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Guilt Parade Interview
Guilt Parade were a punk hardcore band from Fredericton, New Brunswick from the mid 80’s. They self released 2 demo tapes and then moved to Toronto where they put out an LP on Fringe Records. An often overlooked band when it comes to Canadian punk history, but never the less an important one which still has influence today. The following is a recent (Nov 2010) interview I conducted with Jeff Beardall – the main songwriter and vocalist for the band. As he stated to me…this looking back 25 years so some of the details may be a bit fuzzy. Complete discography at the end! Enjoy!
Can you talk about how the band started and what the scene in Fredericton, NB was like then. What year would this have been?
What was the lineup for the band at the start and how did that evolve over time?
Jeff: The year would have been roughly 85-86. There was not much of a scene in Fredericton at the time, though there were quite a number of artists and musicians and the city had a pretty rich artistic community, but not much at all in the way of punk bands or live original music at all – it was all cover bands – top 40 crap and the like. The University did have a college FM radio station and that became a focal point for Rich and myself. We had a show on-air called the Journey Through a Body show (named after a Throbbing Gristle album). Oddly, I was not a fan of hardcore at first. We hung out with some punks who were listening to stuff like Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica and I really didn’t dig the somewhat brainless lyrics of those bands – ha! We were Dead Kennedys fans at the time, but I didn’t really consider them to be hardcore. I remember though, buying a BGK album around that time just on a whim (Jonestown Aloha) and totally loving it. Then Minor Threat and “Boom!”, I was hooked on the energy and the scene.
The line up at the start was myself on guitars and most vocals, Richard Bird on bass and some vocals and Todd Merril on drums. I had played with Rich in a punk rock cover band that played a few shows in Fredericton…stuff like The Damned, Sex Pistols, PIL, etc.. after that band broke up Rich and I decided to try playing original songs and that’s when we started The Beach Psychos. That band had Rich on vocals, myself on guitar, and a local rhythm section. Basically the drummer and bass player hated the music and Rich and I really felt limited working with them so we ditched that band and decided to try something new. Todd had been the guitarist in a St Stephen, New Brunswick band called The Lads…they did covers of post-punk stuff (Joy Division) along with some originals. Rich was great…he was a truly committed indie music lover and had hundreds of obscure records. Though we played punk rock covers and had started a hardcore punk band called The Beach Psychos, we listened to all sorts of stuff…obviously The Birthday Party was a huge influence (The Guilt Parade is one of their songs), we loved anything that was fucked up, challenging and loud.
I will say however that our world sort of changed when the Life Sentence 12″ single by The Dead Kennedys came out…the A side was cool but the B side was Hallowe’en…when we heard that we knew something really powerful was happening…when Plastic Surgery Disasters came out…that was it…that album reset a lot of my thinking…suddenly we had a loud, dark, sinister, political, highly intelligent album to listen to that also had a wicked sense of humour…it remains one of my favourite albums of all time. That really changed my musical direction and it wasn’t long after that that we decided to start a real hardcore punk band that did original music. We were hanging out with Todd at UNB so we asked him to drum for us…he wasn’t really a drummer, but by that time we had been through playing with non-committed musicians in The Beach Psychos and none of them had been able or willing to keep up with the speed and none of them were really committed to being in a real band with ambitions to record and tour. So the three of us got together and played some hardcore and punk covers to get the juices flowing and then rich and i started writing original songs…that came pretty quickly..I’d say in a few months we had enough songs to record the first tape – An Irrational Fear Of Clowns. The first songs were certainly influenced, if not in sound certainly in vibe, by bands like Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, BGK…
After we got to Toronto we lost Todd, went through another drummer, Mike and then hooked up with Chris Lee. Rich left for Montreal and we got Brad to play bass, Brad went to BC and we got Steve on bass, then we finally found Jim Field who stuck with us for some time on bass. Near the very end we had Dallas Good on second guitar and the Brent Ruddy on bass. Then the band ended.
How were your first 2 demos received? Was there any backlash from Americans about the the song Let’s Be Honest (the lyrics say America sucks a lot)? did you ever release anything else besides the 2 demos and LP? i know you were on a few compilations.
It was always a surprise to find out that other people actually enjoyed the music we were creating. I remember being very encouraged by Tim Yohannon’s review of the first tape, An Irrational Fear of Clowns. When the really positive review came from MRR for the second tape, I knew we had something going on that could probably get pretty popular. That review gave me a lot of confidence to head to Toronto and try our luck. As far as back lash goes, I don’t think most of the people in the states who would have bought our tape would really have been too angry about our comments. I do remember one young kid from California who I had corresponded with having some negative comments about the song but I also remember that he had mentioned in the same letter how happy he was that America had ‘kicked Libya’s ass’ when they bombed Tripoli and Benghazi, so I didn’t really worry about his opinion that much. Later when we toured with MDC and Forced Anger through the States there were a couple of ‘close calls’ mostly with national front style Americans, but we never got into a fight once.
We never released anything beyond those 3 recordings. We were on the It Came From Canada comps and a few others and probably a few I never knew about! We did record some other demos for a second album. Some of which were pretty good, but we basically ran out of energy and motivation and Fringe was not that interested – they were a strange bunch, but I’m thankful for the help they gave us for the Coprophobia LP.
Did you tour much around the Maritimes? Ever make it to Halifax and if so who did you play with there? What about elsewhere in Canada or even the States?
We did a little touring of the Maritimes when we we were based in Fredericton. This would have been the first version of the band – myself, Todd Merril on drums and Richard Bird on bass…the same line-up that did the first two tapes that were reviewed in MRR. I think we went to Halifax twice but the one time I can remember for sure was with The Nils. We had put on a show with the Nils in Fredericton and we played with them there. Then we were able to book a show in Halifax with The Nils, The Jellyfishbabies and us. I’ve talked to Chris Murphy from Sloan about this show and he says that this was the show that convinced him that he could start a band. The Nils were great…Eloit Bertholet from The Dub Rifles was still drumming for them..this was before they got Jean Lortie. Their Sell Out Young EP had just come out and we loved them so it was a great privilege to play with them. Touring was really tough at that point…we were totally green and we were just not prepared for it. I remember our van was just an abominable piece of shit…it was really acting funny on the way back and when a mechanic looked at it, he said we’d been running on 5 out of 8 cylinders. He may have been lying, but it’s entirely possible…it’s a miracle more bands don’t die while touring in beat up old vans. So that was the extent of touring for that line up. After we moved to Toronto and the band reconfigured as myself, Chris Lee and Brad…that was when the touring began. We put out the Coprophobia record and then toured across Canada…first out to Fredericton then back out to BC…there are some crazy stories from that tour…you only tour across Canada for the first time once and it really was a fantastic experience…it was totally diy…i remember welding the rust holes in the tour van before we left…building the equipment bunker/loft in the back of the van…learning how to clean the carburetor…all that fun stuff that indie bands do. we had great response across Canada…pretty well everywhere…the Sault, Winnipeg, Calgary, Kelowna…lots of great shows and great times.
Let’s talk about Ode To An Asshole…probably the first song i heard by you guys. Whats the story behind that song? hahah
Well we were in New Brunswick which is a bit of redneck enclave – there was always a bit of friction between the punks, freaks and the rednecks. We used to call them Grebs, after the tan work boots they all wore. I didn’t get hassled too much by them but I knew people who did. So we thought we’d write a humorous song about an absolute caricature of one of these rednecks. Around that time, we opened for Deja Voodoo at a gig at the University of New Brunswick and I can remember Gerard Van Herk running up to us after our set and saying ‘you guys are really, really good and you should come to Montreal to play and maybe send a song to be on one of our compilations’. That really took me by surprise because we had existed in this absolute vacuum of acceptance in Fredericton and really didn’t know if we were good enough to tour to the bigger cities like Montreal, but Gerard made it seem like it might work out. I don’t think we ever got to Montreal at that stage but we did get that song on It Came From Canada Vol 2, which really was a great step for the band. We also put a song on Vol. 3 but for some reason we gave them one of our weaker songs. I think we were told not to give away our best stuff by someone whose opinion we trusted. I can’t really remember. In any case, Ode was a song that was easy to like and helped open some doors for us so I’m grateful for Gerard’s early encouragement.
Why the move to Toronto? Did the whole band make the move? How did you get hooked up with Fringe with the release of the LP?
Rich had decided to go to York University and I was fairly fed up with the insular and conservative nature of Fredericton so I figured, what the hell, I should go to Toronto also. Our drummer Todd went up as well but things soured pretty quickly with him. He was more interested in being in a Joy Division style band and he was a bit challenging to deal with in general. We ended up hooking up with Mike, the drummer from Todd’s old band, and he played with us for a while. That eventually didn’t work out. He was an ok drummer but he didn’t have the chops to really play the sort of technical hardcore we wanted to pursue. He left the band and Rich and I even thought about using a drum machine. At the time I was sleeping on the floor of Rich’s York U apartment. I did that for quite a few months. I still remember how hard that floor was. Anyway we somehow found out about this drummer Chris Lee who had played with Groupoem and a couple of other Toronto punk bands so we met with him, gave him a tape and he was interested and away we went!
I’m a little fuzzy on the Fringe hook up…somehow we got out demo tape into the hands of Brian Taylor from Youth Youth Youth. He worked at the Record Peddler, which was owned by the same gang that ran Fringe. Brian was really enthusiastic about the demo and basically convinced Ben and Angus, the owner and manager of Fringe to sign us. I still remember going down to the old Fringe office on Brant Street to sign the contract. At the end of the day, Fringe didn’t really provide much for the band beyond pressing and distributing the record..no real tour support at all, but they were one of Canada’s biggest punk labels and distributors and being on Fringe really opened doors for us as far as touring.
When did the band break up and what lead to that?
All bands that have significant energy behind them eventually end up at a point where the tensions of being in a band can tear the band apart. It’s just human nature. Some bands survive and some bands don’t. Guilt Parade didn’t. We’d been through a lot – one of our bass players had died – we didn’t find out until well after it happened. He had played on one song on the album. We found being in Canada frustrating after touring through the States and seeing really awful bands with tons of tour support. I think a lot of the problem was finding another bass player who had some chops and was able to provide musical input. It never really happened. Also Fringe wasn’t interested in putting out any of the new material. I just ran out of steam. It takes a huge amount of energy to keep a band propelling forward and I just couldn’t muster it anymore. The scene was also changing a lot….bands like Soundgarden and Sonic Youth were starting to arrive and the whole idea of continuing to play what we played seemed a little stagnant. Chris Lee left town sometime in the very early 90s. I took some time off from playing and then started The Satanatras with Dallas Good who was in Guilt Parade briefly near the end which is another story completely!
The band Propagandhi lists you as one of their influences…how does it feel to have one of today’s major punk bands say this? do you still keep up with the punk/hardcore scene today? What is everyone else in the band up to now?
It’s a great honour to be recognized for our music by them. I have a lot of respect for Propagandhi. They are doing what I wish I could have with Guilt Parade. I don’t keep up so much with the hardcore/punk scene today but I never really did even when Guilt Parade was going on. We used to listen to the more ‘challenging’ music of the day whether it was punk or not. I did really enjoy a lot of the 80s punk though, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, The Crucifucks, The Freeze, Seven Seconds, BGK, The Descendents… anything that was well written and well played whether political or not. I have always liked when people are motivated to please themselves and not some big machine and that continues to this day.
The main folks in the band I have very rare Facebook correspondence with. Chris Lee, who I was pretty close to, moved to BC with his wonderful partner Laura and have a couple of kids. He works in the movie industry out there and is doing well. He is not playing anymore, which is a shame…he had the greatest kick foot of anyone I’ve ever heard. Rich is in Montreal and lives an apparently shadowy existence. I haven’t really spoken to him in years. Todd is in Florida and working as a nurse, I think. Brad (who toured the album with us on the first tour on bass) is most likely in BC. I saw him years ago when the Satanatras toured out that way. He was supposed to be in wheelchair from arthritis by the time he was 30 and he was touring with us when he was that age and looked great when I saw him. Steve, who played on one song on the album, died when the van he was living in, which was propane powered, blew up. Jim Field who played for a long time on bass and toured North America with us is still playing as far as I know and in Toronto. Me, I have two kids and a busy job in media production and I have not had time to play for some time though my wife, who is a singer songwriter, might cajole me out of my complacence. All in all we had a good time and got to leverage some fast little tunes into the great experience of touring across North America. Honestly, some days I think the best thing about the band was being able to tour. I know it gets tedious after a while. I have friends who had major international bands and the novelty wears off pretty fast. Nothing, I mean nothing, beats the experience of touring across Canada the first time in a shitty van with a few good friends and playing for new friends in new places. I’m glad we had a chance to do it and leave some kind of minimal legacy behind.


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Anyone that has a passion for eating sushi and does it on a regular basis will know that not every sushi restaurant is the same.
In fact, there’s quite a broad spectrum when it comes to quality sushi, and it’s very easy to go into a new eatery expecting it to have great food, only to leave feeling unsatisfied and with a much lighter wallet.
Choosing a new, quality sushi restaurant is something of a skill of its own, but it’s usually worth keeping an eye out for certain traits that only good sushi places possess. With that in mind, we will discuss what to look out for when choosing a new sushi restaurant to give a try.
The Experience Of The Chef
Perhaps the most important factor when it comes to the overall success of a sushi restaurant is how experienced and talented the chef is. At the end of the day, there’s a huge difference between a well-trained sushi chef and the worker who puts together cheap sushi rolls at the local supermarket.
It might take a bit of digging, but it’s usually worth taking the time to learn the name of the head chef that works at a sushi restaurant and seeing if it’s possible to learn where they acquired their skills, where they trained, and how long they’ve been in the business for. Often enough, it’s as easy as asking management for the credentials of the chef, including which institutes they trained at.
The Local Reputation
Getting sushi wrong does not only mean a bad plate of food, but it can sometimes lead to illness, which is why it’s always worth checking out the reputation of a sushi place before going to eat there.
Online reviews are usually the first place to start, and it can give the diner an idea of what to expect, how much menu items cost, and whether previous customers were happy with their experiences at the venue.
Having this information can make it much easier to decide whether it’s worth going to the restaurant and sampling the food that they have on offer. Combine this information with the overall skills of the chef.
Lastly, but just as important as the other two, is what the menu looks like. The menu is essentially a window to not just what kind of sushi is being offered, but also whether the prices match the skills and experience of the chef making the food, and whether it’s worth giving a skip to rather spend the evening enjoying the latest slots NZ has to offer.
Most places that have a good reputation will have their menu either online or available at the restaurant for a quick look over, and this creates the perfect opportunity for a sushi connoisseur to have a look at what’s available and whether it lives up to the reputation of the venue.
Of course, there will always be restaurants that serve substandard food at exorbitant prices, but this is why doing prior research is so important.

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Types of Table Games
Table games have become popular at almost any sort of casino. A variety of types of table games can be found and include everything from scratch cards to video poker machines. So far as the forms of games go, the most used are slots, blackjack and roulette. The forms of table games on offer depend on what is available in the casino.
A good example of a table game that can be found at nearly every casino is baccarat. Baccarat is played on a blackboard with a number of marked spots that represent money. Players bet their money to see should they get it right. If they do, then they accumulate the amounts of all the those who have bet and the person with wins becomes the winner. Exactly the same applies if everyone bet a blackjack.
Another popular table games available in casinos are poker and stud. Poker is where players play against one another utilizing a deck of cards, whilst stud is where in fact the action is occurred with a number of poker chips. It is possible to play poker over the internet and stud online. Blackjack is also popular and 카지노 쿠폰 you may find a stud table designed for online casinos.
All casino table games involve wagers being positioned on a specific number. Players make wagers predicated on what they think will happen. They use these bets as a means of backing up their very own opinions. There are no physical cards in a blackjack table game, so players use numbers alone to create their bets.
Another popular type of table games are the roulette wheel and baccarat. The roulette wheel is really a spin-the-wheel style game where players spin the roulette wheel to acquire cards which come up. Baccarat is a game in which players use four different card decks to attempt to obtain a specific card. Both versions of these table games are played in single player variants.
The final kind of table games, which are generally found in most casinos will be the slots and craps. Slots certainly are a form of gambling in which a participant places a bet simply by inserting a coin into the slot. A slot will either pay out a set amount of cash or none at all. Craps is really a variation of blackjack where the goal is to reach a collection amount of money without the cards landing in the casino’s betting column. It is very hard to win slots or craps, which explains why they have become extremely popular in many casinos.
The final of the types of table games may be the craps dice game. Dice craps is where a person chooses a number in one to ten. Players rotate the cards on the dice in order to decide if the chosen number is on a winning roll. Some dice craps are single-sided, while some are multi-sided, where players can choose which side of the board the die comes on.
In terms of craps and slots, there are two main varieties of play, and these are Texas Hold ’em and Omaha. Most casinos have a tendency to feature only one of the games, as both are easy to learn and are a good way for new players to experience the excitement of a casino without spending a lot of money. In Texas hold em, the target is to get as many cards dealt to you as you possibly can with the minimum amount of bets. A standard bet in hold em is five dollars, even though minimum can vary. Omaha is a poker game, and like texas hold’em, players can place a limit on their bets. Regardless of what your skill level, you can get a table game which includes blackjack or poker in its repertoire of table games.

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Care Label Instructions
Care instructions are small solutions to big problems. Care labels provide guidelines to consumers about apparel care, and the best cleaning procedures to be used for a particular combination of fabric, thread decoration and construction techniques. Following the instructions on the care labels is an assurance that the appearance and fit of the garment will be maintained after repeated cleaning treatments.
From a manufacturer’s point of view, damage to garments from incorrect cleaning methods can lead to complaints; costly customer returns and a bad image. Where as accurate and clearly written care labels can prevent customer dissatisfaction. From a consumer’s point of view, accurate and clearly written care instructions serve as a cleaning guide and influence purchase. Garments with ease of care are often preferred over garments with complicated or difficult to understand care procedures.
Many different care labelling systems have evolved over the world. Some have been established as a governmental regulation, while others are international standards. Not all of them however, are mandatory.
Lesser Known Facts About Care Labels
- The country where the garment is sewn is the country of origin listed on the care label
- Care labels must be permanently attached so that they are easily accessible to the consumer at the point of purchase. Generally, it is placed on the side or bottom
- The manufacturer or importer who directs production is responsible for the accuracy of care instructions
- A product may be imported without a care label, but it must be attached before the product is sold
Care Labelling Systems
There are five care labelling systems which are generally used on care labels. These systems are:
- The International Care Labelling System
- The Japanese Care Labelling System
- The Canadian Care Labelling System
- The European Care Labelling System
- The American Care Labelling System
The International Care Labelling System
The International Association for Textile Care Labelling (GINETEX) is the world body which governs care labels since 1975.
Member nations of GINETEX are Belgium, France, Germany, England, Netherlands, Israel, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain.
The objective of the Care Label is inform consumers on the correct care labelling of textiles through a system of uniform and simple care labelling symbols, independent of language, commented Salomón Juan Marcos Villarreal, president of Grupo Denim.


The League of American Bicyclists announced its first annual ranking of "bicycle friendly states" today and Oregon is ... (Psst! Get the trophy polish ready) ... No. 4?
OK, so we don't always win first place when it comes to anything having to do with bikes. In this contest, Washington state is numero uno, according to the national advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.But fourth place? As in three places behind first. Oregon? Fourth? Really?
There was a good reason, said American Bicyclists spokeswoman Elizabeth P. Kiker, adding that she knows that Portland and Oregon are used to being the best place to be a bicyclist in America.
"I know, I know," Kiker said, laughing, "but the main thing that hurt Oregon was its discriminatory side path law."
Discriminatory what what now?
"In Oregon," she explained, "if there's a path, bicyclists are required to take it" rather than staying on the roads with other traffic. "Bicycles are vehicles and have a right to be on the road as long as they follow the rules," she said.
Look at the bright side, Kiker said, the top state is nearby.
All 50 states were scored on more than 70 factors. The states were scored on responses to a questionnaire evaluating their commitment to bicycling.
The surveys covered six key areas: legislation; policies and programs; infrastructure; education and encouragement; evaluation and planning; and enforcement.
Wisconsin and Arizona were ranked second and third, respectively, while Minnesota landed in fifth. The worst state for bicyclists, according to the survey: West Virginia.
"While every state has room to improve in making bicycling a preferred mode of transportation and accessible form of recreation, Washington is making the greatest strides to make this a reality," said Andy Clarke, president of the league.
Clarke pointed to Washington's model bike laws, its signed and mapped statewide bike route network, and its dedicated funding from the state for bicycle related programs and projects as examples of why Washington ranked the highest.
West Virginia, meanwhile, "may offer some great trails and mountain biking resources, but otherwise fell short in every category." Some of the state's problems: low bicycle usage and high cyclist crash and fatality rates.
Of course, Kiker said, Oregon's no slouch.
"There's so many great things," she said. "There's the complete street program, the inclusion of bicycle education in the driver's manual, biker tourism and the percentage of the gas tax" that goes to bike programs.
There's nothing wrong being No. 4, she said.
Uh, yeah there is: It's not No. 1.
Did we mention that Portland has been Bicycling magazine's best bicycle city for longer than dirt?


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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The data retrieving team from Volkswagen on Tuesday returned to Pune after wrapping up its two-day examination of the car driven by IAS officer Sriram Venkataraman that mowed down journalist KM Basheer in the state capital.
The team of experts collected data from the car’s Event Data Recorder (EDR). This data will be analysed at their centre in Pune and a report is to be submitted to the police team probing the case. The report is expected within 10 days, sources said.
Investigators are keeping their fingers crossed as they are of the opinion that the data retrieving team would be able to shed light into the speed of the vehicle, the braking, steering and the force of impact of the accident.
Since the speed tracking cameras did not capture the journey of the car from Kowdiar to Museum, EDR data could prove crucial in the probe. EDR is somewhat similar to the black-box in aircraft. It gets activated when the breaks are applied suddenly or during a collision that releases the airbags. A police source said findings of the expert team can be used while prosecuting the accused.
Wafa Firoze’s driving licence suspended
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A day after MVD suspended the driving licence of IAS officer Sriram Venkataraman, it has cancelled the licence of his co-passenger and car owner Wafa Firoze for three months. The action was taken as she failed to respond to a notice served to her for violating various rules of Motor Vehicle Act, including speeding and rash driving.

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Pico: Timelapse function for your DSLR
Pico controls your DSLR camera to create Timelapse videos.
Shaped like a red blood cell Pico is a small device that can put extra life in your DSLR. You can connect Pico to your (DLSR) camera and make timelapse videos. With the free smartphone app you can create a program and send it to Pico. Then this little device will take control to create the time-lapse sequence. The device is very small ( 0.4 oz / 11 gr) so you can always carry in your camera-bag.
Different Timelapse functions
With the smartphone app, you can make different time-lapses:
• HDR (High Dynamic Range): Take multiple photographs at varying exposure levels.
• Bulb Ramping: A technique used to compensate for natural changes in light. It is ideal for seamless day to night sequences.
• Speed Ramping: You can adjust the speed of time within the time-lapse to add a cool slowing or accelerating effect.
Some specs of Pico
• Compatible with more than 300 camera’s
• Battery life: 8 years
• iOS 6 or higher & Android 2.3 or higher.
• Price: $55
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According to a study that was presented at the European Congress on Obesity, being inactive for just two weeks can lead to changes that increase the risk of developing a disease.
The research shows the effects of physical inactivity on a healthy person that spends an entire weekend laying down, does not leave their home to spend time in the sun and eats a diet of junk food. This can reduce muscle mass, change metabolism and even lead to heart disease, diabetes and potentially, premature death. (See also: Physical inactivity: a good way to gain weight).
For this study, researchers worked with 28 people between ages 25 and 30 that were physically active (they took 10,000 steps a day) and did not weigh more than 80 kg. They were equipped with a bracelet to measure their physical activity and were given constant health check-ups while spending 1 to 14 days in bed. All of the participants reduced their physical activity by 80% and took the equivalent of 1,500 steps a day, which is the number of steps it took them to go from the bed to the fridge, kitchen or bathroom. In order of the number of days of inactivity, the results were as follows:
From one to four days
This is the average number of days of a holiday weekend. By the fourth day, researchers found significant changes in their body composition, including a loss of muscle and bone mass, associated with an increase in body fat, even though this could not be detected visually.
From four to eight days
Body fat accumulates in the stomach, hips, arms and back, and cholesterol levels rise in the arteries. Researchers determined that these eight days was enough time for heart diseases to develop.
From eight to twelve days
A loss in lean mass occurs (total body fat) of .57 kilograms. Mitochondrial function reduces significantly by 30%, the function that maintains the creation of new skin and body cells and keeps them active.
From twelve to fourteen days
Small but significant changes were noted in the respiratory system: reduced body and bone mass, and the development of chronic diseases such as heart failure, stroke and asthma.
“This research makes it clear that regardless of age, weight and state of health, our day to day physical activity is key to abstaining from disease and health complications,” state doctors Kelly Bowden and Dan Cuthbertson, the researchers that conducted the study.
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Stephen King is one of the greatest writers alive today. He always has a well-structured plot and a delightful turn of phrase. He is best known for his horror but I think his greatest achievement is the way he shows American life and culture in microcosm, engaging us in the lives of his characters. What people do to each other is far scarier than any monster. This is an excellent read if you want something firmly grounded in reality without the supernatural. Not horror but still in places horrifying. Circumstances, coincidences, bad detection all combine with grotesque inevitability. Two points of view, retired cop and crazed killer, and I felt for both these lovely characters and many of those around them. An excellent start to a trilogy, an excellent piece of writing, an excellent read.
Books in The Bill Hodges Trilogy:
1. Mr Mercedes
3. End of Watch
Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. And he's preparing to kill again. Only Hodges, with a couple of misfit friends, can apprehend the killer in this high-stakes race against time. Because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim hundreds, even thousands.
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Mr Mercedes is a tense, ticking-clock thriller that sets a burned-out cop against a demented mass murderer who is planning an act of carnage to match the one with which he started his criminal career. The opening of the novel is a tour de force, the kind of curtain-raiser that King admirers relish. In a Midwestern city, crowds of unemployed, desperate people wait in frigid temperatures at a job fair. We meet two people in the queue, a young man down on his luck and a mother who has been forced to bring her baby, who is coughing in the cold. We are in no doubt that these will be the protagonists of the book. But…
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1973, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 40 books ...More About Stephen King

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This Utah festival reminds us why ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ doesn’t get old
A breakdown of the 5 major productions in Utah Festival Opera’s current season
Now in its 30th season, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre has gathered nearly 300 musicians, performers and crew members together to bring five major productions to life. Here’s a breakdown of the season, which runs through Aug. 6.
‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’
Since Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice first penned the music and lyrics of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in the early 1970s, it has been performed literally tens of thousands of times, from Broadway and London’s West End to high school auditoriums everywhere. And why not? It is a wonderful vehicle to show off costumes, and dancing, and musical styles, and tells an easy-to-follow and recognizable story.
The Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre production of “Joseph” takes that opportunity to show off all these things, and puts them on steroids.
Costumes? They were all remarkable and eye-catching and audience members will likely be unable to keep up with the numerous costume changes accomplished by the ensemble of singers and dancers — I lost count at seven — a feat that cannot go unmentioned. And it’s not just the coat of many colors that is eye-catching. The detail of effort is remarkable.
The orchestra under the hand of James Bankhead is equally precise and gives the audience memorable and toe-tapping accompaniment. The almost-constant shifting of music styles — from ’60s go-go, to calypso, to country, to slick jazz and French ballad — gave the well-rehearsed dancers and cast the perfect excuse to share their skills.
John Tibbetts, for example, was perfect as brother Reuben wailing in western twang about “One More Angel in Heaven” while describing the loss of Joseph. All brothers, highlighted by Nathaniel Both as Simeon, were audience favorites during their parody of French lamentation during “Those Canaan Days.”
Timothy Stewart, as Joseph, commands the stage. Stewart’s projection, pitch and diction are pin-point perfect. Likewise, Michael Colman as Elvis, er, ah, as Pharaoh, exceeds expectations and seems to take delight in pushing song and staging to their much-appreciated pinnacle. As he was supposed to do, Elvis brought the house down as he described how his dreams have him, well, all shook up.
It’s unlikely that many audience members in Logan’s Ellen Eccles Theatre had not previously experienced some version of the oft-staged “Joseph.” But it is also unlikely that they had ever seen a more lively and top-drawer production.
‘Man of La Mancha’
This isn’t the first time the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre company has staged “Man of La Mancha,” but this year’s production seems to lift the audience to a lighter, higher plane. It feels and presents itself as more effortless — though it obviously is not any such thing — and overall is a more pleasant and heartwarming experience than past productions, good though they may have been.
Part of the reason for this overall lift comes from better-than-solid supporting actors and singers, rich and full ensemble numbers, and lead actors that were hand-in-glove with their characters.
“La Mancha” opens to a grand and rustic set, the dungeon where Cervantes/Don Quixote/Alonso Quijana is brought for incarceration, and there, the familiar story within a story unfolds. The festival’s founder and general director Michael Ballam has scores of “La Mancha” leads behind him, but his tender, almost soft approach to Quixote — again, effortless comes to mind — allows the message and music to surround and elevate the audience.
Audrey Babcock, playing the important Aldonza, battled her first solo a bit but soon found her stride and helped carry and lift the production. Her presence dominated the stage, as it was supposed to.
The third main lead, Stefan Espinosa as Sancho the manservant, continues the strong support and Espinosa became an audience favorite, as did Logan Wagner, as Padre. Wagner, though only a secondary character in the story line, sings with strength and fills the theater with perfect tones and emotion.
The production is well-directed — transitions from dungeon to inn were smooth and well-staged. Almost imperceptible is the near-constant presence of smoke high above the stage, adding to the dream-like feeling and lift throughout the production.
Under the baton of conductor Karen Keltner, the final song of the production was a memorable triumph.
‘The Magic Flute’
No doubt Wolfgang Mozart envisioned — and perhaps even staged — “The Magic Flute” as an epic, larger-than-life experience. The festival production of “Flute” is just that, no more obvious than the opening scene.
Conductor Nicolas Guisti was almost a show unto himself opening night as he vigorously led the orchestra through the prelude. The stage is almost mind-blowing, dominated by a much-larger-than-life serpent enveloping the stage from side to side.
The opening trio — the Three Ladies, played by Amber Romero, Tzytle Steinman and Sarah-Nicole Carter — was tight and strong and presented a great start. And Lee Gregory, as Papageno, is delightfully perfect in both voice and character as the bird-like bird catcher.
Also flawless in voice and easy to enjoy is Kara Goodrich as Pamina. Her voice glides and lifts the listener, fills the theater and patrons look forward to having her on stage. Her dynamics during moments of lamentation were outstanding. Projection comes easily and effortlessly to Goodrich, and her solos are memorable.
The stage is often filled to overflowing in “Flute” — the scene introducing the mysterious Sarastro is an example. The costumes, lighting, smoke and giant puppets — yes, puppets — fill the stage, as does the voice of Goodrich/Pamina, and that of the strong ensemble. The costume designer certainly deserves more than a nod of notice.
There were some comedic moments worked into the production through side characters, such as the guards, that felt a bid odd and had mixed results. It was also interesting to have the recurring spirits portrayed by younger boys.
But “The Magic Flute” is also full of wisdom to go along with its epic nature, and the opening night audience at the Ellen Eccles Theatre went away a little wiser.
‘She Loves Me’
With its easily recognizable story — think: “You’ve Got Mail” or “The Shop Around the Corner” — along with a small and talented cast sharing top-drawer musical numbers, “She Loves Me” just might end up being the audience favorite of this summer’s festival season.
Staged in the refurbished Utah Theatre — still a shock to see for many locals who remember its previous look and feel — “She Loves Me” showcases the talents of Vanessa Ballam, portraying Amilia Balash, and Stefan Espinosa as Georg Nowack.
The opening number highlighting all the employees of Maraczek’s Parfumerie was tight and solid and gave a promise of more good to come. After some initial introductions, both Amilia and Georg end up as employees at the shop in Budapest, unbeknownst to each other as they share love letters.
It must be said that Espinosa is the king of perfect facial expressions. His nonverbal language and facial twists shout volumes. It must also be said that all of the solos — including Espinosa’s — in this perfect matinee musical are solid. Several numbers are battling duets — that is, two refrains being sung at the same time over top of one another. Even those are so much fun, and Ballam’s high soprano is a delight to hear above the others.
Costuming is great and allows the characters to be highlighted in front of a simple set. A restaurant scene at the end of Act I lets some of the cast spill off the stage and to the front of the audience. This scene also introduces patrons to Timothy Stewart, as the waiter, who ends up being an absolute hidden gem and another highlight of the show.
Lindsey Kelstrom is also a bright light in her role as shop girl Ilona Ritter, especially in the second act with her rehearsal of her trip to the library.
Act II slows the pace down a bit, but it’s not awful, as it allows Amilia and Georg to unfold the dilemma they face. The reunion scene with Mr. Maraczek (played by venerable favorite W. Lee Daily) on Christmas Eve, did lag a bit, though, and could have been pushed a beat faster.
But right on cue, lips are kissed and surprise endings are no longer a surprise, and, sure enough, she loves him.
The audience viewing the festival production of “Carmen” is soon reminded that this opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet is all about the music. Bizet’s music in “Carmen” is acclaimed for its brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere and orchestration.
The first onstage meeting of Don Jose (Isaac Hurtado) and soon-to-be fiancé Michaela (Kara Goodrich) is a prime example. The music is emotional and presented as such by the pair, their voices being complimentary and not competing. Throughout “Carmen,” Goodrich is so easy to listen to and presents emotion-filled soprano.
As the seductress and unpredictable Carmen, Audrey Babcock is outstanding. Her demeanor, actions, attitude and voice are hand-in-glove with the ever-present music, much of it very recognizable, as Bizet’s arias have been adapted and commercialized over the decades. She sets her — albeit temporary — sights on Don Jose and thereby becomes the villianess. Hurtado is impassioned and his tenor is strong and is always given full effort. Even though his character Don Jose has emotions that run hot and cold, his solos were emotional and appreciated.
The ensemble is a strong support in “Carmen,” even though this is a production that basically centers around a main core of characters. The ensemble numbers are a perfect echo, so to speak, of much of the music and activity that surrounds them. Karen Keltner, conductor, keeps the momentum of the composition on perfect pace.
“She Loves Me” runs through Aug. 3; “Carmen” and “The Magic Flute” run through Aug. 5; and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Man of La Mancha” run through Aug. 6. Visit utahfestival.org for more information.
Jay Wamsley lives in Cache Valley and has been viewing and reviewing theater and musical productions there for more than 25 years.


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Downhill Skiing World Championships in Courchevel (France), men's slalom, 19 February 2023. Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen.
Courchevel (France) – Norwegian skier Henrik Kristoffersen became world champion in slalom for the first time. Thanks to a successful second round, the three-time winner of the World Cup unexpectedly beat the second AJ Ginnis by 20 hundredths of a second, who won the first ever valuable metal from the World Cup for Greece. The bronze went to the Italian Alex Vinatzer, who was another eighteen hundredths behind. Filip Forejtek, the only Czech representative at the start, finished in 43rd place.
Photogallery: WC in downhill skiing 2023
Twenty-eight-year-old Kristoffersen won the second world champion title in his career, four years ago he also succeeded in the giant slalom. The Olympic silver medalist from PyeongChang and bronze slalom runner from the Sochi Games succeeded despite an uneventful first round, after which he was only sixteenth with a deficit of 91 hundredths of a second to the Austrian Manuel Feller.
Feller, however, did not hold the position, finishing only 21st. time of the second lap and dropped to seventh place, which he shared with Norwegian World Cup event leader Lucas Braathen. The Austrians have not won a single gold medal at the World Championships, the last time this happened 36 years ago in Crans Montana.
Kristoffersen presented himself with an aggressive drive from the start of the second lap and drove the fastest final section of the track ever. At the finish line, he gradually watched as his opponents could not compete with his time of 51.66 seconds, and he could celebrate after Feller reached the finish line. “I knew it was the track for me,” said the Norwegian skier.
Ginnis was also happy, although he was only twelfth in the second round, but thanks to the lead from the first race, he kept the silver position . By winning the silver, he followed up on the second place from the last SP race in Chamonix. Defending champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag from Norway dropped from fifth to 19th place after an unsuccessful second round.
Norwegians became the most successful country in the number of medals at the World Championships with nine precious metals. But the most triumphs were collected by the Swiss, who won three gold medals.
Results of the World Downhill Skiing Championship
Men – slalom:
1. Kristoffersen (Nor.) 1:39.50 (47.84+51.66), 2. Ginnis (Greece) -0.20 (47.06+52.64), 3. Vintatzer (It.) -0 .38 (47.37+52.51), 4. Noël (Fr.) -0.41 (47.57+52.34), 5. Holzmann (German) -0.62 (47.93+52 ,19), 6. Schwarz (Austria) -0.65 (47.64+52.51), … 43. Forejtek (Czech Republic) -5.31 (52.18+56.97).

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Cancellations at YVR airport, BC Ferries as heavy snow and extreme cold blankets B.C.
As snow, extreme cold and high winds wreak havoc across BC, key roads — and transportation in and out of the province — will be severely impacted.
Heavy snow covered much of the region on Tuesday night (December 20), covering parts of south Vancouver Island by about 25 centimeters. Metro Vancouver can handle up to 15 centimeters.
As of Tuesday morning, all incoming flights to Vancouver International Airport have been canceled. A number of flights departing from YVR have experienced major delays or cancellations.
Ferry crossings have also been canceled due to the stormy and freezing conditions.
We know this is a challenging experience for those on board aircraft or waiting for baggage at YVR. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank everyone for their patience.
— YVR (@yvrairport) December 20, 2022
In a statement Monday night, the province said maintenance contractors are “operational at full strength and ready to deal with snow build-up.”
The contractors are also increasing the use of sand to provide better traction.
“It is important for motorists to keep their distance when applying sand and not to overtake winter service equipment,” said the province.
“Drivers who must travel should maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front.”
Compact snow with slippery sections across the #Lower Mainland. Do not drive unless your vehicle has snow tires, working headlights and taillights, windshield wipers, and snow is cleared from your vehicle. For #BCHwy See https://t.co/MNovn5LekK for conditions #Shift to winter #BC pic.twitter.com/KTK9MJcRCP
— DriveBC (@DriveBC) December 20, 2022
Meanwhile, Interior BC is experiencing a deep freeze. That includes a low of -46.8C west of Williams Lane, while the Quesnel area broke a record set 78 years ago when it hit a low of -37.5C.
Snowstorm warnings vary across the province, with the exception of the southern Thompson, Shuswap and Slocan Lake areas.
All highways in the province are affected by heavy snowfall.
On Tuesday, North Island College closed the Comox Valley campus in Courtenay, as well as its Port Alberni and Campbell River campuses.
The Comox Valley Regional Transit System is expecting delays due to recent snowfall. BC Transit is asking commuters to allow more time for the journey. If you are heading out, transit travel tips include:
•If your bus stop is on a hill, do your best to get to a stop on level ground, as bus drivers may not be able to stop on a hill.
•Use bright or reflective equipment to stop the bus as visibility may be poor.
•Have your fare/pass ready before boarding the bus to keep things moving and the doors close sooner.
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A United Nations working group has drafted targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which will expire next year. IIED's assessment finds a strong set of targets, but also trade-offs and missing issues.
Does the zero draft of the Sustainable Development Goals take enough note of the crucial interdependencies between goal areas?
Nepal has begun to assess the potential harm and benefits of the compensation scheme for protecting forests.
Teamwork, competition and game-changers are all needed to transform commodity chains that currently drive deforestation.
Consumer demand for palm oil is growing fast. It ends up in food products, cosmetics and biodiesel, with demand set to double by 2030. With this expansion leading to large-scale deforestation, how do we reduce the forest footprint of commodities like palm oil, and increase demand for ‘deforestation-free’ ones?


text: Here in South Africa, we have a plant called Bulbinella. I was advised to apply the gel from the crushed leaves on my patches of psoriasis by someone who was CURED doing this twice a day for 6 months. After only 1 week, I am amazed. My skin is smooth and the itch is almost entirely gone. I have continued using coconut oil as well to moisturize. Bulbinella grows and transplants easily here and is common in most gardens but that's not much help if you are not in SA. However search online for this. Here is some more info from Wiki: The genus Bulbinella includes 18 species occurring in the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa and an additional six species from the main islands of New Zealand. All the species have attractive orange, yellow, cream or white flowers in dense, unbranched racemes.

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New Project ChildSafe Video: “How to Talk to Your Kids About Gun Safety”
Sometimes gun-owning parents who live with firearm safety every day take for granted that every member in the family knows age-appropriate rules about gun safety. But if you haven’t had “the talk” with the children in your home, they may have questions that haven’t been addressed.
The conversation is equally important for families who don’t have firearms in the house. Their children are just as likely to have questions about guns, and at some point, they will be in homes or other areas where they may come into contact with guns.
Project ChildSafe has created a new video, “How to Talk to Your Kids About Gun Safety,” to help parents have that important conversation. The video stars army veteran, champion shooter, and mom Julie Golob.
Watch the video, and please share it with your friends and social media connections.


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When it comes to television and film, it’s important for us as a community to feel seen both on and off-screen. With Quinta Brunson’s skyrocket-rating Abbott Elementary, the former Buzzfeed star is using her platform to ensure that her community, especially in her hometown of Philadelphia, feels properly represented from the teachers down to the students.
In a recent tweet by actress and comedian Janelle James, who plays principal Ava Coleman in Abbott Elementary, the cast is shown posing for a flick to promote the new episode streaming on Hulu. Though fans were excited for another night of side-holding, knee-slapping dry humor, certain Twitter users couldn’t help but notice one thing in particular. There was a young Black girl in the episode who allowed many audience members to feel represented – a Muslim Black student with a hijab.
“A young Black Muslim girl in hijab! We love to see it,” Twitter user Imani Bashir tweeted in excitement. Another user by the handle @Akitron thanked Brunson for her ability to represent the Black Muslim community in Abbott aside from the stereotypical demonstration of a single hijab with no color variety. “Big thank u to @quintabrunson for putting this little Muslim kid in the starter presewn hijab in different colours, this is true life and I love 2 see it,” they tweeted.
Take a look at more fan reactions below!
Brunson’s Abbott Elementary has been making waves across the sitcom world with her half-hour, single-camera brainchild. The mockumentary follows Janine Teagues, a second-grade elementary school teacher in Philly, as she navigates through the underfunded school while trying to positively change lives one student at a time.
“The way she cared for her students beyond just teaching them how to read, she became so many different jobs and roles,” Brunson recalled in an interview with ESSENCE about being inspired by her mother’s own 40-year career as a teacher in the Philadelphia school district. “That really is what inspired me to go there, because I just felt that it was such a rich world that hadn’t really been tapped into yet.”
According to Deadline, the second episode of Abbott, which premiered on January 4, 2022, has amassed nearly 9.0 million total viewers, making the episode “ABC’s strongest comedy telecast of new or returning series in nearly two years, since the April 8 2020 series finale of Modern Family.” Alongside Brunson and James, the sitcom also stars Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Everybody Hates Chris‘ own Tyler James Williams.
Abbott Elementary airs Tuesdays at 9:00 ET/8:00 PM Central on ABC.
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JOST World GmbH, an international producer of fifth wheel couplings, telescopic landing gears, kingpins and container locks, is establishing a stronger presence in Japan with the founding of its own distribution company in Yokohama.
JOST is reacting to the growing significance and requirements of the Japanese commercial vehicle market. Until now, JOST was only active in Japan in cooperation with Yokohama Sharyo Co. Ltd. (YOKOSHA). JOST has been providing all large manufacturers of trucks and trailers in Japan with fifth wheel couplings and telescopic landing gears since 1989. In future, other products and system components from the JOST range are to complement the range available to Japanese customers.
JOST Japan is based in Yokohama. Markus Schaedlich is managing director of the new distribution company and Yasuaki Mori is head of distribution.


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Risk, Stress, and Capacity
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Climate change and mitigation policies adopted by a locality indelibly impact urban form, landscape, and economy. The Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) has become a dominant movement organizing the localities to proactively address climate change. This study examines metropolitan area commitment to the CCP. Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical techniques are used to analyze metros on dimensions of climate change risk, stress, and civic capacity. "Climate change risk" measures a metro area's coastal proximity, ecosystem sensitivity, and susceptibility to extreme weather events. "Climate change stress" summarizes transportation, energy, and production practices that adversely affect climate systems. "Civic capacity" estimates human capital and environmental concern variables that constitute a metro area's ability to commit to policy initiatives. Statistical results indicate that high stressor areas are significantly less likely to participate in the CCP campaign, and metros high in civic capacity are significantly more likely to commit to the CCP campaign. © SAGE Publications, Inc.2008.
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Zahran, S., Grover, H., Brody, S. D., & Vedlitz, A.

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March 21 (UPI) — A Scottish court found a Youtuber guilty of hate speech after he taught his dog to mimic a Nazi salute when he said “gas the Jews” and “Sieg Heil.”
Sheriff Derek O’Carroll found Mark Meecham, 30, guilty of a charge under the Communications Act for posting the video, which was found to be “anti-Semitic and racist in nature” and aggravated by religious prejudice, the BBC reported.
“In my view it is a reasonable conclusion that the video is grossly offensive,” O’Carroll said. “The description of the video as humorous is no magic wand. This court has taken the freedom of expression into consideration. But the right to freedom of expression also comes with responsibility.”
Meecham, who has denied any wrongdoing, will be sentenced on April 23.
The Scottish Youtube personality posted the video in 2016 and was arrested last year. In the video, Meecham said he wanted to play a prank on his girlfriend by teaching her pug a Nazi salute.
“My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of which is a Nazi,” Meecham said in the video.
The video goes on to show brief clips of Meecham training the dog, with little success. Eventually, the dog raises its paw to its chest level when Meecham says, “Sieg Heil.”
After the verdict, Meecham, who goes by the moniker “Count Dankula” online, found support from popular comedians, including Rickey Gervais and Jim Norton.
“A man has been convicted in a UK court of making a joke that was deemed ‘grossly offensive,'” Gervais tweeted. “If you don’t believe in a person’s right to say things that you might find “grossly offensive”, then you don’t believe in Freedom of Speech.”
“If the courts really wanted to punish @CountDankulaTV, they’d book his dog on a [United Airlines] flight,” Norton said.

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Prlic A.,University of California at San Diego |
Yates A.,European Bioinformatics Institute |
Bliven S.E.,University of California at San Diego |
Rose P.W.,University of California at San Diego |
And 12 more authors.
Bioinformatics | Year: 2012
Motivation: BioJava is an open-source project for processing of biological data in the Java programming language. We have recently released a new version (3.0.5), which is a major update to the code base that greatly extends its functionality.Results: BioJava now consists of several independent modules that provide state-of-the-art tools for protein structure comparison, pairwise and multiple sequence alignments, working with DNA and protein sequences, analysis of amino acid properties, detection of protein modifications and prediction of disordered regions in proteins as well as parsers for common file formats using a biologically meaningful data model. © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Turnbull D.W.,Genomics Core |
Struck A.J.,University of Oregon
Journal of Physiology | Year: 2016
Key points: Histamine is a primordial signalling molecule, capable of activating cells in an autocrine or paracrine fashion via specific cell surface receptors, in a variety of pathways that probably predate its more recent role in innate and adaptive immunity. Although histamine is normally associated with pathological conditions or allergic and anaphylactic reactions, it may contribute beneficially to the normal changes that occur within skeletal muscle during the recovery from exercise. We show that the human response to exercise includes an altered expression of thousands of protein-coding genes, and much of this response appears to be driven by histamine. Histamine may be an important molecular transducer contributing to many of the adaptations that accompany chronic exercise training. Histamine is a primordial signalling molecule, capable of activating cells in an autocrine or paracrine fashion via specific cell surface receptors. In humans, aerobic exercise is followed by a post-exercise activation of histamine H1 and H2 receptors localized to the previously exercised muscle. This could trigger a broad range of cellular adaptations in response to exercise. Thus, we exploited RNA sequencing to explore the effects of H1 and H2 receptor blockade on the exercise transcriptome in human skeletal muscle tissue harvested from the vastus lateralis. We found that exercise exerts a profound influence on the human transcriptome, causing the differential expression of more than 3000 protein-coding genes. The influence of histamine blockade post-exercise was notable for 795 genes that were differentially expressed between the control and blockade condition, which represents >25% of the number responding to exercise. The broad histamine footprint on the human exercise transcriptome crosses many cellular functions, including inflammation, vascular function, metabolism, and cellular maintenance. © 2016 The Physiological Society.
Shan J.,Laboratory of Genetic Medicine and Immunology |
DSouza S.P.,Laboratory of Genetic Medicine and Immunology |
Bakhru S.,Brown University |
Al-Azwani E.K.,Genomics Core |
And 14 more authors.
Cancer Research | Year: 2013
Although the linkage between germline mutations of BRCA1 and hereditary breast/ovarian cancers is well established, recent evidence suggests that altered expression of wild-type BRCA1 might contribute to the sporadic forms of breast cancer. The breast cancer gene trinucleotide-repeat-containing 9 (TNRC9; TOX3) has been associated with disease susceptibility but its function is undetermined. Here, we report that TNRC9 is often amplified and overexpressed in breast cancer, particularly in advanced breast cancer. Gene amplification was associated with reduced disease-free and metastasis-free survival rates. Ectopic expression of TNRC9 increased breast cancer cell proliferation, migration, and survival after exposure to apoptotic stimuli. These phenotypes were associated with tumor progression in a mouse model of breast cancer. Gene expression profiling, protein analysis, and in silico assays of large datasets of breast and ovarian cancer samples suggested that TNRC9 and BRCA1 expression were inversely correlated. Notably, we found that TNRC9 bound to both the BRCA1 promoter and the cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB) complex, a regulator of BRCA1 transcription. In support of this connection, expression of TNRC9 downregulated expression of BRCA1 by altering the methylation status of its promoter. Our studies unveil a function for TNRC9 in breast cancer that highlights a new paradigm in BRCA1 regulation. Cancer Res; 73(9); 2840-9. © 2013 AACR.
Billingsley C.N.,Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
Allen J.R.,Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
Baumann D.D.,Purdue University |
Deitz S.L.,Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
And 8 more authors.
American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A | Year: 2013
Trisomy 21 in humans causes cognitive impairment, craniofacial dysmorphology, and heart defects collectively referred to as Down syndrome. Yet, the pathophysiology of these phenotypes is not well understood. Craniofacial alterations may lead to complications in breathing, eating, and communication. Ts65Dn mice exhibit craniofacial alterations that model Down syndrome including a small mandible. We show that Ts65Dn embryos at 13.5 days gestation (E13.5) have a smaller mandibular precursor but a normal sized tongue as compared to euploid embryos, suggesting a relative instead of actual macroglossia originates during development. Neurological tissues were also altered in E13.5 trisomic embryos. Our array analysis found 155 differentially expressed non-trisomic genes in the trisomic E13.5 mandible, including 20 genes containing a homeobox DNA binding domain. Additionally, Sox9, important in skeletal formation and cell proliferation, was upregulated in Ts65Dn mandible precursors. Our results suggest trisomy causes altered expression of non-trisomic genes in development leading to structural changes associated with DS. Identification of genetic pathways disrupted by trisomy is an important step in proposing rational therapies at relevant time points to ameliorate craniofacial abnormalities in DS and other congenital disorders. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Ahmed I.,Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar |
Karedath T.,Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar |
Andrews S.S.,Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar |
Al-Azwani I.K.,Genomics Core |
And 4 more authors.
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Recently, a class of endogenous species of RNA called circular RNA (circRNA) has been shown to regulate gene expression in mammals and their role in cellular function is just beginning to be understood. To investigate the role of circRNAs in ovarian cancer, we performed paired-end RNA sequencing of primary sites, peritoneal and lymph node metastases from three patients with stage IIIC ovarian cancer. We developed an in-house computational pipeline to identify and characterize the circRNA expression from paired-end RNA-Seq libraries. This pipeline revealed thousands of circular isoforms in Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma (EOC). These circRNAs are enriched for potentially effective miRNA seed matches. A significantly larger number of circRNAs are differentially expressed between tumor sites than mRNAs. Circular and linear expression exhibits an inverse trend for many cancer related pathways and signaling pathways like NFkB, PI3k/AKT and TGF-β typically activated for mRNA in metastases are inhibited for circRNA expression. Further, circRNAs show a more robust expression pattern across patients than mRNA forms indicating their suitability as biomarkers in highly heterogeneous cancer transcriptomes. The consistency of circular RNA expression may offer new candidates for cancer treatment and prognosis.

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Netflix has announced its biggest price-hike in its 12-year history. The most popular plan will be bumped from $11 to $13 . . . so most subscribers will have to pay $2 more per month, or $24 more a year.
The standard, most popular plan will go from $11 per month to $13 . . . the lowest plan will go from $8 to $9 . . . and the highest plan with ultra-high definition will jump from $14 to $16. So most people will be paying another $2 a month, or $24 a year.
Will you be re upping your subscription? I will. I got rid of cable and just have Hulu and Netflix, so yea I'm gonna! (not to mention all of those shared accounts).


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Long ago, during a hot and sweaty recording session that now lasts like a feverish dream, Cliffs made his new album, DNA. Many memories remain of that day in June 2018 in Jeremy Ebert’s (aka Jerbil House) home studio, but nothing more than the oppressive heat that defined the sessions as singer / guitarist Aaron Cottrell, singer / bassist Adam Hardy and then-drummer Jason Winner recorded eight songs with engineer / producer Alex Douglas.
Without a fan or air conditioning, Winner’s bare foot kept sliding off the bass drum during recording. Later, the drummer’s sweat soaked through his jeans and seeped into the cracks in his phone, frying him. At one point, Cottrell and Hardy said they had to take Douglas to the Grandview CafÃ© for a food and water break to keep him from passing out. âWe felt like we had just played a game of basketball,â said Hardy.
In the end, after adding a few overdubs and some lo-fi acoustic tracks, Cliffs left with DNA, which the scuzz-pop group will celebrate with a release show at Ace of Cups on Saturday, November 27, with new drummer Chris Mengerink and local openers Tetnis and Mukiss. (As is the custom of the group at Cliffsgiving, entry to the show will be reduced with a can.) In addition to the cassette copies of DNA, the group will also have to sell a new B-side and a cassette of rarities.
“We have all these recordings just before [2015 album] Self-portrait, where it’s just Adam and I in our old living room on Fourth Street, and I’m playing acoustics and Adam playing a cardboard drum box with various other drums and bells and whistles, literally, âa Cottrell said in a recent video call with Hardy, who also lamented the missing but not forgotten Val Keyboard – an old keyboard with a Val Kilmer-like Batman playing card stuck to the top. âThere are all these recordings that we used to do that are very much rooted in acoustic recording and weird, lo-fi with avant-garde noises and stuff. This kind of vibe has always been a part of Cliffs.
This atmosphere continues until DNA, which features two acoustic tracks with a hearty tape whistle and found sounds: âIDKâ by Hardy and Cottrell’s instrumental pastiche, âInlandâ.
âI would work at the Ideas Foundry staring at my computer all day,â Cottrell said of the genesis of âInlandâ. “I found this guitar thing that I had done some time ago and just started to find different samples that I had recorded on my phone when I was in Europe and other times in my life and I started stringing them together while I was at work. ”
âIDKâ, on the other hand, is the result of a late night inspiration. âI was going through some weird shit at 3am, and something hit me,â Hardy said. “I was like, you know what?” I’m going to try and record a song on my phone that sounds like it’s not on a phone, but like it’s the early days of Elephant Six or the early days of Elliott Smith – those old lo-fi recordings where nowadays you can do it on a phone because your phone is more powerful than any recording equipment they had in the early 90s.
The rest of DNA features the loud guitars, big drums, screaming backing vocals and crumpled pop melodies that Cliffs is known for. Some of the songs, such as the title track “Block out the Sun / City Life” and “Radio,” are several years old, which made the band members reflect on previous eras in their lives.
âI see a person whose life was a bit chaotic. Their minds were much more chaotic and directionless. What I think about now when I hear ‘Blocking the Sun’ is like blocking something that could potentially be of use to you in order to stay in a more stagnant position, âCottrell said. “Maybe I didn’t even see this when I wrote it.”
“Radio” dates back to Hardy’s college days, when he wrote the song after a frustrating philosophy class. âThere was this person in class that I just didn’t like, so I kind of wrote it despite this person, calling him next to nothing,â Hardy said, quoting the song’s opening line. : “So being something is nothing / Or it’s just the way you perceive it / Because if something was nothing / Well, it will do something to you.
âIt’s a nice little pat on the back, but at the same time a hit with a knife,â said Hardy, noting how much the song has slowed down and become more thoughtful and Tweedy-esque over the years. “The pace we’re playing now and the way we’re doing it is a lot more Wilco-ian. Papa Jeff would be proud of that version.”
Cliffsloquialisms like “Papa Jeff”, “Cliffsgiving”, “Val Keyboard” and other amalgamations all fit well into the “bizarre making art” aesthetic of Cliffs, which has become even more varied over. DNA (including a hidden ’90s track that incorporates both Satan and Lou Barlow). âThis record is a lot more eclectic than things of the past,â said Hardy.
âI think there are elements of Adam and I that are undeniable in this recording, but there are also some very Cliffs moments that are the two of usâ¦ working together and understanding it together,â Cottrell said. “Call him DNA just made sense. The double helix.


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Screwed Up Moments was first organised to help de-stigmatise failure, and to share the message that it’s okay to fail, and it’s okay to try again. After 7 successful editions and 20 authentic stories from brave individuals, we wanted to create a more accessible platform for more people to hear about them.
As such, we’re excited to announce that we are launching a podcasts series with some of our speakers from Screwed Up Moments!
Watch the trailer of the series which will launch on 3 October 2019!
This weekly series will run through October to December, and features 9 speakers from our Screwed Up Moments.
Our Podcast Partner
Danny is an independent podcast producer who started his own show, the Economical Rice Podcast, back in 2017. Since then, he has gone on to launch a different series, the Podcast Spotlight, as well as created the local community Podcast SG for Singaporean producers. Moving forward he is focusing on a specialized producer role, under the name Fabl Productions.


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Who Makes Me? Photo Collage Workshop
11.30am Saturday 28 April 2018
Jubilee Library, Brighton
FREE - drop in
Who makes you who you are? Who are your role models? How do they shape your identity?
Join artist Becky Warnock in exploring these questions in a series of playful photo collage workshops combining studio portraits and collage.
Make textural portraits that explore the people that shape your identity.
Suitable for family groups with children age 4+
A Photoworks event in association with Brighton & Hove Library Services

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MAGILLIAN is a Dj/Producer/Remixer & Label Manager that explores Electronic Dance Music on is different expressions, focused on high quality music, releasing on top labels such as Bush Records, Monique Musique, Go Deeva, Kult Records, Freshin, Family Grooves, Crossworld Records or in the Label he runs with Mikalogic called “Hush Recordz”.
His music & Label are supported by prestigious names like Ritchie Hawtin, Roger Sanchez, Noir, Hot Since 82, Steve Lawler, Marco Carola, Djuma Soundsystem, Pig & Dan, Dj Chus, Oxia, Tube & Berger, Alex Young, Dandi & Ugo, Slam, G.Pal, Just Be (Bushwacka!), Anderson Noise, Paul Darey, Tube & Berger, Umek, The Advent just to name few.
From Deep House to Techno, his Technic, versatility and musical tastes led him to be invited to perform in Portugal biggest Venues and Events. He was the first Portuguese DJ to be invited to perform in the World tour events of worldwide renowned clubs of Ibiza, such as “El Divino”, “Café Mambo” and Salvacion Ibiza presents Republik @ Space Ibiza. His work has been internationally recognized by being invited to perform in countries like South Africa (Durban), Germany (Berlin), Spain ( Barcelona @ OFF SONAR, Madrid, Tenerife & Benidorm), Belgium (Brussels), China (Hong Kong and Sengzhen) or Bahrain.
Magillian is also famous for his former 7 years monthly night in Lisbon mythical “Op Art Café Club”, his 8 hours sets in “WeLoveLisbonAfterHours” mornings, as Dance TV & SENNHEISER Hd25 Official Dj and more recently for he’s musical productions, remixes and collaborations with artists like Mikalogic, Eri2, Paul Darey, Hannes Bruniic, Agraba, Bardia F, Marxim Kurtys, Modern Talker, Mark Mansion, Linus K, Kollektiv Ost, Kult Of Krameria, Nuno Aqua, Inaki Santos, Ranno Vollman, Romeofoxtrott, Paul Hamilton, Philip Jo or No Government .
In 2012 he was invited to release is 1st Mixed Compilation on Crossworld Records called “Lisbon After Hours” and reached #88 on Juno Download Album Top Sales and Mikalogic´s remix for is Track “Login” on Crossworld Records reached #6 in Label sales chart on Beatport and has been licensed for the Album “Crossworlder Vol2: WMC 2012” that in just two days reached the 4th place at best-selling Deep House Albums on Juno Download. His collaboration with Nuno Aqua called “Liquid The Remixes” was 2012’s best selling Hush Recordz track on Beatport and have reached the # 61 in the Top Sales on Juno Download and # 94 on DjShop.de. In 2013 release a collaboration with Mikalogic, Heston & Jeancy, called The Underground Brotherhood and reached 10th place in Djshop Deep House sales Chart and “Magillian – Night soldier The Remixes” reached #8 on DJTUNES Deep House Sales Chart, he also released his 2nd Mixed Compilation called “Magillian presents Hush Recordz Mixed, Unmixed & Remixed” which was scored by Dj Shop as a 100% Must Have.
The year of 2014 promises to be Magillian´s most successful year yet, with the recent releases in partnership with his studio partner ERI2 getting the attention from the mythical labels MONIQUE MUSIQUE, BUSH RECORDS & KULT RECORDS and of course 1st Beatport Top 100 arrived with #29 on Minimal Top 100 with their remix of Philip Jo “My Lordy” and “Magillian & Eri2 – Jesus Drunk Wine Ep (Family Grooves) been featured 2 tracks on Top10 and Reached #2 on Satellite EDM Tech-House Sales Chart.


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Draughts by olltwit
Classic game of draughts (checkers) against the computer.
Play Zonk A Zombie free online and help others. When the zombie appears clobber him with your trusty bat. Get in the high score table.
An online maths game with an almost infinite supply of math addition problems to solve.
Mouse click to move the squares back into order. Includes 2 games in one. Each puzzle has eleven levels of difficulty.
An online maths game with an almost infinite supply of maths multiplication problems to solve.
Game to help with learning the alphabet
More Puzzles Games
Animated Puzzle Game for the Saint Valenitine Day.
Play this jigsaw puzzle games of the art painting - air combat. This games including 5 pictures.
Amusement for the entire family.
Teletubbies coloring page game
The classic game of logic, Bulls & Cows; this time, with four-letter words. The computer plays a pretty good game but can be beaten with a little effort! (In fact, the computer is at a distinct disadvantage as it avoids words that are not well established, rarely used or obscene.)

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I think I found this recipe through Punk Domestics, but it's on a blog called Vanilla Garlic (makes me think of Garlic Ice Cream-if you've never tried it, I'd suggest once is good enough) anyway, I'm having a lot of fun reading it so go check it out.
This Chef, Garrett McCord, is out of Sacramento so we share the same seasons and local produce which means I'll be trying out a bunch more of his recipes for sure. I loved the idea of this recipe, with the marraige of Lemon & Kiwi, but after making it, the only problem I had is with how overly sweet it turned out so next time I make it (and as detailed in the recipe below), I'll probably increase the fruit and cut out some sugar.
I also made a few other changes like letting the kiwi & lemon macerate together overnight and I added a little pectin to firm it up a bit. I'm very happy with the end result and I must say, it is a very esthetically pleasing jam as well, so great for gift giving!
Kiwi Lemon Jam
Makes ~42 oz
4 lbs Kiwi (Peeled & Sliced in rounds)
2 C Unrefined Sugar
1 Lemon (Washed, De-seeded and diced)
2 Tbsp Low-Sugar Pectin
-In a large bowl mix sliced Kiwi with 1 cup of Sugar, set aside.
-In a food processor, pulse diced Lemon & 1 cup Sugar for about 1 min, let sit for about an hr.
-Mix Kiwi & Lemon sugars together and let macerate in the refrigerator overnight.
-Place fruit in a non-reactive pot and bring to a boil then lower to medium, add in Pectin and stir frequently until sugar is dissolved and fruit is mushy, about 15 mins.
-Ladle into sterilized jars and process for 10 mins. (or keep in refrigerator for up to 2 months) Water bath processed jam will keep in a cool dark place for about 1 year.


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LOS ANGELES, (CelebrityAccess) — Live Nation Entertainment has named Jordan Zachary to serve as the company's Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to President and CEO Michael Rapino.
Zachary joins Live Nation from The Raine Group, a merchant bank that advised Live Nation on a number of their recent deals, including the C3 Presents acquisition and the company's programming partnership with Canadian media company Vice.
Zachary comes from a mergers and acquisitions background, and has worked with companies such as the now defunct Lehman Brothers as well as UBS Investment Bank. Zachary currently serves on the boards of Margaritaville and C3 Presents, and is an observer on the board of directors of Vice Media and Important Studios.
He holds a B.A. from Colgate University.
"As we continue to drive our global market share, bringing on Jordan who has deep expertise in the live music and media industries will help us accelerate the growth of our concerts flywheel and find additional ways to build our high margin on-site, advertising and ticketing businesses," said Rapino. – Staff Writers

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Hello Blog it's me, Loulou.
*little celebration party for the two month gone blogger*
Well. I left as an inexperienced at life girl and now I return to the internet world as a...slighty more experienced girl. Ha. Over the next months I'll share stories about my travels in India and the stories of Great Barrier (the island that I'm currently blogging from) and of course I'll be sharing with you what it's like to be a 'Fresher' living in one of the coldest places in New Zealand. You'll drown in all this (I know) but hopefully it'll be an exciting kind of drowning and you'll learn something even when surrounded by this fluid ocean of information. Ha ha. Also, funnily enough, I've met some pretty darn interesting people along the way such as the cool cool photographer, Derek Henderson, who knows absolutely EVERYONE in the creative fashion industry (well...enough people). I can't wait to return to you properly in mid-Feb. to get started on this but for the moment HELLO! and Aps has done a wonderful job while I've been away!
Stay tuned you absofrockinluters.
(Picture I took when we camped in the desert in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India)

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