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Zendaya and Zac Efron's musical spectacular The Greatest Showman doesn't hit theaters until Dec. 20, but they're currently on the always beloved press trips together, spilling all about their movie and of course gushing about each other. Since their characters, Anne the trapeze artist and Phillip, P.T. Barnum's business partner, fall in love during the course of the movie, naturally, fans are dying to know what it's like for the actors to portray this love story. It's two Disney Channel legends coming together in an epic movie and the fact that they're playing a couple just makes it all the more magical.
And our two fave Z's are super close off-screen, really developing a special friendship during their time filming the movie. They had plenty of scenes where they fly through the air together so of course that helped them get to know each other very quickly, which they both spoke about in a new interview.
"Luckily, the point of having a chemistry read is to see if the chemistry exists and magically I think sometimes it just does. So we're magic people that came together and just have chemistry," Zendaya jokingly said. "I will say when you're immediately harnessed together and are running to each other in the air, that is a great ice breaker and bonds you quite quickly."
"It was like, 'Hi nice to meet you, let's swing into each other at 30 miles an hour and see if we can do it' and we actually did it our first try," Zac continued. "I was really impressed with you [Zendaya] at that point. I walked away from that rehearsal and thought, 'Holy cow, she's the real deal.' And from that point, it was pretty evident I had an epic person to work with and that just made me want to elevate even more."
Umm okay, how adorable are they? Seriously, just look at the way they look at each other.
You can feel the love and respect they have for each other as co-stars. And yes, since their characters are an item and they have a cute love story, they do share some smooches in the movie. The first time their characters kiss though means so much since Anne and Phillip are in a forbidden romance.
"You're in the moment! When you're into a character, the whole time they're not allowed to as much as touch, talk, speak, have a moment between each other so every moment, even if they're just touching is incredibly special. It's not just another kiss. It's different. We try to take ourselves out of it and become these two characters and that's their moment," Zendaya said that first on-screen kiss she has with Zac. Oh and Zac's take on it all? Well, he went ahead and dubbed it his favorite on-screen kiss. Ever. Of all time.
"This might be my favorite kiss, I think ever. Just because At this point for these characters, it's so built up, the tension between them is so strong and literally, just a glance between them is electric. And when they finally have the courage in that moment to finally connect and get that kiss, it's that epic musical moment," Zac said. Cue Zendaya's reaction right after he said it's his fave:
Same girl, same. Now, we're totally pumped to see this swoonworthy kiss for ourselves and we're sure it is such an amazing scene for these characters. When Zendaya appeared on Live With Kelly and Ryan, she explained what exactly Zac meant by saying their kiss was his favorite, and it all stems from their characters' story, which they had both already explained.
"I think people get caught in like the actual thought of kissing, but the point is, our characters are these forbidden love characters: they're an interracial couple that at the time, would be completely frowned upon and not allowed. And so the entire time, it's a silent love story," the actress said. "They're not supposed to be seen together, so any moment when they just make eye contact is just so special. At the end when they do get to finally kiss, it's a huge moment. So I think he was talking about the sense of the build-up and how important it is and you know, the social message it still is. We live in a time where people are still trying to tell people who they're supposed to love. So I think it was meant to be more emotional than what it got turned into!"
Honestly, this is all just making us even more excited to see what is no doubt a beautiful love story when the movie is released. And while everyone truly adores the pairing of Z Squared, we can't help but think of another long-awaited kiss a character of Zac's had that viewers couldn't wait to see finally happen: yes, we're talking Troy and Gabriella from High Schol Musical. They almost kissed in the first movie but were interrupted by Chad, although Troy does give G a peck on the cheek after they sing "Breaking Free." We had to wait until the end of High School Musical 2 for the lovebirds to share a smooch and tbh, that was one kiss EVERYONE WAS WAITING FOR.
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So okay Zac, we get what you're saying since TGS kiss really does have important significance behind it but c'mon, there was plenty of tension and build-up for Troy and Gabriella we can't deny either. Different kisses in cinematic history, but all epic to say the least.
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This post was originally published on Dec. 6, 2017 and has since been updated.


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I was super excited when I received the email that I was going to be getting the Kat Von D Lip Liner from Influenster and even more excited when I saw that it came in the iconic shade 'Lolita'.
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Development of an Implant-Linked Alginate Matrix for Cell-Mediated Neuronal Protection
The aim of this DFG-funded project is to develop a cell-mediated neuroprotection based on an alginate matrix. The cochlear implant electrode which is functionalized with a cell-alginate coating is used as model system.
ACEMg-Supplement Mediated Hearing Preservation in Cochlear Implant Patients Receiving Different Electrode Lengths
This is a follow-up project of the European Union funded project PROHEARING which was finalized in summer 2016. In PROHEARING we investigated the effect of an investigational medicinal product called Soundbites. The indication for a cochlear implant has expanded to patients with some residual hearing. Shorter and thinner atraumatic electrodes have been designed to preserve the residual hearing in the implanted ear. However, the insertion of the electrode array into the cochlea, with potential mechanical trauma and the presence of this foreign body inside the cochlea, may lead to free radical formation and reduced blood perfusion of the cochlea which can result in a loss of residual hearing. This new project is a single center, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind
phase II clinical trial investigating the effect of free radial scavengers and a vasodilator on the residual hearing of 140 CI-patients.
STED-based Automated Fibrosis and Neuron Quantification in Cochlear Implanted Inner Ears
Bony tissue will be processed for clearing following modified established protocolls for soft tissue clearance. The cleared tissue will be imaged using STED and protocols for automated counting of neuronal cells as well as automated detection of fibrosis quantity will be implemented. The goal is to establish a clearing protocol with following automated tissue analysis using STED in an implanted bony structure, the inner ear.


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From Raw Sequence Data To mining Functional Information From Gene Lists Using Galaxy And R
The workshop is currently full. However, if there is enough demand we will offer it again. So if you are interested in attending, please fill in the information here. Also, people on the waiting list will receive the first opportunity to sign up for the next workshop!
Dates: June 3rd, 4th, 6th & 7th, 2013
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Workshop description: This is a 4-day workshop for RNA-Seq data analysis using the Galaxy interface and R. It will cover experimental design, evaluation of sequencing data, genome alignment, gene count extraction, statistical analysis to find differential expression and data mining. Data mining will include annotation of gene lists, Venn diagrams, heatmaps. The workshop will use the local Galaxy instance and open-source R and Bioconductor packages (no prior experience with Galaxy or R is necessary).
The R portion of this workshop will be very similar to the previous R workshop "Gene Expression Analysis" from March 2013. The Galaxy portion of this workshop will be similar but not identical to the workshops from fall 2012. Both portions will be more focused on RNA-Seq than previous instances.
Cost: $35 (non-refundable). Includes paper and digital copies of all lectures and detailed R codes for analysis.
If you are making this $35 payment with a credit card (P-card or personal) payment, call Rhonda Lipking at (217) 333-1695. Personal checks are also accepted, you can drop them off with Rhonda (room 2613, IGB – warning, that the doors to the IGB Gatehouse lock promptly at 5 pm). Email Rhonda firstname.lastname@example.com if you are using a C-FOP account number. Please note that C-FOPs for only start-up funds, state funded accounts, ledger 3 accounts can be accepted. C-FOPs for grants accounts (those that start with 1-4 or 1-5) cannot be used, although we will provide receipts that you can use to ask for reimbursement from such grants through your own business office.
Registration: This workshop is open to everyone, but space is limited to 40 participants and typically fills up fast. Payments must be received by May 17th at 5pm to hold registration or the spot will be opened up to the waiting list.
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Only got better? David Stubbs on the Blair "revolution" of 1997
This is part one of an edited extract from 1996 and the End of History by David Stubbs, published last year by Repeater. Part two coming next week.
"For the future, not the past. For the many, not the few. For trust, not betrayal. For the age of achievement, not the age of decline." – Tony Blair, Labour Party Conference, 1996.
"I think if we win the election, the greatest burden on Tony Blair and the rest of us will not be delivering on the economy so much as the huge expectation that we will somehow be the agents of a different ethical order." – Jack Straw, 1996.
In 1996, the Labour Party were regularly commanding leads of over 30 in opinion polls against the Tories. The party was in a unique position. In the past, it could only hope to achieve power when the incumbent Conservatives had made a hash of the economy, or plunged the country into darkness through their industrial relations incompetence. In 1996, however, this was not the case. Mortgage interest rates had dropped from double figures in the 1990s to under 7%. John Major's administration had put the brakes on some of the worst, conspicuous excesses and injustices of Thatcherism. There was already a feelgood factor in the air. As the Guardian airily put it,
Unemployment is down, people are shopping more (car sales are up more than 10%), house prices are rising, the London Evening Standard says 'Suddenly, Britain is feeling really good', building societies are soon to create millions of new shareholders
And yet, fewer and fewer people felt good about the Tories. A series of allegations of sleaze involving Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken, amongst others, spoke of a party who had done themselves too well and for too long at the political high table. Major himself cut a greying, weary, beleaguered figure. His risible, high profile Cones Hotline, in which members of the public could report apparently unnecessary traffic cones, had been quietly closed in 1995, having fielded fewer than 20,000 calls in its three- year life (a figure that frankly seems remarkably high). Major's wistful visions of a Britain of warm beer and "old maids cycling to church in the morning mist" seemed to belong to the credits of some Sunday evening middlebrow period drama rather than a Britain whose heartbeat was pounding assertively with the delirium of the End of History. This was a dead man talking.
What's more, the social liberalism regarded as loony in the 1980s had now become mainstream, with even Richard Branson looking to join in on the victory lap. 1996 was the year Virgin Vodka would introduce an ad featuring two men kissing. As for the Tories, Michael Portillo was obdurately upholding a ban on gays in the armed services.
Thing is, the country was not falling to pieces. It felt buoyant. There was simply a crying need for new faces at the helm, to displace an old guard who felt disassociated with the sense of self-confidence and triumphalism of Cool Britannia. "Things can only get better", the refrain on which Labour would surf to victory in a year's time, implied that the country was at rock bottom – but it was not. The feeling was more like: "Things are good – but they could be even better". It was into this breach that Tony Blair stepped, a saviour for a country that did not particularly need saving – or certainly did not require the salvation he had in mind. It was as if he were being gifted the Premiership.
In 1996, Tony Blair was presented with the opportunity to present David Bowie with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits. You sense it was a slightly invidious task; as Chris Evans introduces him to the stage with customary half-wit ("foot-tapping, pop-loving, he's got nice hair, Tony Blair"), the sound system strikes up facetiously with Bowie's "Fashion", as he descends the stairs in an estate agent's suit and orange polka dot tie, his hairstyle, like Glenn Hoddle's, having weighed anchor somewhere in 1978 and receded ever since. The half-soused crowd greet him with no great enthusiasm; there's a low, mocking drone as he takes to the podium which he tries to ignore in that rictus way of his that would later become more pronounced when facing angry members of the Women's Institute. And then, as if addressing the CBI rather than some of the dimmer bulbs of the Britpop alumni, he speaks:
It's been a great year for British music. A year of creativity, vitality, energy; British bands storming the charts, British music once again back at its rightful place at the top of the world." He talks of how new bands are able to draw inspiration from "the bands of my generation – the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks – and the later generation, the Clash, the Smiths, Stone Roses.
It could well be that Tony Blair, former guitarist with Ugly Rumours, was sincere in this tribute. But, coated in a politician's unctuousness, the words seem today to proceed from his mouth in an utterly stilted fashion, all the more so because when he actually took office, he was far too busy waging global warfare to monitor and extol the health of British music. It's probable that this was the very last time he uttered the words "Stone Roses". The list encapsulates far more shamelessly, loudly and clearly than any mumbling, equivocal frontperson corralled under its banner the guiding principle of Britpop; the history of music in the UK as a retrospective series of white lines down a grey, established road, a tribute to British heritage, enterprise and industry. Interesting who is missing from the list: Joy Division (too despondent – they were on the other side of the sun of the 1990s), the Sex Pistols (too anarchic, despite the fact that they removed the sting from their legacy by reforming for purely financial reasons in 1996), and, strangely, Oasis, despite their own, fulsome praise for Blair.
It wasn't the only effusive comment Tony Blair made about British pop during 1996, as he brazenly sought to associate his forty-two year-old self with the crest of the Britpop wave in a way the late John Smith could never have done, and John Major never hope to do. Blair was all over pop in 1996, as energetic as a ligger in his attendance of awards ceremonies, always ready to talk up the energy of British pop, as if to imply, by osmosis, that he was a key generator of the broader energy it represented. "Rock'n'roll is not just an important part of our culture, it's an important part of our everyday life", he claimed, as if rock'n'roll were as vital to his daily routine as cleaning his teeth and saying his prayers. He wasn't always selective in his upbeat praise; he described Morrissey as being part of our "vibrant" culture – Morrissey, with the possible exception of Alan Bennett, probably the least vibrant human being on earth, then as now. And, killing three birds with one stone, he sought to conflate rhetorically the rise of lad comedy, the England team of Euro '96 and the trad indie du jour by alluding to the "Three Lions" anthem thus: "Seventeen years of hurt / Never stopped us dreaming / Labour's coming home."
Embarrassingly, however, Blair dazzled in 1996. This extended to to vast swathes of the electorate, including many who would marvel that they hadn't known better. The lefty tanktops pooh-poohed him, but then, those malodorous malingers would, wouldn't they? Meanwhile the Tories hired Charles Saatchi to rework his 1979 magic with their "New Labour, New Danger" posters, in which a grinning Blair was depicted as red-eyed and demonic once you peeled back a strip from his plausible veneer. They convinced absolutely no one of the Red Terror he represented; they might as well have waved garlic at him. For many of us sceptical about Britpop, we were affected by the New Sanguine of which Blair felt a part; he blazed white like the blinding light in a doorway to an uncertain future – an exit point at least. And he mentioned the Stone Roses. My God, a future Prime Minister mentioned the Stone Roses! This was surely something worth clutching at.
The prospect of finally ridding the country of the Tories intoxicated even some the most hard bitten. Noel Gallagher was the most conspicuous example, as:
There are seven people in this room who are giving a little bit of hope to young people in this country. That is me, our kid, Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White, Alan McGee and Tony Blair. And if you've all got anything about you, you'll go up there and shake Tony Blair's hand, man. He's the man! Power to the people!
He later sheepishly confessed he'd been "off his head" when he bellowed this pronouncement, in which the Oasis members effectively amounted to a shadow cabinet in waiting, but he wasn't the only one. In co-opting the English Euro 96 anthem he wasn't just piggybacking on a pop moment, he was tapping into the snarling sense of frustration still festering from the 1992 disappointment, when, despite leaning about as far to the right as seemed feasible without toppling over, Neil Kinnock still lost to John Major. Next time, anything would do. An ugly tap-in, a penalty shoot out, a Blair administration, so long as we won.
I was among those who had suspended my leftist qualms and joined in the chant for Blair, another who should have known better but found the urge to back this gift horse irresistible. Or was he a Trojan horse? Suppose, I told myself, Blair had dropped Clause IV, was cosying up to Murdoch by having Labour's front bench trade and industry team abandon its support for a tough regulatory regime on the ownership of newspapers and television broadcasting in favour of a freer market, simply so as to deceive the public, business and the media that the party was deliberately forfeiting its leftist teeth, that it was the party that would no longer bite? And then, once in power, use his overwhelming mandate to exercise a full-blooded, socialist transformation of the UK? Be the New Danger the Tory posters depicted him as for real, after all? In any case, wasn't that what Margaret Thatcher had done prior to her election in 1979? She certainly hadn't frightened the British public by detailing the full extent of the right-wing programme with which her name would become synonymous. Might Blair have a similar trick in mind?
There was no excuse for such inebriated, wishful thinking. One had only to read, if one could be bothered, Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle's The Blair Revolution, published in 1996, which set out in no uncertain terms what kind of "revolution" New Labour were planning, one that certainly would not involve hordes of cloth-capped proletariats storming the gates of Downing Street à la the Winter Palace in 1917. No – what would be really revolutionary about the Blair Revolution is that it would be entirely non-revolutionary, making it the most revolutionary revolution of all. A revolution no one need fear, least of all our latterday Tsars.
This is part one of an edited extract from 1996 and the End of History by David Stubbs, published last year by Repeater. Part two coming next week.
Femme Fatales, 'Female Psychopaths' and Narrative 'Science': Part Two —Tristam Vivian Adams
This is part two of 'Femme Fatales, "Female Psychopaths" and Narrative "Science"' by Tristam Vivian Adams, author of The Psychopath Factory. Find part one here.
Film and Television's methods for hinting or alluding to the non-conforming private life, to the 'deviant' inner world, reveal an intrinsic sexism. There is, generally, a gross inequality in terms of deviance from the conformist norm. A character doing something appalling usually conveys a male psychopath's 'bad side': Hannibal's cannibalism or Underwood's canicide, for example. But female psychopaths' tells are less extreme.
A trope of depicting female psychopathy is to show a woman doing something considered traditionally 'male'; like being sexually independent and going to a bar to pick up a partner. The Last Seduction (1994, Dahl) is a great example of this. Bridget Gregory, a telemarketing manager (played by Linda Fiorentino), leaves her husband Clay (played by Bill Pullman). Bridget takes a large sum of cash that Clay made that day by selling pharmaceutical cocaine to drug dealers. She essentially dupes her husband, promising him sex before taking off with the cash whilst he is in the shower. Previously Clay, when returning with the money, physically abuses his wife. Bridget's opportunistic thieving and fleeing is bold but understandable. After some driving her car runs out of fuel and she finds herself in Beston, near Buffalo. Bridget Gregory is by no-means a fulltime charming psychopath. She deceives and cheats, but only does so with charm and social niceties – only conforms to expectations of being a vulnerable and demure young woman – when it will immediately advantage her.
When she walks into a local bar in Beston, filled mostly by local blue-collar worker type males, she asks for her Manhattan without chit-chat, social prelude or manners: 'Gimme a Manhattan' she says flatly. The barman, Ray, ignores her. 'I know you hear me, pal.' She presses. The barman then begins checking if anyone wants a drink, feigning obliviousness to Bridget. 'Jesus Christ. Who's a girl gotta suck around here to get a drink?' despairs Bridget before asking again, 'Gimme a Manhattan!' At this point Mike, taking his chance to save this out of town damsel in need of a Manhattan, steps in.
Ray, a Manhattan for the lady please.
Sure, Mike.
What – that's the game? I gotta say please?
Er, yes, it helps.
You're not from around here?
Fuck off.
Of course, after this brief encounter, Mike follows Bridget back to a booth hankering for attention like a once fed stray. At first Bridget is dismissive, but even when she changes her mind her too-direct frankness feels sociopathic. She doesn't play the role of the to-be-wooed nice-little-lady, instead she takes the advantage. 'Could you leave? Please.' She asks…
Well I haven't finished charming you yet.
You haven't started.
Give me a chance.
Go find yourself a nice little cow-girl, make nice little cow-babies and leave me alone.
I'm er, I'm hung like a horse. Think about it.
Let's see.
Excuse me?
Mister Ed, let's see.
Bridget checks Mike is as equine-good as his word, and that he has his own place, and that it is clean and has indoor plumbing. Mike, a little taken aback, confirms all of these. Bridget then finishes her drink and tells him to meet her outside.
But let's switch the gender roles round, suppose a young out of town male went into a local bar. Suppose he ordered a drink and picked up a partner for the night. Would this scene tell the viewer there is something deeply manipulative, conning, narcissistic or 'cold' about the character? If a male walked into a bar and picked up a partner for some casual sex he would just be another 'red-blooded' male – but not necessarily a psychopath, to be that the man would have to do something much worse (like killing a dog or cannibalism, to recall the previous examples). It seems that the tells directors opt for to tell viewers a character is psychopathic are murderous and criminal for men, but merely a case of over independence or confident sexuality for women. For male psychopaths the sociopathic tell scene is always undeniably bad. Yet for female psychopaths the sociopathic tell scene is subtle – it is often merely a case of not conforming to traditional expectations of female characters: or, to put it another way, being a bit too 'male', being too equal to the heteronormative male equivalent.
Saga Noren, a vaguely autistic sociopath type (like a Replicant in dire need of a social protocol systems update), is another example. In The Bridge (2011, Rosenfeldt) the private-life scenes that tell the viewer Saga is different are, again, based around picking up partners for casual sex in bars. The scenes play out in much the same way as Bridget's in The Last Seduction. Saga is all too frank and single-minded – to the point of being blunt and rude at times. Saga is not interested in finding a nice man to marry; she wants 'just sex' as she orders, more than once. Her attitude intimidates and baffles the nameless male characters from the bars. This is a 2011 series from a liberal European country. Why is a women's freedom to independently pursue casual sex presupposed as being outré, significantly outré enough reveal the character as socially 'deviant' to the viewer? What sort of archaic gender role assumptions are being presupposed in this choice of 'tell' scene?
There is an additional facet of intrinsic sexism at play in depictions of female psychopathic characters. There is the resurgence of the femme-fatale in 'men's-rights films'. Not only are independent women demonised as being manipulative or psychopathic – by being 'too male' (i.e. equal), but in a cruel double bind their very femininity (adherence to a feminine ideal) is pitched as being manipulative. When women are being too independent they are demonised for not being placid good-girls, yet when they play up to the good-girl role it is taken as being manipulative, conniving and disingenuous.
To Die For (1995, Van Sant), Knock Knock (2015, Roth) and Gone Girl (2014, Fincher) all tow this double-double standard for women. In To Die For, Suzanne Stone-Maretto, played by Nicole Kidman, is too career driven in a man's world. She is too ruthless, too goal oriented and single minded and not ready to fulfil the traditional role expected of her: 'housewife'. However, Suzanne also plays on the heteronormative assumptions of her gender role. She flirts and utilizes the construct of her femininity (much like Bridget in The Last Seduction at times) – but, and this is what is supposedly wrong, for her own personal gain.
In Knock Knock, two young women appear at the door of a family man, Evan Webber ('played' by Keanu Reeves). They ask to use his phone, they are cold and wet, then over the course of the evening, after escalating favours reminiscent of Haneke's Funny Games, begin flirting, then sleeping with, then torturing and blackmailing Evan. The average viewer might suppose that Evan has been duped, he has fallen for the womens' feminine wiles. But at each turn in the first hour of the film Evan has choices, he doesn't need to entertain them with his DJing skills. He doesn't need to engage in lengthy conversations that lead to flirting and banter – but he does. This leads up to consensual sex, before Evan's regret, before his being held hostage, before blackmail. The viewer's sympathy is supposed to be with Evan, the poor old affluent and physically stronger man who has been unlucky enough to fall for these temptresses.
The opening line of Gone Girl is a husband's sadistic fantasy of dispelling the mysteries of what lurks behind his wife's, Amy's, pretty face:
When I think of my wife…
…I always think of her head.
I picture cracking her lovely skull…
Unspooling her brains…
Trying to get answers.
The primal questions of any marriage.
"What are you thinking?"
"How are you feeling?"
This is, albeit violent, the ponderance of an epistemological blind spot. How to know for sure if others feel and think like oneself – the anxiety about empathy in others, of other's capacity for iso-experiential connection – the sharing of the same feeling. Gone Girl tells the story of Amy Elliot Dunne, played by Rosamund Pike, and how she, after staging her own disappearance, leaves her unfaithful husband framed for her suspected murder. Whilst on the run, she stays with an ex-boyfriend, Desi, whom she frames as her rapist and captor – but not before murdering him. When Amy utilizes the heteronormative assumptions others hold for her it is manipulative and conniving – in a domestic correlate of our CCTV'd and selfie'd online existence she uses the surveillance of Desi's luxury home to her advantage: knowing where the cameras are she performs the aftermath of a rape. Bridget, in The Last Seduction, also leads others to believe she was at risk of being raped. Her husband's (black) private detective catches up with her and forces her to drive them back to her place where the money is. After noticing that the vehicle is driver-side airbag only, Bridget pesters the man into confirming the old myth about penis size. At this point she accelerates and steers the car into a lamppost. The detective is thrown through the windscreen. Later, in hospital, Bridget leverages small-town racism to her advantage:
There's only one more question I need to ask. I don't mean to pry…the man with you appeared to be not entirely in his pants at the time of impact. Can you tell me what happened just before you went off the road?
Well, like I told you before he tried to get me to contact my husband and… I refused of course. Well he became… you know, 'motherfucker' this, 'motherfucker' that…
Like in the movies?
Exactly. Next thing I knew… I only remember bits and pieces of it but he… the jist of it was that he was going to…impale me with his…big…
The prevalence of supposed female psychopaths making false accusations or framing male characters is notable. But the mode of framing or accusation is always an ultra-reflexive return to the damsel in distress role. The opposite of the woman's, all too equal, too independent, 'sociopathic' and 'deviant' tell scenes. This is the cruel double bind for women protagonists in films that have a whiff of men's rights propaganda about them. When acting the girl they are manipulative, conniving types, temptresses – yet when refusing to conform to a gender stereotype they are framed as sociopathic deviants.
When Amy or Bridget refuse to kowtow to dated expectations of gender it is within sociopathic tell scenes – directorially presupposed as divulging there is something sinister about their character, something amiss. Yet, on the other hand, when they do adhere to heteronormative expectations of subservience and neediness, it is manipulative, conning – psychopathic. Amy and Bridget are psychopathic by virtue of both hamming it up, playing on patriarchal gender expectations, and by virtue of refusing to conform to such asymmetrical expectations and value sets.
The term psychopath is frequently employed in commentary about these three films, to refer to and describe these, at once, too independent and manipulatively feminine characters. The limbo of too feminine to too equal is the double bind. The former temptress facet of the narratives is one informed by a history of femme-fatales in film and television. However, the too equal facet, the case of being psychopathic solely by doing/behaving in a way that is traditionally reserved for men has correlates in how the sciences, particularly criminal psychology, attempt to define female psychopathy through physical traits. Many studies effectively seek to equate female maleness with psychopathy and/or criminality.
An above average testosterone level in women is frequently posited via correlation and comparison with psychopathic, sociopathic and criminal behaviour proclivities. Here we meet the political reductions and warped logics of 'science' that seeks to find physical traits in an individual for 'their' social failures (criminality). Of course, this assumption between testosterone (or the physical traits associated with the hormone) is not right on a number of levels. Testosterone has, at a stretch, only a semi-firm relation to aggression and confrontation in males, however, much of this data is mostly gleaned from an atypical – read incarcerated – set of subjects (as is the case with most clinical data regarding psychopathy).
However, for women, there is even less cause for such a connection. Even in incarcerated females little connection between testosterone and aggression is found – yet increased testosterone in females with an anti-social personality disorder is pervasive myth. A similar lack of causation holds true for many other hormones and neurochemicals. Nonetheless, studies and cultural commentary exist that seek to equate the physical traits of testosterone with masculine characteristics before retrofitting the fiction into a correlation of say, below average hip-waist ratios, laryngeal prominence, clitoris size and chin/jaw profile with psychopathic character traits in women. Cultural conservatism and politicization of science thrive in the penumbra between etiology and fictioneering (Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference is a case in point – the thesis being that there is a genetic essentialism behind the differences in gendered adult brains: 'from page 1: The female brain is "predominantly hard-wired for empathy" and the male brain "hard-wired for understanding and building systems."'[1] – let's not let the wealth of research into gender qua social construct or epigenetics or neural-plasticity get in the way of a popular science hit.) Less creative than mythopoeisthesizing, this is the crude jerry-rigging of traditional constructs into biases of causal scope. The tale wagging the dog.
Testosterone is not the sole cause of maleness in terms of behaviour. Acting masculine is not solely due to chemicals or genes but a kaleidoscope of developmental, social, personal and political experiences and histories. This is not to say that gender is a personality, but that the characteristics (with varying degrees of validity) of physical and behavioural gender are as subject to historic environments as any empirically based proclivity (be it chemical or genetic) within individual. Plasticity and epigenetics are of more relevance here than the out-dated yet stubbornly continuing click-bait simplicity of simple correlations and the reductive determinism of 'hard-wiring'. The politicized and essentialist mode of much criminal psychology that seeks to equate female criminal psychopathy with subjects being too male or not quite feminine enough are examples of how the ASPD variant of psychopathy is a gendered concept with ultra-conservative social undertones.
The diagnostic criteria for psychopathy are deeply political and conservative. Cleckley and Hare (the two major checklists for the personality disorder) both list sexual behaviours and proclivities as characteristics. 'Promiscuous sexual behaviour' is one of Hare's criteria, as is 'Parasitic lifestyle' and 'Many short-term marital relationships'. Cleckley lists 'Sex-life impersonal, trivial and poorly integrated.' Cleckley's conservative bias out to be regarded with more tolerance than Hare's – the former's ground-breaking work on psychopathy, The Mask of Sanity, was published in 1941 whereas Hare's Without Conscience, in 1993. Each list paradoxical criteria; psychopathy is a subset of anti-social personality disorder, yet so many of the criteria seem pro-social. Hare's and Cleckley's flip-flopping from anti-social to seemingly social personality facets is the same mode of oscillation we see in the television shows and films mentioned previously. The dynamic of shifting from seemingly charming, intelligent, empathetic and social character to deviance and anti-social behaviour is the privilege of a narrative structure.
Cleckley's The Mask of Sanity spends a great deal of time analysing works of fiction (e.g. characters in the works of Dostoevsky, Dickens, Faulkner…). Hare's Without Conscience utilizes many examples from True Crime literature and newspaper reports. Perhaps, then, it is unsurprising that the established psychopathic checklists read like impossible fictional narratives (where we see a character behave both perfectly socially and grossly anti-socially) rather than objective arrays of consistent observations. It is this fictionalized mode of character definition that allows cultural bias into the concept of female psychopathy. Just as the catch-22 of psychiatric evaluation renders those who say they are not mad to be regarded as mad, the same double bind operates for women in the examples cited – even when the characters are seen as a the ideal heteronormative cis-gendered feminine they are just as suspect as the sociopathic antithesis. (Precisely this issue is found in the damned either way injustic Amanda Knox, explicated in the eponymous 2016 Netflix film. Mongibello via Perugia; Knox's lack of upset was cited as evidencing her guilt, yet when she was upset this was regarded as histrionics, conning, performance and manipulation).
The intrinsic sexism of screen portrayals of female psychopathy share much in common with clinical approaches of criminal psychology and other 'sciences'. The reinforcing of gender inequality and the demonization of at once femininity and non-feminine equality are prevalent in each (conformity is just as suspect as deviance). However, perhaps the more troubling parallel is the utilization of narrative strategies for telling a story about the differences between the sexes that serves to impose asymmetrical values and inequality for women. Akin to how the problematically masculine threads of Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres don't let explicit sexism get in the way of the good story, neither does these character portraits of psychopathy both on screen and in textbook. Sadly, the non-fiction popular science shelves contain as much creative story telling for the purpose of reinforcing gender constructs as the DVD library.[1] See: http://www.dana.org/Cerebrum/2003/Extreme_Problems_with_Essential_Differences/


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The rapid development of thermodynamics and electromagnetism in the nineteenth century opened up a whole new world of technology in the twentieth century. One could say that the efforts of the physicists of the late eighteenth and mid nineteenth centuries paved the way for the technicians and inventors of the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries to create many novel and ingenious devices. This close connection between the physicists and inventors has become a source of confusion in the sociology and politics of science; a confusion that can damage public's understanding of science, and consequently, science itself. Therefore, the disentanglement of this confusion is a necessary prerequisite for a true appreciation of the nature and the workings of the scientific enterprise.
Science is blind to its future human utility
Science discovers the laws of nature blindly, purposelessly, and without regards to its potential human use. If it has an eye, it is to see the hidden secrets of nature. If it has a purpose, it is to connect what is known to what is unknown. If it is human, it is only due to its apparent confinement to the planet Earth. Any other intelligent species, regardless of its location in the universe will discover the same science. The fact that scientific laws are discovered by scientists, who happen to be human beings, does not make science itself human-dependent.
That science is void of any humanistic trait is evident from its history of development. It started in Egypt and Babylon, moved to Greece and India, went back to the Middle East, and finally landed in the West. As diverse as these civilizations were, and as violently as they clashed, the transfer of science was always inevitable, because it empowered the conquering civilizations with new means to rule more effectively. Unlike other culturally motivated characteristics of humans such as language, which has numerously been trampled to extinction by history, science has always strengthened on passage from one culture to the next. The only exception is the passage from Greece to Rome where it stagnated for almost two millennia.
Technology is application of science to human needs
Technology, on the other hand, applies science sightedly, purposefully, and humanly, and as such, is very much dependent on culture, politics, economy, and all the other characteristics of the human society. In fact the very word "technology" comes from the Greek word technikos, meaning art or artifice. Just as a sculptor uses the raw material such as stone and clay to create a statue for human pleasure and human consumption, so does a technician use the raw material such as wires and circuits to create a television set for human pleasure and human consumption.


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Though lemon custards and pie have been on the foodie scene since Medieval times, it wasn't until the 1600s that meringue bust onto the scene, CNN's Eatocracy reports.
There's actually some science behind the art of meringue, too, which is why you need certain kitchen gadgets to make a puffy meringue. Egg whites are mostly water, according to Smithsonian Magazine, but have protein molecules. Amino acids build the protein. Think of those like magnets: some want to stick to the water, others are repelled by water, according to Smithsonian.
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By beating the mixture at high speeds, air is added to the egg whites and helps the protein stick to whatever it needs: water or air, Smithsonian reports. The sugar is for more than just taste, it helps hold everything in place.
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Hudson Division Beacon – June 2005
ARRL Hudson Division June 2005 Hudson Division Beacon - e-mail edition - # 53 THE HUDSON DIVISION TEAM Frank Fallon, N2FF, Director, Hudson Division, ARRL 30 East Williston Avenue, East Williston, NY 11596 516) 746-7652 email@example.com Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, Vice Director, Hudson Division, ARRL 235 Van Emburgh Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450-2918 (201) 455-5924 firstname.lastname@example.com
Hudson Division Home Page -- http://www.hudson.arrl.org ARRL Members Please continue to spread the word to others that may wish to receive this information that they will need to access the ARRL members only web site. After becoming a member they must edit their profile and elect to receive bulletins from the Section Manager and Director. If you are already a member on the ARRL site (http://www.arrl.org) from the "Members Only" box click on "members data page" and then under email notification options set "Division/Section notices" to YES. You will receive the next bulletin sent. Past Bulletins are available at http://www.hudson.arrl.org * 2005 Hudson Division Award Winners Selected - * Awards Dinner November 12th The Awards Committee met via "ARRL Conference Bridge" on Friday, June 17, 2005. Those asked to serve on the committee: Diane Ortiz, K2DO; Jerry Agliata, W2GLA; Dennis McAlpine, K2SX; Kathy Thee, KT2F; Doug Rue, W2EN, and Jim Jackson- NS2K selected the following: Amateur of the Year, Tom Raffaelli - WB2NHC (nominated by Lyle Anderson, KC2LCA and Rich Sandell, WK6R) Technical Achievement, Ulrich Rohde - N1UL (nominated by Mario Karcich, K2ZD (2004) Grand Ole' Ham, Frank Fix - K2AW (Nominated by Bill Hellman - NA2M) Lew Malchick, N2RQ (Nominated by Martin Smith - KA2NRR) The committee decided to grant two Grande Ole 'Ham awards this year. The Committee was unanimous about awarding both Frank Fix and Lou Malchick the Grand Ole' Ham award. I thank them all for their hard work and commitment! Congratulations to our winners! Join with us on Saturday night, November 12th, 2005 at the Elk's Lodge in Park Ridge, NY to honor the recipients. 73, Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, Nominations Chair for the Hudson Division Awards Committee, 2005 ARRL Hudson Division Vice Director firstname.lastname@example.com * DAYTON 2005 - ARRL EXPO A "BIG" Success....... Thanks to those who stopped by at the ARRL GRASSROOTS BOOTH. See http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/20/1/?nc=1 for the story of our grassroots effort and some pictures. Thanks to NNJ SM, W2UDT, for a superb presentation. It's was great to see so many of you at Dayton and thanks for your support. Thanks also to W2UDT, W2YR, KS2G, WA2MMX, W2LK, N2TKA and N2STU for the time they spent helping out at the ARRL Grassroots Booth at ARRL Expo on Friday. I hope members will continue to write e-mail to their congressman about H. Res. 230. So far less than 100 have and that's not nearly good enough to get action on this resolution. The ARRL had a very large presence this year in an entirely different area of the inside exhibits. I took the opportunity to have a number of QST covers made at $10 a pop. A great addition to the shack, I felt. All those I spoke to really liked the ARRL Expo. My own comment is, "We should have done it twenty years ago at my first Dayton in 1985." See http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/06/02/100/?nc=1 for pictures and report on the 2005 ARRL Expo. If you wondered who won and what the prizes were in the ARRL Passport drawing see http://www.arrl.org/announce/nc/2005/passport-winners.html Over 1,100 entry forms were turned in for the ARRL Passport drawing. During the week following the convention, HQ notified all of the winners and shipped their prizes. An announcement was posted to the ARRLWeb at www.arrl.org/expo/passport. BTW: I missed only one Dayton since, so this was number 19 for me. Yes, attendance was off this year but then so are the sunspots. * H.Res 230 - Let Your Congressman know you Support this Resolution - Write * See sample letter at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/04/28/3/?nc=1 To expedite delivery, send all correspondence bound for Members of Congress--preferably as an attachment--to email@example.com or fax it to 703-684-7594 also send me a copy at firstname.lastname@example.com The ARRL will bundle correspondence addressed to each Member of Congress for hand delivery. A copy of HRes 230 is available on the ARRL Web site in .PDF format at, http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/filings/hres230/HRes230.pdf. See the ARRL Web site, http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/04/28/3/?nc=1, for more information. If you really want to help stop BPL you might take a laptop to Field Day and collect a batch of letters there and send them off to the two addresses listed above after Field Day. * 10-70 Repeater Association, Inc. participates in the ARRL's first ever "Take Your HT to Work Day" Members and Friends of the 10-70 Repeater Association (Northern New Jersey) showed up on the club's 2 meter repeater (Frequency 146.70/10) today, Tuesday, June 21, 2005 to participate in a net operation coordinated by the club's Treasurer, and Northern New Jersey Section Skywarn DEC, George Sabbi, KC2GLG. While most of the nets run on the 10-70 are either NTS nets or Skywarn nets, George's expertise as net control gleaned a nice response for a fun casual and informative net. Check-ins came from Northern New Jersey as well as from New York state. Net control was operational from Ridgewood, NJ (Net Control Station - KC2GLG) and with others checking in from the surrounding towns of Allendale, Oakland, Bergenfield, Wayne and Montvale NJ. Some of the check-ins were: In Allendale (N2UGG), Oakland (KA2ANF and KB2MER), Bergenfield (KA2NRW), Wayne (KB2SSO) and Montvale (NJ3C). Check-ins from New York included: New Hyde Park LI (N2QXI) and Rego Point Queens (KC2OIS). "Not a bad showing and good coverage from across the greater NNJ metro area," remarked Sabbi. "It was nice to demonstrate the coverage of a Repeater. NJ3C checking in from his work place in Montvale NJ even got a non-Ham to speak on the air for a second or two!" ARRL Hudson Division Vice Director, Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF was on the Net and used the opportunity to demonstrate to her company what Amateur Radio is all about as well as to provide all on the Net with information about the upcoming ARRL Field Day operations in the ARRL Hudson Division and elsewhere. Also on the Net along with Joyce, was her 23 year old daughter, Krista, KB2MER who is no stranger to Amateur Radio having first been licensed at age 9. Field Day being the hot topic, was mentioned many times as the place to see Amateur Radio up close and personal this weekend as those on the Net talked extensively about not only 10-70's plans for Field Day, but other locations of other amateur radio clubs in the northern NJ area. More information on Amateur Radio in the northern NJ area can be found on the 10-70 Website: www.10-70.org All agreed that it would be good to have more activities like this on-the-air. Thank you to the ARRL staff for coming up with this fun and informative activity. Submitted by: Joyce A. Birmingham, KA2ANF, ARRL Vice Director -- Hudson Division * FIELD DAY INFO AVAILABLE ON LINE.... ( A second reminder.) FD is June 25-26 And please remember to make sure your club has a map to the Field Day site available on line so folks can visit if they want. Maps and GPS coordinates are nice and also helpful. Suppose a Non-ham reads something in a local paper about field day and wants to visit a site. ARRL is holding a "Take Your Handheld to Work Day" the week before Field Day, on June 21, in hopes of stirring up interest in our emergency communications and field day operations. It might get people interested in ham radio. See page 45 of June QST. Will interested folks find a map to the event on your club site. Why have a GOTA station if you are not getting visitors? See http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/05-fd-packet.pdf for the 35 page Field Day package or http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms/index.html#FD if you just need forms. Field Day can be dangerous if you are not careful with generators, antennas, or towers. Have a safe Field Day. Think safety, please. The article below may help avoid accidents while having a good time: * Don't Let Fall Interrupt Summer (from the ARRL Contest Rate Sheet) As the summer begins, so does tower and antenna work. Aside from troubleshooting HV power supplies, there is no other aspect of amateur radio that has more opportunities for trouble. With Krassy, K1LZ taking a fall on CY9 this week and Joe NK7U the week before, safety should be the first thing on any tower (or tree) climber's mind. For a refresher course, check out the ARRL Antenna Book's "Tower Safety" and "Antenna Supports" chapters. The following contributed items are just a few of the many steps each of us must take to keep our climbing chores from becoming a threat to life and limb. With those weekend projects frequently taking longer than expected, it's easy to spend a lot more time on the tower than you expected. Towers are windy, sunny places and that can dry you out quickly. The folks on the TowerTalk reflector (http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/Towertalk) contributed some good tips to avoid cramping and dehydration on the tower: - Load up on potassium before the climb - bananas are a good source - Calcium (calcium citrate or milk) is also recommended - Drink lots of water before and during the tower climb - Quinine water is occasionally recommended, as is a teaspoon of mustard - Stretch your legs and arms regularly, particularly before and after a long pull - Don't forget the sunscreen! - Wear a hard hat if you are on the ground crew! * JAPAN TO RELAX MORSE CODE LICENSING REQUIREMENTS (May 27, 2005) -- The Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications acted May 24 to relax Morse code requirements for Amateur Radio licensing, but it did not eliminate them altogether. Effective October 1, 2005, the MIC will reduce the requirements for First and Second Class licenses to 5 WPM -- solid copy for two minutes. The previous code requirements for these licenses were 12 and 9 WPM respectively. The MIC will drop the Morse requirement, now 5 WPM, for the Third Class license.--submitted by Joe Speroni, AH0A to a DX reflector....... * The FCC's Riley Hollingsworth: "Get Involved in the Good Things in Amateur Radio!" (Jun 14, 2005) -- FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth told the Dayton Hamvention FCC Forum May 21 "all you need to know to enhance your radio service--in one simple lesson." Drawing upon his nearly seven years' experience as the FCC's point man for Amateur Radio enforcement, Hollingsworth told his audience "what I personally think you need to do to make the Amateur Radio Service thrive and to enjoy the incredible opportunity" to have fun and engage in public service activities. See the entire interesting story at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/06/14/2/?nc=1 * President names Scott Redd, K0DQ, to head counter-terrorism center (Jun 13, 2005) -- President George W. Bush has again called on retired Vice Adm John "Scott" Redd, K0DQ, to take on an important assignment. Bush announced June 10 that he was tapping Redd, a well-known DXer and contester, to direct the new National Counter-Terrorism Center. A former commander of US naval forces in the Middle East and a 36-year Navy veteran, Redd, 60, was executive director of the Silberman-Robb presidential commission on US intelligence failures in Iraq. Redd previously served as deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Pending Senate confirmation, Redd will report to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. He'd replace interim director John Brennan. The National Counter-Terrorism Center is to be the central organization for analyzing and integrating all foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorism and will carry out "strategic operational planning" for domestic and foreign counterterrorism operations. ( Note: I first ran into Scott in the late 1960's when I ran a few phone patches for him when he was on a Fulbright in Uruguay (CX3). It was a great thrill to meet him in Dayton two years ago. That's one of the many things that makes ham radio so great. de N2FF) * CQ introduces "iDX" Award (May 27, 2005) -- CQ Amateur Radio magazine has announced the introduction of the "iDX Award," the final component of its three-part "Waking Up DXing" program designed to encourage more DXing activity. "The iDX Award brings back and updates an old concept of introductory-level awards to help bring newer hams into the sport and mindset of DXing," explained CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU. The CQ iDX Award recognizes confirmed contacts with 25 to 100 different countries--or entities--made using remote bases or repeaters linked with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks such as IRLP or EchoLink. Because virtually all new hams today come into Amateur Radio as Technicians operating VHF and UHF, Novice awards have been largely discontinued," Moseson noted. "The iDX Award brings the concept of the Novice award to where newer hams are operating today." CQ DX Awards Manager Billy Williams, N4UF, says the demarcation between wired and wireless communication has been blurred by modern integrated systems employed by public safety agencies and commercial users. "This blurring of the line between wired and wireless has already reached Amateur Radio in several ways--using the Internet to collect and distribute DX spots, propagation data and location information, to link existing VHF and UHF repeaters over great distances and to access an HF remote base station." Williams says the CQ iDX Award will focus on the last two activities. "The CQ iDX Award recognizes the changing landscape and its inevitable effect on where Amateur Radio will be in 2020." Contacts must use radio on at least one end of the link to count for the award. Computer-to-computer contacts, while possible on such systems as EchoLink, will not count toward this award. Contacts for the new award may be made starting January 1, 2006. Complete details are in the June 2005 issue of CQ and on the CQ Web site. CQ previously introduced the CQ DX Field Award and the CQ DX Marathon as the first two parts of its "Waking Up DXing" program. (from the ARRL Web site) * ARRL Northern New Jersey SM donates ARRL books to new library (Jun 8, 2005) -- What do you do when your town gets a new library? ARRL Northern New Jersey Section Manager Bill Hudzik, W2UDT, donated a selection of ARRL books to the new Long Hill Township Library. His wife, Maryann, had been on the township committee for a number of years and helped obtain the initial state and county grants to help with the project, which was supplemented through local fundraisers. At one of these events, W2UDT learned from Library Director Arline Most that the library had no current books on Amateur Radio. So, when the new library was dedicated, Hudzik made sure that Amateur Radio was represented! The new Long Hill Township Library now has a selection that includes the ARRL Handbook, Morse code CD, licensing guides and a young reader's radio adventure book, among others. "After talking about how much Amateur Radio meant to me, not only personally but in helping my career, Arline knew that I would be showing up with books for our new library," Hudzik said. "But, she was just overjoyed at the selection that will be added to our town's library." Hudzik says he can't think of a better way to promote Amateur Radio service than to donate reading material to the local library. "I got started in Amateur Radio at my library, and I hope other young readers in Long Hill will follow," he said. (from the ARRL Web) There is rumor that NJDXA may also have played a part in this donation. Thanks all! * REGULATION BY BANDWITH See K1ZZ June QST editorial on page 9 See also http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/04/13/1/?nc=1 and the FAQ's at http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/bandwidth/bw-faq.html for more details. Last month I made some comments on the issue. If you have any concerns on opinions on the issue please let me know as it will be on the important issues we deal with a the July ARRL Board meeting in CT. Send an e-mail to email@example.com * RADIO HISTORY: ALPINE TOWER TO HELP COMMEMORATE FM BROADCASTING There were two errors in this story which came from "Newsline." We should have caught the errors but we just cut and pasted. We should have sent, "The Alpine Tower that became a lifeline for New York City television stations following the September 11th 2001 Al-Qaeda terror attacks." Sorry about that! BTW: Only two people took the time to comment on the error. Thanks guys! * Hams Encouraged by NEW Motorola BPL Technology (May 23, 2005) -- ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio, announced today that "The ARRL is pleased to hear Motorola's announcement of its Powerline LV system. This is the first Access Broadband over Power Line (BPL) system that has been designed from the start with radio interference concerns in mind." (Editor's comments: This may indeed be a very positive development. See the full story below for details.) http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/23/1/?nc=1 See also "Motorola's Commercial Broadband Over Powerline Solution Debuts at 'Telecom 2005" Full story: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-23-005/0003683177&EDATE= Marc Strassman did an interview with ARRL's Dave Sumner, K1ZZ after Dayton. http://www.etopiamedia.net/bplw/pages/bplw34-5551212.html this story includes a an audio link to Dave's comments. * Bob, WB2VUF new Morris County DEC Bob Weingaertner, WB2VUF, was recently appointed the new Morris County ARRL District Emergency Coordinator. As such he heads the Amateur Radio Emergency Service in Morris County. ARES, sponsored by ARRL, the national society for Amateur Radio, provides emergency and public service communications, independent of RACES, which is sponsored by Federal Emergency Management Agency. Bob has held leadership positions in ARES going back three decades. We look forward to his bringing new vigor to ARES in Morris County. (June 2005 Chatham RACES Newsletter) * RADIOLOVERS.COM - ALL SHOWS If you have a broad band connection to the Internet you might want to look at this site and listen to some of those old time radio shows. The list is interesting. (Thanks to NA2M for sending this along.) http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/allshows.html * GETTING YOUR CALL IN QST Thanks to sharp eyed Joe Lane, KC2JON, for spotting my call on page 56 of the July QST in the article on Morse Runner. Take a close look at the picture relating to the article. I did not spot it until Joe sent an e-mail. The really weird thing is that in the most recent CQWPX Contest I made so few QSO's that I did not send in a log. The bottom line is you never know when your call will show up in QST. Thanks, Joe. 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If you want to beat Calvert Hall in soccer, you should plan to stop All-Metro midfielder Eric Branham and top-scoring striker Mike Lance.
Visiting Mount St. Joseph (9-10-1) did a good job of both in yesterday's Maryland Scholastic Association quarterfinal, with neither contributing a goal or an assist.
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Sound level versus distance on semi-log paper has been for many years one of the best ways to review noise emissions and potential impacts from a power generation facility. Yesterday I took a look at the Rollins Wind Facility predictions at nearby residences and, levels measured near the Kibby facility this year as well as the existing Mars Hill operational data compiled for the Maine DEP. The resulting chart is shown below. It raised several somewhat technical points for me right away.
– I understand Rollins will use the same wind turbine as Mars Hill, the GE 1.5MW. Is it appropriate to compare the Oakfield prediction to actual noise emissions documented at Mars Hill? Or to Kibby's 3MW Vestas, with their similar, blade-sweep aerodynamic noise production?
– Are the predicted noise levels at nearby residences in the ranges associated with sleep disturbance, as well as adverse health impacts especially for risk groups (children, elderly, those with pre-existing conditions or disease), according to peer-reviewed medical evidence compiled and published by the World Health Organization in their Night Noise Guideline (NNG) of October 2009?
– Is the existing Maine DEP night noise limit of 45 dBA adequate to protect the public health in the area?
– Does the data comparison to WHO health thresholds suggest that a setback distance of over two miles would be needed to minimize sleep disturbance and prevent adverse health impacts for risk groups; children, elderly, those with pre-existing conditions or disease?


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Pass-Throughs Lag Treasurys Amid Mortgage Banker Sales
NEW YORK -- Mortgage-backed securities slightly underperformed the Treasury market Tuesday.
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Brisket & Brussels Sprouts Fried Rice
- canola oil for frying
- 6 ounce cooked beef brisket diced, about one heaping cup
- 2 tablespoons minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons minced scallion white reserving the sliced greens for garnish
- 3 cups cooked jasmine rice dried 1–2 days in refrigerator
- 2 eggs beaten and scrambled with 2 tablespoons garlic chives, sliced
- 1 cup sliced Brussels sprouts
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon black rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon fennel seed toasted
- pinch salt
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped spinach packed
- 1 tablespoon pomegranate seeds stored in pickling liquid (2 tablespoons rice vinegar, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon water)
- Heat a wok over high heat.
- Add enough canola oil to film the bottom of the wok.
- Add the brisket, ginger, garlic, and scallion whites.
- Toss rapidly.
- Add the rice, Brussels sprouts, scrambled egg, soy sauce, black rice vinegar, and vegetable stock.
- Season with fennel seed and a pinch of salt.
- Toss rapidly and use the wok spatula to break up any rice that is clumped together.
- Add the baby spinach, toss and cook for a few seconds until it wilts.
- Divide among 4 bowls. Garnish with the pomegranate seeds and scallion greens.


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Murdered Schoolgirl's Lawyer to Launch Lawsuit in U.S. Against News Corp.
Mark Lewis, who is brokering a $5 million settlement with News Corp. over the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, wants to target Rupert and James Murdoch in the U.S.
LONDON – The British lawyer representing the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler is trying to launch a class action case against News Corporation's board members representing phone-hacking victims.
Mark Lewis of Taylor Hampton is understood to have hired Norman Siegel, a New York-based lawyer who represents a number of 9/11 families, to seek witness statements from News Corp. and directors including Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch in relation to bribery allegations against the police.
He believes that alleged payments to British police sanctioned by News International executives and investigators at the News of The World would constitute a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Last week it emerged that Lewis is close to securing the biggest compensation settlement in the U.K. ever made by a newspaper for the Dowler family. Investigators on the now-shuttered paper had hacked into the schoolgirl's phone, deleting messages so that her parents had false hope that she was still alive.
Lewis was also one of a number of lawyers representing News of The World phone-hacking victims who were found to be the subject of surveillance by the newspaper as recently as this year.
"Although events might have happened in territories abroad, the American organization can be responsible," said Lewis, speaking to BBC News.
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Art Without Boundaries by CAO YONG: Citizen of the World
Nov 14, 2017 – 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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The first museum exhibition of Chinese immigrant Cao Yong's original oil paintings that explore his own, highly personal journey around the world over a 30-year period will be on view in Art Without Boundaries by CAO YONG: Citizen of the World from July 27 to December 14, 2017 at Forest Lawn Museum, Forest Lawn-Glendale. Featuring more than 40 paintings spanning from Yong's early, spiritual search in Tibet to his globally inspired, more recent work, with styles ranging from realism to surrealism, the exhibition pays homage to the legacy of the now Los Angeles-based artist extolled by the Japanese press as "an artistic genius of our time." Beginning with Yong's finely detailed series that depicts the lives of Tibetan monks and laypeople to his richly colored oil paintings of lush landscapes, serene city views, peaceful seascapes and historic landmarks, his body of work reveals his pursuit of beauty, humanity and compassion and his desire to share those findings and feelings with viewers. Art Without Boundaries by CAO YONG: Citizen of the World is a distinctively important exhibition that builds on Forest Lawn Museum's ongoing efforts to present subjects and installations that resonate with contemporary society and today's broader cultural context. The Forest Lawn Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission and parking are FREE.
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Information Modeling's Role in Sustainable Design Decisions
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43 percent of Concordia students travel abroad sometime during their college career, but this is a number that a group of faculty members are hoping to change.
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The Concordian sits down with scholar-in-residence David Selvaraj to discuss the
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Recognizing Education Advantage Foundation's students for the month of February:
Peter Jimenez - 6th Avenue Elementary School
The Adam's Center Los Angeles proudly recommends Peter Jimenez as February's 2015 Student of the Month. Peter Jimenez is an intelligent, kind, and warm hearted fifth grade Honor Student at 6th Avenue Elementary School. Peter will be culminating from the 5th grade in June of 2015. Although, he has been coming to the Adam's Center for five or more years; he has recently become more vested in the program due to the 1000 page Reading Challenge. He has currently read more than five hundred pages. It has been a pleasure to have Peter at the center. He is admired and respected by all of the other students at the center. As Peter transitions into Middle School; we are looking forward to witnessing Peter reach and accomplish outstanding academic achievements. Peter: may you use each opportunity to increase your knowledge and further your academic success.
Eric Juarez - Bukhair Elementary
Eric Juarez is a 1st grader at Bukhair Elementary. He loves to read and do arts and crafts. He currently has an average of 85 in all classes. Eric is up to 350 pages in our reading challenge.


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Boca Raton police investigates 'suspicious death'
Boca Raton police investigates 'suspicious death'
BOCA RATON, Fla. —
The Boca Raton police department is investigating the "suspicious death" of a male in Mizner Park Saturday.
According to Public Information Officer Sandra Boonenberg, officers arrived on scene around 6:30 a.m. and found a male in his late teens, or early twenties deceased.
The body was found behind restaurants, near a parking garage.
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