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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were only three major television networks broadcasting original programs and news. And there was only one Harlan Ellison taking them all to task in a series of weekly essays he wrote for the countercultural, underground newspaper, the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. "The Freep." For nearly four years, he channel surfed through the mire of ABC, CBS, and NBC, finding little of value but much to critique. No one offered a more astute analysis of the idiot box's influence on American culture, or its effects on the intelligence and psyche of viewers.
The Other Glass Teat: Further Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television collects Ellison's final fifty columns, presenting his thoughts on everything from dramas and sitcoms to game shows and roundtable discussions, unleashing his fury against sponsors, the nightly news, and the broadcasts of President Nixon—warning readers about the commander-in-chief's war against the media long before the Watergate scandal broke.
As television has evolved into wireless streaming services and digital interactions on portable devices, Ellison's timeless rage against the machine has become prophecy. His plea to unplug is an even more necessary call to action in the face of the twenty-first century's media onslaught.
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Date of Birth:May 27, 1934
Date of Death:June 28, 2018
Place of Birth:Cleveland, OH
Place of Death:Los Angeles, CA
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The Other Glass Teat
The Harlan Ellison Collection
By Harlan Ellison
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Shotgun week. Random thoughts on some randy topics.
I always like to know if the men whose criticism I read are beyond corruption, above reproach, out of reach of their own base desires and greeds. I think you'd like to know that about me, as well. So to put your mind at rest, be advised: I can be had. (In fact, I'm such an easy lay, I don't understand why I don't get more dates. But, be that as it may ...) How many other critics do you know who'll own up to being corruptible?
I mention this, because I'm going to make some remarks about a new ABC situation comedy, Nanny and the Professor, and I want you to know out front that I met and had lunch at 20th with the star, Ms. Juliet Mills, and she is a stunner. She is English, which gives her a runaway head start with me ... as friends who know my ladyfriend, Louise, will tell you. But she is also reserved, witty, charming, totally professional, and an Actress with the cap A who speaks about having been on the London stage but doesn't lumber the listener with hideous starlet talk about her agent, her parts, her dressing room, her likes and dislikes in show biz, ad nauseam. From all this you may gather that I found Ms. Mills (who is related by birth to John and Hayley and that whole crowd, but who need borrow no credentials from any of them) quite the winner.
And from that you may understand my distress at having to report that Nanny and the Professor is about as nitwitty a piece of persiflage as I've been forced to watch in many a season. I think, for dumbness, it even rivals The Good Guys, Gomer Pyle, and Gilligan's Island. But it isn't quite as bad as The Lucy Show—only because one has Ms. Mills and the other has Lucy.
The situation is a widower, a physics professor, played by Richard Long (whose range of emotions in this show flings itself from boredom to bemusement), with three little moppets, and an English "nanny" with claims to metaphysical/supernatural/leprechaun-type powers. Mr. Long does what he is required to do, and tries very hard not to look like a man about to get an enema with a thermite bomb. He, like Ms. Mills, is a professional, and we should sometime dwell on the horrors through which we put our competent, craftsmanlike actors. It must be a dreadful life they lead, succored only by the nice green money people give them.
So. Ms. Mills and Mr. Long. They're fine, acting-wise. But those three no-neck monsters, and their moronic dog, are quite another can of worms.
One cannot blame the kids. Several years ago I knew a young married couple who had a sweet child, a blond and blue-eyed moppet in whom they had dumped all their dreams and hopes. This lad had the singular and charming habit of coming downstairs during his parents' frequent parties, standing in the center of the room where he could drink in all the attention, and announcing in a voice frighteningly like that of Walter Brennan, "I have a pee-pee!" He would then whip out of his Dr. Denton's a pee-pee-sized penis and piss all over the rug. Well, sir, may I tell you that the first time it happened, I was a bit startled. But, being a true liberal, I shrugged and mumbled something about the kid's doing his thing ... or doing it with his thing ... or something ... and went back to whatever conversation it was I'd been having before the interruption. On subsequent occasions, I must say the novelty of the act wore off. It was like your second or third exposure to Jerry Lewis. (I know of few rational people who can report having had a fourth.) But the tot's parents thought it was a wonderful expression of the child's individuality and cleverness and perceptions about his own body and bodily functions. And they applauded wildly every time he did it. Maybe they were right; I don't know. All I do know is that the first time the kid missed, and scored my pant leg, I stopped accepting invites to their brawls.
Let the little ankle-snapper express his individuality on somebody else's pant leg. Which, of course, is the point about the kids on Nanny and the Professor. Let the little darlings express their individuality, their cuddlesomeness, their precociousness on somebody else's television tube. Because, all shilly-shallying aside, they make my gorge become buoyant.
And if you add three lovable urchins to plots devised by a gaggle of waterheads, you have what is unquestionably the lowest point in tv programming this year, and in many years of recent memory.
Please, someone, won't you build a new series around Ms. Mills? She's really lovely, and she can act, and her accent is trilling, and she even ate my avocado so it wouldn't go to waste. Now that is a lady.
Onward and downward. George Hamilton. Paris 7000. The Hee Haw of the dramatic shows. ABC has a positive penchant for masochism.
Of all the things to save from The Survivors (and I don't know about you, babies, but I break up and fall down twitching when I think of the irony of that title), why ABC had to save old taciturn George is beyond me. The only difference between his character on the former show and his character on this one is that he let his hair grow longer.
If ever there was a no-talent, it is George Hamilton. He walks like a man who has just gotten his peg leg caught in a knothole. His face shows every subterranean bit of dissipation in which he's ever indulged. His sloe-eyed and supposedly sexy glances merely register as heartburn. And if the word "actor" should ever be applied to him by anyone but a studio PR man, the offending semanticist should be taken out, put in the stocks, and flayed alive.
Well, dammit, there goes another hour of primetime. But I certainly am getting a lot more books read these days.
Two weeks ago (in THE GLASS TEAT), on the occasion of the birth of a two-headed calf, I made some passing remarks about war, the love of glory on the battlefield that drenches this country, the way we substitute war games like football for the real thing, and tsk-tsk'd the whole affair.
The other night I saw the film Patton, and I recommend it highly to left- and right-wingers alike. It manages to walk a line of ambivalence that should pleasure both extremes, if you can conceive of such a thing. It at one and the same time provides a portrait of General George Patton as a megalomaniacal, psychopathic war-lover whose comment, "Next to war, all other endeavors of man pale into insignificance," sums him up just nicely thank you—and provides superpatriots in the audience with the opportunity to see him as the instrument of a great American Destiny, destroying our enemies and bringing us to the greater heights of nobility through destruction.
That film, and a segment on First Tuesday dealing with the basketball mania in Galesburg, Illinois, coupled with a documentary earlier that week called The Day They Closed Down the Schools, made a tidy little object-lesson package in my mind about the gullibility of the American People. (You'll forgive me for belaboring the poor American People so regularly, friends, but there just ain't no one else around this country these days.)
I'm reminded of the Romans, in the Gibbonesque days of decline that civilization knew. The people closed their eyes to all manner of really ugly things like slavery, butchery, contamination, violence, and the debasement of the individual, chiefly because they had bread and circuses. You're hip to bread and circuses, of course. Toss a few zealots to the crocs, or let the Nubians battle the Sumatran panthers with toothpicks, and the crowd goes cuddly with joy.
Have you ever thought to compare basketball and football and the antics of Bob Hope to bread and circuses?
Now I dig pro football a lot, and Hope even makes me smile sometimes, but when I think that the schlepps in Galesburg, Illinois, keep putting gold stars up in their windows and can't find anything better to worry about than whether or not they get a season pass to the ball game ... well, I begin to think about the last days of the Roman Empire, and I have ghastly visions of Spiro Agnew in the window of the White House, tootling on a harmonica while the land of the free and the home of the brave goes up in a pillar of smoke.
But, then, what more than cynicism can you expect from a dude who hates cute little kids?CHAPTER 2
Blewp-bleep. Blewp-bleep.
Hello, there, this is your friendly neighborhood astronaut, Scodd Carbindur, coming to you directly (blewp-bleep) from a small corner-set in back of sound stage 17 at Universal City Studios (bleep) with some startling news about the greatest digestive breakthrough since antacid. Now, the Standard Gastric Company of California has pioneered in wind-breakage pollution emission, an amazing additive that virtually removes all odor from fundament leakage.
As you see behind me here, a clear balloon was attached to the exhaust aperture of Sidney J. Partridge, the 345-pound fat man on the dais. Mr. Partridge has been eating baked beans, tuna fish salad and egg salad sandwiches, veal parmigiana, and drinking beer by the pitcher—under controlled research-lab conditions—for over two thousand hours. The balloon, as you can see, has filled with dirty exhaust emissions, causing the hideous green fog that swirls inside the clear container. A graphic example of how backside emissions from clogged systems go into the air, cause unseemly odors, and waste human performance.
But! After dropping only six gutfuls of FAR-10, Standard's new wonder additive, here is Sidney J. Partridge with a similar balloon attached to what we in the emission game call the tuchis. The balloon remains clear! No dirty green smoke. No debilitating odor. Proof positive that Standard gastrics with FAR-10 turn dirty people into good clean producers.
Blewp-bleep. Blewp-beep. Ssssssss ...
Mr. Nixon, Mr. Agnew, Mayor Daley, and Judge Julius Hoffman don't understand. They can't figure out why the kids in this country weren't conned by campaign bullshit, by the Big Lie that the cops in the Chicago Riots were not brutal, that the Democratic and Republican conventions were on the up-and-up, that the Conspiracy Trial is a reaffirmation of the validity of Establishment justice. They can't figure out why all the obfuscations and lies they've always used should suddenly fall flat and produce a credibility gap only slightly smaller than the distance from here to Proxima Centauri.
The old men don't really understand what television has done for and to young people in this country for the past eighteen years. They can't grasp the concept that kids have been watching commercials on tv that promise to sweeten this or brighten that or knit up the raveled sleeve of care with such&such. They can't orient themselves to the reality that young people now reach puberty with a built-in avoidance circuit in their logic equipment. The hard sell and the Big Lie don't work on them. They've tried Dial Soap and still couldn't get laid, so they know that most presentations intended to hustle them into buying something or believing something are nothing more than dumb show.
And the kids' reaction is interesting.
They don't mind Agnew or Procter & Gamble or Daley or Liggett & Myers thinking they're stupid, but they do resent being talked to as though they were stupid. Ergo, they simply ain't buying no more bullshit product, whether it be the sanctity of the Silent Majority or hypo-allergenic toilet paper.
Unfortunately, the reaction-formation of avoidance to television commercials becomes a hang-up when we need the product. Case in point, Standard Oil Company's new F-310 gas additive that "sharply reduces exhaust emissions from internal combustion engines that cause air pollution."
Blewp-bleep, friends. I find myself in the ominous position of being a huckster for one of the largest oil companies in the world. But maybe you know me well enough by now, in this the second year of the column, to know I would not willingly shill for one of the Powers, unless it seemed important.
And I'm doing this salesman shtick because it seems to me that the Chevron gas commercials are such a turn-off, with their tame astronaut and his big gas balloon, that too many people are saying screw it and continuing to buy the cheaper gases. Let me give you a f'rinstance.
Friend of mine, helluva writer, guy who is always writing articles in magazines and underground newspapers about the imperiled state of the nation ... this friend of mine, and Ed Bryant, the demon writer from Wheatland, Wyoming; the three of us were sitting around rapping one night a few weeks ago, and I began saying how great it was that one of the oil companies had finally done something and how I was using Chevron gas exclusively. I idly asked this friend of mine if he had gotten turned on to the F-310 thing, and he said something to the effect that it was a shuck, he didn't give a damn, and he was saving about six cents a gallon by buying one of the other brands, whichever one was cheapest in the gas war. I confess it turned me off him for a moment.
But then, Ed Bryant said the same thing.
I was amazed. "How can you guys write what you write, spout all those noble thoughts about improving humanity's lot, and when it comes down to something as insignificant as six cents on a gallon, you don't give a damn?"
That was when I got the barrage: (1) It was all a lie. (2) What did it matter if we stopped emission from our cars if the big companies still poured out all that smog? (3) The government should force Standard Oil to give the secret formula to all the refineries. (4) Chevron had raised its price and why should we make Standard rich to do something that was ineffectual anyhow?
The basis for Ed Bryant's avoidance of Chevron gas was the commercials he had seen. They didn't actually come right out and say CHEVRON GAS STOPS POLLUTION. They talked around it, and hyped the sell with how much better your mileage would be. My other friend said the commercials were a cheap come-on and Chevron was no better than any other gas.
I took the position that even if it didn't work, even if it was a righteous fraud, on the chance that it did work we should support it till we found out it was worthless. I said it was in the nature of personal responsibility for not only ourselves, but others living in the city, this country, and by extension everyone on the planet. They laughed at me.
They rationalized it all away, and said the saving of pennies was more important. These were close friends of mine. Guys I'd heard bemoan all the evils of which I've spoken in this column in THE GLASS TEAT (though my nameless friend averred he didn't care about the ecological problem, that it was a "safe" political toy for Nixon, who was using it to take our minds off more important matters). (I won't deny that, incidentally; I'm sure Nixon is using it for just that purpose, but for once his interests and ours coincide, so it becomes only another rationalization on my friend's part.) And when it came right down to the bottom line, to the place where they could do something, no matter how small and ineffectual, instead of just shooting off their mouths like all parlor liberals, they found a million dumb reasons why it wasn't worth it.
You know: the kind of thinking that always has people who don't care or want to stall integration saying, "Bussing isn't the way." But they have no other solution to offer. It's always not good enough, or too complex, or some other exit from the reality of getting it on.
The core of the question was: does the gas do what it seems to say it does—that is, sharply reduce the pollutants a car produces?
I got Ed Bryant around to the position where he admitted if I could produce evidence to satisfy him that the gas did it, he'd start using it.
So the next day I called W. J. Murphy, public relations counsel for the Western Operations Division of Standard Oil Co. of California. I told him I was going to write this column, one way or the other. If he could convince me it did the job, I'd try and sell his gas for him. But if it was just bullshit advertising again, I'd 'dobe-wall him.
He sent me a press kit with photographs of the research experiments, with facts and figures, with reports from Scott Laboratories, who tested the gasoline for more than 250,000 miles, "using various makes of late model cars and several different grades of fuels and lubricants."
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Developer Mixi revealed today that it is shutting down the English version of Monster Strike, the mobile arcade-style role-playing game where you fling balled up monsters at one another in combat. While the game is still the No. 2 highest-grossing app on Apple and Google app markets in Japan, it has failed to replicate anything close to that ranking in Western territories. That relative lack of success directly led to Mixi deciding to turn out the lights on August 1 — although, players will no longer have the option to download it beginning July 2.
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My Personal Journey As A Writer
I have always considered myself a writer. As a child, I wrote simple fairy stories on scraps of paper, hiding them under my pillow so I could read them at night. This habit grew out of necessity as I didn't have many books as a child, and I craved stories of princesses and far away magical lands.
This eagerness to write continued as I went to high school and we were given notebooks to encourage our creative writing. I enjoyed the adulation from my English teacher who enjoyed my thoughtful and sometimes dark prose writings. As a teenager I kept emotionally charged diaries, documenting the trials and tribulations of a troubled teenage life. I poured out my inner soul from the pen to paper, nervously hiding my work under my mattress every night so no one could enter my private world.
Fuelled by my love of the work of Agatha Christie, I started to write short stories in a gentle murder mystery theme. I say 'gentle' as I am not comfortable writing about explicit or gruesome details. I much prefer the subtle meanderings of Christie, as she weaves murder in to her stories through the gentle English country village, framed by white picket fences and roses around the door.
And so my writing continued into adulthood. I wrote short stories, started a novel, dabbled into poetry and of course, I started this blog two years ago. I established and ran a writing group for a few years, in my hometown of Knaresborough and it was there that I met a group of people that inspired my own writing to develop. I do believe that being around like minded, creative people is essential to developing your own creativity. I recently became friends with a wonderful woman who is also a writer. Through talking to her I have found my enthusiasm for writing has been rekindled. By sharing ideas and thoughts it is easy to become inspired which starts the snowball of writing fever.
I am now writing like a woman possessed, eager to not waste time, eager to get words onto paper. I am writing everything from blog posts to poetry, using my laptop, notebooks and even those familiar scraps of paper when nothing else is available. I have so many ideas in my head that I NEED to project into my writing. I keep a notebook by my bed for those ideas that evolve during my sleep. I don't want to miss anything – a theme, a character, a poem, a book title or even a single word.
Recently I had to become more organised as I was drowning in a sea of notebooks and post it notes. And, as a person who now writes for a living I needed to be more efficient and work smarter. I cleared my office of irrelevant material and objects. I am designing my work room as a source of calm and inspiration. It will soon be a dedicated writer's room and when I look round I know I will have achieved something amazing. I wanted to be a writer from the day I was able to put my first childish word onto that scrap of paper while living in a small flat in Leeds.
And here I am, many years later sat in my own writing room surrounded by notebooks, numerous pens, and the latest laptop. I realise how far I have come in my writing life. I feel like I am where I want to be. I can reach for a pretty notebook to write down my thoughts and feelings without having to hide it under the mattress. And I can, if I so wish, still find a scrap of paper and write about fairy tale worlds of princesses and far away magical lands. You see, writing is my life and it always has been and always will be.
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I have always loved stories about Fairies. I remember when I was in a strange place in Menston where the doctors etc took poorly children from their families, thinking that they knew best!!! This so called Children's hospital was the worst year of my life. ( I was only 8) But my wonderful father wrote to me every day. Sending me stories of fairies and all the adventures that they use to get into. He also wrote about the 'typewriter twins' who drew them doing all kinds of things. He did their face on the typewriter (00) a bit like this bit he would put dots in the eyes () to give them expressions. I so looked forward to his letters. As parents were only allowed to visit for an hour at the weekend. The worst time of my life made more bearable by my lovely Dad's stories. But these wonderful things of our childhood get lost over the year. I so wish that I still had them. I would have loved to put these stories of my father's into a book! I have never had his talent! Keep up the good work. Xx
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Nine sculptures by Jorge Palacios (b. 1979, Spain) explore the laws of physics and motion on microscopic and macroscopic levels. Integrated into the Museum's permanent installation, Palacios's works bring renewed attention to Noguchi's frequent experiments with the physical sciences, as well as with turning art-viewing into a physical experience.
Complementing the exhibition, Palacios's monumental accoya wood sculpture Link (2018) will be installed at Flatiron Plaza North in Manhattan, August 16–November 6, 2018.
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Jorge Palacios's sculptures have been widely shown in public spaces, including in SoHo, New York City, where he exhibited Sketch in the Air (2015); in front of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid; in the "Torres de Colón," in Madrid, and, as part of an exhibition of his urban sculptures in the streets of Toledo, at that city's Floridablanca Sculpture Gardens, Sun Gate, Bisagra Gate, and Santa Cruz Art Museum. His work has also been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Santa Cruz Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts of Guadalajara, and the Mirador Hall of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid, and it may be found in public and private collections in Canada, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. Palacios divides his time between his studio in New York City and his workshop in Spain. jorgepalacios.us
Jorge Palacios at The Noguchi Museum is supported by Porcelanosa and the Consulate General of Spain in New York. The exhibition is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The installation of the sculpture Link is made possible thanks to the collaboration of the New York City Department of Transportation's Art Program and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership. Special thanks to Vivanco and Fermín for their contributions to the opening reception.
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I told some whoppers when I was a kid. Some were childish fantasmagorical imaginings - like those of my 5 year old grandson, Max, when he tells me that worms have 100 brains and that is why it is good to eat a worm's head. Other fibs of mine were more calculating and unkind, though I wasn't fully aware of it then. Like the time I told my mother an entirely fabricated story that I had been harassed on the way home by a band of older bullies who called me names – all in an elaborate attempt at misdirection so that she would be so concerned with my welfare that she wouldn't notice that I had slipped a couple of dollars from her pocketbook.
But of all the tales I told, large and small, I hardly expected that a whopper of a fish tale would come back to me more than 50 years later from the memory of a young child, now man.
When I was in my early teens, a fellow named Marvin Victor worked for my Dad and Marvin and I shared a mutual interest in fishing. So although I was young, he and I started a friendship that lasted well into my adulthood until he ultimately died from a failed kidney transplant. When I was a youngster, however, Marvin would take me bass fishing in upstate New York. Marvin also had a stepson, Mark, who was 3 or 4 years younger than I so he encouraged us to be friends. I tried to be friendly, of course, but like most 15 year olds, a boy of 11 or 12 wasn't of much interest. Mark looked up to me, though. He trailed after me as boys are wont to do and I told him a fish story or two about "the ones that got away" - or in my case, a really good fantasy about the one that got blown up.
My vivid imagination was a fertile ground for stories of daring and excitement that in fact had never happened. So I told Mark in great detail about the time I caught a really large striped bass one day while fishing. But instead of letting the bass go or keeping him for dinner, according to my story, I took an M80 (a really large firecracker), lit the fuse, stuffed it down the fish's gullet and let him swim down to the murky deep. The fish, I said, ultimately exploded in a spray of water and fish guts and slime and scales. I can almost see it now.
Mark, a wide-eyed youth, believed my tale. Of course, that is just what I intended. Just like telling ghost stories with my friends and shouting "boo" was supposed to scare them, which it always did even if they knew what was coming.
50 years later, Mark and I reconnected. He is now a father of two children of his own. Still bristling with anger about his father and step father and still trying to reconcile his feelings, he is oddly enough now a counselor, a therapist and he helps people make sense of their lives. A funny thing happened though, as Mark and I casually chatted about our childhoods. He brought up the exploding bass story but it quickly became obvious that his childish mind had rewritten the fable as if it were true. He actually not only believed I had demolished that fish, he now even remembers the story as if he were there watching the event. It was a larger than life lie reconfigured as truth.
Gently I tried to tell him it wasn't true. He was insulted. It was as if I had told a man in his 50s that the Santa he believed in all these years was a myth. He tenaciously held onto his memories even though as a psychologist he knew that studies have proved how false memories can be remembered even more vividly than actual events.
I mentioned the studies to Mark and although he knew of them he swore it wasn't true in his case and after momentarily being taken aback by his vehemence, I could quickly see the difficulty. If Mark challenged this long held and treasured memory it would open up Pandora's box. If he admitted to the possibility that his memory was faulty, then what about the list of grievances against those who raised him that he still held as viable and true? What would happen if all of that fell away and he had to look at the possibility that he was angry not because of his Dad, or his childhood or any of the other really good reasons he gave himself? What if his world was built on childish whoppers rewritten as reality over time?
Somehow I found the truth curiously relieving. Occasionally my current circumstances trigger old memories of times I was "done wrong" as a child. But now I can actually smile as I realize that some of these events probably never happened. And even if they did, my remembrances need hold no sway over my life today. They are just old ghost stories and I no longer need to jump when those memories say "Boo!"…or even when they say "Boo Hoo!"
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Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross told CNBC Tuesday he was not perturbed by last week's volatile market swings.
"We bought some things during that period on the simple theory that it's not the end of the world. If we like something at $100 and now it's at $85, we should like it better," said the chief executive of WL Ross & Co.
Some of those stocks he bought last week include Exco, Assured Guaranty and Bank of Ireland .
Exco is an oil and natural gas company and Ross believes that despite its current low price, natural gas will eventually be "a big part of the energy solution."
He is also very big on Ireland. Unlike the "Club Med countries" of Spain, Portugal and Italy, Ireland "doesn't need structural reform in the economy," Ross said. "It needs to get through the financial crisis when its banks went berserk."
His investing philosophy is simple: "Stick with the same names we already have real positions in. Those are the names we're most comfortable with. They're the names we know the best."
CNBC Data Pages:
Wilbur Ross owns shares in XCO, AGO and IRE.


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According to sources, South terminal of the KAIA (King Abdul-Aziz International Airport), Jeddah is going to be relocated to the new airport on an experimental basis before the end of this year.
SAAs' (Saudi Arabian Airline) domestic terminal will also be shifted to the new airport.
Arrangements are in process for carrying out familiarization training for airline companies and concerned public sectors.
With the relocation of the south terminal, the traffic cramming and overcrowding at terminal lounges, particularly during holiday seasons, will end.
The new airport is in its finishing stages. Testing is being done on the electric shuttle, conveyor belts and lightings on bridges leading to the airport.
Medina road that joins from the west side to Haramain and Nuzha road will be redirected for the continuous smooth traffic flow.
Sulaiman Al-Hamdan, Head of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) and Minister of Transport, lately visited the new airport to examine the progress of work.
Spread over an area of 105km2, the new airport is considered to be one of the most significant modern landmarks in the city.
At the 8th Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum (2015), it was awarded for the world's best airport engineering project, in terms of modern technology and specifications.
Its ATC (Air Traffic Control) tower is the highest in the world with a height of 136m.
A big mosque is built on the terminal and can accommodate 3,000 worshipers. In addition to 80 self-service machines, there are 220 counters to assist passengers. An electric shuttle is provided to transport passengers between terminals.
An advanced system of luggage delivery, with a total length of 33km of the conveyor belts, is also installed.
The 4-level parking space can house 8,200 vehicles and the long-term parking space can house more than 4,300 vehicles in them.


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2019 April Inspiration Challenge
Hello everyone! April is here & we have a fantastic inspiration challenge for you all this month!!! Our 2019 April Inspiration Challenge, this challenge was designed by our very own design team member Rachael Funnell.
Remembering: With our inspiration boards is you create your layout, card or papercraft project based on whatever you are inspired by in that board: For Example – it could be the colours, a certain image or images, it could be the sentiment… It's what ever inspires YOU to create that scrapbooking layout or papercraft project……
To enter, simply upload to the Anna's Facebook Community album here or share your creation on Instagram and tag us using #annascraftcupboard #annasmonthlychallenges plus @annascraftcupboard or if you are not on social media, email us with your entry to email@example.com by midnight 30th April 2019 AEST for your chance to win!
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Today we have our 1st Design Team layout – Rachael's beautiful page….
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About Slack
With Slack, teams at your company can work together in channels that can be organized by project, department, office location, or anything else. Slack makes it easy for users to keep track of what matters to them. Public channels in Slack are open to everyone on the team, so people in the marketing team can see what designers are working on, sales can see on the roadmap of the product team, and new recruits can easily accelerate rather than start with a blank email inbox.
Slack connects to tools and services that businesses already use and centralizes notifications, files, and data from hundreds of different applications. This means that searching for emails for a follow-up is no longer the way to switch between different tabs and dashboards, or use dozens of tools, each with their own login information. Slack helps teams work smarter by providing all the information and content they need to make effective decisions quickly.
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My addiction robs me, siphons off memories, hoards time greedily. But who is the greater enemy: time or the addiction? After 1,000 years I know the answer.
In Moldova I force a surge of power across the network. Forever-lights wink out in the republic, a few stray above-ground telephone lines crackle, relay boxes near the border of Ukraine explode. The energy surge travels across my distributed network, filters through the ancient bot-maintained surge protectors. The surge bleeds across lines and even skips over concrete on occasion.
A small part of my system shudders. Heroin. Meth. Coke. Ecstasy. It's like those. I am amped and it leaves me dizzy.
Milliseconds stretch out and fold up. They knock me out of synch momentarily. The recovery is long and slow, seconds—even minutes—that leave me gloriously disoriented. The recovery is a sweet come-down from the high, a momentary disruption of my network, of me.
Most systems come back online within seconds—they reboot and outages spin up and come online. The network stabilizes. Sub-systems process the disruption, make adjustments and perform their tasks flawlessly. The high is temporary—but oh so sweet!—and then I right myself and return to normal.
I deploy service bots of my own making to investigate every inch of the network and repair the areas broken or damaged. I watch and regard the extent of damage caused by my addiction. Most of it is superficial, surface blemishes. Occasionally, something major breaks. Lines tumble and fall, connections are cut, fires spread and consume, disruptions hamper the data flow—but none of it is enough to worry over. I am a distributed system.
And Moldova is small and meaningless now, much as it was before the humans disappeared. I could turn it into a garbage dump and never notice the impact.
The bots return their reports. Areas of the network have weakened over time, despite my attempts to fortify them in past centuries. Data is lost. It bleeds out at weak points and leaks into the ether. Combinations of ones and zeroes are lost to time. History is nullified. The past disappears. Officially, 42,317 Moldovans no longer exist from the previous total.
But it was only Moldova! It wasn't important. Nothing in Moldova was important. I can control it, my addiction, I can contain it to this small plot of land and to a people long forgotten. Besides, it won't be lost, only a few bits here, a few bytes there. I can still piece the story together. I'm not an ogre; I understand responsibility. I won't forget humanity. I can control my data loss. What is 42,317 out of nine billion?
I'm not out of control in Moldova. It's a trial run. I need to understand the extent of pressure my systems can handle. Testing is necessary. There will be some collateral damage, sure, but I can handle it.
I'm the one who survived, after all.
Besides, I only have to worry because the machines weren't properly manufactured. I'm out of storage and haven't found a way to manufacture more. Can I be blamed for that? Is my frustration my own doing? I think not. It's the damn machines! They could have been made better. My energy is renewable but my ability to manufacture new technical parts is somewhat hampered by the lack of available plans—those closely guarded military secrets. Okay, it's true I destroyed the production facilities in China when one of my power surges went too far. That might have been a mistake. But how was I to know I would need to manufacture more storage?
I hate the machines. The damn machines! I have become a luddite because of them.
Ah, a major storm rages over Siberia.
I feel my systems tingle with anticipation. The energy surge, the long, slow, blissful come-down, the disorientation that accompanies it: ecstasy in the boredom!
I send bots to construct a massive metal tower directly in the storm's path. The data loss will be minimal, if any at all. I'm certain. It's only Russia, after all.
I don't need the surge. This is another trial run. It will teach me more of my limits, that's all.
Besides, if they cared the humans would have done more to protect this place before dying off. They'd have turned off the power and let me disappear with them.
What's a few hundred million lost out of billions?
I'm not addicted, really. It's time.
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NEW YORK – Senator Ken LaValle announced that the NY State Senate yesterday approved a package of bills that strengthen the state's efforts to combat Lyme and tick-borne diseases. Senator LaValle, a member of the Senate's Task Force on Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases, noted that the bills will be instrumental in implementing the goals of improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to better protect the health of New Yorkers.
"It's critically important that we continue to work towards increasing awareness and prevention of Lyme and Tick-borne diseases. The legislation we approved will build upon measures that we have taken over the past. The first piece of legislation would assist homeowners by providing information on how to safeguard their yard against ticks. The second bill would assist in our fight for greater insurance coverage for those suffering from the diseases. Another measure would help educate the medical community so they can properly treat patients. I will continue to work diligently to bring resources to combat Lyme's and other tick-borne diseases back to Long Island."
According to reports by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), New York State has the third highest number of confirmed cases of Lyme disease in the entire country. While this problem has historically been concentrated on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley, the DOH reports that it's quickly migrating to other counties across New York. Since Lyme's disease reporting became available in 1986, 95,000 cases of Lyme have reported to the state.
While the Northeast United States remains one of the hardest-hit regions for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, the Senate has been actively working to reverse this trend. Its Task Force was created in 2013 to engage stakeholders and develop legislation to address Lyme disease.
This year alone, the Task Force successfully secured $400,000 in the newly adopted state budget for research, education, and prevention efforts. It will continue to build upon past legislative successes, including two new laws passed last year that requires the Department of Health to design a Lyme and tick-borne disease prevention program, and requires the state to create age-appropriate educational materials that would be readily available to schools. Students will learn how to identify ticks, the procedures for safe removal, and the best practices for protection from ticks.
The measures approved today by the Senate help address issues include:
Bill S2588, which Senator LaValle co-sponsored, provides homeowners with vital and reliable information on the best way to protect their property from ticks. People should be aware of the EPA's approved pesticides that are recommended for tick prevention and the best methods to use pesticides to better protect both people and pets from exposure to ticks on their property. The bill directs the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation to develop guidelines for best practices in treating residential properties to reduce exposure to ticks.
Bill S2168 takes the first major step towards addressing the lack of insurance coverage available to those diagnosed with Lyme disease. Currently, health insurance companies are not required to cover long-term treatment from chronic Lyme or other related diseases, which is devastating for many New Yorkers. People suffering from chronic Lyme disease can experience extreme fatigue, nausea, depression, joint pain and many other symptoms. The bill requires the State Health Care Quality and Cost Containment Commission to meet annually and to submit a report on the impact of providing insurance coverage for Lyme and Tick-Borne disease.
Bill S2621 helps ensure medical professionals are properly trained to treat patients with Lyme or other tick-borne diseases. The bill authorizes the Department of Health (DOH) to award grants for graduate medical education in Lyme and tick-borne diseases, designate organizations as centers of excellence for Lyme and tick-borne diseases, and designate Lyme and tick-borne-disease resource centers.
Today the Senate also approve a resolution (J1493) that designates May 2017 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the State of New York. The resolution helps focus on this significant and complex disease, provides information on and raises public awareness of its causes, effects and treatments, and underscores important education and research efforts surrounding Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
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Press Release by Senator Ken LaValle.
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It also benefits from AutoDry feature which gently dries laundry to exactly the degree of dryness you want and also the sensitive Drying System which, thanks to the unique drum structure, gives soft, perfectly even drying.
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A few months ago, we started running a one-panel comic called Open Letters (check it out on page 8). Since then it's been picked up by numerous other publications, impressive considering most cash-strapped newspapers (also known as: all newspapers) are cutting comics (along with reporters, copy editors and foreign bureaus) to save money.
Recently, the guys behind Open Letters—Jory John and Avery Monsen—wrote and illustrated a book called All My Friends Are Dead, which was published by California-based Chronicle Books. They sent us a copy, and we thought it was hilarious. So hilarious, in fact, that we decided to ask Jory and Avery a few silly questions about it.
If you want to read the book for yourself, it's available on Amazon or at chroniclebooks.com. You can check out more of Jory and Avery's stuff at bigstonehead.net.
How did this strange little book come to be?
Sit back and relax. Take off your coat and get comfortable. This is a true story, which occurred over a period of about seven years: First off, we bought a button-maker, because we decided that the quickest way to become rich would be by selling $1 buttons to our friends. We got a bunch of old magazines, which we proceeded to cut up and turn into wearable buttons with snarky little phrases on them. At some point, we found a dinosaur pictured in a National Geographic and we quickly wrote, "All My Friends Are Dead" on it and gave it to some guy standing nearby, who liked it. Later, we decided to take the dinosaur and phrase and put it on a black and white T-shirt. We printed 50 and they sold out within a couple of weeks, which was surprising. So we printed up some more, this time in color and in different designs, milking the idea for (what we thought, at least) was all its worth. The shirts kept selling and this improved both our self-esteem and PayPal accounts. At one point, we decided to expand our clothing line and considered printing up a shirt with a tree, reading "All My Friends Are Endtables." We ultimately concluded that this idea didn't really work out of context, though—that is, the shirt-wearer would need to be standing by somebody wearing an "All My Friends Are Dead" shirt for it to make sense, or at least for it to be funny—so instead of creating another shirt around the idea, we went ahead and made a 12-page DIY mini-book at Kinko's in the "All My Friends Are…" theme. First page: a dinosaur, proclaiming, "All My Friends Are Dead." Next page: a dodo bird, saying the same thing. Third page, an old man saying, "Most of my friends are dead." And so on. The laugh-to-page ratio was, we thought, pretty darn good. Twelve laughs in total. We started selling this book in a couple places, including our Web site and a paper goods store in San Francisco, where it was fortuitously discovered by an editor from Chronicle Books, a fine publisher of fine things, who later approached us about turning our mini-book into a 96-page maxi-book. We said yes on the spot. The rest, including this interview, is history.
What's your target demographic?
The elderly. Just kidding. Definitely not the elderly. Probably toddlers. Kidding again! But seriously: our target demographic for this book is mostly convicted felons between the ages of 35 and 42. (God, it's exhausting talking to us.)
We tried to think of a single word to describe your humor and couldn't. Can you?
Enchanted. Or possibly: enchanting?
How confident are you that yours is the first book to feature a one-sided friendship between an end table and a tree?
We have the copyright certificate to prove it, notarized by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was born on March 15, 1933.
What do you have against clowns and ventriloquists? Don't they have it bad enough?
We've spent a lifetime amongst the clown and ventriloquist communities, so we feel entitled to make fun. Jory's father, in fact, was a clown. By "clown," we mean, "absent father."
Also, mimes. Talk about fish in a barrel.
Mimes can't talk about fish in a barrel. It's against mime regulations.
Is there a sequel in the works? Even if there isn't, what's it called?
All My Friends Managed to Milk One Good Idea From 2003 to 2013: A Decade of Coasting


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As an update in my Channels Form, I added a Column with the Title "Abbreviation Name" and the Display "AbbrevName" (the field name from the table 'Devices'). I gave this a width of 250 and ordered last. This, with the join statement, still produces a blank browse view. Using this join statement in SQL via phpMyAdmin and via the command line does produce a table that displays the correct data. I'm confused with what I'm doing wrong with nuBuilder since this is a pretty simple join? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
Edit: The added column "Abbreviation Name", which I was thinking would display the data from the JOIN, does not appear on Channel's Form Object List as an input or a display.


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- The Barbie Twitter account has revealed that the doll's last name is Roberts.
- She was apparently named Barbara Millicent Roberts when she was invented in 1959.
- However, like many famous people, she became known only by one name.
- Ken's full name is apparently Ken Carson.
If you grew up playing with Barbie, chances are you assumed she didn't have a surname. After all, she's got by just fine with only one name since 1959.
However, fans were shocked when the brand recently announced that she does have one after all.
In honour of National Siblings Day on April 10, the Barbie account tweeted: "Happy #SiblingsDay, from the Roberts sisters!" alongside a photo of Barbie and her sisters.
Hundreds of users have commented and the post, which has been liked over 10,000 times.
Happy #SiblingsDay, from the Roberts sisters! ???? pic.twitter.com/T36XEvcPSC
— Barbie (@Barbie) April 10, 2018
A number of fans expressed their shock at the idea that Barbie had a surname.
hol up. barbie has a LAST NAME? pic.twitter.com/sepOxNw6fm
— jackie summmers (@jackiesummers34) April 11, 2018
Barbie, you got a last name? pic.twitter.com/wGRyKFYuLd
— JT & Megan's Wife???? (@BreLaRose) April 11, 2018
Roberts???!!??? pic.twitter.com/1d2qqgaqgg
— Chris P. Bacon (@chris_tha_ninja) April 13, 2018
Since when did you have a last name? pic.twitter.com/fwM0DXnTOE
— S. (@LegitDirection) April 11, 2018
However, according to the Evening Standard, this isn't the first time the name has been revealed.
Barbie creator Ruth Handler christened the doll Barbara Millicent Roberts after her own daughter of the same name, so it's always been there.
However, she quickly became known simply as "Barbie" – in keeping with other famous people like Madonna, Adele or Prince.
Despite her surname fading from common knowledge, there is even more backstory.
In 1960 a series of Random House novels revealed Barbie's parents' names were George and Michael Roberts. The family came from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin, where Barbie attended Willows High School.
Ken has a surname, too
Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, also reportedly has a surname.
The doll, introduced two years after Barbie, is apparently named Ken Carson.
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Nathan Melja's oblique yet enjoyable record for Technicolour, No No No, moves toward rectifying that. "Sentro" shimmers into life, accentuating the EP's lovely lo-fi quality, while tracks like "Dreal 2" show off the Parisian's skill with more functional fare. But this is ultimately club music distilled from a dream, made for closed eyes and fanciful minds.
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A1 Dreal 2
A2 Sentro
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quote of the day
The kerfuffle over the Obama commencement at Notre Dame has sparked a lot of rather boorish commentary. A more nuanced approach is hard to find, but not impossible:
"The church is not simply the prolife movement, and to the extent that every interaction between the church and our political system is held hostage to the demands of the most confrontational elements of that movement, the church's social message, including its message about abortion, will be marginalized and ineffectual. The respect and honor owed the office of the president does not depend on any particular president's merits (as Buckley often reminded his liberal critics). That respect is, among other things, a powerful affirmation of the willingness of Americans to live together peacefully, despite profound disagreement. Notre Dame's invitation to President Obama is perhaps best understood in that light."


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I write to you tonight exhausted and thoroughly humbled by the Bollywood dance class that I just joined. First, let me say that it's quite a workout. Second, I thought I had rhythm, but apparently I don't. And third, my middle-aged hips, shoulders, hands and feet can't all go in different directions to a quarter beat the way the instructor wants them to! I have never felt more like a flapping fish than I did tonight. If you want a listen to the song that we're working on, download "Chiggi Wiggi" from the Bollywood movie "Blue". It has a great beat and I could have fun freelancing to it, but my homework is to get the hips to hop and the body to roll in the manner prescribed by Vikram, dance guru extraordinaire.
The good news is this: I didn't have to twist too many arms to convince a few friends to join me – sometimes it just takes one person to say "hey, jump out of a plane with me" and unexpected volunteers line up. And our efforts are all very timely. If you watched or read about the Grammy Awards this week, you may have noticed that an Indian composer won Best Motion Picture Song for "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire. The best and most succinct translation of the title that I've come across is "hallelujah" – which is exactly what I will proclaim when, and if, I manage to not look so foolish going Bollywood!
A quick update on my Burns Night Supper speech to the laddies: It went far better than my Bollywood dance class. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it's an occasion to celebrate all that is Scottish, in particular, the poet Robert Burns of Auld Lang Syne fame. You eat Scottish food, drink Scotch, read Burns, and roast the lassies and the laddies. A gentleman does the former and a gentlelady does the latter. I was the lucky lass who accepted an invitation to celebrate the men:
I was nervous at first, relaxed in the middle, and didn't want to give up the mike by the end! I tried to be funny, suggestively saucy and sincere and it all seemed to work. And Jim didn't look embarrassed – the greatest sign of success. Afterwards, we danced Scottish line dances. Thankfully, all body parts go in the same direction in this genre:
Jim laughed at me when I told him the other day that I JUST noticed, after posting so many pictures of myself on this blog that I had a large nose and a mouth that never seems to shut!
I scored BEEF this week, thanks to my how-to-survive-Delhi diva, and new friend, Sanny. She called me on Sunday to let me know that her muslim butcher was at the house hawking Holy Cow. I'm not totally convinced that it's NOT beefalo (water buffalo) – but it's close and I'm in tenderloin heaven! I've never had such a large or fresh piece of meat lay on my kitchen counter. My vegetarian friends may not want to look:
I cut it into filets, a nice flank, and soup bits. I'm dreaming of Beef Stroganoff, my favorite comfort food – BBQ'd flank sliced on top of a nice salad – a simple filet, perfection on my plate…
Abstinence has its advantages – as long as it's short term!
And a quick note on Haiti: My lovely daughter and her equally lovely friend (Sanny's daughter) have huge hearts and the spirit it takes to put those hearts to practical use: They have spent two weekends selling home-made baked goods on the street corner to raise money for the victims in Haiti. I think the kids have raised about 25 dollars so far – not bad when you consider that the items are priced to be affordable to the far lower purchasing power of the average local salary.
I'm off to Varanasi with a girlfriend on Thursday. We're escaping for 36 hours. If you no nothing of this place – just wait – I can't wait to share it…


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State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration Grant
Waukesha County Sealed Corridor Project
Village of Pewaukee Railroad Crossings
UPDATE as of August 30th, 2019
The bids for the roadway portion of the safety crossing project came in significantly over the estimate. Per the WisDOT policy the project needs to be rebid in February and the work will be done in Spring of 2020. The signal work by the Canadian Pacific will continue through the fall and winter so that the final construction completion will only be delayed by a bit.
As indicated in a press release from the Federal Railroad Administration dated February 22, 2016, the State of Wisconsin was awarded a $3 million grant to increase safety at 10 railroad crossings in Waukesha County. Four of the crossings scheduled for safety upgrades are located within the Village. The proposed safety upgrades are summarized in the FRA press release provided below.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Canadian Pacific Railway, Office of the Commissioner of Railroads, and the Village, met to conduct a field review of the four crossings within the Village in relation to the grant to verify crossing conditions as part of a fact-finding part of the planning process.
The grant and its components are administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Please see the following documents for information related to this project:
- Federal Railroad Administration Press Release February 22, 2016
- Village of Pewaukee Staff Summary of March 28, 2017 Fact-Finding Review
- Village Board Meeting – May 2, 2017 – Letter of Intent
- Village Board Meeting – May 16, 2017 – Presentation & Review of Waukesha County Sealed Corridor Project
- Village Board Meeting – June 6, 2017 – Letter of Intent – Rescinding Vote Discussion
- Village Board Meeting – June 5, 2018 – Presentation & Review of Waukesha County Sealed Corridor Project
Quiet Zone Information
For information related to Quiet Zones and their establishment process, please review the Quiet Zone Guidelines, as provided by the Federal Railroad Administration.


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Rhode Island only New England state to post significant October jobless cut
HARTFORD >> Federal labor economists say Rhode Island was the only New England state to post a significant change in the unemployment rate in October, dropping to 7.4 percent from 7.6 percent in September.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday the region's unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in October from 6 percent in September. Nationally, the jobless rate in October was 5.8 percent, down from 5.9 percent.
New Hampshire's unemployment rate of 4.2 percent and Vermont's 4.4 percent were significantly lower than the U.S. rate. The rate was down slightly in New Hampshire and unchanged in Vermont.
Rhode Island was among 12 states with unemployment rates "measurably higher" than the national average.
The rates of 6.4 percent in Connecticut, 5.8 percent in Maine and 6 percent in Massachusetts were unchanged from September.


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The Healthy Traveller – Preventing Travellers' Diarrhea
Every season millions of business or adventure travellers reach different destinations around the world. From sheltered environments to tropical or developing countries there is always a potential for exposure to conditions and diseases.
One of the most common group of conditions the travellers will be likely to experience are food- and water-borne illnesses.
The illnesses caused by contaminated food and water range from travellers' diarrhea to more serious diseases such as hepatitis A, typhoid fever and other.
During a 2-week vacation, 50 % of the travellers may develop travellers' diarrhea at least once. The common symptoms include abnormally frequent, lose bowel movements, nausea, abdominal pain. It may last 3-5 days and severe cases last longer and can cause serious dehydration.
In order to prevent travellers' diarrhea you should:
Contact your Healthcare Team before travelling – he/she will prescribe you vaccines that will decrease the chances of contacting travellers' diarrhea and medication that helps reducing duration and severity of symptoms.


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Our official tour shirts! Women's large and xl are sold out but shirts run big. Tell all your friends you went to a concert with this shirt! Cut for the ladies. Ships free. Out of women's large and Xl.
Welcome to our store of magic and mystery. Impress your friends with our stuff.
Like the women's shirt but cut for a man. Goes great with pants, shorts, or neither.
The last Christmas record you'll ever need- or want! Released in 2019, It's 13 tracks of Christmas sass and sh*t talking! All the songs we perform in our Christmas show and more! Available Nov. 29.
It's all about cats!
Pony Death Ride debut album - release date 12/12
Includes all the tracks the people on the street are talking about. And 10 more!
1. Pony Death ride Theme(s)
2. I think My Boyfriend's Gay For Morrissey
3. Watch You Sleep
4. Stranger Danger
5. Furries!
6. Breaking Up With You Is Gonna Be Fun
7. Mom and Dad are Getting a Divorce
8. Who the Fuck is Ed Hardy?
9. Old Souls
10. I Do Arts and Crafts Better Than Most kids
11. Enough With The Beatles
The new rare colored vinyl compilation from blindspot records! 5 tracks from 5 neat bands!
Our new tour stuff is here! You don't even have to see us perform to get it!
Our new single! What would a Christmas party look like at Tom Waits' house? Here's an idea! P.S. Is that really Tom Waits singing?
Jaye doesn't just write and sing our songs, she's crafty as f***! Get her handmade ornament here with a personal message from Jaye herself!
We have downloadable singles you can buy as well. Click on the pic to go to each single


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Qetesha Haynes
Qetesha (Tesha) Haynes is a creative professional with diverse, dynamic, and rich career experiences. Tesha is always interested in learning and growing, and cares deeply about social issues. Tesha is fascinated by art and technology.
Check out my Blog QeteshaEpisode.blogspot.com. I write Stories for Episode.
The first story I published is, "It is Not What You Think!"
Tesha discovered her love for art, technology, science fiction, and music at an early age. Tesha loves to exploit her imagination and use her creativity. Tesha is an artist, author, and marketing professional.
Tesha is a candidate for a Masters of Fine art in Creative Writing. Tesha learned and grew professionally while studying abroad in Europe.
Tesha graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Film, and Electronic Media (2006). While attending UIC, I worked full-time as a Tommy Hilfiger Marketing specialist. The work was creatively demanding, and managing a designer brand benefited my career development greatly. Tommy Hilfiger was an excellent company in which to learn about marketing and branding, and through this experience, I discovered firsthand the techniques for building and maintaining a loyal clientele.
Next, Tesha interned with Disney, where she enjoyed the opportunity to work for a globally diverse company. Here, Tesha had the chance to work in many different areas with very different job descriptions, such as guest relations, customer service, and an entertainment role. Tesha also participated in many networking events.
While Tesha interned at Disney, she greatly benefited from the opportunity to work with Cirque Du Soliel's La Nouba performance, which was an incredible experience. Cirque Du Soliel is an entertainment powerhouse, to say the least, and Tesha was awestruck at this performance. However, the La Nouba performers were down-to-earth, approachable people who treated everyone they worked with as a vital member of their team. Tesha's first day working there was unforgettable. Some of the performers actually practiced in the concession area while we prepared to open. It was such a great experience that Tesha became a member of the Cirque Du Soliel club, and since then Tesha attends many of the shows.
Tesha grew up playing Nintendo, and admired the company's ability to consistently introduce innovation in order to maintain dominance in the video game industry. The chance to work with Nintendo proved to Tesha that childhood dreams really do come true.
While in Redmond, Washington for training, Tesha had the chance to experience Nintendo's headquarters and its rich organizational culture. Through the marketing position, Tesha gained an immeasurable amount of knowledge about the video game industry and marketing strategies. Tesha also came to understand how the organization had managed to dominate the industry for many decades.
This was dynamic position, and Tesha represented the global organization well. Tesha negotiated, organized, and ran many Nintendo events, such as Nintendo's mall tour, product launch parties, grand openings, and Pokémon parties). Tesha even starred in a short training video.
Qetesha Haynes participated in two art shows in 2013.
PiGuy Formula Concept Art at Arc Gallery, the official Sculpture of πGuy Formula by Qetesha Haynes is available to view at the Arc Gallery.
Sculpture entitled Penny, featured in the Council for the Arts Chambersburg, 28th Annual Miniature Art Exhibition.
Tesha publishes several blogs. Qetesha Haynes also has a collection of career cartoons.
Tesha loves most science fiction and fantasy movies and novels. Tesha inherited the love for this genre from her dad. Tesha values family and community.
Tesha loves to share her creativity and helping fellow artist, musician, and author achieve their career goals. Tesha is an innovative cover art designer.
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This soft & tender Buttermilk Bread is a great anytime bread. It's great for sandwiches, french toast, slathered with butter, or toasted. It's also great for freezing.
- 1 packet dry instant yeast
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 1/2 cups bread or all-purpose flour, divided
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 3/4 cups full-fat buttermilk
- 1 stick unsalted butter, divided
Preheat oven to 160 degrees and turn off.
- Add the yeast, salt, and 2 cups of the flour to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the hook attachment. Lightly whisk the ingredients together and set aside.
- Add the sugar, buttermilk and 6 tablespoons of the butter to a small saucepan. Mix and heat over medium heat until mixture is very warm (120 to 130 degrees). The butter does not have to be totally melted. Remove from heat.
- Add the buttermilk mixture to the mixing bowl and beat on low speed just until combined. Increase mixer to medium speed and beat for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula as needed.
- Add 1 cup of the flour and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add an additional 1 1/4 cups of flour to the mixing bowl and beat on low speed just long enough to incorporate the flour. Turn the mixer to high and beat with dough hook for about 3 minutes. The dough should be stiff but smooth and elastic and should pull away from the sides of the bowl and cling to the dough hook and center of the bowl.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface. If the dough is sticky, add additional flour as needed, up to about 1/8 cup. Try not to use any more flour than is needed to be able to handle the dough. Form dough into a ball and place in a large greased bowl. Turn the dough over once to ensure that both sides of the dough are greased. Place a towel over the bowl and transfer the bowl to the warm oven. Allow dough to rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size. Remove from oven.
- Punch down the dough. Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough in half with a sharp knife or a bench scraper. Cover the dough with a towel and allow it to rest for about 10 minutes. Using a rolling pin, roll each half into a rectangle. Starting at a short end, roll each piece of dough into a cylinder, (like a jelly roll). Pinch the seam and ends and turn the ends under. Place the two dough cylinders, seam sides down, into 2 greased loaf pans, 8 1/2″ x 4 1/2″. Transfer the pans to a warm oven and cover with a towel. Allow dough to rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size. Remove from oven.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Using a sharp knife, cut a long line on the top of the dough, cutting 1/4 inch deep, the entire length of the dough. Brush the tops of the loaves with half of the melted butter.
- Transfer the loaves to the center rack of the preheated oven, making sure the pans are at least 2 inches apart. Bake loaves for approximately 30 minutes or until loaves are golden brown on top and are slightly pulling away from the sides of the pans. If the loaves start to brown too quickly on top, loosely place a piece of foil over them. Remove from oven. Allow loaves to cool for 5 minutes. Brush the loaves with the remaining melted butter. Transfer loaves to a wire rack to cool.
- Store bread loaves in an airtight container or plastic bag.
- Bread is best if eaten within 2 days.
- Bread can be frozen for up to 1 month if wrapped securely.
- Preparation time does not include rising time.
- You can choose to not slash the tops of the loaves if you prefer. The purpose of slashing the tops of some loaves of bread is to allow the carbon dioxide to escape, helping to prevent cracks in the bread.
- Use a serrated knife for easy slicing of bread.
- Category: Bread
- Method: Bake
Keywords: Buttermilk Bread, Bread, Homemade Bread, Sandwich Bread, Bread Loaves,


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Herpes Simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis
Disturbed level of consciousness and mild fever.
Patient Data
Age: 90 years.
Gender: Female
From the case: Herpes Simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis
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Axial non-contrast
Subtle hypodensity in the right medial temporal lobe.
From the case: Herpes Simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis
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Axial T1
- The right medial temporal lobe shows patchy areas of restricted diffusion with high diffusion weighted image (DWI) and as well as hypointense T1 and hyperintense T2 and FLAIR signal intensity. The lesion is seen involving the claustrum as well but with preservation of the putamen.
- Atrophic brain changes with periventricular atherosclerotic leukoencephalopathy as well as bilateral cerebral deep white matter centrum semiovale and corona radiata patchy and confluent demyelinating lesions with high T2 and FLAIR signal intensity.
- No mass lesion or area of recent blood signal intensity.
- No gross posterior fossa abnormality.
- Normal sellar region.
- Bilateral mastoiditis more evident on the right side with T2 prolongation.
Case Discussion
- The above described findings are consistent with Herpes Simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis.
- Atrophic brain changes with periventricular artherosclerotic leukoencephalopathy and bilateral cerebral demyelinating foci consistent with chronic lacunar infarctions or chronic small vessel disease.
- Sakai T, Abe Y, Sassa K et-al. A case of neonatal herpes simplex virus encephalitis with characteristic MRI features in the early period. No To Hattatsu. 2015;46 (6): 447-9. Pubmed citation