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The future of printed academic books
If you haven't previously read 'The Conversation' then let me introduce you to this excellent blog with this post on the future of academic print books.
Written by Donald Barclay, Deputy University Librarian at the University of California Merced, the article highlights the impact of falling budgets and rising prices on academic book sales and proposes the open access monograph as a viable alternative. But first, he argues, academic distrust of digital publication has to be overcome…
Guide to open access monograph publishing
The OAPEN-UK project has just published a Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts, humanities and social science researchers.
The guide has been produced to "assist arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) researchers in understanding the state of play with regards to open access in the UK and what it means to them as current and future authors of scholarly monographs" (p.4).
It starts with an overview of open access publishing and business models for monographs and then goes on to address some common concerns of researchers such as legal issues, financial concerns, quality etc.
It is available to read online or download as a PDF.
21,000 new e-books available
Library and Learning Services (LLS) has recently acquired three new e-book packages from major publishers, which together provide access to more than 21,000 e-book titles. All the titles are digital rights management (DRM) free, provide simultaneous multi-user access and are available via single sign-on through NELSON and the library catalogue.
Doing your PhD: books for research students and supervisors
Never mind your subject interest, did you know that the library has a number of books about the PhD process itself? Check out some of these texts.
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Ebook price increases from three publishers
" It is with regret that we have to inform you that with no prior notice from the publisher Wiley has imposed an immediate price increase across selected titles. "
So begins another email from Dawson books, our leading supplier of academic ebooks. The email goes on to explain further:
" The price increases are the publisher's reaction to a recent US Supreme Court ruling whereby lower priced editions bought elsewhere in the world were allowed to be sold back into the US, a market which has traditionally had higher prices than other markets. To reduce the impact on US sales, Wiley have chosen to increase the prices in the UK to match the American prices. Unfortunately we have no ability to influence this decision although our buying team has vigorously championed non-US customers against price increases."


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In the few months that I've lived here, Australia has taught me a lot of valuable lessons. For instance, I learnt that the pricing system is not systematic at all, and even a bunch of bananas could double in price overnight. I learnt that people here can handle extreme, dry heat, but haven't the faintest tolerance to spice. Everyone's way more active and outdoorsy than I could've imagined—they bask in the sun wining, bike across an entire state, walk 8 to 10 kilometres as an everyday commute, and run up to 10 kilometres every day just because they can.
But the most crucial thing Australia has taught me is to give nature the respect it deserves.
People say anything in Australia can kill you. Even the sun—it can burn through and cause skin cancer, or it can ignite bushes as it does every year, leaving devastation in its wake. Equally dangerous are the animals. Not only is this country home to some of the world's vicious, venomous snakes and spiders, but it's also a haven for aggressive insects and birds.
Swooping magpies are a seasonal menace. Every year around mid-August, news sites flash warnings and incident updates in big, bold headlines. There's even an official website that shows live updates on magpie swooping: https://www.magpiealert.com
Cyclists, joggers, and pedestrians are warned to be extra cautious and avoid tracks that've had swooping accidents. Once, while walking past a university building, I came across a poster on the sidewalk announcing magpie sightings and suggesting alternative routes. There were 1500+ attacks this year, just halfway through the season.
Although it seems as if anything Australian is out to get you, magpies are also widely misunderstood. They don't always swoop and scoop out people's eyes or pick at their ears or poke into their foreheads. They, like most living creatures, swoop in defence. And they do so only for six weeks—the period when their eggs hatch and the chicks find their feet.
It would still hurt, though, to be on the receiving end of a magpie's beak. Deaths aren't unheard of either.
But ducks should be fine, eh?
Apparently, no. It came as a surprise, but in three days, I was almost attacked by ducks twice. Those squishy-looking, waddling, quacking, seemingly-harmless creatures can flap their wings quite ferociously when they want to chase after you. And to think I grew up pitying the ugly duckling in the children's tale, empathising with the helpless outcast! If only I'd known what little brats they could be.
When I looked it up, I realised that drakes—or male ducks—are aggressive either to show off their alpha-ness or to express interest in mating. Ah, what vain creatures, ducks. So much like humans.
Musing about how natural elements naturally want to harm humans, my respect for the earth swells. It's proof—despite all the technology and the modernity that humankind has injected into the earth, it continues to demonstrate how easily it can overpower us.
Nature is a force to be reckoned with. Denying that will cost us dearly.

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Big things are brewing in Demi Lovato's house, and G-Eazy is involved.
The "Confident" singer posted a pic on Instagram, accompanied with a cryptic message.
"Big things coming….. no literally swipe left and see how tall this mf is," reads Lovato's note, with G Eazy's handle tagged on the end.
Indeed, a separate image shows the Bay Area rapper and producer towering over Lovato (he's listed at 193cm or 6'4").
Lovato and G-Eazy (real name Gerald Gillum) are friends going way back.
In June, the pair were reportedly spotted shooting a music video. A taster from their collaboration, titled "Breakdown," features in the trailer for the new Netflix reality series, Titletown High.
G-Eazy recently posted a pic of the pair, along with the message "Well well well what do we have heeeeere," and confirming the collab would be "coming sooooon."
This song "perfectly captures the roller coaster of emotions in the show and the intense feelings brought on by the pressures of successes and failures in life," G-Eazy explained in a statement. "Hearing this song with their stories brought the meaning behind the lyrics to a whole new level. We're hella excited to be a part of this series!"


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Global: Living in communion with refugees this Holy Week
Holy Week is a time when Christian communities commemorate the Killing Fields in and around Jerusalem 2000 years ago, when collusion between religious authorities and an occupying military power led to the torture and murder of an innocent man. Matthew's gospel tells us that the child Jesus and his parents became refugees in Egypt because King Herod sought to kill him. Death stalked him at the start of his life, driving him into exile, and in the end, it hunted him down in the most terrible way.
Christians seek in Holy Week to deepen their knowledge of Jesus. Through word and ritual, in prayer and fasting, we seek to know Jesus, and the meaning of his life and death, more intimately. We do this so that we can say, in the words of Isaac Watts's great hymn, "When I survey the Wondrous Cross," "love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
There are men, women, and children in the world today for whom the experience of exile, and of being hunted down by death, are not the stuff of ritual and remembrance, but of cruel and bloody daily reality. Every minute somewhere in the world 20 people are driven from their homes as a result of conflict or persecution. From Syria to South Sudan, from Myanmar to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, people are regarded simply as collateral damage in wars, or treated as pawns in games of political expediency.
During Holy Week we seek to know Jesus more deeply, and desire to respond to his love and sacrifice by giving our all; but what do we make of those whom we often do not know – the nameless millions who hunger and thirst, who are imprisoned and sick, and who seek justice and peace? Surely we must recall the words of Jesus in the gospel: "Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me."
The philosopher Pascal wrote, "Christ hangs in agony until the end of time; and how are we to sleep?" It is a dramatic image, one that jolts us into recalling that fundamental notion of Christian belief and practice: that we are called to live in communion, and to act out of solidarity. Every minute 20 people are driven out of their homes; and how are we to sleep?
At the heart of the mission of JRS is that style of working and being that we call "accompaniment". We recognise that legal mechanisms and international policy will never bring full justice to refugees. Only if we love refugees as our brothers and sisters will we bring about that perfect communion that sees no one rejected, no one locked out, no one refused life. The amazing love of Jesus should draw out of us an amazing love for our brothers and sisters. Here then begins true justice for refugees; here then begin the rumours of resurrection.
– Fr Aloysious Mowe SJ, International Director of Advocacy and Communications


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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sunday is the last day for Ribfest Chicago and plenty of people are enjoying the great taste of ribs for dinner.
This year several vendors are offering vegetarian and gluten-free food options at the event along Lincoln Avenue between Irving Park and Berteau.
Ribfest also features live music and of course a rib eating contest.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
My team and I recently made a critical breakthrough... And it reinforces what I've been saying for years.
You don't need to take big risks to make big money in the stock market.
You don't have to find the needle in a haystack. You don't have to get extremely lucky by picking the right tech stock.
In my Investment Advisory, we're business junkies. We love great businesses. And usually, the kinds of businesses with staying power aren't exciting or glamorous.
Last week, I told DailyWealth readers about my latest project to investigate the stocks that returned an incredible 1,000% or more over the past 20 years.
My team and I found a way to identify these stocks – the small, under-the-radar companies that have huge growth potential.
Today, I'll explain one of the secret ingredients to boosting boring investments and making double-digit annual returns, without taking on more risk...
Regular readers know "capital efficiency" is one of our key metrics to finding successful businesses.
When we say "capital efficiency," we're measuring how easy it is for companies to grow revenues without heavy reinvestment. That's how you find great, healthy investments. These are the companies that will keep growing and will never go out of business. It's the one sure way to get rich in the market.
My colleague Bryan Beach puts it this way: When you think about capital efficiency, think about what you would want to see if you were the company's owner.
In other words, when you have a business that's growing like crazy but you aren't making more money, you wouldn't be excited to own that business. You've probably had to hire more people and deal with more problems. If cash isn't left at the end of the day for the owners, what's the point?
Personally, I look at it in a bigger-picture way... like a seesaw. On one end of the seesaw, you have growth. On the other end, you have profitability.
Think about my own company, Stansberry Research. If we wanted to spend $100 million on advertising, we could grow our business and sales tremendously, but it won't lead to more profits. Or we could cut back our marketing budget to almost zero and live off the renewal income and the incremental sales, and we could report a great, profitable year. It's really difficult to do both at the same time. And the businesses that can do that are exceedingly rare.
One of our big tests is whether a company can grow its revenues by 25% or 30% and still be capital efficient. When a company can make $0.25 or $0.30 in cash on every dollar of revenue AND continue to grow, you've found an extraordinary business.
Now here's the really surprising thing about all this. Like I said, these are unique, unusual businesses. But more often than not... they're boring.
When we investigated the stellar performers of the past two decades, the results we turned up weren't necessarily the high-flying tech stocks. Most of them fit the same boring industry categories we've been writing about for years...
You find these stocks with the same process that we put all of our best recommendations through in my Investment Advisory. For instance, chocolatier Hershey (HSY) and insurance firm W.R. Berkley (WRB) were great investments because they had tremendous growth and were incredibly capital efficient.
But with our new system – the kind we're using in Stansberry Venture Value – you see even better growth (and therefore, even bigger returns) buying the exact same kinds of stocks. Instead of making 6%-8% a year, these stocks can return 20%-30% a year.
Consistent, double-digit returns every year... without taking more risk... without crossing your fingers and hoping you picked the next big winner. The same reliable types of companies we recommend in my Investment Advisory... but with the ability to deliver 20% or 30% a year on your portfolio.
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Further Reading:
"Focusing on small-cap value stocks can dramatically increase your returns... And you don't have to take big risks to do it." Last week, Porter shared the origins of his new "10x Project" and outlined what the best small-cap stocks have in common. Read the essay here: The Secret to Finding the Market's Next 1,000%-Plus Winner.
"Investing in small companies is harder than it looks," Dave Eifrig writes. "And yet... small-cap stocks consistently outperform large caps over time." The right small-cap strategy can help you tap into one of the biggest advantages you have as an individual investor. Learn more here: How 'Going Small' Can Add Huge Returns to Your Retirement.
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Today's chart highlights another one of the best businesses on the planet...
We're talking about "World Dominators" – a phrase our colleague Dan Ferris uses to refer to companies with huge, global brands and long-term, steady growth. These businesses often hold the top position in their industry, like Internet "plumber" Cisco (CSCO).
Another World Dominator is breaking out: Becton Dickinson (BDX). The medical-technology company has cornered the market for needles and syringes. Odds are good you've come into contact with the company's products dozens of times in your life and never realized it.
Like other World Dominators, Becton Dickinson earns big cash profits, has a strong balance sheet, and an impressive history of rewarding shareholders through growing dividends. And as you can see from the chart below, BDX shares are climbing. The stock just struck a fresh all-time high. Next time you're looking for a new investment, consider an industry leader like Becton Dickinson...
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LEBANON, Tenn. (April 29, 2021) – As Nashville Superspeedway completes its rebirth as Middle Tennessee's racing and entertainment jewel, The Cat Rental Store at Thompson Machinery has been named the track's preferred equipment rental partner leading up to its June 18-20 NASCAR tripleheader weekend. The weekend includes the track's inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race, the "Ally 400," and is the first Cup Series race in Middle Tennessee in 37 years.
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The Grand Prix of Long Beach has been rescheduled for Sept. 26 due the COVID-19 pandemic. The legendary street course race was originally scheduled for April 18, but the new date will make it the NTT IndyCar Series season finale. It also creates a three-race, three weekend west coast swing to conclude the season.
RCR Post Race Report – Darlington 300
20th 10th 21st "Wednesday night NASCAR Cup Series racing – how great is that for our industry to pull together and make that work. I hope all of the fans enjoyed tuning in. I know a lot went into it. We started off the race with a tight-handling Dow Keep America Beautiful Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and that proved to be our challenge all race long. Handling issues plagued us in Stages 1, 2 and 3. I thought for sure that we were going to be able to get our…
RCR Race Recap – Real Heroes 400, Darlington Raceway
Late-Race Momentum Helps Austin Dillon and the No. 3 Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Chevrolet Team Finish Strong at Darlington Raceway 11th 16th 18th "Good job NASCAR. That was awesome to be able to pull off a race like that at Darlington Raceway. This place is great. I love this track. It can be so frustrating, and then so fun at the same time. We finished 11th in the No. 3 Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) Chevrolet. We had a really fast Chevy at the end of the race. We ran the No. 42…
Richard Childress Launches Personal Memorabilia Auction and Sale to Assist COVID-19 Relief Efforts
Thousands of rare, hard-to-find and exclusive items available now on eBay WELCOME, NC (April 23, 2020) – Legendary NASCAR team owner Richard Childress has launched an auction and sale of memorabilia and other items to benefit national and local COVID-19 relief efforts. The auction and sale include thousands of rare, hard-to-find and exclusive items from Richard Childress' 50+ years in NASCAR. Among the items being auctioned is an original No. 3 Chevrolet once raced by Dale Earnhardt, complete with engine and impeccably preserved. This marks the first time that Childress has…
RCR Event Preview – Virtual Richmond Raceway
Richard Childress Racing at Richmond Raceway … Richard Childress Racing boasts 15 wins at Richmond Raceway spread out among the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization will make it's first attempt at virtual Richmond Raceway this weekend. The Format … NASCAR, iRacing and FOX Sports are teaming up to deliver the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series, a selection of simulation-style esports races that include NASCAR Cup Series drivers Austin Dillon (No. 3 American Ethanol Chevrolet) and Tyler Reddick (No. 31 Cat Rental Store Chevrolet). The series heads…
Hurdl Joins Richard Childress Racing and Tyler Reddick for 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season
WELCOME, N.C. (February 26, 2019) – Richard Childress Racing announced today that Hurdl, an experiential SMS tech company that helps fans connect with their favorite teams, drivers, and brands, joined the team with a multi-race partnership in 2019. Hurdl will make its first appearance in NASCAR as a primary partner on defending Xfinity Series champion Tyler Reddick's No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro during NASCAR's West Coast Swing, starting at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday, March 2.
Daniel Hemric to Drive the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in 2019
WELCOME, N.C. (December 14, 2018) – Daniel Hemric will carry a familiar number for his rookie season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2019, driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. The 27-year-old will continue the long tradition of Kannapolis, North Carolina, natives who have driven the No. 8 on the racetrack.


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Renting out an apartment always sounds like an excellent business idea. It is a good way of earning and becomes a reliable income. If you have an apartment you wish to rent, there are a few things you should make sure of as the owner. Not only will this give you more applicants for the apartment, but it will also make your apartment a good listing.
Keep reading to find out what you can do before renting off an apartment.
Check for any issues.
As the owner of the apartment, you want to make sure that it is liveable without any issues that could affect the tenant's life. You want to make sure the bathrooms work, check the water supply and the air conditioning. If you do this, it can help you get a much better listing on your apartment, and you can know if the tenants later damage something.
Make sure you are settling for an appropriate price.
Although everyone wants their listings to be as high as possible, it is still a good idea to remain humble and realistic. You should list the apartment at a reasonable price and see what it is worth. It also means you should not settle for anything less of its worth. And instead, sell it a bit higher than it should be. Following this kind of rough guideline helps you and the client out and encourages a good negotiation to go on.
Set some rules
As you will only be renting the apartment and not selling it, you will remain the owner. It is vital that you set some ground rules and make sure to let your client know of them. If they do not follow these rules and damage the apartment, you will have to cover all costs. And maybe you will not be able to rent it out again.
As discussed, these are some things to make sure of when you list your apartment for rent.


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Tell us about your IYL 2015 activities!
The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 (IYL 2015) is a truly international initiative with events taking place all around the world to fulfil the objectives of the United Nations resolution that proclaimed the Year.
The IYL 2015 Secretariat is now beginning to compile a Report on all the activities that have taken place as part of IYL 2015, and in 2016, a Final Report will be formally submitted to UNESCO and the United Nations.
The IYL 2015 Secretariat will shortly be contacting organizers of past IYL events, with a link that they should use, to access a simple web form, where details about the event can be submitted and photos uploaded.
It is essential that as many events from around the world are included in this Final Report, as this will demonstrate the international impact of the Year and will allow us to look at follow up areas for the future.
About IYL 2015
The International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL 2015) is a global initiative adopted by the United Nations (A/RES/68/221) to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health. With UNESCO as lead agency, IYL 2015 programs will promote improved public and political understanding of the central role of light in the modern world while also celebrating noteworthy anniversaries in 2015—from the first studies of optics 1,000 years ago to discoveries in optical communications that power the Internet today. The IYL Global Secretariat is located at the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
The Founding Partners of IYL 2015 are the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), the European Physical Society (EPS), the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS), the Institute of Physics (IOP), Light: Science and Applications, the lightsources.org International Network, 1001 Inventions, The Optical Society (OSA) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Patron Sponsors include Bosca, the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), Royal Philips Lighting, Thorlabs and UL.
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The Board of Advisors for Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center awards VEAP (Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People) with the Franciscan International Award. The Franciscan International Award honors men, women and organizations who symbolize the spirit and apostolic zeal of St. Francis of Assisi. VEAP is the 59th recipient of this award and will be honored at the Franciscan International Award Dinner on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at the Wilds Golf Club in Prior Lake.
Father Richard Kaley of St. Bonaventure Catholic Church nominated VEAP for its work meeting basic needs and providing social services for low-income residents in Bloomington, Richfield, Edina and south Minneapolis. In 2016, VEAP distributed 3.4 million pounds of food, 52% of which was fresh produce. VEAP programs provide resources and hope while moving families toward economic sustainability.
Previous recipients of the Franciscan International Award include Dr. Billy Graham (1972), Dr. Mildred Jefferson (1978), Habitat for Humanity (1999), Sister Helen Prejean (2003) and Fran Heitzman (2014).
Go to Franciscan Retreats and Spirituality Center's website for information on how to purchase tickets to the award ceremony.


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Stacie Mickens, assistant professor of Horn at Youngstown State University, and guest artist Adam Unsworth, associate professor of Horn at the University of Michigan, present a Duo Horn Recital at 8 p.m., Monday, Jan. 14, in Bliss Recital Hall on the YSU campus.
Pianist Diane Yazvac will assist in the recital that will include works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Clearfield, Nurock and Rosetti. The recital is free and open to the public. Parking is available for a nominal fee in the Wick Avenue deck.
Mickens joined the faculty of YSU's Dana School of Music in fall 2012 after completing her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She previously taught at Luther College and Winona State University and is a member of the Akron and Youngstown symphonies. Unsworth is a former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has appeared as a recitalist and clinician at many universities throughout the United States and has performed repeated solo and chamber concerts at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. He is the leader of his own jazz group, the Adam Unsworth Ensemble, which recorded the critically acclaimed CD, Excerpt This!
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Plotting Cell Array in APP Designer
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Marcin Laszkiewicz on 15 Oct 2020
Commented: Marcin Laszkiewicz on 16 Oct 2020
Hey so I'm working on a GUI that will display Covid cases, deaths, or both in the world and in individual countries depending on the users inputs. I'm trying to get the GUI to plot the data from a single country for now and I'm having a lot of trouble with it. As you can see below, the cell array I'm working with contains dates in the first row, country's and regions in the first two columns, and the remaining cells contains two values, one for cases and one for the deaths. I'm not sure how to separate those values when I go to plot.
I think the plot command in the startup function will looke something like this for Angola:
cellfun(plot(app.UIAxes,covid_data{1,(3:end)},covid_data{6,(3:end)}), covid_data);
But this doesn't work probably because the Y values being plotted contain 2 numbers in each cell. Any ideas on how to move forward?
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Kevin Chng on 16 Oct 2020
try :
After running the code below, you shuld have 2 nice table to plot your figure
date = covid_data(1,3:end)';
covid_data = covid_data(2:end,3:end)';
covid_data.Properties.VariableNames = covid_data{2:end,1};
%new case/death case(first value)
for i=1:1:height(covid_data)
for k=1:1:width(covid_data)
covid_data_new{i,k} = covid_data{i,k}{1}(1)
%new case/death case(second value)
for i=1:1:height(covid_data)
for k=1:1:width(covid_data)
covid_data_death{i,k} = covid_data{i,k}{1}(2)
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> The images are originally made as either tga's, pcx's or jpg's....
This means that at least some of them are compressed before they get to
Photoshop, which can be difficult when later compressing again in Flash.
>the end product is still noticeably of lower quality than the original
In the previous post you said they were "grainy and blurry". That could be
one way to describe double-compressed JPEG. Another tipoff might be if
there were small rectangles seen in the image.
One way to test whether it's the transfer itself that's at cause here would
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The second of three matches with the San Jose Earthquakes brought the Rapids back to reality in a 2-1 defeat at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. It was a very ugly start by the Rapids, punctuated by a defensive break-down and a needless ejection. The loss to the Quakes is especially tough to take with a three game roadie on the docket.
Cue up The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - -Week 16 edition
The Good: Martin Rivero: For as poor as the start of the match was, seeing Martin Rivero on the pitch to start the second half was a breath of life. His playmaking, passing,shooting and calming influence was evident in the final 45 minutes. He made several telling runs and forced the San Jose defense to be on their toes. Even playing down a man the entire second half did not seem to bother the team. Having Rivero on the pitch freed up the wide defensive backs to bring the ball forward and prevented San Jose from cheating on their defense. In short, he made them play honest football. Having him on the pitch freed plays like the Brian Mullen cross to Nathan Sturgis, who scored his third of the year.
The Bad: The Mental Breakdowns: The play of the team this Rapids team has allowed many supporters the ability to forget the mental breakdowns of previous incarnations. However the defensive breakdowns on both goals were just terrible. I was speaking to people in my section and they were wondering if missing Shane O'Neill was to blame. I hope it is not as this team was supposed to be built on the idea that the team is greater than the sum of its parts. This has been demonstrated by the younger guys stepping up. But for some reason, in this game, two bad mental breakdowns led to two goals. I will give credit to the Quakes for capitalizing on the chances presented to them, but the Rapids practically gift wrapped both goals.
The Ugly: Atiba Harris: there are few teams in MLS that can withstand a sending off in the 18th minute of a match. When the Rapids saw their leading scorer sent off for a poor challenge the task became more difficult. At that point the team was already down a goal and chasing a game whilst being a man down, is not a strong suit of this team. Harris was not the reason the game was lost, but him leaving after only 18 minutes made the task of defeating the Earthquakes more challenging.
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Kill List (2011)
Out of the handful movies where I�ve found myself out-of-step with fellow horror fans this decade, Kill List is the one I�ve been most eager to revisit. Not only did it arrive with a ton of buzz back in 2011, but it�s continued to grow in stature since its release. When it�s often cited as one of the decade�s best horror movies, I�m left wondering if I missed something the first time around. Don�t get me wrong: Ben Wheatley�s film was something I certainly appreciated the first time around�it�s just that I was left a little cold by it. Upon reflection�and a long overdue revisit�it strikes me that this is probably exactly how Kill List should strike you. It�s not an easy film to love, nor is it an easy one to even really enjoy since Wheatley seemingly crafted it with the express purpose of alienating the audience, putting them at both an emotional and thematic distance from the piece that can be frustrating.
It�s a film with many dots, none of which Wheatley is in any hurry to connect. The first third of the film feels like a recession-era exploration of economic and masculine anxieties, as ineffectual putz Jay (Neil Maskell) finds himself amidst domestic squalor. His wife Shel (MyAnna Buring) chastises him for his laziness, often pointing to the fact that he�s been out of work for eight months to needle him. His own son (Harry Simpson) even parrots his mother�s barbs and is often left wondering why his parents are so often at each other�s throats. To make matters worse, Jay�s asked to host a dinner party for his old war buddy and workplace associate Gal (Michael Smiley) and his girlfriend (Emma Fryer), a gathering that�s destined for disaster once Shel begins to mutter snide remarks.
There�s an awkward sort of intensity to the entire exchange that puts Kill List on edge, where it remains for the entirety of its runtime. It�s off-putting, and purposely so: these are not pleasant people whose company is to be enjoyed. Instead, we barely tolerate them, especially Jay and Gal, whose cryptic work comes into focus when the latter reveals the two have been offered a new job. Since leaving the battlefield, the two have become hitmen, and their latest assignment�their titular kill list�is dispatched by a cadre of mysterious men who provide nothing but names. Jay and Gal are shocked to discover their first target to be a priest; even more disconcerting is his reaction, as the man is weirdly at peace, going so far as to thank Jay just before he puts a bullet into the back of his head.
Something is obviously amiss here, and there�s a perpetual sensation of circling a drain as this duo unwittingly burrows even deeper into a conspiracy unfolding around them. Slowly but surely, Kill List just begins to feel overwhelmingly fucked up, even if the exact nature of this conspiracy is never made completely apparent. The only certainty is that Jay and Gal have stumbled into something awful, as their second assignment lands them squarely in the nest of some kind of twisted sex ring. Whatever they witness on a tape they discover is enough for Jay to take a hammer to the target�s skull, all while the man thanks his assassin. To their credit, Jay and Gal realize that none of this quite adds up and attempt to free themselves from their contract to absolutely no avail. After all, they�ve signed a blood pact, and their only way out is death.
So they push on, and Wheatley becomes increasingly cagey about the nature of their work. Hints�such as a recurring occult symbol and Gal�s bizarre, almost phantasmagoric girlfriend�emerge, foreshadowing the delirious third act turn, where the characters wander straight into a vintage British occult film, complete with masked cultists performing some mysterious, arcane ritual. The film reaches a fever pitch within a tunnel, where Jay and Gal fight for their lives without being afforded the moment to wonder why they�re doing so. Similarly, Wheatley sweeps the audience up in this breathless turn of events, sending them to ride shotgun on this downward spiral without much of a map. Some familiar signposts provide clues, but none completely illuminate the particulars of the events.
Obviously, that can be frustrating, and it was that frustration that colored�and perhaps still colors�my perception of Kill List. Wheatley�s elliptical storytelling asks you to do a lot of the legwork here in stitching together the point of it all. Just what are we supposed to glean from watching these unconscionable brutes succumb to even more unfeeling and brutal forces? There is, perhaps, a dash of the dark, wry irony guiding much of Wheatley�s work in the stunning climax, wherein the spiraling threads of Jay�s toxic masculinity and the film�s enigmatic mysticism converge with the suggestion that the latter has paradoxically satiated the former. It�s only through vague, old world occultism and barbarism that Jay is able to finally embrace the primal urges that have been dulled by suburban life. Like a caged animal finally unleashed, he becomes enraptured by the surrounding throng as he takes center stage in a horrific ritual he knows nothing about. Indulging these barbaric impulses will cost him everything he�s supposed to care about, leading viewers to the suggestion that this is man�s natural state: unloosed, feral, and blood-soaked, with any and all familial and civilized ties severed.
But it�s just that: a suggestion, as a clear meaning never truly emerges. That wry streak isn�t nearly as pronounced as it is in some of Wheatley�s other work, leaving viewers wondering just how they�re supposed to take these final moments. Sympathy for Jay seems out of the question, yet Wheatley doesn�t quite play up his horrific climactic deeds as comeuppance, either. And maybe that�s the point of it all: that life is sometimes a grim, nihilistic pursuit of warring impulses that can�t live in harmony. A man like Jay is destined for violence: no matter how much he carries himself as an average joe who just wants to hang out in his Jacuzzi, he�s irrevocably drawn into the orbit of brutality. His ordeal in Kill List feels like damnation and salvation all at once, further muddying the thematic waters.
Maybe it�s supposed to be like that: if Wheatley�s subsequent work is any indication, he just doesn�t operate on the same wavelength as the rest of us. Even my two favorite films from him�Sightseers and A Field in England�are oblong and obtuse in their own way, almost as if he�s averse to the notion of someone being able to completely embrace them. His movies are jagged and slippery, nearly always just beyond arm�s reach�and that�s fine. I�m glad there�s a filmmaker out there of Wheatley�s caliber making strange, confrontational movies that resist easy consumption. A movie like Kill List should be tough to swallow: I certainly appreciate it more after a second look, but I�m not sure I really like it any more than I did the first time. Maybe that means I�m still left out in the cold, which is exactly where Wheatley wants me.
Mama (2013)
Mama is certainly a film that�s considered on different terms now than it was upon its release. Back in 2013, director Andres Muschietti was almost a footnote in the surrounding hoopla, as the prevailing narrative then highlighted Guillermo del Toro�s involvement in throwing his support behind this relatively unknown filmmaker, immediately raising the project�s profile. Inherent with that is a certain set of expectations: while history has taught us to be wary of iconic filmmakers simply serving as producers, it was hard not to get swept up in del Toro�s involvement, especially when Mama shared so much DNA with his work.
Now�and in generations to come�Mama will be regarded as the directorial debut of the guy who eventually helmed New Line�s adaptation of It, which, to be fair, still sets up certain expectations. At the least, seeing what Muschietti accomplished on that film provided ample reason to give Mama another shot, and I�m pleased to report back that it�s perhaps a tad more solid than I remembered. My prevailing memory of this film was the sensation that it sort of unravels down the stretch, when Muschietti literally gives up the ghost and Mama becomes an overblown shriek show. And while some of this still rings true, there�s still a lot to like in the setup and the climax that separate this one from the pack, if ever so slightly.
For starters, Muschietti crafts an impeccably tense�if not slightly unconventional�haunted house picture during the early-going. Terrific, unnerving performances from Megan Charpentier and Isabelle Nelisse as Victoria and Lilly Desange, a pair of sisters left in a disturbed state after being stranded alone in a remote cabin for five years. The girls, however, insist they weren�t alone at all, constantly referring to an entity known only as �Mama� that protected them once their father�who abducted them amidst his killing spree�wrecked their car and was mysteriously taken away by an unseen force all those years ago. Even though audiences are at least partially in on the truth (we know that something spectral exists), Muschietti creates an uneasy household when the girls are adopted by their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend (Jessica Chastain), a well-meaning but underprepared couple who aren�t quite ready to deal with the situation they�ve taken on.
To be fair, nobody would be: both girls are withdrawn and bizarre, Lilly especially so. Most of the film�s early scares involve her, as she�s prone to feral outbursts, almost as if she�s now barely human. The horror genre has obviously seen its fair share of weirdo kids, but she�s one of the more indelible ones in recent memory because she�s never quite there: Nelisse gives this eerily vacant�yet still quite childlike�performance that�s harrowing in the way it ratchets up the tension in the home. Chastain�whose presence here lends an added layer of gravitas necessary for this type of movie to work�is left to bounce off of this, creating a sympathetic figure out of a maternal figure with few maternal instincts: her character actually doesn�t want kids, and she has doubts throughout this ordeal about her ability to care for these girls.
Where so many movies might take an unfavorable view of that by painting her as the monster, Mama is quite sensitive towards her plight, particularly when the girls� aunt (Jane Moffat) fights for custody. For about half its runtime, Mama is an intense depiction of domestic turmoil, one that happens to feature some unnerving images (a fleeting shot of Lilly playing in her room with the unseen Mama is an all-timer) and some terrific Appalachian ambiance (more films should be shot and/or set here, as these rural, pine-shrouded hills are positively menacing).
Conventions practically demand that a movie like Mama eventually has to be less restrained, though, so we�re treated to obligatory subplots where characters uncover a sordid local legend involving a mental patient who abducted her child from a convent and committed suicide with the baby in her arms. A sort of boilerplate mythology fashioned from the Ring mold, it�s intriguing enough, especially since Muschietti indulges some striking imagery along the way, such as an entire first-person POV sequence where Chastain experience�s the mother�s final moments during a nightmare sequence. Mama herself is also quite an interesting figure, a sort of twisted wraith that helped put creature performer Javier Botet on the map. Whenever Mama is practically realized, she�s a pretty marvelous effect, if only because she looks so unreal (I�m pretty sure I mistakenly thought she was completely CGI during my first viewing).
Less effective, however, are the obviously computer-generated outbursts, as Mama eventually degenerates to a loud parade of jump scares, albeit on infused with Muschietti's tremendous vision. He goes full gothic horror for a climax set in the thick of the Appalachian wilderness, a full moon bathing the proceedings in the otherworldly glow of a twisted fairy tale. It�s here that Del Toro�s influence feels most obvious, as Muschietti envisions this big, heart-on-its sleeve finale that imagines an empathetic sense of closure for both Mama and Lilly. He does so with a gutsy ending at that, one that acknowledges that some souls can never recover from trauma and can only find solace in each other. Neither Mama nor Lilly is quite meant for this earth after all, and Muschietti delicately balances both despair and hope with a bizarre resolution that doesn�t quite play by the book, at least not completely.
Interestingly enough, I dismissed Mama as a movie that felt like it was lost sometime in the early-aughts cycle of Ring knock-offs; in retrospect, it�along with the likes of Insidious�was actually a herald for the supernatural craze that�s still going strong now. About six months after Mama�s debut, James Wan would debut The Conjuring franchise, thereby cementing this phase�s foundation with the franchise that still persists as its standard-bearer. Mama hasn�t enjoyed that kind of legacy, but something tells me the future will be kinder to it: not only was it at the forefront of this resurgence, but it was also the first evidence of a visionary talent that could be a genre staple in the coming years.
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UK Disability History Month - "The wonderful and surprising Little Welchman"
17 Rhagfyr 2015,
Following on from Sioned's blog about our work with Mat Fraser in 2014 and the anonymous 'invalid chair' she found in the collection, in this blog I'll be discussing another object which featured in Mat's performance – an 18th century woollen suit from the Llantrisant area.
Unlike most of the disability-related collections in the Museum, the suit in question comes with a personal story and a file bulging with snippets from local history books. Worn by Hopkin Hopkins – better known as 'Hopcyn Bach' [Little Hopcyn] – the frock coat and matching breeches are among the oldest items of clothing in the collection. They were acquired by the Museum in 1920, before it was common practice for curators to document their reasons for accepting artefacts into the collection.
Hopkin Hopkins (1737 - 54) was born with a growth restricting condition. His physical appearance became a source of income for his family. It may seem repugnant to us today, but at the age of 14 he was taken to London by his parents and shown publically for money. Billed as "the wonderful and surprising Little Welchman", his perceived 'freakishness' was a source of entertainment in polite society. In 1751, Hopkin was presented to the Royal Family who gave him a gold watch, an annual pension and ten guineas for each appearance he made at Court.
In the same year, he was also 'on display' in Bristol. This vivid account of the visit is taken from a letter sent by John Browning in September 1751:
I am just returned from Bristol where I have seen an extraordinary young man, whose case is very surprising; he is shewn publicly for money, and therefore I send you the printed bill, which is given about to bring company… I went myself to view and examine this extraordinary, and surprising but melancholy subject; a lad entering the 15th year of his age, whose stature is no more than 2 feet and 7 inches, and weight 13 pound, labouring under all the miserable and calamities of old age, being weak and emaciated, his eyes dim, his hearing very bad, his countenance fallen, his voice very low and hollow; his head hanging down before, so that his chin touches his breast, consequently his shoulders are raised and his back rounded not unlike a hump-back, he is weak that he cannot stand without support. [Letter from John Browning to Henry Baker, 12 September 1751. Quoted in Sem Phillips, The History of the Borough of Llantrisant, 1866.]
How did Hopkin feel about being an object of curiosity? We simply don't know. Although we have numerous descriptions of his body, his voice is missing from the narrative.


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Can I have a dollar?
Five simple words worth 20 cents each.
We're so quick to play God and judge people that may play juror,
against us one day.
Can, I have a dollar?
The question echoes my denim
and the lint runs to secure loose change,
runs to tack down any folded up bills with Washington's face
facing a nation where they sit and watch
people trip and fall below the poverty line with
these easing sounds of more money entering their piggy bank.
Can I, have a dollar?
Before you enter Starbucks,
or maybe when you leave, with that macchiato memory of Mmmmmmm,
maybe then you'll be in a better mood,
a better place,
a better spirit to give something to your brother.
and I'm not loosely throwing that term around like love people,
but we all are related under Father God aren't we?
Aren't we
supposed to lift one another outta the depths
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He breathed within us?
Can I have,
and maybe that's the problem cause you want it back.
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Offer you,
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and this privilege,
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cause you don't know your father,
or your family.
Hashtag humanity.
Can I have a single,
One hundred pennies that you throw away constantly in wishing wells
when I'm wishing for clean water to sip,
to wash my hands,
to wash away my sins,
to wash away the pain of having to ask you
who are merely disgusted in just talking to me,
to borrow anything
as if empathy costs 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels,
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Pretending that you're so far above the invisible poverty line
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in the same situation,
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supposed to be visible to the brothers and sisters God has given you.
When I ask you can I have a dollar,
I don't care about your money,
or the jingle jingling in your pocket
I'm just trying to get your attention.
Trying to get you to understand these bags have groceries,
this cardboard box is for my children's art project,
these rags just mean I have any clean clothes
due to the fact that there's a flood in my house,
and the dollar i apparently can't have is for the meter.
Poverty doesn't equate to homeless.
And many times a simple conversation can stop thoughts of suicide
cause there's a struggle and no one cares
about the person struggling next to them,
it's about what can you do for me,
What can I have from you.
So once again when I ask you can I have a dollar,
dig in your heart
and spend a second of your time just to acknowledge that I exist,
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something greater Lord,
and all I want is for a stranger,
pardon me
all I want is for a sibling to simply
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Tick Tick, Is That the Sound
of Your Biological Clock?
I recently turned 30 without ever managing to become somebody's Mommy. I'm fine with this, more than fine, but some of my very well meaning family members can't understand why I haven't gone forth and multiplied.
Take this past weekend, where instead of celebrating my Mom's birthday, there seemed to be an awful lot of focus on the fact that I wasn't one. See, my brother recently had his second daughter. She's about three months old, gorgeous and content to just lie there. I was asked if I wanted to hold her, I said "no." I don't hold little babies. Never have.
They are very delicate and I tend to break very delicate things. Why take the chance? Of course, nobody is ever permitted to decline the honor of holding somebody else's pride and joy, so she was in my lap faster than I could say, "spinsters are people too."
Major uncomfortableness followed. I mean have you ever tried to hold a very young infant? They squirm; look very uncomfortable and they don't talk, so you can't ask them if they are all right. I sat there for all of five minutes cooing and stuff and handed the baby back. The first thing my brother said was, "I can tell that you are never going to have children?" Huh? Angie and Mommy don't mix because I'm not instinctively an expert at Baby Holding 101? Then, my other relatives took turns trying to make me feel guilty or worse incompetent, and this got me thinking: Is the "M Club" for everybody?
In an age where 30 is the new 20 and life seems to just get good as you inch towards 40, is there still a thing as being too old to be a mom? Should I go out and have a Rugrat by the first man that strikes my interest or risk being childless forever? I can't afford a kid right now. I can barely take care of myself. I still have so much that I want to do with my life. When you have kids they have to become your priority, sacrifices become in order and I'm just not ready to abdicate my numero uno position in my life to anybody else…yet.
Also, this may be a newsflash for some, but I know a lot of successful older women who have no children and are, brace yourselves — happy and content. Being a Mom is great. I love my nieces and they have brought a richness into my life that I could never have imagined, but not everybody wants to be a mom and just being you, sans that Mommy title, doesn't make you any less of a women.
I intend to be a Mommy one day, but on MY timetable. So, count me in as a future member of the "M Club," but in the present, just being Angie is enough.
till next month…
Angela N. Parker is a writer of stuff. You can visit her Under the Hill blog at http://angelanparker.blogspot.com/ and at her Writer's Blog at http://theparkerverse.blogspot.com. You can also learn more about Angela at her website http://www.angelanicoleparker.com. Please send any questions/comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The more public sentiment astute members of White House Press Corps FINALLY ended the Obama Honeymoon yesterday.
While the Liberal Media's own love affair is not yet over, there is now a biting public sentiment of disgust with the Liberal Media's fawning over Barack; a fawning that is being judged for what it really is… Political Propaganda for fun and profit.
Not even Liberals' doctored Obama Popularity Poll numbers can cover up the steadily mounting American Dissatisfaction with Obama's Behaviors, and Dissatisfaction with the Liberal Media's whitewashing of it.
In the end, the Liberal Media has to cut it's losses and stop publicly drooling over Obama like school girls at a rock concert. It is already too late for ABC and NBC/MSNBC. They are now considered nothing more than Socialist Tabloid Propaganda Machines and most of America now "Gets It."
And… when asked whether the unrelenting and continuing deadly Iranian Islamic Government Attacks on it's citizens was to be ignored in favor of going ahead with Obama's Islamic Thug Diplomacy of inviting the Representatives of Iranian Islamic Sociopath Killers to celebrate the 4th of July at US Embassies World Wide, Obama had nothing to say on the matter… a complete ignoring of the question altogether.
It seems to me, Obama is bent on proving he has no understanding of Americans… and is instead a product of Socialist Brainwashing to which he has been subjected since childhood.
Obama is a product of that which hates what America stands for and, taken in that light, it explains so many things he says and does.
Let's take a look at what is being reported about the end of Obama's honeymoon with America…
For President Obama, the honeymoon is officially over
Wednesday, June 24th 2009, 4:00 AM
One job of journalists is, to borrow a horse racing phrase, to "call the turns" of developing news. Yesterday, the White House press corps called the end of the Obama honeymoon.
By peppering the President with forceful questions on Iran and other big topics and by challenging some of his slippery answers, reporters captured the changing tone in the country. Like the end of a real honeymoon, blind infatuation is giving way to a more accurate view of reality.
The reality is that polls show rising doubt about President Obama's handling of the economy and wide disapproval about exploding deficits. The reality is that even many Democrats worry the White House health plan is messy and unaffordable. The reality is that ranks of independents who voted for him find Obama far more liberal than they expected.
It's also true that many news organizations have embarrassed themselves with fawning Obama coverage and are the subject of growing ridicule, including from Obama himself.
Those facts all probably played a role in the unprecedentedly aggressive tone of yesterday's news conference. More than anything else, Iran – where the President had been a timid fence-sitter while a democracy revolution was blooming, then being crushed by a thugocracy – galvanized the press to probe. Six of the 13 questions dealt with Iran.
"What took you so long?" was the most important one asked of the Obama presidency. It came from reporter Major Garrett of Fox News (where I am a contributor) and put an exclamation point on the President's failure to respond sooner with appropriate condemnation.
Obama finally found his voice yesterday, saying in his strongest language yet that the world was "appalled and outraged" at the violence against demonstrators. And in calling the video showing the death of Iranian icon Neda Soltan "heartbreaking," Obama succinctly expressed the world's emotion.
But in answering Garrett's question with nonsensical insistence he had been consistent, the President damaged his credibility and missed a chance to explain how his thinking has evolved since the June 12 election.
He blew another chance when a reporter asked whether criticism by Sen. John McCain and other Republicans had forced the tougher stance. "What do you think?" he said, getting defensive and saying, "Only I am the President of the United States."
It's a bad habit, a sign of weakness, to pull rank, yet this White House does it repeatedly. Obama brushed back calls for changes in stimulus spending by saying, "I won," and his press secretary said, "We won," just the other day to a question.
The notion that victory carries a blank check is fantasy. Especially in a polarized country with a nonstop media blitz, a mandate must be re-won on every major issue.
Obama knows as much, which is why he has been running a continuing campaign since the inauguration. Whether he's conducting town hall meetings in St. Louis or France or asking for prime-time coverage, Obama uses the bully pulpit and his charisma to aggressively push his agenda.
By and large, the approach has worked. Thanks to full Democratic control of Congress, Obama mostly gets his way, and his personal popularity has remained strong.
But his health plan could be in trouble over the cost and impact, and unemployment keeps rising beyond White House estimates, a fact the President conceded yesterday. He also conceded that stimulus spending has been slower than he wants, which I took as a jab at Vice President Biden's supposed management of the issue.
The result is that the public hasn't seen much economic gain and, combined with the growing debts and prohibitive costs of Obama's health and energy plans, voters are getting significantly more skeptical about the President. Iran added to the doubts.
The press corps gets it. For Obama, the hard part begins now.
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The Captain's Daughter (London Beginnings #1), by Jennifer Delamere
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Bethany House Publishing. All thoughts and opinions are my own.]
I am of two minds regarding this book. On the one hand, there were many aspects of this book that were delightful, especially the winsome nature of its heroine, Rosalyn Bernay, and the way that she finds a place for herself within the world of Gilbert & Sullivan after having been raised as an orphan [1] in a Christian orphanage. That said, there were many parts of this book that were absolutely infuriating, including the way that the author glosses over the problem of abortion, presents Gilbert & Sullivan as Christians and not as fairly hypocritical people [2], and has an infuriating and entirely unnecessary love triangle where the author goes to considerable lengths to make the heroine mousy enough to accept the attention of two very different men and to unnecessarily and excessively complicate what would already be a difficult courtship between her and the appealing Nate Moran. Someone needs to tell writers of contemporary romances that love triangles are not necessary elements in order to keep up the intrigue of a relationship. Sometimes, as in this case, it merely makes some characters less appealing without making the novel as a whole more interesting.
Without giving away too many spoilers, this novel is filled with impossible amounts of divine providence. For example, we begin the novel with some looks at the heroine and her two younger sisters as they face life as orphans before we see the heroine on the run from a lascivious employer and trapped in London after being taken in by the madam of a whorehouse after a meet cute (!?) at the train station with the hero. By the time the two meet again at the Savoy Theater where Rosalyn finds a job as a dresser while Nate fills in for his injured brother, it is fairly obvious that the novel is going to play up divine providence in order to explain ridiculous coincidence. Then, after signposting the romance obviously enough for me to see it loud and clear, the author spends a great deal of time exploring the seedier side of the theater and building up Tony as a rival to Nate in fairly cliched fashion. The novel as a whole features a great deal of humor, a strong concern for justice and truth, and plenty of witty conversations.
Overall, my impression of this novel is somewhat mixed. It appears as if the author spent much of her energy building together a few of her favorite aspects of late Victorian English life, such as the orphanage the heroine grew up in as well as the world of Gilbert and Sullivan and the larger-than-life personalities that inhabited that stage. Having created that world and an appealing hero and heroine, the author made the aspects of divine providence too glaring and copied too many tropes of contemporary romance, and added too many subplots–like the heroine's younger sister Julia and her desire to be a medical missionary to Africa and a failed quest to recover a lost watch that is never resolved. Ultimately this is a novel that can certainly be enjoyed, but it is also not special enough to rise above the general body of historical romances that wrestle with the world of faith and culture. It is the sort of book I was happy enough to read for a couple of hours for free, and the sort of book I would not be upset if someone gave me as a present, but not the sort of book I would go out of my way to read at all.
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"This work means there's an opportunity to use composite metal foams to develop safer systems for transporting nuclear waste, more efficient designs for spacecraft and nuclear structures, and new shielding for use in CT scanners," says Rabiei. In addition, she notes, "[The] foams have the advantage of being non-toxic, which means that they are easier to manufacture and recycle."
Russell Goodall, a metallurgist at the University of Sheffield who was not involved in this study, told physicsworld.com that metal foams have "a range of useful properties; unusually, many of these derive from both the material they are made from and the foam structure". Noting that radiation absorption is a property of the foam's material, rather than structure – and therefore that the same degree of protection would be afforded by solid plates of the same material – he adds that it will be important to assess the other advantages foam will provide, such as impact energy absorption or structural support, for potential applications.
"The use of high-tungsten steel as a matrix of these foams is a breakthrough, as it provides excellent radiation shielding via the tungsten, while also offering outstanding strength, ductility and toughness and maintaining low density through the pores," says David Dunand, a metallurgist at Northwestern University in the US, who was also not involved in the current work. "There are no known materials with this combination of properties," he adds.
With its initial study complete, Rabiei's team is looking to modify the composition of its foams to make them more effective than lead at blocking X-rays.
The research is described in the journal Radiation Physics and Chemistry.


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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe can count on more support of
Ecuadorians than his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, a poll
published Wednesday showed.
According to a Gallup poll held in Ecuador, the citizens of the country like the Colombian president better than the Venezuelan leader, despite their countries strain relations with Colombia and close ties with Venezuela.
"Uribe is more popular than Chavez … Chavez can count on the sympathy of 29% of the Ecuadorians, but Uribe has 37% and President [Rafael] Correa obtained 51% in the last week," Cedatos-Gallup director Polivio Cordova told television network Teleamazonas.
The poll was held just after the UNASUR summit in Argentina where the three leaders were discussing the planned expansion of U.S. military personnel in Colombia.
The same poll was also held in Colombia and Venezuela.
In Colombia, Uribe is approved of by 69% of the interviewed, Correa only by 13% and Chavez by 14%.
In Venezuela, Chavez is only barely more popular than his Colombian counterpart. 48% of the Venezuelans said to approve of their leader, while 46% were positive about Uribe. Correa can count on the sympathy of 3% of the Venezuelans.