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Ballet Nice Méditerranée Presents a Contemporary Triple Bill
The Ballet Nice Méditerranée opens its 2014-15 season on Friday, 17th October with a triple bill of works by contemporary choreographers.
Under the artistic direction of Eric Vu-An, the new programme for the ballet opens with the first performance of VERSES US by American choreogralpher, Dwight Rhoden. A former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey Company, Rhoden is co-founder and one of the two artistic directors (with Desmond Richardson), of Complexions Contemporary Ballet in New York. Complexions is characterised by an innovative blend of methods, styles and cultures, and Rhoden – the Company's Resident Choreographer – is credited with having created a completely new and thrilling vision of human movement, an open and evolving form of dance which "reflects the movement of our world".
The score of VERSES US brings together a fascinating mix of artists, which includes Philip Glass – regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century – and contemporary German composers, Nils Frahm and Sven Helbig. Also included in the musical credits are Estonian-born American conductor, Kristjan Järvi – a member of the renowned family of Järvi conductors, the others being his father, Neeme and brother, Paavo – and American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, Theo Croker. And, in a nod to tradition, the score also features the work of Claude Debussy, one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music.
Nacho Duato is regarded as one of the most important international artists in contemporary Spanish dance. Having trained at the Rambert School in London and continued his studies at Maurice Béjart's Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey's American Dance Centre in New York, he first came to prominence in 1981 at the Nederlands Dans Theater, under the direction of Jirí Kylián. With his work in the repertoire of some of the world's major ballet companies, Nacho Duato is currently Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.
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His ballet POR VOS MUERO, is based on a poem by Garcilaso de la Vega and set to Spanish music of the 15th and 16th centuries, a golden age in which music accompanied a variety of dance forms. In this work, Duato celebrates the wide cultural influences on Spain at the time. "You have the Arab influence," he says, "and the influence of the Sefarditas [Sephardi Jews], before the Jews were expelled from Spain. Our culture has Greek and Roman roots, and Moorish, and Egyptian – it's what I love about it."
The final work on the programme, also by Nacho Duato, is entitled GNAWA, a tribe believed to have originated from the West and Central regions of Africa. The ballet was inspired by the Gnawa culture, which combines ritual poetry, traditional music, and dancing. Set on a darkened stage, illuminated by a row of candles, Duato's atmospheric ballet is performed to a score – evocative of the music of the North African coast – which is traditionally practised in Morocco and the Béchar Province of South-western Algeria.
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Ballet Nice Méditerranée performs at the Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur from 17th to 25th October. For tickets call +33 (0)4 92 17 40 79, or you may also book them online.
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Grey areas in rule against 'foreign sponsorship' of Pink Dot
Chua Mui Hoong
muihoong@sph.com.sg
Jun 19, 2016, 5:00 am SGT
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What are 'controversial social issues with political overtones' foreigners must stay out of?
On June 4, Hong Lim Park played host to the Pink Dot rally, an annual event to support the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
A few days after the event, on June 7, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a statement that said: "The Government's general position has always been that foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially political issues or controversial social issues with political overtones. These are political, social or moral choices for Singaporeans to decide for ourselves. LGBT issues are one such example.
"This is why under the rules governing the use of the Speakers' Corner, for events like the Pink Dot, foreigners are not allowed to organise or speak at the events, or participate in demonstrations."
The statement has drawn a flurry of criticism online and in mainstream media. I must confess it got me a bit puzzled too.
First, when is a foreign entity foreign, and when is it resident?
Participants at the eighth edition of Pink Dot at Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park on June 4. In a statement on foreign sponsorship of the event, the Government said "foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially political issues or controversial social issues with political overtones". ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
This year, there were 18 corporate sponsors of Pink Dot. They included Google, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Local sponsors included PS.Cafe and Cavenagh Law.
Pink Dot's organisers have stated that its sponsors are all registered and incorporated in Singapore. As writer George Hwang put it pointedly in a commentary on The Online Citizen website: "You cannot consider MNCs' locally incorporated subsidiaries as 'Singaporean' for tax purposes and as alien for Speakers' Corner."
The issue of what is "foreign" when applied to Pink Dot sponsors is one grey area.
Another grey area is what constitutes "interference".
If sponsoring an event constitutes interference, then why do iconic summits organised by Singapore government agencies seek sponsorship from companies, including foreign ones? The World Cities Summit and Singapore Energy Summit, for example, both have foreign sponsors. In the cities summit, there is a discussion on whether culture matters in a city - a potentially sociopolitical issue.
The Singapore International Film Festival includes Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen as official time partner, and Marina Bay Sands, a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp, as presenting sponsor. Movies too can feature "controversial social issues with political overtones" - as we know from the Government's periodic moves to ban the public screening of films such as Tan Pin Pin's To Singapore with Love.
Will the ban on foreign sponsorship be extended beyond the pro-gay Pink Dot event, to film and other cultural events and even conferences on socio-political themes? If not, why single out Pink Dot as an event that cannot get foreign sponsors?
Or perhaps the concern about Pink Dot is over law and order, given its rising popularity. Attendance rose from 2,500 in its first year in 2009 to 28,000 last year. Gay pride parades in Turkey and Russia, among others, have sparked riots, sometimes when anti-gay protesters clashed with gay pride marchers. Last week's horrific mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando highlights the potential for violence over this polarising issue. But if law and order were a concern, MHA should say so explicitly and offer solutions that make sense from a security point of view, not restrict foreign sponsors.
In making the arguments above, I am merely trying to sketch out the anomalies and contradictions that ensue when one tries to apply the rule that "foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially political issues or controversial social issues with political overtones".
To be sure, the rule on no foreign interference in domestic politics is not a new one. I think most Singaporeans would support the line in the sand against foreign meddling drawn by this Government. I, for one, certainly do.
We want to evolve our political system at a pace we are comfortable with. We do not want, or need, foreign democracy activists or human rights groups - some with dubious sources of funding - to push our tiny, fragile and extremely beloved island-nation down paths we will find hard to turn back from.
What is unsettling about the MHA statement is its addition of the category of "controversial social issues with political tones" to the list of off-limits issues for foreigners. This definition is so widely written that it can become a trawler net to catch any issues that become embarrassing or inconvenient to the Government.
Already, activist group Aware has asked if its advocacy work - such as on workplace harassment, and support for single parents - will be affected by the rule.
Citing the latter issue, Aware executive director Corinna Lim wrote in The Straits Times' Forum page: "If a group objects to this and floods the Government with letters of complaint, would it become a 'controversial' social issue? Would any support we might have from foreign entities thus be deemed 'interference'?
"We are troubled by these potential implications of MHA's statement, which is ambiguous, leaves too much open to possibly arbitrary interpretation, and seems to go much further than previous pronouncements."
Ms Lim has a valid concern.
Singapore is at a transition point.
We have a Committee on the Future Economy to chart our economic blueprint. We are rethinking our school and training model, to integrate in-school and after-school learning better. We are concerned about the limits of our meritocracy system, and want to broaden our social safety net.
We should not close ourselves off, mentally or culturally, from the rich debates raging worldwide on many issues of social equity that have a bearing on the challenges we face. These range from income inequality to disruptive technologies and the impact these will have on jobs and incomes, to the equity of health systems, and to the continued relevance of our industrial-model education system.
Many of these issues can all justifiably be described as "controversial social issues with political overtones". What does keeping out foreign interference in these issues then mean? No foreign sponsors , even from local subsidiaries of foreign firms? No foreign academics allowed to speak at a conference on these issues? What is a "foreign academic" anyway? Does a foreign lecturer at a local university count?
There are many grey areas and questions arising from this loosely written rule against foreign interference in "controversial social issues with political overtones".
Keeping debate on difficult social issues entirely local hinders our ability to learn from the experiences of others. An open, inclusive attitude can help us better reach a national consensus on difficult issues.
As for LGBT issues, they are certainly contentious and emotionally charged because they deal with people's freedom to love without breaking the law, and some religions have clear teachings against homosexual practices. Debate on these issues will be fractious. They may even be "controversial social issues with political overtones". Pro- and anti-gay camps may want to tap foreign sponsors and foreign groups (such as churches, universities, organisations) to talk to Singaporeans about such issues.
To be sure, it makes for a messier socio-political environment.
But do LGBT issues fall under the category of domestic politics that is core to Singapore's interests and identity as a nation, and from which foreign participation and sponsorship of events should be banned? I do not think so.
Singaporeans are a nationalistic lot. We will support a government that ringfences our political system and domestic political contests from foreign interference.
But Singaporeans are also a probing, sceptical bunch.
If the Government wants to keep out foreigners from some debates and events, yet include them in others, we need more convincing on why, and how.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on June 19, 2016, with the headline 'Grey areas in rule against 'foreign sponsorship' of Pink Dot'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Leaving Chicago
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Ten years ago, I was traveling around Argentina, working online as a freelancer. I had a great time traveling and thought I might live like a nomad for a year or two, but after a few months away I really missed doing comedy and on a whim I found a summer sublet in an apartment on Webster in Lincoln Park.
My plan was to stay for the summer, take some improv and sketch classes, and then move on to another city. I ended up staying for 10 years.
I stayed to join a community and write and put up shows and get on stage as much as possible and learn how to be a better comedian.
I think I succeeded. I've read the sketches I wrote in my first summer here, in the Second City writing intensive. They're really bad. The things I write now, I think they're pretty decent. They're much much better than what I was writing ten years ago, and much better than what I was writing three or four years ago.
Comedy on stage didn't work out for me the way that I hoped. That was heartbreaking. So I pivoted, before that as a word I knew. I started writing a lot and then making movies and found that I loved writing just as much, albeit in different ways.
I miss the stage sometimes. It's a different feeling when a show goes well, a feeling that I haven't found anywhere else. I could say that it's like a drug, but I've done the drugs and they're different.
I've been lucky to find great communities here in Chicago, first in comedy and then in film. Artists in Chicago are incredibly supportive and welcoming and eager to help each other out. People come from all over the country to study and learn here, to form groups and put up shows and write and rehearse and experiment and take classes and study.
I think that sometimes we take this for granted in Chicago, that there are so many people who come to a place and work really hard and devote themselves to a practice or a field or an art form. Of course there are other cities where this happens, but not very many, apart from New York and Los Angeles.
The beauty of starting in Chicago is that there's not much industry presence and that means that it's easy to be around people who care about the work more than anything else. The downside is that ambition means that eventually many or most of the people will move on.
I used to complain that the film community here was spread out and hard to find. That's true to a certain extent, but after living here for a few years I've realized that that's an unfair criticism. I think that in relation to the improv/theater community, it never felt quite as good.
That's because improv always had natural meeting points — you were always going to a show to perform or see a friend and so you were always running into people. Film screenings are less frequent and production isn't very frequent either. I only made about 1.5 things per year when I was directing video/film stuff in Chicago.
But after spending a few years in the film community, I found some really really great friends and I found myself in a place where I would often run into people when I went to a local festival or film event or just to see a movie at The Music Box. There were plenty of people to talk shop with, it just took some work to get there.
In my opinion, the best thing about Chicago in terms of artist development is the culture of showing up and working hard. I believe that this comes in part from the Midwest culture, an extremely hard-to-describe-but-ever-present culture.
In Chicago, people show up. They commit (and often over-commit) and keep their word. They work hard and don't complain. They're not superficial and they don't create interpersonal conflict for the sake of drama.
When you say "let's do a show," people say "yeah, let's do it. do you want to meet on Saturday to start writing? In the mean time, I'll look at some possible theater options."
I think it's very easy to underrate this culture, but having lived in other cities and having talked to filmmakers and comedians in various cities around the world, I think that this kind of culture is not the norm, and that maybe 30-40% of success is determined by how people respond when you say "I'm going to do a thing." It's not every city where people encourage you and want to help out or join in or say "that sounds crazy but fuck it you should try it."
Of course these are generalizations, but they tend to be true in my experience.
Anyway. I'm leaving.
It's really hard to leave right now because right now it's summer and Chicago is the best place to live in the summer — it's magical in a way that only a city that experiences long dark freezing winters can be.
And it's hard because I have great friends here. And practically speaking, it's the easiest place for me to make a movie right now.
So why leave?
While I do have great friends here, a lot of my friends have left, and this isn't an uncommon experience. For the artist community, a lot of people view Chicago as a stop along the way to somewhere else, with that somewhere being Los Angeles or New York. But I've also had a lot of friends and acquaintances, people who aren't actors or comedians of filmmakers, move as well.
Most of my remaining close friends either have general plans to leave at some point in the next two years or a general sense that they would like to try living somewhere else.
It's hard to form close bonds when all your friends keep leaving!
Living in Chicago has become easy for me. My days and weeks have become routine and I no longer have the feeling of excitement that I had when I first moved here. I don't feel like there are any surprises waiting for me here.
I don't want to be complacent. I want to experience a new culture and to see how things are in a new place. And yes, I want to pursue bigger opportunities. And travel, like really travel for a few months, without the overhead of rent and a gym membership and the burn rate that comes with being fixed somewhere.
This kind of major life change has always been exciting to me because they force me to evaluate everything I own and to question all the major premises of my life. Where should I live? How should I make a living? What kind of films should I make, and should I be making films at all? What is important to me? Why is Spain? Oú sont les Neigedens d'antan!?
So with a hunger for something new, something that I don't yet know, I'm selling off most of my stuff, putting my books and a few important items into storage and leaving.
I don't know where I'm going to land yet.
I'm going to travel for a bit and try living in some new cities before picking one to settle in.
These are my favorite things in Chicago:
The Music Box Theatre, on a Friday night when the house is packed and the organist is playing.
Seeing something fucked up and hilarious at The Annoyance.
The tacos.
The coffee.
The architecture.
Summer days with adventures that go on forever.
The lake shore, which I never spent enough time at.
The creative communities and creative people.
The painfully short autumn.
That every neighborhood is like its own little town with its own character and sense of place and culture.
The next-level restaurants that are actually affordable for non-wealthy people.
That I've never met anyone here who was trying to 'become an influencer.'
The amazingly generous teachers I've had.
The fact that it's so cheap to live here compared to other world-class cities. You can still come here and get a cheap apartment near public transit and afford to work on your thing.
And yes, I love the -50 degree days that come every few years in February.
At the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham
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I went to Sidewalk last week in Birmingham, Alabama and I meant to post something about it but I've been working from 7 7 7 to 11 every night (kinda makes life a drag…). Yeah I'm on a freelance producing gig that just has insane hours but I'm rebuilding my savings after not working for four months and making a feature film. Freedom awaits in November…
Sidewalk Film Festival. They really know how to take care of filmmakers. I woke up at 4am last Friday to catch the early flight from Chicago to Birmingham so I could get there in time for the filmmaker luncheon/retreat.
They took us to a now-defunct iron and steel processing plant that was built in the late 1800s and was operational until the 1980s. Birmingham is almost uniquely situated for steel production as all the raw materials are within 30 miles of each other, and it was the 2nd biggest producer of steel (after Pittsburgh) in the U.S. for a long time (my facts are a little hazy).
The old buildings look like sets from a post-apocalyptic world, as nature slowly reverts to the its pre-industrial state. The event was hosted by representatives of Film Birmingham. They were very eager for us to film something there and made it known that there wouldn't be a lot of red tape.
Our guide (one of the many resident artists who have been given workshop space on the premises) told us that the plant was shut down overnight and the workers weren't told — their personal belongings from their last day are still in their lockers and there's still salad dressing and… something else… in the refrigerator.
The plant isn't completely shut down — there's a dolomite quarry right there.
Massive trucks bring the dolomite up from a 400-foot-deep quarry where the rocks get smashed in giant rock smashers so they can be used for gravel and other industrial things that need small rocks (it's an ingredient in steel too).
Driving down into the quarry, which I sadly didn't get a good picture of, reminded me of Taste of Cherry (I mentioned this to another filmmaker and he was like "me too!" and we became friends immediately).
The quarry processes 7,000 tons of dolomite per day. There's something awe-inspiring about being around massive machinery and trucks. Living in a modern city, I feel shielded from any kind of industrial of manufacturing whatsoever. By the way, those trucks the guys drive — super high-tech. The loaders cost about $2,000,000 a piece and they have climate-controlled cabs, multiple cameras, high-tech seats that don't bounce around, and a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.
Back in town I walked around a bit and got food. I spent most of my time in the downtown area of Birmingham, which felt pretty empty and sleepy. Someone told me later that the neighborhoods to the south and east are more bustling with life and culture. I don't know, it was weird walking around on a Friday morning/afternoon and barely seeing anyone on the street — the buildings weren't abandoned or run-down though. It felt like everyone was on vacation.
Don't forget your Jesus Cake. I actually ate here twice (they set up a stand on the sidewalk outside one of the theaters) and it was delicious. Very good Cuban pork, mofongo, and plantains. I asked what Jesus Cake is and the girl told me that it's something like tres leches cake, and not a Cuban thing nor a Birmingham thing. So just a thing they made up.
What about the film festival, Robert?
This is a great festival. I mean, they really take care of their filmmakers and by take care of I mean they throw big grand parties with free food and booze in remarkable venues.
The opening night screening and party was at the Alabama theater. The opening night film was White Tide: The Legend of Culebra, an over-the-top doc about a Florida man (hah) who goes after $2,000,000 in cocaine that's buried on Culebra, and island in Puerto Rico. It was a perfect fit for a raucous crowd of 2,000 on opening night. It's a good story and very funny.
Then there was a big party on the stage of the theater. And everywhere else in this massive 3-story theater. There was just a party and food and drinks everywhere. It was a ton of fun. I made new friends and ran into some old friends that I didn't expect to see there.
I talked to some locals and asked about the film scene there and what people thought of the festival. My understanding is that Sidewalk is the biggest thing that happens there every year. I talked to one woman who had been planning months before to come and had picked out all the films she wanted to see in advance. I also talked to other people who said that 80% of people in Alabama only care about college football and look at you funny if you mention some sort of non-college-football form of entertainment.
I talked to another local woman who works for the city, helping to promote it (I can't remember exactly what she does). She told me about how the city is resurgent, about how 20 years ago it was dangerous to be downtown and how it's developing and people are moving back and there are cafes and shops and how great the food scene is.
It's the same trend playing out in so many cities across the U.S. There are so many small to medium sized towns now that are pleasant places to live.
The festival took over Linn Park in the middle of downtown Birmingham for a massive party.
I had a really good conversation at the party with someone about living in a small and pleasant city vs. a big and ambitious city. The question for her and for me and for probably a lot of young people with options is: is it better to live somewhere comfortable and pleasant and enjoy the good life, or should I ask for something bigger in life, something more ambitious? Am I being complacent?
I loved living in Baltimore. It was fun, I liked the texture of life, I was a big fish in a small pond (the improv pond). Good food, a great baseball stadium, very affordable, good art/music scene, and an actually weird place that doesn't really give a fuck about trying to be anywhere else. Obviously Baltimore has massive problems too, with crime, education, etc., but those weren't the reasons I left. I left because it felt too small, too hard to be ambitious there.
Chicago is a big city. I think it straddles the pleasant/ambitious divide. It can be either. It's certainly more ambitious than cities like Baltimore or Portland, but less so than L.A., San Francisco, or New York. I'm not sure where Austin fits into this (it feels like it's in the process of rapidly changing from pleasant to ambitious, which is causing a lot of angst for the people that want it to keep its old identity).
I think what I've been feeling in the last few years, when I feel the urge to move, is that Chicago is just a really big pleasant city and not really an ambitious city. When the woman from Birmingham tells me about the great food scene there, I politely listen, but I know that it's nothing compared to Chicago. Maybe Chicago is an ambitious place for aspiring chefs (I don't know, I'm really not a foodie).
But when it comes to film, entertainment, entrepreneurship and startups, etc. — I think it's not an ambitious place. Not that there aren't ambitious people here! Not that nobody is doing those things! It's just not the big ambitious place where people move to seek those things out.
Oh yeah, my short film, WHAM, premiered on Sunday.
The Deadline Chicago Premiere!
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The Deadline is getting its Chicago premiere on November 9, 2017 at the opening night of the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. The screening will be at Second City's Harold Ramis Film School in Old Town.
The screening includes five short films and an opening night reception that starts at 7pm.
Get your tickets here!
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Q: How to call ListView adapter from another activity for refresh - notifyDataSetChanged() I want to call a listview adapter from another activies after insert record to sqllite db.
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The move away from matched pension contributions is seen by GMB members as detrimental, unfair and a retrograde step.
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Animal husbandry. Farming. Agricultural industry
Question: How Many Billions Of Gallons Of Water Do Florida Livestock Use?
1 How much water is used for livestock farming?
2 How much water is used in the livestock industry?
3 How much water does the average farm use?
4 How many millions of gallons of water are used in Florida?
5 Why is the water footprint for beef so high?
6 How many gallons of water does it take to raise a cow?
7 How much water is used by the meat industry?
8 What percentage of water is in meat?
9 What food uses the least water?
10 How many gallons does it take to irrigate 1 acre?
11 Which state wastes the most water?
12 What is the largest consumer of California water?
13 Why does Florida water taste so bad?
14 Who is the largest user of water in Florida?
15 Is Florida going to run out of water?
How much water is used for livestock farming?
Animal agriculture is responsible for 20 to 33 percent of all fresh water consumption in the world. Because animals are so densely packed on today's industrial farms, they produce more manure than can be absorbed by the land as fertilizer. The runoff from these facilities grossly contaminates rivers and ground water.
How much water is used in the livestock industry?
It has been estimated that the livestock sector uses an equivalent of 11 900 km³ of freshwater annually – or approximately 10 percent of the estimated annual global water flows (111 000 km³).
How much water does the average farm use?
The water intensive form of farming livestock is dairy farming. For just one milking cow, daily water usage is roughly 40-50 gallons when accounting for basic consumption and hygiene. However, when looking at livestock as a whole, it accounts for just 30% of the 2 quadrillion gallons used for agriculture annually.
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How many millions of gallons of water are used in Florida?
In Florida about 1.6 billion gallons of water are withdrawn and delivered every day for domestic use, with the average Florida resident using 87 gallons per day in and around their home.
Why is the water footprint for beef so high?
The water footprint of beef is primarily impacted by how much and what the cattle eat, and where the feed comes from. This is because: Due to their great size, beef cattle eat massive quantities of feed but are inefficient in converting that feed to meat (compared to, say, chickens or pigs). More feed = more water.
How many gallons of water does it take to raise a cow?
The data suggest for cattle in this environmental condition, a growing animal or a lactating cow needs two gallons of water per 100 pounds of body weight. A nonlactating cow or bull needs one gallon of water per 100 pounds of body weight.
How much water is used by the meat industry?
Do you know what food has the largest global water footprint? Beef. It takes approximately 1,847 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef — that's enough water to fill 39 bathtubs all the way to the top.
What percentage of water is in meat?
People eat meat for the muscle. The muscle is approximately 75% water (although different cuts may have more or less water) and 20% protein, with the remaining 5% representing a combination of fat, carbohydrate, and minerals.
What food uses the least water?
Analyzing diets that contain meat, pescatarian diets, and vegetarian diets, the study found that plant-based food has the smallest water footprint; a vegan diet uses five times less water than a meat-based one, according to the researchers, who added that vegetable-rich diets are not only beneficial for the planet's
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How many gallons does it take to irrigate 1 acre?
It takes 27,154 gallons of water to irrigate one acre of land with an inch of water. This measurement is useful when you need to water one or more acres and need to evaluate whether your current flow rate is adequate for getting it done according to your schedule.
Which state wastes the most water?
More than one-fourth of the total water used in the United States in 2015 was withdrawn in California, Texas, Idaho, and Florida. California accounted for 9 percent of all withdrawals in the United States in 2015.
What is the largest consumer of California water?
In California, almond trees cover nearly 1 million acres and consume 1.07 trillion gallons of water per year. Meat products, especially beef, are some of the most water-intensive foods because livestock consume a lot of food.
Why does Florida water taste so bad?
Contaminants that make Florida tap water taste icky This is an ion in chlorine, which municipalities use often used to disinfect water. Instead of chloride, some areas use chloramine, a combination of chlorine and ammonia. Regardless, chloride gives water a salty taste. Chloramine gives water a bleachy taste.
Who is the largest user of water in Florida?
Agriculture accounted for the largest use of freshwater in Florida in 1990 (followed by public supply, self-supplied commercial-industrial, domestic and thermoelectric power generation). Withdrawals of freshwater for agricultural use constituted 50 percent of total water withdrawals for the state in 1990.
Is Florida going to run out of water?
Florida is running out of drinking water from the Floridan Aquifer, our main source of drinking water which has been relatively clean, cheap and plentiful — until now. The map shows most of Florida is either "Running Low" or "Empty." Over-development has depleted the drinking water supply in most parts of Florida.
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Iowa Police have identified Rueben Ignacio Enriquez Barragon as the man killed when his motorcycle was struck by a DUI driver in Ankeny, Iowa, Friday night.
Barragon, 56, was travelling on NE 14th Street when his motorcycle was struck by a car driven by Taylor Ray Linse, 26.
The motorcyclist was transported to Mercy Hospital following the crash, where he was pronounced dead.
Linse was arrested at the scene and now faces charges of a second offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, homicide by vehicle, driving while license revoked, and probation violation.
Barragon was an Ankeny, Iowa, resident. Ankeny is located just outside of Des Moines.
Polk County Deputies are still investigating the incident.
Barragon's photo was made public by Facebook user, Connie Soto.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friend at this difficult time.


For the past forty years T-cells have been considered the primary threat to the survival of allografts. the destruction of transfused erythrocytes of incompatible blood groups; however, anti-blood group antibodies had no apparent impact on the fate of skin allografts in which incompatible blood groups were expressed (4, 5). Because antibodies could not be shown to destroy allografts some questioned whether destruction of allografts had an immunological basis. Medawar and Gibson (6) found that skin transplants repeated from the same donor to LY341495 the same receiver neglect to engraft plus they got the hastened lack of viability to point that immunity triggered graft damage, but subsequent attempts to recognize antibodies in charge of graft damage failed. Later on, Mitchison (7) discovered that cells instead of antibodies triggered the damage of allografts and immunologists centered on mobile immunity as the principal danger to graft success. The introduction of medicines and regimens that can successfully suppress mobile immunity has resulted in a renewed fascination with the issues in body organ allografts that are due to antibodies Rabbit polyclonal to AMID. and today that subject reaches the forefront of clinical transplantation (7). Below we explain why antibodies have little or no impact on the fate of cell and tissue grafts but profoundly influence the fate of organ grafts. Transplant type and susceptibility to antibody-mediated injury Transplanted foreign tissues and organs engender both cellular and humoral immune responses of similar quality and intensity; the impact of those responses on a transplant depends to the greatest extent on whether the transplant consists of cells, tissues LY341495 or organs (8). All types of transplants are susceptible to cellular rejection. Transplants differ profoundly, however, in susceptibility to humoral rejection. The differential susceptibility to humoral rejection reflects in large part the way in which the transplant receives its vascular supply (Figure 1). Isolated cells, such as hepatocytes, derive their vascular supply entirely from the host (9). Antibodies of the recipient do LY341495 not bind to blood vessels of such cellular grafts and antibodies may penetrate poorly through the blood vessels feeding the grafts. Free tissues, such as skin and pancreatic islets, derive their vascular supply both by the in growth of host blood vessels and the spontaneous anastomosis of graft and host capillaries. Antibodies of the recipient may bind to donor segments of these vessels but not to segments derived fully from the recipient. Organ grafts such as heart, kidney, liver and lung receive blood flow from the surgical anastomosis of donor and recipient vessels and the graft is fed entirely through a foreign vascular system. Antibodies of the recipient can bind to these international vessels. Thus, antibody-mediated injury is certainly seen in organ grafts to a very much higher extent than in tissue or cell grafts. Furthermore, because immunoglobulins are limited to vascular areas mainly, alloreactive antibodies possess minimal direct effect on parenchymal cells (9, 10). Shape 1 Systems of graft vascularization Shape 2 lists the many types of vascular disease and circumstances due to antibodies with regards to when they happen after body organ transplantation. Below we discuss the many conditions due to alloreactive antibodies after body organ transplantation. Shape 2 The effect of antibodies on the results of transplantation Hyperacute rejection Hyperacute rejection of medical body organ transplants was initially referred to by Kissmeyer-Nielson et al. (11). Hyperacute rejection happens within 24.
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Background Few studies have focused on eukaryote community in the human gut. undescribed in the human gut. Conclusions Establishing microeukaryote repertoire in gut microbiota contributes to the understanding of its role in human health. DNA with DNA from stool specimen prior to PCR as previously described . Distilled water was used as unfavorable control in all PCR reactions. PCRs were performed using the 2720 thermal cycler (Applied Biosystems Saint Aubin France). PCR products purified using the Nucleo- Fast? 96 PCR Kit (Marcherey-Nagel Hoerdt France) were cloned separately using the pGEM? -T Easy Vector System Kit (Promega Lyon France). PCR amplification using M13 forward (5'-GTAAAACGACGGCCAG-3') and M13 reverse (5'-AGGAAACAGCTATGAC-3') primers (Eurogentec Seraing Belgium) were performed on white colonies to confirm the presence of the insert. Purified PCR products TAK-875 were sequenced using M13 primers and the Big Dye? Terminator V1.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit on ABI PRISM 3130 automated sequencer (Applied Biosystems). TAK-875 Sequences were compared with those available in GenBank database using basic local alignment search tool (BLAST). Seven of 35 (20%) pairs yielded a PCR product with the stool specimen as did control DNA. The analysis of 348 clones identified 28 eukaryotic species consisting of 17 (61%) Viridiplantae species TAK-875 eight (29%) fungi sp.and and and one protozoan spp. (Table?2). Original sequences here reported have been deposited in GenBank database with accession numbers from "type":"entrez-nucleotide-range" attrs :"text":"JX132667 to JX133078″ start_term :"JX132667″ end_term :"JX133078″ start_term_id :"398360610″ end_term_id :"398361084″JX132667 to JX133078. Table 1 Ten eukaryotic primers used in complement with those reported in a previous study Table 2 Polymerase chain reaction results and clone sequencing from the stool specimen collected in this case report In addition one gram of stool was diluted in 9?mL sterile phosphate-buffered saline and then spread in duplicate on potato dextrose agar (PDA) (Sigma-Aldrich Saint-Quentin Fallavier France) Czapeck dox agar (Sigma-Aldrich) supplemented with 0.05?g/L chloramphenicol and 0.1?g/L gentamycin and Dixon agar supplemented with 0.05?mg/mL TAK-875 chloramphenicol and 0.2?mg/mL cycloheximide . Plates were incubated aerobically at room temperature (~25°C) in the dark except for Dixon agar plates which were incubated aerobically at 30°C. The phosphate-buffered saline answer was spread on the same media and incubated in the same conditions as negative controls. Growth was observed for two weeks. DNA extracted from colonies as described above was amplified with the fungal primers ITS 1?F/ITS 4R. Purified PCR products were sequenced as described above. While unfavorable control plates remained sterile six fungi including and grew in the two media (Table?3). Table 3 Fungi cultured from stool collected in patient with severe malnutrition and anorexia nervosa Discussion Mycological data were certified since unfavorable Rabbit Polyclonal to OR4C16. controls introduced in both PCR- and culture-based observations remained negative. Moreover four fungi were detected by culture as well as by PCR-sequencing. Combining two methods a total of ten different fungal species were detected including and previously detected in the stools of healthy individuals and patients; as well as and sp. previously detected in intestinal biopsy from inflammatory bowel disease . and sp. have not been previously TAK-875 detected in human stool although sp. has been previously found in the oral cavity and respiratory tract. These organisms have no known pathogenicity in the human gut. Accordingly is usually a commensal fungal in the human gut. However has been reported in the course of gastrointestinal aspergillosis. The diversity of fungal species observed in this study (ten fungal species) is rather low compared to that observed in our previous study describing an obese patient where sixteen fungal species have been detected . This supports previous observations that this repertoire of bacterial species differed in anorexic and obese individuals . Other studies also showed a more diverse fungal repertoire in patients than in healthy individuals . Most of eukaryotic species identified in stools.
Introduction Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is a bariatric procedure with very good long-term weight-reducing and metabolic effects. All procedures were performed without over-sewing of the staple line. Results The average %EBMIL (excess body mass index loss) in group 1 patients with minor sleeve restriction reached 54.1% and average %EWL (excess weight loss) was 50.8% while in group 2 with major sleeve restriction the average %EBMIL reached 69.7% and average %EWL was 66.8%. Final weight reduction was significantly higher in group 2 patients compared to group 1 patients with smaller sleeve restriction. Out of 49 patients with preoperatively diagnosed T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus) was completely resolved in 70.8%. Pre-operatively diagnosed hypertension normalized in 64.2% improved in 23.2% and remained unchanged in 12.6% of patients. Conclusions Carefully performed LSG without over-sewing INNO-406 the staple line is feasible and safe. A better weight-reducing effect was present in patients with major sleeve restriction. = 59) with minor sleeve Rabbit polyclonal to ANXA3. restriction the average %EBMIL was 54.1% (range: 19.3-92.9%) and INNO-406 average %EWL was 50.8% (range: 18.7-97.1%). In the group 2 patients (period 2009-2012 = 117) with major sleeve restriction the average %EBMIL was 69.7% (range: 24.2-120.9%) and average %EWL was 66.8% (range: 22.5-113.8%) (Table II). Morbidly obese patients after LSG in group 2 with major sleeve restriction (period 2009-2012) had been losing weight easily and achieved better final weight reduction than patients in group 1 with minor sleeve restriction (period 2006-2008) (Mann-Whitney test: = 0.0495). Table II Effect of LSG on weight loss in group 1 and group 2 As expected LSG substantially improved or resolved several obesity-related co-morbidities. Out of the pre-operatively diagnosed 49 T2DM patients 35 of them were on oral anti-diabetic medications (OAD) and 14 on combined therapy with insulin and OAD. In this postoperative period their diabetes completely resolved in 34 cases (71.4%) and improved in other patients with T2DM after surgery. Pre-operatively diagnosed hypertension normalized in 64.2% improved in 23.2% and remained unchanged in 12.6% out of 95 hypertonic patients with complete 3-year follow-up (Table III). Table III Effect of LSG on improving/resolving T2DM and hypertension after 3 years INNO-406 During 3 years of follow-up INNO-406 31% of patients experienced mild heartburn after surgery which disappeared within 6-9 months. But in 14% of patients heartburn persisted in long-term follow-up after surgery. They have to be on PPI. None of our patients have developed dumping syndrome peptic INNO-406 ulcer diarrhoea anaemia or hypovitaminosis so far. Discussion In our study we analyzed the safety of the LSG procedure without over-sewing of the staple line and the impact of the degree of sleeve restriction on long-term weight-reducing effects. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has become a popular bariatric procedure with a very good effect as far as long-term weight loss and improvement of metabolic disorders are concerned. Our surgical team has experience with this continuously more frequent bariatric procedure since 2006. In our surgical department we laparoscopically perform gastric bandings and gastric vertical plications but LSG represents the most frequently performed procedure. In the case of non-satisfactory weight loss and metabolic improvement during 1 year after LSG we perform a duodenojejunal bypass sleeve gastrectomy as a second step operation. The current clinical experience shows that sleeve gastrectomy can be used as a single bariatric/metabolic procedure because of its restrictive (gastric resection) and hormonal (ghrelin) mode of action combined with faster gastric emptying [14 15 22 The very INNO-406 good metabolic effect of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) of resolving or improving T2DM within a short timeframe after the procedure can be explained by the hindgut hypothesis. Poorly pre-digested food which is promptly transiting from the sleeve through the oral jejunum to the distal bowel improves glucose metabolism by stimulating intestinal cells to secrete glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and/or other incretins. According to some other studies insulin secretion is also improved followed by improvement of the glucose tolerance [23-25]. Basso speculates about the gastric hypothesis of the LSG mechanism of action: decreased HCl production induced by SG may act on the innervated antrum to produce gastrin-releasing peptide responsible for GLP-1 early-phase secretion . An increasing.
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An initial justification for dedicating substantial amounts of study funding to large-scale malignancy genomics projects of both somatic and germline DNA is that the biological insights will lead to fresh treatment focuses on and strategies for malignancy therapy. their effective outcome shall depend on international collaboration and planning very Semagacestat similar compared to that of latest sequencing initiatives. Because the publication of the original human genome series in 2002 at a price of around US$3 thousand million DNA sequencing provides advanced towards the level where entire genomes could be sequenced in times for about one millionth of the price . It has resulted in a technological tour de drive in tasks that try to understand the genetics of cancers. Large-scale initiatives like the International Cancers Genome Consortium (ICGC) as well as the Cancers Genome Atlas (TCGA) for somatic deviation aswell as the OncoArray Network for genome-wide Rabbit Polyclonal to MYL7. research of germline deviation have harnessed worldwide knowledge in oncology genomics and bioinformatics with high levels of financing and have led to the coordinated genotyping sequencing Semagacestat and cataloging of several thousands of cancers cases . In depth genomic data from all finished cases are getting distributed around the study community along with simple clinical details on some enabling extensive extra analyses. This effort has resulted in a new knowledge of how exactly to define particular cancer tumor subtypes and provides greatly increased the speed of improvement in elucidating the root biology of cancers . One of the most prominent noticeable outcome from the increased knowledge of cancers biology is normally that targeted remedies have been created or are getting tested that try to stop particular substances that spur the development or spread of cancers. Semagacestat Although there are a few exciting success tales like the greatly improved success with imatinib and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) or the elevated efficiency of Herceptin treatment for girls with Her2-positive breasts cancer the majority of this brand-new era of targeted remedies promise for the most part only a incomplete respite from the condition. The typical situation would be that the root cancer isn't totally eradicated remnants of the condition evolve and overcome any treatment as well as the relapse is normally serious . New targeted therapies may also be expensive to build up and to recommend some priced at over US$100 0 for every patient each year while getting applicable for the smaller variety of patients using the relevant subtype of disease. Disease level of resistance may be get over through fresh strategies that combine therapies for specific pathways and combination therapy of two or more drugs that target independent pathways is likely to hold even greater promise for improving response . Additional approaches such as combined use of immune checkpoint inhibitors will also be providing exciting results  although there remain concerns the strategy of developing targeted therapies for late-stage disease may be fundamentally flawed given the inherent difficulty and heterogeneity of such tumors [7 8 A complementary approach would be to focus also on early detection of localized malignancy including the use of screening when survival is usually a lot more beneficial  as well as main prevention in identifying the causes and minimizing exposure. The part of genomics in main and secondary prevention of malignancy has received less attention than treatment although it is perhaps here that genomics will have its most important contribution in the long term. Primary Prevention of Cancer-Stopping the Disease Occurring Some of the very best public health successes in malignancy prevention possess arisen from identifying the causes of malignancy and limiting or eliminating the exposure . Obvious examples include identifying the part of smoking for lung malignancy  and later on for another 17 malignancy types  implementation of Hepatitis-B vaccination programs against liver tumor  the part of Human being Papilloma disease (HPV) in cervical malignancy that led directly to the development of prophylactic vaccines  and the recognition of specific occupations associated with very high malignancy risk that has resulted in subsequent control of these exposures in many but not all parts of the world (e.g. workers exposed to asbestos and risk of mesothelioma). Overall about 40% of malignancy instances in high Semagacestat income countries look like attributable to known life-style factors with tobacco explaining about half of this amount [14 15 indicating that much remains to be done in limiting the effects of this exposure..
The power of entecavir (ETV) to inhibit (DHBV) infection in duck hepatocytes and ducklings was examined using lamivudine (3TC) being a comparator medicine. with 0.1 mg of ETV/kg was nearly as effective attaining the average viral DNA level loss of log10 2.1. Reducing the daily dosage of ETV to just 0.01 mg/kg led to the average viral DNA level loss of log10 0.97. Daily treatment with 25 mg of 3TC/kg led to the average viral DNA level loss of log10 0.66 set alongside the log10 0.20 drop noticed for ducklings provided the automobile alone. ETV was also far better in lowering the DHBV DNA amounts in duck livers after 21 times of treatment leading to typical drops of log10 1.41 log10 0.76 and log10 0.26 for dosage degrees of 1.0 0.1 and 0.01 mg/kg compared to a reduce of log10 0 respectively.06 for 3TC at a dosage degree of 25 mg/kg. Degrees of viral covalently shut round DNA in the procedure group getting 1 mg of ETV/kg had been reduced in comparison to those in the vehicle-treated group. 3TC and ETV were both very well tolerated in every treated pets. These results show that ETV is a powerful and effective antiviral in the DHBV duck super model tiffany livingston highly. (HBV) a little DNA trojan that replicates via an RNA intermediate is normally a leading reason behind chronic hepatitis. The Globe Health Organization approximated in 1996 that 350 million individuals were persistently contaminated with the trojan worldwide (8). Regardless of the availability of a highly effective vaccine against HBV the prevalence of chronic an infection has not considerably decreased (2). People with chronic hepatitis B not merely suffer the wide GTx-024 variety of symptoms connected with hepatitis but are in significant risk for the introduction of cirrhosis and/or principal hepatocellular carcinoma. Persistent providers of HBV constitute a reservoir for brand-new infections moreover. Therapy currently includes treatment with alpha interferon which is normally associated with many undesirable unwanted effects and adjustable occasionally low response prices (3) and treatment with lamivudine (3TC) a pyrimidine dideoxynucleoside (analyzed in guide 5). While effective in reducing viral insert 3 treatment network marketing leads to level of resistance in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent sufferers with chronic HBV attacks who have the substance for extended intervals (1 6 9 Therefore there can be an urgent dependence on new anti-HBV realtors that are both effective and safe. Several compounds the majority of that are nucleoside analogs that inhibit HBV polymerase and thus GTx-024 hinder replication are under analysis for make use of in the chemotherapy of persistent HBV an infection (for reviews find personal references 3 10 and 19). One of the most appealing novel agents is normally entecavir (ETV; previously BMS-200475) a guanosine analog that presents powerful and selective inhibition of HBV. In HBV-producing HepG2 2.2.15 hepatoblastoma cell cultures ETV exhibited strength in the nanomolar range using a 50% effective concentration (EC50) of 0.00375 μM (7). ETV was also been Rabbit Polyclonal to MBD3. shown to be selective because it acquired only humble activity against a -panel of six unrelated RNA and DNA infections (EC50s ranged from 10 to 80 μM) (7). Furthermore the focus of ETV had a need to trigger 50% cytotoxicity (CC50) in HepG2 2.2.15 cell cultures was 30 μM yielding GTx-024 a good selectivity index (CC50/EC50) of 8 0 Most of all ETV had no appreciable adverse influence on the mitochondrial DNA of proliferating HepG2 cells (7). Research of the systems of actions (14) verified that ETV triphosphate straight inhibits hepadnaviral polymerases and successfully suppresses the priming and elongation techniques of GTx-024 HBV replication. To work antivirals nucleoside analogs should be changed into their active triphosphate form effectively. Phosphorylation studies evaluating ETV in both HepG2 and HBV-transfected HepG2 2.2.15 hepatoblastoma cells demonstrated that ETV is readily phosphorylated by cellular enzymes to its triphosphate form with little accumulation from the intermediate mono- and diphosphate types of ETV (18). Furthermore the intracellular half-life was driven to be fairly lengthy (15 h) (18). Prior in vivo research utilizing oral medication of woodchucks ((WHV) possess demonstrated the strength and efficiency of ETV in reducing viral DNA concentrations to GTx-024 undetectable amounts after daily administration of 0.02 0.1 or 0.5 mg/kg of body.
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Frankie Valli (@frankievalli) Rings in Holiday with New Christmas Album–'Tis the Seasons!
How many of you have already heard legendary Frankie Valli's Christmas album, 'TIS THE SEASONS?
The two guys with a JERSEY contract have done it again! Musical genius Bob Gaudio has produced legendary pop icon Frankie Valli's first solo Christmas album and we are all in for a treat! Along with some of the most loved holiday classics, Valli has teamed up with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jeff Beck on "Merry Christmas, Baby"!
You can order your copy on Amazon by clicking HERE!
This amazing recording is up there with two of my other favorites–The 4 Seasons Greetings and Seasons Greetings: A Jersey Boys Christmas!
Another great album by Mr. Valli! Every song on the album is fantastic. I have purchased several copies and handing them out to family and friends and no one should be without a copy this holiday season.


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250 Burnaby classrooms without anti-coronavirus HVAC systems
By SD News On Sep 10, 2021
Inventory also finds seven classrooms without windows and doors to let in fresh air to spread the virus
Teachers and students in about 250 Burnaby classrooms will have to continue to rely on stand-alone air scrubbers and open doors and windows to keep the air clear of coronavirus until the school district gets funding for HVAC upgrades.
The district inventoried all of its classrooms last year to gauge what ventilation improvements were needed to stop the airborne spread of the coronavirus in local schools, Secretary-Treasurer Russell Horswill said.
In schools with ventilation systems, he said the district upgraded the filters to MERV (Minimum Efficiency Report Value) 13 and started circulating air through the classrooms more often.
But the inventory also revealed about 250 classrooms that were not connected to ventilation systems.
"Some of our older schools don't have ventilation systems," Horswill told the… NOW. "They would have heating systems, but they would have relied on opening windows and doors to get fresh air into the classrooms."
Those schools will continue to rely this year on opening windows and doors for fresh air — and ramping up their heating systems to make up for the lost heat, Horswill said.
But seven of the schools that aren't connected to ventilation systems also don't have exterior doors or windows that let in fresh air.
Before that, the district had to rely on stand-alone air scrubbers to remove the virus from the air.
(All portable appliances have standalone furnace systems that bring in fresh air, according to Horswill, so they're "no concern" to the district.)
When it comes to ventilation, local schools are in about the same position as they were in June, Horswill said.
And other than capital financing for major HVAC upgrades (something Horswill says will be included in this year's request for capital financing), there isn't much more that can be done, he said.
"I would say we work as efficiently as possible," he said.
In the meantime, Burnaby Teachers' Association president Daniel Tétrault told the… NOW teachers at the district's older schools are concerned about relying on air washers and opening doors and windows.
"That was done last year," he says, "but that was without the Delta variant. There is the unknown of the Delta variant in these classrooms without the up-to-date, adequate ventilation."
Tétrault acknowledged that the district needs provincial funding to address the problem.
But given their concerns about ventilation and the portability of the Delta variant, which has become the most dominant strain of the coronavirus since last school year, primary school teachers are even more frustrated by the lack of a provincial mask mandate for kindergarten students. up to class 3, according to Tétrault.
The fact that many younger children have come to school for the first few days this week to voluntarily wear masks doesn't change that, he said.
"Our teachers and staff at Burnaby have done a really good job of creating that culture of wearing masks," he said, "but the mask mandate takes a bit of that burden off teachers and adds that extra security and directs that clear message to parents and the community."
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The Super Bowl matchup is now decided with the two Harbaugh brothers once again facing each other. This time it's in the ultimate contest; the Super Bowl. Sports are filled with rivalries, but what happens when you add siblings to the rivalries. This article describes many of the high-profile sibling rivalries in sports including the Manning brothers and Williams sisters.
There are a lot of hidden benefits of philanthropy, including employee morale and improving the connection between management and the employees.
WHEN IS IT TIME TO HIRE YOUR FIRST CFO?
As our family businesses become more successful we need to go beyond the role of the controller and hire a key financial person. For small businesses it's hard to justify an exclusive financial position so many firms add operations or IT and other key responsibilities to the position.
DO-IT-YOURSELF SUCCESION PLAN: WILL YOU HAVE EXTRA PIECES WHEN YOU ARE DONE?
A quick read of survey results on family business succession planning, by Bank of America's wealth management division.
We know how important it is for family members to gain outside work experience before joining the family business. This is a company that actually practices this idea.
How do you let your parents know you aren't interested in working for the family business?
It can be awkward for a family member to manage an older employee in the family business. Add to that, a high profile NBA franchise, the Miami Heat, and a celebrity Pat Riley, and you have quite a challenge. The Miami Heat family owners have done an effective job managing this relationship by allowing non-family key executive Pat Riley to be the public face of the franchise while the family remains content in the background.


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SAM POLLOCK TROPHY
The Sam Pollock Trophy, named after the long-time general manager of the Montreal Canadiens and honored member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, was first presented in 1996 and is now awarded to the regular-season winner of the Central Division.
As GM of the Canadiens, Sam Pollock played an instrumental role in the first purchase of an AHL franchise by a National Hockey League team when the Canadiens purchased the Montreal Voyageurs in 1969.
After the club moved to Halifax, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs and Montreal Canadiens won the Calder Cup and Stanley Cup, respectively, in both 1976 and 1977.
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Eugen Igel (* 20. Mai 1940 in Hamburg; † 14. April 2020 ebenda) war ein deutscher Fußballtrainer.

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Igel wurde im Hamburger Stadtteil St. Georg geboren, er wuchs ohne Vater auf, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg gefallen war. Während des Krieges zog seine Mutter mit ihm und den zwei Geschwistern nach Tönning, 1953 ging man nach Hamburg zurück. Nach dem bestandenen Abitur am Gymnasium Heimfeld durchlief Igel eine zwei Jahre währende Volontärszeit bei der Zeitung Hamburger Abendecho.

Von 1966 bis 1970 war Igel Geschäftsführer des FC St. Pauli. Anfang April 1970 trat er von dem Amt zurück, nachdem vorstandsseitig beschlossen worden war, den Posten ab dem 1. Juli desselben Jahren mit Obmann Walter Windte zu besetzen. Neben Igel kündigte daraufhin auch Schatzmeister Walter Gerber seinen Abschied an. Von Juli 1970 bis 2004 war Igel hauptberuflich beim Hamburger Fußball-Verband (HFV) tätig, arbeitete dort in den Bereichen Spielansetzungen, Frauen- und Mädchenfußball sowie für das HFV-Verbandsgericht.

Igel, der unter anderem bei Viktoria Harburg spielte und sich selbst als "Manndecker der alten Schule" bezeichnete, war ab 1963 Trainer im Amateurbereich. Er war für die Vereine SV Bendestorf (1963 bis 1967), Horner TV (1960er und Anfang der 1970er Jahre sowie von 1987 bis 1989), Lauenburger SV, VfL Lohbrügge, TuS Holstein Quickborn (1977 bis 1979 sowie von 2000 bis Dezember 2001), SC Urania (1979 bis 1983 sowie Februar 1986 bis 1987), Hummelsbütteler SV (April 1983 bis Januar 1986), Rasensport Elmshorn (1989 bis 2000 und Dezember 2001 bis Dezember 2003 als Trainer), SC Vorwärts/Wacker Billstedt (Januar 2004 bis Ende Januar 2005), Duvenstedter SV, FC Elmshorn (2007 bis 2009 sowie 2011 bis 2014 als sportlicher Leiter) und SC Sperber (2009 bis 2011, als Sportlicher Leiter) tätig.

Er wurde sechs Mal als Hamburgs Fußballtrainer des Jahres ausgezeichnet, führte seine Mannschaften in Hamburg zu insgesamt neun Meistertiteln, gewann dreimal den Pokalwettbewerb des Hamburger Fußball-Verbandes und zog mit seinen Mannschaften auf diese Weise dreimal in den DFB-Pokal ein. Igel wurde im Hamburger Amateurfußball als "Institution", "Trainerlegende", "Kultfigur" und "echte Ikone" bezeichnet. Er setzte als Trainer eigener Aussage nach großen Wert auf eine "gute Menschenführung", eine sorgsame Vorbereitung von Trainingseinheiten sowie im Umgang mit seinen Spielern auf "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche". Die Pinneberger Zeitung beschrieb ihn 2004 als "hervorragenden Psychologen" und "gewieften Taktiker". Er selbst nannte den Fußball "eine Droge", auf die er niemals habe verzichten können. Igel kultivierte die Geselligkeit des Amateurfußballs, bekannt wurde sein Ritual, nach Spielen eine Zigarre zu rauchen und ein Weizenbier zu trinken. Er trug den Spitznamen "Prinz Eugen".

1981 lag ihm das Angebot vor, Trainer des Zweitligisten VfL Osnabrück zu werden, der Hamburger Fußball-Verband als sein Arbeitgeber ließ ihn aber nicht gehen. Später sagte Igel, er sei sich nicht sicher gewesen, ob er seine Stelle beim HFV für die Aufgabe im Profigeschäft überhaupt aufgegeben hätte. Der SC Urania erreichte unter Igel als Trainer in der Saison 1980/81 den zweiten Rang in der Verbandsliga, nachdem die Mannschaft zuvor als sicherer Meister ausgesehen hatte. Als Zweiter erreichte man die Aufstiegsrunde zur Oberliga, stand dort vor dem letzten Spiel in seiner Gruppe auf dem ersten Platz, verlor die entscheidende Begegnung aber mit 5:8 gegen den TuS Celle, womit der Aufstieg verpasst wurde. Im Spieljahr 1981/82 führte Igel Urania in die dritte Runde des DFB-Pokals und schied dann nach einer 1:3-Niederlage, bei der Igel und seine Mannschaft ein vermeintliches Abseitstor des Gegners beklagten, gegen den 1. SC Göttingen 05 aus. In der Verbandsliga wurde Urania unter Trainer Igel 1981/82 Vizemeister und nahm an der Aufstiegsrunde zur Oberliga teil, dort wurde der Aufstieg als Tabellenzweiter der Staffel A knapp verpasst. 1982 wurde Igel als neuer Trainer des Oberligisten FC St. Pauli gehandelt, sogar als Wunschtrainer bezeichnet. Zu einem Wechsel ans Millerntor kam es nicht, Igel blieb beim SC Urania.

Nachdem er zuvor den SC Urania betreut hatte, wechselte Igel im Frühling 1983 noch während der Saison 1982/83 zum Ligakonkurrenten Hummelsbütteler SV. Unter Igel bezwang Hummelsbüttel Anfang Mai 1983 den klassenhöheren FC St. Pauli, der zu diesem Zeitpunkt als Meister der Oberliga Nord feststand, im Halbfinale des Hamburger Pokalwettbewerbs 3:2 nach Elfmeterschießen. Igel betreute den HuSV in der Oberliga-Aufstiegsrunde 1983 und wurde dort in Staffel A Dritter (vier Mannschaften). Mitte Mai 1983 wurde Igel mit Hummelsbüttel durch einen Sieg (6:5 nach Elfmeterschießen) über den klassentieferen HEBC (Bezirksliga) Hamburger Pokalsieger. In der Saison 1983/84 führte er den HuSV zum Gewinn der Meisterschaft in der Verbandsliga Hamburg. In der folgenden Aufstiegsrunde gelang im Juni 1984 der Sprung in die Oberliga Nord. 1985 wurde er mit der Mannschaft Zweiter der Oberliga. Bereits im Januar 1985 hatte Igel mitgeteilt, dass er im Fall eines Zweitligaaufstiegs nicht mehr Hummelsbütteler Trainer sein würde. Er gab berufliche Gründe an, des Weiteren verfügte er nur über den B-Trainerschein, der für die zweite Liga nicht ausreichte. Nach einem 2:0-Auswärtssieg über den Verfolger VfB Oldenburg, den Igels Mannschaft vor 12 000 Zuschauern errang, stand Mitte Mai 1985 die Teilnahme an der Aufstiegsrunde zur 2. Bundesliga fest. Die Oberligameisterschaft verpasste er mit den Hummelsbüttelern um einen Punkt, nachdem man zum Ende der Punktrunde zehn Spiele in Folge gewonnen hatte. In der anschließenden Aufstiegsrunde zur 2. Bundesliga gelang Hummelsbüttel nur ein Sieg, ein 3:0 gegen Eintracht Hamm. Zuvor hatte es für Igels Elf unter anderem vor 5500 Zuschauern eine Heimniederlage gegen Rot-Weiss Essen gegeben, bei der man 2:0 in Führung lag, am Ende aber 2:3 verlor. Später äußerte Igel den Verdacht von Mauscheleien rund um das Spiel. Im letzten Spiel der Aufstiegsrunde wurde Igels Mannschaft im Rückspiel in Essen mit 0:7 deutlich besiegt. Ende Januar 1986 wurde Igel als Hummelsbüttels Trainer entlassen, nachdem er zuvor in der Presse seine Kündigung zum Saisonende bekanntgegeben hatte, was beim Verein für Unverständnis sorgte. Anschließend war Igel wie bereits in der Vergangenheit als neuer Trainer des FC St. Pauli im Gespräch, ging aber zum SC Urania zurück, den er wieder ab Februar 1986 betreute und mit dem er im Frühjahr 1986 aus der Verbandsliga abstieg. Zur Saison 1986/87 stand sein Wechsel zum Oberligisten Altona 93 kurz bevor, den er aber aus beruflichen Gründen absagte und bei Urania blieb. In Hummelsbüttel gehörten während seiner Amtszeit die späteren Profis Marcus Marin, Holger Brügmann, Jens Duve sowie die ehemaligen Berufsfußballspieler Peter Hidien, Manfred Mannebach und Georg Volkert zu Igels Aufgebot. Ein weiterer bekannter Spieler, den Igel während seiner Trainerlaufbahn förderte, war Norbert Meier.

Am längsten war Igel bei Rasensport (Raspo) Elmshorn tätig: Von 1989 bis 2000 sowie von Dezember 2001 bis Dezember 2003 trainierte er die Mannschaft. 1991 wurde er mit Elmshorn Verbandsliga-Vizemeister und nahm an der Aufstiegsrunde zur Oberliga teil. 1993 gewann Raspo unter seiner Leitung den Hamburger Pokalwettbewerb und zog dadurch in den DFB-Pokal ein. Dort schied man gegen Eintracht Haiger aus. Im Januar 1994 und 1995 nahm Igel mit den Elmshornern jeweils als einzige Amateurmannschaft am Profi-Hallenturnier Ratsherrn-Cup teil, nachdem man das Vorturnier gewonnen hatte, 1996 gelang ihm mit seiner Mannschaft der Aufstieg in die Oberliga. 1998 führte er Raspo zum Meistertitel in der Verbandsliga Hamburg, verbunden mit dem abermaligen Aufstieg in die Oberliga Nord. Zunächst hatte er das Traineramt bei Raspo bis 2000 inne. In der Saison 1999/2000 wurden die Elmshorner unter Igel Vizemeister der Oberliga Nord (Staffel Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein).

Im Dezember 2001 verließ er seinen Trainerposten in Quickborn und kehrte zur Elmshorner Mannschaft zurück, die in der Oberliga zwischenzeitlich Abstiegssorgen plagten. Im Dezember 2003 trat er ebenso wie Funktionäre und weite Teile der Mannschaft zurück, nachdem sie keine Grundlage für eine Fortsetzung ihrer Arbeit durch die Zusammenlegung von Rasensport Elmshorn und Fortuna Langelohe zum FC Elmshorn gesehen hatten. Während seiner Elmshorner Amtszeit betreute Igel dort auch die späteren Profispieler Collin Benjamin und Hauke Brückner. 2007 kehrte er als sportlicher Leiter nach Elmshorn zurück und übte diese Tätigkeit bis 2009 sowie erneut von 2011 bis 2014 aus. In seiner letzten Elmshorner Amtszeit arbeitete Igel 2011/12 mit Trainer Bert Ehm zusammen, laut Hamburger Abendblatt "zwei Charakterköpfe des Hamburger Fußballs", die in der Hansestadt zu den erfolgreichsten Amateurfußballtrainern ihrer Zeit gehörten.

Zwischen 2008 und 2015 betreute Igel die Hamburger Schiedsrichterriege als Trainer. Nach seinem Rückzug aus dem Vereinsfußball im Jahr 2014 war er Kolumnist bei der Hamburger Fußballzeitung "Sport Mikrofon" und kommentierte das Fußballgeschehen für den Internetsender "Elbkick.tv". Ende Juni 2015 erlitt Igel als Beifahrer bei einem Autounfall in Hamburg-Barmbek schwere Verletzungen und war fortan querschnittsgelähmt. Er lebte danach in einer Pflegeeinrichtung und war auf einen Rollstuhl angewiesen. Im November 2015 wohnte er erstmals seit seinem Unfall wieder einem Fußballspiel bei.

Erfolge
 Horner TV: mit der Mannschaft gewann Igel im Alter von 24 Jahren seinen ersten Meistertitel als Trainer (Spielklasse unklar)
SV Bendestorf: Meister der Bezirksliga 1968, Meister der Heide-Bezirksliga 1969
 Lauenburger SV: Meister der Kreisliga 1972, Meister der Bezirksliga 1973
 TuS Holstein Quickborn: Meister der Landesliga 1979 und 2001
 SC Urania: Hamburger Pokalsieger 1979
 Hummelsbütteler SV: Meister der Verbandsliga 1984, Zweiter der Oberliga 1985, Hamburger Pokalsieger 1984
 Rasensport Elmshorn: Aufstieg in die Oberliga 1996, Meister der Verbandsliga/Aufstieg in die Oberliga 1998, Zweiter der Verbandsliga 1989, Zweiter der Oberliga 2000, Hamburger Pokalsieger 1993

Einzelnachweise

Fußballfunktionär (Deutschland)
Fußballtrainer (Raspo Elmshorn)
Fußballtrainer (FC Elmshorn)
Person (Sport, Hamburg)
Deutscher
Mann
Geboren 1940
Gestorben 2020


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Under the Sea: 8 Little Mermaid Retellings to Swim Away with
Amy Beaudoin
Fairy tale retellings are a hot commodity in teen lit, and there's a simple reason – classics provide a fantastic base for a new and unique story. Anyone who knows me knows that I have the soul of a mermaid, so it only makes sense that I would gravitate to the retellings of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. It doesn't matter if it's a contemporary reimagining, an old-timey version with corsets and carriages and all that, or something completely out there, like space mermaids (seriously Marissa Meyer, I think you dropped the ball on leaving TLM out of the Lunar Chronicles, just saying), I love it all. Especially during Princess Week!
If you're just as much of a land-mermaid AND fairy tale enthusiast as I am and need something to read, here are a couple of suggestions:
Midnight Pearlsby Debbie Viguie
A more classic version of the tale, MIDNIGHT PEARLS tells the story of Pearl, her best friend Prince James, and two strangers who seem to have come straight from the sea. The actual mermaid-loses-her-voice-to-trade-for-feet part of the story belongs to one of these strangers, but trust me, you'll be just as invested in Pearl and her mysterious past under the sea.
Fathomlessby Jackson Pearce
As a lot of Jackson's retellings are, this one is a little darker and creepier than most. Two mermaids work together to save a human boy, but their friendship is strained as they find themselves competing for his affections. The real test of love though is to earn their land legs for him, but to do so would mean convincing a mortal to love them and then steal his soul. Those poor, unfortunate souls.
Wreckedby Anna Davies
In this gender-swapped contemporary retelling, Miranda is rescued by a mysterious boy when a terrible boating accident claims the lives of several of her friends. He won't tell her where he is from, or why they can only meet at the beach. But Miranda falls for him anyway…and discovers that Christian's secrets, though meant to protect her, may bring her nothing but harm.
Mermaidby Carolyn Turgeon
Not only is this reimagining the tale of the mermaid hopelessly in love with the human man she saves from a shipwreck, but it's also the tale of the innocent girl the human prince mistakes as his rescuer. How can the princess of his greatest rival compete with the girl who saved his life? How can a mute mermaid win his love next to a beautiful princess who could offer peace to both their kingdoms? Can they both be part of his world?
Monstrous Beautyby Elizabeth Fama
Hester's family has been cursed for generations, by the siren who fell in love with a human boy named Ezra and gave up her tail, her home, her life for him. Can Hester solve the mystery of her ancestor and break her family's curse? Or will she find her cursed fate fathoms below the sea?
September Girlsby Bennett Madison
Madison's retelling focuses this time on "the prince," a misplaced teen named Sam spending his summer vacation with his family in a seaside town filled with beautiful girls who all seem to want something from him. Just when he's starting to get close to one, she pulls away without explanation, and he knows the secret to winning her love means finding out the secret of all the strange Girls in town.
The Summer of Chasing Mermaidsby Sarah Ockler
This one is more a retelling of the essence of The Little Mermaid, rather than the actual fairytale. Due to a boating accident, Elyse, the most beautiful singer in the Caribbean, cannot speak. To try and recover her new sense of self without her voice, she visits a friend in a cold and tame seaside town in Oregon, where she meets Christian, a bad boy heartbreaker who urges her to overcome her fears and open up to expressing herself.
Sirenaby Donna Jo Napoli
Sirena is cursed; she can only become immortal if she can make a mortal man love her, but her siren songs only lead mortals to their deaths in the clutches of the ocean. Not wanting to risk his life, Sirena hides from the man she is most drawn to, and he to her, but can she deny her own destiny? Come on, man! He just wants to kiss the girl!
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Whose Language, What Language: Review of the film, Arrival
17:51:00 Arrival, Hollywood, Movie, Review
Film is a media where the visual and (sometimes) the speech merge together. The visual mode easily impacts our minds so much that, despite some famous lines from movies, what we remember most are snippets of moving or still images.
Arrival, a movie starring Amy Adams, highlights this very conflict between language and image. Soon after its release the film created enormous buzz by gathering critical appreciation from different source, and through the debate over 'accidental' nomination of Amy Adams for the Oscars. While such nittigritties are perfect for the gossip page, let's talk about the film for a moment.
To summarize very briefly, Arrival is about the arrival of alien spaceships in different cities on the earth and a linguist's, played by Amy Adams, job to communicate with them.
At first we may wonder what is a linguist doing in an alien mission. Well, her task is to decipher their language and understand their purpose of being on earth. The root of the problem therefore lies in inability to communicate with this unknown species. In this way, the film highlights human beings' extreme reliance on spoken language as the only mode of communication. When the other species fail to do so, it causes mistrust and fear among the humans on the earth about possible impending destruction. Hence, the 'human' army leaders' decision to attack the alien spaceship arises out of the fear of unknown.
The aliens, with their bodies hidden behind the smoke and shielded by glass, are a mystery to the humans. They do not resemble anything that humans have seen before. By showing how human written and spoken language is illegible to the aliens, the film breaks the superiority that language assumes. It also shows that, like their language, human beings are merely another species existing in this universe. The aliens not only have a 'better' method of communication (one that is not bound by written scripts and does not require any sound), they are also a better race than humans having the ability to see future.
The film also breaks the conception of linearity. By moving back and forth through present and future, we are hardly ever sure about what is happening and what is yet to happen. Especially intriguing is the scene where Ian (played by Jeremy Renner) confesses his love for Louise (played by Amy Adams), and Louise can already foresee their future—marriage, child birth, and divorce—in front of her eyes. This creates confusion as to whether she was simply narrating this incident or living in it – because the first scene shows her interaction with her daughter. If she is living in the present, she is yet to have a daughter. Thus, like the split created by alien spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere, the film subverts norms and assumptions at multiple levels.
The film shows how there is a continuous tendency of humans to 'translate' the unknown into the known. This attempt is showcased by Ian who names the aliens after Abbott and Costello, two famous 'human' comedians, thereby trying to humanize the aliens. It also shows an effort to reduce the aliens into mere comedic creatures unworthy of human attention. In the end, however, the questions remain: is Amy's interpretation of the symbols correct? Doesn't she ultimately impose her language and meanings onto their signs?
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Aby- A Fuelless Take Off
00:22:00 Aby, Film, Malayalam, Movie, Prithviraj, Review, Vimanam, Vineeth Sreenivasan
A brief review on Malayalam movie Aby:
From the burners of controversies and legal battles regarding the plot and script, finally, Aby made a smooth take off. Written by the acclaimed writer Santhosh Echikkanam and directed by debutant Srikant Murali, Aby was able to create an initial frenzy among movie buffs. But, to be frank, the Vineeth Sreenivasan starrer is a run-off- the mill plot.
The story is about a special boy who dreams about flying in the sky ever since his early childhood. Don't get confused with Siddharth Siva's recent flick Kochavva Paulo Ayyappa Coelho, though the dream of flying is common to both the films. The plot of the film may drive home to your mind Jayasurya's David & Goliath, too!
Our Aby is so innovative and talented. But, his father doesn't value his talent. (Now, you may be thinking of our Aadu Thoma in Sphadikam!) And the story goes on with all the usual elements like love, loss, godfather, rejections, obstacles, and finally victory.
The primary problem with the movie is that the whole plot is rendered in an unconvincing way with no originality at all.
The second fatal flaw is the poor characterization of Aby acted out by Vineeth Sreenivasan. The character doesn't have a stable build and Vineeth doesn't fit in it. Most of his gestures, dialogues, responses and even the eye movements lack originality. It looks like he is trying to imitate someone and fails miserably.
Suraj Venjarammood's character provides some entertainment. The rest just toes the line of an age old feel good movie.
TAIL END: We are soon going to see the double of Aby in Prithwiraj's Vimanam, which came up as a rival project to Aby.
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