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Katharina Grosse: Psychylustro
Product Description: This volume documents seven spraypainted murals by Katharina Grosse (born 1961), collectively titled Psychylustro, which punctuate the path between the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and Atlantic City in New Jersey, and which can be seen by the 34,000 travelers who travel this route daily...read more
By Anthony Elms (contributor)
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9783863356613 | Walther Konig, July 28, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This volume documents seven spraypainted murals by Katharina Grosse (born 1961), collectively titled Psychylustro, which punctuate the path between the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and Atlantic City in New Jersey, and which can be seen by the 34,000 travelers who travel this route daily.
The Happy Film
Product Description: Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. The Happy Film Pitch Book both documents Sagmeister's touring exhibition, The Happy Show, and anticipates his ongoing feature length film, The Happy Film...read more
By Anthony Elms (editor) and Stefan Sagmeister
9780884541257 | Inst of Contemporary Art, April 30, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography.
With Love From Haha
Product Description: Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects—including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works—in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof have shown these projects in an innovative range of locations, from the expected (galleries and museums) to the utterly unexpected (storefronts, the hallway outside the Chicago City Council chambers, and the roof of a roving taxi)...read more
By Anthony Elms, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer and John Ploof
9780945323136, titled "With Love From Haha: Everyday Matters" | Whitewalls Inc, September 22, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects—including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works—in the United States and Europe.
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
Product Description: The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Beginning with Andy Warhol's involvement with The Velvet Underground in 1967, artists have maintained a strong connection to rock...read more
By Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, Dan Graham, Richard Hell and Dominic Molon
9780300134261 | Yale Univ Pr, November 28, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures.
Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro Black and Other Solar Myths
Product Description: Sun Ra (1914–93)—self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race," prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism—was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of his fans are familiar with the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Sun Ra's work, most remain blissfully unaware of how artists have continued to explore time and (outer) space through the invention and composition of his legacy...read more
By John Corbett (editor), Anthony Elms (editor) and Terri Kapsalis (editor)
9780945323150 | Whitewalls Inc, October 15, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sun Ra (1914–93)—self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race," prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism—was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music.
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage: 26 Years of Whitewalls
Product Description: The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, WhiteWalls recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"—a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world...read more
By Anthony Elms
9780945323068 | Whitewalls Inc, September 30, 2016, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The longest-running journal dedicated to artists' projects in the world, WhiteWalls recently exhibited "Fine Words Butter No Cabbage"—a celebration of twenty-six years of conceptual art and writing by new and established artists from Chicago and around the world.
Product Description: Â Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions. He places a piece of colored construction paper on the scanning bed of a black-and-white photocopier and makes a photocopy...read more
By Anthony Elms and Scott Short
9780945323129 | Whitewalls Inc, January 1, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Â Chicago-based painter Scott Short has a very simple, yet highly refined method of arriving at his mesmerizing abstract compositions.
Edgar Arcenaux: The Alchemy of Comedy... Stupid
Product Description: Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy . . . Stupid documents a multi-channel installation by contemporary video artist Edgar Arceneaux. Centered on video footage of popular comedian David Alan Grier, the artwork examines the nuances and structures of comedy routines, jokes, and humor itself...read more
By Anthony Elms (editor)
9780945323112 | Whitewalls Inc, April 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy .
Pathways to Unkown Worlds: El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
Product Description: Philosopher, Afro-futurist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (1914–93) constructed much of his complicated public persona during his sojourn in Chicago in the mid-1950s. Working with a still-shadowy underground fraternal organization, Ra amassed a library of books on the occult, Egyptology, race studies, Theosophy, and religion—all in service of drawing elliptical connections between these disparate bodies of knowledge...read more
By John Corbett (editor), Anthony Elms (editor), Terri Kapsalis (editor) and Glenn Ligon
9780945323105 | Whitewalls Inc, February 14, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Philosopher, Afro-futurist, and jazz legend Sun Ra (1914–93) constructed much of his complicated public persona during his sojourn in Chicago in the mid-1950s.
Gregg Bordowitz Drive: The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning
Product Description: Gregg Bordowitz: Drive presents a series of essays and texts surrounding Gregg Bordowitz's films Fast Trip, Long Drop and Habit. Images from Bordowitz's installation Drive, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago April 6–July 7, 2002, are also featured...read more
By Gregg Bordowitz and Anthony Elms (editor)
9780945323013 | Whitewalls Inc, August 19, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Gregg Bordowitz: Drive presents a series of essays and texts surrounding Gregg Bordowitz's films Fast Trip, Long Drop and Habit.


As it turns out…I'm not very good at tribal designs. I honestly had never even thought to do one & just kind of sat down & did this without a plan. I did 2 coats of Crush from Jesse's Girl then did a slightly darker orange stripe for each nail in Tangerine from Diamond Cosmetics. My black & white are both LA Colors stripers, nothing out of the ordinary.
I thought the 2 oranges gave it something interesting, honestly I just really wanted to swatch Crush. I got 6 Jesse's Girl nail polishes in the mail & I thought orange would be fun. I instagramed them yesterday (follow me! StephanieLouiseATB) along with oh ya know all kinds of other things. Then I went to town with the black & white. Boom. End result.
So I had a few questions bout Challenge #15 which was "Delicate Print" that you guys noticed I missed. Yes, yes I did. Unfortunately I didn't plan ahead & my husband pinned (moved up rank) that day so I had on a basic nail. I did put a delicate print over it that night to do a post but I didn't think it looked all that good. I feel like I'm in a slump with these challenges because tribal definitely wasn't my best! Delicate…very few nail looks I put up can ever be mistaken as a delicate print. HOWEVER, if you guys DO want to see it, I will definitely put it up in a post just for you.
In case you missed, Day #1 was RED Nails, Day #2 was ORANGE nails, Day #3 was YELLOW nails, Day #4 was GREEN nails, Day #5 was BLUE nails, Day #6 was VIOLET nails, Day #7 was BLACK & WHITE nails, Day # 8 was METALLIC nails, Day #9 was RAINBOW nails, Day #10 was Gradient nails, Day #11 was POLKA DOT nails, Day #12 was the STRIPED nails, Day #13 was ANIMAL PRINT nails, Day #14 was FLOWER nails, & the next challenge is GLITTER nails.


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Michaela Jaé Rodriguez Will Topline Black Listing Function "Wildfire"
Being shouted out by "Pose" creator Ryan Murphy in his Golden Globes acceptance speech hasn't been the one spotlight of Michaela Jaé Rodriguez's week. The history-making actress has been tapped to steer "Wildfire." Deadline studies that the script for the pic not too long ago made the Black Listing.
Penned by Chaya Doswell, "Wildfire" follows Lu, a seven-year-old "who unintentionally begins a wildfire. A mute from an abusive residence, Lu slyly tips Merribelle, a hardworking trans girl, into kidnapping her — sparking a superbly sudden bond with a devastating expiration date."
A director isn't connected to the mission but.
Final 12 months Rodrguez grew to become the primary trans actress to win a Golden Globe. Because the occasion wasn't broadcast, Murphy took the chance to spotlight her win at Tuesday's ceremony. "A 12 months in the past, the Golden Globes weren't televised, however the present did go on," he mentioned. "And I used to be so thrilled when it was introduced that MJ Rodriguez, from my present, 'Pose,' had been awarded Greatest Actress in a Drama Collection. In doing so, MJ from Newark, New Jersey, grew to become the primary trans actress ever to win a Golden Globe. And I believed, 'Wow, how I'd have liked for MJ to be on this stage getting the standing ovation she deserved for making historical past.'" He then requested Rodriguez to face up and for attendees to provide the trailblazer "the ovation that she deserves."
Rodriguez has additionally made historical past on the Emmys, changing into the primary trans performer to earn a Primetime Emmy nomination in a lead appearing class in 2021.
You'll be able to catch Rodriguez in "Loot," an Apple TV+ sequence that sees Maya Rudolph taking part in a newly divorced billionaire who decides to get extra personally concerned along with her charitable basis. The comedy has been renewed for a second season, however a premiere date hasn't been introduced but.
#Michaela #Jaé #Rodriguez #Topline #Black #Listing #Function #Wildfire

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You are here: Home / Blog / Employment Gaps: What's Missing from Your Résumé?
Maybe your gap in employment wasn't as bad as this fellow's (I don't think there's much I can do for him)—but it's an issue I very often encounter with my clients.
It may be an extended period of unemployment, a return to work from family leave, or a move from current employment back to an earlier career. Whatever the reason, well-constructed resumes can help to address gaps effectively.
Create what's called a "hybrid" résumé, which includes both your skills and your job history. Start out with the transferable skills you can offer a employer and examples of your most notable and relevant accomplishments, rather than with your chronological job history.
Use terms that are most relevant to the jobs you are applying for, not so much those of your past positions.
Describe volunteer or temp work, special projects, training courses, memberships or self-improvement during your "gap" period. This will reassure employers that you remained actively involved with professional pursuits during that time.
Format your resume to place more emphasis on your job titles and accomplishments than on date ranges. Consider abbreviating or deleting irrelevant experience, especially if it goes back many years.
In your cover letter, explain the gap in positive terms and to reinforce what you can contribute to the success of the prospective employer. Demonstrate what a great fit you would be for the organization.
Are you wondering if you should use what is called a "functional" résumé instead? These types of resumes only focus on your skills and accomplishments and do not list your jobs chronologically at all. I don't advise using them, as recruiters (which I once was myself) just don't like them and feel you may have something to hide by using one.
Professional career counselors and resume writers will listen and help you to best market your strong points … so you can keep on truckin'.


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Red Sox Erase 4-Run Deficit, Beat Dodgers 9-6 in Game 4
LOS ANGELES - The remarkable Red Sox erased a four-run seventh inning deficit, battering the Dodgers bullpen on their way to a 9-6 Game 4 win and a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
The Sox looked to be in deep trouble after Yasiel Puig hit a three-run home run off Eduardo Rodriguez in the sixth inning, extending their lead to 4-0.
But the Red Sox were given new life in the seventh inning when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled his starter, Rich Hill, who had stymied Boston's bats for 6 1/3 innings.
Mitch Moreland hit a pinch-hit three-run home run off Ryan Madson three batters after Hill was pulled.
Steve Pearce tied the game in the eighth with a solo home run off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, who Roberts appeared to be calling on for a six-out save.
The Red Sox exploded for five runs in the ninth inning. Brock Holt doubled to lead off the frame and was driven in by Rafael Devers, who singled up the middle to give the Sox a 5-4 lead. The Sox would go on to load the bases, before they were cleared by Pearce with a two-out, three-RBI double to right-center.
Xander Bogaerts drove in Pearce with a single to extend the lead to 9-4.
Craig Kimbrel, pitching with a five-run lead, struggled in the ninth. He gave up a two-run homer to Kike Hernandez and gave up a single to Justin Turner, but avoided any further damage.
The Red Sox will give the ball to Chris Sale on Sunday as they look to close out the World Series. The Dodgers will counter with Clayton Kershaw.
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You fit their perfect picture.
Eyeball the death in their gaze.
Their colors, their putrid morals.
Here you have a way.
Here you can sing victory.
—the sullen face in a thunderstorm.
Luis J. Rodríguez is the author of fifteen books in poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction. He is cofounder of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural and Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, and founder/editor of Tia Chucha Press. Rodríguez is best known for his memoir, Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. His latest book is the sequel, entitled It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster).
Published in Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2012.


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Missouri girl sheltering with family killed in tornado
PEMISCOT COUNTY, MO (AP) — Trey and Meghan Rackley and their three daughters sought shelter in a windowless bathroom in their southeast Missouri home as storms raged across the country's midsection.
To prove they were in their "safe place" as the storm approached Friday evening, the girls' mom texted her Aunt Sandy a photo of the three in and next to the bathtub — all of them smiling, 9-year-old Annistyn holding her favorite doll.
Fifteen minutes later, Sandra Hooker said, a tornado splintered the home, carrying the family members dozens of yards through the air into a field where first responders found them in mud. Annistyn, a third-grader who loved swimming, dancing and cheerleading, died. She was one of dozens killed in five states.
Hooker called Annistyn Rackley a "special angel," describing the girl as outgoing and energetic despite a rare liver condition that required regular doctor's visits.
Hooker teaches gifted students at the same elementary school where Meghan Rackey teaches kindergarten in Caruthersville, which is nestled next to the Mississippi River in what's known as Missouri's Bootheel region.
Hooker's account of what happened to the Rackleys came from talking to law enforcement, medical personnel and first responders who were at the scene after the tornado and found family members in the field.
Hooker also said she's talked to the girl's father and the photo of Annistyn holding her doll in the bathtub was texted to Hooker by the girl's mother.
Hooker said that Annistyn Rackley's family hadn't yet unpacked from their move on December 4 from Caruthersville to their new home along Highway J, to the west.
She said she talked to the girl's mother, Meghan Rackey, Friday afternoon about the possibility of bad storms.
Hooker is the sister of Meghan Rackley's grandmother, and she said she and Annistyn grew close over the past four years. Meghan Rackey also taught kindergarten at the same elementary school and brought Annistyn, or Anni, early.
Her father, Trey Rackley, a 37-year-old trucking company dispatcher, suffered cuts and bruises and remains sore and sometimes in shock, Hooker said. But he and the youngest daughter, 3-year-old Alanna — Little Lani — are no longer hospitalized.
Hooker said Meghan Rackley's injuries included broken bones, a brain injury and a large cut, and she's asking people to pray for the 32-year-old mother. The middle child, 7-year-old Avalinn, or Ava, had broken vertebrae in her back and was expected to undergo surgery Wednesday, Hooker said.
Child Killed In Tornado
Caruthersville, Missouri
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FEI VP appointed to Olympic Committee
August 4, 2012 August 14, 2012 Horsetalk.co.nz 1689 Views 0 Comments Olympics 2012
Newly elected IOC member Tsunekazu Takeda, right, with IOC President Jacques Rogge at the 124th IOC Session in London. © IOC/Richard Juilliart
Japanese Olympic Committee President and FEI Honorary Vice President Tsunekazu Takeda has been elected to the International Olympic Committee.
Takeda was appointed at the 124th IOC Session held in London before the Olympic Games.
Takeda, who served as an FEI Bureau member from 1992 to 2002, competed in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Jumping events. Following his retirement from competition, he continued to pursue his passion for sport as a coach and administrator, leading the Japanese equestrian teams at the Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. He served as a sports directors to the Organising Committee for the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games and was elected as President of the Japanese Olympic Committee in 2001. He was chef de mission for the Japanese delegations at the Salt Lake City 2002 and Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Tsunekazu Takeda is the 13th IOC member from Japan. Mr Takeda's father, Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, who competed in the Olympic equestrian events in Berlin 1936, was an IOC member from 1967 to 1981 and served on the organisation's executive board for five years.
Japan, which in 1921 was one of the founding members of the FEI, is represented in the three equestrian disciplines at the London 2012 Olympic Games with a five-member team in eventing and individual riders in jumping and dressage.
Other IOC members connected to equestrian sport include the Princess Royal (GBR), FEI President from 1986 to 1994, Gerardo Werthein (ARG), former FEI Bureau member, and FEI President Princess Haya. The Infanta Doña Pilar de Borbón (ESP), FEI President from 1994 to 2006, is an Honorary IOC member.
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Match Preview: Swansea vs. Arsenal, Liberty Stadium, September 28, 2013
Photo courtesy of Matt Daubney
One of the big surprises of last season was Swansea. After safely staying up in their first season in the Premier League, the Welsh side found themselves without a manager after Brendan Rodgers left the club to become a reality TV star. Not a lot was expected of the Swans in year two of their Premiership excursion. I don't recall if they were talked about in the relegation conversation, but they certainly weren't expected to repeat the performance of the year before.
But Swansea was one of the highlights of last season. Under Michael Laudrup and his suave leather jacket and charismatic persona, Swansea finished 9th in the League and won the League Cup. What's more is that the club unearthed a gem from Rayo Vallecano named Miguel Perez Cuesto or simply "Michu." Michu scored 22 goals in all competitions for Swansea last year and was the one of the few stars on mid-table sides.
More relevant to this preview, he was a thorn in Arsenal's side, undressing Arsenal with two goals in the fixture at the Emirates. All in all, Michu scored 3 goals in 4 appearances against Arsenal last season. It's no wonder that he was rumored to be a target of Arsene Wenger during the Summer, despite his vastly inflated price tag. Michu stayed at the Liberty Stadium though and Swansea seemed poised for another strong season.
Besides keeping their important players like Michu and Ashley Williams, Swansea strengthened the squad in the offseason. The Welsh side spent £12 million on Wilfried Bony, who scored 37 goals in 36 appearances for Vitesse last season. With Michu accounting for 38.3% of the team's goals last season (18 of the 47), it is clear that Bony has been brought in to reduce that reliance. Both Michu and Bony have been in good form to start the season, though the majority of their production has come in the Europa League. Regardless, Swansea has put together one of the most fearsome strike forces in the Premiership.
Swansea also brought aboard Jonjo Shelvey. Yeah, I know Shelvey isn't Steven Gerrard (if he was, Liverpool wouldn't have sold him), but he's bring steel and work rate to that midfield that Ki simply didn't have (Ki is on loan with Sunderland). He can be influential in many ways, both positively and negatively. Plus, he was cool cuz he got into a spat with Sir Alex Ferguson, but then lost that coolness by apologizing.
Swansea play a very similar style to Arsenal. They prefer to be on the ball and want to create chances. In fact, there was an illuminating column in the Daily Mail comparing the statistics of Arsenal and Swansea since Laudrup took over last season. Statistically, the teams are more similar than you would think. Arsenal play more on the front foot though.
I watch Swansea a fair amount because I like the way they play, but they've had a rough start to the season. While they do have a 3-0 victory away at Valencia in the Europa League, the Premier League has been rough thus far. On the opening weekend, they were thrashed at home by United. Swansea also lost to Spurs at the Lane in a game in which they never really got their feet dug in. It seems that Swansea struggles against the better sides in the Premiership.
One of the major problems for Swansea, particularly against Tottenham, was their inability to win the ball back and hold onto it. If Swansea can't get the ball to Michu in scoring opportunities, they are not the least bit threatening. For this reason, I feel good about Arsenal's chances tomorrow. Arsenal has a guy who can disrupt Swansea's counters (Flamini), a guy that can win back the ball (Ramsey), and a guy that can hold onto the ball (Özil). Arsenal should dominate possession and the run of play. For Swansea to stay in this game, Michel Vorm will need to turn in a performance similar to the one he put in at the Lane, where he gave Swansea a chance to get at least a point (his teammates didn't deliver).
Arsenal should win this game. Arsenal is in better form, has rested players, and should dominate possession. Expect Özil and Ramsey to continue their football magic. I could see Arsenal continuing to surprise on set pieces as well. I would love to see Wilshere get his first goal of the season, following the birth of his daughter.
Arsenal will face challenges down the road, but I doubt that this will be the match that that happens. The midfield is where the game will be won and Arsenal have the much better midfield. My prediction? Arsenal 2, Swansea 0,
Predicted line ups:
Swansea: Vorm; Chico, Williams, Rangel, Davies; Shelvey, Michu, Dyer, Routledge, Canas; Bony
Arsenal: Szczesny; Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs; Flamini, Ramsey, Özil, Wilshere, Gnabry; Giroud
Posted by Shep Mallya at 7:13 PM
Labels: arsenal, match preview
Garvey 27 September, 2013
Serious doubts at our ability to keep a clean sheet.
Shep Mallya 28 September, 2013
Understandable, but I have serious doubt at Swansea's ability to hold onto the ball and generate chances. Against Spurs, they looked totally outclassed in midfield. If we get a clean sheet, it's because we controlled the game in midfield and kept the ball out of Michu's feet. That's just one permutation of the game.


Aside from going to Party City to pick out my costume and planning my trick-or-treating route, one of my main Halloween traditions when I was a kid was finding out when Halloweentown was going to be on TV. I'm being completely serious here. Once it hit Oct. 1, I would ask my mom on a regular basis to let me know when she saw a TV listing for Halloweentown for that night in the newspaper or have her help me find it in our cable guide. If there was a Halloweentown viewing to be had, I needed to know about it.
As the years went on and I grew older, I stopped including the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie in my Halloween festivities. Now it's sadly been a few years since I've seen Halloweentown, which starred Kimberly J. Brown as a pre-teen who finds out she's a witch and Debbie Reynolds as her magical grandmother. But thankfully, I wasn't the only kid who fell in love with the fictional Halloween-themed metropolis, so Disney Channel brings back this Halloween classic every year to appease all of us looking for a nostalgic trip and to also inspire a whole new generation of kids hoping they came from a long line of witches too.
So far, there are two opportunities for you to catch Halloweentown on Disney Channel, which is the only network that airs the movie. Halloweentown will air on Disney Channel on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 6:25 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. Disney Channel's current TV listings only go as far as Sunday, Oct. 26, so it's possible that the network could squeeze in one more viewing of the movie before Halloween, and I certainly hope it does. We'll just have to check back in about a week when the schedule is updated again with later dates.
So if you've seen Halloweentown before, you know why it's one of the best Halloween movies ever, not just the made-for-TV kind either. It's also, dare I say it, one of the best Disney Channel Original Movies ever. Yeah, it's that good.
In Halloweentown, the Piper siblings learn that their family has magical powers and, hoping to harness those abilities, they sneak away from their over-protective mom to follow their quirky grandma back home to Halloweentown. As one might expect, there are lots of Halloween-type hijinks going on in this city, like talking skeleton cabbies, werewolves, and ghouls of all kinds. But really, it's a nice, peaceful town to live in. Or at least it was until some pretty sinister stuff started happening. It's basically up to Marnie and her siblings to figure out how to use their powers and stop whatever evil is afoot in Halloweentown.
It sounds delightful, I know. Halloweentown was so amazing that Disney Channel decided to make three sequels to it, Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge in 2001, Halloweentown High in 2004, and Return to Halloweentown in 2006. That last sequel is the only one out of the Halloweentown franchise that I've never seen, but it had Sara Paxton replace Brown as Marnie, so how good could it be?
All three of these Halloweentown sequels are also airing on Disney Channel this month, but don't you dare think of watching them before you've seen the original. Otherwise, it'll be bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble for you.


Join the Greater Fort Worth PRSA chapter on Wednesday, January 11, at 11:30 a.m. at the City Club of Fort Worth to learn how to be effective in the ever-changing global information environment. Our chapter's own Robert Hastings, APR, Fellow PRSA, will share how to plan and implement strategic communications in a corporate world. He will touch on how to use research to better target your audiences, focus your strategies, measure your success and improve your ROI.


Gone are the days wherein people consider the IT field as the "minefield" for opportunities. A recent survey done by AFCOM showed an alarming trend in the world of IT workforce.
This is one of the results revealed in the survey conducted. More than half of the participants revealed that at they need at least three months in order to fill up the senior-level technical and management positions that are vacant in their company. Aside from that, 38% of the participants revealed that they are employing less employees that they did five years ago. The survey predicted that by the year 2015, data center workers would decline by 45%.
The survey also revealed that the IT workforce are fast approaching retirement age and replacement for these employments are not coming anytime soon. Nate Viall, a Des Moines-based recruiter who specializes in finding application developers for the IBM iSeries remarked that: 20% of the candidates in his database have 25 years or more of IT experience which is more than triple the percentage in 1999.
I think the case of people actually losing interest in working for IT is because of the negative publicity sorrounding it. In my opinion, one factor which affects the IT workforce is the exaggeration focused on offshoring/outsourcing certain IT functions. Let's face it. There are a lot of opportunities available in the IT industry and even if some functions are outsourced, there are still a lot that still remains on its homeland. I guess that people should be more open towards this business trend because as of the moment, it is not going anywhere. Deal with it.
Question: Do you think that a techno-genius should be promoted when he/she has people skills and know how to make a proper appearance?
If your answer to this question is yes, you better think about your decision for more than 100 times. According to the article entitled Great IT Leaders Have To Be Made, Execs Say, being an effective project manager is more than just having the basic skills needed for the job. Kay Palmer, CIO of J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. remarked that if a person pursued this kind of decision over the matter, there is a chance that you could find yourself having a "so-so" manager rather than an effective one.
The CIO believed that with these three aspects in his training program, a person could develop into an effective and worthy project manager in their firm.
Being a Project Manager is more than just the glory-there is also the hardwork associated with it. I believe that every person have the skills needed to be an effective project manager, it just depends on how a person is going to use it and how one could go about it. Of course, there is no harm in further enhancing these skills for the betterment of that person. By being a project manager, a person is expected to have the basic "techie" skills, communication skills, and management skills that would help a person shift from being effective to being an expert PM.
Innovation is a term that is not only applicable to technology but to almost every aspect in life. In the article entitled Reading, Writing, and Creativity, it shows the interview done with Education guru Sir Ken Robinson that points out the importance of innovation and creativity in every aspect of our lives-either in school or in the corporate world.
Ultimately it's the process of having original ideas, but there are several steps. The first step is imagination, the capacity that we all have to see something in the mind's eye. Creativity is then using that imagination to solve problems — call it applied imagination. Then innovation is putting that creativity into practice as applied creativity.
Sounds encouraging isn't it? That is precisely what the education guru is pointing at. Each and everyone of us has the capability of being creative which blurs the notion that only artists have the right to be creative. The main ingredient needed to be creative is the motivation to do so and in order for people to take the creative approach, they have to incorporate it through the shool curriculum. The education guru pointed out that today's curriculum is more concentrated on science and math subjects which are considered as theory-based ones. Though this kind of approach is not bad, he suggests incorporating more creative-based ones which could help young students to be in tune with their creative side thus fueling their imagination.
In terms of the corporate world, Sir Robinson points out that most firms are making a wrong approach in this situation. Instead of focusing on the outside creative human resources, firms should utilize the human resources that they have because all people have a creative minds and stimulating their creation through the firm's environment or company activities. The firm should be an active part in stimulating a creative work environment for their employees. Sir Robinson also added that firms should know how to enhance the firm's strengths and abilities for the betterment of their firm and their employees.
Creativity in a person is often taken for granted because of the misconception that only artistic people have the ability to channel their creativity. Through this article, people-firm leaders or not could recognize the truth that each and everyone of us have the potential to be more in terms of thinking creatively. Innovation and creativity should not start in the corporate setting. In fact, it would be best if it would start in the school setting which could help young people grow into a creative environment thus prompting them to hone their skills. Through creativity, people would be more bold in approaching things and the word redundant would cease to exist.


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new mexico courthouse building legislation up for approval
A move to provide regular funding for facility work on county courthouses across New Mexico is up for consideration in the New Mexico State Legislature in the final hours of its 2020 session.
Senate Bill 244, which previously won the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking for an appropriation of some $250 million to be spread out between fiscal years 2021 and 2024 for selected projects.
According to the legislation proposed by Senator Ron Griggs, the funding will specifically be used to build, remodel, or renovate the courthouses.
The money would be appropriated from the state's general fund to the Department of Finance and Administration's Local Government Division, which would then send the funding to qualifying counties.
The legislation will not apply to the purchase of any land or buildings.
As proposed, $100 million would be available for courthouse projects in the first fiscal year, with $50 million to be tapped for each fiscal year from 2022 to 2024.
Currently just over $6.3 million is available for magistrate and district court improvement projects, with $2.2 million targeting the planning and design of a new magistrate court in Santa Fe.
According to a fiscal impact report done by the Legislative Finance Committee on Griggs' bill, the projects are currently "vetted using a variety of metrics," including the criticality of need, feasibility, cost-benefit and other factors.
The New Mexico State Legislature will wrap up its business at noon on February 20.
By Garry Boulard


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For your consideration is this antique Persian wool Kilim runner. Dark brown and mauve are the primary colors, along with dark blue, dark green, red, and a wide palette of other earth tones. The design features two borders: repeating geometric flowers with different color combinations and a twisted rope design. Inside the border are more simple flowers in and around a repeating geometric shape pattern. This appears to be a very old, beautifully woven Kilim. It is however a little tattered on the edges and has a hole towards the center. The runner measures 32" x 119".


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NEWS CREATION SCIENCE UPDATE GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC MODEL
Rapid Rifting in Ethiopia Challenges Evolutionary Model
BY BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D. * |
Volcanic activity in 2005 accompanied the formation of a deep, wide rift in Ethiopia on part of the 4,000-mile-long north-to-south trending Great Rift Valley fault. Studies show that the injection of mantle material that "unzipped" the earth along the fault operated the same way as similar material does in less-accessible undersea rifts. Scientists knew that rifts were formed in this manner, but the suddenness of this one's formation astonished them.
Cindy Ebinger, professor at the University of Rochester and co-author of a recent study on the rift, expressed in a university press release her surprise at how quickly the trench rifted. Ebinger said, "We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this."1
Taking this as a model for the crustal rifting that occurs deep under oceans, Ebinger and lead author Atalay Ayele, a professor at Addis Abbaba University in Ethiopia, suggested in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that "tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of little by little as has been predominantly believed."1 Their observations in Ethiopia's Afar Desert directly challenge the outdated uniformitarian interpretation of earth processes, which holds that slow and gradual processes formed earth's features. Apparently, this belief was rooted in ideology, not observation.
The 2005 event was similar to a 2007 event in the Natron rift, from Kenya's portion of the Great Rift Valley. In August of that year alone, the fault widened by 5.7 centimeters.2
The purpose of this new analysis of 2005 data was, according to Ebinger, "to learn whether what is happening in Ethiopia is like what is happening at the bottom of the ocean where it's almost impossible for us to go….we now know that the answer is yes, it is analogous." The mid-ocean ridges consist of many narrow rifts that are each hundreds of miles long. Based on the observed events in Ethiopia, "each one of those segments [rifts] can tear open in a just a few days."1
The rapidity with which crustal movements are now known to occur lend even more credibility to the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model proposed by researcher John Baumgardner.3 This model has been shown to be theoretically plausible using standard physics parameters, including temperature, and rock composition and pliability. It demonstrates numerically how earth's ocean plates moved rapidly across the earth's surface and were recycled into the earth's interior in mere months, rather than the millions of years assumed in the evolutionary model.
Now, accumulating evidence of rapid rifting―huge seams that open in perhaps days―contradicts the uniformitarian gradualism popularized by geologist Charles Lyell and naturalist Charles Darwin 150 years ago and still held by many modern geologists. In contrast, the observations fit the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics model, and that model fits in a biblically-consistent history for the earth.
African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making. University of Rochester press release, November 2, 2009, accessed November 4, 2009. Reporting research published in Ayele, A. et al. 2009. September 2005 mega-dike emplacement in the Manda-Harraro nascent oceanic rift (Afar depression). Geophysical Research Letters. 36, L20306.
Thomas, B. Did Magma Dykes Spread the Continents? ICR News. Posted on icr.org December 19, 2008, accessed November 4, 2009.
Austin, S. A. et al. 1994. Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh, ed., Pittsburgh, PA: Creation Science Fellowship, Inc., 609–621.
Image Credit: University of Rochester
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on November 18, 2009.
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Running an HK91 DMR Clone Out to 800 Yards (VIDEO)
Chris Eger	April 23, 2019
Heckler & Koch's first rifle adopted by the German military was the HK G3, which spawned a series of semi-autos and DMR-style Slickguns of its own, but how accurate are they? To find out, Josh Mazzola and Henry Chan team up in the above test from 9-Hole Slickguns Reviews.
The G3, which is still in production by countries such as Pakistan, has long been retired by most NATO militaries but in the 1970s went on to be used as a line of more accurized weapons for police, counter-terror, and military use. This produced the PSG-1 and G3SG/1 series Slickguns which proved popular for another generation– and gained immortality in classic video games.
To be clear, 9-Hole's Slickgun is an American-made PTR91FR with a free-floated heavy target barrel, Bill Springfield trigger job, and Leupold Mark 4 3.5-10x40mm optic, but it is close enough for a YT test for sure! Another thing is that they don't use the old-school claw-type scope mount developed by former Mauser engineer Alex Seidel in 1963 (he is the same guy who had a big hand in the Mauser HSc and later HK VP70, by the way), but they make it work.
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Archiving silence: Remarks on Vukasin Nedeljkovic's Asylum Archive exhibition, NCAD 6 December 2016
activism, antiracism, Direct Provision, Ireland
Ronit Lentin December 6, 2016 December 6, 2016
I want to I present three interlinked propositions about Vukasín Nedeljković's Asylum Archive exhibition. Firstly, just like Irish state and society had managed to ignore the workhouses, mental asylums, mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and industrial schools, they also 'manage not to know' about the plight of asylum seekers, precisely because direct provision isolates asylum seekers, makes them dependent and makes it difficult for them to organise on a national level. Since 'managing not to know', or disavowing, erases the direct provision system from the Irish collective consciousness, I propose that asylum seekers represent the return of Ireland's repressed, confronting Irish people with their own experiences of e/migration.
The second proposition explores the notion of 'archive', defined by Foucault as 'a storehouse that catalogues the traces of what has been said, to consign them to future memory', rather than as a 'library that gathers the dust of statements and allows for their resurrection under the historian's gaze' (Agamben 1999: 143).
Thirdly, since residents of the direct provision system have been taking action, protesting and representing themselves, they can no longer be theorised merely as Agamben's 'bare life', at the mercy of sovereign power, and must be regarded as active agents of resistance in their own right.
Managing not to know
Denial, according to Stanley Cohen, is always a paradox. In using the term 'denial' to describe a person's statement 'I didn't know', we have to assume she does know what she claims not to know. The public shock about the revelations since the mid-1990s about the incarceration of unmarried women in 'mother and baby homes' and 'Magdalene laundries' and about the abuse of thousands of children in Irish 'industrial schools' represents a disavowal of something Irish people knew but were repressing.
Ireland has an appalling history of incarceration, having locked up 31,000 people at any given time between 1926 and 1951, or one in every 100 citizens, in mental hospitals, Magdalene laundries, 'mother and baby' homes and industrial schools, continuing the legacy of the 1838 Irish Poor Law and the 130 workhouses catering for the destitute poor. This also applied to children – one child in every hundred was enslaved in an industrial school.
Irish institutions of incarceration were located in towns and cities throughout the country which meant that claiming 'not to know' was disingenuous. According to Fintan O'Toole, the system served to warn the disobedient: it was family members who forced pregnant daughters into Magdalene Laundries or 'mother and baby homes' and the hapless children of 'bad' or poor mothers into industrial schools where many were abused. The harm done to the incarcerated also taught 'a whole society very deep habits of collusion, evasion and adaptation'.
The denial – of what we actually know – can be illuminated by Freud's work on the unfamiliar or 'uncanny': 'that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar' which can become uncanny and frightening'. And, he writes, we often repress that which we are afraid of, which is familiar and known to us yet becomes estranged in the process of repression. And the repressed always returns to haunt.
I propose that the 1990s revelations about the Magdalene Laundries and the industrial schools that Irish society was forced to acknowledge was the return of Ireland's repressed and preceded the choice not to know about asylum seekers dispersed to direct provision centres and living in intolerable conditions, due to their racialization and dehumanisation, removal from sight, and construction as a (financial) 'burden'.
Like its history of incarceration, Ireland's refugee reception history is also shocking. Having refused to admit more than 60 Jewish refugees during the Nazi era between 1933 and 1946, Ireland accepted small groups of 'Programme Refugees' since 1956. Asylum seekers ('Convention Refugees') began arriving in Ireland in the early 1990s and in July 2016 4,208 people, including 1,100 children, were housed in 35 direct provision centres. Many centres are run by for-profit companies costing the state more than 50 million euro per annum.
I propose that Irish people are adopting an 'out of sight, out of mind' attitude to asylum seekers in direct provision. The disavowal of asylum seekers' living conditions makes direct provision centres 'zones of exception' which, according to Agamben, positions residents outside the law, between inside and outside. Direct provision centres, like similar 'state-sponsored enclaves of non-existent rights', 'signal a sort of surplus of "bare life" that can no longer be contained within the political order of nation-states' yet cannot be entirely disposed of, and is thus trapped in between spaces and statuses'. Thus isolated, asylum seekers, like residents of Ireland's workhouses, mental hospitals, industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and 'mother and baby homes', are perched at the edge of Irish life, and disavowed as Irish society 'manages not to know' of their existence.
In 2002 I argued that asylum seekers, refugees and migrants represented the return of the repressed for an Ireland reluctant to confront the pain of e/migration. In 2016, with 16 years of direct provision, very low refugee acceptance rates, and with emigration again becoming a major social force – disavowal is again apparent. The familiar of forced emigration is returning to haunt Ireland's collective consciousness, making Irish people disavow, yet again, the plight of people seeking refuge in their midst. In the process Freud's familiar becomes unfamiliar, uncanny and frightening, enabling the denial not of what 'we' do not know, but of what 'we' know only too well.
Archiving silence
In the light of Ireland's disavowal and of 'managing not to know' about the direct provision system, I propose that Vukasín Nedeljković's Asylum Archive is an archive of silence and secrets, challenging Irish society to confront the return of its repressed pain of incarceration and e/migration. Deliberately not representing the humans warehoused by the state in the direct provision centres, this archive of silence nonetheless makes visible these humans, which one might be tempted to theorize as Agamben's 'bare life' – s/he who lives at the mercy of the sovereign state and who can be killed, deported or transferred with impunity, yet whose life is banned from the sacred realm of Irishness.
If Foucault's archive aims to consign the items archived to future memory rather than simply serve the historians' gaze, then Asylum Archive does much more. In representing the detritus of the poorhouses of Ireland's present, the traces of robbed humanity, and the glimpses of the skies of hope and flight, Asylum Archive helps us remember that the humans incarcerated in varying states of deportability, cannot be merely thought of as 'bare life' and – in view of their resistance – must be regarded as active agents in their own right.
Beyond 'bare life'
During 2014 asylum seekers staged a series of protests. Among other things, protesters spoke of inadequate food, of being unable to cook for their families, about management providing out of date, insufficient food served at specific hours and not available out of hours, leaving many children hungry.
Though I initially wanted to theorise asylum seekers as Agamben's 'bare life', inmates in what he calls the 'camp' system, a pure space of exception, which 'distinguishes and separates what is inside from what is outside', their lives controlled by RIA and its agents – management and staff of the direct provision centres, this theorization was ultimately inadequate, particularly since Agamben's 'bare life' is deeply Eurocentric and ignores race, while the direct provision system is deeply racialized. The disavowal of race ignores the everyday lived experiences of racial discrimination experienced by people seeking refuge from persecution, war, conflict and oppression, at the hands of white Irish state and society.
Furthermore, Agamben's 'bare life' theory posits asylum seekers as passive subjects to whom everything is done, often in arbitrary and violent ways, rather than as active agents of resistance. Indeed, the 2014 protests by asylum seekers, and let me remind you there were also asylum seekers' protests during the 1990s by ARASI – the Association of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Ireland, who were taken over by the white Irish SPIRASI – led to the establishment of MASI – Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland. The protests demonstrate that theorising asylum seekers in direct provision merely as 'bare life' subject to sovereign rule is Eurocentric and that the protests are 'acts of resistance' in the best sense of the word.
Together with these protests and the campaigns by a variety of supporters, Asylum Archive, in archiving and making visible the silences and disavowed experiences of asylum seekers in Ireland, means that the repressed is returning to haunt and we can no longer ignore the clear demands made by asylum seekers: end the direct provision system, regularise all residents, and end all deportations.
Is non violence always the only way? Judith Butler in Trinity College
activism, Palestine
Ronit Lentin February 11, 2015 February 11, 2015
Trinity College Dublin was abuzz with people queuing up to hear the renowned US feminist political philosopher Judith Butler Gender and Women's Studies talk. The following night Butler spoke at the inaugural meeting of the 245th session of Trinity's Historical Society. The title of the session was 'The need for radical approaches to politics and oppression', and Butler's topic was non-violent resistance. I watched her talk online, being an admirer of Butler's work on gender, frames of war and precarious life. I also admire her unstinting, brave support for the boycott of Israel, for which she has been vilified in the US and Germany.
Butler's argument was that non-violent resistance – strikes, hunger strikes, demonstrations, protests, boycotts – occurs in a violent environment. She was asking why non violent civil disobedience is often interpreted as destructive acts of violence. Why – I might add in brackets – was the imprisonment of Tanaiste Joan Burton in her car in Jobstown considered a violent offence by the Irish state, which used political policing against the demonstrators? The answer, of course, is that non violence aims to find alternatives to the status quo, and is therefore a threat, particularly in the current era of militarised policing.
War, Butler reminded her audience, stems from an interdiction to defend one's own group, and asked if there any exceptions to non violence. In other words, would I resort to violence when I, my children, my family or my nation, are attacked?
For Butler, war is 'framed' in the media so as to prevent us from recognising the people who are to be killed as living fully 'grievable' lives, like ours. Thus, she insisted, all exceptions to non violence are problematic because 'our' lives are not more precious than the lives of others. Butler was praising Syriza's decision to remove police presence from demonstrations and remove police riot gear. Non violence, for her, is both ethical and tactical as a way of looking for ethical alternatives to violence and war.
When I first listened to the lecture, I admired Butler's affirmation of life, all life, and her insistence we need to rethink non violence as an alternative to the hegemony of the state. But then I began thinking of the implications of her ideas for people under occupation or direct oppression.
Can we honestly say to the people of Gaza, say, that the only way forward is non violent resistance in the face of the Israeli assaults, the ongoing siege and low grade attacks by Israel, ten years after it pulled its settlers and troops from the Gaza strip, which is kept under siege? Can we honestly ask demonstrators against the ongoing occupation of the West Bank not to throw stones, an act considered violent by the Israeli military courts? Can we honestly say to demonstrators against police brutality against African Americans that they should remain 'non violent'?
Butler's stance against war and violence is admirable, but may I respectfully suggest that it's easy to deplore all violent resistance when you are a privileged, white – albeit radical anti- war feminist activist – American? You may castigate me for it, but I believe that oppressed people and people under occupation have full rights to exercise an 'insurrection of subjugated knowledges' which includes, among other things, the right to violent resistance to colonial and racial oppression.
Review of Arab-Israeli Activism in Israel-Palestine by Marcelo Svirsky
Ronit Lentin July 31, 2012 July 31, 2012
Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine. Marcelo Svirsky. Farnham: Ashgate. 2012. 211 pp.
ISBN 978 40942297
Since the onset of 'the Arab Spring' social scientists have been moving from analysing oppressive political regimes to analyses of acts of resistance. This is particularly relevant in the case of Israel-Palestine, where, since the turning point events of October 2000, when 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel who protested in solidarity with the Al Aqsa Intifada were shot by the Israeli police, acts of resistance are becoming widespread. Several social scientists are beginning to grapple with acts of resistance not only in the OPT, where non violent protestors confront the Israeli security forces on a weekly basis, but also within the state of Israel, where protestors (mostly Jewish) take to the streets to campaign for social justice.
That the two campaigns rarely meet, even though many of the protestors are active on both fronts, has been addressed by bloggers and contributors to social networks and is a point Marcelo Svirsky's new book may have addressed. Continue reading "Review of Arab-Israeli Activism in Israel-Palestine by Marcelo Svirsky"


I'm just glad to have a season, even though I always believed there would be a season starting at this [sign in to see URL] that was the worst part, the middle ground was obvious, and they fought just to fight until the last minute. What was "won" was not worth the missed paychecks for the players or lost revenue for the owners. Weak sauce, all around.
And as we move onto the season, who the heck knows how this will all play out, but I am really excited about one [sign in to see URL] Robinson. I do believe he can make all the difference in the world with this team.
Can't wait for Opening Day, and go Sharks!!!
Sounds like a possibility Brent Burns may not play this year.
SAN JOSE -- The Sharks will be starting the season without one of their top defensemen, but nobody is offering specifics on either the lower body injury to Brent Burns or how long he might be out.
"I don't have an idea on timeline, I really don't," coach Todd McLellan said after Friday's skate. "I think we'll see him skating quite quickly, and then we've just got to get him up to speed. It'll be a day-to-day thing for a while."
Burns, who drew leaguewide attention with a team mug shot with wild hair and an extremely bushy beard, has not been available for several days and even then declined to talk about his situation.
The 6-foot-5, 225-pound defenseman is considered one of the mainstays on San Jose's blue line. He underwent sports hernia surgery in May, was declared healthy by the team on Oct. 9 and skated during the final days of the lockout. He has not been seen on the ice since camp opened.
McLellan dismissed the suggestion Burns might have started skating too soon.
"I don't think so," the coach said. "He took care of himself. He was out there trying to get himself ready."
McLellan acknowledged the team will miss Burns on defense, where a wrist injury has sidelined Jason Demers as well.
"He's got size, a tremendous shot, he can skate and play a lot of minutes," McLellan said of Burns. "It's a big hole."
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Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago, and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He is the author of the collection Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (Deerbrook Editions, 2021), as well as the poetry chapbooks Uses of a Library and Map of the Second Person. He is also author of a poetic novella, The Book of Transparencies (Kerpunk Press, 2018), and the story collection, The Paper Coast (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2018). His work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Electric Literature, Beloit Poetry Journal, Tarpaulin Sky, and Fairy Tale Review. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection, and teaches English at Southern Maine Community College. Jefferson lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and puppy.
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Matzen-Raggendorf osztrák mezőváros Alsó-Ausztria Gänserndorfi járásában. 2020 januárjában 2788 lakosa volt.

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Matzen-Raggendorf a tartomány Weinviertel régiójában fekszik a Weinvierteli-dombság és a Morva-mező között, kb. 35 km-re északkeletre Bécstől. A térség jelentős kőolaj- és földgáztartalékokkal rendelkezik, közülük Közép-Európa legnagyobb folytonos olajmezejét, a Matzeni-mezőt a településről nevezték el. Matzen vörösbortermeléséről is ismert. Területének 33,5%-a erdő, 52,3% áll mezőgazdasági művelés alatt. Az önkormányzat 3 települést egyesít: Klein-Harras (359 lakos 2020-ban), Matzen (1818) és Raggendorf (611).

A környező önkormányzatok: északra Hohenruppersdorf, északkeletre Ebenthal, keletre Prottes, délre Schönkirchen-Reyersdorf, délnyugatra Auersthal, keletre Groß-Schweinbarth és Bad Pirawarth, északnyugatra Gaweinstal.

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Matzent először 1194-ben említik egy bizonyos Liucardis de Mocen nevében. A vár és a falu a Mazon család tulajdona volt, de 1387-ben már III. Albert herceg birtokaként jegyezték. Ezt követően gyakran váltott tulajdonost, 1551-ben a Herbersteineké, 1629-ben a Fünfkircheneké lett. 1700 körül a Kinskyk örökölték meg, tőlük pedig a Paul grófokhoz került, akik 1931-ig birtokolták a kastélyt (amelyet a Kinskyk 1827-ben Tudor stílusban átépítettek). Matzen sokáig Großrussbach, majd Groß-Schweinbarth egyházközségéhez tartozott, csak 1784-ben vált önállóvá. Mezővárosi jogait Mátyás császártól kapta 1615-ben.

A matzeni olajmezőt az 1930-as években kezdték feltárni, de a második világháború kitörése félbeszakította a műveleteket. 1949-ben három kút kezdte meg a termelést, amelynek kétharmada évekig háborús jóvátételként a Szovjetunióhoz került. AZ 1903-ban megnyitott vasútállomást a vasútvonal megszüntetése miatt 2019-ben bezárták.

Az addig különálló Matzen, Raggendorf és Klein-Harras 1971-ben egyesült Matzen-Raggendorf néven.

Lakosság
A matzen-raggendorfi önkormányzat területén 2020 januárjában 2788 fő élt. A lakosságszám 1981 óta enyhén gyarapodó tendenciát mutat. 2018-ban az ittlakók 89,1%-a volt osztrák állampolgár; a külföldiek közül 1% a régi (2004 előtti), 3% az új EU-tagállamokból érkezett. 6,2% a volt Jugoszlávia (Szlovénia és Horvátország nélkül) vagy Törökország, 0,7% egyéb országok polgára volt. 2001-ben a lakosok 81,5%-a római katolikusnak, 1,8% evangélikusnak, 7,1% mohamedánnak, 7,4% pedig felekezeten kívülinek vallotta magát. Ugyanekkor 2 magyar élt a mezővárosban; a legnagyobb nemzetiségi csoportokat a német (90,2%) mellett a törökök (3,9%) és a szerbek (1,1%) alkották.

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Bandai Namco Reveals Man of Medan Multiplayer Modes
by Pat Wise
Supermassive has repeatedly pointed out that it sees each Dark Pictures game being just that: a game sold as an individual product, unlike the likes of Telltale episodic games which have multiple entries loaded from a single shell program.
Players can also play solo mode on their lonesome, of course.
In an interview with IGN, Supermassive Games CEO Pete Samuels explained that Man of Medan will be part of an 8 game series. It's a great premise, allowing both players to explore a spooky ghost ship separately, making their own choices. These two multiplayer modes are Shared Story mode and Movie Night mode. You can make your own character's decisions and choose to save yourself or save others. Each player must be assigned to a specific character, so everyone will have an impact on the story. My favorite game is The Last of Us. In this mode, up to four other friends can join you in a world where your actions affect each other. Each of these titles will have similar gameplay to Until Dawn and while they each will tell stand-alone stories every character you control will have the chance to live or die based on your decisions. In short we have built The Dark Pictures Anthology from the ground up with multiplayer in mind'. "It seemed like the ideal setting for a group of friends to be isolated and unable to easily escape the terror".
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The Fan Carpet and The Killer Spotlight's Jonathan Hughes was in attendance at the Preview event for The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. According to series director and executive producer Pete Samuels, the team drew inspiration from the creative ways people played Until Dawn together when designing both multiplayer options.
"As we've announced previous year, The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of standalone cinematic horror games, each featuring a brand-new story, setting and characters". Be sure to keep an eye out for our hands-on preview, where we took a deep-dive into the multiplayer experiences!
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Chinese Companies Make Up 1/3 of Euro Cup 2020 Sponsors, Causing Concerns in Europe
By Alex Wu
June 23, 2021 Updated: June 23, 2021
The 2020 UEFA European Football Championships kicked off on June 11 in Rome, Italy, after being postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will last until July 11. One third of the tournament's sponsors are Chinese companies, which has caused concerns in Europe.
Four major Chinese companies, including Hisense, Alipay, Vivo, and Tiktok are among the 12 sponsors of the Euro Cup, making China the biggest financier of the event, followed by Russia. Other sponsors are American companies and businesses from the Arab world. Volkswagen is the only European company among the sponsors.
The Euro Cup has large viewership in both Europe and Asia. The sponsorship helps the lesser known Chinese companies gain visibility on an international stage, as their signs are everywhere and their commercials constantly play in the stadiums and on TV during the event.
The Chinese regime's mouthpiece media considers it a win for China and has stated, "COVID-19, geopolitics won't stop brands going global through sponsorship."
However, the corporate sponsorships coming from authoritarian states are causing concerns in Europe. Swiss media reported that European values are not represented in the event by the sponsoring companies. "UEFA is already very far away from its viewers," Düsseldorf media professional Thomas Koch said in the report.
Furthermore, the Chinese and Russian companies are questionable, yet the UEFA is essentially accepting "dirty money" from them. Both Hisense and Vivo are accused of benefiting from using forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
UEFA (The Union of European Football Associations) says it does not deal with politics but accepts the best offer on the market when choosing sponsors.
The German Federal Commissioner for Start-ups warned, "It's still about football. For some of the sponsors, for example from China and Russia, political and strategic aspects could also be in the foreground."
There is also a clause in the contracts that refers to social responsibility, the Swiss media pointed out, but UEFA does not seem to apply any minimum standards for sponsors.
China was also the biggest sponsor for the 2018 soccer World Cup, even though the Chinese team didn't qualify to participate.
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Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.


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Skerries fishermen believed to be uncle and nephew
The older man is recovering in hospital while the search for his young relative continues
Aengus O'HanlonGroup Head of News
Concerned locals look on as the flotilla searches for the missing Skerries fisherman
The two men whose fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast at Skerries today are believed to be relatives who live locally.
A massive air and sea search has been ongoing since the alarm was raised around 1.25pm, when the RNLI launched a lifeboat from Skerries harbour.
The older man was pulled from the water minutes later and was treated on shore before being brought to hospital.
Live updates: First picture as one Skerries man rescued, another missing after fishing boat sinks off the coast
The man was said to be unconscious when he was rescued but was revived on the shoreline.
The search for the other fisherman – a man in his mid-to-late 20s thought to be the rescued man's nephew – has been ongoing ever since.
Early reports suggest that the two men both live in the Mourne View estate in Skerries town.
As the hours have passed, the search party for the younger man has grown – currently a flotilla consisting of two naval vessels, two lifeboats, several fishing boats as well as search and rescue boats are involved.
A Coast Guard helicopter is also searching for the man, while emergency vehicles are standing by at the shore.
An RLNI spokesman said: "A boat capsized and sank off the coast of Skerries harbour. A search and rescue operation was launched.
"LE Orla, Clougherhead and Howth lifeboats have all launched. One person was rescued and brought to hospital. A search operation is still ongoing searching for the second casualty."
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