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Children and adolescents from indulgent houses (extreme in responsiveness, low in demandingness) often are usually involved in downside conduct and perform much much less effectively at school, however they’ve elevated vainness, higher social expertise, and decrease ranges of melancholy.
Modern society is giving further significance to parenting kinds. It represents the totally different approaches mom and father use to lift their children. This paper appears to be like into quite a few sorts of parenting kinds adopted by families. Fashionable parenting is combined with quite a few factors. The inspiration motive behind majority of the psychological effectively being issues come up in adolescence are related to parenting sorts. Most mother and father use a wide range of kinds depending upon their custom and societal requires. The patterns of parenting sorts and their impression on little one improvement are defined in the paper. The impression of social adjustments on childhood in India derives consideration. Parenting model needs change consistent with the modifications happening in a society. Influence of social class on the variety of parenting trend can also be discussed inside the evaluation.
The authoritarian dad or mum makes an attempt to form, management, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of the kid in accordance with a set customary of conduct, normally an absolute customary, theologically motivated and formulated by the next authority. She the daddy or mother values obedience as a advantage and favors punitive, forceful measures to curb self-will at points the place the kid’s actions or beliefs battle with what she thinks is true conduct. She believes in holding the kid in his place, , in limiting his autonomy, and in assigning household responsibilities to be able to inculcate respect for work. She regards the preservation of order and traditional construction as a highly valued end in itself. She doesn’t encourage verbal give and take, believing that the child should accept her phrase for what is correct (p. 890).
What’s your parenting kind? Three, pp. 319-321).
Robinson, C. C., Mandleco, B., Olsen, S. F., & Hart, C. H. (2001). The parenting types and dimensions questionnaire. In B. F. Perlmutter, J. Touliatos, & G. W. Holden (Eds.), Handbook of family measurement techniques: Instruments & index (Vol. three, pp. 319-321). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
When you end up in a permissive parenting conundrum, ask your self, “What will make my toddler fully joyful tomorrow, or subsequent week, or in ten years?” The reply might make you appear a bit stricter inside the second, but you’ll know that you simply’re performing out of your deepest impulse, your love to your baby.
Utterly. That is the job of parenting.
Are all of them methods of trying to socialize kids – in other phrases, affect and management their conduct? Fully. That is the job of parenting. To satisfy the needs of kids, definitely one of which is to help them learn to get alongside properly in society and work properly with others.
sixty two and successful improvement of their children. These dimensionsÂ embrace disciplinary strategies, warmth and nurturing, communication sorts , andÂ expectations of maturity and management. It appears as if parenting model is simply not the only determining issue throughout the child’s outcomes. Differences in social context and in teenager temperaments can make a distinction, too.
Authoritarian mother and father set very strict rules and inflict punishment when these tips are broken. Somewhat than clarify the logic behind expectations, they often say issues like because I told you so.â€ They categorical love solely when the child meets their expectations and are often not nurturing or loving otherwise.

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ESMA has today published an opinion on some of the market sizes which can be used for the Ancillary Activity test, which must be undertaken by energy and commodity market participants who wish to use the Ancillary Activity exemption from MiFID II under Article 2(1)j. The document can be found here and the press release here.
While the figures are incomplete, the numbers will be helpful to companies who wish to assess whether they will pass the test. The numbers are given on a “double sided” basis, i.e. for a trade between two entities, the value is counted from each side.

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Brussels, 30 Oct 2021 – The Covid crisis didn’t stop hundred of thousands migrants crossing the Mediterranean and walking through Eastern and Northern roots to reach EU borders. Their lives and future, though, are still at risk within the bloc as the replacement for the highly contested and unworkable Dublin III is still stuck on track one if its long journey towards the final approval. Why?
The EU Council, where Nation States argue their controversies, is blocking the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, outlined last 23 September 2020 by the EU Commission.
If on the one side it’s no surprise that Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia (the four Visegrad) keep building up their walls against immigration refusing any form of solidarity and fair sharing, on the other many more are adding up hostility to the New Pact. Southern states as Italy, Greece, Spain where the burden of migration and asylum seeking is being shouldered, are far from reaching an agreement on the proposed legislation.
Two main stumbling blocks: mandatory solidarity and flexibility.
The proposed mandatory solidarity leaves too many chances to northern and non-border states to disengage from this obligation: the New Pact prescribes when an illegal migrant/asylum seeker reaches, for instance, Italy and applies for asylum, a procedure would start to allow the person to move to another nation with less number of migrants; Member States will have, as a must, to act in solidarity with Italy or Greece and take their own share of migrants. But, and here is the issue, the compulsory solidarity mechanism is not limited to the relocation of the asylum seeker to a new state (secondary movement), but leaves the other nations more chances to ”act in solidarity”, which would allow, for instance Hungary or Poland, to reject migrants and to provide instead financial support to them in the first country of entry to the EU or to finance their return to the country they are fleeing.
Therefore there’s no permanent solution to the harsh conflict between Member States over the relocation mechanism that should distribute migrants across the Union.
As relocation is not mandatory, but just one of the options the other states can choose in order to contribute ‘with solidarity’ and share responsibility, the New Pact does not change the main sticking point of Dublin III: the responsibility of accepting or refusing asylum applications remains upon frontline states as the rest of the bloc (for the most part) will go on rejecting migrants to foster national political agendas.
Now the carriage of the New Pact is on hold at the departures, stuck between reports and amendments. Obviously amid clashes. The last one: MEPs are struggling to delay the deadline to submit amendments to the report of LIBE Committee shadow rapporteur Tomas Tobé (centre-right PPE) which acknowledges “the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation is not proving effective, because its primary objectives are not being met, namely swift and fair determination of the Member State responsible for an application for international protection” calling the Council to adopt qualified majority when voting to reform Dublin III Regulation (meaning 55% of member states vote in favour, 15 out of 27), and when acting with regard to Article 78(2) of the TFEU (the one regulating Policies on border checks, asylum and immigration).
But the failures of the past regulation aren’t finally replaced by a set of rules putting an end to the stark refusal of part of the bloc to accept responsibility for migrants and relocation of asylum seekers among all member states.
Now that the end of 2021 is approaching, the only likely chance for this, once again contested, New Pact to overcome opposition would be under France’s presidency of the Council starting in January 2022.

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Plateau-Mont-Royal borough Mayor Luc Ferrandez leaving politics
Ferrandez proposes 'war effort' to get Montreal on track for the environment
Plateau-Mont-Royal borough Mayor Luc Ferrandez says he is leaving politics because the current administration isn't doing enough to slow down "the rate at which we are destroying our planet."
He made the announcement on his Facebook page Tuesday and said a byelection to replace him will take place some time in October.
He said he felt his own reputation had boosted Mayor Valérie Plante's reputation, but her administration's actions didn't reflect the same level of commitment to the environment.
"I feel like I am fooling citizens into believing that we are collectively making every effort to slow down the rate at which we are destroying our planet," he said.
In his post, Ferrandez outlined the measures he said should be included in "a real environmental program."
"What I am proposing is nothing short of war measures," he said.
Some of these measures are:
- A 100 per cent tax on parking.
- Taxing garbage.
- Taxing meat.
- Lobby to block an airport expansion.
- Use new tax revenue increase to buy all available green space still available.
- Build hundreds of permaculture farms.
- Plant 500,000 trees.
- Focus investment on environmental objectives — even if that means abandoning financial commitments for roads and new construction plans.
He said Projet Montréal is doing far more for the environment than the previous administration, but the measures the city has taken need to fit into a larger and more detailed plan to slow down development and land use.
He named the Royalmount shopping centre project and a new baseball stadium as markers of the kind of excess the administration needs to denounce.
He did, however, praise Mayor Valérie Plante and said he doesn't want his stepping down "to weaken her leadership."
He said he has no intention to join another political party.
Ferrandez has served as the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough mayor since 2009. He was the interim leader of Projet Montréal in 2014.
A controversial figure
While loved by some in his borough, Ferrandez was not without his controversies as a politician.
In April, the cycling advocate was ticketed for biking against traffic on a one-way street. He was on his way to City Hall at the time.
That happened the same month he was accused of napping during a municipal council meeting by journalists at Québecor, whom he accused of conducting a smear campaign.
Going as far back as 2011, he was ranked the most frequently absent mayor at municipal council meetings, and admitted he didn't like attending the meetings and preferred to get ahead on his work at his office.


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It was also unseasonably cold for Spring. We had the fire going most evenings for the first half of the month which is unusual.
We have been full steam ahead with some long delayed in-house projects as well as getting our vegetable garden prepared, this year with irrigation installed to see us through until Autumn. We finally got lettuce, rocket, chillies, capsicum, zucchinis, shallots and 3 different types of tomato planted.
The grape vines are looking ok although about ten 15 year old Cabernet Sauvignon vines at the shallower end of the vineyard have been very slow to shoot due to the drought conditions. I finally succumbed to some temporary irrigation via a water weeper hose. This is made from 60% recycled rubber and is very porous letting the water seep out at a regulated rate along its whole 15m length. It seems to operate well despite the lower water pressure (gravity feed) from one of the water tanks. Will be interesting to see how those particular vines react to the additional moisture given that we have now been having considerably warmer weather.
The Semillon, Tempranillo and Pinot Noir have shot fairly evenly, albeit it extremely early, and are all in flower.
They had their first fungicide spray in the third week which was later than normal due to the wet weather and I was concerned that a primary infection of downy mildew might have been apparent.
When I went to buy some downy curative spray, 600g/L phosphorous acid, from the local agent they were out of stock due to other growers buying up more than normal quantities due to the longer wet spell. But maybe they didn't need it after all.
Other than that, we are waiting to get back into the surfing again. The water temperature is not too conducive at the moment at a coolish 18 deg C. In fact it was so cold that the powers that be called off the open water swim at the recent Masters Games in Sydney (13 deg C!) much to the disappointment of the many athletes who have travelled from all over the world to participate. But the warm current (the yellow) seems to be heading down our way according to the CSIRO.
Looks like we left South Dakota just in time. They had snow there the week after we left. From the looks of the already parched country around us and the predictions of the weather experts, it will be a dry and hot season coming. Farmers in our area have been granted special water rights and rates to keep them going through this unprecedented dry period. And I noticed during my last weekly boundary fence inspection that the red bellied black snakes are out and about; so that's a sure sign that Summer is just around the corner!
We have about 2 months of quiet left before the tourist invasion of the area starts so we are going to savour every minute of that.

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Big Tree Luxury Apartment
City: Rome C.A.P.: 00179
Address: Via Gino Capponi 106 Int. 23 , piano attico
Zone: San Giovanni (Center)
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Located 2 km from Porta Maggiore, Big Tree Luxury Apartment offers accommodation in Rome. The air-conditioned unit is 2.5 km from Domus Aurea. Free WiFi is available throughout the property.
There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen. Towels and bed linen are featured in this self-catering accommodation. There is a private bathroom with a bath or shower and bidet.
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The Real World on Screen: My 12 Favourite Documentary Features
Documentaries have enjoyed something of a facelift since the turn of the century, and Michael Moore had a large hand in that. He’s a divisive figure no matter which side of the political fence you’re on, but his polemical films Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) made documentaries true multiplex contenders that got everyone talking, garnering awards and capturing the attention of both audiences and critics.
Suddenly, documentaries were hot and the success of Moore’s films, along with the unexpected box office success of Super Size Me (2004), paved the way for a golden age of documentary filmmaking. At least in terms of availability and watchability.
I’ve been on a bit of a documentary binge lately since I started making my own short film about a street poet here in Brno, CZ. I wanted to see how the pros did it and I realised once again what a fantastically diverse genre it is. Here are some of my favourites.
(Please note: My picks are mainly documentaries about adventurers, eccentrics, pioneers, artists, and dreamers. You’ll find nothing about war, genocide, politics, or true crime in this list. Those are for another article.)
Deep Water (2006)
Deep Water is the stranger-than-fiction tale of Donald Crowhurst, a middle-aged amateur sailor who took part in a non-stop round-the-world sailing race to save his ailing business and stave off financial ruin. Unfortunately for him, Crowhurst was only a mediocre sailor at best, taking to the open ocean in a supposedly revolutionary trimaran that was barely seaworthy.
Realising that taking on the treacherous Southern Ocean in such a vessel would be suicide, Crowhurst hatched a cunning plan. He would hang out in the Atlantic for a few months, keep a fake log of his journey, and wait for the other competitors to complete their lap of the globe so he could drop in behind them and finish the race without arousing too much suspicion.
In the meantime, alone on his boat for many months wrestling with his deception, Crowhurst went a bit mad, devising crackpot theories that the cosmos was out to get him. When you find out the cruel twist of fate that finally scuppered his scheme, you might tend to agree with him.
Put together using Crowhurst’s eerie video footage and tape recordings, Deep Water is a disquieting adventure that explores the limits of human endeavour, fallibility, and folly, and one that captures the humbling vastness of the ocean.
For All Mankind (1989)
We all know Neil Armstrong’s famous words as he first set foot on the moon, but the line that stood out for me in Al Reinert’s For All Mankind is far more modest. “Y’all take care now!” chirps an unseen woman in a Cape Canaveral corridor as three astronauts make their way to the launchpad, fully decked out in their space suits. She makes it sound like they’re off on a weekend fishing trip rather than travelling to space.
That plucky and unsentimental line pretty much sums up the film. Bolted together from six million feet of NASA footage, it is workmanlike in the best possible sense, mirroring the focus and economy of the Apollo program itself. The astronauts are plainspeaking men with a job to do and the boys in the control room are there to get them to the moon and back with the minimum of fuss. In one scene, when a spacecraft springs a potentially deadly oxygen leak, both parties work with the problem as if it was no bigger deal than a flat tire.
The documentary shows the program for what it was: a massive undertaking that required a blend of the right stuff, incredible ingenuity, and pure blunt force. There is something quite brutal about strapping three guys to the top of a 300-foot cylinder filled with fuel, setting light to it, and blasting them off the planet. The footage of the rockets taking off is both awe-inspiring and terrifying, but once the astronauts are safely in space, they have time for moments of quiet contemplation and breath-taking views of the Earth. It never fails to amaze me how beautiful our planet is.
American Movie (1999)
Anyone who has ever thought about making their own film should see American Movie, Chris Smith’s hilarious and often sad documentary following Mark Borchardt, a hapless filmmaker from Wisconsin trying to get his dream project off the ground.
He wants to make a serious movie but he has no money, so he decides to complete a low-budget horror called Coven instead. The mishaps pile up as he battles with limited resources, lack of available talent, and trying to coral his family and friends who have agreed to star in the film.
Like Ed Wood, the notorious director of Plan 9 From Outer Space, Borchardt’s passion for cinema shines through and he seems to know his stuff, but he is beset from all sides by the circumstances of his life. Smith chooses to focus on the positives. Borchardt comes across as an energetic, engaging character who loves his family and friends, and pushes through to a triumphant premiere of his movie with dogged determination. Like the travails of Wood before him, the message is this: If this guy can get a film made, anyone can.
Grey Gardens (1976)
“It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present,” muses “Little” Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, the Maysles Brothers’ celebrated documentary about two distant relatives of Jackie Kennedy living in squalor in the titular East Hampton mansion.
It’s also difficult for documentary makers to keep the line between observation and exploitation, and the film received criticism for the latter. Formerly from high society but now impoverished, Little Edie and her mother, Big Edie, made headlines for their appalling living conditions, with around 1000 bags of rubbish removed from the decrepit house.
When you see two grown women living in a draughty old mansion encrusted in dry cat piss, questions of mental health and the responsibility of the filmmakers to their subjects come into play.
Either way, both Big and Little Edie are natural born drama queens and apparently love the attention, hamming it up for the cameras as they reminisce, squabble, sing, and ponder lost love and opportunities. Little Edie is an especially fascinating subject, a true eccentric with a florid turn of phrase that makes her sound like a Tennessee Williams character.
Grey Gardens plays like a Gothic sitcom, and its camp factor has earned the film a cult following. Although it is frequently very funny, there is something haunting about two women rattling around a tumbledown house wondering what might have been, providing a keen study in co-dependency and thwarted dreams.
Stop Making Sense (1984)
David Byrne, the frontman of Talking Heads, walks onto a bare stage with an acoustic guitar and a cassette player. “Hi, I’ve got a tape I want to play,” he says, pushing the button. Byrne strums along and sings: the track is “Psycho Killer” and it's the start of a concert film unlike any other.
Over the course of 90 minutes, Jonathan Demme’s expertly edited documentary deconstructs the notion of a live music experience and reconstructs it again, literally. After Byrne’s solo song, he’s joined by a bassist on stage, followed by a drummer. Gradually, we watch a band put together piece by piece, often with technicians in the background setting up each instrument or wheeling on additional staging or lighting.
As the concert builds towards its joyous, life-affirming crescendo, the stage is filled with musicians, singers, and dancers, and now the marvel is seeing them riff off each other. Rather than a gimmick, Stop Making Sense is a celebration of the band’s virtuosity, and one that captures the sheer energy of a great live performance.
Some documentaries are so radical that they give you a totally different perspective on their subject. Leviathan started out as a straightforward insight into the fishing industry, but the filmmakers switched focus to give us a fish’s eye look at a Massachusetts trawler.
That change of viewpoint takes all the usual man-against-the-sea beats out of the equation and reveals the ship for what it is: A grisly floating steel abattoir that rips thousands of fish from the cold waves at a time and slaughters them on deck. When we do see the crew - grim, silent, exhausted - they are portrayed as robot-like components in the industrialised harvesting of the ocean.
Leviathan is a tough watch. There is no narrative, barely a human voice is heard throughout, and the filmmakers challenge the viewer with their experimental style. The fish-level POV was achieved by scattering GoPro cameras around the vessel and the effect is dizzying. We end up dangling upside down in nets, washed overboard, sent skidding across the deck, and hauled up among the catch. It’s a film that requires fortitude but it’s an experience unlikely to be forgotten.
Another beauty of documentaries is that they can introduce us to subjects that we haven’t even thought about before, let alone watched a movie on. One such documentary is Honeyland, the film about North Macedonian beekeepers that I never knew I needed.
Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov and their team spent three years shooting in a remote mountain village, following the day-to-day life of Hatidže Muratova, a middle-aged beekeeper who shared a basic stone hut with her elderly mother.
The filmmakers’ fly-on-the-wall style is all but invisible, allowing us to get fully absorbed into Muratova’s routines as she collects honey from wild bees in the area and sells it for a modest profit in the capital city, Skopje. She’s a forthright and engaging character who deeply respects the bees and their environment, always leaving half the honeycomb to keep the insects happy and productive.
The gentle tone takes on a more culture-clash edge when a nomadic family moves into the village and also takes up beekeeping. Unlike Muratova’s traditional methods, the father is intent on plundering his hives for as much honey as possible.
Honeyland comes with a strong in-built environmental message, warning against the exploitation of natural resources and consumerist greed. Or, if you just want to chill and enjoy the wonderful vistas, it also plays as an unconventional hang-out movie about a woman, her mum, and her bees.
The folk horror genre, in its British form, plays on the dissonance between urban and rural, modern and old, the present and the past. Plotlines often see city-dwellers visiting a remote patch of countryside and falling foul of the customs of country folk, tapping into an urbanite’s unease about the landscape that lies beyond their towns and cities.
Paul Wright’s Arcadia explores this sometimes uneasy relationship between the British and their land with footage mined from 100 years of the BFI’s rural archive, clashing images of the modern world with eerie snapshots of old traditions, folk dance, harvest festivals, and forgotten rituals. The result is a hypnotic folk horror montage that is both entrancing and creepy, aided immensely by the trippy score from Adrian Utley of Portishead and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp.
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Banksy trades on his anonymity and mystique, so how exactly does a documentary profile of him work? In typically evasive fashion, the famous street artist flips the camera on the man supposedly shooting the film and makes a documentary about him instead.
Exit Through the Gift Shop largely focuses on Thierry Guetta, a French artist living in LA who obsessively filmed every aspect of his life. On a visit to his home country, he discovers the illicit thrills of street art, setting on a course to become “Mr. Brainwash,” whose meteoric rise sold out exhibitions of his witless pop art. At one point Banksy, his voice altered and hidden in shadow like a witness on a true crime show, notes:
“Warhol repeated iconic images until they became meaningless, but there was still something iconic about them. Thierry really makes them meaningless.”
Some critics still debate whether Guetta was genuine or a PR stunt cooked up by Banksy for the film. Either way, making him the star gives the film an off-kilter perspective on the nature of art and celebrity. It’s also a frequently funny insight into the transient and illegal world of street art.
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Werner Herzog is well known for making himself part of his documentary narratives as much as the subjects he portrays. His interventions are wide-ranging, from his often-parodied philosophical musings to fictionalised accounts of real events, such as persuading former POW Dieter Dengler to re-stage his traumatic imprisonment in Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
My favourite Herzog documentary is Encounters at the End of the World, which finds him in puckish form as he travels to the Antarctic to spend time with the oddballs and misfits who accumulate at the bottom of the planet.
As with his harrowing condemnation of the death penalty, Into the Abyss, Herzog uses his digressional interview technique to get his subjects talking on tangents. This often reveals more about the subject at hand than a straightforward Q&A.
Based at the McMurdo research station, Herzog blends the sublime, ridiculous, and mundane. He interviews glaciologists, plumbers, cold water divers, and a man who is really into penguins; detours to an outdoor rock concert and a survival game called “bucketheads;” and delves beneath the ice to capture otherworldly footage of the strange creatures that swim there. It’s a film that evokes the wonder of our natural environment and celebrates the dreamers among us.
The Two Escobars (2010)
The world’s most popular team sport hasn’t got a lot of great movies to shout about. The best film I’ve seen so far about football is the Zimbalist Brother’s exhilarating ESPN 30 for 30 documentary The Two Escobars, which traces the link between the Colombian national team of the ‘90s and notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.
The film centres on the tragedy of Pablo’s namesake, Andre Escobar, the upstanding team captain who played straight man to the roster of mercurial talent including eccentric goalie Rene Higuita, Carlos Valderrama and his iconic hair, and electrifying winger Faustino Asprilla. As the team found favour with the kingpin, a chain of events was set into motion that resulted in Andre’s fatal shooting after he scored the own goal that knocked Colombia out of the 1994 World Cup.
Using a dazzling array of footage, the Zimbalists manage something that few other films about the sport, fiction or nonfiction, have captured: the unpredictable rhythms of 22 men trying to knock a spherical object into their opponent’s net, roared on by the raucous tide of supporters in the stadium.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
I love a good mystery, the stranger the better. I won’t claim that Resurrect Dead is anything more than workmanlike, but it does give us a great tale.
The film delves into the enigma of the so-called Toynbee Tiles, hundreds of hand-crafted cryptic messages that started appearing on city streets across America in the ‘80s. The majority of them read:
If the message was intriguing enough, their provenance proved even more of a mystery. No one could figure out how they appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, embedded in asphalt.
The eventual outcome of the doc is a thoughtful insight into editorial choice. Having tracked down the person they believed was responsible for the tiles, the filmmakers discovered the poignant motivation behind them… and decided to leave their creator well alone. It was a sensitive and responsible decision that also helped preserve the mystique of the peculiar messages.
Room 237 (2013)
The Shining is my favourite Stanley Kubrick movie. Not only is it a masterpiece of supernatural horror, it’s one of those movies that becomes ever more fascinating with the more you find out about it. Like the meticulous and labyrinthine design of the menacing Overlook Hotel, it contains a multitude of secrets and curiosities, some of which provide the basis for Rodney Ascher’s Room 237.
The film explores a range of fan theories that stem from various aspects of Kubrick’s haunted house tale. Some are enlightening, such as a study of the hotel’s floorplan that reveals it is an Escher-like maze that makes no logical sense. Others are bonkers, like the conspiracy theory that the movie is Kubrick’s admission that he faked the Apollo moon landing.
All in all, Room 237 is a fascinating trip down several rabbit holes that opens up ever more food for thought for lovers of the film, and a captivating journey into obsessive fandom.
So there you have it, 12 of my favourite documentary films of all time. What are your picks? Let us know!

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|Salt Lake City, UT /PRNewswire/ - David G. Yurth, principal inventor and co-founder of Nova Institute of Technology, a privately-owned research and development group located in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced today the successful testing of The Corona Discharge Gas Plasma Disassociation System™ (CDGPDS™), a compact, lightweight, low-cost energy efficient device that eradicates all exhaust fumes produced by internal combustion engines before they leave the tailpipe. http://lnmradionetwork.com/late-night-in-the-midlands-07-24-15-david-yurth-zechariah-sitchin-first-hour/ Radio shows |
This invention will eliminate many lung disease! This show was also on:
Sunday - November 8, 2015 (Yurth was on the coast to coast showman)
Richard Syrett interviewed David G. Yurth, principal inventor and co-founder of Nova Institute of Technology, for a discussion on the Corona Discharge Gas Plasma Disassociation System: a compact, lightweight, low-cost energy efficient device that eradicates all exhaust fumes (related article).
Yurth explained that the breakthrough technology allows for the chemicals emitted from an internal combustion engine to be broken down at an elemental level and then re-combined into less harmful emissions.
At a result; "what you get out of the tail pipe is nanoparticulated carbon particles, water vapor, and elemental gasses." Despite the revolutionary nature of this technology, that to receive widespread publicity because of longstanding skepticism that such a transformative device can even be created."When you create a disruptive innovation, you declare war on everyone whose interest is threatened by your innovation,"
Yurth said, regarding the challenge of getting the technology adopted by car companies and other industries. To that end, he specifically pointed to the ongoing agenda centered around a potential carbon emissions tax, which would be rendered obsolete due to his technology.
Yurth also noted that, based on experience, the large auto manufacturers are so massive and insulated that just getting them to look at the technology is a challenge and, provided they learn about it, there is a longstanding bias against ideas which did not originate from the industry. Nonetheless, Yurth plans to move ahead in the marketing of the technology and expects to begin obtaining investors around the middle of next year.
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- Explain the energy transformation that take place during an egg-drop investigation from the time the container has started being raised to the top of the door frame to the time it finally lands on the floor.
- Describe the construction of an egg-drop container explaining the reasoning of the design. If the container succeeded in preventing the egg from breaking, explain why it did. If it was not successful, describe a change that could be done to improve.
- Apply the law of conservation of energy to determine the impact velocity of an egg-container (assuming no air resistance and using the door frame height.
- An egg-container is like a helmet for an egg. How does the helmets that protect the head are tested? Is there a resemblance to an egg-container?
- One device used to demonstrate the law of conservation of energy is the contraption known as Newton's cradle, which has five balls of equal mass hanging from it?
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Ukraine increased electricity exports 18.3% in January-March 2018 year-on-year to 1.596 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine. Electricity supplies from the Burshtyn thermal power plant energy island in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania for the three month grew 0.9% compared to January-March 2017, to 1.026 billion kWh.
Electricity supplies to Poland rose 27.6%, to 423.327 million kWh. Ukraine exported 146.218 million kWh to Moldova in January-March 2018 compared to nil a year earlier.
No electricity was exported to Belarus or Russia in January-March 2018 or January-March 2017.
In March 2018, exports of Ukrainian electricity totaled 563.7 million kWh, which is 49.6% more than in March 2017.
Ukraine imported 8.92 million kWh of electricity in January-March 2018 (of which 8.559 million kWh from Russia and 0.361 million kWh from Belarus) versus 11.6 million kWh in the same period last year. Energomarket contracts account for the imports as technological transfers.


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Why wasn’t Dan Bylsma fired by Penguins?
Pittsburgh Penguins CEO Dave Morehouse announced the general manager Ray Shero had been relieved of his duties on Friday, saying that the team believed “new leadership can help us get back on track” after failing to return to the Stanley Cup Final following their 2009 championship.
Yet there was no mention of the man who coached the Penguins to the Cup and then for the next five seasons of getting off-track: Dan Bylsma.
Which was odd, because both TSN and the Associated Press reported that Bylsma had been fired.
But Morehouse said that Bylsma had not been fired, and neither was his staff.
“The decision is to have a new GM come in and evaluate the entire hockey operations department, including the coaching staff,” said Morehouse, who said the team has a “large group of people” in mind for the opening. “This isn’t a complete overhaul. We’ve had good success in the regular season. We’re a good team.”
isn't that a little weird? Firing the GM for lack of success on the ice, but not the guy behind the bench?
“I don’t think there’s an element of weirdness. I think we’re trying to do it systematically. We’re trying to address the situation at the top,” he said. “We’re trying to get from good to great.”
As developments go, this was a stunner. Reports were rampant that Bylsma has lost the room, and that Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in particular had soured on him.
Seth Rorabaugh had a great take on his failures behind the bench on Empty Netters:
From a tactical standpoint, several portions of the system the team played overwhelmed or confused current and former players, particularly on defense. Ben Lovejoy was a middling borderline NHL defenseman with the Penguins. After being traded to the Ducks early in the 2012-13 season, he became a top-four defenseman for head coach Bruce Boudreau who by his own admission, likes "to keep things simple."
The Penguins' unyielding adherence to their system rarely allowed for any flexibility for the unique skillsets of players. As a result, marvelously talented players such Simon Despres and Beau Bennett have either languished in roles below their abilities at the NHL level or been marooned in the AHL while trust and ice time has been entrusted to players with limited abilities such as Deryk Engelland and Chris Conner.
Yet he remains coach, for now.
Why? A few theories:
1. Here are some numbers: 252-117-32. That’s Dan Bylsma’s record in the regular season, and that’s the best regular-season winning percentage in Penguins history. Morehouse stressed several times that the team is happy with its regular season performance but needed to go “from good to great” in the postseason.
Is it possible they think Bylsma can work as the head coach but Shero was failing to him the players he neeeds? Or are they just hesitant to turf someone who, clearly, can coach his behind off over an 82-game season? To that end …
2. Keeping him away from the competition. It’s not fair to Bylsma, but two division rivals in the Washington Capitals (especially) and the Carolina Hurricanes are looking for coaches. They can’t contact Bylsma as he’s under contract for the next two seasons with the Penguins. By keeping him in limbo, the Penguins are forcing those teams to look elsewhere for coaches or continue waiting to see if Bylsma is sprung from Pittsburgh. Tactically, it’s a brutally calculated but shrewd decision.
3. One more year for Disco … before Babs? We have to at least consider that Bylsma won’t be fired before next season, because that appears to be what Mario Lemieux is telling people. A new general manager might come in and kick him to the curb, or perhaps feel that Bylsma remains the best coach available for this team.
Key word: "Available."
If the Penguins are trying to go from “good” to “great,” there are few coaches that can get them there.
The talk is that they covet Mike Babcock. He has one more year left on his deal in Detroit. If Bylsma’s given one more season and the Penguins don’t win, Babcock will be available – if he doesn’t sign an extension and wants the gig, of course.
Whatever the case, we're sure it all comes down to what Pat Brisson, er, the Penguins think is best for their team.

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Research productivity and competence of teachers play a critical role in promoting evidence-based teaching practices and enhancing the quality of education. Hence, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) in enhancing teachers’ research productivity and competence. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the 110 teacher participants and the pre-experimental research design was utilized. Statistical treatment such as frequencies, percentages, and weighted mean were used to determine research productivity and teachers' competence. Results revealed that more than 98% (108) out of 110 teacher participants had completed their studies, and teachers possess a high level of competence in action research (AR). Competence about context and rationale (60.91%), proposed innovation, intervention, strategy (67.27%), action research questions (56.36%), action research methods (60.00%), results and discussion (54.55%), and work plan (64.55%) are all in a high level of competence. About 44.54% (49) out of 110 teacher participants were in a moderate level of competence, and almost 2% still in a low level of AR competence. The research output is the best indicator and the most concrete manifestation that the teachers are capable and competent in writing and conducting AR. Completed AR output is a positive determinant of the teachers' knowledge and skills in action research. Likewise, PLTL is an effective strategy for enhancing teachers' competence in AR. Recommended that (1) AR competency-enhancement training through Action Research Kumustahan, Assessment, and Technical Assistance (AR-KATA) program be conducted in schools; (2) District-organized and school-based research activities utilizing PLTL strategy be implemented and sustained; and (3) Seminars, training, and development research work-related experience and accomplishments of the teachers be included as one of the criteria in selecting and hiring of teachers.
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An Asian man is fighting for his life after being assaulted in an unprovoked attack in Manhattan. Authorities say that Yao Pan Ma was collecting cans in the East Harlem neighborhood when he was attacked from behind and repeatedly stomped on.
Police were called by a bus driver who saw the 61-year-old Chinese immigrant laying unconscious.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is leading the investigation into the unprovoked assault.
Mr Ma’s niece said that he moved New York two years ago and collected cans to make money after losing his job due to the pandemic.
“We are completely in shock, terrified and scared and frustrated,” she told ABC7.
“My uncle is a very quiet person, very hardworking. He’s not the person to cause trouble.”
Investigators say they have not yet determined if Mr Ma was targeted because of his race, but according to NYPD statistics hate crime against Asians have spiked by 45 per cent.
The suspect in the attack is described as an adult male, with a dark complexion, wearing a black jacket, black pants, white sneakers and a multi-colored cap.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, called the attack on Mr Ma “outrageous.”
“Make no mistake, we will find the perpetrator and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he said on Twitter.
Governor Andrew Cuomo also condemned the attack saying he was “sickened to learn of yet another bigoted act of violence against an Asian American man.”
“This is not who we are as New Yorkers, and we will not let these cowardly acts of hate against members of our New York family intimidate us,” said Mr Cuomo.
“We stand united with the Asian American community which has always been an important part of our diverse identity as a state.
“I am directing the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to offer their assistance in the investigation of this latest attack.”

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In Home Senior Care in Vallejo
Senior citizens who are strong enough to live on their own however not enough to perform particular family chores might need in house senior care services in Vallejo. Many elderly people choose to stay in a familiar environment for as long as they can because like most of us, they treasure their self-reliance. This is why it is much easier for them to accept the idea of senior house care than assisted living home. Through some assistance from a home care service provider, senior citizens can be easily kept in good condition making it possible for them to maintain their dignity and independence.
The expense of in home senior care services is likewise often less than that of full-time nursing homes. This is why it might not be necessary to move your senior moms and dads to a retirement home, specifically if their condition isn’t really severe enough.
There are at least two main kinds of in house senior care services, namely knowledgeable or custodial care and encouraging or unskilled care.
Competent services are those supplied by medical professionals, and these consist of nursing care, occupational, physical, speech and breathing treatment, hospice care, social services. A competent home health aide may likewise provide individual care to senior citizens throughout a minimal period of time, offered that he follows a certain care plan and he works under the direct supervision of a competent professional such as a nurse or a therapist. Competent services are frequently not supplied regularly. The knowledgeable service providers have a set home visits to their clients based upon a treatment plan prescribed by a doctor. A few of the reasons for employing skilled services are to accelerate medical facility discharges, prevent undesirable hospitalizations, and permit an elder to remain in his house while he’s recuperating from a sickness or during a severe disease.
Meanwhile, encouraging services are those supplied by non-medical home caretakers. These home care suppliers offer aid to elders through such individual care as bathing, dressing, grooming, housekeeping, meal preparation, and shopping. Depending on the client or his family’s demand, a home care provider can likewise offer assistance in ambulation and exercises, self-administered medications, and transport to medical appointments. Custodial or supportive services can be set up depending on the need of the customer. The services offered often vary in amount and frequency with some enduring from a few hours a week to twenty 4 hours, 7 days a week. Supportive services are targeted at helping an aging individual handle his degrading capabilities, maintain his self-reliance, and avoid moving.
Aside from making sure that your senior loved one is appropriately looked after, in house senior care services make sure that he keeps enough interaction with the outside world as he grows old. This is essential due to the fact that many seniors who live really far from their friends and family who are not able to keep regular interactions with other people tend to be separated and lonely, which can sometimes lead to depression.
Both knowledgeable and inexperienced services are planned to provide care assistance to a senior right at his own home and typically this is much better alternative than institutional care. You can either get in home senior care services from a house care firm or work with a private caregiver directly, which is typically the less costly alternative and permit more possibilities for your participation in the decision making process. This can be the best option supplied that you work out much perseverance and put in more effort in the hiring procedure.
Although you need to spend for the majority of the senior home care services, there are some types of senior care and social work that are given for free or contributed. If you belong to a specific church, for example, a few of your members may willingly offer their time to supply some quantity of care to your senior parents. There are likewise federal government programs or medical insurance that can provide help in paying for some specific house care services.
In home senior care services can be the very best bet not only for elderly people however also for their loved ones. Senior house care is the cheaper option than a full-time nursing facility. Although every household is unique and should select the best type of senior care for their elderly loved one, in home senior care services is usually the most budget-friendly and effective choice for numerous families.
In Home Elder Care or Assisted living home?
Numerous elders are not pleased when placed in an assisted living home. This is because they wish to keep their dignity by living individually in their own home for as long as possible. If your senior loved one needs any type of care and you’re considering which type of senior care is best for him, then consider supplying him in-home care services. This is the best type of senior care because it permits a private to remain in a familiar surrounding while getting the ideal care they need.
Typically, price and care are excellent determining consider picking the ideal type of senior care. In home care services do not consist of charges on medical facility or retirement home facilities and equipment so they are normally more affordable and more cost effective. Nursing home’s cost varies by state, however in general the expenses are frequently far above the mean earnings of most elders. Medicare can just cover a small portion of long-lasting care. For this reason, senior citizens who can not manage the costs of an assisted living home can begin to consider about working with in-home care services.
There are more benefits to receiving home care services than remaining in retirement home. For a lot of senior citizens, the capability to keep specific level of independence can assist enhance their quality of life as well as their over-all wellness. Besides, not all seniors require full-time help. Some are still psychologically and fit to carry out everyday chores and they only require some aid in other locations of their life, such as grocery, shopping, or going to medical professional’s visits. These kinds of senior citizens might just need aid for a few hours a day. However even those who need consistent care may still discover it more beneficial to remain in their own house than in an assisted living home. Ill seniors who receive in home care services typically receive more customized care than those who remain in nursing homes, where staff needs to attend to many people with various levels of requirements.
As in-home senior care becomes more and more common, so are the choices for you to select from. The market involved in supplying senior care services has actually broadened to provide services aimed at improving your senior loved one’s life by means of an individualized house care services. There are at least three classifications of senior care to select from, namely, individual care, companionship, and house maker services; and the type you choose depends mainly on your senior loved one’s requirements.
Personal Care Solutions
The personal care services offered depend primarily on every person’s requirements. This may consist of bathing, which is important in making an individual feel well and more comfy. Helping your loved one carry out daily activities he has to remain psychologically and physically active is likewise part of this type of service. Meal preparation and preparation for seniors requiring an unique diet plan can likewise be provided by in-home care providers in coordination with the senior’s health care experts and family members.
In this busy world, where we frequently don’t even have time to state “Hi there” or wave farewell to our senior loved ones, life can be really singular and lonely for them. This is where buddy services play a crucial function. Having people to supply companionship to your senior loved one can significantly enhance the quality of his life. This kind of services is normally offered for only a number of hours a day, or lots of days in a week depending upon the requirements of a senior. Services might consist of discussion, grocery shopping, running errands, medication reminders, and break for family members.
Homemaker services are practically the exact same services offered by individual care and buddy service providers. Receiving this type of senior care in house frequently puts off the requirement for a specific to be moved to a nursing center or enables someone who has been hospitalized to return house much sooner.
Selecting a senior care in-home company needs penetrating into the credentials of the specific if you’re employing straight or a firm’s qualifications, should you decide to work with a caretaker through them. Ensure that the service provider you work with is highly trained and qualified to supply trustworthy care to your loved one. If at all possible, do a background check of the person just to guarantee that you’re leaving your loved one in good hands. With the best senior care supplier, your loved one can take pleasure in complete liberty and fulfillment while residing in familiar surroundings, which is exactly what is doing not have in assisted living home.


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Ontario bar hours extended for World Cup
Alcohol sales to begin at 10 a.m.
The Ontario government is allowing the rest of the province to follow Toronto's lead in extending legal drinking hours in bars and restaurants during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The move means that patrons in Ontario's 17,000 bars and restaurants will be able to order an alcoholic drink as of 10 a.m. rather than the usual 11 a.m.
"This is great news for Ontario's World Cup fans," said Consumer Services Minister Sophia Aggelonitis, who will be rooting for Greece to take the trophy.
"Hockey may be Canada's national sport, but soccer's popularity is steadily growing in Ontario, and this special approval will allow people to celebrate the excitement of the World Cup."
The provincial government also said the extra hour of alcohol sales would be an economic boost for businesses.
Cities and towns can opt out if they wish by contacting the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.
6-hour time difference means early games
There is a six-hour time difference between Ontario and South Africa, where the tournament is being held, meaning some games will begin as early as 7:30 a.m. ET.
Toronto city council first passed a motion affecting city bars on May 12 to accommodate soccer fans.
"I feel ecstatic. Let's play ball," said Toronto deputy mayor Joe Pantalone when he heard the news.
"I'm not even mayor, and I'm already leading [the] province," quipped Pantalone, who's running for the job of Toronto mayor.
Pantalone said people from across the province, including Ottawa, Windsor, Thunder Bay and Kitchener "were clamouring for this," and last week, he spoke to a councillor in Hamilton about the issue.
Bars hope to cash in on extra hour
The kitchen manager at the Black Bull pub in Burlington said it will "definitely help business" but wasn't sure how much since people will come in to watch the games anyways.
"An hour difference probably isn't going to make a huge difference, but for some people, it will make a difference," said John Vlasics, 44.
Vlasics, who hopes the United States does well during the World Cup, figures there will be more of an impact on the weekends than during the week.
Soccer is a big draw over at the Moose and Firkin in Woodbridge.
Manager Sherri Hurlburd, 44, said there has been a lot of confusion among her customers since Toronto passed its bylaw.
"There was a lot of talk about it, and people basically assumed because the City of Toronto had said it was OK, it had been passed [everywhere]," she said.
Hurlburd said her bar was ready to open early whether the drinking time was changed or not and that customers weren't too worried about having to wait an hour for a drink.
"A lot of people have said, 'Well, what's the big deal if we sit here at 10 and once 11 hits, we can have a drink?"'
Now, customers have the choice to drink earlier if they want, she said.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup runs from June 11 to July 11, with every game broadcast on CBC and available online at http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/.
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- 11 June 2013 | Kiteboarding
Sam Light has taken the overall 2013 Triple-S Invitational title, held in Cape Hatteras, USA.
The 2013 Triple S Invitational is over. Male and female winners have been crowned in Surf, Slick, Slider and Overall Divisions. The overall trophies were stolen by Sam Light and Colleen Carroll.
This year, the iconic kite competition saw a new format being introduced, with heats, a scoring system and a panel of judges.
In the Slider division, riders had two runs through the park, taking a score from the best hit on each feature. Sam Light took the top honours, followed by Alex Fox and Eric Rienstra.
In the Slick challenge, the experienced Aaron Hadlow took out Rick Jensen and Ewan Jaspan. Jason Slezak conquered in the surf zone, leaving Mark Miedama and Teddy Lyons in the remaining podium places.
Colleen Carroll is one of the riders of the event. She dominated all disciplines and took the overall Women's title, at Cape Hatteras. The "Best Session" award went to Brandon Scheid, while Laura Vroman took the "Best Wipeout".
2013 Triple-S Invitational Overall Results:
1. Sam Light
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1. Colleen Carroll
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Known crimes: Invasion of Earth; Developing emotions
First Appearance: Mother (Nintendo, FC, 1990)
M.O.: Growth stunter; Musical aficionado; Corrupter of the not-so-innocent
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“George, I can’t go with you.”
She looked more frail than she ever had before. They both did. When they had arrived, their skin had been fuller, their cheeks round. Now they more resembled the creatures who surrounded them. Their skin remained pink, rather than the steel blue of the beings that glided in and out of their existence, but they had taken on the long, gaunt appearance of their captors. And now, the man’s eyes reached a width that nearly matched theirs.
“Maria, this might be the only chance we have. If we don’t get off this ship tonight, we don’t know if they’re ever going to pass by the Earth again.”
He was panicked; his hands were sweating. And when he managed to pry his eyes away from hers, if only to avoid seeing them well with tears, it was to look at the small thing on her knee, which was looking between them with a gaze that saw nothing and comprehended everything all at once. It knew it was in a place where it could be happy, where it would never be anything else. George had seen the way they interacted with one another every day that he had managed to get into their minds. He knew their relationships, their thoughts, their emotions. These aliens, they didn’t understand things the way humans did.
“I’m his mother. I can’t leave him.”
Her voice nearly broke, and though the thing’s face was as blank as it ever had been, George could sense its pleasure at the wave of emotion it felt from his wife. He felt something he never had before that moment, a flash of murderous intent. The blue steel thing tensed abruptly, and Maria’s knee stopped its motion at the feeling of claws gently prickling the sides of her leg. She shifted her position, lifting the little beast to her chest, and the feeling fled from George for the first and only time. His shoulders slumped with defeat, seconds before they rose again with determination. The thing calmed as he did, and to the beat of his wife’s heart. She began to hum, and its tail slowly swayed with the sound of it.
“I’ll never stop loving you,” he said.
“If I doubted our love for an instant, I wouldn’t stay,” she replied with her little smile.
He left the ship that night. Maria never returned to Earth, though one late night at George’s lab the child she had been carrying within her arrived sobbing on his doorstep as a shadow passed overhead. He felt it touch him inside, at once unfathomably alien as it had always been, yet warm, as it had never been. He was dreaming, but when he awoke, he felt tears on his cheeks and knew it had been no mere flight of imagination.
“Mother is gone,” his first child said to him from the stars, through the veil of slumber.
They never quite understood. They considered cessation, for it was clearly contaminated by the humans, but it was adamant of its purity. The way it lingered near the bay where the female had grown still worried them. It had learned much from them, it insisted, yet that would be for the greater good. They knew now the dangers of the planet Earth tampering with their minds, leaving clumsy footprints inside of them, causing them the agony of emotion that leaked from humans like heat from the stars. Humans could not be allowed to discover their latent talent for psionics, it was decided. The experiment was considered a success. And as an assurance of loyalty, they assigned to it the task: stop the development of the humans.
It took to the task. Of course it did. It was the only one who could understand joy in one’s work, contentment in a job well done, sorrow in loss. It was the only one who had had a mother. It was the only one who had a name. Giygas. Mother had said it had something to do with the machine that had birthed it, but all Giygas knew was that it meant she loved him. For George had a name, and she loved him. Maria had a name, and he loved her. Giygas had a name, and so it had love.
And that it had love, so would it fail, just as its peers had been afraid of.
Maria’s great-grandson came to it once, years later, and it knew this was the moment it was to be defeated. But it saw her within him. Come with me, it pleaded, the desperate emotion of wanting to be a family again nearly derailing the importance of its task. And when he sang to it instead, its tail moved, and it returned to the stars as alone as it had been since its father and mother had left. Its memories of its mother would not allow it to isolate her legacy from the growth that humanity deserved.
It returned to Earth only once more after that. It could not fail again, its emotions having delayed the plans. It put away its love for its mother, and in doing so, found those who had never appreciated that joy in the first place. Boys and men who had never sought out companionship and understanding welcomed it into their lives, but they did not understand love, or family. The importance of their own mothers and fathers. They were concerned with themselves in a way that caused it to recoil, to understand why its peers wished to isolate the humans. The lives it touched were not like those of George or Maria, full of warmth. They were cold and manipulative and deserved to be alone, cut off from the galaxy.
And then Maria’s great-great-grandson came to it, years before. Where everything was cold from the betrayal of a boy, who used it for his own gains. That boy had laughed as he commandeered technology beyond his means like they were mere toys to be played with, to end the petty squabble he had with her great-great-grandson. But it saw only him, its brother, so many generations removed.
And when the piggish boy lay panting and defeated, and he came to it, it did the only thing it could think to do, to convey the joy of the reunion. It said: I’m you. I am the proof of Maria’s love. We are her legacy.


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During its Nintendo Direct today, the company revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Zelda sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. The game will take a darker approach to the franchise than we’ve seen in recent years. In the trailer someone (Ganon? Agahnim? A new enemy?) narrates the fall of Hyrule, speaking to their armies.
Link is seen traversing the land as it falls apart into darkness, with new sky areas to launch from and new machines to ride (there’s a FREAKING TRACTOR?!), while he takes on enemies new and old.
With all in peril, Zelda asks someone (the Gods? the Seven Heroines?) to step in and give Link their power.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launches on Switch on May 12, 2023. For real this time.
It’ll arrive in a standard ($69.99) and Limited edition ($129.99). There’s also an amiibo on the way, too, that adds items and fabric for Link’s glider.


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Effect of short- and long-term alcohol feeding in rats on pancreatic enzyme content and enzyme secretion in isolated pancreatic lobules in vitro
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The effect of short-and long-term ethanol intake on digestive enzyme secretion was determined in isolated pancreatic lobules of rats. Groups of male Wistar rats were fed a modified Lieber-DeCarli diet containing either 5% (w/v) óf ethanol, isocaloric amounts of a liquid diet in which ethanol was substituted by starch, or solid rat chow; for 3 days, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Basal and caerulein-stimulated secretion of lipase, amylase, chymotrypsin and trypsin and the enzyme content in the tissue were studied. Feeding the liquid control diet decreased the tissue content of the four enzymes as compared with the values obtained in the group receiving solid rat chow. While basal and stimulated amylase secretion was markedly reduced in the former group, the secretion pattern of the other enzymes exhibited only transient changes. Caerulein-stimulated secretion of lipase and the proteases was increased by ethanol, the effect being more pronounced during the initial phase of the experiment. Alcohol feeding stimulated the basal secretion of these enzymes only in weeks 1–4. In contrast to the other enzymes, basal and stimulated amylase secretion was not enhanced by ethanol feeding. The results suggest that the enzyme secretion of the rat pancreas is distinctly altered by chronic ethanol feeding. However, the response of the pancreatic enzymes is non-parallel, and changes with the duration of alcohol intake.
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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - It was standing-room only inside the Birmingham Water Works Administration Building on Thursday night as customers, boards members and employees listened to a proposed budget that included a possible rate increase.
Customers could see percentage raise from 2.9 to 3.9 percent. Customers like Brenda Ward listened to what this increase would mean to her monthly budget.
"I’m outraged by the whole thing because I’m a senior citizen and there are other people in the same situation that I’m in. Why in the world are you trying to raise the water bill when you have straightened out the things you have going on?,” she said.
Many people stood before the board with issues with their bills, which they say point to a bigger problem - something they call inefficiencies with the company.
"It’s a problem. It’s a problem within,” Ward said.
The rate increase will cover aging pipes, equipment and cost of living raises for employees. Keith Mims, who also attended Thursday’s public hearing, said he understand why there’s a need for a rate increase.
"The increase is very far for the services you’re getting. That’s not a substantial amount. You’re talking difference of $2 to $3 a month. You’re talking going to the fast food restaurant once or twice less a month,” he said.
Board members tabled their vote to pass this budget and rate increase to take in consideration customers comments.


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Concerto IV in G major
Edition for oboe and piano by Sandro Caldini
Unlike Tomaso Albinoni´s other oboe concertos, this work bears no opus number even though it was published in England during the composer´s lifetime. It is now available for the first time in a modern edition. It is a perfect complement to the seven Albinoni concertos from opus 9 which have graced the MUSICA RARA catalogue for some time already and have long been attracting widespread interest.


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TEEN Mom fans believe they have spotted a major clue Leah Messer is married to her boyfriend Jaylan Mobley in a new dance video.
While in the kitchen, the trio showed off their dance moves to Demi Lovato's song, Cool For The Summer.
Jaylan, 25, appeared in the background while the others danced.
As soon as the spicy lyrics started, Jaylan rushed over and pulled the camera away.
Leah's boyfriend shook his head in disapproval and wagged his finger.
The Teen Mom 2 star captioned the post with a laughing emoji.
But followers seemed distracted by the fancy ring the MTV mom had on her fourth finger, which is where the engagement ring is typically worn.
One fan said: "Do I see a ring on 'that' finger?!?!"
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Another fan agreed and added: "I came searching the comments to see if anyone else noticed that."
A third fan mentioned: "Watched a few times! Looks like she's married! I see a wedding band and diamond."
A fourth person wrote: "Is that an engagement ring?????"
A commentator chimed in: "I'm so happy for you Leah! Congrats! You deserve a good man and to be a happy, nice-looking family!"
Leah shares twins Ali and Aleeah, 12, with ex-husband Corey Simms and her youngest Addie with second spouse Jeremy Calvert.
THE FLORIDA GETAWAY
In July, Leah went on a Florida getaway with her boyfriend.
In one of the snapshots, her young kids were joined by other children as they all posed with a huge fake crab.
The group held up peace signs and smiled for the adorable photo.
In another photo, Leah, her daughters, Jaylan, and other family members stood under a palm tree as they wore their vacation gear and flashed peace signs.
The three kids were also seen in the Jurassic Park section of Universal Studios as they watched eggs hatch and checked out the dinosaurs.
While seemingly still at Universal Studios, some of the children dressed up in Harry Potter robes.
Leah posted more photos of the kids enjoying the theme park as Aliannah wore a Gryffindor tie and her twin wore a Slytherin one.
The family even boarded the Hogwarts Express during their fun trip.
Leah captioned her post: "Vacation mode."
Jaylan jumped to the comments section and added: "Dream team."

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two new pieces, one for Flute and Fixed media called unfamiliar spaces written for the illustrious Brice Smith and is getting a soft premiere to help me workshop the piece by James Brinkmann and the other for saxophone and piano, that is getting premiered by Jeffrey Leung and James Schippers. So much going on these days, and much to come! I've been performing with an electronic music ensemble called EMW, and we have been doing my work Light Heartache quite a bit. Cover Art is really becoming a new passion of mine. Unfamiliar spaces was taken in Port Ludlow, WA, and a few words is all it takes was taken right outside Mt Rushmore this summer during my cross country move.
unfamiliar spaces was written for my dear friend Brice Smith. The work is an exploration of new techniques and sound worlds while maintaining my own musical language and artistic tendencies. Recently I have been interested in the question who is music for, who is the world for, and how are people supposed to act and be in spaces that are not their own. How am I as a queer man supposed to act in spaces inhabited primarily by the heterosexual world. This has been made more clear having moved from a neighborhood that was the center of LGBT life in Seattle where I would walk down the street and feel a sense of homogeneous community. My goal for this work was to find a way to take something that is comfortable (the flutists ability to play their instrument), and my own abilities (composing melodies with harmonies, rhythms ect.) and place it within a context of unfamiliarity. A context that LGBT folk are familiar with. We are rarely in a place that is ours, but that begs the question, what is ours? Gay men have gay bars, but they are often times exclusionary of women, people of color, and non cis-gendered individuals. My hope is to open up this dialogue and to ask the question to the performer and the listener, who is this space for, and does its mere existence exclude those individuals who are in the most need of familiarity.
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I am my own person. I will not be blindly following someone just because I respect them for some arbitrary reason. They say family is the most important thing, but sometimes you don’t have to agree with them or even like them. Sometimes your mentors are not right. Sometimes you realize that they don’t have your best interest on the mind, and sometimes one person says a few words that makes you realize that you have been blindly following the heard, while being the loudest person in the room to hide from your own insecurities. A few words is all it takes to realize that you are your own person, and life is what you make of it, and not what other people make of it for you.
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goals for the year has to do with how I react to getting feedback on my book. In fact, the actual words I used were, "I'd like to remain thoughtful, objective, gracious, and rational about anything that happens with this book."
It's a lot to ask of myself, really, and I was completely nervous about a month ago as I discussed revisions with Sarah. Anything that happens. I asked myself, "Can I remain objective and rational and even GRACIOUS if she tells me something that sounds impossible?" I was so nervous about getting her notes that I didn't even know if I wanted to get notes at all. Maybe we could just stop here? I could be like, YAY my book is pretty and unique and someone believes in it, the end. Every step forward has so many possibilities, about half of them stinking suspiciously like failure.
But of course I'm not going to let a little panic (I mean apprehension, obviously) get in the way of moving forward as a writer, right? So I read through my manuscript again during the time I knew Sarah was reading it, trying to see it from her perspective, trying to imagine what she was seeing.
And then I got her notes in my inbox (incredibly detailed, amazing notes, btw!). And then my computer died. On the same day. Perfect timing.
At first I thought this was a catastrophe. I mean, I printed out her notes from my work computer and took them home overnight--I hoped at this point that my computer might have a little update issue that might take twenty or thirty minutes to fix. I read through the notes, getting more and more inspired and anxious to dig in. But it turned out my hard drive had failed, and although I had everything backed up (on paper and electronically), I didn't have my computer for the next three weeks.
Objective and rational and gracious. Right. I was freaking out.
Something about me--even though I had been perfectly patient about doing these revisions earlier, and in fact had been fantasizing about never doing them at all, once I had my notes and my ideas and had spent some time on the phone with Sarah...I was ready. And when I'm ready to do something, let me tell you, it gets done. I wanted to work straight through the next week, nailing each change. But the little table where my laptop sits was empty and forlorn. Instead I had a monster binder, stacks of paper, two colors of sticky notes, and a birthday journal, mostly neglected in favor of the keyboard, which translates my thoughts into words so much faster, so much more freely...
Thoughtful. Objective. Rational. Gracious.
I took the cap off my pen. I started making notes. Two weeks later, my mom lent me her laptop so I could translate all my scribblings into the actual manuscript, and now today I'm reading through again. And again.
Someday soon I'll send it back, my fingers crossed, my goal in mind. Maybe it will come back with a new set of notes. Maybe it will go on to the next stage. This timing wasn't what I had hoped for, but revising slowly, gnawing my pen cap between my teeth like the days before I had a computer (yes, I do that)--maybe it was better for me after all. Maybe it really was perfect timing.
Just a little update. I hope to be done for real sometime this week. And then...who knows? My lappy is back with its shiny new hard drive, and I know that once I hit send I'm going to be back to focusing on that goal of mine. And back to first drafting the next one! :)