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A rapper who performed with the American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has severed his penis and then jumped from a Los Angeles apartment building, police have reported.
Officials were called to the apartment building in North Hollywood around 1:00am and found Andre Johnson on the sidewalk critically injured.
He survived the fall from the second level of the building, Los Angeles Police Sgt. William Mann said.
The rapper was rushed by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. It is unclear whether doctors are attempting to reattach his penis.
Details about what triggered the incident were not available.
Two men who work and live with Johnson told news website TMZ that they were not on any hard drugs that would cause him to do such a thing.
The incident happened so quickly, that by the time they made it to the ground floor, he was on his feet "running around screaming", the website reported.
Johnson jumped less than 24 hours after the release of "OOOH!", a new video with Rugged Monk as Black Knight.
Johnson has been a member of Northstar, a Californian hip-hop group that was part of the Wu-Tang Clan family, and he performs under the name of Christ Bearer.
Although the rapper has collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan producer and leader RZA, the band has put out a statement seemingly denying any ties to Johnson, RawStory.com reported.
Parental Advisory : Don't Believe The HYPE. This Mother F*cker Ain't Got Sh*t to do with The WUTANG Brand," a statement from the group said.


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I'm pretty sure most of us have tried at least one of the Urban Decay concealers by now, but which one is best? For the longest time the Naked Skin was my holy grail and I still love it (remind me to pick up a new one). Then they released the All Nighter concealer and the battle was on.
Urban Decay kindly sent me two shades of their new concealer and I've been putting it to the test for the last few weeks. I have tried the All Nighter foundation and I wasn't a fan. I found the consistency of it hard to work with and my skin basically hated it, but I was prepared to go in with an open mind when it came to the concealer.
So, I'm going to give you a rundown on the two Urban Decay concealers and let you know which one I prefer. Now remember that this is my opinion and I'm not saying that you won't love both of them. Plus my skin is probably different to your's, so keep that in mind.
When it comes to my base products, I like them to be nice and lightweight. I hate feeling like I'm caked in makeup so lightweight formulas are a winner with me. The Urban Decay Naked Skin Weightless Complete Coverage Concealer is so nice and light whilst still giving a great level of coverage. You can build it up as much as you like and it will blend like a dream. It has a nice demi-matte finish and it really feels like you're not even wearing concealer.
Every time that I use this I notice an increase in radiance and it also helps to improve the skin's youthful appearance and elasticity, which you really want once you hit your 30s. As well as being nice and light, the formula also contains Japanese Green Tea – this helps to revitalise the skin as well as reduce the appearance of fine lines.
I love how well this blends and brightens the under eye area. At £19.50 it's not going to break the bank and I fell in love with this from the first use.
I was worried about how I would get on with the All Nighter Waterproof Full Coverage Concealer after my total fail with the foundation. The trick with this concealer is that a little goes a very long way – you don't want to be slapping this on. It has a much higher pigment than the Naked Skin so you don't need to use a lot. If you're looking for full coverage – and I do mean full – then you're going to love this.
You get up to 24 hours coverage with a modern matte finish. Polymers and humectants give the long-lasting wear and light diffusing pigments give you a soft focus finish. Whether you want to cover dark circles, spots or even your tattoos, this will do the trick. I made the mistake when I first used this of putting too much on and it was a bitch to blend.
Initially I actually hated this concealer and it reminded me of everything I hated about the foundation. However, once I learnt to be very sparing with it, we started to get along.
Overall, for me, the Naked Skin still impresses me the most. I'm always going to favour the lighter formula and I don't really need a full coverage concealer thankfully. However, if you have more to cover then you're going to want the All Nighter.
You can pick up both concealers at Urban Decay as well as other retailers.
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I need a lot more time in a day. Translation is fine, but checking mistakes takes a lot more time, also boring. Adding the time I read the raw original, reading a chapter 5 times at once isn't really that fun, but I learn more in that boring part, so it can't be helped.
I thought of editing the previous chapters, but maybe I'll do that after I catch up to the latest chapter. I mean, I'll procrastinate from that for a while. I'd rather translate/edit new chapters.
Here's Chapter 26 of Lottery Grand Prize.


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Do Your Hair Ties Disappear Into Thin Air? We've Found A Solution
Honestly, where do they go? - by Erin Cook
Is it just us, or do hair ties and bobby pins seem to disappear into thin air? One minute, you've got a pack of 100 and the next minute – poof! – they're all gone.
Well, someone has FINALLY created a solution to this very important problem.
Enter Dollar Hair Company. For $4, these guys will deliver 3 hair ties and 12 bobby pins to your door each month. Meaning that when you're running low, they'll top up your supply.


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"My Name is Madeleine Warwick and I'm a woman under siege..."
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Maddie Warwick is on the brink of ruin. Several years ago, her uncle was killed in a tragic accident resulting from the negligence of treasure hunting amateurs. To stop the invasions on her land, Maddie forged a letter disproving the existence of Civil War treasure on her farm. And it worked. Until now.
Enter arrogant, mysterious Professor Gregory Randall. He knows about the forged letter and can ruin Maddie with one phone call. He won't - as long as she lets him stay on the property to search for the treasure himself. It's an uneasy relationship, but when the anonymous treasure hunters return, more aggressive and dangerous than ever, Maddie's blackmailer may be the only man she can trust.


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BigBudsMag.com expert marijuana growers offer great service to the marijuana growing community by answering questions from growers just like you. This article deals with an increasing pest problem in the… Read more
Protect You Marijuana Plants From Pests With Tree Tanglefoot Insect Barrier
By BigBuds Medical marijuana growers treat pest insect problems in a variety of different ways. Many growers have been avoiding the nasty chemical insecticides because of the adverse effect they… Read more
Newbie Marijuana Grower Series: Protecting Your Plants from Pests & Diseases
Marijuana growers want to defend themselves against police, snitches, and rippers, and they also want to defeat Nature's attackers such as spider mites, thrips, aphids, powdery mildew, gray mold, and… Read more
When Disaster Strikes: Armoring Your Marijuana Plants
When an ice storm hit, and thousands of indoor marijuana growers faced life without electricity, my plants survived, but other growers lost their crops. What made the difference?
Identifying Common Nutrient Deficiencies in Medical Marijuana Plants
Throughout the career of any marijuana gardener, nutrient deficiencies are bound to pop up from time to time.
Fixing Marijuana Nutrients Deficiencies & Fertilizer Burn: Part Two
In the previous article in this series on fixing marijuana nutrients deficiencies and excesses, we saw how old school approaches to hydroponics nutrients problems haven't worked well for marijuana growers.
Stopping Mites in Your Hydroponics Marijuana Garden
Troubleshooting Marijuana Viruses, and Other Tough Problems
In the first article in this series, I explained how mysterious problems suddenly appeared in my Jack Herer, White Widow, New York Sour Diesel, LA Confidential, Girl Scout Cookies, and… Read more
Marijuana's Evil Enemy: Gray Mold
Picture yourself going into your hydroponics medical marijuana grow room a couple of weeks before harvest and noticing that some of your buds are rotting.
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As we've been examining how viruses such as Tobacco Mosaic Virus attack marijuana, and hearing from growers that viruses are an increasing problem in the marijuana community, we're going in… Read more
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These photos were taken in Bristol, about 20m from an enormous allotment that my friends tend. Their lives are entirely simplified by this - they spend less, eat organic, fresh, seasonal food all year around and have a huge source of joy from their labour. It's a fantastic lifesyle of which I am more than a little envious.
Not to mention the zucchini flowers - seriously hard to find and cost the earth - I think I was holding about £7 woth of those babies. We had them gently sauteed in olive oil with their zucchinis, lemon zest and a squeeze of lemon juice. Tasty tasty.
These photos were taken by my husband and really capture the essence of the allotment in the height of summer.
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Managed IT Services Manchester
Here's ironic. The Financial Conduct Authority, days after lecturing financial companies to improve their defences against cyber risks itself suffered a 'major IT incident'. A 'major incident' that knocked out many of its systems.
Though identified as a "physical hardware" issue as opposed to the type of cyber security issue they were specifically referring to in their warnings what the unexpected and unwelcome downtime does show is that these things can happen to anyone.
And when they do happen it's best to be as prepared as possible.
- Preparation in the form of a Managed IT Service
- Preparation in the form of our range of High Availability System Tiers and Special Disaster Recovery Services
That the FCA were out of action for as long as they were suggests that even if they were prepared in one respect they weren't in the other.
IT Solutions Manchester – High Availability Systems Tiers
Did you know we provide five tiers of backup and restoration configuration dependent on your business requirements?
Did you know that the ultimate Tier 4 Plus – Super High Availability offers a seamless continuation of service in the event of technical failure?
At the very least we can bolt on our Disaster Recovery platform so that should the worst happen to your hardware we will be able to get your systems up and running within about 30 minutes.
Now that's prepared.
Whether a case of cyber security (including people and processes) or physical hardware resilience it's important to put the measures in place to protect you from the threat of both and more than that to mitigate them if, for whatever reason, prevention is breached. A holistic 'security culture'.
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The guidelines that shape how universities deal with complaints about sexual harassment and violence against women need to be reviewed, a Universities UK review has concluded.
A task force set up amid growing concern about sexual assault and "lad culture" said that the 1994 Zellick guidelines, which established the principle that higher education institutions should report serious alleged offences to police and not attempt their own investigations, should be updated to reflect legal and societal changes.
The report by Graham Zellick, who was then principal of Queen Mary University of London, followed an internal investigation at King's College London into an allegation of rape that was branded a "kangaroo court".
But it is now thought that the principles established by the Zellick guidelines are at odds with subsequent equalities and human rights legislation, which appears to impose a duty on universities to investigate such breaches.
Leading institutions have been criticised for not systematically recording allegations of rape and other assaults, and the National Union of Students has argued that the guidelines focus on protecting institutions rather than supporting victims.
The task force said that the guidelines, which are not statutory, also needed updating to take account of the role of social media in relationships and alleged harassment.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of UUK and chair of the task force, said that members had undertaken "careful examination" of the Zellick principles.
"The evidence submitted to the task force was overwhelming in its view that, while the guidelines have some place in supporting universities, there is a need for them to be refreshed to reflect the changes that have taken place over the 22 years since the original guidelines were written," she said.
Last year, the University of Cambridge updated its disciplinary guidelines to allow students to formally report allegations of sexual assault to the institution for the first time.
The UUK task force, which includes university and students' union leaders among its membership, is not due to publish its final report until the autumn.
But UUK said that other key themes were likely to include the need for an effective, centralised process for recording incidents and reviewing these data; a "zero-tolerance culture" that "sets clear behavioural expectations and is backed up by student disciplinary regulations"; and appropriate training for staff.
Susuana Amoah, the NUS women's officer, said she was "really pleased" to hear of the review of the guidelines.
"We hope this review will lead to the creation of a new set of guidelines centring around the welfare of survivors rather than institutional reputation," she said.
Print headline: UUK panel: handling of sexual assault cases must be reviewed


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2010 Skirt trends offer an exciting variety of playful styles, textures, colors and details. The hottest fashion items for women's wardrobe this year merges tight tailoring, classic styles with new and fun concepts, creating a truly original skirt trend for 2010. Read on to find out this year's hottest skirt fashion trends and get inspired!
Spring is the time when women usually refresh their wardrobes
and purchase the new, trendiest items for the season. The weather
is nice again so you can fully enjoy wearing skirts and showing off
your wonderful legs. Skirts are chic, practical and very versatile
clothing items.
You can wear them for a day at the office and formal occasions but they are comfortable casual outfits as well. Skirts are the ultimate feminine items that should not be missing from any woman's wardrobe. Find out the latest skirt trend for 2010 and make a statement this season with a gorgeous new outfit!
Full, voluminous skirts are very chic this year. This fantastic
tailoring is suitable for any body type. Full skirts generally
descend into a wonderful A-line, that is really flattering for
hips. Worn with more fitted tops, full skirts accentuate the waist,
making it look really small. If you have a boyish silhouette, these
trendy skirts can really help you create some very delicate,
feminine curves. They are a great choice for women with
pear-shaped body as well, because full skirts can sneakily hide
their more prominent bottom part and highlight their greatest
asset, the small waist.
Full skirts are all over the runways this season. Breaking the traditional line, layered and vividly gathered skirts bring creativity and drama to your look. Asymmetrical cuts, unconventional materials, tapered styles, high-waist skirts, ankle-length and mini-skirts all give a different spin to the 2010 full skirt trend.
Mini skirts are at all rage this year. The trendiest mini skirts
of 2010 call for structured tailoring that flatters many body
Mini skirts with high waist work well on girls with a slim
silhouette, accentuating their small waist.
Shorter women can delicately elongate their figure with a trendy mini in different textures, prints and patterns. Show off your gorgeous legs in a super, chic mini skirt and for a more comfortable and stylish look, pair it with hot leggings or playful pants. Curvy women can nicely skim their figure by wearing a mini skirt with gathered tailoring and high heels. Satin materials and structured, puffy mini skirts are really hot in 2010 so wear them with confidence.
Ankle length skirts and metallic mini skirts are also the latest fashion trends this year. Full, ladylike voluminous skirts, crisp styles, random floral prints, bandage skirts and fitted styles, organza, silk and stiff materials are all hot in 2010 skirt trend. Refresh your wardrobe with a few chic pieces and create a trendy look this spring.


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Ep 52: 42 Books That Will Make Your Holiday Wish List!
Whether you're looking to get a jump on crafting your holiday wish list or just looking for a fantastic read, our literary experts have you covered!
Our very own Roxanne Coady recently had the pleasure of hosting a live event with Penguin Random House publishing powerhouses Michael Kindness, Jennifer Black and author, Matthew Dicks. The event, which took place at the JCC in West Hartford, Connecticut, was titled "Buzz About Books" and Just the Right Book Podcast was there every step of the way! If you're trying to fill your holiday wish list with amazing titles, look no further!
Stay tuned after the events to hear what folks are reading, straight from the New York Public Library in New York City.
Books mentioned for your holiday wish list:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawm Tripp
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships by Deborah Tannen
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino
The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford
The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever by Mark Frost
Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Naomi Levy
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby Neverwhere (Audio) by Neil Gaiman
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro
A Grandfather's Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey by Jacques Pepin
Dying: A Memoir by Corey Taylor
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club) by Imbolo Mbue
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young: The Graduation Speeches by Kurt Vonnegut
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites by Deb Perelman
The Whites by Richard Price
Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem by Amir D. Azcel
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way: Revised Edition by Susan McCutcheon


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2020 Toyota Highlander Concept, Changes & Release Date
Are you looking forward to purchasing the 2020 Toyota Highlander? The recent Toyota Highlander entered market with a bit more body and an even more competitive style. Ever since then, things have been silent beside some alterations here and there.
What about the next generation Highlander? We can expect the exact same thing applies to the 2020 version. Below, we'll tell you concerning the soon-to-be-released was Exterior, interior, engine, safety, release date, and price.
2020 Toyota Highlander Redesign & Changes
If we discuss 2020 Toyota Highlander changes, there are some but not one of them is significant or extreme. But, you can expect the new Highlander to own a modern appearance. Dot expect any significant or radical changes albeit there'll be more color choices and possible wheel configurations.
Interior Updates
As for your change within the interior, we could expect it to become subtle. As an example, fresh upholstery fabrics and colors improved infotainment hardware or other sound-reducing materials. It is likely that the new SUV will be compatible with Apple CarPlay but this is not yet supported.
Engine Specs
Regrettably, change is not expected under the hood. The next generation Highlander probably will have the very same engines and transmissions while the current generation.
The base engine will become a 2.7-liter, 4-cylinder engine capable of producing 185 horsepower using 187 lb-ft of torque. The mid-size engine will be a 3.5-liter, V6 engine producing 295 horsepower using 263 lb-ft torque. The high-range engine will be a hybrid. The 2020 Toyota Highlander hybrid vehicle will have a 3.5-liter, V6 engine coupled with an electric motor. The hybrid vehicle engine will likely have the capacity of generating 306 horsepower.
If the engines would be identical, the transmissions are very likely to be the exact same as well. If that is correct, then your newest Highlander may have 6-speed (such as the 4-cylinder engine) and 8-speed (for the V6 engine) gearbox.
Safety is where most of Toyota vehicles excel in. Yes, the 2020 Toyota Highlander won't be an exclusion. We can easily see it from the current version. The present version aced every one IIHS crash tests, was included with a number of security features that make it Top Safety Pick.
The 2020 Toyota Highlander release date has yet to be announced. While there is no specific date when the car will be discharged, it is believed to be released at the next half this season. The purchase price has yet to be announced as well.
To sum it up, the 2020 Toyota Highlander will be a midsize SUV using small but significant nor extreme upgrades, only some tweaks here and there. While this may be legitimate, its cottage is going to be more armed and as its present production has, there'll become a hybrid engine option too. It will most likely have the same security features as the current version, that will be great.


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THE daughter of murdered Arlene Fraser has accused her dad Nat's former best friend of the killing.
Natalie Fraser claims she is "100 per cent" sure that Hector Dick was responsible for her mum's death.
The 20-year-old is convinced her dad, who has been convicted twice of killing Arlene, did not have anything to do with the murder.
Natalie, who was five when her mum disappeared in 1998, speaks out in a sensational documentary to be aired tonight on Channel 4.
The ground-breaking programme was allowed to film a High Court murder trial for the first time.
It includes footage of Nat trembling in the dock as he awaits the jury's decision – and captures the devastation in his face as a guilty verdict is read out.
The film was made last year when the former fruit and veg salesman from Elgin in Moray was retried for the murder.
He had been convicted in 2003 but was later acquitted on a technicality.
At the initial trial, Dick was cleared of murdering Arlene but jailed for a year in 2001 for lying about a beige Ford Fiesta that police believe was involved in her disappearance in 1998.
In the documentary, Natalie was asked what she thought happened to her mum. She answered: "I think she was murdered."
When asked who she thought did it, she replied: "Hector Dick, 100 per cent."
Natalie is adamant her dad is innocent. She said: "I don't have an if or a but or a doubt, I believe in him. We were always together when I was younger.
"I remember when we were younger he said to me, 'Do you miss your mum?' I don't need him to tell me he didn't do it."
When asked what she would think if her dad admitted he killed Arlene, she said: "I wouldn't believe it."
At his 2012 trial, Fraser lodged a special defence of incrimination, blaming Dick for the murder if it did take place, a defence rejected by the jury.
Scottish court chiefs only gave permission for The Murder Trial after three years of negotiation.
It finally got the green light after Lord Bracadale – the judge in the case – gave his consent.
The real-life courtroom drama includes tense footage of defence and prosecution lawyers battling to win over the jury.
There are heartbreaking scenes of prosecution QC Alex Prentice questioning Arlene's mum Isabelle about her daughter.
She tells the court: "I didn't expect it of her but she turned out to be a very good mother, very loving."
Defence QC John Scott is seen cross-examining Dick and accuses him of being a liar. At one point, he tells the jury: "If he came in soaking wet and said it was raining, you would have to put your hand outside the window."
Dick was a key witness at the retrial which saw Fraser convicted a second time. He was also a central part of Fraser's defence, with the murderer trying to blame him for the crime.
In 2003, Dick was accused with Fraser – and a third man Glenn Lucas who has since died – of conspiring to murder Arlene.
But he sensationally walked free along with Lucas after agreeing to turn on Fraser and give evidence for the prosecution.
In the documentary, Dick denies having anything to do with Arlene's death and accuses
prosecutors of trying to paint him "blacker than black"
Mum-of-two Arlene was 33 when she vanished from her home in Elgin, Moray, in 1998. She had been trying to begin a new life but Fraser wanted her dead after she told him their marriage was over.
He was seething with jealousy because he suspected she might have a lover.
And fearing his wife would also take half his fortune, he paid a hitman £15,000 to kill her.
Just five weeks before Arlene disappeared, Fraser throttled her for coming back late – an attack for which he was sentenced to 18 months.
In the documentary, Fraser holds his head in his hands and shakes as the conviction is read out.
Arlene doted on Natalie and son Jamie. After she vanished Jamie, then seven, left a heartbreaking scrawled note on her doorstep that is shown in tonight's film. It read: "Mother, where are U!"
The documentary is likely to spark a debate about how much access television cameras should be given to courts.
The Murder Trial's Bafta-winning director Nick Holt said: "There is nothing to hide, nothing shameful going on. The process of filming demystifies the legal process."
The documentary used six remote-controlled cameras to capture the unfolding drama in court.
Nat was sent to prison for 25 years after the 2003 trial. He challenged the verdict and his
convcition was quashed in 2011.
In April 2012, he was sent back to the High Court in Edinburgh for a fresh trial – which was filmed for the show – and again found guilty.
Fraser's latest appeal against his conviction will be heard in September.


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In the 10-part miniseries, which ends May 16, Malek steals the show with his authentic portrayal of a lost soldier faced with the brutality of war. Malek plays the kind of morally ambiguous soldier who looks after his fellow Marines as easily as he tosses pebbles into a corpse's hollowed head. It earned him major respect from his boss, executive producer Tom Hanks.
"I remember when I came home from 'The Pacific,' he gave me a hug and he said, 'I can't wait until I'm in a movie with you.' I was laughing and I was astonished, and when he said that, I was like, 'Yeah, we'll see if that ever happens,' " Malek says from the set of "Larry Crowne," the new film written, produced, and directed by and starring Hanks. "But here I am. He's a man of his word."
A couple of years ago Malek dressed up like Forrest Gump for Halloween, and now he's playing one of the students the middle-aged Larry Crowne (Hanks) encounters when he returns to college. "It was my birthday yesterday, and he made sure that he got me a cake with some candles that wouldn't blow out," Malek says, laughing. "He's very kind and generous as a director and as a person. He's probably the biggest movie star we've ever had, and for being as humble as he is I find that quite an accomplishment."
Malek, who is reminiscent of Peter Lorre and Michael Shannon, has had only a handful of roles—Ahkmenrah in the "Night at the Museum" films and recurring roles on "24" and "The War at Home"—but he's one to watch. Here the L.A. native discusses how he went from bit parts to the big-time.
Back Stage: How did you get your first break?
Rami Malek: Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a "Gilmore Girls" episode, and I thought I was right for it. So I sent in my picture and résumé, and she called me and said, "I got your stuff, but I can't find your agent." I said, "Well, I don't have one, but maybe you could help me with that." She starts laughing, and she goes, "Well, we'll bring you in when you get an agent. Are you SAG?" I said, "No, maybe you could help me out with that too." She said, "We'll bring you in when you got one or the other." And I said, "It's a small part. It's only going to take a few minutes of your time. I'm already making you laugh." She took a few beats and said, "Why not?" I went in. It was my first job.
Back Stage: Do you have an acting coach?
Malek: I study with a woman named Saxon Trainor.
Back Stage: How did you get cast in "The Pacific"?
Malek: I was working on a show called "The War at Home," and I met a man named Kirk Saduski who works at the Playtone Co. He came in to visit someone on the show, and we just got along. He said, "We're working on this thing. You might be right for one of the parts." So he did me a solid, and I got in there. Meg Liberman had cast me before, so she goes, "Oh, okay, sure, bring him in." So I tried to get the material as soon as possible, and I read the book "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge [on which "The Pacific" was partly based], and I just started to hammer away at it. I got in the room and did my best, and I think it went pretty well. They kept bringing me back and bringing me back. When you walk in, you think there's going to be some person just starting out behind the camera, and it was [Steven Spielberg] holding a little camcorder, videotaping the audition. That was thrilling.
Back Stage: How many auditions were there?
Malek: I think it was about four. I was the first person cast, though.
Back Stage: Did the nine-day boot camp give you the chance to properly bond with your frequent scene partner Joe Mazzello, who plays Eugene Sledge?
Malek: Joe and I were at different ones, but the majority of the K Company guys were in mine. We were scattered in two different sessions, so when I saw Joe it was good because I was glad we weren't in the same boot camp. I didn't want him to see me in a state where I was really just trying to pick this stuff up. I wanted him to see me fresh and battle-hardened.
Back Stage: It's interesting that in the same scene you give Sledge your open tin can, because he was having trouble opening his, and then you casually go over to a dead Japanese soldier and start pulling gold teeth.
Malek: The biggest challenge was balancing. How much morality do I have left with this war? Just how desensitized have I become? So I was always trying to find the line between being the guy who has given up [and] the guy who still has a heart left down there somewhere.
Back Stage: Your acts of kindness rounded out the character.
Malek: I kept asking for a few more of those every once in a while.
Back Stage: After the grueling 10-month shoot, I hear this role put you in a depression. Learning to shake off roles can be an occupational hazard for actors.
Malek: I was hoping the performance was going well, but of course taking yourself to this place where you can authentically represent what's happening, it has an effect on me. Day in and day out, just getting and rising to that place at 4 o'clock in the morning, it's not a good place to be. But I really thought it had to be done to portray him authentically. We were all together out there having a great time and the worst time. You get used to a different life. I can only imagine what it must be like for the real men. It must be incredibly difficult to try to become a regular human being again.
Back Stage: What helped you through it?
Malek: The camaraderie was great, but we had a great leader out there: Tim Van Patten. He was my favorite director on the series, and he gave me a documentary [John Huston's "Let There Be Light"] to watch and said, "Pass it along to whoever who wants; this might help." It's about post-traumatic stress when these guys came back, how difficult it was. He made showing up on those really brutal episodes—seven and nine for me—things that I really, really looked forward to, and he's still someone who I look to as a father figure who I love to go see when I'm in New York. Kirk's been great in that respect too, and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman too. I have to say, they've all been looking out for me. It makes me feel very special to have all these great figures watching my back.
Back Stage: Did you get to meet with Merriell Shelton's family?
Malek: I have just had a phone call with his son, Allen Shelton. He sent me such a nice email regarding what he thought about the depiction of his father. It really affected him, and it really affected me when he passed it on.


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Dr. S's model of practicing medicine has been inspiring, and has provided me with the hope that I can practice medicine the way I envisioned it, prior to starting medical school. After thirteen years of visits limited by time and having so many patients that he couldn't remember their names, Dr. S decided to give up the security of Kaiser and start practicing medicine the way he thought it should be.
Shortly after I first met him, he told me, in more or less these words, "Healthcare has come to the point where patients barely see their doctors. They go to the office, speak to a receptionist, wait for half an hour, talk to a nurse who takes their vitals, and then wait again for the doctor who is too busy to remember who they are or their problems."
With his new practice, Dr. S has tried to remove all the barriers between a patient and his physician: "All you really need to practice medicine is a doctor, a patient, and a room." This concept seems so simple, but it is one that is too easily lost.
After working with Dr. S, I truly believe that his practice embodies patient-centered care. Patients typically don't have to wait longer than five minutes after arriving in the office. Patients can always make same-day or next-day appointments. Dr. S has an encrypted messaging system so that he and his patients can communicate by email. He does not make patients return to discuss normal labs, saving them the cost of that return visit.
And all of his patients receive his cell phone number; he has an open access practice, meaning patients can call him twenty-four hours a day. (I asked him how that's working out for him, and he said that very few people have called him late at night - I believe it's because of a mutual respect). Dr. S provides all the services that medical concierge practices offer for monthly fees. However, he provides them for free because, as his website says, "I feel good medical care should be available to everyone."
While this concept of a solo practice may seem outrageous and even implausible at first, it doesn't take long to see that it works. Some might not agree. After all, as he told me, he is only now barely starting to break even in finances, and endured net losses his first year in practice.
However, if we measure achievement by patient satisfaction - as medical professionals should - then I am confident that Dr. S already has found success. One patient said to me: "You're working with the best. He does it right. Please try to recruit as many of your classmates as you can to this new paradigm of medicine." Patient after patient expressed similar sentiments.
Another, a recovering methamphetamine addict and recently out of jail, drove from the Inland Empire to see Dr. S because he "feels comfortable with him." Patients were consistently grateful for the attention they received. Truthfully, I had never seen such strong relationships between patients and their physicians. (In fact, I found myself thinking on multiple occasions - why can't I have a doctor like this?!)
This experience has made me think back to our years of ICM, when we were taught how to build rapport, how to take social histories, how to do comprehensive exams, how to show compassion to our patients. It's almost as if when third year started and we were thrown into the "real world," none of these concepts mattered because there simply wasn't enough time. Instead, I was supposed to just cover "the essentials" - figure out the problem and fix it!
Working with Dr. S has renewed my faith that all those interviewing skills that were emphasized in school have a purpose - that simply listening to patients is essential, and can have a large impact on their health. In fact, psychosocial factors were at the root of many of our patient's complaints, and these couldn't have been discovered if we didn't take the time to listen.
This rotation has given me the confidence that the ideal of truly patient-centered care can indeed be reality. I can only hope that one day, when I am practicing, I will be able to make my patients as happy as those I have seen in the past five weeks.
Tiffany Wang, MS3
Thanks, Tiffany. The following week, Tiffany sent me another e-mail:
I actually had to read my paper aloud in our family med wrap-up session; the rotation directors chose it to follow my classmate's paper on idealism vs. realism in the medical profession. They seemed pretty amazed by this type of practice.
It does seem strange that medical schools are spending so much time teaching medical students how to develop rapport and good interviewing techniques in the beginning of their medical training, only to have to get students to unlearn all this when they actually start seeing patients in real world clinical settings because they don't have time for niceties like "getting to know the patient".
The ideal of quality medical care doesn't quite mesh with the reality of modern health care economics. No wonder there have been fewer medical students choosing primary care lately. They come in with a vision of being a caring, personal physician who has time and energy to care for others, only to become disillusioned when they witness firsthand what primary care has become: overworked doctors rushing from room to room, having only 15 minutes to listen, examine, diagnose, analyze, prescribe, explain, counsel, screen, record, with neverending stacks of charts crowding their desk. Of course, not all primary care practices are like this. But way too many are.
I just want physicians and physicians-to-be to know that it doesn't have to be this way, and maybe inspire a few to take a different path.


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Holiday With Christmas around the corner, the holiday season has officially arrived for travellersacross the globe. After months of planning to what may seem the ideal vacation, one may often or not pay attention to aspects which can make or break your special time with family and friends.
Clean and hygienic bathrooms must always feature amongst the top checklist items. You don't want to come back home with an infection or an illness. Here are a few tips, recommended by Parryware, to help you avoid this while using public restrooms:
- First and the foremost, avoid touching thetoilet doorknob with bare hands. Door knobs carry germs from multiple sources and may cause infections. Try using a tissue paper for holding the knob from outside as well as inside before heading out or going in.
- Take care of your personal belongings. Germs touching your hands can be easily washed out but once they transmit to your belongings such as phone, handbags, etc they might infect you. Avoid placing your handbags on the floors and hang it on the hook behind the doors. In case you don't find one, it's better to place it on your shoulder, rather.
- Always prefer an Indian seat toilet, instead of the western style to avoid any direct contact with the toilet surfaces. In case you can't find one, hover over the seat without skin contact or make sure that you wipe off the toilet seat before sitting on it.
- Flush it, turn around and get out of the toilet. The probability of getting infected with air-borne germs and bacteria while flushing is very high while flushing. Hence, always close the lid before you flush, take a small tissue to press the flush button and exit the place quickly, after flushing.
- Avoid the use of hand dryer, how much ever it might attract you for a quick dry. The blow dryer giving out hot air has the ability to spread the germs present in the air around. To avoid getting infected even after washing hands thoroughly, use a paper towel to dry them up. Finding a tissue paper in Indian public toilets may not be very common, hence carry a small handkerchief while you are on the go.
In the end, use a hand sanitizer and you are good to go!


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Gone Fishin'
Gone Fishin'
What have I done? What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE???
Okay, here's what I've done.
From the top: In 2001 I left Canada to try teaching English in Japan for a few months. I stayed for four years. During that time I met a cute Irish journalist who was in town for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and we got married. I thought it might be fun to try living in Ireland for a while. Nine years later, I'm still here. During that time I ended up with a graduate degree in creative writing and a published novel. Yay!
After that, I did some publicity for Cinnamon Toast, started this website, got two sloppy and formless drafts of a second novel done... But I found it mysteriously difficult to get a third and non-horrible draft off the ground. Meanwhile, I started to realise just how much time had passed since I'd left Canada. My parents weren't getting any younger and neither was I.
Then I had a brainwave. Hey! Why don't I take a semester off work and come back – to live this time, not just to visit? My dad still lives in Bridgetown, N.S. (population 949) which is the town where I grew up and sort of the setting for Cinnamon Toast. Quite a few years ago, Dad bought a house which came with an outbuilding the size of a small house itself. Originally it was in a falling-down way, but after a few years of renovations it's become a charming place to stay, big enough for one or two people and snuggled right by the river's edge. (That's the view off the deck, above right. And below left.) The best part? This house has no phone, no TV, no internet, and the old railway tracks are a two-minute walk away, meaning you can have a stomp through the countryside any time you want. As a writing lair, it's ideal.
So I started making plans. I asked my boss for a semester off (officially we're calling this a 'sabbatical' though privately I'm dubbing it 'childless maternity leave'). I booked the flights, made the arrangements, and in less than ten days I'll be leaving my Irish home to spend three and a half months in my Canadian home and native land and the bosom of my family.
Perfect plan, right? So why am I going into a bit of a panic here?
Well, the thought of having no money coming in for four months is starting to intimidate me. Plus I haven't stayed in Canada for more than a flying visit in over thirteen years. Every time I come back I get disoriented. The money changes. The slang changes. Nothing's where I left it. There's some fairy tale quality about it all – one of those scary fairy tales that involve spooky enchantments and getting frozen in goblin goo or stuck at a leprechaun cocktail party for a hundred years and then you go home to find several generations have passed and your aunt is really your grand-daughter. Or something like that. I'm not sure how I'll function in Canada now or how I'll ever be able to readjust to Ireland when it's time for me to go back in August.
Then there's my poor fella, wandering around our Dublin home with only the dust bunnies and the cat for company. Whatever will become of him?
But here's the real reason why I'm getting a bit nervous as the countdown to Canada ticks on. Think of it: no job, no distractions, nothing to do but write. It's ideal. But...what if it doesn't happen? What if after three and a half months, I'm left with nothing to show for that time? Except perhaps something like this:
Seriously, that's my biggest fear. That I'll be left to write under ideal circumstances and nothing will happen. And there won't be anyone I can blame for it but little old me.
But all this could be just a load of old moaning. Today I found out (through the ever-informative Wikipedia) that the motto of my hometown is 'Palma Non Sine Pulvere'. No victory without struggle. I've decided it's going to be my motto as well. And if I end up spending a season just staring at the river, well, worse things have happened.
By the way, this will be my last blog post until the fall, though I'll probably continue with Literary Love Fest and might stick some nice pictures up here from time to time. I love this site, but as I've said elsewhere, in terms of word count, there's enough up here for a novel, and it's time to get some real writing work underway. Wish me luck, everyone, and do come visit!
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Fin de Siecle: of, relating to, or characteristic of the close of the 19th century and especially its literary and artistic climate of sophistication, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.
Source: Merrian-Webster Online Dictionary.
Some quick research tells me that several of the people (Mrs. R.H. Cartmell, Mrs O.J. Nance, N.S. White, Miss Callie Mallory, Mrs. J.E. Springbett) on the member list resided in Jackson TN which leads me to think the book came into the family through Ida Moran. She married William G. Timberlake of Jackson TN and resided there after her marriage.
The Battle of the Strong was serialized in The Atlantic Monthly starting in January 1898. It came out later that year in book form and was a best seller in the United States ranking number 10 on the best seller list for that year and rising as high as number 2 the following year. Source: Wikipedia
Fin de Siecle Club book guidelines and member list:
This book must be forwarded to the next on the list, on the 1st, & 15th, of each month. A heavy fine will be imposed for careless handling. Notify the Sec. Miss Callie Mallory, if not delivered on time, or abused.
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Birmingham, Ala. – Sydney Carlson recorded her fifth double-double of the season but Western Carolina was unable to hold off Samford as the Bulldogs defeated the Catamounts 3-1 inside of the Pete Hanna Center on Saturday night. Samford won the match by scores of 24-26, 25-15, 25-16 and 25-17.
Samford is 16-14 overall and 11-5 in the Southern Conference while Western Carolina drops to 12-15 and 6-10.
Carlson, a Birmingham native, finished with a team-leading 17 assists along with 10 digs. Of Carlson's five double-doubles this season, two have come against Samford. Haley Multerer led the Catamounts with 10 kills as she finished in double figures in kills for the second time in her career. Meagan Sanchez had a team-best 20 digs followed by Merry Gebel with 12 and Abigail Veit with 11.
Kelsi Hobbs led four Bulldogs in double figures in kills with a match-best 18. Krista Boesing tallied 16 kills followed by Shayla Phillip and Lauren Deaton with 11 each. Grace Tiesman had 25 digs. Taylor Anderson dished out a match-high 48 assists.
A Boesing attack error sparked a 6-0 Catamount run as the visitors led 15-10 in the middle of the first set. The Catamounts led 18-11 following a Gebel service ace but the Bulldogs battled back and tied the set at 20 on a Deaton kill. A Hannah Price kill gave the Catamounts a 23-21 edge before the Bulldogs evened the set at 24 on a Boseing kill. WCU won the set thanks to a Multerer kill and a Samford error.
After a Sanchez service ace brought the Catamounts within one, 12-11, Samford went on an 8-1 run for a 20-12 lead after a Phillip kill. A Hobbs kill closed out the second set.
Following a Price kill that made the score 9-6 in favor of the hosts, Samford scored six of the next seven points for a 15-7 lead in the third set. Western Carolina got to within six points on four occasions but would get no closer in the frame.
Samford opened the fourth set on a 9-0 run. Western Carolina battled back, using a 6-0 run to make the score 23-16 before the Bulldogs won two of the next three points to close out the match.
Western Carolina finished the regular season as the No. 8 seed in the SoCon and will face No. 9 The Citadel on Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the first round of the conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C. The winner will face top-seeded ETSU later in the day at 2:30 p.m.


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Sun bears are listed as Vulnerable in IUCN Redlist
Update on Linggam the sun bear
By Paul Clenton
It has now been 2 weeks since the door leading from Linggam's pen into the rainforest enclosure was first opened for him. What a transformation! To begin with he was cautious, timid even, when facing the challenge of going outside. Now when I see him he is relaxed, roaming freely around through the trees. A bear enjoying life in the type of place a bear should be.
Often when he is out, Linggam is very difficult to photograph, but here he very considerately came over to where I was, foraging for food.
It makes me quite emotional to see this; there is such a significant improvement in a relatively short time, even for an adult bear which has grown up in captivity. This is what rehabilitation is all about. There is a small but dedicated team here who are working incredibly hard to make things like this happen. The BSBCC is yet in desperate need of funding to make successful releases back into the wild happen, but I feel privileged to be here now as the project is starting to gain momentum and start to take these important steps.
Lastly, I'd like to add that just a few days ago, 3 female bears -Cerah, Jelita and Lawa- also began to take their first steps into the forest. There is a post about it here by Shauna Tay, a fellow volunteer at the BSBCC.
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Tanzania Honeymoon
Located in the east of Africa, Tanzania is the captivating land of vast wilderness, safari and crystal clear waters. It is the home of the Serengeti, where you will find the big 5 (Elephant, Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino). Tanzania can provide any newlywed couple with a Honeymoon that they will never forget.
Why Tanzania Honeymoons?
Things for couples to do:
- Experience nature like never before at Selous Game Reserve. This world heritage site covers an area that is over half the size of Ireland. It is home to herds of elephants, lions, tigers, giraffes and much more. After a day of exploring the wilderness, unwind in some of the luxury accommodation on offer and enjoy some romantic evenings on your Tanzania honeymoon.
- Conquer Mount Kilimanjaro together, the highest mountain in Africa. Climbing to the top is not easy but many people have done it.
- Visit Zanzibar while on honeymoon in Tanzania. Zanzibar is an archipelago off the east coast of Africa. It is home to many beautiful white sandy beaches and swaying palm trees. Choose from a beach bungalow to 5-star luxury and enjoy many of the attractions Zanzibar has to offer such as diving, snorkelling and even a romantic sunset cruise.
Best time to visit:
June – October is considered the best time to Honeymoon in Tanzania. Temperatures vary a lot with location and altitude but there is usually clear skies and sunny weather.
Why We Love It
"The inspiring wildebeest migration, the highest free-standing mountain, the gin-clear waters of Zanzibar, and some of Africa's best game viewing, make Tanzania one of my favourite holiday destinations in the world".
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The pungent odour of cannabis rolled out of the window to greet the police as quickly and cheerfully as the stoned occupants. The four men, all aged 19, had just returned home from a night out in Vauxhall, London, and were having a smoke before going home.
PC Saunders searched the driver and three passengers in turn. Two of the men were found to have small quantities of cannabis and amphetamines (Class B drugs) in their possession. A further quantity of cannabis and a grinder were found in the car.
The two men were arrested and brought to Sutton Police station for questioning. After admitting that the drugs belonged to them, they each received an adult caution for possessing both cannabis and amphetamines.
PC Saunders said:
"We had just left the office and had only patrolled a couple of streets when we came across this vehicle with four men sitting inside having a smoke,"If only it had been in Stone(d) Place then I would have had a better headline...


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December 3, 2015
Robotic Technologies of Tennessee Receives Third Contract From EPRI to Develop Remote Operated Inspection Systems
Robotic Technologies of Tennessee (RTT) reached an Agreement with the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) of Palo Alto, California for calendar year 2016 to continue development of RTT's mobile robotic platform ("MRP") for use on stainless steel storage canisters containing used nuclear fuel (also known as dry cask storage systems or "DCSS"). The Agreement notes the successful completion of the 2015 Agreement and calls for RTT to continue refining its MRP system for use in DCSSs. The Agreement calls for RTT to design its systems to meet nuclear industry expectations in the area of Foreign Material Exclusion (FME); incorporate additional RTT suspension technologies; add position tracking technologies and conduct industry demonstrations at various test sites.
RTT Inspection Systems Access Hard To Reach Areas
"Last year our primary challenge was to demonstrate to the nuclear industry that miniature robotic inspection systems were capable of navigating complex ventilation ducts and then access nuclear storage fuel canisters while carrying non-destructive examination equipment," says Steve Glovsky, RTT's Executive Vice President. "I think everyone was a bit surprised when we demonstrated this capability at an unloaded DCSS at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station after less than nine months of development. This was impressive work and a testimony to the capabilities of our engineering team."
"This year RTT will work with EPRI to test the accuracy and reliability of actual NDE results on test samples, test RTT's MRP in more realistic in-situ environments and enhance RTT's MRP by adding RTT suspension technologies," says Mr. Glovsky.
RTT Offers Its Remote Operated Inspection Systems To Companies in the Nuclear Fuels and Waste Management Industry
RTT anticipates conducting multiple demonstrations during the year and demonstrating RTT's miniature robotic inspection systems on a number of differently configured DCSSs. In addition, RTT hopes to enter into working relationships with companies in the nuclear fuels and waste management industry. "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires regular licensing and relicensing of both the sites where nuclear waste is stored and the actual containment systems in which that waste is stored," says Mr. Glovsky. "It will be absolutely critical that industry players, including the utilities and the canister manufacturers, demonstrate that there is a process to inspect these storage systems as part of the licensing and relicensing process. RTT's ambition is to provide the nuclear industry with accurate and low cost nondestructive examination options for dry cask storage systems."
About RTT:
RTT designs, builds and sells mobile inspecting and manufacturing platforms. When mounted with manufacturing or inspecting tools, these systems deliver the benefits of factory automation to non-factory environments. RTT systems operate in a variety of environments including nuclear power plants, shipyards, tank terminals and wind farms. Applications include welding, inspection, cutting and grinding. Field fabricators and inspectors can save up to 80% when compared to manual alternatives. RTT systems are operating throughout the United States and around the world meeting challenging weather, operator and fabrication conditions. RTT patented and patent pending technologies are novel solutions for bringing automated and robotic systems to the $10 billion plus welding and inspection industry.
About EPRI:
The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI, www.epri.com) conducts research and development relating to the generation, delivery and use of electricity for the benefit of the public. An independent, nonprofit organization, EPRI brings together its scientists and engineers as well as experts from academia and industry to help address challenges in electricity, including reliability, efficiency, affordability, health, safety and the environment. EPRI's members represent approximately 90 percent of the electricity generated and delivered in the United States, and international participation extends to more than 30 countries. EPRI's principal offices and laboratories are located in Palo Alto, Calif.; Charlotte, NC; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Lenox, Mass.


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The daughter of a deceased metal worker filed suit against the various refineries he worked at alleging his illness and eventual death were caused by benzene exposure while working at the refineries. The deceased father was employed as a sheet metal apprentice from 1946 through 1952 at the refineries. His daughter seeks financial compensation for her father's leukemia illness and death.
The suit, filed on March 18, 2008, names Chevron USA, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., and Gulf Oil Corp. as defendants, claiming that the father was exposed to benzene due to their negligence during his six years of working as an apprentice. They have been accused by the suit of "needlessly exposing him to products containing benzene."
According to the suit, the defendants were aware of the chemical emissions, including benzene, and released them into the ambient air despite knowledge they would travel throughout the premises owned or operated by them and that persons such as the deceased father would inhale and absorb them.
The suit alleges that the defendants knew or should have known that the chemicals had a risk of causing cancer or other chronic diseases which could result in death. It also says that a significant amount of the emissions were unnecessary and could have been drastically reduced, which would have also reduced the resulting personal injuries, damages, and disease.
The suit also alleges that the defendants were negligent in their failure to provide a safe workplace and take necessary safety precautions for the safeguarding of workers from benzene.
The surviving daughter filed the suit seeking punitive damages, loss of companionship, and mental anguish in addition to the suffering, medical and funeral expenses, and mental anguish of her father.
North Carolina citizens who have been injured by exposure to benzene might have a products liability claim against the manufacturer or seller of the products or supplies containing benzene. North Carolina citizens who have been injured by exposure to benzene in the work environment may also have a workers' compensation claim. Learn about North Carolina workers' comp death benefits.


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Winners of the annual 3MT Competition
Posted on: 04/04/18 | Author: Communications | Categories: All Posts, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Feature Story
The University of Winnipeg's Faculty of Graduate Studies hosted its Fifth Annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT™) with six courageous student participants. Each student had only three minutes to explain their complex thesis ideas with one static slide using simple language on Tuesday, April 3 in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall. Dean Reddick took the top prize for explaining his research in finding a solution to best treatments for breast cancer, A Simple Test to Increase Treatment Response of Breast Cancer. Reddick is a Master of Science student in BioScience, Technology, and Public Policy.
Second prize was tied with Laura Cameron (Master of Arts, Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change) for her presentation Communications: Participatory Video and the Onjisay Aki Climate Summit; and Victor Alhassan, (Master of Science student in Applied Computer Science and Society) for his presentation Automated Map Production Using Deep Neural Networks.
Alhassan also took top prize for People's Choice award, which was selected by the audience.
The other participants included Kushagra Trivedi, Applied Computer Science; Serena Sung Young Lim, Applied Computer Science; and Cassandra Szabo, Master in Development Practice.
This year's judges included Senator Marilou McPhedran, Senate of Canada; Dr. Manish Pandey, Acting Vice-President Research and Innovation, UWinnipeg; and Melissa Martin, Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press. To see all the topics by the participants please visit the 3MT™ competition.
Master's Students from a variety of graduate programs will compete and reception will follow. 3-Minute Thesis (3MT™) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland which challenges research higher degree students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just three minutes in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
The 3MT™ competition kick started the University's inaugural Graduate Studies Research Week.


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The following is adapted from a speech the author gave at the Whiting Writers' Awards on October 21, 2013.
I said yes to doing this speech tonight for three reasons. The first is, of course, because the emergence of writers of talent, integrity, distinction, wit, vision, and imagination is always a cause for celebration, and, in these dark times, no opportunity to celebrate should be allowed to slip by.
The second reason is that I felt I was long overdue to repay this organization for its great kindness twenty-three years ago, when I got the news that the Whiting Foundation, of which I'd never heard, had decided that I was an Emerging Writer—a Writer, mind you, not an Emerging Playwright, and, even better, an Emerging Writer worthy of a very handsome check. Uncharacteristically for me, I didn't tell anyone I was a Whiting Foundation Emerging Writer until the news was published in the New York Times. Before that announcement, the award was a magic penny I kept in my pocket to rub several times a day, its potency in making me feel noticed, singular, and hopeful augmented, somehow, by remaining private, something almost exclusively mine.
Perhaps I kept the news hidden because the future success that the award hinted at but by no means insured was too unlikely, too remote, a thing too sharply desired to share with others without feeling exposed and embarrassed. As often happens with exposure and embarrassment, you get used to it, and so I want to thank the Whiting Foundation. Your award did for me what I assume it's meant to do: I felt encouraged, valued, affirmed by the recognition, by the affiliation, by the swanky company of my fellow-Emergers, by the handsome check—I felt protected, at the start of what clearly was going to be a rough and bumpy ride.
The third reason I agreed to do this is that I wanted to try to write a speech about writing, which is ostensibly among my assignments tonight. Wanting to try to write about writing is different from wanting to write about writing, or actually writing about it. At fifty-seven years of age, having made my living as a playwright, I feel I ought to be able to write about writing. I've tried on several previous occasions and I've always failed, sometimes at great length. I'm about to fail again. Here goes:
I'm a playwright—I believe I've mentioned that—a playwright who supports himself and gets his health insurance by writing screenplays. What am I, a playwright, supposed to say to you writer-writers? I could talk about our strange, amphibious craft; about the very specific problems attendant upon writing for the crossed purposes of literary readers, readers for the purpose of production, and for the non-reading, watching and listening people sitting nightly in the dark. I'd probably talk about health insurance as well—nothing unusual there; playwrights share financial insecurity with writers of every kind. But a playwright is something else.
I've been working for the past few years on a screenplay and an opera libretto about Eugene O'Neill, and a while back I came across Bernard DeVoto, writing in the Saturday Review in 1936, dismissing O'Neill's play "Strange Interlude" and any misapprehension that O'Neill was a great writer. DeVoto is insistent upon the difference between writing and playwriting.
It is not a derogation but only a definition to say that workable theatricality is the measure of successful playwriting. In the theater the test is not: Is this true to the realities of human experience? Instead the test is: Is this fictitious representation satisfactory to the artificial conditions of the theater? With luck—or with genius—a play may pass both tests, but it must pass the second, and if they are in conflict, the first must yield. The theater is under many limitations: the exigencies of space and time; the dictation of the literal, which requires an actual Peter Pan to swing through the air on an actual wire in the presence of practicable props; and especially the necessary conditions of people meeting together as an audience, the lowered intelligence, the lulled critical faculty, the enhanced emotionalism and suggestibility of a group, the substitution of emotional accord for the desire to experience and understand that is fed by other forms of literature. Under all these limitations, the theater succeeds in its own terms. They are the terms of the momentarily effective, not the permanently true or the permanently illuminating. Only small and superficial portions of human life can be honestly and thoroughly represented in such terms and under such limitations. Quite properly, the theater does not care: where honest and thorough presentation of life makes available material, the theater will use it; where it does not, the theater must and will cheerfully depart from it for the sake of the theatrical values. They, the theatrical values, are concerned with something else.
It's not that DeVoto is entirely right; he's as wrong as can be about the audience being less intelligent than before it gathers or after it atomizes, for one thing, and there's much besides with which to take serious issue. But he's right about theatre, and the people who write for it, being shaped by and in pursuit of "something else." Regrettably, content to having put it in its subordinate place, DeVoto stops before attempting to expand upon the nature of the Something Else the theatre is in pursuit of, leaving those of us who don't accept theatre's difference as a mark of its deficiency to posit that DeVoto's Something Else is another name for what Shakespeare describes, that "thing of great constancy, but howsoever strange and admirable"—the alarming, frustrating, and profoundly human momentariness, the transparently doubled and dialectical condition that that gravity-bound and yet aloft, hung-on-a-hook Peter Pan attains. I get to play generative games with that kind of fantastically phony fairy, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. That said, playwrights aren't like other writers, and I admire but am not competent at doing the kind of writing that aims at permanent truth and permanent illumination. Like other playwrights, I aim at Something Else.
And so I don't know what I can say to you writer-writers that's of any value, really. It's unsuitable for me to talk to you about success, admonishing you to turn your backs on it. Perhaps you should. I don't think I can. Plays need audiences to work; plays inescapably are popular entertainment. I can't advise you to go live permanently in the woods. Playwrights have had houses in the woods, but they rarely retreat into them while plausibly designated as Emerging, and only a very few retreat permanently; playwrights need interiority and insularity as much as any other kind of writer, but then the M.O. shifts to rehearsal rooms and theatres, and, as I said, we need to be amphibious.
Even if I was another sort of writer, a writer-writer, a _lit_wright rather than a playwright, I'd be apprehensive offering you advice about writing. I could tell you that in an occupation the chief demand of which is to try hard to tell the truth, momentary truth or permanent, to generate meaning, one of the surest paths away from success, however you define it, and toward failure is to allow yourself knowingly, willingly, opportunistically to lie. I could exhort you to avail yourselves of the litwright's isolationist prerogatives, but in addition to feeling hypocritical, since I get to hang out half the time with actors, who are a lot of fun, maybe you're not the kind of writer who should go off to a cabin in the woods, maybe, instead of the wonderful books we anticipate from you, if you went off to a cabin in the woods you'd wind up writing Unabomber manifestos, maybe you'd just go crazy.
I'm utterly unsuited to the task of telling you how to live a happy, disciplined writer's life. I'm a slow reader, a deliberate tortoise of a thinker rather than the intellectual gazelle I would like to be; I'm undisciplined and unhappy writing and expect to be until the writing stops. I find a remarkable number of things to do in a day much more compelling than writing. I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.
Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course—arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard. Again, something you know. If you know how to do it on a daily basis in spite of how daunting it is, and I suspect many of you do know this, you should be giving this speech and I should be taking notes. Maybe at dinner?
I have no good advice, but here's some I gleaned from a letter Benjamin Haydon, who rarely gave him good advice, wrote to John Keats: "God bless you my dear Keats, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence."
And sometimes, when I'm reluctant to go to my desk, when I'm too pole-axed by fears to allow myself to surmount the not especially formidable obstacles I've placed between myself and my work, I recite a couplet William Blake wrote to get himself going:
If Blake could do this when he sat down to shite,
Think what he might do if he sat down to write.
And sometimes that actually helps! It helps to know that even Blake needed a little prompting now and then to get to work.
Finally—and I'm almost done—I realize that I might have spoken not about how to write, but why. Here, too, I'm held back by the probability that each of you writes for your own reasons, and all of us write to serve ambitions we hold in common. We write to negotiate our own relationships with momentariness and permanence, to speak with the dead, to bring them back to life, or try to, and of course we always fail to bring them back, and we call that failure art. Perhaps you're like me in clinging for dear life to an uncertainty, sometimes powerful, sometimes faint, regarding the purpose and importance of what a writer or any artist does. Perhaps you share with me a reluctance to investigate that purpose and power too extensively, deeply, closely. Perhaps like me you cherish the lingering question: Is this thing that I do superfluous? Perhaps it is. And perhaps like me you agree with Bertolt Brecht when he wrote, "It's the superfluous for which we live."
All I really know about writing is that if you're a writer, writing is what you do. The work, intellectual, emotional, physical work, is everything—the means, the ends, the justifications, and the doubts, the ignominy, acclaim, disappointment, and elation, everything that can happen will happen only when and if you write. In the words of one of my favorite writer-writers, the great poet Czeslaw Milosz:
The goal of an artist is to be free of violent joys and sorrows for which he had time enough during his past life. At breakfast not to think anything except that he will go to his workshop, where stretched canvases are ready. He works on a few of them simultaneously, intrigued by a surprise emerging out of the movements of the brush. He knows what he looks for, what he strives for. And that is the whole reality, a detail seen once but constantly escaping, its nameless essence not touched by anybody. Practically this means to re-create trees, landscapes, people, animals, but always with the hope that the brush will find a proper trail.
That's the most I have to offer tonight: take up your brush, or rather your pen, or turn on your laptop, keep writing, find proper trails!
Tony Kushner's plays include "Angels in America," which won a Pulitzer Prize; "A Bright Room Called Day"; "Homebody / Kabul"; "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures"; and the musical "Caroline, or Change" and the opera "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck," both with the composer Jeanine Tesori. He wrote the screenplays for Steven Spielberg's "Munich" and "Lincoln," for which he received Oscar nominations. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
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Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈhɛɐman ˈjoːzɛf ˈaːdənaʊɐ]; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who took Germany from the ruins of World War II to the most powerful nation in Europe. He was the first chancellor (top official) of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, called West Germany), 1949–63. He was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a coalition of Catholics and Protestants that since 1946 has generally dominated German politics. A devout Catholic, he belied his age as the oldest elected leader in world history by his intense work habits and his uncanny political instinct. He displayed a strong dedication to a broad vision of democracy, capitalism, and anti-Communism. A stern patriarch and shrewd politician, Adenauer was deeply committed to the traditional values of Christianity and pursued a single-mindedly Western-oriented foreign policy. He restored the West Germany economy to dominance in Europe, rebuilt its army, came to terms with France, helped establish European unity, fought relentlessly against the Communists in rival East Germany, made his nation a pillar of NATO and a firm ally of the United States and commenced the long process of reconciliation with the Jewish people and Israel after the Holocaust. He brought Germany prosperity, democracy, stability and respect. To a large extent Adenauer's policies still dominate Germany.
Although his political career spanned sixty years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (then known as West Germany) from 1949–1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966. He was the oldest chancellor ever to serve Germany, beginning his first ministry at the age of 73 and leaving at the age of 87. His 14-year tenure was the second-longest for a German Chancellor (behind Otto von Bismarck) until Helmut Kohl passed him in 1996.
As a Catholic Centre Party politician in the Weimar Republic, he served as Mayor of Cologne (1917–1933) and president of the Prussian State Council (1922–1933). As such he was one of the most prominent politicians of interwar Prussia and a leading democratic adversary of Prime Minister Otto Braun.


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