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The only person available for Gregg to assert any power over is his friend, Rowley — and even that goes wrong when he pushes Rowley too far over the worm-terrorising incident.
She has two motivations — to practise her speed writing and to prepare herself for writing a novel. Since the 19th century the publication of diaries by their authors has become commonplace — notably amongst politicians seeking justification but also amongst artists and litterateurs of all descriptions.
What if you were the last female on earth? In none of these cases, however, did the authors anticipate early — or indeed any — publication. Anne Frank went so far as to address her diary as "Kitty.
This was due to the sexually explicit material, which also led to some girl writing a diary banning the book. Anne was a real teenager with real teenage concerns - the back of the book describes her as "an ordinary yet extraordinary teenage girl.
Things are changing and Mira is suddenly less keen to confide in her best friend. Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine This book is great for readers aged six-nine years although when I recently read it as a bedtime story to my six-year-old son, my year-old daughter snuck in to listen as she remembered enjoying it so much when she was younger.
At this point, Anne revisited her old diaries, adding more detail and editing existing entries. I asked my son to explain why he thinks these books are international bestsellers.
Faustina Kowalska Many diaries of notable figures have been published and form an important element of autobiographical literature. Diyah Pera The relationship between a diary and a diarist is supposedly a private, sacred affair.
The practice of posthumous publication of diaries of literary and other notables began in the 19th century. Ease and speed of typing; mobile portability; search capabilities; entry location, date, and other metadata from mobile phones; and, tags and other organizational features.
Her chatty, friendly style of writing means that her diary entries possess a dry humour despite being poignant and devastatingly awful. Tagebuch[ edit ] The German Tagebuch "day-book" is normally rendered as "diary" in English, but the term encompasses workbooks or working journals as well as diaries proper.
The best part about reading a diary and this applies to reading your own, old diaries is discovering what the writer of that diary chose to record. They were our wonderful tools to spill out our emotions, feelings and even memories.
Having your plans and schedules down on a paper will help you stay motivated and it will be easier to follow a healthy lifestyle.
There are many fantastic books for children and teenagers with a diary format. The timing is perfect. Sleep diary[ edit ] A sleep diary or sleep log is a tool used in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders or to keep track of dreams had in order to gain insight to the subconscious or for other further contemplating.- “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank opens the reader’s eyes to the world of a teenage girl living in hiding during World War II.
In this dairy, the day-to-day life of young Anne appears along with her hopes, fears, and deepest thoughts. How to Play Dear Diary. Use your mouse to click on and through the floating clothing, hair, background, diary and day dream options to set the scene for a fashionably fun session of reflection.
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What kind of things should I write in a diary if I were to start one? Update Cancel. ad by Grammarly. Ready to write the most delightful email your boss has ever seen? I wrote not only about things you would expect from a teenage girl's diary but also about my favorite soccer team.
Yeah, the entries on my diary had a sports section. Feb 04, · How to Keep a Diary or Journal (for Teenagers) A diary is for writing down what you want to write when you want to write it.
Don't worry about doodling in it instead of writing. Your doodles could mean something, and 80%(). Writing in a diary can help spark new ideas or develop thoughts. For other people, keeping a diary is a way to stay emotionally healthy. Writing in a safe space can help you process past experiences.
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Biker escapes serious injury in cycle-car crash
A motorcycle-car crash occurred at the intersection of U.S. Highway 14 and County Road 5 in the City of Springfield at 4:49 p.m. Thursday, April 14.
According to the Spring-field Police Department, Richard Scott Riley, 40, 213 East Benton Street, Lake Benton, was driving his motorcycle on Highway 14 when he collided with a 2014 Dodge Charger driven by Tyler Carl Hagert, 28, 302 South Spring Avenue, Springfield. Hagert had stopped at the stop sign on County Road 5 and then pulled out in front of the motorcycle that was traveling east on Highway 14.
Hagert said he didn’t see the motorcycle because it was behind a car making a southbound turn from Highway 14 onto County Road 5.
Riley was transported by ambulance to Mayo Clinic Health Care System in Springfield where he was treated for minor injuries.
The motorcycle was towed to Sleepy Eye by West Side Garage of Sleepy Eye.
Hagert was not injured. His Dodge Charger had moderate front-end damage from the collision.
Hagert was cited for failure to yield right of way.

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Firmly planted. Not fallen from on high: sprung up from below. Ocher, the color of burnt honey. The color of a sun buried a thousand years ago and dug up only yesterday. Fresh green and orange stripes running across its still-warm body Circles, Greek frets: scattered traces of a lost alphabet? The belly of a woman heavy with child, the neck of a bird. If you cover and uncover its mouth with the palm of your hand, it answers you with a deep murmur, the sound of bubbling water welling up from its depths; if you tap its sides with your knuckles, it gives a tinkling laugh of little silver coins falling on stones. It has many tongues: it speaks the language of clay and minerals, of air currents flowing between canyon walls, of washerwomen as they scrub, of angry skies, of rain. A vessel of baked clay: do not put it in a glass case alongside rare precious objects. It would look quite out of place. Its beauty is related to the liquid it contains and the thirst that it quenches. Its beauty is corporal: I see it, I touch it, I smell it, I hear it. If it is empty, it must be filled; if it is full, it must be emptied. I take it by the shaped handle as I would take a woman by the arm, I lift it up, I tip it over a pitcher into which I pour milk or pulque – lunar liquids that open and close the doors of dawn and dark, waking and sleeping. Not an object to contemplate: an object to use.
A glass jug, a wicker basket, a coarse muslin huipil, a wooden serving dish: beautiful objects, not despite their usefulness but because of it.
– Octavio Paz
Mankind has been making everyday objects not only useful but beautiful since the beginning. Folk art is art of the people, by the people, and for the people. It touches us on a deep cultural level; it says "yes" to our basic artistic yearnings.
As our society grows ever more frantic with electronic entertainment and gizmos, folk art offers a comfortable, calm, grounded balance. Creating with our own hands answers a need.
Ethnic art comes in every culture and such folk art offers a teachable moment for young ones, not only in creativity but also in geography, history, even economics and politics! Through the folk art, the world can open up to them.

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After parties enter into a contract, changed circumstance might result in one of them being dissatisfied with the price. Anticipating this, the parties could include a price adjustment mechanism in the agreement. If the mechanism is imperfect, some dissatisfaction will remain. This dissatisfaction may result in litigation with the dissatisfied party asking the court either to excuse performance or revise the contract price. For example, large changes in fuel prices since 1973 generated considerable litigation.
In this paper, I suggest a framework for analyzing price adjustment in private contracts. Contrary to most economists and lawyers, I argue that price adjustment problems have little to do with attitudes toward risk. Rather, the problems are those suggested by the "relational exchange" approach to contracts. This argument will be developed in Part II.
Business Organizations Law | Contracts | Law
Victor P. Goldberg,
Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts,
Wis. L. Rev.
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/683

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A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), to join what he called the retirees’ club and be collecting pensions. Tinubu spoke with State House correspondents shortly after he and a former interim chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He was reacting to separate statements by the two leaders who recently advised Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. While saying he does not address “those shadows,” the former Lagos State governor urged Obasanjo and Babangida to allow the present crop of leaders to move the country forward. “I don’t address those shadows. We should let our former Presidents join retirees’ club and take pensions but they can participate in our politics if they are interested. “It is a free world but this freedom is not served a la carte. They should allow us to move our country forward. It is a challenge to every Nigerian,” he said.
Despite the challenges he admitted were facing the ruling party, Tinubu said the APC would still win the 2019 elections. He said the party had a better chance and was determined to organise the most transparent election.


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Ethambutol 100 mg film-coated tablets
Each film-coated tablet contains 100 mg of Ethambutol hydrochloride.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
White to off-white, circular, biconvex, coated tablets plain on both sides with an approximate diameter of 7.60 mm.
The primary treatment and re-treatment of tuberculosis and for prophylaxis in cases of inactive tuberculosis or large tuberculin positive reaction. Ethambutol should only be used in conjunction with other anti-tuberculous drugs to which the patient's organisms are susceptible.
The dosage of Ethambutol must be adjusted according to the body weight of the patient.
For primary treatment and prophylaxis: Ethambutol should be administered in a single daily oral dose of 15mg/kg, concomitant drugs being maintained at their recommended dosage levels.
For re-treatment: For the first 60 days of treatment, Ethambutol should be administered in a single daily oral dose of 25mg/kg. Thereafter the dosage should be reduced to 15mg/kg, concomitant drugs being maintained at their recommended dosage levels.
For primary treatment and re-treatment: For the first 60 days of treatment, a single daily oral dose of 25mg/kg. Thereafter the dosage should be reduced to 15mg/kg, concomitant drugs being maintained at their recommended dosage levels.
For prophylaxis: A single daily oral dose of 15mg/kg, concomitant drugs being used at their recommended dosage levels.
As for adults: However, patients with decreased renal function may need to have the dosage adjusted as determined by blood levels of Ethambutol.
In order to obtain maximum effect due to high serum levels, drug administration should be once daily.
Renal function should be checked before treatment with antituberculous drugs and appropriate dosage adjustments made. Ethambutol should preferably be avoided in patients with renal impairment
If used, where creatinine clearance is less than 30mL/minute, use 15– 25 mg/kg (max. 2.5 g) 3 times a week and plasma Ethambutol concentration should be monitored.
Method of administration: Oral
Hypersensitivity to the active substance(s) or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1.
It is also contra-indicated in patients with known optic neuritis and poor vision unless clinical judgement determines that it may be used.
Toxic effects are more common if renal function is impaired.
Ethambutol may produce a unique type of visual impairment which is generally reversible and which appears to be due to optic neuritis and to be related to dose and duration of treatment.
Less than 1% of patients undergoing treatment with the higher dose regimen of 25mg/kg/day for two months, and 15mg/kg/day thereafter, have exhibited decrease in visual acuity. It is recommended that patients undergo a full ophthalmic examination before starting treatment. This should include visual acuity, colour vision, perimetry and ophthalmoscopy. Any change may be unilateral or bilateral and hence both eyes should be tested individually.
Routine ophthalmological examination for adults is not thereafter necessary, but patients should be informed the importance of reporting any change in vision.
Routine ophthalmological examinations may be considered desirable when treating young children.
Any negative effects on vision are generally reversible when administration of the drug is discontinued promptly and recovery of visual acuity has usually occurred over a period of weeks to months after the drug was discontinued. Patients have then received Ethambutol at lower dosages without toxicity.
In rare cases, recovery may be delayed for up to one year or more or the effects may be irreversible.
Liver function tests should be performed in patients who develop symptoms suggestive of hepatitis or who become generally unwell during treatment.
Consideration should be given to current clinical guidance on the appropriate use of antituberculous drugs.
Aluminium hydroxide may impair the absorption of Ethambutol. Therefore antacids containing this ingredient should be avoided during treatment with Ethambutol.
There are no or limited data from the use of Ethambutol in pregnant women. Studies in animals have shown reproductive toxicity. The potential risk for humans is unknown.
Ethambutol is not recommended during pregnancy and in women of childbearing potential unless the potential benefit to the mother is considered to outweigh any possible risks.
Ethambutol/metabolites have been identified in breastfed newborns/infants of treated women. There is insufficient information on the effects of Ethambutol in newborns/infants.
Breast-feeding is not recommended during Ethambutol treatment unless the benefit of breast-feeding to the child is considered to outweigh any possible risks.
Patients who suffer from visual impairment during treatment with Ethambutol should not drive or operate machinery.
Numbness, paraesthesia, dizziness, disorientation are also among possible side effects that may affect a patient's ability to drive or operate machinery, if affected, patients should not drive or operate machinery.
In this section, frequencies of undesirable effects are defined as follows: Frequency: very common (>1/10); common (>1/100, <1/10); uncommon (>1/1,000, <1/100); rare (>1/10,000, <1/1,000), very rare (<1/10,000).
Blood & lymphatic system disorders :
Very rare: Leucopenia, neutropenia
Immune system disorders:
Very rare: Hypersensitivity, anaphylactoid reactions, (see also Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders)
Metabolic & nutrition disorders:
Very rare: Gout
Nervous system disorders:
Rare: Peripheral neuropathy, numbness, paraesthesia of the extremities
Very rare: headache, dizziness, disorientation
Very rare: mental confusion, hallucinations
Uncommon: Optic neuritis (decreased visual acuity, loss of vision, scotoma, colour blindness, visual disturbance, visual field defect, eye pain)
Respiratory, thoracic & mediastinal disorders:
Very rare: Pneumonitis, pulmonary infiltrates, with or without eosinophilia
Gastrointestinal disorders such as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea have been noted in patients on multiple drug anti-tuberculosis therapy including Ethambutol although not in test patients receiving Ethambutol as sole therapy.
Hepatic reactions with hepatitis, jaundice, abnormal liver function test values, and very rarely, hepatic failure, have been reported in patients treated with multiple drug therapy including Ethambutol. Liver function tests should be performed in patients who develop symptoms suggestive of hepatitis or who become generally unwell during treatment.
Skin & subcutaneous tissue disorders:
Rare: Rash, pruritus, urticaria
Very rare: photosensitive lichenoid eruptions, bullous dermatitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, epidermal necrolysis
Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders:
Very rare: Joint pains
Renal & urinary disorders
Very rare: Interstitial nephritis
General disorders and administration site conditions:
Very rare: Malaise, pyrexia
Reporting of suspected adverse reactions
Reporting suspected adverse reactions after authorisation of the medicinal product is important. It allows continued monitoring of the benefit/risk balance of the medicinal product. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme at:
www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for MHRA Yellow Card in the Google Play or Apple App Store.
Symptoms: Gastrointestinal disturbances, vomiting, fever, headache, anorexia, dizziness, hallucinations and/or visual disturbances.
Management: No specific antidote, but gastric lavage should be employed if necessary.
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Antimycobacterial, ATC code: J04AK02.
Ethambutol is bacteriostatic. It is effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis with an MIC of 0.5 - 8 μ g per ml. While it has activity against some atypical mycobacteria including M. Kansarii, activity against other micro-organisms has not yet been reported.
It is effective against tubercle bacilli resistant to other tuberculostatics. Cross-resistance has not yet been reported.
Primary resistance to Ethambutol is uncommon but resistant strains of M. tuberculosis are readily produced if Ethambutol is used alone.
Ethambutol is readily absorbed after oral administration and this absorption is not significantly impaired by food. After a single dose of 25mg/kg body weight, within 4 hours peak plasma concentrations of up to 5μ g/ml are obtained, by 24 hours the concentration decreases to less than 1μ g/ml.
Ethambutol readily diffuses into red blood cells and into the cerebrospinal fluid when the meninges are inflamed. It has also been reported to cross the placenta.
Most of a dose is excreted unchanged in the urine and up to 20% in faeces, within 48 hours. From 8 - 15% of a dose appears in urine as inactive metabolites.
Nothing further of relevance to prescriber.
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Imogen St Pierre is a musical prodigy, a classical pianist touring the international concert halls in a trio with her father and grandfather. Though clearly accomplished, she is also painfully awkward socially, getting lost in the music even after it’s over. Imogen’s in the final year in a private boarding school where she meets a boy of the same age, Nathan McCormick, who turns out to be the “Next Great Hockey Player.” Nathan, however, has recently been penalized for a vicious fight in an international tournament. Imogen and Nathan don’t exactly become an item, but there’s an elusive special quality to their connection. Jean Mills has given us a thoughtful, moving, powerful story about what it’s like to be gifted and exceptional — and still young.
Introduces a colorful cast of characters whose fates are connected in different ways, exploring the importance of kindness and the dangers of greed.
Hans Christian Andersen Award
This book is about the imagination and the wonderful ways in which we nurture ourselves in the process of becoming who we are, and because Bertolt dies in a winter’s storm, it is also a book about finitude and loss, sorrow and acceptance.
Bruno, the cat in the checkered cap, takes life as it comes. When it’s too rainy to go outside, he rustles up an inside picnic with his friends. When he meets a fish swimming in the air, he follows it. Why not! When the canary forgets how to sing and can only speak gibberish, Bruno helps out.
A young girl and her wheelchair-bound father share many special moments because she treasures all they can do together, although he apologizes for not being able to do more.
A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers – all to find safety in the West.
A single feather, blown about by the wind, asks a variety of birds if she belongs to them but is dismissed time and again until she gives up her quest.
Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a “For Sale” sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy’s final sixth grade assignment? A genealogy project. Well, she’ll put it off – just like those wedding centerpieces she’s supposed to be making.
A fictionalized retelling of the childhood of Mary Anning, one of the world’s greatest fossilists.
Two girls experience the highs and lows of friendship on a train journey.

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|Livestock and Veterinary
|04 December 2020
Russian agriculture: regional specialization is increasing (case study: meat poultry sector)
Vyatka State Agricultural Academy, 610017, Oktyabrsky Avenue, 133, Kirov, Russia
* Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org
This paper presents the results of studies of regional specialization and territorial concentration in agriculture. The poultry meat branch was chosen as the object of research. This is one of the most dynamically developing sectors of agriculture in Russia. Modified localization coefficients were used as a method for detecting the territorial concentration of the sector. The analysis showed that more than half of the output of poultry meat products was concentrated in the territory of 12 regions of Russia. The largest localization of poultry farming is in the center of the European part of the country, near large cities. The level of territorial concentration of the poultry meat sector increased significantly over the period of 2004–2017. The localization coefficients of the regions that specialize in poultry meat production have more than doubled. There is an increase in “polarity” in the specialization of regions. Some regions continue to increase the production of poultry meat, the level of regional specialization is growing. In other regions, poultry production is declining. Taking the poultry meat sector as a case study, it has been shown that the processes of regional specialization and territorial localization are increasing in Russian agriculture.
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Orientation must be completed no later than thirty days after beginning work in the division.
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Difference Between Skin Tags And Warts
How can I tell the difference between a skin tag and a wart? I have either a skin tag or a wart, but i'm not sure which it is. How can I tell the difference?
Warts : Warts are also called verruca. Warts are caused by viruses that get into the skin. There are many kinds of warts with differing appearances. In the beginning a wart can be a skin colored tiny lump. When you see a wart on the foot, it can look like a callous. There is one type of wart that looks like a cauliflower. Although warts are bumps, they tend to have a flattened surface on the top. Warts are contagious. Skin tags are called acrochordons. They develop in places where there is friction like the underarm, the groin and the neck. They are small skin growths. Sometimes they look like a little tag of skin, hanging off (hence the name). They are not contagious or dangerous. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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Easy: Skin tags look like regular skin, usually on thin stalk that can be "pulled up" or stretched from the skin. Often occur under arms, in groin, around neck. Wart has rough surface- like a small cauliflower - often more firm - does not feel like normal skin. Warts often on hands / feet. Warts can be frozen off or can apply various topical agents regularly. Skin tags can be ligated, frozen or cut. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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Shocking moment pregnant woman was shot in the belly over Facebook post – killing her unborn baby
- The unidentified pregnant victim went to suspect Virginia Wyche's home to confront her about an argument they had over Facebook
- The argument became physical, at which point Wyche allegedly shot the victim in the stomach
- Sadly, the victim's baby did not survive
A pregnant Florida woman has lost her baby after she was shot in the stomach earlier this week, allegedly by a woman with whom she'd been feuding on Facebook.
Police were called the scene - in the 9100 block of Castle Boulevard in Jacksonville - about noon Wednesday after there was a report of an argument and a shooting.
Video after the shooting by neighbor Christopher Cash shows the victim slumped in a chair as neighbors rush to help her. It also shows the suspect, 35-year-old Virginia Wyche, being taken into custody.
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Victim: The unidentified pregnant victim slumped into a chair after she was shot in the stomach. Her baby didn't survive
Suspect: Virginia Wyche and the victim had a disagreement over Facebook, which led to a fight during which Wyche allegedly shot the victim in the stomach
The unidentified victim was taken to a local hospital and survived. Her unborn baby was pronounced dead
'They were arguing out front, something about Facebook. I walked out and just heard a pop,' Cash told WTEV.
Witnesses say the two women got into an argument on Facebook Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the victim went to Wyche's house to confront her about the disagreement.
Tragic: It's unclear what prompted the disagreement between Wyche (pictured) and the pregnant victim
Crime scene: The pregnant victim went to Wythe's home (pictured) to confront her about the Facebook argument
The argument turned physical, and that's when Wyche allegedly shot the pregnant victim.
'I know the victim was definitely shot in the abdomen. That's the one gun shot that I know of. That's why the consideration and concern for the unborn child's health,' Jacksonville Sgt. Michael Paul told News4Jax.com before it was learned that the baby had died.
The suspect's mother, Lillian Jordan, told the station she is as confused as everyone else about what led up to the shooting at her home.
'My son called me and I was very disturbed about this because this is not the way I was raised, and they (were) not raised like this,' Jordan told reporters. 'Somebody had to provoke my child ... to do what she (did). I don't know if she was trying to defend herself, or if they (were) trying to jump on my child, I can't say.'
Wyche was booked into jail on one count of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Investigators say they will continue to look into whether the suspect shot the victim in self-defense.
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Not another cloud storage service, surely? Well, yes. MediaFire gives you mobile access to, erm, your media. And there are some neat extra features here.
TED does not, in fact, refer to a teddy bear, rather it’s the name of a non-profit organisation devoted to spreading ideas – by video. And you can access them with an app.
In this guide we provide six steps to avoid being paralysed by an outdated IT system, and how to ensure that the update process is as cost effective as possible.
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In this guest blog, Jochen Polster of NComputing discusses the challeneges facing education establishment as the next generation of digitally savvy millenial students enters the system.
Organisations wishing to avoid being outmoded by competitors or outgrown by customers need to embrace a data-driven approach to management and decision making. The path to success is clear.
Even fairly light smartphone users are likely to acquire files of various kinds, and Tomi File Manager is the best file manager we've ever found. It’s simply brilliant!
After you're over the "magic" of seeing what you say appear on the screen as perfectly formed text, you start to realise the true benefits of the technology.
Holidaymakers are taking more devices with them to exotic locations, and maintaining a decent connection on holiday is of the utmost importance, but is Wi-Fi really good for business?
This five part series, courtesy of ustwo design studio, examines the development of the "human-machine interfaces" (HMI) that are transforming the human driving experience.


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- Handsewn at beginner level
- Step by step photos and instructions
- Includes detailed sewing guide
- US Imperial Measurement / Metric Measurement
Materials you need at home:
- Cotton Embroidery Floss
- Needle, Pins, Scissors
- Polyfill/Fibrefill for stuffing
- Complete list included in your pattern
Create your own felt fox using my easy to follow, simple step by step instructions and pattern.
Everything is hand sewn at a basic level and you control the color, size and how you would like to use your fox. As a baby mobile, garland, hanging ornament, cake topper... what ever you choose! (Baby mobile shown is for example only)
This non-fussy design works well with a modern neutral nursery decor and it is a great way to tie in those accent colors. The clear, bold, basic shapes are perfect for stimulating your new baby. The felt fox is not gender specific, can be made in unisex colors for 'sex-unknown' and it looks great in shades of pink and blue too!
This pattern includes detailed photos and step by step instructions. It is only 7 pages long so you will not feel bogged down in information. I also include some ideas on how to use your finished fox.
(Please note the pattern does not include tree or mushroom, these are just photo props)
USA & UK Customers – all measurements are in both metric and imperial (cms and inches). All supplies referenced are available in most craft or fabric shops world over.
MEASUREMENTS (when pattern printed on A4 or Letter paper) Each fox measures approx 4" high & 3.5" wide (you can easily change the size by enlarging on your scanner)
YOU WILL NEED The pattern Pins, needle and scissors Felt in your choice of colors Embroidery thread Polyfill (stuffing) and chopstick or similar to stuff
Files are PDF A4 Format but print fine on letter size. Your pattern will be received as soon as payment has been made.
In most instances you are welcome to sell the final product (not on ETSY).
Original design by Ria Crawford for Maisie Moo Felt Creations.
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A new trailer for the upcoming season of Parks and Recreation reimagines Pawnee as the scene for a horror movie. The video opens with dramatic strings and an aerial shot of the town and its citizens before cutting to councilwoman Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her overly ambitious plans for the town. Knope appears on a morning talk show and says, "Last time I checked, I don't think I murdered anyone," and the shot cuts to one of her with a shovel followed by a scene of maniacal laughter. The intensity builds with racing drums, frenzied inter-office shenanigans and Knope eventually asking "Do you think I should cover this up?" Parks and Recreation will return to NBC on September 26th.


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Credit plays a crucial role in real estate investment, greatly influencing the borrowing options that investors have at their disposal.
Baltic Home Price
When looking across the province, Baltic is the 93th most expensive in Prince Edward Island.
With Baltic’s median house price at $199,700 in Aug , it is about average compared to the rest of Prince Edward Island.
In province, the most common property on the listings this month has 3 bedrooms, in this neighbourhood it’s 3.
According to our stats, Baltic is the neighbourhood that has the 87th most properties available to real estate investors in Prince Edward Island.
Is Baltic a good investment prospect? It’s never a perfect science, but the data we have given us a number of indicators.
The amount of homes for sale in neighbourhood has stayed the same over the last three months – this means that supply and demand economics would mean that the pressure on house prices has also remained constant.
When it comes to the size of the properties currently available to property investors in this neighbourhood, they tend to have the average number of bedrooms than the most commonly available across the nation.
Will prices rise across the next year in in Baltic? There are a number of real estate indicators to consider.
Corresponding census subdivisions are provided for the following place names where data is not available.
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Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary ’77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June’s weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.
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Although the 2009 H1N1 influenza A viral pandemic spread rapidly due to the lack of pre-existing immunity in much of the human population, older adults appeared to be relatively protected due to pre-existing cross-protective antibodies that were most likely generated in response to natural infection with 1918 H1N1 and its early derivatives.5
Here, we show that commercial preparations of IVIG, produced prior to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, contain cross-reactive antibodies against 2009 H1N1 as assessed by both HI and MN assays. In addition, we found that administration of high-dose IVIG significantly increased the levels of cross-reactive HI and MN antibodies against 2009 H1N1. Thus, commercially available IVIG produced prior to the pandemic could potentially be used as an adjunctive treatment for 2009 H1N1 infection in severe cases or in patients with limitations in adaptive immunity. Since newer IVIG preparations will likely include plasma from donors who have been vaccinated for 2009 H1N1 or who were infected with 2009 H1N1, the HI and MN antibody titers will likely increase. However, our results indicate that such inclusion is not necessary for IVIG to provide substantial passive immunity to 2009 H1N1, and suggest that the approach of using existing IVIG preparations might also be considered in future influenza pandemics or if highly drifted strains circulate.
Although there has been no reported clinical experience with the use of passive antibodies in treating 2009 H1N1, there were many attempts to use convalescent blood products in treating acute influenza during the influenza pandemic in 1918. The therapeutic administration of blood products enriched in anti-influenza antibodies appeared to confer a survival advantage particularly if the treatment was given within the first four days of illness.11
In addition, convalescent plasma has been used anecdotally for severe H5N1 infection.12
Furthermore in animal models, therapeutic monoclonal anti-influenza IgG antibodies have been shown to clear influenza virus after infection in SCID mice, which lack B cells and T cells.13
Thus, it is plausible that the therapeutic administration of immunoglobulin containing neutralizing antibody against 2009 H1N1 could aid in halting the progression of infection as well as in viral clearance.
Passive immunotherapy for 2009 H1N1 influenza and other pandemic influenza A strains may be of particular importance in cases of anti-viral resistance. While the 2009 H1N1 virus has remained largely susceptible to the neuraminidase inhibitors, oseltamivir and zanamivir, there have been sporadic reports of oseltamivir-resistant strains. Resistance has been particularly frequent in hosts with impaired adaptive immunity who shed virus for prolonged periods,14
and for whom adjunctive therapy with IVIG could be particularly useful.
In summary, we have identified significant titers of cross-reactive antibody against 2009 H1N1 in commercial preparations of IVIG despite the low prevalence of pre-existing cross-reactive immunity in the general population. Administration of high-dose IVIG increased the serum titer of these antibodies, and this may be a useful adjunctive therapy in severe infections with 2009 H1N1 influenza, particularly in the immunocompromised, those who are refractory to neuraminidase inhibitor therapy, and immunologically naïve children.


Boeing has announced that it has reached agreement to sell 100 aircraft to Iran Air in a deal that could be worth $25bn (£17bn) at list prices.
The deal marks a big step in US-Iran economic relations after sanctions were lifted on Tehran last year.
Boeing said it is working with regulators to get the necessary US government approvals.
If the deal is approved it will be the largest between a US business and Iran since the 1979 revolution.
"Boeing will continue to follow the lead of the US government with regards to working with Iran's airlines, and any and all contracts with Iran's airlines will be contingent upon US government approval," Boeing said in a statement.
Iran Air confirmed that the deal would be for Boeing 737 and 777 aircraft.
The country's civil aviation authority is attempting to modernise its fleet by adding between 400 and 500 aircraft over the next 10 years. Airports and other aviation infrastructure also needing modernising.
The Boeing deal is not set in stone, however. Several US congress members have voiced their opposition to the transaction. President Obama's decision to lift sanctions remains controversial.
A deal between European aerospace firm Airbus and Iran Air - announced in January - is still waiting for approval from regulators in the US where some of Airbus' parts are made.
If the Boeing deal is approved there is a question mark of how Iran Air will pay for the aircraft. US banks are still barred from working with Iran.


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A family-run practice in Denton, Cartwright Optometrists has been open on Manchester Road since 1961.
Helen Cartwright, who joined the practice in 1993 after leaving Bradford University, now looks after the eyes of patients who remember her as a little girl and takes pleasure in seeing patients grow up and bring their own children to be tested!
During lockdown, she offered an emergency service for her patients whilst also working extremely hard to get all the safety measures in place for their return to the practice.
The practice is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 1pm and then 2pm to 5pm, closing at lunchtime for a deep clean.
Although they are seeing fewer patients per day, Helen and her fantastic team of Nicola, Allison and Diane are always ready to greet old and new patients into the practice, and are working very hard to keep everybody safe and well in these challenging times.


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Lie-Nielsen's smoothing planes are precision machined from a manganese bronze casting, or an iron casting. They all come with a beautifully formed handle and knob made from American cherry. They have the Stanley Bedrock style frog which gives a fully machined mating fit between the frog and body. You can move the frog backwards or forwards, allowing the opening or closing of the plane's mouth without having to remove the lever cap or blade. The blades are a 1/8" thick and require light honing before use.
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Tart cherry juice can improve our sleep quality and help us fall asleep faster.
Fighting off insomnia can be a demanding and frustrating task. People will often give vague suggestions, or suggest things you’ve tried that don’t work. The main way to combat insomnia without spending a good sum of money is simply to change your lifestyle, and it may not be clear where those changes need to be made. Some people opt for sleep tracking and scheduling; others try to exercise more while hoping to get physically exhausted enough that they can quickly fall asleep. The more desperate will use their alcohol supply to self-medicate, which can lead to all sorts of complications. On top of that, it’s hard to clearly isolate what’s causing your insomnia, since there are so many possible factors in both our lifestyle and chemical balance.
Prescription and over-the-counter medication often lead to undesirable side-effects. Some sleep medication has side-effects that ruin your sleep cycles, which is about as counterproductive as it sounds. To avoid this, a lot of people seek out all-natural sleep aids and dietary methods to fight off insomnia without risking their health in some unforeseen way. A common ingredient mentioned in a lot of recipes and medical articles is tart cherry juice. If public opinion is to be believed, it’s supposed to help deal with insomnia (and some other health-related issues, like muscle repair), both when consumed regularly and when ingested as part of a diet supplement or sleep aid. In this article, we will examine these claims to see if tart cherry juice really does help insomniacs sleep easier. Let’s begin.
The vast majority of natural sleep aids try to affect your melatonin production. Melatonin is typically called the “sleep hormone” in layman speak, as it helps your body regulate your natural sleep cycle. When your body decides it’s time to go to bed, more and more melatonin starts getting produced to induce drowsiness so you can fall asleep. Once you wake up, cortisol is instead produced to get you properly energized for daily activities.
Insomnia and other sleep-related problems can often stem from disrupted melatonin production. For example, alcohol consumption can seriously slow down melatonin production, crippling it by as much as 20% after moderate drinking. Other habits or conditions can affect how fast you produce melatonin, which can keep you awake for longer and thus make you tired during the day, forming a sort of vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. So how do tart cherries fit into all of this?
Semi-recently, melatonin was discovered in concentrated amounts in a variety of edible plants. Tart cherries are one of them, especially the Montmorency variety, which boast a six times higher melatonin percentage than another good candidate (Balaton cherries). Logically, this would make tart cherry juice a good substance for inducing sleep faster. This beneficial effect was confirmed in several studies where patients with insomnia were given tart cherry juice. It even performed better than most melatonin and valerian root supplements. However, we were just talking about sleep onset. What about the quantity and quality of sleep among people who consume tart cherries?
Most of the time when sleep aids are talked about, the only thing anyone mentions is sleep onset latency – the time it takes a person to fall asleep. However, if that were all that mattered, then getting drunk would be an even more popular option for insomniacs and people with sleep deprivation in general. The main reason alcohol is considered counterproductive is that while it certainly does help you fall asleep faster, it ruins the quality of that rest and leaves you feeling drained and exhausted when you wake up. You want to make sure that your diet supplement or sleep aid also enhances the restorative function of sleep so that you can remain energized and healthy during the day.
Tart cherry juice has recently been tested for effectiveness as a natural sleep enhancer, and its performance has been noted in more than one area. Patients aged 50 or older had a staggering 84-minute increase in total sleep time after drinking two glasses of tart cherry juice per day (once after waking up, and once in the evening, right before bed).
Apparently, it’s not just the melatonin component that makes tart cherries and their juice a good sleep aid. They also contain strong amounts of procyanidins and anthocyanins. These chemicals aren’t exclusive to tart cherries, but they contribute to this healthy cocktail of sleep-enhancing properties, as they have an anti-inflammatory effect. A theory has popped up claiming that chemicals inside tart cherries prevent tryptophan from being fully broken down. Tryptophan assists in melatonin and serotonin production, so the effects on the consumer’s melatonin levels are strong enough to make a difference in their sleep quality. The degradation of tryptophan has been directly linked to insomnia in the past.
All of this sounds amazing so far, we know. And when you’re presented with an option this good, the first question in a lot of people’s minds is often “So what’s the catch?” Well, the studies we’ve told you about have not examined any potential risks with frequently drinking tart cherry juice. For example, if you have diabetes, the sugar found (in small but not insignificant amounts) in tart cherry juice could pose a problem.
Additionally, the studies were mainly focused on middle-aged and older adults with insomnia. Although they’re not entirely representative of the general population, these demographics experience the biggest inconveniences and problems as a result of insomnia. Their immune system gets compromised, and conditions such as Alzheimer’s or dementia get worse. Younger people don’t have these problems, or they’re much less severe, so treating seniors is considered a high priority due to those health risks.
Consuming too much tart cherry juice or including tart cherries in your cooked dishes too often can result in digestive problems, as the cherries contain sorbitol. Sorbitol is a sugar that is naturally indigestible and can have a laxative effect if consumed in excess. Additionally, you can experience gas and stomach cramping, which is obviously not something you want while you’re trying to fall asleep through insomnia.
Being able to fix your sleep cycles by itself is already a huge selling point for tart cherry juice. But there are more upsides to consuming this juice, especially if you’re an athlete. For example, weightlifters often have to deal with muscle damage, as their strength exercises are very intense. Montmorency tart cherry juice helps attenuate the oxidative damage caused to the muscle by the intense exercise. The chemicals inside tart cherries also help alleviate joint pain and inflammation for patients dealing with osteoarthritis. Long-distance runners such as marathon runners often have to deal with acute muscle pain. As a result, they suffer from inflammation, and their legs can’t put out as much force as they normally would. The chemical compounds inside tart cherries have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that directly counter this hindrance if the tart cherry juice is consumed regularly for a period before the strenuous exercise. The result is significantly reduced pain after each run, and since this is a primary point of concern for many runners, tart cherry juice is a welcome addition to their diet. Keep in mind, no matter what your athletic discipline, don’t treat tart cherry juice as a pre-exercise power-up drink. It has to be a regular part of your diet for at least a week straight before your sports event. The longer you can maintain the habit, the better the effect is.
If you regularly have to deal with jet lag, tart cherry juice can serve as both an all-natural remedy and a way to stay refreshed while traveling. It is also considered helpful in cases where the person is dealing with gout.
Here’s the thing, though. Not every cherry is a good melatonin supplement, and there are many brands that may declare massive health benefits on their packaging, without being able to back that up in testing. Tart cherries such as Montmorency (our recommendation), Balaton, Richmond, and English Morello cherries provide the best results. Avoid sweet cherries if you’re simply looking for health benefits as their effects are minor at best. Additionally, steer clear of any package that says “cocktail” on it. Even if there is some tart cherry juice in there, there are also some other varieties that weaken the sleep-enhancing effects you want. Always go for sugar-free juice.
Note: While tart cherry juice is an excellent food item to include in your diet, make sure it fits in with the planned caloric intake if you’re worried about weight loss. It’s not too hard to plan ahead for it since an 8-ounce serving of tart cherry juice contains around 128 calories. Regardless of your weekly caloric intake, don’t expect tart cherry juice to act as a miracle fix-all medicine if your diet is normally unhealthy. For example, it won’t help you sleep if you have a nasty alcohol habit or if you consume way too many caffeinated products such as coffee, tea or chocolate. Every major change in how healthy you are demands a sacrifice somewhere else.
Tart cherry juice is far from the only recommended sleep aid out there. If you consult your doctor (which you should always do if you’re dealing with insomnia), you will be pointed towards an extensive list of options, including prescription medication. Natural sleep aids often come without nasty side-effects and aren’t extremely costly. And the best ones often include tart cherry juice to some degree, as it’s an all-in-one package of sleep-enhancing effects. This makes those natural sleep aids the best of both worlds, in a way.
OTC and prescription medication tend to have the strongest effect, but it can cause unwanted side-effects or addiction. The general rule with this type of sleep aid is to start with a lower dosage at first. Consult your doctor to figure out a nice dosage to use, and then gradually increase if the problems persist or you stop feeling the effect of your medicine. If the drug has an addiction risk, we strongly recommend switching to something else.
If you’re at your wit’s end after fighting with insomnia for a long time, nothing can help you as much as CBT-I therapy. This is a special technique used to isolate the problematic factors in your sleeping environment that cause or strengthen the effects of insomnia. It involves maintaining a sleep journal and, once the underlying causes of insomnia are identified, steps are taken to improve the quantity and quality of the patient’s sleep. These steps include stimulus control, sleep restrictions, and may or may not include taking special medication. CBT-I therapy isn’t something you can just do without making a commitment, so if your schedule is overbooked, consider sticking to simpler methods until you can afford the time.
Important Note: Always consult your physician about any sleep aid you wish to try. You can do an ingredient check together to find anything you may be allergic to, and make sure any medications you’re already taking won’t make a bad cocktail with this new sleep aid. Most doctors get asked about sleep aids a lot, so you’re almost guaranteed to be recommended something that works extremely well. If you feel any discomfort as a result of these medications, alert your physician immediately so that you can swap as soon as possible.
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It has been a tale of two different universes as President Biden has been spending a nice holiday weekend with his family as Donald Trump is melting down on his failing social media platform.
Here is President Biden:
Small businesses are more than just the engines of our economy. They’re the glue that hold our communities together.
Shop small today, folks. pic.twitter.com/xnJeEEAUjp
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 25, 2023
Here is how President Biden is spending part of Thanksgiving weekend, via the White House Pool Report as provided to PoliticusUSA on Friday:
At 4:08 pm POTUS walked out of Nantucket Books, arm and arm with Finnegan. He was carrying a book: Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson. Naomi was beside him.
He walked into Craftmasters of Nantucket at 4:12 pm and out at 4:19 pm. Jill Biden has joined the posse of Bidens walking in and out of shops.
POTUS paused at various shops to wave to people standing in the windows. Crowds are all all over the sidewalks waving and shouting “Happy Birthday” and “Mr. President.” He is waving back and has shouted “Happy Thanksgiving.”
At 4:22 pm he walked into the Jewelers’ Gallery. Hunter, Melissa and Baby Beau sat on a bench outside. He came out at 4:25 pm.
A group of kids had been waiting at a upstairs window in the building next to the jewelry store but an agent told them to close it. They came downstairs however and POTUS stopped to chat with them. They asked for a photo with POTUS. Hunter took it.
In the about 20 minutes POTUS walked about six blocks and made his way to the town square at 4:30 pm. The agents cleared the sidewalk before him, the presidential SUV trailed him and the pool was on the opposite sidewalk, weaving its way through civilians who were waving and taking pics of POTUS with their cell phones.
During POTUS jaunt, Melissa Cohen walked behind POTUS as did Hunter. Ashley Biden wore a headband with some kind of ears or decoration. Her husband Howard was carrying Baby Beau. Peter Neal is also walking in the group.
POTUS and Bidens are now at town square for the annual tree lighting. A choir is singing traditional carols.
This is how Donald Trump is spending his weekend on Truth Social posting things like this:
Andrew C. McCarthy: “If you’re a top executive at a financial institution that is heavily regulated by New York State, and you see how the state has gone after Trump hammer and tong in a transparently partisan vendetta, do you want to get on the ‘wrong’ side of that? When you see that an elected-Democratic attorney general, aided and abetted by an elected-Democratic judge, is hellbent on putting Trump out of business and taking a quarter-billion dollars from him in a case where there are no victims, what makes you think they wouldn’t come after you if you cross them? This is the business climate under woke-progressive, vindictive government.”
Trump has also threatened to take away healthcare from 40 million Americans if he returns to the White House, and he attacked Forbes magazine for not believing his lies about his wealth.
The way the two men are spending their holiday weekends encapsulates the choice that voters will face in less than a year.
Do the American people want the low key throw back Americana competence of the Biden presidency, or do they want to return to divisive self-centered chaos of Trump?
Polls and talking heads can trying to quantify the election around numbers and issues, but the choice comes down to a simple question. In purely human terms, which of these two men do the majority of Americans want to spend the next four years?
The answer will define the direction and future of the nation.
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The U.S. Patent and Hallmark Workplace today released an Apple patent application (through AppleInsider) covering an idea for versatile earphone ports to stay clear of plug breakage and accidental equipment damage– an usual grievance of many users. The patent application, which was first submitted back in June 2011 and notes Albert Golko, an iPhone and iPad product development engineering supervisor at Apple, as its inventor, describes a system where:
… a part or all of the plug port might comprise a flexible product that permits the port to bend with respect to an insertion axis and prevent the port from breaking when placed or removed poorly.
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The patent describes an audio connector (i.e. a standard 3.5 mm headset jack) that’s produced from a versatile product that enables it to flex slightly throughout use. The audio ports presently in use on most devices are inflexible and offer no stress relief, implying that any unexpected force to the earphone jack risks damaging the port, which typically requires an expensive repair work.
A additional addition to the patent is a certain level of versatility along the port’s length, which allows for even more strain in areas that are vulnerable to damage, such as the pointer or base of the plug. Numerous smartphone individuals are accustomed to covering headsets around the gadget, which triggers a huge quantity of pressure to the base of the plug. It’s envisioned that Apple’s patent will help eliminate this somewhat by offering more relief to both the headset jack and the port.
Although the objectives of the patent application are since yet unclear, Apple has in the past expressed interest in enhancing and reducing earphone plugs and jacks. A patent application released in 2010 detailed a headset jack design utilizing pogo pins instead of cantilevered metal strips for electrical contacts within the jack, a design which might permit thinner earphone jacks. Existing audio connectors, both in the conventional 3.5 mm and smaller 2.5 mm sizes, continue to be limiting consider making smartphones and various other devices smaller and thinner, but Apple’s work towards thinner jacks and more versatile plugs can assist the business attain smaller and thinner gadget designs in the future.


The Xiaomi Mi CC9 which will be unveiled on July 2 will sport a triple camera setup at the back and the company has now confirmed that the primary camera in this setup will have a 48MP Sony IMX586 sensor.
Xiaomi earlier teased a 32MP selfie shooter, so it will likely reveal more details about the smartphone as time pases.
Rumors would have us belive the Mi CC9 will have a Snapdragon 730 SoC and a 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED display. It will likely run Android Pie-based MIUI 10 out-of-the-box and pack a 4,000 mAh battery drawing power from a USB-C port.
Mi CC9 will come with SD730 and notchless display. Mi CC9e will come with SD712 and waterdrop notch. ( according to latest rumors )
Under the specification section of Xiaomi https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_cc9-9749.php The processor is said to be Snapdragon 712 whereas here it is said to be Snapdragon 730! Which is correct


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From 2013 to 2016, Waza Art Centre, in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) developed a joint project titled Revolution Room. The aim of the project was to reflect on artistic and new museum practices in and with communities at four different sites, three in the DRC and one in South Africa.
At each site, the project reflected on the social and spatial dynamics, the communities’ various modes of expression, the relationship to memory, and the latent and visible social tensions that defined each. The intention was to understand and reflect how these complexities can manifest and be expressed in public space through artistic practices. The process resulted in nine projects that developed a range of material used for exhibitions and/or public presentations in 2014 and 2015.
In South Africa, Revolution Room was located in Cosmo City, an urban area 35km outside of Johannesburg. The project culminated in four artist-led projects and one community-led project, which prioritised participation and continually reflected on ways to bring residents into the process.
Revolution Room was developed by VANSA, with Vaughn Sadie as the researcher and project manager. The project was funded by Arts Collaboratory, Doen Foundation, Goethe Institut and Pro Helvetia. Douglas Mothemane, Gladys Tlhapa, Kutloano Toko, Mpume Nombebe, Phashe Magagane and Seipati Hanong made up the core group of residents that played a central role, along with Sadie’s facilitation, in developing and running the community-led project.