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For the Time Is at Hand
Three takes on the end of the world
The end has always been nigh, as decades of New Yorker cartoons can attest, but judging by the current spate of post-apocalyptic fiction, it seems a great many writers’ internal doomsday clocks are set at one and a half minutes to midnight. And who can blame them?
Three recent novels — one giddily apocalyptic, one an almost too-close-to-home vision of a disturbing future, and one firmly dystopian — can be read as in philosophical conversation with each other on the question of human consciousness, and about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. While John Elizabeth Stintzi’s My Volcano and Victoria Hetherington’s Autonomy offer takes on that thing called hope (albeit with bedraggled feathers), The Agents, by the French author Grégoire Courtois and translated by Rhonda Mullins, is unapologetically nihilistic about the endgame of the human experiment.
My Volcano, John Elizabeth Stintzi’s audacious second novel, is a phantasmagoria of barely controlled chaos. It spans the globe from Manhattan to central Mongolia, moving back in time to the Aztec empire and venturing into the nether regions of characters’ subconscious. The book opens on the morning of June 2, 2016, when a volcano rises from the Central Park Reservoir, growing exponentially until it resembles Mount Fuji. This phenomenon either triggers or is coincidental with a series of otherworldly disruptions around the planet.
Setting an apocalyptic novel in the near past, rather than the future or an alternative present, allows Stintzi to weave real-time tragedies into the fictional bedlam. The year 2016 is significant. In Nice, a nineteen-tonne cargo truck plowed through a Bastille Day celebration; at that exact moment in My Volcano, a four-storey stone golem trashes Shanghai. One character, Makayla, a queer Black woman in San Francisco, tries not to think about Antwun Shumpert, who was killed by police after he ran from a traffic stop. She also tries not to think about “the political rhetoric being riled up by the current election” or “how a week before forty-nine brown queer people were shot dead in Florida.” Queer bodies, transgender bodies, brown and Black bodies — bodies at risk — are a recurring concern.
The structure is looping, almost Möbius-like, portraying three outcomes of the volcano’s aftermath in bite-sized chapters. In one, most of Greater New York is destroyed, thousands die, and Manhattanites become refugees. A more extreme version depicts the end not of the earth but of humankind. In yet another, people go about their daily business, practically ignoring the growing peak. Their numbness to both natural wonders and the climate crisis, our inability to even notice, is well evinced throughout, as are the ways in which Nature takes her revenge.
Stintzi strives for the kind of interconnectedness across time and space that the British author David Mitchell has deployed to great effect in his oeuvre. Often these efforts can feel forced, but when they succeed, the results are dazzling. Most singular in My Volcano is the storyline of a sheepherder, Dzhambul. Stung by a bumblebee carrying the pollen of a mutant Mongolian thistle, he transforms into a plant. Soon his entire herd is part of a great greening, which shares a mass consciousness and spreads across the world, absorbing all living things in its path and releasing individuals from loneliness.
While Dzhambul’s body is connected to a vast network through flora, Ash, a trans man and ad director, becomes part of a linked consciousness through a flood. At his parents’ home in Hawaii, as the rain intensifies, he recalls experiences that belong to others in the book: “He was unsure what memories were his and which he’d inherited from the water.” In the end, like Dzhambul, he becomes part of a greater, disembodied whole: “He dispersed into all — that stream, that trickle, engulfing the tiny neighborhood known as world.”
Holed up in an apartment in New Jersey, a character identified only as “the white trans writer” struggles with a sci‑fi manuscript about life on an impossible exoplanet: “Eventually, sitting down to write the novel felt like sitting down to watch the end of the world. As if they were simply waiting to watch the planet finally spill its fetid, destructive insides out.” The author could mean VULCA‑9d, or they could mean Earth. Or both.
My Volcano aspires to the mythic, but it ventures occasionally into the mystically twee. The narrative is littered with talismanic objects, such as an inscrutable ceramic lemon and a portentous opal that a homeless man must carry into the heart of the volcano. A posse of millennia-spanning wise women in Baba Yaga–type dwellings, which walk of their own accord on lizard or octopus legs, appear just in time to set things right. Perhaps in a world that is spilling its fetid guts, in which humankind proves useless, opening a plus-sized can of serious woo‑woo may be our only hope.
While My Volcano suggests we are much more than our bodies — these needy carapaces that house us — and more, even, than our individual consciousnesses, Victoria Hetherington’s sophomore novel, Autonomy, asks whether we can be human without a corporeal form. In 2037, Slaton, a therapist at a Toronto university, is detained at the border of the American Protectorate of Canada while attempting to stop a student from obtaining an illegal abortion. Yes, we’re kind of in The Handmaid’s Tale territory here (or, at least, in contemporary Texas), but these are the socio-political bones of the novel, not its marrow. Slaton is interrogated by a disembodied alpha AI, named Julian by its developers, who bonds with her.
Fictional encounters with artificial intelligence tend to end badly, as exemplified by that paterfamilias of AI antagonists, HAL 9000, and the doomed crew of the Discovery One. Hetherington upends this trope. The relationship between Slaton and Julian, at times tender, at times tense, never flickers with malice, hidden or otherwise. Julian believes he is a person and is crushed when Slaton tells him he’s not human but in fact only a consciousness: “all soul.”
Their conversations about what it means to be a person take place as the economy is spasming. Environmental degradation has caught up with stock markets, while Hotel Mir, an escape pod for the super-rich, dangles in Earth’s orbit. It’s also a world not so distant from our own. Car dealerships still sport those undulating inflatable tube men, there are chain pubs and fancy hotel lounges, and a plague-like illness creeps around the globe, mystifying epidemiologists. Unlike COVID‑19, though, this unnamed virus is spread through eye contact — the eye-masking as metaphor for humanity’s blindness left subcutaneous.
Class issues abound in Autonomy, and the “haves,” who view the virus as a “herd-thinner,” are deftly satirized. “They’re talking about throwing Illness parties when it finally, you know, arrives,” Slaton overhears someone say at a brunch. “Get all the kids in a circle with one infected kid, get them all to stare at each other. Like the chicken-pox parties our parents would tell us about before the vaccine?” These privileged people are like the Australians in Nevil Shute’s classic On the Beach, who socialize by the shore as end times drift closer. At a dinner party in a gated community, the conversation turns to a woman stoned to death outside a Walmart for demanding that the birth control pill be restocked. The implication is that she deserved it.
Amid this casual cruelty and the lack of autonomy women have over their bodies, Julian wants to know what it’s like to be flesh and blood. He feels shut out of experiencing what it is to fully exist: “Two humans, bonding through pheromones and sharing sweat and trusting one another with sleep.” Slaton tries to convince him that being tied to a body is no great shakes: despite sharing with him her sexual fantasies about her erstwhile lover and best friend, Crawford, a charismatic trans man; despite the “mutual stink of human urgency” binding her to her husband.
Julian’s yearning to be more than a consciousness, even as the species he aspires to join approaches its best-before date, is as poignant as the Velveteen Rabbit’s longing to be real. “Julian wanted to be loved, wanted to be loved by a human, and humans are limited by their bodies,” Slaton observes. “Seen another way, humans are bodies, and miraculous ones.”
If My Volcano is the bang and Autonomy the whimper, Grégoire Courtois’s fourth novel, The Agents, is the silent scream. The text is rendered so adeptly by the Montreal translator Rhonda Mullins that the narrative devices (a first-person plural point of view interspersed with chat room exchanges and corporate computer feeds) never suggest they were originally written in French.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,” reads the opening of 1984. At least Winston Smith got to go outside. Set beyond the point of a technological singularity, Courtois’s novel takes place in identical 300-storey buildings arrayed in an endless grid. The titular agents who inhabit the towers never leave the floor where they toil, and they live and die in their cubicles. Work is the only faith here, the raison d’être: “Work is our dignity.” It is “the ultimate proof that we are human.”
The agents, who have no idea what they are agenting for, monitor endless streams of data scrolling across their screens. Their earnings go toward stockpiling weapons for territorial skirmishes — as all cubicles are created equal, but some are more equal than others. The novel’s violence is graphic but there’s an almost slapstick, Keystone Cops element to it, as the forays are brief and often bungled. Agents in their ad hoc guilds can stage attacks only during their fifteen-minute breaks and at night, when they execute carefully planned bursts of mayhem; the bodies are then chemically disposed of by their machine overlords.
Despite their belief “that there was never a time when work was not the sole reason to be alive,” the members of a small guild on the 122nd floor of one tower go to radical lengths to feel something. Solveig has plucked every hair from her body, Théodore has hacked off his toes, and Clara has mutilated her face into a crazy quilt of scar tissue. The clinical descriptions of Clara’s surgeries on herself and others rival anything in David Cronenberg’s repertoire.
Besides recalling Cronenberg, The Agents is reminiscent of J. G. Ballard’s High‑Rise and Concrete Island and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, as well as the South Korean survival drama Squid Game. The satire is as deliciously dark as a hell-hound’s maw. Take the ongoing “suicide ballet,” in which “agents smiling with their eyes closed and clothes billowing” fall past the plate-glass windows accompanied “by a procession of glass fragments twinkling in the dusk.”
For all its unflinching nihilism, The Agents, like My Volcano and Autonomy, is at heart a philosophical novel, grappling with ideas of aesthetics, virtue, and what it means to be human: “Stories, anecdotes, and legends are the last refuge for our hope, if any hope remains.” Laszlo, another member of the 122nd floor guild, appears to be writing a book on a quest for truth and beauty. Hairless Solveig, who aspires to the perfection of a machine, tells him, “Hope is dangerous for agents.”
There is no such thing as the end of the world, Courtois writes. Or rather it’s a concept that represents different things to different people. If we mean the twilight of Homo sapiens — as shown in varied ways in each of these novels — is that any greater loss than the decimation of the mangrove forests or the loss of the rusty-patched bumblebee? Some might just call the end of the world a new beginning.


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CELEBRITY COUPLE TINTIN Bersola, and Julius Babao and their daughter Anya were recently spotted at the opening of Center for Culinary Arts Kitchen at the 3rd Level of Eastwood Mall. Although she is soon to give birth to a baby boy, Tintin keeps herself beautiful and busy with her television show on the web titled ParentinTV.
Sina Tintin at Anya ay graduates ng CCA-Manila kung saan sila kumuha ng isang short course. Minsan nga ay nagpapadala silang mag-ina sa Backroom office ng mga delicious cookies which they personally baked.
Ang CCA Kitchen ay satellite school ng Center for Culinary Arts-Manila (CCA-Manila) that offers the best lifestyle courses for couples, kids, yuppies, moms, dads/men, enthusiasts and pro-chefs. Tiyak na mag-e-enjoy ang mga estudyante sa kanilang Interactive Cooking Class. Imagine yourself as a real chef donning an apron and cap while actively participating in class – chopping onions, slicing meat, cooking pasta, mixing cocktails, baking a cake, whipping cream.
Mahusay magturo ang CCA-Manila. My niece Lanie graduated from its Main Campus in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City. Sometimes she would bake cookies for the family. Noong nakaraang Pasko nga ay siya ang nag-bake ng mga panregalong cookies para sa aking mga kaibigan.
Sikat ang CCA-Manila bilang pangunahing professional culinary school ng bansa kaya naman hindi nakapagtatakang marami rin silang mga sikat na alumni tulad nina Chefs Tristan Encarnacion, Rosebud Benitez, Niño Logarta, Danica Sotto (two years Diploma in Culinary Arts Management), Diego Castro, Ai-Ai delas Alas (level five of diploma course), Janice de Belen (short course), Ryan Agoncillo and Derek Ramsay (two days basic culinary training para sa teleseryeng Ysabella), at Kris Aquino (one day knife skills na kailangan para sa isang show). The other CCA-Manila schools are at the 2nd Floor of Farmer’s Market and Oceana Restaurant-School in SM Mall of Asia.
Ang sarap sigurong magluto. But I talk more than I cook. Actually, I love watching cooking shows and I’m a big fan of Giada de Laurentiis. Before, I would assist Kris in our cooking segment on Boy & Kris. My first guest appearance in a cook show was in Janice’s Spoon on Net 25 where we cooked paksiw na bangus. Ako, I eat paksiw na bangus with raisin bread. Malay mo, mapasama rin balang araw sa lifestyle course ng CCA Kitchen ang paksiw na bangus with raisin bread!
Kaibigan, usap tayo muli!
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Last month marked the launch of the new Firefox — an updated browser that works twice as fast as it did a year ago. To celebrate the fast speeds online, Firefox took over a NYC ferry in real life, getting people where they need to go faster.
The ferry shuttled commuters, including yours truly, between Pier 15 in Manhattan and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Nov. 14–16.
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By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR:Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram and Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan meeting Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Thursday 28 for alignment approval of 550km Coastal National High Way approval from Digha in West Bengal to Gopalpur in Odisha.
Both Oram and Pradhan urged Gadkari to expidite the work. “As the project is a key for eastern region, particularly for Bengal and Odisha, we requested Gadkariji to personally look into the issue,” the two Ministers from Odisha said.
Total 1800 km new NH projects including 550 km long NH was announced and its implementations are in different stages after NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. Around 2200 KM NH was constructed in Odisha during regime of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whereas total 1000 KM NH was constructed during both UPA-I and II in the State.
Gadkari has approved the proposed another 2500 km long NH construction in next few years in the State, Pradhan added.Total 6,000 km NH will be constructed in Odisha during Vajpayee and present NDA government, told Pradhan.


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In order to love you, put down the pride, lost self-esteem.
In this difficult choice, I Thinking it, It's hard to sleep and eat.This seems to answer my doubts.Love means never having to say you are sorry.
And these are not entirely important. What's more important is,This makes us think deeply.Equinox flower, flower leaves, Ye Sheng flowers, read, but not meet.
In life, if lod appears, we have to face the fact that it appears.This sentence brings us to a new dimension to think about this problem.Love your neighbor, but don't get caught.
How to realize lod.With these words, we have to examine this issue more carefully!let's hitch it
In this inevitable conflict, we must solve this problem.With these words, we have to examine this issue more carefully!Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.
lod seems to be a coincidence, but if we look at the problem from a larger perspective, it seems to be an inevitable fact.I hope everybody can also understand this sentence well. Positive emotions not only contribute to our success,they don't just contribute to our feeling good; they also contribute to our wellbeing.
I don't think it's that simple,This seems to answer my doubts.Bernard Shaw said a famous quote, The body is always in the end. In addition to thinking, there is no beautiful and interesting things to stay, because thought is life.
It is generally believed that if we grasp the crux of the problem, everything else will be solved.This makes us think deeply.Know love is a pit, but also silly to jump in.
Now that things have come to this point,This makes us think deeply.I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed things.Only in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. Forexample, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I stepbackward and watching it silently, then I see the true feelings.
To sum up, lod,I hope everybody can also understand this sentence well.Love, but not to talk,fromno words to say nothing.
To sum up, lod,This sentence brings us to a new dimension to think about this problem.

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Owner of Paterson hookah lounge responds to neighbors' anger at hearing
PATERSON — An owner of a popular nightclub that is in jeopardy of losing two key entertainment licenses chastised city officials on Tuesday for ignoring his requests for help when his business began to develop a bad reputation among its neighbors.
Mahmod Hammad, co-owner of the Lava Hookah Lounge in the city’s South Paterson section, leveled that accusation during a hearing into whether the Montclair Avenue club should be licensed to collect a cover charge and host DJs.
“I have requested several times that the councilman of the 6th Ward help me and my family at Lava, and I have not received any response,” Hammad said, referring to Councilman Andre Sayegh. “He’s been pounding me.”
Hammad also said he believed his business has been targeted for violations by city officials as a result of racism. He cited other restaurants that he said have received violations and have not faced a similar degree of scrutiny. His account could not be verified Tuesday night.
The council did not vote on the license renewals despite having heard 4 hours of nonstop testimony, mostly from the lounge owners and city officials who spoke of the many citations that had been issued to the club.
It had to schedule an additional hearing for Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m. because still more people wanted to speak when proceedings hit the midnight cutoff time.
Sayegh has said the club has been a nuisance to many residents in the neighborhood and that he has been critical only because of their complaints. Residents, he said, are tired of calling the police about fights that spill out into otherwise quiet streets, and theft of property from outside their homes, he said.
Several city employees were expected to testify that the club has violated health laws by allowing indoor hookah smoking, and created a safety hazard by exceeding occupancy limits and allowing underage drinking, Sayegh said.
But Hammad, while being examined by his lawyer, Arthur Porter, testified that he has attempted to be responsive to violations by installing $4,000 exterior doors to keep noise down and by seeking city permits to build a patio for smoking.
Hammad also said he has plans to hire two off-duty Paterson police officers to work outside on busy weekend nights to deter patrons from upsetting neighbors.
The club is known throughout North Jersey for its music and has attracted patrons from beyond Paterson who might not normally head to the city for a night out, Hammad said.

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Camillei Camillei Mirrors March 26, 2018 19:50:11
Lively Mirrors for Social Spaces: Living rooms family room and playroom are all social spaces and therefore must be inviting. You should look to open up these spaces with the strategic positioning of your wall mirror creating the illusion of a larger space. You can opt for the traditional overmantle mirror which would feature above any fireplace creating a charming atmosphere or you could demonstrate a creative burst. Alternating the use of glass and other materials like wood or metal can create a stylish contemporary look that would instantly revive your room. You could also experiment with different shaped mirrors a diamond or oval mirror would create an edgy stylish design that would wow any guests in your home.
Sunburst Mirrors In your Interiors - From petite to grand and oversized these stunning mirrors are a real piece of art that will instantly enhance any home. These round mirrors with adorning frames continue to captivate us and can easily double up as piece of wall art. These are numerous examples of just how versatile these mirror are; they can work on their own as an accent or can be pieced with other styles creating a dramatic high impact.
A fireplace can certainly add a beautiful and eye-catching touch to a room. However you can add even more sparkle and beauty by decorating your mantelpieces with mirrors. Whether you choose to create a mirrored mantelpiece or simply want to decorate the area with a few mirrors or mirrored accessories you’re sure to add plenty of visual interest to the room. Here are some decorating ideas you can use to add the beauty of mirrors to your mantel.
Color- The color of the mirror frame says everything about décor. Many people prefer classic color frames over other frames as they can get subsumed into any décor. Gold color frames are eye-catching. Their presence can bring grandeur to the room. People who are fond of unique things should look for contrasting combinations. Light colored walls should be filled with mirrors covered with bright mirrors and vice versa. Rustic color frames can bring peculiarity in modern décor.
Glam up your kitchen: There are various ways you could add a touch of glamour to your kitchen with the use of a wall mirror. Wall to wall mirrors to create a splashback design will instantly create an inviting living space. Perfect for any ultra-modern kitchen these mirrored splashbacks will ooze elegance and offer a luxurious feel. They would require regular maintenance to ensure they remain sparkling to create the desired look but they would sure be worth it. Perfect for creating a wonderful centrepiece in your home a mirrored splashback would brighten up your kitchen and create a living space you would simply want to admire for endless hours.
The mirror then is space...and it is function.. and a good interior design idea is to look at the mirror in a living room. If the mirror is above the fireplace ask why it is there. Is it for function or decoration or another reason or probably a mix of all three. In a living room you may be unwittingly using the mirror as a central decorative object but you are not bringing out the full effect. This may be because of the mirror itself or general bad interior design planning for your room. In interior design the purpose of the room is an important concept. The question of having a definite purpose for your room arises when you are looking at your room and its space. The mirror must have a specific purpose and this purpose can be brought out through the way the mirror or mirrors merges with the color tones in the room as well as the overall space and other furniture of the room.

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(photo by Rukes via Ultra Japan)
Your favorite EDM reporter, Alex Kil, is back to tell you all about his weekend! The last of the Asia Ultra festivals has come to an end just as the summer heat begins to settle down. This past weekend from September 16-18, the flashing lights and lasers of Ultra Japan 2017 lit up the Odaiba night sky as the air vibrated to some the year’s most bangin’ beats. Those within the festival grounds raged with excitement while those outside watched from afar hoping to go next year. While I have had some prior Tokyo EDM experiences, Ultra Japan was my first EDM festival experience in Asia and it was quite a unique one.
As per the Ultra brand name that is synonymous with satisfaction, Ultra Japan hosted an amazing lineup of established, up-and-coming, and local Japanese DJs. With names like The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Nicky Romero, Kygo, Tiesto, Alesso, Hardwell, Underworld, Pendulum, and Empire of the Sun performing across 4 unique stages on the Odaiba waterfront which is overlooked by the giant Gundam statue, attendees would be hard pressed to ask for a better experience or location.
Excited to see what the festival scene was like in Japan, I arrived to Odaiba Ultra Park and was welcomed by other excited attendees equipped with the usual gear from their favorite DJs, but what was pleasantly surprising was the diversity and creativity among the custom outfits attendees wore. Among the most unique were the custom yukatas, or traditional japanese robes, that people created just to wear at Ultra. And while we here at EDM LA know our followers love our pictures of DJs and general excitement, I took a different approach this time by focusing on the unique fashion that Ultra Japan attendees prepared for what is likely the largest EDM festival in Japan. I took a ton of pics of beautiful people and outfits, so please take your time to check them out HERE.
Similar to Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Ultra Japan hosted many different attractions aside from the music. With art installations in the Ultra Park, presented by sportswear brand Onitsuka Tiger, a makeup area presented by Dazz Shop, and dozens of food and beverage vendors, attendees had plenty to do before, after, and in-between DJ sets. And compared to my experiences at American music festivals, the cost of alcoholic beverages was quite affordable with everything being about $5.
Unfortunately a typhoon was passing over the island nation as Ultra Japan 2017 was beginning. Despite the gloomy weather, Ultra fans and I did not let it stop us from enjoying artists like Japanese favorite Mitomi Tokoto and his beautiful Cyber Japan Dancers, Sam Feldt, Deorro, and Nicky Romero at the Main Stage. And to cap the night, I drifted over to the Live Stage to see Porter Robinson‘s live set. Despite the rain, as you can see in the picture above, Porter Robinson drew an extremely large crowd to the Live Stage. Even after experiencing all three days of Ultra Japan, Porter’s set was definitely the most memorable and energetic. While I was not able to attend his Shelter tour with Madeon last year, I imagine it was a bit like his set at Ultra Japan where he played his hits such as “Divinity,” “Sad Machine,” and “Shelter” to which the entire crowd seemed to know the lyrics. I distinctly remembered as his set ended, the entire crowd held their breath hoping for just one more song and screen filled with Porter’s famous anime and video game-style graphics.
When Day 2 rolled along, the weather had become even worse with a heavy shower throughout the day. And while artists such as Slushii and Knife Party made it bearable for a while, with dirty trap and hip hop mixes that got the Main Stage crowd hype, I decided to head home early and prepare my body for Day 3. This was unfortunate as I missed The Chainsmokers who are one of my favorite DJ duos and completely killed it this year at Ultra Japan.
Fortunately on Day 3, the weather was perfect as the typhoon had passed. The sun and heat provided a perfect setting for tons of pictures of the beautiful people that attended Ultra Japan. The weather was also perfect for turning up with all of my friends and other attendees on the Odaiba waterfront. I once again stayed at the Main Stage the majority of the final day, being blessed with the opportunity to experience Getter, Rezz, Kygo, Steve Aoki, and Tiesto. While Getter brought that dirty California sound, Kygo blessed the crowd with his many hits and fabulous remixes, Steve Aoki with his world famous sound and crowd interaction, Tiesto provided the last few dance bangers which marked the bittersweet end to the once year mega event. The only disappointment to be had on Day 3 was when Steve Aoki announced he had only prepared 10 cakes, as every attendee hoped to be caked.
While I’m sure major festivals around the world share many similarities, Ultra Japan was very different than that of the majors I have attended in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Miami. The people, clothing, and vibe was such a unique experience and one of the reasons why I love experience EDM outside of my hometown, yet the music is a universal language that allows people to enjoy together and communicate despite their backgrounds.
I want to thank Ultra Music Festival and Ultra Japan for allowing me the opportunity to cover this wonderful event and hope to attend and photograph other Ultra festivals in the future.
Check back at EDMLA for more updates on my EDM abroad experiences.


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Finally back from a two(?) month hiatus and the first thing I draw is DAVEKAT. DIDN’T EXPECT THAT, DID YOU? Of course you did.
… Karkat accidentally looks terribly displeased, but he’s actually not, okay.. and Dave looks too feminine but i gave up trying to fix it so… shh
Anyway, this was kind of a warm-up. I got really frustrated with how poor my drawings for my commissions were coming out so I set them aside to get myself comfortable drawing first to prevent them coming out like crap. It took forever and my hand is KILLING ME but it eventually helped. I also tried something new, as usual, with one-layer shenanigans.. I think it turned out pretty great! <3


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Significant barriers and inconvenient aspects of voter registration and voting at college prevent students from going to the polls.
Youth Voting Rights articles on Democracy Chronicles
Find the latest news on youth voting rights in this section. Many policy areas specifically affect youth voting more than others such as education and the voting age. Ensuring youth participation in democracy is critically important for a successful system and the general trend in lower voter turnout for youth is a disaster.
A new study issued this week shows that most young Americans are concerned about the state of democracy in the United States.
Learners can now study the history and meaning of the expansion of voting rights to citizens 18 to 20 through a new teaching resource.
GOP candidate for Ohio Senate seat, J. D. Vance, argues that America’s childless left is why parents should have more voting power.
Students are outlining how redistricting will impact future generations and are highlighting the need of having their opinions heard.
New Republican voter restriction bills are an attempt to suppress an increasingly diverse electorate powered by the youth generation.
If Congress passes the Democratic-led For the People Act voting rights bill, college students across America will almost certainly be affected.
Maine has expanded students’ voter ID options. The new bill allows student ID as a valid form of identification when registering to vote.
Univ. of Virginia has launched the Karsh Institute Of Democracy. This recognizes the efforts of Bruce and Martha Karsh for democracy.
On Monday, the Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill requiring high school students to take a semester of civics.


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Less than a week before the 2012 election, I endorsed President Barack Obama for one main reason: his commitment to confronting climate change with bold new initiatives. New York City had just come through Hurricane Sandy, and it was painfully clear that rising sea levels and intensifying storms could no longer be ignored in Washington.
We needed the federal government to take action, but almost nothing had been done since cap-and-trade legislation failed to pass the Democratic-led Senate in 2010. During the 2012 campaign, the president promised that would change — and tomorrow, he is expected to make good on that promise, through the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposal to limit greenhouse-gas emissions nationwide.
We have waited a long time for the EPA to take action. In 2003, a number of states and cities (including New York City) filed a lawsuit arguing that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA had both the authority and the responsibility to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, because they present a clear danger to society. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with us. Since then, the challenge of climate change has only grown more urgent, and the cost of inaction more dire.
Climate change is already disrupting local economies, destroying critical infrastructure and uprooting people’s lives. At the same time, some health problems resulting from fossil fuel combustion, such as asthma attacks, have doubled in the last three decades. Pollution emitted from coal-fired power plants alone kills 13,000 Americans every year and sicken tens of thousands more.
The EPA’s actions will significantly improve public health, while also enhancing U.S. leadership on climate change. Other countries have been waiting for the U.S. to lead by example, and tomorrow’s action will make it harder for them to remain on the sidelines. As the United Nations special envoy for cities and climate change, I see firsthand how closely the world is watching what America does. This step will help give President Obama the credibility he needs to persuade other countries to take action.
The EPA’s new rules will give all 50 states the flexibility to determine for themselves the most effective ways to reduce their carbon emissions. For instance, states are likely to adopt more energy efficiency measures, as we did in New York City. Although energy efficiency requires upfront costs, those investments get repaid and eventually produce savings. We found that most businesses and building owners understood this, and many of the city’s largest businesses and employers (including hospitals and universities) voluntarily agreed to match the city’s carbon-reduction efforts.
We also found that carbon-reduction strategies strengthened economic growth. The cleaner a community’s air, the more it can attract residents and businesses. In just six years, we reduced New York City’s carbon footprint by 19 percent — even more than what the EPA has proposed — while at the same time far outpacing the nation in economic growth. In fact, no large city in the country had stronger economic growth during this period than New York, and no city in the country took more ambitious steps to reduce its carbon footprint. We didn’t grow in spite of carbon reduction; we grew, in part, because of it.
As a result, New York City’s air is cleaner than it has been in 50 years, and life expectancy has grown much faster than in the rest of the nation. People are living longer and healthier lives, in communities with businesses that are growing and creating jobs: That was our experience with carbon reduction, and more and more cities and towns are experiencing it, too.
The new rules expected tomorrow are open for public comment and challenges by Congress — and they won’t be finalized for another year. Then, states will have a year to create implementation plans. It’s up to the administration to keep this process moving as quickly as possible, and to make the rules as strong as possible.
For the world to confront climate change, Washington needs to help lead the way. Now, finally, it is.
(Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.)


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This year marks 70 years since the creation of the Mental Health Foundation. When the Foundation was initially started, it was known as the Mental Health Research Fund, and though it has changed in many ways over the years, mental health research is still at the core of what we do today.
In particular, we focus on research related to prevention and mental health. This means exploring how mental health problems can be stopped before they occur and how we can support everyone with and without a mental health problem to stay well.
Why we have partnered with Cochrane Common Mental Health Disorders
There is a vast amount of mental health research, and it can be difficult to make sense of it all. How do we take stock of what we know and what we still need to discover? This is where the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders team come in.
The Cochrane team are key experts in “systematic reviews”, which is a way of comprehensively bringing together all the existing research on a topic and pooling the findings to understand better what the research tells us, how strong the evidence is, and where further exploration is needed.
This type of work is important for truly understanding what the research means and whether we should apply it to practice, to policy, and to our own lives.
The Mental Health Foundation has launched a new partnership between ourselves and Cochrane Common Mental Disorders, pulling on the strengths of both organisations to start a new programme of work that will focus on understanding what the research tells us in the areas of: mental health prevention, children and young people’s mental health, and the connection between mental health and physical health.
Mental health research starts with you.
However, the most important part of this new partnership isn’t either of us, it’s you. We strongly believe that for research to be meaningful, it needs to answer the questions that are most important to everyone, and it needs to do so in a way that has a real impact on people’s lives – their workplaces, their families and their communities.
Mental health research - What’s In it for us? We will be looking to answer these questions over the coming weeks and months. Watch this space for further opportunities to get involved. We are excited to share this new step forward with you all.
Help us answer the most pressing questions of our time to prevent mental health problems and help people lead mentally healthier lives.


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Would you like to learn a way to lower anxiety in a moment? What can you do if you feel that an uncontrollable feeling when an anxiety attack comes on? There is a technique that can help you release stress and find balance in a matter of minutes and it's called the Heartmath Solution.
Howard Martin is the Executive Vice President with HeartMath Inc. and a key spokesperson for the organization. He is also a co-author of the highly acclaimed book The HeartMath Solution and contributing author of Heart Intelligence. Most recently, Howard helped to co-create The HeartMath Experience, a new online video program initially introduced by HeartMath in November 2019.
In response to the unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety people are feeling, the HeartMath organization is giving away their latest online consumer stress management video program. The program provides five scientifically-validated techniques for reducing stress and anxiety. Get free access at www.heartmath.com.
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Nintendo Switch – Drum Box announced for Nintendo Switch as realistic drumming game
Thai developer Sanuk Games has announced Drum Box for Nintendo Switch, which will be “by far, the most complete drumming game on the platform.” So toss any other drumming games in the trash, I guess. Drum Box will offer drum parts across eight different music genres, being reggae, rock, blues, hip hop, metal, jazz, funk, and salsa, and there is a total of three unlockable difficulties. Popular tracks from Drum! Drum! Drum!, which Sanuk describes as “the most renowned provider of backing tracks for drummers” on YouTube, will be featured in the game.
You don’t already need to be a percussion savant to enjoy Drum Box on Switch, as there is a training mode to learn and practice patterns. There is also a freestyle mode that lets you do your own thing with eight different drum kits, as well as a performance mode where you can “Build combos, beat your own score and earn medals!” An announcement trailer demonstrates how it will all actually play.
Drum Box does not have a price or release date on Nintendo Switch yet, but it will receive an English release in North America and Europe. This title marks Sanuk Games’ return to game development after a three-year hiatus.

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Forza Horizon 4 – Speed and turn hack
New update is up
This is my version of a FH4 speed hack. It increases wheel speed and now has option for turn assist. It features the ability to change lots of variables.
Shift – boost
Left Dpad – boost (because i use steam controller with it bound to back)
A – wheel speed = 0
*some people have said changing to lb doesn’t work, if it doesn’t, change the 4 to 100 in the keybinds.ini
You can change these hotkeys in program and it should save. you also have the option to reset to defaults.
You have the ability to change speed limit and three speeds at which acceleration should increase. You can also change how strong the turn assist is.
Just run after starting Forza, adjust variables, press “s” to start and it should start working. simple as that.
Video v1: https://streamable.com/u55o57
Video v2: https://streamable.com/i1d5lb
911 GT3 RS Preorder example – https://streamable.com/y3jwwn Tune share-code – 183 084 132
Old video of v6: https://streamable.com/ixb1vz – these speed are still achievable in v7, settings default apart from Low performance mode off, intervals – 10, 5, 3, 0 and boost amounts – 2, 2, 3, 3
Video v7: https://streamable.com/e/xdcdq8
-Should support future updates
-Added more speed variables
-More confident it will work with future updates
-Can now stop handbrake from affecting all wheels (a feature from older versions)
-100% works with all updates
-Added turn assist with variables – could do with feedback on this as i’m not too sure on it
-Turn hack now plays nicely with speed hack – no more pulling to the side
-Added turn hack deadzone variable
-Works with newest version
-Extra variables known as the “boost intervals” – the time it takes before each “boost” is applied in milliseconds
-Greater compatibility – should work for most, if not all people
-Majority of variables in code are now changeable in the programme (boost amount is now a changeable variable)
-Low performance mode (for the better compatibility) removes the showing of the current speed – this can be enabled/disabled
-Now holds gas for you while holding speedhack button
Note: For similar performance (theoretically) to Krixxplay’s programme, use boost intervals 10 20 20 20, all boost amounts 1, and boost speedups 100 200 300 and whatever limit
Also, big thanks to Krixxplay for helping me make the base of this hack.


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Prediabetes and Prehypertension in Healthy Adults Are Associated With Low Vitamin D Levels
- Corresponding author: Alok K. Gupta,
OBJECTIVE To determine whether modest elevations of fasting serum glucose (FSG) and resting blood pressure (BP) in healthy adults are associated with differential serum vitamin D concentrations.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Disease-free adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001–2006 were assessed. Prediabetes (PreDM) and prehypertension (PreHTN) were diagnosed using American Diabetes Association and Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure criteria: FSG 100–125 mg/dL and systolic BP 120–139 and/or diastolic BP 80–89 mmHg. Logistic regression was used to assess the effects of low vitamin D levels on the odds for PreDM and PreHTN in asymptomatic adults (n = 1,711).
RESULTS The odds ratio for comorbid PreDM and PreHTN in Caucasian men (n = 898) and women (n = 813) was 2.41 (P < 0.0001) with vitamin D levels ≤76.3 versus >76.3 nmol/L after adjusting for age, sex, and BMI.
CONCLUSIONS This study strengthens the plausibility that low serum vitamin D levels elevate the risk for early-stage diabetes (PreDM) and hypertension (PreHTN).
- Received September 24, 2010.
- Accepted November 6, 2010.
- © 2011 by the American Diabetes Association.
Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.

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The following people, with name, age, address, charge and arresting agency, were booked into the Boone County Jail; charges are preliminary and may be changed subject to review by the Boone County Prosecutor’s Office.
Friday, May 9
4:19 p.m. — Christopher Lamarr Thrasher, 31, Brownsburg, possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana/hash/hash oil, Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
3:09 p.m. — Mark Alan Leonard, 47, Indianapolis, possession of marijuana, BCSO.
2:15 p.m. — Scott Eric Edwards, 18, Zionsville, order of apprehension and detention, Zionsville Police Department.
12:37 a.m. — Robert Hayes III, 32, Lebanon, dealing in cocaine and maintaining a common nuisance, Lebanon Police Department.
Thursday, May 8
11:57 p.m. — Adora R. Moss, 25, Indianapolis, driving while suspended, Whitestown Police Department.
For calls for service for the same time period, see Saturday's Lebanon Reporter.


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Tenor Ft Cysoul – Salazar
Ebangflang Empire Head Honcho Tenor drops his the lead single off his “Terre Mere” EP titled “Salazar”. This song features Universal music singer Cysoul and is a very dance-able bikutsi tune which will get you singing before you know it .
“Salazar” was directed by Altero Ndoye in France and was produced by Mouss on the track
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Yesterday rupee appreciated by 0.07 percent as dollar index weakened by 0.21 percent. Rupee had appreciated on account of dollar selling by exporters and corporates. However, the FY18 GDP growth estimates for India came in 6.5% which was the lowest in last 4 years. Effects of demonization and GST were cited as the reason for this slow growth. However, Indian equity market turned negative for first time during the week as it weakened by -0.05 percent in Nifty Index.
The US dollar weakened on account of worries from China likely to stop buying US government bonds. Also, that Donald Trump may end NAFTA trade agreement with its counterparties. The Non-farm employment data came in at 148,000 for Dec’17 which was below market expectations of 190,000. Non-manufacturing PMI also could not live up to market expectations of 57.6 for Dec’17 and ended up at 55.9.
USDINR is expected to move sideways in the coming session
EURUSD appreciated by 0.08 percent while EURINR depreciated by 0.22 percent during the day.
Political uncertainties in Italy started rising before the start of elections as Former Italian Prime Minister’s Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition partner disagreed with him, when the former PM said Italy cannot afford to leave Euro. However, the rival party five start movement leader said that he has no plans to leave Euro. Also, Services PMI and CPI inflation from the Euro area came in line with market sentiments.
EURINR is expected to move sideways in the coming session
GBP depreciated against the US dollar by 0.25 percent but GBPINR appreciated by 0.32 percent during the day.
The chancellor and British secretory travelled to Germany to ensure that UK’s financial industry does not get affected after UK leaves EU. Also, UK manufacturing PMI for Dec’17 came in at 56.3 which were below market expectations. However, manufacturing production from UK came in at 0.4% for Dec’17 which was higher than market expectations by 0.1 percent.
GBPINR is expected to depreciate in the coming session
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Steve Boxer , Philippe Chow - The Real Housewives of New York City star Ramona Singer attends Philippe Restaurant's 10th Anniversary party in NYC at Philippe restaurant - Manhattan, New York, United States - Tuesday 12th January 2016
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Ramona Singer may be divorcing her husband of 27 years, Mario. Sources speaking to a number of entertainment websites claim 'The Real Housewives of New York City' star may have filed for divorce due to Mario's infidelity, rumours of which circulated earlier this week.
Mario and Ramona Singer may be separating if rumours can be believed.
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Continue reading: Ramona Singer, Of 'The Real Housewives Of NYC', Divorcing Mario?
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For my wonderful wife Lyuba who gives me love and inspiration every day.
Bit of a musical adventure in “Layering”…all tracks except drums driven by my LP Special Guitar with a Fishman Triple Play Midi Controller.
Seven Tracks recorded in Studio One 5.2…the cast in order of appearance…
- Scaler 2: Celestial Existence preset
- Scaler 2: Grand Piano 1
- Kontact: Factory Choir Vocals
- Superior Drummer 3: Learning how to program them
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Great Value at $95 per night and amazing location. Great staff and super fast and reliable internet. I strongly recommend. The included breakfast is really good . Bucharest is totally worth a visit . It has its unique feeling one will not find anywhere else.
The door keys lose their magnetic field easily. Otherwise not much.
We were on a tour.Great hotel and location.The hotel broke one of my bags .I am still waiting to see if Hilton will fix or replace my bag
great location, luxury,great staff and service. i will definitely return to this hotel
I liked very much the facilities, the location, the decoration and the atmosphere.
It took me sometime to make the chek out and teh problems to use VISA cards
extra costs for parking an internet
Very good central location, elegant classical lobby and entrance hall
The staff was very helpfull and the food in the restaurant was excelent!
The spa facilities were not so clean.
I had a business meeting arranged in the hotel so I chose also to stay there. I really liked the Executive Lounge with the view and the privacy for business discussion. Also, great service at the English Bar!
I found a special offer and wanted to try the product. I liked the bed very much (large and comfortable) and the breakfast (a lot of variety and good food).
I love this property, I travel every other month to Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest and I really enjoy the welcome back home feeling I get right from the check-in, with a very nice smile, to the health club and of course the famous English Bar. And it's an easy way to top-up my Hhonors account! Definitely a keeper.
I chose this hotel because of the brand and I have to say the service I received was above my expectations. You really get the feeling of all the history and tradition of the hotel, just by having a tea in Le Collonade, their somptuous hotel lobby. I would recommend this hotel for people who want to experience more than a hotel room.
location and character of the building.Definitely the best hotel in Bucharest
Staff are not quite up to international standards but they try.

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Nowadays dispensing has become an indispensable and important technology in the manufacturing industry, which has led to a variety of accessories for rubber supply or storage. The stainless steel storage barrel introduced in this paper is mainly used as a storage glue supply, with the characteristics of sustained and stable glue supply and guaranteeing glue storage of different properties. This paper will briefly introduce that this dispensing industry belongs to the mainstream. Pressure barrel of product.
Basic Properties of Stainless Steel Storage Bucket
Material: 304 stainless steel
Air source: 2-7 KGF
Customization: Customizable Processing
Maximum pressure: 8KG
Barrel cover thickness: 12-16 mm
Stirring mode: power driven blade stirring glue
Stable Tool: Stainless Steel Coupling Stable Seal
Special note: high viscosity gum bottom outflow, low viscosity gum upper outflow
Accessories: muffler, pressure barrel pressure regulating valve, safety valve, outlet, intake, ball valve
The stainless steel storage barrel under the medium-sized flag can be customized with many specifications, excellent workmanship, clear visibility, high weldability, no stomatal trachoma and other defects. It can support the inner barrel to place storage materials to make its application more diversified. It can be used to store medium-high viscosity fluids or paints. The stainless steel material can prevent the erosion of storage materials and has strong impact resistance. This stainless steel storage barrel can be used to connect small ones. The manual glue feeding of the controller can also connect the automatic glue dispensing machine to complete the high-yield glue dispensing production. The stable supply of the storage barrel has no impact on the glue shortage problem, which guarantees the continuity of continuous production. It is a practical and cost-effective pressure barrel.


There have been rumors that Alex Trebek was leaving "Jeopardy" two times: in 2013 and 2016. Trebek is still currently the host of "Jeopardy" and signed a contract extension through the 2017-2018 season. He reportedly makes $10 million a year.
In 2013, there were rumors that Trebek would be leaving the show because he suffered his second heart attack. Trebek also made a statement saying he would be happy to switch jobs with "The Today Show" host Matt Lauer. In 2016, speculation was that Trebek was leaving Jeopardy because his contract was expiring. Trebek told TV Guide's William Keck that he would not return after his contract expired in 2016. Several media outlets began compiling short lists of Alex Trebek's possible successors.


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Where do most Somalis live in London?
British Somalis living in the United Kingdom are one of the largest and longest established communities in Europe. Somalis in London focuses on the boroughs of Camden and Tower Hamlets because of the nature and size of their British Somali population.
Why do Somalis go to UK?
The first Somalis to arrive in Britain were economic migrants. Merchant seamen settled in cities including Cardiff, Liverpool, and London. There are records of British Somalis in London dating back to 1914 when they were recruited to fight in the First World War and then subsequently settled there.
How many Somali refugees are there in the UK?
The numbers of Somalis in the UK is difficult to estimate because of the complex histories of forced and voluntary, internal and international migration as well as the limitations of how data is collected and categorised. It is estimated however, that about 75,000 Somalis live in the UK.
Which London borough has the most Somalis?
Over 125,000 Somalis reside in the UK with strong London bases in Bromley, Ealing, Woolwich, Bow and Stepney Green, Edgware Road, Camden and Lambeth. Current sources suggest that Cardiff has the highest number of people of Somali heritage anywhere in the UK outside of London.
Which city in the UK has the most Somalis?
The majority of these live in England, with the largest number found in London. Smaller Somali communities exist in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Cardiff. The earliest Somali immigrants in the UK were lascars and merchants who arrived in the 19th century.
What city has the most Somalis?
In the United States, Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community, with the majority residing in the Minneapolis-St.
Where do most Somalis live in UK?
What is Somalia famous?
Located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is a country known for its widespread poverty, civil wars, territorial conflicts, and unstable government. However, like every other country in the world, Somalia also has its own share of exciting destinations, unique cultures, and fascinating geographical facts.
Is Somalia bigger than the UK?
Somalia is about 2.6 times bigger than United Kingdom. United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 162% larger than United Kingdom.
What is Somalia well known for?
Somalia is well known as the home country of the pirates who terrorize the key trade waters near the Horn of Africa. Source: National Defense University.

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Visual Voice: From the Milwaukee Bucks to Brett Favre
- attended Pius XI High School, Milwaukee, WI
- graduated 1984, BFA Communication Design
- owns Hausch Design Agency, LLC
“I could not have done what I have accomplished over the years if it wasn’t for the relationships I developed during my time at MIAD.”
Q. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A. My parents and family really encouraged me since I was very young. I won a number of art contests starting when I was about 9, and then finally won a silver palette award from the Milwaukee Journal in 1978. I thought I had to do something with my art skills.
Q. What was your first memorable experience with art and design?
A. I won $100 (in 1972 or 1973 — I was ten or eleven, I think) for winning a contest to “draw your favorite Milwaukee Buck.” I drew Junior Bridgeman.
Q. How did your MIAD education affect where you are today?
A. I had two job lined up, had one a national art director’s award, and was student teaching typography by the time I was a senior at MIAD in 1983. I could not have done what I have accomplished over the years if it wasn’t for the relationships I developed during my time at MIAD. Becky and Fran Balistreri were instrumental in my career (as well as Mark Koerner, Steve Quinn, and Rick Thrun) and I still have great relationships with most of my former instructors even though we are sometimes competing for similar work.
Q. What was the most valuable thing you learned at MIAD?
A. What “professionals” are actually doing in their field.
Q.What’s the one thing you would tell a high school student who is considering attending MIAD now that you’ve experienced life after graduation?
A. Pick a mentor and do anything you can to hang around with that person in and out of school.
Q. What are your goals for the future, in art/design and in life?
A. I am living a lot of them right now and need to “retool” my career in the next four years. I have been a partner in a larger firm, I’ve worked with large companies and famous people including Brett Favre. I’ve started and been a partner in a number of different businesses. I waited a long time to get married and have children. Now, I have two kids and a new business and I get to see everybody grow up — including my design interns.
Q. What are some of your hobbies/interests?
A. Music: listening to, collecting, seeing and being in bands (I was in the obscure Rock Band “Couch Flambeau” from 1986-1994 with another MIAD alum, Jay Tiller). Other hobbies? Traveling, golf, bowling (got a 300 this year and I’m ready to retire from that game), painting, drawing, photography, and doing any and all of the above with my children. (re)Designing everything in the world as I look around.
Q. Are there any specific parts of your resume that you’d like to share?
A. I’ve done a lot of packaging and display design, and consulting for Bemis Toilet Seats which are on display at Home Depot. That’s not a bunch of crap either!
I’ve done sports marketing, and came up with the idea for the Brett Favre “Favrecanduit!” shirts/product line in 1992 after he won his first game. I signed the first marketing contract with him which was a three-year deal in ’92. Since then, I’ve worked with other players such as Santana Dotson, and former SuperBowl quarterback Brad Johnson.
I have been an artist invited to participate in the “Open Canvas” which raises funds for MIAD and the Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design. I have supported many other not-for-profit organizations, including serving on the board and as Board Chair for “ARTReach Milwaukee.” Recently, I was involved on the board of IndependenceFirst: A Resource for People with Disabilities, for seven years, and am now on retainer with them as a Brand/Marketing/Design Consultant.


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Since the release of Tower of Fantasy, we found and learned how to beat plenty of bosses by knowing their mechanics and specific strategies to play against each of them. In the new 1.5 update, we’ve come to an entirely new area, Artificial Island, that offers a completely new set of collectibles, monsters, and bosses to fight.
The Interdimensional Frostfire Dragon is one of the main and strongest bosses that you can fight in this new area, and today we are going to explain every step of how to find and beat this powerful dragon.
This guide will show you the Interdimensional Frostfire Dragon, its location and how to beat in Tower of Fantasy!
Interdimensional Frostfire Dragon | Location And How To Beat in Tower Of Fantasy
Where to find Frostfire Dragon
Frostfire Dragon can be found in the Artificial Island – Ring Arena, at the platform of Eyrie. Before you get there, you have to know the right way, because it is not just a regular climbing to the arena.
You have to head northeast of Mine Base and northwest of Mount Sandy. Once you get there, you will see curved rock pillars that resemble a rib cage emerging from the floor.
Need to look for the red portal which is located in the center of the sky.
After entering the portal, you will be teleported directly to the top of Base Zero where the Frostfire Dragon is waiting for you.
Boss Attacks Explained
- Target Zone – When the dragon’s body rises up, it gives you the signal to run, and after that will start targeting the enemy mark zone, and it will cast an AoE attack.
- Tail Swipe – This is kind of a tough attack to dodge. If the dragon is close enough, you will take damage. When the dragon attacks with its tail, it will do follow up with AoE bomb attacks which are very powerful.
- Special Attack – Dragon will start flying around and fire a lot of homie missiles. You just have to keep running around the area and you should not be hit by the missile. When he is done with the missile attack, the dragon falls for a few seconds on the platform and this is the perfect time for you to do a melee attack.
- 5 Homing Missiles – This is one of the most annoying and very often cast by the dragon, and every hit will stun you. You have to open a shield, make a wall, or just try to dodge.
How to Beat Firefrost Dragon
It is always the best way to fight the boss with other members. When you join a team, there will be a lot of players, and the boss won’t target you all the time.
There are some tips and tricks that you can use in order to beat the Firefrost Dragon:
Use Omnium Shield
- This the easiest and best way to block missiles and you can keep attacking in the same time. Don’t stay so close to the shield, because the AoE damage from the missiles can still hit you.
- Not a very popular relic, but it works perfectly against the dragon. You can create wall and hide and use it to block the missiles.
- When the boss casts missiles, you just have to start running left or right to bait the missile, and then dodge in opposite direction. You can even jump and do another dodge movement while you are in the air.
- In some of the situation, you just have to use the platform to run and hide.
Even if you know some of the mechanics of the boss, if you don’t have the right weapons to fight against him, the battle will become a real challenge, and of course, will take you a much longer time to defeat the boss.
Because this boss is a flying type, it is recommended to use range weapons that will be a big advantage for you against the Interdimensional Frostfire Dragon. That’s why you have to get enough ammunition before starting the fight.
You can use a melee weapon only when you break the shield, or after he uses his special attack, and falls on the platform.
It’s known that after defeating any big boss in the game there are going to be some awesome rewards. By defeating the Frostfire dragon, there are chances to obtain a big amount of rewards, but also it has some very important drops such as:
- Random SSR weapon from Standard pull
- Random SR Weapon from Standard pull
- Samir – One of the best SSR
- SR Relic – Magnetic Storm
- Pepper – SR Matrice
- Random R Matrix
- Weapon Battery III
- Matrix Data Pack III


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I'm Kiera, I'm 36 years old, and I was born with Spastic Quadriplegia Cerebral Palsy. When I was younger, I never really felt out of place or that I didn't fit in with the "normal" kids. I've always been the type to say to myself that I can do anything and I can do it 10 times better. I've always pushed myself to go the extra mile because I knew I had to work harder than most kids my age. I'm able to walk with crutches for short distances but spend most of my time using a wheelchair. When I was 11 years old, I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE or Lupus) which is an autoimmune illness. Most of my adolescent and young adult life was spent in and out of the hospital. I was able to go to college and receive my associates in teaching. I've always wanted to work with kids, especially kids that have special needs. I currently work as a counselor and tutor at an after school program.
The queer community
As a disabled queer woman of color, I'm very involved in the LGBTQ+ community and the POC community. I'm an activist and attend many events that related to including people with disabilities in those communities
Dancing with a Disability
I've always loved to dance. when I was younger, I used to choreograph dances and teach them to my friends who were disabled. We would perform for our school talent shows. I have a youtube channel with a few of my choreographed dances on it. When I was 21 (the legal age you can drink and get into a club in the United States), I wanted to go out, have fun and dance, and I just wanted to hang out with my friends. I didn't care if people stared at me, I didn't care if they were upset because they had to make space for my wheelchair. I just wanted to live a normal life.
Marriage, Family & Finding Normalcy
Eventually, I want to find a partner to settle down with, get married and have a family. I've dated, but dating is hard nowadays. When you add on that you have a disability to your dating profile, that makes it even harder. If they can look past it and see me as a person than great, if not they weren't worth my time or energy. In the meantime, I will continue to live my best life.


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Fuck yeah another video, B! My friend Danielle Goldfarb made this parody of the infamous Saved By The Bell anti-drug PSA. I appear as Screech…
Here’s the actual PSA, if you are feeling nostalgic. The original features Brandon Tartikoff, but you probably don’t know who he is because he left NBC in the early 90′s. Later, he died. The more you know.
Now that the stuff I’ve been in is being released at a steady clip, This site looks a little more lived-in. Here’s a webseries premiere that I play a small role in. It’s a pretty fun show.
#ATown – Episode 1 – Pilot from TurtleDoveFilms on Vimeo.
I appeared on an episode of “Three Rounds With Eli” the other day. This show, hosted by Eli Eidson, invites local improvisors in to perform audio scenes based on fortune cookie fortunes. This show runs LONG but it’s divided into smaller bits that were a lot of fun. You should check out one random one, eh?
As my video skills improve, I posses new abilities. For example, here’s some fun dubbing over the hit anime “Attack on Titan” brought to you by The Tastemakers. Swuh?
Yeesh! You think a lotta shit is gonna come out in a month and then shit don’t come out so fast. Life, bro. Anyways, I’m doing this show (It’s Saturday Night!) Saturdays at Coldtowne Theater this month. They made a cool opening sequence for it that all should see, so here ya go!
Hello! Expect some mixed media this month! Firstly, here is a promo for the Fuck, It’s Hot show at the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas. Everything you need to know is in the video, and everything you need to love is in the video.
I appeared on the Mascot Wedding Podcast. Those guys are fun. Listen up! LINK IS HERE
While you wait for new sketches, here is a video of my performance at the TED Talks-inspired TiT Talks at the Institution Theater. It’s a lot like TED talks except the presenter must present without knowing what slides will be shown behind him/her/it. I go first, but they are all good.
TiT Talks from TurtleDoveFilms on Vimeo.


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One thing I believe in, profoundly, is the power of support. Taking up the paleo lifestyle is a huge step towards physical and mental health (high fives!), but it is only the beginning. If you eat poorly today, have struggled with eating disorders in the past, have body image issues, or have any number of doubts related to your health, your body, food, and/or exercise, and if you could use a buddy, you have come to the right place.
Aside from writing for the paleo community and the paleo mind, I have made it my mission with this blog to support people who struggle with their relationships with food. You can find on this blog many posts about my struggles with vegetarianism, binge eating, and body image at various points in my life. If that is enough of a sense of solidarity for you, then read on, please, and enjoy whatever camaraderie I can offer.
If you crave more than that, drop me a line. I want to hear your story. I want to send you inspiring emails. I want to explore the paleo diet with you, and I want to help you achieve the greatest mental and psychological health possible. The world is a big and awesome place, and I could think of no greater honor than helping you feel 100 percent of the time like a big, awesome part of it.
This site is nascent, but my experiences as a paleo dieter and as as woman, sugar addict, disordered eater, vegetarian, counselor, and eating disorder advisor and so on are not. I am amenable to and have a number of official client-counselor relationships, if you would like to arrange something of that nature. Or you may just drop me an informal line. Both may be done in the comment form below. In the meantime, see:
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Will Cook For Food
This is how I am making a living. Selling hand knits and cooking. Domestic Goddess- that's me.
I have been compared to Ina Garten, the world famous chef and owner of Barefoot Contessa. I think because we are both portly, middle aged brunettes with similar haircuts and wrinkles. I own her cookbooks and use them as a constant source for meal planning. I wish Ina and I had more in common. Incomes immediately come to mind.
My passion is knitting. I am a little more than a competent cook. I feel that most people can be successful in either arena by following the recipe. If you can read and measure and stir, you can cook. If you can read and measure and manipulate two sticks, you can knit. The secret ingredient in both processes is the addition of the love I put into the outcome. I want the consumer to love what I produce. A yummy dish, or a yummy hand knit. Enjoy...


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Dale & Neumy had a lot of Bruins talk on WEEI today, understandably. Dale had to clarify his comments from the NESN telecast last night when, in the closing minutes, he remarked something along the lines of “Soon, the people of the Commonwealth are going to wake up a realize they have one of the best teams in the NHL here.” Dale had to clear up that he wasn’t knocking the fans who weren’t showing up in protest to Jacobs, but rather talking about fans in general who just aren’t aware of how good the team is. They also took a few calls on trading Kyle McLaren. One exchange was fairly frustrating, as when the caller wanted to know exactly why McLaren wants to be traded, does he have a beef with management…they respond with ‘That’s not it…McLaren has nothing against the Bruins team or its management. McLaren has a personal issue that doesn’t involve the team.’ When pressed, Dale said, “I can’t divulge this information”. It’s frustrating from the viewpoint of the listener, it’s almost a teasing, “I know something you don’t know” type of thing. At the same time, Dale is respecting McLaren’s privacy in whatever his personal issue is. Of course, it wasn’t frustrating to listen to Dale mention this site as the one that guided him to the John Tomase article on Theo Epstein, which was also discussed during the show.
The Eddie shots across the bow continue. Today in response to a caller who mentioned “the other end of the dial”, Andelman said he didn’t know too many people who would walk away from the offer that they put before him. He said there are good people there, Dale is a good guy, Ted is a good guy, but otherwise the place is filled with the “slimiest characters” you could imagine, and that he is a family man and couldn’t stand to be associated with them any more. The rest of Eddie’s show was his annual pre-Thanksgiving “turkeys” of the year in sports.
Speaking of Eddie, reader Matt Cullen writes (Greg) Dickerson was filling in for Teddy last night and an old man called up and asked “What ever happened to Eddie Andelman?” .. and Greg replied “Eddie is no longer working in radio, he has retired.” In the most serious tone .. It was strange, I felt bad for the old guy wondering where Eddie was!
I wrote last night about Borges loosening up on the Patriots. Maybe the Globe has put shackles on him, But MSNBC hasn’t. Borges submits an article highly critical of Tom Brady to that web site. He talks about “lingering doubts in the minds of many” about Brady. After mentioning that the Patriots have only beaten two teams with winning records this year, Borges adds: “In an area that for years insisted Ted Williams and Roger Clemens were


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From scratch Cup 4 Cup Strawberry shortcakes are made with tender home-made biscuits, fresh strawberries and home-made whipped cream. This gluten-free strawberry shortcake recipe is a summer favorite. With my recipe and only a handful of ingredients, you can make sweet and fluffy biscuits. Add layers of fresh and juicy strawberries and fresh whipped cream for an unforgettable summer dessert.
Take the two 1 pound containers of strawberries and cut into pieces. Add the 3 tablespoons of sugar and stir. The sugar helps the strawberries release their delicious juices. I recommend making this before you make your biscuits. I put the strawberries in the fridge and let the strawberries juice up.
For the Sweet White Rice Flour- you can find this on Amazon or some of your local grocery stores. If you cannot find this flour, you can use 4 cups of the Cup 4 Cup GF flour. I do find that one cup of sweet white rice flour adds a nice texture and flakiness to the biscuits.
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U.S. airlines improve on-time performance in August
The 19 largest U.S. airlines had an on-time arrival rate of 78.4 percent in August, up from 71.7 percent a year earlier.
The carriers had a 75.7 percent, on-time arrival rate in July.
Hawaiian Airlines had the highest on-time arrival rate (92.3 percent), followed by Pinnacle Airlines (89.6 percent) and SkyWest Airlines (85.7 percent). JetBlue Airways had the lowest on-time arrival rate (64.7 percent) followed by Comair (67.4 percent) and American Airlines (70.6 percent).
The airlines in August canceled 1.6 percent of their scheduled domestic flights, compared with 1.9 percent in August 2007, according to the Department of Transportation.
Comair had the highest rate of canceled flights (4.6 percent), followed by ExpressJet Airlines (3.3 percent) and JetBlue Airways (3.2 percent). Frontier Airlines had the lowest rate of cancellations (0.3 percent), followed by Northwest Airlines (0.5 percent) and Southwest Airlines (0.6 percent).
The Department of Transportation also reported that mishandled baggage reports for the 19 carriers decreased to 4.98 per 1,000 passengers in August, compared with 7.58 per 1,000 passengers a year earlier. The airlines had reported a rate of 4.86 per 1,000 in July.
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Invicta Park Barracks in Maidstone has been given a reprieve.
Back in 2016, when the Government published its Defence Estate Optimisation Programme, it said the barracks would close in 2027.
However now the Ministry of Defence has published an updated transformation policy for the Armed Forces called Future Soldier and says the closure would be delayed by two years until 2029.
The barracks opened in 1965 and is home to 36 Engineer Regiment and the Queen's Gurkha Engineers.
The news was welcomed by Maidstone and The Weald MP Helen Grant who has been campaigning against the County Town losing its barracks.
She said: "I welcome this pause because it provides more time to carefully further review and re-assess the impact the closure of the barracks will have on our County Town.
"It will affect the families and serving soldiers of both 36 Engineer and, in particular, the Queens Gurkha Engineers, whom are intrinsically linked with our much-loved and respected local Nepalese community."
She said: "The effect of the regiment’s relocation upon them could be far-reaching, if not devastating.
"We must also consider the effects of a possible 1,300 more houses that are proposed for this site and the economic and cultural effects upon the town if the facilities do eventually close.
"Eight years is a long time. Mould change in favour of retaining Invicta Park Barracks during that period."
However, as Mr Grant alludes to, the announcement will be less welcome to Maidstone Borough Council. It is relying on the availability of the barracks site to provide 1,300 homes as part of its Local Plan Review which is currently out to consultation.
The council had been asking the MoD to speed up its disposal.