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founder and Chairman of the National Alliance, died on July 23, 2002, after a
battle with cancer lasting less than one month. Prior to his sudden disability,
Dr. Pierce maintained his 80-hours-per-week schedule of writing, broadcasting,
publishing, and organizing on behalf of people of European descent around the
world, a regimen which he continued almost without interruption for 36 years.
Standing far above his contemporaries, history will rank William Pierce with
Shaw and Nietzsche as a visionary who saw clearly what European Man could
become; and he will also be recognized as a great man of action who made
his ideals concrete in an organization, the National Alliance, which will
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How To Video Chat In Snapchat
Snapchat is a social media app and site which allows a user to photo message someone from the snapchat contacts. Snapchat has different features also. Video chat in snapchat is one of the feature that is found in any other typical social media app and other texting applications and so does snapchat.If you dont know How To Video Chat In Snapchat then follow the steps below.
How To video chat in Snapchat, you can follow these steps:
- So, you will need to open the Snapchat app in your device. As you open the app, the main screen opens the camera from where you need to swipe right and enter the chat screen or inbox screen.
- There you need to tap on the contact name that you want to video chat with. You will also see the chat history if you tap on it. Then the blank where you type will have some icons below it.
- Form those icons, you need to tap on the video recorder/ camera icon. If this is your first time video chatting with someone, tap Call on the warning about cellular data here.
- After that your call will be connected. He/she must be online to pick up your call and start your video chat. So, as they accept your call, you will be able to talk with him/her live and that is called video chat.
- If you want to hang up then you will need to tap on the same video icon for it.
Yes video chat is easy, but if he/she is not online and not receiving your call then you can leave the video note/ call to make them get your message or notice that you want to share. For that, you can follow these steps:
- Inside the chat box with that particular person, you need to press continuously that camera icon and start recording your video message. You can record the message you want to send.
- After recording, you will need to leave the finger away from the icon and your recording will stop. And the video message will be sent. He/she will receive it when they come online.
So, you can video chat in Snapchat easily or send a video notes as well.

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text: I have been playing with scene stamping recently, and this is my third attempt and my first one that I have finished successfully. I love playing with ink and colouring images. I have been learning a lot about this style of card making by watching Kevin's (who designed these stamp's) youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/stampscapes


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The only way into LOMBARTZYDE by car is from RUE DU CHÂTEAU BEYAERD (KASTEEL BEYAERDSTRAAT). The pool complex is 100m on the left at junction with RUE DU SOLARIUM(STRAAT). Also, do NOT turn into AVENUE DU ROI ALBERT (KONING ALBERTSTRAAT). This is a bus route only.


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As we continue to share our family journey we are excited to start something new: a VLOG! For our first episode we are sharing some big news about our plans this year. Please join us on this adventure. Watch the video below and click here for more details.


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'Brain gym' may exorcise Boomers' fears about aging
Marathon-happy Baby Boomers, those 78 million Americans born from 1946 to '64, were the first generation to make a religion of physical fitness. Now, they are investing time and money to maintain what's above their six-pack abs and rippling biceps: their brains.
"People are living longer, and they want their brains to keep up with their bodies," said Lisa Schoonerman, who is on top of the trend.
She and her life partner, Jan Zivic, have opened a "brain gym," called vibrantBrains, on Sacramento Street in San Francisco.
"Studies show that regular mental workouts are WD-40 for the brain," Schoonerman said. "It's preventative maintenance."
This is music to the rock 'n' roll-addled ears of Boomers, who are hearing that Alzheimer's disease is on the rise, largely due to increased longevity. According to a recent study by Johns Hopkins University, instances of the disease will afflict 1 in 85 people worldwide by 2050.
As they "rage against the dying of the light," Boomers are clamoring for goods and services designed to defy aging and sharpen mental skills. Top among them are brain-training computer software programs and video games, including Nintendo's "Brain Age," which has sold 10 million copies since it went on the market two years ago.
All the latest programs and more are on the menu at vibrantBrains, which Schoonerman and Zivic have created as a neighborhood resource center, with classes, lectures and author appearances, plus drop-in computer brain-training sessions.
"You can come on your own or be part of a group," Zivic said. While health insurers and retirement communities are beginning to invest in such software, the founders of vibrantBrains believe theirs is the first storefront brain gym in a commercial setting.
They offer memberships, just like a gym ($60 per month), and cite studies that show people learn best in group settings. The space is convivial, with a dozen computer stations, a retail area stocked with books and software and a sunny sitting room where tea and "smart" snacks like walnuts - rich in Omega-3 fatty acids - are in reach.
"It's a brilliant example of the rebranding of aging," said Mary Furlong, executive professor at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and author of "Turning Silver Into Gold: How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace."
"Boomers have always made their own mark on the culture, and now they have a 30-year 'bonus round,' " Furlong said. "They want to extend their vitality as long as possible. We are seeing the birth of new service industries ... and a lot of entrepreneurial opportunities."
The vibrantBrains enterprise was inspired by personal experience. Long before digital brain-training was available, Zivic, 65, founder of a San Francisco executive search firm, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car wreck.
She was about to be discharged from the hospital when internal bleeding and evidence of brain damage were detected. After surgery, she fell into a coma. When she awoke, her left side was "knocked out," she said. It took her 10 years to recover.
"My focus and my retention were affected, and my ability to multitask," Zivic said. When she returned to work, she couldn't even use the phone system.
She began researching brain health and nutrition, and trained with speech therapists and occupational therapists. "I saw everyone but a vet," Zivic said with a laugh. "My experience has a lot to do with what we're offering."
For her part, Schoonerman, 40, who formerly worked in legal publishing in England, delved into brain science after her mother was diagnosed with dementia. Her formerly socially active and dynamic mother began to show symptoms in her early 50s.
"It first presented as depression," Schoonerman said, but her mother's behavior became increasingly uncharacteristic. "She would get up from the table at a restaurant, sit down with people at the next table and begin telling them about her foot surgery. Eventually, it robbed her of her personality."
Children of dementia sufferers like her, Schoonerman noted, are eager to learn about care-giving and about ways to stave off the disease. They have found that, in little more than a decade, much has been learned about brain function.
Since the early '90s, studies like those of Dr. Michael Merzenich - of UCSF's Center for Integrative Neurosciences - revealed the brain's plasticity, which means that it continually adapts. On the heels of such studies, the market for cognitive-training products emerged.
Merzenich founded the Posit Science Corp. in 2003 and developed the Brain Fitness Program to strengthen neural pathways and speed up brain function.
Like other "neurobics circuit training" programs, the Posit Science Brain Fitness Program, available at vibrantBrains, has an array of exercises designed to stimulate parts of the brain. One is a sound-matching game that aims to sharpen clarity of memory; another hones visual memory cues.
In addition to the Brain Fitness Program, vibrantBrains has the local franchise for the UCLA Memory Training Course, designed by Dr. Gary Small of UCLA's Center on Aging.
And because stress is believed to affect brain health, it also offers stress-management software tools alongside cognitive workouts meant to build quantitative, reasoning and language skills.
The effectiveness of brain training is the subject of debate. While some scientists doubt that exercises can delay or thwart dementia, most agree they can sharpen particular skills, such as remembering lists of names or improving peripheral vision.
No interventions can reverse Alzheimer's disease once it has been diagnosed, said Anthony D. Wagner of Stanford University's Memory Lab.
Still, Wagner said, "There is a lot of hope that cognitive training software suites can assist the user and keep them spry. There are reports of some promise, but it has not been definitively shown that adoption of these programs results in the kinds of cognitive improvements that are broad in their impact and long lasting."
Another expert who is cautious about the claims of brain training and the potential of brain gyms is Sandra Aamodt of Davis, editor in chief of the online journal "Nature Neuroscience."
"My suspicion is that many of the aspects that are being brought together under one roof are things that people could do for themselves," said Aamodt, co-author of the forthcoming book, "Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life."
She dismisses the claims of longitudinal studies that point to the benefits of cognitive training. "The results are difficult to interpret, because positive behaviors tend to travel in packs," Aamodt said. "The same people who eat their leafy green vegetables are the same people who exercise and do other positive things for their health."
The best thing anyone can do for the brain, Aamodt believes, is take up physical exercise.
"Fitness training slows the age-related shrinkage of the frontal cortex," she wrote in a recent New York Times opinion piece. "People who exercise regularly in middle age are one-third as likely to get Alzheimer's disease in their 70s as those who did not exercise. Even people who begin exercising in their 60s have their risk reduced by half."
Despite the debate, the owners of vibrantBrains believe the need for their services will only grow as Boomers work later in life than members of previous generations and need to stay mentally sharp. They plan to replicate their "brain gym" model in other Bay Area neighborhoods.
"There is no guarantee that we're all going to be financially secure as we get older," noted Furlong. She believes people will do whatever they can - including getting a digital boost - to stay at the top of their game.
"It's like men coloring their hair," Furlong said, "just to look a little younger."
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Help line: (800) 272-3900
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Northern California Chapter offices:
Chico: (530) 895-9661
Lafayette (East Bay Office): (650) 962-8111
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Online resources
-- Alzheimer's Research Forum: www.alzforum.org
-- Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center, National Institute on Aging, United States National Institutes of Health: www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers
-- Posit Science Corp.: www.positscience.com
-- Dr. Gary Small, UCLA Center on Aging: www.drgarysmall.com
-- Brain Fitness for Life: happy-neuron.com
-- Reclaim Your Brain: www.lumosity.com
Maintaining your brain - 10 tips
1: Head first. Good health starts with your brain. It's one of the most vital body organs and needs care and maintenance.
2: Take brain health to heart. What's good for the heart is good for the brain. Do something every day to prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke - all of which can increase your risk of Alzheimer's.
3: Numbers count. Keep your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels within recommended ranges.
4: Feed your brain. Eat less fat and more antioxidant-rich foods (fish, leafy greens, whole grains, nuts).
5: Work your body. Exercise keeps the blood flowing and may encourage new brain cells. Do what you can - like walking 30 minutes a day - to keep both body and mind active.
6: Jog your mind. Keeping your brain active and engaged increases its vitality and builds reserves of brain cells and connections. Read, write, play games, learn new things, do crossword puzzles.
7: Connect with others. Leisure activities that combine physical, mental and social elements may be most likely to prevent dementia. Be social, converse, volunteer, join a club or take a class.
8: Protect your brain. Take precautions against head injuries. Use seat belts, unclutter your house to avoid falls, and wear a helmet when cycling or rollerblading.
9: Use your head. Avoid unhealthy habits. Don't smoke, drink alcohol excessively or use street drugs.
10: Think ahead. Do something today to protect your tomorrow.
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To be honest, one has been feeling a tad glum of late. Things have not been going too well for me work wise, however I'm all about positive thinking and looking at the bright side of life. I'm also into reading positive quotes and poetry of which I can identify with and generally doing everything I can to keep my pecker up. I've taken to writing a journal, and am having a bit of therapy to get any negativity out of my mind and must say this really helps. Whilst maintaining a positive stance, I decided to seek the positives in the home town that I reside in, as all too often we can become consumed with gloom. I hope that this will be useful for any one visiting or just a general reminder to my neighbours!
Here we go then, in no particular order.
1- The Racecourse. I'm no expert on racecourses, but I believe it to be a decent course. I certainly have a jolly good time whenever I go. I tend to go racing maybe three or four times a year. I've got a good mate who invites me to her box, and I get very merry on the endless champers. I love a day at the races, never win anything but it's a good craic.
2-The Corn Exchange. I love this little theatre, I prefer going to the cinema here too, it's much more intimate, and you can take a glass of vino in with you. I've been to many a production here, and the Pantomimes are hysterical at Christmas.
3-Highclere Castle. It's stunning and full of Downtown Abbey charm. Events happen here all the time. Its wonderful for the odd tour, also it's a fabulous Wedding venue.
4-The Vineyard Hotel. I of course have to mention this place. The hubster runs it, one of the most special places to dine, with the most amazing wine list. The bedrooms are luxurious, service is sublime. If they don't get a michelin star this year, then I'll be well miffed. The afternoon tea is awesome too.
5-The Woodspeen. Another lovely place to eat. Michelin starred, but very relaxed whilst being high end at the same time. One of the best steaks I've eaten demolished by moi recently. Really like this place, plus there is a cookery school too.
6-The Walks. There are plenty of local country walks, from The Chase at Woolten hill, to Snelsmore Common, to The Ridgeway. Great for the canine babies.
7-Golf. We seem to have an abundance of Golf courses. Donnington Valley is one of the best, but seriously there are loads to suit all budgets.
8-Spas. Again The Vineyard hotel and Donnington Valley both have lovely Spas where one can chill and luxuriate one.
9-Shopping. Well, this is a tricky one, as our Town centre is a bit of a patchwork. There are a few nice shops and chain restaurants, but also a few dire ones. It's probably best if you're going to venture into Town to park at The Parkway end. We have the usual favourites plus some goodish coffee shops. Waterstones has been revamped and worth a little pop into for a coffee and a flick through some pages.
- 10-Must say I'm struggling now! But Angelica's Terrace in Camp Hopson, Newbury's main department store is worth a little jaunt to. It's recently been refurbished and sells coffee, teas, Proscecco and Artisan products amongst other things. The furnishings are very glam, it's quite lovely and you can sit Al fresco on the terrace and look across lovely Newbury!


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Investors hoping that multibillion-dollar fourth-quarter writedowns would mark the end of the financial sector's woes need to keep hope alive.
The companies' balance sheets might look healthier in the wake of these writedowns, but the housing crisis is taking a bigger toll on other parts of banks' consumer businesses and that could mean more pain ahead.
"For all consumer credit, and I think we've pointed this out consistently, we see in home, auto, home equity, subprime, credit card, where home prices are down, delinquencies and charge offs are going up," JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon said on a conference call with analysts Wednesday.
Dimon said he expects home prices to continue to fall this year, somewhere in the range of 5 to 10 percent. And he doesn't see prices just falling in certain pockets of the country, but all around the U.S. He said his bank is prepared to deal with this, having increased its loan loss reserves by $2.3 billion to $10 billion dollars in the fourth quarter.
Echoing Dimon's statements that the housing market will continue to impact the consumer is San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
"We expect the environment to remain challenging in 2008, particularly in consumer sector," Wells Fargo's CEO John Stumpf said in a press release detailing the bank's fourth quarter results.
Both banks' fourth-quarter profits were impacted by the mortgage meltdown, and the ripple effect it is having on the consumer. JPMorgan's fourth quarter net income from continuing operations fell 21 percent, hurt by a $1.3 billion subprime-related writedown; Wells Fargo's net income fell 38 percent as its boosted its loan loss reserves.
On Thursday, the nation's largest thrift reports its fourth quarter results and they aren't expected to be pretty. Washington Mutual has already cut its dividend to shore up capital as it braces for more mortgage related losses this year. The mean estimates for WaMu's fourth quarter loss, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial, is ($1.36) a share, compared to the profit of $1.10 a share it reported in last year's fourth quarter.
Meanwhile, some investors expect a "kitchen sink" quarter from Merrill Lynch when it reports its fourth quarter results tomorrow. Under new CEO John Thain, the brokerage giant is expected to take a fourth quarter writedown of up to $15 billion dollars or more for mortgage-related assets.
Investors want to know if this will mark the end of the blood letting at Merrill, which took an $8.3 billion writedown in the third quarter. But as the banks' results suggest, this mortgage mess isn't a quick clean up.


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Alfred Russel Wallace | Biography of Famous Scientists
Alfred Russel Wallace discovered the concept of evolution by natural selection.
Although he is now rarely mentioned as the discoverer (Darwin is usually cited) Wallace enjoyed a very high reputation in his lifetime, and was awarded many of the most prestigious awards in science.
He was a highly original thinker and was not afraid to court controversy. Few biologists would admit to believing that the spirits of dead people are around us, but Wallace did! He was also one of the first biologists to express concern about the effects humans were having on the natural world.
Early Life and EducationAlfred Wallace was born in Llanbadoc, Wales, 8 January, 1823. His family were middle class, but they were not well off. His father believed he was descended from William Wallace, the Scottish warrior portrayed in the movie Braveheart.
Alfred Wallace attended a grammar school: these schools did not charge fees and were attended by children who passed an academic selection test. Wallace had no formal training as a biologist and did not attend university. He trained and worked as a land surveyor, initially with his older brother's firm.
Working outdoors, Wallace grew interested in the natural world and began collecting insects.
As his interest in insects grew, he became inspired reading about the work of naturalists such as Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, and Alexander von Humboldt: these were scientists who had traveled overseas gathering samples, data, and discovering new species.
Wallace's Travels
1. BrazilTo emulate his scientific heroes, in 1848, aged 25, Wallace embarked on a voyage to Brazil with the naturalist Henry Bates.
Wallace had little money and he intended to fund his work by collecting specimens in the Amazon for sale to British collectors and institutions. He also put his surveying skills to use, spending four years charting the course of the Rio Negro, collecting specimens, and making observations about the people and the languages he encountered along the way.
Wallace spent six years in Brazil before sailing back to the UK in 1852 with his collection of writings and specimens.
Unfortunately, the ship he was sailing on caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The passengers and crew abandoned ship and Wallace spent 10 days in an open boat before he was picked up. All the specimens he had brought on the ship were lost, along with most of what he had written and drawn.
Fortunately for Wallace, he had insured the specimens and he received money for their loss.
He now worked hard, writing six papers for academic journals and two books. He also spent time meeting and getting to know other British naturalists.
2. The East IndiesThe unfortunate end to his Brazilian expedition did not diminish Wallace's thirst for travel.
In 1854, aged 31, he set off on a new voyage: to Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and New Guinea.
This was a much more successful expedition than Brazil, and he discovered thousands of new species of beetle. He sent over 100,000 specimens of various species back to the UK.
He also observed how between two islands – Bali and Lombok – separated by a short stretch of water there was a big change in the animal life. This is now called the Wallace Line and marks a zone where Asian wildlife meets Australian wildlife.
The Wallace Line marks the zone where species from the Asian and Australian continents come together.
It was on this expedition that Wallace first described the theory of evolution.
Wallace returned to the UK from this expedition in 1862, aged 39.
The Theory of Evolution by Natural SelectionEven before he embarked on his first voyage to Brazil, Wallace was interested in evolution, writing:
I should like to take some one family [of beetles] to study thoroughly, principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species.
On this first expedition he realized that geographical barriers often mark species boundaries.
On his second expedition, in the East Indies, he suffered a tropical fever which caused him to have hallucinations. When he recovered, he found that the theory of evolution by natural selection had come to him.
He wrote:
As animals usually breed much more quickly than does mankind, the destruction every year from these causes must be enormous in order to keep down the numbers of each species, since evidently they do not increase regularly from year to year, as otherwise the world would long ago have been crowded with those that breed most quickly. Vaguely thinking over the enormous and constant destruction which this implied, it occurred to me to ask the question, why do some die and some live? And the answer was clearly, on the whole the best fitted live… and considering the amount of individual variation that my experience as a collector had shown me to exist, then it followed that all the changes necessary for the adaptation of the species to the changing conditions would be brought about. In this way every part of an animal's organization could be modified exactly as required, and in the very process of this modification the unmodified would die out, and thus the definite characters and the clear isolation of each new species would be explained.
And so the theory of evolution by natural selection was born.
As part of a continuing correspondence he was having with Charles Darwin, Wallace wrote a private letter to Darwin in June 1858 with an essay containing his theory of evolution.
Some people have suggested that Darwin stole Wallace's idea. Sir Fred Hoyle, for example, proposed that although Darwin had a huge amount of data from the natural world, he had been unable to put it together into a satisfactory formulation.
Hoyle's proposal is not supported by the majority of biologists and historians of science. Furthermore, Wallace and Darwin became friends. It seems unlikely a friendship would have been possible if Wallace believed Darwin had behaved badly to him.
When he received Wallace's essay, Darwin passed it to the geologist Charles Lyell and botanist Joseph Hooker, with whom he had previously discussed his own ideas of evolution by natural selection. Lyell and Hooker decided Wallace and Darwin's theories should be read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on July 1, 1858, and, to establish Darwin's priority, which Lyell and Hooker believed was proper, Darwin's should be read first.
An interesting question sometimes asked is: "How long would it have taken Darwin to publish his own theory of evolution, if Wallace hadn't sent him that essay?"
Should it be Darwin's or Wallace's theory of EvolutionToday we hear about Darwin's theory of evolution. In earlier times it was often called the Darwin-Wallace theory.
In 2002, recognizing Wallace's discovery, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said that we should be talking about the Darwin/Wallace-mechanism of natural selection.
AwardsWallace was one of the world's greatest biologists. He received the highest awards science could bestow, including: Royal Medal (1868), Gold Medal of the Société de Géographie (1870), Darwin Medal (1890), Founder's Medal (1892), Linnean Medal (1892), Copley Medal (1908), Gold Darwin-Wallace Medal (1908), Order of Merit (1908).
The EndAlfred Russel Wallace died aged 90 in Broadstone, England, 7 November, 1913. When he died, he was the most famous biologist in the world. Science historian George Beccaloni said of him:
"There were very long, glowing obituaries in all the world's papers from Bombay to Boston saying he was the last of the great Victorians. One of the papers said only a great ruler would have had the sort of level of obituary recognition as Wallace."


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An extraordinary scene unfolded in a Prince William County courtroom Thursday when a man confronted the T-ball coach who pleaded guilty to molesting him more than three decades ago.
Dennis Reed Dyer, 58, was sentenced to five years probation for an incident that occurred in 1978. He pleaded guilty to entering the bedroom of a 6-year-old player whose parents he'd befriended and inappropriately touching him.
That little boy called Robbie is now a man known as Rob, but he held a picture of his 6-year-old self as he stepped onto the witness stand. He said he threw off years of shame and fear and denial. He looked right at Dyer and said, "You did not win, and I am here to protect other children from you."
"I wanted him to be placed on the sexual offender list for what he did," Rob said. "It wasn't about me… I have a lot of friends and I see a lot of their pictures of their children, and to me, protecting them is a very important thing."
He said he spoke because he wants to encourage both child and adult victims to know they don't have to be afraid.
"It's just very important to come out and protect today's child, even from past predators, because they're still around and the still do what they do, and if somebody doesn't speak up, then they can continue to do what they do."
Dyer apologized in court, saying he made serious mistakes.
Prosecutors pointed out he had a 1985 conviction for a sex offense, but that was before the sex offender registry was created. The only way to get him on the registry was for Rob to step forward.
In addition to being placed on the sex offender registry, Dyer also is required to undergo counseling for sex offenders.


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Meta.Morf 2018 – Dangerous Futures
Stelarc (AUS) @Dokkhuset, Friday May 4 & Saturday May 5, 2018
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Devious Machines, Phantom Glitches
1. The Cadaver is reanimated, the Comatose is reawakened, the Cryogenic is revived, the Chimera is reimagined. And the Prosthetic Body is propelled into terminal trajectories. The dead, the near-dead, the brain dead, the yet to be born, the partially living and synthetic life all now share a material and proximal existence, with other bodies, machines and viral code.
3. Bodies become end-effectors of extended operational systems. Heads are amputated, excess limbs become accessible, senses are out-sourced. A rewired synesthesia not through the cross-wiring in one body, but a synesthesia experienced through the cross-wiring of senses from other bodies elsewhere. Telematically prompted, bodies are simultaneously possessed and performing. The Schizoid Body becomes the Split Body.
4. As computational systems become smarter, the best strategy is for our defective and dumb bodies to become increasingly more dismissive. To act impulsively, without constraint, to act intuitively, without anticipation and to act with sublime indifference, without expectations. Beyond intelligence and beyond affect. As alternate anatomical architectures.
5. Phantoms proliferate online. Phantoms become increasingly physical. Phantoms not as phantasmatic, but as phantom limbs. Phantoms as haptic interfaces. Phantoms flicker on and off as glitches in biological time. In the liminal spaces of proliferating Prosthetic Bodies, Partial Life and Artificial Life, the body has become a floating signifier.
6. Skins have collapsed onto screens. I caress your skin, I caress my screen. Wetware is flattened and stretched onto the smooth surface of glassware and embedded silicon chip circuitry. The space of screens is the realm of abstract information and extended scales beyond our subjectivity. Screens now have both optical and haptic thickness. Screens become fluid, interactive surfaces. The self is extruded, a radical emptiness emptiness is generated, not through lack but rather through an excess of its hyperlinks.
7. Bodies are now dissolving into circulating data streams of detached and distributed bio-data – embedded in vast machine systems of computational calculation, artificial and alien cognition. The monster is no longer the outmoded stitched up meat body, but the system that sucks the self into virtuality. What it means to be human is perhaps not to remain human at all at a time of digital contamination of the body's micro-biome. The pathological, the perverse and the monstrous become the poetic promise of the Phantom and of the Chimera. Fractal Flesh proliferates.
Photo: Ear On Arm, Venice International Performance Art Week 2016. Photographer – Piero Viti. Stelarc.
Stelarc (AUS) explores alternate anatomical architectures, interrogating issues of agency, identity and the posthuman. He has performed with a Third Hand, a Stomach Sculpture and Exoskeleton, a 6-legged walking robot. Fractal Flesh, Ping Body and Parasite are internet performances that explore remote and involuntary choreography. He is surgically constructing and stem-cell growing an ear on his arm that will be internet enabled. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and in 2002 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Monash University, Melbourne. In 2010 was awarded the Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts Prize. In 2015 he received the inaugural Australia Council's Emerging and Experimental Arts Award. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Ionian University, Corfu. Stelarc is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow, School of Design and Art, Curtin University. His artwork is represented by Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne.


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Struggling Cities Strike Deals to Solve Fiscal Problems
More cities are making private deals to save their finances. The results aren't always good. Plus, a map of financially-distressed localities.
Julien X. Neals doesn't sleep well at night. Even when Newark, N.J.'s business administrator nods off, it is, he says, "on a surface level where you are thinking, 'OK, how are we going to tackle this problem tomorrow?'"
The fitful nights are understandable. Newark faces fiscal challenges that are extraordinary. When Neals was sworn in more than a year ago, Mayor Cory Booker said he was counting on the new administrator to help guide Newark as it faced "one of the worst economic crises in our city's modern history."
Newark is hardly alone. The litany of economic woes are a fearsome foursome: persistently high unemployment, soaring pension and health-care costs, dwindling property values that have robbed cities of revenues, and cutbacks in federal and state assistance that have further eroded the revenue available to the cities.
The magnitude and depth of the problems are daunting. Several mayors have likened it to a generational event where local officials can't look back and say, "We've dealt with this before." It has been decades since anything like this has happened.
Faced with this reality, it's not surprising that city leaders may be open to new ways to finance their fiscal challenges. Some of these solutions may be brought to their attention by investment bankers who come to the table armed with an array of exotic—and often difficult-to-understand—financing tools.
That combination of cash-strapped local government leaders and aggressive dealmakers has produced a situation in which the inadequacy of the usual means of balancing the budget meets the risky road to immediate access to capital. That was at the heart of two of today's high-profile municipal struggles—Harrisburg, Pa., and Jefferson County, Ala. "So often politicians do not look long term; they are just looking to push the buck or the can down the road until they won't be responsible," says Daniel Miller, the city controller of Harrisburg, which is struggling with fallout from the unfortunate financing of an incinerator deal that left the city with a $317 million budgetary hole.
Even when the cutting-edge deal stems from a genuine try at solving long-term fiscal issues, experts in municipal restructuring say they worry that city leaders don't have the knowledge base to analyze the deals sufficiently. The lack of sophisticated investment analytical abilities puts them and their cities at risk of making ill-informed decisions or even of being taken to the cleaners. The level of sophistication when city leaders and Wall Street bankers come to the table is "wildly asymmetric," says David Johnson of Chicago-based ACM Partners, which advises a range of clients, including municipalities and their bondholders. As he describes it, when bankers and city managers sit down together, the bankers may face a city manager who has been doing municipal finances for 20 years, and possibly doesn't have an MBA. Meanwhile, the city manager is probably sitting across the table from three bankers who have a combined 500 transactions behind them. "I would never bet on the city manager in that case," Johnson says. "Not that city managers aren't good at what they do, but there is so much asymmetry. [They need help] to get through these complicated transactions."
While the terms of a deal can be highly technical,complicated and confusing, sometimes the deal-making leads to illegal conduct. For example, Jefferson County's municipal bankruptcy was precipitated by a combination of aggressive Wall Street bankers and local leaders on the take. At issue was a complex financing deal to modernize the sewer system.
An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the sewer deal revealed bid rigging, bribes and other misdeeds. The SEC settled charges with J.P. Morgan Securities, which forked over $750 million for illegal payments that it had steered to influential people in the county to help the firm win the bond deal. Some 20 city employees were convicted of bribery and conspiracy.
Part of the Jefferson County story is about corruption, but another part centers on the failure of leaders to understand the deals being pushed by aggressive Wall Street pitches. "When there is a need, the investment banking community will figure out a product to match it," observes David Hooks, chief of staff to Jefferson County Commissioner Jimmie Stephens. Stephens was elected in 2010 after the illegal conduct had occurred and is trying to clean up the mess as head of the Finance Committee. Hooks points out that city leaders often simply fail to ask questions when they don't understand the ins and outs of a deal. "Elected officials," he says, "never want to get embarrassed by looking like they don't know what they are doing."
It's a sentiment echoed by William Brandt, chair of the Illinois Finance Authority. Brandt, having talked with a number of people involved with the deal, reports that "there were too many meetings where nobody understood the true nature of the securitization, and there was a lot of illusionary language about what was going to occur that didn't."
Misunderstandings may stem less from the lack of a deep knowledge of the deal than from an eagerness for a quick fix. In late 2008, Chicago leased its parking meters to a Morgan Stanley-led partnership. Then-Mayor Richard Daley was trying to close a budget hole, and the deal called for Morgan Stanley to hand Chicago $1.16 billion in exchange for a 75-year agreement to lease and manage the meters. The transaction has since provoked outrage among residents who were subsequently hit with repeated hikes in parking fees.
The thinking of city leaders, says Brandt, was that the public-private partnership deal to lease the city's parking meters would gain the city a bundle of money. If that meant the folks who leased the parking meters were to triple, quadruple and, in some cases, quintuple the rates, so be it.
To Brandt's way of thinking, the parking meter situation could have been handled in a far better way if the mayor had the political will to raise the parking meter rates himself. Politically, "there would have been hell to pay," Brandt says, "but the city wouldn't have had to quintuple the parking rates. It could have tripled them and then sold that revenue stream into revenue bonds and probably come out in the same place and still owned the damn parking meters."
Subsequent reporting by Bloomberg News revealed that the Morgan Stanley partnership will receive at least $11.6 billion for the parking concession over the course of the deal, or 10 times what it paid. As to Chicago, Brandt says "it doesn't appear that the analysis on a best-practices basis or cost-benefit basis is getting done."
Not every deal is a bad deal. Even critics of privatization deals don't necessarily rule them out as an option. But they caution that privatization must be done smartly and transparently. Deals should not be cut behind closed doors.
Transparency, Newark's Neals argues, is the course his city has taken. Newark worked with New York-based Class Green Capital Partners, a firm that is a member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Business Council. It is a specialized municipal advisory firm that helps cities get low-cost capital through real estate and infrastructure properties that then undergo energy retrofits to make them more efficient. At the end of the 20-year lease, when the structures are returned to the city for $1, the projects are more valuable—and the cost of maintaining and running them is less.
In the sales-leaseback transaction with the Essex County Improvement Authority, Newark sold 16 buildings, including the courthouse and police and fire stations, to the improvement authority. The authority then issued a $73 million tax-exempt bond, with the buildings as collateral. Newark used roughly $40 million of the bond proceeds to plug the budget, $20 million to retrofit the buildings and do an environmental clean-up, and the remainder to pay down existing debt and transactional costs. "This not only preserved vital city services and jobs," Neals says, "but reduced by more than half an otherwise significant property tax increase."
It was not, of course, free money. Newark now has to take on an additional budget item: paying back bondholders.
Neals concedes that if the economy had not crashed, the city probably would not have done the deal, "but it was the best of some pretty bad alternatives." The new reality in the public sector, he argues, is that with rising health-care and pension costs "if municipalities didn't do something to plug budget holes as a bridge to try to cure structural deficits, they would go out of business."
The deal is one part of Newark's balanced approach that includes cutting city jobs and raising property taxes—a combination that has reduced the deficit from roughly $175 million in 2009 to $80 million at the start of 2012.
Class Green's co-founder and chief executive John Hirschfeld notes that the firm is in talks with about 20 cities that are interested in pursuing a similar course.
Not all budget mavens are sold on these kinds of one-shot deals in which city leaders sell or lease assets to cover a budget shortfall and saddle the city with debt for years—even with the advantage of the energy retrofit. "I wouldn't say no one-shots ever. You would like them to be financially and programmatically sensible," says Don Boyd, executive director of the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, a group evaluating the fiscal situation in five big states. "In general, the extraordinary pressure to do something other than raise taxes or cut services makes it very attractive to do things that don't make financial sense. Taxpayers ought to be wary."
Providence, R.I., like Newark, worked with Class Green and leased buildings used as collateral for bonds that generated $35 million, $30 million of which went to close its budget gap while about $5 million was earmarked for energy efficiency upgrades to the buildings. That deal prompted Rhode Island's revenue director, Rosemary Booth Gallogly, to raise concerns similar to Boyd's. "I am certainly not saying they should never be done," she says. "I just think when possible, they should be avoided, and when used, they should be part of an overall long-term plan."
The problem with the deals is that, though they solve a short-term problem, they push the bill for the solution down the road, says ACM Partners' David Johnson. When leaders earmark the capital for one-shot budgetary fixes, "they are selling the family silver," he says. "You need to use that to change your structure and not to just fill a one-time budgetary hole. Next year could be just as bad, and then what do you do?"
But Class Green's Hirschfeld counters that his firm encourages cities to devote a large portion of the proceeds of transactions to energy upgrades. By so doing, they can blunt, if not eliminate, the criticism that the transaction is primarily deficit financing. His company suggests that cities spend 50 percent or more of the proceeds of each transaction on actual upgrades to produce efficiencies and lower the net effective cost of capital of the entire transaction.
The lesson in all of this is that there are no magic financing techniques. Put another way, Johnson says, his advice to hard-pressed municipal leaders is: "Just because someone is coming to you with a bag of money doesn't necessarily mean the deal is in your favor."


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SONYS DIGITAL CINEMA MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH RECORD NUMBER OF 4K PROJECTORS SHIPPED; EIGHT YEARS OF CONTINUOUS GROWTHExhibitors of All Sizes Seeing Benefits of Sonys Digital Cinema Solutions LAS VEGAS, CinemaCon, April 15, 2013 Sony Electronics is driving the digital cinema conversion on all fronts. The worlds leading 4K digital cinema manufacturer is signing on new theaters at an unprecedented rate, and developing new solutions that are transforming all aspects of a theaters operations. Sony has shipped more than 15,000 of its 4K projections systems worldwide, including more than 11,000 in the United States, giving Sony an approximate 32% marketshare of total U.S. digital screens, according to Screen Digest. Sony also increased 4K product shipments in the U.S. during 2012 by 20% to complete its eighth consecutive year of growth. Sonys continued success comes at a time when 4K technology is gaining traction, especially in professional content creation. Sonys 4K camera line includes three models the F65, F55 and F5. Each camera is in use now shooting motion pictures, TV series, commercials, music videos, and documentaries -- and generating more 4K content. Combined with recent Sony innovations like 4K OLED monitors and Media Cloud Services, the 4K motion picture workflow is now more fully developed, completing an end-to-end 4K production solution that only Sony can deliver. Just as we did with 4K projection, Sony is leading the way in 4K content creation, said Gary Johns, senior vice president of Sonys Digital Cinema Solutions group. Movie-makers now have access to a full 4K production workflow, 4K content is now more widely available, and
exhibitors have more 4K programming options. The ultimate in image quality, which 4K represents, is now a reality in the entertainment business. Were proud to offer our customers a complete 4K solution. xMassif - Content Exchange Platform In addition to revolutionizing whats happening in the auditorium with its 4K projection systems, Sony is also creating a new model for exchanging and accessing alternative, independent and repertory content among content owners, exhibitors and promoters, in an easy to use and secure environment. The companys new content exchange platform xMassif -- is an online marketplace designed to provide exhibitors with a broad view of all content available and give content owners a standardized model for reaching exhibitors. The new platform is in trial programs to gather customer feedback, an approach Sony takes with all its new products and solutions. Entertainment Access Glasses Sonys Entertainment Access Glasses is a unique eyewear and receiver system that provides hearing impaired movie-goers with a more complete and enjoyable theater experience. Sony has shipped more than 6,000 pairs to customers including Regal Entertainment Group, Carmike Cinemas, Muvico Entertainment and Water Gardens. Theater Management System Sony continues to update its successful and widely used Theater Management System (TMS) software. The latest generation is a new version designed specifically for specialty or independent exhibitors with a low number of screens per site. TMS Lite will manage up to five projection systems and is designed to work with the new Sony SRX-R515P 4K projection system.
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As featured in our 5th edition of THE quintessential MAGAZINE: Nikki Tibbles, owner and Creative Director of the luxury London-based florist Wild at Heart. After an early career in advertising, Nikki Tibbles decided to conquer new frontiers and launched her very own flower workshop. Being deeply passionate about flowers and incredibly gifted with a natural sense for design, she was able to quickly build a reputation for exceptional quality and creativity. Twenty years later, Nikki Tibbles is one of Britain's most renowned florists with several stores in London and a nationwide delivery service. On top of that, she is an acclaimed event stylist and design guru. Our international photographer Nassima Rothacker met Nikki in her flagship store on Pimlico Road and captured some truly inspiring images …
Nikki works with thousands of clients each year, who come to her for the originality and personal touch that she has become famous for. For Nikki, Wild at Heart is 'more than just flowers', it is 'about a spirit of generosity and loving what we do, an understanding and appreciation of all our amazing clients'.
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7 objects: chair "Bunny", end table "Carrot", posters, poster with a curved corner (mesh by sweet-ambrosia), Easter egg, carrot, basket with Easter eggs and carrot.
3 Accessory: velvet ribbon (for the neck), bunny ears, bunny tail. Thumbnail in CAS and launcher.
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Success Stories!
Presently, there are 52,323 available homes for sale and in June 4,918 homes sold. The numbers are still showing us that only 10% of the market is selling each month, while the number of homes being listed for sale is still rising. The average Realtor in the Valley has sold one home this year, but our team has sold 86 year to date! I want to share with you some of our recent success stories…
13304 W Market – sold in 1 day
So what are we doing different? We are using the "Secret" and its working! The age old saying in Real Estate is price, condition and location, and no matter how many years of data we study, the numbers always lead us back here. The homes that meet these market conditions are the ones that sell. It's no different today and 10 years ago, so learning where to price your home is the key to selling or not selling.
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The annual keelboat teams grudge match of IRC and AMS keelboats took place over the weekend when the biggest and best yacht clubs on Port Phillip Bay put forward their best teams to win the prestigious Association Cup. This year the event turned out to be just one race (and a shortened one at that) that decided the event. The series was won by the Royal Yacht Club for the third year in a row with its team of 12 yachts from the new 55 foot grand prix Living Doll to the Noelex 25 Footloose all contributing. This year as with past years many of the boats contained familiar faces. I again helmed the Hick 31 Godzilla owned by Andrew Munro and partners with Doyle Sails Col Anderson calling the shots and sail trim. Our near sistership Wake had Peter Gale, Peter Taylor, Andrew Coutts, Dave Allan and sailmaker Mark Rimmington onboard.
North Sails Ross Lloyd was onboard Living Doll and Tony Bull from Quantum was on Shogun. Full marks to Shogun (ex Living Doll) for sailing down from Sydney for the regatta. Hopefully next year some wind so I can actually have someone on the windward side of the boat to chat to!


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Brighton 1930: Maureen O'Connell is a carefree girl, but her family is on the brink of tragedy, war is looming and life will never be the same again. Jack and Nelson have always been dear friends to Maureen. Despite their different backgrounds, they've seen each other through thick and thin. As Maureen blossoms from a little girl into a young woman, the candle she's always held for Jack burns bright. But just as she's found love, war wrenches them apart. The man she cherishes with all her heart is leaving. When the bombs start to fall, Maureen and her family find themselves living in the most dangerous of times. With Jack no longer by her side and Nelson at war, Maureen has never felt more alone. Can she look to a brighter future? And will she find the true happiness she's dreamt of? An utterly gripping and heart-wrenching story about the enduring power of love, hope and friendship during the darkest of days. Perfect for fans of Pam Jenoff, Nadine Dorries and Diney Costeloe.
First things first: the title. Isn't it beautiful? I absolutely adore it. I was worried: what if I didn't like the book? No one wants to say they dislike a book with such a beautiful title :O Fortunately, When We Danced at the End of the Pier was a truly enjoyable novel that I can't wait for you to read.
This is a story about family, friendship and love. A family saga that spans quite a few years and features Maureen, Brenda, Jack, Nelson, Monica, and Maureen and Brenda's parents. If I had to choose a favorite part, I'd say that the father story broke my heart (and it will break yours too). I desperately wanted to know what was going on, although I kind of suspected. He was a sweet and loving dad and I wanted him to get better. When We Danced at the End of the Pier is one of those novels where all the main characters are good-natured people and you can't help but root for them. They deserve to be happy (especially my little Brenda!)
Maureen was the protagonist and a classic goody two-shoes. I'm not saying she wasn't as interesting as the others (after all, she was the key of everything), but there were times when I wanted to sit down and talk to her, knock some sense into her. For example, she falls in love with Jack the very first time they meet and she already knows they're going to marry one day. She doesn't even tell him about it! I wanted to tell her that you can fall in love more than once, that there are different types of love, and that your teenage sweetheart isn't always the person you're supposed to be with. Maybe yes, of course, but not always. I think you can now guess who I was rooting for 😉
Even though I was completely engaged from the beginning, I still felt the writing was maybe too saccharine, as I don't have much patience when it comes to cheesy stuff. However, I noticed that, as the main characters grew up, the writing evolved as well. And I kind of liked that, as it felt natural and fitting: the writing being a reflection of the characters' minds. It was a rather short book but it made a lasting impression.
This is not a book filled with action, as you can expect from the title, the cover and the blurb. I remember reaching 25% and thinking that not much had happened yet, but still, there hadn't been a dull moment. I was totally engrossed by the setting, the story and these characters. I already felt they were part of my family and their day-to-day tribulations were as engaging as any thriller I've recently read.
I also remember moments when I felt I had something in my eye… Finally, don't worry if you see this is #3 in a trilogy. I didn't know that but this can be read as a standalone. And what a lovely read!
Netgalley, Bookouture, 2017


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Swedish hard-hitters Totême and ATP Ateliers took home the awards from Damernas Värld in each of their categories at the prestigious Guldknappen award show on Saturday. Totême was nominated in the main category, while ATP Atelier was nominated in the accessory category.
The jury's motivation for awarding Totême was:
"By managing and developing the Scandinavian style, Totême has quickly become a name on the world's fashion scene. With the goal of creating a durable wardrobe that works for a woman's every need, their season-wide design is at the forefront. After the success in New York, the brand has now moved home and is ready to dress the Swedish woman."
In the reasoning for awarding ATP Atelier, the jury stated:
"Inspired by the Italian holiday spirit, the idea was born for a sustainable business, focusing on handmade and well-designed shoes and handbags. Five years later, the success story is a fact, and ATP Atelier has positioned itself as a brand that creates desirable products while promoting slower fashion consumption."
In the Knappnålen award, the category for the Swedish up-and-coming designers, Rebecca Björnsdotter won for her eponymous label creating luxury women's footwear.
Among the other nominated brands in the categories was Stylein, J Lindberg, and Swedish Stockings.
Well deserved and congratulations!


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Last Tuesday I visited the Oosterpoort venue for a jazz concert in the café-lounge area. In a program where an New York based jazz-player comes to Groningen, hence the name of the series: New York Comes To Groningen. Tonight that New Yorker is Jack Walrath.
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text: Zecotek Photonics Inc. announced the successful testing of the newest version of its lutetium fine silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals. Test results showed that Zecotek's LFS-8 crystals have achieved extremely fast decay constants ranging between 15 and 25 ns, depending on chemical composition, with energy resolutions between 7% and 9%. "This is a welcome and important result for medical imaging and high-energy physics applications," said A.F. Zerrouk, chairman, president and CEO of Zecotek Photonics. The testing was conducted by the University of Washington, in Seattle, and by researchers affiliated with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva. Competing lutetium oxide crystals have structural decay times of no less than 40 ns, making the LFS-8 by far the fastest existing scintillation crystal based on lutetium oxide material, according to Zecotek. This patented formulation is significant to OEMs that are developing time-of-flight positron emission tomography (PET) scanners for high-accuracy imaging. Zecotek's LFS crystals are characterized by high radiation hardness, making them a candidate for high-energy physics experiments. Their manufacturing output makes them cost-competitive as well, said the company. "The improved characteristics of this new version of LFS will allow for faster timing for applications like time-of-flight PET detectors. Such applications are critically dependent on high light output and fast decay," said Thomas Lewellen of the University of Washington. "High-density, fast-scintillating crystals that are radiation-resistant against hadron irradiation are key properties in the ongoing high-energy physics experiments," said Valentin Kozlov from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. "Extensive testing and research programs have been carried out on Zecotek's new scintillating LFS crystals. It was found that these bright and fast crystals are an excellent candidate for the electromagnetic calorimeter at high-luminosity Large Hadron Collider, one of the main projects at CERN." For more information, visit: www.zecotek.com


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In 2006, Almajdouie Group of Saudi Arabia and De Rijke Group of the Netherlands formed a joint venture to explore the market of Saudi Arabia as well as the GCC for providing logistics services to the petro-chemical industry.
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