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HSBC has launched its most ambitious lending package yet for small business owners, making £8bn available to SMEs throughout the United Kingdom.
The scheme is certainly a nationwide one. The £8bn will be dispersed throughout 43 tranches across Britain.
''Too often we've heard smaller, domestic businesses ask whether we are as committed to them as we are to big global firms,'' said Ian Stuart, head of commercial banking at HSBC.
The £8bn is not the only support given to SMEs by HSBC. A special promotion on business loans will be made available to any company.
Usually, SME owners would have to pay a security fee upon qualifying for a loan between £1,000 – £300,000. HSBC will either waive the security fee or refund business owners through to July.
''We want to make it as simple as we can for businesses to take their next step and that's why we've taken out fees and charges. It's open to any business, although we're always keen to help out firms that manufacture here, as it's important to the UK economy,'' continued Stuart.
The lending firm are currently approving 85 per cent of business lending applications. In 2014, 75,721 SMEs opened an account with HSBC, which is an average of 5,900 small businesses per month.
Also included in the package is 18 months of fee-free business banking for start-ups, and 12 months for existing SMEs who switch banks.
HSBC are also laying the foundations to increase SME growth in the long-term. The banking group are creating more than 300 workshops over the next 12 months, aiming to support 10,000 businesses in seeking to grow from start-ups to established firms looking to grow.
''It's vital that SMEs across the country, from start-ups and sole traders upwards, know that HSBC is there to support them. We want to be their bank of choice. That's why we've launched our largest ever package of support, with £8 billion available to lend and a promotion designed to make it cheaper and simpler to borrow for your business,'' said Antonio Simoes, chief executive, HSBC UK.

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2016 Grand Island Nature Photo Contest Winners
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Thank you to everyone who participated and voted
Beginning October, 2016, residents were invited to enter their nature pictures taken on Grand Island into the 1st Annual Nature Photo Contest. There were many submissions in each of the five categories of the contest—mammals; birds; insects; reptiles and amphibians; and trees, plants and flowers. Participants shared their photographic talents and captured the beauty of the Grand Island wildlife and environment. From December 3 through December 17, photo submissions were displayed in the community for citizens to view and to vote on their favorites.
The top winners received prizes and every entrant received an appreciation gift. The Citizen Coalition for Wildlife and Environment thanks everyone for their interest and participation in the Grand Island Nature Photo Contest. The Grand Island Nike Base Community Center, Golden Age Center, and Pizza Amore were all gracious hosts for displaying the photographs and the community exhibited a great response and turnout for the photo viewing and voting. The beauty of the species and habitats of Grand Island was evident in all the photos and Island residents are fortunate to live in such a rich natural environment. The photography and the contest can inspire Grand Island residents to seek out and appreciate the incredibly diverse and beautiful species that inhabit the Island and to recognize that there are non-invasive, respectful ways to capture that beauty for all to share.


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Our fraud law barristers bring decades of expertise defending in some of the largest and most complex fraud and confiscation cases in the UK and abroad.
Garden Court is consistently recognised for its outstanding contribution to criminal defence law.
Our team is also ranked as a leading set of chambers in the Legal 500 for fraud law.
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We offer a 30-strong team of barristers in these areas of law, nine of whom are leading silks recommended in the independent Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide. Members of the team have authored the highly regarded "Confiscation Manual", the authoritative guide for lawyers on applications under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
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"In all of creation, that which empties itself out in generosity, returns filled with new life. There is a recurring pattern of being called forth, leaving behind, emptying out, and life returning in a new form."
Jo-Ann Iannotti, OP; Remember, Return, Rejoice: Journeying from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday; Litchfield, CT: Wisdom House; 2012; p.19.


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Need a way to boost your lead generation in a big way without having much of a budget?
There is a simple and extremely affordable way to regularly get in front of hundreds and thousands of hungry prospects who are serious about buying, selling or private lending for real estate investing pros.
What is it? Events, conventions and conferences. Wait, before you run off, thinking this will cost you too much, hear this out…
There are hundreds of real estate investing related events around the country every year and probably at least several per month within just a few miles of where you live. You don't even have to host your own. Many of these are extremely inexpensive to attend. Surely, you can afford $20 to meet a couple hundred prospects? That is probably the best return on investment you could ever hope for.
Before those running events like this complain, remember we probably just dramatically boosted your attendance and ticket sales (for free), you're welcome!
Think about it. Home shows, foreclosure conventions, real estate investing seminars, even the Bank of America homeowners' assistance events. They are all packed with prime prospects that are serious. They have paid or at least taken time out of their valuable days to attend, so they are actively seeking help or opportunities like those you can provide. This is guerilla style marketing at its best.
Go armed with stacks of business cards but remember, capturing them in your online funnels and databases is a much better outcome. Consider adding QR codes to your cards and making them follow you on Twitter or like you on Facebook on the spot. Have fun with it.
If you want to be a little more high profile and establish your real estate investing brand consider contributing to goodie bags. This can also be a smart move for any contractors, private or hard money lenders, property managers and wholesalers who are reading this.
Want to do your own thing? How about a home buyer, foreclosure help or real estate investing webinar of your own? Use it to hit masses of prospects all within the same hour. Just make sure you aren't adding any additional unnecessary and expensive steps.


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Even over the quieter Summer months the skies of L.A. are still crammed with lots of fantastic ad creatives for the latest television shows and returning series, and for me this ever-changing tapestry makes for exciting times every month. Here's the latest visions in vinyl capturing my imagination from the world of TV this July.
TV billboards
billboard creatives for Manhattan at my Daily Billboard blog.
Over on AMC the tracks of the Transcontinental railway keeping rolling onwards and Hell on Wheels returns for a fourth season of wild adventures in the Old West.
For the show's launch last year, Comedy Central also had an inspired billboard parody of President Richard Nixon for the first season of Drunk History, so be sure to take a look if you want a laugh.
Meanwhile Sean Bean returns to TV this Fall with a new spy series called Legends based on the book by Robert Littell, which is about a talented undercover CIA agent with many faces who begins to doubt who he is.
Hemlock Grove season two billboards.
As you can see there's lots to be entertained and amused by in the city skyline this month from the world of TV.
Make sure you also check out July's Summer movie billboards and stylish fashion billboards, and come back soon for the round-up of this month's drinks, technology and lifestyle ads gracing the skies of L.A.
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Branding is a method of influencing how a customer thinks and feels about your company. Logos, slogans and ad campaigns are all ways of conveying your brand to the public.
Shadowood has over 25 years of experience with branding. By determining how the company can best be branded early in the advertising process, your company can avoid misdirection and can make the most of their advertising budget.


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Alexandre Pétion : biography
Alexandre Sabès Pétion (April 2, 1770 – March 29, 1818) was President of the Republic of Haiti from 1806 until his death in 1818. He is considered as one of Haiti's founding fathers, together with Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and his rival Henri Christophe.
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Years of Haitian Revolution
Pétion returned to Saint-Domingue as a young man to take part in the Créole expulsion of the British from Saint-Domingue (1798–99). There had long been racial and class tensions between gens de couleur and enslaved Africans and free blacks in Saint-Domingue, where slaves outnumbered whites and gens de couleur by ten to one. During the years of warfare against planters or grand blancs, Spanish, English, and French racial tensions were exacerbated in competition for power and political alliances.
When tensions arose between blacks and mulattoes, Pétion often supported the mulatto faction. He allied with General André Rigaud and Jean Pierre Boyer against Toussaint L'Ouverture in a failed rebellion, the so-called "War of Knives", in the South of Saint-Domingue, which began in June 1799. By November the rebels were pushed back to the strategic southern port of Jacmel; the defence was commanded by Pétion. The town fell in March 1800 and the rebellion was effectively over. Pétion and other mulatto leaders went into exile in France.
In February 1802, General Charles Leclerc arrived with tens of warships and 82,000 French troops to bring Saint-Domingue under more control. Gens de couleur Petion, Boyer and Rigaud returned with him in the hope of securing power in the colony.
Following the French deportation of Toussaint Louverture and the renewed struggle, Pétion joined the nationalist force in October 1802. This followed a secret conference at Arcahaie, where Pétion supported Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the general who had captured Jacmel. The rebels took the capital of Port-au-Prince on October 17, 1803. Dessalines proclaimed independence on January 1, 1804, naming the nation Haiti. On October 6, 1804, Dessalines declared himself ruler for life and was crowned emperor.
Following the assassination of Dessalines on October 17, 1806, Pétion championed the ideals of democracy and clashed with Henri Christophe who wanted absolute rule. Christophe was elected president, but he did not believe the position had sufficient power, as Pétion kept powers for himself. Christophe went to the north with his followers and established an autocracy, declaring the State of Haiti. The loyalties of the country divided between them, and the tensions between the blacks and mulattoes of the North and South, respectively, were reignited.
Pétion was elected President in 1806 of the southern Republic of Haiti. After the inconclusive struggle dragged on until 1810, a peace treaty was agreed to and the country was split in two. In 1811 Christophe made himself king of the northern Kingdom of Haiti.
Fearing a lack of political power, he turned his post into President for Life in 1816, going against his former beliefs. Initially a supporter of democracy, Pétion found the constraints imposed on him by the senate onerous and suspended the legislature in 1818.
Pétion seized commercial plantations from the rich gentry. He had the land redistributed to his supporters and the peasantry, earning him the nickname Papa Bon-Cœur ("good-hearted father"). The land seizures and changes in agriculture reduced the production of commodities for the export economy. Most of the population became full subsistence farmers, and exports and state revenue declined sharply, making survival difficult for the new state.
Believing in the importance of education, Pétion started the Lycée Pétion in Port-au-Prince. Petion's virtues and ideals of freedom and democracy for the world (and especially slaves) were strong, and he often showed support for the oppressed. He gave sanctuary to the independence leader Simón Bolívar in 1815 and provided him with material and infantry support. This vital aid played a defining role in Bolivar's success in liberating the countries of what would make up Gran Colombia. Petion was reported to be influenced by his (and his succcessor's) lover, Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, who acted as his political adviser.http://www.haiticulture.ch/Madeleine_Lachenais.html
Pétion named the general Boyer as his successor; he took control in 1818 following the death of Pétion from yellow fever. After Henry I and his son died in 1820, Boyer reunited the country under his rule.
Legacy and honors
- The Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétionville was named in his honor.
Early life
Pétion was born in Port-au-Prince to a Haitian mother and a wealthy French father.Rodriguez (2007), p. 375 Like other gens de couleur libres (free people of color) with wealthy fathers, Pétion was sent to France in 1788 to be educated and study at the Military Academy in Paris.
In Saint-Domingue, as in other French colonies such as La Louisiane, the free gens de couleur constituted a third caste between the whites and enslaved Africans. While restricted in political rights, many received social capital from their fathers and became educated and wealthy landowners, resented by the petits blancs, who were mostly minor tradesmen. Following the French Revolution of 1789, the gens de couleur led a rebellion to gain the voting and political rights which they believed were due them as French citizens; this was before the slave uprising of 1791. At that time, most free people of color did not support freedom or political rights for enslaved Africans and free blacks.
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UPDATE (Monday, 1:15 p.m.:): adds comments from FPSF's Omar Afra.
Free Press Summer Festival has decided it wants to grow.
Earlier today, the popular Houston outdoor music festival -- which drew an estimated 81,000 people to Eleanor Tinsley Park this past June, the first sellout in its five-year history -- posted a video urging fans to email their City Council representative asking their blessing on extending the FPSF curfew, and "possibly an extra day."
"More hours means more jobs to our local economy," the video says. "To that end, Free Press Summer Fest is looking to help bolster the local economy and bring our audience an even more diverse lineup and less congestion, and to create more jobs, more revenue and more visitors to the city."
The video cites many of the findings of the economic impact study FPSF commissioned last year from the University of Houston, which reported that the event added some $14 million to Houston's coffers. Though it's hard to imagine how many more jobs would be added if the hours were extended (people would presumably just work longer shifts), adding a third day would almost certainly increase demand for more positions.
Specifically, the video says, FPSF is asking for the same kind of extension stadiums enjoy, which allows them to extend their cutoff time past 10 p.m. while events are taking place. FPSF wants a two-hour extension from 10 p.m.-midnight the evening of Saturday, May 31, and one hour from 10-11 p.m. on Sunday, June 1., "as well as possibly adding an extra day to the festival." (Our old ass asks, isn't everyone already going to be exhausted by 10 p.m.?)
But there's the rub. To us, it doesn't seem like extending the hours would be much of an issue, but adding an extra day could well be. Or maybe not. FPSF already shuts down Allen Parkway the Friday before to build out the festival, a significant part of which festival takes place on Allen Parkway itself. And many of the downtown parking lots now used by festivalgoers would be clearing out -- or on their way -- of downtown commuters by the later start time FPSF organizers propose.
"Naturally, a Friday addition would begin later in the day, about the time those lots start clearing up," says FPSF co-founder and producer Omar Afra. "May consider a large park and ride as well..."
But demand for the festival only seems to be increasing with each passing year. You tell us, folks -- are you cool with longer hours? Do you want to see another day of FPSF? Or is two enough?
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Scrap English requirement in educational institutions: RSS wing SSUN tells HRD
The recommendations are the medium of instruction from elementary to higher levels in schools should be the mother tongue, not any foreign language
RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN) leaders have met HRD minister Prakash Javadekar regarding their new recommendations in the education sector.
The recommendations are the medium of instruction from elementary to higher levels in schools should be the mother tongue.
Foreign languages should not be offered as an alternative to any Indian language at the school level. English should no longer be mandatory at any level. All research works must be linked to "national requirements" and projects that do not meet this condition should not get UGC scholarships. References that insult Indian culture, tradition, sects, thoughts, eminent personalities and offer wrong explanations must be removed from textbooks at all levels.
An October 14 email from an HRD official, acknowledging the SSUN suggestions, revealed that the ministry had noted down all recommendations and they would discuss those at the time of formation of new education policy.
The SSUN asked the government to "immediately provide facilities to introduce education in Indian languages in English-medium institutions like IIT, IIM and NIT", and "take legal action" against schools that prevent students from speaking in their mother tongue.
Athul Kothari, a veteran RSS pracharak, founder of SSUN and an invitee member of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarini met Javadekar to discuss these new recommendations, some sources reported.


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The first time I attended school was at the age of five and as I said previously that was at Yapton in Sussex. As I said marmalade tart was part of the school lunch one day. I remember absolutely nothing more.
We returned to our council house home in Leeds sometime in September , I assume. I attended infants school in Harehills Lane. At the age of five I was expected to make my own way to and from school. This involved crossing a main road, Harehills Lane, without the aid of a lollypop man/woman. I don't think "school crossing patrols" existed for quite a few more years in fact not until the late 50's early 60's except London when they were first introduced in 1953. They were different days as different from today as the Victorian era of my grandfathers was to then. Parents attitude in all matters concerning the raising of children were unbelievable when thought about in later years.
I do remember cold winters, classrooms heated by coke stoves, and sitting on the floor in a circle on Friday afternoons with a woman teacher reading stories of Brer Rabbit and suchlike. They must have made a good start on reading and writing because I don't remember any problems in those subjects.
I cannot have been at that school more than a couple of years because we moved to Gledhow but in the meantime I was usually walking to school holding hands with my first girlfriend so to speak. She was called Carol and lived round the corner from us in Roberts Avenue. I do know that we walked in the snow during the harsh winter of 1947 so we must have moved in 1948 to our new semi detached house purchased for £1250.
Having moved I then went to a Church of England school in Gledhow Lane. This was the school where progress was made in learning the times tables by rote and all the other basics of education. This was another school heated by coke stoves in the classrooms. Memories of that time have faded somewhat but I could only have been there for a year or so before going to the Talbot Road C.P. junior school where the first and most devastating injustice was made in my education.


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The law in the UK makes it an obligation of your local council to ensure that you have adequate accomodation. This means that if you are legally homeless then your council must help you.
How much help your local council must give you depends on a number of facts:
- Are you homeless through no fault of your own?
- What is your level of need (Any disabilities, dependant children etc?)
You can check out if your council must give you emergency housing on Shelter's Emergency Housing Rights Checker.
Legally Homeless
Legally Homeless is a term used by local council's and government.
You may be legally homeless if:
- you've no legal right to live in accommodation anywhere in the world
- you can't get into your home – eg your landlord has locked you out
- it's not reasonable to stay in your home – eg risk of violence or abuse
- you're forced to live apart from your family or people you normally live with because there's no suitable accommodation for you
- you're living in very poor conditions – eg overcrowding
If you're legally homeless, your council must provide you with help – this could range from giving advice to arranging accommodation for you.
The amount of help they give you will depend on things like:
- if you became homeless through no fault of your own
- if you're eligible for assistance
- if you're in priority need
Eligibility for assistance
If you live permanently in the UK, you will usually be eligible for assistance. If you're from abroad, you may not be eligible because of your immigration status.
Shelter's emergency housing rights checker helps you work out if you're eligible for assistance and what you're entitled to.
Priority need
You're in priority need if:
- you or someone you live with is pregnant
- 'dependent children' live with you (under 16s or under 19s if they're studying full-time)
- you're 'vulnerable', eg as a result of old age or disability
- you're homeless after a flood, fire or other disaster
You may be entitled to Housing Benefit to help with your housing costs. If you are claiming Housing Benefit, ensure that you specifically request the local council to assess you for "Local Council Tax Reduction" as this is an entirely different benefit.
Shelter: The Housing and Homelessness Charity provide excellent advice and help to people. If you have any further information requirements then do not hesitate to contact them.
Also, an additional piece of legislation may help if you have children: Section 17 of The Childrens Act 1989 puts a duty of care on the local authority for children living in their area – regardless of their/their parents immigration status. Section 17(6) specifically stating:
(6) The services provided by a local authority in the exercise of functions conferred on them by this section may include [providing accommodation and] giving assistance in kind or . . in cash.
I am in no way suggesting that people coming home go directly to their local councils. Please try and ensure that you aren't going to end up on the streets when you return home to the UK. However, If you arrange to sleep on a mates sofa, you are still considered as homeless.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
Comedy directed by Michael Philip and starring Jason Lee. Frank (Lee) is a small-time crook trying to raise some money by bootlegging cigarettes for a powerful mobster. However, the truck containing the entire load catches fire, leaving Frank in a predicament as how to raise the mobs cash. He enlists the help of his gravedigger friend Eddie (Crispin Glover) as the hapless pair embark on a plan to exhume the body of a tycoon's wife, who was recently buried wearing a very valuable necklace.


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Plot Summary:"The Gecko brothers takes a priest and his family hostage while en route to freedom and Mexico. Arriving there they come onto a club filled with loads of dark and mysterious characters. But if only the Gecko boys realised that they were indeed in far deeper shit than they could ever imagine."
From Dusk Till Dawn is a bargain 2 for the price of 1 film, one part crime thriller, the other horror flick. The premise is mouth-watering: two killers-on-the-run, the Gecko brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, also a delusional rapist) kidnap a family (a grizzled Harvey Keitel and his teenaged son and daughter ) with the intention of making it across the mexican border to a trucker's strip joint which turns out to be literally infested with vampires.
This film should have been great. It seems that all the elements were there. Helmed by Robert Rodriguez (who show such directorial flair with Desperado, despite the cop-out ending) and written by Quentin Tarantino (hot from his legendary crime opus Pulp Fiction) and casting himself as the rapist alongside fellow Resevoir Dog, Keitel, as his captive ex-priest. Also throw in sex symbols George Clooney as the dominant criminal, Juliette Lewis as the daughter, and Salma Hayek as the stripper-cum-vampire-cum-internet-wet-dream. Aside from the fantastic cast, there are interesting characters - religious men at turning points in their spiritual lives. The black sheep of criminal and horror genres, being the rapist and the vampire respectively, are both thrown in the mix. So, what an exciting movie this promises to be. Unfortunately, it never quite works.
FDTD is clearly a self-confessed B movie celebrating all that is cultdom. It so wants to be a cult classic, you can almost hear Robert and Quentin remarking 'How cool was that'? and 'This kicks ass, man'! between takes. One of the biggest problems with it is a lack of any real horror; when the vampires finally emerge, all pale and scaly in their skinpy costumes, they are just freak show characters in already elaborate carnival. Horror should unsettle, it should rouse that fear inside of us and make us hesitate before we turn out the bedside lamp. FDTD has its tongue too firmly in its cheek to be taken seriously as a horror film, there are too many visual sight gags involing severed for this movie to be frightening. The tone is all important in the horror and this seems to be leaning towards a comedic tone, which is slightly confusing. Canned laughter would not have been out of place in certain scenes (ie - the bar's resident band of vampires substituting electric guitars for the torsoes of mangled victims, and carrying on playing). Comedy can sometimes work in a horror film, American Werewolf In London finds the right balance. Dog Soldiers and Shaun Of The Dead (which functions more as a comedy) seem to both respect the genre and have several genuinely scary moments.
However, there is much to like in this film. The film looks great, the set designs are splendid and they certainly did not skimp on imagination in the costume department, Salma Hayek's stripper blends the look of modern day eroticism with ancient Egyptian wear. Also, the Gecko brothers' tatoos and the way they wear them suggests a past involvement with a prison culture. This kind of attention to detail is admirable, but seems displaced in a movie that refuses to take itself seriously. The film may have been more effective if it kept the same tone running all the way through it; oddly, it appears darker and more dangerous during its 'crime genre' first half. During the second 'horror' segment it lets its hair down and asserts 'it's okay, guys. I'm just a movie'. -- this is its tonal shift, the sublime to the ridiculous.
Rodriguez and Tarantino are more adept when dealing with the crime story, the narrative is more dense, building a tense and intriguing relationship between the family and their violent captors. Harvey Keitel plays the single dad/ex-priest, who has lost his faith due to his wife dying in a terrible accident. Predictably, he regains his faith when later confronted by all manner of unholy beings. This old movie chesnut (ie- the once religious man having lost his faith, only to need it when a supernatural force of evil enters the fray), present in films such as The Prophecy and End Of Days, was handled with much more maturity in M.Night Shymalan's alien invasion horror flick Signs. When Keitel utters these lines, full of an intense anger toward God, they seem ingenuine and clunky. Perhaps it's the script, whatever it is, it comes over as forced. Another interesting narrative strand is the disturbing tension between Tarantino's clearly insane rapist and Juliette Lewis's daughter, all exposed midriff and pouting lips. This plot element is developed from the rapist's perspective, making it edgy and strangely erotic. This should have gone somewhere, there ought to have been a climax - the lunatic culmination of his unspent lust. This would have been more scary than anything served up. But it was mercilessly thrown away in the second half. Tarantino's (for once) interesting acting turn as this barmy rapist, Richard Gecko, was denied his place in the Hall Of Horrors and substituted with a mindless splatterfest of gory comedy.
It is strange that Tarantino canvassed real human agony at both being shot and betrayed in Resevoir Dogs, he lingered on Tim Roth's emotional turmoil to an almost embarrassing degree. Whereas in FDTD there is zero realism on the human emotional scale. When a key character is bitten, he or she turns into a vampire, this being emphasized by a sudden zoom shot. This happens again and again. There is no mortal anguish being expressed by any of the characters. One can't help but think that the successful writer/director team set out to make a dumb horror flick, replete with gore, boobs and big shiny guns. The idea was to confuse the audience in a good way, to lue us into one kind of movie and then move the goalposts, tell us we're now in an altogether different kind of movie. It was meant as a clever twist, an experimental manipulation of audience expectation. However, the movie we were lured into was a good one, the one we ended up with was a bad one.
On a positive note, the film does deserve 3 stars, if anything for the enthusiasm of all involved, which is definitely infectious. The lush production value is also ever-present and there aren't many expensive crime/vampire gorefests on the market. As a mindless pulp with no great sense of direction this works well. The SFX are also fun in a schlocky kind of way.
There is at least half a decent movie here, just set your expectations as low as Friday the 13th part IX: Jason Goes To Hell and you may be pleasantly distracted.


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October 19, 2009 -- The Place, London
Through text and dance, "Correspondences" is a lively, frequently witty, sometimes intimate look at the friendship of two women reunited after a long time during which they only corresponded. As Haiti-born Kettly Noël and South African Nelisiwe Xaba explore their friendship, they tell stories, exchange opinions, fight and laugh. We see the initial awkwardness of being in the same space, and maybe even a certain amount of jealousy, develop into deep friendship. Their conversations and observations are sometimes funny, but always revealing; and they move as passionately as they speak.
The couple introduce themselves through two monologues that seem to have more than a hint of autobiography about them. Xaba focuses on the everyday task of getting ready for work. But she makes it sound far from mundane. As she stretches, twists and turns her leggy frame, we learn much about her bathroom and its many mirrors, and the shoe and hat collection in her closet. Noel is more exuberant, arriving from the back of the auditorium with a battered suitcase, perhaps an autobiographical touch reflecting her journeys and time spent in Benin, Mali and France. After hugging and kissing several members of the audience as if they were friends, a sizeable part of her text centres on money. In a political reference again drawing on her experiences, she says, "In Africa I am a queen. With money in Africa, I can buy anything and everything. I can buy a country, I can buy a continent, I can buy boys, I can buy girls… With money in Africa, I am a queen!"
Several scenes follow, the best and most amusing of which is one that features Xaba, lying under a large table, giving instructions in the form of ballet steps or positions to Noel, on the table. After been prompted by one to remove her underwear, on 'jeté' she drops them on the table, and on 'grand jeté' throws them at the front row, who, in this performance, hadworked out what was coming. "Try harder", yells Xaba, "you're not doing RAD you know!"
Finally, having really got to know each other, and now clad only in leotards, they shower together in milk, which arrives in surgical gloves from above. Now fully relaxed in each others' company, they play, sliding around the floor as the music gets ever louder, and their opening texts scroll across the floor and back wall.
If there is a weakness in "Correspondences," it is the lack of connection between some scenes. Not until the end, when the barriers are finally down and the couple play exuberantly does the work make sense. What really made the evening was not so much the choreography or dramaturgy, but the engaging personalities of the two performers, their natural approach, and the very evident chemistry between them. They really did seem like two friends.
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KNOWLEDGE is power, and for many scientists, understanding the dynamic lattice response of solids under extreme pressures, temperatures, and strain rates can be quite powerful, indeed. This quest to expand the fundamental knowledge of material behavior has spanned nearly a century, and it remains an exciting scientific frontier in high-energy-density materials science. Materials science is an essential part of Livermore's work in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship Program to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. In particular, scientists want to determine how extreme dynamic stress affects a material's phase, strength, and damage evolution.
Critical to this work are studies that probe material properties at the scale of the controlling physical processes—at length scales of 1 nanometer (10–9 meter) and time scales of less than 1 nanosecond
(10–9 second). Investigations at these characteristic length and time scales were unthinkable a decade ago, but the technologies and facilities available today are bringing such studies within reach. Using ultrabright, ultrafast x-ray sources at high-energy laser and accelerator facilities, scientists can directly measure the x-ray diffraction and scattering that result from dynamic changes in a material's lattice.
A multidisciplinary team led by physicist Hector Lorenzana of the Laboratory's Defense and Nuclear Technologies Directorate is collaborating with researchers from other national laboratories and universities on a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project to probe the real-time lattice response of metals under high shock loads. The team's collaborators include researchers from Los Alamos, Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories as well as from Rochester University, Oxford University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the University of Texas at Austin. The team's measurements, which have nanometer and subnanosecond resolutions, allow scientists to examine
the fundamental mechanisms governing macroscopic behavior.
"Critical scientific questions about material response at the lattice level must be answered," says Lorenzana. "For our stockpile stewardship work, we are interested in characterizing the condensed-matter phase transformations and damage that occur in shocked solids. Working closely with the Laboratory's theoretical and computational experts, we are coupling the results of our experiments with first-principles simulations, which for the first time can explore physical phenomena at overlapping temporal and spatial scales."
Few data are available to study the physical interactions that occur at very short time and length scales when materials are placed under extreme pressures. To examine this regime, scientists are combining new diagnostic techniques with computer simulations.
Current Challenges and Obstacles
The measurement methodologies used to study dynamically compressed solids have been limited to large-scale probes such as time-resolved surface diagnostics or characterizations of recovered specimens. Such measurements limit scientists to three general time and length regimes: slow macro (slow time scales and macroscopic dimensions), slow micro, and fast macro. For example, slow macro techniques include Hopkinson bar mechanical testing. To study the slow micro regime, scientists can characterize the microstructure of shock-recovered samples or observe materials compressed by a diamond anvil cell. With surface velocimetry or optical spectroscopy, they can probe the fast macro regime.
However, using these techniques, scientists must infer how physical processes interact at the atomic level under extreme shock loading. "To improve our understanding of the shocked solid, we must access the fast micro regime," says Lorenzana. "For those studies, we need techniques that allow us to directly observe dynamic changes as they occur in a material's lattice structure."
Measurements in the fast micro regime can be used to characterize materials as they change phases, for example, as a solid melts or a material plastically deforms by creating a defected state. With such information, scientists can determine how damage evolves in a material under extreme pressures and causes the material to fail. "This next generation of fast micro probing will push our fundamental knowledge of shocked solids forward," says physicist Bruce Remington, who works in Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) Programs Directorate, "and it will help us understand the microscopic lattice response under extreme conditions of compression. Research in the fast micro regime is important for achieving ignition on NIF, for example, where the target capsule's response to the first shock can affect its subsequent implosion dynamics."
(a) Molecular-dynamics simulations of iron being transformed by shock predict the pattern of x-ray diffraction from many planes. (b) A closeup view of one lattice plane shows the predicted broadening and peak position of the diffraction signal. (c) The predicted response (black curve) from a simulation using a grain size of 8 × 8 × 8 cells agrees with the experimental data (blue curve).
Blending Experiment and Theory
Lorenzana emphasizes the importance of bridging experiment and theory at comparable temporal and spatial scales in the pursuit of new scientific discoveries. The LDRD project is the first comprehensive lattice-level study of the behavior of shocked solids using both experiments and simulations at overlapping length and time scales. Experimental data allow us to quantify and validate our theories," says Lorenzana. "Theoretical studies, in turn, help us interpret the data and better design subsequent experiments. The outcome of this cycle is enhanced experiments and theory that lead us to an understanding of new physics."
Also working on this project are Livermore physicists Eduardo Bringa, Babak Sadigh, and Jaime Marian of the Chemistry and Materials Science (CMS) Directorate. According to Bringa, the team's work is providing a building block to improve scientific understanding of material behavior under dynamic loading, which is critical to the success of stockpile stewardship, energy research, and other important national endeavors.
A phase diagram of bismuth shows the material states that can occur as pressure and temperature vary. At about 420 kelvins, shocked bismuth may melt and resolidify as compression increases (red curve) or is released (green curve).
"Livermore has some of the best computers in the world," says Bringa. "With them, we can simulate systems atom by atom at the length and time scales used in our experiments and validate our materials models. In addition, the simulations provide detailed information about interactions that experiments cannot yet probe. Until we can develop experiments to study the evolution of shock-induced dislocation density with nanosecond resolution, we must rely on atomistic simulations to access such processes. Relevant information is lost in current recovered samples, where the unloading and thermal history greatly modify dislocation content."
The metal bismuth illustrates the importance of unraveling material processes such as phase transformations. Bismuth exhibits a complex static phase diagram that presents challenges to researchers who study its solid-to-solid and solid-to-melt phase transformations during shock loading. At about 420 kelvins, shocked bismuth may melt and eventually resolidify as pressure is increased or released. According to Lorenzana, scientists want to predict how such phase transformations affect the material properties of the shocked solid, but they must first acquire accurate data on the changes that occur at the lattice level. Bismuth could serve as a test bed to study the kinetics of such transformations, allowing scientists to determine the rates of phase changes and the location of phase boundaries.
Micrographs from a dynamic x-ray diffraction experiment show the phase transformation in iron under extreme pressure: (a) at low pressure before transition and (b) at high pressure after the transition. Blue lines indicate the unshocked material. Green lines show the compressed phase of a material that is not transformed. Red lines show a new phase beginning to emerge.
Because damage prediction depends on a material's microstructure and its phase history, scientists cannot predict a material's response to shock loading until more questions are answered. "We must first address a broader series of open, fundamental physics questions," says James McNaney, a materials scientist in the CMS Directorate. "For example, how is the microstructure modified under shock conditions? What are the dynamic high-pressure phases? How do molten and solid phases and the kinetics of the transitions affect the final state? And, perhaps most importantly, how does the resolidified material behave during subsequent loading?"
Directly measuring and simulating the response of an ordered crystalline solid to shock loading will go a long way toward answering these questions. "We are studying key atomistic processes such as relaxation, phase transformation, and kinetics," says Lorenzana. In addition, his team is looking at defect dynamics and evolution, including dislocations and the nucleation and growth of voids. (See the box below.)
Most metals are crystalline in nature—that is, they are solids composed of atoms arranged in a regularly ordered repeating pattern. When crystals form, they may solidify into either a polycrystalline solid or a single crystal. In a single crystal, all the atoms are arranged into one lattice or crystal structure. The structure of single crystals makes them ideal for studies of material response to shock loading.
When a highly ordered material, such as a metal crystal, is put under a planar shock, the crystal is compressed along the direction of the shock propagation. This uniaxial response can remain elastic so that, once the disturbance is removed, the lattice will relax back to its original configuration. However, under high-stress conditions, the configuration of atoms in the lattice may be changed irreversibly. Irreversible changes in phase and the development of defects at the atomic level lead to macroscopic changes, such as plasticity, melting, or solid-to-solid phase transformations. When the dynamic compression is removed, the shock-modified microstructure may influence the formation and growth of voids, cracks, and other processes that may cause the material to fail.
These atomistic changes can dramatically affect a material's behavior, such as its thermodynamic state, strength, and fracture toughness. Few data are available on the phase transformations that occur under highly dynamic stress conditions or on the defects and voids that may form and grow as a result.
This micrograph shows the voids that occur when a polycrystalline aluminum alloy is shocked and recovered. As the shock wave releases, the voids grow and may coalesce, resulting in material failure.
A crystal placed under shock loading will initially compress uniaxially and then relax plastically through defects (labeled with T's), a process known as the one-dimensional (1D) to three-dimensional (3D) transition. The material may also undergo a structural transformation, represented here as a cubic to hexagonal change. The transformation occurs over a characteristic time scale. The new phase may be a polycrystalline solid or melt. Once pressure is released, the microvoids that formed may grow, leading to macroscopic damage that causes the solid to fail.
Dynamic X-Ray Diffraction
A new diagnostic technique, called dynamic x-ray diffraction (DXRD), is providing great insight about the structure and spacing of the crystalline lattice in a shocked material. DXRD uses high-intensity lasers to generate both a shock in a solid and a precisely timed flash of x rays to image the lattice in motion. The x-ray flash can produce 100 to 1,000 times more photons per pulse than are produced by synchrotron accelerators. When the x rays interact with the crystal's atoms, they are diffracted in a pattern that characterizes the lattice. This image is captured on x-ray film. By resolving this time-dependent diffracted signal, scientists can develop a fundamental understanding of the kinetics of transformation and lattice relaxation.
In an effort to establish the effectiveness of the DXRD technique, a research team led by Livermore physicist Daniel Kalantar examined phase transformations in shocked iron. Materials scientists have frequently studied shock-compressed iron because the metal plays a key role in many important technologies and in the geophysical properties of Earth's formation. Despite the mature body of work associated with iron, no experiments had directly probed its lattice structure during shock loading. "In our DXRD experiments, we made the first direct observation of a transition in iron," says Kalantar. "Now, we're experimenting with other materials and other configurations."
Lorenzana's team is expanding on these initial studies. "The feasibility studies with iron established the experimental and theoretical foundation for implementing DXRD methodologies," he says. "We look forward to investigating other important phenomena such as melting in bismuth and plasticity in vanadium."
To date, DXRD experiments have been conducted using the high-energy Janus laser at Livermore, the Trident laser at Los Alamos, the Omega laser at Rochester University, and the Vulcan laser at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. "From a materials science point of view, being able to study samples at the atomic level while they are being shocked opens up a new realm for us to investigate," says physicist James Hawreliak, a postdoctoral researcher working on Lorenzana's team. "Such studies under shock conditions are just scratching the surface of what we can learn."
Dynamic x-ray diffraction uses a high-intensity laser to shock a crystal sample. The x-ray diffraction pattern is recorded for later analysis.
X-Ray Scattering
An even newer technique is in the pipeline to probe these crystalline structures at superfast speeds and with high collimation. As with x-ray diffraction, scattering experiments require a high-intensity x-ray source directed at the crystal sample. Defects in the crystal lattice will cause the x rays to scatter, generating two types of signatures: diffuse and small-angle scattering. Diffuse scattering can be used to examine atomic-scale defects in the crystal. Small-angle scattering allows scientists to characterize large-scale defects, particles, and voids.
"X-ray scattering studies have not been conducted under shock loading," says McNaney. The team plans to extend existing methodologies and analysis tools so scientists can use x-ray scattering to quantify damage in dynamically compressed materials. "Small-angle x-ray scattering experiments with subnanosecond resolution are quite challenging because they combine extreme pressures, short time scales, and low signal-to-noise ratios," says Livermore physicist Anthony Van Buuren of the CMS Directorate. "Success in developing these techniques will allow us to study processes that must be understood to predict macroscopic behavior."
Lattice compression shifts the x-ray diffracted signal in characteristic ways. (a) The change in lattice spacing will shift the angle of the diffracted arc, displacing the signal on the detector.(b) Measurements on titanium with Livermore's Janus laser clearly show the diffraction pattern.
To bring this new experimental scheme into the regime needed to probe the shocked lattice response in situ, Lorenzana's team proposes to couple laser-based shock-generation techniques with the high brightness of an accelerator light source, or synchrotron, which can generate x-ray pulses that last about 100 picoseconds. X-ray scattering of the highly collimated and monochromatic beams produced by a synchrotron will provide data that can
be analyzed to determine feature size, spacing, and morphology in the fast micro regime.
"Synchrotron radiation includes a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum—from infrared light to x rays," says team member Art Nelson, who works in the CMS Directorate. "In our measurements, we need a narrow band of x-ray wavelength, and on average, the synchrotron sources give more x-ray photons per pulse than conventional tabletop x-ray sources, such as diffractometers." In addition, these superbright, ultrafast x-ray pulses—as short as 70 femtoseconds—are highly collimated and can be focused to very small dimensions, making them ideal for looking at minute fluctuations in material structures in the ultrafast time regimes. (See the box below.)
"Probing ultrafast phenomena is at the forefront of science," says Nelson, "not only in physics, but also in areas as diverse as chemistry and biology." For example, ultrafast biochemical processes such as photosynthesis are a potential area of inquiry that could benefit from superfast microscale probing. Says Nelson, "With these emerging methodologies, we can observe processes as they happen in nature."
Accelerator, or synchrotron, light sources, such as the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, provide the most brilliant x-ray beams available for scientific research. In these machines, electrons traveling at nearly the speed of light are forced into a circular path by magnets and emit bright radiation, from the infrared to the hard x ray, that shines down beam lines to experiment end stations. The x-ray light produced is one billion times brighter than that from the Sun.
The process begins by heating a cathode to more than 1,000°C. Electrons emitted from the cathode are accelerated first in a linear accelerator and then in a booster synchrotron. When the electrons reach the target speed, they are injected into a storage ring about the size of a football field. This ring uses a powerful electromagnetic field to focus the electrons into a narrow beam. During its orbit in the vacuum chamber, the electron beam is bent on a circular path. As the electrons circle the ring, they give off light that is called synchrotron radiation.
Synchrotron x rays have unique properties that make them ideal for dynamic materials science research, which involves fast time scales, microscopic length scales, and high collimation. Synchrotron sources produce more photons per pulse and brighter light than other x-ray sources. The light generated is a hundred million times brighter than that from the most powerful conventional x-ray tube.
An even brighter fourth-generation light source, the Linac Coherent Light Source, is under construction at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Once it is operational, this x-ray free-electron laser will produce light that is hundreds to thousands of times brighter and shorter than the light from existing synchrotron-based x-ray sources. Single pulses will have enough photons to image diffraction patterns with femtosecond (10–15-second) time resolution, providing an unmatched capability for investigating the material dynamics of shocked solids.
Success So Far
To date, the first-phase experiments have been performed on laser-based platforms at Livermore. Synchrotron-based investigations of shocked solids are planned for the latter part of 2006. Lorenzana acknowledges that much work is left to do. So far, the team is laying a technical foundation and demonstrating proof of principle for in situ studies of lattice-level processes in shocked solids. "We have demonstrated that our approach to probing highly dynamic shocked systems produces quantitative results at the physically relevant temporal and spatial scales," he says. "Success in this endeavor using laser- and synchrotron-based platforms will position Livermore at the forefront of high-energy-density materials science."
X-ray scattering experiments using synchrotron accelerator light sources will allow scientists to measure the bulk distribution of material defects between 1 nanometer and 0.1 micrometer.
The successes from the shocked iron DXRD experiments have gone a long way in demonstrating a new ability to measure the lattice under shock conditions in previously unexplored regimes. This work, along with the real-time observation of phase transformations in situ, is breaking new ground beyond materials science and applications to nuclear weapons research. "The possibilities in these ultrafast, micro regimes are nearly limitless," says Nelson. "Potential applications range from the genesis and characterization of new materials to probing any ultrafast process that occurs in nature, such as biochemical processes that underlie human disease."
In this case, accessing the fast micro regime is likely to mean huge scientific returns for a long time to come.
—Maurina Sherman
A multidisciplinary team of scientists drawn from several Livermore directorates is working together to better understand shock-compressed materials. Team members include (standing, from left to right) Daniel Kalantar, George Gilmer, Anthony Van Buuren, Jaime Marian, Bassem El-Dasher, James McNaney, Bruce Remington, and Santiago Casado and (sitting, from left to right) James Hawreliak, Babak Sadigh, Ben Torralva, Hector Lorenzana (team leader), and Eduardo Bringa.
Key Words: crystalline lattice, dynamic x-ray diffraction (DXRD), materials science, phase transformations, shocked solids, ultrafast lattice response, x-ray scattering.
For further information contact Hector Lorenzana (925) 422-8982 (email@example.com).
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By John W. Scanlan, J.D. A ceramic maker may have a duty of care to a non-spouse roommate of an employee who developed chronic beryllium disease after being exposed to beryllium from washing the employee's work clothes, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously stated in response to questions certified to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. However, the state high court declined to specify the scope of the duty or the limits on liability or to create a bright-line rule because a case-by-case assessment would be required (Schwartz v. Accuratus Corp., July 6, 2016, LaVecchia, J.). In 1979, a machinist employed by Accuratus Corp. began sharing an apartment with another Accuratus employee. At that time, the machinist's then-girlfriend frequently visited and stayed overnight. After he began working for another company, they were married in 1980 and she moved into the apartment, in which the roommate continued to live. The machinist's wife did the laundry both before and after the marriage and also cleaned their portion of the apartment and the common areas. According to the complaint filed by the machinist and his wife, employees at Accuratus were exposed to manufacturing processes involving beryllium oxide ceramics and other beryllium-containing materials and beryllium dust was deposited upon their clothes. It further alleged that the machinist's wife was exposed to this beryllium when she did the laundry, including during the time before the marriage when she stayed over at the apartment, as well as after the marriage from the roommate's clothes as he continued to work at Accuratus. In 2011, the wife was diagnosed with chronic beryllium disease. She and her husband brought claims in Pennsylvania state court for negligence, products liability, and strict liability against Accuratus and Materion Brush Inc., the husband's second employer. The case was removed to federal court. In denying the plaintiffs' motion for remand, the district court observed that neither New Jersey (where Accuratus was located) nor Pennsylvania recognized a duty of an employer to protect a worker's non-spouse roommate. It cited the New Jersey Supreme Court's 2006 ruling in Olivo v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., which held that a duty of care to protect onsite workers from asbestos exposure in the workplace extended to spouses handling the workers' unprotected work clothing at home because there was a foreseeable risk of asbestos exposure from the clothes. The Olivo court determined that the employer's concerns about limitless liability were unfounded because its holding was limited to the facts of the case, and the duty it found was focused on "the particularized foreseeability of harm to the plaintiff's wife." According to the district court, finding a duty by Accuratus to the machinist's then-girlfriend would stretch the ruling of Olivo further than it could go with regard to foreseeability. In granting Accuratus' motion to dismiss, the district court found as a matter of law that the company had no duty to her, saying that the company could not have had the foresight to realize that she would marry one of its employees. The machinist and his wife appealed to the Third Circuit, which certified to the New Jersey Supreme Court the question of whether the premises liability rule of Olivo could extend beyond providing duty of care to the spouse of a person who was exposed to toxic substances while on the landowner's premises. Duty of care. The New Jersey Supreme Court answered the Third Circuit's question by clarifying that the Olivo duty of care may extend to a plaintiff who is not the spouse of an employee. The high court observed that in Olivo it had acted in its role as a court of common law, and the common law evolves to reflect changing societal values and public policy. The duty of care in Olivo was not based upon the wife's status as the worker's spouse, but because it was foreseeable that while doing laundry she would be handling the asbestos-contaminated clothes that the company had failed to protect at work. Olivo did not suggest that this duty of care could not extend beyond a spouse handling take-home toxins, nor was liability based upon a definition of a household member or upon any biological or familial relationship. Although the court found no precedent in another jurisdiction outside of a strict liability context for imposing a duty in a take-home toxic tort case that did not involve household members, it said that it could not define the contours of the duty owed to others through a certified question of law. A case-by-case assessment was needed in order to analyze particularized risk, foreseeability, and fairness. The relationship of the parties is important in determining whether it would be foreseeable, predictable, and just to find a duty of care, the court instructed. The foreseeability analysis is affected by the opportunity for exposure to the toxic substance and the nature of the risk that causes the exposure. Courts also must consider the employer's knowledge at the time of the exposure. Because of all the factors that must be considered, the high court said that it could not create a bright-line rule regarding "who's in and who's out."
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Carolina's research grants and contracts totaled $803 million in fiscal 2010, the largest amount in campus history.
The figure is a 12.2 percent increase from the $716 million received last year. The contracts and grants come primarily from the federal government – especially the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation. The NIH is traditionally the University's largest source of research funding.
Of the total, $126 million came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the stimulus bill. In the 12-month period, 308 UNC projects were selected for ARRA funding, taking to 319 the total number of ARRA-funded projects selected between the start of the federal initiative in February 2009 and the end of fiscal 2010.
Results from top-performing University units in fiscal 2010 included the College of Arts and Sciences (up 48.3 percent to $88 million) and the School of Medicine (up 21.3 percent to $424.3 million). Among individual departments and UNC-based centers and institutes, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center ($60.6 million) and the Carolina Population Center ($47.7 million) had the highest research awards totals.
"Given the current economic climate, it's impressive that we've continued to keep growing the pool of research funding here at UNC," said Barbara Entwisle, interim vice chancellor for research and economic development, noting that fiscal year totals have maintained an upward trend since 1996, when the annual tally amounted to slightly less than $249 million.
"These results reflect the caliber, effort and initiative of the University's faculty and research support staff," Entwisle said. "We're fortunate to have some of the world's brightest minds working on solutions to some of the planet's most challenging problems, and helping position the state of North Carolina as an internationally recognized hotbed of innovation and enterprise."
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I am a youtuber, and i use a capture card to record, in which i need a computer to at least watch the videos, but i don't have an ACTUAL computer, all i have so far is a chromebook, in which there isn't many editing options for, so i need to transfer my recorded videos to my phone to edit them, and i also have to upload them that way because it takes 3 million millenniums to upload, so i can't get any more videos done and edited to upload, it would be nice to be able to transfer videos to your laptop/computer the same way as you do to your mobile device, instead of just being able to download the things you transferred TO your mobile device!!!
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The Toltecáyotl was present in all knowledge branches, being and doing of the Anahuac peoples. Its universal values and guiding principles were demonstrated in the individual, family and community construction. The highest Anahuac social purpose was based on the Toltecáyotl, as well as the four elements of the "Anahuac development pyramid": The Food System, the Health System, the Educational System, the Social Organization System and the Legal Regime, were fully united and harmonically linked by the Toltecáyotl.
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During the three millennia during which the Anahuac Educational System operated, it probably had variants of the "form", but not the "concept". Because of different cultures, environment, languages and other factors, the education must have had variations, as it is today, but its humanist and spiritual essence, only was changed by the Aztecs, during the last 80 years before the Europeans arrival.
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A injured man was left stranded overnight after a serious fall in Mixenden on Wednesday.
The Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team were received an urgent call from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to Crag Lane at around lunchtime yesterday (Thursday), after a dog walker discovered the man and raised the alarm.
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Brit was having some fun in the Miami sun Wednesday, and from the front she looked like she was maneuvering her ride like a pro. However, when she came to a stop, it was time to start the real work ... correcting a massive wedgie!
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Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA) is the 'Grammy' of the musical instrument sector. Every year on the occasion of the Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound, journalists from over 100 international trade magazines choose the best products of the musical instrument and professional audio industry for the Musikmesse International Press Award. Under the auspices of the MM-Musik-Media-Verlag and Musikmesse, the international music journalists meet in Frankfurt to select the MIPA winners in over 40 categories.
The awards will be presented to the winners for outstanding products in a grand evening event with over 300 representatives of international manufacturers and distributors.
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The Las Vegas-based alt-rock band http://www.officialvikingssale.com/shop-by-players-linval-joseph-jersey-c-2_44.html announced late Thursday night that their fifth studio album — and first in 5 years — "Wonderful Wonderful" is scheduled for a Sept. 22 release, and that there would be a new run of early 2018 North American tour dates as a result, including a Feb. 6 stop at Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena.
Tickets will go on sale to the public Aug. 11 at 10 a.m. via Smith's Tix.
The band released its first single from the album, "The Man," in June and followed with another new track, "Run For Cover," on Thursday night.
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Hey! Just a quick post to share a card I created with the Coco Daisy January Kit. Yes, it's true, this kit is already sold out :( , but You can see all kinds of other Cocoa Daisy goodies here.
I just took a look at the February kit and it looks amazing also.
I've been working on my mission to organize a bit each day. Either a drawer, closet shelf, or something each day. Some days are harder to get motivated than others. As you can see from the photo below..... today is GLOOMY and it's taking a little more motivation to get me going. THIS weather just makes me want to curl up on the couch. ick!!
Some days are good for big projects and others for much smaller undertakings. Today, I'm scratching plan A and going with plan B. Instead of going thru a bunch of bins in the garage like I had planned, I will go thru things and organize under the kitchen sink. Sticking with my plan of "organizing something every day", just not my original plan.
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Third Piano Concerto
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At its premiere, the concerto was hailed as "the most original for the piano since Bartok. " "the most original for the piano since Bartok. " "The work is like a huge piano piece in which the orchestra supplies an extension of the instrument's timbres and dynamics. It's energetic, packed with ideas, exhilarating. There's a vigorous first movement; a highly developed slow movement with beautiful sonorities (the orchestra has a more nearly independent role), eloquent lines, and powerful harmonies; and a trenchant finale." Andrew Porter, The New Yorker
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