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On Georgia Douglas Johnson's Poetry
Eugenia W. Collier
In 1918, she published The Heart of a Woman, poems exploring themes especially meaningful to women. With this volume, Johnson became the first widely recognized African-American woman poet since Frances E. W. Harper. The Heart of a Woman is about love, longing, disillusionment, and loneliness. The poems reflect frustration with the strictures of women's prescribed roles. In 1922, she published a second volume, Bronze, which concerned racial themes.
In 1928, she published a volume of poems, An Autumn Love Cycle, which returned to her earlier explorations of feminine themes. This volume is considered her best because of its mature treatment of the theme of romantic love and because of its skillful use of form. Her much-anthologized "I Want to Die While You Love Me" is in this volume.
Johnson continued to write, but publication became increasingly difficult. In 1962, she published Share My World, poems containing the wisdom culled from a lifetime of experience. She remained active into her eighties, until she died suddenly of a stroke in 1966. Because her papers were not saved, much of her work was lost.
Georgia Douglas Johnson's poems are skillfully crafted lyrics cast in traditional forms. They are, for the most part, gentle and delicate, using soft consonants and long, low vowels. Their realm is emotion, often sadness and disappointment, but sometimes fulfillment, strength, and spiritual triumph. Yet Johnson herself was never otherworldly. She remained in the forefront of political and social events of her time. Her plays were moving portrayals of the tragic impact of racism upon African Americans. Frequent themes in both her poetry and drama are the alienation and dilemmas of the person of mixed blood and the goal of integration into the American mainstream.
From The Oxford Companion to Womens Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Oxford University Press.
Winona Fletcher
["The Heart of a Woman], the title poem of the volume is also the first poem in it, suggesting that it was intended to set a particular tone for the collection. Johnson depicts "the heart of a woman" as a roaming figure, alien to its environment, which finds its place about the "turrets and vales" of life; disappointed with exploration, it returns to a reclusive existence ("enters some alien cage") and "breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars." The heart of a woman, therefore, is presented as a pathetic creature unable to secure for itself a place in the world; it is attracted to withdrawing from that harsh, unnurturing environment.
"The Heart of a Woman" does coincide with the flights of imagination characteristic of the poems Johnson has composed. They abound with dreams; nature (its beauty and its changes); love or pain too acute for expression; wordless kisses; loneliness, seclusion, and isolation; the transitoriness of existence; lack of fulfillment; and brief moments of bliss.
From The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 51: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris. Copyright © 1987 by the Gale Group.
Gloria T. Hull
The Heart of a Woman . . . does "lift the veil" from some of "woman's" less smiling faces. Clearly, she is aware of the oppressiveness and pain of the traditional female lot. Her title poem, which opens the volume, begins the revelations with its metaphor of a woman's heart as a bird that wings "forth with the dawn" over "life's turrets and vales," then
... falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
The use of "alien cage" and "sheltering bars" is especially notable here. She makes a similar point in "Smothered Fires," where "a woman with a burning flame" keeps it covered through the years, suppressing the baleful light that would perforce arise, and in "When I Am Dead," whose speaker, having "longed for light and fragrance" and yet dwelt "beneath willows," eschews a hypocritical "blooming legacy" on her funeral bier.
She explicitly crystallizes these moods in an iambic tetrameter quatrain entitled "Foredoom":
Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight,
Her very days were shades of night,
Her every dream was born entombed,
Her soul, a bud,--that never bloomed.
Here, and in similar poems, one might play it safe and read "objectively." However, the import and poignancy of the works are intensified if they are viewed as masked autobiographical utterances of the author herself. Often--in fact, too often for chance--there are references to dead hopes and dreams and a living, coupled aloneness ("Omega," "Despair," "Illusions," "My Little Dreams," etc.). Confronted thus, it is difficult not to recall her childhood ambitions and to wonder what other visionary yearnings she may have been forced to renounce, especially when she uses musical imagery, as in this first half of "Dead Leaves":
The breaking dead leaves 'neath my feet
A plaintive melody repeat,
Recalling shattered hopes that lie
As relics of a bygone sky.
Many of these poems are quietly seditious. What is missing from them, however, is a spirit of something other than articulate helplessness.
Equally as striking are the glimpses GDJ gives of her mystical, cosmic spirituality--the limitlessness of the soul ("Elevation"), reincarnation ("Impelled"), and the total connectedness and unity of all ("Modulations").
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[A] second volume entitled Bronze: A Book of Verse, rolled off the presses of the B. J. Brimmer Company, Boston, in 1922. The key to critiquing Bronze is a biographical statement that GDJ herself made in 1941 to Arna Bontemps:
My first book was the Heart of A Woman. It was not at all race conscious. Then some one said--she has no feeling for the race. So I wrote Bronze--it is entirely racial and one section deals entirely with motherhood--that motherhood that has as its basic note--black children born to the world's displeasure.
Consequently, much of Bronze--which is her weakest book--reads like obligatory race poetry.
In Bronze, GDJ assumes the role of spokesperson for a downtrodden but rising black people. She even prefaces her writing with an "Author's Note": "This book is the child of a bitter earth-wound. I sit on the earth and sing--sing out, and of, my sorrow. Yet, fully conscious of the potent agencies that silently work in their healing ministries, I know that God's sun shall one day shine upon a perfected and unhampered people." In a manner that this note presages, the ensuing poems tend toward a precious self-consciousness and poetic obliquity. In fact, the dominant image for the entire volume is that of the "mantle," meaning the cloak of "darkness" surrounding the black race: "Sonnet to the Mantled," "The mother soothes her mantled child," and "Cheering the mantled on the thorn-set way"--for example. However, despite its indirectness and conciliatory tone, Bronze belongs to the early spate of 1920s black literature that spoke more vociferously of black determination to overturn racial prejudice. Considering GDJ's makeup and the prevailing notion of appropriate womanly behavior, it is difficult to imagine her handling the theme in any other way. Grimké wrote more directly of racial concerns, while Dunbar-Nelson was also reticent in her poetry and short stories but bold in her other work.
CDJ apportions the sixty-five poems of Bronze into nine separate sections--"Exhortation," "Supplication," "Shadow," "Motherhood," "Prescience," "Exaltation," "Martial," "Random," and "Appreciations." This establishes a general movement from despair and entreaty to confident determination. The final division consists of poems and sonnets of praise to martyrs in general and to specific individuals such as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, W. E. B. DuBois, Emilie Bigelow Hapgood (philanthropist), Mary Church Terrell, May Howard Jackson (sculptor), and so on. When not fulsome, they are stately tributes, with some of the concluding couplets being particularly graceful:
O Alleghanies, fold him to your breast
Until the judgment! Sentinel his rest!
It is also interesting that here GDJ treats motherhood. (Only two of her poems in Heart touched on children.) In "The Mother," there occurs what is possibly the most dramatic image in the book: "Her heart is sandaling his feet."
Throughout, GDJ works in a variety of forms (many more than before)--sonnets both Shakespearean and Italian, iambic heptameter lines, her usual quatrains, and even a few free-verse poems. One work, "Hegira," manifests a notable attempt at technical innovation. The initial stanza questions black people about their northern migration; the remainder answer the query in detailed and passionate language:
I have toiled in your cornfields, and parched in the sun,
I have bowed 'neath your load of care,
I have patiently garnered your bright golden grain, in
season of storm and fair,
My sons, deftly sapped of the brawn-hood of man, self-
rejected and impotent stand,
My daughters, unhaloed, unhonored, undone, feed the
lust of a dominant land.
Using these techniques, she is able to write a number of effective, sometimes strong, verses--"Calling Dreams," "Prejudice," "Laocoon," "Little Son," "Hope."
Focusing in on other poems also turns up points of interest. There is "Aliens," a neo-treatment of the tragic mulatto, who is called in the poem "the fretted fabric of a dual dynasty."
Excerpted from a much longer chapter in Color, Sex, & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Gloria T. Hull.
Claudia Tate
The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems has been label by anthologists and scholars alike as "a book of tidy lyrics" that voices "the love-longing of a feminine sensibility" (Hull, 157). However, beneath Johnson's ostensible concern with the "intensely feminine" "secrets of a woman's nature" (Braithwaite, vii and ix) is her persistent depiction of a soaring human imagination, her own. Despite disappointment and an unrelenting awareness of mortality, despite the confinement of convention, Johnson records moments of intense introspection and sensuality in lyrics characterized by their evanescence. As Gloria Hull has also noted, the dreams, dead hopes, sympathy, and pain depicted in this and the other collections of Johnson's verse are not simply lyrical monuments dedicated to universal feelings but "masked autobiographical utterances of the author herself" about unfulfilled desire (158).
Heart begins with Johnson's most anthologized poem"The Heart of a Woman": . . . If one fails to heed the figuration of this woman's heart, as did the male critics of the Renaissance, this heart is presumed to be defined by feminine pathos. A close reading of this poem, however, reveals that Johnson portrays this female heart not as pulsating corporeality, seeking physical love, but as the classic incarnation of the unfettered imaginationthe soaring birdfound in Romantic poems like Wordsworth's "To a Skylark." Hence, by identifying this heart with a bird, "soft winging, so restlessly on," Johnson associates a woman's heart with the traditional image of the poetic imagination, probably with the hope that feminine heart and poetic imagination would appear not simply as complements but as synecdoches for one another.
By caging this bird in the last stanza, Johnson clearly invokes the caged bird of Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy." While Dunbar's birdlike poetic spirit "beats his bars and would be free," Johnson's spirit, burdened with sentiment and obligation, "tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars" and surrenders to "the sheltering bars." Dunbar's influence on her writing is evident, but no one seems to have noticed the allusion, no doubt because Dunbar was depicting the limitations of race, while Johnson addressed gender confinement. And yet both of them would agree that "the world was an affair of masks."
Johnson's public persona would only allow the feminist in her to peek out from behind the veil of the lady. She seems only to have nurtured her feminist critique in her unpublished works and in her pseudonymously and posthumously published stories. What becomes immediately apparent on examining Johnson's life is that she did not make her complicated social and sexual attitudes the explicit focus of her writing. Neither did she allow her extensive circle of gay, lesbian, and bisexual black artists to inform her writing. She seems to have possessed what late-twentieth-century scholarship defines as a feminist sensibility and sensuality. She refused to subscribe to a patriarchal sexuality that designated women as male property and that condemned homoeroticism as immoral, although she reined in these transgressive attitudes in her writing within a Victorian ethos.
Johnson's preoccupation with the emotional tenor of the female domain suggests that she used The Heart of a Woman and her projection of feminine comportment to solicit the appellation and role of "the lady poet" for herself in the unfolding drama of the New Negro Renaissance. Because she laid claim to the feminine domain of poetic expression from the vantage point of the lyrical wife and mother, and because she wrote more poetry than her black female contemporariesAnne Spencer, Jessie Fauset, Helene Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-NelsonJohnson gained recognition as the premier woman poet of the New Negro Renaissance. Unfortunately, this self-selected domain offered her, little opportunity to develop her verse outside its parameters. Johnson's emphatically self-determined feminine voice, subject matter, and demeanor also invited early anthologists to regard her work as feminine effusion and to segregate the work of other women writers similarly. By appropriating "the heart of a woman" as the domain of female poetic expression, Johnson handed anthologists a gendered category that reified the segregation of male and female writers in anthologies as distinctive gendered voices throughout most of the twentieth century.
from The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson. G. K. Hall & Co., 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Claudia Tate
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Driving down our road is beautiful any time of the year. It is a source of many photos and much inspiration. This spring my husband and I were driving by our neighbor's property and noticed that they had planted a whole field of something. Hmmmm….is it soybeans…what is it. After the plants got about a foot tall, we realized that they were sunflowers. A whole five acres or so of sunflowers! Anticipation of their blooming grew each time we drove by. Finally the day arrived! It was disappointing to find that they all had their pretty heads facing away from the road. In order to see them from the front, you have to get out of your car and walk into the field. Which is exactly what I did.
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Pet stores often get their puppies from so-called puppy mills, where dogs are held in small cages and used repeatedly for breeding and eventually euthanized when they have outlived their usefulness.
Spaulding has teamed up with anti-puppy mill campaign led by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals, who put up money for the billboard.
Spaulding has also started a rescue group she calls The Underground Tail-Road, with the goal of "building better communities through the human-animal bond."
Cori Menkin, the senior director of the ASPCA's Puppy Mills Campaign, said that there are several puppy mills in North Carolina.
"There has been a recent spree of puppy mill busts in the past year, and the state seems to have become a safe haven for them," Menkin said.
The ASPCA has been lobbying for a state bill since 2010 that requires mills to be inspected. Without it, the state can expect the puppy mill industry to grow here. Menkin said the bill also has standards like cage size.
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The current bill is receiving opposition from The Farm Bureau, The Pork Council, The National Rifle Association and The American Kennel Club.
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Spaulding said her next project is to "educate our college population because they don't know." Most college students are unaware of where pet store puppies come from, and she hopes to show them the sad reality.
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WarioWare: D.I.Y. lets budding young game designers with short attention spans make their own video games. Sure they may last less than 10 seconds, but that's enough for some. How does professional video game maker Ron Carmel do?
Carmel is one half of the team that made the WiiWare and PC indie hit World of Goo, co-founder of 2D Boy. What does he do when give the microgame making toolbox that is WarioWare: D.I.Y.? Well, he makes a blink and you'll miss it spin on his own game, titled "Suck Goo!"
It's about as simplistic as a WarioWare game can get—one tap and you're done—but it's also a good illustration of the style one can bring to their do-it-yourself creations.
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This is Clockwork, my fifth major K'nex ball machine, and my largest and most complex K'nex structure to date. It took 8 months to build, has over 40,000 pieces, over 450 feet of track, 21 different paths, 8 motors, 5 lifts, and a one-of-a-kind computer-controlled crane, as well as two computer-controlled illuminated K'nex balls.
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Save the date! Our 11th international conference will be held from 6th to 10th July 2022 at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
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10th International PWS Conference
The local hosts for the event were the Cuban Society of Human Genetics (SOCUGEN).
Havana, 13-17 November, 2019
This was IPWSO's 10th international Prader-Willi syndrome conference. We hold these meetings every 3 years, each time in a different country. The conference was divided into four streams: Clinical and Scientific, Parent and Family, Professional Providers and Caregivers, and Activities for People with PWS. This time, significantly, our conference was held in Havana, Cuba. Cuba has been an important part of IPWSO's large 'family' of 105 members and the progress made by a few families and dedicated professionals is fantastic.
We were joined by 500 delegates from 43 countries worldwide, including 200 people from Cuba.
Highlights for us included a really strong Scientific programme, a huge interest in the Caregivers' programme (we needed a bigger room!) and the enthusiasm and interest of the Cuban families.
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Our President Tony Holland, was interviewed by the BBC along with Loisel Bello, one of our key Cuban organisers and some of the Cuban families. The story was broadcast on 26th December 2019.
The Latin American group of specialists
This conference was our first to be held in the Spanish speaking world and our Board member Amalia Balart brought together the Latin American delegates for a really productive and exciting meeting on the Friday of the conference. We hope this group will continue to flourish.
Looking forward to 2022!
The conference ended in the traditional way with our General Assembly and the vote to choose our next conference location. We were delighted to receive strong bids from India, Ireland, Malaysia and Thailand. Ireland was voted in first place and we are already working with their team to plan for July 2022.
Celebrating the IPWSO travel scholars!
Thanks to funding from the Friends of IPWSO (USA) we were able to offer financial assistance to 11 delegates to attend the Cuba conference. Many people applied for this funding and we were sorry not to be able to support more of them. The delegates came from countries around the world including Georgia, Mexico, Bulgaria and India and also came from diverse backgrounds including professionals and families.
Read their reports here.
Amongst the travel scholars was Esther Maina PhD who travelled to Cuba from Kenya (Esther is pictured here with Tony). Esther has been concerned about the lack of PWS diagnosis in the East African region and has been working with paediatricians in Kenya to find out more about the true reality for children with PWS in the area. Esther told us,
"Attending the 10th IPWSO conference was most enriching for me personally and as a scientist... The sessions enabled me to foster discussion and strengthen connections between myself and my proposed research work and the other participants, with the aim of establishing a support group for the parents and care givers back in Kenya."
If you are able to donate to IPWSO to enable more travel scholarships to future conferences do let us know.
Depending on availability of funds, IPWSO offers scholarships to attend our conferences. Contact us to keep up to date with conferences, workshops, meetings, and scholarship grants.
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Has your Association or Organisation thought about hosting an IPWSO conference? Over the years these have been hosted in the Netherlands, Norway, Italy, USA, New Zealand, Romania, Taiwan, UK, Canada and most recently Cuba. Ireland will host in 2022 but maybe your Association would like to start thinking about 2025!
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There are plenty of people clamoring to read Cissy Houston's tell-all about her daughter Whitney Houston — but Whitney's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, isn't among them. In fact, she says she and her boyfriend Nick Gordon want "nothing to do with it."
"ANYTHING concerning mygrandmothersBook. I& @nickdgordon OFCOURSE personally haveNOTHING2dowith. I ask youplsRESPECT tht.Haven't read&won't," Brown tweeted on Jan. 31.
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A beautifully painted old door adds magical charm to a garden. What a fun project!
This clever piece of garden art was made from a pipe and faucet from a hardware store,
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Garden chandeliers with votives from Ruffled blog found via Pinterest
garden chandeliers with wire, chain, and a handful of old crystals?
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Am I the only one feeling a little bit bummed about the modern makeover LA's historic Union Station is set to receive?
Union Station was build in 1939—a combination of Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture, Mission Revival and Streamline Moderne, on a grand scale that afforded it the nickname of "The Last of the Great Railway Stations."
Its interior, beautifully preserved even today, is decorated with travertine marble and terra cotta tiles, rich leather upholstery and high, wood-beamed ceilings. Enclosed garden patios flank either side of the main hall. The station is well-preserved relic of old Los Angeles; it could be mistaken for a movie set.
This is all about to go away, though, because today it was announced that the architects Grimshaw + Gruen beat out five other internationally recognized firms to redesign the city's downtown rail station. And their prize-winning proposal is quite a departure from the building's current concept.
A futuristic path of serpentine structures that seems to take no interest in the city's history or culture, the planned remodel is mainly in the service of accommodating more passengers and high speed rails. The design itself is not terrible. But neither is it so stunning as to warrant effectively abandoning the original building. [Ed. note: language has been changed to reflect the fate of the original station, which we do not know is being destroyed, necessarily]
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.98 n.10 Pretoria Oct. 2008
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Male circumcision and HIV infection
Clutching at straws to prevent the HIV/AIDS epidemic has included strident advocacy for male circumcision (MC) from some quarters, especially following three randomised controlled trials from South Africa, Kenya and Uganda in 2006 - 2007 that show a protective effect of MC. Three contributions in this SAMJ contest the value of MC in the prevention of HIV.
Connolly and colleagues1 analysed a sub-sample of men aged 15 years and older who participated in the first population-based survey on HIV/AIDS in 2002. Of the men 35.3% were circumcised. The factors strongly associated with circumcision were age >50, rural blacks and speaking SePedi or IsiXhosa. Blacks were significantly older (mean 18 years) compared with other race groups (3.5 years). Among blacks, circumcisions were mainly conducted outside hospital settings. Since they found that circumcision and HIV were not associated, they concluded that MC had no protective effect in the prevention of HIV transmission. They also noted that most circumcisions among indigenous ethnic groups in South Africa are conducted under unsterile conditions.
Non-therapeutic, non-religious circumcision is the surgical procedure most commonly published about. Sidler, Smith and Rode2 note that substantive indications for the procedure are lacking and review the evidence for the possible value of neonatal circumcision in reducing HIV infection rates. They cite reviews that question the necessity of non-therapeutic infant circumcision, showing that it has neither short- nor long-term benefits, and other reports that circumcision does not prevent sexually transmitted diseases. On this basis they conclude that neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision to combat the HIV crisis in Africa is neither medically nor ethically justifiable. Furthermore, promoting circumcision might worsen the problem by creating a false sense of security and therefore undermining safe sex practices. Education, female economic independence, safe sex practices and consistent condom use are proven effective measures against HIV transmission.
The accompanying editorial by the Myers team of father and son3 largely concurs with the findings of the two papers. They therefore suggest that the duty of parents may to be err on the side of caution, and defer the procedure until the child can make an autonomous decision. At a societal level MC may be unjust in so far as it could compete for resources with more effective and less costly interventions and disadvantage women.
Namaqua dwarf adder bites
Case reports are rarely accepted for publication in the SAMJ even if they comprise more than one case, as in the report on Namaqua dwarf adder envenomation by Bryan Maritz.4
However, we found several compelling reasons to publish this one, namely that it has pretty pictures (on the cover and in the article), and that we learn something about nature along the west coast of southern Africa and that the Namaqua dwarf adder (Bitis schneideri) is also dealt with in the pet trade. However, most importantly, the 4 cases described appear to comprise by far the largest series published to date and thus add considerably to our knowledge on the subject. Readers will be reassured that the venom is generally not dangerous and very unlikely to result in fatalities in human victims.
BCG surgical complications
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunisation at birth is recommended for all asymptomatic infants in South Africa, irrespective of HIV exposure. While acknowledging the risk of disseminated BCG and not recommending BCG vaccination for children with symptomatic HIV infection, the national policy does not take into consideration the fact that most vertically transmitted HIV-infected neonates are asymptomatic at birth. Karpelowsky and colleagues5 provide a case series of 17 HIV-infected patients with surgical complications of BCG vaccination. They conclude that the risks of BCG vaccination in HIV-infected infants are significant, that current recommendations are not satisfactory, and that a change in policy is required to prevent the harmful effects of this vaccine in a high-risk group of patients. There is a need to stratify patients and vaccinate them according to a protocol that takes impaired immunity into consideration.
Media altruism
Bad news dominates the media to the extent that we almost become immune to it. So some good news is refreshing, and Chris Bateman, SAMJ news editor, relates how Carte Blanche, the hard-hitting M-Net television investigative programme, embarked on a R20 million fund-raising blitz for children's hospitals to mark their own 20th anniversary.6 The huge success of the Red Cross Children's Hospital Trust in obtaining public support to serve the children of this country also serves as an inspiration to others.
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1. Connolly C, Simbayi L, Shanmugam R, Nqeketo A. Male circumcision and its relationship to HIV infection in South Africa: results of a national survey in 2002. S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 789-794. [ Links ]
2. Sidler D, Smith J, Rode H. Neonatal circumcision does not reduce HIV/AIDS infection rates. S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 762-766. [ Links ]
3. Myers A, Myers J. Rolling out male circumcision as a mass HIV/AIDS intervention seems neither justified nor practical. S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 781-782. [ Links ]
4. Maritz B. Namaqua dwarf adder (Bitis schneideri) envenomation. S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 788. [ Links ]
5. Karpelowsky JS, Alexander AG, Dix Peek S, Millar AJW, Rode H. Surgical complications of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection in HIV-infected childen: Time for a change in policy? S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 801-804. [ Links ]
6. Bateman C. Media 'knight' breathes life into paediatric icu's. S Afr Med J 2008: 98; 740-744. [ Links ]


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TopGear Test Track
Some say it used to be a Canadian airfield during WWII, and that one corner is named after easy listening music—all we know is, it's called the TopGear test track, and it's fully rendered and available for play in several configurations, all based upon the Stig's real-life playground at Dunsfold Aerodrome and the setting for the show's "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment. What makes this track so special (other than it being featured on a hit BBC car show)? TopGear worked with Lotus to overlay a challenging course onto the old airfield, and each corner is designed to test various aspects of a car's set-up, like Chicago: a "steady state corner" contrived to test your mettle by drawing out over- or understeer hiding in an unsorted chassis. From Hammerhead down to the famous Gambon left-hander, the track faithfully translates the difficult course into a fully immersive experience perfect for any die-hard TopGear fanatic. Did you remember to keep the throttle pinned through the Bentley sweeper? Fire up the replay to check your technique, watching from the top of the tire stack as you rocket through, just like in the show. Don't let the track's fame fool you—it's technical enough to provide challenges for any player.


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Angry over the lack of full, upfront funding for his border wall with Mexico, President Trump reportedly threatened to shut down the government in September.
Politico reports that Trump "fumed to senators and his own staff" at a private meeting Monday about the $1.6 billion in border wall funding the Senate is planning to provide. The president reportedly wants a lump sum of $25 billion for the wall, rather than piecemeal annual funding. The $1.6 billion figure came from a request made by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Politico notes, though OMB has since asked for $2.2 billion instead.
Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of (R-WV) Richard Shelby (R-AL) reportedly both tried to explain to the president that Senate number was set to meet Mulvaney's request and that Senate Republicans must work with Democrats to get the 60 votes needed to pass a spending bill.
The bottom line, from Politico's Burgess Everett: "Whether Republicans can convince Trump that he's not going to get what he wants on the wall will determine whether the congressional spending process can stay on track or a shutdown showdown is likely right before the midterm elections."


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Moderate quake rattles Canada's Vancouver Island
A moderate earthquake struck off Canada's southern Pacific coast early Sunday, rattling parts of Vancouver Island.
There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Earthquakes Canada said the 5.7-magnitude quake hit about 6:20 a.m. local time. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the same magnitude and said it struck about 96 miles (108 kilometers) south of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.
Earthquakes Canada said the quake was lightly felt across the northern part of the island.
Bonnie Overland, a resident of Port Alice on Vancouver Island, said she was awakened by the shaking but thought it was her dog scratching the bed.
"It lasted a few seconds and we absolutely felt it," she said.
John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, said quakes are common in the region as it is at a fault area where the Juan de Fuca Plate meets the Explorer Plate.
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University Laboratory Store
9430.1 Lab Stores
The goal of the University Laboratory Store (Lab Stores) is to provide commonly used laboratory items to university departments in a convenient and cost effective manner.
9430.2 Lab Stores Catalog
A Lab Stores catalog is available on line at http://www.wright.edu/administration/stores/labstores.html. The catalog lists the items that are stocked in Lab Stores, as well as the cost of each item. Periodic additions or deletions from inventory may occur between on-line catalog updates.
9430.3 Prices
Prices listed in the Lab Stores catalog are approximate and based on market prices at the time of listing. Actual prices are computed with each purchase and appear on the departmental monthly Financial Report.
9430.4 Purchasing from Lab Stores
To purchase an item from Lab Stores, an individual should use the Lab Stores Supply Form, which is available for a nominal charge through the Department of Printing Services Paper-Plus order process (http://www.wright.edu/print).
9430.5 Returning Merchandise
An individual should contact Lab Stores if an order needs to be corrected. The individual should provide a receipt and a reason for returning or exchanging merchandise. A Lab Stores Supply Form is also used for issuing credit for returned items. Items purchased from Lab Stores may be returned to Lab Stores. However, items purchased over the Internet or from other outside sources cannot be returned to Lab Stores. Items not purchased in Lab Stores will be returned to the vendor at the department's expense.
9430.6 Back-Ordered Items
Staff in Lab Stores will indicate on the Lab Stores Supply Form when items are temporarily out of stock and will notify the requesting department by telephone when replacement stock has been received in Lab Stores.
9430.7 Deliveries
Delivery arrangements for large items and bulk purchases can be made, on a limited basis, by calling Lab Stores (775-2550). The requesting department should verify merchandise against the delivery copy of the Lab Stores Supply Form and inform Lab Stores of any discrepancies as soon as possible. Requests for delivery of merchandise should be made 24 to 48 hours in advance of the desired delivery date. Lab Stores staff do not make deliveries to the university's off-campus locations. However, Lab Stores staff can coordinate deliveries to authorized off-campus university locations through the university courier service.


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LP Field security and the Tennessee Titans announced a new game day safety policy that will be in effect for the UK-WKU game on Aug. 31.
According to the release, the policy affects restrictions on the size of bags that are permitted into LP Field — not the items that you normally need to bring to a game. Each fan may carry in their pocket items such as keys, makeup, combs, phones, wallets, and credit cards, and may also continue to carry a blanket or jacket into the stadium.
The release says LP Field security strongly encourages fans to not bring any type of bags into the stadium. However, certain bags are permissible and those exceptions are listed below. Fans will be able to carry the following style and size bag, package, or container at stadium plaza areas, stadium gates, or when approaching queue lines of fans awaiting entry into the stadium:
– Fans may carry in a small clutch bag or purse approximately the size of a hand, with or without a handle or strap. (See link below for more details.)
– Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and do not exceed 12" by 6" and 12" or
– A one-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar).
– An exception will be made for medically necessary items, including seat cushions, after proper inspection at Gates 1, 5 & 7 designated for this purpose.
– Diapers and wipes must be carried in a clear bag. Each member of a family, including children, will be able to carry an approved clear bag and a clutch purse, providing ample storage capacity.


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With These Cuts, We Can Get Back to Business
By Jim Cramer
About this article:
So what, gold? So what, dollar? Get this economy moving with the little inflation we have, ex oil and ex corn, and we are in great shape. I know the hawks will try to chop off this gain. I know I just missed 200 points in the Dow. But I have to tell you that things are now better. We need these rate cuts. We can't sell a lot of homes — despite the fire sales — and we need the fixed-income world to get back to earth. We need people to lend. We need people to feel better. And now they will. This is the exact opposite of what the bears want. It is crushing them. Too bad.
No Jim, it isn't crushing us. It is saddening to us. Unfortunately these cuts don't actually fix anything, all it does is introduce more (virtually) free money into a system whose problem is that it has already lent out too much free money.
The bubble contracted a bit, but it's still a bubble, and all that has happened is the Fed has traded pain for the banks into pain for the average hardworking American who is going to have to deal with massive inflation in the weeks/months/years to come as foreigners with trillions of dollars realize that it just doesn't pay to keep buying (or retaining) a currency whose sole backer is so willing to water it down.
Good work Jim, keep the charade going. That's your job.


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Developers are now receiving a new beta of OS X Mountain Lion.
Just before Thanksgiving Apple promised those signed up to the AppleSeed program that the newest version of OS X would be with them this week.
Mountain Lion 10.8.3 features updates to AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, and the Graphics Drivers. According to a report on iFans, it is the graphics drivers that Apple is flagging up as problematic in this build. That site claims Apple lists various drawing issues as potential problems, for example, using the Command+Tab shortcut to switch between programs may result in icons being improperly rendered in black.
According to data released at the beginning of November, one in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion. A 'supplemental update' to Mountain Lion was released to users last week. This update is recommended for all Mac systems introduced in 2012 and Apple says that Supplemental Update 2.0 "addresses an issue with Keychain that can affect 2012 Mac systems."
Apple appears to be testing Mac OS X 10.9, according to data appearing in analytics logs. According to reports, Apple's OS X 10.9 may be called Lynx (like the UK brand of deodorant, named Axe elsewhere), and will have Maps and Siri integration, according to new reports.
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"It's not pessimism; it's reality. The numbers take you to the answer," Doubleline Funds' Jeffrey Gundlach stated empathetically at the outset of an exclusive interview with AdvisorOne on Friday at the Strategic Investment Conference in Carlsbad, Calif.
Gundlach (left) was reacting to the notion he might be considered a "perma-bear" given the negative outlook he just delivered on the global economy. The conference, jointly hosted by alternative investment firm Altegris and Millennium Wave Investments, was economist-heavy in its speaker lineup, with Gundlach one of the few fund managers to offer insight (PIMCO's Mohamed El-Erian being another). Nonetheless, a theme among all speakers was a defense against charges they are overly pessimistic, with most countering it was just an honest look at "the numbers."
"CNBC had a show hosted by David Faber of which I was a part," Gundlach said. "About the fifth show in he turned to me and said, 'I think I've figured you out; you go with the numbers.' And that's exactly it; it's good to be positive, but people cling to being positive to a fault."
When debt issues with Greece first surfaced, Gundlach said it took him "about 12 seconds" to realize that the nation was facing default.
"Every person on my team said 'No way, it would not happen.' It was a knee-jerk reaction because no one wants it to happen and the brain can't get itself around the possibility. But looking at the numbers, there was no possible way Greece could service that debt as a base case scenario and, therefore, something had to give."
He referred to recent commentary by conference co-sponsor and speaker John Mauldin, president of Millennium Wave Investments. Mauldin referred to Nazi Germany, and the point at which threatened individuals and families decided to leave.
"Half of them never left, despite what they were seeing right before their eyes," Gundlach said, referring to Mauldin's piece. "People don't want to believe the worst.
"All I said are these things are happening," he added. "Call it pessimism if you like, but you better be prepared for how policy choices now being made will be harmful to what you are doing."
Specifically referring to said policy decisions, Gundlach said he is "amazed" when commentators say the Fed could possibly raise interest rates in 2012 or 2013.
"The people who say this are so out of touch. Why would the Fed ever do that?"
He then described the current crop of prognosticators as falling into two camps; those that believe current volatility is an aberration and periods of relatively low volatility—like 1995—were the norm. The second camp comprises those that believe the opposite; 1995 was the aberration and more volatility is on the way.
"It's clear the second camp is winning the argument," he said.
Moving on to the latest employment report, released Friday, that showed a slight decrease in the unemployment rate widely attributed to a drop in the number of individuals looking for work, Gundlach said it was a bleed-off of the temporary increase in employment due to unseasonably warm weather.
"If unemployment falls below 8%, it will be favorable to Obama's reelection," he added, in reference to the upcoming Presidential election.
As to where he is currently finding alpha for his shareholders, Gundlach claimed a classic value play.
"I like things that are out of favor," he answered. "I like things that are down, like natural gas. This next one will shock you, and I don't have fundamentals to back it up, but I think speculators should buy the Spanish stock market. A breakup of the eurozone would benefit periphery countries like Spain."
Speaking recently to a group of investors gathered at the New York Yacht Club, Gundlach said he asked how many in the room owned Apple shares, and almost every hand went up.
"That was amazing to me. Their earnings are impossibly good, so it becomes a classic value play; there is no way they will not disappoint. Then I asked about natural gas, and maybe one hand went up. Yes, a lot of negatives have been mentioned about natural gas lately, but they've already been priced in."


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Are you thinking about selling your business? Have you ever gone through the process before? Are you confidant that you can do it yourself? Where would your time be better spent, running your business at peak performance while trying to sell it, or focused on the advertising campaign, networking, negotiating, and coordinating the closure of the sale of your business? Maybe you should consider doing what you do best, running the business, and search out small business brokers and let them do what they do best, sell businesses. If you go that route, here are 7 tips to choosing a business broker that makes sense for you.
1. Don't get lost in the shuffle
You want your broker to have a proven record and a great reputation but you don't want the organization to be so big that your deal is passed off to a junior staffer. You want the active involvement of the principals.
2. Do your due diligence
You're about to engage the services of someone that is going to have a big impact on your financial life. Make sure you are comfortable with the relationship. Check with the International Business Brokers Association and see if your broker is a member in good standing. Follow up on the references provided and determine just how satisfied past clients are. Check with your local better business bureau and see if there are any unresolved complaints.
3. Use a specialist
Real estate agents and other professionals sometimes hold themselves out as business brokers on a part time basis. You want someone who makes their entire living selling businesses full time. Preferably somebody who has experience in your particular industry and someone who can point to successful sales they have made for your competitors.
4. Avoid heavy up front fee structures
Typically a business broker will charge between 10% and 15% of the sale price as a fee. While it is customary for them to ask for some up front fees to initiate the process, avoid those brokers who are looking for greater than a third. Also make sure that the up front fee is deductible from the sales fee when the business sells. Following this advice will save you from having to invest a ton of cash before you actually sell the business.
5. Only contract for the business selling services
Smaller business brokers will offer accounting and legal services that you will need during closing for an additional fee and these services are typically outsourced by the broker. It may be to your advantage to contract for those services directly leaving the broker with only the requirement to focus on the selling process and not generating add on fees.
6. Share your expectations
Before you select a broker you should have at least a general idea of what you want to accomplish by selling your business. You should have a rough valuation number and you should know if you want a cash sale or stock. Share this with the broker and see if he agrees with your plan. While there probably will be differences in valuation, your broker should be in tune with the rest of your objectives. If he's reluctant or believes that it will be difficult to achieve your goals, find another broker.
7. Keep the whole process confidential
The last thing you want to do is let the word that you are seeking a business broker or that you are in negotiations with a buyer leak out. Once it becomes common knowledge that you are selling, your relationships with your employees, customers, vendors and bankers could be adversely affected. Have an exit plan for after the sale that includes sharing the news with all those listed above.
Using business brokers to help sell a business is usually the smart route to take for any business of substance. You want your organization to have as much "curb appeal" as possible during the process and that means you should be focusing your time on optimizing the business not chasing down buyers.


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Newtown officials seek location of time capsule at Sandy Hook school before building's demolition
NEWTOWN >> The whereabouts of a time capsule buried in 1980 at Sandy Hook Elementary School has become a mystery that Newtown officials are trying to solve before crews demolish the building where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed.
First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra told The News-Times of Danbury she recently learned about the time capsule, which purportedly contains artwork, pictures and other school mementos.
Llodra and school officials are seeking people who were fifth-graders at Sandy Hook in 1980 and who remember where the capsule is buried.
Town officials have approved a plan to demolish the school and build a new one on the same property, but residents still need to vote on the proposal. If approved, the school would be torn down by the end of the year.
Llodra said that if the time capsule is found, officials will have to decide whether to open it or rebury it to save it for a future generation.
"It would be interesting to see what's in that time capsule — 11-year-olds writing about the future, things that they wanted people to know about their school and neighborhood," she said.
Sandy Hook students have been attending a school renovated just for them in the neighboring town of Monroe since the Dec. 14 shootings. Gunman Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot the 26 victims and himself, after killing his mother at their Newtown home. The motive remains unclear.
A final state police report on the massacre is expected to be released in the fall.
Newtown residents, meanwhile, are scheduled to vote Oct. 5 on whether to accept a $49 million state grant to build a new school on the same 12-acre property. Approval of the plan would clear the way for the 56-year-old school to be razed and for planning and designing of the new school to begin.
Llodra said the time capsule is a treasure she would like to find before the demolition.


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NORTH KOREAN dictator Kim Jong-un is a fun-loving "kid" who would rather
listen to pop music than start a nuclear war, his new best friend Dennis
Rodman claims.
Instead of dreaming up ways to annihilate the West, the Supreme Leader spends
most of his free time watching American sports and listening to 1980s disco
tracks, according to the oddball retired US basketball star.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, multi-tattooed Dennis insisted: "Kim
is not one of these Saddam Hussein-type characters that wants to take over
the world.
"He doesn't want to kill anyone — he wants to talk peace."
And after letting slip that Kim might have recently fathered a successor,
Dennis added that the chubby despot is only being forced to act tough
towards the West by the menacing generals who surround him.
The former Celebrity Big Brother star last month became the first outsider to
hang out with Kim at his marble-clad palace in North Korean capital
And he claims he returned from his trip with a message of hope for
President Obama. He said: "Kim told me to pass on a message that he said is
very important. He said, 'Tell President Obama to call me. Because if we can
talk, we can work this out.' There is no need for war. Kim doesn't want to
bomb anyone.
"He loves basketball and so does President Obama, so they have that in common
— and there is even more they could talk about if Obama would just pick up
the phone and call him."
But whether the baby-faced dictator is capable of stopping nuclear war is
something Dennis admits he can't be sure of.
Despite being communist royalty — a demigod who is revered by his impoverished
people — Kim is seen by many as being nothing more than a puppet prince.
As the grandson of the late "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung — the man who founded
the West-hating state and whose birthday is still a national holiday there —
he became the automatic heir to the crown when his own father, Kim Jong-il,
died in December 2011.
But there have long been whispers that the real power lies with an
uncompromising military elite who continue to take a hard-line attitude
towards the West.
In the past month, 30-year-old Kim has been photographed leading army
exercises, while state media has announced the ending of the 1953 armistice
with South Korea — a historic move signalling a significant escalation
towards war.
At the same time, the regime has carried out rocket and missile tests, flexing
its muscles ahead of what some fear could be a nuclear showdown.
Dennis, 51 — who was in the country to film a documentary, Basketball
Diplomacy, about a game between the Harlem Globetrotters and the North
Korean team — did little to dispel the idea that Kim is a pampered pawn
caught up in a terrifying game.
He said: "Listen, you have to remember that he is just a goddamn kid. He's a
cool guy who wears everyday, regular clothes and likes music and sports and
"His grandad built all this s**t and then his dad built some more s**t but he
is a normal guy.
"I shook his hand and called him Kim — I didn't call him Prince or Supreme
Leader or anything. It is crazy what has happened to him.
"When I went to the basketball game with Kim there were 10,000 people in the
stadium — and for 25 minutes after he walked in they were clapping and
saying his name.
"He kept waving his hands for them to stop but they wouldn't.
"It was insane, they treat him like a god. But Kim is not one of these Saddam
Hussein-type characters that wants to take over the world.
"He doesn't want to kill anyone — and I am not kissing his ar*e, I am just
passing on his message.
"Kim's not talking about war. Have you seen him talk about going to war? He
wants to talk peace — he is serious about that.
"If he wanted to start a war he would have done it already."
Cross-dressing Dennis — who dyes his hair wacky colours, dated Madonna and was
briefly married to Carmen Electra — told how he was treated to a 15-course
banquet in the dining hall in Kim's palace — eating more fish, meat and
noodles than most North Koreans see in a year.
The basketball legend who, at 6ft 7in towered over the diminutive dictator by
at least 14 inches, sat at the head of the table, next to Kim and his
Christian Dior-loving wife, Comrade Ri Sol-ju.
She is a former singer who has reportedly caused huge controversy among the
strait-laced North Korean elite because of her musical background and
enthusiasm for Western clothes.
The couple are rumoured to have married in 2009 and to have two children,
although the secretive regime has never confirmed this.
However, Dennis said: "She's a beautiful woman, very elegant and quite tall
for a Korean — maybe 5ft 5in."
And apparently unaware he was revealing one of the paranoid regime's biggest
state secrets — whether Kim has an heir who can take over from him when he
dies — he added: "She kept talking about their beautiful baby daughter."
He continued: "The palace was amazing and there was marble everywhere — it was
very impressive.
"I won't tell you if the toilets were made of gold or anything like that, as I
promised Kim I wouldn't talk about that stuff. There is a lot of stuff I
can't talk to you about."
After the meal the group went into a grand ballroom, where they danced to
tracks by Michael Jackson and the Bee Gees.
Dennis said: "It was wackadoo. Kim loves 1980s disco music — he can't get
enough. There was an all-girl band playing and we were definitely getting
"I couldn't believe how much we had to talk about. He loves basketball and
told me he's worn my jersey — No 91 — every day since he was a kid.
"I mentioned Magic Johnson (a US basketball legend) and he asked who that was.
It was funny — he's too young to know about Magic Johnson!"
Dennis admitted he saw nothing of the poverty or oppression that has made
North Korea the world's most isolated regime. He said: "People say there are
prison camps but North Korea isn't alone in that.
"If you go to Korea or China you see people in the street who are always busy
too. They don't smile because they are busy. It's not because they are
He added: "I connected with Kim. He's as cool as hell. He has invited me back
to North Korea for a holiday in August for six days.
"I'm definitely going — I can't wait. I'll be staying in the royal palace."
Additional reporting: ANNETTE WITHERIDGE, in New York.
Profile: North Korea
POPULATION: 24.45 million.
EXECUTIONS: The State put to death 105 people between 2007 and 2011,
say Amnesty International.
PRISONERS: A US-based human rights group have estimated there are up to
200,000 political prisoners in North Korea.
CORRUPTION: Alongside Afghanistan and Somalia, it is regarded as the
most corrupt nation on Earth.
MILITARY STRENGTH: 1.19 million on active service, plus 189,000 active
paramilitary personnel and a further 600,000 reservists.


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24th October 2019
All Day
This term NXT Creatives has 5 different FREE opportunities for young people to participate in, locations are varied so make sure to get in contact for further details or if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.
- Boxing Futures – A fun, fast paced boxing class for young people aged 16- 23. Build your confidence whilst getting fit in a safe environment. Every Thursday from the 10th October to 19th December – 5:15- 6:45pm.
- Videogames – Want to learn about the world of videogames? How to play, make, write and talk about them? Workshops on design, streaming and esports. For young people aged 16- 23. Every Monday from the 30th Sep to 16th December – 5:15- 6:15pm.
- Up NXT – Got a passion within the creative industry? Up NXT will help guide you to utilise that passion productively. For young people aged 16- 23. Every Tuesday & Friday from the 1st October to 20th December – 5:15- 6:15pm.
- Leaders – An active and friendly performing arts service delivering sessions in dance, drama and singing. For young people aged 7- 18. Leaders will help develop your skills with teachers in the industry. Every Saturday from the 5th October to 21st December 11- 2pm.
- Today @ Apple – Come along to drop in sessions at the Apple store in Stratford City where you can learn to code, make your own theme tune and be taught how to take the perfect photo. For young people aged 10-18. Every Saturday from the 5th October to 14th December 11- 12/ 12:15- 1:15pm.
Ticket price: FREE
Event webpage: http://www.nxtcreatives.com/
Event email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Event phone: 07575053994
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To turn the tide of darkness, you must find the lost heir to the throne and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy all of Tamriel.
Create a bespoke character from a dazzling array of options, skills, races and attributes and step into the living breathing realm of Tamriel.
The Empire may be in peril but what you do next is up to you; do you quest to save the realm from doom as a brave and noble hero, or do you use your skills for personal gain and amusement while the world crumbles around you?
Warrior, thief, assassin, bard, wizard, priest, spy, devout pilgrim or any number of other paths your character could follow will illuminate a path through these troubled times, but whether you follow the path is up to you.
Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by acting legends Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, Terrance Stamp, and Lynda Carter, and an award-winning soundtrack.
Gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion's epic narrative at their own pace or explore the vast world in search of their own unique challenges.
• The award-winning series comes to PlayStation 3 complete with the "Knights of the Nine" added content
• Amazing free-roaming gameplay allows you to write your own destiny across the history books of Tamriel
• Jaw-dropping graphics and stunning AI brings this amazing sword and sorcery realm to life - explore dungeons, cities, castles and ruins, frequent taverns or hunt in the wilderness
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"Approaching Midnight," a movie about a young veteran returning from war who discovers corruption and death in his hometown, will premiere at The American Legion's National Convention in Houston.
The private screening of Approaching Midnight will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, in the George R. Brown Convention Center, General Assembly Theater, Level 3. Admission is free.
Around 60 Department of Michigan Legionnaires contributed to the 86-minute-long film, acting as extras and serving as consultants. In fact, Legionnaires wear their Legion uniforms during a scene involving the honor guard.
The catalyst of connecting the Legion with the filmmaker was movie-co-star Michelle Lynne Balser, the granddaughter of Staff Sgt. William Genette, who was a POW during World War II. Balser remembers visiting Oldenburg Post 216 in Milford, Mich., as a young girl.
One night after "Approaching Midnight" is shown at the Legion convention, the movie will make its public world premiere in Detroit. Part of the proceeds from that screening will be donated to Post 216. (A trailer for the movie may be seen here)
American Legion posts may purchase a copy of the film for one-time event screening as part of a fundraising effort.
Sam Logan Khaleghi – whose family moved from Iran to Detroit when he was very young – wrote, acted, directed and produced the movie. The American Legion talked with Khaleghi about his project and the Legion's involvement:
TAL: How did you first develop the concept for this story?
SLK: I loved military-themed dramas growing up, whether they were comedies, sci-fi themes. It didn't matter what it was. "Apocalypse Now," "Blackhawk Down," "Saving Private Ryan," "Battle Los Angeles." … For me, I wanted to tell a story about heroes. The everyday heroes that we have around us. People who don't share the same blood as you, but they shed the same blood as you. And tears and sweat. There's a mysticism and heroism in that group dynamic. And that's the kind of film I wanted to make.
TAL: Tell me about your character in the film, Staff Sgt. Wesley Kent.
SLK: There is a quiet to him, a very stoic nature to him. He's really not known anything else. He was promoted within the ranks during his tours, served right fresh out of college. He signed up with the idea that he would serve six, seven years and so when he gets back this quietness is starting to rumble a little bit.
TAL: How did you accomplish that in the film?
SLK: We looked at the character who is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army. And he's worked with special operations. This character is a trained soldier in the United States Army. He's going to walk with a confidence and a quiet, too. Knowing what he wants, he doesn't need to say it. Our strategy was to show you, by his actions, by the way he walks, by how he decides what to do. That's what leads to some of those thrilling moments in the movie.
TAL: What research did you do so the movie would be accurate?
SLK: The research was the real people we had involved. The American Legion members we had there and veterans from the recent conflicts who were there. So many of the actors and consultants were veterans. They were there to literally make sure that all the nitty-gritty details of how we walked, how we talked, and the uniforms were all accurate, or as accurate as we could make them due to budgetary restrictions. And we were able to do that because so many of the members of the Legion were involved. They were there to tell us, 'Hey, we would do this.' And we would say, 'Great, that's fantastic. Show us.'
TAL: Do you have an example of the lengths you went to in order to be accurate?
SLK: We shot a scene that takes place in Walter Reed, obviously we shot it at another hospital. We filmed it at a local working hospital in the Detroit area. But we dressed it to look like Walter Reed. We filmed a scene there and my character walked into the hallway and I put my cap on. And then one of the cast members who was a veteran was watching it and said, 'Sam, you have to re-film this scene.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' That means I need to go back to the hospital, get new permits, close it off, dress the scene again and do everything all over again just for that?' And he says, 'That's what you have to do because that's wrong. He would not have put his cap on inside while walking to an elevator.' We went back, completely re-filmed that scene to get that right because I didn't want anyone wondering why he was wearing his patrol cap inside. It was expensive to go back and film that but it was worth it.
TAL: What was the most interesting thing you learned during your research, writing and filming?
SLK: The most interesting thing that I learned was that I wanted to tell more stories. William Genette has an amazing story. He came back after being a prisoner of war who was pronounced dead. Years later, he knocks on the front door and his wife answers it, and he's 100 pounds lighter. All the veterans from that era have amazing stories. You hear one story and then another. Any one of these stories could be a 2 ½-hour epic that is adventurous and heart-warming and reaches a global, not just a national, audience. Talk about humanity and love. That's the greatest thing I learned in doing this movie: every single person has a hero in them.
TAL: What's going to be going through your mind at the world premiere in Detroit on Aug. 27?
SLK: Fear. (Pause.) What's going to be going through my mind is all those years of blood, sweat and tears. At the same time, it's like art imitating life. The cast and crew were very much like a platoon. We became like a family. There were a lot of fights and disagreements. But there was a lot of dialog, a lot of meetings a lot of laughs, all of those elements … That's what we went through. Remembering all those moments and being proud of what we're showcasing to the world.


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On the weekend of August 24th – 26th 2012, a 160k Reading and Leeds goers will be moshing, pogoing and - quite possibly - dancing to the names announced for the bill tonight.
As you will already discern from the headline, the bill includes At the Drive-In, Blood Red Shoes, Metronomy, SBTRKT, The Shins, Paramore plus main stage headline sets from The Cure, The Foo Fighters and the band all DiSsers love to hate Kasabian (but don't worry, they'll on at the same time as ATDI!). The NME/Radio 1 stage boasts headline sets from The Maccabees, Justice and did we mention At the Drive-in are playing?
This year's festival takes place at Little John's Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this:
Fri 24 Reading / Sat 25 Leeds
The Cure
Bombay Bicycle Club
You Me At Six
Crystal Castles
Angels and Airwaves
Coheed and Cambria
Cancer Bats
Deaf Havana
Sat 25 Reading / Sun 26 Leeds
Florence and the Machine
The Vaccines
Enter Shikari
The Shins
Odd Future
Mystery Jets
Blood Red Shoes
Sun 26 Reading/ Fri 24 Leeds
Foo Fighters
The Black Keys
Kaiser Chiefs
Bullet For My Valentine
All Time Low
The Gaslight Anthem
Eagles of Death Metal
Band of Skulls
Pulled Apart By Horses
Fri 24 Reading / Sat 25 Leeds
The Maccabees
Foster The People
The Courteeners
Sat 25 Reading / Sun 26 Leeds
At the Drive-in
The Cribs
Billy Talent
Miike Snow
Sun 26 Reading/ Fri 24 Leeds
Two Door Cinema Club
The Horrors
Sat 25 Reading / Sun 26 Leeds
Katy B
Azealia Banks
Jaguar Skills
+++++Loads more still to be announced.
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Chinese automaker Chery has teamed up with Argentine groupe Socma to build two models in Uraguay, presaging the invasion of the Sinomobiles in North America. The venture includes building both the QQ and the Tiggo SUV. The venture will be 51% backed by Chery, and the company with sell the South American-built models in the Mercosur trade bloc. The cars will be built in a plant owned by Socma, which constructed Peugeots and Fiats in the 1990s. Man, talk about a post with a complete lack of humor. Sheesh.
Chery to build cars in Uruguay [AutoIndustry, UK]
A Chinese Bee: Chery to Build Dodge Hornet? [Internal]


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Gregg: U.S. could be on path to a 'banana republic' situation
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A leading fiscal mind on Capitol Hill and a one-time Obama Cabinet pick sounded the alarm Sunday over the projected long-term financial challenges the country faces.
"This deficit is driven by us," New Hampshire Republican Sen. Judd Gregg candidly said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union when asked about the federal government's projected $1.42 trillion operating deficit for the 2009 fiscal year.
"You talk about systemic risk. The systemic risk today is the Congress of the United States," the Ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, "that we're creating these massive debts which we're passing on to our children. We're going to undermine fundamentally the quality of life for our children by doing this."
"Now you can't blame that on [former President] George [W.] Bush," Greg said, noting that using the Obama administration's projections the budget deficit for the next ten years is $1 trillion per year. And Gregg said that during the same ten-year period, public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product would increase from 40 percent - which Gregg called "tolerable but still too high" - up to 80 percent.
The figures, Gregg told King, "mean we're basically on the path to a banana-republic-type of financial situation in this country. And you just can't do that. You can't keep running these [federal] programs out [into the future] and not paying for them. And you can't keep throwing debt on top of debt."
"Standards of living will drop if we keep this up," Gregg also said.
After repeated promises from the White House that the final health care reform bill will be deficit neutral, Gregg said a Democratic plan to avoid otherwise automatic Medicare cuts without having a funding source for the projected expense of $250 billion over the next decade was "gamesmanship."
Asked about criticism leveled Sunday by former Republican-turned-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania that Republicans were being obstructionist in the health care reform debate, Gregg replied, "Well, I suppose he has to call us something now that he's left the party."
Responding to the Democratic charge that the GOP is "the party of 'no,'" Gregg pointed to Republican health care reform proposals including his own and another co-sponsored by Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Sen. Richard Burr, as well as a bipartisan proposal put forward by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Robert Bennett (R-UT)."
He's absolutely right about the fact that the shell game is being played, but he isn't acknowledging his own part in the game! Supports sending more troops to Afghanistan, payments for which are off balance sheet. Supports "paying for" extended benefits, but are they really "paid for" when there are huge deficits in other areas? It's all a shell game, a paper chase.
Our nation needs a party that knows how to say "NO!" That's called being an adult, when the children are always asking for candy, a GOOD parent knows how to say NO. Our government has grown out-of-control as there is no adult supervision to be found. Again, it can all be traced back to finances… SEPARATE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY FROM STATE!


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E-counselling can significantly lower blood pressure, improve lifestyle and enhance quality of life, says Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher Dr. Robert Nolan.
"E-counselling has the potential to strengthen the effects of medical treatment for high blood pressure," Dr. Nolan told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, which is co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. "We found that it led to an almost double decrease in the blood pressure levels of participants compared to those who did not receive the e-counselling."
The study investigated whether e-counselling contributes to improvement in blood pressure control over a period of at least one year and whether it helps to maintain improved quality of life as well as survival among persons with high blood pressure.
Dr. Nolan and his team from the University Health Network, University of Western Ontario and the Ontario Public Health Unit in Grey Bruce evaluated Heart&Stroke Health eSupport, a Heart and Stroke Foundation personalized action plan and e-mail support program developed to help people control their blood pressure and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Six million Canadians have high blood pressure − known as the silent killer due to its lack of symptoms. It is the number one risk factor for stroke and a major risk factor for heart disease.
The researchers found that e-counselling motivates people to stay on track with diet and exercise plans, which leads to lower blood pressure.
The moods of people coping with high blood pressure also improved while they were participating in the e-counselling program. Depression is known to have an adverse effect on patients with high blood pressure, says Dr. Nolan. It causes them to lose interest in eating healthy foods and exercising — two lifestyle choices that can significantly improve their health. "Knowing this, we wanted to look at the effect of e-counselling in terms of improving lifestyle behaviours, as well as decreasing blood pressure."
The study evaluated 387 people ranging in age from 45 to 74, over a four-month period. All had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and 72 per cent were taking one or more blood pressure medications.
One group was sent a standard e-newsletter from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, containing heart health information and general tips to manage their health. The second group received eight emails over four months that provided both educational information as well as motivational messages.
Prior to receiving the emails, the second group filled out surveys identifying what they wanted to change about their lifestyle, such as quitting smoking, improving their diet, or being more physically active. The emails then addressed their individual concerns and included tailored suggestions and personal encouragement to help them achieve their goals.
Participants in the study who received these emails recorded approximately double the amount of decrease in blood pressure, compared to subjects who received just the newsletter, Dr. Nolan reported.
"We found the e-counselling was associated with an improvement in both exercise and diet behaviour. The motivational component was therapeutic," said Dr. Nolan. "E-tools to promote healthy lifestyles are becoming an established success — it's the way of the future."
He notes that study participants ranged in age from 45 to 70. "This was a powerful tool to provide a connection to some of the older participants who were once isolated," says Dr. Nolan. "Seventy years ago someone would be standing in a doctor's office — flash forward to now and people's risks are being reduced in their own homes through the power of e-support."
He says e-counselling may prove to be a cost-efficient way to extend the reach of healthcare programs to people in need, without overtaxing the resources of our healthcare system. He noted that this issue will likely become a research priority if long-term health benefits of e-counselling are established.
"If you know and control your blood pressure, you can cut your risk of stroke by up to 40 per cent and heart attack by up to 25 per cent," says Heart and Stroke Foundation spokesperson Dr. Beth Abramson. "Lifestyle changes such as following a healthy, low sodium diet, being physically active, being smoke-free, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, and managing stress all reduce your risk."
She says this study suggests that e-counselling, paired with monitoring by a physician and the proper medication, is a promising trio for people dealing with high blood pressure.
With such encouraging results, Dr. Nolan and his team are currently exploring the benefits of e-counselling further with a larger and longer-term clinical trial.
"Our next goal is to study whether e-counselling may also help with adherence to medications for blood pressure control," says Dr. Nolan. "Ongoing support from an e-counselling program may be an effective way to provide education and encouragement to help patients maintain the benefit of their medical treatment."
The Foundation's Heart&Stroke Health eSupport™ (heartandstroke.ca/healthesupport) is a free, tailored email follow-up service which sends periodic emails to provide users with information and tips tailored to their current situation, helping them to move closer to making heart-healthy lifestyle changes.
Developed by experts, this interactive program creates personalized action plans for users by guiding them through a personalized risk assessment and identifying their personal risk of heart disease and stroke, and provides tips, advice and support to help reduce their risks.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (2011, October 23). E-counseling shows dramatic results in lowering blood pressure; Online tool motivates patients to maintain a healthier lifestyle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 26, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2011/10/111023135644.htm


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Winsted welcome sign dedicated with small ceremony
WINSTED >> The Redevelopment Agency spruced up a few streets with the hopes of increasing public morale. After a period of planning and seeking sponsors, the ribbon was cut on the first of four Welcome to Winsted signs.
Along with the representative from the Northwest Community Bank, the Redevelopment Agency held a dedication ceremony Thursday night. In front of a well-designed sign located at the Winsted Water Treatment Plant, nearly 20 people came to celebrate a pivotal move for Winsted.
"We want to give back to our community," said Sandra Conforti, assistant vice president and branch manager of Winsted's Northwest Community Bank. "That's something that we're very proud of."
Since Northwest Community Bank footed the bill for the sign, Cannavo allowed Conforti to cut the ribbon on the side.
"It really is our community's bank," said Theresa Cannavo, chairman of the Winsted Redevelopment Agency. "There are so many events that happen there and so many people coming together because of that bank."
Cannavo said getting the sign together involved months of planning but the pieces began to fall in place earlier this year.
"This is a project that went very, very smoothly once the right people took over," she said. "We're not afraid of hard work."
During the ceremony, state Rep. Jay Case presented former chairman of the Redevelopment Agency, Pamela Banks, with a certificate of appreciation.
"The really wonderful thing is that we're honoring Pam Banks for her year of volunteering on EDC and Redevelopment Agency both with a citation from the governor," Cannavo said. "We're very excited to do that."
Cannavo said the ceremony was a great way for the town to recognize volunteers.
"That's one thing that's not being done very well," Cannavo said. "There are a lot of down-heartened people and I think it's hard to stay motivated. I think today is just really encouraging."
Members of the Redevelopment Agency were joined by several sitting selectmen, members of the public, as well as the town manager.
"I think it's indicative of the volunteer spirit that's here in the town," Town Manager Dale Martin said. "We need more people to step up and have enthusiasm."
Martin said he thinks it's a nice gateway to the community and it will be a boost of moral to the town.
"Every little bit helps," he said.
Reach Mercy Quaye at 860-489-3121 ext 321.


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Not to be unfair or one sided but if a survey is made of all the resorts in Maldives and asked which employers are the worst, Jresorts will come to the bottom of the results. There is very little doubt about that. Its a combination of bad politics and corrupt business practices which views the workers as nothing better than paid slaves. This is in very contrast to the excellent service resort workers give to their high paying clients who blissfully are unaware that the workers who pamper them in their expensive holidays sometimes go without pay for months while they still retain the smile.
Our solidarity with the wronged staff of Alidhoo Cinnamon Island who were summarily dismissed for asking for their last month's salary. This sends a chilling message to honest workers who toil hard in resorts far away from family and friends that employers can still cheat and threat and getaway with everything and nobody seems to take notice!
Here are some background info about Alidhoo the resort, the parent company and the owner of the bussiness.
The owner:
Jresorts is owned and managed by Mr. Abdulla Jabir who is frequently referred to as a self made businessman from Huvadhooo Atoll. However like all creations of the state Mr. Jabir was also a creation of the former administration. Specifically Mr. jabir rose to prominence in tourism industry by association with Yameen the powerful minister who held many ministerial portfolios and half-brother of the Maumoon the last president. It could be safely assumed that almost all of Jabir's resorts were built, renovated or maintained by finances and materials from deals with the State Trading Organization whose board chairman was also Yameen at the time. So unlike most resort owners who struggled with finance arrangements, Jabir had an important friend at the right place and time. Mr. Jabir's wife the Diyana the current SAARC secretary general is not associated with his bussiness but its frequently noted in forums and local news that the position for Dhiyana was offered as part of a political deal to keep Mr. Jaabir away from ruling party politics. He is the only prominent politician/businessman in the country to have been in all major political parties, DRP, MDP, Jumuhooee Party, And People's Alliance (Yaameen's party) in so a short period of time. Basically he is an opportunist businessman involved in politics for the business interests like everywhere else around the world.
The resorts:
Jresorts currently owns Alidhoo, , KudaRah, Vatavarreha, Funamaudda among many other islands. The parent company of the islands is Yacht Tours Maldives. Past management deals and ownerships include Dhonveli Beach and Spa which has been sold to John Keels Holding Co of Sri lanka and Herethere which was leased from MTDC. The Herethere deal has since been abandoned after a sizable loss to everyone including the MTDC. Jresorts has also been awarded an island in lieu of a failed bid he presented to Vilivaru and Biyadhoo which was a precedent which has since not been replicated.


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Who will be crowned the fastest nation on earth at the Race of Champions Nations Cup? If you're just dying to know, then you're in the right place.
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