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One of my friends was talking about getting over an ex-boyfriend when she said something profound.
She said, hate is not the opposite of love because love and hate are both passionate, powerful things. They show that you still care about something.
Instead, the actual opposite of love is apathy because that shows that you don’t care enough to get upset about it.
It struck me as the type of obvious breakthrough that we all sort of know deep down, but never really think about. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized how it applies to our region, as much as any romance.
When we talk about talent retention, or more specifically, convincing high school and college students to come back to Northeast Indiana after graduation, we tend to get disappointed when we hear them say they “hate” their hometown or complain that there’s nothing to do here.
I was a writer for the Journal Gazette for awhile, and a local high school teacher asked me to speak to his class about the city and downtown development.
One topic that kept coming up was how much these students couldn’t wait to move, and there was a real vengeance there.
They said it was boring here. They didn’t know much about downtown developments. And they thought most of the city’s attractions were for people 21 and older, or children much younger than them.
It’s a valid point of view. There’s always the notion that your hometown isn’t cool, and there’s something better out there. Somewhere. Anywhere else.
A whole slew of reasons students choose to leave Northeast Indiana are listed in last Sunday’s Journal Gazette.
But even though cities in this region are small and “essentially nonexistent to outsiders,” maybe the hate—or more accurately frustration—some students (and residents) feel about where they live isn’t a doomsday sign for retaining talent in the region. Maybe it’s reason to believe that people care enough to get upset about it, and we can channel all of that negative energy into something positive.
Groups like the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership’s Millennial 2020 are already starting to do it.
Sonya Snellenberger, YLNI member and Millennial 2020 specialist, said the Regional Partnership isn’t telling students they should never leave town.
“We quit fighting that mentality, and started to redefine what retaining talent looks like for this age group,” she said.
Their strategy involves telling students it’s OK to leave home because that’s what helps you grow and enrich your experiences. But when you’re ready to build something or start a new venture, Northeast Indiana is ready to help.
One of the benefits to living in a smaller city like Fort Wayne as opposed to New York, Chicago, or LA is that everything isn’t already decided for you.
There are gaps here that you can fill with more opportunities to make an impact, and if you have a good idea, then what you start will break the barrier of “nonexistence” anyway.
We can talk about the Midwest brain drain and the lack of opportunities here all we want. Or we can rise up and do something about it, and when you rise up in a small town, you make a mark.
The trick is getting people who are discontent with the region to see it that way.
As a junior at Snider High School, Kaleb McCague thinks a little “pushing” is what it takes.
McCague said most of his classmates had negative opinions of Fort Wayne until he started actively encouraging them learn about the community and get involved.
“I see potential here, and I want to help it and put my effort and input into it,” McCague said.
And he’s not alone. Actually, he’s one of 20 members of the Mayor’s Youth Engagement Council (MYEC) in Fort Wayne—which is one of three similar youth councils in the region.
The MYEC is a group of high school students selected every school year to develop personal leadership skills, learn about their city, and boost community engagement among their peers.
They also spend time with Snellenberger’s Millennial Leaders Alliance to get involved with community development, so they see ways they can make a difference here and experience what it’s like firsthand.
For the past three years, the MYEC has put on the Riverpalooza Festival in Headwaters Park, and this year, the event is back with the 2nd Annual Fort Wayne Dragon Boat Races, food trucks, vendors, live music and more on June 25.
It’s one way you can see what a few kids, a big idea and community support can do in this region, and it’s already starting to help students see their hometown in a new light.
Hope Steele, a senior at Canterbury High School and a 2nd-year member of the MYEC, said she knew last year’s festival was a success when more than 2,500 people showed up, and she saw her friends who never come downtown posting about it on social media.
MYEC leader Karen Richards also sees success in the number of graduates want to come back and help.
“That tells me the interest is really there,” Richards said.
If you think about it, interest of any kind shows that people care, and projects like riverfront development could help students see our region as a place where things happen—a place where they can personally make a difference.
Where there’s hate, there’s hope.
An all-ages festival featuring the 2nd Annual Fort Wayne Dragon Boat Races, starting at 8 a.m. at Headwaters Park. Colorful, 21-person Chinese dragon boats will race a 300-meter course on the St. Marys River. Team registration to race is open until June 13. Visit RiverpaloozaFW.org for more information.
HereSay, in partnership with YLNI, is a bi-weekly blog about our say on what’s happening here. It is written by YLNI member Kara Hackett, and the opinions are her own. Photo by Matt Thomas. HereSay@ylni.org


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At Emiliano's, Amelia's or Leonardo's 706.
Edward Albee's plays
Although actors seem to like them more than audiences.
Everything I've learned in my life has been through a formal training program. With art, I like it to be raw. I purposely don't get any training.
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The Niger State Police Command has arrested a Catechist of the Catholic Church for allegedly selling fake currency.
The amount involved was over N15m.
Equally important, the Catholic Cathechist, identified as Sebastine Dabu, 48, was nabbed alongside two others. They are Emmanuel Akazuwa, 42 and Umar Mohammed, 50. The suspects were arrested in a hotel in the Kontagora area of Niger State while trying to get a buyer for the N15.8million in their possession.
While parading the Catholic Catechist and his alleged accomplices; spokesman of the Niger State Police Command, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, said the suspects will be arraigned in court as soon as the investigation is concluded.
Meanwhile, the Catechist, who owned up to the act, blamed it on poverty. Dabu, who disclosed that he was a farmer, said he wanted to ameliorate the suffering of his family.
‘‘I am a Catechist in a Catholic church in Kebbi and I have not been involved in this before. I feel bad for being caught.
”And I wonder what I will tell the congregation and my children. It was really temptation.”
“I have never done this before. But the suffering was too much. That is why I decided to get involved and whatever money I get from this, I will use it to help myself and my family.
“It was due to suffering that I decided to connect Emmanuel with Umar who said he will get a buyer for us. The person was meant to buy each million for N150,000…We would have made money if we succeeded but we didn’t.
“As a Catechist, it is temptation that made me get involved in this. Nobody is above temptation.”
Also speaking, one of the suspects, Akazuwa, claimed to have bought the fake currency at the rate of N150,000. Further, he disclosed that he had met the Catechist at a Cathedral Congress in Benue State; even as he added that the q promised to help him sell the counterfeit currency.
Thereafter, he revealed that Dabu asked him to bring the money to Niger State.
“This is my first time in this business,’’ Akazuwa said. ‘‘I wanted to just sell it and use the money I get to buy a motorcycle for commercial business. I know it was fake and it is criminal…That is why I did not use it all through the time I was given.
“I met the Catechist at a Congress in Makurdi…He promised me that he will get a buyer for me. I met him in Mokwa junction and from there, we proceeded to Kontagora. But we could not sell it, rather, we were arrested,” he said.
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Angela Rayner has said a Mail on Sunday article that claimed Tory MPs had accused her of a Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson was “misogynistic”, “sexist” and “steeped in classism”.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine, Labour’s deputy leader said she was “crestfallen” upon hearing that the paper planned to publish the story and described constantly having to “prove my worth” as a female in politics.
Describing the article as “disgusting”, Ms Rayner said the piece “wasn’t just about me as a woman, it was also steeped in classism and about where I come from, where I grew up”.
She added that despite feeling “really sad” about the story over the weekend, she has been “heartened” by the reaction from members of the public.
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Labour’s deputy leader also revealed she had made a conscious decision to wear trousers for the TV interview on Tuesday morning and called for a “culture change” in parliament.
The story, which reported that Tory MPs had accused Ms Rayner of deliberately distracting Mr Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs, has received a huge backlash after its publication.
Reacting to the article at the weekend, the prime minister posted on social media: “As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.”
Culture in parliament ‘sexist and misogynistic
Posting a dignified response to the article on social media on Sunday morning, Ms Rayner thanked those for criticising the piece and “making a stand in the name of decency”.
“I won’t be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail,” she added.
Also condemning the article, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: “The sexism and misogyny peddled by the Tories is a disgraceful new low from a party mired in scandal and chaos.”
Speaker summons newspaper editor over ‘demeaning’ article
He added: “We have got to change the culture. The culture in parliament, it is sexist, it is misogynist. We need to change it.”
Mail on Sunday editor summoned
After being contacted by Caroline Nokes, the Tory chair of the women and equalities committee, who raised her concerns on the matter, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay on Monday summoned David Dillon, the editor of the Mail on Sunday, for a meeting.
Sir Lindsay told MPs that the story was “demeaning” and “offensive to women in parliament”, adding that it “can only deter women who might be considering standing for election to the detriment of us all”.
He said he had arranged a meeting with Mr Dillon, the newspaper’s political editor Glen Owen and the chair of the press lobby “to discuss the issue affecting our parliamentary community” and will also separately meet Ms Rayner.
The original Mail on Sunday story likened Ms Rayner’s alleged ploy to a fully clothed equivalent of Sharon Stone’s infamous scene in the film Basic Instinct.
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Labour’s Harriet Harman said: “If people were in a workplace, a private company and one was briefing against another to the press that would be regarded as serious misconduct. But you look in our own code of conduct, which I’ve got here, and it’s got nothing, nothing in it at all about that.
“It’s all about, you know, not taking public money, which is important and not abusing your staff, which is important, but here it needs a bit of updating. I’ve been leafing through it, and it’s got lots of good things in it, but it actually needs to deal with this as well.”
Ms Harman told Sky News the comments in the Mail on Sunday amounted to an accusation of “flashing”.
“There’s been some reporting that, oh well, it’s about crossing and I’m crossing her legs. I mean, what they’re actually accusing her of is flashing,” she said.
“And what this is about is it’s about men who really don’t like the idea that there are women with the temerity to speak out and be in public life, and it’s a way of shutting them down and silencing them. And you know, why should women members of parliament always be in trepidation about what they wear or how they sit?”
In a tweet on Monday, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, the independent regulator of UK newspapers, said it had received “a high volume of complaints” about the article.


Pride or prejudice?
A formally taboo topic among Asian-Americans and Latinos comes out into the open as skin tone consciousness sparks a backlash
Whether you call it "colorism" or the "color complex," the politics of skin tone play an active role in the African-American community. The groundbreaking 1992 book "The Color Complex" brought the phenomenon of favoritism toward light-skinned blacks into the mainstream. It traced its origins to America's slave-holding past, when white masters mated with their African slaves. But colorism's grip on society continues into the 21st century. You see it in the honey-colored hootchies who reign in R&B and hip-hop videos. You see it in the faces of golden-toned celebrities -- Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, and Beyonce -- whom major cosmetic companies hire to endorse their products.
What you hear less about is how the color complex threads through the Asian-American and Latino communities. In these worlds, elders caution children to stay out of the sun so they don't get too tan. The ideal spouse is often pale. These sentiments are the vestiges of home countries where skin color has everything to do with perceptions of class and wealth.
Cuban-American pop star Christina Milian, who scored a hit this summer with "Dip It Low," dragged colorism into the open in the July issue of Latina magazine. In a cover-story profile, she demanded people expand their idea of Latin beauty beyond the light-complexioned examples of Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek. Director Mira Nair explored the politics of skin color in the South Asian community in her critically acclaimed 1991 film "Mississippi Masala." The fair-is-best mentality prevails, however. Skin-whitening creams do big business in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, and Malaysia. The stars of telenovelas, the Spanish-language soaps that air on Telemundo and Univision, are generally blond and pale. Flick on the TV and you may catch L'Oreal's ad for its True Brown hair color featuring Aishwarya Rai. With her striking blue-gray eyes and milky skin, the Bollywood actress could easily pass for white. Despite the pervasiveness of the message, the preference for light complexions among Asian-American and Latino communities is so minimally explored you most often read about it in scholarly articles or books.
This is dirty-laundry territory. Ethnic groups don't want this aspect of their culture publicized. Two sisters in their 20s -- one creamy-skinned, one caramel-colored -- eagerly told the Globe how these issues play out in their Mexico City hometown: dance clubs that will not let in dark-hued people; a country in which the haves tend to be light-skinned descendents of the Spanish or French, and the have-nots darker indigenous Indians. But a conversation at one sister's home about the skin-color dynamics in their family created such a rift between the sisters that one of them placed a frantic phone call days later asking to omit the information.
Why do such diverse ethnic groups find unity in colorism? One reason is racism. As Margaret Hunter, a sociology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, writes in this year's "Skin/Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the `Color-Blind' Era" "in the US where white racism still operates, light skin is defined as more beautiful and more desirable than dark skin, particularly in women."
That preconception endures in the words parents tell their children, says Anita Raj, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health , who this summer taught the graduate course "Race/Ethnicity and Health." "We all have internalized racism," says Raj. "It's in there. It's in all of us. If you're raised a certain way and someone's told you this your whole life, it's hard to get it out."
But racism merely scratches the surface of the problem. The color complex is the legacy of a jumble of issues: colonialism, class, and a Hollywood culture that exports a white-skinned, blond-haired ideal.
"There's no group in the world I have come across that's not affected by this issue," says Ronald Hall, co-author of "The Color Complex" and author of last year's "Skin Color as a Post Colonial Issue Among Asian Americans," who travels to Japan, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Mexico to study skin color. "Any place where Western values, Western norms permeate -- and that's pretty much the world we're in now -- then you have this."
Raj, Hiroko Kikuchi, and Ana Morales come from different ethnic groups, but all grew up hearing the cautionary words: "Stay out of the sun." If Kikuchi's grandmother told her, "You look darker" when Kikuchi was a child in Tokyo, she knew those words weren't a compliment. Kikuchi's younger sister, Ayako, who's slightly darker than Kikuchi's manila hue, had it even worse. Her coloring was deep enough for her grandmother and peers at school to call her "Indian," which was considered a slur, says Kikuchi, 31, an education/outreach coordinator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center.
Tanning, remembers Kikuchi, was "not something you could ever do. It's a class thing."
The class connection harks back to agrarian societies that left the lower classes toiling in sun-drenched fields. "The greater the privilege," says Raj, "the less likely you'd be exposed to the sun." Indigenous people could erase the stigma of dark skin by marrying the Europeans who colonized their countries. Now, Hall says, when you visit Central or South America you find the fair-complexioned people are the ones who possess "the education, the wealth. [They're] idealized with respect to beauty." Hall adds, "With respect to Latinos, it's still a sign of status to have white blood."
Skin color is such an obsession in these countries that specific words describe distinct skin tones from "hincha," Puerto Rican slang for "glass of milk" to "morena," literally "brown." The underlying tensions of the color complex bubble over when Latinos reach American shores. The first lawsuit over skin discrimination in the United States, tried in 1980, did not involve African Americans, says Hall. Felix v. Manquez pitted a dark-skinned Puerto Rican woman against her light-skinned Puerto Rican supervisor.
Kikuchi thinks her grandmother's negative opinion about dark skin was also tied to conceptions of beauty. "You get more wrinkles if you tan," she believes her grandmother thought. "A woman should be beautiful." Kikuchi traces the white-skinned ideal in Japan back to the Genroku Era from 1688 to 1704, which birthed the white-faced Kabuki theater tradition. "That's the period when women started to put makeup on," she says. Women painted their faces white, their lips red and, if they were married, blackened their teeth. The popularity of one aspect of this aesthetic continues. As the International Herald Tribune stated in a February article about Japanese beauty, "the emphasis is on fairness, and the whiter, the better."
In the South Asian community of Jackson, Miss., where Raj grew up, beauty also equaled pale. "You hear this a lot," says Raj, sitting in her closet-size South End office. "`She's so beautiful, she's so fair."' Her sister repeats the cycle of their youth by cautioning her children to stay out of the sun. That's something Raj, the mother of two, would never do.
"[My sister] married an Indian; I married an American," Raj explains. "That's the difference. I want my kids to get some color so they look more like me." Still, Raj feels that her cafe au lait hue can get only so dark. "I look at people who have dark skin and think they are very beautiful," Raj says. "But I feel I'm not supposed to have that."
Ana Morales may have skin the color of sand, but her family taught her to think of herself as white. She loved darkening her body in the sun of her Puerto Rican homeland -- much to her mother's horror. "Every time I came home from the beach, she was like, `Oh, my God.' . . . And it wasn't about skin cancer," says Morales, 27, editor of the local Latino e-magazine Candela and author of the Globe's monthly "Latin Scene" column. "She thought I was just ugly and she would give me all of these products to get rid of the tan immediately."
Don't confuse the desire for pale skin with a self-hating desire to be Caucasian, says Morales. The goal was to be "not necessarily white and blonde, but Spanish," she says.
And don't think this mindset affects everyone of color. Luis Leon, Morales's husband, says he didn't become aware of the politics of skin color until he and his family moved to New Jersey in 1989. He grew up in Puerto Rico's countryside to a mother he describes as "snow white" and a father who sported an Afro. In school Leon learned Puerto Ricans were a mixture of Spanish, African, and Indian cultures. "I wasn't even thinking that she was white and he was -- there was no definition," says Leon, 26, who lives in East Weymouth. "It was just mom and dad."
Morales thinks Leon's ability to escape the drama of colorism directly relates to class. Leon agrees. "It's not a skin issue in Puerto Rico unless you move up the social hierarchy," he says. "That's when it gets as clear and as obvious as here in the US."
Leon's mother felt the first sting of discrimination at a New Jersey hospital. Her white skin, he believes, caused the black and Latino workers to treat her less diligently than their browner-skinned patients. As a fair-complexioned South Asian woman, Gouri Banerjee finds her skin color places her at a disadvantage in her interactions with whites and blacks.
"Being darker than Caucasians, I sense some degree of aloofness, distance, and avoidance," Banerjee, an associate professor of information technology at Emmanuel College, writes in an e-mail. Her children once regularly played at a soccer field in Winchester, but the white people there rarely bid her hello. When Banerjee visits expensive stores, she finds she has to seek out salespeople: "I am not usually served because of my dark skin."
That "dark" skin doesn't translate into automatic acceptance among brown people. Banerjee must make the first overtures to African- and Caribbean-Americans, she says, "because I am not seen as dark enough. . . I have many black students in my classes at Emmanuel College, and it takes me a while to break through the barriers of color and race and reach them as human beings and aspiring young adults."
Having pale skin does have its privileges, however. "I am very aware of being fair-complected," says Raj, "and I do think that I am treated differently because of that." Ask Raj to elaborate and she begins to backtrack. "It's so hard when you are guessing," she says vaguely, "but I think in some ways, you know, life's a little easier." She summons up an example from her days as an undergraduate in the late 1980s at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss., where potential beaus considered Raj light enough to be a possible date but too dark to actually ask out.
Bronx-born Nyvia Colon, a first-generation Puerto Rican who grew up in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, used to hear these words of wisdom from her grandfather: "Don't marry a black man." His comments confused young Colon. After all, her grandfather had what Colon calls "very dark skin," kinky hair, and light eyes. She was tempted to ask him, "Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately?"
However, her grandfather's advice is being heeded by an increasing number of people of color. Third-generation Latinos and Asians marry out of their race more than 50 percent of the time, says Barry Edmonston, director of the Population Research Center at Portland State University in Oregon. Their spouses are usually Caucasian.
In Colon's mind, many Latinos sense that having dark skin in the United States can make life infinitely harder. "There are a lot of [Latin] people who do not want to be mistaken for `black,"' says Colon, "even if the color [of] their skin is black. The perception in the Latino community . . . is that if you are considered black you don't have a great chance to be financially successful."


When it comes to taking care of repairs at home, there is a set of tools that even the amateur handyman must have and these tools are considered basic, such as: measuring tape, knives, wrenches, blades, hammers and pliers. However, in order to complete the set a handyman must also own a level.
If you are only familiar with the level tools from the past, you might be surprised to find out about the advancements this technology went through and all of that for the purpose of accuracy. The older types of levels are still convenient, but only to a certain point cause then you’ll have to risk not measuring as accurately as possible.
The new types of level tools, on the other hand, can be used for various purposes, from hanging a painting at home to much more complicated jobs on construction sites. These are in fact tools that rely on a beam of laser light as to achieve straight lines when measuring. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise how laser technology has once proven it can make the cut and improve the usefulness of a tool in an instant.
Be it for walls, floors, any cheap laser level can create a straight line relying on a beam of either vertical or horizontal light or both. What’s more, not having to mark the line helps you save time. The mechanism of a laser level is based on determining the beginning and ending point of the beam it produces, thus displaying accurate angle measurements.
When looking for a quality, yet cheap laser level, you need to know their basic division: rotary, line and dot. All three types are very accurate, the only difference is the type of light beam. The most advanced type of laser level is without any doubt the cross line laser. What makes it superior to other types is the fact that it uses both horizontal and vertical lines ( 360 degrees the first and 180 the latter), it can be used for a wide range of applications, whether outdoors or indoors it gives accurate measurements due to the optional receiver, and its self-leveling.
There’s no doubt that the laser technology gave a superb boost to level tools as we knew them. Accuracy and saving time is well-worth investing in, so if you need this tool for measuring distances between objects (floors, stairs, ceiling), seamlessly installing elements in horizontal position or for plumbing, there’s no need to doubt their usefulness.


U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order banning any U.S. transactions with Chinese tech firm ByteDance, owner of TikTok, starting in 45 days.
"The Chinese experts are very supportive and helpful," Mahdi said. "When they were here, they gave us all the technical training we need. They are also sending me all the documents. This can be a treasure for us."
"With effective policies and timely responses, China has managed to curb the spread of the virus and at the same time kept industrial chain stable and smooth," he said. "These efforts have helped ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), especially Cambodia, mitigate the impacts from the virus on our economy." Enditem
Over four decades ago, leaders of China and the United States made the handshake across the vast Pacific Ocean, he added, noting that what made this possible was that both countries adhered to the principle of mutual respect and seeking common ground while putting aside differences.
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"China's role in opening up to global economy through many initiatives, including its BRI, contributes a lot to the trend of global trade flows given its very potential production and consumption hubs," Sorasak said.
The bilateral FTA also impeccably responds to Cambodia's policy directions sketched in the Industrial Development Policy and the "Rectangular Strategy," the minister added.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's nuclear power is not at the same level as that of the United States and Russia, and it is not yet the right timing for China to join their nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai has said.
"These have been the sources of China's economic boom and Cambodia is using China as a role model in our economic development as well," he said.
A medic performs COVID-19 testing at a Chinese-built lab in Baghdad, Iraq on July 29, 2020. (Xinhua)
Noting that China attaches great importance to developing relations with Sri Lanka, Li said that China is willing to consolidate its traditional friendship with Sri Lanka, deepen mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, and promote faster development of China-Sri Lanka relations to better benefit the two countries and peoples. Enditem


The Evolution of Robotics and AI
The world of robotics has come a long way since the first industrial robots were introduced in the 1960s. These early machines were designed to perform repetitive tasks in manufacturing plants, and they were controlled by simple programs that followed pre-determined paths. However, over the years, robotics has evolved to become much more sophisticated, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a major driving force behind this transformation.
The concept of AI has been around for decades, but it is only in recent years that it has become a reality. AI is the ability of machines to learn and adapt to new situations, and it is this ability that has made robotics so much more versatile and powerful. With AI, robots can now perform complex tasks that were previously impossible, and they can do so with greater speed and accuracy than ever before.
One of the most significant developments in the evolution of robotics and AI has been the rise of collaborative robots, or cobots. These machines are designed to work alongside humans, and they are equipped with sensors and cameras that allow them to detect and respond to human movements. This means that cobots can be used in a wide range of applications, from manufacturing and logistics to healthcare and education.
Another area where robotics and AI are making a big impact is in the field of autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars and trucks are already on the roads, and they are set to revolutionize the way we travel and transport goods. These vehicles are equipped with a range of sensors and cameras that allow them to navigate roads and highways, avoid obstacles, and make decisions based on real-time data. They are also able to communicate with other vehicles and with traffic management systems, which will help to reduce congestion and improve safety.
In the healthcare industry, robotics and AI are being used to develop new treatments and therapies. Robots are being used to perform surgeries with greater precision and accuracy, and they are also being used to assist with rehabilitation and physical therapy. AI is also being used to analyze large amounts of medical data, which can help doctors to make more accurate diagnoses and develop more effective treatment plans.
The rise of robotics and AI is also having a significant impact on the job market. While these technologies are creating new jobs in areas such as engineering and programming, they are also displacing workers in industries such as manufacturing and transportation. This has led to concerns about the future of work, and there is a growing need for governments and businesses to develop strategies to help workers transition to new roles and industries.
Despite these challenges, the transformation of robotics with AI is set to continue at a rapid pace. As machines become more intelligent and more capable, they will be able to take on even more complex tasks, and they will become an increasingly important part of our daily lives. However, it is important that we approach this transformation with caution and foresight, and that we work to ensure that the benefits of these technologies are shared by all members of society.


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Chanel has revealed its latest major advertising campaign...
Chanel has revealed its latest major advertising campaign – and the star of the season is none other than Kristen Stewart.
Kristen is, once again, designer Karl Lagerfeld’s fashion muse, playing a film noir vamp in the brand’s new ‘Paris in Rome’ advertorial. Modelling the Métiers d’art ‘Paris in Rome’ collection (which was shown in Rome back in December) Kristen appears in three brand new images for the storied fashion house, taking on French chic and all its styling conventions, whilst skulking around in a Parisian boudoir.
Karl himself shot the pictures, telling WWD that Kristen ‘is the perfect for the Chanel image of today’. High praise indeed from a man who often manages to cause controversy with his quotes.
The ‘Paris in Rome’ collection was Karl’s big concept for pre-fall 2016 and saw him stage one of his epic productions in the iconic Italian film studio Cinecitta – all to honour Romy Schnieder and Anouk Aimee who wore Chanel in Italian films shot there in the 60s.
Every year, Karl flies his Métiers d’art showcase to a different city that was significant for the original designer, Coco Chanel, and before his Roman adventure, he had previously taken over Shanghai, New York and Dallas with his productions.
When in the Roman film studio, the Kaiser recreated a movie-worthy French street scene, and models from Lara Stone to Bella Hadid did a pretty fabulous ‘walk of shame’ down the catwalk in dishevelled lace.
Kristen was front row, naturally, and played Coco Chanel herself in a mini-movie presented at the start of the show called Once And Forever.
It’s not the actress’ first collaboration with the iconic French fashion house though, of course, as Kristen previously starred in the label’s Spring Summer 2015 eyewear and was announced as the new face of the brand’s makeup back in February.
What do you think of Kristen’s latest Chanel pictures? Tell us what you think on Twitter @MarieClaireUK.


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Japanese car manufacturer Honda confirmed on Friday the name of its first diesel car in India as "Amaze".
"The New Entry Sedan will be called the "AMAZE," and will be launched in Thailand and India," announced the company.
Amaze will be an entry-level sedan from Honda and will be based on the Brio platform, which was a scoring success in India's small car market. The company has not revealed the features of its upcoming sedan, but said that the car will be available with petrol and diesel engines.
"The Honda Amaze will be available with a petrol engine and a newly-developed diesel engine and will be positioned in the entry level sedan segment for the Indian market," the company said.
Honda claimed that Amaze will pack all the needs of Indian consumers and will be made available in the market for an affordable price. The car will also debut in Thailand around the same time with a gasoline engine.
"Every aspect of the new entry sedan seeks to amaze the customer by offering divergent and desirable values to expand customer delight beyond expectations. The contemporary style of "Amaze" will entice customers with its amazingly spacious interior yet compact exteriors, which was designed while further advancing the Honda M/M (man maximum, machine minimum) concept*1," said Honda.
Specifications of the new diesel car is expected to be revealed on Nov 23. Amaze will debut in India in the next fiscal year.


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Plans to build a new Marks and Spencer store, Nandos restaurant and a Starbucks coffee shop in Derby could be in doubt due to concerns surrounding the potential bulldozing of a "landmark" building.
A planning application was submitted last year to demolish the former home of the Derby Fireplace Company to make way for the new retail complex - expected to bring dozens of new job to the city.
The building at the Wyvern is understood to be the last surviving element of the former Chaddesden Sidings – a marshalling yard used to transport goods.
It is said to be a "proud" part of Derby's railway heritage despite it standing empty since the Derby Fireplace Company closed last year.
But applicants London Metric and Clowes Developments want to knock it down in a move which could completely transform the site and boost the city's economy.
As part of the application, it is stated that the building is not viable for the proposal site as it stands.
However, a new twist has seen a Derby City Council conservation expert call for the building to be retained in some way or form - putting the current status of the application in limbo.
To support the planning application, the developers have submitted heritage statements to explain why the building, which is not listed by Historic England, should be demolished.
They make the case the building is of "low heritage value" and has been the subject of vandalism in recent times.
As reported earlier this summer, the developers - via their representative company - have released pictures showing the shocking nature of inside the building.
The pictures show the interior of the building to be completely rundown, with rooms dumped full of rubbish and damaged walls.
The document by chartered surveyors Montague Evans said: "The building is of low heritage value and compromised due to the removal of the majority of the former wagon repair workshop and the changes that have taken place to the setting and context of the remaining structure."
It also added that the building was "not viable to refurbish to the standard that would be acceptable to an incoming tenant" and the narrowness of the building "did not meet the requirements of modern occupiers".
But the latest response to the heritage statement from Derby City Council's conservation experts now means the decision-making process of the application has had to be delayed.
The city's council's conservation team leader Chloe Oswald said: "This is the only surviving heritage asset in this area east of the A52.
"It is a distinct and well loved city landmark that marks the entrance to the city of Derby when travelling along the A52 towards the city.
"The building demonstrates significance in its architectural/aesthetic value, its historical value and communal value. The building is of good quality brickwork with substantial distinctive windows.
"Even looking at the limited information submitted and looking at the proposals for the new scheme it is clear that the building could be retained as part of the proposed scheme, to accommodate a drive through or both retained and extended.
"I strongly urge that is is looked at."
The developers also say they have looked into the possibility of moving the proposed site to the vacant building at the nearby Toys R Us building but after consideration the premises are not suitable.
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Yellow Brick Games, the studio co-founded by Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw, has finally announced its first project. Titled Eternal Strands, it looks like an incredible blend of Shadow of the Colossus with modern Zelda, and it's instantly shot to the top of my gaming wishlist.
Eternal Strands is an action game that gives you an array of magic elemental powers that can interact with the world in robust, emergent ways. You can shoot ice to build a bridge over a ravine or use fire to burn down obstacles. Telekinetic powers let you hurl pieces of the environment - or even other monsters - at enemies. It even looks like you'll be able to pin giant enemies down by encasing their limbs in ice. It seems like the exact sort of physics-driven simulation that's made Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom such joys to interact with.
Sandbox combat that challenges you to smartly use your environment rather than memorize a list of combos is music to my ears, and we haven't even gotten to the giant monsters yet. This trailer is largely focused on an encounter with a hulking titan that you can grab onto and clamber all over to find an advantageous spot to attack. It's all very Shadow of the Colossus - or if you want a very current comparison, it looks just as chaotic and fun as taking down giant beasts in Dragon's Dogma 2.
All it's taken is a 76-second trailer to utterly sell me on Eternal Strands, but we're due to hear a lot more on the game soon. The trailer debuted through IGN First, and the outlet's set to publish a lot more on the game throughout the month of April. For now, we know that the game is will hit PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S sometime in 2025.
"Our hope with Eternal Strands is to deliver an adventure that brings a sense of fun and excitement to fantasy, while encouraging players to experiment with its systems," Laidlaw says in a press release. "It’s a very different game to ones I’ve worked on in the past, and it’s been a delight to generally answer the question ‘what if the player does X?’ with ‘Cool!’ It’s also exciting to have a chance to build an all-new world that encourages and reacts to this kind of play."
Laidlaw, of course, is best known as the creative director of the Dragon Age franchise. He co-founded Yellow Brick Games back in 2020, and the studio is now packed with AAA industry veterans - even though its 68-person headcount certainly makes it much leaner than the average big-publisher team.
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By Andrea Widburg
Biden is the least inspiring candidate in at last a century, while President Trump has an extraordinarily enthusiastic base that is, if possible, much larger than it was in 2016. Still, the polls have been practically unanimous: Biden will win in a landslide. The polls predicted the same for Hillary in 2016, so we’re suspicious, but the confluence of awful things that’s been 2020 still makes Trump supporters just a little nervous. However, two election analysts are predicting that Trump will beat the pants and double masks off Joe Biden.
Matthew Tyrmand is a numbers guy. He got his start working for almost ten years on Wall Street as a hedge fund portfolio manager who analyzed and traded healthcare and telecommunications stocks. He then became a business consultant. After that, he worked for American Transparency, which has dedicated itself to putting all government spending in one place, information you can find at Open The Books (a fascinating website).
In 2016, Tyrmand looked at the numbers and concluded that Trump would get 311 Electoral College votes, a prediction that was off only by 5 (Trump got 306 EC votes). This time around, Tyrmand thinks that Trump will get between 342 and 386 EC votes:
[A]ll the conventional swing states (NH PA MI WI NV AZ) will go red.
Some of the states purported to be swing states are not even in play this cycle in my view as they are so firmly in the “stop burning down the cities” camp (FL OH GA NC) that they will be defended easily.
States that should not have been in play as they have been consistently dem the last 30-40 years are slam dunk GOP red now (MN NM) and bc of how coercive and disgusting the political/academic/media left has behaved even some states no one is talking about are in play (VA OR CT NJ).
My one crap shoot state is CO- although I think it will follow through red in the pending landslide especially with a 45pc+ national Hispanic electorate voting for DJT (28pc in 2016)- but it is in the grand scheme moving from purple to blue (“the Colorado blueprint” worked- hats off to the Dems on that one).
The popular vote will be a blowout- 10pc+ win for our presidential incumbent with CA IL NY MA MD WA coming in closer in the R/D divide than any other time since the Reagan’84 blowout, with major impact from a sea change positive delta in the black vote going from ~8pc in 2016 to over 20pc or even 25pc this cycle.
I like those numbers. Additionally, while Tyrmand acknowledges the possibility of fraud and anticipates initial chaos, he thinks Trump’s margin of victory will be so big that it will drown out the fraud. As he says,
Ultimately, as it always does, it will come down to turnout. And as such, given the enthusiasm gap, it will be a landslide of almost Reagan’84 proportions.
And just to make you more optimistic, Tyrmand also believes Republicans will take the House back. It’s a long analysis, and I recommend you read it all.
Nor is Tyrmand alone in seeing good things. Inan Dogan, an industrial engineer who holds a Ph.D. in economics, claims that the “Polls Are Biased: Trump Will Again Deliver A Stunning Upset.” In a long, number-rich post, Dogan takes apart the latest pro-Democrat vote forecast from Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight. According to Dogan, the polls are wrong, and their bias is heightened by the fact that they reflect people’s concerns about Trump having caught the Wuhan virus.
Dogan believes that the pivotal state is not Ohio or Pennsylvania but is, instead, Florida. According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden has a 3.4 point lead in Florida. That lead, however, appeared when Trump was diagnosed and is already shrinking rapidly. Dogan, therefore, predicts a Trump win by .6 points.
Having disposed of the pivotal Florida vote, Dogan examines the other states, in each case adjusting the poll results to reflect what he believes are errors in the current polling. Although Dogan is not as optimistic about the battleground states as Tyrmand is, he still believes that Trump will win enough battleground states to give him an Electoral College victory.
Dogan says that, even if Trump can’t win Pennsylvania (where fraud is rife, aided by both the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court), he can still win by taking Michigan and Florida. Alternatively, Trump can win with Florida plus either Wisconsin or Minnesota. At bottom, while FiveThirtyEight gives Biden an 87% chance of winning, Dogan thinks the odds favor Trump, albeit not by much.
This is a crazy election year, but Biden’s hidin’, Trump’s smiling, the grassroots rallies are amazing, and the Democrats are depressed. That’s all got to mean that something good will happen, right?
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Janet Mason, it is such a pleasure to be able to chat with you. I hope you enjoy this process because I suspect I will…big time!
So, to get your creative juices flowing, your work in aaduna has an intriguing intensity, subtle edginess, and a provocative premise. Since a lot of folks feel that writers borrow liberally from their own lives, how “intense and provocative” is your daily existence and do you see any aspects of your personal sensibilities in your realization of characters once you have completed a piece?
First off, thanks bill for your compliments about my work in aaduna. I feel honored that you described it as having an “intriguing intensity,” “subtle edginess,” and a “provocative premise.” The inspiration for my novel She And He, which “The Mother” came from, reflects several sources. I review books for The Huffington Post and the radio syndicate “This Way Out” based in Los Angeles, and three of the books I reviewed that influenced me were on transgender topics. The other major influence was reading the Bible pretty much for the first time which gave me a fresh take on it.
I wanted to write something fun and upbeat based on this landscape — and come to think of it, I did put a fair amount of myself into it. I am tall and because of my height and angularity, I am frequently called “Sir.” And though I identify as female, I have always identified with male and female interests. When I was a child, I had an imaginary friend who was a boy my age who lived in my mind. I actually didn’t think of this until now, but this must have influenced my thinking of having a line of intersex characters that are born in “The Mother” and the intersexed twins Tamar and Yeshua. Tamar, the narrator of the story, indentifies primarily as female but is born intersexed. And her brother, Yeshua (Hebrew for Jesus) identifies as male but was born intersexed.
I think my life is pretty normal — normal for me! I spent a lot of time alone writing and I also garden (this summer I planted and harvested a lot of pumpkins and carnival squash). My partner, who I live in an old farmhouse with, is retired from the postal system, and is a fabulous cook. I take long walks everyday and do yoga and a Buddhist meditation practice almost daily, so my day to day is pretty tame but it suits me.
It is interesting that reading the Bible for the first time had an influence on you, so it begs the question, why did you start to read the Bible versus some other major religious tract?
Furthermore, in an age where most folks are trying to sort through transgender, transsexual, Bi- and other aspects of basic humanity characteristics, define what you mean by “intersexed.” And without pandering or venturing toward becoming disrespectful, how did you feel when you were called “Sir” when you identified as a female, and when did you start to feel comfortable with your sexual gender related sensibilities? Pushing it one step further into the realm of fiction, what has been the public reaction to “The Mother” especially Tamar and Yeshua?
On a different note, what is your partner’s favorite dish that you salivate and repeatedly ask for, and are you moving toward becoming a Buddhist?
I read the Bible (the Hebrew Bible and most of the New Testament) after joining a Unitarian church. I was raised secular and always felt that not having a working knowledge of the Bible was a lack in my literary knowledge — plus I had arrived in a point in time when I had an open-minded group of people to discuss it with. (It’s true that there are other religious tracts I could have read — but no plans to read them at the present moment.) When I wrote She and He — which “The Mother” is excerpted from, the intersex characters just came to me. I use intersex as it is defined. The infant is born with both sets of genitalia (male and female). This condition is rare but more common than you would think. The person used to be called a hermaphrodite. The old (and oppressive way) of dealing with it, was that the parent would choose the gender of the child at birth and have surgery done in infancy. This, of course, would create all kinds of havoc on the child later (especially in puberty) when the child might have a different gender preference. The new way of dealing with it is to let the child decide at some point. There was a chapter on this in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, one of the books I reviewed before I started the novel. There are a few strong women in the Bible but actually not many so that factored into my telling of the story with intersex characters also. My development of characters just organically developed as I wrote. I’m the kind of writer who lets the muse lead me along.
I’m a lay minister at the Unitarian church I joined in Philadelphia and I have done a few pieces there from She and He — but not “The Mother” (not yet). I turned one section into a skit which was acted by two professional actors who come to the church. The response was overwhelming positive. I haven’t tried it out on a conventional religious audience. I imagine the response wouldn’t be so positive especially since the character of The Mother is based on the Virgin Mary and all the goddesses before her. But the world is changing!
Reading the Bible definitely turned me into more of a Buddhist. I’m pretty nonviolent — so I needed to “recover” from my reading of the Bible by doing yoga and listening to Thich Nhat Hanh and Pema Chödrön on YouTube. There are a number of other Buddhists at this Unitarian church I joined which helps. I like the diversity there — which includes learning about different religious practices and backgrounds. I’m not a “card-carrying” Buddhist, meaning I haven’t joined any other groups. But I am not a group person. I like my solitude — no I mean I need —my alone time, of reading and writing and listening to the voices in my head.
When I was a young lesbian-feminist, I didn’t like being called “Sir.” I usually spoke my mind. But now past fifty, I really don’t care what I am called. Recently, after using the men’s bathroom at a rather mainstream supermarket (the women’s room was occupied), I thought well that’s what male privilege is all about. And I said a little “thank you” to the universe.
One of my favorite dishes that I ask for is baked chicken. And I especially like it when my partner uses the rosemary that we grew in the backyard. Now it’s squash season — I grew carnival squash and butternut, oh and pumpkins too. Barbara’s made some really bumping pumpkin pancakes. Mmmmm.
As a seasonal gardener (though I will admit that this past season, dahlias, sunflowers, and an assortment of wildflowers inhabited the garden plot instead of vegetables though the annual tradition of fresh herbs, including rosemary, thyme, cilantro, parsley, basil etc. continued,) I can resonant with your penchant for fresh items from the garden. And while we can talk food forever, I want to go back to your sense of having “solitude.” Is that characteristic a natural evolution with age (and possibly wisdom) or have you always found refuge in your inner thoughts and feelings. Past that, how does Barbara cope with your need to have private, alone time? And moving slightly from that juncture of relationship, how do you see feminism today versus what it was for you when you were younger?
Oh, I love growing herbs — especially dill. I’ve always needed and valued time alone. But it’s true that as I get older, I have a deeper understanding of how necessary solitude is. After my mother died, I found an index card with her handwriting on it with a quote about solitude — how an artist has to come to terms with his or her aloneness. It’s really necessary. I’m the first in my family to graduate from college, and I come from a long line of repressed artists who spent their days in the mills or factory assembly lines something I write about in my book Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters (Bella Books, 2012). My mother was certainly a feminist (ahead of her time) so I’m second generation. When I look at mainstream culture, it seems like feminism has gotten lost in the shuffle. There are a lot of lessons from the past that still apply. But last fall, I was taking some classes at Temple University and I saw some young women on campus with feminist slogans on their T-shirts that were heartening. I find the thing with gender that is going on to be very interesting. As Gloria Steinem said on her recent book tour, gender is artificial; it’s made up. The move to non-binary (neither male nor female) by some young people is particularly interesting. It’s the last frontier.
My partner, Barbara, has her own interests (drumming, guitar playing, songwriting) so she has her need for solitude too. She just passed by and told me that (I knew that, of course). To quote her, we both have our need for solitude and it makes our relationship stronger. I think it’s important for artists — maybe everyone — to have a partner and friends who “get” you. I’m one of the lucky ones.
True relationships are precious and unfortunately, for far too many of us, that realization occurs much later in life. I guess that is one of the things that the saying “the older you get, the wiser…” is referring to. So, at this stage of your life in 2016, have you noticed that creatively you are starting to move, to shift, to align in a different direction then where you have been? And how does your current creative life enhance your overall spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being versus when you were younger 10, 20 years ago? Oh, let Barbara know that drum circles continue to grow in my neck of the woods; my wife used to play guitar and perform, and our son grew up playing guitar and writing songs of the punk and raucously loud (i.e. screaming lyrics) musical genre.
Interesting you should ask about creative shifts in my work. I’ve written all my life — like Gertrude Stein I started writing seriously, several hours every day, at the age of twenty-nine. But I feel that I have been doing my best and most interesting and complex work for the past four years. I think it’s partly stage of life and the fact that I have been putting my work first so it naturally gets stronger. But it’s also that I have been consciously healthy. Almost every morning I practice yoga and then do a Buddhist chanting meditation (the same one that Tina Turner does on YouTube). This creates space for the muse to come and keeps my body flexible so that I can sit for long hours and write. I also take long walks almost every day which invites ideas to come into my head. I feel great! I was laid off of a stressful job four years ago. I was pretty fried at the time and I remember thinking that this could go two ways: I could continue to get worse and go downhill or I could turn things around and get myself back. Barbara is much healthier, too, since she retired from the postal system several years ago. (She was pushed out, actually, but it was a good move for her.) Someone was commenting about how happy we both seem and she attributed it to the fact that we have non-conventional work situations. I do some freelancing, consulting, and adjunct teaching. I’m working all the time actually –writers tend to do that — but it is manageable.
Of course, it also could be that I feel so healthy because I have devoted myself to my writing! (I’ll tell Barbara about the drum circles and your son’s punk lyrics. There’s nothing better than self-expression!)
I think you hit on the key as to what are clear options when one is “prompted” or forced to re-think career and life purpose. One of the things that I enjoyed about your story in aaduna was its complexity; my need to re-read it and fully digest the implications of the story. Besides writing, are you pursuing any other creative endeavors let’s say in the performing and/or visual arts? And if not, if given the opportunity, what area would you most likely pursue? And since I like connections, way back in the day, I worked full-time for the postal service (at the Church Street Station that was destroyed in 9/11 and where I watched the World Trade Center go up during lunch breaks) while finishing my senior year in college (full-time) and being married! So, there is a hint at the work pressures and unnecessary stress Barbara probably had to deal with.
Barbara and I have been together for a long time — more than 30 years — but also are newlyweds. So it’s a nice mixture. I’m very familiar with the pressures of the post office (it’s run like the military as I’m sure you know) and I have a lot of respect for anyone who survived it! It’s very intense that you saw the Trade Center being built and the same station was destroyed in 9/11.
So much of my creative life goes into writing. I review books also which keeps my finger on the pulse of what is out there and remind me how we are all stronger through telling our stories.
I also dabble in photography. I guess you could say it’s an interest or a hobby. I’m working with an old friend on her father’s archive of photographs (he was a Russian immigrant photographer and architect who photographed New York in the 1930s). I have a background in fine art photography and my friend and I recently took some photography classes at Temple University in Philly, plus we’ve been going to photography conferences in New York. The image part of my brain was “woken up.” Partly, as a result, I’ve been working on a new novel with a working title of “Looking At Pictures” which takes place in the mid 1920s (and takes place in New York and includes the Harlem Renaissance, Mexico, and parts of Europe). I’ve been having a ball with it!
I also love jazz and take photographs of the Jazz Vespers series (and other places, too) at the Unitarian church that I joined. Sometimes I put the photographs on my author blog. Philly has a rich jazz tradition. Barbara knows lots of the performers from her days at the post office — we live and she worked in the Northwest section of Philadelphia where a lot of musicians and artists of all types live. Everything is connected.
You were right on when you said that unplanned change often makes you re-evaluate everything. With Barbara and I the unplanned changes were also strokes of luck! As my yoga teacher says, the key is to embrace the change, rather than resist it. It’s going to happen anyway. You might as well make the best of it!
I applaud the 30 years you and Barbara have been together and offer belated congratulations on you two being able to manifest your relationship in a very public, legal, yet personal way. While I am tempted to have you walk through the “adventures” of your relationship over three decades, that is a story that is yours to tell either as a novel or non-fiction…hint, hint, hint!!! I value and try to celebrate daily my marriage (2010) to Lisa Brennan and may not be able to match my parents’ fifty plus years but the effort still is worth the journey. And I am grateful that my first attempt while not long lasting after seven years did produce a cherished and ongoing life-long friendship. More so, there is the recognition of being “uncle” to her two daughters born well after we parted, which provides me with the opportunity to have two other great people in my life to complement my family of three daughters, a son, a granddaughter and two fiancés whose status will change later this year! Anyway…
I like your venture into photography since that has been a passion of mine for years and I have routinely channeled that energy into mounting public exhibitions, as well as using the scope of aaduna’s galleries. So, when you are ready, let us see your body of work.
I suspect we are nearing closure to our conversation. And it is hard letting you go. So, if there is anything else that you want to share or advice you wish to offer our readership, this is your stage to do so. As for me, thank you for all that you have shared. The stage is now completely yours as it has been during this entire process. Thank you Janet.
Congratulations on your marriage in 2010 with Lisa. I also commend you with being life-long friends with your first wife. Relationships are hard and we all do the best we can. Some months ago we were at the wedding of a performer from South Africa and her partner whose family came from Israel. It was a very diverse crowd — in every way possible! The woman rabbi (who was flown in from California), talked about how we need to cherish our loved one. It was more profound than that — and I remember that I was really moved but I forget most of what she said. The couple had been together for decades — as have many recently married couples that we know. It’s very different getting married after you’ve worked out your issues. The young people will have their own journey.
Thank you for your invitation regarding my photography in the future. That’s another interest we share. I loved getting to know you — though I think that there’s much more there — about your work, your life, how you came to aaduna, and the important role you play in bringing artists together. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
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Massages are great for your body, but they are often left behind like stretching is. For most people, the question of whether or not a massage is better before or after therapy is not as important as the question of when to fit in a massage to improve your life. To combine the benefits of massages with the benefits of cryotherapy, whether one is before or after the other will greatly improve your life than without doing them regularly.
During a massage, the intent is to produce a deep sense of relaxation by alleviating as much discomfort and pain as possible. To do so, massage therapists usually dig deep into your soft tissues to produce the relaxation sought after. Since a massage’s main goal is to get you into a very deep and calmly relaxed state, it may not be helpful to have a massage before hopping into cryotherapy. To deduce this, it is best to follow the same line of thinking used for workouts, as going into cryotherapy can be seen as a very quick intense workout. Good athletes do not do relaxing stretching before their workout, as they want their muscles a bit loose but not too loose. Before a workout, athletes will do dynamic stretches which involve a bit of movement so that they are ready to walk into their workout prepared and will not hurt themselves. However, it may work well for you, so feel free to try to get a massage before cryotherapy.
Between getting a massage before or after a workout, getting one after will most likely work better for most people. It also is more in line with treating the therapy as a workout. Since massages are so relaxing the combination of adrenaline from cryotherapy going into deep relaxation most likely will be better. In fact, one case study of a retired marine with debilitating injuries did just that. He had tried everything under the sun to find pain relief for himself, but his muscles were always gnarled up. For eight weeks the man had a cryotherapy session followed by a massage for his tight muscles. After this routine, he completely hopped off his opioid pain medication and his pain is controlled, if not better than after being on medications. He even notes that he can walk better after the weeks of massages paired with the cryotherapy treatments.

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What LS engine produces the most horsepower?
In stock form, an LS7 makes 505 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque making it the most powerful naturally aspirated engine that General Motors has ever put in a production car. That distinction makes it an excellent candidate to be Frankensteined into a V-16.
How much HP can a 5.3 LS make?
The stock 5.3L is factory rated around 320 hp with 340 lb-ft of torque. When on the dyno at Westech we were able to get close to the stock numbers 315 hp and 325 lb-ft with our 650 Holley carburetor swap, MSD controller, and Edelbrock intake.
Which is better LS1 or LS2?
The LS2 intake is slightly better than the LS1 intake. … The LS2 intake has a larger opening and larger intake runners. It’s also designed for a 6.0L motor and flows enough air to keep a 400 horsepower 6.0L happy. The LS1 intake is designed for a 5.7L and flows enough air to keep a 350+ horsepower 5.7L happy.
What is Chevy’s best engine?
Here, in chronological order, Super Chevy Platinum presents its picks for the Top 15 Chevy engines of all time.
- 1) 265 V-8. (3.750 X 3.00)
- 2) 283 V-8. (3.875 X 3.00)
- 3) L65 327/365HP V-8. (4.00 X 3.25)
- 4) 348 & 409 “W” Motors. (4.125 X 3.25 & 4.3125 X 3.50)
- 6) L78 396/425HP. …
- 7) L72 427/425HP. …
- 8) 427/430HP L88. …
- 9) 427/430HP ZL1.
What is the strongest Chevy engine?
As the power behind the 2019 Corvette ZR1, the new supercharged 6.2L LT5 represents the pinnacle of Chevrolet’s performance: It’s the most powerful engine ever offered in a Chevy production vehicle.
How much HP does a LS motor have?
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|LS-Series Gen-IV Small-Block V-8||LS-Series Gen-IV Small-Block V-8||LS-Series Gen-IV Small-Block V-8|
|430 hp @ 5900 rpm||495 hp @ 6200 rpm||525 hp @ 6200 rpm|
Why are LS swaps so popular?
High performance, versatile design, aftermarket parts, and affordability are just some of the factors that fortify the long-lasting popularity of the engine. Due to widespread LS enthusiasm, Holley sponsors an LS fest where hundreds of LS-swapped vehicles are shown off by their owners.
Is the 5.3 an LS motor?
The cheapest of the LS engine family is the 5.3L truck engine since it came in most of the trucks and SUVs that Chevrolet has produced.
What is the strongest LS block?
BMP claims its cast-aluminum (357-T6) LS block is, “the absolute strongest available with important improvements that even the factory race blocks don’t have.” The oiling system is priority-main, meaning that oil gets fed to the crank first and the top end last to prevent starving the main bearings of oil.
What does the LS stand for on Chevy engines?
LS was Luxury Sport and LT was Luxury Touring. LS used to be the high-end (save SS) model back in the ’80s with the CL (Custom Luxury) package.
What is the easiest car to LS swap?
Choose a vehicle for your LS swap that has been done before and has parts commercially available. I’d recommend choosing a GM truck or SUV (particularly square body or OBS body style,) a GM G-body, GM muscle car (Camaro/Firebird/Chevelle, etc,) a Fox body, SN95 or New Edge Mustang.


Yesterday morning at Sustainable Agricultural Partnerships 2010, Sylvain Cuperlier, VP of Worldwide Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability for Dole, set the tone for the day by asking What are the priorities in sustainable agriculture? Of course, the answer was simple: it depends who you are, where you are, and what you produce. Other panel sessions drew equally nebulous conclusions. While the day’s theme was Strategies and Benefits on Building Innovative Partnerships and Creating Success Stories, the hottest topic became how to measure sustainability and the trouble with metrics.
Betsy Cohen, Nestlé’s Vice President of Sustainability, explained that her company considers different goals and different certifications for different inputs and products. Brie Johnson, Straus Family Creamery’s Sustainability and Communications Manager, relayed that many sustainable practices can’t be measured; for example, we don’t yet know the effects of GMOs or antibiotics. Regardless of the obstacles, there appeared to be a consensus that choosing the right metrics is key, as is the operational context.
In addition to measurement, it seemed that the definition of sustainability was still up for debate. Many speakers used the Brundtland Commission’s definition of sustainability – meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs – but Erin Fitzgerald, VP of Sustainability for Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), talked about how she visited farmers to determine their definition. Her conversations revealed that sustainability meant anything from reducing environmental impact, to passing the deed to a farm to the next generation, to mere survival – adding that one third of U.S. farmers are currently going out of business. (When asked why DMI chose to pursue sustainability, Fitzgerald and fellow panelist Chip Jones, Senior VP Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability for Dean Foods, cited that the drivers were a push from their biggest customer, NGO requests for data, and dairy producers on the board.)
During a Q&A session, an audience member asked for panelists’ thoughts on local vs. sustainable. Alison Denis, Director of Sustainable Programs for Burgerville, a Pacific Northwest family-owned fast-food chain, offered that it depends on “where local is and what the values are,” pointing to how Oregonians and Washingtonians celebrate the local bounty so Burgerville focuses on local rather than organic. Michael Levine, who is in charge of organics and sustainability for Fonterra, a New Zealand dairy cooperative, chimed in that the term “local” needs clarification since it can be defined as economic or environmental impact.
In sum, it was difficult for these companies to define success in their sustainability efforts and they preferred to characterize sustainability as a process of seeking progress and improvement. In light of learning about these struggles, what does sustainable agriculture mean to you and what kind of information (data, stories) would you like to see used to “measure” it?
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Socceroo Jamie Maclaren couldn't be prouder of his teammates after coming through to qualify for this year's World Cup despite doubters and the trials of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Written off as no hope of reaching Qatar 2022 after missing out on automatic qualification, Australia rewrote the script with a dramatic penalty shootout triumph over Peru in Tuesday night's (Wednesday AEST) play-off at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.
Given just days before, Maclaren was calling out on Instagram a newspaper article which suggested he was such an unknown quantity to Australian fans most would confuse him with Bathurst winner Scott McLaughlin. It's an achievement he's revelling in.
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"It's pure elation," Maclaren said.
'The last two years what, not only our team, but what the world has gone through it's just amazing to be going to another World Cup."
Maclaren scored one of five successful penalties for Australia in the shootout after Martin Boyle's first kick was saved, but it was substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne who was the hero of the moment.
Redmayne came on in late in extra-time for captain Maty Ryan before saving the decisive spot-kick to send Australia to a fifth-straight World Cup.
"Clutch ... he's done it before for Sydney FC," Melbourne City striker Maclaren said.
"It was a little bit of a surprise. We didn't know he's going to come on but obviously the coaching staff and John Crawley (goalkeeping coach), they trusted him and Maty has probably spoken to him about it.
"And look, it worked."
Having been apparent no-names before their play-off win, Maclaren was hopeful their achievements would be recognised now back home.
"The golden generation did it (in 2005) and we did it today," he said.
"We might not be as big names as they are but we're proud Australians and we work hard for our country and there's no better feeling than putting on the green and gold for our fans back home."
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Coca Cola and Pepsi named worst offenders for plastic litter on UK beaches
Analysis of the rubbish found during clean-up operations around the country showed Coca Cola and PepsiCo were between them responsible for a quarter of all plastic pollution.
The findings were revealed in a report prepared for ocean conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage.
Surveys showed the vast majority of all branded waste found strewn across the coastline is made by just a few parent companies, with just 10 firms accounting for more than half of all trash items.
During 229 clean-ups carried out in April, a total of 49,413 pieces of rubbish were picked up.
Of these, 20,045 were branded.
Coca Cola produced the largest proportion of branded items – 15.5 per cent – while PepsiCo made 10.3 per cent.
Completing the top five polluting parent firms were Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, contributing 6.8 per cent, followed by McDonalds at 6 per cent and Nestle at 5.5 per cent.
Campaigners are calling for manufacturers to take urgent action to tackle the problem of plastic pollution.
“Our survey of packaging pollution on beaches and rivers clearly shows that big business is responsible for the scourge of plastic and packaging pollution,” said Hugo Tagholm, chief executive of Surfers Against Sewage.
“Just ten companies were responsible for over half of the packaging pollution recorded.
“These companies must invest more in the redesign of packaging, alternative ways of product delivery and ramping up packaging re-use to truly turn the tide on the plastic pollution that is sweeping our world.
“People and planet need these companies to change how they do business. At the moment, the cost of this waste is left in the hands of local councils, taxpayers and, finally, the environment.”
The research has been submitted to the UK government as evidence in a current consultation on plastic packaging, which aims to make producers take full responsibility for the waste they create.
Plastic is not biodegradable and persists in the environment for centuries, posing a major threat to wildlife.
Estimates suggest around 12 million tonnes of plastic waste – such as fishing gear, bottles, bags, cotton buds and microbeads – end up in oceans around the world each year.
It causes the deaths of around 100,000 marine mammals and turtles and one million sea birds annually.


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HSBC has announced its Market Rasen branch is to shut - and the town’s one remaining bank has not ruled out a closure either.
MP Sir Edward Leigh has slammed HSBC’s decision, saying it will be “bad” for the area and that he has objected “strenuously” to it .
The bank admitted the closure would be “unsettling” for the community but said the decision has not been taken lightly and that customer numbers were falling.
The news comes just weeks after NatWest closed its Market Rasen branch - and now Lloyds says it too is doing a “review” of branches.
A Lloyds spokesman said the bank did not currently have any plans to close its Market Rasen branch but that a “branch review” into potential closures was ongoing.
The spokesman said the review would first focus on areas where there are overlaps of branches in urban locations - where there are two banks in medium size towns.
She added that as and when any decisions were made, colleagues and customers would be the first to know.
HSBC will close on December 11.
Sir Edward said: “This closure is bad for Market Rasen and the surrounding area.
“Most worryingly, it will disproportionately affect our more senior residents who are used to the personal interaction they receive in branches rather than doing their banking online.
“I have written to HSBC objecting strenuously to the closure and asking what alternative provision they will be making for their customers in the area.”
Residents have also hit out at the closure, raising concerns about access to banking for elderly people.
On the Rasen Mail Facebook page, Janice Tappenden said: “This is not only bad for the area but its people too. Has anyone ever given any thought to the amount of old people who use these banks and are not silver surfers? A lot of them have no idea how to work a computer let alone do their banking online.”
Customers’ accounts will be transferred to the HSBC branch in Lincoln.
An HSBC spokesman said: “We never take the decision to close a branch lightly, and we understand it’s unsettling for the local community.
“Unfortunately, use of the Market Rasen branch has fallen significantly over the past few years, and we’ve taken the difficult decision to close it.
“We are working with customers who use the branch to help them understand their options, which include being able to use the Market Rasen post office to check their balance and withdraw and pay in cash and cheques to their personal HSBC account.
“There are also a number of fee-free cash machines in the local area.”


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S.-PETERSBURG, April 1 – RIA Novosti. Specialized services eliminate the oil slick formed in the water area of the Volkhov River in the Leningrad Region, where a ship sank in the winter near the village of Maloe Chernavino, the press service of the regional government reports.
At the end of January, the North-West Transport Investigation Department announced that an inspection was being carried out after the Akademik Yakutin passenger ship was flooded at the pier on the Volkhov River in the village of Maloye Chernavino. At the end of March, local residents reported to the emergency services that a rainbow oil slick had formed in the water area of the river in this place, the regional authorities inform. Live
“The rescue divisions of the Leningrad Region promptly carried out work to clean up the river at the site of the flooded vessel. At the place where traces of oil products were found … booms were installed, the water area was treated with a sorbent,” the message says.
As noted by the administration of the Leningrad Region, Rosprirodnadzor specialists took water samples 40 meters above and 10 meters below the flooded vessel. “The staff of Rosprirodnadzor did not reveal any pollution of the river downstream,” the regional authorities conclude.


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JOURNAL OF ANIMAL AND VETERINARY ADVANCES, cilt.9, ss.1684-1688, 2010 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
This study reports Length-Weight (LWR), Length-Length (LLR) and Length-Girth (LGR) relationships of Bluefin Tuna (BET), Thunnus thynnus raised in captive conditions during 18 months in the Turkish Aegean Sea. A total of 702 specimens, 346 males and 356 females were measured for Fork Length (FL) and weighed on the deck of the harvesting ship during December 2009. Fish ranged between 113 cm FL (16.5 kg) and 286 cm FL (355.5 kg) with an average of 171+/-1.4 cm (84.9+/-2.4 kg) in both sexes. The LWRs indicated positive allometric growth in both sexes (the mean value of b was 3.193+/-0.08). Results indicated that the LLRs and LGRs were highly correlated (R(2)>0.99 similar to>0.98, p<0.001). Fulton's condition factor (K) was also calculated for each fork length class for both sexes. K values ranged from 1.30-1.55 (mean: 1.46+/-0.03) in males and from 1.29-1.51 (mean: 1.44+/-0.021 in females. The daily feed intake of BFT was 16.7% and according to the girth values, some BFTs (>230 cm FL and 180 kg) were observed to be over-fattened.

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Motor Racing Experience at Highlands Motorsport Park – Saturday 10th October
We have confirmed the drive of the Ford Mustang, at Highlands Motorsport Park, in Cromwell for Saturday the 10th October. The sessions start at 8.30am and there is a drive every ½ hour.
There are very limited numbers so if you are interested please let Brett know asap to secure a drive.
The Mustang has a side Intrusion bar to get over and into the car.
The seat is also a bit of a drop from the intrusion bar.
Check out the video for a look at the seating position https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXghblSisY
If you struggle with transfers YOU MUST have at least 1 caregiver (2 is preferable) to help you in the car.
See the attached picture for the style of the push-pull hand-control. If you need to practice with a glove for the hand-controls, the size is the same as most std push-pull or radial hand-controls.
There is a spinner that can be fitted or removed easily depending on people’s preference. If you have a splint with a pin bring it with you and this can be used. Due to the shape of the steering wheel it is not at an optimum position
If you have an able-bodied friend they can go for a drive in the Radical. However we cannot offer the same discount for this.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
A Note on Two Satyajit Ray Charmers...
[Image courtesy Ballygunge Government High School Alumni Association.]
One of my great pleasures is exploring a master's minor work -- often it is only in the latter, especially when one has attained canonical status, that some vestiges of the whimsical remain. Strictly speaking, this is only partly true of Satyajit Ray's work (he actually seemed to get more whimsical with age and directorial maturity), but nevertheless, an acquaintance with the Ray of less serious subjects is highly rewarding. One isn't overawed, but most decidedly charmed.
[Image courtesy Rodney Koeneke's blog Modern Americans: Poetry, Poetics, Portland. I urge readers to check out his suggestive reading of Joi Baba Felunath.]
The two Detective Prodosh Mitra films I saw recently certainly fit the bill: Sonar Kella ("The Golden Fortress"; 1974), an odd little tale of a boy who is apparently obsessed with images from a past life, and endangered when the promise of treasure associated with that past life leads to two criminals to abscond with him; and Joi Baba Felunath (1979), a more conventional detective story about a missing idol of Lord Ganesh in Varanasi, are both as compelling as fables, but in a comforting manner. One has never any doubt that Detective Mitra (Soumitra Chatterjee) will get to the bottom of everything, and the films thoroughly partake of the pleasure of detection, the pleasure to be obtained from uncovering secrets and figuring things out -- a pleasure that almost seems anachronistic to me, inasmuch as I think of it as a quintessentially nineteenth century (and English?) sentiment; as well as of the whimsicality of a Tintin adventure. (This is especially true of the older film, and Ray acknowledges as much in a seemingly casual shot of Mitra's cousin and sidekick Topshe (Siddhartha Chatterjee) reading a Tintin comic on a train.) It is perhaps the supernatural element that makes Sonar Kella the superior film, so saturated with atmosphere one is sorry to be parted from it when the film ends. But with respect to both films, Ray effortlessly manages to convey what too few directors are capable of: the condition of being a traveler. When the characters in these films travel to an "exotic" location (Jaipur, Bikaner, and Jaisalmer, all feature in Sonar Kella; the later film is set entirely in Varanasi), the audience -- no matter where it is from -- is also taken out of its comfort zone, and transported. One can only wonder how much more effective these films would be with high-quality DVD transfers: especially in Sonar Kella, the faded colors do not do justice to Ray's visuals of Rajasthan.
[Image courtesy CalcuttaWeb.]
No reflection on these films could ignore Soumitra Chatterjee, a Ray favorite. His Prodosh Mitra is a model of languidness and stylized understatement, in the process elevating dowdy dhoti kurtas and kurta pyjamas into Bengali babu chic, and generally providing both these films with the calm poise of a center. Which isn't to say other characters aren't important, especially the baddies, ranging from the pint-sized slimeball Mukul Dhar (Kushal Chakravarti) in Sonar Kella, to the fantastic villain of Joi Baba Felunath Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt) -- the latter especially welcome for Hindi film viewers who are more familiar with Dutt as the lovable presence from so many Hindi film comedies from the 1970s.
[Image courtesy the wonderful Satyajit Ray Film & Study Center, University of California, Santa Cruz.]

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