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So I've been sprucing up my CV and seeking other kinds of work and avenues for work. "You should pitch more interviews and profiles," is something I've heard, and I agree, but I'm kind of cut off from the world of actually getting access, which is something I have to work on. In my diggings I remembered this profile of Bjork, from the October 2000 U.S. edition of Premiere, a story that prevented me from attending the Moscow Film Festival. In spite of its arguably affected use of present tense, I think it works pretty well. Editors! Do you want more of this? Get in touch!
The text is after the graphic. I don't think I knew the piece was a cover story in so many international editions.
Björk Gudmundsdottir is a very professional interviewee. Led to a corner booth at a stylish Indian restaurant in Manhattan, she is polite but not at all pally as introductions are made. She sits upright, her back straight, almost stiff, adopting a businesslike demeanor that's somewhat at odds with the Barbie-pink midiskirt-and-jacket ensemble she's wearing. She's small, but not nearly as tiny as one might imagine. In person she definitely doesn't look, oh, 12, as she sometimes does in her music videos, but she sure doesn't look 34 either. And there's nothing elfin or ethereal or madcap or kooky (or—what's that word they all use to describe artists like Björk?—oh, yeah, quirky) about her.
She's great at answering questions. She'll take one and just run with it, take it to the end of its thread, so that by the time she's through talking you can pretty much just toss your three follow-up questions. On the subject of making a film versus making an album, for example, the pioneering rock musician has this to say: "It seems to me that people who make films are very logical and they talk a lot. I'm not dissing them in any way, but it's just different; they're very outgoing and it's very above-waist, and music is very below-waist, if you see what I'm saying. If you want to write a song with someone, you would never say, 'See you at 4 on Monday, and the song'll be done at 4:30.' It's like the only way a song could not happen. You may spend a week with the person and get drunk and end up hitchhiking through France and then on the train back you write a whole album in a half an hour. That's more how music is made."
She is here mainly to talk about Dancer in the Dark, which she refers to as "the first and last movie I ever acted in" - a deliberately inaccurate statement, because she did in fact act in a Bergmanesque, Icelandic-made drama called The Juniper Tree, back in 1987, and had a cameo in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter). But, she says, "I was not present [for Juniper Tree]; I had just had a baby, I was inside this bubble, it was the most gorgeous period of my life. With Dancer in the Dark, I gave all and more." Indeed, she adds, "My friends came over to visit me [on the set] and didn't recognize me. They worried about my mental health, because they'd never seen me like that."
This astonishing film—a sometimes vérité-looking hybrid of musical and melodrama that either brilliantly or perversely denies its audience the usual pleasures of those genres and instead strives for high tragedy—was the talk of this year's Cannes film festival, winning the Palme d'or for its director, Lars Von Trier and a Best Actress award for Björk. It is no exaggeration to say that the film could not exist without Björk's performance, as Selma, a poor immigrant factory worker toiling away in a bleakly imagined America, saving money for an operation that will spare her son from the same mysterious ailment that's robbing her of her own eyesight. Despite an international cast that includes Catherine Deneuve, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Joel Grey, the Cannes buzz was all about her portrayal, which reduced many in the audience to tears. Odd, then, that here's a woman with very little traditional acting experience who gets asked to carry an extremely ambitious motion picture, hits one out of the park, and then announces that she'll never act again. Something must be up.
Perhaps it was collaborating with Von Trier. The Danish director is known for his unusual working methods. (For his previous film, The Idiots, he had his actors participate in an unsimulated orgy; on the Dancer set, he sometimes practically pushed his handheld video camera into the actors' faces.) It was widely reported that Björk stormed off the Dancer set at least once. A video monitor smashed in the heat of anger has been mentioned.
Björk doesn't deny there was tension. But she insists it's not the reason she's renouncing acting. "What was going on on the set was nothing compared to the work that went into the music," she says, "and nobody said one word about that." When she heard about the Cannes award, she says, "I immediately thought it was for the music. And when they told me it was for the acting, my feeling was, 'I don't want to sound ungrateful, but it's not where my heart is.' My heart definitely belongsto sound."
Sound is where her heart has belonged for at least a quarter of a century. The Icelandic-born singer made her first record at the age of 11, and her musical career was into its second decade when the band she fronted, the anarchic new wave combo the Sugarcubes, made an international splash in 1988. Her solo-career, which began in 1993 with the somewhat ironically titled Debut, has seen her continue to collaborate with some of the most forward-thinking, and sometimes seemingly unlikely, creators in the European music community.
Then again, anyone who has followed Björk's life and career knows to expect the unexpected. She has often presented a persona that can seem more than a little loopy. On her first solo hit she sang, "There's definitely definitely definitely no logic to human behavior," and her personal life would seem to follow that dictum. She was once romantically linked to a weird-looking dude with gold teeth (drum 'n' bass pioneer Goldie). And didn't she pound the crap out of some reporter in Bangkok once? Similarly, Von Trier, whose memorably off-kilter works also include Zentropa and the definitively deranged Danish TV_miniseries The Kingdom, and who cofounded the ascetic film movement/practical joke known as Dogma 95, enjoys playing the eccentric (among other things, he really has no "Von" in his name, but reportedly appended one there as a kind of homage to not-quite-normal auteurs von Stroheim and von Sternberg). And then there's the fact that Björk's role in the movie, as the ultimate self-sacrificing mom, would be a bear for even the most seasoned actress to handle. It could be argued that no movie has demanded so much of its lead actress since, well, Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, but really, there's no reason to stop there. No movie has demanded so much of its lead actress since Carl Dreyer's 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, a picture Von Trier clearly reveres, a picture that so utterly defined its lead actress, Maria Falconetti, that she, in fact, never made another film. Hmmm.
That's such a tidy analogy that one can't help but imagine there's a deeper story behind this no-more-acting vow. But Björk insists there isn't. She characterizes the atmosphere on the set of Dancer as "brilliant." When told this, Von Trier himself asks, "Yeah, okay, but what does that mean?" Bjork calls Von Trier's often - vérité style "genius." Still, she'd be the first to admit that "going through what Selma was going through was very painful. It was painful just to wake up in the morning." And she likens acting in Dancer to "signing on to war, going to the Vietnam War. I believed I might die. Acting is like jumping from a cliff without a parachute."
For his part, Von Trier says, "I felt like a policeman who had to force Björk to do something she really didn't want to do all the time. It was not pleasant at all, and I don't think she could have said it was pleasant."
"She cannot really act—she can just be." That's what Catherine Deneuvesaid about her costar Björk at Cannes. Good quote—very dramatic and mythmaking and all that, but it's a bit of a crock nonetheless. Certainly, some of her costars are pretty convinced that she has the stuff to be a movie star, if she so desired. "You can't do what she did on that picture without being a good actress," says Joel Grey (Cabaret), who plays a tap-dancing trial witness in Dancer. David Morse, who portrays Selma's villainous neighbor and whose exchanges with Selma make up some of the film's most shocking scenes, says that Björk became the character "in the way she had to experience things. For instance, I don't think she's ever picked up a gun in her life. So to bring herself to do these things that were deeply, genuinely repulsive to her - she couldn't pretend to do them. But I think she truly has the instincts of an actress."
"I agree that I'm very instinct-driven," Björk says. "That's just the way I am. And when Lars convinced me to act the [part], he asked me not to act. Acting was bad; that's what professionals do. I had to become the girl. That was fine with me, because I'm not interested in being technical."
So, when people speak of what she can or cannot do, she doesn't take it as an insult, but as a compliment. It's like she's a magician who's really sold her trick. The craft-versus-instinct thing is something she's always aware of; she speaks of her grandfather, who is a carpenter, and how sometimes they'll get together and he'll show her a picture of a fireplace he's built, and she'll play him her latest record, and they'll both appreciate their accomplishments on the same level. Dancer's bizarre, impressionistically lit musical numbers, which Selma conjures up to escape from—or comment on—her dreary existence, have more than a little in common with the video Björk made with Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze for the song "It's Oh So Quiet," in which she cavorts around a tire store. Von Trier (who cites Jonze's video as his inspiration for casting Björk in Dancer) breaks out of his quasi-documentary mode for these musical scenes; they were shot with 100 fixed video cameras, many of them hidden from the actors' view. The songs Björk wrote almost always take their cues from some repetitive, mechanical noise—the clank of tray-making machines, the turning of train wheels—and then transmogrify into gorgeous, otherworldly, sometimes orchestral soundscapes.
It's the music-making aspect of the Dancer experience that Björk is most protective of, most eager to hang on to. The much-cited instance where she stormed off the set was, she insists, over a disagreement about how the music was being edited to fit the picture. "The conflict wasn't between me and Lars either; that's another misunderstanding. It's been exaggerated a lot. I had been working 16 hours a day, every day." She is a little vague about who "they" are, but "they" apparently "were changing the songs. I had done one and a half years of work with an 80-piece orchestra, and then I'm working on the set as an actress; I'd come home in the evening and they'd say, 'Oh, they cut a minute out of the middle of something,' and I would say, 'No, you can't do that; I'm ready to cooperate but you just can't do that...' "No one who hasn't actually made a record has any idea just how much work goes into it—work that, as fulfilling as it can ultimately be, is often backbreaking and tedious. But that's the work she lives for. "So I walked away and came back with a manifesto, and they were all musical things, such as, I had to have the final say on the music because we had never signed a contract—me and Lars, everything was based on trust—so I said, I have to do the final mix, the actors can't do the vocals without me..." It seems to be all she thinks about, this music, or music in general. Even here in New York, months after Cannes, as she works on her next album, she says she's been toying with the audio mix for Dancer. For the CD of her Dancer music, which she has titled Selmasongs, she enlisted fellow musical risk-takers such as Radiohead's Thom Yorke to sing in place of the actors, because, Björk says, "I see the album not as the soundtrack to the film but rather as the realization of Selma'sdream. I want this record to be my gift to Selma."
She doesn't get quite so pretentious as to liken her musical works to her children, but when she talks about her 14-year-old son, Sindri, and how much of Selma's maternal instinct stems from her own life, you hear some parallels. "The second time in my life that I was ever physically violent was four years ago, when this woman in Thailand was trying to interview my son live on the air and she was crazily abusing it, and I just saw red and hit her. It's a different energy there when you want to protect your children. I remember after that, me and my son going to see Aliens, and there's that line in there, 'Get away from her, you bitch!' And we were laughing our heads off, because this had just happened to us!"
Dancer in the Dark is in fact a dark film, and while Björk doesn't seem to have any regrets about it, she's very happy to be moving on. "After being Selma for so long, it was great to go back to being Björk. There may still be a little Selma left in me." Honestly, though, there doesn't seem to be much. What's left, it seems, is a woman who knows what she wants and will not let anybody tell her otherwise. Agents, directors, screenwriters, take note: "If I'm lucky I've got 50 years left, and I should spend all of them on songs." That, it seems, would pretty much be that. The experience was apparently of the most value in terms of helping her establish where, and what, she should be. "I've never felt so lucky and so grateful as I am now," she says. Her dance into the world of film led her to what she already knew. Her air of contentment expands when the interview concludes and the tape recorder is turned off, and Björk almost automatically relaxes, curls up her legs, and starts sampling, with great (and practically elfin) eagerness, a tray of appetizers that up until this point she has been very professionally ignoring.


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The New Zealand flatworm, Arthurdendyus triangulatus (formerly Artioposthia triangulata) has become established in the British Isles and the Faroe Islands and its human-mediated spread within Northern Ireland and Scotland is well documented. The geographical distributions within New Zealand of it and two related species, A. australis and A. testacea have always been assumed to reflect the natural distribution patterns.
The distribution of the indigenous New Zealand megascolecid earthworm Octochaetus multiporus (Beddard) in hill pastures of different fertilities in the southern North Island of New Zealand, and the population density throughout a year are described. Octochaetus multiporus was most numerous in soils of low to moderate fertility. High fertility soils had a similar population density to that of an adjacent area of native forest, indicating that the exotic pasture environment can favour Octochaetus multiporus in some circumstances.

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Gaining muscle mass is not only about looking good, it also has health benefits. It plays a critical role in promoting metabolic health, bone strength, maintaining body weight and reduces stress. Gaining muscles also have positive effects on obesity, disease recovery, aging and bone density. There are beneficial diet plans that one can follow to build muscle mass and live a healthy life.
Here are some super foods that you can include in your diet to increase the nutrition content and gain muscles.
- Lean Beef - Beef is packed with protein and nutrients such as zinc, iron, and Vitamin B. An 85-gram serving contains 154 calories with increased level of amino acids that promotes the growth of muscles.
- Cottage Cheese - It is one of the most beneficial dairy products to consume which contains protein, Vitamin B12, calcium and other nutrients that help build muscles.
- Chicken - Chicken is another product you can include in your diet that helps maintain weight, bone density and gain muscles. It introduces high-quality protein in your constitution which is required to maintain good health.
- Eggs - Eggs should be a staple in your diet if you want to build muscles. It has amino acids, proteins, Vitamin D and choline, a good kind of fat that is needed to maintain and gain muscles.
The importance of muscles
- Metabolism - Gaining muscles boosts metabolism in many ways. It controls fat gain and prevents obesity and diabetes.
- Bone density - Bone density is an important issue, especially among women and the elderly. Building muscles can improve bone density and prevent osteoporosis.
- Recovery from disease - Eating nutrition-rich food increases the protein intake which not only improves the immune system but also helps in fast recovery from illness.
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Chicago (CNN)Kory Wright dreamed of being a Chicago police officer.
But his image of police was shattered when he was arrested on his 20th birthday as he was interrogated at a detention facility called Homan Square. Wright says he was zip-tied to a bench in an overheated room on a summer day and denied access to an attorney. He was charged with selling a controlled substance and placed on house arrest, he told CNN.
It would be four months before a judge ruled he was not guilty of the crime he was adamant he never committed.
“It was a farce from the beginning,” Wright says. “It ruined my life.”
Wright’s story is part of a large group of allegations involving citywide human rights violations during arrest and detention and comes amid growing scrutiny about the practices of the Chicago Police Department.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last month that Homan Square was not within the scope of the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the patterns and practices of the Police Department. But she did say the department could choose to expand the investigation if further details came to light that brought up Constitutional concerns.

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CentraArchy Restaurants serves 13,707 heroes
ATLANTA (November 13, 2017) – As we reflect on Veteran’s Day; The Tavern at Phipps, New York Prime, Joey D’s Oak Room, California Dreaming, Carolina Roadhouse, Chophouse ’47, Burro Loco, Gulfstream Cafe and Chophouse New Orleans have counted 13,707 heroes served on this day of appreciation. The free Veteran’s Day meals represent a total value of over $170,000.
CentraArchy Restaurants offers free meals for veterans Sunday, November 12.
ATLANTA (October 12, 2017) – As grateful Americans recognize the work and sacrifice of our nation’s veterans, CentraArchy Restaurants once again offers veterans their service. Any U.S. veteran or active duty military member is invited to enjoy a FREE entree Sunday, November 12, at any CentraArchy restaurant location.*
“Many members of the CentraArchy family have served our country,” said CentraArchy chairman Jerry Greenbaum. “We are proud of them, our guests and all fellow Americans who have answered the call to service over the years. It is an honor to recognize them with this small gesture of our appreciation on November 12.”
Visit *New York Prime, California Dreaming, The Tavern at Phipps, Chophouse New Orleans, Carolina Roadhouse, Joey D’s Oak Room, Chophouse ’47, Gulfstream Café or Burro Loco on Sunday, November 12, 2017 with a valid military ID or proof of service to enjoy a free entrée from the regular dinner menu (excluding AQ items, Porterhouse, alcohol and tax, dine-in).

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- Reading club - Today - Morning break - in 5th class. Pupils from 3rd to 6th are welcome. Don't forget to bring a book!
- Buddy reading - Each Wednesday at 11.30 6th and Juniors; 5th and 2nd; 3rd and Seniors; 4th and 1st.
- The Book Fair is arriving on Thursday. All classes will have a timetabled slot to browse or buy books.
- Next week we will have a reading challenge each night. We will also be announcing our Book Fair competitions later in the week.
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Leaders of top pro-life groups are unanimous in their response to last night’s presidential election, vowing to not give up fighting abortion and the funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
“Now is not the time to give up, but instead, I hope I can count on you to join me in fighting the President’s radical pro-abortion agenda for the next four years,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List. “Together, we will win this fight. Don’t lose faith. Unborn children and women are counting on us.”
“The most pro-abortion President in our nation’s history was re-elected. That’s the bad news,” Dannenfelser added. “The good news is that we have heroes in Congress – some long-time warriors and some just elected just tonight – who are willing to take him on and fight for unborn children and women. But they are going to need our help.”
Americans United for Life Action president Charmaine Yoest said that despite the possible continuation of the pro-abortion federal policies of now re-elected President Obama, there are opportunities to stop abortions via state legislatures.
“A pro-life majority being retained in the U.S. House also means that President Obama will not be able to force through his radical abortion agenda without opposition,” she said. “At the state level, I believe we will see even more legislatures take back the life issue with model legislation and continue creative abortion limitation in light of Obama’s aggressive pushing of abortion on Americans.”
“Already, AUL has worked with ten states in passing legislation to opt out of permitting taxpayer-subsidized abortion coverage through Obamacare. And we predict that the courts are going to see an ever increasing number of lawsuits as Americans fight for their First Amendment Rights of Conscience,” she added.
Carol Tobias, head of the National Right to Life Committee, also weighed in with encouragement.
“Things didn’t turn out as we wanted, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Pro-lifers all over the country did everything possible, going above and beyond the almost-unimaginable, putting their hearts and souls into this campaign,” she said. “We will awaken each morning saddened at the future in store for our country; heart-broken at the thought of lost opportunities to save unborn children from abortion, and the elderly and disabled from rationing of medical care. Very few pro-lifers will be filled with regret, thinking they could have done more.”
“I was one of those optimists who believed we could elect a pro-life president and maybe even put a pro-life majority in place in the Senate,” she said. “We do not always understand why something happens, but we do know that we are in God’s hands.”
Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, added, “It is therefore time to recommit ourselves to the basics: a clear proclamation of the truth, an uncompromising fidelity to our principles, and an unwavering commitment to civil disobedience.”
“Meanwhile, the national pro-life groups have done outstanding work in this year’s election, with initiatives, creativity, and energy as great as I have ever seen, and there is no doubt that the election results would have been far worse without that activity,” he said. “The pro-life cause will prevail in America. In the elections of 2014, we will work for a pro-life Senate majority to further blunt the ability of President Obama to damage the cause of life.
“And in the meantime we will continue the cultural progress that is so clearly on the side of life, as more minds and hearts embrace the unborn, as more abortion mills close, and as more women and men speak up about how abortion harmed them,” he said.
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As Barack Obama prepares for another term as America’s president, Human Life International President Father Shenan J. Boquet is calling on pro-lifers around the world to stay vigilant, to pray, and not to give up hope.
“Under the most radical anti-life president America has ever seen, the U.S. taxpayers have funded a destructive foreign policy, which has already done great harm around the world,” said Father Boquet. “But we must continue to fight for those who cannot defend themselves, and we cannot lose hope, because the Lord of Life is on our side.”
“We need prayer now more than ever for our unborn brothers and sisters around the world facing death due to the policies of the Obama administration, and for those facing persecution for daring to spread the Gospel of Life,” Father Boquet said. “May Our Lord Jesus Christ give us the strength to run the race and win the fight for life.”


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For the 10th time in as little as six months, a motorcycle has been stolen in Murfreesboro. This time, the victim told officers he parked his bike in front of his apartment complex, later looked outside and discovered it to be missing. The theft happened at an apartment on Greenland Drive. The motorcycle was a Kawasaki sports bike. It was a 2007 model that was valued at $5,000. So far, there are no leads in this recent rash of motorcycle thefts.
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|1.||Bradbury, Elizabeth J: 7 articles (09/2015 - 04/2002)|
|2.||Fawcett, James W: 6 articles (09/2013 - 04/2002)|
|3.||Tom, Veronica J: 5 articles (08/2015 - 08/2005)|
|4.||Silver, Jerry: 4 articles (01/2015 - 08/2005)|
|5.||Zhang, Chun: 4 articles (05/2013 - 01/2009)|
|6.||Helder, Marco N: 3 articles (09/2015 - 08/2007)|
|7.||Muir, Elizabeth M: 3 articles (09/2015 - 09/2011)|
|8.||Zhao, Rong-Rong: 3 articles (09/2013 - 09/2011)|
|9.||Li, Haopeng: 3 articles (05/2013 - 01/2009)|
|10.||He, Xijing: 3 articles (05/2013 - 01/2009)|
|1.||Spinal Cord Injuries (Spinal Cord Injury)
09/30/2011 - "In particular, the bacterial enzyme chondroitinase ABC is beneficial in animal models of spinal cord injury. "
09/01/2013 - "Combination treatment with anti-Nogo-A and chondroitinase ABC is more effective than single treatments at enhancing functional recovery after spinal cord injury."
05/26/2010 - "Recent studies have reported that chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) or Nogo-66(1-40) antagonist peptide (NEP1-40) promote axonal growth after spinal cord injury. "
10/01/2015 - "Effect of the combination of mesenchymal stromal cells and chondroitinase ABC on chronic spinal cord injury."
09/01/2015 - "The bacterial enzyme chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) degrades these inhibitory molecules and has repeatedly been shown to promote functional recovery in a number of spinal cord injury models. "
07/01/2003 - "The present study examined whether degradation of CSPG using chondroitinase ABC promoted the regeneration of CN neurons through the scar into the rostral spinal cord in neonatal and adult rats. "
09/04/2015 - "Currently, enzymatic digestion of CSPGs with locally applied chondroitinase ABC is the main in vivo approach to overcome scar inhibition, but several disadvantages may prevent using this bacterial enzyme as a therapeutic option for patients. "
03/01/2013 - "Injection of chondroitinase ABC (ChABC), which degrades both CS and DS, completely suppressed the fibrotic scar formation, reduced the glial scar, and promoted the regeneration of dopaminergic axons. "
10/19/2011 - "Chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) degrades the sugar chains and allows for synaptic plasticity, suggesting that after the sugar chain cleavage additional steps occur promoting a permissive microenvironment in the glial scar region. "
01/01/2011 - "Chondroitinase ABC disrupted the glial scar around the mRPCs in the subretinal space. "
|3.||Intervertebral Disk Displacement (Herniated Disc)
07/01/1997 - "Chemonucleolytic treatment with chondroitinase ABC is an effective and safe method for the management of canine intervertebral disc displacement."
07/01/1997 - "To determine the efficacy of Chondroitinase ABC in the management of canine intervertebral disc displacement. "
07/01/2004 - "[Treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc displacement with chondroitinase ABC--experimental basis for clinical application]."
07/01/1997 - "Fifty-nine dogs with symptoms and signs of intervertebral disc displacement were treated with Chondroitinase ABC by a single intradisc injection. "
07/01/1997 - "Treatment of canine intervertebral disc displacement with chondroitinase ABC."
01/01/2015 - "Perilesional treatment with chondroitinase ABC and motor training promote functional recovery after stroke in rats."
04/01/2012 - "We show for the first time delayed chondroitinase ABC treatment promotes neuroanatomical and functional recovery after focal ischaemic stroke in an elderly nervous system."
04/01/2012 - "Three days after stroke, chondroitinase ABC was microinjected into the cervical spinal cord to induce localized plasticity of forelimb sensorimotor spinal circuitry. "
04/01/2012 - "Delayed treatment with chondroitinase ABC promotes sensorimotor recovery and plasticity after stroke in aged rats."
01/01/2008 - "A pin-on-plate machine was utilized to measure the coefficient of friction of native and chondroitinase ABC (CaseABC)-treated articular cartilage under two different models: static (4 mm/s start-up velocity) and dynamic (4 mm/s sliding velocity; 4 mm stroke length) under a load of 25 N (0.4 MPa contact stress) and with phosphate-buffered saline as the lubricant. "
|1.||Chondroitin Sulfates (Chondroitin Sulfate)
|5.||Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans
|2.||Transplantation (Transplant Recipients)
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EP298: How Mark Twain Helped a Bankrupt and Dying Ulysses S. Grant, I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It! and Overcoming the Loss of Both My Arms
On this episode of Our American Stories, Christopher Klein tells the story of how Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, the former president and Civil War hero, raced to complete a literary masterpiece that saved his wife from destitution. Donald Sturm tells the story of how his parents did everything they could to support him and lead him to achieve the American Dream. Madysen Acey’s life took an unexpected turn at 10-years-old, but she wouldn't trade any of it for the person she's become.
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00:00 - How Mark Twain Helped a Bankrupt and Dying Ulysses S. Grant
12:30 - I Lived Through The Depression And Didn’t Even Know It!
25:00 - Overcoming the Loss of Both My Arms
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In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism
Haunted by the Holocaust, Europeans focus the blame on a familiar target.
Autumn 5765 / 2004, no. 18
|The Haredim: A DefenseHow scholars have misunderstood the ultra-Orthodox.|
|Faces of DeathSaw, a film by James Wan; and Saw II, a film by Darren Lynn Bousman|
|Star-CrossedRosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy by Peter Eli Gordon|
|Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.|
|The Jews’ Right To Statehood: A DefenseA new look at Zionism from the perspective of universal rights.|

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Carbohydrates May Alleviate Bloating Resulting From High Fiber Diet
A high fiber diet may provide a number of health benefits, including improving cholesterol levels and promoting a healthy gut. Eating more fiber may also help you maintain a healthy weight by keeping you full and reducing the chance of overeating. However, many people experience an increase in gas and bloating when consuming a high fiber diet. A new study has found that a high fiber diet may be less likely to cause bloating if it is carbohydrate-rich instead of protein-rich.
Participants in the study included 164 people with an average age of 53. All had prehyperytension or hypertension at the beginning of the study and were not taking antihypertensive medication. They underwent 3 dietary interventions for 6 weeks. Each intervention was separated by a 2-week washout period. The 3 dietary interventions were different versions of the DASH diet:
- A carbohydrate-rich diet that provided 58% of calories as carbohydrate, 15% as protein, and 27% as fat;
- A protein-rich diet with 10% of calories from carbohydrate replaced by protein (48% carbohydrate, 25% protein, and 27% fat);
- An unsaturated fat diet with 10% of calories from carbohydrate replaced by unsaturated fat (48% carbohydrate, 15% protein, and 37% fat).
The participants filled out a symptom checklist that asked questions about feeling bloated at the beginning of each dietary intervention and during the last week of each intervention.
Bloating symptoms were reported by 24% of participants at the end of the carbohydrate-rich diet, bt 33% at the end of the protein-rich diet, and by 30% at the end of the unsaturated fat-rich diet. The protein-rich and unsaturated fat-rich diets significantly increased the risk of bloating, while the carbohydrate-rich diet did not. The highest increase in bloating was seen when protein was substituted for carbohydrates.
The study was conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It was published in the January 2020 edition of the journal Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.


The PixCel software will interact with the following camera systems :
UltraPix SI, SK, MX, FE, FK, FKI and NeuroCam series of cameras.
Antares and Capella custom cameras.
The performance of your camera system depends greatly on the configuration and specification of your PC. The following is the MINIMUM specification required for successful operation:
32 Mbytes of RAM (more for larger CCDs and-or many images to be held simultaneously in memory).
IBM or 100% compatible 200 MHz Pentium PC or faster.
Hard disk with at least 100 Mbytes of free space (a lot more if you are storing images on this disk).
Microsoft WindowsÔ 95 fully installed.
3.5" Floppy disk drive.
SVGA graphics card and monitor with 1024 x 768 resolution and 256 colours.
One vacant IBM-PC, ISA type interface card slot for SI and SK systems to accommodate the AT link card.
Two vacant IBM-PC slots, one ISA interface card slot to accommodate the AT Link and one PCI interface card slot for the PCI interface card (MX, FE, FK, FKI and NeuroCam systems only).
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Paloma Fresno-Calleja is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands where she teaches postcolonial literatures and gender studies. Her research focuses on New Zealand and Pacific literatures, on which she has published monographs, book chapters and articles in international journals such as The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, Contemporary Women’s Writing, The Journal of New Zealand Studies, or The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. More recently, she has co-edited, with Janet Wilson, and translated Un País de Cuento. Veinte Relatos de Nueva Zelanda (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2014), the first anthology of New Zealand short stories published in Spanish. She is lead researcher of HER and of the UIB research group “Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literatures”.
At the moment, Paloma is exploring a number of contemporary historical romances set in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 19th century and written both by European and New Zealand female authors. The focus of this analysis is on the novels’ diverging treatment of history, their reworking of classical romantic formulae and the various process of self/exoticisation operating in the texts. She is interested in exploring the production and reception of these novels within the general framework of popular romance marketing in Europe and how their popularity has conditioned global perceptions of New Zealand literature and culture.
Carolina Fernández-Rodríguez has a PhD in English Philology and she teaches American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Oviedo. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing, with a special focus on feminist revisions of fairy tales, a topic on which she has written three books and several articles. She is also interested in the representation of latinidades in American literature and mass media, and in issues related to multiculturalism as portrayed in children’s and young adults’ literature.
At the moment, Carolina is analyzing the romances written by two Chamorro writers from Guam: Conquered, by Paula Quinene (2016), and A Mansion on the Moon, by Cathy Sablan Gault (2015). Both novels are faithful to many of the genre’s conventions, but they also depart from them in a number of interesting and subversive ways. She is also revising the bibliography written on Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona (1884), a paradigmatic example of romantic novel whose story takes place in an exoticized setting: California in the mid-19th century. Though the novel has been profusely studied and revised in the past, it still remains an essential case study for our project, because it combines romantic love with an exotic setting and an historical frame. Besides, an in-depth analysis of the causes that have made it immensely popular and influential may shed light on the power of popular romantic formulae to delineate a given society’s cultural and economic set-up.
Aurora García Fernández is Senior Lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain, where she teaches Postcolonial Studies and Cultures of the Anglophone World. Her interests lie mainly in Postcolonial and Global Studies and in Australian literature, as well as in curriculum design and methodology. She has co-edited Translating Cultures (1999) and is the author of a monography on Australian historical fiction, La revisión postcolonial de la historia de Australia en la obra de Patrick White y Peter Carey (2001), as well as several articles and book chapters mostly on Australian fiction. She coordinated the new syllabus of the Degree in English Studies and, as a vocational educator, she has been involved in several innovation teaching projects.
At the moment, Aurora is working on a corpus of contemporary romances set in Australia to analyse the cultural specificities of the formula when applied by Australian writers catering to local and/or international readers. From a postcolonial and eco-critical approach to romance writing, she is following a two-fold but intertwining line of analysis, focusing both on works dealing with the country’s past and on novels in which landscape plays a crucial role. The former group covers romances either about the convict and pastoral history of the country or the 20th war epics; the latter includes a copious number of novels in which the romantic plot revolves around a challenging, soothing or gripping interaction with the unique and potentially overwhelming, but also fragile Australian landscape. Additionally, she is also exploring how Indigenous Australian writers such as Anita Heiss are engaging with the romance formula to convey their political message to mainstream Australian and international readers.
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of Oviedo. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Oviedo. Her teaching and research is centered in Literatures in English Language and Feminist and Postcolonial Theory. She has been a research fellow at Rutgers University, Cornell University and the University of Leeds, among others. She is the author of Lenguajes comestibles: Anorexia, bulimia y su descodificación en la ficción de Margaret Atwood y Fay Weldon (Edicions UIB, 2009); El lenguaje trasgresor de las Ciborgs Literarias (ArCiBel Editores, 2011) and Ambai: Un movimiento, una carpeta, algunas lágrimas / A movement, a folder, some tears (KRK, 2011).
At the moment, Alejandra is focusing on the aesthetics and marketability of historical romances set in India and produced by European authors like Nicole C. Vosseler and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, both of whom exploit the exotic trope. By contrast, she is exploring how this trope is used or subverted by Booker Prize authors Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Anita Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri. On the other hand, Moreno-Álvarez is studying the boom of popular romantic novels in India, particularly through the Harlequin Mills and Boon imprint.
Irene Pérez-Fernández is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Oviedo. Her research focuses on the notions of gender, space and identity in contemporary British literature and literatures in English with a special interest in the literary works of contemporary Black British and Asian British Women Writers. She has published articles on the works of Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith and Diana Evans in various international journals (Atlantis, Odisea, The Grove, Interactions: Journal of British and American Studies and Journal of Postcolonial Writing) and has translated Joan Anim-Addo’s short story “Daughter and His Housekeeper” into Spanish (Revolución y Cultura). She is the author of two books Espacio, Identidad y Género: Aproximaciones Teóricas (2009) and Maggie Gee: “The Artist/Artista”. (2011).
At the moment, Irene is analysing the ways in which the 19th century history of the Caribbean, particularly the depiction of plantation slavery, is represented in contemporary romance novels such as Sarah Lark’s Caribbean bilogy and Michelle Paver’s Daughters of Eden trilogy. She is interested in comparing these romance novels with the works of contemporary Caribbean and Black British authors, such as Monique Roffey, Jean Rhys or Andrea Levy, whose works are not categorised as belonging to the genre of romance yet they revisit both Britain’s and the Caribbean’s colonial and post-colonial history through the intimate relations established by their main characters and in so doing provide more nuanced and accurate accounts. She is also exploring young adult romances by British writers which feature interracial couples such as Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses trilogy.
Carmen Pérez Ríu is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She specializes in both literary and film criticism, and particularly in film adaptation studies, from a gender perspective, and has published a monograph entitled La Mujer victoriana en novelas inglesas contemporáneas y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas (Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 2000). She has published contributions in collective works on literature and film as well as in academic journals including Literature/Film Quarterly, Brönte Studies, Adaptation, Arbor, and Atlantis (the journal of the Spanish Society of Anglo-American Studies). Apart from Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction, her research interests also include feminist critical studies in general, and she teaches in the Masters Degree in Gender and Diversity of the University of Oviedo (Erasmus Mundus). She is currently Coordinator of the undergraduate degree in English Studies of the University of Oviedo.
Carmen is currently working on the analysis of historical popular romance novels set in the UK in the Victorian period, in comparison with wider trends in the historical and neo-Victorian novel. She is particularly interested, on the one hand, in the narrative mechanisms that are specific to the genre in contrast with other historical genres; and on the other hand in the (re)configurations and exotification of the historical past as it is elaborated in popular novels, based on the combination of modern mindsets and period scenarios. She is also analyzing this issue from a reader-response perspective with the aim of shedding light into the particular kind of relationship established between the text and the readers of popular romance fiction.
Eva M. Pérez-Rodríguez (MPhil Bradford, PhD Oviedo) is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, where she teaches literature subjects in the Degree of English Studies. Previously, she held teaching positions at the Universidad de Oviedo, the Universitat Jaume III in Castellón, and the University of Bradford (UK) as Foreign Language Assistant. Her MPhil and PhD dissertations focused on the work of 1790s radical author William Godwin. Eva’s current research interests include contemporary British authors such as David Lodge, Ian McEwan or Sarah Waters. She has participated in numerous international conferences and published articles in specialised journals. In 2012 her book How the Second World War Is Depicted by British Novelists since 1990 was published by the Edwin Mellen Press. She is also the co-author of Commenting on Texts: Literature, History, the Media (Edicions UIB, 2006), among others. Eva is a member of the research group Literatures Anglòfones Modernes i Contemporànies at UIB.
Eva is currently studying the impact of war and political or imperialist domination on nature in contemporary exotic romances written by women. In particular, she is studying a selection of historical romance novels set in Mediterranean conflict areas and studying the use of literally and metaphorically broken homes to explore the reconstruction of both personal and national identity. Although her approach is historicist, focusing mostly on the two World Wars and the inter- and post-war period, she also analyses how these novels cater for their readership’s taste for exoticism in order to enhance the marketability of this category of popular female fiction.
Pilar Villar-Argáiz is a Senior Lecturer of English in the Department of English Philology at the University of Granada. She has published extensively on contemporary Irish poetry and fiction, in relation to questions of gender, race, migration and interculturality. She is the author of the books Eavan Boland’s Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider’s Culture (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading (Academica Press, 2008). Her edited collections include Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature (Manchester University Press, 2014), the special issue of Irish Studies Review (entitled “Irish Multiculturalism in Crisis”, co-edited with Jason King, 2015), and the special issue of Nordic Irish Studies (entitled “Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion: Artistic Renderings of Marginal Identities in Ireland”, 2016). Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals of her field such as New Hibernia Review, Irish University Review, Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford Journal), An Sionnach, Estudios Irlandeses and Études Irlandaises, among others.
At the moment, Pilar is looking at the interconnections between the cultural industry and the production of some popular fiction set in an Irish historical context, and produced mostly by non-Irish women writers. In particular, she examines salient examples taken from three fictional genres where Ireland and Irish history are exoticized for market reasons: ‘neo-historical fiction’, ‘historical romance’ and ‘tourist novels’. Her research aims to highlight the multiple ways in which Ireland is exoticized and how Irish cultural difference is commodified in popular literature.
Astrid Schwegler Castañer has a BA degree in English Philology and an MA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of the Balearic Islands, where she is currently a predoctoral research fellow. Her research interests include the notions of ethnicity, belonging and identity in contemporary postcolonial and diasporic works. She is currently working on her PhD thesis on the topic of culinary discourses and multiculturalism in Asian-Australian writing.
At the moment, Astrid is exploring how foodways are used in historical romances —such as Kate Furnivall’s The White Pearl (2011) and Dinah Jefferies’ The Tea Planter’s Wife (2015)— set in the imaginary exotic Asia during the British Empire . Focusing on culinary metaphors, she is particularly interested in the way the authors’ critical approach towards coloniality connects and/or clashes with their construction of an appetizing escapist novel.
Cristina Cruz-Gutierrez has a MA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of the Balearic Islands, and is currently enrolled in its PhD Philology and Philosophy programme. Her research is in the field of African literatures and gender studies, and she is specially interested in contemporary Nigerian female writing. She has published articles on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Noo Saro Wiwa.
As part of the research project, Cristina is focusing on historical romances set in Africa and exploring the orientalist representations of African landscapes, cultures and histories. In particular, she has analysed Jennifer McVeigh’s The Fever Tree (2012) and Leopard at the Door (2017), set in South Africa and Kenya respectively. Cruz-Gutiérrez is also exploring the marketing and promotional material used to sell these novels, paying particular attention to reading guides.
Miquel Pomar-Amer is an associate lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he has been teaching English for Specific Purposes since 2015. He completed his PhD in the University of Manchester with a dissertation that compared a selection of novels and autobiographical works written by British-Pakistani and Catalan-Moroccan authors. His research interests include the representation of identity in literature, especially in postcolonial contexts of migration and diaspora, the ethical and political relations between text and context, and the representation of the encounter between locals and tourists in works set in the Mediterranean. He has published several articles and book chapters on these topics. He participates in the research groups LITANGLO (UIB), LiCETC (UIB) and MIGRA (USC).
Miquel is currently working on a selection of romantic novels set in the Balearic Islands analysing the way in which they represent the landscape and the possible conflicts that may arise from mass tourism. In this regard, he is particularly interested in the inclusion of an environmentalist perspective into these works as well as a critical view of the dominant unsustainable touristic model.
Mariana Ripoll-Fonollar works as an associate lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands. She completed her BA in English Studies and her Teaching Training MA at the University of the Balearic Islands, where she is currently enrolled as a PhD Student in the Philosophy and Philology programme. As part of the project, Mariana is exploring a corpus of 21st century female fiction set in the UK and exploring the topic of female suffrage.


BLACKPINK gives tough competition to every music artist when it comes to music, but the members of the group are most respected for the amazing outfits they wear. Among the four members are Jisoo, Jenny, Rose and Lisa; Jenny has been widely praised for her fashion drops that have captivated her fans as well as the fashion industry with her music.
Although Jenny slays in everything she wears, some special outfits make her a statement maker straight off the red carpet. Her unique flair and unflappable personality is reflected in her wardrobe style and the fashion coordinators make sure to pay extra attention to every accessory and outfit she wears on stage.
When it comes to her top 5 outfits, her solo event where she single-handedly ruled the stage deserves a special mention.
5. MNet Gaon Music Awards 2019
Well, when fans see this outfit for the first time; Many of them lost their breath. At the Mnet Gaon Music Awards, Jennie appeared on a pitch black stage as the spotlight slowly erupted on her. The artist was wearing a red mismatched dress on one arm. With that outfit, the singer proved that she owned the stage.
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BLACKPINK performed in your area in Seoul in 2018. It’s November 10, 2018. Jenny wowed the audience with the band’s performance of her solo song. It was her first solo song. The singer looked straight and novel wearing a black and white mini dress and presented her monochrome beauty.
3. SBS Inkigayo 20181125
This was her solo debut performance and the singer did no wrong in winning the hearts of the audience with her performance and vocal prowess. She wore a bright red bodycon dress accented with high boots. This lucky outfit may have added more charm to my solo career.
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During her solo performance for Music Core, the singer dominated in her asymmetrical crop top, which looked like she was meant to wear it. Teamed with a pearl necklace and a crystal body chain, Jenny made sure to rock the look without leaving a crumb.
– Mana (@Mana_x) December 2, 2018
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When Jennie won the third prize on SBS Inkigayo, the audience was engrossed in her bright yellow dress. Beautiful, beautiful and beautiful; This outfit offered a vintage flavor complimented by a split bow.
To me, Jenny’s only stage outfit defines her—nothing flashy, nothing heavy to carry on stage, no costume breakdown.
Beautiful and yellow. She knows, beautiful things don’t require attention. pic.twitter.com/D1WuScv4jc
— jc (@caption) December 16, 2018
Red, black or white; Jenny has the ability to blend in with everything clothing, color and styling. This diva has previously made a statement with her off-the-shoulder little black dress. She is seen in black pants, gloves, crop tops and many other things that embrace her gothic look.
In an interview with Elle Korea, the singer said that her fashion sense is another expression of her music and personality.
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Fish only need light to see to eat, and of course for you to enjoy the tank. Coralline algae that gives rock color can grow with very little light. Even ambient light from a nearby window could sustain it. If you were to mimic the natural day like you proposed, fish and rock will be fine.


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Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.
Mina is Hayat’s mother’s oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful, and intelligent, and she arrives on the Shah’s doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayat’s skeptical father can’t deny the liveliness and happiness that accompanies Mina into their home. Her deep spirituality brings the family’s Muslim faith to life in a way that resonates with Hayat as nothing has before. Studying the Quran by Mina’s side and basking in the glow of her attention, he feels an entirely new purpose mingled with a growing infatuation for his teacher.
When Mina meets and begins dating a man, Hayat is confused by his feelings of betrayal. His growing passions, both spiritual and romantic, force him to question all that he has come to believe is true. Just as Mina finds happiness, Hayat is compelled to act—with devastating consequences for all those he loves most.
American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. Ayad Akhtar was raised in the Midwest himself, and through Hayat Shah he shows readers the powerful forces at work on young men and women growing up Muslim in America. This is an intimate, personal first novel that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page.
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"I definitely enjoyed it, it was very deep and had many layers to it. Parts of it were a bit crude for my liking, however, I do applaud Ayad for giving the reader a taste of sharply contrasting viewpoints in the portrayal of different characters as well as those same conflicts within the main characters themselves. Perhaps because of the writer's background as a playwright, at times there seemed to be a dearth of descriptions in terms of time and place. The characterization and dialogue is excellent, I just hope the readers will not generalize this as being a typical American-Pakistani family, which it truly is not. (The average American-Pakistani family is not dysfunctional and alcohol and adultery are the exception rather than the rule).The story is fascinating, and I liked the spiritual message it sends out about the importance of the big picture of religion as opposed to the more often focussed on small details. Overall, I would recommend it, and I look forward to reading more work by the author."
Lara (4 out of 5 stars)


PLANO, Texas, Feb. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asset Intelligence, a leading provider of transportation asset management solutions and a subsidiary of I.D. Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDSY), today announced that Knight Transportation, Inc. (NYSE:KNX), one of North America's largest truckload service providers, is expanding its deployment of VeriWise™ trailer management solutions across its entire trailer fleet. Knight will equip its dry vans and refrigerated trailers with a combination of VeriWise products, including VeriWise Track & Trace, VeriWise Dry Van with cargo sensing, and VeriWise Reefer. VeriWise asset tracking systems combine sensor, wireless, and web technologies to provide real-time visibility of trailers and their cargo. The system automatically identifies, analyzes, and responds to critical transportation issues to improve the efficiency and security of logistics operations. "To maintain Knight's high standards for lean operations and superior customer service, we depend on real-time visibility of our cargo-carrying assets," said Steve Grover, Knight's Vice President of Corporate Facilities and Communications. "After an extensive evaluation, we chose to expand our use of VeriWise wireless asset management solutions because they precisely meet the diverse requirements of our different asset types, and they deliver the most effective, reliable results. In addition, Asset Intelligence has proven to be an invaluable partner to Knight, working closely with us over many years to optimize our fleet performance. "Asset Intelligence was also the only provider able to deliver information seamlessly across every type of trailer in our fleet and, at the same time, integrate a user-friendly web portal with both our core dispatch application and our employees' peripheral devices, like smart phones and tablet PCs. These unique capabilities provide enhanced fleet visibility, which can improve equipment utilization." "Knight has been a key Asset Intelligence customer and partner for many years, helping our solutions stay at the cutting edge of technical innovation," said Darryl Miller, Chief Operating Officer of I.D. Systems. "It is gratifying that our VeriWise technology continues to drive significant operating efficiencies for Knight and provide management with streamlined, real-time access to mission-critical asset information. We look forward to completing this enterprise roll-out of VeriWise solutions across Knight's entire trailer fleet."


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Aside from the weekend, Tuesday has to be our favorite day of the week. There’s just something about the throngs of new music bring released that really makes this day stand apart from any other weekday. Today, we’re kicking things off with a bang, thanks to Portland artist/producer EXROYALE.
Josh Schroeder (EXROYALE) has already had a busy year, producing singles for the ever-so-soulful JMR and newcomer Áine Aura. On top of which, he’s dropped five remixes and three singles of his own. We’ve had the ultimate pleasure of watching this artist through the years, and it has been tremendous to see the growth in musical exploration, which shines bright in “Lovesick Youth.”
This premiere has a shimmering electro pop glimmer to it, riding happily along a booming bassline and wavering, distorted guitar. Shroeder’s vocals, which we’ve come to adore over the years, create an enveloping experience with lyrics that we’re having trouble shaking after just one listen. Expertly accompanying the glowing pop cadence, the end result is one hell of a catchy tune, which is available as a free download on his Soundcloud.
To have an open mind is to be willing to experience all the new glorious things. And since the world of ”indie” music is like digging your hand into a bag full of glorious musical treats we have never heard before, we must be ready to embrace the good, the bad, and the ugly. Basically, what we are saying is…Go into every Indie Dojo with open ears and open hearts. If you hate the song, skip right over it. If you love it, dig deeper into the world that inspired the inspired. It’s a beautiful, vast musical world out there, but if you go in with ears wide shut, you might miss out on the next “can’t take this off repeat EVER” song…….and you know we all love finding those gems.
Glimmer of Bloom
Wake Me Up
Eliza Hull ft. Texture Like Sun
NEVER MIND THE FINE PRINT
Jackal and the Wind
Boat Thats Capsized
Destructo feat Problem
Dare You 2 Move (Shiba San Remix)
Less than a week after unleashing the full version of his epic “I Remember” re-work, Parisian G-House master, Shiba San, brings us yet another club-ready remix this time reimagining Destructo and Problem‘s already explosive “Dare You 2 Move.” In signature Shiba fashion, the rapidly rising producer strips the original down drawing attention to an enormous bass line while sprinkling Problem’s strategically through out. This cut exemplifies what makes Shiba San such a potent, high-energy performer. Turn your speakers all the way up and see for yourself above.
“Dare You 2 Move” is the most recent single off Destructo’s upcoming West Coast EP, which is due out on November 24th and can be pre-ordered here. Shiba San’s remix will be featured on the official remix EP for that project, out on December 9th.
Bar In Every Room
It’s clear that South African producer Martin Folb maintains an astute and forward thinking grasp on electronic production that other artists could only dream of. From his inspiring work with PANTyRAID and multi-faceted MartyParty solo project, Folb has put forth quite the diverse library of music over the years. Yet Primal Intent, his newest collaboration with Miami bred Paul Gorman, sees a paradigm shift into the world of more club driven beats, and away from the more expansive, glitch wielding tunes which have been attached to the MartyParty & PANTyRAID brands. The duo’s first single, “Bar In Every Room” delves within a multitude of styles from minimal techno, soul, and all permutations of the prefix before “-step”. We’re bounced back and forth between layered two-step melody,pounding four-four bass and hip-hop infused claps; giving off an ambience somewhere between Berghain’s darkest techno parties and a straightforward trap banger. Primal Intent’s debut self-titled LP is set to be released tomorrow, November 18th, on iTunes so before then, get your fix with “Bar In Every Room” above.
Heroes (feat. Tove Lo) (Branchez Remix)
New York producer, Branchez, knows how to put together a hell of a remix. Today, the man behind an enormous re-work of What So Not‘s ”High You Are,” brings us another massive tune. Taking on Alesso‘s “Heroes,” Branchez kicks things off looping an ethereal sample of Tove Lo‘s vocals from the original before building up an addicting high-pitched synth. The song erupts magnificently a little past the 1 minute mark as the layers collide and the melody takes a mesmerizing, pitch-bending turn.
Branchez has been playing this one in his live sets for a while now and it’s easy to see why as it truly captures the uniquely gorgeous qualities of his music. If you’re digging this one, you won’t want to sleep on his original productions either–“Truth” was one of our favorite songs this year.
Alright, ninjas. Unfortunately the weekend is over. It’s time to gear up, grab the bull by the horns, and absolutely own the pathetic excuse for a weekday known as Monday. Luckily for us, we have some rippin’ tunes to help carry the tempo for today’s hustle, and it comes via New York outfit Barkhouse.
Do us a favor before you get too far into this post. Can you press play on “Oh No?” There we go. Now we have the proper mood set for this write up. As if pre-destined to be the perfect song to kick your day off, “Oh No” has a strong focus on frenetic percussion and grainy vocals, all of which create a manic, grin-inducing energy which produces the need to get up and punch the day right in the face. It beckons on associations of The Strokes, while maintaining a more feverish tempo than those larger-than-life fellow New Yorkers.
Not every song on Wolves at the Wall boasts a fast-paced intensity worthy of replacing your morning caffeine fix though. In fact, “Getting Away,” holds quite the contrast, displaying a delicate, indie rock vibe. The slowly cascading guitar riffs carefully accentuate the pronounced bassline, providing the perfect compliment to your road trip playlist.
“Twice a Day” continues to show the breadth of their talent, giving us a progressive rock build up. The glowing intro and haunting vocals slowly build into a crescendo of engaging guitar work and a head-nodding rhythm section, which quickly reminds us of some of our favorite Brit-pop acts.
At the end of the day, this five-track EP (recorded at Adrian Grenier’s Wreckroom Records) has us grinning ear-to-ear and wondering how in the hell they aren’t bigger yet. Regardless of whatever reason that may be, it won’t be long. Make sure to snag this gem, which comes out tomorrow, and be ahead of the curve.
Perhaps one of the most talented spacemen to ever grace our cochlear cavities, Moon Boots, kicks off a welcome U.S. tour this Wednesday in our backyard of Boulder, CO at The Fox Theatre with Henry Krinkle & option4 for a remarkably stacked midweek underground dance lineup. Of course, as is our modus operandi, we wouldn’t want to exclude any of our keen readers; so we’ve teamed up with our friends at Awesome Factory to offer a chance at a pair of tickets to what will be undoubtedly a night of groovy house and disco from three of our favorite rising stars. As always, contest entry is streamlined and simplified to make it as easy as possible, just enter your e-mail in our widget below. And for those concerned about missing out altogether, if you’d rather not take your chances, you can purchase your tickets for guaranteed entry here. Doors for the show open at 8:30 p.m. with the show starting at 9:00 p.m so be sure to get there early to not miss a single artist this Hump-Day (night?). To get into the concert spirit, stream “There’s No Love” from Moon Boots, “Stay” from Henry Krinkle and “You’re ILL” from option4 below.
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Toruń Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Its capital city was Toruń.
Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor. Credited with reviving the French chanson in “a time of French musical turmoil”, he is often regarded in his home country as the most important French rock musician after Serge Gainsbourg.
Double Game, also known as Violent Turin , is a 1977 poliziotteschi film. This film by Carlo Ausino stars George Hilton.
Torno a vivere da solo is a 2008 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Jerry Calà. It is the sequel of Marco Risi's Vado a vivere da solo.
The Torunov I.'s Tennis team activities page. Related with social media posts of Torunov I.'s games and scheduled events. Match records planned for future dates as well as home and away matches. Plan a trip and experience the excitement of the match on the spot!


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The Sept. 1 opening of dove season is coming fast. For many farmers, the opening of dove season is a bit of outdoor recreation before harvest and planting take up all their time. It’s also an activity where they can host friends and family of all ages, levels of mobility and experience.
It’s also a type of hunting where a little bit of effort can produce a whole lot of success. The following techniques are very effective and 100% legal, according to state and federal regulations.
One acre goes a long way
Brian Natalini lives on 5 rural acres in Cherokee County. Of that, 1 acre is patch of planted sunflowers where he and friends have shot up to 980 doves in one season. Such success takes proper management.
No weeds are allowed in Natalini’s dove patch because the birds prefer open ground when feeding. He plants a strain of sunflowers that are resistant to some herbicides. A few times a summer he wanders the patch with a hand sprayer, zapping anything not a sunflower.
The patch is mowed about 10 days before the season. He leaves a strip of standing sunflowers down the middle where hunters can hide.
Natalini is a stickler for managing hunting pressure. Hunting is never allowed when big flocks use the fields at dawn and dusk.
The opener I attended had 10 of us hit the field at 3:30 p.m. We had our 150 doves in less than two hours, despite pouring rain. Hunters are out of his fields by 6 p.m. His field gets hunted no more than twice a week, and action often stays good well into October.
Natalini also has a small patch of wheat planted beside the sunflowers. It’s mowed when it’s ripe to keep doves around all summer. A faux powerline over the field also helps attract doves.
Dove hunting is already pretty good around Scott City. The late Ron Kershner and Brad Boulware made it even better, using maybe a half-acre Boulware’s property a mile or so from town.
An old existing windmill was tuned up and pumps clear, cool water into a tank. The water overflows into a manmade depression, where it’s easily accessed by the birds.
Everything around the windmill is mowed almost down to bare dirt. Doves can pick grit as well as get a drink.
An old tree has been leaned up against a huge pile of dirt. There’s also a faux powerline Kershner and Boulware put on the spot, too.
Two seasons hunting the spot have shown over 50% of the doves land on the wire before dipping down to get a drink.
Making a dove puddle
Doves have three basic needs — food, roosting trees and water. They’re best hunted by what’s least available in an area. In western Kansas, that’s usually water.
Joey Yeager is a farmer between Cimarron and Dodge City. There’s always plenty of grain and enough shelterbelts for roosting. Water, not so much.
Yeager keeps about 500 feet of old garden hose at his farmstead. A few days before dove season he can hook it all together and flood a low spot in a grain field to the north.
The “dove puddle” is only a few inches deep, a few yards wide and maybe 20 yards long. That’s enough to draw in native mourning doves and the invasive Eurasian collared-doves that live around most farmsteads these days. His puddle hunts usually produce quick limits of 15 mourning doves.
More keys to successful hunting
Landowners can also greatly increase the dove hunting success on their land the following ways:
Allow overflow. Let windmills overflow, making it easier for doves to access water on the open ground.
Clear pond shores. Use a mower or weed eater to open up areas of shorelines around ponds. Doves like to stand on bare ground to drink.
Mow wheat. A few rows of wheat can be left unharvested, then mowed just prior to the season. Completely harvested wheat stubble can still be mowed low to draw doves. Burning wheat stubble works even better because the golden wheat kernels are so easily seen.
Stay persistent. Don’t give up if the action slows after a few days. Check fields and water for migrating flocks as you come and go. Some of a season’s best hunts are often long after opening day.
Pearce writes from Lawrence.

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Have YOU been to Chevon’s Hair Studio in Rockville?
Then you know about her heartfelt journey from Shampoo Assistant to Salon Owner…
Way back in 1986 while I was studying for my cosmetology license, I started out as a shampoo assistant at the New Look Hair Studio in Rockville.
Now I am the owner of my own salon specializing in black hair care with a shampoo assistant as my hire. I hope to give her the same great start in the beauty business my first opportunity gave me.
After getting licensed, the owner of New Look started giving me her overflow. That’s how I got the experience and began to build my clientele. After 3 years, she retired, closed her shop, and moved to South Carolina.
Eventually, I found a great place to work in Gaithersburg – Extreme Hair Salon. Six years later, in November 2001, the owner, Donna Cline-Smythe, sold her business because the overhead got to be too much.
Guess where SHE has been for the past 15 years… You got it, Salon Plaza Rockville!
How I Created this Haven for Black Hair Care
After Extreme closed, I was switching salons so much. I needed to find a place to stay as long as I could do hair. A place to call my own.
One day a customer came in for services who was a hairstylist. She had just toured Salon Plaza Rockville and loved it, but wasn’t ready to own her own shop. There was ONE vacancy – Right away I called Salon Plaza, took the tour, and got in. That was 9 years ago.
Come see for yourself…
What’s it like to own a salon?
It’s so good to be able to set my own hours, operate the way I want to, and attract the kind of clients I like to work with. I have the FREEDOM and CONTROL to create my own atmosphere, standards, and professionalism.
I do miss having other stylists in with me because we feed off of each other. But you don’t have to deal with a lot of different personalities… that’s why Chevon’s Hair Studio is Peace and Joy –
Not hectic, with all of the good and bad that comes with that!
Since I like new ideas and innovations, I find other ways to get the same buzz – like going to hair shows and styling classes. In the Plaza, we interact together and share new ideas – when we don’t forget to take the time.
The Members Only Coaching Calls with marketing and motivation are a great idea. It’s better to be on LIVE and ask questions, but the calls are recorded if you can’t make it.
My passion is Black Hair Care
I love to show women how to take care of their natural hair. No add-ons. Many of my clients come regularly – every week or every 2 weeks, usually at the same time. We all know each other and get comfortable together.
Even though I’ll have up to 4 in my studio, there’s still a lot of PRIVACY. My clients feel free to talk about black hair care issues – and more.
We talk about our spirit. Everyone engages because we are all going through the same things in life. Coming to my salon is about more than just hair. So much more. It’s about nourishing everything. When you feel good inside, your hair grows well.
As women, we go through so much – our hair is so important to us!
We tend to take care of everyone and everything else, except ourselves. Stress causes a lot of illness. You have to make sure your inside is healthy to make sure your hair is healthy.
Not only that – As women, we have to work harder and be careful with personalities, attitudes and how we present ourselves. It’s a challenge to blend with society while maintaining personal character.
That’s why Chevon’s Hair Studio is a Haven for Women to come in and be themselves – with camaraderie.
I base my business on God. Whoever I am, how well I am, is who I bring in – I attract clients with the same cares and perspectives as I have. It’s important to avoid negativity and keep the atmosphere at a good place.
I’m committed to Salon Plaza
My clients like the 1-1 “catered attention”. They like it, and I like it. I get to know then better. It’s just more personable in a studio salon. I’m here for the duration.
Thinking of opening a black hair care salon in a Salon Plaza Studio?
It’s a great place to be as long as you have experience and a clientele. Be sure you are already established. This is a lifetime decision.
You will be building something for yourself that serves others.
The best way to take care of yourself as a salon professional is to a have a positive outlook and a vision! Be in control – not out of control. If this sounds like a DREAM – and if you think you’re ready, then what are you waiting for? Take a tour, just like I did.
It just might change your life…


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Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar
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Sikkil Mala, the daughter of Sikkil
Neela, is the torchbearer of the bani
of the famed flautist duo – the Sikkil
Sisters, Sangita Kalanidhis Kunjumani
and Neela. Mala’s journey with the
flute, did not begin purposefully as
the heir apparent of the flute lineage
of her family, but in a very casual
manner. Since there was so much
music and flute being played around
her, she naturally gravitated towards
it and her mother taught her further.
Mala, by her own admission, was
quite a playful child, interested in a lot
of handwork, painting and drawing.
Her progress in music was gradual but
little. She recalls with a chuckle that
she would listen to her mother and
aunt’s concerts, eagerly waiting for
them to play the mangalam, so that
she could then go and hug her mother
and be with her!


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King Charles and Queen Camilla have waved to the gathered crowd following his coronation at Westminster Abbey.
From left to right we see: the Duke of Edinburgh, the Earl of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, Princess Charlotte, the Princess of Wales, Prince Louis, the Prince of Wales, the King's Pages of Honour including Prince George, Lord Oliver Cholmondley, Nicholas Barclay, Ralph Tollemache, King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Queen's Pages of Honour including Louis and Gus Lopes, Freddy Parker Bowles and Arthur Eliot, Lady in Attendance Annabel Eliot and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Princess Alexandra of Kent, the Duke of kent, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Gloucester.
The King and Queen were joined by their royal pages and members of the British royal family.
Three million royal fans lined the streets for the procession and many gathered outside Buckingham Palace following the coronation to see this historic moment.
Senior royals joined the King and Queen for their balcony appearance including the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Prince George, who acted as a page for the coronation, Princess Charlotte and Princess Louis.
Also on the balcony, the Duke and Duchess of Edingburgh and their children Lady Louise and Viscount James.
Queen Elizabeth's final appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace was for her Platinum Jubilee in June 2022.
The Queen, 96, stood with the aid of a cane, alongside King Charles, Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, eight and Prince Louis, five.
Her Majesty died just three months later on September 8 at Balmoral Castle following years of declining health.
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for Trooping The Colour on June 8, 2019, they didn't yet know this would be their final balcony appearance.
The couple resigned as senior working royals in January 2020, with balcony appearances reserved for working royals.
This would also be Prince Andrew's final appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
He would be forced to stand down from royal duties in May 2020 after being accused of sexual assault against a minor and for his past contact with deceased convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Meghan Markle's first appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace took place at Trooping The Colour on June 9, 2018 following her marriage to Prince Harry on May 19 that year.
Only spouses are allowed to join in balcony appearances as part of the royal family.
Princess Charlotte joined the British Royal family for Trooping the Colour on June 11, 2016.
She was just over a year old.
In 2016 it was still a large crowd of British royals gathering for the iconic appearance and to view the fly over.
Prince George's balcony debut took place on June 13, 2015.
The toddler delighted in the view from Buckingham Palace under the careful watch of his parents and grandparents.
He was almost two at the time.
The Prince and Princess of Wales appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as is tradition following royal weddings.
This was on April 29, 2011.
Here we see the other royals turn to look at the pair, who are about to kiss for the crowd.
Prince William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, shared a kiss for the crowd who erupted in cheers at the time.
King Charles and Queen Camilla were married on April 9, 2005 and two months later she would join the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for Trooping the Colour.
Commemoration Day 2011 marked the 60th anniversary, which saw the royals appear on the balcony of Buckingham Place.
As part of events the royals watched a fly-past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight during with 1,000,000 poppies were dropped on the royals and the crowd that had gathered.
Princess Diana's final balcony appearance was in 1992.
Charles and Diana would announce their split later that year and finalise their divorce in 1996.
Diana died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 at the age of 36.
Queen Elizabeth was joined by senior royals on the balcony of Buckingham palace for her Diamond Jubilee on June 5, 2012.
The appearance followed a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Catheral.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were joined by all three of their children for Trooping the Colour on June 2, 2022.
Also gathered on the balcony were King Charles and Queen Camilla, Queen Elizabeth, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
The Queen Mother's final balcony appearance took place on May 8, 2001.
She is pictured here with Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.
Princess Margaret placed a supportive hand on her mother's lower back during the appearance.
The Queen Mother died on March 30, 2002.
The royal family gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee on June 4, 2002.
It was a large gathering of royals including Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry as well as Prince Andrew, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
Prince William's final solo appearance took place on June 12, 2010.
That November he would announce his engagement to Catherine Middleton and the following April the pair would wed.
Prince Harry joined his family for Trooping the Colour on June 11, 1988, as a toddler.
Here he is pictured being held by his mother Princess Diana, their outfits in the same shade of vibrant green.
Also in the photo are Prince William and Princess Margaret.

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Directions to Patria HotelAddress: Ku Vodopadom 33, Strbske Pleso, Slovakia
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Rooms from: US$ 43.94
Directions to Patria Hotel
From Kosice Airport head northwest 2 km, slight right onto E58 and after 750 m merge onto E58 toward Miskolc/E71/Michalovce/E50. After 7.2 km follow signs for Presov, following Route 68 8.5 km and E50 (signs for Presov) 23.9 km. Follow signs for Vranov nad Toplou/Stara Lubovna/E50/68. After 1.1 km continue onto Lesik delostrelcov 400 m. Follow signs for Poprad/Stara Lubovna. After 55 m turn right onto Jana Holleho, after 400 m turn left following signs for Poprad. After 67 km at the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Route 18/E50 heading to Poprad. After 11.6 km take the ramp onto D1/E50. After 26.4 km take exit 495-Mengusovce. After 190 m turn left onto Route 18, after 290 m 1st right onto Route 539. Follow this road 8 km. Slight right toward Strbske Pleso. After 850 m continue straight onto Strbske Pleso. After 350 m keep left at the fork and the hotel will be on your left after 1 km.


Field of research
|High performance computing, Hardware acceleration, Computational science and engineering
Alan Simpson, Technical Director
Paul Clark, Director of High Performance Computing
|The Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow
|Edinburgh, United Kingdom
|National: 1
|Globus Alliance, Software Sustainability Institute, BonFIRE
|University of Edinburgh
EPCC, formerly the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Since its foundation in 1990, its stated mission has been to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce.
The University has supported high performance computing (HPC) services since 1982. As of 2013[update], through EPCC, it supports the UK's national high-end computing system, ARCHER (Advanced Research Computing High End Resource), and the UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF).
EPCC's activities include: consultation and software development for industry and academia; research into high-performance computing; hosting advanced computing facilities and supporting their users; training and education .
The Centre offers two Masters programmes: MSc in High-Performance Computing and MSc in High-Performance Computing with Data Science .
It is a member of the Globus Alliance and, through its involvement with the OGSA-DAI project, it works with the Open Grid Forum DAIS-WG.
Around half of EPCC's annual turnover comes from collaborative projects with industry and commerce. In addition to privately funded projects with businesses, EPCC receives funding from Scottish Enterprise, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the European Commission.
EPCC was established in 1990, following on from the earlier Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project and chaired by Jeffery Collins from 1991. From 2002 to 2016 EPCC was part of the University's School of Physics & Astronomy, becoming an independent Centre of Excellence within the University's College of Science and Engineering in August 2016.
It was extensively involved in all aspects of Grid computing including: developing Grid middleware and architecture tools to facilitate the uptake of e-Science; developing business applications and collaborating in scientific applications and demonstration projects.
The Centre was a founder member of the UK's National e-Science Centre (NeSC), the hub of Grid and e-Science activity in the UK. EPCC and NeSC were both partners in OMII-UK, which offers consultancy and products to the UK e-Science community. EPCC was also a founder partner of the Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software Centre (NAIS).
EPCC has hosted a variety of supercomputers over the years, including several Meiko Computing Surfaces, a Thinking Machines CM-200 Connection Machine, and a number of Cray systems including a Cray T3D and T3E. In October 2023 it was selected as the preferred site of the first UK exascale computer.
EPCC manages a collection of HPC systems including ARCHER (the UK's national high-end computing system) and a variety of smaller HPC systems. These systems are all available for industry use on a pay-per-use basis.
Current systems hosted by EPCC include:
Recent systems hosted by EPCC include:


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To Do: Lecture, Book Signing with Born to Run Author Christopher McDougall
National best-selling author Christopher McDougall of Born to Run acclaim will make an appearance in University City on April 11th for a book signing and lecture at the Penn Museum. The lecture ties in to the museum’s current exhibit, “Run! Super Athletes of the Sierra Madre,” which just went on display last week. But the timing of the lecture is especially poignant: News came out earlier this week that 58-year-old ultramarathon runner Micah True, who was featured in Born to Run, was found dead in Gila National Forest in New Mexico. The event gets underway at 6 p.m.; admission is $5. More details are here.
$5, Wednesday, April 11th at 6 p.m., Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, University City.
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- One slot each for paper and ID card
- Built with rollers for flexible use (2 wheels are lockable)
- Removable and dustproof catchbasket
- Automatic start / stop
- Overheat and overload protection
- Equipped with jam free roller to prevent paper jam
- Material: shock resistant and recyclable plastic


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For this album I used DCWV Tahiti Beach Stack, Cricut Storybook Cartridge, some Stickles in turquoise, waterfall and frosted lace and some ribbon. The stamp is from Making Memories. The only thing I did differently than My Pink Stamper was add a ribbon tie to keep the album closed and since I didn't have any chip board handy I used a little trick I have done before where I used the back page of one of my paper stacks. The covers of paper stacks are slightly thicker than cardstock so it actually works pretty well. I scored mine a bit too deep so when I folded it the paper split in some spots and you can see the white core but it still looks cute and I add photos it won't be a big deal. My paper was also not double sided so because I didn't want any white on the inside at all I cut two squares of the floral patterned piece and just glued it over the white.
You can click the link to MPS blog on my sidebar to watch a video on how to make these!

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“A Christmas Carol”
With Amy and Rory trapped on a spaceship that’s about to crash onto a colonized world, the Doctor must convince the rich old miser who controls the planet’s artificial cloud-system to help him or his friends will die. Aided by a beautiful woman frozen in suspended animation, and a giant flying shark, the Doctor will bring together past, present and future just in time to save Christmas.
The story’s title draws an obvious comparison to the Dickens tale, about three spirits visiting Ebeneezer Scrooge and teaching him the meaning of Christmas and humanity while showing him various eras of his own life.
Luckily, the episode itself only borrows the initial premise, while thankfully staying away from a straight sci-fi adaption.
Unlike previous Christmas specials, which usually revolve around the Doctor’s sense of loneliness and isolation, this one features his two constant companions, Amy and Rory (who is now listed in the opening credits, good for him). The Doctor’s whole motivation in the story is to rescue the pair. This gives the Doctor free-range to try and help someone else deal with their inner turmoil, which is a much more enjoyably heroic trait.
Matt Smith’s Doctor feels a little more defined here than he did last season. I think writer and actor have a better idea of where they want to take the Eleventh Doctor this time around, with Smith exhibiting an actual personality to go along with all his quirky traits. Also, it helps that Amy isn’t around to overshadow him.
I thought Smith was a bit thin at times last season, in comparison with some of the past Doctors. But here, he is in full swing, ranging from geeky nerd to suave party-goer (My new favorite Doctor-quote is “Marilyn, get your coat!”). I hope this Doctor is the one we see return for Season 6.
As with a lot of Steven Moffat’s stories, this one revolves around children, with the kind of fairy tale feeling you get from something like Peter Pan. The character of Kazran, in his pajamas, running around with the Doctor, brings to mind “The Girl in the Fireplace” and “The Eleventh Hour.” We’ve seen this kind of story done before, with the Doctor traveling along someone’s history. But to be fair, this one does have a different slant on it. Here the Doctor is deliberately trying to alter someone’s life, which calls to mind Steven Moffat’s own short story “Continuity Errors.”
Kazran, the rich old miser, played by Michael Gambon (Dumbledore II from Harry Potter) was a suitably cranky character, but the kind you love to hate. He got so many great lines in the episode, and the opening scene with him was hilarious. And the character of Abygail was just as enchanting and lovable as you’d want her to be.
Remarkably, the episode is able to take all the different characters, and give them equal importance and time, without overshadowing anyone. Amy and Rory don’t have a lot to do, but that’s fair, since we just saw a bunch of them, and we are about to see a lot more.
The story of Kazran is an interesting one. As I said above, Steven Moffat wrote a short Doctor Who story way back in the 90′s called “Continuity Errors” (set in the planet-sized Library from “Silence in the Library) about the Doctor coming up against a bitter librarian who refuses to lend him an important book. Just like this story, the Doctor goes back and changes bits of her history to make her a nicer person. But here, things are a little tougher, as Kazran says in one of the best exchanges, “Time can be rewritten… People can’t.”
All the various Kazran’s did a great job, especially considering that he is essentially the villain of the story. You come to understand and feel for him.
Abygail’s character is just as engaging, if a little less defined. She’s more of a plot device than a character. But in the end, it works out. I’m glad we didn’t have to deal with the fallout of the situation. At times, Doctor Who has focused a little too much on the sadness of a situation. But here, we get the opposing argument, that sadness and happiness go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. I think that’s a hallmark of Moffat’s stories, and of his series so far.
Kazran and Abygail’s story was bittersweet, but perfect for both Christmas and Doctor Who. The whole tone, from the steampunkish setting, to various tricks with time travel, and Amy and Rory on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, make this probably the most diverse Christmas special yet. Even though Kazran tries to “put away childish things” when it comes to the Doctor and Christmas, I’m glad we don’t have to.
Bring on Season 6!
A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATING
|Visually stunning, with a much more define personality for the Doctor||Familiar premise for the show.|