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“The Stories I Tell Are Just a Way To Get To Know My True Self”: J. Sean Smith on Her Student Short Film Showcase Winner #Whitina
Issues of identity and immigration take Instagram by storm in #Whitina, director J. Sean Smith’s short film, originally helmed as her thesis for the University of Southern California’s Film & Television Production MFA program. The film’s title references the conflict between protagonist Genesis’s (Inde Navarrette) Latinx heritage and her mannerisms and interests, which more closely reflect those of her white classmates. This disconnect has caused a palpable resentment among her culturally rigid Latinx peers, who write off Genesis as a white girl wannabe and an assimilationist snob. However, this tune quickly changes when Genesis helps her former friend (and current DREAMer) Chris (Xolo Maridueña) escape from ICE custody—aided in no small part by a running tackle from Chris’s best friend Belle (Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Maria Sofia Estrada).
Yet the ever-watching gaze of iPhone cameras distort the crew’s anti-authoritarian act of solidarity, resulting in a viral clip that bestows a new nickname on Genesis: “Trap Selena.” The one-off Instagram post quickly turns into a national news story, causing Genesis, Chris and Belle to flee from the consequences of fighting for their own survival. #Whitina is one of five winners of the 2022 Student Short Film Showcase, a collaborative program from The Gotham, Focus Features and JetBlue that is available to stream via Focus Features’s YouTube channel and offered in the air as part of JetBlue’s in-flight entertainment selection.
I spoke with Smith over email, covering topics that included choosing concerts over quinceañeras, the incorporation of social media into the film’s very fabric and enduring frustrations over the Biden administration’s inaction over DACA.
Filmmaker: You received a BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and went on to get your MFA from USC. How has your film school experience continued to inform your filmmaking practice?
Smith: Going to film schools on different coasts made for two exponentially different experiences. I loved both, and I can’t imagine one without the other. I learned so much from both. I think I learned more about myself than actual filmmaking, but that made me a better director. Self-awareness, people!
If I had to give you one or two examples: At Columbia, in my first screenwriting class, I was writing this script based on a true story. After my professor read my first draft, he came back and said, “Sean, don’t bore us with the fucking truth.” This piece of advice has stuck with me. Anytime I get too in my head, I remember I am making a movie—this is fun and the audience wants to feel something. Ah, it could all be so simple, right?
USC had different lessons, but the one that resonated the most was: “How are you going to get this movie made?” Meaning, “Where is the money coming from to make this film?”#Whitina almost didn’t happen because my thesis professor wanted to see where the money was coming from to make it (thank you, Kevin Hart!) So I learned really quickly you can have a great story and the best team, etc. But to quote the poet laureate Cuba Gooding Jr., “Show me the money!”
Filmmaker: As a white-passing Latina who also chose to attend a concert over having a quinceañera, this film totally resonated with me. What felt important about telling a story from this specific point of view?
Smith: Can I just say that I love that about you? When I approach scripts and ideas, it’s all rooted in hard truths about me, personally. I feel like the stories I tell are just a way to get to know my true self—I put my heart on that page and pray it resonates with the audience. The character Genesis in #Whitina is someone I think I aspire to be. Growing up #whitina and not feeling like I belonged to my Mexican culture because I was adopted by white parents, I wish I recognized sooner that being Mexican-American doesn’t come with some obscure by-laws like speaking Spanish or having a quince. That we can be #whitina and have a different experience than other Latinx people and still be a part of the culture. What I love about Genesis is that she finally realized that and chose to stand in the gap for other people in our community who are like Chris, undocumented DREAMers. I wish I would have understood that power in my teens, but hopefully telling stories like these will resonate with someone who felt just like I did. I just want brown people/brown girls/la Raza to feel seen, no matter their experience.
Filmmaker: What was the motive behind your main character repeatedly breaking the fourth wall?
Smith: I love coming of age films. I love that you can add a little razzle dazzle like breaking the fourth wall in the genre, and I wanted to pay homage to that vibe. It was important for me to have a coming of age film with an all Latinx cast and say, “John Hughes? We can do that!” I feel like having Genesis break the fourth wall, especially at the end, was powerful. She literally says to the audience, “We belong here.” And we do!
Filmmaker: How did you go about deciding the role that social media would play within this film? A viral clip propels the film’s plot, but the film’s fabric is also literally embedded with Instagram stories and posts.
Smith: I knew this film was going to be a coming of age film, and I wanted to position ourselves within the zeitgeist of the 2020s. A lot of filmmakers shy away from modern tech on screen because, let’s be honest, it’s not cute. I don’t want to see phone screens and text the whole film. But that’s what made it fun for our team. We were like, “How can we speak to this generation but make it different, cinematically?” Because it was a short film, I was thinking about how the audience can get to know the main character, Genesis, in a short amount of time. I thought, let’s give the audience her Instagram page, and then the concept evolved from there.
Because we got shut down during editing due to COVID, the animator Molly Murphy and I had time to really embed this idea within the whole film. My favorite part is the IG grid finale—we used real DACA DREAMers’s Instagram pages, and it was important to myself and the team to do that and have their voices be seen and heard.
Filmmaker: The film addresses policies of the Trump era, but what do you hope the film communicates about the enduring Latino (and DREAMer) experience in the U.S.?
Smith: Oof! I’m so upset about what is going on. Obviously, with the Biden administration, not much has changed. I have friends who are DACA, and this program has been successful for a decade. It infuriates me that people still can’t apply for DACA. There have been no new recipients in past two years, and the lives of current DACA recipients (close to 700,000) hang in the balance. I hope anyone that sees #Whitina knows that it is for the DREAMers, that it is for la Raza and making sure we are seen. I hope they know we are all in this together, no matter the outcome.


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15 year-old boy has been charged with the manslaughter of Polish man Arkadiusz Jozwik
Colchester: Man Jailed For Double Stabbing
A man has been jailed for 15 years for stabbing two women in Colchester.
Roy Hensley, 47, of no fixed address, stood trial at Chelmsford Crown Court where he was found guilty of attempting to murder one of the women and GBH with intent against the other over the attack on January 12.
Hensley had previously admitted two counts of GBH but the jury decided he was guilty of the more serious offences.
He was immediately sentenced to serve 15 years in prison and a five-year extended licence.
The women were assaulted in Kerry Court, Colchester, at around 10.20pm.
One of the women, aged in her 50 suffered serious injuries and was in a critical condition in hospital following the assault.
DCI Morgan Cronin of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: "This was a horrendous, unprovoked attack on two women which caused significant injuries and trauma.
"I applaud the victims for having the strength to tell a jury about the ordeal they suffered at the hands of Hensley and hope this verdict allows them to put the events of that night behind them safe in the knowledge he will serve a significant prison sentence.”
Drivers in Essex are being urged to slow down when it's raining - after 5 deaths and 69 serious injuries on the county's roads in the last year.
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A cluster-based approach for identifying farm forest resources to maximise potential markets.
This research project co-funded by COFORD and Teagasc provided a framework for quantifying the wood resources from farm forests in order to maximise potential markets. The study utilised a Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to provide information about the location of forest plantations.
This was achieved by using a cluster-based approach for locating areas with large concentrations of private forest cover that are approaching first thinning. Geographic Information System (GIS) were used in order to provide information about the location of forest plantations. In order to maximise the area covered by the survey, cluster analysis was employed to identify areas with large concentrations of private forest cover that are approaching first thinning. A number of target clusters were identified based on the amount of forest and the proximity to a market place.
In addition, remote sensing techniques were employed, a combination of aerial photography and satellite imagery were examined to provide information about the current state of plantations within clusters. Information was derived from the latest ortho-photography as well as from Quick Bird TM and IKONOS TM satellite imagery. Using these techniques information on access, productive area, roading and thin status were captured. Furthermore, data on forest stand parameters such as height, and crown assessment were also identified.
In the second phase, all plantations within a cluster that are approaching first thinning stage were visited in the field where an assessment of timber quality and volume was performed in each stand. The field survey captured forest growth parameters such as area of stand, top height, basal area and stocking.
Data collected in the field were compiled into a field database and the volume of each stand was computed using the COFORD Dynamic Yield Model “Growfor” (COFORD, 2007). These models are used to generate forecasts of volume production by projecting the growth of stands forward to a reference age.
Information on volume, thinning cycle, thinning yield, thinning year and windthrow risk for each stand in the cluster were made available in a database and used as the main tool for further development work or in the identification of suitable locations for new market opportunities.
- COFORD, 2009 CLUSTER annual report (PDF)
- COFORD, 2008 CLUSTER annual report (PDF)
- 2007 CLUSTER Project (PDF)
- Unlocking farm forest potential - Tresearch Vol3 No 1 Spring 2008 (PDF)
- Teagasc CLUSTER project 0908, Irish Timber & Forestry Sep/Oct 2008 (PDF)
- Contact Dr Niall Farrelly, Teagasc

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My experience with Optilase has been Fantastic and I would recommend them to anyone!
My life has changed so much since I had my eyes done, it is amazing the difference that it makes!
The benefits? not having to use contact lenses and glasses – I’ve always had problems with that.
At my consultation I was a little bit nervous but my surgeon explained everything, he went over everything and made me feel at ease.
The day of the actual surgery I believe it was less than a half an hour, I was in and out. It was over more quickly than I could ever expect.
After the surgery my eyes were a bit tender but my vision was ok. I was quite surprised it could happen in such a short space of time.
The next day, when I woke up for my 24hour check-up, everything was soo clear. My experience with Optilase from beginning to end has been fantastic, and I would recommend them to anyone!”.

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"Carlsen was clearly aggressive against Aronian, but Aronian, who was Black, also baited Carlsen by playing the double-edged Meran system of the Semi-Slav Defense. For a while, the game followed the path of Game 4 of the 2006 world championship match between Topalov and Kramnik. But, on move 12, Aronian varied, taking a pawn and neglecting his development. Carlsen followed up with another pawn sacrifice and before long Aronian’s king was trapped in the center. Aronian’s position was precarious, but not lost until he overlooked a temporary exchange sacrifice by Carlsen that quickly led to an attack that cost Black a rook. The resulting endgame was hopeless and Black soon resigned."Here's the game. Carlsen,Magnus (2775) - Aronian,Levon (2737) Bilbao Masters, 08.09.2008 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.a3 b4 10.Ne4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 bxa3 12.0-0 Nf6 13.Bd3 axb2 14.Bxb2 a5 15.d5!?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Just kidding, of course. I've been away from chess for a few years and haven't kept up with the new kids on the block. But a couple of days ago I watched (live online) the 17-year-old phenom from Norway, Magnus Carlsen, demolish Aronian in a game in the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam. Wow! Enough pawn sacs to put a BDG player to shame--and with an exchange sac thrown in to boot. Here's how Gambit, the New York Times Chess Blog summed up the game:

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Barrier Free 5K Run/Walk
Save the date! The 2nd Annual Barrier Free 5K is taking place on February 8, 2014 at the Congress Avenue Barrier Free Park in Boynton Beach! This unique park is the starting point for runners, walkers, families, and those in wheelchairs to raise money and awareness for the only park in Palm Beach County that is accessible to everyone! Participants will get an opportunity to move through the beautiful community of Hunter's Run and end up back at the park during this chipped event. Brought to you by the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches, The Greater Boynton Beach Foundation, Inc., and the City of Boynton Beach - sponsorship opportunities are still available!
For more information click this link: http://www.rapb.com/5k
Looking forward to seeing you!
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A GREATER BOYNTON BEACH
The vision of the Greater Boynton Beach Foundation is to promote a sense of community, pride and common purpose in Greater Boynton Beach. We will:
- Focus our efforts in strengthening recreation, education and culture in Greater Boynton Beach.
- Serve as a vehicle to identify important community issues and unmet needs in Greater Boynton Beach, to share those ideas and to build the financial resources to make positive long-term change.
- Serve as a responsive grant-maker to the needs identified in the community consistent with its mission.
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Raising and Picking a puppy for sale
Actually a perfect puppy is a mythical concept. Everyone has personal variation of preference regarding their perfect puppy. But the target of raising and picking a puppy for sale is to rich the general concept of a perfect puppy. It is understandable that it is a hard work to reach this level when even the concept of perfect puppy is not so clear. But there are some obvious characteristics of a puppy which are treated as the characteristics of a perfect puppy by most of the puppy lovers. So reaching that level is the target of raising and picking puppy for sale.
Now selecting a puppy is very important. You have to keep in your mind the purpose of your raising puppies. You should select the breed of puppy according to their nature and your need. Almost every breed of puppy even English Mastiff’s has its particular nature and you should be well informed about these characteristics before you pick a puppy for sell.
If a dog is breed has natural tendency for meeting the security of a specialized area then it is more probable that the dog of that particular breed will be more successful in the specialized areas than the other dogs of other breeds.
However, proper training can give a new shape for a puppy. But you have to remember that the training system has also its limitation and it is obvious that the breed must show the inclination towards its nature. So it is always wise to be careful when you pick a puppy for sale. As for example if a particular breed of dogs is shy then you may change this tendency by training to a great extent. But it will be difficult at first place and second you will not be fully successful.
Eight weeks is the right age for picking a puppy for sale. It is a scientific fact because if you pick earlier than eight weeks then it might happen that the puppy is lacking the basic essential needs from its mother. Another thing is that if you make it latter than eight weeks then it can also be troublesome. After that time you can lose the chance of socializing the puppy according to your own environment.
If you want to raise your puppy for sale there are two most important things that you have to put most importance on. The first thing is socialization. Now this is an interesting thing of which you should be very careful. If you are about to sell the puppy before eight week, on eight weeks or after eight weeks there are different kinds of socialization systems that you must adopt. First, if you want to sell the puppy before eight weeks then you must be informed that it is a little bit risky process. In such cases the puppy might not get many necessary things from its mummy. However, some customers like puppy when they are too young. In such cases you must not worry so much about the socialization of the puppy. Generally in such cases the customers want to get their puppies socialized at their home. In this case you have to care for the breed of dog you are dealing with. Somme dogs become socialized with their first environment very quickly. To prevent such situations you must be careful that the pappy is getting too much affected by the first environment or not. Then if you want to raise the puppy to sell just in eight weeks then you must be informed that you have taken a very appropriate decision because it is the most appropriate time in general for a puppy to be sold. In this stage puppy completes getting all necessary things from its mother. And then it is the appropriate time to be socialized in a new environment for the puppy. So if you are planning to follow this way then you must put your attention about picking the breeds of puppy. You must select a puppy that is flexible about their socialization. If you are planning to sell your puppy after eight weeks then you must be careful. It is because during this time the poppies generally go through their long enduring socialization process. So in this case you have to look out that the puppies must get the socialization that is appropriate for your need. For example don’t let the puppies grow too wild who are supposed be in the homes of the customers. The control of the socialization with other breed of puppies is a necessary thing in this process. Dr. Ian Dunbar is a famous puppy trainer and also an author. He has something important to tell about the puppy rising, he says that a perfect puppy needs to meet with at least 100 people before they are 3 months old. This thing evidently increases their power of socialization.
The second thing about raising a puppy is the perfect trading. You can easily assume how important this thing is! The simple technique is to make an environment of hem and then Train the puppies to perform its duty according to its nature. When a customer is buying a puppy before or on its eight weeks then it is obvious that they don’t expect the dogs to be highly trained. In such cases your job is simpler. You should train about some simple rules of responding in an atmosphere of home to you puppies. You can start your training even at the three weeks of you puppy.
You must remember that the young age is the perfect time for training the puppies. It actually increases their possibility of earning more money as well as increases their respect for the trainer. All these things make a puppy really cute a beautiful.
So the main thing you should focus is the proper socialization and training. If these things are maintained properly then it is certain that you will be able to give your customers really what you may call perfect puppies.
Raising and Picking a puppy for sale

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Auf der Au Restaurant
Open Every Day – 10:30am-2pm 230 baht and 4:30pm-9pm 280 baht ***Sunday Lunch 280 baht
Auf der Au
Auf der Au, what is it? It’s a big family house and you are not a customer, you are a nephew, uncle or distant cousin coming for lunch 230 baht or dinner 280 baht. You are welcome, everyone is welcome! Auf der Au makes you feel like Sunday lunch at home with all the family. Then there is the food. These pictures are a random selection of food available at Auf der Au, some are premium foods available on at dinner or on Sunday lunch for 280 baht.
Auf der Au Main Courses
We start with the meat and main courses, you have to try everything! The tastes and textures are all different and, if you happen to find one thing, you don’t love, you will love the other 20 options. Watch out for the Dijon chicken and the schnitzels and crispy fish! All the rissoles and sausages are hand made and no fillers. The mashed potato and fried bacon potato onion mix are spectacular! (Items may vary from pictures, but orders can be made by contacting Udo).
Salads and Cold Meats
There are options for vegetarians, but seriously it’s all about the meat at Auf der Au. There are all sorts of mixed salads and cold cuts, not my favorite but still great, I have tried them all, but the mains and desserts are my favorites and take my attention and tummy space. (Items may vary from pictures, but orders can be made by contacting Udo).
Auf der Au is also a bakery and has amazing breads and products for sale outside the buffet hours or order as you need it.
I recommend the pizza style rolls and the sundried tomato filo pastries were also special. (Items may vary from pictures, but orders can be made by contacting Udo).
Nothing more to say……. except don’t eat too much of the mains, salads and breads! (Items may vary from pictures, but orders can be made by contacting Udo).
Photos and Video
*** All photos used are from my many visits to Auf der Au and I suggest you try for yourself! It tastes better than it looks!!! ***

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Explore More About Hindu Gods
Famous Stories of Indian Culture
Bhai Dooj is widely celebrated by Hindus to mark the brother-sister relation, the celebration of this festival is quite similar to Raksha Bandhan.Bhaiya Dooj is a most prominent and legendary festival
Dhanteras, is one of the famous festivals of India. It is an important part of Diwali celebration. Dhanteras is associated with wealth and prosperity. On this auspicious day people buy golds.

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Hey all... Have a question? I'm just tring to do a temp fix for a shower that was leaking outside underneath the eve of my house and have narrowed it down to just the shower base. Pulled the panel behind the on/off knob and no leak. Ran a hose from the shower head directly into the drain and no leak. It has to be this old concrete base that's leaking, and for this house, a remod is not a option for the value of the house. I've lived here for ten years. I let everthing dry out and calked the crap out of it. However, my question is what type of sealer or anything would anyone use to seal this base? House built in 1968. Typical raised ranch style.


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2020 marks the 23rd anniversary of the Selena biopic movie from 1997. Sadly, it also marks 25 years since the death of singer Selena Quintanilla. Jennifer Lopez took to Instagram to encourage everyone to celebrate the singer who was lost too soon. Lopez portrayed the musician in Selena.
Jennifer Lopez remembers Selena, the singer, and her 1997 movie
In the three-minute video, J-Lo discusses the importance of Selena's music and how much it meant for her to portray the late singer in 1997. The video includes clips from the film, scenes from Selena's life, and interviews with Lopez.
Selena enjoyed a very successful music career before was tragically murdered in 1995 by a former employee. She was just 23-years-old.
Jennifer Lopez idolized Selena
"Selena was such an inspiration to me and I was so lucky to be chosen to play her. As an artist, [Selena] truly was an experience I’m going to remember for the rest of my life," the Instagram post reads. The singer and actress then asked fans to post memories of Selena using the hashtag #CelebratingSelena.
Fans of Selena can also look forward to a new version of her story in 2020. A six-part series about the Tejano music singer is also coming to Netflix in 2020. This time around, actress Christian Serratos will portray Selena in Selena: The Series.

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LUFTooL Trap - SPIRO (Metal Ducting Condensation Trap)
Condensation Traps for control of condensation/moisture in ducts of ventilation systems.
If the extracted air is significantly cooled and you have a vertical pipe the moisture will condense back to water and become trapped in your ducting, potentially causing damage to the fan and property.
Systems using Roof Vents or Ducting rising vertically carrying extract air to outside benefit with the use of a condensate trap, this is to prevent any moisture forming inside the ductwork, dropping back down and into the fan unit.
Compatible with d16 condensate drain hose .
Suitable for vertical ducts.
Height: 8-12 cm (according to chosen diameter)
Compatible with SPIRO ducting
Made in the Czech Republic, by Luftuj s.r.o
Constructed of: PETG
Flexible and strong
High impact resistance and durability
Slight shrinkage on cooling
1) condensation piece
Packed in a plastic bag.
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Influences of Aging Precipitation on Corrosion Resistance of 18Cr-18Mn-2Mo-0.77N HNS
Influences of aging precipitation of Cr2N and Chi (χ) phases on the resistance to pitting corrosion and intergranular corrosion of 18Cr-18Mn-2Mo-0.77N high nitrogen steel (HNS) as a type of fundamental and structural materials were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and electrochemical methods. Intergranular, cellular Cr2N and χ phases precipitate gradually along grain boundaries and inward grains. The volume fraction of precipitation presents a C-curve with a nose temperature of 850°C during 2h aging treatment. The solution-treated (ST) HNS exhibits the highest pitting corrosion potential because of high nitrogen content in steel, and especially no precipitation. The pitting corrosion resistance of aged HNS decreases because of the formation of aging precipitation which results in the depletion of Cr and Mo in the matrix. The pitting corrosion potentials firstly decrease then increase as the same tendency as the amount of precipitation expect 850°C and 900°C. Double loop electrochemical potentiokinetic reaction (DL-EPR) results show that the change tendency of IGC susceptibility is well consistent with the amount of precipitation of aged HNS for 2h at various temperatures. With prolonging the aging time at 850°C, aged HNS presents more obviously intergranular sensitization due to the formation of aging precipitation which results in the depletion of Cr and Mo.
Yansheng Yin and Xin Wang
Z. R. Zhang et al., "Influences of Aging Precipitation on Corrosion Resistance of 18Cr-18Mn-2Mo-0.77N HNS", Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 79-82, pp. 1013-1016, 2009

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The Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path starts in Suffolk at Knettishall Heath Country Park and follows the route of a Roman road to Holme-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast
Pedders Walk has it all fantastic scenery and landscape abound from its 93 mile journey from Suffolk to North Norfolk.
The Peddars Way starts at Knettishall Heath in Suffolk, in the car park opposite Blackwater Carr with nothing more than a fingerpost and finishes at Holme-next- to-the-Sea.
History of the route
The route of the Peddars Way has existed since Roman times and was built shortly after AD61 to enable troops to move through East Anglia for policing purposes, following the revolt and subsequent defeat of Boudica and her Iceni tribe. As with most Roman military roads it was built in a straight line, using local materials, to provide a fast link between the Roman garrison in Colchester and the Iceni heartland.
The name 'Peddars' was not given to it by the Romans but is more likely to be one attached to the path in the 15 or 16th centuries. The Norfolk Coast Path is in comparison a modern route deliberately created using a network of existing footpaths and newly created ones to link the coastal end of the Peddars Way with Cromer.
The two became joined as a Long Distance Path in 1986 in a ceremony performed by the Prince of Wales at Holme-next-the-Sea. In 1991 the name Long Distance Path changed to National Trail, and became the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path National Trail.
For a detailed breakdown of the route visit the Pedders Way website
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Nearly five years after President Donald Trump broke with decades of U.S. policy and international consensus to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. Embassy there, the Biden administration is moving ahead with plans to build a permanent embassy compound in the city. Israel’s government has its headquarters in Jerusalem, but, because Palestinians also claim the city as their capital and because the city’s status remains disputed under international law, the U.S. Embassy, like those of most other countries, was previously based in Tel Aviv.
The plans for a new embassy, which the administration has quietly advanced in recent weeks, would consolidate Trump’s abrupt policy reversal and violate U.S. precedent both on the status of Jerusalem and on Israel’s ongoing illegal appropriation of Palestinian land. The new embassy would also make the U.S. government an active participant in that appropriation: The planned compound is to be built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians, whose descendants, including several U.S. citizens, still have a claim to.
“The descendants of the landowners are all entitled to these properties under international law,” Suhad Bishara, legal director of the Israel-based human rights group Adalah, told The Intercept. “By moving forward with the plan to build the embassy at the Allenby site, the U.S. are taking an active part in the illegal confiscation of these properties, including infringing on their own citizens’ rights.” [Continue reading…]

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10 of the World’s Most Unusual Churches
There’s way more going on at some of these holy places than just religious services—think unusual architecture, striking design features, and other visuals that teach us about the people who worship there.
St. Francisco de Assisi Mission Church
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, United States Although it's officially called the San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church, many locals know this church simply as the Taos Pueblo church. It is made of adobe, like many of the traditional buildings of the surrounding area. It was eventually fortified with a layer of plaster to keep the building from falling apart, but the church is still re-mudded every year by the Native American community. The church has been photographed by Ansel Adams and painted by Georgia O'Keeffe; it's also designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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The Liz Lange® for Target Women's Maternity Bootcut Denim Jeans - Dark Blue offer a tailored, streamlined look without being restrictive or uncomfortable. This wardrobe staple features a stretchy panel that slips over your baby bump to ensure a flexible fit while still retaining the denim's structure. Includes decorative accent stitching, a low rise waist, front and back pockets and a bootcut hem. Machine wash cold, tumble dry.
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An employee worked as a massage therapist at a Myrtle Beach resort. While working, the employee developed severe pain in the neck, arms, and wrists and attempted to file a workers' compensation claim. After failed attempts of getting medical treatment covered through the employer, the employee reached out to Myrtle Beach Workers' Compensation Attorneys at The Derrick Law Firm to help with the case.
Normally, filing the initial claim would be fairly simple for an injured worker. This case provided several challenges to that because there was a discrepancy of who the employer actually was in regards to filing a claim. Was it the resort? Was it the business operating within the resort?
The Derrick Law Firm worked tirelessly to track down the employer and was able to prove the employee's injuries related to nerve damage arose out of, and in the course of, employment.
The case was settled for $42,500.
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“Lolita gets lost in the ‘hood.” For anyone understandably baffled by all the equally extreme love (Saturday Night Live gig! Major-label album! Year-end list placements!) and hate (Mean comments about looks! Speculation of music-industry chicanery! “Meh” reviews!) heaped on a suddenly famous singer-songwriter named Lizzy Grant, this self-description she gave to a Guardian reporter remains a pretty good way of approaching her music as Lana Del Rey. Especially if you keep in mind that, as critic Nitsuh Abebe pointed out in a Pitchfork column, Del Rey appears to be talking about the actual literary Lolita, from Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel, rather than the term’s much broader common usage.
“Off to the Races,” the latest track to emerge from Del Rey’s upcoming full-length debut, interprets the ‘hood-Lolita angle fairly literally, with results that are intriguing if unlikely to end many arguments. Surfacing yesterday as iTunes U.K.’s single of the week, the studio version of a song Del Rey has been performing live cleverly combines tropes straight out of Nabokov with those straight outta gangsta rap, though its reach may outstretch its grasp. “Light of your life, fire of your loins,” Del Rey purrs, just like Lolita‘s Humbert Humbert, mixing the old-school Hollywood glamor of her vocal with mixtape-ready nods to cocaine and Riker’s Island; a similar contrast is at play in her instrumental backing, which mixes grandiose strings with trunk-rattling beats. It’s just that, as with so many eye-grabbing internet headlines, the song starts to feel like a one-trick pony: Once we “get” it, how many times will we want to listen to the actual song?
Next year should provide plenty of chances to find out, starting with that January 14 SNL gig and Interscope’s January 30 release of Born to Die. Whether Del Rey’s execution lives up to that undeniably ambitious concept will, no doubt, continue to be divisive. But that discussion will be infinitely more to have than the anonymous blog comments’ focus on appearances, or even our tendency as critics to focus on behind-the-scenes machinations. Who the hell cares whether the source of something we enjoy listening to is “authentic” or not? The original Lolita, you may recall, fell in love with a playwright.


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Technology is the most important tool which is enabling people and organisation with their growth and development as well. There are very different and latest inventions of more and more advanced technologies as the traditional methods of implementation or doing things are not considered much of importance. It is vital for firms and industries that they are using and implementing latest form of technological advancement which is not only improving their profits but their market base and customers are also been increased. However, the question arise as how to integrate or implement these emerging technologies as many a time this is regarded to as most costly and time consuming activities. So in this current research project researcher would be including various challenges and how to overcome those issues at the time of integrating emerging technologies that too focusing on the hospitality industry.
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- Delivering the orders as fast as possible
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Overview of organization
Under this research hospitality industry would be main focus into this researcher would be including what are the challenges that are faced by hospitality industry while they are integrating emerging technologies (Blok and Lemmens, 2015). Qbic hotel would be studied as this is very small scale hotel which is having limited capital for their investment into technology but if they did this then they would be earning higher amount of profits. Qbic Hotels are situated into London having many customers into the city itself they are using technology but at very low level and this is not making their profits or company grow. Customers are complaining about hotels and their management which is leading to them as loss of their customers.
To illustrate the challenges and how to overcome of integrating emerging technologies within hospitality industry: A case study on Qbic hotel.
- To find out the meaning and importance of emerging technologies into hospitality industry.
- To illustrate the challenges for integrating emerging technologies in hospitality industry.
- To analysis the ways to overcome challenges of integrating technology.
- What is the meaning and importance of emerging technology?
- What could be the challenges in integrating emerging technology within hospitality industry?
In the current era where technological advancement is into every field of economy is going through transformation with the implementation of innovation. It is necessary that all of them are using and tracking their impact of technology on their organisation.
Definition of emerging technologies
Emerging technologies is that technology which is recently launched or developed and will be developed in next five to ten year. Emerging technology included information technology, wireless data communication, man machine communication, on demand printing, bio -technologies, and advanced robotics as per Botta, De Donato, Persico and Pescapé, 2016. This all are recently launched and will be developed.
Emerging technologies arise from new knowledge and new ideas. It arises from innovation of application of existing knowledge. It leads to a rapid development of new ideas and abilities. Emerging technologies are projected to have significant systematic and long -lasting economic, social, and political which create new opportunities for challenges to resolve global issues. In present time we are using some emerging technologies from our recent past that is global positioning system (GPS). MP3 is another example of emerging technologies which is used by us almost every day of year from small player to the large radio stations.
According to Gupta and Jha, 2015 Emerging technologies are technologies that are generally new but it include older technologies that are still undeveloped and controversial such as pre implantation genetic diagnosis and gene therapy.
New technologies fields may result from the technological convergence at many system including towards same goals. It is involves those innovations which represent progressive development within a field for competitive advantage.
The challenges for integrating emerging technologies in hospitality industry
It is important or vital that during their course of business in the hospitality industry managers is facing day to day challenges while integrating the technology. The best hotel manager will be the one who is deploying new technologies into their advantage. The main challenges are faced by the manager are unique identification number for hotel. This is an idea of a single global unique identifier for a hotel Leitão, Colombo and Karnouskos, 2016 said. It has been around of a long time. Slow progress of initiatives is the lack of a compelling commercial reason for a hospitality industry to care about this kind of identifier. This compelling reasons are provided by the changing nature of travel business. It has become critical condition for hospitality industry to appear exactly and accurately in search result. This search engine sites have essentially become the gateway to travel research and inspiration. Search engine optimization is an important thing, but it is not important when its property address is incorrect in Google. As included by Pavlidis, Savidis and Friedman, 2017 the challenges are faced by the hospitality industries are managing customer preferences, it can be the challenges to the manager of hotel and lack of proper resources can be the barriers to manager. In includes lack of technology, proper hardware system, software, internet access.
Scarcity of time al can be a barriers to manager, improper technical supports to hotel industry is big barriers for the success of industry. Author included that Technological resource which involves the routine work has a less in quantity then its delay the work of manager. Lack of proper knowledge and skills for the use of technology can be the barriers to hotel industry it affect the work and profit by improper knowledge of technology. If the manager don't know about how operate the system then it delay the time in response to the customer which was included by Pimm and et.al., 2015 This affects to sales of industry. Managing customer preferences by technology are affects the business in hospitality industry. In which technology enhances efficiency but cannot replace by personal touch, this industry requires more interpersonal interaction which helps to finding customer demand and emotion. Personal interaction with human in hospitality industries is important to added value of service. We are social creature, so system functioning is that customer interact face to face. The challenge is that we have here informing to leaders in hospitality industry is creating added value compared with the machine. So the customer relation is play a major role in success hospitality industry while technologies are not. In hospitality industry an irresistible force can be the barriers to industry. Some customers requesting online and when they enter in hotel they don't want to see anybody. Saleem, Y., Rehmani, M.H. and Zeadally, S., 2015 said that when they check out they don't want to nobody so they want everything done by automatically. But some customers are different they want face to face interaction with hoteliers. The challenge for hoteliers is specific demands of customer. It create disturbance in operation of industry. Support for guest with disabilities is also the barriers to

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JUST two weeks after Chad and Sudan signed a landmark peace accord their two governments have accused each other of supporting fresh attacks into their respective territories by proxy armed groups. Both governments appear to be bristling for a fight.
'(Chad has) carried out major operations and logistic arrangements and facilitated the entry of rebels from inside Chadian territory to carry out sabotage acts and destabilise security in (Sudan's) Darfur region,' Sudan's Permanent Envoy to the UN, Ambassador Abd-al- Mahmud Abd-al-Halimthe told his government's news agency.
The agency, in an article published on 24 March, said the Sudanese Ambassador had informed the UN Security Council of Chad's violations. According to another pro-Sudanese website, the Sudanese Media Centre, Chad is planning 'a large-scale attack' which would include 'using government forces.'
Chad's foreign minister Ahmad Allam-Mi formally denied all such accusations at a meeting he recently convened with diplomats based in the capital N'djamena, a government source who did not want to be named told IRIN.
The source said Allam- Mi presented the diplomats with 'irrefutable proof of the intentions of Sudan to attack'.
One western diplomat in N'djamena told IRIN that he did not believe that Chad's army was preparing to invade Sudan. 'It has been weakened (by recent rebel attacks) and to invade Sudan now would not just be stupid, it would be suicidal,' he said on the condition of anonymity.
He said he was not so sure of Sudan's intentions vis-a-vis Chad.
Chadian President Idriss Deby and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir signed a peace agreement on 13 March in the presence of UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon and select African leaders and Arab and western diplomats attending the Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit in Dakar, Senegal.


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-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 25, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- In the frenzy of
holiday celebrations and gatherings, it's easy to forget the basics
of food safety, so one expert offers some simple reminders.
"Food safety tips are always important, and especially during the holidays when cooking for a crowd," Dana Angelo White, a nutritionist and Quinnipiac University's clinical assistant professor of athletic training and sports medicine, said in a university news release. "Proper hand washing is a must!"
Simply washing your hands is an important way to stop the spread
of germs, Angelo White advised. She noted that providing guests
with festive and scented soaps will encourage them to keep their
hands clean in the kitchen.
Angelo White provided other tips to help those preparing meals
ensure holiday food safety, including:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provides more tips on
holiday food safety.
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Mayor Bloomberg yesterday abruptly pulled the plug on the development of a Queens import and wholesale center at the site of the old Flushing Airport, enraging a local group of small-business owners who have already invested years and more than $1 million in the plan.
Citing an excess of infrastructure-improvement projects in the area, Bloomberg squashed the $220 million project, which the Economic Development Corporation awarded to the College Point Wholesale Development LLC in February.
The site was to house more than 200 small businesses that import and distribute jewelry, handbags, toys, hosiery and small electronic items and create 420 new jobs in the largely Asian neighborhood.
“We trusted the mayor,” said Jay Chung, the development group’s president.
“It’s shocking, disappointing and frustrating,” Chung continued. “The whole community has lost its pride. It’s not just us.”
A Bloomberg spokeswoman rattled off a list of three ongoing infrastructure-related projects totaling $52 million as the reason for putting the kibosh on the wholesale center.
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Home' Trinidad and Tobago Guardian : June 14th 2015 Contents Works from two of T&T s most
celebrated artists are showing in
an exhibition that opened at 101
Art Gallery on June 6. The
Baneys--Vera and Ralph--Works
from their Studios includes recent
and classic artwork from the
artists private collection.
"Masterpieces by Vera Baney,
master ceramist, will feature her
sculptural pots with her signature
blue coloured glaze that few
ceramists achieved," said a release
from the gallery.
"Master sculptor Ralph Baney's
recent works will be featured; some
of his last works as recent as 2013,
as well as his classic pieces that
highlight his signature style of
smooth, elegant and organic forms."
Both artists made significant
contributions to the cultural land-
scape of T&T, as well as to the art
world in general. Ralph Baney's
works are in public and private col-
lections throughout the world,
including the National Museum.
Private collectors of his work include
Queen Elizabeth II. Vera's work is
in the collection of Scotia Bank
T&T and the Washington County
Museum of Fine Arts in Maryland,
USA. A mosaic mural of Vera's is
in the chapel of Bishop Anstey High
Both artists hold honorary doc-
torate degrees from the University
of the West Indies for their con-
tributions to art and their achieve-
ment in their work as artists.
Ralph passed away, suddenly and
unexpectedly, at his home in Ellicott
City, Maryland, last year January.
His wife, Vera, predeceased him in
The exhibition closes June 19.
Sunday Guardian www.guardian.co.tt June 14, 2015
A rare treat
Yet another great Sunday for wide-
ranging film choice in which the Also
Rans are dominated by recent top picks
including the definitive anti-exploitation
film (*12 Years a Slave, 7.20 pm HBOS
BEST FILM OF THE DAY), a contender for the Best Western Ever Shot (*Once
Upon a Time in the West, 4.25 pm FoxClas), the second---or even first---
funniest film of 2013 (*We're the Millers, 1.05 pm MaxP) the Wachowskis
at their best (only good?) (*The Matrix, 10.45 am Max), a sci-fi flick that
shows just how shallow the Wachowskis are (Her, 1.45 pm Max), a terrific
existentialist Bill Murray comedy (*Groundhog Day, 4.40 pm TCM) and a
certain future pick, the only film that rivals today's top pick for cinematography,
itself nominated for the Oscar (The Grandmaster, 8 pm Max). There are also
the definitive "Midnight Movie" (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1 pm
FoxClas), the hilarious third instalment of what might be the best semi-
intellectual comedy franchise (Little Fockers, 12.05 noon Fox Mov), a great
Sam Peckinpah Western starring Bob Dylan on the soundtrack and the set
(Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 8.35 am Space, but watch it in HD on DirecTV
at 10.40 am) and Chris Rock's provocative American documentary that could
have been shot here (Good Hair, 7.20 pm ISat). High-def also makes worthwhile
that one scene in that otherwise entirely forgettable movie (The Perfect
Storm, 2.06 pm SpcHD).
TODAY'S NUMBER ONE FILM:
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve/ 2013/ USA/ Crime-Thriller-Drama / 153
mins/ R for disturbing violent content including torture and language through-
out), 9 pm Fox Movies. Watch this if you liked The Silence of the Lambs,
Tell No One or No Country for Old Men. The best thriller BC on TV has
seen since The Silence of the Lambs doesn't depend on a cannibal serial
murderer gimmick but on more traditional attention-grabbers (which Silence
also had), like an excellent script, exceptional performances (particularly from
Hugh Jackman as the distraught and motivated-to-the-point-of-fixated
father, Paul Dano as the man-child prime suspect and Jake Gyllenhaal as the
detective), flawless direction and edge-of-seat tension throughout. The cin-
ematography---by the Coen Brothers' Roger Deakins---was deservedly nominated
for the Oscar, making, as it does, scary secondary characters out of a camper
van taillight and the bark of a tree, even if it lost to Emmanuel Lubezki's
recreation of space in Gravity. Superb.
The Illusionist (Neil Burger/ 2006/ Czech Republic-USA/ Thriller-Mys-
tery-Drama/ 110 mins/ PG-13 for some sexuality and violence), 7.25 pm
CineCanal -- 7.40 pm High Def. Watch this if you liked The Prestige, The
Usual Suspects or The Magician of Lublin. Neil Burger's stirring adaptation
of the Steven Millhauser short story is a rare treat from an even rarer source:
Hollywood. Based on a sharp script and solid direction of immaculate per-
formances, The Illusionist happens also to be a thoroughly watchable mystery
thriller. Some might wish for a little more grunge but that would be pedantry.
An exceptional Phillip Glass soundtrack renders the whole thing all but
flawless. Not a literary worth, to be sure, but, as a lovely blend of period
piece and well-paced whodunit, it delivers in spades. Think of it as The Usual
Suspects meets Pride and Prejudice. The thinking punter's version of The
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Jeff Tremaine/ 2013/ USA/ Inane Com-
edy-Faux Documentary/ 92 mins/ R for strong crude and sexual content
throughout, language, some graphic nudity and brief drug use), 8.50 am Fox
Movies. Watch this if you liked Bad Santa, Bruno or any of the other Jackass
movies. The Taliban would not approve of Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass
Crew, and they're right. Jackass represents everything the West has got wrong
out of freedom of speech: mockery taken not just too far, but done so with
gusto; humour bordering on outright cruelty; and an insouciant disregard
for propriety. But they are as insanely funny as they are simply insane. Johnny
Knoxville, disguised as an aged grandfather, takes a small boy on a hidden
camera road trip across the US to collect the Welfare payments on him,
unspringing, along the way, fall-down-laughing comedy from sources as
unlikely at the US Postal Service, seniors bingo and child beauty pageants.
Very offensive and very, very funny.
*Starred films have been chosen in the last three months. Scheduled Internet
times often vary on the day, particularly around month-end.
A Trifecta of the Week's Best Films on the Box
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Akashic Books has invited writers
to submit flash fiction to its new
online series, Duppy Thursday.
A release sent by the publisher
said, "Though we're based in
Brooklyn, our location envy of the
Caribbean is evident throughout
our catalogue. One aspect of
Caribbean literature that appeals
to us is the integration of folklore
into contemporary stories---a perfect
example being Jamaican author
Marlon James's debut novel John
Crow's Devil, which we published
to great critical acclaim in 2005.
"Whether it be the spider Anansi,
the devil woman La Diablesse, the
Soucouyant, Mama Dlo, or Papa
Bois, these mythical beings have
injected life (and death) into the lit-
erature of the region."
Akashic is not offering payment
for the stories.
Stories should be 750 words or
less, and Akashic would have first
digital rights; rights revert to the
author on publication. Stories
should be set in a Caribbean loca-
tion and incorporate some aspect
of folklore, whether centrally or
tangentially. They must also include
the location and the referenced folk
tale or figure of the story with your
Looking for spooky flash fiction
by Vera Baney.
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Field to Fork in the Gardens
Our Walled Kitchen Gardens and Orchards continue to be used to this day, growing succulent and tasty seasonal produce. Today we use much of the fruit and vegetables grown there in our Stables restaurant and Gardener’s Cottage. You’ll regularly see our Gardener’s picking the finest produce at the optimum time and supplying the kitchens, to enable you to have the opportunity of enjoying tasty meals made with Tatton produce grown just yards away.
To tell the Field to Fork story and give you a taste of Tatton, our gardening team have installed chalkboards across the Kitchen Gardens to tell you more about the varieties grown, their origins and fascinating facts such as the techniques we use, harvesting times and much more. Our Garden Trail, available from the Summer, will encourage you to visit different parts of our 50 acre award-winning Gardens to see where food items are grown – a great trail for children and their understanding of food provenance.
This year the Gardens team will also be turning their hand to growing monster sized pumpkins ready for our autumnal celebration in October. Keep up to date through our social media channels to see their pumpkin progress!
Garden Opening Times
High Season: 24 March 2018 - 28 October 2019
10am - 6pm. Last entry 5pm
Low Season: 29 October 2019 - 29 March 2019
Tuesday to Sunday
10am - 4pm. Last entry 3pm

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A collection of beautifully soft and featherweight Autumn/Winter knits for both men and women, all knitted in Rowan' new yarn Brushed Fleece. These knits are all extremely light and cosy to wear. Outdoor trend-knits that are essential cover ups for cooler days spent walking along the beach in winter. This 16 piece collection features cocooning wraps and shrugs, voluminous capes, sweater dresses, classic long & crop cardigans, soft cables all in a richly-coloured, dark winter palette.
A selection of our chunkier yarns including, Thick 'n' thin, Tumble, Alpaca Chunky and our new 'Fur' yarn, making these accessories super quick to knit. The 15 designs include, hats, scarves, cowls, capes and interesting neck pieces from our in house design team.
A collection of 12 women's garment and accessory designs from Marie Wallin, Martin Storey, Lisa Richardson, Sarah Hatton and Gemma Atkinson using Chenille. This very wearable collection has pieces ranging from wrap over cardigans, cable and weave textured knits to colour blocked and simple rib sweaters.
Denim The Next Generation is a collection of seven classic, Martin Storey family knits re-worked with a contemporary feel and style. Casual denim shirt styles, Breton stripe guernseys and rugged-look cables feature in this on trend collection for men, women and children.
The Silkystones Collection is mixture of beautiful textured, easy to wear knits and laidback openwork, crochet styles. Photographed on the stunning south west coast of Spain, the imagery and designs showcase this wonderful tussah silk and linen yarn, within 12 relaxed designs
A stunning collection of eight women's knits perfect for summer. Designs range from cropped cardigans, to lace shawls and relaxed sweaters, simple yet stylish designs all worked in a stunning colour palette of Panama.
The Pure Linen Collection containing 12 modern designs that showcase the stunning drape of the Pure Linen yarn perfectly. The collection has something for everyone, ranging from relaxed style sweaters to lace layering pieces, perfect to complete any summer outfit.
A relaxed collection of eight women's knits perfect for the spring/summer season. Designs showcase the earthy tones of Purelife Revive and Summerpsun yarns perfectly in simple silhouettes from draping cardigans to fitted sweaters.
The Truesilk Collection embraces the spirit summer in a relaxed, soft and colourful way, with designs being showcased in a mix of pastel colours and jewel like tones. These 15 stunning designs range from must have accessory pieces, such as scarves and beautiful berets, to lace sleeveless cardigans and cabled cropped sweaters, all styled with a 50's inspired theme.


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Another performance of the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10. This time by Linda Leine.
...and this is a must listening. Beethoven's #28 and Schumann's Fantasie. This is the performance of a young person and I am quite sure she would play the Beethoven somewhat differently now. But I truly hope she plays the Schumann much the same as she did here. The end of the Fantasie is quite possibly her best playing over all.


(A) Generative IT model based on real IT population responses. Top left box: schematic illustration of the neuronal representation space of IT population with a multi-dimensional Gaussian (MDG) model. Each point of the Gaussian cloud is one IT neural site. Middle box: an example of simulated IT neural site. The distribution of object preference for all 64 objects is created by a sample randomly drawn from the MDG (highlighted as a red dot; each color indicates a different object). Then, a size-tuning kernel is randomly drawn from a pool of size-tuning curves (upper right box; kernels fit to real IT data) and multiplied by the object response distribution (outer product), resulting in a fully size-tolerant (i.e., separable) neural response matrix (64 objects × 3 sizes). To simulate the final mean response to individual images with different backgrounds, we added a ‘clutter’ term to each element of the response matrix (σ2clutter; see Materials and methods). To simulate the trial-by-trial ‘noise’ in the response trials, we added a repetition variance (σ2repeats; see Materials and methods). Bottom box: another example of simulated IT site. (B) Response distance matrices for neuronal responses from real IT neuronal activity (n = 168 sites) and one simulated IT population (n = 168 model sites) generated from the model. Each matrix element is the distance of the population response between pairs of objects as measured by Pearson correlation (64 objects, 2016 pairs). (C) Similarity of the model IT response distance matrix to the actual IT response distance matrix. Each dot represents the unique values of the two matrices (n = 2016 object pairs), calculated for the real IT population sample and the model IT population sample (r = 0.93 ± 0.01). (D) Determination of the two hyperparameters of the IT-to-behavior-linking model. Each panel shows performance (d’) as a function of number of recording sites (training images fixed at m = 20) for model (red) and real IT responses (black) for two object discrimination tasks (task 1 is easy, human pre-exposure d’ is ~3.5; task 2 is hard, human pre-exposure d’ is ~0.8; indicated by dashed lines). In both tasks, the number of IT neural sites for the IT-to-behavior decoder to match human performance is very similar (n ~ 260 sites), and this was also true for all 24 tasks (see E), demonstrating that a single set of hyperparameters (m = 20, n = 260) could explain human pre-exposed performance over all 24 tasks (as previously reported by Majaj et al., 2015). (E) Consistency between human performance and model IT-based performance of 24 different tasks for a given pair of parameters (number of training samples m = 20 and number of recording sites n = 260). The consistency between model prediction and human performance is 0.83 ± 0.05 (Pearson correlation ± SEM). (F) Manifold of the two hyperparameters (number of recording sites and number of training images) where each such pairs (each dot on the plot) yields IT-based performance that matches initial (i.e., pre-exposure) human performance (i.e., each pair yields a high consistency match between IT model readout and human behavior, as in E). The dashed line is an exponential fit to those dots at any of the three sizes as the outer product of the object and size-tuning curves (A, bottom). However, since most measured size-tuning curves are not perfectly separable across objects (DiCarlo et al., 2012; Rust and Dicarlo, 2010) and because the tested conditions included arbitrary background for each condition, we introduced independent clutter variance caused by backgrounds on top of this for each size of an object (A) by randomly drawing from the distribution of variance across different image exemplars for each object. We then introduced trial-wise variance for each image based on the distribution of trial-wise variance of the recorded IT neural population (Figure 3—figure supplement 1E). In sum, this model can generate a new, statistically typical pattern of IT response over a population of any desired number of simulated IT neural sites to different image exemplars within the representation space of 64 base objects at a range of sizes (here targeting ‘small,’ ‘medium,’ and ‘big’ sizes to be consistent with human behavioral tasks; see Materials and methods for details). The simulated IT population responses were all constrained by recorded IT population statistics (Figure 3—figure supplement 1). These statistics define the initial simulated IT population response patterns, and thus they ultimately influence the predicted unsupervised neural plasticity effects and the predicted behavioral consequences of those neural effects.


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One night nearly thirty years ago, in a legendary New York boîte de nuit et des arts called Tony’s, I was taking part in a running literary gun fight that had begun with a derogatory or complimentary remark somebody made about something, when one of the participants, former Pinkerton man Dashiell Hammett, whose “The Maltese Falcon” had come out a couple of years before, suddenly startled us all by announcing that his writing had been influenced by Henry James’s novel “The Wings of the Dove.” Nothing surprises me any more, but I couldn’t have been more surprised then if Humphrey Bogart, another frequenter of that old salon of wassail and debate, had proclaimed that his acting bore the deep impress of the histrionic art of Maude Adams.
I was unable, in a recent reinvestigation, to find many feathers of “The Dove” in the claws of “The Falcon,” but there are a few “faint, far” (as James used to say) resemblances. In both novels, a fabulous fortune—jewels in “The Falcon,” inherited millions in “The Dove”—shapes the destinies of the disenchanted central characters; James’s designing woman Kate Croy, like Hammett’s pistol-packing babe Brigid O’Shaughnessy, loses her lover, although James’s Renunciation Scene is managed, as who should say, rather more exquisitely than Hammett’s, in which Sam Spade speaks these sweetly sorrowful parting words: “You angel! Well, if you get a good break you’ll be out of San Quentin in twenty years and you can come back to me then.” Whereupon he turns her over to the cops for the murder of his partner, Miles Archer (a good old Henry James name, that). Some strong young literary excavator may one day dig up other parallels, but I suggest that he avoid trying to relate the character in “The Falcon” called Cairo to James’s early intention to use Cairo, instead of Venice, as the major setting of his novel. That is simply, as who should not say, one of those rococo coincidences.
“The Wings of the Dove” is now fifty-seven years old, but it still flies on, outward bound for the troubled future. Since 1902, it has become a kind of femme fatale of literature, exerting a curiously compelling effect upon authors, critics, playwrights, producers, and publishers. Seemingly, almost every playwright, from hack to first-rate talent, has been burned by the drama that glows within the novel’s celebrated triangle, and has taken a swing at adapting it for stage or screen, usually with less than no success. It was James’s own original intention to present his plot and characters in play form, but guardian angel or artist’s insight caused him wisely to refrain from diverting into the theatre his delicately flowering, slowly proliferating history of fine consciences, which belongs so clearly between covers and not between curtains.
This doesn’t keep people from adapting it, though. In 1956, Guy Bolton made a play out of it, “Child of Fortune,” which was produced on Broadway by the usually canny Jed Harris, who had earlier touched with art (“art schmart,” he himself once disdainfully called it) his directing of “The Heiress,” based on Henry James’s novel “Washington Square.” The Bolton “Dove” died miserably after twenty-three performances. That debacle did not deter television’s “Playhouse 90” from having a go at dramatizing the novel just last January. This adaptation, made by a young man named Meade Roberts, seemed to me closer to the James tone and mood, closer to perfection of total production, than any other dramatization I have seen, and I have seen plenty. (The first one I ever encountered was shown to me by a young professor of English in Ohio forty-one years ago.) The success of “The Dove” on television lay in a discipline that gave it Henry James’s key and pitch, if not his depth and range. Because my sight has failed, I could not see Inga Swenson, who played Milly, and this was probably fortunate, since I was told she looked as healthy as one of Thomas Hardy’s milkmaids. But her words fell persuasively upon the ear, and she was the dying Milly to me. The direction gave the play a proper unhurried pace (“sluggish,” wrote one restless newspaper critic), and there were moving offstage effects—the sound of distant bells in one scene, the haunting cry of gondoliers in another.
In my own college years, 1913-17, the literature courses in the modern English novel that were offered west of the Alleghenies included Hardy and Meredith, and sometimes Trollope, Samuel Butler, and Conrad, but rarely James. My own professor in this field, the late Joseph Russell Taylor, of Ohio State, rated James higher than the rest, and assigned “The Wings of the Dove” as required class reading, with this admonition: “If you can’t make anything at all out of the first hundred pages, don’t let it worry you.” It was James’s method to introduce his principal characters late, or, as John McNulty once put it, “to creep up on them in his stocking feet.” Since only about one student in every thirty could stand, or understand, Henry James’s writing, there were few persons with whom you could discuss the Old Master in those years. It was in 1930 that the Modern Library first introduced Henry James to its readers, with its edition of “The Turn of the Screw,” which has sold to date ninety thousand copies. The so-called Henry James Revival did not take place until the nineteen-forties, and centered on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. In 1946, the Modern Library brought out “The Wings of the Dove,” which has sold more than forty-one thousand copies. In 1958, “The Dove” lost its American copyright and fell into the public domain, and in January, 1959, Dell’s Laurel edition of paperbacks printed seventy-five thousand copies of the novel, a little more than two-thirds of which either were sold or are out on the newsstands or in the bookstores.
The James Revival deserves the capital “R,” because the increased sales of his books and the rapidly expanding literature on the man and his life and his work began crowding library shelves all over the country. In 1932, I bought the complete 1922 edition of James, issued by Macmillan of London, but it had not been easy to find. It was available in no New York bookstore then, and I finally got my set through a collector. It came from a private library on Park Avenue, which was then being sold, and not a single page of any of the more than thirty volumes had been cut. It was as if the owner of this particular edition had said, “I want to buy about two and a half or three feet of the works of Henry James.” Interest in the Revival spread from Broadway to Hollywood. For years, David O. Selznick held the movie rights to “The Dove,” but he never produced an adaptation of the novel, unquestionably because of the difficulty of casting the three principal roles and of finding an adapter who could satisfactorily cope with the dramatization.
This seems the right place to describe briefly the “game,” as James called it, that is afoot in his masterpiece.
Kate Croy, then, an ambitious young Englishwoman, emotionally intense and deeply amorous (James dresses her in such words as “ardor,” “desire,” and “passion”), is eager to marry a struggling young writer and journalist, Merton Densher in the novel but, mercifully, Miles Enshaw in the television play. Having developed, because of a penniless life with a wastrel father, what would now be called a neurosis or psychosis, Kate, with her “talent for life,” is determined to enjoy money and marriage, and neither without the other. Into her predicament and preoccupation drifts the American girl Milly Theale, attractive, enormously wealthy, naïve, and genuine, but perceptive (“mobile of mind”), in the best Henry James tradition, and dying. She falls in love with Densher, and the possessed, designing Kate perceives how she can use Milly’s situation for her own selfish ends. She deliberately throws Milly and Densher together in Venice, and then reveals her scheme to him. He shall marry Milly, thus killing, you might say, two doves with one stone—Milly’s final months on earth will be made happy ones, after which Kate and Densher will live happily ever after on the dead bride’s millions. But Milly, again true to the James tradition of innocent American girls entangled in European society intrigue, discovers the true situation—that Kate is in love with and secretly engaged to Densher and that Densher is in love with Kate. Milly dies and, in her “copious will,” leaves much of her wealth to the lovers, but they can never be happy with it, or without it. They are shadowed and separated forever by the wings of the dead dove, by the presence of a girl who is gone but everlastingly there.


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Chef Jiho Kim - Biography
A Seoul, Korea native, Jiho Kim has been fascinated with the culinary arts since a young age. He pursued his passion at the Kyung Ju Hotel School, completing two intense years of training to receive the Korean National Culinary Certification. His fervor for the sweeter side of cuisine, however, led him to earn an additional specialized certification in chocolate, confectionary, cakes, patisserie, and show pieces.
Kim began his professional career at the five-star Renaissance Hotel in Seoul, where he spent more than 10 years as pastry chef. During his time there, Kim sharpened his skills while leading a team of more than 20 chefs to produce large-scale banquet and fine dining pastry dishes. All the while, Kim represented the hotel in individual and team culinary competitions, creating grand chocolate and sugar showpieces.
Kim moved to the US to propel his career forward on new shores; he launched his US pastry career in the kitchen of Sandrine Bistro in Boston, followed by a year at Viridian Restaurant in Washington, DC, where he designed and implemented the pastry program. Kim returned to Boston in 2006 and joined the L’Espalier team. Kim creates his small masterpieces in the L’Espalier kitchen and is always evolving his techniques and menus. In 2009 Kim was named a StarChefs.com Boston Rising Star pastry chef.
Chef Jiho Kim
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Combustion engines are known to have a rather poor energy efficiency: They utilize only about one third of the primary energy contained in the fuel; the remaining two thirds are transformed into heat and are cooled away without further use (besides heating during the cold season). Thermo-electric generators make use of this waste heat and turn them into electric energy that in turn can be utilized to run electric systems such as driver assistance systems or comfort electronics. Thus, these generators can off-load the alternator. In hybrid vehicles or electric vehicles equipped with a range extender, the energy recovered by means of a thermos-electric generator can be fed directly into the traction battery.
The scientists from Yamaha and DLR believe they can reduce a vehicle’s fuel consumption by 3 to 5 per cent through if they utilize thermo-electric generators. The goal of their project is creating a prototype that subsequently can be commercialized. Along with partners from the research community and from the industry, the DLR’s Institute for Vehicle Concepts has already developed and tested first system integrations based on thermos-electric systems. However, they found the availability of suitable thermo-electric elements very limited.


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one of the most lovest story about our time become the most inspect book of the year. after spending years in California amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan whose son is in trouble.
The kite runner by: khaled hossein
The Kite Runner beyond all reason and good sense, i would say this: the book follows Amir from birth to middle age. Or, we would say: this is a really long coming-of-age story. we might respond: Don't most coming-of-age stories end in early adulthood, when most characters (and real people) mature? That's the thing with Amir: not only does he have to grow up like normal people, he also has to atone for the sins he and his father committed. It's only then that he can really grow up.
The pomegranate tree represent friendship the kite represent freedom happiness and the kite become as a frequent reminder of amirs betrayal and guilt. after Hassan rape. the slingshot represent standing up for what is right.and the monster in the lake in Hassan dream can represent assef rapes Hassan in the alley war in Kabul while amir stands by and watch.