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Nottingham Forest moved into the npower Championship’s top two as today’s results saw them leapfrog Norwich.
Marcus Tudgay’s first-minute goal was enough for Forest to overcome Watford at the City Ground.
And that was sufficient to lift them into the automatic promotion spots on goal difference after Norwich went down 2-1 at Burnley.
Dean Marney lashed home Chris Eagles’ pass from outside the penalty area to give Burnley a 33rd-minute lead and, though Grant Holt equalised (65), Jay Rodriguez turned home the winner nine minutes from time from Daniel Fox’s free-kick.
Hull strikeforce Matty Fryatt and Aaron Mclean ran riot as the Tigers enjoyed a thumping 5-1 derby win over Scunthorpe at Glanford Park. Fryatt’s injury-time goal completed his hat-trick while Mclean grabbed his first two goals for the club, with Joe Garner scoring Scunthorpe’s reply.
Leicester beat Barnsley 4-1 to maintain their steady climb up the table. Paul Gallagher’s 30-yard screamer and Andy King’s 43rd-minute effort gave the Foxes a 2-0 lead but Barnsley pulled one back on the stroke of half-time through new Chelsea loanee Jacob Mellis.
King struck again and Kyle Naughton grabbed a late fourth for the Foxes.
Bristol City were equally prolific as they added to Preston’s woes. North End have failed to win any of their four games under new manager Phil Brown and went behind to a fifth-minute Andy Keogh goal before crumbling in the second half.
David Clarkson scored twice before substitute Brett Pitman completed the scoring late on.
Ipswich cruised to a third straight win under Paul Jewell as Sheffield United were dispatched 3-0 with the Blades ending the game with nine men.
Damien Delaney headed home a fine 29th-minute free-kick from on-loan midfielder Jimmy Bullard at Portman Road and set up David Norris to double the lead. Town could even afford a missed penalty from Grant Leadbitter before Connor Wickham grabbed a late third.
United’s misery was compounded when Rob Kozluk and Lee Williamson were dismissed.
James Vaughan, on loan from Everton, slammed home his seventh goal of the season to give Crystal Palace a 1-0 win over Middlesbrough.
Steve Davies gave Derby a 1-0 lead at Portsmouth with a close-range finish in the 33rd minute but the hosts snatched a point in the last minute through David Nugent.
Another late goal, from Kevin Lisbie, earned Millwall a 1-0 win over Doncaster and Davide Somma’s goal saw Leeds beat Coventry by the same scoreline.


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Like LTC, this is an ugly chart. We may be in for another long stretch of consolidation. If the price breaks below ~3200 - watch out. That may be what it finally takes for the capitulation to take place. Dreadful price action.
Things are looking kind of bleak for BTC right now. The good news is that it is currently hovering a little under $8000 and hasn't begun a slippery slope drop down to the dangerous $7400 level - which if breached - might produce a dramatic waterfall event.
I'm redrawing the BTC chart since it broke out of it's triangle. This new chart indicates a potentially dismal price future facing us.
Check out the two timelines. The first is short term. Ugly. The second chart shows a channel going back to December 2017. Even uglier.

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Instructions and required forms to petition the Court for payment of unclaimed funds may be found on the Georgia Northern Bankruptcy Court’s website under the Court Information tab. You may search for unclaimed funds in more than 80 court units at no charge by using the U.S. Bankruptcy Unclaimed Funds Locator.
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Putin is fighting for Christian values and against same-sex marriage – Ukraine-based Nigerian cleric says
Pastor Sunday Adelaja, the founder of the largest evangelical church in Europe, Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, has opined that Putin is fighting for Christian Values and against same-sex marriage.
He said that in his bid to avoid being caught up in the war, he had to leave the country with only one shirt.
He also revealed that he lost property worth over $4 million to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking via a Zoom meeting organised by the Network of African Christian Journalists, the pastor told people to avoid misrepresenting Putin, saying the man is fighting for traditional values of the Christian faith.
In his words;
“I’m beginning to believe that this Vladimir Putin who everybody is saying is mad and demon-possessed is the same man that is fighting for traditional values of the Christian faith.
“He is saying Christianity and satanism are not equal.
“He is against homosexuals, saying same-sex marriage is wrong
“What is happening in Ukraine right now is pathetic and very unfortunate.
“Lives are being lost.
“My house, which is worth about $4 million, was burnt.
“I left the country only in one shirt.”
“There is nothing I need from Nigeria Christians but what I want them to realise is that this invasion may escalate and lead to the Third World War whereby Russia will be ready to use nuclear weapons.
“Let us all pray against this.
“It could lead to war that may dictate how the world will be ruled.
“War is destructive, damaging, traumatising.
“I believe that this war is the judgment of God upon Ukraine, the attacker and the attacked, the victim and the aggressor are being judged.
“There is no way one can deny the fact that this is God’s judgment.
“God may use this to glorify His name.”


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Livestock depredation by wolves in the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, Nannaj (Maharashtra), India.
Satish Kumar and Asad R.Rahmani
Food habits of the Indian wolf Canis lupis pallipes were studied in the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, Nannaj between 1991-1994. Estimation of wolf depredation on livestock is essential to implement compensation, management, and conservation plans for the wolf. Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra was the primary prey species of wolves in the sanctuary; goats and sheep were the major livestock taken. Data on livestock killed, age of kill, distance of the kill from the sanctuary, and the terrain where the kill was made were collected. More goats than sheep were killed, and livestock depredations were higher during the pup-rearing period of wolves, when pups were dependent on parents and/ or helpers for food.
Multiple attacks were made by wolves on livestock herds to divert the attention of guard dogs. Sixty-three percent of the kills were 1-4 m. from a bush or some other vegetative cover. The maximum number of kills (52 per cent) made during daytime was found up to 0.2 km. from the sanctuary plots. The owners retrieved 16 per cent of the total livestock kills, by chasing the wolves or with the help of guard dogs. Mauled animals rarely survived. All the kills occurred in the grazing lands outside the sanctuary, but kills were carried into the core areas of the sanctuary. There was a monthly variation in the abundance of goats and sheep in the study area.
Contact: Satish Kumar, Department of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202 002, Uttar Pradesh.
Asad R. Rahmani, Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, S.B. Singh Road, Mumbai - 400 023, Maharashtra.

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Go Conference is an annual conference in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). For their 2016 conference, they wanted a refreshed logo that would encapsulate the Go Conference image for years to come. We also create flyers and other designs for their event.

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LAM’ON is a biodegradable laminating film for print. It is derived from renewable resources like corn. The team developed a glue, specifically designed for the needs of the industry, that is completely toxic free. It is water soluble in order to ease the recycling process. On top of that our production method is simplified in a way that saves us time and money. LAM’ON offers the same results, it is applied on the same machines, and is offered at the same price range as the currently used laminating films.
Together, Gergana, Angela and Philip make up the LAM’ON team. Gergana is an illustrator and graphic designer with more than 10 years of experience in the field. She worked for over 6 years in two start-ups responsible for Public Relations and Fundraising. Angela is photographer and entrepreneur with years of experience in print. She is team manager and responsible for the communication with partners and clients. Philip is an expert in polymer engineering, physics and chemistry related to the processing structure and properties relationship of multiphase polymeric systems.

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"We see the big eye socket of the dinosaur, it really starts looking like a baby.”
High-powered X-ray reveals cute baby dinosaur
Scientists used powerful X-ray beams to visualize dinosaur embryos discovered in the 1970s.
For expectant parents, a 3D ultrasound is an opportunity to glimpse the baby while it develops in the womb in fantastic detail. Scientists can have a similarly profound experience — with ancient, baby dinosaurs.
Using an advanced 3D X-ray technology called synchrotron scanning, a team of scientists was able to peer inside fossilized dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing a trio of dinosaur embryos curled up inside.
Working through the night for days, the team was able to painstakingly reproduce an image of these embryos bone-by-bone.
Inverse is counting down the 20 stories that made us say 'wtf' in 2020. This is number 19. See the full list here.
In this study, published in April in the journal Scientific Reports, the research team took a closer look at a pair of Massospondylus carinatus embryos found at South Africa’s Golden Gate Highlands National Park in 1976. These dinosaurs were a kind of long-necked herbivore from the early Jurassic, some 145 million years ago.
Until now, scientists had very few tools with which to examine fossilized embryos without damaging or destroying them. But synchrotron scanning changes everything, Vincent Fernandez, a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London and co-author on the study, told Inverse at the time.
A super X-ray machine — The team used the European Synchrotron in Grenoble, France, which works by whizzing electrons around a 2769 foot ring at the speed of light to generate high-powered X-ray beams to non-destructively penetrate delicate materials — like fossils.
Using a scanner like this, scientists can see unprecedented levels of detail from their specimen, even down to individual bone cells.
Fernandez told Inverse it was like "virtually extract[ing] them from the rock."
Having such fine details meant that the team was able to virtually recreate what these tiny dinosaurs might've looked like, down to their two centimeter-long skulls. Seeing this specimen slowly come together before their eyes was a moment that sticks with Fernandez, he tells Inverse.
“I keep being impressed by the level of details we can achieve: We can see these tiny teeth, smaller than the tip of a toothpick,” he said. "I particularly love when the bones are put back in 3D, and we see the big eye socket of the dinosaur, it really starts looking like a baby.”
What did they find — In addition to how cute the baby dinosaurs looked, the team was also able to learn a lot of about their development that they wouldn't have been able to glean from the fossil alone, such as learning their apparently complete skeletons were only 60 percent developed. The team even identified a secret third embryo in their samples.
In the future, this technology can be used to estimate the incubation time for dinosaur embryos and help scientists better understand their modern counterparts.
Inverse is counting down the 20 stories that made us say 'wtf' in 2020. This is number 19. Read the original story here.


As events unfold in Helsinki on Monday, remember this: The Trump-Putin relationship is not primarily one of personal friendship or competition, nor an enmity or awkward reconciliation between nations. It is, above all else, a single ideology, Trumpism-Putinism, that is the joint work of both men and their followers. It has been years in the making.
The most effusive praise I heard of Vladimir Putin, after he became a full-scale demagogue following his 2012 reconquest of the presidency, was not on my visits to Russia. I’d spoken to many Putin admirers there over the years, and at one point broke bread with the man himself, but Putin fandom within Russia has always tended toward a characteristically mordant tone: “He is more stable and effective than what came before,” or even, “This is what we deserve.”
It was driving around the United States in 2014 and 2015 that I first heard really enthusiastic admiration of Mr. Putin. Listening to hours of conservative talk radio (as one does), I was startled at the frequency with which some hosts – Hugh Hewitt (“Putin has served his country’s national interest better”) Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly (“a macho man who’s going to do pretty much what he wants”) and their lesser imitators – would enthuse about the Russian President as “a strong leader,” a man who “has done so much for his country” – rants that inevitably ended with “our country needs a Putin.” Their praise would be amplified by a circle of outspokenly pro-Putin Republican guests.
Around that time, some U.S. conservatives began to express alarm at the Putin cult emerging within their ranks. As conservative columnist Cathy Young noted in The Weekly Standard, “for well over a decade, there has been a contingent of paleoconservative/libertarian Friends of Vladimir” within the Republican Party.
When Donald Trump declared his candidacy in June, 2015, those figures all got behind him; many are now part of his circle. Mr. Trump devoted much of his 2016 campaign to praising Mr. Putin as a man who had done great things for Russia and with whom he’d have “a good relationship.” From the beginning, even before the beginning, Donald Trump’s unique selling proposition was to be an American iteration of Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Trump’s Putinism did not depend on a fixed or formal relationship with Mr. Putin, or even on agreement on specific issues. Maybe the U.S. President thinks Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine and seize Crimea; maybe he thinks it was an acceptable move (he has said both). Maybe Mr. Putin’s interference in the 2016 election was done specifically to put a like-minded man into power; maybe it was yet another Putin move intended only to sow chaos. What matters is the shared ideology.
What is Trumpism-Putinism? It is not the sort of ideology that has a manifesto. They are strongmen, not thinkers. Yet their actions are based on a specific view of the world, and a consistent response to it. The best articulation I’ve heard is from the philosopher Michel Eltchaninoff’s recent book Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin, which articulates three characteristics of Putinism that also happen to be central to Trumpism.
First, a defence of the past, of “traditional identity,” against what Mr. Putin has called “the excesses of political correctness,” the answer to which is a strong man who will stand up against liberals, feminists, environmentalists, gays and Muslims.
Second, the creation of troubles on the frontiers and borders of the country, and among its alliances and partners, cast as threats to the national identity that can only be “solved” by the leader. The United States had no significant problems at its southern border until Mr. Trump’s actions created them; likewise with Russia’s troubles on its Ukrainian and Georgian borders. “They are constantly trying to sweep us into a corner,” Mr. Putin says of the democratic world. “They’re laughing at us,” Mr. Trump keeps saying, as the two savage their most important alliances and wall their countries off – all for an image of “strength” and personal gain.
Third, the creation of an authoritarian, explicitly anti-Western bloc. Russia was ready to join NATO and have free trade with the European Union up to about 2004, when Mr. Putin saw an advantage in moving the opposite, “Eurasian” direction. The United States was enjoying the most successful era of multilateralism and international co-operation it had seen, up to the end of 2016. Mr. Trump has been consistent in savaging democratic allies in Europe and the Americas, and broaching no criticism of autocrats and demagogues.
In other words, his meeting with Mr. Putin, whatever comes of it, will be an extension of this common ideology – the event itself, and its circumstances, are pure Trumpism-Putinism.


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Written by Tim Feran.
Although he achieved fame as the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance says that the main reason he is coming home to Ohio has less to do with literary endeavors and more to do with his “day job.”
He’s a venture capitalist, and it’s in that arena that he hopes to make his mark.
“I always wanted to move back, because it’s home,” said Vance, 32, in an interview. “But I was looking for ways to keep my day job as an investor and pair it with issues I care about. I’ve talked about these problems and I came to the conclusion that maybe I should be doing something to solve them.”
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Articles in peer-reviewed journals
“Post-socialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria Replacing Socialist Heroes with Anti-Communist Victims” accepted for publication in Comparative Southeast European Studies (2023). (Scopus, CEEOL, Web of Science – Emerging Sources Citation Index).
”Representations of dissent against communism in Romania: anticommunist heroes, ‘prison saints’ and (extra)ordinary citizens” for a special issue edited by Ferenc Laczo and Tamas Scheibner, ”Canonizing and Contesting Soviet-Era Dissent since 1989. Actors, Representations, Impacts” in East European Politics and Societies (Social Sciences Citation Index). Accepted for publication.
“Living Statues” and Nonuments as “Performative Monument Events” in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe, Nationalities Papers, 1-19, 2022, doi:10.1017/nps.2021.84
After the fall of the socialist regimes in South and Eastern Europe socialist statues and monuments were either removed, dislocated, or resignified. Several performance practices have been employed to engage with these statues and monuments. Focusing on the role played by artistic memorialization in the processes of dealing with the communist past, this article uses the concepts of “performative monuments” (Widrich) and “memory events” (Etkind) to analyze several examples of what can be called “performative monuments events.” As many statues were removed, the statues witnessed performative practices in the process of their elimination. The monuments that were conserved were dislocated and exhibited as part of “sculpture park museums” and observed nostalgic, ironic practices of tourists that perform the memory of communism by interacting with the monuments. This article analyzes several examples in Albania, Bulgaria and Romania of socialist monuments that have remained in place or that have been dislocated and resignified by contemporary artists using performative practices of memory events that engage monuments. This exploratory research argues that artists, through their “performative monuments events,” try to bring the people back to replace the statues with “living statues” and to question the absurd megalomaniac monuments using metaphorical, material instruments.
“The transnational artistic memorialisation of Operation Condor: documenting a ‘distribution of the possible’”, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Vol 29: 2 (2020): 251- 269
This article analyses three artistic projects that contribute to a transnational artistic memorialisation of Operation Condor: João Pina’s project Condor, (2005-2012), the documentary film by Pedro Chaskel, De vida y de muerte, testimonios de Operación Condor (2000-2015), and Voluspa Jarpa’s, En nuestra pequeña región de por acá (2016/7). Situated at the crossroads of the study of the role of art in Transitional Justice processes and cultural memory studies, this article conceptualizes the role of art in forging a transnational memory through the lens of the ‘art and politics of memory’. Using Jacques Rancière’s observation of the role of art to build a new ‘distribution of the sensible’, this investigation argues artistic practices of remembrance employ three strategies. In the first place, they render visible those that are still absent; secondly, they document and provide supplementary sources about human rights abuses during dictatorships, and thus give back human dignity to the victims. Finally, they also criticize the status quo of the official memory. In the absence of a transnational memory of the secret cooperation of Operation Condor, artistic practices of remembrance help build it and create a ‘distribution of the possible’.
This article discusses the specific case of the surveillance by the Securitate, the Romanian secret police, of artists who engaged in performance art (body art, action art, live art) during the last two decades of Romanian communism. Building on Cristina Vătulescu’s concept of “police aesthetics” and Mogoș and Berkers’ “mechanisms of control”, this article analyzes the aesthetic surveillance by the Securitate and the different strategies to prevent problematic art it employed towards performance artists that ranged from control, to discouragement, and support given to complying artists. Through a close reading of the files by the Securitate of three artists, Alexandru Antik, Imre Baász, and Wanda Mihuleac, I show performance art was considered as having an “interpretative” or “hostile content” depending on the status inside the regime of the artist who practiced it.
ArtMargins, Vol 9/3 (2020): 29–52.
This article analyzes the collective basis of the establishment of the Socialist Realist model of production for the fine arts in Romania in the early 1950s. It discusses the unstudied case of the “artists’ collectives” (of production) together with other collective forms, such as the collective studios and the guiding commissions. This is an archive-based study of cultural
institutionalism of socialist regimes, based on the analysis of under-explored archival sources such as those of the Romanian Artists’ Union (UAP) or the Artistic Fund (FP). Focusing on two specific case studies, those of the artists’ collectives “Progressive art” and “Th. Aman”, both founded in 1951, it provides more context to the establishment of the socialist model in Romania. The article finds the state assumed definition of art considered the artist as a simple executioner, and the “artists’ collectives” participated in eradicating the individuality of the artist, one of the goals of the new socialist model.
The Chilean Museum of Solidarity and Transregional Links with Romania during the Cold War
Online Journal Modeling the New Europe, No. 32 / 2020, pp. 35-57.
This article analyses the transregional connections established by the Chilean Museum of Solidarity with socialist countries in Eastern Europe, and in particular with Romania. The analysis employs theories of the cultural Cold War, transnational and transregional studies, and especially the transnational and cross-regional analysis of cultural relations and artistic expressions, to discuss an example of “cultural transnationalism” (Dragostinova and Fidelis) of the Socialist Second World. Through a micro-history approach of the Global Cold War regarding the relationship between Romania and the Museum of Solidarity, this study aims to enhance the understanding of relations between the East and the South as being politicized by the highly bureaucratized cultural institutions. If cultural relations were important in establishing an autonomous policy such as that of Ceausescu, the type of artistic exchanges promoted were the expression of an aesthetic paradox, supporting a traditionalist, nationalist version of art.
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International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 23 (3): 401-421, Article first published online: December 2, 2019; Issue published: May 1, 2020
This article analyses how three types of artistic memorialization of monumental socialist public works transform these into examples of socialist modernism in Eastern Europe. First, it tackles the issue of rendering socialist architecture visible through the Socialist Modernism online platform. Second, it focuses on the collection of documentary proofs by six documentary photography projects in Eastern Europe. Finally, it looks at how four contemporary artists in Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic are resignifying socialist art in their artistic practices. Analysed from a perspective of transnational cultural memory practices, these three artistic endeavours contribute to a shared approach to the monumental socialist public works in the region. I argue that some of these strategies lead to a unified, depoliticized, decommunized memorialization of the socialist art of Eastern Europe.
Artistic memorialization of the Roma Holocaust in Romania: render visible the historical trauma and document the suffering
Holocaust. Studii și cercetări, vol. XI, no. 1(12)/ 2019, pp. 123-148
Although the Roma Holocaust in Romania has been documented, and there is an official policy to recall this historical fact, its memory is marginal in contemporary Romanian society. This article analyzes four recent examples of art of memorialization of the Roma Holocaust in Romania and argues these artistic forms of memory play an important role in the building of a more comprehensive public memory of the Porrajmos. The analysis uses an interdisciplinary approach, which combines theoretical resources that belong to the study of cultural memory with a focus on artistic memory, and the analysis of the relationship between art, politics, and memory. The examples of artistic memorialization have two aims: to render visible the historical trauma through the use of testimonies of survivors, and to provide further documentary sources of this historical trauma.
Creating for the state an introduction
Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, Vol 17, No 3, 2017, pp. 243-246
This introductory article presents the study of the state artist in the context of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the USSR through several case studies. This introduction places the analyses gathered here of the relationship between artists and the state in different phases of the communist regimes, and in different artistic expressions, as well as in several countries. While the focus is on Romanian cases of study, the articles bring forward possible comparisons with neighboring communist regimes. Some of the articles included in this special issue deal with visual arts, literature, photography, amateur rural comedy brigades, and specific cases of artists (Ion Irimescu and Ion Grigorescu), while other articles discuss the specific institutional contradictions of the Soviet cultural framework. This issue advances thus a little bit further in the comparative institutional archive-based study of cultural institutions during communism.
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‘Project 1990’ as an Anti-Monument in Bucharest and the Aestheticisation of Memory
Südosteuropa 64:3 (2016), pp. 307-324
This article analyses ‘Project 1990’ (2010–2014) as an example of ‘art of memorialisation’. The project included twenty temporary artistic interventions on the empty pedestal of the former statue of Lenin in Bucharest. The author compares this example of art of memorialisation to other memory strategies found in the Romanian public space after 1990. Building on James Young’s concept of anti-monument, ‘Project 1990’ questioned the ways in which communism is remembered in Romania, and how the transition to democracy, in the opinion of many of the exhibiting artists, failed. This curatorial project is a good example of the aestheticisation of memory—that is the anti-nostalgic and ironic treatment of symbols of the past, among which Lenin himself.
Forms of collaboration of visual artists in communist Romania of the 1970s-1980s
Hungarian Historical Review (no1/2015), pp. 171-196
Little attention has been given in political science analyses of communist-era Romania to the relationships between visual artists and the secret police. In this article, I attempt to address this lacuna in our understanding of the interactions between the state and artists by presenting two forms of collaboration of visual artists during the last two decades of Romanian communism: the artists’ involvement in the ideological project of the communist party and their “collaboration” with the secret police. In addition, I also examine the ways in which artists have contributed a posteriori to our understandings of the communist experience with their artworks.
I offer detailed examinations of the cases of three visual artists. The approach I have adopted includes analyses of interviews with two artists who represent two opposing cases and examinations of the fi les that were kept on them by state surveillance organs, so as to provide a new, multifaceted perspective on the relationships between artists and the communist regime. I contend that the study of artistic artifacts can supplement traditional sources for political science analyses of the communist past and provide a more nuanced perspective on the period. The article shows that imposing artistic dogmas is not simply a top-down process, but one resulting from complex interactions between different institutional and individual actors.
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Los detenidos desaparecidos en el arte de memoria chileno y su relevancia para el proceso de democratización
Afuera Estudios de critica cultural, 15 (Septiembre 2015) numero especial “Entre la dictadura y la postdictadura: Producciones culturales en Argentina y América latina”
An argument is made in this article for the need to take into account in political science analyses of the Chilean contemporary art of memory that critically invokes matters, and issues connected to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989), and which have not been solved in democracy.
Chilean art of memory– composed of those artistic expressions stemming from different artistic disciplines that problematize issues connected to the dictatorial past – questions democratic consolidation by these topics still present, advancing a new perspective on this same reality, a different outlook, otherwise absent from the official renderings that privilege consensus and democratic consolidation. In this sense, this article discusses the specific case of the disappeared of the dictatorship through the analysis of the artworks of eight Chilean contemporary visual artists, and with a focus on their distinct points of view that tackle three topics, the permanency of absence, the sites of memory, and the torturers. The conclusion of this brief article is that memory art presents perspectives absent from the institutional study preferred by political science’ analyses, and that analyzing these artistic expressions helps form a better understanding of the relation to the traumatic past.
Le rôle de la nostalgie dans la mémoire artistique du passé communiste dans la Roumanie contemporaine
Canadian Slavonic Papers 57, No. 3-4 (2015), pp 268-283
This article discusses Romania’s relationship with the communist past.
It is structured around three themes: official forgetting and belated condemnation, the pervading discourse of NGOs which focuses on the victims of communism, and the resurgence of nostalgia in opinion polls, seen as an expression of the problems of living in a democracy. In this context, the author examines visible forms of cultural memory, which have appeared in recent years (the 2000s), in particular the role played by the nostalgic gaze. We find thus different types of nostalgia: social, commercial and tourism. We can then question the role played by this nostalgic gaze in works by Romanian contemporary artists and filmmakers who produce memory art. As a specific form of cultural memory, memory art seeks to sketch out an image of the past which is more comprehensive. The article describes the different forms nostalgia has taken in Romania in recent years and juxtaposes this with the most important works of art, following three themes: the obsessional portrait of Ceaușescu, personal, even autobiographical memory, and the residues of communism as depicted in Projet 1990.
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Arte de memorialización a 40 años del golpe
Revista Tiempo Historico, No 6, 2013, pp. 49-62.
This article presents art of memorialization realized by Chilean artists in the context of the 40 years since the coup d’Etat of 11 of September 1973. Art of memorialization questions the advance of the consolidation of democracy and critiques problems that still exist as that of the disappeared. Artists use symbols to investigate what remains of the dictatorial past and we will discuss the case of the disappeared opposing it to other perspectives on the dictatorship. The anniversary of 40 years of the coup of 1973 has provoked an increased interest in the past and multiple artistic interventions were seen (in the streets, in museums, etc.) This article demonstrates how art contributes to the construction of a more inclusive memory of the Chilean dictatorship.
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Sub supraveghere (artisticã). Relaţia artiştilor cu Securitatea
Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, XIII, No. 1/2013, pp. 159-172.
This article presents the relation of East European artists with the Secret Police institutions. While focused on the Romanian case, several examples from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria help place the topic in a regional context. The analysis includes both the viewpoint of the Secret Police on the artistic world as such, as well as the gazes of artists on the reality of their time. The conceptualization of artistic surveillance includes three types of examples: the deconstruction of the officially fabricated reality, the focus on the details of the everyday life forbidden by official propaganda, and the reflection of artists on the secret police apparatus. The conclusions of this study show that the investigation of artistic artifacts together with the secret police archives can help bring a new perspective on the limits of domination exerted by the communist regime.
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Artistic Critiques of Modern Dictatorships
The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol 17:7 (2012), pp. 899–917
Under a political dictatorship it is primarily from the margins that an artistic critique can be articulated, as suggested by the examples presented in this article from Romania and Chile during the 1970s and 1980s. By focusing on their threefold marginality—of the artist, the art form, and the subject of art—and by applying to them Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus, the analysis of artistic variants of marginality sheds light on the relationship of art and politics in totalitarian regimes.
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Art and Politics in Postcommunist Romania
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Volume 42, No. 3 (2012), pp. 116-127.
Artists are the first ones to react to their environment and to articulate a protest. Recent Romanian contemporary art questions the way communism is remembered or forgotten and the manner in which the postcommunist society was organized. This study uses the approach of politics and the arts to analyze both institutions and artistic discourses in Romania after 1989 in order to show how an artistic space is rebuilt after a dictatorial experience. The conclusions show that artists interrogate the “reconstruction” of democratic institutions and discourses on solid communist bases.
Read the article here.
Enclaves autoritaires’ artistiques au Chili? Art et politique dans la démocratie retrouvée
Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, Vol. VIII, no. 4, 2008, pp. 869-888.
Institutional Models and Artistic Policies in Romania and Chile (1970s-1990s)
Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, VIII, No. 3, 2008, pp. 641-677
La révolution roumaine de 1989 dans la presse écrite belge
Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, Vol. V, No. 2, 2005, pp. 427-459

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The God King’s Legacy by Richard Nell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Series: God King Chronicles (Book #0.5)
Genre: Fantasy, Flintlock Fantasy
Pages: 294 pages (Paperback)
Published: 10th June 2019 by Richard Nell (Self-published/Indie)
The God King’s Legacy comprised of two flintlock fantasy novellas that provide glimpses into Nell’s future books.
I didn’t expect to start reading The God King’s Legacy this soon. This year, I finished Nell’s Ash and Sand trilogy, a series that has become one of my favorite trilogies. By finishing The God King’s Legacy, the prequel to the upcoming God-King Chronicles series by Richard Nell, it would mean that I have no more Nell’s books to read. However, I needed something short to tide me over until Sanderson’s Rhythm of War is published today, and so here we are. For those of you who don’t know, the God-King Chronicles series takes place in the same world with Ash and Sand trilogy. This, however, doesn’t mean that you have to read the other series first; the same situation is applicable for Ash and Sand as well. The connection between these two series hasn’t really been made yet, but yeah, I’m sure it will appear in the future. As for this review, I will be doing a mini-review for the two novellas inside this collection.
Rebellion of the Black Militia: 3.5/5 stars
The story in Rebellion of the Black Militia follows Johann Planck, a bastard and a scribe of the god king’s tower who’s suddenly taken away from his academia life to capture a demon named Sazeal. Accompanying him is a more than a hundred years old knight named Lamorak. I liked this novella; Johann and Lamorak have a relationship development that’s well-realized. I also think that the contrast in their personality and the changes in Johann’s character were gradual and developed nicely. Plus, this novella exhibited the potential that the series has to offer in the future. My qualm with it is that it is too short; the novella is only 130 pages long, and I felt that the story ended too quickly.
“This is not a story in one of your books, Johann. In this world the strong gnash at one another with bared teeth. They twist and use and devour the weak, and justice is an endless war that can’t be won.”
Devil of the 22nd: 2.5 stars
As for this particular title, I have to admit that it didn’t really work for me. I felt that for its short length, it contained too many actions without giving enough focus on characterizations first. Kurt isn’t a particularly likable character, and for me to feel invested with his story, more pages focused on his motivation and background were definitely needed. The actions were well-written, but the overall story was forgettable to me.
“Life is the flame, he thought, touching the rough cloth. One moment it’s controlled, even beautiful, then in the next, chaos.”
The God King’s Legacy is a good appetizer for what’s to come in the future of Nell’s books. However, if you want to start reading Nell’s books, I strongly recommend you to start with his Ash and Sand trilogy. Kings of Paradise is a far more superior start than this, and I personally think the two stories contained here doesn’t show his storytelling strength and capability as a grimdark fantasy writer. That being said, I’m sure the main books in God-King Chronicles will live up to my high expectations. I am, without a doubt, looking forward to reading more of Nell’s books in the future.
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This was her first time being in front of a camera (in this type of situation), and she just needed some head shots, so we kept it real simple.
I had the privilege of shooting Jay and Deeanna’s wedding a few weeks ago. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day, and everything went so smoothly it was just wonderful! Congratulations you two!
We started off the day at Deeanna’s house with hair and makeup for her. The natural light in there was a dream, and with Ana Crane-Simpson doing the hair and makeup it was such a great start to the day.
This was such a cute little memory from the day for me, a text from Trey while getting ready. It is a little hard to see here, but it says “still wanna do this? :)” Such a perfect example of how fun these two are.
Trey’s gift to Deeanna was so beautiful, and the card that was with it was so touching.
Because the chapel was so beautiful and so full of natural light we stayed inside to get some quick group shots.
I liked so many from this shoot that I just have to share them. I still can’t really believe that my 52 week project is over, but luckily with my parents in town to celebrate my birthday and graduation I don’t have much time to think about much else. Next week however, I will most likely have to start something back up, so be on the lookout!
I cannot believe I am actually done with this project. It has been going on much longer than a year, because I put it on pause for my 365, and that makes it even more unreal that I am finished.
This project probably has meant more to me than my 365 did. Over the last 15 weeks this project has taken on an entirely new purpose for me as well. At the beginning of the project I was just taking self-portraits every week. I admit that for the most part not much thought was put into the shots, and for sure not much meaning was placed behind them. The past 15 weeks however have been drastically different. Every single shot has been extremely personal and meaningful. And almost every image has had lots of thought and planning and purpose behind it.
Because the last 15 weeks have been so powerful for me, it makes me kind of sad that this is over. This project has become a sort of therapy for me. It has been a way for me to express what is going on, a form of venting. And this method of expression is perfect for me and how I deal with things. I don’t think I will be able to go for very long without starting up another project that incorporates self-portraits. I need them in my life at this point. They have become almost essential. I am already starting to plan out my next project, which as of now will most likely be a 365/52 week hybrid of sorts.
As for the shot at hand, definitely one of the best shoots I have had in a long time. I am giving all credit to my friend Danielle who is finally back in town. We drove around for a bit to find a spot, which is always entertaining with her. And then we walked on these railroad tracks, with houses next to it and me in my prom dress holding an umbrella. Towards the end we had an audience of sorts, and he was kind enough to blast some Soulja Boy for our last few pictures. Needless to say it was quite entertaining. This image and the title sum up every aspect of my life right now. It is quite incredible how perfectly it fits with the end of this project and with my situation at the moment.
And on that note, I will stop rambling, so enjoy my last 52 week shot. And be warned that there are others from this shoot that are sure to come.
I have had this shot in mind for quite a few weeks, and finally got around to it this weekend. It isn’t quite as relevant as it was when I thought of it, but still is packed with meaning for me.
This may have been the longest it has ever taken to set up one of my pictures too. I had scoped out the location a couple of weeks ago, so I didn’t waste time trying to find one. But, once we got on location, I had to find the right angle for the camera, and then the right angle for me to lay down. Once I figured that out, I laid down amidst countless spiders and other creepy crawlies, and my friend attached red yarn to me and the trees around me. It was weird for me to not be the one physically setting up the shot, and I just had to lay there and direct him since I was attached to branches all around. It rained fairly hard twice while I was laying there, and I flicked off quite a few spiders throughout the process.
Overall it was quite the shoot. I wish that the yarn was more visible and obvious, and pulled tighter to prevent the slack, but it is just yet another lesson learned.
Well, all of the images are finally up on the site for the contest! For the first time ever you can see the entire series, in the correct order, and in one place in an online format! Please remember to go vote and spread the word!! Thank you for all the support! But, if nothing else, at least go check out the series!
This really isn’t at all what I originally had in my head for this shoot. But, it was rushed, and not planned out all that well, and life goes on. I don’t normally do this, but I will briefly try to explain what I had planned…
I had found a tutorial online for how to make these beautiful twine balls, using balloons, glue, and cornstarch. Right away I knew I wanted to make some for a self-portrait shoot. It was quite fun to sit on the floor and make these, and for the most part I think they turned out pretty cool. I just used white yarn, and then once dry I sprayed them with white spray paint to get a very bright white. Originally I had wanted to find a clump of beautiful blooming trees, ideally big pink blossoms. In my head this clump of trees would create a shelter like setting, and I would then hang the yarn balls and sit beneath them with sun coming through the branches. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a location that matched what I had in my head, and I got started to late and ran out of bright sun. It may be something I try again at some point, but I had to deal with what I had available at the time, and I am fairly happy with what I got for the circumstances.
Also, I just entered a contest that has the potential to completely change everything for me. It is a self-portrait contest, and I have submitted the series that I am most proud of, from this past summer. There is a “people’s choice” award, and I would so appreciate your vote! All you have to do is go to my portfolio and rate my portfolio 5 stars. No registration or anything necessary, just a click. You can vote once daily, until Wednesday, April 20. I cannot even begin to express how much I would appreciate your vote, and how much I would appreciate you spreading the word to everyone you know! Just click here to go to my portfolio. Thank you so much for the support!


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Sin, impurity, sacrifice, atonement : the priestly conceptions / Jay Sklar. [print]Material type: TextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs ; 2.Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [(c)2015. Edition: First published in paperbackDescription: xi, 212 Seiten. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781909697881; 1909697885; 9781905048120; 1905048122Subject(s): Atonement -- Biblical teaching | Atonement (Judaism) | Sin -- Biblical teaching | Sacrifice -- Biblical teaching | Sacrifice -- Judaism | Purity, Ritual -- Biblical teaching | Purity, Ritual -- JudaismLOC classification: BS1199.S565 2015BS1199.A85.S628.S565 2015COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages (c)194.-199) and indexes.
Part I: *** In Contexts of Sin
Chapter 1. The Consequences of Sin in the Priestly Literature
The Connection between Sin and Punishment The Consequences of Sin in the Priestly Literature Summary and Comparison of the Penalties for Sin.
Chapter 2. *** Defined
*** Defined Survey of Previous Definitions and Renderings of *** ; Summary.
Chapter 3. The Verb *** In Contexts of Sin
*** In Contexts of Sin Summary.
Part II: *** In Contexts of Impurity
Chapter 4. The Verb *** In Contexts of Impurity
Purification and *** ; Consecration and *** ; Purification, Consecration, and *** ; ***, Purgation, and *** ; Summary.
Part III: Sin, Impurity, and ***
Chapter 5. The Relationship Between Sin and Impurity and Its Relevance to ***
Approaches to the Relationship between Sin and Impurity ; ** in the Priestly Literature Summary.
Part IV: *** and the Role of Blood
Chapter 6. A Consideration of hte Role of Blood in Sacrificial Atonement, With Special Reference to Leviticus 17.11
Leviticus 17.11 Summary and Conclusion.
Chapter 7. Conclusion
Appendix: *** and Its Syntagmatic Relationsin the Priestly Literature
The goal of this closely reasoned study is to explain why, in Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible, the verb kipper, traditionally translated 'atone', means the way of dealing with both sin and with impurity--which might seem very different things. Sklar's first key conclusion is that when the context is sin, certain sins also pollute; so 'atonement' may include some element of purification. His second conclusion is that, when the context is impurity, and kipper means not 'atone' but 'effect purgation', impurity also endagers; so kipper can include some element of ransoming. In fact, sin and impurity, while distinct categories in themselves, have this in common: each of them requires both ransoming and purification. It is for this reason that kipper can be used in both settings. This benchmark study concludes with a careful examination of hte famous sentence of Leviticus 17.11 that 'blood makes atonement' (kipper) and explains how, in the Priestly ideology, blood sacrifice was able to accomplish both ransom and purification.
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More than 80% of British expats in Europe fear Brexit will strip them of the right to continue living in their new home countries.
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The details come from a survey of 5,000 British expats living in the European Union by the Brussels and Europe Liberal Democrats.
The group chair Laura Shields said: ‘UK politicians must accept that the right to reside is not the same as an actual ability to stay.
“Losing their EU citizenship will bring a myriad of practical problems for Brits in the EU which can’t be fixed in a quick quid pro quo residency deal with the EU 27. The Government must think this through properly.”
No deal for May
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This week’s project to create a digital story has been fraught with difficulties. The first issue that arose was the idea of having images and video of my students at work. In Calgary, I am bound to protect the identity of my students through FOIP legislation. That meant no video or pictures of my students, so I was left with the quandary of how to portray their learning without them in the picture. I decided to go with showing their pre and post test examples with the component parts of this part of the unit. That is, it became more of a chronicle of how I tried to elicit learning in my students, not a chronicle of their learning in and of itself.
The next hurdle was imovie. Since I started using imovie trailers I find that imovie themes are just not exciting enough. If I am not excited to what what I make, who else will be? However, the trailers run about a minute long and I knew my movie would be about 5 minutes. So I converted my trailer to a project, added what else I wanted to include, then looped the audio and recompiled the extended imovie trailer. To accomplish this project I ended up using imovie, Comic Life, Dropbox, Youtube, Audacity, and Windows Live Movie Maker. Each tool had something that the others didn’t but combined they worked to create a project I am proud of.
The last problem of the week was that I got very sick and due to coughing lost my voice. No narration for me! As a result, I had to find alternative ways to express my thought processes without overloading the presentation. I know auditory and video work better together than video and text but one does what one has to when overcoming challenges.
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Dallas Comic Con 2014 Firefly Cast Panel. Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Jewel Staite, Ron Glass, Gina Torres, Sean Maher, Adam Baldwin and Alan Tudyk (briefly, via iPhone) were on stage before an enormous crowd (they ran out of chairs, many people had to stand) at this past Sunday's convention in Dallas, Texas.
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Diego Costa has returned to the Atletico Madrid XI as they prepare to face Milan this evening.
The Rojiblancos host the Italian giants in the Champions League Last 16 tonight, holding a 1-0 aggregate lead from the first leg.
And they do so with the Spain international, who returns to the team after missing Sunday’s win over Celta Vigo through suspension.
Raul Garcia plays just off the top scorer, with Gabi, Arda Turan, Koke and Mario Suarez making up a midfield four.
Diego Godin also comes into the side after serving a suspension at the weekend.
For the away side meanwhile, Mario Balotelli starts on his own up front, with former Real Madrid men Kaka and Michael Essien in midfield.
Atletico Madrid: Courtois; Juanfran, Miranda, Godin, Filipe; Mario Suarez, Koke, Arda Turan, Gabi; Raul Garcia; Diego Costa
Milan: Abbiati; Abate, Bonera, Rami, Emanuelson; Essien, De Jong; Poli, Kaka, Taarabt; Balotelli

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Out Filipino-American playwright and actor Danny Bernardo is well aware that his world-premiere play, Mahal, is opening at a charged time in the Chicago theater communityparticularly regarding how Asians are depicted onstage.
Before Bailiwick Chicago Theater selected Mahal for its 2012-13 season, the play had one of its developmental readings through Silk Road Rising, a Chicago company led by artistic director Jamil Khoury and famed for its dedication to dealing with Asian and Middle Eastern stories.
Khoury recently was incensed over Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman's dismissive comments regarding Rudyard Kipling's colonial views in a Chicago Magazine article in advance of her adaptation of The Jungle Book at the Goodman Theatre. In an online blog, Khoury accused Zimmerman of building her career on cultural appropriation and "Orientalism." The two artists have since had a lengthy follow-up interview, to try and help clear the air.
But it isn't just in Chicago that the question of Asian authenticity onstage has come up. In 2012, Great Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company came under fire for not hiring a majority of Asian actors for its 2012 adaptation of the famed Chinese play The Orphan of Zhao, as did La Jolla Playhouse in California for a new musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale staged by out director Moisés Kaufman.
"As a kid, I always dreamed that I'd be able to find a way to marry my cultural experience with my theatrical life," said Bernardo in a telephone interview.
But Bernardo didn't write Mahal solely to redress the lack of Asian-American works or actors on U.S. stages. He wrote the play as a way to personally grieve and with the loss of his father a few years ago.
At that time, Bernardo was assistant directing a 2011 Silk Road Rising production of David Henry Hwang's play Yellow Face, which has its own share of familial and father issues in addition to exploring Chinese-American cultural identity.
"I really took inspiration from how David Henry Hwang dramatized how his father was dying and I put all my feelings about my family, my culture and tried to give my dad this legacy in this play," Bernardo said.
Another major inspiration for Bernardo was being part of the very first About Face Youth Theatre ensemble in the late 1990s. About Face Youth Theatre is famed for developing new works based upon the feelings, experiences and needs of LGBTQ youth.
"The big focus was to take your personal stories and make them into a piece where you still felt connected to it, but also look at it objectively," Bernardo said. "So a lot of the lessons I learned from About Face, gosh almost 15 years ago, really apply."
In Mahal, Bernardo depicts the extended Filipino-American Reyes family as they deal with the loss of the matriarch and a long forgotten secret from their cultural homeland. Issues of assimilation, homophobia and interracial relationships are all brought up in the drama, along with the question of what truly constitutes an American family.
Bernardo is proud of the fact that Mahal marks the first time that Bailiwick Chicago is working under an Equity union contract. That's due to the casting of Jeff Award-winning actor Joseph Anthony Foronda (Miss Saigon, Yellow Face), who portrays the father role of Roberto. Foronda has been involved with Mahal since its early reading stages and he specifically cleared his schedule to ensure that he could follow the show through to its eventual production.
"[Foronda] is one of the best actors I've ever seen. When I was in high school, I saw him as the Engineer in the national tour of Miss Saigon, and then I got to work with him almost 10 years later," Bernardo said. "And now I've worked with him so much in my adult life, I couldn't imagine anyone else in the role."
With the recent issues brought up in regards to Asian heritage casting and cultural authenticity in the theater world, Bernardo is glad that he's contributing to the conversation with Mahal.
"In Chicago at the very end of the season, I've got this play where there are five Filipino-American characters played by Filipino-American actors and that shouldn't be such a novel thingbut it is," Bernardo said. "I feel very strongly about being able to create opportunities for as many diverse actors as possiblenot just for the actors but for the audiences to see themselves reflected in the plays."
Bailiwick Chicago Theater's Mahal plays at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Previews are Wednesday and Thursday, June 26 and 27, with an official press opening at 8 p.m. Friday, June 28. The regular run through Friday, Aug. 2, is 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays with 2 p.m. Sunday matinees.
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For more information contact Lisa Kelly, Program Coordinator, 410-601-9057, firstname.lastname@example.org.
Perinatal Addictions Specialist Program
Pregnant woman and nurse The mission is to assist substance using/abusing women who are pregnant or who have recently delivered. Services provided address illicit drug use/abuse in order to maintain and enhance women's health as well as that of their children. Program services include providing addiction assessments for appropriate treatment referrals, follow up services by means of in-home education, advocacy and services coordination. We also provide a psycho educational group for women who only use/abuse marijuana.
For more information contact Stephanie Cockrell, Perinatal Addictions Specialist, 410-601-5047, email@example.com.
We also welcome you to join us for a tour of the BirthPlace to meet our family center staff. For more information or to register for classes or programs, please call 410-601-9355 (WELL).

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Peosta, October 10, 2018 – Camso held a Grand Opening Event on October 4 to inaugurate its new manufacturing facility in Peosta, Iowa.
Employees, along with family, members of the community, customers, partners and the media, were invited to celebrate the inauguration of the new building with an official ribbon cutting, exclusive guided tour of the facility and BBQ. During the plant tour, they had the chance to walk the state-of-the-art 240,000-square-foot building, witness firsthand the assembly process of track systems and meet the people behind some of the industry’s best undercarriage products.
The new assembly facility has been in operation since October 2017. All existing machinery and operations were moved from the company’s previous Peosta location within 4 months with no impact on product delivery to customers. “This is an achievement we’re proud of,” said Patrick Fortin, Plant Director of Peosta. “The move was done in such a way that we maintained all of Camso’s regular product availability, thus showing our constant commitment to being the best partner for our customers.”
By moving all operations to a larger building across the street, Camso was able to grow its Peosta manufacturing and storage footprint by 85%, allowing the company to increase its production capacity. “To meet the growing demand for track systems and sustain the anticipated growth of the upcoming years, relocation was necessary,” explained Patrick Fortin. With an increased production capacity, Camso will have more products on hand and be in a better position to solidify its market leadership.
The move also highlighted Camso’s commitment to provide its team with a working environment of choice. The offices and cafeteria were built in the spirit of Camso’s brand identity, and assembly operations received a new paint line and additional equipment and machinery. The footprint expansion and growing demand for tracks systems also create new job opportunities for the local workforce, with several positions to be opened in the near future.
The Grand Opening Event not only provided attendees with a unique inside look at Camso’s facility and production capacity but also presented tangible proof of the value of teamwork.
Camso, the Road Free company, is a world leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of off-road tires, wheels, rubber tracks and undercarriage systems to serve the material handling, construction, agricultural and powersports industries. It employs more than 7,500 dedicated employees who place 100% of their effort on 11% of the global tire and track market—the off-the-road market. It operates advanced R&D centres and manufacturing plants in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Camso supplies its products to leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) under the names Camso and Solideal and distributes its products in the replacement market through its global distribution network.


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Temple looks to extend streak vs USF
South Florida (12-16, 5-10) vs. Temple (14-14, 6-9)
Liacouras Center, Philadelphia; Sunday, 12 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Temple looks for its 12th straight win in the head-to-head series over South Florida. In its last 11 wins against the Bulls, Temple has won by an average of 11 points. South Florida’s last win in the series came on Jan. 9, 2014, an 82-75 victory.
SAVVY SENIORS: Temple’s Quinton Rose, Alani Moore II and Monty Scott have combined to score 46 percent of the team’s points this season, including 59 percent of all Owls scoring over the last five games.
FACILITATING THE OFFENSE: Laquincy Rideau has been directly responsible for 41 percent of all South Florida field goals over the last five games. The senior guard has 24 field goals and 19 assists in those games.
SLIPPING AT 74: South Florida is 0-5 when it allows at least 74 points and 12-11 when it holds opponents to less than 74.
PASSING FOR POINTS: The Bulls have recently used assists to create buckets more often than the Owls. Temple has an assist on 35 of 76 field goals (46.1 percent) over its previous three matchups while South Florida has assists on 33 of 70 field goals (47.1 percent) during its past three games.
DID YOU KNOW: Temple is ranked second in the AAC with an average of 72.2 possessions per game. The uptempo Owls have raised that total to 75.7 possessions per game over their last five games.


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Now we’ve added a free downloadable sample story from the book for those who’d like to “look inside.” Let us know what you think!
Being homeschoolers, we love books: the older the book, the better. Buying old books is something we just can’t seem to stop doing.
Last summer, my husband and I were at a book sale up in Door County when we found the cutest book. It’s a kindergarten story curriculum published in 1890. The author, a teacher, organized it into a school-year’s worth (September to June) of stories and object lessons for young children.
Our youngest is 17, so we didn’t really need this book, but I just couldn’t resist it. We bought it, and both my husband and I read it. We were quite taken with the animal and nature stories, fairy tales, fables, and simple object lessons that explained how items in daily use at that time were manufactured. In fact, we agreed that it would be a great book for homeschooling parents except that the print is so small that it would be hard to read aloud. And that got us thinking……
What if we republished the book with a larger font and wider margins so it would be easier to read aloud? Then my husband said he thought he could find some nice illustrations, appropriate to the time period and even the specific stories. After all, kids today are very visual. They love storybooks with pictures! So he spent ages finding the coolest illustrations to go with the stories. Being the artist he is, he also came up with a beautiful cover. The whole process took several months.
And the result? We’re happy to announce that the book, Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks With Over 125 Illustrations, is now in print! It’s available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and pretty much everywhere you can buy books. It was just published, so it’s not in the homeschool catalogs yet, but we’re working on that. In the meantime, we just put it up on our site if you want to learn more.
I wish I’d had a book like this when I first started homeschooling…. I think it’s an ideal first curriculum for homeschooling parents and teachers of young children who enjoy and appreciate vintage texts.


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Check out these Luxurious Celebrity Homes in Mumbai
Mumbai has always been a home to Bollywood. Every Bollywood fan’s dream is to visit Mumbai to get a glimpse of Shah Rukh Khan and his Mannat or Amitabh Bachchan and his Jalsa and many similar luxurious houses. Check out these celebrity homes when you visit Mumbai.
1. Mannat, Shah Rukh Khan
A “Dream Home” to many, Mannat ranks 10th as the Top Houses Of The World. Mannat is a perfect blend of classic and modern designs entirely designed by his wife Gauri Khan. Shah Rukh Khan purchased the bungalow in 2001 from a Gujarati when it was named Villa Vienna. He purchased it and renamed it as ” Mannat”. It is now a famous tourist spot and a huge crowd regularly waiting outside the gate for a glimpse of “Khan”. Mannat is no less than a palace. Shah Rukh Khan indeed really knows how to live life King size!
2. Jalsa, Amitabh Bachchan
This bungalow covering 10,125 sq. ft. was a gift from Ramesh Sippy. The Bachchan family resides in this grand bungalow. The interiors are grand just as the residents of the bungalow. Huge crowds gather outside Jalsa on Sunday evenings where Amitabh comes out to greet his fans. Sometimes his family also joins him.
3. Galaxy Apartments, Salman Khan
Salman Khan lives with his family at Galaxy Apartments in Banstand. Salman Khan grew up in this apartment alongwith his brothers Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan and his sister Alvira Agnhotri. Salman lives in the ground floor in his 1BHK apartment.
4. Freeda Apartments, Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan lives in Freeda Apartment in Bandra West. with his wife Kiran Rao and son Azaad. He is known as ‘Mr. Perfectionist‘ and so is his interior of the house. It is a spacious 5000 sq. ft. apartment. Previously Aamir used to reside in Bella Vista Apartments and now his brother and mother reside there.
5. Prime Beach, Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar lives in ‘Prime Beach’ which is a sea facing duplex with a lush green lawn. He lives on the ground floor with his wife Twinkle Khanna and his kids. His mother Aruna Bhatia lives on the first floor and his sister with his husband resides on the 6th floor of Prime Beach. Prime Beach is also the home to actor Hrithik Roshan, who lives on the third floor.

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Actors have always been handsome, dashing, beautiful even, but they were never sculpted from granite-like today’s stars. Schwarzenegger was the first bodybuilder superstar. His rise in Hollywood coincided with the gym (and steroid) craze in America in the ’80s. Muscles have been “in” ever since.
Who are the Schwarzeneggers of today? Most of today’s actors have six-packs, to be honest. It’s almost a prerequisite unless you’re a character actor. Even the funny guys (Pratt, Nanjiani) are jacked. Here are some of the most prime cuts of grade-A, top-choice meat.


A confident Andy Murray continued his unbeaten start to the Mutua Madrid Open Virtual Pro on Wednesday, cruising past Alexander Zverev 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the innovative gaming tournament.
“I am just much better than the other guys,” teased a jovial Murray. “That’s just the reality.”
The two-time Madrid champion, who improves to 4-0 this week, has lost just two games in four matches to reach the last four. In Group 1, Murray defeated fellow quarter-finalist Benoit Paire 3-1 and scored 3-0 victories against Rafael Nadal and Denis Shapovalov.
— #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) April 29, 2020
Zverev struggled to cope with Murray’s skill throughout the contest, played on Tennis World Tour’s Manolo Santana Stadium. The 2018 champion, who ends his campaign with a 2-2 record, even changed his controller during the match in an attempt to reverse his fortunes.
“When I played Rafa, he was saying that I had been practising so much and today the controller was wrong with Zverev. Everyone has got their excuses, but the reason is I am just better than them,” joked Murray.
Murray will meet Group 2 winner Diego Schwartzman or Group 3 runner-up Fabio Fognini for a place in the championship match. Before the tournament, Murray practised with Schwartzman and referred to the Argentine’s level as ‘terrible’.
Stefanos Tsitsipas ended David Ferrer’s virtual return to ATP Tour action in Wednesday’s second quarter-final, beating the two-time Madrid semi-finalist 6-2. The World No. 6 fired a backhand winner down the line to end Ferrer’s run and join Murray with a 4-0 record this week.
Make sure to tune in to the Mutua Madrid Open’s Facebook page to watch the two remaining quarter-final matches. David Goffin will face Benoit Paire at 18:45 (CEST), before Schwartzman and Fognini meet at 19:15 (CEST).


Synopsis by Matthew Tobey
This two-disc set from Pioneer Entertainment is the first in a series of karaoke DVDs featuring dozens of classic pop hits. Released in 2000, Karaoke: Rock 'N Roll Oldies, Vol. 1 features such unforgettable gems as "All My Loving," "Band On the Run," "Born to Be Wild," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?," "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," [rovilink="MT"]"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,"[/rovilink] "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone."
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Paul and Corey Cross the Streams is a bi-monthly podcast in which hosts Paul Pakler and Corey Pepper watch and review streaming content. It’s the Great American Podcast where two friends learn about life as they float down the river of streaming services.
“I’ll see you in court!” is this month’s theme. A courtroom is about as dramatic as it gets, folks. Competing interests in which only one side can win and the power of the state is there to call the balls and strikes (allegedly). This week, Corey chose Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Based on Agatha Christie’s successful play (which she adapted from a short story), Witness for the Prosecution was co-written for the screen and directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and more – this film is truly a murderers’ row of talent.
This Month’s Theme: I’ll See You in Court
This Episode’s Focus: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Host’s Choice: Corey Pepper
Special thanks to Tobin for our incredible theme song and Dave Droxler for our podcast’s logo and artwork.


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In the spirit of prayer
I wait for you in our garden
while myriad antagonistic circumstances thwart our reunion;
daily toil keeps you in the village,
and young garden nymphs conspire to wear me out long before evening.
By nightfall the pomegranate halves beneath my veil run pale,
and your radiant and ruddy cheeks have become over-ripe.
And so we retire long after the day has cooled and the shadows lengthened,
one after the other;
but we wake together, both in the garden,
to begin again, in the heat and in the shadow,
our playful delight in Love’s sweetness.


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We’ve all heard about the “cup half full or empty” type of person. We all know we’re meant to think positively, as the entire world tells us to do so… But who really does?
Have you ever really thought about what type of person you are and how others see us or feel about us? Do you “walk the talk” and say you’re a positive thinker, yet in your day to day situations and experiences not carry it through? It’s like a company advertising they’re service oriented yet having a really lousy (or non-existent) customer service department. Perhaps it’s not something of utmost importance to you. Perhaps you’re gliding along in life and feel it’s less relevant to your success. Well maybe it should be…
Ask a work colleague, partner, friend or family member to rate you on a scale of 1 to 10 whether they feel you display on average a positive, neutral or negative mindset. And that’s after you’ve rated yourself. Of course only bother asking someone who knows you relatively well or will feel comfortable enough to tell you the truth. Then analyze what you can do to improve your score. We all know who the complainers and negative people are. The question is… do they know it themselves?
Thinking positive is not just your mindset, but how you think, make decisions or carry through actions when life doesn’t always go smoothly. So you’re probably thinking, even a positive thinker can’t always think positively… The important thing about positive thinking, is that even if you’re having a bad day, a supplier lets you down, a friend or family member annoys or upsets you, or you’re caught in bad traffic – the speed at which you “catch” yourself the moment your mindset changes – will determine how quickly you bounce back from allowing your mood or mindset to spiral downwards. And when you’re feeling a little low, asking yourself and analyzing why you’re feeling like you are at any given moment, will often help you get more in touch with your feelings and return to your regular state of mind.
Now we’re all human… It’s natural to have a bad day – or is it? Let’s rather say it’s natural to have negative experiences in any given day. How we choose to label the day – “it’s been a bad day” or “I had some negative experiences but my day turned out fine as I was able to bounce back” – is what’s it’s all about.
Many times in life when something negative happens we simply freeze and don’t see any way out of a situation, nor anything positive. Time after time, experience after experience, I began to realize that it’s not only that the situation turned out for the better in the long-run, but that my mindset – and focusing on the good that could come out of the situation – is what enabled the situation to turn out better. By being proactive and allowing ourselves to control our response and attitude to situations – rather than being reactive and letting the situation control us – is what positive thinking is all about, and what will take you to new levels.
So the next time you’re having a negative thought or a “bad” day, get in touch with your feelings and ask yourself what the turning point was which made you feel the way you do, will it pass or be something you’ll remember one year from now, what good may come out of it or how can you rise to the challenge and actively turn the experience into something more positive.
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