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I am tripping over myself with excitement because this Friday, May 2nd, the writer Elif Batuman will be on campus for a Writing Programs-sponsored reading. Batuman is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, as well as numerous journalistic and critical essays for Harper’s, The New Yorker, n+1, The London Review of Books, and many other periodicals of renown.
At 4:30 p.m. in Downey House room 113, Batuman will read from her work and offer a brief Q&A. Do not miss the event many have already begun referring to as “the literarary event of the semester” and “likely to be very good.”
You might enjoy this New Yorker piece in which Batuman describes training with three-time Muay Thai boxing world champion and autodidact Bunkerd Faphimai, and writes the sentence, “It was astounding to see these enormous men, in protective helmets and mouth guards and shin guards, flying to all corners like discarded robots while Bunkerd stood in the middle of the ring, cheerfully wiping blood from his nose and displaying no sign of fatigue or ill humor.”
Date: Friday, May 2
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Downey House, room 113
More selections of Batuman’s writing follow:

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ReviewBought this truck because my other 150 has over 300,000 miles on it and I needed a new one. The engine on this truck is very strong. I don't really care for the electronic throttle control. It's rated at towing 9900 lbs but I've pulled over 14,000 and it pulled it really well. I've compared this truck with the GM truck and this truck seems to be better built. For example on my Suburban the doors are welded to the body and the weld has started to crack. Where as the Ford is bolted to the body frame. The transmission seems to be a little lose and that is supposed to be normal but it is a little annoying. Overall this is a great truck that has a good engine and is really a real truck.
Best FeaturesReverse sense system works really well. The layouts of the controls are really easy to get to and the interior is very quiet.
Worst FeaturesThe truck is really good. I can't think of anything else to improve except maybe to offer more options on this truck
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Contents covered in this article : Vivo V5 plus and details about Vivo 1603 and it’s Price in India
The year 2017 was a year of revolution, both in terms of technology and the financial standpoint of the country. Right from the introduction of VOLTE by JIO to demonetization by our Honorable Prime Minister : Narendra Modi, everything was sheltered under one big umbrella that people from the times dating back to 12 BC, have been addressing as a mandatory phenomena : Change.
Change is inevitable. And the laws of nature have always one resolute fact , that without change, the chances of survival become epitomized as an example of uncontrollable catastrophe, the meltdown of which , might take a considerable amount of time which again, might also come up with opportunities that open windows for an escape route, or it can also be a sudden debacle. But without change, the progress of mankind would be nil.
And after witnessing a long list of superincumbent influx of changes last year, we can definitely expect this year , a lot of upsurge in the technological advancements. One such revelation has been done by the Chinese multinational technology company : ViVO.
ViVO has announced the launch of their first Dual Camera selfie phone : the ViVO V5 plus to be launched on Jnauary 23rd. Now what’s so peculiar about this company ViVO ? Just a normal Chinese smartphone manufacturing company ? Nope. ViVO has always been in the limelight for coming up with extraordinary configuration and design for it’s devices.
In 2012 Vivo released the X1, at the time the world’s thinnest smartphone.The X1 was also the first Vivo phone to use a Hi-Fi chip, developed by American semiconductor company Cirrus Logic.Vivo followed this up in 2013 by releasing the world’s first 2k-resolution screen phone, the Xplay3s.
So, this time , interestingly ViVO has highlighted that their smartphone will flaunt the ‘biggest selfie camera revolution’, that is going to be powered up by two shutters. Well, it looks like it is time to re-think of the whole selfie concept from a new angle.
But is this the fist time a company is coming up with this concept ? Definitely not. For those of you who are less aware of the offering from Lenovo, the Lenovo Vibe S1 , that was launched back in November 2015, a time period when the concept of selfie was still in a state of infancy, there was a set of dual selfie cam in the front : An 8MP F2.2 camera with BSI sensor to give you superb, crisp image quality and a 2MP camera to analyze depth of field.And this went Un-noticed for obvious reasons.
Now, ViVo is going to change this by their own latest upcoming device, as they know it very well that they have to strike while the iron is hot. And believe the fact : the iron is definitely hot.
Regarding the specifications, the Vivo V5 Plus will be featuring a 5.5-inch full HD 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The power will be generated from a 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6750 processor coupled with 4GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage (expandable up to 128GB through microSD card).
And the best part is that this is not the first time that VIVO is coming up with something interesting like this . VIVO had also launched the most sold mid range product , the Vivo 1603, also known as the Vivo Y55L last year October, whose price in India is as follows :
Flipkart : 11,999 Link to Buy the ViVo 1603 : https://www.flipkart.com/vivo-y55l-gold-16-gb/p/itmenff2pgrrdzru?pid=MOBENFF2TZ4FZXMD&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&lid=LSTMOBENFF2TZ4FZXMDU4OMY3&qH=3a36b0bcd8fe3b28
Snapdeal : 11,349 Link to buy on snapdeal : https://www.snapdeal.com/product/vivo-y55l-16gb-gold/680649381294#bcrumbSearch:vivo%20y55l
Amazon : 11,900 Link to buy from Amazon : https://www.snapdeal.com/product/vivo-y55l-16gb-gold/680649381294#bcrumbSearch:vivo%20y55l
The specifications of the phone are as follows :
- – 1.4 GHz Snapdragon 430 Octa-Core Processor
- – 2GB RAM With 16GB ROM
- – 5.2 Inch HD IPS Touchscreen Display
- – Dual SIM
- – 8 MP Rear Camera With LED Flash
- – 5MP Front-Facing Camera
- – 4G/WiFi
- – Bluetooth
- – 2650 MAh Battery.
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FULL SPECIFICATIONS OF VIVO Y55L
- Device TypeSmartphone
- Dual Sim CapabilityYes, Micro SIM and Nano SIM
- Input MechanismTouchscreen
- 2G Network TechnologyGSM:B2/B3/B5/B8
- 3G Network TechnologyWCDMA:B1/B5/B8
- Sales PackageHandset, Battery, Charger,User Manual
- AvailabilityAvailable 2016, October
- 4G Network TechnologyFDD-LTE:B1/B3/B5 ; TDD-LTE:B40
- Network TypeGSM/WCDMA/LTE
- Network Capability2G,3G,4G
- 4G CapabilityVoLTE
- Internet Capability
- GPSWith A-GPS
- Display Size5.2 inch
- Display ResolutionHD (1280*720 pixels)
- Display TechnologyIPS display, 2.5D curved-edge Screen
- Internal Memory16 GB, 2 GB RAM
- SD Card Presence/CapacitymicroSD, up to 128 GB
- OSAndroid 6.0 Marshmallow with FunTouch 2.6
- ProcessorQualcomm Snapdragon 430 Octa-core 1.4 GHz Processor
- Camera resolution8 MP with Flash
- Camera FeaturesLED, Screen Flash
- Camera Video FeaturesVideo Recording
- Secondary Camera5 MP
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- Size (L by B by T)147.9 * 72.9 * 7.5 mm
- Form FactorCandybar
- Weight142 gm
- Games Support
- Music Player
- Music Player FeaturesSupports MP3
- Video Player
- Video Player FeaturesSupports MP4
- Video Recorder
- 3.5 mm Jack
- Battery TypeNon-removable
- Battery Capacity2650 mAh battery
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- Document Viewer
- SMSSMS(threaded view), MMS
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Fans can’t get enough of the BBC’s crime-busting drama, Line of Duty. You can find out even more about this award-winning series on this brand new Line of Duty Tour.
Line of Duty was written and created by Jed Mercurio and set in an unspecified British city. Filming for season one took place in Birmingham, then from season two onwards, production moved to Northern Ireland, with the majority of filming taking place in or around Belfast.
The Line of Duty Walking tour starts in the centre of Belfast at Irish Tour Tickets before heading straight over to one of the tour’s highlights: AC-12 HQ. The fictional anti-corruption unit is where Superintendent Ted Hastings leads DI Steve Arnott, DI Kate Fleming, and the rest of his team fighting corruption within the Central Police Force.
But of course, all good things have to come to an end, and in Season six Steve Arnott has a quiet word with his ex to talk about leaving anti-corruption. The tour takes you to the location where this conversation took place.
Naturally, a Line of Duty walking tour wouldn’t be complete without visiting the location of at least one dramatic arrest, an ambush while transporting a prisoner, and the discovery of a dead body.
During the tour, you’ll follow in the footsteps of Dot and Kate after Dot’s ‘urgent exit required’ message during Season three. You’ll see a section of the chase scene including where Kate hitches a ride on a lorry in pursuit of Dot, and the fictional Kingsgate High Street where they sprint through the crowded street, weapons in hand.
From Season five you will see the spot where Steve ignores Hastings Fahrenheit order during the adrenaline-filled standoff with rogue undercover agent John Corbett.
You’ll visit the locations for some of the most exciting moments in Season six including the shooting between Ryan, Jo and Kate and the subsequent car chase scene where Jo and Kate are ultimately caught.
The final location on the tour is one of the most famous meeting points used in Line of Duty. Head to the graffiti-covered tunnel seen throughout the series where AC-12’s undercover agents have their secret meetings. Remember your cameras, you’ll want to get a photo at this location!
- Saturdays at 2pm (Jan – Dec)
- Sundays at 2pm (Jan – Dec)
- Adult (16 years+): £15
- Child (3 – 15 years): £10
Tickets can be purchased at the Visit Belfast Welcome Centre.
Top Reasons To Visit
- The first ever Line of Duty Tour in Belfast
- See iconic locations from the show
- Get behind the scenes information from your expert guide
- See the locations used for both AC-12 AND the Central Police HQ


In a landmark vote, the Senate approved legislation Thursday that would expand the federal hate crimes law to include sexual orientation. It now goes to the desk of President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law.The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act broadens the current definition of federal hate crimes -- which already covers attacks motivated by race, color, religion or national origin -- to include those based on sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability.
The measure, originally introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, had stalled several times previously in the Senate. Former President George W. Bush had also vowed to veto the measure if it reached his desk.
Gay rights advocates, civil rights groups and Democrats, who have been pushing for hate-crimes law expansion for a decade, praised the bill's passage, calling it a milestone victory.
"We look forward to President Obama signing it into law: our nation's first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "Too many in our community have been devastated by hate violence. We now can begin the important steps to erasing hate in our country."
The bill is named for two victims of hate crimes whose deaths brought national attention to the issue. In 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, became a symbol of violence against gays when he was targeted for being gay and murdered. Shepard was picked up by two young men in a Wyoming bar and driven to a remote part of Laramie. There he was pistol whipped, tortured, tied him to a fence, and left to die. The same year, three white men in Jasper, Texas, murdered James Byrd Jr. Byrd was beaten, stripped, chained by the ankles to a pickup truck and dragged three miles to his death.
As Facing South reported, anti-gay hate crimes in the South have spurred calls for better state and federal laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity. About 31 states, plus the the District of Columbia, include sexual orientation in their hate crimes legislation, and just 11 include gender identity. The the South ranks far behind in legislation: 8 out of 13 Southern states' hate-crime laws are not inclusive of sexual orientation protections, and not one Southern state contains gender identity protections. Three of the four states in the United States have no hate-crime laws whatsoever are in the South: Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia.
The Matthew Shepard Act would give the federal government jurisdiction over prosecuting hate crimes in states where their is no hate-crimes law, where current law is inadequate or when local authorities are unwilling or do not have the resources to do prosecutions themselves. The bill would also provide financial support for the criminal investigation and prosecution of hate crimes by state, local and tribal law enforcement officials.
(Image: The fence where Matthew Shepard was tied up and left for dead in 1998.)


The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a package of measures designed to support the economy, limit redundancies, and support small businesses and the self-employed during the ongoing coronavirus
In a new ruling that could affect agencies and other employers, The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed that employers need to have systems in place to accurately record hours worked by a worker each day.
In a case between the Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and Deutsche Bank SAE, the court ruled that employers need to have records of hours worked to ensure compliance with the Working Time Directive.
HMRC have issued the take-up rates for the Employment Allowance which would have saved qualifying businesses up to £2,000 in employers’ national insurance contributions during the tax year 2014/2015.
Buried deep in the Queen’s Speech, one of the government’s policy proposals is likely to have significant consequences for employers, workers and freelancers.
Speaking through the Queen, the Government stopped short of making firm employment law policy commitments, but it did affirm that it would “continue to deliver on the commitments set out in the Good Work Plan”.
New National Minimum Wage regulations will take effect on April 1st and all employers will be required to meet them.
The National Living Wage will apply to employees aged 25 and over and it will essentially mean that employers will have to pay their staff an extra 50 pence per hour, with the rate set at £7.20.
The requirement could put many small and medium sized business owners in a difficult position, particularly if they operate in the margin-conscious retail sector or employ a lot of minimum wage employees.


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A Piece Of My Heart Is In Heaven Child Loss Memorial Keychain
This is a keychain is a special keepsake in memory of a precious baby.
This keychain includes a 1.5" round tag that is hand stamped with "A Piece Of My Heart Is In Heaven" and an angel baby design stamp. A smaller 1" rectangle tag that is hand stamped with the date, or the child's name and either a boy or girl design stamp. Included with this keychain is an angel wing charm and a split ring keychain.
A Swarovski crystal drop can be added at no additional charge.
This keychain can be customized with your own personal message or phrase.
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Mill Valley residents may feel a little more connected to the rest of Marysville once the city completes a plan for a pedestrian bridge over U.S. Route 33.
City Administrator Terry Emery told Marysville City Council's public service committee Aug. 19 that work on the $1.6-million project is expected to start next fall and be finished by spring 2015. Most of the cost will be paid for by a $1.3-million grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation. The city will provide the remaining $300,000.
Embry said ODOT typically does not release grant money until June or July.
Preliminary renderings of the bridge show a span that is 12 feet wide and 285 feet long and looks much like a covered bridge.
A walking trail coming off Amrine Mill Road on the south side of Marysville High School will run up to the pedestrian bridge over U.S. Route 33 and pick up again on the other side of the highway to connect with an existing bike trail that runs parallel to Route 33. The new portion of the bike trail will be about 1,700 feet long.
Some lighting will placed on the bridge, although the exact form or amount of lighting is still to be determined.
The grant application for the project was submitted in April 2011. Funding was secured September 2011.
Councilwoman Tracy Richardson, chairwoman of the public service committee, said she is excited about the plan but concerned that the trail coming off the bridge on the north side falls short of providing usable access. She would like to see it connected to Valley Drive instead of just the existing bike trail near Mill Valley.
Emery and Public Service Director John Mitchell said that is something they can consider, but the city does not own any of that property, which is why it can't be added to the current project.
The property is owned by Dominion Homes, the developer of Mill Valley.
Emery and Mitchell said they might be able to ask Dominion to donate the land to make the development more appealing.
"We can approach them once this project is nearing completion," Mitchell said. "We don't want to tie that up with ODOT because we have to own the property (to qualify for the grant) and it would slow the whole process down."
Rob Priesetas, the city's project and facilities engineer, said the bridge will serve hundreds of residents.
"We are hoping that the majority of residents and students from the more than 1,600 homes in Mill Valley will utilize this bridge and path to attend activities and locations such as school, football games, the county fair, and Uptown Marysville, to name a few," Priesetas said.


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The Grand Banquet Hall | Covington (KY) Flower, Plant, & Gift Delivery
Send beautiful flowers, plants, and gifts to The Grand Banquet Hall in Covington, Kentucky from your favorite local flower shop, Adrian Durban Florist. We would be honored to serve you with an elegant selection of roses, hydrangeas, tulips, daisies, lilies, tropical flowers, orchids, chrysanthemums, sunflowers, green plants, blooming baskets, gourmet goodies, heartfelt gifts, and so many more. Whether you are holding a wedding, corporate event, quinceanera, baby shower, saying thank you, or just bringing joy, we are here for you.
If you are holding a wedding or event, we'd like to meet with you one-on-one.
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Location: Gainesville, FL
Cuisine: Breakfast, Lunch, Vegan/GF options
In recent years, I’ve become a big fan of solo meals out. There’s so much peace in deciding when, where, and why you want to dine at a certain spot. Shoot, when you go alone, there’s no need to even have a ‘Why’!
I can probably say that breakfast/brunch is my favorite meal to enjoy solo. Crazy thing is, a few years back, you couldn’t catch me having breakfast. But now, it’s my favorite meal and I try to make sure I have breakfast daily.
I decided mid-week that I was going to enjoy a great breakfast out. It was just one of those weeks. And boy, am I glad I made that decision. Early on, Root & Pecker was on my list of options. I had passed by it countless times on my way to the mall, but never stopped in, especially not at their very specific hours, (7AM – 3PM, sheesh!) But this weekend, I kept them in mind.
The exterior was absolutely beautiful, keeping with the natural decor theme of most Gainesville restaurants, complete with a garden as a neighbor. It was such a beautiful day out, I decided to enjoy my meal al fresco. Preparing to take a seat, I realized that ordering happens first on the inside, and your food is brought out to you.
I’ve been seeing pictures of bagels everywhereeee, even in my sleep now I feel, so I had to indulge. R&P makes their own fresh Sourdough bagels (and so many other awesome things) in the flavors of: Plain, Sesame or Everything. There were no more Everything bagels available so I opted for Sesame. When it came to freestyling my burger, I kept it simple with: Fried Egg, Avocado, Red Onions and Tomatoes, and added some Candied Bacon on the side. The bacon was INSANE! I loveeee Candied Bacon, although I know I shouldn’t, and R&P truly did it justice. Each piece was thick, sweet and somehow savory in each bite, it’s definitely in my Top 5 bacon baes in the past year. The bagel was delicious BUT, there was so much Cashew Cream Cheese (which was delicious) and I seriously should have cut it in half because I was a MESS! A full mess, but a mess nonetheless. Because there are no Waiters who come to your table, I was left to choose between napkins & a knife and leaving my food alone, or keeping my food safe with cream cheese on my face.
I chose the cream cheese face.
And I don’t regret it.
I enjoyed my breakfast with a cup of Bold Bean Coffee paired with the fresh Almond Milk from Root & Pecker. Sipping my coffee while enjoying, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the ambiance was absolutely perfect as I enjoyed the lush landscape nearby and I can’t wait to enjoy another breakfast at Root & Pecker!

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Orchidphile: July 2020 Pre-Order (Mail Order) List
INCLUDING SOME JUST-IN & FABULOUS NEW PHALAENOPSIS FROM TAIWAN !
Even at this early date, several of our usual fall shows & events have been cancelled due to continuing concerns over Covid19. This means we’ll be filling mail orders right through the fall season. With special thanks to our Taiwan grower, new stock that just came in is even more mature & vigorous. However, due to Covid19, air shipments from Taiwan & broker fees have quadrupled, forcing us to have to charge more for some plants ~ but considering the amazing quality of this recent shipment, they’re well worth it.
The Good News is because we cut back many spikes early, we’re seeing a second spiking from many of our multi-floral minis & even several of our miniatures in other genera.
And Even Better News, our Habenarias were late in popping up their new growths & a few are now large enough to be shipped safely. For the next couple of months you’ll find them listed under Other Genera.
BUT THE BEST NEWS OF ALL ~ We will be joining J&L Orchids (https://jlorchids.com/) from July 24-25 for their annual Summer Open House (be sure to check their website for hours & updates to this event).
In keeping with Covid19 guidelines, the guest vendors will be outdoors under tents so everyone stays safe.
Please be sure to bring your face mask, your enthusiasm & your credit cards !
And if you can’t join us for this must-needed “orchid fix”, please be sure to place your mail order
as soon as possible so we can remove your plants from sale prior to the J&L Open House sales.
The beginning of Summer’s Bounty of novelty fragrant One-of-a-Kind Phalaenopsis:

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The question has been asked before, and now it's been answered again with authority. This is what Nick Saban wants football to be.
Oh, sure, he'll hire Lane Kiffin and his visor and hang double nickels on Auburn if that's what the times require, but deep in his West Virginia heart, the Alabama head football coach is as old school as a leather helmet.
Given a choice, he wants to do exactly what his Alabama football team did Saturday afternoon to stick a pin in the freshly inflated Kyle Field.
Man up and knock you down. Run a tailback the size of a tractor at you until you say no mas. Put up a wall of a defensive front and force you to throw the ball up for grabs to a bunch of sharks dressed as defensive backs.
Alabama 41, Texas A&M 23 wasn't quite as dominating by the Crimson Tide or as embarrassing for the Aggies as 59-0, but it was worse in at least one way because this pantsing and spanking happened in A&M's sandbox.
This was old-school football enjoying a get-off-my-lawn moment at the expense of new-age philosophy, toughness trumping technical expertise. It was far from perfect and anything but pretty, and instead of inspiring a painting, it provided an instruction manual on how to win a football game the old-fashioned way.
Kiffin put aside his terminal case of the cutes long enough to give the ball to Derrick Henry 32 times. The Tractor Back responded with a career high of 236 yards, 153 of them in the first quarter as Alabama took the game by the throat early.
But Henry wasn't the only grown man on the premises in a crimson helmet. This had to be the best performance by an Alabama secondary against a passing game with a pulse in the entire Saban era.
True freshman Minkah Fitzpatrick, who fits the "Star" position in the Alabama defense in so many ways, started the scoring with a 33-yard pick-six. Eddie Jackson, clearly enjoying his off-season move from cornerback to safety, took an interception back 93 yards for a score.
Jackson added a routine interception to set up a fourth-quarter field goal, and after the Aggies cut the lead to 34-23, Fitzpatrick put a dagger in the home team's last hope by taking one last pick 55 yards to the house.
If you're scoring at home, Kevin Sumlin's Texas A&M offense scored one touchdown. Kirby Smart's Alabama defense scored three.
The margin would've been wider, but there are three phases to a football game, and occasionally, Alabama has to trot out the special teams. Special is in the eye of the beholder. The Crimson Tide watched A&M's electric freshman Christian Kirk take a punt back 68 yards for a touchdown late in the first half, and things got worse for the visitors in the kicking game in the third quarter.
Cyrus Jones fumbled away a punt return, setting up Texas A&M's only offensive touchdown of the day. Next series, Alabama had a punt blocked, and A&M recovered at the Alabama 29 down 28-20.
Smart's defense rose up to put a stop to all that nonsense. That pivotal series went incompletion, incompletion and sack by Reggie Ragland. A&M's howitzer of a kicker, Taylor Bertolet, missed a 52-yard field goal.
A&M's final realistic shot to put a scare in Alabama ended then and there.
So the Crimson Tide handed the Aggies their first loss of the season and put itself in the thick of every possible championship chase: division, conference and national. It's becoming increasingly apparent that the biggest threat to Alabama may be Alabama.
When the Crimson Tide doesn't trip itself up, it's capable of walking all over just about anyone. When this team remembers who it is and what its head coach wants football to be, forget about the death of a dynasty, and pray for your own safety.

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2016 was a record-breaking year at Ireland West Airport with passenger numbers exceeding 730,000 for the first time in the airport’s 31-year history.
Ireland West Airport staff were delighted last week to present a cheque for €30,550 to the airport's three nominated charities for 2016 — Cancer Care West, MS Ireland, and Pieta House. In late 2015, in an initiative by the airport, Ireland West Airport staff voted to select three Irish charities for the inaugural Ireland West Airport Charity of The Year programme for 2016.
Ireland West Airport has announced a very special live gala concert that will take place in the airport's terminal building on Friday May 27 to mark the 30th anniversary of its official opening. The concert is a celebration not to be missed and looks back over 30 years of memories and nostalgia for the airport that critics said ‘should never have been built’.

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The musical, “Ghost,” did not get the most favorable reception in either London nor New York. The by-the-numbers, you-heard-this-rhythm-before music by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard is tritely mediocre with few high points, surprising because of Stewart’s credentials with the rock group, The Eurythmics. The outstanding moments in Cline’s production derive less from a burst of inspired composition than from the sincere performances of Zack Krajnyak and Anna Giordano as “Ghost’s” leads. J.P. Dunphy nails a breakout opportunity in which he electrifies the Media stage with “Focus,” a number in which one ghost teaches another who use his spectral powers in more concrete ways. One song that will stay in your mind is the ’50s classic, “Unchained Melody” (from the 1955 prison movie, “Unchained”), because Krajnyak constantly croons the Al Hibbler-Righteous Brothers hit as his personal love song to Giordano.
If Stewart and Ballard’s score is unimpressive, “Ghosts” lyrics by the composers and Bruce Joel Rubin, are prime examples of why so many new musicals lack the luster of the days before rock replaced semi-classical as the basis for show music. Poetry or storytelling is absent in these abysmal songs that have all the beating heart of a petrified frog. Stewart, Ballard, and Rubin string the most hackneyed of sentimental phrases together and call it lyric. One gets tired of the kind of stock, banal thoughts that pepper these songs. “I must go on.” “I must be me.” “I love him so” “When will he know?” Not to mention that age-old favorite, the rhyming of “together” with “forever.” The songwriters chock their show with such artless, clichéd twaddle to the point you want to consign them to a special hell in which they are totally aware someone — Lorenz Hart? — is poking them incessantly with the points of a compass and whispering, “That’s for the damage you and your ilk are doing to the musical.”
OK, the lyrics are putrid. They stink more than the rotting clams at Egg Harbor. Yet redemption is possible. Rubin wrote the original screenplay for the 1990 movie, “Ghost,” the basis for this musical, and he transfers all of the romance and comedy of that script to his book. Jesse Cline, who is skilled at drawing out romance and in staging comedy makes the most this advantage. Krajnyak and Giordano are so believable as a couple deeply in love, you don’t worry about the words they’re singing and concentrate on the passion with which they’re expressing their characters’ feelings. Yes, a lot of what they sing might be just as effectively spoken, but Krajnyak’s emotion and Giordano’s inner thoughts, combined with her splendidly pitched, mellifluous voice make the composers’ drivel palatable and even moving. When Rubin’s script dominates, Cline’s “Ghost” will touch your heart and make you care mightily for Sam and Molly, the characters Krajnyak and Giordano play. You want to see them conquer the calamity that separated them, Sam being killed in a mugging and Molly mourning inconsolably in shock. You want their romance to continue, just as many of us hope deceased loved ones can hear us even if we know how scientifically absurd that particular common desire is.
Cline, through Krajnyak and Giordano, makes “Ghost” affecting. This Media production can elicit tears as more and more leads to the lovers being reunited in a tactile, tangible way.
This is important for several reasons. Rubin’s 1990 film proves “Ghost” has the ability to be classically romantic, but his story has to be cut down some to be palpable as a musical. A director, faced with this material, has to keep from ever seeming corny, overworked, or unsophisticated. The love projected has to be strong, and the plot elements that threaten that love, especially a nasty crime scenario like the one that permeates “Ghost,” has to play as a genuine danger and not like an expedient complication or convenient menace. Cline adroitly avoids all pitfalls. He maximizes the passion and romantic honesty in Rubin’s book. Krajnyak and Giordano appear so fervently and sincerely in love, you begin to believe their relationship extends to off-stage. The two have candid rapport, not only when the speak to each other or sing together, but when they look at one another or think about their past happiness after Sam is murdered. The unaffected reality Cline and his cast establish overrides any clichéd or easily predictable part of Rubin’s story.
Palpable, affecting romance is only the beginning of how Cline’s “Ghost” pushes aside compositional flaws and shows why in the theater, the individual production is always more important than a script or score (which come under the categories of literature and music, not theater). Let me tell you about Tamara Anderson.
Anderson has the unenviable task of playing the role for which the incomparable Whoopi Goldberg earned an Oscar for “Ghost.” Oda Mae Brown is another character than can fall prey to type or cliché. Tamara Anderson does not let that happen.
From the beginning, when we see Oda Mae in her Spanish Harlem juju parlor, ferreting out enough information to convince gullible dupes she is communing with the dead — people they want to contact for reasons ranging from expressions of love to apologies for causing the deceased’s demise — Anderson shows all the signs of the cunning con artist. She can reassure with the best of them. Anderson’s reaction is also excellent when he she does hear from a dead person, Sam, who then realizes he can involve Oda Mae in a strategy to foil his killers, rescue Molly from likely harm, and keep the sidewalk psychic safe and out of jail as well.
Without doing anything large or outlandish, Anderson is consistently funny in her part. Oda Mae’s sense of self-preservation, and her smell of a decent payday, is all Anderson needs to play her part with the finesse of a flim-flammer but with the comic timing and astute broadness of Lucille Ball or Flip Wilson.
Anderson is not subtle. You don’t want her to be. But he is clever enough to let the comedy play out naturally just by giving Sam a dubious look or acting Oda Mae’s kind of grand at a bank or imagined jewelry store. Anderson blends a top comedian’s bag of tricks with strict adherence to characterization, and the result is hilarious in the best way, with laughs being earned and not forced, with the character coming through ahead of the clowning.
Anderson provides some marvelous moments. Best is when she realizes she has survived a shooting that could have spelled her doom. It’s the pride Anderson shows in a totally natural way that elicits laughs as well as relief at Oda Mae overcoming her perilous ordeal. In scenes opposite Molly, with Sam providing the dialogue, Anderson conveys authenticity, both when she is listening and communicating and when he shows impatience at Molly’s doubt.
Anderson’s is a fine-etched complete performance that knows when to pull out all stops and when to keep the acting to a human, realistic level. And, yes, she gets a rousing, house-shaking number in “I’m Outta Here” near the end of the second act.
“Ghost” presents some technical and choreographic conundrums. Sam, being invisible and corporeally malleable, has to glide through doors. He has to learn to use some tangible powers a ghost is afforded, such as being able to touch another person or inhabit a living person’s body. Then, of course, there’s the issue of corpses, characters who have dialogue and whose parts require motion, after they have been shot to death.
Cline addresses all of these challenges brilliantly, physically and theatrically.
To attain some of the effect he needs, he enlists his designers. Carl Park has created standard sounds that indicate when Sam is coming through a solid object such as a door or subway car. (It’s like a high frequency radio squeal that settles into a tight and scratchy sound.) He also has developed a distinct sound, sort of like the whoosh you hear when superheroes fly or land a haymaker punch, for when the subway ghost is manhandling Sam or teaching him to use his ghost-given powers. Matthew Miller contributes by keeping all surfaces Sam has to negotiate clear and unobstructed. This allows sound and movement to do the trick. As Krajnyak contorts his way through a door and you hear Park’s scratchy notes of effort, you have the impression the door is solid, and Sam is using ghostly traits to gain entrance. Krajnyak is also good at showing how Sam has to think about and work towards achieving some ghostly feat the first time he does and how simple the same feat is when needed subsequently.
Cline intelligently works through other thorny factors. Several people are killed in “Ghost.” Sam’s death triggers Rubin’s premise for the piece and sets the show’s main action in motion. The other deaths are applaudable, because they mean the lives of other, better liked, characters will be spared, but they can, again, become corny or even bring up moral questions (the answer to which the deaths are the better theatrical course because any other way of foiling the bad guys would end the play before its optimum romantic conclusion).
When I went to pay compliments after seeing this performance, Cline told me this production was built “from scratch,” meaning he derived it totally from the book and music and used no other previous productions, or the movie, as a model.
The care shows. The ways the newly dead corpses arise from their stilled bodies is enough to make you admire the thought, adroitness, and theatrical savvy of Cline’s staging. So many ideas work to make this “Ghost” affecting, including Cline’s usual fearlessness about having characters embrace, kiss, or, on the opposite side, engage in combat. Zack Krajnyak and J.P. Dunphy’s physicality add to the excitement of this production. Their scenes in a subway car and on a subway platform are intense, even scary, as they bring out the emotion even a ghost can feel when considering the cause of his death or a mission he must accomplish before he is no longer a ghost and assigned to some otherworldly place for eternity.
I liked that Krajnyak, Dunphy, Seth Thompson, Nicholas Savarine, and others who portrayed ghosts emphasized the solidity of their bodies instead of trying to figure the posture and movements of an ectoplasmic form. The naturalness of their physical beings preserved some core of reality and make some scenes more palpable or touching.
All the performers, from the leads to Megan Rucidlo and Geoffrey Bruen in the chorus, contribute to the success of this production. Ensemble scenes were very well played, and choreographer Dann Dunn gives his dancers a wonderful number with umbrellas that reminds us we are watching a musical and not a romantic drama with songs.
Anna Giordano is extraordinary as Molly. Jesse Cline is known for having enlisted a cadre of actresses with strong voices and acting chops — Elisa Matthews, Jennie Eisenhower, Lauren Cupples, Victoria Mayo, Megan Rucidlo, Kim Carson, and the remarkable Miss Ann Crumb — and Giordano is a worthy addition to their distinguished number.
The purity and spontaneity of her voice, two distinct traits that blend together for both a beautiful and engaging sound, informs all of Molly’s numbers so that sincerity trumps trite lyrics. Like Matthews and Liz Filios, who just finished a run in Theatre Horizon’s “Into the Woods,” Giordano’s initial notes are bell-clear. There’s no building to power. It’s there from the start. Yet intensity gets greater, and songs have more emotional impact.
Giordano makes you share Molly’s pain and grieving. There’s no half-measure here, no actress pretending to depth. Giordano makes Molly’s plight tangible, and you travel with her as she doubts the supernatural and spurns sentimentality and when she needs to have Sam’s company, even if it’s in the form of a picture or the scent of a shirt he wore, and comes to the realization Sam is spiritually with her and able to communicate.
Cline and Dunn stage a lovely sequence in which Oda Mae, inhabiting Sam’s body in her own, dances between the two of them and lets them a have an effective romantic interlude without anyone actually touching another. It’s theatrical heaven. Literally.
Zack Krajnyak is a man of determination as Sam. He solidly brings the drive and skill he uses as a successful investment banker on Wall Street to the fore in Sam’s investigation of the crime that killed him and in his zealous protection of Molly and Oda Mae.
Though young-looking, Krajnyak conveys the competence and confidence Sam displays in all walks of his life. His least sure path is with Molly, who is a little too astute and game for some of his tricks and outspoken about his resistance to confess his emotions out loud. Krajnyak gives Sam undoubtable veracity when she responds to Molly, “You see it in my eyes. You feel in my touch.”
Krajnyak sings with assurance and has a sweet rock voice that can register sincerity and emotion, but it is in his watchful, physical, discerning performance as Sam that he grabs your attention and respect.
This is a Sam who will not let go until he has unraveled every mystery, corrected every injustice, homicidal or financial, and guaranteed the safety of the woman he loves and the woman whose unexpected talents as a medium serve him so opportunely.
Krajnyak is a romantic. He nuzzles Giordano’s Molly with warm, playful affection and moves in for kisses and more with the deftness of a practiced, but sincere, Romeo. There is definitely a frisson of pheromones in action when Krajnyak and Giordano are displaying their mutual feelings for each other.
Tamara Anderson provides more than comic relief. She personifies comedy, period.
It takes talent and discipline to be large and forthcoming without overdoing, and Anderson manages just that. Her Oda Mae is a firecracker, and she has several comic scenes to ace, but Anderson keeps her human and self-preserving and that is the crux of her excellent performance.
Anderson can give a character a withering look or she can flirt. She can show unhappy surprise at having her body inhabited by a ghost, or she can delight in it. She can go through all kinds of ritzy but naïve moves to impress a bank representative, but she can be down -to-earth and caring when it comes to listening to concerns she knows are real and deep-seated.
Best of all, Anderson is downright entertaining. She knows how to make her scenes pay while also knowing when to back off and give Krajnyak and Giordano, or Seth Thompson’s duplicitous Carl, the stage.
Sean Thompson has proven his mettle on the Media stage several times in the past years. He has gone from an innocent member of the Plaids to a sharp, observant, but willing-to-be-spoiled gigolo in “Sunset Boulevard” and has among the actors who made Cline’s “Les Misérables” such as triumph in December.
Thompson plays Carl, Sam’s coke-snorting bank colleague who supports his drug habit by embezzling and laundering his dealer’s profits, without a shred of remorse or guilt. Like many a criminal, he views himself a victim of circumstance, forced to do evil because he innocently went too far with his addictions and debts to the underworld.
Thompson’s Carl shows his jealousy of Sam from the beginning. He covets his friend’s higher position and better reputation at the bank and his relationship with Molly. We see it in side glances and odd grimaces, but he hides his envy from Sam and Molly. To them he is the true blue friend, the rock they can depend on in need, especially because he is uncommitted to much (except cocaine, which Sam and Molly don’t know about) except them and his work.
Thompson’s Carl portrays none of his perfidy. Instead of conveying guilt, he shows cold business acumen, working to correct the mess he made over the orchestrated assault of Sam and keeping himself from suffering the wrath of drug lords to whom he owes millions or the humiliation of a prison cell.
By remaining calculating and being warm, sympathetic, and even flirtatious towards Molly, Thompson manages to keep Carl more sinister than if he played him as an all-out creep. His composure makes him more ominous and dangerous.
Thompson is another whose voice and acting ability can improve and song, a trait he tests and master in performing Stewart and Ballard’s offal.
J.P. Dunphy galvanizes the stage with his arresting performance as a subway ghost, a man who was killed by being pushed in front of a moving train and seems to be in perpetual limbo until he can prove his death was not a suicide as reported. Unlike Sam, Dunphy’s ghost is angry and fiercely territorial. He rides the D train and will admit no other ghost in his domain.
The subway ghost has developed a way to push people and land punches. He can be physical and, as costumed by Katie Yamaguchi is a black leather jacket opened to reveal a plain white wife-beater undershirt, seems to have a taste, and even a yen, for violence.
Eventually, Sam coaxes the subway to teach him how to make his presence felt. The lesson leads to the number, “Focus,” in which Dunphy excels and gets the chance to break free of his usual home, the chorus, and show both his ability to command the stage and dominate a complicated number that involves intense acting and sharp choreographic moves. As mentioned, Carl Park’s sound effects also bring strength to Dunphy’s number, which Dann Dunn choreographs to bring out the subway ghost’s tense, coiled, finally expressed bite.
Nicholas Savarine appears in three distinct parts, all of which he plays with individuality. He is plain-spoken yet self-effacingly amused as the ghost that introduces Sam to his new spectral quality. He is efficient and persuasively denigrating as the police officer who tells Molly about Oda Mae’s long and colorful rap sheet. He find the right posture and tone as the first ghost that takes over Oda Mae’s body at a séance Sam, who has led other ghosts to the medium, uses his newly acquired focus to break up.
A.J. Melendez is perfect as the rat Carl and his mob contacts set up to scare Sam, Molly, and Oda Mae. The actor never breaks character to be sympathetic or apologetic even though everything in the script says he was only supposed to make Sam more cooperative is staying out of Carl’s way and not to kill him. (Sam initiates his fate by wrestling with Melendez’s punk instead of handing over his wallet and walking away during a street robbery arranged by Carl.)
Dunn”s ensemble of dancers do their part well and, as noted, remind us we are watching a musical. Christopher Ertelt conducted a fine group of musicians through “Ghost’s” score.
Jesse Cline’s penchant for using slides and videos to enhance productions has never worked for integrally. You get a real feeling of where Molly lives, where Oda Mae operates. and where Dunphy’s subway ghost reigns. Troy Martin O’Shia’s light displays, as well, as his light design, give Cline’s production a sense of the occult and add to its texture. The dazzling light when Sam contemplates his fate, and the shadows after each death are masterfully and evocatively done. Matthew Miller’s cleverness in set design adds to the authenticity of this production. The large picture window that serves to let light into Sam and Molly’s loft becomes the screen for Cline’s projections.
Two cavils. As happens through Philadelphia theater, the mikes are often set too hot and have the opposite of amplication’s intended effect. The overamping obliterates sounds and makes actors sound unintelligible instead of modulating tones and making sure the actors are heard. Also, in one major sequence, Molly stands still for 10 minutes in a position that keeps a lot of the house left audience from seeing critical action upstage. This can be corrected by moving Molly a foot stage right. It would open the sight line while keeping the tension of the actors’ positions in relation to one another.
“Ghost” works at the Media because Jesse Cline and his cast concentrated on Rubin’s story and made the characters and romance the centerpiece of the production with Tamara Anderson’s deft comedy as a bonus. As he did with “The Wild Party” and other shows, Cline finds the value in “Ghost” and doesn’t let its musical or lyrical deficiencies stand in his way of making involving theater. Not all plays can have the built-in qualities of “Les Misérables,” “The Miracle Worker,” or next season’s “Billy Elliot” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Cline and company give “Ghost” renewed life and prove it is a piece that earns a place on theater rosters. Stewart and Ballard did not make the chore easy, but a honest portrayal of sincere romance won out. Thank goodness.
“Ghost” runs through Sunday, March 29, at the Media Theatre, 104 E. State Street, in Media, Pa. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $42 with discounts available for seniors and students and VIP seating offered at a premium. They can be obtained by calling 610-891-0100 or by visiting www.mediatheatre.org.


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After you and a licensed dentist approve the 3D therapy plan, Byte will certainly provide all of the aligners (with step-by-step directions) directly to your door. These aligners will relocate your teeth a little at once. After one collection of aligners is put on for a week or more, you’ll move on to the following set. This cycle continues until your brand-new smile is achieved.
As a Byte customer, you’ll also receive the HyperByte ®, an FDA-cleared dental activity velocity tool. This tool might assist move teeth quicker when used with your aligners for 5 minutes daily.
Review our write-up comparing the positives and negatives of the HyperByte and also similar vibration-based aligner therapies.
3. BrightByte Bleaching Treatment.
If you’re going to be wearing aligners for 22+ hrs a day, why not whiten your teeth?
Byte includes a BrightByte system with every treatment plan. It is a 3-in-1 foam cleanser, whitener, and also breath freshener.
To utilize the BrightByte lightening treatment, comply with these steps:.
Brush your teeth to make certain they are tidy.
Use a pump of BrightByte foam into your aligner or retainer trays.
Spread the foam equally to cover the inside of the aligners.
Put the aligners over your teeth and set about your day.
4. Retainers & Aftercare.
After treatment, you will obtain a tailor-made retainer that ensures your teeth stay in place.
Your very first set of retainers is consisted of in the complete treatment expense. The retainers are produced comfortable overnight wear. They additionally consist of a teeth lightening foam (BrightByte) as well as lugging instance.
What Does Byte Deal?
Byte supplies 2 treatment choices to match your needs, along with the copyrighted HyperByte technology that can successfully reduce treatment time.
Byte provides clear aligners made from BPA-free, medical-grade, as well as highly long lasting plastic. Designed to move misaligned teeth with mild yet constant mechanical force, the clear aligners are normally used for 22 hours each day.
Clear aligners are a game-changer in orthodontic treatment. Now, dealing with a mild instance of crooked teeth that might make you really feel troubled seems rewarding.
Scientific research study reveals that aligners can successfully correct teeth in mild to modest instances. One review found that aligners amounted to braces, otherwise better, in boosting the total orthodontic scores. Aligners needed a shorter treatment time, too. They were much less efficient in much more intricate circumstances with noticeable imbalances.
Nonetheless, some researches find that aligners can broaden the inter-canine area greater than metal dental braces, and also widen the space between molars just as properly. Enhanced inter-canine width gives your incisors (front teeth) more space, helping to eliminate a crowded mouth
Clear aligners do not make it hard to eat crunchy or crunchy foods. You have a reduced risk of dental caries or gum tissue illness because you can get rid of the aligner to clean your teeth and they go through much less mechanical anxiety
Evening Clear Aligners.
Byte’s nighttime clear aligners are the extra expensive alternative. On the other hand, you might locate them easier as they are designed to just be put on for 10 hrs in the evening, mainly while you’re resting. Your treatment duration will also be much longer when picking Byte At Night, with at least five to 6 months rather than the usual three-month minimum.
If you’re unclear concerning which alternative to select, review our nighttime clear aligners evaluate to find out about their advantages and negative aspects.
HyperByte is a special addition to the Byte procedure. This is a rechargeable, horseshoe-shaped tool that brings home vibration-based treatment for your teeth, a therapy used in orthodontists’ offices for years. With daily use, HyperByte might also cut your therapy time in fifty percent, giving an advantage over other brand names of unseen braces.
The gadget delicately sends high-frequency vibrations via the aligners as well as your teeth, in order to seat them for boosted teeth change as well as promote mobile activity in your jaw. It supports the motion of your teeth right into the right setting while minimizing pain as well as increasing the fit of your aligners.
The HyperByte is a hassle-free addition to your morning or nighttime routine. With your aligners in, delicately grasp the HyperByte with your teeth as well as allow it compete five mins. If you pick Byte at Night, run it for 10 mins.
Pros & Cons of Byte.
Before you choose to progress with Byte treatment, it’s a good concept to consider the benefits and drawbacks to ensure it’s the right suitable for you. We’ve sorted via the information of Byte’s service offerings and also assembled a listing of one of the most crucial pros & cons.
Byte is much faster than in-office options like Invisalign, as well as can possibly also be faster than various other at-home clear aligners. By utilizing high-frequency resonance modern technology, Byte can deliver cause just four months for some consumers.
Byte puts a life time assurance on your smile. If your teeth shift after you complete your therapy, Byte will give you new aligners to adjust them totally free– as long as you purchase brand-new retainers twice each year and wear them as directed.
Byte At-Night provides a a lot more flexible and very discreet therapy by requiring only ten hrs of continuous wear daily.
Byte consists of one set of aftercare retainers for free, while lots of various other house aligner companies bill additional for them.
Byte does not presently have any kind of retail places, so you’ll require to order a perception kit to begin. While buying a set does not obligate you to purchase therapy, it is non-refundable if you are approved.
In-person therapies need normal workplace check outs, and also some house aligner services give remote tracking to maintain you on the right track. Byte, nevertheless, doesn’t call for either, so you will not have an expert’s eyes on your teeth every couple of weeks.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION.
Just how should Byte aligners fit?
Aligners should fit securely, specially the initial days; however HyperByte tool will help your teeth to relocate quicker and do not really feel that pressure. If aligners don’t fit or you see that there are air gaps you must get in touch with byte instantly.
Where are Byte aligners made?
Byte aligners are produced in China.
Does Byte send out all aligners at the same time?
Yes, as soon as an oral specialist prepares your treatment and the aligners are made, the brand will certainly send you a box with all the aligners you have to wear throughout your treatment.
Can you wear byte aligners with crowns?
Yes, you can; nonetheless, if the crowns are on your molars, in that instance, you can not.
What is the age limit to get Byte?
Byte just treats ages 12 and above, if you are under 18, they will certainly request your parent’s approval.
Does Byte have an app?
No, it doesn’t. If you want to keep an eye on your treatment, you can download and install various other mobile phone applications like SmartSmileapp or TrayMinder Invisalign Tracker.


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Fans of Love Island have been crticising the show after claiming it is "damaging" the contestants' mental health.
Last night's episode has been slammed as one of the most brutal scenes to hit the UK this year.
Following three days and three nights of the original cast being separated in different villas as Casa Amor returned, all hell broke loose.
The six new girls and six new lads clearly took their toll on the established couples as tears were shed and rows erupted.
After scenes of Amy Hart and Amber Gill breaking down were revealed in a teaser, some fans decided they'd had enough.
Rushing to Twitter, one viewer hit out: "Last night’s episode was my last watching Love Island. I gave it a good few weeks. I like almost everyone (sorry Arabella – didn’t warm to you) but the format is a head f**k.
"I can’t imagine the detrimental effect it’s having on the mental health of the contestants."
Another wrote: "That Love Island episode was pure madness, so f****d up how they've manipulated them all into saying things to hurt others, can't believe they were so savage with their rocky history of mental health."
A third said: "I'm not surprised it can leave people with mental health issues etc! Messing with people's heads, self-esteem, emotions etc! Reality TV at its worst!"
However, other viewers defended ITV bosses and claimed trolls on Twitter making harsh comments about the contestants were to blame if any mental health issues arise.
One wrote: "Gonna be bold and say it's not Love Island as a show/concept that causes the terrible mental health stories we hear about, it's the fact people lack empathy to the point they will forget they are watching an edited reality show and spew hate."
Another said: "It's not ITV's fault anymore, it's all the people Tweeting/Instagramming hate to these poor contestants that will cause them mental health issues."
A third commented: "All you weirdos slagging off the people on Love Island every night are the same ones who were tweeting out mental health tweets when Mike and Sophie took their own lives. Double standards."
A Love Island spokesman stressed that measures were in place to support the cast at all times.
They commented: "We take the emotional well-being of all the Islanders extremely seriously.
"We have dedicated welfare producers and psychological support on hand at all times who monitor and regularly speak to all of the Islanders in private and off camera, especially if someone appears to be upset.
"All the Islanders are therefore fully supported by the professionals on site and by their friends in the villa. This means Islanders are always able to reach out and talk to someone if they feel the need.
"We will, of course, continue to monitor all of our Islanders in line with our robust protocols.
"Love Island holds a mirror up to relationships and all the different dynamics that go with them."

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Charles W. Hinkle
Charles Hinkle founded the security review and freedom of information directorate in the office of the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon’s principal Freedom of Information Act office. Under his leadership, the Pentagon drafted its first directives for implementing the 1966 FOI Act, which called for “maximum feasible disclosure” of information requested by journalists or the public.
A 1933 graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Hinkle was a news reporter before World War II. After serving in the U.S. Army, he transferred to the U.S. Air Force as a public-affairs officer. He was named head of what became the Pentagon’s FOIA office upon his retirement from the Air Force in 1961. His pioneer work on FOIA was recognized by the law’s author, the late Rep. Jack Brooks, who cited DOD during Hinkle’s tenure as a “model agency” in implementation of the statute.
Hinkle retired in 1984 but worked thereafter as a consultant to DOD on declassification issues. In his obituary, The Washington Post cited him as the person “who opened up more U.S. military records to the public than any other federal official,” and called him a “champion of disclosure.”
Charley Hinkle died in 2005.
Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006.


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SONOMA, Calif. — NASCAR is racing on Sunday in the Napa Valley, one of the most beautiful, serene settings on the Sprint Cup circuit.
Fans stroll around the hilly track like they're hanging out at the county fair (there is a Ferris wheel, two of them actually, on track property). They sip wine instead of guzzling beer. There are sheep grazing on the hillsides.
It is supposed to be among the circuit's calmest, most peaceful tracks, where California race fans watch drivers maneuver colorful stock cars through the winding hills and curves of the 1.99-mile road course. When they're not practicing or racing, the drivers tour nearby wineries, sampling the area's most famous product, picking their favorites and shipping cases of it home. The winner even sips wine in victory lane.
Yes, this weekend is all about peace and serenity and relaxation.
Until the green flag flies. Or until the first double-file restart.
That's when all hell breaks loose and the beautiful road course in the Napa Valley turns into Bristol or Martinsville, the bullrings where real NASCAR racing occurs.
Sampling a friendly get-together at Sonoma. (Getty Images)
Sonoma's road course is no longer the track where drivers look like they are out for a Sunday afternoon drive. It's now the track where there is pushing and shoving, bumping and banging and driver after driver getting knocked off course and wrecked.
"Tempers will flare," Joey Logano promises, forecasting what is almost certainly going to happen Sunday afternoon.
Since NASCAR implemented double-file restarts at Sonoma and other tracks in 2009, the road-course races at Sonoma and Watkins Glen have become as rough and dangerous as any on the Sprint Cup circuit.
"The restarts create the carnage here and guys doing stupid stuff," two-time winner Tony Stewart says.
Stewart should know. He has first-hand knowledge. Plenty of it.
Stewart, who is retiring after this season, was mad after the first practice session Friday and likely will carry his anger into Sunday's race. He flipped off Jamie McMurray for cutting him off and then ripped McMurray and others for having no respect on the track.
"Some of the things some of these guys do nowadays doesn't make sense," he said. "Everybody is out of control out there."
Stewart was involved in one of the wildest incidents at the California track in 2011. He intentionally wrecked Brian Vickers for blocking him and Vickers retaliated, knocking Stewart's car into a tire barrier, where it wound up sitting with just two wheels on the ground.
"I had it coming because I dumped him earlier, but I dumped him because he was blocking, and anybody who wants to block, that is what I'm going to do," Stewart said.
"He sowed his oats, and he reaped 'em," Vickers countered.
That's what happens these days at Sonoma, which likely feature retaliation and multiple wrecks on Sunday.
There will be fast drivers who will lose their chance at victory because they get into it with another driver. The winner likely will avoid such confrontation — or avoid it the best he can.
"Tempers will flare and a lot of times it's because you're trying to stop a really heavy stock car into that turn over there (turn 11-12), which is basically a U-turn with no banking in the middle of a parking lot kind of feeling, and there are a couple of those around this race track," said Logano, who has had his share of run-ins with other drivers. "When that happens, mistakes happen, people trying to slow down their cars, wheel-hopping, tires are old, all that stuff and that's a big opportunity to pass people. Feelings get hurt pretty quick, and that's just part of it."
That's why the road courses at Sonoma and Watkins Glen race more like short tracks these days, creating plenty of contact and conflict.
"That's what this racetrack basically is, so keeping your cool is of the utmost importance throughout this race because at some point someone is going to run into you and you're probably going to run into somebody," Logano said. "That's part of it and you just have to remember what the big picture is."
There also a sense of desperation associated with this race. There are just 11 races remaining until the Chase and drivers are starting to get antsy. There have been 10 winners so far this season but many others — like Stewart — must win or make a big jump in points to have a shot at making the Chase.
The drivers who have won races and are locked into the Chase can race more conservatively and try to avoid any sort of conflict. The others likely will race all-out, with a take-no-prisoners sort of approach.
"My approach is probably more on the conservative side," says Jimmie Johnson, who has two wins this year. "Others just dump you and go on about their way and worry about the consequences later.
"… When I think of this race, the first thing that comes to mind is fuel strategy and saving every ounce of fuel and finding a nice slot to run on the track in the green-flag runs and try to build a lap or two in so that we can two-stop the race. It doesn't come to mind of knocking somebody out of the way down here. We're just all wired differently. So, we'll see which form plays out."
Johnson, a California native who won here in 2010, thinks most drivers will focus on their cars and pit strategy to win the race. But he knows that could change in a hurry.
"I think the majority of the field is really focused on this unique track and this unique place," he said. "But the frustration does build. And as soon as you can just see energy in the field kind of build, I guess that's (when stuff starts happening). Once there's a block or two and somebody gets knocked out of the way, the whole group notices and the slamming starts and it just gets wild."
"It is easy to get frustrated," says young driver Kyle Larson, one of the drivers who needs to win to make the Chase. "But it is still a long race and you have to take care of your equipment as well. You can't be doing payback that often. Everybody races differently, but I just try and keep a cool head."
As recent Sonoma races have shown, that's easier said than done.


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Gurugram: Music composer Yashraj Mukhate made us all groove to the beats of Shehnaaz Gill's dialogue 'Twadda kutta Tommy, sadda kutta kutta'. It appears that a man in Haryana's Gurugram has taken the viral mashup to heart.
A man beat six members of his neighbour's family after one of them called his pet dog 'kutta' and not by his name 'Tommy'. The incident happened in the Cybercity area of Gurugram.
Sudhir, a resident of Joyti Park, who was frustrated with the dog's violent nature asked his neighbour to keep the pet chained. The dog's owner got furious at the neighbour for not using the dog's name and calling him 'kutta'.
The argument soon turned into a violent fight between the two families. Another neighbour caught the incident on camera, showing the dog's owner beating Sudhir and his family with rods and sticks.
Sudhir's family members suffered severe injuries.
Sudhir said that he had asked his neighbour to keep his pet on a leash as it used to run after his children to bite them, India Today reported.
He has filed a police complaint against his neighbour. The police are investigating the incident.
This is not the first time that residents of Gurugram have fought over dogs. In March, a family was barred from entering their residential complex allegedly by the neighbours for feeding stray dogs. The neighbours of the family were angry for feeding the canines as one of them bit a man recently. The incident was reported from Vatika 21 housing society in Gurgaon Sector 83.


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Come explore your feelings in this interactive camp designed to help students learn about, manage and identify emotions. Students will engage in skill building, movement activities, community building and crafts to increase their feeling vocabulary and build skills to cope with emotions. A majority of the class will be held outside (weather permitting) please dress accordingly and apply sunscreen prior to arrival. Please bring a water bottle.
Please register for the grade you will be entering next fall. April 1-30 registration is by invitation only. Registration opens to public on May 1.
*offered in partnership with Relate Counseling Please contact Hannah Lynch, email@example.com with questions.
Relate Counseling Center is a Community Based Mental Health Clinic serving the western suburbs. Relate also partners with the Eastern Carver school district to provide co-located mental health services in every elementary school.
I understand that my child has an opportunity to participate in a therapeutic camp led by two therapists from Relate Counseling Center.
For the purposes of this group, I give permission for school staff to share necessary information about my child with Relate staff, and for the Relate clinician to share necessary information about my child with the school staff.
I understand that this group is being funded through summer learning and is at no cost to me.
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With Don Cheadle’s directorial debut, Miles Ahead, opening in L.A. and NYC this weekend, I recently sat down with Ewan McGregor for an exclusive interview. In our wide-ranging conversation he talked about why he wanted to be part of the project, his thoughts on why it’s taken so long to make a film about Miles Davis, memorable moments from filming, and more. In addition, McGregor talked about why he wanted to make his directorial debut with American Pastoral (based on Philip Roth’s novel), how Alexandre Desplat will compose the score, what it was like making Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, and the chances of doing another documentary with Charley Boorman.
For those not familiar with Miles Ahead (here’s the trailer), the film tracks jazz pioneer Miles Davis’ (Cheadle) fight to own his music and his relationship with Rolling Stone journalist David Brill (McGregor). The film also stars Michael Stuhlbarg and Emayatzy Corinealdi.
Previously Cheadle explained how Miles Ahead isn’t a traditional biopic:
“You can [call it that] if you want, and there are elements of it that would make it that. But to me, that was something I was rejecting. I wasn’t interested in that, and I’m not interested by all the things that a traditional biopic does. I want to tell a hot story that’s full of his music that feels impressionistic in that it finds a way to incorporate all his musical styles and influences and ideas. It needs to feel like his approach: “I don’t care about what happened before. I’m about what’s happening now and about what’s happening next.” That’s Miles’ marching orders to me.”
- What are the chances of doing another documentary with Charley Boorman?
- :55 – Has he seen Batman v Superman?
- 1:10 – Why has it taken so long to make a film about Miles Davis?
- 2:25 – How was he presented with the project and was it an immediate “yes”?
- 3:35 – How much changed about the story during production?
- 4:20 – Memorable moments from filming.
- 5:20 – How has his “process” as an actor changed during his career?
- 7:12 – What was it like making the live-action Beauty and the Beast movie?
- 8:34 – Why did he direct American Pastoral and what it’s about.
- 10:00 – When will we see a trailer? Says we should see the film end of the year. Reveals Alexandre Desplat will be composing the score.
If you missed what I previous posted with McGregor the links are below:
- Ewan McGregor on the Possibility of an Obi-Wan Kenobi Spinoff
- Ewan McGregor Reveals How J.J. Abrams Recruited Him for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
- Ewan McGregor Confirms the ‘Trainspotting Sequel’ to Film Soon


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Infrared (IR) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy are fast, easy-to-use techniques with a history of being used for food applications such as those for measuring protein, moisture, and fat content. Food fraud and adulteration has become of particular concern to the industry over the past few years following reports of incidents in the media, with herbs and spices identified as one of the key problem areas.
This paper explores the numerous challenges materials scientists and engineers face, from the time it takes to bring new materials to market to the difficulties delivering suitable formulations and testing against specified criteria, and how those can be resolved.
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is an important technique for materials checking at various stages of the manufacturing process, but is particularly useful at the raw materials inspection stage. Raw materials come in a variety of physical forms including liquids, gels, and solids, requiring a versatile instrument with convenient, interchangeable sampling modules to cater to the entire range of raw materials encountered.
NIR Spectroscopy is a useful technique for raw materials identification and verification, but the sophistication of the technique might differ based on the sample. If the materials to be identified are spectroscopically dissimilar, it is often only necessary to use a simple distance measure such as a spectral difference for identification. If the spectra are similar, on the other hand, it may be necessary to use more sophisticated techniques which take into consideration both the intra- and inter-material spectral variation for identification and classification. The SIMCA (Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy) algorithm, a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method, provides such an example.
Herbal lifestyle products are widely used as alternatives to medicines around the world, with as many as 80% of people using them as a primary source of healthcare in developing countries. These treatments are commonly regarded by scientific papers, and on some occasions the media, as being inferior to orthodox treatment. This is due to the variation between herbal formulations which will not be present in so called ‘single-chemical’ drugs. The reasons for the aforementioned variation involve several factors including storage, environmental conditions, handling and unintentional or intentional contamination (adulteration).

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At an altitude of 1000 m, this stone villa is a balcony overlooking the Gulf of Messinia. It consists of living room with fireplace and fully equipped kitchen on the ground floor and a stair leads up to 3 bedrooms and bathroom. Includes free Wi-Fi, pool and dishwasher. …see more
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Two Irish Buildings Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Published: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The Model School Inchicore by Donaghy + Dimond Architects
Two buildings in Ireland have been selected for the 40 building shortlist for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award announced by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The Model School Inchicore by Donaghy + Dimond Architects, and Merrion Cricket Pavilion by TAKA Architects were selected by the jury.
The Jury, composed of Stephen Bates (President), Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Derviş, Dominique Jakob, Juulia Kauste and Małgorzata Omilanowska, has chosen 40 works which highlight the opportunities and the trends of today’s European territory: cities, housing, heritage and memory. The RIAI are a National Architecture Association nominator and individual nominators in Ireland are Shane O’Toole and Dr Sandra O’Connell.
Merrion Cricket Pavilion by TAKA Architects
The five finalists will be announced in mid-February and the Winner and the Emerging Architect in mid-May. The Award Ceremony will take place on 26 May 2017 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.
The 2015 winner was the Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin by Barozzi/Veiga with the collaboration of A4 studio. O'Donnell+Tuomey's Saw Swee Hock Student Centre for the London School of Economics was in the final five.
About the Mies van der Rohe Award
Prize: The Prize Winner receives €60.000 and a sculpture that evokes the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion of Barcelona. Professionals starting out on their careers have the opportunity to become an Emerging Architect Winner, and receive the sculpture together with €20,000. The prestige of the Prize and the determination to disseminate the knowledge and savoir-faire of European architects is brought forward with the organization of exhibitions and debates worldwide, bringing architecture nearer to citizens.
History of the Prize: The idea for a Prize that would recognise and commend excellence in European architecture was proposed to the European Parliament by MP Xavier Rubert de Ventós. On April 28 1987 – just under a year after the reconstruction of the Pavilion was completed – an agreement was signed between European Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana and Barcelona Mayor Pasqual Maragall to launch the ‘Mies van der Rohe Award of the European Communities’, with the first biennial edition being held in 1988 as the ‘Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture’. In 2000 the Fundació Mies van der Rohe submitted the model of the Mies van der Rohe Award – with the addition of the Emerging Architect Special Mention that recognises the work of young professionals starting out on their careers – in response to the call for proposals by the European Commission for the ‘European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture’. Upon acceptance of the Fundació’s proposal, in 2001, the Mies van der Rohe Award became the official architecture prize of the European Union.
For more information visit http://miesarch.com/.


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