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Champlain College Publishing Initiative will hold a book launch party on Friday, Feb. 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Champlain College Gallery in the Center for Communication and Creative Media.
The new book "Publishing: Digitized and Personalized" is an anthology of essays written by Champlain students and alumni that examines modern-day publishing strategies and innovations from the student perspective. This book has been written, edited, designed, and produced by Champlain College students, is being published by Champlain Alumna Colleen Rooney '16, and is sponsored by the Champlain College Publishing Initiative.
Publishing: Digitized and Personalized begins with Jeremy Allmendinger '14's hilarious history of the publishing industry and moves quickly through several enlightening assessments of latter-day book marketing, including Kristin Orlando '15's take on "stalkertizing." It includes, among other great pieces on publishing, Tristan Lozuaway-McComsey '14's treatise on educational fair use policies, and Colleen Lloyd ‘16's clear-eyed comparisons of self-publishing v. traditional publishing that will help elucidate the pertinent issues for anyone considering this choice, no matter what the stage of their career.
Current student author Jessica Demarest '17 of Champlain College Publishing Initiative will be on hand for a panel discussion with Colleen Rooney, who spearheaded the project while she was a senior at Champlain, and author/former Champlain Publishing Taylor Covington '16. Rooney and Covington plan to video-call into the discussion from Florida and Texas, respectively.
This event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase.
Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and over 90 residential undergraduate and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 384 Colleges: 2019 Edition. For the fourth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's 2019 "America's Best Colleges,” and a “Best Value School” and is ranked in the top 100 “Regional Universities of the North” and in the top 25 for “Best Undergraduate Teaching.” Champlain is also featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges for 2019 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain and is a 2019 College of Distinction. For more information, visit champlain.edu.


There are a number of places on the e46 where BMW did not take the trouble to make the car as easily serviceable as they made the e36. They did not drill holes in the e46 beneath the roundel pins to make it easy to remove the roundels without damaging the paint.
The roundel is held in place by two smooth pins that press into rubber gromets that snap into holes in the hood.
Try to slide the corner of a credit card beneath the roundel. If it is too tight, try dental floss. Once you have lifted it just a crack, you can use the credit card to protect the paint while you pry up with a small sharp flat blade screwdriver. Work slowly and patiently.
The new roundel just presses down into place. You probably want to use new rubber grommets. They are cheap.
Avoid spraying your new roundel with high pressure car wash spray.


EPHRATA, Pa. (WHTM) – After last week’s shootings at a Florida school, exams offered in the Ephrata Area School District are getting more attention.
Through a program with a local counseling service, the schools offer free mental health exams to freshman.
“Awareness of mental health status of our children is huge right now,” superintendent Dr. Brian Troop said. “The pressures that society puts on kids is greater than we have ever seen before, especially at that age.”
Troop said the screenings are optional. Counselors look for students showing signs of depression, anxiety, or who may have suicidal thoughts.
The findings are given to parents, who do not have to share the results with the school.
“In order for students to be successful, they need to make sure all parts of their life are together,” said Steve Habowski, a high school counselor. “Mental health is one of those areas.”
Troop said more than 90 percent of students have chosen to take the exam.
“It’s not easy being a teenager at this point in our country’s history,” he said. “Any support we can give families that are trying to support their kids through it, we think, is our responsibility.”


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Strong Roots tops UK’s 50 fastest-growing food and beverage firms
The UK’s fastest growing food and beverage company has been named as plant-based business Strong Roots, according to Alantra’s annual Food & Beverage Fast 50.
The listing of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses includes many with double-digit annual sales growth over the past two years. Strong Roots doubled its turnover each year to achieve an annual growth rate of 109.1%.
Investment bank, Alantra said the accelerated growth reflects the ability of the businesses to understand changing consumer appetites and to tap into trends driving purchasing behaviour, both in the UK and internationally.
Despite an impending Brexit, many of the businesses included in the ranking are making significant inroads into new markets overseas, taking advantage of the value of the Made in Britain label. This includes brewer Innis & Gunn Holdings (ranked 13 with CAGR 37.8%), which is considered a market leader in its category in Canada and the number two in the US.
Others are focused on innovation and new product development, targeting new customers in the UK and globally. For these reasons, Alantra anticipates that the UK’s food and beverage sector will continue to attract attention from investors.
This includes both trade buyers as the larger food and packaged goods companies look to acquire new sources of growth; and private equity, with some 22% of the Fast 50 backed by financial investors.
According to the ranking, key consumer trends supporting business growth include:
Increased demand for healthy products
The rapid growth of flexitarianism over the past year is one example of this trend, benefitting businesses such as Strong Roots.
This theme extends to the drinks market where companies such as Harrogate Water (ranked 37 with CAGR of 24.3%) appear to have capitalised on the introduction of new taxes on high-sugar products in the UK. Vitamin and supplements maker Bee Health (ranked 12 with CAGR of 38.3%) and healthy snacking specialist Grenade (ranked 2 with CAGR of 92.9%) are similarly benefitting from this trend.
Consumers’ desire for authenticity
Demand for high-quality, artisan products and an ability to resonate with the customers is fuelling the growth of companies such as craft beer maker, Brewdog (ranked 4 with CAGR of 57.9%), as well as premium goods manufacturers such as St. James Smokehouse (ranked 34 with CAGR of 24.5%) and Abergavenny Fine Foods (ranked 38 with CAGR 23.9%).
Businesses that offer affordable treats are seeing demand from cash-pressed consumers who look to make discretionary purchases of small indulgences. Examples include companies such as Pots & Co (ranked 3 with CAGR of 89.7%) and The Cake Crew (ranked 14 with CAGR of 37.4%) along with a significant number of heritage brands.
Simon Peacock, partner and UK food & beverage leadership, Alantra, said: “This year’s ranking offers a glimpse into how the most agile brands are exploiting the fast-moving marketplace. It is their commitment to product quality and customer service that is in turn driving dramatic improvements in their sales.”

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Former GS students are professionally suited for a wide range of fields including the health care industry, the software development industry, and the travel and hospitality services industry. The majority of alumni accept jobs in the education industry. Following graduation, GS students earn an average of $58K.
Male graduates of GS out-earn their female counterparts significantly, earning an average of approximately $63K versus $51K for women.
Savannah, Ga. is a hot spot for GS alum. With a median salary of $63K, Atlanta, Ga. represents the highest-paid city popular among GS grads. On the far end of the pay scale, GS alumni often reside in Lawrenceville, Ga., which is home to the lowest pay at around $29K.
Former Eagles who fare the best in terms of salary hold a Master of Science (MS) and earn a median salary of about $103K per year. Ranking last in the compensation department are those holding a B.A. in Bachelor of Arts (BA) — their annual income amounts to $40K on average.
Competency in Engineering Design translates into above-average pay for former Eagles — they earn 32 percent more than their fellow graduates. Just under one in five grads report using Microsoft Office as part of their job, making it the most popular skill. Experience with Project Management, Microsoft Excel, and Operations Management is highly valued as well.
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As for time away from work, half of the graduates are compensated for vacation days, but only two-fifths of alumni can take paid time off due to illness. Most alumni participate in a 401(k) program. Health insurance benefits extend to most respondents, and a strong majority of alums sign up for dental plans. Georgia Southern University grads also enjoy benefits like a casual working environment, tuition reimbursement, life insurance, and a company-subsidized cell phone.
Among alumni of similar schools, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University grads (who make an average of around $58K) earn salaries most similar to GS alumni. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of West Florida, and North Carolina A & T State University are also similar to GS.

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Nothing beats fresh produce while you’re traveling except maybe fresh bread. Here’s a fast, delicious, and healthy recipe for grilled vegetable sandwiches that makes the most out of both. Enjoy!
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Tourists flock to the beautiful Greek island of Crete to lounge on its beautiful beaches, wander through ancient Minoan ruins, and soak up the island’s thriving culture.
To heck with that.
I’m in it for the food. In the spirit of foodies everywhere, I present my five step plan to eating your way through a holiday in Crete.
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As a vegetarian, it can be a challenge to eat on the road, so I love to check out recipes posted by fellow travel bloggers.
Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the multi-talented folks at other travel blogs.
Migration Mark at Migrationology talks about his mouthwatering experience at a fruit buffet in Thailand. While this isn’t a recipe, his description of the luscious fresh fruit available in Thailand almost made me jump on a plane to Southeast Asia. His fruit buffet experience is something I can’t easily replicate everywhere, but it’s a great inspiration for…
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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was about ten.
I love to get immersed in the countries I’m visiting. This means getting as far away from any English speaking folks or signs as I can.
As a vegetarian, this can be pretty tough. I break out my bad Mandarin (or Thai, or Cantonese) and ask for something with no meat. I almost always get pork or fish, because most people assume vegetarians just don’t eat red meat. Vegetarian is a concept that just doesn’t translate well.
After countless meals trying to order vegetarian food, I was getting frustrated. And hungry.
And then I found the …
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It's been 10 years since 23-year-old Eve (Sona Tatoyan) left her homeland of Armenia and immigrated to New York City with her parents. Eve struggles to pursue her passion as a photographer, but tragedy strikes when she learns that Arman, her childhood friend in Armenia, has been killed. Unexpectedly, Eve gets called on an assignment to photograph the events taking place in the Caucasus and finds herself on a journey that changes her life.
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance.
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family.

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Thursday, September 1, 2011
The workshop featured work being done at the station by Drs. Hannah Burrack, Penny Perkins-Veazie and myself. (NB - this may have been the first workshop lead by all female NCSU faculty in history!) Dr. Burrack focused on her Spotted Wing Drosophila work, Dr. Veazie discussed pre and post harvest handling of fruit and I talked about the replicated trials of blackberries and raspberries in and out of tunnels.
I gave the participants a tour of the replicated breeding trials. The caneberry breeding program has several locations where we test our materials. One of the locations is here at the Upper Mountain Reserach Station in Laurel Springs. This is our highest sight, at about 2500-3000' elevation and is in USDA hardiness zone 6. The average high temperatures in summers are in the low 80's and nights are cool as well....compared to the rest of the state. Raspberries love it here!
At this location we have one of our mirror 'variety' trials. We have a mix of varieties and selections from our breeding program, USDA and other Univ. breeding programs as well as recently named varieties. Each of the varieties was growing both under high tunnels and outside of tunnels. This allows us to compare overall growth, ripening season and fruit quality among lots of other attributes. Primocane fruiting raspberries were in the early part of their season, while floricane fruiting types had finished a couple of weeks ago. Floricane fruiting blackberries were still producing fruit and primocane fruiting types were flowering and had lots of green fruit. We will post the data on the NC Market Ready Portal at the end of the season here: http://ncsu.edu/enterprises/blackberries-raspberries/production/latest-research/
(There is data from other locations at this site that you may want to check out as well).
Dr. Penny Perkins-Veazie discussed pre and post harvest handling of raspberry and blackberry fruit. Participants comments included, "I never knew raspberries came in so many different colors of red". They also learned that most customers don't like dark red berries. She also discussed how picking pink berries will last longer on the shelf. She recently wrote an article about this. I will post a link on a later blog post.
Dr. Hannah Burrack discussed her work with spotted wing drosophila (SWD). This location is what she calls "Ground Zero" for SWD. Participants got to see SWD in all of its stages and learn more about how it impacts fruit production. She has a blog of her own where she regularly updates her findings. http://ncsmallfruitsipm.blogspot.com/p/spotted-wing-drosophila.html
A BIG thanks to all of the folks at the Upper Mountain Research Station that helped get the fields looking tip top and setting up the field and inside venue. I sincerely appreciate all you do for the caneberry programs. Sponsors included the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service at N.C. State University; the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; and the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission.

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I am bursting at the seams with joy. I am not engaged. I am not pregnant. So stop.The source of my bursting joy is in response to a professional accomplishment (and that it’s finally warm enough for iced coffee)! Recently, I was “matched” to a dietetic internship program. This probably doesn’t mean much or make sense to anyone outside of the dietetic community, so I will TRY to explain.
There we were, four years ago--full of high hopes and dreams. I was bursting at the seams with excitement and pride and more than a little anxiety. My husband (of less than two months) was starting medical school. I remember that evening like it was yesterday. I had a killer migraine and felt like passing out the entire time, but when he walked across that stage and got his white coat, I had tears in my eyes.
We'd been together through college, and I'd seen how hard he had worked to be there on that stage. I stood up, and despite the fact that I knew not at all what the next four years would hold, in that moment, I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs "That's my man!"

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Sony Computer Enterainment may still be an industry juggernaut, but these last few years have not been smooth sailing for the company. Furthing their efforts to cut costs, Sony has decided to merge Sony Japan with Sony Asia, to form Sony Japan Asia.
The new Sony Japan Asia division will be led by SCE Japan president Horoshi Kawano, with Sony Asia's ex-chief Hiroyuki Oda becoming Hawano's deputy president. Unfortunately, many will undoubtedly be losing their jobs over the merger, as restructuring plans continue through the company.
Certain departments within the two formerly separate units will be merged, like marketing and finance. Now, the ultimate goal is to stop the company's financial bleeding for speedier recovery.

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Despite the loss in the BCS Championship game to Alabama, The LSU Tigers still put together one of the better seasons in college football history. They beat a host of top-25 teams, and beat them soundly en route to a perfect 13-0 record prior to the national title game.
And coming into the 2012 College Football season, oddsmakers do not see much reason to move the Tigers down the list of favorites to win the BCS Championship. In fact, they are right near the top, with only one team in front of them.
BCS Championship Betting Odds available at Bovada Sportsbook have set LSU in the No.2 slot of the favorites, going off at 5/1 to win it all. They are behind only the USC Trojans, and just in front of SEC West rival Alabama.
LSU did not lose much to the NFL, and will likely start quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who is a former Georgia transfer. Coaches at LSU like the upside of Mettenberger, and expect big things from him this season.
The difficulty of the LSU schedule will obviously be a big hurdle to clear out of the SEC West. Obviously they play Alabama and Arkansas, but will also play Florida out of the East Division. And then there is also Texas A&M who joins the SEC West division this season. The Tigers didn’t have a problem getting through the regular season last season, but this is a new team and a new year.
The out-of-conference slate for the Tigers is certainly easier than last year. They will not be opening on a neutral field against a top-five opponent this time. Instead, North Texas, Washington, Idaho and Towson are the four opponents outside of the SEC for LSU in 2012.
But away games at Florida, Texas A&M and Arkansas to close out the season will definitely present the Tigers will some tough challenges. And then of course the home game with Alabama on Nov. 3.
Overall though, things definitely look good for the Tigers in Baton Rouge for the upcoming college football season, as fans will have a lot to look forward too. But with big expectations of a national championship or bust puts a lot of pressure on a team. And coming off of the disappointment of losing a national championship game to your archrival, head coach Les Miles might have one of his toughest coaching jobs to date. But these BCS Championship Favorites will come to play.


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Brea’s annual Summer Fest, which benefits the St. Angela Merici Parish School, runs May 29-31.
Bob Eubanks, known as the host of the Newlywed Game, is hosting the “Not So Newly Wed game” - open to married participants young and old - at 8 p.m. Sunday. Eubanks will select contestants from the audience and one lucky couple could walk out with $100,000.
“It’s a fun family event. It was started by school families 28 years ago and now their grandchildren are here,” Summer Fest board member and school parent Marianne Duron said. “Some of these bands sell out the House of Blues and we offer them for free.”
The event offers live music from a number of cover bands, including Journey cover band DSB, No Doubt tribute band No Duh and Abba cover band Abbacadabra. There’s also carnival rides for the kids. Presale wrist bands are $30 for a single day or $70 for unlimited weekend, the latter is new this year and is selling quickly, organizers said.
Kids and adults can also perform in live lip sync performances, sign ups are online.
Proceeds go to student scholarships.
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Children and youth accumulate their daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in bouts (i.e., ≥5 consecutive minutes) and in a sporadic manner (i.e., <5 consecutive minutes). The study objective was to determine, within children and youth, whether MVPA accumulated in bouts is more strongly associated with cardiometabolic risk factors than an equivalent volume of MVPA accumulated sporadically.
Participants consisted of 2754 children and youth aged 6–19 years from the 2003–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative cross-sectional study. Bouts and sporadic MVPA were measured objectively over 7 days using Actigraph accelerometers. Thresholds of 5 and 10 consecutive minutes were used to differentiate between bouts and sporadic MVPA. A high cardiometabolic risk factor score (CRS) was created based on measures of waist circumference, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, C-reactive protein, and systolic blood pressure. Associations were examined using logistic regression and controlled for covariates (sex, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, dietary fat and sodium, smoking, and accelerometry wear time).
The odds of a high CRS decreased in a dose-response for both the sporadic and bout MVPA measures. Relative to quartile 1, the odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for a high CRS in quartile 4 was 0.25 (0.10–0.60) for sporadic MVPA, 0.17 (0.09–0.34) for ≥5 minute bouts of MVPA, and 0.19 (0.11–0.34) for ≥10 minute bouts of MVPA. The sporadic and bout MVPA measures had a similar ability to distinguish between participants with high and normal CRS. Relative to 0 minutes of MVPA, an equivalent number of minutes of sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA had an almost identical odds ratio for a high CRS. The findings were consistent for 5 and 10 minute bout thresholds.
Citation: Holman RM, Carson V, Janssen I (2011) Does the Fractionalization of Daily Physical Activity (Sporadic vs. Bouts) Impact Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Youth? PLoS ONE 6(10): e25733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025733
Editor: Jonatan R. Ruiz, University of Granada, Spain
Received: June 16, 2011; Accepted: September 9, 2011; Published: October 5, 2011
Copyright: © 2011 Holman et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This study was supported by a research grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. VC was supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. IJ was supported by a Canada Research Chair and an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
The cardiovascular, metabolic, and overall health benefits that children and youth achieve by engaging in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) are well appreciated . Within the past 3 years, new evidence-based physical activity guidelines for school-aged children and youth have been released by the World Health Organization  and health authorities in the U.S.  and Canada . These guidelines provide public health targets for the appropriate type, amount, intensity, and patterns of physical activity needed to achieve good health. The primary recommendation within all three sets of guidelines is that children and youth should accumulate 60 or more minutes of MVPA on a daily basis.
The 60 minute per day dose of MVPA that has been recommended for children and youth is different than the 150 minutes per week dose of MVPA that is the foundation of the adult physical activity guidelines , , . Another key difference between the child/youth and adult guidelines, which is the focus of the present study, is the pattern in which the recommended dose of MVPA needs to be accumulated. Within the adult guidelines there is a stipulation that the MVPA needs to be accumulated in bouts lasting at least 10 minutes. There is no such stipulation in the child and youth guidelines. This reflects a lack of studies that have investigated the relevance of bouts of physical activity in the pediatric age group .
It is important to study the influence of MVPA patterns on the health of children and youth because sporadic activity, defined here as activity accrued in less than 5 consecutive minutes, is more characteristic of children and youth than adults . In fact, recent research indicates that 66% of the total MVPA in 8–17 year olds is accumulated in a sporadic manner . The purpose of this study was to determine whether bouts of MVPA influence health, in this case cardiometabolic risk factors, to a greater extent than an equivalent volume of sporadic MVPA.
Cardiometabolic risk factors refer to traditional and non-traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes . Modifiable cardiometabolic risk factors include measures of abdominal obesity, lipid/lipoprotein factors, high blood pressure, and inflammatory markers . The primary outcome for this study was a summary score based on four cardiometabolic risk factors. This summary score captured different types of cardiometabolic risk factors and was based upon waist circumference, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, and C-reactive protein measures.
Consent was obtained from all participants and their parents/guardian if <18 years old. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics. The analyses presented here were approved by the Queen's University Health Sciences Research Ethics board.
This study was based on the 2003/04 and 2005/06 NHANES cycles. This is a cross-sectional survey that included interviews and physical exams conduced in a mobile exam center. Participants between 6 and 19 years old who had complete measures of interest were eligible for this study, resulting in 2754 participants (1399 males, 1355 females, 954 children aged 6–11 years, 1800 adolescents aged 12–19 years).
MVPA was measured using Actigraph AM-7124 accelerometers. This device is a uni-axial accelerometer and recorded average acceleration and intensity of activity over one-minute intervals. Participants were asked to wear the accelerometer on their right hip for 7 consecutive days following their mobile exam center visit, except when sleeping or when the accelerometer could get wet. Accelerometers were mailed back to the study investigators in pre-paid envelopes. Data from the accelerometers was downloaded by survey collaborators and checked for outliers and unreasonable values, which were removed.
Additional data reduction was completed by the authors. Initially, we removed days with incomplete information. A day was considered complete if it contained ≥10 hours of wear time , , , non-wear time was defined as a period of >20 minutes of zero counts , , . The second data reduction step involved removing participants with an insufficient number of days of complete data. Based on existing precedence for using accelerometry data, only participants with ≥4 complete days, including one weekend day (because children exhibit different activity levels on the weekends compared to weekdays ), were included , , . The test-retest reliability of 4 days of accelerometer measurement in children and youth is 0.7 .
After the accelerometry data reduction was complete, we estimated the average daily minutes of sporadic MVPA, bouts of MVPA, and total (sporadic + bouts) MVPA. All of the MVPA variables were calculated for each day with acceptable accelerometry data (i.e., >10 hours of wear time), and then averaged over the number of days with acceptable data. The initial part of this process involved determining which of the one minute epochs corresponded to MVPA. A regression equation developed by Freedson and colleagues for 6–18 year olds was used to estimate metabolic equivalents (METs) for each epoch count per minute value based on the epoch count per minute value and the participants age . Epoch values that were equivalent to ≥4.0 METs were considered to be minutes of MVPA . Because there is no accepted precedence on the minimal or optimal bout length, we defined bouts and sporadic MVPA using two different thresholds for the minimal bout length: ≥5 minutes and ≥10 minutes. We also considered a 15 minute threshold; however, preliminary analyses revealed that 40% of the study sample did not have any ≥15 minute MVPA bouts over the 7 day measurement period.
Based on the 5 minute bout threshold, sporadic MVPA was calculated as that sum of all MVPA that was performed in less than 5 consecutive minutes (i.e., <5 consecutive epoch values above the MVPA threshold). Bouts of MVPA were calculated as the sum of all MVPA that was performed in 5 or more consecutive minutes (i.e., ≥5 consecutive epoch values above the MVPA threshold). The bout stopped being recorded when 80% of it (e.g., 8 out of 10 minutes) was no longer above the MVPA threshold MVPA. The 80% threshold accounted for the temporary rest periods during MVPA activities. The bout also stopped if there were 5 consecutive minutes below the MVPA threshold.
Based on the 10 minute bout threshold, sporadic MVPA was calculated as that sum of all MVPA that was performed in less than 10 consecutive minutes. Bouts of MVPA were calculated as the sum of all MVPA that was performed in 10 or more consecutive minutes. The bout stopped being recorded when 80% of it was no longer above the MVPA threshold or if there were 5 consecutive minutes below the MVPA threshold.
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
Waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL cholesterol), and C-reactive protein were the cardiometabolic risk factors studied. They were selected based on their availability in the NHANES dataset and because they capture different aspects of cardiometabolic risk. All measurements were taken by trained personnel at the mobile examination center visit. Triglycerides and fasting glucose were not examined as cardiometabolic risk factors due to the unavailability of fasting values in participants under the age of 12 in the NHANES dataset.
Waist circumference was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm at the level of the iliac crest. Waist circumference is an effective measure of abdominal adiposity among children and adolescents and is a better predictor of cardiometabolic risk factors than the body mass index . Blood pressure was measured manually four consecutive times on the right arm while seated. We calculated the average blood pressures. We calculated non-HDL cholesterol by subtracting HDL cholesterol from total cholesterol . HDL cholesterol was measured using the direct HDL immunoassay method and total cholesterol was measured enzymatically in serum in a series of coupled reactions using cholesteryl ester hydrolase, cholesterol oxidase, and peroxidase. Non-HDL cholesterol was chosen as the lipid marker because it is an important indicator of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk among children and adolescents that it is not reliant upon a fasting blood sample . C-reactive protein was measured by latex enhanced nephelometry. C-reactive protein was chosen as the inflammatory marker because of its availability in the dataset, known impact on cardiovascular disease, and because it is not reliant upon a fasting blood sample , .
Waist circumference and non-HDL cholesterol were not normally distributed so they were log transformed by the authors prior to analyses. Age-adjusted values were created by the authors for each of the cardio-metabolic risk factors because they change with normal growth and maturation . Using forward stepwise regression, each of the cardio-metabolic risk factors were regressed up to a full cubic polynomial in age (age, age2, age3) separately within males and females. Variables were allowed to enter or leave the model at P<0.10. The standardized residuals were retained, and used to represent the age-adjusted values. Participants were then ranked based on the residual for each risk factor. A mean of the ranks was used to represent a summary cardiometabolic risk score (CRS). Blood pressure was not measured in children <8 years old, so the CRS for 6–7 year olds was limited to three risk factors. We categorized CRS into quartiles; the highest quartile denotes a high CRS.
Age, gender, ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, other), socioeconomic status, smoking status, and diet were considered as covariates. The poverty-to-income ratio, provided within the NHANES dataset, is a ratio between family income and poverty threshold and was used to measure socioeconomic status . Smoking was assessed in NHANES by asking participants 12 and older, “Have you ever tried cigarette smoking, even 1 or 2 puffs?” We grouped participants into “yes” or “no” categories. Participants <12 years old were placed into the “no” category. Diet intake was obtained via a 24 hour food recall obtained through an in-person interview conducted by a dietician. Dietary food recall data were imported into a computer-assisted food coding and data management system to determine total nutrient intakes (Agricultural Research Service, USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies 2.0). From this, we created two binary variables: total fat (≤35% or >35% total calories) and sodium (≤2300 or >2300 mg/day) .
Analyses were completed using SAS version 9.2 (SAS Inc., Carry, N.C.), which accounted for NHANES sample design. All analyses were initially performed based on the 5 minute bout threshold and were repeated based on the 10 minute bout threshold. Conventional descriptive statistics were used to describe the study variables. Partial correlations (adjusted for sex, ethnicity, and age) were used to examine relations between continuous MVPA measures. Logistic regression models were used to examine the association between the MVPA measures with a high summary CRS (i.e., scores in the top quartile). All logistic regression models were adjusted for sex, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, diet (total fat and sodium), smoking status, and total accelerometry wear time.
In an initial set of logistic regression models, each of the three MVPA (total, sporadic, bouts) variables were included as categorical variables. The MVPA categories were based on quartiles. To compare the discriminatory ability of these models (e.g., the ability to separate those participants with a high CRS from those with normal values), their c statistic values were determined . The c statistic is identical to the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, with values ranging from 0.5 (no better discrimination than chance alone) to 1.0 (perfect discrimination). A second set of logistic regression models was based on continuous measures of the sporadic MVPA and total bouts of MVPA variables. Linear (min/day), quadratic (min/day, min/day2), and cubic (min/day, min/day2, min/day3) polynomial models were tested for each of these continuous MVPA variables.
Descriptive characteristics of the 2754 participants are shown in Table 1. A breakdown of these characteristics by gender and age is shown in the Table S1. The median age of the sample was 13 years and 50.8% were male. The median total MVPA in the sample was 33 minutes per day. The median amount of MVPA accrued in bouts was 15 minutes per day when based on the 5 minute threshold and 8 minutes per day when based on the 10 minute threshold. Of the total sample, 87.5% participated in at least one 5 minute bout and 72.5% participated in at least one 10 minute bout over the accelerometer measurement period. Approximately 11% of the sample had 4 valid days of accelerometer wear time, 20% had 5 valid days, 35% had 6 valid days, and 34% had 7 valid days.
Partial correlations (adjusted for sex, ethnicity, and age) between the MVPA measures are shown in Table 2. Irrespective of what threshold was used to define a bout of MVPA, total MVPA was highly correlated (r = 0.80 to 0.92) with the sporadic and bout MVPA measures. The correlations between the sporadic and bout MVPA measures were not as strong (r = 0.43 to 0.51).
Irrespective of what threshold was used to define a bout of MVPA, the relative odds of a high CRS decreased in a dose-response manner (Ptrend≤0.02) when moving from quartile 1 to quartile 4 for the total, sporadic, and bout MVPA measures (Table 3). For example, relative to quartile 1, the odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for a high CRS was 0.25 (0.10–0.60) in quartile 4 for the sporadic MVPA measure, 0.17 (0.09–0.34) for quartile 4 for the bout MVPA measure when based upon a 5 minute bout threshold, and 0.19 (0.11–0.34) for quartile 4 for the bout MVPA measure when based upon a 10 minute bout threshold. A comparison of the C-statistic values suggests that each of the total, sporadic, and bout MVPA measures had a similar ability to distinguish between participants with a high and normal CRS.
Age (6–11 year old children vs. 12–19 year old adolescents) and gender interactions were tested for the analyses shown in Table 3. There was only one meaningful interaction; this was an age interaction for total (sporadic + bouts) MVPA wherein the associations were stronger in children than in adolescents. Specifically, for 6–11 year olds the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were 1.00 in quartile 1, 0.18 (0.02–2.05) in quartile 2, 0.08 (0.01–0.96) in quartile 3, and 0.04 (0.01–0.50) in quartile 4. The corresponding values for 12.19 year olds were 1.00, 0.51 (0.34–0.88), 0.36 (0.18–0.71), and 0.40 (0.14–1.12).
Similar relationships to those presented in Table 3 for a high CRS were observed for the 3 of the individual cardiometabolic risk factors (see results for non-HDL cholesterol, CRP, and systolic blood pressure in Table 4). However, the odds ratio gradient for a high waist circumference was noticeably stronger across MVPA bout quartiles than sporadic MVPA quartiles.
As illustrated in Figure 1, an equivalent number of minutes of sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA had a comparable influence on the relative odds of a high CRS. This was true irrespective of whether the 5 minute (Panel A on left) and 10 minute (panel B on right) bout threshold was used. For instance, when the 5 minute bout threshold was used, the relative odds of a high CRS at 30 minutes per day relative to 0 minutes per day was 0.33 for sporadic MVPA and 0.32 for bouts of MVPA. Note that the associations in the figure were adjusted for the covariates. The results for sporadic MVPA were also adjusted for bouts of MVPA, and the results for bouts of MVPA were also adjusted for sporadic MVPA.
. Odds ratio for a high cardiometabolic risk score (CRS) according to minutes per day of sporadic (dashed lines) and bouts (solid lines) of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. In panel A (left), bouts were defined using a 5 minute threshold. In panel B (right), bouts were defined using a 10 minute threshold. Odds ratios were plotted from 0 minutes per day (referent) to values that corresponded to the 98th percentile of the sample. Odds ratios were adjusted for sex, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, diet, smoking, and total accelerometer wear time.
The primary objective of this study was to determine whether bouts of MVPA influence cardiometabolic risk factors to a greater extent than an equivalent volume of sporadic MVPA within children and youth. The key findings are: 1) the volume of MVPA accumulated in a sporadic manner was only moderately correlated (r ∼0.50) with the volume of MVPA accumulated in bouts, 2) the volume of both sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA were strongly associated with a high CRS, and 3) an equivalent volume of sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA had an almost identical effect on a high CRS, and this was true regardless of whether bouts were defined using a 5 or 10 minute threshold.
Previous accelerometry-based studies have reported that sporadic MVPA ,  and bouts of MVPA ,  are related to cardiometabolic risk factors within pediatric and adult populations. To our knowledge, only one study has attempted to determine if the associations with cardiometabolic risk factors are different for sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA. In that study, which was based on 8–17 year olds from the 2003/04 NHANES cycle (who accounted for ∼50% of the NHANES sample examined in here), the amount of MVPA spent in bouts lasting at least 5 minutes was a significant predictor of overweight after controlling for the total volume of MVPA . This suggests that bouts of MVPA was a stronger overall predictor of overweight than sporadic MVPA in that study. Although this finding appears to contradict those of the present study, inspection of Tables 3 and 4 indicates otherwise. While MVPA accumulated in bouts was not a stronger predictor of a high summary CRS than MVPA accumulated in a sporadic manner (Table 3 and Figure 1) and the non-obesity CRS components (Table 4), this was not the case for the waist circumference (Table 4). For example, based on the 5 minute bout threshold, the odds ratio in quartile 4 for a high waist circumference was about twofold higher for sporadic MVPA than for bouts of MVPA (0.47 vs. 0.22). Collectively, these findings suggest that bouts of MVPA may have a greater impact on overweight and obesity than an equivalent volume of sporadic MVPA. This does not; however, appear to be the case for non-obesity cardiometabolic risk factors such as C-reactive protein, blood pressure, and non-HDL. At this time it is unclear as to why bouts of MVPA may have a particularly strong impact on overweight and obesity.
These results of our study have important implications for public health. The recently released World Health Organization , US , and Canadian  physical activity guidelines for children and youth recommend 60 minutes per day of MVPA. Unlike the adult physical activity guidelines, the child and youth guidelines do not include a stipulation that the MVPA needs to be accrued in bouts of at least 10 minutes in duration. The results of our study provide support for the dose and patterns components of the child and youth guidelines. Regarding the dose component, we observed a clear dose-response gradient between the total volume of MVPA and cardiometabolic risk such that the most active total MVPA quartile (>70 min/day of MVPA) was the least likely to have elevated cardiometabolic risk factor values. Regarding the pattern component, our findings suggest that equivalent volumes of sporadic and bouted MVPA have a similar impact on overall cardiometabolic risk.
This study has several strengths, including the large sample, the use of accelerometers to provide a valid and unbiased measure of MVPA patterns , , , and the inclusion of multiple cardiometabolic risk factors. However, as with any study, this study was not void of limitations. A major limitation was the cross-sectional nature of the study, which precludes us from making strong causal statements about the relations that were studied. Nonetheless, we are confident that the MVPA variables proceeded the CRS outcome in our study because previous prospective cohort and randomized controlled trails have reported similar relationships , ,_ENREF_29 and because the associations observed in our study were strong, followed clear dose-response patterns, and were biologically plausible. Another important limitation is the fact that the uniaxial accelerometers used in NHANES did not capture water based activities (such as swimming) and were limited in their ability to capture some land-based activities (such as cycling and weight training) . Assuming that the measurement error of the accelerometers was non-differential, the associations that we observed between physical activity and cardiometabolic risk would have been underestimated. Finally, a large percentage (58%) of the NHANES sample was excluded from the analyses because of incomplete or missing data. Although the exclusion of these participants influenced the descriptive information (Table 1), it is unlikely that this would have significantly influenced the associations between the MVPA and CRS variables (Tables 3 and 4, Figure 1).
In conclusion, the findings of this study confirm that MVPA is related to cardiometabolic risk factors within children and youth, and suggest that these relationships are comparable for equivalent doses of sporadic MVPA and bouts of MVPA. Tightly regulated randomized control trials are needed to confirm the results of this study.
Conceived and designed the experiments: RMH VC IJ. Analyzed the data: RMH VC. Wrote the paper: RMH VC IJ.
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New Delhi [India]: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired his 23rd interaction through PRAGATI – the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for pro-active governance and timely implementation and reviewed the progress towards handling and resolution of grievances related to consumers.
The first 22 sessions of PRAGATI have seen a cumulative review of 200 projects with a total investment of Rs 9.31 lakh crore. The resolution of public grievances has also been reviewed in 17 sectors.
Prime Minister Modi was briefed on the action taken to ensure speedy and effective disposal of consumer grievances. While expressing concern over the large number of grievances, the prime minister emphasised on the need for improvement in the administrative arrangements, so that consumers can be benefitted.
Prime Minister Modi reviewed the progress of nine infrastructure projects in the railway, road, power, and renewable energy sectors, spread over several states including Uttarakhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Nagaland, Assam, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. These projects are cumulatively worth over Rs 30,000 crore.
The prime minister reviewed the progress in implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY).
He said that funds accruing to the District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) should be utilised to strategically focus upon and eliminate major development issues or deficits that these districts currently face.
He further said this should be done in a focussed way, so as to achieve the greatest possible, tangible results by 2022, which marks 75 years of independence. (ANI)

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It's not hands on healing, Reiki, acupuncture, EFT (Emotional
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So, what is Cellular Level Healing®?
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Type of Addiction: Behavioral
What is the first thought that comes to mind when you hear addiction? You are probably thinking of someone who is addicted to a drug. So many kinds of addiction need to be learned and understood. Behavioral addiction is one of them.
What is behavioral addiction?
Behavioral addiction is a non-substance type of addiction. A person becomes dependent on and caves to the behavior. People addicted to gambling, shopping, sex, porn, exercise, and food are good examples of behavioral addictions. When you think of substance addiction, the body can grow dependent on the substance to function. Soon enough, they will become erratic without the drug. People with behavioral addiction will also feel the same effect without behavioral addiction. Something can trigger a power reinforcement in the brain and makes that person want to engage in that behavior more and more. It gives that person the "high" effect. If "feels" good. It takes the "pain" away.
For example, Lucy is on her way to work, and someone cuts her off on the road. Lucy is now feeling upset and frustrated. Lucy loves to shop and says that shopping makes her feel better. It takes her stress away. Our brain is wired to protect us. Since Lucy uses shopping as a feeling-good emotion, the brain will almost hand her the shopping sites. Since Lucy uses shopping as "this makes me happy, I feel less stress." It becomes an addiction. Lucy has to shop to feel better. No matter if her bills are due or if she has to buy food for the kids, she will shop instead of taking care of her priorities.
People with behavioral addiction will also go through withdrawals when trying to hold off. They can have trouble sleeping, social withdrawal, changes in their personality, irritability, and depression.
Do you have a Behavioral Addiction?
Behavioral addiction is as serious as drug addiction. It can start to control our lives, and people will lose everything and anything to do it. If you are in question, pay attention to what you do when trying to cope with your emotions. Do you spend most of your time engaging in a specific behavior? Is it on your mind day in and out? When not doing this activity, do you feel irritable or depressed? Do you continue to do the action regardless of the negative consequences? Do you neglect your family members, friends, and work? Do you no longer want to engage in activities that you once enjoyed? Do you feel low self-esteem or self-worth? Do you have poor physical health and lousy sleeping patterns?
Take the time and answer the questions above honestly. If you answered yes to most of the questions above, you might have a behavioral addiction.
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US President Donald Trump has complained that he lost to Greta Thunberg this year as Time magazine's Person of the Year but noted that he had won earlier.
"This year I got beaten out by Greta — you know Greta?" he said, prompting the boos, as quoted by the Independent.
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"Last year I got beaten out — I've won it, but when the world revolves around all of us, we should be chosen," he added. "I mean, we've won it. But we should win it every single year."
Earlier this year, Donald Trump, whom Time magazine declared Person of the Year in 2016, criticised Greta Thunberg for her protesting the lack of international action on climate change. At the World Economic Forum, Trump noted that he would have loved to have heard Thunberg speak there, while also noting that the climate change activist "beat me out on Time magazine".
At the time when the decision was announced, POTUS described it as "ridiculous", sending out a tweet that read, "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!"


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Major League Baseball have been releasing names of players who have received suspensions for positive drug tests.
The Dodgers have one player named Ivan Vieitez who received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for Ritalinic Acid, which is a stimulant.
Eric Stephen of True Blue L.A. broke the news earlier today:
Dodgers minor league RHP Ivan Vieitez, currently with @RCQuakes, suspended 50 games for testing positive for Ritalinic Acid, a stimulant
— Eric Stephen (@ericstephen) July 21, 2017
Vieitez was the Dodgers 27th round draft pick in 2015 out of Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina. The big right hander sits at 6’2″, 170 lbs.
Vieitez owns a career 4.79 earned run average between four levels of the Dodgers minor league system since 2015. He has bounced around between the starting rotation and the bullpen at all levels. He reached the Double-A Tulsa Drillers this season but struggled and was sent back down to High-A to play for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.\
There have been no other rumblings of more Dodger organization minor leaguers being suspended, but the league continues to release names day after day.
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Alliance & Leicester International has appointed James Hammal as key account manager.
Hammal, who will work closely with the firm’s sales and marketing manager Simon Ripton, will be responsible for building relationships with advisers and wealth managers.
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Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Al Jardine is best known for being one of the founding members of The Beach Boys. In fact, it was Al Jardine who wrote and sang lead on the #1 Beach Boys hit “Help Me, Rhonda.” Jardine also co-wrote many of the Beach Boys’ top hits, and was instrumental in helping to develop their signature harmonic California sound.
The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time. The group had over 80 songs on the worldwide charts, 36 Top 40 hits in the US (the most by an American rock band). They are one of the best-selling bands of all-time, having sold over 100 million records!
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The lecture entitled “The earliest history of the Barbacki family” and a tourist guide promotion event
On Saturday 24 February 2018 in Nowy Sącz a lecture opened to the public entitled “The earliest history of the Barbacki family: Review of sources or genealogical study guidelines” took place. The organizers of the event were: the Foundation EUROS, Evangelical-Augsburg Parish of the Transfiguration and Sądecki Sztetl. The lecturer was Anna Żalińska – historian, archivist, head of the Foundation EUROS, who for years has been interested in the life and work of the artist-painter Bolesław Barbacki (1891-1941) and the history of his family.
During the lecture Mrs. Żalińska presented the copies of the oldest archival materials identified to date. Among them were the copies of documents from the National Archives in Krakow – the Branch in Nowy Sącz, the archives of the Jagiellonian University, Military Historical Bureau (former Central Military Archives). The oldest history of the family going back to times before their arrival to Nowy Sącz was presented on the basis of records and a parish chronicle from Słopnice Dolne (former Słopnice Królewskie) and the St. Apostles’ Peter and Paul Parish Church in Uście Solne. The oldest records date back to mid 18th century.
The lecture included the promotion of the tourist brochure “The trail of Bolesław Barbacki in Nowy Sącz”. It presents the painter’s biography in relation to the places in Nowy Sącz. The honorary patronage over the publication was granted by the Mayor President of Nowy Sącz and the tourist organization PTTK – the Branch “Beskid” in Nowy Sącz. The printing was possible thanks to our private donor and the cooperation with the Pedagogical Provincial Library in Nowy Sącz and the Małopolska Drivers Examination Center in Nowy Sącz. The brochure will be soon available free of charge in the Tourist Information Center in Nowy Sącz.
Both the brochure and the lecture met with positive reception from the audience. The event was honored by the presence of a representative of the Barbacki family, a representative of the City Hall and a member of the City Council of Nowy Sącz.
We thank everyone who helped to organize and who took part in the event.
In the gallery we have put a few photos documenting the event. The information about can be also found on the website of the Nowy Sącz Municipal Office: www.nowysacz.pl/wydarzenia/18442.

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There's always a speculation that an author gets their ideas from somewhere; from someone, and from something. Horror novelists, such as Stephen King, for example, know their genre because there were instances in their life where they had lived it. Maybe that's what's going on here. "Tenebre" is Dario Argento's most personal movie; which could either lead it down the road of inaccessibility or masterful craft. I pick the first thing.
I like what the movie is doing. I absorbed what the story was trying to do, and what its messages were. Still, there's nothing much more to "Tenebre" than a good style, a couple typically entertaining kill scenes, and an always good score from Claudio Simonetti and the gang. There are better Argento films out there, and while this is by no means his worst movie, "Tenebre" fails to be a solid example of why Argento strikes me as influential.
Oh, what a great movie this could have made. Focusing mainly on murders committed by an obsessive fan of some novelist (whose newest work is called "Tenebre"), the film is one that could have done so much. It mostly involves the novelist (Anthony Franciosa), his assistant (Daria Nicolodi), and his agent (John Saxon) as they attempt to solve these murders, which all somehow link to the works of the writer.
The story switches on-and-off from actually making sense to not making much sense at all. This is not a flaw of most Dario Argento films (in fact, most of his movies are pretty darn nonsensical), but it just doesn't work out too well here. "Tenebre" is decently directed up until you happen upon the evaluation of the story, which is flawed due to its personal themes and lack of focus. I like what it's trying to do, but with a story so uneven and a twist ending so lame, you can't really end up with a particularly good movie.
But if you're going to watch it, then allow me to give you some tips. At the time, it was pretty violent, and now; not so much. This means that now, you can watch "Tenebre" in all its violent, un-cut glory; and this is what I did. This is the cut that people warmed up to, and for some reason, I still couldn't find enough to admire or enjoy. It's only ten minutes of footage compared to the "cut" version, but that would probably make the difference for many.
It's an appropriately stylized film; a giallo horror movie, no doubt. The kill scenes are well-directed, I'll give them that, but they feel shallow without brilliance and genuine wit. The film is about the perversion of both novelists (of horror) and serial killers; but fails to shed complex light on either. Some might enjoy what Argento has provided us with, but I have expectations for every movie, and "Tenebre" did not meet mine.
The gory and gruesome "Tenebre" has ambitions and dreams to be a good horror movie. To some people, that is exactly what it is. But I compare, compare, and for the third time, I compare. This might be the problem; myself. I could have liked "Tenebre", which ends up being an only mildly engaging/entertaining horror yarn, but there's not enough flare and beauty to keep it from stumbling perhaps a bit more than it needs to. But if it sounds like your kind of thing, then go for it. Blood and gore, nudity, and admittedly cool kill scenes. Maybe that's your idea of a good time. Most of the time, it would be MY idea of a good time; but "Tenebre" has only half the soul that such a movie as this requires.
Tenebre is a cold, dark and sterile film from Dario Argento. In sterile I mean the clinical and septic surroundings that the city dwellers live in. Some of the sets are painted bright white and lighted in cool hues. The film is about a murder mystery writer named Peter Neal who comes to Rome on a business trip/vacation. During this trip, some murders are committed by a strange demented killer who's a big fan of Peter Neal. The film's translated title Shadow describes the film perfectly. To say how … more
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Following the worldwide success of SUSPIRIA and INFERNO, Master Of Horror Dario Argento returned to the giallo genre with the shocker that remains one of the director's greatest. Anthony Franciosa stars as an American mystery novelist on a promotional tour in Rome who finds that his most recent book has inspired a copycat serial killer. When the psychotic impulse becomes irresistible, does freedom await in the simple act of annihilation? John Saxon (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET), Daria Nicolodi (DEEP RED) and John Steiner (CALIGULA) co-star along with a nerve-shredding score by Goblin and a mind-blowing twist ending in this classic of sexual corruption, savage bloodshed and virtuoso filmmaking that fans and critics hail as an Argento masterpiece.
Was released on video in the late 80's under the title Unsane. This version is heavily edited. Theresa Russell dubs Daria Nicolodi's voice on the Englidh track.


The U.S.-based rapper Akon (Aliaune Badara), who is originally from the West African country of Senegal, is in the process of buying a 50% stake in Musik Bi.
Musik Bi is a music download service based in Senegal that features over 200 internationally recognized artists. The majority of the artists being rappers and jazz musicians with music for Christian, Muslim, and secular listeners.
Musik Bi has been operational in Senegal since February 2016 and gained enough traction and success to pick the interest of an international artist like Senegal. The platform allows listeners to download music and pay for it using mobile phone credit.
Musik Bi CEO, Moustapha Diop, said the biggest challenge the company faces and hindrance its growth is the current disputes between it and telecoms. The two parties are not agreeing on how to share the cut from the purchase of the music on the platform.
With Akon on board, the CEO says it will enable the come up with a better solution to these disputes. In addition to expanding their catalog of music and services to including streaming, music festivals, and TV channel.
Musik Bi also reiterates its commitment to fighting music piracy and increasing artists’ revenues from their creativity.
Akon is an icon of social-entrepreneurship across Africa
Though based in the U.S., Akon is one of those rare Africans in the diaspora who strives to makes life better and comfortable for folks in the motherland. In 2014, he launched a very ambitious project, Akon Lighting Africa, in partnership with other stakeholders to bring solar electricity to people living off the grid.
Most countries across the continent have a perennial blackout problem, something the World Bank says costs the sub-Saharan Africa a 2.1% loss in their GDP. While some 600 million across the continent live without electricity. Akon’s solar electrification project goes a long way, in alleviating and mitigating these socioeconomic challenges that come with lack of access to grid-power.


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Imaginary Fest smartphone game launched its crossover event with the KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on This Wonderful World- Legend of Crimson (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! Kurenai Densetsu) film on Tuesday.
The limited-time event introduces Aqua and Megumin as battle characters, and Kazuma and Yunyun as assist characters. The first part of the story event quest will run until September 10 and will feature full voice acting from the KONOSUBA and A Certain Magical Index casts.
The story follows Kazuma's misadventures after he gets mysteriously transported to the world of Academy City. After initially thinking that he has returned home to Japan, Kazuma is exposed to all sorts of magic and science.
The game's Twitter account released videos previewing the Aqua and Megumin's battle animations:


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Doling Aquatic Center
Hood-Rich was commissioned by the Springfield-Greene County Park Board to design a new addition to the Doling Family Center, The Doling Aquatics Center.
The facility is LEED “Silver” certified and designed for future competitive swimming which includes; spectator seating, diving facilities, a 50 meter pool, and additional parking. The design features 13,788 square feet of space and 4,240 square feet of water surface area. It includes three bodies of water; a spa, recreation pool, and lap lane area. The recreational pool includes space for 22 aerobic stations, a pool slide, waterspouts, and a built-in bench. The lap pool is a 25-meter, 3-lane pool with starter blocks and lane lines. The total cost of the project was $3.4 million and was completed in 2013.
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I’ve got Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars running on my Gentoo Linux installation with wine 0.9.34 by following the instructions here. I had to first install it on windows though, and copy the folder for the installer didn’t work, even with Crossover Office.
Except for (very glitchly) video and sometimes a crash everything seems to run. (Didn’t try multiplayer yet though). I had to put all quality settings to lowest, which makes me wonder whether that is my radeon X1400 being not so good as I expected or wine just being slow in emulating Direct3D.
You can buy World of Warcraft gold and items by paying real money…
It actually seems they are having quite good bussiness for the amount of adds linking to them has increased IMHO.
So.. there must be a lot of people buying basicly nothing for damned high prices…
How can people be so foolish?
I’ve found a rather interesting ‘hack’ for C&C generals on a forum: the Scud hack.
- Build a Scud Launcher
- Select a unit which can shoot and press Ctrl+1
- Select the Scud Launcher and press Ctrl+2
- Press 1, than press shift+2
- Now you’ve got the Scud launcher and the unit selected. Mouseclick on an area while holding Ctrl to let the unit and the Scud force fire there.
EA won’t fix the hack but when you use the Scud hack whilst playing a stat-online-game you’re probably get banned.


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Following the leak of the first videos and images from the London set filming for Doctor Strange, stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Baron Mordo) have been spotted filming an action sequence on the streets of 5th Avenue, New York.
Both actors can be seen suited up with Cumberbatch rather battered and bruised with a couple of bloody marks on his face. Check out the videos and pics below!
Doctor Strange follows the story of neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden world of magic and alternate dimensions.
The film is directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Mordo, Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer/Night Nurse, Benedict Wong as Wong and Mads Mikkelsen as an unspecified villain role.


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When last we checked in with graphic artist and visual provacateur Geoff McFetridge, he was beaming beside giant yellow thumbtacks arrayed in a thorny halo on the floor of Deitch Projects. Entitled “Even the Simplest Shapes Wish to Become Logos One Day,” the 2009 work was his contribution to Lance Armstrong and Nike’s “Stages” exhibition. Among McFetridge’s latest projects is whipping up an endearing egghead identity for Owl, AOL’s answer to Wikipedia. The would-be “living, breathing library” of user-submitted expert knowledge is still in beta, so content offerings are slim, servicey, and odd: “5 Hip Styles from the 80s,” “Cricket Legends,” “How to Survive an Economic Recession” (tip #1: Keep your job, tip #2: If you lose your job, find another one). The match of AOL and McFetridge was made by Partners & Spade, the quirky creative enterprise of Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. “For Owl, Spade and Sperduti commissioned McFetridge to come up with a logo,” notes Amy Larocca in her recent New York magazine piece on all things Spade. “The result is a shaky line drawing of a giant head balanced on two scrawny little chicken feet. It’s a completely low-tech approach to something big and modern, and suddenly the whole thing has a sense of humor, which Wikipedia really doesn’t. Sperduti smiles at it. ‘I can’t believe they went for it,’ he admits.”
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Lewis and Clark came through the Missoula Valley in 1805, but it wasn't until 1860 that Europeans settled here (although a Jesuit priest, DeSmet, opened a mission south in the Bitterroot Valley in 1841). Before settlers arrived, Western Montana was home to the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai tribes. more...
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Rock Dog is a great place to crash for the night or weekend if you have your eyes set on climbing some Austin Limestone. It's right down the road from Reimers, and is close enough to Austin that you could go in to the city for a meal. They have crate stacking, slacklining, and community campfires. Restrooms are simple portapotties, but you get what you pay for.
This is a good place to camp if you're climbing at Reimers. It's a simple campground and people just drive up to wherever they want to camp. I drove up pretty late in the evening and had to navigate my way through several tents already set up. Nothing fancy, but I'd go back.
To spend a weekend climbing at Reimer's Ranch (Houston's closest crag, 3 hr drive) you would have to stay at a park that is about 45 min drive out of the way. When 3 climbers bought this land together, that issue was remedied. Located a mere 15 minutes away from the crag, early mornings aren't so early and late nights can be later. I've been here a number of times and every time its a different experience but late nights, big bonfires, great community and clean Porta-potties are a constant. There are no campsites per se, just drive in and find a spot with a polite amount of room and set up before joining the festivities. October-April can get a bit crowded due to climbing season, though my personal bubble hasn't been ruptured. I've done both tent and hammock here and the plethora of trees combined with Texas' typical warm nights and the extreme comfort make the hammock my favorite net for catching z's. Overall, this is an overnight camp only, this is not a park and there are no trails but its a convenient and pleasant place to camp if you're looking to spend time at either Reimer's Ranch or Hamilton Pools. By the way, this place got its name from the rock loving dog, Major who roams the camp and doesn't mind other furry visitors.

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Earth's History Affected the Evolution of Birds and Their Diversity
The history of our planet, its geography and climate were determined by the evolution of birds, as well as their diversity. DNA evidence is now enabling scientists to take a closer look at the changes, according to scienceworldreport.
"Modern birds are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates in terms of species richness and global distribution, but we still don't fully understand their large-scale evolutionary history," said Joel Cracraft, co-author of the new paper, in a news release. "It's a difficult problem to solve because we have very large gaps in the fossil record. This is the first quantitative analysis estimating where birds might have arisen, based on the best phylogenetic hypothesis that we have today."
Scientists selected DNA sequences for modern bird families with data from 130 fossil birds in order to create an "evolutionary time tree".
"With very few exceptions, fossils of modern birds have been found only after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction," said Santiago Claramunt, one of the researchers. "This has led some researchers to suggest that modern birds didn't start to diversify until after the event, when major competitors were gone. But our new work, which agrees with previous DNA-based studies, suggests that birds began to radiate before this massive extinction."
Following the K-Pg extinction, two routes were used by the birds to cover the globe. The first followed a Paleogene Central American land bridge to North America, then moving to the Old World. The second route followed a path to Australia and New Zealand over Antarctica, which at that time had higher temperatures.
"When the Earth cools and dries, fragmentation of tropical forests results in bird populations being isolated," said Cracraft. "Many times, these small populations will end up going extinct, but fragmentation also provides the opportunity for speciation to occur and for biotas to expand when environments get warm again. This work provides pervasive evidence that avian evolution has been influenced by plate tectonics and environmental change."
The findings are published in the journal Science Advances.