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Maria Roat, chief technology officer at the Transportation Department, called governance one of the biggest challenges she's faced since she began last year.
In love, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
In IT, you often don't know what you got 'til your supposedly secured systems get owned and your data is all over the Internet. Or in enemy hands.
Just ask the Office of Personnel Management and the 21-plus million federal employees compromised by the headline-stealing hack of the year. Of course, OPM has plenty of company in other federal agencies getting hacked, and none of this really surprises government watchdogs like the Government Accountability Office. Many agencies routinely fail information security audits because they don't follow the law, best practices in basic cybersecurity hygiene, and often because they don't know what they have.
This haphazard approach to inventoried IT assets carries across technology enterprises. Maria Roat, chief technology officer at the Transportation Department, called governance one of the biggest challenges she's faced since she began last year. Prior to taking the CTO position at DOT, Roat had worked hard to streamline cloud computing across government as the director of FedRAMP, the government's way to require standardized and repeatable cloud computing standards.
Upon beginning at DOT, Roat told an audience at a Nextgov event she "asked for an inventory" of planned cloud computing spending through 2017. What she got in return, basically, were crickets – "almost no planned spending at all," she said. Significant cloud spending was not reported through PortfolioStat and Integrated Data Collection reports agencies are mandated to file each year.
So maybe DOT just didn't have it together in cloud, right?
Well, actually, it wasn't quite so simple.
Roat learned cloud spending was sometimes not reported correctly or misreported. In one case, a cloud acquisition came through that clearly hadn't been reported. What if it hadn't met proper security standards? What if a vulnerability in that system exposed the agency to outsiders? What if the agency ended up on the front page for all the wrong reasons? None of this happened, of course, but in today's cybersecurity environment, not knowing what you have can be dangerous.
Everything, Roat said, ties together.
"You have to keep track with acquisitions," Roat said. "You need insight."
Roat has taken to improving the technology governance across DOT. The business offices, program offices and tech shop have to be synched from the perspectives of monitoring and management. The goal, she said, is to let people move to cloud and work with them, yet be able to manage that environment.
It's always good to know what you have. In today's federal environment, it's more important than ever. Especially if you'd rather your agency didn't get owned.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 20, 2008) - Health Canada is advising Canadians about new safety information for carbamazepine, a drug used to treat epilepsy, mania, bipolar disorder and a painful condition of the face called trigeminal neuralgia. In Canada, carbamazepine is sold under the brand name Tegretol, and multiple generic names.
Health Canada has revised the prescribing information for Tegretol (http://cpe0013211b4c6d-cm0014e88ee7a4.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/dpdonline/displayInfo.do?drugCode=6uWRkjprVpI=), and is currently revising the prescribing information for all generic carbamazepine products to include information about an increased risk of serious skin reactions for patients of Asian ancestry, as compared to patients of non-Asian ancestry. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada, the manufacturer of Tegretol in Canada, has issued a letter to health care professionals (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/advisories-avis/prof/2008/index_e.html) to inform them of the new safety information.
Serious and sometimes fatal skin reactions known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) have been known to occur very rarely with carbamazepine. While all patients treated with carbamazepine are at risk for these serious skin reactions, the risk is approximately 10 times higher in Asian countries than in Western countries. In addition, studies have suggested that patients of Asian ancestry may also be at increased risk if they take carbamazepine.
There is a genetic test that may be useful in identifying a particular genetic marker in patients of Asian ancestry. This marker has been linked to an increased risk of developing serious skin reactions to carbamazepine. Patients of Asian - particularly Han Chinese - ancestry may wish to discuss this test with their doctors as a possible screening tool to determine if they are at increased risk of serious skin reactions.
All patients taking carbamazepine - including those who have had the genetic test done, and regardless of their ethnicity - should immediately consult a physician if they develop any signs of serious skin reactions such as a rash, red skin, blistering of the lips, eyes or mouth, or peeling skin with an accompanying fever.
Patients who have been taking carbamazepine for more than a few months without developing skin reactions are at low risk of these events ever developing from carbamazepine.
Patients who have previously had serious skin reactions during treatment with carbamazepine, regardless of ethnicity, should not take carbamazepine again and should consult their health care professional as soon as possible so that a decision can be made regarding alternative treatments.
Patients taking carbamazepine should not stop treatment before speaking with their doctor.
The prescribing information for all generic carbamazepine-containing products is being revised to include the same new safety information for serious skin reactions that has been added to the Tegretol prescribing information. The following is a list of carbamazepine-containing products being sold in Canada. Each product may have multiple formulations, including tablets, suspension, chewtabs, or controlled release:
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CRUSHED BY HIS BOAT: Brit Dies in Bizarre Spring Commissioning Accident
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Every time I work on a boat hull propped up on the hard I think of this: what if it falls over? Even worse, what if it falls over on top of me? Then I chase that errant bit of evil paranoia from my mind. Nah, can't happen! But apparently it can. Witness this alarming news-bit from Great Britain. Kevin Keeler, age 56, crushed to death on Monday by his new-to-him 29-foot Westerly, Ginny Kwik, at the Weymouth Sailing Club in Dorset as he was preparing to launch it after a quick haul-out. He'd only bought the boat three months earlier. It was the first he'd ever owned.Write comment (3 Comments)


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The stories surrounding Diego Costa's absence from the Chelsea team have taken another twist, with new reports adding detail to many of the rumours.
The Sun, for example, claim that Costa "hates" English football and the FA, and can't wait to get out of the country.
The Brazilian striker apparently had an argument with a fitness coach at Chelsea's Cobham training ground this week, and he did not feature in the match day squad against Leicester yesterday. Rumors of a gigantic bid from China came to the fore the moment it became clear that the talisman wouldn't be playing.
Despite all this, the official line from Chelsea has been that Costa is injured. Costa himself has not commented other than posting an Instagram post which brought hope to many Blues fans by carrying the simple caption "Come on Chelsea!".
Antonio Conte dismissed questions about his striker's future after the game yesterday, but there is only so long the Italian coach can hold out before we find out what's really going on at Stamford Bridge.


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I'm Giving Away a Pair of $300 Headphones to the Most Badass #LadyBoss
Wall Street's newest artistic addition — the "fearless girl" statue — reminds us to remember the impact of women, even in the face of adversity. On that note, let's pause for a minute and think of all the ways women have impacted the world. Where would we be without their intellect, bravery or contributions?
Here at Scopio, our mission is to make sure women are celebrated every day. And as a team, we embody the crucial role of women and minorities in the startup community. It's part of our ethos.
Recently, the newest artistic addition to New York's infamous Wall Street — the "fearless girl" statue — reminds us to remember the impact of women, even in the face of adversity.
We've been hard at work searching for photos of lady bosses around the globe. Sure, there are a ton of glossy stock photos of women in business. The issue is that they don't depict real women in the workforce — they're just not representative.
At Scopio, our mission is to connect businesses with their audiences using photos from ordinary people. And with International Women's Day in the midst, we're looking to change how women in business are represented in this kind of photography.
People want to see badass women at work, whether they're sitting at computers, churning out material at desks, speaking in team meetings, running a website or taking up leadership positions. We're starting with you.
If you're a woman in business, a lady boss or a female entrepreneur, read on to find out how to win a pair of brand new Rose Gold Beats by Dr. Dre in our giveaway, which sells for a retail value of $299.95.
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- Follow Scopio on Instagram and Twitter. We promise we're a ton of fun!
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Last week I was invited to a tweetup. Not just any tweet up though an Auto Tweetup. For those of you unfamiliar with the word Tweetup, it is a gathering of twitter users where you can meet up with the people you follow on Twitter and discuss interests. In this case, cars.
Being held at the superb 7 Hotel & Diner in Kent, Myself and Nick from Tin Tops UK headed down for an evening of Geek chat and discussion with fellow tweeters. It was a good turn out and there were many people from the world of cars, from Bloggers, Writers, Photographers, Representatives from Toyota, Seat and Audi and general car fans. It was also good to catch up with Ian Cook of PopBangColour fame who showed me the great photo of Frank Wrathall's Toyota Avensis outside the pit garage on Sunday evening he took with his I-Phone. Not content with his amazing painting talent, he shows he's bloody good with a camera too. Don't you just hate people like that?!
The Car park outside the Diner was pretty impressive too. There was a selection of cars old and new including a Lotus Evora, TVR Tuscan & Clio Cup. But not only did the guys from Toyota bring along the awesome Castrol Liveried Supra, but a £320,000 Lexus LFA took pride of place out front, the only one in the UK which was great to see. Also, Abbie of Castella Images was working her magic with her long exposure low light photography and a range of glowsticks and fairy lights which looked like some odd voodoo car ritual but produces great results.
The food was great, the company was brilliant and atmosphere superb. It was great to meet new people and discuss a shared passion so many thanks to Tim Hutton for organising such a fantastic evening and all those who contributed to the rather cool goody bag we all received. I'm pretty sure Tim is organising many more of these evenings so if you fancy going along, check out www.autotweetup.co.uk to find out more. The date of the next one is already in the diary.


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PositiveID Corporation, a Delray Beach, Florida-based biological detection and diagnostics solutions developer, announced on Thursday that it published a report on market opportunities for its homeland defense products.
PositiveID develops microfluidic systems for the automated preparation and performance of biological assays to detect biological threats in high-value and medical environments. William Caragol, the chairman and CEO of PositiveID, said the last decade significantly increased the necessity of biological detection.
"The bio-detection market has seen a surge in funding over the past decade," Caragol said. "This increase can be directly attributed to events that have occurred since the beginning of the 21st century such as the Anthrax scare in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, the ricin letters in 2004, the H1N1 health crisis in 2009, and most recently the concern over Syrian and North Korean biological and chemical weapons programs."
Caragol said PositiveID's technologies may help to protect lives through the faster detection of biological terrorism.
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A new study reportedly reveals a long leggy figure like Taylor Swift's is preferred over a shorter, more compact figure like Kim Kardashian's.
The University of New South Wales in Sydney published their findings in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, the Daily Mail reports.
It claims almost 60,000 people – 80 percent men – from all over the world were shown computerized images of female body shapes.
The shapes were composites of 24 female 'body traits' including everything from bust size biceps.
Subjects were shown the body shapes from the side and from the front, and the faces were pixelated.
Gradually, the lowest-rated body shapes were eliminated. According to the study, in each generation of body shapes, the shorter, thicker bodies were voted out, and the highest-rated body shape ultimately turned out to have long slender legs, a small behind, and a smaller chest.
"The predominant evolutionary trend, reflecting a likely major dimension of social selection operating on human female bodies, is toward greater slenderness and, particularly, narrower waists," the study reportedly concluded.
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Ok, this is going to be a short review because there honestly isn't much to say about this terrible movie. I hate bashing movies and always try to find the good in the bad, but this one has no redeeming factors. This film actually started off as a KickStarter project, raking in a measly budget of $40k. I am all for indie artists, but this is a wasteful effort and the lack of money definitely shows.
I picked up this film on a whim when I saw it on display at Best Buy of all places. I was surprised they had a prominent display of a horror movie that I knew nothing about. The cover intrigued me right away. Once I got home and popped in the DVD my first impression was, "Wow. This is REALLY low budget." This is a fact that I can look past if there is good acting and an interesting plot, but right away I was turned off by the stupid dialogue and abysmal acting.
A bunch of teens working at a rundown amusement park decide to party on the job since it is their last night. The park is closing down for good due to lack of patronage. The teens get killed off one by one and, um, that's the extent of the plot.
Besides the shoddy plot, there is a list of things that bothered me.
- There is a haunted house attraction at the park where the workers dress up in bloody costume… the funny thing is, the parts that are supposed to be real death scenes look exactly the same as the "fake" dead teens.
- The manager says he has been working there for 15 years yet he doesn't look a day over 20. I'm pretty sure he even says, "I would kill to have the park stay open a little longer." Come on now.
- Towards the end of the film they tell us how the owner wants people killed to attract people back to the park. If you read any description of the movie (including the back of the box), it states this fact as the main plot, yet in the film it is supposed to be a surprise. What a mistake. And why would they think murders attract people instead of driving them away?
I don't know where the money went in the film because it certainly wasn't on the actors and now we know it wasn't for the special effects either. Maybe the money was spent getting it on the shelves of Best Buy. I'm really sad that I own an actual hard copy of this film. I'm seriously tempted the throw the damn thing in the trash.
Don't watch this. The End.
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As U.N. experts are still investigating the poison gas attack in Syria, the United States has left the world that there is no doubt they are going to launch military strikes against Syria. They will be doing it alone.
For all the talk about a coalition, outside America, no one is actually rushing to help the Americans attack President Bashar al-Assad. Russia and China will stop any resolution at the U.N. Britain cannot attack after Prime Minister David Cameron lost a vote in parliament over it. Turkey and the Arab states have no real military power to attack Syria, and France don't have any real power in the region to help in any meaningful way.
Not only that, U.S. President Barack Obama is going have to drag the United States of America into another Middle Eastern war against the wishes of Americans. One poll showed that less than 40% of Americans support an attack against Syria.
So I have to ask; what's the rush? The U.N. are still investigating, there is no support from any other countries, so why is President Obama insisting on attacking Syria before the U.N. finish their investigation? It makes no sense.
It makes as little sense as President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against Syrian rebels. The man was winning. The Syrian rebels were on the backfoot for weeks already; why would the man use chemical weapons now when he didn't use them earlier when he was actually losing the civil war? It makes no sense.
Also what is this plan of a "limited, narrow" military action to attack Syria? Qassim Saadeddine, a former Syrian army colonel and spokesman for the rebels' Supreme Military Council, has openly crowed about how the rebel groups had been sent a military plan of action and that they will "take advantage" when the strike happens. He even told Reuters that their military plans include preparations to attack some targets that are going to be hit in the air strikes. Sure sounds like he know something, doesn't it?
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It was some tallest hill of India. Most of the people who lived there are saints. Many of them are fake saints. But still they pretend as if they have some direct link with Almighty God. They were wearing the traditional saffron color dress and were reciting something in their mouths.
Few saints there had pets. The pets were nothing but tigers. The tigers behaved as if they were dogs and not tigers. The place remained calm. Hundred percent calm. Cool breeze increased the calmness into few more percent. The attributes of the environment are sun, colder atmosphere; saints, their pets, snow fall in near by mounts, and complete silence.
The silence was broken when a screaming voice reached from the top of one of the peaks there. Every one stay remained with their recitation except few tigers which turned their faces.
The screaming voice dissolved down in to the silence soon. My legs moved towards the place from where the screaming voice came. There I saw... (To be continued...)
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I have developed my customer service skills by assisting customers with their daily shopping queries.
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Company D was the weapons company of the regiment's 1st Battalion (each battalion consisted
of a headquarters, three rifle companies and a weapons company). This means, unless he had a support MOS (military occupational specialty), he was probably assigned to a crew-served weapon (machinegun, mortar, etc.).
Unable to determine whether the regiment's veterans association is still active but you can contact Third Marine Division Association. They're at
Muy importante! Third Division may not have been the only division he served with. The marine corps fielded six divisions by the end of the war but no more than two or three were ever at full strength at any one time (this usually just prior to a combat landing).
Individuals and even entire units (usually company-strength or smaller) were on several occasions transferred in to bring a particular division up to full strength in preparation for an upcoming operation. An example: in February 1944, all marine raider battalions were disbanded, primarily to free up personnel to form the Fifth Marine Division.
I once researched a man who landed at Guadalcanal with First Marine Division and transferred to Second Division (at his own request) when First Division was relieved.
He landed at Bougainville as an attached observer with Third Division and at Betio (Tarawa) with Second Division. He somehow wound up with 22d Marines - then principle element of 1st Provisional Marine Brigade - with which he landed at Eniwetok.
He remained with the regiment when it was used to form Sixth Marine Division and landed at Okinawa with same. His service, although unusual, wasn't all that extraordinary.
Small, seemingly insignificant items like many of the above are nice to know and always helpful - sometimes even crucial - when locating info.
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I share the view expressed in Thursday's lead editorial in the New York Times:
When Gov. Scott Walker moved to strip Wisconsin public employees of their collective-bargaining rights last year, a few weeks after taking office, it was clear that he wasn't doing it to save the state money. If that had been the case, he would have accepted the unions' agreement to pay far more in health care and pension costs. His real goal was political: to break the unions by demonizing their "bosses," ending their ability even to collect dues and removing them as a source of money and energy for Democrats.
Am I a conspiracist -- or simply a realist -- for believing that the monied interests in this country have been working for years to acquire a stranglehold on the political system? Or that there is, as Hillary Clinton once famously asserted, a "vast right-wing conspiracy"? She was widely ridiculed, of course, for that incautious statement. But I have always believed she spoke the truth. The recent public television special on her husband, former President Bill Clinton was an alarming reminder of the similarities between the difficulties of his presidency and that of Barack Obama. He was the target of the same legislative obstinate non-cooperation, the same hatred, the same personal attacks. His legitimacy was questioned. From his first day in office, as with Obama, the main objective of the Republicans was to get rid of him as fast as possible, or at the very least to disempower him until they could re-empower themselves.
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I'm busy working on some new portfolio pieces. Here's my version of Hansel & Gretel.
I'm reading Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters' Guide to Shooting from the Heart with the goal of greatly improving my family and blog photos.
Trying to figure out where to put all of these yummy veggies! Cody isn't waiting until the harvest to enjoy our crop.
Wondering if we can spruce up this deck by ourselves.
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This blog has been motivated by Arsene Wenger's recent comments about how good our current squad is, and how it is not inconceivable that they can win the league without additions. I am one of the blind faith 'In Arsene I trust' Arsenal fans, and I actually love our current squad and think that what we have is actually very close to what Wenger is saying. I believe for a title challenge you need two players in each position. In this, you effectively have a 1st and 2nd team. The question that ultimately needs to be asked is 'are these good enough?' The first team need to be the XI capable of winning the title, and the second team need to be players capable of doing the simple things, stepping in for injuries and rotation.
This blog will evaluate the current crop of players that we have and will see whether we have these two squads. To do this, I will divide the topic into five sections:
1. What are our 1st and 2nd XI?
2. Of the 1st XI, who is good enough?
3. Of the 2nd XI, who is good enough?
4. What do we need to do then?
5. And if we don't?
1. What are our 1st and 2nd XI?
1st XI:
Podolski Cazorla Walcott
Wilshere Arteta
Gibbs Koscielny Mertesacker Sagna
2nd XI:
Oxlade-Chamberlain Rosicky Gnabry
Ramsey Zelalem
Monreal Vermaelen BLANK Jenkinson
2. Of the 1st XI, who is good enough?
As mentioned above, I look at that XI with a lot of confidence. This squad has had what no Arsenal squad has done for the last few years, and that's that it is by on large exactly how we finished last season. With no key departures, this squad can actually build on the very strong finish to last season and use the lessons that we learned without spending the first few months compensating for the loss of a major player. This squad has been built on the hurt of these departures and has a greater passion than most other PL squads can boast. This team has already faced scrutiny of the highest order from the press, and post-Bayern last year has used tis to grind out results hitherto unimagined in both style and composure. Though we are traditionally big finishers, 8 wins from our last 10 with our captain dropped and our best player pretty much unable to play, the whole squad rallied together and played for each other, and it was with this freedom that saw us achieve Champions League football for another season.
That said, it was still a very fragile end to the season, wit lots of 1-0 snatch and grabs, and our poor form vs the top 5 was a huge concern. But we are so close to being able to achieve things. Too many big names (and more importantly, big ego's) could disrupt this spirit, but one or two ARE needed. There are 2 positions/players that concern me. I personally think we are going to be very pleasantly surprised by Giroud next season, and could see some of the magic of his last season in France in the Premier League. That said, we mustn't get carried away and settle with im because he is still one of the weakest players in that XI AT THE MOMENT.
I've written before about our defence and I think all we need is a suitable 4th CB cover, as the competition between Gibbs/Monreal; Koscielny/Mertesacker/Vermaelen, and Sagna/Jenkinson is good, but only 3 CB's is not safe enough. I think that Vermaelen is still a very good defender and he suffered from what many of our players suffered from over the last two seasons, and that is a lack of competition and over confidence in their own place in the team. I think being dropped but kept as skipper is a crucial indication of Wenger's plans. Mertesacker is a good defender but there are some concerns as to whether he can win us the title. Vermaelen on form is a better defender than him, and Koscielny is one of the best defenders in the world, and the competition between the three of them for the starting spot is more than capable of winning us the league. But as mentioned above, 3 isn't safe enough and this is why Gibbs of Vergonghan would have been good but oh well, perhaps Williams or Lescott or someone young can come in and fill the spot.
The midfielder trio of Wilshere, Arteta and Cazorla is fantastic. We finished last season without Jack and Rambo stepped up, but he's still the #1. If these 3 can keep up the urgency and pressing of the end of last year, combined with their natural creativity you'd be hard pushed to find a better midfielder in the league.
The front line of Podolski, Giroud and Walcott all have talent, but it is definitely lacking in something that previous PL winners have had. United last year had RVP, City before that had Aguero, Chelsea had Drogba, we had TH14 … I don't know about everyone else but our front line lacks one of these players. What players (who conveniently are available, to a certain extent) like Suarez and Rooney give a team (beyond their skill) is their work rate without the ball. They are all over the pitch and this is invaluable for a team that has no out and out defensive midfielder. Podolski and Walcott work hard but don't have the natural anticipation of those aforementioned. Giroud's role on the other hand doesn't really require him to press the whole time (similar to Drogba (although that's where the comparisons stop for now)), but if combined with Rooney or Suarez he'd be much more in the game, especially with his ability in the air.
So all in all, the 1st XI is promising, but with £80m at least that we know is in the bank, why should we settle with promising when there is clearly the room AND opportunity to strengthen.
3. Of the 2nd XI, who is good enough?
As for the 2nd XI, I think that this is the strongest it has been in years, gifting us a very powerful bench. Having spent a summer clearing the squad of the deadwood, by on large the players left are all capable of coming onto the pitch and stepping in.
The issue of the #1 shirt is still up in the air. Throughout this year's pre-season it seems that Wenger has favoured Fabianski, but if this is the case I think it is almost certain that Szczesny will remain at the club and there will be healthy competition for that shirt. I still don't trust Fabianski to win us the league, but I think Szczesny is more than good enough when his place is in jeopardy, and his passion and team spirit is invaluable.
Monreal, Vermaelen and Monreal, as mentioned above, are good enough second choice players and in my opinion are better than the back up's of Chelsea and United, perhaps not City, but we do need one more Centre Back.
Ramsey and Rosicky are both superb and could be in the starting XI, and through injuries and rotation they probably will be. I still think fully fir the others are better, but as seen at the end of last season they can leave us very unbalanced at times so rotation tactically as well as physically could be in store too. But these 2 are more than good enough. As a result of this strength, I think we can afford to promote from within for that last vacant backup spot and I think between Eisfeld and Zelalem we have midfield covered.
What with the departure of Gervinho, we are definitely short up top. If we buy, those in our current first eleven are definitely good enough to be sat there as cover and rotation. We have seen the drawbacks of buying in cover as opposed to quality and forcing current players to fight. Sanogo, though promising, is not good a suitable back-up for CF when Giroud is not 100% good enough as it is, nor is Podolski, but both can rotate with the quality additions mentioned earlier, up front.
4. What do we need to do then?
So what does all this mean? We have supposedly got £80m in the bank and another good, but not quite there, squad. We have 3 out and out world class players in Koscielny, Cazorla and Wilshere, and several very good talents waiting in the wings. So why waste this? We have wasted in the past because of a lack of funds, but these funds are now there. We have had the clear out and have the room for spending and signings, AND WE SHOULD USE THIS.
In a not too unrealistic ideal world, we'd sign Rooney, Suarez and Papadopoulos, but let's not get greedy. That would be closer to £100m, so Williams would do instead in the position where we can afford to buy in cover (but of a hot-prospect nature, not proven and not quite good enough to start) so Williams in rotation would also suffice. At least we're no longer linked with Scott Dann …
5. And if we don't?
So all the talk above has been about the squad's competence and what we need for a title challenge. I have highlighted what needs to be done, but it would be optimistic bordering naive for us to expect all of that £80m to be spent. The real purpose of this blog was to show how promising the squad we have IS. Do I think it can win the league as it is? No, probably not. But do I think we are in a better position than last year? Undoubtedly. If Bale is to leave Spurs then their signings of Soldardo and Paulinho will not quite fill the gap of their only good player leaving, and I think this squad can at least compete for 3rd and 4th in a more competent fashion than last year, so I think there is no need to worry, but without signings don't get too excited YET.
Hope everyone is well and I look forward to cheering on Arsenal with you lot for another season.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and you can contact me on @row6NB on twitter if you have any thoughts.
Mean Lean's Response
Very good, well thought out piece.
While we all urge for additions, we shouldn't ignore the progress of the squad we have today. That comment is likely to annoy some but that is how I see it. The squad has been streamlined from last season. So personally I think we are short in numbers in a few areas as I think you need more than two first teams at various times during the course of a long season. I don't believe that Zelalem will be a feature of the first team just yet although his pre season has done him no harm at all.
Many will agree with your first team choice but I am not sure Arsene does. That said, it will be interesting to know who takes the left attacking position given that Lukas Podolski is now fully fit.
If everyone is fit, I think Arsene will start with the following.
Cazorla Giroud Walcott
Arteta Ramsey
Sagna Mertesacker Koscielny Gibbs
I am hoping for three or four signings before the window closes. A top class forward, a creative passing midfielder and a sitting midfielder to rotate with Arteta.
If we get those along with perhaps a new 4th choice centre back then that would do me nicely.


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A lovely week spent investigating and learning all about the seven wonders of the ancient world! A real contrast as on Thursday we got to set up and have a go on the new ipad minis! Great fun!
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Adele from Lugano, the Town of My Heart; Miami Steve Van Zandt; and the Victorious Hearts of Marathon Runners
~ The End of Summer in New York in 1983 ~
Aug 6, 2008
Adele from Lugano, the Town of My Heart, and Miami Steve Van Zandt
Adele Maspoli was my classmate at the American Language Program (ALP) at Columbia University. She was from Lugano, Switzerland and she and I sometimes jogged together in Central Park. One day in November, she had to go back to her country. She said to me, "Eiji, you are an unusual Japanese, but you will be fine when you are back in Japan because you are good."
That night, I remember that I bought a cup of ice cream. As I walked back to the YMCA on Broadway, I saw Miami Steve Van Zandt, who played the guitar in the E-Street Band and was later a TV star in "The Sopranos", which my friend, Frank Renzulli, wrote a number of scripts for. Van Zandt walked into a nice restaurant called "O'Neal's Balloon", accompanied by his wife.
The restaurant was in front of Lincoln Center, and was filled with men in tuxedos and dressed-up people who looked way too good for me. I searched in my pocket and found three dollars. I looked at the menu outside, and read, "Coffee: $1.50". Okay, let's go.
Luckily, the table behind Van Zandt's was open. I sat there and spoke to him, excusing myself to his wife, who was really nice, and said, "No problem", with a big smile on her face. Within a few minute's conversation, Miami Steve started writing the phone numbers of his manager's office on a paper napkin. He checked with his wife about the phone number a few times. He wrote "Ginny Buckley, 212-…." and said, "Give me a call", and then handed the napkin over to me. He and his wife were very open-hearted.
Later in November on my birthday, the mail guy in the mail center at the YMCA found me and said, "You've got a parcel." It was from Adele. She had sent me a sweatshirt with the logo of Lugano, Switzerland on it that read "Lugano, La Citta del Mio Cuore" ("Lugano, the town of my heart.") Later, I visited Lugano two or three times, and it did indeed become "the town of my heart".
The Victorious Hearts of Marathon Runners
After summer was gone, in November, when the color of the leaves in Central Park started changing, I saw Grete Waitz winning the New York City Marathon. Although I felt a strong spirit from Grete's powerful run, as the marathon champ, what struck me the most were the other runners way behind her. They were not winners of the race, but they were winners who overcame themselves.
As those runners who came in as the one hundredth or two hundredth to cross the finish line, there was no big applause or crowns placed on their heads. Some raised their hands as they finished. Many didn't, and just put their hands on their waist and kept walking, looking down at their feet. To me, they were all winners.
To a small-time boxer who never won a medal or a champion's belt, those runners were himself. It doesn't matter if you are the hundred and fiftieth or the slowest runner, you need to overcome yourself. You need to challenge yourself.
As I saw the lonely backs of those runners that kept walking after the race, I think I saw the reason why I flew all the way to New York, just to be alone and to figure out how I could put a period on my career as a fighter. I thank those runners who didn't complain, did what they had to do, and walked away as they crossed the finish line.
As the summer heat in New York was going away, and the trees were taking off their worn-out clothes to get ready for their new shiny green leaves to come out, I was changing my clothes too. The Japanese boxer who felt like a shell after a cicada had left, took his soul and spirit back in a brand new shell.
My English teacher, Frances Boyd at the ALP, promoted me up to 9A from 7A at the end of the semester which was a great honor. I told her that I was leaving, and she said, "You will be fine in Japan." She wrote a very nice testimonial for me when I said to her, "I don't know if I can get along with Japanese people."
My one year stay in New York was coming to an end.
Eiji Yoshikawa is a retired Pro Boxer who majored inFrench literature and did his thesis on Jean Cocteau and Cinematography. He founded the "Peacemakers", Japan's first neighborhood watch, and spends much of his time visiting schools and communities teaching children about non-violence. In 2004, Japan Inc. Magazine called him the "Compassionate Pugilist". We are proud to offer "Letters from the Compassionate Pugilist" as our first guestcolumnist. Contact Eiji at www.eiji.tv or via email.
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Plenty of fight action is taking place around the world including the regular hotspots such as Mexico, Germany and Argentina. But one event that set the female fight world afire was a sparring session not an actual fight.
Just a week after a big title win Claressa "T-Rex" Shields traveled to Southern California to spar with MMA star Cris "Cyborg" in boxing. The video of the sparring session has been going viral as the two female warriors traded combinations and power blows freely.
It brings up an interesting point. Lately, several well-known pro boxers have been partaking in MMA bouts including undefeated boxer Heather "The Heat" Hardy of New York. She won her MMA debut by knockout at a Bellator show in Madison Square Garden last Saturday. But an added note: Hardy suffered a cut and will not be able to fight for a month at least.
The next pro boxer preparing to enter an MMA cage is Puerto Rico's outstanding Amanda Serrano who made history as the first female boxer to win major world titles in five weight divisions. The Brooklyn resident has been training with MMA trainers and plans to enter the cage soon.
But first, Serrano will be the main event when she defends the WBO super bantamweight title in Puerto Rico on July 21. It should be a massive celebration for the talented Boricua. But MMA can be very dangerous for boxers.
Recently a large number of female boxers have crossed over to MMA including Elena "Baby Doll" Riley, Ana "The Hurricane" Julaton, Mia St. John, Jessica Rakoczy and of course Holly Holm who gained notoriety as the fighter who stopped Ronda Rousey.
It's a dangerous sport in terms of injury. Though boxing has more life threatening danger, MMA has more injuries because every part of the body is put at risk. Whether its legs, feet, groin or suffering cuts from flying elbows and knees MMA fighters are often injured.
Boxing has injuries too but primarily to the hands or head.
Years ago an elite boxer named Wendy Rodriguez was a reigning world champion who crossed over to MMA. Because of her superb athleticism and speed she excelled in MMA just as easily as in boxing. But one day while training in grappling she suffered a severe neck injury that was never completely healed. Rodriguez was forced to quit both sports. It was a tragic injury that would never have occurred in boxing.
Boxers can be even more vulnerable because they have trained many years in one discipline and their muscle memory does not include MMA actions. It's a double edged sword that can end badly for boxers. Of course, right now MMA fighters make more money, but only if they are. Is it worth it?
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This past week in Los Angeles while Gennady "GGG" Golovkin and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez were greeting fans in Hollywood, 10 miles east light flyweight contender Seniesa "Super Bad" Estrada was fighting Rachel Sazoff. The battle lasted only 38 seconds with Estrada dropping Sazoff twice with left hooks and winning the fight by knockout. Former Olympian Marlen Esparza in her pro debut fought Sazoff and he dominated in winning by decision.
After Estrada's win former Olympian Esparza (2-0) congratulated the L.A.-based fighter and openly challenged Estrada (9-0) via Twitter to a fight and is waiting for an answer. It would be a good fight to include on the Canelo-GGG fight card on Sept. 16. Esparza signed with televised Golden Boy Promotions and can easily have that fight approved.
Female Fight News
Laura Griffa (14-1) defeated Cristina Del Valle (10-10-2) by unanimous decision after 10 rounds on Saturday June 24. The win gave Griffa the vacant Argentine bantamweight title. Griffa has been reputed to be facing Amanda Serrano next in Puerto Rico. Also, Natalia Del Valle (8-10-3) beat Edith Matthysse (14-9-1) by decision after six rounds in a super featherweight fight. Both fights took place in Laguna Larga, Argentina.
Ana Guichapani (4-0) defeated Valeria Adam (0-1) by technical knockout in the fourth round on Saturday June 24. The super featherweight fight took place in Rio Gallegos.
Iara Cortes (1-1) beat Leandra Messina (0-2) by decision after four rounds on Friday June 23. The super bantamweight fight was held in Quilmes, Buenos Aires.
On Saturday July 1, flyweights Soledad Del Valle (11-9-4) and Anahi Lopez (10-0-1) meet in a 10 round fight in Villa Mercedes, San Luis.
Cherneka Johnson (6-0) beat Saowaluk Nareepangsri (7-4) by unanimous decision after five rounds on Saturday June 24. The bantamweight fight took place in Eatons Hill. Also, Tayla Harris (1-0) beat Margarite Butcher (0-1) by decision after four rounds in a middleweight bout.
Kandi Wyatt (3-0) won by technical knockout in the first round versus Maria Guzman (0-1) on Saturday June 24. The welterweight fight took place in Calgary.
Elena Saveleva (1-0) won her pro debut by knockout of Olga Zabavina (0-8) in the fourth round on Friday June 23. The flyweight confrontation took place in Pidula Forell.
On Saturday July 1, featherweights Jelena Mrdjenovich (37-10-1) and Stephanie Ducastel (8-3-1) meet in a 10 round clash for the WBC and WBA world titles in Schiltigheim, Bas Rhin. Canada's Mrdjenovich, 35, is making the second defense of both titles since regaining them last year.
Joanna Koelin (8-0) beat Monika Arkania (2-1) by technical knockout in the sixth round on Saturday June 24. The lightweight fight was held in Bernau.
On Saturday July 1, bantamweights Eva Voraberger (21-5) and Hungary's Alexandra Lakatos (6-0-1) meet in a 10 round clash in Munich. Both Voraberger, 27 and Lakatos, 17, are supposedly fighting for the WBC Silver bantamweight title.
On Saturday July 1, featherweights Lucie Sedlackova (9-0-1) and Karina Kopinska (9-18-3) meet in an eight round clash in Dresden.
On Saturday July 1, welterweights Susann Sabionski (0-0) and Kristina Jeffenic (0-9) meet in a four round bout in Hangelsberg.
Irma Sanchez (29-7-1) beat Maria Atilano (0-3-1) by decision after six rounds on Saturday June 24. The flyweight match was held in San Rafael, Guadalajara. Also, Joselyn Arroyo (19-1) defeated Maricruz Rodriguez (1-3) by decision in a six-round bantamweight fight.
Angelica Rascon (9-0) was the winner by decision versus Azucena Hernandez (0-2) after four rounds on Saturday June 24. The super featherweight fight was held in Juarez, Mexico.
Maricela Garcia (2-0) was the winner by decision after four rounds versus Laura Gutierrez (0-2) on Friday June 23. The super welterweight match was held in Jamay, Jalisco. Also, Alondra Ballesteros (2-0) beat Lizbeth Ortega (0-3) after four minimum weight rounds.
On Tuesday June 27, light flyweights Liliana Borquez (0-0) and Carolina Garcia (1-5) meet in an eight round bout in Monterrey.
On Friday June 30, super flyweights Rocio Avila (0-0) and Brenda Resendiz (0-0) meet in a four round bout in Durango.
On Saturday July 1, flyweights Lourdes Juarez (19-2) and Anahi Torres (16-15-1) meet in an eight round contest in Gomez Palacio, Durango. Juarez, 30, has been looking impressive in her last two fights. She is the younger sister of Mariana "Barby" Juarez.
On Saturday July 1, minimum weights Mayela Perez (16-21-4) and winless Perla Perez (0-4) meet in a 10 round bout in Saltillo. Also, Estrella Hernandez (0-6) meets Madai Ruvalcaba (1-0) meet in a four round light flyweight bout.
On Saturday July 1, minimum weights Cristina Hernandez (5-4-1) and Livier De La Cruz (0-8) meet in a four round bout in Tonala, Jalisco.
New Zealand
On Saturday July 1, heavyweights Geovana Peres (1-1) and Tessa Tualevao (0-0) meet in a four round clash in Auckland.
On Friday June 30, super bantamweights Laura Ledezma (9-0) and Venezuela's Claudia Munoz (3-2-1) meet in a 10 round clash in Panama City. Ledezma, 29, fights out of Panama City.
On Tuesday June 27, minimum weights Umi Ishikawa (4-0) and Aisah Alico (6-7) meet in a six round bout in Makati City, Manila.
Ewa Brodnicka (14-0) remained undefeated by split decision against Viviane Obenauf (10-3) after 10 rounds on Saturday June 24. The lightweight clash took place in Gdansk, Poland. The winner Brodnicka, 33, fights out of Warsaw, Poland and holds the interim WBO super featherweight title. Obenauf, 30, fights out of Switzerland and is originally from Brazil.
On Saturday July 1, super lightweights Svetlana Lubkovich (5-0) and Agness Mtimaukanena (5-3-1) of Malawi meet in a 10 round collision in Moscow. Lubkovich, 34, fights out of Moscow.
South Korea
Eun Hye Lee (10-1) defeated Philippine's Jujeath Nagawa (13-18-1) by decision after 10 rounds on Saturday June 24. The flyweight fight for the WIBA title took place in Seoul. The champion Lee fights out of South Korea.
On Friday June 30, minimum weights Joana Pastrana (9-1) and Claudia Ferenczi (16-57-6) meet in a six round match in Madrid.
Ruth Chisale (7-0) won by unanimous decision after six rounds versus Ornella Domini (10-1) in the battle of undefeated. The welterweight clash was held in Le Lignon. The winner Chisale, 20, fights out of Malawi. The loser Domini, 28, fights out of Tannay, Switzerland.
On Saturday July 1, lightweights Viviane Obenauf (10-3) and Consolata Musanga (5-1-3) meet in a six round contest in Berne.
On Friday June 30, light flyweights Siriporn Thaveesuek (38-4) and Nadya Nakhoir (0-1) meet in a 10 round bout in Pattaya.
United Kingdom
Natasha Jones (1-0) won her pro debut by technical knockout of Poland's Monika Antonik (1-4) in the first round on Friday June 23. The lightweight match was held in Newcastle, Great Britain. Jones, 33, fights out of Liverpool, England and a former 2012 Olympian.
Jaime Mitchell (2-0) won by technical knockout of Letrail Solomon (0-1) in the second round on Sunday June 25. The bantamweight fight took place in Dearborn, Michigan.
Sarah French (1-1) beat Amanda Gminski (0-1) by decision after four rounds on Friday June 23. The super welterweight fight was held in Rosemont, Illinois.
Seniesa Estrada (9-0) blew out Rachel Sazoff (0-4) in 38 seconds of the fight on Thursday June 22. The light flyweight bout took place in Los Angeles. Estrada, 25, is ranked in the top 10. Sazoff, 26, was floored twice by Estrada and previously lost to Marlen Esparza in March.
On Sunday July 2, bantamweights Catherine Phiri (12-2) and Flora Machela (5-4) meet in an unspecified number of rounds meeting in N'Dola, Zambia. Phiri, is the former WBC bantamweight world titlist. Also, bantamweights Barbra Banda (4-0) fights Joyce Chileshe (1-2); and welterweight Lolita Muzeya (10-0) fights Joice Awino (7-5-1).


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My name is Anna Robinson and I am the Director. I have kept our business strong by being involved in it on the ground level, so if you need to contact any of us you have a few options. Our priority is with the children and we are not always in the office. If you are ringing about your child's individual needs, such as pick-ups and drop offs, then just ring the clubs direct on the numbers listed below. But if you want more information or even just a chat please do so and leave a message or email us. Your patience is appreciated as we are only a small admin team and believe the extra cost should go towards a quality provision for the children not on loads of secretaries.
Each club mobile is left in the setting overnight, so the latest we pick up is 6pm and the earliest may be 7.30 or 8.00. All mobiles have an answer service so you can leave us a message and we will come back to you as soon as possible.
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i'm sitting in the office of my BF's studio right now. it's freezing. they have no central heat, the windows are single pane, and the floors are made of concrete. i suspect i will be forced to stop typing once i can no longer feel my fingers.
anyway. i thought i would take a cue from grace over at money smart fashion and instead of doing new year's resolutions (which will inevitably end up broken) i'll do a birthday resolution. or resolutions. the hope is that i'll end up keeping them because i haven't made them at the beginning of the year. we'll see. i really like her goal system. she writes out the goal on an index card, and then on the back she writes out the steps she'll take to accomplish that goal. i'm not quite that nifty, so i'll just list them out here.
1) finish the manuscript for a lesson in vanishing. if i fail to accomplish anything before my next birthday, it will most likely be this. i've been working on the blog since march of this year, and i'm now officially stuck (hence the reason there haven't been new posts in a while). but. i'm going to try anyway. i'll even bring my laptop along on my vacation, which i NEVER do.
2) pay off at least one credit card. again, this is harder than it seems. i've cut waaaay back on my shopping and other spending, but somehow i always manage to run out of money before i get paid next, and THAT'S when i actually need something. like groceries. or cat food. so i guess it's more of a goal to be aware of where my money is going. those jimmy john's sandwiches start to add up after a while, ya know.
3) speaking of jimmy johns…i'm going to cut down on soda. really i am. i mean it this time. now, where did i leave my pepsi…
4) read at least one "classic" book. this is, of course, subjective. to some, a "classic" is something that was written before 1900. 0r even 1850. there are others who think that brave new world is a classic. i say both are correct. so, i'll either read one of the books already on my shelf (i do actually own a few books that were originally published before 1900) or read ayn rand's the fountainhead. actually, i think i'll read that one anyway.
there you have it. the goals that i will try to accomplish, or more likely fail to accomplish, before my next birthday. hooray.


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In order to help you in a targeted manner, we need some information from your system. In order to get it as complete as possible and with little effort for you, we have written the following linked script. Please save it on your device. It collects all necessary information on its own and sends it directly to us in the ticket you specify.
If you have not yet received a ticket number, please send us an e-mail first! You will then automatically receive a ticket number in response.
Please see now the following:
1) Save the script "systeminfos. sh" on your computer
Download: https://mytuxedo.de/index.php/s/fMFznkZaYpZFD66/download
2) Open a terminal
3) Navigate to the folder where you saved the script.
If it is stored in the "Downloads" folder, the command would look like this:
cd /home/USERNAME/Downloads
Please replace USERNAME with your username!
4) Make yourself a system administrator:
sudo su
You will be asked for your password, which you have to enter and send with the Enter key. There is NO optical feedback during input!
5) Execute the script with the following command:
chmod +x systeminfos.sh && sh systeminfos.sh
6) Now you will be asked for your ticket number. Please enter the numbers of the ticket number, example:
Now the script starts a job, collects system information AND sends it directly to the ticket you specify. If everything worked, the last message you see looks like this:
adding: tmp/systeminfos.txt (deflated 84%)
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Up next we get to hear from Caroline McCain, one of my Caroline's oldest and dearest friends. Typically, you can find her blogging over at Growing in Grace and this month she's posting thoughts, quotes, and Christmas hymns each day to focus and prepare our hearts for Christmas. Definitely worth checking out! Here's Caroline…
In the midst of great busyness, I am thankful for Advent — the season of patience and preparation that leads up to Christmas day. Advent teaches me to hope, to expect and to wait. Advent quiets my soul and focuses my heart back on Jesus.
During this season, one of the things we celebrate and recognize is hope. We remember the hope the Israelites walked in — hoping for a Messiah who would come to rescue them from their oppression and brokenness. We celebrate the incarnation that met all their hopes from their long, toiling years.
For hundreds of years, the Israelites endured oppression, wandering and exile. They were punished by God for disobedience, and yet God promised that their rescue and restoration was coming. The prophets, again and again, declared that hope was coming — in the Messiah.
"Hoping does not mean doing nothing… It is the opposite of desperate and panicky manipulations, of scurrying and worrying. And hoping is not dreaming. It is not spinning an illusion or fantasy to protect us from our boredom or our pain.
It means a confident, alert expectation that God will do what He said He will do. It is imagination put in the harness of faith. It is a willingness to let God do it His way and in His time." – Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Hope does not protect us from our pain. Rather, it meets us in it. Hope is not simple optimism that things will work out in the end. It is not just simple wishing, but like Peterson said, it is a confident, alert expectation that God will do what He said He will do. Because Christ has already come, our hope is not just a future hope (like the Israelites had) — but a present hope. Christ has come, and he is with us in our brokenness even now.
My prayer for you this Advent season is that your heart would be filled with Hope. Hope in the already come Christ, hope in the present working of His Holy Spirit, and hope in his coming again to make all things right.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." Rev 21:4
Hear more from Caroline at Growing in Grace.


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There are priceless pieces of bad movie-making on almost every level incredibly bad direction; hilariously awful dialogue the magical phrase the witch gets the young innocent to use is Lets fantasy fuck now; cheap and lurid psychedelic lighting effects that woefully try to create an atmosphere of esotericism; a set of the most laughably unconvincing vampire fangs you will ever see in a horror film; and lots of hilariously pretentious allusions to meaning. Like the notoriously bad The Creeping Terror (1964), it appears that the soundtrack has been lost and everything redubbed in the studio (and using only three different voices) which results in some hysterical scenes where people start having telepathic conversations and conducting seductions, even psychotherapy sessions, by telepathy. The soundtrack has been comprised of library music which would not be so bad but for the fact that director Victor Luminera uses well-known pieces of classical music. It all adds up to fascinatingly watchable piece of bad cinema. What with such a wonderful title, you wonder why Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology) has never been discovered before now by the Psychotronic film audience who would go surely absolutely nuts over the quality of bad filmmaking on display and hail it as a lost masterpiece.
The film was made just before The Exorcist (1973) and it is interesting to note the commonality of themes between the two. The Exorcist was criticised for seeming to illuminate an ultra-conservative justification of the 1960s generation gap that child rebellion and extreme behaviour were the result of demonic possession. Psyched by the 4D Witch (A Tale of Demonology)seems to take these fears even further than The Exorcist does. In the corruption of its virginal innocent, the film charts a clear progression that begins with masturbation and leads to loose sex followed by lesbianism, Satanic rituals, necrophilia and then cannibalism. It also highlights far more clearly than The Exorcist the hypocrisy that underlies much of this conservative attitude the contrast of this moral attitude with a clear prurient delight and schoolboy fascination when it comes to the sex scenes.


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Heritage Festival: Jay County Historical Society Museum
Saturday, September 22, 2018 - Sunday, 23 September 2018
The 16th Annual Jay County Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, September 22nd from 11 AM to 6 PM and on Sunday, September 23rd, from 11 AM to 4 PM at the Jay County Historical Museum. Admission to the festival is FREE!
Exhibits, demonstrations and displays will be held both inside and outside the museum. Those demonstrations inside the museum will include gun making, weaving, printing, and quilting. Those outside the building will include a broom maker, rope maker, woodcarvers, stained glass artist, and a blacksmith. There will be early encampments, a Civil War encampment, horse drawn wagon rides, and other reenactors.
Many childrens activities and crafts will be provided, also free of charge. Kids will be able to walk on stilts, roll hoops, make a birdhouse from a gourd, do a leather punching activity, milk a âcow,â and other fun and educational activities. Kids may also sample the feel of a pioneer school in the one-room school inside the museum. Vendors of all sorts of homemade craft items will be on the grounds.
This years stage entertainment features groups returning from last year, along with new entertainment.
Parking will once again be available at East Elementary School. Golf carts will be available both days to transport festival-goers back and forth. However, golf carts will not be allowed on the festival grounds.
Location 903 E. Main St., Portland
Contact Pam @ 260-726-7178


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