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Beautiful models of a pack of 3 Deinonychus antirrhopus (Cerberus Clan).
The muzzle of every individual of this pack can be opened.
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The latest edition of BTE has touched down!
On Monday, March 9, 2020, episode 194 of the popular weekly digital series, “Being The Elite,” was released via the official BTE YouTube channel.
This week’s installment of the show, which is titled, “Mile High City,” looks back at the AEW Dynamite debut in Denver, Colorado, as well as the latest developments in the ongoing saga involving “Hangman” Adam Page and the rest of the members of The Elite.
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The Game and Drake shoot a visual for their upcoming record ‘100’. The record which is produced by Cardo and Johnny Juliano is set to appear on Game’s ‘The Documentary 2’. Check out some footage from the video shoot below. Read more
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Exposed to the weird worlds of horror, sci-fi and comics as a boy, Damascus Mincemeyer was ruined for life. Now a writer and artist of various strangeness, he’s had stories published in numerous anthologies and has a collection, Where The Last Light Dies, available on Amazon. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and can be found lurking about on Twitter @DamascusUndead
Kendall Reviews Interviews Damascus Mincemeyer
Kendall Reviews: Could you tell me a little about yourself please?
Damascus Mincemeyer: Hi, I’m Damascus (pleased to meet everyone!). The biography I use a lot claims I’m ‘…a writer and artist of various strangeness from St. Louis, Missouri, USA’, which is a fairly accurate description. I spend most of my time conjuring book cover art for horror publishers and writing far-out fiction that’s appeared in numerous anthologies, including Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinn, Earth: Giants, Golems and Gargoyles, Air: Slyphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens (all from Tyche Books), Bikers Vs The Undead, Psycho Holiday, Monsters Vs Nazis, Mr. Deadman Made Me Do It, Satan Is Your Friend, Monster Party, Wolfwinter, Hollywood Holocaust (all for Deadman’s Tome, and books for which I also provided cover art), Hell’s Empire (Ulthar Press), Hear Me Roar (World Weaver Press), Crash Code (Blood Bound Books), On Time (Transmundane Press), Appalachian Horror (Aphotic Realm), A Tree Lighting In Deathlehem (Grinning Skull Press), Seven Deadly Sins (TerrorTract Publishing), the Sirens Call ezine, the Gallows Hill website and the magazines Aphotic Realm and StoryHack. My first-ever book, a collection of short horror fiction, Where The Last Light Dies, was released October 28, 2020 on Amazon by Deadman’s Tome publishing.
KR: What do you like to do when not writing?
DM: Well, indulging the artist’s side of my personality fills up a good percentage of my non-writing day. Other than that I watch horror and sci-fi movies, TV shows and read comics. You know, all the standard geek stuff. I also enjoy cooking and tend to waste an absurd amount of time fiddling around on social media, but picking fights with old ladies in quilt knitting chat rooms is just too much fun to resist!
KR: What is your favourite childhood book?
DM: H.G. Wells was my top writer as a boy, and The War of the Worlds was my favorite novel. Then, as now, I loved anything with a paranormal or creepy angle, so stuff like the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books, Random House’s Step-Up Classic Chiller adaptations of Dracula and Frankenstein and C.B. Colby’s Strangely Enough! cast a deadly spell on me.
KR: What is your favourite album, and does music play any role in your writing?
DM: Music plays an enormous role in my writing! I love all types of music–punk and post-punk, metal (black/death/thrash/metalcore), gothic rock, electronic music, ‘80’s New Wave…the list just goes on and on. Despite this, I actually require absolute silence when I write. I need to concentrate, and usually write late at night (over very early in the morning) for this reason. But I usually create a ‘soundtrack’ of songs for a specific story I’m working on to listen to when I’m not writing. I helps set the mental mood, so to speak, for when I sit down for the real work. A lot of my tales feature music in them, too. My story ’Getting To The Gig’ is about three punk rockers encountering zombies on the way to their concert in 1982 Los Angeles and is full of musical references.
As for favorite album? Geez, it changes all the time. I’ll say Metallica’s Master of Puppets ranks high as an all-time favorite. The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy is a stone-cold classic. Drab Majesty’s Modern Mirror has been on my playlist constantly since its release. Lately I’ve been listening to After The Burial’s In Dreams and The Ghost Inside’s Get What You Give albums quite a bit.
KR: Do you have a favourite horror movie/director?
DM: For me, it’s always a toss up between the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead and the original Dawn of the Dead (though I do adore the remakes of both). Night’s ability to shock remains undiluted, and I still remember my first viewing: I was seventeen, and had bought a $5 VHS copy at a music store. I knew nothing about the film other than it had zombies in it, and I had NO idea about the ending, and it startled me so much I recall yelling at the television. Its influence is so vast that a mark clearly delineates horror’s pre and post- period in relation to the movie’s release.
Dawn of the Dead, on the other hand, is the perfect sequel. It expands on the world created in Night, and we get the first true glimpse at the societal breakdown only hinted at in the first movie. The characters are so well drawn as individuals that the audience truly cares about their fate, which is something more horror films need to strive for. The gore effects, too, were so outrageously plentiful that I was both shocked and giggly about the on-screen carnage. I remember the first time I watched Dawn it was as a triple-feature along with Hellraiser and the Stephen King IT miniseries, none of which I’d ever seen before, and all of which I loved afterwards. That was a fun day.
KR: What are you reading now?
DM: The questions in this interview. No, seriously, I’ve been all over the spectrum with my reading lately. I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction, and just finished Three Bill Williamson Stories by Harry Turtledove, and Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert, which was tough to wade through, though I enjoyed his rich descriptive detail and the battle scenes enormously.
KR: What was the last great book you read?
DM: Phobetor’s Children by M.G. Mason. It’s a sci-fi/psychological horror novel set in Vespasian-era Rome, and six gladiators are sent on a covert mission into Germania, where an infestation of otherworldly creatures have overrun two Roman forts. It’s got tons of gore, action, and great character depth. The author’s a trained archeologist, so all the rich period detail is used as precisely as a legionnaire swinging his gladius. An enticing, exciting read.
KR: E-Book, Paperback or Hardback?
DM: I’m a physical book snob at heart, though I’m loathe to admit most of what I peruse these days is read in digital on my phone.
KR: Who were the authors that inspired you to write?
DM: I discovered H.P. Lovecraft when I was 16, which was a mind-blower. Clive Barker’s work, particularly The Books Of Blood, was extraordinarily influential, as was Colin Wilson and Harry Turtledove. Joss Whedon’s blend of comedy and horror had a profound effect on me (I was, and remain, a huge Buffy and Angel nerd). I was an avid Fangoria reader growing up, too, and no moment was prouder than when I had my first-ever published art (a pen & ink drawing of Hellraiser’s Pinhead) in their Postal Zone letters column.
As for the visual side of things, being exposed to Jim Lee’s X-Men comics at 13 was a revelation, and I instantly began creating my own comics. For me, it was just another medium to tell stories in. For many years I tried to get a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max inspired comic afloat, but never quite succeeded. I did manage to get published several times in Heavy Metal magazine, which remains quite a feather in my cap from those days.
I still love comics, though, and must list Preacher, James O’Barr’s The Crow, Battle Royale, The Sandman, Hellblazer, Fist of the North Star, The Walking Dead, The Ultimates, Uzumaki, Spawn and the old Warren comic magazines Creepy and Eerie as among my all-time favorites.
KR: Do you work to an outline or plot or do you prefer to just see where an idea takes you?
DM: I always like to pretend I’m the hip, clever, organized planster with all the angles prepared in advance before I dive into a story, but in reality it’s a mixture of planning and spontaneity. I do create an outline and a scene-index breakdown with the main relevant information and plot points, but it’s rarely more elaborate that that (I don’t go in for creating vast character/world bibles for my stories. I’d much rather put that effort and time in creating the actual writing process.). So I do know where I’m driving when I set out on a journey, but the road to get there is often filled with wild detours as ideas come to me during the ride. I’m always getting flashes of dialogue and paragraphs when I’m doing non-writing related things and jotting notes down. To others I must look like a nut, with my collection of scribbled-on scrap paper.
KR: What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
DM: I perform a ton of research before starting any project. I think my story ‘Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam’ that was in Hell’s Empire required more information-gathering than anything I’ve ever done. The book was a shared-world alternate history/horror anthology set in a Victorian Britain being invaded in War of the Worlds fashion by the Satanic armies of Hell itself, and all the stories were linked together by editor John Linwood Grant so that it reads like a novel. My story is about the Battle of London and the sheer amount of period research required (two months worth!) was staggering. But I think all the effort shows in the finished piece.
KR: How would you describe your writing style?
DM: I don’t set out to write with a particularly conscious style in mind. I just write the way the words come into my head. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s detailed, emotional and smooth. At least I’d like to think so, anyway!
KR: Describe your usual writing day.
DM: A typical writing day for me is that there is no typical writing day. I just squeak in writing whenever I can in between all the other life stuff.
KR: Do you have a favourite story/short that you’ve written (published or not)?
DM: I can say that ‘A Night At Satan’s Palace’ is probably my favorite. It’s about two old guys in their seventies who stop by a Las Vegas strip club where the strippers are demons in disguise and intent on opening a portal to Hell. I like its mix of comedy and horror, and it’s the story I’d share with someone unfamiliar with me to showcase my work. I also like a story called ‘Hunter’s Moon’ that involves a werewolf hunter attempting to save a little werewolf girl, and ‘Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam’ is one of my personal favorites as well.
KR: Do you read your book reviews?
DM: I really haven’t had any of my works reviewed yet, so I guess the answer is no. Will I one day in the future, if and when that happens? We’ll see.
KR: How do you think you’ve developed as an author?
DM: I think the complexity of both my plots and characters has vastly improved since I began my professional career. My economy of words has, too. I can tell a fairly complicated tale in less space than ever before.
KR: What is the best piece of advice you’ve received regarding your writing?
DM: When I started writing and was getting constant rejections letters, someone close to me said, “Don’t worry. All it takes is one acceptance to get the ball rolling.” And they were right.
KR: What scares you?
DM: Loneliness. And failure.
KR: Can you tell me about your latest release please?
DM: There are eighteen of my short stories (400 pages worth!) in the collection Where The Last Light Dies, and they cover the entire genre spectrum from comedy-horror to tragic, psychological pieces to torture and straight-up splatter. There’s something for every type of horror fan, and it’s available on Amazon right now! Go take a look. You’ve only got your sanity to lose. Oh, and I painted the cover MYSELF. I’m quite proud of that!
KR: What are you working on now?
DM: I’m busy with the final stages of my debut novel. It’s called By Invitation Only and it’s about a trio of stoner teenagers in Colorado who inadvertently become vampires and have to deal with a group of evil vampire hunters intent on killing them and destroying their entire hometown. There’s a lot of comedy mixed in, and it’s my deliberate attempt to upend the dire state vampire fiction has ended up in since the release of Twilight. Vampires, to me, can still be bestial beings capable of inflicting terror. No sparkles required.
KR: You find yourself on a deserted island. Which three people would you wish to be deserted with you and why? You can choose…
A) One fictional character from your writing…
DM: Oh, my…Most of my creations are either totally inept, complete evil bastards or deeply flawed individuals with few saving graces, so doing the Gilligan’s Island thing would most likely end in rapid starvation for all parties involved regardless of who I pick. But there’s one character from a short story I had published in the anthology Hear Me Roar that would be cool to hang around. Her name is Chia Pet Hepburn, and she’s a quirky, rainbow-haired, foul-mouthed punk chick of the post-apocalyptic American heartland who takes no crap and (incorrectly) thinks she’s a badass. She’d make fun company.
B) One fictional character from any other book…
DM: I think Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan, Lord of the Apes might know a thing or two about jungle survival, so probably him. He can leave the monkey sidekick back in Africa, though.
C) One real-life person that is not a family member or friend…
DM: Well, I fostered a volcanic infatuation with Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar when I was a teenager, so…yeah, why not? Ultimately, however, I can see this scenario ending with both her and Chia Pet Hepburn running off with Tarzan and leaving me to die alone, so I might need to reconsider Tarzan bringing his monkey along for the journey. I’d need somebody to tell all my stories to!
KR: Thank you very much Damascus
Where The Last Light Dies
18 solid and unrelenting stories of thrills, horror, and dread. Damascus Mincemeyer’s vivid story-telling creates tales that will stay with you forever.
There is a place at the end of every road, after each song has finished and all tales have been told, where the sun dims and the shadows take hold. Few who have ventured to that darkened realm return to tell what they’ve witnessed, but in these eighteen harrowing stories those that have recount the horror and the hope, the desire and the despair that lies WHERE THE LAST LIGHT DIES.
You can buy Where The Last Light Dies from Amazon UK & Amazon US
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Australia should put its banks under tougher stress tests, IMF says
- From: The Australian
- November 16, 2012
AUTHORITIES should cast a more critical eye over Australias big four banks, which should be made to hold more capital and pay for government-provided deposit guarantees, the International Monetary Fund has said in pointed assessment of the Australian financial system.
In its latest Financial System Stability Assessment the IMF said Australia’s banks were capable of withstanding major economic shocks and their prudential management was satisfactory, but “a higher capital threshold for the systemically important institutions may be desirable to further bolster financial system stability”.
“Higher minimum capital requirement would provide higher loss absorbency and would seem a natural next step to take” it added, nevertheless applauding recent effort by Australian authorities to improve the soundness of the Australian financial system by establishing the Financial Claims Scheme, a deposit insurance scheme.
The United Kingdom and Switzerland are insisting on much higher capital standards for their large banks than the new Basel III banking standard recommends. The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has said it will introduce Basel III locally a little ahead of schedule.
Noting that Australia’s banking system was the most concentrated in the world, the economic agency said “significant and protracted difficulties in any of the major four banks would have severe repercussions for the entire financial system and in turn the real economy”.
The IMF said there was “room for improvement” in APRA’s stress testing procedures, suggesting the local regulator “devote more resources to stress testing” while the Reserve Bank for its part should establish its own “macro-financial stress testing framework”.
The IMF said the major banks should hold more capital in part because they “enjoy a funding cost advantage derived from an implicit government guarantee and should bear some of the cost of mitigating systemic risk”.
Australia’s large and long-standing current account deficit and banks’ concentration on mortgage lending increased the risks to Australia’s financial system in an economic downturn, the authors said.
Last year Standard and Poor’s said Australia big four banks were rated two notches higher, at AA-, because they were too big to fail and would enjoy government support in the event they struggled to repay their debts.
The IMF also said banks should pay for the deposit insurance, which some estimate suggest could cost the banks as much as $300 million a year if it were priced. It said funded deposit insurance would ensure the banking industry bore at least part of the cost of any bank failures.
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|Title||Synthesis of conolidine, a potent non-opioid analgesic for tonic and persistent pain.|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2011|
|Authors||Tarselli MA, Raehal KM, Brasher AK, Streicher JM, Groer CE, Cameron MD, Bohn LM, Micalizio GC|
|Date Published||2011 Jun|
|Keywords||Analgesics, Opioid, Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Indole Alkaloids, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Pain, Intractable, Tabernaemontana|
Management of chronic pain continues to represent an area of great unmet biomedical need. Although opioid analgesics are typically embraced as the mainstay of pharmaceutical interventions in this area, they suffer from substantial liabilities that include addiction and tolerance, as well as depression of breathing, nausea and chronic constipation. Because of their suboptimal therapeutic profile, the search for non-opioid analgesics to replace these well-established therapeutics is an important pursuit. Conolidine is a rare C5-nor stemmadenine natural product recently isolated from the stem bark of Tabernaemontana divaricata (a tropical flowering plant used in traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic and Thai medicine). Although structurally related alkaloids have been described as opioid analgesics, no therapeutically relevant properties of conolidine have previously been reported. Here, we describe the first de novo synthetic pathway to this exceptionally rare C5-nor stemmadenine natural product, the first asymmetric synthesis of any member of this natural product class, and the discovery that (±)-, (+)- and (-)-conolidine are potent and efficacious non-opioid analgesics in an in vivo model of tonic and persistent pain.
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Synthesis of conolidine, a potent non-opioid analgesic for tonic and persistent pain.
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John M. Streicher, PhD

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Professor Emeritus Bernth Lindfors publishes 'Early East African Writers and Publishers'
Posted: April 26, 2011
About Early East African Writers and Publishers
Focusing on the early careers of notable East African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, David Maillu and Okot p'Bitek, EARLY EAST AFRICAN WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS is a collection of essays exploring the emergence of East African multilingual literary production in the mid-20th century. Through interviews with the major writers of the region, Professor Lindfors provides rare accounts into the process by which East Africa, once considered the literary desert of the African continent, became central to the creation of a unique literary scene.
Praise about Early East African Writers and Publishers (From the Africa World Press Web site)
“Historical documentation becomes art when it is bold enough to transcend the linearity of time and place by an interacting subject. Bernth Lindfors is such a troubling and participating voice and narrator. His multithematic book Early East African Writers and Publishers combines the abundance of detailed information on the emergence of individual writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, David Maillu, and Okot p'Bitek, the theoretical valuation of East African multilingual literary production coming out of the oral and the popular, and the transitive and interdependent relations of the writer, the translator, the publisher and the readership. Lindfors' writing of East Africa of 1950-1980 is a personal and critical account of great relevance, down to the charms of his style and the inquisitiveness of his engagement.”
—Raoul J. Granqvist
Professor Emeritus, Umeå University
“Bernth Lindfors has long been recognized as one of the pioneers of African literary history and criticism and as the essays in this collection exemplify, he is also the chief archivist of African literary culture. These essays provide readers with an important vista into East African literature at its moment of inception in the 1960s and its flowering in the 1970s. Through rare interviews with the major writers of the region and their publishers, Professor Lindfors provides rare accounts into the process by which East Africa, once considered to be the literary desert of the African continent, became central to the creation of the most unique multilingual literature of the modern period.”
Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University
About the Author
Bernth Lindfors, Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures at The University of Texas at Austin, is the author and editor of numerous books on African literatures, the latest being Early Soyinka (AWP, 2008) Early Achebe (AWP, 2009) and Early West African Writers (AWP, 2010).

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April 30 2018
On April 21, members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PCPO) in the riding of Mississauga Centre nominated Tanya Granic Allen, former president of Parents As First Educators (PAFE) and unsuccessful PCPO leadership contender, to be the party’s candidate in the June 7 provincial election. Mrs. Granic Allen is a well-known social conservative with deeply-held religious beliefs who has vowed to fight for a socially conservative agenda if elected. She has made some controversial statements in the past regarding the LGBT community and has been endorsed by organizations with a history of animosity to LGBT people. LGBTory Canada has concerns about Mrs. Granic Allen’s candidacy, and we call on her and PCPO Leader Doug Ford to clearly and publicly explain to voters, before the election, the extent to which she and the PCPO will attempt to implement policies that will impact the legal and civil rights of LGBT people in Ontario.
Mrs. Granic Allen has been associated with, and endorsed by, a number of groups that espouse policies that are not in the best interests of LGBT people. As president of PAFE, she worked hard to repeal the new Ontario sex education curriculum, which we believe contains a number of sensible revisions that benefit all students, including LGBT children (see our statement on this subject here). She has been supported by organizations like LifeSite News and the Campaign Life Coalition (for which she used to be a spokesperson) that have a long record of animus to LGBT people. (See video of her at a Queen’s Park sex ed protest here.) There are a number of her past associations, statements and policy positions that are of concern to us.
She has been vocal in her opposition to same-sex civil marriage, which has been legal in Canada since 2005. She has gone so far as to claim that same-sex marriage is causing “the demise of society” (see here).
The organization of which she was president, PAFE, is strongly opposed to including any sympathetic or positive treatment of homosexuality or gender identity in Ontario classrooms. PAFE’s website cites under “Research” (see here) a number of outdated and discredited academics to support its anti-LGBT agenda, including Stanton L. Jones & Michael Yarhouse (see here), Mark Regnerus (see here), Michelle Cretella (see here), and the American College of Pediatricians (see here). The use of these academic sources as support for policy should be a warning sign in any organization but are especially worrisome coming from a group led by someone who is seeking to be a legislator with the power to determine government policies and to make laws enforcing them.
Mrs. Granic Allen is on record as opposing Ontario’s Bill 28, the All Families Are Equal Act (see here). Introduced in 2016, this is a sensible piece of legislation that extends the same legal rights to parents in same-sex relationships as those enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts and protects the legal rights of children raised by same-sex couples. Mrs. Granic Allen and PAFE fought the bill on the grounds that, in her words, it would “reconstruct the family by stripping away the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’, replacing those words with ‘parent’.” (See here)
During the 2018 PCPO leadership debate, Mrs. Granic Allen stated her opposition to Ontario’s Bill 77 and attacked one of her opponents, Christine Elliott, for co-sponsoring the bill in the Ontario legislature in 2015 (see here). Bill 77, the Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act (see here), outlaws so-called “conversion therapy” in Ontario for persons under the age of 18 without their consent. Conversion therapy seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of an individual through psychiatric or spiritual intervention. Critics of the practice say it is ineffective and harmful (see here), and there is no credible academic or clinical evidence that it works. Its use is opposed by most reputable medical and psychiatric authorities in the western world. In many cases, it amounts to a form of mental torture. It is very troubling that Mrs. Granic Allen believes that it should still be legal in Ontario.
Most recently, Mrs. Granic Allen found herself the subject of controversy over a number of tweets from her personal Twitter account which some found to be homophobic (see here). At the very least, her tweets show a lack of good judgment in someone seeking a seat at Queen’s Park.
Mrs. Granic Allen has made a name for herself as a devout Christian and frames her statements as a defence of her faith and the exercise of her constitutional rights to religious freedom and freedom of speech. She has been a vocal advocate for the social conservatives in the PCPO who claim to have been marginalized in the party.
We have no quarrel with social conservatives and have consistently supported freedom of speech and religion. Religious groups in Ontario should be free to preach their message in the public square and to practice their religion as they see fit in their own families, private schools, and churches, so long as they don’t violate the law. The state, however, must be neutral and secular, and must protect the equal rights of all citizens, including those in the LGBT community. No religious group has the right to impose its beliefs on citizens who do not share them. We are concerned that Mrs. Granic Allen will, if she is elected, advocate for the use of the power of the legislature to do exactly that. Her record is not encouraging.
We have some serious questions about Mrs. Granic Allen’s suitability to sit in the Ontario legislature, and her ability, should she be elected, to represent all of her constituents, including those in the LGBT community and those who do not share her religious beliefs. We urge the public and the media to carefully examine her record and question her on her planned agenda should she be the MPP for Mississauga Centre. We ask Mrs. Granic Allen to publicly clarify her policies in these areas, and we ask Mr. Ford to provide some clarification on his party’s positions with regard to the issues her candidacy has raised.
Ultimately it is up to the voters of Mississauga Centre to decide whether or not Mrs. Granic Allen represents them at Queen’s Park, but all elected officials have a wider responsibility to represent all of their constituents regardless of their beliefs and to ensure that the democratic and civil rights of all citizens, including LGBT citizens, are protected. We hope that Tanya Granic Allen and Doug Ford take that responsibility seriously.


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Employment Arbitration Agreements May Be Gone!
Nationally, the courts in the past have upheld or changed arbitration agreements so many times who can keep up with it! Now, another dagger has been thrust through the hearts of employers who continually tried to avoid the high cost of litigation.
Recently, California’s Legislature has passed a bill (AB 465) to ban employers from requiring applicants and employees to agree to arbitrate employment disputes as a condition of employment or continued employment. That bill is now headed to the Governor’s desk to sign or veto. If signed into law, it will become effective January 1, 2016 and will apply to all agreements entered into, modified, altered, renewed, or extended on or after that date. Under the new law, applicants and employees would still be permitted to “knowingly and voluntarily” agree to arbitrate employment disputes, but an employer would not be able to mandate agreement to arbitration as a condition of employment. Additionally, even in the case of a knowing and voluntary agreement to arbitrate, the burden would be on the employer to prove that the applicant or employee’s agreement was actually knowing and voluntary (and of course employees will argue they were coerced).
As California employers know, there are many benefits to arbitration (in lieu of court) as a forum for resolving employment disputes and, if signed into law, this bill will make it much more difficult for employers to enter into arbitration agreements with employees as well as to successfully enforce such agreements. Employers will also lose an effective tool for preventing abusive class action lawsuits against them in California.
Finally, as we know, California has a tendency to be a “trend setter.” If this goes into law it is without question that we will see this as an issue nationally.
Minimum Wage Increase Has Died – For Now
State Senator Mark Leno’s attempt to further increase the California minimum wage starting on January 1, will not be successful. Currently, California’s minimum wage is $9.00 an hour. It is currently slated for an 11.1 percent increase at the end of this year, when it will move to $10.00 an hour. Earlier in this legislative session, San Francisco based Senator Mark Leno introduced Senate Bill 3, which if successful would have raised the minimum wage to at least $11.00 an hour at the end of this year (effective January 1, 2016) and at least $13 an hour on July 1, 2017. These would be major increases and would have applied broadly to all California employers. In addition, the bill would have required automatic raises to the minimum wage tied to the cost of living after 2017.
In June, the California State Senate passed the bill by a 23 to 15 vote. The bill was moving forward in the Assembly until yesterday, when it stalled at the Assembly Appropriations Committee, after discussions. As a result of yesterday’s development, it is highly unlikely that there will be any legislative changes to the state minimum wage in this session. Therefore, the only statewide increase will be the change on January 1, when the minimum hourly wage goes to $10 an hour. However, many municipalities in California have already passed their own minimum wage legislation (San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Emeryville), with much higher requirements. In addition, other cities are currently debating whether or not to enact their own minimum wages (Sacramento, Santa Monica, West Hollywood) and we expect more action on the municipal level in this area.
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There are times when I feel like I was born in the wrong era. Occasionally I wish I grew up in the 20s and other times I wish I grew up in the 50s, 60s, or 70s. Right now I'm in a stage where I imagine life during the 60s because I've been catching up on Season 5 of Mad Men before the new season premieres on Sunday. Really, I'm looking forward to seeing what Joan and Megan will be wearing next season!
I bought these small canvases ages ago, but I never seemed to get around to doing anything with them. Well, I finally made the time to break out my paints and brushes and start on something. This is a close-up of one of the larger squares and it definitely isn't close to being finished, but at least I started working on them!


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Fans and families came out to the OC Zoo on Sept. 7 for a special visit with Angels catcher Hank Conger.
Conger read to the kids, interacted with some of the OC Zoo animals and posed for commemorative photos with the attendees. Everyone who wore Angels gear got into the zoo free Saturday.
The OC Zoo is an 8-acre area located inside Irvine Regional Park in Orange.
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The Electromash plant in Tiraspol is one of the flagships of the Pridnestrovian industry. The company started out as a major overhaul workshop (1946). It became an electrical repair plant in 1957. The plant was named "Micromotor" in February 1959. It was renamed into "Electromash" in 1963. It is listed in the status of the research and production CJSC "Electromash" today. The plant's electrical products are known in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey. Products created at Elektromash are equipment for the energy, coal, chemical, oil, gas, mining and metallurgical industries. It is used to equip mines of coal-mining basins, transcontinental oil and gas pipelines, thermal and nuclear power plants, small hydroelectric power plants, wind power plants, and energy complexes. Among the Russian customers, for example, are Lukoil, Gazprom, Rosatom. Russia covers 87% of this year's shipment. A little more than one percent of finished products remain on the domestic market: the enterprise cooperates with the Moldavian hydroelectric power station, Dubossarskaya HPP, State Unitary Enterprise "Water Supply and Sanitation", provides equipment for the land reclamation complex of the republic, manufactures consumer goods. The most successful year in recent years was 2019. General Director of Electromash Vladimir Trandasir told Vadim Krasnoselsky during his visit to the enterprise that the indicators of 2020 and the current one are inferior. It was noted that prices for raw materials and materials used in production have been growing since the second half of 2020. In just nine months of this year, the associated losses amounted to 11.4 million rubles. The President asked about employee salaries. The average for the plant at the moment is 5600 rubles (for comparison: in 2009 - 2385 rubles).
The PMR President walked through the factory workshops. Vadim Krasnoselsky was shown the production of consumer goods. By order of the Ministry of Health, racks for droppers are made. Sports dumbbells and street LED lights are also made here. Answering questions from the President, they said that they can produce more powerful lighting devices for stadiums. It advantage is the economy of electricity consumption. Employees of Electromash have modernized the press for grapes pressing. They produce household pumps and consumables for them. They say that the main consumer of this type of product is private pump repairmen, but recently the first batch was purchased by a water utility. Another product innovation is the industrial wood crusher, which appeared in the range of factory products this month. The developers consider that the unit will be in demand by housing and communal services enterprises.
The President visited the workshop where equipment for irrigation systems is manufactured. The production was established on the recommendation of Vadim Krasnoselsky. The implementation of this project made it possible to seriously advance in solving the problem of reviving and expanding the land reclamation complex of the republic.
Vadim Krasnoselsky drew attention to the laser cutting machine. There are two of them at the plant. It turned out that the “versts of time” signs in the Catherine Park were made with its help.
A room is reserved for the assembly of engines weighing more than 30 tons. The workshop area is 5.5 hectares. Single projects are being implemented here. Each unit has its own operating manual in the language of the customer country. A megawatt engine, made at the request of Kazakhstan, was launched in the presence of the PMR President. A unit for Uralmash will be manufactured by February. There is a Ukrainian order. The giant workshop was located on the basis of a former waste warehouse. The roof is being renewed now, the President was told.
Concluding his visit to the enterprise, Vadim Krasnoselsky expressed gratitude to the staff for their work, for their significant contribution to the development of the economy of Pridnestrovie and ensuring the country's self-sufficiency, as well as for the fact that Electromash adequately represents the republic in the world.


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Health Canada agrees to discuss drug decriminalization with City of Vancouver
Published Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:27PM PST Last Updated Wednesday, January 27, 2021 2:35PM PST
Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu walks through a back alley after visiting the Molson Overdose Prevention Site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Thursday, January 16, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says Health Canada intends to begin formal discussions with the city on a plan to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs.
In November, the city council voted unanimously in favour of asking the federal government for an exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that would allow decriminalization.
The same process allowed Vancouver to become the first Canadian city to set up its first supervised injection site nearly two decades ago.
Stewart brought the motion to council saying it is time to develop a “health-focused” approach to substance use and end the stigma against drug users.
The mayor has previously said the city will work with the Vancouver Police Department, Vancouver Coastal Health, community groups and people who have lived experience with drug use to determine how decriminalization should be approved, assuming the city is able to convince Health Canada to grant an exemption.
In a statement on Wednesday, Stewart called the news that the federal government would begin formal discussions with the city "another hopeful and critical milestone on the path towards fully embracing a health-focused approach to substance use."
He thanked federal Minister of Health Patty Hajdu for "her positive response" to the city's request.
"This news comes at a time when the overdose crisis in our city has never been worse, with a person a day still needlessly dying due to poison drugs," Stewart said. "While 2020 looks to be the deadliest year on record for overdoses, I am hopeful that this news from Ottawa can mean that 2021 will be different."
A copy of Hajdu's letter to Stewart provided to reporters by the City of Vancouver strikes a sympathetic tone, though the minister does not make any promises about approving an exemption.
"Health Canada officials will work with officials from the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health to better understand the framework you are proposing," Hajdu writes. "I am committed to our continued work to identify options that respond to the local needs of the City of Vancouver."
If Health Canada ultimately grants an exemption, Vancouver would be the first Canadian city to decriminalize simple drug possession.
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Jordi is from Spain and Bern originally is from the Philippines, We have 2 older boys and Isaac who is a teenager. When a missionary from GEM presented to the church about establishing a camp in Spain Jordi immediately catch the vision and started helping. Bern worked in the missions agency as their account officer in the Philippines who are sending missionaries to other countries. She attended trainings on world missions and attended a prayer event, the speaker asked to pray in front of the flag of the country where God has called you. coincidence? or God's timing she pray for Spain. 5 years later, we met in Singapore, got married and continue serving in the camp.
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KUCHING (June 9): Sarawak Dayak National Union (SDNU) wants answers from the state government regarding two proposals it presented 14 years ago.
One was to adopt the Iban alphabet in the education system, and the other was to set up an institution for the development of native languages of Sarawak.
SDNU president Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom said upon successfully holding the Forum Jako Iban in 2011, the union had presented the proposals to the state government for considerations and actions.
He lamented that until now they have not gotten a proper response.
“I would like to revisit this – the Ministry of Social Development had in 2011 organised the Forum Jako Iban, and during that time, two resolutions were passed.
“I would like to inquire, where had those proposals gone. We know and I remember, we had presented that (the proposals) to the government,” he said at the Ngabang Gawai programme at RTM here today.
Iban is usually written with the Latin alphabet, however there is an alternative script known as the Dunging script (urup Dunging) which was invented between 1947 and 1962 by Dunging Gunggu.
The Pakan assemblyman said Sarawak should have its own institute to create interest and develop Sarawak ethnic languages, including the Iban language.
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A picturesque village at the south of Rethymnon county in Crete, usually preferred by young tourists. Its residents are very hospitable and are always ready to offer visitors local delicacies. The weather is always good and sometimes in the summer a hot African wind comes in from the Libyan Sea. During those hot days, Agia Galini turns into an exotic place of eerie beauty.
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A photo album of the old centre of Nicosia. A multinational European city, friendly to its residents and visitors. It offers remarkable recreational and cultural outlets.
The Archaeological Museum of Tegea houses ancient Greek treasures of immense beauty, which are presented in a masterful way. Touring the museum is an almost mystic experience.
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Whoever watches the sunset from Lycabettus of Athens will be surprised by the pictures he’s about to see.
This museum has a weird energy, which can be accredited to the immense beauty of the statues. The most beautiful statues of all times stand one beside the other and enchant millions of visitors.
A village which is "nailed" upon the vertical rock of the volcano’s crater. The settlement is traditional and building arbitrariness is strictly forbidden.
Winter is harsh in the villages of Arcadian Mount Mainalon. The dense forests of firs sigh by the weight of the snow and the sceneries are alpic. These villages during almost all winter are covered by deep clouds.
He owns a farm with 500 happy animals and birds. Their hearts are grateful to him and they love him dearly. He is a special kind of "king".


Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that he will discuss the upcoming amendments to the Constitution with the leaders of all parliamentary factions.
About the meeting the President asked the head of the faction “United Russia” Sergei Neverov, to discuss various proposals that have members.
“Well, Sergei, agreed. See the schedule, and try, as they say, to pigeonhole, to meet and discuss all these questions”, — said Vladimir Putin, reports RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the President met with members of the working group on preparation of offers on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Total received for more than 400 different ideas. According to the head of the state in basic law will include all amendments, but the group faces a task not to lose any useful initiative.


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Busan City announced earlier this week that Yuk Joong-wan Band has been named as an ambassador of public safety.
The ceremony was held at City on Wednesday at 2 pm.
At the ceremony, the band, or otherwise known as 6band, presented the new ‘Busan City Safety Song’.
The members of the band, Yuk Joong-wan and Kang Joon-woo are both citizens of Busan.
“Busan is still the best city, but I will try to help a little bit to develop into a safe city,” they said.
They will act as safety ambassadors for the next two years to promote Busan’s safety culture policy and participate in various promotional activities to establish a safety culture.


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Hey Pet Photographers...
Stop comparing and start creating!
Join us live in fun, FREE challenge May 5-7 and learn the secrets to developing your own pet photography vision so that you can confidently create your unique artistic expression!
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|Relevant Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, ICT management, engineering or adjacent field of study|
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The Group IT Manager is based in the headquarters of Burg Group in Heerhugowaard in The Netherlands. The position covers IT management for the full group and has therefore a strong international character.
All Group operating sites use a centrally managed IT environment, using JD Edwards as ERP system. Application management and office automation are also centrally managed.
The Group IT Manager leads the Information technology function within Burg Group. Shapes the company’s IT strategy and ensures that all systems necessary to support its operations and strategic objectives are in place.
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In 1947, Cees Bakker acquired the vinegar plant Groenland en Zn and changed the name to De Burg. In the following decades, the company experienced rapid growth, resulting in the current production locations: Burg Azijn (NL), Burg Siroop (NL), Burg Vinegar Belgium (BE), Burg Vinaigres France (FR), Burg Ocet(CZ) and Burg Essig (DE). At these six locations, Burg Group produces vinegar for food, cleaning vinegar and fruit syrups. In 2022, over 375 million liters of natural vinegar, vinegar-related products and syrups were produced. With their consumer products they mainly serve the private label market in more than 30 countries worldwide, along with the products under their own (brand) name. Currently, the third generation of the Bakker family co-owns the company.
Heerhugowaard (possibility to work remote)


At the end of 2018, I swapped cold, damp Manchester for the cold but dry climes of Hoyos in the Sierra de Gata, Extremadura in the middle of Spain and just 15 minutes from Portugal.Read the full story..
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Unlimited Power, Atlas’ Game-changing Tethered Drones
Innovative drone tech has taken flight at the Paris Air Show this year, with a revolutionary tethered drones from Atlas that touts unlimited flight time. This cutting-edge feature was showcased by the drone start-up founded by Ivan Tolchinsky, which is also known for supplying Ukrainian forces with resilient small drones.
The highlight of Atlas’s presence at the airshow is their AtlasTETHER system. This allows a drone to stay connected to a ground controller, supplying the drone with converted power and enabling it to hover indefinitely. Power can be fed from a regular power socket, generator, or vehicle charger.
Importantly, the tether provides two-way communication, eliminating the need for a radio link. The drone and the ground controller will not emit radio emissions; hence they’re less likely to be spotted and targeted by electronic warfare systems. If the tether power and communication are compromised, the drone is programmed to land safely on its battery…


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- You are willing and able to connect the metals by means of a welding seam;
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A strange looking website is letting anyone in the world stream from more than 73,000 IP cameras whose respective owners have not yet changed their default passwords. Whether or not this website is highlighting an important security problem as they are claiming to do, this appears to be a serious breach of privacy.
Insecam has access to more than 73,000 cameras all around the globe which includes more than 11,000 cameras in the United States, 6500 in Republic of Korea and almost 5000 in China. Even though the website states that it is trying to emphasize on an important security issue, it is clearly profiting from advertisements as well.
"Sometimes administrator (possible you too) forgets to change default password like 'admin:admin' or 'admin:12345' on security surveillance system, online camera or DVR. Such online cameras are available for all internet users. Here you can see thousands of such cameras located in a cafes, shops, malls, industrial objects and bedrooms of all countries of the world. To browse cameras just select the country or camera type.
This site has been designed in order to show the importance of the security settings. To remove your public camera from this site and make it private the only thing you need to do is to change your camera password."
Just a click on the place you want to stream, and you'll easily have access to it, these places do not only include parking lots and stores but also living rooms and bedrooms which means that any person, anywhere in the world, can spy on you just because you forgot (or didn't know) that you had to change your IP camera's default password.
The administrator of the website reportedly contacted Motherboard and reiterated his/her statement that:
"Only [the website] can prove the scale of the problem.This problem was in darkness for many years.
The administrator also wrote that nobody has yet asked to have their camera removed from the site.
"Most people still do not know about the problem."
The process for adding cameras to the site is allegedly "automated," with thousands collected each week.
Despite what the website's alleged motives are, it is still probably doing more harm than good. This website exposes the private lives of people without their permission which is a clear violation of privacy laws, as a US lawyer tells Motherboard, "It is a stunningly clear violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)."
Matthew Green, assistant research professor at the Department of Computer Science at John Hopkins University further emphasized on the gravity of the situation saying that:
"The real problem is that the people who are the victims—the people who are being observed—are not necessarily being notified that this is happening."
Despite the website creator's unclear motives by allowing anyone to stream from CCTVs, Panasonic cameras, Hikvision and AVTech DVRs, the website is still up and running with the identity of the creator currently unknown, the domain is registered with GoDaddy with a IP address linked to Moscow. In privacy breaches like these, we can only advise our privacy-conscious readers to change the default passwords of their IP camera and let others know as well.


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AkzoNobel Has Fun with MoodPaint Release
Recently, scientists employed at global coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel (Amsterdam) announced that they had developed a first-of-its-kind paint that shifts color with your mood. The "new product" was announced on April 1, also known as April Fool’s Day.
According to the company release, the coating works by “lifting your spirits when you feel down, boosting your creativity when you feel bored and energizing you when you’re ready to celebrate.”
In cracking the code to MoodPaint, experts from AkzoNobel point to the use of biomimicry, a unique formulation that contains modified thermotropic liquid crystals that respond to pheromones given off by people nearby. Scientists explained that as the crystals move, they absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light, resulting in a paint that changes color in real time.
“Adding new and improved functionality to our paints and coatings is a priority when it comes to innovation,” said Safir Pollo, AkzoNobel’s Managing Director Color Innovation. “MoodPaint opens up a whole world of possibilities for adaptive coatings. All the colors you need to create a colorful space that’s always right for the occasion are contained in just one can of paint.”
When first applied, the coating appears as a smooth, eggshell white, however, within hours the MoodPaint is activated, seamlessly shifting color whenever people are present. AkzoNobel notes that the color-changing paint could help people find more balance at home, as well as in common public spaces.
“Research has long shown the effect color can have on human emotion and behavior,” said Joke Crabbe, Color Scientist at AkzoNobel. “Soft blues can have a calming effect, energizing yellows can stimulate your appetite, grounding neutrals like our Color of the Year 2021 Brave Ground make you feel more comfortable. Now you don’t have to choose just one color for your space—with MoodPaint, your walls will always follow your lead.”


A political thriller from the inside of the Apocalyptic movement of fundamental US Evangelicals. As they interpret biblical scripture as fact, we see how they believe it is their responsibility to act out God’s plan for Armageddon in Israel–ushering the Second Coming of Christ.
Praying for the Armageddon investigates the fusion of religion and politics in the US, where the Religious Right not only threatens democracy but deeply influences foreign policy and support to Israel.
Praying for the Armageddon features people from the grassroots to megachurch empires in the US and those who live with the consequences of Evangelical right-wing projects in Jerusalem.
Praying for the Armageddon was supported through Tonje Hessen Schei’s 2020 Chicken & Egg Award.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Tonje Hessen Schei (she/her) is an award-winning independent filmmaker. She is the director of iHuman, a political thriller from the inside of the AI revolution. iHuman premiered at IDFA 2019, with sold-out theaters and a panel with Edward Snowden. Tonje directed Drone, a documentary on the secret CIA drone warfare. Drone was awarded the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at Cinema for Peace in Berlin. Drone also received Norway’s national film awards, the Amanda and Gullruten awards for best documentary. She has been featured in international media, including television broadcasts, radio, and newspapers such as the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, VICE, Wired, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now!, and many more. Tonje directed and produced Play Again and Independent Intervention, which both won several international awards. The films have been screened on all continents in over 100 countries, and are used by schools and universities globally. In Norway, Tonje worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and she was the Festival Director of Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival (2011). Tonje is a TEDx speaker and presented Gaming for War in 2016. Tonje is a director at Oslo Pictures in Norway.
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS
Christian Aune Falch (he/him) has been producing documentaries for the domestic and international market since 2003. His previous films have been screened at numerous festivals around the world, have won several awards and have been sold to more than 20 different territories. Among his previous titles are the feature films The Exorcist in the 21st Century, Blackhearts, The King and the Crook, Two Raging Grannies and Street of Dreams. His latest film Golden Dawn Girls premiered in the main competition at IDFA 2017 and has been selected for festivals such as Visions du Réel, HotDocs and many more. The film won the main award for the best documentary at HUMAN International Film Festival in Oslo and has been sold worldwide. Falch has also co-produced several feature documentaries with countries like Finland, France, Germany, Australia and Iran. Falch graduated from EuroDoc in 2013 and dok.incubator in 2017. In March 2018, Falch received the Norwegian University of Science and Technology`s Film Award for “his work in the field of international documentary production”. He has been a tutor and speaker at different documentary forums around the world.
Torstein Parelius (he/him) is a documentary producer and outreach producer for UpNorth Film. He attended the Young Nordic Producers Club at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, was a tutor at East Doc Platform in Prague in 2019, and has pitched films at CPH:DOX, Kosmorama, MOW, and more. His latest projects include iHuman (co-producer & outreach producer / 2019 / dir. Tonje Hessen Schei), School Of Seduction (co-producer / Danish Documentary 2019 / dir. Alina Rudnitskaya), Wars Don’t End (producer / 2018 / dir. Dheeraj Akolkar), Golden Dawn Girls (outreach producer / 2017 / dir. Håvard Bustnes), Patriotic Highway (co-producer / Auto Images 2019 / dir. Caroline Troedsson), Boys Who Like Girls (co-producer / Napafilms 2018 / dir. Inka Achté), Blackhearts (outreach producer & assistant producer / 2016 / dir. Fredrik Horn Akselsen) and Braving The Waves (co-producer / Mindocs 2016 / dir. Mina Keshavarz) as well as several upcoming projects as producer, co-producer and outreach producer. Parelius also has a background as a professional musician from different band constellations throughout the last 20 years, as a recording artist, songwriter, lyricist, and live performer.


Outside of NBA League Pass junkies and hard court diehards, Nando de Colo doesn't have a huge following.
Suffice it to say, he isn't the NBA's most marketable player, the guy who the league wants to showcase against LeBron on their Wednesday night slate.
Unfortunately for the NBA, reigning Coach of the Year Gregg Popovich doesn't care a whole lot about the league's business broadcasting model.
That's why he chose to sit his three biggest stars -- Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, along with minutes-eater Danny Green -- against The Heat so they could fly back to Texas ahead of the team and skip what the league was pegging as the de facto game of the week.
Instead of watching those three square off with Miami's big three, fans got to see the Spurs roll out the super team of Nando de Colo (who?), Patty Mills, Boris Diaw, Thiago Splitter and Matt Bonner.
Popovich's call was undeniably a smart one for the Spurs in the long run. The team's big three are aging, and the Spurs are in the midst of a grueling stretch in their schedule, playing six road games in eight nights.
Today, following Popovich's decision, David Stern has vowed to punish the famed head coach and the Spurs.
"I apologize to all NBA fans," Stern said in a statement that was released after the Spurs-Heat game had tipped off. "This was an unacceptable decision by the San Antonio Spurs and substantial sanctions will be forthcoming.
Popovich didn't comment on Stern's statement, but across the league, players and coaches are standing by the legendary coach, who they agree knows what he's doing and should have the right to manage his team however he pleases.
“Pop has won a lot games. He's won championships. He knows what he's doing," veteran Heat guard Ray Allen told news reporters after the game.
Popovich three times last season benched his big three, incurring no wrath from league offices. LeBron James didn't take umbrage with the Spurs' decision to roll out a weakened squad against his team.
“He's done it before, and he has a great feel for his team. And you can't question him as a leader or question him as a coach," James said.
Some basketball writers feel that Stern is more annoyed with the timing of the decision than the philosophy behind it.
“Stern's response Thursday was a knee-jerk overreaction that seemed geared toward pacifying a major television broadcasting partner more so than it was designed to deter the next coach from resting a star veteran for maintenance, ESPN's Michael Wallace wrote.


China’s move towards a low carbon future with high-efficiency, low-emissions plants comes hand in hand with their rapid development in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to remove CO2 emissions from their plants.
Following agreement to constrain global warming to ‘well below 2°C’ at COP21 in Paris, businesses, as well as governments, will be obliged to demonstrate how they will be 2°C compliant.
After two weeks of intense negotiations and lobbying, the agreement reached by the global community at COP21 in Paris sets an agreed target to constrain global average temperature rise to ‘well below 2°C’, with an ultimate target of 1.5°C. It is clear that with voluntary commitments made by many of the world’s nations in Paris resulting in a predicted temperature rise of 2.7°C, much more is yet to be done.
The oil and gas industry is currently in crisis — supply exceeds demand and has resulted in oil prices falling to less than half their value of 12 months ago. According to the Financial Times in June 2015, this has led to postponement or cancellation of ca. $200 billion worth of projects worldwide (Adams, 2015). The industry is restructuring and many staff are being laid off; figures quoted in June 2015 indicate 150,000 worldwide (Eaton, 2015).
Tees Valley has set out a plan for the UK to lead the world in combining a growing industrial base with substantial reductions in carbon emissions.
Publishing a technically viable, end-to-end blueprint for a shared Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) network in July 2015, Teesside Collective set out the economic and environmental benefits the project could bring to Tees Valley and the wider UK.
CCS has a key role to play for both industrial and power emissions reductions and Scotland is well placed to establish CCS infrastructure to enable the development of low carbon industry.