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Absurd Symmetries: Flux Gourmet (2022)
In academia, there is a witticism known as Sayre's Law, which holds that the intensity of a fight is inversely proportional to its stakes. The lower the stakes, this law claims, the harder the fight. If you've spent time in graduate school, you probably recognize Sayre's Law shaping the action on the screen in Peter Strickland's absurdist gem. You don't need to have attended graduate school, though, to recognize that there are few better targets for absurdist satire than the rarefied world of academic art, with its artist residencies churning out C.V. lines for postgrad MFAs and its institutional funders evading taxation by supporting "the arts" instead of social reform. And what better weapons to draw on this numskull assembly than the equally pretentious and inaccessible worlds of culinary criticism and analog audiophilia?
On paper, it sounds preposterous; but Strickland pulls it off, and the result crackles with creative energy. I was delighted, first of all, by the endless visual feast: the vivid palette, the old and new, the staid and the modern, the delightful juxtapositions and unexpected choices. The audio palette, too, is raw and interesting. Strickland understands the judicious use of silence, but the film trembles with possibility when the wah-wahs and reverbs and flanger modulate the mundane reality of boiling water and slicing carrots into something more–in the same way that film modulates vision into something greater and more coherent than reality itself. As the film progresses from scene to stunning scene, the part of you that craves coherence from a story may pout. The part of you that wants a film to reach into your head, however, and twang your cortices like a piano string will be rolling in the aisles.
One may debate what a film like this "means," but perhaps there are clues in the symmetries between music and the body and art and medicine. All are shaped by absurd power struggles in Strickland's film. The artists, played admirably by Fatma Mohamed, Ariane Labed, and Asa Butterfield, strain against the authority of the institutional funder, played impeccably by Gwendoline Christie. Stones, the "dossierge" played by Makis Papadimitriou, strains against the implacable authority of his own intestines, which challenge the pretentious skill of Richard Bremmer's Dr. Glock. It is a cycle of conflict, as never-ending as the food chain.
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The Hidden Specters of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is supposed to be about ghosts. Thinking back over the film's 124 minutes, however, I don't remember seeing very many of them. If you've seen the trailers, you've seen most of the spooks in the script. There's the Gatekeeper, of course. There's the Keymaster and Gozer the Gozerian. There are the little Stay-Puft men, indistinguishable from Minions in an alternate movie universe. There's an old miner and a new Slimer. A few more ghosts ramble around here and there, and some old friends return, living and dead.
There may not be very many ghosts on the screen, but Afterlife is a thoroughly haunted picture. Forget about those old Sumerian demigods, though. This reboot is haunted by two insidious specters that Stantz, Winston, Venkman and the kids could never hope to bust: the ghost of the American century and the ghost of science. When you put them together, Afterlife is something more than a comedy-horror reboot. Afterlife is an tragedy mourning the decline of twentieth century liberalism.
The first ghost is the specter of the American century. Like any ghost, it is difficult to pin down. Don't seek it in the foreground. Look for it instead in the film's sensibilities, in the aesthetic choices that shape its sets, costumes, vehicles, and props. Those choices outline a ghost of the American century. It is a warm presence, all golden hour and oversaturation, permeating the film. The prevailing kitsch of this ghostly mirage—the corn fields, main streets, drive-in cafes, grain silos, electric guitars, blue jeans, and other heartland mid-century ephemera—susurrates quietly in the background and tilt-shifts the perspective, rendering the town of Summerville and the surrounding landscape in idyllic miniature.
Like the seismic charts hanging on the walls of Summerville, we can trace the epicenter of the American century's ghost to "Spinners," the drive-in café in the middle of town. This oversaturated temple to the departed teen culture of the 1950s and 1960s is where Finn Wolfhard's character, Trevor, finds love and gets a job. "Spinners" seems to occupy the vital center of the town's social life as well. In the "Spinners" scenes there are people everywhere, drivers and pedestrians mingling in conversation, music blaring, peals of laughter, old people and young, pickup trucks and Subarus. Contrast this with the scene at your local Sonic restaurant, where rolled-up windows on idling vehicles enforce the separation of the patrons into family units. One would be hard-pressed to find the sort of inter-class, open social environment thriving at "Spinners" anywhere in the real America.
Follow the tremors of nostalgia outward from Spinners, and you will find the ghost of the American century everywhere. It drifts around the crumbling grain silos outside of town. It haunts the faded Stay-Puft marshmallow advertisement painted on a downtown wall. It inhabits the beautifully maintained 1978 Ford Ranchero GT owned, inexplicably, by one of the teenagers who works at Spinners. It squeaks in the wheels of junky Radio Flyer wagons in the old field outside of the factory. It acts as a preservative in the old half-eaten Crunch Bar young Spengler pulls from the pocket of her grandfather's Ghostbusters uniform. See it once; see it everywhere.
Twenty years ago, a ghost of the American century would have looked like a character from a Norman Rockwell painting. All pastiche and cliché, it still would have carried itself with a sort of genteel dignity, a winking self-awareness that connected the living present to the departed past. It was both an aspirational cliché and a self-reflection: a ghost we could all see ourselves becoming someday, if we die righteously. The ghost haunting Summerville, Oklahoma is not as legible. This is a ghost haunting the post-apocalypse. The element of self-reflection is gone. We are encouraged by light, sound, and decay to situate the town somewhere in the past, but it is unclear where in time its development is supposed to have stopped. Is Summerville stuck in the 1950s? The 1980s? It doesn't matter. Viewers in 2021 can no longer discern the difference between the two. All of it now is the 1900s, a golden era gone.
We have a harder time than ever before seeing ourselves in the old American century, but Afterlife wants us to understand that it was a better time. Rusted silos, sagging rooflines, and burnt-out lights on the marquee signs suggest that the town's best days are gone. Except for flipping burgers, stocking shelves, or policing, it is unclear what anyone in town does for a living. The mine shut down decades ago. The farm infrastructure is old and unused. Spinners, Walmart, and the state are the only going concerns. This, too, is a manifestation of the American ghost. The signal fades.
The ghost of the American century is a specter of history. The second ghost haunting the town of Summerville is the poltergeist of science. You need not seek this spirit lurking in the background, however. It is there, everywhere, in perfect focus, lavished with thought.
Writers Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman cast these two spirits in opposition to one another. "History is safe," Paul Rudd—who plays Gary Grooberson, a geologist moonlighting as a summer school teacher to study the seismic anomalies in the area—tells the kids in one scene. "Science is all particle accelerators and hydrogen bombs." One is boring, in other words; the other is cool. One is quietly dead; the other seems almost alive.
Set aside the question of history for a moment. What is science? "Science is punk rock," Grooberson says. "Science is a safety pin through the nipple of academia." Punk rock, like science, is an attitude, a set of beliefs. We learn little of the philosophy of science in Afterlife, however. Instead, the ghost of science in Summerville is made of gear. Egon Spengler's old workshop overflows with stuff. Ecto-1 is top heavy with racks, hoses, antennae, and other things. Proton packs, goggles, scopes, sensors, containment units, gauges, switches, pedals, buttons, and other bits of equipment surround the characters when they do science. There is no method. There are no hypotheses, no failed assumptions, no notebooks. Characters see a problem; they deploy a tool. The problem is solved. If academia is full of uncertainty, science in Summerville truly is the safety pin in its nipple. There is no uncertainty in the haunted mansion of science.
We do not pierce the veil of science in Summerville, but we are encouraged to see its moral shadow. This, too, is not what the characters claim. Grooberson says: "Science is pure. It's an absolute. It's an answer to all the madness." It was "science," however, which flowed from Summerville's vein of selenium through the twisted hypotheses of Ivo Shandor to shape Sigourney Weaver's apartment building in New York. "Science"—the sciences of mining, smelting, electrical engineering, et cetera—enabled the construction of the building. Science, too, brought the original Ghostbusters together and informed their work. In the Ghostbusters universe, as in real life, science is yin and yang, promise and peril. Afterlife buries the peril in the promise. Where have we seen that before?
A "pure" world without uncertainty was a key promise of the American heyday, too. The brutal efficiency of the marketplace, the genius of its innovators, the inherent righteousness of its existence: these forces had triumphed over fascism, the story went, as surely as they would triumph over communism, cancer, hunger, the colonization of space. Along the way maybe history itself—that incessant dialectic of class warfare—would come to an end. It is an idea worth mourning, perhaps, if you can believe it.
Try as they might, however, the filmmakers cannot separate the ghost of America from the ghost of science. My schoolbooks from the 1900s maintained that these two were symbiotically linked. American greatness flowed from the font of science, they argued, which flowed from the font of greatness, and so on. American power was transcendent, airborne, contemptuous of limits, devastating in its mastery of the natural world. The comfort it enabled was highly engineered.
The ectoplasm of American scientific power paints a different picture. The chronicles of nuclear devastation on Planet Earth, the inexorable decline which renders the memory of the American century in Summerville through a darkening glass, and the persistence of an ancient Sumerian demigod in a mountain just outside of town suggest that history is unsafe, and science is impure. We should not mourn them, but we cannot escape them. Like intrusive thoughts, they color our experience of the world. They refract our understanding, twist our nostalgia in subtle ways. They haunt even our blockbuster film franchises. Our only hope to overcome their decrepit influence is to leave them in the past.
Let us create new things.
Review: The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and the Dark Underside of the Postwar Road
There was a prolonged moment after World War II when the road symbolized for Americans ultimate freedom. These were the years of interstate highways, land yachts, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, teenage hot rodders, drive-in movies and drive-up restaurants. Empowered by all things automotive, the story goes, Americans were footloose and wild. As a result they lived through hard drinking years, fast living, devil may care years. So it goes. From Happy Days to the good-old days long gone in the animated film Cars, we've idealized the period to the point of caricature.
Underneath all of this there lurked a menacing darkness. Killers roamed the highways. Cons, pimps, and addicts thrived in the automotive underground. Post-traumatic former GIs, reliving the horrors of Guadalcanal or the Bulge, struggled to hold it together. Women and minorities took the brunt of it. Woe betided those who happened to be both. Automotive freedom ran like a wine dark current beneath this moment, empowering some as thoroughly as it shackled and destroyed others.
A modest but brilliant noir picture emerged from this ambivalent milieu: Ida Lupino's chilling feature, The Hitch-Hiker. Released in 1953, it is important that this is the only classic noir directed by a woman. It is not the only entrée in the genre to call the free-wheeling postwar world to account, but Lupino's gaze, executed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and carried out by deft performances on the part of the film's three stars, is attuned to cruelty and power in a way that her male counterparts did not grasp in their cynicism or machismo.
The premise of the film is straightforward. It was based on the killing spree of Billy Cook, a drifter and small-time hood with a deformed eye who gained notoriety for a 22-day rampage that left six people dead on the road from Missouri to California. In the film, Cook is represented by the character Emmett Myers, ably performed by a dead-eyed William Talman in his best role before moving to the small screen on Perry Mason. We meet Myers mid-spree. His M.O. is to hitch a ride, kill the driver, and steal the car, along with the driver's wallet, before moving onto the next victim. After another grisly killing, Myers sticks out his thumb and hitches a ride with fishermen Roy Collins, played by Edmond O'Brien, and Gilbert Bowen, played by Frank Lovejoy. These two are old friends enjoying a taste of freedom from their domestic lives on a weekend outing to the Gulf of California when they pick up Myers, who proceeds to lead them at gunpoint on a wild odyssey into Mexico, where he plans to kill them and board a ferry to freedom across the Gulf of California. A taut thriller ensues, driven by stark contrasts, interesting inversions, and powerful frustrations, until Myers runs hard into the arms of justice and the fishermen are delivered from their terrible captivity.
Lupino manages to achieve much in the film's meagre 71 minute runtime. Most striking to me are the contrasts, both visual and atmospheric, that serve the story. The setting alternates from the hotbox enclosure of Collins' and Bowen's car to the wide-open desert spaces through which it is passing. Collins and Bowen are seated in the light up front; Myers is shrouded in darkness in the backseat. Myers is blind in one eye and sharp as a hawk in the other. These contrasts are amplified by inversions, however. Collins is a mechanic and driver. He possesses the most power, therefore, in the most enclosed space. Bowen is the only character who can speak Spanish. Myers holds a gun, then, but Bowen has the power of knowledge when they need to resupply in one of the sleepy Mexican hamlets along the way. Ultimately, the dynamic that emerges between the three characters is a sort of inverted buddy feature. I often found myself wondering whether Bowen and Collins would remain friends when the ordeal was over, or if they would go their separate ways.
The Hitch-Hiker was a B picture for a reason, however. Its weaknesses are plain. There are holes in the plot big enough to drive the fishermen's Plymouth through. The opportunities for the captives to overpower Myers and run away are seemingly endless, for example. The plot does nothing with the interesting inversions of power represented by the captives' advantages in mechanical and linguistic knowledge, either. When Bowen speaks with Mexican characters in the film—all of whom are represented in the round, an unexpected breath of fresh air for the time—the opportunities are as tantalizing as his failure to capitalize on them is frustrating. The outcome is predictable, and the film's short runtime does not allow Lupino to introduce many curves in the road on the way there.
Despite these flaws, The Hitch-Hiker is a must-see noir thriller. Uncluttered and raw, beautifully shot and intelligently optimistic in the shadow of the dark real-world events that shaped its story, the film captures the ambivalence of a moment in American history rich with opportunity but scarred by violence and despair. Imagine watching it in the bench seat up front of an old Chrysler parked in a darkened lot, soundtrack blaring through a speaker hung on the window. After the movie you drop off the speaker on the way out and drive home laughing about your date's white knuckles when they clutched your knee at the suspenseful parts. You round a bend in the road, straining to see in the weak headlight beams what might be in the dark pavement ahead, and there is a lonesome man in a dark jacket on the side of the road, thumb stuck out, pointing your way. You keep driving.
Visual Excitement: Pushing Hands
In The Practice of Poetry, Robin Skelton argues that the poet's "problem is finding out… how to detect the verbal excitements surrounding our perceptions, and how to discover in ourselves a confusion rich enough to compel us to investigate it." Inspired by these words, I created a notebook (entitled, fittingly enough, "A Treasury of Verbal Excitements,") to jot down all of the little bits of inspired writing I come across during the day. It's helped me to be a more attentive reader and a more productive writer, so I highly encourage giving it a try.
We need not limit ourselves to verbal excitements, however. Why not visual excitements, audio excitements, culinary excitements? With that in mind, I started another notebook this weekend–"A Treasury of Visual Excitements"–and started filing away clippings that I liked. But why not share them here instead?
Here's the first "visual excitement," a beautiful clip from Ang Lee's woefully under-rated 1991 film, Pushing Hands. This scene comes near the end of the film. The rest is beautiful in its simplicity, and in the space it allows its characters to fill, but this moment captured my attention and stayed in my head the for the rest of the evening. I love it.
Syllabus: January 29th
A list of interesting things new and old that I've read or experienced this week. I do not endorse or even necessarily agree with anything on the other side of these links.
Broderick, Ryan. "Happy Birthday, Guy Fieri," at Garbage Day. — Because after I had read or heard about eighty GameStop and wallstreetbets explainers this week I was thrilled to read: "It is both terrifying and liberating to look clear-eyed into the meaningless void at the heart of modern life and accept it for what it is." This looks like a decent mailing list, actually.
Cho, Adrian. "The cloak-and-dagger tale behind this year's most anticipated result in particle physics," at Mel. — If the wild intro that uses the R.E.M. song about the beating of Dan Rather in 1986 as a way to start an article about particle physics doesn't grab you, perhaps the science will. Bonus: fans of Bruno Latour and the anthropology of science will definitely nerd out on the breathless description of laboratory heroics.
Grimm, David. "Ice age Siberian hunters may have domesticated dogs 23,000 years ago," at Science. — Fuck it, I like dogs and I wanted to include this one.
Klee, Miles. "Everything you Never Wanted to Know about the 'Sigma Male.'" — Machines turn inputs into outputs. The internet is a machine that transforms time into ever more toxic forms of masculinity.
Pahokee. Directed by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan. 2020. — A beautiful documentary on four high school students in the titular town, a small (by South Florida standards) farming community down on Lake Okeechobee. The link goes to Kanopy. If you have a library card you can probably watch the film for free and then choose a few more to watch gratis, too.
Vast of Night. Directed by Andrew Patterson. 2020. — Look, this isn't Spielberg, but it captures a little tiny bit of the magic from Close Encounters while imparting its own awareness of space, pace, and light. It's a memorable film on Amazon Prime.
If you like the '90s you will probably enjoy this playlist of songs from a 1996 compilation called This Is… Trip Hop. I found this CD at Goodwill and love it.
Florida landscapes by Eleanor Blair at Signature Art Gallery in Tallahassee.
Aryo Toh Djojo's "Transmission" @ Wilding Cran Gallery.
Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Cheryl Dumesnil, Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
If you were struck by the ineffable urge this week to point your phone out into the cold, lonely void and project an image of Bernie Sanders sitting in a chair somewhere out there, you might like this Sitting Bernie AR Meme. Use your phone and press "AR" to enjoy yourself for a few seconds.
I was inspired by Nicely Small, a curated list of small businesses in Vancouver created by the design firm Engine Digital. Tallahassee needs something like this.
Field Work: Panorama Mode
I finally developed some film that I've been sitting on for almost a year. The two panoramic shots at the top of the page are my favorite from this little excursion, but I've attached a few more shots from the roll as well at the bottom of the page. I love this little Nikon Point and Shoot for these quick Ilford snapshots, and it lives in my travel bag alongside a Sony Rx-100 for quick, no-fuss shooting opportunities.
Taken just before sunset on the last day of 2019, in a field alongside US-331 outside of Paxton, Florida, I feel that these shots capture the cold quiet of the field in winter. In retrospect, they seem now to say a little more.
And in color..
The rural panhandle is full of these haunted landscapes. I remember watching Cold Mountain years ago and thinking about how the filmmakers had to travel to Romania to find an alpine landscape that would convince viewers the films was set in the 1860s. You can travel back roads in rural Walton County through landscapes that have not changed since the Great Depression. Time is a little more evident in these photographs, but not much. If I squint, I can still see the mule working the rows. at the edge of the field yonder. I can breathe the quiet rhythm of the plow, the sun, the wind.
Not far up the road there is a garish sign alongside which shouts, "Visit the Beaches of South Walton!" If you like the outlet mall, that's fine. Most of the time I'd rather grab the Nikon and drive the back roads, though, searching for the past.
Chicago Street Photography: Film
Finally got my scans back from the Chicago film. It was a cool, foggy day when we made our way across the city last month gawking and taking these photos. I shot these with my Nikon Lite Touch 120 Zoom and Ilford HP5.
Discount Movie Review: Thoughtless Violence in Hell's Kitchen
Legend has it that Miami Vice was born when the President of NBC, whom I (unfairly and probably incorrectly) like to imagine deep in the throes of a head-spinning fugue state around 11:30 in the morning on day 3 of a coke binge in the summer of 1984, scrawled the words "MTV Cops" on a sheet of paper and pitched it to a producer. We can imagine a similar scenario playing out in 2016 or 2017. Some producer on a flight from Los Angeles to Shenzhen to make a superhero movie pitch jolts awake from a psychedelic jet lag dream, fumbles for his iPhone, head lightly spinning from a single Lime-a-Rita before the flight, and scrawls "The Departed with women" in the Notes app. The Kitchen is born, and I sit down to watch it on a Tuesday night many months later in a suburban multiplex on the edge of the woods in North Florida.
It's hard to talk about The Kitchen. I think all of us gathered in the multiplex on Discount Tuesday this week were extremely aware of the trail this movie is trying to blaze. The stars are badasses, alright? They don't take any shit. They dominate every man in the film—with the exception of fathers and Italians—and we all love that. If you've ever thought to yourself, "this gangster movie is good, but what if the wiseguys were women?" then this is probably the movie for you. I loved that part of it. But if you value good films or human life, it probably isn't the movie for you. Let's talk about that.
First, life and death. Like Stuber, which I talked about on Discount Tuesday a few weeks ago, The Kitchen kills with impunity. People die in this movie and nobody really cares. Heads are blown open; dead people are dragged on the sidewalk; bodies are dismembered and dumped in the Hudson River. Spoiler alert: Haddish and McCarthy sniffle for a moment when they kill their husbands, but the audience is discouraged from joining in these brief moments of quiet. Watching these badass women rampage is just too fun, I guess, for the filmmaker or the audience to go and turn the killers and the victims into humans. That would require empathy, right, and who wants to bother with that on Discount Tuesday in the summertime?
The Kitchen's failures as an example of filmmaking art follow, in part, from all of this sexy dehumanization. If films are meant to shed some light on the human experience, death should do something. Take the gangster movies that this movie clearly wants to emulate. In The Godfather, benefiting from death makes Michael Corleone into a monster. Each killing in the film's pivotal seizure-of-power sequence severs him from his humanity and isolates him from his family until, finally, a closing door figuratively seals him within his own personal hell. In Casino, death is a grotesque ritual which so scars the fantasy landscape that the killers operate in the depths of the desert. Death is a reminder of the cruel masters back east, and a consequence of flying too high. Goodfellas treats death like a cruel joke, but the audience clearly understands that Ray Liotta's character is both hero and heavy. He's a ghoul.
You may be wondering: what if all of the people who die in The Kitchen are bad guys? Does that make it OK, like Inglourious Basterds or revenge movies? It might, except The Kitchen isn't about revenge or redemption, and the bad guys aren't Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels. The "heroes" in this film kill the "villains" in order to become the villains. With the exception of one rapist—killed by a male savior/mentor instead of one of the badass women, it's worth pointing out, as though some villains are still too formidable for women to handle—we don't know anything about the small-time gangsters who die in this film except that they're standing in the way of the "heroes" racing to reach rock bottom. There is a moment near the end of the film—in the nadir of the "dark night of the soul" every screenwriting manual will instruct budding artistes to include in the script—when Melissa McCarthy says that she's built something too great to give up. I was left wondering: does she mean the criminal enterprise the hero-villains built from theft, rackets, blood, and graft; or just the relationships they made along the way?
It's impossible to watch this movie without thinking about its moral and historical counterpoint: J.C. Chandor's 2014 masterwork, A Most Violent Year. That film takes place just three years later and engages the late-seventies underworld this movie glorifies. It has everything this movie has: crooks, a gritty, desaturated New York cityscape, gangsters, a badass woman, even Hasidim. But instead of cruel, half-baked stereotypes, these are real people, living in a real place. Instead of racing to the bottom like the soulless heroines of The Kitchen, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain struggle to do the right thing in a world that rewards badness. If Donald Trump is the Bizarro Obama, an inverse agent whose entire political program is built on undoing his predecessor's legacy, The Kitchen is the Bizarro Violent Year. Its nihilism betrays the talents of the performers and craftspeople who brought it to life.


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Polio, smallpox eradicated by vaccine program decades before COVID-19
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Most people today would think of the COVID-19 pandemic as the worst major disease outbreak ever, unless you have lived long enough to remember that this is not the first or the worst.
Polio terrified American families in the 1950s, leaving hundreds of thousands of children paralyzed. Likewise, smallpox was highly contagious and often disfiguring.
Dr. Steven Berk is not only the Dean of the Texas Tech School of Medicine but he is also an Infectious Disease Specialist.
He says, "Those who remember polio know polio was wiped out by a vaccine, not by any treatment. Smallpox worldwide killed millions of people and it, too, became eradicated by the technology of vaccines."
By 1980, smallpox had become just a word in the history books.
Now, 40 years later, we face COVID-19, a virus that has taken more than 1.6 million lives in more than 200 countries.
Dr. Berk says, "So it shouldn't be a surprise that the solution will be an effective vaccination program."
Maybe we are to blame in the media for calling it a "race" to get a vaccine. Maybe that is why people don't trust our new COVID vaccine options - because it has happened too fast.
Dr. Berk says that's not the case.
He explains, "The technology that went into this vaccine has been going on for decades. So, while it may seem like something that happened suddenly, there has been a tremendous amount of time, effort and scientific study that has brought us to where we are today."
The challenge now is getting enough people to take this vaccine so that we can build what's called Herd Immunity.
Dr. Berk says, "And what that would mean is if 70% of our population had antibodies, the virus couldn't find enough people to continue having it go on and on."
But it takes a village...
Will you be a part of this effort to bring an end to the pandemic?
If you are among the 38,000 people in Lubbock County who have already had the virus, you may wonder if you need a vaccine or not.
The answer is yes, but Dr. Berk says it is recommended that you wait 90 days after your recovery because there are many others who need it before you.
And yes, Dr. Berk says he will be first in line when his turn comes.
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Hillary Scott, one-third of the multi-Platinum selling and GRAMMY® winning trio Lady Antebellum, wowed fans with a multi-sellout debut of her exclusive fashion collection, "LaBellum," for entertainment and lifestyle retailer HSN. Within her two-hour visit last Thursday (4/20), Scott manifested six sell outs during the primetime hours on The List with Colleen Lopez. As Scott returned on Friday (4/21), she instantly sold-out the Lace Up Blouse and Faux Suede Vest, causing her two hour visit to end over twenty minutes early.


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With tens of millions of active groups on Facebook, there are new updates coming to this popular tool. The social media giant announced Wednesday that it is adding more features for group admins to better manage their groups.
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Cats at work are a furry treat for employees who cannot keep pets due to certain restrictions or because their career does not permit time for pets. However, an Ohio company recently sheltered two tabby kittens.
They even came up with names for the two kittens: Debit and Credit. However, after a few days, the company decided to adopt the two kittens to boost employee morale.
Employees at this company in Ohio loved these furry coworkers. The two kept playing with the telephone cables and boxes all day long to keep them occupied at the office. The two kittens were inseparable and always played with one another.
The company adopted the little ones from an animal shelter as they felt it would increase happiness and workplace productivity. In addition, many employees who did not have pets found it quite interesting.
According to various researches, furry friends in the work environment improve interoffice communication as people speak more around these innocent animals. Moreover, people felt less stressed around the felines thanks to the office kittens, who calmed down the employees when they cuddled up to them.
Even the kittens enjoyed the new setup as they played with boxes and got treats. The little ones felt safe, and the office even ensured they stayed comfortable and happy.
There were minor issues like the kittens playing with telephone cords and sometimes walking on keyboards. However, everyone seemed to be happy to accept these minor issues because that gave them access to these innocent fur babies 24/7.


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Arsenic contamination of drinking water is noticeably linked to the occurrence of skin, bladder, lung cancers, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Blackfoot disease (BFD) caused by arsenicosis is endemic in southwestern Taiwan, where artesian well water contains high concentrations of arsenic, and mortality from HCC shows a dose-response increase by concentration of arsenic in the well water. This case-control study was conducted to examine the clinical characteristics of HCC patients of BFD-endemic area. A total of 65 HCC cases (54 men and 11 women) were recruited from the BFD-endemic areas. The clinicopathological features were compared with 130 age- and sex-matched HCC control patients from non-BFD-endemic areas. Characteristics analyzed included hepatitis viral infection status, hepatitis activity, liver function, histological findings, computed tomography scan characteristics, and patient survival. No differences were observed between HCC patients or their tumors, from study and control areas.
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Are you looking for the best way to put movies for your family during camping? Are you anticipating making any presentations on your iPhone device? If you want to do any of these, all you need is a good quality small projector for iPhone. The release of the various small projector for iPhone minimizes or even eliminates the use of the bulky projector. A small projector for iPhone is ideal in different situations and all that you need is one with a bigger screen. This is to enhance your viewing experience. This portable projector from iPhone is the best option available for you on the market today.
Gone are the days when you move about with bulky projectors. Now that there are alternatives in the market, the problem now becomes how can one choose the best. We are here to solve the problem for you. After comparing the various models in the industry, we recommended the best mini projector for iphone devices for you. These are the best you can get in the market considering their quality, functionality, durability, and features. They were carefully selected. If you buy any of these recommended products, you will have high regard for them. Continue reading to know more about these preferred products.
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When you are looking for the best mini projector for iphone you have to consider some important factors to make a perfect choice. Let us now guide you in finding the best small projector for iphone.
The first important factor to consider is the operating system compatibility. It should be compatible with iPhone and other smartphone devices such as android background, Windows 10, and other operating systems. This is important because it means that you can use this on almost any phone of your choice. There is no need to buy projectors for different operating systems, it amounts to a waste of funds.
Furthermore, the issue of connectivity is another important factor to consider, it should be able to connect to your phone in different ways. Some of the most popular options available to you include connecting through Bluetooth technology, WiFi and USB, and so on. It should offer all the options.
Moreover, you have to consider the battery life. It has to be rechargeable when you get one and the battery must also be durable. Look for the brand the battery could last for a long time. You will have real value for your money.
The resolution is also important because it can impact the image quality. It is good you opt for those with high-definition resolution. You are sure of getting a better result if it is that way. Higher image resolution is the best for the image quality.
The brightness level is another important level to consider when you are making your choice. The brightness level is measured in lumens. If you get the 300 to 500 lumens, the best for you since you get a better result that way. There are some with more lumens up to 5000 and slightly below that.
The projector screen size is another important factor to consider when you are making a choice. Larger the screen size, the more experience you have from it.
The speaker is another important factor. This also has to do with the noise level. If you get one with the least noise level it is the best. The speaking system has to be inbuilt to the system and it should be easy and simple to control.
In this first segment, we review six of the best mini projector for iphone on the market as of now:
1. KODAK Luma 150 Ultra Mini Pocket Pico Projector
Kodax Luma is on the top list here. It is designed with a rechargeable battery as well as a speaker. This can support viewing on 1080P and it uses wireless LED DLP system. Because of its portable nature, it is a video and movie travel project. It can work on different operating systems such as android and iPhone devices. You can rely on this for your outdoor presentations and even movies. Because of the DLP technology, you will find it easy and comfortable to use this product. Its simple touch control, as well as near-universal device compatibility, also make the product outstanding.
The screen resolution is 150 inches and you can view videos, photos as well as slides. It comes with a durable playtime of up to 2.5 hours. It can play different kinds of videos on the 1080P. However, that depends on the type of connection you do as well as the video quality. Most importantly, this device can work with a tripod. This is because it uses the standard tripod thread and this makes it work very well on that platform. When it comes to features, this product comes with everything you want and that is why it tops the list of the best six.
√ It is highly portable
√ The product is compatible with different devices
√ You can use this projector on different smartphones
√ Offers multiple viewing methods
× A user complained that the volume is too low
2. AAXA Technologies P300 Neo LED Video Projector
This is another high-quality product and it comes with a rechargeable battery that can last for 2.5 hours when it is fully charged. It is a versatile small projector that supports a lot of platforms such as onboard media players as well as HDMI/Mini and VGA/USB and MicroSD inputs. Moreover, it is compatible with different operating systems such as iPhone, iPad as well as PS4. Furthermore, the product is Xbox compatible and supports 1080p.
√ Good for home and business use
√ Comes with an onboard media player
√ 30000-hour lead light source
√ 2.5 hourly onboard battery
× The problem of connecting with the cable box
3. Mini Projector for iPhone, ELEPHAS 2023 Upgrade WiFi Movie Projector
It is another high-end product that can synchronize with a smartphone screen. This also features 1080P high definition. The product is a portable projector and it is supported by a two hundred inches screen. Moreover, it is compatible with android and iOS as well as HDMI, SD, HDMI, and VGA. The movie & gaming projector can also be used for home theater. Most importantly, the product is designed with the latest WiFi connection. You can also use this with Android, iPhone as well as Windows 10. It is also convenient for you and you can enjoy free life anywhere and at any time.
Projectors specialize in offering you the best image display as well as brightness. This one is better than other versions before it when it comes to noise reduction. It is possible because of the noise reduction technology. The model has a fast heat dissipation. When you use it for a long time? The product does not get hot, it can become a little. The projector comes with a mirror display and it does not support it. The model is recommended to be used in a dark environment and you can get the best performance. When you are plugging as well as unplugging you must be very careful in doing that so that it does not damage.
√ Works well with two hundred inches display
√ Available in 24 colors display
√ Offered wireless support
√ Compatible with different operating systems
× Some users are unhappy with the quality
4. Kodak Ultra Mini Portable Projector
It is small in size and portable. This product also provides 1080P support because of the LED DLP technology. Furthermore, this product is rechargeable and can work on a hundred inches screen display. It comes with other interesting features like an inbuilt speaker which can support different forms of connection which include HDMI as well as Micro SD, USB, and so on. It is also compatible with android phones, iPad, and iPhones. Moreover, this product is compatible with different devices.
√ It is highly compatible in terms of connectivity
√ It is small and portable
√ The projector satisfies Hollywood standard
√ This is durable and easy to use
× The quality is not good as advertised
5. Mini Projector, GooDee W18 WiFi Movie Projector
This is a small size projector that connects through WiFi technology. It can synchronize with your smartphone screen and it offers 1080P support. This supports 1080P resolution. Furthermore, the projector supports different devices such as TV stick, VGA as well as HDMI, and USB. You can use it on your laptop and iOS and Android devices. It is also compatible with PS4. It also features both wired and wireless connections and this means that the sky is the limit to the level of connectivity you can enjoy with this product.
√ It comes with an adjustable zoom function and uses remote control
√ This can boast of sixty percent bright upgrade
√ It is a mini projector and highly portable
√ Offers different means of connectivity
× Some users have issues with the quality
6. PTVDISPLAY Pocket Portable Mini Projector
This is another great product you can use on your iPhone. It also offers 1080P resolution and the Pico Bluetooth video technology stands it out. Furthermore, the product uses WiFi DLP technology and it works with android 7.1 HDMI and it is also compatible with a TF USB TF card and this is perfect for home cinema, as well as a wireless display for your iPhone home projector. Other great features make it great.
√ Connects wirelessly
√ The versatile external connection system
√ It is good for home and outdoor use
√ It is portable and travels friendly
× Many users are happy with the product
We finish off by answering some of the some questions about the best mini projector for iphone:
A. They are good and that is because of their portability and size. You can use it to do a lot of things.
A. Yes, you can and it comes with devices that make it possible to connect to your smartphones and other smart devices.
A. There are a lot of factors to consider and they are all listed above. Select according to the screen size and connectivity.
These are some of the best mini projector for iphone you can buy with money. They are carefully selected because of their great features. If you buy any of these recommended products you can have real value for your money.
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The Central Texas Area Rotary Clubs and the City of Harker Heights Parks and Recreation Department are joining together again this year to raise awareness and funds for the eradication of polio with out Monster Dash 5K walk/run, 5K team (four person) competition, 10K run, and 10K hand cycle race event. There will also be the free, 1/4 mile, Little Monster Dash for children 10 years old and under. All proceeds from this event will be used by The Rotary Club Foundation for the eradication of polio. Costumes, especially for the Little Monster Dash, are encouraged. This is a sanctioned race of the Cen-Tex race series.
An exciting addition to the Monster Dash this year, is the team (four person) competition in the 5K run. We will give trophies to teams with the best total time in the following categories: First Responders (Fire, Police and EMS), Military Unit and Business/ Organization.
Start Time: 10K run and 10K hand cycle race begins at 8 a.m. 5K wal/run and 5K team race begins at 8:30 a.m. Little Monster Dash: 9:30 a.m.


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We'll Fly Away
When you had to survive every minute, you were always seconds away from making a decision that could ruin everything.
Most of the books I've read recently have been told from the point-of-view of a female. While my recent reads have all featured awesome, strong female protagonists, I needed to switch it up. We'll Fly Away, centered on the relationship of two teenage boys, was the perfect change of pace after reading so many girl-centric books.
It was astounding to read about the same love, friendship, loyalty, and teenage struggles that I've read so much lately, but from the perspective of two male characters who were so vibrant and well written. Luke and Toby are strong yet vulnerable and smart but also naive. Their friendship is a unique bond; they've had to lean on each other for practically their entire lives since they haven't had anyone else to rely on. They're constantly there for each other, ensuring that they each stay out of trouble so they don't end up like their parents and can get out of the dead end town where they grew up.
It would be remiss of me to compose this review without mentioning that Luke and Toby's narrative is punctuated by letters that Luke writes to Toby from death row. The letters are a striking, vital portion of the novel but I don't think I can say too much about that situation without ruining it on some level. However, I do have one final point to make: if you've ever pondered the morality of capital punishment, you should probably read this book, but if you've never considered the morality of killing someone as punishment for a crime, you should definitely read this book.


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Pakistan key source of money laundering in UK: Report
Pakistan has been identified among three main source countries for money laundering in the UK, according to an analysis by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
The agency found that Britain was the prime destination for corrupt 'politically exposed persons' (PEPs) to invest their funds and the most common source countries of those funds were Russia, Nigeria and Pakistan.
The UK is a prime destination for foreign corrupt PEPs to launder the proceeds of corruption. Investment in UK property, particularly in London, continues to be an attractive mechanism to launder funds, the NCA notes in its National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2018' released last week.
The true scale of PEPs' investment in the UK is not known, however, the source countries that are most commonly seen are Russia, Nigeria and Pakistan, it adds.
The NCA, a non-ministerial UK government law enforcement agency, found that a small number of UK-based professional enablers, such as solicitors, accountants, estate agents and trust and company service providers, assist such corrupt individuals in laundering their money in Britain.
The overseas jurisdictions that have the most enduring impact on the UK across the majority of the different money laundering threats are: Russia, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Some of these jurisdictions have large financial sectors which also make them attractive as destinations or transit points for the proceeds of crime, the NCA report notes.
It also warns of a Brexit-related spike in corrupt activities between the UK and countries outside the European Union (EU).
The report states, As the UK moves towards exiting the EU in March 2019, UK-based businesses may look to increase the amount of trade they have with non-EU countries.
"We judge, this will increase the likelihood that UK businesses will come into contact with corrupt markets, particularly in the developing world, raising the risk they will be drawn into corrupt practices."


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Writing Tip #WIPJoy 7
#WIPJoy Day 7 A writing tip that has helped you.
Use actions, emotions, and descriptions instead of "said" to indicate speakers. I had a mentor who made me take every single said, asked, answered, etc. out of the story. It was quite an exercise, but it helped me see that I could make dialogue work a lot harder for me than it was.


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Homeowners generally do not think about their ducts until spring when it is time to turn on the air conditioning. The National Air Duct Cleaners Association recommends getting your air ducts cleaned every three to five years (https://nadca.com/). I am amazed at the amount of debris that can come out of a ductwork system.
We recommend checking your system when you change your filter once a year and check for excess dirt. We also recommend doing research and consider cleaning your ductwork if you have pets, you are a heavy smoker, if a fire occurs in your home, suffer from allergies or asthma and after remodeling projects.
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A #police #dog in #Wales got a lot of attention recently for locating a missing mom and her baby during his first shift.
When Dyfed-Powys Police received a call on August 1 about the two missing persons, the department launched a search to find them, according to a press release.
Inspector Jonathan Rees-Jones detailed the events:
"The woman had not been seen or spoken to for two days, which was out of character, and her phone wasn't working, so naturally concern for her safety was high. Response officers, neighbourhood policing teams and specialist search officers were dispatched to her home, and enquiries were carried out to try and trace her steps."
"Thanks to excellent work between teams, the woman's car was quickly found on a mountain road. Although this gave officers a location to search from, there was still a vast area to cover given the amount of time she had been missing."
Rescue teams began looking in an area that included a small reservoir and woodland, and Max guided his handler, PC Peter Lloyd, over a significant distance.
Around 1:30 p.m., the two spotted the missing woman waving for help by a steep ravine on the mountain side.
"She was helped down, and arrangements were made for her and her baby to be checked over by a Mountain Rescue doctor and the ambulance service," the release noted.
The department said its police dogs were "a very important asset to the police service," adding that a lot of care and thought went into selecting dogs for the work.
"It is vital they have a good temperament; they also need to be physically fit, inquisitive, well socialised, and bold, have strong motivation and be keen to play and interact with people," the site read.
"I was really pleased that during our first operational deployment as a dog team, myself and Max were able to safely locate the missing mother and baby," said his handler.
"Max remained focussed throughout the long search and he proved invaluable when he reacted to the call for help which resulted in us locating them," he concluded. #binspirednews


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"Our season started pretty well. At the beginning of the season, our blueberries were selling fast, but now that the market for blueberries is bloated, it's averaged out. Prices for non-organic blueberries are good as well," said Gerry Barfield of Countryland Farms, LLC. "Our organics have done really well—all the rain in Florida has helped us out there. The prices for our organic blueberries are real good," said Barfield. He continued, moving onto the growing conditions for blueberries. "That's been great. We had a good spring and summer, with enough sunlight and rain," said Barfield.
"The winter temperatures in Florida were a little warm, so growers down there couldn't start their blueberries on time. That also affected a lot of growers in my area as well. Our farm wasn't really affected. We were able to start our blooms a little early," shared Barfield. "We began growing on time and our harvest started on time as well."
According to the Southeast Farm Press, Georgia never got its usual late-winter frosts in 2016, which led to a warmer-than-usual spring. Because of the early warmth, bushes began producing their fruit too early. As a result, individual blueberries were smaller than normal. In a normal Georgia winter, the cold weather, freezes and frosts help to thin the fruit out, which helps the remaining blueberries to grow to a larger size.
Gerry Barfield
Countryland Farms, LLC
Tel: 229-392-5371


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Magical pumpkins exist; all you have to know is how to grow them! Kate, a magic pumpkin farmer, tries to tell people just how unique her plants are, but no one seems to care! Will she give up on her mission? Or will her magical pumpkins make her famous?
Written by Lacey L. Bakker
Illustrated by Alex Goubar


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Whether you are actually an expert expert entertainer, or a newbie who's trying to burglarize the industry, there are actually a range of traits to think about when it concerns the occupation pathway you're on. Opting for the ideal type of songs could be important, as is the procedure of touring. Jacob B Fite Award-Winning Musician
The definition of a performer is actually someone who is competent in any location of art. Craft can be any imaginative endeavor, like sculpture, paint, or even cooking food. Jacob Benjamin Multi-Talented Artist
Artists are actually individuals who perform music guitars, write and also tape-record tunes, and also conduct survive radio as well as television. Some performers participate in numerous tools, and have the capacity to make up popular music as well as adapt it well.
Producing and also doing songs is actually a competitive industry. To prosper, you need to have a large range of capabilities, consisting of a tough understanding of the equipment as well as music theory. You likewise need to have to be capable to produce and conceptualize a musical job.
Performers are people that possess an one-of-a-kind vision. They don't commonly start along with numerous buyers. Their skill and also ingenuity may be viewed in their job, which could be a superb technique to delight everyone.
Artists make use of the World wide web to ensure themselves. Two-thirds of entertainers surveyed point out that the World wide web is necessary in helping them generate and distribute their songs. 83% of musicians disclose that they have actually gained coming from complimentary examples online.
Music is actually an expression of emotional state, musicians aren't automatically seeking a positive encounter. Rather, they plan to involve the reader and also appeal to emotions.
Artists typically collaborate with a representative or manager. This may help them accomplish success. A significant songs label doesn't promise a musician's excellence.
Visiting as an artist is actually an excellent means to grow your system and also gain access to brand-new audiences. It may be an obstacle for some entertainers, as well as it can easily be actually difficult to make an ROI while doing.
Relying on your music style and degree of expertise, you may find yourself collaborating with a set, as a part of a band or as a solo action. A lot of artists will happen scenic tour at some time in their jobs. It is actually essential to obtain the very most out of your opportunity on the roadway.
Create certain you have an authorized contract. One more really good concept is to take advantage of a phone planning that will let you keep your tissue phone in your wallet as well as prevent having to pay for roaming costs.
The most effective method to take advantage of your scenic tour is actually to know the ropes. In the course of an excursion, you are subjected to a wide variety of knowledge and also discover just how to handle the difficulties that possessed performing the roadway. If you are actually a hard worker and also agree to give up for your art, you ought to have not a problem enduring and also prospering in the music market.
Job options
Like any sort of career, there are various options for performers. They can easily select to do, create, administer, educate, or perhaps operate a music-related organization. These opportunities may be rather gratifying and deliver high earnings.
No matter your goal, the most effective way to get into the songs organization is to acquire expertise. You can easily begin through joining a qualified ensemble or even carrying out workshops. Musicians likewise have the option to do work in documenting studios or begin a YouTube network.
Conducting is just one of the absolute most popular occupations for entertainers. Depending upon your abilities as well as capacities, you may do whatever coming from conducting along with a band to singing solo. The amount of amount of money you can make differs based on the amount of efficiencies you give.
Comprising is actually another job choice for musicians. If you want to be actually an author, you will certainly need to learn popular music idea and also excel at participating in several musical instruments. Usually, you will definitely need to have a professional's degree in songs theory.
Mentor is yet another popular work for popular music majors. As an example, a public college songs educator may possess a expected as well as consistent project. He or she will have the chance to instruct a variety of subject matters, like choir, chorus, overall popular music education, and also personal courses.
One more well-known career choice for music majors is actually music therapy. This occupation supplies countless abstract benefits, like neighborhood outreach and face to face mentorship. It may also be actually a superb supplement to conducting artist income.
Doing and generating popular music is actually a reasonable field. Two-thirds of entertainers surveyed state that the Web is actually vital in assisting them produce as well as distribute their music. A major popular music tag does not promise a performer's excellence.
If you yearn for to be an author, you will certainly need to understand songs idea and also be actually efficient at playing a number of guitars. One more well-liked profession option for songs majors is music treatment.


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Our family is building a new home and we're preparing to move. With that comes my least favorite task (aside from the waiting) – packing!
Last month we loaded about half of our belongings into a storage unit, keeping only the basics for living and staging; the vast majority of my 400+ books are now packed away. Obviously, I'm a book worm – books being one way God speaks into me, challenges, and changes me. So which books could I not part with for these few months?
For my spirit…
The Bible – I'm all about having five-zillion Bible versions on my phone, but nothing compares to having my tangible copy, marked with ink and highlighter, bearing witness to countless God-chats across the years.
[amazon text=How To Worship a King by Zach Neese&asin=B00X2ZTK24] – Read repeatedly and worn with ink and dog-ear corners, this is a favorite! Exploring on a deep level the beauty and mystery of tabernacle worship from the Old Testament, Zach invites every believer to live their calling as part of a holy priesthood. I can't get tired of this one!
[amazon text=The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer&asin=B00GPBHOKC] – My pursuit of God begins with His pursuit of me. That truth alone changes everything for me. Tozer's book is rich and challenging. It's coming due for a re-read soon, so I wanted to keep it close.
[amazon text=The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis&asin=B0058IX754] – This title has sat on the windowsill above my kitchen sink for years. It is rich enough that merely two propped-open pages can keep me occupied while I hand-wash dishes.
[amazon text=Soul Keeping by Howard Baker&asin=B001D226CO] – This one made the cut for one reason: one of my dearest friends told me to read it again. I bought and read this during my seminary years and it's been in the attic ever since. But at her recommendation, I'm keeping it close as a reminder to read ASAP.
[amazon text=Prayers From The Heart by Richard J. Foster&asin=0060628472] – Another title to grace my kitchen windowsill…because I've often found myself in the kitchen, overwhelmed with the demands of the day. This beautiful collection of prayers reminds me to stop and reflect, turning my moments back to God.
[amazon text=One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp&asin=0310321913] – Growing gratitude is the boiled-down premise here. And, boy, I can use continual work on that! Ann's exquisite, poetic prose draws me into a world that realizes the presence of God, becoming ever-present to Him.
For a challenge…
[amazon text=Think Differently, Live Differently by Bob Hamp&asin=1450709206] – Another one I can't fully put down. This book has quite literally changed my life and the way I think.
[amazon text=Made to Crave by Lysa Terkeurst&asin=031029326X] – Because stewarding my physical body is a spiritual act and I'm in a season of presently walking this out.
[amazon text=The Shack by WM Paul Young&asin=160941411X] – A novel I have read countless times and can't wait to read again! This story has opened my eyes in a way few other books have to the box I've kept God in and the possibilities that are beyond my logic and understanding. God is huge and personal and loving and creative and unexpected and funny. And He certainly doesn't live in a box of my creation.
[amazon text=How to Stop the Pain by James B. Richards&asin=0883687224] – I hate the title of this book because it simply doesn't jive with the message. But the book itself, I already know, will be read on repeat. My hubby read this for his recent master's class and experienced such immense heart change that when he insisted I read it, I had zero objections. No disappointments here!
For personal ties…
In The Waiting by Marsha Day – I was deeply honored to edit this book for Marsha. So when she sent me a "thank you" copy in the mail, which arrived the day we began packing away the books, I couldn't bear the thought of boxing it up. I LOVE seeing her precious message of hope in the midst of suffering and confusion come to life on these gorgeous pages!
[amazon text=Encouragement Between Loads of Laundry by Kendra Hunt&asin=B00RY635LE] – Here's another book by a friend. Kendra is sweet and straightforward, which comes through fabulously in this, her "accidental" book. Short, to-the-point, often hilarious words for the mamas at home; it's simply refreshing.
For writing & work…
[amazon text=The Elements of Style by Strunk %26 White&asin=020530902X] – This is my go-to book for all things writing and editing. I love that it's so short and simple. It covers about 95% of all concerns I have as a writer and editor.
[amazon text=The Chicago Manual of Style&asin=0226103897] – For the other 5%, I have this book. It's a failsafe, should I run into something Elements or my favorite grammar sites don't cover.
[amazon text=On Writing by Stephen King&asin=1439156816] – My first purchase from this particular author, basically because the few movies I've seen of his gave me nightmares for years! But, after hearing over and over again about the insights he provides for writers, I thought I'd give it a go. On the whole, I was pleased, though reading through his memoir section had me praying for Mr. King to meet Jesus in a personal, freeing, life-altering way. Regardless of his faith, or lack thereof, he absolutely is a gifted writer and has worthwhile thoughts to share in this book.
There's simply something about books I find comforting, compelling, challenging. Diving into an author's heart-message, learning from them, considering a different perspective – these are just a few reasons I'm a proud book-nerd.
What're you reading lately? What titles do you inevitably return to time and again?
Speaking of books…my latest title will release THIS SUMMER! Chronic Healing is my testimony of experiencing God's grace, hope, and healing in the midst of living with a chronic illness.
If you have struggled with any sort of ongoing condition, be it physical, mental, emotional, etc, I pray that Chronic Healing will open up a fresh perspective on what God is working in the midst and what His heart is for you and your circumstance.
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Amtrak makes fewer trips to Glenwood Springs in last year
Post Independent Staff
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – About 7,100 fewer people were destined for Glenwood Springs via Amtrak for the fiscal year just ended, according to Amtrak regional officials.
While the recession likely played into the downturn, it can also be linked to service disruptions through Colorado during the summer tourism season due to construction on tracks along the California Zephyr line in the state.
"We did have an annual track work project that did cause a detour of the line [through Wyoming and northern Utah]," Amtrak regional spokesman Marc Magliari said last week.
Although bus service was offered for Amtrak passengers destined beyond Denver to Glenwood Springs or Grand Junction, the numbers were likely down as a result, he said.
For the fiscal year from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30 of this year, Amtrak recorded 29,371 riders to and from Glenwood Springs. That number, which included Amtrak passengers using the bus option during the detour periods, is down from 36,484 for fiscal year 2008, Magliari said.
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Amtrak service through Glenwood Springs was disrupted during six different nine-day periods from July 1 through Sept. 24.
The service disruption came during the height of the summer tourism season in the central Rocky Mountains, including Glenwood. In fact, in 2008, the Glenwood Springs train station ranked as the second busiest in Colorado in terms of rider volume.
"I did hear, anecdotally, that the number of people coming in on the train was down," said Kate Collins, vice president of marketing for the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association. "It did take a couple of months out of our season for a populace that is interested in train travel. In the future, I think we are going to see that number go back up."
Amtrak in general had one of its best years ever, recording its second highest ridership total, roughly 27.2 million passengers, since the National Railroad Passenger Corp. started operations in 1971. That number was shy of the all-time record of 28.7 million passengers set just last year, according to Amtrak.
"We were able to post gains in ridership in many areas, even with the recession," Magliari said.
That included several short distance lines on the east coast and in the midwest, as well as some of Amtrak's long distance lines, such as the Coast Starlight line between Seattle and Los Angeles, which had a 22 percent increase in ridership this past year.
However, ridership on the California Zephyr line, between Chicago and San Francisco, was down about 2 percent, from 352,563 riders in 2008 to 345,558 for the year ended Sept. 30.
According to Magliari, Amtrak detours north of Colorado took place during the periods from July 1-9, July 16-24, Aug. 1-9, Aug. 16-21, Sept. 1-9 and Sept. 16-24.
While bus service was offered from Denver to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction during those times, bus service was not offered as an option for eastbound passengers coming from Salt Lake City, Magliari said.
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Exposure to larva migrans syndromes in squares and public parks of cities in Chile
Exposição para síndromes de larva migrans em praças e parques públicos em cidades do Chile
Rubén MercadoI; Marlene T UetaII; Douglas CastilloI; Victor MuñozI; Hugo SchenoneI
IInstitut de Ciencias Biomédicas. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile
IIDepartamento de Parasitologia. Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). São Paulo, SP, Brasil
Between November 2001 and December 2002, 600 dog fecal samples were collected in main squares and public parks of 13 cities in Chile, from the extreme north to the extreme south of the country. The samples were processed in the laboratory by centrifugal sedimentation and the Harada-Mori methods. T. canis eggs were found in 12 cities. Detection rates ranged from 1.9 to 12.5% with an average of 5.2%. Seven percent of the samples had eggs and 9.5% had rhabditoid and/or filariform larvae of Ancylostomatidae. Strongyloides stercoralis were not found. Squares and public parks in Chile pose a potential risk of exposure to visceral, ocular, and/or cutaneous larva migrans syndromes.
Keywords: Larva migrans, transmission. Feces, parasitology. Dogs.
Entre novembro de 2001 e dezembro de 2002, 600 amostras de fezes de cão foram coletadas nas principais praças e parques públicos de 13 cidades do Chile, localizadas nas regiões norte ao estremo sul da nação. No laboratório, as amostras foram processadas mediante os métodos de sedimentação por centrifugação e de Harada-Mori. Ovos de Toxocara canis foram encontrados em 12 cidades em freqüências que variaram entre 1,9 a 12,5% por cidade, com média de 5,2%. Sete por cento das amostras apresentaram ovos e 9,5% larvas rabditóides ou filarióides de Ancylostomatidae. Strongyloides stercoralis não foi encontrado nas amostras estudadas. Praças e parques públicos do Chile apresentam riscos potenciais para aquisição de larva migrans visceral, ocular ou cutânea.
Descritores: Larva migrans, transmissão. Fezes, parasitologia. Cães.
Larva migrans syndrome is mainly caused by the ingestion of larval eggs or skin penetration of larvae from intestinal nematodes of dogs and cats. Toxocara canis is the major causative agent of visceral larva migrans (VLM) and ocular larva migrans (OLM). Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) is mainly produced by Ancylostomatidae larvae and Strongyloides stercoralis larvae, also originated in dogs, and can cause cutaneous lesions in humans. Clinical pictures of VLM and OLM vary from asymptomatic infections to severe liver, lung or eye involvement (Beaver & Jung, 2 1985).
In Chile (population: 15,200,000), the proportion of domestic canine population is 1 per 7 people. The country's biogeographical conditions range from arid desert in the northern regions through moderate and agriculture climate in central regions to cold in the last three regions. These climatic differences may affect the transmission of zoonotic diseases to humans.
The finding of Toxocara canis eggs spread by dogs is an indicator of the transmission risk of VLM or OLM in a certain biogeographical area (Mizgajka,4 1995).
The aim of the present study was to establish the transmission risk of VLM, OLM and CLM in public recreational green areas of Chilean cities and the role of dogs in the transmission of S. stercoralis to humans.
From November 2001 to December 2002 dog fecal samples were collected in 13 cities in Chile (Arica, Antofagasta, Illapel, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, San Felipe, Santiago, Rancagua, San Fernando, Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, and Punta Arenas), covering nearly the whole country. Dog fecal samples were collected directly from the grass of main squares or other public green areas in each city. All feces collected were considered as derived from dogs because they are the only quadruped domestic animals frequently seen defecating in urban public places in Chile. The minimum sample size to be collected (N=27) in each city was determined according to a previous study and it was widely achieved in most cities. Each sample was processed in the laboratory by centrifugal sedimentation and the Harada-Mori (H-M) method (Beaver & Jung,2 1985). Statistical significance was determined using Epi Info 6.0 program's Chi-square test.
A total of 126 (21.0%) samples processed by centrifugal sedimentation and 72 (12.0%) by the H-M method presented eggs or larvae of intestinal helminthies, respectively.
Positive samples corresponding to species, genera or families of intestinal helminthes detected by means of the observation of eggs in 600 samples processed by centrifugal sedimentation method were as follows: 31 T. canis (5.2%), 9 T. leonina (1.5%), 2 Dipylidium caninum (0.3%), 31 Trichuris sp. (5.2%), 1 Ascaris sp. (0.2%), 42 Ancylostomatidae (7.0%), and 10 Taenidae (1.7).
The Figure shows the location of the cities studied and the frequency per city of samples with T. canis eggs: Arica (2/50) 4.0%, Antofagasta (1/50) 2.0%, Illapel (5/50) 10.0%, Viña de Mar (0/27), Valparaíso (5/40) 12.5%, San Felipe (3/44) 6.8%, Santiago (1/54) 1.9%, Rancagua (2/27) 7.4%, San Fernando (4/50) 8.0%, Concepción (3/49) 6.1%, Temuco (2/50) 4.0%, Valdivia (2/50) 4.0%, and Punta Arenas (1/54) 1.9%.
Ancylostomatidae larvae detected per city by the H-M method were as follows: Arica (1/50) 2.0%, Antofagasta (0/50), Illapel (4/55) 7.2%, Valparaiso (4/40) 10.0%, Viña del Mar (0/27), San Felipe (0/44), Santiago (0/54), Rancagua (2/27) 7.4%, San Fernando (12/50) 24.0%, Concepción (4/49) 8.2%, Temuco (20/50) 40%, Valdivia (10/50) 20%, and Punta Arenas (0/54).
The frequency of samples with Ancylostomatidae larvae detected in cities in the northern half of the country (Arica, Antofagasta, Illapel, Viña del Mar, Valparaiso, San Felipe, Santiago) compared to the southern half (Rancagua, San Fernando, Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, Punta Arenas) were as follows: 9/320 (2.8%) and 48/280 (17.1%), respectively. The cities from the southern region presented a higher frequency of Ancylostomatidae larvae (p<0.01).
S. stercoralis larvae were not observed in the fecal samples examined.
In all 13 studied cities, with the exception of Viña del Mar, T. canis eggs were found in 1.9 to 12.5%, with an average of 5.2%. These findings show that T. canis is widely distributed in the whole country. In playgrounds of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, T. canis eggs were found in 10.8% of the samples examined (Araujo et al,1 1999).
The biogeographical characteristics basically temperate temperatures and humid soils of the southern half could facilitate the transmission of Ancylostomatidae infection from dogs. On the other hand, the rainless weather of the northern extreme of the country contributes to reduce the presence of this parasite. In Campo Grande, Brazil, Ancylostomatidae eggs were detected in 56.8% of the samples studied (Araujo et al,1 1999).
Human strains of S. stercoralis can infect dogs and epidemiological observations suggest that dog strains can infect humans (Grove & Northern,3 1982). The absence of S. stercoralis larvae in the examined samples and in studies of autopsied dogs (Oberg et al,5 1979) suggest that recreational areas do not play an important role in the transmission of strongyloidiases to humans in Chile.
T. canis and Ancylostomatidae eggs extensively contaminate recreational areas (squares and public parks) of the studied Chilean cities, being a potential risk factor for transmitting VLM, OLM, and CLM to people who circulate in these playgrounds.
Control measures for dog zoonotic nematodiases should be implemented in Chile to reduce the transmission risk of VLM, OLM and/or CLM in playgrounds throughout the country.
To Dr Jorge González of Parasitology Unit, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, and María Isabel Jercic of Parasitology Reference Laboratory, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile for their laboratory support and assistance.
1. Araujo FB, Crocci AJ, Rodriguez RGC, Avalhaes I, Miyoshi MI, Salgado FP. Contamination of public squares of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, by eggs of Toxocara and Ancylostoma in dogs feces. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 1999;32:581-3.
2. Beaver PC, Jung RC. Animal agents and vectors of human diseases. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1985.
3. Grove DI, Northern C. Infection and immunity in dogs infected with human strain of Strongyloides stercoralis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1982;76:833-8.
4. Mizgajska H. Toxocara spp. eggs in soil of public and private places in the Poznan area of Poland. Acta Parasitol 1995;40:211-3.
5. Oberg C, Franjola R, Leyán V. Helminths of the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) in Valdivia City, Chile. Bol Chil Parasitol 1979;34:21-6.
Correspondence to
Rubén Mercado
ICBM - Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
Casilla 9183 Santiago, Chile
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Received on 21/8/2003
Reviewed on 12/1/2004
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In the Americas neighborhood, 35.5% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.7%), and 13.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Americas neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 77.8% of households. Some people also speak English (21.4%).
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In the Americas neighborhood in El Paso, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (88.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.2%). In addition, 15.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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Here most residents (90.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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Queen Victoria's appreciation of German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) began after she saw portraits by him of other European monarchs. Accordingly, between 1842 and 1861 he made fifteen visits to England and painted over 100 portraits of Her Majesty, the royal family and other friends and dignitaries.
In 1843 Winterhalter was commissioned to paint matching portraits of Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort. These originals hang in the Garter Throne Room at Windsor Castle and are part of the UK Royal Collection. Many legitimate copies of Winterhalter's portrait were produced and presented to the Parliaments of the British Empire, including the Parliament of Victoria. Such copies are referred to as "After F. X. Winterhalter" and artists responsible include William Corden and John Prescott Knight. When creating copies, artists were not restricted by the size of the original portrait. Walterhalter's original is 2.7m x 1.7m whereas copies can reach an impressive 4.5 metres in height.
The portrait that hangs in Queens Hall at the Parliament of Victoria is not signed. Comparison with other copies of the work suggest that the Parliament's painting may have been completed by William Corden. The Government Art Collection (United Kingdom), has a Queen Victoria copy in their collection and Parliament's portrait has similar traits. A copy by John Prescott Knight which hangs in the Legislative Council in the Parliament of Tasmania is quite different, particularly with reference to the shape of the young Queen's face, which is rounder in the Corden portraits.
This portrait of Queen Victoria was presented as a gift by the British Government to the Parliament of Victoria in April 1860. Painted on fine linen supplied under Royal Warrant by the workshop Winsor and Newton, London, the frame has been embellished with elaborate wooden carvings.
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Framed portrait, oil on linen, of Queen Victoria. Victoria is posed in front of a curtain partially obscuring a building (possibly Buckingham Palace) in the background.
Timber frame with a layer of gesso and decorative composition ornaments. There are rose, scotch thistle, clover leaf and Acanthus ornaments. A carved wood and composition element crown, resting on a tassled pillow sits on top of the frame.
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Canvas unsigned. Verso printed: 'WINSOR AND NEWTON / Rathbone Place, London'.
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