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May 1, 2020
I’ll be honest with you: My life hasn’t changed much since the pandemic forced all of us to shelter inside and physically distance from each other. There’s a mixture of humor and shame in admitting that, like someone discovering your old Limp Bizkit and Sarah McLachlan CDs from high school. To be fair, I’m not some agoraphobic misanthrope — well, not completely — it’s just that since coming back to Oklahoma, my life has taken on a certain kind of anti-social, spartan quality that has made me relatively well suited for The New Normal.
Like most folks, the threads of my twenties were interwoven with those of my friends. Sparsely attended shows at The Green Door, obscure international movies at OKCMOA, massaman and Kingfishers at Sala Thai—being in your mid-twenties in Oklahoma City the Noughties looked similar to being in your mid-twenties in Oklahoma City the Teens, only with bootcut jeans and flip phones. But I left for the East of England in September 2009, intending to work on a Master’s degree and come back home a year or so later to resume my old life, like a little kid leaping back into a game of jump rope after having a Kool-Aid break. Or in my case, a Ribena break.
I ended up living in England for nine years.
In that time, my friends in Oklahoma got married and had kids. Some clung to parts of our old life, occasionally catching mid-week shows and drinking too many lagers with their curry, but most changed with what the future brought. Initially, when I came back home for the holidays, we saw each other every day. But the interwoven fabric of our lives had started to come undone, until it was like we played out the parts in Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne” and only ever talked when we ran into each other at the grocery store. More and more, we saw and talked to each other through video and text messages until that was the only way we kept in touch.
And my nine years in England? You know how it is: you meet someone. You build bookshelves and fill them until you can’t remember which book belongs to whom. After a while you realize that the future you want to build together needs a more secure center, so you start a Ph.D. And in the long days in the library, you learn a type of stillness that you didn’t have before, a kind of Zen yogic patience that lets you stack mountains of finished books and create cathedrals of words. It’s a beautiful life if you can manage it.
The aftermath of our breakup I spent walking. I walked all around Norwich, my new hometown, until I knew it as intimately as I knew Oklahoma City, from the graffiti in the Grapes Hill underpass to the grieving sunset light sifting through the bare trees along the River Yare. I walked until my boots became so sole-worn that they needed to be replaced. I somnambulantly walked for days and weeks and months, until one day I woke up to find that I’d walked all the way back to Oklahoma City.
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The first two weeks of isolation, when everything was shut down and people were asked to practice social distancing, I spent watching local and national news stations, and refreshing the state’s local coronavirus website, becoming obsessed with tracking the daily data. I went through the motions of mourning and grieving for something, though I’m not quite sure what it was or if I even wanted to mourn it. Maybe it’s akin to having a distant relative pass away; you feel bad for the loss, but it doesn’t affect your day-to-day.
But life has changed.
It’s scary at first, what I imagine drowning must feel like. Your heart and mind kick and thrash, grasping for something solid that they can hold on to. And just as you’re ready to give up and let out that last molecule of air from your lungs, you find out through some evolutionary trick that you actually have gills.
That’s what these first two months of The New Normal have been like for me, thinking I had to hold on to something when I already knew how to live like this. Friendships continued through FaceTime and Marco Polo, WhatsApp and Messenger. Libraries and bookstores are closed, yeah, but there’s a stillness in my home where I patiently move a book from my To Be Read pile and build a wall of books I’ve read. When I walk in the early mornings and pass through the murals in the Plaza Walls, I see the graffitied Grape Hill underpass in Norwich, and the setting sun disappearing along the River Yare is the rising sun appearing behind the Oklahoma City skyline—pentimentos from an old life visible on this current one.
In this way, there’s some grace to things falling apart. We do what we’ve always done, take remnants from the old life, mostly good, and start to build a new center.
(Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a series of pandemic diaries by Oklahoma writers. Read the rest of the series here.)


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Medical debt just got less painful for nearly 9,000 consumers, courtesy of late-night TV host John Oliver.
For nearly 43 million other Americans, it's still a big problem.
During Sunday's "Last Week Tonight," broadcast, Oliver canceled $14,922,261.76 worth of medical debt as part of a segment digging into the billion-dollar debt-buying industry.
Debt buyers purchase delinquent debts from creditors for pennies on the dollar, then make their own attempts to collect.
The pages and pages of consumer complaints about debt collectors in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's database detail problems consumers have faced, including threatening calls, not to mention the so-called zombie collections — bills that were believed to have been settled but resurface for collection.
"In some states, there is a shockingly low barrier of entry into this industry," Oliver said in the segment, noting that some states don't require a license to purchase or collect on debts.
"Essentially that means there are places in this country where you need to fill out less paperwork to start collecting money from people's pockets than you do to collect fish from a [expletive] lake. "
As proof, the "Last Week Tonight" team spent $50 to incorporate in Mississippi, setting up the Central Asset Recovery Professionals — CARP, he said, "after the bottom-feeding fish." They were able to purchase the almost $15 million in debt for less than $60,000.
Instead of collecting on the money, CARP donated it to RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that specializes in wiping out medical debt with no tax consequences for the debtor.
Oliver's gesture, though, is only a drop in the bucket. Nearly 43 million Americans — 1 in 5 of those with a credit report — have a medical debt that's hurting their credit, according to a 2014 CFPB report. For 15 million of those consumers, medical debt is the only collection item on their report.
"Clearly this is only going to help the 9,000 people whose medical debt we bought," Oliver said in the segment. "The larger issue is, we need much clearer rules and tougher oversight to protect consumers from potentially predatory companies like the one we set up."
The average reported medical debt sent to collections is just $579, according to the CFPB.
Worse, many of those debts may be over money the consumer legitimately doesn't owe. By billing advocates' estimates, up to 80 percent of medical bills contain errors.
At least when it comes to your credit, medical debts are slowly becoming less of a black mark.
Such debts have less influence in the latest FICO and VantageScore credit-scoring models, and settled medical debts are ignored completely, credit expert John Ulzheimer told CNBC earlier this year. The difficulty: Many lenders haven't updated to the new formula.
"None of the changes are going to be meaningful for anyone applying for a mortgage," said Ulzheimer, who has worked with FICO, Equifax and Credit.com. But consumers applying for a new credit card or auto loan could see better rates as a result.
Come this fall, consumers will have more protections. As part of a 2015 settlement, medical debts sent to collections will have a grace period of six months before showing up on a consumer's credit report, allowing you more time to take action over say, a disputed bill. Currently, there is no grace period.
The three credit reporting firms will also be required to remove a medical debt once it is reported as paid or settled by the insurance company. If it's not on your report, it can't influence your score. (Those paid or settled by you will remain on the report.) Currently, settled medical debts can remain on your credit report for seven years.

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You’ve seen these pics before, haven’t you?
On Pinterest, they’re always at the top of searches like “pink aesthetic” and “baddie aesthetic”, which means they’re SUPER trendy and cute, and we love them 😍
So I decided to make a TikTok showing how easy it is to create edits that emulate that type of shadow images. It really is!
On the examples I screenshotted from Pinterest above I believe all the images are actual photos of people’s shadows. Which is the absolute coolest? Take a look at this post with awesome inspo and ideas to take photos of/with shadows!
Today thought, we’ll learn how to create this effect digitally, tHrOuGh tHe MaGiC oF pHoToShOp hahaha! 🪄✨
The thing is, if you want to final image to look really cute and, to make any sense at all tbh, the silhouette you’ll create a shadow of should have a clear, identifiable shape. Wether it’s a person’s body, or any other object or thing.
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For example: if it’s a face, it should be on profile position, preferably with some special hair style, or using the hands or some object to add to the composition. Like a lollipop! Otherwise nobody will be able to understand what it is, or it just won’t be interesting at all :/
It took me a while to find a photo of two girls that you could immediately tell are dancing, or partying and holding drinks in their hands – which is what I wanted for this edit. But after I did, I think it looked super cute 🙂
I used Photoshop here, but you can do it with Picsart too.
- Editing software like Photoshop or Picsart
- Image of a wall – I got mine from Unsplash and changed the color to pink.
- Photo of the object you want to turn into shadow
- Open the wall image and crop or adjust s needed
- Place the main photo on the file. Cutout the body, face or object. You can click the Magic Wand tool and then Select Object, and refine the selection with the Polygonal Lasso tool
- Delete the background (Select / Inverse), and make final retouches of the main object
- Go to Image / Adjustments / Hue Saturation, and set Lightness to -100
- Go to Filter / Blur / Gaussian Blur. I use 4 or 5, but this will depend on the size of your image. So adjust to your preference
- Change the layer Opacity to 60%
- After those steps, you’ll already have a pretty neat edit. If you want to go a little further, merge the background and shadow (I suggest duplicating the layers before merging) and do some editing on the merged image. For example: Filter / Noise / Add Noise.
- You can do more edits, or export the image to your phone and try some aesthetic filters on editing apps, like PicsArt.
It’s one of the easiest edits ever in my opinion, and the result is so cute and aesthetic. So give it a try! ☺💖
And hey, if you like aesthetic edits, check out this tutorial on cosmic fantasy art too 🙂

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Despite the clamor to hurry up the US vaccination drive towards Covid-19 and get the nation again to regular, the primary three months of the rollout counsel quicker isn’t essentially higher.
A stunning new evaluation discovered that states reminiscent of South Carolina, Florida and Missouri that raced forward of others to supply the vaccine to ever-larger teams of individuals have vaccinated smaller shares of their inhabitants than those who moved extra slowly and methodically, reminiscent of Hawaii and Connecticut.
The rationalization, as consultants see it, is that the speedy growth of eligibility triggered a surge in demand too huge for some states to deal with and led to critical disarray. Vaccine provides proved inadequate or unpredictable, web sites crashed and telephone strains grew to become jammed, spreading confusion, frustration and resignation amongst many individuals.
“The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. It kind of backfired,” mentioned Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, an infectious illness doctor and well being knowledge specialist on the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. She added: “In the rush to satisfy everyone, governors satisfied few and frustrated many.”
The findings may comprise an necessary go-slow lesson for the nation’s governors, lots of whom have introduced dramatic expansions in their rollouts over the previous few days after being challenged by President Joe Biden to make all adults eligible for vaccination by May 1.
“If you’re more targeted and more focused, you can do a better job,” mentioned Sema Sgaier, govt director of Surgo Ventures, a nonprofit health-data group that performed the evaluation in collaboration with The Associated Press. “You can open it up – if you have set up the infrastructure to vaccinate all those people fast.”
Numerous components stymied state vaccination efficiency. Conspiracy theories, poor communication and undependable shipments slowed efforts after the primary vials of treasured vaccine arrived Dec. 14.
But the scale of the eligible inhabitants was at all times inside the management of state officers, who made broadly various choices about how many individuals they invited to get in line when there wasn’t sufficient vaccine to go round.
When the drive started, most states put well being care staff and nursing dwelling residents on the entrance of the road. In doing so, states had been abiding by nationwide suggestions from consultants who additionally advised doing every part potential to achieve everybody in these two teams earlier than shifting on to the following classes.
But confronted with political strain and a clamor from the general public, governors rushed forward. Both the outgoing Trump administration and the incoming Biden workforce urged opening vaccinations to older Americans.
By late January, greater than half the states had opened as much as older adults – some 75 and above, others 65 and up. That’s when the actual issues began.
South Carolina expanded eligibility to individuals in Steven Kite’s age group Jan. 13. Kite, 71, instantly booked a vaccination at a hospital. But the following day, his appointment was canceled together with hundreds of others due to a scarcity of vaccine.
“It was frustrating at first,” Kite mentioned. After per week of uncertainty, he rescheduled. He and his spouse are actually vaccinated. “It ended up working out fine. I know they’ve had other problems. The delivery of the doses has been very unreliable.”
In Missouri, big-city shortages despatched vaccine seekers driving lots of of miles to rural cities. Dr. Elizabeth Bergamini, a pediatrician in suburban St. Louis, drove about 30 individuals to usually out-of-the approach vaccination occasions after the state opened eligibility to these 65 and older Jan. 18 after which expanded additional.
“We went from needing to vaccinate several hundred thousand people in the St. Louis area to an additional half-million people, but we still hadn’t vaccinated that first group, so it has been this mad dash,” Bergamini mentioned. “It has just been a whole hot mess.”
“It got a little chaotic,” mentioned Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “We created far more demand than there was supply. That stressed the system and that may have left the system less efficient.”
Plescia mentioned the evaluation means that “a more methodical, measured, judicious, priority-based approach – despite people’s perception – actually can be as efficient, or more efficient, than opening things up and making it available to more people.”
In retrospect, well being staff and nursing dwelling residents had been the simple teams to vaccinate. Doses may very well be delivered to them the place they lived and labored.
“We knew where they were and we knew who they were,” Wurtz mentioned. As quickly as states went past these populations, it acquired tougher to seek out the suitable individuals. Nursing dwelling residents stay in nursing properties. People 65 and older stay in every single place.
West Virginia bucked the development with each excessive numbers of eligible residents and excessive vaccination charges in early March, however the state began gradual and constructed its capability earlier than increasing eligibility.
Similarly, Alaska maintained a excessive vaccination charge with a smaller eligible inhabitants, then threw photographs open to everybody 16 and older March 9. This huge enhance in eligible adults close to the top of the interval studied led the AP and Surgo Ventures to omit Alaska from the evaluation.
The evaluation discovered that as of March 10, Hawaii had the bottom proportion of its grownup inhabitants eligible for vaccination, at about 26%. Yet Hawaii had administered 42,614 doses per 100,000 adults, the eighth-highest charge in the nation.
Thirty p.c of Connecticut’s grownup inhabitants was eligible as of the identical date, and it had administered doses on the fourth-highest charge in the nation.
In distinction, Missouri had the biggest proportion of its grownup inhabitants eligible at about 92%. Yet Missouri had distributed 35,341 doses per 100,000 adults, rating forty first among the many states.
Seven states in the underside 10 for total vaccination efficiency – Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Missouri – had larger-than-average shares of their residents eligible for photographs.
Among high-performing states, 5 in the highest 10 for top vaccination charges – New Mexico, North Dakota, Connecticut, Wyoming and Hawaii – caught with extra restrictive eligibility. Another two high-performing states from the highest 10 – South Dakota and Massachusetts – had been about common in what number of residents had been eligible for vaccine.
“This is a thorough analysis showing a clear association between breadth of eligibility and vaccination rates across states,” mentioned Dr. Mark McClellan, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration who was not concerned in the brand new evaluation however reviewed it for AP.
The better-performing states may very well be getting outcomes by paying nearer consideration to vaccine provide, completely vaccinating high-risk teams after which opening to further classes extra slowly as they anticipate provides to construct, McClellan mentioned.
What occurs subsequent will rely on how a lot states can enhance their vaccine supply programs and whether or not Americans stay looking forward to vaccination, even because the menace eases with extra individuals protected and case numbers dropping.
“Have states used this time wisely and fruitfully to lay down the infrastructure needed to open it up to more people?” Sgaier requested.


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"Naked": Belgian Author Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Last Novel in a Four-Part Love Story
This article is part of a series of profiles of ten Francophone authors who have been long-listed for the Albertine Prize.
The Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint has a niche, but extremely enthusiastic fan base in the US. An award-winning author of nine novels, many of his books have been translated into English, including his tetralogy, a love story, with the publication last year of Naked, the final volume, translated by Edward Gauvin.
Toussaint begins his novel with a quotation from Dante, which he has said is akin to a declaration of love for his character Marie: “To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman.”
The fashion designer Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, is the heroine of all four novels, and has been described as “one of contemporary fiction’s most fully realized female characters.”
When Naked was published in France in 2013, Toussaint had been writing about Marie for 10 years, and ending his relationship with her was not easy, the author has said. In cinematographic style, (Toussaint has also worked on experimental films) the tempo increasing and slowing as the geography changes, Naked pulls together elements from his other three novels, Making Love, Running Away and The Truth about Marie as well as resolving Marie’s liaison with the unnamed narrator. It is entirely possible, however, to read Naked without having read the previous novels. The narrator’s obsession and frustration with Marie, the ups and downs of their relationship, their separations and reunions take place in beautifully described scenes in Tokyo, Paris and on the Island of Elba. Strangely enough, although Toussaint is a master at meticulous descriptions, the reader is never told what Marie really looks like in detail, which makes her seem even more ethereal. The narrator recalls a previous trip to Elba: “Cautiously, I drew closer to her in my mind, and through the tree branches in the little yard shivering in a light breeze made out her bare silhouette, the skin on her shoulder dappled with sun-shimmer, crouching by an earthenware jar, kneading the potting soil with both hands and tamping it down, evening out the earth around young shoots she’d just replanted and watered…”
The reader does get close to Marie’s artistic perspective in the book’s opening description of a dress made from honey that she has created for a runway model at a fashion show. In a 2014 interview, Toussaint said: “I am not particularly interested in fashion, but it fascinates me as an incentive for writing: the airy grace of adjectives used to describe colours and materials, the sonority of names of fabrics, their precision, their variety… The fashion show organised by my heroine, Marie, at the Spiral in Tokyo is at the same time conceptual and minimalist. With the honey dress, Marie invents a dress that is tied to nothing, that stands on the body on the model by itself, a levitating dress, light, fluid, melting, slowly liquid and syrupy, floating in the air while being at the closest to the body of the model, since the body of the model is the dress itself.”
As the narrator continues his account of his obsession with Marie, there is humor, tenderness, sensuality, poignancy, irony and some adventure as the characters travel around the world, ending up, in the final scene, on the island of Elba, where a chocolate factory is still smouldering after a fire.


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The Triple M series of MG’s all belong to a family of models that commenced with the 1929 MG Midget and continued through to the mid-thirties via a long string of four and six cylinder OHC engined cars that forged the marques identity.
RX 8306 was one of just 44 MG C Type Midgets built between 1931 and 1932. They were manufactured specifically with circuit racing in mind and the model’s design was based around that of the record breaking EX120 ‘Magic Midget’, driven by George Eyston in early 1931 at Brooklands, Montlhery and Pendine. These two images show the layout of the cockpit area of the 743 cc sohc racing car. These photos are two of a sequence of five taken for The Autocar magazine and appear here courtesy of LAT. (references E1334 and E1337)
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I have an older sister. When my friends meet her for the first time they smile in amusement at our similarities. That always makes me scratch my head, because all I see are differences. Just like many siblings, we’re related in blood, appearance, and mannerisms, yet pretty distinct as individuals.
The same is true with energy use and energy cost. They’re sort of like siblings—inextricably related, yet distinct. Outsiders to the energy family generally only perceive the similarities, and might ask how the two could be distinct. Even I used to think that when it comes to energy; the less you consume the lower your bills. Isn’t that true?
The truth is actually, “No.” Or, spoken like a true engineer, “It depends.”
Proof is contained in the two charts below. In them we graphically illustrate energy and cost results from 46 buildings recently completed under McClure Company energy services contracts. The first chart illustrates Energy Use Intensity (EUI)* before (blue) and after (red) project completion. Don’t worry about reading the numbers from the chart. Just notice that the red bars have a nice descending slope to the right. The smaller the bar, the more energy efficient the building, and the less BTUs of energy it consumes. The buildings are sorted by energy efficiency with those to the left of the chart using more energy than the buildings to the right of the chart.
The second chart illustrates energy costs in terms of the dollars spent on energy per square foot of building in a year. We call that metric Energy Cost Index (ECI). Again the chart shows ECI before the project (blue) and after the project (red). Note the apparent random order of those bars—no descending curve.
What might be surprising is that the buildings in the second chart (ECI) are sorted in precisely the same order as in the first (EUI). The post-project energy costs appear to be unrelated to energy use.
How can this be?
It all boils down to the relative cost of fuel (see the third chart for the relative cost of fuel in dollars per million BTU). A highly energy efficient building burning a relatively expensive fuel might cost more to operate than a moderately efficient building burning a relatively cheap fuel. Let me share two clarifying examples.
The first involves converting an existing building from oil heating to geothermal heat pump heating and cooling. Geothermal heat pumps make efficient use of electricity for heating. In this building, we were able to reduce the EUI from 81.6 before the project to 44.7 after the project, representing a dramatic 45% improvement in energy efficiency. Their energy cost savings were also dramatic, reducing their bills from $2.04 to $1.37 per square foot annually—a 33% cost savings.
So, a 45% reduction in raw energy use only translated to a 33% savings in cost. Why? Because, as expensive as fuel oil is, it is still less expensive per BTU than electricity (see the chart). While both energy use and cost savings were excellent and the customer is very pleased, energy cost savings didn’t track exactly with energy use savings.
The second example illustrates a polar opposite scenario.
Another client previously burned about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil every year. We negotiated an agreement with the natural gas supplier to extend a line to their facility, allowing them to switch from burning oil to natural gas. The project resulted in an almost negligible improvement in energy efficiency (EUI), yet the client’s energy bills dropped by more than 50%—representing $1,100,000 per year!
The distinction between saving energy versus cost is often overlooked but of critical importance. When our clients say, “We want to save energy,” we’ve learned that what they really mean is that they want to reduce their energy bills and, sure, be more energy efficient while they’re at it. Understanding the economics of energy is as important as the engineering.
Should building owners simply be searching for the lowest cost fuel? Well, it depends. Stay tuned for another example.
*EUI units are BTU or thousands of BTU per square foot of building area per year. I’ve written previously about how EUI should become part of the building industry vernacular.
**Basis of cost of fuel chart: Electricity = $0.11/kWh, Oil = $3.00/gallon, Natural Gas = $0.85/therm, Coal = $160/ton, Wood Chips = $35/ton.


I finished WOAC last year for Cyber and GEN Odierno visited us and stated that he can get any Reserve or Guard Warrant (for that WOMOS) that wanted to come active. A MILPER Call to Active Duty was released about a week later.
Here is the article that came about during that time http://archive.armytimes.com/a...guardsmen-reservistsA “help wanted” notice has been posted for qualified officers of the National Guard and Army Reserve who want to transition to full-time active-duty service with the Army.
The newly updated Call to Active Duty program is targeted at selected reservists of the Army Competitive Category branches and functional areas who are qualified for service in several growth and understrength specialties that have priority requirements in the Regular Army.
Despite the ongoing drawdown, these are good career opportunities with promotion potential in the Regular Army force structure that will follow the force cuts of the next few years, according to personnel officials.
The CAD program does not apply to special branch officers of the Army Medical Department, Judge Advocate General’s Corps and Chaplain Corps.
The issue for many who were initially interested were moving and going to locations that did not interest them (ie. remaining in the DC area). Also, some were young and were concerned that after switching, not making it to CW3 due to the drawdown and not getting their 20.
At your WOBC, there will be NG and AR liaisons at your location (They should be CW5s). I will engage your rep for advice and information.


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Al Khobar - A Visit to the Transformation Wave
Al Khobar is a part of “The Triplet Cities” and forms a mega city along with Dhahran and Dammam. The city today has a booming economy and is preferred as a base by many local and international oil companies. But its canvas has not always been so colorful. This city was once only a small port on the Gulf which was a home to the local tribe named Al Dossary, whose people were mainly fishermen who earned their living from the creatures of the sea.
After the oil in commercial amount was discovered in early 20th century this city came in the limelight. Within the time span of two decades since the oil fields were discovered, this place underwent a drastic change, not only in its economy but in its quality of living as well. With the city now being considered as one of the major commercial hub and sea port, the city restructured itself with ultra modern concrete buildings, roads, shopping complexes etc. on the space that was earlier occupied with the mud huts of fishermen. In the last 80 years Al Khobar has evolved as a modern coastal city with beautiful beaches, cafés and restaurants which, as a traveler, you can explore by renting a car which will take you on the roads of this remarkable city.
During 1940s and 1950s, the largest oil company of the world, Saudi Aramco, claimed these deserts and based its commercial headquarters at Dhahran. Al Khobar is located to the east of Dhahran on the Gulf coast because of which it became significant shipping point from where the crude oil of Saudi was transported to Bahrain. After the world- war the expansion of the oil industry resulted in shifted focus from Al Khobar to other cities of the north like Damman and Ras Tanura. As a result of this the city of Al Khobar gradually lost its initial role as shipping point but evolved itself to be the commercial center for the whole area.
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Sony Entertainment Television’s popular singing reality show Indian Idol 10 will welcome the legend from the South, the Vishwaroopam actor, Kamal Haasan to grace its upcoming episode.
The extremely popular actor from South is not only a fabulous performer but a wonderful singer too. Having learnt music, he has sung in many South Indian songs.
One moment in Indian Idol 10 will rekindle Kamal’s passion as a singer and he will also share to the audiences of the show that his daughter Shruti Haasan is actually fulfilling his dreams of being a singer.
This will happen when contestant Neelanjana Ray will give an amazing performance on one of Kamal’s popular and evergreen numbers.
Kamal will come up to the stage and narrate anecdotes from his past, and will say that ‘Mere singer banne ka sapna Shruti Haasan poori kar rahi hai’!!
Seeing Neelanjana sing, Kamal will tell one and all that she reminds him of his younger daughter.
Aww!! Are you gearing up to watch the aura and screen presence of the iconic actor, Kamal Haasan in Indian Idol 10?
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All That’s Well To Tell PODCAST Episode Three
How-tos for keeping antibiotics irresistible? Start by testing your antibiotic awareness.
Enjoy the Podcast! (listen to podcast by clicking the play button)
The misuse of antibiotics has landed us smack dab in the middle of a global crisis with multi-drug resistant organisms, aka superbugs.
Think you know how to take antibiotics? How do you know if you are using antibiotics appropriately? A big part of antibiotic resistance is due to the uninformed misuse of antibiotics when people take them. Make sure you know the answers to the following five true or false questions.
You can treat the cold or flu with antibiotics. False.
Antibiotics won’t kill a virus. Bacterial and viral illnesses are biologically different. Bacteria are living microorganisms. Viruses need a host – they must “hijack” cells to replicate. The best treatment for most viruses is symptomatic relief.
If you’re taking antibiotics and start to feel better, you can stop taking them and save the rest for later. False.
Always finish the full course of antibiotics as prescribed, unless your healthcare provider advises you to stop.
A recent study revealed that many people believe 1) antibiotic resistance refers to changes in the human body, 2) that they are personally at low risk for antibiotic resistance and 3) fixing the resistance issue is up to healthcare providers. Yikes!
Educate yourself and tell others – finish your antibiotics.
If you are sick and your friend offers you antibiotics you should start taking them. False.
Never share prescription medication with anyone, or borrow antibiotics from anybody. Specific bacteria should be treated with specific antibiotics. Taking the wrong antibiotic can lead to drug resistant bacteria.
Even more importantly, there is always the risk of allergic reactions when taking someone else’s medication. Don’t borrow. Don’t lend. Don’t do it!
It’s “okay” to drink alcohol when you are taking antibiotics. False.
Some antibiotics can make a person very sick when mixed with alcohol. Metronidazole is a common antibiotic that interacts horribly with alcohol, you also need to wait 72 hours after finishing the drug before ingesting alcohol to prevent reactions. If you are not sure about your medication, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
Even if it is “safe” to have one or two servings of alcohol while taking most antibiotics – alcohol consumption when you are sick shows poor judgment. BTW skipping even one dose of antibiotics because you are tipsy leads to antibiotic resistance.
If your mucus is green you need antibiotics. False.
What’s the real meaning of greening? Green mucus is the result of an oxidized enzyme called myeloperoxidase which is released by neutrophils (aka white blood cells) when they encounter a viral or bacterial infection. Just because you are coughing up or blowing out green “goo” does not always mean you have a bacterial infection, or that antibiotics are indicated.
Before you go reaching for that Zpak, visit your healthcare provider.
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These three vignettes were torn from the pages of an upscale home and garden magazine. Of course the fabulous wall color, crazy furniture and that rug (!) are what first caught my eye. Then I noticed the Bromeliads. Which are still in their black plastic nursery pots! The one on the left is even sporting a nice ring of mineral deposits around the bottom of the pot, as though it had been sitting in a saucer before being placed on the stylish table, in the stylish room.
Here the offending pots aren't just black but also that brown "terracotta" color. Why!? The plants don't look like an afterthought, why aren't they shown in a beautiful container that belongs in this room?
More plastic, more mineral deposits. Is it just me or is there an extreme styling disconnect going on here?
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This is a copy of Frans Visscher’s chart of the discoveries made by Abel Tasman during his 1642–43 and 1644 voyages. The west coast of New Zealand is shown at the bottom. Unlike Tasman’s map, which showed Cook Strait as a bay, Visscher’s shows a gap, suggesting the presence of a passage.
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Join us this May for a beautiful Spring Sound Harmonisation session, which helps to prepare us as we step toward the Fire of Summer when the elements change and so do our energetic bodies. These sessions help you to connect into the deeper parts of your being and your more natural circadian rhythms aiding better and more restorative sleep.
The sound harmonisations bring you to a more clearer, lighter and more spacious place within.
You will leave in a much more open and balanced state of mind and with more uplifted energy.
During the sessions we will acti
vate the voice with a series of toning mantras which belong to the ancient Japanese science of sound, followed by a series of vibrational elements which represent the Earth, Water, Wood, Fire and Air. These beautiful acoustic sounds, overtones & harmonics create an internal resonance which allow you to tune yourself back to your natural balance. These sounds bring human beings, nature and the cosmos into harmony and the combination of the percussive instruments work on the subtle energy fields to clear and harmonise with every sound. We will meditate together in silence, as well as combine sound and colour to help balance and tune our physical and energetic bodies in a completely non-invasive way.
These unique and rare sessions are for beginners and established meditators or for those looking to expand their vibrational awareness in a held yet expansive space.
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A Park Atop 101 Freeway in Downtown? Park 101 Open House Set for May
As plans and fundraising move forward to cap the 101 Freeway in Hollywood, a similar idea in downtown will take a step next month when Park 101 District organizers host a community meeting and open house. The event, which dovetails with the Downtown Art Walk is on May 13th from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Caltrans District 7 building.
The 1�?�2 mile park would help connect downtown's various communities and encourage new development. "It will provide opportunities for the creation of new signature urban boulevards along First Street, Cesar Chavez Avenue, Sunset Boulevard, Alameda Avenue and Grand Avenue that will become models for future great streets throughout Los Angeles," reads the event flyer. "This area would also become the cornerstone for new livable communities and corridors for development in the adjacent neighborhoods of Chinatown, Boyle Heights, Highland Park, Echo Park the Civic Center and Downtown."


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Voskhozhdeniye / The Ascent -
(1977) Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Starring Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Larisa Shepitko. The same year Bowie released Low and Heroes. The Ascent. I wrote not to long ago that Whiteout should've been filmed in black and white, when you watch The Ascent you'll understand why. The contrast, the uneven contrast of that vast white, blank canvas that overwhelms whatever darkness is presented against it. The Ascent is very spiritual and subtle, where the film is heading remains elusive to prediction, however once arrived at, each fold of the film is a soothing unraveling like that of gauze from a healed wound. I noticed that the earlier scenes of the film have more white as they mainly take place on open fields covered in snow, while in later scenes, the snow is interrupted by trees, houses, later removed completely by a shed/holding cell. In fact, we do not see another shot of 90% snow on the screen after a certain point in the middle of the film. This is not a complaint. What the story seems to do is, as the settings darken, the true nature of the characters brighten to plain view and are revealed to us.
Why are Criterion Collection films so expensive? Its not just that they're expensive its that they tend to be the only available edition of most of those films. It becomes that you have no choice, though, one never knows what a clicking trip to amazon.com may have in store for a DVD collection.


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man they got the "Ivan " 3d targets .thank you I will have to get a few of those
I looked for those and the E silhouettes for years and didn't find them.
You can even get a 1:1 scale plastic front of a Bradley.
I find it odd that they have American vehicles for target practice.


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If we somehow get spring, the housing market will probably perk up, and the purchasers will be told that they need a “title search.”
Since this is a fairly expensive activity, it might help soften the blow if you know a little bit about what you are paying for. In order to help you understand, you might need to know a few facts.
First, houses don’t sell, land does. We lawyers learned long ago that houses aren’t reliable. They burn down, or up, they blow away, they sink into water never to be seen again, etc.
So we lawyers invented this rule: If you buy a piece of land, you automatically become the owner of whatever is on it. Land doesn’t go away. Problem solved.
You may also need to know that each county courthouse has the real estate records of all the land in the county. If you live in Cambria County, you would go to the courthouse in Ebensburg, Somerset in Somerset, Altoona in Hollidaysburg, etc. Most of the records are now on computers.
The first thing I need is some information about the present owner’s deed. The fastest way to get that, and something that will be needed anyway, is the assessment. It will give me, among other things, the book and page where the present owner’s deed is recorded.
The deeds and mortgages are kept in the office of the recorder of deeds, and the recorder gives a copy of every deed to the assessment office.
From the deed I can get the legal description of the property. That’s the survey description that usually starts, “Beginning at a point on Main Street ... .” But, it’s no good just checking the present owner. I want to check all the owners for at least the past 50 or 60 years.
There could be mistakes on the earlier deeds, or mortgages that were never satisfied, for instance, or owners who never signed off.
Enter the “recital.” If everybody who worked on this title before did everything they should have, then each deed will give me the name of the previous owner and where it’s recorded. The recital is usually right after the legal description, and begins, “Being the same piece or parcel of land which A & B, husband and wife, deeded to the present owners on February 15, 1999, and which is recorded in Deed Book 1762, at page 67.”
Now I can go from one deed to another working back through time, without ever having to go to any other source.
The present deed will tell me where the previous deed is recorded, and the previous deed will tell me where the deed before that was recorded, and I might have to go to other counties eventually, but I can see all the deeds back to William Penn. If a recital is missing, there are indices that I can
Now that I have a list of as many owners as I want, I can check for mortgages, death taxes for any who died, judgments, federal tax liens, divorces, guardianships and, of course, delinquent property taxes, among other things.
Most of these latter items are in the prothonotary’s office.
That’s the one where all civil lawsuits are filed, and all the lawsuit records are kept. Later, back in Johnstown, I have to check for this year’s taxes, water bills, sewer bills, garbage bills and whether the rain spouts have been disconnected from the sewer, and then hold a closing to pay the seller.
You’re getting a lot for your money.

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Enjoy a relaxing day at the cabin. Many things have gone amiss… some very obvious, yet some subtle. Were you able to find the 17 differences between the puzzle you assembled and the box image?
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Love this puzzle. I framed it too!!!
I really enjoyed this puzzle - though it was pretty easy. It is beautiful when put together a all the little “differences” are fun to find. Would definitely purchase other designs.
We love your puzzles! We like the challenge of them and then the fun of finding Waldo at the end and the differences in the puzzle from the box. Thank you for creating such wonderful puzzles!!! Happy New Year!!!!
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I love all the Puzzle Twist varieties. The image on the box varies just enough from the actual puzzle to make it challenging but still fun for those of us who like to refer to the image as we work. Always high quality pieces and sharp image reproduction with this brand.
Loved this puzzle!!! This was my first "puzzle twist" puzzle. It was fun and a little challenging, but not bad at all. There were quite a few changes which made it fun to do. I love the pictures, the theme, and the colors. It has a cozy feel about it. I'm going to frame this one and hang it.
This was first time I worked one of these Puzzle Twist Somethings Amiss puzzles. Super fun!! Finished it in really fast time because I couldn’t pull myself away from it!
WOW they got this right. what a blast to have the puzzle mixed up like that, not only are some of the pictures in different places, there are changes to the pictures. it was so much fun to put this together. medium difficulty because of the changes to the picture. the quality is great, good price, good fun and enough of a challenge it kept you wanting to do more.


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Experimental fragments (soil of East River shoreline, paper and plaster), wall drawings with pencil, photograph, graphite paper (2023)
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The Apparatus in the Garden brings together a group of Finnish artists working with photographic processes. Each of the five artists shares a reciprocal relationship with the materials they use in different photographic processes in their work. The matter in these processes may be collected from the middle of decaying infrastructure, incinerated waste or beach sand and gets worked on in collaboration with natural light, weather conditions or more-than-human entities. The works that result from these working processes do not always attempt to conserve their material form, but are often in a constant process of change that takes place within and after the exhibition.
A constantly accelerating image culture necessitates distance between image makers and materials used in image making. The building blocks of these image cultures, such as smartphones and data networks, consist of chopped, mined and drilled materials that are extracted into production chains. In these chains, material connections and the capitalist modes of resource extraction that underpin them are obscured from view. Many of the works in the exhibition examine the foundation of photographic culture and seek to reconnect image makers back into different material networks.
Simultaneously, the works position themselves against traits that are commonly associated with photography – such as permanence and acuity. The exhibition poses the question – how can we break ties with established modes of photographic production and can such actions lay a groundwork that will blossom in the future?
Artists: Carl Victor Wingren, Liina Aalto-Setälä, Maija Annikki Savolainen, Sauli Sirviö and Noora Sandgren
The exhibition is open 10.5.–4.6.2023.
The exhibition takes place in the halls of the former Lahti Art Museum at Vesijärvenkatu 11, accessed from the entrance of the Cetori second hand market through the courtyard.
Kehä 4 (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), plaster, inkjet print on paper, serigraphy, wood, stain paint, painted steel
Kolera-altaan alla (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), plaster, wood, stain paint, inkjet print on paper
Heijastuksesi (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), serigraphy, inkjet print on paper / Kolera-altaan alla (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), plaster, wood, stain paint, inkjet print on paper
Heijastuksesi (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), serigraphy, inkjet print on paper
Havainne (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), plaster, wood, stain paint, inkjet print on paper, glass fibre, steel, spray paint
Heikko kuva (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), plaster, inkjet print on paper, painted steel
Metsäkaupunki (2023) Papier-mâché combined with found materials (found alongside Helsinki beltways 2020-23), inkjet print on paper, painted steel
Ruins, knowledge, geography, ecology, memory, landscape, construction and preparation, disappearance.
This exhibition, at the Lappeenranta Art Museum, presents artworks that deal with the layers of recording, material circulation, decrepitation, nostalgia and memory.
We constantly predict the future, even though we don’t have any stable ground for predicting what will happen. But in order to hold on to our functional ability, we need to make estimates about how things behave – what is staying put and what is changing.
An image of a situation is not the same as reality, but it is important to be able to form views about the future as well as the past.
The exhibition is based on the joint, artistic research project called In Various Stages of Ruins. Over the course of the years 2017-2022, the curators, together with the artists, considered the relationships between aspects of time and place, as well as the structures and various qualities and processes of ‘ruinification’.
Exhibition presents work from the artists Jussi Kivi, Iona Roisin, Sauli Sirviö, Elina Vainio and Eero Yli-Vakkuri. One aspect of the project leading up to this exhibition were research trips made to Vyborg, to the Karelia area, and through Siberia to Vladivostok. Concepts such as ‘ruin’ and ‘waste’ functioned as instigators of thought for the project, branching out into themes about the formation of knowledge and memory, about the different sorts of perspectives attached to politics, geology, and written history as well as about experiences related to distance, place and the present time. The exhibition at the Lappeenranta Art Museum is partly based on experiences from these research trips, and presents new work specifically created for this exhibition. In addition, and most crucially, the work in this exhibition departs from the research framework and brings forth versatile modes of material attachment and interaction with ‘what is present’.
The curators of the exhibition: Miina Hujala & Arttu Merimaa
Thanks: Katja Kalinainen (The assistant for the ‘In Various Stages of Ruins’ project between the years 2018-2019). Matti Kunttu (graphic design), Jaana Denisova-Laulajainen (Russian translation and production assistance), Anna Ruth (English proofreading).
This research project was conducted with the support of the Kone Foundation for the years 2017-2020. The project was part of the residency organisation, HIAP’s (Helsinki International Artist Programme) Connecting Points programme which concentrates on Finnish-Russian collaboration, supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
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In his book ‘Warped Mourning’ (2013) Alexander Etkind writes about the culture of grieving and memory, within a Russian context. He brings forth the idea that the past does not exist in the present except when created (in the present). Through the examination of literature and cinema he states that the core of cultural remembrance is produced by the interaction between texts and monuments. We need active interplay. He speaks about remembering as connected to time in ‘memory events’, that are re-encounters with the past and create a deviation from established cultural meanings. They change how people not only remember, but also imagine and speak of the past. But the influential power of this is dependent upon their claims to truth; the audience’s belief in the origin of the statements and the importance of this deviation in relation to the identity of the community. When we ask; how is an artist a knowledge producer – at the same time we are asking how the belief in the meaning of various things is created. What does it mean to document and present statements as an active, artistic (creative) action?
Artists Iona Roisin, Elina Vainio and Eero Yli-Vakkuri were invited to form a kind of research group; to make new work related to the subject matter. Roisin examines the role of nostalgia and the position of an outsider through the format of a travelogue-video, and in this way deals with what is possible, or ethical, when approaching different themes. Recorded and captured material from Vyborg, St. Petersburg as well as from the Trans-Siberian train journeys function as the source of material as well as the framework for this travelogue. Vainio also uses a personal approach, especially in considering contradictory sentiments of an experience – with regards to Russia, to the trips made there, and their related implications. A sentence borrowed from Svetlana Alexievich, is divided between Vyborg and Vladivostok in a video work made in 2019. The reliefs made for the exhibition interpret collected and gathered material with private sentiments and thoughts. Water is the material for Yli-Vakkuri’s work where different springs along with various filtration cycles circulate on site as a built-in water treatment plan. The water used in the work was collected from natural springs in Finland as well as from sources found during excursions to the Karelia area.
The oeuvre of artist Jussi Kivi, photographer, explorer and adventurer of ruins and remnants, inspired our entire project. In this exhibition are images that record the artist’s encounter with a small American town, using memories along with material from Google street view. How to make a connection to change and movement is an element that is tied into the work of Sauli Sirviö, who has been travelling along many kinds of uncertain and disappearing railways, and bringing forth the dynamics of dismantling infrastructures. We presented Sirviö’s work ‘We need oil to breathe’ (2018) as a part of our mobile exhibition whilst travelling to Vladivostok in 2019. For this exhibition in Lappeenranta, Sirviö made a new series of works where temporal exposure to light, alongside a sort of material excess, play a central role.
We examined realities of the ‘present’; the environment of interaction between people and the possibilities tied to this. Multiple crises of trust – which are not only visible in the atmospheres of politics and information distribution – also aid in maintaining a constant feeling of uncertainty, and make returning to a sort of fictive past easier (looking for nostalgia) – than forming a new vision of the future. In her book ‘Arts on Living on a Damaged Planet’ (2017) Anna Tsing (et al.) brings to light our ‘multiple beings’ in relation to change that the production of science and knowledge have brought forward – not only with regards to our shared existence on the planet, but also in the challenges connected to what we face, as with for instance,climate change and species loss. Tsing and others use the word ‘landscape’ to depict how we are present in our shared reality with climatic, as well as microbial and mineral, realities. Tsing (et al.) also evokes the concept of a ‘ruin’ when she speaks of monsters and ghosts that fill the present; the forms that are left behind, forms that were once meant to be receptive to a certain species’ attributes (like the blossom of a plant that developed the appearance of a certain pollinator’s genitals to attract this pollinator, which has now gone extinct). In order to become aware of these certain types of biological and operational ruins, one needs to adapt the attitude of an explorer, and a museum has always been a sort of collector’s cabinet, where the material relationship to knowledge is continually renewed. But at the same time, the museum is a captor that prevents the decomposition and disintegration of objects. The ongoing loss of nature is acute and difficult to obstruct, many familiar environments and species will disappear, and it might make many of us very melancholic and sad, but it is sincerely crucial to actively form new relationships and to recognise the importance of our existing relationships as well, instead of just documenting this disappearance. Interdependence as well as understanding the versatility of species is important when we seek durable, and possible solutions and worlds, perhaps the title of Tsing’s book presents a way “to live on a damaged planet”.
When thinking of possibilities of how to function in the condition of this ‘damaged planet’, I find it is also about sites and artworks as evidence of various visions of past and future. The role of the museum in relation to truth and the power of proof also provide the possibility to examine the relationship of different forms of control of meaning – especially when doubt is attached to the truth-concept with regards to the authenticity of things. In his book, Etkind recalls: “Medvezhiegorks’s museum director told me that it is easier to open an entire exhibition that deals with political oppression inside the museum than to put a single info sign on to a site of a mass murder.” The ongoing ‘crisis of post-truth’ is part of multiple processes of expansion of communication that accelerate the bringing forth of opinions, but at the same time highlight the need to obtain genuine connections, not only between people, but also in relation to memory and forms of meaning making, in order to deal with what is valuable and what is true. It is relevant to constantly observe how the images of things and events are constructed; images of situations where one has not been physically present, and how to communicate knowledge of being present.
The thematic of this exhibition simultaneously deals with the resonance of memory, knowledge and ruin – within both political and physical spaces – including their distances and layers. This exhibition considers how, and by what means, distance and proximity are built within the constant alteration of the existing world. One cannot help but notice how during the planning of this exhibition there were vast and dramatic changes. How the exhibition that was initially planned for the year 2020, was postponed due to a global pandemic and then, after Russia launched its aggressive attack on Ukraine, the changes which ensued were not only experienced in the practical aspects of the exhibition but also in the thematic – as for instance with the word ‘ruin’ in our project’s title.While Ukraine is currently, in very literal terms, being bombed into ruins, it is not only the past which is being brought into question. Ruins are constantly being made. Condemning the war and supporting Ukrainians – in all possible ways – is of the utmost importance. This also means limiting collaboration with Russians. Over the years we have worked with many Russian artists, and have wanted to bring forth mutual understanding in order to build a future despite the effects of the ever increasingly totalitarian regime. In the reality of war, things are not the same as before. We completely understand that it is not easy for the people in Russia who are against the war, and it is hard to foresee any alleviation, but the forms and routes of interaction have to be recalibrated.
The perception of different distances, along with how they are constructed and maintained has been an integral part of this project and we therefore specifically chose to present this exhibition at the Lappeenranta Art Museum. Lappeenranta is close to the Russian border, and to Vyborg, as well as to the Karelia area where our explorations took place between 2018-2022. We can’t, and we shouldn’t bypass the importance of these locations as integral parts of Finnish history. Remembering is an elemental part of history. The present is not a self-evident totality but one that is in constant formation. The exhibition The Surface Holds Depths participates in acknowledging this processing and formatting of memory.


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“I think my face is funny.” I’m keeping the original, but prints are available in my shop.
It’s hard for people to imagine just how revolutionary looking she was. Actresses in the 1950s were expected to have curves- Marilyn Monroe was 5’5.5″ and 37-23-36. Elizabeth Taylor was 5’2″ and 32D-21-36. Even ingenue Debbie Reynolds was 5’2″ 36-23-37. Audrey Hepburn comes along at 5’7″ (a giant when the average American man was 5’8″ in 1960) 34A-20-34. And while there’d been tall and slim actresses in the 30s and 40, by the 50s it wasn’t what studios were looking for from new talent. And it wasn’t just her body. In an era of china doll looks it’s no surprise that Audrey Hepburn had been looked over by talent scouts and deemed unfilmable. Her crooked teeth could get a hazy filter for close ups, but her nose was was considered too big and wide to look good on film.
As we all know, she was eventually cast in the stage role of Gigi which led her to Roman Holiday and mega stardom. She consistently played the role of an unusual but charmingly attractive young woman for the rest of her career. While we think of her as an eternal beauty now, there was a time when everyone who looked at her thought she had a, “funny face.”
Each era has beauty standards. Although symmetry is the benchmark for beauty, the details change from century to century, and from decade to decade. At sometime in human history you were beautiful. Personally, I would have killed it in the middle ages. Nowadays, not so much. I think that’s important to keep in mind while we’re being bombarded by constant messages that there’s something wrong with the way we look. There isn’t, and it’s all ephemeral anyway.


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The federal government has teamed up with the New York City DA's office to combat the only thing standing between many rapists and justice: a lack of money. There's a huge backlog of untested rape kits around the country—it could run into the hundreds of thousands—and the joint effort will provide $79 million to investigators in 27 states to test the evidence kits, the Hill reports. "When we solve these cases, we get rapists off the streets," said VP Joe Biden, who announced the move at a press conference at the NYC medical examiner's office yesterday. The grants "to reduce the national rape kit backlog will bring that sense of closure and safety to victims while improving community safety," he said.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch was also present at the announcement, as was Mariska Hargitay, who plays a sex crimes investigator in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and has founded the Joyful Heart Foundation to tackle the backlog, the Guardian reports. "To me, the backlog is one of the clearest and most shocking demonstrations of how we regard these crimes in this country," she said. "Testing rape kits sends a crucial and fundamental message that what happened to you matters, your case matters." (Old rape kits, some of them nearly 30 years old, were a jackpot for investigators in Houston.)


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Pop-Break Live: Albert Hammond, Jr. at The Bowery Ballroom in NYC
While The Strokes may not perform as regularly as we’d like, we do love when the guys come around with their solo projects. In late September, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. rolled into the Bowery Ballroom, and blew the doors off of two sold-out nights.
Pop-Break’s Saidy Lopez caught Hammond, along with openers Walking Shapes in action.
Caught by My Shadow
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Up to four players can team up and take on the levels together.
An enhanced version of Knights of Valour 2. It features additional playable characters as well as expanded content. The enemy placement and boss behaviour have also been updated.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Book-to-film.
No YA titles, but I am Legend (AKA Omega Man, as well as the Will Smith movie) and Shoeless Joe (AKA Field of Dreams), are there, as well as the books that inspired Village of the Damned, Dr. Strangelove, and Midnight Cowboy. And a good number more.
I already own, like, fourteen copies of every W.P. Kinsella book, so I'll forgo that one, but I'm totally buying The Midwich Cuckoos. And maybe a few more.

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