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5 Weakest Currencies in Europe
April 8, 2022 March 29, 2022 by Actionable Info
Last updated on April 8th, 2022 at 05:27 pm
There are different ways to measure the strength of a currency. If it's by the purchasing power, the strength of money can not be the same even if five countries use the same currency.
In this article, we measure the exchange rate of the United States Dollar (USD) against the local currencies in Europe.
It's important to note that 23 countries in Europe adopt Euro as their official currency, so their currency is protected by the power of the Euro.
The continent is also famous for its formation of a political and economic bloc which is today known as the European Union.
Out of the 27 members of the EU, 19 are in the Euro-area (eurozone countries) while there are at least five non-EU member countries that get the approval of the EU to use the Euro as their official currency.
Although, it may be difficult to conclude which currencies are the weakest if one reads an introductory book about the exchange rate. But in comparison to the USD, coming up with a list of the weakest currencies in Europe become easy to make.
The fact that some countries are yet to adopt Euro (or are not planning to) might have exposed them to some monetary threats and weaknesses.
Note: No Eurozone country makes the list below which doesn't mean they are not faced with some challenges back home.
What are the weakest currencies in Europe?
Hungarian forint (HUF)
USD to HUF = HUF333.76
Euro to HUF = HUF367.53
The Hungarian forint is the official currency of Hungary, an Eastern Europe country. Forint was introduced on August 1, 1946, as one of the measures to throw World War II behind it and make significant progress.
That seemed to work temporarily until it transited its economy into the market economy and the value of forint dropped in the forex market.
From the early 1990s to date, the Hungarian economy has been battling with how to control inflation even though it has been kept in the single digits.
Hungary is one of the EU members that is yet to adopt the Euro as its official currency, though it is making plans to join the Euro-area, it is yet to set a definite date to adopt the Euro
Icelandic krona (ISK)
USD to ISK = ISK128.24
Euro to ISK = ISK141.61
The official currency of Iceland is Krona. The country is the smallest country (in terms of population) in Northern Europe.
Like Hungary, high inflation, especially in the 1980s, has been one of the impediments to the value of the Icelandic krona
At the time of publication, $1 is worth 128.24 Icelandic krona, making it one of the weakest currencies in Europe.
Albanian lek (ALL)
USD to ALL = ALL111.15
Euro to Lek = ALL123.25
The Albanian lek is a closed currency, meaning it can not be exchanged abroad. For travellers, they exchange Euro and pounds to Lek in Albania.
But against the USD, that has not made the lek a stronger currency nor against the Euro.
$1 is worth 111.15 Lek while one Euro is worth 123.25 Lek in Albania.
When will Albania adopt Euro?
There is no definite date.
USD to RSD = RSR106.17
Euro to RSD = RSR117.74
In Southern Europe is Serbia, its official currency is the dinar. The dinar has undergone several changes and modifications in the country's monetary system after it replaced the Yugoslav dinar in 2003.
Russian rubble
USD to RUB = RUB87
Euro to RUB = RUB96.43
Note: Because of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, sanctions from the West and some European countries have pushed Russia to cut rates on April 8, 2022, making the ruble gain against the US dollar, $1 was worth 79.68 RUB (at the time of update)
The rubble is the official currency of Russia, the most populated country in Europe. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022, sanctions from the West (the United States and its allies) has plunged the gas-rich country into battle with the monetary crisis, especially at the forex market.
Rubble as continued to slide even as the Putin-led government put in place measures to regulate the circulation of USD in his country.
The Russian currency continues to lose its purchasing power, though the country's central bank is trying to prevent exchanges into dollars, it has not stopped the slide.
For instance, on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Russian central Bank rolled out another stringent policy by restricting access to U.S. dollars.
Investors would no longer be allowed to withdraw anything above $10,000 in USD while the rest would have to be taken out in rubles.
At the time of publication, financial institutions cannot sell foreign currency to Russia. Have the policies helped? No, at least for now. We'll continue to monitor it until September 9, 2022, when the country plans to review the restrictions.
Until then, rubble remains the fifth weakest currency against the USD at this hour. Worthy of note is the Maecedian official currency
USD to MKD = ISK55.75
Euro to MKD = ISK61.81
After its independence from Yugoslavia on September 8, 1991, the first denar came into being on April 26, 1996, thereby ending the old Yugoslav dinar at par.
But after its monetary independence, the economic policies of the Southern European country is yet to stabilise its local currency.
Just $10 is worth ISK1,114.9 in Macedonia, making it one of the struggling currencies in Europe. Will it be saved if it joins the Eurozone?
At the forex market, it might. At home, it might not if it fails to put in place measures to monitor inflation and increase exports.
The Macedonian denar, Russian rubble, Serbian dinar, Hungarian front may the weakest on that continent, it's important to note that GBP, Euro, Swiss franc remain the strongest currencies in Europe.
Featured Image by Hungary Today
András Balogh (2021). "The Hungarian forint was the worst currency in Central Europe last year". Dailynewshungary.com. Retrieved March 28, 2022
Eshe Nelson (March 9, 2022). "Russia's ruble continues its slide as new curbs restrict access to foreign currency". Nytimes.com. Retrieved March 29, 2022
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Wow that was so obvious that I missed it! The early lyrics had a very slight Alice in Chains vibe that I dug too. Off to play it again.
Actually that intro was bothering me whole evening... And finally I remembered what it reminds me.
Somewhat offtopic, but partially roguelike and partially music related, so I'll post here.
There is an awesome roguelite game Enter the Gungeon.
In this game there is a gun: Black Hole Gun.
The comment to the gun says: "Won't you come"
John Alden Carpenter: Sea-Drift is a very good American impressionist piece.
Wintersun has released 1.5 version mix from Time I, the songs actually sound better!
Land of Snow and Sorrow (=Finland).
Song from my country. It reminds me of Olim every time he disappear for longer than 2 day between update.


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Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/heat-dome/)
By Alicia Jo Rabins | September 29, 2021
Photo by João Barbosa on Unsplash
I keep whispering it to myself:
The fruit cooked on the trees
Raspberries turned to jam on their bushes
Blueberries shriveled like an old woman's nipples
The maples' western facing leaves browned
Even though it was only June
I keep saying it to you:
We have to get a generator
I don't want to live so far from the people I love
I don't want to leave you to teach across the country
I keep walking in a small circle in my mind:
What if something happens
The heat dome the smoke
The children unprotected by their cloth masks
We have to keep living as the next round of fruit
Now begins to grow back
Regular and ripe
As if the heat dome
Were a dream
As if we had not signed
The apocalypse papers
Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, performer and Torah teacher whose work explores the place where ancient Jewish traditions meet contemporary life. She is the creator of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah; the independent feature film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff; two award-winning poetry collections, Divinity School and Fruit Geode, and she is currently at work on a spiritual memoir. Visit her at www.ahttp://www.aliciajo.com/liciajo.com.
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On Film Snobs: Aren't Some Movies Just Plain Fun?
by Joshua Gibbs · July 31, 2017
As an amateur film critic, I have panned many blockbusters and watched rote responses roll in which offer no greater defense of the panned film than, "This film was just plain fun. Why don't you snobby film critics get it?" Self-defense is usually ugly, even when it is necessary, though I often want to swing back, "Alright, smart guy, you try it." Claiming that a film is "just plain fun" is easy enough, but a fellow couldn't exactly make a career of it. Further, the claim that a film is "just plain fun" doesn't really give anyone much to think about. "Just plain fun" doesn't really clarify anything. If a film is nothing more than fun, it doesn't really leave anything to the imagination. The imagination is what takes over after mere fun has run its course.
When people object that this or that panned blockbuster is "just plain fun," I often want to ask them to tease that claim out to 1200 words. And after you have teased "just plain fun" out to 1200 words, can you do it again, and again, and again? At about the 300 word threshold, explaining "just plain fun" runs out of steam. Readers drop out. They get it. 300 words is honestly about 297 words too many.
In truth, the reviewer comes to look at most films differently after writing 300 words about them. Once you write a dozen or so film reviews that top 1200 words, the idea of defending "just plain fun" once again becomes tedious and the critic begins to wonder why "just plain fun" films are so limited in their intellectual scope. If the point of any one film is to be "just plain fun," why not watch the last film which was "just plain fun"? And if a certain film which is "just plain fun" on one viewing is a little less fun on a second viewing, why? And is it a buzzkill to include in a review all the reasons that a "just plain fun" film isn't going to do much on a second viewing? And if a critic includes that information, should he expect to be told, "You snobby film critics don't get it"?
The longer the critic thinks about it, the more interesting it seems that a film could be fun on a first viewing but not on a second. As he dwells on this further, the critic finds that he can't enjoy a film the first time if he knows it will be boring the second time. He finds his standards rising, and he finds that people who don't have to write about film are more easily satisfied with anything thrown up on the screen.
Joshua Gibbs
Joshua Gibbs teaches great books, collects records and jogs to work. He and his wife have two children, both of whom have seven names. He tweets at @joshgibbs and blogs for the CiRCE Institute.
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Arendtsville, Pennsylvania facts for kids
Arendtsville, Pennsylvania
Zion UCC Church
Location in Adams County and the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Settled
1,197.25/sq mi (462.40/km2)
Arendtsville is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough lies on Pennsylvania Route 234 and it is well known for its annual Apple Harvest Festival in the fall. The population was 952 at the 2010 census.
Arendtsville was named for John Arendt, an early settler.
Arendtsville is located at 39°55′28″N 77°17′50″W / 39.92444°N 77.29722°W / 39.92444; -77.29722 (39.924548, -77.297132).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), all of it land.
1910 383 −2.5%
1940 381 12.7%
1950 409 7.3%
2019 (est.) 959 0.7%
As of the census of 2000, there were 848 people, 329 households, and 242 families residing in the borough. The population density was 1,221.0 people per square mile (474.5/km²). There were 340 housing units at an average density of 489.5 per square mile (190.3/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 88.80% White, 1.30% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 8.61% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.04% of the population.
There were 329 households, out of which 39.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% were non-families. 22.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 29.5% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 101.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.0 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $41,087, and the median income for a family was $43,889. Males had a median income of $28,828 versus $27,813 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $18,256. About 6.3% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.8% of those under age 18 and 1.7% of those age 65 or over.
Map of Adams County, Pennsylvania School Districts
Residents of the borough of Arendtsville may attend the local, public schools operated by Upper Adams School District which provides full day kindergarten through 12th grade. By 2013, the District's enrollment declined to 1,669 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In 2013, Upper Adams School District ranked 276th out of 498 public schools for academic achievement of its pupils, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. In 2012, Upper Adams School District achieved AYP, even though 2 of its schools were in Warning AYP status, due to lagging student achievement.
Arendtsville residents may also choose between two local, public charter schools:Vida Charter School and Gettysburg Montessori Charter School. In Pennsylvania, residents may attend public charter schools at no cost to the parents. The tuition is paid by their public school system. By Commonwealth law, since the Upper Adams School District provides transportation for its own students, then the District must provide transportation to any school that lies within 10 miles of its borders.
Vida Charter School is a public school located in the Eisenhower Center, 120 E. Broadway, Gettysburg. Vida Charter school offers full day kindergarten through 6th grade. In 2013, Vida Charter School achieved a score 81.1 of out of 100 for student achievement. The score reflects on grade level: reading, science, writing and mathematics achievement. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2,181 public schools (less than 73 percent of Pennsylvania public schools), achieved an academic score of 70 or higher.
Children residing in the borough of Arendtsville may also attend Gettysburg Montessori Charter School which offers full day Kindergarten through 6th grade. This public charter school operated at 120 E Broadway, Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Montessori Charter School achieved Adequate YEarly Progress (AYP) in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, Gettysburg Montessori Charter School achieved a score of 64 out of 100.
Arendtsville residents may also apply to attend any of the Commonwealth's 14 public cyber charter schools (in 2013) at no additional cost to the parents. The resident's public school district is required to pay the charter school and cyber charter school tuition for residents who attend these public schools. Residents may also seek admission for their school aged child to any other public school district. When accepted for admission, the student's parents are responsible for paying an annual tuition fee set by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In 2012, the tuition fees for Upper Adams School District were: Elementary School - $9,182.51, High School - $8,949.98.
Arendtsville high school aged students and adults can attend the taxpayer funded Cumberland Perry Area Vocational Technical School for training in the trades and can earn industry certifications. Students attending the school can also earn college credits, while still in high school. Additionally, the school offers a Cooperative Education program where students are placed with an employer in entry-level position to develop job skills while being paid.
Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12 provides a wide variety of services to children living in its region which includes Arendtsville. Early screening, special educations services, speech and hearing therapy and many other services like driver education are available. Services for children during the preschool years are provided without cost to their families when the child is determined to meet eligibility requirements.
Community members have access to the Harbaugh-Thomas Library in Biglerville; the Adams County Historical Society Library which is located on 111 Seminary Ridge, in Gettysburg; the Adams County Law Library located in the Court House, 117 Baltimore St Rm 305 in Gettysburg and to the statewide PA Power Library which is an online library funded with tax dollars from the state's education budget.
At Harrisburg Area Community College Gettysburg Campus, Arendtsville residents have access to college courses at a discounted tuition rate for state residents. Upper Adams School District is not a tax funding district of the College. Residents fund the community college through state tax dollars.
Arendtsville, Pennsylvania Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


Prof. Sultan Al-Mubarak obtained his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the College of Dentistry at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1989. Subsequently he received his Specialty Certificate in Advanced Periodontics and the Master of Science in Periodontology with Excellent Performance Report from the University of Aarhus, Faculty of Health Sciences, Royal Dental College in Denmark in 1994. In 1996, he went to the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA and obtained his first Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Periodontology (with distinction) in 1998. Later he obtained the Clinical and Research Fellowship (with honors) in Dental Management of Medically Compromised Patients from the Division of Endocrinology at the Kaleida Health Hospital at State University of New York, USA in 2000. In 2008 he passed the exam and obtained the degree of Certified Clinical Research Professionals (CCRP).
Dr. Al-Mubarak is a reviewer of several renowned local and international peer-reviewed journals and research organizations such as King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Abdulaziz University and CLINICAL IMPLANT DENTISTRY and Related Research, USA. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Biological Therapies in Dentistry in the USA, an Editorial Board Member of peer reviewed American journals such as the International Academy of Periodontology and other local and international scientific organizations. He has a wide range of publications in peer reviewed high impact factor journals, one of which was recognized internationally and selected among many others by the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) in 2006 to update their guidelines. He also has several articles participations in press release in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other international journals i.e. Middle East Business News. He participated in many worldwide meetings and conferences as an invited speaker.
Dr. Al-Mubarak received several major local and international, private and government grant funds to conduct research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as in the United States. He is a recipient of several awards such as the Armed Forces Hospital's Annual Research Award in the year 2000, the first to be given to a dentist since the hospital was established in the 1970s.
In 2005, Dr. Al-Mubarak received the Alumnus Certificate of Excellence from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, the first to be given to international dentist (non-American) for his research in the interaction between dental infections and systemic disease, a field that has recently received global scientific attention.
In 2008 and 2010, the President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology awarded Dr. Al-Mubarak and his research team with a Certificate of Merit for their international achievements. He was also awarded with a letter of Thanks and Achievement by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia for his international achievements.
Dr. Al-Mubarak currently works as a consultant at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), King Fahad Medical City and as executive consultant at Badir Program for Technology Incubators. He also works both as Senior Clinical Scientist of the Technology Transfer Unit as well as consultant Periodontist at the Department of Dentistry of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre. He is consultant and coordinator at Nature Arabic Edition and Adjunct Professor at the School of Dental Medicine of the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.


A deeply memorable scene. Picasso at his home in Vallauris, painting on glass with a camera rolling on the other side. The scene is an outtake from Visite à Picasso (A Visit with Picasso), a 1950 film by Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts. The full film, running 20 minutes, can be watched in its entirety on Vimeo (or right below). You can find this film in our collection of Free Movies Online. For good measure, we have also added an excerpt from the 1956 film Le Mystere Picasso, by Henri-Georges Clouzot, otherwise known for Les diaboliques (1955). The film is available on YouTube in two parts: Part 1 - Part 2.
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Film and discussion evening at Charlottesville,Va, USA on April 11. David Holmgren's film "Relocalisation: How Peak Oil Can Lead to Permaculture" will be screened, followed by a talk by Gabe Engle who experienced a 17 months apprenticeship with David and his partner Su Dennett at Melliodora, their home and permaculture demonstration site in Hepburn Springs in Australia. 'Great Gabe' will tell you all about his extensive permaculture experience down under. Should be a cracker night.


Police are continuing to investigate a firearms incident in Plympton Street, New Plymouth on 30 March.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to the incident.
He is remanded in custody and will reappear in New Plymouth District Court on 24 April.
The victim, a 20-year-old man, remains in Waikato Hospital receiving treatment for his injuries.
A vehicle stolen during the incident has been located by Police and is being forensically examined.


Video plays an important role in marketing, and has gained momentum in recent years. One scroll through Twitter and Facebook and it's apparent that videos are resonating with consumers.
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To kick off a four part video series with our video partner Lightswitch, Andrew Cross, VP of public relations, weighed in on the positive business implications we've witnessed with video on B2B marketing. In the first video of the series, Cross notes that more and more companies are investing in video content to tell their story and provide added value to prospects. Likewise, they see ROI in having owned video assets.
With video technology on the rise, we've made strategic moves to swiftly join the ranks of other agencies offering video services. Our comprehensive in house team works with clients every step of the way to create videos that share their stories and great work with the online world.
Take a look at our robust video content library here and find the first video in the four part series here. Stay tuned for the next three videos in the series!


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From a 'sorry story' to a great scandal
Opinion: Anglo trial comments put role of regulator in the spotlight
Fri, May 2, 2014, 00:01 Updated: Fri, May 2, 2014, 11:44
Tom Lyons
Governor of the Central Bank Patrick Honohan described the regulator's role in the illegal share-buying scheme devised in 2008 to unwind Seán Quinn's stake in Anglo Irish Bank in his office on Dame Street last Wednesday as a "sorry story".
The recent Anglo trial showed that, from at least March 2008, the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority knew that Anglo intended to loan a large sum of money to the Quinn family to buy Anglo shares.
Judge Martin Nolan concluded last Tuesday it was "incredible" that back in March 2008, four months before anything actually happened, "red lights didn't go off some place in the regulator's office and the appropriate legal advice was not sought". Judge Nolan stated the regulator was "more anxious to solve the problem than comply with the technicalities of the law, but nonetheless the law".
In short, the watchdog was prepared not to bark if needs be.
All 'behind us'
Mr Honohan says there is "nothing" that he would disagree with when it comes to the judge's conclusions but: "This is something that is behind us."
He gave no indication that anyone in his office, past or present, would be held accountable for what happened.
Light-touch regulation may be dead, but light-touch accountability lives on.
From day one – February 15th, 2009 – when the whole affair broke in the Sunday Times, the Financial Regulator has been at pains to say it was "working closely" with the relevant authorities to hold bankers to account. Along the way, the State has shown little interest in holding its own civil servants up to such scrutiny.
There was never a raid by gardaí of Dame Street seeking documents. No dawn arrests or grilling of its officials. There was not even a search carried out to assist its officials checking their homes for any mislaid notes.
Anglo, of course, was not as fortunate.
Bland preprepared statements by the regulator displaying little or no recall of key events passed into evidence unchallenged. Compare this with Anglo's bankers who handed over documents and answered hundreds of questions in long interviews over six years. Anglo's top bankers left in public disgrace.
Banker vs regulator
In contrast, Patrick Neary, the Financial Regulator, was heaped with public praise and given a golden handshake as he retired. The bankers got the weight of the law. The regulator got lucky.
Judge Nolan referred in his judgment to his bafflement that the regulator did not take "appropriate legal advice" to stop a crime being committed during the many months Anglo and the regulator struggled to sort out Quinn's gamble on the bank's shares.
In evidence that went barely noticed during the trial, it emerged that, on July 2nd, 2008, McCann FitzGerald, a large Dublin law firm, sent George Treacy, head of legal and enforcement in the financial regulator, five pages of legal advice.
"Dear George," the letter began, "I refer to our telephone conversation in the course of last week when you asked me to consider. . . the scope of section 60 of the Companies Act 1963 (as amended), which deals with, and in general terms prohibits or restricts, the giving of financial assistance by a company for the purchase of its own shares."
The letter goes on to look at what is the case law around section 60 and whether lending by a bank to fund an investment in contracts for difference could be considered the same as lending to purchase shares.
Topics such as market abuse and transparency are mentioned. This was the equivalent in regulatory terms to a warning siren going off in a nuclear silo.
The regulator asked for this legal advice when a certain transaction was being considered.
This would see the Quinn family acquire some shares in Anglo with funding from Crédit Suisse; Bain Capital, an American investment firm, would buy some more, with its own finance.
The regulator in asking for legal advice was checking whether anything that had happened in the preceding months, when Quinn was lent hundreds of millions to fund his Anglo gamble, should be of concern.
Twelve days later, this deal fell apart, as the global financial crisis deepened.
The regulator was then told that Anglo was going to have to lend to the Quinns at least for a while until a structure was put in place for Crédit Suisse to refinance.
Anglo also told the regulator Bain had pulled out and it (Anglo) was now going to go with 10 of its long-term clients instead. There would be at least "some" lending by Anglo to help these investors.
What then of the legal advice received only 12 days earlier? Surely the regulator would return to McCann FitzGerald to ask it for a fresh opinion given the new circumstances? It didn't.
Averting of eyes
It looked away from a crime, to prevent a catastrophe. Then the story broke in the media. In the panic, the regulator again looked away. It forgot about its former friends, the bankers.
Suddenly, it was "investigating". It was "working" to find out what happened.
The sound of barking was deafening. Round up the bankers and throw away the key was the message.
First a jury and then a judge saw through this charade. Two bankers were convicted but did not receive a prison sentence. But it was clear from the decisions of both a jury and a judge that they could see the hidden trail leading back to Dame Street. This is much more than a "sorry story". It is a great scandal.
Tom Lyons is Senior Business
Martin Nolan
Patrick Honohan
Patrick Neary
Sean Quinn
Garda Síochána
Anglo Irish Bank


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Minnal Murali Movie Review: Guru Somasundaram Is Magnetic In A Marvellous Origins Story That Has The Soul Of A Solid Drama
Even with our tired eyes bludgeoned by the bi-weekly CGI-fest, it gets you to fish out a word that was once a big part of our movie-watching. I think that word was 'wonder.'
Cast: Tovino Thomas, Guru Somasundaram, Vasisht Umesh, Femina George, Aju Varghese
Language: Malayalam
Mild spoilers ahead…
Basil Joseph, the director of Kunjiramayanam and Godha, was not bullshitting when he explained his vision for Minnal Murali as a film that worked independently, even without the superhero angle. The writing is layered and mature and it rarely needs the crutch of a superpower to stay with the viewer because it is, beneath the dazzle, a film about love and family. Like a well-made Pixar movie, it makes you feel like a child again without ever taking this child for granted. Even with our tired eyes bludgeoned by the bi-weekly CGI-fest, it gets you to fish out a word that was once a big part of our movie-watching. I think that word was 'wonder.'
It's able to create this feeling by taking a route most films with a big CG-budget would aggressively avoid. It knows that bigger doesn't always mean better, so it chooses to use this tool to go deeper into an emotion rather than go broader for scale. This is also true because the film's allegiance is first pledged towards its characters instead of the suits they are made to wear.
An example of this is the way the film develops two equally compelling origins stories for two equally compelling characters. On one side, we get Jaison's (Tovino Thomas) whimsical little world and his strictly first-world problems (he wants to migrate to the US). This is the part of the film that accommodates everything you would need in a film that introduces the superhero to a new audience. The tone is charming and comical, the money shots are great fun and you get a fair share of the kind of visual storytelling that attracts you to such a film.
But it's as though the film expects this to be a bit too basic for the already-Marvelised viewer and doubles down on another angle that will never get old. This is where the story and its telling finds harmony in a way that it becomes a lot more meaningful. Even when one story uses the superpower to give us what we want, it uses the other to give us much more. Take for instance the scenes where Shibu (Guru Somasundaram) discovers his powers. Most of the exposition is delegated to Jaison's portions and this allows for Shibu's strand to be used in service of his more human story. As a result, we get beautiful moments where he uses this power to relocate a man, simply to get a clearer view of his sweetheart; or the way he controls the wind to see her face the way he always wanted to see it.
A testament to Basil's craft is how we never feel the tonal shifts, even when the film juggles between extreme emotions. Integrated into one unified universe, Minnal Murali is proof of how no one's as good as Basil when it comes to world-building (Kurukanmoola gets its own number plates). This is obvious in the way he lifts seemingly ordinary scenes with the use of his signature Easter eggs. The town's only auto-rickshaw is named Minnal (lightning) and their main bus is called Rakshakan (Saviour). For the sucker of 90's nostalgia, we get Bombay Dyeing posters of Divya Bharti and pre-Lagaan Aamir along with cheeky references of Midhunam, Hitler, Basheer's Aadu and actor Sudheesh in a hilarious cameo. This devotion to the period is everywhere, even in the way a thorthu mundu hung near the wash area strangely reminds one of weddings past.
But the film doesn't dwell too long on such surface pleasures. The writing is so good in places that even Jaison's story matures into a coming-of-age drama with its own motivations and struggles. Giving the film an almost mythical quality, the film is equally rewarding when it brings in the Legend of St George, seeds of which it had been planted early on.
And you are with Jaison through this journey because you're always with Tovino. Until now, you've seen him excel in roles as either a strong man or the man-child in films like Mayanadhi, but in Minnal, he gets the full arc. It's the trickiest part of the film, especially because there's such a strong antagonist. But he's able to hold it together, even when the film spends little time supporting this transformation. Even earlier, Tovino's scenes with the boy playing his nephew are the film's warmest, getting us to see the superhero universe with the kind of naïveté no new generation will ever understand.
Apart from the writing, credit must also go to the film's DOP Sameer Thahir who seems to have recreated a film only Basil could have imagined. This is also why even situations you've seen before in similar films feel more like a tribute to the genre rather than imitations. In a fight scene set in a school that would make Edgar Wright proud, we get an ultra-cool stretch that has room for pure action ideas and for silly inserts of Jaison punching a cop on the backside in all the slo-mo glory.
What lifts the film even further is Guru Somasundaram as Shibu who gives you a supervillain you are rooting for even when you shouldn't be. Through his performance, he gives you the kind of story one would never imagine in a superhero movie, presenting us with scenes that tear you up even in this fantastical universe.
As for kids having grown up with Malayalam movies and foreign superhero comics, Minnal Murali is finally a superhero who behaves and speaks just like us, without it having to feel like a compromise. It appeals to the part of you that made you fall in love with the characters in Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha and Balarama, long before cable television changed all that. Let the Minnal Murali lunchboxes start rolling.
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Vishal dropped out of law school to focus on his fondness for film, particularly mainstream Indian cinema. He is a film critic, previously with The Hindu after a stint at Deccan Chronicle and Reuters News. If you thought the book was better than the movie, don't tell Vishal.
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Roser Prose evolved from my work as the longtime medical writer at the Austin American-Statesman where I saw a common struggle: The researchers, scientific faculty and physicians I interviewed often did fascinating work but had a hard time explaining it. They relied on the lingo of their field, not the everyday language that can enthrall a crowd. But telling a compelling story is a crucial skill at a time when courting philanthropists, investors and public support is more important than ever.
Roser Prose is the culmination of my long-time dream to change that. The business is aimed at helping people who do complicated work tell great stories. It makes perfect use of my skills as a journalist, especially the ability to quickly translate complex material into common language.
I came to journalism after graduating from my hometown school, the University of Cincinnati, with a bachelor's degree in English literature and a desire to be a famous novelist. Instead, I went to work for newspapers in Kentucky, Washington, D.C., and Texas. But I was allowed to write, and I got to tell stories.
Best of all, my editors at the Statesman let me cover health and medicine from June 2000 until my departure in May 2016. On that beat, I won first-place statewide awards for my reporting as well as national fellowships to study at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda and MIT in Cambridge.
I still love telling stories and talking to people who do interesting work. They're not hard to find in Austin where I live with my husband and three cats who have no trouble communicating — or getting — what they want.
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Back from a most memorable family trip to Europe. One of the perks - buying gorgeous design magazines in France, Germany, Austria, Italy & Ireland. The following images are from the 3/2008 quarterly issue of Wohnen. Visit their site for more fabulous eye candy - wohnen-und-garten.com. More European interiors tomorrow!
AMAZING. Pure inspiration. More more!
That first picture took my breathe away!
It's great to have you back and the images are delicious.


The San Joaquin Valley is reaping more than $13 billion in economic benefits from California's climate change policies, according to the first comprehensive academic cost-benefit study.
The report shows that California's renewable energy requirements for investor-owned utilities gave the San Joaquin Valley the biggest economic boost. Construction and operation of renewable energy projects have created 31,000 jobs since 2002. The state's cap-and-trade policies that reduce carbon emissions were also examined.
In what is billed as the first comprehensive cost/benefit study of climate policies, the San Joaquin Valley is getting over $13 billion in economic benefits, mostly in renewable energy.
Renewable energy, cap and trade and energy efficiency programs are creating jobs in the economically vulnerable region, says the report prepared for Next10, an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization studying the state's future.
As California lawmakers prepare for another round of debating the best way to combat climate change, a new study says the San Joaquin Valley is benefiting economically from the state's policies on global warming.
The report comes from Next 10, a public policy think tank that partnered with researchers at UC Berkeley to crunch the numbers.
F. Noel Perry, a venture capitalist who founded Next 10, said they studied the valley because it has struggled with poor air quality and an economy that's sluggish when compared to the state's coast.
In the policy arena, the distance is widening between blue and red states over whether to promote, or resist, the shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources like solar and wind. But the economics of generating electricity from alternative sources are growing more attractive for states across the political divide.
Solar energy generation and adoption of zero-emission vehicles are surging throughout California, and the Sacramento area is contributing significantly to that clean-tech momentum, according to a new report by Next 10, the San Francisco nonprofit that promotes growth of California's clean economy and evaluates various state issues.
Next 10's eighth annual California Green Innovation Index said statewide solar generation has exploded by 1,378 percent in just five years; ZEV registrations have increased 244 percent in just two years.


We've made it to Þorshöfn in Iceland's northeast corner, and we've left the tourist shops behind.
This community survives on fish, and the first step is to take them out of the sea. Elsewhere, we've seen men hand-baiting their long lines, but not here.
The Sigurður was brand new in July 2014. Built in Turkey and built with style. 89 metres long, 9 metre draft, 6000 horse power . . . and she can carry 4700 tonnes of fish.
Last week, the crew of 10 caught 620 tonnes of herring in 26 hours, and yes, that's a lot of fish.
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Ye can aye rely on Grannies, for somethin' gid tae eat.
A still can sei ma granny stir her muckle soup pan.
She was ayeways full o' wisdom, And she passed it ontae mei!
Aye a looked up tae ma granny, For she aye looked efter mei.
A queued outside the kitchen, For a plate o granny's soup.
And the day she died, The family cried, A river tae the sea.


This gets even more interesting. Thanks for your response, which is very clear for Victoria. Chris Tzaros's reply sent me to the Environment Australia site for their listing under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - I assume a Federal ACT.
The Freckled Duck has been listed as a threatened taxon on Schedule 2 of the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 in Victoria and has been classified as 'endangered' (NRE 2000b). It is listed as 'protected' in Queensland, 'vulnerable and rare' in New South Wales and South Australia and 'likely to become extinct, or is rare' in Western Australia. On a national basis, the species is listed as rare and threatened (Garnett 1992).


Have you ever prayed this? "Dear God, what is your purpose for me for at this time?" You long for the one story, the mission and plan to be revealed. As you wait, frustration and weariness take over... let's all sigh with a deep breath! Would it bring comfort with a little relief to know that you are not alone? I can tell you that I have been there time and time again. What I learned is that while I was waiting for the "one thing", I became blinded to the purpose God had right in front of me.
A great example for following God's purpose is from the story of King David in the Bible. Did you know that he was more than a king? He was a shepherd, musician, husband, father and warrior. He was a man with sin, different titles, gifts and many stories. Although he knew at an early age he was the anointed king, many times it looked like it might not come true. He sought the Lord in every role along the way, each one of his stories and positions leading to His legacy, as a man after God's heart.
My friend, God has not created us to sit and wait on one thing. We are women of many stories, with various role and gifts that are to be used right where we are at this very moment. If you feel you are in a season of waiting, as was David, be diligent in seeking the Lord with a joyful heart each day. Be purposeful in your time with Him and obedient to the instructions in His Word. In the book of Colossians, Paul shares a powerful tool in praying God's will.
"To live a life worthy of Him in every way, bearing fruit."
Just as David, let us choose to live a life worthy of God in our current roles. May we bear fruit with the gifts He has given, whether it is as a wife, mother, daughter, teacher, employee, volunteer or friend. As we are obedient to Him, He will make our path straight each step of the way to our calling and purpose for Him.
"May I live a life worthy of you, bearing fruit right where I am today."
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Does your Starting QB play defense too?
Several youth football coaches I spoke with recently do not allow their starting quarterback to play defense more than just a few plays a game, if that. I do not allow my QB to play defense but maybe a few plays in a game now and then. I also do not allow live hitting on my QB during practice scrimmages or certain live hitting drills. I do this because my High School starting QB broke his collar bone in a practice scrimmage my junior year. He never played QB again, he was gun shy. Rice University even offered him a scholarship to play football, but he declined and took the academic scholarship.
I would like to know what you think! Please vote here and let me know if your starting QB also plays defense.
It just so happens that my starting QB is by far my best all around player on the team. but i have a hard time keeping him off the field. In the past i would only use him at safety in key situations but this year i'm going to let him go and just pray he doesn't get hurt. I've talked it over with him and his parents and he promised me he would tell me if he is hurt. He is just that big of a play maker that i feel by not letting him play D would stunt his growth as a player. So you will see on the side lines this year clinching my teeth allot.
Let them play both ways if they can. They might not get a chance to play defense at the higher levels of football.
I would say let the kids play….speaking as a former football player I enjoyed having the opportunity to play multiple positions.
At this age, I feel strongly that players get experience of playing both offense and defense. As mentioned above, once they get to high school they may not have that option. What if high school has a better QB and move the player to defense, not playing him will have robbed him of valuable development time. And most of all – at this age the boys just want to play! My son has played QB on all his teams, one year they didnt allow him play defense for fear he'd get hurt (understandable concern) but being a kid he wanted to play football – not just one position. Imagine telling a youth baseball player he can pitch but never gets to hit.


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Name of Organization Duke Global Inc
In Care of Name Duke University-Office Of Counsel
Address 324 Blackwell St Washington Bldg No, Durham, NC 27701
Foundation Organizations operated solely for the benefit of and in conjunction with organizations described in 10 through 16 above
Assets $5,000,000 to $9,999,999
Income $5,000,000 to $9,999,999
Asset Amount $6,201,228
Amount of Income $6,438,983
Form 990 Revenue Amount $6,438,983
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) Educational Institutions and Related Activities: Single Organization Support
Amount of income in 2013: $6,438,983 (it was $5,826,243 in 2012)
Duke Global Inc:
Assets in 2013: $6,201,228 (it was $2,458,053 in 2012)
Expenses in 2013: $5,995,989
Was the organization included in consolidated, independent audited financial statements for the tax year? Yes Yes
Did the organization maintain an office, employees, or agents outside of the United States? Yes Yes
Did the organization have aggregate revenues or expenses of more than $10,000 from grantmaking, fundraising, business, investment, and program service activities outside the United States, or aggregate foreign investments valued at $100,000 or more? Yes Yes
Did the organization report more than $5,000 of grants or other assistance to any domestic organization or domestic government? No Yes
Did the organization answer 'Yes' about compensation of the organization's current and former officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and highest compensated employees? Yes Yes
Was the organization related to any tax-exempt or taxable entity? Yes Yes
Did the organization have a controlled entity within the meaning of section 512(b)(13)? Yes Yes
At any time during the calendar year, did the organization have an interest in, or a signature or other authority over, a financial account in a foreign country (such as a bank account, securities account, or other financial account)? Yes Yes
Total reportable compensation from related organizations $4,542,988 $4,483,075
Total estimated amount of other compensation from the organization and related organizations $494,465 $566,948
Total revenue $3,358,578 $5,826,243 $6,438,983
Contributions, Gifts, Grants and Other Similar Amounts $3,357,969 $3,015,717 $2,235,133
Investment income (including dividends, interest, and other similar amounts) $609 $206 $554
Miscellaneous Revenue $0 $2,810,320 $4,203,296
611600 $2,767,238 $3,935,715
611600 $32,000 $234,731
611600 $11,082 $32,850
All other revenue $0 $0
Total functional expenses $3,322,270 $5,927,544 $5,995,989
Grants and other assistance to domestic organizations and domestic governments $0 $2,219,477
Compensation of current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees $0 $0 $0
Other salaries and wages $0 $0 $0
Legal $113,582 $78,581
Accounting $3,212 $2,502
Other $3,806,431 $1,621,002
Advertising and promotion $377,542 $145,827
Office expenses $64,917 $44,520
Information technology $0 $44,524
Occupancy $295,405 $307,610
Travel $743,086 $489,055
Conferences, conventions, and meetings $261,977 $198,272
Insurance $20,214 $10,681
Other expenses $88,676 $502,207
Total assets $235,036 $2,458,053 $6,201,228
Cash - non-interest-bearing $1,576,748 $6,117,217
Accounts receivable, net $799,901 $0
Other assets $81,404 $84,011
Total liabilities $120,615 $2,444,933 $5,745,114
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $2,444,933 $189,522
Deferred revenue $0 $5,555,592
Total net assets or fund balances $114,421 $13,120 $456,114
Unrestricted net assets $0 $0
Retained earnings, endowment, accumulated income, or other funds $114,421 $13,120 $456,114
The organization is not a private foundation because it is: An organization organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of one or more publicly supported organizations described in section 509(a)(1) or section 509(a)(2)
Sum of amounts of support $2,219,477
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For 34 years, David Hall served the citizens of Missouri as a firefighter, fire chief, fire service educator and homeland security leader. Beginning his career as a volunteer firefighter with the Mountain Grove Volunteer Fire Department in 1983, Hall moved to the Springfield Fire Department in 1989, where he would be elevated to chief of the department in 2009, and retire in 2017. As Springfield chief, Hall was known not only for advancing the department's capabilities but for his skill as a manager. Hall's impact was also regional and statewide, through his leadership efforts improving programs and the fire training curriculum provided by the University of Missouri Fire Rescue Training Institute (MUFRTI). Hall served as an adjunct instructor and in leadership roles for the MUFRTI fire school and co-developed the Fire Officer I and II curricula. Hall served since the inception of Missouri's state homeland security program and had leadership roles in the Region D Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committee, which plays a key role in Missouri's regional approach to homeland security investment decisions. Hall now continues to lead as Missouri State University's emergency manager. His career has served as a model of improving public safety through education, advancing training and professionalism, and commitment to public safety colleagues and the public.
For a quarter-century, Michael Force was the innovative chief of the Lake Saint Louis Police Department. Under his outstanding leadership, the Lake Saint Louis Police Department grew from 11 officers into a highly professional and respected department with three times that number of officers when he retired in August. As a retired Marine Captain with service at military installations around the globe, Chief Force insisted upon strong values and community involvement from sworn officers and civilian employees. Chief force also took a personal interest in the lives of youth, and regularly personally intervened to help turn lives around. Always engaged with community partners, Chief Force also served as President of the Missouri Police Chiefs' Association, Chairman of the Missouri Police Chiefs' Charitable Foundation, Chairman of the Missouri Police Officer Standards and Training Commission, and a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Image and Ethics Committee.


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Writing To Remember: An Author's Depiction Of Her Mother's Alzheimer's
What began as a childhood passion for one Jackson native has now become a full-time second career, almost 60 years in the making.
Susan Cushman, author of the newly released memoir, "Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer's," began her writing profession at an age when most anticipate their approaching days of retirement. However, this unconventional journey is nothing new to Cushman, whose life itself has not followed the traditional path.
Marrying her senior sweetheart after her freshman year of college, Cushman left Ole Miss and followed her husband, Bill, to Jackson.
"He was going to Jackson to medical school; so I went to Belhaven [University]," Cushman said.
Entering this new stage of life, Cushman spent nearly the next three decades translating the adolescent love she possessed for writing into a new love, being a stay-at-home mom. It was not until 2001 that she acknowledged the possibility of writing reentering her life.
"I think it was 2001, around there, when my last child left for college, and I started pursuing second careers," Cushman said. "First, I painted for a while, and then I started writing seriously."
In 2007 as she became increasingly determined about writing, she began attending the Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers Workshop. She continued going every summer for the next six years.
She not only cultivated her craft during this time but also gave back to her communities by helping organize various writing conferences. In 2010, she co-directed the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference, and in 2011, she acted as director for the Memphis Creative Nonfiction Workshop.
"Since going to those kinds of conferences and workshops helped me get my start with writing, I felt like it was important to help others have those same opportunities," Cushman said.
As her writing career began to take flight, Cushman created a blog in 2006 as a platform to both share her work and grow her audience. She never dreamed that 60 of these blog posts would culminate in her first book as a writer.
Serving as the autobiographical portrayal of a style she coins as the "new epistolary," "Tangles and Plaques" is Cushman's blog post depiction of the heartbreaking and bittersweet moments of a mother's descent into Alzheimer's disease and a daughter's efforts to care for her.
"I had no idea that 'Tangles and Plaques' would end up being my first book because I didn't know that it was going to be a book during all the years that I did the blog posts about my mom," Cushman said. "It was just my life. I was just living my life and blogging about it."
Neil White, fellow author and creative director and publisher of The Nautilus Publishing Company in Oxford, recognizes the difficulty of Cushman's eight-and-a-half year journey with caregiving but applauds the bravery taken to write with such openness.
"Susan Cushman is not only an accomplished writer, but she tackles a brutal topic
with candor and honesty," White said. "Madness awaits us all. I pray I can confront it with equal faith and vulnerability."
Cushman finds inspiration from those books that express the good, bad and ugly of a situation and allow readers to feel like someone understands them. As she embarks on her book tour, making a stop at Off Square Books in Oxford on March 3 at 5 p.m., her one desire is that "Tangles and Plaques" is that book for people.
"I think a lot of people read self-help and memoir thinking they're going to get fixed. Instead, I'm just looking for empathy and understanding and commonality, and I hope that's what people will find in 'Tangles and Plaques' – empathy and commonality and compassion," Cushman said.
With the release of her first book earlier this year, Cushman continues to hit her stride with the arrival of two more books this year and another next year. In March, her anthology entitled, "A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be" will hit shelves while her first novel, "Cherry Bomb," will be available this October. Next year, the release of her second anthology and fourth book, "So Y'all Think You Can Write: Southern Writers on Writing," will see publication.
From her roles as wife, mother, grandmother, selfless caretaker and now, full-time writer, Cushman epitomizes the sentiment reflected at the end of each of her emails: "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." – E.E. Cummings
Blurbs for Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer's
Susan Cushman is not only an accomplished writer, but she tackles a brutal topic with candor and honesty. Madness awaits us all. I pray I can confront it with equal faith and vulnerability.—Neil White, author of "In the Sanctuary of Outcasts."
Cushman has written a new kind of love story, one that speaks to the very real concerns of a generation. In this true story of a daughter's love for her aging mother within the daily trials of caregiving, we read ourselves, our families, and the ways that our losses shape who we become and how we choose to remember.—Jessica Handler, author of "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir," and "Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss."
Susan Cushman writes with clarity and grace about the gnarled pathways between her and her mother, and about the terrible disease that holds a surprising grace within its irrevocable sadness. Tangles and Plaques has the courage to see it all. This is a memoir about caretaking and taking care. It's a book that will touch your heart. —Lee Martin, author of "From Our House" and "Such a Life."
An honest, open account of the personal challenges, wrenching heartaches, spiritual questions, and practical concerns one faces in caring at a distance for a loved one with Alzheimer's. Cushman provides intimate, detailed descriptions of her constant doubts, emotional upheavals, hard decisions, and frustrating encounters with professional caregivers during the decade of the unrelenting progression of her mother's mental and physical deterioration. — Sally Palmer Thomason, author of "The Living Spirit of the Crone: Turning Aging Inside Out," "The Topaz Brooch," and "Delta Rainbow-the Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson."
Susan Cushman writes a profoundly personal and honest portrait of her eight-year journey with her mother suffering from Alzheimer's. She brings her talent for story, scene, and character to bear in the unfolding of real-time moments that show disease progression and the ensuing softening in a challenged relationship. Cushman sees and feels things deeply and finds in each encounter a nugget of wisdom that fortifies her with focus, peace, and faith. Her stories give inspiration and insight to others who face this journey. — Kathy Rhodes, author of "Remember the Dragonflies: A Memoir of Grief and Healing"
Tangles and Plaques is a beautiful and moving memoir and one that chronicles the journey of Alzheimer's. Through the tangles and plaques associated with the disease, however, Cushman finds a way to heal and set her sight on the good. Readers, too, get a lesson in how to live better.—Niles Reddick, Vice Provost, The University of Memphis-Lambuth, and author of "Drifting Too Far from the Shore."
By Gracie Snyder, an intern for HottyToddy.com. She can be reached at jgsnyder@go.olemiss.edu.
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Upcoming Events & Attractions in London
by Jena Tesse Fox
Jan 25, 2013 1:00am
There's always something new and exciting happening in London. Here are just a few suggestions of things to see and do while in town, courtesy of VisitLondon.
NEW ATTRACTIONS AND EVENTS
The New London Dungeon – South Bank
Opening March 1, 2013
The London Dungeon will re-invent itself in March 2013 when it opens a bigger, bolder and better attraction in the vast underground vaults of County Hall on the South Bank, next to the EDF Energy London Eye. The all new multi-million dollar attraction will bring 1,000 years of authentic London history to life with a unique mix of talented live actors performing in funny shows, stunning special effects and two thrill rides. Guests will embark on a journey through a dramatic London landscape and travel back ten centuries.
Tiger Territory – ZSL London Zoo
Opening March 2013
Tiger Territory at the ZSL London Zoo will be a brand-new enclosure for one of the world's most endangered animals - the Sumatran tiger. The 27,000 sq. ft enclosure will give millions of zoo visitors the chance to get close to these incredible animals and provide a central hub for ZSL's tiger conservation work. Visitors to Tiger Territory will embark on a journey through an Indonesian habitat, coming face-to-face with beautiful tigers through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
Alien Revolution – Royal Observatory Greenwich
March – August 2013
This exhibition explores the idea that the other planets in our Solar System were other Earths, with their own plants, animals and intelligent inhabitants took hold and led people to ask. Within less than a century many people, from scientists to clergymen, believed in an infinite universe awash with intelligent alien life. So began the little-known Alien Revolution, which has been influenced by religion, literature, philosophy, art and film.
David Bowie at the V&A Museum
The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie - one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. The exhibit will explore the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades. More than 300 objects will be brought together for the very first time including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie's own instruments and album artwork.
BNY Mellon Boat Race at Putney Bridge
March 31st 2013 will see the 159th Boat Race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. First raced in 1829, The Boat Race is one of the oldest sporting events in the world. Watched by thousands along the banks of The Tideway, between Putney and Mortlake in London and by millions more on TV around the world, The Boat Race is a one of a kind sporting event.
RESTAURANT OPENINGS AND HOTELS
Beagle – Shoreditch
Beagle will be set within three beautifully renovated railway arches on Geffrye Street, Shoreditch - next to Hoxton Station. Taking its name from one of the locomotives that used to operate on the old North London line overhead, Beagle will house a restaurant, bar and coffee shop. The venue will also include a large south facing outdoor seating area for up to 60 covers. Chef James Ferguson (former Head Chef at Rochelle Canteen), will deliver seasonal, produce led British cooking, with menus changing on a daily basis. Using a traditional wood grill for much of his cooking; sample dishes include pig's head croquette, whole wild sea bass, and cucumber and custard tart with poached rhubarb.
Tango Supper at the Waldorf Hilton
The Waldorf Hilton is stepping back in time to offer guests a contemporary twist on the Argentine Tango teas that the hotel was famous for in the early 1900s. Guests can enjoy a complimentary glass of wine before a 45 minute dance class with Argentine Tango professionals, Leonardo Acosta and Tracey Tyack-Kin. Following the dance lesson, guests will be treated to a special Tango cocktail, before enjoying dinner and a Tango performance from the professionals. The package includes an overnight stay, two-course dinner, tango dance lesson and breakfast package and is priced at £390 for two people. There is also a two course dinner and tango dance lesson package, without accommodation, priced at £105 per person.
Charleston Masterclasses at Claridges
Learn to shimmy with style in the incomparably elegant surroundings of Claridge's Ballroom. The legendary hotel is partnering with London's finest flappers, 'The Bee's Knees' to offer monthly lessons in the dances of the Roaring Twenties including the Charleston and the Black Bottom to help celebrate the jazz age and the launch of new Great Gatsby film later in 2013.
'David Bowie Is' at Radisson Blu Edwardian, London
March 23 – July 28,2013
Radisson Blu Edwardian has partnered with the Victoria and Albert Museum to offer their guests tickets to the David Bowie Is exhibition. The package includes; overnight accommodation and breakfast for two, plus a pair of open tickets to the David Bowie Is exhibition from just £160 per room per night. The package is available at the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Vanderbilt, and Mercer Street hotels. Exhibition tickets are valid for any day or time and include fast-track entry.
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CannabisNewsBreaks – Global Payout, Inc. (GOHE) Subsidiary Expands PotSaver Brand Outside of Cannabis Industry
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Payment solutions company Global Payout, Inc. (OTC: GOHE), through majority-owned subsidiary MoneyTrac Technology, Inc. ("MTRAC"), this morning announced plans to widen the scope of its PotSaver brand to include businesses outside of the cannabis industry in an effort to support the local enterprises that they serve. MTRAC further announced plans to expand its sales force in order to tackle this newly-expanded client base. "PotSaver was initially established to connect consumers throughout the cannabis industry with value-driven deals on the many different products they purchase for both recreational and medicinal purposes," Vanessa Luna, CEO of MTRAC, stated in the news release. "However, as the industry has morphed into the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today, we recognize that this is now, more than ever, a community made up of your everyday consumers who are looking for more than just deals on cannabis products, but who are also eager to find deals on other products and services that are offered by the many different businesses in their local communities, and we are committed to developing PotSaver into a resource they can rely on for all of this."
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Since the Company's inception in 2009, Global Payout, Inc. has been a leading provider of comprehensive and customized prepaid payment solutions for domestic and international organizations distributing money worldwide. In 2014, Global introduced its first online payment platform called the Consolidated Payment Gateway (CPG), which allowed its enterprise clients to transfer money to international bank accounts, mobile accounts, and prepaid card accounts. The development of the CPG became the foundation for the introduction of its new, state of the art FINTECH payment system in 2017, for both online and mobile applications to allow account holders to maximize an expanded suite of financial services and minimize operational costs. Global will continue to offer their FINTECH payment system to many vertical markets for support of foreign currency exchange and digital currency, including ongoing support of the banking industry and international governments. For more information, visit www.GlobalPayout.com
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Browne, Christene
Born in St. Kitts, Christene Browne moved with her family to Toronto, Canada in 1970.She enrolled in the Film Studies program at Ryerson in 1985 and started her production company, Syncopated Productions Inc. in 1990.
Her first two films Brothers in Music, a film about two struggling jazz musicians, and No Choices, a film that looked at the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991 and launched Browne's film career. From that time onward Browne has consistently produced work that has examined the intersection of race, class and gender.
She has worked independently and has business relationships with the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, OMNI TV, Starz, PBS BET, Al Jazeera and others. Her films have won numerous awards and have been screened and broadcast internationally. In 1999, Browne completed the semi-autobiographical film Another Planet, her first dramatic feature film and the first feature film to be directed by a Black woman in Canada.
In 2008, she completed Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language, a ground breaking five-part documentary series that looks at the History of Language from pre-historic time to the present day. Noam Chomsky and many other notable linguists are featured in this series. This film received the 2011 Visionary Documentary award from the Women International Film and Television Showcase.
In 2013, her first novel, Two Women, a cautionary tale about two women who share the same soul was published. In 2016, she completed a Masters in Communication and Culture, an interdisciplinary joint program of York University and Ryerson University. Most recently, Browne completed her second novel, Philomena (Unloved), a story about a woman who lives a life devoid of love and which is set partially in Montserrat.
In addition to her film and literary work, Browne has also worked as a film programmer, curator and media arts instructor. She is currently, working on her third novel, doing the promotion for a feature length documentary about the redevelopment of Regent Park, a low-income community in Toronto where Browne spent her formative years and lecturing in the Radio and Televisions Arts (RTA) department at Ryerson University.


Mama Kilya means "mother moon" and is the name of the moon goddess in Incan mythology. It's also the name of a busy, bubbly year and-a-half old Corgi living in Virginia.
In addition to fetching the newspaper, Kilya helps her Mom Harriet with the horses, walking in the woods, swimming in puddles, giving the business to deer and squirrels, leaping over logs, running as fast as she can in big circles (frap!), and getting her fourteen year-old Corgi brother Dylan Thomas to chase after her.
Welcome to The Daily Corgi, Mama Kilya!
Winston of Virginia — A Very Ducky Life!
Gorgeous Corgi! I have three and they are the best dogs ever..I can see how much you love yours..
Awesome dog–reminds me of my corgi Leia. Very sweet. Thanks for sharing!
wonderful message! Love the airborne shot..
Love her self-confidence and adventurous spirit! Thanks for sharing!
Those are some of the most barrroootiful Corgi pics EVER!
Love love love these pictures – you have your hands full!!
The first picture! oh my ! flying puppy!!!! She looks like a bundle of FUN! And oh those puppy pictures are making me miss my corgi's puppy days!
love! what a cute little friend. and she flys! thanks for sharing.


Quick note: Sorry for the delay on this article. I had some "real life" get in the way that left me and this article in different time zones, so I had to re-create it from memory on a different computer. While I have no doubt forgotten something, I hope you still enjoy this "on the road edition" of (Social) Contract from Below.
Welcome to another edition of (Social) Contract from Below. This week is going to be largely about the Ruric Thar "my first Commander" project. I want to talk about a few of the card choices that I made without asking you guys, as well as talk about some cards that were kept on the sidelines intentionally.
One of the things I love about commander is seeing cards that, while good in two player games, go nuts in commander. The most recent example of this is the Extort mechanic and how it works exponentially better in multiplayer (seriously, if you haven't tried out Pontiff of Blight and Crypt Ghast yet, go do it now. Those cards work how you think they do!). While I didn't have access to extort (cry) I did choose to a few cards that help teach about reevaluating cards for multiplayer in Forgotten Ancient and Taurean Mauler. Are these cards little more than big, dumb beaters that will quickly draw a disproportionate amount of hate? Probably. However, if it gets a new player to see that they should not be afraid to give "bad" cards a second chance when put into a multiplayer setting, then they will have done their job.
I also included Mana-Charged Dragon. While I don't particularly like the join forces mechanic (actually that's a lie, I just do not like most of the cards that have to mechanic and I'm not sure that there is that many other places that mechanic can go except for more of the same), I did feel it was important to reference, in at least some small way, that wizards does make cards that are aimed at multiplayer/commander.
I also want to talk about some cards that I didn't put in the deck. I'm in the process of getting ready to move which involved (unsurprisingly) packing up a great deal of magic cards. Amongst them was the pile of cards I pulled out on my collection the "might" go in Ruric. (In fairness I had also pulled a number of cards for the other generals as well.) While many of the pile made it into the deck there is at least one that I am thankful that it did not. If any of you have been missing my "Card you should not be playing" segment from last season (that will return next season, once we are done with Ruric) consider this your fix.
I hate the card Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. While I do not mind people playing mana boosters, the fact that it freezes other player's lands keeps them from playing. If I had to sum up the social contract in one sentence it would be "If what you are doing completely stops the rest of the table from doing anything, then your deck violates the social contract.
That's all I have for this week. However, this article is not over. This week is our final week to look over the list for Ruric Thar before I get to test it next weekend. If you see any gaping holes in the deck then let me know on here. Also, since I am in the process of moving I have most of my magic stuff already packed up. To get me magic fix. I am officially declaring this week my Commandercast "ask me anything" week. If you have a question about the deck, about writing for commandercast, about judging MtG events, or about me in general, ask them in the comments and I will answer them. I'll see ya'll next week.


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Eastercon 8-Squared Con, Bradford
Would have posted comments on this years Eastercon (main GOH Walter Jon Williams) before now but have been somewhat under the weather (trans – poleaxed by another bout of recurring viral loathsomeness). But here at last is my take on it.
Travelled down by train, with just the one change at Preston, arriving mid-afternoon at Bradford Interchange station. After some clueless wandering, I got a cab to the Jurys Inn hotel (which turned out to be a short walk away, ho ho), and thence further on to the Cedar Court Hotel, where the con was being held.
All my panels were on the Saturday so I spent a good bit of Friday just catching up with old writer buddies and other friends, supping the odd pint and swooping into the dealers room for a looksee. Saturday kicked off with a panel on Walter Jon Williams' book 'This Is Not A Game', and not long after the start who should come to sit at the back of the room but Walter Jon hisself! Still, we managed to acquit ourselves without sounding overly-fannish.
Next was the panel titled, 'A Constitution For A Mars Colony', moderated by myself in conjunction with Ian Sales…sorry, that should be BSFA-award-winning Ian Sales (seeing as how he won just such a trophy for his story Adrift On The Sea Of Rains). My original intent was for me to kick off with a short speech on politics and the fundamental concepts of democracy and democratic institutions, then Ian would come in with the hard science aspect and the strigent exigencies that running such a colony would entail. But interaction with the audience started to blur the lines a bit after Ian got started, turning into a kind of ongoing to and fro between us and the audience and amongst the audience itself. And it turned out to be very interesting, much more so than I thought it might! so, result.
Later I was on a panel on motherhood in SF, to which I`d doubted I could make a worthwhile contribution, but then I did pitch in with a showstopper narrative concept near the end which rendered the room deathly quiet (in essence, the plot form in which a parent has to kill a child)(I know, grim). Oh, and before that I was on a panel to do with steampunk morality, which seemed to touched on the stark reality of the impoverished existence of the majority of the population during the age of steam and Victoria – but prevailing sentiments favoured a less miserable approach to steampunk.
Sunday was a day for yacking one's gob off with chums and colleagues, along with a signing event in the morning, then more chinwaggery followed by dealer room visits, more chat, drink, chat, and then the BSFA awards – and Mr Sales' surprising and gratifying award for short fiction. Some may imply that I got slightly squiffy later on, and mention the involvement of a bottle of counterfeit Baileys, but….I couldn't possibly comment.
Come Monday I had not enough time to use the convention bus to get to the Cedar Court for a last gander at the dealer room and be sure of getting a bus back in time for my train, so I relaxed at the hotel until checking out and took that not so long walk over to the station. The journey back went without a hitch until I got to Preston – then there was an obstruction on the line to Warrington, and after that the lights at Warrington ceased functioning properly,. Anyway, in the event I got into Glasgow over a hour late and just seconds too late to get a connection to Irvine. But hey, another left 15 mins later, so home in time for Easter dinner!
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Every summer for the past seven years (2009-2015) we have been rocking the X-RAY area at Lowlands Festival with live visuals and a stage design in cooperation with Ledlease. We improve and expand the setup each year, trying to achieve an even more immersive visual experience than we did the year before.
In 2012 & 2013 we pushed things to the limit by creating a setup of twenty LED bars from the front to the back of the ceiling and a large LED screen behind the DJ. Advanced input scalings were created with the latest version of Resolume Arena, combined with custom made pixel mapping based video content.
The X-RAY area is known for hosting a selective mixture of upcoming and renowned experimental electronic artists performing live during the day and with a focus on DJ sets at night. Throughout the years we've visualised the sounds for some of our favourite artists such as Chris Clark, Actress and Siriusmo. Open from two in the afternoon until five in the morning for three days in a row, the X-RAY stands for electronic madness at Lowlands Festival. The whole experience has always been one of our summer's highlights ever since 2009.
Special thanks to Dirty Brown Visuals for standing beside us -most years- during those three crazy days at the festival!


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Unearthing Black History at the Freedom Lots
Restoring a section of Green-Wood Cemetery, a team of students and historians discover a window onto black life in nineteenth century New York.
[bell chimes]
[Jeff] We tell stories here
so that people know and understand
that those who came before them
have something in common with them.
The people that were buried here,
they were people, they were important,
they had a good head on their shoulders,
and you don't really hear that enough
in today's society.
You're only hearing they were slaves, they were beaten,
they were this, they were that.
I was able to realize that my own people
were successful people.
There was a stone out in those lots
for a fellow by the name of John Munroe.
He was the quartermaster sergeant
in a colored regiment in the Civil War.
Place of death, Henry and Amity Streets
so he was hit by a truck on February 21st.
He died of a fractured skull,
having served in the Civil War.
We don't know whether he was a slave
up until his enlistment or he had been a free man
right before that.
Green-Wood was founded in 1838
as a part of the rural cemetery movement,
so that was an international movement
that started in Paris, and the idea was
that the practice had been burying people
in the urban centers and that was not going very well.
Green-Wood ultimately, by the end of the 19th century,
grows to 478 acres and was the largest developed cemetery
in the world by 1900.
When you look in the Green-Wood map,
you wouldn't see the colored lots.
You would see that spot and it was very vacant,
very gloomy, and very sad there.
The environment just did not feel the same
as the other parts of the lots
where it was more flowers, it was more headstones,
it was more just life there.
When you first took a look at the words the colored lots,
it is no longer appropriate to ever use
those kind of words here or anywhere.
[Khalilah] These people were free.
They had a life.
They had a story and we wanted to represent them
as people that got their lives together
so we changed that name to hold their legacy as well.
The restoration project started about 10 years ago.
We sent a crew of workers out there
who poked into the ground, listening for pinging sounds
and brought about a dozen gravestones out of the ground.
Last year, our restoration team leader
worked with a group of high school students
who pulled stones out of the ground again.
[Neela] In planning this project, we were able to get
survey maps from the 19 teens and twenties
that showed this area of the cemetery
and what monuments were there in the '20s.
We knew that this would potentially change history.
They're not shown in the textbooks that we read,
they're not portrayed in the media that we see.
They're not anywhere.
We got to shed light on who's here,
who's buried here, who are these people?
We got to understand what happened here.
[Neela] Within the freedom lots, none of
the monuments there have foundations.
Over long periods of time, they do tend to sink.
We were able to unearth 12 stones, however two of
those stones were really broken past fixing.
[Khalilah] It was a child buried and it was cracked
into a lot of pieces and I began to cry
because I felt horrible, I felt like it was
all of our faults.
You know, as a conservator, sometimes I can
say yeah, we can fix almost anything
but having a bunch of high school students
look at me and me tell them we can't fix this,
you know, this is over 80 pieces of marble
and you can't just glue them back together,
that was really tough.
[Khalilah] When we finally finished, we took flowers
and we put a beautiful flower by each
of the monuments as you would with your own family.
They didn't have a family, so we were their family.
[Neela] We found that a handful of the lots
were actually specifically for an orphanage
that was originally in midtown,
and it's crazy because some of those kids,
you know, are not that different in age
from the kids that were working there,
so it really makes it a little bit more important.
When you see the lots and you see how few headstones
we have and then you realize that we have over 1,300
people buried there, it can be quite humbling.
[Jeff] There were certain businesses,
certain professions that were open to people of color
in the 19th century and others that were not so much,
and so you do get this sense of surviving
at the economic edge and just the experience
of trying to make it in the world.
Believe it or not, these were people
that had a life just like us and they had a story.
People from a different era lived a totally different life
are now here, and this is something that
can shape history and shape other people's minds
to think differently.
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