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Володи́мир Петро́вич Шульга́ ( 29 березня 1973, м. Одеса) — український політик, науковець. Народний депутат України VII скликання. Державний службовець 1-го рангу. Доктор історичних наук. З 2 березня 2014 по 16 вересня 2014 року — голова Сумської ОДА. З 2015-го по 2018 рік — проректор Національний авіаційний університет. З 2019 року — проректор Харківський національний університет внутрішніх справ

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У 1996 році закінчив СДПІ ім. А. С. Макаренко (спеціальність «географія та біологія»). У 2012 році — Сумський державний університет, магістр державної служби. Кандидат географічних наук (КНУ ім. Т. Г. Шевченко, 2014 рік) за спеціальністю 11.00.02 (економічна географія). Доктор історичних наук (НААН України, 2019 рік) за спеціальністю 07.00.07 (історія науки і техніки), Старший дослідник (2021 рік).

Трудова діяльність
З 1997 по 2009 рік — головний редактор Сумського обласного щотижневика «Прес-інформ», директор Рекламно-видавничої компанії «Медіа Інформ».

З 2010 року  по 2012 рік — голова правління СМСЕПЦ «ЕкоПраво-Суми».

2000—2010 роки — голова Ліги КВН Сумщини.

2010—2012 роки — Депутат Сумської обласної ради VI скликання, фракція ВО «Батьківщина», обраний у мажоритарному окрузі № 40 (Ковпаківський район м. Суми).

З 12 грудня 2012 — народний депутат України 7-го скликання від партії ВО «Батьківщина». Переміг в мажоритарному окрузі № 161, отримавши 42,7 % голосів. У Верховній Раді 10 січня 2013 року став головою підкомітету з питань авіаційного транспорту Комітету з питань транспорту і зв'язку.

З 2 березня 2014 — голова Сумської обласної державної адміністрації, призначений Указом виконуючого обов'язки Президента України Олександра Турчинова № 220/2014.

16 вересня 2014 року Президент Петро Порошенко напередодні позачергових виборів до Верховної Ради України звільнив з посади голови Сумської обласної державної адміністрації.

З 2015 по 2018 роки — проректор Національного авіаційного університету.

З 2019 року — проректор з авіаційної роботи Харківського національного університету внутрішніх справ.

Автор понад 70 наукових та науково-методичних праць.

Сім'я
Одружений. Має доньку та сина.

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 Володимир Шульга на сайті Верховної Ради України

Уродженці Одеси
Випускники Сумського педагогічного інституту
Народні депутати України 7-го скликання
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Suspect who ran toward police with hammer fatally shot by officers at Meux Home in downtown Fresno
By Nic Garcia and ABC30.Com Staff
Suspect who ran toward police with hammer fatally shot by officers
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Authorities have identified the man who was fatally shot by police officers in downtown Fresno on Thursday afternoon as 34-year-old Edgar Morfin Mendoza.
Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said two officers responded to the Meux Home Museum on Tulare and R Street just after 12:30 pm for reports of a suspicious man pacing in front of the museum.
When they arrived, they found the museum had several windows smashed, and the front door had been pried open.
Chief Balderrama said Mendoza walked out of the building and did not comply with the officers' commands.
The chief said he yelled frantically at both officers, and at one point, an officer tried to use a taser, but he pulled off the electric prongs.
Balderrama said Mendoza grabbed what appeared to be a hammer and started sprinting toward the officers.
That's when both officers fired their weapons.
UPDATE: Man was running towards two officers with a hammer when they shot him multiple times, killing him. Ongoing investigation- more info to come on @ABC30
— Nic Garcia (@NicABC30) January 13, 2022
Mendoza died from his injuries.
Police spent an hour searching the rest of the building to see if there was a second suspect, but the museum was clear.
Balderrama said the museum had been closed for the season.
Both officers that fired their weapons have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation continues in accordance with the department policy.
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It is approximately one month since the closure of the High Court due to health concerns with the LIME building on The Carenage in St. George's.
This has resulted in 139 criminal matters listed for the April Assizes and other civil and divorce matters being put at a standstill, as High Courts No. 2, 4 and 5 have not had a sitting since May 22.
THE NEW TODAY can report that close to four weeks later, a solution is yet to be found by the ruling New National Party (NNP) government of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell on future sittings of the court.
At the onset of the crisis, Supreme Court Registrar, Alana Twum-Barimah, revealed that an assessment conducted on the building by the Grenada Bureau of Standards (GDBS), showed a spike of radiation in a particular section of the building, which could have been the cause of health hazards to the users of the court.
However, Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W), the registered owner of the building, which is being rented to government, categorically refuted claims of harmful 'radiation' levels in the building.
However, when contacted last week Thursday, Attorney-General, Sir Lawrence Joseph declined to comment on the issue.
"I cannot speak to that right now," he said, directing the newspaper to the Supreme Court Registrar, who he noted is following up on the issue.
Speaking on the issue via telephone with THE NEW TODAY, last week Thursday, Registrar Twum-Barimah, could not provide clarity on the radiation issue in light of the statement from Cable & Wireless.
"It's hard to say what the direction is (finding alternative venues) when it has not been finalised," however, she affirmed that they are working assiduously to ensure that the court process continues.
"We are really working hard to find the best suitable option…we are trying to at least have a temporary place to have matters heard before the new court term in September," she said.
Up to press time, the only High Court that has been sitting is the No. 3, which was the first to be temporarily relocated to the Mediation Centre building on Scott Street.
However, this court is only dealing with Chamber matters, while a number of other open court and fixed dates matters are left to accumulate in a backlog.


After a sold out debut last summer 51st State Festival returns to London's Trent Park exploring the roots of house music with a truly transatlantic programme, joining the dots between the US, the UK and the Caribbean.
Presented by Found Series, the lineup features tastemakers, trail-blazers and seminal figures from house, garage, soul, funk, dub, dancehall and disco set within one of North London's most stunning parks.
VIP tickets are available now and include fast track entry, bespoke VIP area with premium food & drink selections, posh toilets and dedicated lineup.


The Grand Theatre continued to play to packed audiences through the 1920's and 30's and despite wartime conditions, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre remained open throughout the Second World War. Patrons recall what an escape this was from the grim reality of wartime Britain.
The Grand Theatre foyer from the 1940's. Image by kind permission of the Express and Star.
Are YOU an evacuee with a story?
Radisson Blu Edwardian is a distinctive collection of individual hotels in London, Manchester and Guildford.
Goodnight Mister Tom follows the journey of a young boy, William Beech, as he is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II and put into the care of Tom Oakley, an elderly recluse. It is here William finds more than just protection from the falling bombs and Tom Oakley also finds himself saved by young William.


The kind pain wey dey inside me as i dey write this post ehn, na sign say Manchester United don improve under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. As e don make me dey used to winning every game. But na God save us as we manage draw 2-2 vs Burnley, honestly i think say we don lose already as Burnley bin dey lead at the 87th minute.
De Gea: The two goals no be hin fault, na defensive mistakes. I go sha rate am 5.
Young: Na him wey cross ball wey Sanchez head, wey keeper punch go meet Lindelof wey equalize. But most of hin crosses on the night na error. 6.
Phil Jones: Unlike most fans wey go blame am for that pass to Pereira, i no go blame am. Nothing do that pass, na Pereira wey wan dribble for there. I rate am 6.
Victor Lindelof: E try but e get hand small for Burnley's second goal, but e redeem himself with hin equalizer. I rate am 7.
Luke Shaw: E help for attack. e try sha. But e gats work on hin shooting. I rate am 6.
Andreas Pereira: Na the flop of the match vs Burnley. E bin lose posession 14 times. e no recover anyball. All hin tackles lead to foul. To make matters worse, e go dash Burnley their first goal. Na why Ole vex, commot am. I rate am 1.
Paul Pogba: E play well but most of the players wey dey arround am no dey the same wavelength with am. I rate am 8.
Nemanja Matic: E try but e bin dey miss Herrera as Pereira na minus one. I rate am 6.
Juan Mata: This guy no get body, i no even understand hin pattern, na RW dem play am but e go dey deep down in our own half, wetin e dey find for there? i rate am 4.
Marcus Rashford: E miss one on one, i wan cry. E no play well vs Burnley, na bad day at the office for am. I rate am 4.
I go rate Lingard 7 as na him wey win penarity for us, I go rate Alexis 6 as na him wey help for the equalizer.


Finding long strands of hair on your pillow, in your shower drain and all of your clothes is natural - annoying, yes, but natural. However, when hair loss starts to exceed the average (normal hair loss rates are around 80 strands a day), and you notice your hair falling out more frequently than ever before, that's when there's cause for concern. But, never fear! Once the cause of hair loss is identified, whether it be stress or genetics, it is possible to stop hair loss in both women and men.
Below, everything you need to know about hair loss - and how to stop it.
It's completely normal to lose around 80 strands of hair per day, however, if your hair is thinning, it pays to note that at least 1 in 3 women will suffer from hair loss or reduced hair volume at some point in their life. In fact, Trichologist Peter Elchaar says more than three-quarters of his patients are women. The first sign of hair loss that most women notice is usually either the widening of their part or that their ponytail is smaller.
Hair loss can either be genetic or reactive. The most common causes of hair loss are stress, a hormonal imbalance, iron deficiency, a thyroid imbalance, vitamin B12 deficiency, age and dramatic weight loss. The sooner you seek care for hair loss, the better the chances of successfully treating it. Below, we'll explain each point in more detail.
Female-pattern hair loss usually has a strong genetic component that can be inherited from either the mother or father. Also referred to as androgenetic alopecia, this type of hair loss can start as early as the late teens, reports WebMD.
A hormonal imbalance throws your whole body out of whack (hello, adult acne), including your hair. Whether it's due to menopause, pregnancy, an underactive thyroid, polycystic ovary syndrome, or for no reason you can determine at all, an excess of androgens (the male hormone) can cause hair loss and shorten the hair growth cycle.
Think of stress and the first image that pops to mind is someone tearing their hair out. Well, if you get stressed enough it'll actually fall out all on its own. That's because stress can raise androgen levels, which in turn can causes hair loss. "When the body is under a lot of stress, it can trigger health issues, and the first thing to give up is the hair," says Elchaar. "If you are going through stress and two or three hairs are falling out at once, something's not right."
Your hair needs certain vitamins and minerals in order to grow, including iron.
"If you are typically pulling your hair back in a tight bun, your hairline can fatigue," explains Elchaar. "This can be associated with hair loss around the hairline."
The thyroid gland plays a major role in regulating the body's metabolism and the production of proteins, so if it's out of whack, it can affect many things, including hair follicles.
Take note vegetarians and vegans, a vitamin B12 deficiency can often be to blame for hair loss as it can affect the health of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to your tissues. As vitamin B12 can only be found through animal proteins, those who don't eat meat may need to look into taking supplements.
It's time to rest your belief that playing with your hair is an alluring trait. "When someone twists their own hair, they're pulling that follicle quite hard," says Elchaar. "It's almost like weeding the garden."
Menopause can affect hair loss due to a hormonal imbalance, however, it's also worth noting that it's totally natural for hair to thin as you get older.
Any nutritional deficiency often first shows up in our hair, which means it pays to adopt a healthy, balanced lifestyle and avoid crash diets. However, if you do lose a lot of weight quickly, expect hair to fall off just as fast as the KGs do.
How do you stop hair from falling out?
The faster you address the problem and head to a trichologist or your GP, the easier it is to fix. Things such as changing your diet and taking supplements can help, as well as implementing ways to reduce stress and anxiety. It pays to note that hair grows in cycles, which means it can take up to three months for hair to fall out after a trigger has caused it and around six weeks before you'll notice an improvement.
Eat more protein: Hair is made of protein, so an adequate daily intake of protein-rich foods essential.
Include complex carbohydrates: Complex carbohydrates, such as peas, beans, whole grains, and vegetables, provide our hair with the energy it needs to grow.
Supplements can be very helpful in boosting levels of vitamins and minerals your hair needs, such as Iron, Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3, Copper and Zinc.


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By Editorial Dept - Oct 27, 2017, 1:12 PM CDT
Saudi Aramco's initial public offering has been making more than its usual share of headlines this week, with the latest coming from the chief executive of Riyadh's stock exchange Tadawul, who said he would vie for an exclusive Aramco listing. This, Khalid al-Hussan told the FT earlier this week, would put Tadawul on the global stock exchange stage and promote Riyadh as a capital markets hub.
This immediately raises questions about the international listing of the world's biggest oil company in terms of reserves. Although Aramco has insisted that all is going as planned with the IPO and it is on track to take place in the second half of next year, there have been doubts. Earlier reports suggested Aramco may be considering shelving the IPO or delaying it. The Saudi company rejected these reports but it has not been very forthcoming with details about the progress in its preparation for the listing of the century.
About the international listing of 5% of Aramco's stock, the company said it is reviewing a number of venues, including the London Stock Exchange, NYSE, and the bourses in Tokyo and Hong Kong. A New York listing is tricky because of U.S. legislation that makes Saudi nationals vulnerable to legal action related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Justice prevailed through the improper channel, all four accused in veterinarian doctor rape case shot dead
NLC Bureau December 6, 2019
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All four accused in the rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian near here last month were killed in an exchange of fire with police on Friday morning, police said.
All four men accused in the gang rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Telangana have been killed in an encounter. The accused, identified as Mohammed Arif, Naveen, Shiva, and Chennakeshavulu were killed in police firing at Chatanpally, Shadnagar today in the wee hours, between 3 and 6 am. I have reached the spot and further details will be revealed," said Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar.
After all four men accused in the rape and murder of a young vet in Hyderabad were killed in an encounter, people have taken to the streets in celebration, hailing the cops for delivering justice in the case. In fresh visuals, people can be seen cheering as they triumphantly lift cops on their shoulders and parade around.
#WATCH Hyderabad: People celebrate and cheer for police at the encounter site where the four accused were killed in an encounter earlier today. #Telangana pic.twitter.com/WZjPi0Y3nw
— ANI (@ANI) December 6, 2019
Father of the 26-year-old woman veterinarian responded to the killings of the accused in a police encounter, expressing his gratitude towards the Telangana government. "This is not justice…our daughter is lost to us forever. But, this is a relief," he says. "Police had told us they will take immediate action. And they did."
Rekha Sharma, the chairperson of the National Commission for Women, expresses her happiness over the police encounter that killed the four accused. "As a common citizen, I am feeling happy that this was the end we all wanted for them. But this end was supposed to be through the legal system. It should have happened through proper channels," she says. "We always demanded the death penalty for them, and here the police are the best judge, I don't know in what circumstances this happened."
Reacting to the killings of the accused in the Hyderabad rape and murder case in a police encounter, BSP chief Mayawati says that she wishes the police had done a better job in the Nirbhaya case as well. "Rape cases are reported from across the country, especially from UP. I feel we should take strong action like this. Here, we see that rape-accused are being treated as guests and not criminals. I hope the attitude changes for the better."
Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, says that "encounter" killings are a blot to the system. "While I understand the urge for instant justice, this is not the way," he writes, adding that heinous crimes like rape must be dealt with "strictly under the provisions of law".
"I am very happy and want to congratulate the Hyderabad police for taking this action. Justice has been served. Things will change after today," Nirbhaya's mother said in a statement.
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The latest issue of NZ Marketing came off the printers this week and is making its way to our subscribers. Delving into adland, the 96 pages cover the state of your industry in 2019, the challenges it faces and how it's evolving.
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We continue on our 'Agency Perceptions' research with TRA by opening the floor to marketers to learn their frustrations, changing needs, what they look for in agencies and how they chose the right partners.
Georgina Harris delves into ad land, speaking to agencies and clients about the latest challenges, recent trends and what the industry would like to see from 2019.
Erin McKenzie takes a look at IP partnerships and how agencies and clients are sharing the load for better results.
Graham Medcalf takes a look at how 99 is rediscovering its mojo.
Together's Kris Hadley and Rufus Chuter on setting up their own agency and carving a new path in the industry.
Graham Medcalf investigates the how the PR industry is combating a world where consumers are wary of fake news.
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Maui celebrates and engages in one of our long held Philippine traditions—fiesta!
Fiesta is a long held tradition of celebrating each community's special qualities. In towns and villages of every size, throughout the island chains, in both the Philippines and Maui, the full embracing of this activity is felt long before the event. Each family member looks forward to the fiesta in a unique way. For the children, it means playful interaction in a carnival setting and competition with peers in a variety of games. For youth, it features a few days set aside to look your best, to create a uniquely appealing fashion statement, different from everyone else, yet so attractive that it makes all heads turn for a deeper gaze, sometimes even hope for sparks of envy. For the women and men with culinary gifts, it provides a venue to show off their most unusual and delicious food innovations, which raise the bar on quality and originality. Musicians, dancers and singers also shine. An attitude of active participation is expected and understood by all. Appreciation for the town's fiesta activities is demonstrated by the genuine effort given by its leaders to plan for what is historically most enjoyed. Many towns begin with elaborate parades featuring floats representing different villages, school military squads, marching bands, energetic cheerleaders, often followed by enthusiastic crowds. Artistic talent shows up in lavish decorations, the result of many hands working together for countless hours. The queen and her court are chosen through a process of ticket sales over several weeks, culminating in a social box where the generosity of donors determines who gets the most dance—a highly anticipated activity, guaranteed to garner much needed funds for future activities, events and entertainment for the community. Participation, appreciation, and celebration inspire the best in us. A unifying thread is the spirit of Bayanihan, of working as one for the betterment of all—that instill pride in being a Filipino. Let us each look back into our fiesta memory banks and smile again, as we relive those cherished moments from another time, which continue to fill our spirits with mabuhay and enrich our souls with warm, meaningful homeland connections. Three cheeers to fiesta! fiesta! fiesta!
These young ladies participated in Vigan's fiesta, held in January of each year, and honor of St. Paul the Apostle. They are shown here holding plates of longganisa sausages.


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New hydropower plant "Reißeck II " planned for Carinthia
3/30/2007Vienna
"The new hydropower plant in Upper Carinthia will not only be a source for new energy in Carinthia, it will also have a significant economic impact on the region. The investment volume will be around 215 million Euro; in terms of employment this will mean 3,000 years of person-years," says Hans Haider, General Director of VERBUND AG.
"The power plant will bring about a sustainable improvement in the power supply in Austria at peak consumption times from 2014 onwards", Hans Haider explained on the occasion of the launch of the Reisseck II power plant project on 30 March 2007.
The new peak-load power plant will be planned and constructed by the VERBUND hydropower subsidiary VERBUND-Austrian Hydro Power AG (AHP). AHP boss Herbert Schröfelbauer at the press conference in Klagenfurt on 30 March: "The new pumped storage power plant is an important expansion of the existing power plant group Reisseck/Kreuzeck."
The Reisseck/Kreuzeck power plant group in Upper Carinthia was completed 46 years ago. Notable expansion measures have, however, been implemented at the plants since 1961. Schröfelbauer continues: "The demand for control and balancing energy - not least due to the rapid wind power expansion – has grown enormously."
One special feature of the new Reisseck II project is that the existing storage and equalizing basins with an altitude difference of 580 meters will be used. Schröfelbauer: "We will use this natural fall to achieve an additional output of 350 MW."
A five-kilometre subterranean connecting tunnel will be constructed between the annual storage reservoir of Reisseck and the main stage of the Malta power plant. The existing Grosser Mühldorfer See reservoir on the Reisseck lake plateau will be used as an upper basin in pump operation and the Gösskar and Galgenbichl reservoirs of the Malta power plant group will serve as lower basins.
AHP Managing Director Michael Amerer emphasized that the fauna and flora would be preserved to the greatest extent possible and that the new power plant would blend in perfectly with the landscape on completion.. The works water tunnels and the power plant caverns with a 350 MW machine unit are all underground and are not visible from the outside. Amerer: "All the necessary construction measures will be carried out in an environmentally compatible manner."
The project will also undergo an EIA process. The Environmental Impact Declaration should be submitted by mid-2008 and, if completed according to schedule, the power plant will deliver electricity from 2014 onwards.


The Derby City Cup brings professional cyclocross racing to Louisville. Over 900 competitors will converge on Joe Creason Park to compete in various races over two days. In cyclocross, riders blast down trails, often carrying their bikes over obstacles. You can still register to compete in events for men, women — there's even a boys and girls 12-and-under race — as well as team events. Not interested in competing? Try the course out at your own pace, (free!) on Friday at 2 p.m., Saturday at 3:15 p.m. and Sunday at 11:55 a.m. If you'd rather leave the biking up to the pros, just go watch and hit the B4 Festival. The fee for that is $5 per vehicle, with beers from Against the Grain Brewery, BBQ from Mark's Feed Store and Sweet Martha's Southern Recipe, and live music by Wax Factory and Gas Money. Cowbells are encouraged.


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Miri's Story
Believing in Jesus most likely saved my life, because if I hadn't trusted in Him, I would have probably joined ISIS.
Miri lives in Albania and goes to one of the churches run by our partner ministry. Miri turned away from the church for a while, and when he returned he said that believing in Jesus had most likely saved his life.
Miri's parents are faithful to their Islamic heritage and their family tradition takes them to one of the Islamic holy sites once a year. Miri recently told his parents that he couldn't go with them because he believed in the true God, who couldn't be confined to a holy site. "God is everywhere" he said. Although his parents accepted Miri's decision, his father was adamant that they are Islamic and need to continue believing what they always have.
A little after, Miri's mother fell ill with acute abdominal pains. Miri offered to pray for her and when he did, her pain stopped immediately. He also prayed for his father when he was hospitalised by a stroke. When his father returned home, he told friends that the only reason he survived and was improving was because of Jesus.
Miri's faith is growing stronger as he sees more of what God can do, and his faith is spreading among his family. Miri is a great example of why the ministry in Albania is so important in sharing God's love to those who are lost. Please pray for the continued work of this ministry and for Miri and his parents.
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JK: Something else happened, I think. Till the late 60's the drawings and paintings of figures in a simplified landscape were integral. One did not have to decipher them. They were in attitudes sometimes hieratic, sometimes theatrical, sometimes privately expressive or idiosyncratic, very often tinged with a melancholia or nostalgia: an elegiac emotion. First the landscapes, then the figures are simplified.
WB: And that became an issue. I recognized about 1970 that there was beginning to be a split in the poetic unity of the paintings.
JK: Split?
WB: A separation. The treatment of the environments became increasingly different from the treatment of the figures. I was drawn to what was happening in the environments. I felt that the whole figure in retaining its anatomical logic conveyed a different condition of existence. I remember starting drawings of portions of the figure. Disconnected fragments. And, I had been looking at sculpture of many periods, archaic and primitive. Fragments or defaced parts interested me. I was beginning to see in the fragment of figure a connotation of dismemberment – and certainly we have in this century been – what? Not inundated, but –
JK: Cut to pieces.
WB: Cut to pieces. Images of Buchenwald, images of Vietnam, auto accidents. The dismembered figure of photo-journalism is pervasive.
JK: Also the idea of a whole human being's disappearance in this century: dismemberment of the psyche, dismemberment of the body politic, of community, dismemberment of the sense of unity or wholeness. This motif may have pervaded you without your consciousness of it.
WB: Perhaps. But certainly in the first half of the century artists dealt with fragments, the simultaneous views of figures.
JK: But bodies didn't get taken apart in cubism in that sense, did they? Wholes were presented synthetically.
WB: Well, in the world of Guernica, there's a drama of fragmentation.
JK: Yet the piece of driftwood in a still life is not a dismembered tree, not in the sense we are talking about.
WB: No. Let me put it this way. As I said, when I made the land-sea abstractions I would often change the axis of the painting, even turn it upside down, since there wasn't an emphasis on ground plane or force of gravity. But once the figure started to emerge and I tried to relate it to that landscape, the ease with which I could turn the axis of the painting was lost. A vertical figure, particularly if it is obscured by branches, implies one thing, the moment it becomes a horizontal figure there's an entirely different connotation.
JK: And fragments of figures?
WB: My consideration of figure fragments has in part to do with selection of significant incidents. If I found very few drawings that I made directly from the model satisfying, it simply meant I had not come to realize what was most significant to me. It's only by reworking or making subsequent drawings that I find a motif in the figure, some priority of interest in attitude or expression, or some event of surface, or some proportional relations, etcetera. So the configuration of fragments is a way to deal with the juxtaposition of incidents.
JK: In 1970 you took a trip to the Aegean, the Greek Isles.
WB: The decision to go was made on the basis of what I saw beginning to emerge in the work.
JK: To see what you thought was already yours in the future?
WB: Yes. That was the one occasion of travel that didn't interrupt a continuity of work. When I'd gone to Europe in the past, there would be months before I could assimilate my experience. But I had started this work, and the trip confirmed the direction in which I was going. It accelerated it. On my return the ways in which I worked were changing, I needed time to leave work in a more vulnerable state, to leave it unfinished longer. To feel that by not closing in on it, by not trying to grasp it too assertively, I could have a better sense of where it was taking me. In the LAICA exhibition of 1978, there were some surfaces I had worked on for four or five years, although the image may have coalesced during the last six months.
JK: You use the word "image". Most of the work of the last nine years contains an image or a cluster of images that offer a world of their own.
WB: I realized, even in the 60's, that if landscapes became more tangible, and figures literally credible, I tended to lose my sense of the reality of the painting. So I knew it wasn't a real figure in a real landscape that I wanted. It took me quite a while to understand that. It impresses me that when we find a significant truth, it seems so transparent by the time we discover it that we feel foolish at not having seen it all along. In the first paintings after Greece, there was a tendency to have if not anatomical logic, an architectonic logic – one form could be believed to rest on another, or interlock with another, or rest on a base. As this logic would become more consistent, again, the work tended to veer away from where I felt the need to go.
JK: Would you say that you see now a way to free yourself from the constraints of architectonic logic and requirements for weight, horizon, etc. That you can put things where you need to have them?
WB: Yes, in that these are mental images whose existence is limited to their presence in a painting.
JK: Mental images that include the element of feeling.
WB: Right.
JK: But we have to ask ourselves what we are seeing. One knows one can decipher their (vestigial) relation to remembered real forms and landscapes. But I myself read them often as highly condensed narrations, not historical ones, but poetic-which would fit your having called them mental images. I think that may be because the images are symbolic; they tell one something about time, space, the artist, the life of the body, the life of the mind, what have you. Do we respond with our entire being because they are synecdoches and metaphors?
WB: Perhaps.
JK: They do lead immediately to sensuous associations, even erotic ones. It seems to me that between 1975 and 1979 you entered a region in which all things, even inanimate things, lived and moved as parts of the body. But more than that: to present the sensual, passional, erotic as warm and lively even in sculptural forms and in ways that go beyond contemplation of painted images by the artist. Something is being said by them.
WB: I don't know if I can comment on that. I do know that the aspects of sexual differentiation, symbols of the male, of the female, and the androgynous, their combination and their variations occurring, ambiguously or not, in the work, the distance between them, the contrasts and similarities, juxtapositions, joinings and separations, are all part of what is happening.
JK: You don't intend to say something.
WB: I don't intend to. When you say the works have implicit narratives, I wonder about that. They are overtly symbolic and associational.
JK: Symbols don't tell stories?
WB: No.
JK: But symbols condense stories.
WB: Yes.


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Tag the greatest — but not obvious — TV shows
August 6, 2005 by Jeff Jarvis
10shows, Book, Culture, tv
Do a friend a favor and list your favorite 10 TV shows ever — but not the dutiful ones, the ones you like for a reason — in the comments here or better yet, on your blog with the tag: 10shows (following Steve Rubel's example of the 10blogs tag… just link to "http://technorati.com/tag/10shows" when you create your post).
I can't stand the dutiful lists that include Milton Berle (rude, egotistical, and not terribly funny) and The Honeymooners (sorry, gang) and The Simpsons (never grokked it).
I will claim the right to change my faves — because, after all, such lists are as meaningless and meltable as Silly Putty. But to get the ball rolling:
: Cheers. When it went off the air, I argued that it was the perfect ensemble sitcom.
: Picket Fences. In its early days, it was an amazing show with imaginative writing, characters, and messages. In its later days — when it suffered from David Kelly's chronic creative ADD — it got awful. But it had its moments.
: David Letterman. He set the comic tone of his era, like Johnny Carson before him and Jon Stewart after him.
: The Daily Show. OK, in a few years, or even now, this may be a dutiful choice. But it has changed news by poking a pin in journalistic ego and we needed that.
: Cosby. Yes, in the end, he became an insuferable sermonizer (and he sent me poison pen letters when I said that in People). But at the beginning, Cosby not only resurrected the sitcom and with it prime time but he also had a direct hand in the best decision I ever made, though one I resisted: having kids. He made having a family look like fun.
: This Old House. TV is so useless but how-to TV is useful and This Old House (along with Julia Child) created the genre and, brilliantly, added in the drama of the dorky homeowners. Was this the original reality TV show?
: The Sopranos. Who has pushed the form farther?
: The Wonder Years. Because it was the story of my youth (except for the beautiful brunette neighbor).
: Jeopardy. Who says TV is dumb?
: You convince me of the 10th. I have many nominees: Star Trek, China Beach, Roseanne, Garry Shandling, MTM, Hogan's Heroes, Hill Street, M*A*S*H, but I fear they are too old (like me now) and so I want something more contemporary (and my Total TV reference work ends when I stopped being a TV critic, so I don't have current grids to jog my memory).
I've shown you mine. Show me yours.
: Comments are coming in already. One added a very obscure favorite of mine: Good Neighbors. I had such a crush on Felicity Kendall.
: My friend Matt Drapkin asks how the hell I could leave off Seinfeld. Right, he is. I'd say that's the missing show. My son would say it's Friends but I'll take Jerry.


PETA Says Phrases Like "Bring Home the Bacon" Trivialize Cruelty To Animals, Suggests Kinder Versions - Did That... Just Really Happen?
Animal rights group PETA is promoting kindness to animals by using kinder versions of phrases that make use of animals.
Idioms such as, "bring home the bacon", or 'beat a dead horse" are remains of 'speciesism' according to PETA.
A 2-column chart was shared by the group showing each offensive phrase and its suggested equivalent kinder version.
Idioms are the American language's tried-and-true elements.
However, PETA believes that common idioms especially animal phrases like "kill two birds with one stone" or "bring home the bacon" are verbal remnants of 'speciesism' and promote animal cruelty. Kinder variations of these phrases are suggested by the group to be used instead. So 'bring home the bagels' instead of the bacon.
"Words matter. As our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it," PETA wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
The animal rights group then presented a color-coded chart with two columns: printed in red is what they contend as offensive phrases and what they believe as kinder variations are printed in green.
Additionally, the organization also compared using the original phrases to racist and prejudiced language.
As expected, PETA's campaign swiftly provoked a backlash from Twitter skeptics with multitudes responding via tweets saying that the group's suggested versions of the phrases are simply absurd.
Despite this, there were countless tweets from others as well who were sympathetic to PETA's cause. Some even contributed animal-friendly phrases of their own. So instead of 'curiosity killed the cat", one social media user proposed "curiosity thrilled the cat." Another tweeted "eat snow" in lieu of "eat crow".
Using these generated phrases from users as inspiration to call for more innovative suggestions, PETA tweeted to its haters suggesting them to ease up and use language that advocates kindness to animals. At the same time, they also encouraged everyone else to continue sharing their anti-speciesist phrases.
And if these phrases end up being fun and humane as well, then they may truly be the best of both worlds.


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Trainer: A.L.T.Moore
Previous Trainer(s):
Owner: Michael Mulholland/G B Turkington
Kerrygold Champion S'chase (Grade 1) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2007)
Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet S'chase (Grade 1) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2007)
Tote Ireland 75th Anniversary H'cap Hdle (Listed) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: N. Carberry - 2005)
ladbrokes.com Flyingbolt Novice S'chase (Grade 2) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: C. O'Dwyer - 2006)
Amazing Thailand Chase (Grade 2) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2009)
Normans Grove S'chase (Grade 2) (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2009)
Naas S'chase (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2007)
paddypowerpoker.com H'cap S'chase (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: D.N. Russell - 2006)
Kilcock Novice S'chase (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: C. O'Dwyer - 2006)
Ir.Stallion Farms EBF Beginners S'chase (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: C. O'Dwyer - 2005)
Gain Recovery Plus H'dle (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: C. O'Dwyer - 2004)
Duke Of York M'dn H'dle (Trained by: A.L.T.Moore - Ridden by: B.M. Cash - 2003)
Place Money
Total *
National Hunt 2010/2011 7 0 0 1 0 €0 €4,650 €4,650
National Hunt 2008/2009 8 2 0 2 2 €59,200 €18,500 €77,700
National Hunt 2007/2008 4 1 1 2 0 €66,000 €52,000 €118,000
National Hunt 2006/2007 5 3 1 0 0 €165,600 €10,000 €175,600
National Hunt 2005/2006 8 3 0 1 0 €58,450 €9,000 €67,450
National Hunt 2003/2004 6 2 0 0 1 €16,800 €800 €17,600
Venue ALL Aintree Ascot Auteuil Cheltenham Clonmel Down Royal Fairyhouse Gowran Park Killarney Leopardstown Limerick Naas Navan Pau Punchestown Thurles Toulouse
Date From ALL 04/05/11 26/04/11 03/04/11 20/02/11 03/02/11 30/12/10 11/11/10 06/04/10 27/03/10 28/02/10 31/01/10 17/01/10 27/12/09 18/10/09 02/05/09 28/04/09 22/02/09 01/02/09 23/01/09 27/12/08 09/12/08 09/11/08 25/05/08 22/04/08 25/03/08 13/03/08 19/01/08 27/12/07 09/12/07 24/04/07 11/03/07 17/02/07 26/12/06 18/04/06 06/04/06 12/03/06 19/02/06 29/01/06 26/12/05 04/12/05 12/11/05 08/05/05 26/04/05 29/03/05 09/01/05 27/11/04 06/11/04 27/04/04 22/02/04 01/02/04 10/01/04 26/12/03 06/12/03 24/02/03 05/02/03 19/01/03 29/12/02
Date To ALL 04/05/11 26/04/11 03/04/11 20/02/11 03/02/11 30/12/10 11/11/10 06/04/10 27/03/10 28/02/10 31/01/10 17/01/10 27/12/09 18/10/09 02/05/09 28/04/09 22/02/09 01/02/09 23/01/09 27/12/08 09/12/08 09/11/08 25/05/08 22/04/08 25/03/08 13/03/08 19/01/08 27/12/07 09/12/07 24/04/07 11/03/07 17/02/07 26/12/06 18/04/06 06/04/06 12/03/06 19/02/06 29/01/06 26/12/05 04/12/05 12/11/05 08/05/05 26/04/05 29/03/05 09/01/05 27/11/04 06/11/04 27/04/04 22/02/04 01/02/04 10/01/04 26/12/03 06/12/03 24/02/03 05/02/03 19/01/03 29/12/02
Jockey ALL A.E. Lynch A.P. McCoy B.J. Geraghty B.M. Cash C. O'Dwyer D. J. Casey D. N. Russell D.J. Casey D.N. Russell DBressou JGuiheneuf L. McNiff N. Carberry N.M. Kelly P. Carberry P.A. Carberry P.W. Flood S.G. Carey
Trainer ALL A.L.T.Moore
Race Type ALL Ch HcpCh HcpHdl Hdl MdnHdl NovCh
Distance ALL 1m 7f 110yds 2m 2m 1f 2m 1f 110yds 2m 3f 2m 4f 2m 5f 110yds
Place ALL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13 14 17 fell p p.u.
Weight ALL 9-13 10-2 10-3 10-4 10-5 10-7 10-8 10-9 10-13 11-1 11-2 11-4 11-5 11-6 11-7 11-8 11-10 11-12 11-13
Rating ALL 159 158 157 155 152 151 150 149 147 145 144 143 138 137 133 132 131 130 127 124 123 116 115 114 112
Pattern/Listed ALL Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade A Grade B Grade C Listed
Pattern/ Listed
Punchestown 04/05/11 N. Carberry A.L.T.Moore HcpCh 2m 4f p.u. 10-5 132 Guinness H'cap S'chase (Grade A) Grade A
Fairyhouse 26/04/11 N. Carberry A.L.T.Moore HcpCh 2m 1f 8 10-2 131 Dan Moore Memorial H'cap S'ch (Grade A) Grade A
Limerick 03/04/11 N.M. Kelly A.L.T.Moore Hdl 2m 9 10-9 123 Ladies Go Free H'dle
Naas 20/02/11 P.W. Flood A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 3 11-10 133 paddypower.com S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2 €4,650
Clonmel 03/02/11 P. Carberry A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 4f 7 11-4 138 Kilcash S'chase
Leopardstown 30/12/10 A.E. Lynch A.L.T.Moore HcpCh 2m 1f 9 11-13 144 Bord Na Mona Firepak H'cap S'chase
Clonmel 11/11/10 P.W. Flood A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 4f p.u. 11-10 147 Clonmel Oil S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2
Fairyhouse 06/04/10 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore HcpCh 2m 1f fell 10-13 147 Tatts.Ire. Dan Moore Memorial H'cap S'ch (Grade A) Grade A
Navan 27/03/10 D.J. Casey A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 4f p.u. 11-10 149 Irish Form Book An Uaimh S'chase (Grade 3) Grade 3
Leopardstown 28/02/10 P.W. Flood A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1f 5 11-10 152 Newlands S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2
Punchestown 31/01/10 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 3 11-10 149 Punchestown Pavilion Tied Cottage S'chse (Grade 2) Grade 2 €4,000
Fairyhouse 17/01/10 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1f 3 11-10 151 Normans Grove S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2 €4,000
Leopardstown 27/12/09 A.P. McCoy A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1f 7 11-12 155 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet S'chase (Grade 1) Grade 1
Naas 18/10/09 S.G. Carey A.L.T.Moore HcpHdl 2m 3f p.u. 11-2 127 Profile Systems Ltd. H'cap H'dle
Punchestown 02/05/09 L. McNiff A.L.T.Moore HcpHdl 2m 4f 13 10-4 130 Whitewater Shopping Centre H'dle (H'cap) (Grade B) Grade B
Punchestown 28/04/09 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m p.u. 11-12 159 Kerrygold Champion S'chase (Grade 1) Grade 1
Naas 22/02/09 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 3 11-12 159 paddypowerpoker.com Newlands S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2 €5,500
Punchestown 01/02/09 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1 11-12 157 Amazing Thailand Chase (Grade 2) Grade 2 €31,150
Fairyhouse 23/01/09 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1f 1 11-12 157 Normans Grove S'chase (Grade 2) Grade 2 €28,050
Leopardstown 27/12/08 D.N. Russell A.L.T.Moore Ch 2m 1f 4 11-12 159 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet S'chase (Grade 1) Grade 1 €4,000
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Trump signs more sanctions punishing Iran after it shot down a US drone
Joe Perticone
President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump announced a series of new sanctions on Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and other key officials.
The sanctions come in the wake of the Iranian military shooting down a US drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also said additional sanctions targeting Iranian Foreign Minister Java Zarif would be coming later this week.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday slapping a host of new sanctions on Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and key officials in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, delivering a tough response targeted against the Iranian military elements who claimed credit for downing a US drone Thursday.
The sanctions are meant to "deny the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources," according to Trump.
Read more: Trump called Iran's drone attack 'a mistake,' but a top Iranian general called it 'a clear message' to the US
"I think a lot of restraint has been shown by us — a lot of restraint — and that doesn't mean we're going to show it in the future," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "Today's action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks including shooting down of U.S. drones."
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin briefed reporters on the new sanctions as well, pushing back on assertions they are purely symbolic.
"For the people who say these are just symbolic that's not the case at all," he said. "We've literally locked up tens and tens of billions of dollars. These sanctions will come along with additional entities where people are hiding money. So no, these sanctions are highly effective."
Mnuchin also noted that sanctions would be coming later in the week to directly target Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Read more: Trump says he called off Iran strike 10 minutes before it was supposed to happen because he was told 150 people would die
The sanctions come after the Iranian military shot down a US military drone over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. The sanctions target leaders in the IRGC the US believes are directly responsible for the incident.
The ongoing tensions between the US and Iran have also led to fears that war could soon break out, though the Trump administration so far has resorted to cyber attacks and increased sanctions.
SEE ALSO: No sitting president has survived a serious primary challenge in the past 50 years. Here's why Trump should be worried.
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"A judgment from the District Court of Heidelberg regarding notice given twenty-five days after discovery was . . . reversed by the Higher District Court of Karlsruhe in a case regarding non-perishable, non-seasonally dependant sticky-film that did not stick properly. . . . The District Court found that notice was given within reasonable time, and stated that since an exact time-frame for notice giving could not be pinpointed, [a] one-month guideline . . . should be applied in the present case." Andersen, Pace Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1998) 123. For the rationale of the Appellate Court in reversing this ruling, go to OLG Karlsruhe 25 June 1997.


This fat stupid cow has it in for Woody Allen.
SJW's are utlimately about scorn and bullying, and what other subject of antagonism than a meek-looking man who snubs the niceties that modern "enlightened" society demands of us, fits the bill more conveniently?
Knowing this fleshy beast possesses SJW tendencies, I reply.
The change in demeanor and abrupt halt to this inane conversation is palpable. She shuts up, for once.
I'm short and dweeby myself; we gotta watch out for ourselves.
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Gran Turismo I-II (1998-99)
This review will be more about my early obsession with car racing / simulation games than the game itself. Because to understand my disposition towards this game you need to know the story of how I first played it.
It began close to 25 years ago, when in an IT TV show I saw a racing game. And I was blown away by the complexity of it and the real-time 3d graphics. I later found ot that it was Indycar Racing (1993) by Papyrus. Until then all I known was the Test Drive series, and Stunts, those were great games too, don't get me wrong, but they were a stone axe compared to Indycar.
There were some other games that influenced me early on, like Car & Driver from 1992 by no other than Looking Glass Studios. Which was considered a terrible game by almost everyone, with it's wonky controls, and physics, but I loved it because it offered Driving in it's purest form, no restrictions, no strings attached. And the first game that dared offering more than 320x200 resolution with 3d graphics. The concept with this was very similar to Need For Speed. Take a well known car magazine, and sell a driving game with it's name. Only in 1992 the technology wasn't quite ready to make it a success, unlike three years later when EA released Need For Speed with Road&Track. Amazing how fast technology advanced back then. The earliest racing game with an open world and 3D graphics I think was Vette! from 1989, another game considered terrible by regular people, but I played it like it was the best game ever.
Of course there were racing games before these as well, but mostly 2D over the top view ones. But I don't want to bore you with those, rest assured I played a lot of those too, and loved many of them.
But being from a former soviet block country, you had to be in the elite to have a PC that could run games decently in the early 90s, before the fall of the iron curtain the best you could hope for is a Commodore 64 from the black market. After that you could get everything if you had the money. And I mean big money. A decent PC went for about 3 years salary of the average job holder. No kidding. Thankfully in a few years prices normalized not to western standards, but you could get a PC from 2-3 months worth of salary instead of 2-3 years.
Then came the PlayStation aka. PSX. And Ridge Racer which seemed amazing to us kids back then, and unattainable at the same time. But thankfully we didn't have to wait very long for thing to even out, or even turn back in favour of the PC camp. With games like Destruction Derby, Need For Speed, Screamer, Arcade racing games were at their heyday and we had lots of fun, in the mid 90s until...
Came a game called Gran Turismo in 1998, which was unrivalled and continues to be unrivalled on PC, there is simply no match for it, not that anyone tried to beat it. At least until MS decided to offer Forza finally, but I have my reservations about that, but that's another topic. Noone even dared to take the challenge up. So all we had is a longing, buying a PlayStation was out of the question, any money I could muster up as a high school student went immediately into some hardware upgrade, to be able to play new games, advancement back in the day was much faster than nowadays. Nowadays an upgrade means a few more FPS, back then it meant slideshow vs actual acceptable gameplay, every 1-2 years.
Thankfully due to that quick advancement of PC performance it far surpassed the PSX by the time Gran Turismo was released. And that opened the door for emulation. And by 1999 there were emulators that could run Gran Turismo at a playable level. By mid 1999 I was really happy to be a PC owner, playing Gran Turismo with better graphics than it had on the actual console.
Of course the appeal of the game was the classic career mode, you could buy an used car, from a small amount of starting money and race it, to get better cars and enter more advanced races.
I played the crap out of the game, I started dozens of careers, and never could have enough. Why is it so addictive? Because of the freedom it offers. With a choice of hundreds of cars, many of which are not untouchable supercars, but real-world vehicles that you can see on the road daily driven, but never get the chance to push to the limits, or upgrade / tune and test it as a race car.
The races in the game have only a power limitation so it's completely up to you what car you enter in them. You can buy a second hand sports car, tune it up a bit, and if you're lucky and skilled you can beat opponents with cars costing 10 times more than yours. And the satisfaction that comes from that is enormous.
To me this is the true appeal of a racing game. The driving itself is important too, but the preparation for races getting the best deal out of available credits, and then bringing the underdog to the top spot, that's the real thrill.
But don't get fooled by the marketing tag "The Real Driving Simulator" Gran Turismo is very far from being a true simulation. It's a well behaved arcade racer.
To me it's one of the most addictive games I came across, I couldn't put it down, there always was a race I wanted to do. So eventually I finished it, all races, all challenges, all trials to gold medal level.
Great choice of cars
Racing for credits and upgrades
Endurance races with real tyre management
For every race the game chooses the music and plays that one track on a loop, on longer races my head hurt after hearing the same (no matter how good) tune the 50th time.
Sometimes you can enter races with cars that are too fast, which makes winning very easy.
Catch Up : In shorter races you can't get rid of opponents even if you have a car 10 times faster they can't fall behind by more than a few seconds, making every mistake you make fatal. So in turn a long endurance race is much easier than a short sprint race, because you can open a gap to the opponents and don't fall back even when you make a mistake.
Scoring card: (not by today's standards)
graphics : 8/10
realization: 10/10
story: 0/10
atmosphere:8/10
gameplay: 8/10
controls: 10/10
Gran Turismo 2 came out not much later, which basically is the same game, with loads more cars (about 600 compared to 150 of the first one), more tracks, and more races to complete. It's more like a Deluxe edition than a real sequel, so everything about GT1 applies to GT2 a hundred percent. There are only minor differences. And a few upgrades.
The greatest testament of how much a liked the game is that I bought a PS2 twice for the sole reason to play Gran Turismo 3 / 4. Yes I first brought one, finished the game, and sold it, then in a year I did it again. I never owned any other game for the PS2 ever.
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Adelle Davis - Where Do Gorillas Get Their Protein?
Adelle Davis was the most popular and influential writer on food and nutrition in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. Yet many nutrition experts considered her to be a dangerous source of false information. This is surprising, considering how closely most of her advice adhered to the standard "Four Food Groups" being promoted by the USDA at the time. Yet some of the advice she provided in her books proved to be even more deadly than the standard American diet.
Daisie Adelle Davis, born in 1904, was one of the few popular writers about nutrition to have had any scientific training in the field. She was trained as a dietitian at Bellevue and Fordham Hospitals in New York City in the late 1920s, and she earned a master of science (MS) degree in biochemistry from the University of Southern California in 1939. Despite her education in science and nutrition, Davis's popular books on nutrition were riddled with scientific errors. Although Davis cited 2,402 references as "documentation" in her book Let's Get Well, many of those references either had nothing to do with the subject she was discussing or flatly contradicted the arguments she was making. Experts whose work she cited in the book complained that they had been misquoted or their statements taken out of context. Some of the misinformation and bad advice in Davis's books proved deadly, even to herself.
At least one death, and one near miss, occurred in babies who had been given large doses of potassium, because of bad advice that Davis gave in Let's Have Healthy Children. Davis had falsely claimed that "colic" in babies is due to potassium deficiency, which she mistakenly said was due to eating too much sodium. She falsely claimed, "most babies needed 3,000 milligrams of potassium chloride (2/3 teaspoon) before colic was corrected." Unfortunately, the article she cited said nothing of the kind. It wasn't even about colic, a term used to describe children who cry nonstop for hours, often with signs of gas or bellyache. Instead, the article was about hospitalized children who had low potassium levels because of severe vomiting and diarrhea. The article described doses of 1000 to 2000 milligrams being given gradually over 24 hours, not a dose of 3000 milligrams given all at once. Furthermore, the article specifically warned that giving potassium to a dehydrated infant could cause cardiac arrest.
Other children were seriously harmed by Davis's advice to give children large doses of vitamin A. One child who had vitamin A overdose as a result was hospitalized with symptoms that suggested brain tumor. This condition, called pseudotumor cerebri, is a form of brain swelling that can destroy the optic nerves, leading to permanent blindness, or even cause death. Another child's growth was permanently stunted by vitamin A overdoses after a parent took Davis's advice.
Davis herself died of breast cancer in 1974. We know now that the rate of breast cancer in a population is strongly tied to the amount of animal protein in the diet. Thus, Davis's heavy consumption of raw milk, eggs, and cheese almost certainly shortened her life. Unfortunately, her books lived on, like landmines in an abandoned battlefield, continuing to provide misleading and sometimes lethal advice about food and nutrition.
Davis couldn't have honestly claimed that she "didn't know" about the dangers of animal-based foods. By the late 1950s, Nathan Pritikin had learned, from reading reports of population studies, that rich, fatty foods from animals cause heart disease, and that heart disease could be cured by removing those foods from the diet. Pritikin learned this from his own study of the medical literature. He had no training in dietetics or medicine. If Pritikin could figure this out, why couldn't Davis?
This naturally raises a question. Why did Davis fill her books with "hogwash" when she had the training and presumably the intelligence to correctly interpret the medical journal articles she was supposedly reading? As a dietitian, and especially as a human being, didn't she have an ethical duty to tell the truth? What could possibly explain such intellectual dishonesty? Nathan Pritikin was willing to incur the wrath of cardiologists to tell the American people the truth about the role of diet in heart disease. Davis wasn't afraid to face the wrath of the medical profession. Why didn't she do so to tell the truth?
The problem is not limited to the works of Adelle Davis. Why are so many nutrition books that are sold to the public filled with such dangerous hogwash? Edward H. Rynearson, MD, who was a retired professor of medicine from the Mayo Clinic, wrote an influential article in 1974 claiming that "Americans love hogwash," which he defined as "worthless, false or ridiculous speech or writings." I don't think that Americans liked Davis's books because they knew they were "worthless, false, or ridiculous." They simply had no independent way of evaluating them. They want sensible and practical advice, given in a respectful tone. (They would also like to be told that they can eat as much fatty food as they want, but that's another issue.) The people who killed or injured their children by following Davis's advice had no idea that her books were hogwash, and no way of finding it out before it was too late.
Adelle Davis's books on nutrition: Commentary by Edward H. Rynearson, M.D. Med Insight. 1973;32–34.
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Potassium metabolism in gastroenteritis. Nutr Rev. 1956;14(10):295–296.
Barrett SB. The Legacy of Adelle Davis. QuackWatch Web site. Available at: http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/davis.html. Last update: October 13, 2006.
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Being such a large and scenic province, you will already be able to guess that New Brunswick is filled with exciting recreational activities which will never cease to amaze. Looking at the major cities of Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, and their surrounding areas, we're here to detail some of the very best venues to visit, places to see, and activities to partake in while in New Brunswick.
One of the most splendid sights in all of New Brunswick is Irish Nature Park. Be it a snowy winter morning or a sunny summer day, Irish Nature Park makes for a very pleasant walk for a couple of hours around the grounds. Visitors have the choice of utilizing the shorter path through the park, or they can venture the longer route to explore the grand lake.
Depending on the time of year, you can kayak and canoe across the vast lake or go snowshoeing around the park. While there is a small museum in the park, one of the most popular attractions is the birds. You may stumble across people with their binoculars out, trying to spot downy woodpeckers, black-capped chickadees, hairy woodpeckers, and finches. Irish Nature Park makes for a relaxing day out with your significant other or with the whole family any time of the year.
One of the major attractions in Moncton is New Brunswick's only entertainment resort: Casino New Brunswick. The top-class casino boasts a wide selection of table games, a live poker room, an entertainment centre for sports events and concerts, and a spa. As you would expect, the casino floor also boasts many of the most exciting slot machines around, which are always huge attractions at all forms of casino. The immense popularity of the top online slot games helps to fuel the excitement for those standing in land-based casinos.
One such top online slot game is the Western-themed Dead or Alive by NetEnt, which has been able to maintain its popularity since its 2013 release. This is most likely due to its innovative double-wins free spins which can be retriggered by sticky wilds. Initially due to the popularity of the movie, The Goonies online slot from Blueprint has been praised by gamers since its launch in late 2018, with specialized features like Data's Colossal Symbols, Chunk's Truffle Shuffle, and One Eyed Willy's Treasure giving film fans exactly what they want. Another online slot game which never ceases to capture the imagination of slot enthusiasts is Mega Moolah, which recently crushed its own record for biggest progressive slot payout with an €18.9 million prize in October 2018.
All three of these popular online games give players a way to play when not around a casino, but also help land-based casinos by bringing potential slot players enjoyment before they arrive at the venue. As well as a wide selection of gaming and relaxation activities, Casino New Brunswick also boasts 128 luxury suites and rooms in their new hotel.
Opened in 1953, Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton is the finest zoo in New Brunswick and quite possibly one of the best in Canada. Reasonably priced all year round, visitors to the zoo will experience hundreds of exotic species around the large grounds, including black bears, Burchell's zebra, jaguars, Przewalski's wild horses, river otters, Siberian tigers, white-handed gibbons, and mountain bison.
In recent years, Magnetic Hill Zoo has hit the headlines for the successful captive breeding of endangered species such as Siberian tigers in 2018, as well as jaguars – which have a conservation status of near threatened – in 2017, and black and white ruffed lemurs in the years leading up to 2009. Magnetic Hill Zoo makes for a great day out for all of the family, with a huge range of well-looked-after animals in decent enclosures. In New Brunswick, let alone Moncton, it's one of the biggest attractions for a family day out.
For a very special beer-orientated experience, you should head down to Moosehead Breweries. The most iconic beer of Canada has opened its brewery's gates for patrons to explore where the beer is brewed, the science behind the beer, and how they've created so many award-winning brews.
On their tour, you'll learn about the six-generation history of Moosehead as well as get a chance to try out some of their finest creations. It may just be one of the most iconic recreational activities on offer in Saint John and is a must for Canadian beer lovers.
Saint John is full of history and culture, with the New Brunswick Museum epitomizing this fact. It has been able to remain a major attraction of the area and become Canada's oldest continuing museum by creating an enriching experience for all visitors.
Across the three floors of the museum, you'll uncover the province's cultural history, forged by the incredible natural environment of the area, through intuitive and impressive exhibits as well as fun events for the younger members of the family to enjoy. Throughout the year, the museum will stage events and special exhibitions which are well worth keeping an eye out for.
One of the most iconic natural occurrences of the area is Reversing Falls. Following the St John River, the tidal rapids – which make for great white-water kayaking – run through a narrow gorge and then meet the Bay of Fundy. Despite the current taking the river into the bay, when the tide rises in the bay, it forces the flow of water to reverse. It won't make for a full-day activity, but if you're in Saint John, you should go to see Reversing Falls.
If you find yourself further inland, in or around the city of Fredericton, and want to spend a day outdoors surrounded by nature in all its beauty, then venture into Odell Park. Found in the middle of the city, there are many trails which will have you exploring the incredibly scenic forest for hours if you so choose.
At the perimeter of Odell Park, you can also find the Fredericton Botanic Gardens as well as the Odell Arboretum and the New Brunswick Species Collection.
For an intuitive learning experience in New Brunswick, Science East is a great place for all of the family. Boasting over 150 hands-on exhibits, Science East encourages visitors of all ages to experience the thrills of science and the oddities of our world.
The unique attraction has a specialist exhibit on Canada's history in forensic science as well as those exploring optical illusions, prehistoric life, technology, space, energy, animals, and many other very intriguing subjects. On top of all of this, the kids are sure to enjoy the specialized outdoor science playground.
If it's a more relaxing, classically tourist activity that you desire, make your way along the lake park trail until you find the sandy beach sitting on the crystal clear waters of Killarney Lake. With additional grassy areas, some changing rooms, and a lifeguard on duty, it makes for a scenic and relaxing day out.
New Brunswick is filled with exciting and intriguing entertainment activities to enjoy, with these being among the very best on offer.


One of the best methods to overcome scarcity is gratitude. Seriously – an attitude of gratitude can literally change your life. I've seen it firsthand, both in my own life and the lives of my loved ones and clients.
Money is just energy. This is the first thing you need to understand. Money isn't dollars in the bank, it's just energy, and as such – it needs to flow, both in and out.
Like attracts like. If you just focus on what you don't have, you're stuck in lack and scarcity, and like attracts like. To help shift out of this mentality, you need to make gratitude a habit.
Gratitude journaling. Journal on gratitude every single day. You can write about one thing for which you're grateful, or make a list of 5-10 things that you're grateful for. You can even google a gratitude prompt list so you have different topics to journal on each day.
There are tons of resources out there when it comes to gratitude and abundance. Some of my favorites include Abraham Hicks meditations, The Magic, and A Happy Pocket Full of Money.


The Supreme Court, Thursday, struck out appeal that sought to void leave granted to Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, to query the high court judgment that nearly barred him from participating in the Ondo governorship election billed for Saturday under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party, Vanguard news is reporting.
The apex court, in a unanimous judgment by a five-man panel of Justices led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, threw out 14 separate motions filed before it by chieftains of the PDP from six South West States.
Justice Onnoghen who delivered the ruling, held that the interlocutory appeals had turned "academic", considering the fact that the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court had already delivered verdict on the substantive matter.
However, the apex court declined to award cost against the appellants who are loyal to the Ali Modu-Sheriff faction of the PDP. Those behind the appeals that were struck out by the apex court were Chairman of the PDP in Ondo State, Prince Biyi Poroye and Ademola Genty (for themselves and the Ondo State Executive Committee of the PDP), Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo, Bola Ajao Lateef (Osun State PDP Excos), Hon. Taiwo Akeem, Hon. Alaba Adelabu (Oyo State). As well as Hon. Bowale Solaja, Otunba Adewale Segun and Ogunbiyi Adeleke Olasukanmi. It will be recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja, yesterday, declared Mr. Jegede as the rightful candidate of the PDP for the Ondo poll.
The appellate court equally vacated the June 29 and October 14 verdicts of Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which initially ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as PDP flag-bearer for the governorship election.


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Linda is a survivor of the outbreak and member of the original Fairhaven survivor group in AGN's The Road Ahead. She was among those present on transport buses when the convoy broke down on the highway.
Nothing is known about Linda's life prior to the outbreak.
Linda was first seen on the buses when the group broke down on the highway. She was later bitten by an infected man moments before the first attack on the buses, where she would ultimately succumb to the infection and reanimate, being put down by Shirley Dubois moments later.
Shortly before nightfall after the buses broke down on the highway, Linda is bitten by an infected man where she grew sick remarkably fast. During the first attack on the bus by the infected, she succumbed to the infection, reanimating shortly after where she tried to attack those on the bus before being put down by Shirley Dubois.


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Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe vol. II
by Marek J. Murawski
Production and experimental aircraft
The decision to launch a full-scale production of the Me 262 was made as early as May 25, 1943. A month later a preliminary delivery schedule was adopted, which assumed that first Me 262 examples would enter service with the Luftwaffe in January 1944.
The production figures for the following months included 8 aircraft to be delivered in February 1944, followed by 21 examples in March, 40 in April and 60 in May. From June 1944 onwards an average of 100 Me 262s were expected to roll off the production lines. However, the plans were never achieved due to a number of setbacks mentioned earlier and difficulties with obtaining adequate numbers of powerplants from Junkers. Therefore, on June 22, 1944 members of the Jägerstab met to revise the delivery schedule of the new fighter. According to the new plan 60 aircraft were to be built in July 1944. The number would later increase to 100 examples in August, 150 in September and then to as many as 500 fighters in December. Those plans eventually failed as well. The actual production figures for the following months included 28 Me 262 A-2a examples delivered in June 1944, 59 fighters assembled in July, 91 in September and 117 jet fighters completed in October. Contrary to Hitler's orders Messerschmitt built both fighter and bomber versions of the aircraft. By November 4, 1944 Hitler himself seemed to have soften his hitherto rock-solid stand, although he still insisted that, should the need arise, the fighter versions should could be quickly converted into fighter-bombers.
The first production version of the Me 262 was A-1a, which featured four MK 108 30 mm cannons (two cannons had a supply of 100 round of ammunition per gun, while the other two each had 80-round magazines). The aircraft was equipped with a Revi 16b gun sight and could carry 2 570 l of fuel in four internal tanks. There was a provision four installation of two 300 l drop tanks that could be attached to ETC 503 or Wikingerschiff pylons. The avionics included the FuG 16 ZY radio with the ZVG and the FuG 25a IFF unit. The pilot's seat featured 15 mm steel plate protection. Additionally, the windshield design included a 90 mm armored glass plate in its front section.
The Me 262 A-1a/Jabo was a fighter-bomber variant equipped with two bomb racks installed in the forward section of the fuselage. A typical load-out included a single 500 kg bomb, or a pair of 250 kg weapons. The aircraft's basic offensive armament arrangement and the avionics suite remained the same as in the basic fighter version.
The Me 262 A-1a/U1 was a one-off experimental aircraft featuring heavier offensive armament. This included two MK 103 30 mm cannons (72 rounds per gun), two 108 30 mm cannons (65 rounds per gun) and a pair of MG 151/20 20 mm cannons with 146 rounds of ammunition per barrel. The MK 103 was heavier and much bigger than the 108, but its long barrel and high muzzle velocity provided for very accurate and effective fire at longer ranges.
Plans were also in place to develop an all-weather version of the fighter. The proposed Me 262 A-1a/U2 Schlechtwetterjäger ("bad weather" fighter) was supposed to enter service in mid-1945. The aircraft would receive additional navigation capability in the form of the FuG 125 Hermine unit, which had a range of 200 km and operated at 30 – 33.3 MHz frequency range. The use of the K 22 autopilot and the FuG 120 Bernhardine radio was also considered, which used the same frequency as the FuG 125, but featured a 400 km range.
The next version to be developed was the Me 262 A-1a/U3 Behelsaufklärer (provisional reconnaissance platform). The prototype (W.Nr. 170 006) first flew in August 1944. Later on a limited number of airframes were converted into reconnaissance versions by installing cameras in place of the nose-mounted cannons. The sensor suite would consist of two Rb 50/30 cameras, or one Rb 20/30 and one Rb 75/30 unit. The cameras offset by 10° and protruded beyond the fuselage lines and were covered by characteristic, elongated blisters. It remains an open question whether the airplanes in this version were armed or not. Since original photographs do show an opening in the forward section of the fuselage that might have been a gun port, most authors believe the aircraft carried a single MK 108 cannon for self defense. On the other hand, the opening visible in the photographs might have been nothing more than a ventilation port for the camera compartment.
In late 1944 Messerschmitt began work on the fighter variant equipped with a heavy 50 mm cannon. Designated the Me 262 A-1a/U4 was also known as the Pulkzerstörer, or "Pulk" killer. The word "Pulk" was used in the Luftwaffe to designate the defensive formation used by the USAAF heavy bombers. The key to a successful attack against such a formation was the dispersal of the defensive "box" followed by attacks against individual bombers.
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Sex Abuse In New York's Prisons A Big Problem, City Limits Says
by Graham Rayman
Four of the top 11 prisons where inmates claim sexual abuse by staff are in New York state, a national survey found, according to the well-regarded journal City Limits in an article published yesterday.
And get this: the place with the most complaints happens to be on West 20rd Street in Manhattan–the Bayview Correctional Facility for woman, the article's author Kelly Virella says. More than 11 percent of inmates there reported sexual abuse allegations, compared to the national average of 2.2 percent. An astonishing 57 percent of inmates at Bayview claimed they had either been forced into sex or threatened with force.
City Limits Editor Jarrett Murphy tells us that even though the sex is often consensual, it is still illegal. But state prison officials doesn't always take the allegations seriously. In fact, the state is opposing on budget grounds new federal regulations that would reduce prison rape.
The state has claimed such incidents are fairly rare, but the City Limits article disputes that claim. Moreover, the article reports that state prison officials never forward many inmate complaints to the independent Inspector General responsible for investigating prison misconduct. And the system often takes it easy on staff found to have had sex with prisoners.
Virella tells the story of one female inmate at Albion Correctional Facility, who suffered two attempted rapes by the same guard in 2007. A federal judge ordered the guard to pay her $500,000. The guard pled guilty to third-degree rape.
Fifteen New York women are suing the state over its handling of sex abuse cases. The eight year old lawsuit is still pending.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on May 4, 2011
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For almost the whole of the 20th century, Western Civilization and European History courses almost without fail rehashed a narrative where Europe merely progressed from one golden age to the next. If you follow the script, first there were the Greeks, then came the Romans, and after a bit of bumbling during the Middle Ages where that pesky Church held back the European surge, the West got back on track with the Renaissance, followed by a series of revolutions that enabled it to emerge as the preeminent civilization in the world, a mantle it would boast into the 21st century.
But there's a problem with that lovely little linear tale. There was never one Europe, never one West (and if the current European Union experiment fails, there might never be). To act as if the robed wonderers of Athens merely passed the golden Western baton to the Romans who then kept it in storage until some artists in the 1500s decided to revisit the glory of the Classical Age, to merely omit all the tribes and civilizations surviving (and oftentimes flourishing) on the West's borders, leaves out some of the most dynamic characters the world has ever seen.
Let's start with the barbarians Now the name "barbarians" is a bit difficult to get your head around. Immediately you picture a bunch of large, hairy dudes with hit and miss hygiene who run around yelling "raaaaaaaahhhhhrrr" while swinging a club and eating their food with their hands. Well, the key thing you need to realize with this depiction is that history is written by those who write, and if your people really didn't care about a written language, you pretty much had to accept that your place in history might be a bit devalued. "Barbarian" by definition is merely an uncivilized person. So, for the Han in China and the Romans in the Mediterranean, barbarians were all those people who hadn't yet embraced the joy of civilized (aka "city") life.
Yet, the term "barbarian" comes from the Greeks who whenever they listened to non-Greeks speak, all they heard was a bunch of "blah…blah…blah…" or "barh…barh…barh" sounds. At first, they used this term to cover almost everyone – Egyptians, Etruscans, Persians, Carthaginians and all those tribes to the north. Later, after more exposure to the Mediterranean civilizations, the term was rarely ever used to depict the civilizations of the south and the east, but, as for those blubbering curly haired dudes from the north, they remained barbarians for another thousand years.


The MA in International Human Rights provides students with the opportunity to explore issues of human dignity while critically examining the norms, historical processes, social movements, strategies and institutions designed to promote and protect human rights in our globalizing world. The program is pioneering and unique among its peers for interdisciplinary, rigor and flexibility. It links human rights to law, security, gender studies, migration issues, economic development, health, security, human trafficking, humanitarian assistance, geographic areas, and other related themes. It emphasizes both theory and practice.
For practical experience, students are offered skills courses, educational trips internships and opportunities for fieldwork in the U.S. and around the world. Through research centers, guest lectures, conferences and film series, students participate in a wide range of human rights research and advocacy projects. Graduates typically seek and obtain positions in international nonprofits, international human rights advocacy organizations, international aid agencies, governmental and intergovernmental organizations, business sector, the human rights legal profession and academia.
The International Human Rights Program features leading professors and experts in human rights and from an interdisciplinary background. They include Dr. Marie Berry, Professor Jack Donnelly, Claude D'Estree, JD; Tom Farer, University Professor; Professor Alan Gilbert; Dr. Nader Hashemi; Dr. Sandy Johnson, Dr. Oliver Kaplan, Professor Haider Kahn, Dr. Rebecca Galemba, Dr. David Goldfischer, Dr. Singumbe Muyeba, Professor Ved Nanda, and Chen Reiss, JD.
Watch a video from Stephanie Selekman, a recent graduate with an MA in International Human Rights, talking about her experience as a Korbel student.