Bugani Bluetooth Speaker Manual: A Complete Guide to Setting Up and Using Your Speaker
Introduction: Bluetooth speakers have gained immense popularity in recent years due to their convenience and portability. Among the top brands in this market, Bugani stands out for its exceptional sound quality, durable construction, and user-friendly features. If you have recently purchased a Bugani Bluetooth speaker or are considering buying one, this comprehensive guide will provide you with all the necessary information regarding the setup, usage, troubleshooting, and maintenance of your speaker.
Section 1: Unboxing and Initial Setup Upon receiving your Bugani Bluetooth speaker, unbox it carefully and ensure that all the accessories are present. The package typically includes the speaker unit itself, an auxiliary cable, a USB charging cable, a user manual (also known as instructional manual), and a warranty card. Start by reading through the user manual thoroughly to familiarize yourself with the various buttons, ports, and functions of your speaker.
Section 2: Charging Your Speaker Before using your Bugani Bluetooth speaker for the first time or after extended periods of storage, it is essential to charge it fully. Connect one end of the USB charging cable to a power source such as a computer’s USB port or a wall adapter (not included), and plug the other end into the micro-USB charging port on your speaker. The LED indicator will light up during charging and turn off once battery levels are full.
Section 3: Pairing Your Speaker via Bluetooth To enjoy wireless audio streaming from your smartphone or any other compatible device, you need to pair it with your Bugani Bluetooth speaker. Make sure that both devices are within close proximity (usually about 33 feet) for optimal connectivity. Enable Bluetooth on your device and put your Bugani speaker in pairing mode by pressing and holding the Bluetooth button until you hear a voice prompt or see the LED indicator flashing rapidly. Look for the Bugani speaker in your device’s Bluetooth settings and select it to establish a connection.
Section 4: Basic Functions and Controls Understanding the basic functions and controls of your Bugani Bluetooth speaker is essential for an enjoyable user experience. The manual provided with your speaker will have detailed diagrams explaining each button’s purpose, including power on/off, volume adjustment, play/pause, skip tracks, and answering calls (if applicable). Familiarize yourself with these functions to make seamless use of your speaker.
Section 5: Additional Features and Tips Bugani Bluetooth speakers often come equipped with additional features such as built-in FM radio, microSD card slot for playing music directly from a memory card, USB port for charging external devices, and even waterproof or rugged design options. Explore these features according to your model and preferences by referring to the user manual.
Section 6: Troubleshooting Common Issues In case you encounter any difficulties while using your Bugani Bluetooth speaker, this section will provide troubleshooting tips for common issues like connection problems, audio distortion, battery drain issues, or unresponsive buttons. Follow the step-by-step instructions provided in the user manual to resolve these issues quickly.
Section 7: Maintenance and Care To ensure longevity and optimum performance of your Bugani Bluetooth speaker, it is crucial to maintain it properly. Keep it away from extreme temperatures or direct sunlight; clean it regularly using a soft cloth; avoid exposing it to water (unless specified as waterproof) or submerging it in liquids. Refer to the user manual regarding specific guidelines on maintenance.
Conclusion: Bugani Bluetooth speakers are known for their outstanding audio quality and reliability among users worldwide. This comprehensive guide has equipped you with all the necessary information regarding setup instructions, usage tips, troubleshooting techniques, and maintenance guidelines for your Bugani Bluetooth speaker. By following this manual diligently, you can enjoy a seamless audio experience and get the most out of your speaker for years to come.


Walking the show floor at AWE 2018, it’s obvious augmented reality is booming. Each year there are new technology breakthroughs and innovative applications. Here are some of our favorites from this, its ninth, year.
Last week, Facebook released the Oculus Go – a $200 virtual reality headset. It doesn’t connect to your PC like the Oculus Rift, and you don’t snap-in your phone like you would with the Gear VR. The screen, sensors, radios, and processing power are all inside the Go headset.
Amazon has built a new development platform it hopes can revolutionize both AR and VR in businesses and homes across the US. Dubbed Sumerian, its a component of Amazon Web Services and designed to run on hardware from every vendor, from desktops to smartphones.
HTC’s Vive Pro won’t light the world on fire, but it moves the possibilities of VR forward another notch, and is a solid upgrade for anyone with the money to spend.
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Findings from JCOIN’s Kentucky Research Hub
Rates of incarceration of women rose 475% from 1980 to 2020, largely driven by drug-related charges, yet many barriers exist to the provision of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services for women in correctional facilities, including SUD diagnostic assessments.
A new study led by Drs. Michele Staton, Martha Tillson, Mary Levi, Matthew Webster, Carrie Oser, and Carl Leukefeld with JCOIN’s Kentucky Research Hub and published in the Journal of Drug Issues examined available screening tools to identify opioid use disorder (OUD) symptoms among incarcerated women in county jails. The study's findings include:

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There are four special events scheduled for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park during National Park Week:
April 19: The Naiulani Nature Walk is a one-hour walk through a lush old-growth Hawaiian rain forest on an easy 1/7-mile loop trail.
April 20: After Dark in the Park – Special Presentation: Ocean Stewardship in Pacific Island National Parks
April 23: Volunteer Forest Reforestation Program
April 25: Kipuka’akihi at Kahuku – Ranger-led hike and work day
Known for cool temperatures, lush native foliage and, of course, easy access to golf and dining, Volcano Golf and Country Club Subdivision is just a short drive from the park entrance.
After touring the park, you may just decide it’s worth taking a drive through VGCC to look at a few of the homes listed in this unique subdivision. Or, if you prefer exploring from the comfort of your keyboard, you can view all active VGCC residential listings here!

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Haiti – NOTICE : Formal ban on driving without license plates
Audain Fils Bernadel Minister of the Interior, advises the population in general and drivers of motor vehicles in particular, that in order to contribute to strengthening the security situation and in particular to combat acts of kidnapping against ransom :
“[…] the Haitian Government, through the Superior Council of the National Police (CSPN), formally prohibits the circulation of vehicles, all types combined, without license plates on public roads.
To this end, the Ministry of the Interior informs owners and drivers of automobiles, motorcycles and motor vehicles generally any, that the police are instructed to stop any vehicle or motorcycle not equipped with license plate, regardless of their ownership, throughout the national territory and in accordance with the provisions of the laws and regulations in force on vehicle registration.
These provisions take effect from the publication of this document (November 9, 2020).”

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The digital payments firm says it didn't live up to its own standards when it updated its user agreement with a confusing and controversial policy on autodialed calls and texts.
The e-tail giant will be separating its online payment and commerce companies in mid July. Shares will be split, tax-free, right down the middle for current shareholders.
The online retailers' prohibition comes after bans from Walmart and Sears. Google, Etsy and Newegg also make similar changes.
The digital-payments company has faced criticism over its amended user agreement that allows it to direct automated calls and texts to customers.
The e-commerce company has also updated the search function on its mobile apps for iOS and Android.
The program, to be offered at an annual fee, will include fast, free shipping and returns for buyers. It could be the start of another potential challenger to Amazon Prime.
The marketplace for buying and selling sports and concert tickets hopes to expand its mission to become a resource for finding and planning for events.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims PayPal signed up consumers to its credit service, PayPal Credit, without their permission.
The Chinese online retailer in recent years has also taken stakes in US retail firms ShopRunner and 1stdibs and opened its own US online shop, 11 Main.
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On July 1, the payment-services company will start offering buyer protections for services, e-books, software downloads, digital music and much more.
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The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis
The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis, written by Sybil Anne Thornton, was published by McFarland and Company Inc, North Carolina, USA in 2008. It took Thornton almost three decades to finalise the book. She rationalises this delay on page VII of the acknowledgment by writing, “work on the book was interrupted by some twenty years researching and writing a Ph.D., finding a permanent job, and getting tenure.”
Donald Richie (b. 1924), a Western pioneer in the study of Japanese cinema, culture and society, has written a forward to the book. There is a tendency among Western film scholars (especially Americans like Thornton) who work on Japanese film scholarship to have their book forwarded by Richie or dedicate their work to him. This academic habit helps other researchers or intellectuals on the subject to surmise that the book is influenced by Richie’s ideas and thus worth reading. Furthermore, it encourages young university students who are not familiar with a writer like Thornton, but who know Richie (thanks to university tutors), to purchase the book. Richie identifies the main concern of the book by writing:
How we got here…this is one of the tasks undertaken by Sybil Thornton in her valuably iconoclastic essays on Japan’s relation to its past. To this end, she studied Japanese legend, epic, and chronicle, turning these pages of history and indicating how the copies differ or how they remain the same. (2008, p.1)
He continues his account of Thornton’s book by naming ‘Japanese film and the Japanese narrative and theatrical tradition’ as the elements that intrigued Thornton in her research. These explanations should be satisfactory for the reader. However, Richie misses one minor point; he overlooks the fact that Japanese TV programmes are great source of information and research for Thornton as well as theatrical traditions. In the introduction of the book she says that it was due to watching Kon Ichikawa’s television series Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, 1966) that she became interested in studying Japanese visual culture and narrative style. Moreover, throughout the book she uses different TV series’ as a field of study.
The next point is that ‘Japanese theatre’ or ‘theatrical traditions,’ are not the concern of the book per se, but its syntax. Thornton (p.3) explains the book’s concern as follows:
Because this study proposes that there is indeed a relationship between past and present in the narrative tradition of this nation [Japan], distinguished by its cultural development under conditions of near hermetic seclusion, it affirms the notion that Japanese cinema is indeed distinctively, if not exclusively Japanese.
According to her doctrine the direction (or as Richie calls it ‘concern’) of the book is to establish a relation between past and present. This goal as the theme of the book flows in every chapter and stands as the spine of the entire text. She believes that Japanese period films have borrowed the above theme from Japanese traditional theatre. She suggests this notion in different parts of the text, but probably, the most coherent and clear version of it is on page 116 where she writes:
[…] during the Tokugawa period, censorship forbade kabuki and puppet theatre [two styles of Japanese performing traditions] to stage events concerning the upper class […] and the nobility. Kabuki responds by developing a rhetorical device to evade censorship control, the matching of past and present (mitate), whereby contemporary events were carefully hidden in well-known historical events of the past.
The two key concepts of the above paragraph are “carefully hidden” and “well-known historical events.” The latter refers to the incident of the 47 Ronin, which impacts the Japanese narratology. This event, and the stories that are based on it, can be seen as the Japanese equivalent of Sophocles’ Oedipus, which has had a significant effect on Western narration. According to Thornton, the account of the incident is:
On January 30, 1703, forty-seven former vassals of Naganori Asano (1655-1701) of Ako (in what is now Hiroshima prefecture) broke into the residence of Yoshinaka Kiro (1641-1703), master of ceremonies to the shogunal house, and took his head to avenge the sentence of ritual suicide imposed on their lord and carried out some twenty months before. Forty-six committed suicide on March 20, 1703 [only one of them did not kill himself]. (p.31)
The thesis of loyalty to one’s master is what makes this story popular. Furthermore, this episode stands as an essential aspect of period drama piece due to representing the concept of ‘conflict.’ A samurai must always follow the codes of bushido (samurai’s rules and regulations). In the case of the 47 Ronin this means the need to accept one’s master’s death, and respect the codes which prohibit the retainers from seeking vengeance. Nevertheless, Thornton questions their ninjo, that is, their honour. As samurai, they can not accept that their lord perished, yet do nothing. So their vengeance is the case of honour versus duty, not good versus bad. Thornton argues that in a variety of historical books on the subject it has been said that Yoshinaka Kiro, in contrast to popular belief, thought that he was not the villain of this event. So it is the conflict of the situation that attracts writers to the story. The result of this ‘attraction’ can be viewed in the majority of Japanese period films. The heroes of these films are not necessarily good, decent, law-abiding individuals (unlike heroes, for example, in American classic films). In reality, the hero of a Japanese period film is the person who has the most ‘conflict’; thus, the greater the conflict, the greater the hero’s charisma.
In order to be able to perform a story inspired by this occurrence, kabuki playwrights chose previous centuries for the time setting of their plays to avoid government censorship. This initiated a tradition for doing the same with present incidents; consequently, the anachronistic nature of period drama pieces started. The reading and re-writing of events of historical importance, in this fashion, helped the writers and artists criticise the contemporary values under the façade of the past. As the result, the authorities had no reason to censor the plays.
Thornton expands her argument to reflect on the debate of ‘national identity in Japanese cinema,’ a debate that scholars or students who work on Japanese film encounter regularly. It is the legacy of previous Western writings on Japanese films, which can be found in Noël Burch’s To the Distant Observer (1979) or any of Donald Richie’s books. Thornton says that her objective reason for writing the book is as a response to recent American scholars who see no difference between Japanese and American films. This refers to Richie’s idea that in recent years he distanced himself from his earlier notions and came to the conclusion that different national cinemas are similar in form and content. Thornton accepts this thought only in terms of production, i.e. Japanese films and American films go through the same process of being made (pre-production, production, and post-production). On the other hand, she notes that Japanese films are different from other national cinemas, for they have different narrative roots. She (p.4) writes: “This study […] relies less on any one analytical method or combination of methods than on what seems a foregone conclusion: that Japanese period film, those films set in the past, belong to a discrete national narrative tradition and must be understood not exclusively, but first and foremost as much.” Thornton, in order to manifest and explain her theory, divides the book into three parts (they contain twelve chapters altogether).
The first part is called “The Narrative Set in the Past.” This section is almost two-thirds of the book. In its ninety-six pages, the writer goes into the origins of storytelling traditions in Japan. In addition, she explains how the Japanese narratology has evolved over the centuries. Finally, she notes the way this evolution affects Japanese period films.
The main idea that bridges the chapters is the incident of the 47 Ronin. Moreover, Thornton constantly circulates the theme that period films in Japan intend to criticise the present through historical incidents. The latter idea is not a novel argument, since most of the major scholarly work on Japanese cinema suggests a similar philosophy or assumes this idea as a ‘matter of fact.’ However, Thornton manages to go one step beyond the other scholars. She (pp. 13-14) writes: “Yoshikata Yoda (1909-1991), scenarist, has made it clear that the films he wrote for Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) are not jidai-geki (period films) but rekishi eiga (history films). There are also films by other Japanese film directors well-known in the West […] which must be classified as history films rather than period pieces.” The novelty of her thinking is due to the view that there is a distinction between history films and period films (an idea which is ignored by many scholars). Which would lead to the following query: “On what grounds should this distinction be defined?” Thornton does not address this question. In fact, she expresses her innovative hypothesis in one short paragraph and then moves on to another topic. This not only frustrates readers, but robs us of an opportunity for learning more about this captivating binary.
The other intriguing point that she writes about and explains in-depth (in contrast to above hypothesis) is the iconography of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). She (p.15) says: “In order to understand a Japanese period film, it is necessary to be able to ‘read it,’ and the principal reading skill is a grasp of the iconography, the ability to identify and to interpret the signs carried by the characters in the films.” She identifies these signs as the characters’ costumes, hair style etc. Icons and signs are not only the lexicon of period films –they also represent contemporary society. Thornton suggests that it is often the case in Japanese period films that these signs are up-to-date so that the audience comprehends that the film’s narrative is a critical account of contemporary society. For example, in the Tokugawa period, married women would paint their teeth black and shave their eyebrows. This is not the case in period films. The lack of this make-up in married women in these films causes them to more closely resemble contemporary women.
The third chapter, “The Japanese hero,” is another aspect of the book’s first part which merits scrutiny. The importance of this long chapter (thirty-six pages) more than outweighs the shortcomings of the book. The Japanese hero has always been studied in contemporary terms; a multitude of scholars, Japanese and Western alike, study the hero as if he were a member of the Japanese society in the year that the film was made. For example, the heroes of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) are seen as Japanese men of the 1950s. The reason for this reading is understandable; after all, Japanese period films are meant to criticise the present society. So, each hero represents a contemporary subject. I believe this reading makes the social aspect of the films more significant than any other aspect. Thornton offers an intelligent, mature and clear interpretation of this idea, which introduces a new angle to the study of Japanese heroes. She sees them not only as members of society, but also categorises them into three groups: ‘the tragic hero,’ ‘the anti-hero,’ and ‘the social hero’; furthermore, she explains the details of each hero’s characteristics. The issue with her explanation is that she overlooks the point that not all of these heroes are represented in films exactly as how she defines them e.g. it can be seen that some of Kurosawa’s heroes are a nexus of ‘tragic hero’ and ‘anti-hero’. Besides this minor issue, this chapter is the most pioneering and detailed segment of the first part.
The sometimes faulty aspect of her objectivity is illustrated in the fifth chapter “The Yakuza Film.” Film scholars often argue that yakuza films are a parody of the feudal conventions and hierarchy that period films depict. Thornton (p.93) notes: “The yakuza film […] offers an alternative to a description of the cruelties and betrayals perpetrated by lords on their vassals: yakuza can fight back.” The problem with this reading is that it does not match the raison d’être of the yakuza films: These films were popular in the sixties and seventies, but short-lived. Due to the advent of television, film studios were looking for films that would attract viewer’s, especially the young male audience. Yakuza film, and its over-the-top violence and depiction of sexuality, was the perfect tool. So in contrast to the period film that was the language of criticism, the yakuza film was a commercial product.
Another problem with this chapter is that because it isn’t linked to the book’s motto it stands apart from the other chapters. Thornton should consider the idea that writing a book is like making a film. At the end of the day, the creator of the text (director or writer) has a few suitable materials, but by editing and re-evaluating, he or she chooses the ones that fit together. Besides its structural issues, the first part of the book stands as the foundation for the rest of the book; parts two and three benefit from the main arguments that the first part maintained –the iconography of the Tokugawa period and the story of the forty-seven Ronin.
The gist of the second part of the book is how Western plays and theatrical conventions affect Japanese film narrative. Bringing up this discussion is of pivotal concern; it fits perfectly with the arguments of first part (besides the chapter on yakuza films). Therefore, it contributes to the book’s conclusion that Japanese cinema is not identical to Western cinema in terms of the films’ content. Thornton, however, does not suggest her ideas on the subject in a superficial manner insofar as she acknowledges the influence of Western performing arts on Japanese cinema. She (p.109) argues that ‘realism’ is the most important Western concept that enters Japanese films and plays; “The modern period piece increased its reliance on modern language and foreign models of narrative and characterisation, on what we can loosely call western representational realism.” This idea can be seen as her sympathy with the early scholarly works on Japanese cinema, which claim this Oriental cinema per se is presentational. Thornton also suggests that Japanese artists combine the imported representational realism with their theatrical conventions, which are the base of their cinema. She writes how the actors in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century travelled to Europe and brought back the style and atmosphere of Western stages to Japan.
She continues her argument by noting that the adoptions from the West are visible in kabuki; the ‘western representational realism’ entered the kabuki stage in the 1910s and then subsequently the period films of the 1920s. One important datum which she does not mention but which can be found in other written works on Japanese cinema is that kabuki provides Japanese film studios (where the majority of period films are made) in the early days of the cinema with guidelines on how to make a film. There is another shortcoming in her argument –she points out that the post-Tokugawa rulers utilised kabuki and period films to introduce Japanese culture to the West, but then she unexpectedly drops the topic. One could explain the matter by noting that, being Japanese-Western, the kabuki and its cinematic representation were propagandist tools: they had the characteristics of the former in that they were “criticising the present society in the terms of past.” As she points out, they were similar to Western art, as they borrowed the realism ethos of Ibsen and Chekov plays. Such an argument would have helped Thornton realise the fault of her book’s conclusion. Japanese cinema does not differ so radically from Western cinema; due to the concept of ‘realism,’ and that they have more in common than just the modes of production.
The third part of the book, “The Scene in Japanese narratives” tries to answer the following question: “What makes a Japanese film, Japanese?” She answers by explaining and arguing about the influence of Buddhist sermons on period drama films. There exists one significant issue with this kind of approach. The usage of Buddhist doctrine is represented solely in epic films. The stories of these films occur in the eighteenth century. The reason is that in this epoch of history, due to the civil wars and variety of coups d’état, the Tokugawa government was in political distress. As a result, the concept of personal conflict which highly influenced period films are absent from the plays of this century. Moreover, she does not explain the use of Buddhist teachings in films that happen in nineteenth century. So the readers cannot discern whether or not these teachings are only the characteristics of films set in the eighteenth century, or other centuries as well. If not, then what is Japanese about a film that tells a story in the nineteenth century? I do argue that on the surface, films that are concerned with epic battles of the eighteenth century are not period dramas but historical films. They do not have the ‘one-to-one’ relation evidenced in period films that occur in the nineteenth century. It is because of this relation that the ‘critical ethos’ of period films appeals to audiences.
There are two informative discussions in the third part. The first one contains the sub-traditions that dominated the period films for decades (e.g. calling one’s mother in a moment of agony, a character committing suicide, an old man who cares for children etc.). They enable the film’s viewers to comprehend the personality of each character. They might be unseen or insignificant to a Western audience, but for Japanese they are the film’s clues. With giving this discussion Thornton provides her readers with jargon for reading and interpreting period films.
The other significant argument of the third part is that it explains why modern period films are important. Thornton (p.4) writes: “[this book is] the product of some thirty years study and teaching of Japanese cinema, history and epic.” This statement tells readers that she had three decades to modernise her work. She writes that in the last few years, due to the works of Yoji Yamada (b. 1931), period films have been reinvigorated since the decline of film studios in the 1960s. Yamada and his period films caused this by portraying the pros and cons of old and new traditions. Although he still criticises the present, he seeks the solution in suitable traditions (of past and present). If in the films of the 1950s or 1960s the heroes would respond to their personal conflict by committing suicide, the new heroes overcome the conflicts in a more subtle way; they choose between duty and honour and take action. Thornton explains that in order to convey the praxis of period film conventions Yamada modulates them to fit the new millennium.
The book is obsessed with films that are set in the Tokugawa period. There are two possible reasons: as stated previously, it was during the Tokugawa period (aka. the Edo period) that the tradition of criticising the present through the incidents of the past began. The second possible answer is rooted in the nature of the pre-Tokugawa period. Although Thornton sees this as the sixteenth century’s nature, it can be expanded to other previous centuries as well because the social norms and ethics of Japan were almost intact. She (p.88) writes: “The sixteenth century is not characterised by a single, coherent body of meaning or set of narrative assumptions like those provided by the Tokugawa period…there are no absolute one-to-one correspondent or parallels between present and the sixteenth century.” The Tokugawa feudal system established conventions and rules that were different from the past. Moreover, even today in the twenty-first century some of these feudal beliefs can be seen in Japanese society. The most notable one is how employees are expected to respect their employers and always feel inferior to them. In fact, many social thinkers argue that although the Tokugawa feudal conventions disappeared from the façade of the society, they still are observed and practised in the country’s industrial and financial organisations. Joan Mellen (p.7) explains this point in her book The Waves at Genji’s Door (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976) by writing: “the Meiji Restoration brought the political and ethical structure of feudal time intact into the industrialising modern Japan.”
The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis does not privilege its readers with a formal conclusion. In fact, this is one of the few academic books I have encountered which lacks a conclusion; the reason is that Thornton approaches her subject as one massive university assignment. She (p.4) writes that, “[the book] is a synthesis of a master thesis, a bachelor’s dissertation, a doctoral thesis, papers presented at academic conferences.” She explains her objectivity in writing the book in the introduction and then spends two hundred and eighty pages justifying her ideas.
“How does one summarise this book?” The answer is that this academic text indeed recognises the shortcomings of the existing scholarships on Japanese period films. It represents a theory, criticising present in terms of the past, to fill the gap in other academic books. It gives evidence for supporting the represented ideas in the book, but unfortunately it fails in some of its arguments. This is partly due to its structure, which gives much unnecessary information. There is no doubt that Thornton has a vast knowledge on the subjects of Japanese cinema, culture, history and society. The magnitude of books, articles and films that she uses as sources is genuinely fascinating. But sadly this passion in some passages turns to a dangerous obsession that blinds her to the lack of strength in some of her key arguments. Thus, it is often the case that the thinking behind the book is lost in the immense amount of information.
As a final verdict on the book: this is a must-read book for film scholars or film students who are interested in Japanese period films. However, in using the book, the reader should absorb the information and ignore some of the arguments and form his or her own instead.

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- Sen. Boozman of Arkansas has emergency heart surgery
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- Teen stowaway shows holes in vast airport security
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Feds team up with Amtrak to fight human trafficking
A federal partnership was unveiled Thursday involving the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, along with Amtrak, that will seek to combat human trafficking by training more than 8,000 front-line transportation employees and Amtrak police officers to identify trafficking victims and perpetrators and report suspected cases.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman said the partnership will use “training and awareness materials” developed by the Homeland Security and Transportation departments to deny the use of the U.S. transportation system as an “enabler in these criminal acts.”
Homeland Security has described the trafficking of men, women and children for sex and forced labor around the world as “one of the most heinous crimes” it investigates, saying that in its worst manifestation, human trafficking is akin to modern-day slavery.
Estimates suggest there are more than 20 million human trafficking victims worldwide. The entrapment and exploitation of mostly women and children are thought to generate billions of dollars each year.
“Today, we pledge to do more to combat human trafficking by broadening our network of partners to help us identify and rescue victims and help bring the perpetrators to justice,” Ms. Napolitano said in announcing the partnership. “We’re grateful to have the participation of Amtrak and the Department of Transportation in this important effort, which will help save lives, protect innocent victims and prevent this form of modern-day slavery.”
In 2010, Homeland Security launched what it called the Blue Campaign, which sought to unify department components to more effectively combat human trafficking through enhanced public awareness, training, victim assistance and law enforcement investigations.
The Blue Campaign described human trafficking as the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel someone into labor servitude or commercial sexual exploitation. It also noted that every minor exploited for commercial sex was a victim of human trafficking, even without force, fraud or coercion.
Mr. LaHood said that in addition to the partnership, the Transportation Department is working with all modes of transportation to help stop the flow of human trafficking.
“Raising awareness can save lives, and we all have a responsibility to keep an eye out for these activities,” he said.
Mr. Boardman said Amtrak Supports the Homeland Security and Transportation departments’ initiative to improve human trafficking awareness in the transportation industry and “is proud to be the first partner in a program that will expand across the transportation sector.”
In March, President Obama directed his administration to redouble efforts to eliminate human trafficking, reaffirming what he described as America’s commitment to leading the global movement against that crime. The administration called stopping trafficking “one of the great human rights causes of our time.”
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The Flying Dutchman
Choir Secular (Men's Choir)
Composed by Cathryne E. Parks, music by Gary E. Parks. Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Novelty; Secular. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.34756).
Item Number: AP.34756
This original sea chantey recounts the folkloric legend of a haunted sailing ship "that never can go home." But fear not, mateys, carefully chosen ranges, harmonies, and rhythms sound authentic and work well for every men's choir! Featured on PianoTrax 3 Accompaniment CD (00-34744).
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

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This text covers a year in the life of three young dancers. We follow the dancers from their auditions at the Royal Ballet School through to an end of year ballet performance in full-colour photographs.
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale **SIGNED w/Drawing + Photo**
by Mo Willems
Delivered in 3-5 weeks
Format: Hard cover
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Personally signed by Mo Willems with a drawing of a delightful Knuffle Bunny head directly on the half title page. NOT signed to anyone. A photo of Mo Willems at his book signing event will be included with the signed book. 1st Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover. Book is Brand New and Unread, opened only for signing. No marks, no inscription. Not a book club ediiton, Not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed copy for collectors. Makes a great gift.


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The National Coordinator of the Child Protection Alliance (CPA) has described President Barrow’s Address to Gambians on the death of sixty-six children due to Acute Kidney Injuries (AKI) caused by a contaminated cough syrup as disappointing and irresponsible.
Lamin Fatty was making reference to the president’s statement: “I must state that the Child Mortality figure of Sixty- six (66) is not at much variance with the recorded data for similar periods in the past”.
He believed the government should have taking full responsibility of the tragedy and assure the public of its commitment in promoting accountability.
“I am of the believe that the President’s Address to Gambians should have been an assurance of commitment and will owed to Gambians to take full responsibility of his government’s act of negligence causing the death of at least sixty-six children,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
Mr. Fatty said the President’s address has fallen short of concrete actions to be taken in dealing with those found wanting to have a hand in the importation and distribution of the Indian manufactured drugs in the country, rather it only shows the government’s complicity in the deaths of these children.
“The Government of The Gambia must take full responsibility of the deaths of the Sixty –six and must task itself to do an extensive investigation into the matter, especially with the authorities mandated to regulate the importation and exportation of drugs and its related products in The Gambia,” Fatty continued.
He urged the Civil Society to raise to the bait in addressing this national tragedy.
“I equally call on the Civil Society Organizations and its International Partners in The Gambia through TANGO to convey an emergency meeting to engage government on this matter and push for more rigorous actions with the enforcement of laws and policies to bring those found wanting to have hand in the importation and distribution of these drugs in the country and equally call for compensation to the affected families,” CPA National Coordinator said.
He then reminded the government of its national, regional and international obligations towards the promotion and protection of the fundamental rights and wellbeing of children, including the right to have access to adequate and quality health facilities and services.


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Pakistan, the 220 million South Asian nation is home to 7,253 glaciers with more ice than any other country on Earth outside the polar regions.
Pakistan May Face Absolute Scarcity of Fresh Water Sources by 2040:
The per capital availability of fresh water in Pakistan has fallen below. That’s why these areas are facing a Scarcity of Fresh Water.
Pakistan may face absolute water scarcity by 2040. Indus water system from northern regions decreases by 22% compared to last year.
Now there is an additional dimension to the flood problem:
Muhammad Khalid Idrees Rana, director of operations at the Indus River System Authority, told:
“The drop in temperature in the northern areas, especially Skardu, has resulted in a significant reduction in water inflows in our rivers, and this is obviously worrisome for all of us.”
A study published last year in the journal Science Advances said climate change was “eating Himalayan glaciers at a dramatic rate.”
By 2018, more than 3,000 of these lakes had been built, of which 33 were considered dangerous and more than 7 million people were at downward risk, according to the UNDP.
As glacier ice melts, it can accumulate in large snowy lakes, which are prone to eruptions from the edges and cause deadly flooding downwards.
A senior government official warned that:
“Slow melting of glaciers and ice in northern Pakistan due to low temperatures is significantly depleting the country’s reservoirs, which could insecurity food and energy.”
For the people of Orangi metallic clanging is the sound of water flowing.
Twenty million people living in the western district of Karachi Pakistan depend on these daily water deliveries.
The families collect water to use for washing clothes sanitation bathing cooking and cleaning even the tap water which they use for drinking has to be delivered.
One of Karachi residents said:
I am 47 years old there has been no water in this area for the last 40 years we get water either through tankers or we get some water from this charity.
“I have never seen drinking water supplied by the government flowing from this tab this is the water we either buy from a tanker or we get it from the charity we store and use it.”
Charities do not deliver regular leave so many people receive tanker deliveries directly to their homes. The financial burden is one most residents could do without.
3rd resident said:
“We have to buy three tankers every month one tanker costs us around 2000 rupees that means three tankers cost us six thousand per month. It is really a burden on my income.”
Pakistan’s Hub dam the largest in the country south is one of Karachi’s main sources of water.
Torrential rains flooded Karachi last year and filled the depleted reservoir but there still isn’t enough.
Asadullah Khan (Karachi Water and Sewerage Board Director said:
“We have half the amount of water we need so you will see the shortage of water everywhere and there are certain areas with acute shortages like district west this is because of the rapid population growth in the district west.”
Locals say that overpopulation poor infrastructure and mismanagement all contribute to the shortages the UN says that if the problems are not addressed Pakistan could run completely dry by 2040.
Experts say 60% of Pakistan’s water is currently lost due to the lack of dams in the country.
Officials say river flows in the country, which relies heavily on snowmelt (41 per cent), ice melt (22 per cent) and rain (27 per cent), are prone to slow snow melt.
Pakistan’s water storage capacity is now only for 33 days, which experts say should be extended to at least 100 days to ensure the most urgent water supply for agriculture, industry and other purposes.
Pakistan will continue to face water scarcity problems until it builds more reserves to collect about 17 million acre-feet of water coming from the Kabul River every year.
According to the Ministry of Water Resources:
“Climate change has been severely impacting our water inflows from glaciers,” he said. “If the current temperature prolongs for another seven to eight days, we may have to cut the water share of provinces.”

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By Caitlyn Brown
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently began to create and distribute programs aiming to help disseminate information to the public. These Technical Packages encourage the community to take advantage of gathered evidence and practices in a variety of topic areas.
This blog covers the third of multiple Technical Package resource posts and focuses on preventing intimate partner violence across an individual’s lifespan. This particular technical package covers the most recent research and provides techniques for professionals and communities that can help to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence. Each report section goes through the rationale for the topic, approaches to implementing the prevention strategy in the community and the outcomes of such techniques. Below, we summarize a few sections of the Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Technical Package.
Teach Safe and Healthy Relationship Skills:
One of the primary goals of this section is to foster expectations regarding healthy relationships primarily by teaching healthy relationship skills. If individuals have not been taught skills associated with emotional regulation, conflict management, and communication within an intimate relationship, there is an increased risk for violence within a significant relationship. This section breaks down two major, evidence- based approaches that could be implemented in a community in order to increase individual social-emotional skills that can reduce the likelihood of violence within a relationship. The OneOp team has promoted material that aligns with these approaches through our archived webinar, On Solid Ground.
Engage Influential Adults and Peers:
This section of the technical package is aimed at increasing the engagement of influential individuals within the community that can promote positive relationship expectations while also condemning violence and other unhealthy behaviors that may occur in a significant relationship. This section discusses three major approaches that can be implemented through engaging influential adults and peers in the community. Adolescents, especially, tend to mimic behavior and values of individuals that are significant in their lives. By increasing the engagement of influential individuals in the community, they can model the type of behavior that we hope will help to modify the behavior of other individuals in the community.
Disrupt the Developmental Pathways Toward Partner Violence:
Evidence suggests that most of the unhealthy behaviors that are associated with violence against a partner are displayed in childhood. This section discusses the approaches that can be implemented in order to mitigate any developmental risks that can increase the likelihood of violent behaviors throughout one’s life. These approaches include areas such as early childhood environments, parenting skills, educational enrichment with family engagement and treatment for at-risk populations in a community.
The CDC’s technical package is a wealth of information that can be extremely useful to professionals in a community capacity. We at OneOp Family Development highly recommend exploring the technical package to better educate yourself in techniques to help individuals and families.
If you would like to read the CDC’s Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect Technical Package, you can access it here.
Be on the lookout for our future blogs on some of the CDC’s other technical packages.
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In case you missed it, the Bloodhound's final test run for 2019 saw it exceed its target, reaching a top speed of 624mph / 1010kph in 50-seconds.
Considering the Bloodhound project almost went bust roughly a year ago, this is quite the achievement – which should make new investor, British entrepreneur Ian Warhurst, very happy.
Arriving at the Hakskeenpan in South Africa, their goal was to hit 600mph with the aid of its afterburner at full tilt, which it nailed effortlessly, topping out at 624mph in 50-seconds, with 54,000bhp pushing it along.
Needless to say, with this small yet significant achievement, the goal of hitting the magical 1000mph is one step closer to being reached. And, with the availability of electric power that wasn't around a decade ago when the Bloodhound was conceived, there are plenty of options to help feed the afterburner and accompanying rockets the fuel they need to travel at 447 metres per second.
To learn more and to see the latest run, press play on the video below.
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Former vice president Joice Mujuru has apologised to Zimbabwe's people for her role in President Robert Mugabe's government, in a move seen by allies as a step towards challenging him for power.
Mujuru worked with Mugabe during the 1970s bush war and after independence and was until December seen as the leading candidate to succeed him.
But the veteran leader last year accused her of plotting to unseat him from office, a charge Mujuru denied. She lost her positions in government and the ruling ZANU-PF party.
Mujuru issued a public statement on Tuesday, taking blame for ZANU-PF's failure to deliver on promises to Zimbabweans and called her dismissal inevitable because her vision diverged from that of Mugabe and the ZANU-PF leadership.
"For my own role in this failure, I am truly sorry and I apologise to my fellow Zimbabweans," Mujuru said.
"It is a time in our history for contrition and reflection, for cleansing."
Zimbabwe holds its next presidential vote in 2018 and ZANU-PF has chosen Mugabe, who will be 94 then, as its candidate.
Mujuru, 60, is being publicly encouraged by allies to form a political party.
Former minister of state security and ZANU-PF secretary general Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the government and party together with Mujuru, said the former vice president would run for the top office.
"She has gone beyond thinking about it. She will contest and I am confident she will be the first female president of Zimbabwe," Mutasa told Reuters.
Eldred Masungure, a political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, called Mujuru's move "political repentance".
"She wants now to regenerate her political career but she needs first to disown skeletons, and they are many, in the ZANU-PF cupboard," Masungure said.Güncelleme Tarihi: 03 Haziran 2015, 16:48


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A $7,000 reward is being offered for anyone who can provide details about who set a fire at 1 a.m. Sept. 12 that destroyed Rose Farm Custom Cycle in St. Martin, Miss.
The Mississippi Press reports the reward is a collaboration of $5,000 from the U.S. Justice Department’s Gulfport Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; $1,000 from the Mississippi Coast Crimes Stoppers; and $1,000 from the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s office.
Those agencies, as well as the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, are jointly investigating the fire, which has been ruled arson.
Joel Lee, resident agent in charge at the bureau, said the person responsible could face state and federal charges.
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Ice provided quite a spectacle past 2 days
Photos by Tom Rivers
ALBION – Some crab apples by the western entrance of Mount Albion Cemetery are pictured today. The ice-coated landscape has proven popular in photos on social media in the local community.
Warming temperatures overnight should melt the ice. Here are some more ice photos. (I couldn’t resist.)
These branches at Mount Albion are hanging in there with the Ingersoll Fountain in the background.
Icicles hang off the Ingersoll Fountain.
The stone dog at Mount Albion has a coating of ice (and a nice collar).
These big trees have held their ground at Mount Albion, Albion’s historic cemetery on Route 31.
There were a lot of branches down at the cemetery.
The street signs at the cemetery have icicles hanging down.
Down the road from Mount Albion is St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. This bench was hit with freezing rain which turned into icicles and ice.
The statue of Jesus at St. Joseph’s also was covered in ice.


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TEENAGERS face being driven out of a city’s parks if a ban on smoking is imposed, it has been claimed.
Youngsters regularly congregate in playgrounds across Cardiff to share cheap cider and smoke cigarettes and other substances.
But Cardiff Council is now threatening to make all of its parks off limits to children who enjoy a smoke.
The Welsh Government could also follow suit and outlaw smoking in public places across Wales out of fear that unless it bans something else soon it could be seen as less draconian than a local council.
A report prepared for the council confirmed: “There is evidence of high levels of smoking-related litter within outdoor play areas.”
Despite clear evidence that youngsters enjoy a smoke at the swings anti-smoking group Ash Cymru was last night sticking to its guns.
Chief executive Elen De Lacy pointed to its own research: “Our study showed 77 per cent of adults surveyed supported a smoking ban in outdoor children’s play areas.”
Cardiff teenager Benson Hedges complained: “For fuck’s sake, where are we supposed to go and enjoy ourselves? They’ve already banned smoking in pubs, where are kids supposed to go? It is meant to be our playground.
“Me and my mates all loves to sit down the park, going twos on a ciggie, share a flagon of cider, or if we got a bit of spare cash we’ll even get some cans in before discussing the issues of the day over a spliff.”

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Foreign Direct Investment and Exporting Opportunities Presentation
Business Owners are invited to attend a presentation by Pam Steckler of Central Alberta: Access Prosperity on FDI and Export opportunities for central Alberta businesses. Access Prosperity is the foreign investment attraction agency for Central Alberta, of which we are a part.
WHAT: Foreign Direct Investment and Exporting Opportunities presentation
WHY: To expand your market.
WHEN: Thursday, May 24 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
This event is No Cost, and will feature light refreshments and snacks. The presentation, including questions, shouldn't last more than an hour.
Please RSVP to Jon Allan
with number of guests by Monday, May 21 at 1pm
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'These novice landlords, less experienced in property selection, have contributed to oversupply in certain geographical locations and for certain property types,' said chief executive Nigel Terrington.
That was leading to lower yields and longer periods when properties lay idle. Prime locations such as Kensington and Knightsbridge were vulnerable.
Paragon, formerly National Home Loans, reported a 49% surge in buy-to-let loans to £240m in the six months to March. Pre-tax profits grew 12% to £20.5m. The bad debt provision was lifted 30% to £10.3m.Reuse content


In January 2019, an international team of scientists working off the tip of southern Chile got their first live look at what might be a new species of killer whale. Called Type D, the whales 'could be the largest undescribed animal left on the planet.'
Type D Killer Whale Research Team 2019, taken under Chilean Sub-Secretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Permit, Res. Ex. 1811 and Res. Ex 4402


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This brief blog post looks at a publication produced in France which we hold in the Library in the Peter Yakimiuk collection.
Vpered, Ukraïno! (note the vocative form of the country name) was published in Paris by the group Ukrainian National Unity in France, in their Library of Self-Enlightenment, and describes itself in its sub-title as a narodnyĭ deklamator, a folk reciter.
The book contains Ukrainian poems by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Oleksander Olesʹ, and many more. Lesi︠a︡ Ukraïnka (1873-1913) has the greatest number of poems in the compilations. Brief biographical notes of the authors follow the body of poems, and looking at these more closely today, I see that the approximate date of publication given to the book (1945) must be wrong – the writer Leonid Mosenda’s entry refers to his death in 1948 – so I will update it it in the catalogue now.
The book has come up in connection with preparations for a small exhibition we hope to curate in the autumn with the local Cambridge refugee community – more details when we know them! – which will celebrate Ukrainian culture and history. The cover is fairly eye-catching, but it’s the encouragement of the title that understandably attracts us in 2022 as Ukraine fights on. Vpered, Ukraïno!


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North Manchester-based Precision Medical Technologies plans to launch an operation to produce disposable surgical instruments in Wabash County. The orthopedic technology contract manufacturer says it will invest nearly $5 million and add up to 60 jobs over four years. Precision Medical Technologies has existing facilities in Warsaw and Rome City.
The company currently employs 140 in Wabash and Noble counties and plans to start hiring positions in engineering, quality assurance, finishing, scheduling and CNC machining at the beginning of the year. Pay for the new jobs is expected to be more than 20 percent higher than the average wage in Wabash County.
President Kurt Kamholz says "we at Precision Medical Technologies are looking forward to establishing our third manufacturing facility in Wabash County and are excited to take advantage of a competent and available workforce, proximity to our supply base and significant opportunities for ongoing technical training. The community of North Manchester has been instrumental in assisting us in finding a location to meet both our current and future expectations for a successful operations facility."
Precision Medical Technologies has already started renovations on the 9,000 square-foot facility and says it could be operational early next year. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. is offering up to $475,000 in conditional tax and training incentives for the company. It is scheduled to discuss additional incentives with the town of North Manchester next week.
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Our days of being room-bound and house-bound and garden-bound appear to be ending. Now we can be expansive, be sporty again. But – with a sigh of relief – I’ll just be walking, just as I’ve been walking for 40-odd years; it’s always an adventure.
My short walk – short, long, all outings are good – joins two of central London’s green spots, Hyde Park and Kensington Palace Gardens.
Two laps around their edges, plus various distractions, takes me three hours. Setting off early from home, it feels like three hours roaming a rural place; and I enjoy two sorts of walks, subject to the mood I’m in.
I love the word, even saying it… sauntering
There is what I call an ‘external’ walk, when I look out to the world, which comes closer on foot. Smell the earth, hear the birds, watch the trees. I talk to owners about their dogs, especially lurcher and whippet owners. For I want one of these beauties. I want to walk with him or her along miles of beaches and fields, aiming for horizons.
Then there is another walk: an ‘internal’ walk, when I’m half oblivious of trees and dogs because I’m thinking instead. The rhythm of such a walk stokes the mind, has me recalling the past, planning the future, toying with ideas. Last week the morning was crystalline as I paused halfway into my first lap, at the ‘Italian Gardens’, at the statue of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccines, and thought about a book I had published called Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe.
I love the word… even saying it… sauntering (something on its origins anon). And my selection of pedestrian travellers was prompted by a Mr Hackman, who admitted that whilst tramping the continent, circa 1790, he never ‘looked up’ – at anything, at any point. But others across the ages do look up, locals and visitors alike, and I duly corralled them between covers. With Mr Hackman in tow of course.
For many, Europe is a landmass of exploration, and they use their external walks to capture it for the page. Harriet Beecher Stowe records the white immensity of the French Alps, yet fixates on tiny flowers lining the path. Les Clochettes, the ‘little bells’, entice and she asks a guide to gather some. Another writer-tourer is Edith Wharton, moving among the “dense, febrile” foliage of Syracuse; and her external walk turns to an internal one after she re-imagines figures strolling here in ancient times, under the same Sicilian sun.
Stowe and Wharton are pleasure seekers, recreational people, without worries. So why not mix things up with Joseph Roth in a Berlin park, gazing quizzically at passers-by. He doesn’t like certain types with conspicuous gear and big picnics and rapturous reactions (“it’s all very picturesque!”) – who have idealised nature; no, who have actually “Baedeker-ised nature”. He levels this charge at them in 1921, but it is a timeless sentiment.
Pleasure seekers and flaneurs, adventurers and even shoppers. The peaks and pavements of Europe are settings for all types, and 60 of them wander through Sauntering. Yet Europe is also steeped in struggle, where walking comes from necessity, grievance, protest. We might follow Nellie Bly, reporting from the trenches of Przemyśl. (Poland) during the Great War. Or Robert Antelme, an intern of the camps, hobbling past the town of Halle (Germany). Or Amy Levy, weaving in and out of passages at Florence, attuned to the sad history of its ghetto area, as the locals enjoy carnival week.
But back to Mr Hackman. At the time of acknowledging a lack of curiosity, another in the collection is showing lots; and perhaps he connects with us now. Xavier de Maistre was a French soldier under house arrest in Turin, and to occupy his house-bound months would roam the rooms pretending he was walking the world. A room became a chosen country, next door became somewhere else. Hundreds and hundreds of miles were covered around the house, which bemused the neighbours and made de Maistre a ‘room-traveller’.
One of the original ‘psychogeographers’.
And talking of definitions, what about… sauntering? Well, I like one explanation. That in the Middle Ages people seeking charity said they were pilgrims heading for the Holy Land: La Sainte Terre. Sums of money, ducats to be precise, would be given to those called the ‘Sainte-Terre-ers’, those going ‘sauntering’ to an unknown place. True or not, a lovely word had entered the language, and ended up as the title of a book!
And this, then, was my cue to stop thinking at the ‘Italian Gardens’. On such a clear day I really should be lapping in external mode – and looking for lurchers.
Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, edited by Duncan Minshull is out now (Notting Hill Editions, £14.99)


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Slack Wax Heavy Grade
Slack wax is extracted from refinery Rafinete after producing this product with solvents, which is mostly obtained from lubricant oil. Slack wax, has oil content up to 35%. According to processing and shape of Slack Wax, it is used in some industries. This product is raw material of paraffin wax. Slack wax divided to two grades, Heavy Grade and Light Grade.
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“Soon, by Allah’s permission, a day will come when the Muslim will walk everywhere as a master, having honor, being revered, with his head raised high and his dignity preserved. Anyone who dares to offend him will be disciplined, and any hand that reaches out to harm him will be cut off.”Aaron Y. Zelin, ““al-Furqān Media presents a new audio message from the Islamic State’s Abū Bakr al-Ḥussaynī al-Qurayshī al-Baghdādī: ‘Message To the Mujāhidīn and the Islamic Ummah In the Month Of Ramaḍān,’ Jihadology, last modified July 1, 2014, http://jihadology.net/2014/07/01/al-furqan-media-presents-a-new-audio-message-from-the-islamic-states-abu-bakr-al-%E1%B8%A5ussayni-al-qurayshi-al-baghdadi-message-to-the-mujahidin-and-the-islamic-ummah-in-the-month-of-rama.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, July 2014
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
On September 23, 2021, the Houthis began a siege on Marib’s al-Abdiyah district, sparking a humanitarian crisis as the rebels blocked medical and other humanitarian aid. Aid workers on the ground accused the Houthis of committing genocide by denying access to humanitarian organizations and shelling hospitals and other vulnerable civilian targets.
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HESPERIA, Calif. (VVNG.com) As a result of a lengthy four-month Investigation, a Hesperia mother was charged today with child cruelty.
On October 31, 2017, 25-year-old Chelsea Price took her two-year-old daughter to a medical appointment where staff found the child to be severely malnourished and emaciated.
Due to the young girl’s condition, she was transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) where she received extensive treatment and was hospitalized.
“Following an extensive investigation and collaboration with Forensic Pediatricians from LLUMC, Price was arrested on February 8, 2018,” officials said.
She was booked into the Adelanto Detention Center for PC 273a(a); Willful Cruelty to a Child and bail was set for $100,000.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Specialized Investigation Division, Crimes Against Children Detail, Detective MJ Higgins (909) 387-3615.
Callers wishing to remain anonymous are urged to call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78- CRIME (27463).

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MeVis Lung-RADS app helps healthcare professionals such as radiologists, oncologists, pulmonologists, referring physicians, and medical students to develop and practice routine use of the Lung-RADS reporting scheme.
The Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (ACR Lung-RADS™, Version 1.0) is a quality assurance tool to structure and standardize lung cancer screening CT interpretation and reporting of assessment categories for the whole lung care team.
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Former NBA player Nick Young has called out “Lil Nas X” for his new song, “Montero.” The song, which features Lil Nas falling from the Garden of Eden to the pits of hell and giving Satan a lap dance, has received much controversy since its release on Friday (March 26th.)
Young took to Twitter to proclaim that he nor his kids will ever play “Old Town Road” in their home again after the release of the video.
He also questioned whether he’d wear Nike’s again after news of Nas’ “Satan Shoes” surfaced.
Nas responded with, “They shouldn’t be playing old town road anyway, we streaming call me by your name now,” to which Swaggy P didn’t respond.
Nike responded to the backlash with a statement that included, “We do not have a relationship with Little Nas X or MSCHF,” Nike said in a statement. “Nike did not design or release these shoes and we do not endorse them.”
The “Satan Shoes” are black customized Nike Air Max 97s that feature a gold pentagram pendant, a Bible reference to Satan falling from Heaven, and a drop of human blood in the sole.
What are your thoughts on Lil Nas X’s newest project?


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Apple Butter Sparklers
I’ve been putting apple butter on my toast in the morning to feel a little more fall-ish. You know what’s even more fun that apple butter on toast?
Apple butter in champagne.
I saw this cocktail recipe while I was reading Southern Living at the hair salon a few weeks ago. I had foils all over my head (still not ready to let go of the summer blonde) and was obsessing over all of their autumn ideas.
This one was the first on my list to try.
They had a recipe for making your own apple butter. You could do that. I bet it would be really tasty.
Me … I just bought some at the store already in a jar and made it look prettier by putting it in a mason jar. (Me + job + toddler = shortcuts)
I bet your local farmers market has some really good homemade apple butter too. Move over mimosa. Fall is coming and she is spicy, sweet, tart and bubbly!
Apple Butter Sparkler
Yield: 2 servings
Total Time: 10 minutes
- 4 Tablespoons Apple Butter from store (usually next to the peanut butter and jelly)
- 3 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 Cups chilled Prosecco or champagne of choice
- Garnish with apple slices on mini skewers (the apple butter can settle at the bottom after time so the skewers are a good way to stir it back up)
- Pour 2 cups champagne into a large measuring cup (or bowl but it's easier to pour later out of a measuring cup)
- In a bowl whisk your 4 tablespoons apple butter and 3 tablespoons lemon juice.
- Whisk the apple butter into the champagne and pour into two glasses.
- Serve with apple slices on mini skewers in each glass. Again, the apple butter can settle at the bottom after time so the skewers are a good way to stir it back up.
Adapted From Southern Living.

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I’ve just been reading this article http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/Blog/ID/227/This-legislative-act-could-end-newborn-and-maternal-deaths-by-2030 from The Life You Can Save and whilst it is predominantly about new legislation in the States which won’t affect us here in Australia, there was one main point that really resonated with me:
“Donating to effective charities is one of the most important acts we can do to improve the lives of the global poor. However, if we want to build on the progress we’ve made in the past 20 years of saving the lives of 48 million children, we must do more than just give money: our voice matters.”
says the author Scott Weathers a Global Policy Associate at IntraHealth International.
This is exactly what I am about! I want to show others that we are making a difference in the level of poverty in the world – numbers have dropped over the past 20 years and will keep dropping if we invest in the correct programs to empower locals to create their own sustainable change.
I want to inspire others to really research the ‘effectiveness’ of the charities that they donate to and to understand that by doing this we can continue to make a difference (I’ll go into this in more detail in another blog). The only difference between those living below the poverty line and us in the western world is the country that we were born into. I know that I didn’t do anything special to deserve the privilege that I was born with and therefore feel compelled to share these benefits with those not as fortunate.
Let’s do our fair share
Australian Aid is one thing that really bugs me. The cuts to the Foreign Aid budget have had a devastating effect on the projects we have been running overseas. These programs have helped transform communities and saved thousands of lives. It begs the question, why would you cut aid to a program that is so successful. Why should we in Australia cut our foreign aid budget to try and help balance the budget? As a median Australians are the wealthiest in the world and by some distance! So have we lost the generous spirit that we once prided ourselves on? Australia is forecast to cut its foreign aid to just 0.22% of Gross National Income (GNI) in the next few years. On the other hand you have Great Britain that has increased their Foreign Aid to 0.70% of GNI. If you compare the two economies shouldn’t it be the other way around?
What does this teach the next generation of Australians about giving and helping someone that is not as fortunate as us? I was at the newsagent the other day in the queue to pay for the paper I was about to purchase and the people behind me where talking about how much they would love to win tonight’s Powerball lotto draw that was worth around 60 million or so. All I could do was think do these people realise that they have already won the lottery. By being lucky enough to have been born in Australia, and let’s be honest what country you are born into is a lottery, you are extremely lucky to have the freedom that we take for granted here. I would love to see more and more people take a step back and be grateful for what they have in life instead of always wanting more. The day you start to think that way will be the happiest day of your life.
A united Australia
The other topic I plan to stand up and speak out about is Indigenous recognition and equality. We have just “celebrated” Australia day and growing up it was an important day on my calendar. There was always cricket on the tele and I still remember as a 10 year old being in Sydney and watching bicentennial celebrations as a replica of the first fleet sailed into Sydney heads. I was thinking this was a united country celebrating 200 years of existence. It wasn’t until I got a little older and started learn a little bit about our history at school I started to question whether we should really be celebrating our national day on the day the first fleet arrived. The more and more research you do on the history of white man’s settlement here in Australia you start to draw to the conclusion that this probably should be the last day we should celebrate it. I hate to use this word but there is no doubt there were acts of Genocide against the Aboriginal people. I hate to think this happens anywhere in the world let alone my own country.
How can we expect to be a united country when we are asking the first Australians to celebrate the day that white man arrived and tried to wipe their race off the face of the Earth. Just stop and put yourself in their shoes for a minute. The hurt and pain we have caused them since them since 1788 can never be repaid. Yes we do have to move on from the past but being a white Australian I don’t think we have done enough to right the wrongs of previous generations. (If you want to hear a powerful depiction of these wrongs then watch Stan Grant’s video)
The first step is to recognise the Aboriginals in the constitution as the first inhabitants of the country – something they have been lobbying the government for many years. We also need to change sections 25 & 51 that still permit race discrimination. Do we really need a referendum for this costing millions of dollars; surely common sense can prevail here. The millions saved could be better used in Aboriginal health care programs. It is hard to believe that Australia is the only developed country that still has Trachoma, a debilitating eye disease that causes people to be needlessly blind and can be fixed by a simple operation – never heard of it? Well that is probably because it only affects our Indigenous population so doesn’t get mainstream attention!
In order to have anything to celebrate we MUST recognise the FIRST Australians in the Constitution. I would love to see the day that the Aboriginals are recognised in the constitution become the new Australia day, a day we can all celebrate together. We would then truly be able to celebrate being the lucky country and all that is great about this wonderful continent… together.
By using my voice to educate, promote, inspire and debate, I hope to help lift more people out of poverty and make the world a better place. I hope you will join me.
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In comparison to the west coast, the east coast is not well promoted and travellers rarely visit this part of Lombok are strongly Islamic and there have been reports of harassment in the past, although we find that most people are merely curious about strangers and eager to welcome visitors to their homes. Decent accommodation is very scarce in this part of the island-there are certainly no luxury hotels or resort! Be prepared to rough it a little, and to eat local food at the small warungs and street stalls. For the adventurous, East Lombok is a rewarding experience with stunningly beautiful deserted beaches, and a close-up look at the lifestyles and culture of the Sasak people.
Masbagik, the main hub and the gateway to East Lombok, is a bustling town of shops, mosques and buses. Nearby is Penakak-an important centre for pottery making in Lombok. Turn off the main road, about 1,5 km past the large mosque, at the sign for Penakak, which is just over a kilometre east of Masbagik. There is a large sign post just before the road drops steeply downhill, turn right just after this signpost into the village. There are around a dozen shops selling decorated pottery, which is made in some of the smaller villages around Penakak. Pieces range from huge garden pots to dishes and decorative platters, some with distinctive paintings and designs carved into the clay. The brown earthenware bowls, pots and cooking utensils used by the local people are also made here.
Penakak was once an important pottery making centre, under sponsorship from the New Zealand government. Since the support stopped, the production of the village has declined, but there is still a good range of pottery at very cheap prices available, all of which can be shipped to anywhere in the world.
Selong is a pretty town and the capital of East Lombok. The atmosphere is very laid back, reminiscent of a large town in the 1950's, with wide tree-lined streets and old Dutch Colonial architecture. On the western edge is an interesting cemetery commemorating those who fought in world War II. Back on the main road heading east, after Pringgabaya, a sign-posted road leads into the mountains to Sapit. Perched high on the southern slopes of the Rinjani mountain range, Sapit is a small scenic village with one of the few places to stay in the area.
Hati Suci is a small home-stay for travellers and is perched on the edge of the forest to take advantage of the views. The rooms are very basic, but there's a small restaurant and the friendly owner, Tashi, organises trips to the nearby hot-springs, as well as guiding trekkers up Mt Rinjani, Lombok's famous volcano. Further east, the main road leads to "Kayangan" at Labuhan Lombok. The main port for east Lombok is attractive and there are fine views from the hill on the road to Kayangan. There are many boat builders in the area, as well as basic places to stay and a bustling night market with street stalls selling inexpensive local food and snacks.
South of Labuhan Lombok, the rugged and dramatic southeast coast is a fantastic area to explore. Tanjung Luar is a dusty local town with not much for tourists, but the fish market here is famous. Visit early in the morning when the night's catch arrives and marvel (or be disgusted!) at the incredible array of huge fish and ocean life on sale-giant tuna, rays, barracuda and sharks of many varieties, including large hammerheads.
North of Labuhan Lombok the main coastal road is in good condition and leads through small remote villages separated by fields of tobacco and corn, with lovely views of the Alas Strait; the sea separated Lombok from the neighbouring island of Sumbawa. The coastline of Sumbawa Island looms surprisingly close.
In the small town of Transat, turn at the sign for Gili Lampu Bungalows and follow the dirt road to the restaurant. Six bungalows made from coconut and woven bamboo sit in a shady beachside garden. They are basic, but clean and comfortable. The largest has two bedrooms, a fan and a western toilet with cold water shower. At around IDR 100,000 per night, including breakfast, they're a again.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Staying Kosher or Why I am Performing A New Show
a one woman show
written and performed
This is the title of my new show and I am performing it this year, come hell or high water. Come financial ruin or panic attacks. Come global warming or weight gain. Come menopause...well, you get the idea.
I am a single mom. I teach solo performance, direct and produce an enormous number of solo performances every year. I train others to do what I do, run a business and produce a festival.
And, these are no longer compelling reasons for me not to be performing my own shows. My shows are what began all of this. My shows are what gave me my life, my calling and my purpose. My shows taught me what I needed to do to offer this form to others.
My shows changed my life more than any other thing that has ever happened to me with the exception of becoming a mother.
I am going to tell you the truth. The honest to God truth.
And it goes back to the aforementioned panic attacks. I got them. Unexpectedly and terrifyingly in the middle of my life. At the age of 38 to be exact.The first attack was right before I went onstage in one of my shows. I was sweating, felt nauseous and though I had been performing with ease since the age of 14, I almost didn't make it up onstage. I remember my director talking me off the ledge and once I got onstage, I was fine. But that turned out to be temporary. More severe panics came followed. My body was out of control and I would have these burning chest sensations that were terrifying and felt like heart attacks. I would become convinced that I was choking on food because it was so hard to breathe and swallow. For a few years they were quite debilitating. For about six weeks, I became agoraphobic and flying on planes became out of the question. And, so did performing my own show.
And, with the exception of a few times a year storytelling nights, I essentially just stopped. A few years ago, the writer, Natalie Goldberg said to me "Tanya, you have to begin again. It's what keeps you kosher" And, I know she is right. And yet, I have avoided it by saying that I am too busy with all my students, other writing projects, and parenting. But, I cannot avoid what my Soul knows. That I cannot become a teacher who doesn't perform. Because all I do for others is actually informed by my own art. And my art, like it or not is solo performance. As a performer.
My Soul also knew that I would need way more support that I have ever had before to get back on the proverbial horse. And so,what did it do but give that support to me.
My show is called LOVE. It is the show I have wanted to write my entire life. It is the show of my deepest longing, the impossibility of that longing and the longing denied and fulfilled. The show has been partially written for years. But I never had a satisfying ending. Now I am living it.
And so I am booking the theater for this fall. I ask you all to ask about it, and hold my feet to the fire. The way I hold yours.
And come to the show.....

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The Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve area in Crystal River, Florida. It is best known for being the wintering site of the eastern population of the Whooping Cranes.
The Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge was established in the early 1940s to serve as a waterfowl sanctuary. Its more than 31,000 acres of area with saltwater bays, brackish marshes and estuaries have always been inviting to migrating wildlife, so from being a waterfowl habitat, it is now also home to the endangered West Indian manatees, some alligators, river otter, green turtles, and gopher tortoises. There is also tons of other wildlife in the area like cormorants, herons, raccoons, deer, black bear, bobcats, ospreys, pelicans, ducks, and songbirds just to name a few.
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We tend to think of creativity in terms reminiscent of the ancient muses: divinely-inspired, unpredictable, and bestowed upon a lucky few. But when our jobs challenge us to be creative on demand, we must develop novel, useful ideas that will keep our organizations competitive. The Myths of Creativity demystifies the processes that drive innovation. Based on the latest research into how creative individuals and firms succeed, David Burkus highlights the mistaken ideas that hold us back and shows us how anyone can embrace a practical approach, grounded in reality, to finding the best new ideas, projects, processes, and programs.
- Answers questions such as: What causes us to be creative in one moment and void in the next? What makes someone more or less creative than his or her peers? Where do our flashes of creative insight come from, and how can we generate more of them?
- Debunks 10 common myths, including: the Eureka Myth; the Lone Creator Myth; the Incentive Myth; and The Brainstorming Myth
- Written by David Burkus, founder of popular leadership blog LDRLB
For anyone who struggles with creativity, or who makes excuses for delaying the work of innovation, The Myths of Creativity will help you overcome your obstacles to finding new ideas.
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Regarding statements by Jaylen French, associate planner of the Stanislaus Council of Governments, in The Bee on May 6: First, he said, "Some are worried that the plan will attempt to force lifestyle changes. This is not the intent." What is intended is often very different from the outcome in these "sustainable/smart" growth plans being forced upon us by the government.
The state Housing and Community Development Department is forcing Stanislaus County to build 25,608 low-income housing units in exchange for transportation funds. This will break some cities' budgets with increased health care, police and fire protection costs and loss in property taxes. More importantly, we do not have enough water to support these units.
French also stated, "Some expressed concerns about the regional planning, as they believe it could usurp local control, but this not the case." However, according to our general plan, the state and StanCOG can usurp local zoning powers if a city does not comply with HCD's housing mandates. HCD has given StanCOG permission to bypass Measure E when deemed necessary for the better good. Citizens of Stanislaus County voted for this measure. So much for our voices being heard.
KARLA VON HUNGEN


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Oh how I love none-CGI gore!!
Fright Night (1985)
Directed By: Tom Holland (Child’s Play)
Oh the year of 1985! While I was far too young to remember it personally (I was just two at the time) I’ve got enough merch from that year and seen enough movies from then to know it was a heck of a year! One surprise box-office hit that year was the vampire flick Fright Night! I movie that I’m willing to bet caught a lot of attention due to the cool name. What the film packs is some good gory fun that is majorly lacking into today CGI-ridden world.
Charlie gets a little too nosy when he gets new neighbors and finds out that the person living next door is actually a vampire and even worse is the person responsible for some deaths in the area. Charlie tries to tell his friends, his mother, and the cops but nobody believes him! So finally he tries to enlist the help of a TV vampire killer Peter Vincent to help fight off the evil that is now after him!
First off I want to point out that I love the character of Peter Vincent just as much as I hate the character of Evil Ed. Vincent who as you would figure, doesn’t believe Charlie at first either, is having a constant inner battle during the film of trying to be just what he has played on TV for years and what he really is, a scared man. It’s a lot of fun to watch and brings on some pretty funny moments.
The character of Ed (Evil as Charlie calls him) is very very annoying and I actually didn’t enjoy the film as much when he was on the screen. I could tolerate Charlie’s girlfriend Amy even when she kept on whining but I guess the annoyance of Ed could have been the point. I just wish they had of toned that kid down a bit. While our main bad guy, the Vampire Jerry Dandrige comes across as a very cool bad guy and foil to Charlie, Evil is just annoying as hell..there’s no other way to put it.
Some have called this film over-rated and I can at times see their point. The plot may be kinda silly and one could wonder if a powerful Vampire like Jerry wouldn’t just go for the kill instead of playing around with Charlie but if he did that we wouldn’t have much of a movie would we? I honestly find the first half of the film to be a little dull at times but I more than think the film makes up for it during the second half.
And what a second half it is. We have vampires, werewolves, and tons of cool natural gore without a trace of CGI! It was just 1985 after all. We even have a man take shots directly to the head and keep coming at our heroes on top of all of that! To put it in a simple term, the second half of this movie is a lot of 80’s style fun. Fun that gets topped off with a pretty well played wink wink ending that gives you that good 80’s feeling. Remember, I may have only been two when this came out but I still had plenty of the 80’s left to get old enough to remember the time fondly! Maybe this wasn’t The Lost Boys, but it was pretty darn good. Even if some of the plot around the end fails to make some logical sense.
One of the better vampire flick you can watch. A true classic that as you all know will be getting remade and that comes out next year I believe. I’m not sure how that will turn out but we always have the original even if the remake sucks.
And I have a feeling it might.
The Rating (7/10)