8d very high toxicity at very low doses in test animals and potential carcinogenicity. The history of dioxin risk assessment is complicated and contentious (Thompson and Graham 1997). In 1985, EPA produced an initial assessment of the human health risks from environmental exposure to dioxin. Three years later, EPA, other federal agencies, and the scientific community began developing a broad research program to identify the biological response mechanisms and to explore other key scientific issues related to dioxin. In light odioxin toxicity, new studies of dioxin’ primarily after the 1985 assessment, EPA announced in 1991human exposure to TCDD and related compounds, that is, dioxins, other than TCDD, and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs). The reassessment would respond to emerging scientific knowledge of the biological, human health, and environmental effects of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs.
Assessment (NCEA) headed the reassessment efforts with participation of scientific experts in EPAfederal agencies and scientific experts in the private sector and academia. EPA sponsored open meetings in 1991 and 1992 to inform the public about the assessment, receive public comments on plans and activities of the reassessment process, and obtain additional relevant scientific information. Peer-review workshops were convened in 1992 and 1993 to review initial drafts of all background chapters. The workshops were followed by extensive revision and additional review of some chapters. In 1994, EPA released for public review all the chapters plus the first draft of a summary risk characterization chapter, received public comments on the drafts, and submitted the documents to the SAB for review.
In 1996, EPA initiated interaction with a group of 4gather input on approaches for conducting the risk characterization revision. EPA met regularly with the group to ensure ongoing input as recommended by the SAB and shared with them the initial post-SAB revision of the draft risk characterization.
EPA, with NIEHS, revised Chapter 8, developed a new Chapter 9 on TEFs, and revised the former Chapter 9 and renamed it as a free-standing report, “Part III—” The dioxin report consisted of two other parts: “Part I—Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds” and “Part II—All three parts are collectively referred to as the Reassessment.
On February 24, 1997, the Federal Register announced the public external peer review and 60-day comment period of the revised Chapter 8, “Dose-Response Modeling for 2,3,7,8-TCDD.” On June 12, 2000, the Federal Register announced a similar peer review and public comment period on the revised and the revised TEFs Chapter 9 in Part II.
working group on dioxin (IWG) in the summer of 2000 to ensure a coordinated federal approach to dioxin-related health, food, and environmental issues. Specifically, the IWG was charged with fostering information sharing, developing a common language for dioxin science and science policy across governmental agencies and programs, identifying gaps and needs in the dioxin risk assessment, and facilitating coordination of risk management strategies. The IWG includes and EPA.
In the winter of 2000, the SAB held a 3-day public review of Part III of the Reassessment and additional information on the toxic equivalence of dioxins, other than TCDD, and DLCs. In the spring of 2001, the SAB recommended that EPA proceed expeditiously to complete and release its report, taking appropriate note of the SAB’s findings and recommendations and public comments. In response, EPA revised its draft Reassessment and submitted it to the IWG in late 2003, requesting input about the need and benefit of further review. EPA appropriations language for fiscal year 2003 also called for an IWG evaluation of the need for further review and provided specific issues to consider. The IWG recommended review the draft Reassessment. The scope of work for the NRC review and interagency agreements for funding were developed through the IWG in the spring of 2004. Ultimately, the NRC review would seek to inform and assure the risk characterization of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs and to benefit EPA in finalizing its Reassessment.
FIGURE 1-1 Benzene ring (a) with conjugated bonds and (b) with inner ring depicting conjugated bonds.
FIGURE 1-2 Double benzene ring structures of (a) dioxins and (b) furans.
FIGURE 1-3 Biphenyl ring structure of PCBs.
FIGURE 1-4 Examples of toxic PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs of interest in the Reassessment.
chlorines in the lateral positions and one or no chlorines in the ortho position. Also, when a PCB has only one or no substitution in the ortho position, the atoms of the PCB congener can line up in a coplanar or flat configuration, making these the most toxic of the TCDD-like PCBs. Evaluation of the chemical congeners addressed in the Reassessment is considered sufficient to characterize environmental chlorinated dioxins (Reassessment, Part I, p. 1-5, lines 4 to 6).
Experimental evidence indicates that TCDD acts by way of binding to an intracellular protein, the aromatic hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), a ligand-dependent transcription factor that functions in partnership with a second protein, the AHR nuclear translocator protein (ARNT) to stimulate alterations in gene expression that result in toxic and biological effects. AHR is present throughout the animal kingdom, including invertebrates like the fruit fly and the clam. In addition to AHR binding, several other molecular events are necessary for AHR-dependent biological and toxic effects to occur, and there are significant species differences in those events, so quantitative cross-species comparisons based only on AHR binding may not provide accurate or dependable information about their AHR responsiveness or the possible AHR-dependent responses. The invertebrate AHR does not bind xenobiotic ligands (that is, TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs), and it is not associated with toxic end points, suggesting that the role of AHR as a mediator of toxic or adaptive responses might be a function acquired during vertebrate evolution and superimposed on an endogenous physiological role.
by its concentration, and the products (TEQs) are summed to yield the total TEQ of the mixture, which is the estimate of the total toxicity of the mixture.
In 1997, a team of experts convene evaluated a large database of experimental data of the relative potencies for PCDDs, PCDFs, and dioxin-like PCBs to establish consensus TEF values for these compounds in mammals, birds, and fish. Human and mammalian TEFs were constructed by an approach that gave more weight to in vivo toxicity data than to in vitro data. Moreover The team concluded that an additive TEF model served as the most feasible risk assessment method for complex mixtures of TCDD-like PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs. Although several TEF/TEQ schemes exist for TCDD-related compounds, the Reassessment recommends using the international WHO TEF scheme of values, proposed and published by WHO (IPCS 1998a), to assign toxic equivalency for the Reassessment. Table 1-1 presents WHO TEFs established for humans and mammals for 7 PCDDs, 10 PCDFs, and 12 dioxin-like PCBs. n 2005. For additional information on the TEF/TEQ approach, see Chapter 3 of the Reassessment, Part II.
Te 1987.. Part II, Chapter 9, of the Reassessment describes the application of the TEF method for TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs and addresses the uncertainties in detail. Over TEFs/TEQs are addressed in further detail in Chapter 3.
Abbreviations: PeCDD, pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; HxCDD, hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; HpCDD, heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; OCDD, octacPeCDF, pentachlorodibenzofuran; HxCDF, hexachlorodibenzofuran; HpCDF, heptachlorodibenzofuran; OCDF, octachlorodibenzofuran; TCB, tetrachlorobiphenyl; PeCB, pentachlorobiphenyl; HxCB, hexachlorobiphenyal; HpCB, heptachlorobiphenyl.
SOURCE: IPCS 1998a. Reprinted with permission; copyright 1998, World Health Organization.
forest fires and open burning of waste materials, and high-temperature processes (e.g., cement kiln operations). Combustion sources produce PCDDs, PCDFs, and limited amounts of PCBs (commercially manufactured in large quantities from about 1930 until 1977). Metallurgical operations (e.g., iron ore sintering, steel production, and scrap metal recovery) can produce PCDDs and PCDFs, which are also formed as by-products of chemical processing (e.g., manufacture of chlorine-bleached wood pulp and phenoxy herbicides). (combus) a In contrast, reservoir sources are not considered in the quantitative inventory of contemporary formation sources because they involve the recirculation of previously formed compounds that have already partitioned into air, water, soil, sediment, and biota. However, the Reassessment recognizes that the contribution of reservoir sources to human exposure may be significant, perhaps contributing half or more of total background TEQ exposure. For any given time period, releases from both contemporary formation sources and from reservoir sources determine the overall amount of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs released to the accessible environment.
sufficient data from sources that can emit TCDD and related compounds, such as land fires; unquantifiable or poorly quantifiable sources, such as agricultural burning; and the possibility of unknown sources. Additional observations in the Reassessment regarding sources are concerns about insufficient data or estimates from nonpoint sources (e.g., urban stormwater runoff and rural soil erosion) and the likelihood that total nonpoint-source releases are substantially larger than point-source releases. Evidence also indicates that current emissions of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs to the U.S. environment result principally from anthropogenic activities, as supported by correlations in the rise in environmental levels of these compounds and a period of rapid increase in industrial activities, lack of significant natural sources, and observations of higher body burdens in industrialized versus less industrialized countries. PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs share similar properties, including lipophilicity, hydrophobicity, and resistance to degradation. Ces. (For further discussion on chemical half-lives, see commentary (Part II, Volume 2, Chapter 2).
The Reassessment defines background exposure to TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs as exposure that would occur in an area without known point sources of the contaminants. Background exposure includes exposure via the commercial food supply, air, or soil but not any significant occupational exposure. Background exposure estimates are based on the monitoring of data from environmental sites and other media void of known contaminant sources and on pharmacokinetic models using body burden data from nonoccupationally exposed populations. High concentrations, measured in parts per trillion (ppt) and higher, are found in soil, sediments, and biota because of their recalcitrant nature and their physical-chemical properties. Low concentrations, measured in parts per quadrillion (ppq) and picograms per cubic meter (pg/m3), are found in water and air, respectively.
Estimates for background concentrations of DLCs in environmental media and in food are based on studies conducted at various locations in North America. The number of locations examined for environmental media estimates in those studies was small, and it is not known whether the estimates adequately reflect the full range of variation across the United States. Food estimates were derived from statistically based national surveys, nationwide sampling networks, food fat concentration measurements, samples collected from retail stores, and samples obtained from biohabitat.
media and food are presented in Table 1-2. Me 1990e 1950s through the 1970s contained.ationwide survey of dioxin concentrations in beef, pork, and poultry that should allow for a time-trend analysis.
The average PCDD, PCDF, and PCB tissue concentration for the general adult U.S. population in the late 1990s, based on EPA’s estimate, was 25 ppt TEQDFP-WHO ([DFP] dioxins, furans, and PCBs), lipid basis (Reassessment, Part III, p. 4-15). This estimate suggests average tissue concentrations have declined from the estimated 55 ppt in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Because new emissions of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs have been declining since the 1970s, it is reasonable to expect that concentrations in food, human diet, and, ultimately, human tissue have also declined during this time.
The Reassessment acknowledges that characterization of national background concentrations of TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs in tissue is uncertain because current data are not statistically representative of general populations. Also, tissue concentrations are a function of age and year of birth.
On a global scale, exposure to TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs resulting from accidental, occupational, or incidental exposure through dermal contact, inhalation, or ingestionIn the early 1900s, workers involved in distilling, processing, or producing chlorine-based chemicals presented with symptoms characteristic of those currently associated with TCDD poisoning, including severe cases of chloracne and various degrees of fatigue. Soil contaminated with TCDD at 300 ppb caused the 1983 2003 S. forces in Vietnam and the risk of developing chloracne, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and soft tissue sarcoma.
Some studies suggest that exposure of chemical workers to very high concentrations of TCDD, other dioxins, and/or PCBs (body burdens of 100-1,000 times background) Flesch- Janys et al. 1995; Hooiveld et al. 1998; Steenland et al. 1999). O TCDD, other dioxins, and PCBs can have reproductive and developmental effects (Eskenazi et al. 2000; Kogevinas 2001; Revich 2002; Vreugdenhill et al. 2002a; Pesatori et al. 2003).
In May 2004, EPA asked the NRC to review the revised draft reassess2003 version, publicly released in October 2004) and to assess whether EPA’s risk estimates are scientifically robust and whether th(see Box 1-1 for the complete statement of task). In response, the NRC formed thea panel of 18 members that included experts in exposure assessment; food exposure pathways; pharmacokineticsbenchmark dose modeling; dose-response modeling; molecular and cellular aspects of receptor-mediated responses; toxicology with specialties in cancer, reproduction, development, and immunology; epidemiology; reproductive physiology and medicine; pediatric biology and medicine; statistics; risk assessment (both qualitative and quantitative); and uncertainty analysis (see Appendix A for details).
aValues are the arithmetic mean TEQs, in ppt, and standard deviations. Nondetects were set to one-half the limit of detection, e xcept for soil, PCDDs, and PCDFs in vegetable fats for which nondetects were set to zero.
bA full list of references is found in Part I, Vol. 2, Chapter 3 of the Reassessment NAS review draft (December 2003).
cThe values for environmental media are means of the data but lack the spatial representativeness to be considered true national means.
dBased on data from Canadian air, as reported by Hoff et al. (1992). Not used in U.S. background exposure estimates in Part I, V ol. 2, Chapter 4eThe values for fish lack the statistical significance to be considered true means; the values of the other food groups were derived from statistically based surveys and can be considered true national means. The PCCD and PCDF concentrations are species-specific ingestion-weighted average values.
fStandard deviations could not be calculated because of limitations of the data (composite analyses).
gCongener-specific PCB data are sparse.
hTEQ calculated from Versar (1996) by setting nondetects to zero.
SOURCE: EPA 2003a.
wreassessment of the risks of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. To the extent possible, the review will focus on EPA’s modeling assumptions, including those associated with the dose-response curve and points of departure; dose ranges and associated likelihood estimates for identified human health outcomes; EPA’s quantitative uncertainty analysis;; and gaps in scientific knowledge. The study will also address the following aspects of the EPA reassessment: (1) ted by EPA through the use of this model. The committee will also provide scientific judgment regarding the usefulness of toxicity equivalence factors (TEFs) in the risk assessment of complex mixtures of dioxins and the uncertainties associated with the use of TEFs. The committee will also review the uncertainty associated with the reassessment’s approach regarding theta, and, therefore, human exposures, ’s report Dioxin and Dioxin-LThe committee will focus particularly on the risk characterization section of EPA’s reassessment report and will endeavor to make the uncertainties in such risk assessments more fully understood by decision makers. The committee will review the breadthrisk assessment decisions and numerical choices, for example,. The committee will also review quantitative uncertainty analyses, as feasible and appropriate. The committee will identify gaps in scientific knowledge that are critical to understanding dioxin reassessment.
hensive and thorough review of all TCDD-related materials published since 2003, reassessing TEF values, and re-creating the risk assessment were outside of the scope of the statement of task.
The present report is the product of the efforts of the entire NRC committee and underwent extensive, independent, external review overseen by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. It specifically addresses and is limited to the statement of task as agreed upon by the NRC and EPA.
proaches to dose metrics. Chapter 4 addresses exposure characterization in terms of sources, environmental fate, environmental media concentrations, food concentrations, background exposures, and potentially highly exposed populations. Chapter 5 reviews EPA’s assessment of the carcinogenicity of TCDD other TCDD, other dioxins, and DLCs, including the qualitative characterization of their carcinogenicity, the validity of the nonthreshold linear dose-response model, and the use of the animal bioassay and epidemiological data to quantify the dose response. Chapter 6 reviews EPA’s assessment of noncancer end points, including immune function, reproduction, and development. Chapter 7 focuses on risk characterization.succinctly addresses each component of the statement of task.


Undervaluing your brand can be a costly mistake
October 17, 2017 by Terry Murden Leave a Commentd
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In counterfeiters and others who transgress its products and services.
But do companies – even smaller, local firms – put enough value on their brand when it comes to selling up?
Brand managers at Tayburn in Edinburgh believe many owners and shareholders fail to fully factor in the name and reputation when pricing up their company.
Malcolm Stewart, joint managing director at the agency, says a lot of companies overlook what could be a prize asset.
“We see a lot of companies paying lip service to valuing their brand. It should be a priority action, not a nice to have,” he says.
According to BrandZ, an index of brands, those companies that focus on their public image outperform rivals that do not. These may be the titans of the global corporate world, but the same principles apply further down the food chain.
David Roth, a senior executive at advertising agency WPP, says: “This year’s BrandZ global top 100 superior shareholder value and returns regardless of disruptive external climates.”
Dubbed the ‘The Frightful Five’ by some, the tech giants that head the rankings –Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook – are more like the ‘Fearsome Five’ to their competitors, given their huge brand power and a seemingly unassailable market position, he says.
The total brand value of the Top 100 brands has risen 8% this year to $3.64 trillion, compared with a 3% rise in 2016, while the number of brands worth more than $100bn has increased from six to nine.
The BrandZ Top 10 in 2017 are worth almost as much as the entire Top 100 in 2006 ($1.42tn vs $1.44tn)
Of course it can all go badly wrong if a company suffers a crisis, often of its own making, which then impacts on the brand. Arthur Andersen imploded after the scandal at Enron, while BP was forced to spend billions recovering its image after the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Ryanair, described by one commentator as the pantomime villain of the airline industry, has taken a huge knock from its recent flight cancellations and the way it handled the compensation of passengers. It undermined the efforts of chief executive Michael O’Leary who promised in 2013 that the Irish airline would stop “unnecessarily pissing people off”.
Fortunately for the company, its erstwhile image as the butt of aviation jokes may have been in its favour when things went wrong. According to Emma Harris, former Eurostar marketing chief, Ryanair as a brand has never prided itself on being customer-centric.
“So unlike for example, BA or Eurostar, there’s no pedestal to fall from,” she says.
Tim Duffy, chairman of M&C Saatchi Group, agreed. “Compared with United Airlines dragging a blood-spattered, semi-conscious grandfather off an aircraft, this hardly registers on the brand damage meter,” he told Campaign magazine.
“Whilst O’Leary admits to ‘a litany of cock ups over the last 12 years’, this is not one of them. It is a deliberate measure to address the more significant reputational issue of punctuality. The brand will recover quickly as will the share price. Why? One. It’s not that big an issue.”
So what about the day-to-day valuation of a brand, particularly one that may be relatively scandal-free but finds itself in the shop window?
Tayburn directors Richard Simpson and Malcolm Stewart
Malcolm Stewart notes that there was spike in the value of Arm Holdings following a rebrand which came some time before the company was put up for sale. This, he says, shows the benefits of a branding exercise that recognises how much it can be worth, either in its ongoing stock valuation or when the time comes to sell.
“We did something with a Scottish company called Corgi Insurance. They invested heavily in the brand and in raising awareness and when it was sold they felt the new brand awareness had enhanced its value.”
Stewart believes the creative industry needs to do more to articulate brand value and prove that it makes a difference.
“There tends to be a greater focus on product packaging and analytics on volumes, while branding is seen as a longer term issue that can’t be measured,” he says.
The company did some branding work with Sure Thing, an insurer that spun out of Kwik-Fit Insurance.
“The owner’s investor told him to get the branding right, though he was a bit of a non-believer,” says Stewart. “But because the branding work proved positive for the company he came around.”
Tayburn is now working on a new “shared risk” strategy in which the company will consider taking a stake rather than fees and says this is beginning to take off with smaller companies.
Richard Simpson, co-managing director, says: “We hope to show that we will get an upside when it works.
“It means you are forming a bond with a client’s business.”
He say this shift in focus is becoming evident among angel investors and he’s even noticed it on Dragons’ Den, the television pitching show.
“They are certainly showing more interest in brand value, rather just focus on cost.”
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"I woke up; …I couldn't move, I couldn't talk...People were asking me questions. I could not ask any questions of my own. I wanted to know, what time is it?What day is it?…all I could do was blink."
Over the last couple of years I have had the unfortunate experience of helping a loved one through multiple hospital stays. These experiences have lead me to the question of, how do I create a space to optimize and inspire the body, mind, and emotional centers to heal and engage support and community?
Through interviews with ICU patients, nurses and doctors, a reoccurring theme clearly developed; fear, isolation and lack of communication. When a person is experiencing these emotions an optimal healing environment is not possible. What if we could create a healing space that could monitor a person's mood and general well being?
2007 Lucha Libre!


Foreigners continued to increase their purchases in Turkey for the seventh consecutive month. The data showed that property sales to international buyers increased by 24.4% year-on-year in November 2020, reaching 4,962 units.
Among foreigners, Iraqi nationals topped the list with 876 houses. They were followed by Iranians with 860 and Russians with 434 house sales.
During the period between August and November 2020, 19,382 properties were sold to foreigners, compared to 16,41 properties1%.


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Ian Lawther contributed the most goals in the 1960-1961 Football League Division 2 season, netting 23 (0.56 goals per game the Rokerites netted a total of 47 goals at Roker Park conceding 24 (23), away from home scoring 28 and conceding 36 (-8) with an away goalscoring average of 1.5 and an overall goalscoring average of 0.56 goals per game.


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Local town rescued by food
Hardwick, Vermont reinvigorates the local economy through sustainable agriculture
Hardwick is a picturesque Vermont town that sits in the shadow of Buffalo Mountain along winding Route 15. On a recent fall afternoon a cool breeze covered the town's main drag with leaves swiped from the branches of surrounding woodland. The early 20th century architecture along that main drag makes Hardwick look like the movie set for a tale of hearty New Englanders bracing for a harsh winter ahead.View Part 1 of the story hereView Part 2 of the story hereFact is Hardwick is a tough town. It always has been. At the start of the 20th century it was a granite town, producing the stone used in many of America's landmark buildings and monuments. When the granite industry collapsed, though, Hardwick found itself in dire straits.Dairy farms kept Hardwick afloat after granite tanked. Still, hard-spun Hardwick residents found themselves struggling with wages far below the state average and an unemployment rate far higher. The tough people facing a tough existence found themselves the material for statewide jokes about their home turf."I remember it being a pretty rough and tumble town," said Hardwick Select Board chair Eric Remick during a recent interview in the heart of Hardwick. "I mean Hardwick was a town that was the butt of jokes for the area. There were Hardwick jokes!"Over the last decade or so, though, those jokes have ceased. Things have been looking up in hardscrabble Hardwick."There was a concentrated effort by a number of companies to work together to sort of breakthrough and prove that a small food-based business could be viable in a local and a small community," said Andrew Meyer the founder of Hardwick-based Vermont Soy.Meyer, a onetime Senate and son of a Hardwick dairy farmer is a founding father of a Hardwick food revolution; a group of food-based businesses taking root here and reviving the local economy through unprecedented cooperation."There's tremendous momentum when good things happen," said Meyer as he stood outside his busy, barn-like headquarters in Hardwick.Meyer's Vermont Soy, High Mowing Organic Seeds, Jasper Hill Farm (cheese makers), Pete's Greens and a handful of other companies have teamed up in the rolling landscape surrounding Hardwick to create sustainable agriculture that supports and has fairly reinvigorated the local economy."What we want is meaningful work in the place that we love," said Jasper Hill Farm founder Andy Kehler as he stood outside the uniquely painted barn that is the symbol of his cheese-making operation. "I mean we've gone from milking 15 cows with just two people to building a company that employs 46 full-time employees."In tiny Hardwick, Kehler points out that impact is significant.Tom Furber, the general manager of High Mowing Organic Seeds has a similar passion for the work his company does and its role in the community."We want to change the world through seed," he said when we chatted in one of the many greenhouses on the Wolcott property that serves as High Mowing's base of operations. "We think people's lives depend on it."If these middle-aged revolutionaries sound idealistic, it's because they are. Still, their idealism is the foundation for remarkable success.
View Part 1 of the story here
Hardwick area businesses featured in Rescued by Food
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Jack Palance (1919-2006 natural causes) would star as Jack the Ripper in Fregonese’s first black and white movie since My Six Convicts entitled Man in the Attic (1953). Easily accessible because it is in the public domain, it’s a remake of the well-worn tale of The Lodger which had been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926 and director John Brahm (1893-1982) in 1944 with a memorable performance by Laird Cregar (1913-44 heart attack), who had used amphetamines to lose weight shortly before his death of a heart attack after making the movie.
It’s a sturdy script and you really can’t go wrong with Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) source novel but it is hardly a classic in terms of all the Jack the Ripper movies ever made.
The Raid is in colour, but not in widescreen, and tells of escaped Confederate prisoners led by Heflin who plan to rob and burn a Union town near the Canadian border.
It’s a small canvas, just like Apache Drums, but The Raid captures the hatred of each side for the other with some slight focus on a child played by Tommy Rettig (1941-96 heart failure) who idolises Heflin as a man who passes himself off in the town as a Northerner when really he’s “a dirty Reb”, something the boy discovers shortly before the planned attack.
There is tension to be had in the screenplay by Sydney Boehm (1908-90) who also wrote classic crime film The Big Heat (1953). Fregonese, working once more for Goldstein’s Panoramic Productions, which were distributed by 20th Century Fox, shortly before Goldstein’s sudden death, captures the small-town atmosphere. There is a High Noon countdown element, in a long-winded way, and the characters that litter the movie are men who are far from perfect on both sides of the conflict.
Heflin almost seems torn but there is no doubt he will go through with The Raid. The credits of the movie claim it is a true story and among the great cast are also Peter Graves (1926-2010 heart attack) and Lee Marvin (1924-87 heart attack in hospital).
Heflin is a terrorist who walks around with a carpet bag and The Raid would be one of the few movies about terrorists in the community, certainly one set in the 1860s.
“We were playing war,” says a twelve-year-old Rettig when he climbs through a window and nearly gets himself and a playmate shot by Heflin who is busy studying plans of his attack in his hotel bedroom.
The Raid shows the tension of being an apparent hero to both sides of a war, impossible that it is, with that role being thrust on Heflin after he commits murder in the town church which is central to the community to save the congregation. It is also the place where the clock counts down the time to the actual raid.
But he did make one more Goldstein production, this one released by United Artists after the producer’s death – Black Tuesday. It has Edward G. Robinson, perhaps rather improbably, escaping from death row as he is about to get the electric chair. He takes a fellow death row prisoner, played by Peter Graves, who has stashed a couple of hundred thousand dollars and didn’t give it up to the authorities even though they offered him another ten days of life before giving him the chair!
What is interesting about Fregonese’s departure from the Hollywood scene is that it more or less coincided with the approaching fall of the government of president Juan Peron (1895-1974) in Argentina in 1955. He was a nationalist leader once popular with the working class in the mid-40s. In fact, he was so popular that he was forced to resign from the government, by his opponents within the armed forces, back in 1945. Arrested fourhim thanks to the actress and politician Eva Duarte (1919-52 cervical cancer), soon to be Evita Peron and he was released.
Fregonese’s original Savage Pampas movie Pampa barbara was caught up in that original groundswell and was reportedly released on 9 October 1945 which was the day that Peron resigned. Its tale of working soldiers was possibly a success as a result. Fregonese didn’t flee Argentina under Peron, oppositely, he thrived. Evita Peron died in 1952 and Juan turned increasingly to Fascism before there was a military coup d’etat and he was ejected in 1955 to go and live in exile in Portugal and Spain.
Fregonese made three films in between 1973 and 1975 and the last was a nationalist film about the pioneer of Argentine aviation Jorge Newbery (1875-1914 injuries from plane crash).
The director made a film called The Wanderers (1956) which is an Italian film starring Peter Ustinov (1921-2004 heart failure). Shot in Sicily and set in the early 20th Century, it has recently been restored and enjoyed enthusiasm among Italian critics, despite in its day being promptly forgotten upon its initial release.
It is one of Fregonese’s first Cinemascope pictures and he proves he can fill a big screen just as well as he did a small one going all the way back to Apache Drums at the beginning of his Hollywood career.
He found work in Germany though doing The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) and Old Shatterhand (1964) which used various European locations such as Italy and Yugoslavia.
His use of the widescreen is masterful in the latter movie although I can’t find an English version and the script is not well regarded.
Fregonese would not work in Hollywood again.
I’ll end the article with the remake of Savage Pampas which was shot around 1965. For years I saw the English panned and scanned release on DVD which had about ten minutes shorn from its alleged full running time. I tracked down a widescreen release with beautiful colour but this ran for only 92 minutes – another ten minutes shorter. It looks great and what I liked originally in the faded panned and scanned prints looks incredible in its original form despite what must have been a rather low budget for this Spanish shot ‘epic’. The 112-minute version seems to be only a legend!
Randell is a great bad guy and Robert Taylor’s (1911-69 lung cancer) performance as the hero head soldier in the movie is probably the hardest and harshest of his later macho characterizations.  Yet he is still spry enough to combat hand to hand both at the beginning of the movie and the end.
Fregonese would write the script for the Garden of Evil (1954) remake Find a Place to Die (1968) but it is not half as good as Savage Pampas. It stars Jeffrey Hunter and I have watched it a number of times but it fails to grab me… Instead I must watch Savage Pampas again! Why? I don’t know!! The critics generally hate it.


Phas resumed work as new Parliament leadership under Jacob Oulanyah starts work.
Kampala, Uganda | URN | Indefinitely suspendedAriko Obore has returned to office – a day after the defeat of former Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.
Obore, who, on Monday 24th, May 2021 was seen on social media dancing to Kadaga’s defeat made a surprise return to parliament on Tuesday 25th, May 2021. He’s spent more than two years without being allowed to access his office.
As soon as he arrived in the Parliament lobby, Mr Obore was photographed by several journalists as he greeted some members of staff and MPs. Asked whether he had resumed work, Mr Obore said he had received a call to report to Parliament.
“All I can say is that I was called by the clerk to Parliament and handed the keys to the office,” Mr Obore said.
While in office, Parliament staff, former MPs and journalists came to meet him. When asked if he is back for work, Mr Obore said he will wait for guidance from the Clerk to Parliament. He was handed the key to his office which he majestically swung in his hands before opening his office doors which had been locked for quite a while.
Dressed in a bow tie synonymous to that of the newly elected Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, the former Daily Monitor journalist was allowed to his office just in time when the new Speaker was taking a tour around Parliament. Mr Oulanyah had a courtesy visit to the Directorate of Communication and Public Affairs which has been under Helen Kawesa during Obore’s absence.
Mr Oulanyah expressed shock on seeing Mr Obore, who has been on forced leave since 2019 when the Clerk to Parliament, Jane Kibirige notified him that the Inspectorate of Government had conducted investigations, which found his recruitment at Parliament irregular.
Although Mr Obore was recruited by the Parliament Commission led by the former Speaker Kadaga, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) found that hfor the job at the time of his recruitment. The applicants were required to hold a degree in media studies and a masters degree in a relevant field.
The applicant was also expecte which as a communication/public relations or information, protocol and public affairs department from a recognized institution or at the level of assistant commissioner in a government institution.
At the time of his recruitment, Mr Obore was ’s degree in mass communication from Islamic University in Uganda.
He completed a As a result of the investigations, the IGG directed the Clerk to Parliament to review Mr Obore’s employment.


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Nintendo Land was actually very fun, not going to lie. I enjoyed it much more than I ever expected to when I first got my hands on the Wii U. Why not make a much more ambitious sequel with online play and more depth to each mini-game?
Remember that controversial kickstarter for a spiritual successor back in the beginning years of the Wii U?
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The Wii was great in that regard...
I remember my Grandad coming over to my place, seeing my Wii and striking up a conversation about it - so, to demonstrate what it was all about, I just switched it on, handed him a Wii Remote, played a round of Ten-Pin Bowling with him - and he instantly 'got it' (..and we had a lot of fun in the process!
Unfortunately, there's nothing quite like that on Switch (that's actually good!
Basically, I'd like to see a nice, fun 'waggle' game. A game where I could show people that the Switch is like a Wii, a Game Boy and a PlayStation (the three consoles that everyone knows!) all rolled in to one!..1-2-Switch had potential - but I get the feeling that it'd probably turn more people off the Switch than attract them to it!
-An HD remaster of Kid Icarus: Uprising. A sequel would be great too!
Either release the trilogy, or make a new one!


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By Kwame Holmes | With thanks to NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Friday, May 4, 2013.
Though you couldn’t tell from the overwhelming media attention and, to paraphrase Mark Anthony Neal, a nation-wide collective backslapping, Jason Collins is not the world’s first black gay man. It is important to say this, because while Collins’ announcement fundamentally intervenes into the nation’s notion of who participates in men’s pro sports, we can not ignore that it matters immensely to a range of folks that the first openly gay professional athlete is black. Despite evidence that black voters support gay and lesbian rights, and have recently moved towards support for same-sex marriage, black communities continue to be pathologized as less accepting of gays and lesbians than other demographic groups.
African Americans’ overrepresentation within masculinist spaces like professional athletics seems to confirm this impression. When it comes to discourse around “black homophobia,” commentators rarely distinguish between the basketball court, hip hop, or simply “the block”–interchangeable sites which seem to repel not only the explicit infiltration of gay men, but a wide range of progressive liberalisms in which gay identity now comfortably resides. At the same time, there is reason to think critically about the excitement that surrounds Collins’ announcement (an excitement I share). While it may be a historic watershed in the nation’s understanding of black sexuality, or force a reconsideration of black masculinity, I also worry it reinforces an already class-stratified understanding of black sexualit
Let me be clear. I am not here to pillory Jason Collins. We know from decades of black feminist scholarship that, in deciding to tell the world he is black and gay, Collins is bravely volunteering to enter one of the nation’s oldest and most potent mine fields, the public consumption of black sexuality. In recent years black male same-sexuality has emerged alongside black single motherhood, as particularly implicated in the devastation and destruction of the African American community. The ongoing HIV-AIDS epidemic within African America has made black men who have sex with men (or MSM)--regardless of whether they self-consciously identify as gay, bisexual, “DL” or same gender loving (SGL)— as murderous carriers of disease. Anxiety around declining black marriage rates has added a new layers onto black Americans’ feelings about male homosexuality, which, alongside interracial marriage, marks some black men as eager to “jump ship” and betray their racial obligations to black women. In an age inflected by rhetorics of austerity, the anti-black racial project of mass incarceration only heightens concerns around black hetero scarcity. In turn, those concerns are bolstered by widespread belief that even the most masculine black men can succumb to same-sex activity, even romance, during their time behind bars. The stakes of the black community’s engagement with same-sex desire are, to put it mildly, quite high.
In a world where black masculinity seems always under attack, sports culture is one of a dwindling set of spaces where it seems not only ever-ascendant, but unbreakable in the face of declining black male employment and heightening black male disfranchisement. As Rod McCollum notes on Ebony.com, almost four-fifths of NBA players and two-thirds of NFL players are black. Jason Collins has punched a hole in the hermeneutically sealed heterosexuality of “the locker room.” An intervention that Chris Broussard and Larry Johnson’s unfortunate comments indicate was sorely needed. And yet, his announcement, almost immediately, repairs that gap by his seeming desire to signal himself as exceptional, both in terms of his class position and as an anomalous de-sexed gay man.
Forced to grapple with the complex, at times contradictory, history of the racialized politics of sexuality in the United States, Collins’ Sports Illustrated editorial takes refuge in the secure bunkers of class signification. At the very start of his essay Collins narrates that the first person he told about his sexual identity was his aunt, Teri L. Jackson, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Immediately, Collins signals to readers that trailblazing, economically successful black people have surrounded him throughout his life. Soon after, Collins references his gay uncle, who lived in the rarified, elite queer air of Harlem, and reminds readers of his matriculation at Stanford University. Collins casually mentions that the decision by his college roommate, Congressman Joe Kennedy, to march in a gay pride parade inspired him to start the process of coming out. Indeed, close to the beginning of Collins’ 12 hour takeover of traditional and social media,Clinton and Chelsea Clinton released statements or tweets congratulating him for his bravery; the later referring to Collins as “my friend.” If that doesn’t signal ones position among the elite, what else does?
As Collins narrates his journey to self-discovery, his middle-class origins enable him to more easily articulate “universal” concerns that align with the cultural longings of white middle-class life than would be possible for many of his heterosexual black team mates who hail from working-class backgrounds. Collins, of course, is who he is, and his relatively privileged background in no way detracts from the courageousness and historicity of his announcement. At the same time, his decision to become engaged to a woman is framed as the natural result of the pressures placed upon men of his social position. Nor was Collins forced from the closet by mannerisms perceived as feminine, or the natural intra-racial surveillances which operate in neighborhoods with limited private residential space; environmental realities which Marlon Ross notes make the metaphor of “coming out the closet” incommensurate with most working-class African American’s life experience. Rather, his narrative includes the trappings of bourgeois life: a lone pure bred German shepherd, an empty pool, a deserted mansion -- a series of concentric chokers, if you will, that signal the vast emptiness of his closeted existence, and yet simultaneously enfold him within media friendly material wealth.
Meanwhile, anyone hoping for salacious tales of Collins numerous affairs with fellow players, closeted celebrities or any living breathing man was left sorely disappointed. In a classic example of what historian Darlene Clark Hine first identified as a culture of “dissemblance” among middle class black women, Collins deploys what appears to be an excess of transparency—we are clued into a profound internal spiritual struggle—while keeping any manifestations of his same-sex desires glaringly opaque. Rather, Collins editorial suggests that rigid, masculine discipline of sports-culture so completely excises same-sex desire that he remained unselfconscious about himself before his 30s. Perhaps such a claim could stand, uncomplicated, a century ago. Then, black elites (like their white counterparts) in the Young Men Christian’s Association movement hoped that homosocial male sports cultures would uplift poor African Americans; redirecting male sexual energy towards more productive pursuits and civilizing them for their active participation in marriage and productive labor. Indeed, Collins ability to “fool” everyone, including his twin brother, by embodying the reserved, upstanding sportsman, is as much a classed performance as it is a gendered one. But in a world of Shawn Kemps and Kobe Bryants, the public is entirely aware that the regimentation of sports culture does not limit the sexual appetite of black male athletes. Quite the contrary, our eager and derisive consumption of black athletes and their multiple “baby’s mamas,” suggests that outlandish sexuality is expected of black male athletes.
In implying, whether intentionally or not, a preternatural ability to resist his desires, Collins implicitly reassures anxious team mates concerned that his eyes may have lingered upon their naked bodies in the shower or the locker room - as well as, of course, the team owners who will determine whether he plays ball next year. His apparent chastity also distances himself from his colleagues whose sexual exploits have integrated them into longstanding critiques of the failure and dysfunction of working class black family life. In an odd twist then, Collins decision to out himself as a desexualized gay man, positions him as significantly more “respectable” than black male athletes who have been “irresponsible” parents. If Charles Barkely demanded that we not see him as a role model, Jason Collins unapologetically asks that we do, and in doing so, he asks us to reconsider very little of our preconceived notions of proper forms of black male sexuality.
Once we view Jason Collins’ coming out narrative as a story of a maturing middle class identity—which culminates in the irrepressible desire for a monogamous commitment or “settling down” as he puts it--it becomes easier to understand his outing—and the auxiliary demand for universal adulation on the part of the media—as part of a well tread genre of black politics. As a number of historians have noted, Rosa Parks was by no means the first African American in Montgomery to resist Jim Crow on the city’s public bus system. Movement leaders decided that Claudette Colvin, a young Montgomery activist who placed her body on the line to oppose racial segregation in March of 1955, was an unsuitable symbol of racial progress because she had defiled that body through pre-marital sex and pregnancy. Though operating in an entirely different time and context, Jason Collins’ announcement does not merely hit the familiar beats of respectability politics, its historicity also relies upon a collective forgetting; this time of trailblazing black gay men from Bayard Rustin, to Joseph Beam, Crystal Labeijia and Essex Hemphill; an inadequate list at best. Yet those men, for a variety of reasons never could or wanted to embody the perfect storm of middle classness and sexual chastity performed by Jason Collins. Many of them chose to indulge in homosocial contact away from the only territory where such contact is historically and almost universally sanctioned, the sports arena. In that sense then, the historic import of Jason Collins announcement may be less a sea change towards sexual liberation for black people, and more a signal that now, certain black gay men can be assimilated into the trappings of liberal, middle class American life.
Kwame Holmesa. Next fall he will bey at work on a book manuscript Chocolate to Rainbow City: Branding “Black” and “Gay” in Washington, D.C. 1957-1983. He can be reached at kwame.holmes@gmail.com or follow him on twitter @KwameHolmes.


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As the Principal of Saint Joseph School in Bronxville, on behalf of our entire School and Parish CGirardot and Nolan-Holdman Families on the loss of this incredibly beautiful and awesome young woman. We will always hold Reilly dear to our hearts and ask her to intercede for us with Jesus and Mary.
I’m so sorry to hear about Reilly. I have such wonderful memories of Reilly and Emily playing together when we lived beside you on Traymore. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
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So sorry to hear about your sweet Reilly. Prayers for all of you.
Reilly was always such a wonderful soul. An incredible girl to talk to always. She truly made an impact on me during all of our conversations at JCU, rest peacefully.
I am so sorry to hear that the ever effervescent Reilly has passed away. Your daughter had an amazing spirit that lit up not only the rooms she entered but the many people she touched with her joy of life.
antics, and hear her voice as she delivered her funny lines through the loss of your beloved daughter, sister, and friend.
I am SO incredibly saddened to learn of the loss of your beloved daughter. I fondly remember you sharing various stories of her as she was growing up over the years...and pray that you can cherish those memories of happier days, especially now during this great time of sadness.
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The Memories of Valērija Sieceniece
Sieceniece, Valērija; the daughter of Pēteris; born in 1905; lived in Riga, Margrietas iela 16-3; deported on June 14, 1941, to Novosibirsk province, Parabel region; released on May 29, 1956. Archive File Nr. 17775.
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Well, and as would be expected, there came a knock on the door during the night on June 13-14. And in came Treijs, who was in charge of this whole thing, and someone who had just been released from prison, most likely some political prisoner, and some other people. And they read a memorandum to us, that we have to now leave Latvian territory, depart. They comforted us, saying, “You’ll all be able to work in your speciality there.”
Well, I was very worried, and I wondered how my mother would handle it. And so I placed a call to “Āvas” – that’s what the farm was called – but the phone didn’t work. Then my husband asked for permission to call his mother. I guess that made Treijs feel uncomfortable, and he allowed the call. Mrs. Siecenieks came over; she came over with her grandson Marģers. And we started packing, and you know, I was confused, especially when they said that it’ll be like this or that, that we’ll work in our specialties. And instinctively I packed as I usually packed when getting ready for a trip abroad. So you can imagine what was in the suitcases, right?
Māra Zirnīte: Well, what was in them?
Valērija Sieceniece: Well, there were elegant dresses, elegant shoes, everything corresponding to what I was like then … But then Treijs took pity on us and told us, and then I more or less understood everything.
“Well, that won’t do it. You need to take along bedding, winter clothing, warm clothing, and so on.” And then I took one large bed sheet and began to throw everything into it – even ski boots, ski jackets and warm underwear and blankets and, well, everything. And I tied it all up. There must have been two large bundles. Well, and then they… Well, Mrs. Siecenieks, of course, was crying… They called out a truck, a big truck, because all of that would not fit into a regular car. And I remember that my mother-in-law was holding out her hands and calling, “Sasha! Sasha!” She never saw him again.
We went down the stairs, and I saw – when we had gotten down to the street – that both Professor Gartjē [Vai viņš bija latvietis vai sveštautietis? Ja sveštautietis, tad angļu tekstā vajadzētu viņa uzvārdu rakstīt oriģinālvalodā, piemēram, Gartier, ja viņš bija francūzis.] and his wife were standing – he lived in the first floor apartment – standing by the window and waving to us. We got into the truck, and all of our bundles were put in there as well. First we were taken to the Torņakalns train station, and afterwards it turned out, whether the train was there, or whether it was already full, or what. And along the way we saw many more trucks like ours.
Near the bridge across the Daugava my husband said, “Well, take a last look at Riga.”
And I said spontaneously, “No! This won’t be the last time; I will return!” I returned, but he didn’t return.
Our end station was in Novosibirsk. There we were all made to take our belongings and get off the train. I climbed out – as mother told me later – because I didn’t have any other kind of clothing, in an elegant suit, an elegant hat from Paris and snake-skin shoes. Well, that’s all I was able to wear, that’s all I had. And I was standing there by my things, and all of a sudden Spilva runs up to me and says, “Vallij, your mother is here!”
Well, I dropped everything and ran as fast as I could, and noticed a small, pale woman. Well, we fell into each other and hugged, and then I got this real drive and energy to live, because for a while there in the train I wasn’t even eating anymore. I wasn’t eating anything; I didn’t want to live anymore. And then there was that man from the Jewish family, who had noticed that I was not eating and began to talk with me. And he began to convince me. And that helped me. And then I began to eat again. But then came the next problem – we were each in a different train car, and they grouped us together by train cars. So… we might be separated again. Well… then I…my advantage was that I could speak Russian perfectly, because I had graduated from a Russian school, and I saw right away who was in charge there. I went up to him and said, “Look, this is the situation: I don’t want to be separated from my mother – how shall we arrange this?”
[..] We got off in a village called Kuchi in Parabel region. That’s where we had to get out. The locals had gathered along the river’s edge. Well, the sight was just too pathetic. They were dressed so poorly, everybody in shabby clothing. You can imagine – there were no definite, bright colours. Emaciated. Children with bare feet and bloated stomachs, with big eyes in their little heads, dressed in mother’s or father’s jacket, also came running. And everyone looked at these people with great wonder. It was planned… And you know who they were? They were people who had lived there for 15 years already, the so-called kulaks from the Altai. They were taken there and left in the taiga, and made to dig holes for dugout buildings, and to cover them with the…well, with pine branches. They had to spend the winter there, and not everyone survived. The government gave a small allowance to those who did survive, so that they could buy a cow. And, of course, they had to build their own houses. They were log houses with moss stuffed between the logs, very primitive. There were no bricks, so for a chimney they used a cast iron pot with no bottom. Well, the locals… But the locals expressed a wish to… They felt sorry for us; they saw who we were. And they thought that we would perish out there. They offered to take us in, in their houses. It could very well be that there was a certain reason that we came with suitcases and all of our belongings. They could choose. We – mother and I – were chosen by a woman with poor… Later she told us why she had chosen us, she said that it was because she had two rooms – in the first room was the big stove, and then a second room. And because she had six children of her own, she couldn’t take a family with a child, and so she chose both of us. Mrs. Raudseps and the old lady and little Maija were chosen by a local villager who also lived in a small house …
NMV 75: VALĒRIJA SIECENIECE, born 1905.
Interviewed in Riga, Latvia, on June 6, 1993.
Interviewed by Māra Zirnīte and Vilis Zirnītis.
Transcribed by Ieva Darviņa.
Edited and prepared for publication by Māra Zirnīte and Ieva Garda.


GAME BYTES: Rebel against homogeneity
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During E3 I had the chance to speak with a lot of game creators, almost all of whom were the curators of some new violent experience. I played some of these, like "Battlefield 4" and "Wolfenstein: The New Order," and watched developers play others, like "The Evil Within" and "Titanfall." All of those are "next-gen" titles, and all of theme seemed pretty much like the types of games we've all been playing for the past seven years, just with slightly better visuals. There was one game I saw — to qualify, I only had time to see what I was writing about, and thus missed most of what was at the show — that was different, something called "Murdered: Soul Suspect" from Square Enix. This game, about a ghost detective, was announced in the lead up to the show, but it doesn't feel as if it made a lot of waves, at least from my perspective.But I had the chance to sit down with the man behind that game, Yosuke Shiokawa, for a whole hour — more than twice as long as any other one-on-one session I had at E3 – and he said some pretty compelling things to say.For one, he had the same thoughts I did about the nature of the next generation of games being shown, and he was pretty annoyed by it. He told me a new generation should bring new experiences, not the same experiences we already have and that his goal with "Murdered," a game that will be released on current-gen systems and the PC after the next generation begins, was to create a big-budget experience that is not like other big-budget experiences. I can't speak to the quality of what he's building because they did not allow us to try it out, but I like where his head is. Beyond just trying to provide a different game, though, the development process for "Murdered" was unusual, with Shiokawa mapping out the story before designing gameplay that he says fits the story. "Story is more important than gameplay," he said. Music to my ears.We are an industry dominated by "fun," and I'm tired of it. Are we making art or not? If we are, then fun really isn't a big deal. I'm honestly more concerned with intellectual stimulation than fun. Yeah, fun games should exist, just as fun movies and books should. On the other hand, nobody ever complained that "Schindler's List" wasn't fun. But, you know, gamers don't know what they really want. Games are art, we scream. But they must be fun! It's just a game, so don't take it too seriously, even though it's art! This schtick is getting old.But there are folks doing something about this, mostly in the indie space, but occasionally in AAA as well, like Shiokawa. On the other hand, "art game" hero David Cage might be succumbing to action influences on October's "Beyond," or at least that's what I fear based on the demo that Sony had in its booth last week.The moral of this story? Buy a copy of "Murdered" when it comes out. It may end up not being very good, but you gotta take a stand somewhere, and being pro-variety is a good stand to make, I think..


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By the mid 1200s Florence was growing and with it, the community’s
Fast forward 50 years, after the ravages of time and fire, during which the loggia, including the column and its sacred image, was destroyed, the need to rebuild could no longer be avoided. It was also clear that, with Florence’s rising power and population, its grain — vital food source — needed greater protection. Thus, in 1337, the loggia was ordered reconstructed, this time with with plans for two additional floors above it, to store the grain securely within the confines of the walls of the city. It is this loggia of 1337 which was eventually enclosed and incorporated into the interior of today’s Orsanmichele church.
Florentine financial ingenuity allowed for the construction of the new structure — the market, granary and a replacement Madonna, without the use of any public monies. How? “By allocating one pillar of the new loggia to each of the city’s 21 guilds, thus giving rise to one of the world’s first acts of corporate sponsorship,” writes Maurizio Arfaioli for The Florentine.
Using guild funds (or possibly votive offerings received during the time of the plage, as one source notes) to replace the Madonna image, leaders commissioned Bernardo Daddi , who trained under Giotto, to create a new painting. This prompted a classic case of one thing leading to another, Renaissance style.
Once finished, Daddi’s Madonna was regarded as so beautiful that simply installing it on the wall just wouldn’t do. A second commission was issued to one of the city’s leading architects, Andrea di Cione (known as Orcagna, or Archangel), to create a tabernacle in which to frame the painting. Orcagna took ten years to complete his elaborate, gothic structure.’church’s stone interior. It’s a little tricky to see, but look on the bottom of the left pillar in the foreground below, and you’ll see the small rectangular opening of the chute. Look for them the next time you’re in Florence, and take a moment to meditate at the tabernacle, still situated proudly inside Orsanmichele,
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History Highlight: Orsanmichele Hosts the Medici Fall From Gl’s(the Butchers’ i’s rival, ’er’e’  Florence’s beloved Orsanmichele. From garden to granary to church, and the “most Florentine monument in Florence.”
“Orsanmichele is the most Florentine monument in Florence. Palazzo Vecchio is a public palace, as many other cities also have. Santa Maria del Fiore is a cathedral, as all other cities have. But Orsanmichele is only in Florence. Only in Florence could a monument like this be born that was half church and half granary; that served to religious and civil life; that exalted faith and work…”
— Piero Bargellini, Mayor of Florence 1966-67
Thank you for this wonderful post. I remember very vividly strolling down the via and wandering into that beautiful church. I’m hoping we can return someday soon.
Oh I hope you can too, Angela! Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed the post!)


If you’re not sure whether the answer is yes or no, read on to learn how to become someone who loves their life completely. It’s not so complicated and you’ll be much happier.
Happiness is often found with other people. We generally find it with the help of others. This is why, if you’re going to be someone who loves their life, you need to show kindness and help people who need support.
One of the main reasons for unhappiness is constantly criticizingDon’t fall into this trap. Although you might feel better in the beginning, as time goes on, you will just need to do it again…and it doesn’t solve anything.
The good news is that it’s not impossible. It just requires a little hard work.


wii. Man, I am really deperate to lay my hands around wii. Looks like I have to wait for some more years now. 🙁
Wii sucks. The best for gaming continues beeing a last generation computer 😀
Nintendo has no reason to lower the price until the 360 and PS3 do their price cuts.
I have been trying to get my hands on one for my son for months. Unfortunately, they still cannot be found anywhere.
It’s just a simple supply/demand scenario created by Nintendo that will allow them to maintain their higher pricing for some time to come…
I’ve written a couple of posts on my blog about the cheapness of these consoles, particularly the Wii – when you can find one! I’ve only just started seeing them in stock in shops.
I am very tempted to get one now though, I’m not a hard-core gamer, so some of the Wii’s innovative features do appeal to me!
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Are you joking? Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Kart, Zelda, Pro Evolution Soccer, NFL, Super Smash Bros… do I need to go on? I hate it when people say – the Wii sucks – when they have never even played it!
Snes is so much better that this new Wii console! Games are too stupid and similar.
Well, i was going to say… if you hadn’t gotten a Wii, i really would have suggested it…. but, i saw at the end of the article that you did get a Wii… I hope you are enjoying it!
I feel you man, I tried to get one a couple weeks back and it was absolutely impossible. It really plays to Ninentdos advantage to keep them out of stock, the less people have them the more demand there, and therefore hype there is for the wii which leads to greater sales in the long run. Oh well…
I bought a Wii some weeks ago and I really enjoy it. It’s a totally unique experience.
Well, I have to recognize I had already played with my friends’… but it’s different when you have your own Wii, isn’t it? A totally new experience!
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Hey could you make more stories about ty parsec?
Awesome. Love it!I am a Ty fan as well, wish he was in more episodes!
P.S. I'm not sure if you've seen it or signed up on it yet, but there's a great BLoSC forum at this address: .com Feel free to sign up if you haven't already. We'd love to have you (and you'll find plenty of Ty fans there!
As a fellow Ty fan, I totally agree with you 110%. Ty needs some lovin' around here!But getting onto the actual story before I fangirl myself out...
Oh, I almost forgot to mention, I loved how you included random bits of information on Ty, giving him more background info. That is awesome. How did you come up with some of the background information, out of curiosity?
There were also a few plot points I'm not quite sure about. Did his partner, Blayne Luna, ever team up with him again after Ty got the bracelets on?
Also, I do see how the Heed managed to fool Star Command into thinking that Zurg was behind something sinister, but to me...
Overall, though, this was an awesome read on our lovable Space Ranger, and very creative and imaginative on the possibility of Ty's newfound power. Again, there were some plot points that could be improved, but this story truly made Ty shine like a Space Ranger. Keep up the excellent writing!
I love Ty and I love the development throughout the chapters!
Wowey!I can't wait for the next chapter. It should be exciting!Go, Ty, go!I wonder how you'll pull it off. I'm sure it'll be awesome. I must admit, though, I am a little concerned how it'll be pulled off, seeing how there are only a few chapters left. But I think it'll work out. I can't wait for the rest of the story!Go, Ty, go!
Things are about to get really good!Great chapter. Go Ty!
I'm getting a little concerned, though. You've been building up all this suspense about Ty's condition and now there's a real chance trying to wrap everything up in two to three more chapters could cause all that suspense to just fall flat. Are you planning a sequel for this?


To achieve this feat, the central bank introduced some measures that included the creation of intervention funds like Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS). Thboost the agricultural sector by 400% growth from 2011 to 2021.
This is anboost the development rate of agric businesses in the agricultural sector. Their agricultural loan facility is open to medium or large scale commercial farms, limited liability companies in the agriculture production process and state governments (for lending to subsistence farmers). With 9% as its interest rate, this fund is open until 2025.
This is an agriculture funding initiative by the Federal Government and the CBN. Also, the Bankers Committee actively supports this scheme. Established to encourage farmers in the agricultural sector, the ACSS curbs inflation of agrarian produce reduces the cost of production and also helps to diversify Nigeria’s revenue base. The ACSS loans have an interest rate of 8% (6% if you pay earlier) and you can access it through the respective state chapters of Farmers association or directly from banks if you are a large scale farmer.
This initiative, managed by the Central Bank provides guarantee (about 75%) for loans extended to farmers from commercial banks. The ACGSF offers some products which include Interest DrawBack, the Self-Help Group Linkage Banking and the Trust Fund Model. Interest DrawBack subsidies interest rates. Self-Help Group Linkage Banking encourages group savings and loans, and the Trust Fund Model complement farmers security for loans.


Speaking of his former habits, he said: "13 planets. I decided to bring down my [carbon] footprint to five, which is the global average."
"I don't think it is the right thing to go through life carelessly and selfishly," said Mr al Awadhi. "Of course with the car I can be there [at work] a lot quicker but I asked myself, 'At what cost does this come?' There is going to be an impact for everything you do in life."
Mr Iyer said opting for public transport saved time and stress. "Driving is a waste of time," he said. "When our company office was in Deira, everyone would spend 45 minutes…looking for parking. On the metro I can read a book or talk to friends."


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**THE WORLDWAR SAGA**
 _Worldwar: Tilting the Balance_
 _Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance_
**THE VIDESSOS CYCLE**
 _The Misplaced Legion_
**THE TALE OF KRISPOS**
 _Krispos of Videssos_
**THE TIME OF TROUBLES SERIES**
 _The Stolen Throne_
 _Hammer and Anvil_
 _The Thousand Cities_
 _Videssos Besieged_
 _Departures_
 _How Few Remain_
**THE GREAT WAR**
 _The Great War: American Front_
**AMERICAN EMPIRE**
 _American Empire: The Center_
_Cannot Hold_
 _American Empire: The Victorious_
**SETTLING ACCOUNTS**
 _Settling Accounts: Return_
_Engagement_
 _Settling Accounts: The Grapple_
 _Settling Accounts: In at the Death_
_Every Inch a King_
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_"¡Viva_ Sanjurjo!" the general's men shouted. _"¡Viva España!"_
Sanjurjo preened...as well as a short, heavyset man in his sixties could preen. "Now I know my flag is waving over Spain," he boomed like a courting grouse. "When I hear the Royal March again, I will be ready to die!"
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TOP 15 Favorite Comic Book / Superhero Movies!! Updated 2012 list!!
So where does Joss Whedon’s AVENGERS rank on the list of best comic-based movies?
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I also watched three other trailers:
Let us be blunt and unsubtle, since that is in a nutshell what KICK-ASS, The Movie, wallows in.
Woah, tell me how you really feel.
I’ve never had to go back and retweak a review. But my first viewing of KICK-ASS, I immensely disliked one particular part of the film, one character’s story arc (and I still dislike it), and it strongly colored my whole perception of the film.
So that’s my revised review, because I felt my original review (below) while I still stand behind all the problems I had with the film, there’s a lot of great things that went into this film as well that deserved a bit of praise.
Having just finished the DVD (not having read the Graphic Novel first) I’m unusually divided on the film. I’m glad I didn’t pay to see this in the movie, or buy the DVD, but the film isn’t a simple one to dismiss or enjoy.
Not everything that comes into our heads, should come out our mouths, or worse yet a young actress’ mouth.
And you have to put that weight on the screen-writers of Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman.
I think he’s a talented writer. Starting out in main-stream comics as Hardy to Grant Morrison’s Laurel, he has written a couple things I am quite enamored of. He’s written more things that I am not a fan of.
I think it comes down to Millar is somewhat, or wants to be, the Takashi Miike of comics; absurdest and shocking for shocking’s sake. But that is when Miike, as I have stated before, in films like DOA or FUDOH is at his weakest and most boring, in films where he surrenders to the lowest common denominator in himself, when he eschews all limitations, and fills the screen with violence, body fluids, and excrement.
And that’s because limitations aren’t the end of art, in many ways they are the engine of it. Roberto Rodriguez’s best film by a long way, is still his first, where his lack of budget necessitated the story be there, and that the story move.
But Millar’s tendency of late has been toward the extreme for extreme’s sake and I find that incredibly lazy and boring in a book or a film. And watching KICK-ASS, that’s what I was thinking: Here’s a movie that is too true to Millar’s sensationalism, and that’s why it has no heart.
And the ‘hero’ seems to take Hit Girl’s and Big Daddy’s Mass Murder in stride a little too easily. So ultimately on a moral scale, and what is a film about Super-heroes but a morality play writ large?, I just had real issues with the film. The film walked a relatively serious line, too serious to give it any personality as a dark satire/comedy.
So I came here to review the film. But thought it was necessary to also review the source material, the comic series, and see what the two medium’s shared, and how they differed, and where the movie went wrong.
In the graphic novel, Mark Millar offers subtle and human, in-between the violence. Restraint and humanity. When Millar mixes these elements in his writing he’s great, when he loses these touchstones, in pursuit of the cheap shock, or cheaper violence, he bores me and loses me as a reader (As in his WANTED graphic novel). Thankfully and surprisingly, KICK-ASS is Millar talking to us, rather than at us… and it is for the most part effective.
KICK-ASS Graphic Novel B-.


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Hoping to align with an institutional equity partner that can help expand its mission, the Jupiter-based company rolled out a joint venture offering in February with the intent of putting $300 million in equity to work over a three-year investment horizon. "We are one of the only health care real estate developers in the country that is not aligned with institutional capital on a programmatic basis, so we definitely feel like we will be the belle of the ball," explains chairman and CEO Richard Rendina. "We are also planning to do our first Friends & Family General Partner Equity Fund to the tune of $15 to $20 million."
Bruce had plans to sell the entire portfolio and its property management division the summer before he passed, but Richard recalls, "Dad gave us a choice of whether we wanted to take it over or sell it. We told him we wanted to carry on his legacy." The siblings had to quickly find their footing. "Dad had big shoes to fill."
Richard, who was just appointed to, says a good number of his 60 co-workers are not just writing checks—they're volunteering time: "We always look to hire people who want to be a part of something bigger."
The brothers have had a lot to contend with as they have developed more than 2 million square feet nationwide, including the new 73,000-square-foot Cleveland Clinic Coral Springs Family Health Center: "It's a one-stop shop," Richard says of the $53 million joint venture. "Patients can see their primary care physician and specialists, have a surgery in the same place and their followup care. It's Cleveland Clinic's first and only outpatient facility with a third-party developer."
"We're fortunate to be in a business that makes people's lives better. Our clients and tenants provide access to high quality health care," Richard says. "Being a cancer survivor myself and after losing my father to cancer, it was a reminder of the real magic behind the walls of the buildings our company develops."
Fantastic philanthropy work!What a great family!
Was with their father Bruce when he broke ground on his very first building at St. Mary's hospital…And worked with Bruce for 10 years in the 1990s…So wonderful to see how these young boys at the time have grown into such wonderful businessmen and thoughtful young men…Their Dad would be proud…


Mehgan first appeared on 50 Cent’s The Money and the Power in 2008. Then she got on Bad Girls Club back in 2012 where her antics made her famous; she was kicked off the show for furiously fighting with the housemates.
Then she was on Basketball Wives L.A. in 2015 that showcased her volatile relationship with Kendrick Brown. She claimed that she recently finished filming an upcoming season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars with her ex.
But there are a lot of differing opinions on her relationship with Rob Kardashian. Clearly, Rob isn’t quite over Blac Chyna; they keep hooking up and breaking up six months after she moved out. And his family may not like this chick in his life. One Kardashian source said, “Mehgan is trouble, and that’s the last thing Rob needs in his life right now.”
Yet another insider came to Mehgan’s defense, saying, “It’s fairly new. She’s matured and will be a good fixture in Rob’s life should this continue.”
Do you think that Rob should try and make-up with Blac Chyna or should he try out this new thing with Mehgan? Or should he dump them both and find a different woman?