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As cooped up as we've been all year, it's easy to feel like you've watched everything your streaming services have to offer. And who knows? Maybe you've gotten close. But somehow, I did it: I found new things to watch. Here's a lineup of LGBTQ+ content highlights along with other entertainment options for however you want to spend the rest of this quarantine.
1. Catch a Show While Honoring Queer Literary Achievement
While it's a sad reality that LGBTQ+ bookstores aren't as common as they used to be, with the Lammys around, there's no excuse not to be caught up on our community's latest and greatest books. Since the 33rd annual Lambda Literary Awards are virtual this year, you'll get to add more must-reads to your list while joining in on the fun of seeing presenters like Ryan O'Connell of Netflix's "Special" and bestselling bisexual author R.O. Kwon honor LGBTQ+ writers from around the world. And why not stay and see headliner Meshell Ndegeocello perform, too? "What better way to kick off Pride than the Lammys?" Sue Landers, the executive director of Lambda Literary, tells Between The Lines. "It's the single largest celebration of LGBTQ books, and with the ceremony streaming this year — across the globe and for free — you're bound to meet some of your favorite writers and hang out with the biggest book lovers of the LGBTQ community."
The 33rd annual Lammys are scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 1. Register for this free event on eventbrite.com.
2. See Rufus Do Judy for the First Time in Five Years
In celebration of what would have been Judy Garland's 99th birthday, double Grammy Award-nominated artist Rufus Wainwright will perform a virtual concert tribute to celebrate the gay icon's body of work. And, if this wasn't exciting enough for the theater gays, double Academy Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger — who won one of those Oscars for her performance as Judy in the biopic "Judy" — will join Wainwright with a four-piece band. But wait, it gets gayer: Since this is the first complete performance of the "Rufus Does Judy" show in five years, Wainwright's longtime friend and gay fashion icon Michael Kors has collaborated on a unique T-shirt commemorating the event.
The event will premiere at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 10. Tickets for "Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios" are available now exclusively via rufuswainwright.veeps.com and are priced at $30 (advance) and $35 (day of show).
3. Join a Lesbian Book Club
Let's face it, we all said we would read more because we were sheltering in place during COVID-19. But, instead, Netflix got the best of us. Now, you can catch up on all those books you never read — and maybe some you learned of at the Lammys — through the (currently virtual) LezRead. It's a book club for queer women hosted by the Jim Toy Community Center. Organizer Kerene Moore said that, besides the books, the club was how she learned about LGBTQ+ culture. "Lezread has met virtually throughout the COVID-19 pandemic," she tells Between The Lines. "We love books and the steady respite they provide in today's world. Though we read a variety of books, we primarily focus on adult fiction and graphic novels with queer women characters. We welcome new members to share in upcoming Zoom meetings."
Email [email protected] to join the private Facebook group, and visit a2lezread.tumblr.com for more information.
4. Get Inside Madonna's Grooves with a Critically Acclaimed Podcast
A rabid Madonna fan, like most of us, Edward Russell loved diving into the stories behind the queen of pop's most iconic hits. But he took it a step further when he got the idea for a podcast. That's when "Inside the Groove" was born, and it wasn't long before his stories about Madge's hits like "Music" and "Hung Up" earned him a nomination for a Canadian Podcast Award alongside heavy-hitters like "The Bald and the Beautiful" and "My Brother, My Brother and Me," all the while earning glowing reviews from The New York Times. Now, Russell is gearing up for the podcast's third season, and his (blond) ambition means he's only getting started. "‚ÄòYou can dance‚Ä¶ for inspiration' — that's how Madonna opens her hit song ‚ÄòInto The Groove.' But what are the inspirations of a girl born in the late 1950s just outside of Motor City in Detroit?" says Russell. "Through Motown, glam rock, soul and disco, in a special upcoming episode this season, we'll not only look at the songs a young Madonna heard on the radio but also show how they were referenced in her own music in later years."
Tune into "Inside The Groove" here: insidethegroove.co.uk.
5. Take a Bathroom Break with "Stalled"
Big or small, the bathrooms at gay nightclubs are wild, mysterious places. You never know who (or what) you'll run into. In the case of "Stalled," a new queer web comedy series from art collective Gal Pals Present, they managed to fit the whole show's cast and crew into a Brooklyn nightclub. The story features Jordan (played by Teddy Qin), a 19-year-old who scams their way into becoming a bathroom attendant armed with no customer service skills and a desire for human connection. Written by Lia Hagen and directed by Marley Jean Fernandes, "Stalled," much like real life, is about the unexpected — you just never know who will walk through that bathroom door.
"Set in the cramped bathroom of a newly reopened gay nightclub, Stalled is an teasing tribute to the queer spaces that connect our community. Jordan's job as a bathroom attendant involves a lot of shitty customers and ill-mannered drag queens, but the relationships they build are stronger than the smell from the toilets," Hagen says.
The first episode was released on May 24. Catch the trailer on the Gal Pals Present YouTube channel.


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Saturday, April 9th | 10am – 1pm
This workshop begins with plentiful am ount s of core w ork t o w arm t he body by ignit ing t he fire w it hin and awakening the inner warrior. Brock & Krista will then go over proven secrets to make arm balances and inversions effortless! The work- shop will conclude with a few crea- tive “arm balance medleys” created by Brock & Krista that sequence these challenging postures together in a fun & melodic flow. This workshop is great for a group of fledgling flyers who are just gaining their wings; and of course the fre- quent flyers are welcome to join in as well and brush up on the basic techniques of these masterful pos- tures!
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Adam Spizak is senior designer & art director from London, United Kingdom. He has already shown multiple marvelous works created on his own website.
Adam Spizak made this piece of art with photoshop. He shows simple and easy steps here. As for the theme, he explains in his words, “Cold is the water It freezes your already cold mind Already cold, cold mind And death is at your doorstair And it will steal your innocence But it will not steal your substance”. He is expressing the connection among coldness, death and fragment of life. Using a shattered mirror effect with the dark blue background, the theme presents itself naturally.
Posters are great avenues to showcase one’s creativity. They allow artists to express themselves in countless ways. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and convey information. The followings will show you some sophisticated artworks printed on quality posters which can admire yourself.
“Skull” is Colombian digital artist Santiago Betancur Salazar’s last project. Salazar has his own website, which exhibits his fabulous works with different styles. The reason why he presents his “Skull” here is he loves skull, so he shares his works.
Photos belows generally show Salazar’s working process with “Skull” by Photoshop. Skull itself is terrific enough, and Salazar created this “Skull” with creepy grey metal effects. The exquisite vein and muscle details prove Salazar’s skills and attitude. No matter seeing from the front or from the profile, Salazar’s Skull is naturally mixed together with its background, a grey metal skull emerging from its gray tenacious and unbreakable background.
In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to create a realistic 3D snooker ball. It is not difficult to make. Hope you will find it interesting. To create a 3D design, the shadow and reflection are always the most important elements to think of. Once you get familiar, your design will become awesome.
My final result for the 3D snooker balls will be as this:
1. The first thing to do is the background. Choose the combination colour brown & yellow – #bdc68d .
2. Combine it with my chosen texture and set the opacity = 50% as below. (You can download the texture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittbox/2118265369/sizes/l/
3. After complete the background, we can actually create the snooker ball. And I have chosen the ball in brown colour – #b79e3a. Using Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a simple circle, then fill the colour by gradient tool >radial gradient as below.
4. The brown circle is created, we can move on the next step, making some shadow for the ball. Go to Select > Modify > Contract by 20 Pixel.
5. After the contraction, create a new layer. Then using the gradient tool to fill in the black colour and adjust the gradient editor setting as below:
6. Using the blur tool > Gaussan Blur to the previous painted (black) colour. Set your Blur Radius = 5 pixel.
7. You should achieve the ball similar as below. Then let’s go to make the reflection effect for the ball.
8. Move the elliptical circle into the upper part. And then fill the colour in gradient > radial gradient and set the colour as below.
9. Press ctrl, then move the pointer to the ball’s layer thumbnail. Then elliptical circle will move back to the ball. Then press ctrl + Shift + I to select the rest bit of the circle. And you can delete the colour out of the circle. You should achieve the ball as following.
10. Using the above-mentioned skill, make the elliptical circle and apply the contraction to the circle set the radius as 6 pixel. Fill the circle in white colour and set Opacity into 80%. Then repeat the same step to make one more circle with 8 pixel. Then delete the colour inside the small circle. Use the eraser to make the upper bit reflection, it should be like the curve at final
Here you have to try the adjustment of Opacity & blur until the result reaches your satisfaction because the strength of reflection really rely on these adjustments. Here you go, it is my result.
11. For the shadow at the bottom, you just need to simply create an ellipse circle by elliptical circle tool, fill it in black by “paint bucket tool”. Apply the blur > Gaussian Blur into 6 – 8 pixel.
12. The last step is to simply add a white circle in the centre and add the number.
13. Duplicate the layers, to create one more ball in red, and you should be able to achieve the scene as below.
Hope you can enjoy and this tutorial can give you an idea to develop your personal 3D object.
Thank you very much!
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Emi Haze is a calm, quiet, really creative, and inspired perfectionist. For him, everything has its own importance, images, textures, sounds and fragrances.
In his recent works he tried to merge the human body with nature or rather with the four elements of fire, air, water and earth, and even with a fifth esoteric element: the Aristotelian ether, that includes all the others, the essence of celestial bodies, eternal and unchangeable in comparison with the earth as a place of change. The result is the vision of his imaginative world hanging between reality and fantasy, dream and utopia and in which color and sensitivity have the predominant role.
His artwork “Cosmogony Reloaded” is just the outcome of this idea to be part of the Photoshop 25th Anniversary special advertising campaign. “Cosmogony Reloaded” is on the short film which was featured during the Academy Award Oscars 2015 ceremony.

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The Dow (-1.8%), NASDAQ (-3.8%), and S&P 500 (-2.1%) all fell again for a third consecutive week. Taxable bonds declined 0.2% - 1.0%, and tax-free municipal bonds fell 1.0% - 2.0% as they continue their declines for the year. While returns started off strong last week, that changed on Thursday when the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced that it will be accelerating the pace of its interest rate hikes and that they will likely be raising rates by 50 basis points in their May meeting; the prior rate hike in March was only 25 basis points. Rising interest rates have an adverse impact on longer duration bonds as well as high Price-to-Earnings (P/E) stocks, which is why we are seeing both bonds and NASDAQ face heavy losses so far in 2022.
While core inflation, which subtracts volatile food and energy costs, rose 6.5% year over year which is its highest since August of 1982, While the metric rose just 0.3% in March, which was less than expectations. This suggests that inflation may be in the process of peaking and hopefully starting to decline in the coming months. The New York Fed reported that its Empire State manufacturing activity jumped to a four month high +24.6, with anything greater than 0 indicating expansion. New Orders and Shipments also surged last week, however Prices Paid rose to its highest level on record. This signals that the economy is expanding and strong, but inflation is remaining the key factor in stifling the markets.
As we continue through the midst of Q1 earnings season, many companies are focusing on their margins. While many companies are beating their earnings estimates, inflation and increased wages are eating into their profits. So far, 20% of S&P 500 companies have reported Q1 earnings with a blended growth rate of 6.5%. While earnings growth is the slowest since Q4 2020, the beat rate is 78.6% which is higher than Q4 2021.
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Dr. Ralph Esposito is board certified in podiatric surgery. He has been practicing podiatric medicine and surgery since 2005 after completion of a surgical residency at Kern Hospital in Warren, Michigan.
Dr. Ralph Esposito is board certified in podiatric surgery. He has been practicing podiatric medicine and surgery since 2005 after completion of a surgical residency at Kern Hospital in Warren, Michigan. He completed his residency rotations at Sinai-Grace Hospital -Detroit Medical Center.
He initially began practice in 2005 in Chicago and then participated in surgical study for external fixation and reconstruction in Verona, Italy. He is a graduate of Ohio College Of Podiatric Medicine in 2003 and attended Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL for undergraduate study.
Dr. Esposito has been certified by National Wound Healing Centers for study completed at The Ohio State University, Columbus,OH. Dr. Esposito has privileges and affiliations with AMITA hospitals and independent surgery centers which include Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital, Alexian Brothers Medical Center, St. Alexius Hospital, Oakbrook Surgery Center and AIDEN surgery center.
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Against all odds, a young Vietnamese woman is running her farm and shops that grow and offer local consumers fresh, clean organic vegetables.
Pham Phuong Thao, 33, owns a 1.8 hectare farm in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province; a 1,200m2 garden which is home to vegetables typical of temperate climate in Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong; and two organic food shops in Ho Chi Minh City.
She has partnered with local farmers by selling their healthful produce, and investing in and harvesting farmers’ crops.
A graduate in environmental technology from a university in Hanoi, Thao came up with the idea of growing organic vegetables when she was three months pregnant.
“During the early months of my pregnancy, I was noxious all the time and ate mostly vegetables, especially uncooked one. I was concerned that the vegetables might not be clean and would adversely affect my baby. It was then that I drew up my plan to launch a healthful organic food store,” she shared.
During her trip to Laos, the young woman learned that organic food fairs were held in front of Pha That Luang Pagoda in Vientiane every Wednesday and Friday.
Farmers grew organic produce with the assistance of international non-governmental organizations and sold them to city dwellers and tourists at the fairs.
The question of why people in Laos, which is poorer than Vietnam, were given access to clean food, kept haunting her.
Thao began to work on her plan and launched a small shop called Organica, in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 3 last year.
The number of her items has jumped from around a dozen to now more than 300 of a wide variety.
Thao said that she always tries to sell as many certified organic products as possible. More than 70% of her items now are certified by reliable international agencies such as USDA of the US, and Ecocert of the EU.
One of her hurdles is that so far no Vietnamese agencies now provide organic certification to local farmers, while it’s quite costly and time-consuming to get the products certified by the international agencies.
Thao now grows her own organic vegetables on her farm and or on farms which her company has links with.
The businesswoman also finds persuading farmers on the farms she partners with to comply with organic vegetables growing procedures quite challenging.
Initially, most of the experienced farmers couldn’t understand why they had to grind chilies and garlic and ferment fruits to keep pest away, while all they need to do in conventional farming is spraying insecticide, which is more effective and much faster.
The farmers also found it troublesome to use cows’ waste, soy bean, and dried fish as fertilizers while so many brands of chemical fertilizers are available on the market.
They were also astonished that whenever the veggies contract diseases, Thao demands that all the vegetables be buried instead of “curing” them with pesticide.
Thao shared that gaining customers’ trust is also a daunting task. Several threaten to take legal actions against her if they find out that her products are not organic ones.
She has ceased operations of her own advertising and event organizing company to devote all her time to Organica.
“On bad days when fresh vegetables sell poorly, my staff and I have to cook them at home. But I remain undaunted and positive about a brighter future,” Thao shared.
Organica now has a regular clientele of over 200.
Thao’s company also has close contact with international distributors of organic food.
Recently Malaysia’s Health Paradise Organics, the first organic food distributor in the Southeast Asia paid a visit to Organica’s two shops, at 130 Nguyen Dinh Chieu, District 3, and P street in foreigner-packed Phu My Hung area’s Panorama in District 7. Thao hopes that such visits will help her company gain access to more internationally certified products and foreign clients.


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"This is not a draft"
In all fairness, we can't really call σbαmα's proposed national service plan a new draft. First, he's not talking about requiring young people to do military service. Second, we are getting decidedly mixed signals as to whether the service will be compulsory. At first, the word "required" was used freely; now we see much talk of tax credits, less talk of requirement.
Nevertheless, this new program certainly feels like the next step toward a new draft. Just as Ike's planners made sure that the national highway system could see usage as a military transport system, σbαmα's civilian service corps could make mustering a draft army much, much easier.
After all, this is the guy who said (vis-a-vis the establishment of ROTC programs on all college campuses):
I think it's important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.
Hm. And when did you sign up, Barky?
You probably already know this quote, from a speech he gave in Colorado Springs:
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
God only knows where the money is to come from.
σbαmα now seems to have drawn this big idea from his secret buddy Rahm Emanuel, that noted rust-proofer of brakes, who wrote the following in a 2006 book ominously called The Plan:
It's time for a real ραƚɾισt Act that brings out the ραƚɾισt in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...
Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs.
Wittily, Emanuel adds: "This is not a draft." This puckish reference goes, of course, to Magritte: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
I always get a little worried -- more than a little, truth be told -- when politicians insist that our post-Apocalypse clean-up crew is insufficiently staffed. That sort of talk makes me wonder what they're up to. Especially when we think back to the ominous words of one Joseph Bıdɛn:
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack σbαmα like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking... Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."


Wow what scorcher. Saturday we made the most of the good weather and dusted off the bikes. Starting in Ruskin Park, Camberwell, we set off for Greenland Dock to really see how the Coal Line might transform our options for cycling across south London.
The map shows how the Coal Line would plug a gap in a network of existing greenways and parks meaning cyclists and walkers could travel from Brixton to Greenland Dock and in the future Canary Wharf practically car free.
This would mean a more direct, quicker, pollution free and safer route from some of South London’s main residential neighbourhoods, including Clapham, Herne Hill, Brixton, Peckham, Camberwell, Dulwich and Nunhead, to one of the city’s principle work hubs at Canary Wharf via Sustrans proposed new Thames Crossing at Rotherhithe.
This solution could be transformative potentially allowing cycling to work to become the most attractive option for many more of the tens of thousands of people who currently commute to Canary Wharf from these areas every day.
As a more direct, safer and far more scenic route, the greenway would be away from the roads for almost its entire length providing the opportunity to many, who at the moment are not confident enough to brave the city centre streets, or who don’t want to cycle the lengthy, round-about routes currently available.


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“Game changing”, “strategic and sustainable” and “a boots on floor approach” are just some of the approaches that business leaders explained the countrywide cabinet’s new solution to housing.
Subsequent the Primary Minister’s announcement of a raft of new measures agreed on by state and territory leaders to tackle the country’s housing troubles, business voices from throughout the house and housing sector have expressed potent aid for the route the governing administration has picked.
The steps incorporate working with condition governments to unify some rental guidelines, this kind of as transitioning to fair grounds evictions, limiting rental increases to when a calendar year, and phasing in a established of bare minimum rental requirements.
The nation’s states and territories have also agreed to ramp up building, aiming to construct 1.2 million residences in the upcoming 5 yrs, although earning financial bonuses from the federal government for exceeding their minimum amount commitments. To lay the groundwork for this construction increase, leaders have signed on to a “national planning reform blueprint” which will see them update housing provide targets at all stages of governing administration, market superior-density housing in effectively-situated spots, and streamline the approvals procedure.
It’s a strategy that Grasp Builders Australia applauded as “game changing” that it feels will “boost significantly-needed housing provide though taking force off some of the most susceptible in our community”.
The team’s CEO, Denita Wawn, is now urging governments at all levels to employ the improvements “as a issue of urgency”.
Her comments echoed those produced by Serious Estate Institute of Australia CEO Hayden Groves, who reported: “We welcome the target on developing extra homes and a boots on floor strategy. It’s time to transform these text into motion.”
Mr Groves also spoke in favour of the method to rental reform taken by the governing administration, stating that the designs struck a equilibrium concerning preserving tenants though not discouraging investor exercise.
“The nine-issue program for renters seeks out a acceptable balance between enabling customer protection and making sure we aren’t overregulating and hence diminishing the rental supply pipeline,” he said.
What’s more, Serious Estate Customers Brokers Affiliation of Australia (REBAA) president Cate Bakos claimed that the selection not to overregulate – namely by rejecting the idea of pursuing a nationwide cap or freeze on rental selling prices – has been intelligent on the section of the authorities, ensuring that “the variety of priorities declared immediately after the nationwide cupboard will be well-gained by the wider industry”.
“It shows that all ranges of government are fully commited to increasing the offer of housing, somewhat than selling punitive rental reforms that would see far more traders exit the current market and set additional upward pressure on rents,” she claimed.
Though the federal government had said on various instances that a countrywide hire freeze was not feasible and would not be up for thought inspite of urging from the Greens celebration, it appears that next as a result of with that promise has even now delivered aid to these who objected to the proposal, winning them onside to a set of actions that intend to fortify renters’ rights.
Quentin Kilian, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, stated his organisation is prepared to arrive to the table, especially now that the strategy of a rental freeze has been totally rejected.
“It’s reassuring to listen to point out and national leaders are now heeding our simply call to handle the root trigger of supply head on. With states now encouraged to concentrate on increasing housing source in place of rental caps, we welcome the opportunity to operate with the point out federal government on how to decrease that force on the current market for now and into the long term,” Mr Kilian claimed.
And individuals on the housing advocacy facet seem to be similarly delighted with the consequence of the national cupboard meeting, with the Neighborhood Housing Marketplace Affiliation (CHIA) and National Shelter contacting the offer of organizing and rental reforms “a phase in the suitable direction”.
They specially applauded the govt for urging to take into consideration “inclusionary zoning”, as they function to reinforce preparing at all concentrations.
“Inclusionary zoning claims to be a authentic policy breakthrough,” said Wendy Hayhurst, CEO of CHIA.
“It must make certain that new housing developments contain a percentage of social and economical properties, substantially expanding housing options for people today on very low and modest incomes. The especially fantastic factor about it is that it’s not a tax on growth – the ‘cost’ is baked into the cost paid for the land,” Ms Hayhurst described.
Obtaining that land prepared for advancement has been some thing a quantity of national bodies have been loudly advocating for, with just one such entity, the House Council of Australia (PCA), stating that the steps display the government’s “commitment to strategic and sustainable planning”.
PCA chief government Michael Zorbas said he is relieved to see countrywide cupboard “tackling our housing provide deficit in a coordinated way for the very first time in a very long time”.
“Decades of strategic failure by governments has remaining us an unacceptably land-rich, housing-bad country. There is a deficit of provide in social, important worker and market housing across the state,” Mr Zorbas explained.
He added that he hopes Wednesday’s announcement marks “the initially day of a strategic and accountable procedure for offering the housing Australians need”.
The Urban Taskforce CEO, Tom Forrest, in the meantime, similarly welcomed the boosted goal for setting up and the organizing reforms set to support the course of action, noting: “This is the 1st time in a long time that the Commonwealth has provided significant funding aid to motivate the states to improve their setting up techniques and target on the output of new housing.
“By placing cash on the table, the Commonwealth is now in the driver’s seat on improved housing provide,” he reported.
But Mr Forrest pointed out that it would be no effortless feat to ramp up development to the stage necessary.
“The NSW share will be 387,000 new residences about the 5 years. That means we will need to have an ordinary of around 77,000 new homes completed each yr. Previous calendar year, there ended up only 47,000 new residences concluded in NSW,” he noted.

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2012 has, so far been a positive year for wineries around the world. While it may be a little too early to speak of the wines being made in the northern hemisphere, European and North American wineries have already begun reporting that their harvesting season has been generally very good, and are predicting to continue with the kind of successes they saw in 2011. However, 2012 has been something of a late year for France, due to unpredictable weather throughout the summer, and the grapes were ripening considerably later than they did in 2011 (which was, admittedly, an exceptionally early year). French wineries are claiming, though, that this could well turn out to be advantageous, as the slow ripening will allow the resulting wines to express more flavour and features of the terroir they are grown in.
The southern hemisphere has seen ideal climatic conditions in most of the key wine producing countries, and Australia and New Zealand particularly had a superb year, in particular with the Bordeaux varietal grapes that grow there and which love the humidity these countries received plenty of. Also enjoying a fantastic year for weather were wineries across Argentina and Chile, with the Mendoza region claiming that 2012 will be one of their best vintages of the past decade. Similar claims are being made across the Chilean wine regions, where Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon had an especially good year. These two grape varietals also produced characterful wines on the coastal regions of South Africa this year.
There continues to be much debate surrounding the name of the Shiraz/Syrah grape varietal, with many experts still quite unsure which came first. Indeed, even the origins of this varietal are more or less unknown, despite it being most commonly associated with the Rhone Valley of France, and New World countries, most notably Australia. However, its popularity and unique characteristics have seen it planted all over the world, where it continues to impress with its powerful flavors and wonderfully spicy notes of pepper and clove. Shiraz/Syrah wines are renowned also for their versatility, and are regularly used in single variety still and sparkling wines, as well as blended and oak aged wines which demonstrate its ability to express its terroir and secondary flavors very well.
Australia is known around the world for the high quality of its flavorful Shiraz wines, and Barossa Valley, near the city of Adelaide is surely the home of the finest Shiraz grapevines in the country. The first vineyards in the Barossa Valley were established in the late 19th century by German settlers, however today there are dozens of high quality and unique businesses operating in the region, making the most of the temperate continental climate the valley enjoys, and producing a wide range of wines made from various grape varietals. Whilst Shiraz grapes thrive particularly well in this part of Australia, there are now vineyards in Barossa Valley growing all kinds of red and white grape varietals, and showing a real flair for flavor, aroma and complexity brought about by a strong mix of traditional and modern techniques.
With over sixteen thousand hectares of Australian land now under vine, Australia has become something of a world leader in regards to wine production. One of Australia's key attributes to their success has been their willingness to leave traditional vineyard practices to one side, and develop techniques which are perfectly suited to a New World country. Modern Australian wineries take into consideration the climate and the unique soil types which cover much of their country, and have had fantastic results from cross-breeding programs and blending practices which make the most of the grape varietals which thrive most successfully there, notably the Shiraz and Chardonnay grapes. In recent years, Australia has been lauded as the 'most influential' wine producing country in the world, and the rest of the New World is looking down under for inspiration, and the ability to produce comparable fine wines on their own terrain.

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Verizon Wireless and AT&T customers may experience sporadic outages throughout Livingston County Tuesday afternoon.
Livingston County Central Dispatch posted on its Facebook page that they were aware of the outages and residents should call 911 from a land line in case of emergency.
Other parts of the country have been affected as well.
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CBS, above anything else, is a business. And businesses exist to create revenue. I think where the author says CBS is “wise” is more pointing out how CBS is effective at putting out a product that pulls in the most viewers, while seemingly doing it with as little effort as possible. Perhaps “wise” is the wrong adjective here; I would say “shrewd” fits better.
On that same thought, you really can’t blame CBS for their low quality programming: it only exists if people actually show up and watch. If people don’t tune in for their recycled jokes (TBBT, Broke Girls) or recycled premises (pretty much every one of their new shows), then they would have to look for new ideas to elevate viewership. The fact that many of their long-running shows are still top 20 draws is really more of an indictment of American TV viewers in general, because CBS is just giving them what they want.


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While severe weather events like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Harvey dominate the news for weather-related disasters, the majority of insurance claims for weather-related events come from much more mundane, small-scale weather phenomena.
Insurance companies have noticed that existing weather-claims models do not adequately capture why this is so and are looking at way to remedy this so they can set appropriate premiums. More accurate models would also benefit local governments and businesses by identifying the most at-risk areas for flooding.
A team led by Christian Rohrbeck of UK’s Lancaster University studied a decade of data from three Norwegian cities to understand the relationship between the weather and insurance claims and why existing models could not adequately capture that relationship.
Rohrbeck and his team noticed that some of the verified claims of flooding were on days when the weather was mild and dry, which was surprising. So the team tried out a temporal clustering algorithm “which brings together insurance claims made over a small number of days, which the researchers believe are likely to be associated from just one weather event. In contrast, existing models separately count claims made on consecutive days.”
Rohrbeck told Insurance Business:
“By using a clustering approach, which has not been used in insurance before, we are getting a better insight into the association between weather conditions and claims, which helps to more accurately predict how many properties will flood,” he said. “The improved information from our model should help insurance companies, and authorities, to offer improved information to their customers, and residents, when weather conditions are likely to result in substantial localised flooding.”
Temporal clustering is a new subfield of data mining that collates information from sensors that record data and note time and location in real-time. It identifies time frames where the model gauges the likelihood that one event will trigger the occurrence of a similar event at a probability greater than random chance.
The use of a clustering approach sidesteps the daily reportage shortcomings of existing weather models that insurance companies rely on and represents a better approximation of the relationship between the weather and insurance claims.


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So.. I am in love with you… Oh how much I hate to acknowledge this, to admit this, but .. no point denying it anymore, cause I cannot deny it, I feel it in every cell of my body and mind and heart..
I did not want this to happen.. I wanted to stay cool, to play cool, to not get really involved, to not crave for you, to be able to stand apart without missing you for a moment, and look, oh just look where it lead me..
And I do not want anything more than to escape this, to escape these feelings, and sadness that comes with it… this mixture of suffering and joy, of love and despair, of craving and knowing you can never be mine.. the way I wish you to be now..
You are hers, and she is yours, and that is the end of this story. What the hell I just let happen?
Why on earth did I not prevent this..
Why are you so good to me, every look at me, every notion, every little gesture, just hits me where I am vulnerable… and you get another piece of my heart…
I think you have it all at this stage.. and I want it back.. will you please just give it back to me? Why can’t you? Why you say you do not want to? That your logic is saying one thing but your feelings another? and that you are lost…
Are we both lost?
You do not seem to be lost, if I may be honest.. It seems this is easy for you… You have it both ways, I have it none it looks like.. I shouldn’t have it any way anyways..
Can you just leave me alone? Can we just go back to being friends and colleagues, and then, then there will be peace in my heart again.. Peace in my heart and in my soul…
Just stay from that side of the line please.. Do not cross it anymore, every time you want to touch me and hug me and kiss me and caress me, cause I cannot say no to you, I take it every single time and then I crave for more of it..
Fck, what did I do to myself….


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Ormesby School's inclusion policy has caught the eye of Government education chiefs.
The school, along with King's Manor, Hall Garth and Unity City Academy in Middlesbrough, is part of the Government's behaviour improvement programme.
Ormesby's motto is: Where everyone matters and where everyone succeeds.
"We look at that in everything we do, in our actions and our policies," said Mike O'Brien, deputy headteacher.
Over the past four years the school has developed a policy which has seen the introduction of an inclusion unit, study support centre, and good behaviour schemes.
It also works with various agencies including specialist social workers and mental health workers through the education authority's Behaviour Education Support Team.
If a child reaches a serious level of bad behaviour instead of being sent home they go to the inclusion unit.
"There is fresh drinking water there and they can bring a packed lunch and they are given school work," explained Mr O'Brien.
Children with extreme behavioural problems can be taught in the study support centre with a specialist teacher.
The Total Learning Challenge enables groups of eight children to work with two teachers to modify their behaviour through group therapy.
And the Excel programme is a club which allow pupils to take part in community projects and meet new people.
Last year the school only excluded one pupil.

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By Georgia Rowe for the Mercury News
July 20, 2008
Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D major, "Prague," has prompted critics to reach for superlatives since its inaugural performance. Franz Niemetschek, the composer's first biographer, was so moved by the work's 1787 premiere, he declared it "a real masterpiece of instrumental composition . . . played with great Úlan and fire, so that the very soul is carried to sublime heights."
Those words from more than two centuries ago might just as well have described Thursday's opening concert of this year's Midsummer Mozart Festival.
Festival founder and music director George Cleve capped a winning program at Mission Santa Clara with a dynamic performance of the "Prague" symphony, one suffused with the spirit and insight that have made him one of the music world's most celebrated Mozart conductors. If there's a secret to the success of this annual all-Mozart bash - now in its 34th season - it's Cleve's ability to bring to life not just the music, but the wit and vibrant humanity of its composer.
Thursday's program, which repeats Sunday night in Berkeley, also included fine performances of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, the Oboe Concerto in C major and the Divertimento in D major.
Yet it was "Prague" that clearly demonstrated why Cleve and his orchestra continue to set the gold standard for Mozart performances among Bay Area orchestras. From the great chords that introduce the first movement, to the gripping tutti passages of the finale, Cleve mined the score for vast reserves of color and drama. The conductor, who spends much of the year leading opera performances, elicited sound that was massive, cohesive and, yes, operatic.
Which is not to say that the performance overlooked nuance. Every detail was in place: The sharply etched figures for violins, the soaring parts for woodwinds and bold contributions from the brass.
But Cleve knows how to mold the score into something greater than the sum of its parts, and that was the effect here - monumental and deeply profound. It certainly was not the polite, decorative Mozart of garden parties and shopping malls.
With pianist Jon Nakamatsu as soloist, Cleve also achieved excellent results in the Piano Concerto No. 23. This is one of Mozart's most frequently performed concertos, but the conductor and his soloist made it sound newly minted. Nakamatsu approached the opening allegro with his customary blend of agility and flair, dashing off even the most difficult passagework with elegant precision, while the orchestra lent the movement its essentially sunny hue.
Things turn darker in the slow central movement, where Mozart plunges into the key of F-sharp minor; the soloist introduces a pensive theme echoed by woodwinds, offset by horns and strings. Cleve conducted with authority, and Nakamatsu played with exquisite poise. The finale, buoyed by Cleve's urgent direction, sounded especially vivacious.
The Oboe Concerto featured Laura Griffiths, principal oboist of the San Francisco Ballet and former principal of the Cleveland Orchestra. She's a confident player, and she gave an outstanding performance, spinning out Mozart's long, lyrical solo lines with beautifully placed emphasis (and seemingly endless supplies of breath).
The outer movements were cheerful and sprightly. But it was the central adagio - led with great delicacy by Cleve and played with glowing tenderness by Griffiths - that made this performance memorable.
The program opened with a luminous, luxuriant reading of the Divertimento. Here, as with the longer works, Cleve demonstrated why Mozart still matters.
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Since his 2020 EP “Say it Again”, DASH30 further explored his darker electro sound, expanding past themes of love towards bittersweet nostalgia in his self-released “NOTHING FEELS THE SAME” EP. Yet, his sound always hinted at a brighter, R&B laced pop sheen.
Now, DASH30 proudly debuts his new pop sound on Montaime with “whatchu want?”, a refreshingly upbeat song with the familiarity of the producer’s signature electro tendencies and deeply personal lyricism.
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Arches & Grecian Statues
Mayawati spattered the Uttar Pradesh landscape with stone elephants, CM Jayalalitha’s stamp on Chennai will be arches and even Grecian statues. This week, she was out inspecting a site between Fort St George and the War Memorial to construct an arch to commemorate the diamond jubilee celebration of the state assembly which was constituted in 1952.
Incidentally, Speaker, K. P. Dhanapalan, announced after being sworn in, that the diamond jubilee celebration which was supposed to be on October 29 will now be held on November 30. The postponement is so that the arch will be ready and also because the CM would like President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee to be present.
“It will be a majestic structure, befitting the beauty of the historic Fort St. George. The structure will continue to remind people of the historical occasion,” the CM, who will lay the foundation stone for it on October 29, said. The arch will be 40 feet in height and 80 feet in width and will encompass traditional and modern architecture. There is no news of how much this is going to cost.
But we know how costly the restoration of the Anna arch, the entrance to Annanagar which was built in 1985, is— Rs one crore plus. Initially the plan was to demolish it— at a cost of Rs 8 lakh— to make way for the Rs 117 crore flyover-subway project that was planned to ease traffic congestion. After three days of electric saws and diamond cutters early last month, the arch refused to tumble down leading to Jayalalitha intervening to stop the demolition and ordering that the flyover-subway plan be changed so that the arch could be saved.
So, the arch stood precariously held up by a crane that was hired at a reported cost of Rs 4 lakh every day! Do the math— Rs 4 lakh for almost a month and that includes the time it will still hold it up during the restoration. So when will the flyover, that was planned to ease traffic snarls, come up? At least six more months for the altered plan and then the time taken for construction. So brace for more chaos on a road that was better off before the saga of the demolition that never was.
MGR Memorial Makeover
Then there is the MGR Memorial at Marina beach which is going to lose the arch and get two giant concrete leaves, the symbol of the party he founded in 1972. Earlier the entry arch was in the shape of folded hands. But what is going to be new is a 12-foot bronze sculpture of a winged-horse (Pegasus) on a 4.5 metre high pedestal. A sculptor from Mamallapuram is going to get the horse ready by October, while the two-leaves will be ready soon afterwards. Thus MGR gets a makeover of his memorial at a cost of Rs 3.4 crores in time for his death anniversary on December 24.
Jayalalitha V/s Vijayakant
DMDK chief Vijayakant knows that right now— with 29 MLAs and him being opposition leader— is as good as it is going to get for his party unless he has an alliance. Amidst rumours that he and the Congress are talking to forge an alliance for the 2014 general elections and that even talks between the DMDK and DMK are going on, Vijayakant has said, “DMDK is ready to consider forming an alliance with a party that would give assurances through written statement regarding upholding the interests of Tamil Nadu, in all respects.”
Speaking in his constituency, Rishivandhyam, this week, Vijayakant claimed he was prepared to contest on his own— a message to potential allies. He tried it once and he is still bitter— “I regret aligning with the AIADMK for the 2011 assembly elections,” he says. He cannot get past being suspended in the assembly in February this year following a slanging match between him and CM Jayalalitha on who had helped whom to win. The combine including the left had won 196 of the 234 seats.
It appears no less difficult for Jayalalitha to forget the “audacity” of Vijayakant in challenging her on the floor of the house. She keeps taking cracks at him frequently. The latest was when she visited her constituency, Srirangam, last month. She had her audience agog when she narrated a story about the friendship between a big businessman and a small merchant that turned sour. The merchant decided to go to court against his erstwhile friend and approached an advocate. But the latter turned down the merchant’s brief only to relent reluctantly after the latter’s entreaties. And thanks to the advocate, the merchant got a verdict in his favour. In other words, Amma was reluctant to tie-up with Vijayakant’s DMDK and gave in because he kept on begging. The result was his party won (29 MLAs) with her party’s support.
The publicity that DMK chief M Karunanidhi got for wearing a black shirt last week must be making Amma kick herself. Karunanidhi said his original plan was to wear a black shirt while participating in the human chain planned by the DMK to highlight the failure of the AIADMK government on all fronts on October 5, but since the state government denied permission for the protest, he has decided to wear black shirt permanently to express his opposition to the present regime. Amma must be kicking herself. If only her government had given DMK permission to protest, they would have been roundly cursed by the people for causing traffic jams all over the city, already a nightmare because of the metro construction. Her refusal led to Karunanidhi, swapping his crisp white shirt (his close companion for the last over half a century) for a black shirt that became a huge talking point.
Not only that, the happy surprise among citizens last week when they found people like former deputy CM Stalin, actor Khushbu jumping into their buses to distribute pamphlets listing out Jayalalitha’s “misrule”, for the first time created a positive buzz for his party.
Wearing a black shirt brought many happy memories for the octogenarian. In 1945, Karunanidhi was the first to register for the ‘black shirt movement’ launched by Periyar. Then as part of the Dravida Kazhagam, the precursor to the two existing big Dravidian parties, Karunanidhi was often in a black shirt. Then in 1949, C N Annadurai broke away from the DK to form DMK (the same differences that Arvind Kejriwal had with Anna Hazare, participating in the electoral process, caused the rift) and Karunanidhi followed him and embraced the white shirt and abandoned the black shirt.
It’s another matter that Karunanidhi was back in his white shirt after advertising that he was going to wear the black shirt permanently because it reflected the black situation in the state because of “misrule”, he said.
Green with Envy
Was it just a coincidence that CM Jayalalitha sported a green sari when the new Speaker, K P Dhanapalan was sworn in this week? Or was she part of the green brigade that her party has suddenly morphed into to beat the successful black shirt campaign launched by the DMK?
It was not very original, in fact it was downright me-too when AIADMK cadre turned out this week in green. Even their action of distributing pamphlets— praising Jayalalitha’s “achievements”— by going from door to door was copied unfortunately. The only smart thing they did was fan out in Gopalapuram area of Chennai where Karunanidhi lives and handed out pamphlets. Even in other districts of the state and in neighbouring Puducherry, the AIADMK carried out its counter campaign by its green brigade.
The happiest in the sartorial competition has been the garment industry in Tirupur, which has taken a beating in the recession, because it suddenly had orders first for black shirts (and even black sarees sported by Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi) and later green shirts and sarees.
“We have bought 250 shirts from Chennai and have asked the office bearers of the union and branches to buy five to 10 shirts each. Some cadres even bought black shirt materials and gave it to tailors,” said former MLA Saba Rajendran of Panruti. Bulk orders were placed in units in Tirupur, Erode and Aathur too.
Not Just in the Air
There is much debate on air-safety and whether Kingfisher, currently on a partial lock-out, is safe to be allowed to soar again. But on September 26, a KF flight was hit by a tractor in Chennai airport and therefore grounded. This week, an Air-India flight to Jeddah was grounded after the tow-bar of a trolley pierced it near the engine. The plane was being towed when it hit a the trolley attached to a tractor. On August 20, the arm lift was hit by a tractor and on August 6, a Qatar airways plane was hit by a tractor too grounding it. “If you look at all the incidents, it is always because the driver or operator involved made a mistake. At the airport, mistakes can be catastrophic,” says an official from Air Operations.
Many contract drivers of airlines who ferry passengers in buses from terminals to waiting planes are either ignorant of tarmac rules (including runway markings, loading and unloading baggage) or flout them. While airlines and the Airports Authority of India claim to have qualified drivers to operate buses and manage ground handling operations, the repeated accidents prove the contrary. There are more than 700 ground handling staff at Chennai airport. How badly trained they are and the dependence on contractors to hire drivers can be gauged from the fact that a van hit a plane because the driver was wearing slippers which got entangled in the accelerator. So not only are you not safe in the skies but all bets are off even when you are on the tarmac. And they are spending crores on an International airport and getting walklators, etc!


The problems with Pixar’s latest film Up are primarily formal ones. These include the onslaught of events, and a virtual saturation of characters.
The events in Up are sequenced irregularly and create strange senses of importance: for instance, the breaking of chocolate bars takes up more time in the film than a trans-hemispheric journey. A rare bird turns out to be rainbow colored, in case one has missed the colorfulness of the house or the vast cluster of helium balloons that provide it with lift. The events that are the best in the film achieve a majestic quality of slow time that could have been maintained throughout—such as the excruciatingly drawn out, diagonal ride of an electric stair-chair descender. This film really only needed about four events; as it is, there are dozens of events that fill out the plot, and too many of these events flit by so quickly that they cannot be substantive, and therefore are throwaway. More of the story's time could have been given to the defiance of urban sprawl, the isolation and domesticity of unregulated air space, and the spectacular vistas that we see so well in a few scenes early in the film.
When too many characters flood the plot, narrative sensitivity and attention to detail can tend to be dampened. In this case, the gradual introduction of more and more characters climaxes with a canine infinitude that is more ridiculous than funny. In a film like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, hoards of running, red-eyed humans gone mad works; in a film that should remain skyward, such as Up, hundreds of talking cyborg dogs on the ground do not work so well. This character splurge rather ruins the conceit of an animation film, wherein anything is possible—which is precisely why some things should not be done. Restraint would seem to be the key to digital storytelling.
Finally, a missed opportunity: an airline or aircraft manufacturer could have benefited from a case of ingenious 'product placement' with the ballooned house seen from an airliner cruising by, people gawking while sipping small cups of soda. Here are some rough ideas:
Up made me nostalgic for the quiet, richly intertextual and darkly comical Wall-E of last summer. Or maybe it just exposed just my penchant for the post-apocalyptic genre, which I plan to teach a class on this coming fall.


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Miners Push For Ethereum Hard Fork as Sales of ETHW IOUs Continue
The crypto community has been laser-focused on Ethereum’s upcoming Merge, which will transition the blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The transition is expected to occur this month, although there have been several tests in the years leading up to the Merge, which will go down as one of the most significant events in the history of cryptocurrency.
However, as the time of the Merge approaches, there is growing discussion about creating a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain — continuing the proof-of-work chain in addition to the new proof-of-stake network.
Switching to Proof-Of-Stake
There’s been talk of transitioning Ethereum from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake since at least early 2016. One of the primary reasons has been the significant energy required to complete a transaction on Ethereum. A single transaction on the blockchain consumes just as much energy as the average U.S. household in an entire week, resulting in the carbon footprint of watching more than 20,000 hours of YouTube.
The large amount of energy required to complete transactions on proof-of-work blockchains has been one of the perennial arguments against cryptocurrencies, which is why there’s been a push toward proof-of-stake. Proof-of-work blockchains complete transactions via miners that solve complex mathematical problems, although mining is more about solving problems in exchange for newly minted tokens.
However, proof-of-stake blockchains utilize stakers who lock up their tokens to secure the network. Proof-of-stake protocols also significantly reduce the environmental impact of crypto mining and the resultant waste associated with proof-of-work blockchains.
What is the Merge?
Since it was created, Ethereum has been a proof-of-work protocol. However, after the Merge, miners who have been mining ether, the native token of the Ethereum network, will lose the ability to mint new ether tokens. Essentially, they’ll be put out of work and stuck with worthless mining rigs designed for ether because, after the Merge, ether will be created via staking rather than mining.
The Merge is called as such because it will be formed from the merging of the Ethereum blockchain with the Beacon Chain, also referred to as the consensus layer. The Ethereum Foundation describes the Beacon Chain as “an essential precursor to upcoming scaling upgrades” and “a ledger of accounts that conducts and coordinates the network of stakers.”
The foundation emphasized that the Beacon Chain doesn’t process transactions or handle smart contract interactions as the Ethereum network does. Instead, it’s a new consensus engine that will replace proof-of-work mining, upgrading Ethereum in the process. The Beacon Chain introduced proof-of-stake in its transition with Ethereum, creating a new way for users to keep the network secure. Although the Beacon Chain has already been live for some time, it has existed as a separate chain from the main Ethereum network since it began.
When the Merge takes place, Ethereum’s developers will take the proof-of-work algorithm currently at work on the Ethereum network and replace it with the proof-of-stake algorithm on the Beacon Chain, hence, the “Merge” name.
Proof-of-work protocols involve the use of nodes, which are computers that make up a massive network and compete with each other to solve complex math problems. The successful ones are rewarded with a new token for their efforts.
However, proof-of-stake protocols are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly because they select nodes using an algorithm that prefers the nodes that hold more of the network’s currency. These nodes’ stakes are rewarded with new tokens.
A Proposed Hard Fork
After the Merge, Ethereum is expected to slash its energy consumption by about 99%. It should also speed up the pace of transaction completion significantly. However, not everyone is happy with the new arrangement.
Specifically, miners with sizable investments in Ethereum mining rigs will lose the ability to mint new ether tokens when those computers suddenly become obsolete. Ethereum miners generated over $620 million worth of ether just in July alone, so the disappearance of this income stream is quite significant.
As a result, a group of miners proposed last month to fork the Ethereum network to create a new form of ether that could still be mined, suggesting that the new token be tagged as ETHW. However, after initially capturing strong enthusiasm for the new token, the ETHW price tumbled, losing its momentum after only about a week of trading.
At this point, ETHW still doesn’t technically exist. The only way it ever will exist is if its supporters can successfully create a hard fork on the Ethereum network, splitting it into the proof-of-stake token that ether will become after the Merge and the continuation of the minable, proof-of-work token.
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IOUs For ETHW Tokens
Some crypto exchanges expect the theoretical ETHW token to generate significant interest, so they’ve listed “IOU” versions of the token for trade, which is why prices have been attached to it despite the fact that it doesn’t exist yet.
Holders of those IOUs for ETHW tokens will see those IOUs convert to actual cryptocurrency if the ETHW fork is successful following the Merge. However, if the fork is unsuccessful, those IOU holders will see their tokens converted into the new proof-of-stake ether.
The tumbling price for those IOU ETHW tokens suggests that interest around the proof-of-work version of ether is insignificant and driven by miners hoping to continue minting new tokens and selling them. Ethereum’s core developer, Preston van Loon, says he doesn’t think ETHW will be sustainable. He thinks there won’t be enough buyers to absorb the constant selling pressure from miners, which will send the cryptocurrency to zero.
Should there be Another Hard Fork of Ethereum?
For now, the debate over whether to execute a hard fork of Ethereum at the time of the Merge continues. A hard fork occurs when a cryptocurrency splits into two different tokens.
Tron founder Justin Sun is one of the most prominent supporters of a hard fork at the Merge. He tweeted recently that his Tron-based stablecoin USDD will become the “first stablecoin in the EthereumPOW ecosystem.” Miner Chandler Guo is another high-profile supporter of a hard fork of Ethereum.
At the end of the day, holders of ether shouldn’t be affected by the Merge or the transition to proof-of-stake. Their ether should be worth the same both before and after the Merge, barring any significant selling or buying triggered by the event.
It remains to be seen whether the miners backing a hard fork will have their way or whether a new proof-of-work token will draw any investment from crypto enthusiasts after the Merge.
Do you think there should be a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain at the time of the Merge? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.


Coronavirus Response from CDC Is an Omen for Single-Payer Healthcare Shortages for All
The spread of the coronavirus epidemic to the United States is giving all Americans a first-hand look at what life would be like under a single-payer healthcare system, such as the Medicare-for-All proposals advocated by several U.S. politicians. That’s because of the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in managing the federal government’s primary response to the spread of what is now officially classified as a pandemic.
When the extent of the developing coronavirus epidemic within China became widely known in January, leading that nation’s authoritarian leaders to impose a draconian quarantine affecting tens of millions of its people, the clock began ticking for the CDC’s centralized bureaucrats to develop an effective response for when the viral infection would begin showing up in American cities, which would only be a matter of time. Reporting by ProPublica‘s Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill and Isaac Arnsdorf indicates much of the time they had was wasted:
As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from China to country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test.
The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.
As a result, until Wednesday the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration only allowed those state labs to use the test—a decision with potentially significant consequences. The lack of a reliable test prevented local officials from taking a crucial first step in coping with a possible outbreak—“surveillance testing” of hundreds of people in possible hotspots. Epidemiologists in other countries have used this sort of testing to track the spread of the disease before large numbers of people turn up at hospitals.
If the CDC had developed their test to complement the tests that had already been developed and deployed by the U.N.’s World Health Organization in other countries, then medical laboratories across the United States could have worked around its limitations. But because the CDC’s bureaucrats effectively established a government-run monopoly to mandate the use of their flawed in-house coronavirus test, the ability of U.S. medical professionals working at hospitals and private laboratories to develop and conduct independent tests to detect the infection has been hampered.
The good news is that the Trump administration broke the CDC’s monopoly by allowing competition from private-sector labs to meet the nation’s growing demand for diagnostic tests.
But it’s very telling that the CDC’s centralized bureaucracy’s initial response to the problem they created was to impose strict rationing not just of who could conduct and evaluate the tests, but also rationing of who could be tested. City Journal‘s Roger D. Klein describes the CDC’s self-inflicted crisis from its foray into single payer-style health care:
It’s troubling that community spread in Washington State and other parts of the U.S.—possibly affecting hundreds to thousands of individuals—wasn’t detected sooner. Overregulation of diagnostic testing has played a major role in this delay. For weeks, the CDC operated the nation’s sole diagnostic laboratory for coronavirus, while testing in the rest of the world proceeded apace. Test protocols using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were publicly available shortly after Chinese researchers published (or described) the sequence of the virus in mid-January. The World Health Organization (WHO) used a freely available German procedure to create a test kit, shipping 250,000 tests to 159 laboratories worldwide. Since early February, the WHO has facilitated specimen transfer to referral laboratories.
In China, labs have tested thousands of patients each day. By February 23, the Chinese government had approved ten test kits, and production capacity reached 1.65 million tests per week. Meantime, South Korea has more than 500 testing sites and has screened over 100,000 people, reportedly testing 10,000 individuals per day and pioneering “drive-through” testing facilities. This enhanced testing capability is a key reason why the country has reported over 5,100 cases—the second-largest, outside China—including larger numbers of patients with mild illness, as reflected in a case fatality rate less than 1 percent. As of March 3, the U.K. had tested nearly 14,000 cases.
By contrast, the U.S. had performed a paltry 472 tests by March 2. Further, CDC testing criteria have precluded recognizing community spread because of requirements stipulating recent travel to China or exposure to an infected person. Adherence to these guidelines delayed testing in the first probable case of community transmission, in Northern California, by four days.
It could be worse. China, which saw the origination of the viral outbreak in the city of Wuhan, has a fully government-run healthcare system. Eighteen years ago, Regie Hamm encountered how its healthcare system operates when he and his wife had to rush their newly adopted daughter to a public hospital in that country:
As we stepped in more urine, took our number from the print-out machine, walked past the line of children whining and crying from the scalp IVs in their heads, then rushed to clean up blood and mucus (left by the last patient) on the plastic table they were now laying our baby on, then waited on the ONE overworked doctor (attending to no less than three hundred people) try to round up a basic anti-biotic to administer to my daughter (right there on site – no refills) it dawned on me what I was seeing and what I had been seeing this whole time. I wasn’t watching a “backward” culture or a third-world society. These people weren’t genetically inferior to first-worlders. They weren’t “less-evolved” than I was.
I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA? Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food? The government? They don’t answer to you. The press? They are owned by the government. And again, they don’t answer to you.
So what if you don’t like the conditions in the hospital? Where else are you going to go? This hospital is the last (and only) stop. You can’t opt for another place and then just pay out of your own pocket. The government has capped financial upward mobility. There is now “income equality.” And that means nobody has the means to buy their way into a different (or better) situation. And even if you could, one doesn’t exist. The state provides it all. You’re stuck.
The CDC and its response to coronavirus has provided Americans with a small taste of what life under a government-run, single-payer healthcare system would be like, with the bureaucrats who make decisions that have life-or-death impacts reigning supreme in regard to what care will be provided and who will be allowed to get treatment. Who wants more?


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Commencement exercises for Spring Lake Park High School seniors took place Friday evening, May 31 in the school’s gymnasium. A total of 334 students received diplomas.
The high school band, under the direction of Brian Lukkasson and Nora Tycast, played the traditional “Pomp and Circumstance” as the students filed into the gymnasium, followed by a presentation of the colors and the “Star Spangled Banner.”
SLP Principal Jane Stevenson said the class of 2013 had navigated through many changes.
“Concentrate not on what you’ve accomplished but what you’ve yet to accomplish,” she said.
Student speaker Jack Fish thanked staff members, his parents and friends for their support throughout the years. “Students, it’s been a wild ride,” he said.
Student speaker Emily Lukens said the 2013 class will be prepared “no matter where we go, or what we do.”
“I predict that we’re going to be a pretty successful class,” she said. “We’re going to be successful because we know how to adapt.”
Angel Godinez, a graduating senior from the Learning Alternatives Community School and student speaker, warned fellow graduates that they will meet challenges. “Push yourself hard to get through them,” he said.
The choir, under the direction of Jeff Wressell, sang “You’re Gonna Miss This.”
Cary Elhardt, counselor of the graduating class, shared a few numbers. More than 100 students in the class had taken advance placement courses, 41 were awarded the President’s Academic Award for a 3.5 grade-point average, 53 grads took college post secondary option courses, five earned associate of arts degrees and 80 percent of the class had applied to a college this past semester, he said.
Finally, Superintendent Jeff Ronneberg said, “It will be the little choices you make that will have the biggest influences in your life.”
He urged the class to take the time to recognize those who have supported them throughout the years.
“The future is in front you,” he said. “The rest is up to you.”
Following the commencement exercises, an all-night party was held at Brunswick Zone in Blaine.
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+1 to what Pannu said above, but if you don't want to do so there's nothing wrong with giving the packages something to make them feel more at home. Drawn comb is great and will allow the queen to start laying faster, brood will keep their population up (remember many of the package bees will die before new bees hatch in three weeks), and honey/pollen will make it less important to feed the package.
Just make sure you don't accidentally move your existing queen along with the brood frames! you can shake all bees off the frame before moving it.
I LIKE to give a package a frame of brood as well as a drawn or partially drawn comb for the queen to lay in while they begin construction.
Brood will help Anchor them, meaning they will be a little less likely to abscond because they decide they dont like the new home. The brood will emerge and provide some younger bees to care for the brood the new queen is now laying.
IF your situation allows it, a frame of brood and a drawn comb will give a package a huge head start.
My background was breeding queens, we used to make broodless nucs up by the thousand with a queen cell. Getting the bees to stay there was an art form. Very occasionally we would have brood to give them and this stabilised things hugely.
I think giving a frame of emerging brood to newly installed packages is a good idea. In fact, it will help in preventing supercedure at the three week period.
There is an imbalance in package bees. The new colony is trying to raise an increasing amount of brood, requiring an increasing number of nurse bees. Trouble is, the bees are getting older by the day. So, by the time there are any bees emerging which will become the new nurse bees, all the bees in the package are too old to be effective nurses. The imbalance gets critical at the three week in time period, the bees sense the imbalance, and who do you think they blame? The queen.
Add a frame of emerging at about 1-2 weeks in when you check to see how the queen is laying.
Yeah, if you have frames of brood you can spare, I recommend doing so.
Just try to grab capped brood, not open larva/eggs. The reason is because uncapped brood still needs to be fed, and a package may or may not be able to provide enough food for an entire frame's worth of brood when they're barely managing to fend for themselves. Capped brood doesn't need to fed by the bees though.
I think any package can handle one frame of open brood and open brood does more to anchor them to the box. Emerging brood, or course replenishes the work force faster. Ideal would be one open, one capped, one pollen and one honey frame and one empty drawn comb... but then you have a nuc... but that is a serious head start for a package.
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Anyone interested in movies probably heard about this movie. Adventure Harbor is a great lesson in filmmaking for all aspiring directors. Before you read this review and before I spoil you the story, watch the movie, I highly recommend it. Adventure Harbor turned out to be better than I predicted. Everytime I watch Adventure Harbor movie online, I'm really enjoying the music, it is just pure soul of this movie. The opening song still gives me goosebumps and increases the temperature of my body. Play the... Show more
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Codename Amerikabomber was more than just a top secret nazi aircraft, but infact the first stage in a plan to assult and conqure the united states of america. The inital strategy was to harrasle the population centers of the east coast, diverting US resources to home defence, and distilling the appitite for war of the american public.
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The plan also included a list of 21 targets, mostly aircraft manfactores in the eastern seaboard, in an effort to ground the American airforce. The H.XVIII was one of many proposed designs for an Amerikabomber, and would have carried sufficient fuel for transatlantic flights.
The XVIIIA variant, with its wood structure, buried engines in the fuselage, flying wing design and carbon-based glue component, would have been, in theory, the first stealth bomber in history.Flying wings had several advantages over previous types of planes. With the entire surface area dedicated to generating lift, the aircraft could be 20-30% more fuel efficent and have a greater range.
Because of its smaller cross section, the flying wing would also have a smaller radar profile, making it a world first stealth bomber. But it isn’t without flaws, such as handling issues and requiring new types of engineering. The combination of speed and reduced radar detection range would have made the Horten Amerika bomber very difficult to intercept./Found And Explained


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I'd like to do creative writing with a focus on short stories and poetry.
poetry and personal journal writing.
I'd love to join a community of other writers as a way to support each others creative endeavors and give feedback on work.
I have recently moved to Berlin from Oakland, CA and would like to get re- started on writing. I'm looking forward to being inspired and infused with new creativity while discovering a new city.