April 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Markus Graulich, a canon law expert and under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, told the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost that he sees no danger coming from the new Vatican inquiry about the situation in the dioceses worldwide with regard to Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio enjoining bishops not to forbid the traditional Latin Mass. Graulich now proposes that those groups who cherish the traditional Mass should help their bishops in answering the questions as sent out by the Vatican.
As LifeSite reported on March 24, Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), had written on March 7 a letter to the presidents of the bishops’ conferences worldwide, asking them to answer a set of questions concerning the implementation of the Summorum Pontificum, which Benedict at the time called the “extraordinary form” of the Roman Rite. According to Summorum, any diocese with sufficient demand from the faithful must offer traditional Mass.
Cardinal Ladaria attached to his March 7 letter nine questions, asking the bishops to say how the situation is with regard to the traditional Latin Mass in their dioceses and whether the practice of it “corresponds to a true pastoral need” or whether “it is promoted by a single priest.”
The questionnaire also asks whether there are “positive or negative aspects” of the traditional Latin Mass. The CDF also wants to know whether other sacraments are being administered in the traditional forms, whether the seminarians are being influenced by it, and whether the Roman Missal of the year 1962 has been in use in this rite. The ninth question reads: “Thirteen years after the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, what is your advice about the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite?”
Many Catholics are concerned that this new initiative on the part of the Vatican could lead to a suppression of the traditional Mass, or that the answers of the bishops worldwide could lead to a reduction of these Masses in the world.
However, Dr. Markus Graulich, a canon lawyer and Vatican official, reassured Catholics that this is not the case. “In my opinion,” he tells the Tagespost, “it is about an assessment of the situation, a survey, not more and not less.”
He also denies some reports that the section of the CDF responsible for the traditional Mass communities had been excluded from the formulation of the questionnaire and request.
He now proposes that those groups who cherish the traditional Mass help their bishops in answering the questionnaire concerning Summorum Pontificum. They should provide information that the bishops need.
It was Pope Francis himself who has asked the CDF to undertake such a survey. As the Tagespost reports, already in 2010, there had taken place such an assessment of the situation after the re-admission of the pre-conciliar traditional Mass. At the time, the survey was conducted by the responsible Ecclesia Dei commission.
In response to this new CDF inquiry, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski told LifeSite he is concerned about it but that at the same time, whatever the intentions of this CDF letter, there is no reason to be “nervous.” “If Summorum were negated,” he writes, “it would not change one bit the logic of Benedict XVI’s argument, which is based on natural and divine law, not on ecclesiastical law: ‘What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.’ Nota bene: not ‘SHOULD not be forbidden,’ but ‘CANNOT be forbidden.’”
Dr. Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, told the Catholic News Agency: “Assuming the CDF receives reasonably complete responses, comparing reports written in 2010 and in 2020 will show not only a steady growth in the number of celebrations, but an increasing and serene integration of the EF [extraordinary form] into the life of the Church, something attributable in large part to the attitude of the bishops themselves.” It will show that people did not lose “interest” in this form of the Roman Rite, as some bishops had hoped, and new bishops seem actually now more “open-minded” about it. One can thus see that “the ancient Latin liturgical tradition continues to have value for new generations,” as “Benedict XVI noted.”
It is to be hoped that many traditional Catholic groups will make use of this opportunity to express to their bishops their gratitude for the traditional Latin Mass and to give witness to the many fruits of the traditional prayers at the traditional Mass and its reverence and deep spirituality.


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Inferno Dante - Symbology Within The Poem Alison Wong Dante and Virgil are historical figures who have established themselves as poets, writers and philosophers through their achievement in ancient literature. Virgil is one of the greatest poets in the Augustan era , who passed away before Christ and the spread of Christianity. Virgil is seen in Inferno as a great poet whom Dante admires greatly. Within the poem, Dante receives much inspiration from Virgil and also constantly displays his respect and admiration for him throughout the whole of the text. This essay will reveal Virgil 's function in Inferno as a mentor and guide for Dante through hell, and also show Virgil 's influence in Dante 's literature.
Literary Analysis: The Odyssey and Dante’s Inferno Name: Course: Institution: Instructor: Date: Themes are fundamental and universal ideas that are explored in literary works. The epics of The Inferno by Dante and The Odyssey by Homer are two different stories with themes that that have some similarities while others have distinction. In The Odyssey, the central point is Odysseus struggling to go back home. In Inferno, Dante is the main character who is fighting between good and evil, which translates to be the theme of the story. Dante explores deeply the Christian hell and heaven, which includes the immediate Purgatory.
In the excerpts from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, Dante’s Inferno, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, The Two Towers, each author conveys a message for the audience. The characters in Inferno are traveling to the center of all sin, whereas the characters in The Two Towers are traveling to the city of Mordor to destroy the ring of power. Each journey is lead by a knowledgeable guide who helps the main character find their way. Frodo and Sam, led by Gollum, in the novel are traveling to the city of MOrdor to destroy the ring of evil power, and Dante, led by Virgil, is going to the ends of Hell.
The Inferno is a production that Dante made to show his ideas on divine justice of God. At that time, Dante was the most famous one in the world of poetry. As Dante describes, Hell is contained of nine sins’ circles following in order from Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. Base on how serious the sin is, the person will be received an appropriate punishment. The poem starts out with Dante lost direction in misty wood.
Dante’s Tour through Hell Dante’s Inferno is a narrative, poetic adventure through the nine different layers of Hell. With Virgil as Dante’s guide, Dante encounters all sorts of suffering, “[E]xpect to see to see the suffering race of souls who lost [God]” (Puchner et al. 1607), while interacting with those which are called ‘shades’. Some of these shades Virgil urges Dante to have limited, to no conversations with for various reasons; yet, many are recognizable to Dante and their lot is understood. While reading Dante’s Inferno, the reader experiences that Dante was unaware that he was redirected from a righteous path, “Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path” (Puchner et al.
In Dante’s Inferno, he writes about his journey through hell for the purpose of recognizing his sins. He goes through this journey with Virgil, a voice of reason for Dante. Dante meets people through his journey of the many circles in the Inferno that lead him down into the center of hell, where Satan is. Satan is seen as being monster-like with three heads, representing a mocking of the Trinity and blowing his wings around the cocytus river. The final thing seen here is the fact that Dante’s description of Satan is a bit disappointing compared to the other descriptions he has written about the inferno.
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Edgar Allan Poe, by some, considered the king of gothic literature, was one of the founding fathers of gothic literature in the 19th century, and as well as the mastermind behind the truly chilling short horror story, “The Pit and the Pendulum”. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Poe uses the fear of death to bring out intense emotion, and the constant fear that his life is out of his hands and that he is doomed to die a slow and painful death. Poe takes great care in describing everything in the story, building suspense, even addressing and bringing attachment to the character, setting an ominous, dark mood throughout the story. With these key gothic elements in play, Poe makes his readers feel strongly for the
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is about the character Dante’s journey through the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, one that God has allowed him to take. In both the Inferno and Purgatorio there are souls who are being punished for their sins. In the second circle of the inferno and the seventh terrace of purgatorio the sin that most people are tempted by and is the least grave is lust. There are differences in the way Dante chooses to punish the lustful, in the Inferno and in Purgatorio. There is a similarity in the manner in which the lust the souls feel is portrayed.
Edgar Allan Poe, one of history’s most terrifying and demented authors, is famous for his multitude of stories perfectly crafted to haunt readers for years after they finish reading the final words. To achieve this, Poe uses many suspense techniques such as imagery, vocabulary, psychological insights and unreliable narrators to heighten the power of his tales and truly chill readers to the bone. His use of these tactics is no more apparent than in his most morbid and haunting tale, “The Masque Of Red The Death”. In this story, Poe uses three main literary devices: Imagery, symbolism and themes. Poe’s use of imagery is something that makes this tale captivate the audience and truly resonate within readers’ minds.
The Man Who Was Thursday opens a verbal sparring match between Gabriel Syme, a poet arguing that beauty is in the aspect of things orderly, and Lucian Gregory, an anarchist considering the contrary, the man who throws a bomb an artist, because he prefers to all things beauty of a great moment. The two opposing views are a leitmotiv of the work of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, GK or (not to be confused with JK, the cocaine addict singer JAMIROQUAI), one of English authors most prolific and influential of the early twentieth century. Tower journalist tower - it is The New Witness editor succeeding his brother died at the front, then GK 's Weekly - satirist and novelist GK Chesterton endorsed the principle of paradox, as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, two authors

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I expected that this would happen or the Health Department would intercede, because I have seen a number of reporters say that not only did the camps smell to high heaven but the protesters smelled badly.
Without proper sanitary conditions and showers this was enviable.
I went to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco twice in the summer of 1967 and it smelled awful as we passed through, my wife at the time was felling sick from it.
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If I add my middle name to the mix, I become “As An Invalids.”
Use my maiden name, I’m “Skill As Advertise.”
With my middle name and my maiden name, I’m “Skinless, Valiant Dear.”
Maybe I should stop there.
In the same vein, the arrival this week of Hurricane Isaac inspired us to look up hurricane names.
There have been many Hurricane Lisas, as well as a couple of cyclones and some tropical storms.
There was a Hurricane Lisa in 1998, which stayed out in the Atlantic and never came close to land.
There was another one in 2004, which did much the same thing.
There was another one in 2010, which only briefly got strong enough to be considered a hurricane, before blowing itself out.
My namesake storms behaved rather eerily like I do: unpredictable, blustery, brief outbursts of hurricane strength, before losing interest, calming down, and wandering off aimlessly and harmlessly over the north Atlantic.
Names were first given to hurricanes in the mid-1900s, according to the World Meterological Organization, which is now in charge of keeping the lists of hurricane names.
In the beginning, only female names were used. Whether this had anything to do with the women’s suffrage movement is unclear.
Since 1953, storms in the Atlantic have been named from designated lists. There are six lists, which are used in rotation. Lisa will come up again in 2016.
Each list contains 21 names, one for each letter of the alphabet, except for Q, U, X, Y and Z. So no Hurricane Ulysses. Or Xavier. Or Zero.
But there could be a Hurricane Chantal, or Erma, Lorenzo, Nestor, Ophelia, Sally, Teddy, Vicky or Wilfred.
“Hurricane Teddy” doesn’t sound like much of a threat. It reminds of Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition, threatening to torture prisoners by strapping them into the comfy chair.
My favorite name on the list is (wait for it) Hurricane Wendy.
Those are just the names for storms in the Atlantic. There are whole different lists of names for storms in the Pacific (Norbert, Raymond, Tina, Zelda — they’re not biased against Z’s in the Pacific). There are different lists for Australia (Kofi, Mal, Olo, Zazu) and the Indian Ocean (Fanoos, Giri, Nisha, Phet, Rashmi).
There are no hurricanes named for my children, although Hurricane Hugo comes close.
There is a hurricane named for my husband, Hurricane Bob. Despite its friendly and unassuming moniker, Hurricane Bob stormed its way up the New England coast in 1991, leaving more than $1 billion of damage in its wake.
This is where I should stop drawing analogies.
Both Hurricane Hugo and Hurricane Bob were so destructive that their names were retired from the official lists.
“Hugo” was replaced with “Humberto.”
“Bob” was replaced with “Bill.”

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Varanasi, India (Urban Transport News): In December 2019, RITES has submitted the detailed project report on the Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) worth Rs 7000 crore for the Light Metro Rail project in Varanasi.
According to the updates, this DPR is going to be reviewed in the first week of September 2020.
DPR consists of the proposal of a Light Metro Corridor which will connect BHEL (Tarna) and BHU (Lanka) which will require an investment of Rs 4,700 core. RITES proposed Light Metro after the rejection of its first proposal of Metro that was sanctioned in 2015 and got canceled in 2019 due to feasibility issues.
Varanasi’s topography was not compatible with the metro as said by Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal. In addition to this, he said RITES has presented its DPR before Uttar Pradesh’s CM Yogi on video conferencing in the last 2 months.
On a consensus the metro rail was discarded for Varanasi and RITES was asked to alter the proposals by proposing something like Light Metro according to the topography of the city.
Along with Yogi Adityanath, Divisional commissioner Deepak Kumar, district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, Varanasi Development Authority vice-chairman Rahul Pandey and municipal commissioner Gauran Rathi also attended the meeting and gave suggestions.
As said by Divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, metro projects like these require a huge investment and the government have to ensure its credibility and feasibility. And after reviewing, the DPR will be submitted to the Union Government.
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Major components of the Light Metro DPR are that it is worth Rs 4,700 core. Along with this it will include waterways worth Rs 80 crore, ropeways worth Rs 680 crore and inner ring road with the investment of Rs 169 crore.


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15 Great Black Doors in White Room Design Ideas
Doors dark and very dark shades best suited for modern styles of interiors, for example, modern. It is very important the material from which they are made. A good option would be a door of such precious woods like walnut, wenge, merbau, oak-exotic, ash-tropic, tick, Panga-Panga, and others.
If you follow the advice of designers, the dark interior doors also perfectly complement the luxurious and opulent interiors of the Baroque. Usually the color of the doors is chosen identical to the color of the floor. Although, to be honest, this design rule, does not exist. Very effective option would be to create a contrast color door with the floor. Because the main condition says that the door was in harmony with the style of the decoration, however, it can be absolutely any color.
What are the design techniques of color matching doors to the interior
The color of the doors and floor coverings need to pick the right. On this depends the success of the design space as a whole. The most common techniques designers are the following combinations:
doors and floors dark color;
dark doors and bright floor;
door and floor light color;
light doors and dark floor
The combination of dark doors with light floors
The color of the doors you can pick up, focusing on the color of the walls, floor or furniture – anything. And you can just buy doors that do not fit, and Vice versa, contrast – if the floor is light and the dark door. In this case you need to purchase and trim in the color of the doors and skirting boards that surround the room. In this embodiment, the door will not come into disharmony with the overall interior design, and Vice versa, will be very advantageous to look. Yes and from a design point of view, extremes always look extremely impressive. Among other things, the doors of the dark colors in the interior help to create a climate of austerity and elegance.
However, it should be remembered – the contrast of the door and floor is very bold and original design solution, which is possible only in large rooms. Contrast this should be pronounced. Otherwise, the interiors are extremely bland and blurry. And, of course, do not forget that there is the likelihood that the doors are too hard to stand out against the bright interior. And in order to mitigate this undesirable effect, it is necessary to correctly choose the baseboard, or rather, to choose the exact same shade, flooring and doors.
The combination of dark doors with dark floors
This variant, in which there is a single color scheme, are much more common and is no less advantageous, if the door leaf will be one or two shades lighter than the floor. Because on a subconscious level we read picture of the interior from top to bottom. And if, for example, indoors ceiling light and dark on the floor covering, door in such a case, act as a liaison. Also, it is not desirable to use a combination of dark doors with dark flooring in small rooms, because from an overabundance of dark color it can turn into the most natural mink. Thus, the main conditions for such design decisions is the availability of the room large Windows and high ceilings. Nor less important and the degree of illumination of the room. Otherwise, this option should simply be abandoned.
Black door bright interior
Black interior doors the interior is very stylish and elegant. However, you should follow the basic rules of harmony and combination of all interior items. If you use door black, the walls must be white, and the floor must still be a few shades lighter doors. This contrast is used to provide a feeling of spaciousness, and also, for aesthetic purposes – in this scenario, the colors will play better in next door to each other. While the versatility of the black color provides the ability to use accessories from the most unexpected shades.
The benefits of dark doors
Recently dark interior doors have become very popular. This is due to the fact that, according to contemporary designers, they are perfectly in tune with most interiors. In addition, dark doors give the interior of nobility and are less easily soiled and practical. And they look very personable and respectable, because they are made usually of arrays of trees of valuable species. They are available now in a fairly decent quality, and the prices of domestic producers readily available to all consumer groups.


Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Kings finally got to unfurl their first championship banner Saturday in a colourful ceremony after a labour dispute led to a three-month delay to the start of the NHL season.
The lockout-shortened season, originally set to begin in October, got underway with the Kings’ dropping a 5-2 afternoon game to the 2010 Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on a day when 26 of the league’s 30 teams were in action.
The Kings pre-game ceremony featured the banner raising and a ring ceremony before the Stanley Cup was paraded around the Staples Center ice with each of the players taking a turn lifting it over his head.
“I was thinking this is great and now I would like to win another,” said Kings defenceman Matt Greene. “It was awesome to be part of the history.”
Kings’ play-by-play announcer Bob Miller served as master of ceremonies, calling out the names of each player as they skated up individually to receive their Tiffany and Company-made championship rings.
Captain Dustin Brown then brought out the Stanley Cup as the sold-out crowd of 18,545 cheered.
“I thought the Kings did a fantastic job with the ceremony,” said Los Angeles defenceman Rob Scuderi.
The black and white banner was raised to the rafters where it will hang permanently. That is a departure from the 11 Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship banners which sit on the south wall of the arena.
Also taking part in the ceremony was the family of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Ana Marquez-Greene.
Former Kings all-star Marcel Dionne was also on the ice for the ceremony. Hall of Famer Dionne played 18 seasons in the NHL and is considered the greatest player of all time never to win a Stanley Cup.
Because of the lockout, the Kings have had ample time to recover from any Stanley Cup hangover, but the Blackhawks spoiled the party by blowing the game open with four goals in the opening 21 minutes and then cruised to victory.
Kings coach Darryl Sutter said he didn’t think his team’s slow start was the result of being distracted by the ceremony but was critical of goaltender Jonathan Quick, who had off-season back surgery.
“We just couldn’t get any momentum,” Sutter said. “Tonight, [Quick] wasn’t very good.”
Scuderi stressed that getting off to a good start in a truncated 48-game season is crucial. “With all the added games against teams in your own conference it is a four-point swing every night,” he said. “It is going to be a fun ride.”
The Kings are trying to become the first team to capture back-to-back titles since the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998, and they hope to do it with a roster that is almost fully intact from last year.
The first period on Saturday resembled an outdoor pond hockey game at times, with players making uncharacteristic giveaways. Greene said it is going to take some time for everyone to get up to speed.
“Training camp went by really quick,” Greene said of the one-week session. “Now we have to get up to date on our system play.”
In other key opening-day games, the Pittsburgh Penguins got goals from three different scorers to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1. The Flyers beat the Penguins in six games in the first round of the post-season last year.
The lockout, which turned bitter at times as owners and players battled over financial issues, ended earlier this month after the sides agreed on a new collective-bargaining agreement.
The season ends with 13 games on April 27 and the Stanley Cup playoffs will begin three days later.


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- Cops yet to make a breakthrough in Rs 11,000 robbery in which two persons were killed
Even as the district police on Tuesday constituted 20 teams to trace the robbers who had killed two people at the Guru Nanak filling Station at village Chamar Heri village on the Patiala-Chandigarh highway late Sunday night, but a major breakthrough continued to elude the police investigators even on the third day of the crime.
- Davinder Singh Kang flunks dope test, stares at four-year ban
"The athlete gave the timing window of 10am to 11am on that particular day (four days back) in his 'whereabouts' information. The AIU people came to Patiala and took his sample and that contained a banned steroid. He is now provisionally suspended," an official of the AFI said on Wednesday.
- US revokes citizenship of Indian native who now faces deportation
Baljinder Singh alias Davinder Singh, 43, who married a US citizen, has now been reverted to the Green Card status which leaves him potentially subject to removal proceedings at the Department of Homeland Security's discretion, the Justice Department said.
- Burglars try to open bank strong room, stay inside for three days
The burglars tried to break open the strong room using an electric cutter. But when they failed, they barged into an adjoining hardware shop by drilling hole in the wall and got 2 gas cylinders to break open the strong room. However, the cylinders were empty and their 2nd attempt too came a cropper.
- 2, including aunt, booked for minor’s rape
The Ferozepur police on Tuesday booked two persons, including a woman, for conspiring the rape of her minor niece at her home in a village under Kulgarhi police station. In her statement, the 14-year-old rape survivor alleged that her aunt called her to her house on Saturday where the accused was already present.
- Davinder Singh Kang shelves Italy move
Davinder Singh Kang, who shot to limelight after making the final of the javelin throw event in World Championships in London last month, is set to meet Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in the first week of October to push for his inclusion in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) list.
- Defender Davinder a product of good talent spotting: Constantine
India coach Stephen Constantine has always said that the country has a large pool of talent which isn't even remotely harnessed. There's a lot of truth to that statement, and 21-yearold Davinder Singh is set to become the flag-bearer of the Englishman's belief.
- Davinder Singh claims AFI told him to drop out of World Championships
Javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang has claimed that Athletics Federation of India asked him to drop out of the recently-concluded World Championships as he was facing doping charges but the AFI dismissed it as a non-issue, saying it had done so to save the country from shame.
- Chitra and Ajay axed from national squad for Worlds?
Metric milers Ajay Kumar Saroj of Uttar Pradesh and Kerala's Chitra PU who were instrumental in India winning top spot on medals table in the recently concluded Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar do not find their names in the 24-member squad for the London IAAF World Championships to be held in August 4 to 13.
- Sudha misses out in India's 24-member World C'ships squad
Top Indian 3000m steeplechaser Sudha Singh was on Sunday among three athletes left out of the Indian team for next month's World Championships in London, despite qualifying for the mega event by winning gold medals in the Asian Championships earlier this month.
- AAC 2017: Neeraj, Lakshmanan & Swapna strike gold on final day
Hosts India topped the medals tally for the first time in the event's 44-year history as the Asian Athletics Championships concluded at the Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday. The hosts finished with 29 medals which included 12 gold, 5 silver and 12 bronze.
- Stage set for Asian Athletics Championship, India eye top three finish
A late pull-out by Ranchi, notwithstanding, India have managed to put in place top-class facility in short time and is set to roll out the 22nd edition of Asian Athletics Championships here tomorrow, with the hosts aiming for a top three finish in the medal standings.


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Brindisi Announces Six-Figure Grant for Utica in Second Round CARES Act Funding
Congressman Secures Crucial Funds To Help Mitigate The Effects Of COVID-19 For Utica’s Most Vulnerable
Brindisi: We Must Work Together To Comeback From This Pandemic; These Funds Are Critical For Our Community
Congressman Anthony Brindisi announced the second round of Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) from the Brindisi-backed CARES Act. Brindisi announced nearly $500,000 for the city of Utica in critical ESG funding.
“The global pandemic has hit our communities and state hard, but we are working together to fight back and starting our comeback,” Brindisi said. “These crucial funds, secured through the bipartisan CARES Act, will help the city of Utica take care of their most vulnerable. Our communities have sacrificed so much, but together, we will come through this crisis. I am proud to work with Democrats and Republicans to deliver critical resources for the Mohawk Valley.”
ESG, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), funds can be used by localities for a variety of purposes, but are designed to help the most vulnerable. These dollars can be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 among families and individuals who are homeless or are receiving homeless assistance.
Local officials praised Brindisi’s advocacy and expressed thanks for the funding.
“It is welcomed news the City of Utica will be receiving additional federal assistance through the CARES Act,” said Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri. “The City recently submitted a plan to HUD that will provide rent relief to families and households who’ve been financially impacted by the Coronavirus. This additional funding will serve as a valuable resource and allow the City to provide even more assistance to those who need it most.”
Through the Brindisi-backed CARES Act, New York’s 22nd district has received millions in pandemic relief funds. In addition to $1,200 checks for most families, Brindisi fought for additional funding for counties, cities, hospitals, schools, and more.

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Last month Steve Inskeep at Fresh Air talked with Mohsin Hamid about his new novel, Exit West. Set in an unnamed country that bears more than a passing resemblance to the author’s native Pakistan, Exit West lives and breathes hiraeth, whether its characters are imagining a new life elsewhere, in a new place that will (they hope) become home, or making the agonizing decision over whether to leave their family and country of birth behind because it no longer affords them the safety of home.
Just a few weeks after I heard the podcast, I was at a conference and someone read aloud a heartbreakingly beautiful passage from the book. Which sealed the deal. I had to read it.
Hamid’s is a love story, about the things that pull people together, or push them apart, and even just read as a story about two people and their relationship, it’s wonderfully crafted. But the novel is bigger than that. It is also about migration–about how you decide when it’s time to go, and what it feels like starting over in a new place, or another new place.
I’m pro-human. And I think recognizing the human nature of migration is very important. But yes, I’m pro-migrant. I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there’s a right to love whom you like and to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say.
– Mohsin Hamid
In essence, the novel is a bit of a thought-experiment. What if the borders between the places people want to leave and the places they want to go were a bit more permeable? What if the story of economic or refugee migration were less about the journey from one place to another, and more about what happened after you got there? What if you could just walk through a door and be in another country? What if the powers-that-be couldn’t imagine a solution to the problem that relied on closing borders, and instead were forced to come up with solutions that presupposed large numbers of immigrants arriving with no way to stem the tide? How would society change? What ways would we find to work together? How would the world be different if we could suddenly connect with a stranger from half a world away?
Or to ask the question another way, how is the world different given that we can do that? And what are the choices we can make, here, in this world, to honor the humanity of all of us, no matter where we come from?

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In vitro dosimetry modeling will be a critical step toward efficient assessment of engineered nanomaterials for environmental health and safety
Boyes, W. In vitro dosimetry modeling will be a critical step toward efficient assessment of engineered nanomaterials for environmental health and safety. Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 13 - 17, 2016.
Will be presented at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting March 13-17, 2015, New Orleans, LA.
Presentation Description: The development and application of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) into commercial and consumer products is far outpacing the ability of traditional approaches to evaluate the potential implications for environmental health and safety. This problem recently prompted the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to issue a grand challenge to the research and development community to develop the ability to "determine the environmental, health, and safety characteristics of a nanomaterial in a month". This presentation will consider a general framework in which to consider potential for ENM release, environmental fate, transformations, exposures and effects. Within this framework ,the role of in vitro dosimetry modeling will be illustrated experimentally with examples comparing applied, measured and modeled tissue dose levels of silver and titanium dioxide ENM to cells in vitro. To meet the NNI grand challenge will be difficult, and likely require a combination of targeted rapid screening approaches and predictive modeling. A key step will be the ability to understand the dose of ENM delivered to cells in test systems, along with the use of other modeling approaches to rapidly estimate both levels of exposure and hazardwithin bounds of uncertainty acceptable for the applications being considered
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) regulations, 18 CFR part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy Projects staff has reviewed the application for an amendment of license for the Jacobson Hydro No. 1 Project (FERC No. 4515-010 and -014). A final environmental assessment (FEA) is available for public review. The FEA was attached to an Order Amending License and Lifting Stay (96 FERC ¶ 61,298) issued and distributed by the Commission on September 13, 2001. The project is located on the Colorado River near the town of Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado. The FEA finds that approval of the application would not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
The FEA was written by staff in the Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Copies of the FEA are available for review in the Commission's Public Reference Branch, Room 2A, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 or by calling (202) 208-1371. Copies of this filing are on file with the Commission and are available for public inspection. The FEA may also be viewed on the Web at http://www.ferc.gov using the “RIMS” link, select “Docket#” and follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).Start Signature
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EghtesadOnline: The phenomenon of dollarization has yet to emerge in Iran’s economy, i.e., the rial is still being used in transactions, though the daily increase in prices affected by the value of US dollar indicates a weaker form of this phenomenon.
EghtesadOnline: The US dollar exchange rate was around 260,000 rials last March. Now it still hovers around this figure and some days it dips even lower, registering a zero percent growth.
EghtesadOnline: Forex rates saw big swings in the past two sessions in the unofficial currency market in Tehran with prices moving up on Sunday.
EghtesadOnline: The dollar reached 284,240 rials on Thursday in Tehran’s open market, the highest rate since the beginning of the calendar year in March 2021.
EghtesadOnline: The dollar advanced above the critical 280,000 rials at the start of trading week on Saturday as the national currency is tanking under a fresh bout of volatility.
EghtesadOnline: Extending a week-long rally at Tehran foreign exchange market, the dollar advanced above the 260,000-rial level to reach the highest level in nine months.
EghtesadOnline: Foreign exchange rates continued to rise on Tuesday with the dollar crossing the 25,000-rial range -- the highest in 11 weeks.
EghtesadOnline: Foreign exchange rates climbed on Saturday despite expectations that the prices would decline due to the diplomatic efforts in Vienna related to Iran’s nuclear agreement.
EghtesadOnline: Foreign exchange rates and gold coin prices declined on Tuesday in Tehran’s market, after posting gains on Monday.
EghtesadOnline: Tehran's currency market was almost stable Monday as foreign exchange rates were unchanged. The dollar traded for 245,000 rials in the free market, posting 1,000 rials or 0.41% decline compared to Sunday's close. The currency appreciated 2.85% on Sunday but dropped 2.38% Saturday.

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Madame Tussauds' $350,000 wax figure of Selena unveiled before her family, fans
A wax figure of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, the singing gem from Texas, will join the ranks of other music icons like Michael Jackson, Elton John and Madonna at the world-famous Madame Tussauds museum in Hollywood after her figure was unveiled before hundreds of fans on the West Coast Tuesday.
The late singing sensation's close-knit family worked with the museum's artists throughout the project, which began in October, and were in attendance to help debut the figure on Tuesday evening.
"We truly believe that if Selena was here, she would be jumping around this thing, super ecstatic and taking a million pictures next to herself and thanking everyone," Selena's older sister, Suzette Quintanilla addressed fans at the event. "Because at the end of the day, 21 years later, it's because of her fans that this is here and why we're here."
The figure, estimated to be worth $350,000, was created in response to "an outpouring of fan appreciation," according to a news release.
A year ago, thousands of fans signed a Change.org petition asking for the addition of a Selena figure at the museum. The effort did not got unnoticed and was cited as reasoning behind the production.
"At Madame Tussauds, our figures represent icons who have made a significant impact on our culture. That perfectly describes Selena," Colin Thomas, general manager of Madame Tussauds Hollywood, said in the release. "Her influence has transcended generations and her passionate fans continue to be inspired by her to this day. We recognize this, and in response, we are proud to join her fans in celebrating her legacy by immortalizing her."
Though the figure is missing Selena's iconic smile, encased by her signature red lips, her style is true to the one that graced stages throughout the early 1990's as she rose to fame and embarked on a career crossover.
The figure's ensemble is a recreation of the costume she took the Memorial Coliseum stage in, back in Feb. 7, 1993. Chris Perez, her widower, said the concert she wore the costume at was when her Grammy Award-winning tracks were recorded.
Representatives for the museum said at the event that fans were lining up Monday night in advance of the debut, to ensure they had a good view of the unveiling. Online, more than 100,00 people tuned into Facebook Live videos on the Selena and Madame Tussauds pages to watch the unveiling.
The new statue is part of a list of ways the Queen of Tejano is being immortalized more than 20 years after her untimely death. Through fan efforts, MAC Cosmetics is set to release a Selena makeup line on Sept. 30 and a star will be added in her name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. Selena will also be inducted in the Texas Women's Hall of Fame on Oct. 21.
"It was literally a breath-taking experience, it kind of took our breath away to be in the room with the figure at the same time," Perez said. "We're feeling really proud of the accomplishment and remembering the moments we did get to spend on stage. We know she'd be honored and proud as well. Again, thank you guys, thanks for supporting and pushing for this to happen because it's all because of you."
Click through the gallery above to see what Selena's night in Hollywood looked like.

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Facing closure deadline, Drakes Bay oyster farm harvests final crop
By New Year’s Day, there should be no more oysters in Drakes Estero, a placid estuary in the Point Reyes National Seashore that has been, for the better part of eight years, the setting for a tempest of epic proportions.
Ranchers, environmentalists, scientists, food lovers and famous chefs, members of Congress and a bevy of lawyers have been embroiled in the conflict over a family-owned farm that planted millions of tiny oysters in the estero’s cold, clear waters and harvested $1.5 million worth of table-ready bivalves a year, continuing an aquaculture operation dating back to the 1930s.
Questions over the Drakes Bay Oyster Co.’s impact, good or bad, on the 2,500-acre Pacific Ocean estuary, and how the company was treated by the federal government, fairly or unfairly, raised passions that likely will persist for years in west Marin County and beyond.
But two things are clear: Those questions were never answered in a two-year legal battle that went to the U.S. Supreme Court’s doorstep, and to some degree they no longer matter because the oysters are rapidly disappearing, with workers hauling them out by the boatload each day.
“Kind of a mad dash to get everything out of the bay,” co-owner Kevin Lunny said last week, standing near the water’s edge at the company’s small base at the north end of Schooner Bay, one of the estero’s five fingers.
Three large piles of unopened oysters lay nearby, and as Lunny talked, a double-barge load of oysters in black plastic grow bags approached the weathered dock, adjacent to the oyster sales shack that was shuttered in July.
There are 1 to 2 million oysters remaining in the estero, and Lunny’s company has until midnight Dec. 31 to get them all out and to vacate the site, according to a settlement agreement approved by a federal judge in October, ending two years of litigation.
The National Park Service, which prevailed in court, is now making plans to scrape the company’s 5-acre site clear of structures and remove everything else, including five miles of wooden oyster racks embedded in the estero’s sandy bottom, restoring the waterway to a natural condition seen by few living people.
That work should be completed by the end of next year, and the estero - home to a harbor seal colony, bat rays, leopard sharks, crabs and vast beds of green eelgrass - will continue to be a mecca for nature lovers.
“That’s why it’s so exciting,” said Neal Desai of the National Parks Conservation Association. “This has always been about fulfilling the protection for such an amazing place. It’s a public interest victory.”
Meanwhile, the west Marin community, which has been bitterly divided over the oyster farm’s fate, needs to get on with plans for the future of the surrounding cattle ranches and oyster farming in nearby Tomales Bay, said Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, who has represented the area for 18 years.
“The main thing is it’s over,” Kinsey said. “The wounds were deep and even when it heals there’s a scar there.”
The supervisor said he initially supported Lunny’s bid to renew his permit for a commercial oyster operation in a waterway designated by Congress for wilderness status. But after former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar declined to renew the farm’s permit in November 2012, Kinsey said he decided “our job was to live with it.”
Lunny immediately filed a federal lawsuit, alleging the secretary’s action was “arbitrary and capricious,” but federal judges disagreed three times and the Supreme Court ended the matter, deciding in June that it would not hear the case that sparked national attention and debate about for-profit use of federal park lands.
The end of the oyster farm upholds a promise put forward decades ago in law to fully protect Drakes Estero, but it also severs ties to a cherished history of shellfish farming in the waterway.
“We won a wilderness, but we lost a legacy,” Kinsey said, referring to the generations of families that came to Drakes Estero to buy fresh oysters and picnic on the beach. “I hear a deep remorse from many folks who have lived here a long time.”
Amy Trainer, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, said the estero will be a wildlife refuge and “a source of recreation, spiritual renewal and refreshment” for humans. It also will be a “place to celebrate good government in action,” she said, where wilderness values prevailed over “the most formidable opposition.”
Melanie Gunn, the National Park Service outreach coordinator at Point Reyes seashore, acknowledged the conflict over Lunny’s oyster farm strained both the park and the community. “I think we’re all grateful to be moving forward,” she said.


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SHARE provides funding in the form of grants and strategic initiatives as yet another outreach into the community. From 1997 through January 2022, we have funded over $8.5 million to 94 different qualifying not-for-profit organizations for 522 grants providing programming in Union County.
In 1999 we partnered with numerous community leaders and organizations in a health needs assessment known as Project TOUCH – Tremendous Opportunities for Union County Health. Participants representing 30 sectors across Union County identified 10 broadly defined elements of health and practical ways of addressing those needs. That needs assessment was updated in 2004 and 2010.
In 2015 SHARE Foundation spearheaded a reassessment of community needs utilizing community forums and Union County surveys from UAMS, Centers for Disease Control, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Arkansas Department of Health to determine the latest trends. Research shows out of 75 counties Union County improved in health outcomes from 59th to 44th and declined in health factors from 34th to 38th. Significant areas of concern include the increased incidence of violent crime, along with substance abuse, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, and chronic disease.
In 2017, as a response to the concern over the increased incidence of violent crimes, SHARE worked in collaboration with over 200 community partners to develop the Union County Violence Intervention Plan (VIP). Six priority areas were identified and are the current preference areas of SHARE Foundation Grant Making. Those areas are: mentoring, re-entry, neighborhood watches/clean neighborhoods, parenting/life skills, jobs & targeted education, and mental health/substance & drug abuse.

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New Work Ashes of Light (La Luz de un Cigarrillo)
Over the course of two evenings mother and son, two estranged generations of Dominicans living in New York City, attempt to rekindle the love and appreciation for each other and their roots; but unexpectedly revealed intimate secrets threaten to destroy an already thin bond.
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The tissue is thought to be from the species Australopithecus sediba, thought to be an early human ancestor that has a mix of primitive and more advanced features.
It is a transitional species between Australopithecus species – the first species to walk upright – and early Homo species, of which humankind is the latest form.
The discovery may be the oldest skin ever found, and could even hold the key to valuable details about early humans' lives. Organic materials including the remains of their last meals were found between their teeth, potentially giving an insight into their diet.
Experts made the discovery in a cave near Johannesburg, which has been excavated since a 4' 2" male skeleton was found in 2008.
Professor Lee Berger, an anthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, told the Naked Scientists radio show: "We found out this wasn't just a normal type of rock that they were contained in – it was a rock that was preserving organic material.
"Plant remains are captured in it – seeds, things like that – even food particulates that are captured in the teeth, so we can see what they were eating.
"Maybe more remarkably, we think we've found fossil skin here too."
The investigation started after the professor's then 9-year-old son spotted a fossilised bone at the Malapa Nature Reserve site in 2008 – the first discovery of the new species.
They later excavated more bones, as well as an almost complete skull, before making the discovery public in 2010.
Scientists decided to build a laboratory on the spot in order to protect the "remarkable" fossils, including a platform that allows them to take off large pieces of the site to work on them in the laboratory.
Professor Berger says he has no idea how many more human fossils he may find.
"Every time we open up a little bit of rock here and move a little bit of dirt, we see someone new," he said. "We're introduced to another one of these people that died 2 million years ago."
The site will now be turned into a live laboratory, where members of the public can look down into the cave and see excavations in process.
According to research, the former "people" would have walked on two legs, but been "strikingly" short.
"Until they got closer, you probably wouldn't realise what's bothering you but something would bother you," Berger said. "They would probably only be standing about 1.3 metres tall. They also been more lightly built… They had longer arms than we do, more curved fingers. So, they're clearly climbing something. They also would've moved a little different.
"Their hips were slightly different than ours and their feet are slightly different. So, their gait would've probably been a more rolling type gait, slightly different from the more comfortable long distance stride we had.
"As they got closer to you, you'd be struck by for the most obvious thing which would be, their heads are tiny. If you imagine, you take a man's fist and curled it up, that's about the size of their brain and that would strike you. There'd be almost this pinhead on top of this small body. And that would immediately make you recognise that this is not a human."

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Does the world really need another big Web browser? With three major players—Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari—fighting the latest iteration of the browser wars, Google is set to elbow its way into the game today with Chrome, the search giant's new, open-source software for browsing the Web.
And one might imagine that Google, which has shown such masterful skill at giving directions around the Internet, would be an ideal company to create the software "vehicle" that takes people where they want to go.
As of this morning, Google still had not launched Chrome Beta, but it promises to be an innovative piece of software. (We'll turn around a review soon after it's posted.) On the surface, Chrome will act like a tabbed browsing architecture similar to pretty much every other browser. But it will treat each tab as a separate process, meaning that if one tab hangs or crashes out, it can be terminated without closing the entire Chrome application. Likewise, each tab will be "sandboxed" to prevent it from accessing files on the user's computer. In essence, Chrome functions much like an operating system, managing resources and each Web page's access to the computer's vital functions dynamically.
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Google's Chrome will look like an OS for good reason. The new browser wars are really a battle over the next generation of operating system—since the browser is technically the OS of cloud computing. It's no coincidence that Google is launching a Web browser shortly before it launches Android, the cellphone system that will make its game-changing debut this fall. Cellular handsets are in the midst of a technological paradigm shift, becoming as much Web portals as telephones. As mobile applications shift from handset-based programs to Web apps, the browser may be more important than the phone's underlying operating system.
Eventually, the same may be true of desktop computing. From the looks of it, Chrome will be a pretty aggressive piece of software. Since each new tab is effectively running a new program, the overall application will consume more and more system resources with each tab you launch. As it approaches its 10th anniversary (stay tuned for coverage later this week), Google has amassed an army of talented programmers who put a premium on architectural simplicity. So we're assuming this will be done with a degree of elegance. But by giving each tab in its own process, Chrome should allow Java and Flash developers to design their applications to a higher level of complexity, knowing that a glitch in their Web app will not bring down the entire browser. And if your browser can run the most sophisticated new Web applications and your competitor's can not, that's a pretty compelling reason for people to switch browsers.
In the end, that may be the one unanticipated miscalculation in the strategies of all the competitors in this browser "war." Nobody has to switch browsers anymore. I, for one, have three of them in my launch bar, and I pick whichever one suits my fancy at the time. Browsers don't cost anything, so users don't have to pick one and use it all the time. It may turn out that one browser will eventually prove superior to the others, and developers will tailor their digital wares to optimize the experience for its users. But isn't the whole point of the Web that it's based on open platforms?
Optimized browsing is a dangerous game. If Google Apps starts to work better in Chrome than in Internet Explorer and Firefox, then I'm just as likely to stop using Google Apps as I am to start using Chrome exclusively.
I doubt this will happen. Chrome is based on the open-source WebKit architecture, and Google claims that its code will be open source, so it's unlikely that the company is trying to corner the market on browser functionality, since innovations are eminently copyable. Instead, I'm guessing that Google will try to use its new browser to steer the direction of Web development. That's a mighty big ship to steer, and one that tends to find its own path. And as that all plays out, Chrome will take its place as one of many browsing tools in the collective Web arsenal.


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The whole of India might have been engulfed in sorrow and disappointment after Team India’s heartbreaking loss at the hands of bitter rivals Pakistan in the final of ICC Champions Trophy on Sunday (2017) but there was one region in this cricket-crazy nation which celebrated Pakistan’s win in a manner that will even make the Pakistanis doubt their loyalty to the Men in Green.
No prizes for guessing that we are talking about Kashmir. The state, which has been a major area of a tussle between the two neighbours since independence, celebrated Pakistan’s win to the fullest. And the newspaper headlines of Kashmir made it quite clear that the people of the valley were supporting the Men in Green instead of the Men in Blue.
Pakistan won their first Champions Trophy title by thrashing India by a whopping margin of 180 runs, sending the majority of the people in Kashmir in a celebratory mode. To give you an idea of things that happened in the state following Pakistan’s historic triumph, we put together a gallery of some front pages dedicated to Kashmiris’ celebration.
“Kashmir erupts in joy,” read the lead story in the Kashmir Reader.
“Pakistan’s thrilling win against India in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday saw celebrations erupt on streets. The joy began in the afternoon when India asked Pakistan to bat and the first boundary crossed the fence,” the daily reported.
“While Pakistan was still to crush the Indian team by 180 runs, mosques at many places hummed with pro-Pakistan and anti-India slogans. The Pakistan anthem was played at many places as well. In downtown Srinagar, youth fired crackers continuously. When Pakistan was close to defeating India, youth gathered at marketplaces across Kashmir blasting crackers one after the other, it further added.
Greater Kashmir also published the story in one of its front pages with the headline: “Champions Trophy: Kashmir erupts in joy as Pakistan beat India.”
Rising Kashmir also gave the story an opening page slot with the headline: “Crackers go off as Pak pulls off stunning win over India.”
The Kashmir Observer too covered Kashmir people’s celebration on its front page with the caption:“Oval Outcome: Valley Erupts in Celebration”
” A day after people observed a mourning strike against the deaths of militants and civilians by the security forces, Valley Sunday evening erupted into celebrations following the defeat of Indian cricket team at the hands of Pakistan at Oval, England,” reported Kashmir Observer.
“Firecrackers began exploding soon after India’s top order batsmen fell in quick succession in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. The celebrations continued through the night across Kashmir, police sources from various district headquarters said,” the report further stated.


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Meet the Wave Chaser
Matthew Alford, a La Jolla, California, oceanographer tracks the world's largest waves far under the sea.
Scientist Matthew Alford may enjoy hanging ten, but he has experienced the most epic waves in an entirely different way—by tracking behemoths as tall as 800 feet that could topple skyscrapers, were they visible. Instead, these waves happen miles below the ocean's surface—and they affect us in surprising ways.
That's why Alford founded a scientific research team called Wave Chasers five years ago, with the mission of traveling the world to study these undersea (or "internal") waves. "The Navy has been interested in researching them for decades because they've been known to throw submarines off course and could potentially harm, or even kill, divers," he says. "But we're just now beginning to understand their power."
Alford first became interested in internal waves while earning his PhD at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, where he is now a professor. "As a surfer, I drew a tight parallel between internal waves and the ones you see on the beach," he says. "They travel in much the same way—thousands of miles across oceans in sets." But because they aren't hampered by exposure to the air, internal waves are able to grow to more than 16 times the size of the average wave on land and travel for months without breaking. "They're not the kind you'd want to surf, because they move at a pace of only about 7 or 8 miles per hour," says Alford.
Still, their sheer size makes them a force within the sea. Internal waves play a vital role in stirring up nutrients from the ocean floor, mixing them through the water, and feeding many species of marine life. More importantly, though, they affect climate change. "When a wave breaks, it sweeps large amounts of cold water over warm water," says Alford, ultimately playing a large part in redistributing the ocean's heat. "So if internal waves are getting stronger, it could speed up climate change."
With a team of six scientists, engineers, and PhD students who make up his Wave Chasers group, Alford travels to undersea hot spots—areas around the globe with strong tidal currents, where many internal waves are formed—and deploys torpedo-shaped instruments to the ocean floor, where they are able to record the size, speed, and temperature of the waves. The team's next stop is the Arctic, where Alford believes strong winds are stirring up undersea turbulence. "The ice is steadily retreating, so more wind is blowing off into the ocean, which means more internal waves are forming," he says.
Until then, Alford will be catching waves a little closer to home. "My desk looks right out onto the beach, so a lot of the time I'll take an afternoon break and go out and surf," he says. "And most of the time, there are a few other Wave Chasers out there on their boards right next to me."
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Every time something bad happens in Beyonce‘s life, Gwyneth Paltrow seems to appear out of thin air. We get it, Beyonce and Gwyneth are BFFs forever and all that jazz, but it almost seems like Gwyneth is Beyonce’s fairy godmother, no? Except instead of granting wishes and transforming pumpkins into carriages, Gwyneth just brings booze and spirits Beyonce away to an isolated recovery spa. In Fact Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow went into hiding together after Beyonce’s rumored pretend birthing of Blue Ivy.
According to recent reports, Gwyneth Paltrow is right in the middle of Beyonce’s divorce from Jay-Z and is actually giving her advice on how to do it. Just as Gwyneth consciously uncoupled from Chris Martin a few months back, Beyonce will be copying Gwyneth’s notebook on PR-friendly divorce and breakups. Of course, I don’t think she wants to follow Gwyneth’s playbook too closely, since I doubt she’ll be able to handle it if Jay-Z ended up with the Jennifer Lawrence of the music industry.
At this point, Beyonce and Jay-Z getting divorced is a done deal. But since we know that Beyonce ALWAYS goes to Gwyneth when she’s in trouble, this isn’t outside of her usual norm. Remember when Beyonce disappeared after giving birth to Blue Ivy, and she was supposedly with Gwyneth? And then she came back with her ‘baby weight’ all gone? Yeah, that’s Gwyneth’s media training/PR fixing happening there, and it worked like a charm. Beyonce’s probably hoping that Gwyneth can help her do the same in this situation, but a divorce is significantly different from a baby bump conspiracy.
What do you guys think? Is Gwyneth going to coach Beyonce on how to consciously uncouple from Jay-Z without creating a big scene? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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Almost exactly ten years after my previous visit, I spent another weekend in London. Unfortunately, the weather was not that nice: It was mainly wet and cold.
Still, we want on a stroll through the city on Saturday. In between, we stopped at cafés and restaurants to warm up again. First, it seemed that not much had changed over the last ten years: tourists were still lining up in front of Westminster Abbey, and horse guards were still standing around on Whitehall Street.
In the West of the City (and to the South of it, in Southwark), however, a lot of new skyscrapers have been (and still are) erected – quite a contrast to the Tower of London nearby. Because of the weather, we did not visit any observatory, though. Instead, we took in the skyline of modern London from below.
On the second day, the weather was slighty better. However, this day was almost completely dedicated to the main reason of our stay:
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Inflammasomes activate caspase family proteases, and thereby trigger caspase-dependent cellular programs, such as cytokine maturation and secretion, pyroptotic cell death and apoptotic cell death. We aim to understand precisely how inflammasomes control the activity of inflammatory caspases, and the proteolytic cascades that control cellular programs such as pyroptotic cell death and unconventional protein secretion.
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The Danube School or Donau School (German: Donauschule or Donaustil) was a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (mainly along the Danube valley). Many were also innovative printmakers, usually in etching. They were among the first painters to regularly use pure landscape painting, and their figures, influenced by Matthias Grünewald, are often highly expressive, if not expressionist. They show little Italian influence and represent a decisive break with the high finish of Northern Renaissance painting, using a more painterly style that was in many ways ahead of its time. According to Alfred Stange, Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolfgang Huber were two of the central most figures within the Danube School. Altdofer was the artist that created most of the artworks associated with the Danube School. The term "Danube School was most likely not what these groups of artist called themselves but a name that derived hundreds of years after a man by the name of Theodore von Frimmel was observing a painting in 1892 in the Danube region around Regensburg, Germany. When artist Lucas Cranach's art work was recognized to have stylistic elements of the "Danube" the name "The Danube School" began to take a deeper meaning.
"The river valleys of Austria and western Bavaria have often been praised as the land of the 'Beautiful Danube' and not in just song but in the pictorial arts as well." (Snyder, James)
Rugged mountain terrain, towering fir trees and dramatic lighting effects of sunset and dawn are the main characteristics of the Danube School. Other elements that distinguish Danube School artworks is the prominence of nature and how it is represented through these pieces of art as well as the human figure in these natural elements and human events that happen within nature.
Of all the artists within the Danube School, Albrecht Altdorfer is one that has mastered the landscapes of the Danube. His painting, Danube Landscape has been dated between 1520 and 1525 which is a result from Altdorfer's mature years capturing the Danube landscapes.
Among its members were:
Lucas Cranach the Elder had a major influence on the Danube School and is occasionally considered a member of the group.
The year 1553 in art involved some significant events and new works.Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 – 12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the so-called Danube School setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. As an artist also making small intricate engravings he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters.Augustin Hirschvogel
Augustin Hirschvogel (1503 – February 1553) was a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings. His thirty-five small landscape etchings, made between 1545 and 1549, assured him a place in the Danube School, a circle of artists in sixteenth-century Bavaria and Austria.Culture of Austria
Austrian culture has been influenced by its past and present neighbours: Italy, Poland, Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia.German Renaissance
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, notably by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German states and principalities. There were many advances made in the fields of architecture, the arts, and the sciences. Germany produced two developments that were to dominate the 16th century all over Europe: printing and the Protestant Reformation.
One of the most important German humanists was Konrad Celtis (1459–1508). Celtis studied at Cologne and Heidelberg, and later travelled throughout Italy collecting Latin and Greek manuscripts. Heavily influenced by Tacitus, he used the Germania to introduce German history and geography. Eventually he devoted his time to poetry, in which he praised Germany in Latin. Another important figure was Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522) who studied in various places in Italy and later taught Greek. He studied the Hebrew language, aiming to purify Christianity, but encountered resistance from the church.
The most significant German Renaissance artist is Albrecht Dürer especially known for his printmaking in woodcut and engraving, which spread all over Europe, drawings, and painted portraits. Important architecture of this period includes the Landshut Residence, Heidelberg Castle, the Augsburg Town Hall as well as the Antiquarium of the Munich Residenz in Munich, the largest Renaissance hall north of the Alps.Jörg Breu the Elder
Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of Augsburg, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver.
He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the Melk Altar (1502). He returned to Augsburg in 1502 where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice, in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15.
After his death in 1537, his son, Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.Landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects.
The two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases.
The recognition of a spiritual element in landscape art is present from its beginnings in East Asian art, drawing on Daoism and other philosophical traditions, but in the West only becomes explicit with Romanticism.
Landscape views in art may be entirely imaginary, or copied from reality with varying degrees of accuracy. If the primary purpose of a picture is to depict an actual, specific place, especially including buildings prominently, it is called a topographical view. Such views, extremely common as prints in the West, are often seen as inferior to fine art landscapes, although the distinction is not always meaningful; similar prejudices existed in Chinese art, where literati painting usually depicted imaginary views, while professional artists painted real views.The word "landscape" entered the modern English language as landskip (variously spelt), an anglicization of the Dutch landschap, around the start of the 17th century, purely as a term for works of art, with its first use as a word for a painting in 1598. Within a few decades it was used to describe vistas in poetry, and eventually as a term for real views. However the cognate term landscaef or landskipe for a cleared patch of land had existed in Old English, though it is not recorded from Middle English.List of art movements
See Art periods for a chronological list.This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in question.Michael Ostendorfer
Michael Ostendorfer (1490/1494, Ostendorf in Swabia, or Ostendorf in Hemau - December 1559, Regensburg) was a German painter, graphic artist and xylographer. Stylistically, he belongs to the Danube school and probably trained with Albrecht Altdorfer.Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive honesty and spirituality in Christian art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of clothing and hair style.Neo-Fauvism
Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to Surrealism.The magazine Cahiers d'Art was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the Surrealist practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves.Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology and commercialism.Neo-Fauvism has been seen as the last trend within painting that could be marketed as a coherent style.Neo-expressionism
Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde, Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.Neo-expressionism developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors. It was overtly inspired by German Expressionist painters, such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, James Ensor and Edvard Munch. It is also related to American Lyrical Abstraction painting of the 1960s and 1970s, The Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop Painting.Pointillism
Pointillism () is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism. The Divisionists, too, used a similar technique of patterns to form images, though with larger cube-like brushstrokes.Superflat
Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami, which is influenced by manga and anime. It is also the name of a 2001 art exhibition, curated by Murakami, that toured West Hollywood, Minneapolis and Seattle.Superstroke
Superstroke is a term used for a contemporary art movement with its origins in South Africa. Superstroke is one of the influential art movements regarding African modernism and abstraction. The word "Superstroke" implies the super expressive brush stroke. The Superstroke art movement was initially founded as a reaction to the impact that the Superflat art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami had on modern contemporary art.Synthetism
Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The term is derived from the French verb synthétiser (to synthesize or to combine so as to form a new, complex product).
Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and others pioneered the style during the late 1880s and early 1890s.
Synthetist artists aimed to synthesize three features:
The outward appearance of natural forms.
The artist’s feelings about their subject.
The purity of the aesthetic considerations of line, colour and form.In 1890, Maurice Denis summarized the goals for synthetism as,
It is well to remember that a picture before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.The term was first used in 1877 to distinguish between scientific and naturalistic impressionism, and in 1889 when Gauguin and Emile Schuffenecker organized an Exposition de peintures du groupe impressioniste et synthétiste in the Café Volpini at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. The confusing title has been mistakenly associated with impressionism. Synthetism emphasized two-dimensional flat patterns, thus differing from impressionist art and theory.The Battle of Alexander at Issus
The Battle of Alexander at Issus (German: Alexanderschlacht) is a 1529 oil painting by the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), a pioneer of landscape art and a founding member of the Danube school. It portrays the 333 BC Battle of Issus, in which Alexander the Great secured a decisive victory over Darius III of Persia and gained crucial leverage in his campaign against the Persian Empire. The painting is widely regarded as Altdorfer's masterpiece, and is one of the most famous examples of the type of Renaissance landscape painting known as the world landscape, which here reaches an unprecedented grandeur.
Duke William IV of Bavaria commissioned The Battle of Alexander at Issus in 1528 as part of a set of historical pieces that was to hang in his Munich residence. Modern commentators suggest that the painting, through its abundant use of anachronism, was intended to liken Alexander's heroic victory at Issus to the contemporary European conflict with the Ottoman Empire. In particular, the defeat of Suleiman the Magnificent at the Siege of Vienna may have been an inspiration for Altdorfer. A religious undercurrent is detectable, especially in the extraordinary sky; this was probably inspired by the prophecies of Daniel and contemporary concern within the Church about an impending apocalypse. The Battle of Alexander at Issus and four others that were part of William's initial set are in the Alte Pinakothek art museum in Munich.Wolf Huber
Wolf Huber (c. 1485 – June 3, 1553) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, and architect, a leading member of the Danube School.World landscape
The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The subject of each painting is usually a Biblical or historical narrative, but the figures comprising this narrative element are dwarfed by their surroundings.
The world landscape first appeared in painting in the work of the Early Netherlandish painter Joachim Patinir (c. 1480–1524), most of whose few surviving paintings are of this type, usually showing religious subjects, but commissioned by secular patrons. "They were imaginary compilations of the most appealing and spectacular aspects of European geography, assembled for the delight of the wealthy armchair traveler", giving "an idealized composite of the world taken in at a single Olympian glance".The compositional type was taken up by a number of other Netherlandish artists, most famously Pieter Bruegel the Elder. There was a parallel development by Patinir's contemporary Albrecht Altdorfer and other artists of the Danube school. Although compositions of this broad type continued to be common until the 18th century and beyond, the term is usually only used to describe works from the Low Countries and Germany produced in the 16th century. The German term Weltlandschaft was first used by Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen in 1905 with reference to Gerard David, and then in 1918 applied to Patinir's work by Ludwig von Baldass, defined as the depiction of "all that which seemed beautiful to the eye; the sea and the earth, mountains and plains, forests and fields, the castle and the hut".

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Let It Ride is a Five-card poker game that is easy to learn and fast paced. In Let It Ride, the player does not play against any other hand, but instead has a table of progressive winning hands that they aim to achieve. The players all receive three cards each whilst the dealer is dealt two cards. The dealer’s cards are communal cards and are used in every player’s hand.
The players’ three cards together with the two communal cards gives each player a five card poker hand. To receive cards the player must place three bets of equal value and at least equal to the table minimum on three bet boxes indicated on the table layout. The player then is dealt three cards and the dealer takes two communal cards face down.
Prior to the dealer exposing the first communal card and after looking at their three cards the players have the option of taking back their first bet or indicating they want to ‘let it ride’ this means all three bets stay up. The first communal card is then revealed and the player then again has the option of either taking back their second bet or again ‘Letting It Ride’. After all decisions have been made the dealer reveals his/her second communal card. All bets placed in box three are contract bets and no option on this wager is allowed. The players are aiming for a poker hand of 10’s or higher in order to win a payout. A $1 bonus bet may also be made and if the player receives 2 pair or higher they will also win a bonus payment in addition to the table odds.
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