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A major research interest is the care of older persons, and how to improve the care in different ways. Existential needs and existential health in this age, needs recognition and space in health care. Therefore, health care staff need support, time and space to be better equipped encountering existential issues and having existential conversations. In person-centered care the encounter with the older person / patient is essential, but working methods, organization and leadership are also important parts for care of good quality. Another important aspect is collaboration between different care units and care levels, as well as collaboration with other professionals. These are important aspects for developing a sustainable care, where the patient's physical, social, psychological, and existential needs are met.
Other research interests are volunteers and their opportunities to participate in care, as well as the importance of person-centered leadership.
Senior lecturer and Programme Director of the Nursing Programme. I teach mainly in the nursing programme, and in addition to the mentioned tasks, I am also the Collaboration Coordinator at the Faculty of Health Science.
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Sjöberg, M., Larsson, H. & Sundström, M., 2023-Mar-27, Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 100, 1, p. 227-235 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › ArticleOpen AccessFile49 Downloads (Pure)
Being a volunteer encountering older people's loneliness and existential loneliness: alleviating loneliness for others and oneselfSundström, M., Blomqvist, K. & Edberg, A-K., 2021-Jun, In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 35, 2, p. 538-547 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-reviewOpen AccessFile12 Citations (Scopus)47 Downloads (Pure)
Existentiell ensamhet hos sköra äldre personer: vårdpersonals och volontärers erfarenheter och behov av stödSundström, M., 2020, Malmö universitet.
Research output: Types of Thesis › Doctoral ThesisOpen AccessFile84 Downloads (Pure)
The context of care matters: older people’s existential loneliness from the perspective of healthcare professionals: a multiple case studySundström, M., Blomqvist, K., Edberg, A-K. & Rämgård, M., 2019, In: International journal of older people nursing. 14, 3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review16 Citations (Scopus)
Lindberg, U., Salomonson, N., Sundström, M. & Wendin, K., 2018, In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 40, p. 1-7 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review24 Citations (Scopus)
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Fountains to explore in Florida
Florida is distinctive for its large Cuban expatriate community and high population growth, as well as for its increasing environmental issues. The state's economy relies mainly on tourism, agriculture, and transportation, which developed in the late 19th century. Florida is also renowned for amusement parks, orange crops, winter vegetables, the Kennedy Space Center.
A public park surrounded by four streets. Lake Eola is the main feature of the park. Also located in the park (on the west side) is the Walt Disney Amphitheater, which hosts many community events and various performances year-round. On the east side of the park is a Chinese pagoda, and a playground.

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LAHORE: Mohsin Khan the interim coach of Pakistan said that his team is looking forward for a ‘fresh Start” when they will face England in Test and one day series in UAE (United Arab Emirates) for the first time after fixing scandal.
Since last year fixing scandal in England both teams are playing for the first time. We faced negative comments in British media but, we are just looking for a positive and good series. Mohsin added
Last month Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir & Mohammad Asif were locked up in London jail on the ground of spot fixing in 2010 of a test match against England.
Mohsin Khan led Pakistan for a series win against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and is confident about player’s relation and performance and he believes that strong management is necessary as well.
Referee and umpires role are significant as well what happened in past was a history, we are just looking ahead for a fresh start and we will prove ourselves with our performance nothing else and rest is history. Mohsin added
Mohsin recall left armed pace bowler Wahab Riaz and all the selection is made by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).we want Wahab because he make use of old ball beautifully and gets reverse swing which will benefit us on pitches at Abu Dhabi and Dubai. He added
For some security reasons Pakistan is unable to host international cricket, Pakistan will play three Tests, 4 One day and three Tweenty20 matches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from 17 January 2012.

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Another accident was reported, this time on the Benque Viejo Road. According to reports, the incident occurred around four thirty this evening and involved a school bus and a cargo truck that was loaded with goods. The school bus was empty heading to San Ignacio and the truck was heading to Benque Viejo. Reports are that both drivers were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Police has not yet determined the cause of the accident and there is a possibly that speeding was a factor.


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U. of Texas Wind Ensemble Archive
Shadows of Sirius – Music by BRYANT, PUCKETT and MACKEY/ U. of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry F. Junkin – Naxos audio-only Blu-ray
A superb surround recording of contemporary wind band music.
JOHN CORIGLIANO: Circus Maximus (Symphony No. 3 for large wind ensemble); Gazebo Dances for band – The University of Texas Wind Ensemble/ Jerry Junkin – Naxos (audio-only)
A 35-minute surround sound piece in which the audience becomes the center of the activity.

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A military judge has refused to dismiss the most serious charge facing a US soldier accused of leaking thousands of secret documents.
Lawyers for Pte Bradley Manning, 25, had argued the US has not proved that he "aided the enemy".
The charge carries a life prison term. He has previously pleaded guilty to 10 of the more than 20 charges he faces.
Prosecutors have argued he "systematically harvested" documents eventually seen by Osama Bin Laden.
"He was knowingly providing intelligence to the enemy," said Judge Colonel Denise Lind in Thursday's hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland.
The decision does not rule out the possibility of Pte Manning being ultimately acquitted of the charge.
No 'evil intent'
On Thursday, Judge Lind also denied a defence request to drop a computer fraud charge.
She is still considering a motion by Pte Manning's lawyers to dismiss five charges of theft.
The case, involving 700,000 files, is considered the largest-ever leak of secret US government documents.
On Monday, defence lawyer David Coombs said the Army private was guilty of negligence, but not the "general evil intent" required to justify the life charge.
He said the government had offered no evidence to show that Pte Manning knew the leaked files could fall into the hands of al-Qaeda militants.
Pte Manning's lawyer has sought to show that he was "young, naive and good-intentioned" when he arrived in Iraq, but became disillusioned.
The accused told a pre-trial hearing in February that he had divulged the documents to spark a public debate about US military and foreign policy.
Prosecutors have argued the leaks damaged national security and endangered American lives, and said Pte Manning used his military training and access to gain notoriety.
Among the items sent to Wikileaks was graphic footage of an Apache helicopter attack in 2007 that killed a dozen people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, including a Reuters photographer.
Other files leaked included thousands of battlefield reports from Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as secure messages between US embassies and the state department in Washington.

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Purpose of reviewThe current review highlights recent advances in the area of renal tubular phosphate transport and its regulation by fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), a potent regulator of phosphate homeostasis.Recent findingsRecent studies demonstrate that FGF23 binds to both membrane and soluble form of α-klotho to activate FGF receptor signaling pathways. Parathyroid hormone and FGF23 equivalently decrease sodium-dependent phosphate cotransport but the effect is not additive, suggesting a shared but not synergistic mechanism of action. Crosstalk occurs downstream of parathyroid hormone-receptor and FGF23-receptor signaling and converge at the level of the scaffolding protein, sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor-1. A novel mechanism for phosphate efflux through the basolateral membrane of renal proximal tubular epithelia via an atypical G-protein coupled receptor, Xenotropic and polytropic retrovirus receptor 1 (XPR1), was recently identified. Conditional deletion of Xpr1 gene in renal proximal tubules in mice leads to hypophosphatemic rickets and Fanconi syndrome establishing an important role for XPR1 in phosphate homeostasis. A novel anti-FGF23 antibody, burosumab, was recently approved to treat X-linked hypophosphatemia, a human disorder of FGF23 excess.SummarySignificant advances in understanding the cellular and molecular aspects of renal tubular phosphate transport and its regulation by FGF23 has led to the discovery of novel therapeutics to treat human disorders of phosphate homeostasis.
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Say it out loud and hold the “m” for effect when you say it: One hundred ninety five million dollars.
Yes, a record-breaking $195 million.
That’s the amount paid at a Monday night sale of Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964). It’s the most ever paid for a 20th-century artwork at auction. Christie’s held the sale to kick off the spring auction season and predicted a $200 million sale of the work, and they almost hit on the number.
Proceeds from the sale benefit the new Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zürich,
described in a press release as “dedicated to improving the lives of children the world over by establishing support systems centered on providing healthcare and educational programs.”
“Andy Warhol’s picture of Marilyn, surely now more famous than the photograph (an original publicity still for the 1953 film Niagara by Henry Hathaway) on which it is based, bears witness to her undiminished visual power in the new millennium,” said Georg Frei, chairman of the board at the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, in a press release.
The winning bid of $195,040,000 was placed by Larry Gagosian on behalf of an unnamed buyer. The work is part of the Shot Marilyns series – so called for the participation of East Village performance artist Dorothy Podber. The “Shot” in the name refers to the fact that the works were shot by Podber with a pistol.
One day in 1964, Podber visited Warhol at the Factory, his New York studio. Podber asked Warhol if she could “shoot” a stack of Warhol’s newly-finished Marilyn Monroe silkscreens. Naturally, Warhol assumed Podber wanted to photograph them – not shoot them with a pistol, which is what she did.
An interesting sidebar here: Podber is rarely described as a collaborator, which she most certainly is. And you can even make a case that she co-authored the famous work.
So the most expensive work 20th-century work ever sold at auction isn’t exactly unblemished. It’s got a bullet hole in it.
Fascinating. And forever a part of Warhol and artwork lore.


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Sands of Destruction, originally released in Japan last year under the title Worlds of Destruction, will be released this summer in USA. Sega has just published the first U.S. Teaser Trailer of the game.
Pretty good opening. Sega has certainly been on a roll and this game is no exception :)
I figured it was an RPG of a sort then it lost me when I noticed it was for the DS.
Well then you sir are missing out on a lot of great rpgs
I want to play it just for the bear with the eyepatch, it just reminds me of the Ravemaster and One Piece anime.
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EUROPEAN HEALTH The Nordic trio of Norway, Sweden and Finland are the healthiest countries in Europe, according to an index created by Healthcare Europe, a new publication from the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation of The Economist. The index covers 35 European countries and is an unweighted sum of their rankings on 14 different indicators, including life expectancy, infant mortality, immunisation coverage, the number of AIDS cases, death rates from cancer, heart, respiratory and infectious diseases, and tobacco use. The lower the index, the healthier the nation.
Strong community health care and good coverage by public health programmes help to explain why Nordic countries rank so highly. Italy ranks fourth, partly because of a dramatic improvement in immunisation rates. Other Mediterranean countries, such as Greece and France, are also high on the list, thanks to good diets and lower levels of heart disease. Northern European countries fare worse, with their poor diets and lifestyles. Britain, for instance, ranks 14th and Germany 16th. But the unhealthiest countries in Europe are in the east, where diets are bad and health care is dominated by costly and inefficient hospitals. Russia is the sickest man of Europe.
This article appeared in the Emerging-Market Indicators section of the print edition under the headline "European health"
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A masters is earned after students complete an undergraduate degree program. To obtain a masters, you usually need to complete 12 to 18 college courses that often involve completing comprehensive tests and/or a thesis.
The aim of the Master of Translating is to care for proficient bilinguals with the linguistic, technical and professional skills, experience and abilities to work as translators, as well as an academic grounding in translation hypothesis and analysis experiences.
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. The capital Kiev (Ukrainian: Київ - Kyiv, Russian: Киев - Kiev) is the and largest city of Ukraine with - officially - over 2.7 million inhabitants. Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenkouniversity is the largest and one of the more important universities.
The city of Kiev is not only the largest city in Ukraine but also serves as the capital city with a population of more than 2,000,000 inhabitants. The city is full of historical landmarks and besides being a major commercial hub, the city is an educational powerhouse with close to 200 universities and institutes of higher education.
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S. Korea's exports in November hit all-time high of US$ 60.44 bil.
Updated: 2021-12-01 17:01:01 KST
Despite the pandemic, South Korea in November posted its best-ever monthly figure for exports.
Shipments surpassed 60 billion U.S. dollars for the first time.
At this pace, that could mean a new record for the year as well.
Kim Sung-min reports.
South Korea's exports in November hit an all-time monthly high, reaching a milestone of 60 billion U.S. dollars for the first time on record.
According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Wednesday, exports last month came to around 60.4 billion dollars, up more than 32 percent from a year earlier.
It was the 13th consecutive month of on-year growth.
South Korea's key exports including chips, cosmetics and computers drove the surge, with some of the items breaking their own record for the month of November.
In fact13 out of 15 major items saw an increase.
Exports of automobile parts declined because of on-going global chip shortages, while biohealth products were down due to the base effect from last year which marked the third highest November for exports.
In terms of destination countries, fresh records were reported for China and ASEAN nations.
Exports to China rose above 15 billion dollars for the first time ever, with the ASEAN seeing exports over 10 billion.
So far, the country's exports from January to November are closing in on 5-hundred-84 billion dollars, higher than any other years for the same period.
At this pace, exports from South Korea are expected to set a new annual record this year, though downside risks remain.
"Will this trend continue next year? For the beginning of next year probably but I think this is expression of a pent-up demand that people had during the coronavirus lockdowns and shutdownsI think as we return to normal we will not see this extraordinary demand for IT products and semiconductors"
Experts also warn that the on-going supply bottlenecks around the world are another factor that could keep exports from growing as they have been.
Kim Sung-min, Arirang News.


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Hi again everyone! It's Sue here with you for my final share this month.
This time I am sharing a layout featuring a photo of my gorgeous girl taken on the night of her school Christmas concert. In keeping with the subject theme, I opted to use nice, bright colours and a simple approach to the design.
I formed this cluster using a gold foil doily; Journal Its journal spot and flair button from a recent Just Add Paper kit; and a Freckled Fawn arrow paper clip. You can also see a wood veneer heart that I brushed lightly with some glimmermist and a D-lish Dots enamel dot.
There is no doubt I love a bit of bling, so this wood veneer title (also from a previous JAP kit) got a bit of the sparkle treatment in the form of glitter. The wood veneer pinwheel was coloured using a Dylusions ink spray and then topped with a D-lish Dot. (I love how versatile wood veneer is - 3 different pieces on this layout altered in 3 different ways!) I mounted the title on a gorgeous dip dye tag, which I tied with a bit of cotton twine.
For my final small cluster, I added some more pink washi tape, a Journal Its journal strip and one of my all-time favourite sequin bows. Then I splattered a little of the yellow Dylusions spray around my layout to finish.
Thanks for popping in today so I could share this with you. It was nice to end my shares this month on such a bright, happy piece! Don't forget if you have some scrappy time of your own to spare, that the Inspiration Board Challenge runs until the end of the month, and there are 4 new Cyber Crop challenges open in the Scrap Suite! You could even win yourself a D-lishous prize!
Til next month, happy scrapping! X

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text: Ever since that cameo Howard did at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy which impressed me and now that he is popular again with a fine new comic series even merchandise plus re-issues of the original comics in graphic novel trade paperbacks, it gave me an idea. I think Marvel Studios/Netflix with James Gunn (a major Howard fan since the 70s) should do a live-action/animated combo series based on the legendary Marvel character. Although his movie was considered a legendary bomb in theaters yet became a cult fave, yes i do like it since i saw the movie in theaters at age 4 and is one of my guilty pleasures then later as a kid i read back issues of the comics from comic stores and became a fan of the character. Yet this ideal show can redeem the character plus shorts of Rocket/Howard together with Cosmos would be something so people can know the real Howard from the comics better. This show can be a 4th wall breaking comedy-satire-adventure series faithful to both the old and new comics with James Gunn and Seth Green as writers and producers of the show. I see Howard as a 2D animated character in a flesh-and-blood world with flesh-and-blood people in the show as it can be Cool World/Son of Zorn/Roger Rabbit meets Deadpool/Sunny in Philadelphia kind of thing. I can see Emma Stone be Beverly with Sacha Baron Cohen as Ringmaster.


Artefactus Teatro has been so kind as to receive Ariel Bouza and his team into its southeast space in Miami. Bouza and company bring a gift from Havana for this April: a loose, free version of Story of an Abandoned Doll by Norge Espinosa, which is from the text by the Spanish playwright Alfonso Sastre.
I traveled far into the southern reaches of Miami to see this play for the second time in my life, having already seen it once in Camagüey. It seems they have taken extra care to conserve the grace with which Paquita and Lolita play with ambition, love, envy, and piety within a theatrical framework that places the performance beyond the fallacies that we so often see in current times.
Ariel Bouza (Teatro Pálpito, Havana) directs the action with equal parts drama, laughter, and reflection to carry the spectators into situations where they must decide who are the heroes and anti-heroes, but there can be no middle ground. This piece that Bouza has been taking to the stage since 1999 has the bonus of ambivalence: it can be viewed and enjoyed equally by children and adults. Sastre’s version is classical, hierarchical, and well placed in the history of modern theater–it is rejuvenated with Bouza’s staging and a good push from Teatro Pálpito.
Gleris Garcés (Lolita) takes all the applause. Though a very young actor he does not lack mastery. The handling of the attire and dolls, the conversation of the voices, and the projection he puts forth in their tones to reach the rearmost seats, earn him the sympathy of the spectators from the very moment he appears on the scene.
With the version by the Cuban critic, playwright and poet Norge Espinosa, something surprising occurs, for it comes to us from the proven hands of Sastre, who, in turn, is filtering through the shadow of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the well-known play by Bertolt Brecht. The result is unscathed between these two excellent writers who were obligatory reference points in 20th century play-writing.
Both actors, Bouza and Garcés, radiate the splendor of these words that do not go into a vacuum; the theater always serves the people, andHistory of an Abandoned Doll saves its spectators. This morning of Saturday the 4th, there were only five of us in the auditorium, invited to play and to enjoy the work of artists who exemplify dignity in performance. I watched them as if they were performing, ultimately, to a full house–which it was–because every setting is a judgment on how well someone is doing in life who is implicated in this dream: from the lady who cleans the windows to the theater director, who heads up the roster in the playbill.
I invite you all to visit Artefactus Theater, the venue where Teatro Pálpito is celebrating the feast of words and gestures. It is at 12302 SW 133 Court, in Miami.
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By Jenny Neyman
In a new production, “Shoebox of Memories,” the 10 characters navigate the ups and downs of life — dealing with gossip, evolving in their wisdom and maturity, making and testing friendships, falling in and out of love.
What they don’t do in exploring all that is speak. At least, not in dialogue, in the traditional sense of a play. “Shoebox of Memories” is a musical review, so characters are developed, plot advanced and story line delivered all through music.
“There’s no dialogue that drives the story of these friends, it’s all told through the lyrics,” said Joseph Spady, who created and is directing the show. “It’s been a fun challenge that’s made the show even more interesting.”
It’s not music theater, with dialogue sandwiched between songs. A musical review dispenses with the spoken part altogether and gets right to the fun stuff — song after song after song.
On one hand, it’s a blast for the musically talented, energetic cast to be able to sing and dance for an entire show.
“It’s a lot of fun and a really fun group of people. There’s definitely a lot of high energy and excitement building up with it. The hardest part is trying to contain everybody for rehearsal because it’s really easy to go over the top and get off topic or take the song somewhere else,” said Spencer McAuliffe, who plays Adam in the show, a seemingly confident rock star-type with a shy side he’s trying to overcome.
On the other, delivering a story strictly through lyrics is a challenge, but it’s been an immensely creative one. Music has such potential for emotion and expression, so it’s been a matter of tapping into potency and bending it into service of the story the cast wants to tell.
“In some ways it simplifies things, it makes things easier. There’s less to think about because it’s all you have. At the same
time it’s challenging for the same reason. It forces you to use music in a way that isn’t necessarily obvious to use it in that situation. It’s definitely a lot of fun approaching that challenge in the way that we have,” McAuliffe said.
The music selection for the show is another one-hand-vs.-the-other situation. Songs will be familiar to anyone in touch with popular culture, but at the same time, not always familiar in the way they’re presented. For example, there are songs by Rascal Flatts, the Ting Tings, Jack Johnson, Foster the People, The Supremes, Pink and Fred Astaire. But they’ve been reinvented— performed in different styles, chopped up or mashed together with other songs.
For instance, to convey McAuliffe’s struggle between his shy longing for his crush and his overconfident persona, he performs a mash-up of Jack Johnson’s “Better Together,” which morphs into Frank Sinatra’s “The Way You Look Tonight.”
“They’re not songs you would immediately recognize as going together, but they really do synergize very nicely,” McAuliffe said. “It’s true to both songs. I start out with the whole laid-back feel of Jack Johnson, then it comes in with Sinatra’s lounge-rat kind of feel. It’s really, really cool. It adds an intimacy to the Jack Johnson that wasn’t there, necessarily, and takes you to that level quicker.”
“In a lot of ways, they have been reinvented,” Spady said.
“Wannabe,” by the Spice Girls, has become a doo-wop number with a guys’ quartet. “You Can’t Hurry Love,” by The Supremes, is now a banjo number with the show’s musical director, Kelsey Shields. And Ke$ha has been taken to Motown.
“We are reinventing Ke$ha almost as The Supremes and reinventing The Supremes as almost folk music. It’s really neat to see how the cast is working with these numbers,” Spady said. “The idea from the beginning was, ‘Let’s get a group of artists together who want to do a show.’ It’s been fun to work with people who are just like, ‘Let’s try this,’ and build the show from the ground up.”
Spady wanted to pursue the musical review format for a couple of reasons. One, it frees him from being tied to a predesigned, set-in-stone script and, more importantly, as he jokes, spares him from writing a script himself.
“I’m a terrible writer. I’ve re-read certain things I wrote in high school that I loved in high school, and it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is terrible. Why did I write this?’” he said.
But he loves theater and music. He’s been involved in both since he was a kid growing up in Soldotna — performing in Soldotna High School’s swing choir and drama program and in several shows with the Kenai Performers, including as LeFou in “Beauty and the Beast,” in which McAuliffe, now studying vocal performance at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, played the Beast.
Spady studied theater at Vanguard University of Southern California, and now is back in Soldotna to save up some money before launching into his ultimate goal, starting his own restaurant/performance venue. Currently he manages Odie’s Deli and works at St. Elias Brewing Co. in Soldotna. He said he’s excited to have an opportunity to get back into theater.
“I love that directing ability, just tweaking little parts here and there and making it come to life, and I love that cast-director relationship,” he said.
He and Shields, entertainment coordinator at Odie’s, sparked the idea of the show out of their mutual love of music.
“Pretty much when I’m driving around I hear different songs and think, ‘This is so fun. I can just see a fun number coming out of this song,’ or, ‘What if this song was spun this way?’ We came up with the song list, put it into an order, pulled really interesting story lines out of it and are building these really fun characters. It’s been a really neat process,” Spady said.
“I couldn’t ask for a better cast. They’re hilarious and so much fun — just incredibly talented, all of them,” he said.
The cast includes Chris Pepper, Daniel Rozak, Hayley Griebel, Jamie Fenton, Jayme Christian, Jena Poppin, Justin Ruffridge, Katie O’Brien, Quiana McElroy and McAuliffe. While Spady said that the cast is part of the reason the show is coming together so well, it’s also part of the reason why the performance timeline has been accelerated.
He wants to open the finished, polished show with a full band, choreography and multimedia elements in the fall, but many of his performers are college students who will be returning to school soon. So, “Shoebox of Memories” will be presented at Odie’s at the end of the month in a workshop format — as a complete show, just without a full band and all the final tech, staging and other embellishments that will be added later.
“I want to share the show with people so they can see how it’s coming, and I want them to see this incredible cast, since we’re going to lose some. And I want local people to see it — it’s not a show for New York, it’s a show for Soldotna, written with Soldotna in mind, so I want feedback from the audience,” Spady said.
The workshop performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. July 27 and 28 at Odie’s. Tickets are $15, which includes a dessert, and are available at Odie’s. A limited number will be sold. For more information, visit the “Shoebox of Photography” page on Facebook.


text: Anonymuz is one of Florida’s best kept secrets. He’s not necessarily a secret but I still feel like he’s got such an underground aesthetic, even though I truly think more ears would flock to his music if they found it. I hope his new album There Is No Threat leads some of that in because it’s already sounding phenomenal just off of a few tracks. This man has come a long way though, I remember hearing his stuff back in probably 2014 back with Wontu was posting him over on his EveryDejaVu and this man has grown such much in every way since then and I’m excited to fully embrace what he’s got in store with this new album. Peep that below.


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Elisa Porcel, founder of the brand, specialized in haute couture in Madrid.
Its identity seal is the traditional and artisanal elaboration of its designs, in which it has no place in the industrial process.
The designer stands out for producing unique and unmistakable pieces that keep the secret of handmade sewing and delicate tailoring. It stands out for the unsurpassed quality of its fabrics and the impeccable manufacture of its pieces.
The pursuit of excellence means that work is done in a artisan where each design is made by hand.


The Delaware Hayes football team got a little something going in the third quarter, blocking a field goal and scoring its first touchdown of the game to pull within 21-10 with 5:20 left, but host Olentangy Berlin scored another two touchdowns before the quarter came to a close on the way to a 42-24 win in the first round of the Division I, Region 2 playoffs Friday night in Delaware.
Sawyer Sand powered into the end zone from a yard out before Cooper Goble’s extra point got the 12th-seeded Pacers (7-4) as close as they’d been since early in the first quarter. The fifth-seeded Bears (8-3), buoyed by quarterback Harrison Brewster’s monster night on the ground, were just too much in the end, though.
Brewster, who carried the ball 13 times for 232 yards and three touchdowns, capped Berlin’s ensuing drive with a seven-yard touchdown run before scoring on a 27-yard run on the final play of the third quarter to balloon the lead to 35-10 with a quarter to play.
A Mason Ziegler touchdown run, his second of the night, made it a 42-10 game early in the fourth before Hayes answered with a couple touchdowns down the stretch — a 15-yard TD run from Josh Russell at the 4:26 mark and a 30-yard scoring strike from Jake Lowman to Kaden Gannon to smooth out the scoring summary with 33 seconds left.
The Bears set the tone early on both sides of the ball, forcing a Pacers’ three-and-out on the first series of the game before scoring a touchdown their first time with the ball — a drive which started at their own 35.
Brewster got things started with a 35-yard run. Ziegler later pushed the ball to the Hayes 3-yard line with a strong run of his own before powering into the end zone from three yards out on the very next play. Spencer Conrad added the extra point to make it a 7-0 game less than two minutes into the action.
Hayes used a 39-yard strike from Lowman to Austin Koslow to move into Berlin territory on its second possession, but a Kyle Jackowski sack derailed the drive and forced a punt.
The Pacers were able to flip the field as Matt Wilson’s punt sailed out of bounds at the 9-yard line, but it didn’t turn out to matter. Two plays later, Brewster broke free for a 94-yard touchdown run to make it 14-0 with 6:09 left in the first quarter.
Hayes got on the board after the teams traded possessions — a 33-yard Goble field goal set up by a 14-yard run by Russell sliced the deficit to 14-3 with less than a minute left in the first quarter — but Berlin added on when Brewster hit Evan Fabrizio for a 10-yard scoring strike and a 21-3 edge with 2:53 left in the half.
Brewster was solid through the air, completing nine of his 18 passes for 134 yards and a touchdown to go with his ridiculous rushing stats, while Joe Beaumier was his top target with four grabs for 70 yards.
Lowman, meanwhile, completed 21 of his 39 passes for 282 yards and a touchdown. Russell ran 14 times for 79 yards and a score and Gannon had a game-best nine receptions for 120 yards and his score.


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YOU CAN PICK YOUR NOSE, YOU CAN PICK YOUR FRIENDS, BUT I CAN’T PICK MY OWN GUITAR
I don’t know what that title means; I just wanted to try a Victorianesque title (Val the Victorian @ http://unbaggingthecats.blogspot.com/),
This post is about the guitar.
As some of you may know I have recently tried to learn to play the guitar. It is purely a recreational endeavor, and I am enjoying it quite a lot. I am even beginning to improve a bit.
My chords sound crisper, there is less screeching and string buzzing and I have even learned some finger-picking progressions along with strum patterns. I started to think I was getting pretty good.
Several months ago, a Mr. C. Chatterbox requested I video a demonstration of my prowess. I took him up on that and posted my rendition of “Only The Good Die Young” on YouTube. Don’t bother to look for it, I played it back and it was deleted in a New York minute. If you did hear the recording, which you never will, you would understand.
It turns out that the guitar has several musical functions.
1. It is excellent in a group to maintain a beat and lay down the cord progression.
2. Advanced players can throw in licks, notes and chords that sound like several instruments at once. These players can entertain solo without need of any vocalization.
3. It is a classic vocal accompaniment instrument.
I can do simple chord progressions, but I can just about beat an egg. When God handed out rhythm and timing I thought it was ribbon and tithing and had no interest. No musical group would have me.
Even gifted musicians cannot be “advanced” guitar players in one or two years, so my only hope is to accompany my own singing.
I think my voice is wonderful. I enjoy my voice and the accompanying guitar immensely. My enjoyment drops precipitously when I listen to a recorded version. I have no doubt that most people would have the same aversion to this guitar strumming cranky voice combination.
If I could find someone with no interest in rhythm who is willing to sing along with my strumming I might attempt to record again.
Perhaps the wonderful Lo of “It’s always something” @ http://loisstearns.blogspot.com/. Are you interested? I remember you were once brave enough to let us hear you sing.
*It’s a Lo thing.


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Official summer holiday season is almost upon us! And lo and behold, we’ve got the weather to match… so far. Pack your beach towels, your hiking boots, your fishing tackle (and maybe your rainy day games, just in case the real British summer decides to pay us a visit) and head off on your jollies!
ALTERNATIVE GREAT BRITISH SUMMER HOLIDAY IDEAS
Whether you’re bound by the school holidays or not, planning a summer break in the UK can take a lot of effort. Accommodation is often booked up months in advance and when you do manage to squeeze into one of our more celebrated resorts, the crowds can make your time away a little less peaceful than you intended.
So, what are the best summer holiday spots for a more tranquil UK stay? We looked at the average UK rental scores on TripAdvisor and Holiday Lettings (Holiday Lettings is a TripAdvisor company), identifying small towns and villages that scored particularly well with reviewers. To be considered, places needed at least 100 lifetime guest reviews, and a minimum average score of 4.9 to 5 – that’s high praise indeed!
These summer holiday destinations offer some really quaint places to stay including brick farmhouses, centuries-old thatched cottages, quiet bungalows and apartments overlooking historic market squares. Whatever style you favour, your wallet will thank you – as will your travelling companions. You’ll enjoy more living space, added privacy and amenities that you’re used to at home.
Thirsk, Yorkshire | Avg. Rating 4.977
The heart of this charming North Yorkshire market town is its cobbled square. The former home of celebrated author James Herriot is located here and is now a public museum. Thirsk also provides some lovely walking terrain, either of the easy, flat variety, including the Blue Plaque Trail, or much longer rambles around neighbouring villages and into the stunning Yorkshire Dales. The spa town of Harrogate and the impressive medieval city of York are both within 45 minutes’ drive, and just an hour away you’ll find bustling Leeds, perfect for a shopping or theatre trip.
Dereham, Norfolk | Avg. Rating 4.957
Named after a long-vanished deer park, picturesque Dereham is a charming summer holiday idea, home to a weekly market, the flint stone church of St Nicholas, and a history and archaeology museum. The town’s oldest building, Bishop Bonner’s Cottage, is also well worth a view. Visitors can catch a steam train and puff along the Mid Norfolk Railway or take the car out to visit the gorgeous Norfolk coast with its pretty towns and shoreline. The vibrant city of Norwich is around 15 miles away.
Hillsborough, Northern Ireland | Avg. Rating 4.945
The County Down village of Hillsborough is home to the rather impressive Hillsborough Castle, a broad Georgian edifice still used by Queen Elizabeth on royal visits. There are 100 acres of grounds to explore and visitors can book guided tours of the state rooms. Also of interest is the tower of the Hillsborough artillery fort and several charming local pubs and eateries, including the inviting Plough Inn. This place makes a thoroughly pleasant summer holiday base and is only half an hour’s drive from the centre of Belfast.
Launceston, Cornwall | Avg. Rating 4.944
This Cornish town is rather photogenically crowned by the remains of its Norman castle. Walkers love the town’s proximity to Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, as well as the pebbly shore at Crackington Haven beach, just half an hour away. You can easily lose a day chugging up and down the charming narrow-gauge Launceston Steam Railway and taking in the country views.
Horncastle, Lincolnshire | Avg. Rating 4.939
This Lincolnshire hub is full of cafés and antique shops where you can potter around until your heart’s content. It’s well worth a visit for its 18th and 19th-century architecture, the beautiful church of St Mary’s and its busy market days. It’s not far from the rolling hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where you can walk, cycle or ride around on horseback. Plan a getaway to Horncastle and it might be the best summer holiday you’ve ever had!
Blairgowrie, Perthshire | Avg. Rating 4.938
This Perthshire town on the River Ericht is known for its raspberries, and even hosts the ‘World Jampionships’: a quirky competition to find the world’s best jam-maker! There’s a pretty riverside for walking, picnicking and fishing, and the elegant cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are reachable within an hour and a half by car. Sporty types can use Blairgowrie as a base to access Glenshee, where they can paraglide and mountain bike over the summer months.
Ashburton, Devon | Avg. Rating 4.932
The little town of Ashburton is perched on the southeastern edge of Dartmoor National Park, a veritable walker’s’ paradise. Visitors come to these parts for long meandering hikes, fishing and pony trekking, and if the seaside beckons, the glorious Devon coast isn’t far away.
Langport, Somerset | Avg. Rating 4.928
Langport enjoys a gorgeous position slap bang in the Somerset Levels: a tranquil area brimming with plant and birdlife. You can enjoy a picnic by the River Parrett or take in the fantastic views of the town and the surrounding countryside from the top of the hill. Here, you’ll find All Saints’ Church, so you can take a pew and cool off after your walk whilst admiring the beautiful architecture. Langport is around half an hour’s drive from Glastonbury to the northeast and Taunton to the west.
Fort Augustus, Scottish Highlands | Avg. Rating 4.920
It’s hard to imagine a more scenic summer holiday destination than this one. Fort Augustus occupies an enviable position at the southern tip of majestic Loch Ness, where the boat-lined Caledonian Canal begins. This place is simply heaven for cyclists and walkers, where you can take in the views along the Great Glen Way. Boat along the canal or around the Loch looking out for Nessie, and if you miss the bustle of town, you can be in Inverness in under an hour.
Lampeter, South West Wales | Avg. Rating 4.905
This historic university town prides itself on being the birthplace of Welsh rugby – check out the rugby ball monument on campus. Crafty folk will appreciate the exhibitions at the Welsh Quilt Centre and there’s also the Lampeter Food Festival – unmissable if you’re visiting in July. The lovely beaches lining Cardigan Bay are an easy drive away, as is the Brecon Beacons National Park.


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Professor Alan Grodzinsky attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering. He worked with James Melcher (EECS) during his graduate studies at MIT, earning a Ph.D. in 1974 for his work on membrane electromechanics. Grodzinsky has received numerous awards including the NIH Merit Award and is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Our group focuses on problems motivated by diseases of the musculoskeletal system including arthritis, connective tissue pathologies and, more generally, the molecular biology and biophysics of the extracellular matrix (ECM). As an example, it is well known that traumatic joint injury in humans causes cartilage degeneration and progression to post-traumatic osteoarthritis, but the mechanobiological mechanisms governing cellular transcription, translation, and post-translational responses to physical overload are not well understood. We use genomic and proteomic tools to identify key pathways associated with mechanical injury and the resulting cell-mediated proteolytic degradation of the ECM. Atomic force microscopy and related biophysical tools are used to image and probe the molecular structure of ECM proteoglycans and proteins synthesized by connective tissue cells in health and disease. Nanoindentation at the molecular, cellular and tissue levels aids in the discovery of molecular determinants underlying tissue pathology. Complementary projects focus on chondrogenesis of stem cells seeded within self-assembling peptide hydrogel scaffolds for repair of degraded or osteoarthritic cartilage. The molecular fine structure of stem cell-synthesized ECM molecules and the responses of these stem cells to physiological loading during and after differentiation are studied in vitro. Concurrent studies using small and large animal models are ongoing. Finally, there are currently no available disease-modifying drugs for osteoarthritis due, in part, to lack of appropriate delivery modalities. We are therefore studying the ability of electrostatic interactions linked to charged ECM molecules within target tissues to enable enhanced uptake, rapid penetration, and retention of potential therapeutics.


The excellent mechanical properties of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites gives them considerable advantages for use in renewable energy (wind, wave and tidal), oil and gas, and transport applications. The low weight, strength, fatigue and corrosion resistance mean that FRP composites have the potential to reduce fossil fuel reliance, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. However, FRP composites can contain a diverse range of defects and damage mechanisms that can reduce the strength, stiffness and life of a structure. These can be difficult to detect, but reliable non-destructive evaluation (NDE) would aid characterisation of FRP material quality and encourage their full exploitation.
Defects can be detected and sized using a range of NDE techniques, which has been done quite widely for high performance composites in the aerospace industry. However there is less evidence of the suitability, applicability and limits of detection for NDE for FRP products in energy applications, e.g. wind and marine turbine blades, nacelles, and oil and gas flexible risers, where different materials and varying thicknesses are used. This project looked at several NDE techniques to determine the relative applicability and suitability for defect detection in FRP, in a range of energy applications, as well as the development of operational procedures for each technique, so that users can have confidence in component performance and working life of FRP composites.


Introducing the Volatile Sampler and Volatile Analyser
There is no atmosphere around the Moon which means that volatiles such as hydrogen and water can easily escape. However, some volatiles can become trapped between and within grains of dust. There are also some places on the Moon known as Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) that never see sunlight so they act as cold traps for water ice to form. By sampling these volatiles we can understand how much there is, and perhaps where they come from. It is thought that the solar wind brings some volatiles to the lunar surface, while impacts from asteroids or comets could also bring large deposits of volatiles.
There has been a lot of interest in finding water on the lunar surface as it could be used to support future missions to the Moon and beyond. For example, water could be used for hydration for crew, it can insulate habitats from radiation, but it could also be used as rocket propellant. Water is made from hydrogen and oxygen (H2O), which when separated and burned makes a clean propellant. Generating propellant on the lunar surface would mean we wouldn’t need to bring it all with us from Earth, and it would make a sustainable lunar base possible.
There are going to be a number of prospecting missions in the coming years which will search for water on the lunar surface. These missions will help validate the remote sensing data we already have, and provide more information on how the water is stored so we can extract it more efficiently. The LUVMI-X rover is a prospecting rover concept, which is designed to sample lunar soil and identify what volatiles may trapped within it. A drill known as the Volatile Sampler (VS) works alongside the Volatile Analyser (VA) to sample the lunar material and release the volatiles for analysis.
The VS is comprised of an auger shell and an internal heating rod. As the drill moves deeper into the lunar soil, the auger shell can remove any of the displaced material to the surface. Meanwhile, some material will remain trapped within the hollow drill bit. This material is heated up by the heating rod which releases the volatiles, which can then be detected by the mass spectrometer inside the VA.
The mass spectrometer included in the VA design derives its heritage from other spaceflight mass spectrometers developed at the Open University. Previous versions of the design were used with the Ptolemy instrument for the Rosetta mission to a comet, and the GAP instrument for the Beagle 2 mission to Mars. It is a miniature Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) which can identify a wide range of molecules.
The ITMS instrument is being developed at the Open University. The ITMS works by allowing volatiles into a small cavity formed by three metal electrodes at the heart of the device. Then, electrons are fired into the cavity, they strike the molecules to create ions. Different voltages are applied to the electrodes to deflect specific ions into a detector to create a mass spectrum of molecules present. Unionised molecules are vented out into space so there isn’t a build-up of pressure inside the instrument. The measurements obtained by the instrument could be used to help identify deposits of water on the lunar surface, and provide a guide for future water extraction missions.


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Ecological capability evaluation for afforestation and forest expansion using Geographic Information System (GIS) in management area of Caspian Sea
HASHEMI, SEYED A.
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Abstract Ecological capability evaluation is referred to as evaluation of potential capability of land and determination of its natural land use. In this paper, ecological capability of Lille Basin in Lahijan was evaluated for afforestation and forest expansion using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). For this purpose, information layers (slope, elevation, geographical directions, temperature, rainfall, humidity, soil type, and canopy cover) were prepared by digitizing the data obtained from concerned organizations. First, the layers were prepared based on coordinate systems and pixel value. Then, they were standardized using fuzzy membership functions. The evaluation criteria were prioritized with regard to expert opinion, and by using multi-criteria evaluation method (MCE) and analysis of hierarchic process (AHP), and the final weight of each criterion was determined. The weight for 8 criteria including elevation, soil type, canopy cover (%), directions, slope, temperature, humidity, rainfall were 0.330, 0.210, 0.128, 0.117, 0.076, 0.054, 0.046 and 0.210, respectively. According to these weights, elevation has the highest value and the slope is the lowest. The results suggest that ecological capability exhibits sensitivity to variations of different criteria and its distribution is directly correlated to ecological factors especially climatic and physiographical ones. The incompatibility index (0.09) also indicated that the weights were logical. Then valuation of the maps performed. Finally, based on these values, capabilities of each environmental unit were identified and potentials of the area for afforestation were determined in five capability classes.
- Challenges in using geographic information systems (GIS) to understand and control malaria in Indonesia
- Implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) for the planning of beekeeping in the west region of Paraná
- Use of a geographic information system (GIS) in canine rabies control.
- Use of geographic information systems (GIS) to identify adequate sites for cultivation of the seaweed Gracilaria birdiae in Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil
- The Geographical Information System (GIS) as a strategy in logistics decisions of physical distribution


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In Evening Air
Synthpop is my steeze. I like to dance, I like to daydream staring out of train windows, and I’m a woman-child passing for an adult on the days that I’m forced to leave the house. This sappy, manufactured genre could have been created just for me and my wild ideas about the big world in which I am so small. I don’t care in which decade it was produced; I’ve been known to adore anything from Modern Talking to Pet Shop Boys to Freezepop. Are there multi-layered keyboards involved in the making of the music? Then I’ll probably like it.
Future Islands, a Baltimore band signed to Thrill Jockey just last year, makes the sort of goofy romantic tunes I love. I can imagine dancing at my best friend’s impending nuptials to “Walking Through That Door,” arms outstretched, spinning in circles in front of the outdated DJ booth in the corner of a Middle American banquet hall. I can even imagine looking at the video fifteen years later, thinking, “That dress is awesomely retro, and so is that song!” I never tire of feeling like it’s 1986 and love is in the air. This song evokes this feeling; every time I put it on, I am elated.
As the second half of the album rolls on, the formerly upbeat party music segues into softer, mellowed pop. Songs like “Tin Man” make use of what sounds like steel drums and a marimba, while “An Apology” puts vocalist Sam Herring’s raspy vocals to the test a la Tom Waits. “Swept Inside,” which is lovely and worth a slow two-step around your living room, is also the sort of song that could end up backing a tearful moment on The City, Brooklyn in the background, sort of gray and mournful, much like your life is supposed to be. This isn’t a criticism; it’s just the way this music works. And it does that–it works.
The album winds down in the way a sappy television show wraps up, or the way the aforementioned wedding will probably end. Everyone will hug and cry and there will be slow-motion laughter that will seem even better looking back. In Evening Air is a complete album experience, from jubilant beginning to bittersweet end.


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Does social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread "opinion-mobilizing"effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events polarize mass opinion based on standing racial and political orientations? To answer these questions, we use a large dataset comprised of weekly cross sections of the American public and employ a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) approach leveraging the random timing of the police killing of George Floyd and ensuing nationwide protests. We find that the Floyd protests swiftly decreased favorability toward the police and increased perceived anti-Black discrimination among low-prejudice and politically liberal Americans. However, attitudes among high-prejudice and politically conservative Americans either remained unchanged or evinced only small and ephemeral shifts. Our evidence suggests that the Floyd protests served to further racialize and politicize attitudes within the domain of race and law enforcement in the U.S.
Reny, T. T., & Newman, B. J. (2021). The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000460

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Israeli fire pushed the Palestinian death toll in Gaza to above 800 Friday, as the US and UN pressed Israel and Hamas to agree a humanitarian ceasefire and thrash out a durable truce.
In the West Bank, demonstrations began as Palestinian factions declared a "Day of Rage" after a night of clashes over Israel's Gaza offensive that left one Palestinian dead.
Among the dead in Gaza on Friday were two women killed in an air strike, one of them pregnant, adding to a spiralling toll of Palestinian civilian casualties from Israel's military operation to halt militant rocket fire.
As the fighting continued on day 18 of the conflict, the Israeli army announced the death of a 36-year-old reserve soldier, bringing the toll of soldiers and officers killed in Gaza since July 8 to 33.
Hamas meanwhile announced it had fired three rockets at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, with an army spokeswoman confirming that "two rockets were shot down over metropolitan Tel Aviv."
The claim raised new fears after many US and European carriers resumed flights to the airport after a two-day suspension following rocket fire near the facility.
The army said militants fired 25 rockets which hit southern Israel early Friday with another 10 intercepted, bringing the number of rockets and mortar rounds from Gaza that hit Israel since July 8 to 1,870, with another 473 intercepted by the Iron Dome defence system.
The rockets have killed two Israeli civilians and a Thai worker.
- Ceasefire efforts ramped up -
International pressure on both sides to cease fire ramped up Friday after the alleged Israeli shelling of a UN facility sheltering displaced Gazans killed at least 15 civilians, drawing widespread international condemnation.
Israel's security cabinet was to meet Friday to discuss a truce proposal passed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli media reported.
It proposes an initial week-long humanitarian ceasefire that would allow Hamas to save face after having rejected an Egyptian initiative last week that proposed a truce first and negotiations later.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu flew to Qatar on Friday to help efforts after Kerry reached out to Hamas allies Ankara and Doha to push for a ceasefire.
According to Western and Palestinian officials, once a humanitarian lull takes hold, delegations from Israel and Hamas will arrive in Cairo -- which has mediated past conflicts between the two -- for indirect talks that could lead to a lasting deal.
- 7-day humanitarian truce -
Kerry has been joined in Cairo by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to push forward the plan, diplomats said.
Ban on Friday urged an immediate "humanitarian pause" in the fighting coinciding with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which begins on Monday or Tuesday, depending on the sighting of the new moon.
"On this, the last Friday of Ramadan, I call for an immediate, unconditional humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza and Israel. This pause would last through the Eid al-Fitr holiday period," Ban said in a statement released by his office.
Hamas's exiled Doha-based leader Khaled Meshaal, however, insisted in a Thursday interview with the BBC that any truce must include a guaranteed end to Israel's eight-year blockade of Gaza.
"We want a ceasefire as soon as possible, that's parallel with the lifting of the siege of Gaza," he said.
Israel braced meanwhile for West Bank and east Jerusalem unrest after Palestinian factions declared a "Day of Rage" and Israeli police restricted entry to the Al Aqsa mosque compound to men aged 50 and above.
One Palestinian was killed and 150 injured in Thursday night clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank, Palestinian medics said, with Israeli police arresting 29 in east Jerusalem.
An AFP correspondent said nearly 1,000 Palestinians were holding a protest in the southern West Bank city Hebron on Friday afternoon, with a similar demonstration taking place in nearby Halhul.
In Gaza, the death toll rose to 825 in 18 days of violence, with a five-year-old child among the latest deaths announced.
- Pregnant woman killed -
Security sources said Islamic Jihad spokesman Salah Hasanein and two of his sons had been killed in an air strike, and emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said two women, one of them pregnant, were killed in a strike on a house in central Gaza.
On Thursday, at least 15 people were killed in alleged Israeli shelling on a UN school sheltering some of the 100,000 Palestinians who have fled their homes during the fighting.
The shell hit a courtyard where people were camped, killing least 15 people and wounding more than 200, Qudra said.
The UN said it had been trying to coordinate with the army to evacuate civilians before the strike, without success, but the army said it had offered a humanitarian window, and suggested militants firing rockets in the area could be to blame for the deaths.
Rights groups say around 80 percent of the casualties so far have been civilians, a quarter of them children.


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The pillars of Stonehenge are being taken away for polishing, with cranes arriving to start the work today (Wednesday, April 1).
A crane was seen removing several of the rocks from the iconic landmark off the A303 this morning with ground crew supervising the removal.
With the vast majority of people in the country isolated at home due to the coronavirus, the decision seems to have been taken on the understanding that people would not miss the absent stones and they could be returned before normal life resumes.
One of the crew supervising the removal of the rocks said: "It's being done so they can be taken away and polished.
"It's being introduced as standard procedure, and they figured since everyone was stuck indoors at the moment anyway no-one would miss it.
"I mean, those wizards back in the day went to the trouble of putting it all here and making it so impressive, no doubt with the tourism of the A303 in mind, so it would be pretty disrespectful of us not to keep it looking its best."
When questioned on whether he really believed Stonehenge was the result of wizards rather than any natural explanations, he said: "Well, you can stand there and say it's definitely not wizards, but they also said the Earth didn't revolve around the sun, didn't they?
"I mean, sure, they were wrong, but I'm just saying people have believed stranger things than magic men carrying rocks hundreds of miles in the name of confusing future scientists.
"You've got to give them one thing though, their comedy was way ahead of its time when you consider that is basically the first ever viral prank - if that went on YouTube now, they'd be heroes."
The decision to get the rocks polished has been met with cautious approval from the public, with some saying the landmark had been starting to show its age a little.
One regular visitor to Stonehenge, who was made aware of the operation being undertaken, said: "I have to admit, it was starting to look a little bit shabby so maybe it's for the best - clearly thousands of years in the open air has a knock-on effect.
"When I queue up on the A303 for an hour to get to Stonehenge, I don't want to be looking at unclean rocks. That's just bad business."


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It’s safe being a cynic. Cynics don’t have to create. They don’t have to take chances. They can scoff at the risks that other people have taken. They can ridicule the courage others have shown in order to make some contribution to this world.
Cynics are hardly new to the world. They’ve been around since Diogenes at least, but now their day has really arrived. The Internet has given cynics an audience and that’s what they’ve always wanted. Not only can they assassinate someone else’s character, but they can do so while remaining in hiding. It is a cynics paradise. A place where they can be loud and vicious and still remain in hiding. Tear people down for taking risks while they themselves avoid taking any risk at all. They are emboldened by the anonymity and become bullies and trolls.
Other cynics just hide behind their cruelty. They create an illusion of authority by mocking others. We witness it on T.V. and radio where hosts verbally assault guests or competitors. And there is a huge population of other cynics out there who eat it up. They love to watch other people get torn down because it validates their decision to do nothing. That’s what they get, they tell themselves, for sticking their neck out.
The travesty in all this is two fold. First, cynics deny their duty of contribution. Rather than helping the world in some way, they laugh at others who try. Second, those who do not understand the motives of the cynic can be intimidated or discouraged from trying all together for fear of the cynic’s attacks.
But why? They hold no real power. They are, by nature, weak. It’s their very weakness that lead them to be cynics. Perhaps they could influence other cynics, but they too are powerless.
You are better than a cynic. You may even be capable of convincing a cynic to be relevant. After all, when push comes to shove, that’s what we all really want. In fact, it’s what we all really need. Even the cynic.

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“Lord willing, and the creek don’t rise, I am planning to be back in time for the start of the regular season.”
"We are comforted knowing he is getting the best possible care as he works his way back to the Alabama radio booth."
"I'm doing well. I don't have some dastardly disease, nothing like that," he said. "It's just a matter of getting my get along."
"It's bittersweet. It's the opportunity of a lifetime," Stewart added, "and yet it's one I hope I don't have for very long..."
He's faced his share of health challenges recently. His streak of 409 consecutive Alabama football games was broken in 2020 after a COVID diagnosis.
Alabama football's play-by-play broadcaster Eli Gold will also call games for the Birmingham Squadron of the NBA G-league next season.


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Homeless youth are living on the streets in major cities, small town, and in most suburbs in the United States. Some kids manage to stay in cheap hotels, parks, abandoned buildings, and other unsuitable or unstable locations for some periods of time. Many homeless kids are forced to make difficult choices just to survive.
There are shelters in some cities, but most shelters do not offer any or enough beds for youth.
- 1.7 million U.S. youth experience homelessness every year.
- 50,000 youth sleep on the streets for six months or more each year.
- One in every five children between ages 10 and 18 will run away.
- Up to 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ.
- Every day, 13 at-risk youth will die due to assault, illness, or suicide trying to survive on the streets – that’s approximately 5,000 per year.
- About one-quarter of youth experience homelessness within a year of aging out of the foster care system.
- Compared to housed youth, homeless youth are 75% more likely to self-medicate and abuse substances as a way to deal with trauma.
Four common pathways to becoming homeless
The National Network for Youth, of which we are a member organization, has determined that there are four main causes
- Family instability, including child abuse and/or neglect, domestic violence, parental substance abuse and family conflict including conflict over sexual orientation or gender identity.
- System involvement, including the child welfare system with a high percentage of youth aging out of foster care ending up homeless and the juvenile justice system with a high percentage of youth who are released from incarceration becoming homeless.
- Residential instability, usually with one’s family, usually due to economic issues. Youth may become homeless with their families but may be separated from their families because of shelter, transitional housing or child welfare policies.
- Extreme disconnection from education, employment and support networks.
Many youth who have lived through these situations and have ended up homelessness, have experienced significant trauma that needs to be as they develop the independence and self-sufficiency to be able to move to permanent housing.
Categories of youth we assist
- Early Runners: Displaced from their homes due to severe conflict, abuse, or neglect and experiencing short-term homelessness.
- Doubled-Up: Transition-age, cannot return home, and require housing with life-skills training.
- Older, Employed Homeless Youth: Highly mobile, with access to part or full-time employment, but no access to affordable housing opportunities.
- Street-Dependent Youth: Sleeping outside, in public spaces, or in abandoned buildings for six months or more in need of services to facilitate social inclusion.
- Homeless Youth with Long-Term Disabilities: Experiencing cognitive or emotional challenges and who will require support into their adult years.
Survival on the streets exposes youth to:
- Human trafficking
- Acute diseases
- Sexual assault
- Physical assaultUnwanted pregnancies
- Drugs and alcohol misuse
- Untreated mental illness

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Bike-share users in Montreal, New York, Minneapolis, and D.C. all have one thing in common, they're sitting atop the same Bixi bike designed by Michel Dallaire. How each city brands their bikes is a potent statement and key piece of their success.
Aug 27, 2013 Designers & Books
At a recent talk at the New York City Transit Museum, Massimo Vignelli, designer of the iconic 1972 NYC subway map, discussed his opinions of the subway maps that preceded and followed his groundbreaking design.
Dec 22, 2012 Transportation Nation
The eminent architect's lesser-known contributions to graphic design get the spotlight in a new book by Penny Fowler, writes Maria Popova.
May 6, 2012 Brain Pickings
Sharon Gochenour explores the ways in which the evolution of graphic communications – from building signage to official logos – represent various aspects of Kansas City's identity.
Mar 18, 2012 This Big City
Zak Stone reports on a campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee to distill the city's artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font, and asks the question - can a font help a city make a comeback?
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Sears is eliminating about 200 jobs, including 150 in its Illinois headquarters.
The embattled company's CEO, Eddie Lampert, announced the changes in a June 26 letter to employees. CNBC first reported the layoffs earlier Wednesday.
"Your leadership team and I want you to know that these decisions were not taken lightly or easily," Lampert wrote.
The layoffs were effective immediately, with severance provided through August 25. Sears already laid off about 220 people from from its corporate offices earlier this year.
The cuts come as the once-iconic retailer struggles to stay afloat.
"Changes like these are a necessary part of creating a stronger organization in this time of industry disruption," Lampert wrote in the June letter.
Sears has lost $11.2 billion since 2010, its last profitable year. Sales have plunged 60% in that time. Sears Holdings, which operates both the Kmart and Sears brands, had a total of 3,500 US stores when it merged the two brands in 2005. Now it has fewer than 1,000.
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Chino Community Theatre’s 8th annual “3 on the Edge” Festival kicks off with the biting comedy ART, written by Yasmina Reza (translated by Christopher Hampton), and directed by Jeff Richards.
ART centers on three friends, Serge, Marc and Yvan, and their wildly different reactions to a painting Serge has just purchased. Serge loves his new completely white canvas and has it prominently displayed in his apartment, but when his best friend Marc ridicules it, their friendship is severely tested – and poor, hapless Yvan is caught in the middle. With razor-sharp dialogue and beautifully defined characters, ART is a modern classic that is simple but profound …or is it just a blank canvas that says nothing?
Featuring Pete Bennett, Chris Goldfarb and Ron Hastings
WARNING: Due to strong language and adult content, this show is recommended for MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.
“3 on the Edge” Festival runs May 25 through June 11 and consists of three shows performing in repertory: ART, BOY GETS GIRL and STOP KISS. Information about the other two shows (and performance dates) can be found on our website (www.chinocommunitytheatre.org) and on their own Facebook events.
ART performances: May 25, 27, June 2, 2017 at 8 pm; June 4 & 10, 2017 at 2:30 pm
$15 General Admission
$12 Seniors (60+) and Students (with valid ID)
Festival Pass (for all 3 shows):
$36 for General Admission (save $3 on each ticket!)
$30 for Seniors / Students (save $2 on each ticket!)
Tickets can be purchased on our website (www.chinocommunitytheatre.org) or by calling our box office (909-590-1149).