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With ice-covered fjords, snow-covered mountains and exciting wildlife, Svalbard is for many something that just has to be experienced. We test the expedition life in the Arctic and explore Nordenskioldland with mountain skis. An experience of a lifetime!
Note: This is a trip popular with Norwegians, so the main language on the trip is Norwegian, but the guide will speak English, so you are welcome to join as an English speaker.
We will meet in Longyearbyen in the afternoon for an information meeting and planning of the last details. We pack our own pulks together and thus get a nice introduction to how such expeditions are planned and implemented. Have we remembered enough dry-tech food? Chocolate? We eat dinner together and go to bed excited - ready for the next day's challenges and experiences.
Early the next day, we head for the scooter-free glacier massif between Adventdalen and Reindalen, two of the largest valleys on Svalbard. Here we find the highest peaks in Nordenskioldland with nunataks and peaks that surround the glacier. We ski daily stages of between 8 and 21 kilometers and set up camps every night. We spend the days skiing, but we have a leisurely pace and take good breaks along the way. We choose a campsite so we can take afternoon trips to the nearby mountain peaks, and the route is set up in relation to the weather, and the road of least resistance is no bad way to go - we want to make the most of the trip, the route can be adjusted several times along the way. Upon arrival at the campsite, everyone helps to set up camp, dig wind walls and cold pits. Being together, reflecting and exchanging experiences will be at the center before the night takes us.
If there is a need, we sit polar bear guard at night. This is typically one or two hours every other night and does not significantly affect the night's sleep of the individual. After a week on the tour, we end up in Adventdalen where we are transported back to Longyearbyen for a shower and enjoy dinner together.
- Stay in tent
- All meals as described in the program
- All transport within itinerary
See more of what's included under the "details" tab
Questions about the trip? Don't hesitate to contact our project leader below, or contact our office here.
Level 3 out of 6. Please read more about our difficulty levels here. You need to have experience skiing off of groomed trails on mountain skis. You don't need expedition experience but you need to have experience with sleeping outside in the winter and be prepared to camp. On this trip, you will use a pulk (sled) and we recommend specific training for this skill set. The pulk will weigh about 25-35 kilos.
If you are uncertain you have the proper experience for this trip, please contact us. We also have a Winter Course that you can join to get the necessary experience.
We stay in tents during the trip. The first and last night in Longyearbyen is not included.
What to bring?
Have a look at the full equipment list by clicking "Equipment list" in the menu above.
We require that you pack all your gear and clothing in waterproof bags.
We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance for your trip. Norrøna Hvitserk Adventure is not responsible for any trip delays, injury, illness, loss of belongings, family emergencies, natural events or other unforeseen issues that may hinder your ability to complete a trip with us. Norrøna Hvitserk Adventure is an adventure holiday company, and with an active holiday there is always a risk of something as simple as a twisted ankle to keep you from your vacation. With trip insurance, your flights, hotels and travel costs can be covered if an unforeseen emergency hinders you from joining our tour, as well as coverage to fly home if necessary. By purchasing travel insurance ahead of time, you can protect your trip and yourself from issues that prevent you from traveling, and rest easy to enjoy your vacation.
Safety is always the number one consideration on a trip with Norrøna Hvitserk Adventure. If there is an emergency on tour with us, help will be able to reach you relatively quickly. We have 24-hour emergency hotline within our office and the guide will always have the ability to contact help. Norway has excellent search and rescue operations throughout the country with evacuations available via helicopter or red cross emergency teams.
Our guides have first aid training and have a selection of medicines and first aid equipment for the necessary treatment in the mountains. Hvitserk also has a partnership with Turlegen.no (Trip Doctor) who can be contacted if needed for medical advice.
If you are on prescribed medication, have known allergies or similar, you must always bring your personal medication.
Hvitserk plans the trip days based on the weather, conditions and the group. Our focus is to take care of each other and work together in one team. The guide will have the ability to make safety decisions for the group, although the decision-making process will be transparent and involve guests in the process.
We plan our trips so that we do not expose ourselves to unwanted risk. On this tour we will always be close to each other, and if an unforeseen situation occurs - the guide will be present quickly to handle it.
This is a trip popular with Norwegians, so the main language on the trip is Norwegian, but the guide will speak English, so you are welcome to join as an English speaker.
Changes may occur
We reserve the right to make changes to the program, and the price. The day to day program is indicative, and changes may occur. Please have a look at our terms and conditions.
Number of participants
Minimum: 6 people; Maximum: 12 people.
- Experienced guides
- Transport from day 2 to day 6
- Communal equipment
- Pulk and pulk bag
- Meals as described in the itinerary
- Search and rescue insurance
Not included in the price
- Transport to/from Longyearbyen
- Drinks (except cofee/tea/juice), meals beyond what is described in the itinerary
- Accommodation in Longyearbyen, first and last night
If it is close to departure, please contact us. Maybe you will be able to join anyway.
At 3 pm you will meet your guide at our warehouse in Longyearbyen center for packing equipment and reviewing the last details before our trip starts the next day. Bring all the equipment to the venue. You can leave personal belongings, but limit how much you bring. There will be opportunities to take a tour of the city's sports shops to get the necessary tour equipment. If you want to bring a map with you on the trip, we recommend buying this at the museum at university, or in the city's grocery store. The packing may take a few hours, so bring some food and drink for this session.
Dinner and accommodation are arranged on an individual basis, but we recommended Stationen as an informal place with good food. Accommodation is not included this night.
We meet again after breakfast and are transported to the start of the adventure into the Advent Valley. We put our skis on and go into the scooter-free area, today it will be a quiet start with approx. 10km on flat terrain. We go to Jansondalen where we set up camp. We spend the evening establishing good routines for maximum comfort in the tent.
Introduction to glacier safety
We start the day with coffee after an exciting night, where you may have been on polar bear watch for the first time? Today we will ski on the first glacier of the trip, Drønbreen, and this night we sleep on the glacier and therefore spend a good deal of time training and an introduction to safety routines. Today's terrain is a bit hilly and we follow along the foot of Skolten mountain towards Drønbreen.
Heart of Nordenskiold Land
Today we have a gentle climb up the Drønbreen, and we are well onto the glacier. We are now approaching the heart of Nordenskioldland, and from the Drønpasset we can, on clear days, look all the way down to Van Mijenfjorden and to the coast to the west.
The last night in the Arctic nature
Now we have become masters of tent routines so we pack down our camp quickly before today's stage. Today we are going up to Rugåsfonna and spend the day exploring the area with opportunities to get up on some of the surrounding mountain peaks. This will be the last night in a tent, so enjoy it while you can!
Back to civilization
We enjoy the last morning with breakfast in the tent camp before the today's leg takes us back to Longyearbyen. We go down the glacier, out of the Adventsdalen, and towards civilization. We take the time to enjoy the last hours of Arctic wilderness.
Accommodation and dinner in Longyearbyen are not included, but we are preparing for joint dinner after a delicious and long-awaited shower.
Travel home or stay a few days longer?
Today it is time to go home unless you want to stay longer at Svalbard. It is very exciting to be in Longyearbyen and we are happy to help you find activities to do if you wish.
Take a good look at this list, and make sure you bring everything you need. We encourage you to use what you have for this trip and purchase items if you're missing something important on the list below.
Go through the equipment list carefully. It is intended as a guideline so that we have what we need for the trip, and at the same time, we must think about the weight. It is also not intended that you should buy a lot of new equipment, you can probably use a lot of what you have before. Despite Svalbard's northern location, the archipelago has a relatively mild climate compared to areas of the same latitude. In winter, the average temperature in Longyearbyen is -14 ° C. However, it is not uncommon for winter periods to have longer periods of temperatures between -20 and -35 degrees. If the wind is, in addition, the effective temperature is very low. But we also experience every winter that we get low pressure from the southwest that can give days of heat degrees and rain. The weather in Svalbard can change very quickly and the local variations can be great.
The periods of polar night and midnight sun vary depending on the latitude one is on. Longyearbyen has the midnight sun from April 19 to August 23, while in the period from late October to mid-February the sun is never over the horizon. The darkness lasts from mid-November to the end of January.
Layering is extremely important in a variable climate like Norway. This list will guide you through the essentials. Remember the Norwegian saying "There is no bad weather, only bad gear", and prepare appropriately for any weather. You can read about the weather where you're traveling here.
Special notes on equipment and clothing on the trip
- It is important that clothes and sleeping bags be packed in waterproof pack sacks.
- The pulks will weigh 25 - 35 kg.
- Joint equipment will be distributed among the participants.
- Participants are divided into tent layers of two and two or three and three.
- Cooking and snow melting is done by the individual tent team.
We provide equipment:
- Pulk (Paris Expedition), thow rope and harness for each participant
- Pulk bag for use in the pulk
- Signal gun
- Stumble flares
- Satellite phone
- First aid
- Snow shovels
- Camping stoves and pots
- Map and compass
- Food and drink
- Glacier equipment
- Toilet paper
Food and drink:
Food is included and you pick what you want from the storage at Svalbard - porridge for breakfast, freeze dried vacuum packed lunch and dinner, drinks (coffee/tea/juice), chocolate (100 grams per day), nuts, biscuits. If you would like more chocolate/snacks, please bring this yourself.
NB: If you are going to be on the first trip that starts in March, it is extra important that you bring warm clothes, as it can often be a bit colder at this time. You may want to bring extra warm wool socks and wool underwear.


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Browse our collection of boho style tv units here.
The TV unit with sliding doors is a stylish and functional piece of furniture that can add elegance and convenience to any living room. With its sleek design and easy to use sliding doors, it allows for easy access to your TV and entertainment equipment. While keeping clutter hidden away. Its versatile style fits well with any decor, making it a must have for modern homes.
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A genius came to Brown on Thursday. Lydia Davis, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius' fellowship and innovator of the very short story, gave a reading of her recent work in the McCormack Family Theater. Davis was invited by Visiting Lecturer of Literary Arts Joanna Howard as a part of the Writers on Writing series. Howard, whose own work has been influenced by Davis, said she "is masterful at paying heed to what other authors might see as inconsequential." Davis is queen of detail. In her work she investigates even the quietest moments, breaking them down to create intimate stories, ranging from the painful to the humorous.
The theater was so packed with students, faculty and Providence residents that Davis interrupted herself to request that the younger audience members give up their seats.
Davis began the reading with her latest works, which she said were about death, travel and dreams. The stories were very short, consisting of a few sentences that provide a glimpse into a scene or thought. The audience seemed to particularly enjoy "Waiting for Take Off," which describes frustrated passengers who stock up on candy bars long enough to be weapons in preparation for the never-ending, miserable wait on the tarmac. Another humorous piece was "Bad Novel," in which Davis describes her long-term struggle to read a stubbornly dreadful book. Davis warned the audience that this was the hazard of belonging to a book club.
The audience was most engaged during Davis' stories on dreams. Davis said she began writing these stories after observing that she could see experiences in her own life in terms of dreams, subtracting out the banal and infusing the fantastic. Audience members seemed to appreciate the ambiguity of the stories and the challenge of distinguishing between waking experiences and dreams.
In some stories, it was easy to separate the two, but other stories, such as "In the Train Station," were more ambiguous. In this story, the narrator shows a Tibetan monk "the way" by giving him directions to the train track he is looking for. The audience snickered at the irony of this situation to Davis' delight. "You're an alert crowd," she commented.
In another story, an old woman eats a bowl of cashews and in the process accidentally eats her hearing aid. She chews it for several hours before spitting it out and announcing, "this nut was a bad one."
Not all of the stories were amusing, though. A few dealt with death or dipped into other serious subjects such as family, marriage and aging.
These very short stories, which some may confuse with poems, but which Davis prefers to call "pieces," were followed by a collection of observations on the cows that live across the street from her. These observations will appear in a chapbook called "The Cows" some time this spring. Davis said she began writing about the cows almost four years ago, shortly after moving to the countryside.
Her observations are similar to her stories — succinct and simple, yet specifically focused. She studies how the cows migrate over their grazing field, sometimes in a "dark, irregular mass," sometimes separately and sometimes "(coupled) like the car of a railway train." She wonders about the cows' thoughts, desires and attitudes. Her descriptions are reminiscent of math word problems: There are three cows. If Cow A licks Cow B, what will Cow C do?
The descriptions of the cows' behavior was redundant at times, but Davis' attention to detail was impressive. She described how snow accumulates on cows just as it does on trees or mailboxes. It piles up on their backs and heads, and there is even a thin line of snow on each of the whiskers around their mouths. Davis said she recorded her observations on napkins, receipts or whatever happened to be around when she glimpsed the cows from her kitchen window.
In addition to writing fiction, Davis translates French literature and philosophy. She is well known for her translation of Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way," and she is in the midst of translating Flaubert's "Madame Bovary." As she was translating this book, Davis said she stumbled upon short stories that Flaubert composed while writing it. She also translated these stories, which she shared at the reading.
It was easy to see why Davis enjoyed translating the stories. Flaubert's attention to detail and ironic observations are similar to Davis' own style. Davis mentioned that she enjoys translating because she "can write in the style of another writer" and leave herself behind.
The reading was followed by a question and answer session, which gave Davis an opportunity to explain her writing process and how her writing has evolved. One student asked how Davis distinguishes poetry from prose and vice versa. Davis replied that she doesn't like to label her work, but she sees an "unbroken continuum" moving from traditional story to less traditional prose forms to poetry and finally, formal pieces of verse.
Another student asked Davis about how she crafts the endings of her stories. Davis said that she never leaves a weak ending. She always comes back.

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Sundays at Bald Top
BALD TOP OPENS 1 – 7 pm
FOOD: Sombrero’s Food Truck
Our Tap Barn is open, featuring live streamed music and local sports.
Come and spend the afternoon and take in the beautiful scenery.
We look forward to serving you!
With delicious food from Sombrero’s Food Truck.

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That is some superb scenery to see when you visit. Got to go there
It is stunning. You really should visit Bill.
Oh wow! Such gorgeous shots. Love them
Even better in real life! Thanks kewkew.
These photos a beautiful all serene and scenic :-)Have a scenictastic week :-)
Wish I could have gone with you. Lovely!
Too late now! Thanks Darla.
I am regretting cancelling my trip to Scotland for next month, but at least I can enjoy your photos.
Another time maybe. Thank you Denise.
So much color. It's so pretty! A totally different landscape from Nebraska (where I live). I'd love to roam some hills. http://www.anapeladay.com/2017/05/ww-bunny-linky.html
I imagine it must be. Everywhere has a magic and beauty of its own.Thanks Alissa
Isn't that a beautiful area ?? I have been there last year and loved it !
Isn't it just, and having amily living right in the middle of comes in pretty handy!
I've actually been there twice!!! Thanks for sharing pictures from my home-side of the big pond :)And thanks for linking up! Hope to see you again on grapefruitprincess.com
You certainly are a long way from home! You will indeed see me again Anni.
Fabulous images - would love to roam there.
Very kind of you Carol
Those are some serious beautiful pics you took. Very lovely scenery.
It's easy to take beautiful pictures when amid such lovely scenery. Thanks so much.
This is a lovely area and you had nice weather to see it. It reminds me of the South island of New Zealand.
Thanks for dropping by Rhonda
Looks like paradise and brilliant photography !
It does indeed. Thanks moon
Hi Keith - stunning ... so lovely to see - especially in the sunshine and early summer vistas ... gorgeous - cheers Hilary

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Aww! Aren't these two the CUTEST?
According to sources, the couple is so Crazy in Love with each other that they're embarking on a massive U.S. concert tour!! Sources say the 20-stadium U.S. tour will start in June and possibly pass through NYC on
Well, well, well…
Anderson Cooper was reportedly vacationing on a yacht in Croatia WITH his cheating boyfriend Ben Maisani when he learned of the infidelity, but now, he appears to be with someone else…at least according to Instagram!
And that person is none other than Bravo's very own Andy Cohen!
Ha! You can TELL which one is Anderson's because of how much higher his shot is angled!
Guess is Silver Fox is doing what all the rest of us do when we're left broken-hearted!
Going to his gays!
Here's hoping Andy is being a good shoulder to cry on right now!


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Food Friday: Birrieria Diaz
If you are looking for some really good Mexican food in Bethany, head to downtown Bethany across from SNU and check out Brirrieria Diaz. I have heard of it for quite some time and a few months ago was our first visit. We’ve been back several times because it is so good.
It’s located on the east corner of the downtown area, just a small restaurant. You can park on NW 39th or drive around back to the larger parking lot. Once inside, we are always seated quickly. Fresh corn tortilla chips along with really good queso and salsa are brought to the table. The salsa is fresh and not to spicy, the queso is creamy with a touch of sharp flavor. I have gotten the beef enchilada dinner a couple of times and it has been great. Always cooked to perfection, the ground beef has a nice flavor. But my new favorite is the tacos diaz, 3 flour tortillas filled with steak, ham, bacon, onions, peppers, and mozzarella cheese. These are wonderful, the different flavors just compliment each other. The meat is grilled and is tender, the veggies are also grilled and liven up the taco. It’s served with rice and beans. The rice is good but I really like their beans, I have tasted bits of bacon in them which I love.
I highly recommend trying them out, they have a breakfast menu that I need to try soon. I give them 5 strips of bacon.
Address: 6700 NW 39th Expressway, Bethany.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado Springs swimmer has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the Colorado High School Activities Association after being disqualified from a swim competition over his glucose monitor.
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Orr is a competitive swimmer for Coronado High School. He qualified for the state championships and had already competed in two events during the June competition when a CHSAA referee came up and inquired about his arm monitor.
“Ethan was given the choice to remove it from his arm or not to compete in that event and he chose not to compete in that event. He thought that would allow his team to swim,” said the teen’s mother, Amanda Terrell-Orr.
Orr has been battling Type 1 diabetes since he was 10; last year was the first that he was able to start swimming competitively again, so he joined his high school team.
Terrell-Orr says her son has had a difficult journey managing his diabetes this year because of how much energy goes into swimming.
“This season was the most difficult time we’ve ever had in managing his type 1 diabetes. He’s had the most dangerous low blood sugars, and he somehow in the face of that he persevered, he practiced with the support of his coach and athletic trainer and he got a state-qualifying time,” Terrell-Orr said.
She says her son needs to be wearing the glucose monitor at all times because it is connected to his insulin pump and removing it could disrupt the algorithm to determine whether he needs insulin.
Throughout the season, though her son has been able to swim with the monitor and used tape to hold it in place throughout the season without any issues.
He also swims on a private team during the off-season that operates under USA Swimming rules and says the monitor has never been viewed as a rule violation.
At the state championships, Orr’s coach was told by the referee he should have been disqualified from all of the events without a doctor’s note.
“The rule does not apply to the situation. He wasn’t wearing a foreign substance or device to aid in his speed, buoyancy or body compression,” Terrell-Orr said. “It basically slows him down and puts him at a disadvantage compared to other swimmers, but that’s not something he’s requested an accommodation for. He simply wants to have an equity.”
After the discussion with his coach and the referee, Orr agreed to sit out, but the team couldn’t find a replacement in enough time and was disqualified from the final relay race.
Terrell-Orr says her son felt a tremendous amount of guilt for his team not being able to compete.
Afterward, Orr’s coach reached out to CHSAA to discuss the incident but did not receive a response.
The family then reached out to education and civil rights attorney Igor Raykin with the Colorado Law Team for help.
“I cannot imagine for the life of me how a glucose monitor could give him a competitive advantage. It’s not a rocket booster it’s a glucose monitor,” Raykin said.
Because CHSAA has no state oversight, Raykin decided to file a discrimination complaint with the Department of Justice and CHSAA.
The family wants CHSAA to change its policies or clarify rules so that wearing a glucose monitor will not disqualify student-athletes.
“We see it as a public accommodation under the law, and a public accommodation is not allowed to discriminate against people with disabilities such as Ethan,” Raykin said.
At this point, the family is not pursuing a lawsuit and is not seeking financial damages, but Raykin says if some sort of action isn’t taken to change the association’s policies, litigation could be on the table.
“It’s really infuriating when an agency like CHSAA is more focused on denying kids with disabilities the right to participate than it is in ensuring they have an inclusive environment for kids,” Raykin said.
Terrell-Orr believes the group owes her son and his team an apology. She says she’s never been as angry in her life as she was when her son was removed from a competition he worked so hard to qualify for and she sees this as yet another obstacle for her family to overcome.
“It’s been extremely painful for the entire family and Ethan has had to work hard to build back up his confidence and his belief that the system can be fair,” she said.
CHSAA provided the following statement Tuesday night:
CHSAA has received requests for comment regarding a complaint filed with the DOJ alleging discrimination on the basis of disability. CHSAA received a copy of the complaint yesterday afternoon and I am reviewing it. It is not our policy to respond to inquiries regarding filed complaints, however, given the misleading and inflammatory statements of the student’s legal counsel, there are certain facts you need to be aware of.
During the 2020-21 state swim championship, a referee noticed the student had a strip of tape on his arm. The referee asked the student if he had the necessary signed medical authorization letter as required under the National Federation of High Schools 2020/21, Rule 3-3-5 that applies to all participants. The rule specifies that tape may be used by a participant to treat a documented medical condition but the referee must be presented with signed documentation from a health care professional that certifies it is safe for the student to participate with the device attached. All coaches were informed of this requirement through multiple CHSAA notices.
The student did not have a signed medical authorization, and the referee advised him that he would not be able to compete in his final event, the 400 free relay. This decision was required by the rules of the NFHS that govern all participants equally and had nothing to do with the student’s disabilities
The referee also informed the coach of the decision. The coach stated that he had other athletes available for the event and the event proceeded with an alternate participant. Neither the student nor the team were disqualified. The team competed but was subsequently disqualified for an early takeoff completely unrelated to the matter of the student in question.
KMGH reached out to the Department of Justice for a statement but did not receive comment.
This story was originally published by Meghan Lopez at KMGH.

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While we have seen so many incredible life-changing applications for 3D printing, there are still many concerns which remain on the table when dealing with the possible negative implications of the technology. Whether you believe that the ease in which practically anyone will eventually be able to fabricate a firearm is a good or bad thing, just the thought of 3D printed firearms will send shivers down the spines of law enforcement agencies around the world. There has been an incredibly fast progression of the technology behind the methods of manufacturing guns with 3D printers in the last two years alone. Imagine what the next five to ten year will have in store for us.
It seems like it was only yesterday when Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson 3D printed the very first known gun. Maybe that’s because it was almost yesterday. Believe it or not, it was only about 17 months ago when Wilson unveiled the 3D printed ‘Liberator’ gun, which he created on a Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer. What many people don’t realize though, is that several different firearms as well as gun parts have been 3D printed in the short time since Wilson’s creation was revealed. I have provided below, a short history of the various 3D printed firearm models that we have seen to date.
May, 2013 – Cody Wilson’s Liberator .380
This pistol was initially printed on a Stratasys Dimension SST 3-D printer, which utilizes fused deposition modeling technology, by Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed. It is a single shot pistol which uses .380 ACP cartridges. Since the files were released, hundreds of thousands of individuals downloaded the entire blueprints, and numerous individuals have printed this gun out prior to the Justice Department demanding that Wilson remove the files from the internet. By this time it was much too late. The gun has since been printed on a variety of different 3D printers including those priced at under $1000.
August, 2013 – Grizzly .22 Caliber Rifle
Months after Wilson’s gun was publicized, a Canadian man going by the name ‘Mathew” 3D printed an actual rifle. This firearm was tested, and pretty much exploded in his arms. Mathew went back to the drawing board, and this time thickened the walls of the barrel. The Grizzly 2.0 was printed on a Stratasys Dimension 1200e machine, and was able to fire off 14 shots prior to it developing a crack.
September, 2013 – Reprringer Pepperbox .22 Revolver
Just a month later, Hexen released the blueprints for their Reprringer Pepperbox revolver. The weapon which can hold 5 bullets at once, is a small firearm, with a relatively poor aim. There are three versions of this weapon, all of which are easy to find and download online. It was initially printed on a variety of consumer desktop 3D printers. The gun was designed by a man going by the name of Franco, and unlike the other weapons we covered, this one does have stainless steel liners for its barrels. Hexen continues to improve upon the gun, with a 3rd version currently available for download.
November, 2013 – Browning 1911 Metal Replica
In November of last year, Solid Concepts, now a Stratasys company, blew all these other firearms out of the water, by using a direct metal laser sintering printer to create a replica of a 1911 Browning .45 pistol. To date this weapon has fired over 600 shots successfully. Solid Concepts plans on producing more of these firearms in the months to come. It is important to note that a machine capable of printing this weapon would run close to $1 million, and printing such a gun to resell is not currently economically feasible.
May, 2014 – Zig Zag .38 Revolver
This May, a Japanese man, Yoshitomo Imura, was arrested after he had posted a video online of himself firing a 3D printed Zig Zag revolver. The man who is believed to have printed the weapon months prior, also was found in possession of four other 3D printed guns, which he reportedly printed on a sub-$500 FDM 3D printer. Imura did fire the revolver, which has a capacity of six bullets, however, he stated that blanks were used.
I’m sure that in the coming months and years ahead, this list will continue to expand. Make no mistake, 3D printed weaponry is here to stay. It will be up to law enforcement to figure out a way to protect the public without stepping on their civil liberties. These guns are only the beginning.
Let’s hear your thoughts on what, if anything, should be done by authorities to make sure these weapons do not fall in the hands of crazed maniacs. Discuss this story in the 3D printed gun forum thread on 3DPB.com.
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Kylie Jenner Flaunts Her Trim Midriff AND Diamonds In First Public Outing Since Kim Kardashian’s Robbery!
And she was not shy about showing off!!
Despite casually rocking the diamond promise ring gifted to her by the rapper, the reality TV starlet was also flashing her trim midriff as she went braless in a silk shirt.
Lace-up Made Gold skinny jeans and Puma sneakers completed the look for her first public outing since Kimmy was robbed at gunpoint!
Seems Kylizzle isn't too worried about flaunting her wealth.
You do you, girl!
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Profile of medical and injury consultations of Team South Africa during the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Athens 2004
Objective. This descriptive study was undertaken to document the nature of medical and injury consultations of the athletes and officials of the South African Team at the 2004 Olympic Games, and to provide data for planning future events. Setting. South African medical facility, 2004 Olympic Games, Athens, Greece. Methods. Total number of consultations and diagnoses were ascertained from medical logs and patient files which were completed daily by the members of the medical team. A retrospective clinical audit of medical records was then undertaken and the data were then compared with similar data collected during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Acute and chronic-soft tissue (muscle strain, ligament sprain, tendon injury, contusion or laceration) and bony injury were analysed in terms of nature of injury, grading of severity and anatomical region injured. Main outcome measures. Number of consultations due to medical complaints or injuries among athletes and officials. Results. A total of 180 medical consultations were logged during the time in Athens while 348 consultations were logged in Sydney. The daily consultation rate was 6 per day in Athens compared with 13 per day in Sydney. In Athens, 84% of consultations were with athletes and the remainder (16%) with officials – this was similar to Sydney. The most common medical complaints in Athens were dermatological (16%), ENT (13%), and respiratory (8%) in nature, which contrasts with the profile of consultations in Sydney (ENT 18%; neurological system 16% and respiratory 16%). Acute injury and chronic injury accounted for 26% and 14% of consultations respectively. In Athens, the most common acute and chronic injuries were soft-tissue injuries. The most common acute injury regions were the foot and ankle (25%), upper leg (17%) and knee (17%). A total 77% of acute injuries were grade I, 17% grade II and 6% grade III in severity. The most common chronic injury regions were foot and ankle (32%), lumbar spine (32%), and shoulder (11%). These injury profiles were similar to those documented in Sydney 2000. Conclusions. Injury and illness complaints of the South African team were fewer in Athens 2004 compared with those documented during Sydney 2000. This can be attributed to local environmental conditions and travel across time zones. These data should be useful for planning medical services for future multicoded events. The analysis of the nature of consultations suggests that it should be a prerequisite for physicians travelling with a multi-coded events team to have broad knowledge of both medical and injury management of athletes. Specifically, a sound knowledge of the management of soft-tissue injury is an important prerequisite for the personnel of the medical team.
South African Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 20 (3) 2008: pp. 72-76

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text: Wow what a great game, i finished it this weekend. I just couldn't put it down. It's a mix of suspense/horror combined with a FPS game. There are quite a fear parts of the game that make you jump. I think i enjoyed this one even more than Far Cry. You should try the demo out and i think you will be hooked.

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By DINA ARÉVALO
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Effective Jan. 3, 2016, Allegiant Airlines will no longer offer flights to Las Vegas out of the Brownsville – South Padre Island International Airport.
The news came as a surprise to airport officials, including Director of Aviation Sesha Vorrey. “I don’t see any reason why they pulled back,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday.
The airport was given written notice of the cessation of services only after Vorrey contacted Allegiant on Monday, Dec. 14. Prior to that, “not a word” was said to airport officials, Vorrey said. One week before, however, the airline issued a statement to the media announcing the upcoming termination of services.
“We are always disappointed to end service in a market,” said Daniel Meier in the statement. Meier serves as Allegiant Travel Co. manager of airports. “We thank Brownsville for their partnership and apologize to any travelers who are inconvenienced by this decision,” he continued.
It was an airport employee who first noticed Monday that no new bookings were appearing for the airline’s direct flights between Brownsville and Las Vegas.
The airline began offering two flights a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, in June of this year. The partnership was announced and promoted with much enthusiasm months earlier.
“We are proud to have sent thousands of passengers to Las Vegas from Brownsville,” Vorrey said in a statement.
Indeed, the airport regularly averaged a ‘load factor’ of 81 percent on those eight flights a month. Vorrey described load factor as an average number of passengers per 100 seats. A load factor of 81 means 81 out of 100 seats are filled per flight. On the airport’s slowest days, the load factor dipped to 69 percent, still better than two-thirds full. The highest load factor achieved was 94 percent. Each Allegiant flight was capable of accommodating 166 passengers.
Despite the news, Vorrey was optimistic about the possibility of partnering with Allegiant again in the future. “While we are disappointed with Allegiant’s decision, we are ready to welcome Allegiant back to Brownsville and to pursue flights to other destinations they serve such as Orlando,” he wrote in the statement.
The airport will continue to offer flights with United Airlines and American Eagle, Vorrey said. Expansion plans, including the construction of a new passenger terminal, will also continue unabated, he said.
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I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, who doesn't love a wedding? Marvel Comics just decided to hold a big one for superhero Northstar. We'll find out why even some of his alien mutant friends decided not to show. That's in just a few minutes.
It's wedding season for couples around the country, including superheroes. Marvel Comics, the group behind Spider-man, X-Men and the Avengers, recently released a comic featuring its first same-sex superhero wedding. Host Michel Martin discusses the intersection between the Marvel universe and politics with Marvel's editor-in-chief, Axel Alonso.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is leading the charge to get Detroit's massive backlog of rape kits tested and processed. It's a cause that hits close to home, because Worthy was a victim of rape when she was a law student. Host Michel Martin speaks with Worthy.
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In addition to OB Photos and OB Featured Business, Old Brooklyn Blogs is bringing readers another periodic feature called OB People. In OB People, we'll spotlight interesting residents, community leaders, business owners, and other stakeholders in Old Brooklyn.
Our inaugural interview focuses on Jeff Kipp, a Treadway Avenue resident. Jeff serves as the executive director of the Living in Cleveland Center, a nonprofit organization that celebrates Cleveland's neighborhoods and the plethora of exciting living opportunities within each of them.
What brought your family to Old Brooklyn?
I am a native northeast Ohioan and had a great upbringing in the suburbs. However, after returning to Cleveland from the University of Dayton, I knew I was looking for a different environment to live in.
While renting a house with friends in Lakewood I began checking out my options in the City of Cleveland. I was attracted to the density of urban neighborhoods and the proximity to the City’s entertainment venues. I knew I wanted to buy a single family home and I wanted it to be in an area that I could be comfortable in for years to come.
All of my self-guided tours throughout the City landed me back in Old Brooklyn, so I decided to concentrate my home search there. Ultimately I purchased a home on Treadway Avenue and have since gotten married to Tricia and we have added two little girls into our family (and neighborhood). Through my professional experiences, I have come to see and experience fantastic neighborhood development throughout Cleveland’s neighborhoods and many new residential opportunities for my family. But I must honestly admit, we would be very pleased to stay rooted right here in Old Brooklyn.
What do you like best about living in Old Brooklyn?
At work, I am often confronted with the old “City vs. Suburbs” argument. Old Brooklyn, and many City neighborhoods for that matter, blends the best of these two worlds. I grew up in Solon, which epitomizes the perception of suburban living - pleasant neighbors, nice houses, manicured lawns, and a range of available amenities. Old Brooklyn presents the exact same lifestyle opportunity, but with a much more diverse and eclectic set of offerings (OK, maybe the yards are a little smaller, here). I really like the population density that this City neighborhood offers. We still have a private lawn and garden, but we also have built-in proximity to so many more amenities and opportunities within the City.
Tricia and I always prefer to spend our social time in the City - at sports venues, new restaurants, museums, parks, bars, Playhouse Square, etc….I could go on….It just makes sense to live close to these amenities. Why would we want to live 30-45 minutes away from where we want to be?
Being a City resident, I personally feel a strong link to other City neighborhoods as well. Cleveland’s neighborhoods each have their own unique personality, but ultimately, they are all an integral part of the City. So while I live in Old Brooklyn, I still consider Tremont, Ohio City, Detroit Shoreway, Downtown and other neighborhoods my own. I believe this is an experience and feeling that is not readily available in the ‘burbs, where a resident’s identity is often defined solely by the subdivision they live in.
What do you think is Old Brooklyn's greatest asset?
Personally, I love Old Brooklyn’s connectedness to the City and the region. Living in the South Hills neighborhood, I am just minutes from the Jennings Freeway and I-480. This allows me to get downtown in 5-10 minutes, which makes for an incredibly easy commute to work! That freeway accessibility also allows us to easily reach distant suburbs in respectable time. Tremont is minutes to the north and the West Side Market is an easy drive up West 25th Street. Even closer is Steelyard Commons, the City’s largest shopping destination, which just happens to be conveniently located right next door to Old Brooklyn. I’d be lying if I said we didn’t take full advantage of that. Not a week (or day for that matter) goes by without my wife or me stopping by Starbucks and Target to pick up some “essentials”.
What is your favorite neighborhood spot?
I am going to go with the obvious answer here. We live minutes from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and certainly take full advantage of that. Our family pass to the Zoo is purchased religiously every year. We literally treat the Zoo like it’s our own neighborhood park. Having a three year old who loves animals, why would we not frequent this neighborhood gem? Taking the kids for a walk through the Zoo’s acres of greenspace makes for a perfect outing. We constantly solicit friends and family to join us. There is an open invitation for them to call us if they’re going to the zoo. We do our best to stop over and walk around with them. And then of course we always joke that we can be home before they reach their cars in the parking lot.
What do you say is Old Brooklyn's best kept secret?
Let me start by saying I hope this is not a secret. The Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail has long been an asset to the region. This walking/running/biking path has been used by millions as a recreational outlet, as it extends from Cleveland all the way down to Canton. I must admit I had heard about it but never actually experienced it. I always thought it was just something that other people took advantage of.
Well now it’s connected directly to Old Brooklyn’s Harmody Park! That means that us City-dwellers, those choosing to live in the shadows of skyscrapers and sports stadiums, have direct access to a 70-mile recreational pathway surrounded by parks and protected from traffic. Words can’t describe how fantastic this is for Cleveland and specifically for Old Brooklyn.
Efforts are in place to connect this trail to other neighborhoods and ultimately to Lake Erie. But for now, it is a comforting feeling to know that our neighborhood already has an asset like the Towpath Trail Connector. Being in the business of promoting Cleveland and its neighborhoods, I believe this is certainly one of the most important assets for Old Brooklyn.
Where in the neighborhood will others find you?
Gabe's Family Restaurant
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Dina's Filling Station
Hudec Dental on Broadview (twice a year!)
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Happy Labor Day! I'll be spending my day quilting in the dining room (upstairs! with sunlight!) and eating ice cream.
If I get this puppy finished, I might have to make that little girl some Parsley Pants if her own. I have a wild notion that I can use the waistband part of the pattern, but taper the legs to make skinny jeans. Crazy, but it makes sense in my head.


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Food waste is one of the biggest contributions to landfills. One of the ways you can prevent food waste is to reuse food scraps when possible. There’s so much waste that can actually be diverted from landfill when you know how and when to reuse your food scraps.
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My oldest daughter has me scrutinizing our habits at home and at first I have to say I was a skeptic, but seeing how she easily regrows green onions and uses scraps for other household things from gardening to cosmetic DIY and teas is inspiring.
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Food Scrap Reuse
Food is a vital resource that can be preserved and stretched further with a little creativity. Using your food scraps is a great way to make the most of what you have and reduce food waste, which saves you money and also helps you support environmental conservation efforts.
The most common use for food scraps is to compost them into a fertilizer for your garden and houseplants. Anyone can put in a small composter to help reduce how much food waste goes into the trash or keep a bin of food scraps in your kitchen and use the broken down scraps afterwards.
These also make amazing fertilizer for plants. Roses love these. Don’t use them on indoor plants though as that can cause mold.
The calcium in egg shells is useful for a couple of things, but today we are chatting about food scraps, so crush up those egg shells and put them in your plants. Sprinkle them in all the plants. It won’t hurt. The extra calcium in these food scraps can be especially useful for plants that attract snails.
Leftover scraps of vegetables including onions and garlic can make a great addition to bone broth. Keep a container in the freezer for tossing vegetable scraps, onion skins, and other small bits from trimming vegetables. Place this with meat bones from cooking and some fresh herbs for an easy and flavorful brother anyone can make.
Use apple and other fruit scraps to make scrap jelly. Boil the fruit scraps in a bit of water. Strain off the fruit scraps and use the juice to make homemade jelly. This is a common way to use up fruit scraps for a delicious treat to add to your stockpile.
Scrap bits of meat and vegetables can be used to make a stew. This is a great way to use up leftovers in the refrigerator including using leftover pasta sauces or gravies to give you a base for your stew.
Leftover Bread Becomes
Leftover bits of bread including the heals and scrap crusts from picky children can be used to make homemade croutons or bread crumbs for cooking. Chop and dry the crumbs for croutons or dry and crush them for simple bread crumbs you can use later for cooking.
Freeze leftover mashed potatoes to thickening soups and stews later on. This makes a great way to reduce waste. Use an ice cube tray for small portions and easy measuring.
Bring on the banana peels. I was tossing all of mine until very recently. You can actually boil banana peels to make a kind of tea. You can use parts of bananas in hair conditioner or even facial moisturizers. If you are putting it on your face though test a piece of skin first to be sure it doesn’t cause a reaction.
Keep the white portion of the green onion and place it in a jar with water. You can easily regrew onions this way. My daughter started this here and it works. We rarely need to buy green onions anymore.
Scoop out the pumpkin guts and seeds. Use the pumpkin for desserts, bread, cookies or anything pumpkin related. Pumpkin can be delicious in so many recipes. Don’t waste it if you can help it. Keep the seeds, wash them off and roast them. My kids and husband love this treat.
Food Scraps Can Be Versatile!
From coffee grounds to banana peels and more. You don’t have to toss all of your food scraps out with the garbage. Some scraps are useful and even tasty at times. Why not try some of these ideas and save on waste?


India Reports 1.94 Lakh Fresh COVID-19 Cases In 24 Hours; Highest In 219 Days
India reported 1,94,720 fresh COVID-19 cases, on January 12, which is 15.8% higher than yesterday's 1.68 lakh single day cases. It also registered 442 fatalities, taking the tally to 4,84,655 and active cases to 9,55,319 till date, with a weekly positivity rate of 11%. Besides, the nation has registered 4,868 cases of Omicron, so far. Notably, India administered 153 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses to people under the nationwide vaccination drive.


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- ItemReconceptualising urban food security : an analysis of the everyday negotiations of food access in Lusaka, Zambia(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12) Davies, Frances; Haysom, Gareth; Oldfield, Sophie; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study calls to attention the everyday experiences of what is an increasing urban food insecurity crisis in southern Africa. It draws on a wide literature review and in-depth qualitative work conducted in Lusaka, Zambia. A critical assessment of the dominant food security agenda in southern Africa is discussed in reference to the grounded understanding of a food insecure family living in an impoverished neighbourhood in Lusaka. Illustrations of the deeper empirical context of urban-scaled food insecurity are examined from a feminist food systems perspective. This enables the identification of the gendered embodied experiences of crafting food security in the inequitable urban environment. Individual agency shapes alternative food security strategies that contain purpose, meaning and identity, beyond simplistic notions of food access and consumption. The study speaks to the lived reality of negotiating food security, which is currently unrecognised, and in some cases occluded from dominant patriarchal and neoliberal-centred food security perspectives. In contribution to theory, it is argued that the embodied everyday life realities of the inequitable urban and global food system need to be taken seriously and established as the departure point for setting food security agendas. This study is presented in the form of two journal articles. Article one, titled Money for eating: Everyday urban food insecurity in Lusaka, highlights the importance of agency as a food security determinant in the micro-relational spaces within and between households and food networks. In this sense, agency is both created, and implicated in, the crafting of daily food security. The study exposes how the grand narratives of the global food security discourse are disconnected from, and often contradict, the negotiations and dynamics of food security on the ground. Article two, titled Urban food security: rethinking Lusaka’s food system, builds on the findings expressed in the first article. It discusses how everyday urban food security strategies are contextual and relational – time- and place-bound. It explores how urban residents’ actively negotiate layers of power and inequality embedded within urban food and structural systems. This article argues that urban-scaled food security responses and their underpinning food system governance processes need to find ways to support the critical agentic interactions that are deeply enmeshed within the daily lives of urban food-system actors. In both articles, literature from outside of the narrow food security discourse is used because it better supports the conceptualisation of the everyday reality of urban food insecurity experiences and the inclusive urban food system governance processes needed to deal with the cumulating urban crisis. This broader literature review and a finely grained ethnographic reading of everyday food insecurity offers an alternative paradigm for urban food security work in Zambia and the wider region.

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On January 15th, Mike and fellow parliamentarians joined survivors of the Holocaust at a reception in Parliament to mark the launch of a new digital campaign urging people to ‘Stand Together’ and commemorate the lives of individuals murdered by the Nazis.
The campaign, launched by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, pairs people with the name of a person murdered by the Nazis, which they can share on social media in a digital act of remembrance. Names of Jewish people murdered, alongside Roma, gay, disabled people and other groups are included in the project.
Thousands of names have been gathered for the campaign by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, with the support of Yad Vashem. Other named individuals being remembered include Gyula Sandor from Budapest, who was murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish and Siegfried Bamberger, who was murdered by the Nazis for being part of the Roma and Sinti community.
The Stand Together project reflects the theme chosen for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, which explores how genocidal regimes have deliberately fractured societies by marginalising certain groups, and how these tactics can be challenged. Attendees at the event heard remarks from Olivia Marks-Woldman, Chief Executive of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and Rachel Levy BEM, a survivor of the notorious Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
Mrs Levy, a Finchley and Golders Green resident, who was able to evade the Nazis for two years by being hidden in the forest in what was then Czechoslovakia aided by non-Jewish neighbours, was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and only narrowly escaped being sent to the gas chambers. Speaking at the event, she told MPs: “It is important for all of us to stand together in our communities. Members of Parliament and Peers have a responsibility and an opportunity to lead by example. We must stand together – in the memory of my family, and everyone who was murdered in the Holocaust. We must stand together against division and hate today.”
Back in November, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson visited Jewish Care in Golders Green and spoke personally with Mrs Levy, to hear about her story of escaping persecution.
Holocaust Memorial Day is the annual day of commemoration of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

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Fuller Himself: The Naked Kiss (1964)
Fuller’s film stars Constance Towers as Kelly, a prostitute in the big city, who we meet as she is beating her pimp with her purse. As they struggle, he grabs at her and reveals her bald head, but she knocks him to the ground, taking the money he owes her from his wallet, before she walks out of the life of a hooker. After traveling around plying her trade in small towns, Kelly arrives in the small town of Grantville where she is soon sized up by the local copper Griff (Anthony Eisley) who soon takes her to bed. He also wants to roust her out of town and into the waiting arms of Madam Candy (Virginia Grey) who runs a brothel across the river. Kelly decides she wants to go straight, and after taking up with the local spinster, she lands a job as a nurse at a hospital for children. That’s where she meets Grant (Michael Dante), who lent his family name to the town and founded the hospital. They fall in love, and he accepts her even after she tells him of her past. However, she feels something unsettling in his kiss. It is the “naked kiss” of a pervert, and when Kelly finds out Grant’s secret (he’s a pedophile), her actions land her in jail where her past, ever inescapable, continues to haunt her.
Fuller met his first prostitute when he was working as a seventeen year old crime reporter for The New York Graphic, and he soon became friendly with them, often dispatching his stories from the phone in their brothel. He also gained empathy for the women plying the world’s oldest profession. In his autobiography A Third Face he recalls, “They had a terrible complex about their work. When they went out, the girls imagined everyone knew what they did for a living, as if the word prostitute were branded to their foreheads.” Fuller just saw the profession as another job, but “society and the media made the very word prostitute engender fear and distaste”. After tackling mental illness in Shock Corridor (coming up later this month), he planned a film that “would delve into the small mindedness that thoughtlessly points its finger at sinners, fostering intolerance and hate”. The Naked Kiss became that film. It was one of the most daring of his career, and it would almost ruin him. With controversial topics like prostitution and child molestation, Fuller was angling at topics that no one would dare to cover in post-code Hollywood. The film was not a great success at the box office (and equally panned and praised even now), and between the material and the poor receipts, Fuller found himself unable to secure financing for his next film. Sam was forced to go work outside the US where he made arguably his worst film, the re-edited without his permission, Shark with Burt Reynolds. It would be sixteen years before Fuller worked with the major studios again, and when he did, he provided another classic film, the Lee Marvin anchored war epic The Big Red One.
While trying to talk another girl out of working for Candy, Kelly intones this speech, “You’ll be every man’s wife-in-law and no man’s wife. Why, the world will become so warped, you’ll hate all men and you’ll hate yourself because you’ll become a social problem, a medical problem, a mental problem, and a despicable failure as a woman.” This speech delivered with impassioned fervor by Constance Towers is one of the film’s most chilling moments. I can only compare it to Hester Prynne begging another would-be adulteress to not be branded by a Scarlet Letter. Towers acts fearlessly in Fuller’s film, and she must have trusted him completely. The opening scene featuring her bald head was shot last, and the actress actually shaved her blonde locks to film the unexpected and jarring moment. (It is revealed late in the film that her pimp shaved her head as a punishment.) Towers, who also appeared in Fuller’s Shock Corridor, would have a long career in both film and television before settling in for a twelve year run on General Hospital where she still continues to appear. One note from Fuller about Kelly before we move on, again in his autobiography he defends the hooker with the heart of gold storyline, “I don’t give a damn if people thought it was corny for a reformed prostitute to end up working at a children’s hospital. I wanted to show a “tainted” woman succeeding in the pure world of children,”
While Towers is at the film’s center, The Naked Kiss features a wonderful supporting cast to round out this late era Noir tale. Anthony Eisley, who appeared in a number of TV shows and films (including Onionhead with a young Andy Griffith), gives a terse, unforgiving performance as the cop who doesn’t want hookers in his town but would love to keep them at arm's reach. Eisley’s Griff is a hard man, and he tries almost everything to drive Kelly from town, and when push comes to shove, he’s more than willing to throw the book at her despite having taken advantage of her services. Michael Dante, who plays Kelly’s rich, pedophilic fiancée, does a hell of a job being creepy and foreshadowing his perversion. He seems like a slimy entitled bastard who thinks he can get away with anything, and it turns out that he is exactly that. Dante would go on to roles in Willard, The Big Score with Fred Williamson, and the title role in Charles B. Pierce’s Native American epic Winterhawk. There are also notable performances by Patsy Kelly (Rosemary’s Baby), Virginia Grey (Another Thin Man), and Marie Devereux (Shock Corridor).
As I said earlier, The Naked Kiss has been both lauded and diminished over the years. While it got the full on Criterion treatment, it also appears on the Razzie’s list of 100 Enjoyable “Bad” movies. For my part, I didn’t see it as bad. While some of the moments go a little over the top, The Naked Kiss should be accepted as a fable, and its most symbolic moments reveal this. While Fuller always wanted reality above all, he was not beyond stretching it a bit here and there to provide his audience with something to think about. Nowadays, films like Little Children and Pretty Woman deal with similar topics to The Naked Kiss but they are no longer shocking. I imagine this is because in the forty eight years since The Naked Kiss was released, we have become immune to such topics though the media both fictional and journalistic. Pedophilia has become a revolting, but all too common story in the headlines, and prostitutes lay only a few keyboard strokes away for the barely savvy internet perv. However, looking at it in his time, Fuller was trying to both warn about real sexual deviance that walks among us, and, at the same time, he was trying to say that a prostitutes trade, while not socially acceptable, should not leave a never ending stigma on women who leave the lifestyle. Like all of Fuller’s films, The Naked Kiss is a complex story, and one with layers that will take me many viewings to fully unfold. It also proves why this vanguard, groundbreaking film maker has plenty of reason to be Fuller Himself.
The Naked Kiss is currently running in its entirety on YouTube thanks to the folks at Pop Flix. So check it out. Or, if you don't have time for the whole flick, make sure you watch the intro to the film, an influential and electric piece of film making.


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Hakata Maru Ramen makes delicious tonkotsu ramen. The franchise originally hails from Fukuoka, the home of tonkotsu ramen. Their latest venue in Darling Square is a long store that has been hugely popular since opening. Working with the interior design team we designed a large subtle feature graphic produced by moulding concrete panels. The design references the work of Japanese artist Mori Yūzan and his work from 1903 ‘Decoration and ornament, Themes, motives, Waves in art’.
The menus are printed using white ink on thick black paper attached to a wooden backing board to in-keeping with the Japanese fit out. The request for the uniforms was to capture a fun take on ramen, something that staff would be happy to wear and put a grin on the face of customers. The simple pun GOOD NOOD GOOD MOOD is printed large on the back of the black t-shirts to achieve this end.


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Tucked underneath boulder-shaped coral and nestled between the venomous spines of a sea urchin, is a fish. This fish, Siphamia tubifer, is a cryptic, unassuming species of cardinal fish. Snorkeling, you might not notice them. However, inside this fish could lie the key to gut microbiome research.
By day, Siphamia tubifer cluster around a sea urchin and sway in a coordinated dance to avoid being stabbed by one of the numerous long spines which make up their home. With the hustle and bustle of a coral reef, finding these little homebodies is almost a game of hide-and-seek. While during the day they don’t seem to do all that much, as the sun sinks, they prepare to partake in the ocean’s night life. In the shimmering moonlight, their urchin homes crawl out onto the ocean floor to feed. Siphamia tubifer are mostly black during the day, but as they drift away from the urchin, their spine-mimicking stripes melt away leaving them as pale as the sand. Camouflaged, the fish dart away to hunt for tiny organisms swimming around the reef. This is when the magic happens.
Inside each S. tubifer is a pearlescent, lentil-sized disc located around where your bellybutton is (if you were a fish, of course). This is their light organ. It is attached with a singular duct to the fish’s GI tract and is nestled within a layer of shutter-like tissue, which the fish can use to control how much light they emit. We believe this capability allows S. tubifer to counter shade against the moonlight, similar to the Hawaiian bobtail squid. Meaning, the fish can shine just enough light down onto the sea floor to cancel out their shadow, making them practically invisible to predators. Pretty handy when you are as small and appetizing as a fun-sized Twix, right? While some organisms, like fireflies, can produce their own light, many others rely on symbiotic partners to become bioluminescent. Siphamia tubifer is one of these organisms and fills their light organ with their symbiont, Photobacterium mandapamensis. The nuance between this symbiosis is where this system shines.
Defining bacterial species is an established sore spot for many microbiologists. To date, the most popular way to differentiate between bacterial species is to compare their average nucleotide identities (ANI). Those with and ANI of 95% or more are considered to be the same species. However, once you throw factors such as asexual reproduction, horizontal gene transfer, mobile genetic elements, and mutation rates it is understandable how defining these invisible, everchanging organisms is a challenge. Photobacterium mandapamensis has an ANI just above 95% to Photobacterium leiognathi, another bioluminescent bacterium. This technically makes P. mandapamensis a sub-species of P. leiognathi. However, as we are beginning to uncover, the ecological niches between the two may be different enough to define them as separate species.
Outside of its symbiosis with S. tubifer, P. mandapamensis is not habitat selective; it can live independently in the ocean and has been found on the surface of other marine animals. Other symbiotically luminous fish will associate with a range of Photobacterium species, including both P. mandapamensis and P. leiognathi. However, Siphamia tubifer will only associate with P. mandapamensis. This little, unassuming fish somehow selects for a particular sub-species of a bacterium, making this symbiosis both binary and extraordinarily specific. So, if you were to shrink yourself down into the light organ (Magic School Bus-style) you would expect to only find the same version of P. mandapamensis, right? Afterall, you just read how picky S. tubifer is in selecting its symbiont. Actually, there are multiple strains of P. mandapamensis within a light organ. In this study, we wanted to dive deeper into this strain variation within a light organ. Are there specific sets of strains found together? Do these sets vary between locations? How diverse is the symbiont pangenome? Do the strains have different characteristics from each other? What we found was a surprising juxtaposition.
Fish don’t have fingers, but these fish have a symbiont ‘fingerprint.’ Through a technique called PCR fingerprinting, we discovered light organs can contain anywhere from 1 to 13 different strains of P. mandapamensis. In fact, on average light organs contain 6 strains, and few strains are shared across individual fish. In this study we looked at fish from Japan and the Philippines, and through whole genome sequencing, we discovered that these ‘symbiont fingerprints’ seem to be region specific! Bacterial strains from both regions formed two separate clades, and we are now interested in seeing if fish from one area can accept strains from somewhere else. Furthermore, these strains can also differ significantly from each other in their growth rate and luminosity. In fact, there seems to be a tradeoff between growing fast and glowing bright. This piqued our interest, and we are now starting to unravel how these distinct strain-level symbiont communities assemble in the light organ.
These microscopic, glowing organisms which are housed comfortably in this specialized organ are just like the little ridges and dips on the fingers you’re using to scroll down this webpage right now - the same but unique. This symbiosis is extremely specific, yet the strain-level diversity is immense. Talk about a fascinating dichotomy! Now allow me to remind you that the light organ is attached to the GI tract of the fish, technically making it part of the fish’s gut. Bacterial strains and their roles in the community are often overlooked in microbiome research. This is completely understandable because most microbiomes, take our gut for example, are as simple as a box of tangled string lights. We can see the big picture, and as a field, we are just starting to unravel the complexities of microbial symbiosis. We believe the S. tubifer-P. mandapamensis system is an emerging vertebrate-bacteria model applicable to many avenues of symbiosis research. For example, what is the role of P. mandapamensis and where does it occur in the environment? How, where, and when do larval fish find their luminous bacteria? The more we think about this system, the more questions we have than answers. But to think, everything we seek is sitting inside a fish, nestled in an urchin, tucked under a coral, off a picturesque tropical beach. With just a snorkel, you could duck down into the crystal clear, warm water and find this simple fish idling away the daylight. It’s almost as if they are waiting for us. Waiting for their time to shine.

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The Q-Sight™ is in service (2010) with the Royal Navy as a Gunners Sight on the Lynx Mk 8. The Royal Navy will use the Q-Sight GRSS variation in conjunction with an existing Thermal Weapon Sight (TWS) on its Lynx Mk8 helicopters to enhance targeting accuracy for door gunners. The Q-Sight display will project the image from a machine gun-mounted TWS onto the gunner's helmet-mounted display, allowing the gunner greater range of movement without losing sight of the image.


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Monday, March 29, 2010
STATE CORRUPTION? REMEMBER JIM?
Sleezy states have their political culture; reformers are corrupt and the populist heroes are federal criminals.
Ohio's corruption has been overshadowed by bigger-name states in the last two years, but it would be a mistake to count it out: for several years in the last decade, the Buckeye State was a national standout. Comically unpopular Gov. Bob Taft's administration was rocked near the end by a scandal known as Coingate. Coin dealer and top Republican fundraiser Tom Noe was awarded contracts to invest $50 million on behalf of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, which he invested in surprise—rare coins, an investment choice that would have made the state a laughing stock on its own. But it got worse: when it emerged that two coins worth $300,000 were missing, it became clear that Noe was running a money-laundering scheme. Ultimately, only $13 million was recovered, and Noe was sentenced to 18 years in jail in 2006; Taft was convicted of misdemeanors. In August 2005, Taft pleaded no contest to violating state ethics laws.
Democratic state Sen. Marc Dann, who had been a leading critic of state investment practices and led the charge against Noe, rode an anti-corruption wave into the attorney general's office, depicting himself as a strong voice against the old order. Once installed, he promptly began sexually harassing two staff members and having an extramarital affair with a third. The Cleveland Plain Dealer said Dann had "turned the attorney general's office into a laughing stock," and he was forced to resign after little more than a year in office.
Still not crooked enough? James A. Traficant, 68, an eccentric former sheriff and an Ohio Democrat who was expelled from Congress after being found guilty of bribery and racketeering, served seven years in a Minnesota prison until recently. He returned to Youngstown, Ohio recently after being released from prison. He was convicted of 10 felony counts, including filing false tax returns, accepting bribes and kickbacks, accepted labor and materials from contractors (on his Ohio farm) for congressional favors.
Ohio is not the only state with corruption; New York, Louisiana, Illinois, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Rhode Island are all in the news for their share.
Why can't we elect HONEST lawmakers who are FOR the American people instead of themselves?????


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from an article originally posted February 13, 2015...
I’m back. Kara has many, many friends, but since I’m one of the ones who writes, y’all tend to get stuck with me a lot.
I recently did an interview regarding Kara and friendships, and one of the questions the interviewer asked me was, what’s one thing people might not know about Kara?
It didn’t take me long to answer. She’s funny, I said.
Kara writes these lovely, heart wrenching, life-changing blogs. (And of course she wrote the book The Hardest Peace. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? It’s the perfect love story to curl up with on Valentine’s weekend. It’s about a girl and her savior and their love for one another. It’s about choosing to believe in the midst of life’s hard. I can’t speak highly enough of it. All OF THE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE SHOULD READ IT. Now, back to the story…)
In the midst of all of these lovely, serious, life-changing things Kara talks about, she’s super funny and witty and sarcastic. All things I love.
So I thought I’d share some funny bits… another glimpse into Kara for those of you out there who aren’t privy to this side of her.
About a year ago, Kara and I went on a writer’s weekend together. She was under contract for The Hardest Peace, and I was still writing fiction without a contract. Little did I know that a few weeks later I’d be offered my first publishing contract for Falling for Texas. (Yay!)
Anyway, we stopped at a coffee shop on our way to Denver. I slaved over my words, and Kara wrote a ton all while playing on Facebook and writing a blog post. She’s a fast writer and it comes out sounding beautiful right away. She’s totally annoying that way.
After we slept at the hotel, I woke up feeling… not so well. Let’s just say I was in the bathroom. A lot. It was an introvert’s nightmare. We were stuck in this hotel room together—I certainly couldn’t leave—and the bathroom did not have a fan.
I can’t even believe I’m sharing this story. Anyway, as I’m hanging out in the bathroom, I hear Kara yelling from the room.
I have my headphones on. I can’t hear a thing! My music’s really loud! Don’t worry about me!
I started laughing and thinking, I love this girl. She makes the most uncomfortable comfortable. And while it still goes down as one of my embarrassing moments with a friend, it’s also one of my favorite stories.
Kara has also been known to steal clothing from people. Remember the grace dress a friend gave her early on in her cancer journey? If you’re wearing something she likes, she’ll tell you that you should give it to her because she has cancer.
She’s done this to her sister. She’s done it to me. Who knows how many countless friends are missing clothing items because of this girl? If you see pictures of her in a cute green coat, know that it once was mine.
What are we supposed to do?
When your friend says she wants your coat and then reminds you she has cancer, you just laugh, shake your head and fork it over.
I got a new jacket recently, and when I see Kara eyeing it, I can admit I clutch it to my chest. She’s not getting this one.
Kara and Jason still laugh. A lot. Cancer has robbed from them, but not their sense of humor.
I’m thankful for these two, and I’m especially thankful for the laughter we’ve shared—and will continue to share.
Thanks for loving our funny girl, as I know you all do.
Jill Lynn Buteyn is a wife, friend, and disorganized mom who writes fiction as Jill Lynn. If you want some more snark in your life, you can find her here:


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He’s also proud of his dolls, dressed up as Dorothy for Halloween and hopes to perform on Broadway.
As a pageant couch critic, I’ll vouch for Brock’s skills. He was delightfully energetic, but well-behaved. His outfit of choice routine was exhausting to watch in the best way possible.
Mom Tori teared up in the audience as he performed.
“It makes me proud to see him doing something that makes him happy,” she said in an interview after the contest.
He was the only boy in the pageant, so he swept his division, but more interestingly, he was pulled for a higher crown and eventually beat all the girls out for best personality.
As the only boy and king of his division, he was given a traditional male crown. But with an over-all pageant victory, he was awarded a tiara that, according to the pageant’s director, he specifically chose over a second male crown.
His baby-toothed grin was bigger than ever as pageant assistants struggled to affix the impossibly large rhinestone tiara on his tiny head.
“I have a diva side and a boy side,” he said in a post-pageant interview, holding both crowns. “This is for my boy side,” he explained, lifting the male crown, “and this one is for my diva side.”
I like to think I was like Brock when I was a kid.
I begged mom to let me take tap dance lessons, which she refused to do, citing a local boy who’d been ridiculed out of class for trying it himself.
There’s a videotape of a 4- or 5-year-old me carrying an Easter basket in the crook of my arm. My grandmother sounded fairly alarmed in her live commentary, specifically noting that I carried the basket like a purse. My mom agreed, explaining that I had my own purse at home. Then, silence.
I played with my half-sister’s pom poms. I was allowed to paint my mom’s nails once as a reward for household chores. I had a glittery red baton that my father hid from me. And when I was older, I choreographed trampoline routines to Whitney Houston’s “Bodyguard” tracks. My favorite was “I’m Every Woman,” duh.
Many of the gay men I know have similar stories, and though the Birkenstock is on the other foot, many lesbians as well.
I wonder what would have happened to us if we’d had moms like Brock’s.
He might learn – as I did — that not all of the world is his stage, and that not everyone is going to accept his form of expression. Maybe by the time he gets there it won’t matter as much.
But until Brock, who’s now eight, can navigate the complicated, personal world of sexuality and gender for himself, it’s up to moms like Tori to make expression a playful, genderless act.
What does it matter as long as he’s having fun?
I called Brock’s appearance on the show “brave,” earlier, but I’m not sure it fits. He’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to be done: being a kid.
One can only guess that Brock might be gay when he grows up, and, god-willing, he’ll have a safe place to do so, but with a supportive mother at his side, he’s starting in a good place.


An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to “make it” in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms—from blogs to YouTube to Instagram—in hopes of channeling their talents into fulfilling careers. In this eye-opening book, Brooke Erin Duffy draws much-needed attention to the gap between the handful who find lucrative careers and the rest, whose “passion projects” amount to free work for corporate brands.
Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, Duffy offers fascinating insights into the work and lives of fashion bloggers, beauty vloggers, and designers. She connects the activities of these women to larger shifts in unpaid and gendered labor, offering a lens through which to understand, anticipate, and critique broader transformations in the creative economy. At a moment when social media offer the rousing assurance that anyone can “make it”—and stand out among freelancers, temps, and gig workers—Duffy asks us all to consider the stakes of not getting paid to do what you love.
Brooke Erin Duffy is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is the author of Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age and co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production.
“Duffy’s exploration of sexism, as well as her probe of the gig economy, makes this an interesting and informative read for anyone—even those who aren’t following Instagram’s foodies and fashionistas.”—Wired.com
“[A] timely and important book” —Zoe Glatt, Convergence
“A fascinating, meticulously researched study that shows how these creative women exemplify modern workers. Her lessons are essential for all those interested in fashion studies, gender studies, and the creative economy.”—Angela McRobbie, author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries
“Duffy is an excellent guide to the contemporary anxieties of aspirational labor, showing both the very calculated nature of investments these women are trying to make in their futures, while pointing to the larger social forces that shape and constrict their possibilities.”—Gina Neff, author of Venture Labor
“This immensely valuable book reveals the trapdoor for female workers who pursue their talents on social media. Duffy expertly dissects a system which attracts many, rewards a few, and exploits the rest.”— Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
“Contrary to optimists who hoped that the internet would bail women out of the family-career bind, Duffy finds that female ‘digital-media hopefuls’ rarely get paid for their work. The phenomenon Duffy describes is fascinating.”—Frances McCall Rosenbluth, coauthor of both Forged Through Fire and Women, Work, and Politics
“Duffy's critically astute study reveals the intersection of pleasure and power in contemporary capitalism and clearly articulates an essential new perspective on digital labor.”— Kylie Jarrett, author of The Digital Housewife
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We welcome hometown girl Hannah Gill back to Easton for two electrifying shows!
Gill and her band The Hours combine ‘70s lo-fi pop and rock with contemporary soul and blues and transforms them into sweet and sultry songs that overflow with feeling.
Steered by the soulful 20-year old vocal powerhouse and songwriter, the group offers up lush vocals and sparkling fretwork touched by improvisational jazz that gives the duo’s hypnotic recordings otherworldly gravity.
Friday, June 8, 2018
Doors: 6:30 p.m.; Show 7 p.m.
Doors: 8:30 p.m.; Show 9 p.m.
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Cottages | Villa Himpula is located in Sysmä, on the Rantahakala farm in the middle of beautiful apple trees. In the newly renovated cottage you will spend your holiday in comfort. The magnificent lake view opens from the terrace and the living room windows. Sysmä city center with its services is located 10 km away.
There is accommodation space in Villa Himpula for 6 people. Two bedrooms, one with a double bed and the other with twin beds, which can also be combined if necessary. There is also a sofa bed in the living room for extra beds. The new kitchen allows you to prepare delicacies and in sauna you can relax in the warm steam. The washrooms are spacious and clean.
As an additional service, it is possible to rent SUP - boards, kayaks, outdoor hot tub and a beach sauna. If required, bed linen is available at an additional cost.

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