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In Su Hai's Black Shop, when Ye Xuan brought the Dark Tiger here, Night Rose was elegantly sitting inside the store reading a novel called "Close up Berserker". She was attracted by the wonderful story inside and became extremely engrossed.
"Big sister, what are you looking at?"
Only when Ye Xuan silently walked to her side did she regain her senses and quickly put away the book.
"Young Master Xuan, why have you come?"Seeing Ye Xuan's arrival, Ye Qiuwei spoke with a face full of pleasant surprise.
"Come and prepare some things!"
Ye Xuan walked over to a nearby chair and sat down. He lazily stretched his waist and slowly said.
As for the Dark Tiger, he wore a mask to cover his face. He respectfully stood beside Ye Xuan like a loyal guard."What is it?" I hope that Young Master Xuan can make it clear that Rose is very willing to help Young Master Xuan out! "
Ye Qiuwei stood up and gracefully brewed a cup of tea for Ye Xuan, then spoke with a smile.
"Are there any new TKT explosives?"
Ye Xuan pondered for a moment before asking.
Hearing Ye Xuan's words, Night Rose was stunned.
TKT explosive is a new type of explosive which has been studied and evolved on T.N.T. explosive. It uses nanotechnology and nuclear weapons technology.The explosive power of one kilogram of TKT explosive is equivalent to the destructive power and energy of one thousand kilograms of T.N.T. explosive.
Its manufacturing cost was extremely high, and its price was extremely high. Even some large terrorist groups could not obtain it, and it was basically not sold on the market.
"That's right, TKT explosives!"
Ye Xuan lightly nodded his head and spoke with a face full of certainty.
"Young master Xuan, this thing is too dangerous. We don't have it in our store!" "I just checked and saw that there's a TKT miniature explosion package inside the warehouse outside of the suburbs of Su Hai. If you need it, I'll immediately send someone to get it."Ye Rose respectfully replied.
"TKT Miniature Blast Bag?"
Hearing Ye Qiuwei's words, Ye Xuan frowned without a trace, then asked in puzzlement, "How large is its explosive range and lethality?"
He had prepared the TKT explosive because he wanted to use the Dark Tiger Gang to take care of both the Leng Clan and the Unparalleled Sword Sect."The range of the explosion is around 300 meters, the killing range is around 500 meters. If it were to explode within a second, it would be enough to destroy a five story building!"
Ye Qiuwei pondered for a moment before giving Ye Xuan a more precise answer.
"Sure, send someone to get it immediately!"
Ye Xuan was unquestionably extremely satisfied with the TKT Miniature Blast Bag's killing power and range. He quickly spoke up."The round trip will take about two hours. Young master Xuan, please wait patiently!"
Ye Rose lightly nodded, then immediately arranged for people to go in front to retrieve the TKT miniature explosion bag! "
"Two hours? It's just enough for me to arrange a good show! "The corners of Ye Xuan's mouth curled up slightly as he spoke in a mocking tone.
He leisurely sipped the fragrant tea on the table, and instructed the Dark Tiger, "Dark Tiger, you should have contact information for the core members of the Unparalleled Sword Sect, Leng Clan, Song Clan, and so on, right?"
"Some, Master!"The Dark Tiger replied respectfully.
"Very well, call them and inform them of the results of today's siege. We need to report to them personally and invite them to the Jingjiang villa that we bought not long ago to meet up. Do not reveal our intentions, and do not let them have any doubts!"
Ye Xuan's eyes flashed as he spoke with an unquestionable tone.
Quietly nodding his head, Quiet Tiger went to the side and started dialing a number.
Ye Xuan and the others wanted to lure them all together and then use the TKT miniature explosives to wipe them all out in one go.
The plan went smoothly after two hours. Under Ye Xuan's control, the Dark Tiger left Su Hai's Dark Shop and headed for Jingjiang villa.
As for Ye Xuan, he returned to the Modern House.
When Ye Xuan returned to the Modern House, Li Chunyang had already returned to the hotel to rest."Young Master Xuan, you're back!"
Li Chunyang hurriedly stood up and smiled when he saw Ye Xuan return.
This fellow's injuries had already been treated and bandaged to a great extent. Combined with Ye Xuan's treatment, it wouldn't even take three days for him to recover.
"Pure Yang, come … I'll show you a good show that's about to take place! "
Ye Xuan lightly nodded, then smiled.
As his words fell, he quickly pressed the button on the side of the Monarch's Watch with his finger.
Immediately, a holographic projection appeared.
It was a spacious and luxurious villa. The hall was empty and devoid of people.
"Young Master Xuan, where is this monitoring system? Where's the big show you were talking about? "
Seeing this, Li Chunyang's face was filled with doubt as he asked with a puzzled expression.
"This is a second-hand villa that I bought in Su Hai. As for the big picture …" There was no opening! "Just wait and see!"
Ye Xuan explained.
This villa was something that Ye Xuan had brought the Dark Tiger to buy not long ago. Moreover, he'd installed an invisible watch system to monitor and observe the situation within the villa.
Especially when he saw the faces of Jiang Anshi, the Second Elder, the Third Elder, and the rest of the Elders from the Peerless Battalion through the surveillance. Their expressions were extremely cold and unsightly, and killing intent burst forth from their eyes as they clenched their fists so tightly.
"Don't worry, they will all die today!"
Ye Xuan extended his hand to pat Li Chunyang's shoulder as he felt Li Chunyang's mood, then smiled as he spoke."They all have to die?"
Hearing Ye Xuan's words, Li Chunyang was stunned.
Ye Xuan lightly nodded."How?"
Li Chunyang asked, puzzled."Just watch …"
Ye Xuan answered mysteriously.
In the lobby of Jingjiang villa, more and more experts gathered as time passed.
Not only were there the Elders from the Peerless Sword Sect, led by Jiang Anshi, as well as a large number of powerful disciples from the Peerless Sword Sect.
Of course, there were also a large number of experts from the Leng Clan, led by Leng Yanrui, and a large number of experts from the Song Clan, led by Song Yinghao.
Most of the members of the three great forces that were sent to Su Hai to participate in the Su Hai auction had gathered here. The number of people here was much more than the night they besieged Ye Xuan at the Modern House.
There was no lack of four star Martial Kings and three five star Martial Kings. It could be said that they had a very strong lineup.
Ye Xuan was rather satisfied with his lineup. He didn't know why Limitless Sword Immortal of the Unparalleled Sword Sect wasn't here.
"What's going on? Why did that fellow, Dark Tiger, invite us here? "
"What's going on? Where's that guy, Dark Tiger?""Didn't the Dark Tiger go to chase after Li Chunyang? "Why did you invite us here?"
As time passed, the owner of this place, the Dark Tiger, had yet to arrive. This caused the people in the hall to involuntarily frown. Their expressions were extremely impatient and they could not help but discuss amongst themselves.
Leng Yanrui's eyes swept across the hall coldly, he lowered his head and looked at the time on his watch, then turned his head to look at Song Yinghao, and spoke in a deep voice: "Brother Song, the Dark Tiger is a member of your Song Family, what is his purpose in inviting us here, and what is his purpose? "Where is he?"
As soon as Leng Yanrui finished speaking, the Great Elder of the Unparalleled Sword Sect, Jiang Anshi, the Second Elder, and the others all turned to look at Song Yinghao, waiting for his reply.
"I'm not sure either. He called me to report that he had something important to report to us …"
Faced with Leng Yanrui's questioning, Song Yinghao's face was filled with a bitter smile as he spoke helplessly."Rustle, rustle, rustle …"
Just as Song Yinghao finished speaking, the rustling sound of footsteps came from outside the villa, causing the gazes of everyone present to involuntarily tremble. They turned around and looked towards the source of the sound.
Under their astonished and ugly gazes, the Dark Tiger, whose entire body was covered in blood from head to toe from head to toe, slowly walked in.
Looking at the Dark Tiger's miserable appearance, Song Yinghao's expression couldn't help but change, and he couldn't help but speak up.
"Lord Dark Tiger..."
The other powerful experts of the Song Clan also spoke with looks of anxiety and concern.
They wanted to rush up to the Dark Tiger to support his body, but they were stopped by the Dark Tiger's hand.
"Dark Tiger pays his respects to Deputy Patriarch Song, Lord Leng Yanrui, First Elder …"The Dark Tiger walked to the center of the hall and knelt down respectfully with one knee facing Song Yinghao, Leng Yanrui, and Jiang Anshi, the Great Elder of the Unparalleled Sword Sect, as he cupped his fists and greeted them.
"Dark Tiger, what's going on? Didn't you go with Hei Qi and the rest to encircle and annihilate Li Chunyang? How did you end up like this? "Seeing that, Song Yinghao could not help but ask.
"Yeah, where's Hei Qi and the rest?"
Leng Yanrui also asked in confusion.
"Reporting to Vice Song Family Patriarch, Master Leng Yanrui … We met that brat Ye Xuan while we were besieging Li Chunyang. Other than me being lucky enough to escape, everyone else including Hei Qi died. They were killed by Ye Xuan! "
The Dark Tiger answered with a pained expression.
"What?" How could this be? "
"That's impossible! Ye Xuan, that brat, is just like Li Chunyang. With you and Hei Qi working together, how could he not be able to deal with them? "
Hearing the Dark Tiger's words, Leng Yanrui and Song Yinghao's expressions changed at the same time, as they let out words that were out of control in shock.
The experts from the Leng Clan and the rest, as well as the large number of disciples from the Peerless Sword Sect, were all shocked as well.They were very clear about the strength of the Dark Tiger and Hei Qi, not to mention they brought a large number of well-equipped powerhouses, how could this be the result?
"Hidden Tiger, have you seen the two elders, Jiang Zhu Yuan and Jiang Ying Hou, as well as a large group of my Unparalleled Sword Sect's disciples? However, they have all gone to hunt Li Chunyang down! "
"Reporting to Great Elder Jiang Anshi, both Jiang Zhu Yuan and Jiang Ying Hou have also died tragically in the hands of Ye Xuan, that kid. The troops they brought along have been completely annihilated without a single survivor …"
The Dark Tiger lowered its head and replied guiltily.
The TKT miniature explosives on his waist were already starting the countdown. It was less than a minute since the TKT miniature explosive package had exploded.
"You said fifth brother and fourth brother were also killed by that little bastard Ye Xuan?"
The Dark Tiger's words had undoubtedly caused Jiang Anshi, the second, and third elder of the Unparalleled Sword Sect to be greatly shocked. Their eyes were wide open, mouths agape, and their mouths gaped open as they uttered words of disbelief.
"The Fifth and Fourth Elders are dead? "That's impossible!"
The other disciples of the Unparalleled Sword Sect also had looks of shock on their faces as they stared blankly at the Dark Tiger that was covered in wounds."It's just the two of them, how could they have such terrifying battle prowess and kill so many people?"
Leng Yanrui and Song Yinghao also spoke up in shock.
Not only did Ye Xuan and Li Chunyang kill the experts Hei Qi and the Dark Tiger had brought along, they also killed the Fourth and Fifth Elders of the Unparalleled Sword Sect. How could this not cause them to feel shocked and shocked?
How could those two fellows possess such terrifying combat prowess?
"Do you think it's necessary for me to lie to everyone now that I'm like this?"
A disappointed and bitter smile surfaced on the Dark Tiger's face as he spoke with a helpless expression.After hearing the Dark Tiger's words, everyone's expressions could not help but become blank. For a moment, they could not find any words to refute.
They knew that what the Dark Tiger said was most likely true.
Regardless of whether it was the Fourth Elder or the Fifth Elder of the Unparalleled Sword Sect, or the Leng Clan's Hei Qi and the others, they were all dead. They were all killed by Ye Xuan and the others!
"Dammit, that damned bastard!"
"Where is he? Take us to kill him! "
"If I don't cut that bastard into a thousand pieces today, I, Leng Yanrui, swear that I will not be a human!"
In the next moment, furious roars came out from the mouths of the Great Elder Jiang Anshi, Song Yinghao, and Leng Yanrui.
As their words fell, violent killing intent exploded from their bodies unreservedly, stirring up a gale in the hall.
Seeing this, a sneer appeared on the Dark Tiger's face. He looked at Jiang Anshi, Leng Yanrui, and the others, and his gaze was filled with undisguised mockery and coldness. A cold voice came from his mouth, "Do you know why I summoned you here?"
Hearing the Dark Tiger's words, Jiang Anshi, Leng Yanrui, and the others voiced their doubts.
"Because my master has a gift for us to give to you!"
The smile on the Dark Tiger's face became even more strange.There were only three seconds left in the countdown of the TKT miniaturized explosive pack on his waist.
"Master? "What do you mean?"
"Dark Tiger, what's wrong with you? I feel like there's something wrong with you! "
Upon hearing the hidden tiger's words and seeing the strange smile on its face, everyone felt goosebumps in their hearts as they asked in a deep voice.
"Did you notice that until now?" It's already too late! "
The Dark Tiger grinned, baring its two hundred white teeth. It walked towards Jiang Anshi, Leng Yanrui, and the others with cold steps.
"Who is your master?"
Leng Yanrui asked coldly.
"My master is called Ye Xuan!"
The Dark Tiger coldly replied."F * ck, kill him …"
The Dark Tiger's answer made the faces of Jiang Anshi, Leng Yanrui, and the others change drastically. A strong sense of danger rose from the bottom of their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel goosebumps all over their bodies.
In the next moment, killing intent burst out of their eyes as they charged towards the Dark Tiger with endless killing intent.
"Come with me to hell!"Seeing Leng Yanrui and the rest rushing over, the Dark Tiger opened his arms and laughed wildly.
The moment his words left his mouth, the countdown timer for the TKT miniaturized explosive package on his waist turned to zero!
Previous Chapter Next Chapter "Boom!"
In the next moment, an earth-shattering explosion resounded through the sky.In the comfortable lobby of the Modern House.
"Young Master Xuan, this …"Li Chunyang blankly stared at the holographic projection that had lost its image due to the explosion. His face was filled with terror and shock as he looked at Ye Xuan with undisguised shock and astonishment.
He didn't think that Ye Xuan would actually be able to eliminate Leng Yanrui and Song Yinghao in one go!
Ye Xuan couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Chunyang's shocked expression. He stood up and walked out of the room, indifferent words coming out of his mouth.
"Let's go, it's our turn to take the stage!"

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The Longhand Film
by Courtney Stephens
in Issues, Reflections
on Jul 12, 2021
For the past six years, I sought out amateur travel films made by women in the first half of the 20th century, which I collected in an all-archival essay film, Terra Femme. In the process, I watched dozens of hours of footage of everything under the sun: biblical gardens, women doing laundry, ice fields, a tapir, mounds in a cemetery. Occasionally, there is a handwritten intertitle. “Crossing the Equator” reads one, and the filmmaker has added little serif marks to the letters in “Equator.” What follows is footage shot onboard a boat during a line-crossing ceremony, in which Poseidon and his goons haze anyone crossing for the first time by slathering them in shaving cream and throwing them in a pool—an equatorial baptism. Elsewhere, title cards show up with facts (“Had lunch here”) or bits of acquired wisdom (“Camel wisdom: if you stand behind them, they can’t spit on you, if you stand in front, they can’t kick you.”). By turn spectacular, mundane and cliched, the films also feature hand-drawn maps and shots of signage or tourist pamphlets. The effect is of a moving image scrapbook, annotating journeys through vanished worlds.
With the advent of home movie cameras in the 1920s, products quickly came on the market that allowed amateur filmmakers to make printed intertitles with borders and decorative fonts. Premade title sets were also advertised, a few feet of leader that could be affixed to the head of a film, with stock titles like “Symphony in Color” and instructions on what should be shot—in this case, spring blossoms. Other suggested subjects included airports, auto races, birthday parties and a scenario called “Hold the Phone” in which a housewife has her phone call interrupted by a “child crying, a salesman at the door, a collector, etc.” In contrast to this preordained content (and the predestined activities of female lives), women’s travel films are comparatively anarchic, seemingly driven by an urge to capture chance events, then collate the world according to them, with private notations and other forms of text stitching them together. Their haphazard arrangement and personal touches set them firmly apart from professional travel documentaries of the time. These were not aspirational endeavors, nor were many of the women I researched involved in the (male-dominated) amateur cine-club circuit. These films seem, by and large, to have been private documents, intended for the friends and families of their makers or for the makers themselves.
In his essay “In Defense of Amateur,” Stan Brakhage noted that the word in Latin meant “lover” and wondered why, by 1971 (when he published the piece), it had acquired a derogatory connotation. He extols the dedication of the home-movie maker, who photographs “the events of his happiness and personal importance.” Brakhage sees himself and other experimental practitioners as successors to this tradition. (He is in agreement here with Quentin Tarantino, who once stated, “I like holding on to my amateur status.”). As an experimental film canon took shape in the 1970s and ’80s, filmmakers like Hollis Frampton and Fred Worden used handwriting to call attention to the nature of word and image in a film, and to create palimpsestic studies of the different drafts living inside a finished work in films like Frampton’s Poetic Justice and Worden’s How The Hell I Ripped Jack Goldstein’s Painting In The Elevator. Brakhage himself “signed” many of his films by scratching cursive letters into successive frames of celluloid leader—when projected, the frames write the filmmaker’s signature across the screen in light. In 2021, we have seen the near-elimination of the line between professional and amateur. We use screens to scribble on Instagram stories and dash off memes. But handwriting continues to show up purposefully in experimental and nonfiction films, even as longhand writing becomes increasingly obsolete (cursive is no longer taught in many primary schools). What does handwriting convey when it shows up in a film? What is its relationship to past modes of vernacular writing? How does written text imbue or even subvert the information it conveys?
In The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Anne Trubek points out that early writing was primarily a form of counting. Cave paintings are less works of self-expression, it is believed, than tallies of goods—an early form of data visualization. Many of the Mesopotamian tablets that have survived are receipts, the minuscule marks of ancient cuneiform recording a trade of linen under the rule of a particular king or providing a list of temple holdings. It would be several millennia before the notion of personal handwriting, and the belief that it reveals attributes of the individual, entered the public imagination. For the centuries in between, written scripts operated more like fonts, and the point was to adhere to them. The Romans wrote inscriptions in capitalis, the classically balanced serif script to which, perhaps, the filmmaker makes homage in her embellished “Equator” (and from whence we get the term capital letters). The geographically distinct scripts that proliferated in Europe through the Middle Ages were so ornate they were often unintelligible across regions. They were conformed to diligently by the monks who copied books and manuscripts and, following the advent of the printing press in the 15th century, found themselves in demand as tutors of penmanship. Formal calligraphy had a new application in Europe: the drawing up of documents and bureaucratic papers in the conquest of territories.
The analysis of character through handwriting came about in the 19th century and was briefly linked to the occult and divinatory practices like palmistry. But it gained steam as an empirically tested collection of truths that could bridge science and religion by revealing how the soul shows itself scientifically through writing. These ideas especially took hold in France, where to this day it is common to ask job applicants to provide handwriting samples, which are then analyzed by graphologists, or handwriting experts. Strong-willed people cross their t’s with force; low-hanging g’s and y’s are evidence of sadness. Pioneering graphologist Jean-Hippolyte Michon wrote, “Who can doubt that every word is the spontaneous and immediate translation of thought? And who can doubt that handwriting is as spontaneous and immediate a translation of thought as speech? All handwriting, like all language, is the immediate manifestation of the intimate, intellectual and moral being.” That the written word is the uninterrupted route from self to page is essentially the logic behind the signature, that mark of the unique self that binds us irrevocably to time—to debt, marriage and more. It becomes physical evidence, and this instant memorialization of the moment of writing links the pen to the camera, which can only ever film the present moment.
Handwriting often shows up in fiction films, as when a character reads or writes a letter or makes a written confession, as in Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest. Usually, it is a way of conveying internal emotions to the viewer or simply a means of moving the story forward. In nonfiction filmmaking, it could easily be seen as a neutral technology—just another way of making words, an ornamental flourish. But longhand writing carries with it more than just the information it conveys. In it lies the mystery of the author, a person living and writing in time. While the history of writing calls to mind learned volumes and chiseled inscriptions, and all the forms of perpetuity that humans have sought after, it is conspicuous evidence of frailty and disputation, of the provisional nature of factual knowledge. Authors die or change their minds. Libraries burn. Buildings fall. Ink fades.
Handwriting often shows up in films that feature nudity. In Mona Hatoum’s 1988 epistolary short Measures of Distance, we hear letters read aloud from the filmmaker’s Palestinian mother, exiled in Beirut. Arabic writing is layered upon what we learn are nude pictures of the mother taken by the daughter on a previous trip, before the current war that prevents Mona from returning. The mother’s letters, read aloud, tell of car bombs and the circumspect eye of her husband. She writes, “You asked me in your last letter, if you can use my pictures in your work. Go ahead and use them, and don’t mention a thing about it to your father. You remember how he was shocked when he caught us taking the pictures in the shower during his afternoon nap…. He still nags me about it, as if I had given you something that only belongs to him.” What is illicit in the film are not the naked pictures but the secret intimacy, forged in the text that overlays them. The letters speak to the constraints of female life; the fact of writing is a form of resistance.
In Maryam Tafakory’s short I Have Sinned A Rapturous Sin, made 30 years later, the filmmaker’s arms, but not her face, can be seen writing Farsi in chalk on black fabric. The words are lines from Sin, the poem by Forugh Farrokhzad (who would also direct the immaculate film The House Is Black). The lines, published when the Iranian poet was only 19, describe a bliss found in submission, beginning:
I have sinned a rapturous sin / in a warm enflamed embrace / sinned in a pair of vindictive arms / arms violent and ablaze
As she writes, Tafakory whispers the words aloud in a voice of urgent defiance. English subtitling in the form of cascading typed text fills up pockets of black in the frame, like echoes of the handwritten pleasure. The filmmaker writes me via email, “typed text and handwriting are different voices for me: handwriting is more quiet, a little shy and secretive. often cryptic or blended into the image. it can be dismissed or lost. my handwriting is always in farsi. typed text is more rigid, has a louder and more arrogant tone with fake authority and/or contradictory remarks. my typed text is mostly in english.” The scenes of writing are contrasted with footage of male commentators, offering their own take on female sexual energies: “In order to reduce her lust and unbridled passion, woman should eat lettuce.”
Written text is by its very nature an act of friction. In Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard’s 3D feature, the author Mary Shelley is depicted writing outdoors, her quill squeaking buoyantly on the page, as if to suggest that the loss of the written word is the loss of a kind of intercourse. Scratching words into celluloid is analogously erotic, like grazing skin with a needle. It’s also incredibly time-consuming. For just a few seconds of a word onscreen, one must carve the same word into hundreds of individual frames of film. The end effect is something coarse and alive. In 1967’s White Calligraphy, Takahiko Iimura carved an entire eighth century Japanese fable into black leader, one character per frame. It is too rapid to read and becomes pure choreography—a flurry of line and curvature. Writing is, after all, a form of drawing, and character languages carry in them earlier modes of representational sketches. In Su Friedrich’s film Gently Down the Stream from 1981, the filmmaker relays a series of dreams she had, interspersed with impressionistic images. “Wander through / large quiet / rooms” read the first three frames, in what appears to be liquid chalk but is revealed to be inscription on the film itself. The shifting allography (ways of making letters) suggests the mutability of dream space, in which one is some sense both writer and reader. The text HOWLS in sharp capitals when a woman cries out or gets tidy and nearly translucent when another shivers. From the handwriting analysis perspective, is variation the equivalent of the soul engaging in open play? An old book on handwriting analysis says that the letter t alone can tell you a lot about a person. A high t means you’re vain, a looped cursive t means you’re sensitive, a low stem on the looped t means you’re sensitive, but you try not to show it. Try to be less sensitive, the book advises. But the film is uninterested in this kind of external analysis. The self is a conjurer. When the dreamer makes a second vagina next to her first one, she wonders: Which is the original?
As a viewer, waiting for words in the frame causes a shift in the images. In Friedrich’s film, highlights on the surface of a pool start to look like letters attempting to form, which also carries an edging, erotic charge. “I lie in a gutter giving birth to myself,” the text finally declares. In the films of Nazlı Dinçel, hand-scratching (and typing, and hammer-punching) agitates the surface of explicit images as a way of claiming them. In her series of “Private Acts” films, the filmmaker recalls forbidden scenes: early experiences masturbating with a showerhead and other forms of autoeroticism, first sex following a divorce. These recollections are scratched into haptic imagery—the thumbing of a flower stamen is as charged as the jerking off of an anonymous penis—firmly imposing her own articulation of events upon tender scenes, an act against shame.
In another scene from Goodbye to Language, a voice asks from offscreen, “To live one’s life? Or to tell it?” The line is quoted by Moyra Davey in her 2016 video Hemlock Forest. Davey says that when she asked her son if he keeps a diary, he replied that he’d rather live his life than narrate it. Handwritten ruptures threaten to destabilize the image, to force time into review even as it unfolds. But they also open the frame to a different kind of truth-telling, which comes from earned knowledge and intellectual itinerancy. They are interested in what gathers over time, similar to a coral reef or the marked-up margins of a book. Language time differs from visual time because what is written has already happened, has been experienced, processed and transformed into words. Handwriting adds to this the accumulated time of the physical being, beginning with the years it took the child to learn to write.
Films use handwriting to summon the pasts that lie dormant in the present, not only for individuals, but within the physical landscape. Hope Tucker’s The Sea [Is Still] Around Us is what the filmmaker calls a salvage ethnography. The 2012 short film uses postcards sent from Corinna, Maine, over the course of the 20th century. The text is laid over contemporary shots of Corinna’s buildings and landscapes while Tucker’s quivering hand holds the postcard itself in the frame, showing earlier versions of the contemporary places. The chronology of postcards describe decades of industrial exploitation, starting with fragments of text from the years before the mill came—“I have a dandy tan on”—which give way to descriptions of choked waterways and overdevelopment. What began as handwritten messages transitions to typewritten text. One can’t be sure if this mirrors what is on the back of the cards we are shown, but the switch is clearly meant to suggest the same mechanization imposed upon the land.
Longhand is the mark of the living human; mechanical type is the mark of The Man. It is near-consensus among historians of type that something was lost in the transition to networked writing systems—not only in the loss of intimacy between the writer and the word, but the loss of intimacy found in vernacular modes of writing such as the postcard, with its shorthand convivialities. “Aloha!” reads a postcard from Hawaii sent in 1961 (and acquired by me at a thrift store a half-century later). “Mickey Rooney stayed here while visiting Honolulu. Most of the movie actors and actresses stayed here. Warm today 80 degrees. Looks like rain but when it rains it lasts about five minutes. Just a drizzle. Liquid sunshine. Los Angeles tomorrow.”
But then tragedy falls into our lives: A loss, an illness, a pandemic interrupts the route we were on, remapping our geographies. All proximities become personal. In Instructions on Parting (2018), the filmmaker and artist Amy Jenkins documents a period in her life during which, in rapid succession, she became pregnant, then lost her sister, her mother and her brother, all to cancer, in a matter of a few years. The intensities of this time period are punctuated with notes of handwritten grief, stated frankly, ellipses between locations during an intense series of transits between dying family members in an endless succession of final visits. What can be told to the page is different than what can be spoken aloud, and this holds true of spoken voiceover.
In 2017’s Tip of My Tongue, Lynne Sachs, on the event of her half-century birthday, gathers people born the same year but from other parts of the world, to think through the major historical events of the past 50 years as refracted through place and perspective. The film opens with a sequence of notations scanned from notebooks. Jotting and crossed-out phrases alight on the screen, then burn out like coals in time. They echo the feeling of living through historic events, when what is happening feels too fast to ever quite grasp except in retrospect. Plato wrote that written words can do nothing more than remind one of what one already knows or has already experienced, and the film is an homage to orality, the idea of writing as a prompt for performance and dialogue. As Socrates quipped, “If you ask a piece of writing a question, it remains silent.”
Baseball marginalia from James Benning’s private collection are linked to the diary of a would-be assassin in American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984), an iconographic exploration of the American social landscape. The scrolling cursive text at the bottom of the screen belongs to the diaries of Arthur Bremer, who, intent on shooting president Nixon, found an easier target in Democratic candidate George Wallace (Wallace survived). Hank Aaron memorabilia are presented in the upper quadrant of the frame, while the soundtrack offers key audio from the era: “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore,” advertising jingles, news coverage, rock ballads. This approach of multivalence through ephemera has the effect of being both lovingly culled and openly incomplete, acknowledging its own limits through the sheer specificity of what has been chosen for inclusion. We get the contours of a subtractive intelligence, collating debris and sifting through transmissions, striving not for completion but for insight. Benning’s cursive hand shows up again in 1992’s North on Evers. This time, it’s his own diaries that scroll over the physical landscape, often disappearing behind darker patches in the frame, then reemerging over grass or a window, like thoughts that dip into the arcane and return unfazed. He visits some friends in San Antonio. “They have a four year old daughter,” the words announce over sand. “I like kids at that age. They want to learn so bad.”
A figure walks through what appears to be a smoldering forest in Sky Hopinka’s Fainting Spells (2018), whose form makes homage to Benning. The film is an imagined conversation between someone younger asking someone older to tell them the story of how the ho-chunk began using the Xąwįska (Indian pipe plant) to revive people who have fainted. Text scrolls across land and sky, though maybe this terrain is less a place, like Benning’s America, than a substrate upon which knowledge is remembered:
“Night is falling and the spirits can see us. / It’s time to go home. / You had told me, ‘When you see the red / oaks, follow the water. / Then, when you find a fork in the river there / will be a lovely piece of land. / Remove everything that shines from your / hands, from your neck, from your body, and / swim to the nearest shore.’ / Xąwsįska, you’ve fainted again.”
Magnetic poles determine the earth’s latitude lines and the equator, but lines of longitude are a human invention, drawn onto the earth arbitrarily. A conference to decide where to place the Prime Meridian took place in 1884, at which representatives from several nations (the colonizing ones) met in Washington, D.C., to agree upon a common zero longitude line. Each nation had used its own navigation for maritime maps—on French maps, deviations of longitude were measured from Paris and so on. But the equally essential point of the conference was to standardize time zones so that clocks around the world would sync. At the time in America, neighboring cities sometimes had different times of day, making train schedules rather complicated. The record of the conference attendees vying for a longitude zero that centered themselves reads a bit like a Monty Python script. The delegate of France shoots down the British delegate’s pretext for a longitude zero cutting through Greenwich, England (that the British Empire had the largest tonnage of world shipping), as “entirely devoid of any claim on the impartial solicitude of science.” In other words, it would simply be a flex on the part of Great Britain. The conference adjourns with Greenwich as longitude zero, initiating Greenwich mean time. One imagines the world’s globe-makers updating their globes, drawing the longitude lines on by hand. Imperial perspective has been subsumed into the appearance of objectivity. Writing in its earliest form: a transaction receipt.
In Kevin Jerome Everson’s short film Partial Differential Equation (2020), a college student fills a chalkboard with a long mathematical proof. Differential equations include a changing, unknown variable, often stemming from the physical world. What is the force on the object? Where is it going? Partial differential equations are concerned with the multiplicity of factors at play in a given situation: position, temperature, orientation. These variables can end up encompassing almost everything, and solutions can blow up to infinity as they evolve in time, becoming unsolvable. We never learn what is being represented in the equation on the chalkboard. It takes more than eight minutes to write it out, filling the chalkboard (but safely by the end of the 16mm reel).
Those who read in languages that move left to right on the page, like English, tend to experience screen motion the same way: a car driving toward screen right has the sense of forward momentum and progress. Movement toward screen left is going somewhere else, as in Behrouz Rae’s short film Untitled. When the filmmaker draws a line in pencil “backward” across a world map in a book labeled Retreat of Colonialism in the Postwar Period, he charts his own path from his native Iran to his adopted home, the United States. Mapmaking is a way humans assert control over the physical world. Like the drawing up of contracts, it was an essential tactic of imperialism. Drawing one’s own path into an atlas, or making a moving image version of one, is an alternate form of mapmaking. Both add another variable to the two-dimensionality of the map—the variable of time. The use of handwritten language in non-narrative cinema is similar. Language, in these genres, is often used to deliver facts and information, which are supposed to have no point of view. But by including their own written hand, the filmmaker uses these tools as a means of finding out what the filmmaker themself knows, embracing the infinite contingencies that have acted upon them, and which may even be encoded in their handwriting. I find my own to be inconsistent; the graphology book tells me that variability is the result of a desire for change.
“One day, time will make every road map in the known universe obsolete and useless. And then we’ll all get lost,” says Bill Brown in his short documentary Roswell (1994), filmed on desert roads in and around New Mexico. Brown isn’t so much interested in whether a UFO crashed in Roswell in 1947 as he is in the burden of space and time that acts upon those on earth. What must it have been like for that UFO captain, navigating above the big blank desert without a map? Phrases of spoken voiceover are occasionally scrawled in strong Sharpie letters in the filmmaker’s “secret diary”: “ON THE ROAD TO CORONA I REMEMBERED (the page is turned) A REALLY SAD STORY…” A solitary woman, living out on the land during pioneer days, would write love letters, then release them into the open wind. The narrator speculates that one of these letters reached an alien starboy, who came to New Mexico looking for her. Maybe, he speculates, the Roswell crash is less a terrestrial mystery than a cosmic tragedy: the story of a woman who almost had the chance to outrun her own fate by vanishing in a UFO. A woman who, through desperation or optimism, wrote tender greetings into a void—to no one in particular.

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Here are the key business and personal tax rates and allowances that affect contractors – for the 2016/17 tax year.
Capital Gains Tax
The rates of Capital Gains Tax were reduced from April 2016 onwards.
Basic Rate – taxed @ 10%
Higher Rate – taxed @ 20%
The annual CGT exemption (before any tax applies) remains at £11,100.
If you dispose of eligible business assets (such as a company), Entrepreneurs’ Relief may apply @ 10%, subject to a lifetime allowance of £10m.
This tax is levied on the profits of all companies – the prevailing rate is 20% for companies of all sizes.
The dividend tax system was changed entirely from April 2016. The rates are as follows:
Basic – £0 to £32,000 taxed @ 7.5%
Higher – £32,001 to £150,000 taxed @ 32.5%
Additional – £150,000 + taxed @ £38.1%
Find out more about how dividends are taxed since the April 2016 dividend tax hike.
Income tax is applied to all salaries (either the salary you pay yourself from your own limited company, or your umbrella company salary).
The ‘Personal Allowance’ (the amount you can earn before any taxes are applied) is £11,000.
If you earn £100,000 or more during the 2016/17 tax year, the value of the Personal Allowance is eroded by £1 for every £2 you earn above the £100,000 mark.
After taking the Personal Allowance into account, the tax bands are as follows:
Basic – £0 to £32,000 taxed @ 20%
Higher – £32,001 – £150,000 taxed @ 40%
Additional – £150,001 + taxed @ 45%
The IHT threshold remains at £325,000, after which all assets are taxed at 40%.
Income tax in all but name, NICs are applied to all salaries above the relevant threshold. If you earn £8,060 or less, there are no NIC liabilities whatsoever.
Employees’ NICs are charged at 12% on income between £8,060 (£155 per week) and £43,000 and at 2% above £43,000.
Employers’ NICs (paid by your limited company) are charged at 13.8% on salaried income of £8,112 or more (£156 per week).
Value Added Tax
The current standard VAT rate is 20%
You must register if your business has a turnover of £83,000 or more (of you can register regardless if you wish). Find out if you need to register your company.
The Flat Rate VAT scheme has a turnover limit of £150,000 (this scheme is often the most appropriate for small contractor companies).

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Fiji wins Global inclusion Award 2016
December 5, 2016 4:51 pm
Fiji was recently announced the joint winner with Mongolia for the Asia & Pacific region during the 2016 Global Inclusion Awards.
This Award was given by Child Youth & Finance International to Fiji to recognize its effort in promoting financial literacy amongst youth and children.
The Awards is an initiative of the CYFI to recognise and honor governments, financial service providers, civil society organisations, institutions, initiatives, and individuals for advancing economic empowerment of young people at a national, regional and international level.
For Fiji, one of the key achievements was the full roll- out of the Financial Education (FinED) program to all schools in 2013.
This has enabled nearly 197,000 students to receive some form of financial knowledge.

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Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the potential neurotoxicity of fine particulate matter (FPM) and the neuroprotective properties of nicotine in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). In addition, we aimed to investigate whether nicotine protects against FPM-induced toxicity in the in vitro model of PD.
Background: Exposure to FPM has been considered as a potential risk factor, whereas cigarette smoking as a protective factor for PD. However, whether and how FPM alone and in combination with nicotine affect the pathogenesis of PD remains unclear.
Method: As an in vitro model of PD, the 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced neurotoxicity model in SH-SY5Y cells was adapted. We measured cell viability using an MTT assay. The cell-permeant fluorescent probe DCFH-DA was used to quantify intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and TUNEL assay analysis was used to investigate the numbers of apoptotic nuclei. The levels of mitochondria-associated apoptotic signaling proteins were analyzed by Western blotting.
Results: In SH-SY5Y cells, FPM at the concentration of 40μg/mL caused significant loss of cell viability. Nontoxic doses of FPM (5,10, and 20μg/mL) and MPTP (400μM) induced synergistic toxicity. The levels of ROS and mitochondrial apoptotic signaling proteins were significantly increased by FPM in the MPTP-treated SH-SY5Y cells. Pretreatment with nicotine reversed the MPTP-induced cell death, the generation of ROS, and mitochondrial apoptotic signaling proteins. However, nicotine did not attenuate the neurotoxicity induced by co-treatment of FPM and MPTP in SH-SY5Y cells.
Conclusion: FPM and MPTP worked in synergy to enhance oxidative stress and mitochondrial apoptotic pathway, leading to dopaminergic neuronal cell death. Nicotine protected against MPTP-induced neurotoxicity but failed to protect against FPM-induced synergistic toxicity in the MPTP-PD model. Mitochondria might act a crucial role in these processes. These findings provide an experimental basis for the pathogenesis of PD aggravated by exposure to FPM and protected by cigarette smoking. The aggravating effects of FPM appear to be more powerful than the protective effects of nicotine in the pathogenesis of PD.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:YJ. Jung, H. Choi, E. Oh. Effects of fine particulate matter and cigarette smoking on MPTP-induced dopaminergic neuronal cell death: Implication for Parkinson’s disease [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2021; 36 (suppl 1). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/effects-of-fine-particulate-matter-and-cigarette-smoking-on-mptp-induced-dopaminergic-neuronal-cell-death-implication-for-parkinsons-disease/. Accessed December 5, 2023.
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Note (updated February 28, 2023): This webpage is no longer current and is for historical purposes only.
See www.coronavirus-sd.com for the latest information.
Partnering to Vaccinate San Diegans with a Health Equity Lens
The County of San Diego (County) has built and leveraged strategic partnerships throughout the region to ensure equitable access and delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine. See below for more information about these partnerships to achieve vaccine equity, particularly for those communities socially disadvantaged and at risk for adverse health outcomes.
Community Mobile COVID-19 Vaccination Sites
Making vaccinations easily accessible in all areas is a top priority of the County of San Diego. Access has been increased by working with partners and stakeholders to host no-cost vaccination events at businesses and community organizations in all areas of the County. This program is especially geared toward increasing access to COVID-19 vaccines for employees whose work schedules make it difficult to go to a traditional vaccination site.
If your organization is interested in hosting a mobile vaccination event, please submit a completed form with information about your prospective vaccination event. County staff or a partner organization will review the information submitted and respond within five (5) business days.
Learn more: County News Center Story
Homebound San Diegans are individuals of any age who are unable to leave their home due to a health condition or disability. Working in partnership, the County of San Diego, 2-1-1 San Diego, fire agencies, and local hospitals have banded together to provide vaccines to homebound residents who are unable to access a vaccination site.
The service begins with a screening by 2-1-1 and if the resident qualifies as homebound, their information is shared with Aging & Independence Services to refer to a vaccine provider that serves their neighborhood. Providers will then schedule an in-home visit. Homebound San Diegans may also register for a home visit vaccination using the My Turn website.
If the resident is able to leave their home but still needs special assistance due to a health condition or disability, 2-1-1 will identify other supports such as transportation and/or a disability-friendly vaccination site, such as the San Diego Regional Center.
For more information or to find out if you are eligible, call 2-1-1.
Collaboration and Other Fire Agencies
San Diego County Fire and other fire agencies have supported the delivery of key COVID-19 response activities throughout the pandemic, including COVID-19 vaccinations. Operation Collaboration was an organized and collective effort among San Diego County Fire and over 20 other departments and multiple emergency medical service (EMS) agencies with the shared goal to vaccinate people in all areas of San Diego County in an equitable way, including the most vulnerable residents of the County.
The operation has vaccinated various populations throughout the county, including EMTs and paramedics, long-term care facilities, agricultural workers, persons experiencing homelessness, individuals who are homebound, and individuals in rural communities. In addition to offering accessible COVID-19 vaccination sites, Operation Collaboration also deployed mobile vaccination teams to vaccinate homebound San Diegans in hard to reach areas of the County.
Many persons experiencing homelessness face significant challenges in accessing COVID-19 vaccines. To tackle this issue, County Homeless Outreach Teams, San Diego County Fire and other fire agencies, Champions for Health, Federally Qualified Health Centers and other local organizations have activated special teams to directly reach this population. Utilizing mobile vaccination teams, staff began administering vaccinations to Convention Center shelter residents and staff members in spring of 2021. County Foot PODs, or Points of Distribution, visit unsheltered individuals out in the community and provide vaccinations on the spot. Vaccinations were offered outside Father Joe’s Villages in downtown in collaboration between Father Joe’s and Champions for Health. People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) is working with other community partners to help persons experiencing homelessness access any available vaccine.
The COVID-19 Homeless Sector partners with the Regional Task Force on the Homeless, North County Alliance for Regional Solutions, East County Homeless Task Force, South Region Homeless Collaborative and regional partner agencies to deliver vaccine information through hygiene kits, thus ensuring those hard-to-reach populations are receiving timely and accurate information. These same partners also helped distribute survey cards to unsheltered to help gather information on vaccine attitudes of persons experiencing homelessness.
For additional questions and resources, please email COVID-Homeless@sdcounty.ca.gov
Assistance for Vaccine Equity (Project SAVE)
Project SAVE (Scheduling Assistance for Vaccine Equity) assists those facing technology, language, or other healthcare barriers.Working in partnership with local government entities and trusted partners, Project SAVE Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Promotores facilitate access to vaccine appointments and provide referrals to no-appointment vaccination events. Project SAVE promotes vaccination events online and provides resources at in-person community events, such as swap meets, grocery stores, and schools. Project SAVE provides outreach and education to address vaccine hesitancy in a culturally and linguistically relevant manner.
By bringing shared backgrounds, experiences, language, and culture to the communities they serve, CHWs and Promotores are integral partners to reach those outside traditional channels of communication.
For more information, please email PHS_Promotores.HHSA@sdcounty.ca.gov.


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Despite a decline in the amount of aid allocated to education worldwide for six consecutive years, aid for education in Pakistan has increased with a majority of it being spent on basic learning, revealed a new policy paper on Thursday.
According to the paper – Aid to Education is Stagnating and Not Going to Countries Most in Need – published by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report, the amount of aid allocated to education worldwide has been falling for six years in a row.
However, a different trend has been observed in the report for Pakistan. The country received $649 million, the highest it had received so far.
According to the data in the paper, the aid had increased from $586 million in 2014 to $649 million in 2015. The paper also reports that Pakistan received the most aid out of all the countries in Southern Asia, with India just behind receiving $589 million in 2015. The biggest part of the aid to Pakistan was given for basic education. Out of the total $649 million, $371 million or 57.16 per cent was given for basic education.
According to the paper, total aid to education stands at $12 billion – 4.0 per cent lower than in 2010 – while total development aid over the same period increased by 24 per cent. Aid to basic education – which includes support to pre-primary and primary education as well as adult education and literacy programmes – stands at $5.2 billion, up from $4.8 billion in 2014. This amount is still 6.0 per cent lower than in 2010. Aid to secondary education, meanwhile, amounts to $2.2 billion, representing 19 per cent of the total aid to education.
The analysis in the policy paper is based on the newly-released data from the OECD Development Assistance Committee.
“Aid remains far short of what is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 4, putting our commitments at risk,” said UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova in a press statement. “Aid would need to be multiplied by at least six to achieve our common education goals and must go to countries most in need. Yet, we see that donors to education are shifting their attention away from the poorest countries,” she cautioned.
The United States and the United Kingdom remain the two largest donors to basic education, but they reduced their allocations by 11 per cent and 9.0 per cent, respectively in 2014-2015. Norway and Germany, meanwhile, increased their allocations to basic education by 50 per cent and 34 per cent, respectively.
Aid is not being allocated according to need. Sub-Saharan Africa, home to over half of the world’s out-of-school children now receives less than half the aid to basic education it obtained in 2002. This amounts to 26 per cent of total aid to basic education, barely more than the 22 per cent allocated to Northern Africa and Western Asia, where 9.0 per cent of children are out of school.
In contrast to trends in bilateral aid to education, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) allocated 77 per cent of its disbursements to sub-Saharan Africa, and 60 per cent to countries affected by instability and conflict.
The paper provides country-specific examples of donors’ biased resource allocation. It demonstrates that aid is not allocated according to out-of-school rates so as to meet the cost of achieving universal education in each country concerned.
While humanitarian aid to education has reached a historic high, increasing by 55 per cent from 2015 to 2016, it still receives only 2.7 per cent of total aid available, amounting to 48 per cent of the amount requested.
The paper draws attention to three major proposals for donors to reverse the move away from education: The GPE Replenishment Campaign is seeking to raise $3.1 billion for the period 2018-20, aiming to reach $2.0 billion annually by 2020, or four times more than the current funding level.
Second, an International Finance Facility for Education proposed by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity affirms it could leverage around $10 billion in additional financing per year by 2020 for development banks to expand their education portfolio and target lower middle-income countries.
Last but not the least, The Education Cannot Wait Fund established in 2016 aims to raise $3.85 billion by 2020, which would transform the delivery of education in emergencies.
Sheikh, Ammar. Amid global decline, international aid for education in Pakistan increases. The Express Tribune, June 9, 2017.


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Danish energy giant Ørsted and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have signed a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA). TSMC will offtake the full production from the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farm, making this the largest-ever contract of its kind within renewable energy.
Under the CPPA, the wind farm will receive a price for power including T-RECs (Taiwan Renewable Energy Certificate) during the 20-year contract period.
Ørsted executive vice president and chief executive of offshore wind Martin Neubert said: “By sourcing renewable energy at an unprecedented scale, TSM...


ESPNDallas.com is reporting the Dolphins have a contract in place with former Dallas OT Marc Colombo. Dolphins coach Tony Sparano has confirmed the story. He'll join the Dolphins.
"He's big, tough, smart," Sparano said. "Started about 72 games down there."
Down there is Dallas, which has seemingly been at the other end of a player pipeline since Bill Parcells was hired in December 2007.
Colombo is an offensive lineman. Sparano said he'll be used at tackle.
Suddenly the Dolphins seem to have offensive line issues they find a need to address. I get that Jake Long is on the PUP. I get that Colombo is an experienced free agent. But Sparano said the Colombo addition has nothing to do with Long or his injury status.
I would say it more likely would affect Vernon Carey, whose status on the team is not certain this season unless he proves himself.
"My vision for him is see where we are in the tackle mix," Sparano said of Colombo.
Colombo is 6-8 and weighs 320 pounds. He's 32 years old. He play, according to the folks in Dallas, was less than stellar a season ago.


Irvine Valley College professor Roy Bauer's Dissent the Blog is reporting that after about a decade, Raghu Mather is out as chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District.
It's official. During tonight's board meeting, Board Clerk Marcia Milchiker
read out board actions taken during tonight's closed session. She
reported that a decision was made essentially to end Chancellor
Mathur's continued tenure as Chancellor.
The vote was apparently 5-2, with board president Don Wagner and trustees Milchiker, Nancy Padberg, William Jay and John Williams voting for the agreement to terminate and trustees Tom Fuentes and Dave Lang voting against.
Bauer, who promised to follow up with Milchiker's exact words after he transcribes them from a videotape, believes Mathur will be leaving the district in


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The MF-2000-ProFX (ProFX) is a popular family orientated mid-size treadmill in the Maxima Fitness Pro Series. Its sleek design and dynamic graphics combined with a host of cool features make for an inspiring treadmill. Aimed at sports enthusiasts, novices, general fitness or just for fun it offers a comfortable running area (1240X450mm) and a variety of training training methods. It's also great for walking with added side weights for power and resistance options.
The ProFX is an exercise system offering users versatility, safety and practicality. The 20km/h (12.5mph) maximum running speed is ideal for short power bursts and interval training. The Speed adjusts in increments of 0.1km/h offering smooth power delivery and responsive control that combined with the PWM control system ensures seamless transition between speeds. Looping handrails provide security and support by offering stability for users of differing heights. We put safety first and the looping handrails help to build confidence for both beginners and regular users alike. Its not all about speed and the ProFX is powered by a high torque 2.5hp (5.0hp Peak) fan cooled motor as well as a 1-20 level powered incline range. Comfortable usable running area with width and length ample for users up to a height of 6ft1in. (a key performance parameter and our experts are on hand to help you make the right choice). 8-Point suspension system reduces heel strike forces and subsequent impact on joints. Suspension system also reduces noise and vibration. The frame is solid 20 gauge steel providing a robust foundation with full welds and sturdy fabrication, the lifetime frame guarantee demonstrates quality and assurance. Plug in you MP3 player and exercise to your favourite tunes via the Built in speakers. Speakers designed for sound projection above the sound of the running impact.
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Jenna uses her ProFX treadmill for general fitness training. Her favourite workout is to powerwalk using the dumbbells whilst varying the incline. She easily tracks her speed, distance, time and incline through the simple, stylish 6 window LED interface.
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Running Area impacts your comfort, safety and stability
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Bannerman, Elaine and Scott, L and Davidson, H (2008) Food in Hospitals: National catering and nutrient specification for food and fluid provision in hospitals in Scotland’. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government. In: UNSPECIFIED Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
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Kourtney Kardashian has revealed that her attempts to conceive a baby via IVF ‘put her into menopause’, while also causing weight gain that saw her flooded with ‘rude’ comments from social media users pointing out her changing body shape.
The 42-year-old mother-of-three opened up about her fertility treatment struggles in a new teaser trailer for her family’s upcoming Hulu reality series The Kardashians.
In the clip – which appears to have been leaked on Instagram before quickly being deleted – a downcast Kourtney is seen opening up to her mother Kris Jenner about her ongoing attempts to have another baby, while also making clear her desire to welcome a child with her fiance Travis Barker.
Speaking about her in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, the Poosh founder said it had ‘not been the most amazing experience’ and she shared her upset over the ‘rude’ comments she received about her weight gain, which she says was also triggered by her IVF drugs.
Fertility struggles: Kourtney Kardashian, 42, revealed in a teaser trailer for Hulu’s The Kardashians that she went into menopause and gain weight due to IVF treatments; pictured with fiancé Travis Barker
Taunts: During a conversation with her mother, Kris Jenner, she also shared that she had ‘gained so much weight’ due to the IVF, and she noted how upset comments on social media made her
Revealing that she had ‘gained so much weight’ since starting IVF, Kourtney went after the Instagram trolls who had called attention to her changing appearance in a series of cruel comments.
‘I’m, like, it’s so rude to comment on people when you have no idea what they’re going through,’ she said.
‘The medication that they’ve been giving me, they put me into menopause,’ she added. ‘Literally into menopause.’
Kris looked flustered and replied, ‘Based off of what? A drug?’ with Kourtney replying, ‘Yes,’ though she didn’t specify what medications she had been taking as part of her fertility treatments.
IVF is usually used by women or couples who are struggling to conceive naturally, and it involves the retrieval of eggs from the ovaries, which are then fertilized by sperm in a lab, before being transferred into the uterus.
Many women who are preparing to undergo IVF will be given one or more forms of fertility drug by their doctor, which are used to trigger the release of hormones that then stimulate egg production.
Kourtney didn’t clarify in the clip if she is still menopausal, or whether she was just experiencing menopause-like symptoms, which include irregular periods, hot flashes, chills, night sweats – and weight gain.
Fertility drugs have been known to cause symptoms that are very similar to those experienced during menopause, including hot flashes, weight gain, changes in mood, and bloating.
What drugs are used in IVF and can they trigger menopause?
In vitro fertilization is a fertility treatment usually used by women or couples who are struggling to conceive naturally.
The treatment involves the retrieval of eggs from the ovaries, which are then fertilized by sperm in a lab, before being transferred into the uterus.
Before the egg retrieval, women are often given fertility drugs by their doctor, which help to trigger the production of eggs and increase fertility throughout the IVF process, thereby increasing the chances of a successful pregnancy.
Some of the drugs used during IVF include:
- Clomid or Serophene (Clomiphene): Estrogen-blocking medication
- Follicle-Stimulating Hormone: Used to stimulate the production of eggs
- Human Menopausal Gonadotropin: To supplement the Clomiphene
- Human Chorionic Gonadotropin: Triggers the ovaries to release viable eggs
Fertility drugs are known to cause several symptoms that are similar to those experienced during menopause, including hot flashes, weight gain, and changes in mood. However, research on whether IVF can trigger menopause is sparse and not yet cemented.
Women typically experience menopause between the ages of 40 and 55, however the average age in the US is 51. Menopause is diagnosed when a woman has gone 12 months without experiencing a menstrual period.
Baby love: The Poosh founder also made it clear in the clip that she hopes to have another child with Travis
Pregnancy struggle: ‘The medication that they’ve been giving me, they put me into menopause,’ she told Kris. ‘Literally into menopause’
Typically, menopause occurs when a woman is between the ages of 40 and 55, and it is diagnosed after a person has gone 12 months without experiencing a menstrual cycle.
After menopause, a natural pregnancy is no longer possible, but IVF is still an option, and previously frozen eggs can still be implanted.
Fans who were able to view the teaser before it was deleted seemed sympathetic to Kourtney’s concerns about people teasing her for her weight gain.
‘This is so true, always felt sad for her when people have commented on her weight & “looking pregnant”… bless her,’ wrote one person, according to Page Six.
‘Anyone who has gone through IVF can totally relate to this. It isn’t the most amazing experience,’ wrote another user.
Kourtney previously snapped back at a rude fan in December of last year, when they asked if she had a ‘preg belly’ after she posted some photos of herself in a pool with Travis.
‘Are we really going to do this every time I post a photo?’ the reality star replied.
Trolls: Kourtney previously snapped back at a rude fan in December of last year, when they asked if she had a ‘preg belly’ after she posted some photos of herself in a pool with Travis
The recently leaked — and deleted — teaser for The Kardashians appears to include the first time that Kourtney officially announced that she wants another child with her fiancé Travis Barker.
‘Travis and I want to have a baby,’ she says in voiceover while footage of the Blink-182 drummer proposing on the beach is shown.
The couple went public with their relationship in January of last year, and Travis proposed in Montecito, California, in October 2021.
Kourtney already shares three children — Mason, 12; Penelope, nine; and Reign, seven — with her former partner Scott Disick, whom she dated from 2005 until 2015.
Travis appears to be just as interested in expanding his family, even though he has several older children of his own.
The punk rocker shares Landon, 18, and Alabama Barker, 16, with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler, and he also helped raise her daughter Atiana De La Hoya, 22, from her marriage to the boxer Oscar De La Hoya, and the two have remained close.
Sweet: ‘Travis and I want to have a baby,’ Kourtney says in voiceover for the first time while footage of the Blink-182 drummer proposing on the beach is shown
Loved-up: The couple went public with their relationship in January of last year, and Travis proposed in Montecito, California, in October 2021; seen in September 2021 in Brooklyn

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I saw these sugar apples at T&T Supermarket and was intrigued; these were completely foreign to me. So I picked up a couple to try.
I’m glad I did, even though there is a lot more work than reward to eating the fruit. The seeds are toxic and it’s the meat housing those seeds that are the yummy bits. I’d liken it to a brazil nut for effort vs food. The taste makes up for it though.
The meat is very sweet and silky in texture. It almost has a hint of mango underneath but smoother. I decimated an entire fruit and had to keep myself from eating the second one so that I can share it with my family later tonight.
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Vicente del Bosque concedes he knows “nothing” about the extent of David Silva and Alvaro Morata’s injuries in the wake of Spain’s qualification for Euro 2016.
Manchester City star Silva hobbled off after just 10 minutes of La Roja's 4-0 victory over Luxembourg on Friday with a suspected ankle problem, while Morata was stretchered off not long later, the Juventus striker reportedly bruising his fibula.
“I don’t know the extent of the injuries,” the Coach said after the game.
“Our doctors will inform us once they know something. We know nothing at the moment.
“We had a good game, but [Luxembourg] demanded a lot of us. Still, we must celebrate our qualification. We have a good team.
“The injuries affected us, but we finally settled the encounter in the last few minutes.
“I want to thank the fans who supported us and were on our side in Logrono.
“Our philosophy is to attack, either down the wings or through the middle. The players were generous with their efforts.”

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