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"Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats"
by Eduardo Navas
Translated by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Francesca De Nicolò, Raquel Herrera, Brenda Banda Corona & Ignacio Nieto.
This text was originally commissioned by Turbulence and newmediaFIX as part of the series '3 X 3: New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence,' released on January 2007 "New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence" is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Eduardo Navas is an artist, historian and critic specializing in new media; his work and theories have been presented in various places throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has been a juror for Turbulence.org in 2004 and for Rhizome.org in 2006-07, New York. Navas is founder and was contributing editor of "Net Art Review" (2003-05), is co-founder of "newmediaFIX" (2005 to present) and is co-founding member of " acute.cc", an international group of artists and academics who organize event and publications periodically. Currently, Navas is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art and Media History, theory and Criticism at the University of California San Diego. www.navasse.net
Turbulence is also part of the history of remix culture. Generally speaking, remix culture can be defined as the global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies that is supported by the practice of cut/copy and paste. ( 1) The concept of Remix often referenced in popular culture derives from the model of music remixes which were produced around the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City with roots in Jamaican music. ( 2) Today, Remix (the activity of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms according to personal taste) has been extended to other areas of culture, including the visual arts; it plays a vital role in mass communication, especially on the Internet-and in this case, in the Turbulence archive.
The focus in this text is to understand how Turbulence contributes to Remix as a cultural activity, as well as to the history of new media. I will first look at Turbulence as an archive, a type of recording (a vinyl record), and examine in detail selected works according to my theory of Remix. I will then reflect on the aesthetics of Internet art, and its historical importance.
turbulence: nothing but a remix
Turbulence turns ten at a time that follows, but is somewhat distant from the postmodern: a moment when grand narratives were questioned, and little narratives were favored. ( 3) The postmodern period, which roughly ranges from the mid/late-sixties to the mid-eighties, was understood as one of fragmentation, bits and pieces, incompleteness and open-ended possibilities.
During the postmodern period, the concept of the music remix was developed. The remix in music was created and defined by the DJs in the nineteen seventies in New York City, Chicago and other parts of the east coast, who re-combined or extended preexisting songs to make them more danceable. Their mixes actually have roots in "toasting," and dub music of Jamaica. ( 4) The activity of the east coast DJ's evolved into sampling bits of music in the sound studio, which means that the DJ producers were cutting/copying and pasting pre-recorded material to create their own music compositions. Cut/copy and paste, the fragmentation of material, is today part of everyday activities both at work and at home thanks to the computer, and are commonly found in popular software applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word.
The Internet also depends on sampling, on cut/copy and paste in order to function as a network. File sharing, downloading open source software, live streaming of video and audio, sending and receiving e-mails are but a few of the activities that rely on copying, and deleting (cutting) information from one point to another as data packets. This means that cut/copy and paste is a pivotal element of Internet based art, and apply directly to the Turbulence archive.
What is particular to Internet art is that the user plays a crucial role in activating the work, like the DJ does when s/he plays with vinyl records. The Internet user manipulates the files in the Turbulence archive in the same way the DJ manipulates the record on the turntable. Both access pre-recorded material. The seventies DJ, however, was following the tradition of hackers, because s/he was manipulating records on a machine that was originally used for passive listening. This active interaction with pre-recorded material became part of the mainstream, and we can see how the online user falls within a category in part deriving from the DJ; the user now is expected to play with the files (like a DJ with records) and not just listen or view them passively, because interaction, touching, or in the case of the online user, clicking, is now integrated into culture.
The DJ manipulates a record and the Internet user manipulates the Turbulence archives. Metaphorically then, we can think of the Turbulence archive as a record, and like a "vinyl recording," it can develop scratches, and indeed it has, especially when we consider early works such as Not Walls (1996) by Laurel Wilson which uses Apple's Quickdraw, ( 5) an online interface that remixes image and text in a 3-D environment. The online work cannot be viewed because the plug-in is no longer available and the work has thus turned into an unplayable or scratched section in Turbulence's record groove.
Thinking of Turbulence as a vinyl record with a few unplayable tracks, this essay will now focus on specific projects which, as we "listen" to them, may show a few scratches of their own.
literature: remixed as internet art
In later sections a detailed theory of Remix will be given. At this moment what is crucial to understand in order to examine selected projects in the Turbulence archive is the concept of allegory, which is Remix's most vital element. Allegory is a cultural code that new media art, and more specifically Internet art, have inherited from the postmodern. ( 6)
The remix is always allegorical following the postmodern theories of Craig Owens, who argues that in postmodernism a deconstruction, a transparent awareness of the history and politics behind the object of art is always made present as a "preoccupation with reading." ( 7) Meaning that the object of contemplation, in our case Remix, depends on recognition (reading) of a pre-existing text (or cultural code). The audience is always expected to see within the work of art its history. This was not so in early modernism, where the work of art suspended its historical code, and the reader could not be held responsible for acknowledging the politics that made the object of art "art." ( 8) Postmodernism, in effect, remixed modernism to expose how art is defined by ideologies, and histories that are constantly revised. The contemporary artwork is a conceptual and formal collage of previous ideologies, critical philosophies, and formal artistic investigations extended to new media and Internet art.
Internet based art is inherently allegorical; it always relies on pre-existing material to gain authority. The works in Turbulence in this sense are allegorical; they are citations that rely on the authority of previous material that has been copied/cut and pasted, both conceptually and formally. This allegorical impulse, which carries a strong trace of postmodernism is apparent in all the Turbulence commissions. And not surprisingly the medium that is most allegorized is Literature and its narrative strategies; this is particularly true during the early years. Let us begin our examination with Literature and narratives. This focus will then expose other allegories.
Literature is an inspiration, if not the foundation, of many of the works commissioned between 1996 and 1998. Such works include The Grimm Tale by Marianne Petit with John Neilson, ( 9) North Country: Part 1 by Helen Thorington and Eric Schefter, ( 10) The Sad Hungarian by Nick Didkovsky and Tom Marsan, ( 11) and The Story of X by a Russian author. ( 12)
The Grimm Tale is a story about a boy who is not able to understand the concept "to shudder." This alienates the boy who is misunderstood by those around him. When he finally is able to understand the meaning of the verb, it is the user who must come to terms with it. This is an adaptation of a tale by the Brothers Grimm, in which the user is invited to move back and forth between the webpages, thereby making the experience of the story somewhat non-linear. North Country is a mystery short story about a skeleton, possibly of a woman, found in Upstate New York. The woman, the authorities claim, committed suicide, even though some evidence seems to point to homicide. This type of hypertext is known as a "branching story." Meaning that the user usually has two hyperlinks to select from, but in the end, s/he is expected to visit most, if not all, of the pages to get a handle on the mystery. The Sad Hungarian is the story of a farmer who has lost his wife and is trying to cope with his loneliness and the hard work he must perform day after day. It consists of animated gifs that must be activated by the user with mouse clicks. This story is linear; the user must, however, use the click-back browser button to go back to the main page. And The Story of X is an online collaboration where the user is expected to contribute actual writing. This story is always changing because users are allowed to contribute. The end result of "X" is many entities. The user can navigate the story archive starting with the most recent entries at the top. Unlike the other stories, this one consists of a single page.
The authors treat the web-browser as a direct extension of the printed book, while also experimenting with the possibilities the Internet offers as a creative medium. For example, in North Country the viewer can listen to ambient sound, and in The Grimm Tale each book chapter is accompanied with music compositions and animated gifs. The Sad Hungarian also utilizes animated images-a java applet to be exact, (a small software component that runs in the context of another program, in this case a web browser). ( 13) Many of these stories, while at times providing options to move back and forth between pages, nevertheless, rely on a linear narrative, and a traditional plot. We can say that they are, in part, an extension of hypertext literature. Most importantly, they point to interests that will be revisited repeatedly by other artists in the years to come. These works are, in essence, remixing pre-existing stories on the web, not to mention the linearity such stories depend on (except for The Story of X , as I explain below). They are what I call selective remixes because they leave the "spectacular aura" ( 14) of the stories intact.
These early works are historical documents of a transitional period when artists began to explore the paradox of the Internet: while the projects connect us with others in ways previously not possible, they also alienate us from others because such experience is mediated with information. The body is redefined by online communication; ( 15) the result is work that constantly asks to be completed, or contributed to, by the end user. This preoccupation and constant recall of the body is allegory-a remixed version of what we know in physical space.
1 This is actually my own definition extending Edward Lessig's definition of Remix Culture based on the activity of "Rip, Mix and Burn." Lessig is concerned with copyright issues; my definition of Remix is concerned with aesthetics and its role in political economy. See Edward Lessig, "Free," The Future of Ideas (New York: Vintage, 2001), 12-15.
2For some good accounts of Dj Culture see Ulf Poschardt, DJ Culture (London: Quartet Books, 1995); Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Last Night a DJ Saved my Life (New York: Grove Press, 1999); Javier Bláquez and Omar Morera, eds. Loops: una historia de la música electrónica (Barcelona: Reservoir Books, 2002).
3 For a popular and often attacked version of postmodernism see, Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 1984). For a constrasting account, see Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, Duke University, 1991). And for a brief, and somewhat limited reflection on Postmodernism's relation to new media see Charlie Gere, "Digital Resistances" Digital Culture (London: Reaktion books, 2002), 150-196.
4 Porschardt, Brewster, and Blánquez.
5 Laurel Wilson, Turbulence.org, 1996, <http://turbulence.org/walls.htm>, (October, 2006).
6 Craig Owens, "The Allegorical Impulse: Towards a Theory of Postmodernism," eds., Brian Wallis and Marcia Tucker, Art After Modernism (New York: Godine, 1984), 203-235.
7 Ibid, 223.
8 Ibid, 203-235.
9 Marianne Petit and John Neilson, "The Grimm Tale," Turbulence.org, 1996 , <http://turbulence.org/Works/grimm/index.htm>, (October, 2006).
10 Helen Thorington and Eric Schefter, "North Country: Part 1," Turbulence.org, 1996, <http://turbulence.org/Works/Thorington/nc/index.html>, (October 1996).
11 Nick Didkovsky and Tom Marsan, "The Sad Hungarian," Turbulence.org, 1996, <http://turbulence.org/Works/sadhungarian/index.html>, (October 2006).
12 A Russian Author, "Story of 'X'," Turbulence.org,
13 "Applet," Wikipedia.org, October 15, 2006,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applet>, (November 3, 2006).
14 I use the term "spectacular" after Guy Debord theory of the Spectacle, and Walter Benjamin's theory of Aura. We can note that the object develops its cultural recognition, not on cult value, but exhibit value (following Benjamin), because it depends on the spectacle (following Debord) for its cultural contribution. See Guy Debord, "Spectacular Time," The Society of the Spectacle (New York: Zone Books, 1995), 110-117; Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Illuminations (New York, Schocken, 1968), 217-251.
15 For an extensive analysis on how embodiment is redefined in new media culture see N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999); and Mark B. N. Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: 2004).

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Meghan P. Browne is the award-winning author of Indelible Ann: The Larger-than-Life Story of Governor Ann Richards (with illiustrator Carlynn Whitt) and Dorothy the Brave (with illustrator Brooke Smart). Her forthcoming The Bees of Notre Dame (with illustrator E.B. Goodale) is due out Fall 2023 from Random House Studio. Meghan holds a BA from The University of Arizona (Go, Cats!) and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas where she now lives with her husband, Greg, their three children, a pasture full of goats and chickens, a thriving honeybee apiary, a barn kitty named Bonnie and the most talkative blue heeler there ever was.
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I was born in Austin, Texas on March 5, 1985, back when Austin was more of a sleepy college town than a booming tech hub. I spent a ton of time with my dad’s big Irish family as a kid. Every Wednesday my Flanagan grandparents had a house full of aunts, uncles and cousins over for dinner, a tradition my grandmother continues still today! Every other Friday, all of us cousins spent the night and stayed up late playing cards and eating gummy bears. We put on plays, explored in the woods, played dress up in my grandmother’s beautiful gowns, and were allowed so much creative free time. My family, like many families, loves to tell stories. Every time I begin to think I’ve heard them all a hundred times, I learn a new one. I think I got my love for storytelling around my grandparents’ table.
When we were in fifth grade, one of my cousins and I put out a weekly newspaper that we created together. There was one, and only one, edition ever made. My love of journalism was just beginning to percolate. I became the co-editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper, the LBJ Liberator. I’m positive that this foundation of journalism has been one of the greatest gifts in my life. If you are a student aspiring to publication, my greatest bit of advice would be to join your high school or college journalism program. You won’t be sorry!
I spent so many years of my life as a competitive swimmer that I almost turned into a mermaid in college. Though I never achieved my sky-high dream of making the US Olympic team, I did have the honor to grow up with and train with many of the best swimmers in the world. I am a proud varsity letterwinner of the esteemed University of Arizona Swimming and Diving program. Those long hours in the pool and early morning practices taught me the kind of determination and patience I have relied on throughout my life.
It is one of my greatest joys to write for young readers. I fell in love reading Diane Stanley’s picture book biographies that made the Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet Master List year after year. Diane and so many other authors (Mark Twain, Joan Lowry Nixon, Charlotte Brontë, and many more) made me ravenous for words, and I longed to convey my own emotions and stories. I have those authors, my beloved school teachers, and my parents to thank for helping me become a lifelong reader. Writing for young readers reminds me to keep curious and kind.

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The Cemetery Improvement Society is the brainchild of the versatile Marc Claggett, who performs with a number of great bands in the Madison area, including TCIS, Butt Funnel, and The Projection People.
The Cemetery Improvement Society consists of Claggett on guitar, samples, drum machine, and more recently Brad Hawes (Revolving Doors, Projection People, Butt Funnel) on keys, drums, and percussion. The sound is at times dark and intense, other times very uplifting, but always extremely energetic.
This cut was performed at the Annex in Madison WI shortly before Brad joined up halfway through the groups tour with Meteoreyes from Sarasota, FL. I have videos from the final show of that tour recorded at The Frequency, so stay tuned for more from TCIS!


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(Natural News) If you want to live a long, healthy life, add more plant-based foods to your diet. A new study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers suggested that adding more fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains to your diet could lower your risk of dying early due to health problems like heart disease.
For the study, the researchers used data from both men and women who participated in two major national health studies. They looked at information on more than 47,000 women aged 64 on average who were enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study, as well as over 25,000 men of the same average age, who participated in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. All participants were free of cancer or heart disease when they entered their studies.
The researchers evaluated the changes in the participants’ diet during a 12-year follow-up period using dietary reports. They came up with three different scales to measure how much plant-based foods the participants added to their diets. These were: overall plant-based diet, a healthy plant-based diet and an unhealthy plant-based diet. The unhealthiest option included foods like fruit juices, refined grains, sugary foods and potatoes.
The results showed that participants who had the largest increase in overall plant-based diet were eight percent less likely to die early from all causes. Those who had a “healthy” plant-based diet were 10 percent less likely to die from heart disease. In this type of diet, participants replaced one serving of refined grains with whole grains every day. They also added one serving of fruits and vegetables every day, and reduced their intake of sugary drinks by one serving per day. On the other hand, participants who followed the unhealthiest diet had an 11 percent higher risk of death.
“Over a period of time, consuming more whole grains, fruits, vegetables, while decreasing your intake of refined grains, sweets and desserts, and animal foods such as animal fat meat, and miscellaneous animal-based foods, may lower your risk of death from heart disease and other causes,” Dr. Megu Y. Baden, the lead researcher of the study, said in a statement.
Baden also told Healthline.com that these results were in line with previous research that suggested plant-heavy diets reduced the risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, this study took it a step further by suggesting how much these foods can prolong your life. Baden explained that these foods increase longevity because they are known to reduce inflammation and have antioxidant effects.
Improving your diet
Nutrition experts suggest that the quality of plant-based foods is more important than quantity. The focus must be incorporating whole wheat, whole fruits and vegetables, and nuts into your diet, while things like fruit juices, refined grains, sugary foods and potatoes should be avoided.
Replace red meat and processed meats with plant-based proteins such as chia seeds, edamame, legumes and tofu, and drink water instead of soda or fruit juice. Refined fruit juice is almost as damaging to your health as soda because it lacks fiber and is quickly digestible.
If you’re having a hard time making healthy changes to your diet, experts suggest that you start with what you already have to set helpful, realistic goals. Improved nutrition varies from person to person because of considerations such as budget, schedule and taste preferences. (Related: Athletes Eat Plant-Based Diet for Health, Longevity and Environmental Concerns.)
“Try making meals with at least three food groups. If you can, aim for fiber, healthy fat, and protein at each eating occasion,” suggested Alyssa Pike, RD, of the International Food Information Council Foundation.

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When technological innovation threatens to upend the status quo, the status quo fights back. Every time. I try to keep that in mind when observing oil industry-backed efforts to discredit electric vehicles (EVs) and dismantle progress on transportation electrification by peddling misinformation through industry-funded studies.
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Watch us turn this urban preschool into a hay ride, hoe-down, happily ever after harvest Halloween season!
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Some might confuse Zenovich's indictment on the judge as a cop-out in judging Polanski. But the facts remain. There's no further insight into the heinous crime. Nor is there a new judgment to be passed on the man who committed it. Anyone looking for new r
"Zenovich's film is a fair and skillful chronicling of the Roman Polanski case, and a study of how the circumstances of celebrity influence the carrying out of justice in the U.S. It's not an in-depth study of the filmmaker's psychology nor of how his lif
The film's verdict is that Polanski is too distinguished to persecute by placing him in a prison among, well, criminals. Wanted And Desired: A premeditated act of propaganda in the service of exoneration with a creative genius defense, instead of remorse.
Mesmo tendo criado uma narrativa envolvente, coesa e impecável a ponto de servir como base para os advogados de Polanski solicitarem o arquivamento do caso, este documentário foi ignorado pela Academia. Arre.
Though Marina Zenovich's film deals with the notorious case of the film director who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old, the film's real subject is the California legal system turned upside down by celebrity and media pressure.
Meticulously crafted and keenly thought out, the film also serves as a useful historical document. It illuminates its time period, delves into moral hypocrisy and shows the evolution of muck-raking celebrity journalism.
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Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) is unquestionably a great filmmaker, but as Marina Zenovich's documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired perhaps unintentionally demonstrates, he's also a creep.


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- Aesthetic Breast Augmentation
- Congenital Breast Deformity
- Breast Implant Removal
- Post Radiation Deformity
- Mastectomy Reconstruction
- Lumpectomy Reconstruction
Fat has been successfully injected in small volumes for many years. Common indications have included improving scars, small contour irregularities from trauma or surgery and for aesthetic augmentation to areas such as the lips, cheeks or chin. In order to inject larger volumes of fat into areas such as the breast, there are two requirements:
Capacity – adequate space in which to inject the required volume of fat
Matrix – a healthy recipient site with adequate blood supply to allow the injected fat to “take”, or survive the expansion device has been developed to prepare the breast for fat transfer. Consistent negative pressure induces changes to the breast that result in both increased capacity and the development of a healthy fertile matrix. It is typically worn for three weeks prior to surgery. Most commonly, patients wear the expansion device for six consecutive hours a day.
The expansion device consists of two polyurethane domes that fit comfortably over each breast. The domes are attached to a suction pump that produces negative pressure within the domes.
Tension-Induced Tissue Growth Using the AFT System
The negative pressure results in a slow and gentle expansion of the tissues to create a larger and more receptive matrix in which the fat can be injected. The system is held in place by a comfortable sports bra. Successful fat transfer cannot occur without successful expansion of the breast. The progress of breast expansion may be followed clinically or with the use of three dimensional volume images. Once external expansion is complete, you will be ready to proceed with surgery. Fat transfer to the breast is performed as an outpatient procedure under general anaesthesia. Liposuctioning is performed to areas of unwanted fat. The fat is prepared in syringes for injection into the breast. Injections are performed using small needles, so there are no scars placed on the breast. Following surgery, you will be placed into a sports bra and a compression garment will be applied to the areas where liposuction was performed. Swelling may be present for several weeks following surgery. The final result should be apparent after 2-3 months. Fat injection can typically produce an augmentation of approximately one cup size. If larger volumes are desired, then breast implants should be considered.
- Minimally invasive
- Outpatient procedure
- Uses your own tissue
- May be able to avoid use of implants
- Minimal or no scars
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Bhopal(Madhya Pradesh): Railways will earn an extra income of Rs 10 lakh per 12 months from commercial contract on locomotives within the electrical loco shed New Katni Junction to West-Central Railways (WCR).
West Central Railway is offering state-of-the-art services to the stations underneath Non Fare Income (NFR) by implementing the brand new modern Non Fare Income Consideration Scheme (NINFRIS), in line with Railway officers.
Below the contract, 05 electrical locomotives have been chosen for show of commercial. The promoting contract will enhance the railway income by Rs 2 lakh per locomotive to a complete of Rs 10 lakh yearly. The contract is the highest-grossing ever contract awarded by the division by way of annual worth per locomotive. The locomotives/electrical locomotives shall be up to date as per RDSO specified requirements by the use of state-of-the-art PU (Polyurethane) portray.
The Commerce Division of Jabalpur Division has been working to offer state-of-the-art services underneath Non-Fare Income (NFR) as effectively producing further income. Below NFR, for the primary time the contract for commercial on locomotives has been awarded at Electrical Loco Shed New Katni Junction.
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Sully the service dog to the late President George Bush is introduced to the heroic 'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot who is his namesake and plays with Jenna Bush Hager's children on the Today show
- The heartwarming encounter was recorded live on yesterday's TODAY show
- The famed pilot 'Sully' shook the canine's paw and praised the 'beautiful dog'
- Both dog and captain were introduced to each other by granddaughter to President George H.W. Bush- Jenna Bush Hager
The iconic service dog to the late President George Bush has met the heroic captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger who he was named after for the first time ever.
The heartwarming encounter, live on yesterday's TODAY show, captured the pooch meeting the famed pilot known for the 'Miracle on the Hudson'.
As the yellow Labrador ran into the studio, the famed pilot, who was sporting socks with Sully's face on them, shook the canine's paw and praised the 'beautiful dog'.
The service dog to the late President George Bush met the heroic captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger yesterday
The pair shared a heartwarming encounter with each other for the first time ever live on the TODAY show
Sully the dog, who was a service companion to the former president, and his namesake were introduced to each other by TODAY host and granddaughter to President George H.W. Bush- Jenna Bush Hager
The dog, who was a service companion to the former president, and the esteemed pilot were introduced to each other by TODAY host and granddaughter to President George H.W. Bush- Jenna Bush Hager.
The former president died last November at the age of 94.
Shortly after his death, Sully the dog became recognized across the world when he was pictured lying in front of the former President's casket during his memorial service.
A emotional photo was later posted on White House spokesman Jim Grath's social media page with the caption: 'Mission complete'.
The famed pilot told the Today show hosts: 'What a vigil he was holding. It was quite a moving image. That was the iconic image for me of the whole service.'
Speaking on the work of the much-loved service dog, who has 266,000 followers on Instagram, Jenna Bush Hager added: 'I think we sometimes don't think of service dogs as helping those that are in their final months.'
The dog became known across the world when he was pictured lying in front of the casket of the late President George H.W. Bush
The former president George Herbert Walker Bush died in November last year at the age of 94
The dog will now report for duty at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Facility Dog Program next week to assist wounded veterans.
Mr Sullenberger added: 'I think it's quite an honor and I think he is going to uphold the tradition quite well from what I can see.'
During the show, Ms Hager also brought daughters Poppy and Mila into the studio to hold the iconic dog's paw one last time and offer the canine a farewell hug.


With growing concerns about India’s energy security and climate change, the importance of improving the energy efficiency (EE) of the economy is being realized by Indian policy makers, and significant efforts are being made to enhance EE in the country. Yet progress in EE implementation has been slow compared to its potential and benefits. Internationally as well as domestically, EE policies have been undergoing major changes in order to facilitate rapid implementation of EE. This paper, with a focus on the electricity sector, is an attempt to enhance the discourse on the required transformation of EE policies in India.
Strategic Actions for Rapid Implementation of Energy Efficiency
Daljit Singh | Girish Sant


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Domaine de la Coulee II is a charming renovated gite consisting of a main building for 15 persons and an outbuilding for an additional 4 persons.
It is located at the edge of the lake at Robertville, in one of the most beautiful natural areas Belgium has to offer. You can walk here to your heart's content, cycle and enjoy the forested surroundings. The holiday home is located just outside of the village of Walk, 7 km to the northeast of Malmedy, and 67 km southwest of Liege.
This detached house furnished with charm and care, with some antique furniture and offers all of the ingredients you need for a worry-free, relaxed holiday. After a day in the outdoor air, you can relax in your private sauna or rest in the large enclosed garden with terrace.
The accommodation is not rented to groups of youths or students younger than 25 years of age.
Classification: Ground floor: (Hall, Livingroom, Sitting room(TV(cable), DVD player), Dining room(radio, CD player, stereo), Kitchen(oven, microwave, dishwasher), Bathroom(shower, washbasin), WC, games room(table football), sauna(shower), utility room(cooker(4 ring stoves, ceramic), fridge freezer, tumble dryer, washbasin, washing machine))
On 1st floor: (Bedroom(Bunk bed), Bedroom(3x Single bed), Bedroom(2x Single bed), Bedroom(Double bed), Bedroom(Double bed), Gallery bedroom(Single bed), Bathroom(whirlpool, massage shower, toilet), Bathroom(shower, 2x washbasin, toilet))
On 2nd floor: (Bedroom(Single bed, Double bed))
Guest house Ground floor: (Hall, Kitchen diner(TV(cable), DVD player, cooker(ceramic), combi microwave, dishwasher, fridge freezer), heating(electric))
Guest house On 1st floor: (Bedroom(Double bed), Bedroom(2x Single bed), Bathroom(shower, washbasin, toilet), WC, heating(electric))
french doors, heating(central), courtyard, patio, garden(fenced), garden furniture, BBQ, parking, pond, 2x Cot, 3x high chair
These costs are charged on site. They are not included in the rental price.:
Deposit; € 700 returned 14 days after departure
Cleaning; Mandatory: € 135
Pets; Not allowed
Bed linen; For rent, € 8 p.p./Stay
Bath towels; For rent, € 4 p.p./Stay
Kitchen linen; For rent, € 3 per Stay
Electricity; € 15/night
Gas/Oil; Nov - Apr: € 40/night; May - Oct: € 20/night
Water; Mandatory € 11/night
Environment; Mandatory: € 20/Waste bin
Tourist tax; Mandatory, € 0,80 /person/night
We were 16 people and rented 2 houses aircraft. The "reception was very friendly and the keys too. Roland (one of the owners) is to" listen and answer your questions by email. C "is a very nice house, very spacious. All the comforts s" found there. The sauna is perfect and spacious. There is a good kicker and games, puzzles. It is tastefully decorated. A nice big table in the dining room allowed us to eat all 16 at the same time and share in the "comfortable, all those good times. Bedding is clean and comfortable. The house is located in a small quiet street well but few km from Malmedy, ... Without taking the car, it has potential to be hiking, walks in the fresh air. short, recommended! We have one regret, c "n is" staying that "a weekend from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Indeed, it feels good in the house and a longer stay should be very nice) Thanks to Roland, Thibaut and Sylvain
From the house you can walk in the wonderful surroundings of the reservoir Robertsville, in the valley of Warche and around the castle Reinhardstein. A day Malmedy is nearby and there is also an opportunity for active outdoor sports. The house itself offers many rooms, so with a large group no one suffers from one another. Well maintained and clean. The sauna is delicious.
Verbleven maximaal met 17 mensen (12 volwassenen en 7 kinderen). Was ruim. Genoeg kamers. Interieur netjes. Sauna, heerlijk. Keuken wat klein, daarbij ook een bijkeuken. Binnenplaats stond al snel vol met auto's. Die hebben we later verderop geparkeerd bij een leegstaand hotel. Vanuit het huis prima wandelen en/of hardlopen. Voorzieningen in Robertville bakker en slager. Voor supermarkt naar Malmedy. Kortom prima locatie voor grote groep voor goede prijs.
van vrijdag tot zondagavond
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Wij hebben hier heerlijk genoten van een familie weekend. Goede matrassen en ruime nette kamers.
Centre 2.0 km., Forest 0.1 km., Lake 2.0 km., General supplies 2.0 km., Public transport 15.0 km., Public swimming pool 10.0 km., Cross Country 2.0 km.
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DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit police are searching for a man they say robbed an elderly individual of his vehicle after asking him for a ride to the gas station.
The carjacking in Detroit happened while the suspect and victim were traveling in the area of Richton and Lawton around midnight Wednesday.
Police say the suspect asked a 71-year-old man for a ride to a nearby gas station prior to the assault. While en-route, the suspect saw a friend and asked the victim if they could also give her a ride. The victim agreed and picked up the woman who police are considering a person of interest.
As they were driving, the suspect assaulted the victim and demanded his vehicle, a green Jeep Commander
Both the victim and the female passenger then exited the vehicle and the suspect fled the scene.
Suspect (left) and person of interest both sought by police in carjacking in Detroit. Courtesy of police.
He was last seen in a gray t-shirt, gray jogging pants with black stripes, and red tennis shoes. Footage of the suspect shows he was also carrying a white towel at a gas station.
The female was last seen wearing a black top with multicolored stretch pants.
If anyone recognizes these individuals, or has any information pertaining to this crime, please call the Detroit Police Department’s Commercial Auto Theft Unit at 313-596-2555 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak Up.


Creating a museum for the environment in the heart of Rio’s Botanical Gardens is no easy task. In a national competition to elect the best proposal for a 1500 sqm built area addendum, the Belo Horizonte-based architecture firm Arquitetos Associados (http://www.arquitetosassociados.arq.br) took the gold followed by MAAM + StudioParalelo (http://www.maam.com.uy and http://www.studioparalelo.com).
Responsible for Arquitetos Associados’ proposal, the young architects André Luiz Prado and Bruno Santa Cecília solved the equation in two steel structure buildings surrounded by precast cladding elements in different shades of orange, in order to highlight the volumes through the dense adjacent vegetation. The first building (1200 sqm) hosts 4 levels of permanent exhibits; the second (300 sqm) is home to the administration, an auditorium and a terrace for events.
In Santa Cecília’s words: ”We tried to subvert the limit imposed by the competition by redefining the floor design, creating a lowered plaza and adding another level to annex #1. By that, we’ve generated extra space. The other building follows the same logic: to create a lowered plaza and an area surplus.” (translated from portuguese) – Arch Editor André Pinto


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Portuguese futsal has been booming since the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. Watch Hélder Postiga, a director at the Portuguese Football Federation talk us through a Portugal Football Observatory report on the sport's growth.
English professional futsal player Liam Palfreeman plays in Italy for C.U.S Ancona in the Divisione Calcio a5 Serie B Group D has made history for British futsal.
Founders Martin Cassidy and David Alonso used their time wisely coming up with a 3-year club development plan to rebuild Omagh Futsal Club club from the ground up.
The Spanish LNFS has today announced a partnership with the National Futsal League in England, a collaboration which will create LNFS England.
Rosario Futsal Club from Northern Ireland are a part of UEFA Futsal Champions League history featuring with stars of futsal and football in this year of COVID.
English professional futsal player Liam Palfreeman, stepped up for C.U.S Ancona today in the Italian Serie B, and scored a 10 metre penalty and his 50th goal in Italy.
Exclusive - This month Barca face French club ACCS in the UEFA Futsal Champions League so Futsal Focus spoke with their Head Coach Andreu Plaza about the match, French futsal and the UEFA Futsal Champions League.
Exclusive - Norwegian futsal has been slow to develop in comparison to their neighbours but is this about to change? Futsal Focus spoke with Iver Strandheim and Kai Bardel to find out more!
Exclusive: Futsal Focus talks with Fellipe Drommond CEO of Magnus Futsal Club about their incredible season on and off the court.
ACCS Futsal Club progress to the round of 16 in the UEFA Futsal Champions League after defeating Italservice Pesaro on penalties but can they go further?

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Coming Soon on Criterion: AMORES PERROS, CRASH
Alejandro González Iñárritu made his feature debut with the highly-charged Amores Perros (2000), which will arrive in December 2020 in a new 4K digital restoration from The Criterion Collection.
"In Mexico City," per the official description, "the lives of three strangers -- a young man (Gael García Bernal) mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman (Goya Toledo) who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin (Emilio Echevarría) who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter -- collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys." In addition to the 4K digital restoration, the edition includes new interviews, a new conversation between the director and actors, a new behind-the-scenes documentary, music videos, essays, and even a new English subtitle translation.
A few years before that film's release, David Cronenberg made another masterwork of obsession, Crash (1996), in a career filled with intense obsessions, adapting J.G. Ballard's novel. James Spader, Holly Hunter and Deborah Kara Unger star in "a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing," according to the official description. A new 4K digital restoration is featured, along with archival special features, including an audio commentary by Cronenberg.
Robert Bresson's Mouchette (1967), as well as Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Two Takes by William Greaves will also see release in December; learn more about each title at the official Criterion site.


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November 26, 2022 Update: 3M will get some insurance coverage for Bair Hugger claims. A federal court in Minnesota ruled this week that 3M must only pay a single deductible for more than 5,000 Bar Hugger lawsuits.
But the insurance company – Federal Insurance Co. is not on the hook for all of 3M’s attorneys’ fees and other defense costs in the warming device lawsuits because only a fraction of the claims fall within the insurance policy period.
May 18, 2022 Update: The Supreme Court rejected 3M’s appeal.
August 23, 2021 Update: Last week a federal appeals court reinstated 5,000 claims that had been dismissed and this litigation is back on. But few lawyers are taking new claims.
Should you bring a Bair Hugger lawsuit if you believe you suffered an infection from a Bair Hugger during surgery? Decide for yourself. But despite some early punches to the face for plaintiffs, there is still a reasonable chance these cases end well for plaintiffs. Let’s talk about these cases, what there are, where they are going, and what are the prospects that the 3M Bair Hugger cases reach a settlement.
What These Bair Hugger Cases Are About
A Bair Hugger device is a temperature management system that is used during surgery. The purpose of the invention is to help the body regulate the appropriate temperature.
The Bair Hugger pushed hot air through a hose into a blanket specially made to work with the device. The hot air produced by Bair Hugger accumulates under the surgical drape covering the patient. This hot air escapes under the surgical drape below the level of the surgical table or over top of it.
Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming Device is designed, manufactured, and marketed by Defendants 3M Company and Arizant Healthcare, Inc. There are more than 50,000 Bair Hugger FAWs in the United States.
How does it work? The Bair Hugger is a portable heater/blower connected by a flexible hose to a blanket, typically positioned for the patient getting surgery.
Keeping a patient warm is particularly useful during knee and hip replacement surgery because the procedures tend to be very long. The body loses heat increasingly throughout the surgery.
Another thing about metal hip and knee replacement surgery is that your body is particularly prone to infection. Why? The metal helps spread the infection.

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The Safe Haven of Havela
This rp takes place in an futuristic version of Earth. The world is split into a handful of kingdoms. Each have their similarities and differences. And throughout the world there are these rare people that are called the Mythics. Some kingdoms are safe for Mythics, but others will try to hunt them down for various reasons.
The Mythics come in a couple varieties. Powered Mythics or True Mythics.
Powered Mythics are people with powers. Most people have knowledge of Powered Mythics. Most have Element based powers earth, air, fire, and water (sometimes ice instead of water, but it is possible to have both). Then there are some Powered Mythics that have Mind Reading powers. They are not very widely known though.
Then there are the True Mythics. The True Mythics are Vampires and Werewolves. Very few people know that these truly exist. Most people truly believe that the True Mythics are in fact myths. True Mythics try harder to stay hidden than Powered Mythics do.
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Nearly all Mythics will try to hide who they are.
The world is split into various Kingdoms. The Northern Province, The United Islands, The Kingdom of Bakot (pronounced Ba-kot), The Midland Dynasty, The Otherlands, The Kingdom of Savan (pronounced Suh-v-an), The Kingdom of Costal (pronounced Co-stall), The Kingdom of Tropica, The Federation, the Antarctic Colony, and the newest kingdom Havela.
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All kingdoms have a king and a queen, unless specified otherwise. I will allow for people to play the prince/princesses for each kingdom, but my permission is required .
- The new Kingdom. Claims to be a safe haven, wanting to bring peace. People can seek refuge there. Anybody from the age of 13-22 is invited to come learn (and be safe) in their capital city for all of high school/college and longer if desired.
- Most technologically advanced. They are the biggest source of advanced technology in the world, supplying the other kingdoms with more machinery and tech. This kingdom is basically steampunk.
- The most strict and independent from the other kingdoms. Serious rules with serious punishments. Many believe that some of the citizens are androids. There is less difference between the castes here. Mythics are carefully looked for, and will be taken to either be locked away or killed here.
- Known for their abundant flora and fauna. Many of the people here are considered to be like hippies or gypsies. The Kingdom is extremely eco-friendly. Their harshest laws relate to the unjust harm of wildlife.
- Known for being less of a collected whole, and more of a series of small cities and towns. This kingdom is very similar to Texas and the Wild West in some ways.
- Known for the amount of wars they have started and won. They can seem very aggressive, arrogant, or cocky, but not all citizens are that way. They will hunt Mythics down and kill them or “recruit” them as soldiers.
The Antarctic Colony
- A collection of people trying to inhabit Antarctica. This is not a full Kingdom yet and more just an attempt to bring civilization to the Antarctic. People there have come from various kingdoms originally so there is a mix of people, cultures, and fashions there. The majority of people there have been from Costal.
- Known for their fishing and being more go with the flow. People not from the United Islands think of it as paradise, but they don’t see the fighting amongst the citizens about the current king and his niece, the rightful heir. The current king dislikes mythics but the rightful heir cares about mythics.
- The people of this Kingdom are similar to the people of modern day times.
- Known for being very bound to tradition, and the citizens are concerned about how they are viewed by others. This kingdom focuses on honor and respect. Most importantly you don’t do anything to disrespect the royal family or your family, and you better not do anything that could bring dishonor on your family. The topic of mythics is not addressed here.
The Northern Province
- This Kingdom is similar to the renaissance or medieval time periods. This is the image of what someone would imagine a medieval fantasy kingdom to be. Mythical are not usually officially addressed, but they are held to a higher status normally.
Here is a link to slides with all of the information on this RP.
The RP starts when the newly formed Kingdom, Havela, opens a school in its capital city for anybody from the age of 13 to 22, to come and live, and learn, in a safe environment, where nobody will try to hurt them. All of these teens/20ish year olds have their own reasons for coming. Some want to learn, some go because there parents are making them, and some come because they are a Mythic and they are looking for this safe haven. People believe that Havela will bring peace to the kingdoms, and safety to all Mythics, but is that truly the case. Is Havela truly a safe haven, or is it just the opposite?
Many characters in this rp will be normal humans from the different kingdoms, but some will be Powered Mythics, and there will be a couple True Mythics.
Before you sign up please read through the information above in order to best create your character. If you want to create a character that is Royalty or a True Mythic please ask me first. If you don’t ask me first, your character may be rejected.
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MUSIGA to organize virtual concert to honour Rawlings
The acting President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA)
has revealed that the association is planning a virtual concert to
honour former President Jerry John Rawlings.
Bessa Simons said the concert is to appreciate Mr Rawlings for
his contribution to the music and creative arts industry.
“You know because of the pandemic, we couldn’t do what we wanted
to do for Mr Rawlings. He has done so much for the creative arts
industry that we want to let the world know what he has done
so that other people can emulate.
“The musicians show people what we have, even people
come to this country, they want to know our culture, our music,
our food and everything, he was a president who was always
pushing for that,” he told JoyNews’ Doreen Avio.
According to Mr Simons, the former President supported the
creative arts industry and even provided the current office for MUSIGA .
“Our office that we are using now was given to us by President Rawlings,
so we want to show appreciation. This concert is going to be a virtual
one depending on how the pandemic is going,” he said.
Mr Rawlings died on November 12, 2020, aged 73 after a short illness.


IBM Debuts Cloud-Based Marketing and Analytics Suite
IBM today released a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across channels, including the Web, email, chat, social media, and mobile phones.
"Everyone wants to be more targeted in their marketing, but you need analytics to do that,&" says Akin Arikan, multichannel marketing evangelist with IBM's Enterprise Marketing Management Group. It takes tight integration to make that happen."
The new offering, called the IBM Coremetrics Web Analytics and Digital Marketing Optimization Suite, does just that. It combines technologies IBM gained in its 2010 acquisitions of Coremetrics and Unica, and provides sophisticated analytics that help companies better determine the effectiveness of new products and services, fine-tune marketing campaigns, and create personalized offers in real time.
The suite automates and simplifies a company's ability to design and deliver a tailored online experience and marketing promotions through real-time personalized recommendations, email ad targeting, and more. It does the following:
- enables marketers to perform advanced segmentation and automate marketing execution based on multichannel data, including off-line data sources;
- delivers real-time product recommendations for all online channels, including social, mobile, email, and display ads;
- provides A/B testing capabilities to help search engine marketers compare pairs of search terms to determine the most cost-effective terms and associated ads;
- incorporates best-practice key performance indicators and corresponding industry-specific benchmarks; and
- supports deep analysis into how customers interact with a brand over time and when each marketing programs is the most effective.
This product will also allow businesses to evaluate Facebook or Twitter activity and offer customers tailored promotions delivered to their mobile devices on the fly. It also enables businesses to deliver and fine-tune digital marketing programs based on what customers are doing offline. For example, a consumer who purchased a new tablet in a brick-and-mortar store could receive special offers via email to purchase tablet accessories.
"The idea of such customer-centric and relevant marketing, listening, and understanding customer interactions is an old idea," Arikan says. "But that idea has been easier said than done, and it's gotten even harder with all the channels available now."
The promise of the IBM suite, according to Arikan, is that everything is on one platform with one user interface.
"You used to have to connect different technologies for online and offline, and everything was in siloed apps in different places," he says. "This all comes together now in one user interface and is stored in the cloud."
The suite is also part of IBM's larger Smarter Commerce initiative, which is focused on helping companies more effectively market, sell, and secure greater customer loyalty. With this initiative, IBM is defining a new market that it estimates will grow to $20 billion in software opportunity alone by 2015, driven by the demands from organizations that are increasingly looking for ways to bring new levels of automation to marketing, sales, and fulfillment to secure greater customer loyalty.
"It removes all the hurdles of achieving true CRM," Arikan says.


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Is Your Communication Style Impacting your Relationship?
By Louis H. Primavera, Ph.D. and Rob Pascale, Ph.D.
Effective communication often comes down to style, and by that we mean the way we express ourselves. For couples who have communication problems, sometimes the topic itself can be so charged that it’s hard for partners to control their emotions when they talk about it.
However, for some couples, the specific things they argue about can be less important than the way they act and talk to each other. The impact of how we express ourselves is so powerful that it’s extremely difficult for unhappy couples to improve their relationship without changing their communication styles. It is in fact one of the primary areas therapists will focus on when treating marriages that have chronic problems.
The Benefits of a Positive Communication Style
Broadly speaking, communication styles are either positive or negative. Positive styles allow couples to find solutions to their problems, but they can also have other benefits for the marriage. When the communication style is positive, we believe our partners are approachable and care about our issues, and we don’t have to avoid conflicts because we believe they’re constructive. When a disagreement ends, emotions de-escalate and partners come to an understanding with which they both can live. They’re likely to feel they’ve accomplished something together and that gives them a reason to feel good about their relationship. On the opposite side, negative styles do not yield solutions. Instead, they often cause an argument to escalate and get out of control. Both partners usually feel less satisfied after an argument because they haven’t made any progress, and so they feel more distanced from each other.
The specific words we use when we argue are one way to determine whether our communication styles are positive or negative. Words are a measurable quantity, and so it is possible to identify a couple’s communication style by counting the number of positive and negative messages partners send to each other. Couples in good relationships have as many as five times more positive to negative comments passed back and forth, and negative comments will usually be counter-balanced by jokes, laughter, and other forms of positive interaction. In contrast, the ratio of negative to positive messages may be as high as three to one in favor of the negative among couples who have ineffective styles.
Keep Track of Your Positive to Negative Word Count
We should point out that a positive to negative word count is not only indicative of communication style. It can also be used as a measure of a marriage’s overall quality. In fact, there is evidence that couples who have a highly negative pattern run the risk of ending up divorced. It is for this reason that some therapists suggest that couples keep a tally of their messages to find out if they contain mostly positive or mostly hurtful and antagonistic messages.
Of course, we’re not suggesting that any expression of negativity is dangerous. Each of us will express some aggression or hostility during a fight because we can’t always control our emotions. Most marriages can withstand that. However, if there are consistently many fewer positives to offset the negatives from one argument to the next, and if negative feelings persist afterwards, the marriage probably has communication problems.
A major distinction between positive and negative styles is the kinds of emotions each produces. When we argue, we present our case in a few statements, but at the same time we’re also letting our partner know how we feel about the issue. We can choose from a large pool of words to make our point, and these words can be more or less emotionally charged. Along with our words, we send out a lot of emotional information non-verbally, through our posture, facial expressions, tone of voice, eye contact, and various gestures. The emotions we send out through our body language and our words are as important as the statements themselves, and have as much, if not more, to do with how our message is interpreted and reacted to by our partner.
When we use a negative style, we convey negative emotions along with the verbal messages we’re sending out. Additionally, we may inadvertently communicate more than our feelings about the problem we’re addressing. We may also convey how we feel about our partner. We may not intend to communicate these broader feelings, but that’s how our partner is likely to interpret what we’re saying. How they receive our words can then affect our partner’s feelings about us.
Negative Communication Becomes a Cycle
That’s why arguments for which a negative style is used tend to escalate into bigger fights. Such a style leads to reciprocity. The negative emotions that we send out provoke negative emotions as a response from our partner. The words we say and the emotions we express can make our partner feel hurt and humiliated. The emotions they then experience will lead them to say and do things that will make us feel just as badly. If our tone is condescending or sarcastic, there’s a good chance our partner will give that back in return. Unfortunately, it usually doesn’t end there, because the negativity we receive often leads us to retaliate with more negative messages. As such, many issues that could be resolved won’t be because our communication style prevents us from having a meaningful dialogue.
Styles can also be habit-forming. The one we adopt is often dictated by our past experiences. We tend to remember the prevailing attitude and tone of our prior conflicts, and we assume that our future arguments will follow along the same path. From our expectations as to how our partner will behave, we pre-select a tone we plan to use.
Because our styles can become habits, they can have a long term effect on our relationship in general. When we use a negative style, the bad things that we say are remembered by our partner, and that’s long after we’ve forgotten what was argued about in the first place. These memories can then carry over into other parts of the relationship. Partners may prefer to avoid each other’s company, may lose interest in being intimate, or may take on negative attitudes even when they’re not arguing. The result is to hurt the relationship beyond and out of proportion to the problems they were originally fighting about.
Your Style Says A Lot About How You Rate Your Relationship
Whether we use a positive or negative style may in fact reflect how we feel about our relationship at the time. If we’re feeling connected with our partner and reasonably happy, we’ll probably use a more positive style during a conflict. However, a partner who isn’t happy in his or her relationship might approach an argument with hostility and a negative attitude. So the style that each partner brings to a conflict can be a pretty good indicator of whether the relationship has problems.
Dr. Louis Primavera is the Dean of Touro’s Graduate School of Health Sciences and author of three books, including Making Marriage Work: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Achieving Success published by Rowan and Littlefield, which he co-wrote with Dr. Robert Pascale.

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- Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Four in ten managing partners at leading law firms see alternative providers such as the Big Four accountants and insurers as the biggest threat to the legal profession, according to a survey published today. It also found firms more likely to see growth coming from investment in technology and hiring teams, rather than mergers.
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In May, news broke that a non-fungible token was the subject of a successful injunction made by the Singapore High Court. The NFT in question is part of the very valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club series.
There are many good claims brought for damages that are likely to be significantly less than twice the cost of bringing the claim. These cases present a real challenge for insurers.
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New Study confirms periods with extremely cold climate – Glaciers covered even equatorial regions
It is probable that for several times planet earth was completely covered by ice, geologists say. From a distance, it would have looked like a huge snowball.
A new study from the University of Göttingen now confirms that the Earth went through episodes of extremely cold climates millions and billions years ago.
In so-called “Snowball Earth” periods, glaciers even covered equatorial regions. Geologist Dr. Daniel Herwartz has reconstructed the oxygen isotopic compositions of ancient (sub) tropical glaciers.
“The oxygen isotope composition of the glaciers can provide information about the climate conditions on an earth totally covered by ice”, says Dr. Herwartz, who is the lead author of the study in Göttingen and who now works at the University of Cologne.
The results are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) on April 13, 2015.
The studied rocks, 2.4 billion and 700 million years old, were samples from north-western Russia and China. At the time, both regions were located close to the equator. There, the rocks interacted with melt water from (sub) tropical glaciers and stored the provided isotopic information for hundreds of millions years.
The reconstructed oxygen isotope composition for the glaciers of the 2.4 billion year event is similar to one that is nowadays only observed in the coldest place of our planet: in central Antarctica with mean annual temperatures of minus 40 degree Celsius. “To imagine places like Egypt or Florida with mean annual tem-peratures of minus 40 degree Celsius is just mind-boggling, but that is what the data suggests” says Dr. Herwartz.
The 700 million year old rocks from China conform to climates similar to southern Greenland today and suggest a much warmer climate than the 2.4 billion year old rocks from north-western Russia. The scientists were able to reconstruct the glacial water isotopic compositions by analysing the 17O isotope with a highly precise method.
The “Snowball Earth” hypothesis poses that the entire earth was frozen with all oceans covered under sev-eral hundred meter thick sea-ice. At low CO2 levels ice caps extend to lower latitudes and once, a critical part of the Earth’s surface is covered by ice, reflection of sunlight leads to a further decrease in temperature and ends in an entirely frozen planet.
Only the raise of atmospheric CO2 through continuing volcanic activity could enforce a competing greenhouse effect and released the Earth from it’s frozen state. “’Snowball Earth’ events are critical intervals in the evolution of life. While an entirely frozen planet restricts live to small enclaves like hot springs, the times after such events often show an unseen explosion of live.” says co-author Prof. Dr. Andreas Pack from the University of Göttingen.
Herwartz D., Pack A., Xiao Y., Muhlenbachs K., Sengupta S. and Di Rocco T.(2015): Revealing the climate of snowball Earth from Δ17O systematics of hydrothermal rocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1422887112
Dr. Daniel Herwartz
Universität zu Köln
Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Abteilung Umweltisotopengeologie
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After frenzied opposition and repeated disruptions, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening finally debated the historic women's reservation bill in the run up to a vote on the legislation.
Amongst those who spoke were Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Arun Jaitley, Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Brinda Karat, Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Satish Mishra and Jayanthi Natarajan of Congress.
Opening the debate was Jaitley, who said his party "unequivocally" supported the women's bill but added that the privilege of supporting it had been diluted by "some of the most shameful incidents in India's parliamentary history".
The leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, who spoke after the constitution amendment bill was put to vote by Chairman Hamid Ansari, said he had a feeling of being a party to history in the making when he came to the house.
Karat, a vocal supporter of the bill, said women's reservation in parliament and state legislatures would change the "culture of the country because women today are still caught in a culture prison. In the name of tradition, stereotypes are imposed and we have to fight these every day".
These stereotypes will also be broken by the bill, said Karat, who believes the entry of a larger number of women in legislatures would make for "more sensitive politics".
"The women's reservation bill will ensure that women of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, poor women and Muslim women would benefit from it," Karat said, addressing concerns that the bill would benefit only some sections.
Congress leader and spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan also refuted critics demanding a special quota for Dalit women, saying Dalits and tribals would continue to get reservation under the bill.
A triumphant Natarajan said no other party "had the courage to deliver the promise (of reservation for women) to the people of India". She said Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had not lagged behind in supporting measures for women's empowerment.
However, Bahujan Samaj Party's Satish Mishra said his party would not be able to support the proposed legislation in the current form. He wanted the prime minister to reserve 50 percent of all seats in legislatures for women in line with their population ratio.
Shivanand Tiwari of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) created a minor stir in the house by speaking in favour of the bill, which has been opposed vocally by a section of his colleagues led by party president Sharad Yadav.
The AIADMK's V. Maitreyan pointed out that the bill was a great tribute to the Indian housewife who he said had proved to be better financial managers of the household "than all the finance ministers of India".
Earlier, cracking the whip on disruptive MPs, Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Hamid Ansari, suspended the seven MPs for the remaining part of the Budget session for their unruly behaviour in the House over the Bill.
The suspended members are Subhash Yadav (RJD), Sabir Ali (LJP), Veerpal Singh Yadav, Nand Kishore Yadav, Amir Alam Khan and Kamal Akhtar (all SP), and Ejaz Ali (unattached), who had yesterday tried to attack the Chairman and created unprecedented pandemonium in the Upper House.
They had indulged in unruly scenes as soon as Law Minister Veerappa Moily moved the Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill that provides for 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies.
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A new poll conducted by the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media suggests that students are using cell phones and the internet to cheat on school exams. What’s surprising, however, is not just the alarming number of students who say they cheat, but also the number of students who think it’s OK to do so.
Common Sense Media commissioned the research and consulting firm Benenson Strategy Group to conduct a poll of teenagers and parents on the use of digital media for cheating in school.
The Benenson Strategy Group conducted a total of 1,013 nationally representative online interviews with students in grades 7-12, and 1,002 online interviews with parents of seventh through 12th-grade students, between May 28 and June 5. The surveys included 846 teens with cell phones and 839 parents of teens who have cell phones. Twenty-eight students and 27 parents also agreed to be interviewed more extensively.
According to the poll, more than a third of teens with cell phones (35 percent) admit to cheating at least once with them, and two-thirds of all teens (65 percent) say others in their school cheat with them.
Of the teens who admit to cheating with their cell phones, 26 percent say they store information on their phone to look at during a test, 25 percent text friends about answers during a test, 17 percent take pictures of the test to send to friends, and 20 percent search the internet for answers during tests using their phones.
Also, nearly half (48 percent) of teens with cell phones call or text their friends to warn them about pop quizzes.
What’s more, just over half of students polled (52 percent) admitted to some form of cheating involving the internet.
Twenty-one percent of students say they’ve downloaded a paper or report from the internet to turn in, while 50 percent have seen or heard about others doing this; 38 percent have copied text from web sites and turned it in as their own work, while 60 percent have seen or heard this; and 32 percent have searched for teachers’ manuals or publishers’ solutions to problems in textbooks they are currently using; while 47 percent have seen or heard this.
Even more concerning is that many students do not consider this behavior as cheating. Only about half of students polled admit that cell phone use during tests is a serious cheating offense, and just 16 percent say calling or texting friends to warn them of a pop quiz is cheating; instead, they believe they’re simply helping a friend.
Students who cheat using the internet generally view plagiarism as more serious an offense than other types of cheating, yet more than a third of teens (36 percent) said downloading a paper from the internet was not a serious offense, and 42 percent said coping text from web sites was a either a minor offense or not cheating at all.
One reason so many teens are using technology to cheat during exams might be because most parents don’t realize their child is engaged in such activity.
According to the poll, parents are ready to believe that cell phone cheating is widespread among teens; however, very few parents believe their own child is guilty.
While 92 percent of parents say some type of cell phone cheating happens at their child’s school, just 3 percent of parents say their child has cheated using a cell phone.
Also, there is a disconnect between what parents say they are telling their children and what children are saying they hear from their parents: 80 percent of parents say they have addressed cheating with cell phones and the internet with their kids, but only 64 percent of teens say their parents have discussed this issue with them.
Finally, many parents say they purchase phones for their teens to coordinate schedules or to be able to reach them in an emergency, and only 23 percent of parents think their teens are using their cell phones in school. According to the poll, 65 percent of teens polled say they are using cell phones during school to communicate with friends.
According to the poll, cell phone policies in schools are “barely making a dent.” A large majority of schools (69 percent as reported by teens) do not permit phones to be used during the school day. However, among teens with cell phones, 66 percent say they use their phones in schools where phones must remain off all day, and 57 percent use them in schools where phones must be stored during the day. Sixty-three percent use them in schools that ban cell phones altogether, and 72 percent use them in schools with no explicit cell phone acceptable-use policies (AUPs).
“Perhaps because they don’t realize just how widespread cell phone use in schools is, parents aren’t clamoring for stricter [AUPs] in schools,” said Common Sense Media in its report.
Just 10 percent of parents say policies aren’t strict enough, while 7 percent say they are too strict. Eighty-three percent say they are appropriate.
“The results of this poll show the huge need for a national discussion on the concept of digital ethics. Kids have always found ways to cheat in school, but the tools they now have at their disposal are more powerful than ever. Just as they need to be taught the rules of right and wrong in the offline world, kids should have a similar set of guidelines for good online behavior, and it’s our responsibility as parents and leaders to start talking about them,” said Common Sense Media.
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Varun Dhawan won’t do two-hero films any more. Yes, he is doing his brother Rohit’s Dhishoom with John Abraham. But that would be his last non-solo starrer.
A source close to the development explains, “Varun feels he has the confidence to carry a film on his own shoulders. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya , Badlapur and ABCD2 were hits without another hero to support Varun.”
Apparently the not-too-happy experience of working in Dilwale with Shah Rukh Khan has made Varun determined to go solo.
Says the source, “Varun was most excited about Dilwale . He got a chance to work with one of his childhood idols. But the experience was far from satisfying. Now Varun won’t do multiple-hero films at all.”