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Aims: This study examined brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and reaction time (RT) during an implicit repetition priming memory task involving alcohol, polydrug, marijuana and emotional picture cues. Methods: Participants were 5 male and 5 female high-risk college students who had just participated in a cue exposure study (Ray et al., this issue). fMRI and RT data were collected while participants made decisions about previously seen and new picture cues. Results: Both behavioral RT and brain imaging data revealed strong memory priming for drug and alcohol cues. Neurologically, a repetition priming effect (suppression in neural activity for repeated cues) was observed in response to alcohol cues in the left prefrontal, bilateral occipital, and bilateral occipitotemporal regions, as well as right insula and right precuneus (Z ranged from 3.03 to 3.31 P < 0.05). Polydrug cues elicited priming in the occipital and temporal areas, and marijuana cues in the occipital area. Conclusions: Prefrontal and insular cortex involvement both in reactivity to alcohol cues (Ray et al., this issue) and subsequent implicit memory processing of these cues, as found in this study, suggests their potential role in the maintenance of high-risk alcohol use behaviors.
Much research attention in cognitive neuroscience has been focused on the search for neuronal networks that underlie implicit memory processing (Meister et al., 2005; Schacter et al., 2004). One of the most commonly studied phenomena in implicit memory is repetition priming. Repetition priming denotes a facilitative change in the ability to identify a particular stimulus because of a prior encounter with that stimulus (Tulving and Schacter, 1992). Such repetition effects have been shown to arise from as little as one stimulus exposure, yet can be long-lasting (Cave, 1997). Repetition priming has been studied using a number of paradigms, and it usually manifests as a decrease in reaction time or biased response selection when there has been a prior encounter with the stimulus (Buckner et al., 1998; Miller et al., 1996). This facilitation in reaction indicates that priming allows for a faster, more efficient neural processing of previously experienced stimuli (Badgaiyan, 2008; Schacter and Buckner, 1998; Van Turennout et al., 2000).
Although behavioral paradigms often show a reduction in reaction time (RT), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to understand the specific neural underpinnings of the repetition priming phenomenon (Buckner et al., 1998; Van Turennout et al., 2000). In the brain, suppression effects during repetition priming have been indicated by a reduction in cortical activity elicited by repeated or previously studied stimuli (Meister et al., 2005; Vuilleumier et al., 2002). The brain areas most often associated with repetition suppression effects are in the extrastriate cortex, and frontal and occipitotemporal areas (Buckner et al., 1998; Henson et al., 2000; Vuilleumier et al., 2002). Suppression of neural activity has been robustly demonstrated during repeated exposure to various classes of stimuli, including objects, words and faces (Ishai et al., 2004).
How the emotional valence of the stimuli affects memory priming is less clear. Ishai et al. (2004) demonstrated that fearful faces elicited repetition suppression effects in occipital and temporal areas and amygdala, using event-related fMRI. Ishai et al. (2006) also reported suppression effects evidenced by reduced amplitude of the magnetoencephalography (MEG) signal to repeated fearful faces in the extrastriate cortex. While these studies suggested a facilitative effect of emotional valence on priming, other studies have reported inconsistent results. Using a matching task that involved neutral and fearful faces, Bentley et al. (2003) found behavioral evidence of repetition priming for neutral, but not for fearful faces. At a neural level, they further found attenuated decreases in orbitofrontal cortex activation in response to fearful faces, relative to neutral faces, consistent with the behavioral results. Using a stimulus detection task with negative and neutral emotional pictures (International Affective Picture System [IAPS]; Lang et al., 2001) and negative and neutral emotional words, Marchewka and Nowicka (2007) found that the emotional valence of the stimuli affected RT such that only neutral stimuli showed behavioral priming effects. Thus, it is not currently certain how and under what circumstances the emotional value of a stimulus affects memory priming (c.f., Phan et al., 2002).
The question of whether negative emotional or appetitive stimuli differentially facilitate memory priming is particularly germane to understanding alcohol and drug cue reactivity. It is important to examine implicit repetition priming of substance-related cues, because maintenance of alcohol and drug use, as well as the development of substance use disorders, is believed to be influenced by implicit memory processes that lie outside of conscious awareness and effortful cognitive control (Robinson and Berridge, 1993). Accordingly, unintentional memory processes may play a key role in the promoting substance use behaviors. The present study used RT and fMRI to examine behavioral facilitation and suppression of brain activity related to repetition priming of alcohol, polydrug, marijuana and emotional picture cues in the high-risk college students who were initially exposed to some, but not all of these pictures as a part of the cue exposure study reported in Ray et al. (this issue, pp. XX). To our knowledge, behavioral and neural repetition priming responses to substance-related cues have not previously been studied. Because college students who violate university's alcohol and drug policy are at high risk to develop a substance use disorder (Barnett and Read, 2005), we hypothesized that they would demonstrate a decreased RT and a decreased brain activation, that is, reduced blood oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) response, in reaction to previously studied alcohol-, polydrug- and marijuana-related cues compared with cues from these classes that had not previously been seen (Ray et al., this issue, pp. XX).
We further predicted that the repetition priming effect would be localized in brain areas, including frontal, occipital and occipitotemporal cortices (Buckner et al., 1998; Henson et al., 2000; Vuilleumier et al., 2002). Because of the potential role of insula in reactivity to appetitive cues (Myrick et al., 2004; Naqvi et al., 2007; Tapert et al., 2004), we further included, in this study, insula as a region of interest and tentatively hypothesized repetition priming effects (i.e. suppression of neural activity in response to previously seen picture cues) would also be found in this area. Owing to the lack of consistency in the previous literature regarding the influence of emotional valence of stimuli on repetition priming, we hypothesized that neutral picture cues would demonstrate a repetition priming effect, whereas investigation of priming effects involving negative and positive emotional pictures cues was exploratory.
Participants completed this memory study immediately following their participation in the cue exposure study described in Ray et al. (2010, this issue, pp. XX). See this accompanying main study for a description of the selection of participants, their alcohol and drug use characteristics, materials, general procedures and fMRI acquisition parameters.
The experimental task was a repetition priming paradigm that included a study phase and a test phase. The study phase comprised the cue exposure paradigm that participants completed as a part of the accompanying main study (see Ray et al., this issue, pp. XX for a detailed description), and the test phase comprised the picture/non-picture decision task described below.
In between the study and test phases, participants completed a 2-min distractor task that involved counting backwards from 100 by intervals of 7. The distractor task ensured that participants were not thinking about the subset of picture cues that had been presented during the study phase. Then during the test phase, participants completed a picture/non-picture decision task, wherein they viewed a total of 360 stimuli including the 90 studied (previously viewed in Ray et al., this issue) picture cues from 6 categories, 90 non-studied (new) picture cues from the same 6 categories and 180 non-picture cues. “Non-picture” cues were created by electronically distorting pictures that were not used in the experiment. The non-pictures were partially distorted to retain some of their original picture's characteristics using a previously validated technique (Ray et al., in review). Retention of some of the original picture's characteristics in the non-pictures’ helped ensure that participants cognitively processed each stimulus cue while they made decisions about whether it was a picture or non-picture. Non-pictures were described to participants as pictures that did not represent an object, person or scene that they might potentially see in real life. Several examples of non-picture stimuli were shown as examples to ensure that participants understood the decision task. Each stimulus cue was presented sequentially and the order of presentation was randomized. We utilized an event-related design for the repetition priming paradigm, because it is more powerful than the block design for examining activation in response to single, specific trial types (i.e. priming effects) (Buckner et al., 1998; Wagner et al., 1998). Each stimulus was presented for 2.5 s and participants were asked to press the left mouse button if they decided the stimulus was a picture, and the right mouse button if they decided the stimulus was a non-picture. Both RT and accuracy data were collected. The total experimental task duration was ~30 min.
For each participant, the amount of behavioral repetition priming for each picture cue type was calculated by subtracting the mean RT (in ms) to the studied picture cues from that to the non-studied picture cues (see Table 1; Buckner et al., 1998; Ray and Bates, 2006). Only RT data for correct picture/non-picture decisions were included in the priming analyses. Errors were defined when participants did not respond within the duration limit for a particular item or made an incorrect response (pressed an incorrect response key). Response errors were rare, suggesting that participants could reliably make picture versus non-picture decisions (5.6%). Paired t-test results revealed that participants showed significant repetition priming for alcohol-related picture cues (t = 6.31, 9 df, P = 0.000, η2 = 0.82) and polydrug-related picture cues (t = 3.80, 9 df, P = 0.004, η2 = 0.62). There was a trend-level priming effect for marijuana-related picture cues (t = 2.17, 9 df, P = 0.052, η2 = 0.34). Thus, participants demonstrated large effect sizes for behavioral repetition priming involving alcohol and polydrug cues (Cohen, 1988). There were no significant repetition priming effects for positive emotional, negative emotional and neutral picture cues.
The fMRI data were analyzed using FEAT (FMRI Expert Analysis) Tool, Version 5.90, part of FSL (FMRIB's Software Library, www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl). The BOLD scans were motion corrected and spatial smoothing (Gaussian kernel FWHM 10 mm) was applied. BOLD scans for each participant were registered first to that participant's anatomical (T1; mprage) scans, and then registered to standard space using the FSL's MNI (Montreal Neurologic Institute) template.
The analysis of the fMRI data involved two stages. In the first stage of analysis, individual activation patterns for each participant in each experimental condition were obtained by subtracting baseline activity from the activity recorded during a given experimental condition. There were a total of 12 experimental conditions, including the studied and non-studied picture cues for alcohol, polydrug, marijuana, positive emotional, negative emotional, and neutral stimulus conditions. Contrasts between conditions (e.g. alcohol non-studied versus alcohol studied) were then computed by subtracting the above baseline activation of all participants in one condition (e.g. alcohol cues that were studied) from that of the same participants in a second condition (e.g. alcohol cues that were non-studied). fMRI analyses included the whole brain. Z (Gaussianized T/F) statistic images were thresholded using clusters determined by Z > 3.01 and a (corrected) cluster significance threshold of P = 0.05 (Worsley, 2001).
Participants demonstrated a neural repetition priming effect for alcohol-, polydrug- and marijuana-related picture cues, but not for emotional and neutral picture cues. During the test phase of the repetition priming paradigm, non-studied alcohol-related picture cues produced significantly greater brain activation, that is, an increased BOLD signal in right insula (Fig. 1), right precuneus, left middle frontal gyrus, left inferior frontal gyrus, left occipital fusiform gyrus (Fig. 2), right temporal occipital fusiform cortex, right occipital pole (Fig. 2) and bilateral lingual gyrus regions compared with the studied alcohol-related cues (Table 2). Non-studied polydrug-related pictures cues elicited significantly greater activation in bilateral occipital cortex and left inferior temporal gyrus compared with studied polydrug-related picture cues, whereas non-studied marijuana-related picture cues showed significantly greater activation only in the left occipital pole compared with studied marijuana-related picture cues (Table 2).
The present study used RT and fMRI to examine behavioral facilitation and brain activity related to implicit memory processing of alcohol, polydrug, marijuana and emotional picture cues in college students who binge drink and are at increased risk for developing a substance use disorder. To our knowledge, this is the first study that examined the repetition priming effects involving alcohol- and drug-related cues. The primary finding was that participants revealed strong behavioral priming and neural suppression effects for alcohol- and drug-related picture cues to which they had previously been exposed. That is, they responded in the decision task more quickly and exhibited a decreased BOLD signal in response to the previously studied (repeated) alcohol and drug cues compared with non-studied (new) alcohol and drug cues in multiple brain areas. The neural suppression results were particularly noteworthy in response to alcohol cues. We found that implicit memory processing of alcohol-related picture cues not only involved brain areas such as prefrontal, occipital and occipitotemporal that have previously been found for implicit memory processing of neutral picture and word stimuli (Buckner et al., 1998; Henson et al., 2000; Meister et al., 2005; Schacter et al., 2004; Vuilleumier et al., 2002), but also insula which is believed to play an important role in the development and maintenance of addictive behaviors and alcohol and other drug craving (Myrick et al., 2004; Naqvi et al., 2007; Park et al., 2007; Tapert et al., 2004). Similarly, we found neural suppression in the precuneus during repetition priming of alcohol cues. A recent study showed that activation in response to alcohol-related cues in the precuneus area was correlated with the level of craving among participants with alcohol use disorders (Park et al., 2007).
Considering together the results of the cue exposure study (see Ray et al., 2010, this issue, pp. XX) and the present implicit memory study, the prefrontal and insular cortices showed significantly high activation during the processing of alcohol-related cues when they were presented for the first time, indicating suppression of neural activity that occurred along with reduced RT when these same alcohol cues were processed a second time, consistent with facilitated implicit information processing during repetition priming. Given the role of prefrontal cortex in attention allocation and action planning, and the role of the insula in determining the value of a stimulus as it may affect bodily state (Paulus and Stein, 2006), one way in which implicit memory for alcohol stimuli may promote future alcohol use is through fast and effortless attention capture and valuation of remembered visceral state.
In contrast, participants did not show significant involvement of craving-related brain areas during repetition priming of polydrug and marijuana picture cues. Yet, consistent with the behavioral evidence for faster processing of drug cues, their functional imaging data did show neural evidence of priming in the occipital (marijuana and polydrug cues) and temporal (polydrug cues) areas. This pattern of neural suppression is consistent with previous priming research that used non-appetitive picture and word stimuli (Buckner et al., 1998; Henson et al., 2000; Meister et al., 2005; Schacter et al., 2004; Vuilleumier et al., 2002). The absence of suppression in insula and precuneous to drug cues appears to be consistent with participants’ much greater use of alcohol than other drugs.
Despite the finding that mandated college students showed repetition priming involving alcohol- and drug-related picture cues, they failed to show behavioral or neural priming effects in response to positive emotional, negative emotional and neutral picture cues. Several previous studies also failed to demonstrate a repetition priming effect using negative picture and word stimuli (Bentley et al., 2003; Marchewka and Nowicka, 2007). It has been suggested that a lack of priming for emotionally negative stimuli may be explained by the operation of an attentional bias mechanism, wherein attention is always preferentially directed toward emotionally negative stimuli. Thus, it may be that the level of attention remained unchanged during an initial and subsequent presentation of negative stimuli, resulting in similarly fast detection of those stimuli and, as a consequence, an absence of the priming effect (Marchewka and Nowicka, 2007). This idea, however, does not explain the present study's failure to find priming for neutral cues that was found in two previous studies (Bentley et al., 2003; Marchewka and Nowicka, 2007). It is possible that a difference in experimental methodology (matching and stimulus detection task in the previous studies versus picture/non-picture decision task in this study) contributed to this lack of consistency. Perhaps more importantly, the large RT variances in priming effects for the emotional and neutral stimuli (see Table 1) suggest that there were substantial individual differences in behavioral facilitation due to prior exposure. Six of 10 participants showed priming for the negative emotional, positive emotional and/or neutral stimuli, whereas 4 failed to show priming. The six participants who did exhibit priming did not show it consistently across the three categories, suggesting that emotional and neutral cues were differentially meaningful to different individuals (individual-level analyses are not shown but are available from the authors by request). It should also be noted that the present study involved six different categories of picture cues, so that the experimental memory processing context was more complex than in previous studies. This complexity may have contributed to preferential processing of the most individually salient cue types. In the present study of high-risk college students, alcohol-, polydrug- and marijuana-related cues appeared to be more uniformly salient in that they were successful in producing a significant priming effect as measured both behaviorally and neurologically at the group level.
This study involves the same limitations as described for the main study (Ray et al., 2010; this issue, pp. XX), including the modest N, and the absence of a low-risk control group and urine drug screen. The present study examined only exposure effects and memory for cues while participants were in the sober state. It is also important for future research to consider how these processing operations may serve to promote alcohol and drug use behaviors during the time course of drinking episodes. The literature consistently shows that repetition priming, as well as other automatic and implicit memory processes, proceed efficiently during acute intoxication at alcohol doses that significantly impair effortful memory (Fillmore et al., 1999; Ray et al., 2004; Ray and Bates, 2006; Tracy and Bates, 1999). It may be speculated that enhanced behavioral priming and neural suppression in response to alcohol cues during acute episodes of intoxication may also serve to further interfere with effortful control of alcohol use behaviors once drinking has been initiated.
This work was supported in part by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [R01 AA015248, K02 AA00325 and HHSN275201000003C] and the National Institute on Drug Abuse [P20 DA017552].

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In “Moor Pharmacy”, the artist focuses on colonial narratives surrounding Mohren-Apotheke, a pharmacy operating until 1945 in Breslau (today’s Wrocław). Before an avant-garde modernist building was erected in the northern frontage of Plac Solny in the mid-1920s, there had been burgher houses there with pharmacies operating at least from the second half of the 15th century. The exact date of establishment of the pharmacy in question is unknown, but it was mentioned for the first time in the 1489 statute regulating the functioning of Wrocław pharmacies as the newest of four such establishments in the city at the time. From the very beginning it was called Mohren-Apotheke, i.e. “Moor pharmacy.” The emblem of the tenement house and the logo of the pharmacy – the image of the “Moor’s head,” intended to trigger associations with exotic lands – was a very popular motif throughout the ages. Another important local attraction was a life-size figure of a black man, made at the end of the 19th century, which decorated the facade of the building at the height of the first floor. At the beginning of the 20th century, the pharmacy was redesigned by Adolf Rading according to the principles of De Stijl movement. He refreshed the aesthetics of the old pharmacy by giving it a geometric, modernist image and inscribing the “Moor” logo into its visual identity. This time, the sign showed a black, round face with wide eyes and a big mouth. This way of representing Africans was also used in other Western countries as visual identification of different organisations throughout the 20th century. In these strategies, the image of a black man was codified and introduced into the visual culture mainly due to his skin colour and exaggerated external features.
The logo of the Moor Pharmacy, designed by Artur Schwarz, has been taken from a newspaper clipping from around 1927; source material from the collection of the City Museum of Wrocław.

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Lakeland-based Bank of Central Florida reaches $1 billion in assets
LAKELAND — Bank of Central Florida announced Monday it has surpassed $1 billion in assets – double the value of its assets two years ago.
“To almost double the size of the bank in two years is a testament to the foundation built by the 60 employees who were here in 2019 and accelerated by the 20 employees we’ve hired since then,” David Moore, the banks' president, said in a news release.
“The bank has grown by adding relationships and fulfilling our mission to our community by providing PPP loans locally,” he added.
The Lakeland-based bank reached the milestone on Oct. 25, the release stated, adding the milestone was part of its growth strategy, Vision 2025.
Moore said its rapid growth can be attributed to an expansion into new markets. Over the past five years, Bank of Central Florida has expanded into Winter Haven, Orlando, Plant City and Tampa Bay.
Looking forward, Bank of Central Florida plans to expand into new markets while developing new services. The organization intends to continue hiring local relationship managers who know their cities’ and their clients’ needs, the release stated.
Bank of Central Florida was founded in 2007 and was chartered to serve the financial needs of the local marketplace. The bank, which is an FDIC member, says it is guided by a local board of directors with knowledge of the local business climate and who are focused on client service and offer financial services with an entrepreneurial mindset.

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December 10, 2013 3:33:42 pm
Ninety-year-old Chotubhai Makan is probably the last surviving person in South Africa who have witnessed both Mahatma Gandhi’s famous salt march in 1930 and the signing of the historic Freedom Charter in 1955 in presence of Nelson Mandela,demanding a non-racial nation.
Meeting Mandela again in 2005 on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Freedom Charter on the same site at the Johannesburg-suburb of Kliptown was a special moment for him.
“I was invited by the Premier of Gauteng to render a Hindu prayer alongside the other religious prayers. Soon after the prayers,I hurriedly took permission from the security officer,through the Programme Director,to meet Madiba,who was sitting away from the main table on the stage,” Makan said referring to Mandela’s clan name.
“I greeted him with a handshake and introduced myself as a close associate of Jasmat Nana,also known to Madiba as Jessie,who later got national orders for his anti-apartheid struggle role as well.
“I told him that I had been with Jessie on that historic day when the Freedom Charter was adopted at the same spot,although it was barren land then,unlike the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication that stands on the site now.”
“Madiba was overjoyed to hear this,stood up and shook my hand to congratulate me,” Makan said.
“I have been very privileged in my lifetime to have personally seen the two greatest leaders of the past century,Gandhiji and Madiba,” he said.
Mandela,South Africa’s first black president who steered his nation out of apartheid and into multi-race democracy,died late on Thursday after protracted illness.
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Protesters cheer at clean-up delay
Authorities in New York city have postponed the clean-up of a Manhattan park where anti-Wall Street protesters have been camped out for a month.
The announcement prompted cheers from a crowd that had feared they would be evicted.
Deputy mayor Cas Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, had put off the cleaning.
Supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park early on Friday, creating a crowd of up to 700 chanting people. A confrontation between police and protesters, who had vowed to stay put through civil disobedience, had been feared.
Brookfield believes it can work out an arrangement with the protesters that "will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use", a statement from the deputy mayor said.
Brookfield, a property firm, had called the conditions at the park unsanitary and unsafe. It had planned to power-wash the plaza over 12 hours and allow the protesters back, but without the equipment they needed to sleep and camp there.
In a last-ditch bid to stay, protesters had mopped and picked up rubbish.
The Occupy Wall Street protests have inspired similar demonstrations across the country and become an issue in the Republican presidential primary race.
Protests are also planned on Saturday in dozens of cities around the world.
The protesters' demands are wide-ranging, but they are united in blaming Wall Street and corporate interests for the economic pain they say all but the wealthiest Americans have endured since the financial meltdown.

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While [a]Method Man[/a] and [a]Ol' Dirty Bastard[/a] grab the headlines, [a]U-God[/a]'s always taken on a more low-key role in the [B]Wu-Tang Clan[/B]'s quest for world domination....
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But while a lot's changed in Wu-World since then (boutiques, nail polish and video games), U-God's still walking the same grimy streets of old and, on his debut solo album, coming out as raw as anything from The RZA's stable since 'Protect Ya Neck'.
With guest appearances from Chef Raekwon, Inspectah Deck and (surprise, surprise) Method Man, 'Golden Arms...' is a must for Wu devotees, although the impenetrable streams-of-unconscious rhymes and relentlessly doomy production may prove too much for the occasional fan. Standout tracks like the soul belter 'Bizarre' and the machine gun-fired brutality of 'Lay Down' are prime Wu-Tang cuts, but there's just a bit too much flab to qualify 'Golden Arms...' as a classic contribution to Wu-lore.
An EP dedicated to victims of the Paris attacks shows the Foos are on defiant form
The Radiohead guitarist explores traditional Indian music, with mostly impressive results
This London producer has worked with Madonna and is releasing his excellent debut as a sex toy
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Lubbock police Assistant Chief Brewer announces retirement
Assistant Lubbock Police Chief Jerry Brewer is set to retire from the department after 31 years, LPD announced Wednesday.
Brewer, who served as interim police chief in 2015 and 2019 and currently holds the title Bureau of Operations Assistant Chief, will retire Friday. A reception is set for Friday afternoon in the police department’s administration auditorium at 916 Texas Ave.
Brewer moved to Lubbock in 1986 to further his education at the Texas Tech University School of Law after graduating from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. In 1988, he was hired by the Lubbock Police Department.
Brewer is a graduate of the 25th session of the D.E.A. Drug Unit Commander Academy and the 243rd session of the FBI National Academy. He holds a Master Peace Officer Certificate with the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement.
During his tenure at LPD, Brewer served as an officer in the Field Services Bureau and investigator in the Special Operations Division assigned to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Lubbock Regional Task Force. Supervisory assignments included Patrol, Juvenile/Person Crimes sections, Training Academy, Special Operations and Administration. He has held the rank of assistant chief since 2012.
In a statement, Brewer said of his upcoming retirement, “I have been honored to serve a great community and I am forever grateful and appreciative for the opportunities and relationships during my career.”

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Great Britain Preview: Bristol De Mai back on favorite track
The top National Hunt races are spread around three venues this weekend, with graded jumping races at Ascot, Haydock, and Wincanton.
We will concentrate on the Grand National Trial at Haydock, which has drawn an even field with plenty of chances, and look for spot plays at some of the other major races.
Haydock, Race 3, 9:40 a.m. ET: Grand National Trial Handicap, 3 9/16 miles, open steeplechase
Grand National Trial Selections
- #1 Bristol De Mai
- #6 Fontaine Collonges
- #10 The Two Amigos
- #2 Quick Wave
Grand National Trial Wagers
I don’t normally like tipping 12-year-olds that have seen better days, even in handicaps. #1 Bristol De Mai at Haydock Park, however, is an exception.
Good enough to run third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup (G1) in 2019 in his heyday, the popular grey hasn’t run to that level for a while. However, he has still proven competitive at Haydock. In nine races at this track, he’s won six times and been runner-up once, and those victories include this race last year, albeit after the disqualification of the winner on the day due to a banned substance positive.
This season, he’s raced just once, for a fourth-place finish at Haydock against potential Gold Cup runners in the Lancashire Chase (G1) in November. This will be much easier, and though he isn’t the same force he once was, he can’t be ignored at this track.
Trainer Venetia Williams has two good chances here. Her top jockey, Charlie Deutsch, has chosen to ride #6 Fontaine Collonges, who this season won at this track Nov. 19 before finishing fourth at Kempton Park Dec. 27. He hasn’t raced at this distance yet, but I’ll back Deutsch’s judgment.
Williams’ other solid chance is #2 Quick Wave. She was an impressive winner at Sandown Dec. 3 and her failure in the Welsh Grand National Dec. 27 behind #10 The Two Amigos is forgivable given the very soft track that day.
Ascot, Race 3, 9:25 a.m. ET: Swinley Handicap, 3 miles, open steeplechasers
#12 Cap Du Nord may well start favorite after finishing second in a Grade 3 race at Doncaster Jan. 28, and he should go well again. But I’m going to support #7 Laskalin, who since having wind surgery in September has run three times for a first, second, and third.
- $10 win/$20 show: #7 Laskalin
Ascot, Race 5, 10:35 a.m. ET: Ascot Chase (G1), 2 5/8 miles, open steeplechase
This race last year went to #2 Fakir D’oudairies, and there’s nothing wrong with his form this season, having won the Horse & Jockey Hotel Chase (G2) at Thurles Jan. 22.
He faces former two-mile chase superstar #6 Shishkin, who’s on the comeback trail, and #5 Pic D’Orhy, unbeaten in three runs this season. But I’m sticking to the proven form.
- $20 win: #2 Fakir D’oudairies

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The imaginative journey is one in which we escape reality and are invited to acknowledge a new reality within the realms of the imagination. These journeys offer change and discovery providing valuable insight into ones past, present and future. Coleridge’s poems, “This Limetree Bower My Prison” and “Frost at Midnight” take the reader on an imaginative journey with the character through various forms of imagery placing a clear image in the readers mind. The book cover for “The Ivory Trail” by Victor Kelleher offers an artistic representation of the journey with images superimposed for added effect. The movie “The Butterfly Effect” co-directed by Eric Bress and J.Mackye Grubber is based on the chaos theory in which every little occurrence leads to a much larger event. The TV Show “Lost” follows the lives of 14 survivors of a plane crash placed in unrealistic circumstances on a strange island. These texts represent what the imaginative journey has to offer in a variety of ways.
The poems of Coleridge were written in the Romanticist era and thus, have elements of nature imagery imbedded within. For example in “Kubla Khan” Coleridge describes the location “Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man…” using nature imagery to place a clear image in the readers mind and enjambment to keep the flow of the poem. As mentioned above his poetry represents not just a journey for the character, but also a journey for the reader through the nature and sensory imagery.
“This Limetree Bower My Prison” is a poem in which Coleridge, incapacitated due to injury, takes us on an imaginative journey with him to the dell where his friends are exploring. Taking this journey gives rise to a change of opinion. Coleridge originally feels trapped giving a negative view of his situation, “This Limetree bower my prison”, using the metaphor of his situation being like a prison to emphasise the fact that he feels trapped. Upon taking the journey his opinion is changed as “A delight comes sudden on my heart, and I am glad as I myself were there”. An enjambment is used here to keep the flow of the poem while making the reader pause at the final words of each line for their emphasis. From the journey Coleridge learns for himself, and teaches the reader, that “nature ne’er deserts the wise and pure”
“Frost at Midnight” is another of Coleridge’s poems in which Coleridge, only in the company of his sleeping child, reflects upon his childhood and school life. The reflection, sparked by the dancing flames of the fire allows Coleridge to come to the conclusion that his education was poor because he “saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.” He resolves to make his sons education better than his own because his son “shalt wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores”. The importance of nature is again emphasised here clearly placing the poem in the Romantic era.
The book cover for “The Ivory Trai”l is an artistic representation of journey in which the arrangement of the images makes it one of the imagination. The head in the sand with eyes gazing is indicative of an imaginative of an imaginative journey taking place as in the imaginative journey, the journeyer often gazes and contemplates new worlds. The surrounding images are placed above the head indicating they are from the mind and further emphasising that the journey is of the imagination. The text at the top “Not all journey’s have an ending” not only makes the reader contemplate whether this journey has an ending, it also emphasises the limitlessness of the imagination.
The movie “The Butterfly Effect” is one in which the main character, Evan, takes imaginative journeys into his past in the hope of altering his future, with disastrous consequences. As in “Frost at Midnight”, the journey is sparked by a specific object, in Evan’s case, this is his diary or the home videos. The journey is represented by a blurring of the image on screen, a flash of light and we are in the main character’s past. Through multiple journeys the character comes to realise that he must die for things to be ‘right’ because he has “no soul, no lifeline” he was “never meant to be”.
The TV Show, “Lost” is one in which imaginative journeys take place for both the audience and the characters. It is a journey for the audience as they are taken from reality to the imaginative realm of the island, complete with polar bears, a mechanical ‘security system’ and a secret revealed piece by piece. It is an imaginative journey for the characters as they reflect upon their lives before the plane crash and the crash itself. The journeys often make the character make rash decisions for example when Kate reflects upon the crimes she committed she makes the decision to steal another characters spot on the raft so she has a better chance of escape.
In one particular episode, one of the characters, Locke, is reflecting on a meeting with a woman claiming to be his mother. This leads onto the dream sequence in which Locke sees a plane crash, and this woman pointing in its direction. Locke sees this as his ‘sign’ and travels along the path to eventually find the crashed plane. A key quote of his “Possible is a relative term, especially on this island” emphasises how anything is possible in the imagination and clearly places this island within the realm of the imagination.
Imaginative journeys are those in which we escape reality and are invited to acknowledge a new reality within the realm of the imagination.
Imaginative Journey Essay
The woman sat. As the piercing beeps grew louder and louder and the doctors and nurses rushed in - she sat. She didn't speak, she didn't cry, she didn't laugh and she didn't try to help. She just sat.
As the minutes turned into hours and the hours into days, the nurses worried - the bed was needed; after all it was only a public hospital. They'd offered care, consolidation, coffee and counselling, but nothing seemed to get her to move. 'What do you say?' They wondered. How do you say "Look I'm sorry, I know your husbands just died but we really need the bed so - if you could please go home and sit there instead that would be great?" You can't.
And so time went by with the woman sitting there, having no visitors, eating very little and saying even less. The truth was, she thought, what's the point? In standing up? In walking out? In going home? She had just as many people out there as she had in this place with her - no one.
And so she sat, starring into space for what seemed like an eternity. Watching the old man who'd shared a room with her husband. Watching him, get progressively better, until he realised that no one was coming to visit and then getting worse and worse and worse again until the stench of stale urine no longer filled the room, because he was gone. Gone where he beloved Ruthill had gone. Gone where she wanted to go.
And where that was? She had no idea which was probably the thing that troubled her most. They'd done everything together.
She cast her mind back to when they married and came out here so long ago. Knowing no one, they had such high hopes for what the lucky country could do for them. The usual goals - starting a family, working hard to give your kids a...
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Is the truth packaged as a lie still the truth, or merely advertising? This is the heady theme of the made-for-cable romantic comedy
“Tom, Dick & Harriet” (8 p.m. Saturday, Hallmark, TV-PG). Borrowing themes from “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “The Front,” the film stars Steven Weber.
In “Harriet,” Weber (“Wings”) plays Tom Burns, a brilliant advertising copywriter fired because his agency considers him too old and unhip for their “edgy” image. Assured of his talent, Tom hires a young con artist named Dick Sweeney (Andrew Francis) to peddle his creative wares, and soon Tom/Dick are back on top of the advertising world.
A young couple (Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow) meet at an art house cinema and assess their casual relationship in the talky 1969 romance
“John and Mary” (11:30 p.m. Saturday, TCM).
This is the least-known film in a night of Hoffman movies, beginning with
“Tootsie” (7 p.m.) and ending with
“Kramer vs. Kramer” (3:15 a.m.).
(7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Travel, TV-PG). features professional traveler Bert Kreischer, who persuades ordinary folks to let him hijack their vacation and take them someplace more exciting.
(7 p.m. Sunday, History, TV-14) surveys the Good Book from the time of Babylonian captivity to the New Testament account of Mary and Joseph's arrival in Bethlehem to take part in the census of the Roman Empire. “The Bible” is set to continue on Palm Sunday and culminate on Easter Sunday.
Professional exhibitionists (Kendra Wilkinson and Kate Gosselin) appear on “Celebrity Wife Swap” (7 p.m., KSAT, r, TV-PG).
An unwelcome addition to the search on “The Following” (8 p.m., KABB, r, TV-14).
The 2012 sequel “Men in Black 3” (8 p.m., Starz) makes its cable debut.
“The Graham Norton Show” (9 p.m., BBC America, TV-14) glances back at its 12th season.
Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6:30 p.m., KENS): Russian punk rockers; a hit man turned informant; Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
Creative questioning on “The Good Wife” (8 p.m., KENS, TV-14).
Irwin's release derails Marta's scheme on “Red Widow” (9 p.m., KSAT, TV-PG).
Earl Haralson (Gabriel Byrne) reluctantly allows Ragnar's band to have a second crack at Western booty on “Vikings” (9 p.m., History, TV-14).
Kevin McDonough is television critic for United Feature Syndicate.

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Power utility Eskom estimates that, without additional capacity, there will be an electricity supply shortfall of between 4,000 and 6,000 megawatts over the next five years, as old coal-fired power stations reach their end of life.
To address this shortfall, president Cyril Ramaphosa said that government will in the coming weeks issue a request for proposals for 2,600 megawatts from wind and solar energy as part of a bid window.
Speaking in his 2021 state of the nation address, Ramaphosa said that this would be followed by another bid window in August 2021.
“Recent analysis suggests that easing the licensing requirements for new embedded generation projects could unlock up to 5,000 megawatts of additional capacity and help to ease the impact of load shedding.
“We will therefore amend Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act within the next three months to increase the licensing threshold for embedded generation.”
Ramaphosa said that this will include consultation among key stakeholders on the level at which the new threshold should be set and the finalisation of the necessary enabling frameworks.
“Eskom has already started work to expedite its commercial and technical processes to allow this additional capacity onto the grid without undue delay.”
Ramaphosa added that over the last year, government has taken action to urgently and substantially increase generation capacity in addition to what Eskom generates:
- The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy will soon be announcing the successful bids for 2,000 megawatts of emergency power.
- The necessary regulations have been amended and the requirements clarified for municipalities to buy power from independent power producers. Systems are being put in place to support qualifying municipalities.
- Government will soon be initiating the procurement of an additional 11,800 megawatts of power from renewable energy, natural gas, battery storage and coal in line with the Integrated Resource Plan 2019.
Ramaphosa said that Eskom will also be looking to partner with investors to repurpose and repower part of its coal fleet.
“This will be done in a way that stimulate investment, local economic activity and local manufacturing, as part of a just transition,” he said.


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Rediscovering The Ancient Art Of Body Painting
Decorating one’s body is an ancient art which has been a part of every culture since the beginning of civilisation. From being a mark that identified people of one group to evolving into an artistic representation of one’s individuality, the art of decorating one’s body has been explored and defined with needles and paint brushes alike. In this two part series we discuss some of the popular means of this art.
Since the birth of civilisation, man has been fascinated by the power and glory of Nature. Over time, with his numerous experiments, he began to discover the beauty of colours derived from stones, mud, flowers, fruits and other natural sources, which gave him the freedom to dabble in monochrome and multi-coloured inks to paint on cave walls, floors, trees and most of all, himself. The human body has thus been a live canvas for artistic people since ancient times, making body art an even older practice than was previously thought. The word tattoo is derived from the Tahitian word ‘tatau’ meaning mark.
The art of body painting is present in every culture, right from Persian, Celtic, Greek and Roman to Indian, African, Russian and Australian. Body painting has been used by human beings to not only decorate and beautify themselves but also for healing purposes. In 1991, researchers discovered a five thousand year old frozen body called Ötzi the Ice Man on the mountains lying in between Italy and Austria. Ötzi had 57 tattoos which were found in those areas where he experienced joint pain, making a point that permanent tattoos were used even then as painkillers.
Pain relief was not the only function of tattoos. People used it to ink images of gods and goddesses onto their body to display their love and devotion to their religion. They also tattooed themselves to express their life experiences, social status, hopes, desires and even dreams and visions, as a way to remember them permanently.
Body paint and tattoos are used even during wars to camouflage soldiers and during religious ceremonies, weddings, deaths and also as an amulet. The Horis, i.e. the Japanese tattoo artists, were the pioneers of body painting. With their mind blowing artistic perspective and clever use of colours, they elevated the status of tattooing to a different level altogether and added a greater touch of beauty and elegance to it. Tattoos gained more popularity as a form of expression after they ruled the rock music scene in the mid 90s and were spotted on every rock star and subsequently their starstruck fans.
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Disclaimer: Death Note and all related characters and materials are property of Tsugumi Ohba and Shonen Jump.
By: Nanaki BH
"This could be our last day." Mello put down his chocolate, a gloved thumb idly toying with the crinkled edge of the wrapper. "We could be dead by tomorrow. What do you think about that?"
Matt's hold on his DS weakened. Matt knew it was inevitable. Mello was bound to talk to him about the subject sometime but he never wanted it to happen. He wanted to ignore it for as long as possible. He wanted to just turn on his game and turn off his thoughts. It was stupid to fight something that was unavoidable, though. Running away from their deaths would be a losing race.
His mouth felt too dry to speak. Instead, he looked up at Mello and searched for evidence of what he could be thinking. Unfortunately, his face was devoid of any discernible emotion. It was a blank mask; none of the usual colorfully painted expressions of anger, annoyance, or melancholy. Just nothing. Nothing that Matt could recognize. His finger briefly hovered over the off switch, tempted to flick it but not wanting to give up his only respite.
"I don't know what to think. I guess it's okay."
Mello's mouth drooped at the corners and his brows turned up in a displeased knot. His candybar lay abandoned on the table and he looked away, folding his hands in his lap. A silence proceeded in which the two only sat there at their kitchen table, feeling the other's presence, gauging the other's feelings. After hardly a minute, Mello looked to be on the verge of a breakdown. At least as far as Matt could tell. It wasn't often that Mello displayed any emotional weakness aside from his insufferable attitude, so seeing him in such obvious distress had Matt immediately worried.
Lips quivering, knees shaking, Mello hung his head. His breathing hitched and he pushed away from the table, knocking his chair down to the floor as he recklessly bolted for the bathroom. Matt remained sitting until he heard the sound of retching that soon followed. He got up and found Mello hunched at the toilet looking thinner and weaker than he'd ever seen him. A part of him wanted to remain in the doorway where he could relish the sight; to know and see for himself that Mello was a real person beneath his coarse exterior. But he already knew that. He didn't need anything more to confirm that for him.
He knelt beside him and held back his hair, gently rubbing his back until he finished. Mello sat back, eyes glossy, mind dizzy. For a while, he closed his eyes and leaned back against Matt's shoulder, letting him run his fingers through his sweat-dampened hair.
"Fuck. A day. What the hell do you do when you know you've only got a few hours to go? Who's ever had to make a decision like that?"
Matt shrugged, placing his hands down firmly on Mello's shoulders. "I'm sure there've been a lot of people. Think, like, in war or whatever. I'm sure there've been guys with blown limbs and shit who were just sitting waiting to die. What do you think they did? They tried their best and died for a cause and wouldn't have had near the length of time we have left to think about what they wanted to do."
Mello tilted his head back and looked up at Matt. "I still have all my extremities, Matt. And it's not like that was a literal question. And what the hell's with you," he muttered, blowing a strand of hair from his eyes. "You sound pretty damn resolute."
"We might not die after all, you know?"
A light smack was delivered to Matt's cheek from below. "Don't you dare say that. Don't you dare."
Matt raised an eyebrow above his goggles, surprised to hear the familiar venom reenter Mello's voice.
"Don't get too attached to your life, Matt. You're dying tomorrow. Dying. As in, you won't be alive to think about stupid stuff later, okay? Dying, as in, we need to come up with what we're going to spend our last hours doing instead of puking and sitting talking about how we're not dying."
Death? Death, huh? What an unfamiliar-sounding thing to Matt. Death was always around them, surrounding them, apparent at every corner they turned. Yet there was something about it that Matt didn't understand. Death was something that only happened to videogame characters who couldn't rejoin your party once they were killed in cutscenes. Death wasn't something for Matt. But he didn't have much of a purpose anyway. He barely benefited the players. And the only way he could truly benefit them was to sacrifice himself.
He smirked. Now if only I knew how to cast Holy, he thought, both amused and strangely depressed.
"Don't frown like that," Mello said, poking at the edges of Matt's mouth. "Smile, dammit. You've had a good life, haven't you?"
"Not really." Matt wasn't aware that he wasn't smiling anymore. That smirk failed, apparently.
Mello got up and ignored that, choosing instead to wash the stale taste of vomit from his mouth. It was better than listening to Matt whine at least. Matt remained on the floor, staring up at Mello, taking notice of how the light above the sink illuminated him in an almost divine way. He decided that if that was what Mello looked like dead, then death was going to be pretty sexy. But then again, nobody really had a way of confirming what people looked like in heaven. Or if heaven existed at all.
"I want to wear a really good pair of underwear."
Mello looked over his shoulder, an eyebrow preemptively raised.
Matt fiddled with his toes, keeping himself curled between the sink and the tub. "You know that when you get to the coroner's they take off your clothes, right? I mean, I think they do, but you're going to get stripped at some point. Nobody goes to their grave in the same clothes they died in."
"Get to the point."
"I want to be wearing good underwear so when I get stripped, everybody knows I had good taste."
A low chuckle escaped Mello's lips and he turned around so he could lean against the sink top, crossing his legs at the ankles. "But you have terrible taste."
"Yeah. But they won't know that will they?"
Mello smiled. Finally, they were getting to where he'd hoped they'd go. He wanted them to find a comfortable medium where they could accept their deaths. They'd just have to go through the five stages of grief all in one day. It was looking like they were both over denial. Mello didn't think he had anything left to be angry over anymore so he considered that one taken care of. Bargaining wouldn't happen because the deal was sealed. They didn't have time to be depressed; they had better things to do. So all that was left was acceptance. Was there really enough time to truly accept death, though? Maybe once they got some things done.
"Fine. If you're wearing good underwear then I'm wearing nothing."
Matt playfully batted Mello's pant leg. "Sounds like you." He willed himself up from the floor and wrapped his arms loosely around Mello's waist, pressing his cheek to his shoulder. A sudden sort of comfort eased into Matt's heart. It could've been the way Mello smelled. It could've been just talking that made him feel more at ease. "Maybe we should write little notes or something. I'll shove one in my pocket that says: 'Bury me next to the hot blonde'. How 'bout that?"
"Then what would mine say? 'Fine. Bury me next to the stupid-looking one'?"
Pretending to be offended, Matt reeled back, holding still to Mello's shoulders. "I'm hurt! You wouldn't do that!"
Mello snickered. "Oh yes I would. But really... Do you have anything you want to do?"
Matt seemed to actually think about it finally, staring off, eyes blank, mind swirling around things he had yet to accomplish. A lot of the things on his to-do list were ridiculous, unimportant things like doing the laundry. He could care less if he did that if he had one day to live. He still had videogames he had yet to play. "I didn't play Final Fantasy XIII yet. I heard it sucks for Wii but I really wanted to play the copy I got."
"Think you can play it in a day?"
"No way. It's supposed to take over fifty hours. I could probably pull it off in forty. Think Kira can wait that long?"
Mello tapped a boot on the tiled floor. "What do you think?"
Sighing, Matt slumped his shoulders. "Fine. I'll just have to watch some cutscenes on YouTube then and spoil it for myself. That's fine, I guess." He looked up, inquiring Mello from behind his lenses. "You have anything you really want to do?"
Honestly? He hadn't prayed in a long time. He had intended to actually use his rosary for once in what felt like a million years. While Matt was sitting at his computer surfing YouTube videos he could always just do that. Yeah. It was worth a shot. He wouldn't ask God to save them from Kira. He wouldn't even ask to be saved. He only wanted God to know that what they'd done was done with good intentions. All of it. And that was all he would think about as he muttered each Hail Mary, each Our Father, each Glory Be. He wanted to feel like he could die with some of his dignity intact. Maybe he would have Matt pray too.
"Yeah," he muttered. "Yeah, I've got something."
Matt didn't bother asking. He could tell that it was something personal. "So do you want to get some new chocolate? You should get something really fucking expensive. You can't spend money when you're dead, after all."
It sounded like a fun idea but Mello wasn't sure how well his stomach would be able to handle chocolate when he was still feeling so uptight. So long as Matt was with him, things wouldn't be too bad. It would probably still taste good if Matt put an arm around his shoulder.
"Yeah. That sounds good. You? You want anything special to eat or anything?"
Matt shook his head dismissively. He hadn't thought about it but there wasn't anything he really wanted that could be called expensive. Tacos would be a bad idea as a last meal even though that sounded kind of good. Besides, it was hard to get decent Mexican in Japan. Though, no matter where you went in the world, there was always one place you could always count on for good, wholesome American food. "McDonald's."
"You've got to be kidding."
"It's American. It's what I want. You can get what you want still."
"...No, actually, I think that sounds good."
"Seriously?" Matt asked, sounding surprised. "I thought you hated it."
"It's nostalgic. I don't mind." He took hold of Matt's wrists and pulled him down against him again, this time wrapping his own arms around Matt's waist. The contact and the warmth of Matt's body made Mello a little dizzy but not enough to make him sick again. It was a pleasant sort of disarray Matt caused. "Anything else?"
"I want to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes. Or maybe two depending on how stressed I get."
"That's a lot."
"I'm dying, aren't I? I... I'll do what I want."
"You want to sleep with me before then too, right?"
Matt's eyes locked with Mello's and they held him there, entrapped. It felt so strange to think about something like that; the last night he would spend with Mello. What would it be like? Would it be just like all the other times? Would he still wake up with Mello's arm strewn across his chest and his hair in weird directions? Would he still be the one hoarding the blankets? He wanted to think about it... He really did. But it...
Matt sniffed and a tear slipped from beneath one of his frames. "Sorry," he muttered.
For a moment, Mello looked away, either offended or trying to deny what he'd seen. Tentatively, eyes still trained on the floor, he lifted a hand to casually wipe away the tear. He brought up his finger to his mouth and licked at his finger lightly, tasting the salty combination of leather and tears. It was the saddest thing he'd ever tasted. Chocolate would make him forget about it.
It was the first time Matt had ever heard Mello tell him that. It felt like the truth and he believed it. He smiled, a real one this time. The dull ache remained somewhat, paler and more tolerable though. He imagined that if he were to die the next day, that would be what he would remember right before his eyes closed for the final time. "It's fine." That would be it.
Author's Notes: Why end it there? Because any other dialog I came up with was cheesy and broke the mood apart. By the way, I purposely said FFXIII instead of XII because in Death Note time, I figured that XIII would be out for Matt to play. Anyway, I wrote this to remember Cryfest '07. And I'm still digging MelloxMatt. I hope you enjoyed reading!

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The White Revolution and reordering of relations among the pastoralists of Gujarat: a case for pastoralist policies
This paper introduces India's dairy policy before analysing some of the implications of this policy for the pastoralists of Gujarat State, illustrating the need for pastoralist-appropriate policies. The paper argues that on the basis of mounting ecological and economic data, dairy policy in India needs to consider pastoralist management systems and livelihoods and develop appropriate policies and programmes to support them. While the programmes have created important opportunities for increased earning potential for pastoralists, they have also led to negative consequences for food security, traditional livelihoods, and livestock diversity. A recognizable neo-liberal turn in Indian dairy policy will most likely amplify the negative impacts of the previous programme and potentially compromise existing best practices. The paper concludes with policy recommendations and a call to ground future policy processes with the normative and analytical right to adequate food framework.


My wife drove my car and after a few miles on the hwy the brake pedal went all the way to the floor. Pulled off, and they were OK for a few blocks 'til the pedal went to the floor and she hit someone at very low speed. I checked and there doesn't seem to be any fluid loss or leaks at master cyl. Pedal seems ok, stays solid, goes down when you start the car. Doesn't appear to be spongy. The fluid is a little dirty so I will bleed for starters. I can drive the car and nothing seems wrong with the brakes. Any ideas on what could have caused this brake failure? I have never heard of this 'temporary' failure.
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I got an email that read “Damn you are so adventurous with your meals. What’s next?” I must admit this made me smile and laugh. I am unsure if I am adventurous or curious. In my latest curated box was Salsify. Seriously what the hell is Salsify? This item didn’t even look appetizing. The long black “sticks” reminded me of witch’s fingers, or if I were to place them in the food realm, super dirty carrots. I am a big believer we eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouth. This really reminded me of Hubbard Squash (as it belongs in the scary looking food category).
I learned Salsify comes in black and white varieties. They are a skinnier relative of the oyster plant and belong to the dandelion family. It’s also known as the ‘oyster plant’ because of its faintly oystery flavor when cooked. Let me be clear this oyster flavor was NOT faint, and the flavor of oysters should only come from oysters. Not one to be bested by a culinary challenge, I felt the best way to cook this was by roasting, as the dry heat of the oven caramelizes the natural sugars in vegetables, which brings about an amazing depth of flavor in most vegetables. This was NOT one of them. No one in my household liked Salsify, albeit the rooted vegetable provided laughter, plenty of funny facial expressions, and the best comment I heard all week which was “What’s wrong with these fries? I think they are spoiled.” Have you tried Salsify? If so, how did you prepare it? For the bold, here is my recipe.
How to Prepare Salsify. As a root vegetable, you’ll need to scrub the salsify under cold water before using. You’ll need to peel with the vegetable peeler. Cut into slices- think French fry thickness. Place in cold water with a s squeeze of fresh lemon juice as they will oxidize on you. Once all Salsify is cut, drain water. Give them a good rinse. Place in a bowl and toss in some minced garlic, sprinkle with fresh ground pepper, sea salt, and toss in garlic olive oil. Place Salsify in a skillet in an even layer. Roast them at 325, for 20-40 minutes. At the 20- minute mark, flip them over. Cook for an additional 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle with a dash of sea salt.


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Easter Knits, by Carlos, Arne &
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- ISBN: 9781570765643 | 1570765642
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/25/2012
Scandinavian knitting designers Arne and Carlosthe go-to gurus for holiday styleprovide a delightful collection of knitted eggs, bunnies, and chicks. Staying true to their taste for designs based on traditional Scandinavian knitwear, this duo gives the designs a fun, quirky twist by scaling them down into quick, small projects. Crafters can enjoy the results of these unique patterns in no time at all. These novel, handmade Easter ornaments, decorations, and dolls are perfect to lend charm around the house and will bring smiles to both young and old.


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1 day 📅
54% unpaved 🚵♂
1490m D+ ↗
1490m D- ↘
800m asl ⛰
🗺 Ivrea (TO)
📅 February – November
Starting from Ivrea, town that you can reach by train, make sure to have an energising breakfast as we directly start uphill 😅 through the various small lakes on the mounts of Ivrea.
Pay attention as towards the last lake there is a rocky section where you might want to walk your bike as the rocks are kinda sharp.
We gradually exit the lakes area to enter some beautiful woods and continue uphill towards the top of the Serra Morena. The Serra Morena is what remains today of the huge glacier that descended from the Aosta valley into Piedmont, leaving as a trace two huge “walls” on its side that are proper “flat-like mountains (it is the earth that the ice moved to the side while pushing down). Beautiful sights on the valley await you and your efforts (and sweat) will be rewarded.
Through a downhill in the woods we reach small villages before entering in the Bessa Natural Reserve (gold mining area where the ancient roman used to come looking for richness). The Bessa is stunning but harsh, you will have to walk your bike a couple of times because of the huge rounded rocks but the feeling of cycling in an ancient gold area is amazing.
Don’t worry, out of the Serra Morena and of the Bessa you will still find a couple of ancient roman roads, easier to cycle on too 😉
The way back to Ivrea is surrounded by water (lakes a river and a canal) and really fast, so don’t worry, the uphill is finished ⛰🚲🥳
👀 Our advices
This tour is particularly demanding on certain bits, it could be done in one day if are technically expert and physically trained, otherwise it should be splitted in two days.
Both the Bessa and the Serra Morena natural parks have sections with big rocks on the ground, as you can see in the pictures, thus 50mm wide tires are recommended.
📸 Points of interest
Lakes of Ivrea
—and their surroundings
Dora Baltea river
Ivrea’s serra Morena
Bessa Natural Reserve
—ancient roman gold mining site
High speed gravelly section along the naviglio
Naviglio di Ivrea


New York’s Revlayer is one of several companies aiming to solve a problem for site owners: how do you make money off the YouTube videos you’re embedding? This is especially relevant to large tech blogs, which devote valuable screen real estate to gadget videos, but must rely on banner ads for revenue.
Revlayer founder Allen Stern presented at last night’s New York Web 2.0 Social Networking meetup–and got a good response. Revlayer is simple: add some code to your site, and ads appear over the start screen of any video you embed; hence, the “revenue layer.” To play the video, visitors then either have to click a “view video” button to close the ad, or click on the ad (which, annoyingly, takes them to the advertiser’s site). The patent-pending technology works with a variety of ad programs, both pay-per-click and CPM-based, including Google AdSense, Advertising.com, and Revlayer’s own ad network.
Stern says several hundred publishers have signed up for the service, which is great news for his three-man startup. But it will be interesting to see how Web video watchers, accustomed to the free-for-all YouTube concept, react. In contrast to solutions like Adap.TV’s, which look like screen graphics, services like Revlayer require an action to disable an ad that’s blocking the video you want to watch–and they hide the video so completely that you can’t see the opening screen underneath (not to mention the “play” button). Without an effective text-based explanation of why you should bother to watch the video, this approach could reduce video click-throughs, which would reduce the incentive to put them on the site in the first place.
Revlayer’s Stern admits that the company’s solution is probably more annoying than a banner ad to the side of the video. He argues correctly, however, clicking “view video” is not nearly as bad as sitting through a 15- or 30-second pre-roll. And for publishers, any and all video revenue solutions are welcome.
Last night’s crowd also heard from two more local startups. Confabb is hoping to become the go-to resource for conference information. The company has built up a huge directory of conferences and is looking to sell white-label Web sites to conference organisers that link into Confabb’s reputation and social networking features like speaker ratings, Flickr streams, discussion forums and party-finders.
Andrew Ward also presented his new company, TrustFX, which is looking to build a massive database of user-generated reviews of services ranging from dentists to construction contractors. A fine idea, but hard to pull off: It will take a lot of time, work and user incentive to build a big enough database to be useful, and small businesses excel at faking reviews.


Nowadays, energy saving is considered a key issue worldwide, as it brings a variety of benefits: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the demand for energy imports and lowering costs on a household and economy-wide level. Researchers and building designers are looking to optimize building efficiency by means of new energy technologies. Changes can also be made in existing buildings to reduce the energy consumption of air conditioning systems, even during operational conditions without dramatically modifying the system layout and have as low an impact as possible on the cost of the modification. These may include the usage of new heat transfer fluids based on nanofluids. In this work, an extended experimental campaign (from February 2020 to March 2021) has been carried out on the HVAC system of an educational building in the Campus of University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. The scope of the investigation was comparing the COP for the two HVAC systems (one with nanofluid and the other one without) operating concurrently during winter and summer: simultaneous measurements on the two HVAC systems show that the coefficient of performance (COP) with nanofluid increased on average by 9.8% in winter and 8.9% in summer, with average daily peaks of about 15%. Furthermore, the comparison between the performance of the same HVAC system, working in different comparable periods with and without nanofluids, shows a mean increase in COP equal to about 13%.
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It was only a matter of time before video games stopped using point clouds as background and started using them as the main attraction.
Scanner Sombre, the new game from the creators of Prison Architect puts you in a midnight-dark cave with nothing but a laser scanner and a headset. Using the technology, you explore the cave to discover its mysteries. All signs point to this one being pretty creepy.
And that’s probably by design. In an interview with TechCrunch, Introversion Software’s creative director Chris Delay explained that the game’s aesthetic was inspired by Radiohead’s famous (and equally creepy) video for “House of Cards.”
That interview also produced this tidbit that should be funny to anyone who works with scan data for a living: the creators had a hard time handling the number of points needed to make the aesthetic work. “It was probably the biggest technical challenge of the project to support such a huge number of points — it can easily be millions by the end of the game,” Delay said. Funny, and not unexpected.
Watch the trailer below, or even buy the game on Steam if you want to imagine a future where you can just point and scan.


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New Delhi: Odisha is among fourteen Coastal Economic Zones (CEZ) identified along the coastline of the country in the National Perspective Plan for the Sagarmala programme.
According to a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh L. Mandavia on Monday, these CEZs are aimed at promoting development of port-proximate industrial clusters. This will encourage port-led development and lead to reduction of logistics cost and time for movement of EXIM and domestic cargo and enhance the global competitiveness of Indian manufacturing sector. This will aid the ‘Make in India’ initiative and lead to employment generation.
Odisha is listed as CEZ-13 and ports of Paradeep and Dhamra have been identified for Petrochemicals, Marine processing.

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