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However, with only one per cent of people able to become donors, and more than 550 people currently waiting for an organ, it’s clear more still needs to be done.
So MSPs overwhelmingly agreed last week – 116 for, three against and two abstentions – to introduce a new opt-out system.
Under the new law, if an adult does not opt-in or opt-out of donation they may be deemed to have authorised donation for transplantation.
This is subject to safeguards in the Bill to ensure that donation will not go ahead where it would be against the person’s wishes.
For Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick, the Bill’s passing was the end of a year-long campaign.
So it was an emotional moment for him, not least because earlier that day he had met two organ recipients at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh whose lives had been transformed thanks to donors – Clare Blake and Jamie McGregor.
Joe said: “Speaking to Clare and Jamie really brought home exactly why we are doing this.
“Hearing their stories and how their lives were transformed through the incredible gift of organ donation was really inspiring and they are both really inspiring people.
“Around 52 per cent of people in Scotland are on the organ donation list but, to put that into context, only one per cent of people die in circumstances where their organs can be used.
“That’s why it’s so important to look at all of the packages we have in place to support organ donation – opt-out is one part of the process to improve patient transplant rates.
“Having spoken directly to people who have benefited from transplants and to others who are waiting on the transplant list, I know the huge difference organ donation can and does make.
“One of the things Jamie and Claire reminded me of is that when someone donates their organs, they can save up to eight different people.
“That’s pretty remarkable when you consider how life-changing it is.
“So I was very emotional, as well as delighted, when the Bill was passed.
“I was also pleased that it received such a significant majority of votes in the Parliament as it shows that there is confidence in the system proposed.”
But there’s much work to be done before the new opt-out system is introduced, not least learning lessons from Wales where the system was first introduced in 2013.
Joe explained: “In Wales initially there was a slight decrease in donations and that’s a real lesson for us here in Scotland to make sure that, when we introduce the opt-out system, people know what it means.
“We need to learn that lesson from Wales and that’s why awareness-raising is so important.
“One of the other lessons we learned from Wales is that we need to introduce this at the correct pace.
“Organ donation in Scotland is highly respected and well supported. So it’s more important that we get it right than rush it through.
“It’s been absolutely crucial to work with the transplant community to co-design the opt-out system as they are the people who will take this forward.
“It’s really important we understand how the legislation will work in the real world when they come to put it into practice.
“There are still a number of pieces of legislation – how the Bill will work in practice – to go through Parliament.
“We also have to ensure there are systems in place, such as new IT and to make sure staff are professionally trained in the new system.”
One of the other key elements is ensuring the public are well versed in the opt-out system.
While the Bill itself has raised awareness, there will also be a year-long publicity campaign before it is finally introduced.
And in that time, it is hoped families the length and breadth of the country will discuss their wishes with their loved ones.
Joe said: “We want to start raising awareness as soon as we can. Parliament has been clear that people must understand the new law and what it means to them.
“We’ve committed to a 12-month awareness-raising publicity campaign before the implementation.
“But we want to start raising awareness now; the passing of the Bill itself has enabled us to do that.
“The big message during the campaign is that it’s really important for people to have those conversations with their families so that they know what their loved one’s wishes are.
“Enquiries will still be made with families under the new system and those conversations will be easier if families know for sure what the person’s wishes are. So having those conversations with your family is crucial, whether you choose to become an organ donor or to opt-out.
“A loved one donating their organs and potentially saving lives can be a positive outcome for families and often helps with the grieving process. They are, after all, giving the gift of life to people who really need it.
“We have high support for organ donation in Scotland and the highest number in the UK on the organ donation register.
“There was also a high level of support for the opt-out system in Scotland – people think it is the right way forward and many want to help others in the event of their death.
“Crucially, though, we need people to make sure their wishes are known so that they can be respected.”
Ultimately, Joe hopes that simply having those conversations will help people currently waiting for a life-saving organ.
He said: “As the process goes on, there will be more conversations about organ donation – even before opt-out is introduced.
“I’m hopeful that will see more transplants taking place here in Scotland.”
The Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill was introduced to Parliament on June 8, 2018 and amends the existing Scottish legislation that supports donation by introducing deemed authorisation.
This means that donation may proceed where a person was not known to have any objection to donation.
There will be protections for adults without capacity, those resident in Scotland for less than 12 months and children under 16 who will only be able to donate if they, or someone on their behalf, explicitly authorises it.
Less than one per cent of people die in circumstances that enable organ donation to proceed, as a potential donor usually has to be in an intensive care unit.
However, since 2008 in Scotland there has been an 81 per cent increase in the number of people who donated organs after their death (54 to 98 in 2018/19); a 58 per cent increase in the number of transplants from deceased donors (211 to 333) and a 16 per cent decrease in the number of people on the transplant waiting list (689 to 581 in March 2019).
Joe added: “The opt-out system will add to a package of measures which have led to significant increases in donation and transplantation in Scotland over the last decade.
“However, there are more than 500 people waiting for an organ transplant at any one time in Scotland. It’s important that we do all we can to improve their lives.”
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A man brandishing a gun held up George and Ed's convenience store on North Main Street early this morning and made off with an undetermined amount of cash.
ROCHESTER — A man brandishing a gun held up George and Ed's convenience store on North Main Street early this morning and made off with an undetermined amount of cash.
Police received a report of the robbery at 8 a.m.
The on duty clerk reported one male suspect entered the store, pointed a silver handgun and demanded money from the register. The suspect was given an undetermined amount of cash from the register and fled on foot, northbound on North Main St.
The armed suspect was described as a white male, 5'10'' to 6' tall and average build. The suspect was wearing a black jacket over a gray hooded sweatshirt. The suspect had his hood covering his head and was wearing a mask covering his face. The suspect was wearing dark colored pants with a white stripe down the side and was wearing dark sneakers.
The Rochester Police K-9 Unit was called to the scene to track the suspect. Police are following up on information obtained from the K-9 track and from statements from witnesses and other people and evidence in the area, however the suspects has not been located at this time.
The Maple Street School and Saint Elizabeth Seton School were both in soft lockdown for less than 2 hours while police searched the area for the armed suspect. The lockdown has been lifted as police do not feel the public is in any danger at this time.
At the Maple Street School officials secured the doors after being made aware of the robbery.
Superintendent Michael Hopkins said that for an hour and a half, the doors of the school were locked and all students were told to stay inside. He said the school was secured between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m..
According to Hopkins, the doors of the school are typically locked on a regular basis, but during the period of the "secured campus" this morning, all students were told to remain indoors, including for activities such as recess.
Approximately 120 students attend the Maple Street School. Hopkins said the securing of the school did not cause major interruptions to the school day.
This crime remains under investigation by the Rochester Police Department. Anyone with information about this crime is encouraged to contact the Rochester Police Department at 330-7127. Alternatively, calls can be made to the Rochester Crimeline at 335-6500. All calls to the Rochester Crimeline will remain confidential and rewards may be given for information leading to an arrest. You can also text the Rochester Crimeline at Crimes (274637) in the body of the text, simply write TEXT4CASH followed by your tip.

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The Imagery Of Violation Of Women’s Rights In Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” serves as a perfect example of how women have been persecuted in the 19th century. Throughout the story, the main character, as she observes the house while in isolation, notices the true meaning in life, specifically for women. Gilman’s piece unveils the unfortunate requirements that women must meet in order to become accepted into society. The imagery and description of the house mentioned in “The Yellow Wall-paper” holds a much more symbolized sense reassuring the main character about women’s roles in life, according to humanity.
Along with the other furniture in the house, the bedroom that is placed in the nursery serves a short, yet important role in the story. The bedroom is described as immovable, and it is restrained, heavy, “as if it had been through wars” (Gilman, 847). From this, one can gather the information that is described by the main character that the bedroom symbolizes the sexual nature of women. The ideal woman was described as the pure, desexualized, stay-at-home wife. In fact, according to KORVATH’s “Of Female Chastity and Male Arms”, the “standards of cleanliness and moral hygiene contributed to subduing the ‘monstrous feminine’”. During the 19th century and still up to today, women have only been seen as objects that are useful for reproduction. Women were not allowed to express themselves sexual and explore among the horizons. As mentioned in KORVATH’s “Of Female Chastity and Male Arms”, a woman was considered “sinful and impure” if she ever tried to tempt a man sexually, going against the “patriarchal control, locating woman as ‘object’ of the dominating male gaze”. This issue has pressured women into thinking that the only place they could express themselves is the bedroom.
The main character’s husband, John, and his sister portray how society really is towards women’s roles. John is convinced that whatever condition his wife is going through is nonsense and takes her health lightly. Anything that comes out of the main character’s mouth regarding the desire to rearrange the house for valid purposes sounds silly to him, as he continues to treat her less than a wife, let alone a woman. To him, all that mattered was his wife to stay healthy for “[his] sake and for [their] child’s sake, as well as for [her] own” exactly in that order (Gilman, 850). The main character must focus on being the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and serve the family whenever they depended on her. Her own health and worries were her last priority. John, just like society, expects high standards for women to meet in order to belong and if they couldn’t meet those expectations, then they were not respected.
Not only does the main character observe the meaning behind the wallpaper, but so does her sister-in-law. However, it does not seem to satisfy her nor change her perspective on life either. John’s sister seems to be content living the domestic life, “and hopes for no better profession”, and obeys society’s values. Jennie portrays the women from the 19th century who follow what every man would want in a lady (Gilman, 847). There was no need for a woman to be out working when that job belonged to the husband. The wife was needed at home for the children, as well as clean any mess or cook all the meals for the family, as they depended on her to do so.
One attribute from the house that almost drove the main character over the edge was the nursery, especially the yellow wall-paper. The room seemed spacious, yet the window in the nursery was barred. The piece that the main character found the most discomfort in was from the wall-paper. It consisted of a mostly yellow shade to it, but not the tone that appealed to most people. The paint caused sadness and somewhat comfort and understanding towards the main character throughout the story. What seemed odd was why the author chose to use the yellow color, as it was one of the colors that represented happiness. It could perhaps have resembled the act of rotting away or unnatural effect, as she described it to be “repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow”, symbolizing the way that women could unsatisfy society if they didn’t meet up to their standards (Gilman, 845). The meaning of yellow could signify the misrepresentation of the truth, or the action of deceiving someone. The main character could have been feeling deceived into thinking that her true purpose in life was only a domestic one.
The pattern and the wall-paper never brought much life to the room, however, with its “vicious influence had”, it motivated the main character into contemplating the meaning of it, and what it meant for her purpose in life (Gilman, 847). To the main character, it seems as if a woman, along other women, stand in the wall-paper that somehow lure the nervous character into learning more about them and what they wanted. During the daylight, the woman moves a lot, and around, showing “a lack of sequence, [and] a defiance of law” (Gilman, 850). At nighttime, the woman stays still, but “seemed to shake the pattern [of the wallpaper], just as if she wanted to get out” (Gilman, 849). As the light in the room grows to diminish, the condition of the woman in the wall-paper seems to worsen. The main character mentions how different the wall-paper looks when comparing day to night, as if she couldn’t tell if it was the same wall-paper that she has been observing. John is almost never home while the sun is out, and comes to his wife late at night. If John symbolizes the way society treats women, then it could explain the reason why the woman in the wall-paper felt trapped and unable to show her true self at night. The woman in the wall-paper, just like the main character, is afraid to talk about her true feelings while John is home. He has control over what his wife is allowed to do, in order for her to improve her health, for his sake, for she must be the perfect wife he desires her to be.
While the main character was held in isolation, she started to allow her imagination, or hallucination, come alive, as that was her escape from being held captive to cope with her condition. At this point of the story, she starts losing her sanity and allows her senses to be taken over by her hallucinations. The wall-paper and everything in it started to move, like an animation. However, the main character also noticed an odor that belonged to the wall-paper. She described the smell as a rotting fungus, seeping out of the paper, traveling throughout the house, taunting her. The house seemed to begin engrossing her sanity, but it doesn’t seem to be literal. The reader might think that the main character is going insane as she tries to find her true identity, but it could be the reason why Gilman wrote the story that way. The main character finding her true identity sounds like a very odd and strange idea to people in the 19th century, as women were expected to be satisfied with the treatment given by their husbands and society.
The main character is also convinced that the pattern is the reason why the woman feels so constrained. The pattern constantly went on and on and never stopped for a moment the more the main character observed. It was as if the woman was meant to show a certain appearance in the wall-paper. There was no hope for the woman and other women stuck in the wall-paper unless the pattern took another course, or a complete stop. During the 19th century, there always seemed to be a pattern like the one in the wall-paper. Women were put under pressure all the time to maintain a certain image. In Norbert Soldon’s “Victorian Education and the Ideal Womanhood”, women were always “torn between their desire to express their compassion and their desire to be modest”. They were never given the chance to choose both. By following the same standards that society held for them, there was never going to be a stop towards gender roles.
The main character discovers the bitter truth about women’s roles in life, and ultimately tries to find a way to change hers. Once she starts losing her sanity, the clearer her thoughts become, revealing the main purpose of the story. She realizes that the woman in the wall-paper is her, and the rest of the women in it are actual women that are in the same situation as her. Her husband, who just by being her husband and doctor, is the one who holds authority, demonstrating that any argument of a woman against a man’s will quickly be lost for the sole purpose of difference in gender. Gilman wrote this story to not only prove how unfair women were treated in the 19th century, but that this sort of mentality/idea will not be changed unless these standards are broken.
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What are your opinions on a week break during a 14 week cycle? The reason I ask is I workout 3 times a week and play full contact football on Saturdays for this semi-pro team and I am starting to get really worn out. I might even be getting sick. I am at week 9, I might still do arms and traps this week since they are lagging but thats it. Does anyones else ever take a break during cycle or am I screwing myself?
What exactly are you taking? If it is a long estered test like enathate all taking 3 weeks off will do is allow your blood levels to drop very low and you will feel like shit.
If you want to take 3 weeks off you might as well just decide to start your recovery.
You are talking about taking 3 weeks off from lifting and not 3 weeks off of administering injections, correct?
Why did you decide on a 3 week break instead of 2 or 4 week break?
Oops guess I read that wrong.
think he said one week break?
Yeah, carry on using the AAS and take a week off everything for recovery purposes.. depending on the level of overtraining you think you have - some walking or swimming may be in order 3x that week.
If necessary take 10 days.. But make sure to keep using the AAS or the levels will drop.
They will help with recovery too.
Nothing wrong with that.
Dont let AAS get in the way of a decent and sensible approach to training and off periods or (un)planned breaks if necessary.
Better to have planned breaks but that is after a number of years of instinctive training.
Poor comprehension skills.
By all means, if you are worn out, listen to you body and take the time it takes until you feel better off (lifting not AAS). Hopefully not more than 1 week.
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Yea not sure where I got three from oh well
Thanks. Nice avatar btw
lol you probably got that from me. Looks like I pretty much made up everything I posted hah
Whats your cycle look like ?
A decent cycle should allow you to easily handle 3 days a week lifting and 1 day of football.
Im going to assume your not eating enough.
If you eat enough and are on gear you can pretty much recover from extremely excessive activity.
Post you approximate diet, your height weight, bodyfat, etc, and your cycle.

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Welcome to an alternate civil-war-torn seventeenth-century England—a world where Hamlet once brooded and Othello jealously raged. Here faeries and sprites gambol in English woods, railroads race across the landscape while manned balloons float above the countryside, and the most respected historian of all is one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
The year is 1644, and the war between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers rages. When Rupert, nephew of King Charles I, is taken captive by Cromwell’s troops and imprisoned in a Puritan home, he is immediately smitten with the beautiful Jennifer Alayne, his captor’s niece. Escaping with the help of his newfound beloved and the loyal trooper Will Fairweather, Rupert leads Jennifer deep into the forest, where the faerie folk who dwell there have a vested interest in the outcome of the great and bloody conflict. Though the lovers must soon part—with the prince undertaking a dangerous mission for his magical benefactors that could turn the tide of war—Rupert and his lady love will be forever joined by the rings presented to them by King Oberon and Queen Titania. And despite the strange, twisting pathways and turbulent seas they are destined to encounter, they will always be able to find each other again . . . as long as their love remains true.
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Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
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Glen Douglas is a small community in The Scottish Borders with a fantastic village hall south of Jedburgh and north of The Carter Bar crossing point into England. They love old time and ceilidh dancing here under the organisation of local character and MC for the evening, John Currie.
The Gary Forrest Ceilidh Band, led by Gary himself on accordion and midi, with Roddy Matthews on fiddle and Keith Lauder on drums, first practised at the hall for their BBC broadcast back in 2003 and have played since on many occasions for great nights of dancing and ceilidh friendship, coupled with wonderful borders hospitality and fellowship, over the years.
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The House of Representatives voted 295-136 on March 20 to ban the use of the D&X abortion method except in cases where it would save the life of the woman. The ban makes no exception for using the procedure when the woman's health is at stake. Doctors performing the procedure could face up to two years in prison and a fine for performing the procedure. The father of a fetus can sue a woman who has undergone the procedure if he is married to her.
The margin in the House is sufficient to override a presidential veto. Numbers in support of the ban have risen in part due to the recent claim by Ron Fitzsimmons, Executive Director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, that he lied about the number of D&X abortion performed annually. At a congressional hearing on the bill, NCAP President Renee Chilliun and other abortion rights leaders stood firmly against the bill and demonstrated the need for reproductive rights decisions to be made between women and their doctors, and not by lawmakers. Rep. Nita Lowney (D-NY) said, "This ban will put Congress directly in the operating room and impose the federal government in the doctor-patient relationship."
The Senate currently falls some seven votes short of a veto-proof vote and will likely wait until late April to vote on the measure. Last April, President Clinton vetoed the same identical measure because it made no exception for the woman's health. He has stated he will veto this bill as well.
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Tilburg University Campus Blog (#2)
We are still not allowed to come to our campus for study. Therefore here a second blog with some information about our campus, to keep you in touch with this place.
On the TU website, our university expresses its ambition to grow into a medium-sized university. Student numbers are growing, but that also means they need to be given a place to study. Here you will read what the plans of our university are to develop the campus.
In the first campus blog, you could read about the newest campus building: CUBE. But this building isn't enough to give room for the amount of current and future students. Therefore there are plans to build a new educational building. It will be located on the current parking lot between the CUBE and TIAS building. Like with CUBE, this building will also be very sustainable. In the plans, an entirely detachable wooden supporting structure is mentioned. The plan was to start construction in 2021, but with the current pandemic, it's not sure yet if that will happen.
The existing restaurant is also becoming too small. Therefore the plan was made to demolish the Prisma building in early 2021 and on its location build a food court. With the pandemic going on, this plan is postponed a little. But when the food court will open, the current restaurant will also be taken down. What will be done with this area is still undecided.
During the summer of 2021, the library will temporarily close for a renovation. Some books will be moved to a different place, maintenance will be carried out on installations and the coffee corner will be upgraded. The library will also be recarpeted.
Plans also exist to renovate the Sports Centre. New spaces will be added and existing sports will be better accommodated. Besides the Sports Centre is the TFT (Theological faculty) building. The monumental part of the building (designed by Bedaux) will be preserved but the rest will be demolished because the building is very outdated. The vacant space will perhaps become part of the Sports Centre.
In the Spoorzone in the city, a new building of 12,000 m² will be realized next to the LocHal. It will house MindLabs, which is a partnership of four parties: Fontys Hogescholen, Tilburg University, media company and Onderwijsgroep Tilburg/ROC Tilburg. MindLabs will become a place for innovation in areas such as robotics, language technology, serious gaming, and artificial intelligence. The plan is to open the building at the end of 2021.
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On Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 California governor Jerry Brown is expected to lift California’s drought status. The three year state of drought, will likely be removed due to a California wet winter full of downpours and rising reservoir levels. The governor will wait to make his final decision until the seasons final snow survey is conducted. However, it is expected that the previous administration’s declaration of drought will be lifted. The state of drought could have been lifted last year, but the reservoir storage level had not been safely reached and many government officials and water managers feared the states reservoirs would run dry. However, this year’s winter has been vastly different. Releases from the states reservoirs are up, projections of summer water deliveries are up, and the Sierra Nevada snow pack is 159% above normal for this time of year.
The California State Water project is expected to see an increase in deliveries as well. This water project consists of shipping water from the Northern parts of California to the much drier Southern parts. Irrigation water deliveries look promising as well. The state’s Central Valley Project, which supplies the California’s Central Valley with irrigation deliveries is promising to supply all of their allocated districts. This means many state farmers will have more water allocation than last year for their crops. California’s major reservoirs are currently above normal as well. The Lake Oroville reservoir is 81% full, while the states largest reservoir Shasta Lake is 92% full of capacity. In the meantime, Californians are still encouraged to do what they can to continue saving water.


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In this article, we will cover some of the best free time management games to download at Gametop. They allow you to run restaurants, control traffic, manage wildlife reserves, oversee hospital operations, and more – all within a time limit and restricted resources. Learning to make quick decisions, juggle competing tasks, and strategize under pressure through these games can help improve productivity and effectiveness in daily life. The games highlighted here offer a variety of time-based challenges and are free to play.
Farm Frenzy Refreshed Collector’s Edition
Farm Frenzy Refreshed is a farming simulator game that tests your ability to multitask and maximize efficiency. This refreshed collector’s edition features overhauled graphics, new levels and challenges, and the ability to compete with other players.
In the game, you manage five farms that each produce different goods like wool, milk, baked goods, ice cream, and jam. Your goal is to fill orders from customers before the time limit is up by harvesting crops, gathering products, baking, buying animals, and crafting goods. You’ll need to plant strategically, upgrade equipment, and balance each farm effectively. New elements in the collector’s edition include a petting zoo and orchard. With over 200 levels, this game provides hours of engaging time management gameplay.
Rescue Team 3
As the name suggests, Rescue Team 3 puts you in charge of a rescue team responding to people in danger. In each level, you direct vehicles like helicopters, ATVs, ambulances, and rafts to save victims impacted by fires, floods, avalanches, and other crises.
The game tests your ability to assess situations quickly and respond with the most effective and efficient rescue strategy. Resources are limited, so you’ll need to choose the right vehicles and equipment for each mission while balancing speed and safety. Various hazards also threaten your rescue team, requiring clever maneuvers. With 60 missions across Arctic, jungle, and ocean environments, Rescue Team 3 delivers challenging time management gameplay.
Baking Bustle Collector’s Edition
For a time management challenge in a different setting, check out Baking Bustle. In this game, you run a busy bakery, taking customer orders, gathering ingredients, mixing batter, baking, decorating, and serving sweet treats as efficiently as possible. The game cycles through breakfast, lunch, and dinner rushes, so you’ll need to multitask to keep up.
This collector’s edition adds new bakery stations, recipe options, decorating tools, and mini-games. It also introduces a competitive mode where you can race against customers with special requirements. With increasingly difficult levels, in-game achievements, and leaderboards, the game drives you to improve your bakery management skills. If you love sweets and enjoy beating the clock, Baking Bustle provides satisfying time management fun.
Claire’s Cruisin Cafe
Claire’s Cruisin Cafe puts a unique spin on time management gameplay by having you prepare and serve food across three American road trip-themed diners. As customers order popular road trip snacks and meals, you’ll need to move quickly between the diners to take orders, pick up dishes from the kitchen, deliver food, collect money, and clean tables. Each level comes with a time limit and target earnings goal.
As you progress, the restaurants get busier, with more customers to serve at once. The game tests how well you can balance taking orders, delivering dishes, collecting payments, and keeping tables clean at multiple diners simultaneously. With cute retro graphics and an upbeat soundtrack, Claire’s Cruisin Cafe provides a fun, frantic time management challenge.
Farm Frenzy 4
Farm Frenzy 4 is a more advanced sequel in the popular farming simulator series. Once again, you manage a set of farms growing different crops and crafting artisanal goods to fill orders before time runs out. However, this version expands the range of animals and products, allowing for greater complexity.
New elements include beekeeping, apple orchards, greenhouses, and corn and tomato crops. Transportation vehicles like trucks, steamboats, and trains connect your expanding network of farms. You’ll also encounter new obstacles like bears, crows, and pollution threatening your production chain. With over 100 levels, achievements, power-ups, and mini-games, Farm Frenzy 4 delivers engaging time management gameplay.
Next Stop 3
Next Stop 3 puts a creative spin on time management by having you manage competing transportation networks. In each level, you control two transport companies trying to maximize profits by delivering passengers efficiently while obstructing your competitor.
You manage routes, schedules, upgrades, and investing across buses, trams, ferries, trains, planes, and zeppelins. The game tests your ability to analyze maps and quickly implement an optimal transportation strategy. Routes and networks get more complex across over 150 levels. If you enjoy logistics and competition, Next Stop 3 provides a unique time management challenge.
Supermarket Management 2
Do you have what it takes to run a supermarket? Supermarket Management 2 tests your multitasking skills with the frantic gameplay of managing a grocery store. You’re in charge of stocking shelves, manning registers, maintaining cleanliness, and keeping shoppers happy. From opening to closing time, you need to juggle tasks and make smart decisions.
As you progress through levels, the supermarket gets busier and more chaotic. New features let you expand into other services like a pharmacy, bakery, and cafe. Upgrades like self-checkout machines, shopping carts, and parking lots help improve efficiency. With increasingly demanding scenarios, Supermarket Management 2 pushes your focus, prioritization, and crowd management abilities to the limit. If you enjoy a good chaotic simulation, this game delivers.
Rescue Team 5
Rescue Team 5 builds on the emergency response gameplay of earlier installments, with 60 new high-stakes rescue missions. Once again, you direct helicopters, trucks, jet skis, paragliders, and more to save people in peril around the world. New features include winch rescues, emergency medical procedures, and navigating rapids and waterfalls.
With greater variety in locations, dangers, victims, and equipment, the game provides an action-packed test of smart resource management. Tight time limits force you to assess scenes quickly and deploy the most effective rescue strategy. Random elements also keep levels feeling fresh. If you enjoy pressure-filled simulations, Rescue Team 5 will put your time management skills to the test.
Time management games provide an enjoyable way to challenge your focus, efficiency, and quick thinking. The games highlighted here offer a range of free options to test your ability to juggle multiple tasks, set priorities, and use limited time and resources strategically. Whether growing fruit, baking desserts, directing traffic, or performing emergency rescues, these games will give your event management and critical thinking skills a fun workout.
With their replayable levels, escalating challenges, and competitive elements, these free online games can engage you for hours on end. They also drive continuous improvement as you refine strategies to reach new high scores. Practicing quick analysis, smart resource allocation, and effective task coordination through these games can yield valuable real-world productivity benefits. So if you’re looking for ways to build your time management abilities while enjoying free entertainment, load up one of these titles and put your multitasking skills to the test!

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Ok, Kanye West.
You are NOT gonna get away with trying to claim "bitch" is a term of endearment during this whole Famous feud.
And there's one more place where you're wrong: you didn't even make Taylor Swift famous!
The line from Yeezy's controversial new track that got everybody interested was the one calling out Tay-Tay specifically, with a refrain about creating her a level of celebrity (below):
[Image via Nicky Nelson/WENN.]

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It has been a huge year for the Streamwatch Team supporting volunteers and running events across Sydney.
We have had a busy year training up new volunteers and visiting existing groups. The Streamwatch team has also run networking events for all the Streamwatch volunteers so they can meet and share their experiences. In addition we have been attending school and community events around Sydney promoting the importance of our freshwater environments.
We now have 54 groups of 110 volunteers testing water quality at 85 sites across Sydney. This has generated over 550 water quality data sets. We are looking forward to growing this important citizen science program in 2014.
In February we participated in the 2 day ALIVE Youth conference hosted by the University of Western Sydney and the Hawkesbury Environment Network. The conference was focused on developing networks, partnerships and relationships between organisation, schools and the community.
We also attended the Connected Waters Symposium at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in March where we presented on the move of the Streamwatch program to the Australian Museum.
During April we assisted the GRCCC River Health Monitoring Program by attending several of the water monitoring days. These sessions were linked to existing Streamwatch groups and/or sites and help to provide data for the 2012/13 GRCCC River Health Monitoring Program report card.
On World Migratory Bird Day Streamwatch volunteers participated in a wetlands day at Bicentennial Park. We had a talk by Marianne from the Sydney Olympic Park Authority about the amazing rehabilitation of the site and then went on a wetland tour exploring this important habitat for migratory birds..
To recognise Threatened Species day on Saturday 7 September the Streamwatch team in conjunction with Sydney Water organised a tour of Chullora Wetlands. We have also went out to RiverFest and the Threatened Species Wetland day at the Australiana Pioneer Village. RiverFest has an unique focus on environmental sustainability and the celebration of cultural differences. RiverFest raises awareness of the local environment around Campbelltown. It was a great event to be part of and enabled us to promote the importance of our local waterways and the health of the catchment.
Threatened Species Wetland day was another great community event in Wilberforce at the Australiana Pioneer Village. The local community is working hard to restore their local wetlands and these events are a positive tool to engage the wider community in this process.
What can you do to participate in other citizen Science programs?
Citizen Science programs provide a very important source of data about biodiversity. Data and insights gained through the efforts of citizen scientists enable us to learn more about our environments by creating additional data sources.
You can add flora and fauna observations to the Atlas of Living Australia and contribute to this important database.
Local councils have contact information for different environmental groups in your area. We can put you in contact with Streamwatch groups active in Sydney. For other areas of NSW contact your regional coordinator
You can also try the Landcare National directory or Bushcare directory so you can find a groups in your local area.
If you can't find a group to join why not start your own and start exploring your local environment.
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Stock markets are moving slightly higher today after a long weekend away from trading. The Conference Board said that its leading economic index, which is a composite of multiple economic indicators, rose 0.8% in March after incresing 0.5% in February. This is another positive data point for the economy and signals continued slow and steady growth.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) responded by rising 0.16% in late trading, but there's little conviction one way or the other and only 15 of 30 components were higher.
Disney falls back to earth
Disney (NYSE:DIS) has been one of the Dow's best stocks over the past decade but it's down 1% today and investors have to be considering whether a box office hit is in the works for this year.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is in theaters now and has done well, grossing $587 million worldwide so far. However, this follows 2013's Thor: The Dark World and Iron Man 3, which respectively grossed $645 million and $1.2 billion. The Avengers grossed $1.5 billion globally in 2012, the third highest box office of all time, so this could be the worst year for Disney's Marvel branch since 2011.
These Marvel films have played a big role in Disney's rapidly rising net income over the past five years, and the studio business may see a decline this year.
Disney has done a masterful job of turning box office hits into revenue streams further down the business. Television networks play movies for years, new rides fuel theme-park visits, and content can be sold to streaming companies.
The challenge is that box office success isn't a guarantee, and movies like The Avengers only come around once in a while. This could be a down year for Disney at the box office, and that's why the stock's 22 P/E ratio looks high considering that potentially relatively slow growth from such a large company.
In the long term, Disney is still in a strong position with a very enviable set of characters, so investors should look at a sell-off as a buying opportunity. With that said, I'd like to see even more value when buying shares because investors are still pricing in a lot of growth in coming years. The current stock price leaves little room for error, something that's easy to do in the studio business.


“Zhamanak” comments on Armenia’s plans to send a delegate to a meeting of senior military officials of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to be held in Baku soon. “In general it is unclear what Armenia’s representative will do in Azerbaijan in the case when Baku continues its war rhetoric and when the CIS as such has become a formal institution today. But someone must have needed it very much that Armenia should participate in the Baku session in order to ensure the so-called ‘representation’. Otherwise, only Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan and a couple of other Central Asian states would have remained there,” writes the paper, assuming that the decision on Armenia’s participation in the Baku event was taken by Moscow.
“Zhoghovurd” comments on the statement by German Ambassador to Armenia Reiner Morell. Talking to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) on Tuesday, Morell said that after his communication with the Armenian government he allowed for President Serzh Sarkisian’s remarks on Crimea to be a general statement of Yerevan’s approach towards the right of peoples to self-determination. “The German ambassador, in fact, revealed the ‘double game’ being played by Armenia’s government. Of course, such diplomatic maneuvers in such cases are only welcome, since they meet Armenia’s interests to remain neutral, of course, not at the expense of worsening relations with Russia. But the problem here is that it was done in a rather unsophisticated manner, as a result of which Russian pressure on official Yerevan to present a more specific position will increase in the time to come.”
Commenting on the plans of the four minority factions in parliament to initiate a motion of no-confidence against the government, ruling party lawmaker Vartan Ayvazian tells “Hayots Ashkhar”: “Raising the issue of the government’s resignation is just another move by the opposition. Many such moves have been initiated before. Whether the government works well or not, they will criticize it all the same. Soon, the government will present the budget execution report to the parliament. Regardless of whether the budget has been fulfilled or not, the opposition will vote against it…The opposition’s work is easy, because it is easy to be critical of everything. I am glad that the four parties are consolidating their efforts, but I would be even more so glad if they were constructive, because I attach great importance to the opposition’s work.”
“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” describes the Tuesday action by a group of environmental activists at an international conference on mining issues in Yerevan as “quite constructive”. “Had the environment minister drunk the water contaminated with wastes, a change would have happened in the government, which would, no doubt, have a positive impact on the preservation of the environment,” the paper writes ironically.
Meanwhile, “Hraparak” criticizes the behavior of the environmental activists. The paper’s editor writes: “The aggressive behavior of the young activists and even nice-looking girls was not understandable. A glass of dirty water that the young woman offered to the ministers, yelling at them, was not convincing to me. I doubt one can achieve success with such behavior.”


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I’ve been on an interesting journey to get me to this point in my life. I swopped my career in law to become an editor and then turned to journalism before starting my own videogame website which I was Editor-in Chief of for close on a decade.
I’ve always enjoyed writing, and it was to this medium that I turned when my daughter was born. I love being a mom, and I wanted to capture my experiences to one day share with my children. From the moment Amy entered this world I’ve been writing so that I won’t soon forget the memories we’ve been making every day. I hope you enjoy sharing some of them with us, and that the things I’ve learnt along the way will help you on your own path on this wonderful, crazy adventure we call motherhood.

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Longtime Political Consultant Terry Casey Testifies
of Republican Plot to Block Libertarian Candidates from Ballot
COLUMBUS – This morning, longtime Republican political consultant and Kasich Administration political appointee Terry Casey testified in federal court that he found someone with standing to challenge the Libertarian Party candidates’ petitions and hired the law firm who pushed Charlie Earl, the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor off the ballot. While Casey denied the Kasich campaign “assigned” him the project, Casey admitted that he personally blind carbon copied top Kasich campaign staffers in emails about challenging Earl’s candidate petition. In at least one email with Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office, Casey stated that he was, in fact, acting on behalf of the Kasich campaign, but today tried to claim he overstated the connection to draw attention to his email within the Secretary of State’s office.
Casey was appointed to chair the Ohio Board of Personnel Review by Governor Kasich shortly after taking office. Casey is the former executive director of the Franklin County Party and now a media consultant for the party. [Source: Columbus Dispatch (1/22/2011), “Kasich alters order on work rights.”] Casey worked on the Governor’s 2010 campaign and currently makes $70,000 a year from his appointment. [Source: Associated Press (9/2/2014), “Libertarians protest Kasich ties to ballot decision.”]
Back in February, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges told the press he was familiar with the challenge against Earl’s petition because “I think we were the ones that filed the complaint.” [Source: Marc Kovac, Ohio Capital Blog (2/28/14), “Borges Gaggle 2 of 3”]. Borges later claimed that he misspoke and testified back in March that the party had nothing to do with the challenge, going as far as to say: “Anyone who’s looking for the conspiracy behind it – it’s just not there.” [Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (3/17/2014), “Ohio GOP chairman denies party involvement in challenges to Libertarian Charlie Earl's candidacy.”]
In response to this latest development in Casey’s testimony, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern released the following statement:
“Today a longtime Kasich friend and senior Republican political operative testified he kept top Kasich campaign officials in the loop on his efforts to get the Libertarian candidate thrown off the ballot in order to help Governor John Kasich’s re-election efforts. Both Matt Borges and the rest of Kasich’s re-election team took extraordinary efforts to publicly deny and hide their knowledge and involvement in blocking the Libertarian candidate from the ballot. The question now is: was Matt Borges lying under oath when he denied any Republican involvement in this plot?”


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The mother and uncle of a Canadian woman killed 14 years ago have been ordered extradited to India in stand trial in her alleged “honour killing”.
Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha are accused of ordering the murder after Jaswinder Sidhu, 25, married a rickshaw driver.
She was killed in Punjab in June 2000 after she travelled there to reunite with her husband.
The family has denied involvement in Sidhu’s death and may appeal.
Several people have already been convicted of the killing in India.
‘Campaign of terror’
Her mother and uncle were arrested in 2012 on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
On Friday, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Gregory Fitch ordered the two to be extradited to India to faces charges there.
Jaswinder Sidhu secretly married Mithu Sidhu instead of the wealthy, older man her family reportedly preferred.
She fled to India to reunite with her husband a few months after her family learned of the marriage.
Soon after, the couple were attacked while on a motor scooter – he was beaten and she was killed.
Prosecutors alleged Mr Badesha had made hundreds of calls to the men eventually convicted of the murder, first starting after her marriage became public,according to the Vancouver Sun.
Lawyers for the pair admitted the family was upset with the marriage, but that it did not prove they killed Jaswinder.
They will remain in Canadian custody until the extradition but may appeal.


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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an impassioned speech to the UN, detailed the atrocities committed by the Russian troops. Zelenskyy’s speech came a day after he visited Bucha, where he saw bodies of civilians in the streets. Zelenskyy alleged that the troops were indiscriminately killing people ‘just for their pleasure’. He equated these crimes to those of a terror group.
He added that the UN should remove Russia or dissolve itself. Female soldiers were tortured—they were made to strip, squat, and have their hair cut in front of men, a CNN report reads. "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you of Article 1, Chapter 1 of the UN Charter. What is the purpose of our organization? Its purpose is to maintain and make sure that peace is adhered to. And now the UN charter is violated literally starting with Article 1. And so what is the point of all other Articles?" he asked.
As of April 4, since Russia invaded Ukraine, at least1,480 civilians have been killed and at least 2,195 have been injured, according to the UN. "Some of them were shot on the streets. Others were thrown into wells, so they died there suffering. They were killed in their apartments, and houses, blown up by grenades. Civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road, just for their pleasure." “ Women were raped and killed in front of their children.”
Separately, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONHCHR) spokesperson Liz Throssell said very disturbing images were emerging from the region of Bucha and other areas—of people with their hands tied behind their back and of partially naked women whose bodies have been burnt. She said this was indicative that civilians were directly targeted.
Russia has repeatedly denied the alleged atrocities. The Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia, said, "We place on your conscience the ungrounded accusations against the Russian military, which are not confirmed by any eyewitnesses. "


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167 pages, Henry Holt and Co., ISBN-13: 978-0805006575
My parents bought me The Complete Phantom of the Opera for Christmas one year, along with the 2-cassette (remember those!) original Broadway cast soundtrack recording of the same, as even at such a young age I was a hardcore Phantom fanatic (I even managed to see it live in the early 90s at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, England). It quickly became my favorite book (for a time, at least) and while most people are only familiar with the musical and the (subpar) movie, the book Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is where it all began, a fact that The Complete Phantom of the Opera makes clear. Perry’s book starts out with a history of the Paris Opera House, accompanied by many beautiful and detailed pictures of the same. It then goes on to describe just how life was in Paris in the 1880’s and what people would regularly do at the Opera. It also is about Gaston Leroux, who wrote the Phantom novel. Perry then goes on to describe the famous Lon Chaney Phantom filmed adaptation of the Leroux’s tale, as well as other versions of the story, good and otherwise. Last but not least it describes how the Andrew Lloyd Webber version came to light, with rare backstage photos and conversations with the production crew and cast. The book goes into so much more detail and reveals so many parts of the story that both the play and the movie leave out, and if you are planning on seeing the musical, I highly recommend that you read this first (hell, if you already have seen it – or are never go to see it – I still highly recommend that you read this book).

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Traveling by air can be quite stressful, and it is of course never fun to lose luggage or personal belongings on the plane. Well, KLM airlines found a solution: a dag named Sherlock. The dog works on the lost and found service at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to find the owners of iPhones, toys and stuffed animals. The video was viewed over 4.8 million times on YouTube in just 3 days!
The trainer Sherlock, Dirk van Driel, said in the video that the dog is trained "in muscle strength, endurance, and of course in socialization" to be fit for his mission.
In the past, the company was a lot on social networks by using cooking oil as fuel on its transatlantic flights, or by creating a platform where passengers could see their LinkedIn and Facebook profiles on the plane, where smartphones and tablets are prohibited.


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By: The Kabul Times
KABUL: A number of lawmakers on Monday criticized the registration process of candidates who are interested to lead parliamentary committees in the lower house of parliament.
Speaking at the general session of tahe House, Munawar Shah Bahaduri, an MP from western Herat province, claimed that any candidate who is rich can win the seat of the committees. “Candidates are interested in specific commissions. They are buying and selling the seats. This is a shame for the parliament,” MP Bahaduri said.
Meanwhile, Sharifi Balkhabi, an MP from northern Sar-e-Pul province said that more than five lawmakers have registered for some committees while in other committees only one lawmaker has registered due to specific reasons. Balkhabi suggested the House Speaker not to allow more than 25 lawmakers to register for one committee.
At the same time, Mir Rahman Rahmani the Parliament Speaker said that none of the committees will be allowed to hold an election until nine to 25 candidates have not registered themselves for each committee.
Rahmani added that more than 25 people have nominated themselves for the internal security, finance and budget, complaints hearing and communication committees.
Lawmakers believe that most of the candidates have registered themselves to specific committees due to having “personal interests”.

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IONCINEMA.com’s IONCINEPHILE of the Month feature focuses on the filmmaking background of a particular filmmaker and the nuts and bolts of that person’s upcoming feature film release. This month we feature: Phoebe in Wonderland‘s Daniel Barnz. To view his top ten films list: (click here).
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?
Daniel Barnz: I have such vivid memories of seeing The Red Balloon for the first time. Even today I think it’s one of the greatest movies ever made. Still so moving, still suspenseful. To tell a story that powerful – without words – is genius. I love that it won the Oscar for best screenplay.
EL: During your formative years what films and filmmakers inspired you?
DB: Please God I hope I haven’t grown out of my formative years… But as a teenager, I sucked down Merchant Ivory movies (I was a geeky old-fashioned romantic) and John Hughes movies (The Ducky Phenomenon) but when I fell in love with the art of filmmaking it was through Todd Haynes – Poison and Safe.
EL: At what point did you know you wanted to become a filmmaker?
DB: I wish wish wish I could describe myself as the boy film wonk who watched movies non-stop, or that I watched one film that changed my life forever — it’s such a better story than the truth (which is that my path was a little more circuitous). I loved directing theater in college, and that’s what I thought I’d go on to do. But something – probably post-graduation panic – prompted me to apply to film school in my senior year. Then I got in, and felt I couldn’t say no, so I went. That was lucky for me, because that’s when I realized that everything I loved about directing theater I could do in film – but more, and with endless possibilities.
EL: What is the genesis of the project? How did you get involved?
DB: I always wanted to write a story about a child who was different, and who would learn something about the strength you ultimately derive from being different. So that was at the core, and then there were certain other things that were close to me that I wanted to write about – a celebration of theater, and teachers, and the imagination.
When I started I was writing from the experience of having been a kid who was different. (In elementary school I was the (ahem) Pillsbury Dough Boy.) Then, as I had children, it also became a film about being the parent of a kid who’s different. I’m interested by how we want our children to be special and unusual, but it’s also really painful to see them actually being special and unusual – it’s hard when you don’t have the kid who runs in and shows off for her class on the first day of school.
EL: What kind of characteristics/features were you looking for your main characters/during the casting process?
DB: I loved Felicity Huffman from Sports Night, and marveled at her perfect union of warmth, strength and natural intelligence. My ballsy husband (Ben Barnz, also a producer) first gave the script to her – she was our neighbor at the time. (Yes, that old cliché.) She called a few days later and she said, “I really think this movie needs to be made, and I’d love to play the role… but you may need someone with more juice to get your financing.” Two weeks later she was cast in the pilot of Desperate Housewives, and then came the Oscar nomination. So the juice issue – wasn’t.
Once Felicity was involved, we were able to get the script to Patti Clarkson. She is one of the very few actresses who I knew could ground Miss Dodger and make her feel otherworldly. She had had a close connection to a drama teacher of her own, and I think there was some kind of kismet in all of this for her.
Ben and I met Patti in the middle of a heat wave in New York, and I remember sweat pouring off my face, Albert Brooks-style. She walked into the restaurant, took one look at Ben and me, and said (in her famous Louisiana drawl) “My god, you’re twelve.” But we hit it off quickly, and at the end of the meeting she offered to show the script to Campbell Scott.
Campbell read it, and called to ask if he could play the Principal. I always admire actors who want to do something a little different from what they’ve done before, and as a director it’s exciting – you know they’re going to go the extra mile – so I immediately said yes.
With those three in place, we went to Elle Fanning, who had made an impression on me in both Door in the Floor and Babel. Since the film can veer into darker territories, I always felt it was crucial to have someone in the center who innately radiates hope and optimism. When I met her I was immediately struck – as I think many people are – by this kind of luminous quality she has about her. In fact, later on, when we were in the height of our pre-production stress and wondering how we were ever going to pull this off – we did our hair and makeup tests. Elle’s face appeared on the screen – there were probably ten people sitting in the room – and there were audible gasps. It sounds like a cliché but it was true – she literally lit up the screen. It really reassured all of us, knowing that we had that kind of presence in the role.
The last coup was Bill Pullman, who’s also represented by Elle’s management team. They passed the script on to him and we met on an incredibly windy night in the West Village. Within five minutes all of these startling coincidences came out (he has a daughter at the same small college Ben went to; he’s a fan of the (fairly obscure) playwright Edward Bond, I had directed a play by him, etc.) And he had been a college professor and immediately understood the character and the world, and I think as a parent he connected deeply to the family drama. And after an hour and a half, he shook my hand and said he was excited to do the movie.
EL: How did you prep for the performances (was there a rehearsal process?).
DB: Too often you hear stories of first time directors who confuse inflexibility with strength. I didn’t want to be that guy. So I decided the best thing I could do was consult with my actors and determine what rehearsal techniques were most helpful for them. They’ve all been doing this for a long time (including Elle) and they know how to craft their best performances. I think it’s a mistake to force actors to rehearse in a certain way — everyone has different needs. So I tailored it to their needs. I used my rehearsal time with Felicity to pore over the script, take it apart word by word, question every beat. We talked about the lives of academics, how they can be shut off from their body, experimented with how to physicalize it.
Patti was different: she constructs images in her mind for her character – this is a very private, internal, instinctive process. She had a very complete vision of Miss Dodger, and we would dial up or down by degrees on set without much rehearsal.
Elle knew that rehearsal would only deaden her performance, so I used rehearsal time to take care of the mechanics – line running, blocking – and to let her feel as comfortable with me as possible. Then I would let her work her magic on the day.
EL : How did you prep for each scene (was there storyboarding involved?)
DB: Because it took so long to get the financing, you could say I had ten years (!) of prep. During that time I collected photos and images and clips from other films, and spent my time honing a vision and thinking, endlessly thinking about what it would look and sound like. So I had a very clear idea of what I wanted once I began real pre-production.
We did minimal storyboarding, but shot-listed everything. Even if it all went out the window on the day, that preparation was invaluable – those discussions force you to think about what is critical in each scene.
The other thing I did during pre-production was begin this giant book that had the script in it and every thought I had about every moment in the film (shots, performance, design, tone, etc.) I kept this book all through shooting, and would refer to it multiple times each day. It really helped to have everything written down as a reminder amid the pressure of We-Need-to-Move-On-ness.
EL: What ideas did you have for the style of the film? What inspirations (other films, location, paintings etc…) did you draw upon for the look/style, aesthetics of the film?
DB: We started with the idea that this is a film about battling conformity, and we tackled each of the visual worlds (home/ school, theater, Wonderland) from that idea – the school, for example, has lot of graphic lines, a more monochromatic color palette, wider angle lenses that force perspective. Likewise, we wanted it to appear as if the architecture of the house was boxing Hillary in — books pouring off shelves, doorways closing in on her.
The theater is the “freeing” space, where you’re encouraged to break out of molds – so we accentuated the vastness of the space, kept the camera moving, the colors increasingly vibrant.
And of course we spent a lot of time debating Wonderland. This is also a “freeing” place, but much more dangerously so. What we felt from the beginning was that it should be grounded in Phoebe’s reality – that the Wonderland characters should come into her world and make it (at least initially) better and more colorful and more fantastic. We didn’t want it to be like she was stepping into another world where we’d be distracted by CG and visual effects. When I was a kid, I always imagined things in the real spaces that surrounded me — we wanted to remain true to that, and always try to put ourselves in Phoebe’s head.
There were a couple of key films about children that were immensely inspirational – Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, which I consider one of the greatest films about young girls ever made. It captures so perfectly that sense of childlike infectiousness and giddiness, and the fine line between the beauty and the horror of children’s imagination. Also, Searching for Bobby Fischer in the honesty of the performances, the visual style that puts you into a child’s head, and the brave way Zaillian used so few establishing shots, which also went toward creating that subjective, childlike perspective. Fanny and Alexander, of course, which is so beautiful and heart-wrenching. David LaChapelle was a great inspiration for thinking about color, particularly in the Wonderland sequences.
EL: For this final question, I’d like for you to underline three key people/departments that contributed the most in creating your film?
DB: I was surrounded by phenomenal talents every step of the way; selecting three is impossible, so I flipped a coin to decide between production and post-production. Production won, so I’m going to talk about the work of….Bobby Bukowski (DP), Therese DePrez (Production Designer), and Kurt and Bart (Costume Designers).
We began by spending a weekend retreat together, where we talked generally about the film and its themes, watched film clips, sorted through photos, and then we went through the script scene by scene. Those two days were invaluable – it gave us reference points to use all through pre-production and shooting and really united us as a creative team. Those guys are geniuses, and they really inspired me. A few examples of their ingenuity:
Kurt and Bart hit on the idea of creating “signifiers” for each of the real characters that reappear in their Wonderland characters. For example, Campbell Scott plays the Principal and the Mad Hatter. On his desk in the Principal’s office is ribbon candy; in his Mad Hatter costume his collar is made to look exactly like ribbon candy. Madhur Jaffrey wears a beret as Miss Reiter, which becomes her knave’s cap in Wonderland. This kind of subtle connective tissue – whether it registers consciously or not – helps to make the Wonderland sequences really feel like a natural outgrowth of Phoebe’s imagination.
When I wrote the script, Phoebe originally walked out of her door into her back yard and immediately saw the Red Queen running. Bobby hit upon the magical idea of creating a sequence out of it – Phoebe sees flashes of the Red Queen behind a tree, then chases after her – the Queen is always just out of reach. This ended up creating exactly the kind of visceral, infectious excitement we needed in introducing Wonderland.
You can see Therese’s unique vision in every frame of the film. But one of her most extraordinary accomplishments was the Wonderland diorama that appears throughout the film and is the basis of the title sequence. Every bit of Wonderland that you see later in the film is introduced and referenced here – the characters, the checkerboard patterns, the spirals, the colors. It was a true work of art.
Thinkfilm releases Phoebe in Wonderland on the 6th of March.


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TALLAHASSEE INNOVATION DAY COULD BOOST PATENTS IN FLORIDA
According to a press release from ITFlorida, Tallahassee will host Innovation Day, Monday and Tuesday April 17-18, 2006. Innovation Day will be a great opportunity for the high tech community to demonstrate support to the Florida Legislators for the benefits of the Governor’s $630 million Innovation agenda.
Innovation Day will also include an Idearaiser, hosted by ITFlorida, which is a system implemented by the House of Representatives to document creative and new ideas that have potential effects on Floridian lives without necessitating government expansion.
Though Innovation Day is not geared specifically toward patents, there is definitely a strong connection, as these incentives for producing innovative ideas will indirectly impact the intellectual property arena, as more people are motivated to think of new products and systems, likely protecting them with the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

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Barcelona hosts Roma in CL quarter-final
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sbo333 Barcelona hosts AS Roma at Camp Nou Stadium Wednesday night in the first-leg quarter-final of the UEFA Champions League at 8:45 p.m. (CLT). Barcelona is in great form in the current period, as the team leads La Liga with nine points more than the closest competitor, in addition to qualifying to the final of the King’s Cup, making the Catalan team enter the game against Roma with high morale.
The Spanish team is now concentrating on the most valuable European trophy in order to take a closer step to achieve sbo333 all three major trophies of the season. "In these moments, I have even better feelings that this year we could repeat those achievements, because not only are we on a good path, but in the three competitions we are performing consistently and at a great level," Barcelona left back Jordi Alba said in a press conference held Tuesday.
"In the dressing room, we aren't talking sbo333 about the treble, but we know for our fans it is a great hope, and for us too, but there is a long way to go,” he added. The latest confrontation between the two teams was nearly a one-sided game, as the Spanish giants thrashed Roma with six goals to one. Most of the Egyptian football fans, if not all of them, will miss watching this game, owing to the other quarter-final match being played at the same time between Manchester City and Liverpool, where rising Egyptian star Mohamed Salah will be playing.


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"And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” -- Hebrews 5:9
Today, men talk about salvation only as something done in the experience of time with eternal consequences. But in the Bible salvation is described as something done by God in eternity past, revealed and experienced in time, and enjoyed in eternity future. Read the Word of God, marking the verb tenses used, and you will see that salvation was accomplished for God's elect in the covenant of grace before the world began (Rom. 8:28-31; 2 Tim. 1:9; Eph. 1:3-6).
Since it was done in eternity, it must have been done by God alone. Without our aid, cooperation, assistance, work, or even our will, God saved us. Salvation is the work of God alone. That salvation which God gives is the salvation God performs. And it is an “eternal salvation.”
Before the world began, we were accepted in Christ, “accepted in the Beloved,” according to the will of God. We were accepted in Christ as our covenant Head and Surety, accepted in union with him by electing love, accepted in his heart as the objects of his mercy, from eternity. But why is this eternal aspect of salvation so important?
The nature of God's everlasting covenant demands it. In the infinite mind of God all things are eternally present. What he purposed is accomplished. God has always looked upon his elect in Christ. Before the world was, he blessed us with every spiritual blessing of grace in Christ.
God's holy character tells us that he must have looked upon his people as being justified and accepted in Christ from eternity. Had it not been for the chosen seed in Adam's loins, whom God had eternally justified in Christ, at the moment Adam sinned, the holy Lord God would have wiped our race off the earth. The only thing that keeps God from destroying the world in his wrath right now is the fact that he has an elect remnant in it, whom he has accepted in Christ and is determined to save (2 Pet. 3:9).
And the immutability of God demands that our salvation by him be eternal. God never changes. Neither does his attitude and relation to men change (Mal. 3:6). God's will to elect is election. God's will to adopt is adoption. God's will to justify is justification. And God's will to save is salvation. I do not suggest that this is the whole of salvation. Redemption, regeneration, repentance, faith, and perseverance are necessary. But in the mind and purpose of God, his people were as truly saved before the world began as they shall be when all are gathered around his throne in heaven.
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