bring luxury to your PC or Mac user's fingertips. It looks great, feels great, and is well worth the modest $31 price tag.
Oculus Rift
With our special link you get get 6 free titles, including: Robo Recall, Lucky's Tale, Quill, Medium, Dead and Buried, and Toybox. And, with Rift's ultra low-latency tracking offers unparalleled immersion, the Oculus Touch controllers will bring your hands into VR, letting you interact naturally with the virtual world. Just make sure you have the required juice in your system to run this great tech gift. Bit pricey, but hey android users deserve the best!
Huion Graphics Drawing Pad
Is your PC/Mac user a lover of the arts? Do they need to express themselves through the wonderful world of art? If that is the case, set them up with this awesome Huion graphics drawing pad. It's intuitive and drawing feels natural, plus it is compatible with nearly any drawing program. It even includes a 4 GB MicroSD card to help save any and all artwork done on it. For the creative genius in your house, look no further than this stellar tablet.
USB Guitar Link
Maybe your PC or Mac user isn't an artist in the visual sense, but more in the musical sense. That's why this USB guitar link from Behringer will be perfect for them. Compatible with Mac and PC, the Behringer will allow users to connect their guitar to their computer and record play sessions. It's great for artists who want to break into music production or even players who just want to hear how they sound. Either way, it's a $40 present that will become priceless for the musicians in your family.
Creative Soundblaster
If you have a die-hard PC or Mac user in your family, their hard drives are probably packed with all kinds of music. Set them up with a powerful pair of headphones so they can get the best experience from their favourite songs. With unique audio enhancement, these Soundblasters deliver the ultimate music experience, and they look great too. You'll also save some money buying these as opposed to other premium headsets.
Back Cushion
Sure, it isn't a fancy drawing tablet, or an awesome gaming headset, but comfy back cushion is still a great gift. If you have a family member who spends hours on the computer every day, for play or work, this added cushion could save them from back trouble down the road. It's definitely a good buy, and for a low price it's a good deal too.
And that's our list guide for now! We hope these have been helpful for everyone, and we will certainly be doing more down the road. Do check out our other gift ideas.
Remember, to get or send any of these wonderful tech gifts, all you need to do is buy and ship it anywhere in the world using a good parcel forwarding service.

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Users spending hours on their smartphone, but they're using them like a PC, not a phone
Nearly half of smartphone users report spending more than five hours a day on their phone, with one in four reporting more than seven hours per day. But rather than making calls all day, smartphone users are primally using them as mobile PCs — browsing the web and playing games.
A report by Counterpoint Research noted a variety of behavior patterns emerging from how users describe their phone use. One of the most solid takeaways is that "smartphones" aren't primarily being used as phones.
In fact, the most dedicated users were described as "mostly running businesses on their phones or consuming digital content for long hours."
The survey noted that 64 percent of users reported using their phones daily to access websites, while 62 percent reported playing games. But just 56 percent cited "making phone calls" as a primary use case of their devices. Another 54 percent cited text messaging.
While these usage figures are self-reported by users, rather than being actual analytics data collected scientifically, the results mirror several shifts in the mobile industry that have occurred since Apple entered with the iPhone in 2007.
Apple's iPhone was a mobile Mac, not a great phone
When Apple launched the original iPhone, it wasn't the best phone for voice calls. In the U.S. it was hampered by its carrier exclusivity with AT&T, which at the time was struggling to roll out reliable voice and data service.
What Apple's iPhone had going for it was its extremely usable Safari web browser, a dedicated Maps client, real email, and other features ported directly from the Mac. The then iPhone OS that became iOS brought the best features of the desktop computing world to a small mobile device, rather than seeking to perfect the typical use of mobile telephones as a way to place voice calls.
Apple's iPhone also brought other desktop PC features into the mobile world, notably WiFi networking— in an era when many smartphones were blocked from using non-carrier data networks by mobile carriers themselves. Verizon was a notable example of this in the U.S.
In its second year, the iPhone opened up to third-party software in the App Store, bringing the ability to run native code on a mobile device. Mini-games were already popular among handset users, but the quality of iPhone games was far better than those available for other platforms, in part because iPhone boasted a large screen and included far more RAM than most other phones on the market.
A variety of existing phones could claim to be better telephones, either boasting a slimmer, more compact profile optimized for making phone calls; claiming longer battery life as just a phone, rather than providing any app features; offering convenient voice features like Nextel's push to talk system; or claiming a better antenna design and/or support for faster mobile networks. Apple's iPhones lagged behind in the move to 3G and later to 4G LTE.
Yet web browsing— and increasingly dedicated apps and games— made iPhones stand out as differentiated as a series of existing phone platforms— including even PC-expert Microsoft's Windows Mobile— struggled to provide a similar level of usable mobile browser functionality.
Apple brought the PC into new form factors
Just as Apple brought the most useful features of the Mac into iPhone's mobile device form factor— without also trying to force the entire Mac experience into iPhone's small display— it similarly brought mobile web browsing and other focused, tablet-optimized apps to iPad without all the legacy and trappings of the desktop PC.
It has since tased the most useful features of its mobile devices— particularly Notifications— and made this the focus of its wearables strategy with Apple Watch, without shoehorning in all of the other features of an iOS device. Apple TV similarly presents a custom UI without trying to be a copy of what worked on smartphones and tablets— just like Apple Watch, there's no web browser.
In notable contrast, Microsoft has struggled to scale down the Windows PC, first into a mobile device with Windows Mobile, then its rethought Windows Phone, then Windows RT tablets and Windows Surface "detachables." After nearly ten years, Surface hasn't grown beyond its initial start of distributing just around a million devices per quarter.
Google's efforts to keep Android in feature parity with iOS have largely created a platform that is widely used among phone makers. However, Google's initial trailing efforts to release a functional web browser, its slow process in attracting exclusive titles such as hit games, its inferior development tools, and its lack of emphasis in customizing apps specifically for tablets has kept Android from keeping up with Apple from a commercial platform perspective, or as a tablet or wearables platform.
Users are looking for more mobile sophistication, not less
Another trend Counterpoint identified was that more consumers in established markets are open to the idea of paying more for a premium mobile device.
"More than half of the Australian, Chinese, German and Saudi smartphone users revealed that they would be willing to spend more than $400 to replace their current device. These would be the target markets for brands looking to promote their premium portfolio," the report noted.
"More than one-third of German and Australian users would be willing to spend more than $500 in their next smartphone purchase. Perhaps not coincidentally, Apple dominates the installed base in both countries, and more than 85% of the Apple users would not switch brands."
The report also noted that "only 13% of Japanese users were willing to spend >$400 for the purchase of their next device - even though Apple is also the dominant smartphone brand in Japan." Apple's longstanding, very high relative market share in Japan shows that clearly, a larger percentage of users will be buying expensive mobiles than they say they will.
"Apple appeared in the top three most preferred brands for respondents' next purchase, across regions," Counterpoint added.


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In Fall 2016, WDI partnered with New Hanover County to direct a project to evaluate the market demand and development opportunities for a government-owned block bounded by Grace, Chestnut, 2nd and 3rd Streets. Working with stakeholders, WDI developed and published an Request For Proposal to hire a firm(s) to complete a market demand study and a site analysis for 3-acre site. Here is the RFP.
This competitive process attracted responses from throughout North America and WDI selected a team comprised of Benchmark Planning, Kimley Horn Associates and Moser Mayer Phoenix for the work. New Hanover County funded the consultants work and WDI provided free project management services for the project.
The final report concluded that Downtown has additional demand for new residential, hotel, retail and office space. Further, the report provides 4 different options that County leaders could pursue to attract more private sector investment to this site. Here is a link to the report highlights. Here is a link to the complete report.
Development options vary. The County could decide to keep the current library building and Story Park and issue an RFP to attract new investment to the Grace Street side of the block. A bolder scenario suggests building a new multi-use structure along Chestnut Street to be shared by the library, the Cape Fear Museum and new upper floor residential along with attracting new development to Grace Street for new multi-use buildings. The different scenarios include budget impacts for New Hanover County and examines new property taxes and parking fees generated by each development option.
Over the coming months, County leaders will examine each option and finalize an approach for redeveloping the site. WDI will monitor this process and is eager to encourage new infill investment at this key Downtown site.


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Voices Carry is now a regular act at The Tavern!
We're playing every second Friday of the month.
We've even learned 3 new songs.
Smells like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana
Everybody wants to Rule the World, by Tears for Fears/
Sweet Emotion, by Aerosmith
We'll learn even more songs, if you just tell us which ones in the comments section below.
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14 killed by storms and flooding in US South and Midwest
At least 14 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the United States' South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday.
Tornadoes hit several small towns in East Texas, killing at least four people and hospitalising more than 50. Five people were killed by flooding and winds in Arkansas, including a fire chief who was struck by a vehicle while working during the storm.
Cove Creek/Pearson Fire chief Doug Decker died shortly before 4am on Sunday after being struck by a vehicle while checking water levels on Highway 25 near Quitman, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Little Rock, trooper Liz Chapman said. His death will be included as a storm-related death.
A two-year-old girl in Tennessee died after being struck by a heavy, metal football goal post that was blown over by high winds, The Metro Nashville Police Department posted on its Twitter page on Sunday evening.
Melanie Espinoza Rodriguez was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to a second post from the department.
Middle Tennessee was hit by a strong line of storms that knocked down trees and power lines earlier on Sunday.
Rescuers in northwest Arkansas continued Sunday to look for an 18-month-old girl and a four-year-old boy who were in a vehicle swept off a bridge by floodwaters in Hindsville, the Madison County Sheriff's Office said.
In northwest Arkansas, a 10-year-old girl drowned in Springdale and the body of a woman who disappeared riding an inner tube Saturday was found in a creek in Eureka Springs. Also, a 65-year-old woman in DeWitt in the eastern part of the state was struck and killed in her home by a falling tree, officials said.
In Texas, search teams were going door to door Sunday after the tornadoes the day before flattened homes, uprooted trees and flipped several pickup trucks at a Dodge dealership in Canton, about 50 miles east of Dallas.
"It is heartbreaking and upsetting to say the least," Canton Mayor Lou Ann Everett told reporters at a news conference Sunday morning.
Ernestine Cook, a resident, told WFAA-TV that she made it to a storm shelter just in time.
"It hit so hard, so fast. It just kept moving," she said. "I've never seen anything like it after 22 years of living here."
The National Weather Service found evidence of four tornadoes with one twister possibly on the ground for 50 miles (80 km).
The storms rolled through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Sunday with strong winds causing isolated pockets of damage. In Durant in central Mississippi on person died in the storms. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency didn't give details. Later on Sunday the agency reported the death of a child from Rankin County, 20 miles (32km) east of Jackson, who died from electric shock in flood waters. The Rankin County Sherriff's Department reported that a seven-year-old boy had unplugged an electric golf cart and dropped the cord in water on the ground and was shocked.
Near Clever in southwestern Missouri, a man tried to save his 72-year-old wife from floodwaters that swept away their vehicle on Saturday, but her body was found when the water receded, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
A second death from weekend flooding was announced on Sunday by Missouri Gov Eric Greitens but he did not release any details about the victim or the circumstances of the death.


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Bannockburn muralThe Audience With Bannockburn is a massive painting celebrating the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. It was featured as the centrepiece of a groundbreaking storytelling festival in June 2014 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh and has also been installed at the Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre in Stirling.
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Tam o' Shanter muralThe largest piece that I produced in 2011 was a commission for a restaurant in Glasgow's East End. A continuous mural tells the riotous story of Tam o' Shanter venturing drunk into the wild and stormy night, spying on the devil's ceilidh (full of booze and bravado) and the epic chase once the revellers spy him.
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Blue Vale Structures -boardroom muralBlue Vale Structures boardroom mural gives their boardroom a quality new feel. Designed to be classy clean, reflect their Glasgow heritage and the dynamic forward looking nature of the company.
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Mayfield and Easthouses Big Wall projectThe Big Wall project is a massive 60 metre long centrepiece mural that I built for the local community in Mayfield and Easthouses in 2014. One of the main goals was to involve the community in the actual manufacture of the picture, as well as featuring them in the content of the painting.
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George Watson's College Upper Primary MuralsIn 2017 I launched a month-long project at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, working with all the children from Primary Four through Seven. Drawing directly from the school's curriculum, all of the year groups worked on murals with a historic theme, painting a Viking village, the Battle of Bannockburn, the Jacobite Rising, and World War II as seen through the eyes of evacuees.
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A Room In The West End - Scottish Nostalgia MuralA Room in the West End is an Edinburgh bistro nestled below Teuchters bar, and owners Peter and John brought me in to create a crowd scene buzz in the space alongside an urban horizon that would make the subterranean room look bigger. We decided that alongside locals and staff, the crowd would be made up of Scottish celebrities, including musicians, comedians, actors, sportsmen and writers - a veritable who's who of Scottish sports and pop culture.
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Malones Edinburgh - Father Ted MuralA Father Ted mural brings life to a new Irish venue in Edinburgh's West End.
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Father Ted Mural at Malones EdinburghLate in 2017 veteran Irish bar owners Malones bought Edinburgh institution Diane's Pool Hall near Haymarket station. After decades of running the legendary pool hall Diane decided to retire, leaving the much loved two-storey corner space open to new opportunities. On a personal note, I've been playing pool in Diane's for more than twenty years and really loved the place, and so I was sorry to see it go. But I was delighted to receive the call from Malones and to help make this new incarnation a really special place was the best thing I could do.
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Clyde Holladay says he was excited about a new government insurance plan for people with pre-existing health conditions, one of the first programs of the federal health overhaul package.
ST. PETERSBURG | Clyde Holladay says he was excited about a new government insurance plan for people with pre-existing health conditions, one of the first programs of the federal health overhaul package.
That is, until he found out what his monthly premium would be: $773.
"Almost gave me another heart attack," Holladay joked.
But he's not kidding when he says $773 per month isn't affordable for a 61-year-old man with heart problems, who makes less than $30,000 per year as the proprietor of Pedro's, a small, downtown St. Petersburg barbershop.
Holladay isn't alone. While the pre-existing condition insurance plan does offer coverage that often is not available at any price, many Americans are quickly finding out the monthly premiums are out of their reach. Of the estimated 4 million Americans eligible for the program, only about 2,000 had applied as of Aug. 1 in the 23 states, including Florida, that opted to have the federal government run their plans.
Federal officials say the plan is only meant to cover this group until 2014, when more widespread changes kick in. That year, private insurers will no longer be able to exclude people with pre-existing conditions; the government will offer subsidies for lower-income people; and health insurance exchanges will open, promising lower, more competitive rates because the risk will be spread around more.
But that's of little comfort now to people like Holladay.
"I was expecting something that was affordable," he said. "$773 is not affordable."
Holladay has been uninsured since 2001. When his marriage ended, so did his health insurance through his wife's employer. He said he was doing okay without insurance, despite an enlarged prostate and some herniated discs in his back.
But in 2009, he suffered a heart attack and had a stent implanted to clear the blockage. Northside Hospital wrote off his nearly $100,000 bill as charity care, but Holladay said he knows he needs insurance.
Part of the problem is that now, individual health policies are expensive for everybody. Under the law, premiums in the pre-existing conditions program must be the same as the standard individual health insurance rates for healthy people in each state. In Florida, that ranges up to $773 for those 55 and older.
The only relief based on income comes if a person is eligible for Medicaid, and Holladay makes too much for that.
In addition to the $9,276 per year he would pay in premiums, Holladay also would have to meet a $2,500 deductible before his coverage kicked in.
That $11,776 total is more than 50 percent of his net income of $21,703 from last year.
"Just do the math," he said. "I can't afford it."
When federal health officials launched the program July 1, Jay Angoff, director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, said it would offer "comprehensive coverage at a reasonable cost."
The premiums are lower than what people with pre-existing conditions would get if they tried to get coverage directly through private insurers - if they could get it at all. Holladay was turned down by Aetna.
Angoff said he has heard of a man in Florida, who had polio as a child, getting coverage; and a woman with rheumatoid arthritis who needed a hip replacement now being covered.
Even getting premiums at the current level isn't cheap; the government is kicking in $5 billion to subsidize the program.
Angoff couldn't say how much better things will get in 2014; it's not yet known what premiums might cost, or what kind of subsidies might be available.
But for people who don't have insurance, "2014 is so far away, it just doesn't exist," said Jeanni Bajenski, 59, of Largo. "It's right now that we need this to be resolved."
Bajenski was laid off in August 2009 from her accounting job, and since has paid about $150 per month for coverage through COBRA, the program meant to help bridge insurance gaps between jobs. But a government subsidy will end next month, leaving her to pay $450 per month until her eligibility ends early next year. Then the breast cancer survivor will be in Holladay's situation.
Bajenski says she can't afford $450 per month, let alone $773.
The impact of this sticker shock could reverberate beyond individuals to the overall public image of the health overhaul package, critics say.
"There's a lot of small print" in the health overhaul law, said Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "People thought 'I'm going to get free insurance.' But it's not free. In fact, it's very expensive."
Tanner said the same is true for another early provision , the extension of health benefits to dependents up to age 26. "People didn't realize this is going to cost a lot of money," he said.
Supporters of the bill hoped such early provisions would win support for the controversial legislation. But Tanner said it's entirely possible that this will not happen, and the program's popularity will only decline in 2014, when everyone will be required to have health insurance.
"The mandate kicks in in 2014, which people hate," he said. "This may be as popular as the bill gets, and that's a real problem."
Holladay voted for President Barack Obama and lost some customers in the process. He has since written letters to the president and other leaders explaining his situation.
Still, he figures he may have to wait for coverage until age 65, when he's eligible for Medicare.
Until then, he says he'll keep eating right and exercising. "And hope I don't have major issues."


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Haryana Burns. Who's next?
Today, as many towns in Haryana burn and I see desperate Facebook pleas for help from people stuck in Rohtak or Panipat, I wonder how things came to this. How is it that one of the prosperous communities in Haryana is so desperate for reservations that they think it is okay to hold the country at ransom? That it is okay to loot ATMs, burn petrol pumps, set fire to shops and houses, block entire canals in a bid to stop the water from reaching Delhi, thereby tightening the noose around the government's soft neck?
How is it that this behavior is being tolerated? How is it that the Haryana government has already gone down on its knees and promised the protesters that their demands will be met? Why are the mobs being allowed to have their way as Rohtak burns, as per the accounts of people stuck there? By the way, how can their demands be met when we have seen this entire drama play out recently with the previous government promising said quota, only for it to be quashed by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional?
We've been told for years that Democracy is this powerful force to take everybody along. But is democracy so powerless that anybody with sufficient muscle strength and the will to destroy public property can hold the state to ransom to get their demands met? And are elected governments so desperate for power that they kneel down easily for fear of losing the votes the next time around?
If this is what democracy is all about, maybe it is time to try a different form of government.
I am the stupid taxpayer who diligently pays all of his taxes. I don't want the bridges and roads built by my hard-earned money to be destroyed by a mob of unruly people with mischievous intentions. I don't want such powerless governments that are so amenable to blackmail. I want my taxes back if this is what they are going to be used for.
Of course, knowing Indian politics, one cannot rule out conspiracy theories. That this 'protest' has been orchestrated by *cough* anti-national/anti-government forces. Who knows whether the anti-national force is just a boogeyman established by government after government to act as the scapegoat for their lapses? Thankfully, the previous Haryana Chief Minister has appealed to the mobs to stop and is going to sit on a hunger strike in Delhi till this ends. Thank god for such brave souls. It is only a miracle that he got out of Rohtak before the rioting started and amidst all the burning houses, his remained untouched. There is a god, after all.
I am not even starting about the elephant in the room - the policy of reservations. The one single policy that acts as an encouragement for people not willing to slog like the others to achieve higher education or jobs on merit, but get in via the 'easy' route. The reason medical students keep writing their entrances unsuccessfully year after year, because half the seats are reserved. The reason thousands of bright, young, students give up and decide to move abroad because our country makes things too hard for them.
Maybe we should introspect whether reservations are really solving the problem they were created for, but I know nothing will happen on that front. Not while communities such as the Jats feel empowered to burn everything in their path to getting that cushy government job the easy way. Not till we tolerate this blackmail and allow destruction of public property. Not till we figure out what to do the next time a community picks up some sticks, a few cans of petrol to burns buses, and decides to get themselves some reservation.
I can just hope that the state and central governments will not allow a precedent to be set. There's no knowing who will want reservations next, and what price the nation will have to pay.


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Rare Quadruplets Born: Two Sets of Idential Twins
Rare Birth Was "1 in 70 Million"
For Tressa and Manuel Montalvo Jr., Valentine's Day was a very special occasion this year. As Yahoo! News reports, Tressa gave birth that day to two sets of identical twins at the Women's Hospital of Texas in Houston. The four boys — Ace, Blaine, Cash, and Dylan — were conceived naturally and delivered by C-section at 31 weeks.
According to Dr. Alan Penzias, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, the odds of having two sets of identical twins at once are 1 in 70 million.
Earlier in the pregnancy, the Mondalvos had thought they were having one set of twins. Then their doctor found a third fetal heartbeat, and a specialist found a fourth! "We didn't expect it," shared Tressa. "We were trying for just one and we were blessed with four."
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The Munich Irish Rovers Football Club e.V. is an international, English-speaking soccer club competing in the Bavarian Football League (Bayerischer Fußball-Verband).
We are the only English-speaking soccer club in Munich, but we have members from all over the world.
We have over 100 active members.
We run two men's teams, an over 32s team, and women's team.
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Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that affects millions of Americans. It can affect people of any age, but it occurs mostly in young adults. It can also show up in people in their 50s. Find out more about this disease by taking this quiz, based on information from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the American Academy of Dermatology, and the National Psoriasis Foundation.
The normal turnover of skin cells—old cells dying and falling off, new cells rising to the surface—takes about a month. With psoriasis, the process speeds up, occurring in only a few days. This results in patches of thick, red skin covered with silvery scales. These patches (plaques) itch or feel sore. Plaque psoriasis is the most common form, but there are 4 other forms. These are:
The NPF also lists these as possible triggers:
Other medicines that may bring on an outbreak of psoriasis include the antidepressant lithium, medicines for malaria, some heart or blood pressure medicines, and some medicines for arthritis.
Healthcare providers often use a 1-2-3 approach in treating psoriasis. They start with topical treatment. Then they use light therapy, followed by medicine that treats the entire immune system. Topical treatments include:
Phototherapy, in the form of sunlight or an ultraviolet B light box, causes the activated T cells to die. This eases the inflammation and slows the turnover of skin cells. Light therapy also may include the topical medicine psoralen combined with ultraviolet A rays. This combo is called PUVA. For more severe forms of psoriasis, healthcare providers may prescribe medicines that suppress the immune system. These include methotrexate, retinoids, cyclosporine, 6-thioguanine, hydroxyurea, and biologic response modifiers such as etanercept and adilumimab.
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What is Surface Tension
All Surfaces have Energy
Tamper evident products; tapes and labels are only as effective as the surface they are applied to.
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All surfaces have energy associated with them, because work is needed to form them. These are the forces that are required to hold the molecules together to form the surface, whether it is a desktop or a cardboard box.
Surfaces are referred to a low energy or high energy.
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These surfaces are hydrophobic, which means they hate water.
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The 2013 Federal Budget lacks an overarching strategy for IT and the digital economy, with few of the many projects flagged likely to significantly benefit the sector, according to the IT industry.
"There doesn't seem to be any overarching storyline or holistic approach or strategy to stimulate the development of this globally competitive digital economy that we've been talking about," Australian Information Industry Association chief Suzanne Campbell told iTnews.
Earlier this month the AIIA set out its election platform, making six recommendations to the government which it said would help boost competitiveness, productivity and innovation.
Campbell said while she wouldn't call it "dumb", a word used by Greens leader Christine Milne today, there was no framework in the budget to support the IT sector in creating "a different kind of Australia".
While the Government has set aside $12.9 million to connect more local councils to the NBN and provide small business training, Campbell said much of the money was for "showcasing".
"Showcasing is good, actually embracing the technology in a comprehensive way and using it to drive government programs would be better," she said.
"While there are a number of small and worthy projects in the budget it's very difficult to see how they're connected to creating that larger outcome."
Campbell described the government's plan to push ahead with restricting the R&D tax incentive to companies with less than $20 billion in turnover as "disappointing".
The measure is expected to deliver the Government $1.1 billion over the forward estimates period.
Campbell said the AIIA was talking to both sides of politics about the need to ensure Australia remained competitive on R&D.
The Government wants Australia to have an innovation system in the global top 10 by 2025. The budget papers showed 9750 entities registered for the R&D tax incentive last financial year, with the cost of the R&D claims blowing out by $135 million when compared with estimates.
"It's absolutely imperative that we make Australia a place where R&D is embraced and pursued and applied," Campbell said.
"This is a globally competitive position that we find ourselves in, the best and brightest can go anywhere in the world … we want people to stay in Australia to do R&D and right now we don't have an environment that's conducive to that."
Lead technology partner of advisory firm Grant Thornton Simon Coulton said the budget announcements made by the Government did not support the investment in IT that is required to drive Australian productivity and competitiveness.
"There were no announcements that are likely to significantly benefit the ICT sector. Funding announced in the Treasurer's speech such as to connect local councils to ubiquitous high speed broadband and training regional businesses and communities in early rollout sites is not a new initiative," he said.
"Nor is the funding of innovation precincts a new commitment, and in any case is not focused primarily on encouraging innovation related to the development of Australia's digital economy."
Coulton said the Government's mentality seemed to be "build [the NBN] and [the economic benefits] will come".
"The Government needs to do more to educate the broader public and business community about both the social and economic benefits of a truly digital economy and must encourage private sector investment in related technology.
"The digital economy and the NBN is not just about connecting rural Australia and providing households with better internet speeds."


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We just finished the very long but very captivating, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. And we all listened to it together, which was so fun. We could discuss what we thought about what was going on in the story, what we thought might happen, and the every popular, this is what I would do in that situation discussion.
We took the old school route and listed to it on CD, mostly in the car. I picked it up at the library, my very favorite source for books!
It took a couple of road trips and some errand running around town days to complete but it was so worth it! The total playing time was 13 hours and 17 minutes.
Listening in the car was our favorite way to hear the story. We tried listening at night before bed but its so hard to find a stopping point. I mean why not listen all night?
We tried listening in the family room sprawled out on the sofa or the floor but too many other things could distract us, like new library books, a strange cat in the yard, that kind of thing.
In the car we had to stop when we arrived at the museum or the pool or the grocery store. It's hard to argue with, we're here!
This fascinating story has been one of the highlights of our summer.
We have our longest road trip of the summer coming up next week. I just hope we can find a new book to enjoy as much.
Happy summer and happy reading!


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Congresswoman Michelle Bachman of Minnesota announced right now she will not seek one more term in Congress. Students join law critiques for the job-industry benefit schools produce much more reviews to give a lot more students that advantage employers (I'm sad to say) do look to value law assessment knowledge more than other types of expertise (like clinics) that might seem to have equal or higher worth-even though perhaps that ultimately will modify.
The Harvard University Environmental Well being and Safety Division publishes the Annual Fire Safety Report, which involves fire safety polices, evacuation procedures, and fire statistics. There is prospective value for students in law critiques-I specifically like the thought of students writing notes that would be of sturdy interest to practitioners.
To the extent a person believes otherwise, they are just emotionally invested in using their membership on law evaluation as a justification for their own self worth. For full-time nonresidents, from 2011 to 2014 tuition has improved by 14{94fd270d4ca28f2edfc243ba25e2e085a0955a6f39a6e724499b123455e6c8b2}, more than the average for all law schools (ten{94fd270d4ca28f2edfc243ba25e2e085a0955a6f39a6e724499b123455e6c8b2}). Law is supposed to be about the resolution of disputes, the organization of people inside society, and making certain that the system's procedures are not corrupt, inconsistent, or arbitrary.
Law schools could reduce students' tuition drastically by hiring fewer faculty members, who each teach a much more affordable (larger) courseload. Harvard University 1L section size is 55{94fd270d4ca28f2edfc243ba25e2e085a0955a6f39a6e724499b123455e6c8b2} larger than law schools in Massachusetts and 61{94fd270d4ca28f2edfc243ba25e2e085a0955a6f39a6e724499b123455e6c8b2} larger than all PRIVATE law schools. FYI: I've been continuously employed as a lawyer given that I graduated law college five years ago, and I've usually listed my residential address with my state bar (not NY). On June 11, 2009, Harvard University president, Drew Gilpin Faust named Martha Minow as the new dean.
You need to do a column about how a lot debt-ridden law students in fact subsidize faculty law assessment articles, which includes ones that waste paper since nobody in their right minds will ever study them. This neighborhood is tagged as economically diverse which implies the income distribution for Aggasiz – Harvard University is related to the national revenue distribution profile. When he reached the needed age in the state exactly where he lived, he obtained a GED(Basic education degree which is the equivalent of a higher college diploma), which despite what some people want you to believe, is just as excellent as a higher college diploma.


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I have been battling seasonal allergies this month, everywhere I go, I'm a little sniffy and itchy - I've been a little off kilter either because I'm taking allergy medication or I'm not taking allergy medication.
This morning, I sat for my three-hour certification exam - a hurdle I need to get over in order to start working from home.
And, to top off this blog post of no interesting information about Doris, I got a new boss, aka the Director of the USPTO. This photo was taken at his swearing in today outside the patent office. He's the guy with the shaved head and the blue blazer. He's an old IBMer, just like me. Go Big Blue!
My life is pretty uninteresting, but everyone else is having a great time, even though I consider August to be the dullest month ever. It's hot, no one is in school or camp. Jeremy's been taking some time off and working from home some. The kids have been at the pool, library, zoo, you name it, they've done it. But since it's a pain to lug around my big camera and it's the only camera that the family owns - there are no photos of fun things. You only get the photo of the back of my new boss's head. And photos after I come home.


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This video made by Pablo Herrera (ELECTROFILMIKA) capture the the Latin American electronic music scene in New York City through a series of showcases organized by Trilogy NYC at Halcyon The Shop and TBA Brooklyn, in July 2017.
The 2 day event hosted by Trilogy NYC gathered renowned Dj and music performers such as Denite (Redlight / DIYNAMIC MUSIC / Get Physical Music); Dave Gomez [Dave Gomez] Lame Insults) – Colombia; Berny Burns (Inscene Management and Events) – NYC; Sonico (Techsound / Naked Lunch Records) – Colombia; Til (The Chosen Two / Powder & Louder) – Berlin; and the visual artists Laura Ramirez (Optika VJ) – Colombia; and VJ Eli-Q (Eli Quintero Trilogy/NYC).
About the Organizer
Trilogy NYC is music performer and producer from Bogota, Colombia, based in NYC since 2006. Giovanni (Trilogy) had his first residency in a small underground club called "SubRoyal" in Bogota, Colombia, where he played all sorts of music from Techno, Electro, Tech-House to New-School Breaks. In 2004, Giovanni was invited to play at the Bogotraxx Festival. In 2006 Giovanni moved to NYC where he co-founded Biatch Corp, a musician collective dedicated to promoting new meanings for Techno Music. In 2010, Giovani founded Trilogy NYC, his own label event. Giovanni shared the stage with renowned artists such as Moby, Damian Lazarus, Sasha, Tony Rohr, Mathias Schafaulser, John Tejada among others.
About the Venues
Halcyon The Shop has been Brooklyn's hub for music since 1999. As one of New York's long-standing record stores. Halcyon is about sharing a passion for music and instilling respect for vinyl culture in a wider community.
TBA Brooklyn was founded by veterans of New York's bar, club and underground party scene. TBA features top-flight electronic music from the best local DJs and promoters with the occasional international artist, all in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere.
About the Djs
Denite. Spanish electronic music artist based in Berlin, label manager of Redlight Music and produced by DIYNAMIC MUSIC / Get Physical Music. Denite introduction to electronic music came in the 90's at the age of fourteen. In 1998, influenced bybands like Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, he started playing guitar, drums and bass, performing in bands for a number of years. His releases have graced the shelves of such labels as Diynamic, Get Physical, Third Ear Recordings as well as his own Redlight Music imprint.
Dave Gomez. The international career of this artist began in 2008, when he felt the need to interact with more cultures. During two and a half years, he lived in London, where he played in some bars and he had monthly residence in the 93 Feet club, a club well known in the Brick Lane area. Later, he played in underground clubs in Switzerland, in Latin America, in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. In 2014, he joins the New York scene, playing for the Global Mixx Radio station and in the TBA and Kinkfold clubs. Nowadays, he is involved in the local scene and has monthly residence in Radio Berlin club with his Phononova Showcase concept. He also plays in Baum and Billares Londres.
Sonico (Techsound / Naked Lunch Records). For over 19 years unstoppable promoter, label manager, booker and true soul techno head, has been playing, producing and promoting electronic culture in Colombia and South America through his events crew and label Techsound founded in 1999.
About the Visual Artists
Optikal Ink Lab is the AV label that hosts the works created by Laura Ramirez a.k.a. Optika VJ, an independent audiovisual director and visual artist specialized in integrate the digital art with audiovisual narratives to create installations, video mapping interventions, VJ sets, live performances and videos that play with the viewer's perception. O .I .L . is also a floating workspace where digital artists are invited to work in projects and to co-create artworks following the lab's guidelines. Based in Bogotá-COL and working in different countries.
Eli-Q (Eli Quintero Trilogy/NYC) is an AV artist from Colombia based in New York City and working closely for the Record Label Trilogy/NYC since 2018. Her work stands out for the geometric figures used to emphasize the electronic chords during her performances.
About the Filmmaker
Pablo Herrera, is an Argentinian music producer and filmmaker based in New York City, well known throughout the electronic music community for his project ELECTROFILMIKA which since 2009 has merged the work of filmmakers and electronic musicians in Spain, U.S. and Latin America. One of the best performances Pablo has been create is the live soundtrack of Metropolis, the masterpiece of German expressionist science-fiction drama filmed by Fritz Lang in 1927, and set in a futuristic urban dystopia. The live electronic music includes tracks of Jon Hopkins, Moderat, Paul Kalkbrenner, Gui Boratto, among other renowned musicians from the German record label based in Cologne: Kompakt Records.


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Monthly Archives: February 2014
The Nasdaq has now broken out above the first of two major resistance zones at 4250. Once it breaks above 4290 there is nothing but air between there and the all time highs above 5000.
I think we are in store for another 2010/2011 type year and the frustration of having to endure 2013 will turn out to be well worth the wait.
Today another piece fell into place in my Grand Inflation scenario that I'm expecting for 2014.
Before I begin let me recap. My overarching driver for the Grand Inflation scenario is that the dollar would have some kind of crisis, or semi-crisis late this year as it drops down into its major three year cycle low. All other stock and commodity movements will be driven by this impending currency crisis.
For stocks, I'm expecting a final bubble phase parabolic spike over the next 4-5 months, followed by a devastating crash as the parabola collapses in June or July.
For commodities I'm expecting a stealth rally for another month-month and a half, followed by a super spike inflationary phase in the latter half of the year as the dollar collapse reaches maximum intensity.
Today the dollar broke through its intermediate trend line confirming that an intermediate degree decline is now in progress.
Since this intermediate cycle topped on week two in a left translated manner, the odds are very high that the dollar is going to break below the October low before this intermediate cycle bottoms. I'm actually expecting another test of the megaphone topping pattern trend line before this intermediate cycle bottoms sometime in March or early April.
The real damage is yet to come later in the year though.
The next component is the stock market. The movement in stocks over the next 4-5 months is a very important component for the Grand Inflation to unfold. Stocks must enter a final parabolic, melt up, bubble phase during the first half of this year. The very mild intermediate cycle low that bottomed last week has set the stage for this scenario to begin. In only five days the NASDAQ 100 has already moved back to new highs. This confirms my expectation that we are going to see the NASDAQ test the all-time highs above 5000 before this cyclical bull market comes to an end.
At that point the parabolic advance in the stock market will experience its initial collapse, and I expect the S&P will crash at least back to the 2000/2007 support zone at 1550. This is another critical component for the Grand Inflation to unfold as it will cause Yellen to panic, reverse the taper, and probably initiate QE5 & 6. This won't reflate the broken parabola but it will trigger a reaction rally before the collapse continues into a massive bear market that will bottom below 666 sometime in early to mid 2016.
QE 5 & 6 will be the final nail in the coffin for the dollar, and will trigger a full break of the megaphone top. I expect a move below the 2011 and 2008 bottoms before the dollar completes its final three year cycle low.
Commodity markets have already begun the stealth rally that I was looking for during the first half of this year. They successfully tested the 2012 three year cycle low and have now broken through the multiyear downtrend line. The Grand Inflation has begun.
During this stealth rally I'm expecting gold to test the initial April breakdown at 1520 over the next 1-2 months.
That should push sentiment levels to bullish extremes from their current depressed levels, triggering an intermediate degree profit taking event into May or June as the stock market finishes its final parabolic blowoff top.
As you can see silver sentiment is already recovering nicely and today's move will likely push sentiment to levels next week requiring the metals to pullback and take a breather.
Over the next 4-5 months the easy money is going to be playing the final bubble phase in the stock market. Bubble tops don't come around very often, but when they do traders can make an obscene amount of money in a short period of time.
Once the stock market bubble pops, and Yellen starts QE5 that's the point at which the Grand Inflation will begin in earnest, and I believe gold will probably rocket from an intermediate bottom of around 1350-1400 this summer, to test $2000 by the end of the year. This is the phase where the metals become the "easy trade".
Over the next couple of months everything should generally rise together. But once the dollar puts in an intermediate bottom sometime in March or April, commodities and gold will move down into and intermediate correction as the stock market completes its final blowoff top. After the stock market parabola collapses later this summer it will be time to put the pedal to the metal in the commodity markets, and especially the precious metal markets as the Grande Inflation begins in earnest.
For over a year now I've been expecting 2014 to be the year when the unintended consequences of five years of QE come home to roost. By the end of the year we are going to have a massive inflationary spike in commodity prices that will collapse the global economy. It's all going to start with a final manic melt up phase in the stock market over the next 3-4 months. Make no mistake, this bull market will not be over until the NASDAQ tests it's all time high above 5000.
Over the next 3-4 months we are going to see the public pile into the stock market exactly like they did with tech stocks in 2000, and real estate in 2005.
Completing the final bubble phase in the stock market is the first component necessary for the Great Inflation. During this period commodities are going to start to rise in a stealth rally that everyone will ignore because they will be focused on the stock market. The CRB has already broken out of its three-year downtrend.
At some point later this year, probably in May or early June the stock market parabola will collapse. This is the second component necessary to initiate the Great Inflation. When the crash begins the inflation stored in stocks will flow into the commodity markets. This process will be exacerbated as Yellen reverses the taper and doubles down on QE to try and reflate the stock market bubble. This will be like throwing gasoline on a fire, and will drive commodity prices through the roof into the end of the year and probably the spring of 2015.
The Fed is going to make the exact same mistake they did during the last decade. Their easy monetary policy has produced a bubble in stocks just like it produced a bubble in real estate in 2005. When the bubble implodes the Fed will try to reflate. They won't succeed in reflating the broken stock market parabola, but it will trigger an explosion in commodity prices. The rapid spike in commodity prices will collapse the global economy just like it did in 2008.
Because the artificial and manipulated bear market of the last year has severely damaged the supply side of the market, I expect the precious metals will be the largest beneficiary during the Great Inflation of 2014.
By this time next year all of the Chinese/Russians/Indians, etc. who have been scooping up gold over the last year are going to look like geniuses.
Contrary to what Monkey boy was calling for we made a decent profit on our put position and entered at almost the exact bottom of the stock market correction.
I also lifted my hedges today on all metal positions. I think it's time for gold and stocks to rise together again, which has been the norm for most of the secular bull market. I think miners are going to break out of the Bollinger band constriction and deliver a 7-10% gain next week. And that's just the beginning.
My prediction for 2014: The SMT is going to have another 100% + year this year.
It's been my opinion now for a the last year that the bull market that started in March of 2009 at 666 on the S&P would come to an end either in late 2013, or early 2014. I'm confident that will be the case, but based on the cyclical pattern of the current decline I believe we still have one last leg up before this bull comes to an end. I think the intermediate decline now in progress is going to create the conditions for a final manic melt up phase over the next 2-3 months to complete this huge parabolic structure that the Fed has constructed with 5 years of QE and 0% interest rates.
We've come this far and tested the 2000 reaction high, I have to think we're probably going to go all the way and test the all-time highs on the NASDAQ before this bull market comes to an end.
A similar percentage advance would place the S&P 500 at roughly 2200 points which when completed would represent a massive parabolic structure that when it collapses will tip the globe over into the next recession/depression.
So when do we buy stocks you ask? Should we buy today? The answer is, no I don't think the intermediate decline is done just yet. We first need to break the intermediate trend line to confirm this as an intermediate degree correction.
At the very least I think the S&P needs to retrace 50% of its recent intermediate rally. That comes in at roughly 1700-1705.
On a cyclical basis the current daily cycle is on day 31. The average duration from trough to trough for a daily stock market cycle is 35-40 days. So it's still just a little bit early for this cycle to bottom.
There are two events coming over the next week and a half and I'm pretty sure one of them is going to serve as the trigger for this daily and intermediate cycle to bottom, and the melt up phase of this bull market to begin.
The first is the employment report Friday morning. The second is Janet Yellen's Humphrey Hawkins address next Tuesday. Before or during one of these two events I think stocks will make a final plunge to test that 50% retracement/200 day moving average. That's the point where retail investors will panic and professional traders will be loading up the boat for the final run of this bull market.
The one caveat is, if the stock market were to crash 150-200 points over the next 5-6 days then it would signal the parabolic structure is already in collapse and the top of this bull market occurred earlier this month.
I don't really think this is going to be the case as the current intermediate rally lasted 30 weeks. That's not how a final intermediate degree move should behave.
When we do get a final top I expect it will come around week 10-12 of the then current intermediate cycle. An intermediate cycle that tops on week 30 just doesn't have enough time to complete an initial bear market move. So what I'm looking for once we complete this bottom sometime in the next 4-6 days will be a 2-3 month rally that will top sometime in late March to mid April. That would give us a final intermediate top somewhere around that 10-12 week period. At that point we should get an 8-10 week crash as the parabolic structure collapses. The initial target would be the 2000/2007 all-time highs followed by a final bear market bottom in early to mid 2016.
Over the next week and a half I will be watching for certain timing signals to try and determine whether the bottom is going to come on Friday's employment report, or on the Humphrey Hawkins address next Tuesday. Either way, we should be on the verge of entering another bubble phase very similar to 1999. Again with the caveat that we not see a 150-200 point crash over the next 4-6 days.


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Reports on the proposal to appoint physicians as countersignatories in applications for firearms ownership in Great Britain. Incident about a mentally imbalanced person who shot 16 children and a teacher in a primary school; Need to prevent similar violent incidences; Proper psychological...
- Most homes armed. Edmondson, Brad // American Demographics;Oct94, Vol. 16 Issue 10, p19
Reports on a survey of the percentage of Americans who have access to firearms. Comparison of the percentage of people who have a gun at home in 1993 with data in 1959; Reason for increase in gun ownership; Increase in proportion of Americans who have installed special locks from 1981 to 1993.
- Gun ownership holding steady. Taylor, Humphrey // Indianapolis Business Journal;09/02/96, Vol. 17 Issue 24, p9B
Opinion. Comments on gun ownership. Statistics; Percentage changes; Demographics.
- Guns do kill people. Mathis, Deborah // Indianapolis Business Journal;6/5/95, Vol. 16 Issue 10, p7B
Opinion. Denounces the growing public support to legalize the ownership of guns in the United States. Illustration of damages caused by guns during the 14th National Peace Officers Memorial Day; Anguish and sorrow felt by Memorial Day participants; Justifications of a gun ownership supporter.
- Guns-r-us culture in Cambodia slowly yields to rule of law. Cohen, Yvan // Christian Science Monitor;3/6/97, Vol. 89 Issue 69, p6
Reports that in Cambodia arming oneself with a gun is such an integral part of life that it has filtered into the tourist trade. Cost to a tourist wanting to fire authentic weapons; Examples of weapons that can be used by tourists; Evidence of Cambodia's gun-toting culture; Comments from a...
- Eight score eight. Coward, Mat // New Statesman & Society;3/22/96, Vol. 9 Issue 395, p7
Presents a satire about the requirements for gun licensing in Great Britain.
- Arms and the woman. Horowitz, Joy // Harper's Bazaar;Feb94, Issue 3387, p166
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Hong Kong Was Once Passionate About China. Now, It's Indifferent or Contemptuous.
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HONG KONG — As a young student learning classical Chinese, I stopped off in Hong Kong nearly 40 years ago to catch a slow train up to Beijing, then still known as Peking. At the station, I bought a Chinese-language magazine of politics, culture and ideas that I was advised to hide when I crossed the border out of what was then still a British colony into China.
With only a rudimentary grasp of modern Chinese, I spent much of my three-day journey north trying to decipher the Hong Kong magazine's articles that were wrestling with China's past political convulsions under Mao, its present challenges and future possibilities. It was my first taste of what was then the city's raucous and passionate debate about China.
Hong Kongers at the time were endlessly curious about life across the border and, tugged by bonds of family, culture and in some case politics, saw their city as part of a bigger Chinese story.
But returning to Hong Kong this month after many years away, I found that the magazine was gone, along with what had been Hong Kong's deeply felt role as a place inextricably tied to the rest of China, not just economically but intellectually and emotionally.
As the city's political elite have become increasingly beholden to China, and its business leaders ever more intertwined with the mainland, many ordinary citizens have pulled away, becoming less engaged.
"People, particularly the young, are just not interested in China. They don't care," Lee Yee, the 83-year-old founding editor of that now defunct magazine, known first as "The Seventies" and later as "The Nineties," said over coffee in a Hong Kong retirement home. China, he added, doesn't stir excited discussion these days, only indifference or contempt.
In a busy shopping district on Hong Kong Island, a big sign still juts out over the street advertising the location of Causeway Bay Books, an emporium of weighty political tomes and salacious potboilers about China and its leaders, many of them banned on the mainland. But the shop — several of whose staff members were abducted in 2015 and sent across the border into detention — has vanished, replaced by a sex toys store.
The demise of Mr. Lee's magazine and the disappearance of Causeway Bay Books are small signs of a larger victory for the Chinese Communist Party in its long campaign to prevent Hong Kong becoming a "base of subversion" against its rule.
But by squeezing the finances of journals critical of Beijing, kidnapping booksellers and generally limiting the space for open discussion of China, Beijing has promoted what could be a more dangerous threat to its grip on Hong Kong: distance from and disinterest in China.
"Young Hong Kongers want nothing to do with China. They have no more interest in subverting China than they do in subverting Zimbabwe," said Liu Kin-ming, a veteran Hong Kong journalist who now works as a consultant, advising companies on political and business affairs in China.
This is a dramatic turn for a city that, under British rule, sheltered and supported Sun Yat-sen, the leader of a 1911 revolution that brought down's China's last imperial dynasty. Hong Kong also gave refuge and sustenance to prominent revolutionaries working to overthrow the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s and 40s.
Hong Kong played such an important role in shaping China's history in the 20th century that, ahead of its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, many in the city seriously believed that the big question was not so much how China would change Hong Kong once it regained sovereignty but how tiny Hong Kong would change China.
Nobody believes that now.
Instead, despair has set in over China's direction. And with it is a growing rejection of the country to which most people in Hong Kong are bound by ethnicity but that many now shun as an alien power.
Jin Zhong, the longtime editor of Kaifang, another China-focused magazine that has shut down its print version in recent years, though it still appears online, said hope and expectation about China had, despite its stunning economic success, curdled into bitter repudiation.
Hong Kongers "have totally lost faith in China," said Mr. Jin, who now lives in New York. "For decades Hong Kong opposed 'one-party rule' on the mainland but nothing changed. All they got was one-man rule instead," he said, referring to the Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. "Everyone feels disappointment. Why care about China? What is the point?"
Close links to China abound, particularly in Hong Kong's economy, which has grown increasingly dependent on money from and trade with the mainland. And Hong Kong's newspapers are filled each day with ever more slavish declarations of "love" for China by business people trying to protect their investments on the mainland.
But the ties of the heart and mind, at least among young people, have withered away.
The result is the blunt, handwritten message pinned to the back of a protester I met last week: "Hong Kong Is Not China."
Under British colonial rule, most people in Hong Kong, including fierce anti-Communists, felt undeniably Chinese in the face of a system run at its highest levels by Britons who often couldn't speak their language, didn't know much about their culture and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle far beyond the reach of all but the richest Chinese tycoons.
But the British, whose obvious foreignness and colonial arrogance helped solidify a shared sense of being part of China among their subjects, have given way to a new elite of mandarins from Beijing. They also rarely speak the local language, Cantonese, also live apart and often seem no less — and sometimes even more — out of tune with ordinary Hong Kongers.
Even Communist Party-controlled newspapers in the city that were run largely by Hong Kongers during British rule are now staffed at their senior levels by mainlanders who view Hong Kong through a prism fixed decades ago by China's late paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping. He regarded the city as a greedy, self-indulgent place that had no real interest in politics and so could easily reabsorbed into "the motherland." In Hong Kong after 1997, Mr. Deng promised, "horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle and dancers will still dance."
That promise has largely been kept so far. But it has come in tandem with a steady diminishment of the city as a place engaged in shaping China's future.
This reduced role, said Eddie Chu, an elected member of Hong Kong's Legislature and an early champion of the city's localist movement, has fed a widespread sense of despondent detachment from the rest of China.
"As a city confronting an empire, it seems an obvious expectation that we are doomed," he said.
For a foreigner, Hong Kong still feels unquestionably Chinese, its streets flashing with neon Chinese characters, its graveyards filled with tombstones recording ancestral homes in faraway provinces, its cacophonous restaurants offering endless varieties of Chinese cuisine. But for many Hong Kongers these are no more signs of the place being part of Communist-ruled China than the magnificent collections of Chinese art in Taiwan are proof that the island belongs to Beijing.
Mr. Lee, the editor, said it pained him to see this but added that the Communist Party had only itself to blame. He said it has treated critics in Hong Kong who considered themselves Chinese patriots as enemies and repeatedly frustrated hopes in the former colony that the system in China might become less repressive.
"Loving China," he said, became synonymous with "loving the party," something he and most people in Hong Kong don't want to do. "I used to be a patriot. But of course I am not a patriot now."


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LFDE - From ESG Integration to Impact Investing
At the beginning of July, dragonfly.finance hosted Coline Pavot, SRI analyst at La Financière de L'Échiquier (LFDE) and John Korter, Country Manager for Germany and Austria in Vienna. LFDE, founded 1991 in Paris, has received very little from its total assets worth around ten billion euros from Austria so far. However, the demand for LFDE know-how is high and more inflows are expected soon


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Clyburn nets cracking goal as Honiton Troopers Under-9 disappoint at Central.
PUBLISHED: 19:53 03 March 2014 | UPDATED: 19:53 03 March 2014
Central United 6, Honiton Troopers 1
Honiton Troopers Under-9s dished up what can only be described as a disappointing display from the team with few highlights.
Lewis Clyburn scored the best goal of the game with a fine lob over the keeper from outside the box, Harvey Lee made several fine saves and Chris Lucas was again superb winning tackles, passing well and working hard for the team. Louis Stevens played well in the second half when he dropped back into defence.
It could be due to the large pitches or lack of recent training sessions, but there were to many of the team not working hard enough during the second game which was reflected in the scoreline. Central worked hard as a team, defending and attacking in numbers, unfortunately the Troopers didn't!
Player of the Day was very close between two outstanding players, Harvey Lee came close having made several fine saves, but the award went to Chris Lucas who battled throughout both games and worked hard for the team breaking up many attacks often when outnumbered by Central players.
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In a dream world created inside Rose Tyler's mind while an entity devoured her, Susannah Tyler was Rose's daughter. In the dream, a version of the Ninth Doctor appeared too late to take Rose with her as she already had a daughter, so instead the Doctor kidnapped Susannah and made her his new companion. The Doctor returned to Rose to invite her again, stating that she was either married to an alien guard or stayed behind on a planet to lead a rebel group, but Rose refused, and eventually saw through the dream. (COMIC: The Cruel Sea)
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The father of Susannah is implied to be Mickey Smith. Rose is pointing at a "stupid lump" she needed to take care of, corresponding with a similar (but longer) scene in the television story Rose, followed by a montage consisting of a wedding photo, which is later broken, and Rose taking care of Susannah alone. Susannah also has a similar skin tone and hair texture to Mickey. Mickey is not directly glimpsed in the Rose "flashback" in The Cruel Sea, but his presence is implied, with the features of the "lump" hugging at Rose being obscured by Rose's arm, and in other panels he is either out of frame or seen from behind. The shattered wedding photo also obscures the husband's features.


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This is the most fun you'll have on a Wednesday night! The Maple Street Park Running Series is a points-based series designed to encourage friendly competition and the enjoyment of running and racing. Course length will vary week to week but will be between 2.5 and 5 miles. New and experienced runners will enjoy the friendly, grassroots atmosphere of these fun courses around Maple Street Park and adjoining property. There will be an awards ceremony at the last race. Register for all 6 races by April 14 and guarantee yourself a MSP Race Series T-shirt.
TIME: Registration opens: 5:30pm / Race start: 6pm
DAY: Wednesday
PLACE: Start line is located at Maple Street Park, 75 Maple Street, Essex Junction
FEE: Pre-register: $50 for all 6-races or $10 for each individual race.
All 6-Races $50
April 29 $10
May 6 $10
May 13 $10
May 20 $10
May 27 $10
June 3 $10
Prizes from Fleet Feet Sports will be given to the top three overall male and female winners of the series. In order to come up with a series winner, points will be accumulated from each race. The series award presentation takes place after the final race on June 3rd . If a tiebreaker is needed at the end of the series, we will take the faster time of the last race.
Points are given out as follows:
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· Overall Male and Female 1st place finishers receive 10 points
· Overall male and female 2nd place finishers receive 9 points
· Overall male and female 3rd place finishers receive 8 points
Age group points (go to runners who are not in the top 3)
· First place in age group = 7 points
· Second place in age group = 6 points
· Third Place finish in age group = 5 points
Age groups for both men and women are:
18-29, 30-39, 40-49 and 50+
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If a person signs up for all races in the race series, they will be assigned a race number to use during the entire race series. Racers can leave their numbers with the Recreation Staff at the end of the race and pick it up at the registration table for the next race. It will be the runners' responsibility to bring their number to every race. If you choose to sign up for a single race, you will be assigned a race number for that race.


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I do not know whether there has been an increase in deportations recently, or whether it has finally reached the point where people are starting to pay attention to this great injustice. Deportations of adoptees is not a new phenomenon.
I need to keep track of some deportation situations that need cases set up here on PPL, so I making a list on this blog post.
Perhaps if anyone has information about these people, they will forward it to help.
David Drouin, possibly aka Samio Drouin pending deportation to Brazil see http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/28402#comment-23353
Updates and more information for these cases (as well as any of the other cases listed here http://poundpuplegacy.org/deportation_cases )
Seo, mother of 3 - 31 yr awaiting deportation in AZ
Tim Yee - found homeless and injured


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Maligne Lake and River Videos
June 18, 2016 – Two three-minute videos taken from the bridge at the foot of Maligne Lake. An incredibly beautiful place in the high Canadian Rockies. 1,703 meters = 5,587 feet above sea level (ASL)
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Greece has reported cases of bird flu in nine turkeys on a farm on the island of Oinouses, indicating that the disease is spreading across Europe from Turkey.
And a further 12 cases of the bird flu virus have been confirmed in swans near the Ukrainian border in Romania.
However, it is not yet known whether either of the latest cases are examples of the lethal H5N1 strain in action.
Meanwhile health secretary Patricia Hewitt said today that Britain is among the top countries in the world in terms of its preparations for a possible outbreak of avian bird flu.
Ms Hewitt urged the public to stay calm in the face of outbreaks of the virus in the rest of the world, saying there was currently "no direct threat" to Britain.
Responding to concerns among farmers that bird flu fears could lead to people avoiding chicken and turkey, she also insisted that there was no need to stop eating poultry.
However, she did call on the over-65s and at-risk sections of the population to take advantage of flu jabs on the NHS to protect them against seasonal strains of the virus.
Ms Hewitt rejected criticism by opposition MPs that the government had been slow to prepare for an outbreak, insisting: "Indeed, we are one of the top three countries in the world both in terms of our general preparations and in ordering and stockpiling [of anti-virals]."
The government already had enough vaccines against the generic strain of bird flu to give to key workers, the health secretary said, but it would take between four and six months to develop vaccines for any particular strain that developed.
Yesterday, chief medical officer Liam Donaldson said that up to 50,000 people could die from an outbreak of bird flu in Britain.


text: Jawbone of an Ass screenprint is an example of Basquiat's complex history paintings. This composition links Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra, Hannibal and the Punic Wars along with literary tradition to Creole culture, and slavery. In his early paintings, royalty, heroism, and the streets are seen throughout his work – hence his signature, the "Crown". Basquiat was especially sensitive to racial prejudice and social injustice.


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Get an overview of Docker hosting services
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Here is what you will learn in this book:
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PREVIEW: 'James Bond' #4 by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters
James Bond is alone in Berlin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and the gun in his hand. When help is offered from an unexpected source, Bond has no choice but to accept it – even though it may guarantee that he doesn't live through the night. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 20 years!
"Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." – Warren Ellis
James Bond #4
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Leigh and Ellie talk about their favorite moments from Clexacon 2018, the largest media convention for LGBTQ people and allies. From getting to meet their favorite actresses, cosplay contests, recording a Drunk Lesbians Watch episode with Amanda Holland of Girlship TV and Ellie dancing with Isabella Gomez, Stephanie Beatriz, Nicole Pacent and Mandahla Rose at the Ascension after party, there were good times to be had by all.
Special Interlude: Clexacon Recap 2018
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