That's all to say, it depicts a dystopian world, but the whole concept also can't help but come across as some kind of meta wormhole, like a microcosm of capitalism trying to devour itself. A smaller fast-food giant is knocking a bigger goliath for creating a fantastical totalitarian communist state, wherein the greatest strain on individual freedom is uninspired food, and the most dire physical threat to would-be defectors is whatever horror befalls a person who gets hit by a confetti bomb, or jumps into a grimy ball pit. (Though, in fairness, it's always been hard not to wonder what's lurking in the bottoms of those things—they're too colorful to trust.)It really looks very like a campaign someone my own age would have assembled — especially the pull of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop", which would have been timely in that era. I probably would have left it there but for another take that @Clarkhat linked to, one from someone whose family had to endure those exact horrors:
In fact, the campaign's biggest problem may be that it's too well done. The visuals nicely mimic the state-sanctioned artwork of the communist era—e.g., majestic sunburst portraits, imposing statues—and morph it into a series of creative, dog-whistle attacks. In addition to the epic narrative ad, which will air as a :60 on the season finale of The Walking Dead this Sunday, there's a mock-propaganda video (which might remind some gamers of BioShock) and a series of posters espousing the principles of the breakfast dictatorship.
On the one hand, I am genuinely grateful to live in a world of such plenty, such color, diversity, and vibrancy that the grim, dark warnings of George Orwell can end up as fodder for corporate pissing contests. It suggests that the mass exterminations of the Soviet Union and Nazi Europe are now quaint artifacts of a Whig history, now long overcome. On the other hand, I have actual relatives (in-laws, to be specific) who had to hide buried in outhouse shit to escape Red Army rape squads. So fuck you, Taco Bell I guess is what I'm saying.Yes. This.
Twelve million human lives were fed into the slaughterhouse that was 20th century totalitarianism. Twelve million people, or at least their descendants, might still walk the earth today were it not for the horrors inflicted by the governments whose imagery Taco Bell ad execs felt comfortable deploying in ads for their diarrhea factory slop.


That’s right, we did it again, the ASUS Rog Strix X570 I Gaming Mini ITX Am3 motherboard. This is the motherboard we have been dreaming about since day one. It’s the size of a standard mini-ITX motherboard and has 4 USB 3.0 ports, 2 DisplayPort ports, 1 HDMI port, 1x 6-pin ATX power connector, a front USB 3.0 header, and a back USB 3.0 header.
When that motherboard was first announced back in January, I was blown away. It was exactly what I needed in my gaming rig.
I don’t know about you, but the first thing I did when I saw the name “ASUS” on the back of the motherboard was to reach for my wallet. With any luck I’ll get that money back at the end of the year when I’m able to purchase that motherboard. Once I get it, I’ll be able to tell everyone that I’m a member of the ASUS team.
The USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard aren’t really anything special. They’re an interface into the Asus USB 3.0 hub, and as such they don’t really add anything to the motherboard. If you’re not really a USB 3.0 fan, they might come in handy as a second port for USB thumb drives too.
The chipset in this motherboard is really pretty, and it’s a good one. A good chipset will typically have a high-quality PCI Express bus, and it will have a decent amount of PCIe slots. The card slot itself is a little under-powered and has a bit of a weak link, but it’s not a dealbreaker. A faster chipset will have more PCI Express slots, more of a stronger link, and a faster PCIe bus.
This motherboard is a cheap one, but it doesn’t have a good overall chipset. It also has less PCIe slots than I expected, which is a dealbreaker with this board. The chipset seems really good though, and Asus can still use that as a good selling point on this board.
The motherboard I’m running has an ASUS Z170 motherboard with an intel core i3 CPU. It’s the first board I’ve bought with an i3 CPU, and it’s a good one. I only have one hard drive, but I’m using two SSD drives, so I’m happy. The chipset is definitely good – its only a slight downgrade from the Z170 I used before, but I’m using a different motherboard now, with a slightly faster cpu.
Asus is a big name and is currently making their own processors, but this is probably one of the last good i3 processors the company made. Its a decent processor, but the chipset has a bad habit of overheating, and I see no reason to buy a motherboard with a cooler.
The chipset is a newer beast, not the one from the i5-2400M. Its a Intel Core i3-2340M, with a lower clock speed of 1.6GHz compared to the i5-2400M, but with the same integrated graphics card and the same memory bandwidth.
Asus’ other processors are a bit of a mixed bag. The i3-2340M’s performance is mediocre at best, and the mini-ITX (mITX) motherboard features an Intel Core i3-2370M quad-core processor, with a 1.8GHz clock speed. The CPU is clocked at 2.0Ghz, and the graphics card is the same as the i5-2400M.


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The development of a modified version of a key protein of the coronavirus could allow to accelerate “dramatically” the production of vaccines against the COVID-19.
The discovery of a vaccine against the COVID-19 is only a part of the challenge that tries to uplift humanity. Still it would be necessary to produce it in sufficient quantities and quickly.
It is precisely this second part of the problem, and hope to help solve scientists from the university of Texas at Austin, United States.
They have developed an improved version of an important ingredient that enters into the composition of several vaccines currently under study.
According to them, this development could help achieve ” a world production of vaccines much faster and more stable.”
This assumes that one or more vaccines will work through all stages of development and their commercialization will be approved.
The ingredient in question is none other than a synthetic protein that mimics a piece of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which resulted in more than 630,000 deaths worldwide.
More specifically, it is a modified and harmless protein in the form of spikes that are found on the surface of the coronavirus and that gives it its particular shape.
“Depending on the type of vaccine, this is an enhanced version of the protein could either reduce the size of each dose, or accelerate the production of vaccines “, details in a press release, professor Jason McLellan.
“In both cases, this would mean that more patients could have access to vaccines more quickly,” he continues.
There are currently 166 experimental vaccines in development, of which 25 are tested on humans. None is approved.
Although the approaches are many and they differ substantially, a lot of people work on the same principle, is to cause the human body to recognize this key protein of the coronavirus, to prepare to fight a possible infection.
10 times more
However, when it is expressed in human cells, the new version of the protein developed by scientists texans can produce a quantity up to ten times higher in comparison to an earlier version of the same protein.
The last iteration would also be more resistant to heat, which would facilitate the transport and the storage of potential vaccines.
These findings were released recently in the journal Science.
The original version of this synthetic protein is already used in the manufacture of the candidate vaccines currently in the stage of clinical trials of two pharmaceutical companies in the u.s., Moderna and Novavax.
– With the collaboration of the QMI Agency

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You ask me how did it all come about, this turning toward religion, and you speak of it as though I were turning away from life when all the while it was so much a part of my life.
“All my life I have been tormented by God,” a character in one of Dostoevsky’s books says. And that is the way it was with me. You will notice that I quote the Russian author a good deal, but that is because we both have read him. And I quote him often because he had a profound influence on my life, on my way of thinking.
I have to go back to the beginning, to my first memories of God. It will take a long time to tell it. It might be better told on one of those long walks you and I so loved to take down through the East Side, along the river late at night, through snow and ice in winter, striking out briskly as though we had some objective, and most often our only objective was to settle some problem for ourselves. There were those fall days, too, down in the country when we went out on the pier to fish, and lay there along the bulkhead, listening to the soft lap of the waves down below in the darkness. Some such setting is needed for so long a story.
It began out in California where the family had moved from New York a year before. We were living in Berkeley in a furnished house, waiting for our furniture to come around the Horn. It was Sunday afternoon in the attic. I remember the day was very chilly, though there were roses and violets and calla lilies blooming in the garden. My sister and I had been making dolls of the calla lilies, putting rosebuds for heads at the top of the long graceful blossom. Then we made perfume, crushing flowers into a bottle with a little water in it. Even now I can remember the peculiar, delicious, pungent smell.
And then I remember we were in the attic. I was sitting behind a table, pretending I was the teacher, reading aloud from a Bible that I had found. Slowly, as I read, a new personality impressed itself on me. I was being introduced to someone and I knew almost immediately that I was discovering God.
I know that I had just really discovered Him because it excited me tremendously. It was as though life were fuller, richer, more exciting in every way. Here was someone that I had never really known about before and yet felt to be One whom I would never forget, that I would never get away from. The game might grow stale, it might assume new meanings, new aspects, but life would never again be the same. I had made a great discovery.
Of course I had heard of Him previous to this. Before we moved to California your older brothers and I had gone to school in Bath Beach, and there every morning the teacher read something from the Bible and we bowed our heads on the desk and recited the Lord’s prayer. I had forgotten that until this moment of writing. It did not impress me then, and I remember now simply raising my head after the prayer to watch my breath fade upon the varnished desk.
In the family the name of God was never mentioned. Mother and father never went to church, none of us children had been baptized, and to speak of the soul was to speak immodestly, uncovering what might better remain hidden.
I can remember so many vivid impressions of early childhood. I can remember so many pictures and sights and sounds and smells. I vividly enjoyed my early years. There was so much to do and play and enjoy and read. I can even remember intense sufferings, remorse for childish sins.
But in all the first years I remember nothing about God except that routine chapter and prayer in school which I did not feel. It was that Sunday afternoon up in the dim attic and the rich, deep feeling of having a book, which would be with me through life, that stands out in my mind now.
I had been reading books for a long time, since I was four, in fact. I can remember books I read, children’s stories, and the fascinating Arabian Nights which I read when I was six. But this was the first Bible I had ever seen. It came with the furnished house, and I wanted even then to keep it always.
Then there is one of those gaps in memory. It must have been shortly after that we moved from Berkeley to Oakland. Our furniture had come and we were established in a bungalow near open fields and woods, where windows looked out to the hills, and forest fires perfumed the air (there always seemed to be forest fires), making a haze on the changing hills.
I had not taken the Bible with me. As a matter of fact, some years passed before I took it up again. But next door down the road there was a little girl by the name of Naomi Reed. She was just my age and her mother kept a grocery store next to her house. There were brothers and sisters but no father. Mrs. Reed was a widow (the first I had ever known).
They were Methodists and regular churchgoers, and it was not long before I started going to church and Sunday school with Naomi. There was a library attached to the Sunday school and pious books to read. But best of all, there was the hymn singing. The sound of a church full of voices raised in sad or lively but always fervent airs, delighted me. It penetrated to the marrow of my bones so that the hair stood up on my arms and the skin prickled on the back of my neck. I became a regular churchgoer.
It was almost as good to hear Mrs. Reed and her children hymn singing at night before they went to bed. I loved and admired them all. How model a family life I felt them to have–peace, unity, love. I even admired the smugness, their conviction that they were of the saved and we, the non-churchgoers, were of the damned. (Somehow or other I didn’t believe that for a minute, but it was part of their atmosphere, and I accepted it with them.) What I did recognize was that they had something which we did not: a belief, a faith, and the consequent order and tranquillity that went with that belief.
Then Naomi stopped playing with me because I was heard to call my elder brother a bad name (I threw things besides) in a fight over whose guinea pigs were whose. I was cast into outer darkness. I was no longer invited to church. I couldn’t play with Naomi any more. I took refuge with a tough gang of kids whose homes were lined with funny papers, who ran away to Idora Park, who stayed out after dark and didn’t mind their mothers; and I had a very good time indeed.
The cool delicious sense of being one of the saved could not be sustained. It was hard to hold out against the whole family. I did not want to be saved alone anyway. Perhaps it was just a game, a cloak, a garment, that people put on and off. It was too much for me to think about. I bothered my head no longer about church and faith until a year later when I met my first Catholic.
We were in California until after the earthquake which shook us eastward. We were living in Oakland at the time and though I remember some years later praying fearfully during a lightning storm, I do not remember praying during that cataclysmic disturbance, the earthquake. And I remember it plainly. I was eight years old then. It was after two in the morning when it started, and it began with a fearful roaring down in the earth. It lasted for two minutes and twenty seconds, and there was plenty of time to have died of fright, yet I do not remember fear. It must have been either that I thought I was dreaming or that I was half conscious. Pictures fell from the walls, the bed rolled from one end of the polished floor to the other. My father got my brothers out of the house and my mother was able to carry my sister–God alone knew how she did it–out of the bungalow. I think the first shock was over before they got back to me.
What I remember most plainly about the earthquake was the human warmth and kindliness of everyone afterward. For days refugees poured out of burning San Francisco and camped in Idora Park and the race track in Oakland. People came in their night clothes; there were new-born babies.
Mother had always complained before about how clannish California people were, how if you were from the East they snubbed you and were loathe to make friends. But after the earthquake everyone’s heart was enlarged by Christian charity. All the hard crust of worldly reserve and prudence was shed. Each person was a little child in friendliness and warmth.
Mother and all our neighbors were busy from morning to night cooking hot meals. They gave away every extra garment they possessed. They stripped themselves to the bone in giving, forgetful of the morrow. While the crisis lasted, people loved each other. They realized their own helplessness while nature “travaileth and groaneth.” It was as though they were united in Christian solidarity. It makes one think of how people could, if they would, care for each other in time of stress, unjudgingly, with pity and with love.
It was in Chicago, where we moved to afterward, that I met my first Catholic. It was the first time we had been really poor. We lived in an apartment over a store, on Cottage Grove Avenue. There was no upstairs, no garden, no sense of space. The tenement stretched away down the block and there were back porches and paved courtyards with never a touch of green anywhere. I remember how hungry I became for the green fields during the long hot summer that followed. There was a vacant lot over by the lake front and I used to walk down there with my sister and stand sniffing ecstatically the hot sweet smell of wild clover and listening to the sleepy sound of the crickets. But that very desire for beauty was a painful delight for me. It sharpened my senses and made me more avid in my search for it. I found it in the lake that stretched steel gray beyond the Illinois Central tracks. I found it in that one lone field of clover. And I found a glimpse of supernatural beauty in Mrs. Barrett, mother of Kathryn and six other little Barretts, who lived upstairs.
It was Mrs. Barrett who gave me my first impulse towards Catholicism. It was around ten o’clock in the morning that I went up to Kathryn’s to call for her to come out and play. There was no one on the porch or in the kitchen. The breakfast dishes had all been washed. They were long railroad apartments, those flats, and thinking the children must be in the front room, I burst in and ran through the bedrooms.
In the front bedroom Mrs. Barrett was on her knees, saying her prayers. She turned to tell me that Kathryn and the children had all gone to the store and went on with her praying. And I felt a warm burst of love toward Mrs. Barrett that I have never forgotten, a feeling of gratitude and happiness that still warms my heart when I remember her. She had God, and there was beauty and joy in her life.
All through my life what she was doing remained with me. And though I became oppressed with the problem of poverty and injustice, though I groaned at the hideous sordidness of man’s lot, though there were years when I clung to the philosophy of economic determinism as an explanation of man’s fate, still there were moments when in the midst of misery and class strife, life was shot through with glory. Mrs. Barrett in her sordid little tenement flat finished her breakfast dishes at ten o’clock in the morning and got down on her knees and prayed to God.
The Harrington family also lived in that block of tenements, and there were nine children, the eldest a little girl of twelve. She was a hard-working little girl, and naturally I had the greatest admiration for her on account of the rigorous life she led. I had a longing then, I can remember, for the rigorous life. I was eight, and I had begun to help my mother for the first time. It was the first time our own family (to me a large one though we were only six) had to do without a servant, and my sister and I were pressed into service to help with dishes and housecleaning. I remember the joy I got out of it, this having a part in the family’s concerns, having them depend on me too for my help. I took my dishwashing very seriously and I can remember scouring faucets until they shone. The work grew wearisome, of course; it did not always have the aspect of a game. But it had to be done and after six months of it, I was well used to the fact that I had to do my share.
But I had a tremendous amount of liberty compared to little Mary Harrington, my senior. It was not until after the dishes were done that she could come out to play in the evening. Often she was so tired that we just stretched out on the long back porch, open to the sky. We lay there, gazing up at the only beauty the city had to offer us, and we talked and dreamed.
I don’t remember what we talked about, but I do remember one occasion when she told me of the life of some saint. I don’t know which one nor can I remember any of the incidents of it. I can only remember the feeling of lofty enthusiasm I had, how my heart seemed almost bursting with desire to take part in such high endeavor. One verse of the Psalms often comes to my mind: “Enlarge thou my heart, O Lord, that Thou mayest enter in.” This was one of those occasions when my small heart was enlarged. I could feel it swelling with love and gratitude to such a good God for such a friendship as Mary’s, for conversation such as hers, and I was filled with lofty ambitions to be a saint, a natural striving, a thrilling recognition of the possibilities of spiritual adventure.
I, too, wanted to do penance for my own sins and for the sins of the whole world, for I had a keen sense of sin, of natural imperfection and earthliness. I often felt clearly that I was being deliberately evil in my attitudes, just as I clearly recognized truth when I came across it. And the thrill of joy that again and again stirred my heart when I came across spiritual truth and beauty never abated, never left me as I grew older.
The sad thing is that one comes across it so seldom. Natural goodness, natural beauty, brings joy and a lifting of the spirit, but it is not enough, it is not the same. The special emotions I am speaking of came only at hearing the word of God. It was as though each time I heard our Lord spoken of, a warm feeling of joy filled me. It was hearing of someone you love and who loves you.

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Indon. claims on West Papuan refugees not credible
Indonesian claims on West Papuan refugees not credible: Greens
The new Indonesian Ambassador's assurances about
the safety of West
Papuan refugees if they are returned to Indonesia are not credible,
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said today.
"The escalating repression of the independence movement and generalised suppression of the people of West Papua is well documented," Senator Nettle said.
"Just last week the special adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Juan Mendez said West Papuans were at "risk of extinction"
"The latest US State Department report on Indoensia outlines the numerous human rights violations suffered by the West Papuans at the hands of the Indonesian military and militia.
"The government should not be fooled by Indonesian double speak from this new Ambassador.
"The Australian government should not give in to Indonesian pressure," Senator Nettle said.


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Well, I have been a bit slow on my blog this week again.... Wednesday, the UWA awards thingy saw me presented with a Norden Art Award courtesy of Flora Nordenskiold, and many thanks to her for that.... full list of winners here.
I realised that the two new products that are for sale now, The Telepathic Swamp Lilly and the Carpet Tree (has not yet migrated to IWz) haven't even been mentioned on my blog and so I now rectify that blog lag....thus...
The Telepathic Swamp Lilly features prominently in Transubstantiation, my latest build .... the philosophy of which has attracted some discussion by Botgirl and Aaron P to mention just two.
The Carpet Tree is currently only available at Nishi Disposals, along with the Telepathic Swamp Lilly, which is also available on my island in InWorldz.
I hope you enjoy them.

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MRS. ANNA BURCH
Stricken at her home, Mrs. Anna Burch,
82, of Fremont died
Thursday night. She was the widow of John Burch.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:30
p.m. Monday at the Beams
Funeral Home in Fremont with the Reverend Summers Clark, pastor of
the Fremont United Methodist Church officiating. Interment
in the Oaklawn Cemetery at Napoleon, Michigan.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs.
Hazel Gibbons, of Toledo,
Ohio; Mrs. Audry Quesenberry, Fremont, California; Mrs. Marie Marr,
Grand Blanc, Michigan; Mrs. Ruth Preston, Jackson, Michigan; and Mrs.
Willa Drushal, of Fremont; four sons, John, Earl, and Robert, all of
Fremont; and Reverend Keith Burch, of Liberty Mills, Indiana; 31
grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Burch was born March 15, 1888, in
Steuben County, a
daughter of the late Lorenzo and Mary (Barnes) Lybarger."
Obituary for Anna Burch: The Steuben Republican, December 30, 1970,
page 7, column 2.
Submitted by: Earle McBride

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Heirloom jewelry finds form in Atmosphere. A faceted oval raw diamond or smooth emerald are encircled by 1mm white diamonds, making for a lovely, artistic piece with vintage appeal.
- 14K solid yellow gold
- 5.3 ct. raw diamond
- White diamonds
- Available in size 6, 7, or 8
- Half sizes available upon request
- Made with love in Mill Valley, CA

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Recently, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced a new laser processing technology - roll-to-roll laser induced superplasticity.
According to the reports, this technology can print metal like a newspaper, and make metal components with higher smoothness and higher flexibility, which can achieve very high printing speed and precision. The metal components are used in high-speed electronic equipment to reduce excess thermal resistance and reduce the heating of electronic devices.
Roll-to-roll laser-induced superplasticity uses a CO2 laser to induce the "superelastic" behavior of different metals in a short period of time through high-energy laser shock, allowing the metal to flow to the nanometer-scale rolling stamping device to break through the metal forming limit. This method solves the problem of rough surface roughness of metal circuits and low resolution of conventional molds, and can form a smooth metal circuit in the accuracy of nanometer order. The metal circuit made by this method has a smooth surface and no excess metal adhesion, which can greatly reduce the thermal resistance of the semiconductor during operation, and provides another solution for solving the heating problem of the electronic device.
In addition, the technology can create touch screens that cover nanostructures that interact with light and generate 3D images while producing cost-effective and sensitive biosensors.


Power steering belt change is required periodically on most cars.
The exceptions to this are cars with electric power steering, and those with no power steering.
The car that I did the power steering belt change on, is a 2006 Jaguar X-Type 2.2 Diesel.
The very first step was to purchase the correct belt.
Make sure you check that the product code matches suitability for your vehicle.
The first task was to remove the plastic engine cover, as shown in the next photo. The cover is held in place by round rubber supports, and the cover is removed by pulling upwards, from the front first.
Before trying to pull the engine cover off, you need to first remove the oil dipstick, as the top of it is wider than the dipstick cutout, in the engine cover.
After successfully removing the plastic engine cover, the next stage is to remove the battery.
Firstly remove the negative (-) battery terminal, followed by the positive (+).
The reason for firstly removing the negative terminal, is that if the other end of your spanner comes into contact with the cars bodywork, it won’t cause a spark.
You will need a 10mm spanner or socket, to remove the battery terminals.
IMPORTANT: Removing the battery will reset the cars radio, and therefore you will need to have the appropriate security code.
Once the two battery terminals have been removed, you then also need to undo the two nuts holding the battery support clamp.
I found that only the rear nut needed to be taken off completely, as the top plate of the clamp, will rotate out of the way.
Once the battery has been removed, the battery box lifts out of the cars engine bay.
You will notice from the photo above, that there is a wire attached to the plastic battery box.
This wire, along with a pipe was fixed to the box, but not connected to anything.
You will need to unclip these from the battery box, before lifting clear of the engine bay.
Next task is to unclip the electrical connector from the air intake, as shown in the photo below.
You also need to remove the air intake pipe, as also shown in the photo.
To remove the pipe, you squeeze together the two ‘lugs’ on the clip. This should then allow you to pull the two halves of the pipe apart. Its the front part that needs moving.
Next remove the bolt at the front of the power steering cover shown below. You will also need to carefully pull out the release tab, on the other side of the cover (nearest back of engine bay).
Then remove the bolt shown in the photo below.
And this one!
Now you can start to remove the belt.
Firstly you will need a square socket to fit into the hole on the side of the tensioner pulley.
Once the socket is in place, rotate it in a clockwise direction, to slacken the tension on the belt.
Starting with the bottom of the belt, which goes round the power steering pump, use a long flat blade screwdriver, to gently prise the belt off the pulley.
I really wouldn’t advise using your fingers to pull the belt off. This is because if the tool used to move the tensioner slips, you could trap your fingers.
Once the belt is off the bottom pulley (power steering pump), you can remove it from the top pulley.
At this point you will realise that the belt will not come away from the engine, due to an obstruction.
You need to slacken the screw as shown below (holding the L shaped bracket), and the bracket can be moved out of the way. This then allows the belt to be removed.
Fitting the new belt, is a reverse process of the above instructions.
Firstly fit the belt to the bottom pulley, and then the top.
Then release the tensioner, and check that the belt is correctly in place.
Disclaimer: This article is for entertainment purpose only, and I am not at all liable for any consequences of you using it.
(C) 2020 Craig Miles


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Claire's is the latest in a long list of recent USA retail bankruptcies, including Gymboree, Gander Mountain, Sports Authority Inc., Toys "R" Us, Vitamin World, RadioShack, The Limited, Rue21 and Payless shoes, among others.
The retailer has 7,500 locations in 45 countries and employs 17,000 people. The company is turning to Elliott Management and Monarch Alternative Capital to get rid of a $1.9 billion debt and return stronger by September 2018.
The US company behind Claire's Accessories has filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a move to reduce its debt by 1.9 billion US dollars (€1.5 billion).
Claire's does not plan to close stores during the restructuring process.
Anchorage is home to three different Claire's stores; one is located in the Dimond Mall, one is located in the 5th Avenue Mall, and one is located in the Northway Mall.
According to court papers, a debtor-in-possession, or DIP loan to fund operations in bankruptcy will include $75 million revolver and a $60 million term loan with Citibank N.A.as an agent to other lenders.
The company accrued the almost $2 billion debt after Apollo Global Management LLC purchased it for $3.1 billion in 2007. Claire's says an agreement with creditors will cut its debt and provide 575-million dollars in new capital. The retailer is still feeling the backlash from a string of private equity buyouts about a decade ago that saddled Claire's with burdensome payments.

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We are testing the waters with NEW, virtual Yoga classes, taught by our awesome Meadowsweet team, and in the studio space.
You can find the online schedule from the green link above, and sign up from there.
In regards to the recent update (Nov 19) with the BC Health Authority, we have put our in person Yoga classes on hold for the time being.
The health of our community is very important to us. This is why we will be veering on the side of caution, to see what comes next before bringing our community back into the studio space.


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Architects appointed to reimagine Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne has appointed NH Architecture and Norwegian practice Snøhetta to design its vision for the future of its Theatres Building.
The project will include critical infrastructure upgrades within the Theatres building and the replacement of the State Theatre rigging system.
Designed by Australian architect Roy Grounds, and originally conceived to have theatres and a concert hall underground, the Theatres Building was completed in 1984. However, the discovery of an underground river forced a redesign of the building.
In 1979, theatre designer John Truscott was appointed to redesign the Roy Grounds interiors for the Theatres Building and Melbourne Concert Hall (now Hamer Hall).
Commenting on the design task, Hamish Lyon Director of Architecture and Design at NH Architecture, stated “given the building was opened in the early 1980s, there’s a whole range of activities that need to be done to bring the building up to current code compliance and also to bring the three performance venues - State Theatre, Fairfax Studio and Playhouse Theatre - up to the current worlds best practice for technologies and fly towers.
“The second half of the project, which is under the reimagining category, is to build on the custodial qualities that we feel towards the Roy Grounds building and John Truscott interiors.
“At a design level, (we aim to) open the building up a bit for a bit more public and community engagement.”
The redevelopment will include a stand-alone contemporary art and design gallery for the National Gallery of Victoria, NGV Contemporary, and a new creative arts hub housing the Australian Performing Arts Gallery and the Australian Music Vault.
The development of the Arts Centre is being supported by the Victorian Government as part of the $208 milion first stage of the transformation of Melbourne’s art precinct.
A new fourth arts campus will connect to the existing theatre building, offering new and exciting spaces for rehearsals and a new tourism attraction for Melbourne – the Australian Performing Arts Gallery.
Snøhetta and NH Architecture are also currently collaborating on the Melbourne Park development.
Construction is set to get underway on that project in 2019.
Images: The Arts Centre Melbourne dopened in 1984 (top), the design team is interested in opening up the Theatres Building to the forecourt (middle) and the Theatres Building's auditorium (below). Images courtesy of Mark Gambino.
23rd September 2017 - Arts Centre Melbourne to be home to Australia’s music hall of fame
13th July 2017 - Plan revealed to convert road lane to park on Melbourne’s Southbank
19th September 2016 - Cox Architecture reveals Rod Laver Arena redevelopment designs
22nd April 2016 - Victoria’s creative strategy shifts into gear
14th October 2015 - James MacKenzie named new President of Arts Centre Melbourne
18th December 2013 - New Hamer Hall welcomes almost 400,000 patrons in first year of operations
17th January 2013 - National Theatre Marketing Director to join Arts Centre Melbourne
29th November 2012 - HOSTPLUS agrees five year Arts Centre Melbourne sponsorship
17th September 2012 - Kyle Johnston and Jodie Bennett join Arts Centre Melbourne executive team
17th July 2012 - Special events to mark Hamer Hall re-opening
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Photo: Dr Wee Thian YewIndia at WJT Final Qualifying in Kuching, Malaysia
India knocked over top seeds Japan 3-0 to advance to the final of the World Junior Tennis Asia/Oceania Boys' Final Qualifying event in Kuching, Malaysia.
India, who along with Australia, Japan and Thailand, had already qualified for the World Junior Tennis Finals in Prostejov, Czech Republic by reaching the semifinals in Kuching, went ahead through Alexi Solanki, who continued his excellent form at No. 2 for India by defeating Daisuke Sumizawa in little more than an hour.
An outstanding match between Nitin Sinha (IND) and Yunosuke Tanaka (JPN) followed. The unbeaten Sinha put in a consistent display to take the first set 63. Tanaka fought back, playing good attacking tennis in the second set to win it 61, taking six straight games. Tanaka started well in the third set leading 2-1 but then Sinha raised his game, forcing errors from his opponent and winning five games in a row to take the match and put India into the final.
Australia will be India's opponent after taking both singles against Thailand in the other semifinal.
Alex De Minaur scored a comfortable win to put Australia 1-0 ahead, before Alexi Popyrin took to court aiming to bury the tie against Voracho Rakpuangchon. He took the first set 64, but the Thai player soon raised his level, hitting winners and forcing errors to race away with the second set 62.
The third set was played in sweltering heat and Popyrin came out firing, breaking serve to lead 4-2. His Thai opponent came back strongly to level at 4-all, but Popyrin then held and when Rakpuangchon came to serve Popyrin unleashed four stunning shots to strike four clean winners, the first three forehands and on match point a backhand return of serve fired straight up the line to take the match and propel Australia into the final.
China beat Chinese Taipei 3-0 to move into the playoff for 5th place where they will take on Hong Kong China, who edged out Korea in a three-set deciding doubles match.
In the 9-12 play-offs hosts Malaysia turned in another good performance but were edged out by Indonesia 2-1.
In the fight to avoid last place Singapore beat Pakistan 3-0 and Kazakhstan beat Philippines.
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The Boston bank that is at the center of controversy involving Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who intervened with regulators to protect and reward the bank (her husband had a financial interest in the bank), apparently lied about helping poor people, reports the Boston Globe:
Five years ago this month, Mayor Thomas M. Menino stood with community leaders in Roxbury to hail plans for a new OneUnited branch in the neighborhood. The bank's president pledged to make loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars across Boston, with a special emphasis on low-income borrowers.
OneUnited said it would partner with the city to offer the mortgages to first-time and current homeowners, and provide financial literacy training to residents. "As a child of an inner-city community I can tell you, it doesn't get any better than this,'' the bank's president, Teri Williams, told the crowd that day.
But no loan program ever emerged -- one in a long list of failures by the nation's largest minority-owned bank, which is controlled by Williams and her husband, Kevin Cohee, the bank's chairman.
In recent years, regulators have admonished the bank for poor performance and lavish executive pay, and Cohee himself has had personal run-ins with the law in California. And the bank, despite its diminished role as a community lender, sought and received help from US Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, to secure $12 million in federal funds after the bank lost money on risky investments. Waters now faces House ethics charges in the matter because her husband had a stake in the bank.
The spin that the bank would help the poor acquire housing and jobs was just that: spin. A few dollars trickled out to help some poor people -- but not in Boston, Miami, or Los Angeles, where it opened offices. But large sums did go to a wealthy developers in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, executives rewarded themselves with fancy cars and high salaries. The president had run-ins with the law; a sexual assault allegation (dropped) and a drug charge that was dropped after he agreed to counseling. The plight of the poor was a ruse to ransack.
Quiet a crew that Maxine Waters bent -- actually broke -- the rules to help reward with our money. She should be ashamed, instead of defiant. And Congressman Barney Frank logrolled for her -- did favors to help her while attempting to keep her role hidden. He should be ashamed of himself, as well (let alone for his role in creating the housing crisis by his drive to promote home ownership among those who could not afford it).


Xiaomi has released a new software update for its Poco F1 smartphone, which brings the Android security patch for the month of March. The update is based on the Android 9 Pie operating system and is sized at 515MB. Xiaomi‘s latest MIUI 10.3.4 global stable update brings support for Widevine L1, which means that the Poco F1 now support HD streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Videos and on other premium streaming services.
The Widevine L1 certification support was rolled out to the MIUI 10 9.25.2 beta version of the Poco F1 in February 2019. The Chinese company also pushed the Game Turbo feature to the Poco F1 smartphone with the last beta release. This feature has now been added to the stable version, and it should boost your gaming experience on the smartphone. Additionally, Xiaomi’s Mi 9 device first featured “Game Turbo” mode, which reportedly “predicts gaming scenes and intelligently allocates resources for complicated scenes.”
Furthermore, the Poco F1 users will also be able to lock specific apps using the face unlock feature. The update also brings support for 4K video shooting at 60fps. There are a few new AI modes as well in the camera app. The newly released update will gradually hit all the Poco F1 smartphones in the coming days via OTA (Over-the-air).
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To recall, the Poco F1 bears a 6.3-inch IPS grade notched panel with a resolution of 1080 x 2246 pixels and 18.7:9 aspect ratio. It is the first affordable smartphone to house a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset. Optics wise, there are two cameras at the back. The setup includes a 12-megapixel Sony IMX 363 sensor and a 5-megapixel depth sensor. For shooting selfies, the smartphone offers a 20-megapixel front camera with an IR sensor in order to aid low-light Face Unlock.
The smartphone is backed by a large enough 4,000mAh battery. It supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 4+ via USB Type C port. There is also a dedicated 3.5mm headphone jack, unlike OnePlus 6T. As for the pricing, the Xiaomi Poco F1 comes with a starting price of Rs 19,999. It is available for purchase via the company’s online store and Flipkart as well as via offline retail stores. There is also an Armoured Edition of the Poco F1 worth Rs 28,999.


Airports awarded grants
Published 9:59 am Thursday, May 28, 2009
Congressman Tim Walz announced on Tuesday nearly $3.8 million in grant money for regional airports. Fillmore County Airport in Preston, Albert Lea Municipal Airport and Rochester International Airport will all receive funding.
The funds will be used to rehabilitate and continue construction on the airports’ taxiways, runways and hangar buildings.
Fillmore County will receive a grant of $195,000, Albert Lea will receive a grant of $2,165,700 and Rochester will receive $1,425,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation.


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Grampian Hospitals Art Trust is recruiting a manager/ producer to lead on a new project initiative – AMPLIFY
Amplify is a focused project of ambitious participatory arts activity based in Aberdeen NHS Grampian (NHSG) hospital sites. The programme of work is designed to support GHAT’s vision – the pursuit of excellence in arts within healthcare practice, regionally integrated and embedded, nationally recognised and respected.
Aim: To push the boundaries of arts in well-being
Amplify will add vitality to GHAT activity, tempting people out of the wards and offices to discover the joy of art within well-being and provoke discussion around the role of contemporary art in hospitals.
Amplify will push the boundaries of cultural practice within the arts and health sector by investigating the key role of the artist in this context. The starting point will be the initial findings within our pilot project Resonate:Disseminate www.resonateartists.wordpress.com which has illustrated some of the issues for participatory artists working in NHSG facilities.
Within each commission there will be points of reflection. The intelligence from these discussions along with the evaluation of the programme will inform a published set of guidelines for artists and hospitals.
Film Poem – Mike Inglis and graeme Rogers Soundfestival performance in the Suttie Space


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What Is It?
Iron bacteria are organisms that consume iron to survive and, in the process, produce deposits of iron (rust), and a red or brown slime called a “biofilm.”
Is It Harmful?
Iron is an essential mineral for human health, and as such it is not particularly harmful to ingest. Trace impurities and microorganisms absorbed by iron solids, however, may pose a health concern in certain cases. Aesthetic effects of iron contamination include undesirable tastes, colors, and odors, as well as staining of fixtures, appliances, and laundry. Physical effects include corrosion damage to fixtures and appliances, as well as reduced effectiveness of treatment systems.
What is the Maximum Contaminant Level?
The U.S. EPA has set a secondary maximum contaminant level (MCL) standard of 0.3 mg/L or 0.3 ppm (parts per million) iron in drinking water. Changes in taste, odor, and color may be evident when levels are greater than 0.3 ppm.
How Can I Test for It?
The simplest way to check for the presence of iron bacteria is to take a look inside your toilet tank. If your water is frothy, rust-colored, slimy, or odorous, it may be host to iron bacteria. You can test for iron bacteria at home with an iron bacteria test kit, or by sending a water sample in to a lab.
How Can I Treat It?
The best way to treat iron bacteria is with a continuous chlorine injector installed before an iron filter. The chlorine will kill the bacteria in your pipes and oxidize them for easy filtration by the iron filter. Alternatively, you might consider periodic shock-chlorination of your plumbing system, paired with an iron filter and side chlorine tank, to kill the bacteria that get into the iron filter.

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maybe a stupid question but I'm asking anyhow.
I was using a Netgear R-7800 router with Openwrt on it and after lots of configuration errors, I had it working for awhile.
Then I stumbled on the GL-inet GL-AX-1800 router and in a few hours, I had configured just like I like.
I configured the router with:
2.4 and 5 GHz wifi, private and guest wifi
PIA VPN client for selected devices (Mac address) (at the same time as Wireguard server)
Wireguard VPN server for accessing home network from the internet
AdGuardHome with DNS over TLS
USB and/or Wireless tehtering
The interface of GL-inet is a pleasure to configure and is working (almost) out of the box.
Using the GL-inet router for awhile, I can see some hickups which I never had seen on my R-7800.
I guess the GL-ax1800 is not as powerful as the R-7800
So my question is, would it be possible to install the web interface of GL- inet on a R-7800 openwrt router? With an USB-stick as extroot for expanding memory.


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It’s no secret that dogs and humans often exhibit very different behavioral habits.
After all, if you walked around sniffing others people’s butts in an attempt to get to know them, you might be sent in for a mental evaluation.
Yet, some of these odd behaviors—like sniffing butts or rolling around in stinky things—are very important behaviors for dogs.
Not long ago, I wrote a post about things our dogs don’t understand about humans.
(If you missed it, I encourage you to go check it out here!)
And today, I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and take a deep dive into 10 things—odd behaviors—that we humans don’t understand about dogs.
Want to know why your dog feels the need to eat poop or smell everything in sight? Keep reading to find out…
Odd Behavior #1: Why does my dog feel the need to smell everything?
Your dog’s primary sense is his sense of smell.
In fact, according to Purina.com…
“The area of the canine brain that is devoted to analyzing scent is 40 times greater than that of the human and dogs can identify smells at least 1,000 times better than we can! The dog’s superior sense of smell comes from 220 million olfactory receptors in its nose. Compared to the human’s paltry 5 million, it’s no wonder smell is considered to be the dog’s primary sense.
When a dog sniffs, air is taken in and passes through the olfactory epithelium (nasal skin cells). These calls are also found in a special organ that dogs (and cats) possess, called the Jacobsen’s or vomeronasal organ. This organ is thought to be important in the detection of pheromones (body scents), perhaps giving the dog its tremendous ability to identify and recognize animals and people.”
There’s also a great post from our friends at Your Dog Advisor on Why Sniff Time Is so Important to Your Dog
Odd Behavior #2: Why does my dog like some people and not others?
Much like humans, dogs have preferences on whom they like to hang around.
This preference can be dependent on a large variety of factors.
First and foremost, our dogs have the ability to sense whether someone has good energy generally and if they are a good person or not. It’s the reason some dogs will lie on the floor happily when friends are over, yet, in an instant, turn into an attack dog when someone breaks into the home.
We don’t really understand how dogs are able to “feel people out,” but it’s clear that they have the ability to judge whether someone has good intentions or not.
Another way dogs pick whom they want to hang around is by observing human behavior.
If you have a very social dog who loves to be fussed over and petted, he might choose to hang around the people who are willing to give him unlimited attention.
On the flip side, there are dogs that are less social or get overwhelmed by people who want to be all up in their business.
This type of dog might choose to hide from people that seem too overbearing or children/adults who are too loud, obnoxious, and don’t respect the dog’s space.
Odd Behavior #3: Why do dogs love being around people so much?
As I just mentioned above, most dogs are very social creatures.
By nature, dogs are pack animals and often desire to feel as though they are part of a pack or family.
If your dog has had positive experiences around humans, it’s likely that he’s going to want to be a part of everything you and your friends do.
Not to mention, if you regularly play with your dog, shower him with love and affection, and provide him with treats, he’ll never want to miss out on an opportunity to be spoiled by you.
Odd Behavior #4: Why doesn’t my dog like toys?
Dogs are a lot like kids in the sense that they all have very different play preferences and personalities.
The environment in which your dog grows up contributes to these play preferences.
To set the foundation, I want to be very clear on the fact that while toys are a lot of fun for most dogs, not all dogs need toys to be happy!
For this reason, some people opt to never give their dog toys, or the dog only has one or two favorite toys—especially if their dog is known to chew up toys and swallow dangerous materials.
When a dog grows up in this environment, he will learn to enjoy playing in other ways, such as a trip to the park, a walk around the block, or some quality time wrestling on the floor.
Another reason your dog might not like toys could be because he grew up without them. For instance, you may have adopted a dog from a shelter who never had access to toys.
Because of this, your adopted dog may simply have no idea how to even play with toys.
Finally, as I said above, all dogs have different play preferences that come naturally programmed.
Some dogs love hard toys, some dogs love soft toys, some dogs love to play fetch, and some dogs don’t care about toys at all.
Odd Behavior #5: Why does my dog eat poop?
Eating dog poop is by far probably one of the most disgusting dog habits that we humans simply don’t understand—and for good reason.
It’s gross, unappetizing, and downright nauseating.
But, there are many reasons our pups do it.
First and foremost, eating poop could be a sign that your dog has a deficiency of something in their diet.
The most likely culprits are…
- Enzyme deficiencies.
- Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
- Mineral deficiencies.
It’s a dog’s natural instinct to curb these deficiencies by eating poop as other foods often contain the nutrients your dog might be missing.
If your dog regularly eats poop, talk to your vet about your dog’s food and what you could be doing differently to give him the nutrients he needs in an attempt to curb the behavior.
Believe it or not, another instinct that causes dogs to eat poop is cleanliness. This is especially true if you have a dog that has had puppies before.
Mama dogs are programmed to keep their pups’ environment safe and clean—and in the wild, that often means eating poop out of their pups’ living space.
While this instinct is mostly present in dogs with new puppies, the instinct can carry over into later years of a dog’s life.
Lastly, some dogs simply just think it tastes great.
This is especially true when it comes to cat poop—what a delicacy!
Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do to curb this behavior aside from keeping your dog away from other animal droppings. Although one very popular tip is to feed your dog a little bit of pineapple! Yep, that’s right. A bit of pineapple may do the trick in stopping them from eating their own faeces.
Odd Behavior #6: Why does my dog feel the need to always be on top of me?
Dogs love having contact with us much in the same way small children desire to hold our hands/cuddle or adults feel the desire to hug/be close to those they love.
It’s usually a sign of affection.
However, it can also be a sign of dominance. For example, imagine invading your boss’s space by leaning on him when you are trying to discuss a pay raise. Not a good idea!
As a dog owner and trainer, I understand that it can be obnoxious when your dog feels the need to constantly be on top of you.
And, I also believe that boundaries and training should be put in place in order to ensure your dog doesn’t need to be constantly sitting on top of your head. That’s right. I actually worked with more than one couple whose dog lies on their heads when they are sitting in their arm chairs or sleeping at night! (The dogs are not German Shepherds!)
That being said, a dog who loves you will always feel happy in your presence and have the desire to feel your warmth, which bring him comfort.
One suggestion is to make all the interactions on your terms so YOU initiate the interaction with your dog.
If you’re struggling to set space boundaries with your dog, I highly suggest you check out how I’ve successfully trained over 77,000 dogs here!
Or, if you have a puppy, you can start setting a solid foundation with my Puppy Coach training program here!
Odd Behavior #7: Why does my dog eat grass?
There are two big reasons dogs eat grass.
The first reason is very similar to the reason dogs eat poop.
Your dog might be missing vitamins/nutrients in his diet, and eating grass is his way of trying to rebalance his diet and make up for what is missing.
If you notice your dog chowing down on grass, talk to your vet about what supplements your dog might need to rebalance his diet.
The second reason dogs eat grass is to induce vomiting.
If your dog has an upset stomach, eating grass is a natural, instinctual way to throw up whatever may be causing his discomfort, so I always let my dogs do it.
Pay attention to your dog and take note if he’s acting odd, lethargic, is biting at his abdomen, or refusing to eat his normal food.
Eating grass could be a sign that a bigger health issue is at play however its not always a reason for alarm. It could be your dog simply knows they need to be sick and then they will be fine.
Odd Behavior #8: Why does my dog chase his tail?
Ah, the age-old question…Why does my dog chase his tail?
The answer: why not?
I mean, have you ever tried it? Can you imagine how much fun it would be! The best analogy is probably chasing a sibling or a friend when you were a child and they were just out of reach!
The other thought is that maybe our dogs aren’t that smart! Personally, I doubt this theory, but maybe it’s true!
It has been suggested that, while dogs are incredibly intelligent animals, they simply don’t have the ability to understand their own anatomy.
For that reason, a flash of a tail-chasing behind them quickly turns into a game of “I must chase and catch what is following me.”
I shall leave you to decide what you believe 🙂
Most dogs eventually grow out of chasing their own tails as they become used to having a tail and get bored with it. If your dog is doing it too much then consider stepping in and doing a ‘calm freeze’ to put a stop to it.
The bottom line: Tail chasing is either a lot of fun, and why not, or it’s just a silly game dogs play because they don’t know any better.
Odd Dog Behavior #9: Why does my dog gets anxious when I leave the house?
First and foremost, dogs are pack animals.
Whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re part of your dog’s pack.
Here’s where the anxiety comes into play…
Leaders in a dog pack are responsible for ensuring their pack members are safe and taken care of.
If your dog thinks he’s the pack leader, it’s likely that he’s going to freak out when you go missing.
That being said, in the world of dogs, pack leaders are allowed to leave the group to do things like hunt.
If your dog recognizes you as the leader of the household, he will come to realize that it’s ok if you leave to “take care of business” and his anxiety will diminish.
Being the “leader” of your pack isn’t about being mean, in control, and overpowering your dog. It’s about establishing a relationship in which your dog trusts you to care for him and provide.
If you believe your dog’s anxiety or other bad behaviors are caused by you not being seen as the household leader, I invite you to check out my program The Dog Calming Code.
➜ Check out The Dog Calming Code here.
This program is designed to help dog owners establish leadership roles in a kind, compassionate way that helps dogs relax, calm down, and let go so they can enjoy the life they deserve.
The best news is that this issue is one of the simplest in the world to fix.
Odd Dog Behavior #10: Why does my dog spin in circles before lying down?
We’ve all seen it happen…
Whether it be on the floor, a bed, or a couch, we’ve all witnessed our pups spinning in circles before lying down to sleep.
Why does your dog feel the need to spin around 7 times before finally lying down?
It’s a safety instinct that is ingrained in our dogs from long before they were domesticated.
According to Livescience.com…
“Wild dogs had to pat down tall grass and underbrush to make a comfortable bed for themselves and their pups. The easiest way to prepare that night’s sleeping area was by walking around in a circle.
The rounding ritual may also have served as a safety precaution. ‘In the wild, the circling would flatten grasses or snow and would drive out any snakes or large insects,’ said Irvine, a sociologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who specializes in the role of animals in society.
‘I have also heard that circling the area and thus flattening it leaves a visible sign to other dogs that this territory has been claimed,’ Irvine said. ‘Even though our dogs now sleep on cushions, the behavior endures.”
There you have it—10 odd dog behaviors explained!
Before I end this post, I want to make one thing really clear. Dogs have many funny behaviors, and while most are silly things out of instinct, there are things dogs do to communicate that they are stressed out.
So to avoid a stressed out dog, I’ve created a FREE pdf that gives tips on how to keep your dog entertained and tips on how to keep your dog relaxed.
↓ Download the FREE guide here ↓
I encourage you to check it out and see if any of my recommendations will help relax your pup and keep him occupied.
It’s my hope that you’ll be able to use this guide to ensure your dog stays happy and stress-free.
If you’re still struggling or want additional help, please go ahead and check out my Dog Calming Code here.
I am so thankful for your program! We have done extensive training with our lab/border collie mix, but now understand she thought she was the leader and was overprotective of our space. What do you think about letting our dog sleep with us? Is that considered invading our space? She can plop down in the middle of the night right against us in a big bed, taking up too much space.
We get a lot of questions about whether or not it’s ok to allow dogs to sleep in bed with their owners. Generally, as long as you’re the one who has invited your dog onto the bed then that’s totally fine, it will be clear to her that it’s your decision and not hers. However if she jumps onto your bed, and you didn’t invite her to, I would gently remove here and when you are settled in bed you can call her back up. It may seem like a small detail but to our dogs it’s an important one…essentially that you are allowing her to be on the bed rather than her feeling entitled to. Best, Doggy Dan
I have a York is that is 5 I can not stop him from peeing in the house I make him wear a diaper
Hi Sandra, it’s really important to identify why your dog pees inside, for example is the cause behavioural or health related? My website TheOnlineDogTrainer.com goes through a number of causes of this behaviour, but more importantly we teach you how to overcome it…maybe take a quick look…its a $1 trial for 3 days…all the best Doggy Dan
Dear DoggyDan, I enjoy so much your emails. Thank you. I am sorry to hear about your dog Peanut. I know death is a part of life , and personally I do not fear death, however loss isn’t easy. My question is, I have five dogs and on newest acquisition is a yellow lab. I have them on a high quality canned food with supplementation of steamed carrots, green beans and sweet potatoes. I don’t think there is a deficiency in there diet, however the lab is very prone to eating the other’s poop. Could this be a lab thing since he is so motivated by food? The food must smell close to the original food. He also eats grass regularly munching all the time but doesn’t throw up. I have thought of it as fiber and possibly a source of antioxidants. Also is the pineapple similar to Bitter Apple that would throw off the taste buds. I have found that he would prefer to eat apples if given the choice however I haven’t tried pineapple. How much pineapple do you think. I know that citrus isn’t supposed to be good for dogs. I don’t think of apples as citrus. Do you think crushed garlic with sautéed sweet potatoes will do any harm? I know garlic isn’t supposed to be good for dogs but in small amounts cooked, do you think that it may be helpful for pests that could cause skin disease? thank you for your time in answering these questions.Sincerely, Mary Ann
Hi Mary Ann….there are many reasons dogs eat poo….from it being a learned behaviour to indicating a deficiency in their diet. I always recommend running this behaviour past your Vet in case there is an underlying health issue. Where food has been scarce it can result in a dog viewing poo as a source of nutrition as well. Generally the behaviour is nothing to be concerned about, unless it is making your dog unwell. The best advice is to try and collect any poo that is left lying around and adding certain foods to a dog’s diet…like pineapple…can help but not always. This behaviour may calm down over time if your dog is only new to your family as well. Best, Doggy Dan
We have a 9 month old Cavoodle and he get very excited and jumps in front of our old girl a 12 yr old Blue Heeler x trying to lock her usually first thing in the morning when we get up and every time we feed them. We usually put him on his lead to calm him down.
I don’t understand why he does it to Bella
It can be pretty common for dogs to get a bit excited when they haven’t seen family members for an extended (or short) period of time. If your puppy is getting a bit too pushy then placing him on leash is the perfect solution to calm things down. You could also feed him in a separate area to your other dog if he is really pestering her. Well done in coming up with a solution that works best to help calm things down, but also try delaying greeting your dogs in the morning until they are both calm and relaxed. Best, Doggy Dan
When my dog was a little puppy he chased his tail until one day he caught it. With one yip when he bit it, he has never chased his tail since.
Oops! Lesson learnt…the hard way… Doggy Dan
I am concerned about Bruno. We are starting to go through the Calming Down, time out, process. He is constantly scratching at the door.
Another thing is digging. Please help
It can be really common for dogs to scratch at the door, bark or whine when they are in time-out. Remember that the time-out doesn’t need to be excessively long, just a few minutes for minor indiscretions, and you only need to wait for 10-15 seconds of silence (no scratching/barking/whining) in order to let Bruno out. Unfortunately if you do open the door in response to scratching, barking or whining then Bruno will learn the behaviour works for him and he will continue to do it. It can be helpful to attach a thin piece of plywood on the back of the door to protect it and when you no longer need the time-out room you can remove it again! As far as digging goes we have a topic covering this on my website TheOnlineDogTrainer.com as it is important to identify whey the behaviour is occurring…maybe take a quick look…its a $1 trial for 3 days…all the best Doggy Dan

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Samsung virtual reality headset revealed: Firm to take on Sony and Facebook with Gear VR - and will use a mobile phone slotted in to display a virtual world
- Sources close to Samsung said developers have been sent early headsets
- Software being developed with Facebook's Oculus
- It would rival Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus
- Concept similar to Google's cardboard headset
- Release date hasn't been announced but it could launch by the end of 2014
Samsung is set to take on Facebook and Sony with a vitual reality headset.
The Gear VR is set to launch later this year.
To use it, owners must slot in their Galaxy smartphone to provide the headset with a display and sensors.
Samsung's Gear VR is set to launch later this year. To use it, owners must slot in their Galaxy smartphone.
'Today, we can confirm that Samsung is indeed working on a virtual reality device, and it’s called the 'Gear VR', the blog Sammobile said.
'Samsung will be announcing the device, alongside the Galaxy Note 4, at IFA 2014.'
Gear VR makes use of the smartphone’s accelerometer, gyroscope and processing power to track head motion, the site said.
The gadget can also use the smartphone’s rear-facing camera sensor to supply the user with a video feed of the real outside world, and has a touchpad to allow users to control it.
The Korean firm is said to have sent early prototypes to developers to test, and the final product could launch by the end of the year.
Samsung could be about to enter the virtual reality race, if reports about an upcoming headset are true. The Korean firm is said to have sent early prototypes to developers to test, and the final product could launch by the end of the year. It would rival Sony's Project Morpheus headset, pictured
HOW CARDBOARD WORKS
Google's low cost headset is made from corrugated cardboard folded to form a no-frills enclosure.
A mobile phone is then slotted in to act as a display.
When the headset is put on, lenses in the viewer show images from the screen as a left an right eye image.
Using a special app developed by Google, 3d images tand videos can then be viewed.
Sources close to Samsung told Engadget the headsets have OLED screens and will connect with the next generation of Galaxy devices.
The reports suggest the headset will run on Android, rather than the Tizen operating system most recently seen on Samsung’s latest smartwatches.
Engadget added the headset is also likely to connect to a phone or tablet using wires, to prevent a lag when playing games.
The release date, price and other features were not revealed, but it does differ from the rumoured Galaxy Glass project, first reported on in October.
Variations of virtual reality have been around for years, particularly in flight and driving simulators, but it's popularity has risen recently due to companies such as Oculus VR.
Google#'s headset is made from cardboard, and also uses a Mobile Phone as a display
Its Oculus Rift headset began life as a Kickstarter project and was bought by Facebook earlier this year in a deal said to be worth around $2 billion.
A consumer version is expected later this year.
Samsung was one of the first major companies to launch a smartwatch, after Sony, and is among the pioneers of the curved TV screen industry. Samsung could be hoping to steal a charge against its rivals, including Facebook's Oculus Rift, pictured, and be the first to sell its virtual reality headset to customers
Sony announced its own headset, under Project Morpheus, in March.
The adjustable device features a head-mounted display with 1080p HD resolution and a 90-degree field of view, while sensors built into the headset track head movements.
In April, Microsoft bought smart glasses specialist Osterhout Design Group and rumours suggest its working on its own augmented and virtual reality gadget for players of the Xbox One.
Samsung was one of the first major companies to launch a smartwatch, after Sony, and is among the pioneers of the curved TV screen.
It could be hoping to steal a charge against its rivals and be the first to sell its virtual reality headset to customers.
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Among the most controversial movies released by a major studio in the ’70s, Death Wish turned vigilantism into a hot topic around America’s water coolers and a perennial theme for action movies. Whereas the Clint Eastwood vehicle Dirty Harry (1971) manifested late-’60s frustration with the expansion of accused criminals’ rights, Death Wish works on an even more visceral level: It dramatizes the anguish felt by crime victims. Although novelist Brian Garfield, upon whose novel the film is based, reportedly disliked the movie because of the way it seemingly condoned vigilantism, the picture has a measure of nuance—while star Charles Bronson, producer Dino De Laurentiis, and director Michael Winner focus on no-nonsense action, the underlying premise is so provocative that thematic heft unavoidably permeates the bang-bang thrills.
Bronson plays New York City architect Paul Kersey, whose wife (Hope Lange) and daughter (Kathleen Tolan) are attacked by criminals. The thugs beat Joanna, causing injuries that lead to her death, and rape Carol, sending her into a catatonic state. Shattered, Paul takes a working holiday to Tuscon, where he befriends a gun-enthusiast client (Stuart Margolin), who gives Paul a revolver as a gift. Returning to New York and learning that his family’s assailants will probably never be caught, Paul becomes so preoccupied with street crime that he starts packing heat and looking for trouble. Before long, he’s wiping out every lowlife who crosses his path, thus becoming a folk hero to crime-fatigued New Yorkers. Once the plot gets cooking, the movie depicts the dicey relationship between Manhattan’s mysterious new avenger and the police, notably Detective Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia); while city officials condemn the vigilante’s lawlessness, they relish the downtick in street crime attributed to fear of the gunman.
While Death Wish is unquestionably lurid and sensationalistic, the harshest criticism of the movie—that it glamorizes vigilantism—is not entirely justified. The first time Paul kills a crook, he rushes home and vomits. Furthermore, the crisp screenplay by Wendell Mayes tightens the noose around Paul from the moment he begins his crusade. On a deeper level, the vengeance mission alienates Paul from society, even though he gets a perverse new spring in his step once he takes matters into his own hands.
That said, the depiction of criminals as interchangeable ciphers makes it impossible to take the movie completely seriously. In this movie’s vision of New York, the streets are crawling with subhuman monsters, mostly African-American, and only a gun-toting cowboy can make the city safe. Even more troubling is the implication that every petty criminal deserves to die. But that’s what’s interesting about Death Wish, above and beyond the fact that it’s an exciting thriller—the movie tackles big themes, albeit clumsily. (Added novelty stems from the presence of future stars Christopher Guest and Jeff Goldblum in small roles, plus the kinetic funk/jazz score created by Herbie Hancock.)
Death Wish was a major hit with lasting repercussions, vaulting Bronson to the A-list and triggering endless copycat movies. No official sequel appeared until 1982, but Death Wish II is putrid and the subsequent three pictures in the series are even worse, so everything worthwhile about Death Wish resides in the first movie.
Death Wish: GROOVY


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Air Farce actor Roger Abbott dies
Canadian actor and comedian Roger Abbott has died, a friend and fellow player in CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce confirmed Sunday.
Don Ferguson said Abbott, 64, died Saturday night at Toronto General Hospital, 14 years after being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
He kept the progressive disease secret from all but a few close friends and family until a week ago, Ferguson said.
"Roger was the guiding light of Royal Canadian Air Farce since it began in 1973, and all of us who have had the honour of working with him and the pleasure of knowing him will dearly miss his kindness, generosity, integrity, leadership and wonderful sense of humour," he said.
Abbott, Ferguson and Luba Goy were part of the original troupe that began the political satire on CBC Radio in 1973, and they were together for the final episode on television, a New Year's Eve special Final Flight!, filmed at CBC studios in downtown Toronto and broadcast in 2008.
"Roger Abbott was, quite simply, at the very heart of the CBC family," said Kirstine Stewart, CBC's executive vice-president of English services, in a statement on Sunday.
"As one of the founders of the Royal Canadian Air Farce, first on radio, then on television, he was, to generations of fans, among the best-known and loved in the history of Canadian comedy. I would extend on behalf of CBC our deepest condolences to his family and friends."
Born in Birkenhead, England, Abbott moved to Canada in 1953, arriving in Montreal with his parents and sister. He attended Loyola High School, where he met Ferguson, and in 1963 went on to study at Loyola College, now Concordia University.
Some of Abbott's most memorable impersonations on Air Farce have included former prime minister Jean Chrétien, CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, singer Leonard Cohen and the misogynist TV critic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me.
"Political satire is supposed to be politically incorrect — that's the point!" Abbott is quoted as saying in his online biography.
"Even if a joke is politically incorrect, if a joke is really funny, the audience won't filter the laughs. They may feel guilty about it later, but they'll laugh."
Abbott was featured in a segment of Air Farce called A Politically Correct Minute, in which his character poked fun at efforts to change some of the lyrics to Canada's national anthem — in all thy sons command — to make them more inclusive:
"A more acceptable phrase would be, in all thy gender-non-specific-spousal-offsprings command," he quipped.
Abbott, Ferguson longtime collaborators
Abbott and Ferguson not only produced Royal Canadian Air Farce, but were also producers for comedian-actor Dave Broadfoot's three TV specials in 1996, 1999 and 2002, as well as the comedy series Sketchcom in 1998. Their roles as producers continued on the sitcom XPM in 2004.
A CBC biography series quoted Ferguson as saying that working together was like a marriage — "For better or worse, we're going to stick together," to which Abbott added: "And just like a marriage, there's no sex."
Abbott has received numerous awards for his work, including 15 Actra awards, a Juno and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award and was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

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Semenya will now be forced to take the testosterone-lowering medication for six months before competing
CASTER Semenya reacted shortly after the Court of Arbitration (CAS) yesterday ruled against her challenge against new IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) rules about the levels of testosterone in the body.
“Sometimes it’s better to react with no reaction,” the double Olympic champion tweeted.
The 28-year-old, however, was quoted by CNN as saying: “I know that the IAAF’s regulations have always targeted me specifically. For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down but this has actually made me stronger.”
“The CAS has dismissed both requests for arbitration,” CAS said in a statement yesterday.
Semenya will now be forced to take the testosterone-lowering medication for six months before competing.
Semenya, who went through this same controversy years ago and won her case, had a team of experts challenging the IAAF ruling.
The world athletics body was trying to force what they term “hyperandrogenic” athletes or those with “differences of sexual development” (DSD) to seek treatment to lower their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount if they wish to continue competing as women.
“Athletes with 46 XY DSD have testosterone levels well into the male range (7.7 to 29.4 nmol/L; normal female range being below 2 nmol/L),” the CAS statement read.
“The DSD Regulations require athletes with 46 XY DSD with a natural testosterone level over 5 nmol/L, and who experience a ‘material androgenising effect’ from that enhanced testosterone level, to reduce their natural testosterone level to below 5 nmol/L, and to maintain that reduced level for a continuous period of at least six months in order to be eligible to compete in a Restricted Event.
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The ANC said it was appalled at the decision while the DA also voiced dismay and accused the court of discriminating against the track star.
The ANC said in a statement that the IAAF, a body meant to be the custodian of the values for athletics, acted in a prejudicial manner that divides rather than unites athletes.
The ANC said it was disheartening to learn that the court ruled against Semenya in her fight to be treated equally and without prejudice.
“The ANC joins millions of South Africans in reiterating its support for equal treatment for Semenya by the IAAF.”
The ANC said the sporting arena has always been a contested terrain.
“We have had the ignominy of the Olympics being hosted by the racist Nazi regime in 1936. We have also had the sporting community shun and isolate the apartheid regime, and not allow apartheid athletes to compete on the international stage. As the ANC, we had hoped that the IAAF would remember its past, both good and bad, and do the right thing. Unfortunately, the IAAF chose expediency at the expense of (the) natural talents of athletes like Caster Semenya.”
The ANC commended Semenya for the way in which she conducted herself throughout the ordeal.
“It would have been very easy for Caster to exhibit anger, on the contrary she has been the epitome of grace and charm. “
The ruling party further called upon on the international sporting community to raise their voices at what it called an injustice.
“The UN Human Rights Council resolution adopted in March 2019 on Caster Semenya should serve as a lodestar in guiding not only the sporting fraternity, but the rest of the world in establishing fair rules that protect and uphold the human rights and dignity of others.”
The UNHRC adopted a resolution tabled by South Africa to defend Semenya’s rights to participate in sport.
The DA said IAAF policy on the matter was “wholly discriminatory” to female athletes who happen to have higher testosterone levels in their bodies.
In a statement, the DA said it supported a remarkably talented athlete who had made the country proud.
“She has encouraged other young female athletes to participate in sports and to believe in themselves. She has flown our flag high and has consistently raised the bar in the global sports fraternity, despite opposition that has been levelled against her natural abilities.” – ANA


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ATAL CREMATED, THOUSANDS BID FAREWELL
New Delhi, Aug 17: The mortal remains of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were cremated at Smrithi Sthal near Rajghat where the last rites took place. Vajpayee, who passed away yesterday, was cremated with full state honors. The chiefs of the Army, Air Force and the Navy paid tribute to the BJP stalwart, one of India’s tallest leaders.
There was massive deployment of police and paramilitary personnel along the entire procession route. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid a wreath and paid his last respects to former Prime Minister and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Air Force chief BS Dhanoa, Navy chief Sunil Lamba and Army chief Bipin Rawat paid their respects to the mortal remains of Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Smriti Sthal.
The massive procession accompanying Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s mortal remains reached the Smriti Sthal, where the former Prime Minister was cremated. A host of senior BJP leaders and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are walked with the remains along with lakhs of mourners.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived at Smriti Sthal to pay their last respects and were in the front row of attendees who had come to attend the state funeral of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and pay their final respects.
Also Read: Atalji’s death is a personal loss of a great statesman: Adam Rizvi, Editor-in-Chief, The India Observer
In a rare gesture by a foreign missions in India, the Flag was seen flying at half-mast at the US Embassy and the British High Commission in New Delhi as mark of respect to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away in New Delhi on August 16 at the age of 93.
The American people mourn with the people of India on the passing of former Prime Minister #AtalBihariVajpayee. May his soul rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/ciAqJlpBkn
— U.S. Embassy India (@USAndIndia) August 17, 2018
Union Flag flies half-mast at the British High Commission in New Delhi as mark of respect to Shri #AtalBehariVajpayee. UK stands with people of India. #AtalJiAmarRahen pic.twitter.com/F3k0xyaSGI
— UK in India???? (@UKinIndia) August 17, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, and other government officials and politicians, joined the funeral cortege of former PM Vajpayee, as it made its way to Smriti Sthal for the last rites and subsequent state funeral. They were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary citizens, all seeking to pay their final respects to the statesman.