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Before playing Ozark girl turned Californian Elly May Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies, actress Donna Douglas was a true southern girl through and through. Though Douglas is best remembered for the nine seasons she starred in the iconic CBS sitcom, there is way more to the actress than her time playing the blonde tomboy on television.
Doris Smith (changed later to Donna Douglas) was born in 1932 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was an active athlete at her high school and played softball and basketball before she started participating in beauty contests. Douglas had married her first husband, Roland Bourgeois, Jr., in 1949, but they divorced after the birth of her only child, Danny P. Bourgeois, in 1954. Shortly after, she was named Miss Baton Rouge and Miss New Orleans and decided it was time to pack her bags for New York City.
Douglas started out with appearances in print ads for various toothpaste brands before she started landing acting work, which encouraged her to start taking acting classes. She appeared on The Perry Como Show, The Steve Allen Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. Soon after, Hollywood producer Hal B. Wallis saw her on TV and cast her in the Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine film Career. The film opened doors for Douglas and led to roles in the Doris Day and Rock Hudson film Lover Come Back as well as television appearances on The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and more.
Despite a full resume of acting work, Douglas was definitely not a household name when she beat out over 500 women to land the role of Elly May Clampett in the early '60s. Producer Paul Henning asked if she would be right for the part, and there was no doubt in her mind.
"I just looked at him and grinned," Douglas told AP Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas in 1965. "Could I handle Elly May? Why, it was just like my own life."
Douglas came into her own playing Elly May and become very close friends with Buddy Ebsen, who played her on-screen father, Jed Clampett. She also married the show's director, Robert M. Leeds in 1971 (though they would divorce in 1980).
"I loved doing Elly May," the actress would recall. "And, of course, 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was a story about the American dream. No matter who tried to slicker us or take advantage of us, we always came out on top. We were never the losers. We set a good example."
Despite coming back for The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies in 1981, Douglas left Hollywood to pursue other things. She earned her real estate license and became a gospel singer, speaking around the country to church groups. She even published two children's books — Donna's Critters & Kids: Children's Stories with a Bible Touch and Miss Donna's Mulberry Acres Farm. She also published a cookbook, Southern Favorites with a Taste of Hollywood, which includes recipes from her show biz buds like Buddy Ebsen, Phyllis Diller, Valerie Harper and Debbie Reynolds.
Later in life, Douglas found herself in the middle of two major legal disputes. In 1993, Douglas sued Disney, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, and their production companies, saying that they ripped off Sister Act. She had apparently been working on a screenplay adaptation of the book A Nun in the Closet. Douglas claimed the book had over 100 similarities to Sister Act. After turning down a $1 million settlement, the judge sided with Disney.
In 2010, Mattel released a line of Classic TV Collection Barbie dolls which included an Elly May doll. The following year, she settled a lawsuit with Mattel after claiming they never asked for the rights to use her likeness.
Douglas will always be remembered as being the real deal Elly May; the Southern girl who danced to the beat of her own drum even after she left home for the big city. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer in her beloved home state of Louisiana.
This article was originally published in May of 2020.
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Central Mexico Manufacturing Region
Centered between Mexico City and the U.S. border is the growing heart of Mexican industry. Together, the central states of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Querétaro and Zacatecas are home to hundreds of international and domestic manufacturers. The large skilled population base, exceptional suppliers, and its key location have combined to make Central Mexico an appealing, diverse and dynamic manufacturing region for international companies.
Guanajuato is hands down one of the fastest growing manufacturing centers in Mexico. In close proximity to “the golden triangle” (Mexico City-Guadalajara-Monterrey) where 60% of Mexico’s population lives, Guanajuato has the largest workforce in the region, with 30,000 engineers alone.
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí’s diverse manufacturing base includes several hundred international manufacturers in the automotive, medical, steel and aerospace industries. GM has recently completed an assembly plant here. You will find suppliers of machining, forging, stamping, castings and finishing processes including metal plating and painting.
Aguascalientes is home to Nissan’s principal assembly plant in Mexico and a large number of automotive suppliers. Electronics is also a major industry here with plants operated by major players like Flextronics. Aguascalientes boasts first rate universities situated in a city with incomparable urban planning. including numerous government developed industrial parks.
Thanks to its proximity to Mexico City and major sea ports, Querétaro has developed into an important industrial hub. It sits at the junction of Mexico’s road, rail and telecommunications network, strategically situated along the so-called “NAFTA Highway.” For their expat executives and accompanying families, foreign manufacturers appreciate Querétero’s
extensive foreign community, wealth of international schools and quality of life.
Industry in Zacatecas came alive ten years ago with the establishment of three Delphi plants and the construction of Corona’s largest brewery. Then with the establishment of the Entrada Group operation the area has grown to include diversified manufacturers in automotive, medical, electronics and aerospace industries. Recently, Triumph, a large aerospace company from the U.S., announced that they will begin manufacturing in Zacatecas. Due to Zacatecas’ smaller manufacturing base, operators in this area benefit from a very competitive cost structure.
Contact Doug Donahue for more information about this compelling location for North American manufacturing. (210) 828-8300


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Friday 21 February 2014 – The UK construction sector is seeing its fastest increase in commercial work since August 2007 – a sign that it may finally be out of the doldrums and a positive indicator for underwriters. (source: Lloyd’s of London)
Looking around the City of London over the past five years, one could be forgiven for missing the slump in the UK construction sector. Skyscrapers shooting up around Lloyd’s, including the Shard, 122 Leadenhall Street (nicknamed the Cheese Grater) and 20 Fenchurch Street (dubbed the Walkie-Talkie), have masked the slowdown in construction activity elsewhere.
“London development has been the lifeblood of the construction market of the last few years in the UK, ” explains Paul Knowles, a construction underwriter at JLT. “In many ways it has kept the construction economy ticking over.
“The last few years – between 2009 and 2012 – have been pretty grim for the UK construction sector, and it’s been the sector that’s probably been hardest hit in the recession, ” he continues. “Even last year there was a dearth of projects coming through outside of London. We’re now seeing a sense of optimism and an uptick in activity so that’s great news for the insurers as they’re hoping to see more projects flow.”
Activity picks up
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors said its members in the construction industry had reported the biggest increase in workloads since the quarterly survey began in 1994.
From a regional perspective, Northern Ireland is leading construction growth with a massive 155% increase in activity in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the same quarter in 2012. Within England, the North West saw the biggest change with construction activity up 40% in the final quarter of the year.
The value of non-residential projects in the final quarter of 2013 was 21% higher than a year before, with civil engineering one of the fastest growing sectors, according to the Glenigan Index. It saw underlying project starts increase by 41% year on year during the final quarter due to the equally strong growth in the value of both infrastructure and utilities projects.
With eight months of continuous output growth up until December 2013, it appears the UK construction sector is finally out of the doldrums. The Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index was down only slightly in December at 62.1, from 62.6 in the previous month, well above the 50.0 value that separates expansion from contraction.
“There’s no doubt there’s an uptick in UK construction and it started off with residential housing but now seems to be commercial building and civil engineering projects as well, so overall there’s a general optimism for the industry and obviously for what’s coming into the insurance market, ” says Colin Rose, head of construction & engineering at Beazley.
Tried and tested
The uptick bodes well for the Lloyd’s construction consortium, which launched in May last year. Beazley, Canopius, Hardy and Talbot have pooled their capacity to provide a maximum of up to $166m per risk.
“We’ve probably had in the region of 180 submissions where we’ve been asked as the Construction Consortium at Lloyd’s put up quotations, so that’s been a great response and we’ve offered the market an alternative lead, particularly on the bigger projects with the combined capacity we’ve now have available to us, ” says Rose.
“Overall I think it’s also drawn business into Lloyd’s and the London market as well, ” he continues. “So far premium numbers generated are around £7m to £8m so we’d certainly say it’s a success but there’s a lot more to be done in terms of marketing and making sure everyone is aware of our capabilities.
“We’ve certainly got the underwriting experience across all types of construction projects and the capacity now available to lead the bigger projects so we certainly hope we’ll be given the opportunities, ” he adds. “There’s supposed to be rail investment and other major road and bridge projects, like the Mersey Gateway, so we’re certainly interested in leading those kind of projects as well as large commercial buildings.”
The skyward march of London office towers also looks set to continue. “In London we’ve got the Google building and the Scalpel [52-54 Lime Street] opposite Lloyd’s, which are due to go up, and people are talking again about the Pinnacle [nicknamed the ‘helter skelter’] coming back, so there’s a lot to be optimistic about, ” says Rose. “At Beazley we’ve always been very strong on the four-walled building type projects, the Shard was a project we led, so those kinds of projects are right up our street.”
As a bellwether for the UK economy, the construction uptick gives hope for ongoing economic activity. The International Monetary Fund has raised its growth forecast for the UK economy in 2014 to 2.5% against its previous forecast of 1.9%.
These green shoots appear to have boosted optimism about the outlook for business activity during the year ahead. But there are still plenty of challenges in the construction sector to overcome.
“One potential difficulty we may see in the industry is the squeeze on construction materials, ” says Rose. “As the sector continues to grow and more projects start it will be interesting to see how the materials side of it holds up. It’s been in a slump for a long time and in coming back there will be a demand for materials.”
The inflating cost of labour is another concern, explains Knowles. “When the Olympics construction was at its peak a lot of the heat had been eliminated from the construction market so everything was very keenly priced and the organisers were able to get some good deals out of their contracting partners, which all aided to their ability to deliver within their budgets.
“There’s some concern now about the inflation already coming back into the construction labour market, ” he continues. “There’s already concerns being raised by developers about construction cost inflation driven by the uptick in activity and potential lack of skills now as we appear to be coming out of recession, and that’s likely to put more heat into the market. If rent and yields are not moving in the right direction, it could put a squeeze on developers giving the go-ahead to new development projects.”

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I'll say up front that I am a breeder who chooses puppies for each buyer.
I never understand why puppy buyers will buy a puppy from any breeder they can find with a litter available, but then get all butt-hurt if they can't pick their own puppy from the litter. To me, it's like, "Oh, any litter in the whole world is fine, they're all the same to me, but I'm super particular about which puppy I get from that randomly selected litter. I did it before, and the puppy chose me, and it was wonderful."
First off, the puppy didn't choose you, and didn't instantly bond with you. 8-week old puppies don't have that capacity. You've anthropomorphized the situation.
Second, it seems to me that selecting the right litter is far
more important than which puppy you get from that litter. Breeders breed for traits. If you want a calm dog, but your search for "any breeder who has a litter available" found a breeder who bred two energetic performance dogs, you're going to have an adventure on your hands no matter which pup from that litter you pick.
Besides, that pup that sidled up along side you and leaned on your leg the day and time you happened to drop by isn't a pup who loves you. He was sleepy, and 8-week old puppies look for warmth when they are sleepy. And to him you smell like the breeder who feeds him so he was comfortable leaning up against you because you were warm and reminded him of food. He's actually the puppy who fights with all his siblings, is a resource guarder, and just chewed up my kitchen wall. You have no idea what you're in for. Good luck! Haha!
When I breed, I breed sporting dogs, not lap dogs. You're simply not going to get that couch potato who will be patient with your two-year old child. I tell people that all the time. Maybe in three years, but as a 9-month old (a puppy brain in an adult body) he's going to be a 70 lb. hellion. So if that's your biggest concern, it doesn't matter which puppy you get from me, you're not going to be happy. You've chosen the wrong litter. But you wouldn't believe the number of potential buyers I get whose only care is that we have clearances for the parents, and who think littermates will be wildly different from one another. Maybe one will be somewhat better for your situation than another. But the chances of you finding that puppy on a random Saturday afternoon after four other families have been there tiring out the litter are pretty slim.
Let breeders pick your puppy. We know what the puppies are really like. 24 hours after getting home, you're going to be madly in love with whichever puppy we give you. But more important than choosing your puppy is choosing your breeder/litter. That's what you get to choose. Choose wisely.

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A three-decade-old law is being changed to give more powers to the consumer. The Lok Sabha has passed the Consumer Protection Bill 2018 which will now go to the Rajya Sabha. The new law will replace the archaic Consumer Protection Act 1986.
The new law will revolutionise consumer rights in India by investing consumers and agencies with a lot more power than they currently have. Below are the highlights from the Bill:
1. The Bill proposes an executive agency, the Central Consumer Protection Authority. The agency can intervene whenever it feels necessary to protect consumers from unfair trade practices. It can also launch class action against a company, besides ordering recall or refund of products. The agency is designed on the lines of highly effective US Federal Trade Commission.
2. The Bill introduces a new concept of class action, which means the liability of manufacturers and service providers will not be limited to one or a group of consumers but towards all consumers. All affected consumers become beneficiaries in a class action suit.
3. The manufacturer, producer and even the seller will be liable for any personal injury, death or damage resulting from defects in manufacture, construction, design, formula, preparation, assembly, testing, service, warning, instruction, marketing, packaging, or labelling of any product.
4. The Bill proposes to remove the current structures for adjudicating consumer disputes at the district, state and national levels. It will only make them more powerful.
5. Consumer mediation cells will be attached to consumer commissions at all levels for resolution of disputes so that the commissions do not get bogged down in too many cases.
6. The Bill takes into account e-commerce too. Currently, a consumer can initiate legal action against a seller only at the place where transaction has taken place. In the new law, a consumers can file a complaint electronically or in the consumer court at his place of residence. This new law will simplify consumer disputes adjudication process for faster disposal of grievances through filing of complaints by a consumer from his place of residence, e-filing and video conferencing for hearing.
The Bill introduces an additional consent layer requiring online marketplaces to add a tab on their platforms seeking express consent from customers at the time of checkout to be able to access and use their information.
E-commerce firms would have to disclose their business details and seller agreements, apart from also disclosing how they use consumer data. The Bill deems e-commerce platforms as service providers instead of only intermediaries, thus increasing their liability.
7. The Bill also holds endorsers of products liable in addition to manufacturers. “Any manufacturer or service provider wo causes a false or misleading advertisement to be made which is prejudicial to the interest of the consumers shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and with fine which may extend up to 10 lakh rupees,” the Bill says. Offences may lead to a jail term of 10 years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh. For celebrities involved in misleading advertisements, there will be penalties but no jail term.
8. The Bill also addresses ‘composite supply’ or bundling of services, wherein platforms that offer travel services and bundle services such as hotel stays and airline tickets will also have to take liability for all the services.
9. To discourage frivolous complaints, the Bill proposes a penalty from Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000.

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Struggling Chelsea man Hakim Ziyech has admitted he does not know “what will happen” regarding his future beyond the winter, amid transfer interest.
Ziyech joined the Blues as a very exciting prospect. Two seasons prior to his move to Stamford Bridge, the Moroccan registered a ridiculous 33 goal involvements in 29 Eredivisie games for Ajax.
The following season, despite a couple of spells on the sidelines through injury, Ziyech contributed to 19 goals in 21 games.
That led to Chelsea splashing around £35million on him. While he has shown promise during his time in England, he has never gotten close to the heights he soared to in the Netherlands.
Indeed, his best tally of goals and assists was 14 in 44 games, last season. His lack of production has not been helped by the fact he has played a fringe role for much of his time at Chelsea.
Indeed, in the Premier League last season, Ziyech started just 14 games.
This season, his struggles for minutes have continued. The winger has played just eight games in all competitions, with only two of those being from the start.
As such, it looks as if it might be time to call it quits and try to move on to another club.
‘Difficult’ for Ziyech to know where he’ll be
Ziyech has been the subject of interest from a few clubs of late. While he has not performed all too consistently at Chelsea, there is clearly quality in there.
As such, a change of scenery, to a club that has more faith in him, might be able to bring that quality back out.
Tottenham and AC Milan have been two sides linked with a move for him most of late.
Ziyech himself has added to rumours that he might leave Chelsea as early as January, admitting he does not know where he will end up.
“It’s hard to say, difficult to say. We don’t know what will happen in the winter. It’s football, so it’s difficult to say,” he told NOS.
That he himself does not know where he will be beyond January does not bode well. If Chelsea had faith in him, it is likely he would be aware of that.
Indeed, with a couple of sides sniffing around, he might well be on his way out of Stamford Bridge over the winter.
With Tottenham’s attacking options as potent as they are, Ziyech may not get much playing time. However, with AC Milan seeming very keen to take him on board, that could be a move with legs.
A move away from England, where he has clearly struggled, might be what he needs to revive his career.
READ MORE: Chelsea to open preliminary transfer talks in bid to land outstanding Premier League winger
The article Chelsea struggler adds weight to January transfer rumours with ‘difficult’ verdict amid Tottenham interest appeared first on Teamtalk.com.


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No one can tell me how long B’s Tavern
has been open (not even the regular perched at the bar to read his paper), but it’s dated in that charming dive-bar way. Though the schmutz could be wiped from menus, and water cups that aren’t dirty with caked chocolate would be swell. We’re scared for sanitation as we sip cans of Perrin IPA ($4.25) that we dislike as they’re oddly hop-quiet and malt-heavy. Our bartender disappears to cook our burgers, a Treu Bleu with bacon and the cheese, and the Olde West (each $9.95) with bacon, cheddar, an onion ring and overly abundant barbecue sauce. Twenty-five minutes later, he reappears with surprisingly legit bar burgers: huge beasts with nearly a pound each of hand-formed patties, plus side hand-cut fries and more onion rings, oily and generic though pleasing. No temps were asked and well-done it is, but garnishings are fresh. Kaiser buns are soft and gourmet-ish, and the flavors meld fine. It’s just there’s so much salt in it all, our cheeks ache for two hours after.

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The bees have been busy, beekeeper Steve keeps an eye on them. He has worked hard this spring and summer to keep our bees happy. Steve is passionate about beekeeping and community education about honeybees. We are eternally grateful, so of course, we feed his family heirloom tomatoes. Are you an aspiring beekeeper? Take a class with Steve! Phil did. Steve also sells all the supplies, check it out at http://honeybeehabitat.com
The kids are getting geared up to check in on the bees and collect a little honey. We sure didn’t expect a speck of honey, so this is a real treat. We left plenty of full honeycomb in the hive to feed the bees through the winter.
Steve and one of the frameless combs. The bees made their comb without any foundation comb, isn’t it beautiful? That means we can eat the honey right in the comb, my absolute favorite taste sensation of all time.
Look at my brave kids! They are so interested and Steve is so patient.
Jonah gently brushes the bees off the comb we are collecting.
Here is Steve, enjoying some bee-gold in the comb with us, right in the garden. What an incredible treat. Thank you, Steve!

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Elastos is sponsoring the New York Blockchain Week Virtual Hackathon and two challenges are currently live for developers to submit their entries by May 27.
Also, the Hive demo was released on the elastOS app, ELA Wallet was upgraded for both iOS and Android, and the DID Sidechain released a new version.
– Improved the intent processing flow after the intent is abnormally closed by the requesting party on Runtime; also improved the robustness of the application and the user experience
– Strengthened API level authorization management to comply with the new authorization interaction design and process
– Adjusted the plug-in initialization process to meet the design process according to the new API authorization management
– A new Password Manager extension is added, which supports saving Trinity’s internal application password and user’s external password, and supports auto-fill
– Added Password Manager support in Identity/DID capsule
– Introduced new UI / UX design on Friends/Contacts capsule
– Preliminary completion of the UI / UX design of DID global session
– Fixed the bug of Launcher dApps management
– Improved the “developer tools” dApp, improved the application information display to add and delete applications, etc.
– Improved the API interface of dApp Store Server and added DID related operations
– Added credential theme support for complex JSON objects in DID plugin
– Updated Android DID plugin, provided built-in JWT function for DID SDK and released mechanism of new service
– Released Hive demo capsule to dApp Store
– In developer mode, application signature verification is turned off by default
– The robustness test of built-in dApps should work normally after denying all permissions
– Maintained all built-in capsules and released new versions to the dApp Store
– Updated Trinity’s technical roadmap on the developer website
– JWT in Java SDK can directly add JSON objects and text data
– Added APIs in Java SDK for directly signing pre-calculated digests as required
– Provided a modification conflict handling mechanism during the synchronization of DIDStore and ID Sidechain in Native SDK
– Officially released and open sourced Native SDK
– Hive++ discussion about vaults implementation regarding structured data storage services
– Wrote API interface document of Hive Android SDK
– Optimized implementation code of large data block (1K ～ 5M) in Carrier Native SDK
– Verified that the Carrier Native SDK newly added support for sending / receiving large data blocks and merged into the master branch
– Verified that Carrier Native SDK is an extension module for WebRTC SDK and merged into the master branch
– Evaluated the optimized solution of Carrier offline message and offline friend request
– Solved the problem that after the Carrier application is abnormally killed, the newly generated / or newly added group cannot be persisted, and the newly added group is lost after the Carrier application is restarted
– Integration of newly added features and bug fixes to prepare for the release of the new v5.5.1 version
– Supported offline sending of large messages and merged into the master branch
– Assisted the community development team to complete the UI / UX design of the official version of Feeds dApp
– Assisted the community development team to integrate DID user identity in Feeds, and adjusted according to the newly defined message data type for front-end and back-end interaction
– Optimized some RPC interface return results
– Organized network synchronization process and tracked synchronization interruption
– Fixed the bug that the node could not be closed in some cases
– Fixed the bugs found in internal testing
ETH Side Chain
– Realized main chain routes function
– Started to realize the sending function of main chain encrypted address message
– Supported to set up DPoS account by adding start command
– Studied the scheme of dynamically switching consensus
– Designed DPoS sidechain route process
DID Side Chain
– Released v0.1.4 version
– Released iOS v1.4.2 and Android v184.108.40.206
– Optimized the speed of transaction query in specific situations
– Fixed the problem of loading database failure at startup
– Fixed a thread-safety anomaly in IMasterWalletManager
Tuum Team Update
– Continued to monitor Ionic Framework landing page conversions and offered support to Getting Started Guide recipients
– Provided new design assets for developer.elastos.org update
– Sent bi-weekly newsletter highlighting technical update video, Academy v1.6.3 release, and list of ongoing dApp projects
– Released v1.6.3 of Academy with an increase of maximum level to 20, added the ability to change Guild leaders, new invite frenzy design, and new alerts
– Created initial design concepts for Feeds dApp with accompanied demo and branding images
– Initial design demo complete for Vouch dApp
– Continued development of Assist dApp
– Focused on one-to-one chat UI for Hyper dApp and implemented a more messages feature to scroll back and add previous messages, added user notifications, and fixed small UI issues.
– Minor updates to Identity design for elastOS
– Initial website design overview completed for elastos.net
– New project templates created to be added to tuum.tech to showcase ongoing projects
The Elastos Foundation has released a statement regarding the upcoming CRC election process: https://news.elastos.org/crc-schedule-update/
developer.elastos.org has been updated with a new UX and design as well as updated documentation and more. Developers can now easily find how to start building on Elastos, get resources like APIs and browse FAQs.
elastOS 1.1.1 for Android has been released (minor update).
Download here: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.elastos.trinity.runtime
– New hive plugin version supporting IPFS put/get.
– API permission mechanism – clear prompts with descriptions and danger levels for features use.
– Password manager plugin and basic flow (Password manager application to come next).
– Contacts application UI/UX fully reworked.
– Bug fixes, including a fix for the existing import DID issue.
Elastos co-founder Feng Han was invited by Jubi to speak about the developments of Elastos.
Feng Han was invited by the China Financial Museum Group to serve as the first rotating curator of the China Fund Museum. Mr. Han appraised the development and function optimization of the China Fund Museum in recent years, and shared several key points including how the new wealth consensus powered by blockchain and data privatization will make a positive contribution to humanity as we emerge from the current economic crisis due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
May 06-20 – New York Blockchain Week Hackathon – Online
Elastos is sponsoring the NY Blockchain Week Hackathon hosted by Gitcoin in collaboration with Ethereal Summit and CoinDesk. Calling all developers: The elastOS challenges for NY Blockchain Week Hackathon are now posted to Gitcoin. Interested in data privacy, DIDs, P2P apps, digital assets? Submit until May 27 and win prizes.
Challenge 1: https://gitcoin.co/issue/elastos/Elastos.Community/505/4300
Challenge 2: https://gitcoin.co/issue/elastos/Elastos.Community/506/4303

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the American Heart Association Capital Area Heart Walk to be held on March 30, 2019, Jacobs presented a donation of $15,000 to the AHA to support the fight against cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Kendall Eastman-Stuart, a fourth grader at Runnels Elementary, was in the Drama Room watching a play with her class when her name was called by Elementary Assistant Principal Beth Golden. It might have been an "uh-oh" moment, but instead Kendall was called to the stage to receive an award.
Baton Rouge General (BRG) has been named a Center of Excellence by the developer of a new stroke prevention procedure. The hospital is one of only three facilities in Louisiana to earn the distinction from Silk Road Medical.
Ochsner Health System announced a new partnership with Geneva Health Solutions(GHS), a device data management platform and remote monitoring service for implantable cardiac devices. This partnership marks the first time GHS cloud-based technology platform and remote monitoring service for patients with cardiac implants will be utilized in the region – Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The GHS system will drive full automated scheduling and reporting in collaboration with Ochsner’s established electronic medical record (EPIC).
Trey Dunbar, MD, has been named president of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health, Louisiana’s largest provider of pediatric services.

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A teenage driver has been charged after 20 kangaroos were hit and killed on the NSW South Coast at the weekend.
Police were called to Dress Circle and Headland Drive, Tura Beach, on Sunday morning after reports of multiple dead kangaroos and joeys.
It is believed they were hit with a ute and killed between 10.30pm and 11.30pm on Saturday.
Yesterday a 19-year-old was arrested and charged with torture, beat etc and cause death of animal.
Police allege the kangaroos were hit by a utility being driven by the man.
Bega Valley Officer in Charge, Inspector Peter Volf, said acts of animal cruelty would not be tolerated by police.
"We take incidents such as these very seriously and anyone who engages in activities such as these will face the full brunt of the law," Chief Inspector Volf said.
The man has been granted conditional bail to appear before Bega Local Court on Tuesday, November 26 2019.
Inquiries are continuing.

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"The video by itself causes me a great deal of concern that's why I launched an investigation, internally and externally, and that's why I put the officers on administrative leave," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "But until I get all the facts, I am not going to jump to conclusions or bury anybody."
The alleged violent incident occurred on June 15th inside the Upper Darby police station.
The incident involved two police officers and one of three juveniles who was arrested for shoplifting.
"One of the police officers contacted his supervisor and said he was involved in an incident with one of the males and that the incident was on videotape," Chitwood said.
Within 24 hours, both an internal and district attorney's investigation were under way.
Sources who have seen the tape tell Action New it appears the juvenile was assaulted while handcuffed.
"No, he was not handcuffed at that time. There were handcuffs on them, there are several different pieces of it, but at one point in time he was handcuffed and at another point in time he was not handcuffed," Chitwood said.
We asked Chitwood, "Was he struck while he was handcuffed?" Chitwood replied, "I am not going to go comment on that now."
Chitwood declined to go into more detail about the video, but said when the department probe is finished he will go public.
"When this is done, I will show the video, I will take any questions," Chitwood said.
Action News is told the juvenile has not yet filed a formal complaint.


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One reason for this divergence in the reaction to the mutiny between Democrats and Republicans may be that we are entering our presidential campaign season, which is always polarizing. If the mutiny is seen as a possible success for President Joe Biden’s policy in Ukraine, this could further encourage Democrats to stay the course and raise Republican fears that events will help Democrats in the election. Even at the outset of the war in Ukraine, our polls found that Republicans tended to identify Biden as their most disliked world leader more frequently than they did Russia’s Vladimir Putin. In this case, the mutiny may have projected a weakened Putin and the prospect of a strengthened Biden. As the U.S. presidential campaign has kicked off, limiting support for Ukraine has found resonance in the political rallies of the leading Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump.
Change from April to June
The Russian mutiny aside, there was an overall increase in public support for staying the course in Ukraine in the new poll in comparison to a similar poll we conducted in March-April. Despite the partisan split before and after the mutiny, overall, more Americans, 43%, said the United States should stay the course in the June poll than did in the March-April poll, 38%, with a bipartisan increase in support.
This is likely a function of the public’s assessment of Russia and Ukraine’s performances in the war, which we have found to be highly correlated with attitudes on the level of support for Ukraine. We found a small change since March-April, with more Democrats and Republicans saying Russia is failing and Ukraine is succeeding, which is likely the result of the announcement that Ukraine had initiated its long-anticipated counteroffensive, muted by reported modest success.
Finally, there was only a small change in the public assessment of what the U.S. objectives in supporting Ukraine should be: Only 7% of Republicans said the U.S. objective should be to weaken or defeat Russia, compared to 9% in March-April; 14% of Democrats said the same, compared to 10% in March-April. 23% of Republicans said the aim should be to help Ukraine return to the status quo preceding the Russian invasion, compared to 20% in March-April; 22% of Democrats said the same, compared to 26% March-April.
On the one objective over which Democrats and Republicans disagreed the most — helping Ukraine liberate all the territories occupied by Russia — there was no change among both groups from March-April to June: 12% of Republicans and 23% of Democrats said they backed such an objective in both polls.
To conclude, two major factors are likely to continue to impact American public attitudes toward supporting Ukraine in the coming weeks and months. The first is the public’s assessment of developments on the battlefield. The more the public believes that Russia is losing, and Ukraine is winning, the more they are likely to back staying the course in Ukraine. The next few months will be critical, as expectations have been high about the impact of the Ukrainian counteroffensive on the battlefield. The second significant factor is the U.S. presidential campaign season, where support for Ukraine is emerging as a deeply polarizing issue that may affect public views. There are imponderables on each side, as Republicans, including elected officials and presidential candidates, have been divided on the issue, with Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene questioning the level of support, while others, such as former Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Lindsey Graham, take a more supportive view. On the Democratic side, most Democrats have backed Biden’s policy, but their views could be affected not only by their assessment of the battlefield but also by policy decisions such as the administration’s intent to supply controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine, which has generated a backlash among many Democrats.


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The comparison site says that instead of investing in TV advertising, it is rewarding customers that use its services with Argos gift cards, in a bid to differentiate itself from rivals such as Comparethemarket.com and Gocompare.co.uk.
ArgosCompare offers energy, car and home insurance comparison services and will give customers that “search, switch and save” via the website additional money savings through rewards.
It will give customers that switch to an alternative insurance product £30 in Argos vouchers. Customers that switch energy providers will receive £20 and those changing home insurance cover through the site will get £10.
ArgosCompare is also offering new customers that opt for Barclaycard’s Platinum credit card through the site a £20 voucher.
Customers can also use ArgosCompare to check the best deals on a range of financial products including mortgages, credit cards, banking and legal services and insurance products including health, life and travel cover.
It claims that customers can save as much as £220 on dual fuel bills and £145 on car insurance by using its services to switch.
Rival comparison site Kelkoo recently relaunched in a bid to offer consumers more added value services than its rivals and be “more than a price comparison site”.


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Complex environmental factors influence the distribution of species within lotic systems. This is especially apparent for amphibian species that have a multi-year larval stage. Pre-metamorphic Coastal Tailed Frogs (Ascaphus truei) are found in fast-flowing headwater streams for up to four years. Although there is considerable opportunity for the spatial redistribution of larval frogs, there is relatively little known of the habitat ecology of the various growth stages. We compared the abundance of larvae near the northern extent of the species range to a collection of environmental factors hypothesized to influence population density. We also assessed spatial segregation at various developmental stages where relatively short summers and cool climates result in a long residence for larvae. The top ranked model for larvae abundance included covariates representing the wetted width and wetted depth of the stream. Capture rates decreased in a nonlinear fashion as wetted width increased, and rates increased in streams wider than 6 m. Capture rates nonlinearly increased when stream depth exceeded 20 cm. Older larvae were associated with greater slopes than younger larvae. Our results suggest little evidence for a relationship between elevation and cohort distribution. We recommend considering micro-scale influences on the presence and movement patterns of Coastal Tailed Frog larvae within streams.
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We have upgraded the City Cloud image wih the server version 1.2.4. This is very important since newer clients won’t work with the previous one (Minecraft 1.1).
So, basically if you get the following screen while connecting to the server, you will need to use a new VM or upgrade:
“So, will this automatically update my current minecraft server 1.1?”
Unfortunately no, but don’t worry, the process is simple enough. And here is how you can do it yourself. Let´s login into your Minecraft server.
login: mcadmin Password:
If this is the first time you login, you will have to change your password. Always remember to do that the first time you create a virtual machine on City Cloud!
Once inside, we execute the following command:
And that’s about it! After a couple of minutes, you will have the latest server version (at the moment of writing, version 1.2.4). If the server is not running, you can start it with:
We will make to update the image we have from time to time, but if you get caught in between, you can always upgrade directly and continue minecrafting.


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Hydraulic valves operate most commonly in one of three ways; mechanical/manual control, pilot control or electric control. Mechanical control involves something physical pushing on the valve, such as with a roller or cam, which itself shifts the spool or poppet. Manual control was long the king of valve control, especially with mobile hydraulics; they’re inexpensive and easy to use. Pilot control is more complex, and requires a pilot valve to shift it, so it’s usually limited to high flow or high pressure valves.
Electronic control of hydraulic valves has been gaining popularity for decades, and with the recent down market (but not down content) move of electronic control systems and devices, their use has accelerated. Just like with consumer electronics, the cost to manufacture high powered electronic components has dropped as well. So why should this matter to you?
First of all, your attachment to the mechanical lever should have ended the same time you got over your blankie. Some people just can’t get over the loss of a manual backup to their hydraulic valves, but they’re needed no more than a lever is to back up the finger swipe control on your grandson’s iPhone. Not only are electronics dirt cheap, they’re also extremely reliable. I never pay the extra coin for the extended warranty at the electronics store, because let’s face it, I haven’t had a device break down since I pulled the channel knob off my tube TV trying to tune in Knight Rider.
I’ll admit, you can get a lever valve for less than a hundred bucks, and that’s darned cheap. However, you can get a solenoid valve and a toggle switch for just as cheap. Granted, a lever valve can be metered to accurately control flow rate, and a solenoid valve is just on and off. However, just like other electronics, electro-proportional control of solenoid valves has become inexpensive as well.
An inexpensive proportional valve can be had from HydraForce, Sun et al for not much more than your lever valve. These “prop valves” are simply valves with metering notches on the spool, and coils that can vary their magnetic field based on the current provided them. Something must take your input signal and convert it to something usable by the prop valve, which is where valve controllers come in. They take the 4-20mA, 0-10v or other signal and convert it to the Pulse Width Modulated input the valve can use. These controllers used to be quite expensive, but have been reduced drastically like the rest of the world of electronics. A combination of valve and controller can be had for a few hundred dollars, which although more than a lever valve, still provides variable flow control.
There is a caveat to inexpensive electro-proportional valve and controller systems, of course; their performance falls in line with their price. These valves just aren’t made for high performance systems, and that’s okay, because they suite their purpose. Their coil strength is often low, with high hysteresis, poor frequency response and non-linear performance. They are susceptible to performance variances due to changes in inlet pressure and actual pressure drop. Higher-end valves are superior in most of these qualities, and have further benefits like on-board electronics or spool position feedback. But if you’re replacing a lever valve, you’re probably not picky.
I like a lever valve just as much as the next guy, but they should only be used where an electrical signal does not exist, like a logsplitter or 1965 Ford tractor. And let’s face it, even your old tractor could run two 6 volt batteries in series to control any 12 volt solenoid valve. Nobody is going to ignore your mistrust of the internet and force you to sign up to online banking (which you should), but perhaps it’s time to get on board with electric control of hydraulics.
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Walmart Rep Says They Sold Over $1 Million Worth Of Patti LaBelle pies
Walmart representative John Forrest Ales confirmed to Yahoo Food that the sweet potato pies are selling like hot cakes (er, pies) at locations across the country. “For 72 hours, we were selling one per second,” he told us. Ales wouldn’t go into specifics about sales figures, but at $3.48 a pie, that works out to just under $1 million in sales over the weekend. The pie’s product page is currently the most-visited food site on Walmart.com, Ales said. (For a bit of context, Walmart might sell two pumpkin pies every second in the month of November. But still, $1 million in sweet potato pie sales is a lot of pie.)
Walmart was caught off-guard by the frenzy, Ales said.
“Friday morning, the team was working with the [sweet potato pie] supplier to see how we can keep up with the demand,” Ales said. “The supplier… was having a hard time finding [enough] sweet potatoes. So we walked down the hall to the produce department [and said,] ‘We need about 2 million pounds of California sweet potatoes!’ So that’s what we’ve been working through.”
Ales added that Walmart is working hard to replenish stocks at sold-out locations. “We’re really sorry about that,” he said. “We’re looking at where stores are out and how we can quickly move pies to that area.”
Meanwhile, Patti LaBelle has already chatted personally with Wright. The YouTuber recounted the telephone call to BET over the weekend: “She kept thanking me and she kept telling me how much she loved me. She kept telling me to be me,” Wright said. “She was like ‘Boy, you can sang!’“
Do you think Walmart and Patti LaBelle should cut a check to the man who helped sell the pies??


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Alexithymia is a broad term to describe problems with feeling emotions. In fact, this Greek term used in Freudian psychodynamic theories loosely translates to “no words for emotion.” While the condition is not well-known, it’s estimated that 1 in 10 people has it.
What is it called when someone fakes emotions?
Book and her team conducted three experiments to test a theory called mimicry, “where these individuals are successful because they’re able to look normal; that would include emotional mimicry.” She says they use mimicry to avoid being detected. …
Do I have alexithymia?
Signs and symptoms of alexithymia include: difficulties identifying feelings and emotions. problems distinguishing between emotions and bodily sensations that relate to those emotions. limited ability to communicate feelings to others.
What is it called when you change emotions quickly?
Dysthymia. Dysthymia, now called persistent depressive disorder (PDD) is a chronic form of depression. Personality disorders. In certain personality disorders, you may experience rapid changes in mood in a relatively short period of time.
What is emotional detachment?
Emotional detachment is an inability or unwillingness to connect with other people on an emotional level. For some people, being emotionally detached helps protect them from unwanted drama, anxiety, or stress.
What disorder causes lack of emotions?
Schizoid personality disorder is one of many personality disorders. It can cause individuals to seem distant and emotionless, rarely engaging in social situations or pursuing relationships with other people.
Do psychopaths feel emotions?
While psychopaths show a specific lack in emotions, such as anxiety, fear and sadness, they can feel other emotions, such as happiness, joy, surprise and disgust, in a similar way as most of us would.
What does alexithymia feel like?
People who do have alexithymia may describe themselves as having difficulties with expressing emotions that are deemed socially appropriate, such as happiness on a joyous occasion. Others may furthermore have trouble identifying their emotions. Such individuals don’t necessarily have apathy.
What does alexithymia mean?
In 1972, Peter Sifneos introduced to psychiatry the term alexithymia, which (derived from the Greek) literally means having no words for emotions (a=lack, lexis=word, thymos=emotions).
Is alexithymia a form of autism?
Although alexithymia is not a core feature of autism, recent studies have found varying degrees of this trait in 50 to 85% of individuals with ASD.
What are the 5 signs of mental illness?
- Feeling sad or down.
- Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate.
- Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt.
- Extreme mood changes of highs and lows.
- Withdrawal from friends and activities.
- Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping.
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What is borderline personality syndrome?
Borderline personality disorder is an illness marked by an ongoing pattern of varying moods, self-image, and behavior. These symptoms often result in impulsive actions and problems in relationships.
Is overreacting a mental illness?
Overreacting is a symptom of bipolar disorder. 1 Hearing harsh words that would be painful to anyone, you may well respond with extreme anger or dark depression. Even a sad movie can make a person with bipolar disorder overreact.
How can you tell if someone is emotionally detached?
The signs below can help you recognize emotional unavailability in a partner.
- They don’t like making plans. …
- They call the shots. …
- You do all the relationship work. …
- They avoid the word ‘relationship’ …
- You never seem to grow closer. …
- They reflect your feelings instead of offering their own. …
- They show up late or blow off plans.
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Can suppressing emotions hurt you?
“Suppressing your emotions, whether it’s anger, sadness, grief or frustration, can lead to physical stress on your body. The effect is the same, even if the core emotion differs,” says provisional clinical psychologist Victoria Tarratt. “We know that it can affect blood pressure, memory and self-esteem.”
What does it mean when you can’t cry?
But if you find that you can’t cry, that you can’t feel anything, what then? The inability to feel anything, neither sadness nor anything else, is one of the danger signs in melancholic depression. Melancholia is a severe form of depressive illness.


SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – California’s two nuclear power plants should not rely on pools similar to those used at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant for long term storage of spent fuel rods, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday.
Feinstein said the most striking aspect of her recent tour of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California was the reliance at both facilities on spent fuel pools that have become so problematic in Japan since the March 11 quake.
“These pools often become de facto long term storage,” she said during a Senate subcommittee in Washington convened a week after the tour.
KCBS’ Holly Quan Reports:
Spent fuel must remain in water for five to seven years before it is encased in concrete and steel canisters, known as dry cask storage. But Feinstein said it often sits much longer, and urged regulators to require a swifter transfer to more stable storage.
“In California for instance, fuel removed from reactors in 1984 is still cooling in wet spent fuel pools,” she said.
Officials from the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission testified that storage pools are safe for at least 100 years.
Feinstein said she was impressed by the safety precautions Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison had put in place at the two facilities that supply 15 percent of California’s electricity and together employ thousands.
Still, Japan’s magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami showed how fragile the best emergency preparations can be, she said.
“We need to reconfirm that these facilities are designed to withstand the threats we can foresee, and prepare to respond to scenarios we never imagined,” Feinstein said.
Officials at Southern California Edison said they were already planning a new seismic study at San Onofre. A seismic study released in February found the plant could withstand a magnitude-7.0 quake.
PG&E built Diablo Canyon to withstand a magnitude-7.5 quake, and local lawmakers want the utility to withdraw its license renewal until new studies assess the potential damage of a previously unknown fault line a half mile from the plant.
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Bowe Bergdahl’s lawyers are trying to get his case dismissed
The lawyers for alleged Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl argued before a military judge that the U.S. military mishandled Bergdahl's prosecution, and that the case should be dismissed.
In pretrial hearings Aug. 22, the soldier's defense team petitioned to remove Gen. Robert Abrams from the case for referring charges to a general court-martial "without considering defense objections to and comments on the report of the preliminary hearing officer" and for burning letters of support for the defense.
Bergdahl's defense team also says Abrams "faced improper conflicts" as the senior military assistant to then-Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel. The general was responsible for briefing Hagel on Bergdahl's health and reintegration processes.
Presiding judge Col. Jeffery Nance rejected the petition to remove Abrams because of the letters, saying "I'm having a hard time seeing any relevance."
While the prosecution maintained the letters weren't evidence and that Abrams shouldn't be forced to testify, the judge ruled against those claims.
The Army alleges Bergdahl abandoned his post in Afghanistan in 2009 where the Taliban captured him and held him in captivity until his release in 2014. The Obama administration negotiated Bergdahl's return in exchange for several high-ranking Taliban insurgents held in Guantanamo Bay.
Bergdahl faces two charges from the Army; Article 85 "desertion" and Article 99 "misbehavior before the enemy."
Bergdahl's lawyers have tried before to prove the military mishandled his case, included citing an October statement from Sen. John McCain who said if Bergdahl wasn't punished, he'd launch a Senate probe. The defense argues McCain's statements improperly impacted the public perception of the case and violated Bergdahl's Constitutional due process rights.
The Army Office of the Chief of Legislative Liaison reportedly asked McCain to "back off," saying his statement could allow Sgt. Bergdahl's defense to show unlawful command influence in his case.
The defense believes the events are part of a pattern of Army meddling in the case, and that the charges should be thrown out or that Bergdahl should receive no punishment if convicted.
In a separate, more recent affidavit, the Daily Caller reported prosecutors' allegations that Bergdahl deserted his post to join the Russian mob and use his training to become a hitman.
This latest revelation, combined with Bergdahl's attempts to join the French Foreign Legion and his time aboard an Alaskan fishing boat, shows what the prosecution alleges is a "psychological disposition toward adventure."
Sgt. Bergdahl's trial is scheduled to start in February 2017.


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The Alzheimer’s epidemic currently afflicting Western societies could be directly influenced by negative perceptions and expectations of elderly people, a new study has claimed.
Orchestrated by Yale School of Public Health, the report highlights a strong correlation between high rates of dementia and other age related diseases in countries where public perception links age to senility and decrepitude (such as the UK and US), as opposed to lower figures in countries where the elderly are venerated (such as India).
As Alzheimer’s is thought to set in a number of years before symptoms become pronounced, the study suggests that people are socially conditioned to fit in with the stereotypes associated with their age, with the stress of this impending transition triggering the onset of dementia.
Researchers used a sample group of 158 participants with an average age of 68, who had their brain activity monitored annually for 10 years. Those who held more negative perceptions of aging were far more likely to see a significant decrease in hippocampal activity – the part of the brain associated with dementia.
The study also investigated physiological neuro-blockages in 78 participants who passed away during the research, finding a correlation between those who believed negative stereotypes and a build-up of blockages.
Dr Becca Levy, a lead member of the US team, has drawn a positive from these results, stating: "Although the findings are concerning, it is encouraging to realize that these negative beliefs about aging can be mitigated and positive beliefs about aging can be reinforced, so that the adverse impact is not inevitable."
Other possible causes have also been put forward to explain the cultural-societal divide, including differences in diets and the capability of physicians to effectively diagnose Alzheimer’s.
Fiona Lowry, our CEO, said: "At the heart of this report is the need to treat the elderly in our society with the dignity and respect that they deserve. This is something that we place at the core of our care mission at Good Care Group: our personalised live-in care enables loved ones to remain in their own homes, with greater dignity and a higher quality of life, and with better social contact in their own community."

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However, this season we have grown up and become re-inspired by high end sensibilities.
With these influences, The Broken Teeth will release concepts pieces such as a leather biker jacket and backpacks
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The new ethos is still DIY, but with quality and cut, featuring headwear, backpacks, outerwear, t-shirts and accessories.
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On May 18th, 1980, thirty years ago today, at 8:32 a.m., the ground shook beneath Mount St. Helens in Washington state as a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck, setting off one of the largest landslides in recorded history - the entire north slope of the volcano slid away. As the land moved, it exposed the superheated core of the volcano setting off gigantic explosions and eruptions of steam, ash and rock debris. The blast was heard hundreds of miles away, the pressure wave flattened entire forests, the heat melted glaciers and set off destructive mudflows, and 57 people lost their lives. A photo-essay.
The Big Picture displays recent photos released by the KCNA of Kim Jong-il giving "on-the-spot" field guidance.
The Big Picture: Olympic Torch Relay Canada's goofy-assed torch relay. Half the pictures are WTF moments — where is she going? Why is it in a swimming pool? Is that a T-Rex? Where's he going after he climbs to the top? [more inside]
Since late January of 2010, the International Space Station was able to access the Internet for personal use, leading to the first tweet from space. The previous tweets were e-mailed to the ground where support personnel posted them to the astronaut's Twitter account. Currently there are 17 active NASA astronauts and 6 internatual'nauts tweeting from on high. If their words aren't enough, they're also posting pictures, primarily from Soichi Noguchi (@Astro_Soichi) and José Hernández (@Astro_Jose, whose socio-political messages were covered previously). [more inside]
Welcoming 2010 from the always fantastic The Big Picture. Includes not just fireworks, but heaps of trash, workplace pranks, and small children dressed up as trees.
The frequently excellent photo-blog The Big Picture at the Boston Globe has posted a collection of stunning and, well, alien-looking photos of the martian landscape.
This week's New York Times Punch Awards notification brought the news that award winning Boston Globe's The Big Picture was developed and promoted largely on Alan Taylor's own time. The most recent entry is a look at life from the other side of the border by Peering Into North Korea.