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7 Movies That Will Profoundly Change You

Ever since cinema established itself as a form of art, countless films have been created; countless superb and strong and awe worthy films. That is one of the reasons why the choices on this list were so exceptionally hard to make. But there are some films that touch us in a secret, intimate place, deep within our heart, and after we leave the theater we are never, ever the same, not completely.

They change the way we perceive things; they change the way we see the world and the way we feel; in a way, they change our lives. So without further ado, here are the 7 films that will leave deep and lasting marks on your very soul.

1. Magnolia

Back in 2000-2001, PTA said that he believed “Magnolia” would be his best film ever. And he had a point. A study on luck, coincidences, and the invisible forces that drive and join people, “Magnolia” is a funny, strange, and heartbreakingly human film, in which all the characters struggle for the same things we all do: happiness, redemption, and freedom.

2. No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men

It would be overly ambitious of me to try and fit an adequate interpretation of the Coen brothers’ film into one paragraph, so all I can say is that this is a movie that has level upon level of meaning. With Xavier Bardem fleshing out the inevitability of death and the randomness of chaos in one of his strongest performances, this movie will slam into your head one simple fact: You can’t stop what’s coming.

3. The Tree of Life

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Terrence Malick’s largest and most ambitious project to date won the Palme d’Or and divided critics. Like all of his films, it’s worth watching simply for the stunning visual beauty. However, “The Tree of Life” is much, much more than just a beautiful film. It is a cosmic, transcendental film. It searches for the meaning of life, from the beginning of creation to the a small family. And it asks all the right questions.

4. Grave of the Fireflies (“Hotaru no Haka”)

Grave of the Fireflies

This movie will not present you with existential, or large scale questions, or philosiphical musings. But it will change your heart. It is the story of two siblings being orphaned and left to fend for themselves during WWII in Japan. Any further descriptions will not do the movie justice.

5. Fight Club

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Ah, “Fight Club”. Where do I even begin with this one? The movie that revolutionized the way many, many men see the world. The first shock comes when you first watch it; you realize the pretentiousness and meaninglessness of consumerism and materialistic self-absorption. The second shock comes when you realize that the ensuing “revolution” is, itself, a satire, mercilessly taunting itself. The movie will get you thinking. What am I doing? What is it that defines me? How can I liberate myself? Will it have meaning, or is everything still just a copy of a copy of a copy?

6. The Fountain

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Darren Aronofsky has given us some wonderful features, that linger and haunt us long after we’ve watched them. “The Fountain” is a little gem that, because of its grandness, can easily be misunderstood. In its core, it is a love story. One man trying across time and space to get back his love from the clutches of the inevitable; death. At the same time, it is an exploration of how we come to terms with death; decay; and our own perishing. This balance between love and death, along with the stunning visuals, will give you an unforgettable experience.

7. Life is Beautiful

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Buongiorno, principessa!“. Decades after Roberto Benigni’s film about a father who tries to shelter his son and family from the horrors of WWII in a Nazi concentration camp, “Life is beautiful” remains relevant as a lesson on optimism, and preserving one’s humanity and childlike innocence safe and intact from anything life might throw at us.

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  1. StephanieStroh December 9, 2015 at 1:40 pm - Reply

    Thank you for another great article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information in such a perfect way of presentation.

  2. John Davidson April 25, 2017 at 1:00 am - Reply

    3 movies you missed are PERFUME (the story of a murderer), INSTINCT with anthony hopkins and DEADMAN (Jim Jarmusch film).

  3. msv May 2, 2017 at 11:28 pm - Reply

    in to the wild

  4. Espen May 3, 2017 at 4:58 pm - Reply

    Watership down could also be here

  5. S Byrne May 3, 2017 at 5:28 pm - Reply

    Sofia, in your work, have you found disappointment with humans?

  6. Aubrey May 3, 2017 at 11:20 pm - Reply

  7. al hel May 4, 2017 at 9:53 am - Reply

    !!! Enter The Void by Gaspar Noë !!!
    Irréversible by Gaspar Noë —
    Obviously STANLEY KUBRICK’s 2001, Clockwork, Barry Lyndon et.al. —
    WERNER HERZOG’s Documentaries —
    INGMAR BERGMAN (Hour Of The Wolf! Persona!) —

  8. Andrea May 4, 2017 at 10:07 am - Reply

    I Daniel Blake ?

  9. Will Staten May 4, 2017 at 11:20 am - Reply

    My List:

    12 Monkeys
    Higher Learning
    Do The Right Thing
    The Matrix 1
    The Godfather
    Pursuit of Happyness

  10. Nina May 4, 2017 at 11:32 am - Reply

    Once Were Warriors, Big Fish, The Bucket List, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, 12 Years A Slave, Apocalypse Now

  11. not hater, just disappointed May 4, 2017 at 4:18 pm - Reply

    Hello there! Thanks for nice recommandations, but I have to say, I saw many influencing movies, and many of them were more touching than these… And Magnolia doesn’t give me anything, but a bad feeling of 3 wasted hours. Hollywood produced a lot of trash, but I can’t believe I spent 3 hours of my existance, waiting for some hidden revealing point. It was so long, slow, boring and empthy! I wish I had not seen it in your list, so I wouldn’t start watching it. 3hours of my life has been wasted 🙁

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3 Important Steps to Finding a Job You Love

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This quote from Confucius is one that’s as true today as it was when he said it. If you love what you do, getting up to go to work every morning won’t be a time of dread – it’ll be a time of excitement.

But how do you find a job your love, especially if you’re still in high school and don’t know what you love or care about yet? Below you’ll find some ways to help you get a handle on what you might like to do:

1. Evaluate Your Life

The key is first figuring out the types of things you like based on your activities, beliefs and what you do for fun.

For example, do you watch every crime drama on TV from NCIS to Castle and everything in between? Is the police blotter the first thing you read in the paper? If so, criminal justice is one way to go. You can take down the criminals as a police officer, or solve mysteries as a forensic science expert. You could even become a criminal defense or prosecuting attorney, both of which are needed in society. Get started with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice at Gwynedd Mercy University, classes are offered both on campus and online.

Maybe sports is your thing. If you play sports or can’t get enough of watching them on TV or tracking your favorite player’s stats, there are many careers you might enjoy. Of course, being a pro athlete is at the top for a lot of you, but if that’s not your dream, consider sports management, sports medicine (which includes doctors and physical therapists) or even coaching. A college degree is typically a good starting point for any of these careers.

If your life centers around video games, contrary to what your parent’s may have told you, there are jobs for gamers. You can learn to design your own games from the graphics standpoint or from the programming side. There are even jobs available testing new video games for companies. Look for art schools, computer programming classes and vocational opportunities.

2. Evaluate Your Personality

Your personality traits play a big role in whether or not you’ll be happy with a particular career choice. You should consider all aspects of your personality when thinking about a career. If you love working with people and have a servant’s heart, being stuck behind a desk in a corporate cubicle may seem like torture. On the other hand, if analytical thinking is your strong suit, a customer service job dealing with the general public every day could drive you mad. Here are a few personality traits and jobs that might go along with them.

Nurturing – If you love people and want to help them consider becoming a nurse, teacher, paramedic, social worker or police officer.

Thinker – Abstract theories and math are your happy place so jobs like engineer, scientist or mathematician might be for you.

Pragmatist – You value logic and realism so a career in management, logistics or banking could be something you’ll love.

Idealist – The world is a good place no matter what and you want to make it even better so look at a career in non-profits, writing and the arts.

3. Evaluate the Practicality

Time for a reality check. The harsh reality of life is that you need money to survive. The best, most rewarding job can cause stress if you don’t make enough money to support your lifestyle. While TV and movies make the life of a starving artist look romantic, when you can’t pay your rent or make your car payment, the reality isn’t quite so appealing. So how do you balance what you love with paying the bills?

Decide on the lifestyle you want – but be realistic. You may want to live like LeBron James or Bill Gates, but chances are that dream is a few years (decades) of hard work away. In reality, consider how much it will cost to live in the city you want to live in, and live life the way you want to live. If the pay scale for your preferred career won’t support that, you may need to reevaluate.

Decide what you can sacrifice – this means to consider what you are willing to live without to have the career you want. Maybe you’re willing to live in a cheaper community, or maybe you’ll give up some spare time to work a second job. Maybe, the job is your life’s passion so you’ll sacrifice just about anything for it.

Having a job you love is one of the best feelings in the world. Remember that your first job out of college might not be that perfect position, you may have to work your way up to it. In either case, you’ll be happy knowing that you are taking steps to have the career you are passionate about.

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Here Is Another Great Reason to Live Near Trees

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Trees are beautiful, and we all know their importance on the overall environment. What we question now is, does proximity to trees affect our health in general and are people who live near trees healthier than those who don’t? Maybe, let’s take a closer look.

Healthy Trees

Researchers report that people in urban areas with more trees are healthier individuals. This means having fewer cardio-metabolic conditions like heart disease and diabetes. Of course, green is better for the health, but do we know the direct correlation between humans and individual trees? How much can a tree on a city street affect man’s well-being?

Test subjects were chosen from Toronto because of Canada’s universal health care law. This means that access to doctors should not vary as much as in other areas making the health impact from trees an increased factor. Although the universal health care law does not remove all variable factors, it does offer a fairly level ground for studies

Researchers, combining data of 31,000 people and satellite imagery of a half million trees in Toronto CA, set out to discover whether the tree/health theory is true. The human data includes cardio-metabolic conditions, education, income paired with how each person views their own health.

In the Scientific Reports, these studies show that planting 10 or more trees on the city streets improved the rate of health and decreased cardio-metabolic conditions. If you were to compare this rate of health improvement to results from other factors, you would see similarities to say, $10,000 increase in income, or feeling 10 years younger! Now that’s a notable difference!

After controlling from income, education and age, co-author, Marc Berman told Washington Post,

“The study has found a huge impact on health from the planting of trees.”

In Conclusion

Although studies prove that trees have an impact on health, they do not specify the exact reason for this effect. It could be that the quality of air is improved in areas with more trees. Trees may also reduce stress and promote physical activities. The data for the tests was also limited and individual’s perception of health was different from person to person.

With all this being said, Toronto is advised to plant 10 more trees per block. In this area, it is feasible. This would provide a 4% increase in tree/street density. Would this truly improve health? We think so. The only way to find out is to move forward and continue to improve our environment. After all, what’s wrong with a few more trees, it definitely couldn’t hurt us!

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IQ Does Not Measure Real Intelligence, Say Scientists

iq intelligenceHuman intelligence cannot be measured by a single indicator, states new study

It seems that the well-known intelligence quotient IQ finally does not represent what we thought it is. The largest research ever done to date concluded that human intelligence is too complex to be measured by only one parameter.

Instead it was proposed to assess the “potential” of our minds by three different components: short-term memory, logical reasoning and verbal ability.

The intelligence is a complex entity

IQ tests have been used for decades for assess human intelligence and often were taken

into account in choosing candidates for different jobs. Nonetheless, the new study suggests that it is fundamentally wrong because it ignores the fact that the human mind is very complex and consists of many different aspects.

“The results refute the idea that a single indicator of intelligence, such as IQ, can capture all the variations in cognitive ability of different people,” said Dr. Roger Highfield, one of the authors of the study.

“Everybody can think of people who are bad at reasoning but have excellent memory and amazing verbal skills. Now we can say that there is no single quotient such as IQ that can capture all the aspects of intelligence,” added Dr. Highfield.

The largest survey ever

The research, led by experts at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, was conducted online from the websites of the «New Scientist», «Telegraph» and «Discovery» in 2010 and involved 110,000 people. 44,600 of them were considered suitable for inclusion in the sample under study – the largest number that has ever been studied.

Participants were submitted to 12 reasoning, planning, memory and attention tests and were asked to answer questions about their personal habits and preferences. Having analyzed the answers, the researchers saw that the intelligence shows in people in different ways and cannot be assessed by a single measure. In contrast, at least three indicators seem to be crucial for such kind of assessment: short-term memory, logical reasoning and language skills.

After that the researchers studied the brain scans of 16 participants and found that these three characteristics are associated with three separate circuits in the brain i.e. three different patterns of neural activity. “The bottom line is: what makes one person different from another cognitively – what is often called intelligence – is too complex to be summarized in one single factor – the IQ” said the leader of the study Professor Adrian Owen of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario.

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New Study Reveals What Happens in the Brain on Psychedelics

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Everyone knows that psychedelic substances such as LSD and ‘magic’ mushrooms can intensely alter one’s perception of the world and themselves, but not so much is known about what processes take place in the brain on a physical and chemical level.

According to a new study published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, the state in which the brain finds itself under the influence of psychedelic drugs is approximately the same as when we are dreaming.

The similarity of brain activity in the psychedelic state with the processes that occur during dreams is striking. People often describe their experience after taking psilocybin as a dream-like state. For the first time we managed to get a physical confirmation of the similarity of these states,” said Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College London who took part in the research.

Scientists led by Dr Enzo Tagliazucchi of the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, scanned the brain activity of 15 people before and after a psilocybin injection, a hallucinogenic substance that is contained in “magic” mushrooms.

The researchers found that under the influence of psilocybin, the activity of certain brain areas, in particular, the hippocampus and the anterior cingulate cortex, which are responsible for emotions and memory, becomes more synchronized, suggesting that these areas are working together.

The researchers also note that the activity in the areas of the brain responsible for higher-level thinking (including consciousness) becomes much less coordinated under the influence of psilocybin.

Moreover, using a new technique for analyzing the brain data, the researchers found that brain activity becomes much more diverse under the influence of hallucinogenic substances than in the normal state.

Most likely, that is why many people who take psychedelics refer to the experience of expanded consciousness, because their brain indeed gets additional states of activity compared to its function in the normal state.

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  1. George E Moss July 11, 2014 at 7:37 pm - Reply

    I think there is a subtle difference between psychedelic injection and taking magic mushroom as did the Mexican Maya. In my duplicated experiment I took six psilocybe caerulesens Murray and stayed the night on the Mayan site at Palenque. No hallucinations! But additional wavelengths became clearly visible … human aura and flower auras became visible and best of all, all limestone blocks of all buildings glowed blue-violet. The extra light was sufficient for my party to find their way about the site in safety in the dead of night.

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Help for victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse

If you're experiencing domestic abuse, you may feel afraid about looking for help because you've been threatened, or because you think no-one else will be listening to you.

But you don't have to face domestic violence on your own. There are many organisations that can offer support and can help to protect you.

Contacting the Police

In the event of an emergency, you should call the police immediately on 999.

Domestic Abuse Liaison Officers are also available to talk to you in confidence. You can contact your local domestic abuse and safeguarding teams (DAST) by using the following extensions:

  • DAST North: dial 101 and extension 430375
  • DAST South: dial 101 01268 244045
  • DAST West: dial 101 and extension 320601

Other support

For Female Victims

The Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline, run in partnership between Women's Aid and Refuge, is a national service for women experiencing domestic violence, as well as for family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf.

Refuge's network of safe houses provides emergency accommodation for women and children when they are most in need.

Women's Aid is a national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children.

The Woman's Trust Counselling Service is open to all women who are, or have been affected by domestic abuse. Counselling sessions offer a time to explore feelings and talk through difficulties in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment. The service is for women only and is provided by only female counsellors.

The Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse is a confidential and non judgemental support service for women and young people who have been raped, sexually abused or assaulted, either recently or in the past - whether it involved a stranger, friend or family member. You can speak to someone on 01206 769795, or leave a message on the 24 hour answerphone.

The number to call the South East Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Line is 01375 380609.

For Female Victims (Pregnancy)

Pregnancy is a time when domestic abuse can start and it can be a risky time, with potential danger to both mother and child. If abusive behaviour is already present in a relationship, then pregnancy can be a time when it gets worse. If you are pregnant and you are concerned about domestic abuse, talk in confidence to your midwife.

For Male Victims

Many of us think of domestic abuse as being something that only happens to women. But men can also be victims of abuse. Many men won't say anything when they are being abused but it's crucial you get help.

The Men's advice line is run by the charity Respect to support men who are victims of domestic violence. You can reach them on 0808 801 0327 (Mon, Tues and Weds 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm. There is an ansafone outside these hours).

DVMen is a website that provides advice and support for men suffering domestic violence.

The ManKind Initiative is a national charity that provides help and support for male victims of domestic abuse and domestic violence.

You can find more information on domestic abuse against men on the NHS Choices website.

For LGBT victims

Domestic abuse can be as common and as severe in same-sex relationships as in heterosexual relationships.

Galop offer emotional and practical support for LGBT people experiencing domestic abuse. They offer a National domestic abuse helpline, 0800 999 5428, or you can email them on  Check the opening times on their website.

Are You Hurting the one You Love? is a booklet on male violence in gay and bisexual relationships.

For children

Domestic abuse is defined as taking place between adults, but this abuse also harms children. There is also evidence that it often occurs alongside child abuse within families.

If you're worried about violence or abuse against children or young people, contact your local children's services:

Emergency contact details

Where a situation is urgent and cannot wait until the next working day:

Monday to Thursday 5.30pm - 9am
Friday and bank holidays 4.30pm - 9am
Telephone: 0345 606 1212

Where there are immediate concerns about the safety or welfare of a child or young person:

Telephone: 0345 603 7634

If you are a child who needs help please tell us immediately. There are people who can help you. All you need to do is tell us. You can either call the Initial Response Team or email:

Evening and night-time help;

Monday to Thursday 5.30pm - 9am
Friday and bank holidays 4.30pm - 9am
Telephone: 0345 606 1212

Daytime help;

Monday to Thursday 9am - 5.30pm
Friday and bank holidays 9am - 4:30am
Telephone: 0345 603 7634

The National Child Protection Helpline is committed to providing a service to anyone who needs advice, help or information about concerns for a child's welfare, or to those who want to report concerns they have about a child or young person at risk of abuse.

The Hideout is a website created by Women's Aid giving support to children and young people affected by domestic violence.

ChildLine is a private and confidential service for children and young people up to the age of nineteen. You can contact a ChildLine counsellor about anything; no problem is too big or too small. Call free on 0800 1111, have a 1-2-1 chat online or send an email.

For Older People

Action on Elder Abuse is a national charity which has a free helpline in Essex (telephone 0800 032 7644) providing emotional support, information and guidance to anyone concerned about potential abuse affecting older people.

Victim Support

Victim Support is the national independent charity that offers support to victims of crime including women, men and children experiencing domestic abuse.

They will help by providing you with information, practical help and emotional support, and do this by:

  • always prioritising your safety
  • giving you time to think and to make decisions
  • offering continued support whatever decisions you make
  • putting you in touch with other agencies that can help, for example with housing, benefits and legal advice
  • helping you to explore your options for dealing with the abuse

Their services are confidential, free and available to everyone.

Victim Support accepts referrals from official and other organisations as well as self-referrals from individuals themselves, whether or not you want to report the crime to the police and regardless of when it happened.

You can call Victim Support using their national support line number 0808 168 9111; from 9am - 9pm weekdays and 9am - 7pm weekends. Or you can email

Other General Support

The National Centre for Domestic Violence provides a free and fast emergency injunction service to survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their financial circumstances, race, gender or sexual orientation.

The National Stalking Helpline provides guidance and information to anybody who is currently or has previously been affected by harassment or stalking.

Network for Surviving Stalking represents UK stalking victims and their families.

The This is Abuse website provides specialist advice on what to do if you find yourself in an abusive relationship with your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend.

For Perpetrators

If you know someone who you think may be abusing their partner or family member, or if you're worried about your own behaviour, you can choose to stop, and there are agencies who can support you.

Anger management programmes are never appropriate for someone who is a domestic abuser. People perpetrate abuse in order to get what they want and to gain control.

Couple counselling is never safe for a couple in which one partner is abusing the other either, as it can be dangerous to force the victim to talk about the relationship in front of the abuser.

Respect is a registered charity and national membership organisation promoting best practice for domestic abuse perpetrator programmes and associated support services in the UK.

It provides a helpline for men who commit domestic abuse, and for people concerned for someone they know who they think is abusive. The number to ring is 0808 802 4040.

Essex Change is a community based domestic abuse intervention project which is run in association with women's and children's services. And you can reach them on 0845 372 7701 (calls to 0845 numbers are chargeable, rates vary) or text them using their mobile number, 07872 541982

Other Information and Advice

Legal Advice

The National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV) specialises in helping victims of domestic abuse to obtain non molestation orders and injunctions, to protect them from further abuse. The free service is available to everybody by calling 0800 970 2070 (24 hour, local call charge rate).

You can also text NCDV to 60777 and they'll call you back. And for the deaf and hard of hearing, they offer a minicom and typetalk service on 18001 08009 702070.

Rights of Women offer a legal helpline, run by female solicitors and barristers, for women needing legal advice about domestic abuse or any other matter. 020 7251 6577 (Tue, Wed, Thurs 2-4pm and 7-9pm and Fri 12-2pm)

Going to court

If you report domestic abuse to the police, they may give your details to the Independent Domestic Violence Advisor service.

It offers support and information and will work with someone throughout a court case. This could include arranging a pre court visit and being present with the victim when they appear in court as a witness.

Rights of Women also offer a helpline for women needing criminal law advice about domestic abuse, once their case has been reported to the police and is in the criminal justice system. You can call them on 020 7251 8887 (Tue 11-1pm).

The Victim Support Witness Service

The Witness Service can give you:

  • someone to talk to confidentially, about how you're feeling before a trial
  • information about what to expect in court, including a chance to see the court beforehand and learn about court procedures
  • a quiet place to wait before you are called to give evidence
  • someone to go with you into the courtroom if you want, to help you feel more at ease
  • practical help (for example with claiming your expenses)
  • easier access to people, such as court staff, who can answer specific questions about the case
  • the chance to talk over your case when it has ended and to get more help or information

Like the rest of Victim Support, the Witness Service is free and independent of the police or courts. To get help now, contact your local Witness Service 0300 303 0165.

Accommodation/Housing Support

If you decide to or have to leave your home, or you want to try and stay but without an abusive partner, there are several options available to you. Women's Aid offer emergency accommodation, advocacy and support to women who want to escape from abuse.

You can also talk to a housing advice officer at your local district or borough council about this. And if you own your home you may wish to speak to a solicitor.

If the abuser has left and you wish to remain in your home, but are fearful because of security and safety issues, a local Sanctuary Scheme may operate in your area. They provide additional security measures and support to victims of domestic abuse. Enquires should be made to your local district or borough council (who you pay your council tax to).

Shelter also provide a free housing advice helpline that you can call. 0808 800 4444 is the freephone number to ring.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West took a trip south of the border this week to enjoy some sun and celebrate Kanye’s birthday.

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‘It consists of flat midlands, working class villages and very little to write home about in the way of touristy sights.

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‘Kim’s idea of fun is getting dressed up and going to some great restaurants, and shopping till she drops in some of Europe’s most posh boutiques,’ adds the source. ‘Not roughing it in the country.

‘Once they landed in Prague, and Kim had a chance to get decked out in her finest again, she seemed a lot more content.

Ireland isn’t really our idea of an ideal honeymoon spot either — but hey, you know Kanye likes to be ‘different’.

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  1. Do they photo shop every other picture? her body here looks lumpy.

  2. I am pretty much sure that they didn’t enjoyed their honey moon as check out : ->> They are again off for another honeymoon

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It was just one of those days. I didn’t hear my alarm clock, couldn’t find matching socks, missed my bus and was thirty-four minutes late for work. Exactly. I know because my boss told me about sixteen times when I walked through the door. Everybody has one of those days every once in a while, but lately it seemed like every second day it was my turn to have one of those days. Everything was catching up on me and I was beginning to feel like I would never outrun any of my problems.

When I got to my desk there were files piled high and I knew it was going to take me all day plus some over-time to get through them. Just my luck, I had arranged to cook dinner for Greg, my boyfriend of a year and a half, that night and had left him with instructions to set up what he could before I got home. I was going to have to call him now and tell him that I was going to be late and that most likely he would be fending for himself for dinner. I hated letting him down and breaking our plans, I loved to look after him with dinner because of the reward I’d get from him for dessert.

I looked at the clock, ten past two, and I still had six full files to work on. On top of that I had just received an email from Jack McCarthy, the man in charge of the man in charge at my company. I was filled with dread even before I opened the email, and even more so after I’d read it. He wanted to meet with me at three o clock.

Jack McCarthy was a sort of mythical figure around the office. Everyone knew he was there, watching, but no one had ever seen him. He came and left before and after everyone else and as his office was a floor above the open-plan office I shared with the rest of my collegues, nobody ever saw him. Granted we could have shared an elevator ride at one point or another but you would have never known it was him. I knew this meeting could only spell one thing for me. I was going to be fired to top off my already shit day.

It was five to three when I stood up to leave my office and take the walk of shame. I decided to take the stairs to waste another two minutes as I didn’t want to come across as too eager to be fired. I checked in with Mr. McCarthy’s receptionist and she told me that he wouldn’t be long and that I’d be called in a minute. My hands were shaking as I paced up and down the waiting area and when the receptionist told me that I could go in, my stomach literally flipped upside down.

I don’t know what I was expecting McCarthy to look like, but it certainly wasn’t what I saw. We had guessed about his appearance in the office a few times but we were all so far off, it was scary. Instead of the fifty-something grey haired heavy set man we’d all imagined, was a man who was maybe thirty, blond hair, green eyes, tall and broad shouldered. I was certain I’d never shared an elevator ride with him because him, I would have remembered.

I was so distracted by McCarthy’s looks that I completely forgot what I was doing in his office, it was only when he asked me to take a seat that I remembered that I had been summoned. He started his spiel the way I expected him to, told me that he noticed my work had been slipping of late, that I hadn’t been as focused as I usually was and that he’d had a few complaints from Paul, the office supervisor. I knew where this was heading, the files on my desk didn’t matter at all now as someone else would be working on them next week.

“Is everything ok?”, McCarthy asked, I must’ve looked like I was about to cry but I nodded that it was, “It’s just that I’ve been in charge of this company for five years now and I’ve never seen such a great worker fall so quickly. I really don’t want to lose you so I need to know if there’s anything I can do for you as the man in charge.” What a turn around, I had expected to be fired but actually my boss was trying to help me. I decided that there was nothing to it but to be honest with him.

I told him all about my odd socks and missed buses and not being able to outrun the bad things in life. He sympathised and told me that he felt like that at times and that there was nothing to it but to take a week off, maybe go on vacation, get some fresh air. I couldn’t believe my luck, such a bad day had suddenly gone in an amazing new direction. I was even told to take the rest of the day off, forget about the office for a while.

I thanked McCarthy and left. I decided to surprise Greg by getting home early and preparing his favourite meal and for the first time in a long time, I had a spring in my step as I made my way there.

I pushed open the door of my apartment, the door was always slightly jammed and there was a knack to it, and I could hear laughter but put it down to the neighbour’s t.v. simply being turned up too loud. I walked into the living room and noticed Greg’s jacket on the back of the couch. Strange, he usually worked until half five. I continued on into the kitchen forgetting about his jacket but as I opened the fridge to put the shopping away I heard an almighty moan. I knew straight away what was up.

I stormed into my bedroom and found Greg on top of a strange girl doing what I knew Greg did best. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ten minutes later when I was sitting on the sofa crying I couldn’t remember what I had said or what I had thrown at them to make them up and leave. I loved Greg, and he was supposed to love me. He was supposed to care and I was certainly the only one he was supposed to be treating with his magic stick. Even cloudy with anger I knew how great he had made her feel. I knew how good Greg was and how he knew how to hit every spot. I was usually praising him left, right and centre for his skills, but right now I was cursing them.

The ups and downs of the day had me completely exhausted and with raw eyes I drifted off on the sofa. I couldn’t tell you how long I slept for but when the phone ringing woke me up, I felt like it had been days. Who it was I didn’t know, but I answered the phone anyway, still half asleep.

“Hi, it’s Jack McCarthy, can I speak to Michelle please?”, I strained my eyes to look at the clock sitting on the fireplace. It was almost seven, way too late to be making a business related call.

“Um hi Mr. McCarthy, Michelle speaking, what can I do for you?’, I tried to sound as chirpy as possible but it was kind of tough.

“Oh you can call me Jack, we’re about the same age aren’t we, the Mr. makes me feel so old”, he laughed and I laughed and something told me this was more of an informal phone call than one would usually receive from their boss.

He continued, “I know it’s late and this is probably so totally inappropriate but I was just wondering if you’d like to grab a coffee. You know, just talk. I’m a good listener”.

My mind was still so caught on Greg and the girl that I was wondering how Jack had found out, then it dawned on me that he was talking about our earlier conversation.

“Sure Jack, why not, give me an hour and I’ll meet you in town”. We said our goodbyes and I got up to change. Standing in my bedroom my heart was breaking thinking of Greg’s betrayal. I could barely hold it together and was wondering why I had even said yes to Jack. I had just lost the man I loved forever because there were no second chances for cheaters in my book and yet I had said yes to a maybe-date in the same breath. My head was all over the place.

Maybe it was a rebound thing or maybe it was me just wanting to be appreciated, but I decided to wear my favourite dress to try and impress Jack. Being a big girl it was hard to find a dress to suit my figure but whenever I wore this particular one, I got loads of compliments.

Happy with the way I looked, I made my way into town. Jack was standing outside waiting for me and when I waved to him from across the street, he smiled. Wow, he was breath-taking. Even foggy with heartache I could appreciate his beauty.

The coffee shop Jack picked was a small one with only two or three tables inside. We took our seats and sat for what felt like hours talking about everything and anything but never once about work and never once about Greg, and it felt great. The waiter was making it clear that it was time for us to leave and as I stood to put my coat on I could feel Jack’s eyes on me.

We decided to share a cab home as we both lived in the same direction and it made more sense than one of us having to wait for another cab in the cold. The closer we got to my house, the closer it seemed we got to each other. As the cab pulled over to let me out, jack kissed me, and there and then I decided that he was my rebound, he was going to make me feel better. It was so selfish of me, but it was what I needed and he wasn’t exactly saying no.

Jack was so different to Greg but as we went through the motions I couldn’t help but compare the two. Greg had always been that bit rough in bed, biting and extracting pleasure with pain, Jack was sensual and sweet, kissing me softly, nibbling on my ear, planting butterfly kisses on my breasts.

Jack and I never made it to the bedroom, but on the couch he made me feel like a queen. He caressed my clit with his tongue and gave my breasts attention like they had never received before, each little touch making me whimper.

He made me orgasm so many times that I lost count and when he entered me, it felt like heaven. With Greg I had always known when it was coming, the awkward moment before he actually got up inside, but with Jack it was like we were a perfect fit.

He made me moan so much louder than Greg ever did and I was beginning to understand why people had sex to get over heartbreak, it worked.

His cock tensed up inside me, and my body almost shut down, shuddering, I started to moan. “Oh Greg, that was amazing”.

As soon as I said Greg’s name it was over. The best sex I’d ever had, ruined. And it was my fault. Jack was interested. If I’d waited a few months I was sure this wouldn’t have happened, but I decided that he was going to be my rebound. I was selfish.

Jack got up, dressed himself and slammed the door on his way out, and who could blame him. I certainly couldn’t.

I couldn’t sleep that night. The whole of the days events raced around my head and although I had left the office earlier on vacation I didn’t know now if I would have a job to go back to.

How could I have been so stupid, in the few hours I had spent with Jack I was more comfortable than I had ever been with Greg. I thought I was in love with Greg but Jack made me doubt it all. I knew if I had screamed Jack’s name he would’ve held me until the next morning, with Greg I knew that that would never happen.

As my mind raced I discovered that not only could I have truly fallen for Jack had I not ruined it, I had simply settled for Greg. Yeah he was good in bed but he wasn’t that great at anything else got to do with me.

I spent the whole of the next day kicking myself and staring at the phone. I knew it wasn’t likely that Jack was going to call, but at the same time I couldn’t give up hoping. I lay on the couch where Jack and I made love and brought myself to an orgasm just thinking about what had happened the night before.

It was late the next evening when the phone rang.

“Hello”, I answered.

“I need to know who Greg is”, Jack’s voice made me tremble.

Without hesitation I told him everything, the girl, the heartbreak and the rebound. There was silence on the other end of the line and I was sure that I had scared him away.

“You know, I don’t wanna be your rebound guy. I like you, like really really like you, but you need to be sure you’re over Greg before we can have anything. There’s so much I want to share with you but I can’t settle for someone who’s too stuck to love me back. I’ll see you at work Michelle, goodnight”.

I hung up the phone, happy that there was still an oppurtunity for me and Jack but confident that I needed to get over Greg completely before Jack would even look at me again. I started there and then, taking down all of the photos of us and throwing them in the fire, it wasn’t like either of us were ever going to need them.

As the weeks went by, I got my groove back at work. Jack returned to being Mr. McCarthy and I only ever heard from him in random emails he’d send me every once in a while. I was still holding out hope that maybe one day we’d have something, but I was sincerely happy on my own for now, holding my own heart.

About six months after my night with Jack, he emailed me and told me to meet him in his office, it was urgent. I tried scanning my brain for mistakes I might have made, for anything that would require an urgent meeting.

I climbed the stairs to his office and was told to go straight in, he was expecting me. Seeing him again made my heart jump. I closed the door behind me and took a seat.

“Mr. McCarthy if I’ve done anything wrong I assure you I’ll correct it”, I stammered as I tried to get the words out.

“What happened to Jack, huh?”, straight away he put me at ease, “actually I asked you up here because I think you’re ready, well at least I hope you are”, there was a smile in his voice as he spoke.

Now it was my turn for a question, “um, ready for what exactly?”

“Come on Michelle, you know what I’m talking about”, suddenly serious Jack continued, “I’ve wanted you every single day for the past six months, I know you haven’t forgotten. I see you everyday from up here and you’re looking better than ever, I just know you’re over him, I can feel it”.

Even though I had hoped for this, I was still surprised when it happened. To think that Jack had yearned for me everyday I had yearned for him made me feel amazing. To know that my feelings were reciprocated made me feel on top of the world. I was sure I had never been in love with Greg.

Jack gave me the rest of the day off under the condition that I would spend it with him, and I wasn’t about to start arguing. We walked hand in hand down almost every street in the city, we sat on park benches, leaned against walls and finally got a cab back to my place. I wasn’t about to ruin this one.

This time we didn’t dive straight in. I poured us some wine and we sat outside on the balcony staring up at the stars. For me that was enough but it was an added bonus that I could feel Jack’s body wanting me. His rock-hard cock was telling my body that he wanted me.

I turned and faced him and while passionately kissing him, undid the button of his suit trousers. The last time we were this close he did all the pleasuring so I took this as my chance to say thank you.

I took all 8 inches of his cock in my hands and stroked his shaft. I brought my face down closer and pleasured him with my tongue. I was determined to make him cum, but he had other ideas.

Telling me to stop, he rolled us over and pinned me underneath him. He unbuttoned my shirt and unzipped my skirt. With every touch of his hand I felt my body tremble. God he knew how to make a girl swoon. As before, we were a perfect fit. Our bodies were totally in sync. I was used to hard and fast but Jack made me want it soft and slow. With every thrust up inside me I thought my heart was going to burst. He was absolute perfection. My body reacted so quickly to him that before long he had me screaming his name. “Jack, Jack, Jack”.

Realising that he had brought me to a climax sent Jack over the edge, he blew his load inside me. We didn’t move, both afraid that our perfect moment would come to an end. I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep with Jack, now soft, still inside me.

For the first time in my life, I felt complete. Not yet in love, but so very close it scared me.

What true love is you’ll never know until you truly have love.

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The beginning of this starts slow but gets better, Names and places have been changed so as not to identify the persons involved but if they read it I am sure that they will recognise themselves. The events described her took place 20 years ago in Ilkeston and Peterborough. I had used the local Video Shop for some time and had flirted with the owner Jane as I rented Videos It was sad then to see one day a sign on the door that said business closed.

I found out that Jane had gone to live with her Mum as the shop was also her house and it was being repossessed, I contacted Jane and agreed to go to see her, my original intention being to return some videos and to chat to Jane. I arrived and was invited in and told that Jane had been ripped off by her business partner and as a result the shop had gone bust and Asif had gone abroad leaving Jane to pick up the pieces. Being a successful businessman myself I thought about buying the premises from the receiver and installing Jane as the Manager, as I went through my ideas her mum Beth took me to one side and told me that she felt that if I did this Jane would have got off lightly for what had been a stupid business decision that she had tried to prevent. Beth said that had Jane’s dad been alive he would have put her across his knee despite her 32 years.

An idea began to form in my head, I was into spanking and here was an opportunity to have a session landed on my plate so to speak. I told Jane that I would help her but before doing so I was going to spank her both as a punishment as to her stupidity and as a warning not to do it again. Beth said that she would leave the room however; I made her stay to watch, I told her that she should also get a spanking as she could have prevented this happening by giving her daughter better advice.

I got Jane to bend over my knee and I lifted her skirt and pulled her knickers to her knees, I started spanking her hard on the bare ass TWACK !!!, She was crying out but I did not slow down, she was struggling and I told her I would start again and use a cane if she did not stop struggling. I spanked her again TWACK !!!, she was crying out asking me to stop telling me she would do anything but to let her up, I gave her 12 hard spanks before telling her to go and stand in the corner facing the wall I got her to take her skirt off and her knickers so that I could see her red backside.

I then took Beth across my knee but not before seeing that there was a wet patch on my leg below where Jane’s fanny had been, Beth bent over my knee and for a woman of 54 I remarked that she had an excellent arse, I laid into her just as I had done her daughter   TWACK !!!, she took her spanking better than her daughter and I completed all 12 with only a whimper from Beth, I got her to stand up and I noticed a second damp patch on my knee as she was taller. I sent Beth to a corner as well without her skirt or knickers.

I then got Jane to come to me again, this time I got her to bend over the table and grab the other side before I again spanked her, I remembered what she had said about doing anything so I told Beth to go to her room as I would spank them both privately next. Beth went to her room and as soon as she left the room Jane undid my trousers got my cock out and sucked me, she was very good and what with pushing a finger into my ass she had me filling her mouth with cum very quickly. I told Jane that because she had tried to bribe me with a blow job I was going to spank her harder she reluctantly went over the table and I again spanked her bare ass hard TWACK !!!, I then put my hand between her legs and found she was soaking wet. I got my cock out and slid into a very wet pussy, I fucked Jane for some time having only recently come in her mouth and I got her to lie on the table as I fucked her until I filled her pussy with hot wet come.

I got off Jane and told her that I was going to finish her mother’s punishment, I went to her mother’s room and she said I want 6 strokes of the cane and then as many strokes of your cock as you can give me. I got her to strip completely and bend her over the bed before laying on 6 strokes of the cane, I only did this because she asked for it I prefer to use only my hand but I still got hard punishing this 54 year old ass. Once I had finished I held her and slid my cock into a rather tight but very wet cunt I fucked Beth in a number of positions before I finally came in her mouth.

I stayed the night in Jane’s bed and I fucked her again in the morning. Jane then told me that she wanted her daughter to be punished (but not fucked) as she had been stealing from her and also from a friend (Diane who I knew) who wanted to call the police in. That night with Beth out for the evening Simone agreed to go across my knee rather than have the police brought in I agreed with Diane that I would punish Simone and she would not forget it, I got Simone to sign a letter saying that she had asked to be spanked and I secretly set up a video camera (to record events in case she decided to change her mind and report me for assault) Simone was 19 and very pretty she told her mum that she would agree to the spanking so long as I did it in private she did not want her mum to see her being spanked. Jane agreed and went out for a drink.

I then put Simone over my knee in the same way that I had put both her mother and Gran the night before, I brought my hand down hard on Simone’s bare arse TWACK !!!, Simone told me she could take it harder than that and she also asked if I would fuck her like I had done her Mum. I asked her how she knew that I had fucked her Mum and she told me that her Mum’ s last boyfriend Asif had spanked her Mum then fucked her and that she has listened at the bedroom door so she knew that her Mum got turned on from being spanked. I continued to spank Simone hard and when I felt her pussy she was dripping. I pulled her up and bent her over the chair and slid my cock into one very tight cunt, after only a few strokes I filled her full of hot spunk.

I did buy the Video Shop and I did see Jane on a regular basis, it was never vanilla sex it was always sex after a good spanking so that did it for me and her as well, I did go to see Beth a couple of times as well and although she did enjoy being spanked most times it was just sex plain lustful sex, as for Simone well I have had her a couple of times since she swears me to secrecy but I am sure that her mum knows that I have had all three members of the family.

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I thought you wanted to see my tits. She grinned.

I am a professional driving instructor and in the course of my work, meet many young and attractive women. The Driving Standards Agency, which governs my profession, lay down very strict rules regarding inappropriate behaviour and I have to be careful not to do or say anything that could be misconstrued and cost me my licence to give instruction.

In September last year I met a new pupil; a divorcee in her early thirties. A mature woman, not a teenage girl like most of my pupils, we soon established a rapport that allowed us both to enjoy an adult sense of humour. Ever vigilant, not wanting to cause myself trouble, I explained to her that I have to respect her space and ensure that I do not make physical contact with her, no matter how innocent my intentions might be.

She replied that she was a 'grown-up', and assured me that if I innocently touched her she would not cry rape. As I was digesting that information she added that she liked older men. What did she mean by that, I wondered. Was it a come-on, a green light, an invitation to move our relationship beyond pupil and instructor. I wasn't sure.

"Not as old me!" I joked in reply.

"You're not old," she said, encouraging me to continue speculating on her possible meanings.

I do not consider myself old but, however, I am nearly twice her age and changed the subject, asking her to pull into the side of the road as I wanted her to do some reversing.

I briefed her on the subject, telling her that, when going backwards, we should look out of the rear window. She should turn her body to the left, her shoulder pressed into the back of the seat and look over her left shoulder. "Is that so I can see out of the back window?" she asked.

"No," I replied, "It's so I can see your tits more clearly!"

To my complete astonishment she raised her t-shirt, exposing her breasts, covered by a tiny black, lace bra.

"Like this," she said.

"Cover yourself," I said in blind panic,"Do you want to get me struck off!"

"I thought you wanted to see my tits," she grinned.

"I do, but not here, for God's sake!"

Her cheeky smile, lighting up her face, stirred dormant sensations in my loins. Giving me a hard, a stiffy, the horn or whatever you want to call it. A fucking erection, to be precise!

A true professional, I conducted myself with the utmost propriety after that and we finished the lesson with Lucy giggling all the way home, and reminding me of the shocked expression on my face when she flashed her tits.

The days until her next lesson seemed to drag interminably and I eagerly looked forward to our next lesson with more than a little trepidation and, I freely admit, I masturbated several times whilst developing what she had done into an elaborate, erotic fantasy.

It had been a long week with me focusing, surreptitiously, on the breasts of every young woman I had in the car, and comparing them to Lucy. When Thursday evening finally came around, I drove to Lucy's apartment with all the nervous anticipation of a schoolboy on his first date. I was wondering if what had happened the previous week was just a prick-tease or whether she intended to take it further. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when she skipped down the path wearing a flouncy short skirt instead of her usual tight jeans.

"Hi Allen," she greeted me, "What are we going to get up to this evening...more reversing..."

“Yes, if you like,” I gulped, and feeling my geriatric old dick responding to her smile.

We drove to the area where we practice manoeuvres with my eyes constantly straying to her smooth, firm thighs and the hem of her skirt, lifted further than necessary, and just about covering her underwear. It took all my will-power not to touch either her or my dick and, eager to see what she was wearing,I turned on the air-con, turning the fan onto full, hoping that the force of air would lift her skirt sufficiently to allow me a glimpse of her crotch.

Turning in her seat, preparing to reverse she asked, "Are you looking at my tits, Allen?"

"No," I replied, "I'm looking at your knickers!"

Lifting the clutch, getting the car moving, she also lifted her skirt, allowing me a full view of her white panties, the gusset shear and translucent, I could see the dark patch of pubic hair betraying her phoney blonde curls.

The manoeuvre finished, she sat facing me with her legs apart, her knee resting against the hand-brake and presenting her enticing crotch to me. "That was very good." I praised and, placing my hand tentatively on her thigh, gauged her reaction. "Thank you, Allen." She said in response to the praise but remained impassive, encouraging me to go further until my middle finger traced the cleft of her cunt. We leaned towards one and other, our lips meeting as I, slipping my fingers under her elastic, felt the course, damp hairs surrounding her wet opening whilst she fumbled with my belt.

"Not here." I said, aware that we were in the middle of a residential area.

“Where?” She replied, and I could tell by her breathlessness that she was as eager as I to continue.

"Swap over," I told her, "I'll drive, I know somewhere quiet."

It took all of my driving skill to concentrate on the road with Lucy's head buried in my lap, sucking me off as I made my way to the parking area of the Country Park several miles away. When we arrived I was on the verge of coming, having had to stop Lucy several times on our journey, or I would have shot my bolt before we arrived.

Switching off the headlights, immediately plunging us into darkness, I ordered her out of the car. Making my way quickly round to her side, I grabbed her hand, leaned her against the warm bonnet covering the engine and, pulling her knickers unceremoniously to her ankles, buried my tongue as deeply as I could inside her cunt.

Lucy was good. Very good. Making appreciative moaning noises, she crossed her legs around my back, holding my head firmly against her stomach and enjoying my attentions to her pussy lips and clit until, unable to restrain myself, I pulled away. Pushing Lucy further across the bonnet, I shoved my dick deep inside her, feeling the exquisitely sublime sensations that only a woman's cunt can provide. What followed then was probably the best fuck I have ever had in my entire life. Wet and slippery, tight and firm, she alternated her technique, holding me tight, then relaxing, allowing me to thrust into her with all the energy of which my old body was capable. Her finger nails raking my back, we brought one and other to a near mutual climax. I say near, as I came first, but, encouraged by Lucy to 'keep going', I soon felt her pelvis contract, her body go into spasm and her mouth, stifling a choking scream, pressing hard against mine.

Thus, we established a routine that continued even after Lucy passed her driving test until, sadly, she met and married Peter, a thoroughly nice guy who, I hope, is making her very happy.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

MacArthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 2015

John Novembre

Computational Biologist

Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Age: 37 at time of award

Published September 28, 2015

John Novembre is a computational biologist whose work sheds new light on human evolutionary history, population structure and migration, and the etiology of genetic diseases. He develops novel data visualization and analysis techniques to investigate the correlations among genomic diversity, geography, and demographic structure. In early work, he uncovered vulnerabilities in a classic approach to analyzing the geographic distribution of genetic diversity—principal component analysis (PCA)—and upended a long-standing interpretation of PCA waves as indicators of large-scale migration events. He went on to leverage this finding and, with collaborators, established a strong correlation between shared ancestral geography and genetic similarity among Europeans. This research affirmed the importance of place in determining DNA patterns and showed that it is often possible for ancestry to be pinpointed within a couple hundred miles through genetic sequencing.

Novembre has also developed a new approach for estimating recombination rates using ancestry blocks of admixed populations. Recombination is the fundamental biological process by which genetic material from parents is combined in an individual before being passed to offspring; the recombination rate describes how many recombination events—or points on the genome where the genetic material switches from one parent to another—are happening over time in a group. Novembre and colleagues were able to infer recombination rates across African American genomes (representing a largely West African and European admixture only several hundred years old) by identifying the breakpoints of African and European ancestry. This work has led to a highly detailed genetic map for African Americans, which provides a tool for improving studies of the genetic origins of disease and is inspiring new inquiry into genetic diversity across the globe.

Novembre has also made key insights concerning the impact of natural selection on both positive and negative genetic variants, as well as the link between the population explosion of the last few centuries and the inordinate plethora of rare, deleterious variations in the contemporary genome. Through his unique approach to important biological questions, Novembre is producing a more finely grained picture of human genetic history and differentiating the impact of genetic and nongenetic factors in the features of current populations.

John Novembre received a B.A. (2000) from Colorado College and a Ph.D. (2006) from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Human Genetics, he was affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles (2008–2013) and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics at the University of Chicago (2006–2008). His articles have appeared in such journals as Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and Bioinformatics, among others.

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Our activities

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All in one platform

SERVO-i® combines a high level of clinical performance for invasive, non-invasive or neurally controlled ventilation with outstanding mobility and cost efficiency. It features all the modes you would expect from an advanced ventilation system in one adaptable platform. Three basic configurations are available: SERVO-i Infant, SERVO-i Adult and SERVO-i Universal for all patient categories. SERVO-i Infant and SERVO-i Adult can always be upgraded to SERVO-i Universal.

All SERVO-i ventilatory configurations are effective for bedside use and most of them are also available in MR and HBO* editions.

Designed to grow with you

Unique features and upgrades can be added as your needs change, ensuring dependable performance in the years to come and the best possible return on your investment.

*The product HBO may be pending regulatory approvals to be marketed in your country. Contact your Maquet representative for more information.

The typical ICU must be able to cope with any combination of patient and clinical situations at all times. SERVO-i® features all the ventilator modes you would expect from an advanced ventilation system, with a number of competitive features.

Enhanced interaction

SERVO-i enhances interaction between the patient and the ventilator by offering unprecedented levels of speed in sensing and control. It further provides clinicians with proper tools to evaluate the impact of your ventilatory strategy, both over time and during the critical phase associated with interventions.

Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA)

NAVA® is a unique approach to mechanical ventilation as it listens to the patient’s own respiratory signal. With NAVA, the electrical activity of the diaphragm (Edi) is captured, fed to the ventilator and used to assist the patient’s breathing, with improved synchrony and in proportion to the patient’s own efforts.1 Research has also shown that patients on NAVA benefit from an improved sleep quality, which may reduce sedation.2 The risk of ventilator induced diaphragm dysfunction is also reduced3 and NAVA may even have the potential to reduce time on mechanical ventilation.4

Read more about NAVA at our peer-to-peer website, Critical Care News...

Edi signal

The Edi signal is a diagnostic tool that monitors the electrical activity of the diaphragm (Edi). This provides useful information on respiratory drive, volume requirements and the effect of your ventilatory settings, information that supports your decision for intubation or extubation.  An increasing Edi may signify increasing weakness or worsening of the patient condition. As the patient’s condition improves, the decreasing Edi amplitude and the pressure drop indicate that weaning and extubation should be considered.5, 6

The OPEN LUNG TOOL® provides an instrument for effectively determining the effect of a ventilator intervention. It provides guidance for a successful recruitment maneuver.

AUTOMODE® supports patient. Set a controlled mode and let the ventilator adapt to the current patient situation, switching between controlled and supported breathing in connection with patient effort. The control mode is initiated after an operator set time-out. This well-established mode provides smoother, safer patient transition and less staff intervention.

For continuity of care with no loss of treatment information, SERVO-i is available for Magnetic resonance imaging (MR) and for Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO*).

Depending on your ventilator needs and the patient groups you treat, the ventilator also offers the following features:

  • Invasive ventilation
  • Non-invasive ventilation with leakage compensation
  • CO2 Analyzer for end tidal carbon dioxide measurement that may give important insight into the efficiency of the ventilation.
  • Y sensor measurement, for neonatal/pediatric and adult patients. Enables measurement of pressure and flow as close to the patient’s airway as possible.
  • Nasal CPAP
  • Heliox - gives a more laminar flow that reduces work of breathing
  • Stress Index - will monitor hyperinflation or repeated alveolar collapse, thus allowing the identification of injurious ventilation (VILI).7
  • Ventilation Record Card to facilitate research work and presentations.
  • Maquet ventilator accessories and consumables that are fully tested and designed to work optimally with SERVO ventilators.

Technical Data

Dimensions: Patient Unit W 300 x D 205 x H 415 mm
User Interface: W 355 x D 53 x H 295 mm
Weight: approx 20 kg (Patient Unit 15 kg, User Interface 5 kg)

*The product SERVO-i HBO may be pending regulatory approvals to be marketed in your country. Contact your Maquet representative for more information.

1. Coisel Y, Chanques G, Jung B, et al. Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in critically ill postoperative patients: a crossover randomized study. Anesthesiology. 2010 Oct;113(4):925-35.

2. Delisle S, Ouellet P, Bellemare P, Tétrault JP, Arsenault P. Sleep quality in mechanically ventilated patients: comparison between NAVA and PSV modes. Ann Intensive Care. 2011 Sep 28;1(1):42

3. Sinderby C, Beck J, Spahija J, DeMarchie M, Lacroix J, Navalesi P, Slutsky AS. Inspiratory Muscle Unloading by Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist during Maximal Inspiratory Efforts in Healthy Subjects Chest 2007;(131)3:711-717

4. Thille AW, Rodriguez P, Cabello B, Lellouche F, Brochard L. Patient-ventilator asynchrony during assisted mechanical ventilation. Intensive Care Med. 2006 Oct;32(10):1515-22. Epub 2006 Aug 1.

5. Barwing J, Pedroni C, Olgemöller U, Quintel M, Moerer O. Electrical activity of the diaphragm (EAdi) as a monitoring parameter in difficult weaning from respirator: a pilot study. Crit Care. 2013 Aug 28;17(4):R182.

6. Wolf GK, Walsh BK, Green ML, Arnold JH. Electrical activity of the diaphragm during extubation readiness testing in critically ill children. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2010 Nov 4

7. Stress index: Grasso S, Stripoli T, De Michele M, et al. ARDSnet ventilator protocol and alveolar hyperinflation: role of positive end-expiratory pressure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 Oct 15;176(8):761-7.

Original Matters

It does not matter how advanced the support platform is if the interface linking its capabilities to the patient is compromised. Choosing genuine Maquet consumables helps ensure that you can take full advantage of the Maquet SERVO ventilators.

Maquet consumables:

  • are fully tested and approved
  • are made of top quality material and design
  • guarantee full capabilities and performance
  • minimize risk for unplanned downtime and ensures optimum performance throughout the system's lifecycle

Maquet has designed a full range of masks, breathing systems/circuits and patient specific interface options for the SERVO ventilators. Each of these options is quality engineered to ensure ongoing access to the platforms’ key support features while promoting better patient comfort and safety.

Filters and humidifiersFilters and humidifiers

The unique Servo Duo Guard filter is specially designed to manage nebulized medications. It can be used for 48 hours without exchange. It also helps to secure a healthy work-environment for your staff and at the same time protects the ventilator, helping ensure a long life time.

Servo humidifiers are optimized to combine high efficiency with low resistance and small volume. The Servo humidifiers come in versions with or without a bacterial/viral filter, humidifying and reducing contamination risk for patient and equipment. Maquet supplies both active and passive humidifiers.

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) masksNon-invasive ventilation (NIV) masks

The NIV face masks are non-vented and especially designed to help facilitate breathing for patients with acute or chronic respiratory distress or failure. The soft membrane cushion provides a comfortable seal that is easily fitted to your patient. The NIV masks come in a variety of sizes, and are available as reusable or disposable.

Reusable and disposable breathing systemsReusable and disposable breathing systems

The breathing systems are lightweight with smoothbore internal design to minimize flow resistance. Can be fitted with active or passive humidifiers.

Neonatal prongs and masksNeonatal prongs and masks

The Miniflow® system is a complete system for providing NIV NAVA and nasal CPAP. The weight of the Miniflow adapter has been minimized and the noise level of the system is low. The caregiver can alternate between prongs and masks to help avoid complications. Designed to minimize the dead space volume.

How to Order Consumables

For ordering of consumables please contact your local Maquet representative. You may send us a message using the contact form from the link below or reach out to us by phone or fax.

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To place an order or learn more about any of the Maquet products, related accessories, or therapeutic solutions, please contact your local sales representative.

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Slavery, past and present

Conference to examine historic archetypes, current realities

Two hundred years after the British Slave Trade Act ended legal slavery in the British Empire, the practice of human trafficking persists. To explore the reasons behind the historical and modern practices of slavery, the slave trade and slave diaspora, the McGill Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) will host the conference, Sex, Power and Slavery — The Dynamics of Carnal Relations Under Enslavement from April 19 to 21.

Professor Gwyn Campbell, conference organizer and Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History, hopes the international conference will raise awareness about modern slavery. “Today, children and women are the main sufferers of slavery, this goes against historic archetypes that slaves are male and from the West Indies,” says Campbell. A goal of “Sex, Power and Slavery” is to highlight one of the most inhumane forms of slavery, the sex slave trade.

Presenters will include David Brion Davis, Pulitzer prize-winner and Director Emeritus of the Yale Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition; McGill Distinguished Lecturer Visitor Abdul Sheriff, Director of the Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (ZIORI); Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, author and Quebec historian; and Afua Cooper, author and poet.

Registration information and full conference program available at:

Free public events:

Mini-Beatty Lecture/Keynote address
Professor Davis will deliver a keynote address titled "Slavery, Sex and Dehumanisation," in the context of the modern sex slave trade.
To be held on Thursday, April 19 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am in room 232 of the Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke St. W.

Debate/Panel discussion
Angélique: Rebel or Victim?, a debate between Quebec historian Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne and Governor-General’s Literary Award nominee Afua Cooper about the innocence or guilt of Angélique, the Montreal slave who was hanged for burning a large part of the city in 1734.
To be held on Thursday, April 19, in room 232 of the Leacock Building, from 6 pm until 7:30 pm.

Public lecture
Internationally respected author Abdul Sheriff will deliver the public lecture, “The Dhow Culture of the Indian Ocean,” about the maritime tradition of the Indian Ocean, as the recipient of the 2007 Maxwell Cummings Distinguished Lectureship.
To be held on Wednesday, April 25, at 5 pm at Leacock 232.

On the Web: Indian Ocean World Centre

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Cynthia Lee
McGill University
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Bring people’s attention to important issues by posting #BlackLivesMatter stickers all over my building’s sauna.

Speak Spanish to Roberto at in lobby coffeeshop while he makes my $7 dark roast with almond milk.

Convince the tenants association to organize mandatory viewings of #woke documentaries in the building’s TV room.

Use my light skin tone to fool the landlords into thinking I’m white and thus approving my application, but when the census comes, only tick the Hispanic box.

Leave great Yelp reviews for the local delis and bodegas while I enjoy a tasty Chick’n and Waffles from the new vegan diner I secretly love (#HailSeitan)

Disable my smoke detectors so my building’s super can come hang out while I work on my new screenplay. I always tip him generously with Amazon gift cards.

Pretend to sing along and casually dance to the loud reggaeton music blasting on the Knickerbocker Avenue sidewalks while I shop for an antique cast iron tea kettle.

Host free community yoga classes on my building’s rooftop. Our sun salutations point directly to the perfect view of the Manhattan skyline.

Preserve the authenticity of the neighborhood and only buy weed from the local dealers and not use delivery services.

Take all my gringo friends to the local Venezuelan restaurant so they know I’m not one of them while they pay $10 for one empanada, and then explain how much an actual empanada costs so they feel great for supporting a local business but also feel like fools.

Explain what political correctness is and what the effect of a think piece on Vox has on the concept of non-binary gender identification to the guys playing dominos in front of the building next to my luxury building.

When Stacy from the artisanal donut shop asks if I live around the area, I clarify I’m on the border with Bed-Stuy and not in the trendy area of Bushwick so she knows I’m not part of the problem.

Complain about the doorman service to my management company but also be super nice to the doormen because my luxury building is giving jobs to the local community but also make sure to leave a bad review on the management company’s website so people avoid renting an apartment in my luxury building, which in turn might make my luxury building’s rent prices go down and thus making it more accessible to the local community to get a place there at an affordable rate and then getting the snobby tenants to complain about the new tenants using the common washer/dryer for their entire family and how they have very loud music, eventually getting so annoyed they will not renew their lease and force them to seek out a fancier luxury building in which to live, resulting in even lower rents in my luxury building, rendering my luxury building a luxury building for the people.

Name my purebred Golden Doodle “Rosa Parks.”


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