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City Council members are decrying cutbacks to Social Adult Day Care (SADC) programs throughout Brooklyn and the city as a whole.
The City Council Committee on Aging; the Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services; and the Subcommittee on Senior Centers met jointly on Thursday to hear testimony regarding the funding and future of these programs. SADC serves senior citizens with physical or mental impairments, many with Alzheimer's, who require close supervision and therapeutic activities.
Caryn Resnick, deputy commissioner for external affairs at the NYC Department for the Aging (DFTA), stated that the city has no funding for SADC services at this time, and that the DFTA has instead prioritized funding to "core services" like senior centers, home-delivered meals and case management.
But senior centers citywide have also suffered from reduced funding, and many center directors and City Council members are concerned.
Bronx Councilman G. Oliver Koppell (D-Kingsbridge/Riverdale), chair of the Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services, said at the hearing, "I was very distressed by the cut-off of these [SADC] funds." He vowed to "make [supporting restoration] a priority in the upcoming budget negotiations."
Koppell's office remains concerned about what funding cuts have meant to regular senior centers as well, according to counsel Jamin Sewell. The DFTA has, for example, already reduced funding to mitigate rent increases for the centers. "We're concerned especially from what we're hearing of the state budget," said Sewell.
Senior center directors say that they and their staff are frequently the ones to first notice mental and physical changes in their clients. This is particularly so with clients who have been coming to the same center for years and those who live alone.
"They watch each other," said Assistant Director Elena Spurrell of the Park Slope Senior Citizen Center. "If they notice someone missing, they will ask administration to check [on their well-being]."
"Without a doubt, senior centers are an important link between their members, resources and the community at large," said Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge), a member of the Committee on Aging.
The Park Slope Senior Citizen Center is funded, like similar centers citywide, by the DFTA. Its $270K allocation from the DFTA this fiscal year is designated for rent, insurance, staff salaries and supplies for the lunch program.
Funding for other programs, such as art, computers and physical fitness is left to the center's fundraising abilities or financed by grants from the discretionary funds of the offices of the borough president, district City Council members and state senators. These funds were cut this year.
Spurrell explained that her Park Slope seniors come for socialization and the opportunity to be physically and mentally active: "While meals are important, the crowd comes in for the programs." The morning exercise classes — the Bodies in Motion class being a favorite — bring in about 30 to 40 members who then stay for lunch, she said.
She worries that decreased funding will necessitate further cuts to the programs. The popular creative writing and oil painting classes were recent such casualties.
The monthly birthday party is also popular and a huge draw for members who gather to celebrate. Among the feted on Friday was Nazli Hegazy, 72. She has osteoporosis and comes for the exercise classes. "The center is an outlet for me, otherwise I don't know where I'd exercise," she said.
She explained that commercial exercise classes are expensive for persons living on fixed incomes, such as herself and her retired husband.
Administrative Assistant Ever Jean Ellerbe serves as a social aide at the center and provides case assistance to members. She explained that staffers routinely help seniors with assorted matters such as applying for government benefits like food stamps and Social Security, as well as problems with landlords, and lost MetroCards.
Another birthday honoree, Mary Delutri, 80, confirmed, "If you have a problem, they would help you." Delutri, a Park Slope resident, has been singing in the chorus at the center for many years. She walks there no matter the weather, and calls the center "someplace to go."
Frank J. Rinato, 78, has been coming to the center for 18 years. An Army veteran and retired AT&T inspector, Rinato says of the budget cuts, "There's a lot of talent that will get lost if they cut." He participated for years in the center's creative writing program, and enjoyed learning how to record his memoirs.
Gentile said, "When half the senior centers in the city are threatened with closure, a lot of people's actual lifelines are threatened. Those centers keep an entire demographic engaged and cared for; without them, we're giving up on that entire population."
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Beijing claims profit on Olympic hosting
Organizers say they came out 176 million dollars ahead. From AP-
Beijing Olympic organizers say they made a profit out of hosting last year's Summer Games.
According to figures released Friday by the government audit bureau, $2.8 billion was spent on organizing and staging the Games, including the Paralympic Summer Games that followed.
That compares to income of $3 billion thus far, leaving a profit of $176 million, the bureau said. The biggest chunk, accounting for 40 percent, came from broadcast and marketing rights, along with sales of tickets, souvenirs, and commemorative coins and stamps.
The organizers claim a profit but did China as whole come out ahead on the games?
The expenditure figures cover only operating expenses, leaving out spending on venues and infrastructure such as airports, roads and subways for the sprawling city of 18 million people.
Ah! Now as the late Paul Harvey said, here is the rest of the story.
According to the bureau, construction and upgrading costs for 36 new Olympic venues and 66 training facilities totaled $2.8 billion. The showpiece "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium alone ran almost $73 million over budget due to design modifications and higher prices for construction materials, coming in at a final cost of $455 million.
Infrastructure costs were met largely by the city governments of Beijing, Shanghai and other cities that hosted events, who together contributed $1.2 billion, and the central government, which kicked in $514 million. Another $146 million came through contributions from Chinese overseas, while the Olympic organizing committee and Education Ministry paid close to $585 million each.
An unidentified auditor quoted in an interview posted on the bureau's Web site said Beijing's operating budget was lower, adjusted for inflation, than both the one for the 2004 Athens Summer Games and that forecast for the 2012 London Olympics.
As we know auditors never get anything wrong either deliberately or by accident. If you believe that, I have a story about hard working food inspectors in China to also tell you.
The cost of staging the Olympics is commonly a cause for debate among prospective host cities, but not for Beijing, where the games enjoyed strong support from government, the public and business.
Of course the lack of debate could have something to do with Chinese dissenters being afraid to say anything because they could go to jail for expressing a different opinion.
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The swimming pool and hot tub are full of black, stagnant water and floating garbage, making them a fertile breeding ground for mosquitos.
"I feel that house should be condemned -- [it's] not up to par with the standards of our neighborhood," one neighbor said.
Neighbors have filed several complaints with 311. The city has attempted to contact the property owner, who has yet to respond.
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PE KeyTrends – 2016: Best Year Ever for Commitments
– 2016 is the Best Year Ever for PE Commitments
– More Evidence that Investors Are Boosting PE Exposure
– PE is Under Pressure at Pension Funds
– Trump Could Unwind Listed PE's "Chronic Discount"
– First Round Capital's Holiday Music Video
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2016 IS THE BEST YEAR EVER FOR PE COMMITMENTS, reports The Triago Quarterly. Annual fundraising for classic 10-year funds is estimated at $493 billion, a post-financial crisis high, while commitments to 'shadow capital' – co-investments, direct investments and separate accounts – is pegged at an unprecedented $188 billion. The estimated $681 billion total in 2016 surpasses previous all-time highs of respectively $627 billion and $624 billion set in 2015 and 2008. But fundraising competition among managers "remains intense," particularly for those trying to raise high margin classic funds. Low-margin co-investment and managed accounts, plus direct investment, which bypasses managers entirely, equals 28 percent of 2016 commitments, up a third in two years; and a Triago study of 100 investors shows that the average commitment to an individual PE fund, known as a 'ticket', has risen 47 percent in five years to $50 million, as investors "rationalize" and "commit more to fewer managers."
MORE EVIDENCE THAT INVESTORS ARE BOOSTING THEIR PE EXPOSURE can be found in Fidelity's exhaustive annual survey of institutional investors. The poll of 933 institutions in 25 countries managing a total of $21 trillion, found that 72 percent plan to increase holdings in alternatives like private equity in 2017 and 2018. PE and other alternatives are seen as a means of achieving better returns in what many of the poll's participants fear will be a global economy characterized by persistently low interest rates and public market volatility, notes Reuters' coverage of the survey.
DESPITE TOP RETURNS, PE IS UNDER PRESSURE AT PENSION FUNDS, notes WSJ Pro in its coverage of a decrease in the private equity allocation at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest pension fund in the U.S. "CALPERS doesn't have enough assets to match its projected obligations and its struggles encapsulate those of pensions," writes WSJ Pro. The mismatch is a pressing issue as growing numbers of baby boomers – defined in the U.S. as those born between 1946 and 1964 – retire. CALPERS is cutting its interim PE allocation from 10 percent of its $301 billion in assets to 8 percent while it builds up its pool of "highly-liquid investments" to 4 percent from 1 percent and increases its exposure to a range of inflation hedges. Liability concerns like those at CALPERS should increasingly drive global pension fund investment towards specialist private equity strategies – for example, infrastructure and real estate – that combine the asset category's traditional strength of long-term, activist-driven capital appreciation with yield.
TRUMP COULD UNWIND THE "CHRONIC DISCOUNT" OF LISTED PE FIRMS if he carries out the tax reforms his campaign promised, proclaims Forbes. In a story heavily influenced by comments recently made by Leon Black, chairman and chief executive of publicly listed Apollo, Forbes says that lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate to 20 percent and cutting the top individual rate to 33 percent would make it attractive for listed private equity firms to forego a structure that helps them avoid double taxation, but which also saddles investors with complex filing obligations and keeps shares excluded from market indexes and sector groupings. Black noted this month that such a change would probably result in "a much broader investor base" for Apollo, "which would be good for the stock." Adds Bill Miller IV, manager of the LMM Income Opportunity Fund, an investor in Apollo: "Private equity stocks are one of the cheapest parts of the entire market. All of them are worth roughly 50-to-100 percent more to where they are trading today."
FIRST ROUND CAPITAL PARODIES POP AND VENTURE CAPITAL AGAIN. In the latest installment of their eagerly anticipated Happy Holidays music video, venture capital firm First Round Capital does its level best to poke fun at themselves, startups and top-of-the-charts pop music. Clocking in at seven-minutes plus, it features 2016 hits with vc-inspired lyric changes: In Meghan Trainor's "Me Too", we get "If I were you, I'd wanna fund me too" – rather than "I'd wanna be me too"; while Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling (so just dance, dance, dance)" becomes "just be a founder, take a chance, chance, chance…" First Round's 2016 wrap already has over 62,000 views on YouTube.
- 54 percent of respondents say it's easier to consistently invest in top quartile managers in private equity than in other asset categories.
- 52 percent of respondents believe it's likely that PE assets will equal some 10 percent of global financial assets in 10 years, up from just 1.5 percent today.
- 50 percent of GP respondents plan to expand their offering of co-investments and separate accounts.


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One of the exciting days after a wedding occasion is the time you set your eyes on your wedding photographs. You want to see clear photos that keep you admiring the memorable day. Therefore, it is important to choose a photographer that you trust and admire based on the quality of services provided. For example, couples that plan a wedding in Brisbane should embrace professional services of reliable professionals such as Oakman photography Brisbane wedding photography specialist.
Photographs are physical evidence that you will have after the occasion. Therefore, planning the look of an event from a photography standpoint is quite important. However, beyond their beautiful gowns and "cool" suits, many couples do not always think of some important things when considering a photographer to capture their day. Read on to discover things that your photographer cannot control and can ruin your wedding photography.
Bad scheduling
In this case, couples should not rush on the day of the occasion and through their wedding photography. Feel relaxed and a photographer may find it easier to capture your occasion to the best. Ensure you discuss the wedding programs in advance with your stylist, artist, photographer, and the wedding planner and set enough time for everyone to settle and be ready for necessary photography. According to an Oakman photography Brisbane wedding photography specialist, such an arrangement can make your occasion run smoothly.
In addition, it is advisable to choose a bridesmaid or make a wedding timeline to ensure that the morning programs run on time. Prepare well and set a good schedule in advance before the big day.
An ugly décor
Another thing that ruins a wedding photography is an ugly carpet and décor. Couples should consider venue décor, as it not only contributes to the proper capturing of the occasion, but also contributes to the overall look of the venue. It is quite fun if your wedding gown hangs on a clean, beautiful floor. For that reason, have a décor where you will take your photographs properly in a manner that it matches your dressing style. However, if all else fails, advise the photographer to turn the photos in black and white style.
The sun
You need to understand that certain times of the day may be optimal for photography. The hour before the sunset and the hour after the sunrise are the best hours for taking photographs, especially wedding photographs. Do not settle under a tree, as the spotty light that streams through the leaves can create ugly shadows on the images. The guest, bride, or the groom will have sunlight on the face. To ensure proper preparation, the couple should visit the venue in advance to experience how the sun will be during the time of their event.
Finally yet importantly, it is important to properly feed the photographers up and give them easy time to do what they love. The day will be so busy and any slight distraction on photographers can result in poor quality wedding photographs.
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ABC reported yesterday that a NATO attack was underway in Afghanistan, with a "high value target" in the coalition's sights:
For the past two days, U.S. and NATO forces have been conducting a major attack against a compound in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden or another senior al Qaeda leader may be hiding, ABC News has learned.
U.S. officials declined to identify who the operation was targeting, but indicated they were after a "High Value Target" (HVT) . Official sources would not rule out that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden himself was the intended target. Afghan officials said the target could be another senior ranking al Qaeda leader.
Well, we can always hope. Via Blog of the Week Jules Crittenden, who writes:
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Oh my! It's been a while since I updated this, hasn't it? Well, no time like the present to start again. Here are some life drawings from the past week. I haven't had much time to get to a life drawing class, so in desperation I drew myself. Times like this I almost wish I was even more muscular (even though I am your typical mesomorph and gain muscle doing dickall) so I could study these muscles in a bit more detail.
Then yesterday I bit the bullet and went to the Stampede. I started drawing at the pigs, which may not have been the best warm-up because I'm none too practiced at drawing pigs anyway, and little bugger kids kept getting in my way and pushing the piglets into different positions. Also sucked for the piglets, but what about ME?
The horses drawn in blue pen are the Budweiser Clydestales! The ones in pencil were in a big tent with rows and rows of gorgeous heavy horses. I lost a page of sketches from in there because I got commissioned on the spot(!) to do a portrait of a pretty mare named Chloe and I accidentally drew her on the other side of a page of sketches. I think all the horses on the other side belonged to the commissioners as well, so I guess they got more of their money's worth. ^^
It started to get pretty late, but my dad let me stay and check out the light horses in the far corner of the tent. They looked so petite after all the drafts! There was a cute little Peruvian Paso, and a stunning Canadian Horse named Nina. I think one of the most fun parts about drawing the horses in this tent was meeting the great people who care for them, and hearing how proud they are of their horses. (And rightly so, every one of those horses was gorgeous.) I could have spent all day drawing in there.
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Renewing your loans in Novanet
Follow these steps to renew your loans in the Novanet catalogue. This includes books, recordings, and Novanet Express items. Interlibrary loan items cannot be renewed.
1. Go to the Novanet catalogue from the AST Libary homepage.
2. Click on Login to your account link beneath the Novanet link right below the search bar.
3. Enter your 14 digit library card barcode and your password (usually the last 4 digits of your phone number). Click on the Login button. If it does not accept your password, contact the library.
4. Click on the My Library Account tab that appears.
5. Click on Loans / Renewals link or Loans / Renewals tab.
6. Click on the number on the left of the screen that indicates the book you want to renew.
7. Click on the Renew link.
If there is no Renew link, then you cannot renew the item. This could be for several reasons such as, your library card needs to be updated, or the item is out of renewals. Most items can only be renewed 3 times. If you cannot renew your item, contact the library.
A successful renewal will return you to your list of items on loan.
- Be sure to Logout when you are done by clicking the Logout button
- When you logout the My Library Account tab disappears
- If you switch to a non-My Libary Account function such as a new search while in your library account, you will be automatically logged out
- Close your internet browser to make certain other users cannot use the Back button to access your account
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The end of Week 4 already, and it has been a week of highs and lows. I started the week thinking a lot about last week's readings and videos. A silly joke stuck in my mind. I tried out a new piece of software and created the joke at the same time. Well, it wasn't the funniest, but it WAS great fun to create!
One of the courses I put together and teach is Appreciation of eLearning Tools, which is why I am always playing with software. I have worked for Manukau Institute of Technology for 17 years, but I have only been in my current position since February 2017. Since then I have revamped four courses in the Graduate Certificate in Applied eLearning, I have revamped a course in the old Certificate in Tertiary Teaching, and I am currently looking at creating content for two courses in the new NZ certificate in Tertiary Teaching. The one course is Creative Delivery. Finding OER resources is a perfect way to go!
I enjoyed reading David Wiley's blog (May 2, 2017) On OER Enabled Pedagogy . He claimed that the "the terms "open pedagogy" and "open educational practices" are understood so differently by so many people that there is literally no hope of achieving a useful consensus about the meaning of either of these terms". I have noticed this in the readings and in the interviews I conducted for my Week 3 video. The use of the term OER-enabled pedagogy seems to be a laudible solution. David defined OER-enabled pedagogy as " the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when you have permission to engage in the 5R activities". This definition looks at the teaching and learning strategies using OER that are made possible through the use of OER and how these strategies impact on both learners and teachers. There is a simple logic underlying this pedagogical approach:
- we learn by "doing" 4
- copyright limits what we can do, therefore, it limits the way we learn 4
- removing copyright opens up the possibilities and allows us to learn in new ways.
I also acknowledge the logic in the argument from Stephen Downes on Creating, Finding, and Using OERs . He discussed the background of Connectivism and his conversations with George Siemens. The similarity between the 5 Rs and the Connectivist model of learning with aggregation, remix, repurpose, and feed forward, is striking. Stephen argued that the underlying value and importance of OERs is not just in the realm of educational content. He suggested that instead of looking at OERs as merely educational content, we should be seeing them as conversations between learner and teacher, and between the learners themselves, with the ultimate goal of learning.
I have downloaded a copy of the book Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
, edited by Robert Biswas-Diener and Rajiv Jhangiani. I have enjoyed the chapters of this book that I have read so far. The book's introduction outlined some ideas on open access to education, something dear to my heart, As a foundation (bridging/enabling) educator for nearly ten years, teaching on a programme with open access, I have thought about these issues intensively. I attended a conference called Success and opportunity in Challenging Times (National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia, NAEEA 2015, held at Western Sydney University). I wrote a review of the discussion which centred on the reach of education, widening participation, and open access.
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The book Open was of particular interest as the educators come from a background as researchers in psychology. Prior to qualifying as an educator at all levels of the curriculum, I was a qualified psychologist. I am very aware of the benefit of open research and open data in the area of psychology.
In the final chapter by Rajiv Jhangiani stated "The opposite of open is not closed; the opposite of open is broken". He backed up his argument by referring to broken academic publishing practices, broken science protocols, and even "chips and cracks" in pedagogical beliefs. As he stated, "A great many educators continue to teach in a manner that assumes their principal role is that of content delivery, despite living in an age of unparalleled access to information" (p.268). He outlined the requirements for making open access, open science, open educational resources, and open pedagogy, the default practices in higher education.Jhangiani used a delightful analogy, "The pencil metaphor" by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (licensed under CC BY 4.0.) based an idea from a friend and mentor, a fellow member of the Virtual Worlds Working Group, Lindy Orwin.
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He stated that instead of approaching open evangelism as disparate factions, we should be united in a recognition and response to the wood (the audience), i.e. the mainstream who would follow open practice if it was required or they could see the benefits of doing so. I like to see myself as a sharp one, following the leaders, in this care George and David!
So, why do I mention lows for the week? One low stands out so clearly for me. If you want to find out what I did, check out my little video (a direct export from PowerPoint 2016, so nothing flash!) I cannot mention it again – if you want the facts, check out the video!
The highs? Well, using the information provided in the course material, I have been searching for resources using the links provided. What a wealth of material! I had not even realised that the Google Advanced Search would sort by usage rights. The OER Commons and the Creative Commons search – wonderful! My only problem now is selecting from the huge amount of OER resources available. I am so looking forward to the Week 6 challenge! I want to use, create, adapt, and contribute towards OER.


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BRISTOL - With one program fighting for its playoff life and the other trying to finish out the season strong to provide hope for next season, the Bristol Eastern and Plainville boys basketball teams took the floor Tuesday night.
The Lancers, though, got the best of the Blue Devils in their 45-33 win to inch one step closer to a state tournament berth.
With the win, Bristol Eastern needs to win one of its two remaining games against either New Britain or Bristol Central.
"We definitely got to keep the intensity up like we have been for the last three games," Bristol Eastern's Tyler Mason said. "We've been doing really good, but I just feel like we can't slow down. We gotta keep going."
The Lancers got off to a slow start on offense but Matt D'Amato came off the bench in the first quarter and provided some much needed offense. His five points got Bristol Eastern rolling.
D'Amato and the Lancers' team scoring was a product of strong defensive play, something that has been a staple of this year's team.
When the offense is slow for Bristol Eastern, its defense needs to step up, and that was no exception in this contest.
"I thought we played tremendous defense tonight like we usually do," Lancers head coach Bunty Ray said. "We got some good contributions off the bench. We came out flat and we changed and put some of our subs in which gave us a bit of a wakeup call and they were able to get us the lead back."
Camryn Tate led Bristol Eastern in scoring with 12 points and has been an integral reason in the Lancers winning three of their last four games.
"I think Camryn Tate the last two games is the hero," Ray said. "He's made shots, he's defended, he's done everything. He doesn't get a lot of credit because he's not a flashy player, but he goes out there and does all the little things that a team needs. Being a senior captain and a leader, I think Cam Tate gets a little credit for our success."
Once Bristol Eastern took the lead in the game, it never looked back as the Lancers held the lead for the rest of the night and hit free throws throughout, shooting 86 percent from the line.
For Plainville, it was another challenging game. Finding ways to attack the Lancers defense was especially a struggle.
"They played a really good defensive game," Blue Devils head coach Jim DiNello said. "They played man-to-man, didn't let us drive to the rim and dared us to make shots from the outside. Bristol Eastern's defense is really good. The game plan was great by them. They absolutely deserve all the credit."
Plainville got a strong performance out of Brady Callahan and freshman Alec Couture stepped up with a big game of his own. Callahan finished with a team-high 10 points and Couture contributed nine points.
DiNello has been looking for a spark out of his group all season long and the freshman's performance against a stout defense bodes well for the program moving forward.
"[Alec's] game is starting to develop," DiNello said. "He's starting to get into his mid-range game a little more and not settling as much. We're working hard [with him] to work on getting guys up in the air and improving his shot. Taking great shots instead of just settling for 3s and he did some great things tonight."
With the win, Bristol Eastern moved to 7-11 on the season while Plainville dropped to 1-18.
The Lancers are on the right track, but will have a tall task ahead of them in order to make the tournament, as both the Hurricanes and Rams are double-digit win teams.
"We had to reinvent ourselves and put guys in different roles," Ray said. "Sometimes that takes time but we're seeing that hard work now start to pay off."
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I confess, I have trouble both spelling and placing all of those countries ending in 'stan. Obviously NASA is most interested in the Soyuz landing zone, but our story today concerns the Caspian Sea, just west of Atyrau in the center left.
Kazakhstan consortium achieves first oil production from Kashagan field explains the largest oil field discovered in the last 35 years is in production. The industrial consortium including Shell, Enit, Total, and ExonMobil, has invested over $50B in the project.
There have been several problems to overcome. The oil field is almost 15,000 feeet below the sea bed. The reservoir has lethal levels of hydrogen sulfide and has pressures exceeding 10,000 pounds per square inch. Caspian is almost synomous with cold, with the temperatures more extreme than conventional fixed or floating platforms.
The oil field has an estimated 13 billion barrels of oil. Even though it is called the Caspian Sea, it is a landlocked body of water (or ice) and requires extensive pipelines to ports on the Black Sea. For the first few years, the output of the Kashagan field will be about 200,000 barrels a day, produced by 21 wells.


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2007 boxoffice: Dividing up the spoils
THE MAJORS: Studios carved themselves big slices of market share in '07RELATED STORY: Top 25 '07 releases
From menacing Spartan warriors to chipper singing chipmunks, 2007's boxoffice attractions spanned the gamut. Following a heated summer, there was a cooling-off spell during the fall months, but the year still saw the domestic boxoffice gross climb to a record $9.62 billion.
As a result, when it came time for the major studios to carve up the pie, there were plenty of healthy slices to go around. For the first time ever, six studios crossed the $1 billion mark with their domestic tallies.
Read studio boxoffice wraps:
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Walt Disney
Warner Bros. Pictures
20th Century Fox
Universal Studios
New Line Cinema
Paramount benefited mightily from its 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks because it was such DreamWorks titles as "Norbit" and "Blades of Glory" that put Paramount on a winning path in the spring. The studio got another shot of adrenaline by distributing DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third," which captured $321 million domestically. By the Fourth of July weekend, the $319.1 million-grossing "Transformers," a DreamWorks/Paramount co-production, assured the Melrose Avenue studio's eventual victory. The only studio to boast two $300 million-plus grossers, Paramount could claim a final haul of $1.49 billion.
Warner Bros., which welcomed back "Harry Potter" to the screen last year, managed to stage a return to form after languishing in the middle of the pack in 2006 as it collected $1.42 billion. Fantasy of various stripes fueled the studio's lineup, with the magical "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" a predictable hit and the CG-augmented men of "300" and a near-solitary Will Smith in the futuristic "I Am Legend" both outperforming expectations.
Disney's summer was built around the final installment of its "Pirates" trilogy, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and the latest hit from the Pixar imagineers, Brad Bird's "Ratatouille." But what helped Disney edge out Sony in the market-share race -- $1.36 billion compared with $1.24 billion -- was the November release of "Enchanted," which recycled Disney tropes for modern audiences, coupled with "National Treasure: Book of Secrets."
Sony, on the other hand, fielded the year's top-grossing movie, "Spider-Man 3," which climbed to the top of the heap with $336.5 million.
Universal significantly upped the ante compared with its 2006 showing as it took in $1.1 billion. The action-fueled "The Bourne Ultimatum," building on the success of its predecessors, crossed the $200 million mark.
Thanks to holiday audiences' warm embrace of "Alvin and the Chipmunks," Fox crossed the $1 billion finish line, with $1.01 billion.


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Galactocele in a postmenopausal woman: a case report
© Current Science Ltd 2000
- Published: 1 October 2000
- Cancer Research
- Postmenopausal Woman
- Normal Limit
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Galactocele is a rare cause of benign breast mass in postmenopausal women. It occurs during pregnancy or lactation. A 54-year-old female, 4 years after the menopause, presented with a complaint of gradually increasing size of right breast over 2 years. On examination, the entire right breast was grossly enlarged with normal skin, nipple and axilla. Mammogram of the right breast revealed homogenous opacity occupying the entire breast with smooth margins and no retraction of tissue or calcification. The appearance suggested a benign lesion-like cyst. Sonography confirmed the presence of a large unilocular cyst with some internal echoes within it and less through transmission. About 2.5 l milkish fluid was aspirated. Biochemical and cytology confirmed the nature of the fluid as milk. Her routine blood, biochemical and endocrinal parameters and other radiological work-up were within normal limits. She has been asymptomatic for the last 4 years. The cause of the lesion remains unknown. This case is being documented in view of an unusual presentation.
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- Feig SA: Breast masses. Mammographic and sonographic evaluation. Radiol Clin North Am. 1992, 30: 67-92.PubMedGoogle Scholar
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Kefalotyri or kefalotiri (Greek: κεφαλοτύρι)(Turkish: (Kelle peyniri) is a hard, salty yellow cheese made from sheep milk and/or goat's milk in Greece and Cyprus.[citation needed] A similar cheese Kefalograviera, also made from sheep and/or goat milk, is sometimes sold outside Greece and Cyprus as Kefalotyri.[1] Depending on the mixture of milk used in the process the color can vary between yellow and white.[citation needed]
In taste it vaguely resembles Gruyere, except it is harder and saltier.[citation needed] A very hard cheese, kefalotyri can be consumed as is, fried in olive oil for a dish called saganaki, or added to foods such as pasta dishes, meat, or cooked vegetables, and is especially suited for grating.[2] It is also used along with feta cheese in the vast majority of recipes for Spanakopita, where many recipes say to substitute romano or parmesan if kefalotyri cannot be obtained.[citation needed] This is a popular and well-known cheese, establishing its roots in Greece during the Byzantine era.[3] It can be found in some gourmet or speciality stores in other countries.[citation needed] Young cheeses take two to three months to ripen.[citation needed] An aged kefalotyri, a year old or more, is drier with a stronger flavour, and may be eaten as a meze with ouzo, or grated on food.[4]
See also
- ^ Ridgway, J., The Cheese Companion (2002), ISBN 1-84092-339-3
- ^ Hoffman, Susanna. 2004. The Olive and the Caper: Adventures in Greek Cooking. Workman Publishing. ISBN 978-1563058486. p.28
- ^ Harbutt, J., The World Encyclopedia of Cheese (2006), ISBN 978-0-7548-0992-0
- ^ Janet Fletcher (2009-06-07). "Kefalotyri cheese offers intriguing mix". San Francisco Chronicle.
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Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility
Like Shannon, many soldiers with impaired memory from brain injuries sat for weeks with no appointments and no help from the staff to arrange them. Many disappeared even longer. Some simply left for home.
One outpatient, a 57-year-old staff sergeant who had a heart attack in Afghanistan, was given 200 rooms to supervise at the end of 2005. He quickly discovered that some outpatients had left the post months earlier and would check in by phone. "We called them 'call-in patients,' " said Staff Sgt. Mike McCauley, whose dormant PTSD from Vietnam was triggered by what he saw on the job: so many young and wounded, and three bodies being carried from the hospital.
Life beyond the hospital bed is a frustrating mountain of paperwork. The typical soldier is required to file 22 documents with eight different commands -- most of them off-post -- to enter and exit the medical processing world, according to government investigators. Sixteen different information systems are used to process the forms, but few of them can communicate with one another. The Army's three personnel databases cannot read each other's files and can't interact with the separate pay system or the medical recordkeeping databases.
The disappearance of necessary forms and records is the most common reason soldiers languish at Walter Reed longer than they should, according to soldiers, family members and staffers. Sometimes the Army has no record that a soldier even served in Iraq. A combat medic who did three tours had to bring in letters and photos of herself in Iraq to show she that had been there, after a clerk couldn't find a record of her service.
Shannon, who wears an eye patch and a visible skull implant, said he had to prove he had served in Iraq when he tried to get a free uniform to replace the bloody one left behind on a medic's stretcher. When he finally tracked down the supply clerk, he discovered the problem: His name was mistakenly left off the "GWOT list" -- the list of "Global War on Terrorism" patients with priority funding from the Defense Department.
He brought his Purple Heart to the clerk to prove he was in Iraq.
Lost paperwork for new uniforms has forced some soldiers to attend their own Purple Heart ceremonies and the official birthday party for the Army in gym clothes, only to be chewed out by superiors.
The Army has tried to re-create the organization of a typical military unit at Walter Reed. Soldiers are assigned to one of two companies while they are outpatients -- the Medical Holding Company (Medhold) for active-duty soldiers and the Medical Holdover Company for Reserve and National Guard soldiers. The companies are broken into platoons that are led by platoon sergeants, the Army equivalent of a parent.
Under normal circumstances, good sergeants know everything about the soldiers under their charge: vices and talents, moods and bad habits, even family stresses.
At Walter Reed, however, outpatients have been drafted to serve as platoon sergeants and have struggled with their responsibilities. Sgt. David Thomas, a 42-year-old amputee with the Tennessee National Guard, said his platoon sergeant couldn't remember his name. "We wondered if he had mental problems," Thomas said. "Sometimes I'd wear my leg, other times I'd take my wheelchair. He would think I was a different person. We thought, 'My God, has this man lost it?' "
Civilian care coordinators and case managers are supposed to track injured soldiers and help them with appointments, but government investigators and soldiers complain that they are poorly trained and often do not understand the system.
One amputee, a senior enlisted man who asked not to be identified because he is back on active duty, said he received orders to report to a base in Germany as he sat drooling in his wheelchair in a haze of medication. "I went to Medhold many times in my wheelchair to fix it, but no one there could help me," he said.


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|Sesame Street
|Big Bird plans to go to Hawaii
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|Season 9 (1977-1978)
This episode guide has been compiled from materials at the CTW Archives. ⓘ
- Big Bird tries to make toast at Hooper's Store.
- Today's Secret Drawing: A mailman. (EKA: Episode 0265)
- Children work together in painting a picture.
- Cartoon: A nut and bolt show how they work together. (EKA: Episode 0814)
- Film: People of all ages ride bicycles. (Music: Joe Raposo) (EKA: Episode 0961)
- Hands deal cards from 12 to 1.
- Big Bird packs for his trip to Hawaii.
- Cartoon: Three cuckoos go to work in their cuckoo clock to announce the time. (EKA: Episode 0543)
- Herry Monster sings "That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine". (EKA: Episode 1052)
- Cartoon: What if a mouse and an elephant switched bodies? (EKA: Episode 0343)
- Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away. (First: Episode 0278)
- Maria imagines she's a baseball player.
- Cartoon: A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors. (EKA: Episode 0406)
- Film: A boy tells what happens on a fishing boat. (First: Episode 0028)
- Sesame Street Animal Films: Zoo birds. (First: Episode 0019)
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Will other denominations follow the Episcopal Churches decision?
The Episcopal Church approved to bless gay unions. Will other denominations and US churches follow? Should they? Why or why not? How does your church view this issue? How do you view this issue? How do you think God views this issue? Is this going to cause division among Christians and churches across the United States? Why or why not? What do you think? Share your thoughts.


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Today, the staff of Comic Book Resources joins the rest of America in celebrating our Independence Day holiday in the only way we know possible - by staying out of the heat, BBQing up plenty of hot dogs and enjoying a brew or two. Never fear, though, as we'll be back to full force again on Thursday with columns, news and all that jazz.
While you're relaxing at home with a bloody mary, why not pop on over to the CBR Forums and join the discussion! We encourage posting while under the influence, just as long as it's done safely.
But where should I begin, you ask? That's easy - your best place to start is probably CBR's Community Forum, one of the most active message boards on CBR where pretty much anything goes. Of course, we have message boards devoted to the world's of Marvel and DC Comics, as well as one to discuss your favorite Television shows and Movies ("Transformers" discussion anyone?) and much more. Registration is free and since we installed the new forums server two weeks ago, activity has been on the rise, so if you're new go ahead and join one of the most active and friendly communities on the 'net.
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Kejriwal App To Control The Air Pollution In New Delhi : Sisodia :- Taking the air pollution a serious matter, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia said onTuesday that an app will be launched for people to share their complaints on pollution.
Sisodia said that Public Works Department will come into action to handle the rising hazardous dust particles which intensified the situation in the national capital.
Kejriwal App to tackle pollution in Delhi
Deputy CM of Delhi Manish Sisodia said that some sites are not checked regularly so environment department has been asked to spread awareness and also an open portal will be made for people of the city to share complaints about open construction sites causing pollution in the city.
People faced problem while driving on the roads of Delhi due to the bad visibility level.
As per the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the pollutant PM 2.5 had crossed the safe level by over 14 times at Anand Vihar.
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Use the Structured Data Testing Tool for a given page to see if Google has access to your page and can see the result. That tool provides many debugging features to help you figure out why a rich result is missing or invalid.
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Issue details page
Selecting an issue row in a rich result summary page will open a page showing details for that issue. An issue can affect rich results on different pages, multiple rich results on a single page, or a single rich result multiple times.
The issue details page contains the following information:
- State
- Validation state of this issue.
- First detected
- The date when this issue was first detected on your site. If all issues of this type are resolved, and then a new instance of this issue appears within 90 days since the last instance was fixed, the date will be original first detected date, not date of the new appearance.
- Examples
- A list of rich results affected by this issue. It's possible that not all instances of an issue on your site will be listed for various reasons, such as instances that have appeared since the last crawl of your site, or issues that affect more than 1,000 items.
- Item type
- The
namevalue in the item's structured data.
- Last crawled
- The last time the page containing this issue was crawled.
To learn more about an issue on a specific page, select the issue in the examples table.
After you fix all instances of a specific issue on your site, you can ask Google to validate your changes. If all known instances are gone, the issue is marked as fixed in the status table and dropped to the bottom of the table. Search Console tracks the validation state of the issue as a whole, as well as the state of each instance of the issue. When all instances of the issue are gone, the issue is considered fixed. (For actual states recorded, see Issue validation state and Instance validation state.)
More about issue lifetime...
An issue's lifetime extends from the first time any instance of that issue was detected on your site until 90 days after the last instance was marked as gone from your site. If ninety days pass without any recurrences, the issue is removed from the report history.
The issue's first detected date is the first time the issue was detected during the issue's lifetime, and does not change. Therefore:
- If all instances of an issue are fixed, but a new instance of the issue occurs 15 days later, the issue is marked as open, and "first detected" date remains the original date.
- If the same issue occurs 91 days after the last instance was fixed, the previous issue was closed, and so this is recorded as a new issue, with the first detected date set to "today".
Basic validation flow
Here is an overview of the validation process after you click Validate Fix for an issue. This process can take several days, and you will receive progress notifications by email.
- When you click Validate Fix, Search Console immediately checks a few pages.
- If the current instance exists in any of these pages, validation ends, and the validation state remains unchanged.
- If the sample pages do not have the current error, validation continues with state Started. If validation finds other unrelated issues, these issues are counted against that other issue type and validation continues.
- Search Console works through the list of known URLs affected by this issue. Only URLs with known instances of this issue are queued for recrawling, not the whole site. Search Console keeps a record of all URLs checked in the validation history, which can be reached from the issue details page.
- When a URL is checked:
- If the issue is not found, the instance validation state changes to Passing. If this is the first instance checked after validation has started, the issue validation state changes to Looking good.
- If the URL is no longer reachable, the instance validation state changes to Other (which is not an error state).
- If the instance is still present, issue state changes to Failed and validation ends. If this is a new page discovered by normal crawling, it is considered another instance of this existing issue.
- When all error and warning URLs have been checked and the issue count is 0, the issue state changes to Passed. Important: Even when the number of affected pages drops to 0 and issue state changes to Passed, the original severity label will still be shown (Error or Warning).
Even if you never click "start validation" Google can detect fixed instances of an issue. If Google detects that all instances of an issue have been fixed during its regular crawl, it will change the issue state to "N/A" on the report.
When is an issue considered "fixed" for a URL or item?
An issue is marked as fixed for a URL or item when either of the following conditions are met:
- When the URL is crawled and the issue is no longer found on the page. For an AMP tag error, this can mean that you either fixed the tag or that the tag has been removed (if the tag is not required). During a validation attempt, it will be considered as "passed."
- If the page is not available to Google for any reason (page removed, marked noindex, requires authentication, and so on), the issue will be considered as fixed for that URL. During a validation attempt, it is counted in the "other" validation state.
When you click Revalidate for a failed validation, validation restarts for all failed instances, plus any new instances of this issue discovered through normal crawling.
You should wait for a validation cycle to complete before requesting another cycle, even if you have fixed some issues during the current cycle.
Instances that have passed validation (marked Passed) or are no longer reachable (marked Other) are not checked again, and are removed from the history when you click Revalidate.
Validation history
You can see the progress of a validation request by clicking the validation details link in the issue details page.
Entries in the validation history page are grouped by URL for the AMP report and Index Status report. In the Mobile Usability and Rich Result reports, items are grouped by the combination of URL + structured data item (as determined by the item's Name value). The validation state applies to the specific issue that you are examining. You can have one issue labeled "Passed" on a page, but other issues labeled "Failed", "Pending," or "Other".
Issue validation state
The following validation states apply to a given issue:
- Not started: There are one or more pages with an instance of this issue that you have never begun a validation attempt for. Next steps:
- Click into the issue to learn the details of the error. Inspect the individual pages to see examples of the error on the live page using the AMP Test. (If the AMP Test does not show the error on the page, it is because you fixed the error on the live page after Google found the error and generated this issue report.)
- Click "Learn more" on the details page to see the details of the rule that was violated.
- Click an example URL row in the table to get details on that specific error.
- Fix your pages and then click Validate fix to have Google recrawl your pages. Google will notify you about the progress of the validation. Validation takes anywhere from a few days up to about two weeks, so please be patient.
- Started: You have begun a validation attempt and no remaining instances of the issue have been found yet. Next step: Google will send notifications as validation proceeds, telling you what to do, if necessary.
- Looking good: You started a validation attempt, and all issue instances that have been checked so far have been fixed. Next step: Nothing to do, but Google will send notifications as validation proceeds, telling you what to do.
- Passed: All known instances of the issue are gone (or the affected URL is no longer available). You must have clicked "Validate fix" to get to this state (if instances disappeared without you requesting validation, state would change to N/A). Next step: Nothing more to do.
- N/A: Google found that the issue was fixed on all URLs, even though you never started a validation attempt. Next step: Nothing more to do.
- Failed: A certain threshold of pages still contain this issue, after you clicked "Validate." Next steps: Fix the issue and revalidate.
Instance validation state
After validation has been requested, every instance of the issue is assigned one of the following validation states:
- Pending validation: Queued for validation. The last time Google looked, this issue instance existed.
- Passed: [Not available in Index Coverage report] Google checked for the issue instance and it no longer exists. Can reach this state only if you explicitly clicked Validate for this issue instance.
- Failed: Google checked for the issue instance and it's still there. Can reach this state only if you explicitly clicked Validate for this issue instance.
- Other: [Not available in Index Coverage report] Google couldn't reach the URL hosting the instance, or (for structured data) couldn't find the item on the page any more. Considered equivalent to Passed.
Note that the same URL can have different states for different issues; For example, if a single page has both issue X and issue Y, issue X can be in validation state Passed and issue Y on the same page can be in validation state Pending.
Known issues
The following are known issues in Search Console. No need to report them to us, but we'd love your feedback on any other features or issues you spot. Use the Feedback mechanism built into the navigation bar.
- Some issues have long names that are not easy to understand.
- If your site has a very large number of issues (whether or not there are active instances), the report will show only the first 200 issues, sorted by importance.


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Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki (9 July 1910 – 30 August 2001) was a South African politician, and father of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki and political economist Moeletsi Mbeki.
He attended Fort Hare University, completing in 1936 a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and psychology and a teaching diploma, and met other African struggle leaders there.
In 1954, he joined the editorial board of New Age, a prominent leftist newspaper. Mbeki played an immensely important role in ensuring that the pages and columns reflected the conditions of the black peoples, their demands and aspirations. In November 1962, the then Minister of Justice, John Vorster, banned New Age. When the editorial board came out with its successor, Vorster went one step further by banning not the newspaper but its editors and writers.
He was a leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and of the South African Communist Party. After the Rivonia Trial, he was imprisoned (1964–1987) for terrorism and treason (1964 – 1987), together with Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada and other eminent ANC leaders.
On 26 June 1980 the Secretary General of the African National Congress, Alfred Nzo, announced the conferring of the Isitwalandwe Medal, the ANC's highest honour, on Govan Mbeki. Mbeki was not present to receive the award, because he was serving a life imprisonment sentence on Robben Island.
Govan Mbeki was released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison on 5 November 1987. He served in South Africa's post-apartheid Senate from 1994 to 1997 as Deputy President of the Senate, and its successor, the National Council of Provinces from 1997 to 1999.
Mbeki's remains were the subject of controversy in 2006 when plans were made to exhume them, and place them in a museum. These plans were called off after Mbeki's family refused the request. [1]
Mbeki received international recognition for his political achievements including the renaming (at Mandela's suggestion) of the recently opened Health building at Glasgow Caledonian University. The Govan Mbeki Health Building was inaugurated in 2001 at a ceremony featuring his son Thabo.
Mbeki received a doctorate of honor in the Social Sciences of University of Amsterdam. His son Thabo attended the ceremony, as Mbeki was imprisoned at Robbeneiland.
- ^ "Govan Archibald Mbeki". The O'Malley Archives. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
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Thai leader claims victory
But prime minister says he will step down if asked
From Ram Ramgopal
Thaksin is mobbed by reporters after arriving at his Thai Love Thai party headquarters.
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Thailand's prime minister has claimed victory in the weekend's snap election, saying his party got more than 50 percent of the overall vote.
While final results are not yet in, returns so far show Thaksin Shinawatra's party got 16 million votes, 57 percent of the votes cast in an election boycotted by the opposition over corruption claims.
Before the election, he promised to leave his post if his party received less than 50 percent of the vote.
Thaksin had called the election three years early, as demonstrators filled streets demanding his ouster.
His Thai Rak Thai party was the only major one participating in the vote, as three opposition parties launched a boycott, hoping to make it impossible to fill all 500 parliamentary seats.
All the seats must be filled for a new government to be formed.
Opposition efforts appear to have worked. In at least 38 districts, the party could not muster the required minimum of 20 percent of ballots cast. Many people voted "no" -- particularly in affluent areas, including Bangkok's oldest business district.
Appearing Monday on a national TV talk program, Thaksin offered to set up a committee that would recommend what should happen next. He said he would step down if the opposition stopped its protests and accepted another leader from his party.
"Tell me, if or when I step aside, are all of you going to stop and return to what you normally do? No more protests. I have retreated. My back is against the wall," he said.
At least one leading opponent swiftly rejected the offer.
Some are calling the election a "Pyrrhic victory" for Thaksin because it could ultimately lead to his defeat.
Outside the prime minister's office in Bangkok, a tent city provides food and shelter for the "anti-Thaksin" movement. Participants include Buddhist monks. One leader is Chamlong Srimuang, the man who brought Thaksin into politics.
Opponents of the billionaire leader have accused him of abusing the country's system of checks and balances and bending government policy to benefit his family's business.
Anti-government protests grew when his family announced it had sold its controlling stake in telecom company Shin Corp. to Singapore's state-owned Temasek Holdings for a tax-free $1.9 billion.
During the elections Sunday, bombs exploded at three polling stations in Thailand's troubled southern region, wounding two policemen and four soldiers in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-majority provinces plagued by a separatist insurgency.
More than 1,200 people have died in the insurgency in clashes and revenge killings.
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President may refer to:
- President Snow- the president of Panem throughout most of the series.
- President Coin- who was originally the president of District 13 and was set to become the new president of Panem at the end of Mockingjay.
- President Paylor- who became Panem's president in Mockingjay after Katniss Everdeen killed President Coin.


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WILMINGTON, N.C. — One humid night last June, on a dock along one of this port city's winding creeks, Melissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates took their places for a scene in the new movie "Tammy." Five years earlier, McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, had written the role with Bates in mind — the Oscar winner was to deliver a needed dressing down to McCarthy's title character, a perennial screw-up.
On set the crew was hushed, the only sound the clicking of cicadas in some nearby oak trees and the water lapping at the dock. Everyone seemed aware that something important was happening ... except the guy in a boat across the lagoon who started playing techno music.
"Do we have anybody over there with a $100 bill?" McCarthy shouted as a crew member was dispatched to solve the problem.
Twenty minutes later when the shoot was done, McCarthy rose, walked to the end of the dock and started crying, overwhelmed by the emotion of the moment.
"It's a scene we wrote for Kathy Bates, dreamed of her doing, she's actually here doing it and now she's summoned all of her power, which is a lot," McCarthy said, explaining her reaction back in Los Angeles this month. "It was a palpable, amazing feeling. It felt like a lightning bolt ripping through my chest."
For much of the movie, which opens Wednesday, McCarthy plays the kind of character audiences have come to expect of her — an outrageous woman with big appetites and little judgment. But there are also dramatic moments, like the one with Bates on the dock, that reveal the beating heart underneath all the funny wigs, oversized T-shirts and unflattering shoes.
"Tammy" is part of a transition McCarthy is trying to make in her career. Make no mistake, she's still a peerless physical comedian who uses her size and foul mouth to side-splitting comic effect. But she's also a relatable human being here, one whom audiences won't just laugh at.
McCarthy has the opportunity to try this evolution thanks to her increasing power in Hollywood as a rare female star who can guarantee an audience for a film.
For the actress, "Tammy" is a dream project. It's one she and Falcone — making his feature directing debut — started planning long before her breakout performance in 2011's "Bridesmaids" and starring roles in the subsequent box office hits "Identity Thief" and "The Heat" earned her the kind of career where dreams come true.
"[Ben] said, 'I think I can write something so that you can actually get to do what you like doing, which is being kind of an extreme character but then actually being able to play the heart of it,'" McCarthy said. "'It would be nice to write something so you could do that,' which was incredibly sweet of him, and at the time the odds of us doing it were … I don't think we ever thought it was gonna be an actual movie."
In person, in red lipstick, a black silk blouse and pants, McCarthy projects a polish and a sweetness that seem antithetical to many of her characters and in particular to Tammy, who spends a lot of the film dropping F-bombs while wearing a shirt with a cartoon bear on it and a pair of Crocs.
After losing her job, her husband and her dignity, Tammy piles into a late-model Cadillac to drive to Niagara Falls with Pearl, her alcoholic, diabetic grandmother, played by Susan Sarandon, in a frumpy wig and prosthetic swollen ankles. Falcone has a small part as Tammy's unsympathetic boss at a fast-food restaurant; Mark Duplass is Bobby, a charming guy Tammy meets along the way in a bar; and Bates is Lenore, Tammy's highly functional cousin, a no-nonsense businesswoman with a giant plantation-style home and a happy marriage to Susanne (Sandra Oh).
"I love all the women I've played," McCarthy said. "I know why they mess up. They want to hurt somebody before they get hurt.... They're trying so hard to be better people. I really always think they have a valid point in their point of view. Maybe I like them too much, I'm defensive for them."
Groundlings origins
Falcone, 40, and McCarthy, 43, both grew up in Illinois but first met as members of Los Angeles' improv comedy group the Groundlings in the late 1990s, quickly discovering a shared appreciation of the absurd.
In one skit they performed together, as the Jethro Tull song "Locomotive Breath" played in the background, McCarthy was a woman working unhappily at a train station. Falcone, dressed in a silver suit, enticed people at the station to be nicer to her. At some point during the song's instrumental interlude, McCarthy pulled a flute out of her sleeve.
"I thought she was real cute and funny," Falcone said. "We had a quick connection where I felt like, 'she's here, and she makes this room good,' and then I was like, 'Oh, wait, she makes other rooms good — hey, she's making everything good.'"
The character Tammy, with all of her immaturity, shares DNA with McCarthy in her 20s, the actress admits, a time when she made coffee at a Starbucks in Santa Monica, among other jobs, while attempting to get her performing career off the ground.
"All through my 20s I worked so hard, so many jobs, but still, you'd go out one night and it's like, there goes a chunk of my rent money," McCarthy said. "It's a feeling of, 'I don't want to grow up, I want it to be easier.... All of us, you run in those cycles where you know exactly what you're screwing up doing.
"Intellectually you always know what your faults are, how to fix them, what would make it better. Engaging in those practices is entirely another thing. Those are lifelong struggles for people.... One of the most fun things to figure out in a character is, 'What's the struggle? What do they know is better and what do they choose?'"
Falcone and McCarthy married in 2005 and have two daughters, Vivian, 7, and Georgette, 4.
At the time Falcone suggested the idea for "Tammy," McCarthy had a modest role as Christina Applegate's lovably wacky childhood friend on the ABC sitcom "Samantha Who?" She had just come off a seven-year run as another lovably wacky best friend on WB's "Gilmore Girls."
The best-friend part might have been repetitive, but within a year it led to McCarthy having a starring role on the CBS sitcom "Mike & Molly" as a fourth-grade teacher who meets a good-natured cop at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. The show turned into a reliable performer and was renewed this past spring for its fifth season.
Over the years McCarthy and Falcone have worked together on multiple projects — they shot a Web series of one of McCarthy's characters, an opinionated video blogger named Marbles with a bad pageboy haircut, and they share a signature scene in "Bridesmaids," in which McCarthy's character sexually harasses Falcone's on a plane.
The transition from making Marbles together at home to making "Tammy," a $20-million film for Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema with producing support from Will Ferrell's company, didn't seem all that great to McCarthy, she said. "We've been prepping for 15 years," she said. "We've been writing and doing stuff at Groundlings together.... It's never been difficult. It's never been tense or weird."
Falcone and McCarthy's marriage seems remarkably unscathed by the challenges of navigating success together.The day before the film's press junket, he went to the Grove to take photos of the film's posters, which feature McCarthy with a paper bag on her head.
The couple have multiple projects in the works through their company, On the Day. Their original script "Michelle Darnell," which they'll produce for Universal, is about a wealthy woman who loses it all — "She's very flashy," McCarthy said of the character. "There's a big musical number. We'll see. We'll see how my moves are." They've also adapted a memoir for Fox about a married couple who decide to have sex every day for 101 days to rekindle their passion.
And McCarthy is hard at work in other people's movies. She just finished shooting "Spy," a comedy in which she plays a secret agent, with her "Bridesmaids" and "The Heat" director Paul Feig, and she plays a single mom opposite Bill Murray in the dark comedy "St. Vincent," due this fall.
She is also launching a clothing line for plus-sized women, after finding the options available to her either too matronly or wildly inappropriate. When she went to the Oscars for "Bridesmaids" in 2012, she said she had trouble finding a designer to make her a dress before finally going with a custom, blush-colored gown by Marina Rinaldi.
"I got a lot of no's," she said. "Who knows, people could be busy, but it also could just be, 'We don't quite know what to do if you're not a size 2 column that can wear a strapless dress,' which I almost wish they would have said that."
Like many of the best comic actors, including Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball and Jim Carrey, McCarthy uses her body in her humor. But having a female, plus-sized body has made the actress subject to particularly personal criticism, as when New York Observer critic Rex Reed called her "tractor-sized" in his "Identity Thief" review and dismissed McCarthy as a "gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success."
McCarthy has said she doesn't spend much time thinking about her critics, but there's a scene in "Tammy" that's revealing about the actress' world view on the issue of appearances.
Tammy is getting cleaned up for a party, trading her T-shirt for a borrowed blouse and allowing someone to flat-iron her frizzy hair. It's a subtle change, hardly the dramatic makeover montage that has become a trope of many comedies geared to women.
"I did not want a makeover scene," McCarthy said. "I didn't want her to be better because she suddenly looked a certain way.... It's not that if you were prettier you would be a better human. I talked to [costume designer] Wendy Chuck. I said, 'If we give her a makeover it will hurt my heart. I just think that will imply that "Now she's fixed."' There's nothing wrong with her in that way."


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Watch Party - NYCFC vs Columbus Crew Conference Semi Final
It's time for conference semi-final action! The boys in blue get a two leg rematch against Columbus Crew. Join us at the watch party this Tuesday evening at St. Pat's Bar & Grill NYC and help us cheer for the team as they push towards the MLS Cup.
Costumes are welcome and encouraged. Prizes for best costume and general giveaways too. Be there!


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"Drenched" by Shay Kun
Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts
Kun's work deals with memory and perception. Like a film noir still, Kun's paintings confront the viewer and bring forth memories from the past, in addition to the way these memories are archived. The fuzzy, off-center colors behind the window act as a metaphor of our journey through life. Kun states "As we drive along the interstate of our lives our memories grow hazier in the distance much like looking through the side windows of a moving car and only seeing colors without clear, definitive shapes. These images fade into the distance and while we may remember their general shape or color, they are no longer present and instead become part of our memory. How distorted our memory of these events are is what I am trying to capture."
Product Specifications
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About Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts
Merritt Gallery & Renaissance Fine Arts are established fine art galleries helping clients and designers create unique and personal fine art collections. Visit us at www.merrittgallery-renaissancefinearts.com