The 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron conducted a training exercise on Chievres Air Base, Belgium Oct. 23.
The 86th AES conducts readiness missions regularly to test preparedness and keep their skills up.
“In addition to the training, we had evaluations for certain crew members during this exercise to test their skills and to identify areas that need improvement,” said Tech Sgt. Robert Van Aken, 86th AES clinical management.
86th AES provides operational aeromedical evacuation for American troops in the U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command.
“Our mission is to move any patient globally, anytime and anywhere,” said Maj. Maria Vazquez, 86th AES medical crew director. “Our patients rely on us, so training is essential because it makes us proficient at our job.”
During the training mission, the aeromedical evacuation technicians practiced emergency procedures for fires and depressurization.
“The purpose of training on an aircraft is to make sure everyone can fly safely, take care of patients, and are efficient in their clinical skills,” said Van Aken.
The 86th AES train in the air to prepare their bodies for the stresses of flight.
“We train on aircraft to get our bodies familiar with being in the air, to react better to the stresses of flight,” said Van Aken. “It can be taxing on the body, so as fliers, the more we’re able to fly the more our bodies will be accustomed to functioning in the air, which allows us, when the time comes, to focus on the patients instead of our fatigue.”
Two flight nurses and three aeromedical evacuation technicians are the standard crew for an 86th AES mission.
“My responsibility is to oversee everything is being done properly and safely,” said Vazquez. “If there’s any aircraft emergency or patient emergency, it’s my duty to communicate that to the pilot. My job is to make sure my patients and my crew are safe.”
Aeromedical Evacuation has gone beyond what it used to be able to do in Vietnam, said Vazquez. It took on average 45 days to move a patient, who would only have a 75 percent survivability rate. Now patients are moved within hours and have a 99 percent survivability rate.
“Our mission is to provide support and the full spectrum of aeromedical evacuation capabilities, to any global combatant commander,” said Vazquez. “We are an integral part in global mobility and global reach.”


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It is often substituted for chicken in vegetarian diets and can be prepared similarly to poultry. Some can have a mild reaction when ingested so try in small amounts before adopting the Chicken of the Wood diet. It is recommended that only the freshest Chicken of the Wood be consumed and that it is cooked before eaten.
An easily recognizable fungus, it grows in large clusters and is bright orange on top and fades to yellow along the edges and underside. You can also identify this mushroom by the fact that it does not have “gills” on its bright yellow underside and instead is covered with tiny pores. Chicken of the Wood species are not only found in North America, they are found worldwide. Fungi from Japan, Hawaii, South America, Europe, and South Africa all belong to the Laetiporus genus.
While mushroom hunters appreciate the fungus’ resilience and tendency to return year after year, those who prefer their trees whole would prefer that the fungus stop reproducing. The fungus causes heart rot in living trees which weakens them making them brittle and easily blown down. But as with most fungi this is part of its natural role in the ecosystem breaking down and decomposing raw materials to be reabsorbed in the soil.
Oddly enough, based on their DNA fungi are considered to be more animal than plant. Perhaps this explains why Chicken of the Wood tastes more like chicken than mushroom. Furthermore, mushrooms are an extremely good source of protein, another characteristic they share with their meaty counterpart – chicken.
Fortunately for everyone Chicken of the Wood is not endangered in the least and is extremely widespread.

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Slows Down Shares EP 3
Slows Down is the musical pseudonym of British Berlin-based DIY solo artist and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Hawthorne. Recorded in isolation in his Berlin studio, the self-released EP 3 presents a condensation of Slows Down’s disparate styles and atmospheres, from choral chamber music, to blissed-out surf, to soupy psychedelic rock, to frazzled noise pop.
Besides a few guest performances, Hawthorne played all of the instruments on the recordings, including organ, dulcimer, drums, guitars, tanpura, glockenspiel, synthesizer and more. With a focus on rich and diverse tonality and texture, the music remains melodically spare and plays out in deconstructed pop structures, like post-rock that has been pulled back into traditional song formats.
Today we share with you our favorite track off the EP “On and On.” The single is a perfect combination of eclectic guitars, dramatic synths and with sweet and dreamy vocals.
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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper alleges an “unjustly” edited boss in his next memoir about his tenure under Trump after being fired after the disappearance of the former president. Filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon.
Esper, 57, filed a proceeding in the Federal District Court in Washington on Sunday. DC In his book A Sacred Oath, he claimed that “important texts have been properly withheld from publication.”
The book, which was scheduled to be published in May, was brought back to Esper with many edits and edits without explanation. He even claims to be under pressure to change “nouns and verbs” in the text.
Esper’s proceedings allege that the memoirs did not contain sensitive information and did not pose any kind of national security risk. He says the anecdotes of the memoirs seem to have been leaked to the press, and other controversial parts are focused on information already in the public domain.
“Important texts are inappropriately withheld from appearing in Esper’s manuscript in the guise of classification,” the proceedings read. The New York Times.
“The withheld text is important to tell the important story discussed in the manuscript.”
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, 57, sued the Pentagon on Sunday after important information was edited from his next memoir, A Sacred Oath.
The memoir is said to contain information about service under Trump after Esper was in office after being dismissed last November due to the defeat of the former president in the 2020 elections. ..Trump is depicted sitting next to Esper in October 2019
Regarding redacting, Esper said they had’Asked me not to quote former President Trump and others at meetings, explain conversations between him and me, or use specific verbs or nouns to describe historical events. ..
“I was also asked to remove my views on the actions of other countries, conversations with foreign officials, and widely reported international events,” he added.
‘Many items were already in the public domain. Some have been issued by the Department of Defense.
According to the proceedings, Esper, who served as Secretary of Defense from July 2019 to November 2020, submitted a draft manuscript to the Pre-Publish and Security Review Defense Department in May.
“As Secretary of Defense for nearly 18 months, he overcame unprecedented civil unrest, public health crises, heightened threats abroad, Pentagon transformation, and times when the White House appeared to be devoted to evading the Constitution. Led the Pentagon, “said the lawsuit.
“The Holy Oath is an unvarnished, candid memoir of Secretary Esper about these notable and dangerous times.”
However, he said the pre-publication process of the memoirs took a considerable amount of time, as Esper had been monitoring the procedure for about six months.
Pentagon refrained from commenting further on the proceedings
Esper said his next memoir, due out in May, is intended to provide readers with “a complete and innocent explanation of our history, especially the more difficult times.” Stated.
In November, about six months after submitting the manuscript for review, Esper emailed his successor, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, about concerns about the process.
He also told Austin that he was trying to speed up the process by email, talking to Kelly Magsamen, the chief of the US Secretary of Defense staff, and Michael B. Donley, the director of administration and administration. “Try to find a compromised language” in the unit.
“I’m grateful for their efforts, but I shouldn’t have to change my views, opinions, or explanations of events just because they may be too frank for regular diplomatic rituals,” Esper said. Added to the email.
He also said the review process was “about protecting sensitive information and not compromising national security. These are two important criteria that I am fully committed to.”
“My constitutional rights should not be diminished, as my story and choice of language can encourage offensive debate in the foreign policy community,” Esper added.
An email was sent to Esper’s successor, Lloyd Austin, regarding concerns about the manuscript review process.
However, Austin allegedly did not respond to Esper after the email was sent.
The manuscript was returned to Esper shortly after making various edits, even after claiming that the memoirs did not contain sensitive information.
According to Esper, multiple words, sentences and paragraphs from about 60 pages of the manuscript have been edited.
“No written explanation was provided to justify the deletion,” he wrote.
Esper also said in a statement that his book was intended to provide readers with “a complete and innocent explanation of the history of our country, especially the more difficult times.”
“I’m disappointed that the current administration violates the rights of my First Amendment,” he added.
“And it’s a shame that the only way I can currently use to tell the American people my whole story is legal.”
Esper added that some stories from his next manuscript were also printed in news articles.
“At least one story is more than a year old and is known to only a handful of Pentagon officials, but it hasn’t been publicly discussed so far and the timing of its appearance seems questionable.” I read the proceedings.
“(Department) was unable to demonstrate the existence of substantial government interests that would allow the disclosure of unclassified information within Esper’s manuscript.”
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton was sued by President Trump after printing personal information intended to be withheld in his memoir “The Room Where It Happened”. ..
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said he was informed of Esper’s concerns.
“Like all such reviews, the department takes the obligation to balance national security with the desires of the author’s story seriously,” Kirby said.
“Given that this issue is currently in proceedings, I refrain from commenting further.”
And this is not the first time political authorities have attempted silence to work under the Trump administration.
The memoir The Room Where It Happened is about the time when former National Security Adviser John Bolton worked under Trump.
Authorities allegedly tried to silence Bolton because it contained information that Trump wanted to keep secret from the public.
It was published with Trump suing Bolton for profit anyway, and a criminal investigation was opened on the case.
The proceedings and investigation were subsequently withdrawn by US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in June.
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The link to instabilities is not helpful. The "instability" article is very specialized and hard to understand.
The following sentence needs a change: "But the main message of the experimental study is a surprising similarity in scaling, statistics, and structure of the elastic stresses and passive scalar mixing in elastic turbulence in a finite size vessel, in spite of the important difference in the dynamo effect. " The author may want to repeat here what this important difference is.
What is a "macro vessel"?
It would help the reader, if the author would introduce the concentration and the polymer at the beginning. Is there a minimum concentration for a given polymer to observe elastic turbulence?
When the concentration is mentioned at the end of the article the polymer needs to be specified.
I have taken the liberty of adding a few semantic corrections directly into the paper. Overall this is a very helpful and short article. </review> <review>
The article is very helpful and it exposes clearly the important properties of the concerned phenomena. It might help the reader if the author adds that many properties of the elastic solutions (especially the dilute ones) can be understood on the basis a single polymer dynamics where the polymer experiences the combined action of the stretching by the flow and the elastic relaxation. As applied to the low Re elastic turbulence regime, if the velocity gradient that would exist in the system with no polymers inside is larger than the inverse relaxation time of the polymer, one expects an instability and non-linear dynamics. A reference to Lumley's work on the time criterion seems appropriate in this respect. Finally, there are some semantic problems like in the sentence: "The elastic stress occurred due to polymer stretching by a flow becomes.." </review>
I revised the paper according to the comments of the Reviewer B by adding more text and correcting sentences mentioned by the Reviewer. I did not add the reference to the Lumley's time criterion because in the context of elastic instability and elastic turbulence it is equivalent to Wi number exceeding the critical value. On the other hand, I did add another reference on Lumley in the relation to the coil-stretch transition in polymer dynamics in a random flow and its connection with turbulent drag reduction.


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GTV misfire? cause knock sensor
hi peeps, wondering if anyone could help me out
my 3.0 gtv started to give me a really bad misfire the other day during my journey, so i pulled over turned the car off, put it back on then the misfire went away. i carried on with my journey all fine I then decided to give it some and again the problem came back. i turned the car off back on and its been fine so far. i put the laptop on and I got this message.
The ECU does not receive correctly the signal from the signalled knock sensor. Probably the harness is interrupted or a SC is present, or the sensor itself does not work correctly. Check the harness and connections condition and check the sensor functioning by means of an oscilloscope or a voltmeter in V/PEAK by beating on the sensor clamping screw.
NOTE: it is necessary to comply with the driving torque of the sensor since an improper torque may alter the sensor correct functioning
The reason for this fault is that ECU has received very low signal from the sensor. The fault is present now. Take appropriate action to fix this sensor fault. Dashboard warning light was not activated for this fault.
now what i need to know is if its the knock sensor causing the problem or something else and if it is the knock sensor how many does the 3.0 gtv have and any tips on how to change them or test them.
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Huawei Marine has revealed that it will deploy its titanium 6fp submarine Repeater 1660 on the proposed 5,900km submarine cable system – dubbed Cameroon-Brazil Cable System (CBCS) – linking Africa to South America. Utilising Huawei Marine’s 100G technology, the undersea cable system – which is scheduled to be ready for service (RFS) at the end of 2017 – will boast four fibre pairs and will have an initial system capacity of 32Tbps. As previously reported by TeleGeography’s Cable Compendium, earlier this month China Unicom general manager Yimin Lu inked a partnership agreement with David Nkoto Emane, the director general of Cameroon Telecommunications (CamTel), for the deployment of the submarine cable. The executive was cited as saying: ‘At present, when international data from mainland Africa transmits to America it is forced to divert to Western Europe first, before going to America. However, the CBCS will provide a direct route from Africa to America, as well as providing Cameroon, Brazil and other neighboring countries with a high capacity, reliable, fast transmission channel.’ Spanish telecoms group Telefonica will support the initiative by providing its international facilities and experience.
South Korean operator KT Corporation has been named as a coordinator of the New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable System, which will directly connect China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Business Korea reports that the telco will commence operation of the 14,000km cable in December 2017. Oh Sung-mok, executive vice president of KT’s network division, was cited as saying: ‘KT will play a central role as a global traffic hub with a network operation centre (NOC) in Busan.’ The announcement comes roughly one year after KT opened another NOC in the same city to operate the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), which will connect nine Asian nations when it enters services in 2016. As previously noted by TeleGeography’s Cable Compendium, a consortium of seven companies – including KT,China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan, Japan’s SoftBank Mobile and US-based Microsoft Corporation – signed a Construction and Maintenance Agreement and the Supply Contract for the planned NCP system in October 2014. TE SubCom was selected to construct the fibre-optic cable link.
High speed connectivity services on the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) international submarine fibre-optic cable were officially put into service in the Republic of Benin last week, at a ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Communications & ICT (MCICT). The launch came more than six months after the Cotonou landing station was connected to the ACE network, on 1 April 2015. The project to connect Benin to ACE was conducted under the Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme for West Africa (WARCIP), and reportedly cost USD35 million, funded by the International Development Agency (IDA) of the World Bank, the Beninese government and the local Benin ACE GIE consortium which is licensed to operate and manage access to the new submarine bandwidth. Benin ACE GIE consists of local mobile/fixed telecoms operators/ISPs, namely: MTN Benin, Moov Benin, Benin Telecoms/Libercom, Isocel, Espace Informatique Benin (EIT), Omnium des Telecommunications et de l’Internet (OTI) and Univercell. State-backed Benin Telecoms is also a direct member of the ACE cable consortium, led by France’s Orange Group.
Nigeria’s link to the SAT-3 submarine cable system – which was operated by Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) – has reportedly been reactivated, following the re-launch of several of NITEL’s facilities by new owner NATCOM, Business Day reports. The 14,350km SAT-3/WASC cable – which stretches from Sesimbra (Portugal) to Melkbosstrand (South Africa) – was built by a consortium of 32 operators, including telecoms giants AT&T, Verizon, Orange Group, Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom, and entered commercial services in April 2002. As previously reported by TeleGeography’s Cable Compendium, the submarine cable link to Nigeria was cut in June 2013 during a land reclamation project, with NITEL said to have lost around USD6 million in revenues during the period in which the infrastructure was inactive.
Bangladesh’s State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has revealed that the export of bandwidth to India – initially scheduled to start in August 2015 – will now commence in November, due to delays in setting up a cable connection across the border, bdnews24.com writes. Previously, Cable Compendium reported that Bangladesh Submarine Cable Co Limited (BSCCL) inked a deal with Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) in June this year for the supply of 10Gbps of bandwidth to India’s north-eastern states for a period of three years. The terrestrial cable link will stretch from Cox’s Bazar landing station (Bangladesh) to Agartala, located in India’s state of Tripura, via Akhaura (Brahmmanbaria District).
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) is planning to build a USD40 million submarine cable landing station in Mindanao, situated in the Maguindanao province, The Standard reports. PLDT’s executive vice president Eric Alberto revealed the new cable landing facility in Mindanao would be funded by a consortium of telecoms companies in the region. ‘We’re looking at variety of consortia with Indonesian, Brunei and Malaysian telcos that want to partner with us,’ Mr Alberto said.
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My fiancee and i went to Santorini during the last week in September enjoying a nice three week holiday visiting the beautiful islands of Greece.A friend of mine from there suggested the restaurant Ochre so we decided to go there and give it a shot.The scenery surrounding the restaurant was amazing and it well prepared us for a delightful evening.
We were greeted at the entrance by a lovely young girl with a great smile,who later turned out to be our waitress as well.The restaurant itself was beautiful with a lovely view and even though it was a bit cloudy we saw one of the most amazing sunsets ever!
The food now was delicious!!We enjoyed a refreshing rocked salad with wallnuts and cheese and a nice balsamic dressing.Their wine selection was vast and of high quality!We enjoyed a local whine Assyrtico Atheri (dont remember the name excactly) but it was great.Main course now we had the special of the day ,fish it was dont know what but it certainly tasted heavenly,funny thing my fiancee kept asking for the recipe ,good laughs!!
Towards the end of our evening we decided we wanted some desert so our waitress suggested us their own,homemade by the owners mother that is ,orange pie!!Absolutely gorgeous!!!!
So to wrap up to all of you visiting the beautiful island of Santorini.Great service,amazing restaurant,breath taking view and delicious food at a reasonable price.I highly reccomend it to everyone!!cheers!
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State Department: 'US Citizens In Iraq Remain At High Risk For Kidnapping, Terrorist Violence'Security at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was strengthened and some staff members sent elsewhere as Iraq was shaken with instability.
Kerry, Hagel To Meet Their Russian Counterparts Amid Tense RelationsThe crisis in Syria and Russia's decision to grant temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden are likely to highlight a meeting later this week between Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and their Russian counterparts.
Kerry To Egypt Foreign Minister: Listen To The Egyptian PeopleSecretary of State John Kerry is urging Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr to listen to the Egyptian people.
Opinion: Romney Needs To Tell Andrea Saul, “You’re Fired!”Wishing a pink slip on anyone during these economic times may be harsh, but for saying that Romney’s Romneycare in Massachusetts would have saved Soptic’s wife and drawing conservative ire across the country, Andrea Saul deserves it.
Abortion, Birth Control Grab Political Spotlight A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


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As 2020 begins, we took a look back at nutrition in the news during 2019. which we can attest was a popular search term in American Society for Nutrition’s content as well. But there’s much more to nutrition than trending diets and many more areas in the field of nutrition were researched and discussed this past year. Below we share 10 articles from ASN’s four peer reviewed journals that received high levels of attention in the news and social media.
Effects of red meat, white meat, and nonmeat protein sources on atherogenic lipoprotein measures in the context of low compared with high saturated fat intake: a randomized controlled trial
Authors of this study tested whether levels of atherogenic lipids and lipoproteins differed significantly following consumption of diets with high red meat content compared with diets with similar amounts of protein derived from white meat or nonmeat sources, and whether these effects were modified by concomitant intake of high compared with low saturated fatty acids.
This article was mentioned in 134 news outlets and tweeted about over 1,400 times! Here are 2 news articles about the study
The author of the article says that “Based on available evidence, a well-formulated ketogenic diet does not appear to have major safety concerns for the general public and can be considered a first-line approach for obesity and diabetes. High-quality clinical trials of ketogenic diets will be needed to assess important questions about their long-term effects and full potential in clinical medicine”
Just published in December of 2019, this article has already received nearly 1,000 tweets mentioning it.
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Scientific evidence for the optimal number, timing, and size of meals is lacking. The authors of this study investigated the relation between meal frequency and timing and changes in body mass index (BMI). Their results suggest that in relatively healthy adults, eating less frequently, no snacking, consuming breakfast, and eating the largest meal in the morning may be effective methods for preventing long-term weight gain. Eating breakfast and lunch 5–6 h apart and making the overnight fast last 18–19 h may be a useful practical strategy.
This article has been featured by 86 news outlets including . It’s also been popular on Twitter with over 1,100 tweets.

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Oprah Winfrey represents a billion-dollar industry unto herself, which invites the question: What exactly is her product?
The daytime titan — about to embark on a new adventure in basic cable with next month’s long-awaited launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network — has dabbled in many fields. Yet her signature power is derived from a singular source, stemming from her ability to create a lucrative commodity: experts.
Winfrey’s seal of approval has been enough to help sell all kinds of products, from books to diets to self-help programs. Yet nothing has more value — or is more emblematic of the current media age — then the host’s clout establishing authority figures, symbolizing TV’s role as an expert machine, rapidly spitting trendsetters, pundits and gurus into the cultural atmosphere.
Beyond “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the Winfrey factory has birthed programs featuring Dr. Phil McGraw, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rachael Ray and Nate Berkus. Whatever your needs — finance advice from Suze Orman, sex talk with Dr. Laura Berman, organizational skills courtesy of Peter Walsh — OWN promises more of the same.
More significantly, Winfrey’s imprimatur has been enough to launch personalities who have gone on not just to host programs but to peddle their own merchandise. Whatever one’s view of trickle-down economics, the Oprah river possesses no shortage of fertile tributaries.
What even Winfrey couldn’t have completely foreseen was where TV would be heading as this knack began to manifest itself. Amid a stressed economic model — when talk, being cheap, is more prized by programmers than ever — building personalities with established credibility has taken on greater importance.
Experts fill up daytime TV and cable news, where the appetite for approved pundits is virtually inexhaustible. And the lucky few who break out can go on to leverage those platforms to enhance their marketability in other realms, from books to entire lifestyles.
In this respect, Winfrey crosses over into a sphere shared with some strange and unlikely bedfellows — including Howard Stern, the acerbic radio host and self-proclaimed “King of All Media”; and political pundits such as Glenn Beck. The common thread is acolytes more accurately described as followers than fans. In a splintered marketplace, such passion is exactly what’s needed to transform loyalty into a multimedia empire.
All this has happened since Winfrey experienced what amounts to a personal epiphany, when she consciously chose to rise above the daytime muck and advance a more elevated “Live your best life” mantra.
Winfrey has been crystal clear about the messianic aspect of her collected works. As she told Barbara Walters during a recent ABC special ostensibly timed to help launch OWN, “I am seeking the fullest expression of myself as a human being on Earth.”
In doing so, Winfrey has forged a bond with her audience that goes well beyond most TV-mediated relationships. Even setbacks involving those she has endorsed — the disclosure that James Frey fabricated his memoir and allegations regarding the personal-improvement movement known as “The Secret” — have done little to diminish her influence.
Within the Oprah universe, apparently, it’s accepted wisdom that you can’t make a “best life” omelet without greasing the pan with a little snake oil.
Then again, one of Winfrey’s defense mechanisms has been to tune out criticism. In the Walters special, McGraw recalls Winfrey offering him this advice: “Don’t bend to the critics. Don’t bend to the naysayers.”
And incidentally, don’t turn off the spigot on discovering new talent cut from the same cloth as Winfrey’s existing stable of experts. Toward that end, one of the new channel’s programs, “Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star,” is essentially the “American Idol” of talking heads.
Too much can be made of branding in entertainment circles, but OWN would be the exception. The channel’s pitch is less about individual shows than the perception that they’re all part of a crazy quilt, stitched together to enhance viewers’ lives by Oprah’s loving hands. Heck, there’s even a regular place for Gayle King, whose main claim to fame (and most distinguishing talent) is simply being billed as “Oprah’s best friend.”
Don’t worry, the OWN message goes, just curl up in this blanket and you’ll be safe. We’re all experts here — and in this space, anyway, the currency says, “In Oprah we trust.”


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Ask Carol Lehan, and she'll tell you that she loves two things: Shakespeare and the outdoors.
These passions have given birth to Howard County's first Shakespeare Festival, featuring free outdoor performances of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" tonight through Sunday at Glenelg Country School's Commencement Gardens.
The performances, by a troupe sponsored by the Olney Theater Center in Montgomery County, are expected to draw a crowd of 500.
"The carefully manicured garden made up of boxwood trees, geometrically arranged to create a sense of balance, and the 4-feet-high stone wall which creates the stage ... this locale screamed at me - 'Shakespeare!'" said Lehan, the school's drama director.
The festival was made possible by the financial help of Glenelg's families, said the school's Headmaster Ryland O. Chapman.
"With this festival, we hope to inspire young people and the Howard County community with the beauty of Shakespeare and its significance to the human condition," said Chapman.
Glenelg is the latest stop for the troupe, which also is making stops in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and in Henlopen, Del., this summer.
Last week's run at the Olney Theater Center drew about 200 fans to the center's west lawn.
"I'm not surprised by the turnout," said Chuck Benjamin, the center's director . "There is a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare. Look at the contemporary version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' with Leonardo DiCaprio, and 'Shakespeare in Love.' Making it contemporary and drawing mass appeal is what ... our production is aiming to do."
"Two Gentlemen of Verona" features familiar Shakespearean themes of conflict, human frailties and life's extremes, focusing on a quartet of lovers who face betrayal, masked identities and personal redemption.
"This interest in Shakespeare is an ongoing phenomenon," said Cecil Thompson, theater specialist with the Arts and Cultural Heritage Division of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. "The cold fact is, Shakespeare is the most widely performed playwright."
But appeal alone is not what gets many people interested in Shakespeare, said Glenelg's Lehan. "We have to make it accessible by exposing our young people to these works and giving access, free, on the lawn, and outdoors. Our festival will also provide playwriting workshops to anyone between 12 and 18 years old on three of the days prior to the performances," she said.
Glenelg Country School's Commencement Gardens is at 12793 Folly Quarter Road. For more information, call Deb Devoe at 410-531-2229, Ext. 2120 or Nancy Szlasa at 410-531-7340.


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Egyptian presidential candidate Okasha joins hands with police officer on a road near the defence ministry at Abbasiya square in Cairo - Amr Dalsh/REUTERS
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CAIRO, Oct. 27 (Aswat Masriya) - It seems Tawfik Okasha will have to take his conspiracy theories elsewhere, as the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) has taken his al-Faraeen TV channel off air Monday for failing to pay up.
In a statement published on its website, EMPC said it was "forced" to cut its service to the channel because its management "insists" on not paying late dues. The media and information centre said it has issued several warnings but the "administration has not responded to these warnings."
Channels broadcasting out of the EMPC must pay rent, which goes to the government. While it is not a state institution, the majority of EMPC's capital is publically funded.
Al-Faraeen owes EMPC EGP 2 million, which the media centre says is "not a large debt" compared to other channels that are eager to reschedule their payments or to negotiate.
But according to EMPC, al-Faraeen has not taken any steps to suggest that it is serious about responding to the warnings or that its head has any intention to pay the dues or reschedule payments.
Okasha is known for his vocal political criticism and his unique, sometimes derisive attitude, with many of his monologues becoming the centre of ridicule on social media, often turning into memes.
The controversial television host once tried his luck in politics, proceeding to establish a political party in 2013 and announcing his intention to run for president. A diehard supporter of ousted President Mubarak, he was a member of The National Party of Egypt, an off-shoot of Mubarak's National Democratic Party, established in August 2011, through which he contested but failed to win a seat in the 2012 parliament. In 2015, the Supreme Electoral Commission rejected his candidacy bid for the on-going House of Representatives elections.
Over the past few years, he had several run-ins with the law. Although courts have ruled in his favour in many of the charges he faced, including insulting former president Mohamed Mursi, Okasha was found guilty in three cases for squandering marital funds, beating and slandering his ex-wife, for which he was arrested in August 2015, but was released on bail days later.
The media production city has started taking procedures towards legal action to collect the money owed by al-Faraeen, according to its statement.
It said that its decision to cut al-Faraeen's transmission is in line with EMPC's zero-tolerence policy towards any channels that do not pay their dues on time, which has been implemented since the beginning of the year, adding that it has applied the regulations "clearly".
"EMPC's administration asserts that it did not wish to resort to this solution," except after noting the "insistence" on not paying, adding that it treats all channels with "objectivity".


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Stage One’s 2011 – 2012 season includes three Pulitzer Prize winners: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, Proof by David Auburn, and How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel.
Stage One, Inc. is based in Janesville, WI and performs at the Janesville Performing Arts Center.
Stage One Board Members include:
Pat Thom, Senior Lecturer for the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at UW-Rock County;
Michael Stalsberg, Technical Director, Janesville Performing Arts Center;
Edie Baran, founder of SpotLight On Kids, and long-time arts advocate in Rock County;
Kirk Leach, a Stage One founding member, active community theatre volunteer, owner Leach Farms;
Gene Biby, Assistant Theatre Professor at Clark College Vancouver, Washington: Advisory Member.
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For many users, the iPhone has helped them rethink what they want from their mobile Web browsing experience. Everything from YouTube videos to the most AJAX-y thing you can think of, it seems to be supported. Opera Mini has certainly made great strides for those of us opting to stay off of the iPhone bandwagon for now.


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For more information on the entire summer schedule go to streetrodder.com where you will find a registration form or call the Road Tour Hotline at (800) 664-1362 for the latest updates. I hope to see all of you on a Road Tour this summer.
2017 Vintage Air Road Tour Web Link:
2017 ARP/Street Rodder Vintage Air Tour Part 1
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The actor and the international human rights lawyer welcomed a boy, Alexander, and a girl named Ella.
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As for Jay and Bey, they have reportedly welcomed a boy and a girl who are still in the hospital because they were born prematurely.

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