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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
- n. The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The body of biological doctrine propounded and defended by the English naturalist Charles (Charles Robert) Darwin (1809-1882), especially in his works “The Origin of Species” (1859) and “The Descent of Man” (1871), respecting the origin of species.
- n. Belief in and support of Darwin's theory. Also Darwinianism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection
˜Darwinism™ as it is used today is isomorphic to Darwin's Darwinism, as Gayon puts it, is that each of these questions is still hotly debated, and has been throughout the theory's history.
One reason why people believe in Darwinism is proof that mankind existed prior to 4004 B. C., thus, we must have evolved from apes!
It doesn't help that the term Darwinism is actually used by scientists, although only to differentiate between early evolutionary hypotheses.
Judson's criticism was not of Darwin or his work, but of the term Darwinism which she described as misleading.
One of the difficulties with the word Darwinism is its ambiguity.
You'll never erase the word Darwinism from the lexicon, but people who know the story of Darwin's and Wallace's near-simultaneous inspirations — and there are an increasing number of those people now — accept that the ideas of survival of the fittest and the origin of species were the work of two people, not one.
The term 'Darwinism' is more politically and philosophically polarized.
Dembski's logic and most ID arguments very much hinge on the concept that "Darwinism" is a chance hypothesis of nature.
So the move from RM/NS to "Darwinism" is slightly adrift.
Worse still, DR Witt’s straightforward answer does little to reassure me of his probity: In the very same venue where I asked that question, DR Witt had used the term Darwinism to clearly refer to a school of thought in philosophy, as for example when he said “Thus, in practice the materialist/Darwinists’ fourth … “ and this is just one of many such statements threatening the consistency of his self professed definition.

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Data for Improved Programming: Use of Technical Support Visits on Nepal Sabal
Sustainable Action for Resilience and Food Security (Sabal) is a five-year program in Nepal funded by USAID Food for Peace (FFP) in October 2014, and implemented by Save the Children and a consortium of partners. Sabal’s goal is to improve food security and resilience in targeted districts of Central and Eastern Midhills of Nepal. Its activities improve livelihoods, health and nutrition (H&), disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Sabal targets groups with prioritized health, nutrition and hygiene practices. that will contribute to the program's expected outcomes. In early FY17, Sabal identified the need to document the beneficiaries' progress in adopting promoted practices, to help make programmatic decisions and decision interventions for future years. To address this gap, Sabal developed checklists for Technical Support Visits (TSV), during which, program staff visit beneficiaries to monitor progress, provide individual feedback and coaching on key promoted practices. Initially, Sabal developed a paper-based tool to collect information from the TSVs but quickly saw the need for an online tool fully integrated into Sabal’s information and beneficiary management system to more efficiently compare data.. Sabal continued expending and tailoring the tool, integrating information on gender and social inclusion, the layering of the program’s components, and the replication of practices within the community. Sabal worked to make the TSV tool user friendly and ensure that all staff knew how to use it, pull data and analyze it. Sabal’s staff collaboration in tailoring the tool helped ensure it was adapted to their needs, and to overcome the challenges posed by the additional resources needed to collect information, analyze and use it. Beyond, documentation of practices, the TSVs have become a practical too for program planning and quality and contributed to a culture of learning, collaboration and adaptation. It also contributed to empower and motivate teams at all levels.


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8×3 Chocolate Cake filled with Ganache then covered and frosted with HardCrack Marshmallow Icing airbrushed galaxy effect using liquid food colors canary yellow, purple royale, and midnight black. Stars are silver dragees. 3D Among Us Character is in fondant which holds the birthday candle. 2D characters on the cake face are also in preset freehand-cut fondant sheets. Message on the cake and cake board are freehand-piped.
12pcs galaxy airbrushed dragee sprinkled marshmallow frosted cupcakes inserted with inedible character toppers on glossy photopaper secured by translucent drinking straws.

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Neurological disorders and injuries that affect the brain, including developmental problems and injury from an accident or birth trauma, can influence the way a child thinks, learns, and behaves, and how a child expresses emotions.
Our team offers advanced diagnostic evaluation for children and teenagers referred by parents, teachers, or doctors who have concerns about a patient’s cognitive abilities and attention, response in social interactions, and ability to control emotions or behaviors.
To identify complications potentially related to a neurological disorder or injury, we perform a comprehensive evaluation that includes an assessment of the child’s functioning in a number of areas, such as:
- Academic achievement skills
- Attention/ concentration
- Emotional functioning
- Executive functions, such as organization, planning, and self-regulation
- General intellectual abilities
- Language-related processing
- Learning and memory functions
- Motor/sensory capacities
- Social cognition
- Visual/nonverbal processing
How an Evaluation is Helpful
We use an evaluation to understand each patient’s individual concerns. We use the results to identify strategies and effective interventions that enable children and teenagers to realize their full potential.
An evaluation can help families, schools, and treating professionals in several ways:
- Testing can reveal why a child is having a particular problem. For example, a child may have difficulty in school, such as trouble focusing, evaluation could indicate a learning disability, and behavioral or emotional problems. The neuropsychological evaluation identifies the underlying problem so we can thoroughly treat the cause in addition to the observable and obvious effects.
- We often use neuropsychological testing to diagnose Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (also called Attention Deficit Disorder), learning disabilities, or other brain-based developmental problem. An evaluation provides information that goes beyond a diagnosis to include a unique profile of strengths and weaknesses in each child, and what that means for treatment.
- Testing is useful to detect the specific cognitive effects of a medical condition such as epilepsy, tumor, leukemia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, genetic disorder, or developmental disorder. A neuropsychological evaluation can help determine exactly what the impact of the disorder is on the child’s brain function and how a child processes information. We perform evaluations to obtain a baseline (the initial diagnosis) and monitor the effects of treatment over time.
- Most important, neuropsychological evaluation provides you with a better understanding of your child’s behavior and learning. An evaluation helps guide parents, teachers, and others on how to maximize a child’s strengths and support areas of weakness. We can generally provide recommendations for:
- Parenting strategies for working with your child
- Teaching and educational assistance, including consultations with schools for developing an Individual Education Plan or 504 Plan (requirements for students under the federal Rehabilitation Act)
- Ways to help your child be more successful socially
- Strategies older children and adolescents can use themselves
If your child needs to see another specialist for services such as psychological therapy, medication, tutoring, speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, and medical care, our team coordinates referrals to other professionals at Children’s National or in the community.
About the Evaluation Process
We can usually complete testing in one day, but make adjustments as needed depending on the child’s age and functioning.
One of our neuropsychologists spends time with you and your child to learn more about your child’s history, observe and interview your child, and conduct related testing. Testing involves hands-on and paper and pencil activities, and an interview. We also ask parents, teachers, and older children to fill out questionnaires about the patient’s behavior.
To prepare for the evaluation:
- Please bring or send the neuropsychologist any previous testing, school Individual Education Plan (IEP) or 504 Plan if your child has one, recent report cards, and relevant medical records.
- Make sure your child has plenty of rest and eats a good breakfast before the evaluation.
- If your child usually wears glasses or uses hearing aides or any other device, make sure to bring them as well.
- Your child should continue taking regular mediations; however, if your child takes medicine for attention problems, check with our staff when making the appointment whether your child should take it on the testing day.
After Your Child’s Evaluation
After your child’s evaluation, we schedule a follow-up appointment for you to meet with the neuropsychologist and discuss your child’s strengths and areas of concern, and recommendations for next steps in care.
You then receive a written report in the mail detailing the results of the evaluation and the recommendation.
For more information and to arrange an appointment:

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Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.
Charcoal, pastel, and black chalk, with stumping, touches of colored pencil, and incising, on off-white wove paper
Signed recto, lower left: "T-Lautrec"
21.7 × 31.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bensinger
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Arsène Alexandre, Le Figaro Illustré 145 (April 1902), p. 12 (ill.).
Manzi-Joyant (1902), p. 12 (ill.).
Theodore Duret, Lautrec (Paris, 1920), pp. 69-70.
Gustave Coquiot, Toulouse-Lautrec (1921), p. 82.
Maurice Joyant, Lautrec, 2 vols. (Paris, 1926-7) I: 223-226, II:145 and 238, no. 4
Maurice Joyant, Lautrec II (Paris, 1927), no. 4 (Ill.).
Au cirque, dix-sept Dessins aux Crayons de Couleur, II (Paris, 1932), no. 11 (ill.).
Mac Orlon, Lautrec (1934), pp. 156 and 163.
Gerstle Mack, Toulouse-Lautrec (1938), pp. 219 and 333.
Edouard Julien, Dessins de Lautrec (1942), p. 12.
Walter Kern, Lautrec (1948), p. 16.
Mariie Henraux, Henri de Toulous-Lautrec, dessinateur (1948), p. 9.
M. G. Dortu, L’étrange Toulouse-Lautrec (1951), p. 6.
Francis Jourdain and Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec (1952), p. 55.
Lacques Lassaigne Le gout de notre temps—Lautrec (1953), p. 104.
Landolt, Toulouse-Lautrec (1955), no. 29.
Douglas Cooper, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (1958), p. 44.
Henri Perruchot, La vie de Toulouse-Lautrec (1958), pp. 314 and 320.
Edouard Julien, Lautrec (Paris, 1959), p. 53.
François Jourdain, Toulouse-Lautrec, p. 52 (ill.).
M.G. Dortu, Toulouse-Lautrec et Son Oeuvre 6 (New York, 1971), pp. 872-873, no. D. 4.554 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1978-1979), no. 6A6.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago, 1984), p. 103, fig. 45-1.
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, “Exposition H. de Toulouse-Lautrec,” April 9-May 17, 1931, p. 91, cat. 275.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, “Scènes et figures parisiennes,” 1943, no. 217, 218, or 219, as Le Cirque.
London, Matthiesen Gallery, “Toulouse-Lautrec,” May 18-June 30, 1951, cat. 63.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec,” October 4-December 2, 1979, checklist 86.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 168-169, cat. 77 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Toulouse-Lautrec and Monmartre, 2005, p. 247, fig. 269; shown in Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, March 20-June 12, 2005, and The Art Institute of Chicago, July 16-October 10, 2005.
Vienna, Albertina, “Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings”, February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 277, 286, pl. 176, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.
Estate of the artist [stamp recto, lower right, in red ink; Lugt 1338]. Maurice Joyant (1864-1930), Paris, before 1931 [Paris 1931]. M. G. Dortu (died 1984), Paris, by 1931 [Paris 1931]. Maurice Loncle, Paris, by July 1949 [letter from Carl Schniewind to Carter Harrison of July 20, 1949, in curatorial file]. Alexandrine de Rothschild (died 1965), Paris [Joachim 1978]. Norton Simon (1907-1993), Pasadena, Calif. [Joachim 1978]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
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Closing the Michigan Public School Employees’ Retirement System to new employees would prevent state legislators from passing retirement system costs on to future taxpayers through unfunded liabilities and questionable tinkering with abstract funding assumptions. There are also ways a defined-contribution reform can minimize or even eliminate the transition costs discussed above.
These dynamic approaches to transition costs appear immediately below. Nevertheless, three observations should be made to put the entire “transitions costs” argument into context, since “high transition cost” is not as definitive an objection as it sounds.
First, using the flat (or relatively “frontloaded”) level-dollar method for paying down unfunded liabilities is (at best) a guideline of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, not of the Michigan Constitution.[*] The Michigan Legislature is free to amortize its unfunded liabilities as it sees fit, as long as it (or the various state employers) first makes sure to prefinance retirement benefits — that is, to pay the normal cost.[†]
Indeed, GASB rules address how to account for financial problems, not how to solve them. The rules are not meant to guide policy, nor are they meant to allow governments to play games with payment schedules. In fact, the board has emphasized that its rules should not be “about acceptable public policy with regard to an employer’s contributions to a pension plan.”35
Thus, while GASB’s methods of calculating an annual required contribution have been widely adopted by state and local governments, and they will continue to be used in the state’s financial reporting, there are no requirements that they guide funding policy. Indeed, as discussed later, Michigan has frequently chosen to make payments that diverge from them. This history makes the rigid insistence that funding be driven by a different GASB accounting treatment for a closed pension plan seem artificial. GASB’s rules for reporting financial activity should not be a barrier to implementing a defined-contribution policy that would ensure that retirement benefits for future members are affordable, predictable and current.
Second, in an important sense, the phrase “transition costs” is misleading when applied to the amortization payments on the unfunded liability. If MPSERS pension system is closed, the frontloaded amortization payments recommended under GASB guidelines in order to catch up on unfunded pension liabilities do not represent increased total expenses, only increased immediate cash outlays. The larger upfront deposits are similar to making early payments on a mortgage. The payments do not change the underlying value of the home (though it would lower the total cash payments on the mortgage).
Third, the “transition costs” objection to changing MPSERS to a defined-contribution plan rests on the assumption that the normal cost and the amortization payments on the unfunded liability provide a proper accounting of the costs involved — an incorrect assumption that will be analyzed later in this paper.
[†] The Michigan Constitution states, “Financial benefits arising on account of service rendered in each fiscal year shall be funded during that year and such funding shall not be used for financing unfunded accrued liabilities.” “Michigan Constitution of 1963,” 1963), http://goo.gl/eqXKV (accessed Jan. 23, 2012).


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Kyle Kling Honored by Big South
Oct. 27, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Coastal Carolina's Kyle Kling has been named the Big South Conference Choice Hotels Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the League announced today.
Kling, a junior from Louisville, Ohio, clocked a personal best time of 15:10 to take first place at the Mount Olive Invitational 5K over the weekend. He won the race by a full eight seconds. His effort helped Coastal Carolina finish tied for fourth-place in the event.
Kling has led the Chants across the finish line each of the five meets this season finishing in the top ten of each event. In addition to his personal record setting performance at the Mount Olive Invitational, this season Kling has recorded a season best 6k time of 19:11.90 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational and an 8k time of 25:04.2 at the Blue Ridge Mountain Open.
Kling will return to the course on Saturday, Oct. 30 at the Big South Championship meet as he looks to improve on his fifth place finish at last season's Championship meet.

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SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another. SQL injection attacks are also known as SQL insertion attacks.
This package consists of four individual archives that may be downloaded independently of one another.
The files contained here are:
* SQLInjection.nfo - This file.
* SQLInjection.jpg - Archive image.
* SQLInjection.rar - AVI of an SQL Injection attach in progress.
* SQLInjection_DB.rar - Analysis of the database used in the SQL Injection attack. Security tips on how to design databases that are secure.
* SQLInjection_Code.rar -Analysis of the code behing the web forms used in the SQL Injection attack.
Security tips on how to design databases that are secure.
Other security related videos from http://www.AlanBonnici.com/videos.asp.


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Custom Promotional Balls Imprinted with your Design or Artwork
Instantly create a personalized ball that will impress with your design or artwork. Our Custom promotional balls are a durable and economical way to produce your next marketing tool. With our imprinting machines and high quality acrylic balls, we’ll deliver results that give you significant visibility on the market place!
With our custom promotional balls, you can transform an ordinary item into something special to help get your message across.
Different Types of Custom Balls
Have you ever wondered what the different types of custom balls are? Or how do they differ from normal balls? You're not alone. There's a lot of confusion about the various types of custom balls.
A ball is a sphere or other shape that is typically used as an object with which to play games, particularly sports, and sometimes to deliver physical blows. The design or usage of different types of balls varies widely between different sports and even games within the same sport.
Most balls have a spherical shape, though some are box-shaped, rectangular, cylindrical, or any other shape or form which is suitable for the task. Balls made with unusual materials may be made with a rounded or square cross-section instead.
The history of balls can be traced back to ancient times. Early balls were spherical, but over time they changed into different shapes. It was also made with different materials from animal skins or stones. Even then, there was a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
In ancient times, balls were often used to play many sports and games as far back as 3000 BC in Mesopotamia. Many early balls had no air inside them because they were made from leather. The first recorded use of a ball in any sport may have been in Egypt around 3000 BC.
Personalized Golf Balls
Every golfer has dreams of their own
golf balls bouncing and rolling perfectly off the tee. And because nothing matches a personalized golf ball, especially not the many different color options available. Personalized Golf Balls some benefits that come with designing your own golf balls to suit your personal tastes and preferences. As well as how to design your own personalized golf ball, we'll also go over the best ideas for personalizing your special one-of-a-kind golf ball.
Custom Sports Balls
Custom sports balls are a way for people to show their team spirit or company pride in a more creative way than just wearing a shirt. They can be used as promotional items or giveaways, and they are also perfect as incentives for teamwork or healthy competition.
This post will give you the tips and tricks to create custom sports balls that look professional and make your clients happy! It includes lots of pictures so you can see some examples before starting on your own.
Promotional Rubber Baseball
Multiple companies and advertisements have adopted the concept of promotional rubber baseballs as marketing objects to liven up their advertising venues. Started in 2005, the idea was to create a product that would hold memories and feelings associated with the experience of playing a game of baseball, but without the cost or risk associated with starting a league team or investing money into an actual ballpark.
Promo Soccer Balls
Promo Soccer Balls is a promotional company that offers soccer balls to businesses, organizations, and individuals who would like to use soccer balls as a promotional item.
A variety of soccer balls are available for purchase. The promo soccer ball is manufactured with the following features:
- 100% polyester yarn
- Solid colors
- Embroidered logos/branding on the ball sleeves/backside in 4-color process printing.
- Ball logo or other artwork printed on the front of the ball.
- A packet of 2-3 extra brand colored panel inserts & 1-2 additional solid panels for repositioning if needed.
- Solid panels (set of 12) that can be placed inside the ball to create a unique look.
Custom Ball Stress Reliever
Stress is an unavoidable part of life. So what do you do about it? You find ways to relieve it. For many people, this means turning to relaxing hobbies or exercise, but for others, there’s no greater relief than taking down that energy by running their fists into a stress ball.
The custom ball stress reliever is perfect for such purposes — and its texturized design ensures that you can always keep your grip on the ball while keeping tensions high.

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Hainan’s efforts to build a blockchain hub are attracting many who hope to get in on the action.
Government initiatives and policies to create a less hostile blockchain space in China have led to an influx of money and companies, old and new. The blockchain hub incentives offer a window of opportunity to those firms previously banished from the domestic market in the crypto purge of 2017.
President Xi’s October remarks on the significance of blockchain and the continued talk of a digital fiat currency elevated excitement surrounding the technology.
Hainan, China’s smallest and southernmost province, found itself in the middle of the newfound blockchain fervor. In December, the Hainan government announced a series of new measures to attract talent and funding to boost the adoption of the technology. The government also inked multiple partnerships with countries along the Belt and Road at the Hainan Free Trade Port International Cooperation Forum on Digital Economy and Blockchain in the provincial capital Haikou.
Blockchain and digital asset firms are also taking notice of the opportunities. Tech companies and startups are flocking to Hainan. Those previously forced out of the sector see a window of opportunity to gain legitimacy.


An IVECO Stralis NP 460hp truck from the UK has completed what is believed to be the longest ever journey by road on a single fill of LNG to demonstrate the suitability of natural gas-powered vehicles for domestic and European road transport.
Setting off from London, the Stralis NP 4×2 tractor unit was pulling a tri-axle box van trailer and running at a gross vehicle weight of 30 tonnes. After a short ferry crossing from Dover to Calais it completed the 1,728km road journey without needing to refuel – exceeding the vehicle’s official range of 1,600km to set a new distance record. This equates to an impressive LNG fuel cost saving of circa £200 for the outward journey, or 40%, vs Diesel.
Despite the heavy traffic on the UK side of the English Channel, a strong head wind in France and the hilly Spanish section of the route, the Stralis NP recorded an impressive average fuel consumption of 22.6 kg per 100 km.
Compared with an equivalent Euro VI diesel, a Stralis NP running on LNG emits around 90 per cent less NO2 emissions, 99 per cent less particulate matter, and up to 15 per cent less CO2 – rising to 95 per cent less CO2 when using biomethane.


The Song Remains the Same
The Song Remains the Same is a 1976 motion picture by English rock band Led Zeppelin. The film was recorded between July 1973 and August 1974, at various locations. It was released by Swan Song Records in conjunction with Warner Bros. Pictures on 20 October 1976 in the United States, and 4 November 1976 in the United Kingdom. The Song Remains the Same was Led Zeppelin's sole feature film during the band's existence. Receiving mostly mixed reviews upon release, with manager Peter Grant called it 'the most expensive home-movie ever made', it mixed fantasy sequences with live performances. Originally intended to be a straight-forward documentary of the band, with two different directors later, it was what multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones described as 'a compromise'. The Song Remains the Same was one of the last Led Zeppelin releases to be given a remastering treatment, with a special collectors DVD edition issued in 2007. An accompanying double album soundtrack was issued with the film's release in 1976.
Due to increasing demands to see the band live, Led Zeppelin had made plans to film their performance making it easier for fans unable to see them on tour to go to a cinema and watch them perform instead. The band had ruled out television due to the poorer quality of sound. Manager Peter Grant had laid out a strategy to make a concert film of Led Zeppelin as early as 9 January 1970, when the band performed at the Royal Albert Hall, with footage shot with director Peter Whitehead and Stanley Dorfman. Additional footage of the band arriving and performing in Iceland was also filmed on 22 June 1970, in what was to become an hour long semi-documentary theatrical release. However the footage at the Royal Albert Hall was deemed too dark to be useful. These plans were altered to film the band's performance at the Bath Festival instead and to reuse what they could of previous film footage but this was cancelled at the last minute, and the concept shelved.
Plans for a film were again revived when American-born director Joe Massot, a friend of Charlotte Martin and a Berkshire neighbour of Jimmy Page, convinced Page to record a part-fantasy part-live concert film in 1973. The film would be financed entirely by the band. Grant was reluctant at first but agreed with the idea in principle, and at short notice a film crew was assembled by Massot in July 1973, and travelled with the band filming segments from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and two nights on 27 and 29 July at Madison Square Garden, New York. Massot also managed to record the aftermath of the infamous Drake Hotel Robbery. Massot shot the film to include fantasy footage however there were not enough close-ups of the concert footage recorded, so there were major problems in that the Madison Square Garden shows were the last concerts of their 1973 tour schedule and they could not be refilmed. Following the tour, the band members were asked to submit their fantasy sequences for filming - these included Peter Grant and tour manager Richard Cole dressed as hitmen battling gangsters (the record companies, promoters, and agents), singer Robert Plant in Arthurian mood and with his family on their country farm, John Paul Jones with his family reading fairy tales as well as riding at night as his alter-ego highwayman, Jimmy Page climbing a mountain in search of knowledge, and John Bonham on his family farm the Old Hyde, as well as drag racing in a hot rod.
Because of the slow progress in the film project due to the lack of close-ups, Massot was eventually dismissed by the band and replaced by director Peter Clifton. Clifton acted on the problem and with Grant's assistance, assembled the band at Shepparton Studios in 1974, with a mock-up of the Madison Square Garden stage to film close-ups of the band dressed in their stage gear. Clifton also attempted to gel the fantasy sequences with the concert footage and reshot some of the fantasy sequences. Progress on the film was again hampered by the tax laws in the UK, resulting in the band members being absent during much of the films editing in 1975, and for a time Page considered shelving the project and instead filming their upcoming US concert tour. The car accident to Robert Plant in August 1975 changed plans, and now without Plant able to tour, the film again became a priority. Page later stated in a October 1977 Trouser Press interview that too much of the band's money had already gone into the project to consider pulling out. Page spent most of late 1975 and early 1976 finishing off the film and editing the soundtrack. Relations with director Clifton had soured as patience with the slow pace of the project had run-out. Grant accused Clifton of misusing a chauffeur driven car at the band's expense and Cole was dispatched to recover all remaining film footage.
After many delays, The Song Remains the Same finally had its world premiere at Cinema 1, Ritz Theatre, Manhattan on 20 October 1976. Proceeds from the night went to the Save the Children Fund. Guests who attended included Bad Company's Simon Kirke, Ron Wood, Mick Jagger, Mick Ronson, Linda Rondstadt, and Carly Simon. A lavish party was held at the Pierre Hotel afterwards. On 4 November 1976, the film was simultaneously screened at London's Warner West End and ABC Shaftesbury Avenue cinemas. Roy Harper, Alan Freeman, Billy Connolly, Rick Wakeman, and Paul and Linda McCartney attended with a press party held at the Floral Hall in Covent Garden. A major disappointment for the band was the lack of proper quadraphonic sound systems in most cinemas making the sound less than satisfactory for audiences.
The Song Remains the Same received mixed reviews by film and music critics. The band admitted it was not a great film but a statement on where they were at that point in time. At the box office, the film generated over US$10 million in earnings in the first 12 months. After it's run, it garnered a cult following with screenings at late night cinemas. Released on laserdisc and VHS shortly afterwards, it generated interest in new fans who had not seen the band before 1980, as it was the only official film document they could access.
- Mob Rubout
- Mob Town Credits
- Country Life ('Autumn Lake')
- 'Rock and Roll'
- 'Black Dog'
- 'Since I've Been Loving You'
- 'No Quarter'
- Who's Responsible?
- 'The Song Remains the Same'
- 'The Rain Song'
- Fire and Sword
- Capturing the Castle
- Not Quite Backstage Pass
- 'Dazed and Confused'
- Strung Out
- Magic in the Night
- Gate Crasher
- No Comment
- 'Stairway to Heaven'
- 'Moby Dick'
- Country Squire Bonham
- Grand Theft
- 'Whole Lotta Love'
- End Credits (w/ 'Stairway to Heaven')
- Norwegian Music Chart (2003) 2
- Finnish Music Chart (2005) 3
- Italian FIMI Music DVD chart (2008) 18
- Hungarian MAHASZ Top 20 DVDs Chart (2008) 1
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- Peter Grant
- Jimmy Page
- John Bonham
- John Paul Jones
- Robert Plant
- Richard Cole
- Derek Skilton
- Colin Rigdon
- Roy Harper [uncredited]
- Claire Massot [uncredited]
- Virginia Parker [uncredited]
- Jason Bonham [uncredited]
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Santorum has more delegates in the five states than any other candidate, according to The AP tally: 73, compared to 62 for Romney, 15 for Paul and none for Gingrich.
Most of the campaigns argue they will outperform AP's projections, and the battle in some states is fierce.
In Missouri, a local Republican caucus near St. Louis was shut down without a vote after it got so rowdy that extra police were summoned to help. In Wyoming, Romney supporters successfully challenged a single Santorum delegate in Park County, getting local party officials to switch the delegate to Romney more than a week after the convention.
In Minnesota, Paul's supporters showed up at the GOP convention in Carver County lugging computers and printers so they could track their delegates and tell supporters whom to vote for.
"First time I'd seen it," said Steve Nielsen, the Carver County GOP chairman.
Despite not winning a state, Paul's supporters have been active in all the caucus states.
John Tate, Paul's campaign manager, said Paul's supporters have sometimes played kingmaker, cutting deals in counties where the original caucus vote was evenly split, resulting in a divided county convention.
In some places, they have been approached by Romney supporters looking to block Santorum's delegates. In others, they have been approached by Santorum supporters looking to block Romney.
Said Tate: "Unless you have an outright majority, cutting deals happens."
He said Santorum's campaign has shown signs of life in the caucus states, but he questioned whether it would be enough to win many delegates from Romney.
"I think his campaign is starting to figure it out," Tate said of Santorum. "But in a lot of these states, I don't see the organization that we have or that Romney has."
Associated Press writers Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Minn., and David A. Lieb in Town and Country, Mo., contributed to this report.
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It’s gratifying to see that at least one of the housing reconstruction programs in New Orleans believes in context-sensitive design. Too many well-intentioned housing programs fall short when measured against the yardstick of humane urbanism. But Project Home Again, sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Foundation, is providing much-needed housing, while also helping to re-establish the special character that has always defined New Orleans neighborhoods.
Project Home Again has already built nearly 100 new homes, mainly in the Gentilly District. In addition to featuring high-quality, energy-efficient construction, the homes display a traditional New Orleans vernacular look. As a result, the new construction is contributing to New Orleans’s unique sense of place, knitting together neighborhood fabric that was badly torn apart by Katrina’s disastrous floods.
Spearheaded by Leonard Riggio, the founder and chairman of the Barnes & Noble book retailing empire, Project Home Again’s underlying mission is to develop a scalable affordable housing program that features energy-efficient construction and that fosters neighborhood recovery, while also supporting returning homeowners. The basic idea underlying Project Home Again’s low-cost, high-efficiency approach is to use passive energy-conserving features that complement natural ventilation whenever possible. Design details include strategically placed shading, ceiling fans in every room and double-hung, double-glazed, low-e windows – supplemented by high-performance mechanical systems, including dehumidification.
Further economies are achieved by limiting construction to a small number of basic home models – four so far – with sizes ranging from about 1,000 sq. ft. to 1,500 sq. ft. The designs, all based on traditional New Orleans housing types, were created for the project by John L. Schackai, AIA, a local architect with deep understanding of the city’s building culture. In addition to cross-ventilation and passive heat-reduction features, whenever possible, Schackai also incorporates good-sized, screened-in porches that can be used for sleeping.
What raises Project Home Again above humanitarian relief and places it in the realm of humane urbanism is the approach to exterior design. The exteriors are purposefully modest and intentionally avoid the “bold architectural statements” that characterize many of the houses of Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation.
Schackai’s designs blend seamlessly into the mix of surviving houses in the small communities that form the larger Gentilly neighborhood. As a result, the focus is not on “look at me!” architecture, but rather on healing the neighborhood by filling in devastated blocks in ways that emphasize the continuity of New Orleans’s tradition.
Through a holistic architectural design process, Project Home Again is doing more than putting a roof over people’s heads: It is also restoring communities and reviving a reassuring sense of place.

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From Bioethics Briefings
- Cloning technologies are essential tools of modern biology.
- Cloning has lead to important drugs and new therapies, such as human insulin and interferon to fight viral infections.
- Cloning also holds the promise of helping scientists understand the genetic basis of human development and disease.
- Cloning could produce a lifetime supply of therapeutic stem cells that are genetically matched to a patient and pose little risk of rejection.
- Cloning raises many ethical controversies. One of the greatest concerns the production and destruction of a two-to-four-day-old embryo to make a line of embryonic stem cells.
- Another concern is assuring that women donating eggs for research give proper informed consent.
- Some fear that a cloned embryo could be implanted into a woman, possibly resulting in a baby.
- Every major ethical scientific body around the world condemns human cloning.
- The United States is the only nation conducting human embryonic stem cell research that does not have a law prohibiting human reproductive cloning.
Framing the Issue
Most cloning—the process of making an exact genetic replica of a cell, a tissue, or an organism—happens naturally. When the fertilized egg first divides, occasionally each daughter cell goes on to form separate embryos. The result: identical twins, each one a clone of the other. Organisms that reproduce asexually, such as aphids, brine shrimp, yeast, and bacteria, are clones. Horticulture uses the term clone for a form of propagation that involves cutting up one plant into pieces that are used to grow hundreds or thousands of identical seedlings.
Scientific cloning takes up where nature leaves off. Genetic, or molecular, cloning makes copies of genes or segments of DNA. They can be used to create colonies of genetically modified bacteria or viruses, which can produce drugs and vaccines. Laboratory culture methods can clone a single cell into a population of cells, comprising a limitless number of identical progeny. Various techniques to make copies of whole animals are called reproductive cloning. Finally, there is reprogramming, in which the genes from adult cells are reset to an embryonic state. The hope is that these cells can help scientists understand genetic disease mechanisms and create stem cell-based therapies for diseases and injuries that are genetically matched to individual patients. As of this writing, no such therapies exist.
Cloning technologies are essential tools; without them modern biology would still be the stuff of science fiction. Cloning has led to scores of important drugs and newly developed therapies, such as human insulin, interferon to fight viral infections, and blood growth factors such as erythropoietin to generate new red blood cells.
The ethical debates surrounding cloning pivot on several issues. One controversial method of cloning—somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)—involves the production of a two-to-four day-old blastocyst (a preimplantation embryo), whose cells are then removed to make a line of embryonic stem cells—a process that destroys the embryo. Another concern is over what might be done with these embryos prior to deriving a stem cell line. Because the technique employs some of the same culture methods used by in vitro fertilization clinics, some fear a cloned human embryo could be transferred to a woman, possibly resulting in a baby. And experience with animal reproductive cloning suggests more ethically troubling issues—early implantation of these clones always results in their death and often causes maternal death or morbidity. With cloning that involves human embryos, still another concern is assuring that the process for obtaining human eggs for research involves proper informed consent from the donors.
Historical and Scientific Overview
How does the embryo control development by gene expression, the process by which genes turn on and off? Could a developmentally older or differentiated cell have its genes reset to an earlier version of itself by being put into an embryo?
Researchers first addressed these questions in the 1950s (see box, “Cloning and Stem Cell Milestones: A Timeline”). A nucleus from an unfertilized frog egg cell was removed by sucking it out with a very fine, hollow needle called a micropipette. In the same fashion, a nucleus was removed from a cell inside a developing frog embryo. Injecting it into the empty egg began the process of embryogenesis. This process rarely resulted in tadpoles, a few of which grew into frogs. This was the earliest version of nuclear transfer, the cloning technique in which a nucleus without a cell is inserted into a cell without a nucleus. The evidence of the egg’s power to reprogram genes was an important result, and the research moved to mammals.
Until the appearance of Dolly, a cloned sheep, most animal clones resulted from nuclei taken directly from embryos. Ian Wilmut, a Scottish researcher, inserted a somatic cell taken from the udder of a six-year-old sheep into an unfertilized sheep egg whose chromosomes had been removed. After the procedure, the proteins in the egg’s cytoplasm reprogrammed the developmental instructions contained in the DNA. The genes switched from their fully differentiated “mammary cell program” to a program that produced a baby sheep. This is an enormously inefficient method for producing offspring, presumably because there is not enough time for the egg’s cytoplasm to correctly reprogram all the genes from the udder cell to a pluripotent state. Over 99% of such clones die after implantation. Also, animals made in this fashion are not true genetic clones. The egg contains genetic material outside the chromosomes in organelles called mitochondria. The resulting organism or cell line is a clone at the chromosomal level, but has a mixture of mitochondrial genes.
The same method used to produce an animal clone—SCNT—could theoretically be used to make a cloned line of human cells with a near genetic match to any person who needed them. The nucleus from a donor cell would be inserted into an egg stripped of its nucleus. Then, just as in animal cloning, the egg would divide, and an embryo might be cultured to the blastocyst stage and have its stem cell line harvested.
Another hope is that reprogrammed cell lines made by SCNT could be powerful tools for studying the genetic basis of human development and disease, as well as for drug discovery. In the most optimistic scenario, cloning could produce a lifetime supply of therapeutic stem cells genetically matched to a patient and, therefore, posing minimal risk of immune rejection. Unfortunately, the mitochondrial mismatches usually lead to immune rejection, albeit at a slower rate than when the chromosomal genes are also unmatched. As in other dimensions of stem cell research, the promise of therapeutic stem cells has proven difficult to realize due to moral and technical obstacles.
These difficulties came into sharp focus with the South Korean stem cell scandal. A research team announced in 2004 and 2005 that, using somatic cell nuclear transfer, they had established the first patient-specific human embryonic stem cell lines. Moreover, the researchers claimed to have accomplished the cloning with astounding efficiencies, easing worries that hundreds or thousands of human eggs would be needed. It was later revealed that thousands of eggs were indeed used, and some were obtained under questionable circumstances from women working in the laboratories. The lines themselves were not made by SCNT; they were derived from parthenotes—eggs treated in a way that causes them to divide without being fertilized—or possibly directly from IVF embryos.
This fraud fueled efforts to find uncontroversial substitutes for cloned human cells. First, experiments in which somatic and embryonic stem cells were fused successfully reprogrammed the genes in the somatic cell nucleus. This meant that genes expressed in embryonic cells keep them pluripotent, or able to make any cell or tissue in the body. More recently, researchers have reprogrammed skin cells with subsets of these embryonic genes by introducing them with mouse leukemia virus vectors. These experiments make cell lines with embryonic qualities (see chapter 34, “Stem Cells ”). These lines—called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)—express markers and genes indicative of embryonic stem cells; they also possess the ability to redifferentiate into adult cell types. If they are found to be equivalent to embryonic cells, then they could—in principle—replace nuclear transfer as a means of generating pluripotent lines that genetically match a patient. Since both the chromosomes and the mitochondria come from the induced cell, iPS cells are a better match than stem cells from SCNT. Though several labs have now made human iPS lines, experiments with mouse iPS cells show that the genes and the vectors that carry them cause cancer. Elimination of these oncogenes is a goal of many reprogramming labs.
Stem Cell Glossary
Blastocyst – In humans, a two-to-four-day-old embryo, roughly the diameter of a human hair.
Embryo – An early stage of human development. Medical texts describe embryonic development as a gradual process, beginning when the blastocyst attaches to the uterus and ending eight weeks later, as the organs begin to form.
Differentiation – The process by which stem cells make other kinds of cells and tissue in the body.
Stem cell – A cell that has the capacity to make new copies of itself and differentiate.
Somatic cell – A differentiated cell of the body, such as a skin or intestinal cell.
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells – Stem cells derived from somatic cells following transfer of reprogramming genes taken from embryonic stem cells. The cells exhibit pluripotence, or the ability to copy themselves and change into different types of cells.
Reprogramming – The molecular and chemical mechanisms at work in SCNT and iPS cell experiments that reset genes in differentiated cells (such as skin cells) to an embryonic state.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) – Also called nuclear transfer. A technical step in which a somatic cell nucleus (containing the genetic material) is removed and transferred to an egg with no nucleus.
Therapeutic cloning – A popular term for the anticipated application of SCNT to make genetically-matched embryonic stem cell lines for therapies.
Nuclear transfer is a crude disruption of a delicate and barely understood biological process. Most cloned animals die during gestation and, because of abnormal placentas or abnormally large fetuses, can kill the surrogate mother. Of the few reproductive clones that survive, many are unhealthy, most likely due to failures of reprogramming. Skeletal abnormalities and arthritis are common, as are malformed organs, circulatory disorders, respiratory problems, and immune system dysfunction. Cloned animals often suffer from either abnormally high or low birth weight. For these reasons alone, attempting to clone a human being would be clearly unethical. As a result, every major national and international ethical and scientific body condemns human cloning.
However, even if cloning humans could be done as safely as IVF, opinions on whether it should be allowed are divided. Would we deny an infertile couple a chance to have a cloned child? Are there other personal and private reasons for humans to clone a lost loved one, and should we deny them that possibility? Critics maintain that research cloning may lead to a slippery slope—condoning the process for research purposes could eventually result in condoning it for reproductive purposes. Cloning babies also creates life without sexual reproduction, which some believe undermines a vital dimension of humanness.
These arguments are based on an imagined world without societal checks or balances invoked by a moral consensus against the practice of cloning humans—the same pressures that condemn unethical treatment of human subjects in clinical research or payment for organs used in transplant procedures. Once it was clear that a stem cell line could make all tissues, we would certainly have a moral responsibility to use the line of cells to understand disease. These cells could also eventually provide therapies and cures. The moral justifications rest on the positive principle of beneficence: the research may reduce human suffering due to aging, injury, and disease, especially for those who may have a very short window of opportunity for treatment.
Resource constraints join funding restrictions as major hurdles to producing human stem cell lines by somatic cell nuclear reprogramming. Current technology requires the use of thousands of surplus or donated human eggs. The egg retrieval procedure is invasive and not without risk to women, raising concerns about obtaining proper informed consent. Whether women should be paid for removal of their eggs is hotly debated among ethics and policy scholars; national and state guidelines prohibit paying women for eggs over and above reasonable expenses related to the clinical procedure. Others point out inconsistencies in social policy that permit women to sell their eggs for reproductive purposes. Nevertheless, research using human and primate eggs may dramatically improve the efficiency of reprogramming, and, unlike the creation of iPS cells, nuclear transfer does not involve introduction of cancer genes.
Legal and Policy Issues
The United States is the only nation conducting human embryonic stem cell research that does not have a federal law prohibiting human reproductive cloning. This incongruous fact springs from legislative wrangling in Congress since 2001. Opponents of human embryonic stem cell research introduced measures that would criminalize both human reproductive cloning and production of such lines by nuclear transfer. The tightly bound issues prevented a majority rule against reproductive cloning that would have carried easily in other countries. The vacuum in federal policy has led to a welter of state laws, some of which are permissive and others restrictive. It also leads to border dilemmas (by restricting the movement of eggs and cloned lines from permissive to restrictive states and vice versa) and, in South Dakota and Michigan, the threat of jail and other penalties for researchers. The regulatory environment is uncertain in the majority of states that are either silent on cloning or have laws that consider donated IVF embryos separately from embryos made for research purposes, including embryos made by nuclear transfer.
What is lost in the discussion about human embryonic stem cell funding restrictions is a longstanding federal prohibition on funding of embryo research generally, a legislative action that swept essential questions about infertility, reproductive medicine, and prenatal diagnosis beyond the reach of many American clinicians and scientists. Just as political controversies surrounding abortion and assisted reproductive technologies are used as proxies for restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, lines made by nuclear transfer are presumably bound by the same prohibitions as frozen embryos, despite national ethics committees and advisory groups such as the National Academy of Sciences recommending that the research proceed.
What Lies Ahead?
The future of cloning research faces at least four major scientific and policy questions.
- What are the genetic differences among standard embryonic cell lines, cloned cell lines, and directly reprogrammed cell lines? Understanding these differences will help us understand the cause and progression of disease, developmental disorders, and reproductive failures.
- Will induced pluripotent stem cell lines free of cancer risk eclipse nuclear transfer as a method to generate disease-specific (and eventually patient-specific) lines?
- Will political change in Washington lift funding restrictions for embryonic stem cell and cloning research, and will it impact long-standing restrictions on embryo research?
- Technologies are disseminated across a flat landscape caused by globalization. Differences in law, policy, and normative ethical frameworks cause gradients in access to research materials, discovery, and treatments. In the future, where will the United States stand among nations that seek to realize the full research and therapeutic potential of cloning?
Christopher Thomas Scott is a senior research scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University and Irving L. Weissman, MD, is a professor at Stanford University.
Christopher Thomas Scott and Irving L. Weissman, “Cloning,” in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns, ed. Mary Crowley (Garrison, NY: The Hastings Center, 2008), 25-30.
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- The National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Includes an illustrated fact sheet on the science of cloning.
- The University of Utah’s Genetic Leaning Center. Includes “Cloning in Focus,” an interactive learning module that explores the reasons for cloning, its history, its risks, myths concerning it, and ethical issues surrounding it. Also includes additional resources.
- Gabor Vatja, “Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in its First and Second Decades: Successes, Setbacks, Paradoxes and Perspectives,” Reproductive Biomedicine, November 2007.
- Christopher Thomas Scott, Stem Cell Now: An Introduction to the Coming Medical Revolution, Plume, 2006.
- Rudolf Jaenisch, “Human Cloning: The Science and Ethics of Nuclear Transplantation,” New England Journal of Medicine, December 30, 2004.
- President’s Council on Bioethics, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, July 2002. Report available at https://bioethics.gov.
- Irving L. Weissman, “Stem Cells--Scientific, Medical, and Political Issues,” New England Journal of Medicine, May 16, 2002
- Christopher Thomas Scott
- Irving L. Weissman, MD


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In terms of May-December romances, there's been a longtime double standard when it comes to which half of the couple is "December": Women who date younger men encounter fascinated curiosity, judgment, and even a loaded nickname that rose to prominence in the early 's, while men in relationships with younger women are simply known as If you've ever felt a spark with a guy eight or more years your junior but hesitated to give things a try, you might have told yourself it'll never work.
Younger men fall for older women all the time, for reasons that actually make a lot of sense, but more on that later. While younger women have a lot going for them, one thing they lack is life experience. And this is one of many things that draws men toward smart, successful older women, commonly referred to as cougars.
10 best older women dating sites for younger men to meet cougars
Below, I reveal s that show younger men are expressing an interest in mature women and 25 fascinating reasons why that is. Move over, younger ladies, the cougars are here! Calling her sweet names, giving her a reassuring hug when she needs one and constantly being affectionate without crossing any lines; these could all definitely be considered not-so-subtle s of his attraction. No matter where he is, this older woman is a frequent topic. Have you recently experienced any of these? This needs no further explanation.
But there will always be something in the works. And naturally, she almost always finds out. Think about it. Why would he be asking around for your ? You only do that if you want to get in touch with someone.
6 things to consider before dating a younger man
Of all the subtle s that a younger man likes an older woman, this one is clear as day. He calls her, texts her and DMs her. Why else would he keep persevering? He can turn his flirt on when needed. Cute little things like that. He used to be all about playing video games and bar-hopping with his buddies but now, his effort to engage in more serious activities is more than evident. Whatever he promises, he delivers. While these are the attributes of any kind, mature, thoughtful person, when you combine them with all the other s from above, you have yourself a young guy trying really hard to be noticed by an older woman.
He truly wants to know. And that is something you can totally see.
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It can be either work-related, praising her mom skills or a general compliment about being a go-getter who somehow always finds time for everything. There is nothing wrong with that.
But you should definitely consider it one of the surest s a younger man likes an older woman. Almost always. He greatly appreciates you as a person and therefore, your input trumps that of others. You may not be aware of this but this guy is impatiently waiting for you to suggest something like this. What does that tell you about his feelings toward you? This is one of the ultimate and hottest s that a younger man likes an older woman. He simply wants her all to himself.
Have you had a younger guy repeatedly suggest going for your coffee break alone if you work together? Help him out. You could really be missing out.
They probably made a few mistakes along the way that in turn helped them figure out the best ways to accomplish things. You simply have to something it. They go into great detail explaining how their sense of accomplishment makes them a much more likely choice than young girls, as guys are more and more into well-established women nowadays. Their self-esteem thrives at their age, as they have gone through a of experiences both good and guy which have shaped them into well-rounded, confident women who go after what they want.
One thing an older gal will never do is sugarcoat things. And believe it or younger, men actually find this refreshingly real. In my humble opinion, this makes older women so special. They thrive on wanting liked on Instagram and followed by a of men who hold them on a pedestal. But older ladies are not fazed by this. They cannot be bothered with the opinions of complete strangers as they know they hold zero value. This will partly be because he is aware that there is a lot to be learned from a woman who has been through a lot of shaping experiences that allow her to give advice based on mature knowledge of a great of things.
Another thing that separates older women from young girls is their drive but other than serious driven themselves, they also push their partner and encourage them to take risks and follow their dreams. There is no backstabbing, jealousy or putting them down.
They genuinely want their man to feel just as fulfilled and as accomplished as them. It cannot be denied that mature women have a perspective that is probably different from those in young girls. They think differently, more maturely, and it shows.
Their outlook on life is inspiring to witness, which makes young men want to get closer to them. When a younger man likes an older woman, that is a direct testament to how much things are changing. Instead of chasing after one of the superficial twenty-somethings, they go after something much deeper and more meaningful in the long-run.
An older woman was a completely different person as a year-old, which helped her learn the importance of independence. They have been there and luckily, they are perfectly comfortable in their own skin; or at least, ificantly more so than a younger girl would be. Older women do not conform for anyone, not men and not society. And that is all that they take into. This may come as a surprise but men are sick and tired of immature behavior and head games that young girls put them through. With them, what you see is what you get. They would never deny themselves any sort of pleasure out of pure fear that it may not work out.
Because what if it does? Men love women who challenge their opinions and beliefs. It allows for intellectual discussions and perhaps even learning something.
Similarly to being fiercely independentolder women are also financially much more independent than twenty-something-year-old girls. Find someone who can work through relationship downfalls like a mature adult. You need to have a partner capable of communicating and this is where older women excel. They handle stuff according to their age.
But it has to be mentioned that older ladies are more likely to be comfortable in their own skin. And in my experience, men are more drawn to women who love their body the same way they do.
Feeling confident is hot. And luckily, guys appreciate it. This includes older single women too. Younger women at least in my experience and opinion suffer from much lower self-esteem.
But that kind of goes with the territory of young age. Once you learn to be happy and confident in your own skinyour self-esteem sky-rockets. Why do you think they go for cougars so much? Do I even have to say that guys live for that? Because life experience has taught them to be. Someone who will make me feel happy even on the worst of days.

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5 ways to fix a leaking washing machine without a worker. Very Easy!
Property People, how to fix a leaking washing machine at home is very easy, that’s it. You can also do it yourself without using services service electronics Don’t you believe? Check out all the details here!
Seeing puddles of water around the washing machine certainly causes a sense of panic.
The reason is that this indicates a leak so that the water is not housed perfectly.
So, how do you fix this leaking washing machine?
Go ahead, see the following full review with the causes!
Causes of washing machine loss
First, let’s review what problems can cause the washing machine to leak or leak.
The main cause of this problem can be non-technical or technical.
Non-technical problems include too heavy a load of laundry, too much detergent, to the habit of manually advancing the timer.
The self-timer advance is usually found in two tub washing machines.
Because we are impatient, sometimes we turn the timer to finish quickly while the machine is still working.
As a result, the washing cycle will be interrupted until the water overflows and drips.
Meanwhile, technical problems refer to pipe leaks, loose connections, dynamo leaks, and others.
5 Easy Ways to Fix a Leaking Washing Machine
1. Follow the washing machine user guide correctly
If the cause of the leak is a non-technical problem, just change the habit of using the washing machine.
Learn more about how to use the washing machine by reading the manual provided.
One of them is related to the capacity of the machine’s hose in a wash.
Avoid putting on too many clothes, especially if the type of fabric absorbs water easily.
So, make sure you use the right amount of detergent so that there is no blockage in the drain.
The reason is, these two things can cause the water to overflow and leak out of the engine.
2. Clean the Drain Hose
Leaks can also occur due to a blockage in the hose.
As a result, the flow of water at the final disposal does not flow properly and instead overflows in the middle of the road.
Therefore, make sure to regularly check and clean the washing machine hose.
The goal is to minimize the risk of damage to the washing machine due to the blockage of the ground to foreign objects.
Don’t worry, removing and reinstalling this hose is so easy you can do it yourself.
3. Replace the washer Hose
Can’t find a blockage in the engine pipe, but water is still leaking?
If so, the main cause of the leak is the hole in the washing machine hose.
The way to fix a leaky washing machine because of this problem is to replace the leaking component.
Open the back of the machine and remove the hose attached to the drain.
Then, install a new hose and attach it with cable ties so that the connection is tighter.
4. Replace the Rubber Washer
On the washing machine front loadTry to pay close attention to where the stagnant or seeping water comes from.
If the main source is a gap in the engine door, then you have to replace the rubber.
This rubber serves to prevent water from seeping out when the washing machine spins.
If the condition is bad, has holes, or even cracked, then this can cause the water to leak.
In addition to the engine door, you can also find water-resistant rubber at the end of the drain.
5. Replace the Washing Machine Dynamo
Finally, there is a way to repair a washing machine that leaks due to dynamo damage.
The engine dynamo and gearbox may be so old that they are no longer able to hold water properly.
To fix it, you can follow these steps:
- Roll the washing machine so that the bottom is easy to access.
- Unscrew all the bolts in the base of the washing machine and remove the base of the machine.
- Check the gearbox which is held by the bolt on the side.
- Remove the gearbox bolt and the bolt on the washer tube.
- Replace the gearbox with a new component that you have prepared.
- Reinstall all parts of the washing machine tightly.
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A Beaufort-area World War II veteran will add France's highest honor to an already impressive list of military decorations that includes four Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for valor.
Retired Army Col. Charles Stockell of Lady's Island will be among 17 World War II veterans from across the Southeast inducted this week by the French government into the National Order of the Legion of Honor during a ceremony in Atlanta. Stockell is one of six veterans from South Carolina being honored.
"I recognize how lucky I am to be getting a decoration of that sort," Stockell said. "I've been really impressed with the gratitude the French people have always shown the Americans who fought for that country. The Legion of Honor is known throughout the world as a very important recognition for a solider to receive."
The order was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to recognize military and civilian service to the French Republic and is the highest honor in France.
Stockell, 90, is being inducted for his service in Normandy in 1944 as an artillery spotter in the 2nd Infantry Division, which was the third division ashore on D-Day, according to the Consul General of France in Atlanta.
Even after being badly injured in a mortar attack two months later and spending three months in a British hospital, Stockell rejoined his men to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the largest land battle of World War II in which the United States participated.
Stockell said he was honored to join the late Col. Jimmie Leach of Beaufort as a "chevalier," or knight in the order. Leach was inducted in September 2010, nearly a year after dying of a heart attack.To be considered for the award, which is technically reserved for French citizens, a veteran must provide his military records and other documentation to prove he fought in France, said Claire Collobert, spokeswoman for the consul general.
Once the application is completed, it must be approved by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, she said.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. David Petraeus and Queen Elizabeth II are among the order's foreign-born members.
Collobert said Stockell was especially deserving of her nation's highest honor.
"We believe that all veterans are entitled to receive the award, but Col. Stockell had such an impressive record ... and was directly involved in the liberation of several key French cities," Collobert said. "When he was injured in August 1944 and had to stay several months in the hospital, he still insisted on going back to combat and continued to fight for the liberation of France."
"His actions speak for themselves," she added. "He certainly didn't lack courage."
Follow reporter Patrick Donohue at twitter.com/OnBaseBeaufort.


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Mahjongg Dimensions Unblocked
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Part of the opening ritual of the 3rd International Rondalla Festival was a group of teenage girls representing various cultural communities and faith throwing petals of fresh flowers at the musicians and the audience. The flowers were symbolic of the beauty that music brings not only to the heart but also to the soul. Layered my shots with fisheye images during the beach lunch party for the artists and staff of the festival.This photo was shot on film. Taken by lakandula with a Lomography Diana Mini (available in our Online Shop) loaded with Kodak Elitechrome 100 EBX film in Tagum City, Philippines. These tags describe this photo: doubles, portraits, teens, girls, flowers, opening, ritual, rondalla, festival, international, culture, faith, communities, xpro, diana miini, and fisheye2. Date: 2011-02-13. Time: Afternoon. This photo can also be found in the album Flower Girls During Rondalla Festival Opening Ceremony.
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Draw it! Colour it! Creatures
I had so much fun running a monster making workshop at Waterstones Canterbury!
This is the page from Draw it! Colour it! Creatures that I illustrated where the monsters are gong to the monster ball and need a new hair-do.
I think Izzie did a fabulous job, don't you?
Exciting craft table full of googly eyes and colourful feathers. I absolutely LOVE these monsters made by our first two guests.
Lovely pink leopard skin!
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IESE Energy Club goes to Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona
Challenges and opportunities associated with energy are closely related with electric mobility and smart urban systems. The annual Smart City Expo World Congress is therefore a hot ticket for the IESE Energy Club, as it provides a glimpse of global leading-edge trends and developments right here in the heart of Barcelona.
The three-day event is a multi-disciplinary melting pot that brings together innovative technology players, urban planning experts, regulatory and financial institutions, and many more.
Our members attended various events and had countless fascinating chats; below are just a few fascinating snippets we learn in the process.
- Airports are competing with one another to lower carbon emissions. Whilst air travel is growing, it is also increasing associated with shame and guilt – so airports are increasingly looking to reduce their environmental impact in a bid to differentiate themselves and attract passengers.
- Long-term policy vision and leadership are essential to transition to low carbon cities. The typical four-year political cycle is only a fraction of time that it takes to align different stakeholders and commence infrastructure projects. For example, Mexico City’s urban ecosystem has been getting increasing bike friendly since the then-mayor kicked off a pro-cycling strategy in 2008, and in Vancouver urban planning policy has systematically prioritized walking and cycling for over a decade.
Widespread adoption of low carbon mobility is as much about changing users’ perceptions as it is about the technology or infrastructure. For example, in many parts of the world cycling is associated with low income and subsequent lack of access to motorized transport. Urban centres that are strategically encouraging cycling are therefore investing in ‘culture change’ programmes to promote it as a desirable and aspirational choice for the wider public.
If these topics interest you, do not hesitate to join the Energy Club with its flagship event, the Global Energy Day on March, 27th where all the disruptive technologies will be discussed !


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Film about the allied victory in Burma
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own personal war on the Germans.
Directed by Arturo Gemmiti
Director Puriša Đorđević combines the past, present, and future in this symbolic character study of people affected by the aftershocks of war. The anti-war sentiment of the film is underscored as people march for peace to a tune by Pete Seeger.
It's 2018 and Earth is under attack. Nuclear weapons devastate several developing countries. Weaker governments look to the United States to take on the world's military leadership. Soon even Russia and other powers consider joining the alliance. In humanity's darkest moments, the dream of a united world seems to be finally coming true... but throughout human history, man has often been his worst enemy. And history likes to repeat itself.
No Fire Zone is a feature length film about the final awful months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it.
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
The country of Iga is deep in the throws of war. With smaller villages falling one by one, the largest families are in position to vie for their share of the power. Sankai of Minamiyama has his sinister eyes fixed – not only on total control of the area, but on Kagerou as well. After fleeing the village of Shiroyama, Kagerou and Aoi have been relentlessly hunted. And now, with the civil war in full flux, and Aoi in enemy hands, it is time for one last attempt to escape the clutches of the deadly Shinobi hierarchy – or die trying. They are all alone. They can trust no one. They must find a way out.
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain. Civil War drama.
A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
The Trap (Czech: Past) is a 1950 Czech drama film directed by Martin Frič. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.
Even though bringing in cameras to the internment camps was prohibited, one man managed to smuggle in his own camera lens and build a camera to document life behind barbed wires, with the help of other craftsmen in the camp. That man was Toyo Miyatake, a successful issei (first generation immigrant) photographer and owner of a photo-shop in the Los Angeles Little Tokyo district, and of one of the many Americans who was interned with his family against his will. With his makeshift camera, Miyatake captured the dire conditions of life in the camps during World War II as well as the resilient spirit of his companions, many of whom were American citizens who went on to fight for their country overseas. Miyatake said, "It is my duty to record the facts, as a photographer, so that this kind of thing should never happen again."
A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.
National Geographic follows underwater explorer Bob Ballard as he searches for the aircraft carrier sunk during the Battle of Midway.
The film tells the story of a (somehow) love-triangle set in Bohol during World War II; though the main underlying themes deals with Filipino nationalism and the legacies of colonialism.
Beatles' "significance" pushed to the breaking point in this bizarre documentary that juxtaposes their songs (sung by a number of rock stars) with World War II newsreel footage. Helen Reddy sings "Fool On The Hill" while Hitler relaxes at Bertchtesgaden, and Rod Stewart husks "Get Back" while Nazi troops goose step. (IMDb)

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