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NASA is exploring a plan that could see a drone-like quadcopter buzz above the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan, scientists say. The Dragonfly project would take advantage of Titan's dense, calm atmosphere to fly from site to site as it measures and analyses the massive moon's chemistry, geology, and potential for life. "There Is something very 'simple' about having a little drone flying around Titan," said Catherine Neish, a professor at University of Western Ontario in Canada.
"It's clever in a way that people were not expecting and, I think, it is audacious and exciting - and realistic," said Neish, part of a team led by Elizabeth Turtle at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in the US. Turtle's proposal for a rotorcraft to investigate Titan was recently selected by NASA as one of two finalists for the US space agency's next New Frontiers mission, the researchers said.
The craft is modeled after drones on Earth, and would have four pairs of stacked rotors that would enable it to zip across Titan geography that has intrigued and mystified scientists for decades. Unlike conventional, slow-moving rovers on Mars, Dragonfly would be able to explore across hundreds of kilometers, researchers said. It will scout for geologic points of interest and take valuable measurements of surface, sub-surface and atmospheric conditions, they said.
The team said Dragonfly would be about two meters long, with multiple rotors that enable good control of the vehicle and built-in mechanical redundancies. For many years, people thought to explore Titan by balloon, rover or small airplane but each has limitations that include mobility, durability, range and effective control. The atmospheric conditions of Titan - with its orange-brown haze of methane and nitrogen - obscure high-resolution views and have made the moon largely inscrutable.
The veil lifted only in part in 2005 when the Huygens probe (part of the Cassini mission) produced some images of the surface. Those were enough to tantalize researchers but not enough to show more than a glimpse of the whole. With solar power unavailable because of both Titan's distance from the sun and its dense atmosphere, Dragonfly would be plutonium-powered, using a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.
That is the same power source as used by the Mars Curiosity rover and the Cassini space probe. It could fly several kilometers on a single 'Titan overnight' charge and potentially cover hundreds of kilometers during a Titan day (equivalent to 16 Earth days). Dragonfly would spend less time flying than taking science measurements during its two-year mission.
Its main tasks would be sampling for organic chemistry and habitability; monitoring atmospheric and surface conditions; shooting and transmitting images of landforms; and conducting studies of the moon's seismology, researchers said.
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apexart :: Davy Rothbart :: Kick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love
Kick My Heart's Ass: Short Films About Love
Curated by Davy Rothbart
February 11 - March 21, 2009
291 Church St. New York, NY 10013
Opening reception:
Wednesday, February 11, 6-8 pm
With projects by Akay, Kyle Alvarez, damali ayo, Rachel Dengiz, Shaina Feinberg, Chelsea Hodson, Marc Israel, Sarah Locke & Ghostshrimp, Brett Loudermilk, Chris K, David Meiklejohn, Carson Mell, Amber Morris, Kel O'Neill & Eline Jongsma, Scott Patterson, Jessica Sanders, Dan Tice, Nicky Verdoodt, AJ Wilhelm & Jason Orfanon, Lev Yilmaz, Jenny Owen Youngs
apexart welcomes Brett Loudermilk, one of today's top sideshow performers and authority on the strange, the odd and the bizarre.
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It's six A.M. I've just spent the last four hours holed up in my bedroom in my house in Ann Arbor, watching old, battered VHS tapes of myself, thirteen years ago, holed up in a bedroom in another house in Ann Arbor maybe twenty blocks from here, crying over two girls (depending which tape is playing), one named Rachel, one named Maggie. In these tapes, I'm not only crying, I'm... well, it's a little embarrassing... my twenty-year-old self is sobbing, staring deep into the camera—looking directly at myself right now—and singing along to a song on the radio: Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears." Watching these old, forlorn tapes is deeply eerie and painful and uncomfortable; there's also something weirdly captivating and pretty fucking funny about it all. Even though I've been logging these tapes all night, it's hard to tear myself away.
But let me back up a second. I never planned to make a movie about love, especially a personal documentary about my own love life. What happened, though, was this: I invited my friend David Meiklejohn along with me and my brother Peter for a couple of our cross-country FOUND Magazine tours in the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006, and asked him to bring his video-camera along, with the idea of taping some of our FOUND events and other adventures on the road. Like any dutiful documentary filmmaker, David kept the camera running, even when the FOUND shows were over. We ended up with 150 hours of footage, the lion's share, it seemed, revolving around my continual struggles with love and relationships. As we pored through the tapes, we realized that what we had was not a documentary about FOUND, but a documentary about my fucked-up love life. We decided to call the movie My Heart Is An Idiot, and got to work editing it.
But it was harder than I'd thought to work on a personal documentary when the people featured in the film were an ongoing part of my life. My relationships continued to shift and evolve; the story kept changing. The project itself became an issue in my relationships. For a while, it was easier to focus on other work that wasn't so damn intertwined with everything.
Then one night, digging through the attic of my parents' house, I found an old box filled with VHS tapes—World Series games from 1987, James Bond movies taped off of TBS, and a bunch of unmarked tapes, which I soon discovered held dozens of hours of footage I'd shot during high school and college—footage of me, for the most part, sitting alone in the basement of my parents' house, or in a sad dorm room or college apartment, bawling my eyes out over a girl (okay, a couple of girls). It struck me that I'd been documenting my struggles with love for nearly two decades, and that there was something in this old, bedraggled footage that was critically linked to the stuff that David had shot with me recently. I began sifting through the tapes one at a time, logging each strange, haunting moment in a little composition book. Yeah, I've got good friends who teach at inner-city schools, work as public defenders, and fight for environmental justice across the globe, and here I am, every night, watching ancient videotapes of myself crying and taking notes. It's one thing to spend your nights staring at pictures of an ex-girlfriend, it's another thing to spend your nights watching decade-old videotapes of yourself staring at pictures of an ex-girlfriend.
And yet I've become oddly transfixed. I can't look away. There's something disconcertingly similar between the footage of me crying over girls in 1993 and crying over girls in 2006. You think you learn something as you get older, but shit, not so much.
At some point, I end up sharing some of the old tapes with David, and we agree that bits of them belong in My Heart Is An Idiot. One phenomenon I notice: when I watch the VHS tapes alone, they seem really sad; when I watch them with David, they seem really funny. In fact, we discover a few favorite, strangely hilarious crying moments within the river of tears—moments when my crying is momentarily derailed by some other thought or something in the room. There's a moment from 1992, an early morning in my freshman dorm room, where I'm crying over Rachel, my high school girlfriend; in the background, my clock radio is grinding out traffic reports and blizzard warnings from an AM talk station. Then, mid-sob, I suddenly take notice of some cornball pun from the morning DJ, and seize into a smile, then immediately resume crying. It's a small but amazing little moment. There's another one from 1995: I'm on the sofa in my parents' living room, wailing—I mean flipping the fuck out—still over Rachel (we'd gotten back together and broken up several times). I'm beating my chest, pounding sofa cushions, screeching, when all of a sudden I pick up a copy of Sports Illustrated and stop crying just like that; I flip through the thing for about thirty seconds, then drop it and start crying again as though I'd never stopped. It's good shit, no doubt, another golden moment. Then, in our recent footage from the FOUND tours, there's a matching sort of moment: A relationship of mine has just come to a surprising and devastating end, and I'm stumbling with David down a weedy, overgrown street in Baton Rouge, sobbing so hard I can barely breathe. Then all at once I spot something in the distance and wade free of the darkness for a second. "See that tower?" I say to David. "That's the only non-domed State Capitol building in the country." "What?" David asks. "Did you say that's the only non-domed Capitol in the country?" "Yes," I manage, melting back into tears. It's horribly sad and at the same time fucking hilarious.
Why, though—why did I fill so many videotapes in my late teens and twenties, filming myself crying? Who was I crying to? A lot of the time I'm addressing Rachel or Maggie, begging them to come back to me, or to understand that we're meant for each other. But there was no fuckin' way I was ever gonna share those tapes with them. And yet, there must have been some kind of comfort, some kind of sympathy that the camera was doling out—a sense that I wasn't crying alone in bed, but crying to someone, even if I didn't know who that someone would be. And now it's come full circle. The person watching those tapes—the person I'd turned out to be crying to all those years—was me. And maybe even back then some part of me suspected that this would be the case. Maybe staring into the camera's dark eye, I'd sensed that gentle, compassionate, sympathetic presence of myself, ten or fifteen years later, barely—but noticeably—wiser, a bit more stable, and definitely healed of the heartbreak of that time, if not of all the heartbreak that's socked me in the years since. Watching the tapes, I hurt for the crushed kid I was back then, and reach out a hand of love and support. And I know I felt that inexplicable wave of comfort even back then, alone with the camera, because every crying episode caught on tape—no matter how intense—after a time subsides. It's rare that you get a chance to reach into the past and give a gift to yourself; it's almost like the moment in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure when Keanu Reeves hides his dad's jail cell keys for himself to find when he goes back in time.
Meanwhile, David Meiklejohn and I have continued to plow ahead with our documentary. We're not finished yet, but we're within striking distance—it'll be done this year. Questions never quit popping up—filmmaking questions, and questions about love. If the secrets to finding true love are often elusive, well, so are the secrets to making films about love. How do you inject humor into a film about heartbreak? How do you portray a happy romance without being too saccharine and oversentimental? What's relatable about our own stories? How do we make the personal feel universal?
I rarely know the answers to these kinds of questions, but I thought if I asked a bunch of my incredibly talented and wonderfully demented friends to produce short films about love, I could learn a lot from the approaches they took and the choices they made. I holla'd at a bunch of folks and gave very few guidelines, simply challenged them to make a 1- to 10-minute movie illuminating some aspect of romantic love. Narrative or documentary, actors, animation, claymation, whatevs—I left it up to them. And the films they came up with—in their beauty, sadness, sweetness and wild variety—are simply stunning.
Academy Award-nominated director Jessica Sanders profiles the relationship between actor George Takei (Star Trek's Captain Sulu) and his husband and lifelong partner by chatting with them in bed on a Sunday morning. Singer/songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs interviews fellow musicians about the practice of injecting stories of their own romances into their songs. Brett Loudermilk, sideshow phenom, discusses love with a pair of death-defying sword swallowers and legendary photographer AJ Wilhelm investigates the cures for a broken heart, while Kel O'Neill and Eline Jongsma trace a love that endures even after death. Carson Mell and Lev Yilmaz contribute striking animations, punk rock wanderer Chris K bumps into the newly-in-love at an American Idol audition, and my friend David Meiklejohn creates a new piece, observing strangers as they plan out the things they want to tell their loved ones but never have. These and a dozen other short films will be featured at apexart in a show we'll call Kick My Heart's Ass.
Watching these gripping (and often quite funny) films, it's clear: The personal is universal. Other people's stories are our own. The joy and heartbreak that comes through the characters in each of these films is in tune with my own joy and heartbreak. When I extend a hand of comfort to a stick figure cartoon whose relationship's gone belly-up or a gutsy transsexual mourning the passing of her soulmate, I'm really reaching out to myself, because, fuck it, I've been there, too. We've all been there.
Thank you so much for checking out this exhibition. I've been so thrilled by the films that folks made for this show, I've decided to extend a wider invitation to everyone out there: Yup, that's right, I want to see your short film about love. We'll find a way to share it with everyone. Check out www.KickMyHeartsAss.com for lots more details.
Okay, it's back to work for me—I've got plenty more footage to watch of myself crying, and right now my twenty-year-old self is singing along to Smashing Pumpkins, which means I better sign off. My advice to all the lovers out there: Be brave, never stop falling in love, and if your heart's ass gets kicked, look for the nearest non-domed State Capitol building.
And I'm out.
©January 2009
Davy Rothbart is an author, filmmaker, contributor to This American Life, and the editor/publisher of Found Magazine. The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of Rothbart's short-stories, was published in August 2005 by Simon & Schuster. An Italian edition, Il Surfista Solitario del Montana, was published in 2007 by Coniglio Editore. In 2008, actor Steve Buscemi optioned the book for film adaption, to be developed by Olive Productions. When Fred Rogers of the PBS television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood died in February 2003, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed by Rothbart about his childhood encounters with Rogers similar to his story on This American Life. Rothbart also writes for GQ, The Believer, SLAM Magazine, and The Sun. His films include the documentary How We Survive about the punk rock band Rise Against, and Easier With Practice, a film based on an article Rothbart wrote for GQ about his life on tour, to be released in 2009. Rothbart is also the subject of an upcoming documentary, directed by David Meiklejohn, called My Heart Is An Idiot. Additionally, he has appeared twice on the television program The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.
apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Edith C. Blum Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.


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Evidence based orthopaedic manual therapy for patients with nonspecific low back pain: An integrative approach.
Posted on December 11, 2015 by Scott Buxton
Orthopaedic manual therapy (OMT) should be based not only on the best available evidence but also on patient values and clinician expertise. Low back pain (LBP) is a complex issue as the majority of people who suffer from LBP cannot be given a specific diagnosis based on imaging studies but kinematic analyses appear to be useful to determine dysfunctional patterns. In physical therapy, various forms of OMT are currently used to manage LBP and there is growing evidence for its use. The underlying principles of OMT are to treat neuro-musculo-skeletal disorders, the aim of which is to reduce pain, as well as improve movement and function. Manual physical therapists use a range of treatment approaches including passive techniques ("hands on") as well as different active techniques ("hands off") and communication skills. Systems of stratification are available for classification of people with LBP into specific sub-groups (with sub-group specific OMT intervention). This approach has been shown to be more efficient than generic treatment, although subgroups are not mutually exclusive. Various mechanisms of action are reported in the literature concerning OMT effects. These effects may be biomechanical, neurophysiological and psychological. Moreover, it is essential that the treatment, regardless of the concept of OMT, is carried out on the basis of a systematic and valid clinical examination protocol aimed to correctly classify LBP. The use of pain provocative tests during combined movement examination provides confidence that examination findings are valid and can therefore be confidently used in clinical practice to manage patient. The integrative approach presented in this article is a mix of previously developed classification systems (i.e. based on pain mechanisms, prognosis, treatment responsiveness) and new tools, as kinematic analyses for LBP, and a novel validated combined movements examinations. As LBP is a complex and multidimensional problem, the integrative approach may help clinicians and researchers to better understand and then to treat patients with non-specific LBP.
The efficacy of OMT treatments using an integrative approach in specific patients subgroups should be objectively analyzed according to validated kinematic analyses in future studies.
Hidalgo, B.. Evidence based orthopaedic manual therapy for patients with nonspecific low back pain: An integrative approach.. J Musculoskelet Rehabil 2015; (): . http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26406198 (accessed 11/12/2015).
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In place
I'm digging beneath trellised nasturtium in the garden of someone new. Planting star jasmine in the sun as a rain cloud approaches, but it's the other kind I long to breathe in. The kind of jasmine that gushes over fences, escapes rambling front gardens, permeates shared paths. I pick sprigs of it always, carry it until it wilts. It takes me places.
So much has happened and I wanted to tell you. I'm astounded at my capacity to forgive. I've opened my heart to the gently damaged people of this world over and over, let them project their hurt onto me. I get it, but I won't do that anymore. They seek help or not, move back home as I work through, work through, work through. Soil under my fingernails and the smell of almost-rain.
But I wanted to say something about the visits home. The places where family live lives I couldn't have predicted and I've decided to tell the truth now. Stop listening to that voice in my head that nags at me to speak aloud the words and just speak aloud the damn words. I've lived long hours in transit, just to reconnect.
It seems everything I've ever written has been a metaphor for clouds: looking down on them from planes, watching them roll in darkly from the east, trusting they'll rain themselves empty or just move on. It's always been about clouds. The way they look reflected on the water's surface, distracting me from the reedy depths.
Seasons change and I let anniversaries pass through me like a southerly at first, but even the wind feels warmer when you look back. The red flag of that first betrayal wilts like picked jasmine, fades in the briefly sunlit garden of someone new.
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The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
A couple of months ago I was looking up my book, Lonesome When You Go (as you do), and was directed to a Loneliness Quiz. It was the end of a tough year having moved to a new country and struggled to make meaningful connections or feel at home. I scored very highly on the quiz and my results suggested I should be concerned for my well-being. It made me feel even sadder, but prompted me to really examine the issue – what is it that makes me such a solitary creature? Am I okay with it? Will it pass? And why, in this huge city full of writers, musicians, artists and people with similar backgrounds to me have I continued to find connection and friendship so elusive and difficult?
During that tough year I found myself reading about all sorts of things, from Synchronicity to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; books on Mastery, depression, loss, love. Both fiction and non-fiction books seemed to be all about searching for meaning and understanding ourselves and our relationship to others.
Most pertinent of all of these was The Lonely City by Olivia Laing. With the subtitle 'Adventures in the Art of Being Alone' and a purple night sky cover (a similar image to my phone's background: the sky I snapped on my 35th birthday, as it happens), this book was already a favourite.
Lonesome Moon: The night sky on Saradha's 35th birthday
Laing ruminates poetically on some of my own queries and, in particular, the nature of loneliness through her own experience of living heartbroken in New York in her mid-thirties. She ponders the way society views loneliness and questions the belief that "our whole purpose is as coupled creatures, or that happiness can or should be a permanent possession." I often hear it said that humans are social creatures, our purpose is to connect with others and thus be fully realised ourselves. The fact that this isn't always possible can be troubling, but I found comfort in Laing's acceptance of this state and discussion on how it can serve a purpose of its own. She asks "What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being?"
Quoting Virginia Woolf, Laing writes, "Woolf described an inner loneliness that she thought might be illuminating to analyse, adding: 'If I could catch the feeling, I would: the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.'" Suggesting that there's more to this feeling than a lack of something. It can perhaps be used to enhance our experience of reality.
Through her solo exploration of New York City, Laing focuses on the artists who have walked and documented the same streets. Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Henry Darger and David Wojnarowicz all feature heavily and are connected through their shared experience of difficult childhoods, being outsiders and making art that examines loneliness felt amid a crowded city. The link between art and loneliness is strong and Laing's fascination turns it into an art form itself.
Sometimes a book comes along that makes you feel better about being the you you are. Just as Susan Cain's Quiet cemented my understanding of my own introversion some years ago, The Lonely City made me feel remarkably less alone; less worried about a state that, whether or not it's fundamental to my very personality, will come and go and always lead to something creative or examinable. I've definitely been working on it, but see it now as less a failure to experience and more an experience all of its own.
(I just did the quiz again and have gone down from extreme loneliness, to moderate loneliness. I'll be okay.)
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Abstract: One afternoon, over ten years ago, I was watching one of my brothers flipping channels on the TV, looking for something to watch. I had just come home from school--I was either in the sixth or seventh grade--and I wasn't in the mood to do homework just yet. None of the shows he flipped through seemed interesting--until he got to a particular one. It was quite close to five o'clock, so many episodes were starting to wind down. This particular one he had lighted on showed, at that moment, a young, beautiful blonde woman descending a large, steep staircase towards a group of men at the foot. Well, actually, five guys and a young adolescent boy. Four of the guys were obviously college-aged, while the remaining one, holding a candle (it was dark in the room), seemed to be a father figure of some sort. I looked at that young woman, and at the young guys, particularly at the one who seemed to be the leader--and an obsession was born. I figured out what time the show began (quite a feat for an elementary school student) and began watching it religiously. It was interesting, exciting, and fun, with science-fiction gadgets, ships, flashy colors and exciting battles, but what it showed never fully satisfied me. Even at that age, I had a tendency to be more interested in the characters than the plot (which was a generic one anyway--typical Japanese-type action cartoon), and I never got to see as much about the characters' relationships to each other as I would have liked. Specifically, I would have liked to have seen more interaction between the young woman, who turned out to be a princess and the ruler of the planet, and the commander, who, like the other young guys, were from Earth. I wanted them to get together, fall in love, the whole bit. That, of course, was not to be; it was hinted that they had feelings for each other, but that was as far as the show was willing to go.
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Campus Reform | Vanderbilt faculty member says 'academic freedom' enables 'racism'
Vanderbilt faculty member says 'academic freedom' enables 'racism'
When contacted by Campus Reform, she made her social media private and removed an anti-police document from her page.
A scientist at Vanderbilt University recently said that "academic freedom" perpetuates racism and "white supremacy."
In a blog post, she appeared to sympathize with rioters, saying she understands why people "want to burn it all down."
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As instances of rioting, looting, and statue-toppling escalate nationwide, millions of Americans are demanding a police-free country in what they say as a form of racial justice. But Vanderbilt University scientist Heather Caslin Findley says that "white supremacy, racism, and prejudice" are also perpetuated by the concept of "academic freedom."
"I hope there are a lot of circles in academia having a serious conversation on how 'academic freedom' upholds white supremacy, racism, and prejudice," Caslin Findley tweeted June 9. Campus Reform reached out to Caslin Findley asking her to clarify her statements. She immediately made her account private, opting not to respond for comment.
While Caslin Findley has taught courses at Vanderbilt in past years, she currently serves as a Vanderbilt "Scientist in the Classroom," a program that places her as an instructor in K-12 classrooms once a week.
Caslin Findley has been very outspoken on social media about her beliefs. On May 30, she wrote a blog post titled "The uncomfortable work behind pulling back the curtain of race and white supremacy: Part 1. My story," in which she espoused the same sentiments toward the "racism" within the American educational system.
"Racism acts through every system we've built including education and healthcare and safety and no one in my life was immune from that," wrote Caslin Findley.
"I've begun to understand how the very institutions I believe in- like higher education and healthcare and feminism and science- are all built on white supremacy," she added. Caslin Findley also addressed the violent riots taking place across the country, writing that she was initially opposed to the 2015 Baltimore riots and was worried for the police officers, but changed her mind.
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"The single biggest moment in my journey thus far was when Freddie Grey died in custody and the city of Baltimore erupted in riots. I posted about how wrong his death was. But I also posted about how I wanted the cops to be safe too," Caslin Findley wrote before expressing she came to change her mind. "I was scared for the fires, for the rioting, for the storefronts that would need to be rebuilt. That was my 'protest differently,' 'all lives matter,' and 'blue lives matter' moment. I was wrong and I was called out."
"I understand why black people are tired of seeing racism, talking about racism, living up against racism. I understand why people want to burn it all down," she wrote.
Campus Reform reached out to Caslin Findley a second time for comment on this statement, asking for its context. Caslin Findley then made her Instagram account private and removed from her profile a link to a document about abolishing and defunding the police. The document states that there is no evident "need" for policing, and that police reform is not enough.
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"[T]he arguments I've seen are that we need police (evidence not really there) and that reform can work (evidence contradictory), however what 'works' means is very subjective," the document reads. Originally posted and seemingly written by Caslin Findley, the document provides several arguments for defunding the police, as well as a list of resources that argue for similar policies.
The writing details what defunding and abolishing police would look supposedly look like.
"Defunding is a long term gradual strategy to strategically reallocate resources, funding, and responsibility away from police and toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention. Abolishing aims to set the bar higher and the goals longer- to really completely transform policing as we know it by removing many of the 'reasons' we think we need police in the first place. Objectives are to get police-related deaths down to zero and to set in place long term community improvements," the document continues.
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National Association of Scholars' communications coordinator Chance Layton told Campus Reform Caslin Findley's tweet was "outright false," claiming that academic freedom considers no race or political party.
"Academic freedom doesn't count political scores. Its existence is important to the pursuit of truth and therefore the mission of higher education," Layton told Campus Reform.
"To say that it 'upholds white supremacy, racism, and prejudice' is outright false. It's academic freedom that has protected professors, regardless of race, who have argued for greater accountability of police and within the justice system, especially when the research is unpopular either on-campus or socially," he added.
Campus Reform spoke with Vanderbilt University student and former Tennessee chair member of Young Americans for Liberty Reagan Werner, who argued that Caslin Findley's police-related sentiments are worth considering.
"I wholeheartedly agree with the defunding of police. The entire system is extremely corrupt. Racism is just one of the problems that the American police system upholds," Werner told Campus Reform. "Having worked with the Vanderbilt Prison Project, I have read about and even met victims of mass incarceration, criminal profiling, or unjust treatment towards African American people. I've been very happy to see students at my school getting more involved in protesting our corrupt criminal justice system."
"I would argue that a research university should compel their professors, whom they are paying to research, to be inclusive and study these topics," Werner added. "I don't know much about academic freedom, but I do know that most researchers at Vanderbilt tend to be white, upper-class people who benefit from a lot of privilege. This in itself is not a negative, but it does provide incentive to shirk from the civic responsibility of drawing attention to racism in our country and academic environments."
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Addison Smith is a Campus Reform reporter and a junior, studying Business Marketing at Liberty University. Addison is also an Ambassador for Liberty University's Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty.


Four years down the line, project remains inexistent, ridden apathy
Nov 2015, when Smart City was promised to Jammu
JAMMU, Nov 15: The Jammu and Kashmir administration is rejuvenation the smart city project for JK's twin capitals that was kept in limbo by the past helmsmen with funs worth crores made to lapse sadistically.
A senior official in the UT administration of Jammu and Kashmir told Early Times the central government has censured Jammu and Kashmir administration over keeping the vital smart city project in limbo with funds not being utilised and significant features of the proposal left unattended.
On November 7, 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned a whooping Rs 80K crore package for Jammu and Kashmir's various developmental projects.
Out of the total sanctioned amount, Rs 500 crore each were sanctioned for smart cities in Jammu as well as in Srinagar. However, four years down the line , as per the official documents, not even one percent of the funds have been utilised on ground- reflecting that the smart city promise was a big joke done to the people of the state.
If sources within the government are to be believed, the Smart City proposal was dumped by the government and there were least measures being taken to get the vital project out from the cold storage.
The central government, said official sources, recently sought the status report of the smart city proposal and when the dismal progress was found, the JK administration was censured over the inordinate delay being done so far. "There were political considerations in place in the past. The PDP BJP regime was non- seriousness over making the project a success story and give people all the facilities they deserve in a smart city. Unfortunately, not even a single lane was tuned into a smarter one, leave alone turning a capital in its entirety smart," rues an official who wished not to be named.
However, as per the sources, there are chances that the project will see day's light soon as the government at preset is emphasising upon the good governance at the grass roots while expediting the projects that by the past regime was kept in a limbo without any reason and in spite of the plethora of funds in place.
Pertinently, the then State Government vide Order No.1081-GAD dated August 21, 2017 constituted Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) as Companies Limited by shares named as Jammu Smart City Limited and Srinagar Smart City Limited under the Companies Act, 2013 with authorized share capital of Rs 10 lakh, equity share of Rs 10 each and paid up capital of Rs 10 lakh for both the companies for implementation of smart city development projects.
"There must be injury held over what happened to the promise of the smart city. Why even when four long years have passed no. forward movement has been witnessed vis-a-vis the implementation of the project. The credibility of the new administration will be at stake if it too fails to get the vital projects out from the cold storages," says a senior official within the administration.
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Feds Query Catholic High School Coach Beating of Philly Gay Couple?
By Fern Remedi-Brown on September 19, 2014 9 Comments
A beating last week of a Philadelphia gay couple by a group that included a Roman Catholic high school coach is now being considered for query through federal investigation. The two victims, whose identities have not been released, were going for pizza on September 11th when they encountered the group in the Center City neighborhood.
The alleged attackers included a dozen well-dressed men and women who came into the path of the two men on their way out to dinner and shouted gay slurs, asking one of the members of the gay couple if the other was his "f——- boyfriend." The group, who were clean-cut and dressed to go out, allegedly included part-time Assistant Basketball Coach Mr. Fran McGlinn of Archbishop Wood High School in suburban Philadelphia. Group members were identified through surveillance video and online postings, including a photo taken while they were out to dinner.
According to police reports, the two men aged 27 and 28 were apprehended, held down and severely beaten. One needed his jaw wired shut and had a broken eye socket. The other sustained a black eye and bruises. The incident has caused outrage among the LGBTQ community in Philadelphia.
Fran McGlinn
Mr. McGlinn was approached by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and they allowed him to resign after he was confronted about being allegedly involved in the crime. In addition, the Archdiocese issued a statement explaining why the coach was relieved of his duties. It described that instilled in Catholic education is a sense of respect for others, regardless of whether or not the faithful agrees with others' beliefs or actions.
Archbishop Chaput
Archbishop Charles Chaput stated that, when students graduate from high school, they demonstrate their maturity and their dignity – or lack thereof – through their actions. Violence against another person for being who they are cannot be excused and is dissonant with the essence of being a Christian.
Philadelphia City Councilman Jim Kenney spoke out on the matter, saying that the number of people who beat the two men as well as the language used against them indicates the level of a hate crime. He sent a strongly worded letter on Thursday to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. I the letter, he called for a federal investigation under the National Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Federal authorities do not usually get involved in matters of the state. However, since there is no hate crime law against lesbians and gays on the books in Pennsylvania, federal law may supersede. The federal government is prepared to query those involved in the beating of the Philadelphia gay couple and the alleged involvement of the Roman Catholic high school coach. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is waiting to hear from the local police before proceeding.
While illegal federally, hate crimes based on sexual orientation are not against the law in Pennsylvania. Only attacks on the basis of race, religion, and ethnicity can be prosecuted as hate crimes. To address this issue, Pennsylvania's first openly gay congressman, Democratic State Rep. Brian Sims of Philadelphia, is pushing to include sexual orientation among the list of hate crimes in state law.
Rep. Sims said that since same-sex marriage is now legal in Pennsylvania following a federal judge overturning a prior ban in the state, he hopes this ruling will lead to great societal acceptance. He believes that the marriage law change will help improve understanding that two people loving each other means that they should also be able to live their lives in safety and without fear.
Local officials are continuing their investigation into the incident. When that is complete, federal authorities will be ready to delivery their query into the beating of the gay couple by a now former coach at a suburban Philadelphia Roman Catholic high school.
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DJ Harvey (All Night Long) Thursday 23rd October 2014
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Forming a further part of our 15th Birthday celebrations, Red Bull Music Academy has announced that DJ Harvey will be steering his disco-fueled road trip straight into Farringdon on Thursday 23rd October. Fresh from receiving the prestigious 'Outstanding Contribution' Award at this year's Ibiza DJ Awards, Harvey's unfaltering commitment to the beat continues with a tour that sees him perform shows here at fabric in London ahead of dates in Manchester and at Simple Things Festival in Bristol.
After delivering his signature, hypnotic blend of disco, Balearica, rock'n'roll and electro-funk at RBMA stages at Lovebox and Bestival, the allegiance continues with this 3-stop road trip. Kicking off here Harvey inaugurates the tour with an 'all night long' special, taking to the decks for five hours of unadulterated Bassett grooves.
Never one for resting on his laurels, Cambridge-born, Hawaii-dwelling Harvey Bassett is a man of many talents. Be it bringing legendary New York DJs such as Larry Levan, Kenny Carpenter and Francois Kevorkian to British ears at his 'Moist' night in London; remixing prowess for the likes of Jamiroquai, The Police, Ian Brown and more; his now cult-followed Sarcastic Disco nights in Los Angeles; or his latest venture, a new album under the alias Wildest Dreams, a more instrument-led output inspired by the 'landscape of L.A.' and featuring his own vocals.
A long-standing supporter of Red Bull Music Academy, Harvey was an early lecturer at the 2005 edition of the Academy in Seattle. In 2012, after a self-imposed exile of over ten years, he made his UK comeback with RBMA at London's Oval Space and as part of the Warehouse Project Series in Manchester, blowing away the crowds at sold-out shows, and affirming his near-mythical status with yet another flawless feat of DJ endurance, echoed shortly afterwards with a stellar headline set at the RBMA stage at SonarDome.
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Vök will release their Tension
The MuseBox Records today announced the signing of Iceland's Vök . While the young trio and their dreamy electronica pop have held the attention of their native Icelandic press since 2013, international fans are now starting to take notice. This fall Vök will release"Tension," their debut EP on The MuseBox Records. A tour of the United States in support of the record will follow. More information on Vök is available on the band's official Facebook page.
Shortly after forming, Vök won an annual band contest, "Músíktilraunir," which is the Icelandic version of a battle of the bands. The third member, guitarist Ólafur Alexander, joined the band shortly thereafter. Vök has since been generating significant hype in the vibrant music scene of Iceland's capital, Reykjavík. With a sound mainly comprised of soft electronics and melodic vocals, guitar also plays a prominent role in Vök's sound and places Vök a bit more in the realm of indie-electro, thus resulting in comparisons to Florence and the Machine, The XX, and The Knife.
Posted on March 4, 2008 September 9, 2014
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Billy Bragg keeps the faith
Taken from Billy Bragg's new album 'Mr Love & Justice' (out this week), 'I Keep Faith' is released on 17th March on Cooking Vinyl.
You can watch the video here:
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Billy Bragg is playing tonight at the Roundhouse and he'll also be playing a string of UK dates in April/May. Here are full dates:
Billy Bragg (in-store) 03.07.08 LONDON HMV
Billy Bragg 04.23.08 LONDON Barbican Hall
Billy Bragg 04.24.08 BRISTOL Colston Hall
Billy Bragg 04.25.08 BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
Billy Bragg 04.27.08 GLASGOW ABC
Billy Bragg 04.29.08 GATESHEAD The Sage
Billy Bragg 04.30.08 SHEFFIELD City Hall
Billy Bragg 05.02.08 LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall
Billy Bragg 05.03.08 READING The Hexagon
Billy Bragg 05.04.08 LINCOLN The Engine Shed
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Posted on February 28, 2008 September 9, 2014
Neon Neon announce UK debut live date
Fabric – 20th March
Neon Neon, debut UK live date
Welsh musical maverick Gruff Rhys and LA based electronic/hip-hop producer Boom Bip will be lighting up London on 20th March with their first ever Neon Neon UK live date. The headline performance takes place at the capitals Fabric nightclub and with Chrome Hoof, Erol Alkan and Four Tet also on the bill the event promises to be a cracking start to the Easter weekend.
Stainless Style album, out 17th March
Neon Neons Fabric showcase comes 3 days after the release of their debut album, Stainless Style – a highly creative slice of conceptual power-pop inspired by the incredible life of the worlds first playboy engineer, John DeLorean. Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip are joined on the record by a host of talented guests, including; Fab Moretti from The Strokes, Yo Majesty, Har Mar Superstar, The Magic Numbers and Spank Rock. The end result was recently described as a terrific collaboration [4 out of 5] by Q magazine, has caused the NME to forewarn their readers to miss it at your peril, and been awarded 4 out of 5 reviews by both Uncut and The Observer Music Monthly.
I Lust U single, out 24th March
Neon Neons fully polished Stainless Style album will be closely followed by the release of their I Lust U single. An ice cool duet between Gruff and guest vocalist Cate Le Bon, I Lust U is a lovelorn-lament underpinned throughout by Boom Bips stylish, snyth-lead production. The song can be heard here, and the video viewed here.
Neon Neon are also performing at this years SXSW festival in Austin Texas, and further releases and Neon Neon UK live dates will be announced soon.
Neon Neon MySpace: www.myspace.com/neonx2
More on John DeLorean: http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id305.htm
Wakestock at Woodstock
27th – 29th June / Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
4th – 6th July / Abersoch, North Wales
TICKETS ON SALE: Friday 29th February at 9am
Wakestock 2008, Europe's largest and most successful wakeboard music festival, is proud to announce Groove Armada, The Streets, Supergrass, Funeral for a Friend, The Hoosiers, Hadouken, Young Knives, Metronomy, Jazzie B and Audio Bullys plus a load more are all confirmed to perform this year. Not only this, but Wakestock, sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink, have also announced a second date and a new prestigious location within the amazing grounds of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, from 27th – 29th June 2008. It is the first time that a contemporary music festival has been held within the grounds of Blenheim Palace and the Wakestock organisers are thrilled to have found such a fantastic venue for their second festival.
Now in its 9th sell out year, Wakestock Abersoch, North Wales (4th – 6th July 2008) and the new Wakestock Blenheim Palace promise to serve up a double helping of strong rip roaring music, world class wakeboarding, on-site camping and a weekend full of exhilarating on and off water entertainment. Better than that, whichever Wakestock visitors choose this year, the best scenery and the coolest festival sites are guaranteed. Abersoch boasts stunning beaches with some incredible shore breaks, and the site at Blenheim Palace sits within the awe-inspiring Parkland next to the picturesque lakes.
Wakeboarding is the world's fastest growing watersport with over 3 million participants worldwide. Wakeboarding began back in the 1970's when surfers who were bored of waiting for the waves began pulling their boards behind a speedboat with a ski rope. The summer equivalent to snowboarding, wakeboarding has now grown hugely over the past 10 years and is no longer the little brother of the boardsports world. If you add on the wakeskating community you have a boardsports family that outnumber surfers by more then two to one. The riding you see at Wakestock includes an elite selection of some of the world's best riders, you get the opportunity to see them throw down massive tricks, and hit some of the biggest slider rails in any competition right in front of the crowds. The spectators are able to see every slide, every trick and every stack whilst standing only metres away from the action – wakeboarding at this level is an awesome spectator sport.
"2008 is going to be the Year of Wakestock!" says Wakestock Founder, Mark Durston. "We've built the festival up over the last 8 years in Abersoch to be a really cool mix of the world's best wakeboarders, bands & DJ's right at the forefront of the live music scene and a lifestyle that is unrivalled by any other festival! With the help of Stuart Galbraith, CEO of Kilimanjaro, to develop the festival and to add a second venue as stunning as Blenheim Palace was an opportunity we've relished. The grounds at Blenheim Palace, as a festival venue, are first class. Add to this a stunning lake sat right in front of the Palace and you have the perfect setting to showcase the coolest sport on water".
The creator of Download and Wireless festivals, Stuart Galbraith, believes Wakestock represents the future of festivals: "Everyone knows the British festival calendar is getting busier each year and promoters need to deliver more than just a good stage line up. Wakestock combines this package with its programme of world class wakeboarding, music and full on entertainment that music artists have been keen to sign up to"
It's the first time that Blenheim Palace has played host to such a unique event and Chief Executive, John Hoy, believes that the World Heritage setting provides an ideal backdrop for Wakestock "We are delighted to have the opportunity to add this exciting event to our calendar and to stage an event geared specifically for the younger audience who will attend. We are really looking forward to working closely with the organisers and to welcoming all visitors to the event".
Tickets will officially go on sale on Friday 29th March at 9am with a "weekend" ticket priced at £85 and a "weekend with camping" ticket at £110 (booking fee and P&P not included)
Ticket master: Blenheim 0844 847 2437 Abesrsoch 0844 847 2439
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Canada Co-working Office Spaces Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2023 - 2028)
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The Canadian co-working office spaces market is expected to record a CAGR of more than 5.5% during the forecast period. In Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the co-working office space market. Due to the lockdown restrictions, the companies lost 75% of their customers. People are returning to co-working spaces more than a year and a half later. These changes are proving to be beneficial to co-working spaces, which were growing increasingly popular before the outbreak impacted their economic models. As COVID-19 cases decrease, people seek new ways to work, socialize, and get out after more than a year at home.
The co-working trend has evolved into a transformative force in the Canadian corporate scene. New work patterns are in demand, and many flexible office operators are gaining a foothold in the lease market. Co-working real estate alternatives are reshaping other key markets in Canada. Since 2017, the flexible footprints of Calgary, Ottawa, and Vancouver have grown by more than 80%. The Waterloo region competed with Toronto (1.8%) in terms of market penetration of co-working space operations (with co-working accounting for 1.4% of total office supply). Suburban growth has outperformed downtown growth in Edmonton and Waterloo region. The suburban co-working space market in Vancouver grew by 83%.
There are currently 617 co-working spaces in Canada, including locations run by major corporations such as Staples. Several large corporations have already stated their intentions, setting the tone for the discourse in North America. JPMorgan Chase asked all of its workers to return to work. In the meantime, Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify abandoned its headquarters in favor of a remote-only workforce. However, as vaccine protection improves and the debate over the future of work heats up, some businesses see an opportunity to strike a middle ground by adopting a more "flexible" approach to the workplace through co-working.
Canada Co-working Office Spaces Market Trends
Toronto Driving the Market
According to an industry report, the IT business was responsible for a substantial portion of office leasing during the pandemic. Toronto leads the way in North America for tech job development. According to the survey, which assesses the influence of the IT industry on office demand and rents in Canada's 30 largest tech regions, Toronto saw a 26% increase in job growth from 2019 to 2020. Over the previous five years, high-tech companies have dominated the rental of office space.
Co-working office spaces real estate operators occupy 3.1 million sq. ft. of office space, or 1.8% of the region's total office stock. The bulk of the space, 2.3 million sq. ft., is downtown, 147 locations out of a total of 216 flexible workspaces across the GTA. Regus/Spaces is Toronto's largest flexible operator, with a 1.3 million sq. ft. footprint across 56 locations, or 42% of the market by square footage. It plans to add 347,000 sq. ft. over the next two years.
With a vacancy rate of 8%, Toronto has the highest downtown Class A rates, at CAD 34.18 per sq. ft. More than 7.5 million sq. ft of new supply are still under development in the city, with about 600,000 sq. ft under construction in the suburbs. However, during Q4 2021, more than 1.3 million sq. ft of downtown office space were absorbed, slightly exceeding by roughly 40,500 sq. ft, the amount of newly completed supply added to the market over the same period.
Increase in Supply of Office Space
Five new spaces sites, totaling 173,500 sq. ft, will launch throughout Canada soon, as demand for co-working spaces grows due to improved labor flexibility. About 83% of businesses are implementing a flexible or hybrid working strategy for their employees, allowing people to work differently than they did before the pandemic. Spaces recently opened a 26,000-sq.ft Zibi Ottawa cross-provincial facility. It is part of the 34-acre Zibi mixed-use complex on Chaudière Island, which connects Ottawa and Gatineau, and is housed in a refurbished four-story former paper mill building at 4 Booth St. It will be joined by the 29,000-sq.ft Spaces Zibi Gatineau is set to open in the spring of 2021. The 42,000-sq.ft Spaces the Permanent, opened in February 2022, occupied five floors at 320 Bay St. in Toronto's financial district.
On the first and second floors of a newly built facility at 2 Ralston Ave., in the Burnside Business Park in Dartmouth, NS, Spaces Burnside will offer 60 large and small private offices and fully equipped meeting rooms, dedicated desks, and a collaborative co-working space. It is set to open in May 2022. The 51,500-sq.ft Spaces King George Hub will be the anchor tenant of King George Hub, a mixed-use development at 9850 King George Blvd. in Surrey, B.C. Later in 2022, IWG will unveil Spaces The Shift in Toronto's downtown east and Spaces The Well in The Well mixed-use development.
Canada Co-working Office Spaces Market Competitive Analysis
The Canadian co-working office spaces market is fragmented with the presence of several privately owned co-working spaces. The market is expected to grow during the forecast period due to huge investments and funding received by companies in the industry. Some of the key players in the market include Lab T.O., District 28, La Halte 24/7, L Atelier Vancouver, BNKR, WeWork, and Regus.
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2 Research Methodology3 Executive Summary
4 Market Insights and Dynamics
4.3 Technological Trends
4.4 Industry Value Chain Analysis
4.5 Government Regulations and Initiatives
4.6 Insights on Co-working Startups in Canada
4.7 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Forces Analysis
4.8 Impact of COVID-19 on the Market
5 Market Segmentation
5.1 By End User
5.1.1 Personal User
5.1.2 Small Scale Company
5.1.3 Large Scale Company
5.1.4 Other End Users
5.2.1 Flexible Managed Office
5.2.2 Serviced Office
5.3.1 Information Technology (IT and ITES)
5.3.2 Legal Services
5.3.3 BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance)
5.3.4 Consulting
5.3.5 Other Services
5.4 By Key City
5.4.1 Vancouver
5.4.2 Calgary
5.4.3 Ottawa
5.4.4 Toronto
6.1 Market Concentration Overview
6.2.1 Lab T.O.
6.2.2 District 28
6.2.3 La Halte 24/7
6.2.4 L Atelier Vancouver
6.2.5 BNKR
6.2.6 Wework
6.2.7 Regus
6.2.8 Coworker
6.2.9 Workhaus
6.2.10 HiVE Vancouver
6.2.11 Beta Collective
6.2.12 Acme Works*
7 Future of the Market8 Appendix
Lab T.O.
La Halte 24/7
L Atelier Vancouver
BNKR
Workhaus
HiVE Vancouver
Beta Collective
Acme Works*
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Categories NewsPosted on November 13, 2009 October 20, 2016
Another Fire at Parker Tobacco
Suspicious fires at Parker Tobacco Company in Maysville, Kentucky are claiming the abandoned building.
A disused warehouse on Elizabeth Street in Maysville, Kentucky caught fire November 6 and resurfaced two days later that totaled the large two-story structure. Portions of the building collapsed onto the adjoining CSX Transportation railroad. The fire, reportedly having started in the basement, is being labeled as "suspicious."
This is similar to the fires of 2008, where numerous warehouses either caught fire or were vandalized. One of the causalities of this was Parker Tobacco Company, where the center industrial processing lines were consumed in a three-alarm fire.
It was something, watching from the top of Hayswood Hospital and noting a huge plume of dark gray smoke billowing from the general location of Parker Tobacco. I assumed that at first that Parker had caught fire again, but it was a warehouse further east.
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Gamble House Is No More
The Gamble House was located at 2918 Werk Road in the Westwood neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The imposing 2 1/2-story, 13-room residence, was constructed in the Queen Anne style by James Norris Ga…
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Old Taylor Revival
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Big Lovely Mountain Rail Trail to Open
On June 15, Kentucky's newest rail trail will open between West Van Lear to Royalton along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Dawkins Subdivision. The 18.5 mile Big Lovely Mountain Rail Trail w…
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Category: Lesbian Short Films
The Two of Us, a short film by Franck Tabouring
The Two of Us is a sequel of Fast Hearts, another film written and directed by Franck Tabouring. Amanda (Zoey Moses) and Sophia (Marlies Bell) have been consummating their love in an isolated cabin...
Lesbian Short Films / Random Clips
Now and Then, a short film by LVCVA
For a young couple in love, a trip to Vegas that starts as just a getaway turns into a life-defining experience. This short film is a promotional work made by LVCVA for the city...
by Emma · Published October 12, 2017 · Last modified September 1, 2019
Zaya, a short film by Susanne Serres
Zaya is a french short film about two female dancers, created by Susanne Serres. This is a work promoting love and acceptance. The main protagonist, named Zaya, is a contemporary dancer that just realized...
This Is You And Me, a short film by April Maxey
This Is You and Me is a crowdfunded short film directed by April Maxey. It's story follows a detached Marie (Alexandra Miller) one night in Auburn, New York. At a bar, Susie (Ellen Toland),...
by Emma · Published February 2, 2017 · Last modified February 18, 2017
Kabul, a short film by Lauren Fritz
Kabul is the melancholic sequel of Gallina. This is the second part of a cinematographic diptych designed as a mirror reflecting the influence of a couple's family life on their relationship. The film was written and...
by Emma · Published January 23, 2017 · Last modified June 23, 2018
Long distance relationships, lesbian short films
The first and second parts of Long Distance Relationships, two lesbian short films directed by Sarah Rotella and Adrianna DiLonardo, starring Gwen Cumyn and Justine Nelson. The story is about the struggles of a...
by Emma · Published December 2, 2016 · Last modified September 10, 2017
One Night, a short film by Lydia Smyth
After a successful fund-raising campaign on Kickstarter to present her film at festivals, Lydia Smyth has recently decided to share One Night online via vimeo. As I wanted to watch the movie since quite a while, I think...
by Emma · Published November 17, 2016 · Last modified November 18, 2016
By your side, L campaign in Greece
By your side is a Greece-wide campaign on same-sex partnership created by George Chorevas and Thanasis Tsimpinis. The film is presented in the form of a fary tale narrated by a woman who wants a princess by...
Documentaries / Lesbian Short Films
by Emma · Published November 10, 2016 · Last modified August 15, 2017
In the Hollow, a documentary film by Claudia Brenner & Austin Bunn
In the Hollow is a documentary film written by Claudia Brenner and Austin Bunn. Its screenplay is based on a true story, more specifically on the testimony of Claudia Brenner in honor & memory of Rebecca...
by Emma · Published November 5, 2016 · Last modified December 20, 2016
Seasons, a short film by Tessa Kennedy and Emmalie El Fadli
Seasons is a romantic short film written by Tessa Kennedy and directed by Emmalie El Fadli. It tells the story of Spencer (Holly Ashman) and Kit (Tessa Kennedy), two girls who meet in a library before to spend the day...


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John Digweed's long-standing weekly 2 hour programme is legendary, airing for many years exclusively on Kiss 100 in London but now syndicated around the world. In New Zealand, Anthemz is proud to broadcast the show each week.
The most important radio show in the deep and progressive house scene really needs no introduction, but here it goes anyway. John Digweed's long-standing weekly 2 hour programme is legendary, airing for many years exclusively on Kiss 100 in London but now syndicated around the world. In New Zealand, Anthemz is proud to broadcast the show each week.
Background wise, John Digweed hosted a weekly two-hour radio show on Kiss 100 in the UK from September 2000 to January 2011, in which he played the first hour of music and a guest DJ played the second hour. Beginning in September 2006, his show was available on all three Kiss radio stations. By that time, the show's name had become Transitions, which was also the name of a four-volume series of mix albums by Digweed that was released every six months during 2006–2008. In January 2011, Transitions aired for the last time on Kiss 100, but the show continues to be broadcast on other stations around the world as well as online.
Expect upfront & unreleased tunes dished up by John Digweed alongside finely tuned guest mixes that are almost always exclusively prepared just for the show.


GONZAGA LOOKIN' TO TRY ON GLASS SLIPPER AGAIN
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TUCSON — Looking for this year's Gonzaga?
Why not the Bulldogs, again?
Gonzaga, the Cinderella of last year's NCAA Tournament, is back in the Big Dance and opens play today against Louisville. As was the case in last year's tournament, the Bulldogs are considered underdogs, pardon the pun, seeded 10th in the West.
Just why the Zags aren't being considered for the role of Cinderella this year is baffling. They went 24-8 and played a much tougher schedule this season, losing to Cincinnati, Temple, and Oregon, but beating UCLA.
And unlike last season, when Gonzaga made its first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1995, this year's team has the experience of last year's success. The Zags shocked Minnesota, Stanford, and Florida before losing 67-62 to Connecticut in the West Region.
"When the bus pulled up to McKale [Center], we realized what stage we were going to be playing on, but this year we are more prepared and used to the media because of our experiences from last year," said guard Matt Santangelo.
The Zags lost two starters from last year's team, shooting guard Quentin Hall and center Jeremy Eaton. Coach Dan Monson left for the Minnesota job. But in Santangelo, forward Richie Frahm and underrated forward Casey Calvary, they have a great nucleus.
After losing 64-48 to Temple in the Elite Eight, Owls coach John Chaney said he had never had a team attack his matchup zone defense better than Gonzaga.
With Calvary battling inside and Frahm and Santangelo bombing from the outside, Gonzaga has the weapons to upset seventh-seeded Louisville (19-11). The winner of that game faces the winner of the St. John's-Northern Arizona contest on Saturday.
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L&I proposes workers'-comp rate increase for 2017
The rate paid for workers'-compensation coverage in Washington would rise by an average of 0.7 percent next year under a proposal released by L&I. For construction risk classification, the proposed 2017 rates range from a 12-percent decrease for the Pile Construction, Wharf Pier & Dock Construction, Diving Operations category to a 12-percent increase for the Painting: Building and Structures Exterior Work category.
For a list of proposed rates by risk classification, click here.
L&I sets workers' compensation rates every fall for the following year. To determine the proposed rate, the agency takes a close look at expected workers'-compensation payouts, the size of the reserve fund, wage inflation and other financial indicators.
"We're doing our best to make sure we have a workers' compensation system in our state that's healthy and available for workers and employers today and in the future," said L&I Director Joel Sacks. "By helping injured workers heal and get back to work sooner, we've been able to keep rates steady and predictable."
The proposed 2017 increase would cost employers an average of about $10 more a year per employee.
AGC appreciates L&I's efforts to flatten-out rates as well as the need to bolster reserves, and also understands that Washington State's system, because it is based on hours worked rather than wages as is the case in other states, does not have a built-in adjustment. However, AGC also believes that rates could be even lower if the Legislature were to enact additional reforms, such as lowering the age at which workers can negotiate a structured settlement in lieu of lifetime pensions, and common sense improvements to occupational disease rules.
The agency will hold a series of public hearings where people can learn about and comment on the proposed rates. The hearings are scheduled for
Vancouver Oct. 26, 9 a.m., Marshal Community Center
Tukwila Oct. 27, 9 a.m., Dept. of Labor & Industries
Everett Nov. 1, 9 a.m., Everett Community College
Spokane Valley Nov. 2, 9 a.m., Spokane CenterPlace
Richland Nov. 3, 9 a.m., Richland Community Center
Tumwater Nov. 4, 9 a.m., Dept. of Labor & Industries Headquarters
People can also comment in writing to Jo Anne Attwood, administrative regulations analyst, P. O. Box 41448, Olympia, WA 98504-4148; or email joanne.attwood@lni.wa.gov.
All comments must be received by 5 p.m. Nov. 8, 2016. Final rates will be adopted by early December and go into effect Jan. 1, 2017.
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Do you know- Why Section 144 has been implemented in Ayodhya?
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Court cases in our country have piled up so much that the volume terrifies equally to the people who are aware of it and the ones who have to tackle it. The judicial process in India has been very sturdy & credible making sure that justice is done to the people, however the time it may take. There are many hard facts known to all that, the civil court cases get stretched to years, where generations pass away but the decision is not taken. That's the irony, as the case filed by someone gets to see the light of justice by his grandsons. Ayodhya's case falls under the same category. It's been years that the case is being dragged upon. It is evident that for political reasons or circumstances beyond the control of the administrations, it kept on going endlessly.
Cases that get dragged on like this at times have to face public ire, as we all experienced it rising in 2002 leading to the demolition of the disputed structure at the Ram Janmbhoomi and the turmoil in the country thereafter. Such sensitive cases need very careful and mature handling by the administrators and the Govt. In general, the attitude of the people who are at the helm, responsible for taking decisions, do not do their part and try to avoid and postpone things.
It's a welcome change that the court has taken initiative to conduct a regular hearing and attend to the teams from both sides. Uncertainty has gripped the minds of people so much so that nobody knows which way the judgment will tilt. However, as the gossip mongers are at work through social media sites and apps therefore at times situations seem to get tense. Govt has imposed Section 144 till 14th Dec anticipating the unrest and hence incorporating their standard procedure to control trouble.
Even this proactive step from Govt is being taken as a signal in their favor by both parties. Hindus feel that the judgment would be in their favor and hence the section 144 is to contain the troubles from the opponents not favoring Mandir whereas Muslims feel that they may win and hence section 144 is imposed to check the developments due to the unrest if it may take place when they win the case. Everyone is hoping this time of some result as the case is in progress at the fastest speed possible and there are all chances of it reaching a conclusive end. The CJI Mr. Gagoi is retiring in Nov and it is considered to be a prestigious case for him to give a good convincing judgment on to. His name would definitely be scripted in history, however, the time will tell how will his judgment be accepted by the people of India. The hard work that's going on and the volume of work that is involved in this case makes it an all-time hit amongst people. We only hope that sense prevails in people and they wait patiently for the judgment and accept it wholeheartedly without any trouble.
India is a country where people from decades have been living with the concept of Sarva Dharma Samabhav (Equal weightage to each Religion). Hence we should take the judgment in our stride whichever way it may come and move ahead with life.
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Josh Reviews Star Wars Rebels Season 3
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I was dubious about Star Wars Rebels when it first launched. I was still sore over the premature cancellation of The Clone Wars and not that interested in what looked like a very kid-centric new show. But I gave it a try with an open mind, and the early episodes were enough to keep my interest. The final episodes of season one were terrific, and I was thrilled by the involvement of Darth Vader and Ahsoka (a popular character with an unfinished story from The Clone Wars) in season two. There were moments in season two that were as good as Star Wars had been in twenty years, in my opinion. With The Force Awakens and then Rogue One bringing back Star Wars in a big way, I was eager to see where Rebels would go in season three.
While season three does not have the incredible high-points of season two (am I exaggerating to say that Ahsoka's discovery that her master Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader is one of the greatest moments in the entire Star Wars saga? It's a shocking and heartbreaking scene), it is nevertheless a very solid, very entertaining season filled with some wonderful episodes and exciting connections to and expansions upon the wider Star Wars universe.
It's tough to beat using Darth Vader as the main villain of season two, but showrunner Dave Filoni and his team made the perfect choice to use Grand Admiral Thrawn as the villain here in season three. Thrawn was introduced as the villain of Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire, way back in 1991. Back then, Star Wars was only the original three movies. Mr. Zahn's trilogy of novels was the first attempt at continuing the Star Wars story beyond the events of Return of the Jedi. The success of those novels led to the explosion of Star Wars novels (the "expanded universe") and comics and, I am convinced, had a hand in the eventual return of Star Wars to the big screen with the Special Editions and eventually the prequel films. (But don't blame Timothy Zahn for that!!) Mr. Zahn's novels are terrific, and Thrawn was a spectacular villain. So the idea that Thrawn would finally be brought into "official" on-screen Star Wars canon was a delicious prospect for fans when this was first announced last year.
Rebels season three did not disappoint. Thrawn looked perfect, and he was wonderfully brought to life by Lars Mikkelsen, who perfectly voices the silky-smooth manipulator. I loved seeing Thrawn popping up throughout the season. While of course his appearances aren't as exciting as those of Vader, the show admirably took the time to develop Thrawn as a patient schemer, just as he was in Mr. Zahn's novels. It takes the whole season for Thrawn to bring his hammer down on the rebels, but when he does, it works. More on this in a moment.
Rebels season three was filled with connections to the broader Star Wars saga. I liked seeing Wedge in "The Antilles Extraction." I loved how the final episodes of the season featured all the famous rebel leaders, from Mon Mothma to Bail Organa to even General Dodonna. (I believe the finale, "Zero Hour," was the first time that General Dodonna's name was actually spoken on screen in any Star Wars iteration!) I loved seeing Tarkin again (who, of course, was also back in a big way in Rogue One.)
Following Rogue One, I was hugely excited that Saw Gerrera (who had first appeared in the animated Clone Wars series) was incorporated into the two-part "Ghosts of Geonosis". That was a very cool idea, and I was thrilled that Forest Whitaker, who played Saw in Rogue One, returned to voice the character on Rebels. Unfortunately, that episode was a bit of a disappointment, as they didn't really flesh out Saw the way I had hoped. Still, cool idea. I'd love to see more of Saw next season. (And maybe some other characters from Rogue One like Cassian Andor…??)
One of my favorite things about Rebels season 2 was the way Dave Filoni and his team brought back characters from The Clone Wars, as a way to give some closure to fans of that cancelled-before-its-time show. To my delight, Rebels season 3 continued this. I loved the return of Hondo Ohnaka in the premiere, "Steps into Shadow," and then again in "The Wynkahthu Job". Hondo was a great character from The Clone Wars, and I like the way Rebels has developed his relationship with Ezra. I also continuing to see Rex this season, and it was fun to see Battle Droids and other Clone Wars style droids and equipment in "The Last Battle."
The standout episode of Rebels season 3 was, of course, "Twin Suns," in which Ezra discovers that Obi-Wan Kenobi is still alive and tracks him down to Tatooine, where Obi-Wan and Darth Maul have their final confrontation. This episode is great on so many levels. First of all, it is amazing to see the Alec Guinness version of Obi-Wan. I love the way they designed and animated this older version of Obi-Wan (transitioning from the character's appearance in The Clone Wars and the slightly different look they gave him when the holographic recording of Obi-Wan was featured early in season one), and he was perfectly voiced by Stephen Stanton. The moment in which we see Obi-Wan's lightsaber stance shift from his Episode III style (with two fingers pointed forward) to his Episode IV style (with his lightsaber held back over his shoulder, like a baseball bat), was genius. And then that confrontation with Darth Maul. Wow. I loved that The Clone Wars brought back Maul and was able to flesh him out and give him his due as a villain. It was so painful when Clone Wars was cancelled and Maul's story was left unfinished, so I was thrilled when Rebels brought back an older, broken version of Maul. How perfect that his story ends where it began, in battle with Obi-Wan. I was expecting an awesome fight and so, like everyone, I was shocked that the Maul/Obi-Wan fight lasted only seconds, but what a perfect choice that was. Of course Obi-Wan could kick Maul's tuchas at that point. I loved that Maul tried to use the move that beat Qui-Gon on Obi-Wan, and I loved that of course Obi-Wan was ready for it. I loved that Maul died in Obi-Wan's arms, just as Qui-Gon did. And I was fascinated by the reference to Luke as "the chosen one." I wrote a lot about that just the other day.
One of the most interesting new developments about Rebels season 3, which also featured into my recent blog post, was the Bendu, a mysterious creature who incorporated both the light and dark sides of the force into itself. Voiced by Dr. Who's Tom Baker, I loved this enigmatic new character, and I wonder whether the Bendu isn't a hint as to where the Star Wars saga is heading with The Last Jedi and beyond.
Rebels season three spent a lot of time developing the Mandalorians and the backstory of Sabine. None of this quite landed for me the way I think it was supposed to have. It was all OK, and Sabine is a great character, but I just wasn't as interested in any of the many other Mandalorian characters as I should have been.
Conversely, I loved the way Rebels season 3 continued to develop Agent Kallus, to the point that he was fully accepted by Kanan as a rebel in the final moments of the finale. I've grown to love Kallus, and I can't wait to see where his story goes.
The season ended with the very strong two-parter "Zero Hour," in which the rebels assemble as prelude to an effort to liberate Lothal (the planet from which Ezra hails that served as the main location for much of season one), just in time for Thrawn to bring down his hammer in a massive Star Destroyer assault on the rebel base, that smashes the assembled rebel fleet. It's a pleasure to see Thrawn's machinations finally bear fruit, and the episodes features a glorious extended space battle that I adored. The animation was gorgeous and thrilling. I love the way many of the season's story-lines came together, from the use of the stolen shield generator to Sabine and the Mandalorians coming in for a rescue. I loved how Thrawn refused to consider accepting the rebels' surrender. I loved the lightsaber fight on the hull of a starship — what a cool Star Wars idea! One might argue that, in the end, Thrawn's victory should have been more complete (quite a few rebels do get away from him, in the end), but I can live with it.
There were a few weak spots, but over-all Rebels season three was a very entertaining, well-crafted season and a wonderful expansion of the wider Star Wars saga. I can't wait for season four. Let's watch that trailer again, shall we?


Federal 100: Harlin R. McEwen
By FCW Staff
Name: Harlin R. McEwen
Title: Chairman
Communications and Technology Committee
Agency: International Association of Chiefs of Police
A force for first responders. McEwen has a talent for bringing together both communities and complex technologies. Through IACP, he worked to integrate various identity, credential and access management frameworks in the public safety community -- an effort that Kshemendra Paul, program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, termed "hugely successful." And as chairman of FirstNet's Public Safety Advisory Committee, McEwen aligned work on the nationwide first responders' emergency communications radio network, which includes the next-generation 911 system and the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to enhance emergency communications.
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