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Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Francine Prose and Ayana Mathis discuss their scariest reading experiences.
By Ayana Mathis
I asked my mother why no one had told me the world could be like that. I wanted to know if such things could happen to our family.
I wasn’t allowed to read ghost stories when I was a kid. This was, in part, due to my mother’s religious sensibilities and in part because she thought those kinds of books were candy. Everything else was fair game. I read Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” (and reread it just last year — it’s still astonishingly good) and made a failed attempt at “War and Peace.” Then, when I was 9, I read Mildred D. Taylor’s Newbery Medal-winning “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” published in 1976. Cassie Logan, the novel’s 9-year-old narrator, is a heroine in a family of heroes — the Logans are in the fight of their lives to hold on to their 400 acres of prime cotton land in 1930s Mississippi. Neither Jim Crow nor the Logans’ neighbors take kindly to a black family with all that land, and the Logans must contend with murderous white gangs, punishing economic privations and the thousand daily humiliations black people endured at that time and in that place.
I reread the book recently, to find out if it would frighten me as much as it had when I was a girl. It did. “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” may be children’s fiction, but it doesn’t shrink from adult truths. Little Cassie Logan receives a quick and brutal education in, as Taylor writes, “the way of things.” She is forced off the sidewalk by a grown man, her arm painfully twisted behind her back, for not stepping off the road to make way for a white child her own age. Through this incident and others, she comes to understand her family’s precarious position, and how easily “the way of things” might lead to the loss of the family’s land and even their lives.
At 9, I received that education right alongside Cassie. I was angry as she was angry and outraged as she was outraged, and finally, I was profoundly afraid as she was profoundly afraid. I not only learned what it meant to live a perilous life, surrounded by open hostility, but I also made the grim discovery that such circumstances even existed. I understood that I was relatively safe because there were systems of which I could avail myself — my school, the police, hospitals, to name a few — and that the Logans were unprovided with any of those resources. There was nothing and no one to protect them from unrelenting abuse and violence: no recourse, no appeal.
The true terror of the novel was twofold. The first was that these things had happened to little girls — girls who were my age and looked just like me. I remember asking my mother why no one had told me the world could be like that. I wanted to know if such things could happen to our family. And so she had the unenviable task of explaining to her daughter what it was to be black at that time and in our own. There were, of course, some things she could not explain, things for which there was neither explanation nor remedy. How to explain to a child that there exists the kind of injustice that defies our every conception of decency or fairness? How to comfort her in the knowledge of forces so unassailable that the people who love us are powerless against them? One might, like the characters in the novel, do something unimaginably courageous that proves, in the end, utterly ineffectual.
Though I could not articulate it at the time, in “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” I was also confronted with the limits of love. Why, I asked, couldn’t Cassie’s parents protect her from all of that awfulness? My mother replied, “But they did.” I pointed out that, by the end of the novel, the Logans were still in enormous difficulty and might lose all they had. Cassie’s parents couldn’t fix everything. “Fixing everything isn’t always what protection is,” she said. And this is as frightening a truth as any I’ve ever known.
Ayana Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the 2014-15 New York Public Library’s Cullman Center Fellowship. “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” her first novel, was a New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2013 and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Ayana taught Creative Writing at The Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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By Francine Prose
What crime did the girl in “The Red Shoes” commit to be made to dance until she begs to have her feet cut off?
No book has ever frightened or thrilled me in quite the same way as the volume of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales I read as a child. I still have the physical copy, its frontispiece decorated with characters from the stories. The brightly colored images, by the great Polish illustrator Arthur Szyk, suggest Persian or Indian miniatures filtered through some deep Eastern European anxiety. My fifth-grade signature, with its carefully dotted i and a dramatic John Hancock swirl beneath the shaky script, edges the upper right-hand corner of the endpaper.
I continue to read these tales more often than I might have expected. I like to teach “The Snow Queen.” Writing a catalog essay about the amazing paper cutouts that Andersen made when he was telling stories, I became obsessed with the Danish fabulist’s tormented life. Each time I read a story today I get a diluted dose of what I felt as a girl: butterflies, vague nausea, creeped-out childish excitement.
I am also reminded of how different the experience of reading is for an adult than for a bookish child. Even for a sensible kid, the border between reality and the book is more porous. I was drawn to “The Tinderbox,” with its treasures guarded by dogs of increasing size, with eyes as big as teacups, as mill wheels, as towers. I was afraid of big dogs. I read the story again and again, until part of me was the soldier outsmarting the witch and getting control of the dogs. Staring at Szyk’s illustrations helped me lose myself in the story. I was wild with fright and simultaneously aware I was safe, reading, at home.
Not understanding the stories was part of what I liked. I didn’t mind that they were too hard for me. I knew they weren’t entirely for children, but I didn’t think they were for grown-ups either. I didn’t know what they were. Some were very cheerful, but others were dark and senseless and cruel. “Great Claus and Little Claus” includes a blood feud, the skinning of a horse and the ax murders of two grandmothers. What crime did the girl in “The Red Shoes” commit to be made to dance until she begs to have her feet cut off? Was it really because she wore red shoes to church and thought about shoes instead of God? I wondered what would happen to Kai in the seductive Snow Queen’s palace and to Gerda in the robber’s lair, where, as the knife-wielding bandit girl sleeps with her arm around Gerda’s neck, Gerda wonders if she’s going to die.
Children read to find out what happens next: Anxiety feeds suspense. The Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books have proved this, and I thought of it recently when my granddaughter was halfheartedly reading a book I later picked up off the floor of the car. What were Panda’s friends going to get him for his birthday?
The first book that got her attention was Roald Dahl’s “The Witches.” I read it to her. She was eager to know what happened next. She knows that witches aren’t real, but she had to ask. I realize that no second-grade teacher who wants to stay employed would read students a book as dark as “The Witches,” but it was an improvement over the story about Panda’s birthday.
If we want children to read, we should encourage them to enjoy (within reasonable, sensible limits, obviously) the pleasures of the imagination, among them the thrill of being scared and then realizing it’s only a book. What could be more frightening than the monstrous Oliver Hardy-like chefs in Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen”? “The Tinderbox” turns out to be a true horror story about power; the soldier rules the country with the help of three enforcers: vicious giant attack dogs who have seats at his wedding to the princess. That the world can be a frightening place is something Andersen knew well, and it’s part of what makes his stories so scary, no matter how old we are.
Francine Prose is the author of 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the novel “Blue Angel,” a National Book Award nominee, and the guide “Reading Like a Writer,” a New York Times best seller. Her new novel is “Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932.” Currently a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards; a contributing editor at Harper’s, Saveur and Bomb; a former president of the PEN American Center; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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KISSIMMEE -- Federal housing officials have agreed to help Osceola collect more than half the approximately $900,000 in rent subsidies owed by housing agencies in other cities, but they suggested the county hire an accountant to collect the rest.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Miami will work with its counterparts in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to collect about $475,000 owed by 18 housing agencies in Puerto Rico, said Karen Cato-Turner of the Miami field office.
HUD officials "strongly recommend" the county spend $50,000 to hire an accountant to recover the rest, Cato-Turner wrote then-County Manager Ed Hunzeker on April 20.
The county is trying to find a "qualified candidate" to straighten out the situation, county spokesman Don Madden said Tuesday.
Hunzeker appealed to HUD for help in February, saying its Section 8 rent voucher program for low-income families was in "financial crisis."
Osceola serves more Section 8 families than the number for which it gets federal funding. Under the program regulations, Section 8 vouchers are "portable," meaning poor families from Puerto Rico, New York and other places can take their subsidies and "port in" to Osceola.
But federal requirements dictate that the HUD funding stay with the original housing authority. That means that while the county receives federal rent aid for fewer than 200 families, it must front the rent subsidies for 800 families from other cities while it bills their home agencies and waits for them to forward the payments.
County officials have been trying to collect payments from 73 housing agencies across the United States and Puerto Rico for families who have moved here.
The collection problem dates to 1999, Cato-Turner said. But the county bears some responsibility, she wrote in her letter.
Miami field officers conducted an on-site visit in March at the Osceola office and found "many instances" where an outside housing agency had failed to send a payment, but Osceola did not promptly alert the agency to the problem.
The visit also found instances where families who had "ported in" from other cities were no longer in the Section 8 program, but the county failed to notify the home agencies and continued to collect payments from them.

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A hypoallergenic, mild conditioner intended for healthy, chemically sensitive & allergy-prone pets. It gently removes shampoo residue and aids in the removal of environmental pollutants without irritation or adding heavy oils. It leaves the coat easy to manage, static-free, and lustrous.
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IOC president will meet Peng Shuai at Beijing Olympics to assess her ‘well-being and way of thinking’ after the tennis participant ‘disappeared’ when she accused senior politician of rape
- Thomas Bach will meet Ms Shuai contained in the ‘closed loop’ of the Beijing Olympics
- She alleged on-line that former vice premier Zhang Gaoli sexually assaulted her
- But she mentioned final month that she did not accuse him and put up was misunderstood
- Bach mentioned if she desires allegations to be investigated the IOC would help her
By Riath Al-Samarrai for MailOnline
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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has confirmed he will meet Peng Shuai at Beijing 2022 this month – and says he would help the Chinese tennis participant if she referred to as for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault towards one of many nation’s main politicians.
Bach has confronted heavy criticism for his comfortable dealing with of the saga, which erupted in November when Peng posted a 1,600-word notice on Chinese social media platform Weibo accusing former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her to have intercourse with him.
After all of a sudden vanishing from view, she re-emerged weeks later and claimed she had been misinterpreted.
Thomas Bach will meet Ms Shuai (pictured) contained in the ‘closed loop’ of the Beijing Olympics immediately to talk about her disappearance after she alleged on social media that former Chinese vice premier Zhang Gaoli had sexually assaulted her
Peng mentioned final month she had by no means accused anybody of sexually assaulting her and that the put up she made had been misunderstood. Zhang (pictured) has not commented on the matter
Bach, who beforehand spoke to Peng over video hyperlink, has now organized to meet Peng inside the ‘closed-loop’ setting of the Winter Olympics.
He mentioned: ‘We will have the meeting. I’m very blissful and really grateful to Peng Shuai. She will enter the closed loop to have the meeting that she additionally desires. Once the [covid] procedures have completed we will have that meeting.
‘To be clear I’ve additionally had a variety of calls since November. The final one, the day earlier than yesterday, was between members of our IOC crew and Peng Shuai. Our strategy is at the start in the pursuits of Peng Shuai to answer the question which was regarding us from a human perspective, that of the place is Peng Shuai? That’s why we took this strategy to get in contact and get to know the place she is and so far as doable how she is.
‘This you possibly can solely obtain when you make contact. If you don’t take contact, when you simply make a declaration concerning the standing, you do not get any additional usually.
The IOC has held a number of video calls with Peng however needed a face-to-face meeting in the course of the February Games
‘This is why we made this contact, in order to discover out as a lot as doable whether or not the essential and perhaps a very powerful human proper of bodily integrity is assured. There’s no higher approach than to have a personal meeting.
‘We are step-by-step making an attempt to discover out if she desires to have the inquiry. Of course we might additionally help her in this, however it have to be her determination. It’s her life, it is her allegations.
‘We have heard the allegations, we have now heard the withdrawal. We will have this personal meeting and proceed this dialog. And then we will know higher additionally about her bodily integrity, her psychological state, once we can lastly meet in particular person.’
Bach (pictured) mentioned if Peng needed her allegations to be investigated the IOC would help her

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Plans are being drawn up for the stabilisation and repair of Rock Park Bridge in Barnstaple. It has been closed since a structural defect was found with the columns supporting the bridge last month
Devon County Council has confirmed that a comprehensive series of improvements for walkers and cyclists will be introduced as soon as possible
Around 40 per cent of families took up the offer of classes for their children in Devon’s primary schools this week.
It’s been created by Better Business For All, a partnership of local authorities, business groups, regulators and trading standards services,
Brian Churches, 59, was found guilty of breaching a disqualification order
This week is national Volunteer Week. We’ll be celebrating new Volunteer Champions each day on our social media channels, showing how ordinary people are doing good deeds, kind acts, and generally being lovely people helping other lovely people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Open letter to parents and carers of children with SEND, from Vicky Ford MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families.
Last Friday (22 May), the Government announced that Councils will receive a share of an extra £300m to help establish local outbreak plans which will include local coordination and management of infection control and of local testing and tracing arrangements.


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What do fire and Hollywood have in common? Well, if you don’t know how to manage either, it’s easy to get burnt.
Someone who you would expect to have a thorough understanding of the workings of Hollywood is Angelina Jolie. Or so you would think. The Oscar-winning actress is not only the daughter of actor Jon Voight, but has also had three, high profile marriages to Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton and most recently Brad Pitt, as well as found the time star in a few films along the way.
Acting hasn’t appeared to be a priority in recent years however, with her role as Disney’s Maleficent being her main focus for the last ten years, as well as some voice work for the Kung-Fu Panda franchise.
And although this is billed as an Angelina Jolie film, it has to be said that her involvement in this film is about as bare as can be, which is something for the so-called star of it.
Out in the woody wilds of Montana is smoke jumper Hannah (Jolie). When a fire breaks out in the forest it can have a devastating impact, which is why Hannah and her colleagues take to the sky and are deployed to the very heart of the fire by parachute, in attempt to put it out as swiftly as possible.
But after witnessing a tragic scene on the job, Hannah is now haunted by her past, preventing her from either focusing or participating fully at the task at hand, to the point where she’s posted to a fire lookout tower for her own safety.
Meanwhile, on their way to stay with Sheriff Ethan (Jon Bernthal) are his brother-in-law Owen (Jake Weber), and his nephew Connor (Finn Little); both are in imminent danger, being chased by two lethal baddies Jack (Aiden Gillen) and Patrick (Nicholas Hoult), and are looking for a safe haven on the Montana hills.
Little does Hannah realise that she’s going to have to quickly get her head back in the game, when her path crosses that of young Connor, if either of them are to survive the growing dangers that are snapping at their heels.
There’s really just too much going on, with much of it being truly absurd, to take this flammable take on the classic Witness, seriously. Not content with just being a boy on the run being hunted by bad folk story, director Taylor Sheridan weaves an ill-fitting fire flick into proceedings. The result is truly jarring, with neither visibly comfortable in either’s company.
The good news for Jolie however, the film’s star, is that she really doesn’t feature that much in it; there is one scene that the star probably demanded that sees her in a redundant action sequence, but other than that, there’s very little to do. So much so that the film actually has to turn back on itself, with Jolie’s character running into a dead end, only to see her back at square one again. It’s just one indication of not knowing what to do with her in her own film.
It may have all made perfect sense on the page for Michael Koryta, or at least his novel on which this is based, but his debut effort at a screenplay is an utter, contrived mess.
And yet the film is not without its charm; it has a strong, talented cast that are doing their best, all things considered, with young Australian actor Finn shining the brightest.
It also has a warm, cheesy eighties action flick vibe, that would have starred Sly Stallone back in the day, hamming it up to eleven, no doubt going hand-to-hand with both flames and the bad guys, simultaneously. He certainly wouldn’t have sat back and been out-acted by his own cheekbones, as Jolie does here.
To his credit, Sheridan gives it a pleasing cinematic sheen with some solid cinematography, as well as executes a number of set pieces with style and pace.
The film then is bipolar, not knowing whether to be a Witness clone, or a Only the Brave rip-off, ultimately failing on both counts, as it delivers all smoke and no real spark to really turn the heat up.


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Please sign in the log book whenever you use this instrument.
To turn the instrument on from a cold start, first check the positions of the following controls:
The valve handle should be in the valves closed position and the rotary pump should be off. If the rotary pump is on and the valve handle is in the backing position, then begin at section"B" below.
The high vacuum gauge should be off.
The rotary pump, oil diffusion pump and air admit push-buttons should be off (not depressed).
The low tension (LT) and high tension (HT) push-buttons should be off (not depressed).
Wall circuit breaker should be off.
Cooling water should be off.
Turn the cooling water on by turning the valve (located right and to the rear of the evaporator) fully counterclockwise.
Switch the circuit breaker on.
Switch rotary pump on by depressing the rotary pump push-button.
Turn the valve handle clockwise to the backing position.
Switch the thermocouple gauge on and select the back position. When the vacuum is 50 millitor you can continue.
Turn the oil diffusion pump on by depressing the difussion pump push-button. (Not necessary for glow discharging.)
You must now wait approximately 20 minutes for the diffusion pump to reach operating vacuum. While waiting, fill the liquid nitrogen trap using the chrome funnel to the left of the vacuum chamber (two complete fills is usually adequate).
Make sure the high vacuum gauge is off.
Depress the air admit push-button. Air will now enter the chamber through the silica gel air dryer to the left of the vacuum chamber. When the hissing noise stops (3-5 minutes) and the bell jar lifts approximately 1 mm off the base plate, the vacuum chamber is at atmospheric pressure.
Very gently and slowly guide the bell jar up with the aid of the counter-weight mechanism. Take care not to hit the electrode posts to avoid chipping the bell jar. If the bell jar is accidently chipped, please notify a staff member as it will have to be replaced before any more evaporations can be made.
Release the air admit push-button.
Load your samples and metals to be evaporated into the vacuum chamber. Please remember that finger grease is a source of contamination. Wear gloves whenever possible. Remove flakes of carbon and dust from carbon gun assembly with a can of compressed air. You may want to place a piece of filter paper near your sample to indicate the thickness of the evaporated metals. Note that there are three different types of carbon rods currently in use. The very shiny rods (ultra high purity carbon) are the most resistant to heating. The medium shiny rods (high purity with a coarser surface texture than the ones mentioned above) are medium in resistance to heating. The very black, dull looking rods are the least resistant to heating. When choosing rods for your evaporation, be sure to choose two rods of the same type (same resistance). When preparing the rods for the evaporator, wear the white cotton gloves located in the drawer where the supplies for the evaporator are located.
Important: If you are glow discharging grids, remove the carbon gun and affix the glow discharge collar onto the three support posts and the HT posts. Make sure the platinum leads that connect to the HT posts do not contact the metal of the glow discharge collar.
Wipe the O-ring on the bell jar with your hand (no gloves) or Ross optical tissue. Observe the base plate, where the bell jar seals, for evidence of particles which may induce leaks.
Check to make sure the protective O-rings at the base of the chamber are properly positioned to protect the bell jar from possible damage.
Check to make sure the air admit button is not depressed.
Slowly and carefully lower the bell jar and center it on the base plate.
For metal shadowing: while holding the bell jar in position, push the valve handle in and turn it counterclockwise to the roughing position. When the thermocouple gauge reaches 90 microns (TC gauge switch set to rough position), you may continue. If 90 microns pressure is not obtainable in 5 minutes of rough pumping, there may be a leak at the base of the bell jar or you have introduced materials into the chamber that are too wet and they are outgassing. If this is the case, return the valve handle to backing and ask a staff memeber for assitance or vent the chamber (steps 3-16 from Section 6.2.3) and clean the bell jar O-ring and base plate.
Important: Do not leave the valve handle in the "roughing" position for more than 5-10 minutes when the oil diffusion pump is hot.
For glow discharging: Rough the chamber to approximately 150 microns (TC gauge set to rough position). Remove the rubber stopper from the glow discharge air inlet port and open the needle valve to maintain a roughing pressure of 150 microns. Switch HT on and turn power control to setting 20 on meter. Glow discharge sample for desired amount of time (1-2 minutes will make carbon coated grids hydrophilic). When finished, turn the power control 0 and switch HT off and trip green reset button. Close needle valve and replace rubber stopper. Turn valve handle to backing. Following instructions under "Venting the Chamber to Remove your Sample and Leaving the Instrument in Stand-by for the Next User."
Turn the valve handle clockwise to the backing position and read the backing pressure on the TC gauge. Do not continue until it indicates a vacuum of 80 microns.
Turn the valve handle counterclockwise to the roughing position and read the pressure on the TC gauge. Wait until the gauge reads 90 microns or lower.
When the roughing and backing pressures are adequate (at least 90 microns on roughing and 80 microns on backing), it is possible to connect the oil diffusion pump to the vacuum chamber. To do this, turn the vacuum handle clockwise to the fine pumping position. The poppet valve (high vacuum valve) below the specimen stage will open slightly. (This may take several minutes.) When this occurs, open the valve fully by continuing to turn the valve handle clockwise to the open position. (Watch the thermocouple gauge while doing this; if the vacuum detriorates more than 20 microns with the TC gauge set to backing, you are opening the valve too quickly or the liquid nitrogen trap needs to be refilled.)
Switch the high vacuum (ionization) gauge on. At first only ".10" will appear on the readout. After 30 seconds, a complete reading will be indicated. Allow a few minutes for the gauge to stabilize. If the reading on the gauge seems erratic, it may require a short period of degas. If necessary, switch to the degas position for approximately 3-5 minutes. Return the switch to the on position. The reading should now be stable.
When the HV gauge reads less than 1 X 10^-5 Torr, you may continue. (Better: 2 x 10^-6 Torr.) (This may take 15-60 minutes depending on the size and type of sample being shadowed).
Select the carbon (position 2) or filament (position 3) of the LT selector switch.
Push the green reset button (located below the power control knobs).
Push the LT push-button.
Heat the carbon or filatment using the power control (variable resistor) until evaporation is complete.
Release the LT push-button.
Release the green reset button by depressing the red trip button.
Return the power control to its full counterclockwise position.
Follow steps 1-5 from Section 6.2.3.
Remove samples from the vacuum chamber. Remove the filament from the chamber but leave the carbon gun in the chamber. In order to keep the carbon electrode assembly clean and dry, it is recommended that it remain under vacuum in the bell jar. The user that follows you will be responsible for cleaning it and reloading fresh carbon rods. As rotary shadowing is less frequently used, it is requested that the rotary stage be removed from the chamber, cleaned and returned to its storage place.
Evacuate the chamber to low vacuum by following steps 9-12 from Section 6.2.3.
If someone is going to use the instrument after you, leave the diffusion pump on and make sure the valve handle is in the backing position, the high vacuum and TC guages are off, and the cooling water is on.
Before shutting the instrument off, check to make sure the roughing pressure is 60 millitor and the backing pressure is 50 millitor.
Turn the diffusion pump off and allow it to cool for at least 1 hour while pumping in the backing position.
When the diffusion pump is cool, turn the cooling water off by turning the valve clockwise. (Stand-by.)
The liquid nitrogen cold trap must be warm before you can continue. This will take approximately 8 hours from the time its last filling, so if you used the cold trap just leave the instrument in backing overnight to allow the trap to come to room temperature.
When the liquid nitrogen cold trap is warm, push the valve handle in and turn it counterclockwise to valves closed.
Turn the rotary pump off by releasing the rotary pump push-button.
Switch the wall circuit breaker off.
Vent the pump: flip the valve on left side of the unit to vertical for 5 seconds, then flip it back.
Before leaving, please remember to return all supplies to their proper storage locations.
Do not leave the vacuum valve handle in the roughing position for more than 5-10 minutes to obtain a roughing vacuum of 50 millitor or less -- especially when the oil diffusion pump is on.
The laboratory staff will clean the interior glass surface of the bell jar when necessary.
Please report any damage inflicted upon the bell jar. Failure to do so may cause serious injury to those individuals responsible for cleaning it.

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Albany Town Hall (Western Australia)
The town hall is a two storied building with a stone exterior and four-faced clock tower. It is situated on the corner of Grey Street West and York Street in the centre of Albany. The hall has gallery space on the lower floor with a 310-seat theatre on the upper floor. The building is an example of Victorian Free Classical architecture and was designed by an Adelaide firm, Henderson, Marriot and Company, in 1886.
It is constructed from locally quarried granite masonry and finished with stucco ornamentation externally and plastered brickwork internally. The hall has a ground floor, first floor and gallery level along with other levels within the clock tower. The building has a rectangular footprint with the clock tower centrally located on the front facade, which dominates the streetscape. The tower is topped with a copper roof and a flagpole.
Originally the building housed municipal and commercial offices on the ground floor with the public hall on the first floor. The hall provided a venue for cultural and community events such as theatre, cinema, meetings and dances.
Planning for the building commenced in late 1882 when a meeting of the Albany Municipal Council adopted a works programme for the following year, provided that a loan of £6,000 was procured. The works included a Town Hall with Municipal Offices, for which £2,000 was set aside. The Governor, William Robinson offered the council land to the value of £500 to be sold to pay for a suitable piece of land of their choice. A block at the current site on York Street was chosen and then acquired.
In 1884 plans for the building had been completed and tenders for construction had been issued.
The foundation stone for the hall was laid in December 1886 by the wife of the Mayor, Mrs W. G. Knight. A large crowd was in attendance, including the architects, Messrs Henderson and Marriot, and the builders, Messrs. Harmon and Hamilton. The clerk of works was John Phillimore.
The town hall was opened by the Mayor, William Grills Knight, on Foundation Day in 1888. A planned procession up Yorke Street was cancelled due to bad weather so the keys were presented to the Mayor on the steps. A banquet for 60 was then held in the hall, followed by a grand ball for 250 later that evening. Electrical lighting was installed into the hall the following year.
Toward the end of 1899 a series of important town meetings were held in the hall to discuss whether Albany should separate from the colony of Western Australia and join in a federation with the other Australian colonies. This came about because Albany residents had long nursed grievances against Sir John Forrest's State Government, particularly the development of Fremantle as the colony's main port.
In 1911 the building's first floor level was routinely being used as a picture theatre, new escape stairs were built on the northern side of the building in 1912 and the upper gallery was added in 1913 to increase seating.
New municipal offices for the City of Albany were built in 1967 and the hall was used primarily as a theatre and for hosting community events.
By 1981 work commenced to convert the building into a theatre; it was completed by 1986. A concrete block extension was also added to the rear of the building at this time, obscuring the original stone work. The clock-face was also repaired as part of the renovations, with a bullet hole, which had appeared when troops returned home from the Boer War, patched and painted. An unnamed soldier had taken the shot from the bottom of York Street on the waterfront with a Martini–Henry rifle.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The last music that comedian Jake Head can remember having sex to is something by Nick Drake.
Yes, that would be Nick Drake the bleak-sounding English folk artist who died in 1974 at age 26 of an antidepressant overdose, generally believed to be a suicide.
"Nick Drake is a really good time for sex jams," Head, 24, says of Drake, best known for the whispery track "Pink Moon," which was used in a 1999 Volkswagen commercial. "It's not the funny answer, but it's factual."
Head, who's pacing around in his ancient Atlanta apartment prepping for a set at Star Bar when called for this interview, will headline the 8 p.m. June 28 Epic Comedy Hour show at Flying Monkey Arts (located at 2211 Seminole Drive). Cover is $7 for this bring-your-own-booze event, which will also feature stand-ups Luke Douglas Fields, Kevin Saucier, Bailie Clark, Stephen Claybrooks, AC Roe, Jason Steinhauser and host Scott Eason.
Adulthood is for suckers
In one of Head's comedy bits, he talks about the gaping holes he sees in "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" when re-watching the mystery-themed cartoon series as an adult. So what else does he see as being ridiculous through adult eyes? "I've kind of decided I'm a full-time comedian now, so I've kind of given up on being an adult," Head says. "I just bought a 1997 Geo Prism and I'm pretty much living the same life I did when I was 17, except I get paid to do it sometimes."
Image is everything
Head's logo is pretty hilarious. It's a drawing rendered by artist pal Dayne Swerdling, depicting Head clad in only glasses, cap and a skimpy, pink Speedo swimsuit, perched on a diving board with a microphone suspended in mid-air above the comic. "My friend Dayne just does weird, surrealist work and he did that for me and I was like, 'Oh yeah, I'll put it on the website.' I kind of have it buried so no one will see it because it's a little weird."
Given his last name, I ask Head on a scale of one to 10 how harshly did he get taunted in middle-school because of that word being a synonym for something other than "skull." "Oh man, it was the worst. I didn't know my last name meant anything until 8th grade, and I went through all of 7th grade with people making jokes and I was like, 'Oh yeah! Totally!' Then in 8th grade someone was like, 'You know that means something, right?' That was a day ruin-er."
Rocket City recording
Head, who's comedic influences include the late Mitch Hedberg, will be recording his upcoming Epic Comedy Hour performance with a digital audio device, video camera and boom microphone. "I don't know what I'm going to be using it for. We're just going to be recording it because I love Huntsville. I think this is my third or fourth time doing that Flying Monkey Theater. It's just a great room, and the community around it, Lowe Mill, that whole place is amazing. (The recording) may not turn into anything, but it will be nice to document the material I've been doing over the last year. Over the last year of my life I moved to Atlanta, my girlfriend left me, I'm getting older I guess ... a lot of different topics."
While Head says,"I don't really engage in hecklers very often. It takes a lot to get me mad" there was one memorable instance in which he "was getting heckled by what I thought was a lesbian couple." "And it was just a dude who looked like a lesbian and a girl. And I called that guy a lesbian and he got mad and charged the stage, and he got taken down by a friend of mine who's a wrestler." Now that's something that should have been recorded.
Below is a video clip of Head's "Scooby-Doo" bit:

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Physiotherapy is one of the best chiropractic care techniques to naturally treat pain and improve mobility. At Advanced Chiropractic Group in Santa Barbara, CA, we offer physiotherapy services to help patients achieve long-term wellness. Read on below to see how a chiropractor in Santa Barbara on our team can use physiotherapy to help you heal.
What Is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is physical therapy. It uses exercises to improve movement and function. It can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including pain, stiffness, and weakness.
At Advanced Chiropractic Group, a chiropractor in Santa Barbara on our team may recommend physiotherapy as part of your treatment plan. We will tailor a specific exercises and other treatments to your individual needs to help you achieve your wellness goals.
Benefits of Physiotherapy
There are many benefits that come with physiotherapy, including:
- Relief from pain
- Improved mobility
- Increased range of motion
- Faster healing
- Improved circulation
- Reduced inflammation
- Strengthened muscles
When used to help an injury, physiotherapy is a way to speed up the healing process and reduce the risk of future injuries. It can also be used as preventative care to help avoid injuries in the first place.
How an Injury Chiropractor on Our Team Can Help
If you are dealing with pain or reduced mobility, our team at Advanced Chiropractic Group can help. We will schedule a consultation with you to discuss your symptoms and health goals. From there, we will create a custom treatment plan that may include physiotherapy.
Most people can benefit from physiotherapy, and a chiropractor on our team will make sure to conduct a thorough evaluation to ensure that this is the best treatment option for you.
What to Expect from a Chiropractor on Our Team
During your first physiotherapy appointment, a chiropractor on our team will go over your medical history and current symptoms. We will then conduct a limited physical examination to assess your range of motion, muscle strength, and flexibility.
Once we have a better understanding of your condition, we will develop a personalized treatment plan. This may include exercises, stretches, or more. We can also provide you with at-home exercises and stretches to do between appointments. It's important to note that physiotherapy can take several weeks or even months to produce results. However, patients may start to see a significant improvement after just a few sessions.
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If you are ready to get started on your journey to wellness, call us at (805) 681-7322 for Advanced Chiropractic Group to schedule an appointment with a chiropractor in Santa Barbara, CA, on our team. We look forward to helping you achieve optimal health.

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Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass
Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts
The U.S. transportation sector consumes about 14 million barrels of oil per day, 9 million of which are used in light-duty vehicles. Total U.S. oil consumption is 20 million barrels per day, 12 million of which are imported. The nation can reduce its dependence on imported oil, increase its energy security, and potentially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by producing alternative liquid transportation fuels from domestically available resources to replace gasoline and diesel. Two abundant domestic resources with potential for producing liquid fuels are biomass and coal. Although abundant supplies of biomass and coal can be produced, each resource has its own set of limitations and challenges. Unlike liquid fuels from biomass, liquid fuels from coal cannot, even with the use of carbon capture and storage, offer any greenhouse-gas benefit relative to gasoline. However, liquid fuels from coal are probably less expensive than those from biomass unless the costs of greenhouse-gas emissions are included. A robust set of conversion technologies needs to be developed or demonstrated immediately and driven to commercial readiness to enable the use of the abundant biomass and coal in the development of suitable liquid transportation fuels. This report of the America's Energy Future Panel on Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels addresses technological readiness for producing liquid fuels from coal and biomass, their life-cycle costs, and environmental impacts.
COAL AND BIOMASS SUPPLY
The United States has at least 20 years' worth of coal reserves in active mines and probably sufficient resources to meet the nation's needs for well over 100 years at current rates of consumption. In contrast, biomass can be produced continuously over a long term if managed sustainably, but the amount that can be produced in a given period is limited by the natural resources required to support biomass production. Given that production of corn requires large amounts of fertilizer and that corn grain is also an important source of food and feed, the panel regards corn-grain ethanol as a transition to cellulosic biofuels or other biomass-based liquid hydrocarbon fuels, such as biobutanol and algal biodiesel. Cellulosic biomass—obtained from dedicated fuel crops, agricultural and forestry residues, and municipal solid wastes—could potentially be sustainably produced at about 400 million dry tons per year with today's technology and agricultural practices and with minimal adverse impacts on U.S. food and fiber production or on the environment. A key assumption underlying that estimate is that dedicated fuel crops will be grown on idle agricultural land in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program. By 2020, the amount of sustainably produced biomass could reach 550 million dry tons per year.
Ensuring a sustainable biomass supply requires that the resource base be assessed systematically to address multiple environmental, public, and private sector concerns simultaneously. Producers will probably need additional incentives to grow biofeedstocks so as to avoid direct and indirect competition with the food supply and also to avoid land-use practices that add substantially to net greenhouse-gas emissions. Appropriate incentives can encourage sustainable approaches to the production of lignocellulosic biomass.
Technology for biochemical conversion of the starch in grains to ethanol has been deployed commercially. Although grain-based ethanol has been important for initiating public awareness and the development of industrial infrastructure for fuel ethanol, cellulosic ethanol and other advanced cellulosic biofuels have much greater potential for reducing U.S. oil use and greenhouse-gas emissions without affecting the food supply and costs. Processes for biochemical conversion of cellulosic biomass to ethanol are in the early stages of commercial development, and process improvements are expected over the next decade from evolutionary improvements through commercial experience and from economies of scale as production becomes more widespread and expands to an optimal size. The panel estimated that incremental improvements in biochemical conversion technologies can be expected to reduce nonfeedstock process costs by about 25 percent by 2020 and by 40 percent by 2035. An expanded distribution infrastructure will be required because ethanol cannot be transported in the pipelines used to transport petroleum. Studies should be conducted to identify the infrastructure needed to accommodate increasing volumes of ethanol and to identify and address the challenges of distributing and integrating larger volumes into the fuel system. Research on biochemical pathways for converting biomass to fuels that are more compatible with the current distribution infrastructure could lead to the development of relevant technologies over the next 10-15 years.
If all necessary conversion and distribution infrastructure is in place, 550 million dry tons of biomass can in theory be used to produce up to 30 billion gallons of gasoline-equivalent fuels. However, potential supply does not translate to actual fuel supply. When the production of corn-grain ethanol was commercialized, U.S. production capacity grew by 25 percent each year over a 6-year period. Assuming that the rate of building cellulosic-ethanol plants exceeds that of corn-grain-ethanol plants by 100 percent, alternative fuels could be added to the U.S. fuel portfolio at a rate of up to 0.5 million barrels of gasoline equivalent per day by 2020 (1 bbl of oil yields about 0.85 bbl of gasoline and diesel). By 2035, up to 1.7 million barrels per day could be produced in this manner, leading to about a 20 percent reduction in oil used for light-duty transportation at current consumption levels.
Technologies for the indirect liquefaction of coal to transportation fuels (gasification with Fischer-Tropsch or a methanol-to-gasoline process) without geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage are commercially deployable today, but CO2 life-cycle emission will be more than twice that of petroleum-based fuels. Requiring geologic CO2 storage with these processes would have a relatively small effect on engineering costs and efficiency. However, the viability of geologic CO2 storage has yet to be adequately demonstrated on a large scale in the United States, and unanticipated costs could occur.
Liquid fuels produced from thermochemical plants that use only biomass feedstock are more expensive than fuels produced from coal but can have CO2 life-cycle emission that is close to zero without geologic CO2 storage or is highly negative with effective geologic CO2 storage. To make such fuels competitive, the economic incentive for reducing CO2 emission has to be sufficiently high. Gasification of biomass and coal together to produce liquid fuels allows operation on a larger scale than would be possible with biomass only and reduces capital costs per unit of capacity. When biomass and coal undergo thermochemical conversion together, overall CO2 life-cycle emission is lower than that from coal because the CO2 emission from the coal is countered by the CO2 uptake by biomass during its growth. If 550 million tons of biomass are combined with coal (60 percent coal and 40 percent biomass on an energy basis), production of 4 million barrels per day (60 billion gallons per year) of gasoline equivalent is technically feasible. That amount of fuel represents about 45 percent of the current volume of liquid fuels used annually for light-duty vehicles in the transportation sector. Conversion of combined coal and biomass to liquid fuels at that ratio without geologic CO2 storage yields CO2 life-cycle emission similar to that of gasoline; with geologic CO2 storage, it yields close to zero CO2 life-cycle emission. A program of aggressive support for establishment of first-mover commercial coal-to-liquid transportation-fuel plants and coal-and-biomass-to-liquid transportation-fuel plants with integrated geologic CO2 storage will have to be undertaken immediately if commercial plants are to be deployed by 2020 to address U.S. energy security concerns and to provide fuels whose levels of greenhouse-gas emissions are similar to or less than that of petroleum-based fuels.
For thermochemical conversion of coal or combined coal and biomass, the viability of geologic CO2 storage is critical for commercial implementation. Large-scale demonstration and establishment of regulatory procedures have to be pursued aggressively in the next few years if thermochemical conversion of biomass and coal with geologic CO2 storage is to be ready for commercial deployment in 2020 or sooner. The federal government should continue to partner with industry and independent researchers to determine the costs, safety, and effectiveness of geologic CO2 storage on a commercial scale. If such demonstrations are initiated immediately and geologic CO2 storage is proved viable and safe by 2015, the first commercial plants could be operational in 2020. Combined coal-and-biomass-to-liquid plants will have one-fifth the output of a nominal 50,000-bbl/day coal plant and will probably be sited in regions near coal and biomass supplies, and so buildout rates will be lower than those for the cellulosic-ethanol plants discussed above. The panel estimates that at a growth rate of 20 percent until 2035, 2.5 million barrels of gasoline equivalent would be produced per day in combined coal and biomass plants. Production at that level would consume about 300 million dry tons of biomass—less than the projected biomass availability—and about 250 million tons of coal per year.
Because of the vast coal resources in the United States, the actual supply of coal-to-liquid fuel will be limited not by feedstock availability but rather by market penetration. At a build rate of two to three plants per year, up to 3 million barrels of gasoline equivalent could be produced per day by 2035. Production at that level would consume about 580 million tons of coal per year. However, issues related to an increase in coal mining by 50 percent need to be considered. At a build rate of three plants starting up per year, five to six plants would be under construction at any time.
COSTS, BARRIERS, AND DEPLOYMENT
Production of alternative liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass with technology commercially deployable by 2020 can play an important role in reducing U.S. oil consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions. The various options have different greenhouse-gas impacts, and the choices will most likely depend on U.S. carbon policy. The panel used a consistent set of assumptions to estimate the costs of cellulosic ethanol, coal-to-liquid fuels with and without geologic CO2 storage, and coal-and-biomass-to-liquid fuels with and without geologic CO2 storage (see Table 1). Although the estimates do not represent predictions of prices, they allow comparisons of fuel costs relative to each other. Coal-to-liquid fuels with geologic CO2 storage can be produced at costs that are competitive with a $75/bbl gasoline equivalent. The costs of fuels produced from biomass without geologic CO2 storage are competitive with a $115/bbl gasoline equivalent with biochemical conversion and a $150/bbl gasoline equivalent with thermochemical conversion. The costs of cellulosic ethanol and coal-and-biomass-to-liquid fuels with geologic CO2 storage become more attractive if a CO2 equivalent price of $50/tonne is included.
Attaining supplies of 1.7 million barrels of biofuels per day, 2.5 million barrels of coal-and-biomass-to-liquid fuels per day, or 3 million barrels of coal-to-liquid fuels per day will require the permitting and construction of tens to hundreds of conversion plants and the associated fuel transport and delivery infrastructure. It will take more than a decade for these alternative fuels to penetrate the U.S. market. In addition, investments in alternative fuels have to be protected against crude-oil price fluctuations.
Integrated geologic CO2 storage is key to producing liquid fuels from coal with greenhouse-gas life-cycle emissions comparable to those of gasoline. Commercial demonstrations of coal-to-liquid and coal-and-biomass-to-liquid fuel conversion technologies with integrated geologic CO2 storage should proceed immediately if the goal is to deploy commercial plants by 2020. Detailed scenarios for market penetration of U.S. biofuels and coal-to-liquid fuels should be developed to clarify the hurdles and challenges facing full feedstock use and to establish the enduring policies required. Current government and industry programs should be evaluated to determine whether emerging biomass and coal conversion technologies can further reduce U.S. oil consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions over the next decade."
Introduction and Biomass Supply and Cost - Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Review of an NRC Report
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Mindy McCready – Gone Too Soon [VIDEO]
Mindy McCready had been in the news quite a few times over the past years and sadly not because of her talent as a singer.
She was actually involved in the Roger Clemens steroid scandal in congress and was a witness and testified about her dealings with Clemens when she was a minor. She had some stories involving domestic violence as a victim. She was on "Celebrity Rehab" with Dr. Drew and her boyfriend was recently killed. McCready had stated publicly she had nothing to do with his murder, and she was questioned in connection. We will never know. Mindy McCready was a childhood singing sensation whose life moved too fast, way too early and caused a lot of problems for her as an adult. She leaves behind two sons. I just wanted to say that she was incredibly talented and if she could have gotten help which she so dearly needed she would probably still be putting out hit music in country radio. My thoughts and prayers to her family and her children. Let's remember the talent of Mindy here with one of her biggest hits "Ten Thousand Angels".


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Just in time for tomorrow's "big doin's", Robin Morgan has written a sequel to her justly famous 1970 essay "Goodbye To All That". There is a link if you haven't read it, or, at least, not recently. Those without first-hand memories of the American Left c. 1970 may need a bit of help with the latter, which is provided in the link, which can be found by clicking on the title of this post.
Worth a read no matter how you vote--you do plan to vote, don't you, when given the chance? Even if only to "Resist the lies of Reaganism", as a button a friend of mine grabbed before me once put it.
And a grateful H/T to one of the best womanbloggers on das 'Net, Egalia of Tennessee Guerilla Women, which is to say the best, period; all y'all stop by and visit, ya hear?

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pardoned 61 people including immigrants facing the threat of deportation and other immigration-related problems.
In a statement, Gov. Cuomo explained that he issued the pardons because the individuals proved their rehabilitations. According to him, the 18 immigrants are contributing members of the society. However, they are facing challenges to gain legal status or fully re-enter society due to the stigma of conviction.
A critical step toward a more just and compassionate New York
The governor said, “While the federal government continues to target immigrants and threatens to tear families apart with deportation, these actions take a critical step toward a more just, more fair and more compassionate New York.”
Among those who received clemency include Lorena Borjas, 57, who was convicted of Criminal Facilitation in the Fourth Degree in 1994. Borjas is a transgender woman and a victim of human trafficking from Mexico. She became a strong advocated for transgender and immigrant communities. She is currently working as an educator at community health centers across New York City.
Additionally, the governor pardoned 39 persons who committed misdemeanors and non-violent crimes when they were 16 or 17 years old. They have been crime free for 10 years or more.
Gov. Cuomo also commuted the sentences of two individuals because they demonstrated substantial evidence of rehabilitation. They also showed commitment to reducing community violence. The governor also granted pardoned two people who were convicted of non-immigration related crimes.
Gov. Cuomo is reshaping the criminal justice system
Nick Turner, the president of Vera Institute of Justice, praised Gov. Cuomo for displaying a strong leadership. According to him, the governor is helping reshape a criminal justice system that prioritizes that safe and dignity of all New Yorkers.
On the other hand, Anthony Thompson, faculty director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University School of Law, said, “The governor is doing what he can to balance public safety and justice for immigrant New Yorkers.”


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Two weeks ago, Chief Executive Jim McNerney said Boeing was sticking with the ambitious plan - hatched long before the current battery problems came to light - to increase 787 production to seven a month by mid-year and 10 a month by the end of 2013.
Boeing spokesman Charles Bickers said that is still the plan, and it is too early to know what the financial impact of the 787 grounding will be.
The steep ramp-up is crucial to the profitability of the 787, as the lion’s share of outlays happen early in a plane program. The quicker Boeing can refine the process and ramp up production, the quicker it will reach the target of 1,100 planes, the point where it calculates it will break even on the program. At planned production rates that is already a decade away.
“A slowdown would be crushing,” said Leake at BB&T. “As long as the program accounting assumptions don’t change, Boeing can keep booking the same margin in the current production block. But once production rates change or slow, their assumptions on both revenue and cost will have to change.”
Revenue will likely go down as Boeing will have to offer aggrieved customers more concessions on future purchases to keep them happy, while it loses hundreds of millions of dollars in “progress” payments, which airlines pay as planes near completion. At the same time, costs will stay higher for longer than Boeing has been counting on.
Boeing’s credit rating is not immediately under threat, but the trend is concerning analysts.
“If the grounding persists for many more months, planned increases in the monthly production rate look increasingly suspect - and expensive, possibly further eroding Boeing’s otherwise strong credit profile,” said Solomon at Moody’s.
(Additional reporting by Alwyn Scott in Seattle; Editing by Edward Tobin and Richard Chang)


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Premiere Night: Twitter Ablaze With Harry Potter Updates
Harry Potter topics continue to be top Twitter trends in the wake of last night's movie premiere.by litwitch / on Jul 15, 2011
FIrst Review of the New Harry Potter Film is Out
First review of the much anticipated final Harry Potter installment hits the internet.by litwitch / on Jul 6, 2011
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How the Thinkwell Group conjured a "Making of Harry Potter" attraction for the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Thorns FC have signed Australian forward Ashleigh Sykes, it was announced today. She will be added to the roster pending the receipt of her P-1 visa and International Transfer Certificate (ITC). Per league and club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Ashleigh is a dynamic forward with great ability to create and score goals," said Mark Parsons, head coach of Thorns FC. "She is very capable of playing wide or down the middle in the front line. That versatility, with her pace and winning mentality, makes her an important addition to our team.”
Sykes, 25, won the Golden Boot in the Australian W-League for the 2016-17 season, tallying 12 goals as she helped lead Canberra United to its third W-League Premiership (2011-12, 2013014, 2016-17) during her tenure with the club.
Joining the club for the 2008-09 season, Sykes made her professional debut at 17 and joins Portland with more than 90 professional appearances in Australia, tallying more than 30 goals across nine seasons. In 2014, Sykes scored the W-League Goal of the Year to ensure Canberra’s spot in the 2014 W-League playoffs and went on to register a brace against Perth Glory, earning Canberra its second W-League Championship.
As an Australian international, Sykes has been capped 19 times, including a pair of substitute appearances at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Making her international debut in 2008 at the AFF Women’s Championship, Sykes helped Australia win the tournament, scoring her first international goal in a win over the Philippines.
Sykes will be added to the roster on June 10.
Born: Dec. 15, 1991
Hometown: Dubbo, South Wales
Last Club: Canberra United (Australia)


In the mood for a hilarious and heartwarming comedy? This December, Gerard Butler stars in Playing for Keeps, which is all that and more. Don’t believe us? SheKnows has an exclusive trailer for the film, co-starring Jessica Biel and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Gerard Butler is heading to a soccer field near you. The Scottish actor, alongside Jessica Biel, headlines the upcoming film Playing for Keeps. It’s a combination of a romantic comedy mixed with a coming-of-age story.
Playing for Keeps centers on George, a former soccer star who’s fallen on hard times. His career is in shambles and he’s gone from pride of the league to an afterthought. The film follows him as he struggles to get his life in order. That means becoming an adult and changing his reckless ways.
In an attempt to connect with his son, he gets roped into coaching a junior soccer team. As you might expect, he catches the eye of his fellow moms and dads. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer and Dennis Quaid are just some of the parents captivated by George’s charms.
One person not impressed by his presence is his ex-wife, Stacie (Biel). She’s moved on with her life and plans to remarry. The news is a major blow for George and just fuels his desire to change. Even though he’s being chased by countless soccer moms, Stacie has his heart.
Here’s a new trailer for Playing for Keeps that features interviews with both Butler and Biel.
Playing for Keeps also stars Uma Thurman and is directed by Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness). The film opens in theaters Dec. 7.


The Watson NP-FW50 Lithium-Ion Battery Pack works with the same cameras as the Sony NP-FW50. This replacement battery pack features a capacity of 1100mAh, 7.4V of output power and 8.14 watt-hours. Small and lightweight, lithium-ion batteries can be charged or discharged at any time without developing memory effect.
- Replacement for Sony NP-FW50 Battery
Watson NP-FW50 Overview
Watson NP-FW50 Specs
|Capacity (Wh)||8.14 Wh|
|Output Voltage||7.4 VDC|
|Dimensions (W x H x D)||2.2 x 1.4 x 0.5" / 5.6 x 3.6 x 1.3 cm|
|Package Weight||0.15 lb|
|Box Dimensions (LxWxH)||5.4 x 3.2 x 1.1"|
Watson NP-FW50 Reviews
Reliable, better than Sony
It has more power than Sony's battery and is cheaper.
Two for the Price of One Sony
Here's the deal. Have a mess of batts holding various levels of charge. The plan is buy one official Sony and 2 generics for the price of a single Sony. Place a dual charger in the pocket with a power-pack (1/3 smaller than the beast shown here) and I can shoot all day bringing but 3 batteries total. - - - - - The 2 Watsons I bought will shoot 1:34 continuous (I eliminated the 30 min record brick wall using the 'hack' allowing the 7Siii to do so) until depleted which is identical to the official Sony. Time will tell whether they age the same rate as the Sony one but for now everything's on a level playing field, battery wise. - - - - - Unless mine's defective I advise buying the Watson dual charger. It takes 6 hours to charge batts whereas the generic Neewer (came with 2 batteries) only takes 2.25 hours.
Good Battery Capacity
I've used this battery for my little ZV-e10 and haven't noticed anything out of the blue. The battery works as normal as the OEM Sony battery does and holds about the same charge as the original battery that comes with the camera. For a fraction of the price of the sony battery, I will be buying this battery exclusively because you save on money and get similar performance from the battery which is a win-win for the consumer.
Works as advertised
Sent free with my camera, so I trust it coming from B&H
i love this battery , the quality is good.
Charges up as advertised
This battery charged up to nearly 1100 milliamps, as advertised, unlike other batteries I've bought that only got to 50-60% of the advertised capacity.
Left me in a bad spot more than once.
Purchased with a6400 September 2021. This battery worked for a few months but now won't charge in the charger or in the phone. Of course this is only discovered at a shoot.
Equal to Sony initially, but after 2 years depletes quickly
I bought this battery in November of 2020 and have used it regularly in my A6000. I could not tell this Watson from my Sony battery, until a few months ago, and now the Watson depletes quickly, while the Sony battery is still working fine. I'm going to spend $50 and replace this Watson with a Sony for my 2nd battery.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (Founders Edition)
With performance that tramples that of the previous generation's highest-end offerings and a bewitchingly low price, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is a game-changing video card.
It's not every year that a video card comes around that completely reshapes the PC gaming landscape. But such a card has arrived in 2016: the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 ($699).
The GTX 1080 is based on Nvidia's new Pascal architecture, which uses a 16nm production process and 3D FinFET transistors that stack to allow for higher performance and lower power usage. Among the new technologies supported by Pascal include Ansel, a system for taking superior in-game screenshots; Simultaneous Multi-Projection, which is designed to improve performance in multimonitor and VR gaming; and Fast Sync, a new monitor syncing mode that that can reduce screen tearing in gaming scenarios with extremely high frame rates. One potential downside for multicard gamers: Pascal cards are designed to be used only in two-way SLI; Nvidia has made three- and four-card setups more difficult to implement.
On a technical level, the GTX 1080 has four Graphics Processing Clusters, 20 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), and 2,560 CUDA processing cores—the previous-generation GTX 980 had 16 SMs and 2,048 CUDA cores. Both the base and boost clock speeds of the GTX 1080 are higher, too (1,607MHz and 1,733MHz versus 1,126MHz and 1,216MHz), as are the memory speed and bandwidth (10Gbps and 320GBps versus 7Gbps and 224GBps). (Note that because the GTX 1080 uses 8GB of GDDR5 memory, it is going to be noticeably larger than cards that use High-Bandwidth Memory that can be located directly on the processing die.) All of this ensures that the GTX 1080 turns out graphics that soar not only at high levels of detail, but in some of the most intensive applications on the market today: 4K and virtual reality.
If there's no question that the GTX 1080 is more powerful than the GTX 980, in some tests it's also proven faster than Nvidia's 2015 champ, the Titan X, which cost considerably more (upwards of $1,000) upon its release.
Considering that, the GTX 1080's list price of $599.99 is a huge selling point; top-end cards, from Nvidia and AMD alike, typically come in well above that level. The only wrinkle, at least right now, is the special "Founders Edition" card, which gives early adopters access to Nvidia's reference design for an additional $100 cost; if $699.99 is still a good value for what you get, it feels like an unnecessary tax. (And it's not entirely clear at what point it will go away—if the cards sell at this price, why should it?)
If $699.99 or $599.99 (eventually) is still too steep for you, you can step down to the GTX 1070, which offers much of the GTX 1080's performance at an even lower price. But if you want the fastest single-GPU video card ever—by a long shot—the GTX 1080 is an impressive achievement well worth your money.
For more details, check out the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (Founders Edition) review at our sister site, ComputerShopper.com.


We always hunt for lights which enhance our living space but the switches which have the potential to illuminate the fashion and function of your home are generally overlooked. If you are tired of the monotonous boring switches then it’s the right time to turn on to Venezia rocking & rotary switches. The unique and novel switches come to you from the house of Fontini. Fontini are well known for the biggest range of decorative mechanisms in the market. The switches are finished with the wooden, brass & porcelain frames. The switch features 10/16A – 250V~ earthing sockets with the silver contacts with high breaking power and comes with the frames for vertical or horizontal installations. The elegant switches with their aesthetic design are certain to augment your living space with its eminent appeal.


Cape Town - The body of a man found in the bushes on Signal Hill could have been dumped.
While police are still in the process of identifying the victim, who had been stabbed multiple times, Cape Town ward councillor Dave Bryant said authorities were “pretty certain” the man’s body had been moved to the mountain after being murdered elsewhere. “Chances are he was moved here using a vehicle.”
SANParks spokeswoman Merle Collins said the man did not appear to be a hiker.
The body was found by a freelance photographer who had been walking up the road leading to the top of Signal Hill at around 12.45pm on Tuesday afternoon. He alerted rangers from the Table Mountain National Park who called police.
On Wednesday morning, police spokesman Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana said the circumstances surrounding the man’s death were still unknown. The man was in his late 20s.
Table Mountain Safety Forum’s Mark Truss said this was a very surprising case.
“It is unheard of to have a body dumped in the mountains,” he said. “I’ve been on the forum for four years and I have never seen something like it.”
He added that it was unfortunate as it would once again highlight mountain safety, even though it was not an issue of safety because the murder most probably did not take place on the mountain.


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This four-panel sketch is by Tony ESP. He shares art regularly on social media and is absolutely worth checking out. Right now the demon Dythrar is envious that everyone on the planet seems to be playing Red Dead Redemption 2 but at least, thanks to Gro’shayr, he has a Switch.
Archives for October 2018
12 Masks of Halloween: #12 Dark Elf Queen
This mask model is called “Dark Elf Queen” but she doesn’t look very dark elf in the D&D sense. Rather than that familiar inky skinned creature, this dark elf looks more like a vampire. Those are bat ears. It looks great. [Show more more pictures] This handmade mask is sold by the Etsy specialist The […]
Meet the writers of Orun RPG and find out what they like about the game
New Agenda Publishing is an RPG publisher working to bring even more diversity to the roleplaying industry. Right now, New Agenda Publishing has a successful Kickstarter on their hands with ORUN. Orun is a post-apotheosis, Afro-centric, space opera RPG. I can safely say I don’t have one of those in my collection already. You can […]
Survive! A guide on how to do well in ARK: Survival Evolved
ARK: Survival Evolved is game that’s been circulating and gaining headway overtime; it’s a survival game that first appeared on PC and was later moved to consoles such as PS4, Xbox One, and inevitably, Nintendo Switch. While yes, it’s a survival game, it’s a touch more on its own due to the game featuring prehistoric […]
Is this the perfect desk lamp for your DM?
This dice is a desk lamp. It looks like a D6, but if you press the single dot on the first face, then it’ll turn into a desk lamp. [I need this] Once the dice light is live, you can roll it on to another setting and increase or decrease the brightness. The six-dot face […]
12 Masks of Halloween: #11 Deadly Neon Woman
There’s something sinister about this smile. [I want it] This design comes from Poland. It actually is a mask. Rarely for a 12 Masks of Halloween post, I’m going to include a second picture at the bottom of the article so you can see how it works. Made from PVC and LED cold light wire […]
Refresh your imagination: 13 evocative pictures from Brandon Liao
Brandon Liao is a concept artist who has worked with the likes of Riot Games, Blur and ZeniMax. He’s worked on various films as well. You can get a sample of his incredible work over at EpicLoot and at Deviant Art. The good news is that there are items available in Liao’s Deviant Art store. […]
Zombie head bowling balls!
These zombie heads are only complete once you shove your fingers inside. You have options; you could poke your fingers into their eye sockets or, if that’s a bit gross, you can use their nose. Designed by Jung von Matt, a German ad agency, and the famous spray gun artist Oliver Paass the designs and […]
Distortions gargoyle comes to life for you
This impressive animatronics gargoyle is the work of Distortions Unlimited. This special effects company have an impressive YouTube channel, packed with helpful instructions and some charismatic and talented artists as hosts. Do you like the gargoyle? You can buy one of your own. Yep! Really! It’ll set you back over $7,300 in American monies but […]
12 Masks of Halloween: #10 Reaper Lycra
This is a striking mask and it clearly works well with the black hoodie in the picture. [I want this] What I like most about this mask is that you can fold it up and hide it in your pocket. This is a pull-down lycra fabric mask. This is the sort of mask you can […]


Ludhiana, Oct 21: Instead of being festival of lights, it is going to be ‘Black Diwali’ for the Punjab traders as they decided to continue their boycott of PC vendors after failing to hear any positive news from them.
PACT, the state association has issued a new advisory to all the 13 local IT associations of Punjab calling for a complete ban on purchasing of all IT products after the Diwali.
The association has been demanding five-point online sale guidelines from all the PC vendors and distributors to follow for the interest of offline traders. The association had given an ultimatum till Oct. 20 to come up with a strong policy for online sales, but with no response from the vendors, the traders have decided on a ‘Purchase Bandh’ on all the IT products.
The latest advisory issued by PACT said, “Further to the call given and the subsequent meet attended by all PC vendors and distributors representative in Chandigarh, the discussion with PACT has received either none, insufficient or inconclusive replies from Vendors in perspective of what was required to be done by them, PACT has decided to extend boycott indefinitely till further orders.”
PACT is also mulling over the idea of including all IT products viz. peripherals and components, consumables, networking products etc. and may also advise its members to abandon all commercial transactions with the NDs till boycott (all Punjab and Chd.) is in force.
PACT’s also added that its “Purchase Bandh Call” has received good response from associations across the country, and very soon after Diwali, they would step up the action.