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It is more than a year ago that it was made public that a person in China had died of the Covid-19 virus. Now the whole world is gripped by the pandemic which in many ways has devastating consequences. It impacts all spheres of life, also our church life. It is tough in- deed to not be able to gather as church, being there with and for the people.
It is because of this that we need to adhere to stringent measures such as wearing a mask, washing hands and keeping social distance, not gathering in large groups, and many other rules and guidelines. We do these to take care of one another. The trauma of losing a loved one hurts deeply. To see someone in anguish when they struggle to breathe is traumatic.
Ecumenical bodies are engaging with both local and national government and the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), urging government to lift some restrictions so that we can gather in safe spaces as the Body of Christ. Fellowship is core to who we are, yet we know that the virus spreads where people gather. Many examples exist where local churches gathered and did not uphold Covid-19 protocol, which resulted in a super-spreader event, with the consequence that harsher measures are implemented by government.
I thank you for adhering to protocol when you meet with others and hopefully we will be able to meet as local church again soon.

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Not long after Nintendo finally shared the first teaser trailer for Super Mario movie, we’ve learned the film will have an improvised song.
Toad voice actor Keegan-Michael Key was asked if Toad gets to sing in the movie, to which Key confirmed the living, speaking mushroom sings.
“He does,” Key said to Variety. “I got to improvise a song in Super Mario Bros., which was an absolute blast. That was just a stick of fun, that whole thing.”
Mario voice actor Chris Pratt has gotten some criticism over the initial sound of his playing of the titular plumber, which Key noted they worked together on trying to find the right voice for such iconic characters.
“I was working on the voice with my partner and trying to find the voice through the internal journey of the character,” Key said. “And then with the directors, we sprinkled some things in, we moved it around.”
The actor noticeably used a high-pitched voice to play the role of Toad in the Super Mario movie, which, hilariously, is quite similar to how Toad’s voice actor has been historically both in the games and the TV shows.
“There was something about the timbre,” he said. “I wanted it higher and higher and higher. And that’s where we ended up, and I’m really happy with where we ended up.”
Per our previous report the full cast is as follows:
- Chris Pratt – Mario
- Anya Taylor-Joy – Peach
- Charlie Day – Luigi
- Jack Black – Bowser
- Keegan Michael-Key – Toad
- Seth Rogan – Donkey Kong
- Charles Martinet – Surprise Cameos
- Kevin Michael Richardson – Kamek
- Fred Armisen – Cranky Kong
- Sebastian Maniscalco – Spike
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is set to premiere on April 28 in Japan and April 7 in North America


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|United States Senator
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2011
|Preceded by||Dan Coats|
|Succeeded by||Dan Coats|
|46th Governor of Indiana|
January 9, 1989 – January 13, 1997
|Preceded by||Robert Orr|
|Succeeded by||Frank O'Bannon|
|56th Secretary of State of Indiana|
December 1, 1986 – January 9, 1989
|Preceded by||Edwin Simcox|
|Succeeded by||Joe Hogsett|
Birch Evans Bayh III
December 26, 1955
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|Education||Indiana University, Bloomington (BS)
University of Virginia (JD)
Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III ( BY; born December 26, 1955) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served as the junior U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. His father was former Senator Birch Bayh.
On February 15, 2010, Bayh unexpectedly announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. After leaving the Senate, he was replaced by his predecessor, Dan Coats.
Following the withdrawal of 2016 Democratic primary winner Baron Hill, Bayh announced that he would be running to take back his old Senate seat from retiring Republican incumbent Dan Coats. He was defeated in the general election.
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FC PLATINUM stand-in coach Lizwe Sweswe says he won’t be fooled by Dynamos’ poor start to the campaign and believes the struggling Glamour Boys can have a say in the destiny of the league championship.
Sweswe has done well as he holds fort for Norman Mapeza, who is recovering from surgery and says DeMbare can never be dismissed from the equation.
“Dynamos seem to be struggling, but I tell you they have the character to rise from the dead and launch an onslaught to the honours,’’ he said.
“They boast of one of the best coaches in the land, Lloyd Mutasa, and the players are fantastic.
“I know they will rise and when they just win three in a row, they automatically become a big threat. But we are the champions and our target is to defend the Premiership crown.’’
He also said Harare City were also good enough to fight for honours this season despite his men beating them 3-1 in a Castle Lager Premiership battle at Mandava on Saturday.
Mkhokeli Dube, Rodwell Chinyengetere and Edwin Madhananga were on target for the champions while Raymond Uchena got Harare City’s consolation.
“Our toughest opponents were always going to be Harare City because we knew they basically play the same type of football as us,” said Sweswe.
“I am happy we managed to beat them, but it was very tough. They matched us in all departments and it took us some extraordinary magic to break them.
“They are playing a beautiful brand of football, they are actually one of the best teams in the Premiership. They don’t have any pressure and they express themselves fully. I have seen them play over the years, but l think their current squad can be bad news to any opponent.’’
Sweswe said the team even have a good chance of landing the crown.
“With a good coach in Mark Harrison and with the players showing they have mastered their coach’s philosophy, I honestly believe they have what it takes to gun for the title.
“In fact, they are as good as those teams who are leading the race. They have an added advantage of less pressure and are one of the dark horses in the marathon. I think they will soon be in the leaderboard mix if they maintain their form.”
Sweswe reckons Harare City, Ngezi Platinum Stars and Chicken Inn and Dynamos pose the biggest threat to his team’s bid to retain the Premiership title.
“I think Chicken Inn, Harare City, Ngezi Platinum, along with Dynamos, have the potential to give us stiff competition,’’ said Sweswe. “We have good players who know how to win games even those which appear to be difficult like the one we played against Harare City (on Saturday).
“But, the marathon is long, anything can happen, even those teams no one is giving a chance right now can still mount a challenge.’’


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Jason Aldean (center) with Andrew P. Kintz, CFP, Managing Director, SunTrust Bank (left) and Billboard’s Ray Waddell (right) at the Keynote Artist Development Case Study panel (Photo: Beth Gwinn)
As exhaustively detailed in the cover story of this week’s Billboard, Jason Aldean has become one of country’s biggest acts – on his own terms. The author of that article, Ray Waddell, welcomed Aldean and his team to Billboard’s Country Music Summit this afternoon to deconstruct the strategies they’ve executed on the way to the singer’s platinum-plus success.
Aldean’s career has often bucked conventional wisdom, in terms of its approach to radio and touring. Aldean’s managers (Clarence Spalding and Chris Parr of Spalding Management), Kevin Neal (president of Buddy Lee Attractions) and Rick Shedd (senior VP of operations, Broken Bow Records) joined Aldean in retracing his steps from his early days in Nashville — when he performed more than 40 showcases before landing a record deal — to his current headlining tour, which is seeing dates sell out impressively far in advance.
The Distinguished Panel (from left): Chris Parr, manager, Spalding Entertainment; Jason Aldead; Kevin Neal, president, Buddy Lee Attractions; Ray Waddell, Billboard; Rick Shedd, Senior VP of Operations, Broken Bow Records; Clarence Spalding, manager, Spalding Entertainment. (Photo: Beth Gwinn)
Neal said he recalls going to 10 showcases and wondering why a label wasn’t signing Aldean. The artist admits it was tough. “You get frustrated. Nobody shows up and you feel like you’ve wasted time,” he said of those early showcases.
He said most people don’t know but he had an early deal with Capitol that lasted a year, during which time he didn’t record any music. “I moved here in 1998 and my first single came out in 2005,” Aldean said of all the years he paid dues.
Then, when Aldean’s debut single, “Hicktown,” exploded, Parr recalled his first time seeing the video. “The ‘Hicktown’ video showed up on my desk when I was at CMT. It was like a bolt of lightening,” he said. “I started making calls: ‘Who is THIS guy?'”
Though most new acts head out on the customary radio tour, playing acoustic sets in conference rooms, Aldean took a different approach. “For an artist, that sucks,” he said of the promo tours used as a tool to court radio. “I didn’t do a radio tour. I said ‘if you’re doing any kind of festival, I’ll play it for free.” That tactic allowed radio personnel to see the full impact of Aldean live with his band — and it paid off. “That was the biggest impact at radio,” he said.
Jason Aldean (center) with Chris Parr, manager, Spalding Entertainment (left) and Kevin Neal, president, Buddy Lee Attractions (right) at the Keynote Artist Development Case Study panel. (Photo: Beth Gwinn)
Unlike many artists who rush to headline, Aldean and his team took their time, Spalding said they would pass up big money offers and opted to build his career slowly.
Aldean admits it wasn’t always easy to accept Spalding’s strategy. ” When you could play a $100,000 show and someone says the $50,000 one would be better, you think ‘you’ve got to be kidding,'” he said, “but at some point you’ve got to trust the people around you. I never bitched about it once. Our thing is if we play our cards right and set everything up, the money is going to be there.”
And it is. “I worked with Brooks and Dunn and not till the ‘Last Rodeo’ tour did we sell out amphitheaters in advance,” Spalding said.
Shedd called Aldean’s career “a dream scenario. He’s playing the music he wants and it’s connecting.”
Shedd pointed out that Aldean is going to sell over 8,000 downloads of “Dirt Road Anthem this week. “That’s how you can tell you’ve made it-if your song is a ringtone,” Aldean said, joking that he’d heard his song “Big Green Tractor” so many times, he thought he was going to get sick.
Waddell asked Aldean if there is a next level. “I’d like to accomplish a lot of things,” he said. “I barely have enough songs for a greatest hits. I hope to be around for a long time.”
The Billboard Swarm (From Left): Billboard’s Executive Director of Content and Programming for Touring Ray Waddell, Billboard Publisher Lisa Ryan Howard, country music star Jason Aldean, Billboard Editorial Director Bill Werde. (Photo: Beth Gwinn)
Q&A Part 1: Jason discusses his tour, dueting with Kelly Clarkson, and ‘country rap.’
Q&A Part 2: Aldean talks about the CMT Awards, music videos and his album.
Q&A Part 3: Jason answers questions about future collaborations, touring, and more.
Q&A Part 4: Aldean talks about his career goals, Justin Bieber, and success.
Q&A Part 5: Jason chats about country going mainstream, staying grounded, and alternate careers.
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Jason Aldean signing Billboard magazine covers and poster boards. (Photo: Beth Gwinn)


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June 30-2015 (Tuesday) 904.54 Acres of Hand County SD Land at Auction-Tract 1 sold for $3800.00, Tract 2-$3700.00 and Tract 3–$2700.00– Thanks to all who attended This was a strong sale in Hand County SD!!!
HAND COUNTY, SD LAND AUCTION
904.54 +/- ACRES, HULBERT, GRAND & PEARL TOWNSHIPS
TUESDAY JUNE 30, 2015 10:00 AM
We will sell the following real estate at public auction on Tract 3 at the land site located from Wessington, SD, 5 miles west on SD Hwy 14 and 5 miles south on 369th Ave (#9).
Auctioneers Note: Rarely does a farmer or investor have an opportunity to purchase high quality cropland and pasture land in the Midwest. This Hand County, SD land has been in the Yager family since 1949. Ralph and Rosina Yager began farming that year and continued to improve the land while raising a family. The cropland lays well and has proven to be highly productive. The native grass pasture is well managed in weed control and cattle perform well on the pasture. The east pasture offers an exceptional panoramic view to the east. White tail deer and pheasants are common for hunting. All the land is accessible by road. The property has been maintained by the family with conservation and productivity in mind. The land is in excellent condition with considerable new pasture fencing. The cropland is currently in the second year of a three year lease which expires Dec 1, 2016. The pasture land is in the first year of a three year lease which expires Nov 1st, 2017 and Dec 31, 2017. The land will be offered in three Tracts as described below and the Tracts will not be combined.
Tract 1 – 157.54 +/- Acres
Legal Description: SW ¼ 7-112-66, Hand County, SD
According to the FSA there is 151.88 acres of cropland with a 77.30 acre wheat base, CTAP yield of 24 bushels, PLC yield/37 bushels; 23.90 acre corn base, CTAP yield of 45 bushels, PLC yield of 90 bushels; 38.10 acre sunflower base, CTAP 1158 lbs, PLC yield 1354 lbs; 12.30 soybean base, CTAP yield of 23 bushels, PLC yield of 27 bushels. Predominate soils include Houdek-Prosper loams, 0-2 percent slopes and Prosper-Stickney loams, nearly level. Surety AgriData productivity rating of 81.5. County soil rating .912. Taxes: $1768.38. Buyer will receive second half of 2015 lease payment of $13,669.20. Buyer will also receive 2016 rental payment of $27,338.40. Flex bonus rent may be available for both crop seasons based on yields.
Tract 2 – 160 +/- Acres
Legal Description: NE ¼ 13-111-67, Hand County, SD
According to the FSA there is 148.12 acres of cropland with a 74.30 acre wheat base, CTAP yield of 24 bushels, PLC yield/37 bushels; 23 acre corn base, CTAP yield of 45 bushels, PLC yield of 90 bushels; 36.90 acre sunflower base, CTAP 1158 lbs, PLC yield 1354 lbs; 11.80 soybean base, CTAP yield of 23 bushels, PLC yield of 27 bushels. Predominate soils include Glenham-Prosper loams, undulating. Surety AgriData productivity rating of 78. County soil rating .694. Taxes: $1091.42. Buyer will receive second half of 2015 lease payment of $13,330.80. Buyer will also receive 2016 rental payment of $26,661.60. Flex bonus rent may be available for both crop seasons based on yields.
Tract 3 – 587 +/- Acres
Legal Description: E ½ & E ½ W ½ & Lots 1,2,3, except Yager’s Outlot 1, 18-111-66, Hand County SD.
According to the FSA there is 156.57 acres of cropland, 78.20 acre wheat base, CTAP yield of 24 bushels, PLC yield/37 bushels; 24.30 acre corn base, CTAP yield of 45 bushels, PLC yield of 90 bushels; 38.90 acre sunflower base, CTAP 1158 lbs, PLC yield 1354 lbs; 12.50 soybean base, CTAP yield of 23 bushels, PLC yield of 27 bushels. Balance of the land is in pasture and roads. There is good water supply to the pasture from stock ponds, and rural water. Predominate soils include Glenham-Prosper loams, undulating. Surety AgriData productivity rating of 73.5. County soil rating .677. Taxes: $3874.90. Buyer will receive second half of 2015 lease payment of $14,091.30 on the cropland, and $15,409.50 on the pasture. Buyer will also receive 2016 payment of $28,182.60 on the farmland, and 2016/2017 payments of $30,819 on the pasture/year. Flex bonus rent may be available for both crop seasons on the cropland based on yields.
TERMS: 15% nonrefundable down payment day of sale with the balance due at closing on or before August 18th, 2015. Buyer will receive landlord’s possession of the crop and pasture land at closing. Land sells subject to leases which expire 12/31/16 on the crop land on all Tracts and the pasture leases on Tract 3 which expire 11/1/17 and 12/31/17. Title insurance and closing costs split 50/50 between buyer and seller. 2014 taxes due in 2015 to be paid by the seller. Seller to pay the first half of 2015 taxes due in 2016 and the buyer will be responsible for the second half of the 2015 taxes due in 2016 and the taxes thereafter. The acres in this property are based on acres stated in the county tax records with acres to be understood to be “more or less”. The sellers do not warranty or guarantee that the existing fences lie on the true and correct boundary and new fencing, if any, will be the responsibility of the purchaser pursuant to SD statutes. The property is sold in as is condition and as a cash sale with no financing contingency. The land is sold subject to existing easements, restrictions, reservations, or highway of record, if any. Information is deemed to be correct but it is not guaranteed. All prospective buyers are encouraged to inspect the property and verify all data provided. Statements made the day of sale take precedence over all written advertising. Real estate licensees are agents for the seller. Sold subject to confirmation of owner.
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Yager Family, LLP, Owners
Joel R Westra, Broker, Beresford, SD 605-310-6941 Joel A Westra, Broker Associate, Chancellor, SD 605-957-5222 Pete Atkins, Broker Associate, Tea, SD 605-351-9847 Phil Eggers, Broker Associate, Renner, SD 605-351-5438 Dan Piroutek, RE Auctioneer #282, Milesville, SD 605-685-4556 Mark Zomer, Vande Vegte Zomer Auctions, Rock Valley, IA 712-470-2526

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Gnawing at his conscious again, Macbeth believes to have seen the spirit of Banquo sitting at his seat, however Lady Macbeth resolves it by telling him that he was just seeing things. After having gone to the witches, Macbeth failed to realize that Malcom in his exile was raising an army to forcibly take the throne from him.
Needless to say, he does, and in a duel between Macbeth and Macduff, Macbeth realizes the truth about Macduff only right before being decapitated. The play ends in Malcolm becoming a righteous king and the readers reaching their catharsis with the winning battle of good over evil. To summarize, the play is about the rising of a nobleman through murder and deception and his downfall in doing so. However, because it is Shakespeare it is much more complicated than that.
Throughout the play, Macbeth presents himself as evil and tyrannical, and even though it seemed unlikely for the good to prevail in the end it did. Furthermore, the theme of fate vs. Only he had the power to kill or not kill King Duncan and in doing so, he acted upon his own true desires and not upon request of someone else.
In the play, there is also a strong distinction made between male and female, as portrayed by Shakespeare, it can be said that the woman is evil and inciteful. For instance, would Macbeth have killed King Duncan had he not met the three witches?
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Virtual Reality: Conferences
Last Update: May 16, 1998
WWW Virtual Library on Conferences for general information about conferences.
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, January 23-29, 1999, San Jose, CA
EuroMedia 98, January 5-7, 1998, Leicester, UK.
Western MultiConference, January 11-14, 1998, San Diego, CA.
Electronic Imaging '98, January 24-30, 1998, San Jose, CA.
Stereoscopic Displays and Aplications IX & The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 1998, January 25-29, 1998, San Jose, CA.
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: 6; Art, Science, Technology Healthcare (R)Evolution, January 28-31, 1998, San Diego, Califormnia. Sponsored by the UCSD School of Medicine.
International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, February 9-11, 1998, Churchill, Australia
The Sixth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization '98, February 9-13, 1998, University of West Bohemia, Campus Bory, Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic
VRML 98, February 16-19, 1998, Monterey, CA.
New Animation Technology Conference, February 19-20, 1998, Pasadena, CA.
Medical Imaging 98, February 22-28, 1998, San Diego, CA.
Simulation Technology and Training Conference (SIMTECT '98), March 2-6, 1998, Gold Coast, AU
VRAIS: Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, March 14-18, 1998. Albuquerque, NM
SIMTECT '98: Simulation Technology and Training Conference, March 17-20, 1998, Canberra, Australia
Data Compression Conference, March 29 - April 1, 1998, Snowbird, Utah
Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents: An International Workshop, April 6-10, 1998, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan
CHI '98: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA
International Conference on the Telemedical Information Society (ITIS 98), April 21-23, 1998, Amsterdam, Netherland
Alliance '98, April 27-30, 1998, University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign.
CGDC 98: Computer Games Developers Conference, May 3-7, 1998, Long Beach, CA
The Future of Fun: Tomorrow's Technological Entertainment, May 8, 1998, Viktoria Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Agents 98, May 10-13, 1998, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN.
2nd International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, May 11-12, 1998, Ames, Iowa.
Seventh Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation Conference (CGF & BR), May 12-14, 1998, Orlando Fl.
Government Simulation and Imaging Conference, May 13-14, 1998, Arlington, VA.
New Media (formerly Virtual Reality World) NM '98, May 13-15, 1998, Toronto, CN.
Society for Information Display Symposium, May 17-22, 1998, Anaheim, CA.
GKPO '98: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, May 18-22, 1998, Borki, Poland
Second International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, May 27-30, 1998, Boston, MA
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), May 28-30, 1998, Atlanta, GA
Defense Modeling and Simmulation Office Industry Days, June 1-3, 1998, McLean, VA.
ISATA, June 2-5, 1998, Dusseldorf, GR.
5th Eurographics Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, June 3-5, 1998, Abingdon, UK
Space and the Global Village: Teleservices for the 21st Century, June 3-5, 1998, Illkirch, France
Computer Animation '98, Geneva, Switzerland June 5-6, 1998
A Workshop on Presence in Shared Virtual Environments, June 10-11, 1998, Suffolk, UK
Implicit Surfaces, June 15-16, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Virtual Environments '98 held simultaneously with IEEE YUFORIC Germany '98, June 16-18, 1997, Stuttgart, Germany
Virtual Humans 3, June 16-18, 1998, Los Angeles, CA
12th European Simulation Multiconference, June 16-19, 1998, University of Manchester, England.
Collaborative Virtual Environments 1998 (CVE '98), June 17-19, 1998, Manchester University, United Kingdom
Wet Ice '98; IEEE Seventh International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, June 17-19, 1998, Stanford University, California, USA.
IVR '98, Industrial Virtual Reality Show and Conference, June 17-19, 1998, Tokyo, Japan.
System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, June 18, 1998, Manchester, UK.
Graphics Interface '98, June 18-20, 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I-Carve Virtual Design Workshop, June 22-23, 1998, Madison, WI
Computer Graphics International '98, June 22-26, 1998, Hannover, Germany
Introduction to Virtual Environments Workshop, June 25-26, 1998, National Center for Super Computing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Technology in Leisure and Entertainment (TiLE 98), June 30 - July 2, 1998, Strasbourg, FR.
First International Conference on Virtual Worlds, July 1-3, 1998, Paris, France
Virtual Reality in Education and Training (VRET '98), July 7-9, 1998, London, UK
World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: SCI '98, July 12-16, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
Interact '97:the 6th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, July 14-18, 1998, Sydney, Australia
Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC 98), July 19-22, 1998, Reno, NV.
SIGGRAPH 98, July 19-24, 1998, Orlando, FL.
Sixth Annual Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, July 19-24, 1998, Montreal, CN.
1998 IMAGE SIG Symposia: Visual Simulation on the Desktop, August 2-7, 1998, Scottsdale, AZ.
ITS 98: Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, August 16-19, 1998, San Antonio, TX
The 13th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), August 23-28, 1998, Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
ECAI-98 Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments, August 25, 1998, Brighton, UK.
EDCVRAT 98, 2nd European Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and associated Technologies, September 9-11, 1998, Skovde, Sweden.
Design for Manufacturing: DFM in Preparation for the 21st Century, September 13-16, 1998, Atlanta, GA
42nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October 5-9, 1998, Chicago, Illinois
The International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM '98), October 12-15, 1998, Lausanne, Switzerland.
IEEE Visualization 98, October 18-23, 1998, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
IEEE Second Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 19-20, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA
Fractal 98, October 25-28, 1998, Valletta, Malta
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, November 2-5, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan.
Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '98), November 3-7, 1998, Washington D.C.
The First International Conference on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing, November 9-11, 1998, Osaka University Convention Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Manufacturing Week '98, November 10-12, 1998, Birmingham, UK
Comdex, November 16-20, 1998, Las Vegas, NV
VSMM '98: FutureFusion "Applications Realities for he Virtual Age", November 18-20, 1998, Gifu, Japan.
I/ITSEC 98, November 30 - December 3, 1998, Orlando, FL
Third International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS 98), December 17-19, 1998, Atlanta, GAxs
World Movers, January 30-31, San Franciso, CA
Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV, February 8-14, 1997, San Jose, CA
Creative Collaboration in Virtual Communities '97, February 14-15, 1997, University of Sydney, Australia
The Fifth International Conference in Central Europe on computer Graphics and Visualization '97, February 10-14, 1997, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
Creative Collaboration in Virtual Communities, VC '97, 14-17 February, Sydney, Australia.
VRML '97, February 24-26, Monterey, CA
Stereoscopic Displays and Applications VIII
VR in the Geosciences '97
Agents '97, February 5-8, Marina del Rey, CA
Milia '97, February 9-12, Cannes, France
VRML '97: The Second Annual Symposium on Virtual Reality Modelling Language, February 24-26, 1997, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA
VRAIS '97, IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium Sponsored by: IEEE Neural Networks Council Virtual Reality Technical Committee and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics, March 1-5, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM
Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 11-12, Berkeley, CA
The Simulation Technology and Training Conference, March 17-20, Canberra, Australia
GVM '97, March 19-20, Detroit, MI
CHI '97, March 22-27, Atlanta, GA
Eurographics UK Chapter 5th Annual Conference, March 24-26, 1997, University of East Anglia, UK
Virtual Reality Universe, The Virtual Reality Business and Technology Conference, April 2-5, Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, California
CGDC '97, April 25-29, Santa Clara, CA
ICRA '97: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April 20 - 25. Albuquerque, New Mexico
1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 27-30, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island
No listings for May
ISMCR: Topical Workshop on Virtual Reality and Advanced Man-Machine Interfaces, June 4-5, Tampere, Finland
[virtual reality, man-machine interfaces]
6Cyberconf, Oslo, Norway June 5-8, 1997
ISATA, Florence, Italy June 16-19, 1997
[simulation, diagnosis, virtual reality applications: automotive industry]
Audio and Haptics Components of VR Design, Stanford, CA June 16-27, 1997
[virtual reality design, sound, touch]
WET ICE '97: Workshop on Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, June 18-20, 1997, MIT, Cambridge, MA
E3: Electronic Entertainment Expo, June 19-21, Georgia
CODATA Euro-american Workshop Visualization of Information and Data Where We Are and Where Do We Go from Here?, June 24-25, 1997, Ministere de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Superieur, Paris, France
VRET: VR in Education and Training, June 24-26, organized by VR News. Loughborough University, England.
[virtual reality, training, education]
SCSC '97, Society for Computer Simulation's Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 13-17, 1997, Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA
IMAGE SIG Symposia, July 13-18, 1997, Scottsdale, AZ
SIGGRAPH '97, August 3-8, 1997, Los Angeles, CA
SIGGRAPH/Europgraphics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
MEDTEC '97, The Second Medical Technology Education Conference and Exposition, August 14-17, 1997, Tysons Corner, VA
HCI International '97: International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco, CA
ECSCW '97: The Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, September 7-11, 1997, Lancaster, UK
SISO: 197 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, September 8-12, 1997,Orlando, FL
VSMM 97: International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia '97, September 10-12, 1997, University of Geneva, Switzerland
[virtual reality, multimedia]
VRST '97: Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, September 15-17, Lausanne, Switzerland
[virtual reality, software, technology]
ISEA 97, The Inter-Society on the Electronic Arts, September 22-27, 1997, Chicago, Illinois.
International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 13-14, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
ESS97, The Ninth European Simulation Symposium &Exhibition, October 19-23, 1997, Passau, Germany
IEEE Visualization '97, October 19-24, 1997, Phoenix, AZ
Avatars 97, October 22-24, 1997, San Francisco, CA
The Fourth UK VR-SIG Conference, November 1, 1997, Brunel University, UK
Software Engineering, November 10-11, 1997, San Francisco, CA.
VR in Industry and Research, November 10-11, 1997, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Haptics Symposium, at the Winter Annual Meeting of the ASME. November 15-21, Dallas, TX
[haptic interfaces, virtual environments, teleoperator systems]
Comdex, November 17-21, 1997, Las Vegas, NV.
The 19th Interservice/Industry Training Systems & Education Conference, December 1-4, 1997, Orlando, FL.
The Fifth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics CAD/Graphics '97, December 2-6, 1997, Shenzhen, China
Winter Simulation Conference, December 7-10, Atlanta, GA.
Fall Internet World, December 8-12, New York, NY.
Real Time Computer Graphics for VEs, December 18, 1997, London, UK.
Photonics West, Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, San Jose, CA, USA.
WSCA: Fourth International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization, Feb. 11-17, Plsen, Czech Republic.
Virtual Reality World, Feb 13-15, Stuttgart, Germany.
Imagina '96: "Images Beyond Imagination", February 21-23, Monte Carlo, Monaco. Imagina is organised by: The Television Festival of Monte-Carlo, INA Institut National de l'audiovisuel.
European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Service, March 4-6, Berlin, Germany.
ACM Conference on Hypertext, March 16-20, Washington DC, USA.
Eurographics UK Conference, March 26-28, London, UK.
VRAIS '96: IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium, March
30 - April 3, Marriott Hotel, Santa Clara, California, USA.
AeroSense '96: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, April 3-10, 1996, Orlando, Florida, USA.
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, April 9-12, 1996, Vienna, Austria.
Conference on Concurrent Engineering, April 10-12, 1996, Cambridge, England.
ASSETS '96, ACM's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped, April 11-12,
1996, Vancouver, Canada.
CHI '96, Common Ground: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 13 - 18, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Workshop on Manipulation in Virtual Environments, Sunday April 14th.
Workshop on Psychological Issues of Virtual Environment Interfaces.
April 14 & 15, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Conference on Robotics and Automation, including tutorial on
Virtual Reality in Robotics, April 22-28, 1996, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Eurographics Workshop on
Visualization in Scientific Computing, April 23-25, 1996, Prague,
NOSSDAV 96: 6th
International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for
Digital Audio and Video, April 23-26, 1996, Zushi, Japan.
Digital Media World, May 1-3, 1996, Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Australia.
Interfaces: An International Workshop (AVI '96), May 27-29, 1996,
5Cyberconf, June 6-9, Madrid, Spain.
Interactive Technology in Health-Education: Virtual Reality
Distance Education Electronic Classroom held June 13-15, 1996
at SUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburgh NY.
Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, June 17-19, 1996, Porto, Portugal.
APCHI '96. Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Computer Interaction, June 26-28, 1996, Singapore.
VRST '96: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1996, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong -July 1-4, 1996 - Sponsored by: ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.
UK VR-SIG Conference, July 3, 1996, Leicester, UK.
Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Interface, July 8-10, Sydney, Australia.
SIGGRAPH 96, Aug. 4-9, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference, August 18-22, Irvine, California, USA.
HCI 96: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Aug. 20-23, London, UK.
Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, August 26-27, Poitiers, France.
Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation, August 31 - Sept. 1, Futuroscope, Poitiers, France.
Ars Electronica: September 2-6, Memesis.
DEAF 1996: Dutch Electronic Art Festival, 17-29 September, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Visualization in Biomedical Computing, 4th International Conference,
Sept. 22-25, Hamburg, Germany.
'96, Oct.27 - Nov.1, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Ciber@RT '96: November 4-7, 1996, Valencia, Spain. Ciber@RT '96 is an annual international conference that has risen from
the need of creating a space open for discussion and reflection about
the non-stop evolution of New Technologies and its relation to the
Art & Communication world.
UIST '96, User Interface Software and Technology 9th Annual Symposium, Nov. 6-8, 1996, Seattle, WA, USA.
ICAD '96, Nov. 4-6 at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, CA
CSCW '96, November 16-20, 1996, Boston, MA
Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator
Systems. November 17-22, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Virtual Reality Software and Technology with the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence, Nov. 20-22, Toshimaku, Japan.
OZCHI, Nov. 24-27, Hamilton, New Zealand.
FIVE '96: Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments II, December 19-20, 1996, Pisa, Italy
CVR Med '95, First International Conference on Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics . Nice, France - April 3-6, 1995.
Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Information Technologies, May 9-11, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
First Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments (SIVE), July 13-15, University of Iowa.
Eurographics 95. 28 August - 1 September. Maastrycht, The Netherlands.
UIST 1995 Eighth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Nov. 15-17, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Sponsored by
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Shootout draws top teams to London
Several of the top high school senior boys' basketball teams in Ontario, including No. 1-ranked Toronto Henry Carr and London's own Beal Raiders, are getting an early start to the stretch drive this weekend.
They're among the 24 teams competing in the Forest City Shootout, which starts Friday with games at Wheable, Banting, Beal and Saunders.
Other top entries include Toronto Mother Teresa (a provincial top-15 squad), Windsor Herman, Sarnia Northern and Sarnia St. Christopher's, as well as London teams Banting, Westminster, Saunders, John Paul II, Oakridge and Clarke Road.
The top eight seeds -- Henry Carr, Mother Teresa, Beal, Herman, Northern, Waterloo Macdonald, Banting and Toronto Richview -- get a bye into the second round, which will be played at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Friday at Beal, Banting and Saunders. The championship quarterfinals are set for 9 a.m. Saturday at the same three schools, the semifinals are at noon at Banting and Beal and the championship game is at 3 p.m. at Beal.
The TVRA regular season resumes with the final week of the regular season Monday. The playoffs begin the following week.


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"For an awesome time on the grill.."
From steaks and wings to asparagus and corn on the cob, you are going to love using our Grillin’ Marinade on just about everything! Remember, it‘s concentrated so a little truly does goes a long way.
Directions: Pour just enough in a shallow pan to coat one side of your favorite meat or veggie for about seven minutes. Flip the meat or roll the veggies and let it sit for an additional seven. Drop it on a flame and get to grillin’ - it’s that simple.

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Prime Healthcare Services for California is reportedly facing allegations from California state lawmakers concerning allegations over a number of controversial medical billing practices.
State lawmakers announced Friday that they will hold a hearing led by the Senate Health Committee, which will investigate suspected overbilling of patients and suspected refusals to transfer out-of-network patients. The potential motives behind these actions could be to increase Prime Healthcare hospital revenues, at the cost of patient care and money, a practice lawmakers suggest could be illegal.
California State Senator Ed Hernandez, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, called the hearing on Friday in Los Angeles after learning of these suspected actions by Prime Healthcare.
“I have no problem with an entity turning a profit, but not at the expense of the consumer to the point it drives up healthcare costs,” Mr. Hernandez said.
The hearing focused primarily on the hospital’s requirement to transfer out-of-network patients once they become stabilized to receive necessary care in other appropriate facilities. By limiting the number of out-of-network patients from being transferred interferes with the quality of their care. Hospitals and medical facilities have an obligation to the patient to ensure the best possible care. While facility revenue is an issue, their revenue concerns should not hinder the care of their patients.
In addition, billing practices of Prime Healthcare were under fire. Prime Healthcare is accused of overbilling medical charges to employers and government-run health programs. The hearing highlighted the upcoming changes to Medi-Cal’s reimbursement system and how the state is preparing to handle the influx of millions of new patients, many of whom will be covered by 2014.
According to Prime Healthcare, it is unaware of any federal or state inquiries. Prime Healthcare believes its practices comply with all state laws and regulations.
These allegations against Prime Healthcare were stimulated by conclusions from a 2010 study that found that 64 percent of Prime Healthcare patients stay in their hospitals for up to two days, compared to 36 percent of patients admitted to out-of-network hospitals. In addition, hospital billing staff and nurses have been interviewed to learn more about the hospitals’ practices.
In the past, Prime Healthcare was investigated for possibly submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare and Medi-Cal. When these issues were brought to light, officials from Medicare and Medi-Cal looked into allegations of Prime Healthcare “upcoding” patient bills.
Prime Healthcare owns 14 hospitals in California Texas, and Pennsylvania. In addition, there are three other California hospitals that are related to nonprofit foundations.
After these allegations against Prime Healthcare were filed, Lex Reddy, the president and CEO, of Prime Healthcare resigned, after 11 years for personal reasons. Prem Reddy, the company’s chairman, has taken over as the interim CEO. This new leadership may lead to management changes within Prime Healthcare, the required changes to rebuild confidence in the patients.
Michael Sarrao, vice president and general counsel at Prime Healthcare, said the investigation is simply politics, adding that he expects the company will be vindicated.
The investigation comes nearly a year after Mr. Hernandez, a Democrat, proposed a measure to hold state hospitals more accountable. The California Democrat was the chief sponsor of legislation that closed a loophole in state law concerning hospital licensing.
During that debate, Mr. Hernandez pointed to a series of actions by Prime Healthcare. Prime Healthcare bought Alvarado Hospital from Plymouth Health Investments in November of 2010. Since the named license-holder for the hospital, Alvarado Hospital LLC, was unchanged in the sale, Prime was not required to apply for a new license. This despite being under investigation by the Dept. of Public Health for problems reported at other hospitals Prime operates, according to Mr. Hernandez.

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05 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
Xiao Xiao and The Dragon’s Pearl available on Gumroad.
Happy New Year!
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For Lunar New Year, it is customary for folks to buy flowers and plants. We call it “ying chun hua”, literally “welcome spring flowers”.
I took this picture of white lilies a while back. But here they are: to welcome spring.
03 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
Glad to know that I am inspiring kids to write!
Dancing with dragons! :)
01 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
Lit your fires.
In other news, racing dragon novella might need a new home. Change is the only constant.
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Thank you, Strange Horizons!
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I am buried under work at the moment. Edits should be on the way, but I have to get the paperwork done at dayjob before I could start focusing on writing.
Spring is afoot. For us, Chinese New Year is around the corner. We call it Chun Jie, literally ‘Spring Festival’. It is one of my favorite lunar festivals and traditions.
Chinese New Year is the setting and background for my picturebook, Dragon Dancer, where the dragon dances away the bad luck. Dragon and lion dances are always seen during Chinese New Year. If you want to have a magical children’s story where even adults can enjoy the art (it’s gorgeous!), here’s the direct link to the book.
Now, a picture to symbolize the return of spring and growth:

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CGI 3D Animated Short: 'Meet My Family' - by ESMA | TheCGBros
TheCGBros Presents "Meet My Family" by ESMA Today is a great day, Marvin will finally meet his girlfriend’s family. He will discover a gallery of characters each more eccentric than the other, in front of Sarah amazed. An exchange of points of view will disentangle a few family tensions. For more information, please see the details and links below:
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"Public awareness of electronic invoicing should be promoted and consumers should be encouraged to take e-invoices into use", states the final report of an e-invoicing working group appointed by Ms Suvi Lindén, Minister of Communications.
The working group encourages cooperation between e-invoice operators, banks, and other service providers in terms of informing about the service.
Communications Minister Lindén believes that e-invoicing significantly promotes electronic services. She underlines the importance of the government guideline to use electronic purchase invoices by the end of 2009.
"Introducing e-invoicing in public administration is an important step forward and we need to ensure the implementation of the system. SMEs, consumers and municipalities should strive for the same goal", Lindén says.

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As global economists continue to forecast that the United States is likely heading into recession, one Alaska pollock executive does not see demand diminishing anytime soon for what he describes as the "value species within the whitefish world."
"Looking at this from a wild Alaska pollock perspective, we are well-positioned to do quite well even with some of the warning signs on the horizons," Rasmus Sorensen, executive vice president of global sales at American Seafoods, told the audience at last week's North Atlantic Seafood Forum.
"People tend to trade down when finances are tight."
American Seafoods is a major player in the Alaska pollock fishery, with six catcher-processors that annually harvest 350,000 metric tons of both pollock and hake.
Right now the company, along with much of the rest of the US Alaska pollock industry, is seeing prices at record highs, even though Russia's war on Ukraine as well as inflation weigh heavily on consumers.
That's largely because wild Alaska pollock is seen by buyers as a "value" species, with the product increasingly replacing whitefish staples such as cod in Europe in recent years.
UK cod sales have dropped by 11 percent in volume in the last year alone, partly as a result of the unraveling of COVID lockdowns in 2021, but in general because cod's performance is worse than other species.
And while Alaska pollock producers have ramped up their deepskin and pinbone-out (PBO) production over the last few years, Sorensen explained that "inventory levels are low" for all core products, as Alaska pollock increasingly replaces "expensive alternatives" both in the United States and globally.
The issue of a tight supply has even been evident for the biggest domestic buyers of Alaska pollock, he said.
Last year, the USDA could not award the total amount of its contracts to seafood companies due to "vendor constraints," as it navigated a pollock "B" season that did not have the right size fish to produce fillets for the highest-value customers.
This year, the agency has spent over $31 million (€29.4 million) so far on Alaska pollock bids, with a few more likely on their way, data from Sorensen showed.
But the tight inventory issue is not new to Alaska pollock and has been around since 2014, when demand for core products started rising globally.
Sorensen pointed to the most recent EU import numbers for Alaska pollock as an example, which have fallen around 11 percent to around 99,000 metric tons since 2019.
This "is not a reflection of lower demand, this is a reflection of trouble in the supply chain," he said.
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When it comes to shopping ads, Q4 and mobile go together like thumbs on a small screen (literally).
Sampling the Marin Global Online Advertising Index, composed of advertisers who invest more than $7 billion in annualized ad spend on the Marin platform, we analyzed data from around the world to create our 2016 Cross-Channel Marketing Report. Our research allowed us to make a few definitive predictions for mobile performance in the 2016 shopping season.
- Smartphones rule clicks: By April 2016, we expect the smartphone click rate to have grown by about 200% from January 2014. Mobile will leave tablets and desktops in the dust, as they hover just around the 75% point in terms of click share. No competition, as they say.
- Smartphones rule CTR: The same will hold true for click-through rate, with smartphones projected to dominate the scene throughout the holiday season and beyond.
- Smartphones rule CPC: Increased mobile activity will lead to lower cost per click, allowing advertisers to allocate spend where it counts most, and to better evaluate the different strengths and weaknesses of different ad formats.
In sum: smartphones rule. For the full results our research, including data on social, text versus product ads, and recommendations for how to stand out during the 2016 holiday season, download The State of Shopping Ads: 2016 Cross-Channel Marketing Report.
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Oil prices at the international markets surged to a nine-year high since 2014 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia announced the sustenance of its voluntary production cuts of one million barrels per day until the end of 2023 even as Russia also expressed its export cuts of 300,000 bpd extension until the end of the year.
Latest news on the global oil markets’ prices showed that Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose to above $90 a barrel, representing more than 12% increase since the start of the year, while West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, also surged to $87 a barrel, its highest level in seven years.
Industry analysts saw the decision by Saudi Arabia as a surprise and had expected the kingdom to ease its supply curbs as demand recovers from the pandemic.
As expected, the surge in oil prices will have mixed implications for the global economy in view of the fact that higher energy costs could fuel inflation and dampen consumer spending, especially for countries like Nigeria that are currently contending with multi-faceted fiscal and monetary policy whirlwinds.
Specifically, the surging prices hold promising potential for Nigeria in terms of accruable revenue from crude oil exports and by so doing, will help the Federal Government to rake in more foreign exchange (FX) to fund the budget and improve its fiscal position.
For instance, the improved FX accretion could help the government to increase spending on critical infrastructure, health and education as it is currently planning, reduce its borrowing and debt servicing costs with the attendant positive implications for the nation’s economic growth and development.
However, as an import-dependent economy, the rise in oil prices, if sustained as experts foresee, will accentuate the current challenge of surging inflation in the country, which peaked at 24.08% in July.
This is particularly certain as Nigeria has been struggling with the negative impact of the fuel subsidy removal since May 29 this year, as consumers now buy fuel by over 400% higher than the pre-subsidy removal ear with the attendant spiking prices of all consumer goods, especially food items.
For instance, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that Nigerians paid 210.31% higher for petrol in June this year at N545.83 relative to the N175.89 they paid per litre for the commodity in the corresponding month of last year
In addition, oil prices surging in the months ahead will vitiate the impact of the fuel subsidy removal palliatives on the masses, who already are groaning under intense macroeconomic hardships associated with the fuel subsidy removal and Naira exchange rates unification policy of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
It is projected that the rising oil prices would invariably put more pressure on the government to provide succour for millions of ordinary Nigerians who have seen their purchasing power dissipate over the past months.


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Users or engineers may be unsure of how to access the best support for issues with EBO Smart Connectors, especially where site specific Smart Connectors have been developed, or believe the issue is with the underlying framework.
EcoStruxure Building Operation
Unlike EBO, which is a standard EcoStruxure product that falls under normal R&D, the Smart Connector (formerly known as Mongoose) was developed by Schneider Electric Buildings Labs and a separate R&D Team.
If using a Smart Connector developed specifically for a project by a separate Integration Team within Schneider-Electric, then it is always best to go back to that team with your technical issues.
In all other cases, the Smart Connector Framework is now supported via normal Product Support channels by raising a support case with your local Customer Care Centre, just as you would for any other EcoStruxure Issue.
The SmartConnector Developer Forum: can still also still be found on the community.


You can locate an official source for your area to cailbrate by visiting https://ambientweather.net/baro
To calibrate the relative pressure, select the Calibration Panel on your display console by pressing the Settings icon three times:
From the calibration panel, adjust the relative pressure to the reference pressure in your area:
Press to highlight the REL Barometer field.
Press to highlight the significant digit you wish to change. Press or to adjust the digit up or down.
For details on relative pressure calibration, please visit:
The WH32B thermo-hygrometer-barometer sensor will always display the measured pressure. The relative pressure is calibrated on the console.


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That Ram Charan is a phenomenal dancer is a known fact. The latest buzz in T-town circles is that Mega fans will have a feast witnessing Charan’s mercurial dance moves in his forthcoming action thriller, Dhruva.
Taking this positive buzz even higher, Dhruva’s director Surender Reddy said that Charan has rocked the dance floor in the hit number, Neethone Dance. The Mega Power Star has pulled off the dance moves with full grace and ease, according to Surender Reddy.
Dhruva is slated to release on December 9th. The film’s theatrical trailer will be unveiled shortly.
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The documentary record of “mind control” experiments conducted by the United States and other governments during the Cold War is just the tip of the iceberg, and our collective ignorance is by design. In early 1973, as the fallout from the Watergate scandal exposed the need for greater congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ordered the destruction of all documents related to MK Ultra.
Launched in the wake of the Nuremberg Trials, which exposed the extent of Nazi atrocities carried out in the name of science, MK Ultra involved a range of grotesque experiments on unwitting test subjects within and beyond U.S. borders. Newly revealed evidence exposes previously hidden links between MK Ultra experiments on Indigenous children in Canada and imprisoned Black people in the U.S.
On April 20, 2023, a group of Indigenous women known as the Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) achieved a milestone in their ongoing lawsuit against several entities, including McGill University, the Canadian government and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec. The parties reached an agreement whereby archeologists and cultural monitors would begin the process of searching for unmarked graves, which the Mohawk Mothers believe are buried on the grounds of the hospital.
Over the preceding two years, approximately 1,300 unmarked graves, most of them containing the remains of Indigenous children, have been discovered on the grounds of five of Canada’s former residential schools. Throughout the 20th century, the residential school system — like the Indian Boarding School system, its U.S. counterpart — separated thousands of Indigenous children from their families, stripped them of their language and subjected them to various forms of abuse amounting to what a truth and reconciliation commission called “cultural genocide.” But as these horrific revelations demonstrate, the harm wasn’t only cultural — a 1907 investigation found that nearly one-fourth of school attendees did not survive graduation.
In October of 2021, new evidence surfaced linking disappeared Indigenous children to MK Ultra experiments conducted by CIA-sponsored researchers. A white Winnipeg resident named Lana Ponting testified in Quebec’s Superior Court that in 1958, when she was 16 years old, doctors from the Allan Memorial Institute, a former psychiatric hospital affiliated with McGill and the Royal Victoria Hospital, held her against her will, drugged her with LSD and other substances, subjected her to electroshock treatments, and exposed her to auditory indoctrination: playing a recording telling Ponting over and over again, that she was either “a bad girl” or “a good girl.”
Ponting also testified that “some of the children I saw there were Indigenous,” and that she befriended an Indigenous girl named Morningstar, who endured many of the same abuses, with the added indignity of being harassed because of her race. During a reprieve from her drug-induced haze, Ponting recalls sneaking out at night and happening upon “people standing over by the cement wall” with shovels and flashlights. She and other children had heard rumors that bodies were buried on the property. “I believe that some of them would be Indigenous people,” Ponting told the court.
Not only does her testimony corroborate what another Allan Memorial Institute survivor told historian Donovan King a decade earlier, but in 2008, the Squamish Nation included the psychiatric hospital in a list of potential sites containing unmarked graves.
The CIA, along with the U.S. and Canadian military and powerful U.S. charitable foundations, are directly implicated in this ordeal. According to John Mark’s 1991 book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate and Steven Kinzer’s 2019 book Poisoner in Chief, in 1977, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, CIA archivists uncovered a previously hidden box of MK Ultra financial records revealing, among other things, that the Memorial Institute was home to MK Ultra “Subproject 68.” Under the leadership of psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, whom Ponting accused of raping her, experiments in this subproject sought to “depattern” people’s minds using violent methods Cameron termed “psychic driving.”
Although Cameron is among the most infamous MK Ultra doctors, he was not alone at McGill. As historian Alfred McCoy has shown in his 2006 book A Question of Torture, the sensory deprivation research of Donald Hebb, a McGill psychologist, was also covertly sponsored by the CIA.
“I feel like we’re closer to having our future generations heard, our past generations heard, and whatever has happened to our children that they have purpose,” remarked Kwetiio, after she and the other Mohawk Mothers won an injunction to halt construction near the potential grave sites. As part of their struggle to uncover the truth, the mothers and their supporters have been collecting archival documents related to McGill experiments. Although none of them incontrovertibly prove their suspicions, the court’s recent injunction compelling McGill to expedite the release of restricted files has generated optimism that more pieces of the puzzle will soon come to light.
But what the Mohawk Mothers and their allies have found is compelling, particularly for me: I have spent the last several years researching the history of “behavior modification” programs in U.S. prisons. My forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (available in October 2023), uncovers the roots of the modern prison abolitionist movement and state efforts to destroy it during the 1960s and 1970s. It details a little-known program of prison-based scientific experimentation that intersects with the Mohawk Mothers struggle.
In 1966, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, whose family foundation helped establish the Allan Memorial Institute, launched a partnership whereby a team of McGill consultants were brought to New York to establish programs and conduct research at the Dannemora State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, according to Canadian psychiatrist Bruno Cormier’s 1975 book The Watcher and the Watched. Located in a remote hamlet 25 miles south of New York’s northernmost border with Quebec, the institution confined prisoners who were transferred from other state facilities after being deemed “insane” by prison doctors.
The official purpose of the collaboration was to develop new methods for preventing recidivism. However, the program hosted “experimental studies of various aspects of criminal behavior,” noted a report from 1968. The following year an attendee of a conference about the program noted that a large number of its participants were Black.
An affidavit authored by anthropologist Phillippe Blouin in support of the Mohawk Mothers identified the late psychiatrist Cormier as a person of interest. Blouin located correspondence between lead “Subproject 68” psychologist Cameron and Cormier, who worked as a clinician at the Allan Memorial Institute during the 1950s and 1960s. Authored between 1957 and 1963, the exchanges pertain to a proposal for a Pilot Centre for Juvenile Delinquency, which would include laboratories “for psychological studies, for work in genetics, for endocrinological investigations, for sociological studies, both within the unit and also for field work.”
Commenting on the proposal, Cormier suggests that the center’s purview should not be limited to rehabilitation. He stresses that “research of this kind should bring light on all behavioral problems” and that it had the potential to “bridge the research gap between juvenile delinquency and adult criminality.”
Not long after this exchange, New York officials selected him to lead the Memorial Institute’s partnership with the New York prison system. The man who helped make this happen was a German physician named Ludwig Fink, who became assistant director and subsequently director of the Dannemora hospital after practicing psychiatry in Iran and India during the 1940s. By 1969, Fink and some of the McGill consultants had trained prison guards in hypnosis and aversion therapy techniques, resulting in scenes that an observer called “quite revolting both for those who watched and those who took part.”
The director of a think tank called the Narcotic and Drug Research Institute described Fink’s “Therapeutic Community” program in ways that are eerily similar to Cameron’s efforts to obliterate human consciousness in order to rebuild it anew. It “takes you back to a kind of kindergarten level and then brings you back up,” he told Congress. Elsewhere, Fink cites the autobiography of Malcolm X and laments the “growing number of aggressive, assertive black males” behind prison walls.
The Mohawk Mothers affidavit mentions Ernest G. Poser, a psychologist, whose research at McGill investigated “cross-cultural differences in tolerance to physical pain using deceptive means and what seemed like torture instruments.” It indicates that Poser “studied patients’ reactions to hypnotic suggestion during methohexitone-induced sleep,” a practice that brings Ponting’s experience of being “brainwashed” to mind. Poser, a colleague of McGill psychologist and sensory deprivation researcher Hebb, was also experimenting on incarcerated people in New York. In 1968, he investigated whether prisoners deemed “sociopaths” suffer from an adrenaline deficiency that prevents them from learning from “fear-producing experiences.”
To find out, he and a graduate student named Deborah G. Sittman injected them with adrenaline and subjected them to electric shocks. Wilfrid Derby, a student of Poser and Hebb, proposed an experiment in which multiple prisoners would be strapped to an electroconvulsive therapy device and told they were in a competitive situation where the “loser” would receive the shock level set for him by his opponent.
Between September 9 and 13, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated people rebelled in New York’s Attica prison. Most of them were Black, but a few, such as John Boncore “Dacajeweiah” Hill were Mohawk. New York’s partnership with McGill appears to have ended shortly after the uprising and the brutal state-orchestrated massacre that followed it. At roughly the same time, the Dannemora State Hospital was rebranded the Adirondack Correctional Treatment Education Center, and became home to a “new” behavior modification initiative called the Prescription (Rx) Program.
Multiple letters published by prisoners’ rights organizations accused prison authorities of surreptitiously drugging their food and water and of attempting to turn them into “zombies.” A government panel noted that the program evoked “the spectre of the resocialization, rethinking, and brainwashing camps of totalitarian societies.”
According to Walter Dunbar, who had recently left the California prison system to become New York’s deputy corrections commissioner, the Rx Program focused on prisoners guilty of “overt acts that incite, agitate, and provoke other inmates to militant, radical, and antisocial activities.” Such statements link the program to plantation discourses that pathologize Black resistance, while implicating prison authorities in the use of behavior modification techniques for political ends: counterinsurgency.
Notably, Dunbar’s name appears multiple times in a cache of documents released via FOIA by the CIA. The documents discuss agency-sponsored narcotics research on incarcerated people in Vacaville Medical Facility, a California prison that helped inspire the New York prison system’s partnership with McGill.
The state-sponsored experiments of the Cold War era employed a range of scandalous methods to test whether human thoughts and behavior could be predictably controlled. The outcome of this research and the fate of its victims remain obscure, but a common thread runs across different experimental contexts. Researchers targeted and assaulted vulnerable populations who were incapable of granting consent and who were viewed as disposable. Their allegations were unlikely to be taken seriously and their avenues for redress were limited because they were institutionalized and from marginalized groups: Indigenous people, Black people, poor people, disabled people, children, prisoners, women and girls. This scientific violence was shaped by living legacies of colonialism and slavery, violence that continues to find expression in the ongoing “war on terror.”
While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories. Groups like the Mohawk Mothers have promised to keep digging.
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“One in five Floridians is an immigrant,” said Ferro in an email. “Stop using Venezuelans as props for your political games! You cannot rail against Nicolás Maduro and then despise Venezuelan immigrants when they seek refuge in your state.”
Source: Venezuelans slam DeSantis after migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard
According to court documents, Mark Houck, 48, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, is alleged to have twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health clinic escort. The two-count indictment charges Houck with a violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force with the intent to injure, intimidate, and interfere with anyone because that person is a provider of reproductive health care.
The charges stem from two separate incidents on Oct. 13, 2021, where Houck assaulted the victim, identified in the indictment as “B.L.,” because B.L. was a volunteer escort at the reproductive health care clinic.
If convicted of the offenses, Houck faces up to a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release and fines of up to $350,000.
Source: Pennsylvania Man Indicted for Assaulting a Reproductive Health Care Provider | OPA | Department of Justice
UK sees rises in hospitalization, positive tests
In Britain, Susan Hopkins, MBBCh, chief medical officer at the Health Security Agency, in a statement yesterday said COVID-19 rates are still low, but data from the past 7 days shows a rise in hospitalizations and a rise in positive tests reported from the community.
“For those eligible, the time to get your autumn booster is now. Getting a booster will give your immune system time to build up your protection against being severely ill from COVID-19 as we move into winter,” she said.
In a snapshot of COVID activity in the European region, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said it has observed increasing transmission over the past 2 weeks. COVID is becoming more widespread in some countries, especially affecting people ages 65 and older. Though levels are still low, the rising activity is starting to affect hospital and intensive care unit indicators, with limited reported impact on mortality.
“Changes in population mixing following the summer break are likely to be the main driver of these increases, with no indication that they are caused by changes in the distribution of circulating variants,” the ECDC said, adding that the epidemiologic patterns it’s seeing are consistent with earlier forecasts.
Source: European countries see early signs of autumn COVID-19 rise | CIDRAP
The sound you hear on the ultrasound is the machine translating electrical impulses from the embryo into what sounds like a heartbeat. It’s not a real heartbeat because, at that stage, an embryo doesn’t have a beating heart.
But to be totally fair here, McCain isn’t alone in this misunderstanding. Politicians in several states passed fetal heartbeat bills over the last few years. And I get the confusion. It’s really hard to explain to folks who think they’re hearing their babies’ heartbeats for the first time that it’s all just one big misunderstanding, but there’s a little less leeway when it comes to politicians and public figures.
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A post-apocalyptic story of how a young girl becomes "the child of destiny" and finds the strength to free her people and to seek revenge for the death of her brother.
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Why San Francisco Event Venues are the Best
If you are someone who is planning an event right now, then you no doubt have a lot of things to think about and plan out. Something that all people who are event planners to have think about is where exactly they are going to have their event! There are actually a lot of great places where you can have your event, but probably the best place that you can have this is in San Francisco. When people decide to have their event in San Francisco, they are going to discover that there are a ton of advantages that this city has to offer when they choose to have their event there. You might be wondering what the benefits of San Francisco event venues are. today, we are going to have a short look at some of the very many benefits that everyone who makes the right decision by choosing San Francisco as the place for their next event will definitely enjoy when they do this.
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F144. Speculative Nonfiction: The Act of Invention in the Context of Reality
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Amy Benson is the author of Seven Years to Zero and The Sparkling-Eyed Boy, winner of the Bakeless Prize in Nonfiction by Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Recent prose has appeared in journals such as Agni, BOMB, Boston Review, and Gettysburg Review. She teaches at Rhodes College.
Susanne Paola Antonetta’s most recent book is Curious Atoms from Essay Press. Awards include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award, a Library Journal Best Science book, a Pushcart Prize, and others. She coauthored nonfiction text Tell It Slant and she is editor of the Bellingham Review.
Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson. An associate professor English at Vassar College, he is the author of the novel, Long Division, and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the prose poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Her poems and stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, B O D Y, The Believer, and in the anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales.
Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the author of two books, My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode. She is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University.