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In the first of the Marling films to make it to market, Mike Cahill's Another Earth, Marling plays Rhoda, a 17-year-old who is celebrating her acceptance to MIT to study astrophysics on the same night that a new planet is discovered. Called Earth 2 by the denizens of Earth 1, this planet will prove to house a parallel universe populated by doppelgängers for each Earth resident. Buzzed on beer and distracted by this new orb on the horizon, Rhoda crashes her car into a sedan carrying renowned composer John Burroughs (William Mapother) and his pregnant wife and young son. Burroughs is left comatose, his family dead, and Rhoda spends the next four years in jail instead of college.
Postprison, Rhoda takes a job as a janitor, her golden locks trailing out from under a gray beanie, blowing her cover as an anonymous plebe. Her talent for spin first becomes evident when she enters an essay contest to win a trip on a Richard Branson-like entrepreneur's shuttle to Earth 2. "As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things but perhaps not for this," she argues. "Perhaps I'm the most likely." Soon she talks her way into Burroughs' secluded home, claiming to have been sent by a cleaning service. Instead of putting the pieces together that his lovely new maid is responsible for his sorry state, Burroughs, evidently brain-damaged and self-medicating with booze, puts the moves on her. Improbably receptive to this broken-down middle-aged man's advances, the nubile impostor keeps her actual identity mum until plot contrivance forces a confession.
Conceptually, Another Earth is superficially a mashup of shoestring sci-fi and treacly redemption melodrama. Unable to organically incorporate their big ideas into the narrative, the filmmakers lazily lay them on top, leaving the exposition of Another Earth's structuring fantasy to a blanket of background voice-over. Everywhere Rhoda goes, there's a radio tuned to the same hip-hop station whose DJ is prone to Earth 2-related exclamations or to a TV tuned to Earth 2 punditry. "Could we even recognize ourselves?" ponders a male voice-over, identified very late in the film as a theorist spouting educated guesses on Earth 2's impact on the space-time continuum. "And would we really know ourselves?" This dorm-room stoner stuff masquerading as intellectual inquiry often soundtracks montages of Marling walking around, doing very little other than being beautiful.
Which is to say that Cahill is well aware of his film's true strength. Grainy and under-lit, Another Earth is routinely so ugly that Marling's extravagant, appropriately otherworldly beauty functions as its most impressive special effect. The film's visual design is centered on the luminosity of her face, which truly lights up every frame it dominates, even as her performance rarely strays from a baseline pose — wide-eyed, lips slightly parted like a teenaged high-fashion model, straddling the tenuous line between an enigma and a void. As screenwriter, Marling gives herself one climactic speech, but rather than risk asking his star to pull off a sustained performance, Cahill, in what scans as a lack of confidence in both his actress and his audience, juliennes it into a montage.
As Another Earth's relationship between the gullible sad sack and the flaxen-haired fraud overtakes its interplanetary premise as the driving force of the film, it becomes clear that Marling's primary — if potentially unconscious — subject is the politics and mechanics of beauty as a tool of manipulation. You could well argue that Marling has written what she knows, but she's also created for herself a character whose undeniable physical appeal overwhelms all other aspects of her personality, in a film so drunk on that appeal that even a suicide attempt is sexualized. Another Earth wants us to believe in the transformative possibilities of second chances. But if it represents a female author's remaking of Hollywood rules, why is it so much like the same old bullshit?


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It all began in 1976 when Larry Mullen pinned a 'musicians wanted' ad to the notice board at Dublin's Temple Mount School: Drummer seeks musicians to form band. 'So on Saturday 25th September 1976, ' recalls Larry. 'This odd group of people convened in my kitchen in Artane. And that's where it started.'
Adam Clayton had discovered rock'n'roll as a thirteen year old, buying his first acoustic guitar and then talking his parents into buying him a bass guitar. 'It just sounded good to me. Deep and fat and satisfying.'
From the beginning, U2 were marked out by their passion. "A band before we could play" was how Bono put it in early interviews. Edge remembers reading UK music papers NME and Sounds every week and then hearing about this 'wild kid called Paul Hewson.'
The four teenagers, who initially called themselves 'Feedback', rehearsed in Larry's Dublin kitchen, Bono on vocals, The Edge on guitar, Adam Clayton and Larry making up the rhythm section of bass and drums. Inspired by punk, but insulated from the standoffish cool by the Irish Sea, Feedback had become 'The Hype' and then 'U2' and were soon building a local reputation based on the passion of their performances.
'I suppose a watershed moment would have been seeing The Jam on Top of the Pops, 'remembers `Edge. 'And realizing that actually not knowing how to play was not a problem... music was more about energy and trying to say something and not necessarily about great musicianship.'
After a brief period being managed by Adam, they had met up with Paul McGuinness but an early Irish release in 1979, the 'U23' EP on CBS, proved a one-off. They would wait until the following year to sign a long-term deal with Chris Blackwell's Island Records. 'I was amazed at the quality and talent and ambition of these four musicians and yet we couldn't get a record deal.'recalls McGuinness. 'Everyone in the world passed on U2 before we finally found a home at Island Records.'
"This odd group of people convened in my kitchen in artane. And that's where it started."
U2's first single, 11 O'Clock Tick-Tock, was released in May 1980. Boy, their debut album, was released five months later - promoted by another single, I Will Follow , October, a year later and by May 1983, they had their first UK number 1 album with War, culmination of a trio of albums produced by Steve Lillywhite.
War featured hit singles New Year's Day (the video shot in the snow in sub-zero Sweden) and Two Hearts Beat As One while the live album Under A Blood Red Sky released that November, cracked the US Billboard Top 30. It was also the end of a chapter for the band and the beginning of a quarter century of studio collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The Unforgettable Fire, recorded in a the ballroom of Ireland's Slane Castle, spawned one of U2's most iconic tracks in Pride (In The Name of Love) ... as well as a whole lot more experimentation. 'In America there was such a backlash when we put out The Unforgettable Fire,' remembers Bono. 'People thought we were the future of rock'n'roll and they went, 'What are you doin' with this doggone hippie Eno album?' 'We owe Eno and Lanois so much for seeing through to the heart of U2.'
Three years before the band had played support to Thin Lizzy at the annual Slane outdoor show. Seventeen years later, now established as the pre-eminent live act in rock'n'roll, they would return to play two sell-out shows themselves, later released on a live DVD, U2 Go Home'.
Back in the 1980's, the nine-month tour following the release of 'The Unforgettable Fire' took in 54 US dates and led to the band's unforgettable appearance at Live Aid in July 1985. 'In the middle of Bad he went on a wander trying to pick out some girls to dance with,' remembers Larry. 'It felt like he was gone for ever. We were quite jittery as it was and when Bono went missing, a certain panic ensued.'
They didn't realize it at the time but it was a set that would alert a whole new audience to their music but it was another two years before the band released, The Joshua Tree in 1987, the original working title of which was 'The Two Americas'. If the constant touring had seen the US hypnotise U2, America was about to return the compliment - the singles With Or Without You and the gospel-flavoured I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, went to the very top of the US singles chart.
The Joshua Tree went on to sell more than 20 million copies and at the 1987 Grammy Awards, won the band 'Album Of The Year' and 'Best Rock Performance', the first of what has become a record-breaking run of Grammy wins. In 2007 a remastered version of the album was released to mark the 20th anniversary of its original release and in their book, 'U2byU2' the band talked in detail about how many of the songs came together. At the 1987 Grammy Awards, U2 won Album Of The Year and Best Rock Performance for The Joshua Tree, their first Grammy Award wins.
When Time Magazine put the band on its cover with the headline "Rock's Hottest Ticket", it was only the fourth time a band had made it to the cover - following The Beatles, The Band and The Who.
A year later, in 1988, U2 topped the British single charts and released in theatres the live concert movie 'Rattle & Hum' which chronicled the US leg of the 1987 Joshua Tree tour. The double album Rattle and Hum' featured the number 1 single, Desire and a collaboration with BB King, 'When Love Comes To Town'. The band finished their 1989 Lovetown Tour with a series of late December shows at The Point Depot in Dublin when Bono announced that '...this is the end of something for U2...we have to go away and ... and dream it all up again.'
They did too, going away to Hansa Studios in Berlin with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and dreaming up an album called Achtung Baby which took their music in a whole new direction. Band and production team had clashed over the direction they should be taking but out of this turmoil came one of their most acclaimed albums ever. As Daniel Lanois put it, 'If you manage to get the four of them in one room with instruments in their hands you're going to get results. That has a lot to do with my job - just getting them in the room and playing.' With The Fly, Mysterious Ways, and One U2 began the nineties with a new sound, a new reputation on the dancefloor and a series of their biggest hits.
"If you manage to get the four of them in one room with instruments in their hands you're going to get results. That has a lot to do with my job - just getting them in the room and playing."
Production designer Willie Williams set about reinventing the rock tour with help from a 130-foot video wall juxtaposing 24-hour hard news, shopping channel ephemera and postmodern slogans
The subsequent Zoo TV tour opened in Florida on February 29 1992 and circumnavigated the globe twice in almost two years before ending in Japan on December 10 1993. Achtung Baby had proved a groundbreaking album and production designer Willie Williams set about reinventing the rock tour with help from a 130-foot video wall juxtaposing 24-hour hard news, shopping channel ephemera and postmodern slogans to ramp up the irony levels. ("EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG"). Guest appearances featured Lou Reed, Salman Rushdie (while in hiding in the aftermath of publication of The Satanic Verses) and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, who performed 'Dancing Queen' with the band. Still can't imagine what it looked like ? This is what it looked like. It being the run up to the 1992 American Presidential Election, Bono interrupted the set list to make satellite calls to the Bush White House. He never did get through to then President George Bush - little did anyone know that within a few years Presidents and politicians would be taking those calls - but via the ZOO TV satellite link he also called into war-torn Sarajevo, hearing the voices of a city under siege thanks to the maverick journalist Bill Carter.
In the middle of Zoo's European leg the band recorded a whole album, the haunting and experimental Zooropa (1993) featuring lead vocals from Johnny Cash on the final track The Wanderer. The Zoo stop in Sydney was later digitally remastered and released on DVD,
' Zoo TV Live From Sydney'.
The Sarajevo connection inspired one of the tracks on Passengers: Original Soundtracks Volume I, the most experimental album the band had collaborated on - unsurprisingly with Brian Eno at the heart of the mix. 'Miss Sarajevo' featured a star turn by Luciano Pavarotti. Crowning this heady period, Pop (1997) cloaked its heavy lyrical payload in state-of-the-art dance rhythms, a creative collusion with DJ Howie B. 'The themes are love, desire and faith in crisis,' explained Edge. 'The usual stuff.'
The resulting tour, POPMART - which saw the band become the first major act to perform in Sarajevo after the Bosnian War - was another visual spectacle imagined by Willie Williams introduced the rave-rock of Mofo and Discotheque to a new generation of fans.
It was four years before another album, but it was worth the wait: All That You Can't Leave Behind features songs which went on to win 'Record of the Year' Grammy Awards in two consecutive years - 'Beautiful Day' in 2001 and 'Walk On' in 2002 - the only time this has ever happened. Released in 2000, ATYCLB went on to win seven Grammys and sell more than ten million copies worldwide. 'I think it was a very good idea to make a record that actually sounded like U2 again...' explained Paul McGuinness. 'It went to No.1 in 32 countries.'
It was followed by the 113-date Elevation Tour, a similarly stripped-back approach, with the focus firmly on the songs. 'It wasn't really minimalist,' says Edge. 'But compared to POP anything would seem back to basics.' It was the design that grabbed Larry: 'The use of the heart as a runway to get out into the audience and the way the heart itself filled with people, was great. It was almost like a club gig within an arena.'
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004) was "very much a guitar record," explained Adam. "Vertigo, Love and Peace, City of Blinding Lights, All Because of You, all pretty up , rocky tunes. A lot of them are a kick-back to our very early days, so it's like with each year we have gathered a little bit more and this is what we are now.' Recorded with both new and old producers - Steve Lillywhite, Chris Thomas, Flood, Jacknife Lee, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Nellee Hooper and Carl Glanville worked on the album - U2's eleventh studio record from was released in November 2004, debuted at at Number 1 in 25 countries and the lead single Vertigo won three Grammy awards, including Best Rock Song. The Vertigo tour which followed was the highest grossing tour of the year and with the album confirmed U2 as "the greatest rock and roll band in the world." During 2005 U2 played to more than 3.2 million people. In March Bruce Springsteen inducted the band into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, describing them as 'the keepers of some of the most beautiful sonic architecture in the rock-and-roll world," said rocker Bruce Springsteen while inducting U2.'
And then there was Live 8, beamed live to half the planet, and opening up with U2 performing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Paul McCartney. At the 2006 Grammy ceremony, U2 took home 5 Awards, including the coveted Album of the Year for HTDAAB. These new wins brought their total number of Grammy Awards to 22, more than any other band.
While spending a month recording at Abbey Road Studios London in 2006, U2 collaborated with Green Day to record a cover of the song The Saints Are Coming by The Skids. The recording was a benefit for Music Rising, a charity founded by The Edge which aims to help rebuild the musical heart and culture of New Orleans by replacing instruments that were lost during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. The band have released three 'Best of' collections: 'The Best of 1980-1990', 'The Best of 1990-2000', and 'U218 Singles'
in 2006 which also featured the new song 'Windows In the Skies' .
Five years after the release of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, in March 2009 the band released No Line on the Horizon. Their 12th studio album was written and recorded in in Fez, Morocco, Dublin, Ireland, New York and Olympic Studios in London. The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.
In July 2011, two years after opening up in Barcelona, the band played the final show of U2360°. Over 26 months it became the most succesful concert tour of all time, with 110 shows to 7.1million fans in 30 countries on 5 continents.
A revolutionary production, U2360° caught the imagination of its audience, who nicknamed U2's circular stage the Claw, the Spaceship and - in Houston - the Space Station. USA Today described it as 'a four-pronged UFO anchored by a glowing 164-foot pylon and cylindrical LED screens.' But whatever it was called, for the Chicago Tribune, 'The lights, the songs, the audience all synced up. Sometimes size matters.'
Just a few weeks from the end of the tour, the band flew out of the US, back across the Atlantic and landed on a farm in the heart of rural Somerset. After all these years it was time to headline the Glastonbury Festival. OK, it rained, but that didn't stop the band setting the Festival alight - 19 songs from eight albums in an electrifying set over an hour and three quarters. Here's what they played - and what people said about a night to remember.
Just a few weeks later the tour came to a close and ahead of the closing night in Moncton, Canada, Ray Waddell of Billboard summed it all up, 'With tonight's final show, U2's 360° tour will go down as the biggest tour ever reported both in terms of box office gross and attendance. This tour is a remarkable feat on a global scale, from its staging and production, to its video elements, all the way to the scaling of the house, routing and execution. Most importantly, U2 rocked mightily all over the world.'
Some other U2360° facts: 10 million watched a live stream of U2360° at the RoseBowl on YouTube; 320,000 Fans saw 360° in Mexico City ; 7,100 miles - approximate distance travelled by space station while talking with U2; 5,200 Years - collective touring experience of U2 tour personnel ; 400 tons - weight of the fully loaded claw; 134 Crew Members ; 126 Truck Drivers; 53 gigs attended by a single fan; 33 Flemish Speaking Crew members; 11 Babies Born To Crew ; 7 Astronauts Attended; 4 Appreciative Irishmen; 1 Singer in Surgery; 1 World Leader Released From House Arrest During Tour.
In October 2013, the band revealed they'd written a new song, 'Ordinary Love', for the biopic Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris. Produced by Danger Mouse, the song was released in a 10-inch vinyl pressing to mark Record Store Day on November 29th and the single sleeve featured a painting of Nelson Mandela by Irish artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Oliver, along with Mac Premo, directed a lyric video for Ordinary Love.
'We thought it should be a love song, a very human song. ' Edge explained, when asked about how the band approached the request by movie producer Harvey Weinstein to write a song for the movie. 'Not epic, not earnest in dealing with world-changing political shifts but personal in two people trying to hold on to one another in the face of dreadful mistreatment and heartbreak.' The song went on to win the golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in January 2014 and was nominated for an Oscar at the ceremony in February, where the band performed it live.
In February 2014, the band released another single, 'Invisible'. Produced by Danger Mouse and mixed by Tom Elmhirst, Invisible marked the launch of a partnership with (RED) and Bank Of America in the campaign to create an AIDS free generation. For 36 hours, every time the track was downloaded from iTunes, the Bank made a donation of $1 to (RED) for the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. More than $3m was raised and when the track went on sale, all proceeds from 'Invisible' on iTunes continued to go to (RED) for the Global Fund.
'The early lyrics were set on a train coming into London for the first time.' said Bono. ' I remember sleeping in Euston station, being broke... coming out of the subway into the spring of 1979, being 18 years old, it was punk rock in London.'
The video for 'Invisible', directed by Mark Romanek, was shot in black and white, in a Santa Monica airport hangar, over three days in January. With a cast of 1200. And flashlights. A sixty second clip premiered on February 2nd during the Super Bowl, to launch the partnership with (RED).
Out of the blue, on September 9th 2014, the band turned up at the Cupertino launch of the new iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple head Tim Cook explained that a decade previously 'we began a deep collaboration with one of the best bands of all time - and that band is U2.' Taking the stage, the band performed a brand new song, 'The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)' - after which Bono spoke with Cook and revealed some news. The song was the lead single from a new album called 'Songs Of Innocence' and the eleven tracks, finished less than a week ago, were now ready for release. Literally now. As he spoke, iTunes were putting the album automatically into the music libraries of 500million customers in 119 countries around the world. It would, said Cook, be 'the largest album release of all time.'
In December 2019 the band played Mumbai in India, the final show of The Joshua Tree Tour 2019. And the final show of four years of touring between 2015 and 2020. And just ahead of their first trip to India, they released a new song, 'Ahimsa', a collaboration with legendary composer A.R. Rahman.
'This is an invitation to a high location
For someone who wants to BELONG
This is a meditation on your radio station
If you like it you can sing along...'
'We come as students to the source of inspiration.' explained Bono. 'That is Ahimsa… non-violence. India gave this to us… the greatest gift to the world. It is more powerful than nuclear energy, the armies, the navy's, the British Empire. It is power itself. And it's never been more important.'

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The Kingdom of Thailand is a country in southeast Asia, bordering Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and the Andaman Sea and Myanmar to the west. Thailand is also known as Siam, which was the country's name until May 11, 1949. The word Thai means "free" in the local language. It is also the name of the Thai people - leading some inhabitants, particularly the sizeable chinese minority, to still use the name Siam.
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History Main article: History of Thailand
Thailand's origin is traditionally tied to the short-lived kingdom of Sukhothai founded in 1238, after which the larger kingdom of Ayutthaya was established in the mid-14th century. Thai culture was greatly influenced by both China and India. Contact with various European powers began in the 16th century but despite continued pressure Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power, though Western influence led to many reforms in the 19th century.
A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy. Known previously as Siam the country first changed its name to Thailand in 1939 and definitively in 1949 after reverting to the old name post-World War II. During that conflict Thailand was in a loose alliance with Japan; following its conclusion Thailand became an ally of the United States. Thailand then saw a series of military coup d'états, but progressed towards democracy from the 1980s onward.
Politics Main article: Politics of Thailand
The king has little direct power under the constitution but is a symbol of national identity and unity and the present monarch enjoys a great deal of popular respect and moral authority, which has on occasion been used to resolve political crises. The head of government is the prime minister, who is appointed by the king after having been designated from among the members of the lower house of parliament, usually the leader of the party that can organise a majority coalition government.
The bicameral Thai parliament is the National Assembly or Rathasapha, which consists of a House of Representatives (the Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon) of 500 seats and a senate (the Wuthisapha) of 200 seats. Members of both houses are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms. The highest judiciary body is the Supreme Court or Sandika, whose judges are appointed by the monarch. Thailand is an active member of the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Provinces Main article: Provinces of Thailand
Thailand is divided into 76 provinces (changwat, singular and plural), which are grouped into 5 groups of provinces. The name of a province is derived from its capital city.
Provinces are further subdivided into 642 districts (Amphoe) and 78 sub-districts (King Amphoe), and furthermore into 7,236 communes (Tambon), 55,746 villages (Muban), 123 municipalities (Tesaban), and 729 sanitation districts (Sukhaphiban) (numbers are for 1984).
Geography Main article: Geography of Thailand
Thailand is home to several distinct geographic regions, partly corresponding to the provincial groups. The north of the country is mountainous, with the highest point being the Doi Inthanon at 2,576 m. The northeast consists of the Khorat Plateau, bordered to the east by the Mekong river. The centre of the country is dominated by the predominantly flat Chao Phraya river valley, which runs into the Gulf of Thailand. The south consists of the narrow Kra Isthmus[?] that widens into the Malay Peninsula.
The local climate is tropical and characterised by monsoons. There is a rainy, warm, and cloudy southwest monsoon from mid-May to September, as well as a dry, cool northeast monsoon from November to mid-March. The southern isthmus is always hot and humid. Major cities beside the capital Bangkok include Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Sawan[?], Chiang Mai, and Songkhla[?].
Economy Main article: Economy of Thailand
After enjoying the world's highest growth rate from 1985 to 1995 - averaging almost 9% annually - increased speculative pressure on Thailand's currency, the baht, in 1997 led to a crisis that uncovered financial sector weaknesses and forced the government to float the currency. Long pegged at 25 to the US dollar, the baht reached its lowest point of 56 to the US dollar in January 1998 and the economy contracted by 10.2% that same year.
Thailand entered a recovery stage in 1999, expanding 4.2% and grew 4.4% in 2000, largely due to strong exports - which increased about 20% in 2000. An ailing financial sector and the slow pace of corporate debt restructuring, combined with a softening of global demand, however, slowed growth in 2001 to 1.4%.
Demographics Main article: Demographics of Thailand
Thailand's population is dominated by ethnic Thais who make up three quarters of the population. There is also a large community of ethnic Chinese, who have historically played a disproportionately significant role in the economy. Other ethnic groups include Malays[?] in the south and various indigenous hill tribes.
The majority of Thais are Buddhists of the Theravada tradition, but small minorities of Muslims, Christians and Hindus also exist. The Thai language is Thailand's national language, written in its own Thai alphabet, but many ethnic and regional dialects exist and English is commonly taught in schools.
Culture Main article: Culture of Thailand[?]
Muay thai, or Thai boxing, is the national sport in Thailand and its native martial art. It reached popularity all over the world in the last decade. A notable social norm holds that touching someone on the head may be considered rude.
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The condition isn't just a stereotype represented by the proverbial fist-waving shout, "Get off my lawn!" Testosterone levels generally fall as men age, according to the Mayo Clinic. Such hormone drops are known to dampen male moods, says Dr. Ridwan Shabsigh, head of the International Society of Men's Health and a urologist in New York City.
"Testosterone is a hormone that grows muscles, reduces fat in the body, affects energy, and improves sexual desire," Shabsigh says. "However, it also has neural-psycho effects. And in some men we encounter in our practice, those affects can be mostly visible: low mood and irritability."
Grumpiness is even used as a mood description in screening questionnaires for low testosterone. One form many U.S. male patients are asked to fill out is a test for Androgen Deficiency in Aging Men (ADAM). Androgen is the family of hormones that controls the development of masculine traits. Question No. 6 on that form reads: "Are you sad and/or grumpy?"
"Patients with low testosterone tell me they feel less capable of concentration. And they feel less capable of tolerating the nuances of everyday life – from family, friends, colleagues and customers," Shabsigh said. "Whatever you do, you have people around you, and you get irritated sometimes. The ability to tolerate or deal with it is reduced when the testosterone is low."
Certain metabolic and kidney diseases, including diabetes, are known to cause abnormally low testosterone, Shabsigh says, adding the prevalence of those disorders rises with age.
In healthy men, testosterone levels remain within normal limits until about age 60, with a gradual decline after that, studies indicate. According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, up to 30 percent of men beyond the age of 75 have low testosterone levels. The question of whether to treat such cases of low testosterone "remains a matter of debate," according to the Mayo Clinic.
It's not always hormones or other physical health issues, though. Men aren't as likely to share worries or concerns about aging which can leave a guy prone to flailing outbursts into the ether. Older-guy grumpiness can also be traced to major life changes like retirement that come with advancing years, Wyer says.
"Women have friends and we talk about our problems and we take medication and all that kind of stuff. But for men, it's something they suppress. It's a male thing," says Wyer, author of the upcoming humor book "How Not To Murder Your Grumpy."
Feeling that they no longer are useful, especially, if a man has held an important position in employment prior to retirement, "can result in severe depression at worst and general grumpiness at best," Wyer said.
Wyer's husband of 25 years, John, turned 60 this year and became very grumpy just after his birthday, she says. "I have spoken to other women in the same position who have said exactly the same: Husbands, even those who have looked forward to a big birthday, have become morose soon after," Wyer says.
John Wyer, who owned his own business and misses "the cut and thrust" of his work, has self-diagnosed his own occasionally gloomy anger as something of a byproduct of Western society's collective view toward — and value of — people who are 60 or beyond.
"One of the things that really took hold of me was the fact that I was approaching a ripe old age, let's say, and I felt society can cast you off as a little bit of a no-hoper. I just feel that isn't right. I feel people in increasing years have a lot to offer. And they shouldn't cast off to one side. And I suppose my grumpiness is a little bit of a protest against sliding down that particular route," he said.
"You think, well, gosh, there's got to be to be something a little more than this. Being grumpy is just my way of getting through it and laughing at myself."
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WASHINGTON — With time running out, the White House was preparing to press Congress next week to keep money flowing into a federal fund for road and bridge repairs, warning of economic harm, lost aid to states and idled construction workers unless lawmakers act.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has said the federal Highway Trust Fund is expected run dry by late August. Without congressional action, transportation aid to states will be delayed and workers will be laid off construction sites nationwide, Foxx said.
To that end, the White House will spend next week highlighting the issue and pressing for action. In contrast to President Barack Obama's 2014 goal to act without Congress wherever he can, the highway funding issue is not one he can solve on his own.
On Wednesday, Obama is scheduled to speak in front of the Tappan Zee Bridge, a nearly 60-year-old span across the Hudson River north of New York City, to press for action. He will also highlight steps the administration has taken to cut red tape, modernize the federal permitting process and reduce the timelines for approving projects, said Matt Lehrich, an assistant White House press secretary.
On Friday, the president plans to discuss infrastructure with workers in the Washington area.
Vice President Joe Biden will also be involved. On Tuesday, he is to tour a project in St. Louis where a pedestrian bridge is being built over Interstate 70 to make it easier and safer for people to get to the Gateway Arch. Then on Wednesday he heads to Cleveland, where an obsolete transit station is being replaced with a new, more energy efficient building.
The White House plans to open the week by releasing an analysis on Monday on the need to pay for these types of repairs and upgrades.
Senior administration officials will also be sent out to help sound the alarm.
Last month, the Obama administration sent Congress a four-year, $302 billion transportation plan. A highlight includes pumping about $150 billion into transportation programs beyond the money raised through fuel taxes. The additional spending would be paid for by changes to business taxes, including closing corporate loopholes.
The White House push also comes as a bipartisan group of senators, led by California Democrat Barbara Boxer, prepares to unveil a surface transportation proposal.
Obama unveiled his transportation plan during a trip to St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year.
The White House would prefer to see Congress adopt the president's approach, but is most concerned about getting an acceptable, long-term bill that could earn the president's signature and provide the certainty that cities, states and businesses want to see before they commit to large projects that take years to complete.
Lawmakers in both parties have been reluctant to raise the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal gasoline and 24.4-cent diesel taxes that are the main sources of revenue for the Highway Trust Fund. Neither tax has been raised since 1993. In the two decades since then, inflation has driven up construction costs and the amount of revenue flowing into the fund has lagged because motorists are driving less and vehicles are more fuel efficient. The reluctance to hike the fuel taxes has left the fund constantly teetering on the edge of insolvency.
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The biggest change is that we shifted to using an external fork of numpy rather than a minimal numpypy module. The idea is that we will be able to reuse most of the upstream pure-python numpy components, replacing the C modules with appropriate RPython micronumpy pieces at the correct places in the module namespace.
The numpy fork should work just as well as the old numpypy for functionality that existed previously, and also include much new functionality from the pure-python numpy pieces that simply hadn't been imported yet in numpypy. However, this new functionality will not have been "hand picked" to only include pieces that work, so you may run into functionality that relies on unimplemented components (which should fail with user-level exceptions).
This setup also allows us to run the entire numpy test suite, which will help in directing future compatibility development. The recent PyPy release includes these changes, so download it and let us know how it works! And if you want to live on the edge, the nightly includes even more numpy progress made in November.
To install the fork, download the latest release, and then install numpy either separately with a virtualenv: pip install git+https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy.git; or directly: git clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy.git; cd numpy; pypy setup.py install.
EDIT: if you install numpy as root, you may need to also import it once as root before it works: sudo pypy -c 'import numpy'
Along with this change, progress was made in fixing internal micronumpy bugs and increasing compatibility:
- Fixed a bug with strings in record dtypes
- Fixed a bug where the multiplication of an ndarray with a Python int or float resulted in loss of the array's dtype
- Fixed several segfaults encountered in the numpy test suite (suite should run now without segfaulting)
We also began working on __array_prepare__ and __array_wrap__, which are necessary pieces for a working matplotlib module.
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As we wrote last week, Apple's rights to the iPhone trademark in Brazil was hanging in the balance, in the latest twist, Brazilian regulators have ruled the company doesn't have the exclusive rights to the name in the country.
Brazilian smartphone manufacturer Gradiente Eletronica owns the rights to the name iPhone, and according to our translation of a story in Brazilian paper Folha De S.Paulo earlier this month, the Brazil's National industrial Property Institute (INPI) had rejected Apple's claims.
Now, Brazilian regulators have made that official, but ruling that Apple doesn't have the exclusive rights to use the name iPhone. While this doesn't mean Apple has to change the name of its smartphone, the BBC notes that Gradiente could now sue Apple, if they wished to have exclusivity.
Electronics company IGB who makes the Gradiente iPhone filed for the iPhone trademark in 2000 (seven years before the iPhone launched in 2007.) The trademark was granted to them in 2008 (a year after the iPhone launched). Apple had applied for the iPhone trademark in 2007, but that request has now been denied, according to the paper.
According to the BBC, Apple has argued that it should have been given full rights since Gradiente had not released a product using the iPhone name until December 2012. The company claims that Gradiente should have used the name within five years of filing it.
What seems more likely is that Gradiente will attempt to make money out of Apple. As we previously noted, the chairman of Gradiente, Eugenio Emilio Staub said that he is happy to talk to Apple. "We're open to a dialogue for anything, anytime. We're not radicals," he said.
Apple has already paid to acquire the iOS trademark from Cisco and the iPHONE trademark for iPad from Proview. The company also failed to stop sales of the iFone in Mexico.
IGB claims it filed its request for the iPhone brand name with the Brazilian Government back in 2000 when it realised: "There would be a technological revolution in the world of cellphones with the convergence of voice and data transmission and reception via mobile Internet."
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Others expressed fears that the ECB could end its bond-buying too soon, leading rates to rise again. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions; purchases that drive up the price also reduces the interest rate countries face on new bonds.
The ECB has been reluctant to become directly involved in Europe's 21-month-old financial crisis, instead pushing politicians to get their countries' finances under control and give the eurozone's 440 billion euro rescue fund the power to buy government bonds on the open markets.
But a recent spike in investor concern about Italy and Spain's high debt levels and lackluster economic growth caught the 17-country eurozone just as parliaments broke up for the summer recess, delaying the crucial changes to the bailout fund known as the European Financial Stability Facility.
Most governments say they won't be able to approve the expansion of the fund before September.
"For a democratic process with such heavy stakes, we cannot go any faster," French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said on Europe-1 radio.
Left as the last line of defense, the ECB said late Sunday that it had decided to "actively implement" its bond-buying program, a crisis tool not yet used for Italy and Spain.
The radical expansion of the ECB's bond-buying program cements the bank's unwilling role as the institution with primary responsibility for solving Europe's crisis.
But some economists said the risk of Spanish and Italian default could soon return if the ECB hands off bond-buying to the EFSF, whose resources are fixed by eurozone leaders while the bank's are, in theory, unlimited.
Analysts at the Royal Bank of Scotland said they expected the central bank to buy an average of euro2.5 billion worth of Spanish and Italian bonds each day, equivalent to euro600 billion a year.
Eventually, the bank could wind up purchasing euro850 billion ($1.2 trillion) of Spanish and Italian debt, the analysts added.
"You need somebody who is known to have unlimited firepower, and that's what the ECB has," said Paul De Grauwe, an economist at the Catholic University of Leuven. "There is no limit to the amount that the ECB can intervene. And once people see the central bank is ready to do this, they won't need to do it. It's an insurance mechanism."
Economists say the 440 billion euro fund is too small to rescue Italy if that becomes necessary, and its ability to support Italian and Spanish bonds maybe limited when it receives those powers later this year.
Germany Finance Ministry Christoph Steegmans said however, that Germany remains opposed to increasing the size of the fund, and it "will remain what it is."
Economist Michael Schubert at Commerzbank said he thought that the central bank would make bond purchases only until the EFSF was ready. He said the bank not only risked losses on the bonds, but its reputation as an inflation-fighting monetary authority.
"If people do not believe or are convinced that the ECB is only responsible for monetary policy, but is in effect supporting governments, then this could be a severe loss in reputation and the consequences would be that inflation expectations would go up."
Another analyst said the program falls short of contentious, long-term solutions such as issuing a joint eurobond, whereby the eurozone as a whole would borrow money in the markets. The problem for Germany is that it would pay higher interest rates under such a scheme.
A more drastic, and controversial, step would be joint control over budgets.
"Small steps have been taken that may put off the future of the euro crisis for a couple of months but it seems to me we have the same issues to contend with," said Simon Derrick, an analyst at The Bank of New York Mellon. "This is only over once they make the leap to fiscal union or someone leaves and the eurobond is a very strong step towards full fiscal union."
In afternoon trading Monday, the yield, or interest rate, on Italy's 10-year bonds was down 0.67 percentage point to 5.33 percent while the equivalent rate on Spain's tumbled 0.83 percentage point to 5.21 percent.
Italy's and Spain's borrowing costs rose to above 6 percent last week - rates that would strain the finances of eurozone's third and fourth largest economies. The goal is to prevent them from an interest rate spiral like the ones that forced Ireland, Greece and Portugal to seek bailout loans from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
Until now, the ECB had invested just under euro80 billion ($113 billion) in Greek, Irish and Portuguese bonds.
In contrast to the bond-buying programs of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, the ECB "sterilizes" its bond purchases by withdrawing funds from the financial system so that the overall amount of money in circulation remains the same, warding off any inflationary effects.
The ECB's decision to take a more active role came after both Italy and Spain announced new measures to cut spending and boost growth. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Friday night said that his country would work to balance its budget by 2013, a year earlier than planned.
Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado on Sunday announced new reforms aimed at bringing in an extra euro5 billion to help achieve its goal of cutting its deficit to 6 percent of GDP this year.


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British Open 2014: live stream, start time, TV info and more
By Josh Sanchez
The 2014 British Open kicks off bright and early Thursday morning in the states, with the first pairing for The Open Championship hitting the course at Royal Liverpool Golf Club at 1:25 a.m. ET.
How can you tune in to the opening round of the British Open on Thursday morning? Here is all of the information you will need to tune in to the action:
Date: Thursday, July 17
Start Time: 4 a.m. ET
Location: Merseyside, England
Course: Royal Liverpool Golf Club
TV Info: ESPN
Live Stream: WatchESPN
Tee Times and Pairings:
1:25 a.m.-6:26 a.m. — David Howell, England; David Duval, United States; Robert Karlsson, Sweden.
1:36 a.m.-6:37 a.m. — Dawie Van Der Walt, South Africa; Cameron Tringale, United States; Masanori Kobayashi, Japan.
1:47 a.m.-6:48 a.m. — Chris Wood, England; Matt Jones, Australia; Bernd Wiesberger, Austria.
1:58 a.m.-6:59 a.m. — Erik Compton, United States; Kim Hyung-Sung, South Korea; Marc Leishman, Australia.
2:09 a.m.-7:10 p.m. — Koumei Oda, Japan; Ben Martin, United States; Anirban Lahiri, India.
2:20 a.m.-7:21 a.m. — Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand; Brooks Koepka, United States; Edoardo Molinari, Italy.
2:31 a.m.-7:32 a.m. — Branden Grace, South Africa; Freddie Jacobson, Sweden; a-Ashley Chesters, England.
2:42 a.m.-7:43 a.m. — Justin Leonard, United States; Ben Curtis, United States; Paul Lawrie, Scotland.
2:53 a.m.-7:54 a.m. — Francesco Molinari, Italy; Ryan Moore, United States; Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark.
3:04 a.m.-8:05 a.m. — Matteo Manassero, Italy; a-Bradley Neil, Scotland; Mikko Ilonen, Finland.
3:15 a.m.-8:16 a.m. — Thomas Bjorn, Denmark; Patrick Reed, United States; Stewart Cink, United States.
3:26 a.m.-8:27 a.m. — Tom Watson, United States; Jim Furyk, United States; Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland.
3:37 a.m.-8:38 a.m. — Luke Donald, England; Rickie Fowler, United States; Sergio Garcia, Spain.
3:53 a.m.-8:54 a.m. — Harris English, United States; Paul Casey, England; Matt Every, United States.
4:04 a.m.-9:05 a.m. — Tiger Woods, United States; Angel Cabrera, Argentina; Henrik Stenson, Sweden.
4:15 a.m.-9:16 a.m. — Charl Schwartzel, South Africa; Padraig Harrington, Ireland; K.J. Choi, South Korea.
4:26 a.m.-9:27 a.m. — Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Hideki Matsuyama, Japan; Jordan Spieth, United States.
4:37 a.m.-9:38 a.m. — Ian Poulter, England; Dustin Johnson, United States; Jimmy Walker, United States.
4:48 a.m.-9:49 a.m. — Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland; Matt Kuchar, United States; Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa.
4:59 a.m-10 a.m. — Stephen Gallacher, Scotland; Hunter Mahan, United States; Victor Dubuisson, France.
5:10 a.m.-10:11 a.m. — Nick Faldo, England; Todd Hamilton, United States; David Hearn, Canada.
5:21 a.m.-10:22 a.m. — Ryan Palmer, United States; Brett Rumford, Australia; Tomohiro Kondo, Japan.
5:32 a.m.-10:33 a.m. — John Singleton, England; Peter Uihlein, United States; Marc Warren, Scotland.
5:43 a.m.-10:44 a.m. — Paul McKechnie, Scotland; Kristoffer Broberg, Sweden; Juvic Pagunsan, Philippines.
5:54 a.m.-10:55 a.m. — Rhein Gibson, Australia; Brian Harman, United States; Kim Hyung-Tae, South Korea.
6:05 a.m.-11:06 a.m. — Christopher Hanson, England; Oscar Floren, Sweden; Yoshinobu Tsukada, Japan.
6:26 a.m.-1:25 a.m. — James McLeary, Scotland; Matthew Southgate, England; Hiroshi Iwata, Japan.
6:37 a.m.-1:36 a.m. — Roberto Castro, United States; Victor Riu, France; Tyrrell Hatton, England.
6:48 a.m.-1:47 a.m. — Jang Dong-kyu, South Korea, Nick Watney, United States; Shawn Stefani, United States.
6:59 a.m.-1:58 a.m. — D.A. Points, United States; Y.E. Yang, South Korea; Brendan Steele, United States.
7:10 a.m.-2:09 a.m. — Scott Stallings, United States; Pablo Larrazabal, Spain; Bryden Macpherson, Australia.
7:21 a.m.-2:20 a.m. — George Coetzee, South Africa; Charley Hoffman, United States; Michael Hoey, Northern Ireland.
7:32 a.m.-2:31 a.m. — Kevin Streelman, United States; Brendon de Jonge, Zimbabwe; Brendon Todd, United States.
7:43 a.m.-2:42 a.m. — Gary Woodland, United States; Sandy Lyle, Scotland; Kevin Stadler, United States.
7:54 a.m.-2:53 a.m. — Brandt Snedeker, United States; Graham DeLaet, Canada; a-Pan Cheng-Tsung, Taiwan.
8:05 a.m.-3:04 a.m. — Boo Weekley, United States; Danny Willett, England; Ashun Wu, China.
8:16 a.m.-3:15 a.m. — J.B. Holmes, United States; Jonas Blixt, Sweden; Chris Kirk, United States.
8:27 a.m.-3:26 a.m. — Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain; Bill Haas, United States; Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand.
8:38 a.m.-3:37 a.m. — Martin Kaymer, Germany; Jason Day, Australia; Zach Johnson, United States.
8:54 a.m.-3:53 a.m. — Webb Simpson, United States; Jamie Donaldson, Wales; Yusaku Miyazato, Japan.
9:05 a.m.-4:04 a.m. — Phil Mickelson, United States; Ernie Els, South Africa; Bubba Watson, United States.
9:16 a.m.-4:15 a.m. — Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Spain; Russell Henley, United States; Billy Horschel, United States.
9:27 a.m.-4:26 a.m. — Adam Scott, Australia; Justin Rose, England; Jason Dufner, United States.
9:38 a.m.-4:37 a.m. — Ryo Ishikawa, Japan; Lee Westwood, England; Keegan Bradley, United States.
9:49 a.m.-4:48 a.m. — Kevin Na, United States; Joost Luiten, Netherlands; John Senden, Australia.
10 a.m.-4:59 a.m. — John Daly, United States; Tommy Fleetwood, England; Ross Fisher, England.
10:11 a.m.-5:10 a.m. — Mark Wiebe, United States; Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain; a-Paul Dunne, Ireland.
10:22 a.m.-5:21 a.m. — Oliver Fisher, England; Chesson Hadley, United States; Shane Lowry, Ireland.
10:33 a.m.-5:32 a.m. — George McNeill, United States; Richard Sterne, South Africa; Chris Stroud, United States.
10:44 a.m.-5:43 a.m. — Gregory Bourdy, France; Jin Jeong, South Korea; Matthew Baldwin, England.
10:55 a.m.-5:54 a.m. — Justin Walters, South Africa; Rhys Enoch, Wales; Billy Hurley III, United States.
11:06 a.m.-6:05 a.m. — Christopher Rodgers, England; Scott Jamieson, Scotland; An Byeong-Hun, South Korea.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Elvis Costello, B.B. King and Ray Davies are among the nominees for the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
They're joined by a slew of top acts, including Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill and Rod Temperton, who wrote Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rock With You and Off the Wall.
Songwriters Hall gave The Associated Press a list of nominees in advance of the official announcement, set for Oct. 16. The gala takes place June 13 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Also nominated are Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, former Eurythmics bandmates Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Aeromsith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Bobby Womack and Foreigner's Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, who said in an interview that he's excited to be highlighted as a songwriter.
"It means a lot that those songs have been recognized, and maybe, hopefully a little part of history," Jones said of the band's hits, which include I Want to Know What Love Is and Waiting for a Girl Like You.
Non-performing songwriters up for nomination include Chain of Fools songwriter Don Covay, country music songwriter Bobby Braddock and Holly Knight, who co-wrote Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield and Tina Turner's Better Be Good to Me.
Linda Perry, the writer behind Christina Aguilera's Beautiful, is also nominated alongside Bob McDill, Rick Nowels, Randy Goodrum, Tony Hatch and JD Souther. Writing duos Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri will also compete.
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"Packaging and graphic design of sun-care range, sold in Mercadona supermarkets. The project had a very demanding brief to optimize processes and costs, without sacrificing that the product communicates quality, is attractive and has a strong presence on the shelf. For the 36 references we designed two bottles. These two packs support different lids and different dosing mechanisms: pumps, sprays, disc-top… and also the design gives an effective response to the two objectives of the project: on one hand, solve problems of logistics and production; on the other, with only two packages, obtain a highly differentiated range of products, with its own personality. The colors of the containers provide the necessary differentiation between the sub-ranges of products: sunscreen, tanning, aftersun… The graphics serve as a rapid and clear identification of each one of them. This is achieved by the prominent and powerful presence of a numeral that indicates the protection factor, a key element in the purchase decision, and that at the same time strengthens the personality of the range."


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Fear and anxiety about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can be overwhelming. The changes to your regular routine can be difficult. You may have trouble sleeping, and feel anxious and uncertain about what the future will bring.
Finding ways to take care of yourself and your loved ones can help you cope and feel better. Here are some tips:
- Stay connected with friends and family. Support your friends and family by checking in with them. Phone calls, emails and texts can help you and your loved ones feel less lonely and isolated.
- Reduce stress during times of uncertainty. Take deep breaths, stretch or meditate. If you need to, take breaks from watching, reading or listening to news stories, and avoid social media and television. Talk with people you trust about your concerns and how you are feeling.
- Take care of yourself physically. Eat healthy, well‐balanced meals. Also, get plenty of sleep. Go for a walk outside during nice weather, but remember to be safe and observe social distancing guidelines.
- Talk with your child or teen. Kids are likely to react, in part, to what they see from the adults around them. Answer questions about COVID-19 in a way that your child or teen understands.
Your Horizon BCBSNJ health plan gives you access to discounts on mindfulness, healthy eating and other programs you can use for support during these difficult times. Visit Blue365 to learn more.


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Last week, Olivia Culpo, the first Miss Rhode Island to win the title of Miss USA, visited her home state. On Friday, Culpo spent the entire day in her hometown of Cranston, visiting familiar places …
Last week, Olivia Culpo, the first Miss Rhode Island to win the title of Miss USA, visited her home state. On Friday, Culpo spent the entire day in her hometown of Cranston, visiting familiar places and meeting with fans of all ages.
On Friday morning, Culpo visited the Cranston Public Library and read "The Giving Tree" to a small group of 4 and 5-year olds. She then signed autographs and took photos with the children and some of their parents. Afterwards, the library staff lined up for their chance to snap a shot with Miss USA.
Later in the afternoon, Culpo appeared with the Gloria Gemma Pink Bus in Garden City, promoting her platform of breast cancer awareness. Culpo also visited the Alex and Ani World Headquarters in Chapel View and the Cranston YMCA. According to her Twitter, Culpo even grabbed lunch in Warwick at Iggy's.
Later in the afternoon, the newest Miss USA attended a celebration in her honor in front of Cranton City Hall, an affair that shut down a portion of Park Avenue for most of the day.
The Cranston High School East and West bands combined to play for Culpo, as did BASICS, an elementary music program. Dignitaries like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Representative James Langevin, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, Cranston Mayor Allan Fung and Cranston City Council members attended the ceremony.
Whitehouse called Culpo's win and homecoming a "meteoric, bright, wonderful occasion."
In a reception before the public ceremony, Fung presented Culpo with a bouquet of roses, as invited guests, dignitaries and Culpo's family looked on.
"These [roses] are bigger than the ones I got at Miss USA," Culpo said with a laugh.
In addition to greeting her adoring fans and supporters, Culpo, in her first visit to Rhode Island since her big win, got to spend time with her family: her parents, Susan and Peter, and siblings Aurora, Peter, Gus and Sophie.
"We're very, very thrilled," said her mother, Susan Culpo, a native of Cranston who attended Cranston High School East. "To have her come back … has been a thrill."
Susan admitted the she was skeptical at first about her daughter's choice to run for Miss Rhode Island.
"I thought it was silly," she said. "I realized she was a lovely girl, but I didn't see what running was going to do."
But Susan said her daughter learned great lessons in self-discipline, public speaking and poise throughout her pageant preparation.
"I was wrong," said Susan. "She learned a lot."
And Culpo didn't just learn; she won. Susan said seeing her daughter win not only in her home state but also on the national level was astonishing. Since the pageant's beginnings in 1952, a contestant from Rhode Island has never won the title of Miss USA.
"It was an unbelievable moment," said Susan. "I was just so proud. The fact that she won was just the icing on the cake." Peter, Culpo's father, said the whirlwind of his daughter's success has been surreal.
"You can't plan for this," he said. "It's an incredible experience. I'm so proud."
Culpo's older sister, Aurora, 23, said it's been fun to see her younger sister in the spotlight.
"She deserves it all," said Aurora, a blonde who shares her sister's beauty and poise. Despite their similar characteristics, Aurora said there are no pageants in her future. Instead, Aurora is busy instructing yoga while completing her Master's degree in childhood education at Roger Williams University. She plans to travel with her sister to New York and to see her compete in the Miss Universe Pageant in December.
Olivia's younger brother, Gus, was in attendance at Friday's ceremony at City Hall. Gus, 16, will be a junior next year at Bishop Hendricken High School. He said he's watched his sister evolve in the past year.
"She's growing so much, it seems like she's changing," he said. "She's getting so good with people."
Gus recounted his reaction to seeing his sister win the title of Miss USA back in June.
"I was running up and down the aisles," he said. "I was so happy."
After the pomp and circumstance, a crowd of fans cheered Culpo outside of City Hall, where she was presented with a handcrafted, pewter key to the city.
"I know all the city of Cranston is proud today of the accomplishments Olivia has done for all Cranstonians and all Rhode Islanders," said Mayor Fung. "So we're definitely proud to be here today in celebration … of her."
Fung said the history of giving a person a key to the city, the highest honor a non-military civilian can achieve, dates back to Medieval times, when cities were fortified. By giving someone a key to the city, he said, it's recognition of high honor and trust.
"Your hard work, your dedication, your intelligence, your talent is something we are all proud of and led you to be the first Rhode Island native – the first Cranston native – to win the Miss USA pageant," said Fung. "The city of Cranston wishes you all the very best as you move onto the Miss Universe competition. We're very proud of you and hope you will always remember Cranston and always hold it true in your heart wherever your road takes you."
Culpo, who said she has been looking forward to coming back to Cranston "since the day [she] left for Miss USA," promised she'll always remember her Rhode Island roots.
"It means so much to come back here and see the warmhearted welcomes from everyone," she said. "I know if I was in any other town or any other state, it wouldn't be quite the same. Even the people from the Miss Universe organization told me they've never seen a homecoming quite like this."
In addition to receiving the key to the city, Cranston also planted a tree in Culpo's honor in front of City Hall. Culpo, her parents, Mayor Fung and Cranston City Council President Anthony Lupino threw ceremonial shovelfuls of dirt on the tree's base.
"To be here and be able to share this great accomplishment with all of you is really remarkable," said Culpo to the crowd gathered Friday afternoon. "I consider myself first representing my hometown and home state, before my title as Miss USA, so no matter where I go or what happens in Miss Universe, I will always be your Cranston hometown girl."
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Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced is a useful utility for analyzing the contents of your text files, either individually or in batch mode. In many ways, it's a friendly shell around common grep functionality. The default is to simply count the unique words in a file, and their frequency (common English words like a and the are normally not counted, though this can be changed). This alone has some utility for programmers, but the real power of this program comes in two features: The ability to scan an entire folder tree and the ability to look for and count specified patterns.
For example, if you wanted to see how often a particular function was called in a large directory of source code, you can point Word Frequency Counter at the root directory, set the included file extensions to .cpp (or .java, .bas, or whatever), and set the word to look for to someRoutine. You then get back a list of how often this word appears. Pattern matching increases the functionality greatly: If there are a dozen functions, all beginning with FileProcess, you can enter FileProcess~ and get a breakdown of each function's frequency. (This could reveal that some functions are being over- or underused.) You can save the patterns to search for in a file, making it easy to run regular checks.
Outside of programming, there are other uses. Archives of corporate memos or e-mail can be searched to see how often people use bafflegab such as proactive and leverage. You can use a client list as a source of patterns and see how frequently each is mentioned. Writers might find a list of overused phrases and clichés and see if they're using them too often in their prose.
All of these uses require two things: First, that you are willing to spend a little time learning the pattern matching specifications and tweaking the many options and settings to get the results you want; and second, that your data be accessible in plain text files. The greatest flaw to Word Frequency Counter is that it does not work on Word or PDF files (or any other non-text format). Given how much data is found only in those formats, this can be crippling, depending on your needs.
Word Frequency Counter Standard lacks the ability to search for specific phrases, to use pattern-matching, or to scan multiple files in a folder; it just counts individual words in a single file. This still has some uses for basic text analysis, but it is much less flexible.
At $48, Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced isn't an impulse buy. However, if you regularly perform manual searches for multiple phrases or find yourself needing to analyze text data that is freeform and stored in hundreds or thousands of text files, it may well be worth it.
Note: The demo version displays the first 200 results only, and it shows only the counts of words or phrases beginning with A through F.


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There's an unassailable rule of computing: No matter how fast your computer is, and no matter how well it runs, you want it to run better.
If you're looking to improve Windows 8, help is on the way. I've rounded up my favorite tips for doing system analysis, troubleshooting and fixing any problems you find, and in general speeding things up. No extra software is required; everything you need is built right into Windows 8.
If you've been around the Windows block a few times, you probably remember having to manually crank through an array of performance-oriented tasks: mucking around with page files, editing the Registry or using third-party tools such as disk cleaners. But over the years Windows has gotten much better at automating many of those tasks. In Windows 8, generally the best way to improve performance and know what's going on in your system is to use Windows' built-in tools, including the Resource Monitor, the Task Manager and the Reliability Monitor.
For some reason, however, several of the most useful administrative tools are hidden by default, so the first thing to do is unhide them: Press the Windows key + I to open the Settings charm, click the word Tiles, and then change the "Show administrative tools" slider to Yes.
With these hidden gems revealed, we can get started.
For more useful tips, see 10 Windows 8 tips, tricks and hacks. If you need help getting up to speed with Windows 8, see Windows 8 cheat sheet.
Troubleshoot sluggishness with the Resource Monitor
A little-known tool called the Resource Monitor does a very good job of tracking down performance problems and fixing them. Although it's not new -- it's been included in Windows since Vista -- it's still a great way to find out about the resources your system uses and to see what applications and services are making the most use of your system. Based on that, you can decide which apps and services to shut down and which to keep running.
To run it, type resmon at the Start screen and then click the resmon.exe icon that appears on the left side of the screen under Apps.
Note: If you're using a company-owned PC and don't have Administrator privileges, you may not be able to run the Resource Monitor. But never fear: You can still use the Task Manager and most other tools covered in this story to troubleshoot performance problems.
If you are able to get into the Resource Monitor, start on the Overview tab. It offers a snapshot of your system's resource usage, including CPU use, disk use, network use and memory use.
The screen is divided into two. On the left-hand side you'll see every process running on your system, by resource category (CPU, Disk, Network, and Memory), along with details about the usage of each process. (A process is any program that runs in Windows, from a tiny background task to a complex application such as a Web browser.)
On the right-hand side you'll see moving graphs of their cumulative use over time. You can see at a glance whether your CPU, disk, network or memory use is maxing out. If any are, you know you've got a problem, and you know the general category of problem.
For more details about any of those categories, click the appropriate tab across the top of the Resource Monitor. Each tab shows you what applications or services are making use of that particular resource, along with other useful information. For example, the CPU tab shows all the apps and services using the CPU, with a running average of CPU use for each app and service. Those that use the CPU the most are listed at the top; those that use it the least are listed at the bottom.
The display in each tab varies according to what's most useful. For example, the Memory tab shows, in addition to what programs and services are using memory, how much memory is currently used, cached, reserved for hardware and so on.
Once you've zeroed in on the problem, you can do something about it. If you've got apps and services overtaxing your CPU, for instance, you can close any of them by right-clicking it and selecting End Process from the drop-down menu. You might also consider looking for alternatives to those apps and services, and then using Resource Monitor later on to see whether those alternatives have lower resource usage.
Note that most of the information that the Resource Monitor displays is also shown in the Task Manager, another built-in performance tool we'll cover later in this article. Redone for Windows 8, the Task Manager has a more comprehensive set of tools and information than the Resource Monitor. That said, the Resource Monitor is still a useful tool for troubleshooting performance problems because it offers a quick at-a-glance look at your system, with in-depth information on each of its tabs.
Track stability and troubleshoot crashes with the Reliability Monitor
Another useful Windows tool is the Reliability Monitor, first introduced in Windows Vista. It offers a historical view of overall system stability and even includes detailed information about system crashes. Armed with this information, you can pinpoint the sources of problems and take steps to eliminate them.
To launch the Reliability Monitor, type reliability at the Start screen, click Settings, and click the "View reliability history" icon that appears on the left under Settings. The blue line running across the graph shows your system's stability over time. It's based on a number that Windows calculates to gauge your system's overall reliability. The maximum is 10 and the minimum is 1.
Every time there's a system failure, application failure or similar event, the index drops, sometimes sharply -- particularly if there's been more than one failure in a day. Each day your system doesn't have a failure, the index rises a little bit.
On days there are failures, you'll see red icons, divided into rows by type of failure -- application, Windows or miscellaneous (hardware, drivers, etc.). The chart also has icons for warnings about unsuccessful updates and for information about successful updates and installations.
Select any day with a failure or other event, and at the bottom of the screen you'll see details about those events, divided into categories. Pay attention to the details of each crash and failure. Look for patterns, such as if the same application frequently crashes. If so, uninstall it, or look for an update that fixes the problem.
Finally, down at the very bottom of the screen click "View all problem reports." Rather than seeing a chart over time, you'll instead see a list of all of your problems, including summaries. It lets you scroll through your problems more quickly than in the normal view, because they're in a long, vertical list.
Generate a detailed Performance Monitor report
Windows 8 includes a Performance Monitor tool that shows an immense amount of detail about a system's hardware and software. Unfortunately, its main interface is almost impossible to decipher. There is, however, one way to get some very useful information out of the Performance Monitor -- tell it to generate a detailed report for you that pinpoints system issues and suggests fixes.
You don't create the report directly from the Performance Monitor. Instead, from the Start screen type perfmon /report and click the "perfmn /report" icon that appears on the left. (Note that you might need Administrator rights to your PC to run the report.) A screen appears telling you that a report is generated, and after a minute or two, an interactive report appears onscreen.
The report can be lengthy, and goes into mind-numbing detail about your system. (If you want to know about things such as your system's video classes and UDP information it's the place to go.) Most useful are reports of errors or problems. If it finds any, those will be at the very beginning of the report. For each error or problem, it describes the symptom and the cause, suggests how to fix it, and provides a link to other useful information.
Streamline startup
A common cause of system slowdowns is programs that load unnecessarily at startup and bog down your system. There are several ways to speed up startup.
A good place to start is the Task Manager. You've got several different ways to launch the Task Manager -- take your pick:
- Press Ctrl-Shift-Esc.
- Right-click the taskbar on the Desktop and choose Task Manager.
- Type task manager on the Start screen, and click the Task Manager icon that appears on the left under Apps.
- Press Ctrl-Alt-Del, then choose Task Manager from the screen that appears.
- Right-click the lower-left corner of your screen and select Task Manager.
If you see the phrase "More details" at the bottom of the Task Manager screen, click it. If you see the phrase "Fewer details" at the bottom of the screen, you're already in the right place.
Now click the Startup tab. You'll see a list of programs and services that launch when you start Windows. For each one, you'll see its name, its publisher, whether it's enabled and the "startup impact" -- how much startup is slowed down by launching it. According to Microsoft's developer site, apps labeled as having high startup impact use more than 1 second of CPU time or more than 3MB of disk I/O at startup, medium-impact apps use 300 to 1000 milliseconds of CPU time or 300KB to 3MB of disk I/O, and low-impact apps use less than 300ms of CPU time and less than 300 KB of disk I/O.
If you'd like to stop any of the programs or services from launching at startup, right-click it and select Disable. This doesn't disable the program entirely; it simply prevents it from launching at startup. If you later decide you want it to launch at startup, get back here, right-click it and select Enable.
Some programs might have a small triangle next to them, indicating that they have multiple processes that run on startup. Click the triangle to see all the processes. It's not a good idea to disable some but not others, because that could cause instability in the program. So either disable all the processes or none.
You'll likely recognize some of the programs and services that run at startup, such as SkyDrive. But you'll also probably come across many that aren't familiar to you and whose purpose is almost impossible to discern. What to do about something called "persistence Module" or "hkcmd Module?" Should you turn them off or leave them on?
The Task Manager offers some solid help. Right-click an item and select Properties, and you'll see more detail about it, including its location, whether it has a digital signature from a company you know and other information such as the version number, its size and the last time it was modified.
Alternatively, when you right-click you can select "Open file location" and you'll open File Explorer to the folder where the file is located. That may give you a clue about the program's purpose.
Best of all, though, is to select "Search online" after you right-click. Bing launches and provides links to sites with information about the program or service. You'll usually very quickly find out information about the item, including its purpose and advice on whether it's safe.
For more ways to use the Task Manager to speed up your system, see "Track and fine-tune performance with the Task Manager" later in this article.
Clean out the Startup folder
There's another place to go if you want to stop programs from launching when you start your system -- the Startup folder. You can run File Explorer in one of these ways:
- Press the Windows key + E.
- Click the File Explorer icon on the Desktop's taskbar.
- Type file explorer on the Start screen and click the File Explorer icon that appears on the left.
Make sure you can view hidden files in File Explorer: Click the View tab and check the boxes next to "Hidden items" and "File name extensions" in the Ribbon at the top.
Next, click the Computer icon in the left pane and navigate to:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows
\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
where username is your Windows logon. Delete the shortcuts of any programs you don't want to run at startup. Don't worry; you won't delete the programs themselves, only their shortcuts.
Use Fast Startup
There's one last startup item to check: Make sure that Windows 8 uses a new mode called Fast Startup, a hybrid of a traditional shutdown/boot operation and hibernation. When you shut down your PC, all user sessions are closed but the Windows kernel session is saved to disk, or hibernated. Then when you start Windows again, it loads the hibernated system session from disk, cutting startup time.
By default, Fast Startup should be enabled on your system. But it's a good idea to make sure it's turned on, just in case your system wasn't set up correctly or Fast Startup was accidentally turned off.
On the Start screen, type power, click Settings and click the Power Options icon that appears on the left side of the screen under Settings. Click "Choose what the power buttons do" in the left pane, and under "Shutdown settings" at the bottom of the screen that appears, make sure that the box next to "Turn on fast startup" is checked.


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Tribal Sacred Line Hemp Shorts
These pants are made from 100% hemp to be the most comfortable and durable shorts that you've ever had. They are the only one of their kind, extremely soft to the touch, eco-friendly, and made from highest quality hemp we've ever seen, so you can look good and also feel good about it! They have three pockets, one on each side and one in the back. The vibrant tribal fabrics come from the Black Hmong hill tribe in the Lao Chai village of northern Vietnam
The hand woven fabrics of the these pants were purchased directly from the women artisans who weave them. By using these purchasing methods we are able to not only find the most beautiful fabrics, but also support the hill tribes in keeping their culture and supporting themselves through their traditional art. The shorts were made with love and each piece of fabric has an amazing story and huge amount of culture and heritage woven into each piece of thread. The patterns you see in the cross stitching each tell a story and and symbolize love, luck and fortune.
Elevate your sense of being and connect with the sacred history that lies in each and every one of us. Let us support the ancient history of our species and cherish the few remaining tribes who have held their wisdom and culture through the test of time.
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Kevin Van Aelst Work from Elsewhere. "This body of photographs, entitled Elsewhere, is an attempt to reconcile my physical surroundings with the fears, fascinations, curiosities, and daydreams occupying my mind. The photographs and constructions consist of common artifacts, materials, and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged and reassembled into various forms, patterns, and […]
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Reentry After an Evacuation
The evacuation of Monroe County is not a simple call. Evacuations are ordered only when officials believe that lives are in danger.
Reentry after evacuations is not simple and must be done in an orderly, staged manner when it is safe and there are enough services for people to return. The timeline is based upon the location and extent of damage, and how quickly conditions can be made safe.
Hurricanes bring storm surge, high winds, and wind-borne debris that can deprive at least parts of Monroe County of electricity, running water, working sewers, passable roads, reliable emergency services and operating medical facilities. Hurricanes also limit access to food, prescriptions, fuel, working ATMs, cell service, internet service, and other supplies and services, all while presenting safety issues that the average citizen may not be prepared to handle.
Live downed wires may be electrifying thousands of feet of soaked yards and roads. Debris from destroyed or damaged homes, trailers, overturned vehicles and trees may block every road in your neighborhood.
Recent studies reveal that a larger number of people suffer severe and fatal injuries after, as opposed to during an event, from live wires, injuries received while clearing debris, and other avoidable complications.
Protocol for Reentry
Monroe County Emergency Management Department has an established protocol for re-entry that takes into account public safety. If followed, this system will allow residents to return to their homes with as little delay as possible and with a considerable reduction of risk.
Immediately following a storm, essential personnel will be allowed to return to Monroe County. These responders will be tackling all hazards and physical obstacles that would prevent the safe return of residents and property owners to the Keys.
Once the major hazards and physical obstacles are made safe for the public -- this includes inspecting all bridges along U.S. 1 and making repairs to major road damage -- the second tier of essential personnel will be allowed in. Personnel in tier two will need an emergency worker placard, which needs to be applied for in advance of a storm by either a business or response organization. For information about the placard program, visit the Placard Program page.
For residents and business owners, Monroe County will open in stages after a major storm; based on the damaged or obstructed areas. Residents should obtain reentry windshield stickers before evacuating. Visitors will be allowed to enter the Florida Keys only when it is deemed appropriate by local officials.
What Should I Do and Not Do?
When an evacuation is ordered, already have a destination planned. Plan to stay at your evacuation destination until you learn that it is safe to come back. You should not congregate at checkpoints entering the Keys. It only delays the entrance of critical emergency responders and personnel.
How can I get official information about when I can return to the Keys after an evacuation?
The best way is to sign up for Monroe County Emergency Management's Alert!Monroe system that enables you to receive emergency alerts and information via text messages, phone calls, or emails. Sign up at www.monroecountyem.com/alertmonroe.
Official information about reentry also will be posted on these other Monroe County Emergency Management outlets:
- Monroe County BOCC Facebook
- @MonroeCounty Twitter
- Monroe County TV (Channel 99 on Comcast, Channel 76 on AT&T U-Verse)
- Alert!Monroe
Monroe County Emergency Management Information Hotline
- 1-800-955-5504


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Mafia boss of Kurdish origin shot dead in Russia: official
MOSCOW - Agence France-PresseA man believed to be one of Russia's biggest mafia bosses was shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Wednesday as he was leaving a restaurant after lunch, the interior ministry said.
Aslan Usoyan, known by his nickname of "Grandpa Hassan", was killed by a shot from a sniper's rifle as he was exiting the Karetny Dvor restaurant.
"After being injured in the shooting he was taken to hospital where he died," an interior ministry official told the RIA Novosti news agency.
Reports said that a woman was injured in the leg in the shooting.
Usoyan had already survived an assassination bid in September 2010 when he was shot in the abdomen in central Moscow.
He was seen as a close ally of Russian mafia kingpin Vyacheslav "Yaponchik" Ivankov who died of wounds from an assassination attempt in 2009.
Contract killings in business turf wars are much rarer in Moscow than in the chaotic 1990s but still occur sporadically in the Russian capital.