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By Patrick
Yes, it is getting wild!!! It seems 99% certain that Sarah Palin is about to endorse Donald Trump in Iowa, given the fact that
a) the rumour is "everywhere"...
b) a private plane yesterday flew from Anchorage to Iowa
c) and finally, the Palins have already pretty much given it away, in a new post written by Nancy French aka "Bristol Palin", in which they slammed Ted Cruz because they were offended that they are about to endorse his opponent, despite the fact the "being offended" ought to be a "liberal thing", but who knows any more what is liberal these days, and what isn't? Nancy French aka "Bristol Palin" certainly appears to be quite confused on this issue!
Naturally, Sarah Palin tweeted "Bristols" post...
...but she probably did not expect that many conservatives are now shell-shocked, having to witness this new unexpected brawl between Trump and Cruz, with Sarah Palin / Bristol Palin / Nancy French vigorously punching for Donald Trump!
Sarah Palin - the woman who will NEVER go away!
This is going to be EPIC.
Gawker reports that Track Palin was charged with assault yesterday!
Per online court records, Track Palin, 26, was charged yesterday with assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence, and possession of a weapon while intoxicated. All three charges are misdemeanors. Here's a screenshot of the charges as they appear online. Spokespersons with both the Wasilla Police Department and the district attorney's office confirmed their existence.
Perfect timing, LOL!
Screenshots from the Alaska Court Records (click to enlarge):
Gawker has a update, and the story is getting more explosive by the minute:
The Wasilla PD issued the following press release regarding the incident:+++
On 01/18/2016 at approximately 2204 hours, Wasilla Police responded to a residence for a disturbance. An investigation revealed Track Palin had committed a domestic violence assault on a female, interfered with her ability to report a crime of domestic violence, and possessed a firearm while intoxicated. Palin was arrested and charges of assault in the fourth degree (domestic violence), interfering with a domestic violence report, and misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree were forwarded to the District Attorney's Office. Palin was held without bail until arraignment.
The devastating police report can be found here.
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that i hope lives forever and ever
or at least until halloween
I saw this on Instagram last night and up until this post, thought Stone had attached plastic pumpkins to sticks (which would still have been super sweet) as a fun gesture!
I had no idea such fun flowers existed!!
Jealous! How Cute, I didn't even know these exsisted either..I totally want some for a cute table centerpiece :)
oooh I love this!
So wait, are those real pumpkins??? They are super cute!
I had no idea about these! So fun and funky - love it :)
boys who show up at your door with surprises are the best kind of boys to have, in my opinion.
AW! What a sweet surprise. :)
Love these!! Where can I find some? I NEED them in my house :)
what? i had no idea pumpkin flowers existed!! need to find them and decorate my home with them soon
Who knew!?! THis is so cute!!
Whaaaa???? These are real? So awesome! And such an awesome surprise to bring to a girl :)
omggg soooo adorable!!! Very festive and a gift that keeps on giving!!
so cute!! love this.
That's an absolutely wonderful surprise! :) I didn't even know that these existed, but any kind of surprise is a good one in my book!
How cool!

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JAY ALAI CLUB: Children's Programs – Comedy & Variety ShowAugust 18, 2019 from 1pm to 3pm
PORT CHICAGO 50 "Special, Limited Engagement"August 23, 2019 at 3pm to August 24, 2019 at 10pm
I'm a Ph.D student at UCLA Film and Media Studies Department. I write my dissertation on Blaxploitation cinema and my main focus is on the movie-going culture in Los Angeles in the 1970s.
My work is interdisciplinary by idea, linking together film theory, ethnography, oral history, audience and exhibition studies. I find the post-soul, blaxploitation era fascinating and turbulent period of the American history (especially within African American community) and therefore worth of preservation and deeper examination.
I wish to conduct an ethnographical study in the form of interviews among spectators that grow up in the 1970s and were active cinema-goers who remember seeing films like "Shaft", "Superfly" or "Coffy" in the movie theatre and could tell me about their memories, habits, behavior, the cultural and social atmosphere of the given period.
Particularly I find very interesting the story of Baldwin Theatre, built in 1949 by 3741 S La Brea Avenue, one of the few nation's first-run black owned movie houses. It was closed in 1981 and there is very little information available about it's owners, history or audience.
The is a lot of stories to tell and share regarding Black film boom, especially in the multicultural city so closely related to the movie industry.
If you would like to participate in my study or know someone who might be interested please contact me: email@example.com
I'd be extremely grateful for any help!!!
Thank you,
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Hello,, not sure what you learned but I found this,, In 1960 Fred Stein took ownership of the Baldwin from Robert L Lippert who owned Eletrovision Corp. Fred Stein
Aubrey Schenck in the production of independent motion pictures. A member of the board of directors, Stone previously served as special consult- ant on acquisitions and corporate development for the company. Agreements have been made whereby Stone and other principals of the corporation will acquire Zabel's stock interest in the corporation. Addition of the Electrovision theatres increases to 29 Stein's existing chain of Southern California theatres, making Stein the largest independent operator in this area, with key houses in San Diego, San Bernardino, Pasadena and Santa Monica. Circuit Mostly Drive-ins Electrovision retains its theatres in northern and central California and southern Oregon, most of which are drive-ins. Included in deal with Stein are the Hollywood Paramount, Crest in Westwood, Beverly in Beverly Hills, Baldwin, Bay, Corbin, Imperial, Manchester, Rio, Southside and Buena Park. The Stein takeover is slated for Nov. 2.
I found a listing for the Baldwin Theatre in 1960: 3741 S. La Brea Baldwin Theatre AX 3-7164
3741 S. La Brea Ave. ElectroVision Corporation EVC Theatres Baldwin Theater AX 3-7164
Hope this helps.
I was little at the time, but remember going to the drive-in movies with my mother. Going to the movies was an event. Not like it is now where you can roll out of bed and go. But I later heard that Black people protested because they weren't being portrayed in the movies and there were no black actors as role models. So the CIA funded the movie companies to make the movies for black people so they can work. Not sure of all the accuracy of my source but it seems plausible.
This is pretty cool, now we have DangerMan the Urban Superhero... Check out his video.


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I'm really worried about my Mum. She's an amazing person. Her and my Dad were made for each other. She's also the greatest Mum in the world and my best friend. There isn't a person on this planet who has been more supportive with my OCD, anxiety and depression and without her, I'd probably be in a much darker place.
Which is why I'm really concerned about her. No two bones about it, this year has been especially tough on her. Hell, it has been pretty bad for all of us. This year, I lost a very dear Uncle to cancer. He had a long fight with it and some major ups and downs. Then last November, he told us there was nothing they could do. In January he passed away. The two of them were very close. We spoke every day. She pretty much helped bring him up and their birthdays are literally next to each other. Losing my Uncle was just the biggest shock to my family and one that I doubt we will ever truly recover from. She also has to deal with a lot. She's the engine of the family. And you know, if it wasn't for her, I'm not sure how much would get done. My brother being autistic can be hard work, especially since he's non-communicative. And me, well, with my OCD being what it is and my other health issues that I'm having, I have not been easy on her either. I feel pretty guilty about that and hate that I'm adding extra pressure on her. Believe me, I would love nothing more than to snap out of it and I'm always trying new things to help but it's a tough process.
Anyway, Christmas is on the way and all of us can't get into the Christmas spirit, my Mum especially. She is very down and it's so sad to see. She's usually very excited about Christmas but it's so understandable. She lost her Mum this time of year and now with memories of my Uncle too, it's just too much. Yet she struggles on. And she looks unwell. She looks washed out and ends every day tired. She's also losing weight because she's not eating much, which worries me too. I want to do more to help her but my OCD gets in the way so much that it frustrates me terribly and I hate seeing her like this. I would love to wake up tomorrow obviously and my OCD to be gone. It would be the best thing in the world for everyone. Being freaked out by contamination is horrible and every day is a struggle. But I need to help my Mum.
Something has to change fast too. I can't lose her.


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The good news is that we are now witnessing the first decrease in HIV/AIDS mortality since the inception of the epidemic seventeen years ago.(1, 2) The chief cause of this turnaround is the ability of powerful new multidrug antiretroviral regimens to reduce viral load to undetectable levels in HIV-positive individuals. When triple-drug therapy was offered to the participants in one large clinical study, mortality dropped by about two-thirds, even in patients with CD4 counts below 100 cells/mm3.(3)
The bad news is that these potent new regimens pose some real problems. They are expensive and toxic, they demand strict adherence to complex dosing schedules, and they can actually promote the development of viral resistance, especially when compliance with therapy is less than optimal.(4) The biggest shortcoming of these combination therapies, however, is that they are incapable of clearing all the virus from an infected individual's body. As a result, these multidrug regimens must be taken daily -- perhaps for the rest of the patient's life -- to ward off the ravages of AIDS.
Because no antiretroviral treatment yet developed completely eradicates HIV, researchers are still looking for a treatment regimen that will deliver a knockout punch to the virus -- which remains sequestered in lymph nodes and in nondividing cells, including macrophages and lymphocytes, even after months of highly suppressive therapy (see "HIV found in lymph tissue of patients with 'undetectable' viral levels," Vol. 3, No. 6). Some recent developments in the study of chemokines and HIV co-receptors suggest a new avenue of investigation, one that offers significant hope for novel anti-HIV therapies.(5-8)
Over the past two years investigators have made a series of provocative discoveries about the process by which HIV infects cells (see "Long-term non-progressors may hold clue to vaccine," Vol. 2, No. 2; "Genetic mutation appears to confer immunity to HIV," Vol. 2, No. 5; and "How HIV penetrates CD4 cells," Vol. 2, No. 6). We now know that when HIV enters the bloodstream, it usually seeks out macrophages. Primary isolates of HIV are typically macrophage-tropic -- meaning that they will infect isolated macrophages in the laboratory but will not infect cultured T-lymphocytes.
Macrophage-tropic viruses enter cells using a complex of two cell-surface receptors, CD4 and CCR5. The former is familiar to all of us; the latter, an acronym for chemokine receptor 5, is a huge protein that traverses lymphocyte cell membranes and, when bound to certain peptides, facilitates the repair of inflamed tissue. Several additional chemokine- receptor proteins, all related to CCR5, also serve as co-receptors for macrophage-tropic HIV isolates.
Once HIV has entered a macrophage, it can remain sequestered there for years, protected from immune surveillance. Then, late in the course of infection, HIV cellular tropism broadens -- and in most patients a T-cell-tropic form of HIV emerges as a result of genetic changes in the virus population inside each patient. T-tropic HIV, which preferentially infects CD4 and other T-cells, replicates far faster and is considerably more virulent than macrophage-tropic HIV.
The T-tropic form of HIV enters and infects lymphocytes by means of a different combination of cell-surface receptors: CD4 and CXCR4. The appearance of these "hot" T-tropic viruses usually coincides with rapid T-cell depletion and is thought to contribute directly to the progression from asymptomatic HIV infection to C.D.C.-defined AIDS.
The crucial role played by these various chemokine co-receptors as unsuspecting collaborators in disease progression became evident when a common mutational variant of the CCR5 coding gene, CCR5-Delta32, was discovered in 1996.(9-11) Since then, several large epidemiological studies of people with clinically-defined AIDS have revealed that the CCR5-Delta32 allele, when inherited from both parents, confers nearly complete genetic resistance to HIV infection, even in individuals who are at extremely high risk of infection.(5, 11-14) A few CCR5-Delta32 homozygotes have become infected -- usually with the T-tropic, late-stage form of HIV -- but this occurrence is extremely rare. Individuals who inherit the CCR5-Delta32 allele from only one parent do become infected with HIV, but in such individuals the onset of AIDS-defining illness is postponed for two to four years longer than it is in individuals without the mutational variant.
A study published only last month indicates that this variant allele, CCR5-Delta32, also slows disease progression in children born to HIV-infected mothers. Because this mutation is a rare one, investigators were unable to determine if homozygosity for CCR5-Delta32 prevents HIV infection -- as it seems to do in adults -- but they did establish that heterozygosity substantially reduces disease progression (see "More evidence that genes confer protection against AIDS progression" in the Newsline section of this issue).
Additional genetic protection against disease progression has also been attributed to mutational variants in the genes for CCR2, a minor chemokine receptor that some strains of HIV employ to enter macrophages, and in the genes for SDF-1, a chemokine ligand that effectively blocks the entry of T-tropic viruses into cultured T-lymphocytes. (SDF-1 is an acronym for stromal-derived factor, a gene-encoding substance that normally binds to the T-tropic HIV co-receptor CXCR4 and prevents it from entering cells.)
The importance of SDF-1 in restricting disease progression in HIV-infected individuals has only recently been recognized (see the Newsline section of this issue). Genetic studies of thousands of HIV-exposed subjects show that roughly 35% of the fortunate few who are known as long-term survivors -- because, a decade or more after their initial exposure to the virus, they have yet to develop AIDS -- carry one or more of these three genes, CCR5, CCR2, and SDF-1. Conversely, genetic studies show that about 40% of so-called rapid progressors, the unfortunate few who develop AIDS within four years of infection, do so because they lack genetic protection by any of these genes.(15, 16)
Once it became clear that chemokine receptors actively mediate HIV infection -- and that both chemokines and certain mutations in cell-surface receptors block HIV infection -- efforts began to develop ways to mimic the genetic protection that these mutations afford.(17, 18) Interfering with the interaction between HIV and the chemokine receptors was an appealing approach to controlling the virus for several reasons. First, unlike HIV itself, which mutates at an astronomical rate and soon develops resistance to standard therapies, the cellular receptors do not mutate. Hence, compounds that prevent HIV from binding with cell-surface receptors should retain their effectiveness over time -- because they are insensitive to viral genetic adaptations that lead to drug resistance.
Second, CCR5-Delta32 homozygosity is not associated with particular pathology or with immune-system problems,(11) probably because the receptors are redundant in the genome, with several alternative versions recognizing the same chemokines.(8) These findings predict that therapies that block or abrogate chemokine-receptor availability will be safe to administer and will produce few adverse effects.
Third, the so-called 7-transmembrane receptors, the group to which chemokine receptors belong, are already familiar to pharmaceutical companies; a number of extant drugs, including several highly profitable ulcer medications, are inhibitors of 7-transmembrane spanners.(17) At the time CCR5-Delta32 was discovered, several major pharmaceutical companies were in the process of screening large stores of chemokine-receptor inhibitors, on the theory that these stores might yield new treatments for inflammatory diseases such as asthma, arthritis, and psoriasis.
At present more than a dozen biotech and pharmaceutical companies are actively investigating the HIV-chemokine receptor nexus, searching for drugs that will stem or even eradicate HIV infection. Two derivatives of the CCR5 ligand are currently being tested, to see if they will block viral replication and spread in vivo.(19, 20) Others, which target the CCR5 and CXCR4 receptors, are also under development.
In addition, efforts have been directed at vaccinating people against specific motifs of these cell-surface receptors, in the hopes that vaccinated patients will produce antibodies to the receptors -- and these antibodies will then prevent HIV from gaining access to the receptors. Monoclonal antibodies that recognize the receptor are now being synthesized for use as potential treatments; they too would be used to block receptor access.
Another approach may be to use gene therapy to disarm the cell-surface receptors' availability to circulating HIV. This could be done with a gene construct that would bind to co-receptors inside the cell, preventing HIV from using the same receptors, or with an anti-sense gene structure that would bind to the receptor gene and prevent transcription in much the way the CCR5-Delta32 mutation does.
A provocative recent study hooked an SDF-1 ligand to a molecular tag that then attached the ligand to the endoplasmic reticulum.(21) When CXCR4, the T-tropic HIV co-receptor, was assembled, it was captured by this SDF-1 variant before it could be expressed on the cell surface. The cells were thereby protected, at least in vitro, from being infected by virulent T-tropic HIV.
In patients, gene-based treatments are not without uncertainties, particularly concerning toxicities and the half-life of treatment molecules in the body.(22) Nevertheless, the epidemiologic data -- which show that natural genetic mutations effectively postpone the onset of AIDS for many years by preventing the emergence of late-stage, T-tropic viral mutants -- are reassuring. The clinical effectiveness of these therapies has, in a sense, already been tested in the patient population at risk for AIDS, by Mother Nature herself.
In sum, dazzling recent advances in our understanding of the crucial roles played by chemokines, their receptors, and their genes in the pathogenesis of AIDS offer a panoply of new therapeutic possibilities. Perhaps these amazing developments prefigure the discovery of a whole new class of anti-HIV drugs in the near future. We shall see.
1. Wurtman RJ. What went right: Why is HIV a treatable infection? Nature Med 1997; 3: 714-7.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Update: Trends in AIDS incidence, deaths, and prevalence - United States, 1996. MMWR 1997; 46: 165-73.
3. Hogg RS, et al. Decline in deaths from AIDS due to new antiretrovirals. Lancet 1997; 349: 1294.
4. Cohen J. The daunting challenge of keeping HIV suppressed. Science 1997; 277: 32-3.
5. O'Brien SJ, Dean M. In search of genetic resistance to AIDS. Sci Amer 1997; 277: 44-51.
6. D'Souza MP, Harden VA. Chemokines and HIV-1 second receptors: Confluence of two fields generates optimism in AIDS research. Nat Med 1996; 2: 1293-1300.
7. McNicholl JM, Smith DK, Qari SH, Hodge T. Host genes and HIV: The role of the chemokine receptor gene CCR5 and its allele. Emerg Infect Dis 1997; 3: 261-71.
8. Premack A, Schall TJ. Chemokine receptors: Gateways to inflammation and infection. Nat Med 1996; 2: 1174-8.
9. Liu R, et al. Homozygous defect in HIV-1 coreceptor accounts for resistance of some multiply-exposed individuals to HIV-1 infection. Cell 1996; 86: 367-77.
10. Samson M. Resistance to HIV-1 infection in Caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles to the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene. Nature 1996; 382: 722-5.
11. Dean M, et al. Genetic restriction of HIV-1 infection and progression to AIDS by a deletion allele of the CKR5 structural gene. Science 1996; 273: 1856-62.
12. Huang Y, et al. The role of a mutant CCR5 allele in HIV-1 transmission and disease progression. Nature Med 1996; 2: 1240-3.
13. Michael NL, et al. The role of viral phenotype and CCR-5 gene defects in HIV-1 transmission and disease progression. Nature Med 1997; 3: 338-40.
14. Zimmerman PA, et al. Inherited resistance to HIV-l conferred by an inactivating mutation of CC chemokine receptor 5 studies in populations with contrasting clinical phenotypes, defined racial background, and quantified risk. Mol Med 1997; 3: 23-6.
15. Smith MW, et al. Contrasting genetic influence of CCR2 and CCR5 variants on HIV-1 infection and disease progression. Science 1997; 277: 959-65.
16. Winkler C, et al. Genetic restriction of AIDS pathogenesis by an SDF-1 chemokine gene variant. Science 1998.
17. Cohen J. Exploiting the HIV-chemokine nexus. Science 1997; 275: 1261-4.
18. Moore JP. Coreceptors: Implications for HIV pathogenesis and therapy. Science 1997; 276: 51-2.
19. Arenzana-Seisdedos F, Virelizier JL, Rousset D, Clark-Lewis I, Loetscher P, Moser B, Baggiolini M. HIV blocked by chemokine antagonist. Nature 1996; 383: 400.
20. Simmons G, Clapham PR, Picard L, Offord RE, Rosenkilde MM, Schwartz TW, Buser R, Wells TNC, Proudfoot AEI. Potent inhibition of HIV-1 infectivity in macrophages and lymphocytes by a novel CCR5 antagonist. Science 1997; 276: 276-9.
21. Chen JD, Bai X, Yang AG, Cong Y, Chen SY. Inactivation of HIV-1 chemokine co-receptor CXCR-4 by a novel intrakine strategy. Nature Med 1997; 3: 1110-6.
22. Lusso P. A chemokine trap for HIV co-receptors. Nature Med 1997; 3: 1074-5.
Stephen J. O'Brien, Ph.D., is Director of Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD.


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The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30-July 8) will honor the Academy Award-winning actor Casey Affleck with its Festival President's Award. This is an award given by the festival to actors, directors, and producers who have contributed in a fundamental way to the development of world cinema.
In addition to receiving the award, Affleck will introduce the film A Ghost Story together with director David Lowery and producers Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston. Affleck, who recently won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the critically acclaimed Manchester By the Sea (directed by Kenneth Lonergan), previously worked with Lowery on Ain't Them Bodies Saints. The film was screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2013.
In an official press statement, festival president Jiří Bartoška states: "we regard Casey Affleck as one of the most intriguing actors in contemporary American film and are honored to welcome the filmmakers during the presentation of A Ghost Story."
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Picture Frame Decking: What Is It & Why You Would Want It
September 26th, 2016
Many decks that you see might just abruptly end, meaning the ends wooden planks are exposed to anyone who may be eye-level with the floor of the deck. While this may seem like a minor aesthetic issue, over time the exposed end-grains can look pretty rough and may crack or split. Picture framed decking is
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Great Britain women's handball coach Jesper Holmris is glad his side's opening two matches at the Olympic Games are over, but is expecting a tough time against Brazil in their next outing on Wednesday afternoon.
Team GB, playing at the Games for the first time, have had a baptism of fire in the cauldron of the Copper Box, going down to heavy defeats against the European powerhouses of Montenegro and Russia.
While they performed admirably against the Montenegrins on Saturday, they were thoroughly out-muscled on Monday by a physically-superior Russia team, who dished out a whipping to Holmris' women.
But the Danish tactician has always stated that Team GB's chances of winning games at London 2012 would be against the non-European teams of Brazil and Angola, though that prediction now looks optimistic having seen the South Americans beat both Montenegro and Croatia.
And while Holmris is content to see the back of the two European sides, he concedes his outfit face another tough proposition.
"I am happy the two games are over," he told Press Association Sport. "We tried to play all of the players so they got experience but now we have Brazil and that is going to be just as hard as Montenegro and Russia.
"But they have a different style and we haven't played them before, just in a training game, so I think it is going to be a different, but difficult. We just take it one game at a time."
The clash with Russia was particularly brutal, with their biggest player standing a foot taller than GB's smallest and the heaviest weighing more than 20kg more.
And pivot Louise Jukes, who was on the end of some rough treatment from some keen Russia defenders, is looking forward to playing a different style of opponent. She said: "Unfortunately we didn't have the best of it yesterday, Russia are a phenomenal team and they just stepped it up, so we are disappointed.
"Brazil are more technical whereas the Europeans are bigger and can shoot from nothing. They don't have to play with rhythm, they can just get the ball, jump up and score and that is something that we lack. I hope we can do better against them and use our skills."


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The Women's Enterprise Ambassador's project is one of the actions from the Scottish Framework and Action Plan for Women's Enterprise launched in March 2014. The projects feature stories of the most successful female entrepreneurs in Scotland, and seeks to inspire, motivate, engage and connect with women-led start-up and growth businesses.
New girl on the block takes bioscience business by storm
"Every day I'm winging it".
When Margaret Anne Craig says that in business she's learning on the job, take a moment to reflect that until recently this remarkable company Chief Executive was less sharp suit and more lab coat.
Because before setting up Clyde Biosciences in 2012, a major player in the life sciences sector, this awe-inspiring businesswoman was spending her normal 9-5 as an academic scientist.
Only two short years later and Margaret Anne is leading a Glasgow-based business working at the very cutting edge of drug discovery research. A business with the potential to attract millions of pounds worth of investment, and already receiving global recognition for its pioneering work.
But Mac, as she's affectionately known by her team, would be the first to admit that making the transition from academic research to business leadership in such a short space of time has taken her way, way beyond her comfort zone.
However, despite the numerous challenges of learning the language of enterprise from a standing start, Margaret Anne sets a breathtaking entrepreneurial example.
The road from laboratory to boardroom began back in 2010 when Glasgow University asked Margaret Anne to look into the commercial potential of setting up a company to develop state of the art technologies and research into the effects of drug use on human tissue. Given that the development of any new drug takes 10-12 years, at least one billion pounds, and can often result in toxicity to the human heart, developmental technologies in this field have massive commercial potential.
And it was into this potential that Margaret Anne plunged herself. A one year fellowship to conduct commercial viability research meant that Mac's regular routine was rapidly replaced with an intensive education in enterprise.
Although it was a thrilling experience, and one which she threw herself into heart and soul, at that stage Margaret Anne had no notion to enter enterprise herself. But as the business plan began to unfold, it dawned on her that she simply had to take the lead. Who else would understand all the ins and out, be able to plan the pipeline, have the passion, or see the big picture?
It was after she blew away the opposition to scoop the Royal Academy of Engineering's £40K ERA Foundation Entrepreneurship Award in 2011, that Margaret Anne Craig went on to lead Clyde Biosciences from the front, and take the sector by storm.
She jokes that her transformation from lab coat to power suit happened almost overnight – from academic to Alanna Sugar in the blink of an eye. She's gone from wearing that lab coat to being dressed by Liberty; she's met the Queen, politicians and business leaders; she's been to a G8 summit, and travelled to Brazil, Japan, the USA, and Europe. And now she's at the brink of taking Clyde Biosciences into multi-million pound investment deals.
But she still takes time to thank her husband and two daughters for their stupendous support, and makes special mention of her mentor Paul Strzelecki and Scottish Enterprise for their help on this rollercoaster ride.
It gives Margaret Anne particular pleasure to head up a world- leading business right here in central Scotland. She's so pleased to put something back into the Scottish economy, and she's proud as punch of her team and their ground-breaking work.


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San Francisco-based Frog Design released images of a new electric motorcycle concept, with intent of showing the influence of electric motor technology on motorcycle designs. The model is inspired by the Yamaha FZ750 that using the base Rana Concept. Frog designer Jin Seok Hwang took stylus to hand, and inked what he hopes will be a new influence in modern motorcycle design.
Basically, Frog eBike Concept design work is a combination of bicycles and motorcycles with lot of artistic style. The eBike's electric motor is actually located in the hubless rear wheel, while the batteries are housed in the bottom of the chassis. The handlebars are fixed to the chassis so instead of physically moving the front end, the bike uses electronic fly-by-wire steering. The bike is also equipped with an OLED display digital and online connectivity. Take a look!


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The UK Government can no longer ignore calls for urgent tax changes that could spark a "resurgence" in the North Sea oil industry, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Scotland's First Minister claimed it was clear that "urgent fiscal stimulus" was needed to increase exploration work.
Senior UK Government ministers have already hinted that measures to help the North Sea could be included in George Osborne's Budget next month.
But politicians at Holyrood are continuing to press the case for action to help the crucial industry.
As part of that, Ms Sturgeon has taken her Scottish Cabinet team to Aberdeen, where the oil industry is based, visiting a pipeline support service provider in the city with Deputy First Minister John Swinney.
The First Minister argued that "simple steps" taken by ministers in Norway a decade ago had reversed a decline in oil and gas exploration work in the country.
With the equivalent of 24 billion barrels of oil said to remain in the North Sea, she said action was needed to encourage companies to continue to invest in the area.
The Scottish Government is calling for the headline rate of tax on the industry to be reduced as well as the introduction of an investment allowance and a new tax credit for exploration.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I believe that North Sea oil is a fantastic asset for Scotland and will continue to be so for decades to come.
"There are up to 24 billion barrels of oil and gas equivalent remaining, and it is essential we have a stable and proportionate fiscal regime which encourages the investment, innovation and exploration required.
"But we need action now from the UK Government to help ensure we maximise future production and economic recovery.
"Quite frankly, the UK Government has failed to address the exploration problem in the North Sea."
The First Minister, speaking as she visited Pipelines 2 Data in Aberdeen, added: "It cannot be clearer that urgent fiscal stimulus is required to improve the exploration outlook.
"Around 40% of production is expected to come from new field developments by 2018: that's only three years away.
"Fiscal measures to incentivise exploration, coupled with the appropriate regulatory expertise, have the potential to drive forward a resurgence in exploration in the North Sea.
"We only have to look at the situation in Norway in 2005 to see that simple steps can be taken to restore a decline in exploration.
"In the course of three years, the introduction of the exploration tax credit saw the number of exploration wells increase an incredible fourfold."
Ms Sturgeon said industry expert Sir Ian Wood had recently warned that as many as six billion barrels of oil reserves could be lost "unless radical measures are taken by the UK Government".


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- The most popular sandwich is No. 13, The Original Italian, which has provolone cheese, boiled ham, salami, pepperoni, cappacuolo, and prosciuttini. The five-meat sandwich is recommended to be served Mike's way, with the addition of onion, lettuce, tomato, olive oil blend, red wine vinegar and topped off with oregano.
- Not only does Jersey Mike's serve subs, but four different tortilla wraps are also on the menu
- At every Jersey Mike's location the meat is sliced in the store in front of the customer.
Claim to fame: Jersey Mike's is relatively new to the OC scene, coming to Huntington Beach about four years ago. The sub sandwich shop, though, is hardly inexperienced. Opened in Point Pleasant, N.J., in 1956, the chain is owned by Peter Cancro, who worked in the original store. At 17, Cancro took a loan from his football coach, bought the store and began franchising. He also changed the name to Jersey Mike's.
"The store is a place where you can have a fun dinner and a show, watching our gorgeous employees making sandwiches," James Falter, manager at the Huntington Beach location, said jokingly. With the fun atmosphere the store offers fresh and top-grade sandwiches. The roast beef is cooked in-store every day, and the veggies are prepared fresh daily; "nothing comes from a bag," said Falter.
Did you know? Although Jersey Mike's does not usually offer off-the-menu orders, Falter said that the strangest thing a customer has ordered was a tuna sandwich with roast beef and bacon.


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Talavera tiles can be used for bathroom walls, counters and showers. Some tile pattern are used for decorating bath sinks made of talavera. They can be round, oval or rectangular. In addition, talavera tile accents such as corners with background... Continue Reading →
Mexican ceramic tiles are handmade and painted with over three hundred designs. They can be decorated in folk art, Spanish, colonial hacienda and Arabic style. Even though most of ceramic tiles from Mexico are produced as 4x4 inches, you can... Continue Reading →
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Beautiful idea for decorating kitchen wall with Mexican talavera tiles.
Decorating kitchen wall with Mexican talavera tiles can be fan. I came across of this kitchen design just a few days ago and was amazed by the idea of incorporating hand painted ceramic plates from Mexico into the wall backsplash. The architect used classic mexican talavera tiles with Madrid style in dark blue on white background around a variety of plates cemented to the wall.


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We asked our Facebook group which Kringles should we taste test and overwhelmingly two bakeries were suggested: O&H Danish Bakery and Bendtsen's Bakery, both in Racine.
O&H Danish Bakery has two, soon to be three, locations in Racine. Pictured below is the new facility being constructed on Hwy 20 – Washington Avenue in Racine (Next to Kohl's/Festival Foods). Of our Facebook group members, O&H was the clear favorite. O&H generally has a wider variety of flavors and more non-kringle bakery items available in their stores.
Bendtsen's Bakery is located in West Racine at 3200 Washington Avenue. Bendtsen's is a small bakery and has one or two employees working when you enter. There are other few other baked good items available, but Kringles are pretty much their deal.
The primary flavors suggested for tasting were pecan and cherry. We purchased a pecan and a cherry kringle from each bakery for testing.
Cherry Kringles:
Because residents in Racine have dug in their heels when it comes to the best tasting kringle in town, any taste test with locals would be fraught with bias. So this weekend, when I visited family in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (locals, known as "Yoopers", are sadly unfamiliar with our wonderful Kringles), we decided the best way to taste test kringles was to present them to this group. How clueless about kringle are they?? This group of people don't know O&H from Preparation H and think Bendtsen's was an 80's sitcom starring a butler played by Robert Guillaume. Six "Yoopers" tried the kringles, and five out of six had the same opinion.
We placed sliced pieces of kringles on plates, labeling them Pecan 1 (Bendtsen's), Pecan 2 (O&H) and Cherry 1 (O&H) and Cherry 2 (Bendtsen's) The testers first tried the pecan kringles, tasting both before providing their comments. The same was done for the cherry kringles.
All four plates were demolished by the next day. Picking between these two kringles is somewhat like picking to have a date with Ryan Gosling or Channing Tatum (even straight guys would have a difficult time making THAT choice): either way you are a winner, but, given the choice, I go Gosling all the way.
PECAN KRINGLE WINNER: Bendtsen's Bakery
Five out of six tasters agreed, that Bendtsen's had an edge over the O&H pecan kringle. The reasons given is that it was "not as sweet", "you can taste the pecans more" and "the dough is flakier" The taster that preferred O&H did so because there was "more filling inside."
CHERRY KRINGLE WINNER: Bendtsen's Bakery
The Bendtsen's cherry was the Yooper's pick for much of the same reasons that the pecan won. The tasters though it had "a lot more cherry flavor" and liked that it was "not as sweet" They thought the O&H kringle clearly "looked prettiest." The taster that preferred the O&H Kringle did so because it had a "strong almond flavor" that she really enjoyed.
One "unofficial" taster was a big fan of the O&H Cherry kringle.
I gotta admit everything tastes delicious and life is just plain good when you are in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan in late August after mosquito season.


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Immigration policy, body autonomy, & listening to the marginalized - Sunday Suggestions & Connections
by Abaki Beck
This week we look at immigration policy in the Presidential campaign (and privileging immigrant narratives), Kim Kardashian, Erin Andrews and bodily autonomy (and why feminism matters), and other social justice stories you may have missed this week!
In this week's Democratic Debate in Florida hosted by Univision, both Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton promised not to deport children or anyone without a criminal record if they were elected president. Before the debate, Sanders' campaign released a moving video about immigrant workers in Florida. This is in stark contrast to their Republican counter-parts, several of whom are advocating for increased border security and the deportation of all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Throughout the campaign, much of the Republican rhetoric has focused on demonizing two groups: Muslims and (raced as Latinx) undocumented immigrants.
Who the next Commander in Chief will be is especially important as they will be determining the future of the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs. DAPA allows parents of citizens (or legal permanent residents) with three term work permits and exemption from deportation. It is a policy meant to keep families together. However, several states have filed lawsuits arguing that this is against the Constitution (even though the federal government has control over immigration policy, not states). The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments regarding DAPA in April. If the legality of DAPA is upheld, this Administration will be able to start creating infrastructure for the programs. If the Supreme Court decision is announced in the fall or later, this implementing action will be postponed, making it easier for the future Administration to overturn or eliminate these programs.
In analyzing and advocating for these policies, it is important to humanize the undocumented immigrants to whom they refer. These policies will have extremely real impact on the lives and safety of millions of Americans - both those living undocumented and their families. Here are two great projects that highlight immigrant narratives:
Immigrant Stories are videos/stories by immigrants or refugees living in Minnesota, curated by the Immigrant History Research Center at the University of Minnesota
Moving Words was a project in Houston, Texas empowering immigrants and refugees to tell their stories through writing and photography. Check out their tumblr here (bonus: it was created by one of our editors!)
And here are some readings on immigrants, children of immigrants, and mixed-status families:
To live in the borderlands mean you... by Gloria Anzaldua (poem)
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua. Aunt Lute Books; Fourth Edition edition (June 12, 2012) pdf of chapters 1-3 here and chapters 5-7 here
Neustra America by Jose Marti. En espagnol or in English (full book).
Mixed-Status Latinx Families: Love and Chosen Family as a Means of Resistance to the American Dream by Carol Mejia
This week, we also saw two very different stories of body autonomy. What is significant about both of these cases is they are both about bodily autonomy. Erin Andrews, a Fox News reporter, was violated when a man filmed her nude, without her consent or knowledge, and posted the video online. Many women and men alike rallied behind her, denouncing the actions of the man. They recognized that she should have control over her body, and that if videos of her are posted without her knowledge, she has every right to demand justice. However, she also received negative reactions (that's what we get from living in a heteropatriarchal society): that she was awarded too much, that she "looked hot" in the videos so why did she care. But in the end, Andrews did receive justice for this gross violation of her privacy.
Then we get to Kim Kardashian. She willingly and knowingly posted a nude photo of herself on Twitter. She has every right to do so - her body, her choice. She is not hurting anyone by posting this photo. And yet, quickly after Kim Kardashian posted her photo, memes, tweets, and unnecessary opinions went up vilifying Kardashian and calling her degrading, sexist names. Self love is considered selfish; being empowered by her body is considered "dirty." In response, she wrote:
"I am empowered by my body. I am empowered by my sexuality. I am empowered by feeling comfortable in my skin. I am empowered by showing the world my flaws and not being afraid of what anyone is going to say about me. And I hope that through this platform I have been given, I can encourage the same empowerment for girls and women all over the world."
Both stories are about "protecting" bodies. Erin Andrews unrightfully had her body exposed online, something that should never happen. Kim Kardashian lovingly and happily shared her love of her body - and she was shamed and ridiculed. Her body, too, did not deserve to be seen by the public, but for a very different reason. This sends a clear signal to women - no matter what the circumstance, your body should not be viewed. This is one of the many reasons why feminism and feminist critique still matters. We will over sexualize you, yet no matter how you want your body to be viewed and by whom, you will face backlash. Your body, our choice. Men continue to dictate when and how women's bodies may be consumed.
As it's Women's History Month and this shit is still happening, here's some great (foundational) authors on women's empowerment and feminism:
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks (Full Book) or here
I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde (full book)
Select Pieces from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Coloredited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Other stories you may have missed this week:
South Asian women celebrate their skin with #UnfairandLovely
Many indigenous languages have more expansive recognition of genders
Zoe Saldana and light skinned privilege in the black community
Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your weekend!


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An Orange County movie producer convicted of bilking mostly elderly investors out of $9.5 million in a Ponzi scam involving B movies such as "Confessions of a Pit Fighter" and "Lake Dead" has been sentenced to 27 years in state prison.
Mahmoud Karkehabadi (also known as Mike Karkeh), 56, the owner of Alliance Group Entertainment, was sentenced on May 31 by Superior Court Judge Richard Toohey after Karkehabadi was convicted in a five-week jury trial of 49 counts of securities fraud and grand theft. He faced a maximum sentence of 34 years.
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Prosecutors said Karkehabadi and his associates promised investors annual returns as high as 35% on production loans to Alliance. The funds were supposed to finance the making of 2005's "Confessions of a Pit Fighter," starring the rapper Flavor Flav and the MMA champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson; the 2007 horror thriller "Lake Dead"; and 2008's crime story "Hotel California," with model Tyson Beckford, and thriller "Farmhouse," with Steven Weber. None of the movies have any reported box office, according to boxofficemojo.com.
The California Attorney General's office said that only a portion of the loans from more than 120 people across the country were steered to the productions and that only $535,000 in revenue from the films was deposited in their accounts in return.
"Karkehabadi promised his victims high-yield returns that he had no ability or intention to fulfill," said Nick Pacilio, a spokesman for California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris. "This prison sentence reflects the seriousness of the multi-million dollar losses to innocent victims."
Income that some investors earned came either from other investors or their own deposits, the government said. Some of the $9.5 million went to pay for Karkehabadi's luxurious lifestyle, which included homes in Burbank and Laguna Niguel and a Mercedes and a Hummer. Karkehabadi convinced some investors to roll their original loans over into future movie projects or extend dates for repayment.
Among the 20 victims who testified at trial was a family who put up their $1.4-million ranch as collateral for a loan to Karkehabadi. They have since lost the ranch and now live in a cabin without a bathroom.
In a press release announcing "Hotel California," Alliance was described as "a multifaceted entertainment company specializing in cutting-edge film, music and television projects."
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In 2007, the California Department of Corporations sent a cease-and-desist letter to Karkehabadi and an associate ordering them to stop selling securities, including movie productions loans, in California.
Among their alleged violations were misrepresentations and omissions of material facts. The Department of Corporations then referred the case to then-Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, whose office began an investigation in 2008.
"This con artist sold securities under the guise of a loan to fool investors and try to avoid following the rules," Brown said in a statement when Karkehabadi was charged in 2010. "He ran a cold and calculated scam, making promises he never intended to keep and using the funds of new victims to pay off the earlier ones."
The state secured a $5-million judgment against Karkehabadi in 2003 for credit card fraud, after which he filed for bankruptcy protection. Neither fact was disclosed to Alliance Group investors, according to the attorney general's office.
CBS promotes Joseph Ianniello to chief operating officer
California Film Commission awards tax credits to 31 projects
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An evening of political intrigue and drama tonight in Australia, in what The Guardian describes as "an unprecedented day of political bloodletting in Canberra":
The day of high drama began in the morning, when supporters of Rudd, who had advocated his return to the leadership for the past three years of the hung parliament, began circulating a petition to try to force a contest in this, the last sitting week of parliament before the September election.
Within hours, Gillard went on the attack and made the decision to hold a snap vote on her position. "It is in the best interest of the nation and the Labor party for this to be resolved," she said. "This is it. There are no more opportunities, tonight's the night."
Wednesday's change of leader follows months of speculation, during which Gillard made clear she would not stand down despite opinion polls that repeatedly showed Rudd to be the more popular leader.
With the party's support dwindling to about 30%, and the prospect of Labor losing at least half of its parliamentary seats, she stood firm while Rudd's backers plotted.
After enduring near continual speculation about her grip on the Labor party leadership, very troubling polling numbers heading into the coming general election, and several very unpleasant personal attacks from people who should know better and be ashamed of themselves, Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a snap leadership election of the Federal Labor Party – and lost convincingly to longtime rival and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Gillard was, of course, the first woman prime minister of Australia, and her notable achievements include guiding the Australian economy relatively unscathed through what has been a torrid economic period for most western countries, enacting educational reform, improving foreign relations with the US, China and India and starting a crackdown on child sexual abuse in institutional settings, a problem that has plagued many countries.
Kevin Rudd's eloquent and moving resignation speech following his loss of the Labor Party leadership to his then-deputy, Julia Gillard, in June 2010:
And Julia Gillard having to give way under much the same circumstances in June 2013:
Certainly a remarkable comeback for Kevin Rudd following once-abysmal personal polling numbers, several abortive attempts at a comeback and two separate efforts by fellow Labor colleagues to draft him back as leader.
But what is perhaps most remarkable are the anti Tony Abbott sentiments expressed by so many of the Labor party politicians who have been commenting on television today, from Kevin Rudd on downwards. Indeed, some parliamentarians and even cabinet members seem to have been willing to fall on their swords and potentially risk the wrath of the electorate and their colleagues not just to bolster Labor's chances of clinging to power in the coming election, but more to deny Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party (currently surging in the polls) the chance to form a new government.
There are significant fears that an Abbott government would implement austerity measures similar to those enacted to such remarkable and stimulative effect in the United Kingdom, and the prevailing opinion is that Labor can best mitigate their losses at the coming election under the leadership of Kevin Rudd rather than Julia Gillard.
The two leaders seem to have very different leadership styles; it remains to be seen whether Rudd will have time to stamp his authority on his restive party and turn the polls around before the general election.
UPDATE – Kevin Rudd's remarks to young people at the end of his brief speech to the media, his apology for the low skulduggery of politics that has alienated many young voters and promise to do better, was a nice touch.
UPDATE 2 – The Telegraph reminds us that the current constitutional settlement in Australia is far from satisfactory. Without making any comment on whether Australia should retain the Queen as Head of State or become a Republic, it is clear that an appointee from London should not be making decisions in another countries' internal political affairs:
But Mr Rudd's return as Labor leader leaves serious questions about Australia's immediate political future. Labor holds power in a hung parliament, so Mr Rudd's leadership win does not automatically mean he will become prime minister. The matter may need to be decided by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce; complicating the matter further, her daughter is married to a senior minister, Bill Shorten, who openly supported Mr Rudd's leadership bid.
Disaster averted on this particular occasion, but someone might want to consider tinkering with the rules and the Constitution some time soon before we risk ending up in hot water.


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AP GO 409 AP Social welfare department / apswd purchase of office use stationery items amount sanction
Andra Pradesh Social Welfare Department Purchase of certain stationery items for official use of Social Welfare Department from Managing Director, HACA, Hyderabad Payment of the cost of Rs.64,630 / Sanction.
Social welfare (OP.II) Department G.O.RT.No. 409 Dated: 03.10.20151. Letter No.6370/OP.II/2015, S.W. Department, dated 14.07.2015.
2. From M/s HACA, Hyderabad Bill No.81,82,83, dated 12.8.2007.
Sanction is accorded for payment of Rs. 64,630 /- (Rupees Sixty Four thousand Six hundred and thirty only) to the Managing Director, HACA, Hyderabad, towards the cost of certain stationery items supplied by them for official use of Social Welfare Department.
2. The expenditure sanctioned in para 1 above shall be debited to the
- Head of Account - 2251
- Secretariat Social Services – 090
- Secretariat -08
- Social Welfare Department – 130
- Office Expenses -132
3. The Social Welfare (Claim) Department shall draw a Cheque for Rs. 64,630 /-(Rupees Sixty Four thousand Six hundred and thirty only) in favour of the Managing Director, HACA, Hyderabad for settlement of the bill.
4. This order does not require the concurrence of the Finance Department as per the orders in force.


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See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey.
In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.
Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian's cold, wounded heart.
Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?
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A friendship is tested in this irresistible page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.
Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis be Madeline's salvation? As the gossip escalates, and the summer's explosive events come to a head, Grace and Madeline try desperately to set the record straight--but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. BUY NOW
President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer
A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden.
A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.
And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation.
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There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I find those stories for a living.
To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents . . . and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets.
But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency.
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Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years—including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr, Harold Ramis, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham.
Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club—just so he could watch endless stand-up for free. At sixteen, he was hosting a show for his local high school radio station in Syosset, Long Island—a show that consisted of Q&As with his comedy heroes, from Garry Shandling to Jerry Seinfeld. They talked about their careers, the science of a good joke, and their dreams of future glory (turns out, Shandling was interested in having his own TV show one day and Steve Allen had already invented everything).
Thirty years later, Apatow is still that same comedy nerd—and he's still interviewing funny people about why they do what they do.
Sick in the Head gathers Apatow's most memorable and revealing conversations into one hilarious, wide-ranging, and incredibly candid collection that spans not only his career but his entire adult life. Here are the comedy legends who inspired and shaped him, from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin. Here are the contemporaries he grew up with in Hollywood, from Spike Jonze to Sarah Silverman. And here, finally, are the brightest stars in comedy today, many of whom Apatow has been fortunate to work with, from Seth Rogen to Amy Schumer. And along the way, something kind of magical happens: What started as a lifetime's worth of conversations about comedy becomes something else entirely. It becomes an exploration of creativity, ambition, neediness, generosity, spirituality, and the joy that comes from making people laugh.
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Pertubuhan Kebajikan Anak Yatim dan Asnaf Kelantan (PERKAYA) is an organization based in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, that works to provide education to children in need. We have our own school. Pra Tahfiz Intelek serves children up to 12 years old who often face some difficulties in their life. Their parents are imprisoned, have financial, health or personal problems, or are single mothers with no support. These kids cannot go to normal school because of no identity card, trauma and some of them still cannot recognize letters and numbers even at the age of 12. We help them to face their difficulties and provide a safe space for them to learn and progress in their educational path. Our school depends on public donations and the small fees the parents pay, but not all of them can afford it.
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This is a reprint from an advice column first posted on May 4, 2007 at the now-defunct Midnight Hour. I'm suffering a bout of stomach cramps and had a semi-emergency this morning, so…a reprint it is for our Friday advice. Besides, I love this piece. Enjoy.
No, I haven't finally gone off the deep end, despite this being the week from hell. These are bits of advice every writer is given–or should be given, in my ever-humble opinion. These two things will move a story along when all hope seems lost.
Not too long ago Nina Merrill was stuck in a story, and as per usual, we were hashing it out over onion rings (or was it tater tots? I can't remember.) Anyway, I set my wineglass down and announced, "Send in the man with the gun!"
At the top of my lungs, in a crowded restaurant.
And we wonder why we're given corner tables back near the kitchen.
Anyway, I had just re-read Elizabeth Bear's excellent little essay about the middle of the book:
Send in that man with the gun. Kill somebody. Get somebody laid. Hand him the key to the puzzle and then snatch it away. Change it up!
When you've reached that place where you don't know what happens next, start shaking things up. I firmly believe one must mistreat one's characters. Smack them around. Up the ante, dish out some injury. Plenty of new authors treat their characters like fragile flowers. Don't fall into that trap. Beat them up! They can take it–they're tough! Really!
I've read plenty of books that fall prey to Teh Boring in the middle, for pages and pages, because the author won't send in the damn man with the gun. You have to, and sooner rather than later. Conflict is the thing that's going to keep the reader from setting the book down. Plus, nothing makes the Muse as happy as upping the ante and making the situation more complex, so she really has to exercise her pretty little self to resolve everything.
The only trouble with sending in the MWTG is that you can have lovely little conflicts that you adore, but that do nothing for the story.
Here's the other piece of advice every writer should have: if it does not move the story along, kill it.
In other words, it may be beautiful, the best writing you've done in decades. If it doesn't move the story along, kill it quickly. Put it somewhere else in a slush pile and use it for another work. These little bits that you love so much are your darlings, and you must ruthlessly excise them in order to keep the story going.
Stagnant story is an abomination. And it makes it easy for the reader to set the book down and walk away to fix dinner. Which can be the kiss of death for a story.
In my writing classes, I'm famous for getting out the red pen. A student is never required to submit their work for an in-group critique, but if they do they must expect no mercy. The catchphrase my students love most is, "I know you love this…but it has to DIE." Dead weight in a story, unless it's slowing down the pacing for a good reason, must go. No matter how beautifully written dead weight is, you've got to get rid of it. You don't have to delete it–many a good book has been spurred by a choice nugget in the slush pile–but you can't afford to weigh a good story down.
Don't ever think your characters are immune to misfortune or injury. Don't hesitate to mistreat them. I'm not sure how much of an enjoyable reading experience is schadenfreude, but I'd be willing to bet it's a large chunk. Get ruthless, my dear fellow writers. Kill your darlings, send in the man with the gun.
Not only do readers love it, but it's a heckuva lot of fun.


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Adventure Series - Interview with Alison DeLapp of Alison's Wanderland: Intrepid Adventure Motorcyclist and Photographer
Alison DeLapp is a dear friend of mine, who not too long ago departed Los Angeles for Tierra del Fuego/Ushuaia. She made it on her trusty KLR with lots of love from her cheering squad back home and new friends made along the way. She documented her journey in photographs and, along with some prose, will be publishing that book shortly. In this Episode of the Moterrific Adventure Series, I talk to Alison of "Alison's Wanderland" about her journey south, her take on ominous Central American border crossings and some of the countries she visited along the way. Follow her on Facebook to stay up to date on publishing news. Alison will no doubt be a fixture on the podcast in the future, so stay tuned and we will let you know once the book has been published!
If you like what you read, you will love what you hear. You can download the Moterrific Podcast here on our site as well as from iTunes and Stitcher. Follow us on Facebook, where we post odds and ends you may enjoy AND give you a head's up when new articles and episodes are released…like this satirical piece "Don't Date a Girl Who Rides a Motorcycle" or perhaps the one where a deer physically assaulted me and my innocent BMW.


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AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1
AMD has released brand new Crimson Edition 16.9.1 drivers for all you Radeon owners out there. According to AMD, these drivers offer DX 12 support for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and a new AMD CrossFire profile for DirectX 11: DOTAآ™2. Here's a list of known issues as well as resolved issues:
Fixed Issues
A small number of 144Hz non-FreeSync enabled displays may exhibit flickering during gaming or on desktop.
FreeSync may stay enabled while on desktop causing flickering.
Grand Theft Auto Vآ™ may experience an application hang after loading story mode.
DiRTآ™ Rally rain drops may flicker when using high or ultra in game settings.
DOOMآ™ may experience a hang on game exit in some limited AMD PowerXpress configurations.
Total Warآ™: Warhammer may experience negative AMD CrossFire scaling on some Radeon RX 400 series configurations.
GPU utilization may remain high when idle after running SteamVR performance benchmark.
Pixel format options may be missing from Radeon Settings for some limited system configurations on Radeon RX 480 graphics.
Radeon Software may intermittently fail to install or hang on some AMD CrossFire configurations. If this happens users can reboot and re-install without issue as a workaround.
Some Radeon RX 400 series graphics products may experience high GPU usage when resuming from sleep.
Known Issues
A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
Upgrading from a previous Radeon Software Crimson Edition version may cause user settings in Radeon Settings to reset to defaults.
OpenCL applications may run initially on integrated graphics if they are present. Make sure to set the application to the correct device you would like to use.
Radeon Settings information tab may report incorrect Open CL or Mantle versions.
Radeon Software installer may report driver uninstallation failed even when it was successful.
No Man's Skyآ™ some minor corruption may be experienced when standing close to solid structures inside of caves.
Mouse cursor corruption may be experienced very intermittently on the Radeon RX 480.
DOTA2آ™ may experience an application hang when using the Vulkanآ™ API and changing resolution or game/quality settings.
Ashes of the Singularityآ™ may experience an application crash with "crazy" in game settings and Multi-GPU enabled.


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more information on parenting visit KidsInTheHouse.com
Have you ever met a really sassy, confident, great leader and you thought "man that guy's really got it going?" Or "that gal is really a sharp leader?" If we went back in time and we talked to their parents, they would say, "Oh! This two year old was horrible! Bossed everybody around. Lined the bears up and told them what they're going to do." When we're talking about allowing children to develop their voice, to share their opinion with their family members, to help create family policy, they are not going to be neat and tidy. Their job is to start to learn how to grow into an amazing leader, an amazing communicator who can communicate respectfully. I think parents are tougher than they give themselves credit for. I don't really think we will wilt if we have a 7 year old who puts her hands on her hips and says, "I am not wearing that to school today!" If we just stop and think, what has been the evolutionary trajectory of this kid? From a 2 year old who said no all the time, to a 5 year old who was a little bit more cooperative, to a 7 year old who is demanding some equal rights, to a 13 year old who is now using a respectful tone, to a 16 year old who can negotiate respectfully and well, to a 22 year old who can fight for her own rights. So if parents understand that this is a natural maturation process, it can take a little bit of the edge off, and it won't be used against them. That this is exactly what kids are supposed to be doing – growing and learning and changing while they're in the home with mom and dad.


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Thank you for all of your sweet comments on our styled office shelves. You guys are too kind!
A few of you had mentioned that you have shelves you'd like to decorate but don't have enough stuff or are too intimidated to style them. Have no fear, I'm here to share a few styling tips and tricks that helped me style our shelves! I'll also explain how I mixed the geek (my boyfriend) with the chic (me) in case you're living with your significant other as well and would like to do the same :)
Reminder: I'm not an expert in styling (far from it) but like anything, I'm getting better and better at it the more and more I do it. Practice makes perfect, right?
Let's get started!
Work in chunks
Styling a lot of shelves can be overwhelming when you're looking at the big picture AKA all of the shelves at once. To make things easier on myself, I started styling our shelves by getting one shelf "finished", followed by another knowing that I could always go back and tweak things.
I went a little clutter crazy at first putting stuff everywhere (scroll down for a progress photo) but I didn't like how it looked so I took everything off the shelves and started over. I restarted the styling by working in chunks. I started with the top center shelf first (the book row), then the one below it and so on and so forth. After I had a few shelves done, I started to see a pattern emerge...
Full + "Broken" Shelves
Not only did I work in chunks, I also worked in "full" and "broken" mode. I don't think this is an actual thing (again, I'm not an expert) but I wanted every other shelf to be full, meaning the objects would span the whole shelf (even behind the middle bar). I wanted the other shelves that weren't full to be "broken", meaning the objects would be mostly confined to their side of the middle bar. For me, this method helped our bookcases look less chaotic and gave me space to work in some of my larger decorative items without overwhelming smaller ones.
Leave some breathing room
Speaking of larger objects: I chose not to add anything next to my gold octopus (above) or my boyfriend's Killzone mask (below):
Our bookcases are open and airy and I wanted to have a few shelves that felt similar and that showcased a single item. The breathing room around the two objects shown above helps keep everything from appearing too cluttered. Remember: not every nook and cranny has to be filled! Objects love personal space just as much as people do, or so I assume...
Color balance
Color balance is important because without it, your styling (or gallery wall, or overall room arrangement) can end up looking lopsided – colorful on one side, not so colorful on the other.
I've washed out the photo above so you can see the arrows that point to a gold or gold-toned object. I repeated the same color throughout the shelves to help keep everything balanced even though all of the objects are so different.
Red is also repeated in a few places like the box on the top left shelf, the books on the top middle shelf, the shark's mouth on the top-center middle shelf, the box on the bottom shelf below the shark, the agate slice photo behind my octopus, and in the box next to the monkey below my octopus.
Create good eye movement
I've said it before and I'll say it again, when you're styling anything, the last thing you want is for your eye to stop on one area because that means some of your hard work isn't being seen.
I added some dotted lines to the photo above to show how my eye moves across each object and onto the next one. I try to form my groupings into little mountains where each one has a couple of lower parts with a peak tossed in here and there. This approach helps pull your eye up, down, and across the entire arrangement.
In order to keep our shelves from taking a turn towards crazy town, I made sure to include some symmetry. See the book stack with the car on top + the vase + the monkey above?
Notice how I have another book stack with the zipper bag on top + the globe + the beehive vase in the photo below?
The arrangements aren't identical but they are symmetrical. Both sides of our bookcases also have two magazine holders and two white storage boxes on them which you can see peeking out of the top left of the photo above.
His & Hers
When I first started styling our shelves, I wasn't sure how I was going to mix my boyfriend's things in with mine because they're so different. I didn't want to group all of his things together in one area so I tried to incorporate one or more pieces from his collection in with a few items from mine. This helped maintain a happy balance across all of the shelves and also avoided the divided look that can happen when you have too many of one person's things on one side and not enough on the other.
Tip: you're probably not going to want to include some of your significant others things on your shelves because you don't like the item, they're ugly or not your style or whatever. That's understandable and I totally get it! Just be careful when you bring up the subject of not including something because you don't like it for whatever reason. Why? Well, that something of theirs that you don't like probably means something to them and saying something negative about it could be taken personally. I'm not trying to get all Dr. Phil on you, I'm just trying to save you from an argument ;)
Edit, edit, edit
The photo above was taken during my chaotic styling progress. The entire right shelf felt way too heavy to me so I rearranged some things and edited out some others until I liked what I saw.
Editing is the key to having your styling look curated and not cluttered. Step back and look at the overall styling of your bookcases often. If one section looks too heavy (like the entire right side above), remove an item or two and see how things look. A cluster of too many smaller items grouped together can make things look too busy or cluttered. If you run into this problem, try removing some of the items in the group or try replacing a few of them with one larger object. Remember to leave a little breathing room :)
Be odd
Odd numbered groupings are easier on the eyes because they give them a place to rest. They're also more interesting than even numbered ones. If you can, group your objects in 3's, 5's, 7's, 9's etc.
Utilize the back of your bookcase
I hung three different items on the wall behind my bookcases to give the overall arrangement some extra height and interest that I couldn't achieve by stacking things on top of one another.
If your bookcases aren't open like mine, you can still hang things on the back of them! If you're worried about damaging the backing material or don't think it can support the weight of a hanging object, try painting or stenciling the back instead!
Make it meaningful
This may seem like an obvious tip but sometimes people forget that meaningful items are more interesting than non-meaningful ones because they might not want personal, "non-pretty" things out on display. Sure you can run out to HomeGoods, Target, or even IKEA to buy a bunch of stuff to fill your shelves with but they won't have nearly as much meaning as they would if they were filled with things you love.
Our shelves aren't everyone's cup of tea but they're interesting (well, to us haha) and they tell a story about who we are as a couple! Plus, I can almost guarantee that no one else in the world will ever have similarly styled shelves which is pretty cool :)


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Publisher: Megaton
Year: 1987
Ramm hails from a distant planet which had exploded leaving him hurling through the cosmos clinging to a small chunk of rock. Of course he manages to survive such an event and come crashing to the earth where he lands near a homeless drunk.
Not being able to communicate he jumps the guy and his ram horns turn into some type of tentacle input devices which he uses to insert into the ears of people to instantly learn the language :
After he is done making love to the bum's ears he proceed to demand he get a job. Since the bum has no skills they decide to pretend he's a ventriloquist using Ramm as the dummy. They make some money and proceed to have a meal at a diner while talking to an agent who sees them as a money-making opportunity
Ramm ingests carbs, which affect his body and make him grow 6 times his normal size. The duo get arrested but Ramm uses his new found strength to break them out of the police van. There is some evil dude plotting to get ahold of Ramm, which I'm sure we'll know more about in the conclusion of the series in issue #2.
A solid book that's nice to look at and not too hard to struggle through the story. It's worth a couple of chuckles, which is what these books should be about. If you want serious, you're reading the wrong blog. Go bang your shin into something, really *really* hard.