The term “technical difficulties” is such a 21st century notion. I’m not sure when this phrase first appeared, but I have no doubt that this expression will fade anytime soon, due to the number of occurrences daily around the globe. No one talks about what it really means though, we all just smile and nod like we understand. What I like to believe it refers to is the concept of “perfect imperfection:” technology is used when we want something done better than the potential of the human brain, or when we want to do something outside of human capacity; however technology can, and will, let us down.
As technology becomes an increasingly explored topic in dance, I could not help but wonder what happens when this technology fails in live performance. Unlike humans, who have the ability to adapt to sudden, unexpected changes in their environment, technology is yet to become as specialized. One of the most interesting parts of live performance, in my opinion, is watching how the performers handle mistakes which inevitably happen at one time or another during a show. I have seen countless dance and theater productions where someone forgets their lines or choreography, and are tested to improvise or find a plan to compensate for their slip-up. But how does this work with technology? Technology cannot improvise. When technology fails in live performance, can the show go on? And if so, was the technology necessary in the first place? This is what I set out to discover.
But this concept of failing technology during a dance performance is an extremely specific thing even for Google to process. So I had to start more generally, and watched a TEDx talk by Reggie Watts entitled “What Does It Mean When Technology Fails?” In the beginning of the video, he dealt with the microphone not working properly, and briefly remarked on our society’s constant interactions with technology. But for most of the video, he just improvised onstage by playing a keyboard and singing. Although this example is not dance, it think this says a lot about what naturally happens when technology does not go our way, and it can be applied to dance. When technology fails, it forces everyone in the room to improvise: the audience chooses to care or not care, the performers choose how to adapt to the situation, and the technician can choose whether/how to fix the problem or let it be. It becomes a performance in itself, as the choreography of unexpected quick-thinking and problem solving or not solving.
However, different situations are bound to warrant different actions to be taken. For example, the way in which technology is incorporated into the performance has an impact in the outcome. While desperately searching the void of Google to find some information about failing technology, I came across a video of Pixel, a piece by Adrien M and Claire B. These artists, from a French dance company, used a variety of software and sensors to display projections of pixeled light onto the background and floor of the stage. The dancers’ movement causes the light to react and interact with them, creating a surreal, 3D performance. In this piece, technology is just as important as the dancers, if not more so. The dancing itself, while interesting in its own right, would be little if the technology randomly shut down in the middle of performance. How would the dancers handle a technical difficulty? More importantly, can the show go on without the technology? In this particular case, I don’t think so.
Other performances, however, cam continue if/when the technology fails, and these are performances where the technology is not as central. If a show has dancers dancing on a stage while something, separately operated, is projected behind them, the dancing could just continue if the projection failed. Or, in the case of Sophie Sotky’s piece, the failure could only enhance the message further. Stocky, in collaboration with Matt Romein, created a work called Head Munging, which comments on technology’s flaw in capturing movement and our over-consumption of it in daily life. Romein designed digital installations, “to create a feeling that it could all fall apart at any time.” In the first section of the piece, the dancers’ shadows are outlined in rough edges while the actual shadow itself is smooth. I found it intriguing that someone chose this as their inspiration for choreographic investigation, as I had never heard of a piece with that specific intention before.
In my hope to dive deeper in into the world of failing technology, I ended up in a different direction. Part of what fascinates me about failure in live performance is how the audience reacts. Did they notice? Do they care? I ended up reading most of an essay called, Kinesthesia, Empathy, and Related Pleasures: An Inquiry into Audience Experiences of Watching Dance by Matthew Reason and Dee Reynolds. This essay had nothing to do with dance and technology, but it did explore the various ways that audiences engage in dance performances, which I found fascinating. The highlight of the paper for me was the discussion of body-mind connectivity, and how audiences tend to have kinesthetic responses when they watch dance. The paper was mostly centered around a study, in which audience members with varying levels of dance experience watched a performance and then were asked to explain their reactions. Many of the participants made comments like, “it made me want to get up and dance” or “it made me tired just watching them.” I wonder what happens in the body and mind of an audience member when something goes wrong in performance? Also, do these kinds of responses still arise if technology is involved? When installations, such as a projector, is in the background, how do audience members juggle what to watch? If they choose to watch the technological component, are they missing the chance to kinesthetically respond to the real dancers? And finally, if technology happens to slip-up during a performance, does that bring about another kind of bodily response in the brain? So far, I have not found any literature that explains or answers these specific questions, and I don’t know enough about the brain to make any educated guesses.
I conclude this rather openly by saying that audiences play a huge role in performance, just like the performers, and that the issue of failing technology will continue to be a topic of concern the more we utilize technological features in live entertainment. Perhaps the tech enthusiasts of the world will find a way to program certain technology to learn how to improvise. That would certainly solve some problems.
- Header Munging: http://hyperallergic.com/133757/a-dance-of-digital-shadows/
- (top): http://www.fctv.org/v3/content/technical-difficulties-channels-13-and-15
- (middle): http://www.am-cb.net/projets/pixel-cie-kafig/
- (middle 2): http://hyperallergic.com/133757/a-dance-of-digital-shadows/
- (bottom): http://www.artsjournal.com/texas/2011/06/preliminary-data-first-experiments/


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The new anime is coming out in April 2022. It has a lot of cast members, workers, and people who are making it.
Ao ashi Soccer The cast includes
- Kōki Ohsuzu as Ashito Aoi
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Eisaku Ohtomo
- Seiichirō Yamashita as Sōichirō Tachibana
- Taku Yashiro as Keiji Togashi
- Shun Horie as Kanpei Kuroda
- Wataru as Martis Jun Asari
- Junya Enoki as Yūma Motoki
- Kentarō as Ryūichi Takeshima
- Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tatsuya Fukuda
- Maki as Hana Ichijō
Akira Sato is the director, and Masahiro Yokotani writes the scripts. They work at Production I.G together with Manabu Nakatake, Toshie Kawamura, Asuka Yamaguchi, and Saki Hasegawa as character designers. Naho Seike, Yukiko, Miho Daidouji, and Eisuke Shirai are sub-character designers. Kenichi Takeshita does soccer supervision. Masaru Yokoyama is composing music for them all at Production I.G.
Tsukasa Kakizakai, Yūsuke Takeda, Kazushige Kanehira, Osamu Ii are the art directors. Emiko Ueno is the person who designs colors. Arisa Ito and Miori Tsuzaka are the people who design props. Akiko Hamanaka designed 2D art. Tsunori Maeshima did some 3D design work, and Maiko Imazeki did some photography work for this movie.
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The manga is about a boy who lives in Ehime. Ashito has a lot of talent in soccer, but he tries to hide it. He causes an accident, and this stops him from playing soccer for a while. But Tatsuya Fukuya – the coach of Tokyo City Esperion’s youth team – sees Ashito’s talent and summons him to try out for the club.
This manga is about a boy named Ashito who has a talent for soccer and tries to hide it. He causes a disaster that is hard for him. Someone appears called Tatsuya Fukuya, who sees through Ashito and sees his talent and invites him to try out for the team in Tokyo.
Kobayashi started a new manga called Ao ashi Brotherfoot. It will run for five chapters, and the chapters will be collected in one book.


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Two Mounted Antique Warriors. Pen and black ink, point of the brush and several shades of brown wash, heightened with white, on greenish-grey prepared paper. 26.1 x 40.2 cm. Inscribed in pen in lower margin: Marco Marcola.
Marco Marcola came from a widely ramified Veronese family of painters and was trained by his father, Giovanni Battista (1711–1780). He produced a considerable number of religious paintings and fresco decorations in and around Verona and also worked as a stage-designer. At times there is a certain provincialism in Marcola’s painting, which occasionally suffers from technical shortcomings. His graphic work, on the other hand, reveals a freer and less inhibited spirit. The present drawing has been executed in a fluid, elegant style, the deftness and vivid chiaroscuro of which are reminiscent of some of the great Veronese predecessors of the Cinquecento like Paolo Farinati. These grisaille-like works are among the best Marcola ever did, as can be seen by comparing this drawing with the designs for a fresco decoration in the Palazzo di San Nazaro in Verona (see Sergio Marinelli/Giorgio Marini (eds.), Museo di Castelvecchio Disegni, Milan 1999, pp. 124–125, no. 95).
From the collection H. W. Campe (Lugt 1391).

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Just in time for Thanksgiving! Theottomanempire is pleased to welcome its first guest contributors. Michelle and Lisa are co-authors of the blog Simply Bliss – a blog about all things blissful. Below they tell us how to cook the perfect turkey. Enjoy!
I remember the first time I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner when I was new to the wonderful world of the domesticated, I nervously obsessed over cooking a turkey and probably made my husband crazy with my obsessive turkey research that year. Why did this cause so much trepidation and drama in my household? Well, we all know that the centerpiece of any Thanksgiving dinner is of course the turkey. Whether you’re about to host your first Thanksgiving dinner or you’re an old pro, we all have the same goal in mind: creating a bird with crisp, bronzed skin, juicy meat and flavourful pan drippings — the hallmarks of a perfectly cooked turkey.
But sometimes, just sometimes, the culinary gods are just not in our favour and these qualities become unachievable. The turkey is dried out (read: overcooked!) and even if you think your desserts can make the Martha in anyone swoon — your pumpkin pie will not save the evening. It just won’t. I think I tried that one year — and failed miserably. So, how does one make everyone happy and create the Adonis of Thanksgiving poultry that even your mother-in-law and the pilgrims of yesteryear would be proud of?
Well, here are some tips that Lisa and I have been adhering to for T-Day in our households. Here’s hoping some of these will save you from a Thanksgiving Day disaster.
Size does matter. It’s the first question you will ask yourself when preparing for T-Day. How big should this bird be, you ask? The general rule is for a turkey that is under 16 pounds, figure 1 pound of turkey per person. For larger birds 16 pounds and heavier, figure a bit less since there’s more meat in proportion to bone. Here is a chart that should help you decide on size.
|Turkey Weight (in pounds)||Average Servings||Ample Servings with Leftovers|
Choose the right bird. Fresh. Frozen. Organic. Free-Range. Premium-Brand. It is so mind-boggling deciding on the type of turkey to buy at the market. Even though most people will profess that fresh organic turkey’s are best, most times they would have to be pre-snagged or ordered at your local market weeks in advance and many of us don’t have the time or our minds are just not in sync with the day T-Day falls. We are not all on the (butter)ball. It happens. But alas, frozen is fine! There is nothing wrong with the frozen variety bird from your local grocery store. Just keep in mind defrosting protocol as you do NOT want to be responsible for a guest falling ill from a salmonella-infused bird.
To stuff, or not to stuff. Speaking of salmonella, we are both in the camp NOT to stuff the bird. Whether it’s cooked inside the turkey or out, stuffing must reach 160°F to kill bacteria and make it safe to eat. But by the time it reaches that temperature inside the bird, the breast meat is at a much higher temperature and therefore becomes overcooked and dry (by experience anyway). That’s why we don’t recommend stuffing the bird. Instead, cook the stuffing separately. It will save you a headache or being labelled as the turkey-making leper. Not nice.
Wine. Not brine. Count us in the school of thought that thinks turkey brining is just a fad. I know a lot of people speak highly of soaking the whole turkey in a salt solution, but we just don’t see the necessity of it. If you want to ensure moist meat — just don’t overcook it. Quality of meat product and cooking technique are probably more important and will save you precious time and avoid that extra step.
Truss it. Or not. Yes, it’s important to have the perfect tasting bird, but it doesn’t hurt to have an attractive one at that. Tying the turkey’s legs in place helps the turkey hold its shape while roasting, which in turn allows a nicer presentation on your table. The goal!
Baste it. Then turn it. Now if you decide to truss the bird’s legs as you are into the whole turkey aesthetic, keep in mind that this may increase the likelihood that the breast meat will overcook before the leg meat is done, which is why basting is vital! Moistening the bird with broth or other watery liquids slow down heat transfer, because the surface cools as the basted- on moisture evaporates. Also we find it important to roast the bird breast side down for at least half of the cooking time. It also exposes the thigh meat to direct heat, resulting in more even doneness overall. At that point the bird must be turned breast side up to allow nice crispy breasts. Or if the household becomes chaotic (it is allowed to during the holidays) and you don’t have the time to do ‘the flip’, keep the breast right side up, however shield it with foil for the last half of the roasting time.
The roasting pan and other helpful tools. The best tool above all is to own a heavy-duty roasting pan with about 2-inch sides. High sides prevent the lower part of the bird from browning and can make basting a bit difficult. A roaster rack, baster, and a trusty thermometer are also nice to have in your turkey accoutrements.
The temperature. While some cooks like to blast the turkey with high heat like 425°F for 30 minutes or so and then reduce the temperature, we think a low, steady temperature of 325°F from start to finish is more carefree and a lot easier. Here are the cooking times for various sized birds.
|Ready to cook weight||Cooking time|
|8 to 12 lbs.||2 3/4 to 3|
|12 to 14 lbs.||3 to 3 3/4|
|14 to 18 lbs.||3 3/4 to 4 1/4|
|18 to 20 lbs.||4 1/4 to 4 1/2|
|20 to 24 lbs.||4 1/2 to 5|
Also to note the high-heat method may save you in the total cooking time, but it’s one more thing to remember on a very hectic day. In turn, this will allow you more time to mingle and….
Rest. It’s finally done. You can now celebrate with that bottle of Riesling you have been eyeing the whole afternoon. It is time for you…and the perfectly roasted bird to have a well-deserved rest. A turkey that sits at room temperature for at least 30 minutes after roasting tastes juicier. As the turkey rests, the meat cools down, ideally to about 130°F, the proteins in the meat firm up as it cools, so it becomes easier to carve and is better able to retain its juice in every slice.
If all else fails, call the Turkey Talkline created by the lovely folks at Butterball: 1-800-BUTTERBALL or email them at firstname.lastname@example.org. Yes, this really exists!
We would love to hear your turkey making tips and secrets!
Written by Michelle Cusack-Romano and photo by Lisa Crispo from www.simplybliss.ca, a Toronto-based blog dedicated to life’s simple pleasures.
Michelle is a wife, mother, writer, former roomate of Christopher Gillis, amateur cook, wine lover, cognizant shopaholic, and visionary sidekick to her handy home renovating husband. She started this blog with friend and professional photographer Lisa who is passionate about her craft, a red wine snob, health freak, social butterfly, a serious dark chocolate fanatic and is one of the few who actually loves her job.
Our goal is to keep you up-to-date on the various stylish snapshots in time of the things we love, our inspirations, our pleasures and the way we live.

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Eric Grandon and his family sell their local food products at a Farmer's Market in Clay County, West Virginia.
Eric Grandon of West Virginia is a war hero in the truest sense. Spending nearly 20 years in the Army, he was a combat veteran in Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom II, and participated in four peace-time missions to the Middle East. Yet, when a horrific flashback overtook him in 2011, he was unable to continue his job as a Physical Therapist Assistant and was deemed unemployable and permanently disabled from PTSD. Unable to work, he found himself wandering around his farm aimlessly for nearly two years until he met James McCormick, the present Director of the Veterans and Warriors Agriculture program under the West Virginia Department of Agriculture.
A veteran himself, McCormick encouraged Grandon to take up farming, which had helped him work through his own PTSD. It was during a USDA Armed to Farm conference hosted by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) that Grandon officially decided to become a farmer. He even took up beekeeping which he found to be the most therapeutic of them all often bringing tears of joy to his eyes. Read more »
Burchel Blevins of Knox County, was named the ‘Landowner of the Year’ for the southeastern region, by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.
When Burchel Blevins drives visitors around his rural Kentucky farm, he points out the numerous conservation practices he has implemented to protect and preserve his land. Blevins owns more than 650 forested acres and 70 acres of open forest and grass land in different parts of Knox County, and he’s worked with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for about 15 years.
“You learn a lot working with them,” said Blevins, referring to NRCS staff.
Using NRCS programs like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), Conservation Stewardship Program, Wetland Reserve Easement (WRE) and the former Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (now part of EQIP), Blevins has made many conservation improvements to his land. Read more »
Bison farmers Bobbi and Allen with their daughter in front of the family-run farm. Photo: Dastina Wallace.
Bison farmer Bobbi Lester cares for the land with just as much passion and love as her father. As a little girl growing up on the ranch in southern Delaware, she remembers learning the ropes of bison farming, often traveling with him to regional and national bison conferences. When Bobbi Lester’s father, Robert Collins, lost his battle to cancer in 2012, Bobbi, along with her husband Allen, stepped up to continue farming the way he would have wanted—as a family.
Bobbi recalls how her dad started with just three heifers and a bull on 88 acres in Greenwood, Delaware, and grew into the herd of 65 bison.
“Because of the bison’s population decline 30 years ago, Collins originally planned to breed the bison,” said Bobbi. Read more »
Hezekiah and Francis Gibson’s non-profit organization, United Farmers USA works with NRCS staff to help other small farmers succeed through a wide range of outreach and technical assistance, educational programs and resources.
Lifelong farmer Hezekiah Gibson, and his wife Frances, farm 1,200 acres in Manning, South Carolina. They have been working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for years to improve conservation on their farm.
In 2013, the couple’s non-profit organization, United Farmers USA―dedicated to helping small farmers succeed through a wide range of outreach and technical assistance, educational programs and resources―received an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG). These grants help NRCS support public and private entities to accelerate technology transfer and adoption of promising technologies and approaches to address some of the Nation’s most pressing natural resource concerns. Read more »
Little Wound School students hold round table discussions on their vision of the future. Tribal elder Cecilia Fire Thunder facilitated.
Recently USDA Rural Development staff in South Dakota spent two days at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Sioux, where they met with Tribal leaders, educators and other Federal partners. They made this trip as part of a broader administration effort to change the way the federal government works with communities. This approach values residents’ knowledge of their communities’ strengths and needs; it also includes local leaders as essential partners and collaborators.
Jennifer Irving, Director of Regional Equity for Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a local non-profit intimately involved in one-such effort at Pine Ridge said, “It is important to coordinate engagement of the Promise Zone stakeholders to ensure that Tribal Leadership’s vision and priorities are being met while optimizing Tribal commitment of time and resources.”
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USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden and Congresswoman Gwen Graham standing with others at the 2016 North Florida Farm Tour.
The face of agriculture is changing. At USDA, we want you to know that whether you come from a farming background or not, grew up in a rural, suburban or urban area, that there are opportunities for you to get involved in agriculture. It is my highest priority as Deputy Secretary to ensure that beginning farmers and the growing ranks of agriculture – women, young people, immigrants, minorities, socially disadvantaged producers, returning veterans and retirees – have access to the programs and support they need.
That is why yesterday, I joined Congresswoman Gwen Graham at Florida A&M University to talk about the importance of diversity in agriculture. There are a host of resources available at USDA and beyond, especially now that Florida has been named a StrikeForce state. I also announced that farmers can now use our popular microloans to gain access to land. These are just some of the tools that are helping new farmers succeed. Read more »

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A queer African-American resident in the UK since 1998, Jennifer Farmer is a participatory theatre-maker and facilitator who centres underrepresented narratives and collaborates extensively with marginalised communities such as young people at risk of social exclusion (The Fall of Lucifer, 2008; Truth or Dare, 2012 and 2017, both for Belgrade Theatre,), womxn in prison (Compact Failure, Clean Break/Arcola Theatre/national tour, 2004), refugees (Hear My Voice, Theatre Royal Stratford East), OAPs (Urban Dreams, London Bubble, 2008), young people with dyslexia (Turtle Key Arts), users of the mental healthcare system (V&A Museum) and intergenerational community groups (City Final, site-specific, 2018, Belgrade Theatre). Other work includes: Looking At the Sun (BAC Opera Season, 2001), clean (BBC Radio 3, 2003), 270° (Paines Plough, Young Vic, 2004), A Million Different People (BBC Radio 4, 2005), words, words, words (Tricycle Theatre, 2006), Bulletproof Soul (Birmingham Rep, 2007), Stutter (Hotbed Festival, 2008), These Four Streets (Birmingham Rep, 2009), Eating Our Words (Camden People’s Theatre, 2012), Waltzing Tomatoes (Ithaca Gallery, USA, 2013 and international festivals) and Between Constellations (Pittsburgh Festival Opera, USA; Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre, 2018). Her current projects include a new play supported by Sheffield Theatres, the Wellcome Trust and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which explores the impact medical racism has on Black women's experience of childbirth. Her plays are published by Oberon Books and Josef Weinberger Plays.
Currently an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths and Central School of Speech and Drama, Jennifer has lectured at Kingston University, the University of Greenwich, and London South Bank University, and has facilitated workshops for many of the UK’s theatre and arts organisations such as the National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Soho Theatre and the Royal Court. At Central, Jennifer teaches on the ethics of working with vulnerable communities, centring underrepresented narratives, and the dangers of art-washing and white saviorism.
Zoë is a co-creator, facilitator, and human ecologist whose creative work explores our relationship with the more than human world and centers underrepresented narratives and voices. Forthcoming productions include Camille’s Rainbow, (Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Opera, San Fransisco Opera), Hjertelyd (Den Jyske Opera) and a development commission for The Royal Opera House in Association with Leicester Curve. Keepers Of The Corallite, a song cycle created with composer Daniel Saleeb for Countertenor Iestyn Davies, was premiered in 2018. From 2011-17 she co-created Musical Rumpus, an award-winning opera series for children which has toured across the UK and Europe to venues including The Royal Opera House, Elphilharmonie, Rich Mix, The Sage Gateshead and Ovalhouse. Other writing credits include Nooma (Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Opera, San Fransiscon Opera), Robin Hood (The Opera Story), Orla’s Moon, Orla & The Sun (Wonderful Beast Theatre Company), Otoyotoy (Carnegie Hall) Between Constellations (Pittsburgh Festival Opera Global Commissioning competition, Semi-finalist), The Finding (Mahogany Opera Various Stages) Fosterling (Ovalhouse). She has been ACE writer in residence on the Thamesview Estate in Barking and has an ongoing collaborative relationship with Moving Star Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Zoë is currently a visiting professor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She works with Creative Futures on a long-term creative residency at The Royal London Hospital and was lead facilitator on Music & Motherhood, an investigation into the impact of singing on PND led by The Centre for Performance Science.
Zoë’s ecological work explores the intersection between environmental justice, spirituality, nature connection and wellbeing. She was research assistant for Alastair McIntosh’s book Hell & High Water: Climate change, Hope and the Human Condition (Berlinn, 2008) having completed her MSc Human Ecology thesis on Climate Change Narratives. In 2008 she founded The Golden Company - an award-winning social enterprise that addressed structural inequalities around access to nature for POC. Zoë was shortlisted for the Observer Ethical Award and awarded RSA fellowship for this work. Credits as a presenter include The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Discovery), Fierce Earth (CBBC), Planet of the Apes (Discovery) and Treks in A Wild World (National Geographic).
Nina is an artist working in sound, storytelling, voice and music. Her work is wide-ranging and explores ideas using different media. Nina forges successful collaborations working with other artists, organisations, academic researchers, producers, performers, writers and directors in a variety of settings. Nature, community and the art of making are themes frequently visited within projects.
Nina has worked with sound in many ways; from recording icebergs melting in the arctic; to creating soundscapes with groups of children; to composing music and sound design and producing audio for the BBC and international broadcasters/podcasters.
Nina’s practice based PhD was awarded by Bournemouth University in 2017, where she is now a visiting fellow – current research enquires include: Voice, self and embodiment; sound, body and wellbeing; music and narrative and the relationship between the artistic elements in narrative forms – she also runs educational courses, mentoring and consultancy in the areas she practices.
Awards and grants include: PRS Women make Music grant award; Phonurgia Nova Radio Art award; Third Coast International Dollar Storey winner; Grants for the Arts National Lottery award; BBC Radio Drama composer-in-residence.
With a sound that may be bad for your teeth but insanely good for your ears, North West London-born multidisciplinary artist Kookie also known as Kookie Blu isn’t stepping into a lane, she’s forming one all her own. From her unique image, to labelling her music as the infectious sounds of ‘Kookie Pop,’ Kookie invites her audience to explore her experimental world called Planet Loudon, while promoting the power of imagination and encouraging those who want to push their own boundaries and dive in to the unknown.
Kookie earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She moves freely within her multidisciplinary practice, creating content, writing and directing plays, music, video and theatre, visual arts, her experimental nature also explore important themes from capitalism to Afro-futurism. She delves into everyday life for inspiration, being brought up in a diverse community and having that exposure of different genres of music, fashion, and culture has allowed her to draw from these experiences and intertwining them into her works illuminating contemporary culture in distinctly original fashion. Her play Retail Therapy won the CoLLAB award to be produced in the Milton Court.And she has currently been nominated for the Evening Standard Future Fund Award for ‘Directing’.
By combining her style with confidence, strength and control through her signature husky vocals, along with the immensely catchy lyrics and visuals that she creates Kookie is aiming to stamp her mark as the British Afro-futurism artist. This will demonstrate her versatility as an artist but if there’s one thing that stays the same throughout all her works it’s that Kookie Pop originality.


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Winter Solstice Herbal Tea - 1.75 oz
Keep yourself armed with a tea packed with herbal allies. This tasty herbal drink has a chocolate mint flavor complimented by the winter time additions of cinnamon and cloves.
Best enjoyed by steeping 1 tablespoon with 8 oz of hot water for 4 minutes.
:organic cacao nibs, organic spearmint, organic fennel, organic cinnamon,

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Here I post the complete Gentleman’s Dignity OST. Gentleman’s Dignity has been one of the hottest dramas this summer. Although I don’t have any more time to write summary for this drama, it’s definitely my favorite weekend drama. This drama is just great with the whole package: casts, story line, dialogues…and of course original soundtrack.
I post again OST part 1 Kim Tae Woo’s “High High” in order to make it complete. So here’re all the soundtrack so far. Pick your favorite!
Kdramachoa is a blog owned by childhood best friends Rizz and Blossom, about liking Korean drama, music, and movie. We would like to share information, opinions and many things about Kdrama with people out there. Enjoy reading everyone! :)


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Take 15: Brief Encounters
Every summer, Performance Santa Fe presents a recital series with featured singers from Santa Fe Opera’s season. Such recitals will take place again this year, performed by soprano Anna Christy on Aug. 4 and mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy on Aug. 20. But to begin the series, the organization is offering something different: a program called Brief Encounters, comprising three very short (15-minute) operas by as many composers, all on the subject of love and marriage: Avow by Mark Adamo, Again by Jake Heggie, and Feel the Tango by Joe Illick. The performance takes place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 30, at the Scottish Rite Center (463 Paseo de Peralta). Tickets ($45-$75, with discounts for opera lovers under eighteen) can be purchased by visiting www.performancesantafe.org or www.ticketssantafe.org or by calling 505-988-1234. — J.M.K.

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2018 Porsche Panamera 4 Release Date and Prices – Whilst BMW has an extended wheelbase 7 Series to offer, Audi strats with an A8 L and even Volvo’s S90 is available in a stretched out “Excellence” version (for China only). Porsche, perhaps not planning to be overlooked of this chauffeur market, happens with a Panamera Executive version for rear legroom fans.
2018 Porsche Panamera 4 Exterior
Porsche used the currently quite large Panamera car-body and pulled it on a little around either end. The result is a wheelbase extended by 5.9 ins. Absolutely nothing else in the fashion with this well understood sleek look has changed.
2018 Porsche Panamera 4 Interior
As you would expect from any Porsche model, especially one labeled “Executive”, the 2018 Porsche Panamera Executive comes completely equipped with a variety of great benefits.
A few of the standard features regarding the car include heated comfort seats with multi-way electric adjustment, an adaptive atmosphere suspension system, a panoramic sunroof and a roll-up sunblind. Regarding the higher up models, additional features become available including a Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment system with 10.1-inch shows regarding the backrests for the front seats.
2018 Porsche Panamera 4 Engine
The Porsche Panamera additionally showcases a new, more-efficient turbocharged V-6 that produces 330 horsepower, up 20 horses from the past generation Panamera V-6. This engine that is new standard on the base Panamera and may also be suited to all-wheel drive Panamera 4 models plus the brand new long-wheelbase Executive variation.
In addition to this new V-6, the Panamera will offer you purchasers three other powertrain options. The remainder family includes the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, which produces 462 horsepower that is total the V8-powered 4S with 440 horsepower and the top-of-the-line Turbo with 550 horsepower. All four is had in either standard or Executive that is long-wheelbase trim. The Panamera series will include 9 total models you start with the standard- wheelbase/rear-drive V6 Panamera.
2018 Porsche Panamera 4 Release Date and Prices
The stack that is first of models will likely be delivered beginning in January 2017. Product sales associated with the redesigned Porsche Panamera start in with the 4S and Turbo models, which are 2017s january. They’ll be followed later on within the year by all of those other lineup, which will be 2018s.
The brand new entry-level, short-wheelbase Panamera will cost you $86,050, even though the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4 costs $90,650. The Panamera that is long-wheelbase 4 retails at $97,350, and the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid Executive is coming in at $105,150 ($4500 significantly more than the short-wheelbase Panamera 4 E-Hybrid). Pricing for the Executive derivatives associated with the 4S and Turbo versions has not been announced yet.


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Walk the line
You don’t have to be a trainspotter or J-line commuter to be interested in the redevelopment of the Johnsonville Line (though it undoubtedly helps). In any case, you shouldn’t miss your one and only opportunity tomorrow to walk the tracks between Crofton Downs station and the Wadestown crossing loop. Highlights include spectacular views of the gorge and a couple of spooky tunnels to explore.
For a sneak peek, here’s a video of the journey, complete with alarming squeaks and rattles and running commentary by an overexcited toddler, taken just before renovations began in earnest.
Clips of the rest of the trip are viewable over on YouTube, and you might also be interested in some photos of progress posted over at SkyscraperCity.
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The rhythm of summer
Florence and performances, a lasting bond. Discover the must-see events
Summer in Florence also means music.
From rock to electronica, the program of aoutdoor, live concerts is worthy of being held in one of the most important international capitals.
But let’s go in order and prepare ourselves for the first major burst of music: spectacular rock.
Yes, the second edition of Firenze Rocks, at the Visarno Arena, is definitely irresistible: on stage, amongst others, are the Foo Fighters and The Kills on June 14, followed by Guns N’ Roses on Friday, the 15th, Iron Maiden on Saturday, the 16th and the grand finale on Sunday, the 17th, Ozzy Osbourne. Twelve hours of electronica, from noon to midnight, for a thrilling day of dance and energy: for dance lovers, on Sunday, June 24 there’s Decibel Open Air 2018, with top names like Paul Kalkbrenner, Carl Cox and Nina Kraviz, at the Visarno Arena. This year’s edition of Estate Fiesolana, in the incredible Roman Theatre in Fiesole is loaded with events, from theatre to music, six evenings dedicated to narrating the Iliad and the participation of big-name musicians like Roberto Vecchioni on June 27, Avion Travel on the 29th, Elio Germano and Teho Teardo on Saturday, July 7, Stefano Bollani on July 10, Bobo Rondelli on July 13 and Calibro 35 on the 20th. Take major concerts and performances, add a dream location like piazza Santissima Annunziata, an enchanted place on warm summer evenings, and you’ll get the Musart Festival 2018. Amongst the live concerts on the program, there’s Baustelle on Tuesday, July 17, Chick Korea Akoustic Band on Monday, July 23, Jethro Tull on Tuesday, July 24, Francesco De Gregori on the 25th and Ermal Meta on Thursday, July 26. Mark your calendars: July 21, Stadio Artemio Franchi.
It’s right here in Florence that Rockin’1000 will take place, a powerful musical format bringing together more than 1,000 musicians who will all perform live at the same time.
For lovers of opera and classical music, the summer is decidedly hot, beginning with the 81st edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which under the direction of the Venetian Cristiano Chiarot expands to the most evocative and historic places in Florence, meeting the public where it’s to be found.
James Conlon pays tribute to Sostakovic on June 10 at Teatro del Maggio with the Leningrad Symphony, about the Russian resistance, while on June 15, also at Teatro del Maggio, the Chinese pianist Jin Ju performs Schubert using a fortepiano, a historic instrument. In the dense program that celebrates the 1,000th anniversary of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, on June 26, there’s the must-see concert of L’Homme Armé, directed by Fabio Lombardo, with music ranging from the Middle Ages (Guillaume Dufay) to the 20th century, performed by the American composer David Lang.
At Santa Maria del Fiore, on the 24th, the patron saint of Florence is celebrated with the Mass of San Giovanni at 10am. On June 28, Zubin Mehta directs Sir Andràs Schiff at the piano, who will perform two of the most complex pieces from the classical repertoire of Brahms and the first opera by Sostakovic at the Teatro.
From June 25 to 29, in Buontalenti’s evocative grotto in the Boboli Gardens, the Florentine season opens with La Dafne, an opera by Marco da Gagliano. Dance lovers can’t miss (June 29 to July 1) the performances organized by Maggio for the inauguration of Palazzina dell’Indiano. On July 20, for Musart, in piazza Santissima Annunziata, Riccardo Bolle and Friend takes the stage, in one of the most engaging performances of the season.
Dance continues, but this time set to the rhythm of poetry by Nobel-prize winner Joseph Brodsky, with the indestructible Mikhail Baryshnikov (from July 3 to 5) at the Teatro del Maggio.
Melomaniacs can miss the events featuring arias from the most famous operas on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday until late Autumn in various churches and palaces around Florence, like the Anglican church of St. Mark, Santo Stefano al Ponte, Santa Monica, Orsanmichele and Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
Also for Maggio, Riccardo Muti directs Macbeth at the Teatro (July 11 to 13), closing the 81st edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in style.


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College of Business among nation’s top business schools for vets
MSU Denver is among just four of Colorado’s business schools included on the list.
March 12, 2015
For the third consecutive year, the College of Business is included on the Military Times’ annual list of top business schools for veterans. The college is ranked at 48th in the nation on the increasingly competitive list, which was released earlier this week.
“Best for Vets: Business Schools” is an editorially independent evaluation that determines whether an institution is a good fit for military veterans.
“The College of Business is uniquely positioned to help veteran students because of the larger number of our faculty and staff who are veterans, including some of our department advisors,” said College of Business Dean Ann Murphy. “It’s encouraging that the University’s renewed efforts to support our veteran and military connected students haven’t gone unnoticed.”
“It is also noteworthy that MSU Denver’s College of Business received this recognition even without an MBA degree offering,” Murphy said. All but two institutions achieving this ranking offer MBA programs. In addition, MSU Denver was among just four of Colorado’s business schools ranked.
The Military Times organization — comprised of Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times — provides the most comprehensive school-by-school assessment of veteran and military students’ success rates. Military Times’ Best for Vets survey-based rankings include Colleges, Career & Technical Colleges, Business Schools, Franchise, Employers and Law Enforcement.
As part of MSU Denver’s commitment to veterans and active military students, the University continuously looks for opportunities for improving service delivery through enhanced support services and policy. Military Times named MSU Denver to its annual “Best for Vests: Colleges 2015” rankings as the top four-year institution in Colorado and 32nd in the nation. MSU Denver has also been included in Military Advanced Education's “Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities 2015.” In addition, G.I. Jobs magazine and U.S. Veterans Magazine listed MSU Denver in their 2014 guides of top military friendly schools.

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- Patients with congenital cataracts got visual input for the first time as pre-teens.
- Their brains took time to learn how to process that input.
- After a year, they have visual memory similar to that of individuals with sight since birth.
The brain comes prepared to perceive the world. When babies are born, the optic nerve (which carries signals from the light-sensitive retina at the back of the eye) connects to a nucleus in the thalamus, and, from there, connections go to areas of the brain’s cortex that are responsible for processing visual information. Although this wiring is built in, the areas of the brain need input in order to organize in ways that actually allow the visual world to be perceived.
An amazing thing about the visual system is that it supports incredible visual memory abilities. You are able to recognize large numbers of objects based on brief visual input. You are also able to remember which objects you have seen recently and to differentiate them from other objects you have not seen, even if you only view them briefly.
What would happen to your brain, though, if you did not get early visual input? For people who are blind from birth, their retinas never carry information about the visual world back to the brain, and, so, the brain is unable to organize in a way that would support visual perception. Suppose, though, that a blind person suddenly got the ability to see. Would the brain then adapt to this input and create the same kind of amazing memory abilities that people with sight since birth have?
This question was explored in a fascinating study by a team of nine authors led by Priti Gupta that appeared in the June 2022 issue of Psychological Science.
Study of Patients With Congenital Cataracts
They engaged with a project in India that provides surgery for congenital cataracts that emerged before the age of 1 so that these individuals functionally had no sight since birth. These patients received the surgery on average when they were 13 years old. Their performance was compared to that of a group of normally sighted children of a similar age. These participants wore lenses that blurred their vision to simulate the level of visual clarity that the patients would have after surgery.
All participants did several tests of visual memory in which they saw sets of 10, 20, 40, or 80 pictures and then did a test in which they saw the pictures from the set along with distractor images and had to say which of the pictures they had seen before. Some of the test sets showed real objects, and others showed abstract patterns. Tests were given to patients before the first surgery, once after the surgery on each eye (which were done about a week apart), and then again a month, 6 months, and 12 months after surgery).
Before surgery, some patients did have a little light that would pass through their cataracts. Nonetheless, they were not able to recognize the pictures they were shown during the test before their first operation. Their visual memory test results were also poor (though slightly better) after their first and second surgeries. However, by about a month after surgery, patients were much better at recognizing both the images of real objects and the abstract images.
Results at 12 Months After Surgery
By the time the participants were 12 months after surgery, their performance on the memory test was just as good as the normally sighted individuals whose vision was blurred.
This research suggests that the brain is able to adapt to getting visual input, even after 10 years of blindness. That said, it takes a little while before this ability to really process the images kicks in. Right after the second surgery, patients are getting input to the brain from their retinas, but their visual memory is still poor. After about a month, though, the brain has found ways to process this visual information, and, a year later, their brains do just about as well as those of people who had sight from birth.
Gupta, P., Shah, P., Gutnick, S. G., Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., Tiwari, K., Gandhi, T., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2022). Development of Visual Memory Capacity Following Early-Onset and Extended Blindness. Psychological Science, 33(6), 847–858. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211056664


Two local businesses with deep ties to the military and aviation sectors recently got huge lifts from a federally funded training program.
Burbank’s Centerpoint Manufacturing and Glendale’s Accurate Dial & Nameplate are poised to pick up work from some of the largest companies in the nation thanks to months-long improvement efforts, a financial stake from the Verdugo Jobs Center and the expertise of the nonprofit California Manufacturing Technology Consulting.
Using federal stimulus funds, the job center tapped the nonprofit to train staff and provide marketing advice, helping Centerpoint and Accurate Dial to get the certification needed to serve as contractors for Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other firms that hold lucrative military contracts.
Don Nakamoto, a labor force analyst for the Verdugo Jobs Center, said his agency spent about $165,000 to help 18 manufacturing companies — ranging from machine shops to bakeries — through the program, saving 170 jobs while adding about 24 new workers to local payrolls.
“In this environment it has been difficult to save jobs or create new jobs, but by identifying turnaround projects, we’ve been able to do pretty good work for the community,” Nakamoto said.
A few blocks from the Bob Hope Airport, Centerpoint Manufacturing Co. Inc. is run by brothers Andy, Johnny and Tony Rottuno, third-generation owners.
The 45-employee firm manufactures airplane landing gear, as well as parts for oil and gas drilling operations. Like other companies whose ultimate consumer is often the federal government, Centerpoint needs to meet an aerospace industry quality management standard known as AS 9100 to get steady work.
AS 9100 sets the bar for how companies manufacture products, design their operations and test and inspect their work. But it can be a challenge for small firms to meet since the rules are written by the industry’s major players and trade groups.
Johnny Rotunno said Centerpoint had been striving to meet the standard for a decade before the Verdugo Jobs Center program came along last year. When California Manufacturing Technology Consulting notified the Rottunos that stimulus money could absorb some of the cost, they were in. The company was certified in December.
“All of our customers are demanding that standard,” Johnny Rotunno. said.
His brother, Tony, said the firm has picked up one job to build the prototype of a new piece of equipment, and he believes more are on the way.
“It’s just like a restaurant,” he said. “The better grade you get, the better clientele you are going to get.”
Accurate Dial is a 21-employee firm that makes everything from cockpit displays on bombers to the ID plates on fire extinguishers.
Quality Manager Erin Dyer said hitting AS 9100 specs was “over our head; we just couldn’t do it.”
The company plans to celebrate its certification with a May 19 visit from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank). More importantly, it is now in solid standing with major manufacturing firms.
“By bringing our operating manual in compliance with aerospace industry specifications, we were able to retain quoting opportunities with Lockheed Martin and return [to working] with Northrop Grumman,” Dyer said.
Now that the companies have done what’s necessary to survive lean times, Nakamoto said he expects to see the investments pay off.
“Across most parts of the manufacturing sector, they are seeing a pretty significant pickup in activity,” he said. “We expect things are going to start turning around in hiring as well.”


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2012 Volume 59 Issue 4 Pages 139-144
A lime pretreatment process, calcium capturing by carbonation at room temperature (RT-CaCCO) that is used for enzymatic saccharification, was applied in order to recover glucose from whole-crop rice powders whose starch content was 26.4% of the total dry weight. Only 39.6% of the total starch was saccharified by enzymatic saccharification with the standard RT-CaCCO process, indicating the need for further optimization of the process. The effects of Ca(OH)2 concentration, mild heat treatment (MHT) and enzyme supplementation were evaluated for improved glucose release. Gelatinization enthalpy showed that MHT after RT-CaCCO (RT-MHT-CaCCO) with increased addition of Ca(OH)2 from 10 to 30% of the whole dry sample weight was reasonable in promoting sufficient disruption of starch structure, because of the increased absorption of Ca(OH)2 by the straw. The addition of α-amylase from Bacillus sp. improved the total glucose release up to 79.8% of the theoretically recoverable glucose, in which 87.0% of the total starch was saccharified. Bacillus α-amylase was probably more favorable for hydrolyzing alkali-treated starch and for producing substrates for amyloglucosidase compared to α-amylase found in the enzyme preparation of the standard RT-CaCCO process. The thorough alkali- gelatinization of starch and an appropriate combination of enzymes is crucial to apply the RT-CaCCO process to starch-rich whole-crop samples for efficient glucose recovery.

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I’m excited to be joining a bunch of futurists, VR filmmakers, artists and writers for the #whitemirror VR hack-a-thon… #onceuponafuture — a “temporary think tank” held on April 22nd and 23rd in LA! Below: new sketch I did in VR. New VR section of my website coming soon.
Many thanks to Lorraine Heitzman for her wonderful review of the Manifestos drawings at Ochi Projects! https://artandcakela.com/2017/03/24/nancy-baker-cahill-and-elisa-johns-at-ochi-projects/
Here are some installation shots of the 39 Manifestos at Ochi Projects installed in a single, cinescopic line:
I’m working on a prototype for the actual piece, but here is a fun Tilt Brush sketch which gets closer to where I am headed…
So excited to be showing the entire suite of new Manifesto drawings at OCHI Projects, opening March 9th 6-9 pm. Exhibition runs March 9-April 9th. Hope you can join us! OCHI Projects info: 3301 W. Washington Blvd. LA, CA 90018 OPEN Thurs- Sun 12-5pm For more info: [email protected]
Quick snapshots of recent sketches, learning this new language and having way too much fun. Looking forward to being able to take it to the next level with collaborators in the field.
I just had the privilege of being interviewed by Kitty Lindsay for her awesome podcast, Feminist Crush. You can listen to it here: http://feministcrush.libsyn.com/podcast
A couple of early snapshots of the beginning of my experimental VR project:
Very excited to be showing the Manifesto drawings in early March at Ochi Projects in Los Angeles. More info to come.. Manifesto No. 42, 12″ x 9″, graphite on paper, 2016
Moskowitz Bayse gallery has assembled works from 50+ artists in this super cool holiday shop online — with a portion of sales benefitting Carla (http://contemporaryartreview.la). I have a dozen new collages (explosions) available, made of wood veneer, graphite, acrylic and paper. A fantastic source if your holiday shopping includes original art! 🙂 https://www.moskowitzbayse-shop.com/drawings-paintings-1?category=Nancy%20Baker%20Cahill https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkXcwqBHta/?taken-by=nancybakercahill A […]


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I happened to have a lunch meeting at the country club. The occasion created the perfect excuse to dress like a lady who lunches. I think Dorothy would approve.
what I wore: hat/cut off shorts – vintage from cheap thrills, earrings/bag – vintage, swimsuit (as top) – jcrew, boots – dolce vita via shop lola, sunglasses – asos, bangle – mae’s, bow – forever21 what Ro wore: shorts – asos, shirt – curly tail via walker brothers, sunglasses – rayban
what I wore: skirt (as dress) – maude shoppe (old), boots – dolce vita via shop lola, bib necklace – vintage from mae’s, sunglasses – asos
what I wore: top – lna via shop lola, trousers – the limited, belt/watch – forever 21, cuff – express, ring – hemline, necklace – urban outfitters, heels – miss me

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JaRule begins prison term
JaRule is set to begin his 18-month prison sentence today after pleading guilty to a 2007 gun charge.
MTV News reports that the rapper is expected to turn himself today, when he’ll be sent to lockup in Upstate New York.
This sentence stems from his July 2007 arrest in New York City, following the discovery of a loaded semi-automatic handgun with the serial number scratched off hidden in his Maybach.
Back in December, Ja pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession. In March he also pleaded guilty to charges that he hadn’t paid more than $3 million in New Jersey taxes. He faces up to three years in prison for that.
Chris Brown to perform at BET Awards
June 26 is shaping up to be Chris Brown’s night. It’s just been announced that the crooner will be taking the stage to perform during the 2011 BET Awards in Los Angeles.
Last year, he stole the show with a tearful performance of Michel Jackson’s "Man in the Mirror," and viewers can’t wait to see how he’ll top that.
We reported last month that Chris tops the list of nominees for the BET Awards as he’s received nods in six different categories, including Viewer’s Choice and Video of the Year.
Alicia Keys and Jill Scott are also expected to perform at the BET Awards, hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, airing June 26 at 8 p.m. on BET networks.
Janelle Monáe preps new album
Janelle Monáe is ready to take her music to the next level. Janelle told MTV Hive that, despite the success of her 2010 debut, The ArchAndroid, she’s already working on her next project.
Fans should come to expect even more from Janelle on her sophomore album, which she is already “recording, writing, [and] playing instruments” for.
“This album will have very strong concepts and bigger ideas and the music will just go forward to another level,” Janelle said. “It will still be, I believe, relatable to the people. We have really big ideas, I must say, and we’re just trying to make sure we execute them properly.”
Khloé Kardashian apologizes for wardrobe malfunction
Khloé Kardashian gave "Fox & Friends" viewers an eyeful yesterday while making the rounds to promote the upcoming season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." The reality TV star was wearing a top with sheer fabric at the time and she feels a little bad about her moment of over-exposure.
"My stylist Monica Rose DID tell me to wear a bra with that sheer top but being the naughty girl that I am I disobeyed and went bra-less," Khloé explained on her blog. “On a more serious note though, to those who I offended, I am very sorry. It truly was an accident.”
She added, however, “I would be lying if I said I thought this was a big deal … I am not embarrassed about what happened … We ALL have nipples!”
Tisha Campbell-Martin offers TMI
Despite warnings from her husband, actor Dwayne Martin, Tisha Campbell-Martin held nothing back during her recent interview with the ladies of “The Talk.”
Not long after she graced the stage, Tisha was asked about the craziest place she and her hubby decided to get intimate.
“It was in a bathroom in the club. … It was like last year,” she said. “It just kind of happened.”
Realizing maybe she’d shared too much, Tisha acknowledged that her hubby wasn’t going to like telling all their business.
Tisha, whose show “The Protector” premieres on Lifetime TV on Sunday, also talks about her autistic son.
Watch the clip below.
Laurence Fishburne exiting ‘CSI’
Actor Laurence Fishburne returned to TV less than two years ago for a role on CBS’s “CSI,” but the Oscar nominee is hearing the call of the big screen.
Laurence starred as Dr. Raymond Langston on the long-running drama series, but sources say he’s going to focus on feature films now.
The show’s producers don’t seem shocked by Laurence’s decision.
“Nobody expected him to be on the show for 7 years. It’s Laurence Fishburne,” an insider told Deadline.com.
Flavor Flav gets a new clock
Hype man, reality star and author Flavor Flav visited “Conan” Tuesday to promote his new book, titled Flav Flav: The Icon the Memoir.
Dressed in a bright red suit and gold crown, Flav presented host Conan O’Brien with a brand new golden grill.
“I’m like a hillbilly rapper,” Conan joked.
In return, Conan presented Flav with a large coo-coo clock, complete with large gold chain, to wear around his neck.
“It goes with the suit,” Flav said.
Flav also explains how he first ended up wearing his signature clocks and discusses his idea for a Mackula movie. “He’s a pimped out vampire,” Flav said.
In the memoir, which is now available at Amazon.com, Flav is candid about his days of drug abuse and the money he spent supporting his habit.
"Yeah, I was spending $2,600 a day, for six years, every single day. I don’t know how much that is but if you did the math, wow, I went through a lot of money. If I did the math I’d probably be shocked on how much money I spent, I’d probably punch myself in the face," he told PopEater.com.
Tiger to miss out on U.S. Open
An injury will keep Tiger Woods from competing in this year’s U.S. Open.
“I am extremely disappointed that I won’t be playing in the U.S. Open,” Tiger said in a statement. “It’s time for me to listen to my doctors and focus on the future. I was hoping that I could play, but if I did, I risk further damage to my left leg.”
Tiger reportedly has two mild sprains: one to his medial collateral ligament and one to his Achilles’ tendon, according to the New York Times.
Some wonder whether Tiger’s lack of participation in recent tournaments marks the beginning of the end of Tiger’s career. In addition to some very public personal matters that have tarnished his image, the 35-year-old has been having minor health complications.
“It’s been a frustrating and difficult year, but I’m committed to my long-term health,” Tiger said before thanking his fans for their support.
Is Naomie Harris the next ‘Bond’ girl?
British actress Naomie Harris is in talks to star in the next James Bond film.
Naomie confirmed that she was offered a role, indiewire.com reports. However, she didn’t disclose whether or not she’d accepted the role.
Naomie has starred in the blockbuster films Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Street Kings and Miami Vice.
— Sonya Eskridge and Tracy L. Scott

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By Jennifer Schoonen, Blackfoot Challenge Communications Manager
Piles of slash lay scattered across the recently thinned forest. A team of foresters walked from pile to pile, setting them ablaze with their drip torches. As the flames rose, a group of area landowners and partners began traipsing around, learning that the process of setting up and eliminating your forestry project slash piles may not be as simple as lighting your average campfire.
In late October, the Missoula Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Blackfoot Challenge coordinated this pile-burning workshop for Potomac-area landowners as an educational component of an NRCS funding opportunity to support private lands forest health projects in the area.
The overall goals and objectives of the NRCS Potomac-area forestry “TIP” – or Targeted Implementation Plan (a process for providing landowners EQIP funding for specific resource priorities) — are to improve forest health and wildlife habitat, reduce wildfire hazard, and improve wildfire preparedness, while reducing insect and disease pressures on good quality trees growing within private forested acres.
Wildfires and declining health of forestlands are a growing concern amongst citizens of Missoula County. Tree stands within the NRCS’s Potomac Valley Focus Area have historically experienced frequent, low intensity wildfires. Decades of fire suppression have allowed densities of shade-tolerant tree species such as Douglas-fir to greatly increase. The high number of trees per acre has resulted in stress through competition for growing space, water, nutrients, and sunlight. The health and vigor of these forests substantially decrease when trees are stressed from overcrowding. Trees that are stressed grow slower and take longer to mature into a merchantable product. In addition, competitive stress and poor tree vigor provide opportunities for insects and disease to establish and spread. This disease and insect caused tree mortality adds to the fuel load and makes fire suppression activities more difficult.
Whether you own 10 or 100 forested acres, there are ways to enhance the health of the forest and reduce wildfire risk on your land. The more neighbors who work together, the better off all of our forests and communities will be. Through the Potomac area forest health TIP, the Montana NRCS and the Blackfoot Challenge are working together to provide technical advice and funding assistance for making private lands safer and more wildfire adapted.
Although the application period for participation this year has passed, the TIP forest health funding opportunity will continue for another couple of years.
For more information on the Potomac TIP (and others in the Blackfoot watershed), please visit the NRCS Montana website.
For more information on whether your forested lands would benefit from forest treatments – or for more resources on post-treatment pile burning, please contact Blackfoot Challenge Forestry and Prescribed Fire Coordinator Cindy Super at firstname.lastname@example.org.
In the meantime – if you have plans to burn slash or brush piles in the near future, here are a few tips shared during the recent workshop.
Before you burn …. make sure you have ready:
- Reliable water source(s)
- Good sturdy shovel
- Heavy gloves & boots
- Spotter (someone to watch for sparks)
- Burn Permit / Number
- Burn spot is chosen wisely
Burn Pile Safety
- Build your debris piles in vegetation openings, away from overhead branches, wires, structures and other burnable materials.
- Scrape debris and any other burnable material away from your piles, so material is surrounded by several feet of bare soil.
- Once you ignite your debris, attend your fire continuously.
- When you think your fire is out, check ashes for glowing embers. With a new burst of oxygen (generated by stirring ashes), even a few live coals will soon produce smoke. Make sure your fire is dead out!
- Keep water and tools ready in case there are fire- or weather-related changes.
- As the fire burns down, move branches and other debris from the outer ring into the center (don’t forget your gloves for this process!).
- Always have sufficient help, tools and equipment to control the fire.
You can find more burn safety tips and burn permit applications (for Missoula County residents) at the Missoula County Fire Protection Association’s website.


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This book can be downloaded and read in Apple Books on your Mac or iOS device.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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I love the way Paulo Coelho written this history , this book talk about life . Beautiful .
Freakin love it! I read this 2 years ago and I still talk about how amazing this book is. Ladies... Must read. Men... Learn from it lol
I read this on a 9 hour flight back from Europe. I couldn't stop! I ended the book an hour before landing. As always Coehlo captivated me like not many authors do. This book is a must read if you are a fan of PC.


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thanks blueridge!! LOL Luimeril. Sounds like my Dally. He sat ext to Shadow. staring at him. Shadow was freaking out and putting on a show. And Dally? naaah.
however Dally also prefers his stupid bowl x.x
Bellasmomma in the store, shipping day he was still mellow xD there were a bunch of mean reds, inquisitive cellophones, and flaring blues, and amongst them him and the other whitish betta were just chilling
I will give him a week and see how mellow he is. Usually when I have a betta in a large tank, they love exploring. he takes his sweet time exploring
then just sits there. staring at me.

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Pesach is almost here which means it’s the perfect time to plant your Marror – for next year’s Seder!
Horseradish is super easy to grow and is started from a piece of the root itself, which most of us will have in our homes in the immediate future. So now’s the time!
Step 1. When you get your horseradish before Seder night, cut off one piece of at least 2 inches long. It can be small a scraggly piece. Save the juiciest ones for your Hillel sandwich!
Step 2. Fill up a pot with soil and plant the root, covering them with a few centimeters of soil. Water well every day.
Step 3. Within 2 weeks, you should be seeing the fleshy leaves of increasing size. By Shavous you should have a large plant. This plant grows fast! Just don’t forget to water every day or two in hot weather.
Step 4. If you want fat roots, move it to a bigger receptacle or bin (with drainage holes drilled) with a lot more soil.
Step 5. Erev Pesach 2024: harvest your own organic marror! Forget paying 35 shekel/kg at the supermarket! Just word of warning: homegrown horseradish is HOT! You will certainly be experiencing the bitterness of slavery!
Don’t forget to separate Trumos and Maaseros before eating it! Failing to do so is the kashrus equivelent of eating a ham sandwich! It’s really not hard to do, and is a nice mitzvah in itself!
Step 6. Save one piece of root and re-plant immediately for next year.
Is Horseradish a Weed?
Some people will tell you that horseradish is a weed because gardeners all over the world complain the roots spread and take over their gardens.
However, here in Israel I don’t believe it is a weed because it cannot survive our summer without careful watering. This year I killed mine when I went away for a three weeks in August.
Luckily a friend let me dig up a root from hers and I planted again in October – so this year we will have just a small amount. Thankfully a little bit of homegrown horseradish is more than enough to make you cry!
Bonus Tip: Wild Maror is Freely Available Everywhere
Most people these days use Romaine Lettuce for their maror on their Seder table. We all buy it in large quantities wrapped in tons of plastic and grown with scary amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We try not to think about such things!
But did you know that the ancestor of Romaine Lettuce is a plant called Wild Lettuce, that grows freely all across urban Israel at this time of year? Some Torah authorities maintain that Wild Lettuce (AKA חסת המצפן) is even preferable to cultivated Romaine Lettuce, because it is actually bitter (though not unbearably so at this season).
Note: There is no requirement to seperate Trumos and Maaseros from wild foraged plants. No ham sandwhiches to worry about here!
If you are not sure whether you should use Wild Lettuce for the mitzvah of eating maror on Seder night, ask your Rabbi.
Even if you choose not to use it, it’s fun to spot the grandaddy of all your lettuce salads. It has medicinal properities too!
Happy Pesach Prep!


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Blogpost: IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme01 December 2021
Dr Eimear Duff recently represented the Academy at the IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme.
Effective healthcare institutions need effective leaders. The IAP Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme trains emerging leaders (under the age of 40) working in healthcare centres around the world and links them together in a peer-support network.
The issue of developing leadership qualities among health professionals is often neglected, with many young professionals having to learn their leadership skills almost by trial and error as they are handed positions of responsibility.
Although incorporating leadership training programmes into the medical curriculum is gaining in importance, in practice too few countries are actually providing such training. To contribute to building capacity in this area, the IAP launched its Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme in 2011 in partnership with the World Health Summit (WHS) and the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities.
To date, the IAP YPL network of alumni includes more than 200 leading young professionals, under the age of 40, who were nominated by their national academies. The Royal Irish Academy was recently represented at the IAP 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme by Dr Eimear Duff of St James's Hospital. Here, Dr Duff reflects on her experience of the programme, which this year was held virtually.
In the shadow of a global pandemic, the 2021 Young Physicians Leaders Programme was held virtually, but was no less an immensely worthwhile experience. Our experience kicked off with a meet-and-greet session, where I came to know a group of fascinating young physicians from all corners of the globe - from Tanzania to Turkey, Chile to India. All were involved in a range of clinical, policy, research, and educational roles. Hearing about their impressive career journeys, all working toward a common goal of solving complex health problems and improving healthcare worldwide, was inspiring. I look forward to hopefully meeting them in-person in spring 2022 as planned.
The World Health Summit itself provided a smörgåsbord of interesting discussions. There was a particular focus on pandemic preparedness and response, with interconnected themes of vaccine policy for health equity, planetary health, access to essential medicines, artificial intelligence, among many others, being explored. With seven sessions being held concurrently at any one timeslot, I initially felt torn between which to attend, and flitted between different virtual 'rooms', trying to absorb as much as possible. I soon realised the sessions were uploaded onto YouTube shortly afterwards! At the Young Physician Leaders' spotlight on "Empowering Young Global Health Leadership", there was an excellent discussion on our shared professional challenges, and solutions to these explored. Another particularly enjoyable session was the interactive "Pettenkofer Talk" on career paths in the interdisciplinary field of Global Public Health, where I gained useful career advice from Prof. Dr. Ilona Kickbusch. As a patient-facing clinician, I had the invaluable opportunity to zoom out from wards and clinics and immerse myself in the World Health Summit, reflecting on broader issues in global health. I am deeply grateful to the Royal Irish Academy and the InterAcademy Partnership for this extraordinary experience.
Dr Eimear Duff, November 2021
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Dr Eimear Duff is a Senior House Officer in internal medicine at St James's Hospital, Ireland's largest acute academic teaching hospital. As a doctor with a passion for clinical leadership, health policy and health systems improvement, Dr Duff previously served as an intern with the Leadership, Management and Coordination division of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva. She also worked as a special assistant to the executive team of Results for Development, a global nonprofit working with change agents around the globe to create strong, self-sustaining health and education systems for all. She is passionate about the broader environmental factors which pose a major challenge to health, and at the last DotMD conference, successfully pioneered a collaborative project with Irish Doctors for the Environment (IDE) to make the conference a ‘green meeting’.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by authors are their own and do not reflect the position of the Royal Irish Academy
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Come along on a journey through a dreamy day in our amazing world, starting in the dewy dawn and ending with a dance by the light of the full moon. We'll meet charming characters and learn about their purpose and preciousness, through fun and playful rhythm and rhyme. This joyful book is a meditation that reminds us that every person, animal and thing in the world has special qualities we can appreciate, value and love about them. And we are all so much more than we believe we are. For ages 3 to 103.


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A health company has revealed the key information about the products that are closest to a real-life version of the pill seen in the hit 2011 film ‘Limitless.’ Utmost Me is aware that there is a great level of demand on the market for a pill that improves cognition and the company is now ready to educate customers about the truth behind nootropics. |
Similar to the pill in the Hollywood movie. Nootropics are pills that can have positive impacts on mental cognition and clarity of the mind. In doing so, the company states that nootropics can lead to a greater level of cognitive performance and may even improve a users ability to complete mental tasks. Or, just perform more effectively in their everyday life. Though, the company does point out that nootropics are nowhere near as powerful as the pill seen in the movie they are still very impressive and can deliver beneficial results.
The company is well aware that there are a number of misconceptions about nootropics and in their Nootropics beginners guide they have worked to dispel a number of these misguided notions. For instance, their guides explains what nootropics actually means and why that meaning is important for customers to grasp.
The company is also keen to address the potential danger of nootropics and the idea that all nootropics are artificial. Utmost Me is eager for customers to learn that some of the best nootropics or smart drugs are natural and may actually be more beneficial. The company has explained in their Nootropics beginners guide that this is due to the fact that the body will see these supplements as food. As such, they will be absorbed more easily and could therefore be more effective.
As well as this the company has highlighted a number of the key benefits that users can get from nootropics brain supplements. Utmost Me believe that customers will be fascinated to discover that the benefits are far more extensive than just improved cognition. In fact, the company highlights a number of other benefits including the positive impact that nootropics can have on individuals suffering from high levels of anxiety. The company believes it is important to highlight information like this due to the positive effects nootropics could have for certain users.
Utmost Me is a health company that has the main goal of improving general levels of wellness across the globe. They are keen to make sure that people can access the supplements they need to improve their health and maximise their potential, both mentally and physically. With a focus on natural products, the company is constantly working towards a brighter, healthier tomorrow.
With their new Nootropics beginners guide the company is eager to separate Hollywood fantasy from reality, highlighting the true benefits and potential of nootropic brain supplements.
More information about nootropics can be found on the company website. Alternatively, the business can be contacted directly with the information provided below.
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KIEV, August 31 (Itar-Tass) - Prices of gas imported by Ukraine from Europe in June amounted to 397.7 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, while from Russia - 421.7 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres, Ukraine’s State Statistics Service says.
According to statistics, Ukraine imported from Russia 653.74 million cubic metres of gas total worth of 275.68 million U.S. dollars in June 2013. In January-June, Ukraine’s gas import from Russia reached 9.668 billion cubic metres total worth 4.074 billion U.S. dollars, while an average price of Russia’s gas amounted to 421 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres in the first half of the year.
Proceeding from the report, Ukraine imported from Europe in the reverse mode 660.65 million cubic metres of gas total worth of 259.46 million U.S. dollars in January-June 2013, while an average price amounted to 392.74 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. In June, Ukraine imported 271.89 million cubic metres of gas worth 108.12 million U.S. dollars. In particular, the republic imported from Germany via Poland 134.06 million cubic metres of gas worth 52.09 million U.S. dollars. In June, Germany’s gas price for Ukraine was estimated at 388.6 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. In the first half of the year, Ukraine imported from Germany 504.78 million cubic metres of gas total worth 196.34 million U.S. dollars, while an average price was at 388.95 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres.
In addition, in June Ukraine imported via Hungary 137.83 million cubic metres of gas total worth 56 million U.S. dollars, while an average price reached 406.46 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. In January-June 2013, Ukraine’s gas import via Hungary was at 155.86 million cubic metres total worth 63.1 million U.S. dollars.
According to the national Statistics Service, Ukraine’s overall gas import over the six months reached 10.33 billion cubic metres worth 4.33 billion U.S. dollars, which was 35.6 percent smaller than on the same period of 2012.
Shortly ago, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavitsky noted that the Naftogaz Ukrainy national company, which cut gas import from Russia by 30 percent this year, plans to stop purchasing gas in Russia in the near future, while doubling them from European countries in 2014. “I think that the import from Europe may reach 2.0-2.5 billion cubic metres by January 1, 2014. And it is rather realistic to reach at least five billion cubic metres in 2014, in compliance with those plans and bids, which I have already seen,” the minister said.


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Go to Select > Color Range > Midtones. Since the texture has a very high contrast, you should be selecting only small portions of the image. Create a new layer and fill the selection with green (36592e). Set the layer’s opacity to 30% and hide the image’s layer.
Repeat the same process to create another texture layer with a different colour (#669996), but rotate the image this time, and play around with the contrast to make the lines thinner. Leave this layer’s opacity at 100% after filling the selection in another layer.
As a final touch, add some bird shapes from Bittmap’s freely downloadable pack, www.tinyurl.com/5dczvs, to the landscape. Add four similar ones, and position them horizontally as to make them look as though they’re flying around the trees. Use them as an opportunity to add variation to the design with a bold orange colour, and add a few highlights to their wings.
Now use a soft brush with the pressure sensitivity enabled to draw streams that suggest the birds’ motion. Also, make a selection of the letters’ faces and fill them with similar shades of green. I gave the ‘r’ and first ‘e’ a more intense colour, and added an orange reflection through a clipping mask.
Add some contrast to the image by adding a Curves and Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Because the curves will also intensify the colour, drag the Saturation bar to -7 and change the Hue to -5.
Who: Digital illustrator and graphic design student Alex Beltechi is based in Romania and currently writes tutorials based on personal projects. Last year he won an international competition for Photoshop tutorials. He now works as a freelancer and enjoys composing piano based music in his (non-existent) free time.
Software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
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I live with my husband, John, younger son, Tony & 2 cats in a village in South Herefordshire UK. Our elder son, Chris, is in Hereford and our daughter, Cat, in Cardiff.
I love writing short stories and poetry, am working on my autobiography. Also love music, play guitar and sing, enjoy gardening, family history and travel when I can.
We bought our cottage for the view 36 years ago. It's in a terrace of five, part way up a hill overlooking the village, the Black Mountains & the Golden Valley.


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UM Renegade Electric has been scheduled for an India launch this year, will be exclusively available in Delhi initially.
Based out of Florida, UM entered the Indian market in 2016 with its Renegade series of cruiser motorcycles. The American manufacturer also took covers off the UM Renegade Electric at the 2017 EICMA show. According to recent reports, UM plans to launch the electric cruiser in the country later this year. Initially, the model will be exclusive to the national capital due to charging infrastructure limitations. However, UM aims to ensure availability in other cities in due course of time.
Sitting on an all-new platform, the Renegade Electric gets an electric motor to push the power output to around 50 BHP. In comparison, the 276cc petrol motor that currently powers the Renegade range develops 25 BHP of power and 23 Nm of torque. The electric cruiser will come with three battery options with real-world range varying from 100 kms to 260 kms. There’s an option to go for a fast charger to be able to juice up the battery from empty to 80% in 40 minutes.
As opposed to the 6-speed gearbox seen on the petrol-powered range, UM Renegade Electric’s motor is said to come mated to a 5-speed gearbox. With the power output nearing the 600cc petrol motorcycle territory, UM plans to price the Renegade Electric at around Rs. 6 lakhs (ex-showroom) which will position it against the Harley-Davidson Street 750 and Kawasaki Vulcan S. UM’s Renegade range consists of the Sports S, Commando, Mojave and Classic priced from Rs. 1.64 lakhs to Rs. 1.98 lakhs (ex-showroom, Mumbai).
UM Renegade Electric
– UM Renegade Electric India launch planned for later this year
– Based on a new platform, outputs around 50 BHP of power
– Will be exclusively available in Delhi initially
– Expected to be priced around Rs. 6 lakhs (ex-showroom)
Source – BikeWale.com