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Thursday, September 22
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
Then, he complicates matters. The signing of a glorified execution notice of a suspected witch moves to the woman in question, Herlof's Marte (Anna Svierkier), giving concoctions to a village woman. The old crone claims the herbs she used for her drought have power because she picked them under the gallows. "There is power in evil," she tells her suspicious customer. But just as Dreyer inserts the possibility of actual witchcraft, the sound of an encroaching mob brings back the fear of witch hunts as the old woman flees out her pig trough. Then she makes the mistake of hiding out in the home of the local, persecuting pastor. Or is it a mistake after all?
If The Crucible framed its parable around the clear and insidious lie of Abigail and its effects on a community too scared to dissent, Day of Wrath acknowledges that the hunted in question might be guilty of the accusations thrown at them. Then, Dreyer asks the relevance of such guilt, particularly given the response of others. And as his cultural analogy here alludes not to abstract anti-Communist fear but the very tangible danger of rounding up Jews, the collusion Dreyer illustrates runs far deeper.
Inside the home of the pastor, Absalon, Herlof's Marte runs into the man's wife, Anna, a woman far younger than her husband and whose narrowed eyes communicate a resentment of having been swiped from the cradle. Herlof's Marte begs to be hidden, alluding to some skeletons she knows Anna and Absalon keep in their closet before guards burst in and find her before Anna can do anything to honor the agreement. The constables find her in the attic, but the camera remains back downstairs with the couple as her shrieks of pain and fear fill the air, the imagery of Nazis searching hideaways for Jews unmistakable and chilling. But by implicating Anna's own past, Dreyer calls to mind the genetic suspicions that ran through the Holocaust, the fear that beset a family with even the tiniest drop of Jewish blood in the line. Herlof's Marte, though tortured and terrified, has the wherewithal to taunt both Anna and her husband with the knowledge she has of Anna's mother, information that could harm their standing in the community, even get them put on the rack or on a stake as well. The orthodox collar Absalon wears, a ludicrously oversized wing that makes him look like a hunchback, becomes a glaring symbol of guilt both religious and personal as it weighs down on his old, frail shoulders, wracking him with shame and fear of being exposed.
As such, the film is less about whether Herlof's Marte is truly guilty—though Dreyer inserts enough coy coincidences regarding and, later, Anna, that keeps open the possibility of witchcraft—than how a community invents demons even where they might exist, how religious fervor and complicity combine into a guilt that redirects in savage fashion onto others. It's no coincidence that Herlof's Marte resembles a more unkempt version of Absalon's strict orthodox mother, Meret (Sigrid Neiiendam), suggesting how close she really is to the image of blameless Christendom the family likes to project as they torture the old woman in a chamber for confession.
Dreyer films that scene with his usual grace, his camera looking away from the poor woman as is tracks past the aligned faces of patriarchal authority. But Dreyer eventually makes his way around to Herlof's Marte, the vague aura of power around her now gone as she lies partially nude and exhausted from pain, the stern, even eager looks of the men not matching up to the wretched sight of someone old enough to be a grandmother panting for air with sweat-matted hair pasted to her scalp in ribbons. Whether or not Herlof's Marte is truly guilty, this punishment is inhuman, and as the clergymen compliment each other on the confession they extract from her, the ascetic conditions of the dungeon grow yet colder and darker.
Dreyer uses shadow to magnificent effect here, and throughout the film. Inside, artificial lighting recreates the look of candles, providing a steady source of illumination, but one that only raises a few feet, leaving the ceiling above in inky blacks. In a film where characters take their motivations from aspirations to heavenly salvation, the void over them is doubly disconcerting. Amusingly, the only real brightness in the film are exterior shots of Anna and Martin, Absalon's grown son from his first marriage, engaging in a romantic tryst. In the film's depiction of visible sin (at least sin without religious justification the way torture is "permitted"), Dreyer uses idyllic exterior interludes with bright sunlight, though he tellingly filters even that through obscuring canopies of leaves. Rather than generate a mood of ambiguity, Dreter suggests universal evil of some level, whether it's Anna's vindictive, quasi-incestuous affair to spite her husband or Meret's twisted manipulation or burning an old woman at the stake.
The film's attitude toward human sin and the exacerbating, not alleviating, presence of church dogma explodes in the final act. Absalon, cognizant of his wife's newfound happiness and suspicious of the reason, makes his own confession, one as hollow and bitter as the one he forced out of Herlof's Marte. He apologizes for stealing his wife's youth and joy with all the sincerity of a person saying "This is all my fault" with the expectant pause inviting the other party to cry out, "No!" and gather the penitent to her comforting bosom. Instead, Anna's pointed gaze somehow sharpens further into diamond quality hatred, and Absalon's uncontrollable shaking reveals just how thin his apology really was. The webs of personal and institutional evil converge in what happens next, and Dreyer ends on a note of utter hopelessness.
By not assigning clear blame, either to genuine witchcraft or a repressed religious society looking for outlets for sexual aggression, Dreyer applies his disgust to everyone, yet he never lapses into outright nihilism. The grace of his ascetic framing and movement, and the modicum of sympathy he affords to characters when they are trapped by the system, deepen Day of Wrath into a more probing study of human sin, sin outside religious dogma yet perhaps as ingrained in us as so much religious teaching says it is. Dreyer's greatest work, The Passion of Joan of Arc, ends on a similarly bleak note of Pharisaical triumph, yet neither communicate utter hopelessness. Dreyer doesn't frame this as theatrical symbolism, and even in his allusion he frames the story with uncomfortable reality. You learn too much about his characters to view them as tragic props or emotional cues, and while that makes the results that much more hard-hitting (emotionally with Joan, morally with the people here), one cannot retreat into despair the way one can with Bergman. Only Dreyer could make that unending bleakness seem the easy way out.
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The European Research Council funds three TU Dresden scientists with ERC Advanced Grants, the most highly-endowed individual grants on a European level. These are awarded for renowned scientists who break new ground in their respective area of research by conducting high-risk research. Biophysicist Prof. Stephan Gill, physician Prof. Frank Buchholz and chemist Prof. Stefan Kaskel are granted approximately EUR 7.3 million for their research. In the past, TUD has already been awarded four ERC Advanced Grants.
How growing organisms distinguish between left and right
Stephan Grill, Professor for Biophysics at the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of TU Dresden, will be awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.5 million for his research on “Chiral Morphogenesis”. The workgroup headed by Stephan Grill will investigate the physical mechanisms that enable a growing organism to distinguish between left and right, in order to place certain organs towards the left side and others towards the right side in a growing organism. To this end, the scientists conduct research on the muscle proteins actin and myosin and the physical mechanisms with which these proteins generate forces and torques in order to shape growing organs. “Revealing the mechanisms that give rise to left-right symmetry breaking in embryonic development is one of the great unanswered questions. The aim of this grant is to understand how cellular, tissue-scale and organismal left-right asymmetry arises from molecular interactions. For this purpose, we will combine physics and biology, and treat living systems as physical systems where chiral, and therefore left-right symmetric, forces drive chiral patterning and chiral structure formation in mechanically active biological matter”, Prof. Grill explains. Stephan Grill’s research group at BIOTEC is keen to understand the forces that allow an embryo to grow into a fully structured and formed organism. For this purpose, the group combines several disciplines, among them cell and developmental biology with biophysics and theoretical physics. In 2011, Stephan Grill received an ERC Starting Grant.
Efficient and safe genetic surgery
Frank Buchholz, Professor for Medical Systems Biology at the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus is awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.4 million for his research in the field of targeted genome surgery based on evolved site-specific recombinases. The team headed by Prof. Buchholz already succeeded in developing a designer recombinase (Brec1) that is capable of specifically removing the provirus from infected cells of most primary HIV-1 isolates found in humans. Now Frank Buchholz’ research is also focusing on various other diseases. “The generation of molecular scalpels, such as the Brec1 recombinase, will change medical practice. Not only HIV patients will likely benefit from this development, but presumably also many other patients. We are about to witness the beginning of the genome surgery era”, predicts the head of the Dresden research group, Prof. Frank Buchholz. In the funded “GenSurge” project, a “genome-editing platform” will be developed which allows efficient and safe DNA modifications without triggering cell intrinsic DNA repair.
Porous materials for new energy and environmental technologies
Stefan Kaskel, Professor for Inorganic Chemistry, is awarded the ERC Advanced Grant worth approximately EUR 2.4 million for his project “Understanding negative gas adsorption in highly porous networks for the design of pressure amplifying materials.” Porous materials play a key role in energy and environmental technologies such as gas and heat storage, hydrogen purification, batteries, air and water purification, energy conversion, catalysis and sensing. In 2016, the team headed by Kaskel discovered a new counter-intuitive phenomenon: A porous material named DUT-49 (DUT = Dresden University of Technology) that reacts upon an externally applied gas pressure by expelling molecules from inner voids, giving rise to an overall gas pressure amplification. The material may be regarded as a highly porous sponge, which upon reaching a certain degree of filling contracts autonomously in a self-squeezing manner to expel the charge loaded in the inner volume. Such materials may have tremendous implications for the design of threshold sensitive micropneumatic devices or stimuli responsive self-propelling systems. In order to enable a knowledge-based exploitation of pressure amplifying materials in the future, the ERC grant focuses on the fundamental understanding of the underlying thermodynamics and rational tuning of pressure amplifying porous materials. Prof. Kaskel feels honoured and motivated by this extraordinary recognition of his work: “The ERC Advanced Grant is an enormous motivation for me and my team, acknowledging in depth the fundamental understanding of new phenomena as a crucial rational basis for sustainable technological exploitation.”
Prof. Stephan Grill
Tel.: +49 (0) 351 463-40328,
Prof. Frank Buchholz
Tel.: +49 (0) 351 463-40277,
Prof. Stefan Kaskel
Tel.: +49 (0) 351 463-34885

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Lightroom Classic Importing and Library
May 31 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm$199
Lightroom Classic Importing and Library Wednesday
May 31, 2023-May 31, 2023
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- Import images into the catalog
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Michael will guide you through the library features of Lightroom Classic:
- Sorting and rating photos
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17 July 2007
USGS GNIS (Geographic Names Index System) has updated its pages in the past year or so. This site is a godsend for genealogists looking to locate a particular historical geographic feature - including the precise locations of cemeteries once you know the state. The site now contains many added wonderful links and features to explore once your search turns up the the geographical feature you are looking for. [Search page is |here|; click on advanced for best choices. ]
For instance, today I was looking for the geourl (geography coordinates used to markup a location on a website or blog) for Persimmon Creek Cemetery in Cherokee County, North Carolina and I discovered that you can now access and use a TerraFly page to do a virtual fly-over online. Explore the terrain the Cherokee County MONTGOMERY family members lived by by beginning your fly over |here| at the cemetery. You can zoom in and out with TerraFly just as you can with Google Maps [here is the cemetery on Google] or Google's free downloadable software Google Earth.
The founders and subsequent contributors to Cemetery Surveys Inc have done a great job of making many, many cemetery marker photos and other documentation available online. It is a rich repository for our Cherokee County MONTGOMERYs.
For some reason, however, a search box search for Allen MONTGOMERY in Persimmon Creek Cemetery does not turn him up. He is evidently not indexed in his own right. Allen is found [NO LONGER EFFECTIVE], however, by looking up his wife Susannah (LARGENT) MONTGOMERY - as Susan MONTGOMERY because they share the same grave stone. You can view all of the available grave marker photos in the Persimmon Creek Cemetery |here| [NO LONGER EFFECTIVE] on the main entry page for the cemetery page itself.
Persimmon Creek Cemetery Notes:
(Apparently a historic graveyard site and no longer used for burials)
Persimmon Creek Cemetery is accessed off Holly Road and Hwy 294 in Cherokee Co, NC (Murphy is to its east and a little north as the crow flies).

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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to revolutionize not just individual lives but also traditional facets of the society at large.
Prior to the onset of the global health crisis, commerce was one such facets with brick and mortar establishments dominating the novel digital enterprise.
Under the cloud of restrictions ranging from curfews, restricted movements and total lockdowns, it is the latter thriving as legacy hubs shrunk from reduced footfall by customers.
Today, while online commerce is not synonymous with the whole of retail, both e-commerce and physical retail can be seen as equals.
Even so, it is the online retail place with more room for growth as commerce sinks further into the new age.
In the last 12 months for instance, many across the world have recorded their first interaction with e-commerce, for some, a fete nearly unthought-of prior to the unprecedented crisis.
*To the moon*
A report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) dubbed Covid-19 and E-Commerce lays bare the rise of the online market place in the past year.
According to the report, e-commerce as a share of global trade rose to 17 per cent last year from 14 per cent in 2019.
The UN agency expects the rise to continue even as the world embarks on a recovery path from the pandemic.
Both nascent and established e-commerce players have largely registered growth in the period as sales and revenues multiply.
Latin American based Mercado Libire for instance saw sales double between April and June last year while Africa’s retail giant Jumia posted a 50 per cent jump in transactions during the first six months of 2020.
China’s online share of retail sales rose to 24.6 per cent in August last year from 19.4 per cent on 2019 while that of Kazakhstan rose to 9.4 per cent from a low 5 per cent.
In Thailand, downloads of shopping applications increased by 60 per cent across a single week in March last year.
According to the latest available data, e-commerce sales in 2019 topped $26.7 trillion in value having grown by four per cent from 2018.
This to represent about 30 per cent, nearly one third of global GDP for the year in focus. Among global e-commerce winners by growth in gross merchandize value (GMV), last year, were Alibaba, Amazon, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Shopify, E-bay and Rakuten.
Nevertheless, outfits such as Uber, Expedia, Booking Holdings and Airbnb have suffered under the slack of reduced travel during the pandemic.
By country, the US, Japan and China top the e-commerce segment. Data from Digital Commerce 360 shows US citizens traded goods and services worth $861.2 billion online with US retailers in 2020. This is 44 per cent higher than in 2019.
We can see that, Global e-commerce giant Amazon meanwhile saw its largest growth in total visits in the month of October.
IBM’s US Retail Index shows the acceleration of the shift away from physical stores to digital shopping by at least five years.
The index meanwhile forecast a 60 per cent decline in departmental stores while e-commerce growth for 2020 is projected at 20 per cent.
Statista found 52.7 per cent pf US internet users to have avoided physical stores due to COVID-19 during the month of February last year while 52 per cent share of US adults shopped more online in May with the most popular product being restaurant delivery/takeaway.
Another report by McKinsey shows US e-commerce penetration in Q1 2020 posted a 10-year growth rate in just three months.
*The future is now*
I feel much Savvy legacy retailers including Walmart and Target have not been left behind in the switch up as they both take on e-commerce, and to much success.
For some, it has been a case of sudden death with departmental store outfits such as J.C. Penney, J.Crew Group Inc. and Neiman Marcus declared bankruptcy under the cloud of the pandemic.
Back home, firms have shown their ability to be agile in adopting to the unprecedented operating environment.
East African Breweries Limited (EABL), Bidco Africa, Safaricom, and other corporates and SME’s, have been leading firms, having switched to e-commerce in an attempt to grow new revenues after the pandemic’s strike.
For instance, the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) listed firm made an aggressive push for e-commerce to include home deliveries and the packaging of its products in cans.
The measures helped the company to grow revenues back in the second half of its last financial year as sales rebounded.
Other firms to make major strides in the switch have included Standard and the Nation Media Group who have pushed to grow e-paper sales and subsequently monetized their websites.
*Not an easy road*
In spite of the potential for e-commerce, the segment has been affected greatly by persistent barriers including costly broadband services, over-reliance on cash, lack of consumers trust, poor digital skills among populations and limited government attention to e-commerce.
Further, taxation measures such as Kenya’s digital services tax (DST) which has later been reduced to cover only non-residents have presented an interesting environment for the online market place.
In spite of the rampant challenges, e-commerce will transcend the storm to emerge on top. Despite the wide scope of the online marketplace, small business players can leverage e-commerce to gain a deeper foothold and even rival legacy players in the new segment.
Today, it is metaphorically suicidal not to have your businesses with an online presence as millions of would be customers, especially the youth, now stalk for deals on the internet and on social media to be specific.
The government can meanwhile do more to grow the new marketplace which is seen as a key pillar to building the economy back better.
Countries such as Costa Rica have established e-commerce platforms for business facing challenging in reaching an online presence.
Senegal has meanwhile launched an awareness campaign on the benefits of e-commerce among its population while Indonesia has unveiled a capacity building program for micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Enabling e-commerce ecosystems will require changes to public policies, business practices and regulatory frameworks for online transactions and security. Both private and public sectors with international digital partners need to enhance e- commerce and engage the billions of youth consumers, who will or can be online distributors, for manufacturers products including providers of services .
Trustee Brand Africa and Group Director Bidco Africa

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No matter how bad things are, I am still unable to imagine my father being dead, or just simply non-existent.
With every week and every month, with every lost pound, he is getting closer and closer to his destiny, to his grave. I already know it all with my mind, I understand it, and I mostly accept it. We’ve tried everything, and we have lost. We don’t have tools and chances any more. We can’t hope anything anymore. I got the last big slap in the face today, with the results of the molecular analysis, that concluded that there is practically no possible known targeted therapy for him, and the closest relevant experimental cancer treatment is at the other end of the world, which is not a reasonable option. So we are done. It is all over. We really can’t do anything else. His oncologist in the hospital already told me months ago, that my father’s cancer in this stage and condition is not curable anymore, they can only slow down its progression. I’ve tried everything outside the hospital as well, but now I can’t look for anything else. Counting the days, that’s all that is left for us. I don’t know how many days he has left. I don’t think he is going to live to see his 55th birthday in November. I don’t think that, seeing his current condition.
And still, I write these sentences with ice-cold rationalism, I write what my mind tells me, but no matter how hopeless our situation is, I am simply not able to even imagine, that my father is really going to die.
I just can’t imagine him lying still in his coffin, and nobody lives in his tiny little body anymore.
No matter how thin, weak and scary he looks, he is still alive, and death seams to be light-years away.
It is still not imaginable that something is ever going to happen to him.
I can’t imagine saying goodbye to him, I can’t imagine being just the three of us, with my mother and my brother.
I can’t imagine the goodbye, I can’t imagine him leaving,
I can’t imagine death at all.
I can’t imagine his funeral.
I can’t imagine that we can’t talk to him anymore.
I can’t imagine home without him being there.
I can’t imagine just a few photos left of him, and fading memories.
I can’t imagine…
It is unimaginable…

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JACKSON – State Sen. Jack Gordon’s surgery Friday morning to remove a brain tumor “went well,” according to a Senate colleague.
Sen. Terry Burton, R-Newton, said the surgery went well and “a good portion” of the tumor tissue was removed and sent to pathology. But Burton said the results of the pathology test will not be known for a few days,
The four-hour surgery was to remove a tumor on Gordon’s right frontal lobe.
On Thursday, Gordon, D-Okolona, who was at the Capitol, said the support he has received as people have learned about his health problems has been “gratifying.” He also expressed optimism that he would recover.
A spokeswoman at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where the surgery was performed, said Gordon was in good condition.
Gordon, 65, is in his sixth term in the state Senate after serving two terms in the Mississippi House.
Gordon first became ill in March when driving from Starkville to Columbus after a Mississippi State basketball game. He became disoriented and ran off the road. After the incident, Gordon said doctors believed he had suffered a stroke or had a tumor. He delayed additional medical exams in June because of prior commitments, but the tumor was discovered recently when he finally consented to the tests.
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LAST year I wrote that sat I next to former Pirates Rugby Club forward Anton Cloete whose son Chris turned out for SA Schools some years ago.
IT LOOKS as though the EP Kings might have “struck gold” in their bid to find a world class rugby coach to spearhead their expected entry into the “big-time” Currie Cup Premier Division this year.
SOUTH Africa captain Jean de Villiers hailed the current international outfit as one of the best in the country’s history after they ended 2013 with 10 wins out of 12.
THE Springboks’ power and precision set them apart in the first half before they kept a predictably brave Scotland well beyond arm’s length at Murrayfield in Edinburgh yesterday.
IN HIS quest to shore up his team’s defence and advance their kicking game, Bok coach Heyneke Meyer yesterday restored Jaque Fourie and Pat Lambie to the starting line-up for Saturday’s Test against Wales.
IS selecting overseas-based players ruining the Springboks in the long run, is it simply the way of the future and if so, is there a creative way around the issue?
THE progress of the Springbok team’s evolution under coach Heyneke Meyer will come in for its sternest examination when they clash with the world champion All Blacks in the Rugby Championships decider at Ellis Park today.
SPRINGBOK coach Heyneke Meyer acknowledged winning the Rugby Championships in the decider against the All Blacks is a tall order, but then cheerily admits he believes in fairytales.


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Target List (1h 55m) PG-13
Recently, members of Target List’s creative team had an opportunity to view the film for the first time.
After months of production meetings, script revisions, casting selections, four weeks of filming, and so many other challenges that go into making a full feature movie, I got the chance to watch the story MJ Palo and I wrote based on my 2019 novel, The Target List.
As I watched the production with my wife and daughter, I experienced several emotions. I felt joy, sadness, excitement, and gratitude.
I felt joy because of how satisfying it was for me to see something that I had worked so hard on finally come to fruition.
I felt sad because of how close we all came to not making the movie after I was targeted last year, became ill, and nearly lost my life in the process.
I felt excited because millions of people around the world are going to have an opportunity to watch a very unique cinematic production that will enlighten and entertain them.
I felt gratitude and appreciation for all the people who worked tirelessly on the movie and made what I believe to be an incredible film.
I am just going to come out and write it; Target List is a fantastic movie. I knew from reading and rereading the lengthy script that we wrote a hell of a good story. But until you see the movie with your own eyes, you don’t know how things are going to turn out.
I am not giving away any of the movie’s secrets, sorry! In all honesty, I think Target List is amazing, and I am not alone in my opinion.
Keep in mind that post-production is less than 30 percent complete. There are no video or post-sound effects in the film’s rough cut. The music score has yet to be written and added to the production. There are seven to eight months of additional post-production work to be done in the studio to polish Target List before its world premiere in 2023. But even at 30 percent finished, the movie has the feel and look of something special.
Get your popcorn ready, and stay tuned for more information on the project. We can’t wait to share this movie with the world!
TARGET LIST — A Feature Film Coming in 2023
NOW IN POST-PRODUCTION!
Written by MJ Palo and John Reizer
Visit the movie website to learn more:
Please support Target List by making a small donation on GoFundMe!
A lot of emotions stirring there, John. Your pride and joy shines through!
And I concur with you. It is an absolutely fabulous movie! Being a part of the team, I was permitted to watch and give my opinion. I just finished working on my test audience questions for MJ. And the movie was better than I even imagined it would be, even without it being fully done.
I can’t wait for the world to see it either. It is filled with danger that includes lots of fun and excitement. And it delivers a punch of a message!
Plus, the rapport between the characters is amazing. You can’t help but fall in love with them! I can’t say, “Wow,” enough times!
It was meant to be, John! 🙂
I am so happy you enjoyed the movie, Lisa. Thank you again for your support and for being one of the team members of this creative endeavor. I truly believe we have something very special here. 👍🙂
Dr. Reizer you have to be sky high after watching your movie. Congrats!
Yes, it is a nice feeling to be a part of a very talented creative team. I believe our film has a chance to do a lot of great things in the future.
Recently I reread my copy of your book, to get ready for the film, I can not wait till it comes out
I believe most moviegoers, Kenneth, will find Target List suspenseful, and fast-paced. There are moments of levity in the film that break the mounting tension which continues to rebuild throughout the production.
In one hour and fifty minutes of nonstop cinematic drama, the audience is led to the unexpected twist ending.
We are so excited to share the film with everyone, but it’s going to take a little time yet.
Magnificent John…congratulations for you and your team….yippee…warm regards Dirkje 👏👏👏
Thank you so much, Dirkje! I appreciate your support as always. 😀👍

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“I am always on the outside, trying to look inside…”
“I am always on the outside, trying to look inside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what’s out there. And what’s out there is constantly changing.” –Robert Frank
Two photography shows currently on view at SFMOMA provide an intriguing point of departure from which to consider the roles of insider and outsider. Robert Frank is an iconic example of the artist as outsider, looking in on society, as expressed by the quote above. His subjects are the everyday people whose lives comprise the American experience of the 1950s. Frank seeks out sites of exclusion in the culture he portrays. He looks most closely at poor people, white and black, whose circumstances give the lie to the promise of prosperity. A German Jew and Holocaust survivor, Frank understands America in the way only an immigrant, studiously engaged in a performance of belonging, can do. His influence is so widely felt that this work has come to represent ourselves to us – a record of our collective memories of a turbulent period.
I’ll consider Frank in greater depth with a special guest later this week, but for now, let’s turn to Richard Avedon. At first glance, Avedon would seem to be photography’s consummate insider. Glamour shots of Suzy Parker and Marilyn Monroe are his calling-card. His subjects include the powerful – Henry Kissinger, George HW Bush – and the famous – Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis. But Avedon’s camera has an equalizing power.
Turned on the 13-year-old rattlesnake skinner Boyd Fortin, Avedon’s lens elevates this young working man to a demi-god. Turned on the ever-fashionable Truman Capote, it highlights the vulnerability of a gay man living in a deeply homophobic era. Opera singer Marian Anderson is a diva who, despite her black complexion, is permitted to belong within a white, Eurocentric classical art world. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have fallen from supreme monarchy, to become regular, old, unhappy rich people.
My favorite image in the show is the large mural portrait of Andy Warhol and his Factory cohort. Here, the interplay of insider and outsider reaches critical mass. Depicted in high-fashion style are characters who skirt the line between in and out: Warhol, a poor immigrant and commercial artist whose break-through into fine art acceptance was still only very recent; Brigid “Polk” Berlin, an heiress slumming it with wackos and speed freaks; “Little Joe” Dallesandro, a handsome all-American boy who became an embodiment of gay male desire; and Candy Darling, in a rare nude shot, whose combination of screen-siren visage and clearly masculine anatomy speaks volumes.
The photograph’s composition reflects this interplay as well. Warhol is nearly pushed out of the frame, and his attention is clearly elsewhere. Dallesandro and Paul Morrissey appear doubled, in one version for public consumption and another for those in the know. Brigid’s bare breast mirrors the naked rent boys in the adjacent frame. The whole group appears ambivalent, as though they know that the aggressive transgressions of the 1960s are beginning to wear thin.
Frank dedicated his life’s work to depicting the excluded. Avedon’s politics are somewhat more nuanced, as it is because of his insider status that he is able to show us where the boundaries dissolve. Though the insiders in his oeuvre draw the crowds to the museum, it’s the outsiders who stay with you long afterwards.


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Bitburg is one of those old, strange stories you read about in meteorite books. A 1.5 ton iron was found in the late 1700s or early 1800s in Germany and smelted before it was recognized as a meteorite. All that remains is a melted, vesicular mess.
I don’t recall seeing any other pieces of this meteorite for sale, but I’m not sure how much Bitburg is preserved in institutions or elsewhere, smelted or not. I was pretty excited when this little slice turned up in an old mineral collection from Vienna.

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Readers Write: John Edwards' Plan to Get Serious About Healthcare
AlterNet readers had an animated discussion following a recent piece looking at Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards' new campaign ads, airing in Iowa, that promise to take away the health insurance members of Congress enjoy unless they enact his proposal for universal healthcare ("Edwards: If Members of Congress Won't Give Americans a Healthcare Plan, I'll Take Away Theirs.")
Vox Persona, while approving of Edwards' strategy for bringing about universal coverage, also had some words of caution: "Being from N.C., I can give you the heads up on our former illustrious senator. Serving in his one term, he spent most of his time running for president. How would you feel? The word opportunism comes to mind. He seems to say some of the right things, and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his kind of raw ambition makes me uneasy."
Jefferson's Guardian, disagreeing, replied: "It has to start with someone, Vox Persona, doesn't it?
"Quite possibly what you view as "raw ambition" in John Edwards might also be interpreted as someone who sees that time is running out for the American people.
"Someone has to take the bull by the horns. Aside Kucinich, who else is out there speaking for the American people?
Oregoncharles, a Green Party organizer, expressed concern that the candidate might be someone other than Hillary Clinton. "Uh-oh," he wrote, "if Edwards is the nominee, I'm in trouble. I'm counting on Hillary to make the Greens players in the election Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ Edwards is the only one of the Big Three who could hold progressives in the party." But Scheherezade disagreed with Oregoncharles' appraisal: "Hillary knows if she gets the nomination, Greens will come on board" s/he wrote. "Nobody's going to risk a repeat of the 2000 election. However, the presence of Edwards as a running mate would certainly sweeten the pot."
There was quite a bit of debate over the fact that Edwards' plan leaves the for-profit system and insurance companies in place for the moment, but puts the private sector in direct competition with a publicly financed system, the idea being that if people are given the choice, the benefits of the public system would eventually lead to its adoption by everyone. The article's author had argued that it was a politically pragmatic way to get to a public, single-payer system, but many readers disagreed.
Oregonscribbler wrote: "There is a fatal flaw in the Edwards plan. He says the ultimate aim of his plan is single-payer -- that private care will just wither away because it won't be able to compete with the public system. This is just nonsense. It is legislators and administrators who will determine just how good the public plan is, and for years they have been in the deep pockets of the medical insurance industry." After endorsing Dennis Kucinich's healthcare proposal, s/he continued:
"We need a bold plan, to really revolutionize our healthcare system. Make it single-payer and decentralized, like in Canada, with people going to the doctor of their choice. Make it labor-intensive, and include alternative health practitioners, because simple attention and touch are often as healing as pharmaceuticals, only without negative side effects.
"We ALREADY PAY for a fabulous healthcare system, we're just not getting. It's time we forced the bureaucrats and plutocrats and industrialists to stand out of the way and let the rest of us make it happen."
Peacelf disagreed: "Edwards' plan makes smart political sense. I think a public healthcare program in competition with private health insurance is a smart move toward a single-payer system Ã¢â‚¬Â¦
"Like social security, once in service, the people will not let public healthcare coverage die. It will become a political hot button that voters will defeat anyone who touches it. And, it could solve once or for all the conservative's argument that the private sector can do it better."
TZ offered an example of why private healthcare systems are, generally speaking, so much costlier than public ones:
"About 25 years ago here in Cleveland, Blue Cross, Blue Shield held sway. Then one of the crafty bosses decided to take this company private into what is now called Medical Mutual. By so doing he needed the board to approve it, and thus they paid each board member an average of $500,000 for their vote. The crap hit the fan when it was made public, but it still went through.
"The total administrative costs of the old plan were often touted as about 3 percent for each dollar spent. Now our friends at Medical Mutual have an average administrative cost of about 40 percent. I wish to hell I was one of the bosses at Medical Mutual.
"Now you wonder why our costs are so high and care so low. The insurance industry will not admit this and Medical Mutual in Cleveland (Ohio) claim they cannot break out these costs. They do not want us to know this, but we do know it since some clients have "third-party administrators" working for them, and since these folks review each claim, they only pay what are really medical bills. Maybe the candidates ought to push for a mandate to force the insurance industry to use real, independent third-party administrators.
"These administrators could not be part of the medical providers in any manner, shape or form.
"By the way, Medical Mutual just purchased one of the largest third-party administrators in Ohio. By so doing they will keep the cash cow producing milk. It is disgusting.
"Think of it folks, we could save about 15 percent to 20 percent of our total bill, and the private insurance boys would still make one hell of a living. It would not be as huge, but still very nice."
There was quite a bit of discussion of the feasibility and potential effectiveness of the proposal, with pdxstudent asking: "How Many in Congress Couldn't Afford Health Insurance?":
"Not many, if any, I imagine. So, in a nation where money equals access to a quality life, why would taking this free service away be that threatening of a charge? What's more is the health insurance industry would not have to "invest" much to make sure that, even if Edwards were to be good with his threat, Congress would get health insurance, and therefore not experience Edwards' threat as much of a threat. Boning up the money to actually provide healthcare for a thousand people is much less of a profit drag than doing the same for hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
"For all these reasons, I don't think Edwards threat means anything. So f**king what if we make the empty gesture of not paying for Congress' healthcare if they won't pay for ours. It's rhetorical bread and circus more than anything, because it isn't really a lever of influence."
Several readers suggested that pdxstudent was missing the point, including Suzon, who pointed out that "there is such a thing as "gesture politics" and sometimes gestures (and images) can change ways of thinking." Wm Greybeard added: "The point is not just to take away their free insurance Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ but to lobby their constituents to take away their seat in Congress."
There were some readers with relevant experiences to relate. Dr. Rick Lippin, a regular AlterNet commenter who also writes on the Critical Condition blog, said that while it was a bold plan, he'd like to see it focus more on prevention rather than treatment. And Westomoon, expressing doubt that members of Congress would simply opt out of their coverage and buy private plans, spoke of his or her experience in the federal system:
"I get my healthcare from the program Edwards is threatening to shut down -- the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. It's not a great insurance program -- co-pay for most things is around 25 percent of strange low-ball numbers set by the insurers plus the substantial balance of the actual market cost of care, and it contains nothing that isn't approved by Sen. Foghorn Leghorn and his snake-handling fundie constituents -- forget about coverage of chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathy, or any other foreign and satanic practice.
"Reading the article, I also went into a swoon of despair at the "same old, same old" approach -- until I processed the fact that Edwards is also building in a Medicare option. Trust me, I would opt for medicare this instant if I could, and so would you, if you'd seen it in action. It's a relic of the days when health insurance actually covered what you needed to get well, unlike any of the insurance plans in the market these days. It won't take long for the rest of the country to make the same choice, once they're given the option. And, voila, you then have national health with no discernable bad guy who made us shift to the Communist way of life.
"Back to the federal plan. The one good quality it does have is that nobody gets turned down, and pre-existing conditions are covered, after a waiting period. For Congress (and their staffs) to dodge Edwards' ploy by opting for individual plans, nobody in their family could have a pre-existing condition, and they'd have to be ready to cover mental health, maternity costs and a lot of other categories out-of-pocket. Simply having money to spend (and congressional salaries these days put them in the middle class, not the ranks of the wealthy) is not enough to get you insured.
"We have already split into concierge care and gerbil care -- but Congress isn't in the concierge-care plan. For us regular gerbils, a Medicare-based plan is much closer to concierge than anything offered by a private insurer today. I'm not convinced yet that Edwards is the progressives' best hope (my vote is still with Seabiscuit), but this is a damn smart approach to letting the country bring about a single-payer system by "voting with its feet," and thus depriving the right-wing noise machine of its next 30-year grievance."


In June 1941 the U.S. Navy put in a requirement for a twin-engine fighter for the Midway-class aircraft carriers. The specifications called for the engines to give the craft over 4,000 horsepower. It had to have twice the weight of fire of the F4F. The F4F-4 had six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns. The F7F made its first flight on November 2, 1943. Grumman built 500 F7F Tigercats.[i]
[i] Vintage Aircraft recognition guide by Tony Holmes © HarperCollins Publishers 2005.
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Grumman initially named the plane the “Tomcat”. The name was deemed risqué so Grumman changed the name to the “Tigercat”. It was the first U.S. Navy plane initially designed with a tricycle landing gear. It was the first U.S. Navy fighter designed and built with two engines.[i] The second prototype, Bu 03550, made its first flight in March 1944.[ii] A crash destroyed the first prototype, Bu 03549. The pilot wasn’t injured. Bu 03550’s test flights convinced the U.S. Navy to order 500 aircraft.[iii] The British Royal Navy evaluated two Tigercats, TT346 and TT349, they rejected the Tigercat in favor of the de Havilland Hornet.[iv]
It had a length of 45.48 feet (13.83 meters) and a wingspan of 51.5 feet (5.05 meters). Its dimensions combined with an empty weight of 16.270 pounds (7,380 kg) made it too large for any carrier until the launch of the USS Midway.[v] The aircraft was about 60 mph (100 Km/h) faster than the F6F Hellcat.[vi] It had a corresponding high landing speed, a big disadvantage for a carrier aircraft. Its single engine handling and tailhook problems made them initially unsuitable for carrier operations.
The plan was to give them first to the Marine Corps. The Tigercat’s four wing cannons and four .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns in the nose, combined with an ability to carry a 2,000-pound (907 kg) bomb load gave it great potential as a ground attack aircraft. World War II ended as the first Tigercats were entering squadron service.
[i] Century of Flight, “10 Uncommon Facts About the Grumman F7F Tigercat”, 10 Uncommon Facts About The Grumman F7F Tigercat (century-of-flight.net), last accessed 7/25/22.
[ii] Aviation Insider, “F7F Tigercat History: A Complete Guide” by Brieanna Savard, F7F Tigercat History : A Complete Guide - Aviator Insider, last accessed 8/1/22.
[iii] Aviationinsider.com, “F7F Tigercat History: A Complete Guide” by Brieanna Savard, F7F Tigercat History : A Complete Guide - Aviator Insider, last accessed 8/1/22.
[iv] Janusz Zurakowski: Legends in the Sky by Bill Zuk, St. Catherine’s OntarioL Vanwell © 2004.
[v] Century of Flight, “10 Uncommon Facts About the Grumman F7F Tigercat”, 10 Uncommon Facts About The Grumman F7F Tigercat (century-of-flight.net), last accessed 7/25/22.
[vi] Vintage Aircraft recognition guide by Tony Holmes © HarperCollins Publishers 2005.
On August 26, 1950 the USS Cape Esperance, with 24 Tigercats onboard, headed for Japan. The Tigercats belonged to VMF(N)-542, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Max J. Volcansek Jr.[i] They landed in Korea on the afternoon of September 19. They flew their first combat mission the next morning. The USMC credited them with destroying two locomotives near Seoul.[ii] On September 24 ground fire shot down an F7F and killed both its crew members. Groundfire damaged Lt. Col. Volcansek’s Tigercat.[iii]
F7Fs flew day and night ground attack missions. The F7F-3N was a night fighter version of the Tigercat. North Korea carried out night bombing attacks with light aircraft, such as the Po-2 biplane, usually flying solo or in pairs. The U.S. troops nicknamed these attacks “Bedcheck Charlies”. One night in 1951 Marine Corps Tigercat pilots, Major Eugene A. van Gundy and Captain Edwin B. Long, each shot down a Po-2. These were the only air-air victories credited to the F7F.[iv] The Marine Corps retired the Tigercat in 1954.
Some F7F-3s had long civilian career as fire bombers. They flew for the Sis-Q Flying Service. One with registration number N7195C carried out its firefighting mission until the late 1980s.[v]
Some also competed on the air racing circuit. An F7F-3P named "Here Kitty, Kitty", registration number N700F, was the first Tigercat to compete at the National Championship Air Races at Reno.[vi] Mike Brown flew the F7F "Big Bossman" to a 6th place finish at the Reno National Championship Air Races in 2006.[vii]
[i] Magzter.com, “F7F Tigercats Over North Korea” by Warren E. Thompson, October 2019, F7F Tigercats Over North Korea (magzter.com), last accessed 8/1/22.
[ii] Corsairs to Panthers: U.S. Marine Aviation in Korea, by Major General John P. Condon, Corsairs to Panthers-U.S. Marine Aviation in Korea PCN 19000319800_1 (marines.mil), last accessed 8/1/22.
[iii] Magzter.com, “F7F Tigercats Over North Korea” by Warren E. Thompson, October 2019, F7F Tigercats Over North Korea (magzter.com), last accessed 8/1/22.
[iv] Mig Alley: American aerial victory credits in Korea, American aerial victory credits in Korea (igleize.fr), last accessed 8/2/22.
[v] Fire Aviation, Air Tanker 32 and 40, an F7F-3 by Bill Gabbert, June 26, 2019, Air Tanker 32 and 40, an F7F-3 - Fire Aviation, last accessed 8/2/22.
[vi] F7F-3P Tigercat "Here Kitty, Kitty!" — Lewis Air Legends, last accessed 8/8/22.
[vii] Grumman F7F Tigercate "Big Bossman" in Air Racing Action | RWP Photography (rwphotos.com), last accessed 8/8/22.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
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Cusby transforms lone Macbook USB-C port into an a-la-carte device hub
The new USB-C connection is powerful, versatile, and poised to shape the future of many consumer electronic devices. But despite this promise, new Macbook owners accustomed to having separate ports for HDMI, USB, and/or video, may find a single USB-C port to be rather limiting. Cusby is a compact, modular and expandable adapter designed to make the transition to a USB-C future a bit easier.
If you're laying down good money for a cutting-edge laptop, the last thing you want is an ugly block of a docking station cramping your slim style. Cusby features universally-compatible compact adapters that connect in series, in any order, directly to a USB-C port. It doesn't matter if your laptop doesn't have HDMI or USB-A ports built in, as Cusby can provide those individually, as-needed.
In addition to the featured port, each of these modular adapters has male and female USB-C connectors on opposite sides, ensuring that there is always a free USB-C port available. Units click together like Legos. As of launch, Cusby will have three models to choose from: power, HDMI, and USB-A. However, there are plans to add Thunderbolt, Ethernet, and display adapters to the lineup in the near future. And since each unit is separate, users can buy, combine, and expand only what they need.
Cusby is compact and lightweight, with each unit measuring 1.57 x 1.57 x 0.47 in (39.8 x 39.8 x 11.9 mm) at 1.6 oz (45.3 g). Even a full set of adapters would be easy to pack along in bags or backpacks with minimal bulk.
Cusby is currently seeking funding on Indiegogo, having raised 48 percent of its US$15,000 goal in seven days, with another 29 days left to go. Pledges start at $39, which includes a Cusby of your choice along with a USB-C extension cable. You can pick up the full pack for only $75, which plans to retail for $109. Backer rewards are expected to start sometime October, 2015, so long as things run to plan.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Demarcus Rogers rushed for 103 yards and a touchdown and freshman quarterback Cole Gautsche scored two rushing touchdowns to lead New Mexico to a 66-21 win Saturday over Southern in the season opener for both teams.
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"That's a pretty good first half of football," said new Lobos coach Bob Davie. "I don't care who you're playing, because the first game of the year, you're really playing yourself."
Southern turned the ball over four times and the Lobos turned each one into a touchdown, including three in the second quarter. Two of the scores came on returns — a 10-yard fumble return by Joseph Harris and a 39-yard interception return from Cranston Jones — and the other two came after scoring drives.
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The CDC Foundation announces an opportunity for an individual with high-level experience in qualitative methods, sampling and analysis, as well as quantitative methods and project management. The opportunity is full-time, and the Fellow will be contracted as a term-limited independent contractor through the CDC Foundation (www.cdcfoundation.org), however the fellowship will take place at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.
The Fellow will support a three-year project (currently at the end of Year 1) focused on the adaptation of evidence-based interventions in violence prevention. In particular, the project team will examine how developers, implementers and communities adapt evidence-based interventions and how adaptation influences implementation. Qualitative and quantitative methods will be used to address study aims. The project is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the CDC Foundation.
The Fellow will be expected to be self-directed, able to lead components of the project and able to expertly facilitate collaboration and cooperation among team members, partners and contractors, as s/he works alongside team members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention.
Fellow responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Systematic review of adaptation literature conducting literature review and synthesis; •Developing study design and protocols; •Conducting interviews and implementing other qualitative techniques; •Developing survey instruments, administering surveys and conducting analyses; •Project management; •Fostering positive and productive teamwork and collaborations with partners;and •Developing reports and papers.
Doctoral-level training in public health, prevention science or related social and behavioral science methods is preferred. Individuals with masters-level training in public health, prevention science or social and behavioral science and extensive field experience may also be considered.
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MassDOT: Conley’s Eastie toll proposal won’t fly
Suffolk District Attorney and mayoral candidate Daniel F. Conley’s proposal floated yesterday to tear down the toll plazas at the Sumner and Ted Williams tunnels in East Boston would wreak havoc on the state’s ability to pay off its $2 billion in outstanding highway bond debt, state transportation officials said.
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The company offers a wide range of canned and freeze dried foods, most of which require only water to be added to make a meal. Since food prices can increase, the company offers packages with complete meals for one, two, or 6 months supply, as well as a 1 year supply, locking in food prices for the designated time frame. EFoods Direct also offers sources of heating, water, water purification systems, and more.
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Guest Post by Jamia Millia Islamia Students
What exactly happened in Jamia Millia Islamia on 13th August?
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Just two days before Independence Day, all the hostel residents were informed personally by the administrative authorities to be careful as there may be some raid by IB or CBI or Delhi Police. Students were instructed not to keep any non-resident student in the hostel.
While it is okay to instruct students not to keep any non-resident student in the hostel, what is problematic is the atmosphere of fear that was created among students. Many of the students were told to be careful regarding ‘KASHMIRI STUDENTS’ in particular.
The hostel authorities repeatedly instructed the students not to come out of their rooms and to be careful.
On the 13th of August, at around 3 p.m., two police constables in uniform and around 15-20 officials in plain clothes were seen sitting just outside the hostel gate. Two constables came inside the gate and started having conversation with the guards while around 10 officials were sitting in their cars inside the hostel campus.
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With the help of the students involved in our project we carried out a survey about the impact of the project on our students and teachers and also their families. We asked three questions: With the help of the students involved in our project we carried out a survey about the impact of the projectRead more about FINAL SURVEY – THE IMPACT OF OUR PROJECT „ICE“ ON OUR STUDENTS, SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, FAMILIES.[…]
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On Monday 10th June we organised an excursion to a local sewage disposal plant. We learned a lot of information about water purification process and what happens with all the sewage components.
Our third mobility: Bulgaria. We planted trees and other plants, made things from recycled materials, visited a national park and learned about Bulgarian culture and history. We also discussed the following activities of the project.
We planted a project tree and some bushes around our school. Class 6.AV participated in this activity. We hope the tree and bushes will grow well.
Cleaning around our town. The Czech school took part in the cleaning and also our headmaster helped.
February was ´The month of ecological awareness´. All classes in the Czech school took part in an ecological competition. They recycled materials, saved energies, kept the classrooms clean. Even the cleaning ladies saw the difference. 3.AV class came the first in the competition, 4.A class was the second and 3.A class was the third. GoodRead more about MONTH OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS[…]

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Riyadh: The Shoura Council in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has demanded to make a protection mechanisms for the Arabic language.
According to ArabNews, the Shoura Council meeting held in Riyadh, where Saud Al-Sabie, a council member, discussed recommendations put forth by a special committee to study the draft bill of a law to protect the Arabic language in the Kingdom.
Council members also demanded a law requiring all foreign schools to include special programs for the Arabic language in their syllabus.
The council also demanded financial and administrative support for the King Abdullah International Center for Arabic Language Service.
The council meeting discussed the provisions included in the draft bill, such as the need for government and non-governmental agencies to use Arabic for their names and in their activities.
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For those who’re an skilled in generative AI and also you’re in search of a brand new job, then Apple is perhaps the place you discover it. Techcrunch observed that “not less than a dozen” new job openings have been posted, all devoted to AI in some kind or one other.
Hop on over to the Apple profession web page to seek out the listings, and uncover whether or not they’re for you. Maybe extra pertinent for us, nonetheless, is what these job listings imply for Apple and its involvement and use of AI sooner or later.
AI is, apparently, ‘it’
AI, similar to ChatGPT, has proven the world (for higher or worse) what AI is able to with its spectacular studying mannequin. Since then, AI has been all that some need to discuss, because it looks like it is the subsequent massive factor in tech. A great deal of corporations have gotten concerned already, like Microsoft with Bing and Google with Bard.
The job listings are for consultants in generative AI and machine studying specialists who’re ““enthusiastic about constructing extraordinary autonomous programs” within the discipline.” They began showing in late April, and a few have come as quickly as final week.
Apple hasn’t all the time been all in on generative AI. Simply final week, Apple banned its employees from utilizing generative AI to write down code or do any work, and Tim Prepare dinner has turn into infamous for avoiding giving solutions to questions on AI.
There are increasingly AI apps coming to the finest iPhones and different Apple units, nonetheless, so maybe it’s now at some extent the place Apple can now not ignore it. Given how shortly the brand new requirements have been adopted by some customers and even some corporations, maybe there isn’t any world with out AI of some kind in our future – and it if needs to maintain up, Apple must get with the groove sooner quite than later.


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I was very happy to read news reports of Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis. His elevation from being Archbishop of Buenos Aires to Pontiff of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church is a watershed event in history. He is the first Pope from South America (although he is still of Italian ancestry). That is a win-win: it is a morale booster to Hispanics and still eases the minds of traditionalist Italian Cardinals who might have otherwise been reluctant to embrace "change."
Although the world rejoices now, I would cautiously remind my fellow Catholics to be mindful that Pope Francis is likely to be a "transitional Pope" or "caretaker Pope." At age 76, he is unlikely to have a papacy as lengthy as the late, great Pope John Paul II. Additionally, he is the first pontiff with only one lung. His duties are arduous, even for a much younger man.
I extend my best wishes and prayers to new Pope Francis. I hope his pontificate will be a success and that Catholics worldwide will mentally "brace themselves" for the next conclave, which is likely to occur relatively soon — within a generation — or sooner.
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If you've never watched the ABC show The Great Christmas Light Fight, families from all over the country go all out with their Christmas lights. I think I'm doing good with a few strands of lights up at my house for the holidays, but some people spare no expense and leave zero space in their yard and on their house untouched.
For an opportunity to win a $50,000 grand prize, for one lucky San Antonio couple, it all paid off. This year the winner's of The Great Christmas Light Fight were from San Antonio, TX and I can proudly say I have actually visited this home during the holidays 2 years ago!
You talk about an elaborate display! My kids were in awe as we walked through (you can walk it or drive-thru) the Windcrest, TX neighborhood in which all of the neighbors participate. This came recommended to us from a friend who lives in San Antonio and said that we must check it out! It was nothing short of amazing.
Who knew a couple of years later, John and Brenda Wilson, (who won on the Nov. 28th episode) residents of this neighborhood and proud decorators would win the coveted prize of 50 grand! I distinctly remember a gigantic sleigh with Santa and Mrs. Claus sitting waving at all the passers-by.
The candy cane roof, the Peppermint Express train and all of the beautiful yard decorations of the Wilson family deserve every bit of the grand prize and if you ever have the opportunity, I suggest visiting this home and all the others that participate from this small Texas town of Windcrest.

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I realised something while researching last week‘s post; the ocean is weird. In fact, we know very little about just how weird it really is. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we have explored less than 5% of the ocean. (That’s a hell of a lot more than I mentioned in my giant squid post a few years ago – we’ve been busy apparently).
So I thought I’d list a few of my favourite weird ocean… things. Enjoy!
1. The Sunfish
The first cab off the rank is one of my favourites – the Giant Ocean Sunfish or Mola Mola. Climate models consistently show that oceans will probably end up crawling with jellyfish in the next century, so understanding things that eat jellyfish is really, really important.
Enter the Sunfish.
These guys are weird-looking fish. They’re also HUGE. Sunfish hold the record for being the world’s heaviest bony fish, weighing in at a whopping 2.2 tonnes. They can grow up to 3 metres from nose to tail. One of my favourite things about these guys though, is that they spend their days diving down to about 600 metres below the surface to find their food. Because this is so far away from sunlight, they get cold.
So they sunbathe.
That’s right – they swim up to the surface, turn themselves sideways and soak up the sun for a while before heading back down to the depths to hunt down jellyfish. They’re like ocean lizards.
2. Temperate Reefs
Last year, ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicle), on a mission to map the ocean south of Wilson’s Promontory in Victoria, Australia, discovered something completely unknown and entirely surprising. In the frigid waters of Bass Strait, they uncovered a massive temperate reef. It’s filled with giant fan corals, millions of fish and countless species thought to have been extinct ages ago. Park rangers estimated that this reef was possibly more diverse than the Great Barrier Reef!
Given we’ve explored less than 5 % of the ocean, it’s amazing to think there might be more hidden gems like this out there somewhere.
3. Barrel Sponges
Sponges are weird. Super weird. Each cell within a sponge has absolutely no specific purpose whatsoever. They kind of just jump in a do what needs to be done to survive. This means that if you chop a sponge in half, it’s completely fine. So much so that researchers have actually blended sponges to paste and they’ve re-formed.
Barrel sponges are even weirder. Not only are they huge for sponges (they can grow up to 2 metres high) but they’re old. Scientists have estimated some specimens have lived for over 2000 years.
Did I mention sponges were weird?
4. Underwater Crop Circles
For years, these sand formations off the coast of Japan completely baffled divers and scientists. What on earth was causing these perfect circles to appear on the ocean floor? It clearly wasn’t a freak ocean current.
It wasn’t aliens, it was pufferfish.
Turns out, male pufferfish spend ages making these elaborate circles in the sand to attract a mate. Cool huh?
5. The “Bloop”
This was a mystery that completely confounded NOAA researchers for years. The “Bloop”was first measured by the “Ocean Noise Network” in 1997. The sound didn’t match anything heard before and was written off as one of those things we’d probably never figure out.
That was until it was matched to sounds made by an icequake in the Scotia Sea in 2008. So less mysterious but still weird. You can listen to it here.
So there we go; the ocean is filled with weird and wonderful things. What do you think of the list? Did I forget your favourite? Let me know and I’ll see you in the comments section.


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63 percent of Instagram users report being ‘miserable’
A new survey found that Instagram makes people more miserable than other social media platforms.
The new report, done by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), found about 63 percent of Instagram users reported feeling miserable, which was higher than any other social media network. Those same users spent nearly 60 minutes per day on the social media.
The 37 percent who said they were happy on the app used Instagram about half as long as those who reported being unhappy when using the app.
Interestingly, apps that use real conversations, like FaceTime and traditional phone calls, had higher rates of happiness, as in 91 percent and 84 percent, respectively, according to The Economist.
The report also found that social media was more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol. In fact, rates for anxiety and depression rose 70 percent among young people over the last 25 years.
Social media can also cause depression and poor sleep, the report said.
The report called for social media platforms to use the report to teach better practices. The report also asked the platforms to identify those who have suffered mental health problems based on their posts.


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My bride and I had a very pleasant stay for 4 nights in this loft condo. Everything was as described. We were very pleased to have such a nice place to stay. We felt safe as the building is very secure and has 24hr security. The location is great for activities such as shopping and dining and although it is a little ways from the hotel zone and beaches, taxis are abundant and cheap, especially if you use Uber. All the comforts of home, great WiFi and hot water! What more could you ask for? Thank-you so much Julio for a great stay!
Great value. Good location. Julio answered every time we needed something. Our check out time was much before our flight, they were very helpful and kept our bags for us while we visited the beach one last time. Many restaurants near. 24 hour security and locked gate made me feel very secure. It was a nice stay downtown away from the hustle and bustle of the hotel zone. I would recommend. Thanks again Julio.
I had to call the property manager many times to get this place booked. When we arrived the tv was missing on the lower level and the tv upstairs had no package so you could not watch anything.
Good value just needs some management changes or corrections.
The pool is about a 5 minute walk in another complex.
The loft is located in a new area where all the restaurants, cafes, bars, casinos and malls are!
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Broken glass: At about 5:22 a.m. near the 33210 block of Pacific Highway South, police responded to a commercial alarm. When they arrived on scene, the officers found one of the business’s front windows was broken, but still intact. No entry was made into the store.
Smashed windows: At about 5:36 a.m. near the 3100 block of Pacific Highway South, police responded to another commercial alarm. Officers found that the front window of the business was smashed. No one was found inside the building.
Stolen jacket: At about 8:07 a.m. near the 34800 block of 1st Avenue South, a suspect walked up to another man and demanded his jacket. The man said he feared he would be assaulted, so he gave the suspect his jacket which has his car key fob inside.
Gold necklace stolen: At about 11:08 a.m. near the 35100 block of Enchanted Parkway South, a woman in the Costco parking lot had her 24 carat gold necklace ripped from her neck after the suspect attempted to place a fake gold chain around the victims neck. The suspect was the passenger in a black Mercedes SUV.
Threatened with screwdriver: At about 6:57 p.m. near the 32000 block of Pacific Highway South, a woman was followed by a male suspect into the Rite Aid store and threatened her with a screwdriver. Officers arrived on scene and arrested the suspect.
Shooting: At about 11:10 p.m. near the 35700 block of 16th Avenue South, officers responded to the Park 16 Apartments for reports of a shooting. Police contacted three people who were no injured, but had bullet holes in their apartments. Multiple shell casings were found in the parking lot.
Man hits wife: At about 11:26 a.m. near the 31200 block of 28th Avenue South, a man called police to report he had struck his wife. The man was taken into custody without incident for fourth-degree assault.
Inappropriate touching by massage therapist: At about 7 p.m. near the 34500 block of Pacific Highway South, a massage therapist inappropriately touched a man’s genitals after being told to stop. The therapist finally stopped and continued to massage the man in a normal fashion. The therapist then asked for money in return of a “happy ending.”
Threat with firearm: At about 2:42 a.m. near the 35600 block of 8th Avenue SW, officers responded to the listed location for a threat with a firearm. The victims were located and a fist-degree assault report was completed. No shots were fired and there were no injuries. There is no suspect information.
Front door smashed: At about 3:58 a.m. near the 31400 block of Pacific Highway South, police were dispatched to an alarm coming from Pho Quynh. On scene, officers located a smashed front door. A brick and a rock were found on the ground near the smashed door. Entry was not made and all other doors were secure.
Throwing paint: At about 9:52 a.m. near the 32200 block of 11th Place South, officers responded to a report that an unknown woman threw paint onto a person’s vehicle earlier that morning. Neighbors witnessed a vehicle arrive up and a woman got out of the car with a gallon of paint. She threw the paint on the car, then got back into the vehicle and drove away.
Assault with firearm, knife: At about 11 p.m. near the 1500 block of S. 348th Street, officers responded to reports of an assault with a firearm and an assault with a knife.
Glass door smashed: At about 4:10 a.m. near the 35000 block of Enchanted Parkway South, a sliding glass door of a business was damaged with a rock. No entry was made into the businesses. No alarms were tripped as the door was found in the morning by a morning shift employee.
Hospital windows smashed: At about 5:01 a.m. near the 34900 block of Enchanted Parkway South, a patrol officer found several shattered windows of the Seattle Children’s Hospital. The damage appeared to be recently caused by an unknown suspect who threw a rock at the glass.
Knife threats: At about 5:27 a.m. near the 2201 block of S. Commons, a witness reported a threat with a knife. The male suspect was found and detained after probable cause for fourth-degree assault and harassment was established. A knife was not located on the suspect and he was booked into SCORE Jail.
McDUI: At about 7:31 p.m. near the 2300 block of S. 320th Street, a report was made for a possible DUI in the McDonald’s drive-thru. The rear plate on the vehicle came back as stolen. Officers attempted to pin the stole vehicle, but the suspect reversed and took off. The subject was later found hiding in the bushes and was arrested.
Halloween decorations stabbed: At about 11:24 p.m. near the 37600 block of 18th Place South, police responded to a report of property damage. The home’s resident said two cars, possibly juveniles, parked in front of their home and exited with knives. They began slashing and stabbing the Halloween decorations. The damage is estimated to be about $1,000. No suspect info as the incident was seen on the resident’s surveillance footage.