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San Angelo kid takes on sweet challenges during Food Network baking competition
Alana Edgin
SAN ANGELO – Life may not be a piece of cake, but it just got a lot sweeter for this 12-year-old San Angelo boy.
Brady Stewart represented the Concho Valley recently in Food Network's "Kids Baking Championship."
Stewart was selected as one of nine children across the U.S. to participate in the show's seventh season.
His family was both proud and surprised when they received the news that Brady was picked as a contestant, mostly because they didn't know he had applied for the show.
"When they first contacted us, I didn't answer. ... I thought it was a telemarketer and didn't think anything of it," said Jeff Stewart, Brady's father. "Then Brady's mom called and said it was the Kids Baking Championship."
Brady also was surprised when he got the call while they were in the Dairy Queen drive-thru.
"I didn't even think I had a chance. I just went for it and then this happened," he said. "It'll be really cool to see myself on the Food Network, and I'm happy for everyone else to see it."
Jeff Stewart was just as excited as his son about the competition.
"(Brady) is unique, picks his own interests and never felt any pressure to do things other kids do," Brady's father said. "He's also a perfectionist and goes all-in until he's the very best, whether it's gymnastics, tennis or baking."
For Brady, the experiences that followed the call were amazing. He was whisked off to join his fellow competitors at a hotel, where they stayed during filming. Between filming, the contestants bonded through tours and swimming at the hotel pool.
"Meeting the other kids was probably my favorite part of the show," he said. "We're still in touch. I actually met the first kid, Dharma (Sabapathy), in the van to the hotel."
Another cool meetup for him was the judges, Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman.
"It was really crazy when I met them," he said. "Seeing them on TV is nothing compared to meeting them. It was amazing. They're really nice people."
His passion for baking stems from his grandmother, great-grandmother and watching YouTube videos. By the time he was 8 years old, he asked for a mixer and was hooked.
"I just like how you can be really creative and can pretty much do whatever you want," he said. "I also like that you get to eat it and can make other people happy."
His favorite things to bake are meringue-based French macarons (not to be confused with the similarly named coconut-based macaroons) and cakes.
What is the Kids Baking Championship?
This Food Network show follows the child contestants as they compete in weekly baking challenges and are judged by Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman. In its seventh season, viewers can expect hedgehog poke cakes, giant doughnut cakes, the fan-favorite impostor dessert challenge and more sweet challenges, according to a news release.
The show's winner will receive $25,000, a feature in Food Network Magazine and the title of Kids Baking Champion. The show premieres at 9 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, and the finale will be Monday, Sept. 16.
Contestants come from across the U.S. this season are:
Trevin Alford, 13, from Washington, Indiana
Tori Church, 12, from Nashville, Tennessee
Sophia Elrod, 10, from Nashville, Tennessee
Tarek Husseini, 13, from St. Louis, Missouri
Taylor Pusha, 12, from Roanoke, Virginia
Dharma Sabapathy, 11, from Austin, Texas
Brady Stewart, 12, from San Angelo, Texas
Sophie Tate, 12, from Stansbury Park, Utah
Brooke Waters, 11, from Selma, Alabama
To watch Brady Stewart and the other contestants, tune in to the Kids Baking Championship premiere, named "Splatter Up." Contestants will serve up two-layer splatter cakes.
New episodes are every Monday. For recaps, behind-the-scenes footage and baking tips, viewers can keep up with Bertinelli and Goldman by following the #KidsBakingChampionship or visiting FoodNetwork.com/KidsBakingChampionship.


Many Eyes was a free site where anyone could upload, visualize, and discuss data. It was an experiment created at the IBM Visual Communication Lab, running from 2007 - 2015.
The New York Times covers Many Eyes: "Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data," Anne Eisenberg, Aug. 31, 2008, p. B4.
Many Eyes: A Site for Visualization at Internet Scale, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss, Matt McKeon. Infovis, 2007.
Your Place or Mine? Visualization as a Community Component, Catalina M. Danis, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jesse Kriss. CHI, 2008.
Emerging Graphic Tool Gets People Talking. Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas. Harvard Business Review, May 2008.
Harry Potter and the Meat-Filled Freezer: A Case Study of Spontaneous Usage of Visualization Tools, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Matt McKeon, Frank van Ham, Jesse Kriss. HICSS, 2008.
Data visualization has historically been accessible only to the elite in academia, business, and government. But in recent years web-based visualizations--ranging from political art projects to news stories--have reached audiences of millions. Unfortunately, while lay users can view many sophisticated visualizations, they have few ways to create them.
To "democratize" visualization, and experiment with new collaborative techniques, we built Many Eyes, a web site where people may upload their own data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. The goal is to foster a social style of data analysis in which visualizations serve not only as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a means to spur discussion and collaboration.
The idea for the site came from experiences that Fernanda Viégas and I had in which visualizations had an unexpectedly strong social component. The papers and videos at left give a good account of what we learned.
Although Many Eyes was decommissioned by IBM in 2015, its ideas live on in many other visualization products.


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This post is a follow on from my previous post [OAuth with NancyFX and WorldDomination.Web.Authentication](/2013/01/oauth-with-nancyfx-and-world-domination-authentication/) except this demonstrates how you can use WorldDomination.Web.Authentication with ASP.NET MVC, writing only minimal code in the process.

To save you jumping to the other post, I'll quote myself:

> One of the biggest pains of building websites, in my opinion, is implementing OAuth providers, it's often fiddly, doesn't work, and frameworks that are created to try make things easier, don't seem to make it easier.
>
> So [PureKrome](https://github.com/PureKrome) and myself decided to create [WorldDomination: Web Authentication](http://www.nuget.org/packages/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication/)
>
> The idea behind this framework is to keep it super simple to implement OAuth into your website, without the bloat. The core framework ONLY deals with Google, Twitter, and Facebook authentication. It doesn't try to create a fancy UI for you, it doesn't require you to write lots and lots of code. You simply give it some info, it redirects, it comes back and gives you the authentication info.

So without further adieu...

### Installing

Installing the library for MVC requires installing the MVC specific library.

> PM> Install-Package WorldDomination.Web.Authentication.Mvc

This will install:

- WorldDomination.Web.Authentication.Mvc
- WorldDomination.Web.Authentication
- RestSharp

The first package is the ASP.NET MVC provider, this wires up all the routes and handles the redirect and callback.

The second package is the actual implementation, this has no dependency on `NancyContext` or `System.Web`

The last package is required by `WorldDomination.Web.Authentication` to process the callback and deserialize the response.

### Configuring

Now that it's installed, we need to configure it, this is done one of two ways, by adding the information to the `web.config`, or by registering the information in the `Global.asax`

I'm going to show the `web.config` way, but you can [visit the github wiki](https://github.com/PureKrome/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication/wiki) for `WorldDomination.Web.Authentication` on information to configure via the Global.asax.

In the `web.config` add a config section like so

Now add the `authenticationProviders` element.

    <authenticationProviders>
      <providers>
        <add name="Facebook" key="470874...41" secret="02bb584...332fe2" />
        <add name="Google" key="58714009...ent.com" secret="npk...ooxCEY" />
        <add name="Twitter" key="Rb7qNNP...znFTbF6Q" secret="pP...7hu9c" />
      </providers>
    </authenticationProviders>

**Note:** These are the key/secret you get when you register your application with the providers.

You can get the key/secret registering your apps:

- Facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/server-side-login/
- Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/
- Google: https://code.google.com/apis/console/?pli=1#access

<span class="note"**Note:** Please refer to the 'Adding some buttons' section on the URLs for use when registering.

### Registering the routes

Unlike Nancy, we need to tell Mvc to register the routes, if you don't mind using the built in routes you can simply call the registration, passing in the route table, and you will get the default routes described in the rest of this blog post.

    WorldDominationRouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

<span class="note"**Note:** This must be registered BEFORE your own routes, otherwise your default route will override the WorldDomination specific routes and then you will end up with issues such as the controller doesn't exist.

The routes registered are two specific ones:

    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "WorldDominationAutomatedMvc-Redirect",
        url: "authentication/redirect/{providerkey}/{additionaldata}",
        defaults: new { controller = "WorldDominationAuthentication", action = "RedirectToProvider", additionaldata = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );
    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "WorldDominationAutomatedMvc-AuthenticateCallback",
        url: "authentication/authenticatecallback",
        defaults: new { controller = "WorldDominationAuthentication", action = "AuthenticateCallback" }
    );

Alternatively if you want to specify your own routes, you can copy the route registration above and define your own paths.

### Implementing your callback

Now you need to implement a callback, this callback is what YOU want to do with the result from a successful (or failed) authentication, you need to implement this because we don't know what you have planned, if you want to create a session, set a cookie, use form authentication, what ever, that's up to you.

To do this you can create a new class and implement the interface `IAuthenticationCallbackProvider`

    public class SampleCallbackProvider : IAuthenticationCallbackProvider
    {
        public ActionResult Process(HttpContextBase context, AuthenticateCallbackData model)
        {
            return new ViewResult
            {
                ViewName = "AuthenticateCallback",
                ViewData = new ViewDataDictionary(model)
            };
        }
    }

This example will simply respond with the view `AuthenticateCallback` and pass it the model with the data returned from the provider. Ideally you would check to see if the user is new, or if you need to add him to your database, or authenticate him with your system.

You can take a look at the implementation used by JabbR [here](https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR/blob/master/JabbR/Nancy/JabbRAuthenticationCallbackProvider.cs), which I've mirrored as a [gist here](https://gist.github.com/4674109) in-case it is changed or moved and the link becomes dead.

Although the JabbR implementation is for NancyFX, it will give you an idea of what you can achieve. The main difference is the MVC version will pass you the HttpContext of the current controller, while the NancyFX one passes you the NancyModule. The implementation would be pretty much identical.

### Adding some buttons

Last of all, you need to add some buttons to the screen. This is where you have to link to some specific URLs.

**Note:** These links will be configurable in the future, but for now they are hard-coded.

The two URLs used by the system are:

- Redirect: /authentication/redirect/*provider key*
- Callback: /authentication/authenticatecallback?providerkey=*provider key*

Examples: The links you would add to your page would be similar to:

These links are just normal hyperlinks, giving you absolute freedom and flexibility to style them any way you want. Because we have absolutely NO involvement in the generation of the links, we cannot get in the way.

All you need to do is ensure that the links provided to us look like the above.

Your callback urls would end up looking like:

- /authentication/authenticatecallback?providerkey=twitter
- /authentication/authenticatecallback?providerkey=facebook
- /authentication/authenticatecallback?providerkey=google

**Note:** The urls are forced to be lowercase because Google is case sensitive, so when registering your app with google please make sure the url is registered all lowercase.

And you're done!

Now you can run your app:

![](/images/jabbr-authentication-sample-1.png)

We click on Google:

![](/images/jabbr-authentication-sample-2.png)

And we get redirected back to the website after allowing the authentication with Google:

![](/images/jabbr-authentication-sample-3.png)

That's all there is to it.

The sample can be found on github here:

- <https://github.com/PureKrome/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication/tree/master/Samples/MvcAutomatedSample>

You can find the source code on github:

- <https://github.com/PureKrome/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication>

And the Nuget packages

- <http://www.nuget.org/packages/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication/>
- <http://www.nuget.org/packages/WorldDomination.Web.Authentication.Mvc/>

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npm install -g gulp
npm install -g bower

cd to root folder

npm install

bower install

-- to build less
	cd ./build
	start gulp wless

-- to build production environment; produces <root>/production
	gulp prod


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COVID-19 Numbers Are Rising. But How Are Those Numbers Counted?
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This story is part of Science Friday's coverage on the novel coronavirus, the agent of the disease COVID-19. Listen to experts discuss the spread, outbreak response, and treatment.
This week, the death toll attributed to the new coronavirus outbreak passed 2,000 people. And while that number is solid, many of the other numbers involved with this disease, including the total number infected and the degree of transmissibility of the virus, change from day to day. Those shifting numbers are in part due to changes in how countries, such as China, are diagnosing patients and defining who is "infected."
It can be difficult to know what information deserves attention, especially when information on possible transmission routes and timelines for vaccine development shift constantly. Helen Branswell, senior reporter on infection diseases at STAT, joins Ira for an update on COVID-19 and a conversation about evaluating medical information in the midst of a developing story.
Read about the the development of the coronavirus vaccine in Stat News.
Learn more about the status of the virus via the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.
Helen Branswell
Helen Branswell is a senior writer covering infectious diseases at STAT in Boston, Massachusetts.
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flatow. A bit later in the hour, a look at some newly unearthed Neanderthal bones. And we ponder whether synthetic diamonds could be genuine and fake at the same time.
But first, this week, the death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak passed 2,000. And while that number is good for now, many of the other numbers we're hearing, how many cases, how fast is it spreading, and those numbers seem to change day to day.
And joining me now to help sort out the shifting status of COVID-19 is Helen Branswell, a senior reporter covering infectious disease and public health for STAT in Boston. She joins us via Skype. Welcome to Science Friday.
HELEN BRANSWELL: Hi, Ira. Thanks for having me.
IRA FLATOW: Cases keep going up all the time.
HELEN BRANSWELL: Yes, they are going up, and they're coming from different parts of the world as well. It's not just China anymore.
IRA FLATOW: Where, for example?
HELEN BRANSWELL: Well, very interestingly, cases have spiked in South Korea. They started out the week with 30 cases. They ended the week with 204. The virus seems to be spreading in a religious community there and spreading very nicely. As well, Iran on Wednesday announced that it had found two cases and people who had already died. And by today, that was 18 cases, four deaths. And Iran has actually exported two cases, one to Canada and one to Lebanon. So that's a new hotspot.
IRA FLATOW: So are we seeing more cases because there's better diagnosis of the disease? We're just catching more of it as it spreads?
HELEN BRANSWELL: Well, certainly more testing will find more cases– that's true. And more countries are coming online with the ability to be able to test. But I think we're seeing more cases because there are more cases.
IRA FLATOW: Yeah. Yeah, and I was interested to see a report this week from the Chinese, their centers for disease control, that stool samples had tested positive for live virus in it.
HELEN BRANSWELL: I didn't see that one. Was it live virus?
IRA FLATOW: Yeah.
HELEN BRANSWELL: That would be interesting. OK, I've seen PCR viral fragments, which would be interesting, but live virus is different.
IRA FLATOW: Well, I mean, I may be having it wrong. I know there are viruses, but you're saying, maybe they're not live viruses.
HELEN BRANSWELL: I don't know. Your information may be better than mine. But it would be important to know because, obviously, if it's viral particles, that doesn't necessarily mean it's potentially infectious. If it's live virus that can be cultured, then conceivably, you could have a sort of fecal oral route, although this is a respiratory virus.
And people don't typically get too near other people's stools. So it seems much more likely that coughing and sneezing and maybe touching contaminated surfaces and then touching our faces is going to be more the route that one would get infected by.
IRA FLATOW: Yeah. People are also very interested in the estimates of how easily the disease is transmitted or how often it leads to death in infected persons. But those numbers are very dependent on the initial estimates of how many people are infected, correct?
HELEN BRANSWELL: Yeah. Yeah, we still don't really have a good picture of that. I mean, we know as of today that about 77,000 people have been confirmed to have had the virus. But it's likely that there are lots of people that have had infection and haven't been detected. Because in a lot of places, the protocol requires you, or has required in the past, person to have had pneumonia before they would even get tested. And so that would automatically rule out anybody who has mild infection and maybe just has what looks like a common cold.
IRA FLATOW: Are there reports– I've heard there are reports of people who have the virus, but don't show any symptoms of it.
HELEN BRANSWELL: Yeah, there have been several small case studies that report on that a few people who seemed to be completely symptom free, and yet, still have about the same amount of virus in their upper respiratory tract as people who have symptoms, which is worrying because, obviously, it could mean that they could be contributing to the spread.
IRA FLATOW: Are the numbers that the Chinese are giving us, are they dependable numbers? Because they seem to be changing dramatically back and forth.
HELEN BRANSWELL: Yeah, so initially, they were only releasing lab confirmed cases and acknowledging to the World Health Organization that they had a bit of a problem dealing with a backlog of cases.
And then at a point last week, they said, all right, we're going to include cases that have a CT scan evidence of pneumonia and symptoms of the disease. And if the people live in Hubei province, which is where the epicenter of the outbreak is, but these people haven't had a positive test.
And so after that happened, the numbers spiked up. One day, they reported 15,000 cases. And then this week, they said, OK, we're going back to the old way of testing. We're not going to use a clinical diagnosis. It's only lab confirmed cases. And the cases plunged. The other night, they reported fewer than 400 cases, which is the first time in weeks that it's been in triple digits.
Are they reliable? I don't think anybody thinks they're catching all of the cases. Because as I mentioned before, it's pretty clear from the cases that have come out of China, that there's a lot of mild infection, and it's very hard to find mild infection when you're responding to an outbreak like this. So that's probably being missed. That's as much as I can tell you.
IRA FLATOW: Yeah. Do we know how easy it is to catch the virus from one person to another?
HELEN BRANSWELL: It seems pretty transmissible. There've been different estimates of the reproductive number. They R not, as your listeners probably know, the number of people each person is likely to infect, if anything, is below one. An outbreak can't sustain itself, and anything above two, things get kind of brisk.
The R not for this has been estimated at something like 2, 2 and 1/2 to almost 5, which is a pretty brisk level of transmission. It just sounds like people– that this virus is very efficient at spreading from person to person.
IRA FLATOW: There was a report out of a company in Texas this week that claims to have invented a vaccine for this. Have you seen that report?
HELEN BRANSWELL: I haven't seen that one. There have been others. There's certainly a lab in Hong Kong announced two or three weeks ago that they probably– that they thought they had a vaccine. But I mean, when anybody is talking about a vaccine at this point, they're talking about a prototype, or effectively, a recipe for a vaccine. They're not actually talking about something you or I could get.
IRA FLATOW: Why do you say that? Do you mean because it takes a lot more time, once you get the recipe, to then go out and test it and get it to the market?
HELEN BRANSWELL: Yeah, exactly. I mean, you have to make sure that your idea actually works. You have to test it in animals. And in fact, right now, there's not even an established animal model for this disease yet, so that has to be done before you could do the animal testing. You have to test it in people to see if it's safe, and then you have to test it in more people to see if it works.
And then you have to make it, and it's not like you can commandeer company X's vaccine production line to make a vaccine. You have to figure out where it's going to be produced. And all of that takes time. People don't like to hear that.
But earlier this week, Sanofi, which is a major vaccine manufacturer, said that they were going to try to make a coronavirus vaccine. And they estimated that if they could get it done in three to four years, that that would be about as fast as was possible. I think that's probably a more realistic timeline than people like to hear.
IRA FLATOW: That's what you heard– we the federal government say they could have one within a year.
HELEN BRANSWELL: Well, I've heard Dr.– I was actually moderating a panel last week that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he was on it. And his Institute is partnering with a biotech company to produce a vaccine. And he believes they could have a prototype within sort of 16 weeks of the start of the work, so maybe, at this point, two and a half months from now or something.
But then you still have to test it. And he was saying he thought that they might be able to do phase one testing in people and have results sort of by the end of the year. But they don't actually have anybody to make that vaccine yet.
IRA FLATOW: Why is that? Because there's no money to be made in the vaccine? Drug companies want to make billions on something they make and that that's not the scale we're talking about?
HELEN BRANSWELL: Well, here's the thing. No one knows what's going to happen with this virus. It looks right now like it's going to be bad, and we're going to be dealing with it for a while, in which case, there would be a market for a vaccine. But there have been so many instances in the past couple of decades where a new virus emerged. The world demanded a vaccine immediately. And all the major manufacturers stepped forward and tried to make a vaccine.
You can think about West Nile virus arriving in the United States or chikungunya or Ebola, the big Ebola outbreak. That did lead to a vaccine, but that one had been in the works for about 15 years before that. Zika, a few years ago, people wanted a vaccine. And then the threat seemed to dissipate. And with it went the market.
Vaccine manufacturers are companies. They have to make a profit. And it's time and again, they have tried to make vaccines for these kinds of emerging threats, only to lose time, money, opportunity costs, and not end up with a product. So this time around, they've been more cautious about getting into it.
IRA FLATOW: So it's a question of number of deaths before we see so much.
HELEN BRANSWELL: I think it's more about sort of a sense of certainty that this is established, that it's establishing itself and going to be around and a problem that people are going to want addressed. China has been trying to contain it at the source– put it out within China. They've taken these extraordinary steps to quarantine cities, where tens of billions of people there.
IRA FLATOW: Yeah, we've been following that. And–
HELEN BRANSWELL: Right. And if they were to manage to do that, then the demand for a vaccine would go away. It seems, frankly, hard to believe, with 77,000 cases globally, that that could be done. But this–
IRA FLATOW: Well, Helen, we'll pick it up when we can later on. Thank you for taking the time to be with us.
HELEN BRANSWELL: OK. Thank you.
IRA FLATOW: Helen Branswell, a senior reporter at STAT in Boston.
Flu Versus Cold: Battle Of The Respiratory Viruses
When the flu season ramps up, researchers see a decline in colds. Are the two related?
Can I Drink Alcohol With a Cold? Your Cold Questions, Answered.
Arm yourself with these cold facts, and fight sniffles smarter.

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Jets Make Roster Moves; Curry is Back
The team announced that they are bringing back Vinny Curry and according to PFT they have also signed Marcell Harris.
Vinny Curry:
Curry (6-3, 279) signed with the Green & White last March and was placed on the reserve/NFI list on August 24, which ended his season. He's now entering his 11th NFL season after spending eight of his first nine years with Philadelphia and one season with Tampa Bay in 2018. Curry, who is from Neptune, NJ, has played in 123 regular-season games in his career with 28 starts and has totaled 32.5 sacks, 92 QB hits and 194 tackles.
He was drafted in the second-round in 2012 out of Marshall and has started 28 of the 123 games he's appeared in. Curry adds postseason experience with three starts in the '17 postseason, including in Philly's win over New England in Super Bowl LII.
Marcell Harris:
Harris is familiar with head coach Robert Saleh from their shared time with the 49ers. Harris was a sixth-round pick for San Francisco in the 2018 draft and appeared in 52 games with 20 starts for the franchise over the last four seasons.
Harris started his career as a safety, but transitioned to linebacker in 2021. He was a rotational player on defense, playing 31 percent of the unit's snaps last season. He also was a heavy special teams contributor, playing the majority of snaps on the unit in the last two years.
Overall, Harris has recorded 155 career tackles with nine passes defensed, an interception, five forced fumbles, and three fumble recoveries.


It's easy to be smug when you're home to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and Arizona's license plate succinctly sums it up: Grand Canyon State. However, there is more to this Southwestern state than the vast canyon of the Colorado River. Stately saguaro cacti and rugged red-rock landscapes have served as backdrop both for Western history and Western movies. Cowboys and Indians are still at home on the range here in Arizona, but it is as a seller of sunshine to the winter-weary that Arizona has made its fortune.
Cities -- In Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city, Ford Mustangs far outnumber wild mustangs and the golf course greens of luxury resorts have long since tamed the desert. Set against a craggy mountain backdrop, Tucson strives to preserve both its Hispanic heritage and its forests of saguaro cacti. College-town character and a historic downtown make Flagstaff a lively gateway to the Grand Canyon. Jerome and Bisbee, once booming mining towns, have once again struck pay dirt, this time in the guise of galleries and boutiques.
The Great Outdoors -- Take a hike, ride a mule, or hang on for a rip-roarin' raft ride. No matter how you approach it, a Grand Canyon adventure is world class. In the state's northeast corner, the buttes and mesas of Monument Valley compete with the canyon for the title of the state's most astonishing landscape. In southern Arizona, explore the Sonoran Desert, one of the greenest deserts on earth. In scenic Sedona, rumble through the red rocks in a Jeep, or search out some quiet on a hike or mountain-bike ride.
Eating & Drinking -- With Mexico for a neighbor, it should come as no surprise that Arizona relishes south-of-the-border flavors. From street tacos, Sonoran hot dogs, and air-dried carne seca to the complex Southwestern and Nuevo Latino dishes served at such celebrated restaurants as Janos, Kai, Poca Cosa, and the Turquoise Room, there's a regional dish for every palate. Native American fry bread tacos are a local guilty pleasure not to be missed. Wash it all down with a margarita, microbrew, or even an Arizona wine.
National Parks -- While millions of people come to Arizona each year to visit Grand Canyon National Park, the state is also home to more than a dozen other national parks and monuments. Massive saguaro cacti are preserved in Tucson's two units of Saguaro National Park, while to the west of Tucson, more cacti are preserved in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. In such national monuments as Canyon de Chelly, Montezuma Castle, Navajo, Wupatki, and Tonto, cliff dwellings and ancient pueblo ruins can be explored.


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Launch of new Bearded Vulture release season: Two young and captive-bred brothers reintroduced in the Grands Causses, France
Bearded Vulture Plumet © LPO Grands Causses
The first 2021 releases of captive-bred Bearded Vultures into the wild already took place! This past Sunday, on 25 Aril, the LIFE GypConnect team released two young Bearded Vultures in the Grands Causses Regional Natural Park as part of the project's reintroduction efforts!
Get to know the released Bearded Vultures
The young Bearded Vultures are actually brothers. They arrived early this winter at the Richard Faust Bearded Vulture Specialised Captive Breeding Centre (RFZ) in Austria, which is part of the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network, coordinated by the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) on behalf of EAZA's EEP. The first chick hatched on 23 January and was Europe's first Bearded Vulture chick of 2021, and his brother a few days later on 1 February. Their dad hatched in 1989 and is a Cretan descendant, while their mother hatched in 1992. Both parents had different partners in the past, but ever since they formed a pair in 2001, they have been very productive breeding birds. A few days after they hatched, the chicks were adopted by different Bearded Vultures at RFZ to ensure natural rearing, making them suitable for release and life in the wild. Now, after approximately three months, the two brothers baptised 'Plumet' and 'Parpaillou' by school children were ready for freedom!
Release of the captive-bred Bearded Vultures
Bearded Vulture released in the hacking site © LPO Grands Causses
The LIFE GypConnect team received the two birds this past Sunday. Ahead of their release, the team fitted them with identification rings, bleached a unique set of feather and equipped GPS transmitters on their backs in order to recognise them and monitor their progress in the wild. Then, the team released the young vultures using the 'hacking method', which is more or less the natural way of fledging. This method involves releasing nestlings that hatched in captivity at an artificial nest in suitable habitat to acclimatise to the natural environment before they take their first flights. With this technique, the nestlings are able to associate the place where they are released with the area of hatching so that when they reach breeding age, which is around 8-10 years old, they select these places to breed. For the first few months after the release, an attentive team also closely monitors the new inhabitants and their daily progress to help ensure their wellbeing.
In the Grands Causses, 25 Bearded Vultures have already been released. These two new individuals, play a key part in the LIFE GypConnect's efforts to reintroduce a core population of the species in the Massif Central, and to promote the link between the Bearded Vultures of the Alps and the Pyrenees.
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Hounslow Urban Farm - Rural London; North Side.
Down the road and round the corner from both Donkey Wood and Hounslow Heath is Hounslow Urban Farm, one of several such Farms, scattered around London. Located a mile or two from Heathrow Airport (sometimes seeming as though it is actually in an aeroplane engine the din is so loud) and quite close to Hatton Cross Piccadilly line tube staion is this neat little Urban Farm.
I have visited the farm many times over the years particularly with my sons when they were little and it is a wonderful place.
On my most recent visit in the autumn of 2008 I chatted to a member of staff to enquire why the admission fee was so high; I think it was a 'voluntary' contribution suggested at £4.50! I was told that the farm receives little financial help from Hounslow Council so basically struggles along on such voluntary assistance. I did a little checking and as far as I can see Hounslow is one of the only Urban Farms that charge admission. Come on Hounslow Council do the right thing!
The farm is full of delightful animals including Pigs, Goats, Sheep, Donkeys, Ponys, Chickens and Ducks. On my visit last year, as on those that I made in days of yore, the place was teaming with little children all having a great time especially with the young animals that were roaming free and who appeared to be enjoying the interaction equally.
So despite the constant racket of the planes overhead a little muddy patch of farmyard exists here to give your Urban Brats a taste of country life and they loves it m'dear!


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Lori Zabka, creating a one-stop virtual wellness shop.
Lori Zabka is not your typical nutrition and fitness coach. With a degree in music from Belmont University, Lori took off on the Nashville stage in a big way and fast. In the early 2000s after her first big record deal, her life changed — but not in the way you might imagine. To prepare for an upcoming tour, her music label teamed up with a nutritionist and personal trainer.
"As I watched my body and my voice grow stronger, I was amazed by the benefits of taking care of myself, not to mention eating kale was making my voice stronger. Who knew?! The tips, tricks and techniques I learned were far beyond just 'buffing up,'" Lori says.
The years she spent singing in California were where Lori's love of all things fitness meets nutrition began. Drawing from her newfound realization and years of experience, Lori began to formulate her own method of training — one that took into account all aspects of the body and how they function together. From this, she created The Life By Lori Z, a one-stop virtual wellness shop.
Lori recently launched what she calls, The ANTI-Diet in which the focus is not on ditching the chips and pizza but rather becoming more aware of anti-inflammatory foods and creating overall gut health one recipe at a time.


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Why Does Digital Learning Matter? Digital Competencies, Social Justice,and Critical Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Education
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Why does work cause fatigue? A real-time investigation of fatigue, and determinants of fatigue in nurses working 12-hour shifts
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Why do general practitioners take blood? A cross-sectional study of use of blood tests in UK general practice
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Why don't consumers want to give more information to pharmacy staff?
Fearn, P., Entwistle, V. A., Bond, C. M., Johnston, M. & Watson, M. C., 2008, In: International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 16, S1, p. A40-A41 2 p.
Why do women not return family history forms when referred to breast cancer genetics services? a mixed-method study
Hanning, K. A., Steel, M., Goudie, D., McLeish, L., Dunlop, J., Myring, J., Sullivan, F., Berg, J., Humphris, G. & Ozakinci, G., 2014, In: Health Expectations.
Why Independence Does Not Equal Individualism
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Why inner city mothers take their children for routine medical and dental examinations.
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Why is quinidine an inhibitor of cytochrome P450 2D6? The role of key active-site residues in quinidine binding
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Why is renal impairment associated with poorer cancer specific survival in breast cancer patients? a comparison with patients with other comorbidities
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Why 'knowledge transfer' is misconceived for applied social research
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Why legislate for sustainable development? an examination of sustainable development provisions in UK and Scottish statutes
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Why older people do not participate in leisure time physical activity: a survey of activity levels, beliefs and deterrents
Crombie, I. K., Irvine, L., Williams, B., McGinnis, A. R., Slane, P. W., Alder, E. M. & McMurdo, M. E. T., May 2004, In: Age and Ageing. 33, 3, p. 287-292 6 p.
Why realism and methodological pluralism matter for robust research and public policy: Perspectives from behavioural economics
Altman, M., 17 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. 11, 2, p. 130-148 19 p.
Why students leave in the UK? an integrative review of the international research literature
Cameron, J., Roxburgh, M., Taylor, J. & Lauder, W., 2011, In: Journal of Clinical Nursing. 20, 7-8, p. 1086-1096 11 p.
Why the journey to mathematical excellence may be long in Scotland's primary schools
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Four chartered physiotherapists provide a range of treatments at this clinic located in Lisburn in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The clinic is registered with the Health Professionals Council. Conditions treated at the clinic include sports injuries, soft tissue injuries, musculoskeletal disorders and arthritic pain. Procedures performed include spinal mobilization and manipulation, joint manipulation and mobilization, acupuncture, electrotherapy, sports massage, taping, exercise prescriptions, Pilates, posture and workplace ergonomics guidance and soft tissue release. Post injury rehabilitation is also provided.


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Irvine Welsh has been described as "Poet Laureate of the chemical generation" and his fiction has been lapped up ever since his debut Trainspotting was released.
He was born in 1961 in the Leith area of Edinburgh and moved with his family to Muirhouse when he was just four. He worked as a TV repairman for some time before moving between different jobs. He left Edinburgh for London in the late 1970s and was heavily influenced by the punk scene, singing and playing guitar in The Public Lice and Stairway 13. He worked in London throughout the 1980s but came back to Edinburgh once again and studied for an MBA at Heriot Watt University.
In 1993 Trainspotting was published and Welsh first became known for writing about the Edinburgh drug scene. By 1996 the novel had been transformed into a huge hit film by Danny Boyle, starring both Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle. He continued in the same vein with much of his fiction with a short story collection The Acid House published in 1994 and his second novel Marabou Stork Nightmares published in 1995. Welsh continued to mix it up between short fiction and novels with his next released Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance released in 1996 and Filth, his third novel published in 1998. In total Welsh has published ten novels to date as well as four short story collections and many screenplays and film scripts. His most recent novels were The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins and A Decent Ride and throughout his career Welsh has continued to write about his hometown and Scotland in general, becoming particularly famous for writing in dialect.
Many of Welsh's works have been adapted for the screen and stage, with Ecstasy, Glue, Filth, Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nights transformed into stage plays and The Acid House and Ecstasy joining Trainspotting as films.
As well as literature Welsh has branched into film and is a partner in two different film production companies, one of which is 4Way Picture which combines the talents of director Antonia Bird, actor Robert Carlyle and Mark Cousins.
Welsh is prolific on social media and he currently lives in Dublin but often heads out the Miami for winters and spends a lot of time visiting Edinburgh too, especially as a loyal fan of Hibernian FC.
Irvine Welsh's next novel is due to be published in April this year and is called The Blade Artist.
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That blocks the loading of the sitefinder page, but it's still possible for the site to place a cookie on your system. Launch the Internet Options dialog from Control Panel or from Internet Explorer's Tools menu and click the Security tab. Click the Restricted Sites icon and click the Sites button. Add http://sitefinder.verisign.com and http://sitefinder-idn.verisign.com to the list and click OK. Make sure that the security level is set to High. If you're using IE6, click the Privacy tab, click the Edit button, and add those same two URLs to the Block list; you can also block them using a third-party cookie manager.
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sProcess.options.base.Type    = 'text';
sProcess.options.base.Value   = '';

% === TARGET
sProcess.options.chars.Comment = 'Number of characters of Condition';
sProcess.options.chars.Type    = 'value';
sProcess.options.chars.Value   = {10, '', 0}; % the second number indicates the numbers after decimall separator.

% === CHARS EXPLANATION
sProcess.options.charstext.Comment = ['This value is overridden if the Base argument <BR>' ...
    'is not empty' ];
sProcess.options.charstext.Type    = 'label';

end

%% ===== FORMAT COMMENT =====
function Comment = FormatComment(sProcess) %#ok<DEFNU>
Comment = sProcess.Comment;
end
% the comment is apparently a mandatory part of a brainstorm process.

%% ===== RUN =====
function OutputFiles = Run(sProcess, sInputs) %#ok<DEFNU>

OutputFiles = {sInputs.FileName};

for i = 1:length(sInputs)

    sInput=sInputs(i); % get current file

    %% DEFINE BASE
    % if a base value is supplied, specify base
    if ~strcmpi(sProcess.options.base.Value, '')

        myCondName=sProcess.options.base.Value

    else % otherwise use number of characters

        % get condition name (it will be the 'base' in erpR terms)
        % the end will be the minimum between the actual length and the
        % number supplied with Condition numbers

        end_myCondName=min([length(sInput.Comment), sProcess.options.chars.Value{1}])

        myCondName = sInput.Comment(1: end_myCondName); % get the length of Condition name from options

    end;

    % get Subject Name
    Curr_Subj_Name=sInput.SubjectName;

    % get connectivity Data
    conn_data = in_bst_data(sInput.FileName);

    % get connectivity matrix (rearranged correcttly)
    R = bst_memory('GetConnectMatrix', conn_data);

    % get row Names
    col_names = conn_data.RowNames;

    % DEFINE EXPORT NAME (combination of condition and subject).
    export_name=strcat(myCondName, '_', Curr_Subj_Name, '.txt');
    % small correction of export name (':' can give problems)
    export_name=strrep(export_name, ':', '_');

    % FIRST LINE COMMENT define the comment to be put in the file
    % (in the first line)-

    myComment =  Curr_Subj_Name;

    fid = fopen(export_name, 'wt');
    fprintf(fid, '%s ', myComment); % print comment (first row)
    fprintf(fid, '\n');
    delim1 = [repmat('%s\t', 1, size(col_names,1)-1), '%s\n']; % create delimiter (to avoid a final \t). Note it is the same of R. As R has same size of col_names
    delim2 = [repmat('%d\t', 1, size(col_names,1)-1), '%d\n']; % create delimiter (to avoid a final \t). Note it is the same of R. As R has same size of col_names
    fprintf(fid, delim1 , col_names{:}); % print channel labels (second row)
    for i=1:size(R,1);%     % print data (transposed, in order to use the erpR format)
        fprintf(fid, '%s\t', col_names{i});
        fprintf(fid, delim2, R(i,:));
    end;
    fclose(fid);

end;

end


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The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (NYIIFVF) NY line up
New Yorkers in need of an affordable yet satisfying indie film fix will be happy to hear that The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (NYIIFVF) has announced their slate of films and red carpet premieres. NYIIFVF runs from October 22nd-29th in Manhattan and will showcase a diverse range of features, shorts, documentaries and animations from all over the globe.
The opening night networking party and awards ceremony take place on Thursday, October 22nd at BLVD (199 Bowery) from 6-10pm. Film screenings are from October 23rd-29th on 2 screens at City Cinemas Village East (181 2nd Avenue at 12th Street).
More than 200 films from around the world will be exhibited. Genres include Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Animation, Music Video, Historical, Drama, Black Comedy, Mystery, Suspense, Action, Horror, Thriller, Experimental, Educational, War/Anti-War, Crime, Fantasy, Gay, as well as a compelling slate of top-notch documentaries.
35 countries/territories will be represented including: France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Argentina, UK, Brazil, Austria, India, Greece, Nepal, Mexico, Slovakia, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, The Netherlands, Belarus, Denmark, Slovenia, Colombia, Malta, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Ghana, China, Bahamas, Sweden, Finland, Israel and all over the US.
FILM HIGHLIGHTS:
Growing OpA teenage boy 'rebels against rebellion,' embodied by his ganja-growing, home-schooling, fugitive parents by resolving to go to high school for the first time. Heartfelt and hilarious, Growing Op is a sly satire of classic 80's teen films, delivering contemporary twists on family drama and youth comedy. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Rachel Blanchard, Steven Yaffee, Wallace Langham. Directed by Michael Melski. 95 min. Comedy-Drama. *Screening Sunday, October 25th at 6:15pm, Screen 6
Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!
A romantic, heartwarming and inspirational family comedy featuring a Jewish family who struggle coming to terms with their son's non-Jewish and gay boyfriend. When the gay couple adopts a child and it makes headline news, their families come to defend them and realize how much they love them.Starring: Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award nominee Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, Carmen Electra, Vincent Pastore, Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young and Emmy Award winner Jai Rodriguez and Emmy Award winning comedian/writer Bruce Vilanch.
Directed by Evgeny Afineevsky. 91 min. Romantic Family Comedy. *Screening Thursday, October 29th at 8pm, Screen 7
Resting Places
A global phenomenon is spreading. Opponents want it stopped. Oscar nominated actor Liam Neeson narrates this thought-provoking documentary about the growing controversy surrounding roadside memorials throughout the world. Directed by Melissa Villanueva and J. Michael Kipikash. 48 min. Documentary. *Screening Monday, October 26th at 5:45pm, Screen 7
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
Journalist Amanda Delacourt works to expose the true story of William Henry Harrison, America's 9th President: that he never died in office, but faked his death and rose from the shadows to become the most powerful man in the world. Narrated by Ed Asner.
Directed by Daniel Califf-Glick. 80 min. Mockumentary. *Screening Wednesday, October 28th at 10pm, Screen 7
Just Laugh!
Just Laugh! is an informative and entertaining documentary focusing on the many health benefits of laughter. Discover how a good belly laugh increases blood circulation, reduces stress, and builds the immune system. Features Regis Philbin, comedian Pat Cooper (Analyze This), Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond), preacher Joel Osteen, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach (Mystic River, The Good The Bad & The Ugly).
Directed by Anton Evangelista. 70 min. Documentary. *Screening Friday, October 23rd at 8:15pm, Screen 6
Failing Better Now
Mia, a flaky failed writer with a penchant for lying loses her sister's perfect cat. While she's looking, she meets and falls for a surprisingly sincere aspiring rockstar who joins her on her wild search through the East Village and challenges her to take on writing the story of her own life. Can she get it together before she has to move back in with her mother in New Jersey and become a florist? Starring Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company), and Julie McNiven (Mad Men).Directed by Keren Atzmon. 93 min. Romantic Comedy. *Screening Saturday, October 24th at 8:10pm, Screen 6
Trapped is the story of a carefully planned high-stakes business swindle and murder plot that goes terribly wrong. Or does it? Starring Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law, Major League),Tom Atkins (My Bloody Valentine, Lethal Weapon)
Directed by Gavin Rapp & Ron Hankison. 93 min. Crime Drama. *Screening Sunday, October 25th at 8:15pm, Screen 7 The Last GambleElizabeth Heaton enjoys a successful psychiatric practice in upper Manhattan, while Joe Goode, one of Elizabeth's patients, battles a serious gambling addiction which threatens both his job and his reputation. Starring John Savage, Nick Mancuso, Ray Abruzzo (The Sopranos, The Practice), Kathrine Narducci (The Sopranos), Steven Bauer (Scarface), Tanya Clarke (As The World Turns, A Beautiful Mind), Johnny WilliamsDirected by Joe Goodavage. 75 min. Drama. *Screening Saturday, October 24th at 10pm, Screen 7
Crooked Business
Small-time hustler Elmo & his best mate 'Stand-up' Stevie are just a couple of knockabouts trying to make an easy buck on the Gold Coast. Life is sweet, until Stevie finds himself in hot water for selling a dodgy watch to biker Russian Tony. You see, Stevie never did understand the rules of Crooked Business - 'if you're gonna do Crooked Business, you've gotta do it straight!' Features: Anthony Wong (The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions), Firass Dirani (The Marine, Power Rangers Mystic Force, The Black Balloon), Jay Laga'aia (Star Wars Episode II, Star Wars Episode III, Daybreakers)
Directed by Chris Nyst. 95 min. Comedy/Action. *Screening Sunday, October 25th at 10:15pm, Screen 7
Machetero
A French journalist (Isaach de Bankolé, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Miami Vice) interviews an imprisoned "Puerto Rican terrorist" (Not4Prophet) about using violence to free Puerto Rico from US colonialism. As they speak, a ghetto youth (Kelvin Fernandez) is encouraged by a mentor (Dylcia Pagan) to grow into the next Machetero.
Directed by Vagabond. 98 min. Drama. *Screening Thursday, October 29th at 8pm, Screen 6
A Happy Man
At 65, Pierre Martin (played by Pierre Richard), quantum physicist, inherits an inn in Canada. He leaves Paris with his daughter Catherine (Sylvie Testud) and ends up in the dead of winter in Sainte- Simone-du-Nord, a typical tiny village in the Saguenay, a remote region of Québec. Away from Parisian life, Pierre sees an opportunity to pass on to his daughter the quality he values most: happiness.
Directed by Robert Menard. 106 min. Comedy. *Screening Saturday, October 24th at 6:05pm, Screen 6
Still the Drums
Many of our veterans are haunted by secrets and memories that they have buried deep in their hearts and minds forever! Never to tell their stories, until now! Full of surprises, Still the Drums is a great American story about friendship, patriotism, heroism and post-traumatic stress disorder. After thirty-nine years, three ex-marines break their silence and question their service to their country after attending a military funeral for a best friend. An explosive and captivating edge of your seat mystery!
Directed by Talbot Perry Simons. 79 min. Drama/War/Anti-War/Mystery
*Screening Saturday, October 24th at 8:15pm, Screen 7
Cat. : Amanda Delacourt America America's 9th Anthony Wong Anton Evangelista Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Belarus Belgium Brazil Bruce Vilanch Canada Candidate Position Carmen Electra Catherine China Chris Nyst Colombia comedian comedian /writer Corbin Bernsen Czech Republic Daniel Califf-Glick Danny Aiello Denmark Doris Roberts Eli Wallach Emmy Emmy Award Entertainment Entertainment Evgeny Afineevsky Family Relation Finland Firass Dirani florist Gavin Rapp Germany Ghana Golden Globe Greece Henry HarrisonJournalist Human Interest Human Interest India Ireland Isaach De Bankole Israel J. Michael Kipikash Jai Rodriguez Japan Jay Laga'aia Joe Goodavage Joe Goode Joel Osteen John Lloyd Young Johnny WilliamsDirected Journalist Joyce DeWitt Julie McNiven Kathrine Narducci Kelvin Fernandez Keren Atzmon L.A. Lainie Kazan Liam Neeson Major Malta Melissa Villanueva Mexico Miami Michael Melski Nepal Netherlands New Jersey New York New York International Independent Film and Video Festival New Zealand Nick Mancuso Norway Oscar Paris Pat Cooper Person Career physicist Pierre Martin Pierre Richard Portugal Preacher president Puerto Rico Rachel Blanchard Ray Abruzzo Robert Ménard Ron Hankison Rosanna Arquette Saul Rubinek Screen 6 Oy Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Spain Steven Bauer (Scarface) Steven Yaffee Sweden Sylvie Testud Talbot Perry Simons Tanya Clarke the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival Tom Atkins Tony Award United Kingdom Vincent Pastore Wallace Langham War War William Henry William Henry Harrison writer


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Light Therapy Shows Promise for Gulf War Syndrome
by Traci Pedersen
It could be a scene from a futuristic 80's movie: A helmeted, goggled man sits in a chair while the little diodes in his cap shoot tiny beams of light into his scalp and nostrils. The scenario isn't science fiction, however—it's a real, promising new treatment, known as light-emitting diode (LED) therapy in which red and infrared light enter into and heal the body (in this case, the brain). Currently, it is being tested on veterans with Gulf War Syndrome, and the results are very promising.
Gulf War Syndrome, a chronic multi-symptom disorder, affects many veterans and working civilians who have returned from the Gulf War. Sufferers are often plagued with cognitive dysfunction, mood problems, headaches, insomnia and chronic fatigue. The syndrome has been linked to exposure to particular war chemicals, such as the nerve-gas sarin, certain pesticides, and pyridostigmine bromide (anti-nerve gas drug).
Light therapy, which is painless and produces no heat, does not simply mask symptoms—it goes straight to the source of pain and begins the healing process. Although it is still in the "investigational" stage for use in Gulf War Syndrome, the treatment is already being used successfully by many alternative health practitioners for pain and wounds.
"We are applying a technology that's been around for a while," says lead investigator Dr. Margaret Naeser in a press release, "but it's always been used on the body, for wound healing and to treat muscle aches and pains, and joint problems. We're starting to use it on the brain."
One trial, which is already underway, aims to treat 160 Gulf War veterans. Half of the participants will receive LED therapy for 15 sessions, while the other half will get a mock version with sham lights. Then the groups will switch, so that everyone gets the real therapy, although no one will know when they actually received it.
How it works depends on whom you ask. Eastern medicine approaches light therapy as it relates to the energy systems and chakras of the body. During treatment, light (energy) enters deep into the body (also energy) where it is able to balance systems, heal wounds and relieve pain.
Western doctors attribute the success of light therapy to physical processes which can be seen and tested. For example, the light from the diodes increases the output of nitric oxide, which improves blood flow. It also appears to have an effect on damaged brain cells, specifically the mitochondria (units within the cell that put out energy in the form of a chemical known as ATP). The light triggers the mitochondria to produce more ATP. That can mean clearer, sharper thinking, says Naeser.
Naeser's research team has already published promising findings on LED therapy in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Last June in the Journal of Neurotrauma, they reported the results of LED therapy on patients with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI). Most of the injuries were the result of car accidents or sports—one, however, was a battlefield injury, from an improvised explosive device (IED).
After the therapy, the participants showed brain improvement in areas such as executive function, verbal learning, and memory. They also experienced better sleep and fewer PTSD symptoms.
Naeser is hoping that the research findings will validate LED therapy as a viable treatment for veterans and others with brain difficulties. She believes the therapy has potential not only for war injuries but for conditions such as depression, dementia, stroke and autism.
Traci Pedersen is a professional freelance writer who specializes in psychology, science, health, and spiritual themes. Some of her most recent work includes covering the latest research news in science and psychology, writing science chapter books for elementary students, and developing teacher resource books. When she is not researching and writing, she is spending time with her family, reading anything and everything, and going to the beach as often as possible.
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Berlin Los Angeles. A Tale of Two (Other) Cities
English/German/Italian
Softcover, 20.5 x 13 cm
Texts by Stefan Heideinreich, and Thomas Lawson.
In 1859, Charles Dickens published a historical novel in installments, set in Paris and London. This catalogue, which incorporates its title, presents texts by two authors—Thomas Lawson and Stefan Heideinreich, who have an in-depth knowledge of the history and contemporary urban milieu of Los Angeles and Berlin, respectively—to offer a cultural and social overview of these "other" two metropolises, as opposed to the ones that the famous British writer explored. And the moods of these metropolises permeate the work of 13 young artists who are natives or temporary residents. The book illustrates the pieces in the 2009 show at Massimo De Carlo, by Frank Benson, Aaron Curry, Elad Lassry, Scott Olson, Kaari Upson, Simon Fujiwara, Klara Liden, Dan Rees, Kirstine Roepstorff, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau, Klaus Weber, and Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, supplementing them with pictures of the cities—taken or found by the artists—and with their biographies. The unique design, with an exposed binding, plays with the geographical differences and distinctive cultural features of the two cities, using a horizontal band over the actual cover, which incorporates eleven emblematic images.
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CableKiosk now accepting Bitcoin
Cape Town-based e-commerce startup CableKiosk has announced it can now accept Bitcoin as a method payment, which the company believes will further improve its customer service.
CableKiosk was one of the startups accepted onto 88mph's Cape Town accelerator programme last year, and in May reported average sale order growth of around 80 per cent.
The company said the incorporation of Bitcoin as a payment method was part of its philosophy of "progressive thinking married with a dynamic offering".
"We believe that technology is changing the world and that the future of consumer electronics lies in essential goods that add value to consumer's lives. With a positive start to 2014 and some major hires and partnerships created, we believe that this will put us in good stead to continue our journey into 2014 equipped with forward-thinking and great customer service," CableKiosk said.
Founder and chief technology officer (CTO) Andrew Lynch said: "We all use Bitcoin and thought it would only make sense to offer the currency to our consumers who use it as well."
Managing director (MD) Roy Mathieu Borole said the new payment option would complement rather than replace the site's current payment options – credit card and EFT.
"As huge fans of progressive thinking and crytocurrencies, accepting Bitcoin will be a step in the right direction for our organisation as it speaks to the core fundamentals of the company," he said.
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Downloading files from the internet is something that almost every programmer will have to do at some point. Python provides several ways to do just that in its standard library. Probably the most popular way to download a file is over HTTP using the urllib or urllib2 module. Python also comes with ftplib for FTP downloads. Finally there's a new 3rd party module that's getting a lot of buzz called requests. We'll be focusing on the two urllib modules and requests for this article.
Either way, it works quite well. The requests library method is get, which corresponds to the HTTP GET. Then you just take the requests object and call its content property to get the data you want to write. We use the with statement because it will automatically close a file and simplifies the code. Note that just using "read()" can be dangerous if the file is large. It would be better to read it in pieces by passing read a size.
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Sisters Barbara Zehr and Charlene Moser were born into a "plain" Conservative Mennonite family during the 1950s. 1 In many ways, the sisters' family lineage and personal experience implicitly convey an intense commitment to the conservation of their Mennonite heritage. Their parents farmed, raised six daughters, and worshipped in the Conservative Mennonite Church of Croghan, located in Lewis County, New York. 2 The Croghan church, originally Amish Mennonite, was established in 1830s when the first Zehr and Moser families fled the Alsace region in France in search of religious freedom and economic stability in North America. Charlene and Barbara's father, a bishop who oversees five local Conservative Mennonite congregations, is responsible for the continuation of the one-hundred-seventy-year-old community. As their married names suggest, the sisters wed local Conservative Mennonite men. After they married, both couples decided to stay in Croghan and take up farming. The sisters live within a few miles of their childhood church, which they regularly attend with their families. Charlene and her husband operate a dairy and live on her "home place," the land and house where she was raised. Barbara has worked at Widrick & Sons, a John Deere implement dealership, in a nearby town since 1987. Aside from providing for their children, church and extended family activities occupy much of the sisters' time.
In some ways, Barbara and Charlene's personal histories reflect the seemingly changeless continuities of plain people's communities and traditions. How the small, ethnoreligious community of Croghan's Conservative Mennonites has protected its traditions in the face of overwhelming economic and social--often termed "modernizing"--pressures is fertile soil for research. 3 Indeed, much of [End Page 79] the scholarly work on plain communities, especially the Amish with whom the Conservative Mennonites share a common history, analyzes how change is resisted. 4 In terms of Croghan's recent historical experience, however, this analytical focus would be misguided.
Another serious challenge to church discipline arose during the late 1970s and 1980s when young married women with small children faced an irreconcilable dilemma. Devout women's religious beliefs and church discipline strongly encouraged women, especially those with preschool children, to stay at home and on the farm. Church leaders also encouraged women to wear a prayer covering, a small mesh cap that symbolized their submission to men and their membership in Croghan's Conservative Mennonite Church. 6 For example, a typical church bulletin announcement read, "We urge husbands & fathers to encourage the sisters to faithfully respect God's order by wearing the veiling with uncut hair. I Cor. 11:1-16." 7 On the other hand, during the late 1970s and 1980s many married women, for the first time in Croghan history, started "working out," a term used locally for off-farm, wage-paying work, in an effort to save their farms from financial ruin. 8 Some women who worked out also rejected the prayer covering as a relevant religious symbol.


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Burgess Owens Declared Winner Of 4th District
Jul 1, 2020, 4:12 PM | Updated: 6:31 pm
Former NFL player Burgess Owens testifies during a hearing on slavery reparations held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee debated the H.R. 40 bill, which proposes a commission be formed to study and develop reparation proposals for African-Americans. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
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BY CARY SHWANITZ, KSL TV
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Associated Press declared former NFL player and Fox News commentator Burgess Owens winner of the 4th Congressional District Republican primary.
The pandemic has changed how ballots are counted so it's not clear how many ballots need to be counted before results are final.
Updated results from Wednesday have Owens maintaining a large lead with 43% of the vote. Kim Coleman trails with 23%, Jay McFarland with 21% and Trent Christensen at 10%.
Owens told KSL his phone has been buzzing all day, including a call from President Donald Trump, who congratulated him and told Owens he's all in.
Owens said his campaign is loaded with energy and ready to take on Representative Ben McAdams in November. "I think it's been much harder for Ben. He's a good guy, from what we understand but he's representing a party that is not a very good party for any of us. It's a party that destroyed the black community. It's a party that you actually see in the streets today destroying monuments, history, our culture. It's just a very dark place when you start to understand what Marxism and socialism is all about."
Representative McAdams, a Democrat, said, "This district belongs to Utah and doesn't belong to a political parties. So I'm really grateful for Utahns who put their faith in me every day because of the independent voice that I bring to Washington. I want to congratulate and welcome Burgess into the race. I look forward to a spirited debate on many of his ideas, which I oppose such as his cause to privatize social security, to disband the Department of Education, and to end healthcare protections for hundreds of thousands of Utah's with pre-existing conditions."
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Utah Democrats back independent as US Senate candidate
The Utah Democratic Party on Saturday threw its support behind the independent candidacy of former presidential contender Evan McMullin to take on GOP Sen. Mike Lee.
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Davis County offers election security town hall and tour
FARMINGTON, Utah — With the Utah Legislature addressing voter confidence, and with far too little voter fraud discovered to make a difference in the 2020 election, Davis County officials are continuing efforts to be transparent in its election process. The county is holding a series of election integrity events, including one Wednesday night, to provide […]
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Utah representatives Blake Moore and Burgess Owens have been sworn into office.
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Many of Utah's 29 counties were celebrating increased voter turnout as they submitted their final vote totals to the state election office on Tuesday.


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Libraries that Have It: The Thomasville echo. [volume] (Thomasville, Ala.) 1900-191?
Thomasville, Ala. (1900-191?)
HOLDING: Alabama Dept of Arch & Hist Libr, Montgomery, AL
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HOLDING: Alabama Newsp Proj, Montgomery, AL
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