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The Flo's best tunes arrive loaded, and shine to the highest degree!
I.K.M.B.T – "As of Lately" clearly has substance!
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Cyndi Creswell Crook: "Zombie Wonderland" packs creative intensity and poetic release
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Oliver Clark: "Atomic Thrust" – delivers about as much as anyone can bring !
"Atomic Thrust" is the lead single from the album of the same name, by the velvet-clad, Melbourne-based gentleman, Oliver Clark. Forging a vocal style strongly recalling a mix between the classy but gritty raw power of Tom Jones and the larger than life showmanship of Weird Al Yankovic, Clark delivers aContinue Reading
"COMING BACK TO LIFE": ALTEREGO VIBE'S NEW MUSIC VIDEOCLIP
Alterego Vibe's latest single release "Coming Back to Life" has already stirred up early interest amongst fans, established music blogs, websites and critiques- Now they have a music video to accompany this success. Their new single "Coming Back to Life" has derived from their debut album "Back To Life". TheContinue Reading
The world's first 360° music clip in 4K launched with Noa Neal and her song "Graffiti"
Noa Opdebeeck was born in Antwerp, Belgium. She released her first English-language album, "NoaNeal – Naked on the inside" during 2003. In early 2008 she toured the United States, Mexico and Thailand with hundreds of musicians from 28 nationalities in the 'Up with People' tour. In 2009 she reached theContinue Reading
Jim Vierra & Friends: "Hopeful Eyes" – wonderfully put together
Jim Vierra & Friends deliver quality in bucket-loads! Jim Vierra is a Tracy, California-based songwriter who recently took "the big step to record some of his original songs in Nashville." He and his friends collaborate with great vocal talent and a top-notch producer, resulting in some great Christian and CountryContinue Reading
Rome Alexander Drops the Official Video for "Bring Me Back"
"Bring Me Back" – The Video! Rome Alexander's one of a kind music style has been very well received and one week after the release of his previous two singles "Crush" and "This Thing We Had," both received enthusiastic reviews from fans and have been on the Amazon Best Seller and Hot New Release charts forContinue Reading
African Recording Artist NazB Releases Latest Boomaye Video
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On 'Blame the Bizness', TRZ hits another home run with his 'magic formula'!
As one of the UK's most prolific Hip Hop artists, TRZ has produced music for over 100 artists in both the UK and US. For over a decade he has been globally recognized for his performances as co-founding artist/producer for the group The Souljah Clique. His music career has seenContinue Reading
Don Vedda – "Love at First Sight" Video and EP Release!
Don Vedda, 23 year old journeyman vocalist/guitarist hailing from San Diego, CA has released his debut self-titled EP as well as the video for the song, LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. Having performed with many bands over the last decade, including Casino Madrid, Oceans, Jaime's Elsewhere, and most recently, as the leadContinue Reading
Jason Kerrison: "Never Leave Me Again" – Up-tempo, Driven, But Smooth!
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Film-maker Alexx Thompson and the Making Of The Haiti Harvest Moon Video!
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NBC's "The Voice" Star – PIP Releases "HOOKED"!
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Australian X Factor Winner, DAMI IM – is Inching Her Way to Stardom!
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The Hiding: "Run City Run" – A Great Listening Experience!
The Hiding (Anthony Salce, Ryan Di Cecco, Adrian Perri) formed out of a previous band in the summer of 2010. This project saw them tour Australia, and the USA, supporting some of the country's most respected national and international acts. Due to a direction change, it was at this pointContinue Reading
Bro5: "Bruises" on VH1 and MTV !
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Gabriel Biase Takes His Metamorphosis Through Fuse Hop!
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Melanie Taylor Emerges As An Inspiring Pop Artist!
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Hawk Rising: "Aay! (Chi-Town Shinin')" -An Uplifting Aural Buffet
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Sarantos: "I'd Give Anything" Goes Back To His Rock-Orientated Roots
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Welcome to the Show!: Publisher's Letter, June 2015
May 28, 2015 by JCK Magazine
Welcome to the June issue, the annual show issue for JCK Las Vegas! As always, this year's edition reflects the excitement around the JCK show, with nearly 250 pages packed with terrific editorial and stunning ads. It follows fast on the heels of JCK's May issue, which rocked a 330-page portfolio!I'm so proud of the success of JCK. When I first took this position in 2004, there were five industry trades, each running thousands of ad pages annually. Despite the fact that JCK falls squarely into a trifecta of industries that have seen their share of challenges—trade publications, print magazines, and jewelry sold at independent retailers have all taken a hit in recent years—we are still here and still producing beautiful, vital, informative, and entertaining content.O captain! During April's AGS Conclave in New Orleans, Omi Gems' Manos Phoundoulakis, Vic, and I had a memorabl
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A healthy mind in a healthy body is essential for all, especially for students who have resumed school this January. For instance, a balanced diet, some exercise and restful sleep, quality family time, and many other factors are key to living a wholesome and non-stressful school year. Psychologist Karunah Rajiah and dietician Teenusha Soobrah provide their advice to students and parents.
During the last two months of school holidays, students have had the freedom to stay up till late at night and eat whatever they like without paying attention to nutrition and health values. However, as they are resuming school and their studies, there is the need to go back to a balanced diet and lifestyle. "With school holidays, students tend to have irregular sleeping and eating habits that eventually can impact on their appetite regulating hormones in the long term," explains the Director and Founder of Nutriwise and registered dietician, Teenusha Soobrah.
What are some advisable ways to eat at school considering the summer heat? "There are many food safety issues due to the summer heat and utmost care need to be taken, as children tend to have a much weaker immune system.
Consider air tight containers. Glass containers are best or alternatively include BPA free food containers to prevent the plastic from leaking into the food.
Homemade burgers or homemade nuggets are a popular alternative to commercial ones, paired with some salad. While whole wheat bread is best as a start to healthy eating, emphasis should be given to the sandwich filling first. Otherwise great alternatives also include brown rice salad, or whole wheat pasta salad.
Fruits or mixed nuts, seeds and dried unsweetened fruits are best school snacks to stand the heat. They are delicious and packed with nourishing nutrients such as magnesium and fibre. Homemade bar cereals or commercial cereals with less than 10g sugar are also good options," advises the dietician.
The beginning of the new academic year will also see the transition of students of primary level to secondary level. Many often feel detached from their comfort zone, and stressed as they are stepping foot into a new world. "There will be mixed feelings for some. Very few may be scared of the new school, its environment and the demands of the new teachers and education level. Some may be even neutral about it. But most children must really be excited to join the bigger school. You have got another opportunity to learn new things. You will have more teachers, more subjects, more friends, and of course more knowledge," says the psychologist.
if you see other students engaging in illegal and unauthorized activities, don't mingle with them.
Constantly talk about the people you meet, how you spend your day, and narrate them to the children. In turn, you encourage them to talk about their day.
Train your child to tell you each and every detail of their day: The person/s they met, the things they did, what they ate, drank, heard, learned, what they did not know yesterday but learned today, and so on.
Every morning should be like a prayer: Do not talk to strangers; Do not take anything from anyone; Do not allow anybody to touch you anywhere, unless you are injured and need help. Always seek help from somebody you know.
Do not indulge in activities which seem dangerous, suspicious and which feels just not right. Never allow yourself to be tempted by any activity which you are scared of.
Always teach children about identifying what is right and wrong. Even in preschools, children are taught to distinguish between right and wrong. However, as the child grows, the concept of right and wrong is expanded.
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The Court of Appeal has held that an employer could rely on a clause in an ex employee's contract of employment which prevented him from seeking business from any of his former employer's customers for 6 months. The former employee was ordered to pay damages of £50,000 for breaching the clause.
Generally a clause in a contract of employment preventing an employee from soliciting business from his employer's customers after the employment has ended will be void as a restraint of trade. If the employer wants to be able to enforce it, it will need to show that it has a legitimate interest to protect and that the clause is reasonable. In general, the Courts have been slow to enforce clauses which are not limited to customers the employee actually dealt with and of short duration on the grounds that they are too wide.
In the case of Coppage, the former employee was subject to a six month non-solicitation restrictive covenant which prevented him from approaching anyone who was a customer at any point during his employment. He had been employed for 6 years prior to leaving and setting up in competition. Shortly after doing so, he contacted a number of customers of his former employer with a view to their working with him instead.
Although the restriction in the employee's contract was wide enough to catch customers he had no dealings with during his employment, the Court decided that the employer could rely on it and awarded them damages in the sum of £50,000.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the employee's appeal of the decision. It placed particular emphasis on the fact that the clause was limited to "only" six months. It also stressed that there are no hard and fast rules in such cases and that each case must be considered on its own facts.
Of considerable assistance to the employer in this case was the fact it had evidence of breach of the clause in the form of 135 telephone calls and 175 texts that the ex-employee had sent to customers. Without that, and the fact the employee was a director, the outcome would no doubt have been very different.
Whilst this case does underline that similar contractual clauses can be treated differently depending on the context, it provides some comfort to employers who want to protect their business from the activities of former employees. It also underlines how important it is, particularly with more senior employees, to ensure your employment contracts are regularly reviewed.


Through a visual presentation, students will learn how water moves through a watershed, the pollutants that can enter the water system from different land use activities and ways that people can help prevent water pollution.
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James Roatch in "The Gentlemen" at Encore Studio for the Performing Arts in 2012. (Photo by Kelsyanne Schoenhaar)
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At Encore, Devising with Disabilities
The Wisconsin-based theatre has brought performers with disabilities together to tell more authentic stories about the disabled experience.
By Amanda Finn
To present more authentic representations of individuals with disabilities onstage
To help individuals with disabilities devise original work with their own lives as inspiration
Creating original work and presenting it across the state of Wisconsin
WHAT NEEDS WORK
The typical strenuous rehearsal process; sticking to a set script
KelsyAnne Schoenhaar was once asked to consult for a theatre troupe for actors with disabilities. She visited them, observed their process, and was not impressed with what she saw. "I felt like it was disappointing and sad," Schoenhaar recalls. "It looked like a kindergarten performance. The director stood in front and mouthed the words."
The problem wasn't the performers, she says—it was that they had been treated like children, taught to parrot scripted lines, rather than as adults with authentic stories. That inspired Schoenhaar to found her own theatre company in 2000: Encore Studio for the Performing Arts, based in Madison, Wisc., which allows performers with disabilities to devise and perform original work.
"I have two daughters on the spectrum and I'm on the spectrum myself," Schoenhaar explains. "You can be super, super academically gifted and not have incredible vocal skills, but there is always a skill to grab from." She also wanted to give performers with disabilities the space and encouragement to tell their own stories. "There is always a story," she says. "We've been doing it for 17 years and we haven't run out."
Schoenhaar founded Encore with the desire to create work in collaboration with performers with disabilities, who are notoriously underrepresented onstage, and to give those individuals an outlet for performance that focused less on making it "special," she says. "It's not uncommon for theatres, especially when there are people with developmental disabilities, to make it more special than real. That's a disservice for everyone. Our community only learns by getting the information and holding a mirror up to what is happening."
Since its founding, Encore has produced more than 40 original pieces and performed them across Wisconsin. It currently boasts a company of 18 actors, and its staff numbers 7.
From the beginning, the pieces have largely been written after Schoenhaar sits down with performers and individually interviews them. She then puts those snippets together, documentary theatre-style, into a finished show, usually centered around a common theme, such as the 2016 musical comedy Marriage-Ability, about marriage and relationships for people with disabilities.
Schoenhaar believes producing original work reflecting the disabled community is "where the substance happens." Encore's productions are done as a series of vignettes, so the company can include as many voices as possible within one production. "I have found that examining complex lives of an underrepresented community of people in a non-preachy, no-BS style has been very powerful and effective," she remarks. "Truth is often stranger and more compelling than fiction."
As such, the company tackles topics that mainstream culture and theatre seldom touch when it comes to portraying disabilities. One play, To Love or Not to Love, shows people with disabilities in loving relationships, getting in touch with their sexuality, and, in one painful moment, experiencing abuse.
Rikki Christman and Marcy Weiland in "The Last Week in December" at Encore in 2016. (Photo by Kelsyanne Schoenhaar)
Through support, Encore has made it possible for some performers to overcome behavioral challenges. Jennifer Kopp, a founding repertory member of Encore, is one such person. Kopp has both cognitive and developmental disabilities as well as issues in the area of emotional control.
"Jenny is completely different from when we first met," Schoenhaar says. Kopp describes her own previous behavior as "wild."
One piece from Encore's repertoire was inspired by Kopp. In the vignette "All She Thinks About Is Sex," part of To Love or Not to Love, Kopp's character laments, in a bluesy musical number, her confusion about why she's being sent to court. Her character is in trouble for inappropriate sexual conduct, but doesn't understand why it was inappropriate.
In real life, Kopp was nearly 30 when she was in high school, where she wanted to interact with her peers, in particular young men. That's when someone might need support if they struggle with emotional control or decision making, Schoenhaar explains.
"[The vignette] addressed a lot of issues," Schoenhaar says. "It's a predatory behavior in action, but it's not as insidious as it might seem on the surface."
Now living a healthy, caffeine-free lifestyle, Kopp is much better equipped to work with her fellow actors and achieve her dream of performing.
"[Theatres like Encore] could really help people with disabilities," Kopp says. "If they've never been in a theatre like Encore and they're nervous, they could come to a show and see all of us here with different disabilities and see we aren't scared or nervous to do a show about our lives."
And it's not just onstage: Encore also employs artists with disabilities as part of the running crew, tech, and design crews as well.
When working with performers with different disabilities, Schoenhaar stresses the importance of flexibility—whether it's adapting scripts, or altering rehearsal or anything in between, to make sure the performers feel comfortable and can do the best work onstage.
One such challenge involves the actual text. If a performer is struggling with a line due to a speech impediment or other barriers, it is adapted to their needs. But that's one perk of doing original work. "The adaptation is almost the genius of working with such a vast array of people with different abilities," says Schoenhaar. "You aren't just saying, 'You must do this because I'm the director.' We do whatever we need to do."
Encore's "no-BS style" can mean that the intensity of the topics can be particularly difficult for actors who have trouble controlling their emotions. In those cases, staff must be ready to quickly switch gears to support performers. If actors are uncomfortable or having a hard time, it's usually time to slow down.
"We all have hard days," Schoenhaar notes. "Some people take a short break, others listen to music to chill out. If I find things are out of control, we often just call for a general break for all as to not focus on any one actor."
That's why Schoenhaar also suggests that directors be prepared for longer rehearsals, "as there may be a need to adjust to learning styles and other support needs," she says.
Adjusting rehearsals has become less of a necessity for Encore, however, as their acting company has gained more and more experience. This is all the more striking given that many Encore performers are not formally trained. Robin Parks is a former caregiver with a condition so rare that no one has ever heard of it before. She even goes to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk to students on their first day of medical school about her condition, currently explained as a form of cerebral palsy.
Encore presented a monologue version of Parks's story as part of the 2015 Encore play Not Always a Parent, about raising a child with a disability. It was both an emotional and fun piece to perform, says Parks, and, most importantly, it did not take a patronizing attitude to its subject. "I hate it when people call me 'sweetie' and all of that. It's condescending. I've told more than one person my name is Robin, not sweetie."
Parks believes that, perhaps, other companies are afraid to tell real stories about the disabled community for fear the person they are basing the piece on will be offended. But she has never felt that way and enjoys telling people about her life. She even surprises people when she tells them she's an actor. "My dream job would've been to combine guidance counseling and acting," she says. "Those give me the most confidence."
For many of Encore's performers, telling their own stories onstage is a way of reclaiming the narrative of what the disabled experience can look like: full and vibrant, not tragic. There is one show remaining for Encore's 2017-18 season, Road Trip, in May. The company has not yet announced their new season lineup, but rest assured it will continue to center the disabled experience, in all of its complexities.
"You only have one short life," Kopp muses. "It makes me feel happy to be here and do shows. I can tell the audience about me and I feel good inside telling people about my life."
Amanda Finn is an arts and lifestyle reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wisc., and a member of the American Theatre Critics Association.
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Located 6 miles west of Boston, The Towers of Chestnut Hill offers the perfect mix of privacy, security and luxury. Situated on 17 acres of pristine landscaped grounds in the highly desirable town of Chestnut HIll, city-style living without the hassle awaits you.
An Unlikely Duo Results in the Perfect Art Exhibit Space
The Towers of Chestnut Hill and Boston Sculptors Gallery have partnered to create Outside the Gallery Box, an exhibition showcasing 27 original pieces from 19 artists. The show runs through January 8, 2021 and is located in the grand lobby of The Towers at 250 Hammond Pond Parkway in Chestnut Hill, MA. Visitors are welcome to view the exhibit by appointment only by emailing Boston Sculptors Gallery Co-Chair Exhibitions Committee member, Marilu Swett at mariluswett14@gmail.com.
The idea was conceived when two of The Towers' Trustees, Elizabeth Brown and Linda Sherman, were searching for an idea to reinvent the lobby after removing furniture during COVID-19. As they walked through the lobby, inspiration struck that art was what the space needed. "COVID-19 forced us to think creatively to enhance the beauty of our entrance for residents and visitors, without making it permanent" said Brown. "Being able to support local artists is amazing, as their livelihoods continue to be affected by this enduring pandemic," added Sherman. Below are a sampling of the exquisite and thought-provoking pieces in the show.
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almudena del hierro, Ana Boto, Ignacio García Gomez, Mariano García-Arranz, Alfredo Insausti García, Félix Armada; Reconstruction of the ocular surface with adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs). Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):1404.
Purpose: To evaluate the ability and safety of the adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) as treatment to reconstruction of the corneal surface of rabbits with experimentally induced limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD).We compare two different procedures: perilimbar subconjunctival injection versus application under an amniotic membrane patch.
Methods: Rabbit allogenic ASCs were isolated, cultured on plastic plates and identified by inmunostaining and flow cytometry. Limbal stem-cell deficiency (LSCD) was induced in 16 rabbits by alkali burns and mechanical debridement. One week after the injury, eyes were divided as follow: Group 1: 1A (n=8, left eyes) for subconjuctival-limbal injection of 1.6 x 106 ASCs/400 μl distributed in four limbal quadrants and 1B (n=8, right eyes) for injection of 100 μl of saline serum per quadrant; Group 2: 2A (n=8, Left eyes) for application of 1x106 ASCs under the stromal layer of amniotic membrane and over the injured corneas and 2B (n=8, right eyes) for transplantation of amniotic membrane. Each eye was examined under microscope every week before sacrifice. Rabbits were euthanized after 4 weeks and studied for inflammation (H&E staining), fibrosis (α-smooth muscle actin immunostaining), corneal inmunophenotype (Citokeratine 3) and inmunodetection of ASCs(GFP).
Results: Incidence of perforations and calcifications was lower in eyes which had received ASCs by two procedures (p<0,05). Eyes treated by injection of ASCs had an epithelial defect closure faster than the other groups (p<0,05).The lowest levels of inflamatory cells at limbus were found at Group 1A and lowest inflamation in cornea corresponded at Group 2A. No differences were observed in arresting corneal neovessel ingrowth between groups. Corneal stromal fibrosis was higher in groups where ASCs were applied. CK3 was observed in no eyes. ASCs immunolocalization was observed at 24 hs after limbar injection and at two and four weeks in group which used amniotic membrane. No side effects were found in eyes which had received ASCs.
Conclusions: Complications were lower in eyes that received ASCs.Inflammation was lower where ASCs were located. No adverse reactions were observed in eyes that received ASCs.In conclusion, the ASCs therapy by limbal injection or using amniotic membrane was a feasible and safe procedure for the keratopathy secondary to LDSC by chemically burned .


A Random Forest based tool which is developed to carry out fast, efficient and accurate taxonomic classification of 16S rRNA sequences. 16S Classifier has the unique ability to classify small Hypervariable Regions of 16S rRNA. It displayed precision values of up to 0.91 on training datasets and the precision values of up to 0.98 on the test dataset. On real metagenomic datasets, it showed up to 99.7% accuracy at the phylum level and up to 99.0% accuracy at the genus level.
Input can be complete 16S rRNA gene or a selected hypervariable region or a combination of multiple hypervariable regions. The input file must be single line nucleotide sequences in fasta format with a '.fasta' extension and the primers should be removed from the sequences before submission.
16S classifier: a tool for fast and accurate taxonomic classification of 16S rRNA hypervariable regions in metagenomic datasets.
This work was supported by the intramural funding received from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal).


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Letter from London #26
It's been said that history is the new sex. Certainly, regarding trends in literature, historical fiction has been enjoying a remarkable renaissance in recent years. Numerous spin-offs into generously budgeted productions for film and television now make the genre a tempting prospect for authors.
Recent successes over here include the much lauded Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. Set in the time of Henry VIII, and focussing on his machiavellian chancellor Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall was adapted into an award-winning series for television.
As far as I know, there was no prior book on which the magnificent HBO series Rome was based. However, the production demonstrated some techniques common to historical fiction. One of these was to follow the fortunes of two ordinary soldiers in Julius Caesar's XIIIth Legion, as the story took us through the events preceding and following Caesar's assassination. In this way, the momentous transition of Ancient Rome from Republic to Empire was given a believable and sympathetic human dimension.
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Cousin Ann arrived in best Miss Marple fashion on her bicycle late the other Saturday afternoon, in a state of some excitement.
A trained historian, she has been involved in the official archaeological investigation ('dig' as she would say) at a series of ancient burial mounds, or barrows, on a nearby heath.
That week the team had unearthed what is strongly believed to be an intact and complete Early to Middle Bronze Age burial urn - a find now being further investigated at a specialist unit in nearby Winchester.
It will not be the first of such discoveries, of course. But when it happens on your doorstep, and in a place that was until recently part of a golf course, it gives one pause. The urn is thought to be anything between 3,500 and 4,000 years old.


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The online deal to get FIFA 20 for just £20 on PS4, XBox One and Nintendo Switch
The deal cuts the price of FIFA 20 by £15 and it works on points packs too
Stephen Hurrell
FIFA 20 will launch in September
With football across the globe coming to a standstill due to the coronavirus outbreak, one of the only ways for fans to get their football fix is by venturing into the virtual world, with EA SPORTS FIFA 20 offering an esports version of the real thing.
The game features some extremely popular game modes, including Kick Off, Career Mode, Ultimate Team, Pro Clubs and Volta Football. Whether you want one or two games against your mates, a long-term save or something a bit different with Volta, there's something for everyone.
Recently EA SPORTS released a database update which includes January transfers from all over the world, and also rolled out the CONMEBOL update, which gives gamers the chance to play as historic clubs from across the continent including River Plate, Boca Juniors, Flamengo, Racing Club, C.A. Independiente, Millonarios, and Universidad Católica as you lead them to the ultimate prize in South American club football in the new CONMEBOL Libertadores Tournament and Kick Off Modes.
Right now, there's a brilliant deal which allows anyone to get the game, or FIFA points, at a big discount. Check out the deal below.
Online seller GAME has FIFA 20 listed for £49.99 but you can get a used version for £34.99 for the PS4 or £39.99 for the XBox One.
However, deals website Topcashback is giving anybody who buys FIFA 20 £15 back, meaning if you buy a used version you can get the game for just £20 after cashback.
The deal is available to anybody who is a new member of Topcashback and signs up here.
Once you are signed up head to GAME via Topcashback and order the game. They will then pay you £15 cashback within 14 days of the purchase going through.
If you already own FIFA 20 the cashback offer works for any spend over £15 at GAME, meaning you can buy any game with the money off deal or even buy FIFA points packs. For example, a 2,200 points pack for the XBox One costs £15.99, which means you can get them for 99p using the cashback deal.
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Q: Calculate $a$ when the lines cross My book has given me the following

Given are the lines $k$: $y = ax + 6$ and $l$: $y= \frac{1}{2}ax +3a$. For which $a$ do the lines $k$ and $l$ cross each other on the y-axis?

I've tried resolving this one but the ax is confusing me a lot, should I be reading $y = a \times x+6$ or is it actually $ax+6$? I'm thinking that the first thing I said was true, if it was, how would we go about calculating the $x$ in this formula?
The answer to the question is: $2$ but why? Can someone maybe explain what's going on here? I can't seem to figure this one out. Links to tutorials or resources where these subjects are explained would be greatly appreciated!

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Two curves $y = ax+6$ and $y = ax/2 + 3a$ cross when they hit same $y$ and same $x$. so you have
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Since they cross on the $y$-axis, any point there has coordinates $(0,y)$, so $x=0$, which leaves you to plug that into the above equation and find both $y$ and $a$. Can you do that?

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Q: Invoking wsclient_service_load function in Drupal I'm trying to invoke this function in a Drupal custom module:
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But if I invoke the same function from page.tpl.php it works fine.
I must being missing something really basic.
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Recently the DIP project (horrible TLA), or Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services, has created a few new documents. Consider an excerpt from the press release. "DIP project submits WSMO to W3C's Semantic Web committee. The DIP project -- Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services -- recently submitted WSMO to the W3C's consideration as a comprehensive framework for addressing Semantic Web services challenges and designed to overcome the current problems of enterprise application integration (EAI). The full WSMO submission to the W3C consists of three main documents: Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO); Web Service Modeling Language (WSML); Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX), plus two supporting documents, Relation of WSMO to other relevant technologies, and a WSMO Primer. DIP's objective is to develop and extend Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to produce a new technology infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (SWS) - an environment in which different web services can discover and cooperate with each other automatically. DIP's long term mission is to deliver the enormous potential benefits of Semantic Web Services to e-Work and e-Commerce. More information on DIP can be found at : http://dip.semanticweb.org/." You can read the full release here. [Just as a side blog, or rant: I wish people would stop using "EAI" as a category of technology. When I wrote the book years ago I defined it as an approach, a methodology, and a better way to understand something that's complex, I did not write it to define a vendor space, and that's the way it's being used these days. I wish they would read my book before tossing those out.] So, why is this important? We'll if you're been reading my stuff you know that semantics are near and dear to my heart. What's more, the use of standards here, more so than any other notion of technology in the SOA space, is very important and I've been placing my money on the Semantic Web. Indeed, if these standards get traction we'll now have a modeling ontology standard and a new Web services modeling language. However, I'm not to sure about the value of a "Web Services Execution Environment." When dealing with application integration, as you know by now, we are dealing with much complexity. The notion of ontologies helps the application integration architect prepare generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable. In contrast to abstraction, generalization ignores many of the details and ends up with general ideas. Therefore, when generalizing, we start with a collection of types and analyze commonalities to generalize them. Clearly, semantic heterogeneity and divergence hinders the notion of generalization, and as commonalities of two entities are represented in semantically different ways, the differences are more difficult to see. Thus, ontological analysis clears the ground for generalization, making the properties of the entities much more clear. Indeed, ontological analysis for application integration encourages generalization. Thus we can say, "Within an ontological framework, integration analysis naturally leads to generalization." Considering that statement, it's also clear that application independence of ontological models makes these applications candidates for reference models. We do this by stripping the applications of the semantic divergences that were introduced to satisfy their requirements, thus creating a common application integration foundation for use as the basis for an application integration project. Returning to the core problem we wish to solve within application integration and SOA domains, we are looking to achieve semantic interoperability between very different systems. The solution to this problem is based on our ability to leverage formal ontologies required to account for the different types of ontologies for any business reason. Let's keep an eye on this one guys.


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Braces were not an option when you were a child. Now that you are an adult and can afford them, it's time to listen to the dentist and get them. If you are like most people, there are a few perceptions about adult braces that need to be addressed. Here are four things you should know now.
There is no getting around the fact that your smile isn't what it was in years past. Time has taken a toll and you are more likely to hide your mouth when you smile. That's because of the way you feel about your teeth. Wouldn't it be great if you could do something to improve their appearance? Fortunately, there are procedures that your dentist can perform and make your smile look brilliant once more. Here are a few examples.


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Gov. Newsom proclaims state of emergency in response to monkeypox
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Gov. Gavin Newsom. Courtesy of the Office of the Governor
As orthopoxvirus, or monkeypox, cases continue to rise throughout the country, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency to support California's response to the virus.
According to the Centers for Disease and Control, as of Monday there were a confirmed 5,811 cases of Monkeypox in the U.S. with 827 cases in California, the second largest number of cases in the nation.
The Los Angeles County Public Health Department confirmed 400 cases of monkeypox, of the 827 total cases in California. As part of the state's ongoing response to the monkeypox outbreak, Newsom's state of emergency aims to bolster vaccination efforts against the virus.
"California is working urgently across all levels of government to slow the spread of monkeypox, leveraging our robust testing, contact tracing and community partnerships strengthened during the pandemic to ensure that those most at risk are our focus for vaccines, treatment and outreach," Newsom said in a released statement.
California will work with federal agencies to secure more vaccines, raise awareness about reducing risk and stand with the LGBTQ community fighting stigmatization, he added.
In an effort to expand vaccination efforts, the proclamation enables Emergency Medical Services personnel to administer monkeypox vaccines that are approved by the FDA, similar to the statutory authorization recently enacted for pharmacists to administer vaccines.
According to Newsom, the state's response to monkeypox builds on the infrastructure developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to deploy vaccine clinics and ensure inclusive outreach in partnership with local and community-based organizations.
In concurrence with Newsom's proclamation, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, 5th District, released a statement supporting Newsom's actions in order to slow and prevent the spread of monkeypox.
"Now that the governor has declared a statewide emergency, our county needs to draw down all the support available to accelerate the distribution of vaccines and resources to those at risk and suffering from this terrible disease," Barger said in a released statement.
"I will work to ensure we're doing so quickly and efficiently. We don't have any time to waste."
Last month, California public health leaders urged federal partners to make more vaccine doses available to the state as quickly as possible to expand eligibility to both confirmed and probable exposures, and to individuals who are at high-risk of contracting the virus.
According to Newsom's office, California has received more than 61,000 doses of TPOXX, the antiviral prescription drug tecovirimat, which is used to treat monkeypox. In the coming days and weeks, California will be distributing more doses of TPOXX to local health departments, mobile clinics and other health service providers.
The state allocates doses to its partners based on a number of factors, including the number of reported monkeypox cases in an area and estimate of at-risk populations.
As of July 28, the state expanded testing capacity to process more than 1,000 tests a week and public health laboratory leaders are working alongside partners to ensure testing capacity is increasingly available, according to Newsom's office.
TPOXX is administered at more than 30 facilities and provider across the state. Additionally, state officials continue outreach and education efforts to inform Californians about monkeypox and ways to limit its spread.


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Assisted suicide distorts docs' duty
By John Rhee
Some cases are tough (John Froschauer/AP)
"It's my life; why won't you just let me die?" We had spent much time together during the weeks on my psychiatry rotation and had grown fairly close. Yet it wasn't our bond that made her words so hard to hear. It was because she wasn't dying; she was depressed.
Of course, at the time, none of my supervising psychiatric physicians acceded to her wish to end her life. On the contrary, they worked hard to help her see the value in her life with a combination of psychotherapy, counseling and medication.
Current practice demands that patients get such care — even if they refuse. One of my professors described a case where she had to "forcefully admit" a patient who had expressed the desire to kill herself. That patient eventually expressed her gratitude — but only months afterward. And in fact, even in my brief rotation, there were moments where my patient and I spoke of her dreams, goals, and hopes upon leaving the hospital.
Through such experiences, I have been taught and have internalized that directly denying a patient's wishes under such circumstances is considered to be good practice. In fact, it is not only good practice, it is the current standard of care.
Soon that may change. The New York Medical Society is set to survey its members on attitudes about assisted suicide — which several state associations did prior to removing their opposition to assisted suicide — and legislation has been introduced in New York that would allow physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medicine to terminal patients who wish to end their own lives.
Many such patients can be depressed. In fact, in Oregon, where assisted suicide has been legal since 1997, a cross-sectional study of 58 patients requesting assisted suicide in 2006 found that fully 25% were depressed.
Yet the proposal introduced in New York does not require screening, let alone subsequent treatment, for clinical depression when present. The proposed legislation requires only that a patient be assessed for competency.
One might think such a departure from the current standard of practice to be inconceivable. However, such indifference to treatment of patients with mental health problems and who want to be dead is already happening.
In the most recent report from the Oregon Health Authority, out of 133 patients who died of assisted suicide in 2016, only 3.8% of assisted suicide patients are referred for psychiatric assessment. In some parts of Europe, the problem of non-treatment is even worse.
As a medical student, I have personally witnessed the benefits of our current practice — a practice that treats all patients consistently, whether labeled terminal or not. Will we continue to treat patients with depression equally or will we accept that it is natural to want to be dead given some life circumstances?
And if we will help a patient take an overdose to kill themselves when they are predicted to have six months to live, why not if they are predicted to live longer? Or if they are younger, like my patient? Or if they have a chronic disease, like heart failure?
In fact, some doctors in Oregon already want to expand the practice of assisted suicide, and this past year legislators introduced a bill to expand the practice to those patients expected to live up to 12 months (from the existing limit of six months). This is not simply a slippery slope; it is the logical next step when the interests of a person are more highly valued than the person him or herself.
Six months to live is an arbitrary length of time. Indeed, in such scenarios, one could argue that there is a moral imperative to allow even easier access to assisted suicide for those who are in pain and despair yet have a longer period of predicted life and suffering remaining.
Some would have us join Dutch doctors in ensuring that we honor patient autonomy above our current credos, "I will do good" and "I will do no harm."
What drew me to medicine, and what I hope draws future generations, was the responsibility to protect vulnerable, hurting patients — including those who need and deserve our help from harming themselves. New York now threatens that precious contract.
Rhee holds a master's degree in public health and is a fourth-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.


The Mae Hong Son Mountain Inn and Resort is a mid-sized and mid-range option with efficient English speaking staff, a heavy emphasis on decor and reasonably priced rooms.
Pros are a delightful garden courtyard to the rear, decent-sized pool and well-appointed rooms while cons are a somewhat out of centre location and, when we visited in rainy season at least, slightly musty interiors. Still with reduced occupancy, lots of vegetation and daily showers that's a bit inevitable at that time of year and certainly nothing a good airing wouldn't cure.
The hotel is on the continuation of Khunlumprapas Road as it exits town to the south so not as convenient as Baiyoke or Ngamta but a 10-minute walk brings you to the lake and town centre. There is a very heavy emphasis on decoration here with most being of the Lanna or Shan variety beginning with the elaborate tiered roof above the main entrance. This opens onto the reception with its varnished teak floor, murals and wall hangings beyond which a doorway leads into a central courtyard around which are two-storey room blocks.
The cute courtyard contains some mature trees draped with ferns and orchids and is separated from the room balconies by a series of shallow fish ponds. Scarlet painted garden furniture, some bright yellow walls and intricately carved wooden balustrades and balcony partitions create a bit of a visual onslaught but 10 out of 10 for effort. Behind the courtyard seating area is a kidney-shaped swimming pool, again surrounded by plenty of vegetation a lawn and a straw-roofed sala.
Room interiors are thankfully more restrained with just a couple of wall hangings breaking up the white walls and a mixture of cane and wood furniture on a dark parquet floor. The ground floor room we checked with pond and plants right outside did have that musty tinge though upper floor rooms are brighter and airier.
Rooms are well-appointed with cable TV, WiFi, tea and coffee and fridges and all come with hot water ensuite bathrooms and air-con. Deluxe versions are slightly larger and you get a bathtub as well for your extra 200 baht. There's an inclusive buffet breakfast so all things considered, if you don't mind a short walk to the town centre, the Mountain Inn is a fine deal.
This is the group tour address of choice in Mae Hong Son, so in high season book in advance and booking through an online agent should produce decent discounts as well.
Check rates at Mae Hong Son Mountain Inn and Resort on Booking.com.


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Consumers Anticipate Complicated Shopping Process in Obamacare Exchanges
Low Expectations Provide Exchanges with Opportunity for Higher Customer Satisfaction
Shopping online for health insurance is harder than many other types of e-commerce. Ultimately, a health plan is not so much a product as it is a legal contract with a maze of provisions and dependencies (not the least of which are covered medical services and the doctors who provide them). With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, millions of consumers will be expected to purchase a health plan for themselves and many of these consumers have not previously shopped for health insurance.
HealthPocket surveyed 998 people nationwide to uncover their expectations for shopping within the new government health insurance marketplaces known as exchanges. Specifically, HealthPocket asked, "Do you believe shopping for a new Obamacare health insurance plan within a government exchange will be an easy process?" 54% of respondents answered "No, I think it will be complicated." These pessimistic respondents outnumbered those people expecting the shopping process to be easy by 3-to-1. In fact, those who don't know what an exchange is (29%) also outnumbered those consumers who believe health insurance shopping on an exchange will be easy (17%).
The importance of simplicity and ease-of-use for exchanges was made abundantly clear to the government earlier this year when a preview of the exchanges' insurance application form was released. The insurance application design contained 21 pages, though the number of pages needing completion varied depending on the total household enrollees. With respect to the application's income questions alone, there were questions on multiple jobs, self-employment, and 10 different additional categories of income ranging from dividends to alimony. The resulting criticisms led to the release of a simplified version of the form.1 However, this shorter form, 3 pages for individuals and 11 pages for families, was released in May and, according to the results of the HealthPocket poll, has not resulted in the majority of people believing that the exchange shopping experience will be easy.
Exchanges are mindful of the challenges facing consumers in the health plan purchase process. They will be providing the option of in-person assistance from groups known as "navigators." Navigators will answer questions on subjects such as the insurance application and the exchange. However, these navigators are prohibited from recommending insurance choices to consumers.
Simplicity and ease-of-use is important for internet tools in general but especially for exchanges, which will be primarily an online experience. The Kaiser Family Foundation's research suggests that exchange enrollees will average lower education levels then those people who receive their health insurance through their employer.2 Additionally, Kaiser expects that one-out-of- four of the exchange enrollees speak a language other than English at home.3 An overly intricate shopping workflow or complex input descriptions within the process are likely to present problems to the exchange users. Both of these risks are inherent to exchanges inasmuch as they will require users to answer questions about taxes and dependents to determine subsidy eligibility. After the subsidy issue is settled, there will still be the matter of the available health plans, their costs, benefits, and provider networks.
While apprehensions about the exchanges' ease-of-use have no bearing on the actual usability of those web sites, these low usability expectations could prove to be an advantage for the new health insurance exchanges. Broad public satisfaction with the exchanges might be achieved if the online shopping experience even modestly exceeds the current low expectation level. If the exchanges faced high expectations for ease, on the contrary, there would be a greater opportunity for dissatisfaction.
However, should expectations for shopping difficulty be realized, exchanges may face several challenges. Notably, the number of consumers needing assistance may exceed the capacity of the recently-trained navigators. Many of these navigators will be new to the insurance industry and may take time to reach peak efficiency with consumer assistance. A second challenge, perhaps more important for the exchanges, is the risk of missing enrollment targets due to consumers abandoning a process they find too complex.
Results are based on 998 responses to a nationwide online survey conducted from August 22, 2013 to August 24, 2013. Respondents were asked "Do you believe shopping for a new Obamacare health insurance plan within a government exchange will be an easy process?" Respondents had the option of selecting one of the following answers: "Yes, I think it will be easy," "No, I think it will be complicated," and "I don't know what an exchange is." The answer options were displayed in randomized order. The survey was displayed within a network of over 100 different news web sites and other content sites. Demographic inferencing and methodology to acquire survey respondents who approximate national statistics on age, gender, income, and region was performed by Google-administered technology. Race, education, and health insurance status were not examined. Margin of error across survey responses is estimated at + 3.8/-3.8.
This survey analysis was completed by Kev Coleman, Head of Research & Data at HealthPocket.com. Correspondence regarding this study can be directed to Mr. Coleman at kevin.coleman@healthpocket.com.
Feedback and questions are welcome but, given the volume of email, personal responses may not be feasible.
1 Meghashyam Mali. "Officials cut application for ObamaCare benefits down to three pages" The Hill. April 30, 2013. http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/296851-report-white-house-cuts-obamacare-application-form-to-three-pages. Accessed August 27, 2013.
2 "A Profile of Health Insurance Exchange Enrollees." Kaiser Family Foundation. March 2011. http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/8147.pdf. Accessed August 27, 2013. p.3.
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Kev Coleman is the Head of Research & Data where he is the author of the HealthPocket InfoStat Reports. Mr. Coleman performs research across the healthcare market, leveraging emerging sources of data from government, nonprofit, and private sectors. Key areas of study for Mr. Coleman include healthcare consumerism and issues associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Mr. Coleman lives in New England and holds degrees from Eastern Nazarene College, Yale University, and Duke University. His professional career includes over a decade of executive work in consumer-facing healthcare and financial technology.
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Sounds like you're doing great, Alice, and have it firmly under control.
Bravo Alice! Like MLM said, keep on the good work.
Thanks guys :-) It feels good! It is great to deal with life's challenges without resorting to the cloud.
Another challenge. Today the power went off in a scheduled interruption and I went to my parents place to work over there. When I got home around 2.30 pm, I started to think that it would be nice to smoke, and started to justify this, until I realised that the electrician might call to come over and fix a couple of things and the house would smell funny.
So I did some more work and now it is nearly time for a glass of wine :-) It is another tactic from cigarette cessation, that if you distract and delay then you can forget about the craving after a while.
I did feel better today than I would have. Thoughts of the dreaded weed keep permeating my mind, at thend of a nice day, but now that I am on the forum, I feel like I need to be accountable, so I won't smoke! :-) It is good because I feel like I am letting down the team if I smoke. :-) It is a good reason to stay clean!
Well done for resisting the cravings!
Oddly enough, I'm on day 6 now and have had no cravings. Not even one!
Glad to see that rehab is going well for both of you! It's good not have cannabis cravings. Maybe this is why many people say that MJ is not addictive or not much addictive. Yes, some of us feel like sh*t when we quit, some don't. But what we come to crave with MJ is that dopamine rush which is our brain's way to reward a behavior meant to survive like eating or procreating.
So IMHO, the biggest danger for rehabbers like us, is not the craving but the feeling that we can deal with just one hit, one time and after that we're done, because we think that this one hit will not make us hooked again and give us cravings. But what happens is that we get this dopamine rush that is what we're really addicted to and our brain then tells us to go for that low hanging fruit because it is both low hanging and REALLY rewarding.
I know that you two understand this, but there may be anonymous readers that need to be aware of the dangers of confusing cannabis craving and dopamine rush craving. Because you don't crave MJ, doesn't mean you can control how you use it.
I hope I make sense. BTW, I'm 44 days (days are becoming harder to count) clean. In my case, the combination of quitting the cycle of MJ at night and coffee during the day, all of this replaced by medical supervision with ADHD meds, learning what ADHD is, how it affects me, my behavior, my self-image, proves to be my late life salvation. If only I had known, I would have been able to do co much more during my life. I still did very well, but many aspects were lacking. Now I am harnessing these aspects that I attributed to my personality while it was a lack of attention or a surplus of impulsivity. It changed my life for the better. For the first time of my life (and I am 47), I feel like an adult instead of an eternal teenager with adult responsbilities and adult jobs.
We're doing good! Experiencing normal life is good.
Congrats :-) It is good to hear that you are finding a new depth and richness to your life. You really deserve it :-) It must be a great feeling to have come so far and feel like an adult.
I think MJ might be more addictive for some people rather than others, but I think you are right, the temptation of the rush you can get can be what drives the junkie thinking sometimes!
I feel like such a fool. I smoked on the weekend. It was a nightmare! After I toked, I was not able to function socially at all, and it was excruciating to try and communicate or try and write and not be able to. It is not worth it! It feels like mind pollution and I am getting to the point where I never want to smoke again. Turn into a mong!


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Pianke ist ein Spielfilm der DEFA im Auftrag des Fernsehens der DDR von Gunter Friedrich aus dem Jahr 1983 nach dem Roman Pianke von Peter Abraham aus dem Jahr 1981.

Handlung
Zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bewegt sich auf einem Fluss ein Segelboot zwischen den kämpfenden Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und der sowjetischen Roten Armee. Als die deutschen Geschütze das Boot ins Visier nehmen, beginnen die Insassen das Volkslied Der Mai ist gekommen zu singen, worauf der Beschuss eingestellt wird. Nun wird die Geschichte erzählt, wie es zu dieser Situation kam, die etwa zwei Jahre vorher begann.

Herr Groß sitzt mit seinem Sohn Andreas im Luftschutzkeller seines Hauses. Nach der Entwarnung bekommt er von einem Luftschutzhelfer den Hinweis, dass vor seiner Wohnung zwei Polizisten in Zivil warten. Deshalb gehen die beiden nicht nach oben, sondern in eine Gartenlaube, die Andreas Vater bereits besorgt hatte. Auf dem Weg dorthin erklärt der Vater die Gründe des Ortswechsels, die politischer Natur sind und dass Andreas ab sofort Diethelm Krüger heißt. In der Kleingartenkolonie werden sie von dem neugierigen Blockwart Herms ausgehorcht, dem sich der Vater als Mitarbeiter Heinrich Hoffmanns, des Hausfotografen Adolf Hitlers ausgibt. Die Hoffnung des Jungen, ab nun nicht mehr zur Schule gehen zu müssen, erfüllt sich leider nicht. Der Lehrer verpasst ihm auch gleich einen neuen Spitznamen. Da er nicht sehr kräftig gebaut ist, nennt er ihn Pianke, was in der Mark der Ausdruck für Schwindelweizen ist.

Eines Nachts steht ein fremder Mann mit einem Judenstern in der Laube. Er konnte glaubwürdig versichern, dass er der Vorbesitzer des Grundstücks ist und nur ein paar versteckte Briefe von seiner verstorbenen Frau holen will. Elias Schmuckstein ist aber nicht bereit, sich von Piankes Vater helfen lassen, um unterzutauchen. Dafür kommt er aber bei einem nochmaligen Besuch mit einem rückdatierten Kaufvertrag für sein Segelboot vorbei, welches er für symbolische drei Mark verkauft. Dafür wäre er aber dankbar, wenn Vater (Groß)/Krüger das jüdische Mädchen Rachel aufnehmen würde. Das Mädchen steht auch schon vor der Tür, wird nun Irma genannt und ist ab sofort die Cousine Piankes. Nur zur Schule gehen kann sie nicht, da das Jiddisch in ihrer Aussprache eindeutig herauszuhören ist.

Bei den Dreien wird das Essen langsam knapp, denn Piankes Vater kann keine gefälschten Pässe mehr herstellen, da ihm bestimmte Materialien fehlen. Nach langen Überlegungen schickt er seinen Sohn zu dem Fotoladen einer Bekannten, um die Sachen zu besorgen. Fräulein Heumeier beschafft die Materialien noch am selben Tag, versucht aber den Aufenthaltsort Piankes herauszufinden. Grund dafür ist ein persönliches Interesse an seinem Vater, dessen Frau schon vor längerer Zeit verstorben ist. Mit einem Trick erfährt sie die Adresse, was Pianke sehr unangenehm ist, erst recht als er merkt, dass die junge Frau mit in der Laube wohnen wird.

Produktion
Pianke wurde auf ORWO-Color gedreht und hatte seine Erstausstrahlung am 9. Januar 1983 im 1. Programm des Fernsehens der DDR.

Drehorte waren u. a. in Berlin das ehemalige Haus der Technik und spätere Kunsthaus Tacheles in der Oranienburger Straße und der S-Bahnhof Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Pianke ist am 1. September 2017 auf DVD erschienen.

Kritik
Peter Hoff bemerkte im Neuen Deutschland über den Film, dass der Szenarist des Films und Autor des gleichnamigen Kinderbuches Peter Abraham eine aussagekräftige Fabel und ein in vielen Details beklemmendes Zeitbild gestaltete. Auch die wohlbedachte Filmdramaturgie Anne Goßens trug mit zur großen politischen und poetischen Kraft des Films bei.

Das Lexikon des internationalen Films stellt fest, dass der Fernsehfilm den Alltag im Deutschland des Dritten Reiches kindgemäß spannend darstellt.

Auszeichnungen
 1983: Kinderfilmfestival "Goldener Spatz" – Ehrenpreis der Jury des jungen Publikums für Spielfilm/Fernsehspiel
 1983: Kinderfilmfestival "Goldener Spatz" – Sonderpreis des Ministers für Volksbildung

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 Pianke im Onlinelexikon des Fernsehens der DDR

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Filmtitel 1983
DDR-Film
Fernsehfilm
Literaturverfilmung
Kinderfilm

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Rhipidomys venustus is een zoogdier uit de familie van de Cricetidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Thomas in 1900.

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Comics and Gaming
Five Must Play Video Games For Halloween
October 26, 2012	2	By Rodney Burrell
So, you want to scare the crap out of yourself in the absolute nerdiest way possible? Well, we've got the medicine. These are our five must play video games to ring in the creepy day of skulls, free candy, and slutty nurse outfits.
Amnesia, The Dark Descent
1. Amnesia, the Dark Descent (PC): Perhaps one of the scariest games of the year, heck maybe in the past few years.Why? Because you're completely set up for failure, much like it would be in real life if there was a zombie apocalypse.
The game doesn't provide you with adequate weapons, firebombs, or any other type of WMD that can kill 20 zombies at once.
Most times, all you can really do is run, hide and hope not get get your eyes turned into soup.
You're pretty much walking around in the dark with a spoon hoping not to get murdered. It's like you're playing a nightmare.
A truly creepy game. Hide yo wife, Hide yo kids, they eatin errbody up in here.
2. Limbo (360, PS3, PC): A quote saying that "Limbo is genius. Freaky, weird genius.Disturbing, uncomfortable
genius." kind of wraps up this very eerie, doomsday undertone. No music, no dialogue, no color… just a young boy, searching for clues to find his sister.
This mind-bending puzzle game was designed with failure in mind.
The developers created extremely gruesome death scenarios of the boy to steer player away from choosing incorrectly. Awesome strategy.
In my eloquent, yet vivacious choice of vocabulary, it's a complete mindfuck. You've been warned, now go try it out.
The Walking Dead (360, PS3, PC, iOS): There's no doubting that the success of The Walking Dead has spring boarded plenty of zombie inspired movies, games, and other crap.
However, there's a reason The Walking Dead is a historic franchise, because they can continue to produce award-winning material for their faithful fans. Just recently, The Walking Dead Magazine made it's debut at the New York Comic-Con.
The Walking Dead video game does not disappoint. Extremely engaging story lines with characters, a litany of interactions, choices, and repercussions as the game progresses. And of course, state-of-the-art zombies to keep you up at night. Insanely graphic kills, lots of blood and mayhem. Not a bad combo. A Must play for The Walking Dead purists out there.
Dead Space 2 (360, PC, Ps3):The Dead Space franchise offers a haunting journey with great action and a pretty
horror- filled good ol time with the Necromorphs (No mind, they're are only the flesh-eating aliens you'll be fighting). The game has been praised for it's well-played horror plot.
It's been described as one of the most grotesque, disturbing, and unsightly games ever.
Also, the most terrifying beginning 15 minutes on any game console. Well, all you need now is an extra pair of underwear and your thunderbuddy.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation
Painkiller Hell & Damnation (PC): Probably one of the most fitting titles for a Halloween scary game fest, and the gameplay pretty much follows suit.
You're "Heaven's Hitman", sent to destroy an army of demonic creatures.
Extremely fun and fast-paced. just keep shooting and they die, don't worry, your character has an arsenal of feel-good weaponry that would make Clint Eastwood and Ted Nugent jealous.
Tune in on October 31, when the game will be available for download.
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Tania Rodrigues says:
Great blog!! I write about video games on mine as well, feel free to check it out if you're interested 🙂 I also made a video game twitter today so you can follow it @allyoucangame , I love meeting fellow gamers.
flydrs says:
Can't wait for episode 5 of The Walking Dead! Totally agree, if you're a fan of TWD, do yourself a favor and download this game.
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Church teaching on contraception upholds human values
The people of ancient Sparta were known for their valor, virtue and devotion in the Greek Golden Age. When I was in high school seminary, I learned about the notion of arete as taught by the ancient Greeks. In its basic sense, arete means excellence of any kind. This notion of excellence was ultimately related to one's sense of fulfillment of purpose or function. Sometimes translated as "virtue," arete can also be understood in the sense of "being the best you can be," or "reaching your highest human potential."
Unfortunately, these noble people also had a dark side. The Spartan government was founded on the principle that the life of every individual, from the moment of birth, belonged absolutely to the state. In their quest for physical perfection among their citizens, the elders of Sparta inspected the newborn infants and ordered that the weak and unhealthy ones be left to die. By this practice Sparta hoped to ensure that only those who were physically fit would survive.
Why did the great civilization of classical Sparta disappear? One of the reasons was that Sparta suffered for years from what historians called oliganthropia, or having too few men. We should keep that in mind as western cultures in Europe and North America currently are not producing enough children to replace those who die. This fact is somewhat ironic in the face of popular misconceptions that the problem is overpopulation.
In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the continent largely due to a sharply falling birthrate. A 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists reported that birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. This number had a special mathematical significance. The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the "replacement rate" — the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country's current population level. Below that rate, a country's population would diminish to a point from which it would be nearly impossible to recover. Some countries, such as the United States, have been able to maintain population stability or even growth despite the low fertility rate because they have relatively high rates of immigration. But this can't last forever. Ultimately fertility rates will have to rise or population will begin to fall.
We ignore these trends at our own peril. The people of ancient Sparta, the classical Roman Empire, and Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs probably thought their civilizations would last forever. But recent trends of dissolution in our American culture our disturbing. A report issued last December said that more than half of the children born in the United States to women under the age of 30 were born out of wedlock. This is troubling because a civilization needs a strong family life to survive. This means families with a married mother and father.
The recent mandate from the federal Department of Health and Human Services that will require the inclusion of contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs to be covered in all health insurance programs has brought the Catholic Church's teaching about contraception to prominent attention. While the real issue involved in this mandate is government interference with religious liberty, this national attention to the subject of contraception provides us with a good opportunity to look more closely at what the church teaches about this and why.
The Catholic Church teaches that artificial contraception is wrong, but planning the size of one's family can be done with natural family planning. In his 1968 encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), Pope Paul VI wrote that "each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life. ... The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life — and this as a result of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman."
Pope Paul made four predictions about what would happen if the church's teaching on artificial contraception were ignored: infidelity and moral decline, lost respect for women, abuse of power by government authorities mandating contraception and sterilizations, and the misconception that men and women have unlimited dominion over their own bodies. Unfortunately, these predictions have all come true!
But Pope Paul VI also had some positive predictions as well. He acknowledged that spouses might have difficulty in acquiring the self-discipline necessary to practice the methods of family planning that require periodic abstinence. But he taught that self-discipline was possible, especially with the help of sacramental grace. He wrote that "the discipline which is proper to the purity of married couples, far from harming conjugal love, rather confers on it a higher human value. It demands continual effort yet, thanks to its beneficent influence, husband and wife fully develop their personalities, being enriched with spiritual values. Such discipline bestows upon family life fruits of serenity and peace; and facilitates the solution of other problems; it favors attention for one's partner, helps both parties to drive out selfishness, the enemy of true love, and deepens their sense of responsibility."
Lent is a time to turn our hearts to the Lord. It is time to embrace the church's teaching about the transmission of human life with greater fidelity. Our future depends on it.
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