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the Bureaucracy can cost lives: there is a serious illness, when time is crucial. How to use money from taxation of people whose income exceeds 5 million rubles a year? About it on air of TV channel “Russia 24” said the Commissioner for children’s rights in Russia Anna Kuznetsova.
— Hello, Anna! Thank you for joining us. A tax increase on the rich will give, said Vladimir Putin, about 60 billion rubles. The money will be spent to help children with rare diseases. How this amount is substantial, massive compared to the scale of the assistance needed?
— In the President’s speech sounded a lot of answers to questions, it was so sensitive. With regard to this patient’s question — provision of medicines children with orphan diseases, which until recently was literally hanging in the air. Not so long ago at the meeting with the President and with large families, I raised the issue of children with SMA — spinal muscular atrophy. This issue was discussed repeatedly, including we have seen growth of more 80 percent just to provide children with orphan diseases medicines. Just yesterday we discussed again this subject. And here is the answer to the question that stood before many. The amount is sufficiently serious, imposing. Yes, we know that one child drug can cost about 50 million rubles, but we know and understand, and it was also expressed in the President’s speech that other measures of support continues, there is a plus to all support measures. Moreover, I would like to say: it is important that the above mechanism and the need for a transparent process of transferring this money to the children. This is also a very important point. So I hope, and thousands of families hope that this decision will come is welcome.
Children with spinal muscular atropia, if I’m not mistaken, the necessary injection that costs some absolutely big money, or a million, or two million dollars. This injection must be done up to two years?
— There are several treatment options. This can be one drug one the introduction, there is a drug “Spinoza”, which is already registered in the territory of the Russian Federation. We also tried: first, to achieve registration now understand that the next step came — it is necessary to achieve its availability. But here we see the answer to this question. I understand that the mechanisms have yet to be created. The President just said this: there must be mechanisms. I hope the new year will begin paying taxes to January 1, this mechanism is in place, transparent, clear. And, most important, it was possible to avoid this bureaucracy, which delays the time. In the case of the disease that you mentioned, time is crucial. The sooner the child give the medicine, the greater the effect, the higher the chances of recovery.
– Anna, I want to ask again about the social benefits to children from 3 to 16 years for 10 thousand rubles. This payment is automatically renewed. As substantial payments? Many say that more the better, of course.
— During the period of isolation and quarantine, restrictive measures, the social issue has become a top. Only recently she started to slow down a little bit intensity and their intensity. Very much in demand for social care and support, ranging from the elimination of bureaucratic mechanisms, ending with the problems and situations facing some families. So this payment was one of the most popular. This is evidenced by the following indirect even for the fact that so many families had requested the increase in age of recipients of this payment from 16 to 18. We appropriate treatment, wrote to the government, butsuch a decision is made on regional levels. This Kursk oblast, Tver, Crimea — they have already taken the decision on payment from 16 to 18 years old these children. I believe that it deserves support in the complex. All these measures, of course, have to help families. Certainly these funds will be not superfluous.
— Thank you, Anna!


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Musician tells of ruined career after boat tragedy
Monday 17 March 1997
Jo Wells, 38, spent at least three minutes under water after the pleasure cruiser's collision with a gravel barge, the Bowbelle.
She thought she was about to die, but surfaced suddenly and emerged from the river with only minor physical injuries. But Ms Wells has endured seven years of trauma since the night when the Marchioness went down with the loss of 51 lives.
The river boat had been hired for a private party, and Ms Wells was on board as a guest of Karen Jarvis, 28, her cousin, who was to die in the disaster.
Ms Wells has suffered flashbacks, severe anxiety and she is unable to concentrate. Doctors have diagnosed that she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and she is asking the court to award damages against the respective owners of the Marchioness and Bowbelle.
Leading musicians, including Pete Townshend of The Who and her former teachers from the Royal College of Music, are expected to give evidence to the court of her exceptional musical talent and outstanding career prospects. A college examiner will describe Ms Wells as one of the best musicians he ever heard.
She was playing with bands including Tears for Fears, Kissing the Pink and the Communards before the disaster. But she subsequently lost the control of her lip that is essential to players of brass instruments. She is now unable to work, has sold two of her saxophones, and lives on income support.
A jury at a coroner's court in 1995 decided the 51 victims had been "unlawfully killed" when the 1,880-tonne Bowbelle, steaming at four knots, struck the stern of the Marchioness near the central arch of Southwark Bridge on 20 August 1989.
The pleasure boat's upper deck was ripped away; most of the dead were on the dance floor when the collision happened.
Survivors and relatives of victims claimed that those responsible for the disaster should face manslaughter charges for a "hit and run accident" in which the Bowbelle broke maritime rules.
The Crown Prosecution Service decided last year that no criminal charges would be brought, but owners of the two vessels have accepted liability in civil law after action by a group of relatives and survivors. A pounds 6m fund to pay compensation was set up, but insurers for the owners have challenged individual claims for damages, including the action begun by Ms Wells.
"She will not have to prove that she is still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder," a spokesman for Alexander Harris, her solicitors said. "She will have to prove that it was caused by the disaster.
Ms Wells, from Salford, Greater Manchester, will also have to provide the court with an accurate estimate of the career achievement she would have enjoyed had she not been involved in the disaster.
The Marchioness Action Group has claimed the insurers should have settled quickly, but have chosen instead to quibble, submitting some survivors to repeated psychiatric examination.
Relatives of the dead have been asked for "petty" details to support their claims, including a mother who was asked to prove the hourly rate her daughter had been paid for seven hours' work a week as a domestic.
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text: Attawapiskat Chief, Theresa Spence, is on day 6 of a hunger strike that she has stated will not end until Harper and Governor General David Johnston agree to meet with First Nation's leaders to discuss treaty reform. This is literally a matter of life or death. The continued suffering of many Aboriginal communities in this country is a national shame. Enough is enough. Call on your leaders to actually show some leadership!

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Halal Food for Non Muslim Too
Halal Food for Non Muslim too, as bottom line is that Halal food is not just about what the food is but how it is prepared. The Halal concept emphasises safety, hygiene and wholesomeness of food.
It also provides an excellent platform for healthy eating. Consideration of the place and process of the animals being slaughtered and most importantly, the condition of these animals would not endanger the health of diners, are a prime focus of what Halal is all about.
Today, Halal is no longer a mere religious obligation or observance, but is considered as the standard of choice for Muslims as well as non-Muslims worldwide. The Halal concept is not unfamiliar to non-Muslims, especially those in Muslim countries.
A good example of consumers’ awareness and understanding with regards to the Halal concept of food products is the rapid increase in annual sales in Halal stores throughout Moscow, Russia, to USD100 million in 2018.
According to Canadian Agri-Food Trade Service Report, there is a strong demand for Halal products in a number of non-Muslim countries for both groups of consumers. The Halal products are also growing in popularity among non-Muslim consumers due to humane animal treatment concerns and the perception that Halal products are healthier and safer. Canadaian Muslims spent an estimated US$2.6 billion on food and beverage in 2014, representing 3 percent of total F&B expenditure in the country.
Non-Muslim made purchases from Muslim stores because they believe the products are fresh, safe and infection-free, and had confidence that Muslims would adhere to their religious belief not to cheat.
In the Philippines, non-Muslims also tend to prefer foodstuffs stamped with the Halal logo for health reasons.
The public relations office of Victoria Foods Corporation – one of the many firms with Halal certification –claimed that an increasing number of Filipinos are becoming health-conscious. Filipinos are now looking for Halal products, which they believe to be safe, healthy and good to be consumed.
However a lot of non-Muslim consumers still view Halal labelled food products from a religious perspective. They have yet to appreciate the underlying advantages that come with Halal products which include a hygienic process Halal products have to undergo before reaching the market.
In addition to this, Halal products have to undergo a thorough inspection to ensure a clean and hygienic manufacturing process.
Halal values can be popularised among non-Muslim consumers if the society at large is made to be more aware of issues concerning health, animal rights and safety, the environment, social justice and welfare.
Most, but not all, religious diets prescribe a variety of foods on a temporal or permanent basis, and thus these diets become restrictive in nature. A survey shows that the Halal meat products are chosen by French Muslims not because of religious obligation, but consumers also believe that Halal products were tastier, healthier and the Islamic slaughter method is less painful for the animal.
Fundamental problems that arise are the different definitions of Halal food and the different perceptions among non-Muslim consumers. The Halal food chain is therefore adapting to newly emerging consumer interests like food safety, animal welfare and convenience in cooking and.
Most consumers believe that Halal and Kosher food products follow stricter safety and quality standards than non-Halal and non-Kosher products in the same category. Given the extra food safety and rigour in standards in the production of Halal and Kosher foods and with consumers responding to such food production practices, food manufacturers are considering the efficacy of expanding their marketing reach far beyond the religious rationale as profitability rests in foods designated as Halal and Kosher.
Malaysian Standard on Halal Food (MS 1500:2009) incorporates compliance with international standards of Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Hygiene Practices and prescribes practical guidelines for the food industry on the preparation and handling of Halal food (including nutrient supplements) based on quality, sanitary and safety considerations and serves as a basic requirement for food products and food trade or business in Malaysia.
Halal has now become a universal concept. Halal stands not only for just and fair business but also for animal welfare, social justice and sustainable environment. It is no longer a concept confined or restricted to the slaughtering of animals for the consumption of Muslims but encompasses products and services of the highest quality that meet the ever increasing awareness and needs of non-Muslim consumers in a demanding market. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multilingual society.
The awareness of Halal principles and Halal food products is determined by a positive attitude, the pressure of others and the perceived control. Meanwhile some perceived control factors like animal welfare do influence Halal food principles negatively.
Possibly, the importance or personal relevance attached to Halal food (especially meat products) is that the non- Muslim consumers might find the idea of Halal to be more on how the animals are slaughtered. Non-Muslims would more likely think of it as cruelty to animals, believing the animals suffer disproportionately for approximately two minutes prior to death, having allowed the slaughtered animals to bleed to death.
However, the Islamic principles of slaughtering clearly state that the knife used for slaughter must be very sharp, to ensure a quick, deep and clean cut through the vital anatomy of the neck of an animal – mainly the trachea, esophagus and major blood vessels. Meanwhile some recent studies indicate that the “Direct Method” of slaughtering an animal, which is the Islamic method of Dhabh, is more merciful compared to the conventional method in the West, whereby the animal is stunned with a “captive bolt pistol” before being slaughtered.
Efforts by the scientific community support that the Halal slaughtering method initiates massive hemorrhaging, which induces anoxia – lack of oxygen – in the brain cells, acting as a powerful painkiller.
The religious and safety concepts associated with the Halal food probably make this decision more important for consumers, which could lead to a different decision-making process, including a specific set of predictors. While the main determinants that might have positive impact or associated with
Halal principles of food products among non-Muslim is their lifestyle. We can conclude that in general, a positive personal attitude towards the consumption of Halal food, the influence of the perceived control (food safety and environmentally friendly) over consuming Halal food contribute to predicting the intended consumption of Halal food among non-Muslims.
Despite an increasing trend in attitude and intention to purchase Halal food products, there is no evidence that non- Muslim consumers are absolutely aware of underlying advantages that come with Halal food process.

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Most marine reserves are failing to protect fish any better than nearby areas, a landmark University of Tasmania-led study has found.
Researchers undertaking the largest study yet into the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) say nearly 60 per cent of them are not working effectively.
"We found little difference between fishes living in most MPAs and those in nearby fished areas, indicating that many MPAs are not achieving desired conservation outcomes," UTAS's Professor Graham Edgar said.
Just nine of 87 MPAs surveyed in 40 countries were working at the highest level, the study found.
The best reserves averaged eight times more fish and 14 times more sharks than fished areas.
They typically had well-enforced "no-take" rules, were more than 10 years old, relatively large and isolated from fished areas by deep water or sand.
"It is these kinds of MPAs that we need to create and at the same time retro-fit the existing MPAs that are unlikely to ever reach their conservation goals," Prof Edgar said.
"Given the huge changes now occurring out of sight under water, and our poor knowledge of exactly what is happening, and how best to deal with the various threats individually, the need for protected areas that safeguard whole communities of marine species has never been greater."
The six-year study used more than 100 volunteer divers to count the numbers and sizes of more than 2000 fish species.
Twenty-six Australia reserves were surveyed with only one, Middleton Reef near Lord Howe Island, working at the most effective level.
"Numbers of many Australian marine species have collapsed since European settlement, including some that have disappeared," Prof Edgar said.
"At present coastal zoning maps are confusing, with the few conservation gems hidden amongst protected areas that are ineffective because of inadequate regulations or poor enforcement."

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$39 Auction Acquisition
By JediSayia on 01 Sep 2023
There were mixed review about this fire arm online including here, but my father seeding in me a GREAT love of a bargain. Before I had a chance to field strip and CLP, I took it to the range. Obviously from storage to range, I was surprised how well it ran. There were hic-ups, but it ran and it ran well. It ran so well I sprang for another box of ammo (at range prices). I have since cleaned this little gem up with TLC & CLP... I would have paid 3X the amount for how it looks now.
I actually have the Bryco branded 380, with the all body finish like the barrel show here. I wish there were photo uploads here.
Anyway GREAT FIND!
By Bongo on 09 Sep 2020
Great little pocket pistol. First thing I did was clean up the feed ramp. I have shot over 200 times and yet to have a miss fire. That's with fmj and Hornady hollow points.
By Bongo on 10 Aug 2020
Over 500 rounds and its worked and performed great. Just remember use fmj ammunition. For the price a great little pocket pistol. I also have a JA 9 that I polished the feed ramp. It will fire any ammo you choose to use.
By Twitch on 27 Jun 2020
Love it perfect carry pistol
By tmedlin on 28 Jun 2018
Don't buy it. Not worth the small cost. I bought it for a truck gun, I still regret it. I wouldn't trust this for anything.


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Thrun led the team developing the GoogleGlass and has his share in lots of amazing things Google develops. He also led development of the robotic vehicle ‘Stanley’ which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which has since been placed on exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
Thrun is also known for his work on probabilistic programming techniques in robotics, with applications including robotic mapping. In recognition of his contributions, and at age 39, Thrun was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and also into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007. In 2011, Thrun received the Max-Planck-Research Award. and the inaugural AAAI Ed Feigenbaum Prize. Fast Company selected Thrun as the 5th most creative person in business in the world.


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Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda
As we emerged from the National Museum, we easily located the yellow high walls. We walked around the perimeter to find the entrance of the Royal Palace which was opposite the riverfront between Streets 240 and 184. It is open everyday from 7:30 to 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. It is the Residence of the King of Cambodia.
One of the mistakes we did was not hiring a tour guide. We assumed we could do it on our own, but the leaflet given at the entrance have no information about the function of each Royal Building or Structure. I know it's wrong but we sometimes pop behind a French or English tour group to eavesdrop in the hopes of getting information. So yes, please hire a guide.
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|Scale Model of Angkor Vat|
|View of the Royal Palace Gate from the Riverside|
Each royal building was surrounded by manicured gardens. The intricacy of details and murals were fascinating. Despite it being at the heart of the city, the walls buffer the sounds coming from the road. It gets really tranquil within the royal grounds.
Love & light,

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Randy M. Miller
Office: PHSC 216
Campus ZIP: 210
Department Phone: 530-898-5259
CHEM 320 Quantitative Analysis Lab
Randy Miller was born on Nov. 6, 1959 in Morton, Illinois. He attended Illinois State University where he participated in undergraduate research programs with Dr. Michael Kurz (organic) and Dr. Cheryl Stevenson (physical). He also had three different internships at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan working in latexes and resins, central research, and bioproducts. He graduated with a BS in chemistry with honors in 1981. He pursued graduate work at the University of California at Davis working with Dr. Dino Tinti on low temperature spectroscopy of small inorganic complexes. During his graduate career he received a number of teaching awards including a campuswide Outstanding Teaching Assistant award. He received his PhD in 1987. Miller continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Ken Spears at Northwestern University working on picosecond laser studies of solvent effects on photoionization reactions and electron transfer reactions in proteins.
In 1988 Miller joined the faculty at California State University, Chico. He has taught a wide range of courses including general chemistry for applied sciences, general chemistry, quantitative analysis, instrumental analysis, physical chemistry, and physical chemistry lab. Most recently he has worked with colleagues in the department, most notably Dr. David Ball, to develop and implement a new integrated laboratory sequence to replace the traditional physical, analytical, inorganic, and advanced organic laboratories. His research has continued in the use spectroscopy to probe solvent effects on simple reactions. He has constructed a small Linux cluster for performing molecular modeling studies using open-source and commercial software products. He is also involved in educational studies aimed at evaluating the correlation of laboratory modifications and overall student learning and success in general chemistry.

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Check our most recent updates about Emumita Bonita’s Estimated Net Worth, Age, Biography, Career, Height, Weight, Family, Wiki. Also learn detailed information about Current Net worth as well as Emumita Bonita’s earnings, Worth, Salary, Property, and Income.
Emumita Bonita is best known for being the wife of Nickmercs, an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and FaZe Clan Co-Owner.
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His great career as a Twitch streamer and YouTuber has netted him this much.
$1,000 as a prize. Through endorsements, fees, and sponsorships from various brands and companies, he adds to his net worth.
Nickmercs is a hardworking individual, thus his net worth and salary will undoubtedly rise in the coming years.
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Emumita Bonita: Birth, Parents, Siblings & Education
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She will be 30 years old in 2021, and her horoscope is Sagittarius. Emumita celebrates her birthday every year on November 26th.
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They exchanged wedding vows and declared themselves husband and wife in a private ceremony on October 10, 2020.
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- Emumita Bonita is best known for being the wife of American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and FaZe Clan Co-Owner.
- Nickmercs, her spouse, is expected to have a net worth of $5.5 million as of 2021.
- Emumita Bonita’s spouse, Nickmercs, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and FaZe Clan Co-Owner.
- He joined Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag’s organization, 100 Thieves, as a content creator in 2018.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
March of Dimes Thank you notes
Hey stampers! Tonight's projects are two of the cards I made for the people who donated to my March of Dimes..March for Babies walk which was the last Sunday in April. It was a 3 mile walk at Mahoney State Park in Ashland, NE. It wasn't the nicest day but my sister and I finished in a little over an hour and we weren't the last ones to cross the finish line. I had four donations for a total of $65. I didn't need to collect money because my employer donated money to cover the cost of the walkers from our company and "fund" raising for us but this is such an important cause that I felt I should try to raise additional monies. Ok, enough preaching here is the first card. I saw a card on someone's desk at work and liked the simple layout so I copied the general layout. A plain card with a splash of color. I used Very Vanilla card stock, Perfect Plum card stock and ink. I used the Oval All stamp set and the Scallop Oval punch. The ribbon on this card is something I left over and is the only non SU item. I love this ribbon because it takes on the color of the card stock that you put it against. On the Perfect Plum card stock, I stamped a couple flowers from the Awash with Flowers (which is available to all July 1st.) with Perfect Plum Ink. I adhered the Perfect Plum down the center of my card base and then stamped the "thank you" from the Oval All twice. Once on vanilla card stock with Perfect Plum ink and once on Perfect Plum card stock with the same ink. I used the Scalloped oval punch on the Perfect Plum image. On the vanilla image, I cut out around the dotted line and adhered it to the Perfect Plum oval and then popped it up on the card with dimensionals over the ribbon.
Then next card uses the same basic pattern just different papers, ribbon, and ink. On this card I used the retired Raspberry Tart Designer paper, some retired ribbon and some pink buttons that were non SU. I used the same stamp from the Oval All set and Melon Mambo ink. I popped the image with dimensionals on the designer paper. I have two more that I will show everyone tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.
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Look back Week 3, Look ahead Week 4 at Del Mar
Look back at Week Three at Del Mar
Doug O’Neill’s Wake Up Nick won the Graduation Stakes for Reddam Racing . . . Peter Miller’s Red Outlaw took the Real Good Deal Stakes for Blinkers On Stable . . . trainer John Sadler’s Iotapa won the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes for Hronis Racing. Sadler won three for the week to get to six for the meeting . . . Skyway won the Best Pal Stakes to give trainer Mark Casse his first win at Del Mar after five seconds . . . Jockey Rafael Bejarano continues to climb in the rider standings, winning a colony-high six races last week . . . apprentice rider Drayden Van Dyke, a leading candidate for the Eclipse Award for the nation’s leading apprentice jockey, won five . . . Veteran Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux won four races and leads the jockeys with 13 . . . trainer Peter Miller won three races and holds a 10-7 lead over O’Neill in the trainer standings, with Sadler, Bob Baffert and Jerry Hollendorfer at six wins . . . Friday, Saturday and Sunday were off the turf as Del Mar wrestles with deaths and injuries to horses on the turf course . . .
Look ahead to Week Four at Del Mar
The turf course will remain closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but is scheduled to re-open Saturday for racing. There won’t be any turf sprints or claiming races on the turf the remainder of the meeting. . . Stakes races include the Sorrento Wednesday for 2-year-old fillies; the Daisycutter Handicap on Friday (moved from turf to Polytrack); the La Jolla Handicap on turf Saturday; the John C. Mabee Sunday, also on the turf . . . Favorites went from winning at below 18 percent to 27.13 percent last week overall (29.29 percent on Polytrack). . . turf favorites still low, winning at just a 20 percent rate . . . jockey Tyler Baze is a new father and sits at 1,999 wins for his career . . . Gary Jones will be inducted into the Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Friday at Saratoga Race Course. Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron will introduce the son of legendary Farrell Jones, who was a dominant trainer in Southern California before retiring in 1975. Gary Jones won the initial Pacific Classic at Del Mar in 1991 with Best Pal. . . Steel Pulse plays in concert Friday night after the 4 O’Clock Friday program . . . The Grill Fest is Saturday and Counting Crows jam after racing.
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The Penticton Vees Junior A Hockey Club today (Aug. 14) announced the commitment of offensively gifted forward Matteo Costantini for the 2020-21 season.
Costantini, 17, is eligible for this year’s NHL Entry Draft, ranking 96th among North American skaters from the NHL’s Central Scouting department.
Costantini joins incoming centre Ryan McGuire as Vees players included in 2020 NHL Entry Draft rankings. McGuire sits nine spots back of Costantini at 105.
Costantini comes to Penticton after a stellar season with the Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL).
The 6’0”, 174-pound forward produced 36 goals and 32 assists for 68 points in 50 games during the 2019-20 campaign while adding 2 goals and 8 assists for 10 points in 6 playoff games.
The St. Catharines, Ontario native earned many accolades in his first season of junior hockey, winning the OJHL’s Rookie of the Year and Top Prospect Award while being selected to the OJHL’s Second All-Star team.
Costantini has shown his natural scoring ability all throughout his hockey career, scoring 34 goals and 35 assists for 69 points with the Buffalo Jr. Sabres U16 AAA squad before making the leap to Junior hockey.
The Vees are set to begin practice in September while the BCHL has set Dec. 1 as a tentative start date to the season.


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Online group discount Website Groupon said on Wednesday that it has acquired three deal websites in Asia, expanding the company's reach across East and Southeast Asia.
Groupon Inc, which is rumored to be close to being bought by Google Inc, acquired uBuyiBuy, Beeconomic and Atlaspost for undisclosed terms. Atlaspost had more 1.2 million users in Taiwan, Groupon said.
Groupon sends its members daily e-mails with details of discounts for 200 goods and services. The deals are activated only when a minimum number of people agree to make a purchase, giving Groupon the clout to negotiate steep group discounts on products and services.
The three companies, active in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore would transition to the Groupon brand in a few months, it said.
Groupon also launched Groupon Hong Kong, Groupon Singapore and Groupon Philippines and Groupon Taiwan on Wednesday.
"We see enormous potential in the Asian marketplace," Groupon President Rob Solomon said in a statement.
Groupon's global network has more than 33 million subscribers in 35 countries.

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4 min read.Updated: 29 Apr 2021, 06:08 AM ISTAkancha Singh,Nand Lal Mishra
Calculations that account for how exposed people are to covid risks show our distribution of jabs has been highly lopsided
As India surpassed the 300,000 mark of daily cases in April 2021, a political brawl broke out between the Union government and some states over an alleged shortage of vaccines. This is adding to a series of setbacks in India’s tryst with covid. Health ministers of several states have accused the Centre of limiting supplies to their states. The issue is especially pertinent because of a lack of transparency at a time India needs vaccine allocations based on an effective and efficient scientific formula. The current formula of vaccine distribution among states is not clear. It is crucial to use scientific calculations that are transparent and take covid severity into account. To that end, we have worked out an integrated formula that acknowledges six predictors of disease severity and assigns equal weightage to each.
The need and allocation of vaccines across states depend on their population size, exposure and vulnerability to the pandemic. We have used a set of six indicators, covering three dimensions: demography, severity of the current wave, and vulnerability to infection. All three are given equal weights in order to compute an aggregate score that is nothing but a proposed share of vaccines to be provided to a state or Union territory (UTs).
The demographic dimension is measured by the proportion of India’s population aged 45 or above across states and UTs. The severity aspect of it is covered by the percentage distribution of total confirmed cases and deaths attributed to covid over the two weeks till 22 April, while vulnerability is estimated on the basis of three indicators: share of the population aged 45 and above with multi-morbid conditions, proportion of the rural population not covered by community health centres (CHCs), and the percentage distribution of India’s urban population across states and UTs.
A wide range of literature suggests that a higher share of urban dwellers and older people with multi-morbidity conditions, combined with lack of access to quality healthcare, tends to increase the vulnerability of infections and deaths attributed to Sars-CoV-2. Data for the first five indicators was obtained from Population Projections for India, Longitudinal Ageing in India Study and National Family Health Survey reports. The rural population uncovered by CHCs is calculated based on standards prescribed by the National Health Mission (NHM), by obtaining the state-wise number of CHCs from the Rural Health Statistics report of 2019-20, and the rural population total from the Population Projections for India and States report. As per NHM norms, one CHC is supposed to serve 120,000 people in the plains and 80,000 people in hilly/tribal areas. For states with a significant combination of plains and hilly/tribal areas, we have considered a threshold of 100,000 people to be covered by a CHC. If a rural population exceeds the product of the number of CHCs and standard population covered by a CHC, it is defined as a rural population not covered by CHCs.
According to this proposed formula, the top five states that seem to be in dire need of vaccines are Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar and West Bengal. As an aggregate, these five states should be receiving 50% of India’s total vaccines, given the high vulnerability in these states; however, the latest figures of first vaccine dosage indicate that they have received only about 37% of the total. This points to inequality in distribution, and the rising fatality count each passing day leaves no room for error.
Moving on to individual states, Delhi and Maharashtra are getting only 56% and 57% of the proposed share, indicative of a massive deficit in vaccination coverage. Likewise, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Bihar have a coverage deficit of 30% by our formula. On the other hand, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and West Bengal are receiving ideal shares to ensure appropriate vaccine coverage. Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Haryana, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Gujarat have had a relatively higher share of vaccination. In contrast, larger states such as Odisha and Rajasthan and smaller states like Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Sikkim are receiving a far greater proportion of doses, 200% or more of their proposed share.
Distribution within states can also be computed using similar criteria, assessing the spread and severity of the pandemic in various cities, to administer vaccines accordingly. It may be noted that the proposed formula here allocates vaccines based on the severity of the pandemic over the two weeks before 22 April in a particular state. These values need to be updated every week and the allocation of vaccines changed accordingly.
Also, considering the allowances for younger age groups, the demographic factor can be modified accordingly to get respective values.
Lastly, vaccines must be utilized to their maximum capacity without any wastage. In Italy, positive behaviour vis-a-vis vaccines was seen during its first phase of heightened risk and fear; however, its residents developed hesitancy and doubts about vaccination over time. Hence, given the current covid surge in India, it is essential to have a well-equipped system covering as much of the population with doses as possible. The government needs to devise a sharper strategy for its immunization programme so that it encourages more people to get jabs, especially the most vulnerable, and results in minimum wastage.
Akancha Singh & Nand Lal Mishra are doctoral fellows at International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai
Alka Chauhan and Bishwajeet Besra, research graduates from IIPS, contributed to this column.


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Marina stood knee-deep in the snow, watching Ilya’s ghost brush the snow from his corpse. She watched the look of shock come over the apparition’s face. She’d hoped that, with Timmo gone, she’d been done dealing with monsters and spirits.
But Ilya had apparently followed them home. It had taken weeks for her to realize that the strange force knocking things over, occasionally blocking her doorway or even trapping her places, was actually a thing. It had taken her longer to see Ilya’s face, and longer still to hear the spirit speak – a whisper that she could only hear because she was listening for it.


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ST JOSEPH'S Hall was packed when over 200 youngsters from the Nowt2Do? project showcased their talents in Leigh.
Wednesday evening began with a film produced by Nowt2Do? Film Club at Fred Longworth High School, Tyldesley that highlighted some of the difficulties young people face and how the Nowt2Do? Project can help by creating diversionary activities.
Vocalists Emma Baird and Kieran Hollingsworth sang solo and dance groups performed over routines including a solo performance by Danielle Pollitt-Walmsley.
The Nowt2Do? Project instigator, PC Andy Wright, the school based Police officer for Fred Longworth High School, explained: "All the activities are free of charge and include football, dance, drama, film club, rockskool, samba band, model plane flying club, table tennis, badminton and more.
"The project started as a 10 week trial in January 2009 and has been running ever since such is the demand."
PC Wright also runs the project from St Mary's Catholic High School, Bedford High School and Westleigh High School.
The Nowt2Do? Project is all about prevention, early intervention and reducing anti-social behaviour by some young people.
PC Wright said: "The show was amazing, It's wonderful to see so many young people enjoying themselves. Lets get young people engaged in safe, meaningful activities at an early age. Let's also demonstrate that the majority of our young people are not causing problems in the community."


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Waukesha, DNR, Roll The Dice On Great Lakes Water
The City of Waukesha is about to send its answers to a lengthy list of questions received from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on December 2nd so the agency could fully review the City's application for a diversion of Lake Michigan water.
Waukesha's Common Council approved the application last April, so it has taken Waukesha a year to finish curing the application's initial deficiencies. A DNR-produced environmental impact statement, various hearings, and questions about the diversion's return flow route must be addressed fully if the application moves outside of Wisconsin for additional reviews with the DNR's imprimatur.
The diversion application is the first for a community that is entirely outside the Great Lakes basin made under a new, eight-state regional Compact, so the process in Wisconsin - - how the DNR constructs the review as well as its outcome - - is being watched carefully by state regulators and conservationists from Minnesota to New York state.
Winning a diversion is no easy matter, as the Compact manages a complex, collaborative framework designed to preserve the world's largest supply of fresh surface water.
Diversions are to be exceptions that meet high hurdles.
To be implemented, a diversion application needs the advice of two Canadian provinces, input from First Nation tribes and finally the unanimous approval of all eight Great Lakes states' Governors. A separate negotiation for the actual sale and delivery of water by pipeline through a lakefront supplier, like the City of Milwaukee, would be the final piece of the puzzle.
I posted the DNR's list of questions on more than one occasion - - sample here - - and noted recently that sources were reporting that the pro-business, anti-regulatory Scott Walker-led DNR was now fast-tracking the review.
The City's Water Utility Commission chairman reported at a public meeting in December that he'd just talked to incoming Governor Scott Walker, and Walker seemed to understand Waukesha's needs.
I also noted the recent refusal of the the smaller, more rural Town of Waukesha to agree to be included in the application's water service delivery map - - a document drawn up by the Southeastern Regional Planning Commission and placed by the City in the diversion application without the input of the Town.
The Town and City have been slugging it out in court over water policy, and the Town has made it clear it's not rolling over just because the Big City has come at the 11th hour and suggested the Town agree to stay in the map.
With that as the backdrop, it seems there is more evidence that the DNR is fast-tracking the application, essentially saying that the City can proceed without the smaller community's participation.
The source of this information?
The City of Waukesha's Water Utility general manager, Dan Duchniak.
He told the online publication WaukeshaPatch that the City and the DNR are not going to wait for the Town to decide whether it wants to be included in the map.
You could argue that the application remains incomplete and thus vulnerable to rejection by one or more of the other states without it, but Patch reports:
“The DNR and I had decided that we would continue with the application as is,” Duchniak said. “In the event that they do not want to be included in this, we would just remove it.”My take: I doubt that the Town will appreciate being dissed like this.
And I doubt the other states will welcome an application with such an obvious omission, or the intent to plug it later, as well as a review process approved by the DNR with such a cavalier approach to the Compact's procedures.
The disputed water service map increases the City's water service territory by 80%, making the City look like it wants to use the Compact as a means to expand beyond its current borders and accelerate growth.
Remember, it's primarily a water stewardship plan and structure, not a way to fuel sprawl and give one jurisdiction in the Great Lakes a water-induced economic advantage.
Some commentary here.
So is this smart politics? Clever strategy? Over-reaching?
The DNR has a website devoted to the application process.
Just which governor of which state is going to veto the diversion? Kasich? Strickland? Pawlenty?
Still not convinced someone's got our back.
In Michigan, we're watching the process of developing an application by Waukesha. Circumvention to fast track the defined process suggests insincerity to the true need for a new water supply. Noted for the record.
Pawlenty is no longer gov of MN--Mark Dayton is the new guy.
Looking for a veto? Think Patrick Quinn of IL, Dayton of MN, Snyder of MI, Cuomo of NY, or all four. Kasich and Strickland seem more interested in clinging to the pockets of Big Biz --that's an obvious conclusion from their short track records and stances on collective bargaining.
Glad to see you're seeing through the Waukesha-Madision BS in Michigan, Anonymous. You're gonna have to work overtime to keep up.
Reliance on other states to veto Waukesha's application exemplifies how far Wisconsin's once-proud tradition of protecting our natural resources has fallen.
Where other states used to look to us for leadership, we're now hoping they'll take pity and get us out of our jam. Sad, sad, sad.
Pawlenty is no longer gov of MN--Mark Dayton is the new guy.
True -- thanks for catching that -- totally sleep-deprived when I posted: and it's Snyder in Michigan, who will NOT veto the diversion.
Dayton is the best shot, but who's to say he won't be under unprecedented pressure from major players not to veto? Let's get a public commitment.
Quinn is a possible, but most of Chicago is outside the basin and always has had a diversion question; further, the metro region faces major supply problems going forward. Can't rely on Illinois.
I'd never rely on Cuomo or NYS in general; that'd be a bad gamble at best. There's never any guarantee they'll see our interests as mutual or intertwined, even on or especially on Great Lakes issues.
So it's Mark Dayton or nobody -- and I strongly suggest we get a message through to Gov. Dayton to get him on the record, secure a commitment and pull him firmly into our corner on this. Because you KNOW there're bound to be other interests pulling on him to do X for the sake of Y. So for us to assume Dayton or somebody's just gonna step forward and veto any diversion without us even communicating with him, when we have nothing really to base that on, is just foolhardy.
Remember, there are major players such as the Brookings Institute offering remarkably unintelligent advice to Michigan and the Great Lakes region about how to rebuild the economy in the industrial heartland: build on water.
You're making an assumption that the citizens of the City of Waukesha want to go into debt to pay for the cost of constructing a supply and return line to obtain Lake Michigan water that it would double or triple a residential water bill as reported in the Waukesha Patch article. Add to that the cost for the water, sewerage treatment, maintenance of the system, fees for water rights, and unrelated costs associated with Milwaukee Resolution 080457. Plain and simple, Waukesha will be a dying city if the cost of living continues to grow. For the record, I received my reassessment in the mail this weekend. My property (my investment in this community) dropped 8%. I assure you, the poor in Waukesha cannot afford this boondoggle to benefit Waukesha County builders.
After reading the WaukeshaPatch article, the Town of Waukesha would be nuts to get on board with this pipe dream. If the City connects to a Lake Michigan source, the shallow wells are projected to increase in capacity to the benefit of the town residents. What's the incentive that Mr. Duchniack is so seemingly smug about. Is the city planning to annex the town anyway?
I think it's a mistake to look at this as a partisan matter. Eash state has a culture to satisfy.
In Michigan, for example, the opposition to diversions is traditional, and bi-partisan. A Republican, Hohn Engler, vetoed a diversion to Lowell, IN some years ago when Lowell made a case very similar to Waukesha's.
Google Engler Lowell water, or read this section of Peter Annin's book water wars:
I agree with James, Rich, that Gov Snyder would be a veto. But why do you think otherwise? Maybe you have info we don't have? Cuomo doesn't seem interested right now in anything but the state budget issues, however, once his attention is obtained, he could very well be like our friend, Anonymous, able to cut through the BS and veto this dog.
Anonymous 8:02 pm: I DON'T think Waukesha residents will want to accept the millions of dollars in future commitments, however, they've been fed a lot of misinformation by the spinners at the Water Utility and the Common Council and most of the relatively informed think a diversion is a good thing and a necessary thing.
They've been told that federal dollars will help hold down costs, and secretly the Utility plans to add the towns of Brookfield, Waukesha, and Genesse, the Village of Wales, and City of Delafield in the future, to spread out the costs of infrastructure.
With 2/3 of the Common Council enthusiastically in favor of diversion, residents will not be able to stop it. This train has not only left the station, it's free of city confines and is picking up speed.
Elections matter: even aldermanic ones.
Will they also add the City of Pewaukee since the NW corner of the SEWRPC boundries for the service area include a Pewaukee subdivision south of I-94. I know this subdivision currently has Waukesha sewer service.
It seems logical that the Water Utility needs these community property values to make this thing fly. Most likely it will be funded based on "Sewer Wars" formulation by MMSD where the Falls lost. The City Administrator, Lori Luther, has said nothing about how she expects the community to structure repayment of the muni bonds.
I can't wait to see how the utility is going to circumvent statutes requiring public hearings to be held for each community included in the SEWRPC boundries without being asked AND without representation on the Waukesha Water Utility Board.
I would expect lawsuits to start flying very soon. If laws are not followed prior to filing the application again.aulce
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One of the more admittedly colourful games shown during the PC Gaming Show today was the turn-based strategy game Fae Tactics – published by Humble Bundle and developed by Endlessfluff Games.
Although the focus was on the PC release (arriving this summer), we’re here to remind any fans of this type of game that it’ll also be coming to the Nintendo Switch at a later date. Here’s an update on how the Switch port is going:
Switch Port!…and all of the required optimization for it! It’s been a loooong time but all the optimization has made a tremendous improvement. Even the graphics have improved because some graphics were replaced with shaders and well, shaders are very pretty. They are light and fluffy
And here’s the latest “summer 2020” announcement trailer along with a bit about the gameplay:
In Fae Tactics, follow a young magic-user named Peony on her journey across a vibrant world full of mystery and danger. Summon allies, cast spells, and befriend a motley crew of characters as you dive into the growing conflicts between man and magical beings known as fae.
Does this look like your kind of game? Leave a comment down below.


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Tested has another great episode of their talk show where Adam Savage, Will Smith and Norm Chan discuss building an inexpensive toolkit for beginner makers. By “maker”, they mean someone doing small-scale fabrication of wood, various metals and plastics, some fabric and leather, model-making, and a bit of electronics, so really, it’s great advice for beginning prop makers as well. You can either watch a video or listen to a podcast of the show, which runs about 41 minutes long. They have also written down the list of tools they suggest, though it’s a good idea to listen to the show because they talk aboutÂ how to buy tools andÂ why you should get certain tools as well.
In case you missed it, I came acrossÂ The Painters Journal, a publication about scenic art that ran from 2003-2010. All 22 issues are available online to read. Scenic art deals with paints, coatings, texture and sometimes even sculpting, so many of the articles are invaluable to props people as well.
Make Magazine has posted ten tips for using a circular saw. They’re all pretty good, though I would add that hearing protection should be worn too, as circ saws are almost always loud little beasts. A dust mask is usually a good idea as well.
I liked this recent article about Nick Ruiz, a theatre carpenter in the San Jose area. It’s simple and probably familiar to a lot of us in the industry, but stories like this are so rarely written.
And just a reminder that you have less than a month to enter the Prop Building Guidebook Contest! Surely you have a photograph of a prop you’ve built, and who doesn’t want a grab-bag of prop making supplies? The entries I’ve received so far look fantastic, so thanks to everyone who has already submitted.


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14 July 11 - Sadly - the cilantro in the garden has started to flower and turn to coriander. Especially sad since the only red tomatoes that we've had so far have been eaten by what I suspect is a racoon or exceptionally tall squirrel. Oh well, the flowers are pretty.
Been a while since I posted to the daily's been working on photos from a family shoot I did for some friends, hope to share a couple of those soon. Hope everyone is well.

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Welcome to the 100 Word Stories podcast at oneadayuntilthedayidie.com.
This is the Weekly Challenge, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic.
We’ve got stories by:
W. C. Fields, a notorious enthusiast of alcohol, said he didn’t drink water because “Fish f*** in it.” True, but the rest of us don’t mind drinking it if it doesn’t have any additives…like too much chlorine, or fluorides.
I filter all my drinking water for the dogs and myself by using canisters of finely granulated, activated charcoal. Activated charcoal is charcoal that has been heated or otherwise treated to increase its adsorptive power.
I keep pitchers of filtered water on the counter for tea and soup, and a big one in the fridge for cold drinks.
Filter your water.
As a youngster, I used to swim a lot. I swam in public pools, home pools, canals, rivers, creeks, lakes, oceans, and the bathtub. I spent more time under the water than on the surface.
When my cousins came over to swim in our pool when I was in grammar school, I spent the majority of the time under the water admiring the coordinated arms and legs of the girls swimming above.
I confess, I did a lot of watching, and the only touching I did was to myself after they left for the day.
At 88, I still swim.
Water has always been something I have been captivated and enamored with. When a person in a film pours a tall glass of water, drinking it with detachment and showing pleasure, I am very attentive and compelled to do the same at my first opportunity.
Pouring a glass of clear, cool water from a large glass pitcher or a heavy, ceramic container after I’ve gone to the kitchen after a few hours in the summer sun in the garden, is a pleasure without measure.
We take clean drinking water for granted. One in six people do not have this luxury.
Dihydrogen Monoxide… Awful stuff.
So corrosive, it can eat through solid steel and carve its way through rock.
Just a teaspoonful inhaled can kill; you can’t breathe it; and long term exposure causes muscle cramps, exhaustion, delirium and ultimately, death!
It destroys property and wrecks the environment… And that’s just the liquid form. As a solid, it’s treacherous; and in gaseous form it causes pain, blistering and burns.
More addictive than crack cocaine, one hundred percent of people can’t live without it, letting it into their homes without a second thought.
This vile substance must be banned, with immediate effect!
She put the baby’s corpse in the pillowcase, duct-taped it shut, and then tied the end to a cinderblock.
The fishing boat could get out to where the water was deep enough.
“It’s a science project,” she said. “Currents and stuff.”
“Whatever,” said the boat’s owner. “Seventy bucks cash.”
Two miles out, the boat had engine trouble.
“We’ve got to head back,” said the captain.
“I guess this will do,” she said, pushing the pillowcase over the side, and she was an only child again.
All she had to do was think up a good story.
She’d Google for one.
by Jeffrey Fischer
People always complain about water. Too little and it’s a drought. Farmers moan about lost crops, homeowners complain about brown lawns and use restrictions. Too much and farmers complain about lost crops, homeowners complain about mildew in basements and flooded roads. We worry that foreign water will cause diarrhea. We complain about taste, color, minerals. That’s the nature of life, I guess.
I thought about those petty whines after my ill-fated skid off the road, as the last few feet of the passenger cabin of my car filled with lake water. Gross, tastes brackish.
Water… It’s wonderful stuff. Readily available, cheap and plentiful, safe to use, but tremendously effective. It’s so much better than many, more obvious, methods.
Take waterboarding, for instance – such a simple technique, but incredibly effective. Quick, easy, and straightforward.
Or if you’re in no hurry and want to enjoy the process, why not go for the good, old fashioned, Chinese water torture? Who would have thought that the simple, steady, drip, drip, drip – inescapable and unforgiving – could break even the strongest will?
And the best thing of all?
Torture can be thirsty work… But not any more!
Best Laid Plans
The water was still, not a rip lapped the bank. The silver dollar moon mirrored the surface caught the monster’s eye. With an effortless flick of a gnarled claw a small form shattered the moons continence and dropped below the approaching waves. It smiled a smile less triumphant, primal, rimming the edge of some deep millennial evil. Heavy legs moved off towards the village. Innocence in slumber would wake to the corruptible agent of their departure from this world. It licked the nail of a claw with perverse joy. It was only then it saw the flaming sword of justice.
I’ve heard it said that in the desert you can’t remember your name. That seemed silly, but after a couple of weeks of wandering I had found it to be true. Your thoughts are filled with sun and sand. Your mind stops noticing the heat and pain at some point and you just keep moving.
I thought I’d started hallucinating, but as I got close there was a man crawling across the sand. He reached out a bony hand to me.
“Walter, Walter. Please Walter.”
How the hell did this guy know my name? I turned around and started running.
Billbert explained Roderick’s prank to the coach.
In an unprecedented break from character, Coach Slaughterball wrote a note and said, “I’m sorry that happened to you. Boys your age can be cruel. Take this excuse to the attendance office so you don’t get in trouble for being late.”
Billbert stood, took the note, and stepped around a puddle of water on the floor.
“What would be more embarrassing than slipping in water while wearing a plastic grocery bag?” He thought.
He found out when the PE class ran through the locker room on their way to the outdoor basketball courts.


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Memory Box is the latest film by Lebanese artist duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, bringing together years of artistic experimentation, personal archives, and research on the production of images from the Lebanese Civil War. The film was the first motion picture to represent Lebanon at the 71st Berlinale in four decades.
In limited VOD and in theatres as follows: Louvre, Paris, June 19 • Lebanese Film Festival, Ottawa, June 20 • Soeurs Jumelles, Rochefort, June 22 • Beirut Cinema Days, July 3rd • Zawya Cinema, Cairo, from July 15th • Walker Art Center, September 28th • Mizna Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, September 28th-October 2nd
Memory Box (2021), the most recent cinematic effort by Lebanese filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, is a film rich in imagery about the Lebanese Civil War. But violent conflict is not its central theme. Ultimately, it is a film about the transmission of memory across generations, what happens when memory becomes interrupted, and the lengths that people go to in order to either restart or halt this process. The plot is deceptively simple:
Set in present day Montreal, a teenage girl, Alex (played by Paloma Vauthier), lives with her mother Maia, and grandmother, affectionately called Téta in Arabic. On Christmas Eve, a mysterious delivery arrives, it’s a box containing Maia’s notebooks, tapes and photographs sent during the war years to her childhood friend Liza in Paris. But both Maia (played as an adult by Rim Turkhi) and her mother (Clémence Sabbagh), are afraid of the painful memories that the notebooks might reveal, and they forbid Alex from looking into the contents of the box.
“The bombing lasted all week. We had to flee the school.” This is what Maia Abboud (played by Manal Issa), the teenage protagonist from Beirut, tells her friend Liza Haber, in June 1982, in a recorded tape that traveled from Lebanon to France, alongside the notebooks, letters and photographs that capture that moment in time. We know the larger events of 1982 — the siege of Beirut which took place in the summer that year, resulting from the end of a ceasefire previously brokered by the United Nations. The ring around Beirut closed in by June 13th, a week after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Syrian forces were isolated inside the city. Maia’s narration continues: “That night, things went wild. The city was in flames. Shelling and fires, like in a movie.”
Soon thereafter, the city can be seen from above, in blurry archival images, beset by explosions.
However, this story is both less and more than a fiction, as some of the notebooks originally belonged to Hadjithomas. She offers us details about this mysterious archive and the role the notebooks played in the making of the film:
“It all started when I retrieved notebooks, letters and audiotapes I sent to my best friend in the 1980s. She had to leave Lebanon with her family, because of the Civil War and I stayed there. So, we promised to write to each other every day. And we did so, every single day from 1982 to 1988. And then at some point, we lost contact for more than 25 years. Then, one day, she came to the opening of one of [mine and Khalil’s] exhibitions in Paris. We met again and decided to exchange our notebooks. Suddenly, I had, in my hands, all these incredible stories I had forgotten. I read and listened to everything. Our daughter, Alya, was then my age when I wrote to my friend, wanted to read them. Khalil and I thought that it was not a very good idea for her to do so, but we immediately saw the possibility of a film.”
Predictably for the plot of a film, Alex decides to dig in, and the notebooks reveal to her a world that had remained hidden until then — the intoxicating years of the war, both exhilarating, and terrifying. She reads and hears about her mother’s first love: “This is the best day of my life.” Her mother Maia and her grandmother [Téta] had kept all the details about their past in Lebanon a secret. This unlicensed expedition into the past leads to an inevitable confrontation with Maia, in the aftermath of which there’s truth-telling, reconciliation and eventually a journey back to Beirut, in order to attend a mass in memory of Maia’s friend Liza, who has died in the interim. It’s also Maia’s first confrontation with the ghosts of the past, and the details are too beautiful to be written down here, they must be left for the viewers of the film to discover. However ordinary this plot might seem (other Lebanese films adopt a similar narrative technique), or how accessible it is to an unprepared viewer, it is yet the elegant visual storytelling of Hadjithomas and Joreige where the real magic happens.
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As contemporary artists, Hadjithomas and Joreige have spent the last two decades excavating Lebanon’s recent memory landscape inside out—across cinema, photography, archival research and multilinear narratives drawn from archaeology, literature and politics, and Memory Box is replete with subtle references to their previous works. When Alex begins to unpack her mother’s secret correspondence, she gazes incidentally upon what seems to be nothing but a contact print from an analog camera roll, containing nondescript images of the destruction in Beirut, as Maia tells her faraway friend: “Beirut is so destroyed… Liza, you wouldn’t recognize it”. The print is in fact a section from one of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s early semi-architectural photography series, The Archaeology of Our Gaze (1997), shot from the debris of buildings in Beirut, in an attempt to process fragments of a postwar city when the context has gone missing and the viewer can no longer recognize the original source.
Their engagement with archaeology starts out in this series of semi-architectural photographs, but continues in the following decades with larger narratives, such as the complex processes of archaeological timescales, or the relations of continuity between the ancient past and the political present. Yet, what the artist duo is searching for in archaeology—which immediately connects with the process and medium of their latest film, is not necessarily the past, but new possibilities on how lived time can be described, narrated and recorded. Khalil Joreige tells in an interview from 2012: “Archaeology here is interesting in the way that it forbids you to give any definition of a place because it is structured in time across different times.”
Flocks of birds fly in slow motion across a pristine blue sky, suddenly interrupted at night by the sounds of fire. These poisoned images blend with one another, and cross temporalities, while personal memories become estranged from one another. The carnage of war is too brutal here to be treated à part in aesthetic terms. This violent world is above all one of suffering, beyond any redemption.
In a recent conversation from Beirut, Joreige told us about the relationship between personal archives and cinema in their work: “We often start from something very personal to us, from our own archives, or from an encounter, and then we start researching. In [the film] A Perfect Day (2005), it was the story of the kidnapping of my maternal uncle who is one of the 17,000 missing persons in Lebanon who never returned. And in I Want To See (2008), it was our reaction to the July 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, and the question of what images and cinema can do in these moments. Here we had extraordinarily detailed material. We were interested in making it into a fiction because we had to get away from the personal aspect of it. We decided to work with a scriptwriter who did not know Lebanon, and who had never lived through a civil war. Multiple axes were of our interest: the transmission between three generations and in parallel, yesterday’s correspondence with today.”
Referring to Memory Box Joreige continued, “The notebooks are seen through Alex’s eyes, a young girl who reinterprets the life of her teenage mother between imagination and reality. To do this, she relies on photographs, most of which I took in the 1980s in Beirut and the 10,000 photos we had to take for the film, in order to reconstruct everything. We wanted to add a visual dimension based on the photos I had taken in the course of my adolescence in Beirut, during the same timeframe. We each had expressed ourselves through the medium of our choice available at the time, through our individual passion. It seemed important for us to establish the same dialogue. We combined the two archives, our two stories.”
In this confusion of images from the present mixed with memories from the past, remembrance can become unstable. Yet the vividness of young Maia’s world, a chaotic universe of violence and disaster, punctuated by love and dreams, by pop music and friendship, is constructed with such intensity of experience that the temporal distance from the viewer breaks down, and you can almost taste a chronic despair mixed with unending desire.
Maia shares her traumatic experience, which culminated in an escape to Canada via Cyprus, with her daughter: “From that point on, I don’t know. I can’t remember. I don’t really remember things. Sometimes I feel that I reinvent things. I don’t know what’s real or false.” Young Maia, obsessed with photography, snaps her last picture of Beirut from the distance, on a ship to safety: “And my world vanished forever.” Yet a dark secret remains untold.
The artists’ previous films about Lebanon reappear in Memory Box as visual or textual quotations, creating a thread of continuity over time. While recounting her final years in Beirut, Maia utters the following sentence: “We were all looking for something we’d lost.” This is paraphrasing directly from A Perfect Day (2005), an elegiac film about intentional amnesia and lost love. A number of visual allegories reappear here as well from other films: fleeting lights signalling reconciliation with tragedy or the long shots of the Beirut corniche, symbolizing open-ended hope. The artist Rabih Mroué, protagonist and narrator of I Want To See, returns to Memory Box, in the similarly enigmatic role of Raja, the long lost love of Maia’s youth.
The transtemporal knots between different junctures of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s work, their archives, cinematic eyes, and conversations with others, are so many that they cannot be mapped out accurately, without falling into a circle of confusion—the title of an earlier photographic work of theirs, reading Beirut as a body that is in perpetual mutation and movement.
For those familiar with their work, one of the most fascinating narrative moments in Memory Box is the animated scenes, in which the photographic images of Maia’s Beirut, become slowly burned on the edges, as the war begins to slowly consume the city. I believe this is a reference to “Postcards of War” (1997-2006), part of the project Wonder Beirut, consisting of a selection of touristic images of Beirut taken between 1968 and 1969, by a fictional photographer, portraying the Beirut Central District, the Lebanese Riviera and its luxury hotels; an idyllic, glamorized idea of Lebanon in the 1960s. The images were then burned by the photographer himself between 1975 and 1990, following the shelling and destruction caused by the war in these locations. These burned marks represent, once again, the potential collapse of historical imagery, their potential obsolescence.
However, the topic of transmission from grandmother to mother to daughter is indeed the most crucial aspect of the film. Each of the three tells her own story but at the same time weaves into the others. Following the cycle of life, one allows the dead to take the place of the living, and the other way around. In this process they become able to see through each other. But what happens to this transmission when the chains of images, meanings and experiences that create bonds have been torn apart? If the image loses its focus, and its context becomes ambiguous or goes missing, the bond cannot be reconstructed.
Yet images and personal stories are not a series of freeze frames, and this is where the process of transmission that Joreige told us about, encounters his idea of archaeology: According to contemporary archaeologists, every site is the accumulation of continuous activity, with each event partially or wholly erasing traces of earlier events. Thus, our present is always replete with pasts mixing and folding together. Gérard Chouqer coined the neologism transformission, to refer to the mutually constitutive and simultaneous process of transmission and transformation. Transmission as transformission means for us here, that the past is not a fossil abandoned to empty time, but something that is actively modified and changed over time, while it simultaneously gives structure to our present selves.
Near the end of the film, when Alex and Maia arrive in Beirut, the grandmother calls on the phone and tells her granddaughter: “Alex, listen, sweetheart, take photos of Beirut for me and of the sun too. Don’t forget the sun!” This otherwise casual request would go unnoticed, except that the sun is a central figure for Hadjithomas and Joreige. It is at the very heart of their ongoing project “I Stared at Beauty So Much.” The sun was also a central feature in one of their major exhibitions, “Two Suns in a Sunset” (2016), first shown at the Sharjah Art Foundation, in which they moved away from the literalism of political narratives and positioned themselves towards the light, towards the sun, and began to speculate on other possibilities of history: Would it change if we narrated it differently? Can poetry help us make sense of disaster without radical defeat?
Hadjithomas told me in an interview we did at the time in Dubai: “When you superimpose so many temporalities, so many images, little by little, there is a kind of duplicity, so you have many suns appearing. Things were happening to some people; this idea of multiple suns when you feel this chaotic time. It’s not only what’s happening to men; it’s affecting nature, it’s affecting the universe, and it’s affecting everything.”
The sun is the deciding element in the plot resolution of Memory Box but it doesn’t bring any closure — it is just the remote possibility of light that stands in its place. In between so many apocalypses and disasters, Hadjithomas tells us now in recent conversations where the multiple suns have gone six years later:
“We finished shooting the film in May 2019, and started editing it in the midst of a revolution, in the autumn of the same year. A revolution against the corrupt and criminal leaders and against the banking system that has taken the Lebanese people hostage. Of course, this resonates in a tragic way, like a terrifying mirror, with many pages from my notebooks that are quoted in the film and which echo the violence of the war, the current devaluation of the Lebanese pound, the insecurity, the despair and the systemic collapse of the country; the temptation and sometimes even the terrible obligation of exile. And then there’s the tragic explosion of August 4th, which destroyed a third of the city, and a part of our lives. Everyone feels all the more strongly belonging to cycles of destruction and reconstruction, a perpetual cyclical motion. The film’s ending, with the idea of the sun setting and rising again, and thus the start of new beginnings, bright moments alternating with dark ones. But there’s something permanent, unchanging, like a cycle, after each catastrophe, there’s a regeneration. After each disaster, perhaps one can hope for a renewal. You can see the sun setting or rising. It’s a continuous cycle.”
Upon her return to Beirut, Maia is faced with a Beirut that is new—the central district has been reconstructed and in the process, her family home has vanished to make place for a luxury building. We as viewers know that it is also just about to be destroyed once again. And through this conspicuous knowledge, the light of the sun becomes doubly haunting. It’s almost as if we don’t want to see it, as if we don’t want to accept that this beauty is possible at all. But in spite of the redemptive promise of this metaphor, Maia doesn’t find closure—her home has been destroyed and they’re unable to locate the graves of her father and brother in the cemetery. Maybe it’s better to not find closure at a time like this, before another fall? Yet, the artists remain convinced of the power of human encounters.
Hadjithomas concludes our most recent conversation:
“The end of the film appears since then as a dream, a kind of science fiction; the dream of a return to the community, to a country that has been rebuilt in order to be destroyed again today. And again, as in the film, exile is at the centre of our lives. The last part of the film also tells the fantasy of a return at a time when the majority of people of all generations are leaving the country. It’s true that Maia does not find her home, nor the graves of her brother and father, nor the Beirut she once knew. But in a small country, some reunions are possible, like the one with her friends of yesterday, with her great love Raja, their ties are renewed despite the lost youth. Maia finds again loved faces, an energy, just for one evening, just one… Like a parenthesis. When Maia returns to Beirut, there’s a confrontation between fantasy, imagination, memories and the present. This confrontation opens a new relation to a past history, yet without resolving it. The past is evasive, slipping away. However, there was a transmission and a form of reconciliation. There was the possibility to relieve some of the grief, and to become receptive to the joy of being reunited. The film also relates a return to the present once the past has been evoked, unearthed, and brought out of its latency. It is a political and vital choice to be able to not end a film from the region in a dramatic way even if the tragic violence and chaos eventually catch up with us. In the profound distress that is ours, we can’t give in to absolute despair, as we so desperately need light. Indeed, There will be light promises a song at the end of the film…”

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Backyard barbecues are staples on the Fourth of July and just about any summer weekend. In our house, they present the opportunity to enjoy the smoky taste of salmon grilled on soaked cedar planks or burgers cooked with applewood flavored chips (is anyone else getting hungry?). It’s a great way to cook dinner without heating up the kitchen and lower level of the house.
The grill is a working parent’s best friend in the summer, and efficiency is one of the things my family loves most about grilling dinner. In the time it takes to run out to a drive-thru and back, we can grill burgers and several ears of corn while roasting rosemary and garlic potatoes. (If you’ve never had them, they’re amazing … feel free to ask me for the recipe.) As a bonus, my family eats a meal that’s much healthier than one we’d dig out of a bag.
In the name of efficiency, my local grocer, Wegmans, has a slew of premade sides like coleslaw and potato salad as well as pre-formed hamburger patties. However, while shopping for supplies for our Fourth of July cookout, I stopped to wonder if the premade items I frequently toss in my cart are as big or a bargain for my wallet as they appear to be a time saver.
So I set out to see what’s cheaper: making our barbecue fixings or picking up premade grill fare. Here’s what I learned.
The meal: grilled cheeseburgers for seven, potato salad, grilled corn and lemonade.
My make-at-home ingredients:
• For the burgers: To feed three men (one of which is my teen son) and four women, I need 2 pounds of ground beef. I like 95 percent lean ground sirloin which costs $5.99/pound.
• For the potato salad: Five pounds of golden potatoes, mayo, mustard, celery, onions and eggs. I have spices and vinegar on hand, so I won’t count those in the cost.
• For the lemonade: One bottle of lemon juice and sugar
• I’m not including the price of the corn in the tally because there isn’t a premade option for those.
The cost of ingredients: $35.54.
The variables: You know you’re going to use utilities like electric and gas anytime you cook. It’s tough to know the exact cost, but my best guess is about $0.65 (based on average usage) to boil the potatoes and eggs. Of course, there’s gas to go to the grocery store, my time to shop and cook, but let’s keep things simple and stick to numbers we can actually add up.
The total make-at-home price: $36.19.
At Wegmans, several different styles of potato salad are available in 5-pound tubs that cost $8.50 each. I chose the American style because it’s the closest to my grandmother’s secret recipe. The pre-formed hamburger patties were only available in 8 percent lean beef and cost $6.99/pound. They’re typically packaged in twos. I bought two bottles of lemonade.
Either way, I’d have to drive to the grocery store to pick up the food, so there’s no delivery charge or gas to tack on.
The takeout price: $27.46
The bottom line: Making burgers at home is definitely the way to go. Not only is it more economical, it’s better for your heart (the leaner the meat, the happier your ticker). Plus, you can customize each burger’s thickness and size to each diner’s taste.
But making potato salad at home was the big budget-buster here. You just can’t compensate for the grocery store’s ability to buy — and prepare — food in bulk. However, you’re limited to the ingredients and seasoning used by the grocer, so buying premade doesn’t generally garner the rave reviews from friends and family about the delicious potato salad that reminds everyone of grandma or your favorite great aunt.
Next month, I’m going to break out my wok and try my hand at Chinese food for the make-at-home vs. takeout price test. Just about anything Chinese is high on my list of food favorites, which means our local takeout restaurant owner and I are on a first-name basis. OK, I admit it: The staff has my address memorized. So it’s no wonder I’m hoping to pare down the price by whipping up dinner at home.
What’s your family’s favorite meal to eat out or takeout? Wondering if you can make it cheaper at home? Drop me a line and suggest a make-at-home price test. You just might be surprised to learn which option truly is cheaper.
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