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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Latest on violent weather and flooding in the Southeast (all times local):
4:15 p.m.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin opening a historic flood control structure near New Orleans this week to divert water from a rain-swollen Mississippi River.
Col. Michael Clancy, the Corps' district engineer in New Orleans, says heavy rains in the Mississippi Valley led to the decision to open the Bonnet Carre (BAHN'-eh CARE'-ee) Spillway, upriver from New Orleans.
The spillway will be opened in anticipation of the river reaching a rate of 1.25 million cubic feet per second at New Orleans.
The spillway diverts some of the flow from the river into Lake Pontchartrain, easing pressure on the levees that protect New Orleans. This will mark the 13th opening of the spillway since it was completed in 1931 — and the first time it's been opened in consecutive years.
2:10 p.m.
Mississippi officials say flooding and tornadoes have damaged more than 500 buildings and 200 roads and bridges over the last week.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday that preliminary reports show nearly 500 homes and more than 30 businesses have been damaged.
The agency says numbers could change as flooding continues and reports are finalized.
National Weather Service surveyors have confirmed at least five tornadoes in Mississippi on Saturday, including one that killed a woman in Columbus, injured 19 other people and damaged more than 150 homes and businesses.
Damage has been reported in 36 of the state's 82 counties. Beyond Columbus, the heaviest damage so far has been reported in Calhoun, Clay, Lee and Tallahatchie counties.
A handful of state and federal highways remained closed by flooding in Mississippi on Monday.
1:40 p.m.
Two Alabama towns are imposing curfews because of flooding caused by days of rain that drenched the Southeast.
City officials are ordering people off the roads overnight in the city of Leesburg, where multiple roads are covered by water. The town of Cedar Bluff previously imposed a similar curfew.
Both cities are located northeast of Birmingham in Cherokee County, where property around Weiss Lake has been inundated by floodwaters. Campers and mobile homes in the area are lying on their sides in muddy water.
Mudslides, washouts and floods also have forced officials to close roads in the Tennessee Valley to the north.
12:10 p.m.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee won't be visiting the damage caused throughout the state by recent storm activity over the weekend, but instead plans on remaining in close communication with emergency officials to monitor the situation.
Lee's spokeswoman Laine Arnold said the governor planned to meet with cabinet members Monday to review ongoing issues connected to the heavy rainfall.
Arnold says the flooding wasn't as extensive or widespread as initially feared and added that the governor's office feels the more prudent decision would be to let local resources focus on repairs without distractions.
However, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and the governor's office will continue to keep an eye out as rivers and other bodies of water still have the potential to flood over the next few days.
Days of storms dumped more than a foot of rain on the Southeast.
9:50 a.m.
Authorities are searching for two people believed missing on waterways swollen by days of heavy rain in Alabama.
Crews are looking along the Cahaba River near Birmingham for a woman who disappeared Sunday. A spokesman with Cahaba Valley Fire and Rescue says her vehicle was found near the river, but crews don't know where she is.
In northeast Alabama, authorities say a teenage boy is still missing days after the vehicle he was riding in was swept off a bridge by floodwaters from a creek at Bucks Pocket State Park.
Marshall County emergency management officials say two other teens who were riding in a Jeep were found clinging to a tree after the vehicle foundered in water Friday.
Police have used a helicopter and drone to search for the missing youth.
7:25 a.m.
Residents are using boats to reach flooded-out neighbourhoods and schools are shut down after days of torrential rains in north Alabama.
The sun was out Monday in most of the Tennessee Valley, but dozens of roads are closed because of flooding. Brick homes stand amid muddy Tennessee River waters in Muscle Shoals.
The National Weather Service says many areas got around 10 inches (25 centimetres) of rain last week, and some spots received more than 12 inches (30 centimetres).
The city of Decatur says water levels already have exceeded 100-year levels and could rise another 2 feet (0.6 metres). Schools are closed in at least a half-dozen systems in the region.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has declared a state of emergency allowing the state to assist with disaster response.


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La Fontaine aux Oiseaux is an authentic guesthouse of character and charm in Doubs, 35km from Besançon, in the Jura moutains. In a calm and green site, this traditional farmhouse, constructed in keeping with the surrounding environment and local regional heritage, is a beautiful 18th century residence which has been altered to give it all the modern comforts whilst retaining its old worldly feeling.
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I bought a new lens (Tamron 70-200mm/ 2.8) a few weeks ago to try to capture some better pictures of my kiddos at their sporting events. Over these past weeks, I have taken hundreds of pictures trying to get the feel for the new lens. I'm not convinced yet. The return policy is within 30 days and I am facing that deadline in about 10 days.
I called to talk to the technical people at the store yesterday to ask about some of my problems with the lens. The kind gentleman was very honest and told me it was most likely a combination of my "older" Nikon D40 (It's only 3 years old!!!) and what he called, "the operator." I managed to stay calm, mostly because I knew he was right. I'm still learning all this photography stuff and this fancy schmancy lens might just be too much for my "outdated" camera and my fledgling ability.
Nonetheless, I took the lens outside today to try a few more shots. I tried shooting in a variety of modes, settings, etc.
The Rudbeckia is blooming in the garden and I thought these two shots turned out nice.
The low aperture setting allows some nice depth of field effects. I did a little editing to them in Photoshop Elements: cropping and running Pioneer Woman's soft and faded action.
The final test for the lens will be over the next two evenings at an indoor swim meet and a Friday night football game. If I still can't manage to capture some good shots after talking to my friend at the camera store, I might return the lens and try something else. Any suggestions?
This photography stuff is fun, but frustrating.


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University of Mount Olive earned a win in front of a national television audience and a seven-year-old girl saw her wish come true as the Trojans sprinted to a 95-65 victory over Limestone College in Conference Carolinas men's basketball Saturday at Kornegay Arena. Tayon Gleaves scored a career-high 20 points and the Trojans used a 20-2 run across each half to break open a close game. The contest, which was part of the 33rd Annual Basketball Church Night, was televised nationally by American Sports Network.
During halftime, a "wish reveal" for Make-A-Wish® Eastern North Carolina was held for Isabella, a leukemia patient from nearby Goldsboro. "Izzy," as she goes by, was already aware that her wish had been granted, that she and her family would go on a trip to Hawaii. After members of the UMO Student-Athlete Advisory Committee showered her with Hawaiian-themed gifts, she learned the date of the Hawaii trip - June 10.
The near capacity Kornegay Arena crowd gave her standing ovations throughout the ceremony and erupted in rousing cheers when it was announced that this past Wednesday marked exactly six months without having to undergo any treatments.
After the ceremony, she nodded her head yes when asked if she was excited about her trip and shook her head no with a surprised look and a smile when asked if she knew anything about Saturday's activities.
As for why her wish was to go to Hawaii, Izzy had a simple answer: "Because I've never been there before."
Izzy and her family got to watch Mount Olive (13-7 overall, 8-4 Conference Carolinas) not only extend its winning streak to four, but also score at least 90 points in four consecutive games since a four-game stretch in February 2009.
The Trojans scored the first six points of the game on three-pointers by Dontrell Brite and Mike Moore, but did not start to pull away Gleaves hit a three-pointer and dished to Dominique Reed for a jumper to give Mount Olive its first double-digit lead at 37-27 with 4:58 left in the first half. Limestone (6-14, 4-8) got as close as seven after Brolin Floyd's three-point play with 2:03 remaining pulled the Saints within 42-35.
Mount Olive would limit Limestone to a single field goal over the next seven minutes of game time to put the game away.
JaQuan Blount made a layup and forced a turnover, and then followed a Brite three-pointer with a three of his own. Gleaves hit a three-pointer just before the buzzer to give the Trojans a 53-37 halftime lead.
Reed hit a pair of layups and Brite connected on another three as Mount Olive scored the first nine points of the second half and extended its lead to 62-37. Limestone scored its first points of the second half with exactly 15 minutes left in the contest on a steal and layup by Justin Crowder, but the Saints never got any closer than 21 points the rest of the way.
Jacque Brown set up a pair of alley-oop dunks that brought the crowd of 1,174 to its feet and exclamations from ASN commentators Darren Goldwater and Mike Thibault. Brown lobbed an inbounds pass from the baseline to Moore, who drove the lane and put home a thunderous two-handed dunk with 12:07 remaining. After connecting on a pair of three-pointers, Brown lobbed the ball from the top of the arc to James Rucker, whose dunk gave Mount Olive a 30-point lead at 80-50 with 7:50 left to play.
The lead grew as high to 32 points as the Trojans rested their starters for the final seven-plus minutes of the game.
Gleaves was 7-for-11 from the field, including 4-of-7 from three-point range. Brite hit 5-of-7 three-pointers for 17 points to go with five assists. Brown went 6-of-7 from the field and finished with 14 points, as did Reed.
Floyd led Limestone with 16 points, going 7-for-8 from the field.
Saturday's contest, along with the Trojans' women's basketball game against Limestone earlier in the day, marked the first-ever live national telecast of any sport to originate from the UMO campus. The game also marked the second year in a row the Trojan men's basketball team has played a regular season game on national television.
Mount Olive returns to action Wednesday as the Trojans travel up I-795 to Wilson, N.C., to take on Barton in a Conference Carolinas match-up. Tip-off is 7:30 p.m.


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Tiny House Trailers (4.5 Ton, 20-30 ft, Triple Axle)
4.5 Ton Galvanised TRIPLE Axle TINY HOUSE Trailer Chassis (20-30 ft, 6-10m)
- 4.5 Ton ATM
- Fully HOT dipped GALVANISED (up to 20 ft, above 20 ft electro galvanised)
- Very strong chassis design
- Drawbar 100x50x4mm box section
- Main chassis 150x50x4mm box section
- Heavy duty 6 leaf springs
- 60 mm round solid axles (both electric braked)
- Large 10" tri axle electric drum brakes
- Electric breakaway fitted
- Manual parking brake
- Heavy duty jockey wheel
- SEVEN NEW 195R14, SL305 tyres on sunraysia style steel rims (950 kg load capacity ea.)
- Spare wheel
- Maintenance free long life LED lights, etc.
- 7-Pin rectangular plug for electrical connection to vehicle (does not charge or power hydraulics - see below).
- Heavy duty Anderson plug (enables charging from towing vehicle)
PLEASE NOTE: Photos are not of the actual trailer for sale. The trailer being offered is effectively an identical unit but may be subject to minor variation as improvements and enhancements to the design are ongoing. Actual size is as per this listing but the photographs of features may possibly be from a different size trailer (as 20x8 to 30x8).
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|Aussie design utilising low-cost offshore labour = Australian quality at great value.
|Everything comes included
|NOT a single hidden extra to be found!
|All new parts
|Peace of mind with NO used parts (as some other suppliers do).
|Hot dip galvanised (up to 20 ft)
|Hot galvanising is the BEST anti-rust treatment available. Long trailer life.
This tiny house trailer will last and last and last. The trailer is constructed with hot-dipped heavy steel box section chassis and frame, checker plate floor, and quality running gear and the heavy duty construction ensures that, when used with appropriate care, the trailer should provide many years of reliable service.
Energytech trailers are robustly built and should require minimal maintenance during their life. In an endeavour to produce a quality product at an affordable price, ENERGYTECH designs our trailers here in Australia but we have all components manufactured in China (to our specifications). We import these components in bulk for final assembly at our Queensland facility. Some individuals still have reservations about purchasing Chinese products. The reality is China is now a source of high-quality goods with thousands of well-known companies doing their manufacturing in China. A large percentage of what you own (or parts of what you own) have been made in China. We are confident our trailers are a quality product that is equal to (and often better than) any similar locally fabricated product. Come and see for yourself! As we do not have any machinery, equipment or staff for special fabrication or modification of trailers or trailer components here in Australia we are generally unable to offer local 'custom' fabrication work however special custom indent orders are possible.
NOTE: Prices are subject to change without notice. Trailers are subject to sale elsewhere and may be withdrawn if sold. PLEASE CALL to check availability. If you want to place an order we ask for a 30% deposit to secure your trailer in the production schedule. If you subsequently cancel your order Energytech may withhold 10% of the deposit to contribute to costs incurred.
Assembled trailers are generally fully ready to be registered! We do not arrange registration as owners ID is required to register a trailer AND often clients are interstate and should register the trailer in the destination state.
Trailers can be collected from our Brisbane premises or we can ship interstate. Alternatively, we are happy if you want to find and arrange your own shipping. However, your freight company of choice MUST HAVE a Brisbane freight depot for receipt of the trailer.
The following freight estimates are for delivery to a city freight depot and are to be used as a GUIDE only as freight prices fluctuate. WA and NT are generally very expensive. If your city is not listed or you require a firm quote for shipping please contact us.
NOTE: Whether we (or you) arrange shipping, upon our delivery to the shipping company, any risk during transit passes to the purchaser. You may choose to arrange insurance to cover transportation risk.
Warranty is a 12-month parts warranty. i.e. Should any component fail during the warranty period ENERGYTECH undertakes to either replace the part or provide a refurbished part on an exchange basis. Energytech trailers are robustly built, are all hot dip galvanised and should require minimal maintenance while providing many years of faithful service.
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[Sotomayor's decisions] reveal no larger vision, seldom appeal to history and consistently avoid quotable language. Judge Sotomayor's decisions are, instead, almost always technical, incremental and exhaustive, considering all of the relevant precedents and supporting even completely uncontroversial propositions with elaborate footnotes.This is troubling, to say the least, when added on to the fact that she otherwise has relatively few pivotal-issue cases. To me, the situation looks remarkably like the nomination of Souter (whom Sotomayor is replacing): President George H.W. Bush had just lost with Bork and wanted to avoid a fight, so they appointed someone with relatively little controversy behind him but who seemed generally conservative. To their surprise, Souter ended up in the liberal set more often than not, and never overturned all the liberal precedents on abortion and civil rights like they hoped.
All of which makes her remarkably cursory treatment last year of an employment discrimination case brought by firefighters in New Haven so baffling. The unsigned decision by Judge Sotomayor and two other judges, which affirmed the dismissal of the claims from 18 white firefighters, one of them Hispanic, contained a single paragraph of reasoning.
Ideally, we'd get a real liberal constitutionalist in Sotomayor, but who the hell can tell at this point? The Times magazine has a great analysis of what a liberal justice might be in the modern era, and points out that we're not going to see another Burger coming from Obama, after all. But at least conservative Volokh isn't happy; when it comes to questions like this, that's a good sign.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. The Dems are certainly all going to vote to confirm, and the Republicans won't be able to sustain a filibuster; their hispanic Senator Martinez from Florida is probably not going to be able to take the heat from a filibuster against the first hispanic nominee in history, and that one seat would do it. Politico points out some potential tactics, but it's a sealed deal.
Wonkette had a great brief piece about liveblogging the nomination that you should read:
10:32 AM — "An ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences." Translation: a radical leftist lesbian radical who will take away your guns, force your children into kindergarten abortion parties, exhume the corpse of Ronald Reagan for the purposes of urinating on it, and surrender in Iraq.


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On behalf of UGC, the Central Board of Secondary Education announces holding of the National Eligibility Test(NET) on 08th JULY, 2018 (SUNDAY)for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the Eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor Both in Indian universities and colleges. CBSE will conduct NET in 84 subjects (listed under item no.14 on page 12-14) at 91 selected Cities of Examination spread across the country. Check below for more details.
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In her formidable work "Towards a 'Natural' Narratology" Monika Fludernik attempts at reconceptualizing the basic premise of narratology in the aftermath of post-structural thought, which is intuitively hostile and suspicious of the term 'natural' that Monika Fludernik seeks to set in the forefront of her theory. But as Fludernik stresses, 'natural' is assigned by her not to texts or textual techniques, but to cognitive frames, namely equating the elusive quality "narrativity" with "experientiality", a "quasi-mimetic evocation of 'real life experience'. So, Fludernik's "differentia specifica" for narrativity and narrative is the embodied anthropomorphic experiencer.
Following Labov, Monika Fludernik relates to 'natural narrative' as spontaneously occurring storytelling. She therefore relates to such types of oral narrative as preceding more complex forms of narrative such as literature. Fludernik's reason for doing so is her hypothesis that there exists a cognitive schema which correlates to formal aspects of narrative, with their essence found in the most basic prototype form of natural narrative. This is not to say the Fludernik rejects poststructuralism, for all narrative in her eyes is constructed, but she does claim that there are universally valid cognitive components that instill a discourse with the quality of narrativity.
Narrativity is defined by Monika Fludernik as "a function of narrative texts and centers on experientiality of an anthropomorphic nature". This definition, for example, refutes and contradicts in a way with Hyden White's line of thought, making history a lesser form of narrative for its lack of experientiality.
Narrativity for Fludernik is never something inherent in the text, but rather something attributed to it by the reader which constructs the text as a narrative. Therefore it is dependant solely on the reader and his interpretation.
One of Fludernik's .. which classify her as a post-classic narratologist, is her negation of fictionality in the definition of a narrative. Referentiality is not the issue, it is all about the way we experience and respond to a certain form of information.
Monika Fludernik's writing in "Towards a Natural Narrative" is elaborate and complex. Here you will find a series of articles attempting to shed light on some of the concepts employed by Flundernik and reviews on some of the main themes of her oftentimes elusive thought.


text: Not So Super...8mmBy Mike ThompsonNot So Super...8mm By Mike Thompson. Joel Schumacher. Easily the two most horrify words you can associate with any film. For years he's been torturing audiences... Joel Schumacher. Easily the two most horrify words you can associate with any film. For years he's been torturing audiences. St. Elmo's Fire, Dying Young, Flatliners, Falling Down, and what most people feel is the ultimate cinematic travesty, Batman and Robin—the crescendo of his career has built to a level of almost unbearable pain caused by the mere mention of his name.However, Batman and Robin is a walk in the park, a fine example of "entertainment" compared to Schumacher's brutal rape of what was once a fine screenplay. I'm talking about "eight millimeter," or, as Schumacher would have us know it, "8mm."Two years ago I had the pleasure of reading Andrew Kevin Walker's original script for "eight millimeter," a gut wrenching trip into the worst aspects of human behavior. For the guy who wrote Se7en it's not exactly new territory. Andrew Kevin Walker is a master at exploring human frailty. He isn't afraid to show people as they are. In his work, heroes are often created by accident, rarely profiting from their actions and instead, more often punished for them. The script was powerful, uncompromising and poignant. As fellow staff writer Rich Osmond assured me, it would never be made. And, for all intents and purposes, it never was.Walker's script tells the story of Detective Tom Welles, who is called in to find the men responsible for killing a woman and filming it. To find them, Welles goes on a bizarre odyssey into the disgusting world of illegal porn. The journey changes him, and not necessarily for the better.Now I understand that the above description isn't too different from the film released to theaters. The main narrative thrust is the same, but it's the subtle differences in character and reaction that turn a strong work into a pointless movie made by a director getting off on the "horrible" world he is showing.One of the general "rules" of screenwriting is to never tell the director how to move the camera or what to show. The reason for this is that nine times out of ten the director will purposefully do something else (usually just to show that s/he is the boss). Screenwriters break this rule sometimes because either a) they really want to direct the movie or b) they know how a particular part should be shown because the way it's presented is critical to the story. In the script, Walker specifically states that the actual murder shown on the eight-millimeter film is not seen and never will be seen. The reason for this is obvious: what's happening on the film is so horrible, that there's no way to show it without undermining it. Schumacher, deluded master filmmaker that he thinks he is, decides he can show at least part of the murder and what comes out looks like a grade-Z horror movie made in somebody's house one afternoon—Herschell Gordon Lewis would scoff at it. Maybe Schumacher did this so the audience would wonder if the film was indeed real, but then why is Welles so distraught at what he's seeing? Personally I think Schumacher just couldn't resist the idea of showing this kind of brutality on the screen. His rational, I'm sure, is that he didn't want to walk away from it—that it took courage to show the brutality. Or, it could just be that he just gets off on it.As the film continues, Welles manages to discover the name of the girl in the snuff film (requiring considerably less work in the film than in the script). From there he is able reach her mother and searches the house for clues. After some digging, he finds the young girl's diary (in the film it's in the toilet (which is a powerful statement in and of itself), while in the script it's in a velvet box underneath an old silverware tray). In the film, he skims through it briefly and then leaves it for the mother to find. The film Welles isn't interested in finding out who this girl was, just where she went.Conversely in the script, Welles sneaks the diary out of the house and photocopies the entire thing. He reads the whole diary, discovering who this person was. As he continues his search we, the audience, hear voice-overs from the diary, so we know about the girl too. She becomes a character to us, giving her murder weight and relevance.While some might make the case that this omission was merely to save time, it's a critical blow to the success of this story. We need to know the victim. We need care about her and be angry over the fact that she died. But Schumacher isn't interested in her, only in her death. For Schumacher this girl was just another victim. Like his penchant for putting style well over substance, it's the murder act, and not the person he cares about.As the story pushes on, Welles meets a porno store clerk, Max California. Max is Welles'sguide into the illegal side of porn. When Welles first meets him, Max is sitting behind the counter reading a copy of Anal Secretary, using a high lighter to underline certain passages. Welles asks him what he's really reading. In the film, Max pulls the cover back to reveal Truman Capote's In Cold Blood underneath. In the script, however, Max is reading Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons.Now what could possibly be the point of changing the books? Both of them have the same affect: we know Max California is obviously smarter than the average porn store clerk. The only reason I can think of is that Schumacher figured that no one had heard of Music for Chameleons and everybody knows In Cold Blood. You have to keep it simple for your audience, right down to the smallest detail apparently.After agreeing to help Welles, Max takes him to an underground porn dealership, which features all sorts of different horrors. In the film, as they walk through the door, the "bouncer" asks Max if he is a police officer. Max responds "Fuck you, Larry." When the bouncer asks Welles, he responds "Fuck you, Larry." It's a light laugh, but fairly meaningless. In the script however, Welles'sresponse is "No." The character that Walker is painting is a man who is serious about his job and serious about the situation. He doesn't want to make light of where he is or what has happened. Schumacher, however, seems to want to lighten the mood a little. Just because it's a movie about illegal porn doesn't mean it can't be funny, right?In terms of this particular line of dialogue, I'm not sure if Schumacher or Cage is to blame. It should be stated that Cage does a particularly awful job in this film, moving through the film like a mindless automaton, displaying little emotion or purpose until the end (at which point it comes off as almost comical).Inside the porn bargain basement, Welles flips through some plastic packets holding pictures. In the film, the packets have the word "KIDS" written on the front. Granted, it's a horrible idea. In the script, however, the packs are separated, with the numbers 16 and 5 written on them. The idea of kiddie porn is horrible, but by assigning age Walker gives a much stronger image for the audience to deal with.The pictures are a perfect example of the main problem with the film and Schumacher approach. He doesn't know how to balance the subject he's dealing with. Walker understands that this world is horrible and there are parts of it we have to face and other parts best left to the imagination. Schumacher, however, works to throw certain things in our faces (the actual murder), while shielding us from other aspects (kiddie porn). It's as if the director has taken it upon himself to reveal this dark side of human nature while protecting us from it all along.The script features a long speech from Max California about the insidious nature of pornography:MAX You've got Penthouse, Playboy Hustler, etc. Nobody even considers them pornography anymore. Then, there's mainstream hardcore. Triple X. The difference is penetration. That's hardcore. That whole industry's up in the valley. Writers, directors, porn stars. They're celebrities, or they think they are. They pump out 150 videos a week. A week. They've even got a porno Academy Awards. America loves pornography. Anybody tells you they never use pornography, they're lying. Somebody's buying those videos. Somebody's out there spending 900 million dollars a year on phone sex. Know what else? It's only gonna get worse. More and more you'll see perverse hardcore coming into the mainstream, because that's evolution. Desensitization. Oh my God, Elvis Presley's wiggling his hips, how offensive! Nowadays, MTV's showing girls dancing around in thong bikinis with their asses hanging out. Know what I mean? For The porn-addict, big tits aren't big enough after a while. They have to be the biggest tits ever. Some porn chicks are putting in breast Implants bigger than your head, literally. Soon, Playboy's gonna be Penthouse, Penthouse'll be Hustler, Hustler'll be hardcore and hardcore films'll be jerking off to women laying around with open wounds. There's nowhere else for it to go. Walker is not into softening the blow. Schumacher apparently doesn't feel the speech is necessary. Maybe he thought it was too long, or heavy-handed. A shot of two prostitutes in front of acres and acres of dead cattle is apparently much more effective in the oh-so-subtle world of Joel Schumacher.After a brief skirmish, Welles captures one of the killers. He drags the man, Eddie, to an abandoned house and tries to find out why they killed this poor girl. In both the script and the movie, Eddie isn't afraid of Welles and stands up to him, even taunting him. Welles knows he's out of his league. He hasn't reached a point where he can take revenge on these men. He wrestles with this idea internally and then places a call to the mother of the victim. In the script he tells the mother what happened to her daughter. The mother is terrified, wanting to know why he's telling her this, why he's doing this to her. And Welles doesn't know why. He's lost. He's gone further than he thought and now he's a new place emotionally. He's looking for an anchor, but can't find it.In the film, however, Welles wants the mother's permission to kill these men. Schumacher wants Welles, and the audience to know that it's okay to kill people if they really, really deserve. And if their victim's mother tells you so. In both script and film Welles does go in and kill Eddie, but in the film he comes across like John Wayne, out to deal some American style justice (we even get the clich�?© shot of our hero walking toward the camera, with burning chaos behind him), rather than a tortured soul about to forever damn himself as he's presented in the script. Cage does try a little to show that Welles is having a hard time with this, but Schumacher gives us no reason to doubt or questions Welles'sactions.As the film stumbles along, Schumacher heavy, protective hand destroys another of the most effective aspects of the script. In both the film and the script, one of the evil characters is named Machine. Machine is the man who killed the girl on the eight-millimeter film. In the script he wears a wrestling mask, and never takes it off. In the film, he wears a leather, zipper mask. And when it comes off, what little the movie had going for it really falls apart (although there is an even worse travesty afterward which will be addressed momentarily).In the script, Machine is the personification of evil—a faceless creature with no soul or compassion, able to kill anything. At the script's climax, Welles finds Machine living with his grandmother. After she leaves, Welles enters the house and struggles with Machine, eventually strangling him to death. After his death, Welles pulls the mask off, but we never see his face. Why? Because there's no reason to. Machine was the mask on his face. There isn't anything underneath that mask that will explain to us what or why he was.Schumacher, however, cannot live with that. In the film Welles finds Machine living with his grandmother, as in the script, only this time Machine's room has Danzig posters on the wall, which, of course, mean he's evil, right? Welles and Machine fight for what feels like an hour and then Welles forces him to take of his mask. Machine stands there and puts his glasses on (which were somehow not destroyed during a fight in which he fell from the second story window of a house), making him look even more like a child molester. He looks at Welles, accusingly. "What did you expect?" he asks. "A monster?" Machine goes on to explain himself. He tells Welles that there's nothing wrong with him. Machine didn't have a bad childhood, his father didn't rape him; he just likes to kill and hurt people.In Walker's script there is no explanation because there can't be one. Evil is evil. It's not explainable or understandable. And when you cross evil, it doesn't help you deal with it.As the script draws to a close, Welles character is torn apart by his actions. He has found the killers and he has killed them. But rather than feeling as if he has served justice, Welles is feeling tremendous guilt. He is a moral man, and in his world murder, even of people who are evil is wrong. Walker was quoted on the Mr. Showbiz site as saying "[he] certainly never intended [Welles] 'to be let off the hook,' as he is at the end." "There's no attempt to justify [the murder of those guys] in my script," says Walker. "In my opinion, if you feel kind of horrified by someone being murdered in cold blood, that's the way it should be."But not Joel Schumacher. After Welles kills all of the men, he receives a letter from the mother of the murder victim, telling him that she's glad the men are dead. It's a moment reminiscent of the letters from Iris' parents in Taxi Driver, except that Schumacher presents the letter without irony. So now, he's done the right thing and even though it wasn't the best way to do it, he's been forgiven. And that is just bullshit. But it's Joel Schumacher, who gave us the revenge-promoting movie A Time TO KILL. Murder's okay when the people are really bad isn't it? And aren't we all lucky that we've got Joel Schumacher to show us who the bad people really are.In the months following the completion of this article, the gods of screenwriting publishing have seen fit to release Andrew Kevin Walker's scripts for both Se7en and 8MM in a single volume (ISBN: 0571200982). The scripts inside are the original first drafts. The script for Se7en is similar to the movie although the ending is a little different (actually darker if you can believe that). The script for 8MM is the same one addressed in this article. There is also an interview with Walker at the beginning where he talks about what went wrong with 8MM. Many of his comments echo what you've just read, although Walker doesn't come across as disgusted with Schumacher as I have. The interview and original script make a fine example of what can happen when a good screenplay falls into the hands of an idiotic, shallow egomaniac. At least now, you can know what might have been, and more importantly, who to blame.Article revised and available in the Impossibly Funky CollectionBack to Issue 10


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SRT Hellcat and Hemi Engines Might Not Survive Through 2019
The Dodge Charger and Challenger Hellcats are some most attention-grabbing, tire-scorching, hair-igniting cars of the past decade. With a 6.2-liter supercharged Hemi V8 making an astounding 707 horsepower, they could be the pinnacle of the modern horsepower wars. But the rein of the Hellcat will be finite, as we're just learning that the Hellcat line may be killed off in 2019. We live in an era of increasingly stringent fuel economy regulations and consumer expectations of higher and higher MPGs. In response, automakers are downsizing engines, and Dodge's parents company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is no different. According to MotorAuthority, that sourced JeepTrackhawkForums, FCA is set to drop all Hemi V8 engines from the SRT lineup. That includes the 6.4-liter V8, as well as the at-issue 6.2-liter unit. RELATED: See More of the 707-Horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat
So what will power SRT vehicles going forward? Apparently future SRT offerings will be propelled by either a turbocharged inline-4, or a turbo V6. Automakers all over the world are getting 300 and 600 horsepower, respectively, from these types of engine setups, so it's not all that insane. With future cars guaranteed to be lighter and more focused on cornering than straight-line power, this is likely to be a winning combination. Really, when has SRT let down the enthusiast community?
With 2018 as the last model year that the Hellcats will be offered, you have to ask yourself, how fast will performance buyers will scoop up the remaining Hellcats? Dodge may have already sensed the potential for increased demand, as the Detroit News reports, pricing for the Charger and Challenger Hellcats has jumped by as much as $2,500 for the 2016 model year. A Challenger SRT Hellcat will set you back $62,495, while a Charger SRT Hellcat will cost $65,945. And that is before the inevitable dealer markups.
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The City manager also talked about Lee Burge who is set to start at Deepdale tomorrow...
Coventry City boss Steven Pressley hopes the Sky Blues can arrest their run of form at Deepdale, which has seen City fail to win there in the league in the entire history of the fixture.
The Sky Blues travel to fourth-placed Preston North End on Saturday having failed to win in Lancashire in 17 league attempts, with seven draws and ten defeats.
But Pressley is looking forward to the challenge of facing up to those daunting statistics and believes City have a good chance of changing the records on Saturday.
"Preston are a promotion worthy side there is no doubt about that," Pressley said.
"They have invested heavily in the team and they are a very physical and robust side with a strong mentality.
"We have to stand up to the game, we've worked on certain tactical aspects but the biggest thing is can we stand up to the game.
"But I still think we can upset them, I have no doubt that I think with the speed in our side in particular we can cause them problems.
"We shouldn't fear them. I relish challenges like this I really do. They haven't failed to score at home this season, so lets stop them scoring. They have only lost once at home, so lets make it two. We haven't won there in the league, so that's our third challenge. We need to change those statistics and we're really looking forward to the game.
The Sky Blues look likely to be facing the Lilywhites at the weekend with Lee Burge in goal.
The young keeper is certain to start at Deepdale due to the absence of Jamie Jones, who cannot play in the game due to North End being his parent club.
But Pressley is confident that the 22-year old stopper can come into his own and admits he didn't put Burge back into the team after Ryan Allsop's departure as he wants to protect the young players at the club.
He added: "In terms of a goalkeeper and in terms of technical ability, Lee is first-class. Steve Ogrizovic has coached him extremely well, but the biggest test for a young keeper is mentality and character, can they deal with setbacks and mistakes.
"Obviously we can only find out in due course if that is case with Lee, but he has great confidence and all the attributes. Lees temprament has been tested and will be tested on Saturday.
"I spoke to him - as I mentioned the other week - about timing, when is the time to put him back in.
"When Ryan Allsop left Lee felt it was the right time, but I didn't with our current standing and the pressure on team. I have to make sure I protect our young players and that is why we brought Jamie in, but Lee is very excited about tomorrow and it is a real opportunity to say 'yes I am ready.'"


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Toronto school bans junk food from students' lunch bags
A Toronto elementary school is trying to encourage its students to live a healthy lifestyle by clamping down on the contents of their lunch bags.
James S. Bell Middle School, located in the city's southwest end, has implemented a food policy that bans students from eating chocolate, candy and pop while at school. Instead, students are asked to bring only fresh, healthy foods in their packed lunches.
There are some exceptions around the holidays, and food items like potato chips and granola bars are allowed, but not as an everyday snack.
"If we do find something like a box of Smarties or a KitKat bar … we will just kindly ask the student to take it home," school principal John Currie said in an interview with CTV News.
Parents helped create the rules last year to encourage students to eat healthier.
"As long as they're thinking about it and it's a focus of conversation, then I think that's half the battle," said Currie.
School boards across the country have already taken steps in recent years to limit access to junk food in schools, by banning the sale of junk food and sugary drinks in vending machines and cafeterias.
In 2010, the Ontario government banned the selling of deep-fried French fries, junk food and pop in elementary schools.
Despite the bans, childhood obesity rates appear to be increasing. In Canada, the rate currently stands at 30 per cent, and is expected to more than double by 2040.
Many parents are happy to abide by the school rule.
"Hopefully that's going to help parents to think twice and start to question why do they buy all that stuff," one parent told CTV.
Still, not everyone is behind the idea to cut sweets from student lunch bags.
Food and Consumer Products of Canada says it supports a parent's right to choose which foods are appropriate for their families.
Some parents say the school ban is overstepping.
"They don't know what my kids like, it is hard enough to make what your kids are going to actually eat," said one mother.
While most provinces have policies regulating what food and beverages are sold in schools, there is no sweeping plan to extend those restrictions to packed lunches.
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'Tennessee Project' – Nxt Seeks to Overhaul Marketing, Improve User Experience, Attract Investors
With the 90% loss in market capitalization of the Nxt cryptocurrency, some major contributors to the Nxt Foundation have come up with a proposal to increase the amount marketing and the level of its professionalism, improve user experience and attract investors to the platform.
The effort to achieve improvements, called the Tennessee Project, is led by Bas Wisselink, known on the Nxtforum.org as "Damelon", and Dave "Evil Dave" Pearce, and will require funding for marketing, promotion and development over a 12 month period that will be raised through the Nxt platform.
Wisselink explained that there were internal and external factors to the Nxt project's status as a blockchain and cryptocurrency protocol:
As we all know, our market capitalisation has unfortunately shrunk by more than 90% over that time. Much of that loss, but not all, can be blamed on external market forces, as many other projects are in a similar state. The crypto-currency/blockchain technology market is also changing rapidly, as new players enter the game, like Eris and GetCredits. Many of these new projects have their origins outside the 'crypto scene', and are markedly more professional in their business approach than the first generation of crypto-currency projects.
In this increasingly competitive, professionalised market, our approach to business adoption and development is holding us back: we have no real co-ordinated marketing strategy, and we have an over-reliance on volunteer work. Our main software client, the NRS, although very effective, is complex and intimidating, even for some crypto-currency insiders. These issues need to be addressed now if Nxt is to carry on as a serious player in the crypto market.
The Tennessee project will aim to complete a number of goals by the first quarter of 2016 that include a complete overhaul of the Nxt web presence and SEO, a continuous and coherent marketing campaign, a comprehensive portfolio of use cases, a co-ordinated team for social networking, and a strategy to interest potential Nxt-based projects and investors.
Later in 2016, the project will finance development of simplified Nxt Reference Software, created a user guide for the entire Nxt system, establish an incubator system for Nxt-based projects, and integrate a professional public relations agency into Nxt promotion.
To fund the Tennessee Project, the core team seeks to raise 10 million Nxt units from ecosystem businesses and through the platform's fund raising capabilities.
Wisselink noted:
We have already started an informal fundraising project among NXT businesses and stakeholders to raise the minimum of 10 million NXT, and we are happy to say we have already received firm pledges for up to 5.5 million from Nxt investors and stake-holders.
This makes us confident we can raise the remaining 4.5 million NXT to complete the full 12 month commitment.
We want to start the fundraiser for this as soon as possible, and we will do this by a fundraiser using the Monetary System.
The Nxt Foundation will handle all Tennessee Project funds raised and administration while most day to day decisions will be made and carried out by Wisselink and Pearce.
In other Nxt news, a community member has released small bundle of applications and services that provided easy access to various decentralized technologies like MeshNET, NXT Full Client, Decentralized DNSs, and TOR websites/services.
This is a basic OS that enables users with some technical knowledge to build their own Raspberry Pi device and use it as a smart router providing easy access to MeshNET and Decentralized technologies.
The Github site is here. More detailed information on Supermesh.io is currently available on Nxter.org.


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We worked closely with Global Family Farms to develop their brand new tea product that just recently hit the shelves in Whole Foods across the US. Sherpa Power Tea is an organic sweet tea that uses native Nepalese ingredients harvested by farmers in Nepal. In April 2015, the Nepal earthquake killed over 8,000 people and injured more than 21,000, destroying Nepal's economy. The idea behind the product was to revitalize the Nepalese agriculture industry through the employment of farmers and exporting of their goods to provide high-quality bevarages to Western cities.
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We are a group of people who love God and believe that He has called us to live together in our community as a local church.
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Through Confluence, we are linked to Newfrontiers, a worldwide group of over eight hundred churches in more than sixty nations. We are on a mission together, aiming to restore the church, make disciples, and train leaders to reach the nations through local churches.
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3. Prayer: Jesus demonstrated His dependence on the Father by seeking Him on a regular basis. We realize we are also completely dependent on the Father in all things, in our individual lives, small group settings, and corporate meetings.
4. Holy Spirit, His Presence, And His Work: We believe that we are completely dependent on God's initiative to live out the mission He has for us. Therefore, we value God's presence and work through His Spirit – to guide us, and to help us participate together in His mission.
5. Bible: We believe the Bible is God's Word and is the foundation for all of life; therefore, it must be taught for the healthy development of the community.
6. People: From the beginning of time, God has placed the highest value on people. We see this from creation to Jesus' death and resurrection. As a result, we want to regard all people as having the highest value.
7. Friendships: Relationships are central to our life together. Therefore, we try to develop friendships by sharing our lives together, with genuine concern to see each other grow in God.
8. Community: God has not called us to live alone. We are a family on a mission, and our goal is to accomplish the mission with a sense of togetherness and unity.
9. Team: We see working in a team modeled in scripture; in the Trinity, the Disciples, and Paul and those he worked with, among others. We believe mutual accountability in all that we do is essential for the church to function. The church is to be led by a team, not one man.
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No, you don't need to frontload the production with a star to mount a successful revival of "Fences." August Wilson's 1987 drama, the Pulitzer Prize-winning centerpiece of his 10-play Century Cycle about the African-American experience, is a masterpiece, and this meticulously mounted production does it proud. That said, it definitely does not hurt to have a high-wattage superstar like Denzel Washington toplining the show in the role originally defined by James Earl Jones. Although quirkily cast as a gruff, middle-aged sanitation worker, Washington turns in a heartfelt performance as one of the true tragic heroes of modern American theater.
"Fences," which leads off the second half of Wilson's great play cycle, is inextricably rooted in its 1950s time frame, a period when work made a man proud and the social stability of a man's family was deeply valued by the working classes. In Wilson's authorial vision, the personal tragedy of Troy Maxson, the Pittsburgh sanitation worker played by Washington, becomes the collective tragedy of the black working class.
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The sweetest (and saddest) aspect of Troy's character is his touching belief in the fairness of the American system. This descendant of slaves holds himself tall as a free man who believes that financial security and social respect can both be achieved through honest work. The good luck of a neighbor who hits the lottery makes him crazy. And he flies into a fury when his teenage son, Cory (in a likable perf from Chris Chalk), quits his after-school job to play on the football team.
It's hard not to think of the towering presence of Jones when this stern, morally conflicted man wrestles with the demons that send him into wild rages. Or to remember how the stage shook when Jones exploded at the son who dared defy Troy's parental authority.
Washington doesn't make us quake the same way when Troy has one of his temperamental outbursts ("I'm the boss! I'm the boss around here!"). But he never lets us forget the essential decency that motivates the man's rash decisions and thoughtless cruelty, and he's heartbreaking when he articulates Troy's yearning for something softer and sweeter than the rigid life he's made for himself and forced onto his family.
Curiously enough, for someone so blessed with charisma of his own, the only time Washington finds himself in trouble is in the early scenes, when the full force of Troy's charm is on display — before he shows the moody side of his character that the thesp seems happier playing.
Troy is most irresistible when he comes roaring in from work on a Friday night bearing his paycheck, a pint of liquor, and a sack of potatoes, like a hunter proudly hauling home his kill. Lighting designer Brian MacDevitt practically throws a halo around him as he strides through the gate of his little kingdom and onto the back porch of the worn-down house that in Santo Loquasto's warm rendering feels like a mansion.
All those people in his backyard depend on him: his put-upon, but forgiving wife, Rose (Viola Davis, a treasure); his best friend Bono (Stephen McKinley Henderson, the epitome of a best friend); his brain-damaged brother, Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson); Lyons (Russell Hornsby), the musician son who has no use for his father's values; and Cory, the kid who's forced against his will to live by them.
Washington comes into his own when everything that Troy loves and values becomes lost to him. He's especially moving in the wrenching scene when Troy tries to explain himself to Rose, the wife he's betrayed. Without overtly pleading for sympathy, he makes a compassionate case for an essentially decent man who is just plain worn out from trying to live up to his own hard and honest — but unforgiving — values.
Davis (who was unforgettable in "Seven Guitars") is even more electrifying when Rose throws it all back in his face with an impassioned lament for her own lost freedoms. And, in a way, Rose has the last word on her husband when she observes sadly that he's still fighting battles that have already been won. "Times have changed," she says, and her man just never got the word.


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Location, Location, Location!Minutes to everything. From your home on Francis Ave you can enjoy everything that the Walla Walla Valley has to offer.The Wineries, Hiking, Outdoor Sports, Golf and Tennis. They`re all here, and close by.Once you have had the maximum amount of fun for the day you can retire to the quiet comfort of your home. To discuss the day, plan dinner and your next adventure.
The kitchen is fully stocked with all the tools you will need to cook up a gourmet meal. Or walk downtown for a fabulous dinner in any one of the many fine restaurants. From lavish to pub grub - Walla Walla has something for everyone.Then after your feast, walk out the back yard and into Wildwood Park, and take a leisurely stroll around our charming neighborhood.We welcome your well behaved dog and we have fenced the entire yard for their enjoyment.Enjoy our home. We hope you have fun and wish you as much happiness as we have found in Walla Walla.
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I discovered the joys of blogging after setting up a blog for work, but found I had much more to say and share on many topics. I have never been successful at keeping a journal consistently, but the idea of being able to link to articles and sites I find interesting and add my photographs to illustrate my musings is very exciting.
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Last night, the Miami Heat racked up its 23rd straight win and now stands alone as having the second-longest winning streak in NBA history. The team is ten wins away from tying the record with the 1971-72 Lakers, and 11 from owning it outright.
Can they do it? An oddsmaker has given them 1-in-6 odds.
Gambling site Bovada.lv set the pretty decent odds today, according to Sports Illustrated. The oddsmakers over/under on the streak is set at 29 games.
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The Heat does have a pretty favorable schedule to keep the streak going for at least awhile. Their next four games are against Cleveland, Detroit, Charlotte, and Orlando. Those four teams have the four worst records in the Eastern Division. A loss to any would be a minor embarrassment under normal circumstances, let alone as a potential streak ender. It's then off to Chicago to face the Bulls, who are at least solid playoff contenders, before visiting the New Orleans Hornets, who are the worst team in the Western Conference.
The big test comes March 31, when the Heat travels to San Antonio to take on the Spurs, the leaders of the Western Conference, in what could possibly be a finals preview.
The Heat is also pulling off this streak in garbage time of the NBA. Most teams who are already comfortably in the playoffs are taking it slow and giving starters some time to rest. So even if the Heat did break the record, the team would have precious little time to rest before the playoffs. So, yeah, a record-setting streak would be neat but not as sweet as the ultimate prize.
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Here it is! As requested, I'm finally blogging about my trip to Seoul with Makeup Plus App. Yes, that trip I was talking about here.
So I arrived in Seoul around 5am which only means one thing, this girl didn't get much sleep. Good thing the first thing on our agenda that day was (drumroll please)…a BEAUTY MAKEOVER with Korea's finest! Yay!!! I get to finally feel like a k-pop star. LOL.
Makeup Plus wasted no time in prettifying all of us by bringing us to HERA, a leading global K-Beauty brand which has none other than the gorgeous Jun Ji-Hyun as its endorser. Does this mean I get to look like her??? Well, not really but I get to try. That's good enough, right? We were all asked to open our Makeup Plus apps and create our desired look for the HERA makeup artists to recreate in real life. In a jiffy, my makeup artist did his magic on me and voila, my tired, sleepless face was transformed! I really love how Korean makeup artists are able to freshen up one's look without using too much makeup. Everything felt so light and natural.
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Moody's Cracks Dollar's Foundations
Moody's has just put a whacking great crack in the foundations of the dollar.
The credit rating agency's warning that it could take away the triple-A sovereign debt rating from the U.S. may not have inflicted very much damage on the U.S. currency just yet.
But, with negotiations in U.S. Congress over raising the country's debt ceiling by August 2 showing no signs of progress, that downgrade may yet prove a reality.
For the dollar, this would spell disaster.
The triple-A rating on U.S. government bonds is one of the main reasons why many investors, including other major central banks, hold these dollar assets.
Take this top-level rating away and many will be forced to sell. The diversification flows into other major currencies, which have been a major source of dollar weakness in recent years, will only accelerate.
This crack in the dollar's foundations comes just as confidence in the U.S. currency was starting to rise again. The growing debt crisis in the euro zone, the threat of currency intervention by Japan and hopes that the U.S. economic recovery is finally gaining traction had helped to boost interest in the U.S. currency.
The dollar index tells the story.
After falling to nearly a three-year low of 72.70 May 4, the index has recovered all the way back up to 76.72 earlier this week. It is now at 75.05.
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Compared to our counterparts across the globe, Indian healthcare providers have been relatively slow in adopting big data and analytics to improve their services and customer experience. The director of Qlik , Charles Farah, shared his views in a recent article, that the world continues to view India as a developing nation in terms of healthcare, especially on the basis of its GDP and said that a large part of the spending was focused on "physical services, capital works, staffing, drugs, pathology and other consumables", and so there was little investment into analytics and a business intelligence infrastructure .
To gain a competitive edge, the next -gen hospitals will need to invest in hiring skilled IT resources as well as implement game-changing technologies like predictive analytics. As with any new area of technology, today's early adopters will be tomorrow's leaders. A right step in this direction has been recently taken by Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd., one of India's leading super-specialty care, which has deployed Qlik Platform as a key tool in its journey on establishing a company-wide adoption of data analytics and Manipal Hospitals, which is the first healthcare enterprise in India to deploy and leverage IBM Watson technology for its oncology department.
A survey by CDW Healthcare Analytics indicated more than two-thirds of healthcare decision-makers consider analytics to be among their top three priorities. Given its immense potential to help increase patient safety and care quality while reducing healthcare costs, analysts estimate the healthcare analytics US market to be over $20 billion by the year 2020 (Market and Markets, iQ4i).
Another study by Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Jvion surrounding the use of predictive models in healthcare showed that while a small fraction of providers today (about 15 percent) actually use predictive modeling; more than 90 percent of these organizations use the outputs to make better decisions on patient care and management.
The study identified specific areas – readmissions, patient deterioration, sepsis and general patient health – where providers are focusing their predictive analytics initiatives. While the outlook towards adoption of predictive tools and technologies looks positive, the truth is that a majority of organizations, even larger ones, are still in the planning phase. The challenge stems from organizations & readiness to adopt, as well as technology and data constraints in using predictive analytics.
Based on CitiusTech's extensive work in data analysis and predictive analytics across different geographies, here are the 10 important steps we recommend Indian healthcare providers to take to get started on their journey with predictive analytics:
Step 1: Be ready to go the distance
Broad-based predictive analytics initiative is a long-term investment in technology and skilled resources. Considering the immense variability in format, structure, source system, nature and type of data, all within a single organization, data scientists don't have a complete picture of use cases they have to develop or analytical problems they need to solve. Different types of use cases need to aggregate data from a variety of sources. Technology and data teams need to ensure they invest in a robust data aggregation framework that is future-proof, such as cloud technology. It is also imperative to build a data sandbox where data analysts can build, discard and rebuild multiple datasets, predictive models and reports/dashboards. Organizations shouldn't expect immediate returns, but stay invested over time to reap the benefits.
Step 2: Hire the right team
The best predictive models are developed by people who understand health data, IT systems like electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management systems (PMS), and can adapt to constantly changing data exchange standards such as HL7, SNOMED, etc. It is important to look for personnel or vendors who are qualified in data analysis and predictive modelling, as well as understand data safeguards required to work with health data.
Step 3: Start small
For predictive analytics, start small with 'proof of concept' projects. These initial projects allow clinicians and administrators to observe the theory getting converted into practice and see the value, which they can then use as a launching point to convince skeptics that analytics work.
Step 4: Keep it as simple as possible
Simplicity is key. Concentrate on models that allow you to identify the factors responsible for predictions. Keep it simple enough for a healthcare domain expert to ensure that the predictions are clinically accurate and robust.
Step 5: Avoid a one-size- fits-all approach
One solution or predictive model does not work for all scenarios, use cases and populations. Every organization is unique in the type of patient population it caters to, therapeutic focus areas, quality of care and work culture. Develop or test predictive models on your own data to understand its effectiveness and accuracy. It is likely that you will need to customize these tools for seamless integration and success within your own IT system.
Step 6: Think of the end-user
Predictive analytics can be a complex subject for people to understand. Organizations should make sure the results of a successful predictive model are easy to use for all stakeholders within and outside the organization. Decide the scope of the predictive model based on the end-user. While conceptualizing the development of a specific predictive model, think beyond data procurement and type of predictive model to operationalize it.
Step 7: Educate your staff
Administrators and data scientists have to spend time educating the staff about the merits and use of analytical tools as well as the role of good quality data to develop these tools. Listening, engaging and incorporating the feedback of end-users (i.e. physicians, nurses, aides, therapists, case managers, etc.) is crucial to the success and application of real-time analytics within a healthcare ecosystem.
Step 8: Collaborate
It is important to collaborate with key stakeholders and potential end-users to identify relevant use cases for predictive analytics. While developing predictive analytics for popular use cases (e.g., readmission management, claims denials, etc.), listen to your staff to understand the immediate analytics needs of your organization. Nurture a collaborative environment where clinicians and administrative staff can come up with novel use cases or problem statements for data analyst to solve. For example, case managers wanting to predict which patients will need home health services in the future or clinicians who want to study disease progression models that could incorporate socio-economic and environmental factors.
Step 9: Build strong executive sponsorship
It almost goes without saying that hospital executives have to be involved and show support for analytics-based projects for the staff to follow suit. In such cases, it is better to adopt a top-down approach, even for small projects.
Step 10: Partner with organizations that have strong experience in healthcare analytics
A majority of healthcare experts, especially physicians and caregivers, are skeptical about the potential of analytics. The best approach right now is to partner with professionals or organizations that have credibility in developing and deploying analytical solutions within a healthcare ecosystem. Collaborations with a unique combination of healthcare domain expertise and advanced technology help minimize risks, improve operational efficiency, clinical and patient outcomes and treatment efficacy.
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George Arthur Lippi, Sr
Rowland, Pa. —George Arthur Lippi, Sr., 89 of Honesdale and formerly of Rowland, PA died Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
He is survived by his wife of 65 years, the former Agnes Wood. The couple married October 12, 1946.
Born March 21, 1922 in Brooklyn, NY he was the son of the late William and Rachel Manes Lippi. After graduating high school, he joined the US Army Air Corps, and attended St. John's University. He became a pilot and served as Major during World War II. Later he worked for the New York City Police Department where he was a detective for 20 years. After retiring from NYPD, he and his wife moved to Suffern, NY where George managed a graphic art studio in New York City. In 1987 George and Agnes retired to their summer home in Rowland, PA.
George was a man of many traits and enjoyed masonry work, art and sculpting. George was of the Catholic Faith and attended St. Ann's Catholic Church in Shohola. He was a big New York Yankees fan; GO YANKEES!
Also surviving is his son George Lippi, Jr. of Greenwood Lake, NY; his daughters Fern Parent and husband Gus Benjou of Greenwood Lake, NY and Agnes Johnson and husband Michael of Honesdale; grandchildren Jessica Kelly, Georgia Brown, Sumara Shaw, Samantha Parent, Veronica and Lora Benjou, Alexandra Lippi and George Lippi III.
He was preceded in death by his son Francis Lippi and sisters Fern Watt and Wilberta Lippi.
Mass of Christian Burial will be on Saturday at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Honesdale at 10 a.m. Interment will follow in Glen Dyberry Cemetery. Friends may visit Hessling Funeral Home, Inc., 428 Main St. Honesdale on Friday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.
Agnes M. Lippi
Agnes M. Lippi, of Honesdale, PA, passed away on September 17, 2012 at her daughter's home in Greenwood Lake.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary O'Connor Wood.
She was married to the late George A. Lippi (2011).
A homemaker, Agnes formerly worked for a bank in New York City in the city's first skyscraper. She was a parishioner of St. Ann's RC Church in Shohola, PA and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of EMT's in Lackawaxen, PA.
A family statement reads: "A grandmother to everyone who met her, she would love to have you in for tea and listen to Frank Sinatra. She enjoyed gardening in her yard."
She is survived by her son, George Lippi of Greenwood Lake; her daughters: Agnes Lippi Johnson and her husband Michael of Honesdale, PA and Fern Parent and her husband Gus Benjou of Greenwood Lake; and her two brothers, John Wood of Mattituck, NY and Joseph Wood of Lords Valley, PA; ten grandchildren: Jessica Kelly, Georgia Brown, Sumara Shaw, Jessica Thomas, Alicia Lore, Samantha Parent, Veronica Benjou, Lora Benjou, Alexandra Lippi and George Lippi III; five great-grandchildren: Joseph Lippi, Marc Shaw, Jr., Liana Shaw, Kaden Brown and Alyvia Lore. She was predeceased by a son, Francis Lippi and brothers, Eugene Wood and Francis Wood.
Funeral Mass at 12:00 noon on Thursday, September 20th, at Holy Rosary RC Church, 41 Windemere Ave, Greenwood Lake, NY.
Memorial donations may be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or a favorite charity.


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