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Did Gwen Stefani Just Ask This A-Lister To Be Her Maid Of Honor?03/18/2021
While Ellen has always made her guests feel comfortable on her show — for the most part — her most recent chat with Gwen Stefani proved just how close she’s grown with other celebrities. During Monday’s episode of the Ellen Degeneres Show, the 63-year-old asked Stefani how she could help with her upcoming nuptials to Blake Shelton. In a hilarious turn of events, the No Doubt lead singer shared a special position she had reserved for her friend, People reports.
“I was thinking about that a lot, and I was picturing like a mauve bridesmaid. Maybe maid of honor, you know?” the mother of three replied after the host said she would do “anything” to help. “We can put some extensions in, and we can make it a full flower arrangement. All that stuff.”
Degeneres, always willing to help a friend, responded with, “You just tell me the time and the place and I will be there. I don’t mind doing any of that for you, because you’re my friend and anything you ask, I will wear. I will put extensions in my hair. Anything at all. That’s how much I love you Gwen.”
The two told each other how much they loved each other and nodded in agreement as they dreamed up their faux plans.
Gwen Stefani wanted to marry Blake Shelton sooner than later
According to Entertainment Tonight, the punk rocker has been dating Shelton for five years and he popped the question in October of 2020. The outlet reports that she wished that her beau had proposed even sooner than that, admitting on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she questioned the state of their relationship after awhile. As of how she felt prior to their engagement, she said,”I was sort of like, ‘What’s happening with us?’ It was kind of in my mind, like, ‘We’ve been together a long time now. What’s going on?’ I was in that place in my head.”
As for her husband-to-be, he’s still in shock as to how he landed the blonde beauty in the first place. He told Stephen Colbert that his engagement even caught him by surprise. “Nobody’s more shocked about this than I am. It makes no sense. I can see that you’re looking at that picture right now and thinking, ‘What the hell is happening?'” (via Taste of Country).
Beyond his role as a husband, Shelton also plays stepdad to Stefani’s three sons with her ex-husband, Gavin Rossdale, ET Online reports. After the country crooner revealed his close relationship with his own stepfather, he offered, “I take it very serious. But I also have a blast with it, I’m not gonna lie. I don’t take it so serious that I’m not enjoying this time because I really am, especially now that we’re five years into this thing. I can’t imagine my life without these kids now.”
While the two have yet to reveal their wedding date, fans (and Ellen) are anxiously awaiting the day that the unlikely pair ties the knot.
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--South Korea’s LG Chem has purchased by tender three open-spec naphtha cargoes of 25,000 tonnes each at a $19.00-19.50/tonne (€14.40-14.80/tonne) premium to Japan quotes CFR (cost & freight), traders said on Wednesday.
One of the cargoes, priced at a $19.00/tonne premium to Japan quotes CFR, will be delivered into Yeosu, said the traders.
The remaining two cargoes, priced at $19.50/tonne to Japan quotes CFR, will be delivered into Daesan, added the traders.
All three cargoes will be delivered in the second half of May.
LG Chem last purchased by tender two open-spec naphtha cargoes, of 25,000 tonnes each, at an $18.75-19.25/tonne premium to Japan quotes CFR for delivery in the first half of May, the traders said.
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With summer bringing the heat at full blast across Europe, Romanian group Mandinga makes a refreshing splash with their latest release “Arquitectura” and the accompanying music video.
Tu arquitectura ay dios mio que locura…
Arquitectura is a pop-dance song with a latin flare. In addition, it is sung entirely in Spanish. Needless to say, it ticks all the boxes of a hit and it’s bound to be heard at more than just a few parties this summer! The music video follows the ‘choreographed dancing at a gritty club’ trend, and lead singer Barbara Isasi truly brings the song to life.
Mandinga at Eurovision
Mandinga represented Romania in 2012 with the song “Zaleilah”. During the semi-final, their previous lead singer Elena Ionescu suffered technicial difficulties with her in-ear. However, they still managed to qualify. Despite being big fan favorites, Mandinga narrowly missed out on a top ten finish, ultimately placing 12th. Lastly, here’s a fun fact: Elena Gheorghe, Romania’s 2009 representative, used to be the lead singer of the group. Small world, huh?
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I have a HP All-in-one computer with Windows 7 Home and I have a malware that affects two browsers; Internet Explorer and Firefox. Curiously it did not for the moment affect Chrome. The question is that the browser is opened automatically and a lot of web pages in french are opened in different windows. I have tried with different antimalwares and antivirus and I could'nt remove the malware. Finally I bought The McAfee antivirus Plus but it did not solve the problem.
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well Jay does this price $89.95 is for one computer only? What if i need to clean 3 home computers? i mean any discounts/offers etc
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Jordy Nelson will make his long-awaited return to action for Sunday’s Week 1 at Jacksonville.
Nelson would rather it be Week 2.
“So everyone can move on and stop talking about it.”
The “it,” of course, is the most famous ACL in Green Bay. Nelson hasn’t played in a game since that fateful Aug. 23 in Pittsburgh.
Between the torn ACL in his right knee and the “hiccup” with his other knee, Nelson essentially had only one real week of training camp and this week to get him ready for Sunday’s game.
Nelson says he’s ready to go — though it’s not quite the comeback he had planned.
“Going through camp and everything would have prepared me better, but that’s not the situation I’ve been put in,” Nelson said on Tuesday. “I think going out there today — I was in the meetings, I was at practice, I ran routes, so I don’t feel like I’m behind. Would it have been better going through camp? Yeah, probably. It wouldn’t have hurt. But I’m not worried about it. I don’t think anyone in this locker room is worried about it. I don’t think anybody in this building is worried about it. I think the couple weeks I got at the end of camp and, obviously, today and the rest of this week, we’ll be ready to go.”
On Monday, coach Mike McCarthy said he expected Nelson to be “full bore” for Sunday. After not playing in the preseason and having limited practice reps — and then adding the sweltering weather into the equation — it seems unlikely that Nelson would be ready for full-time duty in the first game.
Nelson wasn’t sure how things would play out on Sunday.
“We're not going to put a number on it,” he said. “We've discussed it. I think the situation of being in Jacksonville, we'll play it by snap-by-snap, to be honest with you. There's a lot of things that could happen differently. But seeing how the possessions are taken, seeing what the weather is like, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of guys are rotating to stay fresh.”
While there’s a difference between being “in shape” and being “in football shape,” Nelson sounded confident in his conditioning — despite his limited on-the-field time this summer. He said he “felt great” at Tuesday’s practice, which was held inside the Don Hutson Center due to rain. With the doors closed, it was warm and steamy inside — about as good of prep as possible for what’s to come, with a predicted high of 94 and a “RealFeel” temperature of 106 for Sunday, according to Accuweather.com.
“I'm ready for anything,” Nelson said. “There's so much that goes into a game — the flow of a game, how it works, the plays that get called, the routes I end up running. There's so much to it. If I end up for some reason getting three deep balls in a row, yeah, I'm coming out. I'll come out at the end of the year on that, too. I could run a bunch of short routes all the way down the field and never have a problem.”
Ultimately, the hot-and-humid forecast notwithstanding, this is the question — and the question Nelson is sick of answering.
Is there anything about his knees that will hold him back on Sunday and beyond?
“Absolutely not,” he said.
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Wigan, a town steeped in history, boasts a rich tapestry of architectural styles that reflect its evolution through the centuries. Its building history is a testament to the town’s resilience and growth, from its humble origins to its current status as a vibrant community in Greater Manchester. As one explores Wigan’s architectural heritage, it becomes evident that the town’s structures have undergone significant transformations, contributing to its unique character.
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- Structure and mode of action of clostridial glucosylating toxins: the ABCD model
Trends in Microbiology, Volume 16, Issue 5, 1 May 2008, Pages 222-229
Thomas Jank and Klaus Aktories
AbstractToxins A and B, which are the major virulence factors of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis caused by Clostridium difficile, are the prototypes of the family of clostridial glucosylating toxins. The toxins inactivate Rho and Ras proteins by glucosylation. Recent findings on the autocatalytic processing of the toxins and analysis of the crystal structures of their domains have made a revision of the current model of their actions on the eukaryotic target cells necessary.
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- Plant secondary metabolism glycosyltransferases: the emerging functional analysis
Trends in Plant Science, Volume 10, Issue 11, 1 November 2005, Pages 542-549
Claire M.M. Gachon, Mathilde Langlois-Meurinne and Patrick Saindrenan
AbstractGlycosylation is a widespread modification of plant secondary metabolites. It is involved in various functions, including the regulation of hormone homeostasis, the detoxification of xenobiotics and the biosynthesis and storage of secondary compounds. In plants, these reactions are controlled by a specific subclass of the ubiquitous glycosyltransferase family. Although these enzymes have been studied intensively for many years, to date only a handful have been characterized in planta. Plant genome projects have uncovered unsuspected complexity within this family that is hindering the characterization of single genes. However, genome information also paves the way for the development of functional genomic approaches. Here, we highlight recent progress and the outcomes of novel strategies developed to uncover the physiological roles of these glycosyltransferases.
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- Glycosyltransferases in plant natural product synthesis: characterization of a supergene family
Trends in Plant Science, Volume 5, Issue 9, 1 September 2000, Pages 380-386
Thomas Vogt and Patrik Jones
AbstractGlycosyltransferases of plant secondary metabolism transfer nucleotide-diphosphate-activated sugars to low molecular weight substrates. Until recently, glycosyltransferases were thought to have only limited influence on the basic physiology of the plant. This view has changed. Glycosyltransferases might in fact have an important role in plant defense and stress tolerance. Recent results obtained with several recombinant enzymes indicate that many glycosyltransferases are regioselective or regiospecific rather than highly substrate specific. This might indicate how plants evolve novel secondary products, placing enzymes with broad substrate specificities downstream of the conserved, early, pivotal enzymes of plant secondary metabolism.
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Trends in Cell Biology, Volume 7, Issue 5, 193-200, 1 May 1997
Calnexin, calreticulin and the folding of glycoproteins
Calnexin and calreticulin are molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum (ERJ. They are lectins that interact with newly synthesized glycoproteins that have undergone partial trimming of their core N-linked oligosaccharides. Together with the enzymes responsible for glucose removal and a glucosyltransferase that re-glucosylates already-trimmed glycoproteins, they provide a novel mechanism for promoting folding, oligomeric assembly and quality control in the ER.

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An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, "Black Boy" remains a seminal text in history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.
Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.
Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
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The Canterbury Team Contact Pants are made using Vaposhield technology. They are mesh lined and feature a 12" leg zip. The Canterbury CCC logo is embroidered on the right leg and the fabric is 100% polyester.
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The Ford F-150 is going electric. Alright, perhaps not the entire lineup—at least not yet. The way the auto industry is going these days, though, could indicate that the release of the F-150 Lightning might be the writing on the wall.
Chances are some internal combustion faithfuls are going to have a few choice words if that ever happens. Ford can rest easy, though, that it has at least one person of major influence backing up the vehicle: The president of the United States, Joe Biden.
The 78-year-old head of state recently paid a visit to Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center yesterday to tour the facility. In a tweet, Biden recalled his father who managed car dealerships back in the day. Look:
Biden also had the opportunity to sample the F-150 Lightning. The US president took the pickup for a spin around the facility’s test area, getting a feel for the truck’s dual motors capable of as much as 563hp and 1,050Nm. Watch:
First impressions? “This sucker’s quick,” Biden said following his quick stint behind the F-150 Lightning’s wheel. When prodded by reporters as to whether he would consider buying one, Biden replied in the affirmative, saying the EV felt great to drive and praising how quick it was to 60mph from the line.
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The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Nguyen and
Linh Vu ()
Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2018, vol. 19, issue 4, No 7, 945-963
Abstract This paper examines the pattern and the impact of migration and remittances on household welfare in Vietnam using fixed-effects regressions and panel data from Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010 and 2012. Overall, the effect of migration as well as remittances on employment of remaining members of home households is small. People in households with migration and remittances tend to work less than people in other households. The effect of migration on household welfare happens mainly through remittances. If migrants do not send remittances to their home households, there are no effects of migration on welfare of home households. Remittances, especially international remittances, help receiving households increase per capita income and per capita expenditure and reduce poverty.
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Resolved – That the Agreed Activity, as outlined in the Funding Agreement letter, be accepted.The corresponding reports of the following items (Minutes 4 to 6 refer) contain exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).4 (4) HANDYMAN REVIEW – The Director of Places submitted a report seeking approval for a revised staffing structure within the Handyman Service,The handyman service provided a high volume, low cost preventative service to the elderly, vulnerable and frail enabling them to remain relatively safe and secure at home. In 2014/15, the service completed 2,321 jobs, of which, 1,377 were health related (59%), such as hospital discharge, Occupational Therapy referrals and minor adaptations.A review of the service began in 2014. Since then, there had been a number of changes, which were outlined in the report and accompanying appendices.Resolved – That the revised structure for the Handyman Service, as set out in Appendix B to the report, be approved.5 (5) REGRADING OF BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERS (DESIGN) – The Director of Places submitted a report seeking approval for a regrading to the posts of Building Services Engineers (Design) located in the Asset Management and Construction team, with the Places Directorate.The approved establishment of the Asset Management and Construction team included four posts of Building Services Engineer (Design). Two of the posts had a mechanical engineering bias and two an electrical engineering bias. The appendix to the report set out the current and proposed structures.Resolved – That a change in grade to the four posts of Building Services Engineer (Design), as set out in the report and accompanying appendix, be approved.6 (6) PROPERTY TRANSACTION SCHEDULE – The Director of Places submitted a report for consideration, and where necessary, approval of a schedule containing the terms of all recently negotiated property transactions.The schedule covered both operational and commercial property.Resolved – That the schedule appended to the report be approved.


According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Henri has weakened to a tropical depression and is currently located about 60 miles from New York city with maximum sustained winds up to 30mph. The slow-moving storm is expected to continue to produce heavy rainfall and flooding across portions of Southern New England and the Northern mid-Atlantic states through today.
Flood watches are in effect across northeast Pennsylvania, southeast New York, northeast New Jersey, Long Island, and portions of New England, as per NHC.
Henri, which had gained Category 1 hurricane status on August 21 weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday and made a landfall along the coast of Rhode Island near Westerly as it drenched the Northeast with heavy rainfall and flooding. Henri is the first hurricane to make landfall in Rhode Island since Hurricane Bob in 1991.
NHC reported that Henri is expected to slow down further near the Connecticut-New York border before turning to the east-northeast. Henri’s damaging winds and storm surge can cause flooding for millions of people across the region’s major metropolitan areas.
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On Wednesday 15th, DC Comics finally put out a reprint very long overdue. After about 10 years from his original publication as a serialized 12-issue miniseries, LEGION LOST is once more back on the shelves, this time in a sparkling hardcover edition.
The story stars the post-ZERO HOUR incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, now retconned as an alternate version of the team currently starring in the DC Universe. The decision to set aside that iteration of the futurologist equipe seemed to doom the possibility of further reprints of their stories, which were mostly very enjoyable at least. Still, maybe because of the new LEGION LOST book that’s coming out from september, – no relation with the one we’re talking about here besides the title, though – DC decided to bless old and new readers alike by making the original LEGION LOST available again.
To celebrate the event, Legione dei Super-Eroi Blog asked Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, the duo of writers behind that wonderful epic, for an interview, and they gently replied to our questions the exhaustive way you can read below. I’d like to thank them once more for their time and their kindness.
Here we go, then!
Legion Blog: After a bit more than a decade, DC is finally reprinting LEGION LOST, the miniseries you wrote in 2000-01 with art by Olivier Coipel and Pascal Alixe.
Still, during this last decade the Legion of Super-Heroes has undergone many dramatic changes, and its current incarnation is different in many ways than the one you worked on at the time.
How would you introduce a new reader to LEGION LOST?
Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning: LEGION LOST was a dramatic departure in tone and style at the time it came out; radically different to the incarnation of the team that had come before.
Though we carried on in the same continuity, (it is not a reboot), we took the series in a bold new direction; focusing on a small core of members and following them as they are marooned in a strange remote galaxy, light centuries from home and detailing their attempts to make it back home whilst exploring their bizarre new surroundings and interacting with its inhabitants, many of whom are very dangerous. It’s a 12 issue story that takes the team to the very edges of their limits, physically, mentally and emotionally.
It also sports some of Olivier Coipel’s earliest work for the US market. During the course of the series you can watch as his style develops and evolves, almost issue by issue, from a gifted and talented newcomer into one of the great comic artists working today.
Before your run started, I’d say the post-ZERO HOUR Legion was mostly aimed at a young audience; I feel your stories were way more dramatic, instead, and they also embraced complex subjects such as politics.
I even remember an online controversy at the time about the legionnaires being too much “sexualized” in your stories – which, by the way, is kind of odd if you think at how the same characters were depicted, say, in the ’70s, but it’s significant of how many fans of the so-called “Archie Legion” saw “their” team.
So, I’d dare to say you ferried the rebooted Legion of Super-Heroes from being, let’s say, an all-ages read, to appeal to a slightly older audience. Was it a “side effect” of refreshing the book for the contemporary audience, or was the target change deliberate by you and the editorial?
DnA: We were given a great deal of latitude by the DC Editorial. Both Mike Carlin, who was the Editor in Chief at that time and our series editor, Mike McAvennie, encouraged us to “think outside the box” and take things as far as we could. They wanted to give the book a new lease of life and without discounting what had come before, try to bring on-board new readers as the sales had been in decline for a while.
As for our version being considered more mature in tone, that was really a side effect as you said. We just wanted to tell new and exciting stories that would hopefully have wide appeal and bring new readers on-board.
We were both huge fans of Kieth Giffen’s famous, yet controversial, “5 Year Later” run on the book in the 80s. These stories were far from “all age” and had a very grim and complex narrative which certainly appealed to the older audience too. We were drawn to his sci-fi sensibilities and wanted to inject a good amount of current sci-fi traits and qualities into our story as well as developing some more political themes that reflected the current world climate at the time.
What’s your opinion about the current comic book audience getting, in general, older and older?
DnA: We’re both sad and happy about the current audience getting older.
Sad, as it is a shame not to have a new generation of comic readers coming along, mainly because the younger readers have so many other diversions at their fingertips and vying for their money.
But we’re happy in as much as the older comic audience is more receptive to a more sophisticated range of storytelling. The wide diversity of comic titles, subject matter and artistic styles is a direct result of the audience being more ‘comic literate’. It does make them more demanding however, which means you have to up your game all the time.
Hopefully, the development of digital comics and all the great comic movies out there at the moment will have some positive effect on the comic market, though, so far it’s yet to show.
One side of your Legion work which especially caught on me was the very distinct voice the more “alien” characters and places of the Legionverse had. I’m especially thinking at Shikari – who first appeared in LEGION LOST – but also at Robotica and Titan. And, in a way, at the way you hinted at the broad-minded sexuality of Brainiac 5.
Was it something which came out of the stories naturally, or you gave it a special thought because of the peculiar nature of the Legion as a multicultural team?
DnA: We remember having many long discussions about the multi-planetary nature of the Legion and we were once again influenced by Giffen’s “5 Year Later” stories, in which he ran a text piece at the back of each issue which gave extra information abut the world of the Legion.
We tried to make each Legionnaire distinctive because they were from different planets, this involved their speech patterns as well as their alien cultural influences. We took the idea even further in LEGION WORLDS, a mini-series that followed LEGION LOST and detailed the other members of the team left back in our universe who had split and returned to their home worlds. Each issue focused on a different team member and planet from the established Legion universe.
And what’s the “alien voice” you forged you’re more proud of, and why?
DnA: We’re most happy with Shikari, as we created her and had a lot of fun making her quirky yet likable, but we also have a great affection for Brainy, he’s a joint favourite of ours.
Even though during your career you’ve played with many genres, – from the action movie-like of THE PUNISHER: PSYCHOVILLE in 1993, which was actually the book thanks to which I came to know your work, to your current gig on NEW MUTANTS – both inside and outside the comicdom, I guess you’re most easily associated with your critically acclaimed long sci-fi sagas, such as ANNIHILATION: CONQUEST and its sequels, and of course THE LEGION.
Do you feel a special bond with the sci-fi genre?
DnA: We’ve been very lucky to work in most genres but keep coming back to the more ‘sci-fi’ superhero stuff.
We both grew up on a steady diet of sci-fi over here in the UK; from Dr Who and Star Trek on the TV, to 2000AD and Starlord in comics, we were both huge fans of sci-fi and avid sci-fi novel readers.
We share a love of many greats, Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Zelazny, William Gibson, the list really does go on forever, so it’s no wonder sci-fi plays such a big part in our own writing.
Casting our minds back to when we were writing the Legion, sometime late 1999, early 2000, we were probably influenced by the current crop of writers at work around that time, as well as TV, films and of course, current comics of the time.
Films like Star Trek: First Contact, The Matrix and Phantom Menace, books by authors like Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons and new authors like Alistair Reynolds and Charles Stross all had an influence on our writing at the time.
What’s the aspect of sci-fi that you prefer, and how did you blend it into your Legion work, if so?
DnA: Most of [these authors] share our favourite sci-fi aspect; the chance to world-build on a galactic scale and tell multi-layered stories with a large cast on a truly cosmic scale. Writing the Legion offered us our first opportunity to work on this sort of scale with a large cast; though we started small to give new readers a chance to get to know some of the characters before we really opened things up and increased the membership.
With Andy also being the inker on most of your Legion stories, you were in the position, unique for most writers, of having your vision have an influence also on the art side.
Andy, did the ideas you had as a writer about the story’s mood influence your inking style (“Legion of the Damned” for example, which had very dramatic tones, had many pages with a prominence of blacks)?
Did your position invite you to engage a closer relationship with the pencilers you worked with to create the visually complex world of the Legion?
Andy Lanning: I worked very closely with Olivier on the series as he had only been working for DC a short while (his first published US work was on “Legion of the Damned”, which I also inked) and he actually came to stay with me for a while when the deadlines were beginning to catch him up.
We were able to really collaborate of the stories and I was in the privileged position to watch him develop as an artist. His art style, and therefore my inking approach, changed over the course of the story from a quite dense, shadowy stylistic approach into the cleaner, precise, more ‘traditional’ look that distinguishes his work today.
Recently you came about to write another Legion story, albeit a short one, for DC UNIVERSE HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2010, featuring the current incarnation of the team.
How was it to come back to the 31st century?
DnA: Mike Carlin (yes, him again!) was kind enough to offer us the chance to write the Holiday Legion story when he learned we had finished our exclusive contract with Marvel. We jumped at the chance, especially as we got to work with one of our favourite Legion artists, Chris Batista.
Did you feel the “classic” legionnaires are somehow different than the reboot ones you used to write about?
DnA: Of course, working with the “classic” Legion was fun, but actually left us with a hankering to write some more of “our” Legion, maybe one day, you never know…
Right now the Legion’s is not that big a seller, but let a fan dream: if DC ever decided to put out a spin-off project about the post-ZERO HOUR Legion, now well-known as the New Wanderers (sic), would you like to get on and write it?
DnA: That would be a very tempting offer indeed!
People, come back tomorrow to read another fascinating LEGION LOST related interview!
Tags: Andy Lanning, Brainiac 5 (Post-Zero Hour), Chris Batista, Dan Abnett, Interviste, Interviste originali, Keith Giffen, Legion Lost (vol.I), Mike Carlin, Mike McAvennie, Olivier Coipel, Post-Zero Hour, Shikari (Post-Zero Hour)

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Children who are into any form of music, a dream/goal is to one day release or at least record a song and album. However, with us kids not always having the funds to do anything outside of just write songs, or even finding band mates (and if you can, just rehearsing). This means that we usually abandon said goal and dream in lue of something else.
This to a degree is the case of Hallucination, and this album titled Memories From A Dream. The band (an OSDM band) has self admitted that the songs were written when they were fifteen and sixteen, and that only recently, they decided to record them, and put them on an EP. And this is that EP obviously, which also doubles as the band's debut album.
The album it self, is about the length you'd find most Death Metal EP's to be. There's only seven tracks on it, and each runs from at least one minute, to up to six. I'll get into the songs themselves in a little bit.
The entire production of the EP is decent for a band that had no previous experience at recording. Everything is quite audible, and the quality of the sound itself is very nice. It obviously has that home made/first time sound to it, but it doesn't loom or strangle the album itself. It's noticeable, but you won't really pay much thought to it.
The instrumental work for the songs, are pretty nice as well. Each song sounds like a Death Metal song would, and thus makes the album almost instantly recognizable as an album in the genre it is representing. The guitar work is obviously next to the drums and vocals, the first thing that you'll hear and get blown into your ears. The twin guitar attack brings on the heaviness for the entirety of the recording. They do sound like the norm, but as always it doesn't really matter, as every song in the world sounds the same at some point and time.
However one thing I've noticed a few people gripe about, is how some of the work on the songs sound a little to groovy. Now I myself enjoy Groove Metal, so when those parts come up, I bat an eye at them and don't really care that the type of sound changes
Another thing I've seen people talk negatively about is how the guitars don't really sound inspired. And this is an argument I'd agree with. As I said earlier, the guitar work is what you would hear o a ton of other Death Metal recordings. And while it does let you know that this is an album and band on the Death guild, it does sound uninspired and to a degree not really thought out.
But as a whole, the guitar working for the EP are very nice, and are tight enough to keep order with a little bit of chaoticness. It does sound like it wasn't thought through fully, but it isn't just copied and pasted chords from another song. And even with these negatives, it's still a great work.
The drumming for the album, is a mixed bag when it comes to pros and cons. The drums are audible, and the snare and cymbols sound excellent. But the bass drumming, as well as the work on the toms leave a little bit to be desired. However outside of that little gripe, the drumming is very pleasant sounding.
The singing on the album, is your garden variety styling. Gutteral, loud, and in your face. The sound of the vocals, and for the album itself reminds you almost of old school Cannibal Corpse, which is a very nice compliment to me. But like the other musical aspects of the recording, there is some cons to the vocals.
The main negative about them, is that they were mixed far to low, and sound as if they'd easily get lost. This is quite the no no when it comes to music in general, especially when a good 50 % of the songs is dependent on the lyrics and singing. You can hear them, but due to the mixing of them, it sounds like they'd just jump ship at some point.
But this is the only con in the cap of the vocals. While they do sound like they could just up and vanish, they have a good sound and ring to them.
Now let's move on to the songs for the album. The track listing is as follows:
1. By the Hands of God
2. Abyss Diver
3. Memories From A Dream
4. The Forlorn Watchman
6. ...As My Flesh Crawls
The songs themselves, are pretty damn good. Each one has that Death and Thrash sound to them, and at times can sound pretty catchy (this is mostly due to the guitar work).
Each track does sound like they were well written, and all of them have pretty good song structure. The only time that the structure doesn't sound all that great is on Memories From A Dream. It has this fairly decent dark build up, and proceeds to introduce Groove like riffing. As I stated a little while ago, I quite enjoy Groove Metal. But here it isn't really needed, as it kills the aforementioned dark atmosphere that was being built up.
There's also a few instrumental tracks (5 and 7). They sound nice as well, although the first one has a bit of a Mexican/mariachi sound to it. It catches you a little off guard, as up to that point it was pedal to the medal thrashing guitars, and now it's medium paced soft sounding guitar work that makes me think of Chii Chiis.
My favorite track I must say is probably By the Hands of God. I love the riffing in it, as it has a good flow to it.
In conclusion, Memories From A Dream is a fairly good and decent EP as a debut for the band. It has it's moments when it sounds bad, but those are due to the bad mixing of the vocals, and occasional drum work. While the guitars don't sound all too inspired, they do sound great and catchy, making the replay value pretty high.
So in the end, nice debut, fairly good EP with a few bad spots.


As Adventist Health Lodi Memorial starts to run low on protective gear like masks and gloves, the local community has been stepping up.
More than 10,000 masks — from surgical masks to homemade cotton masks to the coveted N95 respirators — have been donated to the Lodi Memorial Hospital Foundation, which coordinates donations to the hospital.
“We’ve had some large farming operations donate some N95 masks,” said Wayne Craig, president and CEO of the LMH Foundation.
A general contractor dropped off a container of unused N95 masks left over from a job, he added.
The N95 respirators, which cover the nose and mouth and include a respirator that filters out particulates, are desperately needed for doctors and nurses treating patients infected with COVID-19. The surgical and cloth masks shouldn’t be used with coronavirus patients, but can be used in other areas of the hospital, preserving the respirators for the pandemic, Craig said.
“We’re still treating all conditions at Lodi Memorial, so we have to think about all our patients,” he said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently announced that, in certain crisis situations, hospitals can make use of homemade masks.
“In settings where facemasks are not available, (health care providers) might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort. However, homemade masks are not considered (personal protective equipment), since their capability to protect (health care providers is unknown,” the CDC wrote in new guidelines issued on March 17. “Caution should be exercised when considering this option. Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front (that extends to the chin or below) and sides of the face.”
However, the CDC has not issued guidelines for how the masks should be made or what materials they can be made from, Craig said.
The foundation prefers masks made from cotton material, he said. Several websites have released free patterns online, he said.
However, real surgical masks and gloves are also sorely needed.
“Of course, the highest need is the N95 mask,” Craig said. He hopes that Lodians who might have some stockpiled for use at their construction or farm jobs can spare a few.
The LMH Foundation is accepting donations from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at their office, located at 845 S. Fairmont St., Suite 3, in Lodi. Donors should call 209-339-7833 to ensure that someone is there to take their donation.
Donors are asked to include their name and contact information, including email, with their donations, Craig said.
The foundation is also taking monetary donations to help the hospital.
“We do need as much financial support as we can, because the entire system is stretched now,” Craig said.
Donations can be made online at www.lmhfoundation.org, dropped through the mail slot between suites 2 and 3 at 845 S. Fairmont St., or mailed through the post office.
The LMH Foundation and Adventist Health Lodi Memorial are very grateful to the local community for their help, Craig said.
“We have an incredibly loyal donor community in Lodi for all of our charities, and particularly the hospital,” he said. “It’s been amazing what’s happened in this town compared to other towns.”


RELATIVES of an Irish man who went missing in New York over the weekend have paid tribute to those who aided in the search for him.
23-year-old Ryan Cody was found safe and well in a local hospital after he disappeared during a night out in the Queens area of the city.
On Monday, two days after Ryan vanished, his family issued an urgent appeal on social media for any information on his whereabouts, after which swathes of Irish folk promptly joined the search party.
Ryan's brother Anthony, who spearheaded the online hunt, revealed on Facebook that Ryan had lost his glasses and was seen looking "disoriented and confused" prior to his disappearance.
Thankfully, NYPD eventually tracked Ryan down, finding him on Tuesday in a nearby hospital, much to the relief of his family.
Anthony revealed that Ryan had fallen and "banged his head" on the night out, getting concussed in the process.
Ryan's family had set up a GoFundMe page to try and raise money to fly out to New York to find him, but after he turned up safe and well, the family decided to refund all donations.
"Thankfully, we don't need the money anymore and will be able to get Ryan home to us," Anthony wrote.
"We thank each and every one of ye for donating so generously. As a family, we believe [refunding the money] is the correct thing to do.
"We as a family asked for help and ye as a community answered immediately. We surpassed any expectations of how much we could raise.
"The love and support of everybody was unbelievable. I'd love to get into names, but when I tell ye hundreds reached out, I'm sure we replied to every single person who mailed me.
"The Irish people are the greatest people in the world. We are so proud of how well we are represented abroad.
"Everybody involved, give yerselves a massive pat on the backs. We cannot thank ye enough."


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Building delayed indefinitely
When State Representative Louie Tomassi arrived at Monday's commission meeting, Sublette County Commission Chairman Bill Cramer complained about the state fire marshal shutting down construction on the courthouse complex building project while the state agency conducts a plan review. The work has now been shut down three weeks, even though the state has had the plans since February or March, according to Sublette County Clerk Mary Lankford.
Cramer asked Tomassi if he would "pull some strings" in Cheyenne to get the fire marshal off the county's butt so work could begin again.
Tomassi said, "I'll call that son of a gun and give him a piece of my mind today."
"Let me see what I can do because I think it's unfair that we have to put up with this."
Tomassi left the meeting and proceeded to call the fire marshal's office, prompting state officials to contact the commission.
Assistant Fire Marshal Dick Dubay telephoned the commissioners, stating in a telephone conference that a major issue with the project is an area separation wall, separating the buildings from each other, and is based on the type of construction and the building occupancy. He added that in the jail construction, no wood is allowable in construction, but evidently all the roof trusses are made of wood.
Sublette County Clerk Mary Lankford pointed out to Dubay that the jail design calls for placement of a concrete lid on the cells before the roof goes on.
"My understanding is we've got separation with the concrete lid already," Lankford said, adding that the majority of the construction involves steel, blocks and brick.
"This whole thing goes back to the very beginning," Dubay said, with state statutes requiring fire marshal approval before construction begins. The architects are supposed to submit the plans for approval, so when the project goes out to bid, contractors are bidding on approved plans. That didn't happen in this case.
"Invariably, we run into this," Dubay said. "Because of all these changes that have got to be made, there's going to be a lot of extras and the contractors didn't bid it that way. Now unfortunately, it's going to end up costing, in this case you guys, somebody's going to have to pay the extras in this based on that it wasn't designed to the minimum standards of the code. That's the issue."
Dubay said his plan reviewer is consulting with architect Brad Waters in identifying problem areas for Waters to make the necessary changes to the plans. Lankford said changes were recently received from Waters.
Dubay said his plan reviewer isn't getting all the information she needs from Waters.
"So we need to put the pressure on our architect," Cramer suggested, to which Dubay replied, "I think that's where all the responsibility lies."
When Commissioner Betty Fear asked about when the plans were submitted to the state for review, Dubay said one set of plans was received in March, but four sets are required, and those weren't received until May 24. The plan reviewer then submitted comments on June 11. Dubay said by law, the state has 21 working days to review the plans or the plans are approved as submitted.
Dubay urged the commission to put pressure on the architect: "That's where the holdup is right now."
When the telephone conference was over, it was clear to the commission that construction wouldn't commence immediately.
Commissioner Gordon Johnston said, "I think I'll throw up."
Lankford reminded the commission that it is paying Hogan and Associates for managing the construction project as well as its role as the general contractor. Lankford said the county needs to hold a meeting with the architect and contractor to discuss these issues, to which the commission agreed. Although the commission couldn't reach Waters by telephone Monday, he was scheduled to be in Sublette County later in the week, Lankford said.
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MICA Competitive Scholarship 2020
Paper, laser cut wood, and thread
"El Porton" is a typographic self portrait using a menu design to convey and talk about my cultural background from Colombia & Venezuela. The patterns, colors and typography are a culmination of the vibrancy and beauty of these countries.
Screen print on paper
Postcard series of hand drawn illustrations of plants native to the northern region of South America with typographic explorations. Made to eventually be a collectable series of about 10 different plant illustrations and cards.
Typographic publication & digital collage on newsprint
Outpost 61 is a fictional newspaper about traveling to, through, and around the 61 U.S. National Parks. This publication showcases several articles written by different bloggers.
A Typographic Dialogue
Typographic experiment printed on paper and vellum
Experimental typographic publication of two different excerpts by two authors. Throughout the publication, I explore the duality between the two simply using layouts and the relationship of overlapping text using transparent paper.
Vellum, After Effects, Found Footage
In Dennis Villeneuve's film, Arrival, time is interpreted in a non-linear, almost abstract way. This title sequence not only captures the visual style of the film, but also touches upon this theme of time. I explore filming found footage through a sheet of vellum to create a unified voice and cohesive manipulation of the videos.

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in this blog, we have seen tree cotton bare its leaves in winter and the red blossom extravaganza in spring. now it’s the turn of its fruit.
it produces capsules in late spring to early summer. when ripe, the fruit bursts and seeds blown out together with the white fibres that are part of the cell of the inside wall of the capsule. the seeds should take the centre stage of the life of this plant, but i am just fascinated by the fluffy thick creamy “cotton”.


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11-year-old boy donates 22,000 diapers to single moms using funds from his lemonade stand
During the summer, many kids set up their lemonade stands to get a taste of earning their own money. Cartier Carey is one such kid from Hampton, Virginia, who set up his lemonade stand this summer. But one thing set him apart from the rest – the generous 11-year-old donated the money that he earned to buy diapers, wipes and other supplies for parents who needed help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cartier told ABC News that he noticed a shortage of diapers in stores during the pandemic and wanted to help.
“There was no diapers at all and I was like, ‘Oh, people are having babies so I should help [them] afford diapers,’” said Cartier.
He started a lemonade stand and made about $4,500 in the first month. His stand also served as a diaper drive where people could donate diapers.
On his first day back to virtual school, Cartier is still hard at work loading up a truck with more than 22,000 donated diapers.

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2016 IGA/RCN Research award for Debra Jones of Hinchinbrooke Hospital
Debra Jones, A Glaucoma Specialist Nurse, together with Professor Rupert Bourne, at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, have won a £25,0000 research grant after applying for the 2016 IGA (International Glaucoma Association) and RCN Research Grant. The award will fund their 12 month project entitled, Development of an evidence-based clinical tool that will predict ‘risk of non-adherence’ to topically applied glaucoma medication.
The aim of Debra Jones’ and Professor Bourne’s research is to investigate factors that may affect patients adhering to their eye drop medications for glaucoma and to develop a simple evidence-based clinical tool that will predict ‘risk of non-adherence’ that may be of use in assessing patients in the clinical setting. In the long term it should produce a better understanding of the relationship between patient factors such as ocular surface disease, patient knowledge and treatment non-adherence to help deliver more patient-centred care in the future.


Apple’s iPhone release schedule has been predictable in the past when it comes to number of devices: each year, a single new smartphone. For 2013, that’s changed with the iPhone 5c, as for the first time Apple has eschewed simply bumping down the outgoing iPhone as a lower cost option, and has instead released hardware specifically designed to be more affordable.
I'm an apple fun boy (wait and slow down:D)
I've ever believed and loved Apple, thinking that Apple's products was better than each one other.
I was a happy owner of iphone 4, but I didn't like so much the latest Apple moves, specially in the mobile phone and tablet market. (iPhone 4s, iPad 3,4...
Apple iPhone five Launch Delayed To 2012
Apple can be a primary mobile phone manufacturer which is common for its iPhones. After the unforeseen accomplishment of its iPhone four now Apple is planning to launch its iPhone five that is not formally declared but. It is being stated that Apple has delayed its release to 2012.
Apple’s new iPhone 5s is set to go on sale this Friday, Sept. 20, and the phone is already generating a lot of buzz. The 5s is the more advanced of two new Apple iPhones, and offers a lot of technical advantages over the iPhone 5c also launching the same day.


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At 55 metres (183 foot) tall, the Tower of Pisa is an impressive structure, even without its famous lean. And, while it may one of the most structurally unsound buildings in the world, you can actually climb up 294 steps to the top of it too. Planning a trip or looking to find out more about the Unesco World Heritage Site? Here are some of the most interesting facts about the Tower of Pisa in Italy.
Interesting Facts About the Tower of Pisa
1. It took a long time to build it
There was a lot of talk about plans for a beautiful bell tower to accompany the cathedral in the mid-twelfth century. Finally, in 1173 construction began. Work was slow and sporadic, frequently abandoned for decades as Pisa warred with nearby Florence, Genoa and other city-states. Debt also slowed down the construction process, as well as time spent trying to correct its lean. It was finally completed in 1372, almost two centuries later.
2. Poor planning made it famous
It’s one of Italy’s most recognisable landmarks and the main reason most people visit Pisa, but its lean was a total accident. Engineers were stumped when they first realised the tower was starting to lean in an unorthodox fashion a few years after construction began. At this stage, they were only three metres up. We now know that it was always destined to topple, thanks to its shallow foundations – a shocking three metres – plus its soft and marshy foundations. Interestingly, the word ‘Pisa’ actually comes from the Green for “marshy land”, so it’s a little difficult to see why the architects were caught off-guard.
Construction continued, with builders trying to fix the problems by adding taller columns and arches to the south side of the tower. This means the structure is also curved… as well as tilting. Engineers attempted to correct it for centuries, some making it worse.
There’s a happy ending though. The tower was declared stable in 2001 for another 200 years and in 2008 engineers found that the tower is no longer moving.
3. Mussolini hated it
Benito Mussolini, the 20th-century dictator, reportedly hated the Tower of Pisa. He saw its lean as a national embarrassment, a painful reminder of some seriously shoddy craftsmanship and an inappropriate symbol for the manly regime. In a bid to correct its lean, he had hundreds of holes drilled into its base, pumping 200 tons of concrete into the tower to stabilise the bottle. It ended up making the base heavier and the tower lurched another few inches south.
4. It’s not the only leaning tower in Pisa either
Thanks to the river city’s soft and marshy ground, quite a bit of Pisa is actually leaning. San Nicola, a 12th- century church half a mile south of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilting, with a base below ground level. The belltower of San Michele degli Scalzi, built in the 11th-century, boasts a heavily tilted 5% lean. Piagge actually stems from the Latin, plagae, meaning “low plains, highly prone to flooding”.
5. Galileo may not have been here after all
If you know anything about the Renaissance astronomer and physicist, you might well have heard that he was responsible for discovering that objects of unequal mass fall together in a vacuum. Folklore tells that he discovered this from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 1589. He dropped a cannonball and a musket ball, they fell together and the rest is history.
However, modern scholars now argue that it was probably only a thought test, rather than a physical test.
6. It survived the war thanks to its good looks
The Germans used the tower as a lookout during World War II. When the Allies were charged with demolishing enemy buildings in 1944, they were too spellbound by the beauty of it to bomb it out. In the fascinating account, “Through My Eyes: 91st Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign, 1942-45“, veteran Leon Weckstein, explains that the grace and beauty of it hypnotised him. He says: “I yearned to blow it to smithereens, but as yet I had seen nothing move. Seconds turned to minutes and still, he could not do it. The hypnotic spell had not been broken after all. The tower, the neighbouring cathedral and baptistry, were too beautiful”.
7. There are other buildings with a lot more lean
The Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi takes the crown for the most tilted man-made tower. It slopes five times more than Pisa, at an 18-degree angle, though unlike Pisa it was all planned. There are medieval towers in the German towns of Bad Frankenhausen and Suurhusen which lean more than the Italian Unesco Heritage Site too. Then there’s also the Leaning Tower of Wanaka. The tower leans at a 53-degree angle and balances on one corner.


A US engineer has developed a laser ‘microscalpel’ that destroys single cells while leaving nearby cells intact.
If commercialised, such a system would enable surgeons to remove a cancerous cell with high precision without damaging the cells above and below it while viewing the procedure while it was underway.
The system itself is built around a femtosecond laser that produces extremely brief, high-energy light pulses that sear a targeted cell so quickly and accurately the lasers’ heat has no time to escape and damage nearby healthy cells.
It includes a tiny, flexible probe that focuses the light pulses to a spot size smaller than human cells. Within a few years, mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar at the University of Texas at Austin expects to shrink the probe’s 15mm diameter three-fold, so it would match the size of the endoscopes used today for laparoscopic surgery.
Ben-Yakar is also investigating the use of nanoparticles to focus the light energy on targeted cells. Last year, she demonstrated that gold nanoparticles can function as nano-scale magnifying lenses, increasing the laser light reaching cells by at least ten fold.
‘If we can consistently deliver nanoparticles to cancer cells or other tissue that we want to target, we would be able to remove hundreds of unwanted cells at once using a single femtosecond laser pulse,’ Ben-Yakar said. ‘But we would still be keeping the healthy cells alive while photo-damaging just the cells we want, basically creating nanoscale holes in a tissue.’
The microscope system developed by Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar can deliver femtosecond laser pulses deep inside tissue


Lost Dog: have you seen China? | News
China is a frawn/tan Chihuahua, has arthritis in one of her hind legs, should be sleeping on a orthopedic pillow. Was last seen 4/25/2012 in the Glenwood Farms neighborhood.
If found, contact Joann Jackson at 804-615-6430, second number 804-549-3153.
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Heavy Montreal is definitely going above and beyond when it comes to booking bands for the festival. Today, they unveiled the daily lineup for the Festival, in addition to adding a handful of new bands, lining up some rare and unprecedented appearances. Abbath will be playing their first-ever show, and Neurosis, who play sporadically and infrequent live shows, will be playing as well. They join a lineup that includes more additions, including Extreme, Devin Townsend Project, Sanctuary, Vail of Maya, After the Burial, Cattle Decapitation and more.
These bands join a lineup headlined by Korn, Faith No More, Slipknot, Mastodon, Lamb of God and more. The Festival, taking place from August 7-9, now has single day passes for $77 for the next 77 hours. If you’re in Canada, you should probably go.
You can pick up tickets here.


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I’m one song away from finishing up a new full-length solo recording that I’ve been working on all year. It’s the final piece of a trilogy of recordings that began a couple of years ago. It’s been lots of work, but it’s turning out to be the best of the three. More on that later. And here.
I ask myself . . . if there hadn’t been so much distractingly great music coming out this year, would I have been able to focus more on my own? I’m not complaining! I’m so happy that there are so many fantastic bands putting out such solid music. I wanted to share a few.
If you don’t have Spotify and can’t get some of the links to work, definitely check out a free account. It’s been a great way for me to discover new music and track down bands so that I can pick up their releases. Highly-recommended. Let’s dive in…
VHOL –s/t: Such gloriously vicious, wickedly ugly music, fronted by Yob’s Mike Scheidt! Heavy, dissonant and just about everything I want out of this kind of music.
Next up, Dawn Of Midi’s Dysnomia. Lovely, repetitive, meditative, stark, dark, addictive. I can’t think of better ways to describe this incredible recording.
Pinkish Black’s Razed To The Ground is a gritty, distorto synth nightmare, thickly-bristled with inspired ideas and evil melodies. Fast becoming a favorite listen for me.
Montgomery, AL’s own Hail To The Titans have released a super-sharp slab of vinyl called Fig., and its two lengthy tracks are moody and contemplative, with bombastic layers of guitar and a slamming rhythm section. So great!
And, finally, Era, the latest by Disappears, has become one of my favorite recordings. This collection of songs has such rich atmosphere and space. It’s music that puts me in a reflective mood and makes me feel great . . . like all of the best music does! The title track on here has got to be one of the best songs of all time.
I could go on forever with links, but I’ll stop there. I hope you hear something that turns you on!


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Tallinn is a historic city dating back to the medieval times that was first recorded on a world map in 1154, although the first fortress was built on Toompea in 1050.
Later the city became a pawn in the geopolitical games of its big neighbors, passing into Swedish hands in 1561 and then to Russia under Peter the Great in 1710.
Today, Tallinn Estonia is a bustling, gleaming metropolis of over 430,000 people. However, among the tall glassy buildings and corporate headquarters, Tallinn retains an inner charm seldom found anywhere else. Estonians consider themselves to be living in a Northern European/Scandinavian or an eastern European country depending on who you ask, with very close ties to Finland (ethnic, linguistic, and cultural).
Visiting Tallinn you will find a mixture of at least three styles of architecture in this very visual city - old Europe (the city walls with rustic buildings and charming living areas with well-preserved and colourful wooden houses of bourgeois taste of 1920s), Soviet brutalist (concrete apartment blocks), and modern Europe (including McDonald's next to the city walls!).
Start off your journey of the capital of Estonia at the hill of Toompea and descending down to explore classic European fashion cobblestone streets through medieval houses and alleyways. Continue on past the foot of the hill into the city wall of the lower town or explore Tallinn's wonderful greenery in the handful of surrounding parks. You will certainly stop at the zoo and explore the copious live exhibits of mountain goats and sheep or elephants and crocodiles or the lake-sized ponds housing birds of all types.
Past the zoo, just 15 minutes, is the Open Air Museum hosting 72 buildings of Estonian vernacular architecture and the dark mysterious forest of Tsarist-ruled village life. Get there before 11am and you might be lucky enough to catch one of the free Estonian dance performances each Saturday and Sunday.
Fill your fancy of museum exploration at the National Art Museum next. You can either go inside or simply stand in awe of it's exterior. The architecture of this museum alone is, in and of itself, a worthy sight including a cyclopic house that is partly cut out of limestone.
Finish your exploration of Estonia's capital with the Culture Kilometre enjoying every step of the free 2.2km walk on an old railroad that passes the fish market, the looming Patarei Prison and the tranquil greenery of Kalamaja park.


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Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is in Greenville, South Carolina. With an overall score of B-, this is a middle of the pack facility. While there's nothing wrong with a B-, we wanted to point out that Greenville received a city grade of B+ so there are some good options here. We were also pleased to find that this facility received consistently decent grades in all of the other areas we looked at. More information about these categories is available below.
Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
8 North Texas Avenue,
Greenville SC 29611
85.37% estimated occupancy 1
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's long-term care score is much more impressive than its overall score. Due to a quality performance in this category, it received one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.75931 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This nursing home was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 1.87 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complicated patients.
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Does this page answer your questions about Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center?
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a solid score in the area of short-term care, with a B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is frequently a meaningful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. This facility performed better in this statistic. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 55.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing score of C. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provides only 3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing ratings. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally decent measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 9.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 3.11% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 15.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 20.09% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 3.01% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 90.67% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 14.17% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 22.6% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 1.55 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 22.6 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Poinsett Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, 72.9% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Greenville, SC
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Greenville, South Carolina has 7 other nursing homes
- Prisma Health Greenville Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.86 miles away905 Verdae Blvd Suite 102 Greenville South Carolina 29605Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 455-7000
- Prisma Health Baptist Easley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.46 miles away200 Fleetwood Drive Easley South Carolina 29640Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 442-7606
- Prisma Health Greer Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.7 miles away830 South Buncombe Road Greer South Carolina 29650Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 848-8200
- Pelham Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.78 miles away250 Westmoreland Road Greer South Carolina 29651Government - Hospital District or Authority(864) 560-6554
- Prisma Health Hillcrest HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.55 miles away741 South East Main Street Simpsonville South Carolina 29681Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 454-6100
- Cannon Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.16 miles away123 W G Acker Drive Pickens South Carolina 29671Voluntary non-profit - Private(864) 878-4791
- Upstate Dialysis Center1.82 miles away308 Mills Ave Greenville South Carolina 29605CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 52 (864) 271-3700
- Dsi Greenville Renal Center1.99 miles away1004 Grove Road Greenville South Carolina 29605CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 37 (864) 242-0802
- Greenville Dialysis Clinic, LLC1.99 miles away220-a Howe Street Greenville South Carolina 29601Dialysis Stations: 20 (864) 271-2002
- Rcg Greenville Dialysis Center2.56 miles away297 Pete Hollis Blvd. Greenville South Carolina 29601CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (864) 232-9456
- Dsi Pleasantburg Dialysis4.53 miles away110 Chalmers Dr Ste C Greenville South Carolina 29605CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (864) 558-2365
- Dsi Home Dialysis Pleasantburg4.53 miles away110 Chalmers Road, Suite D Greenville South Carolina 29605Dialysis Stations: 3 (864) 558-2375
- Dsi Greenville, LLC5.29 miles away121 Commerce Blvd Easley South Carolina 29642Dialysis Stations: 4 (864) 859-7902
- Dsi Travelers Rest Dialysis8.96 miles away36 S Main St Travelers Rest South Carolina 29690Dialysis Stations: 13 (864) 660-2050