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The second re-telling of Hamlet this winter, Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia takes more the Tom Stoppard approach to the material than the singing lions, warthogs and meerkats approach. Tom Stoppard wrote a play called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which viewed Shakespeare’s most famous play from the perspective of two very minor characters. Ophelia filters the material through a far more central character, and most of the play’s significant scenes take place on screen. Not to mention some wholly invented new parts that should be considered very important, making this more the Quentin Tarantino approach than the Tom Stoppard approach, if we were to view Hamlet as a historical document and Tarantino as the director of the revisionist history Inglourious Basterds.
The idea to do it this way did not, of course, originate with McCarthy or screenwriter Semi Chellas. Their source material is the novel Ophelia by Lisa Klein, a feminist re-imaging that attempts to empower the character more than she’s empowered in the play, where she famously descends into madness and kills herself. How far Klein, McCarthy and Chellas are willing to stray from the output of Shakespeare’s quill is going to be a sticking point for some viewers, and potentially a source of liberation for others.
If it’s been a tad too long since you studied Hamlet back in school, Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) is the title character’s girlfriend, for all intents and purposes. He’s played by George MacKay. She’s also the sister of Laertes (Tom Felton) and the daughter of Polonius (Dominic Mafham), two other important onlookers in a Danish court where the king has recently died and his widowed queen Gertrude (Naomi Watts) has been married by his brother, Claudius (Clive Owen). Claudius actually poisoned the king, but most people don’t know that. Hamlet gets wind of it from the restless spirit of his father, and spends the majority of the play to-ing and fro-ing about what to do about it. (You know, “To be or not to be” and all that.)
As written by Shakespeare, Ophelia is done in by the twin distresses of Hamlet’s spurned love (it’s more complicated than that) and the death of her father, resulting in a scene where she traipses around court, staring off into the distance and speaking in mad rhyme. This is the last time most of the characters see her. For Klein, that won’t do. Klein’s novel has reimagined Ophelia as a more modern heroine, one who bristles against the traditional roles of the woman in court, one who can protect herself, and one who only intends to fake her own death using a potion that mimics death, that she got from a witch.
If you think of Hamlet as a sacred text, stop right there and leave this movie off your viewing schedule. While Ophelia has good intentions in excess, it has good ideas and good execution in short supply. The story doubles down on the soap opera elements of the play and gives them a gothic infusion via the character of Gertrude’s twin sister, the aforementioned “witch” (actually just a decrepit woman who lives in the woods and mixes spells, call her a witch or not as you please). This character is also played by Naomi Watts, and it turns out Claudius once impregnated her, cast her out when their would-be bastard offspring died in utero, and led the group of townspeople carrying pitchforks that have forced her to remain an outcast to this day. You can see some of the problems with taking this material at face value, if the face is something you admire. Klein and Chellas also change key elements of the end of the story, but we’ll extend them the courtesy of not revealing those changes here.
Given the kind of mythic quality of Ophelia in the pantheon of literature’s great female characters, a feminist re-imaging of this material is certainly a reasonable idea. Then again, a spoof version of Pride & Prejudice in which the characters fight zombies also seemed like something that could be quite fun. To say Ophelia fails in what it sets out to do is not exactly accurate, but it does fall well short in the ways it carries it out. Giving Ophelia more agency is certainly an admirable goal, but we’ve grown weary of the screenwriter shorthand for showing us a tough girl who doesn’t play by the rules.
There’s a scene of Ophelia looking grumpy as her hair is brushed, and she only shows she’s at all susceptible to Hamlet’s charms via a sly smile here and there. Any greater showing of affection would betray her hard-won independence. A finer point could not be put on that independence, as there’s a whole scene where a bunch of ruffians try to mess with Ophelia just so Hamlet can try to save her, and she can push him away and tell him she does not need to be saved. In 2019, the language itself relating to whether a female character needs to be saved or not has become cliché.
Purely as spectacle, Ophelia has some pleasures, as the film’s sets and characters are dressed in a way consistent with the highest levels of production design. But because McCarthy’s direction is not distinctive and she doesn’t do much of interest with the camera, it goes in one eye and out the other, as it were. One wonders what someone like Sofia Coppola would have done with this material, as her Marie Antoinette is a similar type project that has a far more satisfying realisation.
Daisy Ridley has repeatedly stated she wants nothing to do with the Star Wars universe after the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. However, if trolls on the internet groused about how her Jedi Rey is a Mary Sue, to use the dismissive term for any fictional character who seems too perfect, she hasn’t made much of a change by taking on the title character in Ophelia. It’s true Ophelia may not have been perfectly represented at the turn of the 17th century, but this 21st century version is just as disappointing in her own way.


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HOW TO: Refocus the mind to the present - away from future worries and past regrets. Spend 1 minute on each sense. Repeat as needed. - "Zenned: 5 Senses Meditation Technique is Great for Anxiety and Panic Attacks"
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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael A. Gomez
How did slavery reshape the identity of Africans who were forcibly relocated to and exploited in the American South? How much “African” culture survived the Middle Passage and subsequent cultural pressure from European/American norms? Which culture – American or African – was the primary cultural force in African-American identity before the Civil War? These are just some of the questions Michael Gomez seeks to answer in his provocative book.
Primarily, Gomez argues that until 1830, that is to say through out a majority of the colonial and antebellum period, there was no such thing as a united African-American community. The identity of enslaved Africans and their American born progeny was shaped by their ethnic origin (Igbo, Sierra Leone, Senegambia, etc.) and their faith community (Islam or non-Abrahamic African religions), not any idea of an African “race.” Gradually, this ethnic identity gave way to a pan-ethnic idea of “blackness” that united most enslaved African and African-Americans. As Gomez notes in individual chapters on each ethnic grouping, all of the “source” cultures of enslaved Africans contributed to the new African-American identity that came to dominate the enslaved community after 1830.
Gomez places the agency for this transformation in the hands and minds of enslaved people themselves. Whatever African-Americans appropriated from the white European and American culture they did so on their own terms, for their own purposes, and through the lens of their African culture (or cultural inheritance from Africa in the case of American born enslaved persons). This argument contrasts with scholars like Eugene Genovese, who argued that white planter cultural and economic hegemony overwhelmed enslaved persons and placed the primary agency of cultural African-American development on that white hegemony.
As for how the change between an ethnic to racial African identity actually developed, Gomez has four related mechanisms: demography, population clustering, the actual experience of slavery, and cultural practices like the ring shout. Traditionally, historians have noted how, when compared to slave societies like Brazil or the West Indies, enslaved persons in the American South were diffused and had high proximity to whites. Gomez turns this insight on its head and notes that despite being more diffused and having a greater exposure to whites than in other slave societies, within the actual American context populations of enslaved persons in the South were still clustered together and most Africans were still more likely to be exposed to their fellow slaves than whites. This allowed the creation of separate African culture in America, apart from white hegemony. Gomez also notes that the shared suffering, hardship, white prejudice and the work of slavery helped wear down ethnic divisions and create a idea of a united African “race” opposed to a white “race.” Cultural practices that Africans brought over with them from Africa such as the ring shout but other rituals, like funeral rites and water immersion, proved adaptable and were capable of incorporating elements of white European/American culture (read: Christianity). It is important to note here that Gomez stresses that despite adaptation to their new context, the primary cultural force remained African. Finally, demography helped reshape African identity in America , for by the middle of the nineteenth century, with the end of the legal slave trade by 1830 there were very few actual Africans in the enslaved population and thus a direct connection to specific African cultures began to fade away and be replaced by a general sense of “Africaness.”
The last central point of Gomez’s book relates to the race based African-American identity that rose to dominance after 1830. Gomez argues that this identity broke along two class lines. The largest group – the large rural “folk” majority of enslaved persons – saw themselves primarily as African-Americans and sought to create an identity that stayed true to its African roots. The second class, the “elite”, which consisted mostly of the privileged “servile” house servants and skilled enslaved laborers and urban free blacks who saw themselves primarily as African-Americans and sought integrate themselves into white society and to distance themselves from their African roots. Shades of Martin and Malcolm abound in this final point of Gomez’s provocative book.
Gomez’s book has a few weaknesses. First and foremost is the very blurry chronology in many of Gomez’s arguments. While he sometimes argues chronology is important, Gomez often only honors this insight in the breach. It is hard sometimes to trace what is a product of the colonial period, the antebellum period, the Gilded Age, Jim Crow, or modern African-American identity politics. Gomez also, perhaps, isn’t as critical with his use of WPA and Gilded Age/early twentieth century slave recollections as he could be. Gomez goes back and forth in reading these sources critically to somewhat taking what they say at face value. It would be easily fully accept some of Gomez’s controversial insights drawn from this accounts if he had a more consistent policy towards those difficult sources. That said, Gomez’s arguments are largely convincing and it is difficult to argue with the macanisms he insights for the transformation of African identity in the American South
TIE INS: Gomez’s book works well with Bernard Bailyn’s Atlantic History. The evidence presented by Gomez shows by the horrors and the creative possibilities that the Atlantic world was capable of producing. The African-American identity Gomez examines is truly an “Atlantic” one, in that it drew up the cultures of three continents – Africa, European, and North America. Gomez’s book also serves as a good counter point to Jon Bulter’s Becoming America, in that for African-Americans there was nothing particular “American” about their identity before 1776.

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Investors Business Daily had an excellent piece highlighting six facts surrounding our ridiculous national debt, federal deficit, government spending, and growth of government.
The funny thing is that the entire Tea Party/9.12 Project Movement knew these things years ago. What took the financial press so long to get with the program? Are they really that bad?
And do any intelligent, unbiased observers REALLY give Barack Hussein Obama the benefit of nonexistent doubt that he’s either 1) incredibly stupid and easily led, or 2) a traitor, and a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States of America?
Here’s the article; don’t forget to share with those on your email list!
By JAMES CARTER | Posted 03/21/2011 05:45 PM ET
To sway public opinion behind President Truman’s policy of Soviet containment, Secretary of State Dean Acheson once admitted he was willing to “scare hell out of the American people” with arguments that were “clearer than the truth.”
But sometimes the truth alone is scary enough — particularly when you’re talking about the new red menace: the federal budget deficit.
Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office highlight six indisputable truths, each arguably scarier than the last, that promise to shape the contours of the coming debate over how to handle this menace.
Truth No. 1: The CBO reported last week that the federal budget deficit is, under current law, expected to total $1.4 trillion this year and $6.7 trillion over the coming decade. At $1.4 trillion, this year’s deficit is larger than the annual economic output of all but 10 foreign countries.
Truth No. 2: Because of these deficits, the publicly held federal debt is poised to almost double to $18 trillion within 10 years, nearly quadrupling annual net interest costs to $807 billion in the process!
Truth No. 3: While increased spending and depressed revenue both contribute to this year’s federal deficit, the source of our long-term fiscal predicament is not a lack of revenues, but an overabundance of spending.
Over the three decades prior to the recent recession, federal revenues averaged 18.3% of gross domestic product while outlays averaged 20.8%. CBO reported last week that with the expiration of the Bush tax rates as scheduled under current law, it expects federal revenues to equal 20.8% of GDP — coincidentally, the historical average for spending — in fiscal 2021.
Federal outlays are expected to fall from 24.1% of GDP this year to 23.9% in 2021. In other words, despite the fact that the tax burden is poised to increase as a share of GDP to a level not seen since 1944, the CBO expects the federal budget will continue to generate massive deficits. And as the CBO reported last summer, “Looking beyond the next decade, the fiscal outlook worsens further.”
Truth No. 4: Reducing federal spending in 2021 to its historical average of 20.8% would require a 13% across-the-board reduction in projected spending for that year. Excluding mandatory spending (e.g., Social Security, Medicare) and interest on the debt from the cuts would necessitate an unrealistic 46% reduction in defense and nondefense discretionary spending. Any serious effort to nudge the federal budget toward balance will require a concerted effort to restrain mandatory spending growth.
Truth No. 5: If the CBO’s interest-rate assumptions are proved to be overly optimistic, the repercussions could be devastating. Late last year, for example, the CBO estimated that “if interest rates for all newly issued Treasury securities were one percentage point higher in each year than (assumed) … interest costs (over the 10-year budget projection period) would be higher by more than $1 trillion.”
To put this into perspective, a one percentage point increase would translate into a 15% jump in the cumulative budget deficit over the next 10 years.
And if the U.S. should ever lose its AAA credit rating, or if investors should ever lose faith in the federal government’s ability or willingness to manage its finances, the Treasury could find itself having to pay far more than one additional percentage point on its newly issued debt. Just ask Greece.
Truth No. 6: Confronted by these dire truths, the Obama administration opted to make the problem even worse. The CBO’s preliminary analysis of the president’s fiscal 2012 budget found that his policies would, relative to current law, increase both federal spending and the budget deficit.
While the president’s budget would keep the federal tax burden from increasing as much as scheduled under current law, its lack of spending cuts to offset the subsequent revenue loss would lead to $519 billion in additional interest payments over the decade and transform the projected $6.7 trillion cumulative deficit into a $9.5 trillion deficit.
Dean Acheson may have thought it necessary to scare the American people into supporting containment, but the new red menace facing the U.S. — the budget deficit — cannot be contained and left to wither on its own.
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41 sleeps until Christmas
THERE are just 41 sleeps until the jolly fat man comes down chimneys across the Rose City and many kids already have their wish lists sorted.
Four-year-old Bau Boston is one of the kids hoping an awesome new remote control car is waiting for him on Christmas morning.
Classic toys Lego and Transformers had been morphed into a popular new toy called Kreo and Toyworld owner Peter Tansky said the toys had been flying off the shelves.
"We are also selling a lot of the traditional toys, like wooden hobby horses, cots and clothes lines," he said.
Girls seem to have their hearts set on the new Inkoos toys, which allow them to draw all over their toy, wash it clean and start all over again.
Farm machinery replicas are always a popular choice with Warwick kids and Mr Tansky said there was a big demand for these and other toys that keep kids moving.


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A patient developed respiratory failure after surgical removal of a recurrent thymoma, which necessitated removal of part of the diaphragm. The respiratory failure was due to previously undiagnosed myasthenia gravis, which had selectively affected the respiratory muscles.
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A Bad Dream Is More Than Just A Dream: The Science Of Nightmares
Moreover, sleep disorders including sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome can cause people to experience chronic, recurrent nightmares.
Nightmare disorder – Symptoms and causes – Mayo Clinic
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Nightmares | Psychology Today
Nightmares can be remembered upon awakening and may lead to difficulties returning to sleep or even cause daytime distress. Isolated nightmares are normal, …
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Back in 2009, Google teased users with Gmail Autopilot, a service which would both read and respond to emails automatically. The service would get to know you by reading your emails and being responding using your personal communication style. Of course, people quickly recognized this as an infamous Google hoax.
This may have seemed far-fetched six years ago, but personal, automated email responses are now becoming a reality thanks to Google’s new artificial intelligence technology:
“Google just unveiled technology that’s at least moving in that direction. Using what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses. The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.”
Google’s “deep learning” technology, called ‘Smart Reply,’ now allows Gmail to analyze the content of your email and suggest a few brief responses to it. In this process, composing new mail can be substituted by this new bit of Google’s artificial intelligence.
According to Google’s product Manager Alex Gawley, Smart Reply will tailor both tone and content of the email and suggest three responses. The user can still choose to either use one of them or modify them with one’s own words.
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This particular feature of Gmail is a result of something called ‘Machine Learning.’ Pieces of information from all over the world are constantly fed into a neural network (a network of computers intended to represent and perform functions of neurons in the human brain) called long short-term memory (LSTM system). One half of this neural network on receiving these new pieces of information analyzes them and ‘learns’ the underlying patterns in diverse sets of phrases in the language. The second half works on generating potential responses (typically 3-6 words long), one word at a time.
For example, by feeding enough pictures of a human, the machine eventually ‘learns’ how to identify a human. However, this feature is not new. It can be thought of as an extension of the ‘suggest search’ feature in the Google Search engine, the ‘auto-complete’ feature on our phones’ texting applications, or the personal assistants, Siri or Cortana, on our phones.
Naturally, this feature depends on the amount of data input into a neural network. With only a finite amount of data, the machine’s responses can be rudimentary at best. Nevertheless, this technology is a leap in that direction.
Rumors are that this machine can even process jokes and suggest appropriate responses to them!
Welcome to the future! Comment here and let us know what you think. Fascinating use of technology or unnecessary AI intervention?


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WORLD SAKE DAY w/TyKu Sake!
Talk about the coolest wine class ever! Yep you've heard about it and didn't know it was real! Take it from the thousands of people who have signed on; it doesn't get any realer! Proud Wineaux partnered up with the leading Sake provider TyKu Brand to create a mosh-pit like none other! Fifty Proud Wineaux's retreated to a land of great wine, good music and gourmet mini tapas as they paralleled the dynamics of the world of wine and yoga. Why? To celebrate World Sake day with TyKu Sake of course! They brought 4 amazing sakes that were accompanied by gourmet tapas expertly paired with the rice wines! Plates placed strategically in front of fresh scent aromatized yoga mats, the guests had rice grains and coffee beans in two small separate cups. Chef selections included tomato-two-ways with mozzarella sandwiched between a cherry and herb marinated sun-dried tomato over a fresh basil leaf drizzled with an aged raspberry balsamic glaze! Holy awesomeness! And the first tapa was only the beginning of this incredibleness combined with a smooth and clean tasting Junmai Sake. After a few stretches that helped the gang find true balance, both bodies and palates, we were poured a refreshing cucumber infused sake! As if the first pairing was not divine enough, the green gluten free corn tacos were filled with a vegan watermelon salsa that made each guests feel like they had journeyed to beautiful Mexico! The combination? Sublime.
If ever we doubted if these Proud Wineaux's were crazy or genius, we learned on World Sake Day that they are definitely the latter but even a little bit of the former enabled them to embrace a genius like none we have ever experienced! We urge anyone interested in experiencing a super cool and fun event where you actually learn about wine, this is the one for you. Go and have an amazing time indulging in the coolest wine class ever with your friends and get your stretch on in the process. After our 60 minutes of sippin' and stretchin' we took a super strong but astonishingly delicious wine shot to adjourn the class and begin the party! Music changed, party lights were cued and body painting ensued! We had an awesome time and made several new friends!
Make sure you bring an open palate and a friend and let Proud Wineaux lead you to tasting zen! Namaste.

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Inside/Out: Creative Process with Charles Kaisin
20 February 2018 | 6.30pm
Kensington, Lecture Theatre 1
Free, but booking is essential
‘Let’s imagine a grid. Each cell in that grid stands for an artistic discipline. I regard my own journey as the journey of a ball that rebounds from one cell to another, absorbing and accumulating the experiences of that very journey. My deepest wish is to keep that ball endlessly rolling.’ Charles is an RCA alumnus and designer whose work spans architecture, product, interior and installation. As part of the lecture, Charles will explain his design process and will introduce and explain his 2016 work, the Surrealist Dinner.
The event is free, but please fill out this form if you would like to attend.

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The play I’m working on now features a character who is afraid of doors. This is a late breaking development in the character, in the play and solved many dramaturgical problems when it made its way into the piece. It was as if the answer was always there, waiting underneath the ground, waiting to be dug up. It was the final puzzle piece that led to a satisfying ending. It showed up when one of our actors asked “Is she afraid of doors?” And the lights went on. Yes. Yes she is. That’s it. I didn’t think this had anything to do with me. It just seemed like a neat literary solution.
Then I had a session with my Rubenfeld Synergist and it came out that I felt I had two very heavy oak doors protecting a group of delicate dancers – Isadora Duncan style dancers. And I realized that I’d put Duncan herself, as well as a group of delicate dancers/priestesses into a play – probably a year before. I would have sworn up and down that Duncan had nothing to do with me – that that play wasn’t personal. Except of course it was.
And the doors…the doors. The doors in the Duncan play connected to the doors that Zerlina was afraid of in The Door Was Open.
Strange artistic overlap? Motifs? Was I subconsciously working on a theme? Then last night, I was typing up some writing I did about 6 months ago on a novel – a completely separate project in a completely different medium and I noticed myself typing, “She reacted to the door as if it were a demon.”
And damn, if I hadn’t written entirely different character who was afraid of doors. For entirely different reasons of course, in vastly different circumstances – but…if you’d asked me before all of this “Is a fear of doors a thing?”
I’d have said No. No one is afraid of doors. That’s silly. People are afraid of snakes, rats, elevators, planes, etc. But doors? Not a thing. And I certainly am not afraid of doors so these plays are not about me.
Unless we look at them metaphorically and then it might be possible that yes, indeed, some part of me MUST be afraid of doors.
This coffeeshop has a series of bookshelves and on it are books. But almost none of them are books I’d want to read. I’m a fairly omnivorous reader but these books are very particular brands of self help – like: Babies with Down Syndrome: A new Parent’s Guide and Gold Rush: How to collect, invest and profit with Gold coins. It also features lots of dreamy pastel covers for what I assume is something called Angel Fiction (one is called The Eternal Rose) contrast those with the books with a dark bold font that screams macho pulp fiction. Probably several people will be shot and at least one of the main character men will have a torrid affair with a prostitute. There is also a copy Dictionary of Aquarium Terms and The Poet’s Market from 4 years ago. It feels like this is where books go to die – or just become decoration. I guess it’s good that they have somewhere to go! All this matter will not have mattered in vain.
I would like to have a pair of Switzers outside the door of my personal space. I’d like to call them into action when things get tricky, when I need some stern faces to protect me from the outside world. I wouldn’t overwork them, I hope – but on occasion, I’d like to keep them on retainer.
It’s funny to think of Swiss fellas as being the go to guard – the mercenaries of their age (and still are for the Pope.) The Switzerland I think of is famous for neutrality – but the relationship between those things is interesting. You CAN be hired muscle if you famously don’t pick sides. Maybe the neutrality we think of now originated in that mercenary impulse. You could hire them because they were hire-able – and then that quality made them good candidates for neutrality.
Extra death, excessive death, too much death, which, of course, there absolutely can be. The TV show I was watching last night had superfluous death. But any death that happens to YOU is too much. You don’t need extra death to have too much death as an individual. Death on top of death isn’t really possible. You really only need one to have too much of it.
But I suppose Claudius feels as though he’s being killed in multiple places. He’s getting the scattershot of the cannon, feeling lots of hits. But he is actually fine. That he can stand there to say this would suggest he’s doing okay.
O will people put some poison in one another’s ears? Is that a thing you’re worried people might do? Even if it’s metaphorical poison? This is such a curious turn of phrase, though. It’s like, built to be unclear. It’s a very convoluted idea after a series of fairly concrete images. It’s abstract. Necessity personified and going around trying people in other people’s ears due to lack of information. It’s a hard right turn in this speech. Very very interesting.
Feeding on wonder and keeping one’s self in clouds doesn’t necessarily sound bad. It sounds rather dreamy certainly. It makes me think of Elfine in Cold Comfort Farm who periodically drifts through the woods spouting poetry. I have some sympathy for this romantic impulse for the desire to eat awe, to float, to never touch the ground.
But of course in this case, the wonder is not at the beauties and majesties of nature and the clouds are not likely the white puffy kind that angels like to play on. But it’s interesting that Claudius has chosen these words with their usually positive connotations to describe something that he definitely does not think is good. The sentence has a rather beautiful quality of starting in this light, airy place and slowly descending through buzzers to infect to pestilent and ending on death.
This means that Claudius received this information before he walked in to this scene and is therefore not just responding to Ophelia but to the possibility that Laertes will show up and see it – or show up and depose him – or just generally make trouble. It’s a lot to hold in the background – to watch a woman go mad, all the while knowing her brother is not far away, volatile and ready to explode. I guess I have timeline questions, though. Because did Laertes start heading from France as soon as he heard about his father’s death or before? How long has this plan been in progress?
And how long did it take to get from France to Denmark back in the day? I’m guessing that’s not a SHORT journey. And so if he came the second he heard about his father and then traveled … we’re actually talking about a fairly serious gap in time. Is it a week since the arras? I guess that’s enough time for an Ophelia to go crazy.
He starts off kindly enough with this thought.
Yes, Ophelia is divided from herself and her judgment. She is disassociative and outside her own norm.
But then he kicks her while she’s down – calling her a picture and a beast. Not directly, of course – but he first says she’s divided from her judgment and adds that people without judgment are pictures or animals. Ipso facto and so on.
Pictures is funny, though. We are pictures without judgment? Pictures?! Pictures are an awfully static analogy for a person without their judgment.
A person without judgment may be many things – but still as a picture is not one of them. A beast, I can see. That analogy makes sense. Maybe what that last sentence is about is Claudius choosing the better analogy. And he settles on the same one Hamlet found for man if his chief nature be but to sleep and feed.
Claudius? Is that you? Admitting to a mistake?
You’re clearly not a contemporary politician, that’s for sure. Of course, the mistake was to bury a man in secret and he calls it green, not wrong. That is, it might suggest that there’s a way to bury a man in secret with more practice and experience.
Meanwhile, I love greenly as a descriptor of behavior. If we could get all of us to use adverbs again more frequently – I vote for more of this one.
Also, hugger-mugger is a glorious word that I would like dis-interred.


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When I was teaching at Old Dominion University, I had the good fortune to meet many different poets and writers over the years. Each year, ODU was host to the annual Literary Festival; in addition, the English Department hosted an annual visiting writing series, which has now evolved into a visiting writer in residence. There were writers and poets such as William Styron, Gerald Stern, Maxine Hong Kingston, Galway Kinnell, W. P. Kinsella, Carolyn Forche, Maxine Kumin, Tim O’Brien, Bruce Weigl, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Buckley, and many, many more.
The Literary Festival was always a predictably busy week in the department, and I could count on at least two things happening: I would get my fall cold, and I would spend lots of money on books by new authors whose readings I had attended. Christopher Buckley was not a Festival reader; he was a visiting writer who my friend and office mate Mari had invited to read, which made me exceedingly lucky. I had direct access to this wonderful writer. The two of us, Mari and I, took him to dinner before his reading, and then I had the privilege of introducing him before his reading. Introducing a poet is no small thing. You must be familiar with his background and his work if your are going to do him justice, so I did not do an off-the-cuff introduction. I prepared and made notes because I did not want to slight him and because I truly loved his poems. After his reading, I ended up buying every title that he had brought with him so that I could get all of them signed. In them, he urged me to keep writing. I am embarrassed to admit that I did not.
I have many reasons/excuses as to why I have not kept up on my writing. Some legitimate, most not. And now with Google, I can put in names of others who were in workshops with me, or who came after me, and see just how far they have come. Buckley has won a Guggenheim and deservedly so. He has written six or seven more books since I met him. I have sent nothing out to be published. Fear of failure? Fear of success?
I really don’t know. I just know that if I don’t get off my ass soon, I’ll have died without ever having reached any of my goals as far as my writing goes, and that’s only because I won’t have tried. I’ve published, but not the things I intended to publish. The purpose of this blog is to exercise my mind, to flex myself creatively. And I believe that it is working, because I’m starting to come back to the memories that matter in my creative cortex, if you will. The literary festivals, the talks with writers, Christopher Buckley, lines that I wished that I had written, working on one line over and over, creating something like “My Father’s Hands” and knowing that it was good. Knowing that feeling again.
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember–poems, essays, journal entries, long diatribes about things that make me crazy, musings about life. Words are to me what drugs are to an addict. I roll them around my tongue, taste them, hear them. I cannot live without them. I test phrases in my head constantly. Opening lines pop into my consciousness at all hours of the day and night. I wonder if this happens to other people, and then I realize that of course it does, but other people do things with it. And that’s what separates me from the ones who succeed. They actually do something past this step. They take the next step, and I am paralyzed on this one step. It’s as if I am still on my childhood porch, waiting for permission to leave, to go exploring in the neighborhood. But I know, deep in my soul, permission was granted years ago.
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Those of you lucky enough to have already experienced the found footage anthology V/H/S will surely agree with me that Radio Silence’s final segment was one of the highlights. The final segment, called 10/31/98 was superb, frightening and littered with moments of pure genius, and I have been waiting to see what the team of four directors might come up with next.
See, they made their name directing short films which they posted on Youtube, but after their phenomenal entry into the V/H/S anthology, studios have begun to notice them, and Fox is one of those studios!
THR reports that Fox have acquired an as yet untitled found footage project which is being written by Linsday Devlin, and they want Radio Silence to direct. John Davis will produce through his Fox based Davis Entertainment banner.
The plot of the film is being heavily guarded, but THR reports it is described as being female-driven and having horror elements.
Davis dipped into his discretionary fund to acquire the project as a pitch back in the spring. Devlin then wrote the script, attracting the directing team which is comprised of Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Chad Villella and Justin Martinez.
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BELMONT, N.C. (May 14, 2015) – Belmont Abbey College President Dr. Bill Thierfelder announced the appointment today, of Dr. David Williams as Belmont Abbey College’s next Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Williams, who joined the Abbey as assistant professor of theology in 1999, has served as interim vice president and academic dean for the past 10 months during the college’s national search for a new academic leader.
“Dr. Williams’ leadership, academic credentials, teaching experience, collegiality and dedication to mission, will help ensure that our reputation for academic excellence and personal formation of our students continues to grow,” Thierfelder said in a statement to the college community.
Dr. Williams has served the College in a variety of capacities: as Chair of the Theology Department, and of the Government & Political Philosophy Department, as Chair of the Professional Affairs Committee which reviews applications for tenure and promotion, and as Chair of the Faculty Assembly. Together with Donald Beagle, the Director of Library Services, Dr. Williams was instrumental in the development of the College’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Promoting Information Literacy Over Time (PILOT), as a way of helping students learn to navigate the many streams of information that deluge the 21st century.
Dr. Williams is the author of the book Receiving the Bible in Faith: Historical and Theological Exegesis, published by The Catholic University of America Press, and often speaks on theological topics or as part of diocesan programs.
Raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York, and brought up a Methodist, Dr. Williams was received into the Catholic Church during his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University, where he majored in Government and minored in Philosophy. After graduation, he earned an M.A. in Christian Ethics at Boston College, followed by doctorates in Political Science and Theology. Dr. Williams lives in Mount Holly, NC, with his wife Emily.
Founded in 1876 by Benedictine monks, Belmont Abbey College focuses on the development of the whole person in mind, body and spirit. Located just 10 miles west of Charlotte, N.C., the College is currently home to more than 1600 students. For more information, visit belmontabbeycollege.edu.

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HUNDREDS of new jobs are in prospect with the proposed development of an automotive supply park on the dockland site of the Mobil complex in Birkenhead.
The venture – designed to produce a vast number of car parts that are presently imported – has attracted the attention of major car manufacturers, including Jaguar, General Motors and Bentley.
Wirral Council leader Cllr Phil Davies said: "The involvement of a large scale supplier could create 400 to 500 jobs.
"It will bring back an awful lot of jobs to this country from places like China and Korea."
Discussions with car manufacturers are continuing and demolition work has begun on site; though no contracts have yet been signed.
The Mobil site lies within the Wirral Enterprise Zone and as such it could attract a significant amount of tax relief from the government.
Cllr Davies said: "One of the big selling points of the Mobil site is its proximity to the motorway network and its position in relation to the car plants at Ellesmere Port (General Motors) and Liverpool (Jaguar).
"Geographically it is very well placed; it has the easy access that major car companies require."
He added: "We are pretty confident it will go ahead."
The new park will be close to the proposed multi-million pound Wirral International Trade Centre – a project designed to open up opportunities for around 1,000 companies from China, India, South Korea and other emerging economies to exhibit, assemble and distribute their goods into the UK, Irish and European markets.
As lead partners with Wirral Council regeneration giants Peel Holdings have played a major role in the creation of the ITC.
The Peel group has formed a partnership with Chinese company Sam Wa International to deliver the complex.


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Nowadays, Google launched three new experimental apps to make it more uncomplicated to make drawl of your cell phone much less as phase of its Digital Wellbeing initiative, including one who if fact be told has you seal up your cell phone in a cell phone-sized paper envelope (by scheme of Android Police). It sounds equivalent to the pouches some artists require followers to construct their telephones into at stay presentations, besides it’s one thing you make at home — and Google’s envelope need to silent no longer decrease than mean it is probably you'll maybe well be in a dwelling to make a call, whenever you have to.
Whenever you preserve shut to must strive Google’s envelope method out for yourself, it best works with a Pixel 3A correct now — and we can’t heart of attention on a cause that’s the case. Whenever you accept as true with comprise a Pixel 3A, even if, download the main Play Retailer app for the envelope, called Envelope, then print out the PDF for the envelope, in the reduction of out the template, and apply the instructions to accomplish it.
Then, whenever you happen to’re ready for a spoil out of your cell phone, originate up the Envelope app, budge your Pixel 3A into the envelope, and seal the envelope shut — the PDF recommends the drawl of glue. Once your cell phone is sealed in the envelope, you’ll best be in a dwelling to dial cell phone numbers on the cell phone, drawl shuffle dial, or comprise the cell phone present you the time by flashing the numbers on the quantity pad.
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I in actuality if fact be told treasure the foundation of Envelope. I’ve been to some these stay presentations that required the drawl of the cell phone pouches, and I felt that being entirely blocked from the drawl of my cell phone helped me and the the relaxation of the gang focal point greater on the expose. I will be able to see how Envelope will also be a equally helpful scheme to give myself a spoil from my cell phone at home. But since your cell phone is glued throughout the envelope, you’ll must mosey the seal and phase of the envelope to score it out, which scheme that you just’d probably comprise make a new envelope each and each time you preserve shut to must make drawl of the app.
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A power struggle on the Louisiana Supreme Court is headed to federalcourt this week. Lawyers are seeking to reopen an old voting rights case that gave the Deep South state its first black Supreme Court justice. What's at stake in the racially charged fight is whether Louisiana will now have its first African-American chief justice.
Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York at age 90.
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During a televised press conference, Assistant Chief Scott McCollum said a police officer and a civilian were killed during the shooting. McCollum said the alleged gunman was also shot, but he is now in custody.


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Legislative efforts have a lifespan but our health care system does not. So whether we are still rejoicing or recriminating, let’s take a look at some timeless principles we can apply to the ongoing effort to improve health care in the United States.
The proposal to relocate AHRQ within the NIH is a threatening change, but under the right conditions a reorganization could represent a new beginning with an opportunity to refocus within a larger new home.
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Many value-based payment arrangements hold delivery systems accountable for achieving population health goals, which can best be met by engaging people who may never enter a medical office. Kaiser Permanente learned to reach beyond its walls to engage healthy members in colorectal cancer screening.
It is now reported that the full House will vote on the American Health Care Act on Friday, March 24. Late on March 23, a further manager’s amendment was offered, apparently to pick up more Republican votes. CBO updated its score for AHCA, reflecting earlier changes but not the latest tweaks.
Early 2017 has been one of the most interesting and challenging times for anyone concerned with medication regulation and evidence-based prescribing — as well as for the patients and health care professionals who will be so heavily impacted recent policy changes.
In the effort to pass the American Health Care Act, House Republicans are looking to eliminate the requirement that health insurers cover “essential health benefits” (EHB). What are EHB and what would be the consequences of removing this requirement?
For the past nearly seven years, the HHS blog has regularly highlighted the achievements of the Affordable Care Act. With the change in administrations, the change in the HHS blog has been dramatic. Additionally, a judge dismissed a suit for federal money allegedly due an ACA CO-OP.
The Israeli system rests on the concept of competing private health plans selling care in a market of empowered consumers. But one crucial difference is how Israel approaches the question of what it means to be covered.
In many ways, the AHCA's reliance on consumers to fend for themselves in buying health care services represents a fundamental rejection of the prevailing policy viewpoint: Kenneth Arrow's argument that the economic problems in health care are related to uncertainty in both disease and in treatment.


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Take it easy. Take it easy. Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.
Do you have a tendency over-think things? Are you expert at taking the simplest task and making it complex? As Avril Lavigne sang, “Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?”
There are no extra points for making your life harder than it needs to be. Often your first impulse is the the correct impulse. Learn to trust it. The shortest route to victory is as meritorious as the longest. Buying the first car you like is more efficient than looking at five more before you decide that’s the one you like.
I’m not saying not to work hard or go the extra mile for your dreams. I’m saying when life gives you a chance to take a break or offers you simplicity, take it. Take the easy way out when there is one. Save your energy and your fight for life’s real challenges rather turning mole hills into mountains.
Declutter. Uncomplicate. Simplify. Let go. Take the easy way out when it serves you just as well.
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Hyundai Stargazer MPV Launch: Hyundai Motors can launch its new AmyV Stargazer in India and other countries in the coming time, which will be in 6 seater option. The testing of Hyundai Stargazer is going on for a long time and it will be launched soon. At present, it has been revealed in media reports that Stargazer will be launched in the foreign market first. There is also news that Stargazer will be produced in India at its plant in Chennai. It is expected that in the coming time it can be launched in the Indian market as well, as there is a good sale of big family cars and cars like Maruti Ertiga and Kia Carens sell well here.
Equipped with Powerful Engine
Hyundai’s upcoming MPV Stargazer has been developed on the same platform SP2 as the Kia Carens, and SUVs like the Hyundai Creta and Alcazar have also been built on it. This 6-seater MPV will be powered by a 1.5-litre 4-cylinder naturally aspirated petrol engine that will generate 113bhp power and 145Nm torque. A 1.5-litre turbo diesel engine can also be seen in this, which will be able to generate 113bhp power and 250Nm torque. The Stargazer can be offered with a 6-speed manual as well as a CVT automatic gearbox.
How to watch Stargazer?
Talking about the look of the Hyundai Stargazer, it will be 4.5 meters long and its wheelbase will be 2.79 meters. The 6-seater MPV will get split headlamps, LED DRLs, new grille and sloping roofline along with shark fin antenna. On the other hand, in terms of features, many standard and safety features can be seen in the Hyundai Stargazer, including a large touchscreen infotainment system, BlueLink technology, advanced driver assistant system and multiple airbags. More information about the stargazer will be revealed in the coming time.


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PBP 2019 is next year. This is the peak world-wide randonneuring event, held every four years. If you're in good or great shape and are interested in endurance cycling, next year is your last opportunity to ride in this until 2023.
PBP = Paris-Brest-Paris is a single continuous ride from Paris to the coast and back. There are different time limits (80, 84, and 90 hours). You can sleep, but it count against your time. You're competing against like 5000 riders from all over the world. Completing PBP means you never have to apologize for being a sucky rider again.
To do it, you have to qualify, completing rides of 200, 300, 400, and 600 km early next year. (PBP itself is 1230 km). There's a local club, Pittsburgh Randonneurs (http://pittsburghrandonneurs.com/
), which organizes rides, provides advice , etc. They've completed all their rides until the fall, but will provide everything except the 600 km brevet in time to qualify next year. (For 600 km you can go to Ohio Randonneurs, or DC, for example).
Pittsburgh has a 100% track record completing PBP, because we're tough.
I ran across this blog post about randonneuring. I liked it because the skill level of the rider was about where I was when I did PBP 2015: able to complete at the 90 hour level if I minimized my time at the controles.


Extending parallax parameterised bundle adjustment to stereo
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The main contribution of this paper is the extension of the ParllaxBA algorithm proposed by [Zhao et al., 2015] into stereo. Simulated and experimental datasets are used to evaluate Cartesian and parallax angle parameterisation for stereo bundle adjustment. It is demonstrated that, like monocular ParallaxBA, under normal conditions the two algorithms perform similarly. However, when the parallax angle of landmarks is low, parallax parameterisation can converge to a lower cost and in less time than the traditional Cartesian parameterisation.
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The custom made kit created for cycling around the world in 80 days
Mark will ride a customised version of our Podium Elite short sleeve jersey and Podium Elite bibshort. Comfort, performance and styling combine in this aggressive performance elite jersey and bibshort.
The Podium Elite jersey uses Altura Dry™ technology which is engineered to move excess moisture away from the skin. Using Altura Draft Venting™ Mark will have enhanced breathability and thermoregulation through strategically located venting zones.
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Our Podium Elite bibshort has breather mesh upper body zones for enhanced breathability, the three-mesh construction keeps you dry and comfortable in the saddle. The integrated silicon grip detailing on hem gripper delivers enhanced fit.
Altura Dry™ technology is delivered in our Altura arm warmers which is engineered to move excess moisture away from the skin. The arm warmers have been customised but use the same integrated silicon grip detailing for enhanced fit.
For more information about how Altura are supporting Mark's world record breaking attempt, please visit https://www.altura.eu/road/mark-beaumont-around-the-world/.

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Google on Wednesday announced the launch of an online tool that uses artificial intelligence to decode and translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The tool — called fabricius — will be useful for presenting an interactive experiment to globalists to help them learn hieroglyphics more efficiently. It will also help increase Egyptologists’ awareness of the history and heritage of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
The tool was made available on the Google Arts and Culture platform, which allows users to learn about arts and cultural artifacts from roughly 2,000 cultural institutions worldwide.
Users can interact with the artifacts through virtual reality technology, augmented reality, and high-quality images.
The tool uses machine learning to ease the collection, indexing and understanding of hieroglyphic symbols.
The tool to help Egyptologists translate hieroglyphics into English is now available, with the Arabic tool set to unveil soon.
The tool also allows users to write and share messages in hieroglyphics.
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Kindergarten has been rockin' on their Poetry Journals. We have added 20 poems so far this year that we have been working on. I am amazed at how far they have come with their reading. Reading from our Poetry Journals have been a way for students to identify words they know, discover strategies for decoding unknown words and to develop fluency in their reading. Identifying punctuation such as the exclamation mark and comma has added a lot of voice to our reading as well. By the end of the year, students should bring home a whole volume of poetry that they can read to you!


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Nevada County Facilities has partnered with local business, Origin Grazing, to maintain vegetation on the County's solar field located at 16782 Hwy 49. The lot, which is approximately 10.45 acres, has had sheep from Origin Grazing since the beginning of June and is expected to continue into July depending on how quickly the livestock manage the vegetation through grazing and browsing.
Nevada County chose vegetation management through sheep and livestock due to it's cost effective and sustainable grazing methods. Animals are moved with truck and trailer from site to site. Animals are managed on each site by rotating solar powered electric fencing, and they are protected by a livestock guardian dog.
This effort is in addition to the County's recent vegetation management on over 30 acres of the Eric Rood Center Campus, with the help of crews from the CAL FIRE Washington Ridge Camp. This project took place from the spring of 2018 to spring of 2019.

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Now you have immediate, effective control in your hands whenever and wherever you need help managing pain. The AvivaTENS XP offers easy, preset programs for a wide range of pain conditions – chronic, acute and post-surgical.
AvivaTens XP is a clinically proven, safe and effective means of providing a drug-free method of pain relief. It’s portable so your patients can use it at home or at work. Chronic pain sufferers, in particular, who experience sudden breakthrough levels of pain, can rely on AvivaTENS XP for immediate and long-term pain relief when used with drug and non-drug treatment regimens.
AvivaTENS XP Provides Pain Relief in Two Ways:
1. Pain Gate Control – In this mode, the patient feels a comfortable tingling or pulsing sensation which blocks the pain pathway to the brain for immediate pain relief.
2. Endorphin Release – This setting produces a tapping sensation. After 20-40 minutes, the body naturally releases pain relieving endorphins, which remain in the system for up to several hours after treatment has ceased.
AvivaTENS indications for use:
AvivaTENS is indicated for the symptomatic relief and management of chronic intractable pain. It is also an adjunctive treatment in the management of post-surgical and post-traumatic pain. The device has no curative value and should only be used in conjunction with medical supervision.


Nagpur: The Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (MAHAGENCO) has filed a caveat petition in the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court apprehending litigation against its proposed two 660 MW coal power units at Koradi in Nagpur.
The proposed coal power units have been opposed by environmentalists and other activists who have raised concerns about air, land and water pollution caused by an existing power plant.
The caveat, filed on Monday through advocate Mohit Khajanchi, sought that the MAHAGENCO be heard in case of any litigation initiated by any of the 87 people who took part in an environmental public hearing conducted by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) recently.
“We pray that no orders be passed without due notice under Section 148-A of the Code of Civil Procedure to the caveator (MAHAGENCO) in any application/prayer for grant of stay and /or status quo and/or injunction and/or any other interim/ad-interim order/relief, in any Public Interest Litigation challenging the environmental public hearing held by MPCB on May 29,” the caveat said.
The power generation company has proposed the setting up of 2 x 660 MW Coal Based Supercritical Thermal Power Plant to be located in the premises of existing thermal power station at Koradi, it said.
A copy of the caveat has also been sent to the 87 people who participated in the MPCB’s environmental public hearing.


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There are several options out there when it comes to gaming sports news websites. These include Bleacher Report, FanSided, and 8X. All of these websites offer news about various games and teams. Depending on what you’re looking for, you might want to check out all three. Deadspin may have the most news, while Bleacher Report is better for breaking news about your favorite games and teams.
The demise of Deadspin’s editorial team is no less bizarre than that of Sports Illustrated’s. The controversial site has recently been acquired by a private equity company that was initially opposed to its controversial content. This move was made following a legal battle between the gaming industry and the website’s owners, Gawker Media.
Founded in 2008, Deadspin has been a popular site for gamers since its inception. The site is a combination of sports, humor, and other topics. The site’s staff includes writer Drew Magary, who has written many articles on the topic of subdural hematoma.
If you’re a big sports fan, the FanSided Gaming Sports News Website is the place to go to find the latest news and analysis. This network of 300 websites features coverage on almost every major professional sport, as well as a lot of college athletics. You’ll find in-depth analysis of your favorite teams and games, as well as the hottest new TV shows.
The site features breaking news, reviews, analysis, videos, and photos. Its writers are as passionate about their favorite sports as their users are. Fans of both sports and gaming will love the site’s daily newsletter, which is updated with all of the latest news and analysis.
The Bleacher Report is a leading real time sports website with over 250 million monthly visitors. This website allows users to share their opinions and view the most recent news on their favorite teams. The website also allows members to write their own articles. In fact, even Terrell Owens has written for the Bleacher Report, using a pen name that he’s used to mask his identity as a sports fan.
Bleacher Report’s users are overwhelmingly gamers. Its website is one of the most popular sports sites on the web, and its devoted fans are largely young. As such, Bleacher Report has been growing rapidly in recent years. The company recently announced a partnership with Caesars Entertainment to develop studio shows geared towards sports gambling.
8Xbet is a comprehensive sports news website. It offers breaking news, original articles, and analysis. Its homepage lets you follow your favorite teams and also has sections on college sports. Its interface is easy to use and its content is always fresh. It also offers an email newsletter and lets you follow the website on Twitter. Subscribe today to get breaking sports news and keep up with your favorite team’s news.
ESPN is another popular website for gaming news. The company started as a website in 2005 by four high school friends who wanted to follow the sports that they loved. The site is now owned by Turner and is one of the most popular gaming sports news websites in the world.
World in Sport
World in Sport is a fast-growing online media company that specializes in sports news, live coverage, and expert articles. Its content focuses on all kinds of sports, from competitive gaming to virtual racing events. It also features expert articles, videos, and news from around the world. The site has an active YouTube channel where you can watch videos related to gaming.
Yahoo Sports Gaming is an online sports news and betting website that covers a wide range of sports. The company’s extensive coverage includes NBA, MLB, college basketball, NASCAR, tennis, boxing, Major League Soccer, arena football, NCAA women’s basketball, and track and field. It employs a number of reporters, including Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde. Recently, Yahoo Sports introduced The Vertical section, a collection of news articles focused on the NBA.
Yahoo also offers fantasy football and other games based on real-world events. Fantasy football players, for example, accumulate points whenever they score a touchdown or gain yardage on the ground. These points are then totaled against their opponent’s score to determine a winner. Similar games are also available on ESPN and other websites.

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I have particular interests in the assessment and treatment of thinking or mental health difficulties in people with depression or anxiety, neurological disorders, acquired brain injures, neurodegenerative conditions, and issues surrounding their capacity, and medical issues affecting their thinking skills.
My therapeutic style comes from a person-centred approach and I use a variety of evidence-based techniques for counselling, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based interventions.


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Hurricane Florence is still sweeping the Carolinas, with the storm now headed toward Virginia on its way to the Atlantic. Rescue teams are continuing their efforts by assisting with evacuations and searching for missing persons. Thus far, a reported 17 people have died due to the storm, and millions more have been left without power in their homes.
While the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical depression, it has prompted flash flood warnings, which could pose an even greater threat in both North and South Carolina. On Saturday, North Carolina Emergency Management said that flood danger was "more immediate" than when the storm made landfall on Friday.
Already, floodwaters have shut down major highways in North Carolina, blocking the state's main energy provider from some of the hardest-hit coastal communities. The city of Wilmington is now completely cut off from the rest of the state due to submerged roads.
For those looking to help, we've compiled a list of reputable organizations that are assisting in relief efforts.
While the Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) says that monetary donations are the best way to provide aid, organizations like the American Red Cross and National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster are also accepting volunteers. The following list encompasses local, national, and international organizations offering a variety of services during the crisis.
Note: It's not clear whether all of these organizations will spend 100% of donations received on hurricane relief and associated expenses. In past large-scale disasters, they have given high percentages of donations directly to victims, especially if there is a specific fund set up. To avoid scams, it's always good to research a group before donating by checking scores from independents groups like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch.
General Aid: Google/American Red Cross
Just before Hurricane Florence made landfall, Google announced a $2 million fundraising campaign in support of the Red Cross. The tech company is now matching up to $1 million in donations, all of which will assist the Red Cross in their relief efforts.
Amazon's online donation page is also accepting contributions to the Red Cross and Feeding America. Those with an Amazon Alexa can simply say, "Alexa, make a donation to Hurricane Florence."
General Aid: North Carolina Community Foundation
Since its inception in 1988, the North Carolina Community Foundation has offered $101 million worth of grants throughout the state. It currently serves 67 counties and is affiliated with 60 different foundations.
Visit their website to find out how you can donate to their relief efforts. The organization's grants focus on mid- to long-term recovery efforts and do not compete with the efforts of first responders.
General Aid: Direct Relief
Direct Relief is an international humanitarian organization that serves more than 80 countries, including all 50 states in the US. They currently have a perfect score on Charity Watch, which evaluates their financial performance, accountability, and transparency.
At the start of Hurricane Florence, the organization distributed hurricane-specific medicines and supplies in high-risk areas along the coast. They're also coordinating relief efforts with more than 200 healthcare partners in the area.
Hunger Relief: Harvest Hope Food Bank
Harvest Hope Food Bank is a regional organization serving residents in Columbia, Lexington, Greenville, and Florence, South Carolina. Their website allows you to donate meals to those affected by the crisis (just select "disaster relief" when you fill out their online form). A $10 donation could help provide 50 meals for hurricane victims.
Hunger Relief: The Salvation Army
A world leader in disaster relief, the Salvation Army has stayed ahead of the crisis by deploying volunteers from Florida earlier this week. Its mobile feeding units have the capacity to serve 500 to 1,500 meals per day. Visit its website to donate or receive updates on where its services are headed.
Medical Services: Americares
Americares is dedicated to improving the health of those affected by poverty or disaster. For the last 40 years, the organization has given more than $15 billion in aid to 164 countries.
Their response team has touched down in North Carolina and is working with partners in the area to provide emergency medical services and long-term humanitarian assistance. For every $10 donation, they provide $100 in aid. To assist their efforts, visit their online donation page.
Medical Services: National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics
Those looking to donate medical services might consider giving to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, which provides access to healthcare, medications, and supplies during a disaster.
They're currently accepting monetary donations for Hurricane Florence, or you can email them at firstname.lastname@example.org if you'd like to donate goods such as gas cards, laptops, tablets, blood pressure cuffs, or walkie-talkies.
Home Repair: Mennonite Disaster Service
The Mennonite Disaster Service is a nonprofit volunteer network that responds to natural and man-made disasters in Canada and the US. Their efforts are dedicated to the cleanup, repair, and rebuilding of homes. A $40 daily donation is enough to provide dorm-style lodging, meals, tools, and equipment for one of their volunteers.
Home Repair: Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity has been helping global communities recover from disaster for more than 20 years. The organization is focused on long-term recovery efforts, including sustainable shelter and housing solutions for low-income residents. They are currently accepting donations online.
Financial Aid: Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps has been a key responder to global emergencies over the past 20 years, assisting with relief efforts for the Nepal earthquakes, Philippines typhoon, Haiti earthquake, and other natural disasters. The organization is now working with Team Rubicon, a disaster response team that unites the skills of military veterans and first responders, to assess the damage of Hurricane Florence.
Their Humanitarian Response Fund is currently accepting donations, which will most likely go toward cash assistance for the most vulnerable communities in the Carolinas.
Financial Aid: GlobalGiving
Hurricane Florence could be the costliest storm to ever hit the US, generating more than $170 billion in economic losses for the East Coast. Those looking to make a financial contribution to the crisis might want to check out GlobalGiving, the first and largest global crowdfunding community.
The organization has created a Hurricane Florence Relief Fund, which will go toward immediate food, fuel, clean water, hygiene products, and shelter, along with long-term recovery projects. You can donate to the fund online, or via the Facebook app.
Animal Rescue: Charleston Animal Society
Around 600,000 pets were killed or displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Already, the Charleston Animal Society has evacuated dozens of dogs in Myrtle Beach ahead of Hurricane Florence, and will continue to support South Carolina's emergency pet shelters during the crisis. Visit their website to help out.
Animal Rescue: American Humane
As of Wednesday, American Humane has evacuated more than 70 cats in South Carolina and is coordinating with multiple shelters along the coast. To aid efforts or receive updates, visit their online donation page.


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Today’s vote is not the only one that had America on the edge of its seats. Blog GlobalPost recently wrote of the 1916 election:
“(Woodrow) Wilson, a Democrat seeking a second term against Charles Evans Hughes, was staring down the barrel of World War I, which had been sweeping though Europe for two years leading up to the election. Wilson had respected America’s desire for neutrality, and campaigned on the slogan ‘He kept us out of war,’ Yahoo Voices reported.
“Though it initially seemed like Hughes, a moderate Republican and former member of the Supreme Court, had won, the results were neck-and-neck right across the country and came down to California. The west coast ultimately gave Wilson a narrow win, with 49.2 percent of the popular vote and 277 electoral votes to Hughes’ 254, according to InfoPlease’s Campaign database.
“Wilson ultimately had to renege on his promise to the American people, and entered World War I when Germany began attacking U.S. ships.”
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Here’s a red-and-blue map of the 1916 results:
This is a fascinating account of how the news of the election returns was spread — no Facebook, tweets or endless droning analysis in those days:
“SEVEN thousand wireless telephone operators within a radius of 200 miles of New York City received election returns from the New York American. Three hundred and fifty moving-picture theaters; special bulletin boards in different parts of the city, and the principal hotels of Manhattan obtained the news from the above office, as fast as it was received. Fifty extra telephone lines were run into the American office, the theaters were placed on lines that were in continuous operation, and while the news of the closest Presidential election in years was being given to the public thru these channels, the editorial staff compiled the returns without the slightest confusion. announcer broadcasting.”
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Anyway, the campaign is almost over and we hope to have the results tonight (or tomorrow, or the day after that). May the odds be ever in your favor!


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Learn About David Brown Repair Process at Motor & Gear Engineering
Gears and gearboxes have been an integral part of industrial equipment for several years now. These devices play a key role in the functioning of equipment and are designed to perform in challenging environments. Owing to such an important role, businesses choose gear solutions from industry-leading brands. If you are looking for the finest quality gearboxes with rigid construction, David Brown gear and gearboxes are the answer. These gearboxes are equipped with sophisticated features and are designed to meet the challenging industrial requirements.
Like any other mechanical device, these gears and gearboxes are prone to damage and may require regular maintenance and repair. Although it is easy to find several gearbox repair services in the area where you live, not all may be equipped to repair industry-leading David Brown gearboxes. This is where your search expands beyond your region. If you are currently searching for one then this post introduces you to Motor & Gear Engineering, which is one of the leading David Brown gearbox repair services in the US. The company has helped its clients make the best use of their David Brow gear systems with routine maintenance and fast-turnaround, quality repair services. This post highlights several steps involved in the David Brown gearbox repair services offered by Motor & Gear Engineering.
Motor & Gear Engineering’s David Brown Gearboxes Repair Services Discussed in Brief
At Motor & Gear Engineering, the experts have spent a lot of time understanding gears and gearboxes. This gives them an edge when it comes to repairing gearboxes from brands like David Brown. The service proceeds in the following way:
The gearbox repair, rebuilding, and reconditioning starts with a regular visual inspection.
The device is completely disassembled and the parts are cleaned for further analysis.
The experts understand how difficult it is to repair a gearbox without knowing the main cause of failure. A failure doesn’t happen in a day and it happens over time. Corrosive and abrasive wear, inadequate lubrication, overloading, misalignment, scuffing, and installation and handling errors are a few common reasons for the failure of a gearbox. To identify it, the experts at Motor & Gear Engineering perform an in-depth analysis of parts. Along with the visual inspection, the in-depth analysis includes vibration analysis and endoscopy that enables experts to analyze the condition of components like gears, bearings, and so on.
The findings from the visual inspection, vibration analysis, and endoscopy are included in an analysis report that is shared with the client. The report also includes information on the scope of repair of the components or the gearbox on a whole along with the total costs. The actual repair or recondition begins after seeking approval on the report.
Once the inspection of the gearbox is done, the next important step is to repair and rebuild the gearbox. All worn out parts are replaced with original spare parts. At times, a complete overhaul is done to restore the gearbox to its original working condition.
Motor and Gear Engineering offers repairs and rebuilding for various types of David Brown gearbox models including spur gears, helical gears, vertical mill drive, high-speed gearboxes, and so on.
Motor and Gear Engineering specializes in customized repairs and solutions. The company has been helping its clients to minimize their carbon footprint by maximizing the value of their David Brown gears and gearboxes for several years now. The company also provides repairs and maintenance of gear systems from leading industry brands such as Sumitomo, Flender Gearbox, Falk, Eisenbeiss, and so on.