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A woman visiting from Dallas died early Tuesday morning, shortly after being rescued from the Chicago River.
Divers pulled Keisha Elissa Garnett, 30, from the icy water near the Michigan Avenue Bridge at around 4 a.m.
Hailey Barham, who is visiting from Indianapolis, said she was driving when she saw a "hysterical" woman on Michigan Avenue near the East Upper Wacker Drive intersection, begging a cab driver to call police.
"The cab driver didn't call police. He just drove off," she said, later identifying the woman on the street as a friend of the person in the water. "I'm the one that called 911."
Police initially said a witness reported seeing Garnett jump into the water. Officials later said she was with another woman and a man, all visiting from Houston, and likely fell into the water.
Barham, 28, said the trio was staying at the Omni Hotel, at 676 N. Michigan Ave.
"I was in the squad car talking to police with her friend," she said. "[Her friend] was really shaken up. She was scared."
After being pulled from the water, Garnett, whose name was not released until about 1:30 p.m., was transported in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Two boats, one from the Chicago Police Department's Marine Unit and another from the Chicago Fire Department, moved through the blocks of ice during the rescue. Garnett may have been in the water for about 15 minutes, officials said.
Correction: A previous version of this report incorrectly identified the victim as Alicia Garnett.


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Health and Safety
Safety is one of our primary concerns at Woodlands Camp. Your kids become our kids when they step onto camp, so we take their well being very seriously. For this reason, we have the following safety standards and procedures in place.
Health Staff
Because safety is such a big priority, we take special care when choosing our health staff. They are present with first aid equipment at camp activities. We have two Registered Nurses and three health assistants on staff as well as a doctor on call. If you have questions regarding a health concern for your child please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
While camp is in session, visitors are prohibited. Special exceptions may be granted by the office prior to a visit. Guests are required to check-in upon arrival and check-out at the camp office. Guests are required to remain with Woodlands staff or an approved chaperone while on camp property. Woodlands Camp reserves the right to decline any visitation request. If a visitor knowingly fails to comply with any camp policy, they will be asked to leave the premises. If necessary, local authorities will be contacted.
Swim Time Safety
Every camper is required to take a swim test before the first swim session starts. We take swim safety extremely seriously. There are always at least 10 certified lifeguards present and actively watching the campers during swim time.
Food Allergies/Sensitivity Policy
There are a wide variety of food allergies and sensitivities that children have. Unfortunately, due to time restraints and the volume of food served each meal at Woodlands, we do not offer special dietary menus at this time. If your child has an allergy or sensitivity, please check out our menu: Xtreme Teen Camp Menu.
If you feel your child needs supplemental/replacement food you may send these and deliver them to the camp kitchen the day of registration between 2:30-4:30 INCLUDINGa filled out Allergy Form: Xtreme Teen Camp Allergy Form.
Due to the risk of cross contamination and health codes, the kitchen staff cannot cook individual meals. Everything must be pre-made/cooked and pre-packaged in serving size containers. A refrigerator, freezer, dry storage and microwave is available. Please follow the following labeling instructions:
Camper Name (Happy Camper)
Date to be served (Monday, June 20)
Meal to be served (Breakfast)
A note about severe food allergies: We do have kids who come to camp with severe food allergies but they must be aware of their allergy and of course, know what they can and can not have. Our kitchen is not nut free and many of the mixes, etc – even though they do not contain peanuts- have been "processed in a place that processes peanuts, etc, etc…" If something is served that actually contains nuts, the kitchen staff places a sign by that food that lets the camper know it contains nuts. We also provide a special Woodlands wristband to campers with rescue medication (epi-pens, inhalers) to alert the staff that medication is available in the event of an emergency. We know the severity of food allergies varies so we trust you as the parent to ultimately decide if the camp environment if safe for your child's health. If you feel that it is- we certainly will do what we can to make sure has a safe and unforgettable week. If you have further medical questions, please feel free to email the camp nurse at email@example.com.
Diabetic Campers
We ask that the camper is "well controlled" meaning they have had consistent BS levels for the last 6-9 weeks (prior to camp), they need to know their high and low symptoms- and not be afraid to tell someone, and do not need any regular middle of the night care (BS checks, insulin doses). Some campers are fairly self sufficient and some need more help. The clinic is attached to the dining hall so communicating and checking BS at mealtimes is very convenient. We are happy to help calculate carbs and give insulin as long as the camper is willing to communicate with the lead nurse and "having to check in with the nurse" doesn't bother them or feel like it will take away from their camp experience. We do keep records of their mealtime BS levels and insulin doses for our documentation. Some campers bring an extra glucometer to keep in the clinic and one to keep with them for convenience but this is not required if you do not have a second one. We also have a refrigerator to keep insulin and any extra supplies. Checking BS at any point during the day is not a problem and is preferable prior to swim time and required if there have been irregularities. Keeping snacks, glucose tabs, etc with them and in their cabin is permitted as well. Camp is definitely a more active environment than school so please keep that in mind when discussing camp with your campers doctor and in sending instructions for correction doses, carb ratios, etc for their week of camp.
Physical and/or Mental Limitations
It is our desire that every child have an opportunity to attend Woodlands. However, some physical and/or mental limitations may prevent a child from having a safe and enjoyable week at camp. In regard to physical and/or mental disabilities or limitations, we ask that each child have the ability to perform all activities of daily living (dressing, eating, ambulating, toileting and hygiene) with independence. We do have handicap access to most buildings but please notify our office BEFORE camper arrival to be sure we can safely accommodate your child. In regards to mental limitations or developmental delays, each camper needs to have the ability to understand and follow rules and instructions. Many activities at camp have an inherent risk associated with them (zip line, swimming, etc.) and require a cognitive understanding of procedure and potential dangers before participating. Your child will be expected to have the ability to follow these instructions for their safety. If your child needs assistance in any of these areas and you are unsure whether your child can safely attend camp, please contact our nurse at firstname.lastname@example.com.
After Hours Emergencies
Our office is open from 8:30am-5:30pm on regular business days. In the event of an emergency and you need to contact someone after business hours, please call 706-348-3742.

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Kinect plus tablet control insane skateboard
A BEHEMOTH for the 21st century
What do you get when you combine a Kinect, a Samsung tablet and an electric skateboard? Well: it's really cool, even if the rider looks a bit silly.
In this video, Choatic Moon Labs demonstrates its groovy toy, the "Board of Awesomeness":
Chaotic Moon Labs' Board of Awesomeness from Chaotic Moon Studios on Vimeo.
Once the Kinect is active and responding to the rider, it turns gestures – push hands forward to speed up, pull them back to decelerate – into commands passed to the tablet to control the board.
The point, the developers say, is to use the Kinect to "operate something other than a gaming avatar".
One for the history buffs: Steve Taylor's Behemoth.
Just think: twenty years ago you could put together something like the BEHEMOTH (Big Electronic Human-Energised Machine, Only Too Heavy) and you had to power it yourself. ®
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If you can't take a trip to the Mediterranean, Lifestyle Food is bringing the taste of the Mediterranean to you with this recipe collection. Combine versatile ingredients like eggplant, zucchini and chickpeas to create some tasty dishes. Enjoy your choice of Mediterranean scented rack of lamb, simple stuffed zucchini flowers or Chickpea fritters and more.


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I want to write some simple flash games (as a hobby). I have a lot of programming experience, but no experience with Flash/ActionScript.
My question is: As a beginner, is it a good idea to start with a framework like Flixel, FlashPunk or PushButton or would it be better to write my first games from scratch?
Also, if you vote for using a framework, which one would you recommend? What are the differences?
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Dell EMC State of IT Trends 2016 Federal Study Reveals Impact of Digital Transformation
Federal agencies are preparing for digital transformation - a shift positioned to transform the way government operates - with cloud computing poised to make a significant impact. In Dell EMC's State of IT Trends 2016 federal extension, a survey of federal IT leaders, 91 percent of respondents recognized cloud as an important technology trend to their agencies. Respondents also noted cloud to be their agencies' biggest spending priority in 2016 and most significant anticipated new IT investment for the coming year.
Following cloud computing, federal IT leaders consider mobility and big data to be the most important technologies to their organizations. To support the opportunity created through these monumental IT changes, agencies need to invest in modern IT systems built on software-based environments and hyperconverged infrastructures, and become future ready.
Other key research findings include:
While it is impossible to completely predict what lies ahead in today's ever evolving IT landscape, federal agencies can take steps to prepare for the future. With nearly all respondents confirming that they have a strategic IT plan in place, agencies have taken a critical first step and are positioned as digital evaluators and adopters on Dell Technologies' Digital Transformation Index. To support the possibilities of digital transformation, federal agency IT plans need to incorporate scalable, agile, software-based environments. Through flexible and mission-centric technologies, agencies are not only able to increase efficiency and productivity, but can cut maintenance costs and fully reap the value of digital transformation.
Supporting quote:
Steve Harris, vice president and general manager, Dell EMC Federal
"Federal agencies largely appreciate the value of digital transformation, considering cloud, mobility and big data important to their organizations. These technologies are positioned to revolutionize how government does business and interacts with its constituents. Digital transformation also demands agencies modernize their IT systems. With IT plans defined by incremental steps toward modernization and flexible software-based solutions, agencies are equipped to support tomorrow's technology innovation and meet today's mission goals."
About the survey
The Dell EMC-sponsored research was performed by PSB, who conducted an online survey in May 2016 among 100 federal government IT Decision-Makers (ITDMs) and Business Decision Makers (BDMs). This survey was conducted as an extension of the State of IT Trends 2016 study, in which PSB conducted 1,200 online interviews between April 15 and May 4, 2016, in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, Brazil, India and China. The respondents consist of 700 ITDMs and 500 BDMs.
About Dell EMC
Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 – with the industry's most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.
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DRI is the digital infrastructure that links together and preserves the rich and varied cultural, historical, and qualitative social science data held by Irish Institutions, and provides a central access point and multimedia tools to research and interact with archived data. DRI will allow the public, students and scholars to access and research the history, cultural heritage and social life of Ireland in ways never possible before.
The DRI Project site can be found at http://www.dri.ie/
The DRI team at TCD is currently involved in the Data Management work package 7, the demonstrator project and management work packages. TCD is also leading the Architecture work package 5 and Storage work package 8.
Funding source
This project is funded by the Irish Government's PRTLI cycle 5 for €5.2M over four years, and started in September 2011. The DRI funded partners are the Royal Irish Academy (RIA, lead institute), National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), and National College of Art and Design (NCAD).
Project partners
- The Royal Irish Academy (Coordinator)
- Dublin Institute of Technology
- National University of Ireland, Galway
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth
- Trinity College Dublin
- National College of Art and Design (Devolved)


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B. G., Opalesque Geneva: The Altaica Sustainable Equity Long Short (SELS) Fund is an up and coming ESG hedge fund; since its launch in March, it has returned 18.2% through an astute selection of stocks that have high ESG ratings, the use of factor modeling, risk hedging and leveraging.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: CTAs were down -2.6% in September due to their long positioning on fixed income, while Global Macro strategies were up +1.4%, Lyxor said.
Concurrently, Event-Driven and L/S Credit strategies were slightly up (+0.2 and +0.3% respectively) and L/S Equity strategies we
In the week ending October 18th 2019, a report said that Hong Kong's hedge fund industry saw its biggest quarterly outflow since the global recession a decade ago, a shift that may deepen concern about investor sentiment in the protest-wracked financial hub. Hong Kong hedge funds' US$1 b
Opalesque Industry Update - The hedge fund redemption trend stretched to three straight months in August as the industry experienced $11.3 billion in outflows.
August's redemptions represented 0.4% of industry assets and were an increase from July's $8.1 billion in industry outflows, according t
Opalesque Industry Update - Global law firm Ropes&Gray today announced that Scott A. Abramowitz has joined the firm as a partner in its 350-lawyer New York office. Mr. Abramowitz expands Ropes&Gray's preeminent private equity practice, which represents clients in both multibillion-dollar and mid
Opalesque Industry Update - Total hedge fund capital was narrowly changed for the 3Q19, falling from the prior quarter record with flows mixed across strategies as investors navigated heightened fixed income risk and volatility, as well as fluid political developments across the U.S., Europe, the UK
Opalesque Industry Update, for New Managers - Melanion Capital, the Paris-based independent alternative investment management company, has appointed Dan Costinescu as a portfolio manager. Mr. Costinescu, who has been
By: Shearman&Sterling LLP
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has finalized new rules governing certain types of open-ended funds that invest in inherently illiquid assets. The rules include:
A new category of "funds investing in inherently illiquid assets" that are subject to ad
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Institutional investors are beginning to show signs of worry about the economy heading into 2020, according to a new survey from placement agent Eaton Partners. The quarterly "Eaton Partners LP Pulse Survey" questioned more than 60 leading LPs, many of whom expr
In the week ending October 11th 2019, Hedge Fund Research said that hedge funds gained 4.9% on average in the first three quarters of 2019, the best performance in this span since 2013.
In September, hedge funds
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Goodhart Partners has taken a minority stake in Albright Capital through its Volunteer Park Capital Fund. Volunteer Park makes strategic minority investments in select private capital investment management firms.
Albright Capital is an emerging markets priva
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: A new study shows that asset owners have been successful at bringing fees down in nearly every asset class. The study was completed by consulting firm bfinance and is based on fees being quoted by asset managers for real mandates.
According to the findings,
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Offshore hedge funds can use the exchange-traded-instrument back door to access the EU and other markets. Andreas Woelfl, founder of iMaps Capital Markets, a firm that offers a platform to transform alternative investm
Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: HC Private Investments, a Chicago-based private investment firm, and Landon Capital Partners, a Boston-based family office, today announced the formation of Evolution Manag
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:
Institutional investors are pivoting to private assets as increasing geopolitical tension and fear of a global economic slowdown soar, according to Schroders Institutional Investor Study.
The study - which surveyed 650 institutional investors encompassing
In the week ending September 27th 2019, a study said that new hedge fund launches in H1 2019 have put the industry on pace to top the 561 launches from last year, which represent
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New data from Pantheon suggests that private equity investors should look to the smaller end of the market in order to find high value returns. The study looks at buyout deals with vintages 2000-2012 and shows that small to medium buyouts outperformed large to m
In the week ending September 20th 2019, Larry Sapanski and Richard Schimel started a new hedge fund with $1 billion in commitments seven years after shutting their old fi
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge fund greats came together again in New York for the annual Delivering Alpha conference. This year's event had a different tone than years prior - there was less of an emphasis on markets and a greater focus on politics and headlines. Still, a few calls
B. G., Opalesque Geneva: There are many strategies that can mitigate risks, one of which is crisis alpha. Simon Kitson manages one; the Dynamic Macro Strategy, a crisis alpha fund that has successfully navigated the bear and bull markets of the last 12 years.
"The strategy's main purpose
In the week ending September 13th 2019, a report said that the hedge fund industry posted negative returns in August, dropping 0.78%, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, vers
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Frontier finance may offer investors greater opportunities than it has in the past according to a new report from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). GIIN released the report to coincide with the UN General Assembly which is slated to begin in a few wee
By: Andrew Saunders, President, Castle Hill Capital Partners
Finding the right investor for your alternative investment strategy is a challenge. Due to a combination of innovation and efficiency the speed dating format has taken hold as the preferred format for capital introduction events. The f
By: Jonathan Levy, Ballard Spahr
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert earlier this month from its national examination program warning investment advisers of the most common compliance deficiencies that OCIE found r
By: Jonathan McCullough, James McClary and Elizabeth Dylke, Bennet Jones
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) recently released the latest version of its principles, ILPA Principles 3.0. The updated principles provide a detailed selection of best practices for participants in th
By: Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - Founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners
Globally coordinated monetary stimulus prevented a potential economic meltdown in 2008 and helped create a quick rebound in the capital markets. We have since seen the longest economic expansion on record. Unfortunately, the e
By: Sovereigns
DBRS considers that diverging views on Brexit among citizens in the UK could inadvertently lead to the breakup of the Union. DBRS reviews the implications of no-deal scenarios and their potential impact on the unity of the United Kingdom.
At one extreme is a "severe" hard B
Andrew Shrimpton, Executive Chairman of Compliance Consulting
With great power comes great responsibility. Yes, but in the era of SMCR, heads of compliance have found out that even a medium amount of power now comes with an almost unpalatable amount of personal accountability - and legal jeop
By: Catherine Anderson, Brian Prewitt,
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Investment advisers, hedge and private fund managers and U.S.-resident entities should review whether they have any filing obligations under Treasury International Capital Benchmark Form SHL. Form SHL is a five-year benchmark filing requirem
By: Raymond Bogenrief, Oliver Brahmst, Gary Silverman, White & Case LLP
Despite accumulating a vast, historic pile of capital for acquisitions, private equity has moderated its pace of buyouts in the first half of the year.
Buyout activity fell 14 percent compared to the first half of 2018,
From Institutional Investor: It's an enduring paradox: hedge funds run by women and minorities outperform their peers - but run less money.
Evidence continues to mount that the money investors allocate to minority- and women-controlled hedge funds stands a better than even chance of outperformi
From Inverse: While quantum computing has long been an exciting notion for scientists and the public alike, the realization of these technologists has long been on hold. But researchers from the Johns Hopkins University have discovered a material that might just fast-track the creation of these, unt
Private-equity deals depress worker wages, study finds
From Market Watch: Private-equity deals result in worse pay for workers, and, depending on whether the buyout target was public or not, fewer jobs, according to a newly published study.
The study of some 6,000 private-equity de
From Forbes: The title of this article might sound farfetched to many readers, but keen students of artificial intelligence (AI) know that this is no longer very far away. Since the advent of computers, capital markets have always been at the forefront of technology. Yes, that's right. You may be wo
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles by institutional investors in Canada, the US, and the UK is rising according to a new survey.
RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM)'s annual survey on responsible investing trends found that more
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Currently: Cash Looking to: Short @ 7919As of 10/18/19 close: 7,883.62LAST WEEK: We suggested shorting bounces to 7,919 with stops above 7,947 on a daily close and with a 7,300 target.UPDATE: NQ futures ran up to and through our upside resistance target posted here last week. The daily chart here tells us that NQ futures may pull back to 7767 – 7783 and then bounce one more time – perhaps up to 8,050.75 or so.We would look to buy NQ futures at 7783 with stops on a dailyclose below 7766 and with an upside target of 8,050. We would look to short at 8,050 with stops above 8,100 and with a target of 7,300.
Currently: Cash Looking to: Short @ 7919
As of 10/18/19 close: 7,883.62
LAST WEEK: We suggested shorting bounces to 7,919 with stops above 7,947 on a daily close and with a 7,300 target.
UPDATE: NQ futures ran up to and through our upside resistance target posted here last week. The daily chart here tells us that NQ futures may pull back to 7767 – 7783 and then bounce one more time – perhaps up to 8,050.75 or so.
We would look to buy NQ futures at 7783 with stops on a dailyclose below 7766 and with an upside target of 8,050. We would look to short at 8,050 with stops above 8,100 and with a target of 7,300.


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Discover why 1/3 of all Tuscarawas County residents are going with DoverPhila for their banking needs.
When it comes to banking, DoverPhila Credit Union has long been a well-kept secret in our community. Where else can you get your personal and business banking needs met by a community-focused institution that, every year, rewards its members with a dividend check?
That's possible because we're a not-for-profit, meaning we're responsible to our members and not shareholders. It also means our success is shared success. Discover other member benefits and what else you'll gain by joining DoverPhila today. After all, it's your credit union. Learn more.


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Topic Page: Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)
lake E cen N. America bet. the U.S. & Canada; one of the Great Lakes area 23,010 sq mi (59,826 sq km)
hyʊr'än´´, 23,010 sq mi (59,596 sq km), 206 mi (332 km) long and 183 mi (295 km) at its greatest width, between Ont., Canada, and Mich.; second largest of the Great Lakes. It has a surface elevation of 580 ft (177 m) above sea level and a maximum depth of 750 ft (229 m).
Centrally located between the upper and lower Great Lakes, Lake Huron receives the waters of Lake Superior through the St. Marys River and those of Lake Michigan through the Straits of Mackinac; it drains into Lake Erie through the St. Clair River–Lake St. Clair–Detroit River system. Large tributaries flowing into the lake include the Mississagi, Wanapitei, Spanish, and French rivers from Ontario, and the Au Sable and Saginaw rivers from Michigan. The northern shoreline is irregular, with many bays and inlets; the largest are Georgian Bay and North Channel, which indent the Ontario shore and are nearly landlocked by Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula. Saginaw Bay is the principal indentation on the southern shores.
Lake Huron is part of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway system and is navigated by oceangoing and lake vessels that carry cargoes of iron ore, grain, coal, and limestone. Navigation is impeded by ice in the shallower sections from mid-December to early April. The lake is subject to occasional violent storms.
The principal lakeshore cities are Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ont., at the lake's outlet; Owen Sound, Midland, and Parry Sound, Ont.; and Bay City, Alpena, and Cheboygan, Mich. Major salt deposits are worked at the south end of the lake. The waters of the lake are relatively unpolluted; commercial and sport fishing is important, and several resorts are located along the lake shore. Georgian Bay, an arm of the lake, is a popular resort area, and recreational facilities are provided at Georgian Bay Islands National Park (Canada), on the islands in Mackinac Strait, and at numerous state and provincial parks along the lake's scenic shores. Samuel de Champlain visited Lake Huron in 1615.
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Bizarre is too paltry a word to describe the insanity that is House. Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi's cult horror-comedy sends a group of young girls to an old house in the countryside owned by one of their decrepit aunts. There they discover evil spirits, disembodied heads, carnivorous pianos and one very naughty cat. Before it was available as a Criterion release, House traveled the U.S. as a midnight movie. Nashville designer Sam Smith (who also played drums for pop-rocker Ben Folds) put together this mad, bright orange poster for the film's run at his hometown's Belcourt theater. "I used the first idea that came to me after watching a screener of the film — Blanche the cat's psycho-screaming mug — and adapted it to stand alone as a symbol of the uncanny and over-the-top assault that our midnight-movie audience was in for," wrote Smith. Eventually, Janus Films (the movie's distributor) and the Criterion Collection both adopted the striking image for posters and DVD cases. There's just something about this that says, "Watch me or I will eat you."
Top 10 Cool Criterion Collection Covers
The Criterion Collection recently announced it would move its films from Netflix's streaming service to that of its competitor, Hulu. In addition to having rights to many of cinema's most beloved and classic movies, Criterion is also known for its beautifully designed DVD cases. TIME takes a look at some of the company's best work


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Mapnation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
AnySenior and SeniorInsider.com
The portal we are building will be used for the following:
1. People who are looking to place their parents into assisted living homes
2. People that are looking for in-home care for their parents, themselves, or loved ones
3. People that are looking for a retirement community for themselves (ones that are independent living, but have many amenities for seniors such as golfing, pools, activities, etc.)
4. People looking for Medicare Supplement insurance and want to get insurance quotes
5. People looking for Long Term Care insurance
AnySenior.com's users will be mostly women, over the age of 45, and very educated.
We would like to incorporate elements such as:
3. MEDICAL assistance
4. senior active LIVING
within the logo design.
Every second, 7 U.S. residents turn 65 years old! An amazing statistic and hence a need for more robust resources that will help the senior community live out their elder years. Most of us who have aging parents will strive to help our mothers and fathers live their elder years as comfortable as possible.
SeniorInsider.com is targeted to those helping their elderly parents!
Whether it is an elder parent you are caring for, or if you are caring for other loved ones, SeniorInsider.com can help you navigate through many important options facing the elderly. Our easy to use portal will provide users with information about senior housing, in home care, senior mobility options, and many other important areas such as Medicare and other insurance options.
Audience Demographics:
1. Female Oriented
2. Older
a. Average ages of 30% 35-49
b. 43% 50+
3. 86% Caucasian
4. 89% No kids in household
5. Affluent
a. 27% $30-60k
b. 29% $60-100k
c. 27% $100k+
6. Educated Graduate and Post Graduates
a. 47% College
b. 18% Grad School
This brand will be promoted to millions of people. Your work will be promoted on television, radio, and the web! Make it memorable!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Fonts used to create the design
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Best of luck,
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Innocent Little Crimes by C.S. Lakin FREE December 29-31/
Innocent Little Crimes by C. S. Lakin
Lila Carmichael may be a rich and famous comedienne, but she's hidden her greatest talent from her adoring fans—her ability to simmer, spice and serve a carefully constructed tour de force at a cozy reunion on her private island in the Pacific Northwest.
Six unsuspecting guests have forgotten the innocent little crimes they committed against poor, gullible Lila fifteen years ago in college. All are teetering on the brink of ruin, hoping the famous Lila will come to their rescue. But their desperation plays them right into her hand.
One by one, Lila's guests are figuratively killed off in a vicious parlor game called Wolves. And revenge turns bittersweet when the weekend is over…and one guest is dead for real.
Book Details:
FREE Kindle edition - December 29-31
Editorial Reviews:
"Revenge is indeed a dish best served cold in this fast-paced, thrilling story. Lila Carmichael is the Queen of Comedy, a wealthy TV actress with legions of adoring fans, who capitalizes on her less-than-gorgeous looks and snarky sense of humor…But Lila hasn't forgotten how cruel they were to her when she was a heavy, unhappy preacher's daughter too naive to know they were using her. And now she's got them trapped right where she wants them, and she turns them on each other, bringing to light their greed and the dark secrets they've been keeping all these years. Before the weekend is over, one of them will end up dead…a page-turning thrill-ride that will have readers holding their breath the whole way through." — Publishers Weekly
"Take a remote island setting and an ill-fated reunion, throw in a few hot tempers, and a dash of revenge, and you end up with murder...and a puzzle that mystery lovers will relish unraveling. C. S. Lakin delivers readers a real page-turner with "Innocent Little Crimes," an engaging whodunit that pulls readers in from the first page. Who knew reunions could be so deadly?" —Elizabeth Craig, author of Quilt or Innocence
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Punishment ... Marcus Harris dropped twice on his way to a century for Western Australia Source: Alf Sorbello / News Limited
Western Australia opener Marcus Harris made the most of South Australia's butter fingers to put the Warriors in a strong position after day one of the Sheffield Shield clash at the WACA Ground.
Harris made 114 to lift the Warriors from a precarious 3-60 to a competitive 7-327, but the 20-year-old rode his luck along the way.
SHEF - WACA Ground
12 November 2012 - Day 1, Session 3
Western Australia 1st Innings
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Michael Klinger was left to rue the one that got away after dropping Harris at first slip when the left-hander was on just six.
Then when Harris was on 51, wicketkeeper Tim Ludeman grassed a tough chance diving to his left.
The double reprieve came back to haunt the Redbacks, with Harris spending 276 minutes at the crease and cracking 19 boundaries to post the second century of his fledgling first-class career.
In March last year, Harris became the youngest player in Australian first-class cricket history to reach 150 when he made 157 against Queensland.
Harris was just 18 years and 227 days old at the time, and admitted he had struggled to string consistent performances together since then.
"It was a difficult year for me last year. I couldn't consolidate my spot,'' said Harris, who averaged 28.75 from 13 first-class hit-outs before this match.
"And I've had a frustrating start to this season.
"I've been hitting the ball quite well and I haven't been able to get past that 35-run sort of mark.
"So it's good to get a big score under my belt today and hopefully set up a good result for WA.''
After winning the toss, WA were in all sorts of trouble at 3-60 following the cheap dismissals of Liam Davis (four), Sam Whiteman (14) and Marcus North (7).
Harris should have been added to that mix, but Klinger spilled a chest-high catch at first slip off the bowling of paceman Chadd Sayers.
It was a day to forget for Klinger, who also dropped North when the former Warriors skipper was on seven.
North failed to add to his tally before hitting out.
Harris wasn't as generous, but his day was finally brought to an end when he tickled a Jake Haberfield leg-side delivery through to the keeper.
All-rounder Mitch Marsh picked up where Harris left off in making an unbeaten 51, while Nathan Coulter-Nile (52 off 52 balls) and new Warriors skipper Adam Voges (47) also made handy scores.
The Warriors, who will announce Justin Langer as their new coach later this week, sit last on the Shield table following three outright losses, while South Australia have one win from four games.
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A Peek Into The Secret World Of The Voice Actor
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Welcome to The Kraft Television Theatre guide at TV Tome.
This live anthology drama series was the first weekly commercial network program. From May to December 1947, NBC aired the show on Wednesday, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.; for the rest of its run, it was broadcast on Wednesday, 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. From 1953 to 1955, another series of the same name was shown on ABC concurrently with the one on NBC. For a short time in 1958, the series abandoned its anthology format and ran with recurring characters and situations. From April to September 1958, the show was known as "Kraft Mystery Theatre."
This program was a prestigious showcase for its sponsor, Kraft, winning many awards and becoming a Wednesday night institution. By the end of its run, more than 650 plays, drama and comedy productions, both original and adaptations for TV, had been presented. One of the most awarded episodes was "Patterns" written by Rod Serling and directed by Fielder Cook with performances from Ed Begley
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1. I didn't bring enough corn tortillas.
2. I own more washi tape than shoes.
The latter was a zero-regrets realization. I love washi! I use it a lot in my planners, traveler notebooks, and even snailmail. It's one of my craft staples! And honestly it should be one of yours too.
So what is washi tape exactly? Well... It's basically adhesive tape with a decorative pattern that's used for craft purposes--mainly papercrafts. However washi is great for all types of projects and you can find heaps of washi DIYs and inspiration on Pinterest.
Personally, I love that it's not super tacky, and because of that, you don't have to commit and you feel comfortable making mistakes. I call that a washi-win!
I know my collection pales in comparison to other crafters... I'm cool with that! I'm not jealous. At all. (HAHA! Yeah right!) Actually, I'm sure my stash would be bigger except I'm really picky about the patterns and colors I buy. (Are you like that too?)
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The 2012 Ohio Health Issues Poll asked Ohioans what they knew about fracking, and the answer, perhaps not surprisingly, is not very much. "Most Ohio adults said they knew a little (32%) or nothing at all (31%) about fracking, while 37% said they knew a lot," The (Youngstown) Business Journal reports. "Of those who had heard of fracking, more than half think that fracking is happening in their region," the story notes. But according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, "fracking permits have been issued almost exclusively in northeast and southeast Ohio, with one permit in central Ohio," says Jennifer Chubinski, director of community research for the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, which sponsored the poll. "A majority of respondents in Northeast and Southeast Ohio knew that fracking is happening in their region," she tells The Business Journal. "However, in other regions, many respondents also reported that fracking is happening in their part of the state." Ohioans familiar with fracking "were almost evenly split when asked if they thought fracking poses a threat to the health of the general public; 38% said fracking does not cause a health threat, and 36% said that it does," according to the newspaper. "The conclusion we can reach from these data is that Ohioans still have much to learn about fracking — about what it is, where it is and what it means," Ms. Chubinski says.
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Nuclear power production in the United States is at the lowest seasonal levels in nine years as drought and heat force reactors from Ohio to Vermont to slow output, Bloomberg reports. As of last Thursday, July 26, generation for the 104 U.S. nuclear plants was 94,171 megawatts, or 93% of capacity, the lowest level for this time of year since 2003, according to reports from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and data compiled by Bloomberg. The news service notes the total is down 2.6% from the five-year average for July 26 of 96,725 megawatts. FirstEnergy Corp.'s Perry 1 reactor in Lake County reduced production to 95% of capacity last Thursday due to above-average temperatures, Bloomberg notes. Nuclear plants "require sufficient water to cool during operation, and rivers or lakes may get overheated or fall in times of high temperatures and drought," according to the story. Todd Schneider, a FirstEnergy spokesman, told Bloomberg that plant output fluctuated throughout July "because of the weather conditions, including outside temperature and humidity. The higher temperatures make it more difficult to run at 100%."
The influential Wall Street Journal editorial page gives an important thumbs-up to Gov. John Kasich's plan to convert Ohio's burgeoning energy wealth into a tax cut for state residents. "The Buckeye State currently imposes a relatively low 20-cent severance tax on oil and three cents for gas," The Journal writes in an editorial. "For a barrel of oil, this double dime levy amounts to two-tenths of 1%, an artifact of the era when its resources weren't economically or technologically recoverable." Gov. Kasich, the paper writes, "wants to modernize the tax structure now that Ohio is becoming an energy producer, but without enlarging government." (Annual proceeds would go into a fund devoted to lowering all personal income tax rates dollar for dollar.) The Journal says Gov. Kasich's proposal "would raise the severance tax to about 2.7% of the market value of oil or gas, depending on the type of well. As the industry matures and production peaks, the tax would on present price trends raise between $459 million and $547 million each year, equivalent to a 5% across-the-board tax cut for each of Ohio's nine brackets." The plan "is controversial in Ohio's Republican-controlled legislature and among some Tea Partiers, and as with any tax increase the danger is that some future government will renege, pocket the revenue and return to raising income taxes," The Journal notes. But the energy levy "is sure to increase if production booms, and the Kasich formula ensures the money isn't spent on new programs. Meantime, lower rates on income and capital investment are a net plus for economic growth."
Would it surprise you to know that America's largest user of solar power is Wal-Mart Stores Inc.? Businessweek.com notes that the giant retailer "has installed more than 150 U.S. solar projects and expects to have as much as 90 megawatts of capacity by year-end, more than Ikea Group and Apple Inc." Wal-Mart's San Diego store is the 100th to get solar panels in California. It has 62 megawatts of panels installed at U.S. locations and operates fuel cells and wind turbines at some sites. The company, with 4,522 stores nationwide, expects to have 1,000 solar-powered locations by 2020. It currently gets about 4% of its power from renewable sources. An analysis by Slate.com notes that this is a case where Wal-Mart's size — often decried by observers — produces a social good. "There's a tendency to sentimentalize the small in American life, but scale has some real advantages," according to Slate.com. "A small firm is going to have enormous difficulty even studying the question of whether some unorthodox approach to energy makes sense. Instead, decision-making will be driven by a mix of inertia and personal biases. And very large firms have the ability to make changes at large enough scales to overcome the inevitable transition costs that come from changing anything."
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As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Shakespeare actually has quite a few dream quotes. I always enjoyed this one, from The Tempest, and while The Tempest is a tragedy and A Midsummer's Night Dream is a comedy, I enjoy the dream images in both plays.
I am one of the fortunate folks in this world who can lucid dream! I love dreaming. I love sleeping. I love the Summer Solstice/Midsummer. So you can just imagine the excitement when I received Yuko Fukami (Parfum Phyto)'s Dreams perfume.
Now I'm quoting Yuko as she describes her creation - "As ephemeral as a dream. It sparkles, it's sweet...and the memory lingers on the skin..Flowers in the meadow against the crushed grass, hay, and woods of the forest floor."
This lovely elixir contains the following:
Top notes - coriander, virginian cedarwood
Heart notes - tuberose, violet leaf, cassie
Base notes - hay, flouve, ambrette seeds, ambergris
At first blush, the cedarwood is prominent, cushioned by the coriander. The tuberose then springs out, but not too much, along with the violet. I am transported to a marshy green space, covered with trees, my bare feet are squishing happily on the ground of dirt and moss, woodland flowers, and leaves that dropped the autumn before.
I find a dry place, and lie down looking skyward - the trees are a canopy, the breeze from the far away meadows reaches me.
Sleep comes peacefully and gloriously! And oh what dreams for this beloved Summer Solstice!
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I won't have the shirt contest posted until tomorrow (Tuesday), as I've been really busy today, but I'll count any comments on this post or the last one about Pirates season tickets towards that contest.
Also, I just bought Orioles season tickets to six games. I didn't buy a plan, but bought tickets from a connect that I've used for a couple years to get my season tickets in Baltimore. As you know, they must say 'Season Plan Holder' on them to get into the stadium early for batting practice.
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|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
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|Release: Oct. 23, 2007
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In a number of encounters, your squad will be separated and you will have to travel solo and figure out puzzles and other various tasks in order to make it back to the rest of your squad. More often than not, you will have to survive a context sensitive situation. I know it is extreme God of War-ish, but the visuals and the sense of dire peril really aid these into an evolutionary step. There's also the ability of Captain Jones that allows you to posses certain enemies. While this is a great concept, it sometimes become a little idiotic and trivial.
The highlight for me were the graphics. Not necessarily the character models because those were a little off at moments, but rather the environments. Dripping with gore from every orifice, Jericho gives horror fans exactly what they want. The graphics honestly made me really like the game more. I could look past the nature of the gameplay and other faults as long as I was looking at the various dark demented creatures and settings from the mind of Clive Barker. The sounds also play on the horror appeal. The gruff voice acting is a bit conventional and overdone, but the score does appeal to the senses in a few ways. It even, on occasion, reminds me of the score from Hellraiser.
Jericho doesn't really bring anything new to the gaming world. It does blend the gory horrific mind of Clive Barker and a shooter game. Just in time for Halloween, this will be a game to remember and help fill your night with the required amounts of gore On the other hand, if you are looking for a horror game with a deep gameplay experience, this is probably not the next must buy game.
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Borderlands 3 Rolls Out New Video
Today, the folks at Gearbox hyped a stream that was nothing more than a reveal of a new trailer for Borderlands 3.
Earlier this week, the developers behind the upcoming loot-shooter tweeted an invitation to a "Celebration of Togetherness" which many people debated the meaning of, some of which thought it was a reference to cross-play.
Today, the stream came, and while no major announcement was made, this trailer was rolled out.
Playstation 5 Confirmed, Release Date End of 2020
After months of speculation, Sony has announced that it's next-generation console will indeed be called the Playstation 5, and the new console will be hitting the market near the end of 2020.
"Today I'm proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we'll be launching in time for Holiday 2020″ Sony president of SIEE and president of global sales & marketing, SIE, Jim Ryan said in a post on the European Playstation Blog.
"These updates may not be a huge surprise, but we wanted to confirm them for our PlayStation fans, as we start to reveal additional details about our vision for the next generation."
Currently, there is no indication on what the price will be for the new console, or if the console will look "similar" to the patent images which surfaced back in August.
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World of Warcraft's Visions of N'Zoth Update Introduces New Playable Races
A pair of new playable races are heading to the World of Warcraft in a brand new, free update called Visions of N'Zoth.
Starting off are the Vulpera, which is a race of fox people that many players will recognize as non-playable race in the Battle of Azeroth expansion. The race will become available after maxing out their associated faction reputation and completing a quest.
Along with the Vulpera are the Mechagnomes, a robotic looking version of the standard Gnome race. This race can be unlocked with the release of update 8.3, which is looking to be quite the hefty update.
You can take a look at more information regarding the free update in the lengthy video below.
Keeping your character alive and well is the key to success in World of Warcraft, which the same can be said IRL. Part of that, is staying informed about potential health risks, such as pilonidal, and potential threats, such as pilonidal disease. While they may not be the most well-known, it's these diseases that can prove to be more difficult to detect. Stay ahead, and remain on top of your health by educating yourself today.
Paradox Announces Surviving the Aftermath
Paradox has announced the next entry in the Surviving franchise that is scheduled to arrive sometime in late 2020.
'Surviving the Aftermath' is the brand new title, and the announcement came with the teaser trailer below, with more information promised at PDXCON 2019 taking place next week.
The new title will arrive in the Epic Game Store, Steam, and on the PS4, and Xbox One.
While you may be able to wait for Surviving the Aftermath, you may not want to wait around when it comes to improving the quality of your streams. If your goal is to be ranked among the best twitch channels, then you need to ensure you not only have the best streaming equipment, but also that your marketing and networking is up to par. Whether you want to be known among the best female streamers, or you're striving to attract the interest of eports teams, streaming quality content is one way to do just that, and more.
- Playstation 5 Confirmed, Release Date End of 2020
- Playstation 4 System Update 7.00 Now Out
- World of Warcraft's Visions of N'Zoth Update Introduces New Playable Races
- Paradox Announces Surviving the Aftermath
- The House of the Dead 1-2 Remakes On the Way
- Borderlands 3 Update Targets FL4K, Moze, Boss Fights, More
- Death Stranding Trailer Arrives
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Ghost Recon Wildlands' Rainbow Six Siege Crossover Mission Now Available
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Reveals Characters
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New Patch Arrives for Darksiders 3
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The Division 2: Clan System Breakdown
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When it comes to getting wedding ideas, we always advocate looking to celebrity celebrations for some true inspiration. That's why we've searched through some of our favorite star-studded ceremonies to see what style tips we could steal from their precious flower girls. There is plenty to copy from their looks, from sweet bouquets and flower crowns to pops of color. With all that inspiration, who knows — your flower girl might be the one stealing the show.
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In the early hours of May 17, 2006, Capt. Nich Goddard and another junior officer led more than 200 Canadian and Afghan army soldiers into Afghanistan's Panjwaii district.
By midday, Goddard became the first Canadian soldier since the Korean War to execute a fire mission in support of Canadian troop manoeuvres against a known enemy.
A few hours later, Goddard was killed in a firefight.
The 17th Canadian soldier death in Afghanistan sent shock waves across Canada. It was not Goddard's historical mission that generated headlines, though, but her gender: the 26-year-old officer's given names were Nichola Kathleen Sarah.
Canada's first battlefield death of a combat-certified female soldier represented a watershed moment for a generation, says Krystel Carrier-Sabourin, a doctoral student at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont. "It woke people up to the fact that there were female warriors in our country's military."
Before Goddard's death, says Carrier-Sabourin, who is conducting a study into the growing role of Canadian women in combat, not much attention was paid to female combat soldiers in Afghanistan.
Six years later, in fact, there is more interest abroad than at home in what she calls the "very significant contribution" Canadian military women, both combat and non-combat, played in the decade-long Afghan mission.
"There are several American researchers studying our female soldiers, what they have labelled the 'Canadian experience,'" she says. "Americans are definitely much more interested than we are."
The attention south of the border is due largely to the fact more than 100 American women made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq: this spring, a Congress-appointed commission is expected to deliver a report to U.S. President Barack Obama recommending the American ban on women in on-the-ground combat units be lifted.
It also stands to reason that such interest, at least back in 2006, would have evaded most segments of Canadian society: that year, despite then-chief of defence staff Rick Hillier's pronouncement that "Our job is to be able to kill people," a majority of Canadians polled said they believed that our military role in Afghanistan was peacekeeping.
For more than a century, Canadian women have served important roles in the country's military. During the First World War, 43 Canadian women, attached to the military in non-combat roles, were killed.
In 1989, four years after the "equality rights" section of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect, Canada's Human Rights Tribunal ruled that women should be allowed into all military jobs, including combat units.
The only exception was submarine service, which became open to women in 2001.
The move made Canada a pioneer in the developed world. Out of the more than 13,000 women in Canada's armed forces, about 15 per cent of the total, only about two per cent are in combat roles. About nine per cent of Canadian Forces personnel sent to Afghanistan were women.
Carrier-Sabourin's research shows that 310 women were deployed in combat positions during the Afghan mission, more than triple the number seen in the previous decade of peacekeeping missions.
For those female combat soldiers, the Afghan mission proved, once and for all, that women can tackle any job as well as their male counterparts.
"I like to think we opened the eyes of not only Canadians but of other nations," says Capt. Jaime Phillips, 29, who served in Afghanistan in 2007 as an artillery troop commander with the 2RCR battle group. "I think Canadians, at least those in the military, were accustomed to women in these roles, not to mention quite supportive."
For young soldiers like Phillips, the Afghan mission has been a confidence boost. "There is nothing stopping us anymore from gaining ground professionally," says Phillips, currently a gunnery instructor at the Royal Canadian Artillery School at CFB Gagetown, N.B.
Brig.-Gen. (retired) Sheila Hellstrom remembers a time when such support was unthinkable. "I remember going to one meeting when a guy said to me, 'Sheila, can you imagine women actually shooting people?'
"I think attitudes have been changing over a number of years," she says. The fact Canadian women represented themselves well in Afghanistan proves "it's stupid to deny them whatever they want to do, if they can pass the standards," she says.
With that equality has also come equal exposure to the hazards of war. New studies from the Canadian Forces show that 13 per cent of those posted to Afghanistan report suffering from mental health issues within five years of returning; that number rose to 23.1 per cent for soldiers who experienced high levels of combat, the lion's share showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The military-wide study also found that female soldiers fared a little worse, with 15 per cent being diagnosed with PTSD, depression and substance abuse problems.
Also, a recent study by researchers at the University of Manitoba found that women in the Canadian Forces were more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from PTSD and depression. The study, published last fall in The Journal of Psychiatric Research, theorized that military women could feel additional pressure due to their minority status and stereotyping.
Another issue that came to the fore during the Afghan mission was sexual harassment and assault.
In Afghanistan, five reports of sexual assault against female soldiers have been investigated since 2004, with only one investigation resulting in a guilty verdict.
But in one of Capt. Goddard's own letters home to her husband, Jason Beam, she mentioned six rapes she says occurred at Kandahar Airfield base in one week in early 2006.
Phillips concedes that life at the multinational base at Kandahar was "definitely not peachy keen." But she says for the most part she felt safe, especially among her male peers, with whom she felt "no hostility or discord." She also feels the military "has a good framework for investigating and prosecuting individuals who break the law."
Lt.-Col. (retired) Shirley Robinson has been paying close attention to the discussion about female combat soldiers, and says she has heard such stories before.
"This isn't about gender, it's about individual human rights," says Robinson, co-founder of the Association for Women's Equity in the Canadian Forces. "We put too much emphasis on gender in this silly society — there are some men who would run like hell in combat and there are women who would say, 'Bring it on.'"
Robinson says one legacy of the Afghan mission will be the realization that women can be warriors, that male and female soldiers can fight side by side as equals.
"Someone once asked me if I could shoot somebody, and my answer was, 'In a split second,'" says Robinson, who lives in Ottawa. "We're not a humanitarian force, we exist to protect Canada."
The combat experience of Afghanistan will also ring in a new era for women who aspire to greater heights in the military, she says. "Many of the high level jobs have been given to officers who have been in combat and in the field," says Robinson, adding there is now a new generation of combat-experienced women eligible for advancement.
"Someday we'll have a chief of defence staff who is a woman, and I will have a couple of martinis to celebrate."
Clearly, many younger Canadian women agree with Robinson. "A lot of female officer cadets now come up to me and say they chose the arms trades because Capt. Nichola Goddard inspired them to do so," says Krystel Carrier-Sabourin.


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Winkler, Konrad (d. 1530)
Konrad Winkler (Winckler), an Anabaptist martyr of Wasserberg in the canton of Zürich, is the fourth martyr of the Zürich Swiss Brethren group. At a cross-examination in June 1525 he asserted that he had not baptized and promised to be obedient, but was nevertheless fined because he had contradicted the preacher in his sermon. Later Winkler appeared in the Zürich lowlands as an Anabaptist preacher. In Basel he also sought to promote the Anabaptist cause, but was arrested and placed in stocks with Jakob Treyer. On 20 January 1530, he was condemned to death at Zürich as "a real leader and mobster of this affair," who had for several months preached for large crowds and baptized many men and women. He was drowned the same day in the Limmat, bound as Felix Manz had been. His property was confiscated.
Egli, Emil. Die Züricher Wiedertäufer zur Reformationszeit. Zurich, 1878: 89.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 543.
Muralt, Leonhard von and Walter Schmid. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer in der Schweiz. Erster Band Zürich. Zürich: S. Hirzel, 1952: 332 f. (where Winkler's importance is indicated by the length of the verdict).
Snyder, C. Arnold. "Konrad Winckler: An Early Swiss Anabaptist Missionary, Pastor and Martyr." Mennonite Quarterly Review 64, no. 4 (October, 1990): 352-361.
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Group preserves home of 'Danny & the Dinosaur' author
To the late cartoonist Syd Hoff, humor was what mattered.
His creativity taught generations of children how to read through books like Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal and over 60 volumes of stories he wrote in the HarperCollins "I Can Read" series.
The Florida Center for the Book and the American Library Association will designate Hoff's Miami Beach home, 4335 Post Ave., as a historic literary landmark on Sunday . The house, now owned by Miami Beach resident Carol Karp, will be provided a plaque to mark its status as the association's 18th site in Florida.
"Syd Hoff created his most well known stories in Miami Beach," said Dina Weinstein, a freelance writer and journalism professor at Miami-Dade College, who is leading the project.
Hoff's home will join the literary landmarks of other noted Florida writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, who celebrated Eatonville in Central Florida in many of her works, and Tennessee Williams, who wrote several of his plays in a Key West cottage.
After reading Hoff's stories to her children, Weinstein said she became curious about the author and began to track him down.
"His stories are so timeless that I wanted to see if I could go out meet him," Weinstein said. "When I found out that he died in 2004, I also found out that his centennial was coming up in 2012."
She began procuring grants to celebrate Hoff's work, which included cartoons that he had published in The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post.
Additionally, Weinstein's "Syd Hoff: Finding Home" exhibition is on view until Monday at Temple Beth Sholom, 4144 Chase Ave. Miami Beach. The exhibit features books, memorabilia and other pieces of Hoff's literary life.
The historic home ceremony, which will take place in his home, will be open to the public and will feature a visit from Danny's dinosaur.
Hoff's niece, Carol Edmonston, who launched a website dedicated to the legacy of her late uncle, will speak at the event.


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Clive Bell: What's so funny 'bout British improvising?
April 2015
"Is there some synergistic link between UK improv and comedy? To the headphone-clad listener deeply immersed in an AMM album, the answer might be no. To the audience chuckling at an Alan Tomlinson trombone solo, it's clearly yes." Clive Bell navigates the intersections between British improv and comedy
Here's Mark Sanders hard at work, splattering a drum kit in a Leeds bingo hall. At his side a straightfaced bingo caller recites numbers into a microphone, interlocking oddly with the ringing cymbals and skittering rimshots. The pair of performers are as "beautiful as the encounter of an umbrella and a sewing-machine on a dissecting table", in the famous surrealist quote. This is the opening scene of Antoine Prum's 2014 documentary Taking The Dog For A Walk (Conversations With British Improvisers), which runs with the idea that comedy is one of UK improv's virtues. Prum's title comes from a quip made by a musician early on, about what to do if your audience is "four men and a dog". The film offers plenty of space for the antics of Lol Coxhill, Terry Day, Alan Tomlinson and Steve Beresford. To interview the musicians Prum drafts in comedian Stewart Lee, an out of the closet improv fan. Lee has written eloquently about enjoying Derek Bailey's humour in live performance, after watching the guitarist bumping into a wall on stage. "I've subsequently learned that Bailey once played in the pit orchestra for British comedy duo Morecambe And Wise…Banging your guitar into a wall by accident, and then doing it again in a spirit of clownish curiosity, seems to me like a classic Eric Morecambe move" (The Wire 256).
The show that originally turned Lee onto improv was the far from slapstick collective Morphogenesis, at an early 1990s China Pig gig on Hackney's Mare Street in East London. Bemused, Lee watched the group trundle through their post-AMM soundscape, which he heard as "an undulating, formless wash of drones, clicks and bubbles". Half an hour later, he found his brain had been reformatted: "The sounds of pints of lager pouring from taps became raging torrents, background conversation suddenly seemed a meaningless babble of formless noise, and the deafening rattle of the loose change in my hand as I went to pay the barman so stunned me that I felt I could barely lift my glass. Exposure to Morphogenesis seemed to have altered the way I processed sound information." (The Wire 189)
Is there some synergistic link between UK improv and comedy? To the headphone-clad listener deeply immersed in an AMM album, the answer might be no. To the audience chuckling at an Alan Tomlinson trombone solo, it's clearly yes. At the risk of giving away my punchline, I'm arguing that comedy was a vital strand of improv, but that it was associated with a particular generation or two. Several of those musicians are still highly active, but for the younger crowd, it's simply not a concern. The least satisfying part of Prum's entertaining film is when he explores where the music has been going since Derek Bailey's death. He keeps his story tight by largely ignoring the last decade's developments – fair enough, as those developments have led to music that might demand a different kind of film.
In 1991 comedian Vic Reeves made an album, I Will Cure You, on the back of his hit TV series Big Night Out. Four tracks were produced by Steve Beresford, among them "I Remember Punk Rock" and "Sing Hi! The New Romantic". Beresford's witty, light jazz arrangements were propelled by Han Bennink's drums, and periodically ripped apart by searing solos from Evan Parker's saxophone or Wolter Wierbos's trombone. A quarter of a century later, it's still funny. I asked Beresford how this album came about: "Evan Parker told me, you should really watch Big Night Out. I think Evan bought a VHS recorder simply to record it, he couldn't stand to miss one. I was MD [musical director] on Paul Morley's Channel 4 series, The Thing Is – we had Alex Balanescu playing syrupy violin for an episode about weddings directed by Helen Petts. Then Paul said, 'Oh, I'm the producer of Vic Reeves's album.' I said, 'You know who loves Vic Reeves? Evan Parker. That would be great, if you had Evan Parker on a Vic Reeves record.' And I thought Han Bennink would be ideal, because for me Han is straight out of Jacques Tati anyway."
I wonder whether Parker's affection for Reeves was reciprocated at all? Beresford: "Well, this is interesting. I talked to Johny Brown from Band Of Holy Joy, who knew them from New Cross times, and he said that Vic and Bob [Mortimer] actually liked improvised music. But they never ever, ever mentioned it back to me! So, there's a song called "Oh! Mr Songwriter", and in the middle Evan plays a circular breathing solo. We were obviously inspired by James Brown, so I was thinking about his track "Same Beat". It has St Clair Pinckney, who was famous for playing Albert Ayler-inspired free jazz on James Brown records. So getting Evan to play a free jazz solo over a weedy version of a James Brown track wasn't unprecedented. But at the end, Vic shouts, 'Pack it in, Parker!' Which Evan just adored."
Pipe-smoking Dutch drummer Han Bennink (born in 1942) and pianist Misha Mengelberg (born in Kiev, 1935) founded The Instant Composers Pool (ICP) in 1967. Mengelberg's background included composition classes and Fluxus activities in the 1950s, while Bennink came from show business. Fluxus, showbiz – right there you've got two crucial routes to comedy in music. Beresford again: "Han's dad was an orchestral percussionist who also played clarinet and saxophone. He was the regular guy with Radio Hilversum; he played for Charles Trenet or anybody else who came through. Han is steeped in showbiz, a bit like John Stevens actually. I got this book of Harry Hammond's pictures of 1950s pop music in London, just up to The Beatles, so there's lots of big bands. Han knew the names of every player in every one of those English big bands. Now my dad knew that, but I didn't think Han would! I don't think he sees any difference between being a musician and being an entertainer." (Beresford senior was a semi-pro dance band singer and avid reader of Melody Maker.)
ICP's frequently hilarious activities had an ongoing influence on British improv, and alliances like the Beresford-Bennink connection were common. In the 80s one view was that Brit improvisors were uptight and po-faced, but an encounter with, say, Steve Noble's drumming would dispel that. Guitarist Peter Cusack went to Holland for two years, came back and founded Alterations, a quartet with Beresford, Terry Day and David Toop. The group were notorious for genre-plundering humour. Day himself was from People Band, sprung from the legendary dada theatre outfit People Show, and can currently be found employing The London Improvisers Orchestra as backing group for his life-affirming outbursts of poetry and song.
As an example of the current legacy from Misha and Han's comedy, Beresford cites the trio of Alan Tomlinson, Dave Tucker and Manchester drummer Phil Marks: "They're really funny, they have that non sequitur thing going. Steve Blake said to me, I've been watching Misha and Han on YouTube and they act like they don't know the other person's there – I said yeah, I love that! That trio, it's more like a series of conversations where you never answer the question."
If one person embodied the comedic side of UK improv, it was Lol Coxhill, who played hundreds of times with Beresford in endless groupings, as well as in The Promenaders (on Brighton beach) and The Melody Four (a trio with Tony Coe). A favourite Coxhill persona was Buck Funk, a jazz legend in a nasty wig. Beresford vividly recalls a show at the Chantenay festival in France: "Lol was playing with Mike Cooper, Dave Green and Ted Milton. Ted became very animated and ran out of the chapel after about ten minutes, and never came back. Anyway, Lol says, 'Backstage there's a great jazz legend, but he's a bit shy, so I'm going to have to go and get him.' Then he comes back in that horrible blazer – cream with red squares on it – shades, a tenor saxophone and a greasy wig. They did a whole set of standards – Lol sounding like a lecherous Bud Freeman. Mike Cooper wasn't playing the changes at all, but of course Dave Green was a fantastic walking bass player. At one point Lol stops for a guitar solo. Mike doesn't play anything for about 24 bars, and Buck Funk says, 'Nice solo'. And he's got this horrible cough [demonstrates saxophonist pausing to hack up phlegm]. He leaves and there's this crash backstage. And Lol comes back as himself and says, 'I'm afraid Buck Funk has just died.'"
Coxhill was a famous busker, a jazzman, a spontaneous comedian and a tireless improvisor, and he'd get annoyed with anyone who focused on only one of these facets. His trio The Recedents, with Cooper and Roger Turner, was a combo that could be trusted to deliver either scintillating music or comedy, often both. But as Beresford points out, musicians have an advantage over comedians: they're not obliged to be funny, and Coxhill and, for that matter, Derek Bailey often weren't. Other funny acts include FIG (Feminist Improvising Group), Bow Gamelan Ensemble, The Bohman Brothers (still prospering), and several of the poets around Bob Cobbing, Hugh Metcalfe and The Klinker club. I recently watched Klinker stalwart, 'comedian' Sir Gideon Vein, provoking a younger crowd at one of Sally Golding's Unconscious Archives nights, and that chilly feeling returned like an acid flashback: the exquisite embarrassment, the not-knowing-where-to-look, the flesh-crawling inappropriateness that seemed to be the stock in trade of several poets and performance artists around the old London Musicians Collective. Too uncomfortable to be termed comedy, that stuff.
One of my first sightings of Beresford was around 1974 with The Mavis Brothers, his York based trio with Stuart Jones (from the electronic pioneers and Stockhausen collaborators Gentle Fire) and Arthur Rutherford (later to play C&W in Curly Bill). This was a group in which comedy had the edge over music, as opposed to a music group where comedy keeps leaking in, like The Bohmans. Another madcap trio was Bruce Lacey's The Alberts (The Wire 368), who were friends, either side of 1960, with Spike Milligan, Lenny Bruce, George Martin and John Lennon. An expanded version, The Massed Alberts, included future members of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The further back in time you go within the avant garde, the more you find out and out music comedy, because you're getting closer to BBC radio's The Goon Show, and eventually to music hall itself. David Toop has pinpointed these wellsprings of wackiness (in The Wire 256): "I would argue that the incidental music, montage and sound effects created for radio comedy shows such as Hancock's Half Hour, The Jack Jackson Show and The Goon Show were as influential on the musical experimentation of my generation in Britain as Stockhausen or Cage." Notable Goons fans include Prince Charles, Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin and The Beatles. At the close of "Tomorrow Never Knows" (1966), arguably one of their most revolutionary songs, Paul McCartney can be heard improvising a Goons-like piano fantasy on the fade.
As for music hall, Lacey was born in 1927, so he was able to attend the music hall with his father at Lewisham Hippodrome in southeast London. He was tap dancing at the age of nine, and mixing up knife-throwing with trapeze work as an art student. Lacey is still with us, making trouble in the Norwich area: Julian Cowley described him at the Wymondham fair, selling dead rats and hot air next to the WI jam stall (The Wire 368). But as Beresford points out, that music hall-inspired world has really gone: "Eric Morecambe and Les Dawson played piano, all of The Marx Brothers played instruments, Morecambe And Wise were quite nice dancers. Nowadays you're not brought up to do a bit of juggling, a bit of clarinet playing and a bit of dancing – it just doesn't happen."
It certainly doesn't. My own father, Stanley Bell, was born in Hammersmith, West London, in 1906 and loved the music halls dearly. He continued to visit till they faded away in the late 1940s. He was light on his feet, with a talent for knockabout comedy, and could play any instrument, never having studied any of them. After watching a show, he would go home and play all its tunes on the piano.
As we move further away from that apparently chaotic mix of music, slapstick and verbal play, we may discover we've just been living through a golden age of improv comedy – hope you didn't miss it. UK improv is still a fertile and fascinating musical field, but its concerns have shifted, and getting a big laugh may no longer be a consideration. It's hard to suppress a smile, for example, while listening to the well-timed tin can detonations of Daichi Yoshikawa's feedback, but I doubt that's his intention.
On the other hand, comedians may be improvising more than ever. Take Ross Noble, who lurches onto the stage, spots a man in the front row in a Hawaiian shirt and takes it from there. He seems to have no prepared material, but within a few minutes he's bellowing "All pineapples have been banned in Manchester city centre", and in eager response a vast audience is roaring glissandi cries in unison: "Urrh… ooh!" I'm thinking, this is not a million miles from a Terry Day conduction at The London Improvisers Orchestra.
Q: "Which airport do reductionist improvisers prefer to fly from?"
A: "Keith Rowe"
Figel Narage
I remember the times when I watched/heard an audience member forcefully laughing when an improvising musician made the kind of musical joke only the hard core improv fans could appreciate. The joke would consist of a vaguely humorous sound emanating from their chosen instrument, like a saxophone, for example. I guess it lightened air, eased the tension if not alleviating the actual boredom. Typically the musician would then try and do something with it, vaguely acknowledge it for a short time, try to make it sound like something deliberate and then pass on before it really did turn into a joke.
"What's so funny 'bout British improvising?"
It's a good question because its own humour lies in its rhetorical nature. We instinctively know the answer. It's all too obvious. Obvious because real humour relies on the possibility of danger and because improvised music seems to hold no real danger - i.e. the danger of doing or saying the unspeakable, in this case playing the unplayable, the unacceptable. Attending improvised music evenings always felt too safe like attending a vicar's tea-party where you wish someone would accidentally mention masturbation, get drunk, behave terribly or even just fart.
The real joke is that to make a joke is to accept the possibility that there is no joke, because the one thing that is not allowable is to acknowledge the idea that improvised music takes itself too seriously and to then ask – 'Why?'.
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I recall a performance at the Bracknell Jazz Festival (early 1980s) by a trio of Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey & Misha Mengelberg, into which Lol inserted a melodramatic narration "Murder in the Air" which often featured in his solo sets. Part way through he handed the script to Derek who continued the narration in a characteristically deadpan manner, then passed the script to Misha. Whether through poor eyesight or lack of fluency in English, Misha struggled to cope until the performance collapsed pleasantly into chaos.
I won't attempt to analyse the cultural significance of this, but it was memorable.
You've just proved why we need humor in music. Even Frank Zappa realised that.
Fart jokes, or even tropes, don't make it, I'm afraid. Even in our post-Carry On world.
Your last para - are you serious? Get a new scriptwriter.
Clive incorrectly locates Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders (opening scene of Antoine Prum documentary) to a bingo hall in Leeds. The gig was actually premiered in The Shed, Brawby, North Yorkshire in 1999, and was performed back at The Shed for the film. Alan Tomlinson sewer solo was also in Brawby (Kippa Matthews pic). Alan Tomlinson and the River Seven (also in the film) was filmed on Rosedale, North Yorkshire. Just for the record. Thanks, Simon Thackray, The Shed, Brawby, North Yorkshire
Simon Thackray
Your essay is excellent but I must correct a few of your facts to re-attribute and also take credit (as an artist / creator, as well as promoter) for some of the events and images.
The Alan Tomlinson sewer solo (photo by Kippa Matthews) was conceived by me and performed by Alan in a sewer in Brawby, North Yorkshire. It was a protest against the backsliding of Yorkshire Water and made it into the Business Section of the Sunday Times. Odd sewer connection but true.
The bingo gig, as "beautiful as the encounter of an umbrella and a sewing-machine on a dissecting table", was conceived and produced by me in 1999 and is correctly entitled 'Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders'. The event was premiered at The Shed in Brawby, North Yorkshire alongside The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race, with performances by Ian McMillan, Bob Cobbing, Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Paul Hession and others. The gig has since been performed in various venues, from the Music Research Centre, University of York to Belfast International Festival (with Lol Coxhill, Gail Brand, John Edwards and Oren Marshall as special guests). The gig was specially filmed at The Shed in North Yorkshire for the Antoine Prum documentary, to which you refer.
The duet Alan Tomlinson and the River Seven (also included in the film) was performed in, and with, the river Seven in Rosedale, North Yorkshire. I have to take credit for that idea also.
The above is simply a series of factual corrections – not an essay to to boost my ego (that's healthy). As an artist, who also happens to be a promoter, I think some of the fun to be had from, or with, improvised music comes from a sort-of collision of consequences. I am not a musician but I can and do, from time to time, spot an accident waiting to happen.
I would be very grateful if you and The Wire could make the necessary corrections to your essay.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Thackray
The Shed
North Yorkshire


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|New Version of Digital Video Essentials Available on D-VHS Now and DVD On 9/2
|Tuesday, 12 August 2003
DVD player penetration surpassing even the highest expectations, the
time has come for a digital video program that appropriately addresses
such a large audience. Following the success of the original,
best-selling "Video Essentials" calibration disc—having sold over
300,000 units—comes "Digital Video Essentials," from DVD International
and Joe Kane Productions. The long-awaited DVD will be available on
September 2nd, in both NTSC and PAL versions, at a suggested retail
price of $24.99. The companies will also distribute a high definition
D-VHS tape, in both 720p and 1080i formats, for HDTV D-Theater owners.
"Today's DVD technology is not just for videophiles anymore," said
David Goodman, President, DVD International. "Whether a consumer owns a
high-end, high tech home theater system, or a 27-inch color television,
hooking up a DVD player is more than just matching wires from yellow to
yellow and red to red. Picture and sound quality are important for all
viewers, and now there's a new tool to meet all calibration needs."
"Our initial goal for DVE was to create a program that would help consumers with the transition from standard definition TV to high definition," said Joe Kane, President, Joe Kane Productions. "It grew to be a lot more as we illustrated points that are common to both systems. It's really about creating the right canvas for works of art that come to you in the form of audio and video entertainment. Featured as part of our examples of this art is the visual work of renowned cinematographer Allen Daviau ("ET," "Empire of the Sun," "The Color Purple")."
"Digital Video Essentials" provides test signals necessary to set up today's televisions, including plasma and other state-of-the-art screens and home theater systems.
Produced in the 1080 line progressive, 24-frame high definition format, DVE offers:
• High-quality conversion to 480p/24 for NTSC and 576p/25 for PAL
• "True Progressive Mastering" used in MPEG encoding
• 1.78 widescreen
• Basic, intermediate and advanced levels of video calibration
• Red, green and blue color filters
• Dolby Digital Pro-Logic, Dolby Digital Surround EX and DTS ES multichannel audio test signals
• More than 50 new video test patterns
• 1.78 widescreen anamorphic and 1.33 test materials


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As a weak front moves into South Florida Friday, another round of breezy weather will soon follow.
This front will bring in a moderate ocean breeze, with a few showers, throughout the weekend. Expect temperatures in the mid 80s.
Expect an elevated risk of rip currents to return this weekend along with choppy conditions for boaters.
By the Veteran's Day holiday on Monday, the breeze should relax along with the rain shower chances.