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Special Note: Please note that this scenario is meant to be read as entertainment, not as an accurate prediction of the future. Also note that the viewpoints and opinions that may come across in this scenario are not necessarily the viewpoints and opinions of the author.
Life in the year 2105 will be more multipolar than it is in the year 2015. Monarchies (even in the British Royal Family who rules most of the British Commonwealth countries) will be disbanded. People (including the descendants of ardent monarchists) will start to believe that they will be better off being ruled completely by themselves as opposed to a group of centuries old aristocratic families. Teenagers will have the exact same rights and responsibilities as adults, and this will cause delinquency to permanently decline to nothingness. Instead of a fixed age of majority, adulthood starts when a person first enters puberty. The word adolescence will be stricken from every dictionary in the world and children will instantly become adults, not dangerous hormonal raging potential criminals. By this time, it will be a right and not a privilege to have a home and to have a job. Broadband Internet will eventually cover the entire earth and beyond, and it will be available for free (paid by taxpayer dollars) or at a relatively low cost. The internet will become a necessary utility like water, sewage, and electricity.
Due to the near extinction of Christianity in the 22nd century, the department stores become legally able to open on the days formerly occupied by Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and Good Friday to massive profits and extremely high customer patronage. This is gradually starting to begin in the early 21st century in department stores such as Walmart. Walmart only closes on Christmas Day as of 2016. People will neither believe God nor Jesus Christ and pray to secular "messiahs" like Ray Kurzweil, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and the Angry Video Game Nerd instead. It will become illegal to consume tobacco or have possession of a television set by this era (except in parts of the former Eurasian Union, Japan, Antarctica, and Puerto Rico). Water cigarettes and cannabis quickly replace tobacco as a recreational drug for people who stray from the "conventional 22nd century lifestyle."
Most legal forms will be required by law to display four "genders:" male, female, transgendered, and androgynous. All pronouns will become gender neutral. For example "ze" is used instead of "he" (masculine) and "she" (feminine) while "hir" is used instead of "his/him" (masculine) and "her" (feminine). Gender-neutral parenting will become the norm in North America while being shunned in most other places. Androgynous people refer to males who wear effeminate clothing or females who dislike feminine clothing; another term for them would be genderqueer.
Education and jobs
A person who does not have a high school diploma will be denied all social benefits and voting rights until she has earned a high school diploma. This requirement is made further essential by the fact that a twelfth grade education in the year 2105 is equivalent to a PhD by the standards of the year 2013 thanks to the advances made in intellectual theory caused by the Singularity. Having a high school diploma will also be mandatory by the year 2105 in order to ensure that the proper foundations for a 22nd century (home-based) career are fully established.
95% of the world's population will live in towns and cities of at least 20000 people; only farmers will live in rural areas. Even then, farmers will have robots to do their chores - maintenance of the robots is done by the farmer. Farm jobs become hereditary; you don't become a farmer unless you're the descendant of a farmer or you marry into a farming family. Hydrogen-powered rural mass transit allows the farmer to visit the nearest town for errands and for social visits with their "urban" friends, making a decline of rural culture even in the most remote of rural areas, thanks to this transit and the access of broadband internet.
Women will hold all the government positions, dominate the intelligentsia, and become the legal head of their households. Men will be forced to become househusbands and they will not be allowed to vote in elections or hold a political office.
Husbands will adopt this mantra in their lives: I am subordinate to my wife because she is the head of the family; just as philosophy is the head of scientific endeavors. A man is never to be independent of female authority. First, he is under his mother's authority, and then under his wife's authority. A widower would be under his daughter's authority, or, if he had no daughters or his daughters were young, he would return to his mother's authority unconditionally.
Consumer affairs
Vegetarians and vegetarian lobbyist groups will make it so that preschoolers will not be conditioned to eat meat, and make it optional in the food pyramid to eat meat. Wal-Mart will have a monopoly on the department store industry after winning the price wars back in the 2020s. By the year 2098, cash will become completely electronic. Wal-Mart employees and their families will live, work, attend school, socialize, get married, receive healthcare, and give birth to children inside the Wal-Mart HyperStore - the ultimate full-time live-in job of the 22nd century. People will pay for their purchases using specialized "computer cards;" processed from accounts that are electronically labelled by gender. Everything will be lead-free as the world's lead supply will have run out by 2024; no other planets in the civilized universe contained a supply of lead for people to mine from underneath the planet.
Women will wear camisoles instead of bras. The 22nd century camisole combines the comfort of a T-shirt with the support of an early 21st century bra. High waisted "granny panties" will make a comeback by the year 2050 and the momentum will carry on until the year 2155 when women will want to wear "sexy panties" again. Toyota cars will have a virtual monopoly on the global market by the year 2105 due their low cost and local manfacturing. General Motors and Ford will cease to exist by the year 2025 due to their toxic waste legacy and military agenda. Spouses and dependent children of Toyota employees will receive deep discounts on the price of hydrogen fuel. Automobiles will drive completely by themselves and human input will solely consist of typing in the address or the name of the place that the front seat passenger wants to go to. Car insurance will have long become a thing of the past by the year 2105 and all automobile accidents will cease around the year 2025.
Clothing sizes for adults will be adjusted to compensate for a world that is mostly without television access. For example, an adults' size small shirt by 22nd century standards would be like a medium in 2015 standards while a adults' size large shirt by 22nd century standards would feel more like extra-large using the standards of our 2015 society.
|2013 Clothing Size
|2105 Clothing Size
|Ideal demographic
|supermodels and celebrities
|older supermodels and celebrities
|female fitness gurus
|normal people
|"slightly above average people"
|"above average people"
|rarely used post-2040
|almost never used post-2040
Entertainment and dining
Television will become mostly a thing of the past and something that nearly 76% of the world's population will never miss. Without any television programming to make people obese and anti-social, nearly everyone has an extremely active social life and only go home to sleep at night. Parts of Japan, Russia and Puerto Rico will be the only places to legally view television on planet Earth by the year 2105. The average woman will be a size 6, as opposed to a size 14 in the year 2015. Professional wrestling will become a high culture dance recital by the year 2105, as it will be enjoyed by a completely silent audience of mostly wealthy people (who can afford the $350 per person price tag for the best seats). Instead of beer and popcorn, the spectators of the future will snack on fishsicles (popsicles made of in vitro boneless fish) and negative carbohydrate Coca-Cola soft drinks. Hummus will become the only legally allowed condiment as all other condiments (like ketchup, mustard, and sour cream) will have been declared harmful to the human body and declared illegal.
After the game, sports fans wearing dark three-piece suits will dine at the Taco Bell of the future, complete with erudite music, cocktail food, and five-fork tables. NASCAR at this time will be go through a mini-crisis during this time because the young drivers would rather drive plasma-powered hovercraft on other planets. A more modern version that will safely accomodate drivers that are still interested in racing in earthbound vehicles at speeds up to 400 miles per hour. Attending the premier race of NASCAR once known as the Super Bowl of stock car racing will require the patron to dress in white tie (a full morning dress for male spectators and either a blouse/skirt combination or a dress for females). As a government-protected motorsport, NASCAR will seek to become as dignified and part of high culture like professional wrestling will be at that time.
People will travel to Costa Rica; which will become the world's biggest extinct animals' preserve by then. The DNA of closely-related animals will be spliced together in order to create animals that went extinct from prehistory to the early 21st century. Since airplanes will become obsolete by 2030, people will travel by cruise ship, maglev train, driverless cars and by bus.
Every one will live within 15 minutes of either a public Internet terminal or a high speed (broadband) Internet tower. Autism would have been cured and have not existed for 82 years. Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome will persist well into the 22nd century, despite the rapid technological and medical breakthroughs made since 2015. While claims of curing Down syndrome by the end of the 23rd century become popular on what was once known as the World Wide Web, none of these claims could accurately be proved in experimental studies done on the Lunar Protectorate.
Everyone will work for a living and have the minds and bodies of 25-year-old people. Therefore the aging process will have been cured. People over 25, can reverse the aging process to have the appearance and health that they had at 25. Death is only possible through accidental means. Thanks to mental enhancements, advances in genetic engineering, and to cultures that are more accepting of new concepts, the domesticated canines of the future have two legs, have humanoid bodies, near-human intelligence, and basic political rights. The same can be done for cats but it's not as popular as making dogs have humanoid bodies. By making dogs into bipedal creatures, they can live up to three-fourths as long as their owners.
<poll> Would you live in this future? Yes, I would like to live in this future. No, it is too dangerous for me. No, it is too sanitized for me. Yes, but I would have reservations about certain things in this future. </poll>


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I've been a b****. I know this. It's not something that I'm particularly proud of and it's not something that I had intended to stop being. At least, I hadn't until recently. I got what older people call "a taste of my own medicine." I don't think I deserved that taste. I have lived through a disgustingly dirty sea of pain and horror. I wanted others to feel that pain, know that fear. People would understand better if they knew my story. Sable probably wouldn't care after everything that I did to her, everything I put her through. I wish I would've had the courage to let her know what was going on, instead of being the coward I was and giving her a glimpse of my pain. I am Jenna Nielson Turner. I am the daughter of an abusive, alcoholic mother and the product of a sexual assault or so I'm told. If that wasn't enough, add to it one of the members of the faculty here at Boardan High School believes I am to be his personal love slave until I graduate. So, yeah, I'm a b****, but I have some pretty good reasons to be. Being that person helps me cope with the hell that is my world, not just my d*** life. Is it possible for one that has this as the introduction to their "Who am I?" essay to be open to love and be loved? Will she be able to except what is necessary for her to change? Or will she allow the surprises that come into her pathway to be the needed excuse to be just who she describes?
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The USA is home to several of the world's most exciting cities, some truly mind-blowing landscapes, a strong sense of regionalism, a trenchant mythology, more history than the country gives itself credit for and, arguably, some of the most approachable natives in the world.
The US was fashioned from an incredibly disparate population who, with little in common apart from a desire to choose their own paths to wealth or heaven, rallied around the ennobling ideals of the Declaration of Independence to forge the richest, most inventive and most powerful country on earth.
So much of the country has been filmed, photographed, painted and written about that you need to peel back layers of representation to stop it from looking like a stage setting. This can make the country seem strangely familiar when you first encounter novelties like 24-hour shopping, bottomless cups of coffee, 'Have a nice day', drive-thru banks, TV evangelists, cheap gasoline and newspapers tossed onto lawns. But you'd be foolish to read too much into this surface familiarity, since you only have to watch Oprah for half an hour to realize that the rituals and currents of American life are as complex, seductive and bewildering as the most alien of cultures.
Facts for the traveller
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Spilioti, T (2009) Graphemic representation of text-messaging: alphabet-choice and code-switches in Greek SMS. Pragmatics, 19(3), pp. 393-412. ISSN (print) 1018-2101Full text not available from this archive.
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This weeks pick...
Fairytale Retellings Series by Jackson Pearce:
#1 Sisters Red
#2 Sweetly
#3 Cold Spell
#4 Fathomless
Have you read this series yet?
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Sisters Red is REALLY good! When I first read it, I couldn't put it down, I love the way they retold it, the author did a great job re-imagining the story :)! You HAVE to read it :D!ReplyDelete
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Overall Seminar Schedule
Subject to change!
Friday, 8/11/17: 8am - 5pm
Saturday, 8/12/17: 8am - 5pm (followed by HOF and Dinner, etc.)
Sunday, 8/13/17: 8am - 2pm
We have broken the workshops into 6 instruction "TRACKS", and we are asking the instructors to tell us where they fit within this structure so you know where and with whom to train. Below I have given some examples under each of the tracks to give an idea of how it runs. For instance, if you are a throwing based practitioner and just want to do the throwing and Jiu-Jitsu based workshops then all of these instructors' workshops will be in the same room:
I will have a map and room assignments up as the instructors get me their travel plans! Remember this seminar schedule is always subject to change!
If you have scheduled with GM Chamberlain to teach, and you do not see your name on the schedule below, please contact us at: email@example.com. If you are scheduled to teach seminars during the weekend, please forward us your expected availability for the weekend (ie. all day Fri., all day Sat., and not available Sunday, etc), whatever your plans may be.
Breakout Seminar #1
Kumu Michelle Manu
S.H.E Super Hero Experience
Womens Empowerment & Self Defense Workshop
$75 (Included at no charge w/ full weekend event registration)
Breakout Seminar #3
GM Bart Vale
Shootfighting Instructor Certification
Breakout Seminar #4
Professor Aiau Koa
Kids Haka (Hawaiian Warrior Dance)


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|Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Shaun White, Hannah Teter
|Kemp Curly, Kevin Harrison
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"The story of the snowboarding revolution."
Here's what the distributor says about their film: "The docu-drama First Descent chronicles the rebellious, inspiring and sometimes controversial rise of snowboarding—as seen through the eyes of the snowboarders setting the standards and breaking the boundaries of this worldwide phenomenon. First Descent spotlights a handful of snowboarding's early pioneers (including Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata and Terje Haakonsen) and some of the ultra-sponsored superstar phenoms at snowboarding's current cutting edge (Shaun White and Hannah Teter) and literally takes them to the edge—the snow blanketed mountains of Alaska—where these five icons face some of the most challenging and hard-core natural terrain on the planet. The five come for different reasons—Perata and Farmer to see if they still have what it takes, Haakonsen to add another credit to his Big Mountain resume, and White and Teter to undertake their first Big Mountain ride ever—and yet all seek to challenge themselves to accomplish the best snowboarding feat of their lives down peaks of powder no rider has ever descended.
Leading up to their first descent, the crew of five share their stories, comparing viewpoints, individual lifestyles, and unedited opinions on the evolution of snowboarding that began as a delinquent child of skiing and now stands as an international cultural movement that has permanently changed the face of winter sports.
Intercutting footage from the snowboarding revolution of the '80s and '90s, real-life accounts from both notorious and famed riders, and dramatic, newly-filmed scenes from the biggest winter contests and experiences these riders undergo on their way to and in Alaska, First Descent creates a fast-paced portrait of a snowsport that has quickly evolved from a fringe hobby to a full-fledged global event."
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Take a free ride (on a bus)
Whether you need to travel across campus or across town, chances are there's a campus or city bus that can take you where you need to go—and you can do it for free if you're an IU employee or student.
Campus Bus Service
Campus Bus Service provides bus transportation on campus. Anyone—including visitors—can ride a campus bus for free, and all buses are fully ADA-accessible.
Bus schedules are based on class times, and there are no transfers to other public transportation systems.
Bloomington Transit bus service
Bloomington's city bus service, Bloomington Transit, provides rides around town and to the IU Bloomington campus. Buses travel to and from campus, and to most residence halls and apartment complexes.
All IU employees and students can ride Bloomington Transit buses for free upon presenting the Crimson Card upon boarding.
Rural Transit bus service
Rural Transit offers various transportation services outside of Bloomington in parts of Lawrence, Monroe, Owen, and Putnam counties. Anyone may ride regardless of age or disability. Door-to-door transportation is available, but must be arranged in advance.
Visit the Rural Transit website for detailed information on the services provided.


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Weekend Gateways @ Kolkata – Takdah
If you planning a weekend trip from Kolkata where you just lay back and do absolutely nothing, Takdah is the place for you. When I write absolutely nothing, I mean it. Takdah in local language means mist and the place actually in the mist. Generally it is advised to visit the place in the pleasant… Read More Weekend Gateways @ Kolkata – Takdah


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What a month July was, it just totally flew by. The past few weeks have just been jam packed full of outings and entertainment, with a quick family holiday to Canberra thrown in followed by a very lovely weekend away to Melbourne for just Mr lls and I - bliss!!! Hence posts have been few and far between round these here parts.
What a fantastic place Canberra is for family fun. In the couple of days we were there we visited
Parliment House
and the National Gallery of Australia
and the list goes on.
The trip to Melbourne was a last minute thing (for me anyway). Mr lls had been planning on going down to Melbourne to attend a convention for quite some time. A couple of days before he was due to fly down he asked if I'd like to go with him. A quick call to the in-laws to arrange a 'holiday' at Nanna and Pappa's for Miss A and Miss B and the answer was a definate Y.E.S.
I have no photo's to show as the camera somehow slipped out of my bag and was left behind on the floor of the car..........................
We arrived in Melbourne late on Saturday evening.
Mr llp was attending the convention on Sunday so I had the day all to myself.
What a fabulous day I had.
I caught the train and then tram to East Malvern, especially to visit the wonderful experience that is Patchwork on Central Park.
I spent a fair amount of time there just browsing and lusting after the wonderful fabrics on offer. I couldn't bare to come away empty handed but as my airline ticket stipulated hand luggage only I restrained myself to purchasing just some beautiful Liberty fat quarter's which will oneday become a quilt.
I had a scrumptious and leisurely lunch, uninterrupted by squabbling, attention seeking children.
I then enjoyed travelling back to the city - just me, my thoughts and my mp3 player.
I spent the next few hours at the National Gallery of Victoria, wandering around as I used to do regularly pre-children, just enjoying the freedom to take. my. time.; until the nagging need for a good cup of tea got the better of me!
The next morning we spent alittle time in the city before heading out to the airport for our return flight home.
We arrived home on Monday afternoon, back to reality but oh so happy to be with my two little sweetpeas again.......................
and to the realisation I still had not completed my July One per Month challenge (shock horror).
The book I chose for July was Alicia Paulson's Stitched In Time.
The project, Silhouette Stack.
After completing seven projects now from seven different craft books, I have noticed a common theme running through all my projects.
That is my complete inability to follow instructions and adhere to the particular ins and outs of individual projects.
I always seem to need to adapt the project for some reason or other.
In this particular case it was because I wanted to use fabric to match the quilts (last mention way back here)I have slowly and quietly been plugging away at for Miss A and Miss B.
Yes, Miss B still dresses up as a cat on an almost daily basis - cardboard cat ears and stuffed stocking tail is an absolute must as far as she is concerned! Who am I to thwart her inner cat.
My plans for these quilts have morphed alittle since then, but today I finished the last block - that's 48 blocks done. I've only attached the sashing to half of these but I'm getting there.
Anyway, I've gone alittle off track here, back to the Silhouette Stack.
I didn't have enough of the fabrics I wanted to use to make it the same way Alicia did by just stacking half a dozen different fabrics one on top of the other.
So how did I do it?
Well I did follow Alicia's instructions for stencilling the girls silhouettes onto the chosen fabrics.
But then I just made wonky patchwork blocks.
I then essentially made a teeny little quilt but instead of binding it I laid the right sides together, stitched around it leaving a 3 inch opening to turn it right side out through and slip stitched the opening closed. I also sewed in a length of ribbon to hang them by.
I truly love this project. Simple, sweet and definately something I will keep for many years to come.
They now take pride of place hanging on the girl's bedroom door.
A vast improvement on the piece of black cardboard with some Disney princess stickers that was hanging there yesterday...............
More crafty goings on over the next few days including an On-the-Go Art Satchel waiting in the wings to be stitched up for a little boy turning 6 this weekend.
We have quite the social calendar at the moment. It seems half the children in Miss A's class were born in August - including Miss A.
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Rancho Nuevo, Mexico is the site of a long-term, collaborative bi-national program between Mexico and the United States to try and restore the Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting population. The Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery at Padre Island National Seashore recently had a Kemp's ridley, named Esmeralda and outfitted with a Kiwisat 202 satellite transmitter, return to nest 331 days after her PTT was applied. This was a noteworthy event because they usually do not nest in sequential years.
See the mapping and dates of this sea turtle's movements at seaturtle.org
View photos of her on Facebook at "CDEN - Sociedad Civil".
Migratory shorebirds rely on a network of wetlands spread across large landscapes during their annual cycle. During migration, shorebirds will stopover at specific wetland complexes for different purposes and lengths of time. Point Blue scientists captured 81 Long-billed Dowitchers (Limnodromus scolopaceus) during August-September 2012 and 2013 in the Klamath Basin. They assessed flight feather molt status and attached VHF radio-tags (Lotek coded nanotags) to determine (1) their length of stay in the region and (2) winter destinations in California's Central Valley.
Download this case study in PDF format.
Over 75% of bird species that breed in northern temperature zones are migratory to some degree. Knowledge about how migratory individuals are arranged geographically during stages of this annual cycle (migratory connectivity), and how this impacts population dynamics, life history strategies and therefore effective conservation, is limited. Ovenbirds from two Eastern USA sites were captured and tagged with GPS PinPoint-10 tags, giving some very insightful results.
Download the PDF Case Study/Summary to find out more
Watch the video (from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute)
Climate-driven and anthropogenic pressures are increasing on fish stocks, and are therefore affecting Seabird demographics, diet and foraging behaviour. Seabirds can adjust their time-activity budgets in response to this. Rishworth et al. used NTQB Coded tags and DataSika datalogging receivers to automatically log nest attendance and foraging trip data over multiple seasons. Comparisons to control data, benefits of automated datalogging and impacts on birds are discussed.
Download a PDF Case Study/Summary of this research here
Download the complete paper from Methods in Ecology and Evolution here
It has been relatively recently that radio telemetry has been used to study stopover visits made during migration; a relatively short lived (and largely unexplored) period of birds' lives. Most telemetry studies on stopover ecology have been on a small scale, but the Phil Taylor lab (Acadia University, Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network, Bird Studies Canada) is now tackling larger scale questions with Lotek Wireless / Biotrack (Canada & UK).
Download this case study in PDF format.
Several species of Bats make annual long-distance migrations, but questions about if and how bats use stopover sites to rest and refuel remain unanswered. Silver-haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) are a widespread migratory North American species. Previous studies have suggested Long Point, Ontario (north shore of Lake Erie) as a potential stopover site for this species.
The researchers captured Silver-haired Bats during fall migration at Long Point and used a digital radio-telemetry array to monitor their movements (over an area ~ 20 x 40 km), documenting stopover duration and departure direction. Information on whether the Bats flew across Lake Erie was of particular interest given proposed offshore wind energy development on Lake Erie.
Download this case study in PDF format.
European Farmland bird populations are decreasing, due to modern agricultural practices, include mowing fields earlier in the summer season. The 'stay-and-hide' strategy for fledglings is ineffective in this situation, so mowing is highly responsible (in part) for decreases in populations of European farmland birds. Radio tracking of Whinchat fledglings shows a change to an 'escaping through flight' strategy as the chicks age and the authors make recommendations to help halt population decline.
Download the PDF Case Study/Summary to read more
A report and some photos from University of Vienna PhD candidate Andrius Pašukonis about their use of Lotek NanoTag transmitters on frogs in Peru.
Watch a video showing the tagging and release of a stingray in the Southeast Region of Brazil. This is the first project devoted to studying marine and freshwater rays in Brazil using acoustic telemetry.
Watch a video documenting Crested Auklet movement patterns obtained using LAT 2900 geolocators. This video shows the movement of three tagged birds and their stunning triangular migration route.
A March 2013 project update report from the N/a'an ku sê Research Programme about their work monitoring perceived conflict cheetahs in Namibia, with research technology support provided by Sirtrack.
Video summary and a link to an article entitled "Timing of breeding carries over to influence migratory departure in a songbird: an automated radiotracking study" by Greg W. Mitchell,
Amy E. M. Newman, Martin Wikelski and D. Ryan Norris, published in April 2012 in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
Summary of, and link to, an article entitled "Movements, behavior, and habitat utilization of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico, determined from archival tag data analyses, including unscented Kalman filtering" by Kurt M. Schaefer, Daniel W. Fuller, and Barbara A. Block, published in 2011 in Fisheries Research.
Light-based geolocators have been used to find the previously unknown African wintering areas of European Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breeding in Dorset, southern England.
Radio tracking is a popular technique for studying animal movement and behaviour, allowing you to locate individuals at any time, not just when they are visible. New lighter transmitters allow smaller species to be tracked. This case study describes a radio tracking study done on the largest British Dragonfly species.
An excellent example of how partnerships result in better biotelemetry devices can be found in our collaboration with Dr. Barbara A. Block.
Of all the many partnerships that Lotek has enjoyed over the years, one of our most long-standing, productive and rewarding to date is not with an individual researcher, manager or agency, but with an entire watershed's efforts to sustain its fishery.
As a designer of tools for scientists, Lotek is a strong believer in supporting scientific research.


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Introduction to Genetics
Genetics is the study of how genes bring about characteristics, or traits, in living things and how those characteristics are inherited. Genes are portions of DNA molecules that determine characteristics of living things. Through the processes of meiosis and reproduction, genes are transmitted from one generation to the next.
The Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel developed the science of genetics. Mendel performed his experiments in the 1860s and 1870s, but the scientific community did not accept his work until early in the twentieth century. Because the principles established by Mendel form the basis for genetics, the science is often referred to as Mendelian genetics. It is also called classical genetics to distinguish it from another branch of biology known as molecular genetics.
Mendel believed that factors pass from parents to their offspring, but he did not know of the existence of DNA. Modern scientists accept that genes are composed of segments of DNA molecules that control discrete hereditary characteristics.
Most complex organisms have cells that are diploid. Diploid cells have a double set of chromosomes, one from each parent. For example, human cells have a double set of chromosomes consisting of 23 pairs, or a total of 46 chromosomes. In a diploid cell, there are two genes for each characteristic. In preparation for sexual reproduction, the diploid number of chromosomes is reduced to a haploid number. That is, diploid cells are reduced to cells that have a single set of chromosomes. These haploid cells are gametes, or sex cells, and they are formed through meiosis. When gametes come together in sexual reproduction, the diploid condition is reestablished.
The offspring of sexual reproduction obtain one gene of each type from each parent. The different forms of a gene are called alleles. In humans, for instance, there are two alleles for earlobe construction. One allele is for earlobes that are attached, while the other allele is for earlobes that hang free. The type of earlobe a person has is determined by the alleles inherited from the parents.
The set of all genes that specify an organism's traits is known as the organism's genome. The genome for a human cell consists of about 100,000 genes. The gene composition of a living organism is its genotype. For a person's earlobe shape, the genotype may consist of two genes for attached earlobes, or two genes for free earlobes, or one gene for attached and one gene for free earlobes.
The expression of the genes is referred to as the phenotype of a living thing. If a person has attached earlobes, the phenotype is "attached earlobes." If the person has free earlobes, the phenotype is "free earlobes." Even though three genotypes for earlobe shape are possible, only two phenotypes (attached earlobes and free earlobes) are possible.
The two paired alleles in an organism's genotype may be identical, or they may be different. An organism's condition is said to be homozygous when two identical alleles are present for a particular characteristic. In contrast, the condition is said to be heterozygous when two different alleles are present for a particular characteristic. In a homozygous individual, the alleles express themselves. In a heterozygous individual, the alleles may interact with one another, and in many cases, only one allele is expressed.
When one allele expresses itself and the other does not, the one expressing itself is the dominant allele. The overshadowed allele is the recessive allele. In humans, the allele for free earlobes is the dominant allele. If this allele is present with the allele for attached earlobes, the allele for free earlobes expresses itself, and the phenotype of the individual is "free earlobes." Dominant alleles always express themselves, while recessive alleles express themselves only when two recessive alleles exist together in an individual. Thus, a person having free earlobes can have one dominant allele or two dominant alleles, while a person having attached earlobes must have two recessive alleles.
Inheritance Patterns
Mendel was the first scientist to develop a method for predicting the outcome of inheritance patterns. He performed his work with pea plants, studying seven traits: plant height, pod shape, pod color, seed shape, seed color, flower color, and flower location. Pea plants pollinate themselves. Therefore, over many generations, pea plants develop individuals that are homozygous for particular characteristics. These populations are known as pure lines.
In his work, Mendel took pure-line pea plants and cross-pollinated them with other pure-line pea plants. He called these plants the parent generation. When Mendel crossed pure-line tall plants with pure-line short plants, he discovered that all the plants resulting from this cross were tall. He called this generation the F1 generation (first filial generation). Next, Mendel crossed the offspring of the F1 generation tall plants among themselves to produce a new generation called the F2 generation (second filial generation). Among the plants in this generation, Mendel observed that three-fourths of the plants were tall and one-fourth of the plants were short.
Mendel's laws of genetics
Mendel conducted similar experiments with the other pea plant traits. Over many years, he formulated several principles that are known today as Mendel's laws of genetics. His laws include the following:
Mendel's law of dominance: When an organism has two different alleles for a trait, one allele dominates.
Mendel's law of segregation: During gamete formation by a diploid organism, the pair of alleles for a particular trait separate, or segregate, during the formation of gametes (as in meiosis).
Mendel's law of independent assortment: The members of a gene pair separate from one another independent of the members of other gene pairs. (These separations occur in the formation of gametes during meiosis.)
Mendelian crosses
An advantage of genetics is that scientists can predict the probability of inherited traits in offspring by performing a genetic cross (also called a Mendelian cross). To predict the possibility of an individual trait, several steps are followed. First, a symbol is designated for each allele in the gene pair. The dominant allele is represented by a capital letter and the recessive allele by the corresponding lowercase letter, such as E for free earlobes and e for attached earlobes. For a homozygous dominant individual, the genotype would be EE; for a heterozygous individual, the genotype would be Ee; and for a homozygous recessive person, the genotype would be ee.
The next step in performing a genetic cross is determining the genotypes of the parents and the genotype of the gametes. A heterozygous male and a heterozygous female to be crossed have the genotypes of Ee and Ee. During meiosis, the allele pairs separate. A sperm cell contains either an E or an e, while the egg cell also contains either an E or an e.
To continue the genetics problem, a Punnett square is used. A Punnett square is a boxed figure used to determine the probability of genotypes and phenotypes in the offspring of a genetic cross. The possible gametes produced by the female are indicated at the top of the square, while the possible gametes produced by the male are indicated at the left side of the square. Figure 1 shows the Punnett square for the earlobe example.
Continuing, all of the possible combinations of alleles are considered. This is done by filling in each square with the alleles above it and at its left. This is done as shown in Figure 2 .
From the Punnett square, the phenotype of each possible genotype can be determined. For example, the offspring having EE, Ee, and Ee will have free earlobes. Only the offspring with the genotype ee will have attached earlobes. Therefore, the ratio of phenotypes is three with free earlobes to one with attached earlobes (3:1). The ratio of genotypes is 1:2:1 (1 EE : 2 Ee : 1 ee).
Principals of Genetics
Mendel's studies have provided scientists with the basis for mathematically predicting the probabilities of genotypes and phenotypes in the offspring of a genetic cross. But not all genetic observations can be explained and predicted based on Mendelian genetics. Other complex and distinct genetic phenomena may also occur. Several complex genetic concepts, described in this section, explain such distinct genetic phenomena as blood types and skin color.
Incomplete dominance
In some allele combinations, dominance does not exist. Instead, the two characteristics blend. In such a situation, both alleles have the opportunity to express themselves. For instance, snapdragon flowers display incomplete dominance in their color. There are two alleles for flower color: one for white and one for red. When two alleles for white are present, the plant displays white flowers. When two alleles for red are present, the plant has red flowers. But when one allele for red is present with one allele for white, the color of the snapdragons is pink.
However, if two pink snapdragons are crossed, the phenotype ratio of the offspring is one red, two pink, and one white. These results show that the genes themselves remain independent; only the expressions of the genes blend. If the gene for red and the gene for white actually blended, pure red and pure white snapdragons could not appear in the offspring.
Multiple alleles
In certain cases, more than two alleles exist for a particular characteristic. Even though an individual has only two alleles, additional alleles may be present in the population. This condition is multiple alleles.
An example of multiple alleles occurs in blood type. In humans, blood groups are determined by a single gene with three possible alleles: A, B, or O. Red blood cells can contain two antigens, A and B. The presence or absence of these antigens results in four blood types: A, B, AB, and O. If a person's red blood cells have antigen A, the blood type is A. If a person's red blood cells have antigen B, the blood type is B. If the red blood cells have both antigen A and antigen B, the blood type is AB. If the red blood cells have neither antigen A nor antigen B, the blood type is O.
The alleles for type A and type B blood are co-dominant; that is, both alleles are expressed. However, the allele for type O blood is recessive to both type A and type B. Because a person has only two of the three alleles, the blood type varies depending on which two alleles are present. For instance, if a person has the A allele and the B allele, the blood type is AB. If a person has two A alleles, or one A and one O allele, the blood type is A. If a person has two B alleles or one B and one O allele, the blood type is B. If a person has two O alleles, the blood type is O.
Polygenic inheritance
Although many characteristics are determined by alleles at a single place on the chromosome, some characteristics are determined by an interaction of genes on several chromosomes or at several places on one chromosome. This condition is polygenic inheritance.
An example of polygenic inheritance is human skin color. Genes for skin color are located in many places, and skin color is determined by which genes are present at these multiple locations. A person with many genes for dark skin will have very dark skin color, and a person with multiple genes for light skin will have very light skin color. Many people have some genes for light skin and some for dark skin, which explains why so many variations of skin color exist. Height is another characteristic probably reflecting polygenic characteristics.
Gene linkage
A chromosome has many thousands of genes; there are an estimated 100,000 genes in the human genome. Inheritance involves the transfer of chromosomes from parent to offspring through meiosis and sexual reproduction. It is common for a large number of genes to be inherited together if they are located on the same chromosome. Genes that are inherited together are said to form a linkage group. The concept of transfer of a linkage group is gene linkage.
Gene linkage can show how close two or more genes are to one another on a chromosome. The closer the genes are to each other, the higher the probability that they will be inherited together. Crossing over occurs during meiosis, but genes that are close to each other tend to remain together during crossing over.
Sex linkage
Among the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells, one pair is the sex chromosomes. (The remaining 22 pairs of chromosomes are referred to as autosomes.) The sex chromosomes determine the sex of humans. There are two types of sex chromosomes: the X chromosome and the Y chromosome. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one X and one Y chromosome. Typically, the female chromosome pattern is designated XX, while the male chromosome pattern is XY. Thus, the genotype of the human male would be 44 XY, while the genotype of the human female would be 44 XX (where 44 represents the autosomes).
In humans, the Y chromosome is much shorter than the X chromosome. Because of this shortened size, a number of sex-linked conditions occur. When a gene occurs on an X chromosome, the other gene of the pair probably occurs on the other X chromosome. Therefore, a female usually has two genes for a characteristic. In contrast, when a gene occurs on an X chromosome in a male, there is usually no other gene present on the short Y chromosome. Therefore, in the male, whatever gene is present on the X chromosome will be expressed.
An example of a sex-linked trait is colorblindness. The gene for colorblindness is found on the X chromosome. A woman is rarely colorblind because she usually has a dominant gene for normal vision on one of her X chromosomes. However, a male has the shortened Y chromosome; therefore, he has no gene to offset a gene for colorblindness on the X chromosome. As a result, the gene for colorblindness expresses itself in the male.
Another example of sex-linked inheritance is the blood disease hemophilia. In hemophilia, the blood does not clot normally because an important blood-clotting protein is missing. The gene for hemophilia occurs on the X chromosome. As females have two X chromosomes, one X chromosome usually has the gene for normal blood clotting. Therefore, the female may be a carrier of hemophilia but normally does not express hemophilia. Males have no offsetting gene on the Y chromosome, so the gene for hemophilia expresses itself in the male. This is why most cases of hemophilia occur in males.


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I was going to regale you with tails of the inner turmoil caused at having to leave my baby in downtown Toronto.
On a sidewalk, no less.
I was going to reflect upon the emotional temper tantrum I threw within the innermost recesses of my soul, the part where my trying toddler resides. I was going to try and emulate, with words, my refusal to accept the inevitable. I was going to proclaim my outright dismay at the injustice of it all.
But I'm tired. And today has been delegated migraine day. And really, there is only so much whining about my baby leaving me that even I am willing to put up with.
So, instead, let's review what I did in the moments directly after the abandonment of my child on the rowdy downtown streets of Toronto.
I went to a movie. And then I went to another movie.
Of course I did.
On my way back to the hotel I was overcome with dread at being alone for that long before sleep became a viable option. So I pulled over at the nearest movie theatre (and we all know that at any given moment I can direct you to no less than five movie theatres) and checked what was playing. There was something starting within 5 minutes and so I yelled "SOLD" and bought some sorrow drowning popcorn and a vat of diet coke and cried through a horror movie.
The tears poured freely, movies theatres are the perfect place for free flowing tears.
When the movie had ended, but my tears had not, I felt mild panic at what may lie ahead on that muggy, hot, and dreary day.
But it was like heaven was looking down upon me because wouldn't luck have it? Another movie was just starting, and so I cried through a comedy.
That was a long day.
But the next day I put on my big girl pants and went to Niagara Falls and got on a boat and rebelled against the flimsy red rain poncho. I decided to let the elements eat me alive. I got soaked, which was fine because it was one million degrees out and I was hot hot hot.
There is something about being left to the devices of nature this grand. The red rain poncho seemed wrong, somehow.
It was tortuously hot out, I could now check witnessing this marvellous wonder off my list and so I headed back to the hotel.
I was deeply lost in thought and missed a highway somewhere and got lost in this little place of perfection I can't even remember the name of. It was riddled with perfectly historical houses and I contemplated instant relocation because my inner self believes it was meant to live in history. Also it was a lot closer to my child than home was.
When the lady at the door said I couldn't live with her I had no choice but to drive back to the hotel in order to fly home and wait for the rest of my offspring to leave me.
Have I mentioned I hate flying and make a very poor seatmate?


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On Writing: I bought some colored pens today to use while brainstorming the three other brothers' stories in my NC series. I've decided I need to take the time to at least have a basic plot for them in case I need to make changes to any of the brothers in the two stories that are already written. For example, I wrote Bringing Delaney Home first (Quinn's story.) When I wrote the second story, Why Can't This Be Love? (Sijan's story) it turned out that Tynan, the wild brother, has two different colored eyes. So, I had to go back into Delaney and change that. That was a small thing, but since I'm not sure I like the name Kaz Cates, and I'm not settled on the career I gave Paxton, and both of these things are mentioned in the 1st two books, I need to get this settled. I've read some writers who go into great details with spreadsheets and charts etc. I have a list of the brothers and their basic details, but I think I need to add some of the other townsfolk and shops and businesses in town as much of this is reoccurring in all the books.
On Life: I've been having trouble getting back into my exercise routine. So, this morning I woke up 30 minutes earlier and went right down to our basement gym setup and worked out. In that respect, I feel great. But, now at just after 1:30 in the afternoon, my behind is dragging. And I'm not a nap person. Hopefully, my body will adjust as the week goes on, because I think getting it done 1st thing, before any excuses or work can distract me, is going to be key.
How does everyone else balance exercise with the sedentary writing life? I know more than a few are using the treadmill desk setups, but considering I can't sit on our front porch swing and read without getting a headache after a bit, not sure that would work for me. Well, I'll probably conk out early every night this week, but I'll see if this early workout time keeps working. Okay, off to plot the rest of my series. Hope the pollen isn't getting to you!


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Written by John Squires
In the fall of 1984… the adventure continues.
We all knew it was coming, but it doesn't make the news any less exciting. Netflix has just officially confirmed that Stranger Things will be returning for a second season in 2017, which was just teased courtesy of a video that lists off the titles of the nine brand new episodes headed our way next year: Madmax, The Boy Who Came Back to Life, The Pumpkin Patch, The Palace, The Storm, The Pollywog, The Secret Cabin, The Brain, and The Lost Brother.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer spilled story details. For starters, Season 2 will center on the same characters we've already fallen in love with.
"I don't think we ever thought anthology," said Ross Duffer. "I think we talked like a larger time jump where the kids are older now and it's a different decade. That's something we batted around from the very beginning. But for us, there's still more story here [in the 1980s], there's still things that are unresolved."
Mike, Dustin, and the gang will be back, but what about Eleven? Is she still alive?
"We don't know about Eleven," said Ross. "We leave that up in the air."
Oh and The Upside Down? We're totally headed back there.
"We kinda just peeled back the curtain and revealed a tiny bit of the Upside Down," Matt noted. "So we definitely want to explore a little bit more. There's a lot we don't know about the Upside Down at the end of season 1."
Ross chimed in: "We obviously have this gate to another dimension, which is still very much open in the town of Hawkins. And a lot of questions there in terms of, if the Monster is dead, was it a singular monster? What else could be out there? We really don't go in there much until they go in to find Will at the end. So we've opened up this doorway, and to us it's exciting to talk about, like, what else is behind there? There's a lot more mystery there to be solved."
Check out the Season 2 teaser below!


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Albert Alu – Maquette of El Coyote Cafe
Albert Alu was a long time patron and friend of the El Coyote Cafe family. His memorable and active life as an actor, artist, and arts educator will be remembered by all of us. Albert passed on December 2, 2014. His memorial service will be on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 10:30 a.m. at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at 4800 Hollywood Blvd. (corner of Vermont).
Albert created and exhibited his architectural models of iconic Los Angeles landmarks including the El Coyote Restaurant. We hope you enjoy these images of the maquette that his wife Tamera shared with us.


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Breaking the Silence
During the 1980s in Guatemala, the army waged a genocidal war against Mayan communities and social activists. In 1988 Tatamagouche Centre began an active presence of mutual solidarity with these Guatamalan communities. We continue today through a Maritimes-wide network of volunteers, known as "the Maritimes - Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network" (BTS).
We support Guatemalans struggling for political, social, economic and cultural justice and recognize that injustice results from structural inequalities both within and between countries. BTS is committed to supporting structural transformation both in Guatemala and in Canada.
We work with partner organizations to create relationships and projects based on solidarity, friendship, and human rights advocacy. We are inspired by Guatemalans working for peace with justice.
• Sending interns and volunteers to Guatemala who work with local villages
• Promoting fair Trade coffee
• Speaking tours
• Longterm campaign of support for Guatemalan communities resisting actions of Canadian mining companies.
• Training and sending Canadians to act as international observers and witnesses to human rights violations and threats.
To learn more about BTS policies and structures, visit the BTS Network website.


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MG Hyaku Shiki Build Log Part 1
Also known as, "Sophia's adventures in chrome stripping".
Before Bandai put out variants such as the Hyaku Shiki Master Grade with the Ballute, and the High Grade with the Hyper Mega Launcher, the only way to paint a Hyaku Shiki kit was to strip all the chrome off first. Sure, there are plenty of people out there who love the chrome look, but for a painter, that really bright chrome can be a problem. I'm not too much of a fan of the look, at least, not on the Hyaku Shiki. Thankfully, there are the HGUC Gryphios War version and the HD Edition Master Grade, but only one of those is still findable these days.
So, with all of those kits available, why would I bother stripping the chrome off one?
Well, that's because I wanted to make my Hyaku Shiki look extra cool, so I purchased an old HY2M head set.
Bandai doesn't really make these anymore. Basically, each set would include heads with LED modules for three different mobile suits. In this set, you have the Hyaku Shiki, Shin's Zaku, and the Re-GZ. They never made a non-chrome Hyaku Shiki, as far as I can tell, because that variant came out several years later.
So I attempted chrome stripping for the first time, using a method I've heard on the Internet several times before—409 cleaner! I poured some out into a plastic container, and let parts sit in there overnight. I made sure to do a test run with some old leftover chrome runners, but well… nothing happened. At least, that's what I thought: I didn't notice until later that the silver chrome on the back park of the runner came clean off, leaving the white underneath. The gold stayed.
Thinking this was just because the test runner I used just used an older type of chrome, I went ahead and submerged the Hyaku Shiki parts in the 409 cleaner overnight, not touching it for about 24 hours.
Either 409 cleaner changed from its old formula, or I did something seriously wrong. I decided to seek out other methods, like bleach, or isopropyl alcohol, and even those didn't work! Eventually, I used the model maker's ace-in-the-hole: acetone! And this… didn't quite work either. It removed all of the gold, leaving just the silver behind. I figured this was good enough, so I went ahead and sprayed it with primer (on all sides) and started painting. So far, it's going well enough. It still needs a few more coats. Once I remember to actually buy batteries, I'll show off the full head unit.
Also, I'm pretty sure the 409 cleaner would have worked if I just used the acetone on the gold parts, and then submerged the remaining silver in the cleaner. OH WELL, I'll have to try that next time, I guess.
So make sure to learn from my mistakes here! Bandai uses some crazy chrome that's near invincible. Don't worry, next week I'll get started on the kit proper… but while you wait, make sure to get some Gunpla from FPNYC to keep you occupied!


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Since Canada Day is on a Monday this year, we will be spending a long weekend working at the Schoolhouse likely.
We are also celebrating in good Canadian fashion with a barbecue at a friend's house so there will be no time to blog!
So for those who are online here is a nice little infographic with some weird little facts about Canda. Though I notice Kinmount did not make the list of weird place names. Just saying.


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So I ask you, did he cry? Did he tell us how much he loves his country? Did the Mormon shock-jock call for some kind of vague Christian revival? Was it self-indulgent? Was it pitiful?
I heard about the geese flying in a v-formation over the reflecting pool. I'm concluding from the many awe-struck replies on this YouTube video that most of Beck's fans flunked science, so let me share the secret: that's the way migrating geese fly! Shh!
And here's another little factoid: interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds is a pagan practice called augury. I think Beck's crowd reached a new level of confused religiosity.
Anyway, if there was a god who busies himself organizing geese, then those birds would have shat on Beck's head.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
A recent article by Matt Taibbi articulated the dangers of ignoring the media hate-fest:
In fact if you follow Fox News and the Limbaugh/Hannity afternoon radio crew, this summer's blowout has almost seemed like an intentional echo of the notorious Radio Rwanda broadcasts "warning" Hutus that they were about to be attacked and killed by conspiring Tutsis, broadcasts that led to massacres of Tutsis by Hutus acting in "self-defense." A sample of some of the stuff we've seen and heard on the air this year:Taibbi concludes that conservatives really don't want a race war, but driving frustrated/broke white suburbanites into a race-hatred frenzy happens to be good business.
- On July 12, Glenn Beck implied that the Obama government was going to aid the New Black Panther Party in starting a race war, with the ultimate aim of killing white babies. "They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are going to poke, and poke, and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it." He also said that "we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, 'Kill all white babies.'"
- CNN contributor and Redstate.com writer Erick Erickson, on the Panther mess: "Republican candidates nationwide should seize on this issue. The Democrats are giving a pass to radicals who advocate killing white kids in the name of racial justice and who try to block voters from the polls."
- On July 6, the Washington Times columnist J. Christian Adams wrote an editorial insisting that "top [Obama] appointees have allowed and even encouraged race-based enforcement as either tacit or open policy," marking one of what would become many assertions by commentators that the Obama administration was no longer interested in protecting the rights of white people. "The Bush Civil Rights Division was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination," Adams wrote. "During the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected."
- July 12: Rush Limbaugh says Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder "protect and represent" the New Black Panther party.
- July 28: Rush says Supreme Court decision on 1070 strips Arizonans of their rights to defend themselves against an "invasion": "I guess the judge is saying it's not in the public interest for Arizona to try to defend itself from an invasion. I don't know how you look at this with any sort of common sense and come to the ruling this woman came to." That same day, Rush says this: "Muslim terrorists are going to have a field day in Arizona. You cannot ask them where they're from. You cannot even act like we know where they're from. You cannot ask them for their papers. We can ask you for yours. Not them."
- July 29: The Washington Times asks "Should Arizona Secede?" and says the Supreme Court "is unilaterally disarming the people of Arizona in the face of a dangerous enemy" with the aim of creating a "socialist superstate." The paper writes: "The choice is becoming starkly apparent: devolution or dissolution."
- July 29, Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy continues the Radio Rwanda theme, saying, "If the feds won't protect the people and Governor Brewer can't protect her citizens, what are the people of Arizona supposed to do?"
So -- though I'm still unsure what "restoring honor" means -- I'm guessing the restoration is not complete... because then Beck's gig would be up.


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In the media: Obama's Energiewende
Süddeutsche Zeitung
"With greetings to Paris"
The German environment ministry and several NGOs welcomed President Obama's clean power deal as increasing the chances of achieving an effective climate treaty with binding obligations for all nations in Paris, Christopher Schrader reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. But calculations by universities and thinktanks in the US show that Obama's plan could have been far more ambitious, Schrader writes. The new CO2 reduction targets are very low compared to European ones, also because the reference year is not 1990 as it is here but 2005, a year when greenhouse gas emissions in the US were pretty much at their highest, Schrader says. If Obama's targets of 26-28 percent emission reduction by 2030 were using 1990 as a base year they would be reduced by half.
Frankfurter Rundschau
"Obama surges ahead"
Obama's clean power plan is a strong signal to the international community who will come together in Paris in December to decide upon a global climate treaty, the Thorsten Knuf writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau. Compared to previous US governments, Obama's administration wants to play a constructive role in these negotiations and stricter emission rules for the US are supposed to encourage countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa to increase climate action. Green politician Oliver Krischer said: "The world needs pioneers that are able to promote climate action, also against resistance within their own countries."
"Window dressing instead of awakening"
No country has ever succeeded in getting other countries to follow suit by presenting ambitious climate and decarbonisation targets ahead of climate conferences, writes Klaus Stratmann in an opinion piece for the Handelsblatt. But now US President Obama is doing what Europe and Germany have tried and failed, even though his announcements in the Clean Power Plan are generally correct. Per capita emissions in the US are still "absurdly high" and the US has excellent conditions for producing cheap renewable power from wind and solar – it is good that Obama wants to use these resources, Stratmann says.
Deutschlandradio / RBB Inforadio
"A process that is going in the right direction"
Klaus Töpfer, former German environment minister and executive director of the UN environment programme complimented President Obama's new climate policy of reducing emissions by 32 percent by 2030 compared to 2005. Obama doesn't only want to switch power generation from coal to gas but also wants to invest in renewables, Töpfer said in an interview with Deutschlandradio Kultur. This isn't for ideological reasons only but also because the president has seen the economic potential of renewables. Unfortunately the amount of CO2 reductions envisaged by Obama's plan was not ambitious enough, Töpfer said. On RBB Inforadio, Töpfer said that Obama's phase-out of coal power, however, was more consistent than in Germany.
Read the report on Deutschlandradio in German here. Listen to the interview on RBB Inforadio in German here.
Die Welt
"Obama's climate transition is not for green dreamers"
Cleaner air, less consumption of fossil fuels and less dependence on questionable regimes in charge of the energy market – these are desirable targets of Obama's clean power plan, writes Welt correspondent Clemens Wergin in an op-ed. But the question is what price a country has to pay for achieving them and whether it will damage the competitiveness of its industry by doing so. So far the president has followed policies that have made energy cheap, e.g. supporting the fracking boom, something that "left wing politicians and environmental activists" in Germany blocked. But now Obama is following the paths of European states, which will cost the US jobs in the coal industry and will see power bills rise.
Read the op-ed in German here.
Federal Government
"Important signal for climate action"
German environment minister Barbara Hendricks said that President Obama's clean power plan showed that he was making climate action a priority in his second term. She said it was an "important signal" for the UN climate conference in Paris.
See the government press release in German here.
AG Energiebilanzen
Increase in energy consumption / less coal and oil in the energy mix
Primary energy consumption has increased in Germany in the first six months of 2015, compared to the same time in 2014, the AG Energiebilanzen reports after assessing preliminary figures. Energy consumption was 3 percent higher, mostly because of lower temperatures in 2015 – if corrected for the temperature effect, consumption may have fallen slightly in the first two quarters, the AG Energiebilanzen reports. Usage of natural gas increased by 14 percent – again because of the lower temperatures. Consumption of hard coal and lignite both fell by 3 percent. "Due to the further development of wind power and good wind conditions, power generation from hard coal fell by 4 percent compared to 2014," the researchers write adding that the use for steal production was down 1 percent. Power generation from lignite decreased by 3 percent. Renewables increased their share in the energy mix by almost 8 percent. Power generation from onshore and offshore wind turbines increased by 40 percent due to very favourable wind conditions.
Read the press release in German here.
"Power costs of energy intensive industries – an international comparison"
Analysing the effect of power prices on German industry competitiveness, researchers at Fraunhofer ISI and Ecofys found that exemptions from levies and taxes on electricity prices for energy intensive companies "support the competitiveness of the industry and have positive macroeconomic effects." The levies promote renewable technologies in Germany and are paid predominantly via electricity prices. The study also found that energy-intensive, large-scale consumers from the metalworking industry pay the lowest power prices in the analysed countries in Europe, Asia and North America.
Download the study in German here.
Read a CLEW factsheet about power prices for households in Germany here.
"German winds make central Europe shiver"
Germany's neighbours are putting pressure on the Energiewende pioneer to get a handle on its power loop flows – its unexpected flow of energy into other EU grids, reports Kalina Oroschakoff in Politico. Since Germany's grids lack the capacity to handle all of its wind production domestically, other countries – mainly The Czech Republic and Poland— are, literally, being left in the dark when their grids become overwhelmed by the surges in power. Germany has been warned to either "increase its transmission system, or be shut off," according to one EU diplomat. Germany has already signed a pact with 11 member states to address the problem of power loop flows and integrating power markets. Brussels has also stepped up political and financial efforts to link at least 10 percent of the EU's installed electricity production capacity by 2020.
Read the entire report in English here.


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A search of the Roman Catholic Church Records of Kuurne in 1749 was successful and we found the marriage of Archie De Meuleunaere's 3rd great grandfather Joannes Franciscus Vereoestraete and Maria Catharina Callewier. But to our surprise the records were in Latin.
|Marriage Record 1749
in Kerkelijke registers 1694-1813
And of course most of us will recognize the words "filia" (daughter of) and "filius" (son of) In this record I spotted the name Maria Catharina Callalwiere "filia Petrus Callewiere et Margaritae de groot" (4th line above the signature) So now we knew Maria Catharina's parents' names.
Johannes Franciscus Veroughstraete's parents' names were recorded as Joannes [Veroughstraete] and Anne van Brabant. Johannes Fanciscus was said to be from Pitthem which was another very nice clue.
By taking our time and going very slowly, we were able to find and understand many of the records we needed to find Archie's ancestry in Belgium back several generations. The records are wonderful - very complete and we could have gone further back but I developed a severe headache after a day of struggling to find, read and translate three different languages.
There is much I could not understand even with the help of a French-English dictionary and a Dutch-English one. But I understood enough to allow us to find names; birth, death and marriage dates and birth, death and marriage locations. We will continue to add details to what we found, and one day we'll continue tracing the Belgium roots even further back in time.
So don't be dismayed by the challenges. It can be done with perseverance and determination (and some dictionaries!)


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Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story about how the Vatican handled abuse claims against the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the founder of the worldwide order Legionnaires of Christ. The story, which focuses on Vatican politics, hasn't gotten as much play as the previous Times story attempting to link Pope Benedict XVI to an abuse case in Wisconsin. But this story also focuses on then-Cardinal Ratzinger's role in handling the many claims against Father Maciel. The Vatican announced last week that Benedict would appoint a special delegate to run the Legionnaires and was establishing a commission to examine its constitution. In 2006, Benedict removed Maciel from his priestly duties. But the story uses more than a few unnamed sources to tell us that Benedict avoided the case early on. Here's the whole point of the Times article:
A close look at the record shows that the case was marked by the same delays and bureaucratic caution that have emerged in the handling of other sexual abuse matters crossing Benedict's desk, whether as an archbishop in Munich or a cardinal in Rome. Benedict's supporters believe he was trying to take action on the Maciel case but was thwarted by other powerful church officials.
But advocates for Father Maciel's victims say that the Vatican's eventual investigation and reckoning in the case were too little, too late.
Jason Berry of the National Catholic Reporter has done some great reporting on how Father Maciel was able to cultivate allies in the Vatican -- by buying them off, basically. His work is mentioned in this article, too.
As much as the story attempts to link the delays in dealing with the case to Ratzinger, Cardinal Angelo Sodano is the one who comes off as the culprit. But it's this part of the story that I want to highlight:
In 2001, all clerical sex abuse cases had been ordered sent to Cardinal Ratzinger's Congregation. [Italian journalist Sandro] Magister said he believed that as the cardinal became increasingly aware of the problem's magnitude, he ordered that old cases -- including the Maciel matter -- be re-examined.
And in late 2004, it was clear that Cardinal Ratzinger would be playing an important role in a future conclave to elect the next pope. And with the pope's health and power waning, Cardinal Ratzinger may have felt a freer hand in acting against a figure protected by others in the Vatican -- possibly to clear the decks for the next pope, possibly to remove a stain on John Paul's record or his own, should he be considered for the papacy.
One of the worst things a reporter can do is make claims about the motivation of actors in the story. Unless you're a reporter with a special talent for mindreading, I guess. So these motivation claims really shouldn't have been made. Particularly since they are sourced to precisely no one.
But isn't it interesting that when the reporters were pulling motivations out of the air, they didn't suggest that Ratzinger might have actually moved against Maciel because he wanted to do the right thing and he finally had the opportunity? There are people who would suggest just that. Including Magister, who has made such statements on the record. And in this interview, he speaks very favorably of the Pope's work in eradicating "the filth" in the priesthood -- also suggesting he's motivated not by politics but by a desire to purify the church.
In 2008, John Allen quoted president of the U.S. bishops conference, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago about Benedict's motivations:
"It's important to say that Benedict comes with his own sense of that crisis. He has read all the case files, and he was profoundly affected by that. He has a deep sense of compassion for the victims, along with a deep sense of how the vocation of the priesthood has been betrayed by these crimes and sins."
Or you could take the words of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, speaking of Ratzinger's role in helping US bishops address the sex scandals here:
"the one individual... who seemed to grasp the severity of the issue, to be most supportive of the direction that we were taking, and to encourage us to complete the work that we had begun... H[is] was, without a doubt, the most supportive voice at the table, and [he] always seemed to possess the greatest comprehension of the seriousness and the significance of reacting and responding with a strong action... Obviously, the details needed to be reviewed not merely by Cardinal Ratzinger, but by the other heads of the dicasteries, and so there were points of discussion -- but in the long run, his was a voice of incredible importance to convince his confreres in the Curia. He gave us the kind of support and the kind of encouragement that allowed us to keep pushing forward."
It's also worth noting that the Times doesn't just ignore these on-the-record voices but fails to put Benedict's action against Father Maciel in context of larger changes he made to solve the sex abuse problems in the church.
I think that this issue -- the ascribing of political motivations to a man when those close to him would ascribe pious motivations -- really gets at the heart of why so many people think the Times is on a mission against Benedict. Or, as Ken Woodward claimed in his "Church of the Times" that tmatt looked at recently, are they culturally incapable of being fair to Catholicism and this Pope?
As a reader who mentioned this story to us wrote, "the American newspaper of record is unwilling to even acknowledge the idea that Pope Benedict might be driven by considerations that are not merely self-serving or formed by institutional necessity."
That does seem to make the case that we're witnessing a clash of cultures and a weak spot in the Times coverage.


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Mandalay International Airport has started providing visa on arrival
since 1 November but only for business travelers, Weekly Eleven
Tourist visa on arrival is not still available at airports in Myanmar.
The visas on arrival offered by the cultural city's airport are
business visa, entry visa and transit of which the extent of stay
varies from 24 hours to 70 days.
"We offer visas on arrival offered by Yangon airport," assistant
director U Than Win of the airport said.
On-arrival visas in Myanmar are made available for 26 countries.


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Friday, February 29, 2008
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Listen carefully to me. My back hurts and I am tired. I go on a trip shortly and am stressed out in regards to it. Blue Rodeo are playing somewhere right now. If that information makes you feel anything, you probably smoke hash.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Those Were The Days
Queen Street Man, where have you gone? Oh right, you went to NYC.
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Queen Street, le pauvre
There was a terrible fire downtown here in Toronto yesterday. It was on Queen Street West, between Bathurst and Portland. Right now they're sorting out why it happened, and late yesterday they were still dousing potential 'hot spots'. A block of people were displaced from their apartments, and the businesses that lined the street have been brutally affected, with Duke's, a long-standing bicycle shop dramatically collapsing, and the Queen Street wing of Suspect Video(my favourite video store and a cultural institution in my own life) seems like it was gutted, as well as National Sound, another well-regarded longtime source of electronics. Preloved next door must have been harshly affected as well. It seems inevitable that the six-alarm blaze had an awful impact on every business in the block.
For me, this is so sad because that little block has always been a pleasant, inspiring walk along a street that is often a depressing mix of the overly sunglassed and the overly needy, peppered with the irritating, enthusiastic and threatening presence of teens. The independent and fun stores that line that portion of Queen are reason I used to place that strip in a rareified place and treasured my irritating and enthusiastic teenage walks down there. When a group of them have their presence suddenly nullified, it's a frightening and quick change. I just hope that the storeowners and residents there are able to rebuild with a relative amount of ease.
Daniel, the manager of that Suspect, has posted a pretty admirable response to the situation. Read it and help if you can. They want to replace their library of insane titles.
In happier news, I actually got kind of turned on by that new Lohan photoshoot. Move over Gosling,I have a new virtual paramour.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Montreal this weekend past was fun, if trying. We left late in the day because our guitarist had to operate a crane. This led to us driving through bad snow at night, and so we arrived at the venue at roughly midnight. It's never fun to walk in and have to play, but that was close to the reality for us. Then we played and I appeared in my customary underwear/boots look, which led to Steve Bennett and maybe others tearing my underwear off of me, forcing a song or two to be performed naked. Not cool at all. A man in underwear looks fine, but a nude man is just a less strong ape. Freed testicles are the opposite of freed mammaries. Between the nudity and my unfamiliarity with our set list, it wasn't my most comfortable Montreal appearance, but it went over better than my hyper-depressing attempts to do comedy at French Canadian rock bars have. At one point I used a beer pitcher as a fig leaf. Allegedly it wound up magnifiying the gross ball situation. Tonight we open for Andrew WK.
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
I'm heading to Montreal right now to do band things there. I'll give you a full report when I get back. Yesterday some friends of mine ate pizza without me.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Do you want to remember how I knew about you?
I did some interviewing over the past week. That's been exciting. Otherwise, nothing has been exciting. Exactly 0% occurs in February 8 for us hosers. So I know what that means: you want to read some of my interviews with comedians and rappers. I am really great at knowing what you want, yes? Let us proceed.
Jim Gaffigan
Bill Burr
Snoop Dogg
Jim Gaffigan
Bill Burr
Snoop Dogg
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Labels: Bill Burr, interviews, Jim Gaffigan, Snoop Dogg
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Breaking News
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Last night I came home from Catch-23, after band practice. I turned on the Howard Stern show, lay on my bed, and fell asleep. It caught me by surprise. I had no time to brush my teeth. I didn't even realise I fell asleep, as my dream was so pedestrian that I could have easily not dreamed it at all. In the dream, I went to my friend Graham's house and began trying to brainstorm with him, but it didn't really go anywhere, and I left to catch the bus home. Instead of doing that, I went to a bar in a high school and purchased a beer. I walked around the halls holding a beer in that weird 'holding a beer' POV from the movies, and came upon a lady taking portraits. I started taking a picture with her, but as she was doing so(and taking her time), I realised I was going to miss my bus. It was at this point that I woke myself up and brushed my teeth. Interpret.
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Labels: Catch-23, Dreams, Howard Stern
Monday, February 04, 2008
New Clipse Mixtape.
I like it so far. Nice DJ Drama"No Vaseline" reference at the beginning.
Streaming here!
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Ape That A Shame
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
When Brutal Knights played Adrift the other week, a kid somehow clambered onto the pipe above the crowd. What a little Spiderman! Lindsay, who owns the place, promptly shouted at me to get him down from there. As I'm not Mr.Fantastic, there was nothing I could do except say 'dude, get down from there...' while the band kept playing. That's probably been my major contribution to society for the month.
After four days of craziness last week, I got a cold. My dad bought me some eggs and some Cold-FX. I used the eggs correctly(put them in fridge), but I'm not sure I used the cold medicine correctly. It told me to take 9 pills the first day, 6 pills the second day, and 3 pills the third day. What I did was I put 14 pills in my DVD player. I should have just gotten the flu shot years ago, and none of this shit would've gone down.
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Volunteer for the "Deeper, Wider, Faster" astronomical survey!
The Deeper, Wider, Faster astronomical survey is currently running a campaign (based at the University of Melbourne but involving people from many institutes, including Swinburne) and they are looking for volunteers with an interest in astronomy to assist during working hours (they already have volunteers for other times) for days through to August 7th.
This survey is looking for transient phenomena using a number of ground and space based telescopes and the volunteers will be trained to evaluate incoming images that have been detected by supercomputers and flag real detections for further investigation.
You can give just an hour of your time, or as much as you are able to, and you'll be able to say you've worked on a real astronomical survey and if you're *really* *really* lucky you'll be able to say you played a part in a discovery.
There isn't a lot of public information about this survey but the recent CSIRO "Australian Telescope National Facility" Daily Astronomy Picture has a (more technical) description of the project here: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/ATNF-DailyImage/archive/2016/13-Jul-2016.html
To participate see your email and look for the message from Ray with the subject "Mt Burnett Observatory EXTRA", it has contact details for the person who is coordinating volunteer efforts.
Volunteered for Deeper, Wider, Faster astronomical survey last Friday as part of @MBObservatory. Very interesting! pic.twitter.com/lOniiYwbhc— Chris Samuel (@chris_bloke) August 6, 2016


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Oh yes! Our favorite Bad Boy of Fashion is back at PLBW 2015 and looks like he's stronger than ever and more threatening this time!
Ali Xeeshan showcased his bridal collection 'Toofan' at the PLBW2015.
Toofan is a more advanced and mature version of Ali Xeeshan's signature style. It's louder, more powerful and it packs a greater punch. It travels from soft hues to more solid and bright colors and comes with a promise to suit a wider audience.
Toofan broke all previous records, and proved true to its name. A lot of detail and finesse could be seen in his work, with metal embellishments and ground breaking cuts. A completely different look has been achieved through this collection keeping intact the grandeur and bang that Ali Xeeshan is famous for.
Everything was picture perfect and the models looked like they had just walked out of a painting, Ali Xeeshan totally made art come to life.
We can always trust Ali Xeeshan to put up an entertaining show, be it statement making jewelry or the choice of showstoppers; he never fails to think out of the box! The drama that he creates, the fantasy world he takes the audience to is what one won't find anywhere else!


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We've been keeping an eye on prices for Blu-ray players and it appears that a handful of budget-brand models are starting to crack the $150 barrier. The other day Woot.com had the Memorex MVBD2510 player at $139.99 for a one-day sale and now TheNerds.net is selling it for $146.99 (shipping included) and Buy.com has it at $149.99. That's on top of both the Samsung BD-P1500 and the Sony BDP-S300 slipping in and out of sub-$200 territory at Amazon and other outlets.
While $150 isn't bad, I think we're going to see $99 fairly soon, with a couple of stops at $129.99. As we found out with HD-DVD players, $99 really is a magic price point, though it is worth pointing out that these budget Blu-ray players are only profile 1.1, while the $99 HD DVD players were fully up to spec and allowed for firmware upgrades via Ethernet (the cheap Blu-ray players can't be updated and sometimes simply can't play certain movies). Profile 1.1 players aren't BD-Live enabled, which means you won't be able to access certain interactive features--for better or worse.
BD-Live issues aside, I'm betting we'll see $99 for a Blu-ray player inside of four months, if not sooner, the way the economy is going. We can debate exactly when it will happen (feel free to comment), but in the near future the initiation fee for entering Club Blu-ray will be relatively negligible--or at least not a serious stumbling block.
That said, the bigger problem is prices for Blu-ray movies compared to DVDs. For example, if you take a look at Wall-E, which currently sits atop Amazon's Blu-ray bestseller list, it costs $24.95 versus $14.99 for the DVD. Granted, the Blu-ray version comes with three discs (there's a two-disc version for 50 cents less, but why bother?) and the DVD is only a single disc. The fact is the majority of blue-chip Blu-ray titles cost around $25, with some, like Iron Man, coming in at $20. (It's also worth noting that you don't get the free shipping on Amazon on anything less than $25, which makes you understand the price has been set where it is for a reason).
I realize that manufacturers, retail outlets, and studios want to preserve margins as long as they can and they've made an effort to present Blu-ray as a premium format that deserves to be marked up. But asking people to pay 50-75 percent extra when everybody's cutting back already is going to crimp sales of both Discs and players.
The smart people are opting to rent rather than buy (Netflix charges an extra buck for Blu-ray rentals, but it's still a good deal, especially when you consider you get its free movie streaming servicethrown in). That said, I know folks who say they'll only consider switching to Blu-ray when players are $99 and the price gap between DVD and Blu-ray movies is minimal. Of course, others will never switch, preferring instead to download zero-cost illegal pirated flicks or stream legal free content from Hulu, Netflix, and others.
What do you guys think? At what point is Blu-ray really going to take off (if ever)? Is one of these stripped-down, cheap players worth buying? And are Discs too expensive?
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Google Nest Hub Max: A higher-end smart display for Google Assistant joins the Nest family, adds a camera.


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Will Robert Pattinson Star Alongside Naomi Watts In 'Queen Of The Desert'?
Robert Pattinson's post-"Twilight" dance card has been filling up faster than Channing Tatum's at a strip club. Okay... that might be a tiny exaggeration, but suffice it to say dude will be busy in the coming months with projects like "Mission: Blacklist" and "The Rover." Yet, one film we haven't heard much about lately is the period piece "Queen of the Desert."
Starring Naomi Watts, the Werner Herzog-directed pic follows English writer Gertrude Bell, an archaeologist and explorer, while Robert would play her lifelong friend T.E. Lawrence (otherwise known as Lawrence of Arabia), who worked with Gertrude to establish the Hashemite dynasties in Jordan and Iraq.
Robert talked briefly with MTV News last summer about the project, but what's the status now? We caught up with Naomi at the Sundance Film Festival (where she's promoting her film "Two Mothers") to find out.
"We'll wait and see," Naomi demurred when asked if filming would take place soon. "He's a director I'm completely in awe of. He's a wonderful filmmaker and documentarian. It's a fantastic character, great story. I'm not sure when it's going to take place yet; there's been so much travel, as well, and I've got little kids, so we'll see if it happens later this year or next year."
As to Robert's involvement: "I don't know if he definitely is yet," she said.
Here's hoping we are indeed treated to the sight of Robert Pattinson wearing a headdress and riding a camel.
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Awalim Tribal Bellydance Company
Atlanta's Premier Bellydance Company and Studio!
Awalim was formed in 1999 under the Direction of Ziah Ali McKinney-Taylor as a group to bring World Fusion Tribal Bellydance to the stages of Atlanta and the Southeast US. Awalim's particular flavor of Tribal is decidedly upbeat and earthy while being sophisticated and urban, bringing what we feel are Atlanta's strongest characteristics to the Tribal genre.
The Awalim Dance Company takes their name from the term "Awalim," which is the plural of "Alima." This term applied to female singers and dancers who performed only for women in the Ottoman aristocratic households (Rodinson, 1975). These women were educated in the dance and music arts of the Middle East and were entertainers for the upper class. Taking from our historical name, the members of the Awalim Dance Company are equally educated in the music, dance, and history of our art form. Awalim's goal is to not only pursue excellence in dance but to create a community of dancers with similar passion towards our art form that will work together to create unique choreographies and polished performances.
In 2014, the 15th year of the Awalim Dance Company, it morphed into a "repertory company" model as the students and the principal dancers focused more on producing their own stage shows instead of marketing themselves for hire. The dance company now almost exclusively produces its own shows it performs in to be able to control its own image. We are still for hire but we are choosy about our clients!


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Movie Stars Whose First Kiss Happened on Screen
Doing your first romantic kiss in private can be awkward and nerve-racking. What more if it's done in front of a film crew and intended for a movie for worldwide viewing? Just imagine what these 15 young movie stars felt doing it.
1. Fred Savage and Danica McKellar
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Kevin and Winnie, both from The Wonder Years, were sweet young friends. And what made their tandem even exciting was the fact that both Fred Savage and Danica McKeller had their very first kiss in their lives while shooting an episode of the TV series. McKellar couldn't believe it was really about to happen. "Oh my gosh, I'm about to have my first kiss!" she had thought. "It's about to happen!" she repeated several times. In fact, she was so excited about it that a pleasant smile naturally came out of her face even if her brother was supposed to just have died in the story. The scene had to be taken 6 times to get her appropriate look in the scene. Savage, for his part, said he was "very nervous and excited."


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