GOES-R Goes Up: How New Technology Is Changing Weather Forecasting
By Hilary E. Snell
In the world of satellite technology, what goes up also tends to stay up—although next-generation advances are now sending key information about severe storms back down. That satellite, known as GOES-R, is bringing sharper insights about lightning and other factors that shed light on the timing, track, and intensity of storms. But what goes into a forecast, and how do forecasters predict the weather? In preparation for GOES-R, AER has been working for the last seven years on technology designed to improve forecasting substantially for decades to come.
Many people know that weather forecasts are based on computer models. The models themselves start with data describing the current atmospheric state, information routinely gathered from surface observations, weather balloons, and satellites. Two key satellites in this process of predicting the weather over the Americas are GOES-13 (GOES-East) and GOES-15 (GOES-West), operated by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The observations from these satellites represent critical information used by a diverse set of national and international weather forecast centers.
History, in orbit
GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Geostationary means that it orbits Earth at the same rate Earth rotates around its own axis, so it appears to be always located above a fixed point on the ground along Earth’s equator. The GOES program started with GOES-1, launched on October 16, 1975. GOES-East is located over the equator at a longitude of 75 degrees west. It’s able to view the East Coast and much of the Midwest and monitor the tropical Atlantic regions that generate many hurricanes. The other, GOES-West, is located at 135 degrees west to view the western states out into the Pacific Ocean, tracking the powerful Pacific storms that regularly affect the West Coast.
The latest satellite in the series, GOES-R, launched on November 19, 2016. The “R” stands for R-series, which represents the newest set of technology. Once in orbit, it will be renamed GOES-16. A GOES satellite consists of a number of different types of sensors designed to measure various geophysical properties of the atmosphere and space. The advanced instrumentation developed for GOES-R will significantly increase the timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of those measurements. Improved information about clouds and wind from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), a sophisticated camera that records both visible and infrared images, will improve short-term weather forecasts.
Recording the flash
The Global Lightning Mapper (GLM), a new type of camera designed specifically to record lightning flashes, will continuously measure lightning activity (in-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and cloud-to-ground), a key indicator of severe storm formation and the first-ever continuous, hemispheric-wide measurement of lightning. Together, the improved measurements from ABI and GLM will increase the warning lead time for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes and provide improved hurricane tracking and intensity forecasts. Additional sensors will provide information about solar flares and the near-space environment, leading to warnings about radio communication and GPS outages.
AER’s contributions to satellite remote sensing expertise started more than 35 years ago. In 2003, AER began preparing for GOES-R and carried out several government-sponsored concept studies to help shape the future measurement and performance requirements for the satellite. Once NOAA finalized the specifications, separate proposals were requested to build each of the instruments, the satellite itself, and the ground satellite control and data processing system. AER joined a team formed by Harris Corporation to provide a state-of-the-art solution to meet NOAA’s needs for decades to come. In May 2009, after two years of proposal preparation—including intensive written questions and an oral exam—the Harris team was selected by NOAA as the winner for the ground system development, responsible for the satellite control, instrument data processing, and data distribution.
Insights from above
AER’s role in GOES-R has been to develop the operational software that converts raw instrument measurements into geophysical parameters, including cloud cover, lightning, and sea surface temperature maps; characterization of wildfires; atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles; and space weather measurements such as the solar X-ray flux. Program success required AER to establish two key customer collaborations. First, AER worked closely with government scientists to translate algorithms developed by government and university researchers into high-quality operational software. (An algorithm, in this case, is the recipe for converting the sensor measurements into geophysical quantities such as cloud type, lightning strikes, and solar flare information.)
Along the way, AER used its scientific expertise to understand the algorithms and develop the data necessary to fully test the software before delivery to Harris. The second collaboration was with the Harris Corporation to integrate and optimize the software into the operational Product Generation System. AER did this to meet the high-availability (up time is better than 99.99 percent) and high-throughput/low-latency requirements, because the amount of data that GOES-R records is increased by more than a factor of 60 from previous satellites. An innovative software product, the AER Algorithm Workbench, was used to support both functions.
As a result of the collaborations, all the AER-developed software, representing more than 450,000 logical lines of code, was installed and tested in the ground-processing system and delivered to NOAA by May 2015. Since that time, AER has continued testing the software and working diligently to ensure the new system is ready for “live data.” AER has also been preparing plans and procedures for the postlaunch test phase of the project, which should last about six months.
Future of weather forecasting
So how will GOES-R affect you? There may soon be more accurate weather forecasts. Sometime in 2017, AER expects the validated GOES-R data to begin flowing to weather models and forecasters. The improved resolution and higher refresh rate of the GOES-R imagery (every five minutes or less) should immediately become apparent, providing a smoother and more revealing depiction of the weather. Look for these images in weather reports sometime next year. Somewhat subtler will be improvements in weather forecasts, which depend on the GOES-R data. Over time, the higher-quality, higher-resolution GOES-R data products are expected to provide improvements in accuracy and lead times for forecasts of critical weather phenomena, which are intended to affect public safety, industry, transportation, and agriculture.
GOES-R has been an exciting project for AER that has united people with different scientific and software skill sets into a cohesive team focused on the goal of having a ground system ready for launch. What started with a handful of scientists and engineers working the initial concept studies evolved into, at its peak, an integrated team of more than 60 scientists and software engineers working from AER’s headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, and a customer facility in Greenbelt, Maryland. The GOES-R series of satellites—which includes GOES-S, GOES-T, and GOES-U—is scheduled to provide the backbone of NOAA’s geostationary environmental data until 2036.
This image shows the volume of liquid water and ice in clouds using the current GOES-13 data. This data is updated every 15 minutes. GOES-R will provide higher spatial and temporal resolution imagery, resulting in a better understanding of storm formation and dynamics.
The version below shows Hurricanes Matthew and Nicole.


PARIS — L Capital Management is going shopping. The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-backed investment vehicle said Friday it had closed its third round of funding, with commitments in excess of 400 million euros, or $533 million at current exchange.
The firm, whose previous investments include the contemporary brand stable of Sandro, Maje and Claudie Pierlot, plans to buy into between 10 and 15 European midmarket lifestyle and retail brands, it said.
“They are already looking at two or three companies in Europe,” a spokesman for L Capital said, without revealing details.
There is speculation that L Capital has kicked the tires of U.K.-based retail jeweler Aurum, owner of the Mappin & Webb, Watches of Switzerland and Goldsmiths chains. Aurum was put up for sale by Landsbanki Islands hf, an Icelandic bank, last year.
The economic climate in Europe is likely to see certain family or designer-owned brands thinking twice before rejecting financing, where in the past they may have held on tight to their independence.
“European brands are particularly interesting right now, because of the financial situation. It’s not as easy for them to get funding from banks as it has been in the past,” said John Mitchell, president of retail and luxury goods consultancy Robert Burke Associates.
There are several high-end European brands that may be in the market for investment. Market sources cited Charvet, Christian Louboutin and Kiton as potential targets for investors.
But L Capital has made a habit of investing in midrange firms that have a strong retail footprint already, including Gant, Pepe Jeans and Hackett Group.
“L Capital invests in brands that are too small or do not have enough of a luxury positioning for LVMH,” HSBC analyst Antoine Belge commented.
“They are the champions of retail, and there are not many specialist retail [investment firms] out there,” noted Karine Ohana, owner of boutique M&A firm Ohana & Co.
In the midmarket segment, companies that may be seeking investors include French dancewear and shoemaker Repetto, lingerie maker La Perla and high-end linen brand Frette, according to sources. The latter two are owned by San Francisco-based JH Partners, which may be looking to make an exit.
L Capital is also likely to target brands that have strong international expansion potential, especially in emerging markets.
“Changing demographics, consumer behavior and emerging new market segments in mature economies in Europe and the U.S., an increasing wealthy middle class and emergence of important, powerful economies in China, India, South East Asia and South America create significant demand for lifestyle brands,” L Capital Management chairman Daniel Piette stated.
The investment firm’s sister fund, L Capital Asia, made two acquisitions in February. The first was a minority stake in Chinese contemporary clothing firm Trendy International Group, which owns the Ochirly brand, one of China’s leading domestic labels in the fast-fashion segment, as reported. The second is an 8 percent stake in Indian ethnicwear retailer Fabindia, which has a total of 148 stores in five markets.
EXCLUSIVE: @tomford is opening its first-ever beauty store. The boutique, which opens November 20 in London’s Covent Gardens, was designed with the over-the-top glam Ford is known for. Read the full story on WWD.com, link in bio. #wwdbeauty #wwdnews (📷: Simon Wagner) #TomFordBeauty
New York-based DJ @harleyvnewton threw a party to celebrate the holiday collection of her dress and pajama line @hvn at the Ladurée Beverly Hills. It Girls @katebosworth, @rashidajones and more joined in on the fun, which included cocktails, croque monsieur sandwiches and a photo booth. #wwdfashion (📷: Owen Kolasinski/BFA.com)
For the holidays, @Burberry partnered with 20-year-old artist @blondeymccoy on a series of three outdoor murals in downtown Manhattan. The murals are McCoy’s interpretation of a Christmas eve party, the idea of charity and the spirit of family. His third mural, pictured here, is the most personal. The image depicts McCoy’s grandparents and father in London’s Trafalgar Square in the Seventies. “My work often features lots of sentimental objects.” #wwdeye
For spring 2018, designers applied bold colors and cartoonish motifs on everything from sneakers and belts to key chains. See all the top men’s accessories trends on WWD.com. #wwdtrends (📷: George Chinsee; Prop Styling by @rnasti; Market Editor: @luiscampuzano)
The @dior-sponsored @guggenheim international gala pre-party has a history of drawing cool-girl musical acts to serenade the crowd –– and last night was no exception. @haimtheband performed songs both new and old, and lured a star-studded audience with the likes of Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Mamoudou Athie and more. #wwdeye (📷: @lexieblacklock)
In a partnership between the @metopera and the @englishnationalopera, “Marnie” was born. The opera, with costumes sponsored by @mrporterlive, is an adaptation of the 1961 thriller by Winston Graham. Arianne Phillips, who created the costumes, is no rookie: She’s styled Madonna for her tours and created costumes for a myriad of films in the past. Read WWD’s interview with Phillips, where she talks about her inspiration for the opera’s costumes on WWD.com #wwdfashion
@barneysnyc took a different approach to their holiday windows this year. Instead of Christmas decor, Barneys tapped @thehaasbrothers to tell a story of positivity, gratitude and inclusivity via heartwarming silliness and humor. “It’s about kids and it’s about coming together and being family and loving each other,” said Simon Haas. #wwdfashion (📷: @joshuascottphoto)
Beauty influencer @kandeejohnson makes her foray into hair care with a collaboration with @ogx_beauty — making it the first time that OGX has teamed up for a product creation. The collab includes shampoos and conditioners in three scents. At 39 and a mom, Johnson is a different profile than the emerging social media stars, but is considered one of the pioneers of the digital beauty influencer world. Read WWD’s interview with her on wwd.com, including the strangest beauty product she’s ever tried #wwdbeauty


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Black and White Pepper at the Organic Africa Pavilion 2021
This year, ProFound will be presenting Black and White Pepper at the Organic Africa Pavilion 2021. Read the article below to know more about CEPIBA and their pepper from São Tomé and Príncipe.
Pepper has been cultivated in São Tomé and Príncipe for a long time. The islands have an agroecological setting that has always favored the cultivation of pepper and vanilla. As agriculture was dominated by cocoa and coffee, pepper was not promoted until recently. It is now grown in small plots as a cash crop. It is a diversification of crops and a welcome agroecological improvement, especially for small farms.
Experimentation with export-quality black pepper began over fifteen years ago. The commercial viability became a reality only in the last ten years with the consolidation and expansion of the Cooperativa de Exportação de Pimenta e Especiarias (CEPIBA): the Export Cooperative of Pepper and Vanilla.
On the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, producers are organized in a dynamic cooperative. From 2005 to 2007, the communities organized themselves into associations of pepper producers. On December 19, 2007, the First Constituent Assembly of CEPIBA was held in Río Lima. It consists of 22 member associations, 5 in the autonomous region of Príncipe and 17 in São Tomé. Each association has a statute and an elected leadership. Each one is represented in the cooperative by two delegates during ordinary or extraordinary assemblies. It has 438 paying members, of which 155 women and 283 men. The cooperative currently has 112 hectares of pepper plantations.
Each producer has his own plantation. The pepper is grown in a natural agroforestry system, such as shaded cocoa. It is combined with crops like breadfruit, mango, papaya, banana and other spices such as ginger, turmeric, melegueta pepper (Afromomum melegueta) but also taro (Colocasia esculenta).
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The pepper is exported in polypropylene bags with liner, 25 kg bags for white pepper and 20kg bags for black pepper. When the pepper is exported in containers, a cardboard paper protection handle is used. The organic origin and traceability are duly indicated. Export is done in 20ft containers. The production forecast for 2021 is of 30 tonnes, depending on the rains.
The cooperative has an Internal Control System that allows group certification. Since 2009 CEPIBA is certified organic according to EU regulations by ECOCERT SA. The cooperative is also certified with Fair for Life.
Currently, the cooperative is finalizing the procedures to obtain the Protected Geographical Identification certification.
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There has been a significant surge in the number of dengue patients in Rajasthan. The hospitals in the districts are full of vector-borne diseases and other seasonal diseases in OPD. Also, the number of patients in IPD are rapidly increasing.
Seasonal diseases including dengue have taken a toll on the health of people in Rajasthan. There are long lines of patients in OPDs in every district. Along with the testing centres, the number of patients admitted to the hospital is also increasing rapidly.
Given this, on Tuesday, the Medical and Health Minister Dr. Raghu Sharma held a meeting with all medical officers, health officers CMHO and officers of the concerned department of all the districts regarding controlling the spread of disease. Also, the leave of medical officers of all the districts has been cancelled till further orders.
Dengue-free Rajasthan campaign
The Health Department has directed to run a Dengue-free Rajasthan campaign from October 20 to November 3 for the prevention of seasonal diseases. For this, a control room and Rapid Response Teams will be constituted at block levels in every district, which will run 24×7 and people can call on them to get information regarding the disease and its prevention.
Perform anti larval activities in areas with dengue patients
The Minister directed all the officers to become active expeditiously in those places where the maximum number of dengue and malaria cases are coming. Spray anti larval medicine in houses and get fogging done where the number of dengue cases are high in the district. The teams will also distribute doctor’s advice and medicines to the patients
Instructions to keep adequate stock of medicines
Outdoor as well as indoor treatment will be provided to the patients coming to all Community Health Centers (CHCs), sub-district hospitals. Adequate stock of essential medicines used in these diseases must be kept.
600 teams will do a dengue survey
The dengue-free campaign has been duly started in the district from Wednesday. For this, the leave of all health workers has been cancelled. 600 teams have been formed for dengue-free campaigns across the district. All these teams will conduct door-to-door surveys across the district to identify the patients. The patients are asked to start their treatment at the primary level so that the situation can be controlled in time.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
- If any person has a high fever, headache, or redness on the face or body, there is a high risk of platelets going below 20 thousand. Seek medical advice immediately. The patient should check the dengue profile IGM and IGG after seeking the doctor’s advice.
- Due to dengue, a patient experiences a shortage of platelets in the blood banks. They should get their CBC checked at least once a day so that the count of platelets in the blood can be monitored. If the count of platelets is less than 20 thousand, then it’s considered a serious condition.
- In the case of children, there are complaints of worsening cases even after recovery due to a drop in blood pressure level. So, the children should be kept in constant contact with the doctor for 4-5 days.
Follow Ayurveda remedies with Allopathy treatment
Along with allopathy treatment, patients suffering from dengue can recover quickly with Ayurveda treatment or home remedies.
- Keep yourself hydrated by taking liquids like coconut water, fruit juices, and fennel water as much as possible. To make sure your water intake is not low, drink a minimum of 3 to 4 litres of water throughout the day.
- Eat more and more citrus fruits like amla, kiwi, orange. Also, include pomegranate and papaya in your diet.
- Eat light food at home like khichdi and moong-dal. Drink papaya leaf juice at least once or twice a day, it is best for improving platelets.
- Amla and Giloy juice also help in improving the immunity and platelets of the patient.


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If you like your love stories with a healthy side of serial killer intrigue, then do I have a movie for you. Beast, starring Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, marks the feature-length directorial debut for Michael Pearce.
The movie follows Moll (Buckley), a 27 year-old woman who still resides with her family upon a little, isolated island. Soon, she becomes entangled with a mysterious man named Pascal (Flynn). She’s besotted, decides to leave her family to be with him, and lives happily ever after. Or she might, if Pascal weren’t possibly a serial killer. Twists, turns, and slow-burn suspense follow.
Both leads are getting rave reviews for their performances, and director Pearce is also receiving praise for his work as writer and director. There are reportedly numerous surprises in the screenplay, so don’t be shocked if Pascal is a ghost, Moll is the real killer, and the island town is actually inside a miniature snow globe.
Check out the trailer below:
Beast will arrive in select theaters on May 11th.

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We asked how you like to travel: in a group, by yourself, or with one other person. Here’s how you responded:
Tamaya Resort soothed from the beginning. First, traditional baked bread slathered with cinnamon butter began a cozy afternoon by the fireplace as rain tumbled over the Sandia Mountains.
Pat Conroy said, “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
In the fine city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, there’s so much to be passionate about. Here one can rub tweedy elbows with challenging scholars, have a slice of the best pizza of your life or join an African drumming class.
I’m not one for the spotlight. Chris Schroder and I were on a TV show once and I did not say one word. But when you want to make a video on a two-person trip and one is the expert videographer, then you’re left to be on camera. I love riverboat cruising so much I got through the filming of our video on Emerald Waterways. I hope you enjoy it.
As a rooftop bar aficionado, I had my ultimate experience at Sky Bar, located 820 feet in the air on the 63rd floor of Lebua in Bangkok, Thailand.
Wandering through downtown Anchorage, visitors feel the instant charm of Alaska’s northern hospitality. Strolling through the downtown area on foot is the easiest way to see Alaska’s largest city. Make the Historic Anchorage Hotel your home base to explore all the nearby attractions.
I felt a little guilty walking out of The DeSoto Savannah with a huge plastic cup full of cucumber spritzer at 2:00 in the afternoon but I was reassured open drinks are legal in the Historic District. We were on a Sip and Stroll tour with the concierge of the hotel, Kolin Podell, who was leading us on a gin-fueled tour of one of my favorite cities, sharing its history and stories about some of the famous residents, past and present.
A new non-profit, Discover Puerto Rico, was founded to promote Puerto Rico. CEO Brad Dean shared just a few reasons to visit this year:
I’m not sure which I’ve lost most, sunglasses or umbrellas. With Bluetooth tracking through its app you’ll never leave The Weatherman umbrella behind. The app also notifies you about the weather and send you alerts so you know whether to take the umbrella along with you.

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Bucket Trucks For Sale By Owner – Swag Custom Rides has changed direction over the past few years, building a top-level radical vehicle from their extensive store in New Britain, Connecticut. During that time they have carried out the entire classic car upgrade; from multi-denominational muscle riding to classy trucks, while gathering applause and appreciation for their innovative fabrication and out-of-the-box manufacturing techniques.
That in and of itself is a big achievement for every major custom car company, but Swag has done it very differently from other restaurant shops. Swag is the first and only non-profit automotive restoration company in the country. By hiring young men who have had severe problems changing lives in the past and placing them through challenging training in the field of car recovery, Swags not only returned the cars to the highest standards, but they also helped “restore” lives that had been lost. and suffer through difficulties along their personal path.
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So, to further increase their presence and to help people in need, Swag decided to build a hot pickup that would be auctioned for charity. After collaborating with the Special Olympics Foundation and Barrett-Jackson, the team in Swag designed a wild building that would certainly increase enthusiasm. What better marriage to Hot Rod Trucks than the most famous Ford F-100 pickups and Blue Oval ever built: Ford Mustang!
So the design team came up with a plan that would take some of the best aspects of one of the most popular Ponycar models, the Boss Mustang, and combine them into the F-100 hard-working pickup style. The main focus of Swag is to design a truck that can be offered by Ford dealers during the muscle car era. On paper, the design looks perfect. Now it’s up to the Swag to see this over-building produce results.
After finding and getting a good builder from 1966 F-100, the truck was taken to the shop to be dismantled. After being brought to its shell, bodywork was started on Ford in need. Rust removal is the first, but fortunately the truck’s skin is in good condition at first. The swag is fixed to make modifications to the body and structure, shave the handle and ensure the gap is better than what the factory has ever done. There is no filler used in this building.
There are special touches throughout. The front fascia takes hours to do it right. The nose, bezel, and grille are all specially made, playing the style of the 1970 Mustang. This is a deep engineering that the crew in Swag pulled onto the tee. The lower mosquito net came from the 1969 Stang which was modified to fit the truck. A special roll pan is then built in the back, complete with marker lights and exhaust cutouts. Finally, the Mustang taillights are integrated behind the rear body to give the appearance of a complete pony.
After spending nearly 1,000 hours on the body, it’s now ready to be painted. It is polished in a custom Swag red metal using PPG products, mixed at home by their paint technician. Widely extended lines are carried out in dark gray metal to compensate for the vibrant body color.
The Roadster Shop offers a special laser cut chassis that is only filled with the best suspension components. RideTech’s airborne suspension handles these tasks, helping to get the exact position of the horse where the Swag wants it. The adjustable QA1 dual shock is used on the side to get the suspension rotated. The power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering system helps drive this in the right direction. To stop power, the Hydo-boost power brake booster suppresses Wilwood disc brakes, which are installed at all four corners.
To ride a motorbike on the journey of this amazing restomod, the members in Swag knew exactly what they wanted from the start. Ford Racing offers a Ford Performance Parts 5.0L Coyote engine equipped with a Roush supercharger at the top. With a little massage, this combo is good for 750 hp on the rear wheels. Custom CNC swags all parentheses so that everything works. Sean Hyland Motorsports supplies power steering pumps and alternators.
The 4L60E transmission with a simple shift makes this trip through the gear and then feeds the sturdy back of the 9-inch Ford filled with 3.73 teeth at the rear. A painless cord kit is installed to tie all truck systems. Another cool custom touch is the shaker spoon, which once again gives a shout to the Mustang performance of the muscle car era.
A lot of hard work got into the cockpit of this cruiser, and it was influenced by the original Boss Mustang. It starts with a disposable interior, featuring a special leather-coated bucket in front with a matching console and a cover leather headliner made with a subwoofer cover. Power windows offer modern conveniences, along with the Restomod air climate system, which is controlled by the iPad application. The Flaming River steering column and the Dakota Digital Mustang gauge cluster (with special logos) complete the list of interior builds.
Behind, the wooden bubinga bed adds a touch of natural class to this wild truck. To add extra bling, the Thrust Torq 20×9 wheel is added to the angle. They use Pirelli P Zero rubber to compensate for the large wheel style, restomod style.
The iPad installed not only controls the climate, but the RideTech airborne suspension and audio system are also regulated via the device. For modern talent, the Dakota Digital LED lights in the front and rear help this trip see even on the darkest days.
The truck was carried out in an extraordinary four-month period before the big night in Barrett-Jackson where he was auctioned. Before that happened, members of the Ford Racing team, Joey Logano, signed the dash of the truck for a striking extra touch. All proceeds from building and selling go to the Special Olympic Foundation. The F-100 boss was hammered and belonged to the new owners John and Rickie Dilemme.
John Muratori, CEO of Swag, found an enlightening experience, to say the least. “This is the story of a building team that trains recovered addicts and young people, along with the direct experience of Special Olympic athletes who work with us, which creates an unforgettable experience.” This Boss F-100 is a truly unique building and will continue to amaze the crowd for years to come.
1966 Ford F-100
Builder: Swag Custom Rides
Engine: Small Ford Racing Coyote Block 5.0 Roush Ford Racing Supercharger
Displacement: 302 inches
Bore: 3.63 inches
Stroke: 3.65 inches
Compression Ratio: 11: 1
Cylinder Head: Aluminum head, 37.3mm / 13mm intake, 31.8mm / 13mm exhaust
Rotating Assembly: Forged steel rod, forged steel crankshaft, aluminum hypereutectic piston
Valvetrain: DOHC 4V, twin independent timing camshaft
Ignition: Ford 5.0 ECM power package
Muffler: Made specifically by Swag, polished 3 inch stainless steel, muffler Black Widow Race Venom
Output: 800 hp
Engine Works / Assembly: Ford Racing
Tuner: Swag Custom Rides
Transmission: FR70W four-speed automatic with simple shift
Rear Axle: 9-inch Ford with 3:73
Chassis: SPECster Roadster Shop
Front Suspension: RideTech air bag, adjustable shock QA1
Rear Suspension: RideTech airbags, QA1 adjustable shocks, RideTech Air Pod control system
Brakes: Wilwood front four piston piston calipers and four piston rear disc brakes, ultralight and two-piece rotor with Hydro-boost system
Wheels: American Race Torq Thrust II
Rim: 20×12 rear, 20×9 front
Tires: Nitto Invo, 245/30 ZR 20 front, 345/25 ZR 20 rear
Upholstery: custom center console; rear panel, pillar, and headliner by Walt Carroll
Material: Burned Copper Leather
Seat: The original Jaguar bucket seat is specially made to fit the interior of the F-100
Shifter: Lokar Dash: Made specifically by Swag with Billet ventilation, controls iPad with Bluetooth
Instrumentation: Dakota Digital from 1964 Falcon / Mustang with Dream Ride’s custom logo
Stereo System: Control and iPad console by High Fidelity Auto Sport
Truck Beds: Made specifically by Swag using wood bubinga from Shepard Brook Carpentry
Air Conditioning: Restomod Air
Harness: Flavorless Performance Products utilize cable harness
Lights: LED Dakota Digital
Votes: Autosport High Fidelity uses Audison
Paint: Swag Custom Crimson Candy Red PPG DBC
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Panthers Down Hammers, Remain Undefeated
Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:28:24 GMT —
The Albany Panthers remain undefeated in the PIFL with a 64-51 win over the Alabama Hammers.
John Harris tallied three touchdown receptions as Albany pulled away with a flurry of second half scores. In the fourth quarter, Alabama moved to within 57-51 before Harris silenced the Hammers rally with his final touchdown catch.
Albany moves to 3-0 for the 2013 season with a bye coming next week. The Panthers again on Friday, April 5 against the Knoxville Nighthawks.

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I am a well-known documentaries enthusiast. I find them to be informative and insightful. The main streaming channels like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and others have plenty to offer but they each require a subscription. Lately, I began to look for documentaries that are legally free to watch and do not infringe on copyrights and found a few good options.
A simple Google search for “free documentaries” has a curated list of documentaries organized by topics. Each movie option lists all the channels where it is available to watch, including those that are free of charge:
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At times a reading both fun and exhilarating, and occasionally periodic moments of disgust or despair. But between these covers hatred is seriously examined and accounted for. As the back cover blurbs suggest, there turns out to be absolutely no hope for anyone's redemption. And only a small pers...
Ένα αλληγορικό κείμενο πάνω στα όρια της κακίας, του νάνου, που ενυπάρχει σε όλους μας, μια βουτιά στο άδυτο της μισανθρωπίας και του μηδενισμού.An allegorical text on the borders of malice, on the dwarf, which is inherent in all of us, a dip in the sanctuary of human misanthropy and nihilism.
But sitting here, old and alone, looking back—looking back over my life, it is you, my god, that I think of. For it is you who have been my life, you who consume and burn all things like fire. You who leave nothing in your wake. My life is what I have lived in you. The cruel, bitter, rich life you h...
The Dwarf is a strange little book written by a Swedish Nobel Prize winner some time during WWII. It’s a rather allegoric story narrated by a dwarf living on the court in an unnamed Italian city probably in the 15th century, but actually all the hints point us in the same direction as Machiavelli’s ...
Bleak, creepy New Testament fanfic that I found in my cousin Holly's room. This is what I thought the gnostic gospels were going to be like.

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The table-topping Chiefs have announced their team to take on the Lions this Saturday night, with several changes to their forward pack.
Flanker Sam Cane gets a start with Tanerau Latimer moving to the left of the scrum while Liam Messam is out with a rib injury.
One of last week’s try scoring props, Toby Smith, gets his first start since his injury in round one, while Sona Taumalolo is named on the bench.
Lock Brodie Retallick has been given his first rest of the year, which sees Michael Fitzgerald starting in the number five jersey.
Kane Thompson comes back in at No. 8 after a minor neck injury as Scott Waldrom, Tawera Kerr-Barlow and Maritino Nemani come on to the reserve bench
1. Toby Smith, 2. Hika Elliot, 3. Ben Tameifuna, 4. Craig Clarke (c), 5. Michael Fitzgerald, 6. Tanerau Latimer, 7. Sam Cane, 8. Kane Thompson, 9. Brendon Leonard, 10. Aaron Cruden, 11. Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 12. Sonny Bill Williams, 13. Richard Kahui, 14. Lelia Masaga, 15. Andrew Horrell
Replacements: 16. Mahonri Schwalger, 17. Arizona Taumalolo, 18. Alex Bradley, 19. Scott Waldrom, 20. Tawera Kerr- Barlow, 21. Jackson Willison, 22. Maritino Nemani


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SAS or SARL are two legal forms popular with French entrepreneurs. Knowing the specificities of each of these structures is essential to know which one is best able to meet your specific needs as a professional.
As a reminder: SAS means a simplified joint-stock company, while a SARL means a limited liability company. For more details on the procedures associated with each business creation, see also: create a SAS and SARL creation. What is AGI? How is it calculated?
SAS and SARL creation process
The SARL like the SAS can be formed by several partners, or by a single partner. In this case, we speak of EURL (a one-person company with limited liability for the SARL) & of SASU (a one-person simplified joint-stock company). In SARL, the maximum limit on the number of partners is set at 100. In SAS, there is no limit.
SARL and SAS have very similar creation formalities. Thus, you will need to take the following steps in both cases:
- Drafting of company statutes
- Designation of partners
- Define duration of existence for the company
- Define a corporate purpose for the company
- Make a capital contribution and specify its nature (cash, nature, industry)
With regard to the declaration of the company, the procedures for the SAS and the SARL are also similar. In particular, it is necessary to complete an M0 form and to publish a notice in a journal of legal notices. What Is a Financial Plan, and How Can I Make One?
Appointment of a contribution auditor
Since 2017, the SARL and the SAS are not required to appoint a contribution auditor, if:
- The company’s total contributions in kind are less than 30,000 euros;
- The majority of the company’s share capital is not made up of contributions in kind.
On the other hand, the shares of the SARL are all of the same categories. SAS shares, for their part, may have different statuses.
The legal status of the spouse in SARL and SAS
The spouse of a partner in SARL is better protected than the spouse in SAS. Indeed, for a partner married under the communist regime, the spouse must be informed in SARL. He is entitled to claim half of the titles if the company understands the contribution of a common good.
In SAS, on the other hand, the contributions of common goods for a married couple do not require information or prior agreement.
In addition, the majority of managers of SARL can designate their spouses as collaborating spouses. This status authorizes him to exercise activity in the company and to obtain full social protection. This process can be carried out at a low cost because the spouse is not paid. The formalities are also simplified (no payslip, no employment contract, etc.).
In SAS, there is no way to recognize the place or the contribution of a collaborating spouse to the functioning of the company. How to buy shares in 2022? Complete guide
Running a SARL vs SAS: the main differences
The SARL is founded by partners and managed by one or more managers named in the articles of association at the time of the creation of the company, or later in a separate act. The managers of an LLC are necessarily natural persons.
The SAS is managed by a president who can be a natural person, but also a legal person. It is important to note that there can only be one president of SAS (against several managers in SARL). Managing directors may be appointed in addition to the president to represent the company and make management decisions.
In addition to the chairman, other management bodies can be set up by the partners freely.
The social regime for SAS managers vs SARL
One of the major differences between the SARL and the SAS lies in the regime and the social protection granted to the managers. The SAS considers its managers, as soon as they receive remuneration, as assimilated employees. They are therefore affiliated with the general social security scheme.
The manager of SARL, meanwhile, is considered to be an independent worker (in the case of the majority of managers of SARL). He contributes to the social security of the self-employed, whether he receives a salary or not. If he is a minority and receives remuneration, he is affiliated with the general social security system. Do you know what the most attractive zodiac signs are?
Both schemes offer their own advantages and disadvantages, but in this respect, the SARL is more advantageous than the SAS since it allows the partners to choose their social charges, depending on the number of shares.
To learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of the two structures, see also:
- SAS advantages and disadvantages
- SARL advantages and disadvantages
In general, self-employed workers pay less social security contributions than assimilated employees, but in return, they benefit from less protection, particularly in terms of retirement.
Since 2013, TNS partners who work in companies subject to the corporate tax must also pay social security contributions on dividends whose amount exceeds by 10% the sum obtained with: share capital + issue premiums + amount received in their account.
Taxation in SARL and SAS
In principle, the SARL as the SAS are subject to corporation tax, but in both cases, it is possible to opt for income tax for several years at the creation of the company.
There is an exception in SARL: that of the family SARL. Indeed, LLCs that are formed by people with a direct family relationship (or brothers and sisters, spouses, and PACS partners) can opt for the regime of partnerships and be taxed with unlimited IR. With the exception of the family SARL, therefore, the SARL and the SAS are subject to the same tax rules.
The operation of the SARL vs SAS
The SAS allows much more freedom than the SARL in terms of operation. Indeed, the rules of the LLC are very framed by the Commercial Code and leave little room for the free will of the partners. This can be an advantage for partners who need a clear and secure framework for their company. In return, the SARL offers less freedom of operation.
Depending on the nature of the activity, the profile of the associates, and the expected growth, it may be more advantageous to opt for one or the other of the companies. Neither is better than the other, it just depends on the type of structure you are looking for.
In general, entrepreneurs who are called upon to create and supervise large-scale projects with very different partner profiles prefer SAS. The SARL is ideal for family activities, as well as for companies with 2 to 3 partners.
To facilitate the management of their company, entrepreneurs can be accompanied byFINOM. FINOM is a turnkey financial solution for professionals that allows you to open a French IBAN account in 48 hours online. You get physical and virtual bank cards with 0% commission and up to 3% cashback.
FINOM also offers an intelligent solution for controlling and managing expenses and an invoicing tool for creating invoices in a few clicks. FINOM also integrates with major accounting software. As soon as the SARL or SAS is opened, a client can quickly open a professional account online.
SARL and SAS creation costs
Because the steps to create a SARL and a SAS are very similar, the associated costs are too. In addition to the costs of administrative procedures such as the publication of a legal announcement or the costs of the registry, the drafting of the articles of association can also be an expensive process if the partners choose to use professionals.
In SARL, the commercial code regulates the structure quite well, but in SAS, the use of a professional for the drafting of the statutes is often necessary, a fortiori if the number of associates is high and to clarify the role of the various bodies of management. It takes between €1,500 and €2,000 to have your statutes drawn up by a professional.
In addition, different rates apply to the sale of shares. In SARL, the registration fee is 3% (after deduction of 23,000 euros – in proportion to the percentage of shares held). In SAS, on the other hand, the observation of an assignment is simply made by transfer and subject to a duty of 0.1%. It is therefore the SAS that is more advantageous in terms of the sale and transfer of shares. What Are the Benefits and Properties of Aquamarine Stone
The SAS and the SARL have many points in common in terms of their creation and management. Their main differences are at the level of the social protection of the leaders and the costs of the transfer of shares.
Generally, professionals agree that the SARL is suitable for smaller projects or family projects. The SAS is ideal for large-scale projects which allow the entry of several associates and which require a more flexible mode of management.

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A home is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and apparently, that tab just hit its highest level in history.
The median value of all homes in the United States in June surpassed $200,000, up 7 percent from a year ago, according to Zillow, a real estate listing company.
Valuing homes nationally is a tricky business because so many factors play into that value, including location, condition, lot size, aesthetics, and, yes, even Feng Shui. And there is no shortage of economists and data companies and real estate sale sites offering their perspective on current home values.
The National Association of Realtors has reported the median sale price of a U.S. home at well over $200,000 for more than a year, but that measure reflects only homes sold, not every house in every neighborhood that exists in America.
That sale price has shifted higher not just because of inherent home value but because of the mix of homes selling. Currently, more expensive homes are selling because there is a severe shortage of low-priced starter homes for sale. Higher volume on the pricier end shifts the median higher. If rental landlords suddenly dumped a few million low-priced homes on the market, and they sold fast, that median would shift lower immediately.
Zillow's index is factoring in all homes, not just homes that recently sold, although that is the basis for comparison.
"When we train our models, we observe the sales that actually happen, and then we're able to extrapolate that information to price every other home," said Svenja Gudell, Zillow's chief economist. "You take the characteristics of the house and use that to price the home." (It's called a "hedonic" pricing index, if you really want to know.)

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Wall Street, the Week in Review
$DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX
Wall Street had a good week in terms of gainerss, but volume was light, pointing to a lack of conviction among investors who spent the week digesting MSM’s headlines.
The tech-heavy NAS Comp led the major indices higher, adding 2.8%, while the S&P 500 and the DJIA advanced 2.0% and 1.8%, respectively.
Friday, 3 of America’s biggest banks reported higher profits, with assistance from President Trup’s tax reform passed late last year.
JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) reported a record Quarterly profit, while Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) topped all Street analyst expectations.
Banks are expected to be major beneficiaries of the tax reform, which sharply lowered corporate tax rates.
Comparing each of the effective tax rates from last year to this year, the 3 big Wall Street banks that reported earnings Friday appeared to have saved roughly $1.6-B altogether.
Q-1 Y 2018 earnings season will give investors and their 1st good look into how President Trump’s tax law is impacting Corporate America. Publicly traded banks are the 1st major industry to report their results each Quarter.
Friday, the major US stock market indexes finished at: DJIA -122.91 at 24360.14, NAS Comp -33.60 at 7106.65, S&P 500 -7.69 at 2656.30
Volume: Trade on the NYSE came in at 718-M/shares exchanged
- NAS Comp +2.9% YTD
- Russell 2000 +0.9% YTD
- S&P 500 -0.7% YTD
- DJIA -1.5% YTD
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The Oregon State University Extension Service will open a gardening hotline on March 30 in Multnomah County, the first time Extension has had one there since 2003. Master Gardeners will staff the hotline Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public can also ask them questions in person by stopping by their office in Portland at 2701 N.W. Vaughn St., Suite 450, during these same hours. The office is located at the headquarters of the West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, which is providing the equipment, phone line and office space as part of a new partnership.
More than 200 nurses, physicians, dietitians and other health-care practitioners have taken an online course offered by Oregon State University's Ecampus that advises how to conduct the conversations. Developed by the Oregon Childhood Hunger Initiative, the course also has been accessed by another 2,500 people since October 2008.
Oregon State University will host its 33rd annual gerontology conference April 2-3. The conference, which is aimed at health and human service professionals but is also open to the public, will feature 40 educational workshops. Keynote speakers will be Brenda Sulick, the director of federal health policy at the Alzheimer's Association, and Jerry Cohen, the state director for AARP Oregon.
Sixteen high school students from across the state have been awarded State 4-H Scholarship Awards through the OSU Extension Service 4-H Youth Development Program.
Oregon State University Extension office in Lincoln County and the Oregon Coast Community College Small Business Development Center will offer a seminar that promotes local self-reliance through three cornerstones of energy, community and economy Wednesday, March 25, 2009, beginning at 10 a.m. at Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City.
Oregon State University is taking applications for 48 Oregon middle school students to attend the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp this summer at OSU.


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The Canfax average steer and heifer prices closed the week at $112.00/cwt and $110.50/cwt respectively, up $1.50-2.00/cwt from the previous week. Bids did strengthen throughout the course of the week, but the majority of the dressed trade was reported at $187.00 delivered. Last week showlist volumes were the largest reported this year. Showlist volumes were inflated by large captive supplies, and as producers listed cattle on speculation of the stronger prices. With the Canadian dollar trading above parity, US packer inquiries were generally light last week. Accumulated sale volumes totaled 19,200. Canadian fed cattle exports for the week ending July 28th totaled 5,385.
The Canfax average steer price was $0.49/cwt higher while heifers strengthened $0.47/cwt. 600-800 lb steers eased $0.25-0.50/cwt lower while larger feeders over 800 lbs saw good demand and prices generally $1.00-1.50/cwt higher than the previous week. 4-600lb heifers traded fully steady. Alberta auction volumes totaled just over 5,000 head last week which is the second lowest reported volume this year. Canadian feeder exports to the US for the week ending July 28th totaled 589.
Last week D1, D2 cows traded fully steady with live trade reported from $74.00-85.00/cwt. D3 cows averaged $70.10/cwt, down $0.15/cwt from the previous week. Reported rail bids were generally $1.00/cwt higher than the previous week. Butcher bulls traded $0.50/cwt lower to average $93.44/cwt. Canadian non-fed exports for the week ending July 28th totaled 3,438.
• Alberta/Saskatchewan showlist volumes have likely peaked for August
• Alberta/Saskatchewan August 1st cattle on feed is reported 6% lower than the same time last year
• US prices appear to be trending higher
• Processing margins have turned negative
• Live cattle and beef exports could slow with the Canadian dollar trading above parity
• Carcass weights remain seasonally large
For more detailed information on markets this week please visit the Canfax website www.canfax.ca.


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Windsor’s finance department and town board expect increases in retail sales tax revenue, an increase in tax collection and other fluctuations in the 2016 budget.
Town board members opened the budget up to residents during a public hearing at their Monday town board meeting.
The budget was based on the strategic plan developed by the town and an earlier workshop held on Oct. 10.
“The last few years have been better than expected on the revenue front,” materials presented to the board Monday reported. “As a result we are able to increase our operations budget while continuing to fund an extensive capital improvement plan.”
After three successful years of revenue collection, the board increased revenue expectations on retail sales tax in 2016.
Assessed valuation – the dollar amount assigned to properties for tax evaluation – has increased over the last year. Staff expects this to increase property tax collections in 2016 by $882,245.
Retail Sales Tax
In order to budget retail sales tax, the town averages the collection from the three years before the new year. For 2016, this include 2013, 2014 and the projected totals for 2015.
Retail sales tax for 2016 is budgeted for $8 million. Total retail sales tax collected under the newly implemented .75 percent rate is estimated at $1.4 million.
Construction Use Tax
Staff expects there to be 258 permits for single family homes in 2016.
Based on that and the 3.2 percent Use Tax rate, the total construction use tax for 2016 is budgeted at $1.23 million.
Like the retail sales tax, staff uses the average of 2013, 2014 and 2015.
The total use tax expected with the new .75 percent rate is estimated to be $289.157.
Windsor saw an increase of approximately $73 million – 21 percent over last year – in assessed valuation.
The town’s mill levy remains at 12.03 mills and should produce a tax increase in tax collections of approximately $882,245, according to materials. The increase in funds will go toward the town’s general fund.
For 2016, the town expects a beginning balance of $8.7 million in general fund at the beginning of the year. During the year, staff expects the town will collect $15 million in revenue and spend about the same in expenditures.
The largest use of the general fund money – 27 percent – goes to the parks and recreation department, art and heritage, the cemetery and community events.
New full time employees and staff for the Community Recreation Center expansion required $412,717 out of the 2016 budget.
In 2015, the town had approximately 113 full-time employees. In 2016, that total is expected to rise to approximately 126.
“We had talked about adding people,” Director of Finance Dean Moyer said. “Turns out this is going to be a large year for adding people.”
New staff includes an administrative specialist for the economic development department, a planning technician, one new information technology manager and 12 employees for the CRC expansion.
Existing full time employees also included a pay bump of 3 percent in 2016, costing a total – including benefits and taxes – of $197,765.
Staff expects operating and personnel costs to increase by 6.6 percent compared to 2015.
The town board and staff developed a list of capital improvement projects over the next five years.
In 2016, the CRC expansion, railroad quiet zone project, Kyger Reservoir, road improvements and the public works facility sit near the top of the list for completion. The town also plans two drainage projects in the Law Basin.
“That’s nearly half of our entire budget,” Moyer said during the meeting.
In the three previous years, capital improvement plans have benefits from higher revenue.
For 2016, the board decided to dedicate severance tax revenue to the capital improvement plan, which should bolster projects into 2020.
At the beginning of the year, town officials expect the capital fund to start with $11.6 million. In 2016, the town is budgeted to take in $9.4 million and spend $11.7 million of the fund’s money, leaving an ending balance of $9.3 million.
Overall, all funds will start the year with a total of $60 million. During the course of 2016, the town will spend $57.4 million and take in $45.1 million.
In total, the town will have $105.1 million for the funds, a combination of the starting balance and projected collection.
Moyer clarified that the big fluctuations in spending and collection in 2015 and into 2016 is due to bigger-ticket items such as the CRC and planned public works facility.
He also mentioned that the $600,000 increase to the pay of the town manager, finance department, human resources, town hall staff and economic development is a book keeping clarification.
Those staff members will not actually receive a pay bump of that amount. Instead, Moyer had to put the $600,000 – which will be used to pay cash for the public works facility – somewhere in expenditures and arbitrarily chose that fund.


text: The Otherkin Lexicon is a specialized dictionary of more than three hundred words and phrases used in the way of talk of the communities of otherkin, therianthropes, and similar peoples. (This abridged edition gives over one hundred words and phrases only.) Much of this jargon is only used by the communities in question, or with different senses than in standard talk. Their way of talk sometimes makes them difficult to understand. This dictionary gives jargon from parts of those communities in English, as well as those in other languages, such as Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Ukrainian. Every definition gives source citations in endnotes, to show that the words are usually used as told here. View the Otherkin Lexicon in the file format of PDF.


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The Vollum comprises a vibrant and diverse scientific community focused on understanding fundamental biological mechanisms. Learn about our faculty & labs
The Vollum Institute is a privately endowed research institute at Oregon Health & Science University dedicated to basic research that will lead to new treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases. Vollum scientists have broad-ranging interests that coalesce around molecular neurobiology and cellular physiology. Their work has transformed the field of neuroscience and, in particular, have provided important advances in the study of synaptic transmission, neuronal development, neurotransmitter transporters, ion channels and the neurobiology of disease.
Learn more about the Vollum's mission
Neuroscience Post-Baccalaureate Initiative is recruiting scholars for the 2019 program
The Vollum Institute is proud to support the new Neuroscience Post-Baccalaureate Initiative at OHSU, and two of the 2018 scholars are currently training with Vollum scientists. Applications for the 2019 program, which begins in July, are due March 1.
Get more details about the Post-Bacc Initiative and the application process
James Frank, Ph.D., joins the Vollum Institute
The Vollum Institute is thrilled to welcome Dr. James Frank, Vollum Fellow and Research Assistant Professor.
Dr. Frank received his undergraduate training in Chemistry at the University of British Columbia and was a Ph.D. student in Organic Chemistry with Prof. Dirk Trauner at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich. He is an expert in membrane receptor signaling and has been a leader in photopharmacology, which entails the use of synthetic chemistry to generate signaling molecules that can be reversibly switched on or off by light. Photopharmacology is similar to optogenetics, whereby researchers use light-sensitive membrane channels to activate the firing of specific neurons in intact neural circuits. Optogenetic methods have transformed the field of neuroscience and allowed researchers to determine the functional or behavioral consequences of stimulating very specific subsets of neurons. Photopharmacology allows for a similar but much finer level of molecular control of signaling in neurons — light-switchable molecules can be designed to stimulate endogenous signaling pathways and then deployed to determine how activation of that pathway in neurons regulates neuronal physiology.
While at the LMU, Dr. Frank developed a number of photo-switchable diacyglycerols (PhoDAGs) that can be used to optically control the activity of Protein kinase C (PKC), a key signaling factor downstream of many membrane receptors, and Munc13, a critical regulator of synaptic vesicle release in neurons. As a Vollum Fellow, Dr Frank’s research program will develop and exploit new light-sensitive chemical tools to explore the roles of membrane localized signaling events in neural circuit activity, and how these go awry in neurological diseases including addictive behaviors, anxiety and depression.
The Vollum Fellow Program is designed to provide the academic freedom and resources necessary for exceptionally promising young scientists to launch a research program shortly after receiving their Ph.D.
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Barr-Gillespie named OHSU's first chief research officer
Congratulations to Peter Barr-Gillespie who was recently named OHSU's first chief research officer and executive vice president beginning January, 2019. Barr-Gillespie has served as interim senior vice president for research at OHSU since 2017 and is a senior scientist in the Vollum Institute and professor of Otolaryngology in OHSU's Oregon Hearing Research Center.

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Having been introduced in France in 1987, The Product of the Year Awards are now in their third year in Australia. With an aim of giving consumers the option to vote for the everyday products that not only work, but save time and money, the winners of the 2012 Product of the Year Awards have just been announced by ambassador Lisa Wilkinson and the judging panel. The awards focus on everything from household appliances to pest control, but it's the 10 beauty categories that we're interested in. With over 7,000 Australians voting in the awards, it's a great way to suss out which hair colour, shampoo, razor and body lotion is worth buying next!
Stars are already in holiday mode, and shared their fun adventures on Twitter! Rachael Finch showed off her fish-catching skills, while Hayden Quinn suited up for a friend's wedding. Lisa Wilkinson was very excited to interview Kermit the Frog on Today, and Chris Colfer joined posed with cardboard cut-outs of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Click through to see all the pics, and don't forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for exciting news and photos!
Hundreds of “Little Monsters” who gathered and braved the cold in front of Sydney Town Hall in an array of Lady Gaga-inspired costumes in order to see the star weren’t the only lucky ones who had scored tickets to the gig last night. Around 200 Aussie VIPs were invited to the special one-off performance at Monster Hall, including Brian McFadden, Australia’s Got Talent contestant Jack Vidgen, Lisa Wilkinson and Megan Washington. Brian brought his girlfriend Vogue Williams to the concert while Jack smiled big for the cameras, showing off his new dental veneers. Lucky Today co-host Lisa was having her second serving of Gaga this week as she sat in on Tracy Grimshaw’s A Current Affair interview on Monday.
In the recent battle between Channel Seven and the Nine Network over Larry Emdur’s talent, the winners are Larry and Seven, with Larry signing a deal reported to be worth $800,000 to stay with his current employers. Larry currently co-hosts The Morning Show with Kylie Gillies, which follows Sunrise every weekday morning at 9am. Talk is that Nine were looking to replace Karl Stefanovic on the Today show and had Larry in mind for the job. (Karl is moving to a different program with the station.) He would’ve worked with Lisa Wilkinson and been direct competition for Sunrise’s Melissa Doyle and David Koch. So Seven moved quickly and re-signed Larry, giving him a much larger pay cheque. Now the Daily Telegraph is reporting that his female colleagues at Seven are unhappy with his inflated salary, but a rep has denied this, saying, “Kylie is over the moon, but has already told Larry he must now get her a present from Tiffany’s. He’s agreed.”


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Moto Mods are interchangeable gadgets you can slap on the back of a Moto Z smartphone to add functionality. Motorola currently sells Mods that extend battery life, add speakers or a projector, or bring better camera features to the phone.
But the company is also inviting others to developer their own Moto Mods. Some will come from big companies. Others may come from individual hardware hackers with an idea.
To that end, the company recently held its first “Mod the Future Hackathon,”vin New York where people tried to put together concepts for new Moto Mods. Eventually some may become real products.
Motorola is holding another hackathon in San Francisco next month, and winners from both will get prizes including a chance to pitch Motorola on their concept.
The three winning concepts from the New York event were:
- Advanced Audio Mod with a digital-to-analog converter for high-definition audio ports
- Sidepad with physical gaming buttons
- Bella beauty companion that uses real-time data from your skin and environment to provide beauty tips
There’s no guarantee that any of these specific products will ever make it to market. But if there’s enough demand… and if the hackers get enough backing for their concepts to turn them into real products, it could certainly happen. Motorola definitely seems to be invested in the whole Moto Mods concept and plans to include support for Mods in its next-gen smartphones in 2017.


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Washington Stealth Signs Free Agent Forward Dean Hill
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EVERETT, Wash. – The Washington Stealth announced today the signing of free agent forward Dean Hill, pending approval by the National Lacrosse League. Hill has played for three teams throughout his seven-year NLL career, most recently a two-year stint with the Edmonton Rush in 2010 and 2011.
Hill, 27, appeared in 13 regular season games for the Rush in 2011 and tallied 22 points on ten goals and 12 assists. The left-handed forward recorded 29 points (18g, 11a) in eleven regular season games the previous year, along with seven points (5g, 2a) in a pair of playoff games. Hill was traded from the Rush to the Philadelphia Wings earlier this offseason and was later released into free agency. Hill has also played the last three summer seasons in Victoria, B.C., where Stealth General Manager Doug Locker has seen the potential of the 6-foot-3, 225-pound goal scorer.
"Dean is an intelligent player with great size and great hands," said Locker. "He brings a lot of experience to training camp and is a guy that's proved he'll do whatever it takes to make his team better. We've been impressed with his play over the summer and he will definitely battle for a spot on our roster for the 2012 season."
Hill was originally drafted by the Minnesota Swarm in the 2005 NLL Entry Draft. In 54 career regular season games, he has amassed 79 goals and 67 assists for 146 points. Hill had a career year with the Swarm in 2007, when he finished with 32 goals, 21 assists and 53 points, all career-highs. Hill is also a two-time silver medalist (2007, 2011) with the Iroquois Nationals at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships.
Hill will join the rest of the Stealth at training camp, which begins in December. The Stealth's 2012 campaign gets underway on January 14, when the team plays host to the Calgary Roughnecks at the Comcast Arena at Everett.
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Top Guns assembled at National Hardware Show
Described as the industry’s "most successful and innovative independent retailers," the Top Gun retailers this year hail from Texas, Oregon, Washington, D.C. and Massachusetts.
Organized by the North American Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) and Hardware Retailing magazine, the 2011 Top Guns are:
• Tony Brookhouse, representing Koopman Lumber Co. in Massachusetts;
• Cally Coleman Fromme, representing Zarsky Lumber in Texas;
• Dennis Orem, representing Jerry’s Home Improvement Centers in Oregon; and
• Gina Schaefer, representing seven Ace Hardware stores in the Washington, D.C., area.
Hardware store all-stars: Idaho, Illinois and Indiana
As Home Channel News continues its march across the United States touting high-performance hardware store retailers, here are three champions of — from west to east — diversification, customer centricity and gardening prowess:
About 100 miles north of Boise, May Hardware in McCall, Idaho, has taken diversification and niche development to rare places. The hardware store serves a former logging town turned tourist destination with a core assortment, plus such upscale housewares as Mrs. Meyers cleaning products and Le Creuset cookware. The company also runs a marina on Payette Lake; a 24-hour locksmith service; and a division that installs home security systems, home audio systems and whole-house automatic controls that regulate lighting, temperature, surveillance and access.
Weiss Ace Hardware
In Glenview, Ill., Weiss Ace Hardware propelled to a modicum of fame by appearing as the customer-centric cover story of the Ace Show Daily last month. The store is run by Jon Weiss, whose father John bought the business from one of Ace’s founders (Richard Hesse) back in 1931. The family affair includes Jon’s son J.T. and daughter Lynne Rine, who are both managers at the Glenview store.
Sullivan Hardware and Garden
Perhaps the most visited hardware store in Hoosierland, Sullivan Hardware and Garden twice a year welcomes busloads of Do it Best Corp. members to its north Indy location. It’s worth the trip — even for repeat visitors. Owned by Do it Best board member Pat Sullivan, the store’s expansive indoor-outdoor garden center is a legitimate tourist attraction. And the store-within-a-store gift shop contributes to an upscale female-friendly atmosphere.
HCN Monday will publish one store each from Iowa, Kansas and Kentucky. Also, register with Homechannelnews.com to see the May article in its entirety.
Hardware store all-stars: Florida, Georgia and Hawaii
There are great hardware stores in every corner of this country. Home Channel News has identified 50 — one for each state — in its May issue.
Continuing the report of all-star hardware stores in order alphabetical, here are Florida, Georgia and Hawaii:
Sunshine Ace Hardware. Sunshine Ace has six locations in South Florida, but the downtown Naples store is unlike any of the others, said store manager Sherry Kish. Walk into the sporting goods area and you see a very large fishing boat. Above the boat is a mangrove and beside the mangrove are two large murals depicting the area. And all around, the store uses a cinnamon, beige and green color scheme to hammer home the one-of-a-kind impression.
Bates Ace Hardware. It takes a certain amount of confidence to build a 22,000-sq.-ft. hardware store on Home Depot’s home turf. The year was 1993, Home Depot was a $9.2 billion retailer, but Bates Ace Hardware had run out of room in its small, 72-year-old Atlanta store. Owner David Doss moved ahead with plans for a new building across the street, including a 12,000-sq.-ft. showroom and a 1,000-sq.-ft. lawn and garden center. A decade later, the Doss family added a 1,000-sq.-ft. climate-controlled greenhouse. Their courage is still on display: The store has a live video feed from its sales floor posted on its website at batesace.com.
City Mill. “Oahu’s favorite hardware store” isn’t just a slogan. City Mill has made the Hawaii Business Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list in each of the last four years. It’s also a Sea Advertiser’s People’s Choice Award Winner. Brother-sister team Carol Ai May and Steven Ai run eight locations in Honolulu and across Oahu.
Coming on Thursday: Idaho, Illinois and Indiana.


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One of the most common reasons to visit a doctor is back pain. Along with this, muscle and joint pain is also something that causes a lot of nuisance. Soft tissue damage, migraine headaches, whiplash, and lower-back pain among others are some of the issues which are the reason people seek long-term rehabilitative treatments such as chiropractic care.
People often find it difficult to find the right chiropractor for themselves. They are also unable to decide between which choice is better for them; physiotherapist or an orthopedic or a chiropractor? Identifying the root cause of your pain is the most important part. Therefore, a proper diagnosis is very necessary. The first step is visiting a back pain or a spine specialist and get a thorough examination.
Physiotherapy, also known as Physical Therapy, is the treatment of disease or injury by different methods such as massages, heat treatment, and exercise. The treatment aims to provide rehabilitation of muscles. It boosts your mobility and increases your muscle strength. Physiotherapy targets different parts of your body which reduces pain and helps your muscles to heal. However, some studies also show there are some side effects of physiotherapy.
Chiropractic is concerned with the treatment of the musculoskeletal system, mostly the spine. It involves manipulation of the spine, other joints, and soft tissues. A Chiropractor is also a spine specialist who treats you without the use of any medicine or surgery.
This is an important benefit of chiropractic care. The treatment is focused on the adjustment and alignment of the spine, treating several issues like lower back pain, migraine, and many other joint pains.
Now that you have a basic idea about both the Physiotherapists and Chiropractors, here are some of the reasons why Chiropractic is more vital than Physiotherapy:
- Chiropractic care provides immediate relief
The Chiropractic techniques of spinal manipulation and adjustments allows patients to feel better instantly. The first session with a Chiropractor can be very relieving and reduce your pain immensely. Chiropractic sessions have been able to achieve results in the short term. On the other hand, Physiotherapy treats many parts of the body, so it can take numerous visits and be an arduous procedure.
More focused on personal care
Chiropractic treatment is all about treating every case individually. Every patient is treated according to their unique problem.
In the one-on-one sessions with the Chiropractor, all of the cases are treated according to their own complications. Whereas, Physiotherapists treat all patients with generalized treatments like massages and heat therapy. So, these can be, in some cases, not highly effective for patients.
- Chiropractic sessions are non-invasive
The whole idea of the Chiropractic revolves around the non-invasive treatment of patients. As a result, this makes the whole procedure very safe and is very low-risk, in comparison to invasive procedures like spinal surgeries. Moreover, several medical studies suggest that Chiropractic rarely has any long-term side effects and the potential satisfaction of the results highly outweigh the risks, if any.
Chiropractic relives several ailments
Apart from providing relief to backaches and neck pains, Chiropractic treatment is also about the alleviation of several other illnesses and problems not directly related to the musculoskeletal system. These ailments comprise pregnancy issues, persistent indigestion, pneumonia, and hereditary asthma. On the contrary, Physiotherapists have not been able to make any such claims.
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You get a fair idea about a band who have a touring list as diverse as Deerhoof's. Radiohead, The Roots and Wilco are but a few, and not every band would appeal to such a varied range of fans. That's because Deerhoof are not just any band. They used to be a good band who made intriguing and challenging unclassifiable pop music. Now they are great band who are just as unclassifiable but produce such sublime musical moments that will undoubtedly shape your life if you let them. They're the kind of band that have the power to make you feel smug if you get them and embarrassed if you don't and for the last 13 years they have kept us wondering if we do truly get them.
With their new album Friend Opportunity a lot of questions are answered. They seem to have listened to their previous album The Runners Four the same way I did and come to similar conclusions. They've taken all that was great about that album and crafted this one. They've trimmed away a lot of the avant guard sprawl that they started with back in the day making Friend Opportunity a beautifully paced and refreshingly brief delight.
Satomi Matsuzaki's achingly sweet, candy-pop vocals are given full range here and are perfectly contrasted and complimented by the thrilling brut force power pop that drives this sugar coated juggernaut. The album hits the ground running with The Perfect Me. It's driving guitar opener is abruptly punctuated with Matsuzaki's Roadrunner like lyrics, "Meet me, meet me, meet the perfect me." and it's somewhere during this song that you begin to suspect that these words herald the beginning of a glorious introduction to the perfect Deerhoof.
There is no point in describing each high point here as it changes every time I listen to the record. At the moment Believe E.S.P is doing it for me in a big way, but last week it was Wither The Invisible Birds? This is where this album shifts gear and gracefully pulls away from its predecessors. It's a wondrously orchestrated landscape in which Satomi's voice spreads its wings and soars to new heights. It ceases to be sugar pop and blossoms before your ears into sublime maturity.
Unfortunately however for a band like Deerhoof one cannot sit comfortably through these wonderful moments. They're not out to please unconditionally and there's always a lesson or two that needs to be taught. The album finishes with Look Away, a 12 minute marathon of feet shuffling noise that very nearly undoes all the good work that went before. But as it finally fizzles out you realise that lurking in this irritation lies the reason you love this band. It's not the kind of song you want to hear again but without its threat the whole experience wouldn't be anywhere near as thrilling and the success of this album rests in the balance between this threat and the delivery of pure unrivaled joy.
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Police today estimated 25 people were killed in Caracas alone and more than 1,000 arrested in the worst street violence in Venezuela in 30 years.
The looting and rioting, triggered by bus fare increases, began Monday and spread to at least seven cities and towns. It continued into the early morning hours today in downtown Caracas, where sirens wailed as authorities put out fires and battled looters in streets filled with shattered glass.
Independent reports estimated damage nationwide to be in the millions of dollars. On some Caracas streets, virtually every store was looted. Army trucks full of troops patrolled some streets in Caracas this morning, while blocks away looters continued to remove goods from stores.

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A Poetic Revolutionary
A Poetic Revolutionary
Cover: Gilded Nest by Michelle Morin www.michellemorinart.com
Richard Ryder explains why the poet Shelley represented the cutting edge of new thinking. Shelley at Oxford: Blasphemy, Book-burning and Bedlam by Heathcote Williams. Huxley Scientific Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781909214026
The greatest British poetic revolutionary of the 19th century was Percy Bysshe Shelley, and of the 21st it is Heathcote Williams. The latter has now written polemical poetry about the polemical poetry of the former! Both meet in the space that is Oxford, Shelley occupying it briefly as an undergraduate, and Williams more permanently in his current maturity. Williams’ book is an angry elegy to Shelley and a diatribe against Oxford’s rejection of her greatest rebel. The stuffy dons expelled the beautiful firebrand on the publication of his leaflet The Necessity of Atheism, banishing him from Oxford on 25 March 1811.
These were the extraordinary years of the Regency – of British poetic and prose genius, of great feats of arms, and of extraordinary political suppression. It was a period of Luddite riots, agricultural depression, bread shortages, widespread unemployment and poverty. The assassination of the prime minister, Spencer Perceval, would take place only seven weeks after Shelley’s expulsion; the massacre of peaceful demonstrators at ‘Peterloo’ would be in 1819, and the attempt to murder the whole Cabinet over dinner in my thrice-great-grandfather’s house in Cato Street would occur in 1820.
The nation teetered on the brink of revolution. Both the French and the Americans had shown us the way, and the pressure would not begin to lift until the Great Reform Act of 1832. In consequence, Williams explains, the Oxford of Shelley’s day was a craven place of nervous orthodoxy:
“It’s 1810 and college battlements guard
Those living off the state’s superstition:
Oxford swarms with clergy and mitred bishops with crooks
Herding the University’s sheepish flock.”
My own ancestors, Lord President Dudley Ryder and Perceval’s home secretary, my own namesake Richard Ryder, were, no doubt, part of this uneasy Tory establishment that sent agents provocateurs to Manchester and spies to Oxford, while others of my kinsmen tried to make amends – such as John Calcraft, who voted against his Cabinet colleagues in support of parliamentary reform and was eventually, or so it seems, murdered by political reactionaries.
We should not forget that this was the political background to the Britain of Shelley, Byron, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Scott, to the Industrial Revolution and the rapid expansion of the British Empire. The two great poetic revolutionaries of the period were undoubtedly Shelley and Byron, the latter seen by Karl Marx as the more bourgeois of the two.
But Shelley was not only a political revolutionary who campaigned through the medium of poetry: he was also a revolutionary of ideas and emotions. His multiple relationships with girls in their early and middle teens, by whom he had several children, would still be regarded as revolutionary today and could have him arrested by Oxford’s modern police. His pioneering and intelligent atheism, however, would have been fashionable in the present century, as would his passionate concern for the rights of animals.
Most striking, perhaps, was Shelley’s dynamic advocacy of science; he arrived in Oxford armed with electrical devices of almost every sort then available. This was several years before the great electrical discoveries of Michael Faraday, and I wonder whether, had Shelley survived his 30th year, his career would have taken him in that direction. He saw electricity, quite rightly, as the great force of the future, and it emerges in the story of Frankenstein, written by his wife Mary. Indeed, it has been mooted that Shelley himself was the model for Dr Frankenstein in the Gothic tale she published in 1818.
Shelley was, of course, a sublime poet. But he was more than that. Not only did he have lyrical genius, but he also had supreme intelligence and he used this intellectual power to debunk cruelty, injustice, religion, monarchy, matrimony and meat-eating. He was the cutting edge of new thinking.
After his expulsion from Oxford, Shelley briefly lived in Wales, where he was shot at by shepherds when he tried to rescue their sheep from suffering. He would have approved of the Oxford Group in the early 1970s, who led the modern international animal rights revolution. Like Shelley, they were pamphleteers and campaigners for compassion.
Heathcote Williams is our leading polemical poet and has published classics in defence of whales, elephants and dolphins. Here he lucidly pays tribute to another who championed revolutionary and humane ideas through poetry.


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After the success of Bharat Milap and in 1942 and Ram Raja in 1943, film maker Vijay Bhatt made Ram Baan in 1948
Following reports of "rats guzzling down liquor" stored in police stations of Bihar, the authorities have now started destroying seized contraband, with a staggering 28,000 litres being destroyed on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said.
In "dry Bihar", as the state government prefers to call it, while 10,000 litres of illicit liquor was destroyed on Tuesday, the very next day, they destroyed another 18,000 litres of liquor seized by the Excise Department.
The total 28,000 litre liquor — valued at Rs.2.5 crore — destroyed by the authorities was seized from Vaishali and Patna districts of the state.
The seized liquor, mostly Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) bottles, was stored in "maalkhanaa" (store room) of police stations in both districts.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was scheduled to hold a top-level meeting of officials on Wednesday evening here to review prohibition in the state.
Since clamping of prohibition on the state in April 2016, Vaishali police first time on Wednnesday destroyed 18,000 litres of liquor.
Interestingly, last week it was reported that rats had finished nine lakh litres of alcohol seized by police. But later, the police headquarters refuted the claim and ordered a probe into it.
According to official reports, ever since total prohibition was imposed on April 5, 2016 in Bihar, the government has seized around 9.15 lakh litres of liquor, out of which eight lakh litres is still in the store rooms of various police stations in the state.
Police officers from a large number of police stations have conveyed to top police officials the problem of space crunch in storing such huge quantities of liquor.
Over 45,000 people have been arrested in a year in Bihar for violating the liquor prohibition law imposed by the Janata Dal-United-led grand alliance government in the state.
Bihar had acted tough against the violators of prohibition law, Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil Mastan said. "The law enforcement agencies have been directed to act tough against those violating the law."
The state police have raided 2,18,722 locations and seized liquor valued at Rs.50 crore the last year alone, a state Excise and Prohibition Department official said.
According to a police report, 40,413 cases were registered for prohibition violations.

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Louvre Atlanta Package at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta (Downtown) and The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead Includes Tickets to See Masterpieces From the Louvre at the High Museum in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA — (MARKET WIRE) — August 18, 2006 — Guests have the opportunity for a unique fine art experience at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta (Downtown) and The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead during Louvre Atlanta, a three-year exhibit of masterpieces from the Musée du Louvre opening on October 14, 2006 at the High Museum of Art.
The majority of masterworks have never traveled outside of France and none will be exhibited anywhere else in the U.S. during this time. For year one, Louvre Atlanta presents “Royal Collections,” works collected by the Kings during the late 18th century.
Guests of The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta and The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead may also enjoy a self-guided tour of the hotels’ fine art collections, which span both European and American periods in art from 1700 through the early 1900s, and are the premier hotel art collections in Atlanta today.
Louvre Atlanta Package
– Deluxe accommodations for one evening
– American breakfast for two
– Two tickets for Louvre Atlanta at the High Museum of Art
– Valet parking
Starting at $249* at The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta (Downtown)
Starting at $299* at The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead
*Rates are per room per night, single or double occupancy, exclusive of taxes, gratuities and other charges unless otherwise noted and do not apply to groups. Valid through December 30, 2006, subject to availability and cannot be combined with any other offer. Advance reservations required.
The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta is a luxurious oasis in the heart of the city and is downtown’s only AAA Five Diamond hotel. The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead is located in fashionable uptown Atlanta opposite Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza shopping malls in the city’s most prestigious residential neighborhood. For information and reservations, please call (800) 241-3333, a travel professional or visit the Web site at www.ritzcarlton.com.

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Set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean in a remote research facility, the SOMA video game is a sci-fi survival horror. It will make you question your entire existence. With an unsettling story about identity and what it means to be human.
It’s like most game developed by Frictional Games (for example Amnesia The Dark Descent). There’s a heavy emphasis on evading threats, puzzles and complete immersion into the world of SOMA. Thus, critics have praised SOMA for its story and voice acting. So, because of this, it’s a game you need to play! And if you just want to enjoy the story – don’t worry, there’s a safe mode.
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After going for a brain scan in 2015, Simon Jarrett wakes up in a strange underwater facility. It’s known as PATHOS-II. And the year is 2105. The station has fallen into a state of ruin. Lost and alone, Simon makes contact with Catherine Chun – a PATHOS-II employee. She directs him on where to go next. But be careful, danger lurks at every corner. Corrupted humans, twisted creatures, insane robots. And even an inscrutable omnipresent A.I. And there’s no fighting back, so either outsmart the enemy or run.
Seek out the last humans. Partake in the events that will ultimately shape the fate of the station. Be prepared to face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves. Check out the story trailer below!
Two years after the initial release of SOMA, a Safe Mode was released. This offers “the chance to explore the story without being eaten by monsters.” So you can enjoy the story without the danger. Check out the safe mode trailer:
Our (Spoiler-Free) Review – ★★★★★
Obviously, one of the standout points when it comes to SOMA is the story. There are so many little snippets – in letters, data, voice messages – that just help build up the story. So you truly understand what happened in the PATHOS-II facilities before your arrival. There are emotional decisions to make. Although they do not impact the ending. But they still make you want to think long and hard about what choice you should pick. Make sure you stick around at the end for a post-credits scene too.
Something Frictional Games is always excellent at is creating atmosphere. Creepy hallways and rooms topped with music that gives you chills and instantly puts you on edge. Any monster encounter is that much more terrifying.
Unlike some horror games, SOMA doesn’t encourage you – or even allow you – to fight with the monsters. The best option is either to hide or run and hope for the best. This makes the game even creepier. And you find yourself holding your breath and hoping that you won’t be found. If a chase does start, then the music intensifies and helps to create a terrifying rush. Although when you have to make noise opening doors which attracts the monsters, these scenes can get very tedious and stressful.
As well as scenes set inside the facility, SOMA takes advantage of the underwater location. As you move between the different buildings, you also have to go outside into the deep, dark and dangerous ocean. Stick to the lights. Because otherwise, you’ll find yourself lost in the terrifying abyss.
Additionally, the voice acting in this game really stands out. Particularly in some scenes, Catherine Chun (voiced by Nell Mooney) has so much emotion in her voice. It really makes you feel that much more conscious of your decisions.
So, basically, SOMA is a masterpiece. Every separate part of the game – the story, etc. – is perfect. So when they all come together in the finished SOMA piece it creates something amazing. And with a story that will stick with you forever, whether you do play it on normal mode or safe mode, SOMA is a game that you need to experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SOMA gameplay?
The gameplay of SOMA is similar to Frictional Games’ other works. Instead of trying to fight enemies and terrifying monsters, you either need to hide or run away.
How many hours is SOMA game?
SOMA will take around 9 hours to complete the main story. If you want to complete extras as well, it will take you around 11 hours.
Why is the game SOMA called SOMA?
The name SOMA originates from the Greek word σῶμα (soma). It refers to the body. Or more specifically body seperate from the mind or the soul.
Is SOMA game hard?
SOMA is not a hard game, but it can get a little frustrating and tedious at times. Since you can’t actually kill the enemies, you often find yourself waiting a while for them to go away.
Have you played SOMA already or will you play it now? Let us know!
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Lenovo just unveiled the LePhone, its newest Android-Powered Smartphone. The LePhone is powered by Qualcomm’s SnapDragon 1GHz processor and runs a customized Android 1.6 software, instead of the OPhone platform developed by China Mobile.
The LePhone comes sporting a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 3 Megapixel main camera, a front camera for video call, A-GPS support, WiFi connectivity, a 3.5mm audio jack and a 9-pin connector. The Lenovo LePhone also has a snap-on keyboard accessory that turns the LePhone into a QWERTY device. Expect to see it out by May 2010.


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