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French nuclear group Areva on Wednesday confirmed record net losses in 2014 of 4.8 billion euros ($5.3 billion) after it was forced to absorb costs linked to project delays.
The mostly state-owned company, which had forecast losses of 4.9 billion euros, said it would make savings worth around one billion euros over the next few years and announce a financing plan by the end of March.
Areva has taken a particular hit in the past year from delays in building its Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant in Finland, as well as difficulties with its renewable energy contracts.
It also said earlier there were impairment charges tied to the modernisation of its uranium conversion plant, the Comurhex II project in France.
The company, which is 87-percent owned by the French state, has suffered in recent years as interest in nuclear power has cooled following the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe in Japan.
Areva announced in October that it would cut investments and step up sales of non-strategic assets as it tries to shore up its finances.
Areva has a market value on the Paris Bourse of 3.7 billion euros.


Italy vs Spain LIVE Football Score 6 Oct 2021
Here’s how to watch Italy vs Spain in the 2021 UEFA Nations League from India. La Roja will miss several big names when they face the winners of Euro 2020 at San Siro on Wednesday European champions Italy are set to host Spain in Milan in the semi-finals of the UEFA Nations League, on Wednesday evening.
Roberto Mancini’s side are on a record unbeaten run, recorded 28 wins and 10 draws (in 90 minutes) in their last 38 matches. Luis Enrique’s men, meanwhile, will be out for revenge having been denied a place in the final of Euro 2020 on penalties by the Italians this summer. However, Spain is troubled by injuries to key men.
Italy are the reigning European champions and have won the title in superb style, displaying flamboyant, attacking football. They will be regarded as the continent’s strongest national team for the next three years, but the time has come to transform themselves from celebrations to hard work. Roberto Mancini’s charges played out a 1-1 draw with Bulgaria in their first game back from EURO 2020, before sharing points with Switzerland – 0-0. Fortunately, the Italians scored a 5-0 win over Lithuania in their last meeting, which allowed them to retain their top spot in the 2022 World Cup qualifying group.
The Spanish national team has been in a generational crisis for many years, but EURO 2020 has shown that the process is nearing its end. Luis Enrique’s side had a very decent tournament, reaching the semi-finals, where they only lost on penalties to the future champions Italians – 1:2. After the continental championship, the Red Fury returned to qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, with their first game resulting in a 1-2 defeat by Sweden. The defeat had invigorated the Spaniards, who beat Georgia and Kosovo 4-0 and 2-0 respectively to remain in first place in Group B, but the Swedes are still ahead of them in terms of points lost.
“We have to improve this game situation, be faster. We have to improve, we also have young players who have to play important competitions. We have 14 important months and we have to play better and better, offensive and balanced.
“[The Nations League] is an important competition. It is clear that it comes after a European Championship and preparing in such a short time is not easy but they are two matches among the four best in Europe and we want to improve, that’s for sure.”
Mancini also responded to Luis Enrique’s claim that the Azzurri’s unbeaten streak would end eventually, agreeing with his counterpart.
“We always want to win, then we know it will depend on us,” Mancini continued. “[Enrique’s] right, sooner or later [we will lose]. We would like to go on like this until December 2022, but we know it won’t be that simple.”
If Italy best Spain again on October 6, they will face one of Belgium or France in the Nations League final at San Siro on October 10.
Italy and Spain faced each other precisely three months ago in the Euro 2020 semi-finals when Squadra Azzurra were stronger. Can La Roja get their revenge? We predict that the Spaniards will be stronger this time.
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The next president of the ECB, determined as part of a package of appointments, will maintain a dovish stance.
We expect details to be firmed up about the TLTRO III programme at the June meeting, while rates remain unchanged.
The world’s largest economies proved surprisingly resilient in the first quarter, but growth will slow from mid-2019.
Economy | April 25th 2019
Long-term mega-trends such as climate change and technological progress are driving change in the infrastructure sector.
Economy | April 17th 2019
The slowdown is now clear in the US, Europe and China, but we are less pessimistic than we previously were.
Economy | February 28th 2019
Spain's construction industry has contributed solidly to jobs and nominal GDP growth in recent years.
Economy | February 13th 2019
Technological arms race could reverse globalisation.
Economy | February 1st 2019
The sharp decline in EU greenhouse gas emissions in the early 2000s has levelled off since 2014.
Economy | January 31st 2019
The introduction of the WLTP emissions rules in September 2018 distorted vehicle sales and production figures.
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Uncertainty and volatility will define the global economy in 2019.

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A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images from space-related science news items (find previous roundups here):
** Monitor NASA’s Perseverance rover as it travels to Mars: Follow NASA’s Perseverance Rover in Real Time on Its Way to Mars
The last time we saw NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real time as humanity’s most sophisticated rover – and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter traveling with it – treks millions of miles over the next six months to Jezero Crater.
“Eyes on the Solar System visualizes the same trajectory data that the navigation team uses to plot Perseverance’s course to Mars,” said Fernando Abilleira, the Mars 2020 mission design and navigation manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “If you want to follow along with us on our journey, that’s the place to be.”
Eyes doesn’t just let you see the distance between the Red Planet and the spacecraft at this very moment. You can also fly formation with Mars 2020 or check the relative velocity between Mars and Earth or, say, the dwarf planet Pluto
** The UAE Hope mission takes a photo of Mars, where it will go into orbit in February: Mars ahead! UAE’s Hope spacecraft spots Red Planet for 1st time | Space.com
The Hope probe is officially 100 million km into its journey to the Red Planet. Mars, as demonstrated in the image captured by the probe’s Star Tracker, is ahead of us, leaving Saturn and Jupiter behind. The Hope probe is expected to arrive to Mars on February 2021. pic.twitter.com/Eg2pMerc78
— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) August 24, 2020
On August 17th, the first course correction for Hope was carried out successfully:
The #HopeProbe has successfully completed its first trajectory correction manoeuvre – a major milestone in its journey to #Mars. This marks the first firing of the probe’s six Delta-V thrusters, for course correction that will see the probe directly targeting Mars’ capture orbit. pic.twitter.com/fYRWunYFbM
— Hope Mars Mission (@HopeMarsMission) August 17, 2020
** A preview of where Perseverance will land and explore: Perseverance’s planned journey in Jezero Crater | Behind The Black
Getting to [its farthest goal] however is optimism in the extreme. The distance to it from the break in the canyon is actually longer than the distance from the landing ellipse to the rim. It will likely take most of the decade of the 2030s to reach this spot, which means Perseverance will have persevered on Mars for almost twenty years if it gets this far.
Let us hope that this rover is well named. Let us also hope that before it dies human beings will have also arrived on Mars, and will be able to come by to check on it. And if Perseverance is then still operational, scientists on Earth will finally be able to use it to snap a picture of life on Mars, even if that life came from Earth.
** Previewing Perseverance science by a panel at the SETI Institute:
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, is now en route toward Mars. The mission will pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that could be used by future Mars explorers.
** Much of the Mars landscape may have been carved by ice rather than flowing water: Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, new research shows | ASU Now
A large number of the valley networks scarring the surface of Mars were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The findings effectively throw cold water on the dominant “warm and wet ancient Mars” hypothesis, which postulates that rivers, rainfall and oceans once existed on the red planet.
“Climate modelling predicts that Mars’ ancient climate was much cooler during the time of valley network formation,” said Grau Galofre. “We tried to put everything together and bring up a hypothesis that hadn’t really been considered: that channels and valleys networks can form under ice sheets, as part of the drainage system that forms naturally under an ice sheet when there’s water accumulated at the base.”
These environments would also support better survival conditions for possible ancient life on Mars. A sheet of ice would lend more protection and stability of underlying water, as well as provide shelter from solar radiation in the absence of a magnetic field — something Mars once had, but which disappeared billions of years ago.
** A tribute to spunky Opportunity: What the Martian surface looked like to Oppy – humanity’s most resilient rover | Aeon Videos
Using raw rover imagery and the sound of actual wind on Mars, I painted this little portrait of Opportunity, our faithful little martian rover friend that was lost earlier this year. Losing a rover feels a little like losing a pet. But for all that it accomplished, and for our ability to revel in all the awesome images it collected over its lifetime, its end is bittersweet. Oppy traveled 28 miles on Mars over a span of 14 years – an amazing feat of engineering and human ambition.
After sifting through thousands of raw Mars images for hours and hours, I have developed a strange sense of Mars as a real place I have been, riding alongside this little rover that could, making laps across rocky martian plains. My hope is this little portrait gives you a glimpse of that same feeling. Still can’t believe we put a vehicle on mars that lasted almost 15 years. I don’t even expect my car to run that long. Humans are pretty rad sometimes.
Created by John D. Boswell who posts videos under the name melodysheep.
** Mars avalanche – Capturing an Avalanche on Mars – NASA Image of the Day
** Update on the “Mars Mole” on the Insight lander and its attempts to dig deeper and reach the target depth to measure the ground temperature: Troubled Mars “Mole” – Going Underground – Leonard David
That troubled “Mole” heat probe on NASA’s InSight Mars mission is presently fully covered with Martian sand. The plan now calls for the Mole to be pushed a little deeper into the ground with the continued help of the spacecraft’s robotic scoop.
The save the Mole script calls for not pressing the Mole with the robotic arm’s blade, but with the shovel at an angle of 20 to 30 degrees with respect to the surface.
Lots more about the status of the from the German team that built and operates the Mole: Mars InSight mission: The Mole is ‘in’ and the ‘finishing touches’ are ‘in sight’ – DLR Blog- Aug.10.2020
As a supporting indication, I note that a recent measurement of the thermal conductance from the Mole to the regolith shows increased values over earlier measurements. This suggests that both the thermal and mechanical contact have improved. So we’re feeling optimistic!
** Leonard David also describes the Curiosity rover‘s roving:
- Curiosity Mars Rover: “We are ‘go’ for Drilling”
- Curiosity Mars Rover: Eying “Mary Anning 2” drill target
- Curiosity Mars Rover’s Wish List
- Curiosity Mars Rover: Weekend Plan
- Curiosity Mars Rover’s Bake-off!
- Curiosity Mars Rover: Drill Campaign
- Curiosity Mars Rover: Drill Results
- Curiosity Mars Rover: New Drilling Activities
** Curiosity spots a dust devil: Sols 2864-2866: Spot the Difference! – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
** Tour more marvelous sites on the Martian surface with Bob Zimmerman
- The longest lava tube in the solar system?
- Collapsed Martian crater in glacier?
- Revisiting Mars’ glacier country
- Cracks and scallops on the lowland plains of Mars
- More glaciers and eroding gullies on Mars
- Wormlike glacier on Mars
- The colors of Mars
- Mars: On the floor of Valles Marineris
- Mars: A small volcano at the base of a big volcano
- Bottom edge of Martian glacier?
- Corroded Martian southern highlands
- Martian sand traps and elongated dunes
- The edge of Mars’ south polar layered cap
- Ascraeus Mons, Mars’ second highest mountain
- Slushy floor of southern Martian crater?
- The dry barren plains of Tyrrhena Terra
- Glacier country on Mars
- Martian eroding ridges amid brain terrain
** Venus beckons for attention while Mars hogs funding for missions.
*** Venus: Earth’s Evil Twin or Just Misunderstood? A talk about Venus by NASA JPL geoscientist Sue Smrekar:
Venus is becoming more attractive to scientists as technology improves for sending spacecraft to survive orbit and even descend to the surface. From orbiters to balloons, we will talk about the great science that can be done, how we can do it and what we hope to learn. Host: Brian White
Co-Host: Lindsay McLaurin
*** Hotel Mars /The John Batchelor Show/The Space Show – John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston talked with Dr. David Grinspoon about the discovery of 37 recently active volcanoes on Venus.
*** Rocket Lab is pursuing a privately funded project to send a small probe to Venus: Rocket Lab aims to launch private Venus mission in 2023 | Space.com
“I’m madly in love with Venus,” Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said on Aug. 5 during a company update and Q&A session livestreamed on YouTube. “I’m working very hard to put together a private mission to go to Venus in 2023.”
** Latest on Pluto: Wed. Aug. 19, 2020 – Hotel Mars – John Batchelor Show/The Space Show – John Batchelor and David Livingston talked with Dr. Alan Stern about “the dark side of Pluto and what we know from the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto several years ago”.
** Jupiter: The Juno mission continues to study the biggest planet in the Solar System. Here is a recent posting from the Juno team with a dramatic visualization of a “simulated journey into one of Jupiter’s exotic high-altitude electrical storms”: ‘Shallow Lightning’ on Jupiter (NASA Visualization, ft. Music by Vangelis) | Mission Juno
This animation takes the viewer on a simulated journey into Jupiter’s exotic high-altitude electrical storms. Get an up-close view of Mission Juno’s newly discovered “shallow lighting” flashes and dive into the violent atmospheric jet of the Nautilus cloud. The smallest white “pop-up” clouds on top of the Nautilus are about 100 km across. The ride navigates through Jupiter’s towering thunderstorms, dodging the spray of ammonia-water rain, and shallow lighting flashes. At these altitudes — too cold for pure liquid water to exit – ammonia gas acts like an antifreeze that melts the water ice crystals flung up to these heights by Jupiter’s powerful storms – giving Jupiter an unexpected ammonia-water cloud that can electrify the sky. The animation was created by combining an image of high-altitude clouds from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft with a computer-generated animation.
*** JunoCam : Processing | Mission Juno offers Juno images processed by citizen scientists into gorgeous works of art. For example, here is Jupiter, Perijove 26, Artificial Vertical Relief – Kevin M. McGill.
** The next solar cycle is beginning to show itself: Sunspot update: Hints of the next maximum | Behind The Black
[The SILSO sunspot number graph] shows the one weak sunspot at the beginning of the month and the two stronger sunspots late in the month. The first sunspot had a polarity linking it to the previous fading solar cycle, while the last two had polarities assigning them to the new solar cycle. This continues the trend of the past few months, where more and more new sunspots belong to the new cycle as the old cycle fades away.
** The Carrington Event was no ordinary coronal burst, but a similar gigantic solar storm could hit Earth at any time and should serve as a warning to prepare our electrical systems to withstand its effects: Carrington Event still provides warning of Sun’s potential 161 years later – NASASpaceFlight.com
When the CME arrived, the Kew Observatory’s magnetometer recorded the event as a magnetic crochet in the ionosphere. This observation, coupled with the solar flare, allowed Carrington to correctly draw the link — for the first time — between geomagnetic storms observed on Earth and the Sun’s activity.
Upon impact, telegraph systems across Europe and North America, which took the brunt of the impact, failed. In some cases, telegraphs provided electric shocks to operators; in other cases, their lines sparked in populated areas and — in places — started fires.
The event produced some of the brightest auroras ever recorded in history. People in New England were able to read the newspaper in the middle of the night without any additional light. Meanwhile, in Colorado, miners believed it was daybreak and began their morning routine.
The auroras were so strong they were clearly observed throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, southern Japan, southern China, and as far south as Colombia near the equator in South America and as far north as Queensland, Australia near the equator in the Southern Hemisphere.
** China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover just completed their 21st lunar day of activities on the Moon’s far side: Chinese lunar probe’s 600 days on Moon’s far side – ecns.cn
Last Tuesday was the 600th day of Chang’e-4 on the moon and the rover had traveled 519.29 meters.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has far exceeded its three-month design lifespan, becoming the longest-working lunar rover on the moon.
With the help of data transmitted to Earth, Chinese researchers have made progress in vital research such as the moon’s geological evolution, radiation and low-frequency radio environment.
** China aims to launch the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission by end of this year: China Farside Moon Mission; Next Up, Return Samples – Leonard David
… This ambitious venture is focused on collecting and returning lunar specimens back to Earth by robotic means – a task last done in 1976 by the former Soviet Union.
The former Soviet Union successfully executed three robotic sample return missions: Luna 16 returned a small sample (101 grams) from Mare Fecunditatis in September of 1970; February 1972, Luna 20 returned 55 grams of soil from the Apollonius highlands region; Luna 24 retrieved 170.1 grams of lunar samples from the Moon’s Mare Crisium (Sea of Crisis) for return to Earth in August 1976.
Reportedly, the Chinese mission will retrieve and return to Earth up to 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of lunar surface and subsurface samples.
The Chang’e-5 mission is comprised of four parts: the orbiter, lander, ascender, and Earth reentry module containing the lunar collectibles.
** Some lunar polar water ice could be affected by exhaust from landers: Cautionary Warning: Moon Landers and Contamination of Lunar Polar Ice – Leonard David
Follow-up work should include measuring the amount of exhaust that’s around the Moon during and after future landings, Prem said, which would help narrow in on an answer to how much these exhaust gases “stick” to the surface. “But I would also suggest that modeling and monitoring the fate of exhaust gases should be a routine part of lunar mission development and planning.”
“Whether we intend to or not, we’re going to do this experiment of bringing exhaust gases with us,” Prem said.
It’s now a matter of deciding how we deal with them.
** Asteroids and Comets
** OSIRIS-REx probe nearly ready for a sample retrieval from the surface of the asteroid Bennu after two practice runs:
- Second Rehearsal Puts OSIRIS-REx on a Path to Sample Collection | NASA
- OSIRIS-REx is One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu | NASA
During the final practice run, the spacecraft reached
an approximate altitude of 131 feet (40 meters) over sample site Nightingale before executing a back-away burn. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu’s northern hemisphere.
The approximately four-hour “Matchpoint” rehearsal took the spacecraft through the first three of the sampling sequence’s four maneuvers: the orbit departure burn, the “Checkpoint” burn and the Matchpoint burn. Checkpoint is the point where the spacecraft autonomously checks its position and velocity before adjusting its trajectory down toward the event’s third maneuver. Matchpoint is the moment when the spacecraft matches Bennu’s rotation in order to fly in tandem with the asteroid surface, directly above the sample site, before touching down on the targeted spot.
Four hours after departing its 0.6-mile (1-km) safe-home orbit, OSIRIS-REx performed the Checkpoint maneuver at an approximate altitude of 410 feet (125 meters) above Bennu’s surface. From there, the spacecraft continued to descend for another eight minutes to perform the Matchpoint burn. After descending on this new trajectory for another three minutes, the spacecraft reached an altitude of approximately 131 ft (40 m) – the closest the spacecraft has ever been to Bennu – and then performed a back-away burn to complete the rehearsal.
During the rehearsal, the spacecraft successfully deployed its sampling arm, the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), from its folded, parked position out to the sample collection configuration. Additionally, some of the spacecraft’s instruments collected science and navigation images and made spectrometry observations of the sample site, as will occur during the sample collection event. These images and science data were downlinked to Earth after the event’s conclusion.
The following video shows a time lapse of images over a 13.5-minute period during the practice run on August 11th:
The imaging sequence begins at approximately 420 feet (128 meters) above the surface – before the spacecraft executes the “Checkpoint” maneuver – and runs through to the “Matchpoint” maneuver, with the last image taken approximately 144 feet (44 meters) above the surface of Bennu. The spacecraft’s sampling arm – called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) – is visible in the lower part of the frame. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
The first actual collection attempt is currently scheduled for October 20th
During this event, OSIRIS-REx’s sampling mechanism will touch Bennu’s surface for several seconds, fire a charge of pressurized nitrogen to disturb the surface and collect a sample before the spacecraft backs away. The spacecraft is scheduled to return the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.
** Update on the Lucy Mission, “The First Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids”– Lucy One Step Closer to Exploring the Trojan Asteroids – NASA
… The Discovery Program’s Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its next phase.
This major decision was made after a series of independent reviews of the status of the spacecraft, instruments, schedule and budget. The milestone, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), represents the official transition from the mission’s development stage to delivery of components, testing, assembly and integration leading to launch. During this part of the mission’s life cycle, known as Phase D, the spacecraft bus (the structure that will carry the science instruments) is completed, the instruments are integrated into the spacecraft and tested, and the spacecraft is shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with the launch vehicle.
“Each phase of the mission is more exciting than the last,” says Lucy Principal Investigator Hal Levison of Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. “While, of course, Lucy still has several years and a few billion miles to go before we reach our real goal – exploring the never-before-seen Trojan asteroids – seeing this spacecraft come together is just incredible.”
Launching in late 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojan asteroids. These are a population of small bodies that are left over from the formation of the solar system. They lead or follow Jupiter in their orbit around the Sun, and may tell us about the origins of organic materials on Earth. Lucy will fly by and carry out remote sensing on six different Trojan asteroids and will study surface geology, surface color and composition, asteroid interiors/bulk properties, and will look at the satellites and rings of the Trojans.
** Antarctic meteorite offers clues to origin of key chemical components of life: Pristine Space Rock Offers Scientists Peek at Early Solar System | NASA
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow white. Now known as meteorite Asuka 12236, it was roughly the size of a golf ball.
Despite its modest size, this rock from space was a colossal find. As it turns out, Asuka 12236 is one of the best-preserved meteorites of its kind ever discovered. And now, NASA scientists have shown that it contains microscopic clues that could help them solve a universal mystery: How did the building blocks of life flourish on Earth?
So, when astrobiologists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, got their (carefully gloved) hands on a teeny sliver of this primitive meteorite, they quickly took to decoding the information inside. Under the glare of the fluorescent lights and accompanied by the whir of analytical tools running in the background, the NASA Goddard team first crushed a 50-milligram pinch of Asuka 12236 in their lab with a mortar and pestle. Then they suspended the amino acids from the ancient dust in a water solution and sent the liquid through a powerful analytical machine that separated the molecules inside by mass and identified each kind.
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I have been on the go a lot recently and seem to have got used to using the dreaded Facebook for my activity updates. Apologies to anyone who has been kind enough to drop in here on my website for the delay in recent news.
My official ‘year of inactivity’ didn’t quite pan out as expected, though I did stick to my plan of not doing any touring, and stayed at home for several months, catching up on other aspects of life and generally taking stock of where the ‘business’ side of my job has gone and how I fit into the picture.
The internet has changed everything, and the gradual disappearance of music shops combined with digital downloading, has removed the traditional sources of income available to song writers. The only really effective way to stay in touch with or build your audience, is to play live.
For me this is a return to the early days, before I had signed record contracts and publishing deals, when I made my living almost entirely from touring, either solo or with my band.
Spotify and I-tunes serve a wonderful purpose in introducing people to new music, but, for the vast majority of artists and performers, the income they generate is not enough to sustain a career.
I’ve seen some wonderful shows recently with colleagues, some ten years older than me such as Andy Fairweather-Low and Albert Lee, and they are all looking for touring opportunities.
Anyone who has ever come to one of my shows knows how much I love my job. Performing has always been the centrepiece of the whole process for me. I love arriving in a new place, trying out some newly-written songs and revisiting the older ones, either solo or in the company of great musicians like Uli Kringler or Fontaine Burnett, and having fun improvising my way through ninety minutes in the company of one of the most loyal and supportive audiences any singer could ask for.
What I am not so fond of, is spending a huge part of my life in cars and airports, stuck in traffic jams or security lines, so as to get to the venues in the first place.
Parallel to the changes in technology is the arrival of an ever-growing army of new performers, all looking for attention and all writing and singing their own music. This is where Facebook comes in. With the traditional music business systems shrinking, (how many well-sorted CD shops are there in your area these days?), you tube and facebook and the other networks have become the only options available for many acts to be heard.
This makes me incredibly grateful to the audience who have supported my music (and indirectly my family) for 37 years now and to Blue Rose records and other small labels who still fly the flag, selling handmade music on CD and vinyl with a healthy mail-order stem and a lot of love and care.
One thing I promise is that I won’t be asking you to send me money to help finance my recording activities or keeping you up to date on the minute details of my everyday activities, such as shopping, watching TV or my latest doctor’s visit!
Some aspects of ‘social media’ are great, but there is a lot of activity on Facebook and elsewhere that I don’t want to embrace.
I just finished reading Neil Young’s new ‘autobiography’. I’m with him on the subject of preferring analogue to mp3 for listening to music and I agree that you’ll enjoy a concert more just being there in the moment, than preserving grainy images on your smartphone to post on YouTube.
So enough ranting…here is some news!
I just came back from a wonderful visit to Canada – the show in Calgary was one of my favourites of recent years: Despite being jet lagged and a bit battered, brilliant organisation and a lovely 400-strong receptive crowd made performing a total pleasure and made it easy to be at my best. Thanks to all of those concerned.
With my year’s break now firmly over, I am busy compiling tracks for a 3xCD compilation of favourite tracks from all my albums, with a few selected out-takes and rarities thrown in for good measure. It will be released on Blue Rose, hopefully in time for my return to touring early next year. I’ll be posting new dates here on my website and elsewhere shortlly.
I enjoyed the process of writing and researching the Nicky Hopkins book so much that there are two new book projects on the way. More on them later…
I’ve been asked to produce another music project this winter and am really looking forward to being back in a recording studio. Again I can’t tell you any more just yet.
I’ve been enjoying my new status as grandfather to Arthur Stanley Dawson and plan to be involved more than ever in my talented children’s musical activities. I’ve enjoyed singing live and recording with all three of them this last year.
I love performing way too much to consider stopping, so apologies for the confusion that surrounded my ‘temporary retirement’ announcement last year. I’ve written a bunch of new songs and look forward to getting them out there when I go back to work in January 2013.
Meanwhile I am always grateful to those who send messages to me on my guest book page and I try to respond in person as often as possible.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julian (4.30 in the morning at Heathrow Airport!)

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The Big Flash Flood Barn attraction as seen from the top of the Death Star
Big Flash Flood Barn
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At Big Flash Flood Barn, you'll find a real, toon-run farm with bulls, dirt, a human with a Presidential pardon, and a cabin that makes no sense.
- If traveling with young children, you may want to feed them after taking them on this attraction.
- If you are visiting with out-of-town guests or very small children, you may want to check out the exit-convenient character meet-and-greet garden.
- Guests may get very tired on this attraction.
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Dixie Haygood was born Anna Jarrett in 1861, according to the New Georgia Encyclpedia and married George Haygood when she was 17 years old. In 1885, she began performing a stage act under the stage name “Annie Abbott the Little Georgia Magnet” that astonished not only audiences in the US but across Europe.
At only 100 pounds, Dixie was able to perform amazing feats of strength and resistance, such as lifting a table with four strong men on it or preventing three men from lifting a pool cue simply by touching one of the men. She was examined by doctors, who could not explain how she could do what she could do.
Many people then and now claim that Dixie’s act was a mixture of clever use of the center of gravity, illusion and charm. Dixie herself claimed to be a spiritualist. Over time, many people began to consider a witch. According to Weird Georgia, she would often fly into uncontrollable rages, and into trances where she would allegedly cause large pieces of furniture to move around the room. (It is worth noting that Dixie was subject to epileptic seizures.)
By the time of her death in 1915, many people had decided that Dixie was using a supernatural power. She is said to have put a curse on her grave, stating that anyone who stood between her grave and the sun would be subject to the curse. (I did not know this when we visited the grave on the 30th of December, but the sun was already sinking and we were on the other side of the grave from it, so I guess we’re safe:)) The most interesting manifestation of this so-called curse seems to affect the graveplot next to Dixie’s, which belongs to the Yates family. Every year around Christmas, according to Weird Georgia and other sources, a hole opens up between the two plots, so deep that sometimes part of the Yates family tombstones fall into the hole. When the damage is repaired and the hole is filled, the same phenomenon happens again around Christmas the next year. Dixie Haygood is buried in Memory Hill cemetery in Milledgeville, GA, and her grave was unmarked for many years. The Cemetery Preservation Society placed a stone there in 1991, according to Sue Harrington, who is working on a book about Alice Abbott/ Dixie Haygood with her husband, Hugh Harrington. But they put the gravestone on the middle grave by mistake. Dixie is actually buried in the outer grave in the plot. The middle plot is her son, who travelled with her. (Only her husband’s grave was marked at the time that the stone was placed.)
I did not know about the alleged “curse” when we visited Memory Hill cemetery, so I did not look for the Yates plot, but I don’t see a hole in either of these pictures. I think the Yates plot has to be on the other side of the photos, because the plot next to this on the right says “Hines.”

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Courtney Stodden Draws Up Bizarre 'Separation Agreement' With Doug Hutchison As They Continue Living Together
Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison have signed off on what can only be described as a bizarre "separation agreement."
Neither Stodden, 19, or Hutchison, 53, has filed for legal separation in the courts.
Instead they had their entertainment attorney, Cervantes Entertainment Law, compose a statement letting the public know the status of their marriage.
In a copy obtained by the UK's Daly Mail, the agreement sets out that Stodden and Hutchison are going to "live separate and apart" as if they'd never been married in the first place.
GALLERY: Hollywood Divorce Lawyers Tell All — Prostitutes, Cross Dressing, Drugs & More Shocking Split Secrets
But here's the kicker, the couple is going to remain living together in the same house!
"For the time being, both Courtney and Doug will remain living together at their residence in separate rooms and continue to support on another as friends and business partners."
The agreement, signed on Friday, makes no mention of divorce or who will eventually get possession of her closet full of stilettos.
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- Comedian Ron Funches Accuses Estranged Wife Of Playing Custody Games After 'Kicking Her Out' Of His Home in Divorce War

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Vale Tommy ‘T.J’ Hughes Senior
The Victoria Racing Club is saddened to hear of the passing of highly regarded former Flemington trainer, Tommy ‘T.J’ Hughes Senior. He was 93 years of age.
Remembered for training many winners out of his Flemington stables, his top line performers included Heroic Stone, Grand Cidium, Rechabite, No Parole, Rajah Sahib, Gay Master, Umatilla, Rechabite, Symbollico and Grey Song, Hughes was a master of setting horses for specific targets. But for all his race wins, the one race he is synonymous with was a close second in the 1979 Melbourne Cup with Salamander.
It is now folklore that Hughes backed stable elect Salamander to win a sizeable amount of money weeks out only to be denied victory in the shadows of the post by the Bart Cummings trained Hyperno. A short half head was the margin.
It would also be remembered as an epic battle at Flemington between two master jockeys in Harry White and Roy Higgins who matched each other stride for stride down the Flemington straight until White got the upper hand on the Bart Cummings trained Hyperno. Cold comfort for Hughes, but the race is remembered as one for the ages in Australia’s greatest race. Salamander would also go down narrowly in the 1976 Victoria Derby behind the Colin Hayes trained Unaware.
VRC Chairman Neil Wilson paid tribute to Tommy.
“Tommy Hughes Senior was an important part of the fabric of Flemington and many people enjoyed his company at the racetrack. We send our condolences to Tommy’s family and friends.”
While Salamander would be a headline horse for Hughes, Grand Cidium was arguably his best. A win in the 1973 Caulfield Guineas and six wins in nine starts boosted the stocks of the talented galloper.
A win in the 1975 Sydney Cup from Gay Master was also held in high regard by Hughes.
In an era which boasted Bart Cummings, Tommy Smith and Colin Hayes, Hughes comfortably held his own in what is a most competitive industry. He was a very good judge of horse flesh and backed his judgement accordingly. This would often send reverberations through the betting ring. Our thoughts go to the Hughes family.


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Boat with 430 migrants on board docks in Crete after dramatic rescue
“I will be asking the European Commission to activate relocations to other member states as part of EU solidarity,” Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi tweeted. Greece has been at the center of Europe’s refugee crisis since 2015, and the country has repeatedly asked for more solidarity among EU member states in tackling the challenge.
ATHENS, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) — A fishing boat believed to be carrying at least 430 migrants was safely towed to the Greek island of Crete on Tuesday after being dramatically rescued during near gale-force winds, the country’s national news agency AMNA reported.
Local authorities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and volunteers were mobilized to provide aid to the group, which included many children, according to the report.
Their nationalities have not been revealed, and no asylum seeker was reported missing. Earlier reports carried by AMNA said there were as many as 500 people on board.
A large-scale operation was conducted to rescue them as their vessel was adrift in winds of over 7 on the Beaufort scale.
“I will be asking the European Commission to activate relocations to other (European Union) member states as part of EU solidarity,” Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi tweeted.
Greece has been at the center of Europe’s refugee crisis since 2015, and the country has repeatedly asked for more solidarity among EU member states in tackling the challenge.
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The Clown of Clowns is a curious evening of two shows drawn together by Constella Ballet and Orchestra and Khymerikal, part of Arcola’s Grimeborn Festival – an opera festival of new and exciting works by young, classical music artists.
Conductor and composer Leo Geyer has pioneered an evening combining the compelling forces of Schoenberg’s melodrama, Pierrot Lunaire with his own original work, Sideshows – a random, bizarre circus, which had its premiere last year at Kings Place and was broadcasted live on BBC Radio 3.
Beginning with Pierrot Lunaire, the Constella Orchestra set a dark and formal tone with suits, bow ties and dim lighting. Matt Perry dances as our joyless and lost protagonist Pierrot. He sits despairingly, moving uncomfortably on the floor. As soon as Geyer lifts his arms and conducts, the Constella Orchestra dive deep and produce rich and raw emotion of Schoenberg’s iconic score. Emma Stannard provides the voice of fear, confusion, desire and anger through twenty-one abstract poems, translated into German by Otto Erich Harleben – originally written in French by Belgium poet Albert Giraud.
Stannard’s voice leaps from high to low pitches, singing about a variety of ambiguous themes including violence, crime, and The Moon. She also interacts with Pierrot, offering him white paint to cover his face, an allegory of covering his shame. It’s worth mentioning that when Pierrot Lunaire premiered in Berlin, 1912, it received mix reviews including strong criticism for its distinctive, atonal style. It is not an easy work, but with a visual choreography of the words put into dance by Alfred Taylor Gaunt, this production transforms Pierrot Lunaire into a welcoming and reflective piece.
Perry twirls and glides on the floor, bringing out the emotional turmoil of Pierrot psychological struggles with dancers, Peter Moir and Amelia O’Hara adding to the intense, modernistic and decadent style of the piece.
Sideshows, however, is far from melodramatic. Upbeat, faster and funnier, the Constella Orchestra play an active part on stage as clowns with their musical prowess and unique cheekiness. Geyer is our conductor and ringmaster introducing every new act with silly humour where possible. Rachel Maby performs as a palm reader with a cool and subdued voice which teleports audiences into a jazz and cabaret bar. Yet she changes tact later on when she performs as tantrum baby, Little Delilah and scats, running around the stage with ringmaster chasing her.
O’Hara slithers out of a basket as a green and seductive snake that goes missing into the audience. Clarinetist, Antanas Makštutis is forced to look for her and he wiggles out a tune at the same time. Peter Moir also gives the audience something to adore and laugh about as he performs as a dancing bear, in pajamas, and pirouettes as a gracious, bearded lady.
Although Sideshows is an entirely strange and peculiar piece, it’s an intriguing and entertaining show that is not to be taken too seriously.
Review by Mary Nguyen
Constella Ballet & Orchestra in collaboration with Khymerikal presents The Clown of Clowns by Arnold Schoenenberg / Leo Geyer, featuring PIERROT LUNAIRE and SIDESHOWS
Roll up, roll up for this opera-ballet circus spectacular! Experience the darkest and most jovial of Clown themed tales in one evening! This unique interpretation of Pierrot Lunaire adds new choreography to Schoenberg’s iconic score. It’s paired with the award-winning Sideshows, an unhinged circus show set to a jazz-inspired score by Leo Geyer (as heard on BBC Radio 3).
Sung and danced, freakish and dead funny, The Clown of Clowns comes to Grimeborn for five performances only.
Directed by Joel Fisher
Producer Chiara Beebe, Flute Sarah Bennet, Conductor Leo Geyer, Clarinet Antanas Makstutis, Dancer Ash Longshaw, Soprano Rachel Maby, Cello Michael Newman, Violin Tim Rathbone, Piano Leanne Cody, Choreographer Alfred Taylor-Gaunt, Costume Seb Freeburn, Make-up Artist Billie Mackenzie, Dancer Matt Petty, Dancer Peter Moir, Dancer Amelia O’Hare, Soprano Emma Stannard.
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I needed to test my CUDA application on a low-end machine so I bought a Jetway Mini-TOP “nettop” machine.
Like most of the dual-core Atom+ION2 nettops that are available, the GPU is connected via a single PCIe 1.0a lane so the speeds you see are only a couple times faster than old PCI.
But, it seems to get the job done and once onboard the GPU, the 512MB of DDR3 gets busy. :D
I threw up some pics, screen caps and cut-and-pasted output from a few of the standard CUDA pseudo-benchmarks on my blog.
Let me know if you have any questions or other results you would like to see.


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Since Black Friday, the headlines have reported stagnant U.S. retail sales. And the future doesn’t look much better. Predictions say the market will barely grow 2% annually over the next two to three years.
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Welcome to the superlative bike region
By bike and mountain bike in the Hohe Tauern
Uphill, downhill or straight ahead – the enthusiasm is inevitable
With a network of 1,300 kilometers of trails, the Salzburger Land is a paradise on two wheels.
Those who conquer the Hohe Tauern by bike or mountain bike look forward to a series of challenges, pleasure tours and the most beautiful views of the country. Right in the middle: your cozy accommodation in picturesque Embach.
Biking and cycling in the Hohe Tauern National Park
Are you ready to face the challenge of the cycle paths in the Hohe Tauern National Park? More than 40,000 vertical meters are waiting to be tackled and mastered. Surrounded by the incomparably beautiful natural landscape of the towering mountains and cool, green, glowing valleys, enjoy your cycling holiday to the full. Throw yourself on breathtaking single trails or cycle comfortably with the whole family over flat terrain. There are no limits to your ideas!
Off to the Tauern Cycle Path!
There are many routes and trails that make bike and mountain bike excursions in Embach special, but one of the highlights is definitely the Tauern Cycle Path, which runs not far from your holiday accommodation. Take on individual stages of this unique tour between Krimml and Passau and let yourself be drawn into the spell of the Salzburg region, Bavaria and Upper Austria. A series of mountain bike and freestyle events as well as guided bike and bike tours complete an unforgettable holiday.
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Bed rails are the boards or metal supports that run from a bed's headboard to foot board, along the bed's side, and usually are an "L" shape. Wood beds generally use a hook-on design, in which the rails have slots that fit into receiving grooves in the headboard and foot board, while bed rails typically are bolted onto metal bed frames. Additionally, if you have metal bed rails, then the metal frames typically connect with bolts, spring clips, and clamps. This article focuses on wooden bed rails, since they are more likely to fail and require fixing.
Commercial bed rails typically are constructed from a hardwood, such as cherry, oak, or maple, or a laminate hardwood with a veneered edge. A solid hardwood lip runs along the bed rail, typically ending approximately 1 to 2 inches from each end. Joint repair, which is beyond this article's scope, includes replacing pins in the hook plate or foot-board receiving area. For the purposes of this article, bed-rail failure describes the collapse of the inner lip.
Removing and Repairing the Bed-Rail Lip
Remove the bed rail by driving it upward, with the mallet, out of its hook-and-pin joints. Use the marker to mark the top edge of the damaged lip, in the intact areas. Lay the rail flat, and remove existing screws with your drill. There should not be any nails in the rail, but remove them if you encounter them. Use the chisel to separate the lip from the rail, and to clean the rail's entire inner surface of any remaining glue residue.
Use your marker line as a guide to position your replacement board no more than 2 inches from each end, lengthwise. The 1-inch side of the board will attach to the rail, and the 1 1/2-inch board will support the slats. Line up your new rail at the top line of the rail you removed. This ensures that your new rail is level with the other bed rail. Check the other rail, if necessary.
Once you determine that your board will fit properly, apply carpenter's glue generously to its edge, and then clamp the new lip into position on the rail.
Select a drill bit that is approximately the same size as the solid portion of your wood screws. You will use the drill bit to drill pilot holes in your hardwood. Measure 1 3/4 inches from the drill bit's tip, and wrap a piece of tape to act as a depth guide. With the rail's finished side facing down, and the lip's edge facing up, measure 1 inch from either end. Drill a pilot hole through the lip and approximately half way into your bed rail. Do not drill through the wood to the bed rail's finished side, as this mars the bed rail's appearance.
Rub wax on the screws to lubricate them, which aids their installation into the hardwood. Screw the screws into the pilot holes. The screws should pull the lip wood snug against the rail. Be aware that some glue will squeeze out.
Measure the rail's other end and repeat. This should position your lip exactly where you want it. Space your remaining screws along the lip every 6-to-10 inches, and drill pilot holes for each. When you are finished, wipe off any excess glue, and let the rail dry. Once the rail is dry, reinstall it onto the head and foot boards.


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A visit to Lindsay, Texas, is not complete without a stop at the famous Cantaloupe Capital of the World. This small town, located just outside of Dallas, is home to the annual cantaloupe festival where, for one day each year, the town celebrates its status as the leader in cantaloupe production. The festival includes a cantaloupe eating contest, a cantaloupe carving contest, and a cantaloupe seed spitting contest.
In addition to the Cantaloupe Capital of the World festival, Lindsay is home to a number of kid-friendly attractions. The Lindsay Wildlife Museum is a great place to learn about the area’s wildlife, and the Exotic Zoo is a must-visit for animal lovers. For a taste of the local culture, be sure to check out the yearly Crockett Cowboy Days festival. This event includes a rodeo, live music, and plenty of food and fun.
10 Fun & Kid-Friendly Things To Do In Lindsay, Texas
1. Take a trip to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum to learn about the local wildlife and ecosystem.
2. Visit the Lindsay Municipal Park to let the kids run around and play on the playground and picnic areas.
3. Go for a swim at the local pool or lake during the summer months.
4. Check out the Lindsay independent School District website for information on upcoming school events such as sports games, plays, and concerts.
5. Take a hike or bike ride on one of the many trails in and around Lindsay.
6. Attend a community event such as the Annual Corn Festival or the Pumpkin Patch Festival.
7. Play mini golf or go-karts at one of the local family fun centers.
8. Visit the local library to check out books, use the computers, or attend one of the many free events and programs.
9. Go stargazing at night to see the beauty of the stars and planets.
10. Make your own pizzas, cookies, or other treats at one of the local pizzerias or bakeries.


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Kelly Hu Biography
Kelly Hu is an American actress, model, and beauty queen best known for her role as Dr. Rae Chang in the American television soap opera Sunset Beach. Likewise, she appeared in the police drama series Nash Bridges.
How old is Kelly Hu? – Age
Hu is 55 years old as of 2023. She was born on February 13, 1968, in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, where she also grew up.
How tall is Kelly Hu? – Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.65 m) tall.
Kelly Hu Mother, Father, Siblings – Family
Kelly was born to her loving parents Juanita and Herbert Hu in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Her father, Herbert, was a salesman, and her mother worked a variety of jobs to support the family. However, her parents got divorced while she was young, so her mother married Roy Takara.
She was raised together with her brother Glenn who is a lieutenant colonel and human resource officer in the United States Army.
Kelly Hu’s Education
Hu began her education at Ma’ema’e Elementary school in Honolulu, Hawaii. She later enrolled at Kamehameha schools where she completed her Highschool education. In addition, she graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibu California.
Is Kelly Hu Married? – Husband
Kelly is currently not married and has no children at the moment. She has, however, been in romantic relationships in the past. She dated Gordon Gilberstan in 1999, Ahmad Ali Moussaoui from 1996 to 1998, and grammy-nominated producer Mitch Allen in 2010.
Kelly Hu’s Career
Hu is a talented actress and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Hawaii Teen USA and competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1985. Her acting career began in 1987, when she appeared as Mike Seaver’s Hawaiian love interest on the sitcom Growing Pains. She went on to appear in a number of television shows, including Night Court, Tour of Duty, 21 Jump Street, and Melrose Place.
Most noteworthy, she appeared in the 1995 film No Way Back as an undercover cop. She also starred as Dr. Rae Chang in the American television soap opera Sunset Beach for six months in 1997. Following that, she was cast as Michelle Chan in the television series Nash Bridges and Pei Pei “Grace” Chen in Martial Law.
Moreover, she also appeared in The Scorpion King in 2002 and Cradle 2 the Grave in 2003. She was the first guest star to cross over between NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS, playing Lee Wuan Kai in a two-episode arc on both shows. She later appeared as a vampire named Pearl in a CW television series, The Vampire Diaries, in 2010 and 2011.
On the other hand, she also did voice work in video games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. She also voice starred in Batman: Arkham Origins as Lady Shiva, one of Black Mask’s eight assassins hired to murder Batman. Furthermore, she provided both her face and voice to the in-game character Khai Minh Dao in Battlefield Hardline.
Kelly Hu’s Net Worth
Citing her acting career, Kelly has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Movies and TV Shows
- No Way Back as Seiko Kobayashi
- The Doors as Dorothy
- The Scorpion King as CassandrUndoing as Vera
- Devil’s Den as Caitlin
- Stranger Days as Anchor Woman
- Surf Ninjas as Ro-May
- Cradle 2 the Grave as Sona
- Underclassman as Lisa Brooks
- Mayday as Sharon Crandall Americanese as Brenda Nishitani
- X2 as Lady Deathstrike
- Stiletto as Detective Hanover
- Farm House as Lilith
- Almost Perfect as Vanessa Lee
- White Frog as May Chung
- The Tournament as Lai Lai Zhen
- Age of Tomorrow as Dr. Gordon
- Maximum Impact as Kate
- Batman: Soul of the Dragon as Lady Shiva
- Murder One as Natalie Cheng
- The Sentinel as Christine Hong
- Sunset Beach as Rae Chung
- The Bold and the Beautiful as Trish
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Karai
- Arrow as China White
- Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure as Adira
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By ANN CARRNS About half of college students lived at home in the most recent academic year to cut education costs, an increase over the last two years, according to a new study from Sallie Mae, the student loan giant. This increase is largely driven by students from more affluent families, those with incomes of $100,000 or more, the study found. Students
Graduates who "dumb down" their employment aspirations can find themselves stuck in low-skilled jobs for years, according to research to be published later this week. A study by the New Employment Foundation shows one in four graduates who take non-graduate jobs – such as in retail, construction or catering – can find themselves employed in the same position three and a
By Remez Sasson
Positive thinking is a mental attitude that sees the bright side of things.
A positive mind anticipates happiness, joy, health, and favorable results.
If you adopt this mental attitude,
By Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Dorothy Frode enrolled in community college this fall, 50 years after she graduated from high school and facing the certainty that retirement wasn’t possible with only her Social Security income. At age 67, the Dubuque, Iowa, woman made a choice likely becoming more common among older Americans: to return to college for more training, then
By Oliver Burkeman The holiday season poses a psychological conundrum. Its defining sentiment, of course, is joy yet the strenuous effort to be joyous seems to make many of us miserable. It's hard to be happy in overcrowded airport lounges or while you're trying to stay civil for days on end with relatives who stretch your patience. So to cope with the
By Sophia Hollander In a handful of public schools in the U.S. this year, robots will be teaching everything from math to vocabulary to nutrition inside classrooms in California and New York, a move the researchers call a first in American education. The Los Angeles experiment, scheduled to start later this spring, will use a robotic “dragon” to teach first-graders about healthy lifestyle
By Sean Coughlan
Record numbers of UK students were accepted for full-time university courses this autumn, including more poorer students than ever before, says the Ucas admissions service.
This was a particularly "good year" to apply, says Ucas, with recruitment recovering from
Ontario high school students are drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes less than ever before, but drinking and smoking other intoxicants is on the rise.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) released its annual survey of drug and alcohol habits among teenagers this week. It showed several new sources of
The Smartforce Student Summit will be a place where educators, administrators, students, and parents can experience an in-depth introduction to manufacturing. The summit will feature interactive displays from leading national education organizations, manufacturing technology providers, career and technical schools, community colleges, and engineering schools. Summit attendees will also have an opportunity to visit IMTS, North America’s largest industrial trade

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I have taken to having a spot of tea in the afternoon. Being something of an Anglophile, I’ve always been a fan of the English tradition of afternoon tea. I must confess, however, that the appeal of the scone was really a bigger draw than the tea itself.
Now that I’m shying away from that mid-afternoon sugar rush, I needed to find a tea that could stand alone as the star of the show. Happily, the Tropical Green Tea from Revolution does just that. Revolution Tea’s Tropical Green is a natural blend of Dragonwell green tea, Young Hyson and pineapple flavoring.
First, the packaging. This tea is packaged in a silky nylon pyramid-shaped infuser bag. It feels luxurious. The smell alone is heavenly even before brewing. I’m seriously thinking of using some as drawer sachets.
It holds the perfect amount of loose-blend tea to brew a two-cup pot.
Second, the taste. No bitterness, and none of that overwhelming mix of tart flavors so often found in a tropical blend. This is a lush, green tropical island with a hint of a gentle breeze from the ocean. OK, I’m getting a little carried away . . . it is just tea, but it’s really good.
You probably have read all about the health benefits of green tea, including EGCG and antioxidants. This is the first green tea I have found that is an absolute delight to all the senses, as well as being healthy.
I’m (almost) not even missing the scone.

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Last year I wrote a post with some quick tips for improving your phone photography. It seems this article struck a chord as I had a fair bit of feedback from people grateful for the snappy advice.
That was my inspiration to write a new series of posts aimed at providing tips and guidance to help improve your photography and boost your creativity.
And the key principles behind these instructional posts? They will be practical, easy to implement, and readable within sixty-seconds (or as good as...). So let’s kick things off with one of my all-time favourite tips.
Break those eye-level habits and get down low
Take your camera away from eye-level. Yes, it really is that simple!
Getting down low is one of the most effective ways to improve your photographs and create original perspectives, especially with natural portraits, landscapes, and street photography. And I’m talking really low here – knees on the ground, lying in the dirt low.
Each and every day we view everything from eye-level. Take a photograph from the exact same height and it’s no wonder that your images will soon start to feel very familiar and lacking impact.
The world is a far more interesting place when viewed through a child’s eyes so break the habit of instinctively shooting from five to six feet from the ground. Trust me: it will open up a whole host of creativity and turn familiar scenes into unique opportunities.

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Pulaski Circuit Judge Mary McGowan and lawyer Kathryn Pryor sit at a table in the lobby of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. It sounds like the start to a joke: A judge and a lawyer walk into a theater ...
Kathryn Pryor, as Sarah Palin, steals a scene in Gridiron 2010.
Craig Wilson stars with Herb Rule and Dent Gitchel in Gridiron 2014.
Cheerleaders Allison Stodola Wilson and Antwon Staton interview then-gubernatorial-candidate Asa Hutchinson in Gridiron 2014.
Paul Tillman appears as a young Bill Clinton with Marie-B Miller as Whoopi Goldberg in Gridiron 2010.
Which wouldn't be too far from the truth, in this case. Pryor, of the Little Rock firm Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, LLP, is trying to remember the first year the Gridiron Show -- the biennial musical by legal professionals of the Pulaski County Bar Association spoofing state and national politics -- came to the Rep. She decides it must have been 1990.
Gridiron 2016: Bake America’s Cake Again
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"That was the year they took Guys & Dolls ... rewrote the music and then turned Guys & Dolls into the Gridiron story," she says. "It was hilarious."
"It was hilarious," McGowan agrees.
"That was the 'Dolls With B****' number," Pryor says, "with Hillary and Betsey Wright."
McGowan turns to a guest.
"By the way, [the Gridiron Show is] always in bad taste."
The show has come a long way since its debut in 1916 -- 100 years ago -- when members of the Little Rock Bar Association acted out skits under the watchful eye of a mounted alligator gar during a luncheon at the Gar Hole, the bar of the downtown Marion Hotel. Women weren't allowed in those days, McGowan says, so men often dressed up for female roles. That rarely happens anymore, although a few years back, local lawyer Don Bennett's portrayal of Gov. Mike Huckabee's wife,
Janet, didn't sit well with the first couple.
"She's tall. She's a tall woman," McGowan says.
"And it brought the house down when he came out, of course," Pryor adds.
"He's a tall guy," McGowan says.
The Huckabees apparently got wind of the portrayal ahead of time and decided not to come. Which squares with Pryor's experience.
"It seems like the more high-profile politicians have been the ones that are hardest," she says. "They can't take a joke really."
Timed to coincide with the local and state elections every two years (and the presidential elections every four years), the Gridiron luncheon continued off and on through the 1950s, when lawyer Griffin Smith took the reins of the event. With the help of collaborators such as Dot Callanen-Gravett, a dance instructor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, McGowan says Smith elevated Gridiron into an evening performance.
Smith had a passion for musical theater, in particular Broadway shows, and he traveled to Chicago and other cities to observe how other Gridiron shows were performed, says his son, former longtime Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editor Griffin Smith.
"I think he was more passionate about the Gridiron than even the practice of law," Smith says.
In the summer of 1982, Gridironers were in dress rehearsal when the controversial Pulaski County Sheriff Tommy Robinson arrested 23 people at a toga party at the Hotel Sam Peck. Smith recalls his father walking directly to his law office in the Union Bank building, picking out the sheet music for a song called "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from the Broadway musical Sweet Charity, and rewriting the lyrics.
"Two days later, the Gridiron is on stage with a very timely song about the toga bust," Smith says, adding, "That's really my favorite story about Dad, because it showed how he thought and worked."
The elder Smith died in 2000. Ten years later, his son contacted McGowan and asked if she would take all of his Gridiron material -- old programs, scripts, tapes, pictures and other materials -- and she accepted. Longtime Gridironer and UALR law professor Dent Gitchel organized and digitized the archive and gave it to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for preservation.
McGowan says, "It's a commentary about what was going on in Arkansas at the time, as well as some national stuff."
Perhaps no Gridiron shines a starker light on a particular time than the 1958 show, set against the backdrop of the Little Rock Central High School crisis -- a true collision of politics and law. Gov. Orval Faubus was resisting the integration of the school both through the court system and the political arena. As recalled in the May 30, 1958, edition of the Arkansas Gazette, Billy S. Clark addressed the Marion Hotel's ballroom as "Field Marshall Orval Faubus," singing:
The moon belongs to Khrushchev and Ike.
But Arkansas belongs to me.
Later, a man in a zoot suit meets the governor. The character is identified as onetime football coach and strike-breaker Jimmy Karam, who owned a Little Rock men's clothing store at the time and acted as a sort of bodyguard to Faubus during the crisis.
"Been calling on some of my customers at Fourteenth and Park," [Karam's character] explains. He reports a number of orders: 'two dozen brass knuckles, six blackjacks, 20 switchblade knives and one case of dynamite.'"
"Why can't they use regular GI equipment?" the governor groans.
Later, an honor guard of federal paratroopers, marching to the theme song of the film The Bridge On the River Kwai, escorts U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies to the bench. He calls Faubus and the integrationist plaintiffs before him. Faubus, singing to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," says,
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The luncheon of old has developed from a one-night show into a string of evening performances. This year's show runs from today through Saturday.
Two professionals, Jana Beard and Lori Isner, have brought polish to a cast of roughly 80 local lawyers, judges, paralegals and their associates. Beard, the show's director, has taught dance for more than 30 years in Little Rock and performed in productions at the Rep. Isner, the production's musical director, is a well-known composer and performer with the Arkansas Arts Center and other venues. This year's set at the Rep has been built to look like a political party's convention hall.
The lyrics for this year's show will continue to be tweaked to follow news developments as tonight's opening approaches, McGowan says. Responsibility for writing the program falls to a group of Gridiron performers called the"Clandestine Committee." As in every Gridiron year, they start writing shortly after Jan. 1, and their identities are kept secret so as to avoid the potential for litigation.
The 100th anniversary of Gridiron has attracted several alumni from shows 10, 20, even 30 years ago. Organizers say to expect some special twists for this year's installment, titled, Gridiron 2016: Bake America's Cake Again. Anyone who has followed this presidential cycle may notice a conspicuous similarity to the campaign slogan of a certain real estate mogul.
"This year wrote itself," McGowan says.
"There will be scenes where it's taken verbatim from the news cycle," Pryor adds. "And it's very entertaining, as you can imagine."
"It's funny. It's a very funny show," McGowan says.
The show continues to bring in new people, although some with small children dropped out this year, not realizing the time commitment required practice from June 20 to Aug. 2. They've promised to be back for Gridiron in 2018, McGowan says. They appear to have caught the same bug other longtime performers have; passions over the production run high. McGowan in 2012 was deposed, then reinstated, after 15 years as director in a bizarre internecine fight among the more than 100 members of Little Rock's legal community who operate the production's nonprofit Gridiron Productions.
So why, after so many years, all the fuss? Why do these lawyers make such a big deal about a play?
McGowan swats away the question.
"It's fun! It's fun," she says. "And it brings people together. We become like a little Gridiron family.
"We want it to go another hundred years. Into perpetuity."
Dent Gitchell, a 40-year veteran of the Gridiron and the show's historical archivist, will present a history of the show from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday as part of the the Butler Center's Legacies & Lunch, in the Darragh Center of Central Arkansas Library System's Main Library, 100 Rock Street. Admission is free. Attendees are invited to take a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided. Call (501) 918-3033.
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2018: News & Trends in Retrospect
As 2018 draws to a close, and we reflect upon all that has happened over the past 12 months, it is easy to see why many people are relieved that it is over, and it is surprising that so much has occurred in what seems like a short period of time. The main existential challenges facing the 7 billion people on the planet – war, climate change and the struggle for global cooperation – were highlighted and escalated as a result of decision-making by world leaders and an ongoing step away from international organizations by key stakeholders. At Freely Magazine, we understand the importance of global dialogue and the benefits it brings both to our own lives and the world as a whole. With that being said, here’s a look back at the trends and events that defined the year that was 2018.
The Far Right Peaks
50 years after the progressive social movements of the late 1960s saw the global left at its apex, 2018 was defined in part by reactions against the socially liberal ideas that emerged out of that decade.
Right-wing and often xenophobic politicians scored big in Italy, where anti-migrant firebrand Matteo Salvini is effectively leader, Brazil, where an admirer of the military dictatorship is now President, and even in Canada, that bastion of tolerance, where Doug Ford won the premiership of Ontario on a platform of cheap beer and socially conservative rhetoric.
Intellectually, Jordan Peterson, a fierce critic of political correctness, communism and feminism, stayed atop bestseller lists for most of the year with his book, 12 Rules For Life. Extreme right and anti-Semitic terrorist attacks took the lives of dozens of people in North America alone in 2018.
2018 may well be seen by future historians as the high-water mark of the new nationalism.
Sports Victories Inspire Fans Globally
2018 saw unexpected defeats for some of the most seemingly intractable all-stars in the world of sports and successes for newcomers and underdogs. In America, the thumping of the New England Patriots by the Philadelphia Eagles humbled a team that, with their quarterback Tom Brady, appeared to have an iron grip on the Lombardi Trophy. This was despite the fact that the Eagles had to rely on backup quarterback Nick Foles and had to recover from a last-minute surge by the Patriots.
Germany, which won in 2014 and was expected to perform at the top of the pack in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, was also ejected from their place of hegemony, being defeated almost immediately by Mexico and losing a chance to enter the top 16. Meanwhile, England, absent from the final four since 1990, at last made it into the semifinals, where they were defeated in a game against Croatia that was an emotional rollercoaster for fans. In the end, France was crowned the victor.
The 2018 Winter Olympics in Seoul saw another kind of victory: one for international diplomacy. At the time, US President Donald Trump was threatening North Korea with nuclear annihilation, with relations at an all-time low. The creation of a unified Korean team, and the symbolism of Korean athletes under a single flag, boosted desire for peace among South Koreans, eventually leading to unification and normalization talks between the two nations later in the year.
Climate Change Continues
In 2018, climate change became not just a headline, but a tangible reality. From wildfires in California that killed over 100 people to an earthquake in Indonesia that led to over 2,000 deaths, extreme weather dominated both headlines and everyday routines across much of the world.
An extensive report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” would be necessary to stave off disaster, while a US National Climate Assessment exposed the immense financial costs associated with a warming world.
Meanwhile, efforts to deal with the ongoing pressures were stymied at the COP24 climate summit, which became a subject of ridicule as coal and other dirty energy industries were promoted by both the organizing country, Poland, as well as the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Continued inaction led to the growth of citizens’ initiatives across much of the developed world, including Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement, the efforts of which will likely play a major role in 2019. Whatever occurs, it is certain that the coming year will play host to even more extreme weather, and almost certainly more action.
Gains For Women And LGBTQ People Across The World
Referenda and bills proposed across the globe showed signs of a strong feminist and intersectional movement in countries historically resistant to sexual inclusivity.
In India, Section 377, an antiquated colonial-era holdover which banned gay sex as “against nature,” was overturned by that country’s supreme court, which in the process declared that gay Indians would have equal rights under the Indian constitution. These moves came despite the conservative social politics of many Indians, although, in a sign of how far things have come, the right-wing government of Narendra Modi declined to take a stance against the ruling.
Ireland’s eighth amendment, passed in a referendum in 1983 with two-thirds in favor, barred abortions unless a serious risk to the mother could be proved. But just over 30 years later, the amendment was repealed by a nearly identical margin in a referendum that demonstrated the change in attitudes among generations and the decline of the authority of the once mighty Catholic Church in Ireland. Two months later, an attempt to repeal Argentina’s hard-line abortion laws narrowly failed but gave huge momentum to a growing women’s movement in that country.
Trump Hunkers Down
US President Donald Trump spent much of 2018 dealing with legal troubles, tweeting insults at foreign and domestic enemies, and navigating a flurry of staff turnovers within his administration.
He initiated a trade war against China with a firestorm of tariffs, horrifying investors and destabilizing the global economic order while his administration stoked military tensions with Beijing over the South China Sea and Taiwan, raising fears of a new Cold War over technological and geopolitical dominance.
Trump continued his daily attacks against the media over Twitter while attempting to tarnish the ongoing investigations into alleged Russian election interference and potential collusion between his campaign and the government of President Vladimir Putin. A July meeting with Putin in Helsinki led to violent outbursts across the Beltway and frenzied charges of treason by Trump’s political opponents.
Throughout the year, Trump continued to replace members of his administration seen as moderate with more hardline figures and loyalists, including Mike Pompeo at the State Department and John Bolton as national security advisor. Both Bolton and Pompeo were key figures in Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, his April attacks on the Syrian government of Bashar Al-Assad and his abandoning of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, moves that were seen as warlike among peace campaigners and foreign policy experts alike.
Trump’s efforts failed to prevent the election of a Democratic House of Representatives, which will likely stall much of his domestic policy agenda in the coming year. As a result, his defiant, combative approach will likely continue throughout 2019.
If 2017 was the year that society began to doubt the idea that Big Tech was primarily a force for good, 2018 has decisively stripped it of its merits.
Beginning with the exposure of Cambridge Analytica’s role in the election upsets of 2016, this year has seen one blow after another to the “masters of the universe”: Mark Zuckerberg, sweating and fretting before an angry Senate, Elon Musk going up in the smoke of his own hubris, and Sheryl Sandberg, icon of capitalist feminism, revealed as the mastermind of dirty tricks and malicious smear campaigns against company critics.
The monopoly power of Big Tech broke into everyday discourse, with arguments for breaking up Silicon Valley’s biggest names adorning cable news screens on both sides of the aisle. Efforts intended to lessen hate speech and fake news have created uproar from both activists on the right and left against what they perceive as censorship as well as researchers and pundits who consider the companies’ responses too limited.
2019 may or may not bring about a revival in the stock prices of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Tesla. But a revival of credibility and trust in Silicon Valley will be difficult moving forward as personal data about users becomes a currency among internet advertisers and influencers.
How will 2018 be remembered by history? Likely as a period of transition. The year featured neither the double-shock populism of 2016’s Trump and Brexit votes, nor the unprecedented chaos of Trump’s first year in office and the bold move towards long-term rule by China’s Xi Jinping in 2017. In 2018, it was not elected officials but ordinary people that more clearly than ever directed the course of history. Between Extinction Rebellion in London and the Yellow Vests protests against Emmanuel Macron in Paris, the past year gave birth to movements that may yet create great societal change. The legacy of 2018 will be based on what comes out of it, not what took place this year.

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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film has another new addition. Per Variety, X-Men actress Alexandra Shipp is set to join the increasingly star-studded cast of the forthcoming live-action movie based on Mattel’s world famous doll.
There are little to no details about what Oscar-nominated Greta Gerwig and co-writer Noah Baumbach’s vision for a film about Barbie could possibly look like, so all we can do right now is look towards the cast list.
Margot Robbie is playing the booked and busy Barbie with Ryan Gosling taking on the role of her paramour, Ken. Shipp’s role is still unknown so far, but she’s expected to join Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, and Ariana Greenblatt in the Warner Bros. movie.
You may have seen Shipp recently in the Oscar-nominated tick, tick...BOOM! starring alongside Andrew Garfield’s Jonathan Larson as his girlfriend Susan. Before that, Shipp played an iteration of the iconic weather controlling X-Men character Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Dark Phoenix. She also starred in the pretty much universally hated Lifetime biopic, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, about the late Aaliyah Haughton.
Earlier this month, Amy Schumer announced that she left Barbie due to creative differences. With Ladybird director Greta Gerwig now at the helm, it’s really a wonder as to what we’ll see in her version of the world of Barbie.
Will it be similar to the Tyra Banks and Lindsey Lohan 2000 film Life-Size, with Margot Robbie’s Barbie being brought to life and having to learn about life in the real world? Or could Noah Baumbach’s addition as co-writer make this a more morose tale of a Barbie down on her luck? It’s a guessing game until we know any official details, but rest assured Ryan Gosling will likely try to win an Oscar with his Ken performance.


India’s long Ayodhya dispute as temple construction starts
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists and supporters shout slogans as they celebrate before the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhaya, in New Delhi on August 5, 2020. (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (5) started the construction for a Hindu temple on a site in northern India where a 16th century mosque was demolished by supporters of his Hindu nationalist party in 1992.
The events in Ayodhya sparked communal riots in several parts of India. About 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.
The rights to the site were unresolved until last year, when the Supreme Court decided in favour of building a Hindu temple there, on condition that Muslims were given another plot to build a mosque.
WHAT WAS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
The Hindu epic scripture Ramayana mentions Ayodhya, a town in Uttar Pradesh state nearly 700 km (435 miles) east of New Delhi, as the birthplace of Ram, a god-king believed by Hindus to be a physical incarnation of Lord Vishnu, one of the principal deities of Hinduism. A mosque had been constructed there in 1528, during the rule of Babur, India’s first Mughal emperor. Many Hindus believe it was built on the spot where Ram was born, and there is some evidence that a temple had once stood there.
In December 1949, Hindu activists placed idols of Ram inside the disputed structure, leading to the mosque’s seizure by authorities. Court orders restrained people from removing the idols, and the structure’s use as a mosque effectively ceased from that point.
Hindu and Muslim groups filed separate claims over the site and the structure. In 1989, a high court ordered the maintenance of the status quo.
Hindu and Muslim groups tried unsuccessfully to resolve the dispute through negotiations.
Then in 1990, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party launched a nationwide campaign to build a temple in Ayodhya with its then president Lal Krishna Advani embarking on a cross-country journey on a truck designed like a chariot.
It whipped up Hindu fervour across the country, deepened divisions with Muslims but also catapulted the BJP into national prominence.
On Dec.6, 1992, the BJP campaign for Hindu awakening climaxed in a rally in Ayodhya, when a mob, cheered on by BJP leaders, climbed the mosque and started smashing the domes with axes and hammers. Within a short time, the entire structure was razed to the ground, triggering riots across India soon after.
Modi was a foot soldier in the party at the time, helping organise Advani’s chariot journey through his home state of Gujarat. In 2014 he became prime minister as his Hindu nationalist party vowed to transform India into a military and economic power. Last year, Modi was re-elected with the biggest parliamentary majority in three decades.


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