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Happiness, human development, level of competitiveness, and capacity in innovation all play an important role in spurring long-term sustainable economic growth. This study presents the relationship between these factors—happiness, human development, competitiveness, and innovation in the ASEAN region—in how they influence economic growth. To date, there has been a lack of research on this specific issue, and thus it is an interesting and little-known one to study. Panel data were used comprising a combination of time series and cross-sections. The object of the study was ASEAN member countries using the multiple linear regression method. For the years of 2013–2019, we found that overall economic growth had a real impact. The results showed that human development and global innovation are two-way related to economic growth (positive and significant). Conversely, there was an insignificant influence of happiness and competitiveness on economic growth. Competitiveness, in particular, can reduce the level of economic growth. The policy considerations pursued by countries in ASEAN are through the respective governments’ strategic steps to improve the productivity of their populations, because human resources are needed not only as objects but actors in economic activities themselves in managing development.
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And I Love Her" is a song recorded by English rock band the Beatles, written mainly by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney). The fifth track on their third album, A Hard Day's Night, it was released 20 July 1964 with "If I Fell" as a single by Capitol Records in the United States, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Beatles performed "And I Love Her" just once outside Abbey Road Studios; on 14 July 1964 they played it for an edition of the BBC's Top Gear radio show, which was broadcast two days later.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Debuts its First Children's Book
What Color Would You Be to Hide in the Sea? explores camouflage in the ocean
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San DiegoNow you can take a piece of the aquarium home with you!
What Color Would You Be to Hide in the Sea? celebrates camouflage strategies used by spectacular ocean creatures.
Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, announces the publication of its first children's book: What Color Would You Be to Hide in the Sea? Inspired by the aquarium exhibit Art of Deception, this stunning new book explores and celebrates the fascinating camouflage strategies used by some of the ocean's most spectacular creatures.
Camouflage is an essential survival strategy, especially in the oceans. It helps prey to escape detection and predators to sneak up on prey. Marine animals featured in the book exemplify a variety of camouflage tactics - from false eye spots, to a squirt of ink, to limbs that resemble seaweed.
What Color Would You Be to Hide in the Sea? features a rich blend of astonishing color photographs from the aquarium's exhibit, lush watercolors, playful poems and fascinating science notes that offer children and adults an opportunity to uncover marine creatures normally hidden in the sea.
Created exclusively by Birch Aquarium at Scripps, this book helps support the aquarium's mission to provide ocean science education, to interpret Scripps Oceanography research and to promote conservation.
"What Color Would You Be to Hide in the Sea? is one more creative way we're bringing people and the ocean closer together," said Nigella Hillgarth, Birch Aquarium at Scripps executive director. "We're delivering our message of ocean discovery and conservation beyond the aquarium walls to generations of readers through this colorful and entertaining book."
The book was made possible through the generous underwriting of Scripps Oceanographic Society members Marty and Russ Ries, who share the aquarium's goal of inspiring young people to take an interest in the wonders of the ocean world, to learn about science and to increase ocean literacy.
The Raccoon Butterfly fish uses a false eye spot to confuse predators.
Recognition of support also goes to members of the San Diego Underwater Photographic Society, whose alluring images of marine life accompany the poetry published in this book. Watercolor fish illustrations produced by Eques, Inc. are also featured.
This first-edition book is available for $18.95 at the aquarium bookshop, open 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. It may also be ordered through the bookshop at 858-534-8753 or online at http://aquarium.ucsd.edu.
About Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Birch Aquarium at Scripps is the public exploration center for the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the aquarium features more than 60 habitats of fish and invertebrates from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the Caribbean. An interactive museum showcases research discoveries by Scripps scientists on climate, Earth and ocean science. Accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Birch Aquarium welcomes an annual attendance of more than 400,000, including 45,000 school children.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at University of California, San Diego, is one of the oldest, largest and most important centers for global science research and education in the world. The National Research Council has ranked Scripps first in faculty quality among oceanography programs nationwide Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of the institution has grown to include biological, physical, chemical, geological, geophysical and atmospheric studies of the earth as a system. Hundreds of research programs covering a wide range of scientific areas are under way today in 65 countries. The institution has a staff of about 1,300, and annual expenditures of approximately $155 million from federal, state and private sources. Scripps operates one of the largest U.S. academic fleets with four oceanographic research ships and one research platform for worldwide exploration.
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Investments can play a pivotal role in safeguarding a financial future for you and your family. With so many investment options to choose from and so many potential pitfalls, deciding where to invest your money can become a daunting task without the right advice. At all stages of our lives we’re likely to be savings for something, someone coming straight out of University could be looking to save for their first house whereas someone in later life could be looking to save in a tax efficient investment vehicle to gift money to relatives after their death.
Choosing the most appropriate investment solutions for you involves understanding your financial goals, risk tolerances and just as importantly, your current and anticipated future tax position. There are many different investment opportunities that could fulfil your financial objectives over the medium and long term and as an Independent Financial Adviser, we are not tied to buying a particular provider’s products, nor do we restrict ourselves to particular assets or investments but instead, research the whole of the available market.
In many instances, the underlying investments are just as important as the vehicle used to access them, not least because different investment vehicles have subtly different tax treatments. Using the right combination of investment vehicle, be they ISAs, OEICS, investment bonds, direct holdings, annuities, or trusts to name but a few, can significantly enhance long term performance without taking on additional risk.
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The Bolingbroke was intended as an improved version of the Blenheim but immediately pre-WWII the British were in urgent need of actual plane numbers on the ground rather than down-the-line projects. Development was handed over to the Canadians and the end result was 626 Bolingbrokes produced between 1939 and 1943. This example is under restoration at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune and is actually a composite aircraft using the fuselage of 9940 with the wings of 9049.
This long-nosed night-fighter Meteor is one of one hundred NF14s produced and served with the RAF as VM261 before joining Ferranti as a radar trials aircraft. It is now on display at the super Natioanl Museum of Flight at East Fortune.


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“Give Me, I Give Thee” by C.A. Schaefer ( words)
No Spoilers: In the world of the story, girls/women create either gems or reptiles/amphibians when they speak. Producing gems is seen as virtuous, as reflecting moral righteousness, and gets you labeled a diamond. Producing reptiles/amphibians is seen as sinful, a reason to enter a convent, and gets you labeled a toad. This systems stacks the game against women of either sort, applying a judgment to something that no one has any control over. The narrator, though, has managed to find happiness despite it, with her wife and a cottage that’s not quite in the woods, and a joy in cooking and eating that stands opposed to the expectation that women just be chaste and hungry. There’s a lurking danger, though, that looms as a shadow of their lives, and the world at large, and makes for a balanced and rewarding read.
Keywords: Jewels, Speaking, Reptiles, Queer MC, Murder
Review: This is something of a haunting read, showcasing a queer relationship that is beautiful but balanced on a razor’s edge because of the looming violence and the weight of all the expectation of grief, tragedy, and death. The narrator is a woman who has largely escaped from the pressures she grew up struggling under, the hunger that she was supposed to suppress and repress. She’s queer, and living with her wife, and defiant in the face of those who expect her and want her to be a toad. But she also rejects the moral lines that would have her be saint while her wife is a sinner. She shows the artificial and bullshit nature of these distinctions, the ways that all women are hurt by them, not just those who get cast out as toads but those who are diamonds as well, because even they are judged, and even they are subject to the same objectification that makes their murder a grisly spectacle. There’s a lot going on here and the prose is heavy, aching, and amazing. It conveys the feeling of having to navigate a world that is hostile, that has been made hostile, that carries this strange and sometimes wondrous magic that people have built a whole mythology around. A mythology of biology that keeps women shackled to impossible standards and asks them always to sacrifice to be valued, but doesn’t make that value actually...useful. Or protective. Or...anything. It’s a lie that the narrator and her wife live somewhat outside of but can’t wholly escape, because it’s the world, and as much as they hate it, they need to interact with it to live. It’s a story that leaves a mark, a would that might slowly fade in time, that might scar or not, depending on the reader. It’s amazing, though, and so very much worth spending some time with. A fantastic read!
“The Book of Revelation, Appendix A” by Quinn Lui ( words)
No Spoilers: This story is framed as a series of correspondences—letters, voice mails, texts, telegraph, binary, etc., between two beings who keep coming back, time and again, until the end of the world. And yet there is an absence to the piece, a longing, a loneliness. Slowly the shape and the certainty of the piece solidifies, and as it does the connections to the title are made clear. Throughout, though, it’s a rather aching piece building to a lovely and bittersweet conclusion. There are elements of religion here, but from the day’s names the piece seems to mix things up a bit, not settling on a wholly Christian mythology but rather pulling from the larger ideas of the end of the world, and the beings who might be present for it.
Keywords: Correspondence, Hunger, Loneliness, Apocalypses, Dancing
Review: I like the idea that the horsemen of the apocalypse are not beings who arrive solely at the end of the world, but rather that they are eternal, that they are present through history, through all the varying ends of the worlds, ends of different civilizations, their methods of communication changing as time and technology progress. And that here the narrator, the author of most of these correspondences, is yearning in many ways for a chance for all four of them to come together again. Which never works out well for humanity, perhaps, but which for them carries a certain beauty and grace. The piece mentions War and Conquest being locked in a kind of dance, and for me there’s a terrible beauty there, and for the narrator too it seems this thing that they both want and fear. The end of the world for them is a time of devastation but also where they finally get to belong and be with those that they are linked to. It’s strange and interesting that throughout the piece they seem to be chasing Death, trying to find their errant partner, and trying through it all how not to hunger for them, for the ends they author, even as they’re not entirely successful. It’s a piece that brings its own twist to the idea of the revelations, not as a single cataclysm but as a process of perpetual beginning and endings, a dance where the music must change but the partners continue on. The narrator has tried to change things in the past, out of frustration or boredom, but in the end of ends they are still where they were always, moving through the steps of a dance that is also a home. Another great read!
“Beauty, Sleeping” by Lynne Sargent
This poem keeps with the themes of the issue, dealing with the weight of expectations and the cycles of oppression and violence that often trap people (and especially women) in situations where they must constantly strive to satisfy standards that aren’t fair or possible. As the title of the piece implies, it takes on the tropes of fairy tales and the plot of Sleeping Beauty specifically, following the characters after the end of that story and making the second person “you” the sleeping beauty herself, who even after surviving her own evil stepmother now must face her mother-in-law, who is her own kind of charming (sarcasm!). And for me the piece really shows how it’s often other women who are the strictest gatekeepers of femininity, who are the strongest in upholding the traditions and opinions that lead women to never be good enough. To always have to try and prove their worth and their value when there is no good enough anyway. You are put in a situation where you want to help, where you want to get onto her good side, but the closest you get is constantly tired, exhausted, and penalized even for that, as if there is a way that you could do everything and still be cheery and happy and unburdened. It’s a rather deep and wrenching read, for all that it’s fairly short as well. And it’s a rather bleak take on the fate of this fairy tale character, one where her happily ever after is spent chasing an unattainable acceptance from a woman who is determined to blame her for the inequities of her own life, for the pain that this mother-in-law feels having been reduced to the role of mother and then having to give away the person who was supposed to define her life. It’s a complex experience, but a wonderful subversion of tropes and exploration of gender roles and expectations. A wonderful read!
“Dream Circles” by Amanda Wan
Probably it’s not too surprising that a poem with the word “dream” in the title would be surreal and strange, luminous and reaching. For me it speaks to a sort of unresolved looping, a person grasping with the feeling of something undone, perhaps never able to be done, because of some loss, some distance, or some time. The narrator of the piece speaks to someone they are trying reach, who in this dream they are walking toward after having gathered up shells along a beach, carrying these unbroken records of their journey in the hopes of...well, it’s a bit unclear. For me it seems like to show this “you” the shells, not just as proof that they have gone and done this thing but also as a way of sharing something important, that they saved these shells that have otherwise been shattered, that they carry something whole that might no longer exist. And the piece evokes and deals with cycles, with a repeating pattern of dreams, which to me speaks to this persistent desire and need to do something, to meet with this person who might not be around anymore, who might be beyond reach. Instead what remains is the desire and the replay of this metaphorical exchange, over and over again. And yet at the same time I feel that the dream itself, the cycle itself, is a kind of meeting, that as long as the narrator lives through this dream, they are in essence having some sort of contact with you, and feel that there is a communication of sorts going on. It’s interesting and a melancholy for me but also lovely and does a great job of capturing the feel of a dream, the way that it borders making sense and just existing in a sort of random way. Here the weight of it for me makes it feel like a deep well that we as readers are only skimming the water of, and I love that feeling of depth I get from reading it. Definitely a poem to spend some time with!

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We’re excited to announce the launch of our cinematography course “How to Become a Cinematographer” by Andrew Russo, USC MFA. As I write, Andrew is prepping to shoot a feature film. But that won’t stop him from getting a chance to teach you about cinematography in this free lesson series. Each week we’ll share a new free lesson about cinematography. Love cameras, lighting, and storytelling? You’ll get a lot out of Andrew’s course. In Chapter 2, Andrew covers working with the camera.

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Cost of living in Kisumu, Kenya compared to Zhengzhou, China
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Cost of living in Kisumu (Kenya) is about the same as in Zhengzhou (China)
For example, you would need at least 元16,012 (Shilling239,417) in Kisumu to maintain the same standard of living that you can have with 元15,625 in Zhengzhou.
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At the start of the week, tragedy struck the heart of Paris as the iconic Notre-Dame cathedral was heavily damaged from a raging fire. The world has been pouring in support since, the latest of which comes from video game company Ubisoft, which has pledged €500,000 towards restoring the 750+ year old landmark to its former glory.
As a French company, it’s understandable that Ubisoft feels incredibly patriotic about the iconic building and wants to help rise above the recent devastation. The studio spent a lot of time faithfully recreating Notre-Dame in its Paris-set Assassin’s Creed: Unity before its 2014 release, with level designer Caroline Miousse telling Greek Ireland that it took around 3 weeks to dress the interior and 14 months of production to complete.
“This period includes research, testing, asset production and, of course, the numerous adjustments and bug corrections. It ended up becoming our benchmark landmark, both for navigation and visual standards.”
In a charitable effort to allow people to explore Notre-Dame, Ubisoft is giving away Assassin’s Creed: Unity for free on PC. The offer is available until April 25th and can be downloaded from Uplay or from the Ubisoft Store.
“Video games can enable us to explore places in ways we never could have otherwise imagined,” the publisher explained. “We hope, with this small gesture, we can provide everyone an opportunity to appreciate our virtual homage to this monumental piece of architecture.”
KitGuru Says: While the damage to Notre-Dame is undoubtedly a sad topic, it’s heart-warming to see so many people from across the globe come together in unity – no pun intended. Ubisoft’s gesture in particular is one to uplift the spirits. Will you be hopping into Assassin’s Creed: Unity once again to take a look at the beloved building?

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*Advertorial* – NORTH WEST Garden Show and sunshine are coming your way this weekend! With free advice and workshops, entertainment, fashion, live food theatre and gardening experts over the two days you won’t be disappointed in this new design show for 2014 with events for all the family to enjoy.
The show will be held on the grounds of Castlefinn Partnership Complex on May 24 and 25. Special guest this year is Jane McCorkill a Judge and mentor in RTE Super Garden and has won Gold medals in Bloom, The Organic Centre, Gareth Austen, community gardener, and a host of other gardening gurus will offer free advice and workshops over the weekend on all your gardening queries.
12 show gardens, A total of eight new show gardens this year, with seven gardens of the senses designed as a permanent feature in the Castlefinn complex. The Wilds of Donegal,a natural wildlife garden also NEW for 2014 complete with living pond life. The very popular White House garden will also be on display and this year hosts NEW Vintage Crafternoon Tea with optional crafting workshops with Edel McBride and a space to sit back relax and enjoy the atmosphere.
This year the Indoor Exhibition Arena will house our brand NEW ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW with the opportunity to have any small item appraised FREE of charge over the weekend and the established exciting Trash n Fashion event with NEW categories this year and amazing prizes for all the winners. There is also entertainment on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The new Be Energy Efficient sector is the new mantra for 2014 and arrives at a time when it is important to source money saving energy efficient concepts for your home and garden.
The eight-acre Outdoor Exhibition Arena will cater for up to 140 unique exhibitors spread right around the grounds showcasing a wide range of products and services with something to interest everyone. This will include a Traditional Market, local Craft, Live Cooking Theatre with celebrity chefs Artisan Food and Producers, Garden Challenge Area, Family Fun Zone, and much much more to keep you entertained for the entire weekend!
With the new stunning feature gardens, free demonstrations and expert advice you are bound to find something that’s designed with you in mind. The show will have plants and products galore to browse and buy whether you are a beginner or have seasoned green thumbs and with all the free workshops and advise it might just be you that is entering the gardening designer of the year next year.
Huge selection of companies on site showcasing everything you could ever want for your garden or outdoor space and a vast array of dining options for you and all the family, join them on May 24 and 25 for a great day out.
PROGRAMME FOR SATURDAY/SUNDAY
Energy Efficient Sector
Worried about those water rates? Visit EHP SOLAR stand for advise and demonstrations on solar energy and rainwater to domestic use. (All day)
12 show gardens NEW for 2014. Donegal Wilds, Gardens of The 7 Senses, Keyhole Garden and Pallet Gardens from The Organic Centre (All day)
Free appraisal from Mourne Antiques & Contemporary Crafts on all your small items, you could leave the show with a greater bank balance! (All day)
With workshops in White House Garden Pavilion with RTE’s Craft Master Edel MacBride
12.30pm – World of Aran
2pm – How to Make Crochet Flowers
3.30pm – Extreme Knitting
Live Cooking Theatre
Live Cookery Theatre throughout the day with RTE and BBC Chef Brian McDermott Chef, Ian Orr, Browns Restaurant, and Local Chef Colin McMenamin. Ask The Chef Open Mic after each demonstration
Trash n Fashion (2 qualifying shows/1 grand final)Blue Ribbon performing scene fromCharlie and the chocolate factory
Castlefinn Youth Club performance * Irish Dancing *Cantamus Choir Derry
Free Gardening Talks/Advice/Workshops
11am – Gareth Austin “Kitchen Garden How to” Community allotment area
12noon – “Design hard landscape areas” Jane Mc Corkell Customer service area
12.30pm – “Spot the Seed Game” Hans The Organic Centre at the keyhole garden
1pm – Gareth Austin “Kitchen Garden How” Community allotment
1.30pm – “Planting Perennial gardens” Jane Mc Corkell Customer service area
2pm – Gareth Austin Community garden area
3pm – “Ask the experts” Gareth/ Jane/ Hans/ David(Ropert Kee) Customer service area
4pm – “Best methods in tree planting” Jane Mc Corkell Customer service area
5pm – “Composting” Hans The Organic Centre Customer service area
Birds/Animals petting farm
School Garden Challenges
Bee Keeping Demonstrations/Moiled Cattle – the only cattle native to the Northwest
Further details and to book go to www.northwestgardenshow.ie or North West Garden Show Facebook and twitter or telephone +353 (0)74 91 43976

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This can cause problems for reverse lookups where the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is required. In many cases, the host name returned by getHostName for an enquiry on the localhost is the netbios computer name and not the FQDN as has been reported by many developers. Reverse DNS lookups can be carried out with JNDI and the DNS service provider, available with J2se v1.4, or added as an extension package to j2se v1.3 and lower.
The Dns2000 utility Java application provides an elementary demonstration of using JNDI/DNS provider for reverse DNS lookups to provide FQDN results. If provides similar functionality to the win2000 utility nslookup.exe. The utility is designed to demonstrate how JNDI is used to read the DNS service provider PTR record for reverse DNS lookup. Since the initial context constructor requires specification of a DNS server, this is specified either as a command line parameter, or if not provided, is discovered by invoking the Win2000 native application "nslookup.exe".
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Holy Family 7th graders encourage community to get vaccinated and hope for a return to normal
May 21, 2021
A class of eager seventh graders received COVID-19 vaccines Thursday in hopes of soon returning to normal in-person instruction while also encouraging their community to arm themselves against COVID-19.
“When it finally came out that we were able to get [vaccinated] I was super excited that soon I would be safe,” Diana Caamal, a seventh grade student at Redwood City’s Holy Family School, said.
Caamal, 13, is one of 12 students to get vaccinated during St. Francis Center’s fifth vaccine clinic held in partnership with Dignity Health. The students first became eligible for Pfizer Inc. doses last week following federal approval, which changed to include those ages 12 and older.

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The 18' Pro Series frame pool by Summer Escapes uses this T-joint to connect the top frame rails to one vertical support leg. Due to factory design changes, this joint will only work on 2013 models and newer. Older Pro Series pools utilize a different shaped frame that will not work with this joint. Please make sure which style you have before ordering.
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- Connects metal frame horizontal beam with upright vertical leg
- Genuine Polygroup Summer Escapes Replacement Part 090-380106-1
- Used on most Summer Escapes Pro Series round steel frame pools with oval tubing sold 2013 and after


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Out rugby star Gareth Thomas talks about Mickey Rourke’s preparation to play him in film
Micky Rourke seems a little long in the tooth to play the much-younger Gareth Thomas in a film but hey, I’ll buy a ticket.
Gareth, the openly gay Welsh rugby star who recently retired, tells UK’s The Mirror that he recently spent time in LA with Rourke who was nominated for an Oscar for The Wrestler.
“If he cares about something, he will do whatever it takes to master something,” Thomas said.
While professional rugby is the backdrop, the heart of the story is Gareth’s coming out process.
“The battle I had with myself and coming out the other end and that’s what [Rourke] sees the story as.”


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Today is International Women’s Day, a global day that celebrates the achievements of women. It also aims to accelerate women’s equality.
This year’s theme is ‘Break the Bias’, which is something that perhaps is already happening (thankfully) in the ITAM profession.
- 40+ percent of ITAM Forum members are women
- 40+ percent of our Board of Trustees are women. Some of these individuals hold very senior job title, such as, ‘First Vice President – Global Head of IT Asset Management’.
To mark this day and the achievements of women in ITAM, our patron Angelpoint recently hosted a “Women in ITAM” webinar. An all-female panel of ITAM professionals shared their industry knowledge and experiences. It was great to hear these individuals’ perspectives and to learn about their ITAM journeys.
The webinar covered many topics, including how to:
- promote yourself and talk about your work
- speak about the positive impact your ITAM programme is having and the business value being delivered
- make ITAM more well-known and how to draw more women into the profession
One panelist suggested we need more women to speak at ITAM events… if we want to bring more women into ITAM and promote women within the profession.
Looking for inspiration?
If you’re a woman working in ITAM, you may be interested in the new ‘Women in ITAM’ LinkedIn group. This would be a great group to join on March 8.
And, if you’re looking for inspirational stories about women ITAM leaders:

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Advantages of FluidFM compared to classical AFM methods
Cell adhesion to surfaces represents the basis for niche colonization and cell survival. Single-cell force-spectroscopy studies, however, are often hampered by the relatively slow pace at which a statistically relevant amount of data can be obtained. Potthoff et al. [see Link below] have recently shown that FluidFM® can dramatically increase the amount of data that can be recorded in a single day.
By applying underpressure to the system, FluidFM® cantilevers can attach to a selected cell within seconds. Likewise, the probe can be immediately re-used after each adhesion experiment by releasing the detached cell from the probe through the application of overpressure. The maximum cell adhesion forces measured in the study were in the range of 500 pN to 1600 nN. The latter value represents a one-order of magnitude increase compared to conventional AFM approaches.
- AFM force spectroscopy on a polymer blend
- Single molecule force spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin
- Spring constant calibration by frequency sweep
- Flex-ANA measurement on gelatin hydrogels
- Flex-ANA measurement on medical tubings
- Flex-ANA measurements on living cultured cells
- Bacterial adhesion force quantification by fluidic force microscopy
- Colloidal spectroscopy with FluidFM®
- Colloidal Properties of Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Particles
- Deformability Assessment of Waterborne Protozoa Using a Microfluidic-Enabled Force Microscopy Probe


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In the wake of press accounts describing the results of a test during which researchers controlled the brakes, steering and transmission of an automobile driven by a Wired reporter after hacking into the vehicle’s wireless entertainment system, Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop federal standards for protecting driver privacy and data security in automobiles equipped with wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications systems.
Known as the Security and Privacy in Your Car (SPY Car) Act, the bill requires the NHTSA, in consultation with the FTC, to establish cybersecurity standards for V2V-connected automobiles. Such standards should include measures to (1) protect all vehicle access points and critical software systems against hacking, and (2) secure collected V2V data to prevent unauthorized access while that information is stored on-board, off-board or during transit. Vehicles should “be equipped with technology that can detect, report and stop hacking attempts in real time,” and vehicle owners should be “made explicitly aware of collection, transmission, retention and use of driving data.”
Owners must be allowed under the new NHTSA/FTC standards to opt out of data collection and retention efforts “without losing access to key navigation or other features,” and personal driving data may not be used for advertising purposes without the owner “clearly opting in.” Finally, the bill mandates the development of a “cyber dashboard” window sticker for all new vehicles which provides prospective buyers with “an evaluation of how well each automobile protects both the security and privacy of vehicle owners beyond” minimum standards to be established by the FTC and NHTSA. Emphasizing that “drivers shouldn’t have to choose between being connected and being protected,” Markey asserted: “we need clear rules of the road that protect cars from hackers and American families from data trackers.”

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From the paradigm-shifting author of Anti-Diet comes a deep dive into the underbelly of modern wellness culture and how we can create a truly health-promoting society.
“It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.” You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people and companies in the wellness space to distance themselves from what has become a four-letter word. But, as Christy Harrison, author of the revolutionary book Anti-Diet, will reveal in her latest book, the wellness industry is simply the modern guise of diet culture.
In this new age of wellness, figures from Gwyneth Paltrow and the Medical Medium to WW (formerly known as Weight Watchers) have cashed in on the same underpinnings of diet culture that disproportionately harm women and people of color and are often derived from the cultural traditions of Indigenous peoples, and ultimately don't actually promote health.
The Wellness Trap goes beyond demystifying what's wrong with the Goops of the world and delves into the persistent, systemic problems of the wellness industry and especially its effects on marginalized populations and the social determinants of health. As we experience a growing amount of physical and mental-health trauma, society has become increasingly vulnerable to bogus ideas about health for which conventional medicine lacks satisfying treatments. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice with a deft hand, Harrison leads the way in a radical re-thinking of wellness and provides a vision–and a roadmap–to create a truly health-promoting society.


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Nov 29, 2012 Strong unions and labor laws have kept struggling carmakers from cutting plants in Germany, but that may be about to change.
Nov 22, 2012 European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels to hammer out a budget for the EU. And the task will not be easy with the continent still trying desperately to claw its way out of debt.
Nov 22, 2012 Americans may be stuffing themselves with turkey on Thanksgiving, but what about Americans on the other side of the pond?
Nov 21, 2012 A meeting to agree Greece’s next round of bailout money has ended after almost 12 hours with no decision. Athens won't get vital bailout funds without an agreement.
Nov 16, 2012 The Spanish government is suspending foreclosures for the neediest homeowners just a week after a woman there committed suicide when officials arrived at her apartment to seize it.
Nov 15, 2012 Europe has officially slipped back into recession. Growth in Germany -- widely considered to have a relatively healthy economy -- has slowed as well.
Nov 14, 2012 Millions of workers went on strike across Europe today in protest against public spending cuts. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, car factories and ports have been shut, and rail services disrupted.
Nov 14, 2012 There are strikes going on this morning in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Belgium. Workers are protesting all across Europe against rising unemployment and austerity.
Nov 13, 2012 Yesterday, the Greek parliament pushed through an extensive package of cuts and tax increases -- its most aggressive austerity budget so far -- in order to receive their next bailout payment.


The United States of Mississippi
Roger Stolle’s journey from corporate America to Cathead, Inc., Clarksdale’s treasure trove of Delta blues history
Story & Photos by Casey Hilder
Arts | August 2015
“As a longtime blues fan, it suddenly occurred to me ‘Well, I should go see where it came from’,” he says. “So I was really on kind of a dead man blues tour. I had planned to see grave sites and that was it. There was one museum back then and it was small.”
Stolle’s 1995 road trip took place more than a decade before the Blues Trail existed, and very little information existed on acts like Big Walter Horton, Furry Lewis and Skip James. Moreover, Stolle would soon discover that many of the headstones and graves that held some of the older bluesmen were unmarked or eroded. With a patchwork history of the Delta in mind and several years from the advent of widespread Internet, he decided to look below the surface at a juke joint in the hill country of Chulahoma, Mississippi. It was at Jr.’s Place, a juke joint owned by bluesman Junior Kimbrough, where Stolle would have his first up-close encounter with the living blues. Surrounded by glossy folk art murals and juke joint décor of Christmas lights and scratched wood, this event was what Stolle describes as his “Alan Lomax moment.” “It was the beginning of being conscious of the fact that this was the place I wanted to spend a lot more time,” he says. “Junior sold the beers and performed, R.L. Burnside was there that night, along with all their kids and grandkids.”
Junior died in 1997 and his place burned to the ground soon after, but that chance encounter had changed the then-30-year-old marketing consultant’s outlook on life. He eventually honed in on Clarksdale as a base of operations, a place he decided had all the right ingredients for a blues lover to settle down: the infrastructure, the players and the history. “There was just something about Clarksdale,” he says.
Stolle soon left his job in St. Louis with a rough goal in mind. “When I moved down here it, was not to open a retail store — which is what I did – it was to organize and promote from within,” he says. Stolle’s mission — which he would also accomplish over the years — was to celebrate and document the Delta blues through film, writing, radio shows, recordings, booking and discovering new talent. He produced several documentary-style films about life in the Delta, including the recent We Juke Up in Here, which explores Mississippi’s surviving juke joint scene and heavily features local bluesman Big George Brock. Stolle had previously worked alongside Brock with his record label, Cathead Presents, which Stolle says was initially geared toward raising the aging bluesman out of obscurity. “Jeff Konkel is a friend of mine and we both have little record labels that we’ve recorded blues guys on,” he says. “We started collaborating on film projects like M for Mississippi, which is probably our best-known documentary.”
Following their initial mission to engage people in the Delta, Stolle and Konkel produced a road-trip style narrative, presenting an approachable concept for visitors packed with interviews and live performances. Showings of the film have been held as far as Geneva and Norway.
And with so much history, Stolle and company eventually needed a place to house the recordings that had piled up over the years, as well generate some much-needed income. “I needed a way to bring in cash flow,” he says. “But I also wanted to pull people in, get the public interested. That’s the kind of thing that can turn a two-hour visitor to Clarksdale into an overnight visitor.”
The unairconditioned interior of Cathead, Inc. boasts wall-to-wall folk art and the faint, musty smell that only a plethora of old records can produce. Presiding over the organized clutter is Roger Stolle, a hardcore blues fan and native of Dayton, Ohio. While Ohio isn’t the best place to develop an appreciation of the blues, the music struck a chord with Stolle, who took a fateful trip in the mid-nineties to discover the roots of its uniquely Mississippi sound.


We report the application nondegenerate ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy to investigate the acoustic phonon cooling process in epitaxial graphene. We show that the power-dependent experimental results match theoretical predictions of the low temperature acoustic cooling process. The hot phonon effect in acoustic phonon cooling is observed experimentally, and a deformation potential of 30 eV can be determined from fitting the data. (© 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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In today’s increasingly connected world, families and caregivers face a number of challenging and nuanced decisions: When are children ready for a device? What can we do to ensure screen readiness? How can we encourage healthy digital habits?
And with schoolwork increasingly requiring students to connect to the internet, balancing how and when children use technology is no small task.
To better prepare and empower our youth to use technology safely and responsibly, we’re teaming up with expert organizations and creating resources to help families make informed technology decisions. One of these collaborations is with National PTA – the oldest and largest child advocacy association in America – to create the “Ready, Tech, Go!” workshop series.
Through Ready, Tech, Go!, local PTAs across the country are hosting free educational workshops for parents and caregivers at elementary schools in underserved communities. The workshops feature curated resources and content from AT&T ScreenReady® and are designed to help parents and caregivers:
- Identify and reflect on aspects of screen readiness;
- Become familiar with screen readiness and digital life tools and resources; and
- Gain new ideas to help create a healthy digital home.
Ready, Tech, Go! also includes a free tool from National PTA – The Smart Talk – a resource to help caregivers and kids (ages 5-17) have proactive technology conversations and set healthy digital limits together.
The AT&T ScreenReady® shares tips and tools to help families manage their online experience, practice healthy digital habits and fully participate in today’s connected world. The initiative includes the PhoneReady Quiz, Family Media Plan, cybersecurity tips for parents and caregivers, parental controls guides and more.
Already, we’re seeing how families are empowered and positively impacted by these workshops, including through recent events in Champaign, IL, Roswell, GA and Laurel, MD.
At Booker T. Washington STEM Academy, educators pride themselves on creating an environment where each child has the ability to look at the world for themselves and make their own decisions. And as a STEM academy, technology is an especially big part of these students’ lives.
As part of the Academy’s goal, our Ready, Tech, Go! event allowed parents to learn alongside their kids about technology limits and what may be appropriate for their children, exploring questions like “what rules should my child follow when they’re online?” and “when is my child ready for their first device?”
Hembree Springs Elementary School’s workshop event emphasized how healthy digital habits start at home. The event featured speakers offering tips for digital safety, including the importance of family conversations about screen time.
One parent noted that the workshop helped open their eyes to having an open dialogue about the appropriate use of devices. Another was grateful for the clarity these discussions gave them, saying “With the tools that AT&T has, I was able to really help to manage the screen time, manage the content that they have, and to have conversations about a balance between playing outside and watching devices.”
Forest Ridge Elementary School’s parents also shared about the impact of these workshops on their families, with one sharing, “I went through it with my daughter… it was a really good conversation with her because it spurred us to talking about how she was going to use her tablet over the summer.”
The big picture: Through efforts like the Ready, Tech, Go! workshop series, AT&T ScreenReady® and AT&T Connected Learning℠, we’re committed to expanding access to connectivity and digital learning solutions for communities across the country. The goal of these initiatives is always to invest in communities and families, beyond just our networks and phone plans.
We’ve seen the impact digital preparedness can have on a parent or caregiver’s peace of mind as they navigate the ever-changing digital landscape, and we look forward to seeing children not only tackle but thrive in our digital world.


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SC to examine plea against Army’s policy for recruitment
- IPL spot-fixing: Delhi court drops charges against S Sreesanth and two other cricketers
- Nitish Kumar gets back at Modi, accuses him for 'not honouring promises'
- Major decisions on revision of role of women in armed forces on the anvil: Manohar Parrikar
- Congress, TMC and BJD to seek total withdrawal of NDA's land bill
- Never sought travel documents for Lalit Modi, says Sushma Swaraj
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a PIL demanding the abolition of caste, region, religion based recruitment in the Army's Maratha, Jat, Dogra, Garhwal regiments on the ground that it was violative of the citizens' fundamental rights.
The SC sought the assistance of Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman to adjudicate the plea filed by Haryana-based medical practitioner I S Yadav. The PIL has sought direction to frame a national policy of recruitment that would ensure selection of every eligible Indian on merit in the Army.
Senior advocate S Balakrishnan, appearing for the petitioner, said that though the government claims the Army to be truly secular, there are regiments like the Rajput, Sikh, Gorkha, Naga, Jat, and Maratha, which is unhealthy and against the interest of the Army.

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- Is cold water good for weight loss?
- What happens if you pour hot water on ice?
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- Is ice colder than water?
Why does the ice not melt even though the water is boiling at the top?
When ice is wrapped in wire gauze and placed in water it does not melts even when the water boils because the container is made up of insulating material.
Insulators are those substances which resists the flow of heat.
Due to no heat transfer heat will not able to hit into the ice and it remains intact..
Why does ice melt in heat?
Ice melts when heat energy causes the molecules to move faster, breaking the hydrogen bonds between molecules to form liquid water.
Is cold water good for weight loss?
Drinking water that’s cold may actually help you burn a couple of extra calories as you digest it because your body has to work harder to maintain its core temperature. But it’s not likely that drinking cold water is a powerful jump-start tool for weight loss.
What happens if you pour hot water on ice?
Pour hot water on the vehicle’s windshield and windows to melt the ice. The frozen glass could shatter due to the extreme temperature change.
Can you pour hot water on your windshield?
Answer: No. While it may be tempting to quickly thaw out your windshield with hot water, it’s a very bad idea. Rapid temperature changes in glass can cause it to crack, and automotive glass is no exception.
Is ice warm or cold?
The ice cube does have heat, and even if the ice is still, its molecules are in motion (have kinetic energy). You can know something has heat if it can warm up something else: For instance liquid nitrogen has a very low boiling point (-200C).
Can I add ice to hot tea?
The fastest way to make iced tea is to make hot tea then cool it down quickly by adding a lot of ice. This is the ice-chill method and it’s ready to drink right away. No need to cool down hot tea using the refrigerator, the ice does all the work.
Does clear ice really matter?
Whether you use distilled or tap water, clear ice tastes better. Because it’s pure water without the extra air, it’s essentially tasteless and doesn’t pick up any “other” flavors from your home freezer.
Why is drinking ice water bad for you?
One of the main reasons to avoid drinking chilled water is because it has a serious implication on your digestion. Chilled water as well as some cold beverages contract the blood vessels and also restrict digestion. The natural process of absorbing nutrients during digestion is hindered when you consume chilled water.
What happens when you add ice cubes to a drink?
For instance, your beverage gets cold when you add ice cubes because the heat moves from the liquid to the ice cubes, and not because coldness moves from the ice cubes into your beverage. This loss of heat is what causes the temperature of your beverage to plummet.
How does hot water melt ice?
Water melts ice because it is at a higher temperature than the ice, so heat energy is transferred from the water to the ice. Since the scientific principle at work here is the idea of heat transfer, it is not necessary that water be used to melt ice.
Does boiling water damage car paint?
Re: Will hot water do any damage to the paint The temperature differential may be an issue. All the metal, primer, plastic, and paint may expand at different rates and with such a sudden change in temperature may cause some problems.
What liquid melts ice the fastest?
Ice melts faster in water than in soda. This is because soda has sodium (salt) in it, and adding sodium makes ice melt more slowly than it will in plain water.
Does cold or warm water freeze faster?
The Mpemba effect is the observation that warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. The effect has been measured on many occasions with many explanations put forward. One idea is that warm containers make better thermal contact with a refrigerator and so conduct heat more efficiently. Hence the faster freezing.
What happens when you put ice in water?
When you put an ice cube in a glass of water, filled up to the top what happens and why does it happen? … Since the ice, when it floats, displaces exactly its weight in water, when it melts, the water it melts into takes the same volume that the ice cube displaced in the water.
Is it bad to put ice in hot water?
If you take ice with hot water, it will no longer remain hot. It will be tepid water. So whatever reason you have for drinking hot water will be defeated.
Is ice colder than water?
As we know, ice is colder than room temperature water. Because ice molecules move slowly and cluster tightly together, they produce a relatively low amount of heat.

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WhatsApp was recently under attack and users are now users are advised to update the app.
It’s reported the hackers were able to install spyware onto Android and iOS phones.
When the spyware is installed in your phone, it was able to fully access messages, emails, location, camera and mic.
The attack also allowed the hacker to view messages from users phone, even though WhatsApp promotes itself as a secure app because of the end-to-end encryption.
The Facebook-owned app has since then released a statement urging it’s 1.5 million global users to upgrade to the latest version:
“WhatsApp encourages people to upgrade to the latest version of our app, as well as keep their mobile operating system up to date, to protect against potential targeted exploits designed to compromise information stored on mobile devices.”


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There are many credit card debt services available, most of which are designed to help you cope with your credit card debts and get them back under your control. Depending on your level of debt, you should check what kind of credit card debt services you require before you sign on for any program.
You should also be aware of the services you’ll be getting and how much you can expect to be charged for those services. Be sure that you’re applying for the right credit card debt services for your individual situation.
Credit Counseling Services
Financial credit counseling is perhaps the simplest form of credit card debt services. Certified counselors are trained to take a look at your financial situation and then help you to find ways to adjust your current budget. They’ll also work with you as you learn how to take control of your financial obligations in a responsible manner.
In many cases, credit counseling could be the perfect solution for many people, because you’re not just learning how to reduce your debt properly and effectively, but you’re also learning valuable financial literacy that can help you avoid getting into the same financial mess again in the future.
Debt Consolidation Services
Many debt consolidation companies offer credit card debt services in the form of consolidation loans. Their aim is to refinance your current credit card balances and roll them into a consolidation loan that is often charged at lower interest rates. Your old repayments stop and you only have one easy repayment to think about each month that is often much lower than your old payments.
While it appears that all your credit cards have been paid out and your payments have been reduced, it’s important to look at your overall level of debt. Many people who apply for debt consolidation loans through credit card debt services find that they owe more than they did after the loan is established.
This is usually because some of your old creditors may have added penalty interest or overdue fees to your balances, but it may also be because the company you’re working with may have also added their fees to your debt balance. While you might feel as though you’re paying less each month, you may have actually increased the amount you owe. Always check how the company you’re working with will be paid.
Debt Negotiation Services
Credit card debt services exist for those clients who haven’t made any payments on their credit cards for several months. If this sounds like you, then you might consider applying for a debt negotiation program.
Companies offering debt negotiation, or debt settlement, work with you to negotiate with your creditors on your behalf in an attempt to get the lender to settle for a smaller amount of money as payment in full for your outstanding credit card debt balances. This works best on unsecured debts like credit cards and you should be able to show the company that you haven’t made repayments for at least a couple of months.
In many cases, credit card debt services using negotiation as a tool to reduce your debt can often get your creditors to agree to accept 40-50% of the original debt amount. This can be a significant debt reduction for many people.


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The move is set to benefit 7.9 million workers employed in around 377,000 establishments.
The Union government will foot the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) bills of companies hiring up to 100 workers for the next three months and allow all the formal sector workers subscribed to the EPFO
to withdraw their three months of PF contribution during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is part of the Centre’s Rs 1.70-trillion Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan (PMGK) package announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday to provide relief to formal sector workers to help them tide over the national lockdown.
Employers and employees equally contribute 12 per cent of wage towards a worker’s provident fund account maintained with the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). The move to finance PF contributions will, however, leave behind a majority of workers who received such social security cover in the formal sector. In fact, it will cover only about 16 per cent of EPF subscribers and 1.6 per cent of the total workforce of 471 million in India.
A senior EPFO
official said the money would be in the form of reimbursements, indicating that the employers will have to continue to provide wages to its employees for the next three months for which the government will foot the PF bill. The official explained that an employer will have to show proof of payment of three months’ salary of its workers, without paying for the PF amount, to claim the benefit.
“Wage-earners below Rs 15,000 per month in businesses having less than 100 workers are at risk of losing their employment. This (move) would prevent disruption in their employment,” an official statement issued by the finance ministry said on Thursday.
The government will allocate Rs 5,000 crore towards the PF reimbursement scheme, which is set to benefit 7.9 million workers employed in around 377,000 establishments. However, the EPFO
has 563,000 establishments under its fold that employ a total of 48 million workers who make provident fund contributions on a regular basis. So, about one-third of the total establishments and around 84 per cent of the workers registered under the EPFO will not be eligible for the PMGK scheme.
“This initiative will largely benefit the MSME
(micro, small and medium enterprises) sector since the scheme is only for those establishments which employ not more than 100 employees…Clarity is required on whether for calculating the employee threshold (of Rs 15,000) the government would take into account third party employees and whether they too would benefit from this initiative,” said Richa Mohanty Rao, Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.
But what may be a relief to all the 48 million active provident fund account holders, the government will allow a withdrawal of up to three months of their contribution during the pandemic. For workers who haven’t earned wages of up to three months, they will be able to draw 75 per cent of their PF contribution. The government will make amendments to the EPF scheme for the same. “EPF regulations will be amended to include pandemic as a reason to allow non-refundable advances of 75 per cent of the amount or three months of the wages, whichever is lower, from their accounts,” an official statement stated.
More than 80 per cent of India’s workforce is employed in the unorganised sector. After the government’s lockdown measures, there was an exodus of migrant workers who wanted to go back to their villages from cities but were stranded due to a curb on transport movement across the country. The migrant workers, mostly in the unorganised sector, will not be able to take benefit of the government’s move.
‘Credit pension by March 30’
The EPFO on Thursday directed its 135 field offices to ensure payment of pension to 6.5 million beneficiaries by March 30 amid the lockdown, according to an official statement.


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So a couple of weeks ago I watched this new documentary on Netflix called Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation on their Instant Watch service (in HD mind you). It’s a great little documentary about B-Movies and the film industry in Australia. Before George Miller ever did Happy Feet he directed Mad Max in Australia, it just goes to show you that every body starts somewhere. In the documentary many notable Australian filmmakers were interviewed and one notable American Quentin Tarantino (when doesn’t he get interviewed about exploitation movies any more?). So I watched the Doc with pen and paper in hand and wrote down the titles of stuff that I found interesting. Then rushed to my Netflix queues and started adding everything that was available. The first one in the pipes was Dead End Drive-In, I can sum it up like this, Mad Max in a Drive-In. Yep that about does it.
It wasn’t terrible and it wasn’t great, it’s just kind of there. First there isn’t a lot of exposition to what’s going on. Basically it’s 1990 and the world has gone to hell in a hand basket. Wall Street crashed again sending the world into chaos. So in Australia they decided to lock up the undesirables in a concentration camp at a Drive-In and feed them movies, music videos and junk food 24/7. Sounds like the perfect life doesn’t it? Well Jimmy wants out. And quite honestly I’m not sure why Jimmy got in there in the first place actually. All he did was go to the Drive-In to catch a movie with his gal Carmen and then his tires get stolen and he’s there forever.
So that’s the basic premise. Jimmy then spends the next hour trying to survive the local thugs who all look like extras from an 80′s Billy Idol video. It has its charm, and a fair dose of nostalgia for anyone that remembers what MTV looked like in the late 80′s. Did they really need to play that Pat Benatar video over and over and over and over again?
The movie would probably get a PG-13 rating today, it had a little bit of foul language and a couple of topless scenes but the violence and blood and gore was few and far between. Also in the documentary Tarantino talked about how Austrialians love their cars almost as much as American’s do and from this movie you can totally see that. Every body lives in their cars and the entire culture of the movie revolved around Jimmy and his brothers ’56 Chevy.
There was also a sub-plot that was put in there towards the end that dealt with racism and mass hysteria surrounding people blindly following the lead of a bunch of people that have no idea what they are talking about and are simply misinformed bigots. The sub-plot really doesn’t go anywhere and it’s not like Jimmy saves the day and frees everyone from the binds of ignorance and racism. At the end of the day Dead End Drive-In is a nostalgic piece of film history that has been forgotten! If you’re looking for a cheesy way to kill 1 hour and 27 minutes you could do a lot worse.
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This post was written by Gabe Wilkinson on January 21, 2010

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This report sets out our 12-point plan to kick-start sustainable innovation-led growth and counter the innovation strike of the last decade
This report sets out our 12-point plan to kick-start sustainable innovation-led growth and counter the innovation strike of the last decade.
- Growth depends on innovation - our ability to generate and adopt new knowledge and ideas.
- The last decade has shown the disconnect between the UK's financial sector and investment in innovation and technology.
- The UK must put in place the financial architecture that businesses need to innovate and grow.
Since the recession started in 2008, the UK's economic debate has focused on short-term recovery, and the battle between the two big plans: Plan A or Plan B, austerity or stimulus.
But neither of these addresses the UK's longer-term growth prospects. Our 2012 Innovation Index figures showed that the UK economy, far from flourishing in the last 10 years, has experienced a 'lost decade' of innovation, damaging long-term growth.
Nesta is now calling for a new conversation about economic growth, and Plan I sets out the direction we believe the UK should travel in.
Choose Plan I and help us end the innovation strike!
Nesta's Plan I sets out 12 recommendations to kick-start sustainable innovation-led growth, and move beyond the typical economic policy that has dominated in the UK for the last decade. The 12 recommendations include rebalancing government spending towards innovation, infrastructure investment, public and social innovation and removing barriers to entrepreneurship. Read more on Plan I.


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You have to hand to right wing pundits. They kick ass at the bait-and-switch, particularly with their own people. They knew that throwing a major fit over the contraception mandate, no matter how much it's dressed up in "religious freedom" as an excuse, would be understood by their followers as an attack on stupid sluts looking for a handout who just need to keep their legs closed. And that their people would not think one whit further about the implications of allowing your employer to tailor your compensation for your labor to his religious beliefs. But the Hobby Lobby case that's going in front of the Supreme Court will not be argued on the grounds of whether or not stupid sluts need to keep their legs closed. It's going to be argued on the grounds that a business can have a "religion"---which can contain any beliefs they want---and that they have wide berth to use that "religion" to discriminate against their employees. Maybe it will be limited to compensation, or maybe it will be bigger than that. After all, if they're allowed to withhold benefits because they disapprove of your private life, then what else will they be able to do? Refuse to hire women at all?
Even if the court makes a narrow decision, limiting your boss's power to saying "religion!" and being able to withhold benefits you've earned because of it, that's a catastrophe. Jill Filipovic kicked it off on Twitter and I added a few.
They used sex paranoia and misogyny to create a chance for the Supreme Court to give your boss an unbelievable amount of power over your private life and health care choices. Make no mistake about that.


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By Anthony Mendicino
Students headed to Vrijte University in Amsterdam for a lecture from professor Jolien Arendsen, who studies media in the Netherlands.
Arendsen, a former student at Vrijte, has taught communication science at the school for six years.
She began her presentation by reviewing the similarities and differences between the protections in the U.S. Constitution and the constitution of the Netherlands as it pertains to media law.
Article 7 of the Netherlansds constitution states, “No one shall require prior permission to publish thoughts or opinions throught the press, without prejudice to the responsibility of every person under the law.”
“It’s very public focused,” she said of the Netherland’s constitution. “You can basically do whatever you want.”
Like the U.S. there have been significant changes to the Netherlands media law over time. Different laws have emerged to accommodate the changing ways media are consumed and disseminated throughout the country.
“The left wing media became a topic,” Arendsen said.
Like in the United States, a perceived bias in the media, mainly television media, became an area of concern for the Dutch. Arendsen and her peers conducted a study comparing different media outlets and their political leanings.
“They’re all the same really, there’s no real right wing or left wing agenda,” Arendsen said of the findings.
She then moved on to the ever-changing landscape of the average media consumer and how that affects the way media is dispersed. For example, like the United States, television news is by far the most popular, and the most bias.
Newspapers, on the other hand, are on the decline internationally.
“They have to change something because there is no money [in advertising revenue] left,” Arendsen said “Young people don’t use media in paper form – at all.”
TV remains important, but among younger generations TV’s impact is on the decline. With that decline comes the obvious decay of TV advertising money.
“Advertising income will fall at some point, it will happen. They [advertisers] will abandon T.V. at some point,” Arendsen said.
Perhaps the largest finding was the extent to which the internet impacts the “new news consumer,” A.K.A. anyone under 30. That demographic pays less attention to “hard news” and more attention to other types of stories like human interest and feature stories.
Media companies in the Netherlands thought “citizen journalism” would be the answer to the numerous problems facing the media. Considering the impact of social media on younger generations crowdsourcing news seemed like a good idea.
All the tenets of journalism still apply with crowd-sourced news. This theory was tested during a project that focused on the reporting of issues in low-income areas of the Netherlands. Instead of sending journalists, citizen reporters were assigned to cover the areas.
“We are crowd-sourcing, but then it has to be right. It has to be sourced properly,” Arendsen said.
The problems remained despite the tries at “citizen journalism,” leaving the million-dollar question of how to pay for good journalism unanswered.
“The pay wall is a new thing,” Arendsen said. “I go to read an article from De Volkskrant and go, ‘Ah! I can’t read it.’ Then I usually don’t end up reading it.”
Pay walls are just one way news outlets are trying to escape the mass exodus of money within the industry.
But where some see loss, some see opportunity.
An app named Blendle has emerged out of the Netherlands to bridge that gap.
Blendle is essentially a news aggregator that collects articles from sources and provides a pay-per-article service.
Arendsen commended the company on thinking outside the box and trying something new in a realm dominated by older formats.
She told the students that the question of how to pay for journalism would linger on into the future.