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U.S. commercial banks reported a drop in trading revenues for the second quarter as earnings from interest products plunged, though revenues were boosted by improving credit markets, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Friday.
Banks reported $5.2 billion in cash and derivatives trading revenues for the second quarter, their sixth highest revenue generating quarter, though down from the record $9.8 billion earned in the first quarter of the year, the OCC said.
Revenues were boosted as banks wrote down fewer losses from bad loans and benefited from wide, though declining, bid/offer spreads, the OCC said. A rally in credit spreads in the quarter was also positive for banks' trading books, it said.
Revenues from interest rate products dropped dramatically to $1.1 billion in the second quarter, after earning banks a record $9 billion in the previous quarter, the OCC said.
Interest rate products make up the bulk of overall derivatives exposures, accounting for 85 percent of total volumes in the contracts, the OCC said.
Earnings from credit products, meanwhile, swung to $1.9 billion, after posting a loss of $3.2 billion in the first quarter.
Foreign exchange revenue, meanwhile, fell to $2.1 billion from $2.4 billion in the first quarter, while equity trading posted a loss of $279 million, compared to a $1.05 billion gain in the first quarter, the OCC said.
The OCC also reported that net current credit exposure, which is the amount banks risk losing upon the possible collapse of counterparties on their derivatives trades, decreased 20 percent during the quarter to $555 billion.
Derivative exposures remained highly concentrated, with the largest five banks accounting for 97 percent of exposures, the OCC said.
As of June 30, their notional derivative exposures stood at $79.94 trillion, $40.48 trillion, $39.06 trillion, $31.94 trillion and $5.11 trillion, respectively.
Of these banks Goldman got the largest overall boost from its trading revenue, which represented 63 percent of the bank's gross revenue in the quarter, the OCC said.
Trading revenue for JPMorgan represented 9 percent of its gross revenue and caused a loss of 1 percent and 2 percent, respectively, to Bank of America and Citibank's gross revenues. Wells Fargo's gross revenue gained 2 percent from trading.
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley
The OCC said that bank supervisors continue to encourage banks to increase the volume of derivative contracts cleared by central counterparties because of the high exposures.
(Reporting by Karen Brettell in New York and Karey Wutkowski in Washington; Editing by Theodore d'Afflisio)


UPDATE: Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie is reopened.
Two men have been taken to an out-of-town trauma centre with “serious” injuries following an altercation in Fort Erie Friday night.
The incident involved a stabbing, after which the suspect was injured in an altercation with police.
Police said at around 7:50 p.m. officers were called to the urgent care centre at the Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie for reports of a stabbing.
Not long after the officers were on scene, they interacted with a male.
“As a result of that interaction, the male suffered a serious injury,” Niagara Regional Police Services said in a news release.
The officers involved were not injured in the interaction.
The Special Investigations Unit is involved.
The NRPS will be conducting a parallel investigation in conjunction with the SIU.
Anyone with information or who witnessed the incident is asked to contact the SIU.


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Isaiah 42:10-12 Lexham English Bible (LEB)
A Song of Praise to Yahweh
10 Sing a new song to Yahweh;
praise him from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea and that which fills it,
the coastlands and their inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them shout loudly from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to Yahweh
and declare his praise in the coastlands.
Isaiah 42:10-12 New International Version (NIV)
Song of Praise to the Lord
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
you islands, and all who live in them.
11 Let the wilderness and its towns raise their voices;
let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice.
Let the people of Sela sing for joy;
let them shout from the mountaintops.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord
and proclaim his praise in the islands.

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The only form of haemophilia treatment that is able to prevent arthropathy and other consequences of bleeding symptoms in patients with severe haemophilia is prophylaxis started at an early age (primary prophylaxis). It is also highly beneficial for the psychological and social wellbeing of patients and their families. Scientific institutions and international organizations such as WHO, the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) and the National Haemophilia Foundation (NHF) have recommended that prophylaxis be considered optimum therapy. This paper discusses the barriers to prophylaxis, such as the perceived need, costs and availability, and difficulty of venous access, and describes the authors' experiences with the therapy.
- Haemophilia therapy
ASJC Scopus subject areas

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Tomorrow: Off & On Showers with a Few Embedded Rumbles of Thunder in the Afternoon.
High: 53 Winds: E 10-15 mph
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With technology at the forefront of many classrooms, we're starting to see Miami Valley schools pushing toward unvonventional ways of learning. Hilary Zalla visits Kiser Elementary in Dayton where creative teaching is growing and learning is not just confined to a desk
The music starts playing, the white board turns into a dance video, and this classroom is transformed.
It's 10 oclock in the morning and before anyone sits down at a desk, these students get their bodies movin!
This is a special needs class and Intervention Specialist Betsy Brooks says this activity is important to having a productive day of learning. "It gets them activeand gets their brains active and gets their brains moving and excited to learn"
Next door is Shane Magill's 8th grade art class.
"the kids today are working on a mural" "you spoon info out and repeat it out, well we didn't want to do that in art. in art we give them info and synthesize new ideas and create visible project"
At Kiser Elementary School, no matter what kind of kid you're working with...even special needs...the approach to learning is hands on and creativity is encouraged.
Back in the dancing room, I decided to join into a favorite-- the Chocolatte dance!
"this is a workout!"
"they love it and have favorite songs like I want to do this song!"
An unconventional start to the day, but a unique learning concept that seems to work for Kiser students.
Friday, August 2 2013, 11:11 PM EDT
Amazon's Web Services boosts 1Q revenue
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon's profitable cloud-computing services business is growing by leaps and bounds.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- (Marketwired) -- 03/21/14 --
Companies that pride themselves on being eco-friendly may have conflicted
ideas between marketing with ad specialties and maintaining their green
AMERICAN INDIANS WALK OFF SET OF ADAM SANDLER MOVIE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The collaboration between Netflix and Adam Sandler was supposed to produce hits and laughs.
RESTAURANT MANAGER FIRED-ROBBERY
CHANNELVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A Popeyes manager in Texas is being offered her job back -- after she was fired following a robbery.
IN THE NEWS: HOUSE PASSES CYBERATTACKS BILL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a bill that gives the Feds a little more leeway to fight cyberattacks.

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a little cache in the woods, also a nice walk/bike tour with the scenic view of Kappel am Albis.
Not too far away from the walking trail, easily accessible by foot.
I will also place a Travel Backpacker in it, with a few QR codes in it, giving you a link to my own little electronic/house music podcast.
The code can be read with any kind of code reader (works great with my IPhone).
Enjoy the walk and tranquility there. It is also a nice place for jogging :)
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Will the core entity of Japan’s monster agricultural conglomerate survive mounting public criticism of its huge vested interests?
That question remained unanswered Friday as a deregulation panel submitted a policy recommendation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that includes a call to reform the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives, better known as JA-Zenchu.
JA-Zenchu has long been criticized as a roadblock to reforming the heavily protected agricultural sector, in particular rice farming.
In its initial draft, the panel’s working group called for the “abolishment” of JA-Zenchu.
But the report submitted Friday only recommends that JA-Zenchu “voluntarily transform itself into a new system” that would allow local agricultural co-ops to operate with more autonomy.
However, the specific functions and powers in this “new system” were left unclear. The report was revised under political pressure from the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose Diet ranks hail from rural areas and have cozy relations with the JA group.
Abe’s Cabinet favored the initial draft because farm reforms are often a test case for his oft-touted deregulation vows, the essence of his “third arrow” of economic growth.
The next round in the battle will come at the end of the year, when the Cabinet will draw up bills with the specific steps to reform JA, a senior official at the prime minister’s office said. The bills are now planned for submission to the Diet after it opens in January.
“Opinions from the LDP Diet members carry much weight. Without their consent, any (reform) bill won’t pass the Diet,” the anonymous official said, adding that he is still optimistic about the proposals.
The panel report proposes several drastic recommendations and the LDP has reportedly dropped its resistance to some of them. Among them is a call to transform the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or JA Zen-noh, into a stock company.
JA Zen-noh markets the agricultural products of the JA group, and converting it into a stock company is expected to help local co-ops become more market-oriented.
Experts have long called for a major overhaul of the JA group, particularly JA-Zenchu.
Kazunuki Oizumi, a noted agricultural scholar and former professor at Miyagi University, argued that the JA group is no longer an “agricultural cooperative” group. The vast majority of JA union members are part-time farmers or not farmers at all, and the primary interest of JA’s executives has shifted to its banking and insurance arms, not improving the competitiveness of Japanese agriculture, he said.
As Oizumi points out, the JA conglomerate barely resembles an agricultural cooperative, which is supposed to aid farming and improve farmers’ living standards.
JA’s banking business boasts ¥92.5 trillion in deposits, technically making it one of the nation’s largest banks, rivaling the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, which has ¥125.1 trillion in deposits.
“In a sense, the JA group has become a financial institution. It’s no longer an organization designed to increase agricultural productivity as defined by the Agricultural Cooperative Law,” Oizumi said.
After World War II, the JA group became part of a government-based system for tightly controlling rice production, and thus prices, as well as distribution to keep the food supply stable.
In the 1960s, rice production surpassed consumption and urban wages exceeded farming income. The rice control system morphed into a program to subsidize farmers and provide cover for farming groups and rural politicians.
JA-Zenchu has long used its political clout to protect domestic rice farmers by pressing the government to keep prices artificially high and maintain tariffs on foreign rice.
But despite all its protective measures, the JA group has failed to stop the decline of Japanse agriculture because domestic rice consumption keeps dropping and young people in rural areas keep migrating to the cities.
According to the government, the average age of agricultural workers in 2012 was 65.8 years. The average age of rice farmers in 2010 was even higher at 69.9 years, leaving bleak prospects for the future of Japanese agriculture.
LDP lawmakers who have close relations with JA succeeded in revising the earlier draft of Friday’s report. But their ability these days to fight back appears relatively weak compared with the harsh anti-reform moves orchestrated by their powerful predecessors in and before the 1990s.
Oizumi said many of those LDP lawmakers now understand that they can’t stop the decline of agriculture if the JA system is left intact.
“They should be feeling emptiness. They well know that agriculture won’t grow even if the postwar regime is maintained,” Oizumi said.

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In partnership with American Chemical Society
Included with general admission
Celebrate National Chemistry Week with us at ChemFest! Chemistry is not limited to beakers and laboratories; it is all around us! See how chemistry is used in the workplace and in everyday life with engaging activities supervised by chemists from local businesses and universities.
Activities will include:
- Unleash your inner mad scientist and conduct flame tests and hydrophobic sand experiments
- Get gooey with an oobleck activity
- Create your own etch-a-sketch
- Explore the elements with an interactive periodic table
- Build molecules with the Happy Atoms kit
School groups can reserve today by calling 412.237.3400.
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Pinkalicious: Kindergarten Fun (Sale)
Author: Victoria Kann
Illustrator: Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious gets a kindergarten buddy in this Level One I Can Read from #1 New York Times best-selling author Victoria Kann.
Pinkalicious can’t wait to have a kindergarten buddy, but what if her buddy doesn’t like kindergarten? Will Pinkalicious be able to show her how pinkatastic it is?
Pinkalicious: Kindergarten Fun is a Level One I Can Read, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.
Readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peter on the funtastic PBS KIDS TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific!
Please note: these books may bear remainder marks and may show some shelf wear.
All sale books are FINAL SALE and may not be returned or exchanged.


Your budget for smartphone or tablet is low? Need not worry when there is Datawind in the market manufacturing low-cost tablets, smartphones and computers for low budget users. Datawind is a proud name famous for producing budget gadgets in India and all over the world.
The Nvidia GPU based video cards and the Intel chipset based motherboards are produced by EVGA Corporation that is an American computer hardware company. The company has included other products like gaming laptops, power supplies, computer cases and gaming mice to its portfolio.
The affordable LED TVs that we come across these days in the national market is the Chinese Brand Hisense. The brand found its inception in the year 1969 as a small radio factory in China; the company grew into a multibillion-dollar global corporation with a workforce of over 75,000 worldwide.
Intel Corporation is originally an America based Multinational Corporation that is headquartered in Santa Clara, California which is in the Silicon Valley. Intel is also recognized as world’s second highest valued and second largest semiconductor chip maker company.
A brand under the flagship of DELL which deals specifically with business laptops is known as Latitude. It is designed and compiled proudly by Compal and Quanta. It is US and India that are the only countries that deal in the business function and global support of DELL.


The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment
Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. Transport has considerable ecological effects, many of them detrimental to environmental sustainability. This volume brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines to review the ecological effects and their causes in terms of road, rail, ship and aircraft transport. The contributors have different attitudes and agendas. Some are ecologists, some planners, others social scientists. Focus ranges from identification of threats and amelioration of damaging effects through to future design of transport systems to minimize environmental degradation. Some chapters consider restricted areas of the globe; others the globe itself. Views encompass deep pessimism and cautious optimism.
Uniquely, the volume considers transport effects in all environments. This is the first book that attempts to discuss the relationship between human transport and all ecosystems. It appeals not only to the specialist environmentalist by picking out novel topics, but also to anyone involved in transport issues as it tackles the issues from an historical perspective, encompassing the past, present and future of the effects of human transport.
407 pages; ISBN 9781402045042
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Title: The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment
Author: John Davenport; Julia L. Davenport
- Academic > Economics > Transportation and communications > Railroads. Rapid transit systems
- Science > Biology
- Science > Ecology
- Science > Environmental Science
- Political Science > City Planning & Urban Development
- Transportation > Sustainable & Energy Efficient Transportation
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The Relationship Between Art and Pop Culture
Art and pop culture have both been important topics that are discussed by people endlessly. They have a close relationship with each other. Art influences pop culture a lot. Meanwhile, pop culture has a huge impact on art. In this project, I would like to examine the relationship between art and pop culture. There are two parts in this paper. In the first part, I look at how art influences pop culture and examine the phenomenon through the case of Girl with a Pearl Earring painting and Girl with a Pearl Earring film. Another case I include is Yayoi Kusama’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton. The second part is how pop culture influences art. In this part, I discuss the phenomenon using the artworks of Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Jeff Koons.
“Art is perhaps one of the most pervasive concepts of human existence and influences us in more ways than we can imagine” (Naletelich & Paswan, 2018). Discussion about art and its impact have been continued for decades. The topic is discussed on different occasions. Scholars do researches relating to the topic. Professors and students talk about it in classes. People recommend artworks to each other in informal situations, etc.
Pop culture is what most people care about in daily life. Nowadays there are more and more connections and cross-overs between art and pop culture. How do they influence each other? Does the appropriation of art on pop culture or the appropriation of pop culture on art change people’s view about art or pop culture?
How Art Influences Pop Culture
Art has influenced pop culture in many different ways. In real life, we always see examples showing how art has a huge impact on pop culture. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a painting (oil on canvas) created by Johannes Vermeer, who was a Dutch painter, in about 1665. The size of the painting is 17.5 in x 15 in, and it is now at Mauritshuis, The Hague in Netherlands. In the painting, a young girl who wears yellow clothes and blue and yellow turban, looks back to the viewers. On her left ear, there is a big pearl earring. The artwork traveled to a lot of different places for audiences to view, such as Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco, New York City, Bologna, and Tokyo.
Picture from: http://basedonthebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/girl-with-pearl-earring-book-vs-film.html
In 2018, a research project The Girl in the Spotlight examined Girl with a Pearl Earring in both micro-scale and macro-scale. “By mixing different pigments, and/or layering different paints on top of each other, Vermeer achieved a wide range of colours with his palette” (Vandivere, Wadum, & Leonhardt, 2020). In the painting, the color yellow, blue, white, red, ivory, and black are main colors. “Vermeer created the illusion of light falling on textured fabrics by applying clusters of small round dots. Blue dots dapple the surface of the headscarf, and yellow dots speckle the Girl’s jacket” (Vandivere, Wadum, & Leonhardt, 2020). The study revealed that “some dots overlap with each other: these double dots further enhance the three-dimensional effect” (Vandivere, Wadum, & Leonhardt, 2020). Since the painting has been existed for more than 300 years, some changes occurred to the painting, both physically and chemically.
Although the painting is very famous today, and plenty of researches and case studies have been done about the painting, we know very little about the story behind the masterpiece. There exist so many questions which need to be answered. The most important ones: who is the girl in the painting? Did she have any relationship with the painter Johannes Vermeer? There are many speculations around the girl’s identity and her relationship with Johannes Vermeer. Many people speculate that the girl is Johannes Vermeer’s eldest daughter Maria Vermeer because Maria’s age in 1665 matches the age of the girls on the painting. Another conjecture is the girl being Magdalena Van Ruijven, the daughter of Pieter Van Ruijven, who was Johannes Vermeer’s patron.
In the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring, the girl is Griet who works as a maid in the painter Johannes Vermeer’s house. The story in the film was adapted from the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring written by Tracy Chevalier. Tracy Chevalier was initially inspired by a poster of Girl with a Pearl Earring. When she was 19, she saw it in her sister’s room and knew that she needed a copy of her own. After she bought her own poster, she takes the poster with her wherever she lives. Tracy Chevalier talked about why Girl with a Pearl Earring has been so “seductive”, not just to her, but also to a lot of other viewers. The first reason is that the painting is very beautiful. Another feature Tracy Chevalier mentioned is that “the girl looks familiar” because “We may not know who she is, but we feel we know her because she is looking at us with such intimacy. We mistake this look for familiarity” (Google Arts & Culture, n.d.). Since the girl in the painting did not face the audience, we cannot see her whole face. Tracy Chevalier insisted that “the painting is not actually a portrait of a particular person, but what the Dutch called a tronie – the head of an ideal “type,” like “a soldier” or “a musician” – or, in this case, “a young beauty”” (Google Arts & Culture, n.d.). The third characteristic is mystery – we know nothing about the girl’s identity and the story behind the painting.
Tracy Chevalier mentioned that the girl’s ambiguous expression made her wonder what happened between the girl and who drew this painting. That is also why she wanted to write the novel – to “explore the mystery of her gaze”, and also, to her, “Girl with a Pearl Earring is neither a universal tronie, nor a portrait of a specific person. It is a portrait of a relationship” (Google Arts & Culture, n.d.).
Tracy Chevalier’s story is about love. The story started with Griet’s family needs her help financially, so she goes to Johannes Vermeer’s house to work as a maid. She works really hard. Griet is curious about the world behind the half-open door – Vermeer’s studio, which she is supposed to clean. Vermeer was very good at painting, but his family still experiences financial difficulties sometimes. Vermeer’s wife Catharina is always angry about their financial difficulties and even destroyed one of Vermeer’s painting. After that, Vermeer does not want her to be in his studio. Vermeer and Griet start to have conversation about art and painting. Vermeer even teaches Griet how a camera obscura works. Griet is the only person in that house that Vermeer talks with about the art and painting. Van Ruijven, who is Vermeer’s patron notices Griet and wants Vermeer to draw a painting on him and Griet together. Vermeer refuses but would like to draw a painting of Griet alone. Vermeer pierces Griet’s left ear and put the pearl earring on her to finish the painting. The pain from the ear piercing and her feelings about Vermeer make the expression on Griet’s face complicated. Catharina is very angry about Vermeer’s painting and his relationship with Griet. She tries to destroy the painting but does not succeed. Then she asks Griet to leave the house, which Vermeer does not oppose. After Griet left the house, another servant from Vermeer’s house visits Griet and brings her the pearl earrings as a gift.
The novel and the film were both popular and successful. Many people were moved by this story. Since then, a lot of audiences started to view the original painting of Girl with a Pearl Earring through the lens of romance and love. When they see the painting somewhere, maybe in the museum or on a copy in a magazine, they see Griet and her sad love from the story. This makes me wonder, what if the novel or the film had told another story, in which the relationship between Griet and Vermeer was not romance but some other connections? What if the girl is Vermeer’s daughter or his patron’s daughter, just like what people speculate? Will this change people’s views about the original painting?
Tracy Chevalier’s story is completely fictionalized, based on her understanding and interpretation of the painting. Other people may understand or interpret it differently. However, what we can learn from this example is that, art influences people and pop culture. Even if it is a painting created over three centuries ago, Girl with a Pearl Earring still gives the writer the inspiration to write the story. Then it reaches more audiences via the fictionalized story. There are a lot of merchandise on today’s market relating to Girl with a Pearl Earring, such as posters, mugs, postcards, tote bags, and etc. The original painting and its painter Johannes Vermeer gained more and more viewers, and people in increasing number are curious and interested in the painting.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is not the single case. There are a lot of masterpieces included in the media like films. Some paintings are just decorations in films while other artworks serve as important cues. For instance, the film The Da Vinci Code uses Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings as cues throughout the film.
Art does not just have influences on media like film or TV shows. It also has an important impact on fashion and business. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2012. The collection “includes an extensive range of shoes, bags, dresses, and scarves, all reflecting Kusama’s distinctive aesthetic” (Swanson, 2012). Louis Vuitton’s former creative director Marc Jacobs, who has his own fashion brand now, visited Yayoi Kusama in Tokyo in 2016. They discussed shared attitudes, opinions, and how they both believe that there lacked a “distinction between what they make and who they are” (Swanson, 2012). Yayoi Kusama and Marc Jacobs respected each other’s attitudes towards both art and fashion. They collaborated on not just the merchandise, but also Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective art show.
According to Lisa Armstrong, “The Louis Vuitton collaboration with Yayoi Kusama is, apparently, its most successful art union ever, which probably means it’s the most successful art-fashion union of all time” (Armstrong, 2012). The merchandise they made were sold out repeatedly. Selfridges also invited and welcomed the collection into its store on Oxford Street. This huge success demonstrated that art and fashion can collaborate with each other and create values of their own.
Picture from: https://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/30/louis-vuitton-kusama-concept-store-at-selfridges/
Yayoi Kusama’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton is not the only case that art influences fashion. More and more designer brands want to include art in their new collection to attract customers. According to Kim Winser, “over the years, art and fashion have enjoyed a rich relationship, sometimes bold and brazen, often more understated, yet always stretching way beyond the boundaries of geography to bring global influences to our wardrobes” (Winser, n.d.). In her article The Love Affair Between Fashion and Art, Winser used Yves St Laurent’s distinguished 1965 shift dress, which replicated “Piet Mondrian’s renowned primary-colored block print, highlighted the relevance of cubist art in popular culture in the sixties” as an example to demonstrate how designers get inspiration from art (Winser, n.d.).
Henrik Hagtvedt and Vanessa Patrick examined the phenomenon “art infusion” in their research Art Infusion: The Influence of Visual Art on the Perception and Evaluation of Consumer Products in 2008. Art infusion refers to the “general influence of the presence of art on consumer perceptions and evaluations of products with which it is associated” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). In three different studies, they investigated art infusion phenomenon in packaging, advertising, and product design.
In the first study, they conducted the research at a restaurant. The researchers prepared two sets of silverware in black velvet boxes. On the front face of one set, there appears Vincent van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night, which represents an art image. On the front face of the other set, there is a photograph of a typical Café which was taken at night. This photograph represents a non-art image. The result of this study showed that “the art image led to higher product evaluations than the nonart image, demonstrating the art infusion effect” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008).
In the second study, they wanted to “demonstrate the content independent nature of the art infusion phenomenon—that is, that the influence of visual art does not depend on what is depicted in the artwork but rather on general connotations of luxury associated with the artwork” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). In the study, 107 undergraduate students participated and answered to questionnaires relating to the art infusion phenomenon in advertising. They were randomly assigned to three different bathroom fittings advertisements which contained Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, a poster of the film Girl with a Pearl Earring featuring Scarlett Johansson dressing the same with the girl in the original painting and posing the same gesture, or no image respectively. The results of the study showed that “the product in the advertisement with the art image was evaluated more favorably than the product in the advertisement with the nonart image or with no image” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008).
In the third study, Henrik Hagtvedt and Vanessa Patrick used soap dispensers as their stimulus. They put three different images on the soap dispensers. The first one is “an artwork with positive content” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). The artwork they chose was Claude Monet’s “Palazzo da Mula (depicting buildings overlooking a Venetian canal)” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). The second one was “J.M.W. Turner’s painting The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (October 16, 1834; depicting the violent image of burning buildings on the banks of the River Thames” which referred to the “artwork with negative content” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). The third one they chose was “a photograph with content similar to that of the positive artwork”, which was “a photograph of buildings overlooking a Venetian canal” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). The researchers recruited seventy-six undergraduate students for this study. The participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups (group with Monet’s painting, group with Turner’s painting, and group with the photograph) and were given a photograph of one of three soap dispensers. After they viewed the photograph, there were asked to answer the questions about the product. The results of the study showed that “participants evaluated products with art (both Monet and Turner) more favorably than products without art (Canal), lending support to the content-independent nature of the art infusion effect” (Hagtvedt & Patrick, 2008). In this study, no matter what the content of the art is, positive or negative, the soap dispensers with art image on it were rated more favorably than the soap dispenser with non-art image on it. There was no huge difference between the rating of the soap dispenser with Monet’s painting (positive artwork) and Turner’s painting (negative artwork), which showed what mattered was not the content but being art.
In another research Art infusion in retailing: The effect of art genres, Kelly Naletelich and Audhesh K. Paswan examined how different art genres impact “the relationship between purchase intention and its antecedents (shopper, store and product characteristics)” (Naletelich & Paswan, 2018). The researchers contacted the research using online survey. The research concludes that “presence of art, especially abstract art, does influence the relationships between purchase intention and its determinants” (Naletelich & Paswan, 2018). Naletelich and Paswan discussed it in detail with different art genres. “In the presence of abstract art, all three consumer centric factors, i.e., hedonic and utilitarian motivation, and openness to art, the fact that the consumers made the choice, and product aesthetics are positively associated with purchase intention” while “the presence of realist art had a very lack luster effect. Only product aesthetics and product symbolism was positively associated with purchase intention” (Naletelich & Paswan, 2018). Last but not least, “when art is absent, purchase intention is positively associated with hedonic motivation, store atmosphere, store’s social environment, and product aesthetics, but negatively with utilitarian motivation” (Naletelich & Paswan, 2018).
Some people think that putting art in pop culture is beneficial to both art and pop culture. For art, this phenomenon can attract more audiences to the original artwork and learn about it. For pop culture, art brings inspirations and also attracts more consumers. However, some people do not think it is a good idea to combine them together. When we talk about the phenomenon that art has been combining with pop culture and putting on merchandise and market, we cannot avoid the topic of reproduction of art, especially the viewpoints that Walter Benjamin upheld.
Walter Benjamin talked about technological reproducibility in his well-known article The Work of Art in the Era of its Technological Reproducibility. He mentioned that, “In principle, the work of art has always been reproducible. Objects made by humans could always be copied by humans. Replicas were made by pupils in practicing for their craft, by masters in disseminating their works, and, finally, by third parties in pursuit of profit”, however, technological reproduction is something different (Benjamin, 1936). Walter Benjamin insisted that “In even the most perfect reproduction, one thing is lacking: the here and now of the work of art-its unique existence in a particular place. It is this unique existence-and nothing else-that bears the mark of the history to which the work has been subject” (Benjamin, 1936). He also argued that “The here and now of the original underlies the concept of its authenticity” and “The authenticity of a thing is the quintessence of all that is transmissible in it from its origin on, ranging from its physical duration to the historical testimony relating to it. Since the historical testimony is founded on the physical duration, the former, too, is jeopardized by reproduction, in which the physical duration plays no part. And what is really jeopardized when the historical testimony is affected is the authority of the object” (Benjamin, 1936). Benjamin insisted that the technological reproducibility devalues the artworks’ “aura”, which refers to “a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques – such as photography” (Tate, n.d.).
How Pop Culture Influences Art
Not only does art influences pop culture, pop culture also influences art. Artsy, an art website which spread, buy and sell art online, once interviewed 17 artists about the films that have huge impact on them. Among them, the French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin mentioned The Passion of Joan of Arc, a 1928 film to be her “inner sanctum”, which “had a magical function in my life” (Jardin, 2017, as cited in Indrisek, 2017). She elaborated, “It operated like a kaleidoscope for me, and it taught me that masterpieces can be created out of radical oppositions: formal ones, but also philosophical and political oppositions. It taught me that a film could be sacred poetry. It’s a film cult and a cult film, a film of faces and masks, a skin-film, a totally grotesque and entirely profound movie. The Passion of Joan of Arc doesn’t end with its main subject burned. It contains a fire that will burn anyone already burning inside” (Jardin, 2017, as cited in Indrisek, 2017).
Andy Warhol, who liked to use figures from pop culture to create art, was a famous artist in pop art. According to The Museum of Modern Art, “Andy Warhol famously appropriated familiar images from consumer culture and mass media, among them celebrity and tabloid news photographs, comic strips, and, in this work, the widely consumed canned soup made by the Campbell’s Soup Company” (MoMA, n.d.). One of his most well-known artworks is Campbell’s Soup Cans, which consists of 32 canvas with the soup cans on them. 32 canvas represent 32 different flavors of the soup that Campbell’s company produced. The dimensions of each canvas are 20 inches by 16 inches. The artwork is now at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. “An earlier, single canvas version (Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) sold through Christie’s Auction house in 2010 for over $9 million” (Miller, 2012). Faced the question of why he drew paintings about soup cans, Andy Warhol answered, “I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again” (MoMA, n.d.).
Picture from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell’s_Soup_Cans
Andy Warhol was inspired by a product that many people see in their life to create the artwork. According to The Museum of Modern Art, “When he first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962, the canvases were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle” (MoMA, n.d.). “At the time, Abstract Expressionism, featuring artists such as William de Kooning, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko, and privileging human emotion, painterly styles, and “fine art” aesthetics, was the movement to watch. Pop Art by contrast embraced mundane commercialism” (Miller, 2012).
There are arguments about if Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans should be counted as art. According to Michael Fallon’s book How to Analyze the Works of Andy Warhol, when his first show was displayed in Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, “Another gallery close to the Ferus Gallery ridiculed warhol’s art” (Fallon, 2010, p28). The gallery brought many real soup cans in their gallery. Audiences in their gallery were encouraged to buy those soup cans with a very low price (Fallon, 2010). However, later, Campbell’s Soup Cans brought huge success to Andy Warhol and his career.
Discussion about Campbell’s Soup Cans continues today. Some people like it so much while others may not get the idea. People are still discussing Andy Warhol’s work on different discussion boards or forums.
Andy Warhol did not just work on everyday products that people can find in grocery stores. He also created artworks about famous figures. Another well-known artwork created by Andy Warhol is the portraits of Marilyn Monroe (1967), who was one of the most famous and popular movies stars in 1950s and 1960s. Marilyn Monroe has been an important figure in the history of American film industry. Andy Warhol used different colors to paint Marilyn Monroe’s portraits. There are ten portraits in total. Each portrait is 36 inches by 36 inches. The original photograph of Marilyn Monroe is from the 1953 film Niagara. This artwork has important impacts on both pop art and the society.
Picture from: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/61239
Having a lot of other artworks, Andy Warhol is famous for his ability as an artist and sensitivity to capture who matters to people during a specific time period. Inspired by pop culture, Andy Warhol created artworks and spread pop art to the public. From Andy Warhol’s artworks and stories, it is clear that pop culture can influences art in a very important way.
Claes Oldenburg is another well-known artist and sculptor. He is famous for his sculptures, most of which amplifies objects from daily life, like spoon or ice cream. Claes Oldenburg has done different kinds of artworks. Right now, his over-sized sculptures really attract audiences’ attention. When he was interviewed by Barbara Rose, he said, “they kept getting larger. The first architectural-scale sculpture came in 1976 with the Clothespin in Philadelphia” (Rose, 2015). Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen, who was also his partner in art, traveled a lot. They did not just build sculptures inside the US. They created artworks in many countries, such as Germany, France, Italy, Japan and South Korea.
Picture from: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/shuttlecocks-claes-oldenburg-and-coosje-van-bruggen/0QGRtnVFsCMZIQ
Shuttlecocks is one of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s over-sized sculptures, which locates in the front of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen got inspired by normal shuttlecocks and created these over-sized ones. Dropped Cone is another artwork of his and Coosje van Bruggen’s. It is an over-sized dropped ice cream on the top of a building, which is very impressive. The sculpture is now in Neumarkt area, Cologne, Germany.
Picture from: https://www.wikiart.org/en/claes-oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg likes to create artworks based on everyday objects. People may see those objects every day. However, when Claes Oldenburg changes its size and texture, everything feels differently. Based on objects from everyday life, Claes Oldenburg provides his audiences with completely different and new experiences when they see his sculptures. According to himself, “My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn’t copying; I was remaking them as my own” (Rose, 2015).
Claes Oldenburg’s artworks give us evidence that pop culture can influences art. Artists can get inspiration from everyday objects and build artworks upon them.
Another famous artist needs to be mentioned is Jeff Koons, who is famous for his artworks relating to pop culture. Same with Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Koons created many artworks based on objects from daily life. One of his most popular artworks is the Balloon Dog, which is a sculpture made from stainless steel and the surface is mirror-finish. Jeff Koons created it based on balloon animals, which always attracts children’s attention at theme parks. Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog is 121 inches by 143 inches by 45 inches. It does not just come with the color blue. Jeff Koons also have it in magenta, yellow, orange, and red (Jeff Koons, n.d.). From the appearance, it looks a lot like the real balloon animal. But the size is much bigger than the real one.
According to The New York Times, in 2019, “at the contemporary auction at Christie’s in New York, where a stainless steel rabbit by Jeff Koons sold for $91 million, setting a record price for work by a living artist” (Schrager, 2019). Artworks like Jeff Koons’ balloon animal series are very popular now. Audiences are curious about them and the market is interested in them, both of which make the artwork more and more expensive in the market. However, this also creates problems. Only the people who are very wealthy have the ability to collect the artworks. “This growing inequality threatens to upend how the market works. The small and midsize galleries that have long supported and nurtured unknown artists are finding it difficult to survive in the winner-take-all economy of contemporary art, meaning the next Andy Warhol or Donald Judd, who rose through the ranks of the gallery system, might never be discovered” (Schrager, 2019). That is to say, this phenomenon is harmful to both small and midsize galleries and the unknown artists. Small and midsize galleries plays an essential role in nurturing the new artists by “mentor their artists, supporting them financially, introducing them to collectors and sometimes steering their work” (Schrager, 2019). Therefore, the extremely high price of the artworks drives many small and midsize galleries out of the market, which lead to smaller space for unknown artists’ development.
Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jeff Koons all get inspirations from everyday objects and created artworks based on them. Their artworks, experiences, and stories are the evidences that pop culture has huge impacts on art.
Based on the discussion above, it is clear that art and pop culture have a close relationship in which they influence each other. Using the original painting of Girl with a Pearl Earring and the film Girl with a Pearl Earring as an example, it can be concluded that art, even from centuries ago, can inspire artists to create new stories. The novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, the basis of the film with the same name, was completely fictionalized by its author. The story and the relationship between the girl in the painting and the painter Johannes Vermeer are both fictionalized. After viewing this film, many audiences change their thoughts or generate new thoughts about the original painting.
Yayoi Kusama’s successful collaboration with Louis Vuitton shows that the art can inspire fashion and they can work together to create new products. Many customers will be interested in the product because it comes from art.
Pop culture also influences art. Through the examination of Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jeff Koons’s artworks, we can see that many artists are inspired by the objects from daily life. They get inspirations and create artworks based on those everyday objects. Audiences can recognize the objects based on which the artwork is created and then enjoy it. This appropriation phenomenon gives audiences a new experience interacting with artworks.
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Known for directing Brick, Looper, and three of the best episodes of Breaking Bad (Fly, Fifty-One, Ozymandias), Johnson has cemented himself as one of the most unique and visionary directors working today so it was no surprise when he was announced as a director for the eighth film in the Star Wars franchise, picking up from where J.J Abrams left off. Johnson wrote and directed the movie starring Hamill, Driver, Ridley, Boyega, Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, and Andy Serkis.
"The Last Jedi" presentation was the icing on the cake for fans, many of whom spent all of Wednesday night and early Thursday morning in the same queue hall, sleeping on the floor, but were later treated to appearances by their entertainment heroes in a never-ending parade of celebrity that included Star Wars creator George Lucas, Harrison Ford, and Oscar-winning movie composer John Williams, who gave a tear-inducing tribute performance in honor of the late Carrie Fisher. Let's just hope they don't spread him too thin, as he certainly has the potential to be a real highlight of The Last Jedi when it opens this December.
The first trailer for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" dropped on Friday, showcasing a morose and withdrawn Skywalker.
Followed by Luke saying that the Jedi Order must end. Huh?! In "The Force Awakens", Adam Driver's Kylo Ren has turned to the dark side after being tutored by Luke.
Steelers chairman Dan Rooney dies at 84
In 2000, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney joined his late father, Art Rooney , as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame . Rooney would enter our locker room, look me in my eye and shake my hand along with every player who stepped foot on the field.
At the same event, Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, donned a Princess Leia-style dress and delivered Fisher's famous "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi" speech, remembering her mother's legacy: "My mom, like Leia, wasn't ever afraid to speak her mind and say things that might have made most people uncomfortable", she said. But one of the things discussed in the panel was how small Tran's stature is in comparison to Boyega or Ridley.
Ridley, as Rey replies: "Light. It's hard when you meet your heroes because it might not be what you expect".
BB-8 will also feature heavily in the new film.
During an Interview with ABC News, Kathleen said: "Sadly, Carrie will not be in nine". Luke tells her to "Breathe".

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Eating while high: it’s the best. Most people who smoke cannabis already know that they’ll get the munchies and are well prepared. But why do you crave snacks after you smoke?
Well, THC imitates the action of a certain substance in the brain. This substance in the brain is called anandamide. Normally, when there is a shortage of food, anandamide is released. The nerves of the hunger center are stimulated, which makes you feel hungry and start eating. Still with us?
When we eat tasty foods, dopamine is released within this brain region to tell us that our brain likes this food and wants us to eat more. In the presence of THC significantly more dopamine is released in response to the same amount of sugar-enriched food.
So what does all of this mean? Our brain’s endogenous marijuana system ordinarily modulates how good a particular food tastes to us; smoking marijuana simply enhances this natural mechanism in the brain.

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On May 20, 2001, about 1710 Alaska daylight time, a wheel-equipped Cessna 172P airplane, N98426, sustained substantial damage while taxiing for takeoff at the Lake Hood Strip, Anchorage, Alaska. The airplane was being operated as a visual flight rules (VFR) positioning flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The airplane was operated by the Civil Air Patrol Inc., Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage. The private certificated pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
During a telephone conversation with the National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge on June 6, the Civil Air Patrol's safety officer reported that as the accident pilot was taxiing for departure from the Civil Air Patrol's maintenance hangar, en route to the active runway, he inadvertently entered a roadway adjacent to the active taxiway. The right wing subsequently struck a large birch tree, and sustained substantial damage.


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Flax seeds are commonly used as a dietary supplement. Simply sprinkle flax seeds into breakfast cereal or yoghurts, or bake into biscuits, breads or cakes.
Flax seeds form a naturally thick porridge when mixed with water or milk. You can use them as an alternative to oats, or mix them together with oats to make a tasty breakfast porridge. Cook in the usual way for 5-10 minutes for ideal results.
Grind flax seeds using a blender and use to thicken milkshakes and smoothies.
Make flax-seed crackers. Add just enough water to soak the flax seeds before spooning thinly onto a tray. Dry in an oven. The flax-seeds will naturally stick together into crackers, which have a savoury taste and work well with tomatoes, cheese, houmous or other toppings. For extra interest, add chopped tomatoes and herbs to the flax-seed mix before drying.
Flax-seed flapjacks are a thicker version of the above recipe. Soak the flaxseeds and add a little honey or syrup together with raisins, dried cherries and chopped nuts. Spoon thickly onto a baking tray and cook until golden brown.
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Description This course provides an overview of coarctation of the aorta, a noncyanotic congenital heart defect. The course covers the pathophysiology, incidence, causes, risk factors, and signs and symptoms of the condition. It also presents related diagnostic tests, treatments, possible complications, and nursing considerations, including discharge teaching. Continuing Education Credit This course qualifies for 0.5 contact hours, which can be earned on this course until June 30, 2017. Course objectives After completing this course, the learner will be able to: describe the pathophysiology of coarctation of the aorta (COA) . identify the risk factors and possible causes of COA. identify the typical signs and symptoms of COA, including age-related variations. select the appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests for patients of different age-groups. differentiate treatments for critically ill neonates from those for older children, including surgical and pharmacologic options. explain
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This seminar explores the Reconstruction era in the United States and the construction of American identity.
This workshop explores the desegregation of Central High School in 1957, a defining moment in the American civil rights movement.
In today’s world, questions of how to best build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence are more relevant than ever. Studying the Holocaust using Facing History’s approach allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history and fosters their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical for sustaining democracy. This seminar features the fully revised, digital edition of Holocaust and Human Behavior.


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The Equilibrium Diet runs the body like an efficient business: it addresses inputs, processes and equipment – or in terms of diet: super-foods, proper food timing and organ cleanses. These three categories constitute the three pillars of the Equilibrium Diet.
- Quality Inputs – eating foods with high nutrient content (Super-foods are easily absorbed by the body.)
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A German citizen's lawsuit claiming he was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA went before a US court Friday, drawing attention to highly disputed US practices in the fight against terrorism.Let us be honest here! This is more of the Same Old Evil Liberal PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS that we have come to expect of the evil LIBERALS who adopt the God Hating America Bashing attitude that some how America should be CRUSHED under the Iron Boot of International Law by God Hating America Bashers who are Unwilling to Accept that The Divine Will has been Made Manifest In America and therefore if the Divine Decider has Decided that a Person must be detained, for what ever reason, or lack of reason, that this is the Clear Decision Of The Divine Decider and can not be Attacked but that One Is ATTACKING GOD!!!!!
The lawsuit by Lebanese-born German Khalid El-Masri charges that former CIA director George Tenet, other CIA officials and US-based aviation companies with violations of US and international law.
The US government has called for the case to be thrown out, citing the rarely used argument that a trial would risk exposing state secrets.
El-Masri alleges he was seized in Macedonia in 2003 and handed over to US officials, who brought him to Afghanistan as a terror suspect and mistreated him during a five-month detention. He says he was released without explanation in May 2004 in Albania.
The suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a human rights group, argues that El-Masri is innocent and was held for two months after Tenet was informed that his capture was a mistake.
There have been several reports of so-called 'extraordinary renditions' - capturing terror suspects and taking them to a third country - and torture in the US-declared war on terrorism.
A Washington Post last year that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operates secret prisons abroad, including in Eastern Europe, has touched off an investigation by the European Parliament. El- Masri's case is part of the inquiry.
[ cf German's CIA abduction claim aired in US court ]
The EVIL GOD HATING AMERICA BASHING RADICAL LEFTIST TERRORIST FRONT ORGANIZATION retuters has their take in Judge to rule on dismissal of Masri torture case where they complete SECULARIZE the whole discussion as their part in the Assault Against White Christian America!!!
Can we now add the following
The Bush administration based its dismissal argument on affidavits from Porter Goss, who was CIA director before announcing his resignation last week, that officially assert the executive branch of government's state secrets privilege. The privilege is a legal precedent that gives President George W. Bush the right to protect U.S. military and state secrets.Could it be that Porter Goss went on vacation here to avoid being sucked into the growing web of doubt about what would happen to him if the Protective Shield of the Presidential Protect were to be abandoned in the wake of the growing Watergate-Watergate Scandal, as it winds up getting sucked into the Malstrom of these Extraordinary Rendering Angst Festivals...
"By their very nature, clandestine intelligence activities are not acknowledged by the United States," Goss said in a public affidavit. He also filed a classified affidavit with the court.
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Oh dear... what ever will americans do? What IF, as the Evil Main Stream Media is implying here, by even raising the Vile Spectre of the Now Un-Person Porter Goss, that there is some sort of connection betweeen the Watergate-Watergate Scandal, with it's HoookerGate Faction on one side, and this with the Extraordinary Rendering and Pro-Torture Stand of the Administration on the Other Side??? Do the Evil Liberal Media Types REALLY want to suggest that the President is aware of the connection between the HookerGate and the Torture Tribulations, and HanoiAnnie Coulter's Fetish for restoring the Rape Rooms....
What EVER will the Evil Liberal Media finally learn in these Evil And Sinister Shocking Revelations, with their sintelating sensational sexual subtexts!!! Will we finally get the sort of "made for TV" scandal that can be predicated upon Rupert Murdoch, of Fox News Corp, funding Hitlary and her RadFemiNazi's in their Assault On Our White Christian America that has caused this level of Moral Filth And Preversion of the Decent sorts as their Culture Of Corruption Rots away the very Firm, pert, and Perky, foundation of the American Way of LIFE!!!


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Success Story Of The Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Many still love the look of the W123 like we do
Malaysians continue to love the look of the more modern classic Mercedes-Benz E-Class, namely the W123 model. Used by senior government servants and corporate heads when new, this was the E-Class that showed rising wealth. At the top of the game was the unforgettable W126 Mercedes S-Class.
The E-Class model that came after the W123 model was the W124 and this version stirred less emotion with collectors and their asking prices today do not reflect their actual value and engineering that was provided. Which means, they are good value cars that should be considered if one is looking for a well built car with some good feature.
Today, you can find the W124 E-Class in mint showroom condition for sale and also sadly, some neglected units left to rot in neighborhoods around the country.
Already in the early 20th century, vehicles positioned below the top-of-the-range and luxury classes, yet above the compact class, were an essential part of the model portfolio of Mercedes-Benz and the brands that came before. The first Mercedes models, which came to market in 1901 and established the concept of modern automotive construction, were already available in different versions and targeted different customers, including those who would choose a vehicle of the upper mid-range segment today.
With over 14 million units delivered since 1946, the E-Class is the best-selling model series in the history of Mercedes-Benz. It is perceived by many as the “heart of the brand”. Customers of the E-Class are among the most loyal fans of the Mercedes star: Eight out of ten customers of the E-Class Saloon remain loyal to Mercedes-Benz when buying the next vehicle.
When production started up again after the Second World War, the first car to go into production was the 170 V model, originally introduced in 1936, initially as a vehicle for rescue services, police, commerce and trades. It was soon followed by a saloon version as the first post-war Mercedes-Benz passenger car in 1947.
The 180 model (W 120) of 1953 with unibody and “Ponton” shape set new technical as well as formal trends. It was followed in 1961 by the four-cylinder versions of the “Fintail” model series (W 110) – the first model with safety body and crumple zones. The next major step came seven years later in the form of the “Stroke Eight” (model series W 115/114). At the same time, with the arrival of the first coupé model, this marked a widening of the scope of available body variants. Its success was surpassed yet again by the successor model series 123 starting in 1976.
It was also produced in an estate version – with which Mercedes-Benz set standards for the estate car as a family-friendly lifestyle and recreational vehicle. The 124 series of the years 1984 to 1995, which was also available as a four-seater cabriolet, was first given the name E-Class in mid-1993.
The “four headlamps” face and its innovative technology were the characteristic features of the 210 model series launched in 1995. The E-Class of model series 211 was launched in early 2002. In 2009 it was followed by the 212 series (Saloon and Estate) and the 207 series (Cabriolet and Coupé), and from 2010 the E-Class Saloon also became available as the V 212 long version produced in and for China. In 2016, Mercedes-Benz launched the E-Class of model series 213. Starting in 2017, the Estate was also available as an All-Terrain version for the first time.
Well, the W123 is now commanding more attention in the used car market and lately dozens have been appearing for sale by collectors as well as retired people who want to cash in on the demand of the W123.
Solidly built, the W123 Benz is still prone to rust and there are many cars need to be checked to make sure they were not used a inter-state taxis (yes in the early days, this was the long distance taxi used by families and business people to travel along the roads of Malaysia.
The carburetor models use a Stromberg CD175 which is reliable but thirsty. You will easily find E200’s and E250’s with diesel power having their mileage past 500,000 kilometers as this was the common taxi model. You need to do a compression test to check the engine. The 230E and my personal favorite, the 280E is the W123 to own.
Prices are hovering around RM5,000 to RM8,000 for an average running unit with most trim intact. A fully restored car with negligible rust will set back as high as RM14,000 to RM15,000 which is higher than the asking price of the more modern and inviting W124 Mercedes E-Class. Parts are not very cheap but less expensive than most new Malaysian made car parts.

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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has affirmed its decision to proceed to the next stage of a process considering changes in the ownership and governance of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
NERC made this decision at its most recent Council meeting in mid-July.
NERC Council has decided to proceed with a process that assures them that changes to the ownership and governance of NOC and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) respect the centres’ unique roles, and ensures their long-term sustainability and contribution to world-leading UK environmental science and innovation. NERC will continue to consider the full range of options for the future ownership and governance of the British Geological Survey. There are no plans to change the status of the British Antarctic Survey.
NOC supports the decision to proceed to the next stage of the process and agrees that further exploration of the proposed model is the right way forward to protect and recognise its unique role.
Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre, Professor Edward Hill, said, “I am pleased that NERC has reaffirmed its support for us continuing work on our path towards exploring independence as a not-for-profit charitable organisation. I believe this next stage of the process will help us ensure we are clear about the best next step in the life of the National Oceanography Centre which is one of the world’s leading oceanographic institutions.”
NERC Council continues to affirm the importance of sustaining long-term funding to its research centres. This will remain the case, regardless of changes in ownership and governance.
Council will continue to adhere to an approximately one- to two-year timescale that will ensure the centres are fully equipped if they are to make a successful transition to independent operation. Further cross-government consultation and agreement is required alongside a process of testing readiness before any final decisions are made.


text: Donna Murphy is nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical! Once the darling of the Yiddish Theatre in pre-war Poland, now a grandmother in New York City, Bubbie (Donna Murphy) has had quite a life. But what will it all mean if she can't pass on her stories to the next generation? Though her granddaughter is enchanted by her tales, her daughter Red will do anything to keep from looking back. A fiercely funny and deeply moving new musical that spans three generations, The People in the Picture celebrates the importance of learning from our past, and the power of laughter.


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Compiling Our 10 Best Cookies list required a bit of field research, and while we were more than casually acquainted with Levain Bakery’s walnut-chocolate chip cookie, we were happy to get to know it a little better. For the sake of research, of course.
Weighing in at almost a quarter-pound, it’s less cookie than the product of a union between some chocolate chips and a double-decker bus. Weighted with walnuts, semisweet chocolate, and butter, it could easily serve as a doorstop or be employed in a bocce ball tournament.
Though it long ago became a thing of legend, the cookie has plenty of detractors who like to complain that it’s just this side of raw. We, however, have absolutely no problem with its gooey interior, particularly when it’s still warm from the oven and sagging with semi-melted chocolate. It’s excessive and over-the-top, yes, but we’ve never been ones to bemoan an excess of good ingredients, particularly when they’re combined to such delectable, woozy effect.
Eating the cookie is less indulgence than event, one that you may consider rearranging the day’s dining schedule for — its consumption is best followed by either a nap or a cigarette, depending on your preferences. As such, it proudly occupies the Sweatpants end of the Fat Pants spectrum, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
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The partnership, called the Shared Patient Simulation Project, is a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center, The Nebraska Medical Center, Prairie Health Ventures (PHV) and Mid-America Hospital Alliance (MAHA).
The project supports hospital requirements for ensuring quality care and patient safety and will reduce hospital training costs by making the training available on site. Currently, rural hospitals have to pay to send health professionals for training.
PHV, a health care group purchasing alliance of 48 hospitals in Nebraska and western Iowa, purchased a state-of-the-art high-fidelity human patient simulator. The simulator, which will rotate among hospitals, provides the most realistic training and evaluation for most emergency and routine patient situations.
It also enables health professionals to practice and gain proficiency in skills before performing them on patients.
Among the simulator’s many programmed capabilities — it can talk, sweat, bleed, cry, convulse, be resuscitated, intubated and catheterized. It responds to drug treatment, reacts to medication, and can have a heart attack.
“Our rural hospital members were telling us they wanted the equipment but couldn’t afford it,” said Dave Christensen, CEO of PHV of Lincoln. “This is a natural extension of what we do for our members, so we put together this model that allows participants to share the cost.”
Bud Tice, a MAHA member and administrator of physician relations at The Nebraska Medical Center, said MAHA and PHV joined forces to offer the simulator training to their members. MAHA is an organization of hospital CEOs sponsored by The Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC’s hospital partner.
“Our colleagues in community hospitals will have the opportunity to practice simulation exercises with state-of-the-art equipment in their own hospital, thus decreasing the need for many health care providers to travel long distances,” Tice said. “It also can be used to train emergency responders.”
Tice facilitated discussions with UNMC to provide the simulator training. UNMC, which will house the simulator in Omaha, will provide eight hours of training to those trainers identified by hospitals. Once trained, the trainers can have the simulator transported to their hospital to train others.
While the equipment is on rotation in hospitals, UNMC will provide backup technical support via Skype.
Patti Carstens, program director of the clinical simulation laboratory at the UNMC College of Medicine, will conduct the training. “There’s a big demand for this type of training — not only for teaching and refining skills, but also to ensure competency in certain tasks,” Carstens said.
About 50 hospitals already have indicated an interest in the training. In July, the first training session will be held at UNMC.
Participating hospitals will pay equipment usage fees to PHV. Meals and lodging will provided by The Nebraska Medical Center. Though initially only members of PHV and MAHA will participate in the project, there are plans to expand access to the training to other hospitals.
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The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change started November 1, 2021 in Glasgow with much more media attention than the previous attentions. World leaders, including India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flagged off the fortnight. Now, the question is, what awaits the world at the end of the event?
The global community must ensure that this make-or-break opportunity is not wasted. So, what needs to be done? That’s what Sunita Narain, climate change activist and Director-General of new Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, delineates in this video. The focus should be on six agenda items that need immediate attention and rectification in order the to reach a fair and just climate change agreement. But foremost, any agreement on climate change has to be based on environmental justice.
“This is not about charity, but about fixing what has been broken, in the interests of all. There cannot be an effective or ambitious climate agreement without it being equitable and fair. It’s a pre-requisite,” Narain had earlier said in an editorial for Down To Earth.
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Bradley Beal reacts to being described as a ‘more athletic JJ Redick’
Washington Wizards combo guard Bradley Beal has established himself as one of the elite talents in the NBA over the course of the last two seasons. On the other hand, while New Orleans Pelicans guard JJ Redick is certainly a valuable player, he has hardly been a superstar-caliber player like Beal.
Before Beal became a star, however, Duke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski described him as a “more athletic” version of Redick.
Beal commented on the comparison during NBC Sports Washington’s telecast of Sunday’s game between the Wizards and Brooklyn Nets. He seemed to embrace the analogy though, adding that Redick was his favorite player growing up.
“That’s a funny comparison,” Bradley Beal said, via Mike DePrisco of NBC Sports Washington. “That’s a good comparison, I’m not mad at it because growing up, JJ was my favorite player at Duke. So I respect that.
“[Redick] loves to credit me with my two-man game, but I honestly learned a lot from him and Kyle Korver, just how they move well without the ball, being able to spread everybody out and shoot. Trust and believe, man I do homework on a lot of players and JJ’s one of my favorites.”
Redick has been lauded for his off-ball movement and ability to work off screens, much as Beal hunts offensive opportunities and back-cuts when he plays off the ball.
While Beal might make the comparison look foolish to the common fan, players often pattern their games off of those they watched growing up.
Indeed, it would seem the Wizards star patterned elements of his game after Redick, who is among the more respected veterans in basketball.

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In many of today's mechanical systems, high precision motion has become a necessity. As performance requirements become more stringent, classical industrial controllers such as PID can no longer provide satisfactory results. Although many control approaches have been proposed in the literature, control problems related to plant parameter uncertainties, disturbances and high-order dynamics remain as big challenges for control engineers. Theory of Sliding Mode Control provides a systematic approach to controller design while allowing stability in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. In this thesis a brief study of the concepts behind Sliding Mode Control will be shown. Description of Sliding Mode Control in discrete-time systems and the continuous Sliding Mode Control will be shown. The description will be supported with the design and robustness analysis of Sliding Mode Control for discrete-time systems. In this thesis a simplified methodology based on discrete-time Sliding Mode Control will be presented. The main issues that this thesis aims to solve are friction and internal nonlinearities. The thesis can be outlined as follows: -Implementation of discrete-time Sliding Mode Control to systems with nonlinearities and friction. Systems include; piezoelectric actuators that are known to suffer from nonlinear hysteresis behavior and ball-screw drives that suffer from high friction. Finally, the controller will be implemented on a 6-dof Stewart platform which is a system of higher complexity. -It will also be shown that performance can be enhanced with the aid of disturbance compensation based on a nominal plant disturbance observer.
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Honesty with our Kids post Election: A Conversation with Rosalind Wiseman
By Carol Smaldino
When adults help little children feel enough safety and trust in the world early on, they are teaching children that their own perceptions and needs make sense. They are teaching children that the outside world is reliable but also that their awareness is reliable as well.
In the best of hypotheses, children can grow to make an impact on their family and thus be a true part of their family community. At school, the same, optimally what they notice will be important and make a difference. Going further, they can co-author solutions both at home and outside the home.
I have thought for a long time now, and seen this in my therapy practice, that when kids see something that isn't working in their family, they go underground, hiding their feelings and perceptions. Or they become cranky and disruptive-- carrying a festering awareness they don't understand or know what to do with. Or they stop recognizing their own perceptions: they either give up or fake accommodation.
We need to remember how crucial it is for us to make space for what our children experience. Sometimes external life circumstances are very difficult but still there are some people listening, validating, caring, and trying to do something about it. And this can make a big difference to how things turn out.
Bullying is not new, nor was it invented in the Election of 2016. But some things are so stark for those of us looking, that they make it obvious that the degree of lies, hostility, have reached incredibly public and national proportions.
When I read on line that Rosalind Wiseman was going across the country helping kids and adults communicate in the era post Trump about what they had seen and felt, I contacted her to ask her for an interview, which she graciously agreed to. Many people know Rosalind as the author of "Queen Bees and Wanna Bees" (2003, paperback 2009, 2016), a star among books written back when bullying was grabbing national attention. Even then, however, as far as I could see the words "zero tolerance" and "when you see something say something" were slogans that didn't hold up. In addition most of the attention during that time was given to white children in white schools.
Now Wiseman is looking at the issues affecting all children, and all adults as well--the impact of what they are seeing in adults--and the hypocrisy we are showing them. Her antidote consists of honesty and respect and partnership. She is already seeing the dangers of children worrying about deportation--theirs or their relatives--and an increase in prejudice and fear. Again, the signal for hope here lies in her complete respect for honesty, to and from children and with all the adults involved as well.
She says, "For the most part we have dishonest conversations, as if solutions are simple. And that was BEFORE the Election. Adults have always been hypocritical, holding kids to standards they don't hold themselves to."
In other words, we tell our kids to cooperate, to be polite, to say please, and not to lie. We don't want them lying to us, but is it okay if our public life is based on lies and appearances? What do we say to them if they ask us about it? Or do we just let them watch us, and our leaders on television, as they insult people and yes, lie? Meanwhile it seems to me that we are also looking at many adults who have blocked out the fact and implications of lying with no compunction, to the point that it is becoming second nature.
Wiseman comments on the "lessons" of the Presidential Election in points that strike me as undeniable. She spells it out, "Kids are learning many things:
Winning is more important than conducting yourself ethically.
Adults dismiss young people's experiences that make adults' uncomfortable.
Adults lecture young people about standing up to bullying but aren't willing to do it themselves.
None of the above is all that hopeful, except that Wiseman is offering a menu of services, in a new curriculum called Owning Up: Empowering Adoescents to Confront Bullying, Social Cruelty and Injustice (owningup.online) and she is bringing her work and her intention to co-author curriculum with students and teachers. She is, with her partners, offering services to all manner of people and schools, not just rich and not just white, by any means. She is in the meantime helping students engaged in student government find ways they can be more inclusive.
Wiseman is doing none of the above by lying her way through any of what is going on. Her clear message is that honesty is one of the transforming elements of all that she is doing. It also is that validating element that can bring kids alive, even perhaps the kids who are sleeping through the seemingly irrelevant versions of coursework they are forced to endure. They are taught about how everything is so perfect while they are living and seeing a very different set of pictures.
Wiseman adds, "It is the adults' responsibilities to have honest conversations about what is going on in our world.
When we are overwhelmed by confusion, we can revert to autocratic ways of being." In order for us as adults to face up to the observations of our kids, we will need help to occupy uneasy spaces where we admit that our world is becoming filled with winning at any cost.
And then we will have to face the challenges of whether and how we would want to change that.
I've thought for a while that many adults also hunger for more truth in their lives, that they/we are exhausted from all the attempts to measure up. This is one possible source of change and of hope.

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Patrol Stresses Safety During Holidays
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reminds travelers that holiday drivers will affect traffic patterns. If you’re planning a trip during the holidays, please keep this in mind. Check the weather forecast and plan accordingly. The Road Condition Report number is 1-800-222-6400. If bad weather is expected, make sure your vehicle is winterized. Allow extra time to reach your destination and obey all laws.
Last year over the Christmas holiday, there were 384 traffic crashes during a 30-hour counting period. In those crashes, one person was killed and another 142 were injured. This year’s traffic crash counting period begins Wednesday, December 24, and ends on Sunday, December 28.
Please remember to wear your seat belt, pay attention to your driving, and please, don’t drink and drive.
If faced with a traffic emergency, motorists can contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol at 1-800-525-5555 or *55 on a cellular phone. This emergency number will ring into the nearest Highway Patrol headquarters.
Motorists should use this number if they are in a traffic crash, witness a crash or crime, or pass a stranded motorist in need of assistance, etc.
“Troopers are proud to serve Missouri’s citizens and all available officers will be on the roadway during this holiday season,” said Colonel Roger D. Stottlemyre. “Everyone is encouraged to buckle their seat belts. Too many lives are lost when people don’t buckle up.”
The New Year’s traffic crash counting period will be Wednesday, December 31 through Sunday, January 4.
Last year, eight people were killed and 194 injured in 411 traffic crashes over this holiday. The Highway Patrol urges motorists to drive safely during this holiday period. If your plans include alcohol, choose a designated driver.
“Drunk drivers cause too many traffic crashes every year,” said Colonel Roger D. Stottlemyre. “The injuries and deaths that result from drunk driving can be prevented if people celebrate responsibly.”


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Earlier this year I got to use my SAG card and film a commercial for Wells Fargo, where the dog, “Sashimi,” was the star and I was her human! It was a pretty cool concept where the entire commercial was at dog-eye level, so I was considered background, where you only see me in the distance and/or my back, arm, hands, etc… Even cooler is that as I post this…the video has been seen more than 11M times via YouTube! Wow!
I think the spot came out really good and it was a fun experience working with Sashimi on set. It was actually pretty interesting to see how the trainers work with the animals to get certain shots…and this doggie certainly earned her keep for the day!


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Low interest rates, soft loan demand and a steady decrease in how much money banks make on loans has forced banks to turn to fees to make money.
At a national level and in New Mexico, noninterest, or fee income, has exploded, according to statistics from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Nationally, noninterest income accounted for 45.1 percent of banks’ income in the first quarter of 2011. By the first quarter of this year, it had jumped to 56.29 percent.
In New Mexico, fee income was 15.9 percent of all bank income in 2011. This year it accounts for 26.3 percent of income so far.
Not only has the percentage of fee income increased, but the dollar amount has soared as well.
Nationally, fee income totaled $60.9 billion in 2010. Through the first quarter of this year it was $66.5 billion.
In New Mexico, fee income was $36.2 million in 2010 and $38.2 million so far this year.
The increases are due to several factors, bankers say. In the past several years loan demand has been soft and banks aren’t making as many loans as they used to.
The loan-to-deposit ratio, or how much of their deposits that banks loan out, has fallen for the past three years.
At the same time, the money that banks make on loans, or the difference between what they pay for deposits and the interest they charge on loans, has also fallen for three consecutive years nationally and in New Mexico.
And their interest income, or the money banks make on loans, has dropped for three straight years.
Interest income for New Mexico’s locally owned banks totaled $214.9 million in 2010 and $145.2 million through the first quarter of this year.
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