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Synopsis: Frances Ferguson, the eponymously named character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
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Frances Ferguson arose out of this Zeitgeist-y series of articles in the NY Post —every week a new teacher was being nabbed for some kind of malfeasance with a student. We noticed the teachers had a certain aspect.
I had been working with Kaley Wheless on a short and we decided to convert the project to a reenactment doc and go from Austin, Texas where we lived, to Western Nebraska, a town of 25,000 named North Platte. Kaley was from nearby Boulder, which may have made the decision seem less strange. I knew the story would work a lot better in a place where it felt like everyone knew everybody, and that proved to be true in North Platte.
We contacted a writer I’d worked with before, Scott King, who lives in Brittany, France, and started working with him on the story and the script. Scott wrote the script over the course of four months, and because we both met Nick Offerman twenty years ago, we were able from the start to imagine Nick telling us this story. It’s helped that Nick has developed into a skilled orator.
North Platte is a town mainly in service to the railway industry, and the town was excited about filmmaking —a lot like Austin might have been fifteen years ago. We had made a film in Austin in 2017 (Infinity Baby) and we had such a great crew, and we convinced a lot of them to come up to Nebraska for a month. Carmen Hilbert shot the movie superbly, and Olivia Mori returned to do the costumes. Caitlin Ward was the production designer, and Mischa Fruge did the makeup, helping create a pretty great look for Kaley. Having a primarily female crew helped with the portrayal of the teacher and may have made it less prone to male gazing.
Fran’s case is amalgamated from more than a half dozen separate court cases; her sentence is fairly common —it’s handed out when the evidence is circumstantial, and the film was going to explore this more further —we became more interested in Fran’s rehab, particularly the idea that the rehab isn’t necessarily tailored to the transgression.
It was a challenge to adhere to a comedic tone, but take what Fran had done seriously. And indeed there’s a subtext that any boy lucky enough to get with a teacher he had a crush on would want to count blessings. Not that we saw it that way, necessarily, either. We went to Nebraska wanting to kind of find comedy in the small town judging her also — and the film may be 75 min instead of 90 because we were seeking to get Fran to realize there was an issue more than we thought we might solve it.
Bob lives and works in Austin, Texas, where he’s best known for his role as the checked out older brother in a Sundance Lab film he wrote and directed, HARMONY AND ME. His film INFINITY BABY, a comedy about babies that won’t age, won Best Narrative Feature at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2017. And SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME won Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 2012. Bob is also an Annenberg Fellow.


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EFCC Parades 20 Suspects Over Alleged Vote Buying In Kwara
The Ilorin Zonal Cm and of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday paraded 20 suspected vote buyers arrested during the ongoing Governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
The suspects were paraded at the head office of the Command, located at GRA, Ilorin, the state capital.
Speaking with Journalists, the acting zonal Head of the Ilorin zonal office, Michael Nzekwe said: “Our mandate as EFCC is to ensure that money influence in politics is totally cut out and eradicated.
“The suspects were picked in different locations across the state with money and POS machines found in their god session.”
He added that the command got credible intelligence and acted on it, saying investigation is still ongoing.
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The nacelle of a Vestas V112 3MW turbine caught fire on 15 October at the 27MW Xangri-la wind farm in the southern Rio Grande do Sul state of Brazil.
A spokesman for the Danish manufacturer said no injuries or other material damage occurred as a result of the fire.
“Vestas is conducting a thorough investigation to determine the cause of the fire,” he said.
“We have already begun examining data from the turbine, and a team of experts will soon arrive in Brazil to support the investigation,” he added.
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This North Face Men's Shindig Beanie drops from $35 to $23.45 at Nordstrom.com. Plus, shipping is free, making this the lowest price we could find by $12. It is made of 100% acrylic and is only available in grey/blue pictured. Sales tax is charged in most states.

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Orange County’s wealthiest cities have biggest opioid problem
from 89.3 KPCC
Opioid abuse and overdoses have caused emergency room visits in Orange County to more than double over the last decade, according to a recent report from the county health care agency. The cities with the highest rates of opioid-related emergency room visits are in generally wealthy south Orange County and along the coast, with Dana Point at the top of the list. Orange County’s opioid-related death rate is much higher than the state average — and nearly three times higher than neighboring Los Angeles County, according to the California Department of Public Health’s Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard.
Hepatitis C Virus outbreak among millennials
from Capitol Weekly
Millennials haven’t inherited the best batch of goods from baby boomers. They got a housing crisis, a shaky job market, and some enormous student loans. But until recently, viral hepatitis was the burden of boomers alone to bear. Now, millennials are also facing an outbreak of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). California’s Department of Public Health says newly reported HCV infections increased 55 percent among men aged 20-to-29, from 2007 to 2015. Among women in the same age group the increase was 37 percent.
Viral hepatitis is often thought of as a disease of baby boomers. Since Hepatitis C wasn’t screened out of the blood supply until 1992, it’s been mostly older populations who are affected. But California is now seeing a spike in new HCV infections in millennials. With existing money tight and future funding uncertain to test and treat hepatitis, the observed increase could be just the tip of the iceberg.
California is ‘hiring extensively’ as recreational marijuana approaches
from Desert Sun
California is staffing up for the regulation of recreational marijuana. The state is seeking at least 175 employees in the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing office and the California Department of Public Health. Those three agencies split the responsibilities of regulating recreational marijuana, which California voters approved in November 2016. A spokesperson for the Department of Public Health said the 2017-2018 budget created 50 new positions in cannabis regulation, which they aim to fill by January.
Protecting Oil/Gas Extraction Workers from Hazards
from Sun News
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the California Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch (CDPH-OHB), recently released a video to help protect oil and gas extraction workers from the hazards they face when measuring oil storage tanks. The video, Protecting Oil and Gas Workers from Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors, weaves together a narrative of the health and safety risks involved with this activity, and how employers and workers can reduce injuries and fatalities from exposure to toxic gases and oxygen-deficient atmospheres.
Over 500,000 workers are employed in the oil & gas industry, a workforce that is critical to the energy infrastructure of the nation. In the video, the experiences of oil and gas workers who are responsible for measuring tank levels, or tank gauging, and the sampling of crude oil are told from the heart by a truck owner/operator, a company operations superintendent, and the widow of a man who died of sudden cardiac death while gauging.
California will now track suicide among veterans
from San Diego Union Tribune
A new law will require California officials to compile statistics on how many military veterans are committing suicide in the state. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the legislation Monday. One of the law’s proponents said the new requirement makes California one of 22 states to accurately report veteran suicide. Assembly Bill 242 was introduced by two Fresno assemblymen, Republican Jim Patterson and Democrat Joaquin Arambula. Specifically, the legislation requires the California Department of Public Health to report the number of veteran suicides every year to the state Legislature and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
The data would come from county coroners.


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Computational Ocean Acoustics conveys the state-of-the-art of numerical modeling techniques for graduate and undergraduate students of acoustics, geology and geophysics, applied mathematics, and ocean engineering. It is also an essential addition to the libraries of ocean research institutions that use propagation models. The general topic is the generation of sound by, and the propagation of sound in fluid flows. These include flows around machinery, airfoils, and other man-made objects, as well as the flow of wind around obstacles. The chapters in this volume represent the results of a workshop discussing mathematical and computational aspects of the interaction of sound with air at the Institute for Computer. The book provides a survey of numerical methods for acoustics, namely the finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM). It is the first book summarizing FEM and BEM (and optimization) for acoustics. The book shows that both methods can be effectively used for many other cases, FEM even for open domains and BEM for closed ones. Written for both students and working engineers, this book features a unique pedagogical approach to acquainting readers with innovative numerical methods for developing computational procedures for solving problems in acoustics and for understanding linear .
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Palin must save her Yahoo mails, says judgeOctober 13th, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Anchorage (Alaska), Oct.13 (ANI): An Anchorage judge has ordered Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to preserve e-mails from private accounts she has used to conduct state business.
Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers on Friday also ordered Alaska’’s attorney general to recover messages from a Yahoo.com account of Palin’’s that was breached by hackers last month, reports The Washington Post.
That break-in prompted Sen. John McCain’’s presidential campaign to order closed at least one additional private account Palin maintained.
The judge issued the orders at the request of Andree McLeod, an Anchorage activist whose pursuit of Palin’’s e-mails revealed that the governor did considerable state business from a Yahoo e-mail address — an arrangement that avoided the safeguards and accountability of the state’’s secure e-mail system.
Last month a second Yahoo account maintained by Palin was hacked and images of its inbox were posted publicly online. The inbox included e-mails with subject lines that seemed clearly to relate to legislation.
Judge Stowers called the effort to recover and preserve Palin e-mails relating to state business “important” and noted that Alaska’’s public record law was last updated before the rise of the Internet. (ANI)
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She completed her plastic surgery and microsurgery training with overseas fellowships in Slovenia (microsurgery), Atlanta, USA (oculoplastic and aesthetic surgery), Taipeh (perforator flaps) and New Orleans (perforator flaps). She has been awarded numerous prizes both nationally and internationally.
She is now the new Chairman of the Breast Group of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and the Plastic Surgery representative to the BAPS/BASO interface group in charge of the new training in breast surgery.
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Jet Li pitches a ground-breaking performance alongside Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins in Unleashed (2005) (aka "Danny the Dog"). It is a rare occasion to see Jet take on a significantly dramatic role, and his performance is more than adequate in this brutal yet touching story. The basic plot line follows a mobster who employs a savage collection agency in the form of a collared, dog-like slave called Danny played by Jet Li. Danny is a one-man army - trained from birth to be a heartless killer, without a shred of conscience or independent thought. Bart, his self-declared "uncle", keeps him caged up with nothing to learn from, save a children's pictoral alphabet book and a teddy bear.
Bart is no uncle, however, and uses Danny as an attack dog to do his dirty work. Jet Li portrays his character perfectly, one of the few action stars with enough acting ability to convincingly exhibit an untouchable and violent force, yet with a look of naive innocence. From a dramatic critique, I believe this to be one of Jet's best performances. I have always admired his acting ability. I believe he is similar to Jim Carrey in that both are best in their specialties: Jim in comedy and Jet in martial arts and action. Nevertheless, both are able to conjure up the faces and postures necessary to deliver a convincing and sobering performance.
While the plot to Unleashed is not without flaw or inconsistency, it is a unique and provocative idea. The movie is unfortunately cluttered with bad language and the occasional objectionable scene and fairly extreme violence. Jet Li demonstrates a rare fighting style remarkably unlike that of any other of his movies. Instead of perfectly calculated, beautiful movements, the strikes and movements and stunts are far more rugged and barbarous. The fights appeared real, as could be found on the street, with not a punch pulled. It was pretty hard to watch some of the scenes (I turned away during the sensual trash), but the violent behavior fit in with the narrative.
The power of this film was the authenticity of the performances. Bob Hoskins brilliantly plays the part of Bart: a hedonistic, commanding and shuddersome master. His hateful treatment of the simple-minded Danny is vile, yet it shines the light of clear comparison to a spiritual counterpart. All throughout Sam is a clear depiction of Satan and his unending assault on mankind. His spite for Danney closely resembles what I imagine Satan has for human souls. He holds them captive in a blind life, allowing them to only see the hopeless and controlled images he desires. His pleasure is to make individuals feel so incapable or unworthy of freedom and value that they have no choice but to follow his destructive suggestions.
Danny is saved from his endless oppression by way of a blind piano-tuning stranger: Sam, played by Morgan Freeman. Freeman is a brilliant actor - one of the best of all time. He almost invariably portrays in his films a character with a huge heart (Batman Begins, Glory, Bruce Almighty, and many others). Sam and his step-daughter Victoria show Danny a type of love he has never known and blindly and unconditionally accept him as part of their family.
Light and dark or good and evil are not only represented by people in this film, but in objects. Through most of the movie, Danny wears a rigid metal dog collar. When his master removes the collar, he is transformed into a killing machine. The collar seems to have the magical power to hold him captive to a physhotic pattern of control. This is the dark object; the light one, however, is a piano. One day, while on a collection route with his cruel master, Danny encounters and is strangely drawn to a blind piano maestro. He longs to hear and play the sound of the piano, as if some instinctive attraction to the object and its output exists. It is the piano, along with the familiar love of Sam and Victoria, that frees Danny from his prison. Further comparisons could be made to the piano tuning and Christian growth. As the Master (God) works us more and more and we submit ourselves to His will, our melody becomes more in tune, and the resulting sound rivals that of Mozart in its beauty and depth.
This object oriented symbolism can be directly tied to Christian concepts as well, though the analogy is not perfect. The collar and the evil master can represent sin and the resulting slavery of mankind to a sin nature. The music and love of Danny's adopted family represent God and His people's redeeming love for the lost. Through the loving actions of Sam and Victoria, Danny discovers his true self and by a process is unleashed from his bondage and taught how to really live as well as how to reject the lies of his former master. He is now a slave to love, a love that promises to never let go. This unending compassion is undeserved and unexpected, but it is real and powerful just the same.
Though the imagery and language of this movie warrant a serious warning if not outright avoidance of this movie, I must admit it had a pretty powerful message. Probably none of these spiritual connections were intentional, but I'm thankful for having noticed them.

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The province has rolled out a loan program to make winter tires more affordable to Manitoba drivers.
Administered by Manitoba Public Insurance, the program will provide low-interest loans up to $2,000 per vehicle for up to 48 months. The initiative was originally announced in this year’s provincial budget.
“We want Manitobans to be as safe as possible on the roads,” said Andrew Swan, Minister responsible for MPI. “This financing program provides another option to buy winter tires for people who otherwise may not make this road safety purchase.”
hile Swan stressed the enhanced safety of snow tires, the province has previously said it will not follow Quebec’s lead in making them mandatory equipment.
According to CAA Manitoba, the deeper treads and softer rubber used in winter tires can reduce stopping distances by up to 40 per cent compared to all-season models.
To be eligible for a loan, applicants must be MPI customers, purchase qualifying winter tires for a registered vehicle, and not be subject to financing restrictions.
An online tool available at http://www.mpi.mb.ca will allow customers to confirm financing and vehicle eligibility, evaluate financing options and search for participating tire retailers enrolled in the Winter Tire Program.


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text: The Richest Man in Babylon In good times and bad, consistently saving a percentage of your income is a sound financial practice. Share | Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Question Thank you! Oops! Related Content Retiring in a Post-Pandemic World Imagine your ideal post-pandemic retirement with this animated video. Infographic: The ABCs of Financial Literacy So you think you know what it means to be financially literate? See if your knowledge stands up against this infographic. Timing Your Retirement This short video illustrates why knowing when to retire can be a crucial part of your strategy.


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This alert was received from Clark Township. Please be advised that there will be electronic drop-off this Saturday, January 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Residents may drop off electronics (computers, hard drives, printers, etc.) at the Public Works facility located behind the Police Department.
Retailer partners with Hewlett-Packard for Earth Day event to recycle your electronics.
Regardless of where the items are purchased, the Staplestechnology program, powered by HP, will accept discarded electronics for free in the following areas: Mark Buckley, Staples' Vice President of Environmental Affairs Mark Buckley said the corporation began the program to help boost the number of electronic products that are safely recycled. "As a trusted source for office solutions, Staplesis making it easy for consumers to responsibly recycle electronics for free every day at our stores," he said. "We are excited to work with HP on this initiative as part of our ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability," Buckley added. As for HP, Gabi Zedimayer, Staples' Vice President of Sustainability and Social Innovation, said the …


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Andy Griffiths’ JUST MACBETH! is a really silly version of Shakespeare’s great big gory tragedy starring Andy, Lisa, Danny and Jen from his Just! series of books. And when we say really silly, we mean really, really silly as it’s performed by six funny but tragic actors and a garden gnome and has witches and Wizz Fizz and ghosts and girl germs and…
JUST MACBETH! re-envisions the themes of Macbeth through the eyes of Andy Griffiths’ much loved characters. This hilarious and irreverent take on one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays will have the whole family in stitches!
JUST MACBETH! enjoyed very successful seasons in Sydney and Melbourne in 2008 and comes to Newcastle for the very first time.
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Lending a helping hand to keep a customer connected.
From our personal to our professional lives, and everything in between, the pandemic has touched everyone to some degree. Through it all, people and communities have come together to support one another like never before, lifting spirits through different acts of kindness.
Our Carrefour Laval Rogers retail team can speak firsthand to the power of simple acts of kindness during this time as their compassion and generosity had an immeasurable impact on an elderly customer who needed a little help.
We asked the team to recount what happened and here’s what they shared:
Tell us a bit about the day leading up to the customer arriving.
It was just a normal day in the store. A few team members – Ryndala, Jena, Sarab, Rupinder, Trivana, as well as their Area Manager, Francois Moreau – were all working one Thursday afternoon, helping customers, checking inventory and keeping the store clean. It was in mid-afternoon that an elderly woman came into the store.
What happened when the elderly woman came into the store?
She came into the store and we greeted her, asked how we could help. She explained that she needed to add funds to her prepaid plan in order to stay connected with her daughter, but that it had to be a small amount because she was on a limited income.
In the same breath, she shared that she was having some financial troubles because of the pandemic and explained that she was currently helping support her daughter and grandchildren.
As she told us more about her situation, her eyes watered. Nervous and ashamed, she shared that she had choose between putting funds on her prepaid account to stay connected to her daughter, or getting groceries to feed the family.
That must have been hard to hear. What happened next?
The first thing we tried to do was find a way to apply a credit to her account, but we wanted to do more! We really felt for her and her situation. We realized how fortunate we are to even have the opportunity to wake up and come to work – Rogers was there to help us during difficult times in the pandemic, so it was our turn to return the favour. We wanted to alleviate this stress for her, even if just temporarily —so we decided to all chip in and apply $100 to her account.
That’s so generous! What about this customer made you want to help?
Her eyes said it all – she was really in a tough place and you could tell she was embarrassed even telling us about her situation. She was trying to do right by her family and take care of her grandchildren, all while being dealt a tough hand financially because of the pandemic.
We saw our own grandmothers in that situation and couldn’t imagine them having to choose between staying connected to loved ones or buying food for the table.
It was a unanimous decision that we would help—no doubt about it!
How did she react?
When we explained what we’d done, she was so overwhelmed. She had tears of joy and appreciation—we knew we’d done the right thing.
The next day, she came back to the store and brought us some homemade pastries as a thank you. She let us know that she was able to get two-weeks worth of groceries with the $100, which warmed our hearts and made the gesture totally worth it.
Supporting community contributions like the Carrefour Laval Rogers team.
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Disney has released 4 awesome new stills for their newest movie, Wreck-It-Ralph. The story follows Ralph who plays the bad guy in a video game. However, Ralph strives to be more like the hero in the game Fix-it-Felix. There are plans to include several iconic video game characters in the movie as well. In the shots above you can see characters from Q-Bert and Street Fighter. Overall, I’m rather excited to see this film’s first trailer this Friday.


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Animation of Mery was good but the animation of the man was a bit weak.
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His latest statement, in a Washington Post op-ed, warns of a wave of legislation pending across the US that could discriminate against the LGBT community.
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We pit the cameras from three mobile giants -- the Galaxy S6, the HTC One M9, and the iPhone 6 -- against one another to see which flagship takes the best photos.
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Some opponents of the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill are giving poor reviews to a new move by Republican Sen. John Cornyn to toughen the legislation with more enforcement requirements. “This amendment would change nothing of consequence,” writes Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It’s yet another attempt to dupe conservatives into excusing a vote for the Schumer-Rubio bill.”
The fundamental problem the critics see with Cornyn’s amendment — which has only been released in outline, not in final legislative language — is that it does not change the Gang bill’s basic structure. Under that structure, legalization of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country will come first, followed by the implementation of enhanced security measures, followed by a path to citizenship. Any bill that puts legalization before security will be unacceptable to a significant number of Republicans, especially those in the House.
Cornyn would leave that sequence unchanged. But his amendment would impose strict requirements that border security actually be in place before the last phase in the process, the path to citizenship, begins. The current Gang of Eight bill does not do that. Under the Gang of Eight proposal, notes a Cornyn aide, there are no real, binding triggers. “The Department of Homeland Security is not required to do anything except submit a plan and certify that they have implemented that plan,” the aide says. “Content doesn’t matter.”
Cornyn would require that not only the Homeland Security secretary but the GAO comptroller general certify that four requirements have been met before immigrants can be given “lawful permanent resident” status, which is the big step toward citizenship. The four requirements are 1) that the government have “100 percent situational awareness,” that is, complete surveillance capability, of the entire southern border; 2) that the apprehension rate of attempted illegal crossers be at least 90 percent; 3) that a biometric (not the weaker biographic, as in the Gang bill) identification system be fully operational and in use at all air and land points of entry; and 4) that the E-Verify system be implemented nationwide.
“It is important to underscore what a radical change this would mean as far as our approach to the border is concerned,” says the aide. “If this amendment is accepted, you completely change this nation’s approach to border security.”
There’s no doubt the Cornyn amendment will have far tougher and more tangible security requirements than the current Gang bill. But it is still legalization-first. Under the Cornyn plan, legalization of the 11 million would take place before the security measures listed above are put in place. And that is precisely the problem for the critics, and also for millions of American voters. Those voters, especially the ones who vote in Republican primaries, just don’t trust the government to put new security measures in place once legalization is already a done deal.
The problem, says the Cornyn aide, is that a security-first arrangement is just not politically possible. “You could put legalization contingent on triggers on the front end,” the aide says. “But that’s never going to pass Congress. Democrats are never going to vote for that. Republicans are never going to be unified on that. It’s never going to happen. You’re never going to be able to say, ‘enforcement first.’ It’s a purist position. It’s never going to become law.”
But that is still what many Republicans, including many in the House of Representatives, want. And Cornyn himself seemed to recognize that in an op-ed introducing his proposal published in the Dallas Morning News Wednesday. The Gang of Eight’s border-security triggers “are talking points disguised as policy,” Cornyn wrote. “Legalization of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States would be activated by meaningless promises rather than concrete results. Haven’t we heard enough of that from Washington?”
Cornyn’s words suggested he intended to do away with legalization-first. But in fact he would not require that security improvements actually be in place before legalization. Just the opposite; his proposal keeps the legalization-first structure of the Gang bill. So why did he specifically criticize legalization-first? “I don’t have a great answer for you on that,” the aide says. “I don’t think we’re trying to pull a fast one on anyone here.”
The real value of the Cornyn amendment, the aide stressed, is not only that it would improve security measures in the current bill. It is that by putting the actual, provable implementation of border security before the path to citizenship begins, it will test Senate Democrats’ commitment to border security. “What the Democrats and their activists groups want, their Holy Grail, is citizenship for the 11 million,” says the aide. “They desperately want this.” Cornyn’s amendment basically says to Democrats, if you really want citizenship, then you can agree to real security. If Democrats say no to Cornyn, it will show what most Republicans already believe about them, which is that they don’t really want tougher border security. “If the Democrats want to reject our amendment, then it shows their true colors,” says the aide.
The Cornyn office promises to release the final language of the amendment in the next day or so. But parts of it will resemble an amendment Cornyn already introduced in the Senate Judiciary Committee. That amendment was defeated on a 12-6 vote, a vote in which all Democrats plus the two committee Republicans who are also on the Gang of Eight, Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, voted against Cornyn.
Cornyn’s team has no illusions about the amendment’s chances of success in the full Senate. Some Democrats have already expressed opposition to the amendment, and others will surely follow. With a majority in the Senate, Democrats certainly have the power to block the amendment. If they do, Cornyn says they have lost his vote for comprehensive reform. “Unless these flaws are corrected,” Cornyn wrote in his op-ed, meaning the parts of the Gang bill his amendment is designed to fix, “I will not be able to support the legislation.”
Finally, it seems likely Sen. Marco Rubio, the Republican leader on the Gang effort, will embrace Cornyn’s amendment as a way to make the “improvements” he says his bill needs. Indeed, Politico quoted a Rubio aide saying that Cornyn had been working with Rubio on the amendment “for weeks.” But Cornyn’s office is quick to say that the amendment is not a joint production. “Marco Rubio had 0.00 input into the drafting of our amendment or the concept of our amendment,” says one. “This amendment started and finished with John Cornyn and this office. No other member, no other staff, no other outside group.”


Plaxiphora caelatais commonly referred to as coat of mail shell, chiton. Difficulty in the aquarium:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.
Profile lexID: 8928 AphiaID: 848055 Scientific: Plaxiphora caelata German: Käferschnecke English: Coat Of Mail Shell, Chiton Category: Family tree: Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Polyplacophora (Class) > Chitonida (Order) > Mopaliidae (Family) > Plaxiphora (Genus) > caelata (Species) Initial determination: (Reeve, ), 1847 Size: 2.3 cm - 4.7 cm Temperature: °C - 20°C Difficulty: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully Offspring: None Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown CITES: Not evaluated Red List: Not evaluated (NE) Related species at: Catalog of Life
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Plaxiphora caelata (Reeve, 1847)
The New Zealand Chiton is 4,7 cm in length and 2,3 cm width.The colour is greyish brown.Plaxiphora caelata have a "hairy" mantle edge.
The most chitons are herbivorous and feed on algae, including sponges, bryozoans and coelenterates, which they scrape off the hard substrate.
Unfortunately, there are no more information available.
Plaxiphora (Maorichiton) lyallensis
Plaxiphora (Plaxiphora) caelata
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Warmth and Light. It’s always the best practice to read the seed
packet to see the what the optimum germination temperature is. But…if you can’t find it, 60-80F is pretty standard. And of course, the seedlings need light. Frugal Tip: Don’t spend money on grow lights unless you’re into a big growing operation. A windowsill with good light streaming in is perfect.

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This course is a detailed introduction to the ecological, economic and spiritual dimensions to the archaeology of the northern world. Lectures will draw on a series of case-studies to examine the human adaptations to northern landscapes, ritual and spirituality, and finally the impact of colonisation and contact upon northern cultures.
|Second Sub Session
|15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
This course aims to provide an in-depth critical examination of the economic and spiritual dimensions to long-term human history in the northern regions of the globe. By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the characteristic features of northern environments and articulate the variety of ways in which human populations have creatively responded to the opportunities and constraints of northern ecosystems through novel technology, mobility and new subsistence and exchange strategies
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of how colonisations and culture contacts were ongoing in both the distant and recent past and the key processes that were instrumental to the creation of diversity among northern populations
- Critically evaluate the archaeological evidence for a range of rituals and beliefs that reflect the distinctive northern world-view
- Demonstrate improved verbal and written skills
This course provides students with a detailed introduction to the ecological, economic and spiritual dimensions to the Archaeology of the North (defined here as Scotland, Northern Europe, Siberia, the North Pacific, North America and the North Atlantic). We will examine the diverse ways in which communities have made the northern world their home. The course draws on a series of case-studies to examine four interlocking themes:
- Human ecology of northern landscapes. Examines the opportunities and constraints that characterise high-latitude environments.
- Living in the North. Investigates some of the creative ways in which northern people have adapted to and transformed these ecological settings, including how societies have responded to frequent periods of severe climate change, and the role of technology in mobility and adaptation.
- The Northern Mind. Critically explores the abundant archaeological evidence for ritual, worship and spirituality, focusing on burial practices, sacred places and other forms of evidence.
- Exchange, Colonisation and Contact. Examines the range and roles of inter-cultural contact and the ways these influenced cultural change in the north and the correlates of these changes that are present in the archaeological record.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
There are no assessments for this course.
|ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.

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US 20030146062 A1
In an electric telpher or similar conveyor system comprising movable transfer units, power is transmitted to consumers having differing input power requirements in that the slide rail (1) is also used as return conductor of the feeder (4) in the primary circuit and in that the current collector (6) of the secondary circuit comprises two separate and differently rated windings (N01, N02) to provide two separate supply voltages (U01, U02) with different load capacities that are geared to the differing power needs of the consumers via electronic collector circuits (AE1, AE2).
1. An electric telpher with non-contact power transmission from a feeder and return conductor conducted along a slide rail and connected to a higher-frequency AC power supply via a current collector configured as a U-shaped ferrite core with windings that encompasses the supply line to the control and power circuits of a transfer unit that can travel on the slide rail, characterized in that the return conductor (7) is directly formed by the slide rail (1) and that two separate and differently rated windings (N01; N02) are provided on the current collector (6) formed by the ferrite core that provide different supply voltages (U01; U02) to the power circuit and control circuit of the transfer unit, respectively.
2. The electric telpher according to
3. The electric telpher according to
4. The electric telpher according to claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the free end of the feeder bracket (2) that faces away from the slide rail (1) comprises a holding groove (3) for receiving the feeder (4).
5. The electric telpher according to any one of the preceding claims 2 through 4, characterized in that the plate-like feeder bracket (2) comprises a mechanical coding (5) in the form of a slot code for detecting the position of the transfer units using a scanner mounted on these transfer units.
6. The electric telpher according to
7. The electric telpher according to
8. The electric telpher according to any one of the preceding claims 1 through 7, characterized in that the transfer units are programmed and remote controlled using the infrared or radio modules that are integrated into their control circuit.
9. The electric telpher according to any one of the preceding claims 1 through 7, characterized in that the feeder (4) can be used as a communication channel for the programming and remote control of the transfer units by applying specific modulation and demodulation methods.
10. The electric telpher according to any one of the preceding claims 1 through 9, characterized in that a mobile feeder (14) with a mobile feeder module (17) and attached to a mobile section (18) is provided in junction areas of the telpher, and that this mobile feeder (14) is supplied from a permanently installed feeder module (15) via a trailing cable (16).
11. The electric telpher according to any one of the preceding claims 1 through 10, characterized in that emergency stops and safety blocks (19) that are connected to stationary supply modules (20) in the vicinity of the track are provided in front of or inside junctions, and that the respective supply module (20) can be connected to a mobile feeder module (17) via a trailing cable (21).
 The invention relates to an electric telpher with non-contact power transmission from a feeder and return conductor conducted along a slide rail and connected to a higher-frequency AC power supply via a current collector configured as a U-shaped ferrite core with windings that encompasses the supply line to the control and power circuits of a transfer unit that can travel on the slide rail.
 Non-contact inductive transmission of electrical power to rail-guided transfer units equipped with electric consumers has been known for a long time. For example, DE 44 46 779 describes an arrangement for non-contact inductive power transmission to electrically powered transfer units that are moved on a closed track. In this arrangement, a feeder fed by a higher-frequency AC power supply is kept at a spacing from the slide rail and encompassed by the respective current collector that is mounted to the respective transfer unit and connected to the drive motor and the control circuit. The current collector consists of a U-shaped ferrite core with a winding around its limbs. Transmission of electrical power from the primary feeder to the secondary windings is based on the transformer principle, and the various consumers on the transfer unit are supplied a voltage level in accordance with their power needs. As the control circuit of the transfer unit, however, requires a considerably lower voltage (24V) than the power circuit, an enormous switching effort is required to supply the 24V DC from the 560V DC voltage provided by the current collector. A similar effort is required for the return conductor of the primary power supply that in DE 44 46 779 is formed by the sidewalls of a casing that almost completely encompasses the current collector.
 It is therefore the problem of this invention to disclose an electric telpher with non-contact electrical power transmission that can be efficiently produced as regards current transfer from the primary supply to the various consumers of the transfer units.
 This problem is solved according to the invention by the electric telpher with non-contact power transmission comprising the characteristics described in claim 1.
 The inventive idea is to use the aluminum slide rail for the transfer units of the telpher as return conductor. When combining this characteristic with an arrangement of two separate windings on the U-shaped ferrite core (current collector) to be able to provide two independent direct currents of different voltages and load capacities for the control and power circuits and thereby considerably simplify the switching effort required for providing the lower voltage, overall expenditure of supplying power to the consumers of the transportable units is considerably reduced.
 The inventive power supply to the transfer units is, of course, not limited to suspended or telpher systems but may also be used in a similarly advantageous way with other conveying equipment in which a transfer unit is moved along a rail and that operates on a non-contact power supply. This is a more effortless way to make use of the known advantages of non-contact power transmission, such as high operational reliability even under difficult operating conditions, minimum maintenance and wear, low noise, high conveying speed, and high efficiency.
 The subclaims and the description of an exemplary embodiment below reveal other important characteristics of the invention, for example regarding the supply of a stabilized medium-frequency current to the primary circuit, positioning and attachment of the feeder in a specially designed bracket that can be attached to the slide rail, the electrical configuration of the current collectors, or the design of junction points of the telpher.
 An embodiment of the invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to the figures. Wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an arrangement for non-contact transmission of electrical power to a transfer unit that can be moved along the slide rail of an electric telpher system;
FIG. 2 is a sectional, partially perspective view of a feeder bracket that can be locked into the slide rail of an electric telpher system and is mechanically coded for position detection;
FIG. 3 shows a switching arrangement for feeding power into the primary circuit of an arrangement for non-contact power transmission;
FIG. 4 shows a circuit wiring diagram of the bridge rectifier to be provided according to FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 shows a circuit wiring diagram of the stabilized power supply for power feeding as shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 6 shows a circuit wiring diagram of a current collector to be provided for the secondary circuit;
FIG. 7 shows the supply provided for a mobile feeder in the area of a telpher junction; and
FIG. 8 shows a junction area according to FIG. 7, but comprising an upstream safety block.
 The arrangement for non-contact power transmission as shown in FIG. 1 comprises an aluminum slide rail for guiding a transfer unit (not shown) for carrying and transporting loads that is equipped with a control circuit and a power circuit. A feeder bracket 2 made of a non-conducting, preferably synthetic material is mounted to a slide rail 1, said feeder bracket comprising a holding groove 3 in its free end placed at a spacing to said slide rail 1 (see FIG. 2) to receive a feeder 4 in the form of a high-frequency litz wire. As FIG. 2 shows, this feeder bracket 2 further comprises a mechanical coding that is used by a scanner mounted to the transfer unit (not shown) to ensure absolute position detection. Where the slide rail 1 has a bend, the feeder bracket 2 is made of short segments (not shown) which can be locked into compact holders la attached to one longitudinal side of the slide rail 1. The feeder bracket 2 protrudes into a current collector 6 that is configured as a U-shaped ferrite core 6.1 with one winding N01, or N02, respectively, on each of its limbs. The windings N01, and N02 are each connected to an electronic collector circuit AE1 or AE2, respectively, and these two circuits provide two separate supply voltages V01 and V02 to supply the transfer unit with direct current (I01; I02). The windings N01, and N02 have different ratings so that the voltages V01 and V02 are different in size and load capacity, one suitable for the control circuit and one suitable for the power circuit of the respective transfer unit. Thus wiring and switching requirements for the power electronics are rather low. The low voltage may also be used to feed small consumers. The feeder 4 is located inside the U-shaped ferrite core (current collector 6) at a minimum depth of 40% of the overall depth of the core to ensure the creation of a magnetic flux in the ferrite core and provide an adequate magnetomotive force (N01·I01, N02·I02)
 As shown in FIG. 3, the primary circuit of the arrangement consisting of the feeder 4 and a return conductor 7 is supplied with power from a three-phase low-voltage system via a six-pulse bridge rectifier that provides a link voltage Vz. A circuit wiring diagram of the bridge rectifier 8 is shown in FIG. 4. A PWM rectifier inverter 10 that works on two LC components 11 and an output transformer 12 is provided downstream as a stabilized power supply 9 (a circuit diagram of which is shown in FIG. 5) downstream from the bridge rectifier 8 so that a constant medium-frequency current is supplied. The PWM rectifier inverter 10 determines the output frequency of the constant current while the two LC components 11 are responsible for the quality of the sinusoidal wave shape of the constant current and for limiting the noise spectrum along the feeder.
 The circuit diagram as shown in FIG. 3 represents two current collectors 6, each of which connected to a consumer (not shown), that can be moved along the feeder and require different power levels. A circuit wiring diagram of a current collector 6 that can travel along the feeder 4 and is equipped with the electronic collector circuits AE1 and AE2 as outlined in FIG. 1 for different voltages V01 and V02 is shown in FIG. 6. A control unit (Rs) is labeled with reference symbol 13 in the electronic collector circuit AE2 for oscillating circuit quality. There are no feedback effects on the adjacent current collector 6 due to the stabilized power supply. Compensation modules 22 are provided along the guideway formed by the return conductor 7 and the feeder 4 to compensate the inductive voltage portions und thus to increase the working efficiency of the system; these modules are shown as capacitors in FIG. 3.
 While the feeder 4 is a finely stranded litz wire with reinforced insulation at mechanically critical points, slide rail 1 is used as return conductor 7. The slide rail segments 1 that are used as return conductor 7 have low-resistance terminations for the required equipotential bonding, while flexible earthing strips (not shown) are provided on all stretching points. By means of specific modulation and demodulation methods, feeder 4 can also be used as a communication channel for programming and remote control of the transfer units.
 Communication with the control unit that is connected to the transfer unit (not shown) takes place here in the known way using infrared modules that are integrated into the control unit, or radio modules.
 Each control unit is routinely equipped with an onboard infrared module that is used for programming and remote control of the propulsion gear of the transfer unit. Furthermore, these mobile infrared modules may communicate with special read-write stations at selected points along the guideway which in turn are managed by the higher-order system control unit. This is where the control units exchange status and command information and store this data in a no-volt protected memory. These IR modules can also be used for start/stop functions and the like, if required.
 As an alternative to IR technology, mobile radio modules can be used that can optionally be integrated into the control unit but allow permanent communication with system control. As the range of transmission is limited in a rough industrial environment, an interconnection of fixed base stations is used here, each of these stations representing a cell. These individual cells overlap so that all transfer units on the guideway can be reached safely. This interconnection of radio stations is controlled and monitored in such a way that propulsion gear can be logged off without data loss when the transfer unit leaves a cell and safely logged on to the next cell. This equipment is suitable for rough allotment estimates. If combined with position detection, the user gets a transparent track model of all vehicles and may apply higher-order control mechanisms depending on the communication bandwidth in system control.
 The control unit is equipped with a scanner (not shown) that carries out position detection along the travel path using mechanical coding 5. This information is also used for internal motor control. Jolts or any other unsteadiness in the absolute code curve can be stored in a no-volt protected memory the control unit, which means there can be greater fault tolerance when installing the absolute code rail 5. This function is most useful when the scanner scans the feeder brackets 2 that carry a mechanical coding 5.
 The control unit is designed in such a way that it can either directly actuate a standard gearbox motor with a wheel that is mounted on the drive end and performs both driving and load-bearing functions and an electromechanical brake or a linear motor unit with an electromechanical brake arrangement that functions as a holding brake.
 As shown in FIG. 7, mobile feeders 14 that can be supplied with high-frequency power from a stationary feeder module 15 located in the vicinity of the track and connected to the feeder 14 via a trailing cable and a mobile feeder module 17, are provided in junction areas of the telpher such as points, intersections, lifting, lowering, and shunting stations.
 As FIG. 8 shows, emergency stops and safety blocks 19 are provided in front of and inside junctions that are connected to permanently installed supply modules 20 in the vicinity of the track to create partial shutdown segments using conventional switching logic. The supply module 20 is configured so that it can be connected to a feeder module 17 via a trailing cable 21.


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As a blogging participant of Monica Miller’s Primordial Scents 2012 project, I have been asked to review five groupings of elements-inspired fragrances by perfumers from across the globe. Blogger & perfume-enthusiast Jen Meade explains:
This year, the most amazing project is pulling together. The building blocks are, in part, those that form the universe. The building blocks are exquisite perfumes based on the original building blocks: the four – no, five! – elements. They are talented perfumers working in a variety of materials – some all-natural, some not. They are gifted perfume writers, sniffing the creations and making an offering of words. They are dreams from the minds of creative people all over the world and, especially, the dream of one woman on an island off of Massachusetts, Monica Miller of Perfume Pharmer. She has gathered a group of perfumers from all over the world who have spent the last year creating scents inspired by the elements, including the fifth element proposed by Starhawk: spirit. The focus for the project is on the primordial beginnings, the inner workings of… everything. In Monica’s words, “For the purposes of this project, Primordial to me means original material…going back to the ELEMENTS that make up our planet, our bodies, our selves. What are we made of physically and spiritually? What do we hold most sacred?”
In today’s post, I spend some time with the Air fragrances which include Spirit of Air by Neil Morris, Moon Valley by Esscentual Alchemy, First Breath by Naked Leaf Perfumes, Honey by Velvet and Sweet Pea Purrfumery, Djin by Michael Storer, and Ele-metal Alchemy by Coeur D’Esprit Natural Perfumes. I’ve decided to use metaphors to describe these as they all brought to mind specific images or atmospheres. For a more poetic take on this group, the first of 5 odes to elements, I recommend John Reasinger’s article for Perfume Pharmer HERE.
See my other Primordial Scents reviews by clicking HERE.
Leave a comment below and tell us which interpretation of air has you most intrigued for your chance to win a sample of that very scent! Buy a sample pack of all 6 scents for $33 or $38 (outside USA) here.
Mist rising From a Pond on a Warm Summer Day – SPIRIT OF AIR
Designer’s Description: Spirit of Air is part of a quartet of perfumes honoring the 4 elements: Earth, Air, Fire & Water. It is the second in the series, Spirit of Water being the first.
Notes: Lemon Verbena, Linden Blossom, Plum Blossom, Lily of the Valley, Sunflower, Light Musk, White Amber, Ozone Notes.
The Bottom Line: A clean, white bouquet (linden blossom and lily of the valley) with something soapy and astringent in the background that reminds me of Cashmere Mist or Natori (2010); dries to a breezy, airy, unisex floral. I could have sworn I detected gardenia both at the opening and middle stages but don’t see it in the list of notes. My olfactory image is that of cool air meeting warming water causing steam to form and hover just above the surface of a pond or lake. The fragrance is cool and light but also has a slightly darker shadow barely visible in the background…maybe it’s the musk?
Perfumer: Neil Morris, http://NeilMorrisFragrances.com. To purchase, choose any of the Vault fragrances and then request Spirit of Air at checkout.
The Steam of a HammaM Bath Perfumed with Jasmine – MOON VALLEY
Designer’s Description: Esscentual Alchemy’s Moon Valley natural perfume opens with a hint of the dew that falls at night. Moon Valley is a soft iris and peach perfume, with lush florals, hints of wood, and an earthy base.
Notes: Vetiver, Antique Oakmoss, Hyrax, Orris, Jasmine Grandiflorum, Lilac, Tuberose, Carnation, Peach Accord, Virginia Cedar, Natural isolate of Heliotrope.
The Bottom Line: Moon Valley is a straightforward, all-natural perfume whose notes melt together like sheets of colored cellophane layered one over another. No particular note really stands out and the overall aroma offers a transparency and simplicity. The drydown tones the opening floral notes with a warm, velvety hint of peach. More than anything else, I detect notes of ylang and jasmine and the overall feel is that of an essential oil used at an Eastern bath.
Perfumer: Amanda Feeley, http://esscentualalchemy.mysupadupa.com/
The Aroma of Spiced Tea in the AfternooN – HONEY
Designer’s Description: Honey is an all natural perfume inspired by Honey Bees, by the beautiful way they fly around and gather sweet flower nectar.
Notes: All hail to the queen bee! This regal, opulent composition of French orange blossom, and Moroccan and Bulgarian roses sits on a throne of deep vetiver, Madagascar vanilla, honey, beeswax from the Purrfumery’s bees and my bee guru’s propolis. It is crowned with rare antique clove, pomegranate and pink grapefruit. This royal blend is set in a rich base of sandalwood and vanilla infused alcohol.
The Bottom Line: One of my favorites of the group, Honey is unique in that it is indeed a honey fragrance but without the musty, urine-like ick that sometimes accompanies honey’s presence in perfume. Another wonderful facet of this scent is the way the grapefruit and pomegranate accord weave in and out against a backdrop of a warm, vanillic spiced tea. Although rose is a major player, it never dominates; likewise, earthy vetiver helps ground the florals but never takes center-stage. Overall, honey is a not-what-you-were-thinking composition that wears as though you were sipping a cup of vanilla and rose afternoon tea…oh, and how about that final lingering glimmer of warm sandalwood right at the very end!?!
Perfumer: Laurie Stern, http://www.purrfumery.com/liquid.php
The Air of a Finnish Sauna at Midsummer – ELE-METAL ALCHEMY
Designer’s Description: This five-layer fragrance was born in the Earth, forged in the Fire, cooled in the Water, and dried in the Air. Then it was blessed by Spirit with the number Three, the Infinity symbol, colour & crystals, toning, and a prayer that it be worn for the highest good of the wearer. It now lives in the Ether around the wearer, balancing and harmonizing the inner and outer elements. The perfume plays out backwards to how it was created. We detect the first whiffs of scent through the ether. It brings up images of airy clouds in the light blue sky and the ethereal whiffs of pine and spruce bent over from the ocean winds; the honeybee winging from flower to flower; and the green leaves, hanging by a thread and flittering in the wind. From Crown Chakra to Third Eye, to Throat, then Heart down to Sacral up to Solar Plexus down to Root up, it spirals in Fibonacci fashion.
Notes: Hyraceum and Atlas Cedarwood from Africa; Egyptian Frankincense and Mango leaf; Vetitver and Cinnamon leaf from Sri Lanka; Oceanic Ambergris, and Ocean tincture of seaweed, sea grass, shells, and sand; Hay absolute and Laurel leaf from Spain; American Peru balsam; South American Tolu balsam; Canadian Blue Spruce, Orange Peel, and Honey beeswax tincture; Jasmine sambac absolute, Frangipani absolute, Blue, Pink, White Lotus absolute, and Spearmint, all six from India; Italian Neroli and Petitgrain sur fleurs; Chinese Ginger Root and Michaelia leaf; Peach leaf and Violet leaf from France; Turkish Galbanum; Japanese Peppermint; and Bulgarian Pine; in Perfumers’ Alcohol (Ethanol with Bitrex).
The Bottom Line: Spearmint, peppermint, cedar, spruce and ginger: This is what most stands out to me when I smell Ele-metal Alchemy. A vasta of birch twigs with leaves newly split after being whipped on washed skin while mint oils are dropped onto the coals in the mökki sauna: This is what I see when I smell Ele-metal Alchemy. Minty, woody and refreshing, Ele-metal Alchemy gives a wink to Finnish summer.
Perfumer: Lyn Ayre, http://www.scentofnature.net/Ele-Metal_Alchemy.htm
The Yawn of a Newborn after a Bath – FIRST BREATH
Designer’s Description: The awe-inspiring moment a baby takes it first breath of air is significant astrologically as that is the moment the chart is cast. Reflected in the chart at that precise moment is a blueprint of the personality. Of course, how we manifest that potential, whether positively or negatively, is our own free will. Events can have a birth chart too. Electional Astrologers analyze the cycles of the planets and choose the most auspicious time to begin or breathe life into an event. Some people use this branch of astrology when they want to know the best time to get married, buy or sell a house, begin a business or have surgery. From the moment of inception, events, like humans, are subject to the natural rhythms of life.
Notes: Sage, Armoise, Lime, Lavender, Mandarin, Rose absolute (Bulgaria), Jasmine grandiflorum, Neroli (Egypt), Lavender absolute, Clary Sage, Black Currant Bud absolute, Fir Balsam absolute, Oakmoss absolute, Patchouli, Vetiver, Vanilla absolute (Madagascar), Hyrax, Benzoin
The Bottom Line: Yesterday I smelled a baby’s head. He had just been given a bath, a powder and a swaddle in a newly washed cotton blankie when I got to hold him in my arms. I sensed something sweet, almost chocolatey, and then just sniffed the center of his noggin. The first time I encountered the center of First Breath, that wonderful middle range of notes where the topnotes are still hanging on but the basenotes are just getting started, I smelled baby head, plain and simple. For those of you not into baby heads, the fragrance just misses being a baby perfume thanks to its complex, spicy and woody basenotes. I could wear this every day…I find it comparable to my incomparable, vanilla-almond tinged Joop! Le Bain in its peaceful grooviness.
Perfumer: Suzy Larsen, http://nakedleaf.ca
The Heaviness of Indian Forests after Monsoon Rains – DJIN
Designer’s Description: “A powerful djin is what Aladdin brought forth when he rubbed his famous lamp.A spectral and prismatic interplay of olfactory sensations is what you’ll set free with just a few sprays of Djin parfum. Djin’s notes range through all the chakras from the base of the spine with very male Aldrone, leathery castoreum, civet, musk, tonka bean and teakwood, to a middle of sweeter woods tempering the bitterness of grapefruit oil, blackcurrant absolute, clary sage, just a hint of vanilla and iris. This all carries on through the upper spine right to the forehead with an aura of ozonic and marine notes, rose and topped with mind-opening spices including cardamom seed and floral aldehydes. This is all we will reveal. You’ll just have to rub the magic lamp yourself to experience all the full-bodied power of Djin.” from ThePoshPeasant.com
Notes: see above
The Bottom Line: Djin offers a traditional, sweet citrus topnote along the lines of Signoricci set against a slightly aquatic and woody background that reminds me of Axis for Men by Sense of Space. The drydown goes a bit wood & powder and recalls the heliotropic basenotes of fragrances like People of the Labyrinths. When I saw the image above, it brought out an aspect of Djin that I hadn’t really recognized before – dewy greens and sap-laden twigs of the kind encountered after a heavy downpour.
Perfumer: Michael Storer, by request from [sales at michaelstorer dot com]
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Hey, Beat Fleeters! Guess what time it is!
That’s right! It’s Daylight Savings Time!
You know the drill… Spring forward, Fall back, except in Arizona and Hawai’i, which are Federal temporal reserves, created to avoid confusion with time travelers. (You set your time and space coordinates for Arizona or Hawai’i “standard time” and then instantaneously change your space coordinates for wherever you need to be.) (And if you really want to confuse a time traveler, send them to Indiana!)
For those who use the extra hour to drink, please travel safely (especially if you have a time machine… it’s so easy to transpose digits).
Oh, and to tie this further into the Nerdiverse, some timelines, courtesy of XKCD:
I’ve been writing for The Beat since July of 2010.
I’ve been reading comics since 1974, collecting since 1984, and spreading the graphic novel gospel since 1994.
I’m a bookseller, a librarian, an amateur scholar, a cool uncle, and a comics evangelist.
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The multiple Emmy award-winning television producer, Wendy Riche, is popular for working as the executive producer of ABC Daytime’s “General Hospital” for a long time. She is also an executive producer and co-writer of the award-winning “The Bay” on Amazon Prime.
She is considered one of the top-rated TV series producers in the United States. Through their production house, RicheProductions, Wendy writes, creates, produces, and develops television and feature films in partnership with her husband, Alan Riche.
Wendy Riche Married Over 50 Years with Husband, Alan Riche
Wendy Riche has been married to film producer Alan Riche for a long time. Likewise, the two tied the marital knot in a small ceremony on December 4, 1966. Moreover, only the family, relatives, and close friends witnessed the wedding vows of Wendy and Alan.
They share two children and have been together since their marriage 53 years back. Another couple, Anthony Morina, is also a soap opera director, while his wife, Sally Sussman Morina, is a daytime writer.
Apart from bits of information about Wendy’s marriage and husband, every other detail is still under the radar. Wendy might be a public figure in the film industry, but she is not open about her life and kids. Wendy’s kids have been protected from the media and public since their birth.
Media-shy Wendy has more than 1,689 followers on her Twitter account. But she never shares photos and the whereabouts of her family. She once said;
I love to connect on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but have to be disciplined about the amount of time I spend – digital platforms can be very distracting, especially in the political times that we are living in today. Social media allows you to connect with people who you wouldn’t regularly connect with. I like it for that reason. I don’t like what has happened with hacking and fake sites.
The couple together runs a production company and are still together working in the entertainment industry.
Wendy Riche’s Net Worth
One of the famous producers and writers, Wendy Riche, has a net worth of $5 million as of 2019. Not to mention, the primary source of her income came from working a long time in film and television production.
Now, she and her husband are living a decent life, like many artists and celebrities. Additionally, one of the renowned Irish actresses, Sinead Cusack, has a similar net worth.
On average, film and tv producer earns $67451 in a year. The new producer earns around $39,000, whereas the top-listed producers who are more experienced make more than $133,000 a year.
Filmography And Awards
Wendy has played a producer role in many TV dramas series. Some of her outstanding works are listed below;
|2016-2019||The Bay||Executive Consultant(season 2)Executive Producer/Story Editor(Season 3, 4, and 5)|
|January 28, 1992-January 22, 2001||General Hospital||Executive Producer|
|June 1, 1997-December 24, 1999||Port Charles||Executive Producer|
|1999 – October 3, 2003||Port Charles||Consultant|
|2004||Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County||Co-Executive Producer|
|1995||Positive: A Journey Into AIDS (ABC Afterschool Special)||Executive Producer|
|1998||I Saw What You Did||Executive Producer|
|1987||Deadly Care||Executive Producer|
|1983||Who Will Love My Children?||Producer|
Likewise, Wendy was nominated for the American Daytime Awards five times and won three of them. Furthermore, General Hospital won five awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and tv series The Bay won the Outstanding Daytime Drama Series award.
Daytime Emmy Award is awarded for Excellence in daytime television productions. This award is compared to Academy Awards, Tony Awards for theater, and Grammy Awards for music. In fact, it is mainly held in May or June each year.
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Boston College men’s hockey entered Friday night’s contest against No. 9 Northeastern carrying a six-game losing streak and badly in need of momentum. Three minutes into the second period, things appeared to be going from bad to worse, as the Huskies took a 1-0 lead and looked primed to continue the Eagles’ misery. That is, until Casey Fitzgerald—one of five BC players that was being honored on Senior Night—took matters into his own hands.
With six minutes played in the second period, the puck popped out to Fitzgerald at the top of the right circle following a scrum in front of the net. The senior captain made no mistake, ripping a shot off the underside of the crossbar and past Northeastern netminder Cayden Primeau to knot the score at one apiece. It was the offensive spark the Eagles needed, as they added two more goals in the third period to claim a massive 3-1 win.
The last time these two teams met—the Beanpot final just a month ago—BC (11-18-3, 10-9-3 Hockey East) looked very competitive with the Huskies (21-10-1, 13-8-1) but was undone by goals in the final two minutes of the first and second periods. Friday night, the same story nearly unfolded. For the first 18 minutes of the opening frame, both teams struggled to find a foothold in the game, and clear-cut chances were few and far between.
As the period wound down, though, the Huskies nearly scored late again, as Joseph Woll was forced to block a fierce slapshot from Patrick Schule. Seconds later, Austin Plevy nearly scored from just outside the crease but couldn’t lift the puck over Woll’s pads. Then Biagio Lerario juked a BC defender and lifted a wrister over the crossbar. Northeastern was also nearly gifted a goal, as Jesper Mattila mishit the puck in his own zone directly in front of cage, but Woll was able to cover it up, and the Eagles escaped to the locker room unscathed.
The dearth of goals wouldn’t last long, though. Just three minutes into the second period, Liam Pecararo pivoted and fired a shot in from the right circle. Plevy, who had been screening the BC goaltender, tipped the puck slightly, and it squirted past Woll to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead.
Fitzgerald’s eventual answer seemed to inspire BC offensively, and the Eagles began to generate chance after chance. Ron Greco walked into the slot before firing a wrister that Primeau gloved away, then David Cotton and Oliver Wahlstrom both saw shots turned away by Primeau’s pads. BC was moving the puck well and playing with energy but couldn’t manage to beat Primeau. The sophomore, who made 33 stops in the Huskies’ Beanpot final victory over the Eagles, was once again in top form.
The only thing that slowed BC’s offensive momentum was the penalty box, as Cotton and Aapeli Räsänen both went to the box for two minutes for boarding, but the Eagles managed to carry their energy to the penalty kill, successfully stopping both Huskies power plays while not allowing a single shot attempt. In fact, the latter of the two penalties nearly led to a goal. Räsänen jumped out of the penalty box and immediately caused a turnover, leading to a slapshot from Christopher Brown which was turned aside by Primeau. That was the last good opportunity either team had for the remainder of the period, setting the stage for a tense third period with the score still knotted at one.
At the outset of the third, however, Northeastern nearly tilted the momentum back in its favor, as Liam Pecararo took advantage of a turnover to create a 1-on-1 opportunity with Woll, but the Toronto Maple Leafs prospect used his glove to deny a backhand attempt from the forward and keep the score tied. That miss left the door open for BC, and it took the opportunity to seize control.
Michael Karow picked up the puck on top of the left circle following a wraparound attempt from Jack McBain and let fly with a wrist shot that caromed off Primeau’s pads high into the air and dropped just outside the crease. There, Marc McLaughlin proved to be in the right place at the right time, stuffing home the rebound after the fortuitous bounce to complete the Eagles’ comeback.
From there, BC continued to play with an energy befitting the occasion, winning battles for the puck and keeping Northeastern from creating good scoring opportunities with physical play. The Eagles killed off another penalty without incident after Ben Finkelstein was whistled for slashing with nine minutes remaining to go 3-for-3 on the kill.
“I think we denied them great entries into our zone, had good forechecks going a number of times” Jerry York said. “We were disruptive to them, and that certainly helps, because they’re excellent on the power play.”
Northeastern gained one final man advantage, pulling Primeau with just over a minute to play, but again BC defended admirably. Cotton picked up the puck in the neutral zone before skating across the blue line and sliding it into an empty net to seal a 3-1 win that provided the seniors with a fitting send off in their final home game.
“It’s a great class,” York remarked when asked about the seniors postgame. “Our record’s not what we’d like it to be, but their leadership has been rock solid. It’s as good a group of seniors as I’ve had as far as leadership and direction they’ve showed to our underclassmen.”
Indeed, the senior leadership showed up in a big way Friday night, as BC turned in one of its best performances of the season, against a top-10 opponent no less.
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One of the greatest mysteries of this century has yet to be solved. Based on a true story that has captured the imagination of America for more than half a century, Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight explores the mysterious disappearance of the brave aviatrix, in an exciting and suspenseful way. Earhart's career and her life goal to become the first person (male or female) to circle the globe are engineered by her publisher husband, played by Bruce Dern. Their relationship suffers as an impatient Earhart puts up with his publicity schemes. Her relationship with her navigator, a once-promising flyer who has become a burnt-out alcoholic, played by Rutger Hauer is no less turbulent. Their incredible adventure finally begins. During the flight they encounter unreliable flight information, inclement weather and a string of other foreboding situations. Witness the final moments of this ill-fated flight. Find out why this "unsolved mystery" has continued to captivate audiences for over 60 years.
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Several weeks ago, I submitted a story to the North Carolina Writers’ Network for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. The winning piece of fiction of up to 6,000 words will be announced in April and will be published next year in North Carolina Literary Review.
Doris Betts was born in 1932 in Statesville, North Carolina. For 30 years, she taught creative writing and English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was an award-winning novelist and writer of short stories. Her subtle writing style was often compared to that of Flannery O’Connor. Ms. Betts died in 2012 at her home in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
The story I submitted in the competition for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize was titled, “Secrets of a Foster Child.” It is the first fiction story I’ve written in first person. I tried to put myself in the skin of a foster child. That wasn’t easy. I was blessed to grow up in a stable, two-parent, loving home. We lived on land that has been in our family since the 1760s. I knew we weren’t ever going to move. I knew where I would go to school the next year, much less the next day. I never once had to wonder if I would have enough to eat or clothes to wear. I knew Mama and Daddy were my forever parents.
Hearing and reading about the various experiences foster children have has helped me to realize how fortunate I am. There are many wonderful foster homes, and I hope my story conveys that. Some foster homes are not so good, and my story touches on that. The overriding theme in the story is the insecurity that foster children have. Nothing in their lives is permanent.
I doubt that “Secrets of a Foster Child” is literary enough to win this august writing competition. I do not expect to win, but it was helpful to write for the contest and go through the mechanics of editing and revising in order to make the piece as good as I could.
No time spent writing is wasted.


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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday that Turkey was a state of law where democracy works with its all institutions and called on everyone to focus on counrty's priorities considering international political and economic developments.
"All our institutions fulfill their duties stemming from the Constitution," Gul said in a statement that came a day after the Constitutional Court decision not to ban ruling Justice & Development (AK) Party.
Turkey's top court on Wednesday rejected an attempt to shut down the governing AK Party but imposed financial penalties on it.
"These assessments are also necessary for political and legal arguments took place in recent months," Gul said.
"I find it necessary that everyone, especially the government, should focus more on Turkey's priorities from now on, considering international political and economic developments," he said.
Gul said these priorities include success in fight against terrorism, continuation of economic and political reform process, completion of full membership talks with the EU and results of Turkey's peaceful efforts in foreign policy.
He said focusing on these priorities would contribute to stable, safe and prosperous Turkey.
Court decision was also received favorably by business circles and the foreign investors, ending a prolonged period of uncertainty, economists said.
"The ruling has opened Turkey's way and foreign investors are certainly positive on the issue," said Huseyin Erkan, president of the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
The Istanbul Stock Exchange (IMKB), Turkey's main share index, rose Thursday morning as high as 4.51 percent to reach above 43,000 points for the first time since May.
The index was following an upward trend through the week with a 14.65 percent rise since last Friday and analysts said the Constitutional Court's ruling about the AK Party satisfied market expectations.
One U.S. dollar is 1.16 YTL while one Euro is 1.81 YTL at Istanbul free market.
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As you can probably see, I’m feeling much better today! I was sick most of the week and just started feeling like myself again yesterday. ♥
Several people have asked for the size of the tote I used for the 2/12″ strips. It’s currently packed for my sewing adventure, so I will try to get that to you next week. I can tell you it’s a Sterlite container and it’s 9″ wide on the inside. That’s how wide I folded the strips. 😉
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A GLYNNEATH pensioner had more than 10 solar powered lights stolen from his back garden.
The thieves made off brazenly down the street, after they took the items from the back garden of the house of Clyde Southern on Park Avenue.
His neighbour, David Rees, saw three men in their 20s walking down the road at 1.30am acting suspiciously.
Mr Rees said: “They were walking up an down the street, looking into every house. One of them went into Clyde’s house and two waited on the road. They looked suspicious so I thought I’d keep watch.
“Then a bit later I saw one come out of the Welfare Ground so I showed myself in the window.
“They were that blatant that they just turned around and walked back into the park.”
Mr Rees believes the thief who entered the garden then escaped through Maesmarchog Field, which backs on to Mr Southern’s house and came back through the village via the Welfare Ground.
Mr Southern himself told the Guardian:
“I didn’t know anything until I came down in the morning. It’s not the value of the things, it’s the principle.
“I’m an OAP who’s disabled and it’s not the kind of thing you want to happen.”
Police have confirmed that the crime had been recorded, and that the investigation into the theft was ongoing.


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Crayon Craft Writing Activity is a colorful way to kick-start the school year with creativity and engagement! This all-in-one craft package offers a delightful combination of fun, customization, and educational value, ensuring a memorable experience for students while igniting their writing skills.
The Crayon Craft Writing Activity includes an easy-to-use color and cut craft template that guarantees a hassle-free setup. Students can use crayons, markers, or even paint to bring their crayons to life with vibrant colors. The cutting process encourages fine motor skills, while the assembly provides an opportunity for hands-on creativity.
But the magic doesn’t stop there! The product also includes editable writing pages, allowing for personalization by adding custom writing topics. Whether you want to incorporate The Day the Crayons Quit theme or explore other exciting subjects, the possibilities are endless.
This versatile activity is not only a writing exercise but also doubles as a stunning bulletin board display. With quick and easy assembly, you’ll have a captivating visual centerpiece in no time. The combination of colorful crayons and students’ written pieces is sure to capture the attention of anyone passing by.
To cater to the diverse needs of your classroom, the Crayon Craft Writing Activity offers both half and whole sheet page options. This flexibility ensures that students of different writing abilities, from primary to intermediate levels, can fully participate and confidently showcase their skills. It becomes a differentiated learning experience.
So, why wait? Bring the joy of writing, creativity, and customization into your classroom with the Crayon Craft Writing Activity. Watch as your students express themselves, develop their fine motor skills, and create a captivating bulletin board that showcases their talents. Let their imagination run wild and their writing skills flourish with this versatile and engaging craft.
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- Extremely satisfied–We paired this with an opinion writing to go with the book “The Day the Crayons Quit” and it was SO CUTE!
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- Extremely satisfied–Love this writing activity! My classroom theme is crayons so it’s a great addition to the room!
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Red Deerians are being asked to be proactive when it comes to safety during Fire Prevention Week.
Owning a working smoke alarm, preventing fires in the first place and having a home escape plan are the key things to focus on during this year’s national week, which goes from Oct. 8 to 14.
Wes Van Bavel, City of Red Deer emergency services fire marshal, said it’s important to always have two ways out of the home in the event of a fire.
“You need to have a plan if something goes wrong,” Van Bavel said. “It’s important you make sure you watch what you’re doing when you’re cooking and make sure you have those smoke alarms working.”
Red Deer has a lower fire call rate than the provincial average, said Van Bavel. For every 1,000 residents Red Deer firefighters received 0.67 fire calls a month in 2016. Provincially 1.2 fire calls are made for every 1,000 people.
In 2004 there were 1.16 fire calls for every 1,000 people in Red Deer, so the city implemented a Home Safety Plan. The plan has emergency service workers go to residences, schools and businesses to discuss how people can be more safe.
“The best way to educate people is by talking to them face-to-face,” he said. “When you look at our statistics over the last 12 years, we feel this is making a difference.”
It has been years since there has been a fire-related death in the city, Van Bavel added.
“People are listening and heeding our warnings. They’re taking precautionary steps to make their homes safe and I think that’s a testament to the people of Red Deer.
“We believe we’re doing well in the City of Red Deer,” Van Bavel said. “It’s a compliment to the citizens knowing they take fire safety so seriously.”
Red Deer Emergency Service workers conduct over 4,000 business inspections every year.
More than 37,000 residences in the city were checked in 2015. About 8,000 smoke alarms were installed during those checks.
Fire Prevention Week has been held every year in October since 1925. The week first began in commemoration of the Great Chicago fire in 1871.