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Blog post by Dr. Derek Greene, UCD School of Computer Science - Insights from the RDA Ireland "Meet the Expert" public lecture
The potential for collaboration between data science and other disciplines to develop new research methods is being increasingly recognised. This is particularly evident in the development of cultural analytics in the field of Digital Humanities, where available datasets and other digital resources for humanities research have expanded rapidly in the last decade. Since 2011 there has been an active collaboration between the School of Computer Science and the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. Using advanced Data Science techniques, we have approached literary sources with new questions and come up with some surprising findings.
Initially, our work focused on developing network analysis methods to represent the associations between characters in the 19th and early 20th century Irish and British fiction. More recently, as part of the IRC-funded Contagion project, our focus has shifted to analysing historical trends at a larger scale. Through a collaboration with the British Library Labs, we have access to a much larger digital corpus from the British Library, covering 35,918 English language fiction and non-fiction books dating from 1700 to 1899. This is equivalent to over 12 million individual pages of printed text. For this project, we particularly wanted to explore historical understandings of disease, contagion, public health and migration, in order to better understand contemporary attitudes.
A project like this, where a huge text corpus is available, presents a wealth of possibilities for new research in the humanities. The scale and diversity of such collections however, presents fresh challenges in identifying and extracting relevant content, particularly for humanities scholars who are interested in studying highly-specific themes. For instance, researchers working with the British Library corpus have previously attempted to curate smaller sub-corpora related to specific topics or interests. This has often been a painstaking task requiring considerable manual effort to inspect the corpus.
To address these challenges, we have developed the Curatr platform, a web-based user interface designed to make the British Library corpus more accessible and useful to a wider group of researchers. The platform indexes all of this text and the associated metadata, allowing the corpus to be browsed, searched, and filtered by author, title, and year. The interface also incorporates a digitised version of the topical classification index of volumes used by the British Library from 1823-1985, which allows the texts to be further filtered by categories such as “fiction”, “drama”, and “geography”. The system supports a corpus curation workflow that addresses the requirements of scholars in the humanities who are increasingly working with large collections of unstructured text. Once a smaller curated sub-corpus of texts has been identified, the associated texts and metadata can be easily exported to other platforms for further research and for more traditional “close reading”.
Curatr incorporates a range of data analytics methodologies. For instance, the platform includes functionality to build word lexicons. These are lists of thematically-related keywords, which are used to locate niche research topics within little known or long unwieldy texts. To reduce the manual effort required to build new word lexicons, we provide users with automatic keyword recommendations, as generated by word embeddings. Word embeddings refer to a set of machine learning techniques, based on neural networks, which "map" the words in a corpus vocabulary to a numeric representation. In this new representation, words which frequently appear together in the original corpus will appear to be similar to one another, while words which do not frequently appear together will be dissimilar. So for example, for the input word “influenza”, one could automatically recommend similar words such as “pneumonia” and “bronchitis”. In this way, researchers can quickly build lexicons of related words, to assist them in identifying original texts relevant to their work for consultation in situ in the library.
In the next phase of our work, our plan is to make the Curatr platform publicly available for wider research use in late 2019, and to potentially extend the platform to include other text humanities corpora and different types of content, such as texts from historical newspaper archives.
This project is funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC), and is being undertaken by members of the UCD School of English, in collaboration with researchers from the SFI Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCD.
Dr. Derek Greene. UCD School of Computer Science
Prof. Gerardine Meaney. UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Dr. Susan Leavy. UCD School of Computer Science


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Food & service were excellent.
We had an amazing anniversary dinner at Zesti. Our waitress, Claire, was awesome. The food was exceptional, especially the fish of the day -- Salmon in teriyaki sauce.
Beautiful night to sit outside at Zesti. Fabulous food! The lasagna is my favorite and didn’t disappoint. Good wine, food and outdoor dining all in one spot!
We LOVE Zesti! Never had a bad meal before. This was our 3rd year in a row celebrating my birthday there. Can't wait to go again.
Seafood pasta was maybe the best I ever had. Other diners had salmon special, chicken dish and pasta with bolognese sauce..all outstanding. Our server was spot on. Just a perfect evening.
Thank you Zesti's
Great food, place, staff and location.
Zesti had amazing food and wonderful service. We will definitely be going back!
Loved it as always the only problem is the space gets very loud when it is moderately busy.
Drinks were outstanding. Food was really good.only item with an issue was the desert. The middle of the cake was burnt (in the microwave too long?). Other than that, I can’t wait to get beck there. Love it!
Very disappointed to see the staff in masks. They were not just a couple of weeks when we were there last. That was one of the major reasons we returned. If we had known ahead of time, we would not have made the trek out there. Next time we will call ahead. Not a fan of being treated like we have the plague. We only stayed to eat because we know the food is good and we had already driven out there. Won’t be back while masks are being worn by anyone. 🐑😷
Great food and service.
Zesti was a great choice for dinner in the Lake County area! The service was impeccable, the food was delicious and unique, and getting to sit on the outdoor patio was the icing on the cake! Overall, my experience at Zesti was fantastic and I cannot wait to come back for another meal soon.
Great food, great service and a fun vibe. What's not to like.
The only reason the noise level is not a five-star is because I said outside and that is going to be as noisy as it's going to be. I have yet to sit inside so the jury is still out on that rating... Guess I'll just have to go back again and again.
Excellent food. They are always consistent. Service excellent. Was a tad warm in the restaurant with the windows open in early July; but it was bearable. The only suggestion I would make is the drinks from the bar are not made well. We’ve noticed this for a few months now.
Claire made sure we were well taken care of. She was very observant to our needs and knew when to come and when to give us time. The food was great, perfect amount of sun/shade mix for an early dinner.
Amazing service, food was good but not great. I've had more flavorful experiences at Zesti in the past.
Our server did not wear a mask. It is too uncomfortable to have to ask them to wear one. They all shy have them on.
Have had great dinners the past - and we will return, but on our recent visit, service was good in the beginning and then we were forgotten. Finally the hostess came over and cleared our plates, brought our bill, etc. I think they had a bigger crowd than they anticipated and service suffered. Food is always imaginative. But this time I ordered the chopped salad, but the steak I added tasted like it was grilled over kerosene. I couldn't eat it. Seemed like a quality cut of meet - but the kerosene type of flavor ruined it.
Delightful dining experience.
This was not our best experience at Zesti. Food was just adequate and it simply wasn’t worth $100.
You can usually tell a good restaurant by their salads. My Ceasar salad was was perfect. And so was my entree.
Was truly great. So nice to see a place acting like intelligent people without masks, etc. They should add more tables. That felt a bit weird. But, a very nice time!
Great service! Food was wonderful! My gluten free dining companion was happy to have options here.
Fantastic dinner from start to finish. Very enjoyable atmosphere and amazing food.
Really felt good going to dinner with tables separated well and staff wearing masks. Made 2 night out to dinner feel good . Plus wonderful food.
Wonderful experience with great food and excellent service. I was very impressed by the variety on the menu.
Wonderful as always! We appreciate the steps staff are taking to keep everyone safe.
We were very impressed with the comfort level we felt with the new guidelines. They did it well without making us uncomfortable
Our first dining out experience since the stay at home order was lifted. Zests is my favorite restaurant! We had great service and the food was better then ever!! Thank you 🥰
Been here (local) several times with friends - food and service are always very good but lacking in price to portion size...
Even with reduced seating the food and service were very. It was an excellent dining experience.
For the 15th year, we were able to celebrate our anniversary at a Chef Feker-owned restaurant. This year, it was Zesti. Up until Monday, May 18th we were certain the situation wouldn't allow us to go out. It was the first time in 2 months that we'd dined inside a restaurant. That, in & of itself, was so special.
The gracious staff, comfortable seating, and rolled up front windows added to the experience. Of course, consistently spectacular food was our go-to. You keep serving it, we'll keep coming back.
The food was decent if a bit uninspired. Our service was fine. The wine list is poor, but we made do. It just felt a bit neglected, like no one is really paying attention to what the customers might be interested in. I don't think I'll go back any time soon because there are so many other better alternatives.
Zesti's exceeded our expectations and we can't wait to return! It's a nice kept secret in our community, but hopefully that will change!
We also want to try out the other 3 affiliate restaurants!
Kudos to the chef! We loved his passion...we could taste it!
Nice way to see the world for brunch.
Been here before and it does not disappoint. Will be back again soon!
We’ve been to Zesti numerous times over the years and I have never had a bad experience. Service Is always really good and love the food.
Other than it being super noisy we LOVE Zesti!!

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July 4th the Declaration of Independence and the revolution that began all revolutions
Posted on Monday, July 04, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- “Philomena” a must-see movie that breaks your heart (VIDEO)
- What JFK’s America was really like in November 1963 - Time capsule of New York Daily News paper of the day
- An afternoon with Chuck Feeney, Irish America’s greatest hero
- How the Gaelic Players Association has saved lives in Ireland
- Ray Kelly is right, politicians who attacked him are full of it
July 4th, Independence Day, that we celebrate today, transformed the world forever.
The divine right of kings, the old order, foundered never to return in the same strength.
We take it for granted today that the values in the declaration are those all the world would want to share but back then it was an earth-shattering document.
The notion of a republic by the people was still alien to the western world.
Indeed many of the signatories of the Declaration I'm sure did not fully understand what they were putting in motion.
In Sean O'Casey's words Jefferson et al "were the young gaffers who would capsize the stars"
Capsize them they did when we saw the millions in Tahrir Square in Cairo that is what they were seeking, when the millions gathered in Bejiing in Tiananmen Square in 1989 that is what they were looking for, the simple declaration that all men were created equal.
What America bequeathed the world was the revolution to begin all revolutions.
Its provenance is still with us today from the freedom fighters in Libya to the people of southern Sudan who recently voted for their independence.
Yeats wrote despairingly about 'rough beasts slouching to Bethlehem to be born' when predicting fascism, but not all the rough beasts turned out to be dictators and strong men.
Instead something beautiful was born on July 4th 1776 with the Declaration of Independence under the rockets red glare.
We are living in its afterglow ever since.
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Grand juries indict accused cop-killer couple
Shaun Ruiz Puente and Jenevieve Ramos are accused of a tri-county rampage Dec. 8, 2013, during which they allegedly shot at law-enforcement officers, including a San Antonio Police Department officer who later died from his injuries.
Wilson County News
January 30, 2014, 1:23pm
Grand juries in Atascosa and Wilson counties have indicted a San Antonio couple for their alleged roles in a three-county rampage Dec. 8, 2013, that left a police officer dead.
The 81st Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Jan. 29 that 32-year-old Shaun Ruiz Puente and 28-year-old Jenevieve Ramos each were indicted in Atascosa County on a charge of capital murder in connection with the shooting death of San Antonio Police Officer Robert Deckard. The pair also were charged with aggravated assault of a peace officer for allegedly firing at a second San Antonio officer. Police were pursuing the pair who matched the description of two suspects involved in an earlier robbery.
In Wilson County, Puente and Ramos each are charged with attempted capital murder. Moments after fleeing the San Antonio officers in Atascosa County, the pair encountered Poth Police Department Patrolman Roberto “R.J.” Sanchez Jr., and became involved in a shootout on U.S. 181 north of Poth.
For more, read the Feb. 5 edition of the Wilson County News.
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Research conducted recently among senior primary schools pupils in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross demonstrates that the children have an overall very positive attitude towards Christianity, higher than in many other contexts where the same research survey has been used.
The research was conducted by Jacqui Wilkinson who has recently completed a three-year MA in Religions and Education at Warwick University. She presented some of the findings from her research dissertation, entitled Pupil Attitudes toward Christianity, to a meeting of the Diocesan Education Committee recently.
Using a well-established international research tool, she studied the attitudes toward Christianity of primary school children in senior classes in 18 of the Church of Ireland schools in the diocese of Cork. Analysis of the results demonstrated that the children surveyed have an overall very positive attitude toward Christianity, higher than in many other contexts where this survey has been used.
It was found that girls showed higher positive attitudes than boys, and children were found to become less positive in higher classes, findings which mirror UK studies. One interesting finding was that children who pray (on their own) tend to have a much more positive attitude toward Christianity. The children’s church attendance was also recognised as a significant influence on their attitudes toward Christianity as was their perception of their parents’ church attendance. In presenting these correlating factors, Jacqui’s research indicates practical implications, challenges and opportunities for church schools; specifically, in the areas of encouraging prayer, parish school links and the methods used in RE to engage children in senior classes.
So often discussion in this area targets stakeholders such as teachers, parents and clergy. This research, for the first time in Church of Ireland primary schools in Ireland, provides a unique insight into the attitudes of these children and their encouraging positivity toward Christianity. It promotes reflection on the value of Church of Ireland primary schools in the Ireland of today.

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Nicolas Cage to Star in William Friedkin's Police Drama 'I Am Wrath'
by Ben Pearson
September 11, 2012
In times of economic turmoil, many screenwriters look for something on which to put the blame in the movies so the audience can experience a cathartic release before heading back out into the real world. The government and authority figures like the police are often the victims of this blame, and that trend will continue in another action movie starring everyone's favorite zany actor, Nicolas Cage. Deadline reports that Cage will star in I Am Wrath, a revenge story in which his character's wife is murdered and, after the police fail to catch her killer, he turns vigilante and discovers a web of corruption in the process. Read on!
Though the plot sounds pretty bland to me, it's worth noting that acclaimed director William Friedkin is circling the project to direct. Friedkin made a name for himself in the '70s with the one-two punch of The French Connection and The Exorcist, and has since directed movies like To Live and Die in L.A., the creepy Michael Shannon thriller Bug, and most recently Killer Joe with Matthew McConaughey. His involvement gives me a bit of hope for what otherwise sounds like a standard revenge thriller, and perhaps he can coax a bit of the crazy out of Cage and we'll end up with another eclectic performance from the Con Air star.
Emmet/Furla Films is backing I Am Wrath, and they previously worked with Cage on Frozen Ground, the John Cusack/Vanessa Hudgens serial killer film that hits theaters later this year. Production starts in February, and Lionsgate is handling the distribution stateside. Interested?
Damn! i was worried. It's almost a week since i heard of a new Nicholas Cage movie.
TOONFED on Sep 11, 2012
Er...Seeking Justice (2011)?
Carl on Sep 11, 2012
Ahhh...you beat me to it.
Gohikeone on Sep 12, 2012
Dont Die Fridkin Ever Please
Ehsan Davodi on Sep 13, 2012
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicholas-Cages-face-on-things Need I say more? LOL
Daniel Vu Tran on Sep 13, 2012
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Commitment to Community Service
As Crescent Pilots, we know that the only way to overcome hardship is to work together. Our lives are often, quite literally, in each other's hands. The guiding philosophy of work we do through the Crescent River Port Pilots’ Foundation is all about working together. Herein we extend a hand to those in need and we reach out to our neighbors helping to build up our communities. Our charitable work is a place where our families can join us to give back and to serve.


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Rabies continues to kill despite effective animal & human rabies vaccines
Rabies control needs to go beyond human and animal health services
Rabies – a preventable but fatal disease - for which effective vaccines have existed for over 100 years – still takes the lives of an estimated 60,000 people each year, mostly children in rural Africa and Asia. Evidence suggests that the threat is especially prominent in areas struck by conflict and natural disasters. Experts warned that unless coordination and awareness raising go beyond the ministries of health and agriculture, too many animals and humans will continue to die unnecessarily from this painful, killer disease.
“People live, work and flee with their dogs. We need to change the way ministries work together to roll out regular mass dog vaccination campaigns, to provide more protection in times of peace, conflict and natural disasters.” said Prof. Louis Nel, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC). “We have the vaccines and we know they work, so how is it possible that so many people and animals continue to die from this painful, long-known disease?”
Though rabies is present in wildlife, over 95% of rabies is spread via dogs.
On the basis of data / evidence collected by the OIE, a rise in rabies cases among dogs has been observed in parallel to political instability periods in some North African countries during the last decade.
“To fight against rabies, we need to vaccinate around 70% of stray and domestic dogs in at risk areas. Instability and natural disasters can really disrupthuman and animal health systemsand dog populations go uncontrolled. This is why we actively work with governments to provide them with dog vaccines through the OIE Rabies vaccine bank and help them coordinate the implementation of massive dog-vaccination campaigns. The quicker we eradicate dog-mediated rabies, the fewer rabies-related deaths we will see, especially in times of disruption.” said Rachid Bouguedour, Sub-Regional Representative for North Africa, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Natural disasters also have an effect. Nias Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia was free of rabies until the 2005 Tsunami / earthquake. In 2010, just five years later, they declared an outbreak as rabies had killed 26 people.
But rabies is entirely preventable.
“Prevention of bites in the first place should be an emphasis of any rabies programme. When a child gets bitten the mother needs to know to wash the wound and to contact a local health worker. Most people who get bitten are too poor to pay for treatment and for transportation to facilities that carry the vaccine. We also need to help countries with forecasting their vaccine needs and building emergency stocks,” said Bernadette Abela-Ridder, World Health Organization (WHO) Head of Zoonotic Diseases, on World Rabies Day.
Each year, it is estimated that more than 29 million people receive post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent rabies at a direct cost of over $1.7bn and yet so many people still are dying that it indicates an unmet need for vaccines and immunoglobulins. While PEP is an effective way to prevent rabies in humans after exposure, thisis only addressing the symptom, not the cause.
However far more effective – and cost effective - is tackling rabies at the source of the problem – by vaccinating dogs. For every PEP course on the shelf, veterinary specialists can vaccinate hundreds of dogs.
“Most national veterinary services focus on livestock diseases. Dogs don`t have the same economic and social value as cows or goats, so addressing rabies in dogs is less of a priority. However, if rabies is not controlled in dogs, then humans, livestock and other farm animals can become infected, with serious consequences for the lives and livelihoods especially of rural communities and farming families,” said Dr. Juan Lubroth, Chief of the Animal Health Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Today on World Rabies Day, agencies working together to combat rabies urged human and animal health authorities around the world to step up and more effectively address the disease.
The theme for this year’s World Rabies Day on September 28 is “Educate. Vaccinate. Eliminate.” Human, agricultural and veterinary international agencies are working across ministries to try to change policies and practices and to help people to protect themselves and their animals. It is especially important to build more awareness among dog owners in resource poor countries and with disenfranchised communities with little access to public health care or veterinary services.
As part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in December, 2015, WHO, OIE, FAO, GARC together with countries and partners, agreed a framework to eliminate human deaths from the disease by 2030 and called on a wide range of stakeholders to participate in the “End Rabies Now” campaign.


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The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) announced today that the 68th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts scheduled for March 18-21 has been postponed due to the recent United States ban on travel from Europe, which will prevent a number of drivers, teams and key personnel from participation.
The rescheduled race will now become the season-ending event of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and will be run Nov. 11-14 at Sebring International Raceway. The weekend will also feature the rescheduled IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge – Alan Jay Automotive Network 120 and the IMSA Prototype Challenge season-ending races.
The annual WeatherTech Night of Champions awards banquet will take place on Nov. 15 at the Seven Sebring Raceway Hotel. In addition, the season-ending Championship Awards for both the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge and IMSA Prototype Challenge will be held in conjunction with the Sebring race event weekend.
Previously purchased 2020 admission tickets and parking will be honored at the above rescheduled Sebring International Raceway event.
It was bad enough what happened in 2005 with the Indy farce but in this day and age with Twitter what they are doing fans are pissed off by the main gates this will seriously damage F1 more then 2005 its looking like that seeing all the negativity.
Would make sense, wouldn’t be any chance that they could run all the cancelled races in the remaining time though. Wonder how this would impact the 2021 reg change though, pushed back to 2022 or would we basically see more development on their current 2020 cars with very little upgrades once they do get running to still get the 2021 cars on track next year?

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What is the da Vinci surgical system?
The da Vinci surgical system is the first robotic surgery system to be approved by the American FDA. The surgeon manipulates and coordinates the whole system through a surgical console, having in sight in front of him a maximised and three dimensional image of the surgical field. The surgical console has joysticks where he places his fingers and moves them just like he uses his hands. Every move of the surgeon replicates with absolute accuracy and stability inside the surgical field by the surgical robotic arms.
Which are the advantages of robotic surgery?
- Absolute application of “minimally invasive surgery”
- Very small incisions, with which we in fact make the surgical wound more than ten times less.
- Minimises the post-surgical pain.
- Excellent aesthetic result, with practically no scars after surgery.
- Earlier recovery and hospital discharge.
- Almost complete obliteration of post-surgical wound related complications, like wound infection, herniation, chronic pain etc.
- Fewer respitory and cardiovascular complications
- Great reduction of the possibility of post-surgical adhesions.
- Eliminates the restrictions of laparoscopic surgery.
- Offers 3D image and great visual magnification.
- The articulated surgical arms of the robot are able to perform the whole range of the human hand movements with absolute accuracy, even in tiny spaces.
- It provides greater accuracy in surgical handling, offering the potential of performing the most difficult surgical manoeuvres.
- It gives the surgeon the ability to prepare the surgical procedure in the computer, using the radiological images of the internal organs of patients. The surgeon is able to recall these images in his monitor intraoperatively.
Applications of robotic surgery
Robotic surgery is applied by many surgical specialties, like general surgery, urology, morbid obesity surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, gynaecology etc. Nowadays the most common robotic surgical procedures are the morbid obesity procedures, cholecystectomy, colon procedures, treatment of esophageal reflux and achalasia, gynaecological procedures, prostate surgery, nephrectomy etc.

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House of Wax (2005) / Horror-Thriller
MPAA Rated: R for graphic violence, gore, sexual content, and language
Running Time: 105 min.
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri'chard
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Screenplay: Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes
Release date May 14, 2005
House of Wax is a very loose remake of the 1953 classic chiller of the same name starring Vincent Price, which itself was a remake of a 1933 film, Mystery of the Wax Museum. Don't look for classic horror here, though. 2005's version takes the ideas of its predecessors and churns them into the same "watch the teens get picked off one by one" formula you've seen countless times over the last two decades or so.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this update is there isn't one single death represented for the first half of the film. Normally, such restraint might be commendable, as most major Hollywood slasher flicks have little in the way of set-up or character development, so once the characters get dispatched, we feel practically nothing for them. However, despite following the modest cast for about an hour, there is still little sense of them as anything more than horny college kids who live for nothing more than beer, sex, and sports. There's really little need for the padding, as the plot is practically outlined in less than a minute of explanation during the film, so why does it take so long to get going? Beats the hell out of me...
The plot, what little there is, concerns a group of six friends on a road trip to watch the big college football game. After a night of carousing and camping out, they wake up to discover that one of their vehicles needs a fan belt, and there is seemingly no gas stations anywhere in the vicinity. With the assistance of a local yokel, a couple of the youngsters break off from the rest in order to get help from a backwater town known as Ambrose, only to find it all but deserted, save for the local priest and gas station owner, Bo. While waiting for the fix, the couple enter the House of Wax next door, only to be creeped out by the eerie nature of the displays, and soon they discover that what's in the house isn't the only art in town. There's a reason for the realism of the wax figures -- they are made using real people. With their impatient friends on the way to get them, will they be able to escape alive, or will they be entombed as art forever?
There are a few clever moments on occasion during House of Wax, particularly as the film reaches its climax, but outside of this, the redundancy factor just about erases any forward momentum the film has going for it. Stylishly presented by music video and TV commercial director Jaume Serra, House of Wax has a sharp modern look, and yet, despite all of the gore and sensationalistic killings, there is hardly a scary moment to be found anywhere. Longtime television screenwriters Chad and Carey Hayes deliver a workable script, but with little in the way of surprises, you'll spend your time seeing if your prediction as to who survives and in what order the rest will die assumption is correct (I nailed it before the first killing, thank you very much).
Much of the publicity of the movie comes from the casting of Paris Hilton ("The Simple Life", 1 Night in Paris), who does little except strip down to her underwear and act provocatively, which seems to be her one true talent. Elisha Cuthbert (The Girl Next Door, "24") gets to wear a wifebeater throughout, which shows off her figure, while hunky Chad Michael Murray (Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story) somehow finds a way to go shirtless as much as possible. Yes, the titillation button is pushed whenever there is a lack of original ideas, and that means the button is pushed early and often.
House of Wax is a fairly ugly movie, probably only of appeal to those who are entertained by schlock and gore. It's made with little in the way of taste, and even less sense, so only the truly hardcore horror junkies need apply to this boring and repulsive excursion into poor filmmaking. Like the wax figures that are on display throughout the film, it looks like it could be a realistic creep-fest, but upon closer inspection, it's easy to see that there is no life or spirit to be found anywhere in this glossy imitation.
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Game Questions & Answers (Q&A) service lets you ask questions about video games for game consoles or PC games. So ask your Damage Inc.: Pacific Squadron WWII question for Playstation 3 and get answers from real gamers or answer questions and share your insights and experience with the rest of the gaming community.
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How do you beat the Battle of Coral Seas level on Damage inc i get all the way to the end and I shoot down the 3 jap fighter over the american fleet and then nothing happens
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Proper reloading practices
Beyond the basic's, Reloading for accuracy.
With the recent influx of new shooters, as well as veteran shooters, new to the world of custom rifles, we have seen a lot of confusion on match prepping ammo for such firearms. Please understand, prepping ammo for a match or minimum SAAMI chamber can be very different than prepping ammo for a NATO chamber or a loose chamber on a factory rifle. Please feel free to critique and correct as you see fit with your own personal experiences. We are typing this as veterans of competitive shooting (including but not limited to: High Power/Service Rifle, Bench Rest, Silhouette as well as Bullseye Pistol) as well as reloading for the same, but we are humble enough to admit that we do not know everything there is to know about shooting and reloading. We have made our own mistakes in the past, and have learned from them. We hope to pass some lessons learned on to reloaders/shooters that are struggling with similar issues but aren’t sure what or who to ask. Most of the returns that we see for function and even accuracy issues are traced back to improperly reloaded ammunition, or even poor or damaged factory ammunition, and can be solved by simply following these steps.
Properly sizing brass.
Get a case gauge for the cartridge you are reloading for, this is an invaluable tool when it comes to sizing brass. A case gauge is essentially a ‘chamber’ in a piece of steel with a hi/low limit step at the base to check headspace of your brass (checking from a datum point on the shoulder to the base of the case head), as well as a hi/low limit step at the case mouth to determine proper trim length. If one is not available for the cartridge you are loading for, have one made by a custom gunsmith. Do not believe that screwing your sizing die down to the shell holder will properly size it. We have had two personal incidents where doing this (following the die manufacturers instructions) has pushed the shoulder back .050” too far on a set of .308 dies, and also did not size the shoulder back far enough (by .005”) on a set of .223 dies. In both cases, the case gauge showed this on the first piece of brass sized! The .308 was an easy fix, just unscrew the die in the press by the .050” that it was short. The .223 needed .005” removed from the top of the shell holder on a precision grinder to correct the problem. Now that shell holder is ‘married’ to that sizing die for life. Some benchrest shooters and other advanced reloaders / long range shooters will even have custom dies made to re-size brass and seat bullets to there specific chamber, also using special "arbor press" type reloading presses for these operations.
If the shoulder on your brass is pushed back too far, at ‘best’ you will have accuracy issues, at ‘worst’ you can have a failure to extract or failure to fire because the cartridge is pushed too far into the chamber. Or, it could fire, stretching the brass too far, too fast, and you could split or separate a case. If it is not sized back far enough for the chamber in your rifle, you can have a failure to feed or completely close the bolt. Depending on the length and the rifle type, this could result in firing out of battery and can be extremely dangerous!
Properly sizing brass is even MORE important if you are firing brass in a loose chamber, then sizing it for a match or minimum tolerance chamber. Brass springs back a bit after sizing and it is common for .223 Rem ammo fired in a NATO chamber to not size properly, even with a full length die, to fit into a minimum SAAMI .223 Remington chamber. In these cases a “Small Base” sizing die may need to be used, but still does not guarantee it will fully re-size brass fired in a loose chamber to the point that it will work in your minnimum SAAMI chamber. WHENEVER POSSIBLE a rilfe barrel with a new match chamber should only be fired with new unfired brass for the first time, then that brass re-sized and used in that rifle/chamber only. Even rifles chambered with the same reamer can vary enough that brass sizing can be an issue. Please keep this in mind when you have an "It works in rifle "A" but not rifle "B" " issue with your ammo.
5.56 NATO is NOT .223 Remington. Although nearly identical in outside dimensions they should be treated as different cartridges. You can shoot .223 Rem in a NATO chamber, but it will expand to fit the looser chamber, and will not give premium accuracy. Unfired 5.56 NATO brass will “fit” into a .223 Rem chamber, but NATO ammo is loaded to higher pressures, making it unsafe, or at the least, uncertain in it’s pressures, to properly operate in a tight SAAMI .223 Remington chamber. 5.56 NATO ammo in a .223 Rem SAAMI chamber will almost always cause some sort of pressure and/or function issue and it should not be used. There is a long running debate over this issue, and we do not wish to argue it. These are the findings that our experience has shown, and it is our company’s stand on it. Please don’t call to discuss that “It has worked for you in the past.” If it has, you have been lucky, it will eventually not work, most likely when you start to attempt it in a minimum SAAMI spec chamber such as we provide. The solution to shooting both 5.56 NATO and .223 Rem through the same rifle with a moderate amount of accuracy is to use the .223 Wylde chamber. This chamber is looser than a minimum SAAMI chamber, but tighter than a NATO chamber. There is the issue of the ammunition still being within a dimensional specification to work, even in the Wylde chamber. We have seen some examples of M193 ammo with bullet diameters over .224". This condition will cause feeding, function, and pressure issues in any properly sized barrel/chamber combination.
Properly sizing brass also includes trimming the cases to the proper length for your chamber, and properly deburring/chamfering cases. If the case is longer than the maximum case length listed in your reloading manual, the neck of the case will actually flow into the throat portion of the chamber, “pinching” the bullet or severely increasing neck tension, resulting in high, or even dangerous pressures. This can/will also impede function and accuracy.
Neck diameter or clearance between the case and the chamber is important as well. Common match rifle practice is to have about .002” to .003” clearance between the neck diameter of a loaded cartridge and the diameter of the neck of the chamber. This allows for the case to expand a minimal amount (extending brass life) while also allowing for dimensional changes in the steel as it heats up. Any tighter than this and you can have pressure/function problems, any looser than this and you cannot expect the best accuracy out of your barrel. Neck turning/reaming brass is a great way to uniform brass thickness to give consistent neck tension on the bullet, but keep in mind, for every .001” you turn off the diameter of the neck, you increase the clearance in the chamber by .001”. So although you may be uniforming the neck thickness of the brass, you are making the neck clearance larger. The only solution to this is to use a “tight neck” chambering reamer when your barrel is fitted to your action. Then turn your necks for proper clearance in the chamber you have.
Other items to consider when prepping brass is cleaning primer pockets on fired brass, de-burr primer flash holes (inside), weighing cases and segregating them into groups, etc. The better quality brass you start out with, the better your results will be. We are not going to recommend particular brands of brass, bullets, primers, powder, etc. Nor will we give ANY load data for liability reasons. Every rifle will like something different as far as powder charges, type of powder, bullet seating depth, etc. This will have to be determined with your load development for each particular rifle.
A very important part of reloading for accuracy is weighing components. For maximum accuracy Brass & Bullets should be within about .2 (two tenths of a grain), and powder charges should be within .1 (one tenth of a grain). Brass can also be sorted by ‘water capacity’ in cc’s to segregate brass by volume or inside area capacity.
Some long range shooters, want powder charges closer than that. There are electronic scales on the market that will measure to .01 grains, but care must be used with these as they are extremely sensitive to vibration, noise, and even fluorescent lights! For reference, one kernel of Varget powder weighs about .03 grains, so unless you are using ball or flake powder, you can’t get to within .01 grains, but the ability to measure that small is helpful when trying to create the most accurate ammo you can. Benchrest shooters are known to simply go by case volume and pay little attention to the actual weight of the charge. In theory, weight and volume would go together, but the ‘looser’ the powder is packed the more volume it will consume while still having the same weight on a scale. They will use some extremely accurate powder measurers with drop tubes to give a very uniform volume of powder for each ‘throw’. A case that holds 90 grains of powder is going to be less affected by a variance of .1 grains than a case that holds 45 grains of powder. Keep this in mind when sweating over a variance in powder charges.
Bullet Ogive’s and Cartridge overall length.
Bullets of similar weights but from different manufacturers will have varying lengths and ogive shape. The ogive is the tapered part of the bullet between the tip and the bearing surface. This is the part of the bullet that first contacts the throat and will determine cartridge overall length when touching the lands. Not only will bullets from different manufacturers produce a different OAL when touching the lands, but bullets from one manufacturer, and from different lot’s can do the same. When setting OAL for ammunition that you are loading, always use a bullet from that particular box to set this length. If you are tracking throat erosion over the life of the barrel, use ONE bullet that you keep with your Stoney Point/Hornady OAL gauge. This way you are measuring the throat with the exact same ogive dimensions every time you check throat wear.
What we have found in most cases, the best accuracy is achieved when the bullet has about .010” to .015” jump to the lands. Some rifles need more jump, some need less. Some rifles give their best accuracy with the bullet “jammed” in the lands, meaning you set your ammunition LONGER than your OAL gauge shows as touching the lands. Caution should be used with this technique though as jamming a bullet in the lands, then trying to open the bolt on a loaded round can result in the bullet sticking in the throat, and you ejecting a case full of powder all over the inside of your action and trigger! Also, this method should NEVER be used with a semi auto, especially with a floating firing pin. The bullet hitting the lands can slow the bolts forward motion, causing the inertia of the firing pin to strike the primer with the cartridge out of battery. This can be extremely dangerous!
We hope this helps you get started. There are many books and publications on the market that cover these subjects in great detail and should be referred to. The information given here is to simply get you started down the road to properly create accurate ammunition for your competition or high end sporting rifle, and make you aware of the steps you need to take to produce the most accurate rifle with the best ammunition possible. This by no means is intended to give the highest level of reloading information. It is simply the next step up from basic reloading practices to help identify some of the additional steps "Beyond the basic's" that you need to know when reloading for accuracy.
Please check out Sinclair International for a complete catalog containing a great selection of basic and advanced reloading equipment for the novice through experienced shooter/reloader.


Many things are reported in the media, but few of these stories are really close to reality, because reality is multifactorial, on the one hand; and on the other hand, it affects differently the actors of the sector, whether you are a producer, a collector, an exporter or a trader... and whether you are in Madagascar or elsewhere.
February 23, 2020
Update on the global vanilla crisis
Indeed, if each vanilla exporting country faces its own market realities, it is undeniable that Madagascar's tribulations have an influence on international prices. It is often said here that when the United States sneezes, Canada catches a cold; it is the same with the vanilla industry: when Madagascar sneezes, all the vanilla producing countries of the world suffer the consequences.
I will be happy to share information about the various factors at play, whether it is the potsa (immature vanilla stolen from the plant) sold by the smugglers to the collectors; or the vanilla growers who choose to pick them themselves before the thieves, fed up with receiving the same prices, regardless of whether they produce quality or not; the price pressure this puts on the new producing countries who sell at high prices a product they do not know, often mediocre, and which has neither taste quality nor finishing quality... Another time I will talk about hurricanes, droughts and climate change....
But here I will address only one angle, that of the responsibility of the World Bank, France and the French oil company Elf Aquitaine in this crisis.
For 150 years, it was the French colonies that carried the torch for the development of crossbreeding, perfumes, preparation and drying techniques, which even today places them at the forefront of the quality of the finished product. Moreover, it should be noted that no other exporting country can match the producers of Madagascar, Reunion or the Polynesian Islands in terms of the quality of the finish.
And for the first 120 years of this reign, the vanilla industry remained relatively stable.
However, the vanilla world experienced its first major economic shake-up at the turn of the 1990s, under pressure from the World Bank, to which Madagascar supposedly owed a debt. supposedly to which Madagascar supposedly owed a lot of money. In reality, Madagascar was forced to give up its price controls, abandoning its vanilla farmers to the merciless grip of the big global players because of the involvement of France, and the oil company ELF Aquitaine.
"This can only really be understood in the light of the complex relations between the oil company, the political power in place and the various states concerned. "The complexity is real, but its purpose is simple as far as the African continent is concerned: Elf was and remains an essential part of the neo-colonial system put in place by Paris, a few years after independence, in order to maintain its economic and political control over the formally emancipated countries of its former pre-square.
If you doubt it, know that in 1989, the oil company Elf Aquitaine filed a European patent for the creation of vanilla extract from green vanilla. For the vanilla producers of Madagascar, the die was cast. Their main financial activity had been stabbed in the heart.
By buying the rights to this patent, Elf Aquitaine ensured that green vanilla would be bought by the manufacturers of their choice and thus controlled the sales and therefore the prices of more than 90% of the vanilla produced in the former colonies.
Moreover, they destabilized the whole industry by cutting short the ripening and finishing process and blamed it on Malagasy growers, smugglers and hurricanes....
Eventually, Madagascar introduced controls to limit the market for vanilla less than 7 months old; and a system of approval and market opening limited to specific dates was put in place. The aim was to maintain quality standards for buyers of vanilla beans, but in fact the approval system only served the European companies that hold the green vanilla extraction patent, as the holders of the export approval mainly buy and sell green vanilla in bulk. The rest of the green vanilla picked before maturity is then steamed and dried, lowering the quality of the dried and prepared vanilla to a very poor level, while subjecting it to the price pressure of extract manufacturers.
As the farmers no longer have any financial advantage in producing gourmet quality vanilla beans, they have adapted to the market by lowering their own standards and destabilizing the entire vanilla industry in Madagascar.
How to get good vanilla beans today?
Colibri Vanille bypasses the collectors with export approval by going under the control radar and buying directly from the few vanilla growers who choose to maintain high quality standards, but we are still subject to the mandatory dates of the government decreebetween March 31st and October 15th. And therefore subject to the game of speculation which starts in September and reaches a plateau between November and February. From March, the fever starts again in the thatched cottages of Madagascar, and the prices go up in arrow, so it is prudent to make its purchases before March.
What about the Malagasy collectors who are licensed?
Only 200 approvals are issued each year to collectors who soon find themselves, in turn, in the grip of a cruel market. While some made a fortune by buying vanilla from farmers at low prices and selling it at high prices, and even at very high prices in the aftermath of cyclones or raids by smugglers, many other collectors went bankrupt when prices collapsed, abandoned by their buyers of vanilla beans, but still holding poor-quality vanilla bought above the selling price and which they had to sell below their prices. Thus,many bankruptcies occurred in March 2019 among Malagasy collectors.
Between 2015 and 2019, prices rose to a high level, flirting with the 600 $ mark in 2018 and rarely falling below 400 $ since. (The going rate in the fall of 2019 was about 420 $ per kilo.) The spike is sometimes attributed to a 2015 announcement by Nestlé SA that the company would only use all-natural vanilla in its products instead of artificial flavoring, prompting a domino effect of other major companies to follow suit. The actual impact of the decision is under debate.
Regardless of the validity of such speculation, few in the industry say that demand for natural vanilla has changed enough to protect prices from further decline. Almost everyone in the vanilla sector believes that a significant price drop is not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when.
And when more than 80% of the vanilla industry comes from the island of Madagascar alone, the rest of the world takes the cake.


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Broadway's princesses have been traveling the country for a year now, after sold out engagements in Los Angeles and New York City, these talented singers have begun a tour. I have had the privilege of attending three of their concerts, the most recent of which was the holiday party on December 17 at Sony Hall in New York. I previously attended the concerts at 54 Below in June and New Jersey Performing Arts Center in September.
The Broadway Princess Party was created by Tony Nominee and star of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway, Laura Osnes, with musical director Benjamin Rauhala, and now features Grammy nominee Courtney Reed, original Princess Jasmine in Aladdin on Broadway, and Tony Nominee Susan Egan, original Belle on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast, as well as the voice of Meg in the animated movie Hercules.
As a lifelong fan of Disney, princesses, and musicals, this concert sounded like a dream come true. Both concerts at 54Below in June sold out in less than an hour. When the princesses perform in New York City, there are often guest stars. Since the 54Below show happened on a Monday, Christy Altomare (star of Anastasia on Broadway), Liz Callaway (the singing voice of Anastasia in the animated film), Adam Jacobs (the original Aladdin on Broadway), Jeremy Jordan (Newsies), Corey Cott (Newsies), and Derek Klena (the original Dimitry in Anastasia on Broadway) were able to join the party.
The tour was joined by guest star Adam J. Levy, who sings the role of prince whenever the princesses want to do a duet. At Monday's concert at Sony Hall, he joined Reed in singing "A Whole New World" from Aladdin, and Osnes in singing "Love Is an Open Door" from Frozen.
Also on Monday in New York, Liz Callaway, Adam J. Levy, Corey Cott, and new guest princess Stephanie Styles joined. Styles will appear in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Kiss Me, Kate next year.
If you love Disney, doesn't it sound like the greatest night of your life to hear these iconic songs sung by incredible singers and sometimes the original performers? It truly doesn't get any better than Susan Egan singing "I Won't Say I'm in Love" from Hercules or "Home" from Beauty and the Beast. Or Liz Callaway singing "Once Upon a December" and "Journey to the Past" from Anastasia. (Although if you were lucky enough to attend the June concert at 54 Below, you would've heard the "Journey to the Past" duet by Callaway AND Christy Altomare, which was later released a single.) These two amazing singers are worth the price of admission alone; they sound exactly the same as they did in the movies in 1997.
Courtney Reed sings "These Palace Walls" from Aladdin, and treats us with a story about how Jasmine was always her favorite princess and it's a dream come true that she got to originate the role on Broadway. She also sings an incredible rendition of "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas and "How Far I'll Go" from Moana. At the holiday concert, instead of her Aladdin song, she sang "All I Want for Christmas is You".
Laura Osnes sings an incredible medley of songs from every musical version of Cinderella, including "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from the animated film, "In My Own Little Corner" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "On the Steps of the Palace" from Into the Woods, "Lavender's Blue" from Disney's live action movie, and more...all in one epic song.
Another medley was performed at the holiday concert: Susan Egan sang "Something There" from Beauty and the Beast, Osnes sang "Jingle Bells", and Reed sang "Jingle Bell Rock"...it sounds crazy, but somehow it worked.
Other highlights: Stephanie Styles's impression of Snow White while singing "Someday My Prince Will Come", Corey Cott and Laura Osnes singing "Something To Believe In" from Newsies, the three princesses singing "A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman and "Let It Go" as the finale, an incredible guest vocalist singing "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, Laura Osnes's power medley of every other princess they had to cut to make time for the Christmas songs (in which she plays Rapunzel, Mulan, Esmeralda, Pocahontas, Aurora, and Ariel all in one song), and Liz Callaway singing "My Grown Up Christmas List".
At every concert, they feature the winner of the Unleash Your Inner Princess contest, where they choose a guest vocalist to be the local princess and perform on stage. In New Jersey, a girl sang "How Far I'll Go" from Moana and at Monday's holiday concert, the winner sang "Almost There" from Princess & the Frog. Both girls were excellent. They also hand out prizes for anyone who comes dressed in cosplay - because who wouldn't want to attend a princess party as a princess?
If these talented vocalists are coming to your area in the near future, and if you love Disney at all, I recommend going. It's an incredible night of music and magic, especially for those who love princesses. The performances I attended were some of the theatrical highlights of my year, and I'm already looking forward to the next time I see them. The VIP meet and greet with the princesses is also worth it!


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MP Studija. How to choose the right set for cross embroidery?
Sets for cross embroidery are one of the easiest ways to start engaging in an embroidery hobby. The kits contain everything you need for embroidery. However, it is necessary to know the main criteria that will make it easier to choose the most suitable set.
Meet the MP Studija manufacturer
MP Studija – a young company based in Russia in 2005, creating sets for embroidery with a cross, beads and ribbons. A very wide and constantly updated range of products conquered the heart of many tailors. This manufacturer has released several series of sets that have a separate numbering, distinctive style and set-up.
For an easy start.
SM series sets are small and designs - simple. The most common collection is Gamma Aida 14 ct; Gamma thread on a convenient sorter; a black and white diagram printed on the inside of the cover of the set; easy instruction on how to embroider. There is no needle in the sets of this MP Studija series. Need No.24 Needle.
SVseries sets are designed for embroidery on clothes. In the suite of these MP Studija sets, instead of the usual Echo, you'll find a water-soluble 14 ct canvas. This canvas is attached to the desired garment or other material base. After embroidering the design specified in the set and washing the embroidered canvas, the canvas is gone. The kits in this series also do not have a needle.
SR series sets are designed for embroidery on plastic canvas. The kits in this MP Studija series stand out for their breadth of range: from Christmas toys, keychains, dream traps to magnets or double-sided decorations. Instead of the usual Aida, the kit contains a 14 ct plastic canvas (white or translucent) and additional accessories (beads, felt, magnet, etc.) needed for the completeness of the embroidery. Unfortunately, in the sets of this series, needles are also not.
SO series sets are embroidered on thin, 3 mm wood plates. There are not many of them yet, but the manufacturer tries to surprise the embroiderer who has seen everything. So far, there are only rulers and threads spool.
SNV series sets have large A4 format packaging and includes a separate cardboard cover; Gamma Aida; Gamma thread; needle; a color scheme printed on a separate sheet; easy instruction on how to embroider.
SRK series sets the only one of all MP Studija sets have Aida on which the background is pressed. The rest of the set resembles SNV series sets.
SA – one of the latest MP Studija sets in the series. The sets marked with this abbreviation for embroidery have exceptionally beautiful, as if painted watercolor designs. Also to extract this effect, the usual Aida replaced Evenweave Linda 27 ct. For the convenience of the tailor, the scheme is printed on a separate sheet, in two variations with edging and without edging. In this way, the scheme is easy to read and perfectly visible all the characters used in the scheme.
Getting acquainted with all the MP Studija sets series will make it easier to choose the set you are interested in, which will meet not only your wishes, but also the possibilities to embroider it.
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AUSTELL, Ga. – A metro Atlanta man told police a spider thief snuck into a crawlspace under his home and stole five of his 18 pet tarantulas.
Austell police say they've issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of possessing the arachnids.
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Mangrove, the first installment in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, is all about the fight against the system, the battle for what’s right and what’s just. Red, White and Blue, the third of the five films, is in many ways about that same fight — but instead of waging a war from the outside (or inside of a courtroom), the protagonist sets his sights on the potential for change within the system. It’s an uphill climb that’s just as steep (arguably steeper in many respects), but one Red, White and Blue posits might be worth taking — though that claim is presented as far from definitive.
The film tells the story of Leroy Logan, a former superintendent of the London Metropolitan Police and founder of the Black Police Association. Or, I should say, it tells a portion of his story: at a scant 80 minutes, Red, White and Blue covers brief sections of Logan’s early life but hones in on his early days as a member of the Metropolitan Police, leaving his later accomplishments for a future storyteller. This feels intentional on the part of McQueen and co-writer Courttia Newland. It would be easy to turn Logan’s life into standard biopic fare, ending with his elevation to a leadership position and the founding of the BPA, but McQueen and Newland understand that particular arc — especially a Hollywood-ized version — doesn’t quite gel with today’s reality. The work Logan engaged in may have a beginning and middle, but looking at the landscape of society it’s clear the end has yet to be reached.
So, instead, the film seeks to underscore Logan’s perseverance in the face of adversity from all sides. As you might expect, he’s met with constant, racist resistance from within the force. Less anticipated — but all too understandable — is the reaction from his father, a victim of police brutality who simply can’t comprehend why his son would choose to go down a road that he’s only seen end badly. It’s this relationship in particular that gives Red, White and Blue its emotional heft: how do you gather the strength to change things from the inside if you can’t even fall back on your family for support?
As with all of the Small Axe films, Red, White and Blue highlights McQueen’s directorial eye, and the nature of the story gives him more opportunities to utilize his skill with muscular action that he showed off in Widows. But the film ultimately belongs to John Boyega, who gives a stunningly nuanced performance as a man willing to sacrifice for what he believes in while simultaneously knowing that for those closest to him his sacrifice may not be seen as such. Boyega has shown the ability to be a standout in blockbuster ensemble fare like Star Wars, but here makes it abundantly clear that he can and will excel with a meatier role — the sort he should be afforded as frequently as he wants going forward. Though the film’s brevity makes sense in context, perhaps the biggest knock against Red, White and Blue is that the length deprives us of more of Boyega’s Logan. If the rest of that story is one day told, we can only hope it’s handled with the same amount of respect and skill on display here.

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An alleged notorious car snatcher has been beaten to death while two accomplices have been arrested in a car theft operation at Awutu Bontrase in the Awutu Senya west district of the Central Region.
The robbers are believed to reside at Nsawam but operate at Kasoa and its environs in the Central Region.
The suspects, according to report gathered, hired a taxi driver to Awutu Bosomabra to inspect their land on Saturday September 23,2023 around 6:00 am.
Upon reaching a bushy section of the road, they asked the driver to stop the vehicle and they started attacking him in an attempt to snatch his Hyundai taxi car with registration number GE 5718-22 from him.
The driver who screamed for help got assistance from some of the villagers who rushed to his aid and managed to arrest the two suspects.
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First, we have studied the stability of Sr2-xBaxCu3O4Cl2-yBry of the 2342 phase with the Cu3O4 plane, which is composed of the Cu(1)O2 and extra Cu(2) sublattices, in the temperature range between 600 and 950 °C. It has been found that a mixture of (Sr,Ba)2CuO2(Cl,Br)2 with the CuO2 plane and CuO becomes stable instead of the 2342 phase with the Cu3O4 plane for smaller values of x and y at low temperatures. Next, the electrical and magnetic properties of Sr2-xBaxCu3O4Cl2-yBry with the Cu3O4 plane have been investigated. The electrical resistivity exhibits semiconductive behavior. The magnetic susceptibility shows three-dimensional antiferromagnetic order below TN(1) = 300-400 K and TN(2) to approximately 30 K for the Cu(1) and Cu(2) sublattices, respectively. A broad peak due to the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic order in the Cu(2) sublattice is also observed around TN2D(2) = 100 K. With increasing x and y, the lattice parameters increase, the electrical resistivity increases and values of both TN(1) and TN2D(2) decrease. These results are explained as being due to the decrease of the overlaps between Cu3d and O2p, Cl3p, Br4p orbits.
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Brighton-based Rocker, Dar.Ra, is a very talented artist that has seen over two decades of success dabbling in songwriting, composing and even writing literature. In his newest EP, “Dirty Little Secrets,” he focuses solely on his rock/soulful music making, providing us with four brand new tracks that touches, uplifts and absolutely electrifies listeners!
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