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common name: guava fruit fly
scientific name: Anastrepha striata Schiner (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae)
Introduction - Synonymy - Distribution - Description - Hosts - Survey and Detection - Selected References
Introduction (Back to Top)
The guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, is one of the most common species of fruit flies throughout most of its range. However, it has not acquired a well-established common name as have others such as the Mexican, Caribbean, and Mediterranean fruit flies. This probably is because it is not considered to be of primary economic importance, although it often is abundant and may be highly destructive to dooryard plantings of some tropical fruits.
However, Anastrepha striata is an important pest in the American tropics and subtropics, especially of guavas and other myrtaceous fruits, although it has also been reported to attack mango, mombins, orange and peach. It is considered a pest of quarantine significance by USDA-APHIS-PPQ and many other regulatory agencies. The main damage is caused by the larvae, which feed inside the fruit (Norrbum 2001).
Synonymy (Back to Top)
Dictya cancellaria Fabricius 1805
(From Norrbum 2001)
Distribution (Back to Top)
This species is found in Mexico (north to southern Sinaloa, Aguascalientes and northern Veracruz) and south to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. In the West Indies, it is found in Trinidad (White and Elson-Harris 1994). A few specimens have been collected in the United States (southern Texas and California), but Anastrepha striata is not currently established there (Norrbum 2001).
Description (Back to Top)
Adult: The adult fruit fly is rather small to medium sized; yellow brown, thorax patterned with black. The length of mesonotum is 2.45–3.57 mm. Wings are 5.9–7.7 mm long, with yellow brown bands; costal and S bands touching on vein R4+5 and usually again just anterior to vein R2=3, leaving a small hyaline spot in cell R3; V band complete, separated from S band, outer arm narrow.
Figure 1. Thorax of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, dorsal view. Graphic by Division of Plant Industry.
Figure 2. Wing of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner. Graphic by Division of Plant Industry.
Female terminalia: ovipositor sheath 2.6-2.9 mm long, stout, tapering posteriorly, spiracles 1.05 mm from base. The rasper is well developed, hooks elongate, slender, in four or five rows. The ovipositor is 2.0-2.15 mm long, stout, tip broad and blunt without distinct serrations; and the shaft is slightly broadened at base.
Figure 3. Ovipositor of adult female guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
Male terminalia: tergal ratio about 1.19; claspers about 0.44 mm long, flattened, posterior surface with a distinct carina from near base to apex of teeth; lateral margin beyond teeth convex, carinate; extreme apex narrow, abruptly turned posteriorly; teeth about at middle. The only species with thoracic pattern and wing pattern closely resembling this species is Anastrepha bistrigata Bezzi. Lateral half of brown stripe on mesoscutum from transverse suture to scutellum denuded in Anastrepha striata; brown stripe wholly setose in Anastrepha bistrigata.
White and Elson-Harris (1994) state that Anastrepha striata is separated from the other species with a complete Anastrepha type wing pattern by the short (under 2.0 mm) aculeus witha non-serrate apex and U-shaped pattern on the scutum.
Anastrepha striata is the only species of Anastrepha in which the mating behavior is known to include trophallaxis (passing of a substance from the male to the female via the mouthparts) (Norrbum 2001).
Figure 4. Egg of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata compared with other common Anastrepha species. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
Larva: The larva is a typical, pale yellowish-white fruit fly maggot, cylindrical in shape, with inconspicuous head and 11 body segments which are not clearly separable into thoracic and abdominal regions.
Figure 5. Third instar larva of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, lateral view. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
The larval head is a compound structure appearing as a single small segment with no definite head capsule. The oral cavity is composed of a longitudinal cavity which contains two black mouth hooks that move up and down. Outer portions of hooks protrude from preoral cavity, and bases articulate with pharyngeal skeleton. Shape of hooks and form of pharyngeal skeleton provide useful identification characters, as do buccal carinae. Anastrepha striata has eight to nine buccal carinae.
Figure 6. Pharyngeal skeleton and mouth hooks of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, lateral view. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
Figure 7. Head of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, lateral view, showing buccal carinae and anterior spiracle. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
The two anterior spiracles, located laterally at base of first body segment behind head, are modified ends of tracheae divided into small tubules or digits. Anterior spiracles are small and asymmetrical in shape, anterior margin of each, in Anastrepha striata, bearing 13 to 17 tubules arranged in a transverse row with median indentation as seen in profile. Caudal segment possesses pair of posterior spiracles, each with three long spiracular openings called "slits". Length, width, and position of these are useful characters in separating species. Posterior spiracular entrances of Anastrepha striata about five times longer than wide; posterior spiracular hairs numerous and slender.
Figure 8. Posterior spiracles (left) and posterior spiracle with spiracular hairs above (right) of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
The caudal segment may contain tubercles or papillules, which often are indistinct. Presence, absence, size, position, and number of these tubercles may be useful in identification of fruit fly larvae. Anastrepha striata has four small caudal papillules above and below posterior spiracles. Caudal papillules of Anastrepha striata below posterior spiracles usually minute or apparently absent or arranged in a transverse row, in contrast, for example, to those of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew), which are arranged in two rows.
Figure 9. Posterior extremity of third instar larva of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
The anal lobes of Anastrepha striata are bifid. The full-grown larva can grow to 10 mm in length and approximately 2 mm in diameter.
Figure 10. Posterior extremity of the guava fruit fly, Anastrepha striata Schiner, ventral view. Drawing by Division of Plant Industry.
Hosts (Back to Top)
Guava, Psidium guajava L., is the preferred food host.
Other hosts include:
- avocado, Persea americana
- black sapote, Diospyros digyna
- Brazilian guava, Psidium guineense
- cassava, Manihot esculenta
- green sapote, Pouteria viridis
- mango, Mangifera indica
- peach, Prunus persica
- rose-apple, Syzgium jambos
- spicewood, Psidium sartorianum
- star-apple, Chrysophyllum cainito
- strawberry guava, Psidium littorale
- sweet orange, Citrus sinensis
- tropical almond, Terminalia catappa
- wild guava, Psidium friedrichsthalianum
This fruit fly has been reared in the laboratory from Surinam cherry Eugenia uniflora; and sapodilla, Manilkara zapota. (White and Elson-Harris 1994).
Survey and Detection (Back to Top)
Larvae can be collected from infested fruit, but are very difficult to identify except when raised to adults. They tend to flex and jump up to 25 mm when mature. For larval preservation, kill in boiling water, place in 50% alcohol for 2 days, then to 75% isopropyl alcohol. Adults usually are collected by stickyboard and baited traps.
Selected References (Back to Top)
- Berg GH. 1979. Clave ilustrada de larvas de moscas de la fruta de la familia Tephritidae. Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (OIRSA), San Salvador, Republica de El Salvador. 36 pp.
- de Costa LA. 1934. Moscas de frutas do genero Anastrepha Schiner, 1868 (Diptera: Trypetidae). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 28: 487-575.
- Pruitt JH. 1953. Identification of Fruit Fly Larvae Frequently Intercepted at Ports of Entry of the United States. Unpublished M.S.thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville. 69 pp.
- Stone A. 1942. The Fruit Flies of the Genus Anastrepha. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 439, Washington, D.C. 112 pp.
- White IM, Elson-Harris MM. 1994. Fruit Flies of Economic Significance: Their Identification and Bionomics. CAB International. Oxon, UK. 601 pp.

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Carlos Gil
Bestselling Author, "The End of Marketing"
Gil Media Co.
Carlos Gil is the author of The End of Marketing: Humanizing Your Brand in the Age of Social Media and AI, an international keynote speaker, and award-winning digital storyteller with over a decade of experience leading social media strategy for global brands including LinkedIn, Winn-Dixie, Save-A-Lot and BMC Software. A first-generation Cuban-American, Gil's work has been featured by or seen in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., LinkedIn Learning, and Social Media Examiner in addition to dozens of trade publications and podcasts. Presently, Gil is the CEO and founder of Gil Media Co., a full-service digital marketing firm that works with Fortune 500 clients specifically on content marketing, community management, and employee advocacy.


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Everyone can use a little more light. Sitting in the dark all day makes people feel depressed, and not all in your head.
There is a proven link between darkness and depression.
Feel like a wall that closes? Get some lights! This is very easy.
Besides alleviating depression, a well-lit house just looks more inviting. There was something friendly about the glittering light that read, "Come on in, we're glad to meet you!"
Is not that what we all want from our homes? A place that invites shelters from the world's ills.
A place that welcomes you with open arms, no matter what matters are provided that day.
Well, it turns out this is all easily accomplished with a little work and some LED lights. Anyone can have a dimly lit house without breaking the bank.
We're breaking down exactly how to brighten up your living space, and why this 12-volt LED light is exactly what you want it to be.
LEDs in the Kitchen
The LED light has a low intensity, meaning it will not blind you from close range. They are also quite compact, which makes the kitchen lighting perfect.
Consider installing an LED light under your cabinet to provide a desk lamp. Believe us, cutting vegetables with good lighting makes the world different.
Strip lights are easy to install, and are actually quite striking and conspicuous.
Stick light strips wherever you want, then plug the power supply into the wall. There is no cable work to do, and really the whole process takes a few minutes.
People without stove lights can also find LED tap lights that are useful for cooking. The lamp is durable enough to withstand heat and grease, making it ideal to illuminate your stove.
Drawer and cabinet
Ok, so this room will not light up your house, but everyone cursing the lack of light in the back of their closets.
LED strip lights work well in closets and drawers. Both spaces are small enough so that the ambient lighting of your home does not penetrate its cracks and crannies.
The installation is just like your kitchen lamp, only you might want a bit smaller strip (at least for drawers).
The best part is not to worry your lights heat up your closet or drawer if you forget to turn it off. LEDs produce hardly heat.
Get Festive
Yes, the holiday season is over, but that does not mean you can not wait for next year.
One great thing about LED lights is that they come in almost any color you can imagine.
You probably will not use colored lights throughout the year (or maybe you'll have a dance, no judgment here), but at Christmas colored LEDs can make your house magical.
Pointing out the red and green standalone lights on your trees creates a truly remarkable background.
LED lights are perfect for any scenario. They can prevent depression, brighten the house, and work in almost any situation.
Hopefully, you find some ideas of this project interesting. Never tap the power of efficient lighting.


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There is perhaps no group of gamers more mistreated than American Mother fans.
While Japanese gamers have gotten all three games in the surreal RPG series, all we've gotten is Earthbound, a Super Nintendo localization of Mother 2. Americans didn't get Mother on NES, Mother 3 on Game Boy Advance, or any of the subsequent ports and re-releases—and Nintendo won't say why.
Rubbing salt on our Mr. Saturn-sized wounds, last week Nintendo announced a release of Mother 2 for the Wii U's Virtual Console... in Japan. Nowhere else. (I asked a Nintendo rep if it will ever come here. The response: "We have nothing to announce about this game at this time.")
So. U.S. gamers have taken to the Wii U's social network, Miiverse, to protest. Here are just some of hundreds of Mother-related posts on the Miiverse page for Balloon Fight (click to expand):
I love it. Occupy Miiverse!
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Remember 1968? Many of us Barnard graduates vividly recall the turmoil, political longings and sense of empowerment we felt during that year—the Vietnam War protests, the Institute for Defense Analysis recruiting on Columbia's campus, Columbia's plans to gentrify Morningside Park. We had worked hard to get to Barnard and even harder to make it through to graduation. But the historical moment that year was unlike any other.
Each of us processed this remarkable year in our own way. To me it confirmed that students could initiate meaningful change in an academic institution. In 1969, I set aside carefully drawn plans to pursue a teaching career in European history and joined the defense staff of the "Chicago Conspiracy Trial." Working with David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Bill Kunstler, and Leonard Weinglass on that five-month political trial provided me with organizing skills and a very different life direction. In 1970, I enrolled in Rutgers Law School—Newark, affectionately known as "People's Electric Law School."
The entering class was 20 percent women—a previously unheard of proportion. The exhilaration among the entering women students was palpable. In making the decision to apply to law school, we were stepping out of our comfort zones. Ours was a generation groomed to be housewives, teachers, secretaries, or nurses. Not one of us women arrived at law school in 1970 with a lifelong ambition of becoming an attorney; that was not an avenue of choice normally presented to women of our generation. To the contrary, a woman entering law school in 1970, or before, can be presumed to have a story. These stories touch on common themes: how we arrived, the obstacles in our paths, our responses to these obstacles, what we absorbed and what we rejected in the legal curriculum, how we altered a hitherto male-dominated legal profession, where we took our newly minted knowledge and power, and lastly where we landed and how we link ourselves to the generation of women law students today.
In 1970, the women's movement was beginning to take hold, and women's consciousness-raising groups were being formed under the slogan "Sisterhood is Powerful." The group meetings were empowering, with supportive women discussing gender issues during a time of dramatic gender evolution. To mediate my entry into law school, still a male domain, I joined a women's group in Newark. It included Ann Marie Boylan, a recent graduate of Rutgers Law School. At an early meeting, Boylan spoke about her efforts to establish a new feminist journal—the Women's Rights Law Reporter (WRLR)—in her Newark apartment. At that time, the notion of a legal journal focused on women's issues was a novel and fairly radical idea. Boylan had managed to publish one issue, but lacked funds and personnel to keep the publication afloat. To me it made perfect sense that the journal should be housed at Rutgers Law School. A number of my fellow students agreed. "Piece of cake," I thought.
After meeting with Rutgers' dean James Paul, we realized it would not be a "piece of cake." The law school administration was less than eager to embrace the new publication on women's rights. We were told that Rutgers would provide neither funds nor office space nor an affiliation with the Law School. Our only hope for keeping WRLR alive was to raise the needed funds ourselves, find a faculty advisor acceptable to the dean, and negotiate for office space.
There was enough student interest to begin satisfying the administration's conditions. Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked and readily agreed to take on the position of faculty advisor. With the support of Professor Annamay T. Sheppard, the Rutgers Urban Legal Clinic made space for the WRLR in an old building they occupied behind the main law school facility. An advisory board was established including Professor Arthur Kinoy, Pauli Murray, and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Fund-raising letters were mailed out, and we managed to secure small grants from several organizations, including the Women's Center at Barnard College. With the dean's conditions met, the WRLR was permitted to reside at Rutgers Law School. To our dismay, however, the administration decreed that there was to be no mention of Rutgers Law School in the publication.
A staff of student volunteers was assembled. It was agreed that WRLR would not become a typical law review, but would function as a law reporter featuring short articles and case summaries exclusively on women's rights issues. It was also agreed that WRLR would incorporate graphics, rejecting the look of the typical law journal. Our first issues were collectively conceived and published with conscious effort made to avoid the traditional law review hierarchy.
WRLR was fortunate to have Professor Ginsburg as faculty advisor. She had a deep and active interest in women's rights issues. She had authored the American Civil Liberties Union's Supreme Court brief in Reed v. Reed in 1971 and was preparing to teach a new seminar on women'srights. Asfacultyadvisor, Professor Ginsburg devoted many hours to writing and editing, counseling the staff, attending meetings, and inevitably mediating with the administration when problemsarose. Her comment on Reed v. Reed appeared as the lead article in the first issue published at Rutgers.
By the spring of 1973, WRLR had published three issues, a labor of love by the student board. Forty years later, it is still publishing at Rutgers Law School—the first among many current legal publications devoted to women's issues. It is the gift of a remarkable historical moment, nurtured by a Barnard connection. For that we are grateful.
-by Elizabeth Langer '68, illustration by Katherine Streeter
After 35 years of practicing law in Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Langer closed her law office, moved to Manhattan, and began a second career in painting, printmaking, and collage. She has a studio on West 28th Street and her work can be seen at elizabethlanger.com. A solo exhibit at FX Fowle Architects Gallery, 22 West 19th Street will open in March. The Barnard community is invited to the opening reception March 25 at 5:30 PM.


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Hey, baby boomers! Pondering what gift to get your kid who's all grown up? For many of your peers, the answer is a house.
One in five baby boomer couples have already given at least one of their children the means to purchase a home -- either buying it outright, furnishing the down payment or co-signing the loan, according to a survey from Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate.
And more than two-thirds (68%) of respondents said they expect to provide financial support to their children or grandchildren in the future to help them afford homeownership.
Many real estate agents around the country have observed this trend gain steam since the housing bust began.
"Parents want to see their kids in a stable living situation," said Chayah Masters, a Coldwell Banker Residential agent in Los Angeles. "Plus, property values have come way down. Why not help the kids while they are so low?"
The typical U.S. home now costs about the same as it did back in 2003. In some markets, like Phoenix, Orlando and Las Vegas, prices haven't been this reasonable since the late 1990s. And low interest rates make homebuying an even more affordable investment.
In New York City, according to real estate agent Chazz Levi, many foreign nationals are buying apartments for kids going to college in town.
"I think it's a smart thing to do right now," she said.
Some of the kids have good jobs and enough income to afford a home on their own except for one thing: too little cash.
Cash is king right now. Cash buyers get the best deals on homes like bank-owned foreclosed properties or short sales. Even ordinary sellers prefer it because sales are more likely to go through and close quickly.
Buyers also need a nice bundle to fund 20% down payments so they can get favorable mortgages. For a median priced home -- about $160,000 right now -- that comes to $32,000 up front. Many young people just don't have that much saved.
One such buyer was a client of Brooklyn-based real estate agent Nick Ferrone. The buyer got a $175,000 cash infusion from his folks. That covered his down payment and enabled him to land a bargain interest rate of just over 4%.
Many young people in this hardscrabble economy also face trouble getting a mortgage approved because they have the wrong kind of income.
They cobble together earnings from freelance and part-time jobs but those income sources may be too unpredictable for lenders. Underwriters prefer steady paychecks from employers.
While it can be a good thing for all involved when parents help their kids get homes, it can also get complicated.
The first question parents should consider is how much help they can realistically provide, said Ted Beck, CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education, a Denver, Colo.-based nonprofit.
"Sit down and figure out what you can really afford to do," he said. "You should never put your own budget or your retirement plans at risk."
Just as important is determining just what the child can afford once mom and dad set them on the path to homeownership. If the parents just want to help with a down payment or co-sign the loan, will the kids be able to afford the monthly bills?
Follow the old rule of thumb that the child's housing costs should not exceed 28% of gross income, said Beck. When other debt like students loans are factored in, the total shouldn't exceed 36% of their income.
Also keep in mind that there are many additional costs new homeowners have to expect. Sooner or later roofs have to be replaced, plumbing repaired and heating systems updated.
Another all-too-common pitfall, according to Beck, is a misunderstanding about the form the help takes. He said it's common, for instance, for parents to look on their contributions as loans but the kids to believe they are gifts.
He advised making sure all the arrangements are made crystal clear to everyone from the onset. If it is a loan, put it in writing. Otherwise, Thanksgiving dinners can get pretty uncomfortable.
Beck said that confronting the issue head-on from the beginning can be a positive thing for both parents and kids. Outlining their responsililties and obligations doesn't have to be a chore.
"This can be a good time to sit down with the kids and have an adult conversation about money," he said.
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(WOMENSENEWS)–I first floated my idea of Gaga feminism at a conference at the New School in New York City in which a host of feminists, young and old, participated.
Gaga feminism is a politics that brings together meditations on fame and visibility with a lashing critique of the fixity of roles for males and females. It is a scavenger feminism that borrows promiscuously, steals from everywhere and inhabits the ground of stereotype and cliche all at the same time. Gaga feminism is also a feminism made up of stutter steps and hiccups.
While I am not proposing that there is some kind of clear feminist program for social change in the world of Lady Gaga, activists of all stripes and queer activists in particular have always looked to popular culture for inspiration and have refused facile distinctions between culture and reality. The Lady Gaga piece of my talk was an attempt to connect contemporary feminism to young people, and students in particular, by building upon the popular iconography in which many of them had already invested considerable hope. But, more than just a humorous ending to a lecture, the term "gaga" for me represented a set of wholesale changes that may be most obvious in the realm of gender norms but that also stretch to many other realms of everyday experience and that call for an improvisational feminism that keeps pace with the winds of political change.
Student Connection
At the conference, the students connected with the version of feminism that I linked to Lady Gaga, while old-school feminists like Susan Faludi wanted to brush this same version aside. And Faludi has not been the only feminist who is wary of the rush to find the political energy channeled by Lady Gaga.
Madonna acolyte and 1990s feminist icon Camille Paglia also shrugged off Lady Gaga's appeal in a widely read op-ed in the London Sunday Times Magazine in 2010. In her piece, Paglia asserts that Lady Gaga is simply the "diva of deja-vu" and a copycat who latches onto a generation of glazed-eyed Internet clones and exploits its incapacity to think or know anything without an iPhone app or Twitter feed at hand. Gaga, for Paglia, represents the end of culture, the end of civilization, the end of truth, values and meaning, the end of sex and the triumph of a robotic age emptied of human sentiment.
While some feminists, like Donna Haraway, have advocated for new forms of feminism capable of keeping up with technological innovation, Paglia argues that we have lost touch with what is real, true and good in our mania for media manipulation, video games and cell phones. If Haraway recognizes an interpenetration of humanity and technology in the digital age that is exciting and wondrous (even as it is also exploitative and dangerous), Paglia sees, predictably, a manufactured public realm populated by media puppets and their passive and stupid fans. If Lady Gaga's supporters have recognized in her a newish formula of femininity, phones and desire, Paglia sees only same-old, same-old or, in her words, "the exhausted end of the sexual revolution."
New Feminist Figures
Why are feminists like Paglia and Faludi so wary of new figures of feminist fantasy, women like Lady Gaga or Lil' Kim or Rihanna or Nicki Minaj or Jenni Rivera or even Ke$ha, women who use sex boldly in their music, who flaunt their bodies but who also remain insistently in charge of their mass media images? Women who, like Ke$ha, sing songs with titles like "Party at a Rich Dude's House" and rap about being young, drunk, lost and loving it? (My friend, theorist Micha Cardenas, is countering Gaga feminism with her own Ke$ha feminism!)
While it is easy to dismiss some of this material as just mindless pop, at the same time, we might want to look again at singers who, after all, appeal to large numbers of young female fans. Why can't these women be new figures of feminism? In the end, feminists like Faludi are committed to a reform model of feminism, to the idea of feminism as a politics built around stable definitions of (white) womanhood and as a ladies' club of influence and moral dignity.
Finally, the mother-daughter bond, which for Faludi is most successfully studied in the dynamic between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriet, allows, according to Faludi, for the gains of one age to be passed on to the next. But never does Faludi question whether the gains of white women in one era actually benefit women of color in the next, or whether the goals of white middle-class women reflect anything beyond their race and class interests.
Judith Jack Halberstam is a professor of English and gender studies at USC where he teaches classes in queer theory, cultural studies, film and the arts. Halberstam also writes a blog at bullybloggers.com, has published four books and is a writer for outlets including The Nation and Bitch. When not writing and reading, Halberstam can be found in LA, complaining about the endless sunshine.
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After We Fell
108 min
Overview:Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.
Released: 2021-09-01
Duration: 108 min
Country: France, United States of America


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Google started to display author names in Google News, so you can easily find the articles written by your favorite journalists. If you click on the author's name, you'll find his most recent articles and you can subscribe to a feed or get alerts by email.
Another recent feature is the addition of links to Wikipedia articles that offer some helpful context. "Currently, we're showing a small number of users links to Wikipedia topic pages that serve as a reference on current events," explained a Google spokesperson.
June 19, 2009
Authors Are More Visible in Google News
Posted by Alex Chitu at 6/19/2009 09:35:00 AM
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Wow! Its such a nice feature from google........ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Why are on some news names displayed and on others not!ReplyDelete
I'm uneasy about Wikipedia intermingling with my news, hopefully they do this responsiblyReplyDelete
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"his"???? aren't there two sexes still?ReplyDelete
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This voyage begins on board MS Fram in St John's, a city of firsts. Here, John Cabot is commemorated as the discoverer of Newfoundland and the first transatlantic radio signals were received at Signal Hill overlooking the city centre.
French Culture in Powerful Nature
We cruise to the French town of St. Pierre to experience its unique atmosphere. Next, we head to the Magdalen Islands, and call in to Cap-aux-Meules to explore the beautiful cliffs, harbors and picturesque bays.
Baddeck, our next stop, is a lovely village nestled on the shores of the Bras d'Or lakes.
Nova Scotia History
Then we sail on to the rugged eastern shores of Nova Scotia to visit the historic city of Louisbourg, known for its amazing French fortress, before our call at vibrant Halifax, a city that manages to blend old and new successfully, with fantastic outdoor activities and a rich cultural life on offer. Our final stop in Nova Scotia is Yarmouth, boasting magnificent scenery and an enchanting history.
Finally, we make our way to our last port of call, the city that never sleeps: New York.
- Explore beautiful Newfoundland and discover its small-town charm
- Visit the unique Magdalen Islands
- Enjoy culture, history and natural beauty every day of the voyage
- Experience the thrill of sailing into New York
- Hurtigruten expedition in the cabin grade of your choice on a full board basis
- Wind- and water-resistant jacket
- Landings with small boats and activities on board and ashore
- Professional English-speaking expedition team that gives lectures as well as accompanies landings and activities
- Complimentary tea and coffee
- International flights
- Travel protection plan
- Luggage handling
- Optional excursions and gratuities
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Full of Character - St. John's, Newfoundland
St. John's is the oldest and most easterly city in North America, with narrow streets and hidden alleyways - is a city full of character. We recommend you explore the history of this place under the striking twin clock towers of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist.
Coastal Beauty and History - Ferryland, Newfoundland
Visit the site of the first permanent settlement on Newfoundland, established in 1625. Today there is an interpretation centrer, conservation laboratory and a re-creation of a 17th century kitchen for us to experience. The beautiful setting of Ferryland is great for coastal walks, taking in cobble beaches, meadows and the photogenic Ferryland Lighthouse. Join the optional excursion to explore the south end of the Avalon Peninsula and the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve.
The French Way of Life - St Pierre and Miquelon, France
Even though Paris is very far away, the people living in St Pierre and Miquelon are very proud of being French. This is France's oldest overseas territory and is still a part of the French Republic. So today you can enjoy a visit to a place where you find the typical French way of life with nice bistros, cafés, wine, cheese, baguettes, chocolates and pastries. Join our optional excursions to Île aux Marins or experience the local life with a walking tour of St. Pierre.
Shaped by Wind and Waves - Magdalen Islands, Canada
Twelve islands make up the roughly 62 mile long sand archipelago called Îles de la Madeleine. The six largest of these islands are connected by many miles of thin sand dunes, peppered with fuzzy tufts of grass. Shaped by wind and waves, the iron-rich red and grey sandstone cliffs amaze with their spectacular forms.
The coastline of beaches is dotted with harbors, multi-colored houses and picturesque bays. We dock in Cap-aux-Meules, home to more than half of the archipelago's population. Long before the arrival of Europeans, native people came to the islands to fish and hunt for seal and sea cows. Preceded by Basque fishermen, Jaques Cartier arrived in 1534 and wrote in his logbook the first recorded reference to the islands.
By 1765, the islands were inhabited by 22 French-speaking Acadians and their families. The locals who live here today are called Madelinots, and they identify themselves both as Acadians and Québécois. Others are descendants of survivors from the more than 400 shipwrecks on the island. Come ashore and discover this little outpost, where high winds and ocean storms are a part of life.
Have a bite to eat at Café la Côte, Pas Perdu, Café d'Chez Nous or something to drink at Bar Le Central to feel the island's bohemian pulse. If you feel like being active, you can go kayaking or enjoy a hike in this relatively flat terrain.
Cape Breton Island and the Cabot Trail - Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Situated right in the heart of Cape Breton Island, Baddeck is a quaint little village, yet vibrant and invigorating due to its location known as the 'beginning and end' of the world. The famed Cabot Trail, considered to be one of the most beautiful in the world, can be found here. Situated on the shores of the Bras d'Or Lakes, the area offers wonderful hiking opportunities, including a short hike to the Uisge Ban Falls – a comfortable and pleasant trek to the waterfall in the Uisge Ban Provincial Park.
Where the Past is Present - Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
Sailing along the eastern shores of Nova Scotia, we head for the large island of Cape Breton. Then we reach Louisbourg, home to the historic jewel, the Fortress of Louisbourg, a National Historic Site. Here you can experience what life was like in a bustling French fortified town in 1744. As you might expect, the rugged coastal setting offers up plenty of outdoor adventure, with brilliant hiking and biking trails. And as one of the busiest crab and lobster fishing villages in the Maritimes, Louisbourg Wharf is the perfect place to watch the day's catch coming in, and maybe sample some fresh seafood.
Magnificent Coast and Rich History - Halifax, Nova Scotia
While the area around Halifax has been inhabited by native Mi'kmaq peoples for millennia, modern Halifax was founded in 1749 as a British military outpost. Today it is Atlantic Canada's entertainment and cultural capital, melding the old and new worlds. Modern office towers of glass and steel stand beside historic buildings that once stored the booty of privateers. Located on the second largest natural harbor in the world, life here revolves around the sea and the surrounding areas offer plenty of great activities on land, water and in the air. Spend some time to explore this vibrant urban center set on the edge of true wilderness.
A Town of the Sea - Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
A lovely historic town built on shipbuilding and trade, Yarmouth boasts fine Victorian homes, museums, churches, wharves and other hidden gems. Join an excursion to see ornate Captain's homes, and the lighthouse that guided them safely back home after long journeys at sea. Or take a seaside walking trail to Cape Forchu, and explore the rugged landscape as you take in the stunning views.
Unwind with a View - At sea
A day at sea means you can join the lectures by the Expedition Team, spend time on deck or in the Panorama Lounge with fellow travelers as we sail south. Enjoy a refreshing workout in our well-equipped fitness room with a panoramic ocean view or let your muscles relax in one of the outdoor whirlpools.
Arriving in New York - New York City, New York
An early morning arrival, as we sail past Lady Liberty and into the harbour of one of the most fascinating cities in the world before we say farewell.
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Smoggy Air Tied to Heart Attacks: Study
Houston research tracked peaks in ozone, pollution levels
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For both ozone and airborne fine particulate matter (tiny solid and liquid pollutants such as those emitted by cars and factories), peak exposure was found to increase the risk for heart attack nearly 5 percent. Men, blacks and people older than 65 were at greatest risk, the investigators found.
These findings should prompt health officials to continue their efforts to reduce air pollution and provide the public with early warnings of high ozone levels, the study authors suggested.
"The bottom-line goal is to save lives," researcher Katherine Ensor, a professor and chair of the department of statistics at Rice University, said in a university news release. "We'd like to contribute to a refined warning system for at-risk individuals. Blanket warnings about air quality may not be good enough. At the same time, we want to enhance our understanding of the health cost of pollution -- and celebrate its continuing reduction."
In conducting the study, Ensor and colleagues examined eight years of data on air quality in Houston. They also reviewed information compiled by Houston Emergency Medical Services on more than 11,000 heart attacks that occurred outside of the city's hospitals. More than 90 percent of cases were fatal, and 55 percent occurred during the heat of summer.
Heart attacks were linked to exposure to both ozone and particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrograms in the air. An average increase in fine particulate matter of 6 micrograms per day over the course of two days increased the risk for heart attack by 4.6 percent. People with pre-existing health problems would be at particular risk, the researchers noted.
Similarly, an ozone level increase of 20 parts per billion (ppb) in one to three hours increased the risk for heart attack up to 4.4 percent. However, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide levels did not affect the number of heart attacks, the researchers said.
Study co-author David Persse, EMS physician director for the Houston Fire Department, said that EMS workers have long believed that certain types of air pollution, including ozone, have serious harmful effects on people's hearts and lungs. "But this mathematically and scientifically validates what we know," he said in the news release.
The American Lung Association ranked Houston eighth in the United States for high-ozone days. The city is taking steps to reduce fatalities from heart attacks, such as increasing education on bystander CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in at-risk communities.
The best way to prevent the harmful effects of exposure to air pollution, however, is to improve air quality, according to Houston's Health and Human Services Department.
Rice University environmental engineer Daniel Cohan said that environmental strategies that reduce ozone year-round may be needed.
The researchers noted their findings could have important implications as states plan to meet national ozone standards. Although standards are now set at 75 ppb, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering tightening them to between 60 ppb and 70 ppb.
A 2012 study from Rice determined that the EPA's particulate standard of 35 micrograms per cubic meter does not go far enough to protect people's health.
The findings were scheduled for Sunday presentation at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Boston. The study will also be published in the journal Circulation.
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Saturday, December 22, 9 PM
L'Amour, Sick Bags, DJ Sam Slug @ Mojo's – Free (Donations appreciated)
It's time to go back to the dawning days of Richmond punk — long before White Cross or Death Piggy, back when punk hadn't yet become a pedal-to-the-metal speed competition, before it was all about rage and fury. Back in the late 70s, the Ramones, Dead Boys, and Dictators were still kings of the US punk scene, and here in Richmond, our earliest punk exports fit into much the same mold; mixing teenage hormones, class-clown goofiness, and no-frills rock n' roll into a potent cocktail of melody, energy, and fun.
1979 was the year that L'Amour, one of the foremost bands in that first wave of RVA punk, released their sole EP. It featured two songs, "Sunglass Party" and "Someday," and preserved the group's blend of Stonesy catchiness and New York Dolls-style gleeful trashiness for posterity. There was a lot more where that came from, but it was much harder in those days to record and release music than it is today, so the rest of it spent decades languishing unheard on tapes buried in former members' basements.
Thankfully, this year has seen a resurrection of L'Amour's greatness, as VA label Beach Impediment has collected all of the band's known recordings onto an excellent 14-song LP entitled Look To The Artist. To celebrate its long-overdue release, core L'Amour members Tom Applegate and David Stover have regrouped, recruited a young rhythm section from among the fertile talent pool of today's Richmond punk scene, and returned to action for this incredible reunion show at Mojo's Saturday night. Most of us probably missed L'Amour the first time (I was three, and I'm OLD), so this is a golden opportunity to be present for a return to the very roots of this city's near half-century of punk greatness. And how can you possibly turn that down?
Wednesday, December 19, 7 PM
A Very Butcher Holiday, feat. Butcher Brown, R4nd4zzo Big B4nd @ The Broadberry – $12 in advance/$15 at the door (order tickets HERE)
Christmas time is here, and Butcher Brown knows it. This excellent quintet is getting into the holiday spirit at the Broadberry tonight with an excellent set of jazzed-up Christmas standards, paying tribute in particular to the Vince Guaraldi Trio's classic soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas. They'll be joined by the R4nd4zzo Big B4nd, a fifteen-or-so-piece project led by Butcher Brown's very own bassist, Andrew Randazzo, which brought us much the same tribute last year, as captured on their Tribute To Vince Guaraldi LP, released back at the beginning of this year.
Considering Guaraldi often worked at the head of a simple piano-bass-drums trio, this brassy, expanded treatment from a group that includes multiple trumpets, trombones, and reeds is different from the original in significant ways. However, the jazzy spirit of Christmas that makes Guaraldi's original album the objective best holiday music ever (yeah, I said it) remains intact, even as the group's inspired new arrangements allow for considerable creativity. Whether you're a fan of A Charlie Brown Christmas in particular or the holidays in general, and even if you just like good jazz music no matter the season, this show's got a lot to offer you. Be there, and get into the spirit the Butcher Brown way.
Thursday, December 20, 7 PM
Snail Mail, Bleary Eyed @ The Broadberry – $15 in advance/$18 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Look, I admit it — I'm just discovering Snail Mail. I'm a big-time music nerd (as you may have gathered) and I catch a lot, but sometimes things are gonna slip past my radar until way past time that I should have heard them. Snail Mail is one such thing; somehow I missed their debut full-length, Lush, when it was released this past summer and proceeded to score Best New Music plaudits from Pitchfork. Oops.
I mean, I always take that website with several grains of salt, so don't get me wrong, but this time they are totally correct — Lush is an absolute tour-de-force. Where downcast indie-pop songwriting is concerned, Snail Mail frontperson Lindsey Jordan has an incredible gift, and songs like "Speaking Terms" cut to the heart of the tremendous difficulties inherent in all human relationships, even as they wash your tears away with beautiful vocal melodies and perfect chiming guitars. This is an album that will resonate with the awkward emo nerd inside us all, even the jaded denim-clad metalheads among our number. I will go so far as to say this — if you've ever in your life had feels about a thing, you need to be at the Broadberry this Thursday night. Snail Mail's gonna make you feel all those feels all over again, and in much more wonderful ways.
Friday, December 21, 8 PM
Camp Howard, Twain, Recluse Raccoon, Kenneka Cook @ Gallery 5 – $5 in advance/$7 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Get ready for a lovely night of gorgeous indie sounds at Gallery 5 this Friday. This quartet of excellent Virginia artists will ease you into the weekend before Christmas and all the hectic travel plans you're sure to be executing in the days that follow. Reliable RVA mainstays Camp Howard are at the top of the bill, and that's always a good place for them; it may have been a year and a half since most recent EP, Juice, but Nic and the boys have established such a reliable track record of glittering post-punk power-pop over the past several years that everyone in RVA knows what these boys have to offer.
Where this show is concerned, though, Camp Howard is just the beginning. Twain hail from Franklin County, a rural region just south of Roanoke that has legendarily been known as "the moonshine capital of the world," so you know this band understands how to have a good time. Their 2017 LP, Rare Feeling, is full of beautiful songs that bring an understated, pensive touch to a style landing somewhere between indie and alt-country. They're simultaneously reminiscent of Sturgill Simpson and My Morning Jacket, and just as excellent a listen as those two, so they're well worth your time. Recluse Raccoon are a good bit more social than the name suggests, and in fact they recently released a gorgeously weird self-titled LP that makes quite an impression with its introspective tunes embroidered by a variety of unconventional instruments. And of course Kenneka Cook is always someone you should catch, even if it means showing up early — her excellent voice and skillful compositions are worth the price of admission all by themselves.
Saturday, December 22, 8 PM
Planned Parenthood Fundraiser, feat. Occultist, VV, Kuni, Trapcry @ Gallery 5 – $5 to $10 suggested donation
With Strange Matter sadly shuffling off this mortal coil, there seems little doubt that we'll all be spending more time at Gallery 5 in the near future. Their focus on the DIY community and support for causes that matter to the less-privileged inhabitants of the river city makes the gallery the obvious torchbearers for the sort of local scene support that Strange Matter was so good at. This Saturday night, they prove it for the second time in 24 hours with an amazing benefit for Planned Parenthood — an organization that's been constantly under siege for several years now, and does crucial work within the local community, from ensuring your right to reproductive freedom to such important things as providing essential health care for transgender people without other options (like me, for instance).
Occultist are headlining this shindig, and it's great news, considering how difficult it's been to catch these thrash-metal ragers in a live setting over the past year or so. It's been quite a while since they brought us any new studio recordings, and at this point they're sure to have some new material to bring you, so get ready to headbang with a grateful fury. VV are an excellent addition to any bill, and their vitriol-drenched, synth-laced postpunk attack is particularly apropos for a Planned Parenthood benefit — smashing patriarchal faces for the win. Kuni's queer electro-punk and the seductive techno-dance sounds of Trapcry will round this bill out perfectly. You'll dance, you'll rock, you'll smash the patriarchy… it's the most wonderful time of the year.
Sunday, December 23, 8 PM
Marc Rebillet, DJ Harrison @ The Camel – $10 in advance/$12 day of show (order tickets HERE)
Marc Rebillet is a phenomenon that's not that easy to explain. What I'd heard from other people before I checked out his music led me to expect one thing, but what I found was something significantly different. People will tell you this guy's a bit of a comedian, and certainly he approaches his electro-funk music with an irreverent, humorous attitude, but the results he gets from synthesizers, beat loops, and most importantly his unforgettable voice are not only entertaining but seriously intriguing.
His Loop Daddy EP, released a couple of months ago, finds Rebillet, who got his start on YouTube, in loverman mode, sounding a bit like Baltimore electro-goof Dan Deacon if he was able to expertly channel R. Kelly. However, he'll occasionally put the whole damn thing on pause to holler ridiculous improvised exhortations, and yeah, you're gonna laugh at those times. Mostly though, Marc Rebillet's gonna get your booty shaking with a rhythm that might seem totally out of place this close to Christmas but is, if anything, exactly what you need to survive another awkward dinner at Grandma's house. So head to the Camel this Sunday and get in the pool. You know what I'm talking about.
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Friday, December 21, 8 PM
Demons, Shy Low, Ladada @ Taphouse Grill – $5
Shit is always pretty heavy down Tidewater way, I've found. There are indie shows down there at times, but a lot of what I find coming out of that geographical region of Virginia is hard as fuck and taking its best shot at crushing your skull. The same is true of Demons, though instead of super-heavy deathcore stuff, this band is aiming for more of a thick, metallic sound on latest EP Made In The USA. The resulting pummeling lands somewhere between Far Beyond Driven-era Pantera and early Every Time I Die. And when it lands, it lands on its feet and starts charging straight at you. Be there to meet the onslaught at Taphouse Grill this Friday, and you're sure to be glad you did.
This show will also bring you a performance from Richmond's own Shy Low, who've been less active recently than they were a few years ago. However, their most recent release, Burning Day, was only a year and a half ago, and it showed that they'd retained their powerful approach to the instrumental post-rock sound on which they made their name back a half-decade or so ago. So you can certainly expect a reliable (post-)rocking from these guys, and you'll get a bonus set from openers Ladada, who have a catchy indie-pop sound that's sure to delight. All in all, it's a fine Friday night in Norfolk. Enjoy!
Sunday, December 23, 4 PM
Shaka's Appreciation Show, feat. The Unabombers, Beggar's Row, Accident Prone, Pushing On, Evade, Faded, Freebase, Chain Breaker, Catalyst, Semtex @ Shaka's – Free!
It's a sad story, one that those of us here in Richmond know all too well. Norfolk live music mainstay Shaka's is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month… but it's also closing its doors forever. That's not happening after this Sunday matinee show — their last show is actually the Doyle gig on New Years Eve — but it is one of the last chances the Norfolk area will have to show their appreciation for a venue that's filled much the same role in their scene that Strange Matter has in ours. What a shame.
The show itself will be a glorious occasion, though, with longtime VA punk veterans The Unabombers taking care of business at the top of the bill. These guys have been rocking the Hampton Roads area and beyond for over 20 years now, and they're the perfect band to send Shaka's off on a high note. And there's a ton of hardcore punk on the bill besides, from the speedy metallic rage of Beggar's Row to the brutal pummeling mosh of Evade to the angry punk/HC of Pushing On. There are a whole bunch more bands on this one too, and the price is certainly right, so if Shaka's ever meant anything to you, there's no time like the present to both show it some love before it disappears and to enjoy the Hampton Roads hardcore/punk scene's past, present, and future all in one great place.
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Chancellor Davis: State of University System Strong but Challenged
January 13, 2009
Chancellor Davis: State of University System Strong but Challenged
"University System a Wise Investment that Represents a Public Good"
ATLANTA - In his annual "State of the University System" address today, Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. noted that in tough economic times, it was important to send the message that the University System of Georgia (USG) is not a cost to, but an investment in, the state of Georgia and its future.
"We are an answer, not a question; a solution, not a problem; a part of state government where the decisions made today have the capacity to demonstrably improve the future we, our children, and our children's children, will all live," Davis said in his remarks to the Board of Regents. "We must not sacrifice the important for the urgent. We must preserve the historic legacy in this state of public higher education as a clear public good that adds value to the lives of all residents across Georgia."
Reviewing the University System, Davis noted a number of strengths, including strong leadership at the board and presidential level, outstanding faculty and staff and a growing student enrollment, which hit a record high of 283,000 in fall 2008.
Davis cited both Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia's continuing presence on U.S. News and World Report's annual list of the top 20 public universities in the nation and growing recognition of the USG's other institutions as independent measures of the excellence of leadership, faculty and students in the System. "The core mission of our institutions - teaching, research, and public service - not only endures, but thrives, thanks to our faculty and staff," he said.
But the System's strengths are being tested and challenged, Davis noted, "perhaps as never before." He cited five key challenges: the academic preparation of entering students, faculty salaries, institutional missions, access versus quality, and public support.
While enrollment is at a record high, Davis said, too many students still enroll who are academically unprepared for college. He cited USG figures that the percentage of first-time, full-time freshmen requiring learning support, while dropping from 30.5 percent in 1995 to a low of 20.9 percent in 2001, has steadily increased to a current percentage rate of 25 percent. "This trend line is headed in the wrong direction," Davis said.
The challenge is to continue to align guidelines and requirements between the University System and the State Department of Education to better prepare K-12 students for college. "This is a long-term process, and while all of us recognize that the current situation is very tough, hard times do not absolve us from our responsibility to plan for the future," he said.
Another challenge Davis cited is to remain competitive regionally and nationally in terms of recruiting and retaining needed faculty. While on a pure percentage basis USG faculty salaries have increased since 2000, when held constant in 2000 dollars, the average faculty salary in the University System's four-year institutions has decreased 3.7 percent since 2000, compared to a 4.4 percent increase in the 16-member Southern Regional Education Board states (SREB). At Georgia's two-year colleges, the decrease in constant 2000 dollars for faculty salaries since 2000 is even more marked, Davis said, falling 16 percent, compared to a 6.1 percent increase in the other SREB states.
Today, Georgia ranks 8th among the 16 SREB states in average faculty salaries for four-year institutions, falling from 6th place in Fiscal Year 2007, and the state ranks 10th in faculty salaries at two-year colleges, the lowest level since data started being collected in 1989. "We cannot maintain our competitiveness and our core academic quality indefinitely unless we can address some of these salary challenges," Davis said. Another challenge to the System, Davis noted, relates to calls for mergers of some USG institutions. "We are not a cookie-cutter system; all our institutions do not look alike," Davis said.
Davis cited the System's response to the call for greater efficiencies through its Shared Services project, which is combining back office operations throughout the System. "This (shared services) is preferable to blurring the missions of distinct institutions," Davis said. "Students do not choose to attend a generic college or university; rather, they choose a USG brand name, which offers the program they need and the environment in which they can excel."
One of the biggest challenges to the System is maintaining the balance between access and quality, Davis said. To date, Davis said, in general enrollment caps have not been needed in order to preserve academic quality, thanks in large part to the strong stewardship of college and university presidents. But Davis warned that a continuing trend of rising enrollment and falling resources would challenge the System's ability to continue to maintain both access and quality. "We will not allow this to happen - if necessary, we will restrict access first before we degrade quality," Davis said.
Turning from specific challenges to more general attitudes concerning the overall benefit and value of public higher education, Davis noted the increase in "national voices questioning whether higher education is a public good, worthy of public support." Davis said that the University System and its supporters must be vocal in countering fears given credence by tight budgets that public higher education is a private gain and thus public support should be reduced. "This is a classic - and potentially dangerous - example of sacrificing the important for the urgent," Davis said.
The University System of Georgia enrolls more than 283,000 students, employs 40,200 faculty and staff, serves more than one million Georgians through public service, administers the state's 61-member public library system, and contributes annually more than $11 billion to the state's economy - all on current fiscal year appropriation of $2.3 billion that has been reduced by 8 percent, or $182 million, since August 2008.
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PRODUCTION EXPO 2013: Point Blank has been voted 'Best music production and DJ school' by DJ Mag and is the world's leading electronic music production school, offering courses for producers, sound engineers and DJs.
You can study online through our interactive school or in our state-of-the-art studios in Hoxton, London. With courses ranging from one weekend to one year, we've got something for beginners wanting to take their skill set to the next level and experienced producers wanting to master the latest technology. During the last 20 years we've taught over 50,000 students worldwide including dirtybird's Claude VonStroke, AlunaGeorge, Goldie, Nicole Moudaber, Leona Lewis and many, many more.
We offer courses in mixing, mastering, DJing, music composition as well as software-specific programs like Ableton Live and Logic Pro - try a free sample course here!
"If you're serious about your music, Point Blank is the place to be..." - Pete Tong
How our online music production courses work
Want to study with Point Blank Online but don't know where to start? Our new video explains everything you need to know about studying online with us. Whether you're a DJ who wants to start producing, a producer who wants to take their skill set to the next level or even if you're completely new to music-making, our courses have something to suit you!
Daft Punk - Get Lucky deconstruction
In this video, our course tutor Ski Oakenfull breaks down the song of the summer, Daft Punk's Get Lucky. Recreating the song from scratch he explains how the piano chords, the bassline, vocal melody cam together and the chords and keys behind it. If this tutorial has got you feeling inspired, take one of our Ableton Live courses!
Recording vocals with Robert Owens and Raffertie
One of the original voices of house music joined our tutor Raffertie for a session on how to record vocals - here are the highlights. Get vocal tips and insights and see Robert perform live in the Point Blank studio.
For more information, visit the official Point Blank website or connect with them on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google +


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Celebrity News April 22, 2014
'The Voice' Results Recap! Who's In and Who's Out?!
We live blogged the "The Voice" top 12 results episode!
At the start of the show the remaining contestants included:
Team Shakira: Tess Boyer, Kristen Merlin and Dani Moz
Team Adam Levine: Delvin Choice, Christina Grimmie and Kat Perkins
Team Usher: Josh Kaufman, Bria Kelly and T.J. Wilkins
Team Blake Shelton: Sisaundra Lewis, Audra McLaughlin and Jake Worthington
Read on to find out who was safe and who was sent home this week!
8:59 PM: The #VoiceSave goes to... Tess Boyer! Sadly, it is time to say goodbye to TJ Wilkins and Dani Moz.
8:57 PM: The coaches are giving their final thoughts as the voting window closes.
8:53 PM: The #VoiceSave starts now! The bottom three contestants include Tess Boyer, Dani Moz and TJ Wilkins.
'The Voice' Bootcamp Fan Competition: Vote For Your Favorite
8:51 PM: Tess Boyer belts out Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side" hoping for a chance to move on in the competition.
8:50 PM: Carson reminds everyone that the #VoiceSave window is not open yet. When it is, be sure to tweet #VoiceSave and the contestant's name! Retweeting counts!
8:48 PM: Now it's Dani's turn. She sings Adele's "Turning Tables" in a last ditch effort to move on to the Top 10. Shakira asks America to "help her please!"
8:45 PM: TJ is singing for his life! Will his rendition of the Edwin McCain's "I'll Be" be enough to save him? Usher thinks so. The coach is asking America via Twitter to please #VoiceSave TJ.
8:40 PM: We have the bottom three. It is TJ Wilkins from Team Usher and Dani Moz and Tess Boyer from Team Shakira. Each will have a chance to perform before the #VoiceSave!
8:37 PM: Who else is safe? Bria Kelly from Team Usher, Christina Grimmie from Team Adam and Sisaundra Lewis from Team Blake.
8:34 PM: Team Blake is bringing some country to the stage singing Travis Tritt's "Put Some Drive in Your Country."
8:28 PM: More results... Delvin Choice from Team Adam and Jake Worthington from Team Blake are moving on to the Top 10!
8:26 PM: Spotlight on community service! Team Shakira and Starbucks help kids with a painting project at Roscoe Elementary School in L.A.
8:22 PM: Shakira is showing off her sexy side! The coach is performing "Empire" wearing a see-through costume.
8:15 PM: Who will advance next? It's Kristen Merlin from Team Shakira and Audra McLaughlin from Team Blake.
8:07 PM: That was quick, it's time for the first two safe contestants. America has saved... Josh Kaufman from Team Usher and Kat Perkins from Team Adam!
8:04 PM: First up? Adam Levine and his team singing Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer."
8:00 PM: We're live! The show kicks off with a look back at Monday's live auditions.
Watch "The Voice" Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 PM on NBC.


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The Importance Of Varying Your Running Surfaces
Are you stuck in a running rut? Take your running where it's never been before–quite literally.
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.
Runners, by our very nature, are creatures of habit. Anything and everything related to our running—from the shoes we wear, to the food we eat (and when we eat it), to the races we run year in and year out — is regulated by routine. Think about it. When was the last time you missed your annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot? Probably the last time you switched shoe brands or failed to spread a tablespoon of peanut butter on half of a bagel some 35 minutes before jumping on the third treadmill from the far window at the gym.
The bottom line is that for runners, routine rules—and where we run is no exception. Whether you're a runner who prefers to pound the pavement, tear up the trails or trot on the treadmill, chances are you're tied to your terrain like a dog on a leash. You're scared to stray too far from your usual stomping grounds and play in some new puddles, so to speak. Well, it's time to break up the boredom, put an end to the mind-numbing monotony and start treading over some new terrain. It's not only good for your mind, but beneficial to your body and paramount to improving your performance.
"Changing running surfaces works different leg muscles which will lead to physical benefits," says Eric Blake, head cross country and track and field coach at Central Connecticut State University. "And different scenery in your running will lead to mental benefits."
For the road warriors out there, get off the asphalt every once in a while. Retreat from the roads and seek softer surfaces to run on – some of the time, anyway. Your feet, shins, knees and hips will thank you!
While the roads are always readily available for running, they're not the best thing for your body. If possible, find a softer surface to run on at least once a week, be it a trail in the woods, grass field at your local high school or path through the park. Aside from steering clear of troublesome traffic, the off-road impact is significantly easier on your body. Let's explore a phenomenon I like to call it the golf ball effect.
Throw a golf ball at your driveway. What happens? That's right; it takes off into the atmosphere. Now throw that same golf ball at your front lawn with the same velocity. Where did it go? Yep, it's still there on the ground, where the grass has absorbed most of the impact. Now imagine that golf ball is your body and the above process gets repeated a couple thousand times over the course of a 5-mile run. Which surface is more forgiving on your body?
RELATED: Lesley Paterson's 12 Trail Running Tips
If you guessed the grass, or some other similarly soft surface, you guessed right. Not only will you keep those everyday aches and pains to a minimum, but you'll recover quicker, strengthen your ankles and develop your lower leg muscles more rapidly.
"The softer surface of trails and gravel roads that I run on keeps the impact stresses down and allows me to recover from workouts faster," says Kevin Tilton, a two-time member of the Teva U.S. Mountain Running Team. "Plus, running on the trails makes you use a lot of little stabilizer muscles that you may not use running all of your miles on the roads. I also find the trails more interesting and that allows me to get in more training."
Staying soft doesn't always make the most sense, however, especially if you'll be racing on the roads. You'll need to harden your legs to the harder surface, and the best way to go about doing so is to pound the pavement every once in a while. Aside from not worrying about rolling an ankle on a root or dodging some other unforeseen obstacle, you can work on your race rhythm much more effectively and get your fast-twitch muscle fibers firing that much faster.
"My road racing helps keep me in touch with speed that I may not normally find if I did all my training and racing on the trails," Tilton admits. "Plus, getting my butt kicked in big road races gets me fired up for my trail and mountain races."
Racing on the weekends isn't the only recipe for getting your butt kicked and running on the roads isn't the only way to work on your rhythm. Taking it to your trusty treadmill every so often will do the trick as well. Even for competitive runners, the treadmill doesn't have to be synonymous with dreadmill. Blake, a three-time winner of the Mount Washington Road Race, does a lot of his training on the treadmill, a somewhat surprising circumstance for someone who's a regular winner on the road-racing scene. Aside from the impact being easier on his body, training on the treadmill from time to time allows Blake to closely control his pace, increase the incline when necessary and monitor his effort level continuously.
"You know exactly your pace and distance," Blake said. "And the treadmill is one of the only places you can run on a 10-12 percent grade for a long time. Training on a treadmill at an incline is very specific to the event."
So, regardless of where you run, take a break from your regular routine, switch up your surface every so often and literally take your running where you've never taken it before. As the miles add up, not only will your risk of injury be lower, but the fun factor will be that much higher.
"I don't get too burnt out by doing the same thing over and over," says Tilton. "Running is supposed to be fun after all, right?"


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|Posted: Nov 15, 2016
New way to make low-cost perovskite solar cell technology(Nanowerk News) Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in a breakthrough that could lead to more efficient and cheaper solar electricity (Advanced Energy Materials, "Efficient Indium-Doped TiOx Electron Transport Layers for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells and Perovskite-Silicon Tandems").
|Dr Tom White from the ANU Research School of Engineering said the new fabrication method significantly improved the performance of perovskite solar cells, which can combine with conventional silicon solar cells to produce more efficient solar electricity.
|ANU Ph.D. student The Duong, Dr.Tom White and Ph.D. student Jun Peng.
|He said perovskite solar cells were extremely good at making electricity from visible light - blue, green and red - while conventional silicon solar cells were more efficient at converting infrared light into electricity.
|"The prospect of adding a few additional processing steps at the end of a silicon cell production line to make perovskite cells is very exciting and could boost solar efficiency from 25 per cent to 30 per cent," Dr White said.
|"By combining these two cells, the perovskite cell and the silicon cell, we are able to make much better use of the solar energy and achieve higher efficiencies than either cell on its own."
|While perovskite cells can improve efficiency, they are not yet stable enough to be used on rooftops. Dr White said the new fabrication technique could help develop more reliable perovskite cells.
|The new fabrication method involves adding a small amount of the element indium into one of the cell layers during fabrication. That could increase the cell's power output by as much as 25 per cent.
|"We have been able to achieve a record efficiency of 16.6 per cent for a semi-transparent perovskite cell, and 24.5 per cent for a perovskite-silicon tandem, which is one of the highest efficiencies reported for this type of cell," said Dr White.
|Dr White said the research placed ANU in a small group of labs around the world with the capability to improve silicon solar cell efficiency using perovskites.
|The development builds on the state-of-the-art silicon cell research at ANU and is part of a $12.2 million "High-efficiency silicon/perovskite solar cells" project led by University of New South Wales and supported by $3.6 million of funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
|Research partners include Monash University, Arizona State University, Suntech R&D Australia Pty Ltd and Trina Solar.
|Source: The Australian National University


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Title: Luminesence Trilogy Box Set (Includes: Luminescence, Amethyst Tears, Moondust, and Darkmist)
Author: J.L. Weil
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Release Date: March 25th, 2016
Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR
The trilogy is now complete! Available for the first time, get all three books in the trilogy, Luminescence, Amethyst Tears, and Moondust in a boxset, including an all new novella, Darkmist.
Brianna Rafferty has come to embrace her extraordinary magical powers and what it means to be a clàr silte. Trouble is, not everyone is thrilled to have another witch encroaching on their territory.
One night Brianna finds herself at the wrong college party and bumps elbows with a girl who has made it her personal vendetta to make Brianna's life a living hell. Amara Gabris is a witch with envious hair, a bad attitude, and the power to raise the dead.
Even though Brianna is uncertain about college—one thing is becoming painfully clear—witches are everywhere.
Award-winning and Bestselling author J.L. Weil writes Teen & New Adult Paranormal Romances about spunky, smart mouth girls who always wind up in dire situations. For every sassy girl, there is an equally mouthwatering, overprotective guy. Of course there is lots of kissing. And stuff.
Most of her books are for ages 16+. They usually have what she considers the good stuff - sexual content (oh yeah) and swearing. You have been warned ;)
An admitted addict to Love Pink clothes, raspberry mochas from Starbucks, (yum!) and Jensen Ackles (double yum!). She loves gushing about books and Supernatural with her readers.
Author links:
Website: www.jlweil.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferlweil
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JLWeil
Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/jlweil
Buy Link: Amazon: http://amzn.to/1o01ryh
Top Ten Books on my TBR
(In no particular order. I'm ridiculously behind on reading list.)
- Firstlife by Gena Showalter
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
- Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- Under Different Stars by Amy Bartol
- The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine
- The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins
- Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
- Runes by Ednah Walters
Inhaling a deep gush of flavored misty air, I rounded the corner to the backside of the building, rushing toward the parking lot. A strange prickly sensation climbed over me, like clashing with a cactus. I brushed it off and took the corner faster than planned, speeding up my retreat. Unfortunately, I wasn't the only one who apparently skipped out of school early today.
Leaning comfortably against the wall was an unfamiliar face, and in my haste, I smacked into him. Literally. My face connected with the solid front of his chest, hands clutching on the muscle of his biceps. In an impossible gut-reaction he caught me in his arms. We wavered a tad, but he managed to keep us erect instead of mortifying me further and tumbling us to the grass.
Damn. What else could happen today?
I forced my glance upward from the black cotton tee conformed to his chest, ready to apologize for my clumsiness. Heedless of how much I wanted to keep my head lowered, I'd rather run and forget this day happened. His hands tingled on my arms still holding me. It should have been too intimate for comfort, but I found the opposite to be true. A sense of safety came over me, probably because he had just saved me from falling all over him.
My hands released their grip and flattened on his chest. His heart quickened under my fingers. The scent of him drifted to my senses, smelling of the woods, wild and reckless. The apology I'd been about to utter got stuck in the back of my throat, and in that blinding moment, I tripped into a set of sapphire eyes. My own heart picked up speed, thumping wildly in my chest—uncontainable like stallions roaming the plains. Nothing like the trepidation I felt previously. This was racing excitement.
He raised a perfectly arched brow, decorated with a studded bar. His eyes sparkled with amusement, assumingly at my gaping stare. I, on the other hand, was unaware that I'd stood stunned, feet planted with no attempt to move from his arms. In retrospect, I can only hope he didn't find me as stupid as I later felt.
My gaze wandered from his eyes down the planes of his cheeks, to lips donned with yet another piercing. This one was a hoop in the center of his lower lip. Those silver studded lips upturned into a lazy smirk. I watched fascinated by the curl of his mouth. An intense string of butterflies flew in my stomach. They felt more like fireflies, due to the warmth that swirled with the exhilaration. Fleetingly, I wondered if there were any more parts of him pierced.
Then his mouth lowered the tiniest fraction closer to mine, and I stopped thinking at all.


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Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album
By Philip Larkin
At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectionery, too rich:
I choke on such nutritious images.
My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose —
In pigtails, clutching a reluctant cat;
Or furred yourself, a sweet girl-graduate;
Or lifting a heavy-headed rose
Beneath a trellis, or in a trilby-hat
(Faintly disturbing, that, in several ways) —
From every side you strike at my control,
Not least through those these disquieting chaps who loll
At ease about your earlier days:
Not quite your class, I'd say, dear, on the whole.
But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! that records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes
Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards,
But shows a car as disinclined, and shades
A chin as doubled when it is, what grace
Your candour thus confers upon her face!
How overwhelmingly persuades
That this is a real girl in a real place,
In every sense empirically true!
Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate,
These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being you; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.
Yes, true; but in the end, surely, we cry
Not only at exclusion, but because
It leaves us free to cry. We know what was
Won't call on us to justify
Our grief, however hard we yowl across
The gap from eye to page. So I am left
To mourn (without a chance of consequence)
You, balanced on a bike against a fence;
To wonder if you'd spot the theft
Of this one of you bathing; to condense,
In short, a past that no one now can share,
No matter whose your future; calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.


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You can use batch edit mode to defer saving multiple cell changes. Changes are stored in a buffer and can be discarded before a user clicks the Save button.
To enable batch edit mode, configure the following properties:
This demo also shows how to populate cells of a new row with default values. The values are assigned within the onInitNewRow event handler.
If data is stored on a server, the TreeList sends multiple requests to save edited objects - one request per object (this is because most servers only process one edit operation at a time). If your server supports batch update, you can configure the TreeList to save all changes with a single request. Refer to the following demo for more information: DataGrid: Batch Update Request.


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Getting stung by a fire ant hurts. Getting stung by a tarantula hawk hurts much, much more. But how much more does it hurt, exactly? And where does something like a honey bee rank on the pain scale?
For decades, answers to questions like these have been found by referencing the Schmidt pain index, a scale first developed and published in 1984 thanks to the self-sacrificing work of entomologist Justin O. Schmidt. The index seeks to rank the painfulness of dozens of Hymenoptera stings across a four-point spectrum. Some of these insects even warrant their own verbal descriptions; and those descriptions, as you might expect, are pretty damn awesome.
A couple points of clarification before we get to these descriptions: Schmidt's index was last officially updated in 1990. Entomologist May Berenbaum describes it succinctly in this 2003 issue of American Entomologist:
Schmidt developed a scale from 0 to 4, in which 0 was defined as the sensation of being stung by an insect that cannot penetrate human skin to 2, a familiar intermediate pain (honey bee), to 4, an intensely painful sting such as that inflicted by Paraponera clavata.
The original scale, however, did not feature the "implausibly exact numbers" you see listed below. What's more, over the years, many of Schmidt's more measured, albeit still graphic, descriptions (he once likened the pain of a Pogonomyrmex badius sting to something that "might be caused by someone turning a screw into the flesh or ripping muscles and tendons") have given way to the... more colorful descriptions like the ones listed below.
Schmidt is quick to cede the point that the scale is obviously subjective, and lacks empirical basis — though, as Straight Dope's Cecil Adams points out: "if there's anyone equipped to expound on the fine points of pain, a guy who's been stung by 150 different species in his lifetime is probably it." What follows is "Justin O. Schmidt's Guide to Verminous Hurt," and while it was originally written by Outside Magazine's Katie Arnold, it was written under Schmidt's guidance, so make of that what you will. So without further ado:
Animal: Sweat bee
Schmidt Index: 1.0
Description: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
Animal: Fire ant
Schmidt Index: 1.2
Description: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.
Animal: Bullhorn acacia ant
Schmidt Index: 1.8
Description: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
Animal: Bald-faced hornet
Schmidt Index: 2.0
Description: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
Animal: Yellowjacket
Schmidt Index: 2.0
Description: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
Animal: Honey bee and European hornet
Schmidt Index: 2.0
Description: Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.
Animal: Red harvester ant
Schmidt Index: 3.0
Description: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
Animal: Paper wasp
Schmidt Index: 3.0
Description: Caustic and burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
Animal: Tarantula hawk
Schmidt Index: 4.0
Description: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
Animal: Bullet ant
Schmidt Index: 4.0+
Description: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.