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One of the most popular games at an online casino actually bears quite a resemblance to a game that you might have played at home or with friends. Video poker is essentially a standard five-card draw poker game in which you are not playing against other opponents but against the house itself. This game is readily available in various parts of any land-based casino, including at the bar area. And what makes a little bit different from other land-based casino games is that the interface is almost exactly identical to that of the video poker game that is seen in an online casino.
Here is basically how all of these games work: the player receives five cards after pushing the Deal button. Then the determination is made, solely at the discretion of the player, as to which cards to keep and which to let go. Those cards that are held require the pro-action, by clicking the button that says "Hold." Those cards that are not held are considered to have been discarded. After the decision has been made, the "Draw" button is clicked a new cards come to replace the discarded ones. At that point it is immediately determined whether the player is a winner or not.
Well, that is the procedure. But obviously the game involves a bit more than that. For one thing, video poker is one of the few games in an online casino in which you can actually change the odds more favorably to yourself by playing better. And you can get as complicated as you want with the strategy. There are, in fact, books that are published about video poker strategy, and you might be surprised to observe how fast some people play because they immediately know what they are going to do with any given hand.
There are, of course, a number of winning combinations that are paid off in a video poker. In almost all of the games, the Royal Flush is the hand you are looking for. This consists of a 10-Jack-Queen-King-Ace, all of the same suit. This will generally bring about the highest payout.
Beyond that, it does become a matter of which video poker variation you are playing. If you're in a game like Deuces Wild, for example, then the two (2) becomes very important, because it is a wild card, meaning that it can be used in place of anything to complete winning combinations. And when you have four deuces, you're going to get one of the highest payouts in the game.
There are quite a few different variations on video poker, and they all bring about different challenges, as well as somewhat different valuations of combinations. In some of them, like the very common Jacks or Better, you have to have a pair of Jacks at the very least in order to get a payout. Then there is a game called Tens or Better, which requires at least a pair of tens to be paid from the house.
We could go on and on about the variations, and the strategies that are applicable for all of them, but our point is that US-based players are going to have every opportunity in the world to partake in any different kind of video poker game they like. And they will have a chance to win at all of them.
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A coalition of political journalists, advisers and politicians have signed a letter condemning sexist media coverage of the woman at the centre of the allegations about Boris Johnson's private life.
The open letter said the treatment of Carrie Symonds, the former CCHQ director of communications, had been appalling and would discourage talented women from entering politics and the media.
It is signed by politicians including sports minister Tracey Crouch and fellow Tory MPs Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan, as well as Labour MP Stella Creasy.
Political advisers to sign include former Tory adviser Emma Barr, ex-Labour adviser and comedian Ayesha Hazarika, and Polly Mackenzie, the former Nick Clegg adviser who is now the director of Demos. It is also signed by journalists including Kate Maltby and Jane Merrick, who have written about their experiences of harassment in Westminster and been attacked in the tabloid press.
Symonds, who was previously an adviser to several cabinet minsters, has been linked to the former foreign secretary by several tabloid newspapers. Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, have recently announced their divorce. Several newspapers have carried pictures of Symonds dressed in revealing clothing, taken from her Facebook page.
"We are a group of women with little in common; we have different professions, different political allegiances or none, we are of different ages and move in different social circles, but one thing unites us: we have had enough," the letter, organised by the freelance journalist Marie Le Conte, said.
"We all work in or around politics, and have been disturbed and shocked to watch the way Carrie Symonds has been treated by the media.
"There was and is absolutely no need for newspapers and websites to trawl through a woman's social media, repeatedly indulging in innuendo, and publishing dozens and dozens of pictures of her, all taken in her private life – with some dating from over 10 years ago."
Women who signed the letter said some were close friends and former colleagues of Symonds, but others had never met her. "Still, we are united in thinking that the way she has been treated is appalling, and must never happen again," the letter read.
"Being a woman in politics isn't easy, and each of us has had to overcome a lot to get to where we are, and so has she," it went on. "We are often treated in a way that men wouldn't be, and this debacle is only the latest example of a political and media culture still steeped in misogyny.
"It is often asked why women are hesitant to get into political journalism, become MPs, or simply start a career in Westminster; incidents like this go some way towards explaining why.
"To the journalists and editors who have used a news story as an excuse to infringe on the personal life of a young woman and titillate their readers, and the people in Westminster who have helped them make this shameful coverage happen, we say: do better. Be better."

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Has anyone tried running this game through lr-pcsx-rearmed? I have not tried running this on RPi, but ES on PC and Retropie in Virtual Box. In both cases, this does not work. Just black screen.
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@sexbeer It only works on
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Let's Get Healthy, Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties
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Designing digital devices and user interfaces suitable for the elderly is essential.
Blessed with the demographic dividend and 50% of India's population being below 25 years of age, the youth segment of the country has been viewed as an obvious target for the dazzling array of digital devises, apps and tools. The massive size of this segment and the immense potential to build a customer base has kept us away from focusing on the other large segment which has taken to digital devices and is growing rapidly. This segment, comprising senior citizens numbering over 110 million, has a literacy rate of 44% and the penetration of mobile phones and internet access in this segment has been growing. More than 90% of elderly internet consumers use social media platforms primarily to connect with family and friends as per the annual report of HelpAge India.
Yet, the older population faces some specific challenges in using technology. Jeff Johnson and Kate Finn in their book Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population have listed some of these challenges. These include elders taking longer to learn new applications or devices, performing poorly on tasks relying on memory, having frequent challenges with the accidental movements with the pointer, making more input errors and having more trouble hitting on-screen targets. With the growing number of senior citizens as well as the increased lifespan of human beings and that most people are always online, designing digital devices and user interfaces suitable for senior citizens is extremely important. The user experience of senior citizens is very different from that of other generations and therefore appreciating their physical and mental state would be essential for designing the user interfaces and the applications. Visual consistency and keeping things simple would be necessary to create comfort and trust with this user group. Large readable fonts should be used to make reading easy.
With hearing and sight related difficulties increasing with age, smartphones are not the ideal platform for accessing information as the screens are not made for reading or for navigation. Hence touchscreen PCs or tablets should be ideally considered for developing applications aimed at their frequent usage by senior citizens. It is also important to bear in mind that it would be necessary to explain icons and how to move between screens.
A sizeable percentage of our elderly population is in good health, and therefore the challenge faced is how to help them to gainfully engage with the society. Digital empowerment can pave the way to get them connected on the internet and provide them with opportunities to share their knowhow or competencies with the younger generation through online communities. This could lead to an excellent collaboration between the younger and the senior groups with the former benefitting from the wisdom and experience of the latter while the latter could be helped by the younger lot to learn to use technology and navigate through the array of applications. AI bots are predicted to become companions of lonely elderly persons, which can act on their command as well as support them for their daily chores. While currently there is a lack of digital literacy and there exists high levels of illiteracy amongst the elderly, in the next 20 years we are going to witness a sea change in their profiles. This group would be tech-savvy and demanding as compared to today's elders. Hence it is time we start paying more attention to the elderly segment and their needs. It is not just because this segment would have more paying power but also because this will help senior citizens to integrate and engage with society at large.
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Sargent flags an impressively packed pander. Guess who said this:
"I believe that it flows from [Obama']s fundamental disbelief in American exceptionalism. In the President's world, all nations have common interests,' the lines between good and evil are blurred, America's history merits apology. And without a compass to guide him in our increasingly turbulent world, he's tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."
Nuanced! Just because it sounds French doesn't make it bad, you know. And note the repeat of the Big Lie. Romney's in this to win it.
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There Are No Dumb Questions…
Or maybe there are.
Growing up, the more supportive teachers and parents encouraged us to always ask the questions that came to mind during class or while at home, no matter how trivial or embarrassing they may seem. The best among them took our questions seriously, helping us solve our own problems or kindly taking us seriously, even if our questions were flawed or downright unintelligible.
And while asking questions is essential to learning and growing, sometimes, our questions are better off left unasked.
These hilariously misguided questions about basic scientific principles will crack you up and make you wonder what "dumb" questions you've asked before.
"My dad said that the world doesn't revolve around me. How is this possible if I am his sun?" And they only get better.
Have you ever asked a question like these?
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Transferring its mobile assets to wider platforms, Google has announced its further expansion into travel with a new desktop app for trip planning.
Found (confusingly) at google.com/travel, Google Trips brings just about all of the company's travel planning products under one banner on multiple platforms.
"When you're planning a trip – whether you're on desktop or mobile– we want to help you find the information you need, fast,"Richard Holden, Google's vice president of product management, said in a post.
"As you plan a trip, your research and reservations will be organised for you in Trips. As we continue to evolve Google Trips, we're making this information more accessible at google.com/travel, and in Google Search and Google Maps," Holden said.
"We're also adding a few new features to make planning and organising your trips easier."
These features include giving Gmail users the ability to make edits directly to trip timelines, adding to Google's already established trip, hotel and flight reservation feature received in confirmation emails.
The company has added that this feature will further be enhanced in the coming weeks by allowing users to manually add new reservations to trip timelines: that means connections between Gmail, Google Calendar and Travel.
A few other small yet significant features added to Travel are the inclusion weather forecasts to trip planning; personalised trip research (based on Google Account search history) and saved searches synchronised with Google accounts; and labelling of popular neighbourhoods in Google Maps.
In the coming months, Google has said that trips, including reservations for hotels and restaurants, will also be available in the Google Maps app.
Last year, Google enhanced the symmetry between its Hotels and Flights products for smartphones with the incorporation of Trends and Maps. Since then, the tech-giant has steadily rolled out a stream of developments and updates heralding the company's undeniable interest in the travel sector.
It's a journey that has long been in the works since the revelation of using the power of Maps to unlock Google's full-suite of products, including Google Hotel Search – revealed two months ago – and its expansion into vacation rentals through third-party providers.
The development of its products, plural, their expansion to desktop and the transfer of its assets into one product, singular, heralds the company's move toward a unification of its trip planning software.


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I have been on my own most of my adult life. I'm comfortable with it. I like my own company and don't ever really feel alone.
Even when I'm walking by myself someone seems to be there with me. I am constantly having conversations in my mind with someone. "What kind of bird is that singing? What am I going to wear to the movies tonight? I wonder if Monty will want to go? I have to go to the dentist tomorrow."
What is this never feeling alone thing I've got going on? Does it stem from my childhood and my imaginary friend, Michael who was always with me?
"Who are you talking too, Stacy?" My mother might ask, as she was watching me from inside the kitchen screen door.
"It's just Michael," I would reply, thinking I was about to be in trouble from the tone of her voice. I would have been somewhere between seven and ten years old.
"Oh him again," my mother would say with a shrug as she turned and busied herself in the kitchen.
Did my mother know and see Michael as I did? She made me feel like it was okay to have a Michael. Had she heard me talking to him before? Had she decided it was healthy for me to have an imaginary friend?
Do I have my horoscope to thank for never being alone? My horoscope sign is Gemini. Does that mean I have a twin trailing along with me through life? A little troll person helping me to make the right choices? If so, he screwed up a few times.
Is it because I feel so close to nature? Is that why I never feel alone? The trees, the rivers, the snow all have a life of their own. I can feel their strength. The snow-packed dirt road has a voice of its own, too. I hear it as I trudge on top of the snow during my five-mile morning loop. Each day my footsteps have a different sound. I'm not alone.
My horses, cats and new puppy are my people. The cats live outside, but they sit on my stacks of firewood looking in the window as I write. They are out there now, sunning themselves.
"Hi, Ellie. Hi Tom and Jerilee. Where's Fluffy? Did your water freeze already? Where is Olive?"
Aggie, the seven-month-old Border Collie puppy is sleeping in the chair next to me. I know she'll be ready for an outside adventure when she wakes.
When I walk out my front door, the horses whinny to me hoping for an apple, carrot or slice of hay. I'm not alone.
So if someone sees me talking to myself as I'm walking down the road, will they think, " That crazy old woman must be so lonely she's talking to herself!" Or will they think, "She must be talking to the dog?"
I don't care what they think. Every small town needs something to talk about. I'll take a hit for the gossip patrol!
If anyone ever does ask, I'll just say, " I'm not alone."


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Owing to Mick T's indisposition, and logistical problems about access to the field, I'm sorry to say that the BBQ planned for 6 July has been POSTPONED. We will try and rearrange for a date later in the summer. Watch this space. I plan to put on an alternative walk on 6 July. Please check the programme nearer the time for details. Mike
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If you fancy a bit more of a challenging walk a bit further away from Brighton, then please join me on the above walk this Sunday (16th).
Starting 10.30 from Merstham station. (Car park costs £2.15, with some free on-street parking available nearby; can be reached from Brighton by travelling to end of M23 on to A23 and then U-turn to A23 southwards towards Redhill - or accessible by public transport: Brighton station for the 09:27 to…Continue
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Thank you Barbara from Fun in Action for organising the sausage stroll and generously donating all the food and drink to our worthy cause and thank everybody that put cash in the pot. £136.87 was raised.
Fun in Action is a charity that befriends Local Children from disadvantaged single Parent Family's.
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This year's Christmas Lunch on Thursday 12th December @ 1300 will be held again at The Hilton Brighton Metropole's splendid belle epoque 1890 restaurant, overlooking the seafront, which will be reserved exclusively for our group. The cost is £25 incl. VAT per person for a 3 course buffet with lots of choice and…Continue
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Brighton & Hove has been shortlisted with 9 other towns for this year's Britain's Best Walking Neighbourhood Award. Hastings was last year's winner. The winner is the town with the most votes and it's open to everyone and anyone so please vote and also notify your friends, relations....everyone you know....using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.…Continue
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Six Terex Unit Rig 4400 trucks will be converted at a mine in India, using GFS Corp's newly developed EVO-MT® System. The first six trucks are scheduled to begin operating on LNG in early 2018 and the project is slated to expand in the near future to over 50 vehicles. This is an integrated system consisting of onboard fuel storage and vaporization in addition to controls and safety systems that allow the truck to operate on a combination of LNG and diesel, or NG+D® operation, as the company refers to it.
The EVO-MT® 4400 system will provide 259 usable U.S. gallons of onboard LNG storage, enough to complete a 12 hour shift. GFS Corp currently offers retrofit systems for Caterpillar 777B, C and D, 785B, C and D, 793B, C and D trucks and 992G and K wheel loaders, as well as Komatsu 830DC, AC and 930E trucks.
To date, the various EVO-MT® Systems have successfully logged well over 400,000 hours in actual mining operations in environments with temperatures ranging from -40 degrees F to above 100 degrees F.
"We are excited to add the Terex Unit Rig 4400 haul truck to our EVO-MT product lineup," said Jason Green, GFS Corp's President and Chief Technology Officer. "This newly developed system expands on the growing list of mine equipment that can be converted to LNG using our NG+D® technology."
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With two major shootings reported in Florida and Texas this year, Governor Greg Abbott talked about school safety in a series of discussions, but officials in Laredo have their own suggestions.
"We need to have an increase of collaboration with several agencies in our area obviously mental health institutes need to become a little bit more involved with us. I know it's a difficult thing the mental health issues but we need to address the collaboration of agencies coming together."
Governor Abbott met with parents, teachers, students and legislators to discuss the topic of school safety, but at UISD, officials say they have the necessary safety measures in place.
"We have an armed police officer in every school, in the elementary school we have one and in the middle school and high schools we have more police officers. We have security guards at every school so we have the armed and unarmed police officers watching and taking care of the students, faculty and the parents."
Garner added that the district is installing security stations at several campuses. In these stations, a visitor must be questioned by a security guard before entering the campus. There are two schools in Laredo where students must cross the street to get to school, these are VMT and Nixon high school, but LISD officials assure the students are safe.
"Nixon/VMT complex they do have to cross the street we do have multiple security guards and police officers there so there are safety protocols in place for crossing students and making sure they are visible there in moving students from one place to another."
For the remainder of the school year, LISD is not allowing students to take backpacks to school since they are no longer necessary. Both school districts are informing the community that their students are safe but to report any suspicious activity to authorities.


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European Contract Law
The Commission is expected to adopt a landmark legislative proposal on or around 18 October. A flavour of what to expect can be gleaned from Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding's call to arms on the subject, viewable at:
The Academy of European Law in Trier is holding an event on consumer law just beforehand, at which it will be discussed. A member of the Bar will be speaking. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/4xl4qo4
The Commission is expected to adopt a landmark legislative proposal on or around 18 October. A flavour of what to expect can be gleaned from Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding's call to arms on the subject, viewable at:
The Academy of European Law in Trier is holding an event on consumer law just beforehand, at which it will be discussed. A member of the Bar will be speaking. See http://preview.tinyurl.com/4xl4qo4
Consumer Rights Directive
By the time of reading, the Consumer Rights Directive should have been formally adopted by the EU legislator. It is due to be published in the Offi cial Journal of the EU during October, from which date Member States will have two years to implement the measures. See:
Brussels I regulation review
The EU institutions are negotiating the review of regulation 44/2001 on recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Procedure reference COD(2010)0383). The Legal Affairs Committee of the EP (JURI)'s fi rst draft report on the fi le, calling for signifi cant amendments to the proposal, is an interesting read:
EU developments on Collective redress
The Commission will soon issue a Communication setting out the results of its recent consultation, and considering next steps. The consultation and responses are at:
The papers from the recent hearing on collective redress hosted by the EP's Legal Affairs Committee of the EP can be viewed at:
I also commend the draft Committee report on the topic:
Freezing of assets
The Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation creating a European Account Preservation Order (EAPO) to facilitate crossborder debt recovery in civil and commercial matters. The Bar is, in principle, supportive of the proposal, but is pointing out areas of sensitivity to both HMG and to the EU legislator. See:
The impact and implementation of the 2008 Mediation directive
The EP's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) has recently adopted a report (2011/2026(INI) looking at the implementation and impact of the mediation directive (2008/52EC) to date and promoting and encouraging greater use of this form of ADR.
EU action on Victims' Rights
The UK has opted into the Commission's recently proposed package of measures to ensure a minimum level of rights, support and protection for victims across the EU. See:
Detention in criminal matters – Commission consultation
A reminder of the Commission consultation on all aspects of detention in criminal matters, deadline for responses 30 November 2011. The Bar will respond. See:
Sexual abuse and exploitation of children
By the time of reading, both the EP and the Council should have formally adopted this important directive on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. See:
Revamp of Data protection policy
In late 2010 the Commission issued a communication concerning its planned overhaul of the existing EU data protection rules. The EP has recently added itself to the list of bodies endorsing the Commission's plans. See its resolution at:
The Commission is due to publish a comprehensive legal framework in the field in November.
Commission draft guidance on quantification of antitrust damages
As part of its ongoing examination of the complexities of actions for damages in EU antitrust cases, the Commission has recently published a Draft Guidance Paper on all aspects of quantification of damages. It consulted stakeholders on the draft. See:
Modernisation of EU Public procurement policy
By the time of reading, the EP may have adopted its own initiative report responding to the Commission's Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy and calling for better access to public contracts with the lowest transaction costs and the reduction of red tape for businesses. See a draft at:
A report of the Commission's recent conference on the subject can be viewed at:
A new strategy for consumer protection
The EP's Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee (IMCO) is working on a report providing guidelines for the forthcoming Agenda on Consumer Protection expected next year. Issues include e-commerce, online dispute resolution and proper enforcement based on a solid legal basis. For the draft report, go to:
Credit agreements relating to residential property
Several EP Committees are examining the proposal for a directive aimed at creating a competitive pan-European market in residential mortgages. The European Central Bank's opinion thereon can be found in the Offi cial Journal, C 240 of 18 August 2011.
Modernization of the Professional Qualifications Directive
By way of follow up to its recently closed consultation on the subject, on 7 November, the Commission will host a conference on the evaluation of the Professional Qualifications Directive. We may see a revision of the Directive in 2012.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2011/professional_qualifi cations_directive_en.htm
The EP's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) draft report on the subject can be seen at:
Developments on these and other current issues are reported on in Brussels News, the regular newsletter of the Brussels Offi ce for members of the Bar of England & Wales. Please email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A Lower Mainland community support group has been hit by a data breach, B.C.'s privacy commissioner has confirmed.
The news came as the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) released privacy impact assessment tools to mark Jan. 28's Privacy Day.
The Lookout Housing + Health Society, which works in 14 Lower Mainland municipalities, serving 2,500 people a day and housing 1,400 per night, was hit with a ransomware attack.
Lookout provides a medical and dental clinic, food bank, needle distribution and community clean-up, HIV and Hep C supports, peer and employment programs and youth counselling programs.
No one from Lookout was made available to discuss the attack.
Clients at Lookout's Yukon Shelter and Housing Centre facility, however, said they had not been told of the breach.
"They haven't said anything," client Jason Morrisey said outside the shelter. "I don't want people snooping around in my info. That's horse****."
He said he has given the shelter information such as his date of birth, social insurance number, medical and prescription data and banking information as well as the background and legal issues he's dealing with.
"They need all that when they do intake," Morrisey said. "They pretty well know my whole life now, whoever got that info."
An OIPC breach guidance document said affected individuals should be notified in the event of a breach. Factors to be taken into consideration should include risk or damage to reputation – especially in the case of medical or legal records – and the loss of confidence in an organization.
Further, it said, there is risk of identity theft if breached data includes information such as banking details or social insurance numbers.
The OIPC is aware of the breach but cannot reveal details at this point.
"We have opened a file and are consulting with them as they work to address the circumstances of the breach," spokeswoman Jane Zatylny said.
The OIPC Jan. 28 released its privacy impact assessment template and related guidance for private-sector organizations collecting, using and disclosing personal information. The documents are designed to give organizations tools they need to make sure their plans comply with the law.
Commissioner Michael McEvoy said Data Privacy Day is an ideal time to share the resources, which are all about making sure people's personal information is protected in compliance with B.C.'s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
"Data Privacy Day's call to action around protecting personal information and understanding threats to privacy in the digital age are more important than ever," McEvoy said. "Indeed, our office is now dealing with one of the most serious privacy breaches in the history of this province and country.
That breach is the Nov. 1 cyberattack against Canada's largest medical laboratory diagnostic testing services company.
LifeLabs' reporting of the attack spurred an investigation by the privacy commissioners of B.C. and Ontario.
The affected systems contained information of approximately 15 million LifeLabs customers, including name, address, email, customer logins and passwords, health card numbers and lab tests, the commissioners said
"In this environment, it's important for organizations to build privacy considerations into the design of every initiative in which people's personal information is collected, used or disclosed," McEvoy said. "My office's privacy impact assessment template and guidance document offer a straightforward, step-by-step means of taking a comprehensive look at all aspects of how personal information flows through an organization and ensuring that it complies with PIPA at every step."
The privacy impact assessment template is an 11-page, editable document that covers all aspects of a privacy risk assessment for an initiative that is either planned or being substantially revised. The template offers examples and tips on all stages of developing a privacy impact assessment.


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Mini Meatloaf with Habanero Spiked Ketchup
I am bringing meatloaf back to the dinner party. For people who like meat, most enjoy a good meatloaf. I don't know if it's nostalgia or they just like it but I'm one of those people. Yet it's mostly considered a family night meal and not necessarily something you'd serve for company. So I thought I'd try to dress it up a bit and maybe change it's reputation. I made free-form little meatloafs so each person can have their own and I added pancetta and cooked onions into the mixture, along with some ricotta cheese for a more tender texture. But my favorite part is the Habanero spiked ketchup. It sounds like it's going to be spicy but it's not. It's a very mild spice. You can make the ketchup ahead of time and store it in the fridge for weeks. And you can add more or less spice to it. It will taste a little spicy on it's own but it really mellows with the meat so give it an extra kick if you like spice. Serve with a beautiful salad and it's a perfect meal for entertaining!
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EMS Energy Institute
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
The seventh annual Gas Flooding Initiative meeting will be held on the Pennsylvania State University Campus from October 11 - 13, 2012. There will be a workshop on Thursday in addition to a brief tour of campus and the EMS Energy Institute. Thursday evening we will hold a reception with dinner and a cash bar at the Nittany Lion Inn. Technical presentations will take place on Friday and Saturday is reserved for a tour of the Drake Well Museum in Titusville, PA.
Thursday, October 11th (Workshop and Reception)
|2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Toolkit Updates (PennPVT, UTCOMP)
104 Hosler
|3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Special Lecture
Russell T. Johns - 104 Hosler
|5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
|Tour of the EMS Energy Institute
|5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
|Break, move to the Nittany Lion Inn
|6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
|Dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn (Cash Bar)
Friday, October 12th (Technical Presentations)
8:00 am - 8:20 am
|Coffee and continental breakfast
|8:20 am - 8:30 am
Dr. Russell T. Johns
|8:30 am - 9:00 am
Method of Characteristic Solutions for Compositional Floods
Saeid Khorsandi Kouhanestani, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|9:00 am - 9:30 am
Geochemical Modeling of CO2 Flooding in Carbonates Considering Wettability
Changhe Qiao, supervised by Drs. Li Li, Jinchao Xu, and Russell T. Johns
|9:30 am - 10:00 am
Modeling of CO2 Flooding with Geochemical Reactions in Carbonate Reservoirs
Ashwin Venkatraman, supervised by Drs. Larry Lake and Russell T. Johns
|10:00 am - 10:10 am
|10:10 am - 10:40 am
Comparison of Reduced and Conventional Phase Behavior Calculations
Seyhan Emre Gorucu, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|10:40 am - 11:10 am
Tie-Line Simplex Method for Compositional Simulation
Mohsen Rezaveisi, Supervised by Drs. Sephernoori and Russell T. Johns
|11:10 am - 11:40 am
Upscaling Including Dispersion in Compositional Simulation
Olaoluwa O. Adepoju, supervised by Drs. Larry Lake and Russell T. Johns
|11:40 am - 1:00 pm
|1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Compositional Simulation of CO2 Floods Considering Four Phases
Saeedeh Mohebbinia, supervised by Drs. Kamy Sephernoori and Russell T. Johns
|1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Miscible Gas Injection in Fractured Reservoirs
Ali Moinfar, supervised by Drs. Russell T. Johns and Kamy Sephernoori
|2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Capturing of Shock Fronts in a Compositional Simulator
Nithiwat Siripatrachai, supervised by Drs. Turgay Ertekin and Russell T. Johns
|2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Measurement and Modeling of Three-Phase Relative Permeability
Amir Kianinejad, supervised by Dr. David DiCarlo
|3:00 pm - 3:10 pm
|3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
Origin of Scale Dependent Dispersion Using High-Order Methods
Michael Connolly, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|3:40 pm - 4:10 pm
Three-Phase Mixing Cell for MMP Determination
Liwei Li, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
Upscaling Miscible Residual Oil Saturation
Dhiraj Singla, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|4:40 pm - 5:10 pm
Reservoir Cooling for Enhanced Gas Flooding
Amey Khanzode, Zhenzhen Wang, supervised by Dr. Russell T. Johns
|5:10 pm - 5:20 pm
|Wrap Up and Discussion of JIP Direction
Russell T. Johns and All
|5:20 pm
|End of Meeting
Saturday, October 13th (Drake Well Museum Tour)
|7:30 am
|Meet bus at EMS Energy Institute
|8:00 am - 11:00 am
|Arrive at Drake Well Museum in Titusville, PA
|11:00 am - 1:00 pm
|Guided Tour of the Drake Well Museum ($3 admission fee)
|1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
|Lunch - provided
|4:30 pm
|Arrive back at the PSU Campus
Nittany Lion Inn - (preferred) Historic hotel located on campus
Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center - Modern, can take a shuttle to campus
The Atherton Hotel - Located Downtown one block from campus
The Days Inn State College - Located Downtown one block from campus
The Penn State University Park Campus is located in State College, a small town in located in central Pennsylvania. If coming by car, State College is about a three-hour drive from Washington or Philadelphia.
There are three airports that have flights into the University Park Airport (Washington, Detroit, and Philadelphia). Make reservations as soon as possible as there are a limited number of flights in and out of state college. The train can also be taken from New York, Philadelphia, or Washington. The nearest Amtrak station is Huntingdon, PA. From there you will need to rent a car and drive about 20 miles to State College.
Maps of the campus and surrounding areas are available here.
State College is a small town located in central Pennsylvania. It's surrounded by forests but also close to several major cities. There are numerous activities that you can take advantage of in and around State College.
If you have time to travel a bit further, other possible destinations include.
The Drake Well Museum is in Titusville, PA where in 1859 Edwin L. Drake drilled the oil well that launched the modern petroleum industry. The Drake Well Museum tells the story of the beginning of the modern oil industry with orientation videos, exhibits, operating oil field machinery, and historic buildings in a park setting.


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Hours & Events
See below for the most up to date information on our current operating schedule and events. Please note that our hours fluctuate throughout the season so be sure to check our calendar before you visit.
The Haunting at the West Shore
October 27 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
An event every day that begins at 5:00 pm, repeating until November 1, 2020
The Haunting at the West Shore
The Haunting at West Shore Café returns this October with prolonged spookiness. Starting, Thursday, October 22 and running through Halloween weekend, West Shore guests will certainly be in for a treat from 5pm to 8pm during dinner. The spooky supper will feature the regular menu along with Halloween dinner special including festive fall treats. Not into an unexpected meal? Perhaps we can sway you to try one of our smoking cocktails or swamp juice for a real trick.
Want to make the experience extra spooky? Howl at the Blue Full Moon on October 31. That's right, a once-in-a-Blue-Moon, Full Moon on Halloween, in 2020. Celebrate the creepy occasion and purchase a front-row seat on our pier and deck to watch the moon rise over the East Shore while listening to live music by Jeff Jones, Friday, Oct 30 through Sunday, Nov 1. Pier and deck dining will feature a $100 pre-fixe menu including a warm welcome cocktail, a pre-appetizer, appetizer, entrée and warm after-dinner drink – with plenty of Halloween themed items, of course.
Join us…. if you dare!
Be sure to dress for the weather, it will be chilly. Heat lamps are available but warm clothing and blankets are recommended. Costumes are encouraged.
Full Moon Featured Seating: Includes all outside tables on our deck and on the pier. Specific tables may be requested but not guaranteed. To request a table, please reach out to our front desk by emailing email@example.com. Available Halloween weekend 10/30 to 11/1. Includes a Halloween themed pre-fixe menu for $100 per person (plus tax and gratuity).
Full Moon Featured Seating Reservations
Full Moon Reservations features a Halloween themed pre-fixe menu, and outside seating for the full moon rise Oct 30 – Nov 1.
General Restaurant Reservations
All other restaurant seating (including The Haunting) at the West Shore. Standard restaurant menu.


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Check below to see if you would be any good at stained or fused glass:
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2 for 'maybe'/'sort of'.
3 for 'no'.
1) Do you enjoy learning with other people? 1 for 'yes', 2 for 'maybe', 3 for 'no'.
2) Are you happy doing things with your hands?
3) Do you notice colour?
4) Did you notice the stained glass in the church when you were little?
5) Do you knit/draw/sew/carpent (ok...whats the noun from carpentery then?)paint?
6) Do some colours or colour combinations make you feel good?
7) Did you ever want to know how stained glass was made?
8) Have you ever dreampt of re-skilling professionally or just for fun?
9) Can you get away for a weekend?
9-15.....you'd be good. You'd be fast to learn and confident.
16-20 .it would take you longer to learn but it would make real sense to you.
21-23 ..You wouldn't commit lightly to learning this skill, but you'd manage.
24- 27..You're probably not the least interested!!
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Life is Short: Simplify Paying Your Taxes in Retirement
So, you made it. Retirement. The final frontier. You've been working (literally) for this your entire career and now you get to slow down and enjoy this stage of your life. Regardless of all your planning for this, you may be surprised to discover that you miss the camaraderie of the workplace. Or worse, you experience too much "we" time at home with your spouse or significant other. As a client once said to me, "my wife married me for richer or poorer, but apparently not for lunch!"
Now that you have time on your hands, another surprise that awaits you is the complexity and hassle of paying estimated taxes. To meet the IRS's pay-as-you-go rules on your income, you need to make estimated tax payments in April, June, September and January on sources of income such as Social Security, pension payments and investment income from interest and dividends.
The IRS requires that you estimate and pay at least 90% of your current year tax liability or that you pay 100% of last year's tax liability. There's an exception though; if your prior-year adjusted gross income exceeded $150,000, you have to pay 110% of last year's tax bill in the current year.To pay your estimated taxes, send a check along with Form 1040-ES to the IRS. Or you can send payments securely online through Direct Pay or the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
Figuring your tax liability accurately at the start of the year can be a challenge, especially when it comes to estimating capital gains from your portfolio, or year-end distributions from mutual funds. Doing so requires regular monitoring of dividends, interest and capital gains. To help simplify the process (well, sort of), the IRS kindly provides taxpayers with a worksheet.
Note that there is a fine line between overpaying your taxes and receiving a large refund. There is also a fine line between underpaying your tax liability and being forced to write a large check come April 15th. Precision is needed if you wish to avoid the greater of these two evils.
Luckily, there are a few strategies you can harness to simplify paying taxes in retirement. We believe that the easiest method is to withhold taxes from payments such as Social Security, pensions, annuities and distributions from your IRA – much like withholding taxes from your paycheck.
To withhold taxes from your Social Security payments, file Form W-4V with the Social Security Administration and select from one of four levels of withholding: 7%, 10%, 12% or 22%. To withhold taxes from pension or annuity payments, file Form W-4P with the payer. And, if you are taking distributions from your IRA, you can instruct your custodian to withhold taxes as well.
There is one final twist if you are 70½ or older and subject to taking a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). If you don't need your RMD to meet spending needs throughout the year, and your RMD meets or exceeds your estimated tax bill, you may direct your IRA custodian to send all or a portion of the RMD directly to the IRS at year-end.
Going this route allows you to enjoy a full year of tax-deferred growth before taking your RMD and simultaneously satisfies the IRS's four-installment payment requirement. This is due to the fact that the IRS considers taxes withheld from IRA distributions as having been paid evenly throughout the year, even if the taxes were withheld on the last day of the year.
In retirement, sometimes less is more. When it comes to the hassle of sending a check to the IRS four times a year, consider the tips above and instead spend more time on the golf course, volunteering, traveling or spending time with friends and loved ones.
Referrals of family, friends and colleagues who may benefit from financial planning and investment management guidance are always welcome. Thank you for recommending our firm.
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Full description and composition of the most dangerous products of the food industry, impact on the health, recommendations on how to avoid from nutrition
The advantages or disadvantages of a food item depends upon its chemical composition. Unfortunately, the tastiest foods are generally considered to be the most dangerous: salty, sweet, spicy and bitter. Let's look closer and find out which are the most dangerous foods.
1. Fast food: French fries, potato chips, croutons, hamburgers and noodles
These fast foods are dangerous because of their composition: they contain high amounts of fat, carbohydrates, pigments and taste modifiers. Furthermore, the intense taste of potato chips and hamburgers can make you think that your usual food is tasteless and boring. If a product contains Е-621, it can negatively affect your nervous system.
Sometimes the fats in these fast foods are substituted with trans fats, which increase your risk of developing diabetes, atherosclerosis, heart attacks, ischemia, strokes and neuropathy. Trans fats can cause mutations in the cells and can cause oncologic diseases. Furthermore, such foods are high in calories, which can lead to obesity.
2. Salami and smoked meat
Ironically, these products usually contain no meat; even the finest of them include co-products, genetically altered soya, hormones, aroma and taste intensifiers, and pigments. By eating such a cocktail every day, even worse on an empty stomach, you will potentially face the misfortune of gastritis and an ulcer in next to no time.
3. Mayonnaise and ketchup
Mayonnaise is a fat enriched food that contains high levels of trans fats. Excessive amounts of this condiment in your diet can cause obesity and cardiovascular diseases, as it can make your blood vessels less flexible and more brittle. Various preservatives and stabilizers are also included in the ingredients, which can have a negative impact on your health.
Ketchup is rich in dangerous pigments and preservatives that can significantly disturb your digestive system.
4. Margarine and vegetable oils
The level of trans fats in these products are 15 times higher than what should be considered regular. Excessive use of margarine and vegetable oils may cause oncologic diseases, excessive weight gain and cardiovascular diseases.
5. Sugar and salt
Sugar is a sweet poison, because it contains pure high-calorie carbohydrates. After eating sugar your mouth is covered with a plaque that attracts bacteria. These bacteria will slowly destroy your tooth enamel.
Furthermore, sugar increases the glucose levels in your blood. Your body starts to generate more insulin, which can lead to diabetes in no time. The ready availability of sweet foods, and the frequency with which they are added to people's diets, is one of the most widespread reasons of obesity.
A person should eat around 10-15 grams of salt per day. Higher amounts disturb the water balance in the body, creating more stress for vessels, kidneys and the heart. Big fans of salty products are known to suffer from kidney failure and cardiovascular problems.
6. White bread
Muffins and white bread are sources of fast carbohydrates. Your body finds it impossible to completely process these, so it transforms them into fat tissue. Bearing in mind that manufacturers are adding various aroma intensifiers, pigments and preservative. Such products could also cause diseases of the digestive system, and cardiovascular problems.
7. Canned foods
Nutritionists claim that all canned foods are "dead foods". This is because they give us calories without offering any nutrients. High concentrations of salt, spices, preservatives, pigments, taste intensifiers and various additives increase a person's risk of developing numerous diseases throughout the body.
8. Processed dairy products
Modern yogurts, cottage cheeses and milk desserts contain virtually no natural milk. Instead they are rich in vegetable oils, thickeners, stabilizers, aroma intensifiers and emulsifiers. These dairy products can damage your stomach and pancreas, causing various allergic reactions.
9. Carbonated beverages
Carbonated drinks contain not only water, sugar and carbon dioxide, but also a full range of chemicals: preservatives, pigments, sour agents, sweeteners, flavoring agents and emulsifiers. Excessive consumption of such drinks can cause obesity, urinary tract disorders, kidney failure, calcium deficiency, gastritis and even peptic ulcer.
10. Packed juices
Look at the package. If you can't find "100% natural juice" listed, you can be sure that you are looking at a mix of concentrated juice with sugar, preservatives and pigments. This kind of juice can harm you just as much as the carbonated drinks mentioned above.
Here's the best advice for your personal nutrition planning: use only natural products. Even if you consume in moderation any of the aforementioned food items, be careful to ensure the nutritional compatibility, and monitor the quantities of such products in your entire diet.


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Bio-powders are sought after by foodstuff manufacturers as they can be used to boost the energy content of performance foods/feeds and of easily digestible fibre. This is because they are rich in sugars (carbohydrates) and cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose (fibres).
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That small raptor bursting out of a hidden perch and rocketing through your yard in pursuit of small birds is a Sharp-shinned Hawk. It shares the genus Accipiter with the Cooper's Hawk, a similar looking but slightly larger hunter. They are both uncommon residents of Edmonds and most of North America and they both hunt smaller birds. They cause much identification grief for birders because the two species can be difficult to distinguish.
In overhead flight, the Sharp-shinned Hawk is relatively easy to identify because the tip of its tail is like a straight edge (see fourth photo). The tail of a Cooper's Hawk is longer and rounded at the tip. The adult Sharp-shinned Hawk has a dark gray head and nape, the gray usually ending just below the eye. The adult Cooper's Hawk has a gray head but the gray does not extend below the eye and it is not on the nape of the neck. Its dark gray crown is referred to as the Cooper's cap. It shows well in the last photo, which is a small male Cooper's that I have included for comparison. Also notice that the legs of a Sharp-shinned Hawk are much thinner than those of a Cooper's Hawk.
While Edmonds is in a year-round range for the Sharp-shinned Hawk, it is the most migratory of the three Accipiters, breeding north to the tree line in Canada and Alaska and wintering as far south as Panama. This hawk tends to avoid open country, preferring mixed or coniferous forests, deciduous woodlands, thickets, and edges. It mostly stays out of sight so that it can more successfully ambush song birds.
Small birds, about the size of a sparrow up to the size of a robin, comprise the bulk of a Sharp-shinned Hawk's diet. It also consumes small numbers of rodents, bats, squirrels, snakes, frogs, lizards, and large insects. It hunts mostly by perching inside foliage and waiting for a small bird to approach or by approaching its prey through dense cover. With swift flight it then captures its prey in its talons. It will also hunt by flying rapidly through trees or low over the ground, threading its way among any obstacles and catching its prey by surprise.
In courtship, a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks may circle above the forest, calling. They both may spread their fluffy white undertail covert feathers in some courtship displays. The male may also fly high and dive steeply into the woods.The nest site is well concealed, high in a dense conifer in a forest or thick grove of trees. While both sexes bring nest materials, the female mostly builds the platform structure out of sticks and then lines it with twigs, grass, and strips of bark. Sometimes the nest is built on top of an old squirrel or crow nest.
The female incubates her four to five eggs for about a month. During this period the male brings her food and may sit on the eggs while she eats. Once the chicks hatch, the male continues to bring food, which the female feeds to the nestlings. After three to four weeks, the young will move out of the nest to nearby branches. They can fly at five to six weeks of age.
The Sharp-shinned Hawk is quiet, elusive, and nests in solitary pairs. It seeks dense cover for its nest to avoid becoming prey to the Northern Goshawk, the third North American Accipiter that mostly lives and hunts in mountain forests. Records are scarce on life expectancy but one banded Sharp-shinned Hawk lived to be 12 years of age. A group of any hawks has inspired a number of collective nouns, including boil, knot, spiraling, stream, and tower.
If you have bird feeders, it can be disturbing to see small song birds taken as prey by either the Sharp-shinned or Cooper's Hawk. It is, however, an opportunity to understand the role of these hawks in the food chain. They do little harm to small bird populations because they occur in lower numbers, produce fewer young, and breed less often than the smaller birds that they hunt. Most of their hunting occurs in places other than backyard feeding stations. If one continues to hunt in your yard, you can take the feeders down for a couple of weeks. The hawk will move on to more favorable hunting areas and the song birds will return once you re-hang the feeders.
The conservation status of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is that of low concern. Monitoring between 1966 and 2015 revealed a stable population. While there is little data on nesting success because this hawk is so solitary and elusive, population estimates have been made from yearly migration counts. The global population is approximately 700,000 birds, with 49 percent spending some part of the year in the U.S., 40 percent in Canada, and 14 percent in Mexico. As did other birds of prey, the Sharp-shinned Hawk suffered breeding failure when DDT was in use in North America. Some still have high levels of DDT in their bodies because some of the song birds they eat spend part of the year in South America where DDT is still in use. In this way the pesticide continues to spread up through the food chain. The Sharp-shinned Hawk is also vulnerable to habitat loss. Since it requires dense stands of trees for breeding, its future relies on preservation of wooded wilderness.
You can listen to a female flight call and a male song here: https://www.xeno-canto.org/354364.
— By Carol Riddell
Carol Riddell manages the bird education displays, on behalf of Pilchuck Audubon Society and Edmonds Parks & Recreation, at the Olympic Beach Visitor Station.


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Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France
The Society for Maternal Charity, a women-run organization, survived more than one hundred years through wars, revolutions, and changes of government. The group began because the large numbers of foundlings, abandoned due to poverty, were not only expensive for the State but had a very high mortality rate. The women's societies were viewed as better bargains than orphanages and an extension of the women's domestic sphere. Besides, France needed population for cannon fodder in its many wars.
The same dichotomous themes marked the Society's growth and demise as we see today: rich/poor, government/private, national/local, stay-at-home/working mothers, male/female, and resentment by the poor/blindness of the rich. The same hot button questions existed in the nineteenth century: the worthy poor versus the lazy hordes, married women versus single tarts, breastfeeding versus wet nurses, the question of whether women were positive influences in society to "clean up" messes and women as children.
Even after the French Revolution, women remained barred from politics and civic affairs. But from participation in these organizations, they gained valuable skills and leadership training. Many of the societies had large budgets and staff giving the women executive experience. The Society raised money, lobbied politicians, and ran formidable businesses. These women from the elite classes proved that women could do hard work by going into ghettos and experiencing situations they had never imagined, let alone encountered.
These groups originated many business principles that today we consider basic: accountability by detailed financial statements, transparency by annual published reports, and maintaining minutes of meetings. They understood that often the husband's interests didn't align with the wife's, and thus they gave the aid directly to the woman. Today, it is axiomatic in international aid that assistance should go to women, because they will spend it on the family while men may not.
The Society was eventually brought down by a perception that they were enforcing religious doctrine by insisting that the women have a religious marriage and enforcing morals such as that the recipients breastfeed and be "proper" women. The Society as a whole was faulted for relying on these religious precepts, though less than fifty percent of the organizations held these beliefs. Yet, the issue of the deserving versus undeserving poor is based on the impact of religion in political affairs. In reverse, the Bush Administration deliberately favored faith-based charities, as doing the job that government should not.
As France became more secular and organized, they recognized the potential power of civic organizations and tried to rein them in. They created model statutes and bylaws and required the Society to adopt them. When the Society refused, the funding stopped and the Society died.
Prior to the welfare state, all assistance was charity. States still question if it is a duty to provide for the poor. By demanding money from the state, the Society made the point that the State had responsibility to care for the poor. Christine Adams, the author of Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood, claims that these societies are the reason that France, as most of the European Union, has a much better welfare state with specific provisions for pregnant women and families, more generous vacations, health care, paternity leaves, etc. The women's Societies, women's work, should be given due credit.


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- Cang Xin is an artist and a curator.
PORTRAIT OF THE TIMES - 30 YEARS OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART (group)
EXHIBITION SYNOPSISAbout PORTRAIT OF THE TIMES - 30 YEARS OF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART
Elaboration on the Theme
Since the end of the 1970s, Chinese Contemporary Art has experienced 30 years of development of trials and hardships. From "85 New Wave" in the 1980s, international recognition in the 1990s, commercial success in the 2000s to today's overall prosperity, Chinese contemporary art as a newly arising cultural form has been recognized generally by the domestic and the international, the private and the official. However, 30 Years of development of contemporary art also reflects that China and Chinese have experienced huge changes during the special times. No matter China's integral economics and culture, or Chinese people's self cognition and social involvement, all these could be reflected by artists' works over these years. We hope that this exhibition could act as an entry point to generally define "portrait", not only show paintings on the theme of "portrait", but also present body-oriented works integrating sculpture, installation, video, photography, performance, and etc, demonstrate the significance of the theme at different levels in diversified ways, and make available the possibility of multi-faceted interpretation to the audience.
The exhibition will take the display of visual arts as the main clue, combine it with assortment of the domains of parallel culture and subculture, such as literature, film, drama, music, and etc, panoramically manifest the development course of Chinese contemporary art since the reform and opening up for more than 30 years, and cordially and rationally describe the transformation of the mental appearance of the Chinese people.
The theme of exhibition is Portrait of the Times - 30 Years of Contemporary Art, will open on August 17, 2013, and last for three months. This exhibition features about 115 artists (groups), and about 300 arts works.
Exhibition Structure
In terms of the participating artists' age, the difference in age is almost 50 years; in terms of the works' date of creation, the time span is more than 30 years. Strictly speaking, this exhibition is not a chronicle of contemporary Chinese portraits, but a presentation of thematic visual art especially made for the exhibition space in the Power Station of Art. The exhibition consists of 5 parts according to the actual situation of the exhibition space.
- Specific Human
"Specific human" reflects the self-awareness, from the abstract concept of "people" to the more independent and more individualized evolution of self- definition
- Social Identity
Emphasize the establishment of people's civic awareness, involvement in the society, and pursuit for more multiple values.
- Inner World
Probe into each individual's psychological world, and represent the complication of spiritual space and the vivid course of transition.
- Body Imagery
Embody another kind of elaboration on portrait in the means of materialistic narration of body through representing each parts of human body.
- Survival in the Future
Pay attention to the understanding and expression of relatively younger artists with completely new experiences of growth, and provide an open and indefinite space of expression.
Special Projects
1. Portrait of Dafen
This is a special project of this grand exhibition, nominating and inviting 60 professional painters from Dafen oil painting village, Longgang District, Shenzhen, to create self-portraits, which would be presented in the end section of the exhibition of "Portrait of the Times" in the form of group portrait. These painters are workers from the first line of culture industry in the Dafen village. Though working hard for various orders for many years, their own faces have never appeared on their own paintings, and they haven't shown their own works in large-scale professional exhibitions either. This is a trans-border attempt with equal spirit, thus, a professional art museum officially accepts portraits created by folk painters in a crucial academic project, and meanwhile exploits a whole new context for contemporary art with an interactive attitude.
2. Record of Small Events in 30 Years
In this exhibition, we invite New Weekly as the co-organizer to do this special project, making a small comprehensive review about the history of contemporary culture, taking the important events of visual art during 30 years as the main clue, integrating assortment of main categories of culture and art including literature, music, film, drama, and etc, panoramically presenting the development course of contemporary Chinese culture and art during 30 years after the reform and opening to the outside, narrating the transition of contemporary Chinese people's spiritual appearance in a sincere and rational tone.
3. China of Culture and Art
This is an interview-style documentary of 48 episodes planned and interviewed by Weng Ling, presenting interviews of celebrities of contemporary Chinese culture and art, and the interviewees include Cui Jian, Xu Bing, Zhang Xiaogang, Xu Jiang, Cai Guoqiang, Tan Dun, Ding Yi, and etc. Through interviews of representative figures in the contemporary art world for the last 30 years, the history of 30 years is presented to the audience in a more realistic way. This series of documentary was shown in the Travel Channel. The work shown in this exhibition is a complete version which has been newly edited, and will be played one by one continuously in a special space in the exhibition hall.
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Religious Liberty Day, May 24: More Testimony
May 24 is a fine day to celebrate Authentic Religious Liberty.
That's when, in 1689, William & Mary, new dual monarchs in England, signed into law the Toleration Act.
This law allowed Quakers to meet openly, without penalty, after 30years of persecution. And it respected Quaker scruples about taking oaths by permitting an unsworn declaration of loyalty to the Crown. It marked the dawn of religious liberty for them.
The Toleration Act also opened the doors for Baptists & many other dissenting churches. But its reach was limited: it did not include Catholics or Jews, or any non-trinitarian Christian. Those restrictions lasted in to the 1800s.
Nevertheless, the Toleration Act was a turning point toward authentic religious liberty, not only in England but in its dominions, including those in North America.
So May 24th is a perfect day to remember (and practice) real religious liberty.
And so is every other day.
In fact, 250 years later, Bayard Rustin, an activist African American Quaker, celebrated it by continuing the struggle.
Rustin: "I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon."
Bayard, there have been more ups and down since then. But I think it's been increasingly tough in recent years, and this year is really awful. Maybe it's better that you're not here to see it. But I'd sure appreciate your counsel.
Rustin: "I think the movement contributed to this nation a sense of universal freedom. Precisely because women saw our movement in the sixties, stimulated them to want their rights. The fact that students saw the movement of the sixties created a student movement in this country. The fact that the people were against the war in Vietnam, saw us go into the street and win, made it possible for them to have the courage to go into the street and win, and the lesson that I would like to see from this is, that we must now find a way to deal with the problem of full employment, and as surely as we were able to bring about the Civil Rights Act, the voter rights act–the Voting Rights Act, I mean the education act, and the housing act, so is it possible for all of us now to combine our forces in a coalition, including Catholic, Protestant, Jew and labor and blacks and Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans and all other minorities, to bring about the one thing that will bring peace internally to the United States. And that is that any man who wants a job, or any woman who wants a job, shall not be left unemployed."
There are glimpses of that, on a pretty cloudy horizon. How do we keep it going?
Rustin: "My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me."
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