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Just how did the Apple iPhone 7 Plus secure the coveted top spot for smartphones released in 2016? Because the sum of its parts are mighty enticing, obviously.
An incredible Taptic engine, waterproofing, dual speakers, one of the most colour-accurate screens on the market, a pair of incredibly capable cameras and two new shades of black are enough to keep Apple’s flagship at the top of the pile for those who handset hounds who want a top-end device and don’t care about the cost.
Even though it’s still icon-based — with widgets confined to pull-down and lock screens –iOS 10 feels like the most mature and flexible operating system Apple’s ever offered. Add 3D Touch and third-party app integration from Siri and there’s only two omissions to complain about on the iPhone 7 Plus — the headphone jack, and a 64GB option. Otherwise, it’s flawless.
From R14,000 | MyiStore.co.za
Arriving right at the end of last year, the new Motorola takes its modular design cues from LG’s G5 but does a much better job of it.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
Bigger and bolder than ever before, if you’ve got the cash to burn, but this Samsung effort is a smartphone worth flaunting.
First of a new kind of smartphone, the scale of the modular G5’s ambition is breathtaking. Technology is meant to inspire and the G5 does.
Vodafone Smart Prime 7
Cheap? Yes. Cheerful? Undoubtedly. The Smart Prime 7 struts along with far greater style than it should given its price.


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The Broadway box office continued its late-August deflation last week as nearly every show on the boards saw sales decline — except for a few productions including “Finding Neverland,” which got a surge of last-minute sales before it shuttered Sunday.
“Finding Neverland” ($720,603) climbed by some $90,000 (or about 15%) compared to the prior week, playing to houses that averaged about 80% of capacity. The production (pictured above with its original Broadway stars Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer) didn’t recoup before it closed Aug. 21 — in May, it had reportedly made back about 60% of its $15.2 million capitalization — but producer Harvey Weinstein has an ambitious plan in place to move the property into profitability. There’s a national tour, a West End run, an Asia engagement and an in-the-works movie version all on the way.
Among the very few other shows not to take a fall last week was “Hamilton” ($2,065,377), which rose only a little — but enough to push Broadway’s newest megahit into the No. 1 spot in the Top 10, edging ahead of “The Lion King” ($2,048,009). Like other big-name musicals including “Wicked” ($1,575,605), “Lion King” registered one of the steepest drops of the week, since it’s those now-declining tourists audiences who have helped propel sales so strongly over the busier hot-weather weeks.
Meanwhile, “Les Miserables” ($1,039,755) held steady, helped along by theatergoers looking to catch the show before it shutters Sept. 4. Ditto “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” ($470,403), also closing that day. “Fun Home” ($374,432) and “An Act of God” ($300,226 for seven, one fewer than the prior week) will also both close early next month, and last week each downticked just a bit.
Many individuals shows registered unremarkable downgrades, but some drops were larger, as at a few middle-of-the-chart shows such as “The Color Purple” ($609,638) and “The Humans” ($502,873), two Tony winners that slid by more than $100,000 each last week.
Overall Broadway sales fell $1.4 million to $23 million for 26 shows on the boards, while attendance slipped by about 9,000. It’s a downward slope that’s likely to continue in the coming weeks as Labor Day approaches and more shows continue to close.

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Entrepreneur sees need for downtown Pittsburgh store
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a Pittsburgh woman is working with Ace Hardware Corp. to open a store geared toward the urban dweller.
Donna Fisher came to the conclusion that a need existed for a downtown hardware store while trying to shop for her own Pittsburgh apartment, according to the article. She is expecting to open the store sometime in the first three months of 2012. The store will be called Stuls Ace Hardware, according to the article.

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“My association with Phil goes back many years and he has been a significant influence in my auctioneering career. This is just one of the reason’s why Phil is the coach of all our auctioneers at McGrath!”
Scott Kennedy – GreenPartner & Chief Auctioneer, McGrath Estate Agents, Dual NSW & 2006 Australasian Auctioneer Champion
Phil and I have trained together over the past 6 years, at times intensely and others just the odd catch up to freshen up my skills. Either way, I always gain something from our sessions together.
Matthew YoungPrincipal Buxton St Kilda
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Local Birds Café in Causeway Lane in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD went under the hammer today. The 3 square metre retail outlet was auctioned by David Bourke of Fitzroys …
Saturday, 26 October 2013
The Mazda Foundation set a new fundraising record of over 500k at their annual Ball at Crown last night. With the team at Peter Jones steering the event and anchored …
Friday, 18 October 2013
Nick Gould , Hocking Stuart Glen Iris was awarded Novice champion last night at the REIV awards night at Crown. Jeremy Tyrrell received his award of being Vic Senior champion …
Friday, 11 October 2013
An original set of racing silks signed by jockey Luke Nolan and trainer Peter Moody of the magificent mare Black Caviar was auctioned last night at the Stonnington Mayoral Ball …
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Over 100k was raised today at the annual Golf Day held at the National supporting the Ronald McDonald Houses in Parkville and Monash.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Victorian Auctioneering Real Estate Novice Final will be held today at the REIV in Camberwell. Winner to be announced at the REIV awards night.

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Multi-Lingual Videos for Lowell Election
Multi-Lingual Public Education Videos Released Before Vote On New Electoral System For Lowell, MA
City To Change Voting System Following Settlement Of Federal Voting Rights Lawsuit
As part of a landmark settlement of a federal Voting Rights Act case brought by Asian American and Latinx residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, the City is preparing to adopt a new system for electing its City Council and School Committee. Today, Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) released multi-lingual public education videos designed to inform the community of the two different – and more fair – electoral systems that the City may choose from under the federal court settlement. Residents of Lowell will vote on November 5, 2019 to express their preference between the two options.
The 5-minute videos released today in English, Spanish, and Khmer explain how the City’s current at-large electoral system impermissibly dilutes the vote of communities of color and how Asian American and Latinx residents secured a federal court settlement requiring the City to change to a more fair and equitable electoral system.
The videos outline the two new options that the City may choose from under the settlement: ranked choice voting or a district-based system. The question of which option to select will be the subject of non-binding ballot initiatives in Lowell this November. The settlement requires the City to choose which system to adopt shortly after the November vote.
“It is exciting to see our client communities engaged in this historic decision,” said Oren Sellstrom, Litigation Director of LCR and one of the attorneys for the Plaintiffs. “As our videos explain, either of the two options will solve the vote dilution problem inherent in the current at-large system and will ensure that communities of color have equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. Now it is up to the City’s residents to help decide which of these options will work best for Lowell.” Sellstrom added that everyone is encouraged to share the videos widely within their communities.
The federal court case is Huot v. City of Lowell. In addition to LCR, the Asian American and Latinx voters are represented by Ropes & Gray LLP on a pro bono basis. The case is the first Voting Rights Act case in the country ever brought on behalf of a coalition of Asian American and Latinx voters.

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Southwestern Breakfast Casserole - Slow Cooker
(Nutritional info does not include pico de gallo or salsa.)
Calories 311 (17% from fat)
Fat 6 gram
Saturated Fat 0.8 gram
Trans Fat 0 gram
Cholesterol 95 mg.
Sodium 796 mg.
Carb. 36 gram
Fiber 6 gram
Sugar 7 gram
Sugar Alcohol 0 gram
Protein 28 gram
4 large whole eggs
8 large egg whites
1 1/3 cups fat free milk
3 tsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. cumin, ground
1/2 tsp. black pepper, ground
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 can (15.5 oz.) reduced sodium black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (11 oz.) Mexicorn, drained
1 cup vegan sausage, chopped
(We used 9.31 oz. package of Field Roast Vegan Breakfast Sausage Apple Maple.)
1 cup fat free cheddar cheese, shredded
1 can (4 oz.) chopped green chiles
6 slices whole wheat bread, lightly toasted and cubed
OPTIONAL (But Highly Recommended)
1 or 2 Tbsp. pico de gallo or salsa on top of each serving
You can mix everything up the night before, EXCEPT the bread. Cover and keep it in the refrigerator. Early in the morning, stir the bread in, cover and cook. It's perfect for Sunday brunch.
This recipe is higher in sodium. If you're on a reduced sodium diet, you should consider another option.
1. In a large bowl, whisk together the first seven ingredients, eggs through cayenne pepper.
2. Stir in the next five ingredients, black beans through green chiles. Then fold in the bread until it's thoroughly moistened and mixed together.
3. Coat a 5 quart slow-cooker with buttery cooking spray. Pour all the ingredients in the slow cooker, cover and cook on low for 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
4. When finished, remove cover and let stand for 10 minutes before cutting and serving.
5. OPTIONAL: Put a tablespoon or two of pico de gallo or salsa on the top if you want.
Yield: 8 Servings
You can freeze individual servings for easy re-heating later. Make sure they're tightly sealed inside freezer safe containers.
Microwave each serving for approximately 3.5 - 4 minutes and enjoy.

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...along with Potato Dumplings. But I must call a plumber immediately!
3 large potatoes, peeled, cubed and steamed until tender
4 tablespoons room temperature butter
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup chopped parsley
2 cups flour
2 quarts vegetable broth
2 bay leaves
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon pepper
Make dumplings: Place steamed potatoes in a large bowl along with butter. Mash with fork (not an electric mixer). Stir in eggs, salt and chopped parsley. Fold in flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto baking sheets and refrigerate about 20 minutes. (NOTE: This is a double batch. You can freeze one panful and then transfer to plastic freezer bag for later use).
Chop dark green leaves off leeks and trim root end. Slice lengthwise and wash thoroughly under cold water.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in large pot and saute leeks over medium low flame, stirring, until softened. Add vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Add dumplings and bay leaves. Simmer 20 minutes, uncovered. Pour in lemon juice and season with pepper. Remove bay leaves.
Serves 6 - 8.


More than half of the estimated £50bn investment for the UK government’s offshore wind plan is expected to go to overseas companies.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 10-point plan put hydrogen at number two on the list, but panellists at session four of Energy Voice’s ETIDEX event wanted more clarity.
Aberdeen Harbour Board (AHB) has welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to make the UK “the Saudi Arabia of wind power”.
Westminster’s multi-billion pound plan for a “green industrial revolution” has been touted as a “welcome signal” of what the UK’s path to net zero may look like.
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will be phased out by 2030, Boris Johnson has confirmed as he set out his 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution".
‘It sounds a bit scary, but it is exactly what we need’: Scottish Power chief on UK offshore wind target
The chief executive of Scottish Power has hailed the UK Government’s ambitious offshore wind plans, but raised concerns around the country’s ability to achieve them.
The Crown Estate has delayed its latest offshore wind leasing round just a week after Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged a “green industrial revolution” from the sector over the next decade.
The head of the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group is confident Westminster’s “green industrial revolution” pledge will create opportunities for the city to demonstrate its expertise.
Boris Johnson’s plan to quadruple the size of the U.K. offshore wind industry will require $58 billion of investment and careful management of what’s a tricky building process in some of the world’s roughest waters.
A leading trade union has labelled Boris Johnson’s plans to make the UK a world leader in clean energy as “hollow words”.
The renewables industry has been reacting to the prime minister’s commitment to implement a “green industrial revolution” that will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
More Government action will be needed to deliver the promise from Boris Johnson to power every home with offshore wind by 2030, the industry has said.
Every home in the country will be powered by offshore wind within 10 years, Boris Johnson will tell the Conservative conference on Tuesday as he pledges a green industrial revolution that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) has issued a legal challenge to the UK government’s decision to support Mozambique LNG.
Almost £350 million is being made available to help cut emissions from heavy industry, construction and transport, the Prime Minister has announced.
The Prime Minister is facing pressure from campaigners to commit to climate action in the latest call for a "green recovery" from the pandemic.
Scottish energy firm SSE has written to the prime minister with a “greenprint” to rebuild the UK economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Representative body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) has repeated its call for sector support and said its role in the push to meet net zero emissions is "not a given".
European markets started the week in positive territory, with all the leading financial indices enjoying gains yesterday.
As part of plans announced during the launch of the COP26 climate conference, Boris Johnson has said a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the UK will be brought forward to 2035.
The recently sacked president of a major UN climate summit set to be hosted by the UK this year has accused Boris Johnson of a lack of leadership and "apparent dark ops" over her dismissal.
Boris Johnson was on course for a historic victory this morning after voters across large swathes of the UK backed his plan to “get Brexit done”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to increase the offshore wind target from 30 gigawatts (GW) to 40GW by 2030.
The cost of offshore wind has continued to tumble as the UK Government revealed the price for power from new schemes had fallen below £40 per megawatt hour of electricity.
Britain’s plan to revitalize its aging nuclear energy infrastructure is likely to take a hit if Brexit jeopardizes a crucial supply of welders.


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North Charleston, the third largest city in South Carolina, is often over-shadowed by Charleston when it comes to the national press.
It’s not uncommon to see publications drop the “North” from in front of Charleston when talking about Boeing or events playing at the North Charleston Coliseum.
That’s why it was neat to see the city and its people and food get some much-deserved attention in The New York Times this weekend.
— Ashley Zink (@ashleyzink) March 24, 2013
Note: Thanks to Mike Kelleher for pointing out this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine piece about Charleston.
— Ayoka Lucas (@AyokaLu) March 25, 2013
All of the attention has instilled some civic pride in the community.
Best city in the world for a reason. So many people have contributed. Charleston, South Carolina. I love you.
— justhaveaseat (@justhaveaseat) March 24, 2013

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The aseptic pharmaceutical processing market is growing at a rapid rate its value is currently projected to increase from billion in to billion by
Gene therapy is a fastgrowing sector in the life sciences industry and there are countless reasons to be enthusiastic about it
The batch reactor has long been the mainstay of API manufacture for good reason
D printing is a wellknown additive manufacturing technique of the modern age
Conventional dosage forms and delivery systems present several challenges in treatment of diseases like poor bioavailability high dose frequent administration systemic adverse effects etc
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David Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews. The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir found a new venue for its annual concerts for Holy Week,Sacred Music for a Sacred Space. The new location, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, has a beautiful Byzantine style structure that dates to 1907 with interior decoration and paintings completed by J.E.H MacDonald and other members of the Group of Seven. Before the concert began many of the early birds in the audience were out of their seats getting closer looks and photos of the iconography on the walls and ceilings The symmetrical shape and the domed ceilings gave a warm acoustic without the excessive decay of Gothic styled churches. The setting was clearly one of Interim Conductor and Artistic Advisor David Fallis’s inspirations for the program.The first half of the program was clearly designed to set the tone for a meditative experience. Two reflective motets by French composers opened the concert.
TMC’s popular annual Sacred Music concerts are intended to provide a moment of calm for patrons with a program of contemplative a cappella music. For 2019, David Fallis has created a program of 20th century composers with the first half featuring composers from France and Switzerland, while the second half features composers from Eastern Europe and Russia.David opens the concert with Olivier Messaien’s O sacrum convivium – a composition to help patrons step out of time. In his program notes, David remarks that this motet is “a perfect example of Messiaen’s preoccupation with the suspension of the perception of time in music by the use of extremely slow tempos and subtle changes in length of notes, all designed to bring us closer to something outside of time, eternal.” The first half also includes Poulenc’s Salve Regina and Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, all performed by the 70-member Mendelssohn Singers.The second half of music of the Eastern Orthodox Church will be sung by the full TMC.
Welcome to Sacred Music for a Sacred Space. All of the works on tonight’s program come from the 20th century, the first half from France and Switzerland, the second half from eastern Europe and Russia, with the exception of Healey Willan’s masterpiece which concludes the evening.In earlier periods of European musical history, sacred music was often written by composers who essentially earned their living from the church, and one cannot really know how much the composer was writing from a position of deeply held faith, or writing what was required, often brilliantly, much as an opera composer has to be able to create music which is suitable to many situations or characters. As the influence of the church as employer diminished in the late Baroque and Classical periods, less sacred music was written, and the 19th century sees much more emphasis on symphony, opera and chamber music than on sacred music. There are not many Romantic composers whose chief claim to renown is their sacred music, and it is not by chance that the greatest works of 19th century sacred music are Requiems (Verdi, Berlioz, Brahms), in which one muses on death, a human condition not restricted to people of faith.So by the 20th century it is a decided choice for a composer to write sacred music, and many of the composers represented tonight write from a position of faith, if not always entirely orthodox.
Spotlight on North America. Saturday, January 26 at 3 pm EST.
Interim Conductor David Fallis has put together a program featuring works by Canadian and American choral composers for the TMC’s 2019 free community concert. David notes
“We want to shine our spotlight on three key areas: the exciting new generation of Indigenous artists across Canada who are leading contributors to so many aspects of our cultural life, choral music included; local Toronto composers from Healey Willan to Stephanie Martin; and the fact that some of our most alluring melodies are folksongs whose origins are obscure but which live on in lively arrangements by important composers.”
This concert is a wonderful opportunity for people to hear the Grammy-nominated 120-voice Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and discover some stunning contemporary choral music, including two works by Andrew Balfour, the prominent Winnipeg composer of Cree descent.
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir welcomes the holiday season with a concert of Yuletide favourites combined with some new discoveries. The Choir will be led by guest conductor Howard Dyck and will be joined by the Toronto Youth Choir (Matthew Otto, conductor), the Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation Army (John Lam, bandmaster), and Michael Bloss on organ.
Conductor Howard Dyck has put together a program that brings together music of celebration and music for contemplation. It’s also a program that acknowledges some choral greats, including Healey Willan, while also featuring works by contemporary composers. The Choir will open with Healey Willan’s Hodie, Christus natus est. And later in the program the Choir will perform the world premiere of Toronto composer Stephanie Martin’s An Earthly Tree which was commissioned by St. John Cantius Church in Chicago as homage to Healey Willan in this year commemorating 50 years since his death. According to composer Stephanie Martin, “An Earthly Tree entwines the well-known Gregorian Christmas chant Hodie Christus natus est in 21st-century harmonies.”
David Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews. The lights dimmed at St. Paul’s Basilica bringing a hush over the capacity audience and suddenly heavenly a cappella sounds began wafting down from the balcony in the rear of the church. Since 2007, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has made it a tradition to present a concert of music appropriate for Holy Week in one of the most beautiful churches in Toronto on one of the Christian church’s holiest days, Good Friday. As the choir began to sing, I squelched the temptation to look back; looking upward at the colourful ceiling paintings of the life of Paul was as far as I dared turn my head. I was transfixed in the moment. The words of Behold the Tabernacle of God reinforced the feeling that I was in a ‘sacred’ space.
Dave Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews.
For the eighteenth consecutive year, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has begun its hectic December schedule of performances with its Festival of Carols. The cathedral-like Yorkminster Park Baptist Church was festooned with twenty-five foot high Christmas trees at either side of the chancel, lit with thousands of sparkling lights. The sounds of the TMC, organist David Briggs, the Canadian Staff Band of the Salvation Army, and the Canadian Children’s Opera Company was glorious. This was indeed the beginning of a month of great music, celebration and festivities.
From the opening bars of Bob Chilcott’s arrangement of the Sussex Carol, the energy of the choir’s rhythmically charged singing was joyfully uplifting.
Dave Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews. Yesterday’s concert was a momentous celebration of the great music that grew out of the nineteenth century British choral tradition. It included the music of the famed British composers Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Parry, Holst, Stainer, Sullivan and Tavener as well as Canadians Healey Willan and Elizabeth Ekholm, each heavily influenced by the musical traditions of England.
The concert began with organist Michael Bloss performing the long introduction to Handel’s Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. The first sound of the two hundred voice combined choir shook me so intensely that the majesty of the music overwhelmed me at a visceral level. It was a sound that produced goosebumps throughout the entirety of my body.
The concert opened with Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus -- the piece that will forever be associated with the brilliance (and cheekiness) of Mozart, who, at the age of fourteen, wrote it down from memory after just one hearing. With the Miserere, Edison established an aesthetic tone that would govern most of the program: a precise and spacious treatment, notable for perfect intonation and for its restrained approach to tempo and dynamics. I don’t know who the unnamed stratospheric soprano was whose voice soared above all others, but her contribution was impressive.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The finance department has sanctioned an amount of Rs 6 crores for 38 flat owners in Maradu municipality, who have been found eligible for compensation as per the recommendation of the three member committee, headed by retired Justice K Balakrishnan Nair.
The committee has recommended compensation for 107 flat owners in Maradu municipality amounting to Rs 19.09 crore based on scrutiny of documents.
The department has now sanctioned Rs 6 crore after the department of environment furnished various details like eligible amount, bank account of 38 flat owners.
Manoj Joshi, additional chief secretary (finance) said that the state is paying the compensation from its own funds as per the Supreme Court order. “The SC has directed the government to pay compensation and then recover it from the people responsible. We are just following the order. We are insisting on signed affidavit from the beneficiaries that a bank account for which details are furnished is their own so that no mistake is made while transferring the amount,” said Joshi.
The department is looking at an amount close to Rs 100 crore as initial payment of compensation. Department officials said that although the outflow of such an amount is bad and shouldn't happen, the government has to comply with the SC order.
As per the SC order, the state government has to pay from their of own funds, Rs 25 lakhs to each of the flat owner, who were evicted. The order, issued on September 27, directed the government to pay the amount within four weeks.
The SC has made it clear that the amount shall be recoverable from those responsible, which includes builder or promoter and the officials responsible for construction. It is at this point that the finance department is clueless as to how they are going to recover the amount being paid as compensation since the ongoing probe by the crime branch has hinted at involvement of people apart from the builders in allowing the construction of apartments in CRZ area.
The three-member committee has so far received a total of 239 applications from flat owners of which less than 100 applications are remaining to be processed. With the state government having to apprise the SC on the progress of activities by October 25, the committee has focused on awarding the initial compensation mainly based on the sale amount which has been officially recorded.
“The second phase will involve examination of the receipts of payment and certification from the builders whether they had actually received the amount from the buyer or not,” a member of the committee said.
Municipality authorities are now in the process of tracking down the owners who are yet to turn up for the compensation and this is being done with the records available with the department of registration.
The apartment on the 26th, 27th and 28th floor of the super-luxury residential tower Lodha Malabar is located on the plush Walkeshwar Road, opposite the governor’s estate, touching both the Arabian Sea and the Hanging Gardens.

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Stanley Tigerman. “Sketch from Book 9, Beginning 1976, Bourges, France,” 1976. Ink on paper, 5 x 8.5 inches.
Stanley Tigerman practices his art (450 buildings) and preaches it too (with seven books and many publications). His quick sketch on a napkin won the competition for the Illinois Holocaust Museum, so it’s not surprising that he is often cited when architects discuss the educational importance of freehand drawing skills. With 821 drawings taken from twenty sketchbooks made over forty years, this exhibition serves as his visual statement on the issue.
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Jeffreen M. Hayes
After a nationwide search, Jeffreen M. Hayes has been appointed the executive director of Threewalls, a Chicago non-profit arts organization based in the West Loop, the executive board announced today. Hayes replaces former director Shannon Stratton, who resigned from her position in April to become chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. At the same time, Threewalls has indicated that Abigail Satinsky, current artistic director and interim executive director after the departure of Stratton, will be leaving in December for other unspecified pursuits in Philadelphia. Read the rest of this entry »
Laura Davis. Installation shot of “Wall Gems,” 2015.
A page from the artist’s sixth-grade diary. Wood. Wire. Fur from a ladies vintage hat. A twenty-milligram Prozac tablet. These are some of the materials Davis uses in “Legacy of Loneliness,” and they are a good starting point for understanding how the show responds to the historical treatment of female artists. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathaniel Mary Quinn. “Class of 92,” 2015. Black charcoal, gouache, soft pastel, oil pastel, paint stick on Coventry Vellum paper, 34 x 38 inches, paper; 40.25 x 44 inches, framed. Photo: RCH | EKH
Collage is always born upon an undercurrent of violence; no matter the nature of the dismantling—be it surgical or savage—the end result is without fail an image sutured together from the destruction of others, a Frankenstein’s monster of thoughts, feelings, ideas and icons made melange, a mass grave of optics. Read the rest of this entry »
Jessica Stockholder/Photo: Steven Rosofsky
Jessica Stockholder’s work greets me before she does. Colorful and vibrant, it illuminates the dark gray exterior of Kavi Gupta Gallery’s Elizabeth Street location. Read the rest of this entry »
Scott Reeder. “Landlord Painting,” 2015
I like a little humor with my art, and even a cursory look at the work of Scott Reeder will tell you that he agrees. Read the rest of this entry »
James Hyde. “Steps,” 2015.
Acrylic dispersion on stretched vinyl print, 110 x 86 inches.
The best modern design is circumspect if not chaste. Read the rest of this entry »
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The thing that was sent to me in its intended but unsettling orientation.
By Elliot J. Reichert
The above image was sent to me anonymously in the middle of the night. Shocking as it appears, I was relieved to receive it. You see, weeks ago I had contacted a few artist friends to ask them to reflect on the upcoming fall art season in Chicago and to ask one to “take over” the task of appraising it. To my surprise, they were reluctant to describe it, even those who had exhibitions of their work opening in the coming weeks. Later, I realized that their silence was my doing, having asked a question that could produce no coherent answer.
Much like the drawing game made famous by the Surrealists, Chicago’s 2015 fall art season is an exquisite corpse—a thing of grotesque beauty that is the dream of no one, but the creation of many. At first glance, it appears sinister, like the Block Museum’s solo show of newly commissioned works by Chicago artist Geof Oppenheimer. Rumor has it that the sculptor has filled the museum’s ample galleries with austere and foreboding installations resembling the cinderblock constructions of grim institutions, like prison, or perhaps your corporate office. Even more menacing, Irena Haiduk, also Chicago-based and also exhibiting new work, will haunt the eaves of the Renaissance Society’s transformed gallery with the Sirens of Greek mythology, luring visitors unexpectedly into a debate on the revolutionary possibilities of art and social change amidst current political upheaval worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »
Peter Skvara. “I Am Sinking / I Have Collided with Surface Craft / Repeat the Distress Position,” 2015. Enamel on stretched mesh, 72 in x 48 inches.
The sea, with its legends of mermaids and serpents, phantom ships and lost continents, has inspired man’s creativity for millennia. From Japan’s Katsushika Hokusai to Germany’s Caspar David Friedrich, the raw power of towering waves and the quiet foreboding of impenetrable fog captivate equally across cultures. But one need not look to the distant past or far-off shores to find tales of mystery and imagination; our own Great Lakes, a seamen’s graveyard for centuries, will suffice.
Enter artist Peter Skvara, whose new works are tales of misfortune on the high sea embodied in the form of hard-edged geometric abstraction. The six paintings in “Approaches” take their compositions from the colorful language of maritime signal flags: brilliant banners emblazoned with litanies of colored Xs, crosses, dots and stripes that, when strung together in a ship’s rigging, communicate vital information to other vessels.
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Alfredo Salazar-Caro. “Untitled (for Panther Modern),” 2015.
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The Chicago Artists Coalition has announced that it will launch a yearly exhibition of new Chicago art to run concurrently with EXPO Chicago, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art. “The Annual: An Exhibition of New Chicago Art” will be an unique opportunity for art enthusiasts and collectors to learn more about the work of young and upcoming Chicago artists and collect new works. Each year, the show will be arranged by two guest curators with intimate knowledge of Chicago’s most relevant and rising art makers.
“The Annual will offer a fresh, of-the-moment look at the concerns and practices of today’s emerging generation of Chicago artists and makers,” said Claudine Isé, lead curator of the inaugural exhibition. Artists featured include Kiam Marcelo Junio, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Susy Bielak, Noël Morical, Macon Reed and Michelle Anne Harris. A comprehensive list of participating artists will be made available in early August. Read the rest of this entry »


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As of this 4th of July the all-new MTheoryConcepts.com has gone live and is now featuring a sexy new logo. And how fitting it is that it should launch on Independence Day, as it symbolizes a new chapter for this Orange California based design and marketing firm. That is because, in conjunction with the updated logo and site, Creative Director and Cofounder Alexander Meyer has gone full time with the company.
For the past 3 years M Theory Concepts has been a side venture of Alexander (Art Director at ML Kishigo) and Aaron Gonzalez (Sr. Production Artist at Oakley). But now we are shifting into top-gear as we turn this small but successful side project into a full blown design and development agency.
The site itself has seen a full redesign with our attention aimed at usability and aesthetically representing our brand and capabilities. You can expect frequent blogs chronicling our experiences, our discoveries, our clients, and any resource we feel will be valuable to our readers. We even plan on introducing a weekly podcast at some point in the future.
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As part of BAFTA Selects, celebrating classic film with contemporary artists, Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie joined us at BAFTA to discuss The Piano, a film that this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. Following years of loving director Jane Campion's work from afar, a letter from the actress lead to a starring part in Campion’s series Top of the Lake: China Girl. Here’s what she learned from the film, its director and her (multiple!) rewatches – listen to the full audio below.
Film as comfort
Delving into the film’s history, Christie discusses her experience watching the film for the first time; as a fourteen-year-old, she connected strongly with Campion’s themes of passion and voicelessness. As her career and studies developed, The Piano joined her along the way; she says that she watched the film most evenings after long days at drama school to help her unwind.
It spoke to me so clearly, and consequently I felt heard
The importance of female filmmakers
Discussing the impact of female directors, Christie explores the perspective Campion brings to The Piano’s dark narrative. Valuing the world of female interiority the film presents, she explains that she felt she had a “right to see the world… that didn’t need the rules of cold logic”.
It’s a process that can feel more chaotic but you feel incredibly alive… Jane gave me something really incredible which is to realise that you can be unstoppable.
Complex ways of viewing the world
One thing Christie appreciates about Campion’s work is her ability to incorporate characters and situations that are open-ended and complex. When she worked with the director on Top of the Lake: China Girl, she says that Campion helped her bring this theoretical world and a sense of naturalism to her own work.
I was left completely speechless by this film; it affected me very, very deeply. I thought about it all the time.
About Gwendoline Christie
A graduate of the progressive (and exacting) Central St Martins Drama Centre, Christie was mentored by Shakespearean stage actor Simon Callow. Although warned by college staff and agents she would rarely find acting work due to her stature and appearance, her ambition was revived when she saw Tilda Swinton’s performance in Orlando (1992), leaving her determined to defy predictions. Plying her trade in regional theatre she followed Cheek by Jowl’s Declan Donellan on a world tour as the Queen (opposite a recently graduated Tom Hiddlestone) in the youthful 2007 production of Cymbeline. She drew increasing praise for her subsequent stage roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and as Lucifer in Dr Faustus.
Whilst starring in Game of Thrones Christie was still active in experimental film (Ourhouse 2010 – 2016) and other projects, including her role as Lexi in Russell T Davies’ Wizards v Aliens (2012 – 2014). Christie’s on-screen gravitas has since come greatly into demand, seeing her gain key roles in both the Star Wars and Hunger Games franchises. Gwendoline recently appeared in the second season of Jane Campion’s lauded television crime drama Top of the Lake (2017) and is currently filming for Armando Iannucci’s forthcoming adaptation of David Copperfield, alongside her undergraduate inspiration Tilda Swinton.


Energy harvesting devices are structures subjected to dynamic loads (force or vibration) that convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. From the materials capable of converting mechanical into electrical energy, piezoelectric materials are among the most promising in this area. The design of these devices are complex and may be obtained through topology optimization method (TOM), which combines optimization and finite element algorithms to design structures with complex topologies. In this work, the objective is to maximize the electric energy generated by mechanical strains at piezoelectric material areas, which are coupled to the mechanical structures. The research of energy harvesting devices operating by dynamic response comprehends the optimized design, simulation, manufacturing, and experimental characterization of these devices. The precise acquisition of piezoelectric material properties is essential to the design of energy harvesting devices, and also to a wide area where piezoelectric materials are used, such as sensors and actuators. Thus, this research also involves the characterization of real and complex variables of the elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric properties of piezoelectric materials using an iterative optimization algorithm process, where the objective is to minimize the difference between the experimental and numerical electric impedances. Therefore, this work intend to perform the complete cycle of the optimized design of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices, including the experimental characterization to validate the methodology, together with the development of a methodology to characterize the piezoelectric properties.
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How My Life With Asperger's Is Like an Overstuffed Burrito
I generally don’t get symbolism; I’m just wired that way. Tell me something and I’ll think you actually meant what you said. Art and literature usually don’t cause any emotional stirring within me, regardless of how much I want them to.
But music… music can move me. On rare occasions I’m even temporarily gifted the ability to see deeper than the words in a performance, and I feel touched and enlightened.
These words are the beginning of one of those experiences for me:
“I can’t fit my hand inside a Pringle can.” —Bo Burnham
A lament for our time, found within the closing performance by Bo Burnham during his Netflix special “Make Happy.” As he asks “If you feel me put your hands up,” hundreds of hands are lifted to the sky and Bo proclaims: “Look at all these hands that are way too big to fit inside a Pringle can. Pringles listen to the people! Just make them wider!” Such wisdom from a young man of 25.
OK, maybe it’s not that profound. However, as often happens with people on the spectrum, Bo’s performance got stuck on a loop in my head, and I ended up watching it over and over. Fair warning, “Make Happy” isn’t for everyone. Bo’s sense of humor would offend the majority of my acquaintances, but for me, the loop I got stuck in helped me find meaning in his words.
My life with Asperger’s syndrome is a lot like trying to get Pringles out of a can that is too small for my hand.
In certain situations, no matter how hard I try to fold myself to conform to a standard determined by someone else, if I try to follow my own logic, what I want is just beyond my reach. Since “my way” of thinking can’t work, I get overwhelmed and just dump everything out and pick-up what I can, hoping I’ll be able to clean up the messy crumbs when it’s done. More often than not, I just leave a small disaster in my wake.
Sometimes I literally end up dumping things around me out to get to things I need because I end up overwhelmed by the process. More often it’s not something physical, it’s the frustration of trying to communicate in a way other people understand, which results in me spitting out a whole lot of words. Sometimes it hurts people around me… I get the feeling people don’t like Pringles crumbs spewed all over them. I often wonder how I get myself into these situations in the first place.
“I wouldn’t have got the lettuce if I knew it wouldn’t fit. Wouldn’t have got the cheese if I knew it wouldn’t fit. Wouldn’t have got the peppers if I knew they wouldn’t fit.” –Bo Burnham
Bo continues on to tell of a time he went to Chipotle and got a chicken burrito. Going down the line, he added ingredient after ingredient. When he got to the end, the guy tried wrapping it up but half the stuff spilled out, thus defeating the purpose of a burrito.
Why didn’t the expert warn him he was getting too much? Did the expert think it was obvious that you can’t put everything in a burrito? Did he think Bo was the one giving instructions, so he must know what he wants? Did it cross his mind that a little warning or advice could have made things better? Did he intentionally withhold the information because he gets a kick out of people’s burrito misery?
Regardless, the burrito expert stayed silent, and Bo was left with a mess. If only Bo had known, he wouldn’t have got half of what he did. The mantra cried over and over. “I wouldn’t have got the lettuce if I knew it wouldn’t fit.” And there is a huge part of my life with Asperger’s summed up in a silly song.
Life often feels like a series of mistakes made because no one told me what to them was obvious. And since no one explained to me how to behave, I’m stuck feeling foolish with a messy burrito spilling everywhere. I think many people can relate to that situation. But for me, and perhaps others on the spectrum, it goes beyond people not telling me how to behave. Often I’ve been told. I should know better, but I simply didn’t have the capacity at the time to link that information to the situation in which I found myself. I don’t always have the ability to know what is going to fit a given situation, and that can leave me stuck looping over where I went wrong after the fact.
I wouldn’t have talked so much about my interests if I knew how to read the “obvious” social cues that you want to end the conversation.
I wouldn’t have stayed silent to the point of it being awkward if I knew this was the part where I was supposed to participate, since you made a tiny pause indicating you were looking to me to speak now.
I wouldn’t have talked over you if I knew my pause for breath told you to begin speaking.
I wouldn’t have answered your question honestly if I knew the correct thing to do in this situation was to be polite and validate your point of view.
I wouldn’t have sat in a corner secretly plugging my ears because it’s too loud and too much is going on if I knew of a socially acceptable way to deal with being overwhelmed.
I wouldn’t have tried to fit my hand in the Pringle can.
I don’t think I can handle this right now.
I know everyone gets overwhelmed and plenty of “normal” people have problems trying to fit in. It’s not just an Asperger’s or autism thing, and I don’t want to diminish anyone’s experience. While Bo is relating his own struggle of trying to deal with life and fitting in, the song resonates with me. If you want to really “feel” the internal conflict I think many people on the spectrum deal with every day, take the last 60 seconds of the video or so and then loop it… for an hour or two.
Not the most uplifting post, I know. But that’s the thing — life isn’t always about happiness and being uplifted. We feel sad, angry, disgusted, or afraid sometimes, and often more than one of those at a time. “Can’t handle this” transitions from talking about our problems to those conflicting emotions we find while trying to “Make Happy.”
But is “making happy” really the point to all this?
I guess we’ll have to find out.
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Pediatric orthopaedics is the specialty that deals with the treatment of bone diseases and defects (both genetic-related and acquired) that develop during gestation.
Developmental and musculoskeletal disorders can also use the help and expertise of a competent pediatric orthopaedic specialist.
In addition, children who are born with congenital bone diseases can also benefit from the help of a pediatric orthopaedics expert.
Although certain conditions get corrected on their own without requiring treatment, others can end up becoming more severe without medical intervention.
Some of the most prevalent orthopaedic conditions in children include:
Popliteal cyst or Baker’s cyst – similar to tibial apophysitis, this condition often responds well to conservative treatment interventions. However, if there is an underlying internal derangement, arthroscopy is often required.
Tibial apophysitis or Osgood-Schlatter disease – it is fortunate to note that this condition will also often respond well to non-invasive treatment options like bracing, physical therapy, orthotics, and activity modification.
Patellar subluxation and dislocation – classified as a congenital disorder, this condition often responds best to immobilization. In chronic cases, however, surgery is deemed the best treatment intervention.
Discoid lateral meniscus – this condition is classified as a congenital malformation. Arthroscopic repair becomes the best resort once the condition starts to get troublesome.
Genu valgum (knock-kneed) – this condition is often benign and often gets resolved once the child turns 8 years old. However, surgery might be necessary if the condition lingers until the child turns 10 years old.
Genu varum (bow-legged) – this condition is believed to be caused by a tightening of the posterior hip capsule. If the condition is still not resolved after the child has turned 2 years old, osteotomy will be recommended.
Internal femoral torsion–this condition is the cause of in-toeing in children 2 years old and above. Fortunately, the condition will be resolved without treatment once an abnormal sitting position is corrected.
Internal tibial torsion – deemed the most prevalent cause of in-toeing in children ages 2 years old and below, the condition usually gets resolved the moment the child starts to walk.
Curly toes – the fifth and the fourth toes are the ones often affected by this condition. In majority of the cases, no symptoms will manifest. The condition is also considered hereditary. Fortunately, in 25 to 50 percent of the cases, the condition is resolved once the child turns 3 or 4 years old. If not, surgery will be recommended.
Polydactyly – while considered very common among children, the severity can vary from one child to another. Condition severity can range from just minor soft tissue duplication to serious skeletal abnormalities. The best treatment approach for polydactyly is often surgical removal.
Ingrowing toenail – when the nail’s edge grows into the soft tissues, an ingrown toenail occurs. Management of the condition can range from conservative options like antibiotics and warm soaks down to surgery.
Hammer toe – this condition is known to often affect the second toe. While surgery is often not required, it is resorted to when the condition becomes too painful.
Transient monoarticular synovitis – considered one of the most common causes of limping, this condition often manifests after a respiratory infection. Treatment options for the condition can include rest, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and physiotherapy.
Perthes’ disease – this condition is characterized by the idiopathic avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Common treatment interventions include bracing, analgesics, and bed rest.
Septic arthritis – the condition is attributed to Staphylococcus aureus. Treatment interventions often include arthroscopy, drainage and debridement (with antibiotic cover), and emergency aspiration.
Developmental dysplasia – this spectrum of disorders often affects the proximal femur, hips, and the acetabulum. Early detection and prompt treatment can help prevent long-term morbidity.

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Although 1.3 billion humans are unemployed worldwide, robotic artificiality is the new Must Have.
- So then, leave Granny to eat a Birds Eye dinner for one in her rat-infested flat so you can celebrate your Samaritan values, safe in the knowledge that she won’t sneeze on Sweet Pea and fulfil the baby’s 1 in 12 million chance of dying from Omicron, the Deathless Variant.
- I find myself recalling the Churchillian 1939 quote about the USSR being “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”, if only because the heavily monied CDC boss is as far from that definition as it is possible to be in our 3D Universe.
- I’ve also read how ‘a new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people‘….and that’s from a rabidly pro-vax site.
- I’m sick to death of smug liberals who have all the tolerance of Julius Streicher, soi-disant Leftists who suck up all the idiotic anti-science churned out by bought health bureaucrats, Labour politicians who want me to die in a ditch for illegal migrants, cross-dressers and Islamic misogyny, Tory hypocrites blowing with the foul wind of CO2 climate drivel, and gullible media types who cannot put themselves in the worn-down shoes of anyone outside London’s Islington, Camden and Brent; or the Parisian areas around the Canal Saint-Martin, the upper Marais and in Montmartre, Batignolles or Belleville; and The Elite Circles boroughs including most of Manhattan from the financial district to the adjacent parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
- And finally, let’s have a look at some gratuitous DailyMail shots of women whose tits are but 20% hidden, while lower down their bikinis don’t so much plunge towards the pudenda as point to the precise location of what (so the feminists say) every man wants to ravage….
- Most of it starts with a sudden meeting of eyes, a soft kiss, a caress that suggests the removal of an outer garment, the appreciation by fingers of a shapely hip, and the discovery of moisture that grants permission for so much more.
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In spite of patchy reviews and warnings from friends to steer clear, i'm still super keen to check our Harmony Korine's new film MISTER LONELY. Although it seems i'm a little late to the game having just found out its no longer playing in UK cinemas! Curses.
Anyway, the trailer is what got me all excited, especially this one with the japanese subtitles. I'd love it if the actual film had these!
If, eventually, I'm disappointed with it, i can assure you my love for Gummo from 1997 will remain strong and true. Its just amazing, probably one of my top five films ever, and if you have never seen it, stop reading blogs and rent it out... oh, wait, go here first to hear some of the Mister Lonely sountrack featuring J Spaceman (Spiritualized) and Sun City Girls.

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In our team you will provide support with defining technical approaches, FPGA implementation (VHDL), HW acceleration as co-processing avionics of satellites or spacecrafts or some of their instruments onboard, SW/HW codesign, budget size and cost estimating, HW/SW implementation for space applications, documentation, verification/validation and certification of embedded hardware/software (mainly based on FPGA and FPGA + microprocessor).
You will be defining architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for operational or simulated space hardware/software systems. You will offer technical support for VHDL implementations and assistance in selection of the more adequate FPGA and/or microprocessor platforms in line with the implementation targeting space applications (in most cases will refer to radiation tolerant devices) and will be responsible for tailoring and deployment of processes, tools and metrics.
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A wild concoction of fuzz-laden garage, psychedelia and drone, driven by stomping drum beats, crunchy bass riffs and mind-boggling organs, announces the arrival of the six Templars. Their energetic live show will grip the audience and lurch them forward into the front seat of a THC- and beer-fueled time machine that will catapult them at light speed straight through the sonar dimensions of the 1990s and 80s, only to slow down somewhere in the 70s and finally, while the cries of the revolution reverberate in the napalm-filled air, crash directly into Boleskine House.
The ear-splitting noise of this explosion finely interweaves Crowley’s occult spells and the flowery scent of free, unburdened love in its heavy, yet gentle giant of sound that springily rebounds between the dark, musty walls of the everlasting passage of time. From between the droning guitars and the stomping footsteps of TEMPLE SOLAIRE’s monstrous body, its voice, with the tragic lethargy of the songs of sirens, arises from its depths to remember the sunlight and its all-consuming, destructive heat.
Temple Solaire will take you on a trip forward into the past.
‘Originally from Zurich, Temple Solaire has been showing since 2015 that the neo-psychedelica will never die, especially not with such harmonies. With lots of guitars, polyphonic singing and a dreamy effect, it’s been all about climbing the clouds since the name change.’ Michael Bolli, Artnoir


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A study of a large number of middle-aged adults suggests self-reported childhood abuse by women was associated with an increased long-term risk of death, according to an article published online by JAMA Psychiatry.
Childhood abuse has been linked a variety of adult psychiatric problems but its association with later-life risk of death as an adult has been less understood.
Edith Chen, Ph.D., of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and coauthors examined reports of physical and emotional abuse in childhood with all-cause mortality rates in adulthood in a national sample of 6,285 adults, who were nearly all white and were an average age of about 47.
Participants had completed questionnaires in 1995 and 1996 and follow-up mortality data was tracked over 20 years. There were 1,091 confirmed deaths - 17.4 percent - in the study group through October 2015.
The study found no association for men between self-reported childhood abuse and long-term risk of all-cause mortality.
The results were different for women. Women who self-reported experiencing severe physical abuse, moderate physical abuse or emotional abuse from a parent were at increased risk of death during the 20-year follow-up. And, mitigating factors such as childhood socioeconomic status, adult depression or personality traits did not explain the association between childhood abuse and greater risk of death in women, according to the study.
Authors attempt to explain the association suggesting abuse can heighten vulnerability to psychiatric conditions; children who experience abuse may develop negative health behaviors (such as drug use) to cope with stress; obesity and its consequences could be one pathway between childhood abuse and death; and childhood adversities may affect how biological systems operate throughout life.
The study acknowledges it is unclear why women appear to more vulnerable to the effects of abuse than men.
Study limitations including self-reported childhood abuse, which means other explanations may be possible and that the reports may not accurately represent what happened in participants' childhoods.
"These findings suggest that women who report child abuse continue to be vulnerable to premature mortality and perhaps should receive greater attention in interventions aimed at promoting health," the study concludes.
(JAMA Psychiatry. Published online August 17, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1786. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
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Editorial: Child Maltreatments as a Root Cause of Mortality Disparities
"Child maltreatment is a debilitating problem and a global public health issue. ... In this issue of JAMA Psychiatry, Chen et al extend current knowledge and add a novel end-of-life view, suggesting that childhood maltreatment is associated with all-cause mortality in women, indicating a grim end to lifelong sequelae. ... The Chen et al article underscores the fact that we need to generate new knowledge that will fill critical gaps in what is known about mechanisms involved in deleterious outcomes for children who have been abused. ... The Chen et al article is an impressive step in calling for policy makers and society at large to adopt an obligation to eradicate these life-long inequities for survivors of maltreatment," write Idan Shalev, Ph.D., of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and coauthors in a related editorial.
(JAMA Psychiatry. Published online August 17, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.1748. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com.)
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Back in June, several park staff went to Alaska to pick up a 1945 Allis-Chalmers Model C tractor, faded orange and rusted from sitting outside for several decades. The tractor belonged to Ken Deardorff, the last homesteader to file a claim in 1974, proving up on his claim by building a house, clearing land to farm, and living on it in 1979 for five years. Homestead National Monument staff dug out the tractor, and prepared it to be airlifted off the homestead in Alaska, to start its journey to Beatrice, Nebraska. The tractor will be stored here at the monument shortly, before being taken to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to be restored and readied for permanent display here.Everyone here at the park was excitedly following the tractor’s flight off of Ken Deardorff’s homestead and through a mountain pass in Alaska, but I hadn’t heard much about it since then. Then, Thursday afternoon we got a call that the tractor was only an hour away from the park, in the back of a semi! We all went outside to watch, and brought the GoPro and the camera to make sure we captured the entire event. I asked to be the photographer, and here’s what happened. The semi pulls in, they open the back doors to reveal a huge wooden crate, our little bobcat pulls up to lift the crate out of the back of the semi…and the bobcat is too small, it can’t lift out the crate. So maintenance brings out our larger tractor to try, and the back left wheel starts to lift off the ground. They end up calling a guy who lives down the road and has a forklift, so we wait for him to drive it down here. Then he needs to run back to pick up extensions for the forks on the lift, because the crate is so long. I got photos of the whole progression of machinery. Eventually we get the crate off the truck, open up the front, and all get a peek inside at the tractor that belonged to the last homesteader. It’s a pretty cool continuation of the story of the first homesteader, the Freeman family, whose 160-acre claim now makes up the majority of the park.


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Letchworth’s David’s Music holding free party to celebrate forthcoming Record Store Day – with indie/folk duo Worry Dolls playing live!
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The brilliant David’s Music in Letchworth are holding a special party to celebrate the launch of the tenth anniversary of the equally brilliant Record Store Day.
The eagerly-awaited event at the popular independent store on Eastcheap is to be held a week tomorrow – on Tuesday, March 21 from 6pm to 9pm.
The evening will be the first look for customers at David’s official product list of limited edition vinyl to be released on Record Store Day, which takes place on Saturday, April 22.
There will also be a live in-store performance from indie-folk duo the Worry Dolls on the night – complete with food and drink and informed and intelligent chats about music – and it’s all free!
World Record Day is when more than 200 independent record stores across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for the day with thousands more shops around the globe also taking place – in what has become one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar.
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Jim, one of my Royal Oak gardening friends hated day lilies calling them "ditch lilies", probably a reference to the common orange "wild" day lilies that one sees every summer for a week or two growing along the side of roads everywhere around here . Even so, scattered around his yard he kept several clumps of one day lily that he called "Autumn Orange" or "Hughe's Autumn Orange". It doesn't start flowering until mid-August and continues flowering into the fall here. It's especially welcome because most of the modern hybrid day lilies are usually finished by this time of the year. Unlike most modern day lilies, it flowers for a very long time; it's also a wonderful happy butterscotch color. I suspect it may be a species because over the years it has produced seedlings that are similar, perhaps identical, to the parent.
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Finally, I’m here, in Québec City, the heart of French Canada. Now, if I can get by on the six words of French I learned from Beauty and the Beast, all will be well.
I’m welcomed warmly and ushered into the offices of Québec Parmentier, the biggest marketer of potatoes in the province. I sit down with CEO Pierre Chouinard, general manager Audrey Boulianne, and seed sales manager Laurence Côté to get a brief overview of the company and outline our week touring Quebec’s potato industry.
Québec Parmentier is a grower-owned company that was formed in 2012 in an effort to better produce and sell high-quality potatoes throughout the province and into the big Toronto and the major markets on the East Coast of the U.S. As Chouinard shows me a map of where potato farms are located across the fertile but enormous province, it’s not difficult to imagine why growers would want to form a unified organization to get their crop to market.
“All these growers are really far from the market,” says Chouinard. “We’ve actually lost a lot of growers in the past 15 to 20 years because freight costs just got too high. So it was easy for me to explain to growers the vision we had to create this company. Together, they decided to join and form Québec Parmentier.”
In 2012, Parmentier marketed about 3,500 acres of potatoes. That number has grown to nearly 8,000 in 2019—roughly half the province’s potato acreage.
“The new generation of customers wants something sexy, tasty, convenient,” says Chouinard. “Potatoes are sexy, and we want to set them up as a sexy product.”
About a 45-minute drive from the Parmentier office is the home of André Gagnon, who owns and operates Progest 2001, a research farm dedicated to improving the potato industry in Quebec and throughout Canada. Gagnon is small, energetic and, it seems, boundlessly excited about potatoes. With an infectious smile, he gives me the grand tour. A couple hundred yards from the banks of the St. Lawrence River, obscured from view of drivers on the nearby highway by dense forest, sits Gagnon’s greenhouse, where, he says, early-generation plantlets of over 100 potato varieties reside. Nearby fields house just as impressive an assortment of spuds, all being observed for their strengths and weaknesses in Quebec’s climate and soils.
Gagnon is a veteran in the potato industry and has rubbed shoulders with several of the preeminent names in North America’s potato academia. He has projects in the works for several entities, and he strongly believes that Quebec can continue to improve its already fairly strong position as a potato-supplying region for North American retailers and consumers.
I climb out of the car and shake hands with Kevin Rivard. Côté has already talked him up: “Kevin isn’t yet 30, he just got his MBA, he has a wife and three kids, a business that’s booming…” After apologizing for his poor grasp of English, Rivard proceeds to converse in English better than I—an alleged professional practitioner of said language—could ever hope to.
He tells me about his family’s farm: how his father and grandfather were among the first people to farm in Saint-Ambroise; how a majority of the now-arable land was cleared from forest and carefully prepared for growing potatoes; how in the last 20 years they have increased potato production from less than 100 acres to over 600.
As we climb into his pickup, he apologizes for the mess, and I assure him that it’s not a problem; after all, this is a farm truck.
“Yes,” Rivard replies with a grin, “but this is also my city truck.”
Interestingly, about half of Rivard’s potatoes are grown for seed and half for table stock. The farm is spread out and the climate cooperative enough that he’s able to keep the seed crop isolated and healthy.
“Our biggest goal is to produce the same amount of potatoes here on 10 percent fewer acres,” says Rivard. “With improvements in varieties, irrigation and management, I think we can do that in four or five years.”
Gaston Bouchard is not much of an English speaker, and, as already noted, my French vocabulary is derived primarily from children’s films. But with Côté acting as interpreter, the pride Gaston, his son Matieu, and Matieu’s 17-year-old daughter Ophélie have for their role in the region’s potato industry shines through. Gaston’s father settled in the area more than 80 years ago, and the farm has been in the family every since. Today, the Bouchards grow some 400 acres of high-quality seed potatoes of about 15 varieties.
The nearby Propur fresh-pack shed was Gaston’s brainchild in the early 1960s. He sold three other growers on investing in it, and even though the farm itself raises seed, the family still has an ownership stake in the packing plant. In fact, Matieu is the plant’s current president.
“The packing shed is right in our backyard,” says Matieu. “It’s home. We are the founding family of the project, and it’s still my heart and soul.”
As we bump along through their fields, Matieu and Gaston point out the window, ticking off the varieties flowering in the rich, sandy loam: “That’s an early yellow, smooth-skinned one called Obama. Over here is Chieftain, GoldRush, Superior, Kateri, Dark Red Chieftain, Frontier Russet, Envol, Andover…”
The Bouchards have made their name on two things: innovation and integrity. In the 1970s, they were the first growers in Quebec to employ pivot irrigation and cup planters. “We’re perfectionists,” says Matieu. “We’re people who, when we give our word, a handshake is a contract.”
And they intend to continue that tradition. It’s readily apparent that Ophelie is eager to learn and work, and that she feels comfortable and respected by her dad and grandfather on the farm.
Pierre-Luc Chouinard is a young guy with a huge grin and a booming voice. And his farm on the eastern shore of the St. Lawrence River—which is about 10 miles wide at this point—is in about the prettiest spot you can think of. Just outside the village of Saint-Arsène, the land gently rolls up from the river; there aren’t too many spots on the Chouinard place you can’t see the water.
In spite of that, though, Chouinard has struggled over the last couple years to keep his 800 acres—250 in seed potatoes—watered. Only about 40 percent of his farm is set up with irrigation. Usually a wet environment, Quebec has seen two consecutive years as dry as anyone can remember.
“The season is not easy here,” he says. “We have a really short season, and when we don’t get rain, it can be really difficult.
“But I love to grow potatoes,” Chouinard continues with that enormous grin. “I like to work in the field. I like working with our team. I like being the one making decisions. I really enjoy managing the fields, the crops, the people all together.”
It’s been a pretty good trip. And you know, I like those guys in Quebec. They know how to treat a guy well, they live in a beautiful place, and they sure as heck have figured out how to grow potatoes. I think I’ll come back someday.

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Thursday, April 3, 2008
West Tenth Launch Party!
Well, what is this handsome Rothko? Just kidding. It's the cover of the first issue of what I hope will be many, of NYU's premier undergraduate literary magazine, West 10th Street. This Friday we will be having our official launch party at 7:00 PM at the Creative Writer's House, 58 West 10th Street, NY,NY. The theme is black, red, and white, so if you want to come wear one of those colors. If you don;t own anything white or black, I guess you could go topless (depending on your race) or somehow bloody yourself. Anyways it should be a good event. We're having poets and fiction writers reading their pieces. All are welcome. If you can't make it, look out for copies of our magazine on shelves, bathroom stalls, used as bookmarks, ask me for a copy if you would like to see one, I think I can photocopy a few.
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On Aug. 17 the Sewol Families Committee commenced a hunger strike to demand an investigation into the true cause of the 2014 ferry tragedy. Father Rha joined the strike on Aug. 22.
When the strike ended on Sept. 5, Father Rha told ucanews.com that his meditation during those 15 days was more precious than any other gifts he received for his jubilee.
We believe in Jesus Christ, but it seems that we do not believe in His teachings," he lamented. Father Rha said that this led him to reflect on the foundation of his faith.


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#HangTime: Cristiano Ronaldo’s trademark ‘big air’ leap and header strikes again
Two years after scoring the winner with an awesome ‘Hang Time’ header in the Copa del Rey final against Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo has reproduced what’s becoming his signature move in tonight’s Cup final against Atleti.
Cristiano leapt like a salmon to meet Modric’s corner in the 13th minute, leaving Atleti defender Godin stuck to his feet.
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Exact knowledge of blood flow characteristics in the major cerebral vessels is of great relevance for diagnosing cerebrovascular abnormalities. This involves the assessment of hemodynamically critical areas as well as the derivation of biomechanical parameters such as wall shear stress and pressure gradients. A time-resolved, 3D phase-contrast (PC) MRI method using parallel imaging was implemented to measure blood flow in three dimensions at multiple instances over the cardiac cycle. The 4D velocity data obtained from 14 healthy volunteers were used to investigate dynamic blood flow with the use of multiplanar reformatting, 3D streamlines, and 4D particle tracing. In addition, the effects of magnetic field strength, parallel imaging, and temporal resolution on the data were investigated in a comparative evaluation at 1.5T and 3T using three different parallel imaging reduction factors and three different temporal resolutions in eight of the 14 subjects. Studies were consistently performed faster at 3T than at 1.5T because of better parallel imaging performance. A high temporal resolution (65 ms) was required to follow dynamic processes in the intracranial vessels. The 4D flow measurements provided a high degree of vascular conspicuity. Time-resolved streamline analysis provided features that have not been reported previously for the intracranial vasculature.


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Ramsey County municipal candidates want to improve their cities
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Ramsey County municipal elections include Greg Urban, the son of Vadnais Heights' former longtime city manager, trying to unseat the city's mayor, Marc Johannsen, on Nov. 4.
Maplewood: One dead in shooting outside liquor store
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In Ramsey County municipal elections this year, Roseville school board member Kaying Thao will try to nab one of two seats up for election on the Roseville City Council.
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Longtime incumbent and Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Alice Hausman faces former Republican House district chair Jon Heyer in the race for House District 66A, which includes Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Roseville, St. Anthony and parts of St. Paul.
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Vikings look for season split against rival Packers
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins acknowledges his appreciation for teammates who have publicly lent their support despite his early-season struggles, which include an NFL high-tying 10 interceptions.
Still, Cousins feels such expressions are a bit premature. At 1-5, the Vikings may be reeling, but they’re nonetheless rested, coming off their bye week and primed to seize an opportunity to begin a turnaround with Sunday’s visit to the NFC North-leading Green Bay Packers.
“We know what we’re capable of,” Cousins said. “We know what we can do when we’re at our best, and I think we’ve shown that with explosive plays and moving the football and getting a lot of guys involved, both running the ball and throwing the ball. So, we know we can get back to that. What we have to do is do it consistently.”
Green Bay (5-1) can attest to overcoming adversity. After absorbing a lopsided 38-10 loss at Tampa Bay in Week 6, their first defeat of the season, the Packers responded with last week’s 35-20 win at Houston.
Aaron Rodgers steered the Green Bay attack, completing 23-of-34 passes for 283 yards and four touchdowns, including two to Davante Adams, who finished with 13 receptions for 196 yards.
“I think he’s done a great job of throwing on rhythm and throwing with anticipation,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said of Rodgers. “I think his balance in the pocket is really good. I think when stuff isn’t there, he does a great job of making off-schedule plays.”
The Vikings expect running back Dalvin Cook to return against the Packers. Coach Mike Zimmer said that scenario is likely after Cook returned to practice Wednesday. He has not played since suffering a groin injury in the third quarter of a one-point loss at Seattle in Week 5.
Cook has rushed for 489 yards and seven touchdowns in five games, including two scores in a Week 1 home loss to the Packers. His presence in the Minnesota backfield was among the reasons LaFleur stressed his team couldn’t overlook the Vikings.
“I don’t care what the record says, this is a damn good football team,” LaFleur said. “If you don’t get prepared each and every week in this league, you’re going to get whipped.”
The Vikings have dealt with a banged-up defense.
The team on Wednesday placed starting cornerback Cameron Dantzler on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Additionally, Zimmer confirmed that defensive end Danielle Hunter had successful, season-ending neck surgery Tuesday. Hunter was injured during a non-padded practice in August and had sought a second opinion on the injury. He hasn’t played in 2020.
In Hunter’s absence, the Vikings have employed a rotation including Ifeadi Odenigbo, Jalyn Holmes and Jordan Brailford at defensive end.
The Packers have endured a spate of injuries of late but welcomed several players back to the practice field Wednesday, including wide receiver Allen Lazard (core muscle surgery) and linebacker Christian Kirksey (pectoral), who returned from injured reserve.
Kicker Mason Crosby (left calf/back), running back Aaron Jones (calf) and cornerback Kevin King (quad) did not practice. Fifteen more Packers were limited.
Minnesota ranks 30th in the NFL with a minus-7 turnover margin. At plus-2, Green Bay is tied for ninth.
Green Bay defeated Minnesota 43-34 at U.S. Bank Stadium to open the season. The Packers have won three successive regular season meetings against the Vikings and lead the all-time series 62-53-3.
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This study is concerned with the development of a practical, efficient and highly sensitive electrochemical sensor for the determination of hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) in pharmaceutical dosage forms or clinical samples using a high-quality modified graphene electrode (H-GRE) which has recently emerged as a very promising material for sensor applications. High-quality graphene (H-GR) was synthesized efficiently by a single-step reduction method from graphene oxide (GO). It was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron spectroscopy (TEM). The electrochemical behavior of HCT was investigated using adsorptive stripping differential pulse voltammetry on the H-GRE. The H-GRE showed excellent electrochemical activity for the oxidation of HCT. Under the optimized experimental conditions, the linear response range of HCT was found to be 0.1-48.0 mu M with a detection limit (based on S/N-3) of 19 nM. This improved electrode may provide a promising alternative sensor for the determination of HCT in pharmaceutical formulations and clinical samples.


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