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Shilpa Shetty Kundra has been part of the movies for about 30 years now, she started her journey with Baazigar and went on to deliver wonderful performances in films like Dhadkan, Phir Milenge, Life In A Metro, Dus etc. Today she is not only an actress, but also a successful entrepreneur who has multiple business interests. She attributes her work-life balance to her husband Raj Kundra.
In an interview with News18, Shilpa mentioned that she has been able to do so much because of the encouragement she gets from her husband and the people around her. She added that she has been brought up in a home where her mum was working all the time. So the sense of work ethic, respect and the whole value system comes from there, and she feels that it is ok to be a working mom. Shilpa also wants to pass her learning to her daughter Samisha.
She also added that she wants her husband Raj to know that she’s not dependent on him and wants the whole world to know that a woman can have her own identity even after marriage. Shilpa also showered praises on Raj’s parents who have always supported her and are extremely proud of her achievements.
If you take a look at Shilpa’s career, there has been a long gap from 2007 to 2021 where she hardly did any films and made few guest appearances in songs only. Talking about it, Shilpa mentioned that she never stopped working. She simply chose what to work on. She also believes that today her biggest achievement is that she’s still relevant even beyond her films and that makes her happy and proud as a woman.


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Honda has used the Chicago Auto Show to show off the Odyssey Concept, which is pretty close to what we can expect to see when the next-generation Odyssey is released by the end of the year.
The Odyssey has been the best-selling minivan in the US the past two years, but that doesn't mean that Honda is going to play it safe with the next model. The concept moves away from the current conventional minivan styling with its low and wide stance. Honda claims that the concept is 1-inch lower and 1.4-inches wider than the current Odyssey, which gives it a sleeker, stronger and more dynamic presence.
Honda didn't release any specifics about what we can expect under the hood of the new Odyssey, but did state that the 2011 Odyssey is expected to achieve an EPA-estimated fuel economy rating of 19 city/28 highway.


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Members – 87,000 farmers organized in 45 cooperatives
Location – Sidama (southwest Ethiopia)
Elevation – 1800 meters
Established – 2001
Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU)
Located in the Sidama region of southern Ethiopia, SCFCU began representing small-scale farmers in 2001 and has since grown to become the second largest coffee producing cooperative union in Ethiopia. The majority of its member coops are organic and Fair Trade certified and nearly all their coffee is grown in the shade of diverse, indigenous trees. Approximately 5,000 tons of sidamo coffee is produced per year, 95% of which is washed.
Harvest time occurs between September to December depending on the coffee’s altitude and rainfall. After the families harvest the cherries, they sell them to the primary cooperatives for wet processing. There are approximately 220 wet processing centers, 92 of which are owned by members of the coops. The dried parchment is then stored in a warehouse until delivery to the central market in Addis Ababa where the husk is removed and the clean beans are packaged for export.
Cooperative Coffees began importing unwashed Sidama coffee directly from Sidama Union in 2009. Visit SCFCU’s website

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Heineken to enter the sleek can market
Heineken is entering the fast-growing sleek can market and updating the style of Heineken Original.
The refreshed cans will debut with an initial March launch throughout Florida. The 12-ounce slim cans will be available in six-, 12-, 18- and 24-packs. With a 5% alcohol by volume in each 12oz serving, the cans will replace the current 12oz cans on-shelf. They will be available at both on- and off-premise accounts in the state.
The launch in Florida is designed attract new buyers to drive increased household penetration for the brand in the state, the company says. Consumer awareness of the launch will be driven through digital and social media, OOH, and local radio endorsements. Both on- and off-premise accounts will benefit from a host of in-store visibility and point-of-sale materials showcasing the new can for Heineken Original.
Heineken believes the launch of this style of can in Florida will drive higher velocity and incremental sales and profits for retailers in the state, which could eventually lead to a national launch for the brand in 2022.


The 37th Annual American Music Awards took place on November 22, 2009 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
The nominees were announced on October 13, 2009.
For the first time in history, there was no host for the year's ceremony. Instead, various celebrities introduced the performers similar to the procedure at the Grammy Awards.
Taylor Swift won five of six categories she was nominated for. Jay-Z and The Black Eyed Peas both won two awards. Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine Jackson accepted his awards on his behalf.
Complaints by Parents Television Council
In response to Adam Lambert's performance of his song "For Your Entertainment" at the end of the 2009 American Music Awards broadcast on ABC, the Parents Television Council, a conservative television watchdog group, urged viewers to complain to the FCC if living in an area where the performance was shown before 10 p.m. local time. The PTC complained that the performance contained a simulation of oral sex. Lambert's performance reportedly was broadcast around 11 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time, "outside the FCC's usual 6 a.m --10 p.m. time frame prohibiting the broadcast of indecent material."
Subsequent Cancelled Bookings
ABC also received about 1,500 telephoned complaints. In a report by Lambert, he had been scheduled to also perform on fellow ABC programs Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2010 (the latter also being produced by Dick Clark Productions), but found out that these bookings were cancelled, possibly in response to the incident. Neither ABC or Dick Clark Productions confirmed his reports, or confirmed if he was ever booked at all.


Nevada Congresswoman and candidate for U.S. Senate Jacky Rosen held a roundtable discussion last night in downtown Las Vegas with local veterans and also attended a meeting of the Nevada Democratic Veterans and Families Caucus to discuss important issues facing veterans and hear from them about issues like access to health care and VA accountability.
“Nevada’s veterans have put their lives on the line in the name of our country, and they have earned proper health care, higher education, and job security,” said Rosen. “I’m committed to fighting for our veterans to get the care and benefits they need, and ensuring that we honor and fulfill our promises to these heroes who have sacrificed so much. I’ve got a record working across party lines to put forward real solutions and get results that will improve the lives of Nevada veterans, and I look forward to continuing that work in the Senate.”
This past weekend, Sen. Dean Heller attacked the nonpartisan Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America because he was upset about being tied for the worst grade in the Nevada congressional delegation on a report card issued by IAVA in 2010.
Jacky Rosen’s father was a World War II veteran, so she knows firsthand the sacrifices our veterans have made to protect our country. With more than 200,000 veterans calling Nevada home, Jacky believes we need to do everything we can to take care of our veterans and military families.
Jacky has stood up for veterans in Congress, and her office brought more than $700,000 back to her district last year by helping veterans obtain their benefits. She has fought to improve veteran health care programs, raise the pay of servicemembers, combat veteran homelessness, provide tax credits to businesses that hire veterans, and improve veterans’ access to child care. She helped introduce the Forever GI bill to expand college assistance for veterans and allow new servicemembers to use their education benefits later in life. In the Senate, Jacky will continue working to cut red tape and increase accountability at the VA to ensure we fulfill our promises to Nevada’s veterans.


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My two dogs (a minitature fox terrier and a Maremma) LOVED these additions to there dinner and so did their cat sister! I can't wait to give them the new flavours to try next time next time!!
The ladies do go wild for their Toppers and Freakshakes. I like the idea of the nutrition and they love the taste
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Spring brings blooms and growth and change—just like the characters in these excellent April novels, each thought-provoking and enthralling in its own way. Whether or not they want to, these young men and women have a lot to learn, and readers will find much to enjoy in their journeys into early adulthood.
Lights All Night Long by Lydia Fitzpatrick
Gifted Russian teenager Ilya arrives in the U.S. for an academic exchange year, but like many young people trying to make their own way, he’s distracted by events back home. But Ilya has a good reason: His drug-addicted older brother has been accused of multiple murders. With the help of his host family’s daughter, Ilya tries to prove his brother’s innocence by scouring the internet, and the result is a darkly beautiful, intense tale of guilt, secrets and inescapable truth. It’s worth noting that the author’s writing is breathtaking, which is perfectly suited to the story’s measured pace; all the better to linger, my dear. Read our review.
The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler
In the 19th century, a real-life stage magician named Lulu Hurst, known as the “Georgia Wonder,” captivated audiences with her apparent super-strength. Handler’s novel pulls from Lulu’s life to tell a story of growing up and growing away from the person you once were. As a girl, Lulu finds a book in her father’s study and learns her special skills, and she slowly transforms from a gawky, small-town farmer’s daughter to a well-known, alluring performer. When her performance goes on tour, she begins to see her parents and their shortcomings more clearly, and the reader is fully immersed in this introspection and process of self-discovery. Read our review.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Rooney became a literary sensation in her native Ireland with the release of her debut novel, Conversations with Friends. Her brilliant, Booker Prize-nominated new novel has only enhanced her reputation. Set in a small Irish town, it stars two 16-year-olds—uncool Marianne and football star Connell—who have different financial backgrounds and an unavoidable connection. It’s a bond that carries through their college years, when they become more like friends than lovers, though something deeper continues to simmer. Read our starred review.
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Remember first love? Intense, obsessive, probably gross—and everyone at your high school was talking about it. Choi’s latest novel takes that intensity to a place we never would’ve expected. At the risk of spoilers, all we can reveal is that the first part of the book stars two rising sophomores who had a relationship and then broke up, as well as an acting teacher and a classmate named Karen. The rest of the novel challenges the very nature of fiction. Read our review.
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck by Ann Beattie
With her latest novel, Beattie serves up an unflinchingly bleak—albeit sometimes laugh-out-loud humorous—serving of millennial malaise. For young Ben and his posse at Bailey Academy, most of the grown-ups in their lives are either dead, dying or dysfunctional. After 9/11, the students draw even closer to their creepy teacher Pierre LaVerdere, and once again, it’s a connection that lasts long into adulthood. Read our review.

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In recent years, a new and growing water sport has arrived in Vermont. It involves surfing behind wake boats, expensive motorized watercraft that feature an integrated ballast tank below the boat, filled with water. With their much greater weight, wake boats create a large, surfable, artificial wave that can be two to four feet high. A recent magazine article on the boats described them as providing “an ocean-surfing experience on calm, inland lakes.” In response to a petition filed last year by lake users calling themselves “Responsible Waves for VT Lakes,” a group concerned about possible adverse impacts from wake boats, the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has drafted a rule to regulate wake boats that would limit their use to portions of 31 larger lakes in the state, plus Lake Champlain, Lake Memphremagog, and reservoirs on the Connecticut River, which come under federal rather than state control. A public hearing on the rule is scheduled from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. Anyone interested in speaking or attending in person or online can find more information about the rule and the hearing at tinyurl.com/54cfd2t5. Those in favor of regulating the boats maintain they pose threats to shoreland preservation, water quality, wildlife, and would contribute to the spread of invasive species (see responsiblewakes.org). They also say that the boat’s large wakes can potentially swamp or capsize other lake users such as kayakers, canoeists, paddleboarders, and small boat sailors.To limit the impact of wake boats, the proposed rule would require them to operate 500 feet or more from shore as a way to reduce shoreland erosion, and to areas that are 20 feet or more deep to prevent stirring up the lake bottom and disturbing plants and phosphorus. The petitioners originally proposed and still maintain that the boats should be used no nearer to shore than 1,000 feet, which would leave 15 Vermont lakes available for wake boats. The DEC rule would also implement a “home lake” rule to require each wake boat to operate only on one lake per calendar year, since wake boat tanks are difficult to decontaminate as they move from one lake to another. The concept is designed to limit the further spread of invasive species such as milfoil, which since 1962 has spread to about 100 bodies of water in Vermont, and zebra mussels. Wake boat enthusiasts say they enjoy wake boarding on the big waves, that they should have the right to enjoy Vermont lakes, and that they can regulate themselves. While some other states regulate wake boats to an extent, the Vermont rule would be the most comprehensive state rule to date and has brought boat manufacturers to Vermont to oppose the rule. To go into effect, it would eventually have to be approved by the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules. Currently, wake boats could legally be used on many smaller lakes, such as Wrightsville Reservoir or Curtis Pond locally. Under the draft DEC rule, they could still be operated on some larger lakes not far from central Vermont, including Waterbury Reservoir, Molly’s Falls Pond (Marshfield Reservoir), Joe’s Pond, Peacham Pond, Groton Pond, and Lake Caspian. The DEC rules could potentially include a provision to allow petitions to alter wake boat rules for specific lakes.


Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas
Politician, Deceased Person
1907 – 1979
Who was Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas?
Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas was a Brazilian entrepreneur, writer and journalist that contributed in bridge the gap between Brazil and Brazilians, via actions and articles published in several Brazilian newspapers and magazines on political and economical matters. He also was a pioneer in creating and developing in the Brazilian press the concept of a Newspaper supplement, delivering to the reader special editions on a comprehensive format and reading style easily understood in a number of political, economical and historical facts.
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We Have Ten Free Spots Available For A New Wellbeing Program! Many people with cerebral palsy benefit from a multifaceted approach to managing their condition, combining regular therapies, exercise, and a healthy diet and lifestyle.
As we encourage our community to strive for the best possible outcomes we are delighted to partner with the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) to bring its MENTOR program to the cerebral palsy community.
MENTOR, which stands for Mindfulness, Exercise and Nutrition To Optimize Recovery, is a holistic approach is aimed at restoring, improving, and protecting health across the lifespan.
We are able to offer 10 members of CP Community the opportunity to participate in this free eight-week program throughout the months of April and May 2021. Participants must be members of the MyCP community and 18 years or older.
During the pandemic, NCHPAD has pivoted from an onsite program for health and wellness, to virtual coaching for exercise, mindfulness and nutrition. The MENTOR program combines adapted exercise, sport and recreation activities with practical healthy eating cooking classes and mindfulness-based stress management techniques to reduce mental health issues such as anxiety and fear.
“Our health coaches will work closely with the CP Research Network and community members to establish the most beneficial exercise, mindfulness and nutrition programs for people with CP,” says James Rimmer, PhD, Director of NCHPAD. “We are excited to partner on this pilot program with the CP Research Network.”
Participants will be provided with equipment to use at home which they will be able to keep at the end of the training.
The program with be monitored by CP Research Network’s Mary Gannotti, PT, PhD, a professor of physical therapy at the University of Hartford and member of the network’s steering committee.
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NB Environment Minister concerned with proposed iron plant's emissions projections
New Brunswick Environment Minister Jeff Carr says a $1 billion iron processing plant proposed for Belledune is 'concerning'.
CBC reports Maritime Iron's environmental impact assessment registration suggests the plant would increase New Brunswick's greenhouse gas emissions by more than two million tonnes.
Carr says the province would need to strike a balance between improving the Chaleur Region economy and New Brunswick missing its emissions-reduction targets.
But Maritime Iron says it would supply NB Power's local generating station with a gas-byproduct to burn, thereby reducing the utility's coal use by more than half.
The company also argues new technology that would be used at the plant would reduce global emissions by 40 per cent.
Carr says New Brunswick is close to its emissions reduction target and wants to keep it that way.
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Ever since Liam Neeson turned into a full on action star with Taken, he has seemed to embrace this new persona with one action film after another. His latest, Non-Stop looks to keep the streak alive, but this time out it seems to have a more thriller vibe to it. In addition to Neeson the film stars Julianne Moore, Anson Mount and recent Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o but does it pack the twists, turns, and punch that Neeson has been delivering or will it be a missed flight?
Non-Stop follows an air marshal who springs into action during a transatlantic flight after receiving a series of text messages that put his fellow passengers at risk unless the airline transfers $150 million into an off-shore account, but when signs point to him being behind it all it will be a race against time to clear his name and save the passengers. As the trailers made it pretty clear this film plays as more of a who-dun-it thriller but still manages to throw in some decent action here and there. On the surface this is a B-rate film only elevated by the inclusion of the always great Neeson. Most of the film is a bit predictable, but thankfully teases you with enough possibilities that it could lead you down a few paths before finally revealing it all. There isn’t a ton of action, but the little that is here not surprisingly works good with Neeson executing it. There are a few moments that are a bit out there, so you have to let them go if you want to enjoy the film, but they are never so far left field that it feels silly. Neeson gives a non-surprising good performance with a lot more depth to the character than was probably necessary but it helps bring something more to the story that would have otherwise been lost.
This is far from Taken, but still manages to be an entertaining action thriller that is sure to please all the Neeson fans out there. As mentioned it is a bit predictable if you pay close attention, but it still works fine and makes for an entertaining time. If you are a fan of seeing Neeson kick some ass and who isn’t then Non-Stop is worth checking out.
For more information head over to http://www.nonstopthefilm.com/


WORLD BANK GROUP
Location: Yaoundé, Cameroon
The World Bank, a leading multi-lateral institution in global economic development, is looking for a highly organized, energized and experienced person capable of operating effectively in a very demanding fast-paced environment to serve as a Team Assistant. The Team Assistant will be under direct supervision of the Senior Executive Assistant (SEA) who is responsible for her/his technical and professional development and performance evaluation. The Team Assistant is an integral part of the Cameroon Country Office Administrative and Client Support (ACS) team. The job implies frequent interaction with other institutional units, staff in other locations (locally and internationally), Government officials, consultants and external organizations.
The overall purpose of the assignment is to provide administrative, logistical and operational support to the World Bank Cameroon Country Office:
- Provide support for preparation and implementation of World Bank projects and activities according to Bank procedures
- Use desktop processing skills to produce complex texts, reports, presentations, charts, figures graphs, etc., according to Bank format and distribution: Draft routine correspondence (standard letters, memos, faxes, etc.) conforming to the Organization's regional standards, using proper grammar, punctuation and style and proofread materials.
Information Management and Client Interaction
- Answer internal and external queries on the assigned portfolio or, as necessary, take accurate and comprehensive telephone messages, and route them to appropriate persons to handle
- Co-ordinate with service units, and liaise frequently with team members both in Washington and in the Country Office, as well as external counterparts and may also be assigned responsibility for the aspect of the unit's administrative functions and also assistant sector staff on mission
- Maintain current distribution list, phone/address lists of project/product contacts, and distribute documents for the team.
Time management & Logistic Planning
- Arrange working schedule and meeting with counterparts for the visiting teams; co-ordinate time management and schedules, taking current and future priorities into account, anticipate and monitor changes, and communicate the information
- Solve non-routine problems creatively and resourcefully and assist in the preparation and logistical planning of various events, e.g. conference, workshops, negotiations etc.
- Track assigned tasks/project steps/ timetables using modern office management technologies, coordinate with relevant staff, provide assistance and/or information on project-related matters.
- Minimum bachelor's degree
- At least 2 to 3 years direct relevant office support experience in a large international or multinational or corporate or public service organization
- Mastery of French and English (verbal and written) and working knowledge of relevant computer software.
For the full position description, complete selection criteria and required competencies, candidates are requested to submit an application at www.worldbank.org/careers. Click on ËCurrent job openings ËJob TypeË AdministrationË Job FamilyËAdministrationË Job# 171353.
The World Bank is committed to achieving diversity of gender, race, nationality, culture and educational background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Closing date is July 20, 2017.


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Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series called “20/30 Vision”, which features a new young adult Catholic voice, each month.
In the church today, young adults Catholics are often given a bad rap. Data have shown that our age group is disassociating from the Catholic Church in droves, and we are sometimes perceived generationally as being non-committal, for having short attention spans and not valuing traditions. There is a bit of truth in some of that, but those sentiments fail to acknowledge that there are many young adults actively engaged in the church, who desire to be a part of it and are committed to their Catholic identity — even when we feel like our pleas for inclusivity within the institutional church are misconstrued as mere grievance rather than sincere zeal mixed with a need to be seen, heard and truly known.
In the last several years, Catholics throughout the country have participated in numerous gatherings inviting the faithful to share insights on the current landscape of different segments of the U.S. church, and to recommend pathways toward improving ministries and outreach. We have had the Convocation of Catholic Leaders, the V National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry, the National Dialogue, the Synod on Synodality and Journeying Together — all of which collectively included numerous younger Catholic participants from throughout the country. I have personally participated in all these enterprises, and at times felt great hope through having the opportunity to share my thoughts and experiences as a young adult Catholic, to hear the stories of others, and to discuss strategies for helping to bring the church to life for the generations that will inherit it.
In 2023, the National Eucharistic Revival will take center stage. From playbooks, to events, to billboards, there is a palpable energy from both clergy and the lay faithful who are excited about what this revival may ignite within the church. Despite my own deep personal connection to and love of the Eucharist, I would like to explain why I am still hesitant to embrace it, and why I would describe my posture as one of cautious optimism at best, and wary apathy at worst.
As the National Eucharistic Revival gains momentum, I worry that this initiative will become just one more item on the list of projects meant to foster energy and catalyze small but vital changes in the U.S. church, which never develop into coherent practices benefiting (or even touching) the larger church. The gatherings I previously mentioned all delivered myriad reports and recommendations for courses of action, but with seemingly little corresponding impact on the church. It makes it hard, sometimes, to feel that our concerns are really being heard.
Truly, I believe we young adults who have participated with great hope in these assemblies and convocations are experiencing a bit of emotional fatigue. We have been asked repeatedly to share our hopes and dreams, our difficult experiences and frustrations with the church — which carry a significant emotional weight. I have heard countless young adults tell personal stories of marginalization, of racism, and of not feeling seen, heard, or taken seriously as participants and evangelists within the faith. We’ve shared our dreams of a church that is willing to address its painful history — one that works to bring about healing proactively, instead of waiting until it must; that celebrates cultural diversity where possible in the liturgy, and throughout the church as well, and loudly stands up for the oppressed.
There is profound depth in what we have shared over the past few years, and yet somehow the church has reduced our sacred stories and trusted conversations to jargon-loaded documents, lengthy bureaucratic reports and bullet-point lists of recommendations, all seemingly filed and then forgotten as people hastily move on to the next initiative, program or event. Sometimes it feels like the church in the U.S. suffers from the very short attention span that we young adults are accused of having.
My prayer for 2023 is that instead of scheduling more all-talk-little-action events or expending energy discussing strategies at risk of seeming stale before they’re ever tried, the church would draw from the knowledge shared throughout these past get-togethers and that she would make some room — create an intentional space for the younger church. Let us help to mold and form how the National Eucharistic Revival takes shape and help establish how we “do” church, together. Young Catholics carry on their shoulders the weight of the missteps and sins of past church leaders. We also will bear the church in the future. This is an opportune time to give those of us who are committed to our relationship with Christ, and with the church, real opportunities to help renew and rebuild the church we dream of.
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Cecilia Flores is a first generation Filipina-American, mother and community organizer living in Sacramento, California. “20/30 Vision” features a new young adult Catholic voice, each month.

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NAM JUNE PAIK Beuys Voice, 1990 Two channel color video on laser discs, antique television cabinets, felt, mixed media sculpture 104 3/8 x 74 x 37 3/8 in. (265 x 188 x 95 cm)
NAM JUNE PAIK M200/Video Wall, 1991 Television monitors 118 1/16 x 377 15/16 x 19 5/8 in. (300 x 960 x 50 cm)
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NAM JUNE PAIK
February 12 - March 14, 2015
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present the multi-monitor, sculptural installation M200/Video Wall, (1991) by the visionary and peripatetic artist Nam June Paik, along with selected works from the early 1990s. The exhibition opens on February 12 and runs through March 14, 2015. The Korean-born artist died at age 73 in January 2006.
Nam June Paik is commonly hailed as the “father” of new media art for his discoveries in music, video, performance, television broadcast and technological experimentation. He balanced a Utopian philosophy with a technical pragmatism and a subversive sense of humor, creating works that drew on chance encounters between ideas, the object and the public.
John Handhart, Paik scholar and curator of the Guggenheim Museum’s seminal exhibition The World of Nam June Paik in 2000 said, “Paik's prolific and complex career can be read as a process grounded in his early interests in composition and performance.” Paik trained as a classical pianist and studied composition at University of Tokyo. His undergraduate thesis on Arnold Schonberg ignited his interest in the avant-garde and prompted his move to Germany in 1956. Shortly after, Paik met Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, and quickly became immersed in the electronic music scene. Cage encouraged Paik to come to New York, where the artist became a key participant in the Fluxus movement.
During a visit to his family in Japan in 1962, Paik built his first robot from his cousin’s remote control toys (and his mother’s bra.) The name of the robot K456 refers to the Köchel catalog number of Mozart’s well-known piano concerto, thereby tracing a thread from classicism to the avant-garde.
In 1991, Paik again paid tribute to Mozart in his large-scale video wall sculpture M200, which was made on the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death. Paik arranged 86 television monitors into a wall-sized sculpture, which plays simultaneous videos of Mozart, John Cage and Joseph Beuys, in a continuous loop. The monitors are arranged in an almost fractal pattern, with 16 monitors forming a unit and singular images combining to form overall pictures. At certain moments, the video sequences come together into one expanded image. The soundtrack was arranged by Paik and includes the music of Mozart, pop tunes and instrumental compositions. Image and music move together in synchronized rhythm. The constantly switching video and sound are experienced as “moving wall paintings” and give realization to Nam June Paik’s 1965 prediction that, “The cathode-ray tube will someday replace the canvas.”
Paik is renowned for his ability to foresee how technological changes in the late 20th Century were going to affect our daily lives in the 21st. In 1976 he coined the phrase “Electronic Superhighway” in a report he wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation about media planning for Post-industrial society. The report called for a global response to economic, social and political problems. Paik saw the mass medium of TV as a hub of information and ideas, and believed that its moving images enriched the quality of life. His idea of the Electronic Superhighway envisioned the Internet; 40 years later, it is easy to acknowledge its transformational power to turn the wide world into a “global village.”
Evident throughout Paik’s work, and particularly in M200, are the influence and importance of fellow artists, composers, musicians and philosophers such as Mozart, Cage, Beuys, Charlotte Moorman and Marshall McLuhan, with whom he felt a sense of community and creative kinship.
The 1990s saw the development of his robot portraits, created with old TV consoles, video footage and particular attributes to identify the subject. Beuys Voice, 1990, on view in Gallery 3, is a classic example of such a tribute, with the TV monitor head topped with Beuys’ iconic grey felt hat, scaled up to size. The sculpture commemorates their friendship, which started in 1961 and was based on their shared interest in shamanism and the avant-garde. Elements throughout the sculpture refer back to Beuys’ personal mythology based on the rescue of his downed plane and the elements of his survival; felt, rabbits that provided food and the sled brought by his rescuers. Also on view will be the ceiling mounted, multi-monitor Video Chandelier X, 1990, which speaks to Paik’s vision of a future lifestyle in the information age. The work comes from Paik’s often baroque sensibility that relates to his belief that “more is better”.
Over the past 50 years the work of Nam Jun Paik was exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Projects: Nam June Paik, 1977), Whitney Museum of American Art (Nam June Paik, 1982), Centre Georges Pompidou (Nam June Paik, 1982), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Nam June Paik, 1989), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (Nam June Paik Retrospective: Videotime, 1992), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Worlds of Nam June Paik, 2000). He represented Germany at Venice Biennale in 1993.
Paik’s works are in the collection of a number of institutions, such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), amongst others.
For further information, please contact Jane Cohan in New York at email@example.com or telephone 212-714-9500
More information on the artist is available at www.jamescohan.com


Maybe it was judge Bruno Tonioli's comment last night that she looked more "hip-replacement" than "hip."
Maybe it was fellow judge Carrie Ann Inaba's candid lament over more capable dancer Toni Braxton getting cut last week while Cloris remained on the show, free to dodder through yet another embarrassing routine alongside the long-suffering Corky Ballas.
Maybe the VoteForTheWorst.com and AARP contingents forgot to vote this week.
Or maybe the voting public just got tired of Cloris's dirty-old-woman shtick.
But overall, Dame Leachman went out with all the class befitting a legendary Oscar-winner. (Yes, kids, before Cloris lost on Dancing With The Stars, she actually once won an ACADEMY AWARD.)
That is, Cloris was behaving classily at first...until she squatted on the floor in some sort of sit-in protest and once again declared, "I'm not leaving!" and added with stalker-like conviction, "I'm going to get a pretty costume and be here next week."
But right now, all I feel is actual relief.
- Cloris Leachman
- Carrie Ann Inaba
- Bruno Tonioli
- Toni Braxton


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New Smith’s Monthly Issues
New Smith’s Monthly Issues
Turned in Issues #31 and #32 and will turn in Issue #33, the June issue of Smith’s Monthly, when Kris finishes reading the novel I just wrote.
So almost caught up to the dates on the magazine.
Roamed out to our original store, now called the south store and helped out there for a time with a rush of customers. Kind of fun.
Then headed to WMG offices to work on workshop stuff for a time. Then home to take a short nap and cook dinner.
Then, after a little e-mail, I sat and read for a while. (Some of you wondered if I read, of course I do. I’ll mention it when it takes up more than a few hours, all right? (grin) Otherwise, just assume I read regularly all sorts of stuff.)
Then I got in here and started working on putting the issues of Smith’s Monthly together. Got both of them sent off to WMG by 3 a.m. Then went and read some more before coming back in here to do this.
July Workshop Schedule
All July workshops have room. All are limited to five writers max. And they all start up a week from Tuesday and Wednesday. Just over a week away.
All details at www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com
Class #1… July 5th … Author Voice
Class #2… July 5th … How to Write Thrillers
Class #3… July 5th … Adding Suspense to Your Writing
Class #4… July 5th … Plotting With Depth
Class #5… July 5th … Character Development
Class #6… July 6th … Depth in Writing
Class #7… July 6th … Advanced Character and Dialog
Class #8… July 6th … Cliffhangers
Class #9… July 6th … Pacing Your Novel
Class #10… July 6th … Teams in Fiction
Classic Workshops and Lectures are also available at any time.
Nifty New Bundle (Just leaving this here one more day)
My Seeders Universe novel, Morning Song is in a new science fiction adventure bundle. Morning Song is about a massive ghost space ship inward bound to cause destruction in a galaxy. Massive science fiction adventure on a very large scale. If you haven’t read any of my Seeders Universe novels, this would be a good one to start with.
You can get the bundle at www.storybundle.com/scifi
And oh, yeah, you also get science fiction novels in this bundle by Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Alan Dean Foster, Brian Herbert, Todd McCaffrey, Jean Rabe and Gene DeWeese and others. Plus two major sf anthologies and also Tales of Dune edited by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert.
14 books total plus a sneak peak of a new Dune book and a new major bestselling book by Kevin.
So buy it for my book and when you get a chance, read all the rest of them as well. (grin)
Topic of the Night: I Have Raised Expectations
I found it kind of funny that I am so expected to write things quickly that writing a 40,000 word novel in ten days didn’t even get a mention by anyone. And I honestly wasn’t expecting it.
Of course, it took me three months this winter to write one as well. No one said I was doing it right then either. (grin)
Totals For Year 3, Month 11, Day 25
Writing in Public blog streak… Day 1,011
— Daily Fiction: 00 original words. Fiction month-to-date: 66,600 words
— Nonfiction: 00 new words. Nonfiction month-to-date total: 00 words
— Blog Posts: 300 new words. Blog month-to-date word count: 15,400 words
— E-mail: 14 e-mails. Approx. 400 original words. E-mails month-to date: 389 e-mails. Approx. 25,500 words
— Covers Designed and Finished: 0. Covers finished month-to-date: 2 Covers
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Or you can just toss a tip into the tip jar with a single donation at PayPal. Either way, your support keeps me going at these crazy posts.
Dean, first, congratulations on continuing to catch up to Smith’s Monthly. It’s an incredible streak. As for finishing a 40,000 word novel in ten days, I applaud that as well. Although, as I learned from you (and took to heart), it isn’t finishing but starting that is the happier event.
Thanks to you and your influence over the years, I have become a writer. In much the same way as an auto mechanic works on cars pretty much every day (at the shop Monday through Friday and on his own or friends’ on weekends) I now “work” on writing stories (short and long) pretty much every day. When I am forced to take a day off, I get itchy and annoyed.
When I’m not writing, I’m observing, reading, and learning from you, Kris or others. I am both a professional writer and a sponge, and it’s all your fault. Perhaps the most important thing I’ve picked up directly from you over the years (other than Heinlein’s Rules) is to Keep Coming Back. That simple-minded, one-track philosophy has enabled me to reach pulp speed on several occasions. On many days that I thought might be non-writing days, thanks to KCB I turned out five or six thousand new, clean words of fiction.
Sometime in the past few months I flashed past a benchmark. I barely noticed it until I realized, one day, that I think like a writer now. I expected that someday writing stories (making shit up, as you put it) would become a habit. It didn’t. Sometime or other it became my life. In a way, I’m glad I didn’t notice “when” it happened. It wasn’t a turning point, a conscious moment. Rather, it was something I became.
I don’t take you for granted, nor would I ever. But often I don’t slow down to to say thank you. So thank you. I’m glad for your accomplishments, but even gladder (selfishly) for what I learn from them and for the aspirations they enable within me.
So start the next story already, please, long or short. (grin) Bend your fingers to the keyboard and get hot. Your students are waiting.
Harvey, that’s so cool. And it is one of those things that sort of just happen over time and you wake up one morning and realize it had happened. So many people talk so much about wanting to be writers not knowing that the path to that is just writing and doing what you love with the writing on a regular basis. Do that, give it the focus, and it happens given time.
And yeah, being a writer isn’t just putting out words, it’s a way of life, a way of looking at life, a way of living.
And it’s great fun. Thanks for the great observation.
Dean, I didn’t comment on how fast or slow you wrote your novels because it really doesn’t matter any more than how fast or slow I write mine matters to you. Frankly, I don’t think writers should compare themselves to each other in that way. It’s a good way to mess up your head.
First, it was the whole “write slow” in trade publishing. Then it was the “Write as fast as you can, and OMG! So-and-so is putting out books faster than everybody, and she’s taking over the market!” crap with indie writers. Argh! Talk about people letting others mess up their pace.
Now, your advice over the years about letting the Subconscious take over from the Conscious and writing everyday did me a lot more good on increasing my writing speed unconsciously. Practice applies to writing as much as it does any other profession.
Exactly, Susan. Exactly. Thanks!
D J Mills
I had hoped to sort of keep pace with your writing speed for my current novel even though I only write 5 days a week. However, you finished before me. 🙂
I can see my ending happening in another 3 chapters or so, and yes, I am already over 45K, so in a way, I have kept pace, and hope to finish it this week.
Then, I will follow your output for your next story, while I work at keeping a steady pace somewhere below your writing pace. 🙂
Sounds like a fun challenge to me, DJ. I would have done something similar if a professional long-term writer was doing what I am doing. Keep having fun.

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Mr. Goldstone’s message, as described to The New York Times by the three people, indicates that the Russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information. It does not elaborate on the wider effort by Moscow to help the Trump campaign. There is no evidence to suggest that the promised damaging information was related to Russian government computer hacking that led to the release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails.
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Presentation of our competition in Poland
In the town of Sanok (Poland) from 21-24 April 2016 was held XIX Festival Accordion Competition (Międzynarodowe Spotkania Akordeonowe) with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
This year the contest involved a record number of contestants since its foundation in 1994 – 140 contestants soloists and ensembles, as well as more than 300 participants of the festival. In addition to competitive performances in the program participated wonderful performers who delighted the guests and participants of the festival with their live performances every evening after the end of the competition program.
At the invitation of the director of the festival and music school PSM I i II st. im Wandy Kossakowej Mr. Andrew Smolik, President of Association of educators of Serbia musical institutions, the founder and director of the International Music Competition – Belgrade, Serbia, Milomir Doychinovich presented his presentation on the aims and objectives of the organization of International Music Competition.
Presentation of the International Music Competition – Belgrade, Serbia.
Also with a great interest audience participated in the master classes, lectures, seminars with leading educators, musicians, artists in the bayan/accordion. Among them were such eminent musicians as prof. Bogdan Dowlasz, prof. Klaudiusz Baran, prof. Elwira Sliwkiewicz-Cisak, prof. Pawel Paluch, prof. Władimir Runczak, prof. Nikolaj Sewriukow, prof. Richardas Sviackevicius …
We are very pleased for the past few years working with Mr. Andrew Smolik, who is a member of the jury in the category Accordion/Bayan on our competition. And that together we propagandize for young musicians progress with accordion and bayan development and impart to them a love of music and art.
The famous company «Scandalli» at the festival presented its instruments. Director of the company – Mirko Patarini (Italy, Castelfidardo) for several years is a member of the jury of our contest.
Milomir Doychinovich with representative of company Scandalli in Poland – Zygmunt Czupryna.
Sanok is a town in south-eastern Poland with 39,110 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. The town has several public schools and a branch of the Polish High School of Technology. The town also has a football club called Stal Sanok and some other sport clubs (including volleyball, swimming, handball, ice hockey). The Sanok Castle near the centre of the old town houses a museum displaying over 300 fine icons.


Shreveport, La.-based Metro Aviation (Booth No. 415) had more than completions to announce at Heli-Expo 2014. The multifaceted business recently completed for the EC135 a single-pilot IFR digital cockpit supplemental type certificate (STC) that incorporates Garmin GTN 650/750 touchscreen technology and ADS-B to create a cockpit ready for 2020, when all aircraft flying in the U.S. will be required to have ADS-B OUT capability. FAA, Garmin (Booth No. 2427) and Metro Aviation representatives are at the Metro Aviation booth throughout Heli-Expo to talk about the STC.
The rarefied offshore energy market continues to be the prime driver for development of new civil helicopters, but the training and entry-level market is also heating up, with Bell and others announcing or hinting at new models. Various studies predict that worldwide civil helicopter production will double between now and 2020 in terms of overall sales value as OEMs focus on delivering larger and more expensive helicopters.
Certification of the EC145T2, an upgraded version of Eurocopter’s light twin, is now expected next spring rather than this year, as originally planned. Program leader Manfred Merk attributed the delay to longer-than-expected aerodynamic and avionics development work.
“It took us one month to solve a problem that was appearing in sideways flight,” Merk said. The helicopter was shaking, a certification red flag, so the engineers recontoured the edge of the vertical tail fin and the mod proved successful.
American Eurocopter (Booth No. C11606B) selected a unique EC145 to show off at its booth during NBAA 2013. The twin-engine helicopter was outfitted to customer specifications for Chandler, Ariz.-based businessman Ron Pratte. Interior features include a spacious passenger cabin, ideal for carrying business partners and family.
Eurocopter has announced that its American Eurocopter subsidiary will upgrade its Columbus, Miss. facility, allowing it to serve as a final assembly and test site for the AS350. The AS350 work will offset a reduction in assembly operations on the UH-72A Lakota military helicopter and also help Eurocopter increase AS350 sales in the U.S. The model is the bestselling civil helicopter in the U.S.
Gerry Block founded Sandel Avionics in 1998 to bring high-performance color graphics avionics to unserved general aviation customers by exploiting the emerging technology of rear projection to produce compact panel-mounted electronic cockpit displays. On Wednesdsay at NBAA 2013, Sandel Avionics is celebrating its 15-year anniversary from 3 to 5 p.m. at Booth No. C9340 with a hosted bar, refreshments and prize drawings.
Eurocopter is now anticipating that its EC145T2, an upgraded version of the EC145 light twin, will be certified next spring, instead of by year-end. Head of program Manfred Merk told AIN that the first delivery is now slated for the middle of next year.
Eurocopter announced yesterday that it will upgrade the American Eurocopter plant in Columbus, Miss., to accommodate final assembly of the AS350, which it said is the top-selling civil helicopter in the U.S. market. AS350 production is expected to start at the plant in the fourth quarter of next year and will ramp up to 60 of the light single-engine helicopters annually by 2016.
A2B Heli Maintenance, an EASA Part 145 independent commercial helicopter maintenance company, has formally opened its doors at London Oxford Airport. A2B Heli chose London Oxford as an expanding business aviation airport with close links to co-owned Barclays London Heliport in Battersea (20 minutes’ flying time from Oxford) and other strong transport links.
Faced with tough budget decisions on new weapons programs, the U.S. Army appears to be delaying a decision on the $6- to $8 billion Armed Aerial Scout program while concurrently moving forward with the potential $100 billion joint multi-role (JMR) initiative.


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Dataset Open Access
The tree motion data in this repository were collected from multiple sites with different sensors.
There are two types of data:
(a) 1-hour sample data from 27 sites (/one_hour_samples/*.csv).
Each file represents a single tree and contains two columns representing the two horizontal axes of tree motion.
These data are uncalibrated and do not have a time-stamp. File names refer to:
These filenames match the first column in the 'TreeSummary.csv' table
(b) long-term data from 9 data sets (/site_name.zip/)
The wind and tree data are stored in separate files for each day of data,
labelled with site name, tree ID or wind, year, month, day.
For example Kershope_T25_1990_5_23
In each file, the first column is the time and date in format YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS
The following columns are tree motion data or wind data with units in the variable names.
Some of the data were calibrated by pulling the tree with a known force, in these cases
calibration coefficients are given in the 'TreeSummary' table
Wind data for the Australian data set is stored in the folder with data for each tree,
because the trees were not close together enough to share a wind measurement.
The data for Orange, Storrs and Torrington were collected with inclinometers. The data
for all trees is stored together in each daily file.
The long-term tree motion data have not been pre-processed because user choices affect the results.
Importantly, you will need to remove a varying offset (caused by sensor drift) from the tree motion data.
See discussion in the accompanying publication and references therein.
Publication describing all collated data and necessary pre-processing.
Jackson, T. et al (2021) The motion of trees in the wind: a data synthesis. Biogeosciences.
Australian data decsribed in:
James, K. et al (2006).: Mechanical stability of trees under dynamic loads, Am. J. Bot. doi:10.3732/ajb.93.10.1522
Kershope and Rivox data described in:
Gardiner, B. A., et al. "Field and wind tunnel assessments of the implications of respacing and thinning for tree stability." Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 70.3 (1997): 233-252.
Kyloe and Clocaenog described in:
Hale, Sophie E., et al. "Wind loading of trees: influence of tree size and competition." European Journal of Forest Research 131.1 (2012): 203-217.
Orange, Storrs and Torrington described in:
Bunce, Amanda, et al. "Determinants of tree sway frequency in temperate deciduous forests of the Northeast United States." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 266 (2019): 87-96.
Other large tree motion data sets available at the time of writing (June 2021):


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Here's your chance to show off your team's colors AND your stitching skill! This scarf knits up really quick, so even if the game is right around the corner, you can still flaunt your colors up like the super fan you are.
Striped Superbowl Scarf
Pattern by Sunne Meyer
Level: Beginner Friendly
What You Need
- 3 balls Sprightly Acrylic Super Bulky (main color)
- 2 balls Sprightly Acrylic Super Bulky (contrast color)
- Size US 11 (8 mm) knitting needles (or size needed to obtain gauge)
- 2 stitch markers
- Tapestry needle
This scarf can be knit in ANY team's colors, but we're showing it in Navy and White (go, Rams!) and Navy and Burgundy (yay, Patriots!).
13 st x 20 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
8.5 inches wide x 55 inches long
When changing colors, either break the yarn and weave in tails at the end or carry the color not used up the back of work by twisting it around the second knit in the border, holding the yarn to be carried in the front of the work (so the carried yarn shows only on the back side).
- BO – Bind off
- CC – Contrast color
- CO – Cast on
- K – Knit
- MC – Main color
- P – Purl
- PM – Place marker
- RS – Right side
- St – Stitch(es)
- WS – Wrong side
CO 28 st, using MC.
Rows 1-6: Knit.
Row 7 (WS): K3, pm, p22, k3.
Row 8 (RS): Knit.
Rows 9-15: Repeat rows 7 & 8 three times, then row 7 once more.
Change to CC.
Rows 16-25: Repeat rows 8 & 7 five times.
Change to MC.
Rows 26-39: Repeat rows 8 & 7 seven times.
Repeat rows 16-39 ten more times.
Change to CC
Rows 256-265: Repeat rows 8 & 7 five times.
Change to MC
Rows 266-271: Repeat rows 8 & 7 three times.
Rows 272-277: Knit.
Weave in ends with tapestry needle.
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Low notes and highlights seemed to be the mode at The Commodore Ballroom on the night of July 13th, 2018 as Car Seat Headrest along with opening band/touring band additions, Naked Giants (Seattle) demolished a collective two and a half hours of performance. Naked Giants kicked the night off with their bouncy brand of rock ‘n’ roll. Getting the crowd warmed up with heavy chords and positively excellent soloing by all three members. Sounding like a healthy mix of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Oh Sees, simply put these guys love to melt faces and did just that. Beyond their raw power however was incredibly intense technical skill, the highlight of their set likely being the drummer soloing for upwards of five minutes and never missing a beat. Afterwards, Naked Giants thanked the crowd and told them how happy they were to be there. Finishing “right on time” according to bassist Gianni Aiello and began to make way for Car Seat Headrest’s set-up.
One restless crowd’s 30 minutes later, Car Seat Headrest’s front man Will Toledo and band members Ethan Ives, Andrew Katz, and Seth Dalby took to the stage with the added support of Naked Giants making a full stage for The Commodore with seven musicians total. Toledo’s “hello” sent cheers through the crowd as the band got to opening the set straight away with their now viral rendition of Death Grips’ song ‘Black Paint.’ Fully showcasing the pure, loud, and clean sound of several talented and technically-skilled musicians playing in rock harmony. As the band moved quickly into the their next few songs it became apparent that these live performances of many much-beloved tracks were more than performances but more so renditions. Long interludes and differences from the recorded versions made the performance feel like a more theatrical version of the record’s, set aside for those there tonight.
Toledo then took a moment between songs to acknowledge the importance of the night as “the first stop of our tour” adding lightly that it is also the furthest north that the band will go. Toledo and his band mates were comfortable on stage and this was apparent from the smiles and laughs they often shared with each other and the audience. Each member exhibiting a mix of the casual feel-good rocker and the incredibly tight talented musician. The band then played one of their many fan favourites ‘Fill In The Blank.’ Showcasing that while the sombre tone of the recorded material is still present the added power of Toledo’s voice carrying through the chest of each listener present as well as his unique dance moves gave each song new life in that space.
While Toledo handled the majority of the lead vocals on occasion the lead would be passed off to Ives or even Aiello for the hook of track ‘Bodys.’ Aiello brought an incredible amount of passion and the passing around of the vocal lead on stage kept older setlist standards fresh and interesting. Toledo then pointed out something else that was fresh to the crowd. “Do you like the lights? They’re new. Dirk controls them.” The crowd erupts and Dirk throws a hand in the air from the booth grinning. Toledo then asked Dirk to “turn off these overhead lights for the next song for a more moody, invisible atmosphere.” As the lights turn down Toledo lets out a long “ooh, I like it” and explains that the band hasn’t played this song in awhile and wants the mood just right as they launch into the nine minute epic ‘Cosmic Hero.’
Toledo then asked the crowd if they liked the keyboard Aiello had been playing for the band that evening as it was also new. Aiello then opted to showcase this by jokingly playing and half-singing a few bars of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Superstitious’ met with laughter, applause, and singing from the crowd. Toledo, grinning, said they would be demonstrating the new keyboard for the next 15 minutes and then asked Aiello if he knew ‘Blinded By The Light.’ Aiello then immediately broke into the song as members of the band and audience began clapping and singing along to the end of the first verse. Toledo closes the bit by mentioning that “we were gonna have that on the setlist that’s why we know that much.” The crowd erupts with laughter as the band launches into ‘Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales.’
Car Seat Headrest closed the set with an extended version of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans,’ the lights of the stage building with the intensity of the track as it culminated into razor sharp chords and thumping percussion. The band then packed it in with a simple “thank you, we’re Car Seat Headrest” only to return to the stage minutes later for an encore consisting of the 13 minute opus ‘Beach Life-in-Death.’ Not before thanking the crowd once more, saying that it had been a great tour kickoff. The encore was truly the perfect way to end the night, if the setlist was dessert then the encore was the whip cream and cherry. Toledo busted out some of his most powerful vocal chops of the night for the same people he has always loved to play for, the ones who shout the loudest for it.
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No doubt, plenty of hot dogs will be sold and eaten at Target Field today.
The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council says Major League Baseball fans are expected to eat 19.1 million hot dogs and nearly 5 million sausages at games this season.
According to Delish.com, the most uniquely Minnesotan topping for hot dogs is sweet relish.
“Some from Minnesota might say that it can’t be Minnesota dog if it’s a dog at all—apparently it should be a brat. Frankly we don’t really care, as long as it is smothered in sweet relish,” the website wrote.


1. Industry introduction of loss-in-weight feeder
With the improvement of continuous and accurate metrological control requirements for materials, especially solid materials in the industrial production process, a new metering equipment, loss-in-weight feeder came into being.
The loss-in-weight feeder is an equipment for continuously and accurately measuring materials according to the weight change of the material on the scale. The loss-in-weight feeder has gradually replaced the original belt scale, spiral scale, and even the cumulative scale. As a new metering method, the loss-in-weight feeder is widely used in metallurgy, mining, chemical industry and chemical fiber industry.
2. Brief introduction of loss-in-weight feeder
loss-in-weight feeder is a kind of automatic weighing scale which realizes continuous and quantitative feeding with high precision through static weighing method. It can reliably, accurately and stably feed powder, granule, sheet and other dry bulk materials, so as to reduce material waste and improve the consistency of the mixture.
3. Solution for loss-in-weight feeder
The solution for loss-in-weight feeder takes PLC as the core control system configuration, takes weighing module as the weight collection object, takes the scale platform, the feeding funnel and all the equipment acting on the scale platform as the whole scale body. The sensor continuously transmits the weight change of the scale body to the controller. According to the signal, the weight change rate of the scale body in unit time is calculated as the actual instantaneous flow rate, and then compare it with the set target flow rate. After the PID operation, the current signal of 4-20 mA is output to change the output frequency of the frequency converter of the feeding motor, so as to change the speed of the motor, make the actual feeding amount as close as possible to the set target flow rate, and achieve the purpose of accurate feeding.


Cigarettes After Sex is an ambient pop collective led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez & is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY.
They specialise in taking eighties power ballads and the like and turning them into smouldering, midnight-black atmospheric pieces. Always done beautifully and with complete confidence, Gonzalez lists his main influences as Francoise Hardy and Miles Davis. We caught up with Greg for a chat ahead of their 14.3 concert in Musik und Frieden. See you there – because this music is just exactly how music is meant to be!
indieberlin interview with Greg from Cigarettes after Sex
indieberlin: Tell us a little bit about your musical collective. How and who got together when?
Cigarettes after Sex: The group had its inception back in the summer of 2008. I had written a batch of songs that I felt went together well and wanted to start a new project around them. The sound of the group started as an electro pop style very influenced by Madonna’s ‘80s singles and bands like New Order & Erasure, but with more confessional lyrics.
At the beginning it was just me, a keyboard player and a drummer
But we continued to change members and sounds over as the years went on. The group feels like it officially started in 2012 with the release of our first EP however and the current lineup feels like the most solid and the one with the most identity so far.
Cigarettes after Sex: I had a “friends with privileges” situation with a girl at the time I came up with the name. I had never really smoked after sex before, but she always would & I found that I really came to enjoy it as time went on. There was a certain undeniable mood & ritual to it. We were sitting in my backyard one night smoking & the name just popped into my head. It felt very natural.
indieberlin: You’re from New York and apparently if you make it there – you make it anywhere. How do you feel about Berlin?
Cigarettes after Sex: I’m actually from El Paso, TX, but I moved to Brooklyn two years ago to be a part of the music & art scene in New York and also because it’s just a fun & exciting city overall. I’ve had many friends spend large amounts of time in Berlin and they always rave about it, so I’m incredibly excited to finally visit.
In my mind I think of Berlin for the albums that were recorded there
like David Bowie’s Low or Achtung Baby by U2 mostly… Two records I love.
indieberlin: How does the songwriting process work with you being a musical collective?
Cigarettes after Sex: I usually come in with the songs fully written & the band & I begin to quickly make an arrangement of the song at a rehearsal or recording session. All the players understand what’s trying to be achieved with each song basically & we just work on getting an arrangement that seems to suit the song well.
indieberlin: What have you never been asked in an interview but would love to answer?
Cigarettes after Sex: Hmm that’s interesting. I’ve never been asked what my favorite German sci-fi television soundtrack is. It’s definitely Raumpatrouille by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra. The huge sound of “Bolero On the Moon Rocks” in particular was a big influence on the sound of I. It’s perfect.
And please, tell us a lil secret about you…
Thank you for the interview! And see you at Musik und Frieden 14.3.2016.
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Aden - Yasmine El Tohamy - Turkish rescue and police work at the scene of a collapsed building following a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Elazig, eastern Turkey.- AFP
The powerful quake jolted the Elazig province, some 750 km east of the capital Ankara.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Friday, January 24, leaving at least 18 people dead and more than 500 others injured.
The powerful quake jolted the Elazig province, some 750 km east of the capital Ankara. It took place around 8:55 p.m. local time (1755 GMT) at the epicenter, the town of Sivrice, according to the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at Bogazici University, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the deaths included 13 people in Elazig and five others in the neighboring Malatya province.
More than 500 people were injured, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, adding rescue operations are underway to search some 30 people from the ruins of buildings collapsed or damaged.
Witnesses told the NTV broadcaster that the powerful quake lasted 10 to 12 seconds and was "very strong."
"A very difficult night is ahead of us," said a witness, adding the local temperature was as low as minus five degrees Celcius.
Dozens of aftershocks have followed. With the focus at a depth of 5 km, the quake was felt in a wide range of areas, including four nearby provinces.
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It could have been worse. Delta Air Lines reported $8.6 billion in first quarter revenue, but demand fell by 95 percent in April. The second quarter could be way more ugly, even after the airline cut its schedule by 85 percent.
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Collecting lighting devices isn’t the most popular thing in the world. However, people tend to collect things, so you may encounter thousands of unique collections of anything. Lights pose a special interest to Investment Collectables, as they look very beautiful, especially if they are antique. Downlights can be made of different shapes and many people may call them art, which they indeed are.
If you look at our collection, you will see some sort of magic, because everything is glowing. You never know who might have used this or that lighting device years ago, what kind of place it was at, etc. We can tell you some of the facts about every light in our collection if you ask.
We decided to work on the collection several years ago, after 5 antique lighting happened to be in our hands. They were so beautiful and so old that we decided to preserve them and many more in a special manner. Now it covers more than 100 lights of different age and technology, including some of the newer devices.
We’re open to adding new lightings to our collection or showing it on an exhibition. We have already done it at some events, and the audience was in awe, because every lighting has its own story and amazing design. The collection isn’t easy to move as the things stored there are quite old, but we do our best to show the public how beautiful lights can be.
If you wish to cooperate with us, see our collection, or invite us to an exhibition, contact us as soon as possible. You can find all the necessary information on the website, and we will be waiting for your letter or a call. We’re open to any kid of feedbacks or suggestions, so decide on your questions and write us right away. Hope we can have a nice talk!


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Tadgh completed his Culinary Arts degree in 2008, and since then has obtained an MA in Gastronomy and an advanced certificate in Wine and Spirit studies. He received early chef training in Wicklow’s BrookLodge, Dublin’s Eden and The Clarendon restaurants, and spent a summer in a Two Star Michelin restaurant in Brussels. After that, he spent the next decade travelling and gaining cooking experience, including roles in Galway, Portugal, and seven years in Melbourne, Australia.
Upon returning to Ireland, Tadgh focused on café food and took head chef roles in Dublin’s Two Pups Coffee, Network Café, and the Cake Café. He has always emphasized consistency and using as much Irish produce as possible.
Críoch Catering specialises in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavours using local ingredients but can provide any cuisine for your event. They have previously provided catering for weddings, birthdays, retreats, and film crews. Catering staff and equipment hire are also available for larger events.
The food from Críoch Catering is always fresh, natural, and healthy, with a no-fryer-no-freezer policy and everything made from scratch. In summer, they specialise in barbecue food, with an emphasis on salads, vegetarian options, free-range poultry, and fresh fish. In colder months, customers can expect warming stews and roasts with Moroccan, Italian, and Iberian flavours, but made with mostly Wicklow or Irish ingredients.
Tadgh has provided consultancy to many cafes and restaurants, including menu planning, health and safety advice, staff training, and the implementation of policies and procedures. He is also available for private classes, cookery demos, and talks on healthy and ethical eating, and has written articles for a mix of online and print media.
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The City of Bay Village is continuing along its path of harnessing the area’s rich natural resources in emphasizing smart infrastructure investments.
The reconstruction of a major bridge, interconnections with the Cleveland Metroparks and a new library branch in the works are some of the many developments taking place in the municipality located on the far western edge of Cuyahoga County.
At the helm since 2016, Mayor Paul Koomar stressed some short-term inconvenience will benefit the community in the long run.
The mayor said the nine-month project, 100% funded by the Ohio Department of Transportation, is slated to be completed in September, replacing a bridge foundation dating to 1917. The additions will include bike lanes, with the construction design allowing a bench and more green space.
“In that Cahoon Creek basin we have a green space that not a lot of people get to. And last year (2018) we started a grant strategy and we’ve been successful in getting three grants,” Koomar said.
Two of those grants were for trail connections to run from the southern part of the Cahoon Park out to Lake Erie. A third grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources coastal management program will fund a planning study with a 50% share in order to do some geo-technical engineering and to develop a parks master plan along the lake.
“So that’s pretty exciting. So well, that is an inconvenience now short term, that project was funded 100% by the Ohio Department of Transportation, and it will have a lot of benefits for residents… So we’re pretty excited about that,” the mayor added.
In 2017 the city, in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, conducted a connectivity study for Cahoon Park to improve pedestrian and bicycle access.
The city is also in the process of adding a new library branch across from Bay Village City Hall and is working with the Cuyahoga County Library System. The $7.5 million project will be paid for by Cuyahoga County and is currently in the planning review process.
In his annual state of the city address, Koomar stressed the importance of investing in restoring and maintaining some of the community’s historic homes.
Bay Village received funding in the State Capital Budget for the restoration of the Rose Hill Museum which is the original Cahoon homestead, the city’s founder. Koomar said they are currently working with an engineer to make improvements to the building’s foundation.
The highlights of the community — its lakeside location and appreciation for the arts — make Bay Village an enviable place to live.
“Bay Village is a very walkable, likeable community. We don’t have a lot of wide roads. And that lends itself of people connecting with one another, I think a sense of community because of how our geography is laid out.”


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text: Directed by Lisa Barros D’as and Glenn Leyburn.Good Vibrations is a film based in Belfast at the height of the troubles. You could call it a kind of a love story between Terri Hooley, ex-hippie and record store owner, and music itself, Specifically punk. It’s one of the few films, if not the first I have seen, that ‘takes the piss’ out of Belfast’s troubled history – fearlessly but with respect. At the Belfast premier, as could be expected, people were crying, shouting, singing, laughing. Even if you know nothing of punk, Belfast, politics, or the legend that is Terri Hooley, you will still enjoy this film.


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After two top vaccine directors at the Food and Drug Administration quit last year due to the debate over COVID-19 boosters, the agency has brought on a new vaccine director to helm the upcoming fall vaccination campaign.
David Kaslow, who was previously VP of vaccines and infectious diseases at Merck Research Laboratories, will step into the director role at the CBER’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review.
The move comes as the Biden administration is preparing a fall COVID-19 booster push. The FDA emergency recently authorized both the Pfizer and Moderna bivalent vaccines. Also referred to as “updated boosters,” the bivalent vaccines contain the original strain of the COVID-19 virus as well as an Omicron-targeted strain.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed up on the authorization, recommending a shot for anyone over the age of 12 who received a full vaccination more than two months ago.
“As we head into fall and begin to spend more time indoors, we strongly encourage anyone who is eligible to consider receiving a booster dose with a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants,” FDA commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
The approach is similar to last year’s ‘boosters-for-all’ strategy, which pushed to get boosters into arms despite hesitation among some FDA scientists. It’s also a sign that updated boosters-for-all may become annual as the pandemic wears on and the FDA experiences some friction between policy and science over the issue.
In fall 2021, Marion Gruber and Philip Krause both left the agency after voicing their opposition to the booster approach. In September 2021, an FDA advisory panel decided not to recommend an extra dose to the general population, suggesting it be limited to people aged 65 and older — or those who are immunocompromised. Data that the panel reviewed at the time showed fully vaccinated people were still highly protected against severe illness or hospitalization.
That decision clashed with President Biden’s plan to begin rolling out boosters-for-all later in the month.
In an article published in The Lancet, Gruber and Krause stated that the federal government wasn’t taking the proper evidence and science into account.
“Although the idea of further reducing the number of COVID-19 cases by enhancing immunity in vaccinated people is appealing, any decision to do so should be evidence-based and consider the benefits and risks for individuals and society,” they wrote.
In an article published in The Washington Post, Gruber and Krause also argued that the push for boosters could prolong the pandemic and affect perception of the shots.
“The campaign includes exaggerated accounts of the waning efficacy of the vaccines, giving the public — including the vaccine-hesitant — reason to think that the shots are less effective than originally advertised,” they wrote.
Many of these questions still remain a year later as the new bivalent boosters are being rolled out. Meanwhile, Kaslow will be taking over the Office of Vaccines Research and Review next month, replacing Peter Marks, who served as its acting director since Gruber left last year.
Finding a way to balance the likely annual rollout of updated COVID-19 boosters — while still having the FDA churn out studies and data that prove their efficacy over time — will be one major task on Kraslow’s to-do list.
Considerable questions about the science surrounding continued booster campaigns still remain, such as weighing how much more effective updated boosters would be compared to original vaccination.
There’s also the concern about whether it’s worth it, financially.
The Biden administration spent $3.2 billion to secure 105 million doses of Pfizer’s updated vaccine despite the fact that it’s still unclear whether the boosters will be beneficial among all age groups and populations in the U.S. That’s particularly notable given Congress’ halt on approving new COVID-19 funds.
Kaslow will also likely face another overarching topic that has impacted the boosters-for-all discussion: vaccine equity globally. Both Gruber and Krause argued in their Lancet article that primarily focusing on marginalized populations in the U.S. and low-income nations globally for the first round of vaccination would be the most effective way to curb the pandemic’s effects worldwide.
Kaslow, who spent more than a decade at global health nonprofit PATH — joining in 2012 as director of the organization’s Malaria Vaccine Initiative — brings some experience in this arena.
While there, Kraslow led various initiatives to boost development of vaccines for women and children around the world. Additionally, he worked on developing vaccines for other viruses, including rotavirus, typhoid, polio and enterotoxigenic E. coli. He also previously founded the Malaria Vaccine Development unit at the National Institutes of Health.


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Jordan and his family were great company to our beagle, Charlie! He enjoyed many walks, lots of affection and his new friend, Ruby! While he enjoyed his time with Jordan, we received lots of updates on how Charlie was doing - they were much appreciated! We would recommend Jordan to all of our friends with pups.
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BRIEF Renovation and extension of the school, consisting of a secondary school (up to 10th grade) and a federal school, construction of a three-court gymnasium. Independent functioning of both school systems, reinforcement of more interactivity. | ADDED VALUE Both school systems are connected by a common hall. This “hall for everyone” is the heart of the school: it is the entryway and enables access to the gymnasium and festival hall and functions also as a place for recess. Furthermore, the school area is open to the public, and, hence, integrated into urban life.
SCHOOL AT MITTERSILL, MITTERSILL | AUSTRIA The secondary school and the grammar school are developed as independent parts of the building with separate entrances, but are arranged around the central hall. The hall functions as an interface connecting the two schools but also containing the shared facilities. The new construction of the grammar school takes up the existing structure. The façade construction differentiates between old and new, while likewise creating something “totally new”: while the window alignments of the new building are precisely defined, the profile-glass shell discreetly covers the outside of the old building but so that one can still see its structure underneath. Ideally, every classroom faces either east or west. The gymnasium, completely encased in glass with its imprinted façade, appears to be an artificial object in the landscape. The differentiated exterior forms organizes the school courtyard into four activity zones: the meadow, the exercise zone, the quiet game-playing zone, and the loggia.