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Coming in after the start to an interview on “Woman’s Hour” this morning I was sure I was listening to A S Byatt. But no, it was Margaret Drabble. The intonation was so very similar. Margaret Drabble was talking about stories she has written for ‘Black Country Women’. You can catch the interview at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03b2z9x, with Margaret Drabble coming on 21 minutes in.
I’m slightly ashamed to be doing self-promotion, but I started a perfume blog on WordPress. I’d be grateful for feedback!
This is the opening to Barbara Pym’s novel Excellent Women – and how could anyone resist it? Certainly not me, so to be invited by the Barbara Pym society to a lunch at St Hilda’s college in Oxford at the beginning of September was the perfect summer treat. Meeting a crowd of men and women who are fans of Barbara Pym has got to be an altogether delightful experience – and it was! The lunch was part of a centenary weekend – members had come from all over the world to enjoy a feast of Barbara Pym related activities and entertainment – and extra guests like myself were there to be given our prizes in the centenary short story competition. It’s difficult to express the sense of fun and enormous goodwill that pervaded the gathering – everyone so full of eager friendliness and happy congratulations. They’re going to publish the winning stories on the society’s website some time in the Autumn.
I’ve come away with a splendid book too, Barbara in the Bodleian – Revelations from the Pym Archives by Yvonne Cocking. It’s full of excerpts from Barbara’s notebooks. Nobody could ask for more.
Our ridiculously modest Tanya Aydon was quietly awarded joint first prize in the Barbara Pym Society’s short story competition, for her piece ‘Unexpected Flowers’, on Saturday 31st August.
This involved lunch at St. Hilda’s, Oxford, and all sorts of jollities that we will have to pry out of Tanya with a snail fork. She has such an elegant, generous, dazzling talent, we can only marvel at the care with which she arranges the bushel. We are terribly proud of her!
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2019-04-20T22:31:56Z
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https://ninevoices.wordpress.com/2013/09/
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variety
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James Marsden will help Amy Adams find true love in Disney’s “Enchanted.” The actor has signed on to play the prince opposite Adams’ princess in the Kevin Lima-directed romantic fable, which mixes live action and classic animation. Story centers on a princess-in-waiting who is banished by an evil queen from the animation world of Andalasia to present-day New York City. Once there, pic turns to live action, and Adams’ character attempts to navigate the city, finding true love in the process.
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2019-04-21T14:29:37Z
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https://variety.com/2005/digital/markets-festivals/marsden-to-conjure-enchanted-prince-1117934125/
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theemperorart
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Our studio is an atelier where Valentino Santilli, tango plastic artist, muralist and historian, shapes the tango art in all his artistic expressions. They are reflected in his paintings, murals, serigraphies and reproductions of his original art works.
His collaborators are Oscar Brassat and Alejandro Santilli. The former is his marchand , who is available for any inquiry on technical information or sale of the works. The latter, art curator Alejandro Santilli, is his capacity as representative, manages and administers the studio. He will answer your questions about importation, exportation and sale of art works.
This is the team you have chosen to decorate and embellish your home or office. We are very pleased to satisfy your needs.
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2019-04-21T01:40:32Z
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http://theemperorart.com/eng/n_estudio.php
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Arts
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Arts
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ncsu
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The complexity of the business environment and rapid changes in market place calls for stronger risk function and management. More and more organizations are appointing chief risk officers to help lead in these efforts. A recent Protiviti white paper highlights the importance of a risk function led by a chief risk officer (CRO). It highlights how organizations must realize that placing the CRO in the right springboard within the organizational structure is essential to the effectiveness of the role towards strategy setting and decision making process. Hence, the white paper provides six critical success factors that organizations should be aware of and promote to ensure the effectiveness of the CRO role.
1. Viewed as a Peer with Business Line Leaders – In order to achieve the forward-looking risk perspective and its serious consideration, the CRO must be able to deliver those expectations through a collaborative relationship with business line leaders. Hence, the CRO must be viewed as a peer. Not doing so would hamper the ability for the CRO to function effectively and misplace the CRO’s direct reporting capability.
2. Board Reporting and Interactions – While the CRO is not an owner of specific risks, he or she has the task of executing a strategic oversight of the entire risk management focus that mandates free access to the board for conveyance and reporting. Not providing such access would cause disconnect in communication and the loss of resolutions to various strategic problems.
3. Managing Risks is Everyone’s Job – The board, senior management and other line managers must remove the misconception that the CRO is the only person responsible for risk. Risk has to be an enterprise-wide concern. Thus, raising awareness and owning risks within operations to establish a risk-aware culture is imperative to a successful implementation of a CRO’s function.
4. Risk is Equal to Opportunity Pursuit – Risk management functions to preserve value as well as create value. The best interests of the organizations are kept while pursuing these strategies to improve the organization. Nevertheless, organizations must realize limits in engaging in value-creating activities against value preservations controls. The CRO attempts to strike this balance through decision making and risk appetite formulation. An imbalance may raise the level of risk for the less proportionate aspect and create a setback to the organizations.
5. Broaden Focus Beyond Compliance – It cannot be stressed more than the fact that the focus of the CRO should be on the enterprise risks, risk profile and aligning strategy based on risks. This goes beyond compliance risks and raises the bar for the CRO. While the CRO has to be in compliance with the laws and regulations, expanding the focus will make it easier for the CRO to have the desired impact in managing risks.
6. Clearly Defined CRO Position – Clearly defined CRO position should be in place in order to enhance the CRO’s objectivity in fact and appearance. Setting the right expectation about the CRO’s responsibility for promoting effective governance of significant risks is crucial in furthering the role of the CRO. Not having clear definitions may cause the CRO to lose focus and extend resources in less important matters lowering the overall effectiveness of the CRO.
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2019-04-24T20:07:45Z
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https://erm.ncsu.edu/library/article/strengthening-the-role-of-the-chief-risk-officer-in-an-organization
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indiatimes
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With millennials struggling to spend time with families, home cleaning on Diwali creates nostalgia.
NEW DELHI: In a time-strapped 21st century, millennials are struggling to find time with their families. However a majority of Indians feel that home cleaning on Diwali is a great way to spend time with family, says a survey conducted by Urbanclap.
The survey was conducted in across 8 major cities - Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad between the age group of 22-34 years and covered more than 5,000 consumers.
Text By IANSDiwali is one of the most awaited occasions in the country and the preparations have already started. Rugs and carpets can easily elevate the look of any home and add that touch of grandeur. So, make sure you are keeping them clean and fresh.Angelique Dhama, Spokesperson and CMO at OBEETEE lists down some ways that ensures that your rugs are clean are ready to shine for the season.
Wool is a natural dust repellent. A regular vacuum of at least twice a week helps keep the carpet clean. Loop carpets are more delicate and should be vacuumed without brush. In case any thread comes over the surface, do not pull it out. Cut it with a scissor.
Keep few pouches of silica gel in the roll to keep it dry.
Wet carpet leads to mould and mildew growth. Further, wet wool starts rotting with bad odor. Ensure proper aeration of the rug periodically.
In case of drop or spillage in a carpet, put a blotting paper immediately over it. To minimize absorption into pile, press the spot from the sides for maximum removal. On tough spots, try with an equal amount of white vinegar and water. Club soda is appropriate thinner for coffee stains and red wine; corn-starch for grease; the iron and transfer method for candle wax; otherwise, contact a professional.
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2019-04-22T03:07:12Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/busy-cleaning-home-this-diwali-its-the-best-way-to-bond-with-family/articleshow/66430785.cms
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wordpress
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One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy | THE GOOD . . . THE BAD . . . AND ME.
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2019-04-24T06:22:14Z
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https://thegoodbadme.wordpress.com/tag/one-week-girlfriend-by-monica-murphy/
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jesusfreakhideout
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JFH News: Four Time GRAMMY® Nominee Matthew West Debuts Brand New Music Video for "All In"
Nashville, Tenn. (Apr. 27, 2018) - Four Time GRAMMY® Nominee Matthew West released his music video for his latest single, "All In" today. The hit song, also featured on Spotify's Top Christian Contemporary Playlist, is already Top 20 at radio at continues to climb. Highlighting moments from the "Rock and Worship Roadshow" Tour, the video includes clips of West on the road encouraging fans to be “all in” in every aspect of their lives, alongside shots of thousands of people singing along with West in a packed arena to the encouraging anthem. Spotify premiered an exclusive vertical version of the "All In" music video.
"'All In' is a song about making the most of the one life we are given. I loved the idea of making a video for this song that followed me and the band on the road, showing people what it looks like for us to go all in on and off stage, loving on people and giving every concert everything we’ve got," said West. "Most importantly, I hope this song and video challenge others to ask the question, 'What’s MY all in?' Life is short, no time to waste."
Throughout the month of July, West west will be joining Compassion International's "Summer Lights Tour" alongside Jeremy Camp, Rend Collective and Koryn Hawthorne. Trekking the east coast, this marks the second year for the popular tour to visit a mix of venues including amphitheaters and churches in markets such as Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Baltimore and more. Tickets for "The Summer Lights Tour" and more upcoming shows for Matthew West are available here.
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2019-04-20T10:46:09Z
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https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/news/2018/04/28.MatthewWestDebutsBrandNewMusicVideoforAll%20In.asp
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mlive
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Posted by Ken Stafford on April 24, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.
Belden Brick & Supply Co can be found at Leonard St Nw 620. The following is offered: Lawn & Garden Equipment. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Grand Rapids there are 29 other Lawn & Garden Equipment. An overview can be found here.
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2019-04-18T18:39:24Z
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https://businessfinder.mlive.com/4877082/Belden-Brick-and-Supply-Grand-Rapids-MI
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Here is a review of EMC’s DiskXtender system. We are currently using it within one of our cardiology systems to archive data.
EMC DiskXtender is an archiving HSM application that “transparently migrates inactive or infrequently accessed files to archive storage devices, without changing the user’s view or access” (EMC, 2009). Used primarily for Microsoft Exchange, this application reduces administrative hours on management of often large stores of email by monitoring data stores and transferring older data to long term storage. Typical users using a shared file system will see the regular share; however DiskXtender has transparently expanded this storage and transferred older data to another long-storage archive media – “without affecting the file listing as seen by the end user” (EMC DiskXtender, 2008). Transparently, the archived data is kept on a disk-based storage system and can be recalled instantly on demand. DiskXtender reduces the amount of stored data on a SAN or NAS resulting in reduced load on backup systems, application and database servers.
EMC DiskXtender. (2008). Administration Guide. p.20.
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2019-04-25T13:57:02Z
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https://storageseek.wordpress.com/tag/emc/
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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- Scott Sheffield weighed his options as Hurricane Michael strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and barreled toward the Florida coast.
Like most residents in the area, the AFIMSC budget analyst could ride out the storm from his home in Panama City Beach or evacuate to a safer location. But Sheffield had a third option: attend an already planned and scheduled TDY to San Antonio for a training course – ironically a two-day problem-solving and decision-making class.
He opted for the TDY.
However, neighbors communicated with Sheffield and reported great news. His house received no damage. Except for losing power and water for a couple days, everything looked great, and he looked forward to returning to the area.
Sheffield attended the two-day training class but received a stop-movement order on the day after the storm and extended the TDY for another week.
“I packed only two sets of dress clothes for the TDY, and so I bought clothes in San Antonio while waiting for approval to return home,” he said.
Nine days after the storm devastated the area, Sheffield returned to assess damage.
Sheffield’s car that was parked at the airport received no damage. As he arrived to his neighborhood just five miles from the most heavily storm-damaged area, he realized how fortunate he was.
Sheffield’s two daughters attend the University of Florida in Gainesville and were not in the storm’s path. His ex-wife stayed behind in Panama City Beach and survived the storm. However, Sheffield’s 12 AFIMSC colleagues were not as fortunate.
“Every one of my co-workers sustained significant to catastrophic damage to where some of their houses will have to be re-built,” said Sheffield, who participates in a group text with the team and speaks to them by phone as well.
During the TDY and after his initial visit back home, AFIMSC officials regularly checked on Sheffield to make sure he was handling his personal recovery well.
Smith added that his team is sensitive to ensure affected members and their families are able to recover.
Back in San Antonio now until Nov. 16, Sheffield continues to work operations, readiness and energy programs including utilities privatization across the Air Force enterprise. His first efforts involved direct support to hurricane recovery. Sheffield worked two requisitions for $93 million that were used for building a base for Tyndall recovery operations. He assisted with creating travel orders for another Resources Directorate member to Ellsworth AFB, S.D., to help with processing hurricane evacuation orders.
“I came back here TDY to keep the mission going in the right direction, and I started with an effort to triage what’s most important,” he said.
As he executes the mission, he can’t help but think of his colleagues and friends in the area who are dealing with a very lengthy recovery.
“I really feel for my teammates because they have a long road ahead of them,” he said. “I am very fortunate I don’t have to deal with the same recovery they are going through. We’re not talking about just putting up drywall. They have to strip their houses down to the studs and rebuild from the ground up.
Smith said Sheffield is a perfect example of the Wingman culture.
“Because Scott is focused on the mission, they can focus on their recovery,” he said.
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2019-04-19T20:13:30Z
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https://www.afimsc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1683976/afimsc-budget-analyst-survives-storm-keeps-mission-going/
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radioworld
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Audio accessories developer Blackloud says its SounDot AF1 FM headset for iOS Lightning devices is available.
The SounDot combines a standard headset designed for smart devices with a built-in FM receiver for over-the-air radio reception.
On the component side each of the AF1’s ear buds features coaxial 15 mm woofers and 7 mm tweeters. Other features include a three-button in-line remote switches between phone or video calls, apps, the FM tuner and activates Siri; in-line microphone; plus, the SounDot app control center allows for tuning the FM receiver, setting of FM presets and processing the sound.
Audio processing includes a six-band EQ, 11 onboard acoustic space presets, surround sound presets for programs and movies and other audio presets. Connection is made via the iOS connector.
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2019-04-25T02:17:10Z
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https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/blackloud-ships-ios-soundots
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wordpress
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Today is the 2 year mark of the day that Caylee Anthony vanished from the lives of those who knew and loved her. It is also the two year mark of the day that her mother personified the selfish, spoiled brat that we know as her now, Casey Marie Anthony. While it is not the day that we would normally call an anniversary in the normal sense of the term, it is a day that marks two years of lies, deception, unbelievable irreverence to little Caylee’s memory, a day that no one but her own mother knew she was no longer here on this earth. Her grandparents, while I can’t say this for a fact, may have also known to a degree what was going on, and simply realized a month later that they could no longer cover up Casey’s act of greed and selfishness, without the world around them pointing fingers at not only their daughter, but possibly at themselves as well. This is only speculation on my part, mind you, but I feel like there’s enough lies and covering up done by George and Cindy Anthony to speak for itself.
Caylee Anthony was a beautiful child. Her precious face captured the hearts of America, but only after she vanished. There is so much more that this beautiful child could have become. Instead, thanks to the inexplainable behavior of her closest family members, she has become another sad statistic, and an example of what thousands of other abused children must go through every day. This is something that only we, the people of America, can change. These are our children, grandchildren, next door neighbor’s children, nieces, nephews, students, and friends. Together, we can stop child abuse, if we just open our mouths and take the right actions.
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2019-04-19T11:11:03Z
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https://justicebeserved.wordpress.com/category/family/
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Kids
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time
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Brian Wansink during at the Discovery Vitality Summit on August 15, 2013 in Johannsburg, South Africa.
A prominent food researcher plagued by scandal has had even more studies retracted.
Brian Wansink, known for his buzzy behavioral science studies focusing on food, resigned from his post at Cornell University in September after an investigation revealed major issues with his research. His resignation came shortly after six of his high-profile journal articles were retracted.
Now, Wansink is facing more retractions, these from the Annals of Internal Medicine. One study said portion sizes and calorie counts of recipes in the Joy of Cooking increased as new editions of the cookbook were released, suggesting that home cooking might be growing less healthy.
In a statement, the journal said it contacted Wansink and his co-author after an internal investigation at Cornell revealed “academic misconduct in his research and scholarship, including misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques, failure to properly document and preserve research results, and inappropriate authorship.” Wansink stood by his conclusions when questioned by the journal, but his reanalysis came up with “substantially” different data than what was originally included in his study, according to the statement.
“In light of the inability to reproduce the published results, the editors cannot be confident in the integrity of the work reported in this article,” the Annals said in its retraction notice.
Another retracted study dealt with errors in estimating meals’ calorie counts. The journal found inconsistencies between the data Wansink’s co-author said had been collected by the researchers, and that reported in the paper.
In September, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced that six of Wansink’s research articles published in its network of journals had been retracted after JAMA raised concerns about their validity. After conducting an evaluation, Cornell told JAMA editors: “We regret that, because we do not have access to the original data, we cannot assure you that the results of the studies are valid.” The retracted studies — many of which were widely publicized by media outlets, including TIME — were published from 2005 to 2014 and covered topics including the effects of eating from large bowls, grocery shopping while hungry, eating while watching action movies and the consequences of eating everything on your plate.
Wansink has had 18 scientific articles retracted during his career, including one that was retracted, replaced and retracted again, according to the blog Retraction Watch. Before Cornell’s statement was released in September, Wansink told CNN that he stood by the results of the six studies pulled by JAMA.
Wansink’s resignation at Cornell takes effect at the end of the academic year, the school said. Among his other duties at the school, he directed the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.
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2019-04-26T14:18:54Z
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http://time.com/5402927/brian-wansink-cornell-resigned/
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turbulence
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This year Sonic Acts presents a special Live Cinema programme, in association with www.live-cinema.org.
From the introduction to unsorted, SonicActsX: “An important traditional paradigm is the familiar distinction between art disciplines such as visual arts, music, dance, theatre and literature. Usually, the different works of information art are forced to fit within this classical categorisation model. This, however, provides us with a misleading image of the nature of the new arts. For instance, imagine two works of computer art, generated using largely similar algorithms. The first work has an aural output, the second results in visual forms. Then the first one will be labelled as music while the second will be called visual art. This might seem to be an arbitrary problem, but it becomes relevant when we realise that the infrastructures of, in this case, the musical world and the visual arts world operate in rather separated areas (art education, exhibition and performance spaces, criticism and analysis). Many of the interesting issues of (and between) artworks like these are being missed because they are positioned outside the current categorisation models.” Read more.
So what is Live Cinema?
“So what exactly is Live Cinema? Live Cinema springs from new presentation forms, arising as a direct consequence of the advancing digitalisation of visual and sound technologies. The synthesis between sound and image is something a few artists already are putting to practice. While other artists hold ambitions in that direction, a platform/lab gathering know-how and the creative potential digital technologies are inscribed with, is still lacking. The technological backdrop of Live Cinema is one of daily technological innovation in the audio-visual field. The process of digitalisation is most developed in the realm of electronic (pop)culture, where equipment is compact, user-friendly and affordable. All these factors have led to a new artistic practice, where the usage of hardware, such as samplers and computers, have led to new artistic genres and ways to approach art.
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2019-04-21T05:16:26Z
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http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2004/09/24/unsorted-sonicactsx/
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Arts
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Arts
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gordonwiebe
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Deleting Emails from the Control Panel To delete all the email in an email account without the use of a webmail account, you can delete the email account and recreate it in your control panel. This deletes all of the emails on the server for that email account.... To permanently delete messages from your Trash, repeat the above process from within the "Trash" folder. For multiple message deleting: Hold the "CTRL" key while right-clicking on each individual message to delete.
Mail, Mail, Everywhere! Managing Email Across Multiple Devices. Smartphones and tablets have made it possible for us to be connected at all times, whether it be for business or for leisure.... You can import old emails from your old email client into Gmail so you won’t lose anything or have to work in two different places. You can manage multiple email addresses (sending and receiving) from different domains all in one place.
To permanently delete messages from your Trash, repeat the above process from within the "Trash" folder. For multiple message deleting: Hold the "CTRL" key while right-clicking on each individual message to delete.... [UPDATED 04/04/2018] As a technology teacher, I always do my best NOT to assume that my students already know something. And so today I want to cover a trick that I think is essential to know as you work with your files and folders… how to select multiple files with CTRL and Shift keys.
You can import old emails from your old email client into Gmail so you won’t lose anything or have to work in two different places. You can manage multiple email addresses (sending and receiving) from different domains all in one place.
Deleting Emails from the Control Panel To delete all the email in an email account without the use of a webmail account, you can delete the email account and recreate it in your control panel. This deletes all of the emails on the server for that email account.
shift and ctrl modifiers when selecting are what you need. ctrl - Adds single email to selection. shift - Adds all emails between selected and previously selected to selection.
[UPDATED 04/04/2018] As a technology teacher, I always do my best NOT to assume that my students already know something. And so today I want to cover a trick that I think is essential to know as you work with your files and folders… how to select multiple files with CTRL and Shift keys.
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2019-04-24T08:09:56Z
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http://gordonwiebe.com/nunavut/how-to-delete-multiple-emails-control.php
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Computers
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nd
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Join the Orange County Notre Dame Professionals Christmas Happy Hour on Nov. 30 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Muldoon’s Irish Pub in Newport Beach. Michelle Generaux will host. Please RSVP to her by Nov. 22nd at mgeneraux@murtaughlaw.com or by phone at (949) 322-9568.
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2019-04-22T00:55:04Z
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https://law.nd.edu/news-events/events/2017/11/30/78850-orange-county-notre-dame-professionals-christmas-happy-hour/
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voanews
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France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who terrorized the nation, leaving 17 people dead.
1 Policemen guard the entrance of the Pere Lachaise cemetery during the funeral of French cartoonist Georges Wolinski, in Paris, France, Jan. 15, 2015.
2 French soldiers line up to listen to a speech by the French Defense Minister Jean Yves Le Drian, at the Satory military camp in Versailles, west of Paris, Jan. 15, 2015.
3 The coffin of police officer Franck Brinsolaro is carried into Sainte Croix church for the funeral ceremony in Bernay, western France, Jan. 15, 2015.
4 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (at right, under umbrella) attends the funeral of police officer Franck Brinsolaro, at the Sainte Croix church, in Bernay, western France, Jan. 15, 2015.
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2019-04-26T05:15:05Z
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https://www.voanews.com/a/france-remains-on-high-alert/2599520.html
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zdnet
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An interesting study reports the perceptions of programmers sharing their views on IT failure. The results may surprise you.
I love statistics about IT failures. Call it masochism; call it weird; but call me when you've got good stats!
The most recent set of bona fide IT failure statistics (no pretenders, please) to cross my desk comes from an article in Dr. Dobb's Report from 2007. Things don't change rapidly when it comes to these statistics, so the date is not worrisome, even though it is a few years old. The research described in Dr Dobb's comes from Scott W. Ambler, an author and expert on Agile development, so I consider the source credible.
Scott conducted a survey, in August 2007 with 586 respondents, to learn about the definition of IT success. The responses came primarily from developers (315 respondents) and project managers (105 respondents), so this was not a top-down research exercise. When reviewing surveys of this kind, it is important to consider the type of people who responded.
Schedule: 61.3 percent of respondents said that it is more important to deliver a system when it is ready to be shipped than to deliver it on time.
Scope: 87.3 percent said that meeting the actual needs of stakeholders is more important than building the system to specification.
Money: 79.6 percent said that providing the best return on investment (ROI) is more important than delivering a system under budget.
Quality: 87.3 percent said that delivering high quality is more important than delivering on time and on budget.
Staff: 75.8 percent said that having a healthy, both mentally and physically, workplace is more important than delivering on time and on budget.
These results clearly indicate that developers and project managers say they want to do the right thing. These folks rightly say that building a good system, which meets user needs, is more important than delivering within budget. In general, it is hard to argue with that logic, except when it leads to huge cost overruns and delays.
We should be aware that developers usually do not have ultimate control over project priorities. Therefore, their views come from being an individual contributor rather than a budgeting authority. It is entirely possible that senior management would take a different view, prioritizing budget and schedule over other considerations.
I would not draw hard and fast conclusions about which perspective is best, because every situation is different. Nonetheless, it's good to see developers advocating for what is right for users and the business rather than what is expedient for the short-term bottom line.
Developer Perceptions of Success. The survey showed that developers have a more positive view of project success than other survey results I have described in this blog. For example, one study reports that 68 percent of IT projects fail while a compilation of statistics on CRM projects shows a broad range of failure levels.
As you can see in the following image, respondents said that over 70 percent of Agile projects succeed and almost 63 percent of traditional projects succeed.
I believe these perceptions of success arise from two factors. First, respondents were probably pointing to their own projects, which of course they rate highly; and, second, many (but certainly not all) developers tend to report project outcomes based on achieving technical deliverables, rather than on whether those deliverables fully met business requirements. In other words, these results may be biased -- please leave your opinion in the comments of this blog.
IT priorities. The survey breaks out IT quality priorities by role in the organization, and yields an interesting gap between the project managers and business stakeholders. As the following table shows, project managers prioritize budget and schedule while people in the business seek the best solution.
On the surface, this conclusion might seem disturbing, as it suggests project managers do not care about business results. However, the results are not surprising when we consider that most organizations evaluate project managers on the ability to deliver projects on time and within budget.
Defining IT failure or success is a thankless, almost impossible, task. Every organization and department must evaluate its own priorities on each project. For example, one department may decide a strategic project is so important that cost and schedule concerns are not an issue; in this case, the only priority is completing the work, regardless of cost. For another project, which is less important to the business, this same company may demand project completion within rigidly controlled time and budget parameters.
The key to IT success lies in balancing the competing goals of delivering business value for a specific cost. Every department in an organization faces this identical challenge and IT is no different. In many companies, IT seems to have a free pass to run over-budget at will -- no organization should accept this.
Update 9/29/12: After completing this post, I discovered that Scott Ambler has conducted several followup studies on IT success. I will look into that research at a later date.
Thank you to project estimating tools vendor, QSM software, for alterting me to this research.
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2019-04-24T14:28:44Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/research-developer-perspectives-on-it-failure/
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Fatimata Gassama, an 8th grade student and member of Girls Inc.
Femtech is a buzzword that has been floating around for a while now. It stands for female technologies -- products and services that aim to improve women's health. Whether you're a fan of the term is irrelevant (someone once referred to it as putting legit tech into a pink ghetto). The important thing is that it's catchy and it's drawing attention to an underserved and underfunded market. CB Insights released a Market Map about Femtech two years ago to illustrate some of the key startups in the space.
From ovulation-tracking bracelets to period-tracking apps and smart breast pumps, these startups are providing women of all ages with more modern solutions -- whether you're a hormonal teenager, a new mom or a menopausal mess. But people tend to overlook the importance and necessity of low-tech solutions, like simple period products.
This week, the period-proof underwear brand THINX released a video to raise awareness around period poverty (i.e. when a girl or a woman cannot afford to buy period products like tampons or pads.) Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, a women’s advocate and attorney; Nadya Okamoto, founder of the non-profit PERIOD; and Fatimata Gassama, an 8th grade student and member of Girls Inc., all share their views on this pivotal issue.
In a statement, Okamoto pointed out that 35 states in the U.S. have a tax on period solutions products because they are considered “non-essential goods”. Products like Rogaine and Viagra on the other hand are not taxed.
On her end, Weiss-Wolf discusses how period poverty impacts a number of different groups across the U.S. From young girls who have to miss school because of a lack of access to period products, to women in prison who are often forced to beg guards for basic hygiene products, menstrual inequity is a real issue.
"Students in the U.S. have enough to worry about already,” explained Maria Molland, CEO of THINX. “Whether or not they have access to menstrual products should not be an additional concern. Imagine if students were responsible for bringing their own toilet paper to school. That would be ridiculous, but so is not providing tampons and pads for those who have periods."
The issue of period poverty has slowly begun to draw much-needed attention, especially in developing countries like India where menstrual hygiene is such a taboo. One local charity, the Myna Mahila Foundation, was recently recognized for its work in supporting menstrual hygiene -- it was the only non-British charity the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to support.
Several Femtech startups have also taken a stance in support of menstrual equity by working with NGOs around the world. U.S.-based Cora and L., which both make organic tampons and pads, donate supplies of sanitary products to a girl or woman in need for every item sold.
According to Cora, nearly 25 million women live below the poverty line in the U.S., yet menstrual products are not covered by food stamps. The startup has partnered with local non-profits across the country to provide period products to girls and women in need.
But no matter how many non-profits and startups fight to end period poverty, it is up to the government to enforce legislations on these issues.
There is now a petition going around, pleading the U.S. Secretary of Education, Elisabeth Dee DeVos, to help end period poverty.
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2019-04-20T20:46:13Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/berenicemagistretti/2019/01/25/fembeat-period-poverty-is-a-thing-even-in-the-u-s/
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The Geology of Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara.
The subsurface Kaawa Formation at Mauku, south Auckland.
The geology of eastern Mahia Peninsula, Hawkes Bay.
Lower Miocene geology of western Hukatere Peninsula.
Sedimentology and structure of the Waitemata Group, Wenderholm-Orewa section, North Auckland.
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Te Kuiti Group, Waitomo.
Cretaceous and Cenozoic rocks south of Whangaroa Harbour, Northland.
Aspects of the Albany Conglomerate, Waitemata Group, North Auckland.
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2019-04-22T10:02:57Z
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http://nzest.auckland.ac.nz/search/*/Degree%20Grantor:%22University+of+Auckland%22/Focus:%22Sedimentology%22/Focus:%22Cenozoic%22
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Audinate updated their Dante Controller software to version 3.10. The new version of the Dante Controller software includes the ability to better manage larger networks with more high channel-count devices while enabling Dante Controller to take full advantage of upcoming firmware changes. It also allows users to manage Dante networks from laptops connected via Wi-Fi. The new Advanced Filter in Dante Controller 3.10 can be used to refine the range of devices displayed, allowing users to easily narrow and refine views when managing large Dante networks. Filter parameters include device and channel names, sample rate, latency setting and lock status. It also supports Device Lock, which allows users to remotely lock supporting Dante hardware and software devices using Dante Controller, employing a user-selected 4-digit PIN.
In order to support Device Lock capability, manufacturers of Dante-enabled products will need to update their firmware to the new Dante firmware release 3.10, which has recently been released to OEMs. It is anticipated that manufacturers will release this update to customers over the coming months. For more information about the availability of this firmware in specific Dante-enabled products, users are asked to contact the manufacturer of their Dante-enabled product.
To download the latest version of Dante Controller, visit https://www.audinate.com/products/software/dante-controller.
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2019-04-18T23:20:46Z
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http://stage-directions.com/gear/8626-audinate-releases-version-3-10-of-dante-controller.html
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Students requesting the use of equipment for independent student research projects associated with a UAF Biology and Wildlife course. This includes research undertaken as Biology and Wildlife research credit. The instructor for the course is expected to train the student on the proper use and care of the equipment.
Individuals associated with UAF's Biology and Wildlife department for efforts in direct support of Biology and Wildlife's educational mission, for example, outreach education.
Individuals or organizations associated with UAF seeking to use B&W equipment for professional research applications. Academic (course) use of equipment is the main priority. Research use may be scheduled if it does not interfere with teaching.
Requests should be submitted a minimum of two weeks before the requested item is needed. Submission of this form does NOT guarantee that you will be given access to the equipment you request. You will be notified of the status of your request within one week of its submission.
Note: Requests to borrow equipment for use in the completion of a course taught through another university or campus will be denied. The home institution for your course is expected to provide the equipment necessary for successful completion of the course. The Biology and Wildlife Department at UAF does not have the resources for both our own and other institutions.
NOTE TO STUDENTS: If equipment is not returned, a hold will be placed on your university account until the equipment is returned or a replacement fee has been collected. If equipment is returned damaged, a hold will be placed on your university account until a repair fee has been collected.
NOTE TO OTHERS: You will be responsible for returning the equipment by the scheduled return date. You may be charged for any damage or loss.
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2019-04-23T18:15:17Z
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https://www.bw.uaf.edu/resources/equipment_request_form.php
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The known grasshoppers of New Mexico are arranged alphabetically according to genera and species. For each fact sheet, "Size" refers to length from anterior of head to end of forewings. "General Distribution" refers to a species' distribution throughout its known range. "Distribution in New Mexico" is a list of counties based on general maps produced by the NMDA, USDA records, and records from specific specimens in collections at the USDA (Roswell office), NMDA, NMSU (Entomology, Extension, and Biology collections), D.C. Lightfoot Collection, and D. Ferguson Collection. "Habitat," "Host," and "Time of Year" information are based on the literature and our own experience. The last refers to the time of year when adults are found. "Notes" focus on key features for identification and summarize economic status. The use of subspecies was avoided, with one exception (Schistocerca alutacea).
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2019-04-25T14:06:09Z
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http://www.uwyo.edu/entomology/grasshoppers/ghnmfact.htm
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My favourite of the new ones so far. I've watched this video maybe 20 times. Feels like Selkie Bride and Stars were just dry runs for this gem.
I like this one a lot, just wondering if there will be any lyrics added as all 3 new songs seems light lyrically. I don't mean they lack imagery or intrigue but the songs all sound so good that I am left wanting more. Suppose that's a good thing rather than wearing out your welcome. Overall these songs seem more catchy and have a more sinister vibe than most other 2.0 songs to me. Can't wait to hear the studio versions.
well, less is more a lot of times with rock music, and think of how short both the albums and the songs on them were for early Pixies. If you go read the lyrics Doolittle, there's barely anything there. Some of the best songs literally only have a handful of words.
Pleasant were underwritten and lacking complexity that warrants numerous listens. Now if BF makes songs like this at 2-3 minutes apiece I will eat them up but would want a Trompe-like 15 tracks vs the 2.0 standard thus far of 12. I just want more BF, it's a good problem to have. Haha.
"I will eat them up but would want a Trompe-like 15 tracks vs the 2.0 standard thus far of 12."
I care more about the track length than the number of songs - keep em short & punchy.
Thumbs up. Or 16. Or 17.
Crazy how far away we still are from a single being released.
I guess we will hear all the songs gradually through the podcast.
1 episode = 1 song maybe.
The album will only be the final package I guess.
I've only listened to Death Horizon a few times but it's been stuck in my head where it then meanders into Sunday Sunny Mill Groove Day.
Great wee tune, like Here Comes Your Man meets Monkey. I think it's about global warming and suicide.
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2019-04-24T12:55:21Z
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http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=31203
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This is a story about seven district-level multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) that are hosted and facilitated by Maendeleo ya Jamii [MYJ]. These forums form part of an extraordinary journey that began in October 2012. The journey started with a qualitative assessment of the interactions between different stakeholder groups within Uganda’s Albertine Region where there have been discoveries of oil and natural gas.
The Community-Company Assessment (CCA) methodology, developed by Business-Community Synergies (BCS) in Washington DC, was adopted to assess the often complex interactions between community, company, local government, and central government stakeholder groups, with a focus on understanding the barriers and benefits associated with oil and gas activities in 30 villages across 7 districts. The outcome of this assessment brought to light hundreds of barriers and their distinctive manifestations in each of these communities. These individual barriers and their unique contexts were carefully analysed and consolidated into 15 categories.
Further analysis showed that of the 15 barrier categories, stakeholder engagement was the only category that was considered a barrier by all the project stakeholder groups including central government and company. Another prominent barrier category was information and communication.
Using the stakeholder engagement spectrum tool developed by BCS, the perceptions among the four stakeholder groups was assessed and analysed.
The findings revealed very interesting disparities between each stakeholder group regarding the perceived quality of their engagement.
At the end of the CCA and before the inaugural MSF, a significant amount of time was invested in planning, with a deliberate emphasis on ensuring that each district MSF addresses issues of primary concern to its stakeholders.
Each forum consists of 20-30 individual stakeholders (depending on the number of villages represented in the forum) with more than half being community representatives. Particular consideration is made to ensure the inclusiveness of women and youth, not just in terms of participation, but also in terms of the issues raised and addressed.
The first three MSFs in each district were comprised of representatives from community and local government stakeholder groups. Each community carefully nominated two individuals that they knew would ably represent their interests in the forum. Likewise, each district local government nominated a blend of technical and political representatives to the forum. This initial composition allowed community and their local government to build trust among themselves and to work progressively towards understanding, articulating, and addressing issues that were within their own means to resolve.
The remaining forums have been opened up to other participants including representatives from the private sector, civil society and central government stakeholder groups.
The Forums are ably facilitated by the staff of Maendeleo ya Jamii (MYJ). MYJ’s facilitation of the forums in Arua, Nebbi and Nwoya is supported by Eddy Nam of the Nebbi NGO Forum. Its facilitation of the forums in Kanungu and Rukungiri is supported by Obadiah Arihaihi of the Kanungu NGO Forum. MYJ is also occasionally supported by Jamie van Alstine, Laura Cota, and Jen Dyer of the University of Leeds.
Maendeleo ya Jamii (MYJ) would like to thank the communities, local governments, and central government participants. MYJ would also like to thank the Kanungu District NGO Forum and the Nebbi District NGO Forum for providing the project team with the necessary local context and contacts to make these forums successful. The organisation would also like to thank the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, and the Office of the President for supporting this project through their necessary authorization and participation in its activities. Also, appreciation is given to the University of Leeds for their active participation in the processes that led to the development of the Multi-Stakeholder Forums. This work was made possible through the generous support of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF). MYJ thanks DFG for their continued support and partnership.
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2019-04-24T19:56:48Z
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https://spark.adobe.com/page/l3JkA/
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I was thinking of removing that twig in the photo before making the shot, but thought better of coming too close to the Snapping Turtle. Thank you for your comments.
I had never heard of the Diamondback Terrapin before, so I learned something today, which is always a good thing. Your photos of the turtles are excellent as usual, as even they have personalities that you’ve captured.
Thank you Jerry! Terrapins like brackish water, so you’ll have to come out East to see them.
They don’t look like they were speeding across that road at all, but stopping to have their pictures taken. Great photos, Hien!
They do take their time to cross the road, but once in a while they stop and crawl back to the sides. Thanks Emma!
Strikingly coloured specimens, Hien, and wonderfully photographed as always!
These guys are pretty animated Hien – great photographs!
I think it is mating and nesting season, so they are more visible now. Thank you Mary!
We used to get turtles running around where I grew up. Sometimes we had to stop the car to help one out of the way 🙂 Great pictures.
Thank you for commenting M.B.!
Great captures! DBTs have such a lovely shell. Though I believe the last one is a snapping turtle. 🙂 Your post reminds me I need to put a towel in my car to aid crossings in the days ahead.
Thank you Eliza! I made the correction on the last picture, and added a sentence about Snapping Turtles being of Least Concern. I should have known better: Colonial Lake is a sweet water lake near us, and Terrapins would not live there.
I have never seen them before!
Aletta, Diamondback Terrapins are native to the Eastern shores United States and to Bermuda. That’s why you haven’t seen them in your region.
Thanks for the info Hien!
Fantastic photos of the diamondback terrapins, Hien.
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2019-04-21T04:19:57Z
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https://neihtn.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/turtles-2/
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Sons of Anarchy was the night’s top cable program with a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating and 4.231 million viewers, down from last week’s 2.4 adults 18-49 rating and 4.58 million viewers.
Tosh.0 drew a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating and 2.113 million viewers at 10p, even with last week as far as adults 18-49.
In primetime nothing else besides The Big Bang Theory reruns on TBS even cracked a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating though the showing of the movie Grown Ups on FX drew a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating.
On USA, the season finale of Covert Affairs averaged a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating and 2.47 million viewers. That was even with last week’s adults 18-49 rating and up a smidge with total viewers.
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2019-04-22T21:10:32Z
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https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/sdsdskdh279882992z1/tuesday-cable-ratings-sons-of-anarachy-rides-highest-again-tosh-0-covert-affairs-finale-and-ink-master/158610/
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The 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic literature. In this first comprehensive study, Chung-wen Shih systematically explores the riches of Yuan drama, from its unexcelled lyric poetry to its colorful characterization. After tracing the popular genres that contributed to the flowering of Yuan drama, the author describes conventional features of dramatic construction, methods of characterization, and recurring themes. The central focus is on the use of language: prose passages and lyrics are cited to show how innovative use of spoken language invests the prose with a remarkable strength and suppleness, and how imaginative use of figurative language endows the poetry with an incomparable richness of texture. Attention is also given to the use of music and physical aspects of staging.
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2019-04-26T10:13:02Z
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https://ar.scribd.com/book/302819938/Golden-Age-of-Chinese-Drama-Yuan-Tsa-Chu
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politics | Web 2.Oh. . .really?
As we brace for the hysterical doom-and-bloom rhetoric of the general election, what better time than now to explore cases of real national failure and success?
As I have confessed repeatedly here, I’m a big fan of “dataviz,” as it’s known in the trade. Data visualizations demonstrate the power of images to illuminate information in ways that words alone cannot. I think journalists, educators and all professional communicators ignore dataviz at their peril.
Anyhow, the Failed States map is pretty simple as these graphic explainers go. The work of a map geek who goes by the handle “Ender,” the dataviz essentially turns each country’s failure index number into a color, allowing you to eyeball the places on the world map where countries are teetering on the edge of national catastrophe.
Is it significant that so many states near failure are located near the equator?
Why do nations seem to be stabler the closer they are to the North and South poles–with the glaring exception of Russia?
Why makes Ghana so much more stable than Guatemala?
What measures of national stability rank Portugal above the U.S.?
Why are China and Russia closer to failure than Cuba?
What happy sauce do they drink in Chile that makes that nation as stable as our own?
Which brings us back to the underlying data.
The Failed State Index is a calculation based on information about each country regarding 12 criteria, a research-and-analysis process that’s been vetted and validated by multiple layers of academics and globalist wonks.
Maybe I’ve been following the presidential race too much, but this sound a lot like the talking points of the guests on both MSNBC and Fox News.
But why choose our neighbor to the north, which is hardly more stable than Austria, for god’s sake?
Using the handy Failed States datavisualization, it’s easy to see that if you’re looking for a rock-solid haven free of political instablity to sit out an unbearable presidential administration. . . Norway is the place to go.
Exclusive Photo: Sarah Palin as a Goldwater Girl!
Let’s imagine the presumptuous VP nominee Sarah Palin was a teenage Goldwater Girl, an earnest young Republican back in the day when Sen. Barry Goldwater rocked the house at the 1964 RNC.
This wonderful bit of trickery comes to you thanks to www.yearbookyourself.com. It’s a tweaky tool that lets you upload a photo of yourself, mess around just a bit, and produce an image of what you might have looked like had your yearbook photo been snapped during various years from 1950 through 2000.
But: Here we go again, we eliteliberaleastcoastmediaestablishmentrunningdogs having sport with Palin rather than taking her seriously. Palin, 44, was born in 1964.
p.s. By popular demand, the author at his 1952 graduation.
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2019-04-21T09:10:19Z
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https://2ohreally.wordpress.com/category/politics/
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LAWRENCE – Outstanding recent doctoral recipients in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields often begin their university career working as a postdoctoral fellows. An event showcasing the research of “postdocs” at the University of Kansas will be Wednesday, April 9, at the Kansas Union. The event is free and open to the public.
This is the second annual Postdoc Research Day and STEM Career Fair at KU. It is sponsored by the KU Postdoctoral Association with support from the KU Office of Research.
The program will begin at 9 a.m. in Alderson Auditorium with brief postdoc research talks. At 10:30 a.m., Paula Stephan, professor of economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, will speak on “How Economics Shapes Science.” Stephan is the 2012 Science Careers Person of the Year, and her presentation is co-sponsored by the KU Department of Economics.
Postdocs will then have the opportunity to network with industry representatives during a free lunch. Starting at 12:30 p.m., a public research poster session and career fair will take place in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Cash prizes will be awarded at 4 p.m. for the best talk and best poster of the day.
Estrada received a doctorate in molecular biosciences at KU, where he was a prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow. Estrada is currently a postdoc in the Emily Scott Research Group in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
More information about the Postdoc Research Day and STEM Career Fair at KU is available online.
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2019-04-24T02:00:12Z
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http://research.ku.edu/postdoc-research-event-stem-careers
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buildinggreen
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To promote occupants’ productivity, comfort, and well-being by providing quality thermal comfort.
Meet the requirements for both thermal comfort design and thermal comfort control.
Design heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and the building envelope to meet the requirements of ASHRAE Standard 55–2017, Thermal Comfort Conditions for Human Occupancy with errata or a local equivalent.
For natatoriums, demonstrate compliance with ASHRAE HVAC Applications Handbook, 2011 edition, Chapter 5, Places of Assembly, Typical Natatorium Design Conditions, with errata.
ISO 17772-2017 of Energy Performance of Buildings, Indoor environmental quality- Part 1. Indoor environmental input parameters for the design and assessment of energy performance of buildings Section A2.
Provide individual thermal comfort controls for at least 50% of individual occupant spaces. Provide group thermal comfort controls for all shared multioccupant spaces.
Thermal comfort controls allow occupants, whether in individual spaces or shared multioccupant spaces, to adjust at least one of the following in their local environment: air temperature, radiant temperature, air speed, and humidity.
Guest rooms are assumed to provide adequate thermal comfort controls and are therefore not included in the credit calculations.
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2019-04-22T16:32:42Z
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https://leeduser.buildinggreen.com/credit/Hospitality-CI-v4.1/EQc5
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thevoightdomain
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In this modern world people are living with full of internet from morning to night. Even the kids are also using the internet resources for various purposes. In the past years the internet is used for only for professional purpose but nowadays it has changed totally. From shopping to profession it plays a very important role in all places and it is one of the imperative things.
One of the best and convenient options for many people is the online shopping and it reduces the work of human beings. We are having lot of work in home so it is quite tough to find time for shopping. Especially during the weekend times there will be a heavy rush and traffic in all places. We are not able to go any place without tension. With the help of online shopping we can say bye to all those tensions in shopping.
To purchase all the groceries for home we have to go shop directly to buy everything. But now we can do it in online but many people do not know about it. In the online we are able to do all kinds of shopping without any hassle and also price is normal to all people. There are lots of sites available in online to make the online purchase. We all know well about the dress, electronic items and all other things in online but they do not know about the grocery shopping. Once if you make the order in online you can get in your door.
It saves the time, fuel, stress and money. Many people are following this option and it is very easy for them. In the online grocery delivery site the items will be available so jus pick it and select the number of items you want. Also the food items are available and it will be delivering in your home at right time. If you are not able to cook a meal or breakfast or dinner just order the food and get it within few minutes of time. Enjoy your online shopping and get more benefits.
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2019-04-21T10:47:23Z
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http://thevoightdomain.com/get-the-great-experience-in-online-grocery-shopping.html
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Shopping
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lycos
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The Benefits of the Property Management Companies for Your Needs.
We have to hand over the management of our property to experts who will be able to take great care of the property that we have and it will also be necessary for us to pay for all the services that thy provide to us. When we have property that maybe generates us income, mostly the residential and even the commercial buildings, we are supposed to hand the management of the property to the property management companies that are near you and they will be able to simplify the manner in which you get your money today with great ease. To learn more about Property Management , click westsidepropertymanagement.com. This is the reason why you need to hand over the management of your property to the Malibu property management company and they will be very helpful to you in meeting your needs.
There are many benefits of handing over the management of your property to the companies that are specialized in that. All you need is to register with their services and they will be able to make sure that they will undertake all the responsibilities of keeping your property in good shape, getting in touch with your clients and even collecting revenue for you. You will need to pay them with a commission that will be helpful to you for that matter. If at all you have any property and you need it to be well managed, make sure that you contact the Westside Property Management group and they will be very helpful to you.
Make sure you read more now all the information that will be helpful to you for that matter. It is going to be very necessary to hand over this property management and you can relax and stop running up and down trying to solve matters that you are not specialized at. To learn more about Property Management, visit http://www.westsidepropertymanagement.com. Make sure that you get a connection to the west Los Angeles property management companies and they will be able to deliver a very important service to you for that matter now.
The Westside Property Management Company will be in a position to take over the responsibilities over your property and keep straight records for your property. Since they are established companies, all the people who work under them will have to comply with their terms and conditions and this will be a very important practice that you can carry out from time to time and you will be happy by this services today.Learn more from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/property-management.
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2019-04-21T21:04:03Z
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http://publish.lycos.com/richardbake/2018/04/28/the-benefits-of-the-property-management-companies-for-your-needs/
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multichannel
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So far, indie movie studio Lionsgate has invested $8.6 million in the new premium network and subscription video-on-demand service that it is launching next fall with Viacom’s Paramount Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, the company reported Monday.
Lionsgate issued the numbers in its fiscal second-quarter 10-Q filing. The company will hold its conference call with analysts Tuesday.
Although the joint venture, know as Studio 3 Partners, initially described the new network as a subscription premium service, it has also pitched it to cable operators as a digital-basic channel, with a license fee in the range of $1 to $1.50.
Lionsgate does businesses with cable on a number of fronts, including as a production company that produces shows such as AMC’s Mad Men and Showtime’s Weeds. Lionsgate is also a partner in the online and on-demand service FearNet, along with Comcast and Sony Pictures Television.
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2019-04-20T14:43:44Z
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https://www.multichannel.com/news/lionsgate-shells-out-86-million-viacom-led-entertainment-net-365252
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oxygen
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After hours of deliberation, a jury could not unanimously determine the guilt of Quinton Tellis in a retrial.
Once again, a Mississippi jury could not reach a unanimous verdict as to whether Quinton Tellis was responsible for killing 19-year-old Jessica Chambers. On Monday, jurors let Circuit Judge Gerald Chatham know that they could not come to a decision regarding the 2014 burning death of the former cheerleader.
According to defense attorney Darla Palmer, the jurors were split 6-6 on the verdict.
The first also ended in a hung jury last year.
“We’re disappointed the jury didn’t find him not guilty. The ball is now in the court of the district attorney,” defense attorney Alton Peterson said, according to the Clarion Ledger.
Chambers was discovered walking on the side of a rural road in the tiny town of Courtland, Mississippi near her burning car on Dec. 6, 2014. More than 93 percent of her body had been badly burned. Prosecutors believe she was inside her car when it was doused with an accelerant before being set ablaze. She managed to escape the burning vehicle but died a short time later at the hospital. It took police 14 months, and several interviews with Tellis, to make an arrest in the case.
Like in the first trial, closing arguments highlighted jurors' choice. Prosecutors said evidence links Tellis to Chambers' death and that he lied to investigators. The defense emphasized testimony by emergency workers that they heard a dying Chambers say someone named Eric attacked her and that prosecutors concocted a complicated theory that makes Tellis look like a "supercriminal."
Although the conclusion was the same, the trial differed from the first one. The jurors were from a completely different town and there were new witnesses the second time around.
Dr. Carolyn Wiles Higdon, a speech pathologist and professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Ole Miss, was the first. She testified that Chambers would have been unable to speak after being set on fire, testimony that contradicted first responder witness accounts that Chambers uttered the phrase, “Eric did it,” while dying. Those three words dominated the first trial. It remained just as important during the retrial.
Panola County Deputy Sheriff Daryl House gave new testimony what while Chambers was in the ambulance, House asked her if her boyfriend did this to her; she said no. At the time of her death, Chambers was dating a man who was incarcerated. House testified that Chambers appeared to understand his question and was able to answer it, further evidence she was communicating at the scene though her condition deteriorated precipitously by the time she arrived at a Memphis hospital.
Paramedic Josh Perkins, who treated Chambers in an ambulance, testified that her mouth and throat were blackened with soot but were not swollen, and that her airways were open. Perkins, a trained professional in handling medical emergencies, contradicted the State’s expert witness in speech language pathology when he testified that Chambers was alert and, though struggling, said “Eric” had done this to her. Deputy Sheriff's Deputy Chuck Tucker also questioned Chambers when she was in the ambulance and he told jurors he asked her if Eric was black or white and she replied black.
Another new witness for the prosecution was Courtland resident Sherry Flowers, who testified during the second trial she went to a funeral and then a family gathering the day Chambers was murdered. She was flagged down by a young man on the side of the road on Main Street in Courtland who told her he wanted a lift to check on his aunt, Julia Chambers (no relation to Jessica Chambers) who lived about a mile down the road. She testified that this was just after dark.
Flowers described him as a black man, about 19 years old, with a small-to-medium build. She said she dropped off the young man near, but not at, Julia Flowers’ home. This was just a few miles from the location where Jessica Chambers was set on fire. However, prosecutors implied that the hitchhiker was Tellis and that instead of going to Julia Chambers’ home, he went to his sister’s nearby to borrow her truck, retrieve his five-gallon gas can, then return to the scene of the crime where Chambers was allegedly unconscious.
The prosecution also asked more questions of their witnesses during the retrial in order to strengthen perceived weaknesses in the first trial.
The biggest effort was to discredit the testimony of first responders who heard Chambers say “Eric” set her on fire. Dr. William Hickerson, a physician with expertise in burn patients, testified Thursday and expanded on last year’s testimony. He was adamant that Chambers could not make audible sounds at the scene — an argument he apparently didn’t make convincing enough a year ago during the first trial. At least eight first responders testifying under oath at both trials that they heard her speak and gesture.
Chambers and Tellis knew each other, well enough that Chambers had asked him for money for gas and food. They had driven around together for about an hour with another friend the day of her murder. Prosecutors claimed that cell phone data evidence placed him and Chambers together the night of the murder, too.
Peterson told jurors that's a complicated scenario making Tellis out to be a "supercriminal." He suggested that investigators, out of leads months after the crime, unfairly focused on Tellis. He said there are too many facts not in evidence and prosecutors are asking jurors to make too many "jumps" in a timeline that's "utterly ridiculous."
"They came back to Quinton Tellis and they started working backwards," Peterson said. "They came up with a picture and it was their job to make the evidence fit into that picture."
Tellis and his family has maintained his innocence. He faces another murder indictment in Louisiana in the Monroe stabbing death of Meing-Chen Hsiao, a former Taiwanese graduate student. He was already serving five years in prison in Mississippi on an unrelated burglary conviction and had already pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of Hsiao's debit card in Louisiana.
The Associated Press and legal analyst Beth Karas contributed to this report.
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2019-04-22T20:28:57Z
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https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/judge-declares-mistrial-jessica-chambers-murder-case
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Health
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britishcouncil
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Find out what the book-ish team here at the British Council have been reading this month!
Each month we publish a blog with the literature team's current reading list. Come back each month to take a peek at the reading list of a literary programmer. Are you reading any of these books? Let us know what you think on Twitter @LitBritish.
The book that has made the biggest impact on me this month is Dragon’s Green, the first work of fiction for children by Scarlett Thomas. Those familiar with her novels for adults will know that she often plays with tropes and genres, interrogating or turning them inside out, and this is no exception: on one hand it’s an involving, gripping and charming fantasy novel, but on the other, it’s one where a princess-and-dragon story turns into a metaphor for the meat industry; a nightmarish underworld is built from modernist quotes; and England’s future has country houses and honey still for tea – but also dial-up modems and evil wizards.
I’ve just read The Sheltering Sky by American novelist Paul Bowles. Set in the 1920s, it follows the meanderings of a rather unlikeable American couple travelling inland to the Sahara from Tangiers. It’s both a travel story with a compelling narrative and an existential exploration of mortality and death – the narrative ratcheting up the tension as the deliberations on death and bad omens become less philosophical and more pragmatic concerns. Bowles descriptions of the Sahara are magical and terrifying and make me want to travel there. Right now I’m mid-way through Louise Doughty’s Black Water - a thriller set in Indonesia about the political upheavals of 1965 and 1998, which is prompting me to read up on more of the history of this region of which I have much to learn.
I’ve been reading The Good Son, Paul McVeigh’s debut novel which won the Polari First Book Prize in 2016. It is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the 1980s Belfast. Mickey Donnelly is about to head to secondary school. He got into the local grammar but his parents can’t afford it so he is counting down the days until his first day at St Gabriel’s, which he’s dreading. The book is a fantastic and moving journey into the mind of a young boy who knows he is different and is trying to make sense of himself and the difficult world around him. Through Mickey’s first person narration, we gain a vivid insight into the atmosphere of Troubles and their impact on everyday family and community life. The book is nonetheless hopeful and extremely funny. I look forward to reading more from Paul in future.
I am reading The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler, in which travel writer Sara Wheeler goes to the various different parts of the Arctic to explore the cultural and geographical context of these regions. Whether it’s Russia or Canada, Greenland or the US, Wheeler finds a land that has been, and continues to be, robbed of its resources and misunderstood by its rulers. Wheeler’s writing is beautiful, and the unconcern with which she narrates complex journeys and dangerous terrain is addictive.
This month I have been reading Evicted by Matthew Desmond which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and looks and poverty in America through the lens of housing. It is told through the stories of eight families living in Milwaukee and their experiences facing eviction and as they try to keep a roof over their heads. It makes the case that lack of access to safe and secure housing is a key driver of poverty. I have also been reading Aarhus 39: Stories of journeys around Europe (2017) collected by the Hay Festival and featuring leading writers for young readers. It features acclaimed authors from right across Europe such as Sarah Crossan and was edited by writer and translator Daniel Hahn. The authors in the volumes were selected by Matt Haig (from the UK), Kim Fupz Aakeson (from Denmark) and Ana Cristina Herreros (from Spain).
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2019-04-21T00:42:19Z
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https://literature.britishcouncil.org/blog/2017/what-were-reading-june/
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Society
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thestar
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How do you build a whole new neighbourhood in time for the biggest sporting event Toronto has ever hosted?
The answer is with hundreds of construction workers — and two sets of blueprints.
What will soon become household vernacular as the “Canary District” is that place you can see rising up out of the West Don Lands, tucked in the elbow where the DVP and Gardiner Expressway meet. For years, organizers for the Pan Am Games have been staring at it on maps and drawings — imagining a $709-million village for 7,400 athletes within what will later be a village in its own right for hundreds of stroller-pushers, students and residents with active lifestyles.
The new community — injected into the well-established downtown core — will shift twice before it settles into the landscape. Organizers have separated the physical space in their minds between Games status and “legacy” space.
On a recent tour, those organizers are still looking out at empty lots from a yet-to-be-finished green roof atop what will be George Brown College’s first residence. The residence will house 500 students.
But first the rooms will hold hundreds of athletes for the Games — four for every washroom available. Two condo buildings will also serve as bunking space, with up to 10 athletes sharing a two-bedroom unit divided by temporary partitions.
The rooms will still be mostly concrete boxes by then — the first couple of coats of paint, a concrete slurry floor and sparse furnishings between the partitioned walls. It’s condo living without the perks — what will essentially be dorms with a view.
That’s the way developers Dundee Kilmer have explained the interim phase of these buildings to prospective buyers. There is space for 2,000 homeowners when they open in spring 2016.
“The suites will just be bare bones ‘shells’ with concrete floors, walls and bathrooms,” reads the pitch on the development’s website about the Games version of the condos.
In the end, the neighbourhood will feature a mix of market condos, affordable housing and the student residence. It’s anchored by a new, sun-soaked YMCA and an 18-acre public park to the east.
Lester, a fourth-generation Torontonian, said it has been rewarding to take on the project, despite the enormous pressure on reputation that the Games spotlight brings.
There were challenges, he said, like developing two unique architectural drawings for each version of this village. He said their team has looked to other large events, like the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, for best practices.
Construction for the Games version of the build will be finished this fall, Lester said, and the facilities will be handed over to the Games’ organizing committee at the end of January. The committee will furnish and finish the suites and set up the outdoor facilities.
This athletes’ village will see the most overlay — temporary structures and builds — of any Games in recent history, said Allen Vansen, the executive vice-president of operations sport and venue management for the TO2015 organizing committee.
From the top of the future student residence, Vansen points to the levelled dirt around him. A massive dining tent will go there, he says, a multi-purpose clinic there, and an Internet café over there. Down below, men in orange T-shirts hammer paving stones to make sure they are even.
The dining tent with full kitchen will seat 2,400 to 2,600 and offer free meals, encouraging the athletes to eat together, Vansen said. A polyclinic built into portables will sit in the middle of the village for medical and physiological needs.
An international welcome zone will greet delegations from 41 countries off Front St. E. They’ll pass through two historic buildings, including the neighbourhood’s namesake, the Canary Restaurant, built in the late 1800s.
During the athletes’ stay, some “legacy” facilities, like the YMCA, which is already built but not officially opened, will be available for use. The facility’s gym will be used for boxing training; a sloped, upstairs running track will be unfinished, but open; and several pools will be available for relaxation.
The village will have modern conveniences: Wi-Fi provided throughout all the residences, movie nights, blinds on the windows.
Those blinds will still hang come Aug. 15 when the Games are over, for homeowners (who might also want blinds) to keep or dispose of.
EllisDon said the company will work to convert the space for condo and student living — temporary walls out, flooring in, kitchens built, bathrooms finished and a new coat of paint applied.
Designers hope that when the King streetcar eventually loops between the Distillery and Canary districts, this neighbourhood will start to meld into its surroundings.
Lester said there is also 30,000 square feet of retail planned in the first “legacy” phase.
Though occupants are yet to be announced, shops will be geared towards an ongoing theme of health and wellness (think bike shops and clean eating) — what would be a lasting legacy from the Games.
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2019-04-23T20:32:37Z
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/panamgames/2014/08/17/from_pan_am_games_athletes_village_to_torontos_newest_hood.html
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Sports
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amazon
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Represents the input of a DescribeCacheEngineVersions operation.
The name of a specific cache parameter group family to return details for.
If true, specifies that only the default version of the specified engine or engine and major version combination is to be returned.
The cache engine version to return.
SetDefaultOnly sets the DefaultOnly field's value.
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2019-04-26T06:01:44Z
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/v1/api/service.elasticache.DescribeCacheEngineVersionsInput.html
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cooperhewitt
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Russian porcelain factory. Established in St. Petersburg in first half of 18c as the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and founded by the order of Peter's daughter Elizaveta Petrovna in 1744. Early production was exclusively for Imperial court. In 1925 renamed Lomonosov after the scientist Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov. Privatized in 1993.
We have 115 objects that Lomonosov Porcelain Factory has been involved with.
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2019-04-23T08:26:23Z
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http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18045091/
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson announced today (June 15) that Indiana University Bloomington is initiating a program that combines academic study and real-world experience to help students develop skills for participating in American political and civic life. The program, called PACE (Political and Civic Engagement), will launch this fall.
Funding to establish PACE came from Edward L. Hutton, a longtime Indiana University benefactor who died in March 2009. Hutton was also a key supporter of IU's Hutton Honors College, International Experiences Program and Well Scholars Program.
"Our students are eager to make a difference in the world by applying what they learn in the classroom," Hanson said. "Requests for a program of this sort came directly from students, and IU Bloomington -- and Mr. Hutton -- responded to their interests. PACE will provide our students with the tools they need for a lifetime of constructive engagement. The program will draw upon the strengths of outstanding faculty members from a variety of disciplines."
PACE is a 25-credit undergraduate certificate program with an innovative curriculum that includes courses, hands-on learning and co-curricular experiences. Students will complete core courses on leadership and policy-making, electives from a variety of disciplines, a one-credit exercise on decision-making, a mentored internship and a capstone seminar.
"We see this as a way for students to develop knowledge and skills about American public life that can enrich their professional and career opportunities and enable them to be active and productive members of their communities," said PACE Director Michael Grossberg, the Sally M. Reahard Professor in the Department of History and professor in the IU Maurer School of Law-Bloomington.
The program will deepen students' political and civic understanding and give them opportunities for meaningful engagement in the community, state, nation and world. It will prepare students for involvement with political campaigns, advocacy groups, nonprofit organizations and government agencies, and for graduate work in law, public policy, media and other fields.
"The opportunity to bring theory and practice together, to work in the community, and in ways that are intellectually, politically and socially engaging, is sure to appeal to a wide range of students on the Bloomington campus," said Sonya Stephens, vice provost for undergraduate education. "This certificate program brings a new dimension to the undergraduate experience and will provide those who pursue it with models for reflective participation in civic life long after they have graduated from college."
The PACE program is administered by the College of Arts and Sciences; students may combine the certificate with academic majors in the College or with undergraduate degrees in other academic schools at IU Bloomington.
Leadership, Ethics and Social Action (LESA), an academic minor program that has been part of the College of Arts and Sciences, will merge with PACE.
"PACE is an exciting centerpiece of the College's efforts to provide students with an intellectual foundation for participation and leadership in civic life. It builds as well as on our growing emphasis on interdisciplinary studies," said Jean Robinson, associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences. "We look forward to collaborating with other schools and campus offices to make this initiative a success."
PACE draws on the 2007 book Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement, produced by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation, who was Indiana University president from 1987 to 1994, and his co-authors argue that universities should make intentional, explicit efforts to support students' political development. The goal should be to increase not only the extent, but the quality, of student engagement, they say.
Grossberg said the outpouring of youthful activism in the 2008 presidential election showed that college students are hungry for opportunities to learn about and engage in civic life.
"One goal of the program is to give students a chance to learn how to take a principled stand: how to think through a problem, arrive at a position and defend it," he said. "But the program is also designed to give students the skills to work with people with whom they may not agree."
Information about the program is available at http://pace.indiana.edu/ or from Associate Director Joelene Bergonzi at pace@indiana.edu.
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2019-04-21T16:56:15Z
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http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/11138.html
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Arts
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wordpress
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The problem with TechCrucnh stories is that they never get the effing analysis right, so lets go to the source instead. In this case its the code author of Car Locator, A AD2 winner. If you view the full blog of posts, you see symptoms of advertising in that after the AD2 win the uptake in sales starts occurring. But we have to know why.
First int, Edward Kim provides a free version of Car Locator and the conversion rate to paid is about 9%. The only advertising he has at the moment was 3rd place AD2 winer and Android Market featuring his application. In other words his advertising effort is not there yet or put another way only half complete.
Let me explain. On the iPhone side an app developer will make a full version freely accessible to reviewers by using a timer to time out the application use past a few days. That way you lower the barrier to having all mobile application reviewers review the application and write their application review for the blog reviewing it.
Thus, the take away points seem to be use the free application to lower the barriers to having the application reviewed and featured by internet media and that Android devices deployed on Verizon helped.
One thing that is the same in skills and processes with the effort to get sales in Android Market is something that may at first glance might not seem related,androd development consulting customers.
You have the same process of analyzing where that target audience might look on the web and attempting to grab that audience. Suffice it to say that free demos and free videos are like the resume to get that Android Application Review site to review your application and thus that review becomes a marketing tool to get new customers.
Just like the recruiters on Linkedin, you have to avoid spending time on those groups that are not tangential towards your goals of getting customers. In the Android Market case, coverage by a non android application review site will only matter if the audience is directly using Android devices in high numbers.
But what free applications? It has to be a free android application that attracts an android application review site to review said application. Top sellers at this time seem to be Games, Entertainment, Utilities, and feature rich AppWidgets.
The free applications I am finishing are at this time an AnimatedWidget, a Feeds Application, a game, and a file browser application. notice that I did not state free android applications with someone else’s brand on it? At this point you will want your brand on it and that brand pointing to your stuff.
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2019-04-19T04:23:51Z
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https://mobilebytes.wordpress.com/tag/android-market/
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Arts
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Games
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desmoinesregister
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Architectural drawings of Norwalk's 1908 Draught House exterior view. Nowalk's location will open in 2019.
Architectural drawings of Norwalk's 1908 Draught House interior view. Nowalk's location will open in 2019.
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2019-04-24T21:55:27Z
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http://mhigh.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/11/05/norwalk-commercial-development-1908-draught-house/1778578002/
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Arts
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Reference
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planetary
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An unnamed 800-meter-diameter crater splattered the lunar surface with bright ejecta. Later, more, smaller impact craters formed on the ejecta, punching through the bright material to darker material below, resulting in dark-haloed craters. The image covers an area about 3 kilometers wide.
These dark craters present an interesting puzzle. As with most Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter publicly released images, the caption posted with this one takes the viewer through the puzzling questions that motivate scientific research.
But why do we see such a high number of these features here, and why do they seem to be grouped close to the rim of this small, unnamed crater located outside Sklodowska crater?
The similarity in ejecta albedo suggests that the time between individual crater impacts was not great, and they are therefore likely to be secondary craters having a single larger impact as their source. The main question is whether the bolides that formed this group of craters arrived from an impact some distance away, or whether they are examples of so-called "self-secondaries."In the latter case, the blocks that created these features would have been ejected almost vertically during excavation of the large crater in the context image. They would have remained aloft long enough for the main ejecta blanket to be emplaced before returning to the surface and creating the pattern we see. Some recent studies are suggesting that more self-secondary craters are to be found closer to the main crater rim. This new finding can explain why there appear to be more of these dark-halo craters closer to the main crater rim, if they are indeed self-secondaries.
If, however, these secondary impacts originate with another, more-distant impact, then the clustering we think we see may be illusory. Perhaps this apparent grouping depends more on the location of the low-reflectance deposits than on the locations of the impacts. In that case many other craters in the region might also be related by formation time to these dark-haloed craters, but do not show dark haloes because they missed those deposits.
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2019-04-18T11:01:08Z
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http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/moon-dark-secondary-crater-cluster-lroc.html
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Arts
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Science
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libsyn
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Purging your Brain is a great way to help get past some discomfort. Find out what it is, when to use it, and why it works.
Interested in the "Get Out of My Comfort Zone" Book?
One of the podcast favorites, Digby Scott is back!
If you haven't caught up with Digby before make sure to go back and check out episodes 68 and 100 to get to know him.
Today we're chatting about his new book "Change Makers: Make your mark with more impact and less drama"
Te Omeka Morehu is on a journey to help us understand the emotional landscape of the people and youth in our care.
This starts with understanding our own emotional landscape.
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2019-04-23T10:27:45Z
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http://uncomfortableisok.libsyn.com/2019
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Arts
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Reference
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livejournal
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Got your msg. Sorry 4 not calling back, not in the mood to talk. Still seeking the light, this dim light that will give me back HOPE... hope in mankind, hope in this society, hope in the future, hope in my possible contribution to help this world go round(er).
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2019-04-23T23:07:34Z
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https://ricercar07.livejournal.com/184239.html
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Arts
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Society
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theinspirationroom
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Euro RSCG C&O, an advertising agency in France, has released “Meilleurs Voeux”, (Best Wishes) a greeting card noting the struggles and losses associated with 2012, and wishing all the best for 2012. “Heureusement ça se termine toujours pareil”, is translated from French to English as “Fortunately it always end the same”.
The Meilleurs Voeux film was produced at Euro RSCG C&O, Paris, (eurorscgco.com) by creative director Christophe Coffre, art director Florian Roussel, copywriter Guillaume Blanc, agency producer Isabelle Darroman, new business director Brune Buonomano.
Animation was by No Brushing via WIZZ, Paris, with producer François Brun.
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2019-04-20T15:09:32Z
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http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2012/meilleurs-voeux-best-wishes-for-2012/
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Business
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wikipedia
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Indian classical music is one of many forms of art music that have their roots in particular regional cultures. For other "classical" and art music traditions, see List of classical and art music traditions.
^ Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (1975). Arthur Llewellyn Basham (ed.). A Cultural History Of India. Oxford University Press. pp. 212–215. ISBN 978-0-19-821914-9.
^ a b Bruno Nettl (2016). George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 176–178. ISBN 978-0-19-989292-1.
^ "Announcement of The 17th Sangeet Sankalp Saptaah 2012". saptak.org. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musicians from India.
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2019-04-22T00:16:16Z
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_classical_music
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Arts
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Reference
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fastcompany
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This week has been a larger-than-normal one for Apple: As well as Tuesday’s launch of a puh-lethora of spanky new gewgaws, this afternoon investors will be “holding for Tim Cook” on conference call for the firm’s fiscal Q4 results. But guess what? All everyone is still really talking about is the iPad Mini.
Although Cupertino has come in for some quizzing over the price of the iPad Mini, with Phil Schiller out in defense, most analysts reckon Junior will still make Apple a whole bunch of profit, without impinging on the sales of existing (ergo, cheaper) 7-inch tablets. A nice post from Fortune (if you’ve got the time to wade through it) collated the financial world’s views on the latest addition to the family. Won’t affect share price, Apple’s products make the firm money–remember what Jeff Bezos said about the Kindles last week–keeps the brand premium, you know.
There’s also a lot of focus on the firm’s souped-up peripherals, including the 12W charger (coming as standard with the Mini and the iPad 4) which will speed up the somewhat turgid charge time of old-school iPads.
And finally, let us turn to the Apple-Samsung Patent Rollover Bingo Sweepstake Lottery. Yesterday’s big loser in the courts was Samsung, as a U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled that the Korean firm had infringed four intellectual property patents, including one for touchscreen technology and one for the iPhone’s face. The U.S. Patent Office, however, has “rejected” one of Apple’s bounce-back patents.
This doesn’t really mean much for Samsung–the two-year process is between USPTO and Apple alone, and rejection doesn’t mean “Apple Patent, you are no longer a patent, you are fired,” but instead means, “Apple Patent, you’re not wearing the correct dress code for the Patent discotheque. Either return in chinos and a button-down shirt, or come back to me with a valid argument about why you should come through the red velvet rope wearing what you’re wearing.” Ooh, I’m all analogy-ed out now. Anyone fancy a cuppa?
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2019-04-24T22:10:13Z
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https://www.fastcompany.com/3002428/apple-mini-sing-song-and-apple-patent-ding-dong
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Computers
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ucla
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The Earth’s radiation belts are composed of very energetic electrons that can, if unperturbed, remain trapped for long periods of time. Generally, the dynamics of the electron population in the outer radiation belt is extremely variable, and as such, its understanding is very important predicting the effects of Space Weather, given the possible consequences that relativistic electrons can have on the electronics of satellites. Radiation belt variability is ultimately driven by the solar wind and its interaction with the Earth’s magnetosphere. In this project, we have used in-situ measurements from the solar wind and from the outer radiation belt at geosynchronous orbit (GOES satellites) and across the outer radiation belt (Van Allen Probes) to explore the relation between different geomagnetic perturbations associated with the solar wind and the increases fluxes of relativistic (MeV) electrons. We aim to (1) establish what solar wind parameters are statistically relevant for the enhancement and depletion of MeV electrons at geostationary orbit independent of storm-time condition, (2) study the extent of this solar wind influence on the whole outer belt and (3) understand the morphology of outer radiation belts enhancement events to further explore if different regions are influenced by the solar wind in different ways to those already established.
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2019-04-23T18:47:49Z
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https://web.atmos.ucla.edu/calendar/2018-10/victor-pinto-ucla-influence-solar-wind-dynamics-relativistic-electrons-earths
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Science
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dreamhost
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I set up streaming on my account earlier today (appx. 4 hours ago). Do I need to also create the subdomain that will be used for streaming or is that automatically created? I ask because from the server itself I can’t ping the new subdomain (media.example.com). I know DNS may not have propagated across the net, but usually when I hook up my DH account with a new subdomain I’m able to ping it from the server itself immediately.
If dedicated servers use the same Panel as shared servers, then no, you don’t have to set up the subdomain. It won’t even show up in your Manage Domains list, but it should show up in your Goodies->Streaming list, and inside your user’s home directory.
So hopefully, it’s shown up for you by now.
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2019-04-18T18:54:38Z
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https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/streaming-and-subdomains/37791
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Arts
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Reference
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berkeley
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I'm just a person interested in learning more about our universe, including if there is ETI.
I'd like to help out in a small way by computing as many work units as I can. I hope that one day the SETI back end gets finished and we can finally learn the truth...are we alone?
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2019-04-20T11:04:55Z
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https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/view_profile.php?userid=10750322
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Gunfire in Lake Los Angeles left a man dead on Wednesday night, officials said.
Te 39400 block of 167th Street East in Lake Los Angeles, as pictured in a Google Street View image in May of 2015.
The deadly shooting took place about 9:10 p.m. in the 39400 block of 167th Street East, Deputy Marvin Crowder of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Information Bureau said in a written statement.
Paramedics pronounced the victim, initially described only as a man, dead at the scene, he said.
No further details, including a suspect description or motive, were available.
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2019-04-20T20:41:26Z
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Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell, right, with her husband, Daniel Littleton, and their daughter, Storey.
Elizabeth Mitchell is known to fans of small-batch indie rock as a member of the great New York City band Ida, which last released an album in 2008. Since then, Mitchell has spent more of her time making music for children with her husband (who also plays in Ida) and her young daughter. The singer's latest album merges the halves of that artistic identity: It complements traditional kiddie fare such as "Hop Up, My Ladies" and "Froggie Went a-Courtin'" with versions of tunes by rockers, including Jimi Hendrix and Van Morrison. Be assured that Mitchell excises several minutes' worth of guitar soloing from the Allman Brothers Band's "Blue Sky."
As that judicious edit demonstrates, part of what makes "Blue Clouds" work is that Mitchell and co-producer Warren Defever (of the shape-shifting art-rock outfit His Name Is Alive) restrict the album's sound to a delicate chamber-folk murmur; David Bowie's "Kooks," for instance, seems here about as pint-sized as Mitchell's listeners. The result is that valued record-industry commodity: children's music that adults — or at least parents — can enjoy. More important, though, it serves as a gentle corrective to kid culture's ongoing sensory assault.
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2019-04-22T10:45:25Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2012-nov-18-la-et-ms-elizabeth-mitchell-my-flowers-gentle-blue-clouds-rotation-20121117-story.html
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I'm in my third year.
The project is about current-driven magnetic domain wall dynamics utilising spin-orbit torques. In a simpler way, the research focuses on developing next generation low power memory and logic devices by manipulating the electron spin, which is an intrinsic quantum property of electrons. These devices are thus termed as spintronic devices, as opposed to electronic devices.
It is not only useful but also immensely interesting to know how nature works. This forms the basis of why I study physics. I can’t imagine myself not trying to know how things are working around me. Nature can be complex but it’s pretty satisfying figuring out why it works the way it does.
Pursuing a research degree is quite challenging which is actually very helpful in developing a wide range of skills, both in a personal and professional way. These skills will be highly beneficial for my future career. Furthermore, doing a research degree allows me to stay well connected with the scientific community.
The city of Leeds is very vibrant and multicultural. Yorkshire people are very friendly and fun to be with. The city is well connected with the university, and in general as a whole. You can find almost anything you need here in Leeds.
The working environment is very friendly where all the different research groups work together, collaborate and are respectful towards each other. The administrative staff are very helpful who are ready to give advice and help in probably any type of matter, let it be academic or non-academic issues.
A physics PhD is very intensive and demanding. Apart from working hard and long for your research, you also need to invest a lot of time in reading, both to understand your research and also to stay up-to-date with current findings around the globe. Thus, efficient time management is essential.
Probably not to be able to go back home for a quick visit if I miss my family and friends. Home is far away and so it usually takes advanced planning and also can be quite expensive. So the frequency of visit is quite low; once a year maybe.
During a particular event or phase in life, both positive or negative, one likes to share it with family and friends, so as to enhance the good feeling or relieve the bad ones. These times can be as simple as catching a bad flu, or a small success of the day. However, I would like to say that I have wonderful friends here who are fun and supportive and I am very thankful to them.
Analytical abilities, efficient work and time management, communication skills, multi-tasking, etc.
Studying about the fundamentals of nature in a professional way applying proper methodology is indeed very enjoying.
The University of Leeds is very structured. It has a vibrant and centralised campus with proper support for students. It is a research oriented university and thrives on cutting-edge developments which allows it to enjoy a high research and academic reputation in the world stage.
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2019-04-21T00:42:14Z
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Since 2000, we have been converging annually for a three day celebration of political action, fierce youth brilliance, and do-it-yourself fun. The Youth Activism Gathering (YAG) is an event organized for and by teens and young adults, with support and suggestions from a few choice older activists.
We live in a region that is rich with politically conscious young people! However, these young activists are scattered across the state and are often cut off from one another. Growing up in Maine can be extremely isolating, especially if you feel passionate about progressive politics. Above all, the YAG seeks to create a space where activist youth can forge friendships. When we know we are not alone, that there are others that think and feel the things we do, we can identify ourselves as part of a community with shared struggles and shared passion. It is impossible to be an agent of change without the knowledge that we have both friends and allies to support us in our endeavors.
The YAG is a place for youth to share ideas, skills, and experiences. More than that, it is a place where we can find strength and companionship through the collective experience of gathering together. It is a place for us to find each other so that we can dance, sing, and fight, alongside one another.
The YAG is governed by the needs and desires of the youth and not dictated to us by any old farts. The YAG does provide the opportunity for youth activists to network with, learn from, and receive advice or guidance from older activists who respect us as peers and not merely as tokens.
and many more… everyone is encouraged to bring their own ideas for workshops or discussions!
The Youth Activism Gathering is sponsored by Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC) with organizing support from Pine Tree Youth Organizing (PTYO). To learn more, please click here to visit the ROSC website and click here to visit the PTYO!
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2019-04-23T08:00:10Z
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Thanks, ZN! It's sure a weird schedule with Gray's team playing 7 games and the others only playing 3 games.
Thanks, ZN! It's sure a weird schedule with Gray's team playing 7 games and the others only playing 3 games.Yeah, I think Brooklyn is playing in both Orlando and Las Vegas. They have a big roster, so maybe they'll split up between the two sites.
Thanks ZN you are TOPS in my book!
Well, is this good news for Kevin Pangos and bad news for David Stockton?
Rajon Rondo has agreed to a 1-year deal with Sacramento worth $10 million, sources told ESPN.
I feel like I'm missing something - why would it be good for Kevin?
Rondo was with the Mavs last year. His absence theoretically could help Pangos' chances of making the Dallas roster.
Strange. The way Rondo has been playing I would think it's the other way around.
Rondo has all the earmarks of a "headcase". I'm surprised anybody signed him after his last two stints.
Can't wait to follow the drama as Coach Karl tries to deal with Rondo and Cousins. Train wreck.
Kevin's chances hurt if Mav's sign Lin?
More than anything, this is a tryout for the whole league. If I recall correctly, Lin himself played for the Mavs summer league team and impressed enough to get an offer from the Warriors. The most important roster decisions are probably on how many other PGs there are on the Mavs summer league team - so KP can get the most burn.
I didn't see Steven, so is that what your post meant?
Yes. Steven was in for most of the 2nd quarter and most of the 4th.
I thought he looked pretty good. I could not find the stats to put them in my last post. He had several assists, missed a few shots, and missed 2 FT's , which is almost shocking.
The Nets lost by 8, but to my eye they did a lot better when Steven was in--they were down by as much as 16 when he was not in.
One of these 3s have got to drop!
Too bad I can't copy her emoticons!..
Halftime. Steven has not been in yet.
It is a shame Steven didn't get to play but if his compensation is decent, that might take some of the pain away from not playing.
Matt is 27 years old. He has played NBA summer league before. I have to wonder if playing for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants is worth it. He can't be making much money in the "D" League. Maybe he should play in Europe for a couple of years and make some money before he turns 30.
I am sorry he did not get a better look from the NBA. He was a solid Zag, through and through.
Yeah, I think Brooklyn is playing in both Orlando and Las Vegas. They have a big roster, so maybe they'll split up between the two sites.
Orlando's roster is so big that they have 2 teams participating in their summer league down there... wow.
I heard one of the announcers say during the OR Blue team game that they formed 2 teams to guarantee an even number of teams.
He spent some time overseas, and for whatever reason seemed to keep having issues.
As chicken s**t as this might be ( I don't know) , I think this has followed our boy. Messy deal but if I was an NBA scout, I'd look hard at how he's done in the D League. He's tearing it up.
Wow. I agree on your assessment. It says he was trying to lose some weight. As far as I know, those substances are often over the counter in those "energy" and "diet" things and it is entirely possible he did not know, nor did he intend, to violate anything. That really is questionable in terms of failing anything and fairness.
I hope that wasn't the reason.
I remember other articles (I think quoting his dad) that said he had not been paid since November 2010. In January he had a cold and asked the trainer if it was OK to take the antihistamine. Trainer said yes, he took it. He got tested and released. It always sounded like a set-up to me to get out of paying him.
From going to the website, they are not showing all summer league games...only those at Thomas Mack...will NBA Channel be showing the other games at a later time?
From my experiences the last couple of years, no. They want you to buy the NBA Summer League Live package through NBA dot com. I've even seen several SL games BLACKED OUT when I was living in Seattle/Spokane which is on another level of f'd up.
Steven Gray's Nets up next on NBA TV. Hopefully, he'll be in the lineup today.
From going to the website, they are not showing all summer league games...only those at Thomas Mack...will NBA Channel be showing the other games at a later time?Are you looking at this website? (http://www.nba.com/gameline/20150710/) It's the one I use, and all the games are shown on NBA TV (630 comcast in HD in Spokane).
According to Rita's tweets after the second game, Steven has left summer league (sorry I can't locate them).
I did check the box of last game and he was not on the box score.
ZN - Thanks for the website...I do appreciate your assistance!
ZaGranny - Steve was not on the bench last night...I saw a picture of him and his lovely wife posted I believe by Zagazags in another thread right after his last game, where he played about 14 minutes - where I asked about the salary they made in Summer League.
Stockton did not play. Sprained left ankle.
Min 27:21, FGM-A 2-7, 3PM-A 1-4, +/- -6, OFF REB 0, DEF REB 1, ASST 6, PF 5, ST 0, PTS 5.
Dang! I'm still loving just how well David is doing though. Tough kid - good player. Can't wait to see where David's at this time next year.
Personal Fouls = 5 .... scrappy too. Hope his shot improves!
Kevin is one of the best shooters in the country -- at any level -- yet the issue is his shooting touch requires him to be calm.
Remember his 1st 2 season AWAY from the Kennel. Sub-35%.
Point is, he's got to figure out the mental aspect of his shooting form. When game is on the line, end of halves, big stage, etc, his shooting suffers. Some players are 30% career shooters, yet 50% in biggest moments. Kevin is the inverse of this, at least in terms of shooting.
He's a gamer. I think he could make the Mavs roster. They see him shooting in practice, drills, scrimmages, regular season college games, and know he's a Blue-Chip shooter. And at running an offense.
He's got to figure out the mental part of being a professional on the biggest stage.
Once he does that, he has a shooter's chance of making the league, at least for awhile.
3 of Kevin's personal fouls were intentional fouls. One at the end of the first half when the team had a foul to give, the other 2 were to stop the clock at the end of the game. He actually played pretty good defense. Most of Seth Curry's points came when someone other than Kevin was guarding him.
Dallas v Portland is scheduled today at 7pm on ch 617 CSN Comcast Spokane.
Sacramento v Denver is scheduled at 10:30 pm on ch 630 NBATV Comcast Spokane.
Pangos with 8 early points.
Thanks for the link. CSN is showing skiing. Thanks for your TV guidance Comcast.
Kevin showing he can run a team, although there are some very selfish players on the Mav's. 10 points in the first half. He is showing his liability on defense. Two straight times down the court his opponent got to the rim. He also didn't close out very well and the player went right by him. Otherwise a solid first half.
Kevin ended with twelve points. There would have been a lot of assists if his teammates hadn't thrown up so many bricks. I credit Kevin with a lot of patience playing with those guys. Powell seemed like a pretty decent teammate. Kevin guarded better in the second half. Frazier is a handful. There was a little help on D toward the end of the second half. The summer league Mavs have only one passer on the team. Kevin.
Thanks for the link Sage!
He and Powell have played together before on the last Canadian University games team. Powell could end up being the Mavs backup PF so the relationship is an important one for KP.
Dallas got behind at the end of the first half and never caught up after that. It was when they put in their Indian recruit Singh. He is a "huge" work-in-progress. Very, very, slow up and down the court, and cannot protect the basket at all. The announcers were saying that Cuban drafted him so that Dallas would capture the Indian fan base. I'm not sure if Indians even know they have a National Basketball Team, let alone a player that got drafted. The one sport they go bonkers over is Cricket.
You are sure right about the cricket, the whole country is united about this sport. The top players are treated like demi-gods. Even players from other countries like Australia are treated like superstars everywhere they go.
Stocks in for the Kings on NBA TV.
I was at the practice where David turned his ankle on the first play of the scrimmage. He went up for a rebound and apparently came down on someones foot. Hope he is completely healed.
As much as I'd like that scenario to play out for Pangos' sake, Mark Cuban isn't the type of owner to let a few million bucks hamstring his GM from signing best available players. Pangos will have to get some separation from Felton by his performance not his paycheck.
Felton? Are we talking about Raymond Felton?
My biggest concern there is that Felton might eat Pangos.
My biggest corners there is that Felton might eat Pangos.
Yes, 31 year old Raymond Felton from North Carolina.
I have looked at what the Mavs fans think of KP...compared to the Celtics Board, the Mavs board(s) are pathetic.
By now the Celtics board would have a 4-5 page thread on the pros and cons of KP making the team. Hardly anyone Mavs fans even notice KP is even playing.
IMHO I see him being on an opening day roster somewhere in the NBA this year. Coaches like him and he has shown good ball security. As I said previously the longer he stays with a team the better he will look and create for his teammates.
He played for the Blazers for a year or two. I still can't believe an NBA point guard could let himself get THAT out of shape. He has eaten his way out of what could have been a good career.
The main thing to remember here is Kevin needs to show he can play somewhat adequate defense out there. The NBA coaches know Kevin can be a serviceable backup PG offensively. The NBA has turned into a guard oriented league. Kevin has always had issues with lateral quickness. Couple that with the fact that a lot of the NBA PG's are 6'3+ and much longer than Kevin and he will have issues. Also, please don't point out to me that John Stockton was able to defend in the NBA, we all know that. Kevin's case is completely different as the NBA has obviously shifted eras. Dellavedova is able to defend in the NBA due to the fact that he is 6'4 and can make up for his lack of foot speed with his size. Dellavedova brings a physicality and tenacity to the game that not many others match, which in no disrespect to Kevin, he does not bring. Kevin has always been a cool, level-headed player. Unfortunately at this point in his career, I think that is something that doesn't help him as it used to.
Kevin has always been a cool, level-headed player. Unfortunately at this point in his career, I think that is something that doesn't help him as it used to.
I'm not so sure that I agree with this. The Mavs have been put through the wringer of-late by immature, emotional jerks (Odom and Rondo, to name a few), And they experienced firsthand how a loose cannon at PG is especially damaging. So maybe the Mavs won't buy into this idea that someone needs to be demonstrative and highly emotional to be effective. Kevin can get fired up, but he doesn't lose it. I believe this is a good quality in a PG (think Jason Kidd and Steve Nash), so I do not see Kevin's temperment being a negative. His lack of size/length and speed will hurt him more. But you also have to remember, Dallas has been quite successful over the years with a "slow" and defensively-weak German headlining the roster, so we'll see. And given the environment of summer league, Kevin has been relatively effective at defending the perimeter. In a more structured setting he'd have help underneath to seal off those drives that seem to be eating him up at the moment. Cuban and Nelson are analytical and purposed (one of those "purposes" being clearing cap space for future moves), if nothing else, so we'll see.
I'd love to see Kevin in Dallas. My fear is that he winds up in D-League first, and then gets picked up by somebody else. That would be another gut-punch, like when the Mavs drafted KO and promptly traded him to Boston.
There has to be an upside for any NBA team to put KP on their 2015-16 roster. We know he can shoot it AND he has a A/TO ration of 12-1. He will also make the league minimum salary, so there are three positives. Now on the negative side, he has slow feet, he is vertically challenged and his arms are also short. So whatever team might be interested in him, they have to weigh the three positives he brings with under average physical attributes.
As G-Flex stated, Cuban is a business man but is unlikely to hamper his GM in making player choices if there is CAP space. Kevin would have to prove he can adjust his defense and play smarter - just as a pitcher studies his opponents batting order for weaknesses, Kevin will also have to study his opponents in much the same way to find himself an advantage. EH had much the same problem where he was unable to "keep-up" with many of the SF's he faced because he didn't have the foot speed...his overall game was pretty sound but needed the one advantage and that was his outside shooting, which proved to be erratic at times.
I hope Kevin makes it to camp and gets to play in NBA Pre-Season games to prove to one and all his three strengths make up for any physical weaknesses...fingers are crossed.
Kevins Dallas Mustangs play the Washington Wizards at 12:30 pm.
This picture/post just make me think of Pargo.
Thanks for the link ZN.
Only watched the last couple minutes of the game, and what previous people said was not an exaggeration -- there is terrible team basketball played. As soon as someone gets the ball in the half court they just chuck up a shot whether or not they were open. Pretty ugly.
Regarding KP, although he's certainly played better, I thought he did pretty well for the most part. I saw him get a couple steals, stayed in front of his man, didn't turn over the ball, had a nice transition bucket, and was the only person actually passing the basketball and making things work for the team. However, KP also had a transition 3 pointer that air-balled. I think I can count on one hand the number of times he air balled a 3 while playing at GU... Hope his poor 3 pt shooting percentage doesn't harm his chances -- the Mavs GM will at least have his college body of work to look at in making a decision on him.
I was listening to the game and thought that was an ally oop attempt but the Mavs player didn't go up for it.
He is the Yin to most of his team's Yang.
Loved the pass to Powell for the transition dunk.
I really like the big goose egg in Kevin's turnover column.
"The Mavericks brought Pangos in, and with everything going on in the franchise, it looked like one of the best places for Zag's all-time leading three-point shooter to make a NBA team. But as fluid as the offseason is, Dallas just brought in longtime point guard Derron Williams on a two-year deal after the Brooklyn Nets agreed to a $27.5 millon buyout."
THREE for THIRTY-ONE from 3 point land.
I dont follow NBA but that makes sense to have a known quantity veteran of the league point guard come in and someone like Pangos as a second or third option. I think Mills and Delly both kind of went down that route, right?
Agree-- good option to learn behind some veterans.
To the people that know basketball, and NBA ball, too; Do we think Kevin will make the Mavs team?
Both of these games are being shown live this afternoon on the NBA TV station - 156 on DISH.
Their recent acquisition of Deron Williams makes it a bit crowded for the Mavs at the PG spot (Williams, Devin Harris, JJ Barea, and Raymond Felton), with the huge caveat that all of the current PG's on their roster are 31+ and most arguable on the down slope of their career - so there is a clear NEED for a young PG but probably no room, unfortunately. That said, summer league is all about making an impression on any team, though it is best if it's the team you are playing with. Hopefully Kevin can impress somebody enough to give him a shot.
On a COMPLETELY random note, I was looking at their roster to see if Barea was still there and noticed that Williams, Felton, and Barea all have the exact same birthday. How odd is that?
Not sure if this was mentioned, but it looks like a Spanish team is after Kevin. According to Twitter, Herbalife Gran Canaria of the ACB is looking to sign him.
I know we all want Kevin to make an NBA team, from what i've seen i don't think he'll make it. He hasn't been able to break down defenders and he hasn't been able to stay in front of guys on D. Between all the Zags in the summer league, David Stockton is probably the best bet, he's vastly improved his decision making and shooting from his Gonzaga days.
Kevin is ice cold from the deep.
The Mavs would be up by at least 10 if he had a couple..
If I were to bet I'd say Kevin won't make the Mavs team. Even though he's 6'2, I believe I read somewhere that he only has a wingspan of 5'11.5? Which makes him play even smaller than 6'2. Reach is quite important in the NBA, where you have a LOT of high caliber athletes. Long hands is something that helps you tremendously of the defensive end. And it's not a secret that the PG position is one of the most stacked (if not THE MOST) positions in the NBA, with tons of star-level players. If you want to get some minutes on the court, you have to be able to defend them at least a little bit. And for the record, I would prefer Pangos going to Europe, where he would actually be getting some real minutes to further improve on his craft. That is a much better alternative than grinding the D-League. Players actually make pretty good careers in European leagues. Take Dimitris Diamantidis for example, he's a true legend in Europe. Played his entire career in his home country, but definitely was good enough to be a star in the NBA.
Ironically, I remember Cavs and SMC fans saying this about Delly during his first Summer League. Not saying there is any similarity between the two players, I just remember those same issues with Delly.
He did do a great job on Deangelo Russell yesterday, however he played an awful game offensively and had a bad turnover near the end of the game.
I thought Kevin looked tired, especially on the offensive end. I believe nearly all of his 3-point attempts yesterday clanked off of the front of the rim, a sign of tired legs. He's also probably not the focal point of the offense, so the opportunity just wasn't there to shoot himself out of his funk. He is a team player, after all.
Another thing - He's started all four games (over a 5 day stretch) and logged more minutes than any other guard for the Mavs, averaging 27.25 minutes/game. That's a heavy workload at this point. His sub, Wayns (who I thought Gottlieb was way to effusive over), averaged 16 minutes/game playing. But for whatever reason, he was effective against Russell on the perimeter (maybe he was also off). Beyond that he had very little help defensively.
Did Matt Bouldin's team make the playoffs? Seems like he was getting lots of minutes...Matt's team plays Kevin's team today. They must have had a bye yesterday.
KP can't buy a three!
He has distributed well with 8 assists as well as 3 steals.
Much better team with Wayns and Pangos as guards with Crawford on the bench.
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Hablot Knight Browne, pseudonym Phiz, (born June 15, 1815, Lambeth, near London—died July 8, 1882, Brighton, East Sussex, Eng.), British artist, preeminent as an interpreter and illustrator of Dickens’ characters.
Browne was early apprenticed to the engraver William Finden, in whose studio his only artistic education was obtained. At the age of 19 he abandoned engraving in favour of other artistic work, and a meeting with Dickens two years later determined the form which this would take. Robert Seymour, the original illustrator of The Pickwick Papers, had just committed suicide, and the serial publication of the book was in danger from the lack of a capable successor. Browne applied for the post, and the drawings that he submitted were preferred by Dickens to those of a rival applicant—W.M. Thackeray. His pseudonym of “Phiz” was adopted in order to harmonize with Dickens’ “Boz,” and it was by his work for Dickens (especially in Pickwick, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit, and Bleak House) that his reputation was made. He also illustrated the best-known novels of Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth in their original editions, and his work was in constant demand by publishers until a stroke of paralysis, in 1867, permanently injured his powers.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hablot-Knight-Browne
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I completed another trio of characters for the Conan board game in the shape of the Princess, Conan’s Lion and the Demon of the Earth. I don’t know yet where they will appear in the storyline, but I felt like painting them and wanted to see the Army Painter results.
I used a lighter skin tone on the princess (none of those peasants’ tan for a high born) and chose purple for her cape to emphasise her regal appearance. Note how I also snuck in a ruin from Lord of the Rings that I just painted for use with my Tomb Kings – and possibly Conan if I wanted to go down the 2.5D route.
I did an image search on real life lions to find suitable spot colours and patterns for this beast, and once again the soft tone served to blend them all together nicely while also picking out details from the simple sand coloured base coat.
For the Demon of the Earth I started with a dark green base coat followed by a mid green drybrush. Since it was going to be all just dark skin, I felt it was going to be necessary to pick up the details from muscles and veins to give it depth. A darker Quickshade would have been more suitable with this colour scheme, but I only have the one pot right now, and I’m sticking with it. For an earthy look it works well enough, and away from the glare of the camera the skin looks less washed out than it appears here.
My Conan collection is turning out to be a nice go to when I only have small amounts of time to paint or lack the concentration for detail work. As such, it seems I am painting additional figures instead of not painting at all, and it hasn’t really slowed down other projects.
To finish off my initial scenario set for Monolith Edition’s Conan board game, I painted the three hero characters.
First up, the man, the legend – Conan the barbarian. It’s a great sculpt, especially the face is really well done. Ideally suited for the Army Painter Quickshade method. I like the menacing pose as well, ready to leap into action. While the Picts have rather weird, grotesquely muscle bound body shapes, Conan himself looks more realistic – in a Mr Universe sort of way.
Shevatas the master-thief is an equally well executed miniature, his pose fitting for that of an agile knife fighter. There are some very nice ornate details like on his bracers. I found that the soft tone shade also worked well on his darker skin tone.
Hadrathus the priest has been my least favourite figure to paint so far, partly to blame on my choice of technique and colours. I might rethink the brown robe and paint it in a darker tone, and some areas ended up too shiny. Since taking the photos I have tried to correct this with some success. I found that the shade didn’t really work on the black and blue cloth and I mostly overpainted it with a more traditional black wash.
Since our first full game is likely going to be postponed into the new year, I might paint the odd figure for the game until then as the mood strikes me. Next up in terms of narrative would be the pirates, but I’ll probably turn my attention to the undead first.
I thought my progress might falter when it came to the larger beasts and characters for Conan, but I seem to have settled into my approach, so the first two were done over a few short painting stints.
The giant snake was the first of the monsters Monolith showed off, and it really made me take notice. I like monsters but I have very few actually painted.
Painting the scales on the giant snake by normal means with individual highlighting would take me ages. I’m sure the results would be brilliant and the sculpt deserves it, but I’m still happy with what I got using a handful of colours and a coat of Army Painter Quickshade.
The shaman Zogar Sag was painted using the same colour scheme as his tribesmen. Given his very different physique and theatrical pose he should still stand out from the crowd.
The villains are waiting, ready to sacrifice Yselda to their dark god. It is time for the heroes to enter the scene!
I’ve finished the Pictish tribe for Conan, adding warriors, archers and a pack of hyenas roaming through the village.
Being satisfied with my first purchase of 25mm bases, I also received my second order of clear bases from Fluid 3D Workshop in different sizes for the various creatures and monsters in the game.
Next up it’s the heroes and villains and a big beast.
I was one of 16,000 backers who supported the Conan Kickstarter by Monolith, drawn in by the quality of the sculpts, artwork and the sheer volume of loot that was getting unlocked.
Now I have received my pledge, which is effectively a completely new miniatures hobby game with several factions, all in all well over 100 figures. Not painting these is not an option, since the miniatures are one of the main draws of the game, but painting them in my usual way would take at least a year – assuming I was not painting anything else.
Therefore I have opted to paint everything in base colours only and then give it the Army Painter Soft Tone Quickshade treatment. I’ve never used this before and I wouldn’t use it for my wargaming projects, but for a board game it is a reasonable/necessary compromise.
In the first scenario, Conan is going up against the Picts, so I started painting those. I finished the 15 Pict Hunters (all identical sculpts) with 5 Warriors and 5 Archers in the works.
The sculpts are very nice, with few mould lines, plenty of detail and character. They easily stand up to any wargaming standard. This makes it hard to resist the urge to apply highlights after the shading, add war paint or other flourishes. Those will have to be reserved for the main heroes and villains of the game.
The Quickshade is leaving a layer of gloss varnish so it requires a matte coat afterwards. That results in quite a thick layer, but at least the figures will be protected in play and storage.
As an additional step I am replacing the round bases that are moulded onto the miniatures with clear perspex. On a 2D game board this blends the figures in nicely. So far, hand injuries have been minor.
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2019-04-20T12:41:38Z
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https://thelostandthedamned.wordpress.com/category/fantasy/conan/
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Go beyond cookies and devices to target individuals. Associate an individual’s devices to create a single profile. And with our open, agnostic platform, it’s easy to merge data sources to augment that profile. All of this can be used to find more customers with lookalike modeling.
Deliver experiences to people. Not devices.
Devices don’t buy products — people do. But getting your message in front of the right customer as they move from device to device is a huge challenge. Getting it wrong often leads to duplication, wasted money, and zero return for your efforts.
Now, you can deliver true end-to-end people-based marketing that’s both streamlined and simplified. Using any combination of your first-party audience data, third-party device graph companies, and our own proprietary Adobe Experience Cloud Device Co-op, you’ll have unparalleled access to audience data. All this makes it easier to plan, scale, measure, and execute all your marketing initiatives to target the right audience on the right channel — no matter what device they’re using.
Thanks to data partnerships and our Device Co-op with participating brands, you can look beyond a cookie or single device and center your strategy around the individual consumer, regardless of where or how they consume content.
Expand your reach with new audiences. Use lookalike modeling to scale first-party data segments by finding new profiles with similar attributes to your target audience.
As an Adobe Analytics and Adobe Audience Manager customer, you can ingest your own first-party data segments into our DSP and use it across any cookie-based inventory source.
Our people-based marketing tools give you access to data that’s critical to discovering site visitor context. This is essential for delivering highly personalized experiences to your customers on every device.
Learn more about people-based marketing in Adobe Advertising Cloud.
See how we measure multiscreen audience activity in this tutorial video.
Explore the “how” in people-based marketing.
Understand the key components of people-based marketing by reading this article in our Adobe blog.
Keep control of your brand with our industry-leading tools to ensure your advertisements display in the best possible light. Page screening capabilities detect and mitigate faulty inventory, while pre-bid filtering detects and prevents fraud, brand violations, and suboptimal viewability.
Use measurement solutions from industry leaders like Nielsen to get the full scope of a campaign’s performance both online and offline. Gain actionable insights with easy access to real-time campaign data and custom reports.
Strength in numbers — the benefits of Adobe Device Co-Op.
See how we measure multiscreen audience activity in this video about the Adobe Device Co-Op.
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2019-04-21T12:54:17Z
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https://www.adobe.com/fi/advertising/people-based-marketing.html
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milwaukee | Sophisticated Diva ~ A.K.A. Along came Polly!
Miche TBT today only, while supplies last!! (Did you know the price of ALL Miche bases have been reduced?) Great for gift giving, check a few ladies off your shopping list today! CLICK HERE to order Judy!
Picture the greenest of greens— like exotic jungle ferns after a tropical rainstorm! The bright kelly hue of the Judy Shell for Petite Bags will add that perfect kick of color to the summer whites in your wardrobe. Cobblestone-textured faux leather is perfectly complemented by jaunty diagonal white piping detail and contrasting stitching. It’s the perfect combination of fun and sophistication, and Judy features end-pocket storage too. St. Tropez awaits!
Base bag and handle not included.
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2019-04-23T08:50:19Z
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https://sophisticateddivahandbags.wordpress.com/tag/milwaukee/
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You can use the Breathe app to help you relax and focus on your breathing.
The Breathe app guides you through a series of deep breaths, and it reminds you to take time to breathe every day. Choose how long you want to breathe, then let the animation and gentle taps help you focus.
Press the Digital Crown to go to the Home screen, then open the Breathe app.
Turn the Digital Crown to set the session's length.
Tap Start when you're ready. Remember to stay still while you breathe.
Inhale as the animation grows and your watch taps your wrist. Then exhale as the animation shrinks and the taps stop.
Breathe until the session ends and your watch taps you twice and chimes.* When you're done, you can see your heart rate.
When you use the Breathe app, your watch mutes some notifications, so you can focus. If you answer a call or move too much during a session, the session ends automatically, and you won’t get credit.
* If your watch doesn't chime, then Silent Mode is on.
When you open the Breathe app to start a new session, you can turn the Digital Crown to set the session's duration.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab.
Tap Breathe, then scroll down.
Tap Breathe, then tap Breath Rate.
Tap to change the number of breaths per minute.
To choose how often your get reminders, tap Breathe Reminders.
To choose how you get notifications, tap Allow Notifications, Send to Notification Center, or Notifications Off. Learn about notification options.
If you're moving or exercising, or if you start a session on your own, your Apple Watch reschedules your reminder. You’ll get the reminder a short time after you stop moving.
Open the Health app on your iPhone.
Tap the Health Data tab.
Tap Mindfulness, then tap the graph to see more.
At the end of each session, you can also see how many times you've used the Breathe app that day. Breathe sessions don't show up in the Activity app on your Apple Watch or iPhone.
* Learn more about accuracy and limitations of the heart rate sensor.
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2019-04-20T11:19:19Z
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https://support.apple.com/en-bw/HT206999
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A delegate is a type that defines a method signature. When you instantiate a delegate, you can associate its instance with any method with a compatible signature. You can invoke (or call) the method through the delegate instance.
Any method from any accessible class or struct that matches the delegate's signature, which consists of the return type and parameters, can be assigned to the delegate. The method can be either static or an instance method. This makes it possible to programmatically change method calls, and also plug new code into existing classes. As long as you know the signature of the delegate, you can assign your own method.
In the context of method overloading, the signature of a method does not include the return value. But in the context of delegates, the signature does include the return value. In other words, a method must have the same return value as the delegate.
This ability to refer to a method as a parameter makes delegates ideal for defining callback methods. For example, a reference to a method that compares two objects could be passed as an argument to a sort algorithm. Because the comparison code is in a separate procedure, the sort algorithm can be written in a more general way.
Delegates are like C++ function pointers but are type safe.
Delegates allow methods to be passed as parameters.
Delegates can be used to define callback methods.
Delegates can be chained together; for example, multiple methods can be called on a single event.
Methods do not have to match the delegate signature exactly. For more information, see Using Variance in Delegates (C# and Visual Basic).
C# version 2.0 introduced the concept of Anonymous Methods, which allow code blocks to be passed as parameters in place of a separately defined method. C# 3.0 introduced lambda expressions as a more concise way of writing inline code blocks. Both anonymous methods and lambda expressions (in certain contexts) are compiled to delegate types. Together, these features are now known as anonymous functions. For more information about lambda expressions, see Anonymous Functions (C# Programming Guide).
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2019-04-23T22:03:48Z
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2012/ms173171%28v%3Dvs.110%29
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International Kissing day – 6 July 2018.Are you ready?
We all remember our first kiss—it was completely exhilarating, probably awkward, and may have involved braces. But kissing is an age-old practice with significance that extends far beyond just romance. The act of kissing has many meanings and takes many forms, from a hello kiss to a kiss goodbye. No matter which type of kiss you prefer, International Kissing Day on July 6 is the perfect time of year to celebrate this simple but powerful gesture.
A simple pucker kiss only involves two muscles. Who needs the gym when a make-out session will get our hearts racing and our muscles working?
Kissing serves as a natural relaxer that makes us feel happy and at peace. By stimulating our brain to release feel-good chemicals, kissing makes us feel both calm and excited at the same time. Had a stressful day? Kiss someone!
Kissing is a cross-cultural form of communication that means the same things in every country—regardless of language, ethnicity, or religion. By kissing, you can communicate complex emotions without having to exchange any words with your kissing partner.
When you are in the personal space of your friend or partner bad breath can be really off putting.
Mouth odour ( bad breath or halitosis) is a social and health concern. Bad breath may be due to the food we eat, poor oral hygiene, gum disease or an underlying medical condition. It’s not always easy to tell if you have bad breath. Other people may notice it first, but could feel uncomfortable telling you. It takes great courage of a friend or partner to tell you that they are worried by your bad breath.
Are you comfortable and confident that you will not embarrass yourself on 6 July.
If you have any concerns, please read on and contact us for advice.
Bad breath is a common problem that can affect anyone at any age.
About one in four people are thought to have bad breath (halitosis) on a regular basis.
Bad breath can be the result of numerous things, but it’s usually caused by poor oral hygiene. If bacteria builds up in your mouth, it can cause your breath to smell.
Bacteria break down pieces of food in the mouth, releasing unpleasant-smelling gas. Any food trapped in your teeth will be broken down by bacteria, causing bad breath.
Persistent bad breath can sometimes be a sign of gum disease.
Eating strongly flavoured foods, such as onions and garlic, can also cause your breath to smell, as can smoking and drinking a lot of alcohol.
Occasionally, bad breath can occur following an infection or illness, or as a result of taking certain types of medication.
Treatment for bad breath (halitosis) will depend on its cause.
Brush your teeth and gums.
Your dentist will probably recommend that you brush your teeth at least twice a day using fluoride toothpaste.
Choose a small or medium-sized toothbrush with soft, multi-tufted synthetic bristles.
Replace your toothbrush every three to four months.
Brush your teeth for at least two minutes. Keep a toothbrush at work or school so you can brush your teeth after lunch.
Brush all areas of your teeth, paying particular attention to where your teeth and gums meet.
Your dentist or oral hygienist may recommend using a special single-tufted brush for specific problem areas of your mouth.
Use a separate toothbrush or a tongue scraper to lightly brush your tongue. Some toothbrushes have a tongue cleaner on the back of the brush head.
Use dental floss to clean between your teeth and remove trapped food that could cause tooth decay. Brushing on its own only cleans about 60% of the tooth’s surface.
Your dentist may recommend that you rinse your mouth daily using an anti-bacterial or anti-odour mouthwash. This shouldn’t replace brushing, but can be included as part of your daily routine.
To help prevent tooth erosion, avoid brushing your teeth for 30 minutes after drinking an acidic drink, such as fruit juice, or eating acidic fruit, such as oranges.
If you wear dentures, you should take them out at night to give your mouth a chance to rest. Clean your dentures thoroughly before putting them in the next morning. Follow the advice outlined below.
Don’t use toothpaste to clean your dentures, as it can scratch the surface and cause stains.
Clean your dentures thoroughly using soap and lukewarm water, denture cream or a denture-cleaning tablet.
Use a separate toothbrush to clean your dentures.
If you follow this routine, your dentures should stay clean and fresh. It will also help prevent the build-up of plaque, which can cause bad breath.
Eat a healthy, balanced dietand avoid eating strongly flavoured or spicy food.
Cut down on sugary food and drink, as it can increase the amount of bacteria in your mouth.
Drink plenty of waterto help prevent your mouth becoming dry.
Chew sugar-free gum after eating, to stimulate the flow of saliva. This will help clean away any remaining food particles.
Make sure you visit your dentist for regular check-ups. Having regular dental care will ensure that any plaque is removed from your teeth, particularly in areas that are difficult to reach.
Your dentist can recommend the best way to clean your teeth and gums, and point out areas you might be missing. They can also identify any signs of gum disease and ensure early treatment.
If your bad breath is caused by a gastrointestinal problem, such as an H. pylori infection or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), you may be referred to a gastroenterologist.
Your recommended treatment will depend on the specific gastrointestinal condition that you have. For example, if you have a stomach ulcer, you may need a combination of two or three different antibiotics and a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). This is known as eradicaton therapy.
Improving oral hygiene is usually enough to cure bad breath and prevent it happening again.
Read more about treating and preventing bad breath.
If you still have bad breath after making changes to your dental hygiene, see your GP. There may be a medical cause that needs investigating.
Don’t try to hide the smell of your breath before visiting your dentist or GP, because it will make it more difficult for them to find out what’s causing the problem.
Do I have bad breath?
It’s not always easy to tell if you have bad breath. Other people may notice it first, but could feel uncomfortable telling you. It takes great courage of a friend or partner to tell you that they are worried by your bad breath.
A simple test to find out whether you have bad breath is to lick the inside of your wrist with the back of your tongue and wait for a few seconds until the saliva dries. If your wrist smells unpleasant, it’s likely your breath does too.
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2019-04-26T02:07:10Z
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https://harrowdentist.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/international-kissing-day-6-july-2018-are-you-ready/
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The Oxnard Planning Commission has approved the construction of a 21-story office tower, a three-story parking garage and a 10,000-square-foot restaurant in the Financial Plaza at Vineyard Avenue and the Ventura Freeway (U.S. 101).
The tower structure will be the tallest between Los Angeles and San Jose, according to the developer, Martin V. Smith, who first proposed the development in September, 1983.
Temporarily named "Financial Plaza Tower Phase II, the project will cost an estimated $30 million. Ground breaking is planned for May, with occupancy by the fall of 1986.
The office complex will contain 300,000 square feet and is expected to provide jobs for about 900 people. The top floor will house a restaurant-lounge, looking out on a roof garden that will include a pool and spa. There will be a heliport atop the tower.
The ground floor and the second floor will consist of a "design center," a group of offices leased by interior designers and manufacturers' representatives. The exterior of the building will be done in silver reflective glass and black marble. The lobby will feature a two-story atrium, and an original sculpture will be commissioned for the building entrance.
The adjacent parking structure will have room for 730 cars. With the landscaped parking lot, a total of 1,345 vehicles will be accommodated.
Plans also call for the separate 10,000-square-feet single-story restaurant to front on Vineyard Avenue.
The structures have been designed by the Sherman Oaks firm of Ebbe Videriksen, AIA Architect and Associates.
Videriksen said the building offers a panorama of the Pacific, the Channel Islands, the Oxnard Plain and the mountains.
Leasing arrangements for the office building are being handled directly by the MVS organization under the direction of Virginia Cox, vice president for property administration, with full cooperation to brokers.
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2019-04-23T20:27:37Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-27-re-9997-story.html
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In episode 86, Rob recounts some recent Twitter exchanges about problematic all-male CONFERENCE LINE-UPS, Matt introduces the others to the life of BATHSUA MAKIN, and Matthew leads a discussion on CLIL.
*Note - During the first discussion of this episode Rob used the phrase ‘ethnic minorities’ a number of times. This was the wrong choice of words in the context of the discussion, and we hope no offense was caused.
Information on Bathsua Makin can be found here.
'Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers' can be bought here.
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2019-04-26T02:00:18Z
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https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/9251786/tdest_id/340851
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Dr. Nir Barzilai often feels misunderstood.
Toward that goal, Dr. Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, has spent five years investigating the genes and habits of 300 Ashkenazi Jews who have lived to be an average of 100.
His study has provided important information about longevity, including confirmation that picking the right parents is crucial for living a long life.
Almost all his research subjects had ancestors who were long-lived.
Dr. Barzilai, who was born in Israel 48 years ago, describes his own genetic endowments as good for medicine, but mediocre for longevity. His father, David, 80, was dean of an Israeli medical school, but has had bypass surgery. Dr. Barzilai's mother, Drora, 71, has diabetes.
''I hope to do it.'' he said.
Q. How did this idea of yours, to look for clues about longevity in the genes of people who have lived to be 100, first develop?
A. I had been doing diabetes research. I still do. Diabetes is a disease that ages its victims rapidly. I'd been trying to understand how certain nutrients such as high sugar levels translate into biological actions in rats. We know that rodents live significantly longer when their calories are restricted.
When you do any work in this area, the question of heredity versus environment comes up. A researcher can't help but ask why some people's health is more affected by a certain diet than others? This led me to thinking about the heredity part of longevity.
I wondered why people born at the beginning of the last century who are still alive are relatively healthy. I wondered what they had in their genes that was special. When they were born, the average life expectancy was 40. What made it possible for them to live more than twice the average? These days, so many scientists look for the genes for specific diseases. I wanted to go the opposite way, look for genes that helped people live healthier and longer lives.
Q. Your study group consisted of about 300 Jews of Eastern European origin, ages 95 to 108. Why did you pick them?
A. It's very important to study a homogeneous population. The genetic makeup of Ashkenazi Jews is more homogeneous than many other groups'. Most are descended from people who had some very unfortunate experiences with history. In the 17th century, a series of pogroms and plagues decimated the Jews of Eastern Europe.
Their numbers were reduced to perhaps around 30,000. So the ''founder group'' is not very diverse genetically. This is why studying the Ashkenazi Jews was so useful in finding the breast cancer gene. It's why they are being used today to study the genetics of ovarian cancer.
Locating the 100-year-olds didn't take much. There were articles about what we were doing in the newspapers. We went to old age homes in the U.S. Often, people came to us by word of mouth.
Q. Did you consider doing your study in the Central Asian Georgia, the reputed homeland of the yogurt-eating-apricot-munching long-lived?
A. No. We think that claim may be inaccurate. There may be a history of people there exaggerating their longevity because Stalin, who was Georgian, wanted it known that Georgians were long-lived. Under Communism, people were exaggerating their age, bringing in their grandparents' identity cards when dealing with officials.
Q. How exactly did you conduct your study?
A. Using a mixture of medical science and anthropology, we arranged mini-family reunions with the centenarians and their 70- and 80-year-old ''kids,'' about half of whom had inherited the genetic mutation we were looking for. The spouses of these ''kids'' were our control group. They had shared an environment with someone with longevity genes, though they were unlikely to have them themselves.
At these reunions, we took extensive medical and family histories. The centenarians usually had a better memory than their children. We measured body fat and weight. A low percentage, we think, is one marker for longevity.
Q. Are you looking for the genetic markers for longevity?
A. Yes, and we've found several so far. The most important thing we've found is that most centenarians have a lot more than average H.D.L. proteins, the good cholesterol, in their blood. Also, they had a lot more of them when they were younger, because their children have a lot more than their peers do. Also, size matters with the protein molecules. Eighty percent of the children of the centenarians had larger than average high density lipoproteins.
Q. What do your findings linking H.D.L. cholesterol and aging mean genetically?
A. This led us to look at candidate genes involved in the regulation of lipid metabolism, and it means we've found a gene that is important in longevity. This gene obviously has a purpose. But if it's partially deactivated, it will cause you to live longer. If you have this genetic characteristic, your chance of getting from age 70 to 100 increases by over threefold. Among the 70-year-old control group we studied, 8 percent have this mutation. Among the 100-year-olds, 25 to 30 percent of them have it. We will have to look at other parts of this gene to see if there are more mutations. There are other genes that also control H.D.L. and the sizes of lipoproteins, and we're looking for them.
The gene that we discovered only explains 18 percent of the longevity. But it is possible that if everyone has the effect of this gene they will get to be 100. We want to explain 100 percent of the reasons for exceptional longevity. So we are looking at other genes. A very few of the oldest people we've studied actually do not have large lipoproteins and do not have any mutations that we've discovered so far.
These few often don't wear glasses and they don't use hearing aids. The genes for that group may be the most important to be found. We're looking for them right now.
Q. How do your findings change how medicine will deal with aging?
A. They point to the possibility of a drug. There are several companies that are developing a drug to act on the gene I've found and that is associated with longevity in my study. One is right now in Phase 3 trial, and it looks like it will increase H.D.L. and the size of the protein.
Q. Can you give us some general findings about the 100-year-olds you studied?
A. They were often healthier than the spouses of their 70-year-old kids. They often got the same diseases that their sons and daughters-in-law got, but 30 years later.
And they were, for the most part, unless they had diabetes, fairly healthy right up until the end. Even when they had serious diseases, the progress was slower. The medical billings for centenarians in the last two years of their lives was, on the average, $8,000. For people who died between 60 and 70, it was $24,000.
The most common thing this group had is that they did not reveal any particular lifestyle secret for their own longevity. When asked specifically, none has exercised. None was a vegetarian. Not a single one ate yogurt throughout his life.
In fact, 30 percent were overweight. Some smoked. The fact that they had a strong family history of exceptional longevity seemed to be the main commonality. This supports the notion that they have special genes protecting them from their environment.
One of the things I'm worried about is that my study will encourage people not to engage in healthy environmental practices such as diet and exercise, because they'll think it doesn't matter.
Q. A personal question, what does your own lipid profile look like?
A. That's one area where I most certainly do have a stake in this drug that's coming. I have a good H.D.L. count, but unfortunately, my molecules are small. This worries me. I'd like to be a healthy centenarian. And I will probably take this drug when it is ready.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/health/a-conversation-with-nir-barzilai-it-s-not-the-yogurt-looking-for-longevity-genes.html
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Joyfully Planted – Where fresh inspiration blooms and great ideas are planted.
Heading outdoors for a breath of fresh air, a break in the clouds is on the horizon and a break from everyday is definitely needed. Wellies on, across the wide fields Some freshly turned, ready for new plantings. Muddy puddles reflecting the grey skies. Old barns overgrown with rusted machinery. Hedgerows hiding a handful of… Read More A breath of fresh air.
Seed starters – egg shell planters.
Gardeners on the whole I believe are great at recycling, from creative reuses of old window frames into glass houses, plastic bottles as mini cloches, to the everyday composting. Similarly a glut of plums can be turned into pies, or my favourite, shared with neighbours and friends whilst chatting about your day. Recycling and reusing can… Read More Seed starters – egg shell planters.
Ready for a glut of tomatoes?
Okay I may be a bit early but one of my 10 a day would definitely be a tomato (or two) nothing tastes better than pulling a juicy red fruit from the vine and eating a handful before you reach the kitchen. Plus they are rich in vitamin C. The difference between a bland tomato… Read More Ready for a glut of tomatoes?
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2019-04-18T19:01:12Z
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https://joyfullyplanted.wordpress.com/
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Ghana Hajj Research.com, Hajj Media groups, Ghana Muslim Broadcast Journalists Association and the Northerners and Zongos Concerned Youth Association Ghana, have declared that the activities of the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG) connotes transparency and incorruptibility.
It said the restructuring of the board in recent time by the Hajj Board Chairman, Sheikh Ibrahim Cofie Quaye is a good step at rescuing the board from serious mess and rots, which led to the arrest of some unscrupulous individuals parading themselves at the Hajj village during the last year's Hajj operations.
There were reports that some Muslim groups, had in the past called on the Hajj Board Chairman Sheikh I.C Quaye for the restructuring of the board which the chairman heeded to their call by putting up measures and restructuring the communication and taskforce department.
In joint statement issued by the groups stated that the groups have carefully monitor the activities of the Hajj Board "As we continuously and have found out that there have been transparency and incorruptibility in this years operations due to measures put in place by the Hajj Board under the leadership of its chairman, sheikh I.C Quaye".
“We the Muslim groups have expressed our satisfaction with the performance of the board in the way this year’s Hajj operation is handled so far and we have credit the Hajj Board with 90 percent in its performance“. It noted.
According to the statement, upon the groups research, it is important to commend the Board for a good work done, adding that the groups will as well charge the leadership of the Board to do more for the benefit of prospective pilgrims.
According to the statement, the process and manner at which the board handled the issues of payment, airline, accomodation, transportation, food and among others were done transparently by the board and it is clear indications that this year‘s hajj will be successful.
The groups commended Alhaji Farouk Hamza Director of finance, Alhaji Sumai‘ila Director of Operations and Alhaji Abubakar Sidiq Director of Communications, Hajiya Maryam Sissey as well as the Medical team of the Ghana Hajj Board for their contributions towards this year's successful Hajj.
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2019-04-21T18:02:55Z
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https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Menzgold-is-operating-legally-in-Ghana-PMMC-claims-debunked--675582
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wordpress
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In keeping with the medieval period, an authentic banquet hall now hosts a re-enactment of those times.
We will serve and entertain you through a five course meal with music, audience participation and even a jester, all of which create an amazing ambience for the evening.
Hi,we enjoyed the tapas on Saturday,just inquiring when is your next medieval banquet.regards Mrs Paterson.
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2019-04-24T16:37:44Z
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https://thebullhotelhorncastle.wordpress.com/medieval-banquets/
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fanpop
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Aerosmith. . Wallpaper and background images in the Aerosmith club tagged: aerosmith steven tyler steven tyler tom hamiliton joe perry joey kramer brad whitford.
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2019-04-26T14:56:31Z
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http://de.fanpop.com/clubs/aerosmith/images/6412448/title/aerosmith-photo
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dickinson
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Turnus robs the slain Pallas of his sword belt. There are foot soldiers, riders and a chariot with charioteer in the background.
Engraving from a German children’s picture-book version of the Aeneid by G. J. Lang and G. C. Eimmart, “A tapestry of Roman virtues as seen in Vergil’s Aeneas and his brave deeds, rendered in sparkling engravings, as illustrations of the remarkable deeds of antiquity, for the common benefit of noble youth,” (Peplus virtutum Romanarum in Aenea Virgiliano eiusque rebus fortiter gestis, ad maiorem antiquitatis et rerum lucem, communi iuventutis sacratae bono, aere renitens) (Nuremburg: J.L. Buggel, 1688), pl. 43.
Werner Suerbaum, Handbuch der illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben, 1502–1840 (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2008), 43.
Lib. X. Aen: v. 487. Corruit in vulnus: sonitum super arma dedere:/ Et terram hostile moriens petit ore cruento./ usque 500.
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Why Invest In Property In Ocean Springs, Mississippi?
Ocean Springs, MS is a community situated in Jackson County. When the French built Fort Maurepas in 1699 in what's now called Ocean Springs, Ocean Springs was called ‘Old Biloxi’ when it was the French Seat of Government in the Louisiana Territory. In 1720, the capital was moved to ‘New Biloxi, which is modern day Biloxi.
In the 1830’s, Ocean Springs recognition as a health resort and spa started to grow significantly as the result of the trustworthiness of the healing water that was obtainable in the many fresh water springs. There were many daily steamboat landings and departures at Ocean Springs that transported countless citizens and vacationers to Ocean Springs 180 years back. A lot of this visitation originated from residents of Mobile, AL and New Orleans, LA. In fact, as they did in Pass Christian, MS, many affluent New Orleans family’s developed beautiful summer season homes in Ocean Springs. Ocean Springs MS Real Estate Broker The men who owned and operated the thriving organizations and businesses in New Orleans regularly began to commute to New Orleans via steamboat. During the night timber pine knots and pine sap was set on fire on top of tall oyster shell beacons that were set on the raised bluffs that are situated above the Ocean Springs coastline. Go to the website These beacons led steamboats to the landing areas during the night. Ocean Springs was a ground breaker in encouraging the health tourism industry in the United States.
Because of the advent of the passenger railway in the 1870’s, Ocean Springs became a popular summer vacation retreat for affluent New Orleanians as well as tourists from the mid-west drawn to The Ocean Springs Hotel and Spa specifically. A distinguished New Orleans physician concluded the local springs had medicinal characteristics.
In 1853, Old Biloxi changed its name to Lynchburg followed by incorporation in 1892 with a name change to Ocean Springs because of the famous hotel resort named The Ocean Springs Hotel names for the area’s health-giving waters and overflowing springs.
From 1885 into the 1930’s, Ocean Springs was a center for shipping of citrus fruit and pecans from the countless outstanding orchards that were developed in this community. The Local American Indians introduced the first French settlers to the pecans that grew in the wild in this community. Pioneers in the industry pecan industry, attempted propagation with the use of grafting. Ocean Springs Real Estate This excellent propagation procedure led to the initial production of what became the famous and very popular paper shell pecan referred to as Success. This specific variety of Pecan continues to be quite popular today.
The soil that may be found in Ocean Springs is perfect for the growth of pecans. Trees and shrubs that were harvested here began to carry pecans in the 3rd and fourth calendar year. The yields these pecan trees produced increased annually until a 12 yr old pecan tree averaged a 40 to 50 lb. harvest. These pecan trees continued to bear this rate of abundant production for many decades. YT Ocean Springs Vid Other areas in the Southern U.S. began to purchase pecan grafting hardwood as well as purchase trees and shrubs from Ocean Springs nurseries. Today, the highly regarded paper shell brand of pecans are produced throughout the Southern United States.
Many types of citrus fruit were once farmed in Ocean Springs. Satsumas were typically the most popular. However, through the depression period of the 1930’s some unusually cold winters wiped out the citrus fruit orchards and the trees and shrubs were never replanted. A lot of the land that was once used to cultivate citrus trees as well as pecans has been cleared and converted into sub-divisions that now providing housing for the ever growing population. Ocean Springs citizens that are lucky to have purchased a housing lot with several of the original pecan trees and shrubs quickly learn that the crop will satisfy their own family needs. And, there is sufficient surplus pecans they can sell to help pay the property taxes on the property.
Ocean Springs can be found on a raised, headland peninsula surrounded by water.
The topography of Ocean Springs provides low, rolling hillsides and the entire elevation of the community is the best along the whole Mississippi Gulf Coastline. The height, as well as the wonderful, fresh water springs were a major reason why D’Iberville selected Ocean Springs to be the very first French Colony in the whole Mississippi Valley.
The vast majority of buildings in Ocean Springs are built on lots that located at least 35 feet above sea level. This is the reason that other than wind damages to roofs and home windows, so few dwelling in Ocean Springs were completely ruined because of the 30 feet tidal surge that followed Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Dwellings in Ocean Springs that were constructed at elevations which were below 30 feet were completely ruined by the substantial tidal surge that followed these two violent storms in particular. However, the percentage of buildings in Ocean Springs that experienced irreparable damage during the course of both of these hurricanes was significantly less than the other communities located on the Mississippi Gulf Coastline. For those who are worried about hurricanes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but would still prefer to live close to the Gulf of Mexico beaches, Ocean Springs real estate should be considered.
Ocean Springs is situated with the Gulf of Mexico at the southern front side, the back waters of Old Fort Bayou to the north, and Biloxi Bay at its western side. The community, much like an antebellum cultural community, is immersed with magnificent Live Oaks that are heavily loaded with Spanish moss dripping from every outreaching limb.
Distancing Ocean Springs from the city of Biloxi, is the beautiful Biloxi Bay Bridge. This bridge separates two distinctive types of life styles which have taken birth from the same traditions and the same culture. Both Biloxi and Ocean Springs claim to be the first French Settlement in America and the earliest Capital of the Louisiana Territory.
Today, Biloxi has the glitter and congestion of many casinos while Ocean Springs treasures its calm tree lined non commercial neighborhoods, numerous antique stores, boutiques, many fine restaurants, and art colony as initially imagined by its well known longtime resident, the late artist and sculpter, Walter Inglis Anderson. Walter Anderson’s son, Peter Anderson started Shearwater Pottery which is still creating fine art work in clay. Ocean Springs is set in an exquisitely beautiful part of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and many miles of trails, walking paths, green ways, bike paths, and sugar-white sandy seashore can be found here.
Another unique aspect of life in Ocean Springs is the Peter Anderson Arts and Crafts Festival. This is actually the largest arts celebration in Mississippi and it attracts well over 100,000 attendees and a huge selection of artisans and food vendors each November. Referred to as the City of Discovery, in tribute to the French explorers who settled here, Ocean Springs real estate provides the perfect foundation for an abundance of discovery in and around Ocean Springs. Ocean Springs also offers its own microbrewery, excellent healthcare facilities, and the schools in the Ocean Springs area are some of the most effective in Mississippi. There is also very little crime in Ocean Springs. Ocean Springs also features two lovely marinas that will accommodate almost 300 vessels as long as 75 feet.
In 2013, Ocean Springs was one of only towns in the United States to be awarded the exclusive 'Great American Main Street' award from the National Trust of Historic Preservation. Ocean Springs ongoing beautification project was one factor, commitment to historic preservation, and its successful endeavor to entice over 300 brand new businesses to Ocean Springs since Hurricane Katrina were part of the National Trust of Historic Preservations decision making processes.
Based on the United StatesU.S. Census Bureau, the population of Ocean Springs was 17,461 in 2012. The median household income in Ocean Springs in 2010 was $59,516 and the per capita income was $33,107. The income level in Ocean Springs is just below the City of Madison which has the highest income level in Mississippi. The over all average home value in Ocean Springs is around $202,000.
Organized against a backdrop of sugar-white fine sand seashores, great deep-sea or freshwater angling, an array of tournament golf links, museums and historic sites, terrific seafood restaurants, and the excitement of 24-hour non-stop casino resorts 3 miles over the Biloxi Bay Bridge, there's a lot to love about life in Ocean Springs, and homes for sale in Ocean Springs, (Mississippi can be found for every preference and lifestyle.
Whether you've planned to move with your family or are searching for a quiet coastal get-a-way, I want to help you with your real estate investment in Ocean Springs, MS and guide you through the time consuming process of looking for this special property.
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Washington (CNN) — It’s over. But just for now.
President Barack Obama signed a bill that ends the 16-day partial government shutdown and raises the debt ceiling, the White House said early Thursday morning.
Weeks of bitter political fighting gave way to a frenzied night in Washington as Congress passed the bill that would prevent the country from crashing into the debt ceiling.
Lawmakers worked precariously close to the midnight debt ceiling deadline amid warnings the government could run out of money to pay its bills if it didn’t raise the debt ceiling.
Federal workers should expect to return to work Thursday morning, the director of the Office of Management and Budget said.
Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell said employees should check the Office of Personnel Management’s website for updates.
Yosemite National Park said it was already resuming operations Wednesday night.
The GOP-led House gave the final stamp of approval to the Senate-brokered bill, passing it easily late Wednesday night. But it wasn’t Republicans who made it happen; a majority of that party’s caucus actually voted against the measure, which only passed because of overwhelming Democratic support.
The debt cushion now extends through February 7, with current spending levels being authorized through January 15.
That means a few months of breathing room, but little more. After all, the bill doesn’t address many of the contentious and complicated issues — from changes to entitlement programs to tax reform — that continue to divide Democrats and Republicans.
The heads of the Senate and House budget committees — Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin — will meet Thursday with an eye on addressing these budget divides. They’ll helm budget negotiations intended to come up with a broader spending plan for the rest of fiscal year 2014, which ends on September 30.
“Hopefully, next time, it will not be in the 11th hour,” Obama told reporters, calling for both parties to work together on a budget, immigration reform and other issues.
The past 16 days of the partial government shutdown have come at a steep cost. Standard and Poor’s estimated it took $24 billion out of the economy. The possibility of a debt default — something that, Chambers pointed out, is gone for now but not entirely — spooked investors on Wall Street and hiked interest rates.
And then there’s the impact the ordeal had on politicians’ image. If there’s one thing polls showed Americans agreed on, it’s that they don’t trust Congress — with Republicans bearing more blame than anyone else for what transpired.
Both sides talked past each other continuously, with Republicans insisting for a time that defunding, delaying or otherwise altering Obamacare must be part of any final deal. Democrats, meanwhile, stood pat in insisting they’d negotiate — but only after the passage of a spending bill and legislation to raise the debt without unnecessary add-ons.
In the end, Democrats largely got what they wanted — after some last-minute talks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“We’ve been able to come together for a lot of different reasons,” said Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
But while some Republicans, such as tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, claimed moral victories in energizing their movement, House Speaker John Boehner didn’t pretend his side was the victor.
“We fought the good fight; we just didn’t win,” Boehner told a radio station in his home state of Ohio.
“It was not America’s finest moment,” he said.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar, Deirdre Walsh, Dana Bash, Michael Pearson, Paul Steinhauser, Ashley Killough, Steve Brusk, Craig Broffman, Jim Acosta, Mark Preston, Dan Merica and Janet DiGiacomo contributed to this report.
How can you shut down what doesn't exist.
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The development of Wikispeech, a new MediaWiki extension, has started, and by 2017 Wikipedia should be able to talk to you. The project will bring together existing language resources and develop a functioning text-to-speech solution for Swedish, English and Arabic.
Photo by Manfred Werner/Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wikispeech, a so called speech synthesis, aims to make all the information available on Wikipedia accessible for anyone that faces reading difficulties, whether that is due to vision impairment, dyslexia, they never had an opportunity to learn literacy, or any other number of reasons.
Everyone should be able to take advantage of the information on Wikipedia. Only offering written text is really limiting for millions of people and this project we hope will be part of the solution to realize the grand vision of providing free knowledge for all people of the world.
The development of a text-to-speech MediaWiki extension was carefully investigated and planed during a pilot study in Autumn 2015. Development requirements and existing solutions that could be integrated were identified at this stage.
Just like everything else that the Wikimedia movement creates, the entire software will be freely licensed alongside the speech data and documentation. As such, people will be able to use Wikispeech on other wikis run by other organizations. Moreover, different parts of the synthesizer can also easily be reused by other text-to-speech projects, so that even more people with limited reading abilities will have an easier life.
The hope is that Wikispeech will be used in many different services, and that the communities improving the software and lexicon will be very diverse.
Wikispeech logo. Photo by ElioQoshi, public domain/CC0.
Many of those most in need of information do not have easy access to a personal computer, have limited knowledge of how computers and smartphones work, and/or lack access to the high quality commercial tools that are available. To reach these people the aim is a MediaWiki extension. Even though an extension is much more difficult to develop than an independent external tool we hope that it will be easier to find for Wikipedia’s users and there will be no need to download any software as it is an Internet-based solution. Another benefit is that a MediaWiki extensions should be simpler to include in other extensions and tools developed by other teams, such as reading aloud of subtitles in videos shown on Wikipedia, in Kiwix (the offline Wikipedia), and elsewhere.
At the end of the project, our goal is to have Wikispeech available in Swedish and English, along with a working prototype in Arabic, to show that it works in a right-to-left language. Long-term, we hope that Wikispeech will be available in all languages.
It will be possible through crowdsourcing to improve Wikispeech. You may, for example, help develop the pronunciation dictionary used by the program to make it sound more correct (the pronunciation of each word is described by the International Phonetic Alphabet). In this way, the speech synthesizer is constantly improved and annoying errors can be corrected by the user. The project team is not aware of any similar solutions and believe that this might actually be a world’s first. Wikispeech will also use a very flexible structure, where different parts of the synthesizer (dictionaries, voice, etc.) easily can be connected. The goal is that a newly developed solution that has been missing simply can be plugged into the framework.
We want the value of Wikipedia to increase among the people who have the least resources and are most vulnerable. A speech synthesis has a very great value in many of the world’s poorer countries where the education level is low. For commercial entities, these are not markets that are a priority, and here Wikispeech can help to fill the gaps.
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency is financing the work that Wikimedia Sweden (the project owner) and the project partners Södermalms Talteknologiservice AB (STTS) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) are doing in the project. In total, the project has a budget of around US$300,000. Furthermore, a number of other organizations and research teams have offered to support the project in other ways, including reporting in more than sixty news articles worldwide.
To make things as transparent as possible and make it easier for volunteers to help out, show their support, or raise a note of caution, all of the planned development have been added to Phabricator. We invite you to get involved, and please endorse the project!
Text-to-speech synthesis is not going to be replacing voiceover actors anytime soon.
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Edward Allen Warren was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Second District of Arkansas in the Thirty-Third and the Thirty-Fifth Congresses, serving from 1853 to 1855 and then again from 1857 to 1859.
Edward A. Warren was born near Eutaw, Alabama, on May 2, 1818, to Robert H. Warren and Lydia A. Minter Warren. He received his early education in the area’s local schools, and he then studied law on his own. He married in October 1838, and he and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Warren, went on to have two children. He was admitted to the state bar in 1843, after which he began to practice law in Clinton, Mississippi. Like many young lawyers, Warren soon entered into politics, winning election to the Mississippi House of Representatives and serving from 1845 to 1846.
In 1847, Warren moved to Arkansas. Settling in Camden (Ouachita County), he opened a new law practice. As he had in Mississippi, Warren again entered the political arena. Despite being a newcomer, the young Democrat won a seat as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1848, overseeing the business of the House as the speaker in 1849. Warren next served as a judge on the circuit court of the Sixth District of Arkansas.
Again running as a Democrat, Warren was elected to Congress in 1852 but served only a single term before deciding not to seek reelection. While in Congress, he served on the Committee on Public Lands. However, after his successor, Albert Rust, turned in a lackluster performance in the House, the Democratic Party in 1856 turned back to Warren, who, despite being out of office during the previous term, was successful in his bid for a second term. However, Warren again chose not to seek reelection. Instead, the two-term congressman returned to Arkansas and resumed the practice of law.
Warren was practicing law when the Civil War broke out. Out of an extended, if initially inconclusive, state secession convention that first convened in March 1861, Warren was selected to represent the state at a May 1861 convention of border states called for by Virginia. However, the convention—convened in Frankfort, Kentucky—proved an empty act, for only Kentucky and Missouri were represented at it; Virginia had itself seceded, and Arkansas was officially, if not fully, engaged in the Confederate effort, thus eliminating the need for Warren to attend.
Warren devoted the rest of life to his law practice and his family. He died on July 2, 1875, in Prescott (Nevada County) and is interred in Moscow Cemetery near Prescott.
“Death of Edward A. Warren.” Arkansas Gazette, July 6, 1875, p. 2.
“Edward Allen Warren.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000163 (accessed January 15, 2015).
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ORONO, MAINE (WABI) - After two seasons, Jessie Jacques is leaving the UMaine women’s hockey team.
The forward played in just about every game in her first two seasons on Orono.
Jessie's dad Ray Jacques was just inducted into the UMaine Sports Hall of Fame this weekend.
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https://www.wabi.tv/content/sports/Jacques-leaves-UMaine-womens-hockey-program-496060091.html
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Have you applied to the Civil Service Fast Stream? Are you currently going through the recruitment process? Or are you thinking of applying in the future, but have questions about their schemes or working for the Civil Service? Join Elliot and Sophie, current Fast Streamers, who will be on hand to answer any questions you may have regarding your application, the recruitment stages (including the assessment centre and final selection boards) and working for the Civil Service! They'll be on campus on Monday 3rd December from 11.30am – 2.30pm, so drop by, no appointment needed! If you have any questions about the Fast Stream, come along and have a chat!
The Civil Service Fast Stream is an accelerated career path to leadership with supported development. They are a graduate employer that is consistently ranked in the top five of The Times Top 100.
The Civil Service is looking for graduates with the potential to progress to the most senior levels of the Civil Service and become our future leaders. By 'potential' we mean graduates who have the motivation and ability to progress to the highest levels of our organisation. We are seeking the widest range of people, who can bring differing life experiences to their roles, enriching our organisation and helping us to better represent the whole of the society that we serve. There is no typical Fast Streamer. We believe that people perform their best when they can be themselves at work. We value who you are before you join the Fast Stream and ensure that through flexible working you will still have time for the things that matter the most to you outside work.
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LCD Soundsystem, Weezer and Odesza will headline the 15th annual Forecastle Festival, set to take place in Louisville this July.
LCD Soundsystem, Weezer and Odesza will headline the 2017 Forecastle Festival, set to take place in Louisville, Kentucky July 14th through 16th.
The festival’s 15th installment boasts an eclectic initial lineup that includes PJ Harvey, Cage the Elephant, Run the Jewels, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, X Ambassadors, Vince Staples, Griz, Needtobreathe and Conor Oberst. Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires are also slated to play, the Screaming Eagle of Soul’s first planned concert since he was forced to cancel a string of dates due to stomach cancer.
Other artists slated to play Forecastle include Atlanta MC Waka Flocka Flame, Philadelphia pop-punk outfit Modern Baseball, Oklahoma singer-songwriter JD McPherson, California indie duo Foxygen and even Teddy Abrams, conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. The rest of the lineup features various offerings from across the genre spectrum, from indie newcomers like Lucy Dacus and Twin Limb and rising country acts Brent Cobb, John Moreland and Rayland Baxter to producer/DJs Cashmere Cat, LANY and Ekali, as well as MCs Kaiydo and Jack Harlow. The full list of initial artists is available on the Forecastle website, while additional acts will be announced in 2017.
Forecastle notably marks the first-announced 2017 gig for LCD Soundsystem. James Murphy’s beloved outfit reunited this year and spent much of 2016 making the rounds on the festival circuit. The group is also reportedly working on a new album, their first since 2010’s This Is Happening.
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2019-04-21T12:19:33Z
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lcd-soundsystem-weezer-odesza-top-forecastle-festival-lineup-109940/
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Graduate standing. Additional prerequisites may vary with the topic.
Study of the properties and behavior of information. Technology for information processing and management.
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
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My, what a smart gal! As a matter of fact, I DO have a very strong opinion of different types of paper. I am sure I will blog on this at some point, and probably more than once. But the main thing I like to tell people is to steer away from thick plasticy “solid vinyl” papers, and to look for thinner “vinyl coated” varieties. I know that sounds confusing – just read the label and info in the books.
Another very smart question, and another topic for a future blog (or rant, as it likely will be). Measuring a space can be tricky, and involves all sorts of factors, like the various spaces in the room, the pattern repeat, drop, width of roll, and all sorts of othe factors. The main thing I want to stress is that you canNOT assume that every square foot of paper that is on the roll will be available to place on your wall. You MUST allow for sufficient waste. Figuring the amount of paper required to do a job is a task for a professional.
BINGO! Since getting old wallpaper off walls (especially improperly prepared walls) can be a real bugger bear, these days, manufacturers are trying to appeal to DIYers by developing papers that will strip off the wall easily.
I praise these three home owners for getting information before they began hunting for wallpaper.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve recently been called to do work in homes where I’ve done wallpaper years before. At one home, it was 17 years, measured by the age of their cat, who was a kitten when I did the original job. Another was about the same length of time, back to when they had the house built. And another was all the way back 22 years, remembered because it coincides with the time their grandson went off to college.
I’m always just itching to see how the wallpaper has held up over such a long time. And a little anxious, too, to be honest.
But in every home, the paper has been in virtually perfect condition. Seams nice and flat, no curling at the edges, color still nice and bright.
Now, how great is that??!
You are currently browsing the Wallpaperlady's Blog blog archives for August, 2011.
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Raise your hand if you’re totally freaking out!
Luckily, Lady Gaga is telling her fans to respond to the all-consuming blast with love, not hate.
And Beyoncé is letting one lucky fan live with her in her bunker!
Time to stock up on Sobe® LifeWater® for your nuclear-holocaust themed barbecue.
You know who will be making an appearance? Nuclear missiles and deadly vapors!
But at least you won’t have to stress about your outfit.
Because it’s time to party like there’s no tomorrow, folks — literally 😉 !
Luckily, everyone and everything you know and care about aren’t the only things getting destroyed today: so is your thirst!
Well, folks, it’s been weird!
Click this link to pick your favorite Sobe® Lifewater® flavor and we’ll reveal which of your organs fails first!
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2019-04-22T22:31:55Z
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/buzzfeeds-coverage-of-the-nuclear-apocalypse-sponsored-by-sobe-lifewater
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Keep Cozy This Winter With Warm Tradition hot water bottles. They come in so many great styles, shapes and colors. I received a red see through Heart shaped one for review. I adore that it says “I Love You” right on the bottle. What a wonderful way to show someone they are loved. Perfect for coming to your little one’s aid in their time of need. There is something about a hot water bottle that makes me feel better when I am under the weather. I even like em when I feel great. Warm under the covers in wintertime. Keep the sheets cozy where your toes go. No need to lay down in cold sheets. Toast em right up with Warm Tradition hot water bottles. Helps take away aches and pains naturally, Made exceptionally well, they will stay warm for up to 6 hours. Large mouth makes filling a breeze.
Warm Tradition Thermoplastic Fun Shaped Hot Water Bottles have so many benefits and uses – soothing aches & pains, easing sore back pain, melting away muscular tension, stress relief, menstrual pain comfort, bed warmer, keeping hands and feet warm, diminishing arthritis pain, soothing children, creating a restful night sleep, television companion, book buddy, easing ear aches, dog and cat’s warm friend, keeping warm during winter sports, traveling companion, baby colic soother, pregnancy and labor pain relief…the benefits are endless! All you need is access to hot water – no electricity, no microwave – all natural relief! Warm Tradition Hot Water Bottles are made in Germany under strict European safety guidelines. Each hot water bottle is made of eco-friendly thermoplastic making it odorless, safe and fully recyclable. Each bottle is BPA free and Phtalate free- safe to use and worry free. Thermoplastic is designed to allow the heat to last for hours – an average of 6 hours, in fact. The bottles are integrally molded making them seamless, preventing leaks and cracks to occur. The mouth of the hot water bottle is extra large which allows for easy filling and prevention of spills. Warm Tradition’s ‘Easy Grip’ cap makes it simple to open and close the bottle securely with very little effort. Each hot water bottle has an approximate volume of 1 liter. The hot water bottle’s fun shape makes warming up a joy! All of Warm Tradition’s hot water bottles come with a 2 year guarantee against manufacturing defects.
Extra long lasting heat – up to 6 hours!
Extra large opening – easy filling and no spills!
Want to keep up with all things Warm Tradition? You can like em on Facebook and follow em on Twitter.
Ready to buy? Head on over to Warm Tradition and get ya some of these high quality hot water bottles. Start your own ‘warm tradition” buy one for a friend today.
All I can say is gorgeous. These colors are deep and rich. Want to show off your nails? Leather Luxe is the way to do it. The finish actually has the appearance of leather. Pretty cool if I say so myself. I was sent two of these fabulous colors for review.
Tease, taunt and turn heads this fall with the SinfulColors Leather Luxe Collection. A texture rich, trend-setting collection of stylish matte finish nail polish shades which are richly pigmented to provide a flirtatious way to flaunt your style. The Leather Luxe Collection features eight weather-warming shades with leather-inspired finishes. The best part: they come in every popular base color so there’s a leather-icious look for everyone.
I absolutely love the vibrancy of the colors. The texture is as unusual as it is pretty. Not just your same ole plain nail color. Crystal Crush has pop. Available at your local Walgreens for a truly reasonable price. I received two of these beautiful shades for review.
Want to keep up with all things Sinful Colors? You can like em on Facebook and follow em on Twitter.
Ready to buy? Head on over to Walgreens and get ya some of these great shades.
Not just another cookbook, “A Century of Restaurants Stories and Recipes from 100 of America’s Most Historic and Successful Restaurants” is a historical masterpiece. Lots of pictures of some of the longest loved restaurants across this great land. Author, Rick Browne, of Barbeque America TV takes the reader on a culinary journey to 100 of our nations most treasured inns, restaurants, taverns and public houses. I even learned a bit of history about three places in my favorite state. The recipes are amazing. A must for foodies and American history buffs alike.
Rick Browne, best-selling author, host, and producer of Barbecue America, has traveled to 100 of the oldest restaurants across America to share the charm, history, and appeal that made these establishments successful for 100 years or more. Some are as many as 300 years old. Each profile contains a famous recipe, the history of the restaurant, a look at the restaurant today, mouthwatering descriptions of some of its signature dishes, fun facts that make each place unique, and hundreds of beautiful photos that capture the spirit of each establishment. It’s everything you need for an armchair tour of 100 historic restaurants that have made America great.
Want to keep up with all things Andrews McMeel Publishing? You can like em on Facebook and follow em on Twitter.
If you are looking for your next favorite book, I think I found it. “I, Saul” by Jerry B. Jenkins is sure to please. This Christian thriller spans the centuries from today’s Texas to ancient Israel. Superbly written. Perfect detailing. Fast paced. As with everything I have read by Jerry B Jenkins, I just couldn’t put this book down. It keeps you wanting more. A fantastic read. ” I, Saul is sure to be as big as “Left Behind.” God has really blessed this author..
Want to keep up with all things Worthy Publishing? You can follow em on Twitter.
I love my morning cup of coffee. I enjoy flavored coffees as a change of pace. The nice folks over at Coffee Beanery sent over some of their fine coffees for us to review. Let’s check em out.
First off I love that the coffees can be purchased in 8 ounce packages so they are absolulty perfect for gift baskets, stocking stuffers etc…This flavor intrigued me. The idea of coffee flavored with caramel pecan pie sounds sublime. Could Coffee Beanery possibly match the taste billowing forth from my imagination? Just one whiff made me want to eat the beans right out of the bag. Flavor is wonderful. Caramel is perfection. A hint of rum gives it that something extra. Make your morning special with Coffee Beanery’s Caramel Pecan Pie Coffee. It is a great way to start the day.
Hubby fell in love with this blend. Smells like those roasted candied nuts we get around Christmas. I love those and I love his coffee. Has great cinnamon flavor. Tastes like Christmas. Yummmmm.
Coffee Beanery’s classic Cinnamon Holiday Blend is eagerly awaited and has become a tradition this time of year.
Spicy, nutty with a hint of Christmas it is a favorite every year. This limited edition coffee, available only during the winter holiday season, is a festive blend of cinnamon and almonds, perfect for holiday entertaining, or to enjoy while dealing with the hustle and bustle of shopping.
Smells like it’s name. Would go amazingly with some sweet treats. This is an extremely smooth cup of coffee. Flavor is outstanding. I like that when ya buy this coffee you are helping make a donation to The Pink Fund. Ya can learn more about The Pink Fund below.
You don’t have to wait for your birthday to dig in to birthday cake anymore. Dive into the flavor of fresh yellow cake topped with creamy vanilla icing…..but don’t forget the sprinkles!
Now you can drink your cake and provide Real Help Now. For every pound of cake flavors sold, Coffee Beanery will donate $1 to the Pink Fund during the month of October and will then match their donation, dollar for dollar. Flavors include delectable choices such as Strawberry Cheesecake, Red Velvet Cupcake, Black Forest Cake and Birthday Cake.
While fighting for their lives, many breast cancer patients in active treatment lose their livelihoods. Unable to work, patients often face catastrophic financial losses. The Pink Fund, founded in 2006 by breast cancer survivor, Molly MacDonald, who experienced this herself, provides individuals in active treatment with up to 90 days of financial assistance to cover non-medical expenses, such as health insurance premiums, housing, transportation and utilities. The Pink Fund helps to meet basic needs and decrease stress levels, helping breast cancer patients strengthen their fight to improve survivorship outcomes and quality of life. For more information, visit www.thepinkfund.org.
Smells great coming out of the bag. Smells even better in the cup. Irish Cream Flavor Really comes through. Delicious.
rich and slightly sweet; Classic to the Irish Liqueur.
Irish eyes are smiling with this Irish Liqueur flavored coffee!
Want to keep up with all things Coffee Beanery? You can like em on Facebook and follow em on Twitter.
Ready to buy? Head on over to Coffee Beanery and get ya some of this great coffee.
We all know my love of all things that smell good. I also have a great appreciation of things that are beneficial to your skin. Smith and Vandiver sent me sent over a bottle of their Nourishing Moisture Wash in Jasmine and Bamboo scent. Made with Jasmine Flower Water and Bamboo Extract this wash helps nourish skin and reduce stress. I like that you can use it so many different ways. Body wash, shampoo, bubble bath, foot soak etc… I love the scent, almost sweet, a little sensual, smells like summer to me. Gentle and 99.97% natural. Gives ya a good all over clean feeling. Fragrance lingers on your skin long after your bath. Not overpowering, subtle and soothing.
We’ve got your cleansing needs covered. Our Body Washes are more than that – use them for a gentle shampoo, bubble bath, hand soap, or foot soak. This certified natural, Aloe and Coconut based cleanser contains lightly exfoliating Bamboo extract and skin-smoothing Jasmine Flower Water for its nourishing aromatherapy benefits. Ingredients: Water/Aqua, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Disodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Decyl Glucoside, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Hydrolyzed Corn Starch, Jasminum Officinale (Jasmine) Flower Extract, Glycerin, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Bambusa Vulgaris (Bamboo) Extract, Jasmine-Citrus (Sweet Orange/Citrus Sinensis) Oil, Citric Acid, Gluconolactone, Sodium Benzoate. Sulfate, paraben, fragrance, color and dioxane free.
Want to keep up with all things Smith and Vandiver ? You can like em on Facebook and follow em on Twitter.
Ready to buy? Head on over to Smith and Vandiver and get ya some of these great products.
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2019-04-22T18:16:52Z
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https://texaskitchen.wordpress.com/2013/10/
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Here in Oaxaca, there is a brass band (banda) tradition. A large group of brass players, or sometimes brass and woodwinds, plus a few percussionists, plays traditional music VERY LOUDLY. I’ve heard a few of the bandas play, and it is always energetic and pretty rough (call it punk folk). Everybody knows the tunes, in the banda and in the audience.
I just got back to the hotel, having sat in with the banda that is made up mostly of the students from the festival. Bear in mind that there is no music written out, so I was a step worse than sight-reading (reading music for the first time). Trying to discern what chord is being played amid the cacophony was a challenge. The horn section consisted of my youngest students here (16 years old). They had remarkable endurance and great rhythm. I contributed little beyond taking up space. But I had a hell of a good time.
A few posts ago, I wrote about my new triple horn. It’s what I brought here, and I am loving it. But holding it in position for 45 minutes straight produced a bicep burn that can only be good for me (I hope).
A tradition like the village banda makes a huge difference in the musical lives of both children and adults. The loss of bands and orchestras in schools in the US will be devastating to musical culture, as we have already begun to see. It’s not just that people here in Mexico love music, which they do (the chants of “Otra! Otra! Otra!” [“Play another”] prove that), but that music here is more participatory and more deeply ingrained in the culture. Most of the students I am teaching are dirt poor. They are playing on the worst instruments I have ever seen (let me publicly thank Instrumenta Oaxaca, the festival here, for hiring a brass repairman, who worked 12 hours a day for a week to try to get these instruments working – this guy should get a Cuban Mechanics award). But they are playing in the banda and getting fired up about music starting at a young age. They are now hungry to learn. They are dead serious about playing their instruments. They respect their teachers. They are great kids, and it is a joy to teach them. Even if I have to do it in Spanish.
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2019-04-26T16:37:05Z
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https://dangrabois.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/playing-with-the-banda/
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> Zimmer is rolling in the dough and you're begging your pathetic followers > for pennies. Say what you want, but nobody takes you seriously anymore! How old are you? I mean, really- when has the quality of the art ever had anything to do with how much money someone makes? Look at history, man. Earnings just indicate how well the artist PLAYS THE GAME! In some cases- we get both: great art that earned the artist great dividends. But they have never been two sides of the same coin. What's next? 'Hans Zimmer's Dad can beat up YOUR Dad!' Evolve already.
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2019-04-19T23:02:20Z
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http://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/inception/index.cgi?edit=147
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RUSH: The New Black Pantherette, Jemele Hill, who is recently suspended from…? (interruption) What are you lookin’ at? New. New Black Panther. She’s not a Huey Newton.
Now, as I point out, she was not suspended for calling Trump a white supremacist. I don’t think ESPN Disney thought that reflected negatively on them, but this they think does. And this is about money. This is not about principle. What she did is go out and basically tell people to boycott her company! You can’t separate the Dallas Cowboys from ESPN. Sponsors of the Dallas Cowboys are by inference and extension sponsors of the National Football League and thus sponsors of ESPN, and she’s asking people to boycott those sponsors in protest to Jerry Jones.
Have you heard the latest? I don’t have a name. I just saw the link at a quick glance at the computer screen. But somebody now — I think it’s ESPN. I don’t know. Somebody’s comparing Jerry Jones to a modern-day slave owner. That this is slave oppression behavior. And of course it isn’t. African-American players in the National Football League have no greater fan and no greater supporter than Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones idolizes his players. (interruption) Oh, the rapper Common, the actor, the rapper Common. He’s an angry guy too. He’s mad all the time. All these people are mad all the time. They’ll see Trump threaten to beat Tillerson in an IQ test, and it’ll ruin their day, they’re so mad. Jerry Jones idolizes his players. That’s one of the reasons, by the way, people have often criticized Jerry for being the general manager of the team.
General manager runs the draft, essentially picks the roster, and people have said he’s too close to it. He needs to hire a general manager with a little bit more objectivity. The reason is he idolizes these guys. There’s no owner in the NFL who has more respect and appreciation for every player in the NFL, especially his own and including the African-American players who make up 75%, on average, of every NFL roster. These allegations are just absurd.
But I predicted this. I hate to remind you. When this concussion stuff started is when I predicted this. I said, “Wait ’til these people trying to damage this game figure out that they can make the slave owner connection based on the racial component.” The stories were developing that the game kills people, that the game ruins the brains of players and leads them to commit suicide and die much earlier than average people that don’t play the game, which, by the way, is true.
And I said you wait until some of these leftist critics figure out that they can claim that it’s nothing more than modern-day slavery. Who is it that’s killing themselves for the entertainment of the white owners sitting safely away in the skyboxes above, never subjecting themselves to any of these injuries but delighting in the injuries they witness, their own employees. And now it’s starting to happen. Not in conjunction with concussions, but in conjunction with all the rest of this, the NFL ownership is now becoming the equivalent of modern-day slave owners.
And the never ending formula once again is repeated, that viewers have openly said they’re tired of and wish wasn’t happening as part of the time they expend watching this game, looking for it to provide them an escape from the very kind of thing now being rammed down their throats when they watch it.
Now, back to the New Black Pantherette, Jemele Hill. I think a lot of these people literally do not understand the financial arrangements that result in the National Football League existing and a team existing and how it’s owned, operated, makes a profit. I don’t think because education, economic education so woefully inept, that to them all this is funding and donors and funders are everywhere, but now we need to boycott them because things are going socially wrong in our league.
And she doesn’t understand — or maybe she does; I don’t know — that calling for a boycott of sponsors is actually asking for damage to occur to the place she works! And I don’t think she has a grievance with ESPN, or she didn’t before she was suspended. Her grievance was with the slave owners of the NFL and the president, the white supremacist in the White House. But I don’t think she had a particular grievance. Maybe she does. People like this have a grievance about practically everything, including their Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in the morning. So you never know.
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2019-04-24T10:36:41Z
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https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/10/10/new-black-pantherette-jemele-hill-suspended-by-espn/
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Throughout the entirety of ElfQuest, Cutter and Skywise have been ''brothers in all but blood.'' Now the Stargazer must make an inescapable choice--remain on the World of Two Moons with his heart-family, or travel among the stars as he has always longed. Can his bond with Cutter survive? Meanwhile, human invaders once again threaten a sacred elf-home with fire, and there is only one who can stand in their way.
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2019-04-19T21:18:19Z
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https://digital.darkhorse.com/books/a0432e911f534e40b5825655a80d3cc3/elfquest-the-final-quest-21
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While multi-monitor PC setups are much more common place today, than ten to fifteen years ago, there are still occasions where you need to mirror your desktop/apps/presentations to other screens. Many times these situations also involve technology layouts, which do not have additional screens attached to the host machine or are at various resolutions that do not show the content in the proper aspect ratios between displays. This also functions as a cost-savings solution, if additional display hardware is out of the question, in both price and space consideration.
In my time as a computer Tier-II field technician, I have been in situations, where I needed to have my screen be transmitted to a second computer for diagnostic purposes and/or teaching my fellow tech trainees. If I had become aware that a budget-minded program existed, and it had companion reception programs that worked seamlessly with minimal fuss; I would have sought it out, and obtained it. What would me search have turned up? The answer is the excellent screen transmitting program from Squirrels, called AirParrot 2.
In my disabled state, as a hobbyist blogger/advocate for my community, my potential usages for this program has changed from my technician days, it still serves a vital purpose for me, and my blog, and even my family. You may ask, what sort of real-world application I could offer you to highlight this new usage of this program to make it worth the price of the program. My answer is my ability to screen share streaming video services between my wife and myself, so we can watch programs together, even if we are not sitting next to each other.
My wife and I enjoy watching shows, such as Fargo on Hulu, and many times I am on my desktop, and she is working on her laptop. In these situations, we want to connect over a mutually-loved program and bond, yet we have to keep to using headphones (we can be night owls, so we do not want to disturb our neighbors), and in our room/work area we do not have space to work side-by-side. Having AirParrot 2 (the transmitting program that I have installed on my machine) and the companion receiver program, Reflector 2, that takes the source signal and displays this on the second machine/screen (fear not, I will review this program separately, and highlight some of its unique features then).
In the aforementioned scenario, I can tweak the settings to make sure that the streamed video signal, over WI-FI runs smoothly and clearly Since my wife’s laptop is not nearly as powerful as my desktop tower, so I tend to set the video to run at 720p, with medium to lower quality to make it smooth and run full screen on the destination machine. This is very effective for video streaming, via the web interface, rather than the dedicated applet in Windows.
Besides this usage, you can just stream audio feeds, if you need to only share what is being heard from a video/app or a dedicated audio feed. You can also just share a specified app/program, rather than the entire desktop, if you choose to do so. Bottom line, this program is very versatile and easy to use program, and works well by itself or with its companion apps and programs.
You may ask what does this program cost, and the answer is a very, nice $12.99 USD, and that is for a single-license on either Mac or Windows. If you need more than one device/computer, they have the 5-Pack, which works on both PC and Mac, and costs $60.00 USD. In my opinion this is the best value, as this allows you use the license(s) back and forth on various platforms, and save 8% over the single-user license cost/unit. If you might need to use this program in a commercial environment or educational setting, they offer pricing quotes, especially if you will need twenty or more licenses for these purposes. No matter which level you pick, you can rest assured that you will be satisfied and very happy with your purchases. If you stop by and check them out, tell them I sent you, and that you are interested in snagging this program. As always, until next time, keep on techin’. . .
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2019-04-21T00:58:10Z
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https://condorwingman.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/showcase-airsqirrels-airparrot-2/
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Lea Salonga offers her candid thoughts on several topics, including gay marriage in the Philippines!
International stage superstar Lea Salonga discusses gay marriage and whether or not it is possible in the forseeable future in her home country of the Philippines as part of a new interview with Rappler.
Salonga shares of the cultural boundaries that preclude gay marriage in the Philippines, "I honestly don't think that we as a society are ready. We may be too religious as a society. I'm not saying that as a slam against religion... it's just the state of our world; we are not ready. This country is just not ready."
"There are members of the society that are absolutely prepared, who would absolutely support marriage equality - I have way too many gay friends and relatives to not be supportive of marriage equality," Salonga continues.
"My stance on this, again, as a member of secular society and as a Christian woman... Jesus gave two commandments: love your God with all of your heart and all of your soul and the second is love your neighbor as yourself... I am sure that gay people existed even back then. When we say 'Love thy neighbor,' that has to be all encompassing."
"For those of you who are against marriage equality, you have to ask yourself why - and, I will not accept, 'Because my priest says so.'"
"Known across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch, Salonga is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards, in the field of musical theatre. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical LES MISERABLES on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival.
Lea will begin rehearsals in September for her much awaited return to Broadway in ALLEGIANCE. She garnered a Craig Noel nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical in the show's successful run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. Developed by legendary actor George Takei, ALLEGIANCE tells the story of a Japanese-American family forced into an internment camp during World War II.
Lea most recently wrapped touring with Il Divo for the group's worldwide "A Musical Affair" tour. When not on tour, Lea is a coach on the Philippine version of the hit "The Voice". Mitoy Yonting, a member of Team Lea, was named the first season winner.
Lea has toured the world performing in sold out concerts in such locations as the Disney Concert Hall, Singapore's Esplanade, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Bangkok Convention Center, Carnegie Hall, and numerous venues in her hometown of Manila, and in cities such as Vancouver, Sacramento, San Diego, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and San Francisco. She was also the first artist to sell out two shows at BYU's de Jong Concert Hall since The King's Singers in 2009.
In 2010, she participated in the 25th Anniversary Concert of LES MISERABLES to sold out crowds at the UK's O2 arena as well as dazzling as the hauntingly tragic Grizabella in a limited run of CATS in her hometown of Manila. She also teamed up with legendary Grammy winner, Patti Austin, to perform the concert series, 'Heart and Soul,' in San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Lea has continued to celebrate the music of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönerg, the creators of LES MISERABLES and Miss Saigon, by participating in the recurring concert, "Do You Hear the People Sing," with other renowned artists worldwide. The show, which debuted in 2011 in Indianapolis, has been performed in such cities as Dallas, Ottawa, Shanghai, and most recently as a charity concert event in Manila, raising over 24 million pesos (around $500,000) to build 200 new homes via Habitat for Humanity Philippines for the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan."
More information is available at Lea Salonga's official site here.
View the complete video interview with Lea Salonga below, with comments on gay marriage at 20:40.
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2019-04-24T08:53:44Z
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https://www.broadwayworld.com/philippines/article/Lea-Salonga-On-Gay-Marriage-In-Eloquent-New-QA-I-Have-Way-Too-Many-Gay-Friends-To-Not-Be-Supportive-20150811
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Dharunika’s parents were overjoyed when she told her teacher that she didn’t like having dosas for breakfast. Sounds strange? Not when you realize that this was the first time the 13-year-old had expressed an opinion, and communicated something that went beyond the basics.
Born with cerebral palsy, Dharunika’s communication was limited to the 20 gestures she used to convey hunger, pain or discomfort. This was until Avaz changed her world.
“Avaz is basically an artificial voice for children and adults with cerebral palsy who don’t have the required muscle control and therefore can’t speak, or the autistic who think more in terms of visuals than actual words,” explains Ajit Narayanan, the 29-year-old creator of the device.
Launched in March 2010, Avaz works by converting muscle movements into speech through features like pictures and scanning. “For example, users can put together different words like ‘I like’ and then select a picture of an apple, thus constructing sentences pictorially. For those with lesser degrees of muscular control, who can’t touch all parts of the screen, we use a method called scanning,” says Narayanan.
The scanning method shows different options users can select by touching any part of the screen. Avaz can sense their choice and help them narrow down options till the right one is reached to make speech. Avaz has artificial intelligence and can give suggestions to make choices easier. For someone trying to say “Good afternoon,” selecting the word “good” has “afternoon” suggested as an option. This makes it easier for the user. Once the sentence is constructed, the artificial voice synthesizer speaks it out.
Avaz supports English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Marathi, and plans are on to add more languages soon.
Avaz’s shape and size is that of a tablet computer. With a seven-inch display, easy to read fonts and voice prompts for the visually impaired, this battery-operated device can be mounted on desks and wheelchairs or even carried on laps.
A visit to Vidya Sagar, a special needs school in Chennai, thanks to an IIT Madras professor and his wife, gave him an idea about what he wanted to do. Speaking to the faculty and students at the school made Narayanan realize that the differently-abled, a whole section in India that remains marginalized, could be given technical assistance to join the mainstream.
Inspired by the way Americans integrate technology into daily life and by the success stories of Dynavox, the U.S.-based provider of communication products and speech-producing devices for various disabilities, Narayanan was sure that he wanted his creation to be technically savvy as well as have a high social impact. “We watched a lot of YouTube videos on Dynavox users who had broken down their walls of silence and emerged as successful, high-flying professionals. A product like Avaz doesn’t exist in India, so we had to build everything from scratch,” says Narayanan.
The effectiveness of the changes was proved by Dharunika at Avaz’s launch in her school, The Spastics Society of Tamil Nadu in Chennai. “She held it in her hands and in a few minutes typed out ‘thank you’ for the entire audience,” says Narayanan.
The American connection with Avaz continues. “I received a lot of help from people in the U.S. who donate these units to schools. In fact, just a few days ago, a person from Virginia sponsored three units for a school in Kochi,” he says.
Narayanan’s company, Invention Labs, which manufactures Avaz is about four years old with 10 employees. He funded the project from his savings from work in the United States and funds given by the Indian government for technology-related projects. Schools in 15 cities across India, including Chennai, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Jaipur are using Avaz.
Paromita Pain is currently doing her M.A. in specialized journalism from the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.
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2019-04-22T15:28:31Z
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https://span.state.gov/social-development/ajit-narayanan-giving-voice-disabled/20111101
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Electronics giant Sony unveiled plans today to slash its worldwide workforce by thirteen percent over the next three years, targeting thousands of workers in wealthier nations while maintaining production in countries with weak labor and environmental laws.
A United Nations report is expected to keep hidden some of the financial dealings of multi-national corporations and provisional government official in the Congo claiming it may weaken the tentative political situation.
Nigerian Muslims and the World Health Organization are embroiled in a controversy over the safety of an immunization exercise aimed at curbing the spread of the viral infection Polio in West and Central Africa.
The NAACP finds little racial diversity in the television and film industry both in front of and behind the cameras.
Today the Senate overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Utah Governor Mike Leavitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Environmentalists opposed the nomination charging Leavitt with looking the other way when, as governor of Utah, corporations broke state and federal pollution laws. Supporters say environmentalists misrepresent Leavitt’s environmental record, and they say Leavitt will protect the environment without damaging the economy with regulations. Meanwhile, besides the Leavitt nomination, the Senate will also likely vote this week on a measure to reduce green house gasses and on President Bush’s Healthy Forest Initiative. Mitch Jeserich reports from Capitol Hill.
Last Saturday, thousands rallied in Washington D.C. and San Francisco calling for an end to the occupation in Iraq. But on Sunday, people in Taos, New Mexico, focused on a problem that they say lives in their backyard: their neighbor, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. At one of two properties he owns in Taos, about 200 rallied to demand he be fired for his role in starting and perpetuating the Iraq conflict. Catalina Reyes was there and has this report.
On the heels of the CAFTA meeting in Houston last week, US trade representatives are preparing for the upcoming FTAA meetings in Miami and to avoid a repeat of the failed WTO meetings in Cancun, Argentina and the US have agreed to pre-FTAA meetings in Buenos Aires on November 4. Meanwhile, back in Washington DC, student leaders from around the country went to Capitol Hill yesterday to lobby for the rights of poor farmers and workers, and against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Avishay Artsy has more from DC.
After the FCC recently seized broadcasting equipment from low power Fm radio station San Francisco Liberation Radio, across the country in Vermont another battle over a small radio station rages. Radio Free Brattleboro is forging a strong base of support and has a resolution in support of itself stating that the airwaves belong to the public while urging the Vermont Legislature and the U.S. Congress to change the laws governing radio broadcasting. RFB is also asking for the authority to broadcast, despite the fact that the 10-watt volunteer-run station lacks a broadcasting license. Meanwhile, this past weekend, a new community radio station was born in Spokane Washington. KYRS, Thin Air Radio, has been waiting for three years to get on the air. Peter Graff and Dante Toza report from Spokane, Washington.
The 26th of every month in Argentina is recognized as the day that Dario and Maxi, two activists in the unemployed movement, were killed by police during a Piquetero march. Police repression in Argentina continues to be a problem for the workers movement which has gained worldwide recognition since the economic collapse in December 2001. The economic crisis left a quarter of the population unemployed, and increased dramatically those living in poverty to 18 million, approximately half the population. And over the past weeks, national daily newspapers have reported that the government is taking a firm position against social protest, opening criminal cases against members of the unemployed movement. Pauline Bartolone and Tomas Eliaschev have this second report in our special series Global Power Exposed, from Buenos Aires.
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2019-04-25T18:25:44Z
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http://fsrn.org/2003/10/october-28-2003/
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I really enjoy being a part of the Honors College. It's become my second home, my second family. I really wasn't expecting to find that in college. It's just such a supportive group of people. It doesn’t matter what you're going through. You can go inside the Honors House and sit down next to someone you’ve never talked to, and just have a random conversation. It's a special bond between the students, and the faculty, as well.
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2019-04-18T16:39:11Z
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https://etsu.edu/ehome/services/
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Home
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- Maj. Gen. Luis R. Visot, co-director and commanding general of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command for the Peace Keeping Operations – Americas 2011 being conducted in Brazil, speaks about the purpose of the exercise to foster alliances, enhance regional relations, reinforce security arrangements and promote interoperability.
"Today is the reason why I signed up for the Guard. I knew one of these days I'd be needed like today, and sure enough, it happened."
-Spc. Junior Bombard, Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldier, along with Sgt. Tim Bridges of the 1138th Military Police conducted the daring rescue of a 93-year-old woman from her flooded car on the swollen Black River, May 3, 2011.
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2019-04-25T09:52:59Z
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https://www.army.mil/standto/2011-05-05
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square-enix
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So far I've only played few games but I can get the basic feel of the gameplay. Anyway concerning vampire movement currently I find it a bit too automated for my taste. For example just holding shift and running towards what ever you want to climb or jump to it does it automatically.
For some reason I was under the impression that vampires in this game would move similar to aliens in AvP2 a game which I really loved to play as the "beast" faction. Currently playing as a vampire feels quite dull and it lacks certain aspect in my opinion. What the lacking aspect I feel is is that for example you can't really skulk as a Reaver waiting in the wall or ceiling. Shift + forward doing everything automatically just seems lackluster compared to actually having to pay attention where you're going and having to time your jumps if you want to make it across something.
Anyway I know this game isn't AvP2 etc. but I feel like there could be quite a bit of improvement when it comes to movement of vampires. Maybe a lot of people like the way it is currently or maybe not but this is just my opinion.
I can agree with the sentiment here, though I really don't see the need for ceiling climbing. What'd be really nice is being able to hang off a wall without moving.
You'll find though that you'll spend a lot of time on the ground using cover to avoid scouts, much like what having Ichiro marines squads in AvP2 mp does to gameplay.
Certainly agree with that issue, plus there's a good degree of situations where my vamp seems to engage climb mode on irrelevant objects while I'm running across the map (like a small broken wall for instance).
Hehe I will also beat this dead horse!! I've said it a lot and I think quite a few agree that the auto attacking is crap. And the very limited movement on walls etc is also crap. Sorry for saying it but its crap, you gotta call it what it is. But I definitely need to say I love the game and its awesome but please change those two things.
I feel very limited as vampire and a ton of my auto-attacks miss because of lag or other stupid shenanigans. Also you frequently end up attacking the wrong target when there are two close together and end up getting killed by the dude with 5hp shortly after. AAARRGGGGG!
I think currently at least 30-40% of my autoattacks miss. It never used to be this bad but its horrible now, constantly pouncing through character models and slashing midsections (with hit sound even) and zero damage was done.
This is what I felt when I first started playing, and it still holds true now.
Vampires should be able to jump on demand, do UT style wall jumps/wallruns or similar evasive techniques, less locked animations (ie cancel roll into melee) and have less auto-aim but more rotational ability/wider melee arcs. In short, vampires would have a higher skillcap:reward ratio for melee and movement, compared to humans who have a high skillcap:reward ratio for aim.
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2019-04-21T18:49:26Z
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https://forums.eu.square-enix.com/showthread.php?t=8821&s=3a303be7af357da7b3415fc175463ab9
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Games
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nus
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Citation: SUEN JOHAN BIN MOHD ZAIN (2010-08-05). The Moral Economy of Gambling and the Negotiation of Minority Ethno-Class Social Positions: A Socio-Cultural Study of Lower-Income Malay-Muslim Gamblers in Singapore. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: This study explores the intersections of two relatively underdeveloped themes within the stock of academic knowledge on gambling: ethnicity and class. Utilizing a ?moral economy? approach to understand gambling as a culturally normative activity, this thesis examines the social dynamics of ethnoracial minorities, namely lower-income Malay-Muslims (LIMM) operating in largely informal gambling domains that are generally Chinese-dominated. It will be argued that the social capital networks underpinning the structures of such gambling spheres consist of various ethno-class barriers that function to reproduce existing racial and social hierarchies in which LIMM gamblers occupy minority positions. Nevertheless, in engaging with the cultural structures of the ethnoracial majority, empirical data will illustrate the use of resource and impression management strategies by LIMMs to negotiate mobility within gambling-related markets of informal capital. Ultimately, it will be posited that ethno-class barriers function in tandem with ideological discourses on ?responsibilitization? and processes of moral ?othering? to minoritize specific groups within an ethnic minority group by perpetuating their exclusion from ?mainstream? sources of economic and social capital.
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2019-04-22T06:47:10Z
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https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/20933
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cornell
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Grape Bud Cold-Hardiness Update. Bud losses in Cab Franc observed.
Cut buds placed on thermocouples for placement into in a controlled-temperature freezer.
In the best Hudson Valley vineyard sites there will be minimal loss of buds and cane damage to grape to date. The winter low temperature in Highland, NY was -10.6F, recorded at the experimental vineyard at the Hudson Valley Research Laboratory (considered a good grape site) on February 14th, 2016. From this weeks assessments we have seen 10-40% loss in Cab Franc with likely damage in Riesling given our predicted modeling based of the lowest temperature on the 14th. The loss of buds in cold sensitive varieties will vary considerably depending on site.
Temperatures in the mid-Hudson Valley predicted to be increase toward 70F highs by 10th of March.
Hudson Valley vineyard site location with regards to growing degree days, site selection & resources to guide perspective vineyardists can be found here.
2016 Bud Cold-hardiness. for Four Representative Varieties. Grape varieties in New York were measured at commercial and Cornell vineyards in the Lake Erie, Finger Lakes, and Hudson Valley regions.
* Buds are subjected to differential thermal analysis (DTA), with approximately 30 buds total from the first 8 nodes of at least 5 canes per variety at each sampling date.
* Most recent LT50 (Median Bud Freezing Temperature) values for each region are listed in separate tables below.
* Clicking on a variety name will bring up individual graphs of minimum/maximum temperatures and seasonal change in bud freezing temperatures.
* Seasonal Bud Mortality for each variety/site can also be found on the graphs.
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2019-04-24T02:02:36Z
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https://blogs.cornell.edu/jentsch/2016/03/07/grape-bud-cold-hardiness-update-bud-losses-in-cab-franc-observed/
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This spring, UIC colleges will hold commencement ceremonies for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who earned their degrees during the 2015 summer session, the fall 2015, or spring 2016 semesters, and who did not participate in our December ceremonies.
You have been instrumental in our students' achievements, and I urge you to join our graduates and their families and friends to recognize this important milestone in their lives.
For information on the spring commencement ceremonies, please visit commencement.uic.edu.
I look forward to celebrating our graduating students' accomplishments with you.
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2019-04-24T19:55:35Z
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https://chancellor.uic.edu/news-stories/campus-message-02-15-16/
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Happy Friday! Happy October! Bring on the carved pumpkins and candy corn!
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2019-04-23T15:51:00Z
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https://kellieanne.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/17-of-30/
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purdue
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2019-04-19T15:07:04Z
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fssup/announcements.html
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This week, a keeper was killed at Hamerton Zoo Park in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in a "freak accident" after a tiger entered the enclosure she was in.
South Lakes Safari Zoo in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, was recently refused a new licence after nearly 500 of its animals died over a four-year period.
And just under a year ago, Harambe, a gorilla, was shot at Cincinnati Zoo after it picked up a three-year-old child who had climbed into its enclosure.
Responsible Travel has responded to these incidents, and general animal welfare concerns, by breaking all ties with zoos. It is the first British travel company to take such a strong stand, arguing that there is no justification for keeping animals in captivity. The operator explained its decision by citing welfare fears, low investment from zoos in conservation (they claim most zoos spend only three per cent of their budgets on this), and the fact that 90 per cent of animals in zoos are not endangered.
“It is fabulous to see a travel company being brave, sticking their heads above the parapet and saying that in 2017 keeping animals in captivity purely for our entertainment is just not acceptable,” said Joanna Lumley, the animal welfare campaigner and actress.
Has the public lost its appetite for zoos?
Some of my fondest childhood memories involve trips to the zoo. My parents held my fourth birthday party at the Bronx Zoo, and there are photos of me and my friends riding an elephant.
Over the past three decades, zoos have evolved, but there remains this fundamental problem: these are institutions that display animals in ways that prevent them from engaging in their natural behaviour - in particular, breeding, hunting and moving across large areas.
Can we change your mind about zoos?
But are zoos actually so bad?
My friend, who regularly brings her children to British zoos, dismissed my unease: “I think the animals [in zoos] live like royalty: they get the best food, they are isolated from all danger and that’s why they live so much longer,” she says.
Other fans of zoos say they remain relevant because they educate and contribute to conservation and research. And, if we’re allowed to prioritise one type of animal over another, they perform the often difficult task of getting human beings - particularly young ones - off the sofa, away from gadgets, and into a live experience.
Professor David Field, zoological director at ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos, highlights the significant contribution his institutions have made to the conservation of endangered species and their habitats around the world.
He cites two particular recent triumphs of ZSL: the release of scimitar-horned oryx (once declared extinct in their native habitat), including some bred at Whipsnade, back to the wild, where they are already rearing young.
He argues also that money raised and research done through Land of the Lions, ZSL London Zoo’s flagship exhibit, has offered game-changing support to Sasan Gir in India, the Asiatic lion’s last stronghold, protecting their habitat and increasing the lion population there from 2015 to 2016 by approximately 100 individuals - taking the population to 500.
Three years ago, staff members at Copenhagen Zoo sparked international outrage when they shot a healthy young giraffe, called Marius, and dissected it in public, in front of children, before feeding its remains to the zoo’s lions.
Danish zoos routinely cull animals they deem surplus to their requirements, and use the remains as teaching tools for veterinary students and members of the public (with videos of the dissections posted on YouTube). This practice plays better in a country whose abattoirs have public viewing platforms than in squeamish Britain or America.
Euthanising animals for population control is not an exclusively Danish practice (read Ian Parker’s excellent article, “Killing animals at the zoo”, to learn more) - but culling (an estimated 3,000-5,000 animals each year in European zoos) tends to be hidden elsewhere.
Does a giraffe deserve a better quality of life than a pig?
But there is hypocrisy in our squeamishness. Fewer than five per cent of Britons are vegetarians. In a country that raises animals for slaughter, is it so illogical to raise animals for education and as food for other animals? Does a giraffe deserve a better quality of life than a pig? Is this not, as the Danes claim, just the Disneyfication of animals?
What can a responsible parent do?
First, be honest - as a family - about how we treat animals.
The zoo debate is an emotive one, but our meat-eating habits have a bigger impact on animal welfare. I’m with the Danes when it comes to the issue of 'Disneyfication'. It’s hypocritical to prioritise the rights of an elephant over a chicken. So either become a vegetarian - discuss this with your children: do they want to? - or bring them to farms and proper butchers and really consider the body your steak and chicken nuggets come from. Make sure you’re buying free range meat and make sure your children know which animals “beef” and “pork” come from.
Are they really raising money for conservation? How much? And what is that “conservation” money doing to? It will have to include habitats as much as individual animals.
As animals rightly get more space to roam around in parks, they become more difficult for children to see - making exhibitions like Monkey Business, which features a few dozen taxidermied primates in typical poses, incredibly useful. Don’t dismiss the static poses of taxidermied animals; a close-up look with accompanying videos, like you get at the Natural History Museum, has greater educational value than craning to see a distressed animal hiding in the corner of an enclosure.
Virtual reality offers a whole new area of experience for kids. Elisa Allen, director of PETA UK, highlights the success of Sea Life London Aquarium’s recent collaboration with the BBC – Frozen Planet: Face to Face, which sees visitors interact with virtual reality animals, including polar bears and an orca. “It’s popularity demonstrates that aquaria and zoos no longer need to imprison animals for human entertainment,” Ms Allen says.
Zoos had their height in the pre-television age. With the wealth of technology available to us today, it’s increasingly difficult to justify the case for keeping animals in captivity purely for the spectacle of it.
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2019-04-25T18:08:21Z
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/family-holidays/should-we-stop-taking-our-children-to-zoos/
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elle
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E! got a lot more juicy detail on Lori Loughlin's state one day after a Federal Grand Jury indicted her and her husband Mossimo Giannulli with a new charge, money laundering, in the college admissions cheating case. It turns out she is really regretting not taking a plea deal with a lesser jail sentence attached now, given that the new money laundering charge alone carries a 20-year maximum jail sentence. She already had a 20-year maximum sentence with her initial charges, so she could at most serve 40 years in jail.
Loughlin and her husband had been reportedly offered a plea deal with a 2-2.5 year minimum jail sentence included in it but no additional charges like money laundering. Loughlin refused it, People reported earlier, because she didn't want to accept a plea deal with any prison time in it.
"She has been in complete denial and thought maybe she could skate by," a source told the outlet. "She refused to accept any jail time and thought the DA was bluffing. She was adamant she wouldn't do any jail time." Now, she's beating herself up for not taking that initial deal, E!'s source said. "Lori is finally realizing just how serious this is. She is seeing the light that she will do jail time and is freaking out."
This entire thing has also put a strain on her and Giannulli's marriage. "There's a rift between Lori and Mossimo," the source told the outlet. "He is completely mortified by this whole thing and she is putting on a happy face and acting like everything will be okay. They are blaming each other and disagreeing on things. They are starting to turn on each other and there is incredible stress and tension."
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2019-04-26T16:37:23Z
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https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a27104225/lori-loughlin-jail-time-freakout/
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