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Hellboy: Blood & Iron
This movie finishes out my Hellboy marathon and is my 99th superhero movie review of the year. I'm very happy to finish out my goal of watching and reviewing over 100 superhero movies this year. My 100th movie is a great one and a nice way to cap off my goal, though I will keep reviewing over the last couple weeks of the year. But back to Hellboy, Blood & Iron was the second animated movie and even though it came out after Sword of Storms, it takes place before the first Hellboy movie, focusing quite a bit on Professor Broom and shedding some light into his backstory. After many years of retirement from active duty, Broom takes on one more assignment that was initially introduced as a publicity stunt, though it ends up bringing back an old horror from the Professor's early days in the BPRD. In other words, this is Hellboy's take on vampire mythology. Taken as a whole, the Hellboy movie series really runs the gamut of different mythologies, giving them new life and putting the Hellboy spin on it. Instead of the typical vampire origin, this brings in the Greek Goddess of the witches, Hecate, and a figure from history just as infamous as Vlad the Impaler, Elizabeth Bathory. I was actually somewhat familiar with the story of the Blood Countess due to a City of Heroes player who created a custom mission arc with her history which I made a trailer for. Vampires, especially nowadays, are such a popular topic they have almost been done to death, and yet this movie was able to breathe some new life into the undead creatures, even though once again it briefly reminded me of Vampire Hunter D, the sequel this time. There was also a bit of Memento inspired chronological order shifting, with the flashbacks being intercut with the current day story in almost the same way.
Out of all of the movies, Professor Broom is the one character that really does have an interesting story behind him. He was at the very beginning of the BPRD and has seen it all, and yet he's only in half of the movies, and this is the only one that really gives him any real oomph. He's a devout Catholic and yet he's deeply entrenched in the supernatural, something that's called into question during a brief moment in this movie, and yet he ends up having a stronger faith than the priest himself. Another nice change of pace is that Professor Broom is not really a fighter, either in the past nor the present, and he uses his knowledge, quick thinking, and outsmarts his enemies rather than overpowering them.
I can't believe I've gone this far into this review without mentioning that I'm a fan of vampires. Not the sparkly ones. I'm more a fan of werewolves, but vampires are pretty cool too. And it's great to see the gender swap, it's much more common for the head vampire to be a male while he uses his powers to subdue the women into his control. Instead, it's a bit of a Snow White complex with the vampire being a woman, and she uses her power to bring other beautiful women under her control in order to retain her fairest of them all looks in a literal bloodbath. With sexy results. She's also accompanied by her two cronies who provide a slight bit of comic relief while still being frightful in their own right.
But aside from Professor Broom's story, there's also a large part of course played by Hellboy who provides the brunt of the action in this movie while he fights both a werewolf and a goddess. I did find the fight with Hecate to be the weakest point in the movie, especially the anticlimactic ending to it, but aside from that, the fights were well done. Especially the opening fight with the Minotaur. Like the bat creature in the first animated movie, the Minotaur didn't have any connection with the rest of the story, but it was a fun fight by itself, it also seemed to provide the inspiration for the mechanical fist on Wink the troll in the second live action movie.
The rest of the characters were kind of put off to the side in this movie, even though Abe and Liz were both there, they never really get to do much other than get knocked out or captured. They also introduced a new character voiced by Rob Paulsen who is a human metal detector. Again, I have to make a quick reference to my dislike of Agent Meyers in the first live action movie, because I thought that Sydney was a much better window for the audience into the workings of the BPRD than Meyers was. Especially since Sydney actually had some sort of special ability, however comical and mostly useless, and was more or less accepted into the group without question.
I do have to compare this movie to the other animated movie, Sword of Storms, and while I do appreciate all the Japanese mythology in Sword of Storms, Blood & Iron has a much more self-contained and cohesive storyline, not only that, but it focuses on an interesting character in Professor Broom and gives him a much needed backstory. If you only choose one of the Hellboy animated movies to watch, I would definitely pick Blood & Iron, unless you're specifically looking for the Asian angle. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
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Meet the inspiring 7-year-old baseball player with one arm
Mary Ann Bourbeau
SOUTH PLAINFIELD – Matthew Hannon doesn't let anyone tell him he can't do something just because he has one arm. That includes playing on the Marlins with the South Plainfield Junior Baseball Club.
The 7-year-old has the support of his family, the coaches and his teammates, which was evident when he pitched for the first time recently.
"He did really well," said coach Ray Downey. "It's amazing to watch him."
In the first inning he pitched, Matthew had two strikeouts and one walk, and no runs scored.
Of course his parents, Keri and Chris Hannon, worry about their son, afraid that he might get hit with the ball. Hannon keeps his mitt under his partial left arm when he pitches, then quickly puts it on his right hand after he throws the ball.
"You can see he doesn't want his disability to stop him from doing anything," SPJBC board member Joe Scrudato said.
Keri Hannon said her son was born with cancer. She found a lump in his arm when he was six weeks old. The doctor thought it was a deformed bone, but by five months, it had grown quite large.
Matthew started undergoing tests and at eight months he was diagnosed with metastatic Ewing's sarcoma, a rare cancer that primarily affects children. The cancer had spread to one lung and a good part of his liver.
"Matthew is a miracle," his mother said. "They didn't expect him to live the first year."
His left arm was amputated one-inch above the elbow a week before his first birthday.
"The doctors told us because of his age, he would probably never realize the difference," she said.
Matthew, who is in second grade at Riley School, will tell you the same thing.
"I don't want to be treated any different," he said. "No one does."
He grew up playing baseball in the yard with his brothers, 8-year-old Justin and 11-year-old Nicholas. He also has a stepsister, Laura, who is 21.
"Matthew will try anything," Hannon said. "He tries to keep up with what Justin does. He played rec basketball this year and he held his own. He swims, dives and plays Wii and Xbox just as good as everybody else. He even climbed the rope in school. He tried riding a bike, but sadly he can't do it. It's very frustrating for him."
In the SPJBC, Matthew has played every position except catcher, which is logistically too difficult for him. But this year, he had the league's very first hit of the season, and the umpire, Tyler Berardi, gave him the game ball.
"The umpire was very impressed," said Scrudato. "He didn't give him the ball because he had one arm. He did it because Matthew had a great game."
Hannon's family sees him as an inspiration to others and they are right beside him in anything he tries to do.
"Matthew is just a miracle," said his brother Justin. "He's a great baseball player for a kid with only one arm. All of us Marlins are lucky to have him on the team."

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Orlan, Stelarc and the Art of the Virtual Body | NeMe
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The art of the body – one of the most captivating artistic phenomena of the 20th century's close – has an equally fascinating prehistory, which, unrestricted to the past, continues to participate in the delimitation of the contemporary paradigm. A syndrome of issues, constitutes this prehistory and paradigm well over a hundred years in the making, which express the philosophical (especially epistemological) interest in the body. In the first half of the previous century, the awareness of 'corporality' as an aspect of perception began to develop, grounded in the knowledge of physiological conditions determining the process. According to Jonathan Crary (1990), the notion of subjective, body-dependent perception began to dominate as early as the 1820's and 30's. Gradually, it was becoming obvious that the truth concerning the world was psychosomatic in character. The next step in advancing this awareness was the conclusion that the senses could be manipulated by means of sundry external techniques. Furthermore, if the senses were controllable, then so was knowledge, the mind and the attitude towards the exterior. Knowledge about reality was revealed as a product of an active, externally stimulated and controlled subject, attempting, at best, to consciously fathom the functions, scope and implications of this control, as well as discern the instances that performed it.
Towards the end of the 19th century, progressing industrialization meant that the biosphere and the technosphere began to blend. This, in turn, resulted in an intensification of processes that subjugated nature to human civilization, as well as in turning technology against man himself. What is meant by the latter is not merely a natural consequence of the former process (after all, mastering nature simultaneously affects man's biological identity), but also, or perhaps predominantly, the developing phenomenon of body control (and, consequently, the surveillance of human life), described by Michel Foucault as biopower. The 20th century witnesses amplification in all the aforementioned processes.
It is in those processes, among others, that classic body art is rooted, with its usual argument for the body's physicality. Especially the last decades of the preceding century brought a very distinct, multifaceted revival of artistic practices focused on the human body. Within this 'somatic universe', a special position was occupied by various types of performance art, and among them – first and foremost – body art.
Beginning with the 1960's, the art of the body, often connected with conceptualism, became one of the main sources of the energy, which shaped the most radical forms of artistic expression. Already at its inception, through the works of such artists as Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci or Dennis Oppenheim, body art claimed a permanent place in the history of artistic endeavors. The 1970's bolstered its position with the practices of subsequent artists who ventured into this domain, e.g. Chris Burden, Gina Pane or the Vienna Actionists. Although in the following decade public attention was diverted by critics and art merchants towards very different forms of expression, this was in no way tantamount to a disappearance of, or even a decline in artistic attitudes which, like body art, employed the body as its basic (or sole) expressive means. It was during this period that the Australian artist Stelarc, who had debuted at the outset of the previous decade, continued to develop his artistic vision, consistently exploring the boundaries and possibilities of his own body.
Nonetheless, the output of this particular artist indicates that in the 1980's a slow transformation may be observed in the art of the body. Since the very beginning of the decade (cf. e.g. the Deca-Dance performance in Komai Gallery, Tokyo, 10 November 1981), parallel to artistic events entailing the suspension of his own, physical, real body (by means of wires, attached with fish hooks to the skin), Stelarc undertook a series of experiments in which he employed a specially designed robotic arm (the cycle of presentations entitled The Third Hand), thus transferring (extending) artistic practice into virtual expanses and simultaneously problematizing numerous, thus far universally accepted boundaries, conventions and notions.
Towards the virtual body
The transformations which body art began to undergo at the time can be interpreted as consequences (product) of at least a few processes, among which the following must be enumerated:
the increasingly advanced development in media communication technologies described by Marshall McLuhan as extensions of the human body;
the progress in scientific research, as well as applications thereof, in fields such as genetics, transplantology or robotics;
the deepening of interdisciplinary studies (and, consequently, the emergence of such disciplines as bionics) as well as progress in experiments involving artificial intelligence and artificial life, rooted in the integrated scientific procedures mentioned above;
the expansion of increasingly efficient computer technologies, ever more versatile in their application, constructing a world of which interactivity and virtuality are the basic attributes.
As a result of and in response to the emergence and development of the above phenomena (as well as numerous others, unmentioned here), a new civilizational- cultural formation began to take shape: a cyberculture, grounded in new notions concerning the character of life, a new outlook on the future of the human species and new relations between nature and civilization, art and science, as well as man and his products. More and more often, the belief in the permanence and immutability of human nature, characteristic for 18th century philosophers, was perceived as an obstacle in comprehending the contemporary world. Alterations of body and identity, as well as new concepts of life and intelligence, plainly indicate that our times are marked by incredibly deep and intense transformations of the world in which we exist. The aforementioned fusing of technosphere and biosphere rapidly accelerated global hybridization, initiating the history of a post-biological era.
In art, especially in its radical formations, the development and increased use of electronic media technologies meant that various aspects of virtualized, processed and created corporality could conquer ever-newer areas.
These processes were already quite distinct in photography. Also, the cinematic avant- garde was always interested in issues related to corporality, particularly when it was voicing its objection to the appropriation of the body by manifold ideologies, as in the notable realizations of Luis Bunňuel, Jean Genet, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Birgit Hein and Jayne Parker. Video art continued this tendency in an equally remarkable manner. Recently, computer animation – in its own peculiar way – has accepted the challenge of corporality: embracing the possibilities afforded by digital technologies, it constructs body simulacra.
In the 1990's, after a decade of apparent stillness, artistic tendencies addressing corporal issues underwent further intensification and dissemination. This time, however, artistic endeavors which, following in Stelarc's footsteps, transferred their interests, objects, tools as well as domains of activity and reference into virtual space, began to dominate, to determine the main directions of art's development and its dynamics, to formulate the basic problems and fundamental questions.
The above, however, is not tantamount to stating that art which limits its concerns to real physicality has lost its raison d'être in the contemporary world, or its ability to create significant values and meanings. The art of the virtual body directs us towards the future, discusses contemporaneity and physicality as seen in that particular perspective, while simultaneously questioning the biological boundaries of physicality and the ties of static identity. As an adventure of a body liberated (or being liberated) from biologicality, it also obliquely indicates the issues of a body mired in physicality as well as the weakness of a human individual, whose corporality renders him vulnerable to a variety of external threats. Thus, it announces the continuing existence of reasons for considering one's own physicality – not only fearing corporality, but also shielding it. It reminds us that body talk invariably deserves an attentive ear, since it defines our existence and is therefore a vital complement to contemporary artistic discourses. The art of the real body, which emerges from this attention, concern or fear, possesses roots and extensive references which are existential as well as social, political, religious and philosophical in character. There are places on Earth where such anxieties and considerations are especially justified, although the perspective proposed by Foucault seems to demonstrate that the body will never find a secure refuge anywhere. Consequently, one may conclude that the value of penetrating virtual corporality is conditioned and co-shaped by explorations of physical corporality; moreover, the two domains invariably constitute essential contexts for each other.
The importance of McLuhan's concept for contemplations of corporality lies not only in his accurate observation that communication media are an extension of man, i.e. both of his body and senses. Equally crucial is his conviction concerning man's peculiar dependence on technology. According to his hypothesis, technology, by becoming part of the surroundings, begins to determine human consciousness and corporality. As a psychophysical whole, the human undergoes transformations induced by technology – he is transformed by his own inventions (this topic was later addressed by Derrick de Kerckhove). It is this process that can be observed at the outset of the post-biological era, i.e. the developing world, in which numerous aspects of life (including the mind and consciousness) are mediatized, expanded, transformed or created by technology. Art, evidently, is also part of that world.
The art of the virtual body formulates, enhances and analyzes its structures, tools as well as the resulting issues in this post-biological context, the vastness and internal diversity of which gives birth to a multitude of distinct artistic phenomena. Let us investigate two, the significance of which will allow the examination to disclose the most crucial issues of post-biological art.
Virtualization as reclaiming the body
Orlan and the project of transforming the body through a series of plastic surgery operations seemingly does not belong in the post-biological area: the direct object of these actions is, after all, the physical, biological body. Nonetheless, at least two aspects of the venture call for circumspection and deliberation in formulating such an estimate.
The first is the origin of the form towards which Orlan turned in her escalating alterations, namely a computer-generated synthesis of the artist's facial features and five classical painterly representations: Diana, Psyche, Europa, Venus and Mona Lisa. The endeavor at hand is thus an example of technological mediation, which combines an artistic idea with its concretization.
The post-biological character of Orlan's enterprise is considerably more visible in the second aspect: the conviction, immanent in the project, that the body, apart from undergoing natural biological processes, can also become an object of actions which alter its form, shape its features, transcend its 'natural destination', on the way towards realizing the artistic vision.
Various works referencing corporality, artistic gestures aimed against one's own body, undertaken by numerous artists (e.g. the self-destructive endeavors of the Vienna Actionists) were realized exclusively in the context of the real, physical body. The value of such endeavors, as well as the meanings produced and provoked thereby, also remained within the boundaries of reality and its metaphysical references. Orlan's project, on the other hand, exceeds those limitations. Its space stretches from the real, biological body to the virtual one, from nature to technosphere, from commercialized patriarchal culture to cyberfeminism. Orlan's project – apparently an attempt at reclaiming one's own body, lost at birth – poses essential questions concerning the individual's attitude towards their 'own' corporality, as well as the philosophical and social contexts of the issue.
Virtualization as transcending the body
The aforementioned Stelarc is certainly one of the most fascinating personages in the analyzed artistic field. After a sequence of multimedia enterprises, realized jointly in the late 1960's, extended subsequently into a series of performance activities in which the artist analyzed the capabilities and restrictions of the physical body (his own, and, consequently, the body in general) – suspending it in various manners, examining the boundary between one's own physicality and the world – he initiated a long-lasting cycle of performances entitled Amplified Body. The primary matter of these presentations were the physiological processes occurring in Stelarc's body, which – by means of impulses – shaped and directed the course of various events, forming the external structure of the performance (emitted sounds, light and video projections). Thus, the performance was transformed into a peculiar biotechnological environment, constituting in its entirety an extension of the artist's body, which in turn became – as it were – an interface between the biological and the technological elements of the enterprise. One might also conclude – with very interesting results – that the entire performance becomes a biological-technological interface, or – as the flipside of the same phenomenon – a process of biological-technological communication. The movement of the impulses is also worth remarking, occurring as it does from the interior of the body towards the exterior. Combining the internal with the external, the whole process simultaneously problematizes the boundary between the two spheres.
Such attempts, in a different dimension, had been undertaken by Stelarc even earlier, leading to the (aforementioned) situation in which the skin, stretched as a result of the suspended body's weight, revealed the fluidity (flexibility) of this boundary. A comparison of the two performance types not only visualizes the consistency which marks Stelarc's work, but – predominantly – discloses the changes undergone by man in connection with the development of technologies mediating in his communication with the environment. In other words, it divulges the virtual dimensions of the human body.
In all endeavors comprising the Amplified Body sequence (as well as other, related ones), Stelarc employed medical equipment and technologies. This fact, apart from posing a variety of difficulties, clearly exposed the contemporary proximity of art and science (biology, physics, chemistry, etc), including its practical applications (medicine, therapy). A salient example of such multidisciplinary blending is Stomach Sculpture, a realization in which the artist utilized an endoscopy apparatus to place inside his abdomen an object regarded as a work of art. This fact, in the artist's view, transformed the body itself, which consequently became exhibitory space, an art gallery of sorts. Therefore, it transcended the divisions which delimit physiological, private and public spaces.
Stelarc's ensuing performance activities introduced an array of new factors. In those works, the impulse stream was more often directed inward, rather than coming from the interior of the body. Computer-manipulated devices, employing specially prepared software, stimulated the body muscles, inducing movement. In recent enterprises, such as Ping Body, Stelarc utilized the Internet, thanks to which he could subject his body to distant stimuli (tele-stimulation). The first presentation of Ping Body, during which three sources (the Parisian Centre Georges Pompidou, Media Lab in Helsinki and Amsterdam) were connected to form one system, took place in November 1995, during the "Doors of Perception" Symposium. The stimulating impulses originating in all three places arrived in Luxemburg, where they activated a system which, in turn, manipulated Stelarc's body. This dimension of the Ping Body performance included behavior which was not controlled by the artist's consciousness. However, the presentation also included the Third Hand – an artificial extension of Stelarc's body, which the artist operated by means of abdominal and leg muscles. As a result, a communications system was established between the body and its technological environment, where the body, functioning in accordance with its natural features, could in an equally natural manner operate (steer) its technological (virtual) appendages, while being involuntarily, unwittingly subject to external inducement.
Compared to the previously realized Performances for Amplified Body, Robot and Third Hand, Ping Body is distinctive on account of its considerably augmented sphere (scope) of bidirectional communication. Taken all together, Stelarc's works harmoniously express his idea of symbiosis between the biological and technological elements as a characteristic attribute of the contemporary world. Furthermore, they portray – as Annick Bureaud correctly indicates – the evolution of a body undergoing transformation from an interface into a hybrid form (Bureaud, 1995, p. 30).
In numerous remarks (e.g. Stelarc, 1991), the artist himself, evincing noteworthy awareness with regard to his art, developed and concretized his theories, paying considerable attention to, among others, the notion of the reduced, 'obsolete body'. In his opinion, man has created technological and informational environment which the body alone cannot hope to handle. Therefore, it needs the assistance of new electronic technologies which are capable of absorbing the functions that the human (his body) is unable to perform (see Stelarc, 1994).
The body, recognizing its fragility and diffidence, learns to regard itself as a structure subject to control and modification. As this tendency develops, technology ceases to be considered a mere environment or extension of corporality. Through miniaturization and biocompatibility, technology is transferred into the depths of the body, as if 'implanted'. The physical body is transmogrified into a biological-technological body, one equipped with a substantial dimension of virtuality.
Apart from uniting the biological with the technological, Stelarc's work also combines manifold artistic disciplines. In his version, performance art subsumes choreography, music, audiovisual arts and sculpture. Communicativeness, hybridity and virtuality become the essential properties of this artist's output, which is tantamount to stating that they become the principal attributes of his body, regarded as an artistic medium.
Artificial life and genuine identity?
Contemporary tendencies in multimedia arts eagerly draw on the domain of artificial life. More and more often in art we encounter virtual bodies in the most extreme sense, i.e. bodies of artificial beings. The recipients acquire the ability to experience – in an artistic context – virtual corporality. Numerous works of this type offer either a semblance of interaction with entities which are autonomous in their reactions to our behavior, or an impression of communing with corporal worlds which exist independently of ours. Such enterprises can be found also in the domain of Internet art, which adds to the above a possibility of telematic contact with virtual bodies belonging to simulated creatures.
To conclude these remarks – a mere preface, obviously, to incomparably more elaborate studies, the necessity of which is validated by the rapidly growing importance of virtual corporality issues in the contemporary world – I wish once again to address the matter of identity.
Telematic communication with virtual bodies, both those reduced from physicality to virtuality through technological mediatization and those created virtual (artificial creatures of the post-biological era, as well as technological extensions of biological physicality, new environments and, lastly, hybrid, bionic entities) – all that taken jointly problematizes not only the phenomenon of life and intelligence, but also – an obvious consequence – brings a crisis in the notion of identity. Nowadays, we cannot indulge in an ingenuous discussion of harmony and conflict between identities, or of the autonomy of subjectivity, since the transformations of the universe confront us with the issues of wired identity (Druckerey, 1994), as well as the problems of collective consciousness and collective intelligence. Today, the countless quandaries accompanying the transformations mentioned above are commonly expressed even by those whose estimations have attended these processes closely. As an example, let us consider the opinion of Arthur Elsenaar and Eric Kluitenberg (1994): "The technologization of the human body implies a conceptual abstraction that destroys the integrity of the physical experience. Destroying the duality between the physical and the spiritual, it also undermines the traditional opposition of culture and nature. Our cultural customs, our habits, our behavior all become mechanisms, to be altered at will in order to make the world-machine run smoothly. It raises an anxious uncertainty about the question: What does it mean to be human?". This particular question – devoid of prejudice and naïve optimism – is constantly being formulated by the practitioners of virtual body art.
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Ryszard W. Kluszczyński is Professor of cultural and media studies at Lodz University, Poland, where he is a Head of the Department of Electronic Media and Chair of School of Media and Audiovisual Culture. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.
He writes about new media arts, cyberculture, theory of media and communication, information and network society, experimental cinema and video art. He critically investigates the issues of contemporary art theory, avant-garde, and recent art practices.
Member of Advisory Board of the conferences on the Histories of Art, Science and Technology: Re-live, Melbourne 2009, Re-place, Berlin 2007, Re-fresh!, Banff, 2005. Member of International Programming Committee for ISEA 2009 Belfast, ISEA 2008 Singapore, ISEA 2004 Helsinki – Stockholm – Tallin; ISEA 2000 Paris.
Juror of numerous media art festivals and competitions, e.g. Baltic goes Digital – An Open Digital Art Contest, Art Line / NCK, City Gallery, Gdańsk (2012), Docks Docs Gdańsk Remix (2011), Filmteractive Festival, Łódź (2011), International Festival of Film and New Media, Split, 2000; International Media Biennial, Wroclaw 1999; International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, 1996; International Video Festival, Locarno, 1995; International Biennial Film + Architecture, Graz, 1995; International Video Festival, Bauhaus-Dessau, 1993.
Member of Inter-Society for Electronic Art, International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Cultural Studies Committee of Polish Academy of Science, and Polish Society of Cultural Studies. Editor of "Art Inquiry", a yearbook on contemporary art, and "Cultural Studies Review".
Text by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński
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Originally unveiled at the company's European conference in Hamburg in February, and then formally introduced at Mobile World Congress the following month, the Panasonic Eluga dl1 is available from online retailers for around £380 SIM-free in the UK (and $700 SIM-free on Amazon.com in the US, although it isn't listed on the Panasonic US site).
This pitches the company's comeback handset against the likes of the Sony Xperia S and the Motorola Razr - two mobile phones that also boast the same sized display as the Panasonic Eluga at 4.3 inches.
And, for a 4.3-inch smartphone, the Panasonic Eluga is tiny. It's not quite as slim as the 7.1mm Motorola Razr but, with a girth of 7.8mm, it has the same waistline as the HTC One S.
But, because it is around 7mm shorter and narrower, and its extra sharp curved edges bring its lowest thickness measurement down to around 3mm, it appears even slimmer than those competitors at first glance. And it's easily the lightest 4.3-inch-screen mobile phone that we've come across too, at a slender 103g.
One of the key features that Panasonic is keen to push is the Panasonic Eluga's water and dust-proof skills.
It has nabbed itself an IP57 certificate, which means that it can handle a dip into water (up to 1m and for up to 30 minutes) and that dust can't enter in a large enough quantity, thanks to the gaskets and O-rings, to cause it any bother.
We didn't go the whole hog of taking it snorkelling for half an hour, but we did leave it in the sink, under a running tap, and it didn't seem to cause it any problems.
On the top of the Panasonic Eluga are its only moving parts - two flaps that make way for a micro USB port and micro SIM insertion - and these seemed to keep the water out without issue.
You may have already gathered from the lack of a third flap that there's no microSD option on board - a real shame when you consider that built-in storage is a rather underwhelming 8GB.
The display, as mentioned, is a 4.3-inch one with a 960 x 540 qHD resolution, which puts it on a par with the likes of the HTC One S and the Motorola Razr, but it's not quite up to the 1280 x 720 standards that Sony set with the Xperia S.
It's an AMOLED display, which offers vibrant colours and great viewing angles, if somewhat muffled in crispness, thanks to a touch of over-saturation.
The Panasonic Eluga's matt black or silver finish to its back means that it's comfortable to hold and won't suffer too much from smears and fingerprints.
The power and volume rocker button placement isn't ideal, though. They are easy enough to access if you're operating your smartphone southpaw-stylee, but try pushing them with your right hand and you're in for an uncomfortable experience.
The power button, especially, is a tricky little blighter. And we mean little. Sure, Panasonic's gunning for a slimline, minimalist beauty here - but would it really have hurt to make what is a very frequently used button (it also doubles as the sleep/wake one) a bit more accessible?
Also on the back is the Panasonic Eluga's 8-megapixel camera lens, sans-flash, sadly, along with a notification of its NFC capabilities, which we'll come back to later.
The front of the Panasonic Eluga keeps the sharp theme going - not just with the piano black 4.3-inch AMOLED display, but by almost seamlessly blending the screen with the thin bezel.
There's not really much room for anything else up front, save for the Android control buttons, a tiny Panasonic logo, a minuscule speaker grill and a titchy LED for notifications - and if that's one too many superlatives for small, we apologise, but the Panasonic Eluga's raison d'être is its minute attributes.
The Panasonic Eluga is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread for now, although a summer update to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is promised. It runs via a TI OMAP 1GHz dual-core processor, which may have wowed us a bit more last year, before the quad-core revolution hit full wing.


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Body Art by Shaun participated in the 1st annual Frank D. Lanterman employee health fair. Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center is a private, non-profit corporation that operates under contract with California's Department of Developmental Services. The Center serves over 9,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities, who have or are at risk for a developmental delay or disability, and who are at high-risk of parenting an infant with a disability. Lanterman offers lifelong services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Along with staff Body Art by Shaun held several fitness forums for about 250 employees . Body Art by Shaun raffled off "Body Art by Shaun" tank's and tee's and also donated more than $1500 in personal fitness services.
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Winners of the Annual Latvian Literary Award 2021 Announced!
Continuing the tradition, Baltic International Bank, as a long-standing patron of Latvian literature, this year again has provided financial support to the Annual Latvian Literary Award (LALIGABA), the most significant event of the year in Latvian literature, awarding a financial prize to the winner in the category for the Brightest Debut.
The motto of this year's award "In Joy and in Sorrow" testifies to the power of literature to survive even the gloomiest times, providing a chance to take refuge from what is happening around, allowing you to travel in time and space as well as to find comfort and better comprehend the world. No matter what happens, the book will never let you down – it will be by your side in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness. It will be capable of bringing you through fire and water – as conveyed by the seal, the visual symbol of this year's award.
On 30 April 2021, during the Annual Latvian Literature Award (LALIGABA) ceremony broadcast on the LTV1 channel, the winners of the Annual Latvian Literature Award 2021 in five categories were announced and awarded. The Special Award was presented to the Prose Readings 2020 festival team led by writer Inga Žolude, and the recipients of the Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement – linguist and writer Lalita Muižniece and literary scholar Gunārs Bībers – were honoured.
In its final vote, the Annual Latvian Literature Award committee of expert judges voted to award the LALIGABA prize in the category for the "Best Work of Poetry" to Amanda Aizpuriete's collection of poems "Pirms izvākšanās" (Before Moving Out), published by Neputns and edited by Cilda Rēdliha. Read more on the author and the work here.
In the category for the "Best Work of Prose", Jānis Joņevs triumphed with his collection of stories "Tīģeris" (Tiger), published by Dienas Grāmata and edited by Ieva Kolmane. Read more on the author and the work here.
The award in the category for the "Best Translation of Foreign Literature" was earned by Jānis Elsbergs' translation of Charles Bukowski's selected poems "Kodiens" (Bite) from English into Latvian, published by Neputns and edited by Kārlis Vērdiņš. Read more on the translator and his performance here.
The judges voted to give the award in the category for the "Best Original Work of Children's Literature" to Marts Pujāts' collection of poems "Ej nu ej" (Go On Now), published by Liels un mazs, illustrated by Lāsma Pujāte and edited by Inese Zandere. Read more on the author and the book here.
This year, the "Brightest Debut" award for the most promising entrance in Latvian literature was awarded to Andris Kalnozols for his novel "Kalendārs mani sauc" (Calendar Calls Me), published by Orbīta and edited by Henriks Eliass Zēgners. Read more on the author and the book here. This award was specially supported and presented by Baltic International Bank.
The winners received LALIGABA lamps designed by MĀJO studio and prize money.
The Special LALIGABA Award was presented to the Prose Readings 2020 festival team led by Inga Žolude for their enormous contribution to organising the festival during the pandemic by bringing prose authors and readers together online. In 2020, the festival was held for the 25th time, and for the first time in its history it took place online, offering a diverse programme full of vital discussions and prose readings and reaching a wider audience than ever before. The prize money was awarded to support the organisation of the next festival. Read more on the Prose Readings here.
During the ceremony broadcast, the LALIGABA lamps and prize money were also given to LALIGABA Lifetime Achievement Award recipients – to linguist and writer Lalita Muižniece for her lifelong contribution to strengthening Latvian identity and promoting Latvian literature, folklore and language, and to literary scholar Gunārs Bībers for his lifetime of research in Latvian literature and dramaturgy as well criticism and pedagogy. Read more on the Lifetime Achievement Award winners here.
The Annual Latvian Literary Award (LALIGABA) is the most important annual event in the field of literature in Latvia that ensures professional assessment of literary contributions and recognition of authors for the most outstanding works in Latvian literature published over the year.


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Q: LinearLayout is not drawing though onDraw is called I'm building an MultiStateToggle Button.
To highlight the selected state, I need to draw a rectangle which is exactly the size of a button. This rectangle slides to the current state. Therefore I need to draw, but whatever I do, I do not see any change even though onDraw was called.
The superclass ToggleButton simply holds some constants. It extends LinearLayout!
Does anybody know, why drawing does not work in this LinearLayout sub-class?
class MultiStateToggleButton : ToggleButton {

    //region Variables

    private val mHighlightPaint: Paint = Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG)

    @DrawableRes
    private val iSelectableItemBackgroundDrawableResId: Int

    private val mButtons = mutableListOf<Button>()

    //endregion

    constructor(context: Context) : this(context, Any() as AttributeSet)

    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : super(context, attrs) {
        val mTypedValue = TypedValue()
        context.theme.resolveAttribute(R.attr.colorPrimary, mTypedValue, true)
        val iPrimaryColor = mTypedValue.data

        context.theme.resolveAttribute(R.attr.colorPrimary, mTypedValue, true)
        val iPrimaryDarkColor = mTypedValue.data

        setBackgroundColor(iPrimaryDarkColor)

        context.theme.resolveAttribute(R.attr.colorAccent, mTypedValue, true)
        val iAccentColor = mTypedValue.data

        val mTypedArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.MultiStateToggleButton)

        foregroundColor = mTypedArray.getColor(R.styleable.MultiStateToggleButton_foregroundColor, iPrimaryColor)
        highlightColor = mTypedArray.getColor(R.styleable.MultiStateToggleButton_highlightColor, iAccentColor)

        val mTexts = mTypedArray.getTextArray(R.styleable.MultiStateToggleButton_elements)
        if (mTexts != null) {
            val iSelectedElement = mTypedArray.getInt(R.styleable.MultiStateToggleButton_selectedElement, 0)
            setElements(Array(mTexts.size) { i ->
                mTexts[i].toString()
            }, iSelectedElement)
        }

        mTypedArray.recycle()
    }

    init {
        val mTypedValue = TypedValue()
        context.theme.resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, mTypedValue, true)
        iSelectableItemBackgroundDrawableResId = mTypedValue.resourceId

        mHighlightPaint.apply {
            color = highlightColor
            style = Paint.Style.FILL
        }
    }

    //region Public Variables

    override var selectedElement: Int = 0
        set(value) {
            selectButton(value)
            field = value
            super.selectedElement = value
        }

    //endregion

    //region Methods

    fun setElements(texts: Array<String>) {
        removeAllViews()
        mButtons.clear()

        texts.forEachIndexed { i, text ->
            val mButton = Button(context).apply {
                layoutParams = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LAYOUT_WEIGHT_EQUAL)
                setBackgroundResource(iSelectableItemBackgroundDrawableResId)
                setText(text)
                setTextColor(textColor)
                setOnClickListener { selectedElement = i }
            }

            mButtons.add(mButton)
            addView(mButton)
        }
    }

    fun setElements(texts: Array<String>, selectedItem: Int) {
        setElements(texts)

        selectButton(selectedItem)
    }

    override fun setEnabled(enabled: Boolean) {
        for (i in 0 until childCount) {
            getChildAt(i).isEnabled = enabled
        }
    }

    override fun onDraw(canvas: Canvas?) {
        super.onDraw(canvas)
        canvas?.drawRect(0f, 0f, 30f, 30f, mHighlightPaint)
    }

    override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, l: Int, t: Int, r: Int, b: Int) {
        super.onLayout(changed, l, t, r, b)

        setWillNotDraw(false)
    }

    override fun onSaveInstanceState(): Parcelable {
        return Bundle().apply {
            putParcelable(KEY_INSTANCE_STATE, super.onSaveInstanceState())
            putInt(KEY_SELECTED_BUTTON, selectedElement)
        }
    }

    override fun onRestoreInstanceState(state: Parcelable?) {
        var mRestoredState: Parcelable? = state

        if (state is Bundle) {
            selectButton(state.getInt(KEY_SELECTED_BUTTON))
            mRestoredState = state.getParcelable(KEY_INSTANCE_STATE)
        }

        super.onRestoreInstanceState(mRestoredState)
    }

    private fun selectButton(position: Int) {
        if (mButtons.isNotEmpty()) {
            if (position >= mButtons.size) {
                throw IndexOutOfBoundsException("Position was $position but there are only ${mButtons.size} Buttons.")
            }

            getChildAt(selectedElement).isEnabled = true
            getChildAt(position).isEnabled = false

            invalidate()
        }
    }

    //endregion

    companion object {
        private const val KEY_SELECTED_BUTTON = "mtb_selected_button"
        private const val KEY_INSTANCE_STATE = "mtb_instance_state"
    }
}

A: As Kotlins' init block is called on Primary Constructor call, my Paint was not initialized.

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Awareness, understanding and acceptance are important keys to change. You are the agent in yielding that change, as you are the expert on your life and experience. However, at times this becomes more difficult, you can feel stuck, and seeking help to move forward in life is available if you reach out. That's where I come in. I'm here to help guide you back to your innate wisdom, essential wholeness, and deep confidence. I am here to give you the space you need to start feeling better, to become more in touch with yourself and others, and to explore the depths of your growth and learning. Everyone is drawn to therapy for different reasons, whether you are looking for a sounding board, to move through a hardship, or to discover your life's meaning, therapy can help.


This page lists the song chart entries of Destiny's Child.A list of the hit albums by Destiny's Child is also available. The songs are listed with the most widely successful first.
Silkk the Shocker : Just be straight with me. US 57 May 1998 16 weeks Matthew Marsden : She's gone. UK 24 Nov 1998 3 weeks 99 Souls : The Girl is mine. UK 5Nov 2015, also in Australia and much of Europe.
These days every song "features" a whole long list of artists (and different ones for the same song in different countries). We don't have the time to keep track of all of them.
#3 & #19 are the same.


The World Cup is on its way. Many well established stars will put their skills on display as they try to bring home soccer's most coveted prize. While the tournament gives us the chance to watch players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi do battle and cement themselves as legends of the game, the stage is also set to welcome the next generation of world class talent. As we move toward the summer's tournament, the LANCO League will periodically highlight some players to watch this summer. For more content like this, check out the LANCO League Facebook Page.
4/30/14, Julian Draxler (Schalke 04/Germany): In the last 12 months, Julian Draxler has been linked with several high profile transfers including moves to Arsenal in England and to German champions, Bayern Munich. It's easy to see why so many clubs are excited by the prospect of signing Draxler. The young German has many of the same qualities of a young Thierry Henry. He's got pace, size, and wonderful technique. He can score goals and create them for others. This could be a breakout summer for him.
3/19/14, Julian Green (Bayern Munich/USA): Just days ago, Julian Green, the highly regarded son of an American father and German mother filed papers to officially request that FIFA allow him to represent the USA at full international level. Green is a highly regarded young talent at Bayern Munich who many feel are currently the best club side in the world. Green's decision to represent the United States creates the possibility of his inclusion in the World Cup roster for this summer's tournament in Brazil.
2/28/14, Paul Pogba (Juventus/France): After failing to break through during a spell at Manchester United, Pogba, moved on to Juventus where he has been better able to show his impressive attacking talent. Pogba, who will turn 21 in 2 weeks, has become the focal point of the Juventus midfield, a role that highlights his dribbling ability and capacity to score stunning goals. At 6'2" tall, his silky skill and bite in challenges reminds one of France and Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira. This summer's World Cup could be his chance to break out on the world stage.
2/11/14, Eden Hazard, (Chlesea/Belgium): At this point, Hazard is probably on your radar as a top young talent. He has been on an incredible run of form over the last month or two for his club team Chelsea and is beginning to mature as a top talent. Hazard brings pace, creativity and a real scoring threat to the game every time he steps onto the field, and he may be the biggest offensive threat to opponents of Belgium's second "Golden Generation" this summer in Brazil. The World Cup will offer him the opportunity to achieve his goal of achieving the same status as a top player as Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina's Leo Messi.


I'm looking for any statistics, which shows how many projects fails because of the defects in the requirements (incompleteness, ambiguity, etc.).
Does anyone knows where I can find those?
has some good statistics on this, there may also be something at the SEI.
but I couldn't find anything on Borland website.


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Nestor Torres
Posted in MusicWorld on November 13, 2008
As the preeminent flautist in the Latin jazz genre, Puerto Rican–born Nestor Torres cut his musical teeth in the steamy Latin dance clubs and superheated jazz scene of New York in the '60s. He returns to the format-free genre with Nouveau Latino, his first CD in two years, with a revered repertoire of Latin jazz standards.
"It's all about the real Latin groove and the dancer," explains the Latin Grammy winner. Paying homage to the stars of salsa, from Celia Cruz and Willie Colon to Ruben Blades and The Fania All Stars, Torres integrates a wealth of musical influences into a heady mélange of effortless melody and fiery rhythms that echo Cuban dance music, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, the Brazilian samba, merengue from the Dominican Republic, Colombia cumbia and the rhythms of Panama, all ingredients in the rich stew that heated up in New York to become modern-day salsa.
Joined by a group of talented young musicians, Torres tracked half of the project in Puerto Rico. "To record live, and to do so in Puerto Rico, is a real homecoming for me," he enthuses. "It was like it used to be, when everybody recorded at the same time, before ProTools. But, we also kept the production state of the art, using the latest technology to create music that moves forward, pointing the way to a future where that which is universal transcends today's tendency to taste the 'flavor of the minute'."
Salsa is the soul of Nouveau Latino, says Torres. "The blessing of having been part of the New York salsa scene at its best cannot be expressed in words. Finally, the time is right for me to celebrate and share with my fans — and the world — a part of the legacy I owe so much to."
Dan Kimpel
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David J. Somers (born 1953) is an American politician and fisheries biologist serving as the Snohomish County Executive, an office he has held since 2016. Somers previously served on the Snohomish County Council, representing the 5th district in the eastern portion of the county.

Early life and career

Somers was raised in Napa, California and studied at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, before moving to the Seattle area to attend the University of Washington. There, he earned a bachelor's degree in fisheries science and later returned to complete a master's degree in forest ecology. Somers was employed as a fisheries biologist by the Tulalip Tribes from 1979 to 1997.

Career

County Council

Somers was elected to the Snohomish County Council from the 5th district in 1997, defeating incumbent Democrat R.C. "Swede" Johnson in the primary election and facing a Republican write-in candidate in the general election. Somers was elected on a platform of making real estate developers accountable for strains on infrastructure created by new housing in the county, including roads and schools.

Somers was defeated in 2001 by Republican Jeff Sax, whose campaign called Somers a "committed socialist" before retracting the statement. Sax favored local control of land use, opposing the state's Washington State Growth Management Act and federal policies. Somers campaigned again in 2005, facing Sax for his former council seat, and won by a narrow margin. Somers was re-elected to a third term in 2009, defeating Republican restaurant owner Steve Dana.

During his time on the County Council, Somers focused on land use regulation and strengthening environmental protections.

County Executive

Somers announced his candidacy for the county executive office in May 2015, challenging incumbent Democrat John Lovick, appointed to the position in 2013 after the resignation of Aaron Reardon. In the primary election, Somers narrowly beat Lovick, and the two Democrats advanced to the general election ahead of two Republican an independent candidate. Somers won the general election and was sworn into office as the county's fifth executive in January 2016. State Representative Hans Dunshee was chosen in February to complete the rest of Somers's term in the County Council.

In addition to his duties as County Executive, Somers joined the Sound Transit Board in January 2016 and was named the board chair in January 2017. Somers was also elected the vice president of the Puget Sound Regional Council, a regional planning organization, in January 2016.

Personal life

Somers met his wife Elaine while the two were in the University of Washington Husky Marching Band. Somers played the tuba for two years, served as Drum Major for three years and marched playing bass drum at the 1978 Rose Bowl.

References

Living people
1953 births
Snohomish County Councillors
University of Washington College of the Environment alumni
People from Monroe, Washington
People from Napa, California
Tulalip Tribes
Lewis & Clark College alumni
21st-century American biologists

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Texas State Bobcats (36-20)
Sun Belt (20-10)
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2019 Texas State Bobcats Predicted Results
Texas State Tournament
Utah 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 1
Nevada 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 0
Missouri State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Texas State 2 1 2 0 1 0 3 1 X 10 9 0
Baylor 0
Texas State 0
Lake Area Classic
Creighton 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 6 11 0
Texas State 3 0 4 4 3 0 2 0 2 18 16 3
McNeese State 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 2 0 10 13 2
Creighton 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 9 9 1
Texas State 2 0 1 0 1 6 2 0 X 12 10 0
Texas State 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 11 2
McNeese State 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 13 1
Texas State 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 11 2
Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic
Rice 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Location: Minute Maid Park
Stadium: Houston, TX
Houston 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 8 1
Baylor 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 9 0
UTSA 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 2
Connecticut 1 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 8 11 0
Connecticut 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 9 2
Texas State 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
Connecticut 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 2
Texas State 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 X 5 9 0
Reckling Park
Location: Reckling Park
South Alabama 1 0 0 1 4 4 0 0 X 10 9 0
South Alabama 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 1
ULM 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
ULM 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X X 1 4 1
Texas State 0 1 0 0 5 1 6 X X 13 11 0
Rice 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 6 12 4
Texas State 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 11 1
Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium
Appalachian State 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 1
Location: Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium
Stadium: Boone, NC
Appalachian State 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 12 1
Appalachian State 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 3 5 0
Troy 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 11 0
Troy 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 0 0 7 8 0
Troy 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 7 8 0
J. I. Clements Stadium
Georgia Southern 4 0 2 0 0 1 5 0 X 12 12 0
Location: J. I. Clements Stadium
Stadium: Statesboro, GA
Georgia Southern 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 0
Georgia Southern 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 X X 4 9 0
Arkansas State 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 7 1 14 11 2
Arkansas State 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2
Arkansas State 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 6 10 1
Texas State 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 9 0
M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park
Louisiana 0 0 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 9 12 3
Location: M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park
Stadium: Lafayette, LA
Louisiana 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 1
Texas State 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 10 7 0
Georgia State 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 1
Georgia State 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 X 2 9 2
Gary Hogan Field
Little Rock 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 8 1
Location: Gary Hogan Field
Stadium: Little Rock, AR
Little Rock 0 1 2 1 1 0 4 0 X 9 10 1
Little Rock 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 9 16 4
UTA 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 0 1 11 18 1
Sun Belt Conference Tournament - Game 6
Springs Brooks Stadium
Location: Springs Brooks Stadium
Stadium: Conway, SC
Coastal Carolina 0 4 0 0 3 0 3 3 X 13 16 2


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If We Controlled Your Remote… 1/13/14
Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jenny, Megan, Kyle and JJ
It's crazy how fast the weekend went. Unfortunately, it's back to work today. There's good news, though, because tonight is a really busy night of TV, with lots of great stuff on. We're here to hopefully help you narrow your choices down, but given that Megan & I are both recommending two shows, I'm not sure how much help we are! *laugh* Still, we'll do our best. 😉
Jenny's Choice #1
My first pick tonight is the series premiere of Bitten on Syfy. The show is based on the "Women of the Otherworld" novels by Kelley Armstrong, and stars Laura Vandervoort (Smallville, Ted) as Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence. Desperate to escape both a world she never wanted to be part of and the man who turned her into a werewolf, Elena abandoned her Pack and took refuge in a new city. There, she works as a photographer and hides her werewolf existence from her new boyfriend. She finds herself back at Stonehaven, the werewolves' ancestral domain, after dead bodies start piling up. The show also stars Greg Bryk (A History of Violence) as werewolf Pack "Alpha" Jeremy Danvers, Greyston Holt (Alcatraz) as Elena's werewolf ex-boyfriend Clayton Danvers, and Paul Greene (The Client List) as Elena's current beau, Philip McAdams.
I love the book series, but I'm not sold on the show yet. I've seen the first three minutes (didn't have time to watch the screener that was sent out), and it starts out with a rather graphic sex scene for even regular cable. I was planning to let my 16yo son watch this show with me, but talk about uncomfortable… Kyle's seen the first episode, and he's not sure he'll watch any more. But I'm recommending it because I do love the books, so I'm hoping the show will get better than he said the pilot is.
On tonight's episode, "Summons," the lone female werewolf in existence, who wanted to escape that life and who abandoned her back and moved to a new city, is summoned back to her Pack when bodies begin to turn up in her Pack's backyard, Stonehaven, the werewolves' ancestral domain.
To see if this new show is for you, tune in to Syfy at 10/9c.
Jump with us to see else we think you should watch.
Megan's Choice #1
Last night, I bunkered down and watched The Golden Globes, and it was fabulous because of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. I was also very happy to see Bryan Cranston win Best Actor in a Drama for Breaking Bad and then Breaking Bad winning for Best TV Drama! But that was last night. Tonight, I have two picks for you because there's so much great TV on.
I am so incredibly excited that Sleepy Hollow is back with new episodes starting tonight. This is one of my favorite shows to watch with my guy, especially because it creeps me out too much to watch it by myself. When we left our brave witnesses, they were struggling to fight off the overwhelming amount of evil that is encroaching on their town. Poor Ichabod learned that he had a son and is struggling with his guilt and sadness over not getting to see him. I honestly don't know where this show is going, but wherever it is, I'm on board completely!
On tonight's episode, "The Vessel," Irving's daughter is the target of evil forces, and Irving begs Crane and Mills for help.
To see if they can save the girl, tune in to FOX at 9/8c.
Kyle's Choice
When we last left Being Human, Josh and Nora had gotten married, but shortly afterwards, Josh was turned back into a wolf, seemingly permanently. Meanwhile, Sally had become a ghost again, but seemed to have some strange new powers—and then was dragged into a hole in the stairway by the witch Donna. And Aidan found love with Kat, but we saw a woman bearing a striking resemblance to his revolutionary-era wife Suzanna stepping out of a cab.
Will Josh ever become human again? How will all of this affect Nora? How did Suzanna come back to life, and will her return disrupt the blossoming relationship between Kat and Aidan. And where is Sally, and how will she get back?! I'm really looking forward to tonight's premiere—I can't wait to see how all the supernatural drama plays out this season!
Note: This past fall, I had the opportunity to visit the set of Being Human. You can find the write-up of my set visit, along with lost of photos at NoReruns.net.
On tonight's premiere, "Old Dogs, New Tricks," Nora and Aidan are living together in the woods; at the same time, Josh is stuck inside his wolf; and Sally finds herself trapped with Donna in a mysterious place where she learns more about their magical connection.
See if any of our questions get answered tonight on Syfy at 9/8c.
I'll also be watching/recording How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Mom, Intelligence, Castle, The Blacklist, Almost Human, Sleepy Hollow, Switched at Birth, Archer, Chozen, Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, Major Crimes, Bitten, and Teen Wolf.
JJ's Choice
Tonight should be another hilarious episode of How I Met Your Mother, as we are returning to Slapsgiving. This event has been one of the highlights of the show during the first seasons, and it's great that we are returning to it this late during the show. And the previous episode was so sweet. The meeting between Marshall and the mother was amazing, and now Marshall has finally arrived at the Farhampton Inn!
On tonight's episode, "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra," Marshall explains how he learned the Slap of A Million Exploding Suns while attempting to deliver the final devastating slap to Barney.
Find out how Barney deals on CBS at 8/7c.
I'll also be watching Almost Human, 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, Mom, and Castle.
Last week's Castle was highly emotional. While I didn't truly think they'd kill off Ryan & Esposito, it did start to scare me a little when both were down and the firefighters hadn't broken into the sub-basement yet. I cried when Ryan told Jenny to name the baby Javier if it was a boy, and then I couldn't help but laugh when Espo said the line about naming a kid like Ryan's Javier. It was great. In the end, of course, it all worked out. Jenny and their baby girl were fine, Ryan and Espo were okay (albeit dirty), and they caught the bad guy. In the end, isn't that all we can ask? 🙂
I'm looking forward to tonight's episode because Castle's dad is back! It looks like it'll be a juicy ep!
On tonight's episode, "Deep Cover," the murder of a young video store clerk takes a strange turn when the team discovers his past history as a high-level hacker. But it's nothing compared to the shock Castle receives when their investigation leads them straight to his father, Jackson Hunt (guest star James Brolin).
See why the investigation takes them to Jackson Hunt tonight on ABC at 10/9c.
I'll also be watching/DVRing Almost Human, American Ninja Warrior: USA vs. Japan, How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Major Crimes, Mike & Molly, Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, Sleepy Hollow, Bakery Boss, & Intelligence.
Rachel vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off is quite the mixture of personalities this season, isn't it? Vanilla Ice just loves attention, to the point where his constant babbling is making me want to reach through my screen and smack the ice chip off his shoulder. Okay, so besides my loathing of a wannabe rapper turned do-it-yourself TV host, I really enjoyed the premiere. I'd have to say that my favorite so far is Penn because he's just so entertaining, but also down to earth. It was nice that no one went home last week, but hopefully this week, they get down to the cutting and drop some dead weight—perhaps in the form of Ice?
On tonight's episode, "Leis in the Fray," the celebrities make Hawaiian-inspired appetizers to serve to the 50 guests at a luau party.
To see which celebrities succeed and which should go home, tune in to Food Network at 9/8c.
I'll also be watching Mom, Intelligence, The Blacklist, Mike & Molly, American Ninja Warrior, Bitten, Lost Girl, and Bakery Boss.
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VIDEO: Prestigious engineering institute showcases the benefits of unique AddSeat mobility solution
Calvin Barnett7th August 2019 VIDEO: Prestigious engineering institute showcases the benefits of unique AddSeat mobility solution2019-08-07T09:29:45+01:00 Newsroom, Supplier News, Third Sector
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, one of the world's largest engineering institutions, has released a new video featuring British disabled actor David Proud putting a new, gyro-based wheelchair and seating system through its paces.
Launched in the UK in 2019, the AddSeat from Swedish supplier AddMovement AB was developed in 2010 by innovator Marit Sundin, a Paralympic Gold Medallist who was selected as Female Innovator of the Year in Sweden in 2014/15.
Formed of the seat and the Segway base, the AddSeat requires a user to move their centre of gravity forwards and backwards to start and stop the chair, with the device's glide function making the process intuitive and easy, according to the company.
The powered gyro wheelchair also includes support legs which connect to the inner workings of its Segway base, automatically turning off the Segway when deployed for added safety, whilst a parking feature gives stability when the user transfers from the mobility aid.
Additionally, the seating system component of the AddSeat can also be mounted onto other substructures.
The video, just short of 8-minutes, sees ex-Eastenders actor David, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, test the product in the rain and interview AddSeat's Chief Engineer Ian Thompson, who led the device's unique styling and whose experience includes stints at Maserati and Lotus.
Discussing the inspiration behind the product's design, Ian said: "The X-men wheelchair was obviously one of the things because I wanted it to be two-wheeled and cool but also usability and comfort – you can sit on that seat for hours and still, it doesn't feel uncomfortable."
Consisting of over 168,000 members worldwide and with its roots tracing back to 1871, the Institution of Engineering and Technology informs and influences the global engineering community and supports technology innovation to meet the needs of society.
Currently distributed in North America and mainland Europe, the company first unveiled the AddSeat to the UK at this year's Naidex and confirmed it was searching for dealers to help bring the innovation to the market.
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Susan Sarandon Age, Marriage, Activism and Political View
November 30, 2021 November 27, 2021 by ANURAG MOHAPATRA
Susan Sarandon was born in New York on October 4, 1946, but grew up in Edison, New Jersey. She was one of the leading ladies of Hollywood in the 70s and 80s. She has won numerous awards in her life and lately is quite active in social causes.
1 Susan Sarandon Family
2 Studies
4 Actress
6 Families with children
7 Oscar
8 Activism
9 Did you know that
10.1 Oscar
10.2 The Golden Globes
10.3 SAG (Screen Actors Guild)
10.4 BAFTA
Susan Sarandon Family
Susan Sarandon was the eldest of nine children born to advertising executive Philip Tomaling and Sicilian-born homemaker Lenora Marie Criscione. Her upbringing was Catholic and traditional.
She was arrested in high school for her participation in anti-Vietnam War and civil rights protests in Vietnam.
Susan Sarandon paid for her courses in drama, philosophy, and military strategy by working as a secretary and cleaning. She appeared in a freshman show, which drew the attention of Chris Sarandon, whom she married in September 1967.
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Susan Sarandon husband found work in regional theatres around Washington, D.C. after graduating in 1968. Their lives were changed when, while accompanying him to a reading for an agent in New York, they both signed a contract, much to her surprise. They relocate to New York, she auditions for the film, and Joe is cast in the lead role. In 1975, she gets to work in Hollywood as a small-town girl opposite Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper.
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Susan Sarandon continued to appear in a string of flops, including 1976's The Dragonfly and 1977's The Other Face of Midnight, but her fortunes changed in 1978 when she landed the role of Hattie, the mother of a prostitute played by Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby. She later went on to play a waitress in Malle's film Atlantic City, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
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She divorced Chris Sarandon in 1979, but they remained close friends. She had a family connection to the Italian director Franco Amurri, with whom she would have her first child, Eva.
In 1983, she takes on a new role as a bisexual vampire lover with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, but it was her next performance in The Witches of Eastwick with Cher, Nicholson, and Michelle Pfeiffer that catapulted her to stardom. She had to learn to play the cello at the last minute and almost died during one scene.
Between 1988 and 2009, she was related to actor Tim Robbins, who was twelve years her junior. Miles Guthrie (born May 15, 1989) and Jack Henry (born May 15, 1989) were the couple's two children (born May 4, 1992).
She is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Thelma and Louise alongside Geena Davis. She was nominated again the following year for her performance in Lorenzo's Oil as her mother, who is trying to find a cure for her son's degenerative brain disorder.
In 1995, Susan Sarandon finally won an Oscar for best actress for Dead Man Walking, a film based on her sister Helen Prejean's autobiographical story, directed by her husband Tim Robbins, and starring Sean Penn and their daughter Eva.
She returned to the screen in 1998, with Gene Hackman and Paul Newman in Twilight, and later with Julia Roberts in Stepmom, after a three-year hiatus.
Arbitrage, a thriller about the world of high finance, was presented by Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon at the 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival in September 2012. She went on to appear in Tammy (2014) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2015). (2017).
She is an advocate for a variety of political, cultural, and health issues. Ambassador for UNICEF She was arrested on March 30, 1999, during a protest in New York.
She backed Ralph Nader's presidential campaign in 2000 and Barack Obama's campaign in 2008.
On October 15, 2010, she was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
She backed the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.
After her divorce from Robbins in 2009, she began dating Jonathan Bricklin. They divorced in 2015.
When her then-husband Chris Sarandon drove her to one of her auditions, she landed her first Hollywood role.
Dead Man Walking – Best Actress – 1995 – Winner
The Client – Nominated in 1994
Lorenzo's Oil was nominated in 1992.
1981 – Atlantic City – Nominated 1991 – Thelma and Louise – Nominated
Bernard and Doris were nominated for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie in 2009.
Igby Goes Down – Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2003.
1999 – Nominated for Best Actress – Drama – Stepmom
Dead Man Walking – Nominated in 1996
Lorenzo's Oil was nominated in 1993, Thelma and Louise was nominated in 1992, and White Palace was nominated in 1991.
Bull Durham – Best Actress – Comedy or Musical – 1989 – Nominated
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1995 – The Client – Nominated for Best Actress 1996 – Best Actress – Dead Man Walking – Winner
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Nominated in 1992 for Thelma and Louise.
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Townsville City Council has approved a revised application for a major mixed-use development it says will revitalise the eastern end of the CBD.
The $450 million Hive project plan which covers 18,000 square metres includes the refurbishment of the heritage-listed Queens Hotel.
An initial application for the Hive was approved by Council last year, however, a revised negotiated proposal for the site has now been approved.
The changes to the original proposal include the introduction of a precinct plan and allowing the maximum height of one tower to 20 storeys.
Deputy Mayor and Planning and Development Committee Chair Cr Les Walker said the expanded Hive development will be divided into four precincts.
They included the Queens Hotel, Entertainment, Cultural and Accommodation precincts Cr Walker said.
Local Councillor Ann-Maree Greaney said the Hive would revitalise that area of the CBD.


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LIVING WITH REGRETS?
Let's continue our exploration of regret and hindsight. The first step in using hindsight was to not use it. The second step is to use it in order understand the essence of what you've lost and what you were hoping to gain. Now's the stage where you explore why you feel regret and why you wish you could go back and change something.
Regret is the catalyst for hindsight, and when applied intentionally can be awareness building, wisdom increasing and life enhancing.
In the cases of big hurts and wrongdoing, hindsight used as punishment for your choices and transgressions towards others, is the wearing of guilt, without the courage to accept responsibility and move forward. No amount of looking back and wishing, will set it right.
Hindsight when used to avoid the present, is an assault on your future.
Regret and hindsight are only useful when they create accountability for our actions, encourage us to make amends and to learn from the past.
NO REGRETS?
There will always be paths not taken, mistakes made and challenges to face. Of course we regret things - we say things we wish we hadn't, we make a choice we wish we could take back, we put our foot in our mouth and we make an unfortunate decision to wear lime green in a family photo. To say that you should never regret again is unrealistic and essentially, unwise. Life will always contain some regret -small regrets like: Why did I wear this? To the big regrets where we hurt others or ourselves. Have no regrets about having regret, because taking chances, trying something new and branching out, always comes with a risk. It's the human condition to measure choices against consequences and wonder...
REGRET'S GIFT
But what are we wondering about? We're wondering if the path not taken, that thing said or not said, would make life better, now. Would we feel better, happier or more fulfilled if we'd walked a different way?
A lot of the pain that comes with regret is the feeling that you've lost, or been denied something that you really wanted.
The essence of your dream can still be yours. You can find it again, and when regret is applied in this way, it's in the service of understanding what you wanted to gain. What feeling? How were you hoping that choice would add value to your life? You may never get the job back, take the other path, re-do a conversation and so on, but it's possible to understand what you were hoping to attain from the choice and to learn from it.
"This is the book I never read ~~ These are the words I never said ~~ This is the path I'll never tread ~~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead" ~Annie Lennox
ASK YOURSELF:
What did I want to feel?
What feelings am I missing out on as a result of the event that I regret?
What would that experience or a different outcome have allowed me to believe about myself?
How would my life be different? Better? Enriched?
Once you've used hindsight to ask yourself these questions in relation to your regret, begin to think about how you can create that feeling and experience now. The specific way that you tried to fulfill this feeling in the past may not have worked out, but you can begin to choose other ways to create these feelings today.
Regret is an opportunity, and when used with compassion and clarity can be a catalyst for change. Using hindsight in this way and asking these questions, means that regret will be used, not abused, and the essence of what you've lost can be found.
As we wrap up another year, consider how can you use hindsight to support you in finding the essence of your lost dreams, missteps, and disappointments. How can you make a new choice from what you've learned? How can regret support you,not limit you?
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Jarris Williams leads Blount to blowout victory over Vigor
Updated Aug 24, 2019; Posted Aug 23, 2019
Blount vs Vigor HS Football
By John Vella | AL.com
Jarris Williams rushed for 136 yards and three touchdowns as Class 6A No. 9 Blount rolled to a 38-7 home victory over its archrival, Class 5A No. 8 Vigor.
With Vigor having to replace 10 starters from last year's state runner-up team, the Wolves couldn't slow down Williams, who rushed for 136 yards on 16 carries, including 86 yards after halftime, and also caught four passes.
"He's that guy for us this season. Just lean on him and trust him to pick the load, that's what he's all about," said Leopards coach Lev Holly.
- Moment of the game: In an emotional pregame ceremony, the family of former Vigor linebacker Patrick Crawford was presented with his jersey, followed by a moment of silence. Crawford was killed Aug. 17 in a motorcycle accident.
- Play of the game: Blount wide receiver Emerson Striveson caught only one ball, but it was diving catch in the corner of the end zone for a 9-yard score.
- Key sequence: Williams' first touchdown came midway through the second quarter on a 2-yard run to cap a seven-play drive to put Blount (1-0) on top for good after Vigor had taken a 7-6 lead.
- Stat sheet: LaMarcus Brown was dual threat for the Leopards, completing eight passes for 89 yards and rushing for 67 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries. His only big miscue was a third-quarter pass intercepted by Sidney Williams, who also led the Wolves with five receptions for 41 yards.
- By the numbers: 44 - longest run of the night for Jarris Williams … 1 - punt for the Leopards, which didn't come until the fourth quarter … 12 - yards on Vigor's only touchdown, a Brennan Maye Jordan quarterback keeper in the opening minute of the second quarter … 31 - margin of victory for the Leopards, the second-largest in the history of the rivalry.
- Coachspeak: "Defensively I was proud of the way we were flying to the ball." Holly after watching his team limit Vigor to one score for the second time in three seasons.
- They said it …: "Offensively we moved the well tonight. Credit the offensive line for getting that extra push when needed, and I just kept drives alive." - Jarris Williams
- Up next: Vigor will visit Wilcox Central on Sept. 6, while Blount plays at Robertsdale next Friday.


KOLKATA, March 8: Manipur's Neroca FC wrapped up a memorable I-League debut season by finishing runners-up after holding heavyweights East Bengal to a 1-1 draw, here today.
It was heartbreak for both the Kolkata heavyweights, as they failed to win the title with East Bengal finishing fourth in the table behind arch-rivals Mohun Bagan who also played a 1-1 draw with Gokulam Kerala FC.
In quest for the elusive I-League title, East Bengal required to win the match and pray for a favourable result from other two matches.
But with eventual champions Minerva Punjab winning 1-0 over Churchill Brothers at Panchkula, East Bengal fought a losing battle.
Khalid Jamil's men also had an uninspiring first-half that saw them squander at least four opportunities, and trail by Felix Chidi's 42nd minute goal.
In the second-half, East Bengal showed some urgency and their Nigerian leading scorer Dudu Omagbemi, who missed at least three chances, finally found the net in the 73rd minute.


The aging process begins at the ripe age of 20. After 20 years of age, the skin will lose 1% of collagen each year. The skin will gradually become thinner, more delicate, and less protected. The first signs of aging you'll see are crow's feet and sagging of the upper eyelids. You may also notice dark spots and dark circles under the eyes. During your 30's, you may begin to notice your upper lip drawing in and you'll also notice thin vertical lines. These vertical lines are often called laugh or frown lines and are located on the face in areas such as between the eyebrows, around the nose and mouth, and on the forehead. With the loss of collagen in combination with less cell renewal and gravity, these lines will continue to define as you continue to age. Now, I know that's a bitter pill to swallow, but don't take off running to the supermarket shelves looking for anti-aging creams or serums just yet! You could be using a much better remedy that's natural and has been right under your nose- aromatherapy!
Approximately 30 million people use indoor tanning beds and many lay out during Summer months to achieve a desirable tan. However, this popular trend comes with its pitfalls as persistent exposure to high UVA beams or sunlight can also easily damage the skin and cause premature aging. Premature aging from sun damage, often called Photoaging, is caused by the harmful UV rays breaking down your skin's collagen and elastin fibers. This causes healthy skin to become more leathery and creates wrinkles and age spots. With the increasing rate of tanning bed usage, it's more important than ever for younger women and men to keep their skin's health in mind and take extra precautions to prevent premature aging. That's where essential oils come in handy. Vitamin C is amazing for building collagen while the essential oil, Lavender, soothes and restores sun damaged skin and works to diminish age spots. Containing the powerful antioxidants Superoxide Dismutase, Catalase, and Glutathione, Lavender oil works to promote healing and is an excellent choice when it comes to improving the communication within skin cells.
Women and men alike dread these lines making an appearance. As we age, it's sure to happen and is only natural, but far too often these lines show up far before they're welcomed! A great way to help reduce and prevent fine lines and wrinkles naturally is with essential oils. Carrot Seed essential oil is used to promote collagen production and Lavender essential oil is great for moisturizing and balancing the skin. Evening Primrose essential oil provides the building blocks for essential Vitamins, like Vitamin C, that are great for rebuilding collagen. Jasmine essential oil is also excellent for combating wrinkles and fine lines as it rejuvenates the skin by hydrating and repairing dry damaged skin.
Did you know acne is a common cause of premature aging? Acne damages the skin and can cause scarring on the skin and the skin to become thinner, losing its elasticity and making it more susceptible to premature aging. Lavender, Eucalyptus, and Frankincense essential oils are the perfect essential oils for combating acne. Lavender and Eucalyptus essential oils are well known antibacterials and can help prevent and heal breakouts by penetrating the pores and killing any bacteria. Frankincense essential oil protects the skin's cells and helps to reduce the appearance of large pores and blemishes. Just as Frankincense strengthens the skin's protective barrier and fights against bacteria, Frankincense is also highly known and renowned for its ability to lift and tone the skin and even gradually fade scars and stretch marks.
Hopefully knowing how this gift of nature can improve your skin and prevent premature aging will help you live a healthier, more enjoyable life. A clean environment, clean air, and clean water also affects how quickly we age. So this is also something to keep in mind when trying to improve skin health and diminish years from your appearance.


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C.A. est une série télévisée québécoise en 52 épisodes de 22 minutes créée par Louis Morissette et diffusée entre le  et le  sur Radio-Canada.

Cette série est inédite dans les autres pays francophones.

Synopsis
Maude, Sarah, Jean-Michel et Yannick sont quatre amis qui se connaissent depuis leurs études au HEC et occupent des postes en administration à la hauteur de leur formation. Ils s'organisent régulièrement autour d'un verre des « conseils d'administration » pendant lesquels ils partagent leurs vies, sentimentales et sexuelles, leurs peines et joies. Tous sont généralement célibataires, sauf Sarah, le mouton noir du groupe

Maude est la plus délurée du groupe, mais sa dépendance affective lui amène surtout des amoureux infidèles, tricheurs et menteurs. De son côté, Jean-Michel est le tombeur du groupe : beau, intelligent, manipulateur et indépendant, il refuse l'idée d'être en couple avec la même fille plus d'une nuit. Sarah est la fille "coincée" : intelligente, cultivée, sérieuse et propre sur elle, elle est rarement d'accord avec le style de vie de Jean-Michel et Maude. Elle est en couple avec Martin, ouvrier de chantier, et les deux vivent une vie calme, plate et sans surprise dans leur grande maison. Enfin Yannick est le costaud grassouillet au cœur d'or. Il suit son colocataire et meilleur ami Jean-Michel partout en soirée, sans jamais trouver une blonde. Tous différents dans leur façon de vivre la vie, ils vont découvrir ensemble que tout peut évoluer dans leurs vies de trentenaires insouciants.

Dans le langage commun aux acolytes, l'acte sexuel est renommé « tricot », où un « Jean-Guy » est censé pénétrer un « chantier ».

Distribution
 Louis Morissette : Jean-Michel Rousseau
 Antoine Bertrand : Yannick Duquette
 Isabelle Blais : Sarah Lamontagne
 Sophie Bourgeois : Maude Léveillée
 Alexandre Goyette : Martin Poirier

Épisodes

Première saison (2006)
La première saison de C.A. a été diffusée entre le 18 septembre et le .
 Promotion 1996
 La fierté
 Le slinky
 Le deep digger
 Le coming in
 Les superwomen
 Chuuuttt!
 Les apparences
 L'enfer en bleu
 Prendre son pied
 Solo de flûte
 La collation
 Changer... de vie

Deuxième saison (2007)
 Retour sur terre
 Good vibration
 Le top 3
 Vidéos maison
 Le trip à trois
 Réseau rencontre
 Sauter la clôture
 La confession
 L'agace
 Mini-Maude
 Tester le marché
 Le plongeon
 Nouveau départ

Troisième saison 3 (2008)
La troisième saison de C.A. a été diffusée entre le 25 septembre et le .
 Cruise amicale
 Curiosité maladive
 La fraude
 Travailler son couple
 La femme-objet
 100 mètres bébés
 Lac-à-l'Épaule
 Dans les petits pots
 La vache à lait
 FrenchBook
 SMS que tu me trompes
 Médecin sans frontières
 L'assemblée est levée

Quatrième saison (2010)
La quatrième saison de C.A. a été diffusée entre le 4 janvier et le . Il s'agit de la dernière saison de la série.

Notes et références

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Série télévisée créée en 2006
Série télévisée québécoise des années 2000
Série télévisée québécoise des années 2010
Série télévisée de Radio-Canada