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During her visit to Honduras last week, Queen Letizia of Spain was photographed in the same, sparkling black strapless cocktail dress that she wore to the Woman Awards in Madrid just a month ago. Big deal. Nice to see she's recycling the clothes. So what?
The 'so what' is that it was the self-same dress that saw the queen make herself the subject of super-skinny attention just a month ago. Her boniness was commented on in Spain, all over Europe and even in America. She was all skin and skeleton and, horribly, some photographs even captured how the zip of the dress dug into the under-padded flesh of her bony back.
Her thinness was not pretty and the attention was not flattering, with its modern-day undercurrent of pity mixed with envy. Look how thin she is, went the underlying message: Isn't it awful? Tell me how she does it, please. There was even a backlash to the commentary, with accusations of 'body-shaming' the 42-year-old former television presenter.
Because it's all body-shaming now, if you examine the whys and hows of a person's shape, fat or thin. Which is mind-boggling, really, in a selfie-mad culture in which people put their bodies up for scrutiny constantly.
Which is what Queen Letizia is doing, essentially, by publicly wearing that bone-baring black dress again. You could say it's a two fingers to the naysayers, but it's more than that. In a world where ordinary people are growing in girth steadily and only going in one direction -, and it's not slimmer - super-skinny has become the ultimate status symbol.
Super-skinny is how you stand apart as a person, no, a woman, of supreme status.
Queen Letizia is wearing that dress again because she's wearing her superiority by putting her skeleton on show.
Seeing someone like her that skinny mentally marries in our heads the willpower required to get that thin with wealth. It makes that degree of thinness something to which no ordinary person can aspire. It makes it the domain of the ultra-elite, and, seems to tell the brain of the ordinary Joe soap that there's no point even trying to get rid of that spare tyre.
We look at the likes of Letizia, it seems, and think that there's no point even trying to replicate these royal levels of skeletal.
She, and other super-skinny power players like her - think Victoria Beckham, Angelina Jolie, Amal Clooney - distract from their gauntness with huge hair and skilful make-up. And the rest of us distract ourselves from feelings of inadequacy in a packet of biscuits.
Amal Clooney is a case in point. As Amal Almuddin, before she met and married George Clooney, she had considerable status as a human rights lawyer of renown and something of a heavy-hitter. But there's no professional status that quite matches the way in which we regard movie stars as other-worldly creatures, so all that was to nothing when Amal became Mrs Clooney.
Once Amal became attached to George, she literally shrank. Always tall and slender and well turned-out, by her wedding day she was a slight version of herself, with oversized hair and teeth that suddenly seemed too big in her head.
Heading out to celebrate with family and friends the day after her Italian wedding, Amal wore a white sleeveless top and wide-legged trousers through which her hip bones protruded and her legs seemed non-existent inside the fabric. And a wide-brimmed hat only accentuated the fact that she was swamped like a stick under all that status-screaming style and skinniness.
The intense media scrutiny that comes with being George Clooney's wife has been blamed for Amal's thinness, which has only increased since her marriage. Cameras are pointed at her all the time, therefore she feels pressure to be pencil thin, but it's not like she wasn't thin before. Now she's just super thin. It's like lawyer-thin was one thing, but once you're proper A-list, you have to be Mrs Ultimate Clotheshorse Clooney.
You could say that the woman's under horrible pressure to be super-thin, but to live up to what or whom? Even in Hollywood, there are few enough women as thin as Amal, but, interestingly, the only one to match her for matchstickness is the Tinseltown queen of all she surveys, Angelina.
Further, much like Letizia, if Amal's scrawniness was purely a thing to be pitied, why on earth would she put it so on show? Crop tops, jeans with her hipbones jutting above the waistband, strapless dresses that are all shoulder blades, these are Amal's outfits of choice, outfits that announce her exaggeration fatless-ness.
Of course, Victoria Beckham is the queen of it and, in her own, unsmiling way, she has laid the ground for the super-skinny elite. She has taken the adage that you can't be too rich or too thin to a whole new level. At least Wallis Simpson, who first coined it, was a woman who knew how to have fun. This lot have joylessness in their very visible bones.
The super-skinny undoubtedly feel light-headed with hunger to match their elevated sense of power, while everyone else feels podgy by comparison. And we're all body-shamed as result.
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PRX Raises $2.7 million from Corporation for Public Broadcasting, MacArthur Foundation, and Ford Foundation
Plans expansion of distribution platform, content ventures, and mobile applications
Cambridge, MA (September 8, 2010) – Public Radio Exchange (PRX Inc.) has raised $2.7 million from three top investors in public media's digital transition. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Ford Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation have committed multi-year funding to PRX – a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization.
"This round of support accelerates PRX's momentum as the field's leading innovator and collaborator," said Jake Shapiro, CEO of PRX. "We are embarking on a strategic expansion of our services to meet the extraordinary needs and opportunities in the transformation of journalism and media."
PRX operates public media's largest open distribution marketplace http://www.prx.org – offering tens of thousands of audio programs for broadcast and digital use, clearing rights and managing royalties for over 2,000 independent producers and stations. Signature programs from PRX include The Moth Radio Hour, Sound Opinions, State of the Re:Union, Snap Judgment, and the Vinyl Cafe.
PRX showcases creative stories from these programs and other top talent on REMIX – a new national channel available on XM 136 and coming soon as a broadcast, HD, mobile, and Internet service.
PRX connects content and distribution as the developer of the popular Public Radio Player and This American Life iPhone apps, with Android versions in development. PRX recently launched the WBUR Boston app, leading the rollout of PRX's forthcoming mobile app platform, designed to make robust app development more accessible to a growing number of stations and producers.
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"PRX provides excellent leadership in the use of digital media in a multiple platform world and in forging new public-purpose services for new audiences," said CPB's Bruce Theriault, Senior Vice President for Radio. "PRX is one of the most innovative and collaborative forces in public media and CPB is pleased to provide multiyear funding along with the Ford and McArthur Foundations to support their work."
CPB has awarded a grant of $1.5 million over two years for PRX, and has previously supported PRX with start-up, operating, and project grants.
"PRX has been a pioneer in developing creative approaches to delivering audio documentaries on important subjects to the public," said Elspeth Revere, Vice President of the General Program at the MacArthur Foundation. "We see PRX as a leader in bringing high-quality and informative programs to new audiences using a changing set of technological tools. This is key to MacArthur's goal of providing useful information to audiences in engaging formats to help them fulfill their roles as citizens."
The MacArthur Foundation awarded a grant of $900,000 over three years to PRX. In 2008, PRX received the prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
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The Ford Foundation awarded a one-year $300,000 grant to PRX, and previously included PRX in the five-year initiative, "Global Perspectives in a Digital Age: Transforming Public Service Media."
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PRX employs 12 people based principally at its offices in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. In addition to philanthropic support, PRX generates revenue from content distribution and licensing, web and mobile advertising, membership fees, and individual donations.
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PRX is an innovation lab for a number of public media projects including Generation PRX – a network and resource center for youth media groups; the Public Radio Player – an iPhone and Android application aggregating local station streams and on-demand content; and REMIX – a national channel featuring diverse stories from and beyond the PRX content catalog.
In June 2010 PRX was announced as a winner of the Knight Foundation's News Challenge for StoryExchange – an open source collaboration with crowdfunding news startup Spot.us.
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My Sacred Ballot
By Roland Bankole Marke, Florida, USA.
My right to vote symbolizes the sacred-Cow.
As this whispering intuition blooms wisdom
I abhor carved tribalism added into package
Seem sheepish to graze on a bare emotion
Sound reasoning goads the plausible choice.
My ballot's like the great American Express:
Unique, priceless, commands ideal strength
And authority to hire a dictator like a patriot:
Smooth cheer-leader eulogizes sacred right;
Folly's a lonely nuisance roaming aimlessly.
As birth certificate, right as might's inalienable
Spineless infidel applauds the sneaky despot:
Shaming true caring patriot in towing the line,
Or denied franchise sucks up all that oxygen.
Destiny's map-quest will consolidate freedom.
Roland Bankole Marke © 2012
Roland Bankole Marke is the deputy editor of The Patriotic Vanguard and a widely published author and freelance writer.


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Clinical studies show that around 10% of American adults demonstrate symptoms of a personality disorder. If you have consistently troubled relationships with friends, co-workers, and family, and exhibit behaviors outside of social norms, contact Mindia Gabichvadze, PsyD, to schedule an appointment at his private practice in Beverly Hills, California. Call Dr. Mindia or make an appointment online today.
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After seeing Take Shelter, I really need to re-evaluate my Best of 2011 List. Everything about this movie is unbelievably high quality and features two of the best performances in movies this past year. Michael Shannon gives an amazing performance that is easily top 3 of last year and Jessica Chastain continues her incredible year after performing in The Help and The Tree of Life. For such a low budget movie this is packed with quality special effects and is also shot in a really high quality manner. This movie is a stark portrayal of mental illness and the movie really sucks you in to this one man's quest to find out what is wrong with himself and fix it.
Michael Shannon fully engrosses himself in this role and you believe that he is really going through this horrific ordeal. His performance is impeccable, for every moment of the movie you believe that he is this man experiencing schizophrenia. The way his character morphs over the course of the film is just incredible. He goes from being a loving family man to being this incredibly paranoid individual experiencing these overly vivid nightmare and visions. You see everything as he sees it and at points you don't know if it is mental illness or actual visions of an upcoming catastrophe. This movie could have easily been a disaster but Shannon's portrayal keeps the movie grounded and allows the movie to flourish.
This is an absolute must watch for movie fans. Every aspect of the movie is just fantastic and was easily one of the best movies of 2011. Shannon was robbed this award season and it is a disgrace that he was not nominated for any major awards. This is also a movie that needed to be nominated for every major award as well. It is sad that this move was criminally overlooked by everyone this award season. I hope this movie allows Shannon to do more and more larger scale roles because he has certainly paid his dues to this point in his career. This is a 10/10 and was one of the top 3 movies of 2011.


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The rising affluence of China's middle class has proved to be a promising opportunity for Australian wine producers. However, in order to capitalise on the boom, Australia should concentrate on producing wine for the premium end of the market, according to the National Australia Bank.
Dean Person, NAB's head of industry analysis said that although the premium market in China was in its infancy, there is a huge potential for substantial growth.
"As China's middle class continues to grow, so too should its demand for more premium products, including quality vintages that can't be produced en masse locally," said Pearson.
Imports of wines from EU countries has decreased sharply this year, according to Customs General Administration of China. It was estimated that a total of 20.61 million litres of wine were imported from EU this year, down by 27.9% compared with the same period last year.
However, import rates from Chile, Australia, the US, New Zealand and other non–EU countries is growing significantly. Especially Chile and Australia, which have the advantage of lower tariffs, and so are expanding market share rapidly in China.
I have been saying this for years! Living in China gave me much insight into the "real" market. We could easily ruin a good thing by charging in and doing what we did in the USA and UK. I hope the damage isn't already done. Many Chinese people think Australian wine can't be any good because its too cheap. Stop asking grape growers for cheaper prices so you can supply cheaper juice- it's insane. Forget making up new dodgy brands and grow Brand Australia. China is already being dumped upon by Chile and Argentina and so on. We can't compete down at those prices so walk away, leave it to those who can and keep pushing our much bigger message of blue skies, clean beaches, friendly people in the same time zone, luxury lifestyle image and prestigious wines to match. Think of the waves of Australian tourism growth borne from this once in a lifetime strategy. The next generation of Chinese wine lovers will already have brand loyalty for Australian wines and destinations in mind, long before they book their tickets. It takes guts to sell high end wine but one A on my report card is worth a million times more than five Ds.
And make sure we don't dump high quality wines on the Chinese at budget prices and continue to rip off our local market. It can backfire – this week I had the pleasure of taking some China residents who had come to see where their wine was made around the Barossa – they were disappointed that they can buy Barossa wines cheaper in China than they are at Cellar Door here!
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Bad Times at the El Royale is about a group of individuals, each hiding something under a veil of deception, who meet at the titular Hotel. A singer, a Priest, a Southern criminal and a vacuum salesman are among the sketchy individuals who gravitate to the El Royale. In a story taking place on both sides of the border between California and Nevada, Bad Times presents a powder keg, one filled with chaos that just needs a one small match to ignite it. The place has dark history, and hell is going to break loose when the truth comes out.
I love Drew Goddard. He is not the most famous writer/director working in Hollywood when compared to say… Christopher Nolan – but he always delivers solid films. Cabin in the Woods was a brilliant comedic take on horror genre tropes and The Martian was an enjoyable sci-fi film about survival. Goddard's new film, Bad Times at the El Royale is an entertaining and suspenseful crime thriller. It is not perfect and the script has some noticeable flaws, but that does not make the film any less enjoyable. Goddard's masterful direction, excellent score and many twists, Bad Times keeps its audience on their toes up until the very end.
Bad Times at the El Royale is first and foremost a suspense film that keeps the audience guessing. Each character in the film is hiding behind a charade or is keeping their motivations a secret, and Goddard uses a non-linear structure for the story that slowly reveals the truth behind every lie. The startling revelations combined with a 'no-one is safe' approach keeps the audience sitting on the edge of their seats, unable to anticipate what will happen next. It also helps that Goddard set his neo-noir tale in an empty motel seemingly removed from the world, adding another layer of unease to the well directed film.
Masterfully shot, Goddard's long takes and tracking shots – as well as beautiful set design – makes Bad Times more than just easy on the eyes. The film opens with a wonderful prologue where the camera never moves but Goddard instead uses the placement of characters and editing to show the passage of time. It is a clear and entertaining scene that slowly builds audience anticipation for the main story by establishing the first of many mysteries.
The score and timely music selections add a whimsical nature to the dark film which helps balance the more violent moments with elements of dark comedy. Michael Giacchino, who has scored some of the most popular and well received blockbuster films of the last decade, provides a score that only heightens the tension in the story. When combined with Goddard's camera movements and the beautiful set design, it creates a final product that almost feels like the child of Alfred Hitchcock.
The characters are not all fully fleshed out, but the audience is given just enough information that they can relate to most of the characters who find themselves in a perilous situation, though this is largely due to the excellent performances. Featuring an ensemble cast of actors, each gives an excellent performance even if their character isn't more than just an archetype. John Hamm gives an incredible performance that is the most enjoyable part of the first act. Playing a vacuum cleaner sales man who isn't on the up and up, Hamm plays the two sides to the character excellently.
Jeff Bridges is the broken old man in this film – a priest who is at the El Royale for a purpose, even if it seems like a mid-road trip stop. His performance brings out the pathos in Goddard's script and allows the audience to feel for a character who is not exactly the best person you could ever meet. The most significant and rewarding arc is given to his character, which works very well. Cynthia Erivo plays one of the least fleshed out characters in the film, but provides one of the best performances in the film. A singer trying to take control of her own life, Erivo brings more depth to the role than what is written in the script. Dakota Johnson's the southern criminal on the run, with a difficult past behind her that results in a guarded and mistrusting individual. Johnson nails the role with a calm, yet aggressive demeanor that captures the troubled backstory in Goddard's script. Her character, Emily Summerspring, is undoubtedly one of the most compelling characters in the film. Chris Hemsworth's character has very little depth and is littered with clichés, but the actors' inherent charisma allows for Billy Lee to become an entertaining antagonistic force.
By far the film's biggest flaw is how it wants to make the El Royale a character in the film, yet fails for the most part. When being introduced to the motel a brief history is given, and as the film progresses the story slowly reveals the seedier aspects of the Royale. Essentially this is a place the both produces and attracts evil, but the place never truly stands out the way it should. In Kubrick's seminal work, The Shining (which I am by no means comparing this film to in full), the Overlook becomes a character as its evil influence brings out the worst in Jack Nicholson's character. The place is just as much a villain as Jack Torrance, but the same cannot be said of the El Royale in Bad Times. A greater emphasis on the characters instead of the location would have probably been a better direction to take.
A mix of tragedy and positive life changing moments, Bad Times at the El Royale is one of the most enjoyable films I have seen all year and is definitely worth a second viewing. With great technical precision, an amazing cast and more thrills than most films in the genre – Bad Times is a highly recommended viewing experience.
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It's been a decade now since Buku-Larrnggay Mulka and Bill Gregory presented Buwayak: Invisibility at the Annandale Galleries in Sydney, an exhibition that heralded an extraordinary new direction in painting from Yirrkala. If you look at Yolngu painting from just a few years either side of 2003, you'll be immediately struck by the difference in styles.
In the 2001 NATSIAA, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka was represented by four artists: Gawirrin Gumana, Wolpa Wanambi, Bakulangay Marawili, and Dhukal Wirrpanda. Although each artist has a recognizable, personal style, the paintings as a whole are representative of the work that had been produced at the art centre for years, if not decades. Against a geometric field based on clan designs, ancestral narratives and totems played in strong figurative style. Black and red ochres gave the works a strong, dark cast.
Go back a few years earlier to the Saltwater collection in which Yolngu asserted their rights to the sea. The works are again typical of much painting that had preceded them, although looking at the catalog now with the benefit of hindsight, I can already discern in Galuma Maymurru's Yindiwirryun at Djarrakpi and Djamabawa Marawili's Baraltja the beginnings of the style of buwayak, in which the representational elements, through manipulation of both design and color, merge and disappear into the clan designs. (The Saltwater work of Wanyubi Marika, the third artist included in Buwayak, adumbrates his later style to a much lesser degree.)
In the years since, the radical innovations of buwayak have come to alter the styles of art-making in Yirrkala, and Gregory's Annandale Galleries have continued to be a locus for the introduction of often surprising new developments. Djambawa Marawili has gone on to become an elder statesman of Yolngu painting while continuing to experiment with form and design. In 2006, the Young Guns exhibition showcased the early incised larrakitj by Guny'bi Ganambarr that signaled the artist's first innovations with traditional formats. Also in that show, Yinimala Gumana presented a series of bark paintings in which conventional representations of mangrove leaves became the basis for work that manifested a new take on the geometry of clan designs.
in 2008, Wanyubi Marika's surprising reinterpretations of the Yalangbara story picked up that thread with a series of designs based on the image of the surface of the sea the moment after the Djang'kau's paddles were lifted from the water. These paintings were paired with Young Guns II, in which Ganambarr displayed his radical double-sided bark paintings and Dhurrumuwuy Marika's Rulyapa barks presaged a new era of over-all design that once again altered the shape of geometry in Yolngu painting. It has been a heady decade and one that has changed the face of Yolngu art from Yirrkala decisively.
So now it's 2013: the fiftieth anniversary year of the presentation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions in Parliament, the most dramatic gesture in the Yolngu attempt to defeat the invasion of their country by Nabalco and the bauxite mine. Of course, the petition was largely ignored at the time, and the subsequent legal action in Milurrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth of Australia defeated. The mine came to Yolngu lands, transforming the landscape, carving away chunks of country to be transported along tens of kilmeters of conveyor belts to processing plants on the coastline.
The mine also scattered many of the people who were living at Yirrkala back to their homelands, either to escape the pernicious influences of the incomers, or to defend their country against further incursion. The production of art became an important part of the economy of the outstations, allowing Yolngu to have access to boats and fuel, to the facilities at the Yirrkala Mission, and to their now dispersed fellows. In some ways, the art history we have witnessed growing, changing, and thriving at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka is a direct response to the presence of the mine, which the Bark Petitions were not able to avert.
And yet the Bark Petitions sparked more than the development of the arts industry. More crucially, they laid the framework for the legal struggles that, along with the Gurindji and the Pintupi insistence on returning to their homelands, resulted in the passage of the first land rights legislation. It is the start of that struggle, and the celebration of its accomplishments, that have been celebrated in this fiftieth-anniversary year of 2013.
At the end of August, down in Sydney, Annandale Galleries closed the doors on another remarkable show of work from Yirrkala, one that I believe is as much a gamechanger as any we have seen to date, and one which has special significance to the celebrations of the Bark Petitions.
The exhibition was titled Found. The name derives from the materials that were used in the production of the artworks: found objects, often discarded from the apparatus of the mine or the construction that has taken place around its operations. There are works painted on sections of the rubber conveyor belts that transport the bauxite to the processing center in Nhulunbuy. There are paintings on discarded louvers from the windows and doors of houses. There are paintings on MDF board, on glass and perspex scavenged from the detritus scattered across Yolngu lands. There is a massive dugong, over five feet long, fashioned from cast-off chicken wire; in the installation it floated above the other works in the gallery like a tutelary spirit (see the image at the end of this post).
The Dugong is the work of Guny'bi Ganambarr, who is himself something of a tutelary spirit for the exhibition, for his continuing innovations in form have inspired much of the experimentation evident here. Even his larrkitj represent startling departures from the norms of the genre: in Gangan he leaves large sections of the trunk painted only with red ochre. The depiction of the waves of the bay at Garraparra runs lengthwise down a surface that has not been smoothed out but retains the contours of the tree, adding a three-dimensional physical correlate to the zigzag pattern that is normally laid out horizontally to simulate the choppy waters of the saltwater current. His experiments with incised barks have now extended to cut-outs in sheet metal in Ngaymil Font that suggest industrial templates of sacred designs.
Djirrirra Wunungmurra contributed a number of new variations on the Yukuwa designs that have garnered her so much praise and recognition in recent years, though these are painted on manufactured wooden boards and MDF rather than on traditional bark supports. She has a pair of boards in which the leaves of the yukuwa yam plant that dominate her familiar designs morph Escher-like into the forms of Ngerrk, the sulphur crested cockatoo who is the harbinger of death; the juxtaposition of these symbols of vitality and morbidity is shiveringly eerie.
There is a single piece by Wukun Wanambi included here, Iron Fish. It takes the familiar iconography of his paintings of fish swirling and leaping around the sacred rock of Bamurrungu in Trial Bay and transposes it onto a sheet of corrugated iron. Like Guny'bi Ganambarr's Garraparra larrakitj, the undulations of the iron mimic the turbulence of the waters in which the fish swim. The Wanambi family has been transforming and abstracting those fish in recent years into swirling triangles, and that transformation continues apace in works by Wukun's younger brother Yalanba and elder sister Ralwurrandji.
Yalanba's etched and painted works on perspex are startling, especially Trial Bay. One can almost hear echoes of desert painting in this piece, with its translucent dotted background designs and graceful, flowing, and spare depiction of the three rocks in Trial Bay, represented by painted ochre circles connected by sinuous cross-hatched lines.
Ralwurrandji's pieces, several small works on glass and perspex louvers and larger works on discarded perspex, glass, laminate board, and fragments of conveyor belts are even more dramatic in their designs. The small works experiment with strong diagonals or break the field up into panels that recall the division of large barks into segments of ancestral stories (as in the Yirrkala Church Panels as well as in much bark painting in the decades after their creation). But the geometry of these designs is foregrounded and looks very little like conventional clan configurations. It feels as though a new genre of invisibility, of buwayak, pervades these paintings.
The bold geometric circles and chevrons (I can't help but think of Kenneth Noland's experiments in the 1960s) on Ralwurrandji's larger works offer new manifestations of ancestral power. The effect here seems to be generated not so much by the brilliance of the cross-hatching as described by Howard Morphy in his seminal article "From Dull to Brilliant: the aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu" (Man, vol. 21, no 1, 1989). Rather it is the bold totality of the designs and their execution on the strange materials that creates the effect.
Ralwurrandji's glass and perspex pieces, like Yalanba's, add yet another element to the way in which the new materials support the showing forth of the ancestral. And here I am about to turn to western art history once again, not to suggest influence, but more to speculate on a case of convergent evolution, the independent evolution of similar features in different species that informs the squid's eye and the bat's wing. Especially noticeable in the catalog photographs of two works entitled Bamurrungu is the way in which light passing through the perspex casts an image of the sacred design on the wall behind the piece. In just such a way did the stained glass windows of medieval cathedrals cause the glory of God's light to cast the images of saints upon the bodies of worshippers in multi-colored splendor, affirming the potential for holiness in all men. Are these, indeed, new church panels from Yirrkala?
And that thought brings me full circle, back to 1963. In his catalog essay, Will Stubbs quotes the directive set forth by Gawirrin Gumana: "If you paint the land you must use the land." As Stubbs glosses this, "Miny'tji or sacred patterns belonging to the clan estates must be made by hand using the natural materials sourced from the land itself."
Sourced from the land itself. Found. What I see in this exhibition is another assertion of fifty years of Yolngu Power, of an undeniable claim over the land. But now Yolngu have gone one step further and laid claim to the introduced materials that carpet their country, to the conveyor belts and the cast-off boards. (And there are echoes of the Pintupi here again.) Yolngu country has changed greatly since 1963, and yet Yolngu continue to assert their connection to their country and now proclaim their ability to transform the white man's transformation, to take what has been carelessly cast aside and create objects of spiritual power and significance from them. As beautiful as these works are, it is this assertion that makes this show such a gamechanger. Guny'bi Ganambarr started showing his recycled industrial material works two years ago at Annandale; Yalanba's etched glass appeared eighteen months ago in the March 2012 Rising Stars exhibition at Outstation Gallery. But massed together in this anniversary year, the political impact of these artistic choices is inescapable. Collectively these works say that Yolngu will not be constrained; moreover, they will prevail over the incursions on their land. A finer demonstration of the resilience of culture and its capacity to change and at the same time maintain its essence would be hard to imagine.


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Following Sony's new worldwide policy restricting certain sexual themes on PlayStation consoles, the company is seemingly finally ready to discuss the new policy.
The news comes via a new change.org petition via Marvelous Entertainment affiliate and partner Igrasil Studio, which has reached nearly 10,000 signatures – grabbing the attention for Sony to finally open up discussion on the new censorship policy.
The developer posted the update confirming they're meeting with Sony to discuss the policy:
Hello friends, I'm about to talk with Sony UK next week, they can't fix the problem since they're not authorized to change something but they're able to get in touch with the HQ at least.
I'll let them know what the problem is and why its kinda important for their future. Especially for the PS5 or similar products if they want to win the next console race again
This sounds like it will obviously be a private meeting, however we'll report on anything to come from it. Recently, Sony Japan boss Atsushi Morita touched upon the new policy, noting it was to enact "global standards" for the company.
This new policy from Sony has been affecting mostly Japanese games, both internationally and within Japan. Publisher PQube canceled the western release for Omega Labyrinth Z, and Marvelous removed a reoccurring feature in Senran Kagura Re:Newal. Marvelous boss Kenichiro Takaki noted the policies are prolonging their development time, as they're trying to work with them.
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Rougned Odor has been banned for eight games and fined $5,000 after his brawl with José Bautista on Sunday, MLB confirmed on Tuesday. Bautista has been suspended for one game.
Major League Baseball chief baseball officer Joe Torre met with MLB's senior vice president of standards and on-field operations Joe Garagiola Jr., on Monday and had said they hoped to have an announcement by Tuesday.
Odor said he expected to be suspended, but had no regrets about the punch.
The Astros play the Rangers in a three-game series this weekend at Minute Maid Park. If Odor appeals the suspension, he likely would still be able to play against the Astros.
A feud simmering since Bautista's bat flip in last year's American League Division Series boiled over into a wild brawl that ultimately triggered six of the eight ejections in the Rangers' 7-6 victory. After Bautista was hit by a pitch, he slid hard into second to break up a double play against Odor. That's what triggered Odor's punch, which landed flush on Bautista's jaw.
A total of 14 players and staff members from the Rangers and Blue Jays will face discipline for the incident.
Blue Jays pitcher Jesse Chavez was suspended three games for intentionally throwing at Prince Fielder. Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus was suspended one game for his aggressive actions during the incident and Bautista was suspended for his actions.
Andrus has opted not to appeal and will serve his one-game suspension tonight against Oakland.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was suspended three games and Toronto first-base coach Tim Leiper received a one-game suspension.


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If Google can sometimes seem like a mind-reading magical genie, Databases are more like that persnickety substitute teacher who insists you ask "May I" instead of "Can I go to the restroom?" But don't let that scare you away! Although databases might be a little bit more particular about how you enter your searches, once you become familiar with a few key features, you'll be able to pull up dozens of relevant, credible, academic articles in far less time than it would take to sift through millions of questionable Google results.
So first, let's cover the basics of Boolean logic. All this means is that there are three main options for connecting the keywords in your search – AND, OR, & NOT. If you don't specify, the default for most databases, as well as Google, is to insert an invisible AND. This means that any results retrieved should contain all of the words you typed in the search box. That makes sense, but sometimes it's helpful to include words that don't necessarily need to be in every result or even words that you don't want to see, and that's where OR and NOT come in.
Use OR to look for all the possible synonyms other writers might use to describe your concept in a single search. Because only one of the grouped terms needs to appear in each document returned, using OR in your search will increase the number of results. If one of your search terms has an alternate meaning or if there's some other word or idea that keeps turning up and throwing off your results, you can tell the database to exclude it by adding it to your search string with NOT in front of it. This will give you fewer, but hopefully more relevant, results.
Next up, you may have noticed that I have been using quotation marks around terms like "united states" and "higher education." Quotes are useful when searching for compound phrases, exact quotes, or names. This tells the search engine to look for these words only exactly as you have entered them. It will also ensure that these words are treated as a single term when you combine them using search operators like AND or OR. Looking up a song by its lyrics is one every day example of how quotation marks can help you find exactly what you're looking for.
Beyond using different combinations of keywords to adjust your results, it is also possible to specify where in each document you'd like those keywords to appear, like as the author, the title, or in the abstract. Each of those different sections of a document is referred to as a field, and you'll usually find a drop down menu of all the possible fields to search.
Once you find a few good keywords and set up a search that is giving you some relevant results, you can start to narrow down your number of documents by using a few post-search limiters. You can set a date range, focus just on articles from scholarly publications, browse subject terms, and more. As an aside, the full-text check box might seem tempting but it actually might cost you time in the end – just because full-text is not available in one database doesn't mean that we might not have it elsewhere – so use the article linker button instead to check.
Various databases will look a bit different, but most have many of the same options, so don't be afraid to poke around and see what's available. If you're ever unsure of what a feature does, look for a help icon or just test it out and see what happens to your results.
All of the different options on database search screens can seem a little overwhelming at first, but once you get familiar with a few of them, you'll have the power to summon relevant, quality research to your fingertips. But remember, database research is a multi-step process – even advanced researchers have to go through trial and error to find a search strategy that works, so if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Find a list of all of the databases that Touro subscribes to, or use the drop down menu to view them grouped by subject, to get started! For more help with library research, don't forget to check out the Student Services page.
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Yeung Sum (楊森) (born November 22, 1947 in Guangzhou, Guangdong with family root in Zhencheng, Guangdong) is the second Chairman (2002-2004) of the Democratic Party (DP), a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong. He is a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), elected by direct election from the Geographical Constituency of Hong Kong Island. He is a lecturer in the University of Hong Kong. - wikipedia
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How to create a bespoke exhibition design
Creating a bespoke exhibition design is one of the most important parts of ensuring a successful exhibition. When you are in such close proximity to direct competitors you need a really unique, well thought out stand to ensure you are the one clients remember. At Envisage all of our exhibition stands are bespoke. With each new project, we always take the time to get to know our client, their objectives and their brand. This is key to our philosophy and the way we work, and key to our success. Here we outline how we create a bespoke concept every time.
Understanding the event objectives
Having a clear set of objectives is key to many aspects of any exhibition plan. It is equally as important when considering the bespoke exhibition design. Some clients may wish to meet with current customers at an exhibition. In this case, it is important for there to be an easily accessible and welcoming seating or meeting area within the stand. Some clients may wish to build brand awareness. To achieve this objective, it is key that the stand has some experiential features. Creating a brand experience using the senses will ensure the customers leave with an overall "feel" for the brand.
When creating a bespoke exhibition design, these objectives can dictate the unique aspects of the stand. They can also be used to develop a basic plan for the layout of the stand.
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Our design process always starts with the brand. That's how we're able to create an engaging brand experience for each and every client we work alongside. Using the brand colour pallet, themes and ideas, and applying this to all 5 senses, we create an all-encompassing brand experience.
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Who are the core customers? What kind of people will be attending the event? Carefully considering your target audience is key to any bespoke exhibition design. If you know that your customers will be using laptops or mobile phones throughout the day you could embed charging points into your hospitality area. If your target audiences are very socially connected, then using a twitter wall could encourage tweets about your stand. If clients will be using phones often consider various methods of data capture.
Consideration of stand location
A mistake many exhibitors make is not considering where their stand is located when creating their exhibition stand design. The location of a stand within any exhibition is key to its design. The flow of traffic, proximity to entrance/exit/toilets/food outlets can all have an impact on the way your stand should look. If you are tucked away in a quiet corner, then having a stand which is very open and inviting can help to combat any losses you may get from being slightly hidden. You should make the most use of the stands perimeter and aim to guide people into the space. If you have a very large, busy, central location then using boxed in areas for meetings could help to combat noise. It may also be beneficial to have a central refreshments area encourages people onto the stand.
Attending a show prior to exhibiting is a key to understanding the venue and flow. Always try to attend a show at least once before planning your stand as there may be things which cannot be seen from a plan.
Considering new innovations
Creating something that is truly bespoke means always innovating and applying new ideas and technologies. This can be as simple as applying something to a stand that is normally applied elsewhere. For example, having a musician playing a live instrument within the stand. Or it can mean being at the forefront of new technological developments. Creating a new augmented reality game for your stand. Either way new ideas are important for the bespoke element of the stand design.
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Understanding who will be manning the stand and where your man power will be located must be considered within the design stages. If the plan is to have 1 person manning the stand then it should be relatively open planned. The whole area should be easily visible for that one person so they don't miss an opportunity to talk to a passer-by. If the plan is to have 10 sales people meeting with clients, then a number of small 'break out' rooms would help to encourage one to one conversations.
New technology is always something we consider right from the planning stages of an exhibition. What kind of technology is appropriate and where would it be most effective? Do we want big projection walls with videos running or would tablets for data capture be more suited? These are all things that need to be considered in the exhibition design planning stages. They also link back to your objectives and target audience.
Planning a bespoke exhibition design is no easy task. At Envisage we have over 40 years of experience in designing, building and managing exhibition stands. This is why so many top brands choose us to create a brand experience for them. For more information or for a design brief please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Though there are federal laws that govern certain activities at a national level, the majority of traffic and insurance legislation is decided at state level. Here is some information about insurance requirements for the state of Alaska, as well as some statistics and a few interesting traffic facts.
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A traumatic impact acutely injures the brain by mechanical forces of shear strains and deformation in the form of a shockwave (e.g., as in a blast injury). Head trauma patients often suffer cognitive and psychological deficits without visible wounds. There is an unmet need for surrogate biochemical markers that could be measured in the patient's brain fluids to signal that an injury to the central nervous system had occurred. Such biomarkers would be helpful to diagnose patients rapidly and unambiguously and to prevent exposure to a potential catastrophic repeated impact. The work proposed here addresses this basic need for a biomarker of neural injury. By using a well characterized in vitro injury model, we will determine the protein release of human astrocytes to mechanical trauma and identify an astrocyte signature of the proteins that are found in trauma patient's cerebrospinal fluids (CSF). Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the brain, they respond to any kind of insult, support nerve cells and could therefore be considered as the 'bodyguards'of the brain. We will use human astrocytes for translational relevance. The simple mechanical trauma culture model uses a controlled pressure pulse that abruptly stretches astrocytes grown on deformable dishes and causes widespread and reproducible injuries. The mechanical insult leads to cell death and damage in the form of pores in the cells'membrane that can be repaired or cause death later on. In addition, the mechanical stimulus also activates astrocytes to become reactive. We will document their reactivity by showing activation of a transcription factor and documenting shape changes and enlargement using time-lapse movies, staining and quantitative imaging techniques. The cells release proteins into the fluids that we will analyze. Proteins that are markedly altered in the fluid of traumatized astrocytes will be identified by using a proteomic approach. We will also compare differences between protein profiles from cells that received a mild versus those that got a severe pressure pulse. The identified proteins and their profiles of change will be related to the extent of membrane damage and cell death that we also measure in the injured cells. Chosen candidates for biomarkers released from traumatized astrocytes in the cultures will then be detected in the CSF of head trauma patients using a unique mass spectrometry method. This quantitative analytical approach is new to the neurotrauma field and does not require the availability of antibodies. We will establish this approach to detect and quantify candidate trauma markers in injured and non-injured patients'brain fluids to show an astrocyte signature of neurotrauma in a fluid that is regularly sampled in the clinical setting to relieve head pressure. This work will help to set the technical groundwork for the future development of diagnostic tools for traumatic brain injury.
Neurotrauma encompasses patients with a range of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries including soldiers with blast inflicted injury, infants with the often undiagnosed shaken baby syndrome and athletes exposed to repeated concussions but their wounds are often invisible in the clinic. There is an unmet need for reliable surrogate biochemical markers for neurotrauma to rapidly diagnose whether an injury to the central nervous system has occurred. This proposal addresses this need with a unique approach by combining a simple trauma model in a dish with protein-based screening tools that are new to the neurotrauma field and will provide new candidates for neurotrauma biomarkers that are released by astrocytes, the 'bodyguards of the brain'.
|Levine, Jaclynn; Kwon, Eunice; Paez, Pablo et al. (2016) Traumatically injured astrocytes release a proteomic signature modulated by STAT3-dependent cell survival. Glia 64:668-94
|Wanner, Ina-Beate (2012) An in vitro trauma model to study rodent and human astrocyte reactivity. Methods Mol Biol 814:189-219


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First DECISIVE demonstration site in Lyon
After three years of numerous experiments, tests, and careful adjustments followed by the delivery of the tailor-made technology, the time had come to unveil the first of the two DECISIVE demonstration sites. Thanks to the commitment of the project's research institutes, universities, private companies, as well as the active involvement of local stakeholders, Centre de Formation et de Promotion Horticole was able to welcome everyone interested in seeing what the DECISIVE solution for decentralised biowaste management was all about in Lyon.
A public event marked the launch of the demonstration site starting with a Conference presenting the DECISIVE project and its 2 demonstration sites, followed by a study tour which included visits to the key stakeholders around the Lyon demonstration site and the demonstration site itself, hosted on the premises of the Training Center And Promotion Horticole (Centre de Formation et de Promotion Horticole, CFPH) in Ecully.
Practical information
The event took place on 14 November 2019 at IRSTEA's Lyon-Villeurbanne Centre, 5 Rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne at 08.45. The full agenda is available on the project website.


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Executive announces further easing of coronavirus restrictions
by Ciara Maguire
CALLS have been made this week for an end to a campaign of attacks on properties in a Strabane residential area where it has been claimed that thugs are terrorising the community and in particular, targeting the elderly.
The ongoing anti-social behaviour and harassment of residents at St Mary's Drive, adjacent to the former Adria factory site, is causing distress to elderly and vulnerable residents in the area, a local MLA has said this week.
Sinn Fein's Michaela Boyle revealed that the home of an 82-year-old resident has repeatedly been targeted by the culprits. A window of her home was broken for the second time last week whilst her property was also pelted with eggs and glass.
Other homeowners have also reported having stones and objects thrown at their homes and over the Halloween period, the anti-social activity escalated when a number of rubbish bins were stolen and subsequently set alight.
It is understood the sustained behaviour is being fuelled by young people who are gathering and drinking at the nearby and disused Adria factory site. The Beechmount Avenue site has been a headache for residents living in the area for several years since the factory closed. It has become a magnet for vandalism, graffiti and anti-social behaviour.
Wits end
Many residents say that they are now at their wits end with the behaviour. There have also been calls for an increased police presence in the area as well as calls for the Adria site to be properly secured.
It is understood that further incidents have also been reported in other areas throughout the town amidst a perceived increase in anti-social behaviour locally with many fearing the culprits are acting with impunity.
Outlining details of the attack on the elderly woman's home, the PSNI confirmed it has been alerted to the ongoing behaviour in the St Mary's Drive area but stressed the need for an end to anti-social behaviour in all areas.
"Police have received a number of reports of anti-social behaviour in the St Mary's Drive area of Strabane recently. In the latest incident an 82 year-old female has had her window broken for the second time within a few months.
"We would appeal to parents to take an active role in their children's lives and to know where they are, who they are with and what they are doing. Could we also remind anyone taking part in anti-social activity that what might seem like harmless fooling around can often result in a criminal record which can affect future choices and opportunities," a spokesperson said.
Speaking out against the behaviour, Michaela Boyle called on those responsible to stop making life hell for residents. She said that she has visited the lady who, she said, is distraught by the ongoing campaign of harassment.
"This lady has suffered so much harassment from anti-social elements in this town. Not only have windows been smashed, bins stolen etc but they've actually now resulted to pelting eggs and smashing light bulbs against her home," she said.
In a message to the perpetrators, she continued: "Do these people have no morals at all? This is a woman in her 80s. Wise up and have a bit of respect! This is not a game, this is not funny - this is causing people to live in fear. It's a total disgrace. Those responsible are nothing but thugs."
Mrs Boyle has urged anyone with information or knows who responsible to report it to the PSNI.
"These thugs need to be held accountable," she added.
The PSNI says anyone with any information on recent incidents or with general concerns regarding anti-social behaviour should contact the Neighbourhood Policing Team on the 101 number.


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I'm debating on whether or not I should double text. I know generally its a bad idea, but I feel as though there may have been a misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A key Senate panel will vote next Wednesday on a bill that would repeal a corporate tax break deemed illegal by the World Trade Organization and replace with cuts for U.S.-based manufacturers and multinationals.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released Friday a copy of the bill, known in legislative lingo as a "chairman's mark," which will be marked up by the full panel. The measure is co-sponsored by Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the committee's senior Democrat.
The action, which would replace provisions of the U.S. tax code known as the foreign sales corporation, or FSC, and the extraterritorial income exclusion, or ETI, comes with time running short for congressional action. The WTO has authorized the European Union to begin implementing as much as $4 billion a year in retaliatory sanctions against U.S. goods. The EU has held off, but officials have made clear they want to see those provisions removed soon.
"We want to see legislation repealing FSC by both houses of Congress by the end of the year," said Petros Sourmelis, head of the trade section at the delegation of the European Commission in Washington, on Friday.
The provisions affect thousands of U.S. corporations, from heavyweights such as Boeing
The FSC and ETI provisions allow U.S. firms with a foreign presence to shield between 15 percent and 30 percent of their export income from U.S. taxes, amounting to an annual tax break of around $5 billion for U.S. firms.
The Grassley bill would repeal FSC and ETI. The revenue gain would be offset by a cut in the top tax rate paid by U.S.-based manufacturers to 32 percent from 35 percent.
The bill would also allow U.S.-based multinationals more generous use of foreign tax credits and other measures as part of the simplification of the code's international tax provisions.
Those provisions would cost around $25 billion in lost revenue over the next decade. Grassley has said the final bill will be budget-neutral, but hasn't yet released a list of revenue increases.
House Republicans, meanwhile, remain divided over competing proposals to address the FSC/ETI problem.


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As expected, Samsung has finally introduced its new Galaxy Tab S3 at this ongoing event MWC 2017. It comes with S Pen, quad stereo speakers, Snapdragon 820 and more.
Specifications of Samsung Galaxy Tab S3
- 9.7-inch QXGA Super AMOLED display
- Quad-core 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor
- Adreno 530 GPU
- 32GB internal memory
- External memory up to 256GB with microSD
- Android 7.0 Nougat
- 13-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash
- 5-megapixel front-facing camera
- Fingerprint sensor
- 4G LTE (optional), Bluetooth 4.2, USB 3.1 Type-C, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz/5GHz) MIMO, Wi-Fi Direct, GPS, GLONASS
- 6000mAh battery with Fast Charging
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 sports a 9.7-inch QXGA Super AMOLED display. It is powered by Quad-core 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor along with 4GB RAM. A 32GB memory is packed inside this device which can be expanded up to 256GB with microSD. The system OS is Android 7.0 Nougat.
A 13MP camera is placed at the back with LED Flash and a 5MP camera is placed at the front. It comes with a book cover and a keyboard cover which are attached each other by a magnetic connector. The keyboard has a flexible mode which you can enlarge for better typing. A fingerprint sensor is placed at the front below the display. It has got a massive 6000mAh battery with Fast Charging technology.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 comes with a price tag of 679 Euros ($717 / Rs. 47,780 approx.) for WiFi variant and 769 Euros ($812 / Rs. 54130 approx.) for the LTE variant. This tablet comes in Black and Silver variants and will be available soon.


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I WANT to tell you a story today, but it's a bit different from our usual chat.
I think it's a story that needs to be told, because I don't want people to feel alone anymore.
Here goes.
My first panic attack occurred a few months after I finished high school.
I was driving at night, lost complete confidence in my ability to be behind the wheel, my vision blurred, my heart was threatening to rip through my chest, I burst into tears and I had the most awful, gut-wrenching feeling of utter fear.
I was on the side of the road, afraid of my car, thinking I was going to die.
Thus began my downward spiral.
I was Alice in freaking Horrorland.
For those of you who don't know me, I am quite extroverted.
In the days after the incident, I became so introverted that I barely recognised myself.
I became my anxiety.
Initially, I was okay.
I had scared myself, but carried on as normal.
But something just wasn't quite right.
I became highly irritable and I twitched a lot, at every loud noise or sudden movement.
I was hypersensitive and numb to things, at the same time.
All I wanted to do was curl up in bed or on the couch all day, where I couldn't feel disassociated or dazed.
I refused to get into a car.
I lost 5kg in a matter of days.
I couldn't eat, I didn't want to go out; I could barely function.
I quit my job because I became so anxious around too many people and noise and weird lighting.
My doctor said I was showing symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder.
I trembled the entire drive to and from the doctor's office.
I endlessly researched my symptoms and discovered all the possible treatments.
I refused to believe I had a form of mental illness, because mental illness could not be cured with a week of antibiotics and bed rest.
But nothing could cure it overnight.
Trust me, with the endless hours I spent online, I would have found a cure by now.
I considered medication, hypnotherapy, a psychologist, brain surgery, and whether I had a physical illness that just produced similar symptoms.
I wanted an instant cure because I was so scared of an illness that was not yet fully understood and cured by science.
The worst part was seeing people turn away in fear as I shook and hyperventilated, trying to breathe with no air.
It took me more than a year to comprehend that the cause of my anxiety was undisclosed.
The sole purpose of me telling you my story is that I want you to be brave.
I want you to ask for help when you need it.
Because it is okay to not be okay.
What isn't okay is to let it consume you.
I was consumed by my anxiety for months.
Some people are consumed by it for years.
I still get the odd feeling of disassociation in a shopping centre, and get twitchy when I am super tired.
I only started to become myself again once I had acknowledged my anxiety, and decided I wanted to figure out how to cope with it.
No matter how far you think you have fallen down the rabbit hole, there is always a ladder waiting to help you up.
Be that ladder a person, medical assistance, self-help or a combination of a few things, you have a ladder.
You just need to let yourself start to climb it.
As I always say, step by step.
My first step?
My name is Ash and I suffer from anxiety.


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Tracy is the Clinical Director at Discovery Institute. She has worked at Discovery since January of 2015, she was hired halfway through her master's level internship while at Discovery. She has worked in every program that Discovery has to offer. She has worked her way up from being a primary counselor to director of a clinical program, and since to Clinical Director. Tracy received her Bachelor's in Social Work from Monmouth University and went on to obtain her Master's in Social Work as well at Monmouth University. She has her MSW, as well as her LCSW and is applying for her LCADC.
Tracy practices strength-based approaches, Cognitive Behavioral approaches, and Motivational Interviewing. She feels that the group and individual therapy with the strengths-based approach is what bring success to the field of addiction. She feels as though addiction is still a misunderstood field and feels strongly on improving the quality of services given to clients. Her clinical interests include: recovery and addiction, co-occurring mental health disorders, relationships, communication skills, coping skills, trauma, anger management, crisis intervention, group and family therapy.


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The River-Friendly Green Gardener at Home program is a 10-week gardening seminar series for homeowners that want their yard to have it all. Discover how you can have a water-wise, healthy, beautiful, and pest free garden and landscape. Learn from the experts who have been doing just that for years as they share many of their tips and secrets. Learn all the dirt about soil health, compost, mulch, fertilization, native and drought-tolerant plants, keeping water on site, irrigation, edible landscaping/gardening, lawn care, landscape design, integrated and organic pest management and so much more. Among the distinguished instructors is organic horticultural professional Steven Zien with Living Resources Company who will provide instruction and humor making his Soils, Fertilizer/Turf Care, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) classes both highly educational and surprisingly entertaining.
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The first of three modules of the River-Friendly Green Gardener Training Program For Horticultural Professionals offered by EcoLandscape California/ReScape California and will cover Building & Maintaining Healthy Soil as well as Turf Care. A healthy living soil is the key to beautiful, drought and pest resistant landscapes. Explore the wonders of Soil Food Web, how it works with your plants and techniques to encourage the assistance of this diverse population of plant friendlies. Unearth what fertilizers will encourage a healthy and diverse Soil Food Web as well as what fertilizers you need to avoid and why. Realize the differences between mulch and compost and how to best utilize each.
Soils expert and organic horticultural professional Steven Zien with Living Resources Company will educate and entertain you in his Introduction to Soil Science and Fertilizer and Turf Care classes.
This first Green Gardener Training Module is a must for any horticultural professional with the desire to improve their skills, maximize their time and labor efficiency, increase profits, stay ahead of the competition, while providing superior, environmentally friendly horticultural services to your clients. With a fee of only $65 ($55 for EcoLandscape California members) the 7.5 hours of expert instruction (with all course materials included) you cannot afford to miss this unique educational opportunity. All classes will be held at the Sacramento Tree Foundation, 191 Lathrop Way, Sacramento, CA 95815.
For more information and to register go to the ReScape California events calendar webpage (where you can also learn about Modules 2 and 3) or email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Space is limited so register early.
Saturday 8:30 am to noon February 10, 2018 or
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The seminar will focus on Holistic Pest Management, which acknowledges that plants and their pests function in a shared ecological system. Participants will learn how to keep this system in balance and discourage pests before they get out of hand. Since not all pest problems are pest related, know how to treat the cause of the problem instead of the symptoms will be examined. Solutions to eliminate intolerable pest problems with effective, environmentally-friendly management practices will be offered, including the latest eco-friendly products and how best to use them.
Each attendee with receive a copy of Pests of Landscape Trees and Shrubs 3rd Edition and a 20x magnifying hand lens with LED lights to aid in pest identification. The best online and printed resources available with be shared to assist participants in their work.
The class will be held at the La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael California. If you are unable to attend this class it will be re-offered on Thursday evening June 14 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm at the Folsom Community Center, 52 Natoma Street, Folsom, California.
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