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How a novelist’s rural inspiration was transformed by his own success – Dylan Levi King
I was obsessed with Jia Pingwa long before I received the commission to work with Nicky Harman on translating the Chinese author’s late-period novel Qinqiang. I had first come across his most famous early work Ruined City shortly after turning twenty, when a book could still change my life.
Ruined City was published in 1992, but banned the following year for allegedly pornographic content. Even before it was unbanned and republished in 2009 (an English translation by Howard Goldblatt for University of Oklahoma Press finally appeared in 2016), the novel circulated widely in bootleg editions and online. The book tells the story of a horny literatus – Zhuang Zhidie – and his rivals, including Zhou Min, a rusticated upstart who arrives in the city of Xi’an to unseat the literary lion. It was unlike any novel I had ever read: a completely modern work of premillennial Xi’an, full of sexual exploits but borrowing modes and forms from classical epics and Ming vernacular novels. I made my way through Jia’s books that came after, working towards Qinqiang, a rural epic that he published in 2005.
Qinqiang was a step in another direction, back towards Jia’s native roots. Jia helped kickstart the root-seeking movement with his 1983 novella First Records of Shangzhou, but the books that followed were about the city or places where city rubbed up against countryside: Ruined City and White Nights (the brilliant but critically unloved follow-up to Ruined City, as yet untranslated) shared a Xi’an setting; The Earthen Gate was about a suburban district being swallowed up by the metropolis; Old Gao Village and Remembering Wolves brought big city characters down to the village; and Health Report was a historical work, set nowhere near Jia’s hometown or adopted base of Xi’an.
I had a vision of Qinqiang’s village of Freshwind in my head, but I had to see it for myself”
Qinqiang is the type of book that readers lose themselves in: nearly six hundred pages in the original, with close to two hundred named characters. It’s epic in scale but has a very simple central story: a poor man is in love with a sensitive and artistic woman who has married a brutish Southern Shaanxi village celebrity. Jia zooms in on this panorama of rural life, revealing stories of feuding ghosts, township- and village-level political infighting, opera company rivalries, mushroom cultivation, mahjong debts, petty arguments, madness, religious ecstasy, castration, and rape.
For a year, I spent nearly every waking hour on Qinqiang. If I wasn’t translating or editing, I was compiling family trees of the characters for Nicky and myself to refer back to, watching clips of local opera on Youtube, poring over descriptions of local dialect, tracking down obscure references; it would often happen that I would hit a moment in the book – perhaps a single sentence – that would require hours of research. I came to know more than I ever expected I would on topics as diverse as gully reclamation, village-level politics, Shaanxi funeral practices, Republican Era bandits – and, of course, qinqiang folk opera, which the book is named after: a more rugged local version of the indigenous Chinese operatic form such as Beijing opera (as in Chen Kaige’s 1993 film Farewell My Concubine).
I had a vision of Qinqiang’s village of Freshwind in my head. Freshwind (qingfengjie 清风街 in the novel) was based on Jia’s own hometown of Dihua, where he was born in 1952 and has set many of his novels and short stories. But I knew that I was missing something. Jia is an anthropologist as much as he is a poet: his attention to detail is legendary. Working on the translation, it felt I had a duty not to make it sound like any other generic village. I had to see it for myself.
But before I bought a flight to Xi’an where Jia lives and works, I happened to run into the man himself at a talk he was giving at a Beijing bookstore. Nick Stember, who was a Jia Pingwa expert and who got me the Qinqiang gig, leaned in to tell Jia what I was working on. Jia nodded to me, and his loyal assistant and minder, Ma Li, introduced herself. When I told her what I had in mind, she insisted that I would be their guest I wrote it off as politeness but a few weeks later, the invitation came. I went in April with Nicky Harman, and had two requests: let me see an opera in Xi’an, and take me to Dihua.
I knew Jia was a celebrity in Xi’an. He had written about Shaanxi’s provincial capital in many essays, and there was some amount of autobiography in the superstar writer Zhuang Zhidie in Ruined City, but I was still unprepared for the level of attention the city’s adopted son received wherever he went. I had my picture taken more times in the days I spent with him than I had in the previous ten years living in Asia. The treatment of Xian’s literary lion felt almost dangerous the night we attempted to sneak into a performance at the Shaanxi Traditional Opera Institute Theater: the audience mobbed us as we left, and the impresario pleaded with Jia to take the stage and say a few words. Our impromptu visit to the cave homes north of the city also turned into a full-fledged press junket, led by village cadres and township tourism officials.
On the morning of our trip down to Dihua village, Jia greeted me outside my hotel. We looked out on the artificial cityscape of Xi’an’s new markets while pulling on cigarettes. The square we were at was anchored by two towering statues of foreign merchants arriving by camel – Xi’an was once at the Chinese end of the ancient silk road – overlooking a complex that houses antique shops, gourmet restaurants, museums, shopping malls, and coffee shops. It’s just like in Ruined City, I said, when the city fathers tear down the old quarters to install replica Tang, Song and Ming-Qing dynasty streets. “Yes,” Jia observed, “but this fits with the history of the city, at least, doesn’t it? Imagine what they could have put here instead.”
On the way to Dihua, as Nicky and I peppered Jia with questions, the landscape outside the window turned from city to suburb to jagged mountains with green capes. My imaginary Freshwind was already changing. I had no idea the landscape was so rugged and rocky. From Jia’s writing, I had always pictured the place less dramatically, and perhaps more fertile and inviting.
Spiritually, culturally and linguistically, Jia has not broken the umbilical link to his native place”
I had to reconsider the man himself and what it had meant to grow up in a place like that. With a few notable exceptions such as Mo Yan, many prominent writers in China come from a fairly privileged urban upbringing, but Jia Pingwa was born and raised here in southern Shaanxi. His father, a schoolteacher, educated him in the Chinese classics and furnished their modest home with books, and his mother and extended family taught him rural legend and the ways of the village. With the arrival of the Cultural Revolution, Jia and his mother supported the household, with Jia’s father branded a capitalist roader and sent for reform through labor. He discontinued his formal studies to support the family and went to work on a production brigade building a dam. He was lucky enough to catch the eye of production team cadres, who noticed his skill turning out banners and newsletters. Shortly before the university entrance exam was reinstated, he was selected for a spot at a university in Xi’an, and left the village for the first time.
Although he has remained in Xi’an for most of the past forty years, Jia takes pains to paint his time in Xi’an as a temporary sojourn. Even though Ruined City and the books that followed were ostensibly about the city, all of their central characters are refugees from the countryside, looking for meaning in a new world while waxing nostalgic about village life. Zhuang Zhidie in Ruined City fits that mold – he only stays in Xi’an for ten years before mysteriously leaving the city – and so does Ye Lang in White Nights, Gao Zilu in Old Gao Village, Xia Feng and Bai Xue in Qinqiang, Happy Liu in Happy Dreams, and even Butterfly in Broken Wings.
Having spent time with Jia in Xi’an and Beijing, he convincingly pulls off the role of urban literary celebrity. In a nation where so many of those you meet in big cities are first generation urbanites, Jia doesn’t stand out as particularly rusticated. But spiritually, culturally and linguistically (his books often employ dialect, and he also prefers to speak in his local language, with Ma Li interpreting) he has not broken the umbilical link to his native place. After decades in the city, he still famously proclaimed himself a farmer. I thought the trip to Jia’s hometown might help shed some light on his dual identity.
Arriving in Dihua, I began looking around for echoes of Freshwind and other villages in Jia’s fiction. On the main street, vendors parked tricycles and stand-up tractors with sheets of Plywood laid across their back-ends, selling stockings, parkas, potatoes, pork. There were the bathroom-tile low-rises typical of the Chinese countryside, and a road that was definitely paved at one point but had been allowed to turn back to dirt. It looked about how I had imagined Freshwind – a little more modern, over a decade on from Qinqiang’s 2005 publication, but close enough. I could picture the characters and settings of the book, laid over the village in front of me.
Jia Zaiwa, Jia Pingwa’s younger brother met us at the end of the road, accompanied by a few local cadres. We went up a narrow alley and came upon Liu Gaoxing’s home. Liu, whose tenure as a Xi’an trash collector provided the inspiration for Jia’s 2007 novel Happy Dreams, has settled into retirement back in his hometown. The book turned Liu into a minor celebrity and he attempted to cash in, turning his home into a sort of museum to himself. I would have liked to check in, but it seemed that local officials were embarrassed by Liu’s marketing savvy, or perhaps it was a more complicated village dispute I wasn’t aware of. We were steered away from the brick home and led quickly past the billboards that collect photographs of Liu with fans and celebrities.
Beyond Liu Gaoxing’s home, we walked around the preserved homes of the Jia family, some rooms still in use by Jia’s younger brother and his extended family and others open to visitors. We were led into the courtyard of one and through to a room that, judging by the age of the radio on the cabinet and the posters of old movie stars on the walls, hadn’t been lived in since the late 1980s.
Jia had told me that he had last been back to the village for Qingming Festival just a few weeks earlier, to attend to his parents’ tombs, but it was obvious that he didn’t spend much time here. He seemed uneasy, quieter than usual. How strange, I thought, it must be to visit your own childhood home accompanied by official tour guides and foreigners. Whenever Jia tried to introduce some local architecture or lore, the cadres sidled up to proffer their own opinions. His younger brother, clearly used to visitors, was more comfortable playing host. “He’s a bit shy in here,” he joked, motioning to the bed. “This is where he stayed with his first wife.”
Jia Pingwa handed me another cigarette and motioned for us to leave.
Beyond Jia’s old home was a newly constructed park called Dihua Ancient Town. I had heard something about these efforts to preserve the old town, but had imagined something more restrained. Instead, a large signpost pointed in the direction of the various attractions of “China National Tourism Administration AAAA-rated Dihua Ancient Town”. These included Charming Lotus Pond, Yueya Spring, Songjin Street, Pingwa’s Old House, Qingfeng Street, Erlang Temple, and Parking Lot for Battery Cars.
Songjin Street was a collection of somber grey stone buildings selling local snacks and tat. There must be a factory town, I thought, maybe in the Pearl River Delta, devoted to turning out replica antiques and slightly weathered building materials for projects like this. There was nothing to distinguish it from the similar sites in Xi’an we had just seen, or from the many other replica old towns I had visited across China – such as the faux-Qing era Qianmen district in Beijing, or the Song dynasty theme park that replaced Kaifeng’s old town. Just like these artificial pastscapes, it felt in Dihua, without having seen what was there before, that something had been lost by the very efforts to reconstruct its history.
The replica village is stripped of everything that makes the real place fascinating”
It was jarring to wander into this sterile, empty old town – it was still too cold and too early in the season for many tourists to be there – after experiencing a brief taste of vibrant village life in Dihua proper. Below Songjin Street, just beyond the old Jia family homes, the Charming Lotus Pond separated the rest of the Ancient Town from a replica of the village from Qinqiang, with “Freshwind” (qingfengjie) written over an archway entrance. As we crossed the concrete bridge over the pont, one of the cadres said, “You should see it in the spring, when it’s covered in lotuses.”
At the end of the bridge was a three story-tall archway, leading to the replica village. A single street gathered together various shops that appear in the book, such as Zhao Hongsheng’s pharmacy. There were other shops too, set up by local entrepreneurs, selling corn liquor, noodles and handicrafts. Statues of the Qinqiang’s characters line the street, and Jia was prodded to stand for a photo beside one of two characters being married, while I was placed beside another statue of Snow Bai – the young woman the novel’s narrator is obsessed with – steaming mantou.
I asked Jia if the people who designed the street had read the novel. He said he didn’t know, and led me to look at one of the few authentically old structures on the block, pointing out the layer of cob and mud on its outer wall. Jia’s novels are not exactly rural idylls, and Qinqiang is no exception. It wouldn’t work, I suppose, to put up a statue of Rain Xia, Snow Bai’s cruel husband, attempting to murder his infant daughter after discovering her birth defect, or to commemorate his cousin beating his wife after an argument over jianbing breakfast pancakes.
The idea of a replica village is even stranger, considering that Qinqiang is set in the late-1990s or early-2000s. Although it felt as if very little of the spirit of village life, as I had come to know it in the novel, had been preserved in this replica, there was plenty of that spirit, still very much alive, a quarter mile away, over in the parts of the village still untouched by regional planning authorities and tourism officials.
The replica village is stripped of everything that makes the real place fascinating. It exists in a timewarp, not trying to depict an ancient town or even the village as it might have looked forty or fifty years ago. It is a shell, stuffed with some signifiers of Shaanxi village life, but not much else. When I quizzed a Xi’an friend on her visit to the place a year prior, she struggled to deliver any insights or even remember much of what she had seen (very cute pictures beside the lotus pond for her social media, though) – it’s a blank space for selfies.
Yiyan Wang, a New Zealand-based scholar of Chinese literature and the author of the first book-length study of Jia’s novels, makes the case in Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World that Jia’s writing about village life argues against the conventional wisdom among Chinese intellectuals that rural China is poor in culture. If the village modernizes according to the requirements of urban China, Jia seems to plead in his rural novels, a vital local culture will be lost. I couldn’t help but wonder if those cadres who had planned the replica Freshwind had got the message.
Just like in Xi’an, every conversation was cut short by requests for photographs and autograph-seekers. Nicky and I were mostly left alone as Jia was led around by enthusiastic local officials. As we stopped at the Erlang Temple, Jia went inside to pay his respects to the local god (a semi-mythical, deified general with a third eye in his forehead) with a gruff request that no photos be taken. A crowd formed outside, then followed us onto the square across from the temple, where the open air theater and a low pagoda had been revitalized with a fresh coat of paint.
Modernization had arrived in Dihua, but the village’s destruction was done in the name of preservation”
Jia leaned in and told me that many years before, on hot summer nights, he had climbed up to the upper floors of this pagoda. There wouldn’t be many kids climbing up there anymore, I thought, with its surveillance cameras and aluminium pigeon netting. The scenes of raucous opera performances in Freshwind’s opera theater, too, would have been out of place in that manicured and sanitized square.
It was clear that there wasn’t much Freshwind spirit left after the local tourism bureau’s attempt to cash in on Jia Pingwa fever. We would have been better off spending the afternoon on that dusty main road on the other side of the village, talking to the women selling pork. But that wasn’t on the itinerary. After our tour, we drove out to the village outskirts for a boozy lunch at an agricultural commune of sorts – another scheme dreamed up by the local bureaucrats behind the recreation of Freshwind.
Just like in Xi’an, everyone in Dihua seemed to be in the Jia Pingwa business. Along with Jia’s younger brother and the village cadres, we were joined by two local entrepreneurs: one behind the corn liquor shop and the other with plans to renovate one of the remaining old homes on the replica street. When we left the restaurant, a pair of suited men stepped out of a car with the emblem of the township government, and gave their business cards to Jia.
Back in Dihua Ancient Town, we went to the Jia Pingwa museum and bookstore, in a fake “Pingwa’s Old House,” and attempted to retire to a back room for tea. The tourists had been alerted, however, by Jia’s sister-in-law, who runs the bookstore. She recognized a golden opportunity to push book sales with a rare in-store visit by the author himself. We were swiftly descended upon by dozens of autograph-seekers and well-wishers.
The graves of Jia’s family are still in Dihua, as are the old buildings and a handful of aging neighbors, but the spirit of the village seemed to be lost. There are upsides: as Ma Li told me, turning the village into a tourist site had allowed many residents to stay in Dihua who would otherwise have had to go to the city to find work. Ma Li reminded me that even the name of the county had been changed because of the author’s fame. It had been known as Shangxian until 1988, when the name was changed to Shangzhou, reflecting Jia’s preference for the more ancient name.
Jia had been warm and funny in our time together in the city, but his mood had changed when reached the village. He was too diplomatic to say much, and I detected a hint of melancholy in him as we left. He has spent his literary career as an anthropologist-poet, writing about a tiny corner of Southern Shaanxi and the forces of urbanization and industrialization that threaten its unique culture. Yet a strange thing had happened in Dihua: modernization arrived, but the village’s destruction was done in the name of preservation, and in Jia’s name. ∎

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The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) is a household-level survey covering people who are directly or indirectly assisted by UNHCR, including refugees and asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless and others of concern. Additionally, in the Republic of Korea the survey covered rejected Asylum-Seekers. The objective of the survey is to monitor impact and outcome level indicators on education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection concerns, shelter, and water and sanitation. The results contribute to an evidence base for reporting against UNHCR’s multi-year strategies to key stakeholders.
The RMS can be implemented in any operational context. A standard structured questionnaire has been developed for the RMS, which can be conducted as a stand-alone survey or flexibly integrated with other data collection exercises. The questionnaire was adapted to the Korean context and programme objectives by removing, e.g. questions related to camp settings. Questions related to the rejected asylum seekers in need of protection and family members abroad were added. The data includes indicators collected at both the household and individual (household-member) level. The survey covered 424 household amounting to 950 individuals.
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The standard RMS questionnaire was adapted to the Korea context and covers:
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One certainly could use Mill protection for this purpose, but there’s a better way.
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Developers are taking another shot at a One Punch Man game, but this one is very different than the last major attempt. Anime service Crunchyroll has announced One Punch Man: World, an online multiplayer action title headed to Android, iOS and PC. The free-to-play game has you and friends joining the Hero Association to fight a growing wave of villains through missions and raids. You can unlock and play as heroes from the TV show's first season, including Saitama's faithful sidekick Genos, Mumen Rider and Puri-Puri Prisoner. You can relive key moments from the show, too.
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It's too soon to say how well the game works in practice, including in-app purchases. Having said this, the creators face the same problem Bandai Namco did: how do you balance a game where the main hero, Saitama, can defeat anyone with a single hit? The answer seems to involve holding him back (a video on the official site shows Saitama using many punches to fell an enemy), but you'll likely have to wait for the finished product to know how powerful he really is.

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Blind from birth, Smithie needed trustworthy help picking out a hat that suited him. Nothing was too much trouble for the assistant that served us. Trying a few on for size, Smithie ran his hand across the flat brim of a fine looking cowboy hat in fawn coloured felt, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. It fitted a treat, but it wasn’t quite right. The assistant knew what was wrong.
Fetching a similar hat, but this time in black, she declared it a purchase. With me in agreement, Smithie parted with a small bundle of dollar bills and stepped out into the street wearing his smart new headgear.
San Antonio was proving to be the runaway favourite of the places we had visited on a tour of Texas. That might have been due to the fact much of our time seemed to centre on Riverwalk. Years ago, the river that ran through San Antonio had been diverted and managed in order to reduce the risk of flooding. Riverwalk was the result, several miles of pedestrian paths lining the waterway, packed full to bursting with cafes and restaurants.
We’d got lucky the first night with our choice of Mexican restaurant and especially a server named Richard who understood Smithie’s needs. “Here you go, man,” he’d say, laying a hand gently on top to guide his, “your cutlery is to the right of your plate, right here, and your beer is at two o’clock.”
The only tricky part of the evening came when we had to navigate the narrow footpath after copious amounts of alcohol, neither of us as steady on our feet as when we arrived.
Our group rose early the following morning to visit San Antonio’s most famous attraction: the Alamo. Our hotel, the Hotel Indigo, occupied a beautifully restored historic building directly across the street. The guide filled us in on a little of the history.
Back then, Texas had belonged to Mexico. A bunch of soldiers from Texas and beyond, including Davy Crockett – he of the wild frontier – put up a brave fight during the war for independence. In December 1835, heavily outnumbered, they would be crushed by the Mexican army as they tried in vain to defend the Alamo.
Their bravery and sacrifice inspired Texas to keep fighting and it secured its independence from General Santa Anna’s forces the following year. For many Americans, the Alamo has come to represent the spirit and ethos of the USA, for it would not be many years before the newly independent nation chose statehood instead, throwing its lot in with the others in 1845.
For us, though, it was a chance to recreate times past and have a little fun. We handled muskets, learned a little about the rudimentary medicine of the time and went through the contents of a soldier’s rations, toothbrush and all. Smithie learnt by touch; I filled in the gaps with woefully inadequate audio descriptions. History buff I am not.
San Antonio’s historic attractions don’t begin and end with the Alamo, although one of the best required sight. Leaving Smithie and the rest of the tour group, I spent my scheduled night off in front of the city’s cathedral.
The colourful projections of the nightly sound and light show made a spectacular sight as they whizzed through San Antonio’s fascinating and sometimes turbulent past. But my delight was tinged with poignancy, as I couldn’t help thinking about those who would never see it.
I visited Texas on a group tour organised by Traveleyes, a company that specialises in arranging holidays for the visually impaired. Sighted travellers act as companions and guides; for this they are offered a substantial discount off the tour price. My 10 day trip cost £1499 and in addition to San Antonio, it visited Houston, Austin and a dude ranch near Banderas.

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Fernando Bernal and Hector Oliva from Agave del Scottsdale joined us this morning for Barguments! The restaurant opened last May and is already a hot spot on the Scottsdale culinary scene. It took over the former Butter’s space on the corner of Hayden & Via de Ventura. It serves authentic, unique Mexican food. The dishes are inspired by the food of Mexico City, enjoy Chilean sea bass, filet mignon, chicken mole and their incredible fresh ceviche. The tequila library and table-side tequila cart, gin & tonic menu, a dozen-plus margaritas make this new restaurant a unique experience. You won't want to miss their daily happy hour specials!
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The most common answer is diet and exercise, with experts advising you to ensure you eat a healthy, balanced, kilojoule-controlled diet, combined with frequent physical activity. But many people still struggle with their weight despite eating healthy, following a strict dieting and exercising extensively.
Obesity is a leading health problem in the world, as it's associated with many related health conditions, including high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels and a poor blood lipid profile. People with obesity are also at a much higher risk of heart disease and type two diabetes.
Besides overeating and a lack of physical activity, what exactly causes obesity?
The first cause could be genetics. According to Harvard Medical School, your genes can affect your susceptibility to gain weight. Another cause is the heavily processed and sugar-sweetened junk foods that society consumes, which people tend to overeat.
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What are the causes of genetic diseases? At Charité, both researchers and physicians are looking for answers to this question. Charité's Institute of Medical Genetics and Human Genetics is work-ing closely with the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Molecular Genetics. Together, they have been able to develop pioneering diagnostic methods, as well as succeeding in decoding complex genet-ic processes. This close cooperation has been of particular benefit to patients with rare hereditary diseases, as any progress made is directly translated into clinical practice at Charité.
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Charité's genetics division combines basic research and clinical practice in an exemplary fashion, with researchers working closely with the Departments of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the Breast Center, and many other units. Research findings are translated into new diagnostic meth-ods, some of which are then used within the field of pediatrics and adolescent medicine.
Our geneticists are the leading experts in the field of high-throughput genome analysis. A new pro-gram, developed by researchers from Charité, Labor Berlin – Charité Vivantes GmbH, and MPI, combines the results of genetic testing with information from a symptoms database. This Human Phenotype Ontology database contains the symptoms of all known genetic diseases, and stores them in digital format. The new program, which is known by the name of 'PhenIX', uses these to produce a list of possible diagnoses, thereby making a major contribution to the early detection of rare genetic diseases. For its analysis, the program takes into account information on all currently-known disease genes, of which there are approximately 3,000.
New diagnostic methods
The process of confirming or ruling out a genetic disease starts with a consultation at our outpatient clinic. This is where physicians provide patients and their families with the personal attention and support they need while undergoing investigations to confirm or rule out a genetic disease. Comprehensive advice and support are complemented by innovative genetic testing (provided by Labor Berlin – Charité Vivantes GmbH since 2011). Charité’s genetics division works closely with the Departments of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the Breast Center, and many other units. Our physicians utilize the latest research findings to develop new diagnostic methods which are then used in other departments, such as the Departments of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Our geneticists are the leading experts in the field of high-throughput genome sequencing, technologies which are capable of producing comprehensive genome analyses of nearly all known genetic diseases.
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Charité researchers have recorded unparalleled achievements in the fields of modern genomic diagnostics and bioinformatics. The ‘Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)’ (used by the PhenIX computer program for the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases) was first developed in collaboration with the MPI and is now used by researchers all over the world. The Ontology describes the phenotypic features recorded in relation to human diseases (in particular genetic diseases). It serves as a tool for the analysis and evaluation of phenotypic features using bioinformatics and other forms of computational analysis.
Decoding hereditary diseases
Within the field of genetics, Charité's main areas of research focus include the identification and analysis of disease mechanisms, biocomputational analysis, the analysis and linking of clinical symptoms (phenotype) with genetic variants, as well as the development of genetic testing sys-tems and their implementation in clinical practice. One particularly important area of research is the regulation of gene expression and its investigation using animal models. New techniques have been developed that allow researchers to recreate genetic changes affecting human genes within the mouse genome. This method of using mice as models for the study of rare human genetic dis-orders is often the only way for researchers to find out more about the disease and develop treat-ments.
Within the field of genetic research, Charité and MPI work together closely. At the MPI, for in-stance, the Development & Disease Research Group (Forschung & Entwicklung) is investigating the fundamental mechanisms of skeletal development, and the way in which this process is influ-enced by gene regulatory elements. The team is also investigating the mechanisms underlying gene mutation, and their effects on bone development. The strength of this research lies in the close interplay between basic research into the regulation of gene expression, and the use of modern genome analysis methods in the screening of patients with different skeletal disorders. By untangling and identifying the causes of skeletal malformations, these researchers are creating the basis for new treatment approaches in patients with genetic disorders. They are also gaining a deeper understanding of the interplay between regulatory elements of the human genome, whose exact mechanisms and dynamics remain a mystery.
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Charité's genetics expertise also extends to the field of regenerative medicine, where it has forged a close cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT). Ge-netic methods of analysis, such as high-throughput genome analysis, and the analysis of mecha-nisms of stem cell differentiation, are used to develop new, personalized treatments that target specific molecular defects. One area of interest shared by both partners is the study of skeletal and connective tissue disorders, in addition to their regenerative potential.


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SEOUL (AFP/KOREA HERALD ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A gunman in South Korea shot dead three people in a convenience store that he then torched on Wednesday in an apparent revenge attack on the family of his former lover, media reports said.The gunman’s body was later discovered on the bank of a nearby river in an apparent suicide, Yonhap news agency said.
Gun crime is very rare in South Korea and the incident in the southern city of Sejong, 120km south of Seoul, received blanket coverage on TV news stations.
Firefighters said the shooting occurred around 8am in the Geumam district in the nation's administrative capital.The 50-year-old gunman, identified only by his surname Kang, opened fire with a shotgun in and outside the store, which was run by his former live-in partner, Sejong police chief Lee Ja Ha told reporters.
The woman’s current boyfriend, father and brother, who was the store manager, were all shot and pronounced dead at hospital, Yonhap said.The woman, who had not been present at the scene of the shooting, was taken into protective police custody for questioning.“It was a pre-meditated crime caused by a combination of spurned affection and a row over how to divide property,” Mr Lee said, adding that Kang and the woman had run the store together before they separated.
South Korea’s tough gun control laws effectively outlaw ownership of firearms by most civilians.
Rare exceptions are allowed for hunters but they must store their rifles at local police stations.

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Relentless, grim and reminiscent of screw-tightening thrillers from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock or the Coen brothers, director Nash Edgerton's The Square is an elegantly nasty bit of business. In the vein of modern "daylight" noirs like Separate Lies, Lantana or The Deep End, Edgerton's film takes relatively normal people, allows for a few bad choices and sits back as the stakes rise ever higher.
The Square earned quite a bit of critical acclaim earlier this year during its brief Stateside theatrical run (it was first released in Australia two years ago). Although it can't quite pack the wallop it wants to, Edgerton, working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Matthew Dabner and based upon an original story by his brother Joel (who has a bit role in the film), nevertheless manages a few knuckle-whitening moments of tension that suggest tremendous promise.
Half the fun of The Square is the unexpected directions in which the narrative bends, so I'll refrain from any heavy spoilers. The main thrust of the plot concerns Ray (David Roberts) and Carla (Claire van der Boom), neighbors carrying on an illicit affair underneath the noses of their respective spouses. Ray is a construction site overseer by day; Carla works at a local hair salon. Carla is desperate to run away with Ray and leave behind suburban drudgery. Ray, while infatuated with Carla, doesn't quite leap at the chance to run away -- until Carla reveals that she knows where she can get her hands on a lot of cash.
To say anymore would ruin the various hairpin turns Edgerton inflicts upon these hapless characters. As with all compelling thrillers, there's plenty of coincidence and luck (or bad karma) at play here; Ray and Carla quickly get in over their heads and can only watch as circumstances spiral from bad to worse to spectacularly dire. The cast, comprised of unknowns (to American audiences), acquits itself well, although Roberts has a nagging tendency to overplay his big emotional moments. The novel setting (again, for American eyes) of Australia during the Christmas and New Year's holidays -- where it's pleasant and sunny -- stands in knowing contrast to all the dark goings-on.
But for as tight and merciless as the screenplay is, The Square shortchanges its characters. The audience learns fairly little about the consenting adults who embarked upon this life-changing affair, which robs the film of some considerable emotional potency. While viewers may be invested in the ultimate outcome, the startling finale would be far more crushing if the characters were more fully fleshed out. It's what keeps The Square from being a truly great film.
As it is now, Edgerton has merely made the sort of calling card to which audiences have become accustomed over the last decade -- a filmmaker from outside America showing up the Yanks at their own game. It evokes its predecessors while adding a rental-worthy title to the canon. It's a smart, intelligent thriller for adults that doesn't falter -- too much -- and delivers upon its promises. The Square is one heckuva thrill ride, but only the truly die-hard will want to hop onboard more than once.
The Square arrives on DVD with a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer. Although likely intentional, the film is crisp and clean, albeit extremely dark throughout; even daytime sequences have a gloom to them that plays into the noir aspect of Edgerton's film. It may frustrate those expecting lush, vibrant images from this recently completed film, but The Square's transfer is in line with the director's intentions and the subject matter.
The English, Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack does a great job immersing viewers in the ever-escalating chaos of Ray and Carla's world, with subtle aural touches like the Christmas music that floats through the background of certain scenes. Dialogue, despite the occasionally heavy Australian accents, is conveyed clearly, with no distortion or drop-out. Optional English subtitles are included; for those who can't decipher the Aussie accents, they may come in handy.
Fourteen deleted scenes, presented in non-anamorphic widescreen, are included, playable separately or all together for an aggregate of 25 minutes, seven seconds. (For whatever reason, nearly all of the supplements are -- frustratingly -- presented in non-anamorphic widescreen. C'mon Sony -- it's 2010.) The meatiest behind-the-scenes featurette, "Inside the Square," is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen and runs 29 minutes, 36 seconds. It features interviews with nearly every key creative person on the film, charting their progress from start to finish. A trio of pre-visualization sequences for some of the film's major set-pieces are presented in non-anamorphic widescreen; they're playable separately or all together for an aggregate of five minutes, 10 seconds.
Another three scenes are "deconstructed" from a visual effects standpoint; presented in non-anamorphic widescreen, they're playable separately or all together for an aggregate of five minutes, 16 seconds. The music video for Jessica Chapnik's "Sand" (which, inexplicably, is presented in anamorphic widescreen) runs three minutes, 59 seconds and features several clips from The Square. Nash Edgerton's bizarre, shocking short film Spider (presented in anamorphic widescreen with a run time of nine minutes, 35 seconds) and a trailer gallery rounds out the disc.
Relentless, grim and reminiscent of screw-tightening thrillers from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock or the Coen brothers, director Nash Edgerton's The Square is an elegantly nasty bit of business. In the vein of modern "daylight" noirs like Separate Lies, Lantana or The Deep End, Edgerton's film takes relatively normal people, allows for a few bad choices and sits back as the stakes rise ever higher. It's a smart, intelligent thriller for adults that doesn't falter -- too much -- and delivers upon its promises. The Square is one heckuva thrill ride, but only the truly die-hard will want to hop onboard more than once. Recommended.


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Irving-based apartment builder JPI has completed its sale to a Japan-based conglomerate.
In October, JPI – North Texas’ biggest apartment builder – announced it was selling most of the company to a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sumitomo Forestry Co. The buyer is an international manufacturer of wood products and owns housing construction companies
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but reports said the deal is valued at $215 million. The company’s headquarters will stay in North Texas.
Before the purchase, Sumitomo Forestry had partnered with JPI on individual projects.
“This strategic move will tremendously enhance our business plan and drive future growth and sustainability,” JPI CEO Payton Mayes said in a statement. “This partnership not only establishes a resilient structure that supports JPI’s long-term vision and legacy but also involves a significant infusion in JPI’s working capital.”
JPI is building more than 8,000 apartments in Texas and California. The developer this year is constructing about 4,000 Dallas-Fort Worth rental units.
JPI’s top officers plan to remain with the firm following the sale. CEO Mayes and CFO Mollie Fadule will hold minority interests in the company.
“As a long-term partner, Sumitomo Forestry has made tremendous investments in JPI projects over the past four years,” Fadule said in a statement. “Their deep respect for our company culture and team has been evident throughout our collaboration.
“With this acquisition, we’re embarking on an exciting new journey, one that promises remarkable growth and new opportunities for JPI.”
Sumitomo Forestry already owns other U.S. apartment building operations, with the JPI purchase making it the country’s sixth-largest multifamily housing producer.
“As I’ve worked with JPI and their leadership, I have become very familiar with their passion for making an impact on communities, which is a value we share at Sumitomo Forestry,” Atsushi Iwasaki, the leader of Sumitomo Forestry’s U.S. operations, said in a statement. “We are confident that this partnership, in combination with JPI’s rich history, has a bright future.”
Sumitomo Forestry has been a player in the U.S. housing market since the early 2000s, starting with single-family home construction in the Pacific Northwest. The firm’s MainVue Homes has expanded to North Texas.
In 2018, Sumitomo Forestry acquired North Carolina-based Crescent Communities LLC, which has built apartments and single-family homes in North Texas.
Sumitomo Forestry builds more than 10,000 U.S. homes a year.


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Fiduciary Trust Co. lifted its position in shares of Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI – Get Rating) by 86.7% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,865 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 866 shares during the period. Fiduciary Trust Co.’s holdings in Cummins were worth $383,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Norges Bank bought a new stake in Cummins in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $302,269,000. Castleview Partners LLC bought a new position in shares of Cummins during the 4th quarter worth approximately $2,214,000. Millennium Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Cummins by 85.0% during the 4th quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 533,192 shares of the company’s stock worth $116,311,000 after buying an additional 244,928 shares in the last quarter. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd bought a new position in shares of Cummins during the 4th quarter worth approximately $34,793,000. Finally, American Century Companies Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Cummins by 26.1% during the 1st quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 676,172 shares of the company’s stock worth $138,690,000 after buying an additional 139,895 shares in the last quarter. 80.98% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Cummins Stock Down 1.4 %
Shares of NYSE CMI opened at $218.16 on Wednesday. Cummins Inc. has a 52 week low of $184.27 and a 52 week high of $247.48. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $210.39 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $205.55. The company has a quick ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 1.66 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36. The company has a market cap of $30.76 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.28, a P/E/G ratio of 1.44 and a beta of 1.04.
Cummins Increases Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 1st. Investors of record on Friday, August 19th will be issued a dividend of $1.57 per share. This represents a $6.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.88%. This is a boost from Cummins’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.45. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 18th. Cummins’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 43.98%.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, Vice Chairman Tony Satterthwaite sold 4,866 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $230.18, for a total value of $1,120,055.88. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 59,276 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,644,149.68. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. In related news, Vice Chairman Tony Satterthwaite sold 4,866 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $230.18, for a total value of $1,120,055.88. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 59,276 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,644,149.68. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, VP Sharon R. Barner sold 3,115 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $225.11, for a total value of $701,217.65. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 16,348 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,680,098.28. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 14,001 shares of company stock worth $3,157,774 in the last quarter. 1.05% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on CMI. Morgan Stanley lowered their target price on Cummins from $205.00 to $187.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, July 18th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. initiated coverage on Cummins in a research report on Thursday, August 18th. They issued a “neutral” rating for the company. Credit Suisse Group increased their price target on Cummins from $249.00 to $266.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 3rd. StockNews.com raised Cummins from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 3rd. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein lowered Cummins from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $238.00 to $190.00 in a research report on Wednesday, July 20th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, three have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $241.22.
Cummins Inc designs, manufactures, distributes, and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric and hybrid powertrains, and related components worldwide. It operates through five segments: Engine, Distribution, Components, Power Systems, and New Power. The company offers diesel and natural gas-powered engines under the Cummins and other customer brands for the heavy and medium-duty truck, bus, recreational vehicle, light-duty automotive, construction, mining, marine, rail, oil and gas, defense, and agricultural markets; and offers new parts and services, as well as remanufactured parts and engines.
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Fragments of the DNA were found in an Ice Age sediment in Northern Greenland.
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Page 128 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
Page 208 - None other ways but from the death and resurrection of Christ. For by the force of Christ's death our old man is, after a certain manner, crucified, and mortified, and the corruptness of our nature is, as it were, buried, that it no more live and be strong in us.
Page 245 - London. II. They will be sent to any place in England beyond the distance of three miles from the General Post Office, by any conveyance a member may point out. In this case the parcels will be booked at the expense of the Society, but the carriage must be paid by the members to whom they are sent. III. They will be delivered, free of expense, at" any place in London which a member resident in the country may name.
Page 226 - I say, if any man keeping his opinion, will, and mind close within himself, and so not open the same, then he ought not to be punished ; but when he openeth it abroad then it hurteth and ought to be cut off : And specially if in anything it touch the Queen's Majesty: for such errors or heresy ought not, as well for God's quarrel as the realm's, to be unlocked unto, for clemency ought not to b"e given to the wolves to kill and devour as they do the lambs, for which cause it ought to be foreseen ;...
Page 210 - ... which greatly availeth to testifying of the mercy of GOD and confirming His promises, being taken away, Christians should be defrauded of a singular comfort, which they that were in old time enjoyed, and so should our infants be more hardly dealt with in the New Testament, under CHRIST, than was dealt with the Jews' infants in the Old Testament under Moses.
Page 208 - ... forgiveness of sins. Secondly, the beginning of regeneration, that is, the mortifying of our nature, is expressed, by dipping in the water, or by sprinkling of it. Finally, when we by and by rise up again out of the water, under which we be for a short time, the new life, which is the other part, and the end of our regeneration, is thereby represented.

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Electronics engineers must develop performance- and cost-optimized systems in less time. When building or buying a test system, the best solutions scale to meet escalating requirements while shortening time to market and driving down costs.
Smart devices are creating an inflection point in automated test for both the test managers and engineers challenged with ensuring the quality of these devices at increasingly lower costs, and for the vendors who serve them. To test their smart devices, organizations are transitioning from the status quo of rack-and-stack box instruments and closed-architecture automated test equipment (ATE) systems to smarter test systems that scale with escalating requirements to continually shorten time to market and drive down cost.
NI’s approach to automated test empowers smarter test systems. With a platform built from the ground up for customization, either through the latest commercial technology or through your domain knowledge, you become part of a living, breathing, and evolving ecosystem that’s already responsible for creating innovative approaches to automated test across every industry.


Swarm Fund ICO: Swarm Fund’s mission is to democratize finance, allowing all people to share the best deals and opportunities, regardless of investment size or value. Swarm Fund is a fully decentralized capital marketplace platform built on blockchain technology that is entirely owned by the community. Their governance-first model is designed to bring real assets into the blockchain world by creating a platform for regulatory engagement and a fully compliant legal container for highly profitable and scale-able real assets.
Swarm Fund ICO – The Opportunity
Built on successful network models like Visa, the infrastructure is fully accessible and governed by community members. Swarm fund is a token based, stake weighted, liquid democracy system which provides early adopter incentive through membership and input into long-term decision making. This is enhanced by a reputational system layered over the network, which streamlines capital deployment. Their market infrastructure allows funds to automate the creation, fundraising, deployment, distribution, and reporting via an enhancement of currently available smart contract technology.
Systems are a product of their incentives. If the old-world finance model has incentives for protectionism and hierarchy, Swarm Fund has incentives for early identification of talent and rewards that proportionally follow the high performance.
Swarm Fund ICO – The Solution
Swarm Fund will allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to participate in the value creation within the crypto asset category and to capture opportunity in new types of asset-backed tokens, anything from distressed real estate to solar installations to rainforest preservation projects and much more. Swarm turns financial opportunities from exclusive into inclusive via their Swarm Utility Network (SUN).
The core objectives are:
- Follow the Experts: Swarm allows experts to run their own syndicates and have other crypto investors join them in projects and deal opportunities, with no middlemen involved. This ecosystem of experts with any kind of edge (track record, trading ability, unique data, unique deal access, etc.) can co-invest with crypto investors. This changes the mechanics of the traditional fund/GP model, as investments can be as large or small as the investor wants them to be, and they can operate the fund structures very flexible. Also, it breaks up the syndicates of gatekeepers and rigid structures of institutional capital that exist today.
- Combine Token Flexibility with Real Opportunities: Crypto investors have appreciated the flexibility and immediate market-making function that tokenization has introduced. Tokens and their underlying smart contracts represent the ultimate opportunity of two parties to come together and interact without middlemen. Part of that is the freedom to trade or co-own tokens. That is the freedom we want to bring to any kind of asset class. When a participant likes an opportunity running on Swarm they will be able to pool funds together with others and invest as little or as much as they want to realize the project and see the opportunity grow. At the same time, all the projects become tradable asset-backed tokens. Participants can buy or sell these tokens whenever they want, and they decide how long to engage. All trades are made using blockchain technology, making them fast, transparent and secure.
- Collective Intelligence: The Swarm hypothesis is that decentralized networks can out-compete traditionally centralized entities and that the trust and transparency embedded in blockchains highly facilitate this. The foundational element of the blockchain is data transparency, which provides a basis for an unprecedented degree of machine-driven methods to generate insight. Swarm Fund envision a degree of investment automation, that helps participants make informed and data-driven investment decisions while using reputational scores to maintain the health of the market. However, the automation proposed goes further, where every step of the investment process, from workflows to set-up of legal structures will be automated over time, creating an efficient system without single points of failure or control. Unique to Swarm, Network democracy is a stake-weighted delegated voting system (liquid democracy) which also provides options for the enhanced stake and programmable liquidity. Liquid democracy allows for retention of capital control but flexibility to delegate decision making.
Swarm Fund Initial Coin Offering (ICO) – Token Sale
Token Type: ERC20
Public Crowdsale Opens: September 21, 2017 (Delayed from September 7, 2017)
Crowdsale Ends: October 21, 2017
Hard Cap for Tokensale: $55,000,000
Total Token Supply: 66,000,000
Exchange Rate: When the sale starts the tokens base price is set at the Ether equivalent of one dollar.
Blockchain Platform: Ethereum
Two Tier Token Model:
The first layer is a utility token which allows access to the underlying sub-tokens and grants access to the Swarm’s governance technology. The second layer includes financial opportunities run by Swarm syndication partners. Participants of SUN, Swarm Utility Network, will be charged fees, similar to those of a trading market (SUN Fees).
Allocation of Funds:
The principle for allocation of funds is that 25% of funds raised or $20M will go towards operational expenses and platform development. The remaining funds will be deployed towards the initial pilot fund opportunities. That way, a higher fund raise does not increase budgets for the operations of the foundation, but benefits the implementation and impact of the overall Swarm model.
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I am so excited to share with you this month’s project with for our Fancy Friday monthly hop! If you just came over from the amazing Jeanna, welcome to the next stop. My friends and I want to be able to share with you our ideas in a monthly format. We will use different themes each month – sometimes colors, sometimes a sketch, sometimes a stamp set focus. The one thing you can count on is that it will be fancy! Over our year on the 2013 Artisan Design Team, “fancy” became our word to describe the best projects, the best new clothes, even the best pedicure colors. Now we want to share with you our take on “fancy” each month. This month our theme is “Anything Goes”. With all the chaos of summer, we decided just to see what happened on the crafting tables!
I thought it would be fun to play with watercoloring this week. Backgrounds seem to be all the rage and using stencils is a perfect way to create really cool versions. I made two versions of this card just to show how you can personalize this concept. Using watercolor paper, I started by laying down a little bit of clean water. Then I dipped a paint brush in ink (Cucumber Crush and Blackberry Bliss were my colors here). I added it randomly creating light and dark spots. Once I was happy, I laid down the diamond stencil from the new Happy Patterns Decorative Masks. When you push it down on top of the inking you did, the colors pool a bit in the shapes. I helped it along by adding additional color into selected diamonds. I held the edges of the stencil down using clear blocks (very high tech, lol) and hit the paper with the low setting of my heat tool to dry it some. When it was only damp, I added just a little more ink. Then I let it dry completely. While it was drying, I figured out the rest of the card. I took two leftover butterflies from my Watercolor Wishes Kit (they give you extras!) and inked them with Versamark and embossed them with Gold Embossing Powder. I cut the sentiment using my Greetings Thinlits Dies and Gold Foil. I wound up some of the new Gold Metallic Thread and laid it onto the White Vellum. A little bit of Multipurpose Adhesive on the sentiment holds the thread and the sentiment to the vellum. Finally I added some sequins from the new Metallics Sequins Assortment. The panels were attached to card bases matching the ink. This is a little time consuming but such a fun thing to try when you are feeling artsy!
I’m so glad you stopped in to visit today. I hope you have a great time seeing all the beautiful things on our hop.
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Paper: Watercolor, Cucumber Crush, Blackberry Bliss, White Vellum, Gold Foil; Ink: Cucumber Crush, Blackberry Bliss; Accessories: Metallic Sequins, Glue Dots, Big Shot, Greetings Thinlits, Gold Metallic Thread, Happy Patterns Decorative Masks, Aquapainter, Paint Brush


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Perched on a picturesque, wedge-shaped lot located on a barrier island bordered by the Gulf of Mexico and the intracoastal waterway, the single-story cottage is just steps from the shoreline. Despite a setting that afforded panoramic views of the vast body of water from the backyard deck, vantage points from inside the home were not nearly so dramatic, due to the constraints and restraints of walls and windows. A local architect, charged with eliminating visual barriers and expanding the outlook to extend the entire width of the home from the master bedroom, through the main living and dining areas and on to the kitchen, transformed the original staid design into a more contemporary space defined by clean lines, lots of light and naturally, admirable views.
“It was meant to be a remodel but ended up being a total demolition,” said Scott Holmes of Holmes Architects.
What began as a house featuring a pitched roof, lattice fencing and a wooden pool deck, morphed from a traditional beach getaway into a modern gateway to the area’s natural beauty, based on a design that blurs the lines between where the interior begins and the exterior ends.
Since purchasing the 2,651-square-foot residence nearly two decades ago, the owners had finally decided it was time to redesign their Florida vacation home. They wanted to enjoy a more European-inspired space and better integrate it with the inland waterway. Their timing fortuitously coincided with the launch of a new, locally based architectural firm, Holmes Architects.
Scott Holmes, AIA, co-founding partner of the Indian Shores firm, had recently opened the business with his father, noted architect Dwight E. Holmes, FAIA. While both have designed for years and garnered individual honors throughout their careers (more than 150 to date), the residential project identified as “Intercoastal Retreat,” represented their first client as partners and one that would earn their new joint venture its first award, a 2016 Merit Award from AIA Tampa Bay.
Immediately after the initial meeting, the couple hired Holmes and the process of updating and enhancing their Indian Rocks Beach home began.
“They had a few specific requests including a wall of sliders, low maintenance materials and to eliminate the wasted spaces that were the result of the wedge-shaped lot,” said Scott Holmes.
The couple also rejected the idea of raising and resting the home on stilts to avoid flooding, so Holmes devised a foundation built on a subtle slope that adds elevation, but keeps the structure safely perched on higher ground.
Incorporating atypical elements challenged contractors, faced with installing some for the first time. Shower drains were designed so water would flow out of the side wall instead of the center of the shower floor. Doors and walls were separated by slender strips of clear glass that allowed the natural light, found in Florida year round, to filter into rooms more easily, but greatly complicated construction of door frames.
With four bedrooms and four bathrooms under the same roof, noise was also a concern; so what were wood floors supported by creaky wood joists, are now secured on solid concrete slabs. To ensure upkeep would be easy, exterior walls that encase the two sections housing the bedrooms were wrapped in split-face concrete masonry, made from travertine blocks. These same materials extend into a section of the main living area, where their light color and rough texture contrast with the room’s otherwise all white walls and smooth surfaces. The third taller, box-like structure boasts a stucco exterior.
The split level roof atop the three box-like sections adds dimension and depth to the structure, while incorporating an innovative access point for sunlight.
“The intersection of the voids between these masses creates a means to bring in light,” Holmes explained. Rectangular panes of glass fill in those gaps and create a clear band that wraps around the circumference of the raised roof. “They (the homeowners) wanted all glass, few columns and no color,” Holmes said. “When you listen to the vision of your client, the beauty of their home comes out. We knew what they wanted and we stayed true to their needs.” M
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A few swabs inside the cheek can unfold mysteries of the pasts and a glimpse into the future. Those tiny bits of tissue, with an individual’s DNA equation, can reveal ancestors, history, current relatives, even possible future health risks. But like Pandora’s box, the key to that information, the cheek swab, may also lead to trouble. Because of that, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a fraud alert on a new genetic testing scam.
Scammers are popping up across the country, offering Medicare beneficiaries cheek swabs for genetic testing through telemarketing calls, booths at public events, health fairs and door-to-door visits. They claim this is at no cost to them and attempt to obtain their Medicare information for identity theft or fraudulent billing purposes.
Unfortunately, this is happening right here in our community. Better Business Bureau has received reports of this happening in Idaho, both at doorsteps and at senior health fairs.
One report said a company showed up to a health fair, started signing people up and swabbing their cheeks.
They asked for Medicare and supplemental insurance information, as well as personal contact information. After entering information into a smartphone, they asked for several signatures, but without a real opportunity for the customer to read what they were signing.
Then the technician performed a mouth swab of about 10 times on each side, and placed the specimen in a test tube, in a plastic bag with a reference number.
There are legitimate companies that perform DNA testing. But it’s important to ask questions and do your research. If they are a privately-owned business, you’ll want to know what they will do with your information: how will they use it and how will they protect it?
This doesn’t just apply to DNA companies, it can apply to any business you are working with. According to Jesse Leimgruber, cofounder of Bloom, “In the U.S. alone, more than 10,000 companies are pooling and selling your personal data.” As such, the importance of protecting, limiting and safekeeping this resource can be neglected. The part most data collectors are interested in, is how they can use that data to maximize their profits — not to spend money and resources on keeping it safe.
n Be suspicious of anyone who requests your Medicare number. If anyone other than your physician’s office requests your Medicare information, do not provide it. If your personal information is compromised, it may be used in other fraud schemes.
n Remember these are private companies and it’s imperative to know how they are handling your personal information and protecting it.
n Use caution when agreeing to genetic testing. A physician that you know and trust should approve any requests for genetic testing.


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text: Work continues. Tackled decals on wings. No issues with decals for rear wing elements. But as expected "Red Bull" decal, which is split between 3 front wing planes was the most problematic. DTM provided 2 sets of mentioned decals and that's a big help. On rear car flaps overlap, so are the decals. I've used lower part of one set for main flap and top part for top flap. Another set of decals I've used for middle flap. To align lower and middle decals correctly, I've used simple jig from 2 silicone blocks and wing elements, pictured below. However to align top flap mock up wasn't enough. I had to assemble wing elements. I've used small drops of epoxy glue to hold rest of the parts together, while I was mocking up position of top flap and positioning decals. I still did not get perfect alignment, but I think I've got decent one.

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Kakapora Pulwama residents rue shortage of potable water
Pulwama: The residents of Qazigund village in Kakapora hamlet of south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Tuesday complained that they were facing acute shortage of drinking water for the last many years.
The residents said they have been facing a water shortage for years and accused the authorities of turning a blind eye towards the grave issue.
“There is no water facility in the area and people are forced to drink contaminated water,” Imtiyaz Ahmad, a local resident said.
He said that the PHE department provides the facility of a water tank once in a week but the water is highly contaminated as the tanks are directly filled with water from a nearby river.
“We have been facing the drinking water shortage for the last several years but no attention is being given to it,” Sameer Ahmad, another local, said.
Locals said that they brought this issue to the notice of concerned authorities but nothing was done on ground till date.
The residents urged the concerned authorities to look into the matter and take immediate steps to provide regular drinking water facilities to their area.


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A diamond engraved house plaque made using high quality Welsh slate from Snowdonia with a black finish. The plaque surface is spray painted black and then engraved with your personalised text and motif. Can be supplied with out without mounting holes but screws are not included.
Size: 4.5 x 4.5″ x 0.25″
If you would like a more personalised design please email us at email@example.com or call us on 01656 745090 to discuss this.
Delivery for standard designs is 7-14 days. For custom designs, delivery is 7-28 days on approval of design. Please contact us if you require a more immediate service.


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Okay I know I’m late to this but HELLO EVERYONE. I wasn’t tagged but I decided to participate after seeing this tag around the blogosphere. (Also, Jasmine @ Jasmine’s Reading tagged everyone who hasn’t done this tag yet so thank you Jasmine!) I think the tag was originally created by Chami and Ely. And I just wanted to spread some love to bloggers I follow who did this tag so here are some blogs you should check out (I linked to their book tag post!): A Frolic Through Fiction, This Dark Material, Librae Paints Pages, Forever and Everly, A Whisper of Ink, Free Perspectives, and Paper Fury.
Continue reading “the mid-year book freakout tag (let’s pretend it’s still june & fangirl together!!)”
So last month, Cait @ Paper Fury did a #CakeFlavouredBooks Tag (which is taken from #bookstagram btw) and made me very hungry. Today, I’ve decided to join in on the fun and try it too!
(Quick note: all images of cake were taken from Unsplash, StockSnap.io, or Pexels. Some images link to the original photographer. And I’m sorry if the cake was not accurately chosen!)
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Publisher: McElderry Books
Release Date: March 8 2016
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Rating: 5 stars
In a kingdom by the sea…
In a secret world where half-angel warriors are sworn to fight demons, parabatai is a sacred word.
A parabatai is your partner in battle. A parabatai is your best friend. Parabatai can be everything to each other—but they can never fall in love.
Emma Carstairs is a warrior, a Shadowhunter, and the best in her generation. She lives for battle. Shoulder to shoulder with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Los Angeles, where vampires party on the Sunset Strip, and faeries—the most powerful of supernatural creatures—teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. When the bodies of humans and faeries turn up murdered in the same way Emma’s parents were when she was a child, an uneasy alliance is formed. This is Emma’s chance for revenge—and Julian’s chance to get back his brother Mark, who is being held prisoner by the faerie Courts. All Emma, Mark, and Julian have to do is solve the murders within two weeks…and before the murderer targets them.
Their search takes Emma from sea caves full of sorcery to a dark lottery where death is dispensed. And each clue she unravels uncovers more secrets. What has Julian been hiding from her all these years? Why does Shadowhunter Law forbid parabatai to fall in love? Who really killed her parents—and can she bear to know the truth?
The darkly magical world of Shadowhunters has captured the imaginations of millions of readers across the globe. Join the adventure in Lady Midnight, the long-awaited first volume of a new trilogy from Cassandra Clare.
Continue reading “book review: lady midnight by cassandra clare ~ an wildly compelling story”
Rating: 4 stars
Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen?
Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire…
But Akaran has its own secrets—thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself.
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Security and usability
|Principal investigator:||Professor Nahid Shahmehri|
Dr. Claudiu Duma (former member)
Almut Herzog (former member)
|Related projects:||Secure execution of e-services
|Keywords:||security, policy, usability, e-services, resource control|
Usability is a key aspect of security mechanisms. We are currently working on usability issues related to the configuration of run-time security policies. We are developing the tool JPerm for setting up Java security policies at runtime, to study user behavior, and to test possibilities for user support when users are confronted with security alerts. This work is motivated by our previous work on secure execution environments for e-services.
- Herzog, A., Shahmehri N., `Performance of the Java Security Manager'. Computers & Security, 24(3):192-207, 2005.
- Herzog A., Shahmehri N., `A Usability Study of Security Policy Management', Proceedings of IFIP International Information Security Conference: Security and Privacy in Dynamic Environments (SEC2006), Springer, ISBN 0-387-33405-x, pp 296-306, May 22 - 24, Karlstad, Sweden. Journal page.
- Herzog A., Shahmehri N., `An Evaluation of Java Application Containers according to Security Requirements', Proceedings of the IEEE WETICE Workshop on Security Technologies for Collaborative Architectures, pages 175-183, Linköping, Sweden, June 13-15, 2005.
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I live in the DC and understand the Intelligence business very well. I did enjoy the previous narrator better but the writing is so good it doesn't matter. As a dog person, I also appreciate the introduction of Stormy. Finally, love the way rhe author us slowly introducing Christianity to the storyline. Can't wait for the next installment!
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Would you listen to Three Weeks in Washington again? Why?
Not sure. IT is a bit of a thriller so knowing the end kind of spoils the thrill.
What does Steven A. Gannett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Any audiobook always adds to the realness of the experience as long as the narrator does a good job. Steven takes a little time to get used to as he is definitely different than the person that did the first two, but after a chapter or two his style becomes very enjoyable as well.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Any additional comments?
Looking forward to the next one. You really need to start with number 1 to get the feel for Titus and his development.


Dennis J. Leise’s Indiana farm doesn’t just produce food—it’s also the wellspring for his smart, witty country and rockabilly tunes.
Sunshine Boys pool decades of indie-rock experience on Blue Music, Frontwoman Fest says farewell in its fourth year, and more.
Current musical obsessions of Nikki Hartel of Audiotree, Mike Gebel of the Empty Bottle, and Luca Cimarusti of the Reader
Current musical obsessions of producer Rich Rankin, children’s musician Laura Doherty, and Reader bowling captain Kevin Warwick
From a Texas native and lifelong lover of country music who studied ballet in college
An Emperor veteran launches Studious Amplifiers, Hoyle Brothers guitarist Brian Wilkie gets a benefit for a stolen pedal steel, and more.
Robbie Fulks at the Hideout
Two very different residencies at the Hideout promise new, obscure, and unusual music from a pair of Chicago institutions.
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: Nile, the Great Society Mind Destroyers at Psychfest, Freedy Johnston, Between the Buried and Me, Frode Gjerstad, Behemoth, and more
Honky tonk at the Empty Bottle