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A multiday electronic music festival that drew tens of thousands of people to Randalls Island over Labor Day weekend was canceled on Sunday, its last day, after city officials said two concertgoers had died and at least four others had fallen critically ill during the first two days of the event, known as the Electric Zoo.
Both deaths were consistent with use of the drug MDMA, also known as Ecstasy or molly, prompting the city to recommend that the concerts be canceled just hours before the third day of the festival was to start, the mayor's office said, citing "serious health risks." It remained unclear whether Electric Zoo, which was in its fifth year and had become a major attraction for electronic dance music fans, would return next year.
Asked if the deaths would prompt the city to take a harder look at whether to issue permits for similar events in the future, Marc LaVorgna, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's press secretary, said, "From Simon and Garfunkel to the Black Eyed Peas, concerts in parks and public spaces have been part of the fabric of New York City for decades." But he added, "We are examining what occurred at this weekend's event."
For the thousands of fans who flocked to Electric Zoo for big-name acts like Krewella, Avicii and David Guetta, the first two days were a marathon party, a chance to dance from morning until night. In animal masks, angel wings, fluorescent tutus and glitter-encrusted bikinis, beaded bracelets and rainbow wigs, the concertgoers had come from all over the country, paying around $200 each day. Trance music and dubstep boomed from five stages as disc jockeys urged on the cheerful, buzzing crowd, which topped 100,000 last year.
The party atmosphere was fueled not just by friends and music, concertgoers said on Sunday, but also by drugs — particularly MDMA. That has become the drug of choice for fans on the electronic dance music circuit, said Dr. Julie Holland, a psychiatrist who researches the drug. Its use has risen as raves have come back in vogue, she said.
Molly, which comes as a white powder, can give users a happy, relaxed feeling, especially when they are engaged in repetitive behaviors like dancing; users often dance for hours on end, Dr. Holland said. She said the drug itself is not a cause of death, and can be used safely in a therapeutic setting. "But the rave model makes it less safe," she said, noting that molly — as the pure form of MDMA favored by rave fans is nicknamed — is easily contaminated with other, more dangerous substances and easily counterfeited.
Drug-related deaths and arrests have dogged several popular raves, like Electric Daisy Carnival, an all-night dance party with stops in several cities, which was forced to leave Los Angeles after a 15-year-old girl died of an overdose there in 2010.
Julie Wood, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bloomberg, said Electric Zoo's organizers, the promoter Made Event, paid the Randalls Island Park Alliance, the nonprofit group that maintains the publicly owned island, a site fee of $600,000. The organizers provided private security, including 550 licensed security guards, said Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for the organizers. The guards could observe the crowd from raised platforms using binoculars and night vision equipment, he said, adding that all concertgoers were required to pass five checkpoints and submit to a pat-down and a bag search before arriving. But some attendees said they had been asked only to open their bags or were not checked at all.
Some of the security measures focused on medical issues. Organizers had cautioned fans in public announcements to look out for drug-related symptoms and seek medical help if needed. Doctors, paramedics and emergency medical technicians staffed five medical tents and patrolled the crowd, and more than a dozen ambulances were on site, Ms. Wood said.
By all accounts, free water was readily available to prevent dehydration and heatstroke during the hot weather, but that could have exacerbated a possible side effect of MDMA, overhydration, Dr. Holland said.
Several concertgoers said they had seen dozens of people vomiting or "passed out" on the grass after drinking alcohol or using drugs, and who did not appear to be attended by any medical staff. "You saw a lot of people puking and collapsing down and laying on the ground," said Christopher Stuebbe, 19, who had come to the festival from Ohio.
But other concertgoers posted messages on Twitter that they had received unsolicited and thoughtful help from the medical staff, saying they had checked revelers' temperatures and given them free water.
Police Department undercover narcotics investigators made 31 drug-related arrests during the festival, said Sgt. Lee Jones, a department spokesman.
The two concertgoers who died were identified as Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, N.Y., and Olivia Rotondo, 20, of Providence, R.I.
Mr. Russ graduated in 2012 from Syracuse University, his father, John Russ, said by telephone from the family home in Rochester. He said his son had gone to the festival with 23 members of his Syracuse fraternity class and friends from Rochester.
"He was a very good son," he said.
A golfer and high school football player who grew up a passionate Buffalo Bills fan, the younger Mr. Russ wanted to run his own sports blog someday, said his aunt, Patti Fanto-Holdaway. He and his friends were avid electronic music fans, going to at least one other festival within the past year, and had looked forward to seeing Avicii, his favorite artist, she said.
Ms. Fanto-Holdaway said the family still did not have the full account of what had happened.
"He was a big jokester," she said. "He did light up every room."
Initial reports indicated Mr. Russ left the event at 11:49 p.m. Friday in one of the event's ambulances and arrived at Harlem Hospital just before midnight with a high fever and a rapid heart rate. It was unclear at what time the event's medical staff began treating him. He stopped breathing at 3:10 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 3:21 a.m.
Ms. Rotondo, whose Facebook page said she was studying communications at the University of New Hampshire, was taken to Metropolitan Hospital at 8:45 p.m. on Saturday and pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.
Ms. Rotondo had excitedly posted on Twitter in the days before the event, sharing a photo of herself wearing giraffe-shaped slippers and writing, "Am I ready for @ElectricZooNY or what."
"She was the nicest girl I've ever had the pleasure of knowing," said Noah Burkholz, a friend who had traveled to the festival with her. Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city's chief medical examiner, said the office was awaiting the results of toxicology and tissue tests before determining the official causes of death. But the police said the circumstances of the deaths were consistent with drug use. The four concertgoers who were critically ill were expected to recover, the police said.
Though some fans expressed sympathy for the family and friends of Mr. Russ and Ms. Rotondo on Twitter and others bemoaned the increasing prevalence of drugs at music festivals, many did not hide their displeasure over the cancellation, posting that they were being unfairly "punished" for others' mistakes.
Single-ticket holders for Sunday will receive a full refund, and those with three-day passes will have one-third of their ticket prices refunded.
"The founders of Electric Zoo send our deepest condolences to the families of the two people who passed away this weekend," the organizers said in a statement.


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Main purpose of making Codeception 2.0 was not to break things up. Instead we focused on making Codeception simpler in use and reduce that awkward WTF moments you were experiencing rebuilding Guy classes and discovering dark magic of Maybe object.
That's it. Codeception does not have 2-phases of execution and runs your tests as native PHP scenarios. It also does not require you to rebuild actor classes on configuration change - it is done automatically. And at last we don't have Guys anymore. They were renamed in more neutral Tester objects. But it is up to you how will you call your actors: Testers, Guys, or even ninjas, those names can be configured!
We decided to change some naming conventions in Codeception.
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Royal Cayman Island Police Service said that Byles, 57, of Pinehurst North Carolina, was scuba diving with his wife. Both were apart of an organized group dive off Seven Mile Beach on Sunday. Byles disappeared between the time he surfaced around 10:20 am and the 100 yard swim to the party's awaiting boat.
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The news is focused on bad things. It's a simple principle. People are more interested in bad things - they sell better. The public wants to know about things that they think will affect on their way of life - like war, disasters, and the weather - but are less interested in things that will have little effect on them, such as poverty in the developing world.
When studying journalism academically, there is a set of guidelines that make a story newsworthy, called news values. While it numbers among values such as frequency, familiarity, identification, shareability, and predictability, negativity, however - the idea that bad news is more newsworthy than good news - is a key value.
I find this all rather depressing, to be perfectly honest. At the moment, and I have full confidence that in the past, much like as at present, almost every story you look at seems to be negative in one way or another. A brief glance of the BBC News website as I write this column seems to confirm this - top stories include Donald Trump accusing Barack Obama of wiretapping his campaign offices (I'm pretty sure he didn't); controversy around whether Emma Watson can call herself a feminist for posing "almost topless" (she can); Chancellor Philip Hammond ruling out spending any surplus cash on social care in his upcoming budget (even though he kind of should).
I perfectly accept that I too probably select my news based on conflict and negativity, the drama of the situations make them all the more attracting and interesting. But should we not carve out a section of the news to focus on something positive?
The work of organisations such as the United Nations doesn't always make the headlines. The UN states that each year it vaccinates 40 per cent of the world's children, assists 65 million displaced persons, provides food to more than 80 million people, and helps keep the peace with over 120 000 peacekeepers in 16 operations on four continents. Would it not be good to feature the positive work that the UN, and other organisations, do across the world? Would it not help to mitigate the negativity by throwing some positivity in there?
The UN is an important organisation that does some amazing work. And I understand it's important to tell the public key news, be it negative or not. But should there not be some good too? After all, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.
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Lisette (1991) is conceptual performance artist currently living and working in Amsterdam.
"In my work I challenge conventions, routine behavior and banal acts and I question their self-evidence. Starting point of my work is the confrontation with myself; questioning and challenging my own bodily conditioning, lust for control and daily routine. As performance artist I am using myself to provide audiences with the same confrontation as I undergo, both in body and spirit. I pose questions by doing. My critical findings are shared in live performances, performance video art, as installations or whichever form is suited best for transferring the research results and forcing confrontation."
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Japan's key inflation gauge hits three-year highBy Leika Kihara TOKYO
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Kuroda abd Abe should be handed 250,000yen and two kids and told to go
That's less than their monthly pocket change!
What good is it to the economy with an increase in inflation and resulting reduction in consumption due ti the increased inflation.
Kuroda abd Abe should be handed 250,000yen and two kids and told to go
shopping and pay all the bills just like any normal family does, maybe it hammer some sense into them.
People getting 0 % interest on savings and wage growth flat! How the heck can consumers spend more?!!!


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Resources at Risk
A number of federally threatened or endangered species are known to occur in Hays County, including the golden-cheeked warbler, black-capped vireo, and various aquatic species. Several poorly known cave-adapted invertebrate species are also expected to occur within Hays County.
Hays County also includes a number of sensitive aquatic and geologic features, including important springs and aquifer recharge features.
The Hays County Habitat Conservation Plan will identify important natural resources in the County, evaluate potential threats to their health, and provide a program for protecting them for future generations. The focus of the plan will be to protect habitat for endangered species. However, conserving habitat for these target species can also benefit other species that rely on similar habitats, as well as unique landscape features like springs and caves.
Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia)
Description: The golden-cheeked warbler is a small, insectivorous bird. Adult males have black on the crown, nape, back, throat, and upper breast. The wings are black with two white wing bars. The cheeks are a bright golden-yellow with a black eyeline. The underparts are white streaked with black on the flanks. Adult females are similar, but duller; the crown and back are olive-green with some black streaking (Oberholser 1974, Farrand 1983). Golden-cheeked warbler photo by Earl Nottingham, TPWD (2005).
Habitat: In Texas, the golden-cheeked warbler uses mature juniper-oak woodlands as nesting habitat (Wahl et al. 1990, FWS 1992). Ashe juniper (also called "cedar") and various oak species are the dominant tree species throughout the warbler's breeding range. Bark shreds of mature Ashe juniper are used by the species for constructing nests. Golden-cheeks are typically found in areas of steep slopes, canyon heads, draws and adjacent ridgetops (Pulich 1976, Ladd 1985).
Status: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the golden-cheeked warbler as federally endangered in 1990. The population decline of the golden-cheeked warbler is a result of various factors related to habitat destruction and fragmentation (Wahl et al. 1990, USFWS 1992, Ladd and Gass 1999). Three primary causes for the decline in the amount of suitable warbler habitat are land clearing for agricultural use, land development, and reservoir construction (Oberholser 1974). Nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds may also have contributed to the golden-cheeked warbler's population decline (Pulich 1976, USFWS 1992).
Want to Know More? Read more about the life history and recommended management of the golden-cheeked warbler by Linda Campbell of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (2003).
Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla)
Description: The black-capped vireo is a small, insectivorous bird. Characteristic features of the male include a black crown, nape and face, and white "spectacles" formed by white eye-rings connected by a white band. Females are similar, but duller, and have a slaty-gray cap. The back of the bird is olive green, the wings and tail are blackish with yellow-green edgings, the breast and belly are white with greenish yellow flanks, and the wings have two pale yellow wing bars (Oberholser 1974, Farrand 1983). Black-capped vireo photo by TPWD.
Habitat: : The black-capped vireo uses patchy clusters of shrubs and thickets, with a few scattered trees (Graber 1957 and 1961, USFWS 1991, Grzybowski 1995). Ashe juniper is usually not the dominant species, although it may be co-dominant with oaks. The shrub layer in vireo habitat is usually four to ten feet high, with leaf cover extending densely to the ground. Vegetation structure at this level is necessary because vireos place their nests at an average height of only about three feet from the ground (Graber 1961, USFWS 1991, Grzybowski 1995). Black-capped vireo habitat photo by USFWS.
Status: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed the black-capped vireo as federally endangered in 1987. The recovery plan for the vireo identifies several threats/reasons for listing, including: population decline, low reproductive success, low recruitment of breeding age birds in colonies, nest parasitism by cowbirds, direct habitat destruction, habitat loss or deterioration through control of natural processes, and indirect effects of land use (USFWS 1991).
Want to Know More? Read more about the life history and recommended management of the black-capped vireo by Linda Campbell of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (2003).
Aquatic Resources
Hays County includes several major, mapped springs (including San Marcos Springs and Jacob's Well). Many of the threatened or endangered species in Hays County are salamanders, insects, fish, or plants that occur in association with spring outlets.
Perennial waterways provide high quality aquatic habitat for wildlife and recreational opportunities for people, including Blanco River, San Marcos River, Pedernales River, Cypress Creek, and Onion Creek. The County includes approximately 70 miles of river and 430 miles of named streams. San Marcos River photo by Earl Nottingham, TPWD (2005).
Both the Edwards Aquifer and Trinity Aquifer outcrop within Hays County, and provide drinking water to much of the population.
Farrand, J., Jr. (ed.). 1983. The Audubon Society master guide to birding. 3 Vols. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1244 pp.
Graber, J.W. 1957. A bioecological study of the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus). Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 203 pp.
Graber, J.W. 1961. Distribution, habitat requirements, and life history of the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla). Ecol. Mono. 31:313-336.
Grzybowski, J.A. 1995. Black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus). In The Birds of North America, No. 181 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union. Washington, D.C.
Ladd, C.G. 1985. Nesting habitat requirements of the golden-cheeked warbler. M.S. thesis. Southwest Texas St. Univ., San Marcos, Texas. 65 pp.
Ladd, C., and L. Gass. 1999. Golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia). In The Birds of North America, No. 420 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. 24 pp.
Oberholser, H.C. 1974. The bird life of Texas. 2 vols. University of Texas Press, Austin. 1069 pp.
Pulich, W.M. 1976. The golden-cheeked warbler: a bioecological study. Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept., Austin, Texas. 172 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1991. Black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus) recovery plan. FWS, Austin, TX. 74 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1992. Golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) recovery plan. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 88 pp.
Wahl, R., D.D. Diamond and D. Shaw. 1990. The golden-cheeked warbler: a status review. Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Worth, Texas. 63 pp. plus appendices and maps.


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We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, many of whom are fleeing for their lives. And we want to set the record straight.
We conduct research with migrants in Central America, Mexico, the U.S., and around the world; some of us have walked with migrant caravans. We have been working with these populations—our confidants, research partners, and friends—for several decades.
Migrants from Central America and Mexico have long faced systematic racism and discrimination from U.S. administrations, from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama.
However, we find the Trump administration's rhetoric about the current migrant caravan particularly dangerous and blatantly false. We want to correct five lies the administration has promoted about people fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries.
- There are not any "terrorists" on the caravan.
Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence have publicly stated that there are "Middle Easterners" and "terrorists" in the migrant caravan. These claims are not merely false—which would imply some amount of good faith—but are, rather, patently absurd and racist.
There is no evidence of terrorists on this caravan nor any other, and equating Middle Easterners with "terrorists" is dangerous and politically-motivated racism. And if there were a family fleeing violence in Syria alongside a family from Honduras, why should it matter?
These lies obscure actual solidarity happening on the ground, including the many Mexican and Guatemalan people who have fed and sheltered migrants along their route. We encourage the U.S. public and politicians to respond to the people fleeing persecution and violence with compassion and care.
- Migrant caravans are not new and they are not "organized by Democrats to hurt Republicans."
Though caravans have been made into boogiemen by the Trump administration and some US media outlets, in Latin America the word "caravana" connotes something closer to a group of pilgrims walking together for spiritual well-being and bodily safety.
Migrant caravans have been occurring in Latin America for over a decade—during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. In fact, there are fewer caravans today than in the past. Caravans are not partisan and they are not funded by the Democrats. The current caravan was organized by a small group of Hondurans by social media and word of mouth with no outside institutional or professional support. In fact, caravans only gained recognition in the United States after the Trump administration began vilifying them.
For years, the Mexican government has deported migrants, especially children, without due process, and has willfully ignored the murder and disappearance of thousands of Central American migrants. Caravans allow people to make their suffering and humanity visible. It is by joining together that they gain the safety and recognition necessary to expose human rights abuses.
- The government of Honduras is not "funding" the migrant caravan.
Migrant caravans have been organized by priests and migrants themselves, but there has never been a caravan organized by Honduras, Mexico, or any other government.
In fact, in 2009, the U.S. Department of State supported a military coup that overthrew Honduras' democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya. The country's public sector—including education and healthcare—has been decimated by the regimes that followed. Honduras has become increasingly unstable with gangs and paramilitary organizations violently wrestling for control. Thousands have been displaced, and prominent activists like Berta Caceres have been murdered for speaking out.
The Trump administration's conspiratorial claims that the caravan is organized by shadowy government actors are patently false. To the contrary, Honduras attempted to close its borders to prevent its citizens from leaving, in direct violation of international law.
It is specifically due to the impacts of the U.S.-supported coup and massive electoral fraud that individuals and families organized this caravan in Honduras, running for their lives.
- The US does not already spend money on humanitarian aid in Central America.
Almost all aid money sent to Central America is through the Alliance for Prosperity, which the Obama administration joined in 2015, especially to deter Central Americans from fleeing their homes. Many of us have joined Central American people in speaking out against the Alliance because the vast majority of money has funded privatization programs and military contractors, often from the United States.
Predictably, instead of prosperity, this militarization only resulted in greater violence for Central American people. Forces ostensibly trained and armed to fight gangs and government corruption splintered into well-organized militias. Rather than benefitting Central Americans in need, U.S. aid has helped make their countries unlivable.
- It is not possible for the migrant caravan to "go back to their countries and apply for citizenship."
No one can apply for citizenship outside the United States. While there may be mechanisms to apply for other forms of legal relief, migrants must already be inside the U.S. to apply for both citizenship and asylum. Even then, the asylum process usually takes years and often subjects asylum applicants to detention and intense surveillance. Though all of this is frequently reported, it appears to be wholly ignored by the Trump administration. In fact, the U.S. spends over $100 million a year on the Southern Border Plan, which pays Mexico to catch and deport Central Americans. Such externalized borders set a disturbing and dangerous precedent that risks violating human rights and breaking international law.
We stand firmly against U.S. efforts to prevent Central Americans from exercising their human right to seek safety and refuge. The fact that Donald Trump has declared that he will not allow the migrant caravan to apply for asylum and that he will send U.S. troops to prevent them from doing so goes directly against international law, which guarantees that anyone being targeted for persecution and violence in their home country has the right to seek protection in another country.
Such a position is not only inhumane, but also a denial of a well-documented history of U.S. intervention in Central America, through overt colonialism, corporate exploitation, and military intervention. This history of U.S. intervention has led to the conditions forcing individuals and families to flee today.
The people walking in the migrant caravan are seeking protection from violence and persecution, like so many others throughout history. They are not our enemies. They are human beings like us. They are our neighbors who deserve our protection and welcome.
Signatories listed in alphabetical order:
Teresa Abbruzzese
Maurizio Albahari
Alejandro Alfaro-Santiz
Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees (AANIR)
Elena Arengo
Patricia Baquedano-López
Deanna Barenboim
Janet Bauer
Rebecca Bedwell
Peter Benson
Deborah A. Boehm
Philippe Bourgois
Karen Breda
Caroline Brettell
Ronda L. Brulotte
Nancy Burke
Jennifer L. Burrell
Roberto Campos
Shay Cannedy
Megan Carney
Elizabeth Cartwright
Heide Castañeda
Bianet Castellanos
Fernando Montero Castrillo
Leo Chavez
Alex E. Chavez
RoseMarie Chierici
Kathleen Coll
Nick Copeland
Ana Croegaert
Maria Cruz-Torres
Mónica DeHart
Jason De Leon
Whitney Duncan
Timothy D. Dye
Sarah England
Brad Erickson
Elizabeth Velasquez Estrada
Susana Vargas Evaristo
Chantal Figueroa
Dolores Figueroa de Ciesas
Josh Fisher
Caitlin Fouratt
Patricia Foxen
Amelia Frank-Vitale
Fabian Fernandez
Rebecca Galemba
Olivia Gall
Alyshia Gálvez
Jennie Gamlin
Ismael García-Colón
Christina Marisa Getrich
Jennifer Goett
Roberto J. González
Michael Grofe
Linda B. Green
Lourdes Gutierrez
Edmund 'Ted' Hamann
Judith Hanna
Bridget Hayden
Lauren Heidbrink
Aida Hernandez
Josiah Heyman
Julia Meredith Hess
Seth M. Holmes
Sarah Horton
Vincent Joos
Ieva Jusionyte
Nolan Kline
Lisa Maya Knauer
Roger N. Lancaster
Martha Lincoln
Hilda Lloréns
Christopher Loperena
William D. Lopez
James Loucky
Setha Low
Elizabeth Maier
Miriam Magaña Lopez
Peter Mancina
Ruth Mandel
Russell Manzano
Kora Maldonado
Teresa Mares
Carlos Martinez
Josh Mayer
Siobhán McGuirk
Saira Akhtar Mehmood
Lisa Meierotto
Caroline M. Melly
Jason Miller
Almita Miranda
Ellen Moodie
Mariana Mora
Mariela Nuñez-Janes
Elizabeth Oglesby
Krisjon Olson
Lina B. Palomo
Debra Pelto
Ranmalee A. Perera
Ricardo Pérez
Ramona Perez
Gina M. Perez
James Phillips
Jessica Piekielek
Adrienne Pine
Baron Pineda
Adán Quan
James Quesada
Florencia Quesada
Linda Rabben
Debra Rodman
Leila Rodriguez
Ana Y Ramos-Zayas
Jonathan Daniel Rosa
Gilberto Rosas
Jeremy Rayner
J.C. Salyer
Lillie Sánchez
Nelli Sarsyan
Dvera Saxton
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Edward Schortman
Paola Sesia
Tim Sieber
Rachel Sieder
Maria Teresa Sierra
Carol Silverman
Denise Spitzer
Shannon Speed
Max J. Stein
Lynn Stephen
Angela Stuesse
Candice Lowe Swift
Laura Tilghman
Kedron Thomas
M Gabriela Torres
Marisa Ruiz Trejo
Sheila Tully
Alayne Unterberger
Emma Varley
Anahi Viladrich
Wendy Alexandra Vogt
Levi Vonk
Amy J. Ward
K. Eva Weiss
Nanneke Winters
Annie Wilkinson
Sarah Willen
Tamar Diana Wilson
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Kristen Yarris
Emily Yates-Doerr
Patricia Zavella
*As one of the authors of this piece, the Anthropologist Action Network for Immigrants and Refugees (AANIR) would like to share that there will be an Executive Roundtable at the AAA Annual Meeting titled "Anthropologists Adapting to Anti-Immigrant Climates: Resistance and Resilience on Campuses and in Communities" (Session 5-0045), from 8:00-9:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 17, in the San Jose Convention Center MR 211 A on the Concourse Level. AANIR seeks to harness the knowledge, skills, and political platforms of anthropologists to support and advocate on behalf of immigrants and refugees on our campuses and in our communities. AANIR invites anthropologists to join in related efforts and to visit the network website.


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Family Tree
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Last winter when I was playing with wood, I saw a few things that looked similar to this, and I decided to make my own twist on the fencepost tree idea. The ideal situation would have been to find 'used' wood (it's so fun to recycle) from a torn down fence, BUT I found some affordable (new) pieces at Home Depot. Jason cut the fence post for me down to the sizes I asked him to cut, and he even made a post for the bottom so it will stick in the ground (I think I used three pieces total for the trunk, and branches). I found the ornaments and star at Hobby Lobby over the holidays and I painted those, and glittered them (because I like glitter), then I nailed all the pieces together. We celebrated Lois' birthday today, and I decided she needed a new yard sign for the holidays, but I can't give it to her at Christmas (too late!), so this was my opportunity-my 'out of season' birthday gift (I warned everyone it's a homemade year). I even bought an ornament for Blythe, and I added her name this past week :O). There is room to 'grow'....but for now, this is the Mariam's Tree. It was a fun, very do-able yard sign. My friend Terry would have cut her own ornaments, and star out with her scroll saw, but...I am all about cheating with the pre-shaped ornaments from the store.
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Tamar is NOT for none and she woke up with time today.... Lol.
According to Tamar, there is a woman on instagram claiming that Tamar's husband, Vince is the father of her daughter. In response, Tamar posted a very dramatic rant along with a photo of the child, to let everyone know that Vince is NOT the father. Check it out inside.
Let me be CRYSTAL clear before this untrue story gets out of hand ... this lady is claiming that this beautiful child is Vincent Herbert's...(on Instagram)🤔.. let me explain to you all what kind of WOMAN I am!! If this was.. she would be MINE as well.. she would be all over MY instagram, media outlets, pictures interviews etc.. because that's the type of WOMAN I am. I'm not selfish and hateful that I would only recognize the child he has with ME!! I would NEVER hide that part of my husband because he is my husband not my property and I love EVERY parts of him!!! Ok?? I'm not and would NOT be ashamed of HIM or HIS children/child. Why would I want him to miss out on being a part of his daughter's life?? Do you know how unpleased God would be and how that would effect OUR relationship in the end??... we would be DOOMED!!am I only supposed to talk about LOGAN?? Like, if this was his daughter that would make them siblings... and I would NEVER be so selfish and ashamed to not allow them to be who GOD has called them to be to each other!!! how would that make them feel about ME in years to come?? How WACK would I be?? And what kind of MAN would he be to allow such a disgusting woman just because I'm his so called wife to treat his kids as if they are less than OUR child!! I would punch myself in the face for that crud ball ass shit. All because I'm mad and uncomfortable with how she was conceived?? Listen ladies and gentlemen... don't let NO ONE come in between you and your kids!! It's not worth it!! And if they jealous of your kids they don't love you and only want to control you!! 🏃🏾for the hills... now back to this Instagram baby's mother... GET YOUR LIFE!! The night before we got married he was over TONI BRAXTON's house!!! And yes he USED to like white women but only the ones that look like Kelly ripka😩😩😂😂🤣🤣🤣 and you don't make the cut boo!! so please go to Maury and get your DNA cause ( in Maury's voice) in the case of the instagram baby mama... you... are.. NOT the father!!! (Cut to) your ass running off the stage falling on the couch crying nooooooo get the cameras out of my face😩😩 #happythursdayyall❤ #shitsandgiggles😂
In other news... their reality show "Tamar & Vince" will return to WeTv soon.


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Hansen is now in his ninth season as the head coach of the Middlebury men's tennis team in 2019-20. He came to Middlebury from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has served as the head men's coach for 30 years.
In his first eight seasons, he has continued the post-season tradition with the team advancing into the NCAA Tournament each year. In the spring of 2013, his team finished 20-5 with a trip to the NCAA quarterfinals, while in 2014, Hansen's squad finished with a 21-5 mark, advancing to the NCAA final four. A year later, the Panthers advanced all the way to the national title match with a 22-5 record, tied for the second-most wins in the program's history. In 2016, Middlebury once again advanced to the national championship match and finished the season with 20 victories. During the 2017 season, the Panthers posted a 21-4 record and advanced to the NCAA Semifinals. In the 2018 campaign, Hansen and the Panthers won the program's third NCAA Championship (2004, 2010, 2018), finishing with a single-season record 25 wins (25-4). Last spring, he led the team to the program's ninth NESCAC Championship as well as the NCAA Semifinals, finishing with a record of 19-7.
Hansen guided Lubomir Cuba to the 2017 NCAA Singles championship, becoming the first Panther in the program's history to accomplish the feat. A few hours later, Cuba teamed up with William de Quant for the NCAA Doubles crown, also the initial duo in the program's laurels to earn the title. In 2018, Cuba and Kyle Schlanger earned the NCAA Doubles title.
The creator of the UCSC tennis program, Hansen is regarded as one of the top coaches in the country. Hansen led the team to seven NCAA Championships (1989, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2009), appearing in the championship match 13 of 24 years. Hansen's players have won 13 NCAA doubles titles and seven NCAA singles titles. Under Hansen's direction, the UCSC tennis program produced 117 All-Americans.
Hansen has been named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Coach of the Year four times and in 2000 was honored as the ITA Coach of the Decade for the 1990s. During that time span, his teams were undefeated against Division III opponents in the regular season going with an impressive 73-0 mark. Hansen has served as an executive board member of the ITA as well as its Division III representative. He also served as the chair of the NCAA Division III Tennis Committee as well as a member of the ITA Rules Committee.
As a player, Hansen was Northern California's Open Player of the Year and was ranked in the top eight for five-straight years during the late 1970s. He received an ATP world ranking as well as much valuable coaching experience while playing the international circuit before coming to UC Santa Cruz. He registered wins over many top-100 players including top-10 players Brad Gilbert and Paul McNamee. He won the USTA 40 National Grass Court Championships held in Santa Barbara.
During the summers, Hansen directed the NIKE Santa Cruz Tennis Camps where he was a pioneer in the development of the tournament training program for ranked juniors.
Hansen is a 1975 graduate of San Jose State University, where he earned a degree in physical education. He later returned to his alma mater and received a Master's degree in the same subject in 1980.


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Managing teams
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There are two default team categories you can't remove, Owners and Users.
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Locate the "Delete Team" option beneath the Applications and Members selection.
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If you choose to delete a team, it will no longer show in the Teams area. You will lose team information contained in this team permanently, such as user access to the listed applications
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On New Year's Eve, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers gave an interview to ESPN-540 Milwaukee in which he affirmed, for those who had been wondering, that he "really, really likes women." He said it with the gumption and authority of a man belting out a play call at the line of scrimmage. "45! 51! REALLY! REALLY! LIKES WOMEN! HIKE!"
For those who thought to require such confirmation, perhaps an explanation is in order. A couple of weeks ago, a site called The Fame Driven published a speculative post -- relying mostly on Tweets from Rodgers' male personal assistant -- wondering if Rodgers was "involved" with that assistant and recently had a falling out. Few had heard of The Fame Driven before this story -- its servers consistently crashed over the weekend once larger sites picked up on it -- and it is worth noting that the story was so inelegantly written that it actually contains the phrases "BOMBOCLAT!" and "We just can't with this notion!" within the text. (Sorry: "Text.") Even though the story had gotten far enough along that Deadspin said it called around about it (and found nothing that pointed toward substantiation), roughly 99.999 percent of the sports world hadn't heard a thing about gay rumors involving Aaron Rodgers until Rodgers brought them up to deny them during his regular ESPN Milwaukee chat.
There are few sports stories more inherently irresistible to sports media than a gay athlete story. It is that rare sports story that is completely sordid and juicy and page-clicky but also can be couched, often disingenuously, in entirely good intentions. Every normal person knows that with the number of professional athletes there are, using simple math, there are dozens, if not scores, of active gay athletes playing today. That none of them are doing so openly is a sad commentary on the world of sports and a bottomless fountain of unfounded rumors. Every journalist knows that the first Major Gay Athlete is a massive story, so they can't resist. The minute Rodgers made his comments, everyone picked up on it, because then you can talk about it, then you can get all the tongues wagging and insulate yourself from criticism that you're just rumormongering. Hey, he brought it up. And implicit in every story: Boy, Rodgers sure is protesting a lot, isn't he?
This sort of half-assed outing -- which is not even outing; it's basically outing a straight person? -- is even worse than actual outing, a practice most (if not all) of the gay community wants nothing to do with. (Here's Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic in 2004, and Rachel Maddow has a helpful Three Basic Beliefs On The Ethics Of Coming Out that seem completely sensible and human to this straight guy.) You saw this in Hollywood for decades, the whispers, the hints -- though there seems to be less of it today, as it's more and more clear that the general public just doesn't care. As George Clooney put it, when asked to comment on rumors about himself, "I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I'm very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay? I'll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don't give a s---."
But George Clooney works in Hollywood, and Aaron Rodgers works in sports. If fellow actors think George Clooney is gay, he wins another Oscar. If the sports world (players, coaches, media, fans) thinks Aaron Rodgers is gay, his entire planet explodes.
Whenever an athlete is accused of being gay -- or even lightly rumored -- they tend to fall all over themselves asserting their heterosexuality. Mike Piazza, most famously, called a press conference to let the entire New York City beat reporter corps know that he dated women. Manti Te'o, when his deceptions about his fake dead girlfriend were revealed, was double-plus emphatic when asked by Katie Couric whether he was gay. Far from it. FAR from it!
And now there's Rodgers, who made sure he got an extra "really" in there to shoot down a rumor that he himself had just brought up. It is not enough for an athlete to say that he is not gay. He must make it absolutely clear -- to the guys in the locker room, to the radio bro interviewing him, to all the fans at Lambeau -- that it's the most absurd thing he's ever come across. That him being gay would cut the fabric of space and time. That the question would even come up is embarrassing to the very notion of questions, or words, or thoughts. The logical extension of one of these answers is for a player to say, "Look, if I could have sex with a woman in front of you right now just to show you, I would. I'll probably have sex with a woman the minute I'm away from you people. I wish I didn't have to answer these questions right now, not because I don't want to, but because it takes me away from my true passion, which is having sex with women. These are five minutes I could have spent having sex with a woman. Five minutes I can't get back."
The number of things that Aaron Rodgers could have been accused of by a random website that he wouldn't have felt compelled to comment on are too numerous to list. But this, this he felt like he had to clarify. In a chest-thumping, lookit, lookit, way. This had to be dealt with.
Every year, someone (sometimes me) says this is the year we finally have an openly gay athlete, that the last closet is finally opened. And every year they're wrong. It honestly feels like we're getting further away. When I originally conceived this column, I imagined putting together a fake press release for athletes "accused" of being gay that would be similar to what Clooney said, that it doesn't matter, that the very question itself sets back progress. But no athlete's doing that, not today. Rodgers, depressingly, might have handled this exactly right. In an age of Jason Collins not finding a job and gay rumors potentially blackballing an NFL player from the league, it feels even riskier for an athlete to be out today than it did two years ago. The anticipation and the speculation has led to a backlash. The calls for sports to open up are making them more tight-knit and closed. People keep saying it's getting better in professional sports. I'm not seeing it.
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The Figure Four stretch is one of my all-time favourite piriformis muscle stretches to do, especially for lower back pain and sciatica relief. This is a great lower back exercise to help relieve muscle tension from sitting too long at a desk. It is perfect for when I see someone come into the clinic with a dull ache in their lower back, say from a long car drive, or maybe from sitting for too long in a meeting, plane or train. In these situations is the best time to perform this type of hip stretch.
Well now that I have talked up a storm on my all-time favourite lower back and hip stretch, I guess you'll want to know how to do it. Today I'm going to show you how to stretch the piriformis muscle in your bum. I have found some videos online showing you how to perform the stretch in three different ways: seated, laying down and standing position.
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The Piriformis Muscle
If you don't know what the piriformis muscle is lets me first explain.
The piriformis muscle runs from your triangle-shaped bone in your pelvis called the sacrum out to the top of your hip bone at a point called the greater trochanter. The action of the piriformis muscle is to help externally rotate your hip when walking. This is why runners can develop lower back pain, hip pain, buttock pain diagnosed as piriformis syndrome.
There are lots of other muscles in your bum. The piriformis muscle is just one of them. Again the reason why particular this buttock muscle gets so much attention is because the sciatic nerve passes near it causing a trapped nerve in back pain condition called piriformis syndrome.
Referred pain from a tight piriformis muscle can be in the left buttock or right buttock.
This type of lower back pain can mimic other back pain conditions like: sciatica from a herniated lumbar disc, lumbar facet dysfunction, sacro-iliac joint dysfunction and a high hamstring muscle strain.
How to Perform the Figure Four Stretch
This back pain exercise can be a great home treatment tool to start doing now. It is so easy to do that you could be sitting at your office desk and stretching your back and hip without anyone knowing your stretching.
The Figure of Four piriformis muscle stretch can be done in three different positions:
- Laying on your back,
- Sitting,
- Standing.
Watch the three videos below which show you how to perform the stretch correctly.
#1 Seated Figure Four Stretch
As you can see in the first video when doing the muscle stretch it is important not to round your lower back. Keeping a lengthened, straight spine allows you to isolate the piriformis muscle at the hip joint.
The general rule with stretching is to hold the stretch in a comfortable stretch position for 30 sec maybe repeat 2-3 times and do this throughout the day.
Keypoints for good stretch technique:
- Put your right or left leg with the ankle on top of the other knee whilst sitting,
- Have your shin in a straight line under the knee not with a foot ahead of you,
- You might need to sit in the middle to the front of a seat,
- Very important to sit-up straight creating a long spine,
- Lean forward with a straight back toward your calf muscle
- You should feel a stretch on the side of the top leg.
At a desk you can hide the leg underneath the desk and still lean forward which makes you look like your reading the computer screen. As a bonus sitting up tall fixes a slouched posture from sitting at the desk too long. This is why I also use it as an upper body posture exercise.
#2 Laying Down Figure Four Stretch
You probably seen people in the stretch area of gym do this one or on a sports field warm-up.
#3 Standing Figure of Four Stretch
Good for how to stretch on a plane at the back of the cabin or when needing a quick stretch from standing all day.
The Bottom Line
Do you feel a good stretch in your hip, buttock area or lower back region when doing the Figure of Four stretch? Do you find you can't lift one leg up onto the knee as well? Is one hip very tight when trying to stretch your piriformis muscle? It is amazing the difference you can feel between the left and right side. I hope you enjoyed it 🙂Image Credit: Some rights reserved by comedy_nose


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Note: T-shirts and other clothing inspired by superheroes has become a staple of culture these days, so why shouldn't it extend to high fashion? Artist Kelsey Michele Soderstrom has taken the heroes of the Avengers movie and adapted their style into slinky evening wear dresses. In terms of fashion design and fandom this is gets an "A" in our book. Look below each image for Soderstrom's stance on the designs. – Chris A.
On the Iron Man dress:
I mainly wanted him to stand in contrast to the more demure dress of Captain America, something that would translate both his suit and his flashy personality. i will admit to putting a lot more gold in it than his actual suit has, but i reeeeaaallly like the red and gold together!
On the Hulk dress:
Hulk went through SO MANY revisions. I decided on this dress for a few reasons. I liked the fluffy boa as a representation of his broad, hulky shoulders, and the asymmetry is supposed to reflect not only imbalance but the fact that his clothes basically get ripped to shreds every time Hulk joins the party. I also wanted it to represent in a way how banner relates to the Hulk; how Bruce Banner is such a reserved guy while this Hulk is just this darkness inside him.
On the Captain America dress:
Cap's outfit was really fun, as I am absolutely in love with styles from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. (of course, 40's is his era, but 50's is my favorite, thus the more classic 50's look). I maaay have overdone it on the stars, but whocaresilovestars. His mask was translated into the fascinator on her head, and his shield of course into her clutch.
On the Thor dress:
Of all my designs, Thor's is maybe one of the furthest from his actual costume, but it's one of my favorite. the cape is a supposed to be a sheer material. I really wanted a better way to incorporate the hammer, but the clutch is as close as I'm getting this time round.
On the Agent Coulson dress:
Coulson was really tricky, and I'm not sure if I'm absolutely happy with him, but oh well. Ii wanted to keep his dress as suity as i could without making it too businessy while still matching his personality and demeanor. His tie morphed into a tied necklace, and his love of Cap into the star in his hair. as an added bonus (my boyfriend's idea), I gave him a Captain America comic to hold. silly, i know.
On the Nick Fury dress:
I loved the idea of putting him in a big poofy princess dress for some reason. it is partially inspired after My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's gala dress for Twilight Sparkle, though more so in the original designs for it.
On the Black Widow & Hawkeye dresses:
Both very much inspired by vintage looks, Hawkeye more from the sixties, while i was going with a more classic Hollywood with Black Widow (diamonds are a girls best friend, anyone?). For some reason, I see her being a really sharp-dresser, despite her wearing a dress I just haaaated in Iron Man 2. i really feel like her characterization in the Avengers is completely different than that original appearance, though.


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A dysfunctional debt-based monetary system, massive imbalances in the markets, immunity from prosecution for those responsible for the 2007-2009 crash, and inadequate responses on the part of Western central banks and governments have created gigantic, global commodity derivatives bubbles that will most likely burst by year's end, causing a global financial collapse (Our Dysfunctional Monetary System, Forbes, 6 Feb 2016; Analyst: Here Comes the Biggest Stock Market Crash in a Generation, Fortune, 13 Jan 2016).
In such a scenario, banks would be bailed-in and this would produce huge layoffs. The US would hit the debt ceiling earlier than foreseen and would be forced to issue debt-free money (The Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin Is Back, Bloomberg, 13 Mar 2015) to fund job-creating government spending.
This would, in turn, cause a worldwide flight from US$, a dramatic loss of confidence in the Federal Reserve, hyperinflation in the States, and an egregious overvaluation of the € currency and precious metals.
In order to ride out the storm and break free of the unilateral "Bretton Woods" system, BRICS countries would announce a new gold-backed, electronic currency for international trade settlements, presumably issued by their New Development Bank (In uncertain times, Germany takes more gold home, Reuters, 27 Jan 2016). It would be a common counting unit calculated on the composite exchange rates of a basket of major currencies available only to the Central Banks of the participating countries (Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People's Bank of China, Reform the international monetary system, BIS, 23 Mar 2009; RMB rate to depend more on basket of currencies: PBOC economist, China Daily, 12 Jan 2016). Eurozone countries would promptly apply for membership, as they did when the AIIB was launched (AIIB will "significantly" bring together Europe, Asia: Luxembourg minister , Xinhua 5 Nov 2015).
The new currency would likely prove a stabilizing novelty in world finance and politics. By contrast, the US$ would lose its privileged reserve status and the United States would no longer be able to export debt and inflation. New rules for a new architecture for the world economy and finance (Merkel and Sarkozy call for global 'economic security' council, EUObserver, 9 Jan 2009), as well as new methods of risk evaluation and investment (e.g. global project bonds to recycle surpluses as investments for infrastructures and research projects), would be introduced.


text: On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:17 AM, Carlo Alberto Ferraris wrote: > Prompted by a SO post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9441882/compiler-instruction-reordering-optimizations-in-c-and-what-inhibits-them/9442363) I checked and found that LLVM yields the same (seemingly) suboptimal code as MSVC. > Consider the following, simplified, C snippet: > extern void bar(int*); > > void foo(int a) > { > int ar[100] = {a}; > if (a) > return; > bar(ar); > } > > Ideally, the array initialization should be sank after the return, but in Clang/LLVM 3.0 this doesn't happen: This is a straight-forward form of code motion we don't implement, which would be built on partially dead store analysis. Our dead store analysis in general isn't very powerful, and cannot see across blocks. It turns out that it is pretty expensive and doesn't often lead to big performance wins. That said, it is certainly an area that should be improved. I'll note that the original example from SO is more complex. Instead of a single store, it is a whole loop that initializes the array. Handling this case requires moving the entire loop, which requires fairly heroic compiler analysis. The saving grace is that that case is equivalent to a memcpy, so we may be able to handle *that* someday. > %ar = alloca [100 x i32], align 16 > %1 = bitcast [100 x i32]* %ar to i8* > call void @llvm.memset.p0i8.i64(i8* %1, i8 0, i64 400, i32 16, i1 false) > %2 = getelementptr inbounds [100 x i32]* %ar, i64 0, i64 0 > store i32 %a, i32* %2, align 16, !tbaa !0 I'm surprised that we're not shortening the memset to skip setting the dead element. That *is* something that we should be able to handle. Pete, didn't you implement this a while ago? -Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20120225/975f3c38/attachment.html>


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This is the last set of photos from my workshop at the North House Folk School. It was a great experience, as you can tell from all the photos I've shown you. If you are a photographer, I'd highly recommend it.
This week you'll see some of the photo tricks that we learned. To take this shot, I set my camera at ISO 200, f 20, and 1/15 sec. I held the leaf at arm's length with one hand and the camera with the other hand. I focused the camera on the leaf. Then I moved both the camera and the leaf at the same speed while taking the shot. The relatively slow shutter speed blurred the background but kept the leaf in focus. It's a good way to get some motion into the shot. I might not use this technique a lot but it's good to know how to do it.
It was pretty dark already when the whole class lined up at the edge of a forest. We set our cameras at ISO 400, f 16, and a very slow shutter speed of 15 seconds. Our instructor, Layne Kennedy, had a red flashlight. We pushed our shutter buttons and he walked quickly through the woods in front of us twirling the flashlight. The result was this trail of light. We were amazed that you can't see him at all, because he's moving quickly enough that the camera cannot record his image in the low light.
Here he did the same thing with a white light in one hand and a red light in the other. Can you see two places where he went behind a tree?
He almost finished spelling his first name (LAYNE) before the 15 seconds was up
The trick to getting sharp photos of the stars at night is to use a shutter speed between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. This photo was taken at ISO 1600, f 3.5, and 30 seconds. It's hard for the camera to pull in enough light if you use a shutter spend less than 30 seconds. Stars do move, however, and if you leave the shutter open more than 2 minutes they will have moved enough to make them appear blurred. See if you can find the Big Dipper in the lower left hand part of the picture.
Here's a different part of the sky showing the Milky Way. There's a horizontal streak of light on the left side of the picture. I think it was a satellite moving across the sky.
This one takes some explanation. One night we all lined up along the shore of Lake Superior. We set our cameras at ISO 400, f 11, and 30 seconds. One of the class members had a metal kitchen whisk with a cord attached to the handle. He stuffed a piece of steel wool into the whisk and lit it. I had no idea that steel wool would burn! We pushed our shutter buttons and he swung the burning whisk around and around. You see its path as the thick, really bright streaks in the center of the photo. As it swung around, sparks flew out and made all the thinner streaks shooting out from the center. I like the way the sparks bounced as they hit the pebbles on the beach.


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Two women showed up topless to protest Trump's polling place
On Election Day, two topless women showed up at Trump's polling place in protest. The candidate is set to vote at High School of Art and Design on 56th street in Manhattan, close to Trump Tower.
The women not only came to the school topless, but they shouted anti-Trump slogans. Trump himself was not there at the time.
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Sharon Clott Kanter, Style Director at People, shared a video of the event on Twitter:
Both were removed from the location by what appears to be Secret Service agents.
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