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The Manta Ray – Beautiful and Mysterious
The manta ray is a totally harmless cartilaginous fish that lives in tropical waters around the world.
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The manta ray is a creature that many consider the epitome of marine elegance due to its appearance. Ignorant people are often afraid of this creature due to how its fins resemble "demon horns", in addition to the fact that the shape of its body resembles a cloak or a mantle.
However, these giants are no threat, because they mainly eat plankton and are rather peaceful creatures. Their gracefulness resembles dancers interpreting an underwater show, as they seem to fly across the sea while doing amazing pirouettes, somersaults and jumps in the air.
This fish has many names around the world. The scientific naming of mantas is quite convoluted and several names were used for both the genus (Ceratoptera, Brachioptilon Daemomanta, and Diabolicthys) and the species (such as vampyrus, americana, johnii, and hamiltoni).
Today we'd like to tell you the amazing features of this type of fish.
Classification of the rays
The manta ray belongs to the class of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish characterized by having a skeleton composed entirely of cartilage. In fact, this group encompasses different species of sharks and rays.
Cartilaginous fish don't have swim bladders or lungs. They breathe through five to seven pairs of gills open to the outside.
This group of fish has no operculum –this is the bone fin that covers and protects the gills in bonefish. Because of this, they don't have a mechanism for controlling the entry and exit of water through their gills.
Because of this, cartilaginous fish must remain in a continuous motion to force water to penetrate the gills. This means that the manta ray is an animal that never stops moving, from the moment they're born until the day they die.
Cartilaginous fish or elasmobranch have been around for at least 400 million years.
Science recognizes two species of rays: the reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) and the giant oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris).
Characteristics of a manta ray
Manta rays and devilfish both have pectoral fins in the form of wings. They flap them to swim just like birds do when they fly.
Their gills are in the front of their belly. The head of both species is wide and their eyes are on each side of their body. Their long mouth is in the front and has several rows of small teeth that they don't use for chewing. Instead, males use them to hold the female during mating.
There are two structures called cephalic lobes above the mouth. These extend and guide the flow of water to the mouth and optimize the feeding process they perform by filtering water together with plankton. They eat large amounts of it.
Both species have a whip-shaped tail. However, unlike other species of the same order, the two species of rays lack a poisonous sting in the tail.
This marine animal is highly intelligent. In fact, scientists say it has the largest brain of all fish. Recently, they showed that manta rays possess the most developed cognitive abilities among fish.
These fish live in tropical latitudes around the world. Interestingly, the manta rays visit "maintenance stations" along the reefs. Once there, "cleaning fish" or opportunistic paddlefish provide them with cleaning services.
How big is a manta ray?
The large flattened body has a center called "disk." In the case of the reef manta ray, the disk's reported dimensions of it are 10 to 12 feet wide. In the giant oceanic manta ray, the disk can measure up to 10 feet wide and weigh nearly 3000 pounds.
The most commonly spotted are about 15 feet wide, and can live up to 25 years.
The body of the stingray has a protective mucous membrane. This mucus has two basic functions:
It acts as a barrier against infections.
It reduces friction to facilitate the animal's movement when swimming.
This membrane can be damaged by human contact, so, if you're near a stingray, don't touch them.
Another extraordinary characteristic of all cartilaginous fish is that they have an elaborate system of blisters in their skin that are sensitive to low-frequency electrical stimuli. These electroreceptors, known as "ampullae of Lorenzini" are decisive in their orientation towards inanimate electric fields, caused by terrestrial geomagnetism and tides.
System electroreceptors also allow them to detect the electromagnetic fields generated by their potential prey or predators and their congeners during social interactions and mating.
Threats to the manta ray
Humans hunt them either for sport, for their meat, for their oil, or by accident in commercial fishing tasks. Currently, the practice of catching manta ray is restricted and they're protected in the US.
The protection of the stingray is of economic interest, as they attract a large number of tourists. No doubt that this fish adds beauty, diversity, and mystery to our world.
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The different species of stingray are great at adapting to their environment. They can live on the coast, in the open sea or at depths of 3,000 meters. Read more »
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A: Filtering with WHERE is done before the aggregation, with HAVING, afterwards. So you should put the Cleanliness > -1 into the WHERE clause.
Putting it into the ON clause of the join works exactly the same way, but makes the query a little bit more unclear because this filter does not actually have anything to do with the join itself.

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"Good Cop, Bad Cop" is a song by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released for digital download on June 6, 2017, as a single from Death Certificate 25th Anniversary Edition. It was also included in his tenth studio album Everythang's Corrupt, released in December 2018.

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The song was released as a protest against corrupt law enforcement.s

Music video
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The arrival of European settlers, in the Americas, beginning in the 15th century, all but wiped out the dogs that had lived alongside people on the continent for thousands of years, according to new Oxford University-led research published today in Science. However, one close relative of these native dogs lives on in an unexpected place – as a transmissible cancer whose genome is that of the original dog in which it appeared, but which has since spread throughout the world.
The study conducted by researchers from the Oxford School of Archaeology, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, and Durham University used genetic information from 71 archaeological dog remains from the Americas.
The findings reveal that pre-contact American dogs, which arrived alongside people over 10,000 years ago, and spread throughout North, Central and South America, had genetic signatures unlike dogs found anywhere else in the world.
Comparison of ancient and modern American dog genomes revealed that these unique, pre-contact American dogs rapidly disappeared following the arrival of European settlers and left little to no trace in modern American dogs. This disappearance was most likely due to a combination of factors, including new diseases, cultural preferences for European breeds, and extermination of native dogs.
A dog burial site from the Koster site in Illinois, dated c. 10,000 years ago - the earliest known dogs in the Americas. Image credit: Del Baston, courtesy of the Center for American Archaeology
Senior lead author Dr Laurent Frantz from Queen Mary University and the Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network (Palaeo-BARN) at Oxford said: 'It is fascinating that a population of dogs that inhabited many parts of the Americas for thousands of years, and that was an integral part of so many Native American cultures, could have disappeared so rapidly. Their near-total disappearance is likely due to the combined effects of disease, cultural persecution and biological changes starting with the arrival of Europeans.'
Professor Greger Larson, Director of the Palaeo-BARN at Oxford and a senior author of the study, said: 'This study demonstrates that the history of humans is mirrored in our domestic animals. People in Europe and the Americas were genetically distinct, and so were their dogs. And European colonists largely replaced indigenous people in the Americas, and amazingly, the same is true of their dogs.'
By comparing the ancient and modern genomes, the researchers confirmed that the earliest American dogs were not descended from North American wolves, but likely originated in Siberia, crossing into the Americas during early human migrations.
Lead archaeologist Dr. Angela Perri of Durham University, co-first author on the study, added: 'Archaeological evidence has long suggested that ancient dogs had a dynamic history in the Americas, but the fate of these pre-contact dogs and their relationship to modern American dog populations was largely unknown. Our study confirms that the earliest American dogs are not descended from North American wolves, but likely originated in Siberia, crossing into the Americas during initial human migrations.
'In fact, we now know that the modern American dogs beloved worldwide, such as Labradors, Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican hairless dogs), and Chihuahuas, are largely descended from Eurasian breeds, introduced to the Americas between the 15th and 20th centuries.'
The study revealed a close link between the genomes of pre-contact dogs (as the researchers to them), and those derived from canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVT). CTVT is a contagious, genital cancer that is spread between dogs by living cancer cells during mating.
An artist's impression of what the original CTVT founder dog may have looked like. Image Credit: Emma Werner
Further study of CTVT genomes revealed that the tumour originated from a single dog - known as the 'CTVT founder dog,' that lived several thousand years ago and was closely related to pre-contact dogs.
Overall, their results indicate that this cancer, now found worldwide, possesses a genome that is the last remaining vestige of the dog population that was once found all across the Americas.
'It's quite incredible to think that possibly the only survivor of a lost dog lineage is a tumour that can spread between dogs as an infection,' added Maire Ní Leathlobhair, first author, from the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. 'Although this cancer's DNA has mutated over the years, it is still essentially the DNA of that original founder dog from many thousands of years ago.'
Now that the team have established the genomic ancestry of early American dogs, the next step in their research will be to reconstruct how the dogs may have looked and behaved.
The research was largely funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the European Research Council.
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PUEBLO – A retired engineer from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will provide an objective look at the climate change controversy during a presentation at Colorado State University-Pueblo later this month.
Hal Doiron, Ph.D., is a retired NASA engineer and chairman of the Right Climate Stuff Research Team. This team is primarily composed of NASA retirees who have been joined by several retired industry and university researchers to perform an objective assessment of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) controversy. In the 2010-2011-time period, Dr. James Hansen, also of NASA, was being widely quoted about an impending climate disaster, and NASA retirees from the manned space program were concerned that this prediction was without physical evidence to support the conclusion. It was feared that such unsupervised public declarations might damage the reputation of NASA as an objective science agency.
Doiron will discuss how our current climate variations compare with historical variations at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29 in Life Sciences 103 on the CSU-Pueblo campus. He also will discuss how his team modeled the effect of Greenhouse Gases on earth surface temperature and validated the model with 167 years of climate data. While adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere as we do when we burn coal, oil, and natural gas, causes some warming, the scientific question is how much? A further question is how much will the earth warm up if we burn all known fossil fuel reserves?
Doiron earned a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston.


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3 Angry Daddies, 3 Real MacGuffins & an elfin comedian upstaged by a mouse
The three Angry Daddies having a gay old time in Los Angeles
Yesterday, I thought I knew what today's blog was going to be about.
Last week I blogged about Mike Player, organiser of America's gay Outlaugh Comedy Festival
This Friday, at the Outlaugh Festival/Hollywood Fringe, Mike is performing an improvised show as one of the three Angry Daddies: they are Mike (one of the Gay Mafia comedy group), Mark S.Barnett (from Second City) and Dave Fleischer (from iO West)
Oh, I thought, That might make an interesting blog: the difference between being a solo comic and being part of a comedy group. And Mike is now in at least two comedy groups.
"Does this mean you got bored with the Gay Mafia gents?" I asked him.
"No," he told me. "It's just like I'm just taking a lover on the side. It's very French to do that. At least that's what I was taught as a child."
"But why would a straight audience watch three gay guys doing comedy?" I asked, trying to rile him.
"Well," he replied, undermining my ruse, "only two of the Angry Daddies are gay. One is straight. Mark is an actual father of progeny. The Daddies are 'post-gay' where the gay thing doesn't matter as much but is not shied away from. Dave and I play straight guys and Mark plays gay. We mix it up. There's something for everyone, except dogs. And dogs don't understand comedy."
"Would it work in the UK too?" I asked.
"Well," he replied, "Mark is from Bath, England, and has an English accent and everything. So we come fully equipped. In a commercial, Mark played a giant hotdog that runs through a park and explodes…twice. We have got it all covered."
Still, I thought, there is something to be said about the difference between solo and group work.
"What's it like to be in a group rather than being an individual performer?" I asked him. "Don't all performers want to be the sole centre of attention?"
"I like groups," Mike told me, "because you can react and do physical comedy in scene work. With good improv, there is collaboration which can be very exciting. Plus you can blame other people if the laughs aren't big enough. I like to blame Dave and Dave always threatens legal action."
I thought I would see if a couple of British comics thought the same.
So, early yesterday morning, I e-mailed ever-amiable Englishman Dan March, one of The Real MacGuffins.
The Real MacGuffins lean on a metal post in Soho yesterday
"The major difference with doing group instead of solo for me," he e-mailed me back a couple of hours later, "is that when a gig goes wrong I blame Matt and Jim and when it goes right I take all the credit. Doing solo work it's different – obviously I take the credit when it goes well but when it goes wrong I blame the audience. Also the writing process is more fun with a group – I get to shout 'Not funny!' at Matt which is very therapeutic."
Laura Lexx played cricket last year
My elfin comedy chum Laura Lexx, is appearing as part of Maff Brown's Parade of This at this August's Edinburgh Fringe. Yesterday, she told me: "The main thing is that with more than one person you simply have to rehearse, which is not something comedians really naturally do (for the most part). So it feels quite unnatural and hard to make yourself do it properly. We struggle to rehearse for more than about an hour without getting horrifically distracted and trying to go to the pub! It's hard to rehearse and then it's also hard not to ad lib once you're on stage because that's where you'd naturally go with stand up. I think they're two completely different disciplines."
So, late yesterday afternoon, strolling through Soho, I was content in my blog about the nature of doing group comedy. I can do something with all that, I thought.
Then, just six feet ahead of me, I saw Dan March and the other two Real MacGuffins standing round an unexplained black metal post, leaning on it, looking at me.
"I'll take your picture for the blog," I said.
And I did. And that was it. A perfectly rounded blog idea.
If it were not for the mouse.
Two nights ago, my eternally-un-named friend was staying at my home (we are an ex-couple). She was born and partly brought-up in the Mediterranean. I was brought up in Scotland. She leaves outside doors open because she thinks it's hot outside. I shut everything because I think the cold outside air will make my penis drop off.
There was also the trauma of the mouse a few years ago. I have not yet written about this in my blog. But I will, dear reader. I will. Perhaps in a few days. It was about five years ago. I still bear the psychological scars.
Yesterday morning, my eternally-un-named friend confessed to me:
"I saw a mouse last night."
Relative of the wee, not-so tim'rous beastie loose in ma hoose
"Where? There on the stair?" I asked.
"In the living room," she said, worried at my reaction, given my previous rodent-induced trauma.
"I have built a trap," she told me reassuringly.
"You built a mouse trap overnight?" I asked.
"It's a piece of newspaper," she explained, "put across the top of a bowl which is half-full of water. The newspaper has a cross cut in it in the middle with bait on top of it, balanced on the cross cut. The weight of the mouse, as it goes across the paper to reach the bait will make the paper cave-in and the mouse will fall into the water below. Hopefully I've done it so it's deep enough that the mouse will drown."
"Where is the bowl?" I asked.
"Under the dinner table," she told me.
"Rats swim, don't they?" I asked, searching my memory for movie references.
"They're more intelligent," she said. "and it's a very small mouse."
"What's the bait?" I asked.
"Half a Mars bar," she replied.
"You won't let ME eat Mars bars!" I almost shouted.
"They would make you fatter," she replied rather too smugly.
"Why do you want to kill it?" I asked. "A poor little baby mouse."
"Don't be stupid!" she said. "You're going to turn this into a ridiculous blog because you're stupid."
"You like Tom & Jerry cartoons," I pointed out, "but now you are trying to kill Jerry."
"You kill flies," my eternally-un-named friend riposted.
"They're insects," I replied.
"So?" she asked.
"A mouse is a mammal," I said.
"You eat chicken," she said.
"That's a bird" I said.
"Lamb," she countered.
"Sheep are stupid and deserve to die," I parried.
"Stupidity doesn't enter into it," she said. "You don't deserve to die. Well, not for that… It is a small mouse. I have put a ruler resting on the side of the bowl, so it can climb up from the carpet to get to the bait on the newspaper over the water."
"It's like you are making it walk the plank!" I pointed out.
"Precisely," she said, I thought unecessarily triumphantly.
I was out in central London all day yesterday. When I got home late last night, I asked her: "Why do you want to kill the mouse? We should trap it alive and take it out into a field and release it into the wild."
"You're turning into a Buddhist," my eternally un-named friend said. "Why don't we just open the front and back door and let all the mice come in? Then you could have a little family of cute mice and any time you wanted to kill one it would be easy. There would be a whole festering mass of them crossing the bloomin' floor."
"Bloomin?" I queried.
"Bloomin," she insisted.
"Let the mammal live…" I pleaded. "Or I could buy a cat."
"You could rent a cat," she said. "That's what people did in days-gone-by."
"We should try to take a picture of it for the blog," I suggested.
"The cat?"
"The mouse… I suppose it moves too fast…"
"I saw it twice today," my eternally-un-named friend told me. "It just sauntered across the floor from under the bureau to under the sofa. Then, a little later, it sauntered back again. It was in no hurry."
"You saw it?"
"I looked at it…It looked at me…We were both surprised… What can I say?"
"Perhaps it doesn't like Mars bars," I suggested.
"I was going to drop a file of papers on it," she said. "but my file was in the kitchen. I have added peanut butter to the Mars bar. I Googled how to trap mice and people were saying mice like peanut butter. Cheese has no effect."
"I'm sure I tried honey when I had the previous mouse," I said.
"But, when that happened, did…" she started.
"I don't want to talk about it," I interrupted. "It was traumatic."
Then, half an hour later, my eyes got itchy and I started sneezing. A lot.
"I think I may be allergic to mice," I said.
"And I have a sty in my eye," she said. "It started about two hours ago. I didn't like to tell you."
"We have to out-think it," I said. "We have to think like a mouse."
"You don't have to tell me," my eternally-un-named friend said. "I don't want to have to keep shutting the living room door to keep it trapped in here. I'll let it go upstairs. I'll help it upstairs. It can get into your bed."
"Don't remind me," I said. "I don't even want to think about that."
We left my home and drove late-night to Greenwich where we stayed overnight.
I am still there.
I will have to face the mouse again later today.
"It is very small, but seems to have inner confidence," my eternally-un-named friend tells me.
Filed under Comedy, Gay, Humor, Humour, Mice
Tagged as bait, comedy, edinburgh fringe, Group, improvisation, Mars, mouse, neurosis, troupe


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'The Birth of a Nation' Review: A History of Injustice, Then and Now
When Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last January, it got a standing ovation before its premiere. People were excited to see this movie. Nine months later, the reaction to its arrival in theaters is a little bit different.
In the interim, the wildly positive response to the movie at Sundance (not to mention the record-breaking $17.5 million Fox Searchlight paid to release the movie) put a lot of attention on Parker and his past, and brought back to light charges that he and his Birth of a Nation co-writer, Jean Celestin, raped a woman while the two attended Penn State University. Parker was found not guilty (Celestin's conviction was later overturned), but their accuser committed suicide in 2012, and Parker's various reactions to the press coverage of the case have rubbed many people the wrong way. In the abstract, it can be easy to assert that art and artist should be judged separately, but in practice, that's sometimes easier said than done, particularly when the two seem so intertwined, as they do in The Birth of a Nation.
Parker not only co-wrote and directed, but also stars in his film as Nat Turner, who led an armed slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. After a prologue that shows the young Nat (Tony Espinosa) learning to read and getting anointed as a special person gifted with wisdom, courage, and vision, Parker picks up his story as a young man owned by Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer). As children, Samuel and Nat were friends. Now Samuel is the master and Nat is the slave, and though Samuel typically treats his "property" with relative kindness, his generosity and mercy only goes so far. Samuel's family plantation is struggling; to help make ends meet, he begins loaning out Nat, who leads prayer services for the Turner farm's slaves, to other local farms as a preacher.
Nat's services are in highest demand at plantations where conditions are at their lowest, and so his travels expose him (and the audience) to the absolute worst of the Antebellum South, where slaves are chained, assaulted, and force-fed slop through funnels. They also provoke him to stop offering words of comfort to his parishioners and instead make fiery proclamations about executing vengeance on the wicked. The slaveowners want Nat to "calm" their workers, but in the end he precipitates the very rebellion they're hoping to quell, with a sadistic attack on Nat's wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King) portrayed as the final breaking point before the insurrection.
When the battle begins, Nat grabs a sword off the wall of the Turner house and begins swinging it against his enemies. Parker wields his camera in much the same way, with furious anger and little nuance. He takes his title from D.W. Griffith's 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation, which helped invent the modern feature film with an epic story, bold visual juxtapositions, and racism so overt and abhorrent it is shocking to modern eyes. A famous (though almost certainly false) quote attributed to President Woodrow Wilson compared Griffith's work to "writing history with lightning" and the best sections in Parker's Birth of a Nation are charged with a similar kind of cinematic electricity. Many of his directing choices are obvious but bluntly effective, like playing "Strange Fruit" over a montage of slaves hung in the wake of Nat's uprising. And his greatest asset is his outstanding cast, which includes Esther Scott, Dwight Henry, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Gabrielle Union.
After all the build-up, though, the battle sequences are anticlimactic. Comprised of a handful of disconnected moments, they're the one part of The Birth of a Nation that feels small, and hamstrung by a budget that was surely less than this story demands. (The rest of the movie does an impressive job of recreating a convincing 1820s Virginia.) The Birth of a Nation seems to rush through its most important scenes, undercutting the inspiring mood Parker attempts to fashion out of Nat Turner's sacrifice. There, too, it's hard not to think about the real-life controversies surrounding the filmmakers in the constant looming threat of sexual violence against women and in Parker's casting of himself as that violence's avenger. His Turner is hero, prophet, and martyr all rolled into one.
Even if viewers try to take Parker and his past out of the equation, The Birth of a Nation still works best when the contours of Nat Turner's era take on sad echoes of our own, insinuating America is a country built for the benefit of a few rich white men at the expense of everyone else, and showing how African Americans fight to carve out their own identity in an oppressive world. Parker holds some of the white characters in contempt, like Jackie Earle Haley's cruel slave hunter, but he also shows a surprising amount of sympathy for others, particularly the conflicted Samuel, who's played with impressive complexity by Hammer. Parker uses that character to suggest how reasonable people wind up participating in a system engineered to enable the victimizer and destroy the victim. Some may find resonance in that message beyond Nat Turner's story.
Filed Under: Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation
Categories: Movie News, Movie Reviews


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When remodeling his Hartland Estates home, John Mullins
followed his extravagant Bellagio Hotel vision rather than settle for an ordinary high-end home.
From the foyer, we take the center stairway up a half level and into a multi-purpose office and lounge. Mullins placed a working desk in front of the room's broad arching window, which is dressed in sweeping crimson curtains. Mullins notes this room is also used for family time, as evident by the large caramel couch and herringbone print tufted ottoman included in the heart of the space
To the right of the foyer, I'm amused by a slender French door, which opens to a library resembling Old World Europe. The enchanting room is decorated with a coffered ceiling and sliding ladders that skim across walls of wood custom-built shelves. The room feels like it belongs in another place and time, but serves a practical use for the homeowner today.
Returning to the foyer, we progress toward the center of the first floor, passing through an elaborate Venetian archway that introduces a sophisticated dining room. The elevated ceiling with two layers of molding is highlighted by a contrasting ceiling tone. The dining room is complete with a sleek 10-seat dining table, a front window trimmed in silk black and white printed curtains and a gold-trimmed imported black buffet.
Past the dining room, the natural flow of the home leads to an open area exposing a series of Venetian style columns setting off the living room. At the core of the open area, and adjacent to the living room, a glass-encased wine cellar holds a thousand bottles of wine collected by Mullins. At this point in the tour, we step down from the hardwood onto the beige carpet of the living room. The formality of the space is emphasized by the coffered ceiling and faux finished sage walls, which are trimmed in white railing. It's impossible to overlook the massive cast stone fireplace, which was imported from Mexico. A bronze sectional couch and two Victorian style upholstered sitting chairs complete the living room.
Moving down a hallway to the left of the living room, we circle around the custom-built glass panels of the rectangular wine cellar, a central focus of the home, and into the angle vaulted-ceiling kitchen and attached breakfast nook, which are styled in harmony with the rest of the house.
Far walls of the kitchen are assembled with cream cabinetry finished with elaborate molding. Matching corner cabinet sections with glass facings are incorporated for china display.
A pair of oversized, dramatic bronze chandeliers hover over an 18-foot, two-tiered granite countertop, complemented by stools upholstered in an olive iKat print. On the right side of the room, a section of the granite workspace provides a view out to the property.
Transitioning through the center of the home to the hallway on the opposite side of the living room, Mullins is eager to show off his treasured powder room. Moses helped design a distinctively dramatic powder room that intensifies the aura of Old World glamour felt throughout the home. A hand-printed camel wallpaper meets perimeter molding and a ceiling draped with sleek golden silk and an elaborate bronze light fixture, and finished with a rope trim. A dark marble flooring in a diamond pattern caps off the timelessly elegant and impressively creative look in this small but noteworthy space.
The central stairway located across from the powder room steps a half level down to an optional work out room or office space, illuminated by a large window to the outdoors, then scales down one more half flight to conclude at the finished basement.
The basement provides a casual living space, with a large flat screen television as the focal point, and a hallway that passes by a pool powder room and opens below upper deck to an outdoor pebble pool shower, suited in optional blue-print curtains, and a series of majestic columns setting off the pool deck.
Returning to the foyer, we climb up the central stairway to the top of the vaulted ceiling, an area designated for bedrooms dispersed to each corner of the upper level.. The golden beige-toned master bedroom includes a heightened two-tiered ceiling and private fireplace.
The adjacent master bathroom provides a vanity area defined by two black mosaic tile sinks and illuminated with sconce lighting fixtures. A built-in shower and Jacuzzi are assembled with beige tile with diamond accents. A surprising detail in the bathroom, a built-in flat screen television on a plaster wall takes on the appearance of a mirror when not in use.
The master bathroom leads into a super-functional walk-in closet fitted with custom walls and racks for optimal storage.
Turning the corner back toward the great room, Mullins gestures toward a light and refreshing sunroom soaking up natural light and warmth through two walls of glass panels with sliding doors, which open to the upper level deck. In warm weather, the room serves as a transitional area guiding guests toward the lavish outdoor settings. The sunroom continues the home's theme of detail-driven refinement with its quatrefoil print accent wall and four comfortable linen sitting chairs.
The porcelain tile extends from the sunroom onto the outside deck, which is furnished with a set of lounge chairs tossed with pillows matching the wall print from the indoor section.
An unexpectedly fun detail, an iron spiral stairway winds from the upper deck down to the lower deck.
Around the corner, Mullins enjoys a custom-built, full-service granite bar for adult entertaining. To the right of the columns, a Las Vegas worthy infinity pool dazzles with copious details, including a stepping stone path through the middle, lighting features and music-coordinated dancing fountains.
A stairway from the lower pool deck climbs a full level ending at a custom built stone oven and wood pagoda, which hovers over an outdoor dining section. To the left, another set of stairs lead to an additional entrance at the back of the house.


Apparently, paps were following her and she got into a car accident.
Hot on the heels of Meghan Markle's dad Thomas being hospitalized for heart surgery just days before his daughter's royal wedding, her sister Samantha Grant has revealed to Markle Family BFFs TMZ that she, too, was hospitalized.
Samantha reportedly broke her ankle and fractured her knee after what TMZ describes as a "confrontation with the paparazzi." Her boyfriend Mark explains that they were driving in Florida when a photographer veered in front of them to get a shot, causing him to swerve and hit a concrete barrier.
Per Mark, Samantha hit the windshield, fell to the floor mat, and was unable to lift herself up due to having MS. He reportedly drove Samantha to the E.R. while the paps allegedly fled the scene.


Beta-endorphin immunoreactivity levels in CSF after laryngeal chemoreflex activation correlate with apnoea duration in piglets.
Storm H1, Stoltenberg L, Saugstad OD, Rognum TO, Reichelt KL.
The activation of the laryngeal chemoreflex may be a pathogenic mechanism in apnoea, apparent life threatening events, and SIDS. Infants with apnoea and increased levels of beta-endorphin immunoreactivity in CSF have been successfully treated with naloxone. Beta-endorphin may induce respiratory depression, and naloxone is a beta-endorphin antagonist. We therefore wanted to measure beta-endorphin levels in CSF before and after the chemoreflex induced apnoea. This study includes 13 piglets, 5-10 days of age, treated with and without naloxone. Respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate were monitored. CSF was sampled before and after the laryngeal chemoreflex induced apnoea. We found a shorter duration of apnoea in the piglets which had received naloxone than in those which did not (p = 0.02). The beta-endorphin immunoreactivity levels in CSF increased after apnoea, and the increased levels correlated positively with the duration of the apnoea in the piglets which had not received naloxone (r = 0.94, p = 0.02), but not in those pretreated with naloxone (r = 0.1, p = 0.8). The median amount of beta-endorphin immunoreactivity in CSF after apnoea in the naloxone-treated piglets was not significantly different from that in the non-treated piglets: 615 +/- 589 (n = 7) fmol/ml CSF and 984 +/- 851 (n = 6) fmol/ml CSF, respectively. The beta-endorphin immunoreactivity levels measured before the apnoea were less than 4.3 fmol/ml CSF.
The laryngeal chemoreflex induced apnoea may possible be partly mediated by beta-endorphin.


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An ISO plain language standard
by admin | Sep 7, 2020 | Updates
Where we're at, next steps, and the back story
Christopher Balmford, Chair, ISO TC 37 WG 11, Plain Language Project
Next update Access for all online plain language conference, Wed 14 Oct 2020
Where we're at
The International Standards Organization ― known to its friends as, ISO ― has a project to develop an international plain language standard that works in as many languages as possible.
In 2019, ISO appointed a Working Group to develop the standard. The Working Group is part of ISO's Technical Committee 37, which covers Language and terminology. The Committee is known as TC 37, see ISO TC 37 WG 11, we're right at the bottom of the page.
The Working Group, which I chair, has (at last count) 50 members from standards bodies in 16 countries ― namely: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.
Representatives from other country's standards bodies (that are ISO members) are welcome to join the Working Group you can read about that here.
The Working Group also has a representative from each of the 3 organisations that formed the International Plain Language Federation. The representatives are:
for PLAIN, Bede Sunter, Australia;
for Clarity, Justyna Zandberg-Malec, Poland; and
for the Center, Kat Catania, the USA.
BTW, in the ISO world, organisations that appoint representatives to a Working Group are officially appointed as Liaison Organizations ― and it is something of a big deal.
This structure of technical committees, working groups, and liaison organizations ― and the processes they each follow ― is all part of ISO's well-established policies and procedures. Thankfully, the Working Group is ably supported by helpful experts at ISO.
At a Zoom meeting in June 2020, ISO's plain language Working Group established a Drafting Committee to draft the standard. The Committee's members are:
From existing members of ISO's Technical Committee 37:
Andreas Baumert, Germany; and
Angelika Vaasa, Luxembourg.
From the plain language world:
Machiko Asai, Japan;
Rosa Margarita Galán Vélez, Mexico;
Torunn Reksten, Norway;
Vera Gergely, Hungary; and
Susan Kleimann and David Lipscomb, the USA. Susan and David are something of a double act, having prepared ― with Annetta Cheek ― early versions of the draft standard. More on those early drafts below.
Update Soon after the Drafting Committee began meeting, it co-opted Annetta as a member.
Between them, the Drafting Committee members speak ― and will be considering the standard from the perspective of: English, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish.
Members of the broader Working Group will also review the Drafts from the perspective of Afrikaans, Finnish, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish.
Also the Working Group's 3 Liaison Organizations, Clarity, PLAIN, and the Center, will each consult with their members. This will further extend the range of languages involved ― for example, a PLAIN member from South Africa will review the standard from the perspective of Zulu.
Also these reviews by members of Clarity, PLAIN, and the Center will broaden the plain-language expertise applied to developing the standard.
For this sort of consultation with the members of a Working Group's Liaison Organization, ISO has a formal policy and process ― in particular, a member who is to review a draft must first agree to preserve confidentiality and not to use the draft standard for any other purpose.
The next steps are for the Drafting Committee to produce Draft 2 for the Working Group to review. And then Draft 3, . . . and so on.
When the Working Group settles its final draft ― probably in mid-2021, that draft will go to ISO for a formal ballot as to whether it should be approved. The voters in that ballot are the 32 countries' standards bodies that are Participating Members of TC 37. (There are another 29 countries' standards bodies that are Observing Members of TC 37, but those Observing Members don't get to vote in the ISO ballot. See here for the countries whose standards bodies are Participating Members, or Observing Members, of TC 37.)
Assuming the ISO ballot approves the Working Group's final draft, each country's standards body then decides whether to adopt the standard for its country. When doing so, a country's standards body can make any changes to the standard that it thinks are needed for its country, or for its language (or languages), etc.
Some key thoughts on the standard:
Like all standards, complying with the plain language standard will be voluntary ― no organisation and no individual has to comply with it. They choose to if they want to.
The standard is not a style guide and it is not a writing guide.
The standard is intended to work in as many languages as possible.
The standard builds on, and works with, the definition of plain language that the International Plain Language Federation developed.
To find out how you can be involved, read here.
The Federation initiated the project
The International Plain Language Federation was formed in 2009 by Clarity, PLAIN, and the Center. The Federation has no other members ― just those 3 organisations.
In 2010, the Federation published an options paper suggesting 7 projects ― one of which was to develop a plain language standard. However, for the next 8 years, the project was on hold, while the Federation focussed on other projects.
In 2018, the Federation ― under Annetta Cheek's leadership ― established a committee to drive the standards project, I was appointed as its chair.
In 2019 the Federation approached Standards Australia (which is an ISO member) about developing a plain language standard.
Standards Australia proposed a plain language standard to ISO
After some to-ing and fro-ing ― and us filling in the relevant forms, and meeting with Standards Australia to make the proposal ― Standards Australia resolved to formally propose to ISO that ISO develop a plain language standard.
The relevant ISO meeting at which the proposal needed to be made was TC 37's annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada, in June 2019. Standards Australia appointed me to make the proposal on its behalf. In Ottawa, I was supported ― and more ― by the Federation's President, Annetta Cheek.
As part of any proposal for a new standard, ISO requires a model demonstration of part of the proposed standard ― that draft is known as the Experts' Draft.
The Ottawa meeting approved the proposal going to a formal ISO ballot involving the standards bodies of about 30 countries over a 3-month period.
ISO approved the proposal ― work began
In September 2019, the ISO ballot approved the proposal to develop a plain language standard ― that's when the Working Group was established, and the real work began.
The first task for ISO's plain language Working Group was to complete the Experts' Draft and to adopt it as Draft 1. The Working Group appointed 3 luminaries and stalwarts of the plain language world to author the Experts' Draft, they are: Susan Kleimann, David Lipscomb and Annetta Cheek. As they completed the Experts' Draft, they learned about ISO's requirements for standards.
Then, moving quickly and making it sound easy:
The Working Group formally adopted the complete Experts' Draft as its first draft.
The Working Group commented on that first draft in writing. Have a think about that: 50 people, 17 countries, 13 languages, everyone with a view . . . there were 238 comments. Many were minor: some were curly and complicated.
Susan, David, and Annetta responded to those comments in writing and produced Draft 1.1.
In June 2020, the Working Group met by Zoom ― 36 people attended ― to:
discuss any of the comments that any Working Group member felt still needed to be discussed; and
to appoint the Drafting Committee.
Now the Drafting Committee is working on Draft 2. All power to it.
In late 2020, WG 11 will arrange for Clarity, PLAIN and the Center ― as TC 37 Liaison Organizations ― to invite their members to comment on the draft.
Lastly, deep thanks:
to the people at Standards Australia, ISO and TC 37 for being so encouragingly, and supportively, helpful; and
to everyone on the Working Group ― particularly those on the Drafting Committee; and
to Susan Kleimann, David Lipscomb and Annetta Cheek:
for preparing Draft 1 and Draft 1.1 of the standard; and
for the Herculean task of responding, in writing ― so carefully and so usefully ― to the 238 comments on Draft 1.
The next scheduled update on the project is a discussion panel at Access for all the online plain language conference in October 2020. You can hear:
from members of WG 11's Drafting Committee, by video; and
from ISO TC 37's Chair, Laurent Romary, and me (the WG 11 Convener, Christopher Balmford), in a live panel discussion.
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Q: Intro to proofs in real analysis 3 Prove that for real numbers $x,y$ with $x< y$, there is a rational and an irrational between $x$ and $y$ in the following cases:
a) when $x< 0< y$;
b) when $x< y \le 0$.
For a) this is my proof: Let $r$ and $q$ be rational and irrational numbers, respectively.
First I show $r$ and $q$ are in $(0,y)$ and then I show that $r$, $q$ are in $(x,0)$.
To show that $r$ and $q$ are in $(0,y)$ I use Case 1 from my class:
$(a,b)$ = $\{x\in\mathbb{R}|a< x< b\}$. By the "squeezing in" theorem, there exists $n\in\mathbb{N}$ so that $0 < 1/n < y$. So take $r = 1/n$. Consider $(1/n)(1/2^{1/2})<1/n<y$. Since $2^{1/2}>1$, $1/2^{1/2} < 1$. By the previous result, $(1/n)(1/2^{1/2})$ is irrational. Hence, $r$ and $q$ in $(0,y)$.
Now I want to show that $r$ and $q$ are in $(x,0)$. Since $x<0\implies- x>0$. By Case 1, I can find a rational $r\in(0,-x)$ and an irrational $q\in(0,-x)$. But, we can use Case 1 again to find $r,q\in(0,y-x)$ as $0< -x< y - x$.
Since $r,q\in(0,y)$ and $r,q\in(0,y-x)$, there is a rational and irrational number in $x< 0<y$.
So what do you guys think about my proof?

A: Let's look at the case $x<0<y$.  I'll assume that you can find a rational number in the interval $(x,y)$ by yourself, so let's look at the irrational case.  The Archimedean property of the real numbers implies that there exists an integer $n$ such that $\vert y \vert >1/n.$ In particular, since $\sqrt{2}>1$, we have
$$\vert y \vert > z:=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}n}.$$
The real number $z$ is irrational, and lies in the interval $(0,y) \subset (x,y)$.
The second case is slightly more difficult. As a hint, first try to find a rational number in your interval (for example, find an $n$ such that $\vert x -y \vert >1/n$, and consider the rational numbers with denominator $n$), and then try adding a sufficiently small irrational (scaling by a sufficiently small irrational would work as well).


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1,182 acres of woodland, wetland and prairie provides a rest stop along the migratory bird highway. 260 species have been recorded using these habitats, with at least 89 species breeding onsite. Bird watchers can stroll through the trails to view birds along the way or stop at the blind to view the hosts of waterfowl in spring and fall.
In spring wildflowers carpet the woodlands. The summer brings blossoms in the meadows and prairies. Fall brings autumnal tones to the forest canopy and the native grasses. Winter brings solitude, broken by the calls of various birds visiting the grounds.
An exhibit building opens to several miles of self-guiding trails, inviting visitors to explore natural habitats that are home to wildlife and native plants.
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People have been altering plants and animals for many years by using selective breeding, artificial insemination, cross-pollination, and creating hybrid plants by grafting. However, genetic engineering or genetic modification alters the DNA of an organism and changes the characteristics.
Scientists developed a way to isolate and cut up DNA material from different biological species and create a hybrid DNA that would be introduced to an organism to form new combinations of DNA. This achievement to alter the DNA of an organism begged the question of the risks of genetic engineering.
In 1974, a meeting was held in California to discuss the social implications of genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Some companies involved in the conference recognized the potential of biotechnology. One of the first private companies to use genetic engineering was a company called Genentech Inc. that developed the production of human insulin in bacteria and has provided a constant supply of insulin for diabetics worldwide.
Examples of Genetic Engineering and GMOs
Cloning: This is producing an identical copy of an organism. The first cloned sheep was Dolly in 1996. The ethics of cloning is a major debate among scientists and the public.
Pesticide-resistant plants: Crop seeds were developed to be resistant to certain pesticides so that when crops were sprayed it did not affect the growing crop. An example of this is rapeseed crops.
Cows & Pigs: To reduce the amount of methane gas cows produced, some cows were genetically modified so that they had less flatulence. Pigs were genetically modified so that they digested phosphorous better and reduced the amount of manure produced by the animal.
Poplar trees: Scientists at the University of Washington developed poplar trees that could be nourished by polluted water.
GMO Rice: Genetic modification was used to add beta-carotene to rice to give people a healthy amount of vitamin A.
Fast growing trees: To keep up with the demand for wood and wood products, GMO trees could be planted as part of a reforestation program and they matured faster.
GMO Tomatoes and other fruits: Varieties of fruit were modified to grow faster, produce more, and remain fresher longer. This allows these GMO fruits to be shipped farther from where they are grown.
GMO Corn: A type of corn was genetically modified to produce its own poison to kill insects.
GMO Salmon: A modification was developed to allow farmed salmon to grow twice as fast as native salmon.
GMO Bananas: A species of banana was developed that produced cholera and hepatitis vaccine. When these bananas are eaten by people their bodies produce antibodies so they are immune to the diseases.
Disadvantages of Genetic Engineering
Not everything is known about the long-term effects of consuming GMOs on human health. There is also an issue about ethics – just because science has proven the process of genetic engineering works doesn't mean using that knowledge is morally right. Many people believe that genetically modifying plants and animals is against the laws of nature. Manipulating the DNA of organisms could eventually change genetic diversity which is an essential component of any ecosystem. This could lead to certain organisms (natural plants and animals) to become extinct.
What is selective breeding?
What are two examples of a genetically engineered crop?
What is the basis of the debate over genetically engineered products?
How can genetic engineering cause some plants and animal species to disappear?
People can choose the characteristics of the offspring of animals and will breed only those animals that display those characteristics.
A GMO is an organism that has been genetically modified or altered.
Rapeseed was genetically engineered to resist the effects of pesticides and rice was genetically engineered to have beta-carotene in its DNA.
Some people believe that it is against the laws of nature to fiddle with the DNA of plants and animals.
If genetically engineering is applied to all plants and animals there will eventually be less diversity and natural plants and animals will become extinct.
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Section 73 Approval for Hogarth Business Park, Chiswick
Section 73 Approval for Hogarth Business Park, Chiswick /
The Section 73 Application for Berkeley Homes, to amend their approved planning permission for the residential-led development of the site currently known as Hogarth Business Park, has been approved by London Borough of Hounslow.
The approved re-development proposals will deliver 173 residential homes in a mix of apartments and houses, with 928 sqm of commercial floorspace.
JTP were tasked with building on the key principles established in the previously approved development by creating a series of small design amendments to further enhance the current approval and agreed layout and massing. The JTP team aimed to incorporate a more traditional vernacular into the scheme, drawing on the local context of the site's location within the Chiswick House and Gardens Conservation Area. The historic use of the site traced from orchards in 1866 through terraced houses and a factory in 1935 (the former Cherry Blossom Boot Polish factory) also inspired elements of the design approach.
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People in the news - Week of Jan. 29, 2021
Luke Dosiek, associate professor of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering, was awarded the 2021 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award in the non-Ph.D. granting program category. He was one of nearly 60 nominees from across the country and will be recognized at the annual meeting of the ASEE's Engineering Research Council, coinciding with its Research Leadership Institute.
Jordan Smith, the Edward E. Hale, Jr. Professor of English, gave a reading and conversation on two poems, Matthew Graham's "Things That Left With My Father When He Died" and my "With a Glass of Finger Lakes Red," for the Saratoga Springs Public Library's Poets Talk Poetry series. Watch the event here.
Dan Venning, assistant professor of theater and dance, recently published an article, "'Ya Got Trouble, My Friend, Right Here:' Romanticizing Grifters in American Musical Theatre" in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. The article can be read here.
Deidre Hill Butler, associate professor of sociology, director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and academic chief diversity officer, participated in the "Activism in the Aftermath, Rebuilding and Reforming, Participatory Democracy in Action: Southern Black Women Educational Activists and Community Institution Builders in the Urban South, the 1890s to 2010s" panel at the Pathways to Democracy 2021 Organization of American Historians (Virtual) Conference. Her paper was titled "Womanist Community Revitalization in the Bordeaux the Neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee post-2010 Flood."
Megan Ferry, professor of Chinese, presented a paper at the MLA 2021 Convention. Her research was titled, "Language Programs' Post-Pandemic Future in Designing a Sustainable Life."
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Every Girl Matters for intrepid students
News Page 30th September 2019
Helping African girls stay in school for longer and empowering them with a better education has been the driving force for students to self-fund a trip to support a leading aid organisation.
Second year Social Work students – Danika Williams and Natalie Douglas – will put their learning to the test in June next year when the two fly out to the West Nile region of Uganda to back a project called Keep a Girl in School with their own campaign Every Girl Matters.
Run by the Uganda Red Cross Society, Keep a Girl in School provides sanitary products, better toilet and washroom facilities and produces educational material to improve how school girls in the West Nile manage their menstrual health.
Due to a lack of facilities, adolescent girls in Africa can miss days in school each month which, cumulatively, affect their educational progress compared with their male peers.
During their time in the region, Danika and Natalie plan to distribute sanitary products to the girls and engage in talks with them and with boys to raise awareness of the importance of schemes like Keep a Girl in School.
Their project has been kick-started by British Association of Social Workers (BASW) international division, who have part-fund the students' air fare and British Airways, who have agreed to boost this total from the in-house charitable bake sales held by their staff members.
The challenge for the students is to drum up enough extra money to support them for the time they are in West Nile.
With this in mind they are creating a schedule of activities over the next few months that include a kick-off campaign during Welcome Week at the University, bake sales and raffles and a 'big fun day' carnival, pencilled in for spring 2020.
They will be accompanied by Lesley Best – a social worker herself and former senior lecturer with the University and pictured above being interviewed by BBC Northampton's Jona Kotnis – who will manage their learning outcomes during the trip.
Lesley will also be working with the Uganda Red Cross to develop safeguarding training materials for West Nile staff who work directly with people displaced by conflict in the region and host communities.
Of their charitable exploits, Danika said: "There are so many important reasons to spotlight Keep a Girl in School, but for me it comes down to just two.
"As the mother to two intelligent and determined young girls, I see how they thrive from having access to education. Their potential grows every day and it touches my heart to think how many other young girls are denied this.
"We're not one's to rest on our laurels in social work so we're embracing the University's Changemaker spirit and getting out into the world to make a difference."
To find out more about the students' fundraising and to donate.
Follow Danika and Natalie's exploits on Twitter or Instagram: everygirlmatters20_21
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For the second time consecutively, a film awarded as the most impactful one with the 'Sociograph Award' at SEMINCI was nominated at the Oscars. 'The Insult' by Ziad Doueri was the award-winning film with its nomination at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film as 'Mustang' by Deniz Gamze Ergüven did in 2016.
The relationship between the Film Festival SEMINCI and the marketing science consulting firm Sociograph, from which the name of the award refers to, began in 2015 taking advantage of the 60th Anniversary Commemorative edition under the name of 'Religious Film Week', due to the events scheduled for Easter.
Over half a century late, but keeping its independent and author essence, SEMINCI brought a differentiation to the festival among those from around the world. This was based on science; in particular, in neuroscience by using the technology Sociograph to measure the emotional reactions and make the audience participate as 'a jury'. Thanks to this innovative project, hundreds of people have been interested in participating in the different screenings of the official sections from the last three editions.
Sociograph, in collaboration with the film festival , called on citizens to obtain a randomized sample and divided it into small 'juries' of up to 30 spectators per session, aimed to watch the films within the official section of the Valladolid film festival in order to identify the "most impactful" film.
As a result of this collaboration, Sociograph has tested 57 films at two well-known theatres in Valladolid, and nearly 2,000 voluntary participants joined this initiative to be part of the 'jury' through their emotional reactions.


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TRACE; Credit: Jason Barbagelott
Trace, Daughter of a Vietnamese Pop Star, Forges Her Own Moody Electronic Sound
Katrina Nattress June 19, 2017
Does the name Carol Kim mean anything to you? To most people reading this, probably not. But to anyone who knows Vietnamese pop music, it means the world.
Kim was the light of Saigon when the country was in a dark, dark place, singing to U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War and eventually packing up and moving to America with one in 1975.
In the four decades that have passed, Kim has released numerous albums — both in English and Vietnamese — and tours the world, giving international Vietnamese communities a nostalgic ride down memory lane. She is considered the Tina Turner of Vietnam. But to Trace, she's just mom.
"I forget it wasn't normal," Trace (stylized as TRACE) says of her childhood, sitting in a coffee bar in Los Feliz. "My mom raised me on her own, so I would go to rehearsal with her or dinners with her and stay up late. It was a fun life that I was fortunate to be around … I felt privileged and not famous but," she notes with a laugh, "my first birthday was in the Vietnamese newspaper."
"My mom can't believe that I write my own music. A lot of Vietnamese singers don't write their own music." -TRACE
Despite being surrounded by music and entertainers her whole life, TRACE did not start singing at an early age. "I grew up never wanting to do music," she says matter-of-factly. "Everybody's first question was always, 'Is she going to sing?' And my mom always said, 'She has a great voice, but if she does sing, she'll sing for the Americans.'" TRACE pauses and chuckles before continuing: "Where did she get my good voice from? I didn't sing growing up, and if I did, I don't remember."
But it's funny how life works out sometimes. For TRACE, her fate of becoming a singer started to take form in 2013 — a mere four years ago. Between sips of decaf espresso over ice, she explains her path to a music career.
It began when a boy she dated in college asked her to sing on a track he was working on. "I've always had an acoustic guitar in my backpack," she recalls. "I would just play to myself, but I never sang — I just cared about the writing." Always up for trying new things, TRACE agreed to record vocals, and after two takes she had nailed it.
In 2014, the song popped up on iTunes, and TRACE listened to her recorded voice for the first time. "I didn't hate it, but it was not me," she says of the track. "So I panicked, because even though I still didn't consider myself a singer, the only thing I had out didn't feel like me." A friend told her she should create her own music — an idea TRACE called "insane" at the time — but after more thought (and some beers), she decided to go for it.
"Being in L.A., working at a magazine, I felt like I had a good network of creatives around me, so I ended up launching a Kickstarter that same day, and it funded the production of my first EP." Even now, years later, she says these words with a tinge of disbelief.
Jump to present day, and TRACE has released her debut EP, Low, toured the country with the likes of Mr. Little Jeans and Jai Wolf, and is gearing up for her first headlining show at the Echo on June 20. She's confident on stage, where she prefers to wear all black, and has found her place in the world of moody, electronic indie pop — a world much different than the one her mother created for herself.
When asked what her mom thinks of her music, TRACE puts down her mason jar of espresso and smiles. "My mom can't believe that I write my own music; she's really impressed by that because she's never written music. A lot of Vietnamese singers don't write their own music," she explains. "I'm such an emotional person, and my mom's not. Being emotional and self-reflective and an over-thinker has led me towards this genre of diary-writing songs. That's the core of me."
Her genuineness has connected with listeners; in less than a year, Low has racked up more than 30 million streams on Spotify. That success has enabled TRACE to create music full-time, a milestone many musicians strive for but few achieve (especially in just four years). In a music industry in a constant state of flux, she's grateful, but knows her career is delicate.
"I'm super glad to be here. I want a lot — I want the stars — but at this moment of time, it feels unreal to me, and the moment it starts feeling normal is when I've probably lost my mind," she says, sipping her last drops of espresso. "I want to always feel kind of anxious, kind of nervous. But I'm just glad to be here."
TRACE headlines the Echo on Tuesday, June 20. Tickets and more info.


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Die abgegangene Burg Dobl ist als mittelalterliche Wasserburg vom Typus einer Turmhügelburg (Motte) im gleichnamigen Ort Dobl, einem Gemeindeteil des Marktes Rotthalmünster im Landkreis Passau in Bayern errichtet worden. Der Standort der früheren Burg ist heute modern mit Wohnhäusern überbaut, nur Reste des einstigen Wassergrabens sowie der Zehntstadel sind noch erhalten. Die Stelle der Burg ist als Bodendenkmal Nummer D-2-7645-0099 "Untertägige mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Befunde im Bereich der ehem. Wasserburg und der zugehörigen Schlosskapelle "Maria zur unbefleckten Empfängnis" in Dobl", der Zehntstadel als denkmalgeschütztes Baudenkmal Nummer D-2-75-143-64 "ehemaliger Kasten des abgegangenen Weiherschlosses, zweigeschossiger und giebelständiger Steildachbau mit Eckstrebepfeilern, im Kern spätgotisch" geschützt.

Beschreibung
Die heute modern überbaute Burgstelle der einstigen Wasserburg befindet sich rund 770 Meter südwestlich der katholischen Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Rotthalmünster innerhalb der Ortsgrenzen von Dobl, auf einem nur wenig nach Nordnordosten abfallenden Hang. Das Burgareal in Dobl befindet sich in der Schleife der Dobler Straße und der Straße Am Goldberg.

Der Turmhügel war von einem breiten, fast geschlossenen Wassergraben umgeben, nur im Osten läuft er in ein Wiesental aus. Der so künstlich durch den Graben aus dem nach Westen ansteigenden Gelände herausgetrennte Hügel wurde künstlich noch erhöht und trägt heute Wohnhäuser. Der Wassergraben war bis in neuere Zeit noch mit Wasser gefüllt.

Wenige Meter südsüdöstlich des früheren Wassergrabens steht der Zehntstadel der Burg Dobl, er stammt aus gotischer Zeit. Der giebelständige Bau ist zweigeschossig und trägt ein steiles Satteldach, seine Ecken wurden durch Strebepfeiler verstärkt.

Literatur
 Johannes Pätzold: Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Geländedenkmäler Niederbayerns. (Materialhefte zur bayerischen Vorgeschichte, Reihe B, Band 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7, S. 253.

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