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Apparently, this has been going on for a week or so, and no one has told us (thanks, Internet, for letting us down...), but Conan O'Brien has his hands on some comedic gold. The celebrator of all things ginger and geeky has assembled a couple of incredibly famous directors' takes on the new Star Wars franchise, which is set to be launched by Disney. Seeing as such a high-profile (and beloved...by this writer, at least) series is getting a new master, O'Brien decided to share the clips of the "directors" who are "trying out" to helm the franchise. Kind of.
Check out the takes from iconic auteurs like Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith, and many others. The late-night-show host keeps releasing the tapes, and they seem to just get better and better — with today's (Anderson) probably being the best. See for yourself...
Part of us wants to get precious about how little Abigail Breslin is now an 18-year-old young woman with a music video blasting lame dudes. The other part of us, however, remembers that this is the same girl who went pre-Miley Miley to "Super Freak" in Little Miss Sunshine. So, yeah, we can't say the video for "You Suck" read
A hot single with a hit single? Show 'em how it's done, J Lawr.
The Oscar winner is hitting the U.K. singles chart this week at a respectable #29. And, it's all thanks to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part One.
Lawrence's version of "The Hanging Tree," which she sings in the franchise's latest film, is poised read

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We are lucky enough to live in the South, where summer produce is as plentiful as hot days and sultry nights.
Near the Brookshire’s headquarters in Tyler, Texas, we are doubly-blessed to have two of my favorite products on hand all summer: Jacksonville tomatoes and Noonday onions.
Both are sweet, juicy and can almost be eaten straight out of the fields. Jacksonville even hosts a tomato festival each year, with tomato-eating contests, cooking contests, a street dance, vendors and a showcase of the season’s best fruits.
I like combining the two products with a few other fresh ingredients to make a simple, but hugely flavorful, salad.
Tomato, Cucumber and Onion Salad
4 large local tomatoes, diced
2 large local sweet onions, diced
4 large local cucumbers, sliced
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
4 Tbs red wine vinegar
2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
Combine all chopped fruits and vegetables in a large bowl. Whisk red wine vinegar with olive oil, salt and pepper. Pour over tomatoes, onions and cucumbers. Refrigerate until chilled.
Nutritional Information: Calories Per Serving: 90, Calories from Fat: 45, Fat: 5 g, Trans Fat: 0 g (0.7 g Saturated Fat), Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 397 mg, Potassium: 454 mg, Carbohydrates: 11.1 g, Fiber: 2.7 g, Sugar: 6 g, Protein: 2 g
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All interested cyclists are invited to install the free app on their smartphone and thus contribute an important part to the research project for more safety in cycling.
Comparable to other major cities worldwide, Berlin aims to reduce traffic emissions. Foremost mechanism for this is to increase the share of bicycle traffic. However, polls show that a lack of safety and fear of accidents keeps people from using their bikes more frequently. Furthermore, it also quite hard from a city planning perspective to get a good overview of location, time, frequency, and kind of hazards in bicycle traffic since official accident statistics only cover crashes but do not provide information on near crashes.
In this project, we collect – with a strong focus on data protection and privacy – data on such near crashes to identify when and where bicyclists are especially at risk. We also aim to identify the main routes of bicycle traffic in Berlin. To obtain such data, we have developed a smartphone app that uses GPS information to track routes of bicyclists and the built-in acceleration sensors to pre-categorize near crashes. After their trip, users are asked to annotate and upload the collected data, pseudonymized per trip.
The collected data offers detailed insights into bicycle traffic in Berlin and hazardous situations to public administrators and other interested entities so that the number of near crashes (and hence also crashes) can be reduced. The data can also be used to optimize traffic flows to make bicycle traffic more attractive. For the evaluation of data, we plan to cooperate with interdisciplinary partners such as city planning, interested citizens, but also the Berlin Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection.
The project is funded within the scope of TU Berlin’s citizen science initiative. Additional cooperation partners are welcome. Also other cities beyond Berlin can participate. For this, we need a point of contact (a person or a group) in the respective city who will (i) recruit local cyclists to participate and (ii) make use of the collected and preanalyzed data, e.g., to identify the root causes on site and to work with public administration to resolve the situation.
We won the German Bicycle Award 2022 in the Service & Communication category together with the OpenBikeSensor!


Reflecting the strange glory of the author and finisher of my salvation, Jesus Christ, through words, imagery and critical thinking
Friday, October 19, 2012
Chicago Author, Sheldon Siegel and The Terrorist Next Door (archived)
New York Times best seller and internationally respected attorney, Sheldon Siegel, tells us what it's like to venture into the unknown as a writer. SPOILER ALERT: The interviewer creates a major faux pas at the end of the conversation.
Blessed are the peacemakers...
a white cop, a black kid
Arnold Penxa is a white cop from black Detroit, Michigan determined to save the lives of children no matter the cost, no matter the color. He is an ex war veteran and retired Detroit policeman, now working for a private school security firm,and he sniffs out a conspiracy for a multiple school shooting. The problem is that nobody wants to believe him except for a few close friends, so he's forced to act mostly alone to bust up the plot. Forget the usual suspects. This is the Mad Motor City where the line between common sense and criminal behavior is never clear.


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The Case Western Reserve University wrestling team fell 37-9 against Otterbein University in Horsburgh Gymnasium on Wednesday evening.
The Spartans scored their nine points in the match at the 149-pound weight class and the 197-pound weight class. Freshman 149-pounder Isaac Collier claimed a victory by technical fall against Michael Wright (18-0). Sophomore 197-pounder Gavin Dersh-Fisher added a victory by major decision against Luke Hess (10-2). For the season, Collier leads the Spartans with 14 wins, while Dersh-Fisher has totaled 10 wins.
Three matches ended in decisions, with senior Matt Moy falling 11-5 to Jackson Lakso in the 125-pound match, freshman Alec Hoover dropping a 6-5 decision to Tyler Norris at 133 pounds and junior Connor Gordon suffering a 4-2 loss to Donny Didion in the 165-pound match.
Otterbein registered four pins during the match, and claimed one win by major decision.
The loss dropped the Spartans to 0-1 on the year in dual matches, while Otterbein improved to 9-1.
Case Western Reserve will be back in action on Saturday, January 14th, when the squad heads to Collegeville, Pennsylvania for the Ursinus Invite, hosted by Ursinus College.

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An ultrafast all-optical switching using pulse trapping by orthogonally polarized soliton pulse in birefringent fiber is investigated both experimentally and numerically. The signal pulse, which is polarized along the fast axis, is trapped by the control soliton pulse along the slow axis; they subsequently copropagate along the fiber. Their wavelengths are red-shifted by the soliton self-frequency shift. The trapped pulse is shaped as a sech2 ultrashort pulse. It is also amplified by the Raman gain of the control pulse. Temporal response of the pulse trapping is estimated as 250 fs for 150 fs signal pulses. Ultrafast all-optical switching is demonstrated for the 0.84 THz pulse train.
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Ultrafast all-optical switching is an important technique for future ultrahigh speed optical communication systems, optical computing, and all-optical data processing [1–3]. Recently, novel fibers, such as photonic crystal fibers  and highly nonlinear fibers , have been demonstrated and we can use dispersion managed, highly nonlinear fibers. Using such optical fibers and ultrashort pulses, we can obtain drastic nonlinear phenomena [6,7]. So far, a few groups have discovered the interesting phenomena of pulse trapping in optical fibers [8–10]. An ultrashort pulse captures another optical pulse. Then they copropagate along the fiber. In 1989, Islam discovered the soliton-trapping phenomenon , by which orthogonally polarized soliton pulses trap each other and copropagate along the fiber. In 2002, we also discovered the novel phenomenon of pulse trapping across a zero-dispersion wavelength . A signal pulse at the normal dispersion region is captured by an ultrashort soliton pulse at the anomalous dispersion region. They then copropagate along the fiber. In pulse propagation, the soliton pulse and trapped pulse are shifted respectively toward the longer and shorter wavelength sides. Ultrafast all-optical switching for a signal pulse in normal dispersion region is demonstrated using this phenomenon of pulse trapping across a zero-dispersion wavelength . In terms of application for actual optical communication, ultrafast switching at the anomalous dispersion region is both important and desired.
In 2002, we also discovered a novel phenomenon of trapped pulse amplification in birefringent optical fibers . Optical pulse is trapped by the orthogonally polarized ultrashort soliton pulse. As the wavelength of the soliton pulse is shifted toward the longer wavelength side, the wavelength of the trapped pulse is also shifted toward the longer wavelength to satisfy the condition of group velocity matching. The trapped pulse is amplified through the Raman gain of the soliton pulse.
In this study, we demonstrate high-performance ultrafast all-optical switching using the novel phenomenon of trapped pulse amplification at the anomalous dispersion region for the first time. An orthogonally polarized ultrashort pulse captures the arbitrary signal pulse in the pulse train. The captured pulse is amplified by the control pulse and is shaped to be an ultrashort soliton pulse. Merely varying the power of the control pulse can control the wavelength of the trapped pulse.
In Section 2, characteristics of pulse trapping are analyzed both numerically and experimentally. Ultrafast all-optical switching for pulse trains using pulse trapping is demonstrated in Section 3. Output pulses are observed directly using cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating (X-FROG) technique .
2. Analysis of pulse trapping by orthogonally polarized ultrashort soliton pulse
First, we analyze characteristics of pulse trapping in a birefringent optical fiber. Figure 1 shows the experimental setup for pulse trapping. As the pump pulse source, a passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser is used. It generates about 100 fs sech2 like pulses at the 1.55 μm wavelength. The repetition frequency is 50 MHz. The output pulses are coupled into polarization maintaining fiber (PMF, 3M FS-PM-7811). The polarization direction of the input pulses is inclined from the birefringent axis of this fiber. Thus, the orthogonally polarized two pulses propagate independently and the wavelength tunable two-colored soliton pulses are generated [13,14]. They are used respectively as the signal pulse and control pulse. The wavelengths of the two pulses are shifted continuously by varying the fiber input power and the polarization direction of the pump pulse. The temporal widths of the generated pulses are 150 fs. The two pulses are generated from one pump pulse in the same fiber. Therefore, the timing jitter is sufficiently small to analyze pulse trapping.
The control and signal pulses are divided into two optical axes using a polarization beam splitter. Then they are temporally overlapped after adjustment of the time delay; they are coupled into highly nonlinear polarization maintaining fibers (HN-PMF). As the fiber parameters, β2=-10.9 ps2/km, β3=0.0648 ps3/km, the mode field diameter is 4.4 μm, nonlinear coefficient γ=12 W-1 km-1, and the magnitude of birefringence is 4.8 × 10-4 at the wavelength of 1.55 μm.
Figure 2 shows the principle of pulse trapping in a birefringent fiber. The polarization directions of the control and signal pulses are adjusted respectively along the slow and fast axes. The center wavelengths of the control and signal pulses are set respectively as 1600 and 1734 nm. The fiber has an anomalous dispersion property in this wavelength. Therefore, the group velocity of the control pulse is greater than that of the signal pulse. The pulse wavelengths are adjusted so that the group velocity difference from the chromatic dispersion compensates that from the birefringence. Consequently, the group velocity matching is satisfied between control and signal pulses and they copropagate along the fiber. The output pulses are observed using an optical spectrum analyzer and X-FROG technique .
Figure 3 shows the experimentally observed variation of optical spectra for pulse trapping. In Fig. 3, the average optical powers in front of the fiber are 5 mW and 1.9 mW respectively for control and signal pulses. The coupling efficiency into HN-PMF is 50% in this experiment. The corresponding pulse energy in the fiber is 50 pJ for the control pulse and 19 pJ for the signal pulse. The control pulse traps the signal pulse with high efficiency through the cross phase modulation when the initial temporal separation is adjusted and the signal pulse and control pulse are temporally overlapped. Thereafter, they copropagate along the fiber. In propagation along the fiber, the wavelengths of the two pulses are shifted toward the longer
wavelength side because the intra-pulse Raman scattering and the group velocity matching condition is always satisfied. The temporal shape is retained as sech2 because of the soliton effect. The overlapped pulses behave as a single soliton pulse. The control pulse energy is also transferred into the signal pulse through the Raman gain of the control pulse. After propagation along the 100-m-long fiber, almost all energy of the control pulse is transferred into the signal pulse .
Figure 4(a) shows characteristics of the wavelength shift of the trapped pulse as a function of the power of the control pulse when the fiber length is 20 m. Symbols represent experimental results and the red curve shows the calculated ones. To analyze the interaction between two orthogonally polarized pulses, a coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation is used for this analysis . The parameters are adjusted to those in the experiments. Figure 4(a) shows that the wavelength of the trapped pulse is shifted continuously by varying the power of the control pulse. The calculated results are well in agreement with the experimental ones.
Figure 4(b) shows the calculated results of the characteristics of trapping efficiency when the initial temporal separation between the signal and control pulses is changed. The wavelength of the signal pulse is fixed as 1734 nm, whereas the wavelength of the control pulse is varied from 1.55 to 1.75 μm. The group velocity matching condition is satisfied and the maximum trapping efficiency reaches ~100% when the wavelength of the control pulse is 1600 nm. In this case, the temporal width for the trapping efficiency is about 250 fs at full width at half maximum (FWHM). As the wavelength of the control pulse is shifted, the group velocity mismatch is increased; thereby, the trapping efficiency magnitude is decreased. These calculated results agree well with the experimental ones.
The trapped pulse is also amplified through the Raman gain of the control pulse. The maximum amplification ratio is as high as 360% in Fig. 3 when the fiber length is 100 m. As the power of the control pulse increases, the maximum amplification ratio also increases.
Numerical analysis shows that the temporal width for trapping efficiency is decreased as the temporal widths of the signal and control pulses are decreased. The temporal width is also decreased as the power of the control pulse is increased. The temporal response of pulse trapping is limited by the temporal width of the optical pulses.
3. Ultrafast all-optical switching for pulse train using pulse trapping
Results shown in Fig. 4 suggest that ultrafast, high-performance all-optical switching can be demonstrated using pulse trapping. We demonstrate ultrafast all-optical switching for a high repetition rate pulse train in an anomalous dispersion region using pulse trapping in birefringent fiber.
Figure 5 shows the calculated results of ultrafast all-optical switching using pulse trapping. As the signal pulse train, we prepared a train of four pulses with temporal separation of 1.5 ps, which corresponds to a 0.67 THz ultrahigh repetition rate pulse train. The respective energies of signal pulses and control pulses were 30 pJ and 60 pJ. The wavelength and temporal width of each pulse were set as identical to those in Fig. 3. The HN-PMF was assumed as the fiber for pulse trapping. When the control pulse (soliton pulse) overlaps with a signal pulse and the group velocity matching condition is satisfied, the overlapped pulse is trapped by the control pulse with almost perfect efficiency; they copropagate along the fiber. The trapped pulse is shifted toward the longer wavelength side to satisfy group velocity matching. It is also amplified by the Raman gain of the control pulse. When the control pulse is overlapped with the third and fourth pulses, because the control pulse is shifted toward the longer wavelength side in the pulse propagation, group velocity matching is not satisfied and the control pulse does not trap them. For that reason, we can trap only one arbitrary pulse using pulse trapping. Only the trapped pulse is shifted toward the longer wavelength side, so we can pick off only the trapped signal pulse using a wavelength filter. The magnitude of the wavelength shift is increased monotonously as the power of the control pulse increases.
Next, we demonstrate the ultrafast all-optical switching experimentally. Figure 6 shows the experimental setup for all-optical switching, which is the advanced scheme of Fig. 1. A part of the output pulse from a fiber laser was picked off. It was amplified using a fiber amplifier. Then three ultrashort signal pulses were generated and were used as the signal pulse train. Adjusting the delay line controlled the temporal separation between signal pulses. The X-FROG technique was used for observation of all-optical switching. Using this technique, we can directly observe the temporal distribution of the spectral components.
Figure 7 shows the observed spectrogram of ultrafast all-optical switching. Figure 7(a) shows the spectrogram of output pulse train without pulse trapping and 7(b) and 7(c) show those at the outputs of 4 and 20 m long fibers when the second pulse is trapped by the control pulse. The pulse energy was 50 pJ for control pulse and 8 pJ for each signal pulse. The wavelength and temporal width were identical to those in Figs. 3 and 5. Three equally separated pulses were observed clearly when pulse trapping was not applied. Temporal separation between pulses was 1.8 ps. The second pulse component was trapped and it copropagated with the control pulse when the pulse trapping was applied. We can easily select the trapped signal pulse using a wavelength filter. In Fig. 7(c), because the signal pulses had insufficient power to form the fundamental solitons, they were broadened temporally by the effect of chromatic dispersion. Consequently, the interference pattern was observed by the temporal overlapping of signal pulses. For the trapped pulse, the pulse energy is amplified through the Raman gain of the control pulse and the magnitude of wavelength shift is increased. The temporal width of the trapped pulse is also narrowed. It is shaped as a sech2 ultrashort pulse. Nothing was trapped by the control pulse when the second pulse was “off”. These results show that we have achieved ultrafast all-optical switching for a 0.56 THz pulse train.
Finally, we examined all-optical switching’s fastest switching speed. Figure 8 shows the spectrogram of output pulses when the temporal separation of each signal pulse is 1.2 ps. The corresponding repetition frequency is 0.83 THz. At first, the train of three signal pulses was prepared and only the second signal pulse was trapped by the control pulse. Then we made the second signal pulse “off” and the extinction ratio was examined. In Fig. 8(b), when the second pulse was “off”, nothing was trapped by the control pulse, meaning that only the second pulse is trapped in Fig. 8(a). The extinction ratio was estimated as more than 25 dB. All-optical switching was shown when the repetition frequency was increased to 1 THz, but the extinction ratio was degraded to 10 dB. By increasing the power or by narrowing the temporal width of control pulse, it is expected that we can demonstrate much higher speed and high performance ultrafast all-optical switching.
We can demonstrate higher performance ultrafast all-optical switching using pulse trapping than that by other all-optical switching techniques. We can trap and amplify an arbitrary pulse using the ultrashort soliton pulse. The temporal shape of the trapped pulse is narrow and it is shaped as an ultrashort ideal sech2 pulse. Varying the control-pulse power can control the wavelength of the trapped pulse. Although pulses of a few tens of picojoule were used in this work, this technique is applicable to small-energy signal pulses that are used in practical optical communications. The pulse-trapping phenomenon offers great potential for many applications: ultrafast optical communication, optical computing, quantum optics, etc.
In this paper, we have investigated ultrafast all-optical switching in the anomalous dispersion region using pulse trapping between orthogonally polarized ultrashort pulses in birefringent fibers. Characteristics of pulse trapping were investigated both experimentally and numerically. The maximum trapping efficiency was ~100% and the temporal width of the trapping efficiency was 250 fs at FWHM for 150-fs signal pulses. The trapped pulse is shaped as a sech2 ultrashort pulse and it is amplified by the Raman gain of the control pulse. Varying the control-pulse power changes the trapped-pulse wavelength.
Subsequently in this paper, high performance ultrafast all-optical switching was demonstrated. The control pulse traps one arbitrary pulse from the pulse train, then they copropagate along the fiber. The wavelength of the trapped pulse is red-shifted so that the trapped pulse can be selected using the wavelength filter. The trapped pulse is also amplified and shaped as a sech2 ultrashort pulse. Ultrafast all-optical switching was demonstrated for 0.83 THz pulse train with an extinction ratio of more than 25 dB when 150 fs ultrashort pulses were used.
We would like to thank The Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. for providing us HN-PMF. This work was supported through a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan.
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Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News anchor, and Douglas Brunt, a successful novelist, tied the knot on March 1, 2008, in a romantic ceremony on the beach. The couple’s love story has captured the hearts of many, and their wedding was a beautiful celebration of their love and commitment to each other. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding and explore what makes this couple so special.
The Love Story
Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt first met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend. The couple hit it off immediately and were engaged just six months later. In an interview, Kelly mentioned that she was drawn to Brunt’s intelligence and humor, and that he was the first person who challenged her intellectually. The couple’s shared love for literature and writing also brought them closer together.
The Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding was a low-key affair, with just a few close friends and family in attendance. The ceremony was held on the beach in Huntington, New York, with the couple exchanging their vows under a beautiful flower-covered archway. Kelly looked stunning in a simple white gown, while Brunt looked dapper in a classic black suit. After the ceremony, the couple and their guests enjoyed a reception at a nearby restaurant, where they danced the night away and celebrated their new life together. The wedding was a beautiful reflection of the couple’s love for each other and their commitment to a simple, meaningful life.
Life After the Wedding
The Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding was just the beginning of a beautiful journey for the couple. Since then, they have welcomed three children into their family and have built a successful life together. Kelly has continued her career in journalism, while Brunt has become a successful novelist, with several best-selling books to his name. Despite their busy schedules, the couple makes time for each other and their family, and have become an inspiration for many who admire their love and commitment.
The Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding was a beautiful celebration of love and commitment, and a reflection of the couple’s shared values and beliefs. Their love story has captured the hearts of many, and their journey together continues to inspire and motivate others.
What is Douglas Brunt’s profession?
Douglas Brunt is a successful novelist, with several best-selling books to his name.
How did Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt meet?
Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt first met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend.
When did the Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding take place?
The Douglas Brunt Megyn Kelly wedding took place on March 1, 2008.


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Milwaukee, WI (March 24, 2017) – Show & Glow by the Lake chair Mike O’Krongly has announced that Michael Fish has been named Master of Ceremonies for the event on Saturday August 5, 2017 in Veterans Park.
Best known in the Milwaukee area for his skill as a meteorologist, Mr. Fish’s other passion is all things engine. Recently, he was recruited by Auto Exotica magazine to host and executive co-produce a new national TV show, “Auto Exotica”, slated for release later this year in select PBS markets nationwide and digitally on iTunes around the world.
“We’re delighted to have Fish associated with Show & Glow by the Lake,” Mr. O’Krongly said. “Our casual show will display about 300 classic cars, representing more than 40 regional and local clubs, as well as individuals. So, it’s a perfect match to have someone with Fish’s expertise and enthusiasm on board as our featured MC.”
The two-day Milwaukee Concours d’Elegance is scheduled for the first weekend in August at Veterans Park. The open Show & Glow by the Lake car show, a motor tour and the annual Style & Speed Social are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 5, followed by the Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, Aug. 6.
The Milwaukee Concours d’Elegance is hosted by The Masterpiece Ltd. The Masterpiece Ltd. is organized and operated exclusively to support other public charities including, but not limited to, those operating in southeastern Wisconsin which provide medical and social service care and relief to underprivileged children and families through various motor vehicle-related fundraising events.
Contact: Mike O’Krongly
Title: Director / Show & Glow by the Lake chair
Company: The Masterpiece Ltd.
Contact Phone Number: 414-380-6470
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UPDATES: the JELLY Keyboard- Currently In Production Phase
First off, I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting this artwork. It’s inspiring to see so many people share their positive thoughts and the purchases that have been made all around the world!
I believe the JELLY is one of the most creative and fun keyboards in the entire keeb game- of course, I am likely bias.
PCBs are beautiful, they should flex through their casing - this was an easy decision. Showcasing the raw, aluminum plate through a non-frosted acrylic plate posed its challenges, but the white gasket foam worked beautifully.
For those that went full JELLY (all acrylic), cutting the plate foam to help with acoustics AND so it was subtle between the PCB and translucent plate posed it’s own unique challenge, but it turned out wonderful.
Now with the end of the Group Buy, I’ve booked time with the local laser shop to start production. Next steps will be to purchase the acrylic in town and get it primed for the laser.
A reminder that the proposed timeline is 10-12 weeks for starting shipments, please expect a delay for international Playmakers.
I will keep you posted with updates, but in the meantime- for constant updates on the progress, join the (yet another) discord server: https://discord.gg/uXmUn4mvhk

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Dark circles reflect our health condition. Before choosing a particular dark eye circle treatment, it is very essential to know how these dark circles form. We always think that they formed because of tiredness, lack of proper sleep, heavy work load and not taking proper care of makeup.
In fact, we cant get rid of dark circles with a long sleep or by going on a long vacation. It has something else to do with our health condition. The mechanism of formation of dark circles is same for all. After formation, it gets aggravated and looks more obvious for several other reasons which vary from person to person.
The Mechanism of Dark Circles Formation
The thin skin around our eyes is made up of so many capillaries which are very narrow and help circulation of blood. The blood circulation is nothing but movement of blood cells. Now, since the capillaries are so tiny, blood cells do not get easy access through them. They have to contract in size to pass through these narrow vessels.
In such conditions, sometimes, these capillaries break and cause leaking. With this the blood cells come open and get interacted with other enzymes of the body. Enzymes separate hemoglobin from those blood cells. Once the hemoglobin is separated, the blood cell is left with unwanted elements which are dark blue in color.
Usually our body repairs such vessels immediately. In some cases, as explained below, our body fails to repair them. Then the mechanism takes place continuously resulting in filling up our skin bags with the dark blue colored elements and cause dark circles formation.
After formation of dark circles, there are other factors which exaggerate the formation and make them look more obvious. However, in all the cases, the best and basic dark eye circle treatment is consumption of lot of water. By consuming plenty of water you can throw away several unwanted elements present in body.
Our body follows a particular process for refreshing itself. Our bodies continuously generate new particles and use them to replace damaged or dead particles. As we grow in age, body loses this generation power. Hence, there is no replacement of dead particles; rather they keep piling up.
Similarly dark eye circle formation mechanism is also not taken care of by our body. As the skin of eye bags is very thin, the piling up becomes more clearly visible. In such cases, besides suitable medication, we can also use home remedies like cucumber for dark eye circle treatment.
For some people, skin under the eyes becomes thinner as they become old. However, for some people this is transmitted genetically and the skin remains thin irrespective of age. A thin skin is more transparent and causes the dark circles look more obvious. For such people effective dark eye circle treatment is available in cosmetology.
While the above mentioned are the main causes of dark circles, some factors support them and cause this darkening. The most important supporting factor is allergy. It can cause from pollution, fungal attack, exposure to dust etc lack of iron is another important factor. For most of these causes, dark eye circle treatment can be found within home remedies. For some sever cases there are thousands of advanced technologies to treat dark circles.

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During CES 2021, Razer unveiled a prototype of its N95 mask with chrome sound and lighting capabilities, originally called Project Hazel, and with its futuristic features and appearance, it attracted a lot of attention. کرد. The name of this smart mask was later changed to Zephyr; It was launched in October 2021 (October 1400) for $ 100 and sold out immediately.
Now, according to Engadget, Razer, due to the enthusiasm of the people and to achieve more success in this field, intends to release a more advanced version of this mask called Zephyr Pro in 2022 (1401).
The new version of the razor mask along with all the features of the previous standard model, such as active dual-filtering system with N95 filters and chroma lighting; Equipped with sound amplification.
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Trying to solve issues on a standalone basis, without addressing the root of the problem can lead to wastage of resources and time. For example, despite many efforts to provide subsidised crop residue removal using machines instead of stubble burning, the idea hasn’t picked up. Reports have pointed to lack of understanding of incentives as a reason of failure of such schemes.
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Antiretroviral therapy (ART) development has reduced the severity of neurological complications of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but they remain prevalent and need prompt recognition. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) is a rare complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that may appear at any stage of the disease. In this case, AIDP represents a late presentation of HIV infection.
Descriptive study. Patient data were collected from their medical records and by health assessment interviews.
We report a case of a 52-year-old male with acute lower limb weakness. Given the suggestive clinical presentation of AIDP and a positive HIV test, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) was administered along with antiretroviral therapy. Progressive weakness to the upper limbs, autonomic dysfunction, and pain was observed. The second regimen of IVIG plus corticosteroids was administered. Muscle strength improved after three weeks.
Screening for HIV in a patient with AIDP may provide a better outcome because of the early start of ART with good central nervous system penetration in HIV-infected patients.
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is often designated as an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) – the most common variant of the syndrome. It is defined by symmetric muscle weakness, loss of sensation, and loss of deep tendon reflexes .
It is typically considered a post-infection autoimmune disease, with more than 2/3 of the cases following a period of respiratory symptoms or gastroenteritis. An incidence rate of fewer than 2 cases per 100,000 is reported in Europe, and it is about twice as common in males [2, 3].
Clinical deficit peaks in 2–4 weeks, and the recovery period can last months or years, with 20% of patients developing long-term neurological sequelae . Respiratory muscle weakness and autonomic dysfunction can develop during the course of the disease, and 4–15% of the cases may end in death .
After the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in 1985, case reports of GBS associated with HIV infection have been published, mainly during the seroconversion period. Presentation and prognosis may be identical to cases not related to HIV infection, although atypical presentations, including recurrent episodes of GBS, have been reported.
Although antiretroviral therapy reduced the number and severity of neurological complications, HIV-associated GBS is still a rare disease presentation. A higher incidence is reported in African HIV patients [1, 2].
The HIV tropism for the central nervous system (CNS) is established within the first weeks through the migration of infected CD4+ T lymphocytes or infected monocytes, creating a virus reservoir . In GBS, two mechanisms are proposed: 1) direct inflammatory action of HIV on the nerves; 2) an autoimmune process with the development of antibodies against the myelin sheath .
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) studies in patients with GBS are usually normal earlier in the course of the disease. Later it exhibits an albuminocytologic dissociation with elevated protein and cell counts in the normal range . However, in HIV patients, CSF studies may differ due to a mild lymphocytic pleocytosis [5, 6].
Plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) demonstrated equal efficacy, but the latter is the current mainstay of GBS treatment because of a more convenient administration . Corticosteroids can be added to the therapeutic regimen, but evidence of benefit is scarce [4, 6]. As more cases related to HIV infection are being reported, the evidence recommends that antiretroviral therapy (ART) should also be initiated early in the course of the disease to improve the outcome . The choice of a regimen with good CNS penetration provides a rapid reduction of CSF HIV RNA levels .
In this article, we describe a case of GBS as the initial presentation of HIV infection, with atypical neurological findings and limited response to immunoglobulin treatment initially. The patient started to improve after three weeks of antiretroviral medication.
A 52-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room reporting pain, numbness, and weakness of both legs for the previous three days. He mentioned progressive difficulty walking and was not able to flex his feet, particularly the right foot. In clinical examination, he presented weakness in both upper and lower limbs, being slightly more pronounced on the right side, and the deep tendon reflexes were abolished in all limbs. Besides a history of vocal cord palsy during childhood, the patient was healthy.
Regarding the epidemiological context, the patient had spent nine years working in Africa and returned to Portugal 6 years ago. During his stay in Africa, he reported unprotected sexual contact. Despite no recent history of respiratory or gastrointestinal infections, a GBS diagnosis was sought, and a lumbar puncture was performed, which revealed to be normal, without evidence of albuminocytologic dissociation.
Blood tests revealed cytolytic hepatitis, elevated serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase level, and a positive antibody test for HIV-1 (Table 1). After a positive confirmatory test was obtained, lymphocyte phenotyping revealed a CD4 cell count of 219/mm3 (22.8%), and blood HIV-1 viral load measurement estimated a value of 97,800 copies/mL. Antiretroviral treatment (tenofovir-emtricitabine and dolutegravir) was initiated. The patient received IVIG treatment for five days at a 0.4 g/Kg/day dose with no response. At this stage, the patient had a flaccid tetraparesis, maintaining asymmetry of muscle strength (grade 4/5 on the upper left limb and grade 3/5 on the lower left limb; grade 3/5 on the upper right limb and grade 2/5 on the lower right limb - with Medical Research Council grade). He was unable to feed himself without help and presented urinary retention. Deep tendon reflexes remained abolished, and neuropathic pain medications were introduced, including paroxetine and pregabalin.
Due to the asymmetric presentation, a spinal cord magnetic resonance was requested to exclude a structural cause. The exam had no relevant findings. A lumbar puncture was repeated seven days after hospitalization that revealed a mild protein elevation (68 mg/dL) without increased cell count. Nerve conduction studies confirmed the diagnosis of a sensory-motor demyelinating polyneuropathy.
The second regimen of IVIG was administered for another five days (14 days after clinical onset/admission) associated with dexamethasone 15 mg/day. On the eighteenth day after the onset of symptoms, neurological signs stabilized, and a few days later, they started to improve. After a month of therapy, laboratory reassessment showed an elevation of CD4 lymphocyte counts (460/mm3 representing 31.5%) and a decrease in HIV-RNA to an undetectable level.
The patient was transferred to a rehabilitation centre. He had partially regained muscular strength on discharge, presenting a grade 3/5 on the right lower limb, grade 4−/5 on the left lower limb, and a full recovery of upper limb strength.
Four months after the hospitalization, he attended a medical appointment, walking without any support and only referring to the difficulty in flexing his right foot.
Central or peripheral neurological complications are common in HIV-infected patients . If HIV is not treated, a constant inflammatory state will damage neurons [6, 7]. In addition to neurotoxins, an autoimmune response is aroused by changes in membrane components, antigenic viral particles, and disruption of B cells. Antibodies against myelin have been detected in HIV patients with AIDP  but not in the reported case.
Several cases of GBS, as the first presentation of the disease, can be found in the literature supporting the recommendation that HIV screening should be part of the investigation in healthy individuals with newfound neurological symptoms . A diagnosis of HIV infection was made following this indication.
The case presented here had some atypical features: 1) although the patient had an asymmetric clinical presentation, he fulfilled the two main criteria for GBS diagnosis (progressive motor weakness and areflexia), and the electromyography supported this hypothesis; 2) the first lumbar puncture did not show elevated protein or pleocytosis, and pleocytosis remained not evident in the second lumbar puncture as would be expected in an HIV patient; 3) a late onset of HIV-associated GBS, with a low CD4 count in the initial evaluation.
Concerning the treatment, promptly initiating ART with a regimen of IVIG 0.4 g/kg/day for five days was in line with current scientific evidence [2, 5, 10, 11]. The lack of response in the first week may have been partly due to the progressive phase of the disease. The second regimen of IVIG and corticosteroids was prescribed to slow down the evolution of the disease, even though corticosteroids proved to be of value only in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [12, 13].
Autonomic dysfunction, namely urinary retention, was verified. Nevertheless, as described in other case reports [11, 14], clinical recovery was noticed with the preconized treatment and after a stabilization period. In this case, only a minimum strength deficit in the right foot remained, and the patient is possibly still in the recovery phase.
Concerning the ART chosen, emtricitabine and dolutegravir both have good CSF penetration. Tenofovir only has a Central Nervous System Penetration-Effectiveness Ranking (CPE) of 1 in 4. Abacavir (score 3/4) plus emtricitabine and dolutegravir could not be introduced, given the presence of HLA-B57*01. The blood tests showed a rapid reduction of HIV RNA levels, increasing about 10% in CD4 percentage.
There are some references in the literature of recurrent GBS episodes in a higher frequency in HIV-infected individuals than in HIV-negative individuals. So, the patient must be advised that in case a new neurological symptom appears, his/her medical assistant should be contacted promptly.
As a final remark in a case of suspected GBS, HIV screening in the initial blood tests should be requested due to ARTs favourable impact on the evolution of this neurological complication.
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NGES New Year Invitational was an online tournament featuring the Mobile Esports title Free Fire hosting Pakistan’s top 12 Free Fire Esports teams in a showmatch. The tournament consisted of 8 matches in Battle Royale Format. The tournament was broadcasted live on the YouTube channel of NGES. The casting was done by Sallu and Dowdy, the infamous Free Fire casters.
This was the first time NGES organised a tournament under its banner, and undoubtedly the response turned out great, the broadcast flawless, and the competition exciting. The event was also commended by several Esports blogs, enthusiasts and Garena Free Fire itself.
Team Hotshot won the tournament following a spectacular performance leaving everyone in awe. The FFPL IV champion scored two BOOYAHs, 122 points, and 67 kills in eight matches. A giveaway was also done on the Esports live stream to keep the viewership engaged.
This is the first of many Esports tournaments we plan to execute in 2023. Esports in Pakistan has a lot of potential, and we believe our continuous endeavors will open new avenues for Esports growth for Pakistan in 2023.


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Sometimes just making something as simple as white bread can be tricky. I am sure once you master the art of baking, you'd not be spending much time baking white bread, but to date it still gives me the pride and joy. There is nothing like the aroma of freshly baked bread.


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Unruly Passenger Forces Mexico-Bound Aeromexico Flight to Divert to Houston
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A Mexico City-bound Aeromexico flight traveling from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was diverted to Houston on Tuesday afternoon after a passenger became unruly.
According to Cathy Hernandez of KPRC 2 News in Houston, Flight 405 landed safely at George Bush Intercontinental Airport just after noon local time on Tuesday.
Upon landing, the unruly passenger, who had confronted another passenger who was speaking with a family member in a nearby seat, was detained and not allowed to re-board the flight. However since the victim didn't wish to press charges, the detained passenger was not arrested, according to police.
KPRC 2 reports the passenger began yelling, leading to a confrontation that ultimately threatened the flight's safety.
No injuries were reported and the victim eventually boarded the flight before it continued on to Mexico City.
KPRC 2's official Twitter account posted a photo of the plane on the tarmac in Houston on Tuesday:
Unfortunately, in that case, some of the flight's passengers were forced to sleep on the airport floor while they waited for a new flight crew.
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Twitter has 328 million monthly active users. But between the news updates, debates, unsolicited opinions, and meme wars, all those people are revealing enough about their personal lives to give a clue about how long they'll live, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health.
Beyond showing correlations between what people say they do on social media and how that's mirrored by real life data, the goal of the project was to demonstrate the potential of this method to spot other health trends in something close to real time.
"I think Twitter can be utilized to spot changes quickly, especially because Twitter is one of those platforms people turn to when major events happen to find out updates, sometimes even before they are broadcasted on the news," says study author Quynh Nguyen, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Maryland. "Other research teams not constructing small area summaries may use a week's, month's, or even day's worth of data."
For this study, Nguyen and her team analyzed a year's worth of geotagged tweets from April 2015 to March 2016—nearly 80 million posts from more than 600,000 accounts. The tweets were combed for references to 1,430 popular foods and 376 types of exercise and physical activity (while ruling out mentions where people seemed to be watching or talking about sports instead of actually participating in them).
To gauge mood, the researchers ran the tweets through machine learning software, which could determine whether the millions and millions of tweets were either happy or not-happy with 78 percent accuracy. "We chose to examine the prevalence of happy tweets because we hypothesized that socially expressed positivity would be related to health outcomes," Nguyen says. "However, that meant that the 'not happy' category would include both neutral and sad tweets."
As it turned out, only 19 percent of all the tweets over the year expressed happiness. Despite social media platform's early reputation as people recounting their lunch, only four percent of tweets mentioned food, and less than one percent of tweets talked about alcohol. People tweeted about exercise 2 percent of the time.
Thanks to the large sample size, however, even those small percentages resulted in millions of tweets to analyze. Using Twitter's publicly available geolocation data, the researchers were able to compare users' happiness, eating habits, and workout frequency to county-by-county data on health outcomes from Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Transportation.
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"Counties with more happy tweets had fewer premature deaths," Nguyen says. Premature deaths simply mean someone died before the age of 75, and the study didn't examine the cause of those deaths. But researchers also noted a relationship between more happy tweets and healthy lifestyles. "Areas with more happy tweets also had a bit more food tweets and physical activity tweets," she says.
What's more, in areas where people tweet most often about workouts or going for a run, those counties saw 714 fewer premature deaths per 100,000 than places where people tweet less about exercise. Obesity rates were also as much as 2.5 percent lower in the counties where social media users blabbed frequently about their meals and workouts. Tweeting about drinking booze also correlated with more alcohol-related deaths. Counties where they tweet about alcohol the least had nearly 4 percent fewer fatal drunk driving incidents.
Some previous studies have shown a connection between happiness and a longer life. One 2010 study in the Netherlands found that happy people between the ages of 65 and 85 were 22 percent less likely to die over the following 15 years than unhappy people. Other studies have found that a better mood is linked to higher levels of physical activity. "To increase happy tweets in a community, we could invest in food and recreational activity resources," Nguyen says.
According to the study, the happiest US state (at least on Twitter) was Montana, followed closely by Tennessee, Utah, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Maine, Colorado, and New York, in that order. Louisiana had the lowest proportion of happy tweets, followed by North Dakota, Oregon, Maryland, Texas, Delaware, West Virginia, and then Ohio.
The least happy month of the year on Twitter? That would be April, with only 15 percent of tweets sounding cheery.
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Released January 29, 2021.
Roughly 220 million tons of MSW are landfilled each year, across 1,500 MSW landfills (MSWLFs). One metric for the cost of disposal is the gate rate or tipping fee, i.e. the amount charged per ton for disposal at the landfill. EREF routinely surveys active MSWLFs across the U.S. to estimate the average MSWLF tipping fee nationally, regionally and on a state-by-state basis. The primary goal of the study is to track changes in MSWLF tip fee, and explore the relationship between tip fee and MSW management practices.
Results from this study will provide insight into the following types of questions:
- What is the average MSWLF tipping fee, and how does it vary across the U.S.?
- Are MSWLF tip fees increasing or decreasing each year?
- How does tip fee correlate to other MSW management practices (e.g. WTE, recycling)?
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Five Must-Know Works By Sigg Prize Winner Samson Young
Samson Young, Muted Situations #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th 2018, HD video, eight-channel sound installation, and carpet 45 min. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view at M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2019. Image: by Winnie Yeung @ iMAGE28. Image courtesy of M+, Hong Kong.
Samson Young, Big Big Company (Mini Golf), 2019. 3D-printed PLA, resin, plywood, artificial turf, single-channel video, 12 mins. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.
Samson Young, Pastoral Music (But It Is Entirely Hollow), 2014. Image courtesy of the artist.
Samson Young, Nocturne, 2015, on-site radio broadcast, video, performance. Image courtesy of the artist.
Samson Young, Possible Music #1 (feat. NESS & Shane Aspegren), 2018, 11-channel sound installation with subwoofer and ten powder-coated speakers; two colour videos (with sound, 62 min., 20 sec.; silent, 40 sec.); 3-D-printed acrylic with soft pastel; 3-D-printed nylon with soft pastel and coloured pencil, four parts; 3-D-printed rose gold; 3-D-printed brass with soft pastel; watercolour and soft pastel on paper, two framed sheets; costume with wool thread; artificial flowers; lamé, polyester, and silk flag; feathers with dye; and felt-tip pen on drumhead, dimensions variable overall. Image courtesy of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collection, 2018.
Announced by M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, on 13 May, multidisciplinary artist Samson Young won the coveted inaugural Sigg Prize, taking home the cash prize of HK$500,000 (US$64,500).
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The Sigg Prize, established by M+ in Hong Kong in 2018, was formerly the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), founded by renowned art collector Uli Sigg in 1998. The biannual award recognises important artistic practices in the Greater China region. For the inaugural edition, the jury’s panel was comprised of art world heavy weight personalities such as Chinese artist Xu Bing and Tate Director Maria Balshaw.
The Hong Kong-based artist Young’s 12-channel sound-and-video installation Muted Situations #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th (2018) made quite the impression with the jury for the way he used sound as a tool to unearth social and political dynamics. Young who is trained as a composer and known for incorporating elements of experimental music, sound studies, and site-specific performance into his practice, is no stranger to creating such breakthrough and incisive art.
Young was previously the inaugural winner of the BMW Art Journey Award at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2015. He has exhibited internationally across various museums, institutions and biennials including the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); the Venice Biennale representing Hong Kong (2017); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2015); Para Site, Hong Kong (2016); and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2016), among many others.
The award winning work which caught the attention of the Sigg Prize jury members is the latest iteration of an ongoing project, comprising a video and 12-channel sound installation previously commissioned by, and presented at, the 21st Biennale of Sydney. The artist invited the Flora Sinfonie Orchester in Cologne to perform Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony while suppressing the pitched foreground layer of the musical composition, and emphasising the everyday sounds produced by physical actions in a performance such as the musicians’ focused breath or the clicking noises of the instruments’ keys. According to Young, “the act of muting is an intensely focused re-imagination and re-construction of the auditory—an aggressive energy that is the opposite of the Zen-inspired non-action in (American experimental composer) John Cage’s conception of silence.”
Big Big Company (Mini Golf) (2019)
Located on the third floor of K11 MUSEA, the recently opened cultural-retail destination in Hong Kong, this specially commissioned installation is a playful and fun space featuring landscaped green garden, 3D-printed monumental statues, colourful bench seats and strange sculptures with 12-minute video artwork by the artist featuring equally quixotic imagery. The brightly coloured sculptures with gradient colouring include elements of the human body and Greek sculptures enmeshed with vegetables, imbuing a sense of organic yet odd greenery into the work. There is also a four-hole mini-golf course with purchasable golf-clubs and balls. When visitors step inside, gather or start playing a game of mini-golf, the work is automatically activated, creating an immersive and interactive experience, exploring the concept of “play” and how it exists in the blurred boundaries between being an adult and a child.
Pastoral Music (But It Is Entirely Hollow) (2014)
This early work, also described as part of an ongoing series, explores the notion of borders and Hong Kong identity. The site-specific sound performance focuses on the location of Gin Drinker’s Lane in the city—a British defensive system that ran across the New Territories, constructed between 1936 and 1938 to defend against enemy invasion, but fell under Japanese attack in December 1941. Young visited all of the site’s remaining relics while singing the Cantonese nursery rhyme Of Forests and Pastures and recording himself doing so. Surrounded by highly reverberant concrete structures, the artist’s voice takes on a haunting resonance. This eerie atmospheric sound feels out of place yet strangely befitting the surrounding everyday sounds of the present such as bird songs, passing airplanes, water dripping. The artist astutely created a nostalgic environment, juxtaposing past conflict with present daily grind and the unknown future.
Originally presented in a solo exhibition at Team Gallery in New York, this work involved the artist himself taking centre stage. Young wore military garb and sat before an array of sound-effects equipment and a small monitor showing found footage of bombings in various war zones which took place in the night. Using different props to recreate the everyday sound effects in film and other media, the artwork featured sounds of explosions and gunshots as they took visual form on the monitor before being broadcast through a localised FM transmitter. This sound installation seemed to crystallise the artist’s recurring explorations and extensive research of the historically entrenched relationship between violence and sound.
Possible Music #1 (feat. NESS & Shane Aspegren) (2018)
Commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum and created in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Next Generation Sound Synthesis (NESS) project. Using algorithms to replicate sounds, Young created a diverse line-up of digital objects comprising physically impossible and otherworldly trumpets. These digital creations were presented in the form of a multi-layered sound installation incorporating 3D–printed sculptures, drawings, and animation.
Viewers expiring the hard-hitting nuance typical of Young’s work were not disappointed. The sounds were activated based on a strict schedule used for military bugle calls. On a nearby video, drumbeats were played by Hong Kong–based, American musician Shane Aspegren, clad in a marching band uniform, at an abandoned schoolyard located on a historic battle site involving natives of Hong Kong’s New Territories and British colonial forces. Young did not stop there. The work also includes a recording over the PA system of God’s Gonna Cut You Down by the 1950s gospel group Bill Landford and the Landfordaires, a song that warns of God’s wrath.


From the first steam-powered car, by way of the introduction of inexpensive mass-produced fuel-guzzlers, to the latest futuristic flying car ideas, humankind’s love affair with all things automotive shows no signs of abating. The Automotive Finish-Point Authentication is a new expertise gaining prominence in the vehicle sector. 2. The shift in how folks buy cars: With the move toward digital retailing, ESI’s Kraybill says: “Clients will come into the dealership having completed more of the sales course of prematurely.
It concerned 50 automobiles of varied sizes and engine capability, from choose-up vans and 5-tonne lorries to vans, heavy machinery and excavators. Different areas of collaboration embody GM and Ford engaged on computerized transmissions for the second time this millennium.
Another $a hundred and twenty,000 effort by Dallas-Fort Worth sellers supplied a further $850 examine to one hundred forty dealership staff. In European and Asian markets where gasoline is costlier as a consequence of higher taxes, saving cash began not on the automotive dealership but on the fuel station.
Fift y-six % of car patrons mentioned they began their on-line search at third-social gathering web sites, and 18 % began on serps equivalent to Google, in keeping with the 2018 Automobile Purchaser Journey research. Such is the case with Tesla Motors, an entrepreneurial firm that has discovered a approach to make excessive performance automobiles that rival world renowned sports vehicles, all the whereas using electrical energy to power the automotive.
At the 2017 Automotive News Retail Discussion board, Automotive Compliance Consultant President Terry Dortch headlined a panel discussion concerning the evolving regulatory atmosphere. However sellers say used-automotive income are being squeezed by competitors in acquiring automobiles and by value transparency on-line.


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The latest gameplay trailer for Kirby’s Dream Buffet on Nintendo Switch has revealed that the game will launch on August 17.
Nintendo revealed the release date of Kirby’s Dream Buffet in its latest trailer, and the date comes a lot earlier than expected. Kirby’s Dream Buffet is a Nintendo Switch franchise that focuses on multiplayer gameplay, as Kirby was shrunk by the Dream Fork and had to eat desserts to his liking.
Kirby’s Dream Buffet will have three different game modes: Race, Minigame and Battle Royale. The race consists of rolling through levels and eating as many strawberries as possible while using duplication to defeat enemies and get as much food as possible. Finish with multiple platters of strawberries, so the top player has the edge, as the winner of each race is Kirby who eats the most strawberries. Minigames also involve chewing strawberries, but these matches take place in pre-existing arenas and have most opportunities for players to fight each other over food. Battle Royale also involves arena battles, but can knock enemies off the stage and steal their strawberries, this mode is more about offensive strategy.
Kirby’s Dream Buffet (starring Smash Bros.) was announced in July with a “summer 2022” release date. It turns out that the game is closer to completion than you might initially think. A new trailer on Nintendo’s official YouTube channel has announced that Kirby’s Dream Buffet will be released for the Nintendo Switch on August 17.
There’s also a side function for strawberries in addition to satisfying Kirby’s hunger. Rewards can be unlocked by spending strawberries outside of the match. These relate to the costumes and colors for the various Kirbys, some reminiscent of the Fall Guys character’s costume customization options, as well as the Character Treats which are platforms where Kirby characters can be used as the starting point at the start of the match. The more strawberries a player eats, the more levels there will be in all modes, so you’ll need to do that if you want to unlock everything.
Kirby’s Dream Buffet also features various multiplayer options, split-screen coop with two Joy-Cons, four-player local coop with multiple Nintendo Switches, and even online multiplayer, which requires a Nintendo Switch Online registration. The Nintendo Switch has no shortage of party games, especially now that Fall Guys is on the system, but Kirby’s Dream Buffet looks set to be fun. Kirby’s Dream Buffet launches next week, so fans won’t have to wait long until they get to enjoy strawberries with their friends.
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Mike Asimos Speaks on the Art of Managing Con Artists
Many business people have success stories that can inspire upcoming business people and enable them to become successful quickly. They gained a good reputation only a short time after starting their companies. However, some of the successful business people faced problems that could have made them to stop selling goods or offering the services they offer today.But, they managed to overcome the challenges and made their businesses very successful.
Com men have approached many people, including some of the most successful people globally. Some con artists used creative strategies when they approached people which made it challenging to know that they were not legitimate business people.Therefore, they did everything that the con men instructed them to do. In most cases, con victims realize that the person who contacted them was a con artist after sending confidential information or transferring money to the con artists’ accounts. Everyone can share information or transfer money to the accounts of con artists because con men are everywhere and they look for unsuspecting clients because they don’t notice con signs quickly.
The best way to help unsuspecting clients to lose information to con artists is for con victims to share their experience with as many people as possible.However, some people don’t like sharing their experiences because they don’t like remembering what happened.Others keep their experiences to themselves because they believe that people will blame them for what happened.
Some people who were approached by con artists don’t want other people to have the same experience. Therefore, they tell people what happened when cn men approached then and give advice on how to avoid becoming con artists. Mike Asimos is one of the people who teaches people on how to manage con artists.Michael asimos uses every opportunity he gets to discuss the strategies con artists use to get information and money from the people they target.
Con men mike asimos has dealt with different cin men at different times, making him one of the best people to teach people the art of managing con artists. The other thing that he makes him the right person to teach this lessons is because he has never lost money or shares confidential information with con men despite many of them approaching him.
Mike has a few effective strategies that can help people avoid becoming con artists. For instance, Michael asimos news week advices people to do thorough research and get enough information on the people who approach them before following their orders. He also asks people to ask as many questions as possible to know strangers better.
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Mzbel has accused, perhaps, Afia Schwarzenegger of borrowing money to pay a groom’s price, if her latest post is on the beam.
According to Mzbel, Afia Schwarzenegger borrowed this money to pay for the groom’s price because she knew no man will ever care about her.
It is worth noting that after Afia Schwarzenegger and Abrokwah broke up, a video went viral and the comedienne was heard saying she took loan from bank for her marriage ceremony.
However, she once denied this in a live video session early last year, stating that she made that pronouncement to make them know they owe somebody.
She also added that she doesn’t even know the processes in acquiring a loan from a bank.
Mzbel wrote: How many of you want me to reply the only b!tch in Ghana who borrowed money to pay a man’s groom price because she knows no man will ever love or care about her?
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