YellOwe Jam: Calm and Soulful Jazz
YellOwe Jam is a indie jazz duo that was formed in 2008. Kim Hee Chul (saxaphone) decided to formed a band after he heard Yedda’s (vocalist) voice that fit well with the songs that heal both mind and soul. Their mission is to share the music that is not only music to their ears but it is also the music that calms every listener.
A Warm Day (Source: YellOwe Jam YouTube)
Last year in December, they released their first album. This album consists of 13 tracks that expresses people’s inner feelings of peace and love. As you listen to this album, you can hear the soulful voice and easy listening saxaphone sound that calms your mind with ease.
Most of the tracks, like “One Warm Day”and “Blue Sky”, is played with saxaphone (main tune) and piano (background tune). The tempo for each song is slow and steady but with the smooth flow that makes you remember or imagine on the special day. The saxaphone tune is expressed with musical words of calm and happiness. “One, Two, Three” sets off in a dreamy tune as the moments of getting ready to say ‘I Love You’ but, in the end, regret not saying those three words. It has a set of light tunes while listeners will be mesmerized by YellOwe Jam’s vocals. Out of the tracks that I listened to, “Blue Sky” is my favourite because it made me feel that I am free. Free to spread my wings and fly in the clear blue sky. This track made me smile while my mind is clear and stress-free.
This album is a great recommendation to listen to when you feel stressed from work or problems. Or you could listen to their music while doing your work at home or during your leisure time. What better way to feel calm and relax is by listening to this album and have a cup of coffee or tea or a glass of wine.
Be sure to like their Facebook Page and follow them on Twitter. You can check out the rest of their videos through YouTube. Their album can be purchased through iTunes. Also, listen to some of their tracks through Soundcloud.


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By April of 2020, the Department of State complied with local lockdown orders and closed all passport agencies due to the threat of the COVID-19 Pandemic. All bargaining unit employees were placed on Weather and Safety Leave. Teleworking was not an option due to long standing State Department policy. That all changed on June 11th, 2020, when the Department designated Passport Services as Mission Critical. All bargaining unit employees were called back to the office, despite hazardous local public health conditions and orders restricting non-essential operations. Only bargaining unit employees who self-identified as high-risk based on CDC guidelines were permitted to remain on Weather and Safety Leave. The remaining employees diligently and eagerly returned to the office to serve the American public and process U.S. Passports. These employees worked long hours indoors in confined spaces, despite the clear risks inherent in doing so.
In November 2020, the Department unilaterally changed the qualifications for Weather and Safety Leave. Despite CDC guidelines and an exponentially rising number of daily cases, the qualifying medical conditions for remaining on Weather and Safety Leave were drastically reduced. Even more bargaining unit employees returned to work to tackle the rising backlog of passport applications.
Over the last several months, we have seen a growing number of passport applications arrive at our facilities. The public was warned of delays along every step of the way as well as interruptions in processing and shipping. Now officials and long-term employees are warning of similarities to 2007 when Passport Services received a record number of applications after the United States formally began enforcing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. At that time, delays were seen across the network as the American public scrambled to renew passports or apply for the new Passport Card.
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Passport specialists are working diligently to issue these travel documents while ensuring the integrity and strength of the American passport. Years of insufficient hiring a failure to retain employees and a hardline restriction of telework opportunities and facilities for passport specialists has hindered our ability to provide greater services to the American public and has been highlighted by the pandemic.
NFFE Local 1998 has repeatedly put forward prospective solutions to increase productivity while also ensuring the safety and well-being of our bargaining unit employees. We have called on Congress to appropriate funds for better software, equipment, and systems which has often landed on deaf ears. We have urged Management to take a serious look at the decrease in hiring over the past years and we have demanded the development of telework opportunities similar to that of other federal agencies that deal with Personally Identifiable Information.
Additionally, we have asked management to rethink the cap on overtime work for all bargaining unit employees. The work is there, and there are people that want to get passports to deserving applicants, but we are constantly restrained by the number of hours we are allowed to work.
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A Neo-Nazi Political Party in Greece Has Accepted Responsibility for the Murder of an Antifascist Rapper
Who the hell is going to vote for the far-right organization in the upcoming Greek elections now? I contacted some political analysts to find out.
A leaked video suggests the crackdown on Greece's far-right party was instigated by the government in an attempt to win votes.
Last night, more than 5,000 people stormed the streets in Athens to protest against the first political homicide in Greece since the early 90s. A 34-year-old antifa activist and rapper, locally known as "Killah P" was stabbed twice on Tuesday evening...


A 21-year-old man, Awodeji Aderanti, was on Tuesday remanded in an Ilesa prison in Osun for alleged armed robbery.
Aderanti is facing a two-count charge of armed robbery and theft.
The Magistrate, Mr Ashiru Ayeni, ordered the defendant to be kept in prison due to the magnitude of the alleged offence.
The prosecutor, Insp Mustapha Tajudeen, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 14, 2016 at about 2:00 a.m. at Ido- Osun area of Osogbo.
Tajudeen told the court that the defendant robbed one Folakemi Alonge at gun point and carted away some valuables which included a laptop computer, three mobile phones and a pair of shoes.
Other items stolen were two hard disk, three sacks and ONTV identity card.
Read Also: Court remands man over alleged armed robbery
He said that the items allegedly stolen were worth about N702,500.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened sections 6(b) and 1(2) (a)(b) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap vol. 14 , Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The plea of the accused was not taken while the Magistrate adjourned the case till Jan. 30, 2018, for mention.


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You may have noticed the web has pictures. Some have objected. How can the web think itself a serious literary medium with so many pictures? Ah, but does an author not paint a picture with his words? Herman Melville made some of the finest sketches of sperm whales known to man. James Joyce drafted blueprints for city planners in Dublin. Not a single detail was lacking, no manhole missing, no soft, brown liver unrewarded for a lifetime of abuse. And J.K. Rowling does bas-relief for the masses. So let the web have its pictures, in particular the little white kitty that pirouettes or the fire hydrant that wiggles. Let’s see your precious ‘illustrations’ do that. Oh, and the mail box that opens to let in the floating letter. Sensational. Nothing wrong with animated GIF’s.
And what about sounds? Perhaps the author (web artist) has carefully chosen some music to enhance the browsing experience (children will learn to browse at an early age). I once saw a mostly photography exhibit by Nic Nicosia. He had lots of quality snaps on the wall, but he also had some looping videos as part of the exhibit (contemporary art has been making people think for a least twenty years). The music leaking from the video installations made for effective (if accidental) soundtracks to the nearby pictures. Even now it’s hard to remember those photographs without remembering that music, or at least the way it made me feel. Later, I had a similar experience at a Viktor Schreckengost exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Fine Art. The famous Jazz Bowl (which I had never heard of) made so much more sense with Duke Ellington percolating from unseen speakers. Me, the Duke, and that bowl shared something that day, which most people cannot even imagine (unless they click here).
So I walked out of the exhibit to find, of all things, one Viktor Schreckengost, age ninety-four, sitting at a table with his daughter. In front of the table was a line of people who had all been waiting—a lot longer than me—to meet him. So I did what any reasonable person would have done: I bought a one dollar post card of a Jazz Bowl and got in line. When my turn came, I pushed my card in front of him, and politely asked if he would sign it. He signed it. But then, without warning, he looked up at me and smiled, “Did you like the exhibit?” [internal scream sponsored by Warner Bros] Oh my god! What do you say when the Pope asks you how you liked the sermon? And you can’t pretend to speak another language either, cause he’ll damn well know it. It seemed to me I had two main options. “Yeah, your work is pretty good” or “oh yes, I’ve been your biggest fan for—at least two hours.” I chose ‘stand there like an idiot for a few seconds’ until finally, my mouth just said, “yes.” And everyone seemed satisfied, or relieved, sort of like when someone asks a baseball player if he’s already thinking about the next series, and then he says he’s just going to “take it one game at a time”—collective sigh of relief across T.V. viewing audience. Or maybe it’s “in God’s hands now.” Hey, can my day at work tomorrow be in God’s hands? That would really take a load off. Listen, we’re going to pay you five million dollars a year, and all you have to do is learn these two mind numbing phrases. And coaches—they’re even worse. They not only say the shit, but then, before you can even say anything, they come out with, “Well, they may be clichés, but there’s a reason for it.” Dammit. Hieronymo’s foiled againe—by the skipper.
So now let us consider a web site put out by a wine tasting social club called the Wine Boobs. Essentially they would get together in a group of about five or six people each bringing a bottle of wine in a brown paper bag so as to conceal its identity. They would then taste the wines and reverse transcribe their discussion as if into a screenplay, which you could then read.
Please read the short piece itself. Then come back for further instructions. Oh, you're back. While you were gone, I was just thinking about the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are. I thought about the also wild illustrations in I'm blanking on the title, but I seem to remember there was some sort of clue hidden in the illustrations that would enable you to find a huge pile of cash buried somewhere, probably in a French coastal town, but I suppose it could be anywhere. That book was cool. And Edward Gorey. And who could ignore the lush autumnal colors in the more recent Polkabats and Octopus Slacks? I thought about Kubrick's image of the Earth in 2001 (and the music that goes with it).
Now let us discuss the aforementioned web site, the web site that uses words and pictures, as the existential work it is, addressing the ankle-tugging theme of man's importance as an individual. We go through life pursuing our little interests, patting and being patted on the back, but eventually, at some point, we all turn 'to windward'. In order to understand what I'm talking about, you have to understand how this wine tasting bunch known as the Wine Boobs started out. In the early days, they were youthful and optimistic, poor and clever, and living in Philadelphia. They got downright excited to rediscover the glory of Gewürztraminer [WB #9] and grieved for the overlooked complexities of a twenty year old Barbaresco [WB #15]. Their fun and silliness knew no limits. Parmigiano was grated so vigorously so as to be “shrapnel” hitting people in the face, and the qualities of a wine were more than once compared to those of the opposite sex, and vice versa. Now for the most part, the Boobs had never flirted with pictures or sounds, instead using only the Roman alphabet (God’s alphabet) to convey their wisdom and humor. In fact, they even once described the music their protagonists heard during the tasting, but of course, no real sound. Yet this time, without warning, they used a picture. I mean, they really used a picture. And I thought to myself, “Why the hell not? Just why the hell not?” And would it have been the same had they just written [screen fills up with giant picture of blue sun—and it’s magnificent]?
But in this final essay [WB #23], the first after a very long hiatus, one senses the post-power chord disenchantment of a rock band who’ve accidentally peaked, and it’s far too soon. And now we’ve finally had the fifty year old Bordeaux and the thirty year old Burgundy and the Sauternes we were saving for some other narrative. It’s over, and nothing is changed. The meal is ended, she is bored and tired. Not even another cigarette can help. Should we try to regain that sense of anticipation we had in the beginning, when we only dreamed of having the great wine? Can we ever again be satisfied with twelve dollar Gewürz because “it has so much going on?” And worst of all, as hinted at by the image of “the big blue sun,” could there be something more important than our wines? Than ourselves? Our bitches? Where do we go from here? Where go? Where? Wallala leialala. Dalran. Damyata. Syrah.
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In the early years, the internet was able to merge sound, text and graphic to provide a multimodal experience that was unprecedented. Eventually, the widespread accessibility of the medium led to quality control problems and great inefficiency. Time travel was still hundreds of years away, and so, for truly sensitive people, time was the only real commodity. As such, people could scarcely waste it panning for nuggets on the internet. Search engines and directories were employed to overcome the problem by categorizing the growing content. However, these efforts would ultimately prove futile. Instead, they would come to rely on a modified version of what historians would call the publishing barrier. For centuries, long before the internet, the publishing barrier had ensured that only the highest quality writing was put into books, magazines and news tabloids, which people would then purchase and read with their eyes. As the internet became unworkable, the publishing system was adapted to form the CCC (carefully chosen content), at first a supplement, but later...


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Happy November Everyone!
Sure hope you had a great Halloween weekend....I know I did :)
I was super excited to decorate for November so here is what I did to dress up my little apartment for the month. Simple and fun and most of it was even free!!
Pine cones and acorns...FREE!! Went on a walk in the neighborhood the other day and found the pine cones for free. And thanks to a wonderful neighbor for the acorns, they were free too!
(I saw a small bag at the craft store for fake acorns and they were asking $15.00....ridiculous....so these real ones are much better)
I made the wooden pumpkin at a family event a week ago (thanks to a cousin of mine) and the OWL template can be found HERE, if you want to make your own.
I bought these scarecrows several years ago and they are one of my favorites to bring out every fall. The fabric pumpkins are made with toilet paper rolls. Three different sizes using a whole roll (the brown one), a roll cut in half (the orange one) and the tall pumpkin is from a roll of paper towels.
I also added a couple of real pumpkins (carried over from my Halloween decor) and some leaves from the dollar store.
The newest addition for this year is my Banner.
(I made this with stuff I already had in my scrap booking supplies)
Some chipboard and paper and hemp twine is all it took. Of course I added glitter too, just to dress it up a bit.
The cute circles on my banner I printed out for free HERE.
Here it is all put together. I just love Fall time!!
Ohhh, almost forgot. I made this fun fall frame just by using some fall scrapbook paper. I painted an old frame red and added a sunflower to the group of pictures.
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Tramel: LeBron James shows Thunder that size matters in Lakers' rout
LeBron James got the ball on the wing and was guarded by Alexsej Pokusevski. You read that right.
We have reached the point in this NBA season where literally anything is possible. LeBron and Poku are playing the same sport, but aren’t playing the same game, if you know what I mean.
LeBron is almost twice as old and seems twice as big as the Serbian stringbean. Poku would stand a better chance of finding his way out of the Kiamichi Mountains than stopping LeBron.
But LeBron is a kindly soul. A benevolent NBA monster. LeBron took mercy upon Poku and instead of driving and sending Poku reeling into Reno Avenue, LeBron launched a stepback 3-point jumper. It went in, of course.
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That’s LeBron’s method of load management. He’ll take a breather by avoiding the traffic in the lane a few times a game.
A couple of possessions later, there was Poku again, guarding LeBron. Same exact thing, except this time LeBron’s 3-pointer was wiped out by an illegal defense call against the Thunder.
Illegal defense? How about illegal rosters? How can you stage an NBA game where one team looks like genetically-engineered mutants against guys barely out of high school?
The Lakers’ size is startling. You forget until the game starts. You know the names, you even see the starting lineups, but it doesn’t really register until the basketball begins.
Then, Anthony Davis is playing power forward for the Lakers, because someone bigger can man the pivot. Marc Gasol was the second-biggest structure in OKC on Wednesday night, behind only the Devon Tower. Gasol is 7-foot tall and 7-foot wide.
Which means LeBron is playing on the wing, when he’s not playing point guard.
LeBron as the third-most physically imposing player in a starting lineup? The Lakers are science fiction.
The starkness came early in the Thunder’s 128-99 loss to the Lakers.
Gasol guarded by Isaiah Roby, Davis guarded by Darius Bazley and LeBron guarded by Luguentz Dort.
LeBron is about six inches and 35 pounds bigger than Dort, and LeBron is the best player in this or any other world, and yet that’s the matchup you felt best about from a Thunder perspective, since Dort is thick in body and desire.
Roby has a winning smile and is a pleasant surprise as a Thunder role player, and Bazley looks like he’ll have a nice career as an NBA ballplayer, but they looked like summer campers called out to the court for bemusement .
Does size matter? It more than matters when said size comes with top-shelf talent.
“It’s the NBA,” said Thunder backup Kenrich Williams, who took a turn guarding LeBron. “Players are going to be big. It’s all about going out there and competing and fighting. I don’t think size really has a lot to do with it.”
Well that’s just silly. Size is what makes Davis, Davis. Size is what makes LeBron, LeBron. Even Gasol. Incredibly large men who can work wonders with the basketball. Davis has the footwork and shooting touch of an elite small forward. LeBron has the court instincts of and skills of an all-star point. And they’re playing in bodies that dwarf opponents.
Thunder coach Mark Daigneault acknowledged the size differential and the lack of recourse for a squad like the Thunder. But he offered up a challenge and what an outmanned team can get from a game like this.
“A lot of it is our base coverage,” Daigneault. “Let’s have them score on us because they’re big, not because of a mistake we make. That’s the challenge. If a team’s bigger than us, or more athletic than us, let’s force them to rely on that. Tonight, the other thing they did, they made some shots. Let’s make a team like that make shots.”
The Lakers made shots. The Thunder actually didn’t get slaughtered in the paint, even with starting center Al Horford taking the night off, standard on the second night of a back-to-back and quite fortuitous for Horford’s well-being. Old Al is a grizzled pro, but he’s undersized, too.
The Lakers made 28 of 48 shots in the paint, but that’s not bad. The Thunder wasn’t too much behind that, 24 of 43. OKC even got 16 foul shots, two more than the Lakers, on paint fouls.
But the Lakers made 17 of 37 3-point shots, including five of eight from LeBron himself.
That’s the Laker story. Size AND skill. I know of no tonic for that.

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A new national report looks at how long families wait for a housing voucher. In Indianapolis the wait time can be over four years.
The Indianapolis Housing Agency runs the housing voucher program and served more than 8,300 households last year. According to the analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, CBPP, people waited an average of 50 months for a voucher.
CBPP President Sharon Parrott said the pandemic has heightened the need for rental assistance and it should be a priority in any recovery legislation.
“Particularly housing vouchers that are highly effective in helping households afford housing that they choose,” Parrott said.
Vouchers have been shown to reduce homelessness and improve wellbeing.
Parrott said the research shows disparities in housing.
“This burden falls heavily on renters of color who are substantially more likely to report that their household is not caught up on rent,” Parrott said.
Other recommendations for housing security as the federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire next week, include continued emergency rental assistance.
Indianapolis has invested nearly $100 million in federal funding on rental assistance.


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As the version number suggests, this is not a stable release, which means that we are not in production yet. The process of achieving version 1.0 and starting the main network will consist of several areas of activity, including:
- finding bugs on the test network and improving the code;
- working towards adoption by exchanges;
- improving documentation;
When a satisfactory level in these areas is achieved, it is planned to announce Initial Burn Offering (IBO) — initial set of ercoins is going to be distributed proportionally to the amount of blackcoins burnt in some time window.
To learn about design goals and features, read the whitepaper.
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Version 0.1.1 has been released which updates the entropy library. Launch of the test network will happen using a newly-generated genesis data which uses real entropy instead of the dummy one.


DEL MAR — Pedestrians, many probably with pooches, will benefit from this year’s street and drainage capital project. The Public Works Department will add a 5-foot wide concrete sidewalk to the west side of Camino del Mar from Dog Beach to the Border Avenue and Via de la Valle intersection, which will be completely redone.
Improvements there include repaving, new signage and striping, storm drain upgrades and additional pedestrian ramps to allow four-way crossing.
Crossing at the intersection is currently legal from only two corners.
Curbs, gutters and a sidewalk will also be installed along the south side of Border Avenue. Bike lanes will be restriped throughout the project area where necessary.
The second half of the project will add a new drainage system to about 600 feet of roadway on the south side of San Dieguito Drive where potholes are filled with standing water.
“We’re not sure if it’s overwatering or ground water, but there is constantly puddling there on the south half of the road,” Public Works Director Eric Minicilli said during a sparsely attended informational open house at City Hall Annex on Feb. 6.
The estimated cost for both projects is $375,000, according to the bid request, which was open until Feb. 12.
Minicilli said the city received a $105,000 grant from the county Vector Control Program for the San Dieguito Road improvements because stagnant water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
The $180,000 the city receives annually in TransNet funds will be used for work at the intersection and along Camino del Mar and Border Avenue. Money from the general fund will make up the shortfall, he said.
City Council is expected to take action on the improvements, including awarding a construction contract, at the Feb. 19 meeting.
Minicilli said work should begin in March and be complete before the San Diego County Fair opens June 8, however, the San Dieguito Road job might take a few weeks longer.
Contract bidders were given a May 17 deadline.
He said plans for the intersection improvements were complete in July. The ditch project has been in the works for a couple of years.
“Residents and the county brought it to our attention but we’ve known about it,” he said.
“As with all construction, it will be impactful,” Minicilli said. “There will be closures.” He said there could also be some very short-term disruption to water service in the immediate area.


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Despite the attention devoted to the form, chronology, and distribution of the Judahite rock-cut tomb and to its social and religious significance, few, if any, studies have attempted to explain the reasons behind the appearance of the rock-cut tomb in the ninth century and its emergence to prominence during the eighth-seventh centuries BCE, after some four centuries in which simple inhumations were the norm. The period under discussion was a troubled one. Accelerated urbanisation, growing population density and social inequalities, evolving trade and mass production, and increased hired labour, along with external political and military pressures, all led to the disintegration of lineages and extended families in the urban sector and to growing insecurity. The Judahite tomb, which stresses the permanent nature of the family and generational continuity, was the response of the extended family - the biblical bet 'ab - to these threats. As more and more families were harmed by the social changes, it became increasingly necessary for the remaining families to transmit, both to themselves and to their peers, the message that they survive and flourish. Changes in burial practice also attest to the development and complexity of Judahite ideology and ethos. Although some elements remained constant (e.g., the ethos of simplicity and egalitarianism), their role and importance changed diachronically (from the early to the late Iron Age) and synchronically (during the late Iron Age) between rich and poor, and between urban and rural families. Because the four-room house was already the symbol of the family, it was the best vehicle to transmit the message that the family persisted. In sum, the adoption of the house plan for the Judahite tomb was an attempt to immortalise the bet'ab in stone.
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A transit advocacy group is trying to get documents related to the law firm the Town of Chevy Chase hired to fight the construction of the Purple Line through the town.
The Action Committee for Transit, a group that supports building the Purple Line, says it has requested the contract, invoices and correspondence between the Town of Chevy Chase and Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, the law firm the town hired to help it oppose construction of the light rail line.
Ben Ross, a nonvoting board member and former president of the Action Committee for Transit, or ACT, said the organization wants to pin down whether the law firm is lobbying Congress on behalf of the town.
Mayor Pat Burda told The Washington Post in January that the town is not lobbying Congress, because the Federal Transit Administration recommends projects for federal construction money. ACT points to a congressional lobbying disclosure report filed by the law firm listing the town as a client, however.
“One thing we’re going to see is what the invoices say has been done for this money,” Ross said.
Town Manager Todd Hoffman was not immediately available for comment Tuesday afternoon.
The Town Council is expected to vote Feb. 12 on whether to give the firm a $360,000, 18-month contract.


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The day a new “biotooth” can be grown in the gap left by a missing tooth as an alternative to having a false one implanted came a step closer recently when UK researchers revealed how they have developed a way to bioengineer new teeth from a person’s own gum cells.
However, it may be some years before what has been achieved in the lab is available to patients sitting in the dentist’s chair. The researchers had to combine the human gum cells with a type of embryonic mouse cell to instruct the gum cells to make teeth. The next challenge is to find a human adult cell that can be coaxed to do the same.
Paul Sharpe, a professor at King’s College London, and colleagues, report their work in the 4 March online before print issue of the Journal of Dental Research.
With an implant, the lack of a natural root structure means eventually the friction from eating, and other jaw movements, cause loss of jaw bone around the implant.
A bioengineered “living” tooth would preserve the health of the surrounding tissue much better than an artificial implant, as Sharpe, an expert in craniofacial development and stem cell biology, explained in 2004, when he and his colleagues received a grant of £0.5m (about $0.8m) to develop a way to use stem cells to make a new tooth:
“Teeth are living, and they are able to respond to a person’s bite. They move and in doing so they maintain the health of the surrounding gums and teeth.”
Natural teeth start forming in the embryo from the interaction of two types of cell: epithelial cells, that make surface lining tissue such as of the skin and gums, and mesenchymal cells, that can develop into a range of different tissues, including bone and cartilage.
In their study background, the authors explain how you can take these embryonic cells individually and recombine them to form normal teeth.
So research has focused on generating immature teeth (teeth primordia) that mimic those in the embryo and can be transplanted as small cell “pellets” into the adult human jaw to grow into functional teeth.
What is remarkable is that even though the cell environments of the embryo and adult jaw are quite different, embryonic immature teeth can deveop normally in the adult mouth.
The challenge to researchers is to find a source of suitable cells that would make the method clinically viable, as Sharpe explains:
“What is required is the identification of adult sources of human epithelial and mesenchymal cells that can be obtained in sufficient numbers to make biotooth formation a viable alternative to dental implants.”
In this study, it looks like they have solved the first half of the problem: how to source human epithelial cells.
Sharpe and colleagues isolated epithelial cells from adult human gum tissue, and then cultured them with mouse embryonic tooth mesenchyme cells.
The gum tissue came from patients at the Dental Institute at King’s College London.
When transplanted into mice, the epithelial-mesenchyme cell combination formed hybrid human-mouse teeth with dentine, enamel, and viable roots.
Sharpe says the study shows that in the lab at least, epithelial cells from adult human tissue are able to respond to the tooth-producing signals from the mouse embryonic tooth mesenchyme cells “in an appropriate way to contribute to tooth crown and root formation and give rise to relevant differentiated cell types”.
“These easily accessible epithelial cells are thus a realistic source for consideration in human biotooth formation,” he concludes.
So the next major challenge, is to find a way to get adult human mesenchymal cells to send tooth-inducing signals, because at the moment, the researchers can only get embryonic mesenchymal cells to do that.
In another recently reported study, teams from the Universities of Southampton and Edinburgh in the UK describe how bone tissue grown from patients’ own stem cells onto a plastic biodegradable scaffolding could soon be helping to heal shattered limbs.
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD


April 5, 2012 — Warmer, More Wind Today; Cold Front Moves in Friday
Warmer spring temperatures return to Wyoming today, but the wind will as well. Above average temperatures, strong winds and low relative humidity will once again lead to very high and extreme fire dangers in some portions of the state. A Red Flag Warning is in effect for portions of central and south central Wyoming this afternoon through 7pm. Casper is included in the Red Flag Warning. South to southwest winds will gust up to 40 mph at times. Temperatures will warm into the 40s in the far west to the 60s and lower 70s in the east. Highs today in Casper will be in the 60s.
A cold front will start to travel through the state on Friday. Showers and mixed showers will develop in the west and north during the day. By the evening a few of these showers and perhaps a few isolated thunderstorms may develop further south and east. Northern and western areas will be in the best position for precipitation.
During the day on Friday, temperatures will still be quite mild in the east and once again the wind will be strong. A Fire Weather Watch has been issued for east central and southeastern Wyoming Friday afternoon and evening.


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Study: Lehigh Valley Has More Affordable Cost of Living Than Other Northeast Markets
By Colin McEvoy on September 12, 2018
The Lehigh Valley has a much more affordable cost of living than practically every other major market in the Northeast, according to a newly-released national study.
The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) released its quarterly Cost of Living Index, which compares prices for various goods and services across 259 major markets across the United States.
The index found the Lehigh Valley’s cost of living was much lower than most Northeast markets in most of the categories measured, including housing, transportation, groceries, and overall cost of living.
The Lehigh Valley was found to be 127 percent more affordable than Manhattan, 69 percent more than Brooklyn, 43 percent more than Boston, and 18 percent more affordable than North Jersey, to name a few examples.
“The fact that we compare so favorably to other regions in the Northeast continues to show that the Lehigh Valley is the most affordable place to do business in the most desirable market in the United States,” said Don Cunningham, President & CEO of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC).
“This information we gather for the Cost of Living Index is critical intelligence in the competition to attract and retain companies, create jobs, and recruit people to the Lehigh Valley,” Cunningham said.
The study found the Lehigh Valley’s overall affordability in the second quarter of 2018 has increased slightly, and remains nearly aligned with the national average for the 259 major urban areas that participated in the index.
The Lehigh Valley is just 4.9 percent more expensive than the national average, a decrease from 5.9 percent in Q1 2018. That’s far lower than Northeast markets like Manhattan (138 percent), Brooklyn (77 percent), Washington, D.C. (57 percent), and Boston (50 percent).
The standard cost of living ranged from more than twice the national average in Manhattan, the most expensive area surveyed, to almost 25 percent below the national average in Harlingen, Texas, according to C2ER.
The Lehigh Valley fared particularly well in the category of housing costs when compared to Northeast markets. Housing in the Lehigh Valley is 335 percent more affordable than in Manhattan, 175 percent more affordable than in Brooklyn, 123 percent more affordable than in Washington D.C.
The main reason the Lehigh Valley became more affordable in Q2 2018 compared to other markets is transportation, with gasoline price increases in other parts of the country bringing the region closer to the national average, according to George Lewis, LVEDC Director of Research and Analysis.
Within the subcategories measured by the index, food in the Lehigh Valley costs 1.2 percent less than the national average, health care costs 2.5 percent more, transportation costs 2.9 percent more, and housing costs 15.5 percent more.
The Cost of Living Index measures regional differences in the cost of consumer goods and services, excluding taxes and non-consumer expenditures, for professional and managerial households in the top income quintile, according to C2ER.
It is based on more than 90,000 prices covering 60 different items for which prices are collected quarterly by chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and university-applied economic centers in each participating urban area.
C2ER has been publishing the quarterly index since 1968. The index is based on six component categories: housing, utilities, grocery items, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services, according to C2ER.
This marks the sixth consecutive quarter that the Lehigh Valley has been included in the Cost of Living Index. Since resuming participation in 2017, when LVEDC began gathering data on prices in the Lehigh Valley and submitting it to C2ER.
Prices for the index for the third quarter of 2018 were submitted on July 27, and the next report is expected to be released in October, Lewis said.
In addition to staff members, LVEDC uses volunteers to gather prices for items measured by the Cost of Living Index. If anyone would like to volunteer, contact Lewis at (610) 266-6852 or email@example.com for more information.
Trade Representatives From Around the World Visit the Lehigh Valley
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The Obama Administration's housing rescue plan will be unveiled in a speech today. CNN has reported early details. The plan includes what has been a controversial item to date, allowing bankruptcy judges to modify mortgage contracts.
Obama seeks to aid up to 9 million borrowers - Feb. 18, 2009The Obama plan calls for:
• Helping borrowers who owe more than 80% of their home's value to refinance and reduce their monthly payments.
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The Israeli Police made a statement for the first time Friday afternoon on rumors circulating the Israeli media that a major piece of news incriminating top police officials was under a media embargo.
"As of last night, we witnessed various media publications publish headlines and hints that a report could discredit 30,000 dedicated police officers who worked day and night for the security of Israeli citizens," the police said.
"If there is a case," the police added, the details are nowhere to be found.
"The media should have waited and avoided meaningless publications based on estimates and speculation," it said, slamming outlets which listed "unrelated events" to "escalate drama and harm Israeli police at its core."
Various reports in Hebrew media stated overnight that a "major development" had been made in internal investigations over the police, which recently revealed that it would dismiss five top-ranking officers over the poor handling of the 100 emergency hotline call to police by murdered teen Gilad Sha'ar.
The call took place at 10:25 p.m. on June 12, lasted in total for 2:09 minutes - most of which was comprised of the police trying to resume contact after Gilad abruptly stopped talking, after being found out by the Hamas terrorists.
Some of the tape consists of garbled pleas by Gilad for help, with the police respondent saying “hello?” in response, apparently not understanding what is being said to him. Eventually he does get the message and asks the youth where he is, but at that point, Gilad is cut off.
In the background, various noises are heard including shouts by the kidnappers at the youths to “keep their heads down,” an Israel Radio program, several gunshots – and, it was revealed Wednesday afternoon, singing by the terrorists.
Police apparently thought that the call was a hoax, and ignored it until the parents of one of the youths filed a missing person's report at 3:00 a.m. It was still several hours before police connected the frantic call with the report.
The police have been under intense scrutiny since the call was leaked, and were forced to state Wednesday that they have not orchestrated its publication after rumors of a plot to shift blame for the abduction.


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-Prevents women from having an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation.
-Raises the standards for abortion clinics to a the level of a surgical center.
-Doctors in abortion centers must have privileges to admit patients in a hospital that is at maximum 30 miles away.
Luckily, I was able to speak with a DUCOM student from Texas to get their options. In short, they said they were not surprised this bill was passed, since Texas is such a conservative state. As a future physician, they feel that regardless of your stance on abortion it is important to listen to your patient and help them to decide which reproductive options are best for them. They also brought up another good point. Almost half of all pregnancies are unplanned. Maybe that's the public health issue we should really be focusing on.
What are your thoughts?
Click here to read the New York times article
More info and statistics on unplanned pregancy and abortion:
Abortion Facts from the Guttmacher Institute
Unplanned Pregnancy Facts from the Guttmacher Institute

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MBALE – For some of us who lived in the 1980s, we know how long Congolese and South African music dominated Ugandan airwaves.
It took real balls, guts and gnashing of the teeth to elevate Ugandan music and musicians to where they are today. The likes of Philly Lutaaya sacrificed their youthful time and resources to place their mark on the music scene where others had failed.
For many years past and many years to come, Christmas is nothing without listening to Philly Lutaaya “Katujaguze” among others. It is therefore an insult to Philly, his family and Ugandans for a one Eddy Kenzo to say what he said against a legendary. Pride always goes before a fall.
In a March 1966 interview, a one John Lennon of the Beatles music group uttered something that slowly but surely destroyed their image for life.
Lennon claimed that the public were more infatuated with his band than with Jesus and the Christian faith. Initially, the remarks were taken lightly until when the story was republished in one of the newspapers in the United States. Thus, a silly comment such as the one Kenzo made can destroy a whole label.
Lennon’s comments incited protests and threats to the extent that some radio stations stopped playing Beatles songs, records were publicly burned, and press conferences were cancelled. The controversy coincided with the band’s 1966 American tour and overshadowed press coverage of their newest album called revolver. Lennon apologized repeatedly at a series of press conferences and explained that he was not comparing himself or the band to Christ.
The controversy exacerbated the band’s unhappiness with touring, which they never undertook again before their break-up in 1970; Lennon also refrained from touring in his solo career. Some Christian critics also found Lennon’s 1971 song “images” offensive. In 1980, Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman, a Christian-raised fan of the Beatles who had been alienated by Lennon’s quote and lyrics from “Imagine”.
Personally, I had heard of the name Eddy Kenzo but did not know who he was. I had no idea he was in the music industry until last weekend when I watched the video in which he was belittling Philly Lutaaya and his legendary song’s “Born in Africa” Out of curiosity, I took to Google and managed to listen to ten of Kenzo’s songs. A new week had began but am still trying to identify any song of his to compare to Philly’s worst song. This Kenzo man has also insinuated that he did Philly Lutaaya a favour to re-do his song to give it mileage. Kenzo believes numbers don’t lie and since he has more views to his songs, he is more popular than Philly Lutaaya.
Shame on you Kenzo, getting a few awards which did not exist in the 1980s is not a basis to compare yourself to a legendary who gave a human face to Ugandan music. Your comparison is out of order and certainly out of range. A statue or a mirage of a dead Philly Bongole Lutaaya planted somewhere would attract more attention than you who is still alive. Looking at you in front of Lutaaya is like looking at a dog barking at an elephant. You may have no option but to visit Philly Lutaaya’s grave to apologize lest your days in the music industry are numbered.
To rely on social media views to determine your fame is obviously a wrong yard stick. Some people don’t view your music because they like it; others go there to laugh at the quality of the audio while others go there to watch the scenes or the dances in the videos. That does not necessarily make one famous or popular. Philly Lutaaya lived in a different generation where there was no internet or social media. If you resurrected the late Philly Lutaya, gave him the platforms that this generation has enjoyed, no one will compete with him or even come half way the name and quality of music that he created.
Somebody needs to remind the jokers of this generation that Philly Lutaaya was born in 1951 and died on December, 15, 1989. Eddy Kenzo was only born on the 25th December, 1989 about ten days after the death of Philly. In other words, this boy is trying to insult and or compete with a man who lived and died before he-Kenzo’s birth. Be that as it may, Philly Lutaaya’s music shoes were and are still too big to fit any one in this generation; not even Chameleon, Bebe Cool, Ragga Dee and Bobi Wine can dare launch an attack on their predecessor in the industry.
To educate Kenzo, there is a clear difference between a star and a celebrity. A Star is born; a Celebrity is made or created. Philly Lutaya was two in one. Eddy Kenzo is just a social media celebrity who rose to fame because of employing the services of unique dancers and producing nature friendly videos. During the 1980s, the awards that are making Kenzo proud did not exist and if they did, they were not reserved for Africans like Philly Lutaaya.
I personally had no idea somebody had given permission to another to reproduce Philly Lutaaya’s songs. Listening to Kenzo’s version of “Born in Africa, I was short of throwing up and so I decided to mute my laptop. Lutaaya was a multi-talented guy. The original version made in the early 1980s still stands out of the crowd. Unlike the majority of the people who call themselves musicians, Philly Lutaaya was all round; he would compose music, dance, play musical instruments, writer songs, produce his own music and above all he was a musician.
The likes of Philly Bongole Lataaya, Fred Masagazi, Herman Basudde, Job Paul Kafeero, Elly Wamala, Fred Sebatta, Afrigo Band, Livingstone Kasozi, Christopher Ssebaduka and other uncelebrated musicians of the 60s, 70s and the 80s who relied on a piano, a guitar and local drums to produce music are not comparable to anyone else in this generation. They lived during unique hard times and they laid a foundation upon which the likes of Kenzo are flourishing. For some of us who read between lines, Kenzo is not getting foreign awards because he is good at what he does, some people are promoting him as a role model for a different agenda.
The recording studios of the time were relying on rudimentary equipments to produce and store music. There were no computers to enhance the voices or to correct mistakes that were made during recording. At times they had to cut a portion of the tape that had an error and used gum to glue it together. There was no auto-tune that is used in this age to turn terrible voices into something that comes close to a good voice. No wonder most of them cannot do a cappella of their own songs. After the Lutaaya’s of this world, there came another category of musicians whose music appealed to the youth of the late 1980s and 1990s.
If it were Raggae Dee, Rasta Rob, Emperor Orlando, Jimmy Katumba, Jose Chameleon, Fred Maiso, Bebe Cool, Menton Summer, Shanks Vivid, Juliana Kanyomozi, Kezia Nambi, Bobi Wine, Kads band, Nubian Lee, Jingo Show among talking, we would listen. We all know how hard it was to penetrate the music industry in the 1990s more at a time when the likes Puff Daddy, Eminem, Tupac Shakur were producing high quality music.
Some times when you have nothing to talk about, say nothing or even cry if you must. Silence helps you express yourself without uttering a single word. No one can deny the power of silence in this world because it helps deal with the most complex people and situations. Most people find it beneficial to be silent rather than shouting or arguing or saying things that will embarrass them. Kenzo, it is high time you consider silence as a sign of wisdom instead of weakness. Respect can diminish when you speak nonsense to the public.
The auther, Wadada Rogers is a commentator on political, legal and social issues. Wadroger @yahoo.ca
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Christmas came to NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza a month early when Justin Bieber hit the outdoor stage on the “Today” show to perform songs off his Christmas album Under the Mistletoe. The teen idol warmed up the freezing stage by bringing out Usher to cover the holiday classic “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).”
Following the performance, Ursh addressed the recent claims from a woman who says Bieber fathered her child. “A lot of it comes with the territory. Popularity makes you a target,” said the music industry vet. “We’re focusing on more positive things. This year, having the first No. 1 Christmas album ever, it’s a great accomplishment. That speaks to the world, no matter what negativity comes your way, there’s always something positive there.”
The Biebs also premiered the video for “Fa La La,” a duet with his childhood idols Boyz II Men. Watch both below.


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When Can You Go Back to Work if You've Had the Coronavirus?
The CDC has extensive criteria you must meet to discontinue home isolation and return to work.
Businesses are reopening as states lift lockdown orders, but the coronavirus is still spreading. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says employers have the ability to "prevent and slow the spread of COVID-19 within the workplace," if they use best practices and implement preventative guidelines—which include determining when it's safe for an employee to return to work after they've had the coronavirus.
According to the CDC, employers should not let employees return to work "until the criteria to discontinue home isolation are met."
Currently, the CDC has different criteria for those who have symptoms and those who have tested positive but remain asymptomatic. However, both cases call for at least 14 days of self-quarantine after exposure and at least 10 days following a patient's first positive coronavirus test or initial onset of symptoms.
"This recommendation will prevent most, but cannot prevent all, instances of secondary spread," the CDC notes. "Employers and local public health authorities can choose to apply more stringent criteria for certain persons where a higher threshold to prevent transmission is warranted."
For those with symptoms, at least 72 hours need to have passed since recovery, which the CDC defines as "resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in respiratory symptoms," like cough and shortness of breath. And at least 10 days need to have passed since the patient first began to show symptoms. In addition, the person must provide negative results from a COVID-19 test authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The CDC says employers also need to protect employees who were potentially exposed to someone who has the coronavirus, as they may be asymptomatic and may also develop symptoms within a few days. These employees should be instructed to stay home for 14 days, working remotely if possible, and to self-monitor for any symptoms that may arise. And for more ways to stay safe at your job after reopening, check out Don't Go Back to Work If Your Office Doesn't Have This One Thing.


Israeli police have blocked a planned march by Jewish nationalists through Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem after a similar parade last month played a key role in building the tensions that led to the latest Gaza conflict.
In a statement, police said a permit for a different time or route might be considered.
The decision came as Israel faced an anxious week ahead, with an opposition coalition pushing forward in its attempts to oust the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
The fragile and ideologically diverse new government may not be voted on in the Knesset until 14 June, said the parliament speaker and Netanyahu ally Yariv Levin on Monday, giving the prime minister more time to knock it down.
In the past few days, security officials have expressed alarm at a rise in incitement and hate speech from voices on the hard right who are angered that the proposed government – while headed by a far-right nationalist, Naftali Bennett – includes Arab and left-wing politicians.
Netanyahu, who has been in power for 12 consecutive years, has done little to calm the situation. On Sunday, he accused the coalition of “election fraud”, as Bennett had promised during the campaign not to sit with left-wing or Arab parties. Netanyahu suggested that people “justifiably feel deceived and they are responding”.
The head of the opposition, Yair Lapid, who negotiated the coalition, attempted to appeal to rightwing voters on Monday. “I want to speak to Netanyahu’s supporters,” he said. “I know that the formation of the unity government is a crisis for some of you, but you’ll discover that this government isn’t being created against you.”
Still, he added: “If our political culture is based on lies and threats and hatred of Arabs, and hatred of leftwingers, and hatred of rightwingers who don’t hate Arabs and leftwingers enough, then yes, we need change, and we’ve brought change.”
As the political drama unfolded, fired-up far-right groups prepared to parade through the Old City on Thursday to flaunt Israel’s control of the holy city, which it captured in its entirety during a 1967 war and now claims as its “undivided capital”.
Previous events have seen participants angrily bang on shuttered doors and chant anti-Arab slogans as they descend through the Muslim quarter.
Organisers complain that they were unable to properly hold the march as they usually do on Jerusalem Day, a national holiday that this year came during a steep rise in tensions related to Israel’s occupation.
On 10 May, as a weeks-long police crackdown on Palestinian protesters and the potential eviction of families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood came to a climax, Israeli authorities decided at the last moment to reroute the march away from Arab districts.
However, the decision did little to calm an already spiralling situation. That evening, the parade was interrupted by air raid sirens after Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets – the opening salvo of what would become 11 days of intense fighting. More than 250 people were killed in Gaza and 13 in Israel before a ceasefire took effect on 21 May.
After police announced on Monday that this week’s march would not go ahead, Hamas, an Islamist group, celebrated the decision, saying it showed that Israel understood that issues around the holy city constituted a red line.
In Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the hard-line Religious Zionism alliance, tweeted a warning to Netanyahu “not to give in to Hamas threats”. There were also signs of discontent within Netanyahu’s own Likud party. The lawmaker Miki Zohar said the cancellation was a “surrender to terrorism”, and the public security minister, Amir Ohana, suggested the decision could be reversed.
“I hear about the complexities and difficulties, and still believe that the decision should be raised to the political level due to its importance,” he said.


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Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: August 2012
Duration: 5 hours 59 minutes
The Warlord of Mars completes the story begun in A Princess of Mars and continued in The Gods of Mars, finally bringing together John Carter and his beloved Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium.


Patriots win MITCA Meet
Published 8:00 pm, Monday, May 29, 2006
GOBLES The Unionville-Sebewaing Area boys track team seems more than prepared for Saturdays Division 4 state track finals.
On Saturday, the Patriots competed in the Division 4 Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association Finals (MITCA), and came away the winners in the nine team field.
USA racked up 849 points, followed by Lutheran Westland (723), Gobles (719.5), Potterville (695), Sand Creek (680), Marion (600), Saginaw Valley Lutheran (598), Colon (527.5), and Mio (505).
Jared Fischer was the only individual winner for the Patriots as he took the 400 (50.50).
He also was second in the 800 (1:58.36) while teaming with Brennan Pitcher, Isaiah Jackson, and Matt Eisengruber to win the 1,600 relay (3:28.56).
Jared Wissner also had a fine day as he collected a second in the 100 (11:59) while placing third in the 200 (23.50) and long jump (19-11).
Other Patriots who placed included Matt Niziolek, second in the 3,200 (10:40.15), Jon Heine, third in the discus (126-0), Aaron Kuhl, fourth in the 110 hurdles (16.74) and 300 hurdles (42.53), Eisengruber, fourth in the 800 (2:01.89), and Jordan Bitzer, fourth in the high jump (5-9).
The 3,200 relay team of Pitcher, Niziolek, Eisengruber and Levi Goodwin also was second with a time of 8:12.17 while the 400 team of Dan Russell, Chris Gangler, Bitzer, and Wissner was third (45.42).


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Dom Deluise Dies at Age 75
DeLuise generally appeared in comedic parts, although an early appearance (in the movie Fail-Safe as a nervous enlisted airman) showed a possible broader range. His first acting credit was as a regular performer in the television show The Entertainers in 1964. In the 1970s and 1980s, he often co-starred with Burt Reynolds; together they appeared in the films The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and All Dogs Go to Heaven. DeLuise was the host of the television show Candid Camera from 1991 to 1992.
TV producer Greg Garrison hired DeLuise to appear as a specialty act on the popular Dean Martin show. DeLuise ran through his "Dominick the Great" routine, a riotous example of a magic act gone wrong, with host Martin as a bemused volunteer from the audience. Dom's catch phrase in broken Italian dialect, No Applause Necessary, Sava to the End. The show went so well that DeLuise was soon a regular on Martin's program, participating in both songs and sketches. Garrison also featured DeLuise in his own hour-long comedy specials for ABC. (Martin was often just off-camera when these were taped, and his distinctive laugh can be heard loud and clear.)
DeLuise was probably best known as a regular in Mel Brooks's films. He appeared in The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs & Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Brooks' late wife, actress Anne Bancroft, directed Dom in Fatso (1980). He also had a cameo in Johnny Dangerously as the Pope, and in Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie as a wayward Hollywood talent agent who comes across Kermit the Frog singing "The Rainbow Connection" in the film's opening scene.
DeLuise exhibited his comedic talents while playing the speaking part of the jailer Frosch in the comedic operetta Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera. In the production, while the singing was in German, the spoken parts were in English.
An avid cook and author of several books on cooking, in recent years he appeared as a regular contributor to a syndicated home improvement radio show, On The House with The Carey Brothers, giving listeners tips on culinary topics. He also wrote several children's books.

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Bratislava is the capital city of a small country called the Slovak republic or Slovakia (not Slovenia). This country is situated in the hearth of Central Europe, although many people still find it as a part of Eastern Europe. The direct neighbors of Slovak Republic are Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Ukraine and Hungary.
Bratislava, relatively to Slovakia, lays in the western part of the country, very near to the borders with Austria and Hungary. It is the only one European capital city, which borders with two other countries.
Thanks to its position, it is not unusual to live in a small Austrian village and commute for work to Bratislava and vice versa. Bratislava is also very close to Vienna - the capital city of Austria. Thanks to the short 60km distance, these two cities are the closest two capitals in Europe. That is why there are strong connections between these two old cities and also traveling from Bratislava to Vienna is very easy - there are trains, buses, or even boat links on a regular basis.
Together with Hungarian capital - Budapest, and Czech capital - Prague, this "fantastic four" forms an important Central-European metropolitan region.
Bratislava is very often called like a "A Beauty on Danube", because it spreads along both sides of this river. Even though it is placed mostly on the flat surface, the mountains Little Carpathians, begin right behind the city. These mountains are popular place for the weekend relax or short walks in the nature.
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The Monsters of Folk claim not to remember who exactly came up with their name — some smart-aleck roadie or tour manager or booking agent. But they know that it’s tongue in cheek, sort of. The foursome — Conor Oberst, 29, better known as Bright Eyes; Matt Ward, 35, better known as M. Ward; Jim James, 31, the frontman of My Morning Jacket, who lately prefers to be known as Yim Yames; and the producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis, 35 — are all outsize names and voices in indie rock. But they’re about as threatening as a knock-knock joke. Or maybe a noogie.
Hanging out together in a SoHo hotel room recently, they seemed one boyish wisecrack away from giving each other one. Their evident camaraderie is also audible on their self-titled debut album, out tomorrow from Shangri-La Music. Given their musical stature, the record was highly anticipated in indie circles as a collection of finely wrought songs with no overarching theme except that they are not all that folk. The collaboration — and the name — was spurred by a 2004 triple-bill tour, when they discovered how well they got along.
“The world needed a Monsters of Folk,” James said, sitting on an antique green couch, his arm around Oberst. “And we answered the call.”
What did that call sound like?
James howled and said, “It sounded like dying Virgin Megastores and dying newspapers, dying trees, collapse of an empire, rebirth of a nation.”
Ward, who had made coffee for everyone and was serving it in espresso cups, piped in. “We all have a lot of the same instincts about the music,” he said. “There’s just a lot of overlapping circles, I think it’s safe to say. I think we started developing trust, the way a family would.”
Bearded (James, resplendently; Mogis, modestly) and wearing scruffy outfits (Ward, flannel; Oberst, embroidered hippie shirt), they did look sort of familial — a family of lo-fi kingpins. (By consensus, Mogis, the producer, is the father figure.) But even in the cross-pollinating world of indie rock, Monsters of Folk is something of a rarity, with three singer-songwriter-guitarists, all essentially in their prime in terms of critical appreciation, robust fan bases and artistic sway, and a common audience.
Bloggers and reviewers have been quick to call them a supergroup, a thorny label. “The very problem with the word supergroup is that you do expect it to be times four, and I think this is going to be much more qualitative than quantitative,” said Bobby Haber, chief executive of CMJ Network, which tracks music trends among college-age listeners. “I think these guys want to go out there and do what they’ve always done, but just do it together.” Given their lengthy careers, he added, “I think it’s going to be embraced.”
But to hear the band members tell it, the project was a lark done mostly for their own pleasure.
“We were all really, really curious to see what would happen if we actually made the record and what it would sound like,” Ward said.
The three songwriters contributed five songs apiece, and each sang lead on his own material. Mogis collaborated on finishing each track, and all songs are credited to the group, with the members playing all the instruments. Their styles and voices — winsome and gravely for Ward; plaintive and twangy for Oberst; lyrical and roots rock-y for James — remain distinct, even on songs like Say Please, the first single, in which they harmonize.
The record opens with Dear God (Sincerely MOF), an electro-tinged track James wrote with the idea that each lead singer would take a verse. (Oberst added the “Sincerely” part to the title.) They shared ideas on the orchestration and debated the track listing.
The Monsters had caveats about which label they’d sign with: they wanted one with which no member had other ties, and they were interested in a younger company. Though they had other offers, the band members said, Shangri-La won the one-record deal. The label was founded two years ago by music industry veterans. Jeff Ayeroff, the co-chairman, was a top executive with Virgin and Warner Brothers and had helped produce Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty as the Traveling Wilburys. He brushed off blogger comparisons to that group, though he did volunteer that James was the Orbison of Monsters, the “secret sauce.” He instead likened them to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. “I call it an uber-group, not a supergroup,” he said archly.
Though musicians today are accustomed to broadcasting their every move, the Monsters of Folk kept their collaboration quiet, partly out of concern that it wouldn’t actually coalesce.
After months of group discussion and sending demos to one another via e-mail, they finally met in the studio that Oberst and Mogis built in their shared backyard in Omaha in February 2008; Ward, who lives in Portland, Oregon, and James, who is from Louisville, Kentucky, stayed in the guesthouse there. The tryout session went well enough that they reconvened in Malibu, California, a few months later, then eventually returned to Omaha to finish the album. But altogether their studio time amounted to only a few weeks.
“We started the record with no expectations of making a record, which was a part of the liberating enjoyment of making the music,” Mogis said.
They hung out together in their off time too, cooking and driving around. In California they rented a convertible — “a sweet silver Sebring,” Oberst said — and cruised, blasting Be Thankful for What You Got, the 1970s soul hit by William DeVaughn, the only music other than their own they listened to. “It’s like the best song ever,” Oberst said. “Jim played it on repeat for about six days straight.”
That shared affinity for retro sound comes through in their album, recorded largely on vintage equipment. For a group vocal, Mogis even tried having the threesome sing into one mic, “old-school style,” he said. It didn’t work — their volumes were too different — so they used separate mics but recorded simultaneously.
“You needed that camaraderie, that sort of, like, when he’s done, I pick it up here,” Mogis said, “because if you’re just overdubbing that and you come in cold, it doesn’t feel right.”
But experimentation was part of the process; though all are multi-instrumentalists, they are not typically drummers, except on this album. On Losin Yo Head, a rowdy track recorded in one take, Oberst was on drums, Mogis on bass, Ward on guitar and backup vocal and James on lead vocals and guitar, amplified through a big Marshall Stack. “I felt better about that one,” Oberst can be heard saying at the end.
“It’s just such a different energy, of smashing this song with four people who are all kind of halfway going, am I doing this right?” James said. “As opposed to when I make a record with My Morning Jacket: that’s comfort, like a pinpoint, precision drill.” With Monsters of Folk, “You’re afraid the house is going to fall apart, but that’s what makes it fun, that energy.”
It felt like “we were high schoolers jamming in our garage,” Mogis said.
The chills were what first tipped me off that something was wrong. It was an early Thursday evening in late February and I was sitting in my office. I normally hit an energy low this time of the day but this was different, as I suddenly felt chilled, absolutely drained of energy, the lightest of achiness in my muscles and joints and a slight pain behind my eyeballs. I went home, took a long hot shower and went to bed early. After a full day of rest, I felt normal enough on Saturday to jump on my bike and enjoy
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When a man surnamed Chen discovered that his wife, surnamed Chang, was having an affair with a foreign national surnamed James, he hired private investigators to catch them having sex. Chen and three private investigators staked out James’ apartment and, when they heard moaning sounds coming from Chang, burst in and filmed the couple in flagrante delicto. A judge later found the pair guilty of adultery and sentenced them to four months in prison, and ordered the foreign national to be deported. Like anywhere, adultery is a daily occurrence in Taiwan, and rarely a day passes when an adulterous couple
Over a million people flooded Kenting National Park over two weeks in 1986 to see Halley’s Comet, massively boosting the area’s tourism industry March 30 to April 5 About 30,000 disappointed visitors lingered on the streets of Kenting National Park on the evening of March 28, 1986. Established just two years earlier, Taiwan’s first national park had never seen so many visitors — all hotels were full, hundreds of tents cramped the campgrounds and the latecomers slept in their cars. Most had traveled here just to catch a glimpse of Halley’s Comet, which only passes by the Earth every 76 years or so. That year, the comet was more visible the further to the south, and Kenting’s location at Taiwan’s southernmost tip made


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Does Helen Mirren have any plans to retire? I hope not!
—Lane C., Springfield, Mo.
A: The London-born actress, 71, has several films lined up. First, she plays “Death” in Collateral Beauty, in theaters Dec. 16, starring Will Smith as a man who suffers a great tragedy and seeks answers by writing letters to the universe. And she’s working on her role for next spring’s Fast 8, the latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, alongside Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham and Kurt Russell. What qualifies her to be among such motor-heads? “I’m probably one of the few people on the set who know how to drive a gear-shift car,” she says. I recently saw Neil Young perform. Was his new album recorded live during his concert tour?
—Nina H., Telluride, Co.
A: No. Peace Trail, the 38th studio album (released Dec. 9) by the former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young band member, is primarily acoustic and reflects the lifelong humanitarian and global concerns of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, 71. He’s been previewing some of its songs during his live concert appearances.


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Computers and Internet
Impacts 1: Caveman Engineering
- Prehistoric housing
Stone Age structures were made from structures inside caves with the walls made from stones or clay blocks packed together. They shelters and structures gradually evolved with the construction of pit houses between the 5th-12th centuries AD. It is believed that a majority of people lived in pit houses or sunken feature buildings. They were used for a variety of purposes such as celebrations, rituals, storage of food and shelter during extreme weather (Bradley 22).
- Stone tools & early metallurgy
Old pit dwellings used materials such as mammoth bones, stones and metal. Gold has been cited as the oldest form of metal and was used for decorative purposes as opposed to structural purposes. Neolithic communities started by using copper from 7000 BC to make sickles and knives. They provided effective alternatives to stone products that were prone to damage. This was preceded by discoveries of other important materials such as iron ore to develop iron products during the Iron Age.
Impacts 2: The Age of Superstition
- Pyramids of Egypt/Central/South America
Before the end of the 3rd Egyptian dynasty, the nobility in Egypt were accustomed to burying their dead in mastabas-low lying brick structures that differentiate the nobility from commoners who were buried under piles of rocks (Henzel 18). Kind Djoser was the first to come up with a step pyramid as his selected site of burial upon death. Subsequent kings such as Sneferu, and Khufu outdid one another to develop the Pyramid of Medium and the Great Pyramid respectively (George 17).
- Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is one of the most magnificent structures visible from space. The bridge was developed using tamped earth, wood, bricks and stones and built from east to west along the northern border of China in a bid to protect the Chinese Empire from external aggressors. The wall was built in separate parts from 7th BC with the most important sections being built in the 220-206BC by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Bricks were preferable to stones because of their weight, which enabled the rapid development of the Great Wall (DuTemple 11).
- Roman Road
Roman roads formed an integral part of the Roman Empire’s goals for development. They were built from around 500BC as the Roman Empire expanded and consolidated new territories in Europe. The roads were developed based on the need. Some were made from leveled earth; others were made from level earth that had graveled surfaces; others were made from rectangular blocks from stones or using polygon lava blocks (Thomas, Meyers, and Edlund-Berry 32).
- Roman Aqueduct
The Romans used aqueducts to source for various uses such as latrines, public baths, domestic use and fountains in the urban areas. The aqueducts were built using conduits from concrete, brick or stone and on inclined slopes to aid the movement of water through gravitational pulls. The aqueducts used distribution tanks, sluices, and sedimentation tanks to control the supply of water to the urban areas depending on the need and demand. By the 3rd Century AD, the Romans had perfected the development of aqueducts for regulation of water usage in water-extravagant cities.
Impacts 3: Industrial Age (1700-1970)
- Modern sanitation –drinking & wastewater
Techniques for collection of wastewater have been enhanced as a result of new technologies for moving effluent from homes, industrial areas and offices into treatment plants. Similar techniques are also applied in the distribution of clean fresh water for domestic, framing and industrial purposes. Modern techniques were necessitated by the need to eliminate contact between people and effluents, which has been associated with water borne diseases such as cholera and dysentery.
- Steam engine & railroads
Due to the need for rapid movement of people, goods and minerals such as coal, gold, copper and iron, there was need for rapid means of transport given that seafaring was limited by its slow pace and unpredictable weather. Steam engines or steam locomotives produced pulling power via the steam engines as a result of the energy and heat produced by burning of coal. They were initially developed in the 19th Century in Britain and used for rail transport up to the 20th century. They were later replaced by diesel and electric locomotives.
- Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine involves the movement made by combustion of fuels in the presence of an oxidizer such as air within a combustion chamber. The force created by combustion and high temperatures from burning of the fossil fuels results in the movement of components in the engine.
- Highway systems
Interstate Highway systems were first developed in the United States in the year 1966 based on a presidential directive. The development of interstate highways was influenced by the need to meet traffic demands of the population because of high numbers of car ownership and increase in population. In addition, development and growth was enhanced by the development of the interstate highways (Wyatt 41).
- Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is formed as a byproduct of exothermic processes of nuclear activity. It is vital for the generation of electricity and heat. Varieties of terms are used in this field to refer to nuclear activity such as nuclear decay, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion (Wyatt 27).
Impacts 4: The Post Industrial Age
- Computers & internet
Computers are devices that are programmable to execute both logical and arithmetic operations in an automatic manner. Computers have evolved into complex and superior gadgets that can be used for various logical activities. The computers provided avenues for the development and growth of the internet. The internet is defined as an interconnection of networks and users through network signals irrespective of individual user location.
- Modern green building
With increasing concerns on energy consumption in urban centers due to inefficiencies in buildings. There is a shift towards developing structures that are energy efficient and environmentally friendly given that concerns on costs associated with energy and building using conventional methods.
- Wind/solar energy
Wind and solar energy are two primary forms of renewable energy that have gained prominence over the years due to their respectively reliability and appropriateness with respect to the growing concerns on environmental degradation and pollution from fossil fuels (Smith 23). They are inexpensive and efficient as opposed to fossil fuels that are susceptible to market conditions such as inflation and deflation.
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DuTemple, Lesley A. The Great Wall of China. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2002. Print.
George, Charles. Pyramids. San Diego, CA: Reference Point Press, 2007. Print.
Glancey, Jonathan. Architecture. London: DK, 2006. Print.
Henzel, Cynthia K. Pyramids of Egypt. Edina, Minn: ABDO Pub. Co, 2011. Print.
Höcker, Christoph. Architecture. Hauppauge, N.Y: Barron’s, 2000. Print.
Ruiz, Teofilo F. The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2011. Print.
Smith, Trevor. Renewable Energy Resources. Mankato, MN: Weigl Publishers, 2004. Print.
Thomas, Michael L, Gretchen E. Meyers, and Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry. Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.
Wyatt, Lee T. The Industrial Revolution. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2009. Print.
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