But experts at the Metropolitan Planning Council say Lake Michigan is not the panacea it might seem. Illinois' access to Lake Michigan water is restricted by a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stems from Chicago's turn-of-the-century engineering feat that reversed the flow of the Chicago River to ease the city's water-supply and pollution problems.
The ruling limits Illinois to 2.1 billion gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan, which currently serves 6.6 million people in the state. Illinois currently uses 76 percent of its allocation, but that usage doesn't include many cities and towns like Joliet, far from the lake.
Instead those communities rely on the system of shallow aquifers, which are up to 500 feet underground, and deep aquifers even farther down. The deep aquifers supply most of the water to communities not served by Lake Michigan.
Adding to the gravity of the situation is the aging of the region's water treatment plants built to collect, treat and provide round-the-clock drinking water to homes and businesses. In many cases, the infrastructure is anywhere from 50 to 100 years old.
"It is not hyperbole to say that if we fail to act, we face catastrophes such as water main breaks, collapsing infrastructure and drinking water contamination," a Metropolitan Planning Council study says. "If we don't act, the question isn't whether disaster will strike, but when."
Water supply problems affect a wide swath of communities, but Joliet, the third-largest city in the state, typifies the challenges. Because of its geological profile, past water usage, bureaucratic indecision and location in one of the faster-growing counties in the state, Joliet's problem is simply more urgent.
The city currently is scrambling to identify an alternative water source by the end of the year. Joliet officials could then start the lengthy process of infrastructure changes and improvements needed to beef up the city's water resources and deal with the increasing problem of radon pollution.
"As far back as 40 years, Joliet has been talking about an alternative water supply," says John Hertko, who sits on the city's eight-member Environmental & Refuse Commission. "The can has been kicked down the road. In 1989, they had the money to (supplement the aquifer); they didn't do it. In 2000 and 2003, they had the money and didn't do it. But now with climate change, the environmental circumstances have changed."
Hertko credits the current mayor, Bob O'Dekirk, and City Council for spearheading the search for new water sources. But the search has set off sparks as water-rich communities compete with each other to win Joliet's business, while the city's staff works to keep its water bills in check.
After considering alternatives for several months, Joliet is now looking at securing water from either Lake Michigan, the Kankakee River or, to a lesser extent, the Illinois River, commission member Wayne Horne says. All of the options have water-quality, sustainability and cost implications, some of them controversial.
In recent months, Hertko unveiled some studies, including one from the U.S. Geological Survey, that cast doubt on the use of river water, mainly because of the proximity of the Kankakee to the Dresden Island Pool, a body of water formed by a lock and dam near Channahon. Hertko challenged the wisdom of taking water from the pool.
"These documents indicate the Dresden Pool is so toxic that the Asian carp that you hear about, they don't even want to migrate there," he says. But Hertko says the city's staff was so upset with him for making the studies public that City Manager Steve Jones asked him to resign from the commission. Jones did not return a call seeking an interview.
Both Hertko and Horne say they see Lake Michigan as the only real alternative. The question is, should Joliet buy the water from Chicago, buy it from another party, or try to build a pipeline to Lake Michigan itself? The latter would require approval from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which regulates access to lake water.
"No matter what we do, it is going to be costly because we are going to have to bring a pipe from somewhere," Horne says.


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Increasing taxes for mass transit would hurt Central Indiana
The Carmel Chamber of Commerce says that Indianapolis needs a regional transit system — which inevitably means higher taxes — so that the city can compete with communities such as Minneapolis and Salt Lake City.
In fact, since 1990 the Indianapolis urban area has grown more than twice as fast as the Minneapolis or Salt Lake urban areas, and faster than any other major urban area in the Midwest, so Indianapolis seems to be competing just fine without those higher taxes.
The Chamber would like you to believe that spending more tax dollars on transit means better transportation. But that’s far from true.
It is important to understand that transit can have two quite different goals: first, moving people who, for one reason or another, can’t drive; and second, getting people who can drive out of their cars.
Indianapolis transit now mainly provides service for the former, those who can’t drive. But the need for that is small.
The Census Bureau says that just 7 percent of Indianapolis-area households lack cars, and just 17,000 workers live in households that don’t have cars (nearly half of them drive to work alone anyway, presumably in borrowed cars).
Nearly all of the region’s car-less households are in Indianapolis itself and won’t benefit from regional transit. Advocates of regional transit, then, are mainly interested in promoting the second goal: getting people, and particularly suburbanites, out of their cars.
Ever since Ralph Nader’s 1965 book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” Americans have been barraged with claims from anti-auto groups that cars are evil, gas-guzzling, polluting monsters. There may have been some truth to that in 1965, but since then auto fatality rates and air pollution have declined by more than 80 percent, and cars today are 40 percent more energy efficient.
Nationally, cars and transit are about tied for energy consumption per passenger mile. IndyGo actually uses more energy and releases more greenhouse gases per passenger mile than the largest sport utility vehicles.
And transit, especially transit aimed at getting people out of their cars, costs a lot more than driving. Americans spend about 25 cents a passenger mile on driving, including all subsidies to highways. Transit typically costs four times that much, and those costs only rise when cities start running empty transit vehicles to suburbs where people have three cars in every driveway.
Worse, the costs of regional transit are so high that most cities with regional transit systems have had to cut bus services to those who lack cars and need transit the most. Atlanta, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area are just some of the regions where transit riders have suffered in order to build a regional transit system.
This doesn’t mean IndyGo can’t be improved. Contracting out bus routes to private operators can save up to 50 percent of the costs, allowing IndyGo to provide more service without higher taxes. Suburban cities that want to send buses into Downtown Indianapolis should be allowed to do so.
Increasing taxes to create a regional transit system, however, will provide no significant transportation benefits while actually hurting Indianapolis’ competitiveness.
O’Toole is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute and a regular contributor on transportation issues for the Indiana Policy Review, where he recently published the paper “Indy Transit Task Force Misses the Mark.” He is author of “Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It.”

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Hartford Public Schools balance is the key
By Jon Bisnett If one were to ask the question of how many public schools with an enrollment of less than 550 in the high school can claim a District Title in soccer, qualification for the MHSAA football playoffs, and a Division 1 rating in marching band to start off the 2019-20 school year, that number is only two in the entire state of Michigan and Hartford is one. But the balance in district operations extends much further than the turf of the recently restored Indian Stadium. New Advanced Placement (AP) classes added to the high school curriculum brings Hartford’s total to four distinct AP offerings.
AUTHOR VISITS REDWOOD… Author Gail Boushey visited to work with Hartford Redwood Elementary students and staff in an ongoing initiative to support literacy. Daily 5 is a literacy framework that instills behaviors of independence and creates a classroom of highly engaged readers, writers, and learners. This provides teachers with time and structure to meet diverse student needs. The Daily 5 Essential Elements are to Understand, Prepare, Teach, and Support. Boushey is an educator, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is also co-creator of the Daily 5 Framework and CAFE Literacy System and co-owner of The Daily CAFE company where she leads her development team to empower educators to individualize instruction and increase student independence.
In the wake of the Redwood Elementary construction project and updating of the high school/ middle school campus from the School Bond of 2014, the Board of Education Site Committee has addressed and continues to consider a myriad of needs and projections for facility and equipment needs around the district, most recently addressing updated lighting for the gymnasiums and a complete overhaul of audio and lighting in the auditorium. Recognizing that any new “stuff” must be used effectively to see a return on the investment, the Hartford School Board convened their October Workshop at Redwood Elementary complete with a building tour and a pleasing report of administrative improvements. Redwood Redwood Principal Chris Quist led a tour which showed some incredibly creative and welcoming classroom environments created by her teachers. Quist then presented the nuts and bolts of changes within the building and the positive results achieved. Implementation of the Daily-5 Literacy Development System is well underway and addresses the challenge of goal attainment in terms of the State of Michigan 3rd Grade Reading Law. A simple change in protocol for parents entering the building when dropping off students both improves student safety and gained 10 minutes a day of what in the past was lost learning time, now translates to 30 hours of additional classroom time over the course of the school year. With a compliment of 32 working cameras throughout the campus, discipline issue and acts of vandalism are more easily identified. Discipline referrals are down just short of 20% from just one year ago under Quist’s watch with decline in all major categories: Aggression, Insubordination, Disrespect, and Disruption with Disrespect as largest decrease – down a full 12%. Finance Aside from normal bills, Business Manager Rebecca Drake noted significant expense as the district tech guru Rob Sheffey has been busy upgrading all Wi-Fi access points in the district along with adding points in dark areas. Eighty-five percent of the purchase and installation cost will be reimbursed to the district through federal E-rate dollars. Business Jeff Staley from Manor Costerisan was in attendance to present the 2018 – 2019 financial audit. Staley met from 5:30 to 6:45 with the Finance Committee for an in-depth review of the audit. Staley further noted: It was a clean audit report with an “unmodified opinion,” the district has a stable fund balance. He further commented this was by far the smoothest first year audit he has seen in his 20-plus year career. The board recognized Rebecca Drake, Darcel Hildebrand and Debbie Galvan for their good work throughout the process. Rebecca Drake was formally approved as the district representative on the Casino Revenue Sharing Committee following Mike Hallgren resigning his position at the committee’s annual October meeting. The board approved payment of the annual interest due on the 2014 Refunding Bonds and the 2015 Building Bonds. Also approved were conference expenses for Jason Meachum, Ginny Rice, and Rick Vawter to attend the MASB Annual Leadership Conference in Traverse City.
Safety The board approved the District Emergency Operations Plan as required by Michigan law. Thanks go out to District Safety Director Dave Janicki for his work.
Superintendent’s Report Jessica Lehnert has accepted the Special Education Paraprofessional position at Redwood. Jessica was worked previously in district food service. Jessica Rosales, a 2017 alumnus, has been hired for the Grade 2-3 Paraprofessional position at Redwood. Hubbard noted that this year’s Casino Revenue Sharing check came in at $344,000, up from the prior year. The Casino continues to represent an asset to the community and along with the tribe and Pokagon Fund, a great long-term partnership for the district. Hubbard closed the Monday, Nov. 4 workshop reporting on his attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Arthur and Bonna Vanderlyn Community Center/ Hartford Public Library at the former Red Arrow Elementary site. Adding that he believes Bonna Vanderlyn was present and appreciated everyone being there. Library Director Stephanie Daniels was very gracious during her remarks recognizing the Board of Education for all of the effort in helping make the project a reality.

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Alfonzo Rachel explains the liberal problem with admitting there is such a thing as a terrorist, let alone an Islamist one. Of course this involves explaining how liberals really do love to blame Christians for all the problems in the world – especially if it helps them make whatever evil Islamists are doing look like it’s not so bad.
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Alphonzo Rachel is at it again, with his latest installment of ZoNation. This time he’s tackling the biased professors and students on campuses today. It’s been said time and again that the battleground for conservatism is where the youth are, and this is a must see for one very important reason. The enemy is not only the open leftists, but also the self-proclaimed conservative students that are being groomed to destroy the conservative movement from within.
A review of the new movie “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” from AlfonZo Rachel.
Cutting through the propaganda to bring you the facts. Hope and Change has gotten us nowhere, so now the left is trying to make a hero out of the Narcissist in chief. Not so fast.


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Maras Moray and Salt Mines
It is a traditional tour with a very slight level of difficulty so it is geared for all types of people without age limit.
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We will pass by your respective hotel to enjoy your trip to the town of Maras, where we can appreciate the salt mines where you will have guided information and time to take pictures, continuing with the tour we will travel to the archaeological center of Moray place where We will appreciate Inca terraces in a circular form that formerly served to acclimatize products brought from other regions, where they will be given time to take photographs. Continuing with the tour we headed to the town of Ollantaytambo at night a train will be taken from the town of Ollantaytambo to the town of Aguas Calientes, where they will spend the night.

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“Welcome to the show, to the historemix” is the resounding call of Henry VIII’s ex-wives in the musical Six, an all-singing, all-dancing spectacle reflective of a current movement in which the archives are brought to the present once more. Hamilton is another prominent example. Following the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of America, the musical has been one of the highest grossing to ever be showcased on Broadway.
In some ways, Six is more important than Hamilton; it is part of a surge of women’s stories, being voiced in an effort to debunk the “traditional” telling of history. By traditional, I mean male oriented.
Six breaks down the narrative of King Henry’s wives being insignificant, instead focusing on the “ex” of in “ex-wife”. During Ex-Wives, the first song of the musical, they claim “history’s about to get overthrown”. Rather than being defined and trapped by their marriage, each woman has her own story to tell and takes over the stage as both an independent woman and pop star.
Whilst history is taught in schools, it isn’t taught in a beneficial or just way. We only know of each wife because of her relationship with Henry, and we only know about their differences because of the way the relationship progressed. Their only tangible legacy is the rhyme, “divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived”.
More necessary perhaps is the incorporation and promotion of women’s histories into literature – after all, musicals aren’t accessible or frankly appealing to everybody. Winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction last year and being hailed as revolutionary for its revisionism, The Five, written by Hallie Rubenhold, is one example. Rubenhold gives a life to the women murdered by Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer prolific in Whitechapel in the 1880s.
Although The Five was a fascinating read, it’s also an example of the problematic nature of history. History is manipulated. How else can it be that 130 years later, we still know next-to-nothing about the women who were murdered, yet speculation has continued about the identity of the murderer? How is it possible to create and propagate a narrative that centres solely around an unknown, not the victims?
Whilst the victims were known, there was little consideration towards them or their families. The police attempted to fit the victims’ stories around their own prejudices: all five were assumed to be prostitutes, and conclusions were forged to agree with this, despite there being no evidence that three of the women ever were prostitutes. Moreover, there was a feeling that the deaths were deserved if prostitution was the cause. The fact that many women were forced into prostitution via homelessness and other hardships was ignored.
Rubenhold writes that, “it is for them that I write this book. I do so in the hope that we may now hear the stories clearly and give back to them that which was so brutally taken away with their lives: their dignity”. Their lives now are composed entirely of parish and court registrations and birth, marriage and death records. Very little context; very little concern.
Hamnet, published earlier this year and written by Maggie O’Farrell, tells another important story; one of the impact grief has on domesticity. Beautifully researched and beautifully told, O’Farrell creates a personality and a life for Shakespeare’s wife and children who have been utterly forgotten during history, despite their grief being the basis of one of the most famous tragic plays ever written. Shakespeare himself has very little inclusion in the narrative – in fact, he is never named – making the story relevant to many families. Their grief reminds us that life, and therefore history, does not just happen to the men we still know of and remember.
I finished my previous review of Hamnet by saying that, “we must also remember Hamnet, who served as the inspiration for one of the most influential plays ever written”, but in hindsight I would say we must also remember Anne Hathaway – named Agnes in Hamnet – simply for the fact that she was an ordinary woman, put under terrible circumstances.
The victims of Jack the Ripper and the wives of Henry VIII and William Shakespeare seem wildly different, but they have one thing in common. Misogyny has fuelled the recording of history, and the almost total erasure and censorship of the women is the direct result.
It’s easy to say that their lives and stories are from different eras, and there were different attitudes to gender then. True. Misogyny was rife: women were seen as weaker and less important, so almost inevitably less space was given to them in the history books. But now a revision is needed, and a change must be made in how we view history. Censoring is one thing, but to accept and not question it is another thing entirely.

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text: Results of animal studies indicate that tetracylines cross the placenta, are found in fetal tissues and can have toxic effects on the developing fetus (often related to retardation of skeletal development). Evidence of embryotoxicity has also been noted in animals treated early in pregnancy. All tetracyclines form a stable calcium complex in any bone forming tissue. A decrease in the fibula growth rate has been observed in prematures given oral tetracycline in doses of 25 mg/kg every 6 hours. This reaction was shown to be reversible when the drug was discontinued. Tetracyclines are present in the milk of lactating women who are taking a drug in this class. Therefore the use of tetracycline in pregnancy and lactation is not recommended.

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SpaceX sent four citizens into space, marking the first manned mission to space without professional astronauts. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is the latest private foray into space as companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX strive to make space travel more accessible for those who aren’t government astronauts.
At 8:02 p.m. EDT Wednesday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A, flying off the east coast of Florida under a clear night sky. Hayley Arsino, a 29-year-old medical assistant and cancer survivor; Christoph Semprowski, a data engineer at Lockheed Martin; And Sian Proctor, a geologist and former NASA astronaut candidate, aboard the capsule ship with the billionaire businessman Jared Askman, qualified pilot and founder of payment processing company Shift4 Payments.
The crew is secured in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience capsule above the rocket, which has reused the spacecraft that sent four government astronauts to the International Space Station more than a year ago. Inspiration4, on the other hand, will not dock with the space station. Instead, it’ll spend about three days orbiting Earth at a greater altitude, about 360 miles above Earth, which would be the farthest manned spaceflight since NASA’s 2009 space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to Earth about nine minutes after liftoff, landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. When the rocket left Earth’s atmosphere, the Crew Dragon capsule detached from the rocket’s second stage, sending the Inspiration4 crew straight into orbit.
The mission is to raise millions of dollars in donations for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a non-profit research laboratory that also provides free cancer treatment to children. Isaacman has donated $100 million to the hospital and hopes to raise an additional $100 million through the Inspiration4 initiative.
The Inspiration4 Crew Dragon capsule is designed to provide a more touristic experience than that enjoyed by NASA astronauts during their visits to the International Space Station. SpaceX built a massive glass dome where the capsule station’s docking door typically sits months before the mission to give Inspiration4 passengers a 360-degree view of orbital space.
Earlier this year, Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin flew into space on separate flights, becoming some of the first passengers to go to space. However, they have not been called astronauts since the Federal Aviation Administration changed the definition of astronauts.
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I had studied it and found David in my mind.i saw how many quagmire he suffered.
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American depository receipts and calendar anomalies
This is the first study to examine the presence of calendar anomalies in American Depository Receipts (ADR) returns. Existing literature has documented several calendar anomalies in US and foreign markets. ADRs, however, represent a unique class of securities because they represent the ownership of stock of a foreign firm, but they are traded on US markets. We use the Standard & Poor's (S&P) ADR index returns for the period 1998-2004 to look for the presence of four important anomalies: the January effect, the day-of-the-week effect, the Turn-Of-The-Month (TOTM) effect and the holiday effect. For comparison, we do the same analysis on S&P 500 index returns. While we do not find evidence of any anomalies for S&P 500 index returns, we do find evidence to support the TOTM anomaly in the S&P ADR index returns. These results suggest that the market for ADRs may not be as efficient as the broader US stock market.
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Local sextet Los Encantados does big, brash indie rock with hints of power pop and classic Phil Spector. Tonight the group (which sings in English) celebrates a new EP with an afternoon barbecue. Buzzy bad-boy band Clouder offers deliciously angsty and boisterous rock & roll in support.
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"Can Badly Affect Health": Pakistan Batter Responds To Chants Against Teammate
While Khushdil Shah was walking back to the dugout after being dismissed against England, some fans from the stands started chanting "Parchi, parchi".
Pakistan on Sunday lost the 7th and deciding T20I match to England by 67 runs at Gadaffi Stadium, Lahore. England posted 209 runs at the loss of 3 wickets batting first in the game and then stopped Pakistan at 142 for 8 in 20 overs. The hosts put on a dismal show with the bat in the series decider as only Shan Masood scored a fifty while the rest of the team failed to make noticeable contribution. While fans were supporting their respective teams, a section of the crowd made a bad gesture towards Pakistan batter Khushdil Shah.
Khushdil was dismissed by Adil Rashid on his individual score of 27 off 25 balls. While the southpaw was walking back to the dugout after being dismissed, some fans started chanting "Parchi, parchi".
It is worth noting that the term is being used by some to demean players by alleging that they are getting a selection into the team on the basis of contacts rather than merit.
Khushdil's teammate Imam-ul-Haq on Monday requested the fans to not use such term against players as it will affect their mental health.
While uploading the video of the incident on Twitter, Imam wrote: "I would like to request our fans to avoid such rants at any player as it can badly impact the player's health and try to support them like you always do, regardless of the results. We play for YOU, we play for PAKISTAN. Stay blessed."
I would like to request our fans to avoid such rants at any player as it can badly impact the player's health and try to support them like you always do, regardless of the results. We play for YOU, we play for PAKISTAN Stay blessed— Imam Ul Haq (@ImamUlHaq12) October 2, 2022
Pakistan, who were trailing 1-2 at one stage in the 7-match series, won two back-to-back games to lead 3-2, but England eventually made a good comeback and won the last two matches to seal the series.


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"I don't know," he said. "I just happen to be on a good run right now I guess. It will turn around at some point too. It's not always going to be that way. So enjoy it while it's going my way."
"It was bad," Bauer said. "I just didn't put the ball where I needed it. There are days that you can survive that because you get some calls and they hit balls right at someone, but that wasn't happening."

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Staff from the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI) at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) kitted themselves out in pink to show their gratitude for the Trust’s League of Friends.
As a way of saying thank you for all the support the League of Friends provide, especially during this period of time where charities are struggling, MCSI staff held a League of Friends appreciation day and donned the charity’s signature pink!
Rebecca Warren, MCSI Ward Manager, said: “We are very lucky to have our League of Friends, they have always supported our patients and staff and that continued support has been invaluable during this pandemic. It’s a small token of our appreciation and I’m so proud of all the staff working onsite and at those at home who got involved and kitted themselves out in pink for the day.”
Victoria Sugden, League of Friends Charity Director, said: “It’s well reported that charities are having a difficult time, all of our usual income steams have been hit but our work very much continues.
“The League is known around the hospital for wearing pink and for staff to have a special day for us, at a time like this, is very touching indeed. It’s great to see everyone having a bit of fun with it!
“We are simply in awe of our NHS colleagues and want to carry on supporting them in every way we can.”
Since the pandemic the League of Friends has been providing ongoing support to patients and staff at the RJAH, in ways such as ensuring staff have access to free of charge healthy and nutritious snacks to keep them fuelled and providing wards with Facebook portals so patients can stay in touch with their loved ones while strict visiting restrictions are in place.
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Adnan Rasheed has sent a heart felt apology to school children throughout England, saying he wished Michael Gove “had never happened” to them.
Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has also expressed shock that primary school pupils could be ranked directly against their peers across the country. She urged education for all, including “the sons and daughters of the Taliban” and all those in academies. She said that books and pens scared the Department for Education and Michael Gove clearly had an embolism anytime someone mentioned Media Studies.
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The killing spree happened in several villages inhabited by the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir Ezzor province, where the tribe are from, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Observatory said many of the victims, who were Sheitat tribesmen, were beheaded after they were captured by the ISIL group, Al Jazeera reported.
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The relevance of the article is based on the study of a certain trajectory of the development of the informal art of the Dnipro region in the 1970-2000s, which was created in a “closed” city and did not comply with the paradigm of socialist realism. The article introduces the creative work of artists of the “Ogrin circle” to the scientific context, establishing the definition of association as an artistic phenomenon and an underground format of creative resistance. The aim of the article is to analyse the artistic practices of “ogrintsi”. Among the methods of scientific research, art analysis is applied on the basis of complex systematization, comparison and generalization. This approach allows us to draw a number of important conclusions. “Ogrintsi” did not come into a fierce confrontation with the existing circumstances, did not take into account the lack of exhibiting. They knew the history of Ukraine, appreciated Ukrainian and world modern art. They abandoned archaisms or imitation of formal decisions uncharacteristic of Ukrainian culture. Artists skilfully used the aesthetics of naivety and the source base of folk ornamental paintings, professionally treated the vocabulary of decoration, relied on the transformation of primary impressions of nature, clearly focused on the specific Ukrainian system of artistic archetypes. The outlined discourse should become a catalyst for further research into the phenomenon of the “Ogrin circle” phenomenon.
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Dnipro underground, plein air, painting, graphics, folk painting, naive painting, decorative art.
2. Malikov V.V., Shcherbyna O.S. (2021). Ohrin. Mysttsi dniprovskoho andegraundu 1970-kh–1990-kh rr. (Ogrin. The artists of the Dnipro underground of the 1970s–early 1990s). ART-PRESS, 88 (in Ukrainian).
3. Polovna-Vasylieva O.A. (2015). Oseredky nonkonformizmu Dnipropetrovshchyny druhoi polovyny XX stolittia (Centers of nonconformism of the Dnipropetrovsk region of the second half of the XX century). Visnyk Lvivskoho universytetu. Seriia Mystetstvo, Vol. 16. Ch. 1, 247–254 (in Ukrainian).
4. Polovna-Vasylieva O.A. (2015). Tvorchyi shliakh Volodymyra Paduna (Volodymyr Padun’s creative path). Tradytsii ta novatsii u vyshchyi arkhitekturno-khudozhnii osviti. Seriia Mystetstvoznavstvo, 4, 84–87 (in Ukrainian).
5. Svitlychna O.M. (2019). Khudozhnie zhyttia Katerynoslava–Dnipropetrovska kintsia XIX–XX stolittia (The artistic life of Katerynoslav—Dnipropetrovsk of the end of the XIX–XX centuries). Tsentr uchbovoi literatury, 192 (in Ukrainian).
6. Skliarenko H. (2018). Ukrainski khudozhnyky z vidlyhy do Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian artists from the Thaw to Independence). ArtHuss, 2018, 1, 288 (in Ukrainian). 7. Starchenko V.I. (2004). Navchalnyi posibnyk do vyvchennia kursu “Dekoratyvno-uzhytkove mystetstvo” (Textbook for the study of the course “Decorative and Applied Arts”). RVV DNU, 44 (in Ukrainian).
8. Starchenko V.I. (2007). Narodne i naivne stankove maliarstvo Nadporizhzhia (Folk and naive easel painting of Nadporizhzhia). Dniproknyha, 224 (in Ukrainian).
9. Starchenko V.I. (2011). Tradytsii ukrainskoho narodnoho mystetstva u tvorchosti profesiinykh khudozhnykiv Prydniprovia 20 st. (Traditions of Ukrainian Folk Art in the Works of Professional Artists of the Prydniprovia of the 20th Century). Borysten, 10, 32–35 (in Ukrainian).
10. Verba I. (1992). Per aspera ad astra. Obrazotvorche mystetstvo, 4, 27–29 (in Ukrainian).


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saw a beautiful angel standing staring at him and passing a sweet smile.
“Why are you sad, Piku?” Angel asked.
“You know my name, Angel?” Piku asked with startled
“Yes, I know and I am here to play with you. You won’t feel
lonely and sad.” The angel said.
“Come with me, I will show you the magical world and
numerous friends to play with and I am sure you will enjoy.” She said.
“How can I go with you? My parents won’t allow?” Piku told
“You don’t have to go anywhere. Just close your eyes Piku
& wait till I ask you to open. Don’t worry. You are safe with me. I am your
friend.” Angel said
“Open your eyes Piku” A sweet voice whispered.
“Wow, what a beautiful lavish Castle. I am amazed. Thank You
Angel.” Piku said but he did not find the angel, instead he saw a beautiful fish Mermaid holding his hand.
“Who are you? Where is my Angel?” Piku asked surprisingly.
“I am the Angel. I have brought you in my kingdom and here I
am in the figure of Mermaid. This is our Magical Sea World. See around, you
will find all the creatures of underwater world. This is our Underwater Castle.
This Shark whale will give you a free enjoyable ride and take you on tour to
our world and you can play with them as much as you want.” The Mermaid told
“Shark whale, take Piku around and show him our world. He is
our guest, so take good care of him and make his trip memorable.” The Mermaid
said to Shark whale.
“Come Piku, sit on my back and let’s roam and play.” The
Shark whale said.
“Piku, Keep this Treasure Map with you, if you miss the way,
you can reach safe by following the map.” The Mermaid handed over the map to
Piku kept it safely in his pocket. The Mermaid wrapped a cover
around Piku’s body to keep his body warm while swimming in chilly water.
Piku sat on the back of the Shark whale and the Shark whale
took off with a thrust.
Indeed it was a wonderful underwater world and he was
astounded by the beauty. It was a colourful magical world, colourful fishes
swimming around and singing sweet songs. The music of the land was ethereal and
he felt very happy to watch them so close.
“Piku, alight from my back and roam around. The creatures of
this world will host a welcome program in your honour. You are our supreme
guest.” Shark whale said & stooped low to alight Piku.
There was greenery all around and the soft grasses caressed
his toes. He wandered in the garden freely, beautiful flowers were in full bloom,
butterflies with lights flickered around.
The colourful fishes sang a welcome song and the octopus and
the crabs shook their hinges on the tune.
The tortoise trailed like a train. The queen tortoise led
around Piku riding on her back.
Piku was very happy and clapped for the show and thanked the
wonderful creatures addressing them as his friends.
After the show, Shark whale told Piku to accompany her back
to the palace.
“Whale, I want to take some flowers.” Piku said.
“No Dear, you can’t. In our kingdom, you can see and play
but cannot hurt someone. See, no one hurt you and so you cannot hurt them.” The
Shark whale explained.
“Can’t we stay for some more time? It will be my pleasure.” Piku asked.
“Come on, let’s go back Piku. The gates of the Castle close
at night and we will be stranded outside. There are wonderful things inside the
palace, the Mermaid will treat you.” The Shark whale explained Piku.
Shark whale twisted her tail and took off for way back.
She stopped outside Castle and showed a close view of the Castle.
Piku was amazed by the enchanting view of the palatial Castle with
high rising towers illuminated with colourful dimmed lights and it looked
heavenly and pleasant to eyes.
“Thank You Whale for riding me to the magical sea world.”
“Piku, now it is time to return back to your world. Close your
eyes.” The Mermaid said smiling.
“Open your eyes Piku, you are back to your world.” A sweet
His chair wobbled and he was back in his garden. He felt happy
and was delighted.
This beautiful story was carved by my nephew with the help
of Colgate Magical Sea World Cover which tickled his imagination and he stroked
I thanked him and cooked his favourite dish as a treat for
the wonderful story. He smiled sheepishly and when I asked him to laugh out
loud, he did but the stained teeth could not go unnoticed.
I gifted him a pack of Colgate Strong Teeth and asked him to
sparkle his teeth just like his sparkling story and to weave one more from the
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DC’s animated movie series releases another impressive entry in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. The movie delivers on a number of points I thought were missing in previous Justice League movies of late, namely the voice cast. In particular I was pleased to hear the return of the eponymous duo’s best incarnations: Kevin Conroy as Batman and Tim Daly as Superman. These two perfected their roles in Batman/Superman: The Animated Series individually, during the “Diniverse” era. The replacement of Conroy in particular constantly baffles me. Even the decidedly not-so-good Batman: Gotham Knights got that much right. Others include Michael Ironside as Darkseid, reprising the role, and a favorite of mine, Ed Asner’s spot on Granny Goodness. I could never get tired of hearing him voice her.
The plot also introduces a number of my old favorites. My never ending crush on the Giffen era Justice League loves to see characters like Mr. Miracle and Big Barda brought back into the fold (see also Batman: the Brave and the Bold for your Ted Kord Blue Beetle and Booster Gold fixes). The fantastically campy Fighting Female Furies turn up as the main plot device for the film, as Darkseid looks for a replacement to captain them after Granny’s most hopeful student proves not up to the task.
Where he turns for that is a reinvented, once again, Supergirl. Her crash to Earth, her misunderstood reception (a comic book classic trope) and her subsequent shipping off for training are all handled quite admirably. I enjoyed the film up to this point, when it introduced its sole sticking point for me: Doomsday. And not just Doomsday but dozens of Doomsdays, all some kind of clone. One of them beat Superman into a coma; now Batman can take out its clones with whatever is in his utility belt? I think this devalues the threat just a smidge. The only reason that it didn’t affect the film that much for me is that I think Doomsday is the hallmark of just how bad 1990s comics were in terms of desperate attention grabs, the Death of Superman sparking a host of “controversial” and increasingly ridiculous stories involving the fall of the DC heroes. Aquaman got his hand eaten by piranha for God’s sakes. It was a bad time to be a fan, so you can clog a toilet with Doomsdays for all I care.
90s rant aside, this leads to one of the greatest “haunted house” rides DC has to offer: a trip to Apokolips. This is portrayed as the most frightening, hopeless place in the universe and this films pulls it off quite well. This leads to another of the films best moments, too, when Batman and Darkseid face off in a test of who is simply the biggest bastard. *Spoiler Alert* This time it’s Batman. From here, though the movie should have ended, there is one plot extension that has a decent twist and salvages the double ending from derailing the movie. All in, the film was a very enjoyable entry into DC’s animated collection. The characters are all handled logically, the film keeps a sense of fun in its quick pace and it has a lot of callbacks for longtime fans. Now if only Netflix carried those shorts in their versions… 3 ½ stars


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The Evil Duo spotted that Neighborhood Lord fully understood his own place now and Draco located a palm on his shoulder and delivered his confront close up, whispering.
If Nearby Lord were to be likened to Superman, Draco could be Doomsday and Eva could well be Darkseid. Towards either Doomsday or Darkseid, Superman was capable of either whipping them back again or flee if he wished to, however if the two were to collaborate, he could only obediently lay down in his coffin six ft . below.
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At its heart, The Druid's Son is the coming of age story of a young man during the turbulent early years of Roman occupation. Togi, the protagonist of this story, is a member of the proud Ordovices a not yet totally defeated tribe of the Anglesey (Wales). Togi unlike most boys his age is not only taught the ways of warfare and sheep herding, but he is also taught the rituals and the spirituality of the Druids by his stepfather one of the last remaining Druid priest of the Anglesey. The result is that Togi is a well balanced character with all the necessary skills to transition from a skirmish with a Roman Legion to the politics of the King's court, making his story all that more compelling. Togi's ability to go from warrior to priest, combined with a natural intelligence/intuition, gives him a serious edge in the ever exalting battle to save his people and religion from destruction. For Rome the Ordovices are pain that must be dealt with swiftly so they can get back to expanding the empire. But for the Ordovices it's a matter of survival and the preservation of a way of life not accepted by their new rulers. Togi's destiny is closely aligned with fate of his people and slow building tension culminates in a final showdown with the Romans that test Togi to his limits.
What makes The Druid's Son special is Grove's sense of history. She manages to fill in the gaps of our knowledge with the something that not only seems plausible, but with something that rings true with the time and place. Another great aspect of her writing style is that the reader is able to decide if the Druidic magic is tangibly real or just a matter of perception. At no point is the reader asked to take the stories religious and magical aspects to be literally true, instead, we are left just enough space to draw our own conclusions. Another real treat is that Grove has a real eye for geography, and her descriptions of the lush landscape and topography make the scenes in the novel feel like real places and are a physical part of Wales and Ireland. A really terrific historical novel for a time period we know so little about.
This is a beautiful biography of a boy who would be a Druid despite all odds.
The ring he wears (secretly) belonged to the father he never knew. The stepfather who raised him taught and inspired him. But Togi, whose life Grove relates, learned much from nature, observation, and experience.
We see him first when he's seven years old, already adept at morning prayers. Throughout his young life he stays close to Cingetos, a bard, and learns a way of life that includes what we now call anger management: Just Anger moves a brave man to avenge injustice; Vain Anger flares up at a trifle, and causes needless quarrel; Coward's Anger simply cloaks fear, gaining nothing.
In twenty chapters Grove gives her readers a panoramic picture of medieval Welsh life. Peasants who work the land are at the mercy not only of the weather, but of the Red Crests, the military force that collects designated shares of their crops. Togi is nine years old when he learns how "tribute" is taken from villagers with no regard for their need. As he matures and leaves his home we learn, with him, how complicated it is to even try to establish a balance of power.
One lesson he learned as a youngster is to stand him in good stead much later in life. "Bats move quickly, and never in a straight line. That is their protection; no one knows where they will be next. Remember that, if you are ever pursued, and do the thing unexpected," he was told.
Unexpected things do happen and it is a splendid adventure for readers to watch Togi survive.
Here is Tacitus.
"On the coastline, a line of warriors of the opposition was stationed, mainly made up of armed men, amongst them women, with their hair blowing in the wind, while they were carrying torches. Druids were amongst them, shouting terrifying spells, their hands raised towards the heavens, which scared our soldiers so much that their limbs became paralyzed. As a result, they remained stationary and were injured. At the end of the battle, the Romans were victorious, and the holy oaks of the druids were destroyed."
The Celts in future Wales are silent in history, leaving only foreigners descriptions like this, and a curious archeology to document them.
Grove creates her version of this Celtic world though the story of the son of last Archdruid on Anglesey, conceived shortly after these holy oaks were destroyed and shortly before this last Druid in Wales has himself ritually sacrificed. This story works quietly, keeping close the annual cycles, the Celtic festivals and the everyday focus on agriculture that just barely sustains the tribes. Year by year the druid's son grows and learns and the book accumulates through dialogue and relationships, the interweaving of the even more ancient history, the mysterious megalithic ruins, and through the magic and religion he is able to find and fully wrap himself within. She reconstructs her own version of a druidic and bardic context of thought and learning and philosophy.
This is fourth book I've read by Grove. In each book she works between or even after some dramatic events, crafting quiet tensions based often on everyday concerns about survival. Her version of druidic religion and magic are worked strongly into the stories, but these things can be taken two ways. The reader is left to decide how much should be taken as real and how much as artifact of the characters perceptions; and then to wonder about what this may tell about the psychological make of these characters. Thorough research that goes into these, and is part of what makes these stories special. Historically darker eras, Grove excels in using her knowledge of the landscape and the known practices and then reconstructing her versions of these worlds to build her stories.


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Dell has announced an upgrade to the popular one XPS 15 and XPS 17 laptops, by copying graphics to the latest Nvidia graphics cards. Line up with Nvidia’s own announcement, these laptops now have the latest Nvidia Studio drivers and RTX 30 series graphics.
The XPS 15 can now be configured with the RTX 3050 Ti or 3050, while the XPS 17 can even handle the RTX 3060 (optional on the 3050 Ti). They may not sound too impressive if you are used to higher quality graphics processors gaming laptops, but not all versions of these portable graphics cards are made equal. Dell pointed out that the XPS 17’s RTX 3060 is a 70-watt version.
XPS 15 and 17 have always been impact laptops for video editing and the creation of other graphics-intensive content, and the RTX 30 series will no doubt merge the trade.
In addition to graphics, these new Dell XPS laptops are enhanced by new Intel processors. They’re coming now 11th generation H45 Tiger Lake chipsbased on Intel’s 10nm SuperFin architecture. You have to pay the top dollar for Core i9 models, but the outgoing Core i5-11400H now has six cores, which is two cores more than the previous generation. This configuration is intended for more causal use as it does not have a separate graphics card. If the performance is true, they are likely to be among them the best laptops you can buy.
The XPS 15 exceeds the Core i9-11900H, while the XPS 17 gets an alternative to the unlocked Core i9-11900HK. Intel has not yet determined how much overclocking is possible with this thin laptop.
The XPS 15 and 17 are still the thinnest and coolest large laptops you can buy, especially considering the performance you get. It hasn’t changed this time, and it’s not an option for ultra-high resolution 3840 x 2400 monitors. These are calibrated with a 100% AdobeRGB color scale, making them ideal for accurate color classification.
The Dell XPS 17 starts at $ 1,450. This basic configuration comes with a Core i5-11400H, integrated Intel UHD graphics, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 1920 x 1200 resolution display. The XPS 15, on the other hand, starts at $ 1,250 for an almost identical configuration. Both laptops can be configured with up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of NVMe SSD.
Dell has not shared exact details of when these new laptops will be available, but said they should go on sale sometime in the summer.


Neutrik Donates Connectors to the NEIA
Lakewood, NJ - Aug 21, 2007 - Neutrik recently provided an assortment of its connectors to the audio department of the New England Institute of Art (NEIA). The connectors will be used to create a cables and connectors reference board for the school's electronics and maintenance lab, which is used by more than 500 students in the associate and bachelor programs.
The donation included Neutrik's X and XX series connectors, XLR chassis connectors, an assortment of Speakon lockable loudspeaker connectors and cable connectors, Ethercon cable connector carriers, USB and Firewire connectors, phono sockets and various phone plugs and jacks.
Students in the audio production concentration at NEIA, focus their studies in audio recording, editing, and mixing audio or content where the audio is the primary medium. The audio production concentration allows students to take advanced production courses in music recording, live sound, maintenance and radio. Students in this concentration can choose to focus on the business and management aspects of the audio industry.
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