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The story of the Ryor founder
Success needs a strong story
The Ryor cosmetic brand was founded in 1991 in a family house in Prague Strahov. The whole story began a few decades earlier, however. Its founder, Eva Štěpánková, belongs today to Czech business legends.
She is energetic, she can work up to 10 hours a day, she is responsible, she likes to cook and is great in it, she is incredibly hospitable, she listens to gospels, loves theatre and books - her favourite book is Jirotka's Saturnin, she likes to travel, she is entertaining and can advise in every situation. She devoted her life to chemistry and to the production of cosmetics.
The Ryor Company founder is a native of Poděbrady
Ing. Eva Štěpánková is the founder and the 100% owner of the Czech cosmetic firm, Ryor. She was born in 1945 and she spent her childhood in Poděbrady. She was supposed to become a teacher, or somehow focus on humanities, just like her parents, but fate wanted it differently.
At the grammar school, she fell in love with a boy who was a chemistry enthusiast, and this also influenced her choice of college. Her mother used to says that if she fell in love with a shoemaker, she would be a shoemaker today. Although love did not last, Eva Štěpánková became a chemical engineer thanks to the graduation from the Institute of Chemical Technology.
Since 1971, Eva Štěpánková work as the Head of Production at the Institute of Medical Cosmetics. After 17 years, at the age of 43, she went for maternity leave. When her daughter was born, Eva did not have parents anymore, and Janička's father was not too active a parent. At that time she realised that she needed to make living and also she did not want to sell her ideas to anyone else anymore.
Already during maternity leave, she was to make a fateful decision. In 1991 she founded the Ryor Company in her family house, which focused on the production of cosmetics for professional beauty salons. In the meantime, customers began to approach her who demanded Ryor products not only in beauty salons but also for home care. And so the Ryor retail product line was born, which now comprises over 120 products for all ages and skin types. In total, the company currently produces over 200 products.
Growth, Success and the Journey to her own Production Complex
The company grew and prospered, but because the space of a family house in Prague Strahov was no longer enough to produce such a volume, the Ryor company gradually changed its premises. However, since it was impossible to find ideal conditions anywhere, a new production facility in Kyšice near Kladno was opened in 1997, where not only all production but also development and testing are taking place. Since its establishment, both the Ryor Company and its founder Eva Štěpánková received many awards for an approach to business, product quality and packaging design. At present, the Ryor Company has more than 80 employees and exports to more than 20 countries worldwide.
Given that Poděbrady is the matter of the heart for Eva Štěpánková, a store in Poděbrady was established in 2016, not only as a gift for Eva Štěpánková on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the company, but also as a thank you to a woman who never fails to fight and motivates an encourages everybody around her by her own example.
Complicated Spinal Surgery, First Steps and Return
In 2017, however, a major event happened that deepened the story of the company's founder. This exceptionally and tirelessly working woman who knew no free time and was the driving force of the company, woke up one morning with bad pain in her back. Numerous medical examinations followed that clearly determined the verdict - it is necessary to operate the spine. The surgery was completed with 12 screws in the spine and it seemed to be resolved. At that time nobody expected that there are not better times ahead. Quite contrary. In the course of post-operative care, the condition deteriorated rapidly and over the next two months, it seemed that the end would definitely not be good. Her daughter Jana decided to take her mother to her own care. She organised the physiotherapist, masseur and nursing care and with their help looked after her mother at home. This team was working on Eva Štěpánková's well-being. Literally a step by step. In the meantime, daughter Jana took over the management of the company. More about what was going on during this both personally and professionally complicated period was described in interview with Forbes magazine where Eva Štěpánková was included into issue about Czech successful business women.
Currently, both Eva and Jana Štěpánková work in the company. They deal with the company, all its processes, its strategy and especially the further development. Eva's focus is more on product development. It is her "heart affair". Jana acts as a sales director and, at the same time, she deals with marketing, which is a matter of the heart for her.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who served both Trump and Obama BLASTS retired generals and admirals who signed a letter questioning Biden's mental fitness and outcome of the election
The man who served both Presidents Obama and Trump as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has blasted the generals and admirals who signed a blistering open letter questioning President Biden's ability to do his job.
General Joseph Dunford, known as Fighting Joe in his 42-year career, rounded on the signatories of the missive which claims the Commander in Chief's 'mental and physical condition cannot be ignored' – and perpetuates election fraud allegations.
The retired four-star general – in the top job from 2015 to 2019 – exclusively told: 'It is inappropriate for them to comment on the performance of the President.'
He was adamant to reinforce that his criticism was aimed at former senior officers trying to influence policy and did not want to be embroiled in commenting on the accusations themselves.
Dunford said: 'I don't believe it is appropriate for retired military officers to be publicly critical of administration policy in or out of uniform.
'It is perfectly legitimate for us to provide substantive input and advice.
'But when it comes to assessing the capabilities of the Commander in Chief to perform his duty, when it comes to being critical of policy, my own view is that this undermines proper civil military relations.'
General Joseph Dunford, left, rounded on the signatories of the missive which claims Joe Biden's 'mental and physical condition cannot be ignored'. He served both Presidents Obama and Trump as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dunford took on the most senior military role in the United States in October 2015 after being nominated by President Obama as part of a stellar career in the United States Marine Corp. He was nominated for a second term in 2017 by President Trump and retired in November, 2019.
It was while leading his US Marines regiment in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that he earned the nickname Fighting Joe, under the command of senior officer and later US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
His powerful condemnation has added to a welter of opposition to the letter, branded 'bizarre, shameful and untrue' by former First Lady and losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, a former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had close ties with senior military members while in Congress. She also served at the nation's top diplomat in the Obama administration before Trump's 2016 election victory.
Other ex-senior military officers, analysts and academics have also pushed back against the former top brass for launching a 'partisan' attack'.
The letter was produced by the group Flag Officers 4 America, whose website said it has now gained 124 signatures.
Hillary Clinton on Thursday also blasted the group of retired admirals and generals who penned a blistering open letter that questioned President Joe Biden's mental fitness and put forward some of Donald Trump's election fraud claims.
Alongside a link to a story about the letter, the former secretary of state tweeted: 'Bizarre, shameful, and untrue.'
Clinton, a former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, forged ties with senior military members while in Congress, before serving as the nation's top diplomat in the Obama administration and losing the presidential election to Donald Trump in 2016.
The pushback also comes from some prominent former military members, including academics, who called out their fellow former officers for launching a 'partisan' attack, that did not even fall in an election year.
Jim Golby, an expert in civil-military relations, tore into the effort in comments to Politico as a 'shameful effort to use their rank and the military's reputation for such a gross and blatant partisan attack.'
Retired Air Force colonel Marybeth Ulrich, who teaches at the Air Force Academy, termed it 'anti-democratic.'
The retired military officers did not quibble with their compatriots expressing political views – but in joining in a sweeping attack on the commander in chief.
Also ripping the effort was retired Adm. Mike Mullen, who served as chair of the joint chiefs of staff and outranks those on the letter, said: 'I think it hurts the military and by extension it hurts the country. He cast it as 'right-wing Republican talking points.'
'This is really, to my mind, a classic very bad example of the erosion of civil-military relations in America, which is the bedrock of our democracy,' another retired military leader, Army Col. Jeffrey McCausland, told HuffPost.
Alongside a link to a story about the letter, Clinton tweeted: 'Bizarre, shameful, and untrue.'
A group of more than 120 retired military officers have written President Joe Biden (pictured Wednesday) to tell him his election was less than legitimate
Senior officers, including former members of the joint chiefs of staff, have occasionally put their name to documents that fit a political context – including one days after the Jan. 6th riots.
'The violent riot in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process,' the joint chiefs wrote in a letter to the Armed Forces days after the attack.
'We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection,' they wrote.
The pushback came after a group of more than 120 retired military officers have written to President Joe Biden to tell him his election was less than legitimate – while questioning his mental acuity.
The letter echoes former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread election fraud – which have not been borne out in the courts – and comes on a day when Rep. Liz Cheney ripped Trump for his claim that the election was 'stolen.'
'Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the 'will of the people' our Constitutional Republic is lost,' the letter from retired officers says.
Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle
The group calls itself 'Flag Officers 4 America' and consists of retired military officers including generals and admirals.
'The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020,' they wrote.
The letter, called an 'Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals,' was reported by Politico.
It echoes Trump's claims that absentee ballots are not secure as it goes after Biden, who serves as Commander in Chief of the military.
'Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen. Legal votes are identified by State Legislature's approved controls using government IDs, verified signatures, etc,' they write.
'Today, many are calling such commonsense [voter ID] controls 'racist' in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections. Using racial terms to suppress proof of eligibility is itself a tyrannical intimidation tactic,' they write.
The retired officers raise doubts about Biden's mental capacity – and reference Speaker Nancy Pelosi's move to get assurances about the nuclear codes in the days after the January 6 MAGA riot.
The 'Open Letter from Retired Generals and Admirals' blasts Biden for 'excessive lockdowns' and 'censorship of written and verbal expression,' while questioning his mental acuity
The retired officers hit the Iran nuclear deal and even slap Biden for stopping the Keystone Pipeline project, while saying 'anarchy' in cities cannot be tolerated
'The mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief cannot be ignored. He must be able to quickly make accurate national security decisions involving life and limb anywhere, day or night,' they write.
'Recent Democrat leadership's inquiries about nuclear code procedures sends a dangerous national security signal to nuclear armed adversaries, raising the question about who is in charge. We must always have an unquestionable chain of command.'
The group Flag Officers 4 America call themselves 'retired military leaders who pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'
The letter is a counterpoint to impactful public statements by national security officials who weighed in for Biden during the campaign. One such effort came when 10 former secretaries of Defense penned an extraordinary op-ed in the Washington Post warning there is 'no role' for the U.S. military in the outcome of U.S. elections, and stating the importance of a peaceful transfer of power.
That letter came three days before the Capitol riot.
The signers of the attached their names to the letter. Among them was Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle, who served in Vietnam and later commanded the US Army Industrial Operations Command (IOC) at Rock Island, Illinois.
Arbuckle, who organized the effort, told Politico: 'Retired generals and admirals normally do not engage in political actions, but the situation facing our nation today is dire.'
He continued: 'We are facing threats greater than at any other time since our country was founded. To remain silent would be a dereliction of duty.'
The effort drew immediate pushback from military members who lamented people who wore the uniform jumping into an organized political effort.
More than 120 former military officers signed the letter, including Gen. William Boykin (left) and John Poindexter (right)
Members of the military vote in elections and have protected constitutional rights, but military leaders have warned of the risks of intruding in domestic politics.
In the run-up to 2020, retired Gen. James Mattis denounced Trump, whom he served as Defense Secretary, in a June response to the events at Lafayette Square. 'We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution,' Mattis wrote.
Other signers of the anti-Biden letter included include Vice Adm. John Poindexter, who was convicted in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Also signing on was Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who lost the Republican primary in 2020 to challenge Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and is planning another Senate run.
Another signer, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who was termed anti-Muslim for his comments to a Christian congregation, CBS previously reported, after Boykin said of a Somali warlord: 'I knew that my God was bigger than his.'

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Nzuguni is an administrative ward in the Dodoma Urban district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 16,809 people in the ward, from 15,466 in 2012.

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Houston and Chicago Law Firm Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Boeing on Behalf of Victim Killed in 737 MAX Aircraft Fatal Crash in Ethiopia
Contact: Nomaan Husain, Husain Law + Associates, P.C.
Email: nh@hlalawfirm.com
HOUSTON, TEXAS April 5, 2019. Attorneys, Nomaan Husain of Husain Law + Associates, Floyd Wisner of The Wisner Law Firm and Omar Khawaja of The Law Offices of Omar Khawaja filed a lawsuit today on behalf of U.S. Citizen Mucaad Hussein Abdalla, who was a passenger of Ethiopian Air Flight 302 ("ET 302"). Mr. Abdalla was one of 157 passengers killed in the devastating plane crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on March 10, 2019.
The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Chicago against Boeing, manufacturer of the 737 MAX 8 aircraft, based in Chicago, Illinois and Rosemount Aerospace, Inc. of Delaware, a component manufacturer of the 737 Max 8. The complaint alleges that, among other causes of action, both Boeing and Rosemount Aerospace failed to properly inform aircraft pilots of the dangers and risks presented by its new software system for flight control.
On Thursday, April 4, 2019, Boeing admitted that the software system of the aircraft had a role in not only the March 10th fatal Ethiopian plane crash but was also the cause of a prior fatal Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia in October 2018. "We're taking a comprehensive, disciplined approach, and taking the time, to get the software update right," said Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg in a recently published statement.
The company's failure to properly inform the pilots of the defective flight control system left the pilot with no ability to restore manual control of the aircraft. "It's our responsibility to eliminate this risk. We own it and we know how to do it," stated Muilenburg. Preliminary reports indicate that the Boeing aircraft involved in the Lion Air crash demonstrated malfunctions after take-off and that the aircraft manual also failed to contain any information on how the control the aircraft for this type of malfunction. Boeing's failure to warn the pilots of this known risk was irresponsible and has created an ongoing tragedy for the victims of Boeing's negligent conduct.
Mucaad Hussein Abdalla was well-loved among his family and recently married. His brother Hassan Abdi stated, "He was social and generous and we miss him dearly. He had a long life ahead of him and he was taken away from us too soon."
Attorney Nomaan Husain stated, "Once again corporate greed has prioritized profits over safety with tragic consequences for the public. Our goal with this lawsuit is to obtain answers for our grieving clients and hold those accountable for creating this tragedy."
The aircraft involved in the crash was manufactured and delivered approximately 4 months before the tragedy occurred. The lawsuit seeks to recover damages caused by the wrongful death of the passengers on the Boeing manufactured aircraft.
Attorney Omar Khawaja added, "We are demanding answers from Boeing, Rosemount, and any other company which led to the defective design and release of this aircraft which should not have been in the air at the time of this accident."
For further information or to speak to Nomaan Husain, please contact our office at 713-800-1200. Floyd A. Wisner. Omar Khawaja at 281-888-2339.
www.hlalawfirm.com


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class 'Tuner'

function Tuner:__init()

	self:InitGUI()

	local vehicle = LocalPlayer:GetVehicle()
	if IsValid(vehicle) and vehicle:GetDriver() == LocalPlayer and vehicle:GetClass() == VehicleClass.Land then
		self:InitVehicle(vehicle)
	end

	Events:Subscribe("KeyUp", self, self.KeyUp)
	Events:Subscribe("LocalPlayerEnterVehicle", self, self.EnterVehicle)
	Events:Subscribe("LocalPlayerExitVehicle", self, self.ExitVehicle)
	Events:Subscribe("EntityDespawn", self, self.VehicleDespawn)

end

function Tuner:InitGUI()

	local veh = {labels = {}, getters = {}}
	local trans = {labels = {}, getters = {}, setters = {}}
	local aero = {labels = {}, getters = {}, setters = {}}
	local susp = {labels = {}}

	local window = Window.Create()
	window:SetVisible(false)
	window:SetTitle("Vehicle Tuner")
	window:SetPosition(Vector2(0.15 * Render.Width, 0.02 * Render.Height))

	local tabs = TabControl.Create(window)
	tabs:SetDock(GwenPosition.Fill)

	veh.window = BaseWindow.Create(window)
	trans.window = BaseWindow.Create(window)
	aero.window = BaseWindow.Create(window)
	susp.window = BaseWindow.Create(window)

	veh.window:Subscribe("Render", self, self.VehicleUpdate)
	trans.window:Subscribe("Render", self, self.TransmissionUpdate)
	aero.window:Subscribe("Render", self, self.AerodynamicsUpdate)
	susp.window:Subscribe("Render", self, self.SuspensionUpdate)

	veh.button = tabs:AddPage("Vehicle", veh.window)
	veh.button:Subscribe("Press", function()
		window:SetSize(Vector2(315, 465))
	end)

	trans.button = tabs:AddPage("Transmission", trans.window)
	trans.button:Subscribe("Press", function()
		local gears = self.trans:GetMaxGear()
		for i = 7, 7 + gears - 1 do
			trans.getters[i]:Show()
			trans.setters[i]:Show()
		end
		for i = 7 + gears, 12 do
			trans.getters[i]:Hide()
			trans.setters[i]:Hide()
		end
		local count = self.veh:GetWheelCount()
		for i = 15, 15 + count - 1 do
			trans.getters[i]:Show()
			trans.setters[i]:Show()
		end
		for i = 15 + count, 22 do
			trans.getters[i]:Hide()
			trans.setters[i]:Hide()
		end
		window:SetSize(Vector2(315, 555 - 22 * (8 - count)))
	end)

	aero.button = tabs:AddPage("Aerodynamics", aero.window)
	aero.button:Subscribe("Press", function()
		window:SetSize(Vector2(315, 224))
	end)

	susp.button = tabs:AddPage("Suspension", susp.window)
	susp.button:Subscribe("Press", function()
		local count = self.veh:GetWheelCount()
		for wheel = 1, count do
			for _,getter in ipairs(susp[wheel].getters) do
				getter:Show()
			end
			for _,setter in ipairs(susp[wheel].setters) do
				setter:Show()
			end
		end
		for wheel = count + 1, 8 do
			for _,getter in ipairs(susp[wheel].getters) do
				getter:Hide()
			end
			for _,setter in ipairs(susp[wheel].setters) do
				setter:Hide()
			end
		end
		window:SetSize(Vector2(150 + 80 * count, 510))
	end)

	self.gui = {
		window = window,
		tabs = tabs,
		veh = veh,
		trans = trans,
		aero = aero,
		susp = susp,
	}

	self:InitVehicleGUI()
	self:InitTransmissionGUI()
	self:InitAerodynamicsGUI()
	self:InitSuspensionGUI()

end

function Tuner:InitVehicleGUI()

	local veh = self.gui.veh
	local window = veh.window
	local labels = veh.labels
	local getters = veh.getters

	for i = 1, 18 do
		labels[i] = Label.Create(window)
		getters[i] = Label.Create(window)
	end

	labels[1]:SetText("Name")
	labels[2]:SetText("Driver")
	labels[3]:SetText("Model ID")
	labels[4]:SetText("Class")
	labels[5]:SetText("Template")
	labels[6]:SetText("Decal")
	labels[7]:SetText("Health")
	labels[8]:SetText("Mass")
	labels[9]:SetText("Wheel Count")
	labels[10]:SetText("Max RPM")
	labels[11]:SetText("Current RPM")
	labels[12]:SetText("Torque")
	labels[13]:SetText("Peak Torque")
	labels[14]:SetText("Wheel Torque")
	labels[15]:SetText("Top Speed")
	labels[16]:SetText("Current Speed")
	labels[17]:SetText("Peak Speed")
	labels[18]:SetText("0-100 km/h")

	for i, label in ipairs(labels) do
		label:SetPosition(Vector2(5, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		label:SizeToContents()
	end

	for i, getter in ipairs(getters) do
		getter:SetPosition(Vector2(120, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		getter:SetSize(Vector2(200, 12))
	end

end

function Tuner:InitTransmissionGUI()

	local trans = self.gui.trans
	local window = trans.window
	local labels = trans.labels
	local getters = trans.getters
	local setters = trans.setters

	for i = 1, 22 do
		labels[i] = Label.Create(window)
		getters[i] = Label.Create(window)
	end

	labels[1]:SetText("Upshift RPM")
	labels[2]:SetText("Downshift RPM")
	labels[3]:SetText("Max Gear")
	labels[4]:SetText("Is Manual")
	labels[5]:SetText("Clutch Delay")
	labels[6]:SetText("Current Gear")
	labels[7]:SetText("1st Gear Ratio")
	labels[8]:SetText("2nd Gear Ratio")
	labels[9]:SetText("3rd Gear Ratio")
	labels[10]:SetText("4th Gear Ratio")
	labels[11]:SetText("5th Gear Ratio")
	labels[12]:SetText("6th Gear Ratio")
	labels[13]:SetText("Reverse Ratio")
	labels[14]:SetText("Primary Ratio")
	labels[15]:SetText("Wheel 1 Torque Ratio")
	labels[16]:SetText("Wheel 2 Torque Ratio")
	labels[17]:SetText("Wheel 3 Torque Ratio")
	labels[18]:SetText("Wheel 4 Torque Ratio")
	labels[19]:SetText("Wheel 5 Torque Ratio")
	labels[20]:SetText("Wheel 6 Torque Ratio")
	labels[21]:SetText("Wheel 7 Torque Ratio")
	labels[22]:SetText("Wheel 8 Torque Ratio")

	setters[4] = CheckBox.Create(window)
	setters[4]:Subscribe("CheckChanged", function(args)
		self.trans:SetManual(args:GetChecked())
	end)

	setters[5] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
	setters[5]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.trans:SetClutchDelayTime(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[6] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
	setters[6]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.trans:SetGear(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	for i = 7, 12 do
		setters[i] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
		setters[i]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local gear_ratios = self.trans:GetGearRatios()
			gear_ratios[i - 6] = args:GetValue()
			self.trans:SetGearRatios(gear_ratios)
			args:SetText("")
		end)
	end

	setters[13] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
	setters[13]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.trans:SetReverseGearRatio(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[14] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
	setters[14]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.trans:SetPrimaryTransmissionRatio(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	for i = 15, 22 do
		setters[i] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
		setters[i]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local wheel_ratios = self.trans:GetWheelTorqueRatios()
			wheel_ratios[i - 14] = args:GetValue()
			self.trans:SetWheelTorqueRatios(wheel_ratios)
			args:SetText("")
		end)
	end

	for i, label in ipairs(labels) do
		label:SetPosition(Vector2(5, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		label:SizeToContents()
	end

	for i, getter in ipairs(getters) do
		getter:SetPosition(Vector2(150, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
	end

	for i, setter in pairs(setters) do
		if setter.__type == "TextBoxNumeric" then
			setter:SetPosition(Vector2(225, 0 + 22 * (i - 1)))
			setter:SetWidth(57)
			setter:SetText("")
		else
			setter:SetPosition(Vector2(228, 2 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		end
	end

end

function Tuner:InitAerodynamicsGUI()

	local aero = self.gui.aero
	local window = aero.window
	local labels = aero.labels
	local getters = aero.getters
	local setters = aero.setters

	for i = 1, 7 do
		labels[i] = Label.Create(window)
		getters[i] = Label.Create(window)
		setters[i] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
	end

	labels[1]:SetText("Air Density")
	labels[2]:SetText("Frontal Area")
	labels[3]:SetText("Drag Coeff")
	labels[4]:SetText("Lift Coeff")
	labels[5]:SetText("Extra Gravity X")
	labels[6]:SetText("Extra Gravity Y")
	labels[7]:SetText("Extra Gravity Z")

	setters[1]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.aero:SetAirDensity(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[2]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.aero:SetFrontalArea(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[3]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.aero:SetDragCoefficient(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[4]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		self.aero:SetLiftCoefficient(args:GetValue())
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[5]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		local gravity = self.aero:GetExtraGravity()
		self.aero:SetExtraGravity(Vector3(args:GetValue(), gravity.y, gravity.z))
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[6]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		local gravity = self.aero:GetExtraGravity()
		self.aero:SetExtraGravity(Vector3(gravity.x, args:GetValue(), gravity.z))
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	setters[7]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
		local gravity = self.aero:GetExtraGravity()
		self.aero:SetExtraGravity(Vector3(gravity.x, gravity.y, args:GetValue()))
		args:SetText("")
	end)

	for i, label in ipairs(labels) do
		label:SetPosition(Vector2(5, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		label:SizeToContents()
	end

	for i, getter in ipairs(getters) do
		getter:SetPosition(Vector2(150, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
	end

	for i, setter in pairs(setters) do
		setter:SetPosition(Vector2(225, 0 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		setter:SetWidth(57)
		setter:SetText("")
	end

end

function Tuner:InitSuspensionGUI()

	local susp = self.gui.susp
	local window = susp.window
	local labels = susp.labels

	for i = 1, 20 do
		labels[i] = Label.Create(window)
	end

	for wheel = 1, 8 do
		susp[wheel] = {getters = {}, setters = {}}
		for i = 1, 10 do
			susp[wheel].getters[i] = Label.Create(window)
			susp[wheel].setters[i] = TextBoxNumeric.Create(window)
		end
	end

	labels[1]:SetText("Length")
	labels[2]:SetText("Strength")
	labels[3]:SetText("Chassis Direction X")
	labels[4]:SetText("Chassis Direction Y")
	labels[5]:SetText("Chassis Direction Z")
	labels[6]:SetText("Chassis Position X")
	labels[7]:SetText("Chassis Position Y")
	labels[8]:SetText("Chassis Position Z")
	labels[9]:SetText("Damping Compression")
	labels[10]:SetText("Damping Relaxation")

	labels[11]:SetText("Length")
	labels[12]:SetText("Strength")
	labels[13]:SetText("Chassis Direction X")
	labels[14]:SetText("Chassis Direction Y")
	labels[15]:SetText("Chassis Direction Z")
	labels[16]:SetText("Chassis Position X")
	labels[17]:SetText("Chassis Position Y")
	labels[18]:SetText("Chassis Position Z")
	labels[19]:SetText("Damping Compression")
	labels[20]:SetText("Damping Relaxation")

	for i, label in ipairs(labels) do
		label:SetPosition(Vector2(5, 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
		label:SizeToContents()
	end

	for wheel, v in ipairs(susp) do

		local getters = v.getters
		local setters = v.setters

		for i, getter in ipairs(getters) do
			getter:SetPosition(Vector2(150 + 75 * (wheel - 1), 5 + 22 * (i - 1)))
			getter:SetWidth(70)
		end

		setters[1]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			self.susp:SetLength(wheel, args:GetValue())
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[2]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			self.susp:SetStrength(wheel, args:GetValue())
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[3]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local direction = self.susp:GetChassisDirection(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisDirection(wheel, Vector3(args:GetValue(), direction.y, direction.z))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[4]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local direction = self.susp:GetChassisDirection(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisDirection(wheel, Vector3(direction.x, args:GetValue(), direction.z))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[5]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local direction = self.susp:GetChassisDirection(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisDirection(wheel, Vector3(direction.x, direction.y, args:GetValue()))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[6]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local position = self.susp:GetChassisPosition(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisPosition(wheel, Vector3(args:GetValue(), position.y, position.z))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[7]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local position = self.susp:GetChassisPosition(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisPosition(wheel, Vector3(position.x, args:GetValue(), position.z))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[8]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			local position = self.susp:GetChassisPosition(wheel)
			self.susp:SetChassisPosition(wheel, Vector3(position.x, position.y, args:GetValue()))
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[9]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			self.susp:SetDampingCompression(wheel, args:GetValue())
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		setters[10]:Subscribe("ReturnPressed", function(args)
			self.susp:SetDampingRelaxation(wheel, args:GetValue())
			args:SetText("")
		end)

		for i, setter in ipairs(setters) do
			setter:SetPosition(Vector2(150 + 75 * (wheel - 1), 220 + 22 * (i - 1)))
			setter:SetWidth(57)
			setter:SetText("")
		end

	end

end

function Tuner:InitVehicle(vehicle)

	self.veh = vehicle
	self.trans = vehicle:GetTransmission()
	self.aero = vehicle:GetAerodynamics()
	self.susp = vehicle:GetSuspension()

	local f = string.format
	local getters = self.gui.veh.getters

	getters[1]:SetText(f("%s", vehicle:GetName()))
	getters[2]:SetText(f("%s", vehicle:GetDriver()))
	getters[3]:SetText(f("%i", vehicle:GetModelId()))
	getters[4]:SetText(f("%i", vehicle:GetClass()))
	getters[5]:SetText(f("%s", vehicle:GetTemplate()))
	getters[6]:SetText(f("%s", vehicle:GetDecal()))
	getters[9]:SetText(f("%i", vehicle:GetWheelCount()))
	getters[10]:SetText(f("%i", vehicle:GetMaxRPM()))
	getters[15]:SetText(f("%i m/s", vehicle:GetTopSpeed()))

end

function Tuner:VehicleUpdate()

	local vehicle = self.veh
	if not vehicle then return end
	local transmission = self.trans
	local getters = self.gui.veh.getters

	local f = string.format
	local t = vehicle:GetTorque()
	local ratios = transmission:GetGearRatios()
	local s = vehicle:GetLinearVelocity():Length()
	local wt = t * transmission:GetPrimaryTransmissionRatio() * ratios[transmission:GetGear()]

	getters[7]:SetText(f("%i%s", vehicle:GetHealth() * 100, "%"))
	getters[8]:SetText(f("%i kg", vehicle:GetMass()))
	getters[11]:SetText(f("%i", vehicle:GetRPM()))
	getters[12]:SetText(f("%i N", t))

	local peak_t = self.peak_t or 0
	if t > peak_t then
		peak_t = t
		getters[13]:SetText(f("%i N", peak_t))
	end
	self.peak_t = peak_t

	getters[14]:SetText(f("%i N", wt))
	getters[16]:SetText(f("%i m/s, %i, km/h, %i mi/h", s, s * 3.6, s * 2.234))

	local peak_s = self.peak_s or 0
	if s > peak_s then
		peak_s = s
		getters[17]:SetText(f("%i m/s, %i km/h, %i mi/h", peak_s, peak_s * 3.6, peak_s * 2.234))
	end
	self.peak_s = peak_s

	local timer = self.timer
	if s < 0.1 then
		getters[18]:SetText("")
		if timer then
			timer:Restart()
		else
			timer = Timer()
		end
	else
		if timer and s > 100 / 3.6 then
			getters[18]:SetText(f("%.3f s", timer:GetSeconds()))
			timer = nil
		end
	end
	self.timer = timer

end

function Tuner:TransmissionUpdate()

	local transmission = self.trans
	if not transmission then return end
	local getters = self.gui.trans.getters
	local f = string.format

	self.gui.trans.setters[4]:SetChecked(transmission:GetManual())

	getters[1]:SetText(f("%i", transmission:GetUpshiftRPM()))
	getters[2]:SetText(f("%i", transmission:GetDownshiftRPM()))
	getters[3]:SetText(f("%i", transmission:GetMaxGear()))
	getters[4]:SetText(f("%s", transmission:GetManual()))
	getters[5]:SetText(f("%g", transmission:GetClutchDelayTime()))
	getters[6]:SetText(f("%i", transmission:GetGear()))

	local gear_ratios = transmission:GetGearRatios()
	for wheel, ratio in ipairs(gear_ratios) do
		getters[6 + wheel]:SetText(f("%g", ratio))
	end

	getters[13]:SetText(f("%g", transmission:GetReverseGearRatio()))
	getters[14]:SetText(f("%g", transmission:GetPrimaryTransmissionRatio()))

	local wheel_ratios = transmission:GetWheelTorqueRatios()
	for wheel, ratio in ipairs(wheel_ratios) do
		getters[14 + wheel]:SetText(f("%g", ratio))
	end

end

function Tuner:AerodynamicsUpdate()

	local aerodynamics = self.aero
	if not aerodynamics then return end
	local getters = self.gui.aero.getters
	local f = string.format

	getters[1]:SetText(f("%g", aerodynamics:GetAirDensity()))
	getters[2]:SetText(f("%g", aerodynamics:GetFrontalArea()))
	getters[3]:SetText(f("%g", aerodynamics:GetDragCoefficient()))
	getters[4]:SetText(f("%g", aerodynamics:GetLiftCoefficient()))

	local gravity = aerodynamics:GetExtraGravity()
	getters[5]:SetText(f("%.6f", gravity.x))
	getters[6]:SetText(f("%.6f", gravity.y))
	getters[7]:SetText(f("%.6f", gravity.z))

end

function Tuner:SuspensionUpdate()

	local suspension = self.susp
	if not suspension then return end
	local f = string.format
	local susp = self.gui.susp

	for wheel = 1, self.veh:GetWheelCount() do

		local getters = susp[wheel].getters

		getters[1]:SetText(f("%g", suspension:GetLength(wheel)))
		getters[2]:SetText(f("%g", suspension:GetStrength(wheel)))

		local direction = suspension:GetChassisDirection(wheel)
		getters[3]:SetText(f("%.6f", direction.x))
		getters[4]:SetText(f("%.6f", direction.y))
		getters[5]:SetText(f("%.6f", direction.z))

		local position = suspension:GetChassisPosition(wheel)
		getters[6]:SetText(f("%.6f", position.x))
		getters[7]:SetText(f("%.6f", position.y))
		getters[8]:SetText(f("%.6f", position.z))

		getters[9]:SetText(f("%g", suspension:GetDampingCompression(wheel)))
		getters[10]:SetText(f("%g", suspension:GetDampingRelaxation(wheel)))

	end

end

function Tuner:KeyUp(args)
	if args.key == string.byte("Z") and IsValid(self.veh) then
		local visible = self.gui.window:GetVisible()
		self.gui.window:SetVisible(not visible)
		Mouse:SetVisible(not visible)
		self.gui.tabs:SetCurrentTab(self.gui.veh.button)
		self.timer = nil
	end
end

function Tuner:EnterVehicle(args)
	if args.is_driver and args.vehicle:GetClass() == VehicleClass.Land then
		self:InitVehicle(args.vehicle)
	end
end

function Tuner:ExitVehicle(args)
	if self.veh and args.vehicle == self.veh then
		self:Disable()
	end
end

function Tuner:VehicleDespawn(args)
	if args.entity.__type == "Vehicle" and args.entity == self.veh then
		self:Disable()
	end
end

function Tuner:Disable()
	self.gui.window:SetVisible(false)
	Mouse:SetVisible(false)
	self.veh, self.trans, self.aero, self.susp = nil, nil, nil, nil
	self.peak_s, self.peak_t = nil, nil
	self.timer = nil
end

Tuner = Tuner()

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I have to get my hands on technology like this!
No wonder this Tesla autopilot technology has gotten more than a million views in less than one day. The Tesla "semi-autonomous" Autopilot truly is amazing!
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, has said that Autopilot can reduce accidents by as m much as 50%. The system is not totally autonomous as it requires a human to pay attention at all times. If you are like me, you are wondering how the system works?
The Tesla Autopilot system has multiple sensors placed all around the car. The car is designed to use these sensors for constant situational awareness, keeping it in tune with its environment so that it can safe steer itself in most highway situations.
It has a forward radar, a forward-looking camera, a high-precision digitally-controlled electric braking system, and 12 long-range ultrasonic sensors all around the vehicle. The sensors can sense what is happening 16 feet around the car in every direction, at any speed.
When the car senses that something is too close, it can determine the best distance to take action, like change lanes. It is true that debris could cover a sensor, causing it to malfunction.
The radar, of course, detects other cars. The forward-facing camera is at the top of the windshield and has a computer inside that defines obstacles that are ahead of the car. The camera enables the car to detect other cars, pedestrians, lane markings, and even road signs. The car uses all of this information to drive itself.
Teslas can all self-park, even self-parrallel park in perpendicular spots. Their owners can even summon them like a dog!
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The Science Behind "Game of Thrones"
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ICYMI: Here's how Fox launched its coverage of the U.S. Open
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All great things have a beginning, the USGA noted in a Tweet about Fox Sports' first U.S. Open, and it began with a video called, "The Beginning of Something Big."
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The layered narrative somewhat muffles the impact of Rebecca's emotional death and rebirth, but Dunmore's eighth novel still...
MOURNING RUBY
by Helen Dunmore ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2004
Award-winning British novelist Dunmore (Ice Cream, 2003, etc.) tracks the rollercoaster ride of a young woman from nothingness to identity, a journey she is fated to repeat.
In 1965, newborn Rebecca's mother abandons her in a shoebox behind an Italian restaurant. The kitchen help find her before the rats, and she is passed on to adoptive parents who feed her but forget to love her. Haunted by the void in her past, Rebecca must wait until she is grown to find salvation in two men. Joe, who's writing a book about Stalin's second wife that eventually becomes a bestseller, is her empathetic roommate, the brother she has never had. His equally attentive friend Adam, a doctor whose specialty is premature babies, becomes Rebecca's husband, and her adult identity is complete when she gives birth to Ruby. Life is wonderful until five-year-old Ruby dies in a car accident and Rebecca regresses to "the habit of nothing." She and Adam separate, but she encounters a third unconventional savior, Mr. Damiano, a circus impresario turned hotelier who places absolute trust in her abilities as his personal assistant. Meanwhile, Joe, who has never forgotten Rebecca's need for ancestors, is writing a story to erase her fixation on that wretched shoebox. In his work-in-progress, set in France in 1917, single mother Florence vows never to abandon her daughter, even if it means working in a brothel close to the front. Joe's story is both echo chamber and harbinger: Florence shields her child from hostile aircraft just as Rebecca had once dreamed of shielding Ruby from traffic, while the brothel's attic bedroom will find its counterpart in the attic bedroom that reunites Adam and Rebecca.
The layered narrative somewhat muffles the impact of Rebecca's emotional death and rebirth, but Dunmore's eighth novel still offers plenty of incidental pleasures.
Pub Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Putnam
Review Posted Online: May 20, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2003
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A young Irish couple gets together, splits up, gets together, splits up—sorry, can't tell you how it ends!
Irish writer Rooney has made a trans-Atlantic splash since publishing her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2017. Her second has already won the Costa Novel Award, among other honors, since it was published in Ireland and Britain last year. In outline it's a simple story, but Rooney tells it with bravura intelligence, wit, and delicacy. Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan are classmates in the small Irish town of Carricklea, where his mother works for her family as a cleaner. It's 2011, after the financial crisis, which hovers around the edges of the book like a ghost. Connell is popular in school, good at soccer, and nice; Marianne is strange and friendless. They're the smartest kids in their class, and they forge an intimacy when Connell picks his mother up from Marianne's house. Soon they're having sex, but Connell doesn't want anyone to know and Marianne doesn't mind; either she really doesn't care, or it's all she thinks she deserves. Or both. Though one time when she's forced into a social situation with some of their classmates, she briefly fantasizes about what would happen if she revealed their connection: "How much terrifying and bewildering status would accrue to her in this one moment, how destabilising it would be, how destructive." When they both move to Dublin for Trinity College, their positions are swapped: Marianne now seems electric and in-demand while Connell feels adrift in this unfamiliar environment. Rooney's genius lies in her ability to track her characters' subtle shifts in power, both within themselves and in relation to each other, and the ways they do and don't know each other; they both feel most like themselves when they're together, but they still have disastrous failures of communication. "Sorry about last night," Marianne says to Connell in February 2012. Then Rooney elaborates: "She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional pained embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to 'make a big deal.' " Then: "Forget about it, he says." Rooney precisely articulates everything that's going on below the surface; there's humor and insight here as well as the pleasure of getting to know two prickly, complicated people as they try to figure out who they are and who they want to become.
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by Chinua Achebe ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 23, 1958
Written with quiet dignity that builds to a climax of tragic force, this book about the dissolution of an African tribe, its traditions, and values, represents a welcome departure from the familiar "Me, white brother" genre.
Written by a Nigerian African trained in missionary schools, this novel tells quietly the story of a brave man, Okonkwo, whose life has absolute validity in terms of his culture, and who exercises his prerogative as a warrior, father, and husband with unflinching single mindedness. But into the complex Nigerian village filters the teachings of strangers, teachings so alien to the tribe, that resistance is impossible. One must distinguish a force to be able to oppose it, and to most, the talk of Christian salvation is no more than the babbling of incoherent children. Still, with his guns and persistence, the white man, amoeba-like, gradually absorbs the native culture and in despair, Okonkwo, unable to withstand the corrosion of what he, alone, understands to be the life force of his people, hangs himself. In the formlessness of the dying culture, it is the missionary who takes note of the event, reminding himself to give Okonkwo's gesture a line or two in his work, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.
Pub Date: Jan. 23, 1958
Publisher: McDowell, Obolensky
Review Posted Online: April 23, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1958
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Sam the Bellhop is one of the most captivating routines in card magic. This performance consists of telling a story while overturning cards, from an apparently shuffled deck, that correspond with events in the plot. To learn this trick you must master a false shuffle, a false run and a false cut. Once you have command of these techniques you will be ready to apply them to the Sam the Bellhop story for an impressive effect.
Hold a deck of cards with both hands, keeping the deck on a table. Cut the deck with your right hand while pressing down on the top card with your left index finger so that it slides off of the pack and onto the bottom-half pile.
Hold the bottom half of the deck with the top card in your left hand and the top half minus the top card in your right. Riffle the card together by only interlacing the inside corners closest to you. Allow the bottom card of the bottom half to fall first and the top card on the bottom half to fall last.
Slide the top card over the "V" shaped gap that is created between the interlaced halves of the deck with your left index finger. Even the halves underneath the concealment of that top card so that the cards are no longer interlaced.
Slide the top half of the deck underneath the top card and on top of the bottom half, returning all the cards to their original order.
Pick up the top third of the deck with your right hand and the middle third with your left, leaving the bottom third on the table.
Simultaneously place the top third in front of the bottom -- farthest from you -- with your right hand and the middle third behind the bottom third -- closest to you -- with your left.
Pick up the middle third with your right hand and place it on the bottom third, restoring these two portions back to their original order.
Place this pile on the top third leaving it offset so that you can see where the two piles meet.
Slide the offset deck toward you and remove the now top pile, which consists of the lower two thirds of the stacked deck. Place this pile in front of the misplaced third. Pick up the original top third and place it back on top of the deck so that all the thirds are restored to their original order.
Hold the deck by its long sides in your right hand so that the back of the cards face your palm. Separate a small portion of cards from the top of the deck with your left hand while removing the majority of the deck out from under these cards with your right hand.
Place the bottom portion of the deck on top of the small portion of top cards so that the larger portion juts out from the deck. Transfer the deck in this manner to your right hand.
Remove small portions from the bottom of this larger portion of the deck that is jutting out with your left hand until you are holding all of these cards in your left hand. Place the remaining card back on top with your right hand so that the deck is restored to its original order.
Memorize the story of Sam the Bellhop.
Walk through the entire routine without using any of your false cuts, runs or shuffles.
Add false runs, cuts, and shuffles to your Sam the Bellhop routine.
Some of the runs, cuts, and shuffles required for this trick can be very difficult when you intially attempt them. Practice them literally hundreds of times to master them. This is a trick that you will spend the rest of your life mastering. Do not be discouraged in the beginning.
Any and all false shuffles, runs, and cuts that you learn can be added into your performance of Sam the Bellhop. Make it your routine by experimenting.
Watch other people's performance of the trick to generate ideas that your can use for your own presentation.
Do not look at your hands while doing your false shuffles, runs and cuts. If you watch your hands then others will watch them as well.
Eric Sievers began his writing career in 2009 working for "The Hippo," a nightlife magazine based out of North Carolina. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in philosophy and psychology, both from Appalachian State University.
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Once Upon A Time Character Review: Captain Hook
In the classic story of Peter Pan, Captain Hook is the antithesis of the youthful hero. Hook, a pirate by trade, would like nothing more than to finally defeat Peter Pan once and for all. An older man who wears a long dark wig, Hook is the stand in for being a certain age.
Once Upon A Time decided to change-up the character. Instead of the old man wearing the wig, Captain Hook, aka Killian Jones (Colin O'Donoghue) is a rock and roll version of the character. Wearing leather and still sporting the traditional metal hook, Hook's initial enemy is not Peter Pan, but Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle). Hook's other half at the time is Milah (Rachel Shelley), Rumple's estranged wife.
Though Hook starts off as a villain, he becomes a hero and the significant other of Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison). Emma is initially skeptical of Hook, his charm and smooth talk are not exactly turns ons in the beginning. But underneath that charm and smooth talk is a man who has conviction, heart and fights for who and what is important to him.
To sum it up: Taking a classic character and rewriting them while keeping the known characteristics is like walking a fine line. On one hand, the writer is tasked with the very difficult job of not simply copying what has been done before. But on the other hand, find a way to combine the new version of the character with the characteristics and narrative that the audience has come to know and love or hate is an equally difficult task.
When it comes to OUAT's version of Captain Hook, the writers found a way to balance what was known about Captain Hook with a new narrative and new character arc. A good writer knows which characteristics, narrative elements and character arc fits their version of their character while declining to use other elements that don't fit in with their story. It's a challenge that many a writer has faced, but if it is done properly, the writer is able to blend the old with the new and create a character that both fits in with the older image while creating a brand new image of the character.
Filed under Character Review, Once Upon A Time, Television
Tagged as Captain Hook, Colin O'Donoghue, Emma Swan, Jennifer Morrison, Killian Jones, Milah, Once Upon A Time, Peter Pan, Rachel Shelley, Robert Carlyle, Rumplestilkskin
Once Upon A Time Character Review: Mr. Gold/ Rumpelstiltskin
In the tradition telling of Rumpelstiltskin, he is a magical imp who spins straw into gold for a young woman in return for something she will give him. One of the catchphrases of Once Upon A Time is "magic comes with a price". The character of Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold is initially introduced to the audience as the show's male villain. He loved nothing more than trading favors with mortals in return for something precious to them.
Then the characters of Belle (Emilie de Raven), his second wife and Neal/Baelfire (Michael-Raymond James), his first-born son were introduced. Both Belle and Neal/Baelfire forced Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold to face his own demons, his choices and his past.
To sum it up: A few years ago, when asked to describe where his character was at, in terms of the character arc, Robert Carlyle described Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold as having an addiction to magic. Like any addiction, it often superseded his relationships with his loved ones. Addiction can often break relationships, but if the person addicted is willing to do the work, the addiction can be conquered.
When writing about characters wrestling with addiction issues, it is our job to explore how addiction can potentially break families and destroy lives. If the addiction is written either lightly or over-dramatically, the audience will not believe that the character has their addiction. Written about an addicted characters is not easy, but if it is done right, the audience will follow along on the character's journey.
Filed under Beauty And The Beast, Character Review, Fairy Tales, Once Upon A Time, Television
Tagged as Baelfire, Beauty and The Beast, Belle, Emilie de Raven, Michael-Raymond James, Mr. Gold, Neal Cassidy, Once Upon A Time, Robert Carlyle, Rumbelle, Rumplestilskin
Once Upon A Time Character Review: Belle
For many female movie fans (especially those of a certain age), Belle from Beauty And The Beast is and will always be a revelation. Unlike her predecessors, her end goal was not finding a man and living happily ever after. She was more concerned with her books and taking care of her widowed father.
Halfway through the first season of Once Upon A Time, Belle (Emilie de Raven) was introduced to the world of OUAT via the episode Skin Deep. This Belle is similar to the animated Belle in that she is smart, kind, loves books and agreed to go with the Beast aka, Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) in return for sparing her father's life. But while the animated Belle has almost a simple, almost predictable character arc, the OUAT Belle has a much more complex character arc.
For most of the series, Belle and Rumple have an up and down relationship. Their mutual love is obvious, but so is her will to completely change him that she ignores the fact that he and will forever be The Dark One. This roller coaster, is of course, not helped by Rumple's addiction to magic, but that will be discussed in detail next week.
Their relationship is only truly healed when Belle realizes that as much as she loves him, Rumple will never change completely. After their son, Gideon is kidnapped and raised by the Black Fairy (who also happens to be Rumple's mother), Belle realizes that the Beast and the man are one and the same. She cannot love one or the other. She has to love both.
To sum it up: Romantic love is not as simple as the fairy tales make them out to be. Even the best of couples have their moments and their disagreements. The key to writing a romance is balancing the reality of being in a relationship with someone while including the expected plot points of the narrative. The OUAT version of Belle is both the traditional romantic heroine, but her relationship with Rumple, as it often is in real life is complicated and sometimes difficult. This version of Belle stands out because the writers successfully walked the very thin line of writing a romance, but with the real life pitfalls of romance. It's not easy, but when it is done well, the audience or the reader truly appreciates the romance and the romantic heroine.
Filed under Beauty And The Beast, Books, Character Review, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Once Upon A Time, Television
Tagged as Beauty and The Beast, Belle, Emilie de Raven, Mr. Gold, Once Upon A Time, Robert Carlyle, Rumbelle, Rumpelstiltskin, Skin Deep, The Beast, The Black Fairy, The Dark One
What Message Does Beauty And The Beast Really Send?
In July, a very interesting interview appeared on youtube that has very recently brought up a question that I think needs to be answered.
At the San Diego Comic Con, a reporter asked Robert Carlyle (Mr. Gold/Rumplestilskin in Once Upon A Time) about the impending hallmarks of domestic abuse that appeared to her in Skin Deep, the episode that introduced Belle to the Once Upon A Time Universe and launched the onscreen couple moniker that is Rumbelle.
Some might argue that the story of Beauty and The Beast has not only the signs of an abusive relationship, but also of Stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome is defined as: a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them.
I can see where the argument is valid. However, if one was to examine the fairy tale genre, they would discover that the messages that these stories are sending to girls are the same. They are just packaged differently, depending on the story.
Let's examine a few of them:
Snow White is the victim of her stepmother's jealousy. She is being taken care of, first by the dwarves and then by her prince, who whisks her away to a life of luxury and royalty.
Sleeping Beauty is the victim of Maleficent. It is, again, the prince who kills the sorceress and wakes her up from her sleep. It is then that her life is complete.
Cinderella is the victim of her stepmother's jealousy (Am I sensing a pattern here?). After she runs from the ball, she does not go the palace and announce that she is the young woman that the prince is seeking. She has to wait for him to find her.
What I like about Beauty and The Beast is that these characters seem the most human of the leading romantic characters in the genre. The Beast's emotional wounds and extreme external appearance could be considered as an allegory for the emotional scars we have and the mistakes we wish we could undo. Beauty is the most active of the fairy tales heroines. She is no one's victim, and certainly not waiting for some prince to rescue her. She takes her life into her own hands and makes her own decisions.
The overall problem is that fairy tales are part of our culture. Feminism has certainly helped to alter the way that girls see themselves and their futures. But change does not happen overnight.
To answer the question, what message does Beauty and The Beast send? I would say that, if told properly, proves that we can change and move on from what was holding us back.
Filed under Beauty And The Beast, Fairy Tales, Feminism, Once Upon A Time
Tagged as Beauty and The Beast, Once Upon A Time, Robert Carlyle, Rumbelle, Stockholm Syndrome
*-Contains spoilers for Once Upon A Time. Read at your own risk if you are catching up on previous episodes.
The story of Beauty and The Beast is a familiar one. A woman agrees to take her father's place at a beast's castle when her father steals a rose, the only gift his daughter asked for.
While much of commentary is focused on the female lead, I would like to focus tonight on the male lead. The Beast is a tortured soul. Depending on which adaption one is reading or watching, the beast is either directly punished for his wicked, selfish ways or indirectly punished for others's mistakes. His punishment is the loss of his humanity. While he retains his fine home, a kitchen full of food and fancy clothes, his cursed exterior reflects his inner turmoil.
On Once Upon A Time, Rumplestilkin (Robert Carlyle) is known the Dark One. Make a deal with the dark one and he will want something in return for his services. But underneath the scaly green skin and the magic is a man whose scars run deep and long. Loosing his parents to death and abandonment at a young age, he was branded a coward. His marriage to his first wife, Milah was rocky, even after the birth of their son, Bae. When Milah abandoned her husband and son for Captain Hook, the mortal Rumplestilkin was replaced with the immortal dark one.
In Skin Deep, Sir Maurice will do anything to end the Ogre Wars. Rumplestilkin is happy but help. But in return for his services, he wants Belle, the king's only daughter as a serving girl. As time passes, Rumplestilskin begins to see Belle in a new light. But their first kiss reveals his deep un-healed scars.
What strikes me about this scene is that I understood him at that moment, when he is yelling at himself in the mirror. I understood his pain, his turmoil and his fear.
Sometimes, when we look in the mirror, that is all we see.
Filed under Beauty And The Beast, Life, Once Upon A Time
Tagged as Beauty and The Beast, Belle, Demons, Imagine Dragons, Once Upon A Time, Robert Carlyle, Rumplestilkskin, Skin Deep
Ballroom Scene
For this post, I am going to temporarily abandon the mature, college educated, career professional that I am and descend into complete fangurl-dom.
The latest teaser trailer for the 4th season of Once Upon Time includes an extremely brief clip of Belle and Rumpelstiltskin dancing in a ballroom. She is wearing the iconic gold ball gown and he is in the blue suit.
I can't find the trailer on you tube, but instead I give you Robert Carlyle and Emilie de Ravin's interview at Comic-Con.
I completely agree that Rumple is an addict. As much as he loves Belle and is willing to commit to her, he has a mistress who has been in life long before he met Belle. She is a very demanding mistress who will stop at nothing to keep her man.
Frances O'Connor (known to some as Fanny Price, Lucy Burns or Rose Selfridge) is joining the OUAT cast as Belle's mother, Colette.
Definitely looking forward to Fanny Price becoming Belle's mother.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program and the mature, college educated, career professional that I am (for the most part).
Filed under Beauty And The Beast, Once Upon A Time
Tagged as Beauty and The Beast, Belle, career professional, Emilie de Ravin, Fanny Price, Frances OConnor, Lucy Burns, Once Upon A Time, Robert Carlyle, Rose Selfridge, Rumbelle, Rumplestilkskin, teaser trailer
Skin Deep- One Of The Single Greatest Hours Of Television
*-This post contains spoilers about Skin Deep and Once Upon A Time. If you are catching up on season 1, read at your own risk.
Half way through the first season of Once Upon A Time, the character of Rumplestilskin (Robert Carlyle) was a villain with a capital V. He was the trickster, the dark one, making deals with people who were desperate enough to seek him out.
Then Skin Deep aired. Skin Deep put this villain with a capital V in a new light, a man who was tortured by his past and hid that tortured past under a mask that no one could crack. That was until Sir Maurice of Avonlea, desperate to end the Ogre wars, called upon the dark one to end the war. As usual, there was deal to be made. Rumplestilskin does not make deals without getting something in return. That deal was Sir Maurice's daughter, Belle. She would leave her father's kingdom forever and become a servant in Rumplestilskin's castle.
This episode was written by Jane Espenson, and introduced Belle (Lost and Roswell's Emilie de Raven) to the Once Upon A Time universe.
This episode, is best episode that this show has ever produced and I would like to tell you why.
Carlyle and de Raven have incredible chemistry. They just work on screen.
The psychology of Beauty And The Beast translates perfectly to the twist and turns that the Once Upon A Time gives to their fractured fairy tales. In the original tale, Beauty is the youngest daughter of a now impoverished merchant who was once very wealthy. Her older sisters are very spoiled and selfish, Beauty is relegated to the role of servant. The Beast lives in an isolated castle, surrounded by material wealth. In the very well known 1991 Disney movie, Belle is an outsider in her small town, longing for adventure. Beast was once a human prince, cursed by a sorceress for his selfish ways. The psychology of both characters: the Beast, broken and bruised by life and Belle, selfless and loyal, while looking for adventure plays perfectly into the Once Upon A Time idea of twisting the basic fairy tale into something far more interesting.
The title is absolutely perfect.
The line "No one decides my fate, but me" ties in with the idea of female empowerment, a theme running throughout the show.
The final scene between Belle and Rumplestilskin is heartbreaking. It echoes in the hearts of everyone who has ever given up an opportunity or a relationship out of fear and low self esteem.
This episode launched the on screen roller coaster of a relationship that is Rumbelle, it has kept fans hooked since February of 2012 and wanting more. As of the end of the third season, they have married and Mr. Gold has not told the new Mrs. Gold about a secret that will cause ripples in season 4.
And that is why Skin Deep is one of the single greatest hours of television.
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Tagged as Avonlea, Beauty and The Beast, Belle, castle, Emilie de Raven, Jane Espenson, Lost, Once Upon A Time, Once Upon A Time universe, Robert Carlyle, Roswell, Rumbelle, Rumplestilkskin, Rumplestilskin, Sir Maurice, Skin Deep, The Beast


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New Jersey abolishes the death penalty
Kate Randall
New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine on Monday signed into law a measure repealing the death penalty, making the state the first to abolish capital punishment since the United States Supreme Court reinstated the practice in 1976.
The State Assembly approved the measure last Thursday by a 44-36 vote, following the Senate's approval of the measure December 10 by a vote of 21-16.
Corzine also issued an order commuting the sentences of the eight men currently on New Jersey's death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The last person executed in the state was Ralph Hudson, who was put to death in the electric chair in 1963. New Jersey did not reinstate capital punishment until 1982.
In a speech from the state capitol, Corzine declared he was ending "state-endorsed killing." Corzine said the move reflected "a day of progress for the state of New Jersey and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject the death penalty as a moral or practical response to the grievous, even heinous, crime of murder."
Testifying at legislative hearings in New Jersey before the bill was enacted were the parents of Shannon Scheiber, a young woman murdered in 1998. They had requested that the defendant in the case receive life in prison instead of execution. "The death penalty is a harmful policy that exacerbates the pain for murdered victims' families," Vicki Schieber, Shannon's mother, testified.
Public opinion polls show that capital punishment is opposed by growing numbers in the US, with life without parole steadily replacing the death penalty as a preferred punishment for murder. Reflecting this opposition, death sentences in the US have dropped by 60 percent since 1999, when 98 condemned prisoners were sent to their deaths. Still, 53 were executed in 2006; so far this year another 41 have been put to death.
The decision in New Jersey in part reflects growing nervousness within sections of the ruling establishment brought on by revelations of wrongfully convicted death row inmates, many of them exonerated by DNA evidence not available at the time of their convictions and sentencing. These exonerations have cast a sharp light on the barbaric practice of state-sanctioned killing, which is banned throughout much of the world.
The latest such inmate was Jonathan Hoffman in North Carolina, the 126th to be exonerated since the reinstatement of the death penalty. He was released on December 11. Hoffman spent seven years on death row for the 1995 killing of a jeweller. He won a new trial in 2004, and the district attorney eventually dropped the charges against him after the star witness recanted his testimony.
Just the day before, a death row prisoner in Georgia, John Jerome White, was freed after DNA proved he did not commit a 1979 rape. White spent 11 years in prison.
Illinois is in the eighth year of a death penalty moratorium, which was established in 2000 after widespread revelations of wrongful convictions among the state's death row inmates.
Challenges have also been filed in a number of states over the constitutionality of the use of lethal injection for executions. Opponents of lethal injection argue that the procedure violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" found in the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.
These challenges follow instances of botched executions, in which the procedure has been prolonged, and executioners have had to re-administer the toxic poisons. Opponents argue that one of the drugs used may wear off prematurely, leaving prisoners in excruciating pain but unable to express their pain because they have been rendered paralyzed.
Lower court rulings on lethal injection have reached opposing conclusions. Courts in California, Florida and Tennessee have ruled the procedures unconstitutional, while courts in Missouri, Arizona and Oklahoma have found them constitutionally acceptable.
The US Supreme Court agreed in September to hear a case on lethal injection from Kentucky. In Baze v. Rees the high court will address whether Kentucky's particular form of lethal injection is constitutional. A decision in that case is expected to provide some legal conformity in the lower courts as to how these challenges to lethal injection are to handled.
In June 2002 the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the execution of those with mental retardation was a violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) lists the names of 44 mentally retarded individuals who were put to death since capital punishment was resumed and the ban was put into effect.
By a narrow majority in March 2005, the high court also struck down the death penalty for crimes committed by juveniles. The ruling affected more than 70 death row inmates whose sentences for the most part were converted to life in prison without parole. DPIC says that 22 have been executed in the modern era for crimes committed while under the age of 18.
Since 1976, at least 22 foreign nationals have been executed in the US, according to DPIC. In the overwhelming majority of cases, these individuals were not informed by US authorities upon arrest of their right to have their consulate notified of their detention, a violation of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Since 1976, 1,099 individuals have been executed in the US, including 11 women. The state of Texas alone has sent 405 people to their deaths. In his five years as Texas governor before assuming the presidency, George W. Bush presided over the execution of 152 people, including foreign nationals, the mentally impaired and those convicted of crimes committed as juveniles.
According to known statistics, in 2006, more than 90 percent of all known executions took place in just six countries: China, 1,010 (the official figure—the real number may be as many as 8,000); Iran, 177; Pakistan, 82; Iraq, 65; Sudan, 65; and the United States, 53.
With New Jersey's abolition of the death penalty, 36 US states still allow it. Those states banning the practice now include Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Legislative studies of the death penalty are currently under way in California, North Carolina and Tennessee.
As death row inmates have made numerous challenges in recent years, US Supreme Court rulings have served the purpose of curtailing the death penalty in its more overtly brutal forms—execution of the mentally retarded and juveniles—while preserving capital punishment as a whole.
Both big business parties have been complicit in the perpetuation this barbaric practice. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and signed into law by the Democratic Clinton administration. The legislation severely restricts the rights of death penalty defendants to make habeas corpus claims in the federal courts. It led to a sharp increase in the rate of executions in the US.
Much of the world looks on in horror at a ruling establishment that condemns its own citizens to death, a practice that has been outlawed by much of the industrialized world and is in violation of human rights norms and numerous international treaties. A corresponding revulsion within growing sections of the US population is beginning to take shape.
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Don't fall victim to Flat Battery Monday ahead of return to work
Irish motorists are being advised to plan ahead and avoid unnecessary car trouble on the first day back at work after the Christmas break.
Monday, January 4, is being dubbed 'Flat Battery Monday,' as roadside-assistance provider Allianz Global Assistance Ireland anticipates calls from motorists due to car breakdowns to increase by a fifth.
Drivers who haven't used their cars over the break typically find their cars won't start, with flat batteries expected to be the main culprit.
On the corresponding day in January, Allianz Global Assistance saw an increase of 21% in callouts, compared to an average Monday, with the busiest time of the day between 9am and 11am.
While flat batteries are the main cause of vehicle breakdown callouts throughout the year, puncture repairs and technical issues with the vehicle can also cause difficulties for motorists.
According to Allianz Global Assistance, the top five reasons for breakdown callouts for Irish motorists in 2015 were flat battery, wheel change (due to puncture), clutch, alternator, and electrical fault.
Roland Hesse, the managing director of Allianz Global Assistance Ireland, is advising motorists to plan ahead. "The vast majority of callouts this Monday morning are expected to be because customers can't get the car started as a result of a flat battery," he said.
"Motorists don't use their cars over the holidays or just take them for short journeys, which can be very tough on the battery, leaving the person stranded in the driveway on the first day back at work."
Mr Hesse added: "Our advice is to take the car for at least a 30-minute drive before Monday, ensuring the car is fully charged. Double check too that the car lights, including interior lights, are switched off once the car is parked, as we all know this can quickly drain the battery. And to be extra safe, have up-to-date public transport options to hand, just in case the breakdown is more serious than a simple flat battery."
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The Thai Association of Dental Implantology (TADI) extends an invitation to you to submit an abstract for Poster Presentation at the 4th Bangkok International Symposium of Implant Dentistry 2019 (BIS2019) with the title "The Conquest of Implant Complications", which will be a great opportunity to exchange innovations; opinions and experiences in the field of implant therapy and related disciplines. The aforementioned conference shall be held at 5th floor Royal Paragon Hall during 27th – 29th November, 2019, as shown in the details attached.
The poster display will be an integral part of the program and will be available to access within the Exhibition Hall. Posters will be displayed vertically. Make sure your poster reads left to right across the poster that is 30 inches (76.2cm) wide x 40 inches (101.6cm) tall. Poster boards will be available at conference site for display of your poster.
• Title: The title of the abstract should be limited to 20 words.
• Background: The background of the study should clearly be described.
• Objectives: The objective of the study should clearly be stated.
• Materials and methods: The materials and methods should be described systematically and in details, including sample size and statistical methods.
• Results: The obtained results should be described systematically and in details.
• Conclusions and clinical implications: The main conclusions should be stated, including possible clinical implications.
Use the template as provided on the last page.
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• The posterpresentation competition is scheduled on Thursday, November 28th, 2019. The winner of the session will receive the TADI Research Presentation Prize.
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BACKGROUND: The feasibility of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) as a treatment option for dysplasia in ulcerative colitis (UC) has been reported but the associated therapeutic decision-making and clinical outcomes have not been extensively investigated.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 25 UC patients who were referred for potential ESD of non-polypoid or sessile dysplasia. We analyzed the treatment decisions and the ESD and colectomy outcomes for this patient group.
RESULTS: All lesions were located at the colitic segments. The median UC duration was 13.4 years. A colectomy was recommended for 10 patients due to ulceration with indistinct borders (one patient), non-ulceration with indistinct borders (two patients), and non-lifting signs (seven patients). The remaining 15 patients underwent ESD. The en bloc and R0 resection rates were 93.3% and 80%, respectively. The median hospitalization periods were 1 (range, 1-2) day after ESD and 7 (range, 5-30) days after colectomy. No procedure-related complications occurred after ESD, but early and late postoperative complications occurred in two (22.2%) and six (66.7%) of the colectomized patients, respectively. Fourteen ESD cases were followed endoscopically for a median period of 24.7 (range, 5.2-64.8) months. Local recurrence occurred in 2 (14.3%) patients and metachronous recurrence was identified in two separate patients (14.3%).
CONCLUSIONS: ESD is a feasible endoscopic treatment option for UC-associated dysplasia showing non-invasive pit or vascular patterns, no surface ulceration, distinct borders, and appropriate lifting after submucosal injection. Meticulous endoscopic surveillance is essential to monitor for local or metachronous recurrence of dysplasia after ESD.


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A U.S.Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Port Angeles is seen in this undated file photo. (Twitter: USCGPacificNW)
A U.S. woman was brought to Victoria General Hospital for treatment on Tuesday evening due to poor weather in Washington state.
The U.S. Coast Guard was contacted by a hospital in Forks, WA, around 8 p.m. saying that a woman in care was in critical condition and needed to be transferred to a different hospital for a higher level of care.
The coast guard prepared a rescue helicopter to airlift the 42-year-old woman to another hospital.
However, since a winter storm was dumping snow in the Seattle area, the coast guard team was told to take the woman to a hospital north of the border.
"The Coast Guard watchstanders coordinated with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Victoria, Canada Patient Transfer Network, Victoria General Hospital and the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center to arrange the transfer," said the U.S. Coast Guard in a release Wednesday.
The woman was driven from Forks to a coast guard station in Port Angeles, WA, by ambulance before being flown to Victoria General Hospital alongside paramedics in a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter.
She arrived at VGH around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning.
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Syrian refugee: "What are we going to prepare for Ramadan?"
Syrians living in a refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan prepare for Ramadan amid shortages, as conflict back home enters its fifth year. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
They are far from homes that may no longer exist. Syrians, in a Lebanese refugee camp, prepare to mark the holy month of Ramadan. They line up for food provided by a woman's charity. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNNAMED SYRIAN REFUGEE FROM QUSAIR, SAYING: "Ramadan is a blessing from God, but we can't live if we don't work. We are working very hard in agriculture. They are giving us this box here, but, you know, what can a box do?" Similar scenes in Jordan At a store inside a refugee camp in Jordan -- there are lanterns on sale to mark Ramadan. There is food-- but not always the means to prepare it. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UM ABDO, SYRIAN WOMAN FROM DARAA, SAYING: "We feel really bad. I hope that we will be in our country. Here, whatever we do, we feel that we are strangers. What are we going to prepare for Ramadan? There is no electricity, there is no refrigerator and prices here are very high." With some of the four million people forced to flee Syria -- they are now just going through the motions of what is often one of the most festive time of years.


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What is the America's Cup?
The America's Cup is the most prestigious race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international sport, predating the Modern Olympics by 45 years. The sport attracts top sailors and yacht designers because of its long history and prestige. It is not only a yacht races, it is also a test of boat design, sail design, fundraising, and management skills.
The Cup was named America's Cup after the first yacht to win the trophy, the schooner America. The trophy remained in the hands of the New York Yacht Club of the United States from 1857 (when the syndicate that won the Cup donated the trophy to the club) until 1983 when the Cup was won by the challenger, Australia II of Australia, ending the longest winning streak in the history of sport.
The America's Cup regatta is a challenge-driven series of match races between two yachts. Any challenger who meets the requirements specified in the Deed of Gift, which governs the regatta, has the right to challenge the yacht club that holds the Cup. The America's Cup is a race between the winner of the challenger selection series and the current holder. If the challenging team wins the cup, the cup's ownership is transferred from the defender's yacht club to the winning team's yacht club.


UniTemp Inc. was founded in 1979. Since our inception, we have been different things at different times. We have been a representative, an engineering arm, importer and sometimes a manufacturer of different products for use in the thermoplastics industry. We have been producing PEKUTHERM® Purging Compound since 1985 and have had great success in helping many injection molders & extruders save material, time and money.
UniTemp has a plethora of customers here in North America. UniTemp sells in all of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. UniTemp also does limited work in Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, and China. While our affiliates focus on work in Eastern and Western Europe.
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