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We have all heard the pastor preach, learn how to be still for God’s Voice. Do we really listen for God’s voice? Over the last 8 weeks, I have learned how to be still by turning off all distractions that include the television, music, and my phone. How else do you expect to hear God’s voice. It’s getting in that quite place so that you release all thoughts that were negative and unclear. Release those thoughts to replace with positive energy so that you may hear God’s voice and plan for your life. It starts with you learning to be still and listen.
Is it hard learning how to be still? No, it is not hard at all but if you are not use to complete quietness then you may experience a few distractions. I have a few tips to help you prepare yourself to be still for God’s voice.
Turn off everything including television, laptop, and radio.
Get your mindset ready by meditating and prayer asking the Holy Spirit to rise up in you.
If you need to play a gospel music to get your mindset and thoughts to enter that spiritual realm by all means do so.
Focus on God’s word and his voice.
Be still and just be quiet so that you listen for his voice.
Don’t be so quick to get up from your private room or prayer closet. A lot of times we do all the talking to God, but not too much listening to God. He knows our thoughts before we even think them ourselves. So, why not be still for clarity, guidance, direction, and his voice. You practice being still long enough you will learn to discern his voice from any other voice. These quite times will help you to let go of the things that are blocking you from greatness. This quiet time will give you clarity of the people who are in your life for season and those for a lifetime.
Life is too short without God’s voice guiding you to your true destiny and showing you what your true purpose in this life is. Don’t you want to tap into his voice? Learn to be still so that you can come into your true self. I am not perfect, but I am learning to walk with God and tap into my passion that is guiding me into my purpose. We were all placed here in this world to serve a purpose. What’s your purpose? Who are you serving?
How do you find your peace when everything around you feels like it’s taking all your energy, time, and power? How about when it’s making you sick and you gain unwanted pounds. What do you do?
Lately, I have been feeling this way so I made up my mind a few weeks ago that I was not going to allow anyone or anything to have or take my peace. I quiet my mind, cleanse my body, feed my spirit with scripture, nourish my body and mind with affirmations and food.
I refuse to be drained of my energy and power. I refuse to allow anyone to overwhelm me with nonsense and by taking up my time with medicrocity. I have learned to treasure my time by dedicating and blocking out time that I use to rejuvenate my spirit, mind, and body. This includes sleep too. When people invade my sleep it’s time to check them and let them know those powerful words of No. I find myself saying the words of No to quite a few people these last couple of weeks.
It’s important to have peace because it’s yours time.l and life is too short. God never said for our lives to be hectic, over powered by others, or misused by others. I am no longer worried about anything because I know the good lord has my back and my best interest. How do you control having peace in your life?
How do I do it? For me, every morning I have my quiet time for about an hour, jump to it at lunch time, and then when I get home. I enjoy taking a walk or just sitting out on my patio. It’s peaceful and it allows you to think without distractions and unnecessary noise. Most important it allows me to mellow out or wind down from a crazy day in corporate America.
Life is too short to allow anyone to corrupt your peace. That’s goes for work too.. Now that’s another story, but I have learned that no job is worth my peace of mind. I have seen that type of stress give folks heart attachs, gain weight, break up marriages, and high blood pressure. You have to learn how to find your peace. Part of my peace is writing. It’s a wonderful feeling to just let your thoughts flow with your pen or keypad.
It’s time to take the leap of faith to step out to fulfil your dreams. It’s time for you to place your trust in God’s promise and do not be afraid for your destiny was already determined by the father. I know it’s gets weary and you become afraid of step out on faith to follow and chase a dream. Ask yourself this question, what is it that you have to loose by taking that leap of faith?
You get one life and don’t you think you should live out the dreams that God has given you snippets of? I have heard pastors, actors, and radio personalities say just “Jump” and take that leap of faith to follow your dreams. Your dreams maybe to become an actor/actress, filmmaker, business owner, author, dancer, singer, or whatever you are passionate about. It’s time to trust your instincts and follow your dreams. It’s time to place your faith and trust in God and not man. How can you get started with Taking that leap of faith?
Writer your dreams in a “Dream journal”.
Create a plan that has steps to make your vision board and dreams in your journal come true.
Surround yourself with people doing what you desire to do.
Research what you desire to learn as much as you can.
Are you convinced yet to take that leap of faith? What do you have to loose? You get one life so why not hace a big impact and influence on other people lives by sharing your story and following your dreams. Your dreams are snippets into what the father has for your purpose and destiny.
On April 21, 2016 we lost another great artist Prince at an early age of 57. His death came as a shock to the world. We all remember him today as he is layed to rest. We fell in love with his music, his style, his dancing on stag performance at concerts, and honor him as the talented artist that he was known to fans and supporters all over this world.
Am I using my gifts and talents to have an impact on others?
Do I understand my gifts and talents?
What am I doing with my gifts and talents?
Where am I and where should I be?
Is my passion my purpose and do I understand my purpose?
Will I leave a legacy that will carry forward the vision of my dreams?
Have you sat back and thought about your life and where you are now versus where you should be now? I have and today I got my confirmation that sometimes you have to leave your place of comfort in order to grow and prosper.
We have to pursue our dreams with no regrets because it will do us no good or justice to take our talent and gifts with us to our grave. We were given the gifts and talents for a reason so that we may have an impact on someone’s life. Several weeks ago, my pastor asked the question to the congregation: how do you want to be remembered and what type of impact will you have on others? Will you be a legend or just remember as your given name. What will your name stand for?
How will people remember you? It’s not about all the things you can buy, but it’s about the impact you can have on somebody’s life as well as being able to help others prosper and grow. It’s about being able to have a kind heart, giving spirit, a listening hear, and a smile to light up a room that will encourage someone to take that leap of faith becuase you inspired them based on your leap of faith.
I want to be remembered for the lives that I touched and impacted to do better so they can live greater than the generation that came bfore them. I want to be remembered for leaving a legacy that will keep reaching back opening doors for men and women, reaching forward to create new doors of opportunity, and changing lives so that our children and their children believe that they were created with purpose and there is power in their gifts, talents, and they were born of greatness to be great.
This life is not promised to us, but we can leave a impact on others that will be remembered. Be a legend in your own right and purpose that has an impact on lives that will change the world. We are God’s children and we shall take the time to help one another discover who we are, what our gifts are, and how to use the talents that was gifted to us. Life is too short to not take better care of ourselves and our loved ones.
Celebrate the life of great legends and use their words to inspire, aspire, and do better. How will you be remembered? What type of impact will you have on others?
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post for my inspirational blog. It’s been crazy but most important, I lost track of what’s important to my well being as I try to balance my dreams, my vision, my goals, and my purpose. Each one plays hand in hand with one another, but when you allow frustration to compromise your thoughts and dreams there is a tendancy to put up a few road blocks. Sometimes those road blocks can send you into a corner making you feel discourage, depressed, and lost. I thank God for praying friends and family members that continue to pray over me and for me. We have all been in a place like this where you didn’t know what to do next and you got so much go on inside your head that yu got to take a step back and breathe. It’s okay to step back and re-evaulate your position, goals, vision, and edit the plan. Life is about editing over and over until you eventually get it right.
So, what have I been up to? First, I had to get out of my own way and step out on faith to take my freelance skills and talent and turn it into a new business. I had to figure out God’s direction for me to go and how my other platforms would benefit from my business. Then I found myself playing the “what if” game as to when I should start my own business. Instead of battling with myself and standing in my own way, I forgot the most imporant thing that I needed to do and that was pray about, meditate on God’s good word, and most important listen for his guidance and his answer. I have been writing my novel Deceitful- Playing with Fire, and a few other projects that I plan to pursue on the big screen someday. It’s a big dream and requires a big vision.
It’s time to be the inspiration, create the vision, make it cleare, be a motivator and be motivated. Most important, it’s time to be innovative and a leader which results will yield Success. It’s time not to be complacent or stagnant. It’s time to rise above and set new goals that will get you closer to yoru vision. What is holding you back. Remember, you cannot see clear if you have the same mindset, same friendships, and same goals with no results. Change your mindset, I promise you will change your mind.
The vision is so clear now and it’s funny how God uses other people to give you confirmation, clarity, and sometimes the push that you need to follow the right direction. Life is too short and I am seeing not just celebrity pass on but friends and family members go home to glory. I want to walk and live on purpose utilizing my gifts and talents to make a difference in someone’s life. This is exactly why this inspirational platform is imporatant to me and getting back in position to be able to write freely and be able to inspire someone to tap into their gifts and talents is a true blessings.
Get ready to be inspired, encouraged, and led by the spirit to feed your soul. I have so much inside of me that is just ready to pour out onto the blog pages. I am reading some inspirational books that are my favorites and some new that I find interesting. I am listening to my pastor’s sermons and some guest pastors who gave such a positive message about making your life better in 2016, walking into your purpose, living on purpose, helping others, following your dreams, getting out of debt, and choosing to live life healthy, happy, and spiritually feed inside out.
It’s time to change the game in order to change the plan and change the story’s ending… Better yet, it’s new begining.
What does Black History Mean?
What does Black History month mean to me? For me it’s an honor to see the men and women who have become trailblazers for African Americans.
It’s an honor to see their achievements that open so many doors for us as well as inspired the dreamers in us. I look at the picture below and see a remarkable history of powerful men and women of which some sacrificed their life and their dreams to bring about justice and equality.
What it means to me is greatness with so many inspiring and empowering men and women that opened doors, sacrifice their life fighting to make things right for a people. It means recognizing greatness at its best and learning about African Americans that we didn’t learn about in school. It’s means seeing their dreams come true as they pursue their dreams and walk into their purpose. Black History means everything to me and my family. The old saying that you have to know where you come from to see where you going. It’s important to know your history.
Many of the women and men have open doors for generations to come in media, television, film, and politics. They have given hope and open eyes to so many opportunities. From our first African American President Barack Obama to mult-media mineral Oprah Winfrey. Their position and accomplishments says so much not just to the younger generation but to adults of all ages. You can do anything you set your mind, heart to. They encourage and stress the importance of education. While inspiring and empowering the dreamers to discover their gifts and talents.
As we celebrate these remarkable men and women, let’s not forget to keep sharing the stories and journeys of great, inspiring, empowering black women and men.
It’s a year for you to live your dreams and invest into yourself. I have been sitting back thinking about everything that I did and didn’t do in 2015. As I sit here as the first month of 2016 comes to an end. I ask myself a few questions?
Am I ready for a blessed year?
Have I changed my mindset for and about success?
Have I equipped myself with the right tools and resources?
What wil be different about the direction and path I take in 2016?
Is God in this plan?
I have made up my mind that this new direction will become a beautiful journey in 2016. I am walking into my season and my destiny. This year will definitely be better than last year.
I have come to the conclusion that not everyone will support my dreams, my goals, and my vision. The reason for that is not everyone will understand the woman that I have become, nor will they understand what is my purpose. My destiny awaits for me to jump into gear to do nothing but greatness. I am in control of mychoices and God’s in control of my destiny and nothing can stop me. The power is in me and I recognize it and accept the gift that comes with it. My own personal testimony that this will be a blessed year of action, prosperity, and wealth.
Don’t you think it’s time for a better you? Life is far too short not to live. It’s time out for being afraid of the impossible. It’s time to take your dreams to the next level. Keep God in the executed plan and walk in peace m and purpose.
This year I will take this inspirational platform to a level of true testimony and influence. I will be sharing some great wine of Faith’s messages, talks about purpose, passion, finding you, self-love, and hope.
Does how a daughter view of her father play a role in the man she desires?
I had to sit back and think about this one because when you are a single mother raising daughters, you have to consider the affect of an absent father. One has to ask herself will my daughter’s view of her father have an affect on how she chooses a man in her life. You want them to know how to identify true love. You want them to be able to understand the value of friendship, self worth, standards, respect, trust, relationship goals, and God’s love.
Now, I have learned that it’s the father’s job to show her how she should be treated by a man and how she should be loved by a man. What about a daughter that grows up without her father? I believe it’s the mother’s job to show her daughter how she should be treated and how she should be loved. It’s important to give her true examples of couples who’s relationship define what love, relAtionahip, standards, self-worth, and friendship truly is. It’s Important for the mother to be an example to her daughters. Our children watch how we handle relationships on all levels. It then becomes a seed planted within them and if you are not planted the right seed. Then you can send your daughter down the wrong path on the true value of what a relationship with a man should be.
In other words, be an example because she is watching how you handle your relationships and how you love a man. This is important to me given the relationship is not there with my daughter and her father. It’s his choice and I pray that some day he will realize what he missing out on.
Anyway, I choose to love me, set boundaries of tolerance levels, and my expectations of what a relationship is and what it is not. I have learned from past relationships where I have stayed too long because I don’t want my daughter to see that type of relationship is healthy. We all want the best for our children and hope with prayer that they will make the right decisions. Yes, we have to allow them to make their own mistakes and decisions. It’s hard sometimes and you find yourself getting mad.
You want their standards to have value and worth. You want your daughters to know who they are and know they are royalty. They are daughters of the most high and deserve the best because that’s God’s plan.
Does how a daughter view her father play a role in the man she desires?
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2019-04-24T12:42:49Z
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"Hey, the Boston Tea Party worked too," said Dennis Martin, a Brigham Young marketing professor who helped stage a Tostito-torching party this week.
BYU students, incensed at being passed over for a Fiesta Bowl appearance after their team went 13-1, decided to target the Fiesta Bowl's sponsor, Tostitos.
"It's a total boycott," said Jeff Sheets, a BYU senior who went door-to-door at his apartment complex collecting bags of the tortilla chips.
"We want to hit them where it can make a difference. They've slighted the WAC, BYU and the state of Utah. It's a matter of respect. We never get the recognition we deserve.
"The bowl alliance didn't listen to us, so we're speaking to the sponsor now."
Trivia time: Notre Dame's Paul Hornung is still the only Heisman Trophy winner from a losing team. Notre Dame was 2-8 in Hornung's year, 1956. Who finished second that year?
St. Kevin: A recent decision by Kevin Johnson of the Phoenix Suns won't hurt his saintly image.
He has become the legal guardian of A.J. Brown, a senior football and basketball standout at Washington High in Phoenix. Brown's unemployed mother--who divorced when he was 2--was evicted from her apartment recently.
Brown, who now lives with Johnson, was offered a football scholarship to Arizona but quit football after one game this season. Then he got into trouble for skipping class and smoking marijuana. He has a 3.8 grade-point average.
Said Johnson: "He's a great kid. He just needed to make a few changes."
He's heard enough: John Brophy, in his 24th year of coaching, got his 800th victory the other night as the Hampton Roads (Va.) Admirals beat Raleigh, N.C., in the East Coast Hockey League.
"Hockey's not work," Brophy said.
"I hear players say now they have to give 150%, but they work an hour and a half at practice and play a game for a few hours and they call it work.
"It's not work, it's fun. It's always been fun."
Jack Morris in 1991, Dave Winfield in 1993, Paul Molitor in 1995 and Terry Steinbach earlier this month.
Trivia answer: Tennessee's Johnny Majors, who recently resigned as coach at Pitt.
"I think their media guide budgets are bigger than our entire athletic department's."
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2019-04-19T01:07:53Z
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Malformed Fingers are outlined in the amazing pictographs at Shaman's Gallery in the Grand Canyon's North Rim.
Roundhead Blank Face: I'm tempted to call these guys pinheads but pins did not exist 3,000 years ago when this was painted on the rock wall.
Runyon Canyon Sunrise over the city of Los Angeles. I didn't see any stars but enjoyed seeing sunrise over the city and the ocean in the distance.
Fog over Saint Louis hide the arch in a misty white color.
Exit Arrow pointing the way out of the Herzog and de Meuron parking structure in South Beach, Miami.
Shark Valley Observation Tower can be found at the end of a long 7-mile ride or walk. The tower overlooks the swamp, alligators, birds and flat land of the everglades.
London Architecture with two contrasting buildings.
Stonehenge and Raven in black and white. The brooding low clouds settled over the stone circle.
Stonehenge Panoramic Stone Circle taken from a distance on an absolately beautiful day.
Millstones at Stannage Edge sit for hundreds of years. The green valley watches.
Ladybower Spillway on the Ladybower Reservoir in the Peaks District. This eye-catching dam and spillway hypnotizes with intermingling circles and depth.
Winnat's Pass Road is narrow with sharp turns and deep green grass surrounding every side. Drive slowly and enjoy the view.
Fountains Abbey Hallway with arches, columns and light in black and white.
June 2016: Prebend's Bridge Morning, a silent and peaceful spot along the Wear River. This Durham Bridge is most beautifully seen from one of the lovely walks along the river. Green trees hang over each bank. The stone bridge has three wonderful arches.
Hadrian's Wall Zig Zag along the course of the Steel Rigg area and Housesteads Roman fort. This is the most beautiful portion of the wall.
Red Brick of Fort Zachary Taylor Inside the shadows and light stretch across long empty corridors. The feeling of being here is remarkable.
Jefferson Monument: the bases of round columns.
Grafton Schoolhouse, near Zion is a stately building in a ghost town.
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2019-04-23T20:39:43Z
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If you are a student teacher, a new teacher, or are simply new to a school, you need to get to know your colleagues before school starts. Perhaps the principal or someone else will introduce you to the building staff. If not, don't wait for people to come to you. Take the first step. Introduce yourself, and explain that you are trying to learn the proper procedures. People will appreciate your effort, and be much more inclined to help.
In addition to other classroom teachers, make sure you meet the custodians, secretaries, kitchen staff, librarians and media specialists, counselors, and special teachers (reading, math, gifted, special education, ESL, arat, music, band, physical education, and so on). If time doesn't permit face-to-face encounters before school starts, ask for an organization chart that lists the staff in these positions.
Read the school policy manual.
Learn the physical layout of the building.
Become familiar with schoolwide objectives.
Write out a detailed first-day schedule, keeping in mind that you must remain flexible enough to respond to the unexpected.
You'll also want to begin stockpiling materials. Long before the school year starts (and even before you have a permanent teaching position), you can develop an idea file and start collecting supplies.
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2019-04-19T06:23:39Z
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https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/important-beginnings-beginners/
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a 5 inch staff – suitable for a 5 gallon batch. Can be reused.
*Other wine and beer kits are available. Please inquire.
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Swedish comedy drama consisting of twelve self-contained vignettes. Swedish comedy drama consisting of twelve self-contained vignettes.
Swedish comedy drama consisting of twelve self-contained vignettes. Among the characters are Jonathan (Holger Andersson) and Sam (Nils Wesblom), two travelling salesmen who make a living selling joke products. Their stock is limited, however, as they only have three lacklustre items for sale: vampire teeth, canned laughter and a rubber mask, which they take from shop to shop whilst struggling to obtain orders.
Meanwhile King Karl XII of Sweden (Viktor Gyllenberg) rides into a bar to procure the barman's services in the war against Russia. Swedish comedy drama consisting of twelve self-contained vignettes. Among the characters are Jonathan (Holger Andersson) and Sam (Nils Wesblom), two travelling salesmen who make a living selling joke products. Their stock is limited, however, as they only have three lacklustre items for sale: vampire teeth, canned laughter and a rubber mask, which they take from shop to shop whilst struggling to obtain orders.
Meanwhile King Karl XII of Sweden (Viktor Gyllenberg) rides into a bar to procure the barman's services in the war against Russia.
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2019-04-20T20:26:51Z
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The Environment Minister has suggested a tax on coffee to reduce waste and litter along the same lines as the tax on plastic bags which worked (Tesco reduced disposable bag usage by 80% in two months). This is not going to happen however according to a government statement on the matter.
An alternative suggestion came from the Chief Executive of Viridor which recycles waste for local authorities. He said it’s too costly to remove the plastic coating and suggested burning them instead as a source of energy.
In the meantime Costa and Starbucks have pledged to do better at recycling!
We do love our coffee and if we can be environmentally friendly even better.
This entry was posted in Health, Lifestyle and tagged Caffe Nero, coffee cups, Costa, environment, incineration, landfill, Pret a Manger, recycling, Simply Cups, Starbucks, Viridor.
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University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations, "Earl c. Lory to work with NCAA college committee next week" (1967). University of Montana News Releases. 2796.
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This is really simple. First of all give your fish a wash, then with a sharp knife score across each fish down to the bone at 2.5cm/1 inch intervals on both sides. This allows flavour to penetrate the fish and lets the fish’s juices come out.
Once cooked, remove the fish from the oven and allow them to rest for 3 or 4 minutes while you get your guests round the table, serve them some wine and dress your salad. Then you can come back to the fish. Divide them up at the table on to 4 plates, making sure that everyone gets some tomatoes and juice spooned over the top of the fish. Lovely!
Sift the flour on to a plate and season well with salt and ground black pepper. Dip the fish fillets into the flour, to coat evenly on both side.
Heat the oil and butter in a large shallow pan until foaming. Add the fish fillets and fry over a medium heat fro 2-3 minutes on each side.
Life out the fillets carefully with a metal spatula and place them on a warmed serving platter. Season with salt and ground black pepper.
Add the lemon juice and capers to the pan, heat through and pour over the fish. Garnish with parsley and serve at once.
This is such a ridiculously simple and quick dish to make (there’s really no reason why people should say that it’s difficult to cook fish when you have such simple recipes!) I made it in 15 minutes (right after I got back from Waitrose; managed to get myself some reduced price lemon sole as well) I really like the combination of the mild, crisp taste of the coated fish and the sharp lemon and caper sauce.
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2019-04-24T04:18:44Z
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It was murky and formless. Unnatural shapes moved all around, blown by a nonexistent wind. There was not a sound, other than his breathing. Lexx stared down at the pool in front of him. The water was still rippling and he was staring at his distorted reflection.
“So, tell me. Do you think she would really want you? Do you?” The voice was sharp, taunting and teasing him. Lexx could feel frozen fingers pulling at him and poking him.
“No.” Lexx sighed, staring down at the now clear reflection. Wings draped ominously over his reflection, even though he was aware that his own mental self did not have them.
“Why cling to a false hope?” The voice further tormented him, coming from the reflection. Lexx stared at himself, his other self. Who was this that always did this to him? Cold eyes glared at him, filled with a hate for everything and loathing. Was this really who he was?
Dude, wings are awesome and she totally likes you. Don’t listen to a reflection in a mirror in a dream for advice on your love life. And don’t give up.
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2019-04-21T20:30:08Z
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BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA—They will be gracious hosts. But it’s party-by-proxy from here on for Bafana Bafana.
Vuvuzelas are blowing a dirge.
Surrogate soccer is all that South Africa has left at World Cup 2010. There was no miracle at Free State Stadium, where the perfidious French not only went down mewling 2-1 but managed to drag the home nation into poignant adieu with them.
The difference — the distinction — is that South Africa departs with heads held high and the Gauls with heads up their arses.
Quel fiasco for les Bleus, who should be red all over after their disgraceful display here, on and off the pitch. “SHAME!” declared a sign held aloft by a French fan, which pretty much summed it up for that country’s travelling contingent of deflated boosters, at the head of the line giving their boys the boo.
And at the end, beleaguered French coach Raymond Domenech put the final ugly scrawl on it by apparently refusing to shake the hand of his opposite, Carlos Alberto Parreira.
Of course, this is the same prickly-persona git who used the occasion of France’s first-round ouster from Euro 2008 to propose to his girlfriend on live TV, only minutes removed from defeat. She, inexplicably, said yes.
Time’s up now for Domenech, after six years at the helm of the national squad, after just barely surviving a French Football Federation attempted putsch on the eve of the World Cup. In any event, the mutiny that mattered came from within the squad, players at daggers with Domenech and each other, despite that show of unity pre-match huddle hug.
There are rumours of a similar fate befalling Parreira, who’s been smacked up one side and down the other by national media for his dogged adherence to deploying a 4-2-3-1 formation, though he instigated some alterations yesterday, if only to the starting roster.
The green-and-gold strutted into the stadium in high spirits, dancing and singing and, yes, whistling past the graveyard, hell-bent on achieving the nigh-impossible: not just dumping France but needing 1) something other than a draw in the simultaneous Group A match between Mexico and Uruguay; and 2) an explosion of offence to overcome the existing goal differential in their bracket, this from a side that had scored only once thus far, way back in the tournament-opening 1-1 draw with Mexico.
Damn if it didn’t almost feel like all the stars would align for Bafana, sparing them the anguish of becoming the first host nation in the World Cup’s 80-year history failing to advance to the knockout round.
Bongani Khumalo scored in the 20th minute when he outjumped French midfielder Abou Diaby to knock a cross from Siphiwe Tshabalala into the net with a thundering header. Katlego Mphela doubled the lead 17 minutes later following a shanked clearance.
With the announcement that Uruguay had scored on Mexico, the place went wild. Only two more goals were needed for a tie-breaker advance.
Hugo Lloris between the sticks for France looked utterly rank — just the answer to South Africa’s prayers, with no less than Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, sprightly as ever, leading the incantations, surely with God in his corner. As he’d said beforehand: “Over the past few weeks, South Africa has experienced an extraordinary revival of its national spirit. We were not only ready to host the World Cup, as far as infrastructure was concerned, but also in terms of our self-belief and self-esteem as a nation.
That self-belief remained intact even when substitute Florent Malouda scored for 10-man France, Yoann Gourcuff having been given his marching orders for elbowing MacBeth Sibaya in the 25th minute.
Alas, that would be it, though France would get nowhere either employing Plan B, which was bringing in Thierry Henry for Djibril Cissé. That at least delighted the lady in front of us. Her sign read: “Mrs. Thierry Henry” and an arrow pointing downwards, though this was presumably just wishful thinking.
Lots of that, wishful longing, in a sea of Bafana colours, even as it ultimately segued into an emotional farewell to The Boys. In mutual affection, when the three minutes’ extra time on the clock had run out, the homeside players stripped off their shirts and saluted the crowd.
South Africa had never been victorious over the French before in international play.
France exited the tournament with a single point, from a 0-0 draw with Uruguay, and a lone goal in three game, bottom of the A group — the soccer nadir of a proud nation.
Not even a bollocking from French Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot during an “emergency meeting” the previous evening could shake les Bleus out of their lethargy. Speaking to reporters, she claimed to have reduced the players to tears in her dressing-down.
“It’s your kids, our children, for whom you will no longer be heroes,” she’d harangued, all in a dither about the expulsion of golden striker Nicolas Anelka for his profanity-laced tirade against Domenech, the players’ subsequent boycotting of practice, a team-wide eruption of finger-pointing and, finally, the benching of Patrice Evra, who was also stripped of his captaincy.
They are now excused. Take a seat — on Air France.
Bafana Bafana gets to stay, looking good at the end — but still, just looking.
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2019-04-20T16:42:34Z
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https://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/2010/06/22/dimanno_south_africas_dream_ends.html
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I'm creating a grading rubric and have created an agent so that when a note inside a container is assigned the prototype $p_essay_rubric it will pull its parents attribute values from a couple different attributes to create a value for an attribute I will use during export.
The two attributes followed by "(parent)" have been selected from the autocomplete list and the parent has a value for them. But the agent is pulling the value for these two bits from the note itself and not the parent. ("0" for the empty student ID and nothing for the empty string.) The dashes, which belong to the action, and the $RubricAssignmentName, which belongs to the note itself, are filling correctly.
Can anyone see what I've done wrong? I'm stumped.
If you're acting on an alias child of an agent, 'parent' is the parent of the alias, i.e. the agent. Most likely you want to refer to the parent of the aliases' original note. For this use the designator parent(original) rather than just parent. See more.
...it's also exactly the same problem I last asked about on this forum and thought I understood. Alias/original will sink in soon.
So I guess my question would be: What do I write to pull the value of an attribute (e.g. $s_IDNumber) from the parent of the original note if what I have isn't it?
I had a typo in an attribute name!
So thanks Mark. Your original info fixed the problem. Much appreciated.
Good. Glad your now fixed.
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2019-04-26T06:23:31Z
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http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1443541894
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Installation of a barrier at the west entrance to Boulder Cave to guide visitors to the system trail. Stepping stones in Devil's Creek, trail boot cleaning stations, and educational kiosks would also be installed for the protection of bats.
Construct approximately 5 miles of non-motorized trail from 25 Mile Creek Helibase to Box Canyon on the south shore of Lake Chelan.
Renew special use permit for existing above ground and below ground distribution lines, including power poles, transformers, vaults, substations and numerous other electrical facilities located on NFS lands.
To reissue a new permit to two existing club sites. The duration of these permits will be 5 years.
Project is to issue a road use permit to T-Mobile to complete light maintenance road repairs to FSR6910 to the communications site on Round Mountain.
Permit for KOHO Radio communication site tower and for an ice bridge to protect wiring.
Issue an permit for a new term for an existing powerline from the Leavenworth Ski Hill to the Tumwater Mountain.
Restoration project to increase forest resiliency, restore aquatic resources, and maintain public access within the larger context of the Little Naches Watershed.
Issue a permit for another term for an exisitng electrical transmission line that crosses National Forest System lands and supplies several substations with electricity.
Recommend the Secretary of the Interior withdraw from location and entry under mining laws about 340,079 acres of NFS lands, subject to valid existing rights, for a period of 20 years in aid of legislation (S566).
Project is to amend the Mission Ridge Special Use Permit, building a new access road, constructing new alpine ski lifts and ski runs on Forest Service lands.
Designate roads/trails/areas open to motorized vehicle use outside of wilderness consistent with Travel Management Rule. Roads/trails/areas not designated as open would be closed to motorized use. Project does not address over-the-snow motorized use.
The intent is to implement a set of treatments that rely on the principles of landscape and stand-level restoration ecology while meeting current direction. Of the 105,288 acre watershed area, approximately 20,563 acres are on NFS lands.
The Comprehensive Plan will develop administrative and management goals, objectives and practices for public lands in Forest Service Regions 1 and Regions 6.
Temporarily place 6-10 ecology blocks above OHW to deflect overbank flows from Railroad Creek away from a potential avulsion low spot that flows directly into Driftwood Harbor.
Owners of Recreation Residences in several Recreation Residence tracts and YMCA Camp Dudley have submitted applications for various repairs and alterations to their privately owned structures to ensure safety, accessibility and regulatory compliance.
Improvements and maintenance projects at cabins in Gold Creek and Bear Cove Summer Home Tracts.
Short Term Recreation Event Special Use Permit reissuance for Yakima Ski Benders Little Naches Poker Run.
The project consists of the removal of an existing steel communications building and tower with guy wires and the installation of a new steel facility of the same size, a free standing tower, and concrete slab.
Reconnect Skinney Creek to its historic floodplain; increase habitat complexity with benefits to Upper Columbia River spring Chinook and steelhead. Create up to 0.5 mile of spawning habitat and improve migratory and rearing habitat for these species.
issuing a road use permit to Steven A Walters for the use of a section of road that crosses national forest system lands. This is the only road that accesses the property. This will be allow for the authorization of a permit up to 20 years.
Deploy equipment to monitor water level, barometric pressure, air temp in French and Leland Creek.
Landscape scale silvicultural treatments (thinning and burning)to improve resilience to disturbance, and stream and floodplain restoration at 66 sites. Project includes road improvements, closure, relocation, and decommissioning.
This project proposes the felling of danger trees within striking distance of the road, and the removal of felled trees as personal use firewood and post and poles with purchase of the appropriate permit.
The Naches R.D. is considering a proposal by the White Pass Company, the operator of the White Pass Ski Area, to expand its Nordic ski trail system and facilities.
Reroute a portion of the 10 Mile Creek Trail (#1256) that was damaged in the Wolverine Fire in 2015 near Holden Village. The .18 mile reroute will move the trail location away from 10 Mile Creek to a more sustainable location.
This proposal would allow the Cle Elum Ranger District to sell commercial mushroom permits to approve harvest within the Jolly Mountain Fire perimeter. This would also designate 2 camping sites for permitee use.
This project will allow for the falling of trees evaluated as hazardous to people, property, and structures. This will encompass all Cle Elum Ranger District developed recreation sites.
The project will open up FS RD 4930-118 Box Canyon Creek,for use as a secure stockpile site for the Box Canyon Creek bull trout habitat restoration project. The road will be brushed and a gate installed. This gate will be removed upon completion.
Designate Buck Mountain Trail as a system trail, open for all non-motorized recreational users and allow trail improvements that would substantially manage growing recteation in the area and offer resource protection through focused use.
This proposal would issue a rec permit for an orienteering race to be held on June 10, 2018.
The Cougar Gulch Aquatic Organism Passage project proposes to restore connectivity at 2 locations by replacing stream crossing culverts and thus provide improved fish access to approximately 5 stream miles of upstream habitat.
This proposal would issue a temporary outfitter and guiding permit for backcountry ski trips and avalanche education courses for 200 service days. Activities can be 1-5 days in length. Access to the area can be on ski's and via snowmobiles.
This proposal will issue a temporary outfitter and guide permit to Cow Creek Guide Service to launch rafts for guided fly fishing on the Cle Elum River.
This proposal issues an expired private road permit to a new land owner. The segment of road is 200 feet long and is existing on the ground. This permit term will be 20 years.
Forest-wide invasive plant treatment and early detection and rapid response.
This proposal will allow SummerGal Adventures to provide a full car-camping equipment rental and setup and take down service. She will bring the gear to an already reserved site within the developed recreation campsites and set up and tear down.
This proposal would issue a modification to an existing 5 year permit for Kongsberger Ski Club to add a previously non-commercial event to the commercial rec event list. Increasing numbers now requires them to obtain an event for this youth ski race.
Remove and replace the old (slowly sinking) cedar log floating dock (old 65 feet x 9 feet) with new HDPE enclosed floats that support a 17 foot x 67 foot dock designed to accommodate ferry docking on one side and public docking on the other side.
Upgrade specified existing culverts in the Upper and Lower Little Naches Watershed to meet 100-year flood flows, Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP), and critical habitat for Bull trout and Steelhead.
The project proposes to enhance aquatic habitat by placing wood within the 100 year floodplain of the North Fork Little Naches River and the Mainstem Little Naches River.
Project will replace a perched 48 inch culvert and install an open bottom, 3 sided concrete culvert under SR 207. The project will improve hydraulic connectivity and fish access to the floodplain that was cut-off by construction of SR207.
This permit would allow a mountain bike shuttle service to drop off and pick/up riders and their bikes on the Kachess Ridge/ Silver Creek trail .
Development of a non-motorized, mult-user trail system in Number Two Canyon and Twin Peaks area including trailheads.
This proposal will issue a temporary permit for a youth hand cart trek on FS system roads and trails in the Taneum and Manastash areas. Group size will be 150-200 on July 9-14, 2018.
Non-native mountain goat removal to address resource and safety issues on the Olympic Peninsula. Goats could be removed from the Olympic National Park and Forest. Goats could be translocated to Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanagon-Wenatchee NFs.
Supplemental EIS being prepared to issue special use permits for pack and saddle stock outfitter-guides in the Pasayten and Lake Chelan-Sawooth Wilderness and other areas on the Methow Valley, Tonasket and Chelan Ranger Districts.
Reissue up to 11 permits to companies that operate as whitewater rafting outfitter and guides during the "flip flop" on the Tieton River.
This is a request for vehicular access to private land adjacent to Crystal Springs Campground. The campground is no longer operating and portions of the campground are under a special use permit to WSDOT.
This project is to maintain, restore and enhance whitebark pine habitat and the Summer Blossom meadow area through treatments including: small tree thinning, pruning, prescribed burning, whitebark pine planting. Total treatment area is ~ 1,576 ac.
This permit is replacing an expired one year permit. This permit allows Three Peaks to offer pack and saddle stock trips on the Cle Elum Ranger District for 500 user days.
This proposal will issue a temporary outfitter and guide permit to Troutwater to launch rafts for recreational floats and guided fly fishing on the Cle Elum River.
Issue a new permit to the Bear Cove Boat Club.
Issue an existing club a special use permit for a new term.
To reissue three ditch, dam, and reservoir permits to existing permitees. The duration of these permits will be 30 years.
To reissue new permits for three existing road right-of-ways. The duration of these permits will be 20 years.
Repair the damaged portions of Forest Service Road 1901. The damaged sites are at mile post 6.9 and 7.2.
Expand existing snowmaking capability to cover areas accessed by Chair 3.
The Naches District will replace a highly used bridge on the historic Naches Pass Trail. The existing bridge is in serious disrepair. The bridge spans the North Fork of the Little Naches River and is located on Four Wheel Drive Trail 684.
This proposal would authorize a name change on an existing permit. The land was sold and the permit authorizes a waterline to cross National Forest Land.
The National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service are preparing a North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Restoration Plan and Environmental Impact Statement to determine how to restore the grizzly bear to the North Cascades ecosystem.
Proposal to non-commercially thin 533 acres and decommission or close several roads on the west side of Lake Cle Elum, to mitigate for permanent impacts to critical habitat for Northern spotted owls associated with Cle Elum Pool Raise Project.
The Land and Resource Management Plans of combined Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests are being revised as required by the National Forest Management Act. The focus is to update parts of the plans no longer current and requiring change.
Issuance of a new 20 year special use permit/communications site lease to the new facility owner.
Reissuance of permit to allow Silver Beach Resort to continue to operate and maintain a resort consisting of a motel, restaurant, rental cabins, commercial campground, boat launch, dock, float, and boat rental facilities.
To reissue nine new water line permits.
Issue a new special use permit to an existing club for a new term.
The Cle Elum Ranger District has plans to perform maintenance on all the trails on the district using force account crews and volunteers during the 2018 field season. There will also be a bridge replacement on 1 trail and 2 trails will be relocated.
Four blasting projects are proposed on 4 different trail segments, to remove hazardous rock, remove root wads from trail, and to improve rock steps.
This project proposes the replacement of deteriorating bridge abutments, rotting columns and failing approaches on 3 different bridges within the district.
Authorize a new special use permit to replace an existing expired special use permit for the Crow Cabin for a period of 15 years.
Wood structures would be installed along the streambank to provide habitat and bank stability in the Early Winters Campground. Most wood would be 40' long and stabilized using wood piles, partially burying the logs, and boulder bracing of logs.
Authorize miner's proposal to mine underground with hand tools in an existing adit. Access is via user-built ATV trail, which miner will close and restore when finished. Ore removed in 5-gallon buckets, for processing off-Forest.
Evaluation of a Plan of Operations to conduct copper exploration at up to 15 sites in the Flagg Mountain area.
The proposed Hoyt Trail Bridge would be located immediately upstream of where FS Road 135 currently fords South Fork Taneum Creek and would require a small section of trail to be rerouted so as to join bridge approaches with the existing trail.
Outfitting and guiding opportunies on the Naches R D will be reviewed for environmental effects. The analysis will include all types of O/G including pack stock use, fishing, rafting, snowmobiling, environmental education and mushroom gathering.
Skidding large woody material from adjacent uplands to Swauk Creek, and strategically placing the material instream and on floodplain surfaces to improve fish habitat.
To permit the Navy the use of three roadside sites within the existing Military Operations Area, to place mobile vehicles with emitters to conduct training in order to maintain, train, and equip combat-ready military forces.
To issue a new permit to Yakima County Fire District #14 for an existing parking area. This permit covers 2.9 acres for a staging area and use of access road to the property from SR 410. The duration of the permit will be 30 years.
Aquatic and terrestrial restoration including road management, hazardous fuels reduction, forest health, and timber stand improvement.
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2019-04-24T20:02:27Z
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/projects/okawen/landmanagement/projects
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← Om Nom Nom Nom.
Congratulations for your sketches… you’re good and talented. It is not an easy world our (I’m a writer) then “My World” is made of words of fantasies with a pinch of reality… but you (the artists of the figurative) give a face, a sequence, to the fantasies & reality of us writers. For this, I admire you very much!
Serenity into the 2015, is going to be a wonderful and beautiful year full of surprises!
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2019-04-21T20:23:45Z
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https://strawberryissues.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/a-strawberry-issue/
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All requests must be made a minimum of 3 weeks in advance of the event date.
To serve the greatest number of organizations, ECS reserves the right to change any room assignment if necessary to accommodate as many reservations as possible. This will be done based on information provided about the scheduled event and setup needs.
ECS may cancel any event or modify the extent of services provided in the event of utility interruptions, campus emergencies, threat of imminent danger, in the interest of public safety, or acts of nature.
Recognized Student Organizations and ASI may submit reservation requests up to 14 months in advance of the date of the event.
Campus Groups may submit reservation requests up to 13 months in advance of the date of the event.
External Clients may submit reservation requests up to 12 months in advance of the date of the event.
Certain Campus Groups have priority scheduling for summer months.
Recognized Student Organizations, ASI and Campus Groups: To request a reservation, visit the online 25Live portal. Reservation status options in 25Live include: Draft, Confirmed, and Denied.
“Draft” reservation denotes ECS has not reviewed your request, but will do so within two (2) business days.
“Denied” reservations may be for a variety of reasons, such as but not limited to: no space availability, incomplete information provided, or reservation guideline violation.
Monthly Recurrence: Requests should be submitted by month, including if your event takes place on the same day of each month in the same room at the same time, it is required that the events be separated by month (i.e.: January occurrences on one reservation, February on another, etc.). Requests that do not follow these guidelines will be denied and the Client will be asked to submit a new request.
Yearly Recurrence: Events with dates spanning two calendar years should be submitted by year, including if your event takes place on the same day of each year in the same room at the same time, it is required that the events be separated (i.e.: submit 2015 events on one reservation, 2016 events on another reservation, etc.). Requests that do not follow these guidelines will be denied and the Client will be asked to submit a new request.
External Clients: To request a reservation, complete an event request form or email ECS. Reservation status updates and further event planning information will be emailed to the Client within two (2) business days.
A deposit of 25% of total estimated charges is due within ten (10) business days of receipt of Event Estimate, along with signature on agreement.
An additional payment of 50% of total estimated charges is due thirty (30) business days prior to event.
Non-payment may result in the loss of the reservation.
The remaining unpaid balance is due one (1) business day prior to event. Variable and additional charges will be billed immediately following the event,and must be paid within thirty (30) days of invoice date.
External Clients will be required to sign a Use of Space Agreement and provide Proof of Liability Insurance to rent facilities.
Self Service is available only to Recognized Student Organizations, ASI or Campus Departments/Groups.
Self Service provides Clients with a venue reservation with existing room equipment.
All other services, including but not limited to parking, catering, etc. are coordinated in full (including payment) by the Client.
Should the Client need day of event staff to support their event, additional fees will apply.
Reservations in The McMahan House, University Student Union or Library Reading Room includes an ECS staff member for the duration of the event.
Depending on the size and scope of the event, Self Service may not be an available option for Registered Student Organizations, ASI or Campus Groups.
All External Clients will receive full service, including but not limited to parking, catering, audio/ visual support, security, etc. and will incur an event coordination fee.
Recognized Student Organizations, ASI or Campus Groups requesting Full Service will be charged a Full Service Event Coordination Fee.
Space rental and event related fees are based on the Client’s user category, venue selected, the length of time it is reserved, and additional services requested or needed.
Co-Sponsorship Fees: Depending on the nature of the relationship, a Campus Group co-sponsoring an External Client’s event may be eligible to receive the discounted Campus Group rate. A Co-Sponsorship Agreement Form must be submitted along with reservation request in order to receive the discounted pricing. A Recognized Student Organization or ASI co-sponsoring a Campus Group or External Client event may be eligible to receive the student discounted rate. A Co-Sponsorship Agreement Form must be submitted along with reservation request in order to receive the discounted pricing.
Final head count and final menu selection are due no later than ten (10) business days prior to your event.
*Personal checks over $500 will not be accepted. Returned checks will be subject to a $25 fee.
Recognized Student Organizations, ASI and Campus Groups: Client is to return a signed Event Estimate within ten (10) business days of receipt and provide a chargeback number or project number. Payment in full will be charged at the end of event.
External Clients: Client is to provide a deposit of 25% of the estimated charges within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Event Estimate. An additional payment of 50% of total estimated charges is due ten (10) business days prior to the event. Non-payment may result in the loss of the reservation. Remaining balance plus any additional charges assessed as result of the event will be billed immediately following the event. Payment is due within thirty (30) days of Final Invoice. Late fees will be assessed if full payment is not made after thirty (30) days. Groups that are ninety (90) days past due on any invoice will not be allowed to make future reservations until account is cleared and any existing reservation may be canceled.
Recognized Student Organizations and ASI: Student Life and Leadership require their own procedures be followed to complete a Risk Assessment Form for any student event determined to be of high-risk. Please refer to your SLL or ASI advisor for guidance on necessary information and timeline for completing the form.
Campus Group: At the discretion of ECS, events determined to be of high-risk must acquire Special Event Insurance. To obtain a quote for Special Event Insurance from CSUSM, please contact your ECS planner.
External Clients: Must sign a Use of Space Agreement and provide Proof of Liability Insurance to rent facilities. Endorsement of Additional Insured must name the State of California, Trustees of the California State University, California State University San Marcos, and each of their officers, officials, employees, authorized representatives, agents and volunteers, the “University” as additional insureds and carry a general liability limit of no less than one million dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence and two million dollars ($2,000,000) aggregate. Workers Compensation Insurance and Vehicle Liability Insurance may also be required if applicable. A copy of the Certificate of Insurance must be on file with ECS no later than ten (10) business days prior to event.
If you cannot provide insurance as required, Special Event Insurance must be purchased at an additional cost. For insurance question or to obtain a quote for Special Event Insurance, contact your ECS planner. Home owner’s insurance is not acceptable.
The scheduling of resources needed to support successful events often begins well before the actual event and is based on information provided to ECS by the Client. Last minute changes often require changes to staffing levels, scheduled work hours, work flow, work assignments, or building systems programming. These changes require additional coordination outside of normal procedures to make sure all information is passed on to appropriate staff. Therefore, it is important that any changes to an existing reservation be communicated to ECS staff within the timelines outlined below.
Changes can be made up until five (5) business days before event. Any change(s) made after this deadline will incur a Change Fee plus the cost of requested items. Changes to existing reservations that are requested less than five (5) business days prior to event may not be possible. Some changes may require additional staff or work hours that might not be available within the requested time frame.
The scheduling of resources needed to support successful events often begins well before the actual event and is based on information provided to ECS by the Client.
Cancellation of a reservation must be made by the primary contact or an authorized person designated at the time the reservation is originally requested. Cancellation notice must be given in writing to ECS.
Additional policies may apply, depending on venue.
CSUSM is not licensed to purchase, distribute, or sell alcohol. Alcohol is not permitted on the CSUSM campus without a completed Alcohol Approval Form and subsequent license from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control if applicable. An Alcohol Approval Form must be completed and submitted eight (8) weeks prior to the event; your ECS planner will assist in the process of routing this form for appropriate signatures. Please refer to the CSUSM Alcoholic Beverage use on Campus policy for further information.
All alcohol must be provided by a third party beverage vendor. CSUSM requires that only approved campus vendors be used for food, beverage and alcohol service. Please refer to the CSUSM Corporation Approved Caterers.
CSUSM provides basic, smart technology instructional media equipment such as LED monitors, LCD projectors, screens, and computers with audio capabilities. Additional audio-visual items are available at extra cost. Complex events requiring AV support will be charged the hourly rate for the support staff (2 hour minimum). Please contact ECS for availability and pricing. Clients and/ or performers who wish to use their own audio-visual equipment must notify ECS at least ten (10) business days in advance of event. An equipment test may be necessary to ensure compatibility and must be scheduled prior to the event. ECS assumes no responsibility for equipment brought into the facility. Audio-visual equipment belonging to CSUSM may only be used on CSUSM premises.
ECS provides basic custodial cleaning services in both the public and private access areas of our facilities. Cost recovery for excessive cleaning may be assessed if the facility and/ or its contents are left in a manner other than how it was provided to the Client. The Client is responsible for reasonable cleanup of the facility after use of food, beverages, and/ or other materials. Excessive cleaning includes but is not limited to: clearing of excessive trash, boxes, removing flyers, directional signs, cleaning up spills or leftover food. Cost recovery for excessive cleaning may be assessed in advance of the event if extra cleaning or maintenance is anticipated. ECS reserves the right to charge all expenses to the Client for all cleaning situations deemed as being excessive.
ECS reserves the right to ensure CSUSM facilities and/ or equipment are used and maintained properly. Accidental damages to CSUSM facilities and/ or equipment will be handled on an individual case basis. For intentional damages to CSUSM facilities and/ or equipment, individuals responsible for such damages will be responsible for all replacement costs including materials and labor associated with returning an item back to its original state.
All décor must be constructed of non-flammable materials. To ensure safety and guard against property damage, and/or personal injury, decorations may not obstruct entrances and exits and must allow for emergency egress at all times. Decorations cannot cover emergency signs, fire lanes or exits, or be posted in elevators or stairwells.
Posters and signs may not be placed on CSUSM facilities or campus grounds without prior permission from ECS. Painters tape is the only accepted fastening material. Scotch tape, nails, pushpins or potentially damaging fasteners (staple guns) may not be used to hang signs or other materials. Confetti, glitter, rice, and shredded tinsel are not permitted. Use of these materials will result in cost recovery for excessive cleaning.
ECS may require, and will arrange for, staff to support any event hosted on campus. This includes audio-visual, operations, event coordination, and/ or event support staff. Due to the nature and complexity of an event, or if required based on the facility, staff may be required as an additional labor cost to the Client. ECS staff are scheduled to the event one hour prior to the event access time until one hour after the scheduled end of the event OR the time the last person leaves in order to secure the facility. Please contact ECS for information.
At least one (1) ECS staff member is required for all events held at The McMahan House.
For events scheduled outside of regular facility hours, ECS staff are scheduled and charged to the event starting one hour prior to the event access time until one hour after the scheduled end of the event OR the time the last person leaves the facility. The Client is responsible for (in addition to any charges for facilities or services rendered) all costs of the extra hours of operations, including labor, utilities, and supplies.
CSUSM requires that only approved campus vendors be used for food, beverage and alcohol service. Please refer to the CSUSM Corporation Approved Caterers.
The expectation is that rooms will be left as clean as they were found upon the Client’s arrival. Cost recovery for excessive cleaning may be assessed to events at which food is served and proper cleanup is not completed. ECS may require the use of additional trash receptacles at a cost to the Client, depending on the size and complexity of your event to ensure facility preservation. If you are a recognized student organization or campus group and require ECS assistance securing and coordinating catering, an event coordination fee will apply.
Food is not allowed in classroom space unless prior, explicit authority is granted by ECS.
CSUSM parking is enforced 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.
Self-Service Clients: Clients are responsible for securing necessary parking permits or parking lot reservations from Parking and Commuter Services to accommodate their guests. For parking options and current permit prices, please refer to the Parking and Commuter Services website.
External Clients and Full Service Clients: Parking may be included in your Event estimate, ECS will secure necessary parking accommodations and directional signage for your event.
In order to avoid triggering the fire suppression systems, open flames and the burning of any material are strictly prohibited within all indoor areas. To ensure safety and guard against property damage, and/ or personal injury, decorations may not obstruct entrances and exits and must allow for emergency egress at all times. Decorations cannot cover emergency signs or exits, or be posted in elevators or stairwells.
Upon approval by the Director of ECS or designee, open flames may be permitted in exterior spaces, provided it is ten (10) feet or more from entrances and overhangs. Sterno candlelamps for the sole purpose of heating a chafing dish are allowed, but require direct and constant supervision. See CSUSM campus policy regarding Open Flame on Campus.
Fog/ smoke machines or related equipment which may activate fire alarms are prohibited in indoor spaces. ECS reserves the right to deny use of equipment and equipment providers.
ECS, in consultation with the CSUSM Police Department, reserves the right to require Community Service Officers and/ or private security for your event dependent on factors such as: nature of event, duration of event, expected attendance, and/ or presence of alcohol. Client is responsible for all direct staffing costs associated with the use of security. Client may make separate arrangements for security, pending UPD approval. Contact ECS for further details.
Per CSUSM Firearms, Weapons, or Destructive Devices Policy, toy weapons or replicas are strictly forbidden from campus.
CSUSM offers an array of rooms that provide some fixed and some flexible set-up configurations, based on code compliance and equipment inventory. Clients will not be charged for standard room configurations. ECS may be able to provide alternate furniture arrangements for rooms dependent upon time and labor availabilities. Custom set-up configurations in any room will be granted on an as available basis. Dependent upon configuration, pre-approval may be needed by State Fire Marshal. Set-up configurations must remain in the same order as when you arrive and also as pre-determined in the reservation. The moving and/ or changing of furniture inside CSUSM facilities is strictly prohibited.
In accordance with CSUSM Smoking Policy, smoking is prohibited anywhere on campus.
Each facilitity has varing operating hours. Your event planner will help assess if an event will be after hours.
All CSUSM facilities are closed on campus holidays and during campus closures. For a current list of observed holidays, please visit the CSUSM Holiday Calendar.
All outdoor activities must comply with City of San Marcos noise ordinance restrictions. Amplified sound may not be audible at a distance of fifty (50) feet from any place in which it is located during the hours of 10:00 PM and 7:00 AM Monday through Friday, and between the hours of 11:00 PM and 7:00 AM Saturday through Sunday.
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https://www.csusm.edu/events/policiesrates/policies.html
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It seems perfectly natural to expect that two motorists who depart from the same location and follow the same directions will end up at the same destination. But according to a Johns Hopkins University mathematical physicist, this is not true when the “directions” are provided by a turbulent fluid flow, such as you find in a churning river or stream. Verifying earlier theoretical predictions, Gregory Eyink’s computer experiments reveal that, in principle, two identical small beads dropped into the same turbulent flow at precisely the same starting location will end up in different – and entirely random – destinations.
To conduct his study, Eyink used a virtual “stream” that is part of an online public database of turbulent flow created with Whiting School colleagues Charles Meneveau and Randal Burns, as well as with physicist Alexander Szalay of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Into this “stream” Eyink tossed virtual “particles” at precisely the same point and let them drift within the fluid. The researcher then randomly “kicked” each of the particles as they moved along, with different “kicks” at different points along the way. The particles, as one would expect when subjected to different “kicks,” followed different paths.
This phenomenon is called “spontaneous stochasticity,” which basically means that objects placed in a turbulent flow – even objects that are identical and which are dropped into the same spot – will end up in different places.
“Thus, we know that ‘God plays dice’ not only with subatomic particles, but also with everyday particles like soot or dust carried by a turbulent fluid,” Eyink said.
Eyink’s study also revealed that the magnetic lines of force that are carried along in a moving magnetized fluid (like a stream of molten metal) move in a completely random way when the fluid flow is turbulent. This contradicts the fundamental principle of “magnetic flux-freezing” formulated by Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Hannes Alfvéen in 1942, which states that magnetic lines of force are carried along in a moving fluid like strands of thread cast into a flow.
“This principle of Alfveen’s is fundamental to our understanding of how fluid motions in the Earth’s core and in the sun generate those bodies’ magnetic fields, and my study may provide a solution to the longstanding puzzle of why flux freezing seems to fail in violent solar flares and in other turbulent plasma flows,” Eyink said.
This study was supported by the National Science Foundation.
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2019-04-25T22:16:22Z
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https://releases.jhu.edu/2011/06/01/jhu-expert-finds-randomness-in-turbulent-flows/
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I'm glad I met everyone I've met, cuz you've made me grow into who I am today.
It's not hard keeping track of people [internet!] so yeah.
and for you asianized ppl, find me on mixi.
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2019-04-26T00:38:13Z
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https://redakuma.livejournal.com/2006/06/09/
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This is Lucifer, it is a little bit High and have creative Phase.
I hope it go never again High.
This are all Images that i found on google, to specify my ideas.
i started with Column, poly-modeling.
I made some tweaks and changes, on him.
Interesting models, although I’m not sure on what story the image is trying to tell. Perhaps you could explain further so we can all understand what your idea is?
Hey nice modeling on the sculpture! thought it’s hitler?! and avile want sculpte him?! hmm?!
Anyway intresting work sofar! I’ll continue chek here for more progresses, so keep it up!
I sketched some things out and spend some time on the ears.
Your idea looks very good. Good modeling and rendering too.
looking good…I would suggest smoothing out the surfaces on the face such as the cheeks, forehead and neck, too. The detail you have sculpted into those areas looks really abrupt and could use some smoothing out. I would do that kind of sculpting on lower levels of subdivision so as to spread over more gradually. Either that or make your brushes have more falloff. Focus on giving the cheeks and chin areas their right amount of surface flesh and fat in a more subtle way and you’ll have a more convincing bust of a head.
little render test, GI + Ambient Occlusion and Cavity maps.
No Displacement only Bump vor the Column.
It is hard to give any comment to this. Hitler is a sensitive subject.
I think the idea is good and well executed if we disregard the subject.
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2019-04-19T14:16:18Z
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http://forums.cgsociety.org/t/strange-behavior-animation-entry-daniel-brok/1071604
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What does sustainable competitive advantage mean to you? Is it a competitive advantage that has a half-life longer than Uranium or do you use sustainable in the sense of a renewable resource?
I much prefer the later analog. Despite IP protection, despite trade secrets, there is nothing so fleeting as a competitive advantage. Sustaining the competitive advantage takes real work.
As a small case study, consider Nescafé reacting to competitive entrants such as Starbucks. Here is a blog on the subject by Thomas Otter entitled Simplicity, elegance and the Java bean. In his post, Thomas describes his adoption of the Nespresso Cube – a coffee maker with a cartridge system that is very easy to use. The product highlights a brilliant piece of innovation in the face of competitive pressure.
Nescafé`s problem: as the dominant coffee company is the world, they missed the boat on speciality coffee shops which changed the way people view coffee and created a stigma around Nescafé`s dehydrated products as inferior.
The Challenge: Regain competitive advantage by getting people to drink coffee in their homes again.
The Solution: Convert an office coffee product originally invented in 1975 into a household device (Product Systems and Core Processes). Partner with a leading design firm and create an elegant and simple device that provides espresso quality coffee with little fuss and much faster than a regular espresso machine (Product Performance and Customer Experience). Change the distribution model from grocery store sales of a commodity product to a web-based subscription service with home delivery (Channel). Use advertising and an excellent web site to build a brand (Brand). Build a community around the machines and coffee (Networking).
The Result: 25% annual growth since its launch in 1988.
The key here was not the product – that existed since 1975. It was the change in the channel. This was innovative brillance.
One of the coolest things I’ve seen on the Internet in the last few years is the Code Swarm software developed by Michael Ogawa at UC Davis. Code Swarm is an open source software project aimed at visualizing the contributions (commits) of a team of developers. It is fascinating to watch, especially for a large project such as Eclipse.
Now imagine being able to do the same thing for the contributions of the employees at your company. E-mails, file edits, phone calls all displayed as everyone is working together to create value. What would your company look like and how big would your star shine?
Where is your data? Changing attitudes about on-line storage.
One issue that people often mention with off-site virtualized or cloud computing systems is the loss of control of their “data”. The adults in the crowd grew up with paper, floppy disks, local storage on hard drives, removeable hard drives, CD Roms and more recently DVDs and USB sticks. The data was always at hand. We could point to it and know it was safe and we’d protect it.
The new world of virtualization and cloud computing is changing this. Companies are outsourcing their IT needs and on-line services such as SalesForce are gaining traction. In both cases, the data is no longer in the direct control of the company that owns it. This requires a level of trust that the supplier will not abuse the data or allow it to be compromised. It has been a tough sell with the adults.
Not with the kids. Kids these days are growing up with web services and social media. All the data starts being “out there” and they have grow used to it to the point that it is normal. On-line E-mail services are common, FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, Fickr, YouTube, are all about sharing data. Google docs, Zoho, Apple’s Mobile Me and other web 2.0 services like them provide on-line storage. Virtual desktops are gaining in popularity – and the young crowd is using them at an increasing rate. . Their digital stuff is out there – on the web, in someone else’s control – and that is just fine. They do not want a local copy because they use computers like terminals and they want to get at their stuff from where ever they are, on what ever device.
When the kids reach adulthood, I’m sure they will change the attitude in industry as well.
Local storage will become, well – so 2001.
You are currently browsing the MJM Consulting blog archives for September, 2008.
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But it is still relevant to the song, so it should have been put here originally. And I do agree with you Lazenby, I think you are on to something.
Baby are you in the mood for a little romance?
Oh, golly wouldn't that be fun?
More like 50 Shades of Yankovic, amirite ladies??
Time to take this to the drooling topic!
6/21/15: First Weird Al concert!
Abbeybunny wrote: Time to take this to the drooling topic!
I always thought it was "And then a dash of eggnog to your brain and watch it dance"!
*RUNS TO LISTEN TO IT NOW* !!!
EDIT: Is it crazy that upon looking up this song to listen to it and check out lyrics, I saw an ad for "50 Shades of Grey"??!
Yeah, I don't really care for this song. I don't know. Maybe it sounds a little too 70sish to me? You know, with the groovy and all. Anyway, a 2 out of 5 stars from me.
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2019-04-20T06:15:16Z
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https://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=685928
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... how this man is not hindered in pushing forward with his ideas into workable apparatus. Lots of talent and immensely practical too, it all works and appears dependable.
I try not to trawl the web endlessly, in fact there will be masses of fascinating material I will be oblivous as to its existance, but this is impossible to not want to share.
Interestingly I can hear sounds from Henry Cowells soundworld, a few weeks ago we had him as 'Composer of the Week' on bbc r3.
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2019-04-21T03:03:37Z
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https://richardkell.livejournal.com/31845.html
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Managing Editor: Mark Higgins; Art Director: Steve Kearsley; Production Manager: Sheri Lien; Business Manager: John Bliss; Staff: Jenny Blecha, Richard Botz, Dave Dahlberg; Debbie Doll, Michele Canfield, Dan Boyle, Vernon Drayton, Liz French, Susan Fried, Sarah Gregory, John Greely, June Myers, John Klicker, Mary Norvell, Kim Klein, Susan Parrish, Bob Patton, Jeff Pritchard, Rick Ross, Moritz Scheibler, Sara Schott, John L. Smith, Tom Stark, Kathy Zalewski, Kevin Stauffer, Mike Judd. Photo and illustration credits: Roy Shapley - cover, contents, 16,17,18,19, 25, 26, 27, Richard Botz - 4, 5; John Klicker - 6, 7, 8, 9; Steve Kearsley -10,11; Jeanette Bennett -13; Jon Hellyer -14,15; Denton Howell - 20, 21; Geoffrey Talkington - 22, 23.
McIntosh, Leita, "Klipsun Magazine, 1981, Volume 11, Issue 03 - March" (1981). Klipsun Magazine. 55.
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https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine/55/
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Elizabeth Mitchell. . Wallpaper and background images in the 迷失 club tagged: lost juliet elizabeth mitchell.
This 迷失 fan art might contain 肖像, 爆头, 特写镜头, 特写, and 爆头特写.
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This year we clearly had politics on our minds, but even with the 2008 U.S. election season already upon us, we welcomed diversions from the famous and the infamous. As presidential hopefuls gave us their pitches, we all managed to keep up with our favorite reality shows and investigate rumors about colorful celebrities.
Except where noted, all of these searches had the largest volume on Google.com in the U.S.
*Mark Twain wasn't the only one whose death was premature; often the rumor of demise fuels a large volume of searches.
Simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To see news about a current event, simply type some relevant keywords into the search box and Google will return any news results in addition to standard web search results.If you're not finding the results you want,add the word news to your search query.
Check the time in cities around the world. Just type "time" and a city into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To get a fast stock price quote, or check the prices of your mutual funds, stocks, and ETFs, just type the ticker symbol into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
To search for local businesses, enter the type of business you want (e.g. restaurant, repair shop) and the city and state, city and country, or U.S. Zip code into the Google search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
Restrict your search to a specific website by typing your search query followed by "site:www.sample.com” into the search box, then hit the Enter key or click the Google search button.
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2019-04-21T13:02:18Z
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https://archive.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/newsmakers.html
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Week 36 (May 23-29) Analysis: Week 36 is the final week of the season, but it is only three days long, so there is actually 35 1/2 weeks to a TV season. We have the first four nights available, but they count night one of summer on Thursday. Through the first four nights. Fox is in a clear first place across the board. ABC is second across the board, as CBS is in third with repeats starting a week earlier for them. NBC is still in fourth despite CBS's repeats. That's a wrap for the 2010-11 season...we will give you the final network ratings as soon as we get them, but Fox won the season in 18-49 and CBS in total viewers. NBC remained fourth place across the board. Last week, week 35, had CBS win the final full week of the season in HH/viewers beating out second place ABC, but Fox took the important 18-49 crown again. Fox was third in HH but second in viewers nipping by ABC, while NBC was fourth again. ABC was second in 18-49, leaving CBS in third, while NBC was back in fourth again.
Monday saw ABC win the final Monday of the season. ABC started with the performance finale of Dancing with the Stars for an hour doing 22.86 million and a 4.7 18-49 rating, up some from previous week when it was two-hours. From 9-11pm ABC aired the season premiere of The Bachelorette and did 9.02 million and a 2.8 18-49 rating, consistent from last year's debut. Look for solid numbers this summer as usual. CBS was next with its comedies, but in repeats for the final Monday of the year. How I Met Your Mother started it off with a repeat doing 4.41 million and a 1.5 18-49 rating. A second repeat was next preempting the canceled Mad Love, doing 4.03 million and a 1.5 18-49 rating, as this comedy doesn't repeat as well as other CBS comedies. Two and a Half Men repeat was next doing 8.03 million and a 2.2 18-49 rating, up some week-to-week. A repeat of Mike & Molly at 9:30pm did 7.27 million and a 1.9 18-49 rating, which is solid thanks to the lead-in's numbers. Hawaii Five-0 was preempted for a special called Clash of the Commercials - USA vs. the World and did 6.84 million and a 1.9 18-49 rating. Fox was all-new with the season finale of House doing 9.11 million and a 3.4 18-49 rating, down a tenth from previous week. The finale episode of Chicago Code followed at 9pm with 7.11 million and a 2.0 18-49 rating, again up some from previous week but it is canceled. NBC started with another airing of Minute to Win It doing 4.28 million and 1.5 18-49 rating. Is there any night where this show hasn't aired yet? The Event had its final episode and did 4.89 million and a 1.6 18-49 rating, which is up week-to-week but still did nothing much. Law & Order: Los Angeles was all-new and did 5.91 million and a 1.3 18-49 rating, up some from previous week. It will continue through June and then it is gone forever. The CW was in repeats like CBS, as 90210 did 610,000 viewers and a 0.3 18-49 rating, while a repeat of Gossip Girl followed and did worse with 480,000 viewers and a 0.2 18-49 rating. Why repeat these?
Tuesday had American Idol invade the night and win. First, CBS started with more repeats, this time of NCIS and it did 9.83 million and a 1.6 18-49 rating on the final Tuesday of the season. Did CBS think this couldn't compete with a new episode? I don't get it. NCIS: Los Angeles followed with what else, a repeat, and did 8.67 million and a 1.6 18-49 rating, similar to the lead-in. At 10pm, another repeat of NCIS aired and did 7.91 million and a 1.5 18-49 rating, as CBS took another backseat. For ABC, a repeat of Monday's Dancing with the Stars at 8pm did 10.36 million and a 2.1 18-49 rating, down some from previous week's all-new special...but for a repeat, this is good. At 9, the two-hour season finale of Dancing with the Stars: The Results did 21.42 million and a 4.6 18-49 rating, up a ton from previous week, as Hines Ward took the trophy. Well deserved! Fox had part one of the season finale of American Idol air on a special night and did 20.57 million and a 6.4 18-49 rating, on its former night of many seasons. However, for part one of a fine, this was lower than normal. Raising Hope was preempted for the season finale of Glee at a special time of 9pm and it did 11.8 million and a 4.6 18-49 rating, its best ratings in weeks but still lower than what it did in the fall. I thought it would be higher with an Idol lead-in. NBC started with the two-hour finale of The Biggest Loser doing 8.2 million and a 3.1 18-49 rating, which was up some from previous week as this season's ratings were lower. Then NBC had the young skewing The Voice at 10pm with just one hour again, doing 8.49 million and a 3.8 18-49 rating, still great but a series low. Let's see if it can continue into the summer, as it will have competition from the NBA Finals the next few weeks. The CW was all repeats, like its sibling CBS, with One Tree Hill doing just 520,000 viewers and a dismal 0.2 18-49 rating. Next at 9pm was Hellcats and that did just as bad with 580,000 viewers and a 0.2 18-49 rating. I think The CW could do decent in summer if they air reality series instead of serialized drama repeats.
American Dad! (Fox) - The season finale at 7:30pm did 3.57 million and a 1.7 18-49 rating, down some from previous week.
The Simpsons (Fox) 2 episodes - The season finale at 8pm did 5.25 million and a 2.5 18-49 rating, which is basically on par with previous week again. A repeat earlier at 7pm did only 2.52 million and a 1.0 18-49 rating, down week-to-week.
Bob's Burgers (Fox) - The season finale of how-did-this-get-renewed-comedy did 4.25 million and a 2.1 18-49 rating, down some from previous week.
Family Guy (Fox) - The one-hour season finale at 9pm did 5.84 million and a 3.1 18-49 rating, but off a bit week-to-week when it was a half-hour.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 2 episodes - Summer started a week early for CBS, as repeats aired all week for CBS. A repeat at 8pm did 4.41 million and a 1.5 18-49 rating, followed by a second repeat at 8:30 doing a similar 4.03 million and a 1.5 18-49 rating. It makes no sense why they aired repeats on the final Monday of the TV season.
Two and a Half Men (CBS) - Another repeat of this show did 8.03 million and a 2.2 18-49 rating which was up from previous week.
Mike & Molly (CBS) - A repeat of this sitcom did 7.27 million and a 1.9 18-49 rating.
Traffic Light (Fox) - The finale is this Tuesday.
The Middle (ABC) - The season finale of this sitcom did 7.33 million and a 2.2 18-49 rating, off some from previous week, opposite the Idol finale.
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) 2 episodes - Two special repeats in the 8pm hour aired. The first repeat did 5.46 million and only a 1.3 18-49 rating, but the second one improved to 5.86 million and a 1.6 18-49 rating, but still losing to the ABC sitcom repeat at 8:30.
Modern Family (ABC) 2 episodes - The season finale at 9pm did 10.31 million and a 4.2 18-49 rating, which is up a tick from previous week, which is remarkable up against the Idol finale! A repeat at 8:30pm did a decent 5.89 million and a 1.9 18-49 rating.
Cougar Town (ABC) - The one-hour season finale from 9:30-10:30pm did 5.01 million and a 2.0 18-49 rating, still on par with previous week as it faced Idol's last half-hour of the finale. All things considered, that is not bad.
Happy Endings (ABC) - The season finale at 10:30pm did 4.02 million and a 1.7 18-49 rating, up a good number from previous week at 10:30. Look for every episode to repeat at 9:30pm this summer following Modern Family starting June 22! If you haven't watched yet, now is your chance!
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - Summer has OFFICIALLY started, as a repeat of this comedy did a good 8.28 million and a 2.2 18-49 rating. Great for a repeat!
Rules of Engagement (CBS) - A repeat did 6.82 million and a 1.8 18-49 rating, which is also good for a repeat these days.
Community (NBC) - A repeat at 8pm did 2.67 million and a 0.8 18-49 rating. Low as usual for a repeat.
30 Rock (NBC) 2 episodes - A repeat at 8:30pm only did 2.38 million and a 0.8 18-49 rating. A second repeat aired at 10pm and did only 2.21 million and a 1.0 18-49 rating. It's going to be a long summer for NBC comedy repeats.
The Office (NBC) 2 episodes - A repeat at 9pm did 2.76 million and a 1.1 18-49 rating, the best of this low block. A second repeat at 10:30pm did only 2.0 million and a 0.9 18-49 rating.
Parks & Recreation (NBC) - A repeat at 9:30pm only did 2.24 million and a 1.0 18-49 rating.
Summing it up. Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory Thurs, The Middle, Rules of Engagement, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly were impressive for the week. Everything else was OK (such as Cougar Town, Happy Endings) or just plain old terrible (such as NBC Thursday repeats).
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Hi, Tidy! What am I?
The option "clean: no" is also necessary for this to happen.
Perhaps the combination of "doctype: strict" and "clean: no"
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Leticia Vallejo, a housekeeper at a Marriott hotel in Irvine, said that back in the summer of 2017, a drunk male guest groped her while she was cleaning the hotel lobby bathroom. As he did so, she said, he offered her $50.
In an interview, Vallejo, 51, said that when she told one of her supervisors, the response was laughter — and a joke to the effect of “he should have offered you $100.” This wasn’t the first, or the last, incident in a hotel bathroom, said Vallejo, who has worked at the Marriott location for 18 years. Men often urinate in front of her and make inappropriate comments or advances — a regular occurrence for female housekeepers, she said.
The picture she painted echoed her lawsuit, filed Monday in California Superior Court. In it, Vallejo alleged that her supervisors at the Irvine Marriott didn’t do enough to protect her from guest misconduct, creating a hostile work environment. She repeatedly asked for a sign to keep people out of bathrooms while she cleaned, according to the complaint. Previously, the hotel had signs that also served to block guests from entering, she said, but management deemed them “old-fashioned” and discontinued their use.
Lawyers for Vallejo said she filed a notice with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and was issued a right-to-sue letter before filing the lawsuit. In her complaint, Vallejo is seeking unspecified damages and injunctive relief.
“Marriott International has a longstanding commitment to the well-being of associates,” said Jeff Flaherty, a company spokesman. “Marriott has a global policy that strictly prohibits harassment of any associate by any other associate, manager, supervisor, vendor, guest, client or customer.” He declined to comment on Vallejo’s lawsuit.
Her case comes after a year of agitation by Marriott employees who have been pushing for increased safety measures to protect against harassment by customers. At a shareholders meeting last May, eight other female Marriott employees who worked in hotels across the country shared similar experiences or urged executives to take action.
This winter, an almost two-month-long strike did result in wage increases and stronger sexual harassment protections for thousands of unionized Marriott workers. The Irvine Marriott, however, wasn’t unionized at the time.
Over the last year, the #MeToo movement — which initially focused on the entertainment industry, CEOs and white-collar workers — started to illuminate the experiences of low-wage service workers. Last year, Walmart and McDonald’s were hit with claims of workplace sexual harassment. And in September, hundreds of McDonald’s workers protested conditions at the fast-food chain, demanding the company do more to protect employees. Both companies have said they don’t tolerate workplace harassment.
Vallejo is the sole plaintiff in her lawsuit, which names two Marriott subsidiaries and eight unidentified parties as defendants.
Hotel workers are particularly vulnerable to workplace harassment. A Center for American Progress analysis of claims filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that more than a quarter of complaints came from industries with large numbers of service-sector workers.
Hotel unions have made protecting workers from sexual assault a key demand since 2012, when a housekeeper at a New York hotel accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was then the head of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn denied the allegations and reached a settlement with the housekeeper, but the high-profile case resonated throughout the industry. Since then, hotels and municipalities have taken some steps to protect employees, including the passage of laws in Chicago and Seattle requiring hotels to provide a panic button to those who work alone in guest rooms or restrooms.
In September, Marriott, alongside other major hotel chains, said it was introducing panic buttons across all its locations by 2020. The devices would send a notification and include technology allowing others to pinpoint the worker who activated it, Marriott said.
Vallejo and Rodriguez said they are unaware of any new panic buttons having been distributed to housekeepers at the Irvine Marriott since the company announcement. Flaherty, the company spokesman, said he didn’t “have specifics” related to their rollout there.
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https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-marriott-irvine-metoo-20190128-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0LRnVyZ9Kbg0de2UqJGjD4kr-jpVAS0HpjY6bWudEeKazJWF9xCXbgeb4
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This article appeared in the The Hill (Online) on May 25, 2017.
Last May, Donald Trump vowed to “cancel the Paris climate agreement.” It was a scripted remark in a prepared text, an unusual speech for the then-presidential candidate.
Since then, he has reportedly been under pressure from his daughter Ivanka — who has set up an intensive review process on climate change policy — along with her husband Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to remain in the deal. But Ivanka’s left-leaning tendencies have likely colored her choice of scientists allowed into the discussions.
All of this ignores a heretofore unrecognized fact: The Paris Agreement is based upon a fundamental misconception of climate history and science. The objective is to hold temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to “pursue efforts” to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Paris Agreement is based upon a fundamental misconception of climate history and science.
Hardly. Since the beginning of reliable global temperature records in the late 19th century, there have been two periods of significant warming that are statistically indistinguishable in magnitude. The first period ran from 1910 through about 1945, with a temperature increase of around 0.5 degrees Celsius. There could only be minimal human influence on this period, simply because humans had not emitted very much carbon dioxide.
After a slight cooling, the second one began sometime around 1976 and ended with the big 1998 El Nino. This period was likely in part due to a greenhouse effect.
The reason this period was affected by greenhouse warming is because the lower stratosphere cooled at the same time, which is a prediction of greenhouse theory. If, as some people maintain, “it’s all the sun,” then the whole atmosphere would warm.
Interestingly, when the lower atmospheric warming paused after 1998, the stratosphere also stopped cooling. What’s happening now is quite unclear as surface temperatures are constantly being readjusted.
So, after allowing for a small bit of other influence on the second warming, we’re left with the notion that the maximum warming caused by humans is somewhere between 0.4 and 0.5 degrees Celsius — half of the total since the Industrial Revolution.
This has huge implications. If, as the Paris Agreement erroneously assumes, all of the warming of 0.9 degrees is a result of human activity, there is no way that the aspirational goal of 1.5 degrees can ever be met. Thanks to the huge thermal inertia of the ocean, current models show there’s between 0.4 degrees and 0.6 degrees of warming on the way, even if emissions were capped at 2000 levels.
That’s a total of 1.5 degrees already guaranteed. Meeting the 2 degrees objective allows only an additional half of a degree in wiggle room. The Paris Agreement only mitigates about 0.2 degrees of warming. Again, believing in those models, that would be an additional warming of over 2 degrees Celsius this century.
So according to the United Nation’s own climate models, it is scientifically impossible. President Trump, that’s grounds enough to withdraw.
On top of that, the models that form the basis of the Paris Agreement are predicting way too much warming in the lower atmosphere, and erroneously predicting a dramatic warming of the upper atmosphere over the tropics. Most precipitation on earth is a result of the temperature difference between the lower layers and what’s aloft.
Get that wrong, which the climate models do systematically, and the models are of very little utility.
There are other, more reality-based approaches to estimating future warming, and these point to a 21st century increase of closer to 1.4 degrees Celsius. Adding that to the maximum human contribution to-date of 0.5 degrees yields 1.9 degrees, meeting the Paris objective without the Paris Agreement.
President Trump, that’s also grounds enough to withdraw.
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ALL » Edit » Featured » A Q and A with a Reiki Practitioner: What Does it Offer?
A Q and A with a Reiki Practitioner: What Does it Offer?
The modern life is filled with stress and anxiety. People often seek psychiatric therapy, but when therapists and drugs aren’t quite effective, it might be worth the chance to try Reiki.
For practitioners like Ivan Raffucci, Reiki combines therapy and passion.
Ivan was born in Puerto Rico and currently attends Loyola University Chicago.
He studies environmental science and works at the Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) on Loyola’s Lake Shore campus.
He first began his Reiki practices as part of his journey to “find true spiritual knowledge” at the age of 18. Ivan is 21 now and has already become a third degree practitioner, one degree below the master.
Since he started, Ivan has performed Reiki for 15 individuals and continues to take classes under the training of his master, Chris Allaun.
While Ivan is considered a Reiki practitioner, he does not enjoy the idea of compensation for his services. He believes that people should experience Reiki without the limitation of money.
He describes his discovery of Reiki as only a part of his overall spiritual journey because there are “many other experiences outside of Reiki” that have contributed to his spiritual growth.
Q: How would you describe Reiki?
A: It is an energy healing practice focused on providing an alternative medicine that can impact all aspects of your life. It requires a balance of energy in each individual area of the body.
What are the components of Reiki?
Reiki is all about balancing energy in the body. Reiki deals with sending energy into seven different chakras of the body. This gives the practitioner an energy reading or ‘diagnosis’ after which they recommend different things to overcome issues.
I meet with my master periodically.
So has your learning experience been mostly independent?
When you are first learning Reiki it is centered on self-healing. The sessions are supplementary to individual practice.
Is there any one experience you found especially significant when performing Reiki?
The most profound experiences are when you are able to see deep underlying issues that perhaps the subject did not even realize. There are many deep components when you do Reiki and it opens up your ability to empathize with people.
What do you enjoy the most about Reiki?
I really like that it gives an opportunity to not only heal on an energy level, but to also help people at a therapeutic and humanized level. We come up with positive solutions and the experience extends past the session and carries out into their lives.
What goes through your mind when you practice Reiki?
It’s almost like a movie is playing through your head. You can see the person’s experiences play out in your mind. You’re not thinking about them, you’re experiencing them.
There can be self-conscious doubt about my ability but those doubts dissolve when the person validates what is happening. You can feel someone’s aura, it’s not only mental.
So what do you do to prepare for a session?
I meditate beforehand. The goal is to provide someone with the best experience possible. Also, setting the right environment is important. Depending on the person’s preferences, they have the option to have incense or music. They want to be relaxed. I also ask them if there is anything specific I should focus on.
How has Reiki affected your spiritual growth?
The powerful thing about Reiki is that it provides guidelines to approach one’s life with and incorporate into one’s experiences. Through developing certain skills, you get to deeper levels of enrichment which is especially fulfilling. The number one thing reiki has taught me is that everyone has an innate ability to achieve psychic capacities.
Are there any misconceptions about Reiki you would like to clarify?
It’s not a miracle practice. It deals more within the realm of a deeper psychological practice. There is also religious stigma attached to it and some people think Reiki is evil. But that’s just how religious groups see it. It doesn’t give their opinion any justification.
For those who are skeptical what would you say?
You can’t remove skepticism from people who are deeply skeptical. I don’t believe Reiki is the end all be all. I believe Reiki is available for everyone who is open to it. A lot of people think we sound crazy, but there is validation through experience.
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Imwinkelried, Edward J. (1993) "The Daubert Decision on the Admissability of Scientific Evidence: The Supreme Court Chooses the Right Piece for All the Evidentiary Puzzles," Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 , Article 2.
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Polar Bears of 2014 !
Can you rock a tune and a black dress ?
watch for information about Miscellania Auditions during your first week on campus in the fall.
please contact Kathryn (ksavasuk@bowdoin.edu) or Eileen (ebpalmer@bowdoin.edu) with questions.
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The Carnegie Mellon Music Preparatory School introduces the Academy Program for Young Artists.
The Academy Program for Young Artists is an enrichment performance-based program providing intensive musical training of the highest quality to outstanding young artists. Students aged 12-18 will have the opportunity to perform in a variety of settings through weekly coachings with Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, rehearsals with faculty collaborative artists, a weekly enrichment & appreciation class and monthly master classes with world-class artists including Andres Cardenes (violin), Anne Martindale Williams (cello), David Harding (viola) and William van der Sloot (violin), Luz Manriquez (piano), Rodrigo Ojeda (piano), Sha Wang (piano) and Yeeha Chiu (piano).
Be a part of the 2019 inaugural class of two piano trios! Auditions will be held for violin, cello & piano on May 13 at Carnegie Mellon University. Audition deadline is April 30, 2019.
Two pieces of contrasting style, one of which must be a fast movement of a classical sonata. Memory is required.
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite, L 65, for piano four hands: En bateau (Piano II), NOT memorized.
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P.V. Narasimha Rao, a Gandhi family loyalist, was sworn in Friday as India's ninth prime minister. He named a top economist to his Cabinet to confront India's looming debt crisis.
Manmohan Singh, who has headed India's federal bank and was negotiating a loan from the World Bank to tide over a $63-billion foreign debt, was among 54 Cabinet ministers sworn in along with Rao.
Rao, a former foreign minister who replaced slain former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as head of the Congress-I Party, is the first prime minister from southern India.
But the 69-year-old linguist spoke Hindi, the language of the politically dominant north, as President Ramaswami Venkataraman administered the oath of office in the ornate Ashoka Hall of the presidential palace. Most of the other ministers took their oaths in English.
Singh, a senior bureaucrat, was the only unexpected Cabinet appointment. Rao named about one-quarter of the Congress-I Party members in Parliament to his Cabinet, which reflects the religious and ethnic diversity of this vast nation.
The ministers include five Muslims, at least two Christians and a Sikh--the economist Singh. Of India's 844 million people, 82% are Hindus, 11% are Muslims, 2.5% are Christians and 2% Sikhs.
Six women also were named. One is Sheila Kaul, the 76-year-old aunt of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1984.
Sharad Pawar, who had challenged Rao for the prime minister's post, is to be sworn in later.
Pawar, a Bombay-based politician, withdrew from the race to clear the way for Rao to be unanimously selected. He will resign as the chief minister of Maharashtra, the western state's top elected official, before joining the Cabinet, Press Trust of India reported.
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The NTNU University Museum (Norwegian: Vitenskapsmuseet) in Trondheim is one of seven Norwegian university museums with natural and cultural history collections and exhibits. The museum has research and administrative responsibility over archaeology and biology in Central Norway. Additionally, the museum operates comprehensive community outreach programs and has exhibits in wooden buildings in Kalvskinnet.
The Ringve Botantical Garden in Lade as well as Kongsvoll Alpine Garden in Dovre are also under the jurisdiction of the NTNU University Museum.
The museum has its roots in the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Norwegian: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS, formerly "The Trondheim Society", Norwegian: Det Trondheimske Selskab) since 1760. Since 1968, the museum was closely affiliated with the University in Trondheim, then with NTNU since 1996.
In addition to managing archives and producing exhibits, the museum participates in larger research projects and cooperates with other university museums in digitizing collected works and building databases.
Norway's Museum Union (Norwegian: Norges museumsforbund) named the NTNU University Museum "Norway's Museum of the Year" in 2010.
Reidar Andersen has been the museum director since August 1, 2013.
The museum's history can be traced to 1760, when two Norwegians, bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus and historian and rector Gerhard Schøning, and the Danish historian Peter Frederik Suhm established Det Trondhiemske Selskab. In 1767, the society received royal confirmation of its statutes, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) was officially formed. DKNVS then began the process of collecting archaeological and natural history materials, which eventually became the organization's main task.
In 1926, the DKNVS was reorganized and split into an academy and museum, and the DKNVS Museum has since then operated independently. With the establishment of the University in Trondheim in 1968, the museum merged with the university.
A new reorganization effective January 1, 1996 lead to the establishment of the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU). From this point, the museum was officially referred to as the NTNU University Museum.
In 2005, the museum was elevated to the same title as the faculties within NTNU and became a semi-independent entity within the university, placed directly under the jurisdiction of the university leadership like any other faculty.
The museum is tasked with developing and conveying knowledge about nature and culture. It is also responsible for protecting and preserving scientific collections, as well as making them available for research, development, and propagation.
Cultural heritage items and cultural heritage environments in distinctive and varied nature shall be protected both as a part of our cultural heritage and identity as a layer in a larger environmental and resource management effort. It is a national responsibility to protect these resources as scientific resources and as a sustainable basis for the experiences, self-understanding, enjoyment, and being of current and future generations.
The Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties, the municipalities Molde, Kristiansund, Vestnes, Rauma, Nesset, Midsund, Sandøy, Aukra, Fræna, Eide, Averøy, Frei, Gjemnes, Tingvoll, Sunndal, Surnadal, Rindal, Aure, Halsa, Tustna, and Smøla in the Møre og Romsdal counties, along with the municipalities Bindal, Sømna, Brønnøy, Vega, Vevelstad, Herøy, Alstahaug, Leirfjord, Vefsn, Grane, Hattfjelldal, Dønna, Nesna, Hemnes, and Rana in the Nordland municipality.
The merger between NTNU, Gjørvik University College, Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST), and Ålesund University College took effect in January 1, 2016. The activities of each faculty in NTNU continued as usually with small changes in 2016, while preparations were made in different areas in regards to study plans, professional and administrative organizing, and quality control in all areas in anticipation of January 1, 2017, the official completion of the merger.
The National Laboratory for Dating has not changed its name.
The Institute of Natural History deals with research within biogeography, biosystems, and ecology, with an emphasis on preservation biology. Within NTNU, the institute has had the special responsibility of building and maintain scientific collections of objects and long-term data series. The institute also operates a taxidermy laboratory, two botanical gardens, and provides training and student advising within its professional scope.
The Institute of Archaeology and Cultural History deals with research in pre-historic, historic, and Sami archaeology and operates the laboratory for preservation technology. The institute has had the special responsibility for implementing archaeological surveys and excavations in Trøndelag, Nordmøre, Romsdal, and Helgeland. The institute has a conservation laboratory, and is responsible for the cultural history collections. The institute also provides training for profession-oriented archaeology.
The Section for Public Exhibitions is responsible for the museum's exhibition business. This includes the production and operations of the exhibitions, sometimes on contract from external partners, as well as activities and events, educational programs, hosting programs, and the museum gift shop. This section also cooperates with the NTNU Communications Department to coordinate the lecture series "NTNU Night".
The National Laboratory for Dating uses natural scientific measuring methods to date archaeological, natural historic, and geological materials. The laboratory for carbon-14 dating is the only laboratory in Norway that performs dating measurements of archaeological and natural scientific samples of organic materials. The laboratory also dates lumber by means of rings via dendrochronology.
The museum's main areas of research are taxonomy, biological systematics, and evolutionary history; ecological processes and species development; human-nature interactions; cultural materials and forms of culture on a long-term scale; archaeology and advanced technologies alongside dating methods and the development of chronologies.
The museum is involved in a number of research projects including DNA barcoding and the Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR Lab). DNA barcoding uses similarities in the genetic material of organisms to identify species. The AUR Lab is a part of NTNU's efforts within ocean research within the Ocean Space Science and Technology department. In December 2011, the museum took over the coordination of the Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL) project, which is Norway's contribution to The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL).
The museum has several laboratories in addition to the National Laboratory for Dating.
The Conversation Laboratory is responsible for managing the museum's collections. This includes both biological and cultural-historical objects stored in special magazines and/or exhibitions, along with the preservation of findings that cannot be moved to other locations (like rock art). The laboratory arranges magazines for the collections, carries responsibility for the climate control of the exhibitions, and protects and conserves art.
The Taxidermy Workshop prepares animals for exhibitions or research projects. The museum receives animals that have died as a result of hunting, traffic collisions, or natural causes. The workshop will accept animals from private individuals, the Norwegian Environmental Agency, through research projects, and from the environmental protection departments of the region's various county governors. The workshop is also responsible for restoring older stuffed animals, and takes samples for DNA or environmental analyses.
The Molecular Laboratory extracts DNA from all types of organisms. It has equipment for duplicating DNA fragments, measuring DNA concentrations, electrophoresis studies, and the preparation of samples for DNA sequencing. This work is central for the research projects involving NorBOL, whereby a registry of species using short, standardized pieces of genetic material (DNA Barcoding) is made available.
The museum has scientific collections within cultural history, zoology, botany, and geology. Since it is not possible to display all of its objects within their buildings, the museum works with other Norwegian university museums to digitize collections/pictures of each item. In 2007, the museum established the University Museums' IT Organization (Norwegian: Universitetsmuseenes IT-organisasjon), which makes these digitized collections available through the university museums' collective access points.
These collections date back to the 1760s, when DKVNS began collecting natural history and cultural history materials.
This collection contains objects from the past 11,000 years, i.e. from roughly 8000 BCE until the present date. The types of objects vary from small fragments of flint to gold jewelry. The collection also contains everyday tools and stones and metal weapons and jewelry crafted from metal, animal horns, and wood. The prehistoric exhibition has placed some of these objects on display.
This collection contains church art and equipment from the 12th century until the 19th century, particularly church equipment that was replaced in the latter half of the 19th century. Most of these objects had a liturgical function and were received by the museum as gifts or through sales. The collection is not open to the public, but is used for studies.
The museum's coin collection was established around 1840 and contains approximately 50,000 coins, medallions, bank notes, and chips. The most important part of the collection contains coins from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, discovered at archaeological excavations, along with some incidental finds in Romsdal, Nord-Møre, Trøndelag, and the southern parts of Nordland. The collection also contains donations, like the Arne E. Holm's collection of Greek, Roman, and Byzantium coins and Anton Røstad's collection of European coins and bank notes from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The collection even contains German bank notes from the 1920s, including the 50 billion mark.
This collection contains more than 200,000 items that were found in the massive excavation in the city's center. A few of these findings date back to before the city's foundation at Nidarneset, but most of them are from the 11th century or more recent. The Middle Ages exhibition displays findings from the city archaeological collection.
This collection contains around 906,000 objects, from insects to stuffed animals. Some of these items are over 200 years old, but the most represented are from the 20th century. A particularly well-preserved collection is the "Type Collection", which consists of specimens that were used to define and describe new species. Around 90% of the collection is registered in the museum's own database, ZOOTRON.
The main part of the botanical collection contains dried plants in herbaria. The collection also contains objects, tissue samples, and DNA extracts stored in frozen states and other dry-storage object collections. Most of the herbaria materials are registered in national databases. Occurrence data can also be found in the mapping service Artskart and GBIF-Norge, the Norwegian counterpart in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
In addition to the dry samples, the museum's collections also contains living plants in the botanical gardens in Ringve and Kongsvoll.
The museum's collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils are among the earliest collected objects in Norway's museums. The collection contains around 8000 objects, where roughly 30 minerals are from the museum's first catalog in 1779. None of the items in the geological collection are placed on display today.
The museum has both fixed, permanent exhibitions, as well as temporary exhibitions. These are partially arranged by the museum itself, while others are organized by guest exhibitions produced by other institutions or organizations, or in collaboration with the museum and other entities.
In the building Gunnerushuset, archaeological exhibits from the stone, bronze, and iron ages, along with the Viking Age in Central Norway are placed on display. The building also houses other exhibits, like the "1760 - Science at the Edge of the World" exhibition. This exhibition addresses the history of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and a few items from the museum's very first collections. The Institute for Archaeology and Cultural History, along with the Section for Public Exhibitions have administrative offices in this building.
In the building Suhmhuset, the museum runs the "Middle Ages in Trondheim" exhibition, which was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award in 1997. This building also houses the "Who Owns History" exhibit containing southern Sami archaeological items.
Schøninghuset contains the museum's administration, the offices for the Institute of Natural History, and several magazines.
As of April 2017, the museum has been in the process of a reorganization due to the large exhibit, "BODY WORLDS Vital", which was displayed in Gunnerhuset between June 8 and October 8, 2017. Several of the museum's exhibits were removed to make room for BODY WORLDS Vital. Several were replaced again, either entirely or partially after October 2017.
This exhibit is permanent. It primarily focuses on recreating life in Trondheim during the Catholic Middle Ages, circa 1010-1537, through a simulated image created from objects and building ruins found underneath Trondheim streets. Norway's oldest wooden constructions were found in Trondheim, and these buildings have been reconstructed based on the results of archaeological findings.
This exhibit opened on February 5, 2017 and remained on displayed throughout the year. It was produced in conjunction with Tråante 2017 in collaboration with Saemien Sijte, The Røros Museum (Norwegian: Rørosmuseet), and the Lesja branch of Gudbrandsdalsmusea. The exhibit includes finds that show Sami presence in Southern Norway far earlier than earlier thought.
The exhibit depicts the 18th century as a transition period between the Middle Age church-dominated worldview and the start of the modern era - the Enlightenment Era and the Scientific Revolution. It offers an image of Trondheim in the 18th centyrt, the early learning environment and the conditions for the establishment of DKNVS. The exhibition deals with astronomy and science, technological advancements, and societal upheaval, the DKNVS's operations and exhibition business. Books and publications play an important role in the exhibit, alongside the original printings and illustrations.
The exhibit regarding Central Norway's prehistory covers a span of 10,000 years, from the early Stone Age until the 11th century BCE. It contains tools of flint, quartz, and slate from the Stone Age. From the Bronze Age, the exhibit contains jewelry, weapons, and tools from bronze from abroad. Findings from the early Iron Age reflect tapestry-weaving, goldsmithing, blacksmithing, and imports from the Roman Empire.
The exhibition is the only preserved "classical" archaeological exhibit in Norway. Human tools, jewelry, and weapons are exhibited in the manner in which they were found, without an attempt to reconstruct living environments or objects.
These exhibits were deconstructed or closed during BODY WORLDS, but were partially replaced in October 2017.
This exhibit covers light, plans, and animals in the Arctic Ocean.
This exhibit shows how illegal businesses threaten the existence of certain species.
This exhibition displays the typical Norwegian nature biomes from coasts to mountains, including Mixed coniferous forest and temperate broadleaf forests, swamps, lakes, rivers and streams, beaches, islets, and reefs. The lifelike constructions of these environments feature a large portion of Norway's plants and birds. This exhibit includes low-hanging plants, moss, and other vascular plant.
The museum produces both its own internet exhibitions in connection with their physical exhibits, as well as standalone exhibits. These can show parts of the collections: the museum's history, along with collections and items placed in context with each other.
The museum has been involved in projects for spreading knowledge and scientific interest in new ways and through other media. The museum has cooperated with "TV-Adessa" in a network television series entitled "Dead animals in the archive". Several million objects can be found in the museum's magazines and only a small portion of these are ever exhibited to the public at any given time. Through "Dead animals in the archive", viewers were able to experience some of the diverse animal species in the museum's magazines.
In cooperation with students at the Institute for Information Technology at NTNU, the museum developed the "Science Game", a virtual reconstruction of Trondheim in the Middle Ages. Through animation and video game technology, they created short films that depicted how the Middle Ages in Trondheim may have looked.
The Science Game is an app for smart phones that is designed for use while at the museum's exhibit. The app represents a new way of becoming familiar with and using the exhibits.
The botanical garden encircles the Ringve Music Museum at Lade, east of Trondheim, roughly three kilometers from the city's center. The botanical garden's most important task is to take care of and develop the plant collections that are used for research and teaching, to spread knowledge about botanical diversity, and to contribute to the conservation of endangered species.
The garden comprises roughly 130 acres and is divided into several discrete areas: the Arboretum containing bushes and trees from the Northern Hemisphere; the "Old Garden" with traditional garden plants from Central Norway; the "Park", which is the old courtyard that used to serve as a farmhouse; the "Renaissance Garden", an herb garden that contains plants that were first sown in Trondheim in the 17th century; and the "Plant System", a systematic garden constructed to display the familial relationships between plants and their developmental history.
The mountain garden covers 8 acres in an area situated 805 meters above sea level at the Kongsvoll mountain lodge in Dovre. It is a natural garden containing local flora and vegetation. The mountain garden is the only botanical mountain garden in Scandinavia. The garden contains most of the typical vascular plants that grow in the mountain regions in Southern Norway. In addition, the garden contains a few uncommon plants, emphasizing the particular characteristics of the rich flora of Dovrefjell.
The mountain garden was established in 1992 by Simen Bretten, who was then the leader of the Kongsvoll biological station. The new infrastructure that was established replaced an earlier mountain garden that was established in 1924 by the botanist Thekla Resvoll, which was situated at Kongsvoll Station.
^ Risvaag, Jon A. "En viktig gave til Vitenskapsmuseets myntkabinett" (in Norwegian) (1–99). Spor: 4–6.
^ Vitenskapsmuseets informasjon om utstillingen.
^ "Polarnatt" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2018-05-31.
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^ Kalseth, Randi G. (July 14, 2012). "Den frodigste fjellhagen". Opdalingen (in Norwegian): 12–13.
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Over 100 students, staff, friends, alumni, allies and corporate partners of Middlesex University joined in the Pride parade from Regent Street to Westminster this weekend to raise awareness of LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) issues and campaign for equality. The theme this year was ‘Love Happens Here’.
This marked the end of a week of activity at the University to celebrate Pride in London. Earlier in the week an exclusive showing of the Oscar winning movie ‘Moonlight’ was held on campus.
The screening was followed by a Q&A session with BlackOut UK. Co-editors Marc Thompson and Antoine Rogers challenged thinking around the central themes of the movie - the dynamics of truth, how we all use ‘masks’, and issues around masculinity in different societies. Funds raised went to the Terrence Higgins Trust.
David Williams, Director for Corporate Engagement, was delighted to see large numbers of staff, students and alumni getting involved.
"To me, Pride is a celebration of acceptance, and self-acceptance, of understanding and love," he said.
"Pride is being able to be who you are, and to demonstrate you can love who you want to love with no fear of discrimination, intolerance or judgement.
"Prides in 2017 are more important than ever, all the advancements made in recent years such as gay marriage can easily be repealed – they are only paper thin; there is a need for the LGBT+ community to stand together, be strong and be visible.
"It is fantastic that Middlesex University have again participated and shown that 'Love Happens Here'."
MDXSU officers Rachael Wall and Rohan Kon also took part in a Pride boxing event. Rachael found the experience highly rewarding.
“Taking part in the first ever Pride Boxing was an incredible experience and a fantastic way to kick off Pride weekend," she said.
A series of blogs around Pride and LGBT issues were published on the MDXminds blog throughout the week from David Williams, Rohan Kon and Ant Babajee.
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USA Networks also ups the second season of "Mr. Robot" from 10 episodes to 12 episodes.
Season 2 of “Mr. Robot” just got even better. USA Network announced that the premiere night of the series will include two back-to-back episodes and a new live show, “Hacking Robot.” The one-hour after show will include a behind the scenes look at the Golden Globe Award-winning drama and will air immediately after the two episode season premiere.
Additionally, the network has just added two episodes to the second season, upping the series from 10 to 12 episodes. Creator of the series, Sam Esmail, will be in charge of directing the entire season, which will kick off on July 13.
The second season will pick up 30 days after the now infamous fsociety 5/9 hack on Evil Corp and explore the consequences of that attack as well as the illusion of control. Rami Malek returns as Elliot Alderson, a cyber-security engineer who becomes involved in the underground hacker group fsociety, after being recruited by their mysterious leader portrayed by Christian Slater.
“Mr. Robot” returns Wednesday, July 13 at 10pm on USA.
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Joanne Rowling, best known as J.K. Rowling, was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, England. She adopted her pen name, J.K., incorporating her grandmother's name, Kathleen, for the latter initial (Rowling does not have a middle name).
The Harry Potter series are one of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels. The series are all about a boy who learns on his birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and that has magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted kid to become a student at Hogwarts; an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets his future best friends who also become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths and kill his major enemy, after many tough situations that people makes him go through.
Jo Rowling is one of the best selling author and also well known because of Harry Potter, which has become one of the most successful series in history. The TIME magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. However her success is not just defined by financial gain or awards, but more importantly the impact she has made in the lives of billions of people.
J.K Rowling had a big influence on young readers. Before the Harry Potter series kids were not into reading books, but after Harry Potter kids got very happy in finding something for kids about magic. Even though many people say that is just for kids; Harry Potter is an amazing story and the movies are very well done.
In conclusion J.K Rowling has been a big influence for young readers; even though she has not being writing a lot of books; Harry Potter will remain one of the most outstanding series of all.
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2019-04-18T20:37:09Z
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https://spark.adobe.com/page/cM5WTEipgTVH0/
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Kids
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tripod
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Rich puttin' down acoustic on a 1980's Electric Notebook. Doin' songs only Dylon dreamed about...yeah right. Anyway, a day in the life of Rich sittin' in his room recording songs that came to his head. Undedited, unmistakinly true.
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2019-04-25T08:55:22Z
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http://themagicspot.tripod.com/catalog/cassette.html
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Arts
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Arts
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baylor
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Baylor School of Education, in collaboration with the Heart of Texas (HOT) Council for the Social Studies, presents teacher academies on the Baylor campus. Bringing together teacher leaders from the Central Texas area, the Social Studies Academy sessions are designed by and presented by local professional social studies teachers, along with Baylor teacher-education faculty members.
The HOT Council for the Social Studies launched in 2017 with a mission to support innovative and exciting teaching practice. The group helps classroom teachers implement engaging and motivating curriculum, offers development opportunities for new and current educators, and promotes service to the community and activism within the profession.
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2019-04-25T06:06:07Z
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https://www.baylor.edu/soe/index.php?id=941986
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Arts
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komando
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Graphene has been hailed for a decades as a "wonder material." It's just one atom thick and has amazing properties for electrical and heat conductivity, as well as great strength, lightness, permeability and more.
From computers and batteries to lightbulbs, speakers and medical equipment, there's nothing it can't revolutionize. Or at least that's the theory. In the last decade, the number of graphene-related advances that have come true are in short supply.
Part of that is production. Making high-quality graphene in mass quantities still isn't easy, although there are a number of techniques being discovered.
The other problem, especially where computer-based advances are concerned, is a lack of a "band gap." Band gap means that if you only put a little electricity through the material it's non-conductive, but if you apply more electricity it becomes conductive.
Silicon has a band gap, which is why it's used for computer transistors. Graphene has no band gap. Even though it's fantastic at conducting electricity, it can't STOP conducting electricity.
To create a graphene-based transistor means multiple materials and a lot of fiddling. However, a brand new material could change that.
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2019-04-19T01:01:56Z
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https://www.komando.com/happening-now/316610/scientists-invent-new-material-that-could-change-computing
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Computers
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wordpress
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If you haven’t yet wrapped up your Christmas gifts and feeling a bit crafty, why not add that personal touch with some hand sewing. We adore these cute love heart embroidered tags, cards and postcards. They would also work beautifully as wedding stationery.
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2019-04-25T07:52:37Z
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https://weddingbellesandwhistles.wordpress.com/tag/wedding-stationey/
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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If you’re not sure what to do this weekend, check out your local Farmer’s Market.
If you want to make some money on the side with your craft or talent, check out your local Farmer’s Market.
ABL visited a local farmer’s market recently and saw people selling fresh produce, hot dogs, flowers, people performing and selling their cds.
It’s a great place for community buyers and sellers!
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2019-04-23T05:58:14Z
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https://asianbargainlady.wordpress.com/tag/entrepreneur/
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Shopping
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fsu
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Anthony Bourdain (American chef, author, and television personality) is definitely someone I admire. He’s not afraid to tell it like it is and have an opinion. I am also always envious of how well traveled he is and how much he has seen while in different countries – I just find him to be such an interesting person.
It’s a little embarrassing, but I could clear a category about Corgis without a doubt. I’ve had a corgi for almost 3 years and could tell you all about them. I’m definitely a little too obsessed with my dog, but no, he does not have his own Instagram account.
Currently anything chocolate. My coworkers at Nespresso have a little area where we like to compile all of our snacks, 99% of which include chocolate and it’s fantastic.
One account I am constantly looking at on both Facebook and Instagram is Skinnytaste, which is run by food blogger turned cookbook author Gina Homolka. She shares a wide range of healthier recipes, which I use to cook at least once a month. I’m a bit of a foodie, so I’m always looking for something new to make.
Right after finishing up graduate school and starting a new job, a coworker told me about how it’s important to always be willing to learn while working as an analyst. This was pretty simple advice, but it couldn’t be more true no matter what company I’ve been at. I learn something new almost every day on the job, whether it’s a new trick in Excel or an update in Google Analytics. I think that’s part of what keeps things exciting for me while at work.
My primary function is to use data from our website to help the rest of the company understand customer behavior online. Data I may provide ranges anywhere from how users are getting to our website to what users are purchasing and so much more. This information really helps to understand what types of improvements need to be made to our website and what works or what doesn’t work for consumers.
It’s not uncommon for me to spend most of my day in either Excel or Google Analytics pulling or organizing data into charts or dashboards. However, I also spend a lot of my time working with different departments to understand their analytical needs and see how I can help them out with various projects. It’s kind of a cool position to be in because I always know about all the fun stuff that everyone is working on, so I feel very in the know.
Thinking back on it, so many things from Florida State helped prepare me for my career, but in particular I think that learning about the concept of integrated marketing communications is something that has had a large impact on me. While working at some of these larger companies, you really see how each department is working together to communicate a consistent message to all of our customers. There are so many moving pieces, but it’s fun to see how everything turns out when a new campaign launches for example.
Working in analytics has opened my eyes to understanding how important data is, especially when it comes to digital. I am always so intrigued by companies who are just starting to really look at and try to understand website data especially in this day and age where so many people are doing everything online. It’s great though to see this continual shift in focus and companies wanting to put more time and resources into investing in analysts and the necessary tools.
Who do you look to for inspiraton?
I always look to my mom for inspiration in almost everything that I do. She’s been a driving factor in many of the decisions I’ve made in life and without her support I probably would have been lost at times.
Finding interests outside of work is absolutely key for me in terms of creating a work-life balance. I’ve gotten really into yoga these past few months, and when I’m there my phone is off and there is no reaching me for that hour in the evening. I’m always pretty much accessible because of having a work phone, but sometimes you just have to know when to put it away and give yourself a little bit of time to enjoy life outside of the office.
Be a little more open about working with numbers, it’s not as scary as you might think. If I told myself freshman year that I would be working with numbers all day as an analyst, I would have thought I crazy. I’m not sure why I was so intimidated, but people change I guess. If I had known I’d end up in my current type of role, I may have taken a few different courses that would have benefited me now.
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2019-04-20T02:11:37Z
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https://news.cci.fsu.edu/cci-news/cci-alumni-news/meet-denay-warner-nespresso-employee-and-alumna/
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Arts
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Business
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metallian
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Death metal band Hypnos was staffed and formed by former Krabathor members and issued a self-titled EP on Germany's Morbid Records in 2000 which contained a Bulldozer cover. The EP otherwise featured the band's very first three songs. R.A.D. quit, but Hypnos recruited another Krabathor member called Hire. The band's full-length debut of the same year featured Mike van Mastrigt of Sinister and Mika Luttinen of Impaled Nazarene fame on vocals on different songs. The band supported Enslaved and The Crown in Europe in late 2000. Hire soon quit, but the band brought David M. onboard and even had Alex of Pandemia guest live on second guitar.
Harris Johns produced the band's second album and the boys set out on tour with Vader, Napalm Death and others. A tour with Behemoth followed and David quit Hypnos. His replacement was one Butch Mills. The band kept on playing live. A CD called Demo(n)s appeared through Metal Age Productions in 2004. David M. would guest on the band's third CD Rabble Manifesto which was again produced by Harris Johns. The band's name was now Hypnös to signify the change in direction! The drummer's name would alternatively be Pegas, Pegäz or Pegaz.
Hypnos is a brand new outfit comprised of ex-Krabathor members Bruno (bass and vocals) and drummer Pegas, as well as guitarist R.A.D. formerly of Stagnant. As MCDs with four tracks go (one of which being merely a cover version), the current disc serves to introduce the band and herald a full length due in the fall. Musically Hypnos is very Morbid Angel - influenced. The guitars are surely the band's best attribute; the vocals are merely OK whilst the pots and panish drum sound (while very fashionable since the rise of Cryptopsy) is quite an ear sore. Please get a heavier sound next time. Overall Hypnos has room to improve, but with the members' dedication and experience things can look up with the coming album. - Ali "The Metallian"
When in the last issue I reviewed Hypnos' first EP I had little idea that a full length would appear so quickly. Well here it is, and it features an altered line up and the collaboration of Impaled Nazarene's Mika on vocals. The album kicks off with an action-packed riff and it is clear that Hypnos is not into conserving energy. Not that it's all speed-oriented; the band slows down often to incorporate tasteful leads throughout and even add more somber feelings to the mix. Then there is Sacrilegious with its Sepultura-esque rhythm. But more notable is the presence of the tracks from the EP here; although one track on the MCD was Bleeding the Scum and the track here is entitled Breeding the Scum. In summary Hypnos is a qualified entry into the death metal fray and one for fans of Krabathor, Altar and mid-era Sepultura. - Ali "The Metallian"
Enter another good album for this issue!! Czech trio Hypnos comprised of two former Krabathor members bassist/singer (Bruno), drummer (Pegas) and third guitarist on as many releases David have issued their best release yet showing another improvement since their last release. Hypnos plays death metal comparable to the heady days of Massacra and No Return (before both bands degenerated) mixed with a healthy dose of Morbid Angel. It might be an odd pairing and the band keeps the two unmixed and separate. Listen to Evil Awaken which through its speedy riffing and drum patterns reminds one of the formers' sound, and then fast forward to Journey Into Doom to hear the Morbid influences come to the fore. Armed with a better drum sound, intricate soloing, production by Harris Johns and a final mix at Morrisound, The Revenge Ride is as solid as rock. - Ali "The Metallian"
A sticker on the cover of the new Hypnös (yes, it is the same Czech death metal band with an added umlaut) asks the listener to "get hypnötized" and I might just be ready to accommodate. Contrary to the band's statements regarding a wholesale change of direction and a wholly new approach beginning with this album Rabble Mänifesto is both a good album and still altogether extreme. So, worries aside, what is the album like? The album is a great extreme metal listen that begins with a message from Arab freedom fighters to a slow and steady tune. Shades of Deicide are all over this as are proven metal soloing and whirling drumming. The style change is nowhere to be found as the band blasts away in the old Stockholm style on Supernatural Race Disharmony or brings Sinister to mind on Krieg (The Alpha Paradox). There is a great melody on the songs At Death's Door and some experimentation when Bruno begins to try singing cleanly however. This tune is perhaps the band's semi-marketable song. There are great lyrics and ideas throughout the album. The band has had the foresight to include explanations for each track and even features a great sampled message to George Bush and his invading minions in Iraq.
Ignore the momentary lapse of judgment on Firecult and the aforementioned clean vocals and RM has turned out to be a great album. - Ali "The Metallian"
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2019-04-19T18:26:41Z
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http://metallian.com/hypnos.php
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Arts
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News
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wordpress
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It’s two days before Christmas and times a ticking. I hope everyone finished their Christmas shopping and picked all of your Christmas party outfits! If not, this outfit is perfect for Christmas day. Open presents in the morning with the sweater and skirt then dress it up with the gold detailed tank for dinner. So simple yet elegant! Pick up this outfit at Rodeo Boutique!
Ps. I just got back from an amazing trip to New Orleans for the NOLA Bowl. It was an absolute blast so I will be sharing some personal pictures soon from my trip!
Here I put together a delicate gold metallic and white tank with the red sweater skirt.
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2019-04-18T20:59:43Z
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https://lalavied.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/christmas-red/
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Arts
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Shopping
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tmz
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Dottie from "Pee Wee's": 'Memba Her?!
E.G. Daily is recognizable as Pee Wee Herman's love interest Dottie in the 1985 film "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." Guess what she looks like now!
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2019-04-23T10:36:47Z
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https://www.tmz.com/2008/09/27/dottie-from-pee-wees-memba-her/
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Arts
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Reference
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screendaily
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The DreamWorks Animation chief told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that he has thought a lot about a merger with Paramount.
Jeffrey Katzenberg added that he knew Viacom, which has been courting potential investors, would only be interested in selling a minority stake.
While that strategy would not suit his shareholders’ interests, Katzenberg did not rule out the possibility of finding a financial partner and approaching the studio.
He also announced publicly for the first time that TV animation is now the most valuable part of the DreamWorks Animation business, which is about half-way through the restructure announced in January 2015 when roughly one-fith of the work-force was laid off after a number of flops.
DreamWorks Animation has 19 animation shows in production as well as several live-action projects.
On the feature front, Kung Fu Panda 3 has already amassed $314m worldwide from a mere six territories, including a record $143.8m take for an animation in China via Oriental Dreamworks and a more modest $128.8m in North America after five weekends.
The family film will open across the rest of the world through Fox International in the coming months.
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2019-04-25T09:52:29Z
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https://www.screendaily.com/news/jeffrey-katzenberg-fantasises-about-paramount-merger/5101006.article
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Arts
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Business
| 0.843749 |
bravehost
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As you read through this page and look at the photographs you may wonder why I have included this monument among Irish Antiquities. It is one of the worst examples of a Round Tower that I have come across. It stands only about 4m high and for the most part it is covered with ivy. It rests on a plinth up to 39cm high. The lower courses are of large regular tufa-like blocks while the upper courses seem to be of large limestone blocks. I have included Oran Round Tower because it is important to warn would-be visitors not to expect a 30m tall building when they see the words 'Round Tower' written on the map. However Oran is important in that it is one of only two Round Towers in Co Roscommon. St Patrick is said to have founded a church on this site. He appointed his disciple, St Cethec, as the first bishop. Nothing is known of the later history of the site and the church ruins near the Round Tower are of much later date.
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2019-04-24T10:32:56Z
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http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/roscommon/oran/oran.html
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Arts
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Reference
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nih
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Biomed Eng Online. 2010 Oct 12;9:59. doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-9-59.
Atomic force microscopy in vitro study of surface roughness and fractal character of a dental restoration composite after air-polishing.
Salerno M1, Giacomelli L, Derchi G, Patra N, Diaspro A.
Surface roughness is the main factor determining bacterial adhesion, biofilm growth and plaque formation on the dental surfaces in vivo. Air-polishing of dental surfaces removes biofilm but can also damage the surface by increasing its roughness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the surface damage of different conditions of air-polishing performed in vitro on a recently introduced dental restorative composite.
Abrasive powders of sodium bicarbonate and glycine, combined at different treatment times (5, 10 and 30 s) and distances (2 and 7 mm), have been tested. The resulting root mean square roughness of the surfaces has been measured by means of atomic force microscopy, and the data have been analyzed statistically to assess the significance. Additionally, a fractal analysis of the samples surfaces has been carried out.
The minimum surface roughening was obtained by air-polishing with glycine powder for 5 s, at either of the considered distances, which resulted in a mean roughness of ~300 nm on a 30 × 30 μm2 surface area, whereas in the other cases it was in the range of 400-750 nm. Both untreated surfaces and surfaces treated with the maximum roughening conditions exhibited a fractal character, with comparable dimension in the 2.4-2.7 range, whereas this was not the case for the surfaces treated with the minimum roughening conditions.
For the dental practitioner it is of interest to learn that use of glycine in air polishing generates the least surface roughening on the considered restorative material, and thus is expected to provide the lowest rate of bacterial biofilm growth and dental plaque formation. Furthermore, the least roughening behaviour identified has been correlated with the disappearance of the surface fractal character, which could represent an integrative method for screening the air polishing treatment efficacy.
Effect of pixel number of AFM images on the measured roughness. A) AFM height images of a control specimen (untreated composite surface) for which the same region has been imaged (scan size S = 30 μm) with increasing number of pixels, N = 322, 642, and 1282 from left to right. Height range is 900 nm for all images. Images not shown here completed the sequence, with N = 2562, 5122, and 10242. B) Values or RMS roughness Rq are reported for the whole set of AFM images with different N. Error bars represent semidispersion of forward and backward scans. Empty squares are from raw AFM data, filled squares are Rq values after zero order image flattening. Lines are just guides to the eye.
Effect of different conditions of AP on the considered dental material. A) Representative AFM height images with scan size S = 30 μm and pixel number N = 5122 after different sample surface treatments. From left to right: control (untreated) specimen (height range 300 nm), specimen after AP for 5 s at a distance of 2 mm from the surface with bicarbonate (height range 2200 nm), and specimen after AP with the same time and distance but with glycine powder (height range 800 nm). B) Mean surface roughness <Rq> of all samples, both controls and treated with AP at different combinations of powder (sodium bicarbonate, BIC, in red, or glycine, GLY, in green), time, and distance. Each value for a single sample is the mean of n = 8 values measured by AFM. Left half (light colors): time evolution of Rq for both abrasive powders at a spraying distance of 2 mm from specimen surface; right half (dark colors): time evolution of Rq for both abrasive powders at a spraying distance of 7 mm from specimen surface. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.
Measurement of the fractal character from the AFM images. A) Representative AFM height images with N = 5122 pixels and increasing scan size S, from 0.37 to 3.33 on to 30 μm, from left to right. Height range is 180, 500 and 900 nm, respectively. Images not shown here completed the sequence, with S = 1.11, 10, and 90 μm. The white squares in the middle and right images represent the areas of previously imaged specimen regions. Two squares are traced since an image with intermediate S value had also been acquired between two consecutive shown images (S zoom factor: 3× at each step). B) Values of RMS roughness Rq reported for one whole set of AFM images with different scan size S. Error bars represent semidispersion of forward and backward scans. Empty circles are from raw AFM data, filled circles are Rq values after zero order image flattening. Lines are just guides to the eye.
Fractal character of AP treated samples. A) and B) Similar plots as in Fig. 3B), for 'most AP damaged' (bicarbonate powder, d = 7 mm, t = 10 s) and 'least AP damaged' (glycine powder, d = 2 mm, t = 5 s) AP treatment conditions, respectively. Both raw (filled circles) and flattened (void circles) AFM data have been used. Straight thick lines are the linear regression curves for raw (black) and flattened (gray) data, respectively. Δ2 numbers represent the residual deviations squared for the fit.
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2019-04-24T04:14:36Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20939880?dopt=Abstract
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Arts
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Science
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exclaim
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If you already considered Yukon Blonde member Jeffrey Innes' debut as High Ends to be high art, you'll probably be just as "Intoxicated" with the claymation sculptures that fill the video for the Super Class single of the same name.
Directed by Tyler Witzel, the video fits the fuzzed-out synths and vocal harmonies with a series of always-morphing visuals. This includes a series of abstract sculptures rivaling the insanity of the Mouse Trap board game, a roman bust, and what appears to be pastel slice of sentient baloney seeking a body.
Witzel explained of his work: "I had been working on a few designs for large outdoor, public sculptures. I thought animation would feel right for the video and aesthetically I wanted it to have a '70s era National Film Board feel. From that came this idea of a drunken visit to an art gallery where everything kind of looks like the inside of a person's body."
You'll find the latest High Ends video down below, as well as a few tour dates.
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2019-04-22T17:58:07Z
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http://exclaim.ca/music/article/high_ends-intoxicated_video
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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Today we held our Grand Finale of the Summer of Love ’09 at the Swap Meet. There were 33 who came down from Harmony Vineyard to join in with drama, live worship, prayer, and lots of energy, as you can see from the photo gallery!
We want to say a big thank you to the group from Harmony, and to the others who joined us from other Raytown area churches today. In all, there were 56 who participated today!
We are going to miss the friends we made at the Swap Meet. We look forward to dropping in from time to time. Just let us know if you would like to join us some time.
Its hard to believe there are only 5 weeks left in the Summer of Love ’09 outreach series at Nate’s Swap and Shop!
Each week, we have been gathering at the Truesdale house, then heading out to share God’s love with kids and their families.
We have been giving away free donuts and free ice-pops, and have been doing face painting and offering a craft project for anyone who is interested.
We have really enjoyed cultivating relationships with vendors, buyers, and their children, and we have sered over 200 kids each week!
Today, we had a first. One of the vendors gifted us with a case of swim caps. What did we do? We turned around and gave them away, of course!
Whenever people ask us why we are out there giving away free stuff, we simply tell them that God has given us everything, and we are just here to give a small portion of what we have recieved. Swim caps and everything!
There is always room for another hand or two, and we have plenty of room for more to join with us. Try coming with us once–it will be the highlight of your week.
Raytown Vineyard is 6 Months Old!
+We now have over 100 people serving on our Intercessory Prayer Team.
+We have witnessed 3 adults give their lives to Jesus.
+We have baptized 5 adults and 1 nine year old.
+We have experienced numerical growth in several areas—especially in Ministry with Children. The number of kids participating in our weekly worship service increased from an average of 13 kids each week in January to an average of 21 kids each week in June. This last Sunday, we saw 27 kids!!!
+We have provided simultaneous English/Spanish translation of our messages.
+We have experienced a strong level of multicultural multiracial participation, reflecting the demographics of our local community.
+We have developed strong partnerships with the city, the school district, local churches, the local media, and social service agencies.
+We have donated to eight other organizations doing great ministry in Raytown. As a tithing church, we are committed to giving away the first 10% of funds received.
+We have met every single one of our financial commitments on time during this period.
+We have an outstanding core of leaders who are stepping up in every way!
There are plenty of ways to get involved, whether you live around the community, or around the world. Be sure to check back later this week for a “Top 10” list of ways you can participate.
A group of 8 kids and 8 adults was on hand this morning to launch the Summer of Love ministry at the Swap Meet. We spent about 2 hours sharing God’s love with approximately 200 kids and their parents.
We got to give away donuts, flavor ice pops, and coloring pages. We were also able to do free face painting. We had a bubble machine going which was a great attraction for kids and adults alike.
Our multi-cultural, multi-racial team gave us great connections with the community at the Swap Meet. We were able to pray with families in English and in Spanish.
We are planning to go to the Swap Meet each Sunday through the end of August. Meeting at the Truesdales House at 9 AM to convoy out. Please feel free to join us!
You are currently browsing the archives for the Summer of Love '09 category.
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2019-04-23T16:20:56Z
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https://raytownvineyardchurch.wordpress.com/category/summer-of-love-09/
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Arts
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Kids
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dreamhost
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I set up a new user for ftp purposes earlier tonight. I may simply have gotten the whole thing backwards but the original/root/main username for my DreamHost account works fine through the Cyberduck ftp client on Mac OS X.
So… my domain at DreamHost is hofteigur.net. I set up a new user, gurpsfiles, and I’d have expected to see the path hofteigur.net/gurpsfiles become active. Home directory is listed as /home/gurpsfiles but I’m at loss at how to enter this info into my client to make it work right. Does my main user need to create the directory?
Maybe I’m just being very stupid but I’d really appreciate being set in the right direction on this.
[quote]I’d have expected to see the path hofteigur.net/gurpsfiles become active.
Does my main user need to create the directory?
Though DH docs say “You will see a folder on our server called yourdomain.com. This is where you must send your web files in order for them to be seen at your web address.” sometimes the DH system creates it, sometimes it doesn’t… or at least not before the user has given up waiting. So you may need to create it yourself.
Thanks. I’ve been able to reroute the path so it has become active. However, I still can’t seem to figure out what path I should direct my ftp client to.
Your FTP logon will normally put you in your user’s home dir. Create a sub-dir ‘yourdomain.com’. Put your web site files there.
In panel Domains, Manage Domains, , if not ‘Currently Fully Hosted’, select this. Set ‘FTP user / CGI-runs-as user:’ to your user. If you changed anything, ignore the message ‘Your changes should take effect within 5-10 minutes’, wait anything up to a few hours, and then (DNS permitting) you should see your web files at www.yourdomain.com.
Anyways, what I’m trying to do is set up a new user that does not have general access. He has a limited access to ftp so that he (them that get the username and pwd) can upload files that can then be accessed universally on the www. As it is I can see the index of the url I thought the files would appear at (hofteigur.net/gurpsfiles).
I’m fine with setting up a subdomain for it if that means it will work. But if that isn’t the issue I just as well not.
My problem is with getting ftp access. I’m using a ftp client which I can’t seem to get access with (works fine for the main user access) and I think it’s possibly because I’m directing it to the wrong path.
Now, I’ve only set up a new user but not set up any form of subdomain. I have remapped the sub-directory gurpsfiles however.
Maybe I’m just reading this all the wrong way. Thanks very much for your patience and advice so far.
[quote]I think it’s possibly because I’m directing it to the wrong path.
Try following the instructions I gave, not directing it to any path. The server puts the FTP session in the user’s home directory.
That might do the trick. I’ll try making a new user later and doing this. Otherwise I’ll set up a subdomain as well.
Indeed. I deleted the “old” user, set up a new one and pointing the ftp client there via melrose, and not my own domain, with no path defined works fine.
I wonder if you have figured how to get the URL for new ftp user. I’m now in the same boat and can’t figure it out.
I’m sorry, but somehow this got fixed. I’m darned if I can remember exactly how, but when I have the time I will try and look into the correspondance regarding this, along with the setup that works. I’ll post any findings on this thread if I can turn something up.
In the Remap Sub-Dir section select the www.yourdomain.com/happydog. Hit continue.
Select /home/happydog from the left drop-down listbox. Then type in the “happycat” for folder from the right textbox. Then Hit Continue.
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Signs the specified request with an AWS signing protocol by using the provided AWS account credentials and adding the required headers to the request.
Converts a POST request to a GET request by moving POST fields into the query string.
Array of configuration options used when signing - unsigned-body: Flag to make request have unsigned payload. Unsigned body is used primarily for streaming requests.
The time at which the URL should expire. This can be a Unix timestamp, a PHP DateTime object, or a string that can be evaluated by strtotime.
Useful for pre-signing query protocol requests.
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Once these notes were recorded the play testers were asked to complete a short survey which correlated to our Activity 6: Playtesting. This would mean we could test our playtesting as well as text our goals for playtesting. The following survey/survey results was obtained.
Yes, all playtesters really enjoyed playing. Their verbal feedback while playing was positive and the post-playthrough interviews revealed that the game was both fun and enjoyable. This appears to be largely in part to the fast-paced nature of the game which kept them engaged.
How well do the mechanics work (during playthrough)?
The movement works well, the player is able to avoid the enemies in order to get into a better position. The enemies can easily overwhelm the player if they are not killed before long however. No issues or bugs were identified with the mechanics themselves.
How well do the mechanics work (post-playthrough)?
The shooting mechanic was well made, restrictive enough to not be overpowered but also still capable enough to destroy enemies in order to survive. The spawn rates could be adjusted, sometimes the enemies overwhelm the player but sometimes the game world is clear of enemies for seconds at a time.
The fast-paced nature of the game was definitely the biggest challenging factor for the players. The speed PX Goal was met with flying colours however the reflexes of players were not tested as much. The unanimous opinion is that the game tested their ability to analyse and make a strategy quickly more than it relied on their reflexes. Joseph in particular identified how he was more preoccupied with avoiding enemies to not lose health than he was with destroying them. The enemies also continued to deal damage to the player whenever in contact, playtesters did not like this and expressed their wishes for the enemies to be destroyed on contact. All playtesters remarked that a score system being implemented would benefit the game greatly.
What strategy was best used for a successful playthrough?
The generally used strategy was analysing the enemies and how they spawned into the game world. Some players noticed patterns and adjusted their position in-game accordingly. Others focused on getting out of the way and getting the enemies before they came too close.
The below image shows some of the notes taken during the playtesting session for some of the playtesters.
Implemented a score system, where smaller, weaker enemies are worth the least and the harder to kill enemies are worth more.
Implemented a restart function into the Pause Menu and bringing up the Pause Menu upon death without needing to restart the .exe.
Adjusted spawn rates and added two more variations of the enemies to make up for it. Players should rarely find themselves without something to shoot at now.
Changed the enemies to deal damage to the player once on contact and then self-destruct, thus eliminating the need to adjust damage or health values.
In the context of the session goals, I felt confident that the level of enjoyment to be had in the game was there, in addition to the player experience goals. What I need to work on from the session goals is to adapt it into an underwater theme – something I had tried to do initially but had difficulty in correctly using the assets.
From my group’s feedback I intend to alter the theme of my game; as well as look into a high score system, as we had originally planned the obtainment of a high score to be the core challenge within the game.
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BIRMINGHAM, England -- Five people have been killed after a private executive jet crashed during take-off at an English airport.
The twin-engined Canadair Challenger plane -- which an airport spokesman said was heading for Bangor, Maine, U.S. -- burst into flames sending thick plumes of smoke into the air at 1207 GMT on Friday.
Witnesses said one of the plane's wings had hit the runway at Birmingham International airport, central England, just before the crash.
An airport spokesman told The Associated Press that the the plane was carrying two passengers and three crew.
The twin-engine executive was registered with Georgia, U.S.-based agricultural equipment giant AGCO Corp.
The company said its president, John Shumejda, 56, and its senior vice president of sales, Ed Swingle, 60, were killed. The crew on board have not been identified.
AGCO Corp, an agricultural equipment manufacturer based in Duluth, Georgia, said its president and chief executive John Shumejda and senior vice president for sales and marketing Ed Swingle had died in the crash, Reuters reported.
Airport managing director Brian Summers told a news conference that all the passengers and crew on the jet were U.S. citizens.
AP said a spokesman for the American Embassy in London had confirmed that all five people killed were U.S. citizens.
"It was a distressing scene," said Steve Evans, manager of West Midlands Ambulance Service.
"The tail of the plane was some yards away from the main fuselage. Four people were found outside the aircraft on the grass and one person was found inside," he added.
A West Midlands Fire Brigade spokesman said it was too early to determine the cause of the accident.
The plane is thought to be registered in Maine, the UK's Press Association news agency reported.
A spokesman for the National Air Traffic Services said the runway was closed after the crash.
Evans said: "I understand the private aircraft left the departure runway.
"Some witnesses said, and we have had reports, that there was a ball of flames."
Witness Joan Hood told the British Broadcasting Corporation: "My husband and I went out to the front of the house, where we can see over the runway, and there was a thick black plume of smoke rising to about 100 feet."
The UK Department of Transport said that members of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch were on their way to the crash scene.
"There will be full investigation followed by an AAIB report in due course," said a department spokesman.
An airport spokesman said the Challenger aircraft, capable of carrying up to 20 people, was a private or corporate jet heading for Bangor, Maine, where it was scheduled to refuel.
Birmingham airport is expected to be closed for some time and passengers were advised to contact their airlines, the spokesman told Reuters.
British Airways said inbound flights from Edinburgh, Berlin Hanover and Gothenburg were being diverted to Manchester or East Midlands Airports. A flight to Aberdeen was cancelled and other flights were suspended.
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NexXzit's 'Smarter Than Me" Is Contemporary and Jazzy R&B with soulful, thought inspiring lyrics.
With technology taking over, it makes one think about how people don't have to think, remember or even challenge themselves mentally anymore. There are Smart Phones, Smart Cars, Smart TV's and there's an app for everything these days and NexXzit's "Smarter Than Me" tells that story, because "All you have to do is install and then log-on baby!!
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Actress Amber Tamblyn is asked about Roseanne Barr’s recent comments attacking #MeToo victims and gives her take on The Real Housewives from the standpoint of a feminist.
Show Highlight After Show: Would Amber Tamblyn Vote for Bernie Sanders?
Show Highlight Why Have Bethenny Frankel & Luann de Lesseps Bonded?
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Now I’ve only been in Earlsfield for a little under a year, however I do know that Amaranth (which translates to an imaginary flower that never fades) has been around for a number of years with a great reputation for good food and good prices. It under went a renovation about 9months ago to extend the restaurant into an adjoining building and voila more space to fit all of us earlies in! Before the transformation it was a cosy little restaurant (cafe sized) with a BYOB license and there was no such thing as walking in, it was always jammers so booking a table was essential!
Actually when I say cafe sized, it wasn’t as it had a basement of seating too but it just had that feel to it.
Since the make-over there is no longer BYOB having acquired a wine license.. which we don’t mind too much when the food is so good. Having travelled around South East Asia 3 years ago I expanded my taste buds to fancy a little Thai spice, especially in a good auld papaya salad.. So OBVIOUSLY I had to try this out with my friend who i went travelling with and it was Nom Nom Nom, Nommmmy!
The last time I ate here was with my Earlie buddy last week and we said we would go all out and get the supreme starter to share, it was so good having a combination of dim sum, chicken satay, prawn tempura, duck spring rolls and prawn skewers..They even do these cute little flower arrangements made from carrot served with some of the dishes. It’s always about that extra little touch.
If you haven’t been there, then GO! And what makes it better is you can always pop down to the Wandle for a quick drink after (literally about 15 steps away) In terms of price you are talking roughly £20 per head including starter, main course and drink which is great value for money… And I promise Thai (thou) will be full!
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My first day at the Cary Collection at the library at Rochester Institute of Technology was in January. My second day was this past Monday.
I didn’t know that the Cary Collection houses a huge collection of artists’ books. What a surprise! When I asked the guardians of the collection if they had any unusual bindings, they sort of casually pulled out a remarkable assortment. for me to look at and handle. I was there only a few hours, and I wanted to linger over every book they showed me, so I didn’t see a great number of books, but what I did see what great.
Many of the books, like this one above by Ed Hutchins, are from a collection bequeathed to the Cary by Patricia England. For the most part I didn’t take note of how these books found their way to Rochester, but the name “England” was associated to so many of them that I eventually inquired about it.
My daughter stopped by when I was looking at this book by Ed Hutchins. Ed knows and has been helpful and encouraging to my daughter over many years so it was quite wonderful for her to see that Ed is represented (by three books) in her college’s collection. She was thoroughly delighted with this book and its message.
I’m going to have to split these images of the books that I saw over several days so these posts don’t get too long. Because of the nature of artists’ books it takes multiple photographs to begin to give a sense of each piece. I took like a gazillion photos. I’m not going to post all of them, or even show every book I looked at. What I’m going for here is to give a glimpse of what I’ve glimpsed, wanting to let people know that this amazing collection exists.
Here’s the first two panels opening of this heavy mysterious box by Gloria Helfgott.
As the inner pieces swing open, accordioned rows flank another mysterious set of doors.
By the time this tunnel-like accordion center is expanded, I’ve now had to open up three sets of enclosures. This inner sanctum piece has another layer that one might miss. I saw this top-opening structure and wondered if they might be pockets. Turns out, yes, there is a card hidden within each pocket!
Just coincidentally I’m sure, I saw three separate artists’ books that used this tunnel-like accordion in its construction. It’s an interesting structure because it can be set up in number of different ways. Alisa Golden’s book above works nicely as a tunnel book, as it has an opening in the front when it’s set up like a tunnel, but it’s also lovely to see in this half-star configuration. The little book on the right is Golden’s wonderfully realized version of Hedi Kyle’s fishbone fold book….
…which is housed in this remarkable little slipcase.
I also saw three separate piece by Carol Schwartzott, each a tiny masterpiece. These books are filled with content, both writing and images. Here’s one of her books, fully expanded.
I was enchanted by every page, even the colophon page, of Schwartzott’s books.
Here’s another small treasure this one by Susan Allix.
This little book is full of writing and prints. I was intrigued by all parts of the construction of this book. I can’t sort out what’s going on with how the covers are put together. It’s got a great look. And here’s another surprise: the enclosure for the book is really unusual and stunning.
There’s this little shelf inside the enclosure sleeve which the book slips under. What a cool little package!
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Baseball. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the Baseball club.
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Young entrepreneurs (18-25) are encouraged to apply now for up to £20,000 with Baldwins Accountants.
Baldwins KickStart Young Entrepreneur Awards is a national competition for young entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business or have recently done so (trading date must be on or after 31st August 2016).
Entrants should submit their details and ideas here. Entries will then be whittled down to ten semi-finalists before three finalists have the opportunity to present their ideas to a live audience at a gala dinner in November at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham.
The prize includes a £10,000 grant along with £10,000 worth of mentoring and accountancy advice.
Entries close August 31st 2017.
For further information visit the Baldwins Accountants website here.
In an bid to attract the next generation of Federation of Small Business members, Phil Collier, chairman of Furness FSB has just announced that they are inviting young entrepreneurs and business owners to attend an event on the 17th of October at Abbey House Hotel in Barrow. The event will feature talks from Dan Austin, managing director of Lake District Farmers and Kerry Kolbe, co-director of Signal Film and Media. Both will be talking about their experiences as young entrepreneurs.
For more information read the InTheBay article here.
Attendance to the event is free with a glass of fizz on arrival, click here to register.
Has the Apprentice ruined what it means to be an entrepreneur?
Is entrepreneurship really a world of arrogance, back biting and dishonesty?
The Apprentice is back, marking ten years of searching for that illusive apprentice who embodies the entrepreneurial spirit, and determination, required to succeed in the business world. However – is The Apprentice an accurate portrayal of what it really takes to be an entrepreneur?
According to a recent YouGov poll, business related TV programme like The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den have significantly affected the nation’s understanding of entrepreneurship, and it appears that we now see this world as “dog eat dog” with corrupt and dishonest individuals. Whilst small businesses and apprenticeships are promoted and hailed by politicians as encouraging opportunities for young people, this fictitious, stereotypical portrayal of apprentices are unhelpful and damaging, with only 3% believing that the entrepreneurial world is populated by considerate, caring people. Parents may no longer encourage their children to become business leaders, whilst young adults will not see the value in pursuing their entrepreneurial ventures for fear of the ruthless business world.
Viewers understand that these programmes are produced with controversy and entertainment in mind; the contestants are playing the game and are arguably chosen for their personality and character, rather than their business acumen. With this in mind, why is there so much distrust for ‘entrepreneurs’ and why have we allowed entertainment to cloud our perception of hardworking people who make things happen?
Read more here, and let us know what you think – do you watch The Apprentice and what does this negative perception of entrepreneurship mean to you?
She said she’d lost her “mojo”.
Despite reaching a major milestone in her entrepreneurial career, here she was, lacking the very drive, hunger and focus that had got her there.
I sat in a room with forty or so business owners observing a “hot seat” conversation between this lady, Dianne, and her mentor.
Dianne’s business has grown significantly in the past couple of years, to the point where she proudly announced it had a million in the bank for the first time.
A significant achievement. One you’d think would fan the flames of her passion, drive and commitment even more.
Not so. The exact opposite was the case.
She was deflated, directionless, and lost.
It didn’t take long for the cause of the effect to be revealed. Nothing is hidden from those who have the “ears to hear”. We can’t help but communicate our issues, even though we can’t see them ourselves (it’s hard to see the picure when you’re in the frame).
Our language – not just what we say but how we say it – reveals everything.
In the course of the conversation, she revealed a bombshell.
She’d built her business by being consistently on top of the numbers. Every day she looked at the sales ledger and made decisions accordingly. She bemoaned the recently deployment of “Salesforce” (the CRM software) in her business because it “screwed up” her reporting process.
Could that be why her “mojo” was lost?
Sure, the learning curve with any new system is disruptive, frustrating and traumatic, but there was much to more to this than a short term distraction.
To be resolved successfully, our problems must be addressed at the level beneath the one at which they occur.
So what was the “bombshell”?
Dianne had already mentioned how “surprised” she’d been at how helpful it was to “write her challenge down” when applying for the “hot seat” time with her mentor. And a little further on, the moment came.
Her mentor asked if she had a clear picture of what success looks like for her and her business.
There’s the problem, right there.
This lady lacked vision. She couldn’t “see” the success she aspires to.
Her mind had no image to work with. And the mind can’t create what it can’t see.
Worst of all, she held the belief that such things are unimportant.
“Dianne, I’d like to challenge your thinking on a couple of things you’ve said. You mentioned earlier how surprisingly helpful you found it to write out your thoughts regarding your problem. You also said you didn’t think having a clear picture of what success looked like for you was important. I respectfully suggest that’s the issue right there. There’s a powerful proverb that states “where there is no vision, the people perish”, you think in pictures – we all do – and if you can’t see what success looks like for you, you can’t create it”.
I then suggested she write out, by hand, the future she intends to experience.
My suggestion didn’t resonate. I could tell straight away from Dianne’s demenour and facial expression that she didn’t buy into it all, or if she did, it wasn’t to the level where she’d act on my suggestion.
I understood. I wasn’t coaching her after all, I was offering a suggestion. And Dianne is very analytically led. She’s been programmed to see the world in a certain way, where hard, factual evidence reigns supreme and is all there is be trusted.
The process of visioning the future, or “imagineering” as Walt Disney referred to it, is looked upon as either unnecessary or an absurd waste of time by most business owners.
You see, being on top of the numbers is vitally important in business. Of course it is. I’d be an idiot to suggest otherwise.
But the numbers can only get you so far.
The statement doesn’t mean people physically perish. It means they fail to be all they could be – because they fail to use the mind effectively.
It can’t call forth what it can’t see. Show me the person who lacks an image of what success looks like in their mind’s eye and I’ll show you a a person who lacks direction – regardless of what level they’re at.
Even the busiest, hard working, relatively successful entrepreneur can soon find herself lacking direction, drive and purpose. Despite a million sitting in the bank, Dianne finds herself lacking the “mojo” that put the million there in the first place.
Ignore those pearls of wisdom at your peril, because it’ll eventually bite you on the backside.
You are a creative being. You’re never NOT creating. Unfortunately, for most, they’re creating much of the same, over and over again, because they’re NOT conscious in the act of creation.
It pays not to follow the crowd. If you haven’t grasped that truth yet, you’ve made a diabolical career choice.
If you can’t see the “dream”, I guarantee it’ll stay a dream.
Christian Simpson is an internationally acclaimed expert in professional coaching, transformational leader of entrepreneurs.
To share your ideas and dreams or get involved with shaping other peoples’ come and see us at the drop in in The Base Wednesdays 2-4pm.
If you’re an undergraduate or a postgraduate student ‘scratching your head’ for career inspiration, or even if you think know where you’re heading, you can’t fail to be enlightened by what our enterprising alumni share with us at ‘Start Up Stories’.
Back by popular demand, this is a story telling event where Lancaster enterprising alumni form all disciplines and sectors return to campus to tell the stories of their personal development journeys; transitions from blue chip careers to starting their their own businesses, making a life and a living from their research or simply fulfilling their purpose by doing something to make positive change for people.
You ‘ll learn about the highs, the lows, the failures and the learning that are the pathway to success on this winding journey we call a career, and you’ll hear it first hand from people who are doing what they love and loving what they do in their own ventures.
Stories will be told to the magic of live illustration and there will be nibbles and refreshments.
This event is possible because of generous donations to the Alumni Friends Fund.
Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us – it’s all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It’s time to do something about it. It’s time to put people first. It’s time to make the world more human.
Steve Hilton, visiting professor at Stanford University and former senior adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, believes that the frustrations people have with government, politics, their economic circumstances and their daily lives are caused by deep structural problems in the systems that dominate our modern world – systems that are broken because they’ve grown too far from the human scale.
At the RSA, he shows how change is possible, offering the latest research, compelling stories and case studies from all over the world across industry, politics, education, design and social action to show us what can happen when we make our world more human. A more local, more accountable and more human way of living, he argues, will make us more productive, more fulfilled and ultimately happier.
If you’re interested in contributing to designing a world where people come first check out a new Lancaster University student group @USocialVenture.
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(Philadelphia, April 26, 2016)—Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in its 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency, May 19 through June 5, marking his second Asian tour with the ensemble. The tour begins in Hong Kong and continues to Beijing and Shanghai. While in Shanghai, The Philadelphia Orchestra opens the city’s International Tourism Resort Zone, home to the new Shanghai Disney Resort. The Orchestra then travels to Macao for the fifth consecutive year before continuing on to Japan, with concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kawasaki (a debut visit for the Orchestra). The Venetian Macao is the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency.
Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra bring repertoire to Asia that reflects the rich musical heritage of the ensemble as well as the strong partnership between music director and musicians. With 12 concerts over three weeks, tour repertoire includes works by Brahms, Sibelius, Grieg, Bruckner, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Beethoven, Strauss, Prokofiev, and Bizet. Chinese pianist Lang Lang joins the Orchestra as soloist in Beijing and Macao, performing Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto. Japanese-American violinist Ryu Goto makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in Macao, Osaka, Tokyo, and Kawasaki, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Torū Takemitsu’s Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performances of the piece.
As one of the most traveled American orchestras, The Philadelphia Orchestra is a global ambassador for the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the United States of America. Continuing its reputation as an organization rooted in cultural exchange, the Orchestra participates in a series of events facilitating cultural diplomacy throughout the tour, with receptions held at the residence of Ambassador Clifford Hart, the Consul General of the United States to Hong Kong and Macao; the U.S. Embassy in Beijing with Ambassador Max Sieben Baucus; and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo with Ambassador Caroline Kennedy. The year 2016 also marks the 30th anniversary of Philadelphia and Kobe, Japan establishing a Sister City relationship. Additionally, on the heels of the G7 Summit—which concludes on May 27 in Japan—the Japan National Press Club hosts an event in honor of the Orchestra on June 1.
“As one of the most traveled American orchestras, The Philadelphia Orchestra has made a sustained commitment to cultural diplomacy, representing the City of Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the United States abroad,” said Allison Vulgamore. “We owe a special thank-you to the elected and appointed officials at all levels of government who have appreciated our work, recognized its impact, and helped us create new opportunities for touring and residency around the world."
With the 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency, The Philadelphia Orchestra builds upon the tremendous success of its five-year commitment to touring, residency, and community engagement throughout the People’s Republic.
The 2016 Tour marks a pinnacle year in the Orchestra’s history: the culmination of five years of unprecedented cultural exchange. In 2012 the ensemble reconnected with its roots in China and more deeply embraced its role as a cultural ambassador by launching a new partnership with the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, a pilot residency that united the Orchestra with talented young Chinese musicians and composers to further develop their orchestral skills. The residency also served to bring orchestral music, through performances and master classes, not only to China’s major cities but also further into the provinces, and to connect through the hearts of local musicians to their supporting communities, through the sharing of musical talents between its own musicians and Chinese musicians, engaging in music education, and spreading the joy of classical music with citizens in residential neighborhoods and at landmark historic sites. The success of this pilot program was confirmed when the Orchestra and the NCPA signed a long-term agreement to extend this partnership into future residency programs, and in May-June 2013 the Orchestra triumphantly returned for its Residency and 40th Anniversary Tour of China, presenting over 50 activities in 15 days.
In 2014 the innovative program continued to represent a bridge for cultural, educational, and diplomatic exchange between China and the United States, as the two nations celebrated 35 years of diplomatic relations. Since 1973, when President Richard M. Nixon asked the Orchestra to be the first U.S. orchestra to perform in China, the ensemble has enjoyed a unique and special relationship with China and its people. Twenty years after its first arrival in China, the Orchestra returned in 1993, 1996, 2001, 2008, and 2010, when it helped to open the World Expo in Shanghai, prior to its residencies in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Asia Tour begins in the territory of Hong Kong, with two concerts at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, May 19 and 20. Both programs will be broadcast live back home on Philadelphia’s classical music station WRTI 90.1 FM. Listeners can tune in at 8 AM on both dates to hear Yannick Nézet-Séguin lead the Orchestra in Brahms’s Second Symphony and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade (May 19), and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 (“Serioso”) in Mahler’s arrangement for string orchestra and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”) (May 20). These concerts will also be broadcast live for Hong Kong audiences on RTHK Radio 4.
On Wednesday, May 18, Assistant Conductor Lio Kuokman and a small group of Orchestra musicians perform a chamber concert live at RTHK Radio 4’s studios in Hong Kong. Additional residency work includes a master class with Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts students and five Philadelphia Orchestra musicians on May 20.
The Philadelphia Orchestra last visited Hong Kong 11 years ago, in June 2005, with then-Music Director Christoph Eschenbach.
The Orchestra presents one concert at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, May 22. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Orchestra in Sibelius’s Finlandia, Grieg’s Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”). Current residency events include a side-by-side concert with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra at the Shanghai International Tourism Resort Zone, also on May 22.
Shanghai Media Group is the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Shanghai.
While in Beijing, the Orchestra gives two concerts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, May 25 and 26. Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang is the featured soloist, performing Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto on May 25 and May 28. While in Beijing, an Orchestra violinist gives a master class with Chinese violin students at the Penn Wharton China Center, May 24.
On April 8 The Philadelphia Orchestra announced HEAR, a series of collaborative learning initiatives that represent the most comprehensive and dynamic community engagement in the Orchestra’s recent history. Spanning four categories—Health, Education, Access, and Research—HEAR is a portfolio of programs that promotes wellness, champions music education, eliminates barriers to accessing the Orchestra, and maximizes impact through research, all throughout the Philadelphia region. A highlight of the Education initiative is an unprecedented partnership with the Eastman Music Company. This summer, Eastman and the Orchestra will launch a “buy one, give one” program. Incorporating feedback from Philadelphia Orchestra musicians, Eastman designed a new line of instruments specifically developed for the program named La Scala. For every one purchased, one will go to a student in need in Philadelphia. During the 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency, Orchestra constituents will visit the Eastman factory, work with the luthiers, and perform for children at a local school.
Penn Wharton China Center is the presenting sponsor in Beijing.
Over the last four years, the Orchestra’s presence in Macao has grown significantly through concerts and residency activities made possible by a close partnership with the Venetian Macao, expanding people-to-people exchange throughout the region. During the 2016 Tour of Asia, the Orchestra presents two concerts at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, May 28 and 29. Lang Lang performs Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto on May 28, and Ryo Goto makes his Philadelphia Orchestra debut with a performance of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 on May 29.
Residency activities include master classes with Philadelphia Orchestra musicians and Lio Kuokman, and a pop-up concert at Taipa Houses Museum on May 28.
The Venetian Macao is the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency.
The Philadelphia Orchestra has a longstanding relationship with Japan, first visiting the island nation in 1967 with Eugene Ormandy as part of the Orchestra’s first tour of Asia. For the 2016 Tour of Asia, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra perform at Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Suntory Hall, Osaka’s Symphony Hall, and the Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s last visit to Osaka was in 1999, and 2016 marks the Orchestra’s first appearance in Kawasaki.
Ryu Goto joins the Orchestra as featured soloist, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Japanese composer Torū Takemitsu’s Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performances of the piece.
The Orchestra’s last visit to Japan was in 2014. In addition to subsequent tours of Japan with Ormandy, the Orchestra also visited and performed in the country with Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, and Charles Dutoit.
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency is made possible through the generous support of valued sponsors and partners. The Venetian Macao is the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency. Shanghai Media Group is the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Shanghai. Penn Wharton China Center is the presenting sponsor in Beijing. Ruder Finn is the official public relations agency for The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2016 Tour of Asia and China Residency. The Orchestra’s primary partner is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Team PA, United Airlines, and White and Williams, LLP as additional tour partners.
Click here for the complete concert and residency schedules.
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^ Orbital elements refer to the barycenter of the Neptune system, and are the instantaneous osculating values at the precise J2000 epoch. Barycenter quantities are given because, in contrast to the planetary centre, they do not experience appreciable changes on a day-to-day basis from to the motion of the moons.
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Life of Muhammad re-aired March 3, 2015.
Examine the world into which Muhammad was born.
Life of Muhammad is a new three-part series presented by acclaimed journalist and author Rageh Omaar. The film charts the extraordinary story of a man who, in little more than 20 years, changed the world forever.
Journalist and author Rageh Omaar.
Filmed on location in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Turkey, Syria, the U.S., the United Kingdom and Jordan, the series also draws on the expertise of some of the world’s leading academics and commentators on Islam, including Tariq Ramadan (academic and fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford), Ziauddin Sardar (London-based scholar and writer specializing in Muslim thought), Tom Holland (British novelist and historian), HRH Princess Badiya El Hassan of the Jordanian Royal Family, Dr. Amira K Bennison (senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Cambridge University), Sajjad Rizvi (associate professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Exeter University), Bishop Nazir-Ali (author of Islam: A Christian Perspective) and John L Esposito (professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University).
Life of Muhammad comprises three one-hour episodes. The first, The Seeker, examines the world into which Muhammad was born, his marriage to his first wife, Khadijah, as well as his first revelations and the profound impact they had on his life and on the lives of those closest to him. Holy Wars, the second episode, focuses on key events in Muhammad’s life, including the Night Journey to Jerusalem, his departure from Mecca and the eight-year war with the Meccan tribes. The third and final episode, Holy Peace, analyzes events during his later life, including the introduction of the moral code known as Shari‘a and the concept of jihad.
Rageh Omaar is a Somali-born journalist and author. A former BBC World Affairs correspondent, he currently works as a journalist and reporter for ITN UK, where he is the Middle Eastern correspondent, and also hosts his own monthly investigative documentaries called The Rageh Omaar Report.
Life of Muhammad was produced by Crescent Films and produced and directed by Faris Kermani.
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Steve Dettelbach, shown during his final days as U.S. attorney for the Northern Ohio district in Cleveland, is working to be at the top of Democratic leaders' lists ahead of the 2018 race for attorney general.
Steve Dettelbach dashes into 2018 mode. Tim Ryan offers some coffee talk. And Donald Trump looks to Cleveland as he considers his Cabinet. Read more in Ohio Politics Roundup.
Dettelbach so soon? If you're already following the jockeying for statewide offices in 2018, get ready to see and hear a lot more of Steve Dettelbach. The former federal prosecutor and U.S. attorney in Cleveland is contemplating a Democratic bid for attorney general.
Democrats say Dettelbach has been among the party's most aggressive down-ballot prospects. "I heard from him at 8 a.m. Wednesday" - the morning after Republican Donald Trump won the presidency - "and he was like, 'hey, we gotta get going," one top party operative tells me.
Dettelbach on Monday received the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland's Lou Stokes Paragon of Justice Award, named for the late congressman. "Donald Trump could take a valuable lesson from the work of both of the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Legal Aid Society," he writes in a guest column for cleveland.com. "A lesson about what the rule of law really means."
State Auditor Dave Yost is seen as the Republican favorite for attorney general, with Keith Faber, the outgoing Ohio Senate president, occasionally mentioned as a possibility. Republican incumbent Mike DeWine is term-limited and planning a run for governor.
House brew: "I'm just banging away on the phone," Tim Ryan, the Youngstown-area Democrat who is vying to unseat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, tells the Washington Post over "a sip of a medium coffee with two shots of espresso poured in for an extra kick."
Caffeinated and crunchy, but not conservative? "One misnomer in much of the coverage about Ryan over the last few days is that he's a 'moderate,'" the Post's James Hohmann writes.
"To be sure, Ryan was pro-life until just last year - when he announced that he had changed his mind and decided to embrace abortion rights. ... (In this op-ed, which appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal around the time Ryan was considering a Senate bid.) ... But Ryan is no squish. He's even a little crunchy. After the 2008 election, Ryan signed up for a retreat on mindfulness and became such an obsessed devotee of meditation that he wrote a book about it."
But Ryan is an underdog. This might be all about 2018. From Hohmann: "'No idea,' Ryan said twice when I pressed on whether he will run for governor if his coup attempt fails.
"'People are calling me to do it.'"
What about Bob? "It's not hard to make the argument that Bob Paduchik might be the most important Republican in the state of Ohio right now, the most impactful," Kevin DeWine, the former Ohio Republican Party chairman, says of Trump's Buckeye State director on this week's "State of Ohio" - hosted by Ideastream's Karen Kasler. "He has the best relationship with the president-elect. And so when it comes ... to things that are going to happen in Ohio, I think Bob Paduchik is going to be an early recipient of a phone call from the administration."
The state's Republican establishment, led by Gov. John Kasich and Ohio GOP Chairman Matt Borges, had been lukewarm at best toward Trump's candidacy. And Paduchik fought with Borges in the media several weeks before Election Day. Trump's surprise victory has some speculating about Borges' future. "There's clearly a rift," says DeWine, who was ousted as state party chairman several years ago in a coup orchestrated by Kasich's allies.
"Whether that transcends into a leadership change in the party, I don't know."
Perfect strangers: Sen. Rob Portman has little, if anything, in common with Trump, a reality that made the Ohio Republican's endorsement of him - Portman later revoked it - puzzling.
New number-crunching from FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver suggests that Portman will be among the Senate Republicans least likely to agree with Trump. Portman ranks smack dab in the middle of all senators, at No. 50, in an analysis of who is most similar to the president-elect.
Silver speculates that Portman's past free-market positions on trade might clash with Trump's protectionist stance (though Portman's position moved closer to Trump's in recent months).
Ohio's other senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown, ranks at No. 82. Remember: Brown, a populist liberal, has shown an interest in finding common ground with Trump on trade.
Lortz believes the UAW can work with Trump on NAFTA. "He wasn't our candidate. But that's an issue he actually came to us on and I think we need to hold him accountable on that."
And now for some news organized labor might not like: Prominent Cleveland labor lawyer Peter Kirsanow, who represents the management side in labor disputes, met with Trump over the weekend, prompting speculation about a Cabinet appointment. Kirsanow, reports cleveland.com's Stephen Koff, was watching the Ohio State football game Saturday when he received the invite from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff.
"Anytime the president of the United States interviews you in the context of a Mitt Romney and others like that - I'm just a little old labor lawyer from Cleveland - you've got to be very receptive. It's just an honor to be considered by the president-elect," Kirsanow tells Koff.
Keepin' it CLE: Cleveland native Andy Puzder, CEO of the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. restaurant chain, also has been mentioned as a possible labor secretary in the Trump administration.
"The first meeting I had with Donald Trump ... Trump walks in the room - there are like six, seven us around the table," Puzder said for an interview Politico published over the weekend. "Puts his hand on the table and says who do you think I should pick for vice president. I swear to God, I think if a guy walked in delivering sodas to the room, he would have asked him ... He wasn't just going to listen to people who were just in the inner circle or influential. This guy was listening to everybody. Not strangely, he heard things the rest of us didn't hear."
Return of the quack: "After turkey and pie, state lawmakers will fill their plates for a lame-duck session with bills tackling abortion, renewable energy standards, puppy mills and more," cleveland.com's Jackie Borchardt writes. "The final weeks of the two-year Ohio House session are often a mad sprint to finish business before a new General Assembly begins in January. In addition to tying up loose ends, legislators often use the time to move controversial bills."
Not Fabe away: "Majority party leaders rarely sponsor bills, but Faber" - the outgoing Senate president - has three pending," Borchardt notes. "All three have passed the Senate but stalled in the House," where the term-limited Faber will resurface as a state rep next session.
Meanwhile ... Kasich and his Cabinet met Monday with State Sen. Larry Obhof of Medina. Obhof will succeed Faber as Senate president. See the governor's tweet and photo here.
Big League Zone: The National League of Cities has elected Cleveland Councilman Matt Zone as its new president. "America's cities are facing some tough challenges," Zone says in a statement distributed by the group. "But, with one voice, we will work with our federal partners to find solutions to these challenges. I truly believe that cities are stronger, together."
Zone, a Democrat, has long been active in the organization. He's also mentioned as a future Cuyahoga County executive should Armond Budish move on anytime soon.
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Do we ever really leave high school?
Seven high school friends meet 27 years after graduation for a long weekend. Such is the "Big Chill" setup of Anita Shreve's new novel A Wedding in December. As the title indicates, it's a wedding rather than a funeral that's sparked this particular reunion, but one member is missing. Stephen Otis, the most charismatic and athletic of the friends, drowned the spring of their senior year.
The happy couple is Bill and Bridget, former high school sweethearts who broke up in college.
Two years ago, Bill divorced his wife and daughter to be with Bridget, a single mom who's battling cancer. Nora, now an innkeeper, is throwing the wedding for them at her inn in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
The rest of the wedding party includes Agnes, who teaches history at their old private school; Jerry, a New York businessman, and his wife; Rob, a concert pianist, and his partner; Harrison, a publisher, and Bridget's teenage son, Matt.
Harrison, who was Stephen's roommate, is the one still affected by his death (because he knows the most about it?). "The name produced in Harrison, as it always did, a clench in his gut along with a slight oil slick of shame." But as the weekend progresses, Stephen's memory makes itself felt more and more.
Not that his death is the only thing these characters have to regret. Examining the choices that make up a life's direction (particularly regarding love) certainly makes sense for middle-aged friends celebrating a poignant ceremony.
Nora, for example, is the widow of Carl, a celebrated poet, who left his first wife for her when Nora was in college.
"When a man leaves his wife and children for another woman, there's a burden on that woman. She has to be worth the sacrifice.... No one is worth that kind of sacrifice."
And since her husband turned out to be as selfish as he was talented, Nora is the one who paid. "In Carl's case, it was even worse. To be worth the sacrifice, every word had to be incandescent."
Agnes also has what could be termed an adultery hangover. Her 26-year relationship with a married English teacher (the friends' favorite teacher in high school) is on indefinite hold.
"Stories, Agnes thought, were usually about things that had occurred. Her particular story was about things that had not occurred. What had not occurred was the sum of all the days and years she and Jim had not had together, the days and years that could never be returned. But, she thought, her story wasn't over yet. Possibilities remained."
Shreve tends to split her time between period novels such as "Fortune's Rocks" and "All He Ever Wanted" and modern ones such as "Sea Glass" and "The Pilot's Wife."
Here she combines both worlds, since Agnes is writing a story set during the Halifax, Nova Scotia, harbor explosion during World War I. A munitions ship collided with a freighter carrying TNT and picric acid. The resulting explosion killed 2,000 people.
"Wedding" jumps back and forth between the wedding party and the adventures of eye surgeon Innes Finch, a newcomer to Halifax who finds his services much in demand.
Shreve sets the wedding in December of 2001, presumably to contrast the explosion in Halifax with the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that took place earlier in 2001. Unfortunately, her characters can't seem to find anything to say about the events of Sept. 11 that isn't either trite or teeth-grindingly banal.
Bridget's monologues about the small indignities and gigantic fears she's grappling with are much more fully realized.
For example, Bridget's stuck getting married in a hairdo she hates, because the folks who wash her wig for her didn't bother to read the instructions.
"Bridget had been mildly distraught, a week ago, to see that she would be married in a flip, but she knew enough not to try to wash it herself, which she had once done, the outcome disastrous and resulting in a shoulder-length Afro."
While Bridget is a beautifully realized character, a couple of the other friends get rather short shrift in the narrative. Jerry doesn't have much to do besides annoy his wife and antagonize Harrison, and Rob is relegated to that modern cliché, the saintly gay friend.
Finally, the novel starts to feel a little soap opera-ish, since by the end, even Agnes's fictional characters are having affairs.
But as a melancholy character study, "Wedding" provides just enough interest that readers won't want to send their regrets.
• Yvonne Zipp is a freelance writer in Kalamzoo, Mich.
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BACKGROUND: A 42-year-old previously healthy man was referred to hospital with an 8-week history of fevers, night sweats, fatigue, and unintentional weight loss. There was no past history of medical illness or any medication use. Physical examination was unremarkable. On urinalysis, the patient had hematuria (grade 4+) and proteinuria (grade 4+). INVESTIGATIONS: Urine phase-contrast microscopy, full blood count, renal function tests, 24-h urine collection for protein, serum immune electrophoresis, renal biopsies, phase-contrast microscopy, serological tests for antinuclear antibodies, extractable nuclear antigens, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, cryoglobulin test, complement testing, flow cytometry of the peripheral blood, and bone marrow biopsy. DIAGNOSIS: Monoclonal gammopathy and a glomerulopathy, with microtubular deposits, associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. MANAGEMENT: Treatment with prednisone and cyclophosphamide did not improve proteinuria, although lymphocyte count returned to normal. The patient did not tolerate high-dose cyclophosphamide and was started on rituximab. His proteinuria completely resolved and there was complete disappearance of the microtubules.
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A new TV spot in one of the country’s hottest Senate races aims to show voters that the guy tough enough to do the job is…the woman already doing it.
In her latest ad, North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who’s in a serious fight to hang on to her job in November’s election, makes her pitch while casually arm-wrestling a mountain of a man in a muscle shirt.
“Maybe this is how we should decide elections, because it couldn’t get much more ridiculous,” says the Democratic incumbent in the spot, which her campaign shared with Glamour ahead of its official launch.
Heitkamp puts the verbal smackdown on her real-life opponent during the phony arm-wrestling match, telling viewers Republican Representative Kevin Cramer wants them “to believe that I’m anti-veteran, pro-taxes, and against prosecuting illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Are you kidding me? That’s about as silly and fake as this TV ad,” she says.
“I approve this message because I’ve fought every day for North Dakota—and Kevin, I’m just getting warmed up,” Heitkamp closes before slamming the big guy’s arm down on the table.
"Here in North Dakota, we look each other in the eyes and tell the truth—that's what I learned growing up in Mantador and that's what I've always done as North Dakota's senator,” Heitkamp told Glamour in an email via her campaign. “But Congressman Cramer apparently doesn't share those values. I didn't think it'd come to arm wrestling, but I'll always fight tooth and nail for North Dakota."
Republicans would love to replace Heitkamp with one of their own, giving them a stronger hold on the Senate. But recent polls show Heitkamp losing ground to Cramer in North Dakota, a state where Republican President Donald Trump got a whopping 63 percent of the vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 27 percent in 2016.
The latest Cook Political Report analysis calls the race a toss-up in an election that’s seen as a referendum on not just the GOP, but the President himself. Trump endorsed Cramer, whose campaign includes promises to keep cutting taxes and regulations, months ago.
Just Thursday Heitkamp, North Dakota's former attorney general, came out against confirming Trump’s controversial Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, potentially riling voters a month out from the November 6 midterms.
"If this were a political decision for me I certainly would be deciding the other way," Heitkamp told local TV station WDAY of her choice to oppose Kavanaugh in a Senate vote that could come in just days.
"History will judge you, but most importantly you will judge yourself, and that is what I am saying: I can't get up in the morning and look at the life experience I have had and say ‘yes’ to Judge Kavanaugh,” said Heitkamp, who did vote in favor of confirming Trump's first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
Cramer, by contrast, has called college professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s “even more absurd” than the harassment charges Anita Hill made against then-SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas.
“These are teenagers who evidently were drunk, according to her own statement,” Cramer was quoted as saying in a radio interview regarding Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh attacked her at a party when they were in high school. “They were drunk. Nothing evidently happened in it all, even by her own accusation. Again, it was supposedly an attempt or something that never went anywhere."
Kavanaugh has emphatically denied Ford’s allegations.
In a separate TV appearance, Cramer also reportedly said even if Ford’s claim’s were true, the judge shouldn’t be out of consideration for a Supreme Court seat just because “he did something really bad 36 years ago.” The congressman did say, however, that he felt Kavanaugh should be disqualified if he lied about the incident under oath, “because that's what he's doing today, not 36 years ago."
Team Heitkamp tells Glamour it’s spending six figures to put the deliberately campy arm-wrestling ad on statewide television and on the Web. According to NBC News, the senator is also going to air with another spot that plays up her political independence in the wake of her announcement about opposing Kavanaugh.
Heitkamp’s latest spots join the reel of ads and viral videos, some light-hearted, some personal and serious, put out by female candidates on both sides of the aisle in a cycle that’s seen a historic number of women nominated for Senate, the House, and governor.
However, she’s not the first woman contender to do battle on air with a male adversary: Sharice Davids, a Democratic lawyer running for Congress in Kansas, put out a clip this spring that showed her in the ring in a nod to her time as a pro MMA fighter.
After viewing the spot, the North Dakota GOP appeared unimpressed with Heitkamp's on-air attack.
“Let's be clear: Heidi Heitkamp is a liberal Democrat who is now going to spend the rest of the campaign trying to rewrite her record,” North Dakota Republican Party Communications director Jake Wilkins told Glamour via email.
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1 Reply Latest reply on May 17, 2017 1:19 PM by Chrys C.
I'm unable to access the Product Code.
I just brought the 2016/2017 ASVAB for dummies (including 1 year access to online practice test) a month ago. Finally got to open the book and go online and the code doesn't work. I'm ready to study for the exam, can I please get some help ASAP.
Re: I'm unable to access the Product Code.
Please let me know if you have any further questions. Have a nice afternoon!
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KryptoMail is a full-featured email client that lets you send and receive digitally signed and encrypted emails using PGP standard. It is compatible with virtually any IMAP mail server.
Krypto Mail is the first full-featured mail client on iPhone and iPod touch that provides enterprise class security of PGP encryption, making it compatible with other PGP software. Unlike many other security solutions it decrypts your mail on your device using your personal private key, which means that nobody else can ever read your communication. Not your internet provider, not even us. It also lets you digitally sign your emails and verify signatures on your incoming mail, ensuring that the content was not altered by third parties.
Krypto Mail is not only about security, but also about advanced email features. It uses IMAP and is therefore compatible with virtually any mail server and lets you configure all your accounts in one place. We created Krypto Mail to be intuitive to use, rich in features and secure for business.
Fixed crash introduced in 1.3 update.
Was a great app. No competitors out there. The latest update is trash. Lots of crashes. Not even partially usable any more.
Updated: new version released to fix crashes. It did fix crash I was having that made the app unusable. Now the app just crashes when decrypting messages. I honestly don't think the developer is even testing the app. For all intents and purposes still unusable.
Updated: remains broken. Seems like it can only decrypt messages from certain gpg clients and crashes on the rest. Unusable if you are communicating with someone with that client.
Doesn't work with email provider Countermail.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kryptomail-email-client-built/id909084589?ls=1&mt=8
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Looking for the quickest way to the Windows Task Manager? Look no further than this keyboard shortcut.
Windows Task Manager is a useful tool to monitor your system and quit applications that are not responding. If you are using the tried-and-true Ctrl-Alt-Delete to access the Windows Task Manager, you are taking the long way there. Instead, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Esc to access the Task Manager directly.
In Windows 8, Ctrl-Alt-Delete calls up a menu, of which the Task Manager is one option. This means it's a two-step process to get to the Task Manager. With the Ctrl-Shift-Esc shortcut, you call up the Task Manager directly, giving you quicker access. It may seem like a trivial savings, but when your system is acting strangely or running slowly, any amount of effort saved to root out and shut down the offending application is beneficial.
What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts in Windows 8? Please share in the comments below.
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The way that I’m most involved with Y.O.U. this summer is through the facilitation of two classes—one life skill class (cultural connections) and one slam poetry class. Cultural connections is a class that my team and I have designed to talk about intersections between race, class and gender—specifically focusing on how these topics come up in these youth’s lives. The first week we focused on privilege versus oppression and discussed tips for being an ally. Other lesson plans I’ve executed involve discussions about general inequality, LGBTQAI issues, portrayals of gender in media, race & ethnicity and other issues that are rampant in the lives and community of youth in south Evanston.
In my slam poetry class, middle school students have the opportunity to learn about slam poetry, practice writing different forms of poetry, write multiple pieces to perform in front of peers and staff, and record their work at a nearby YMCA media studio. Working with Y.O.U. has given me tremendous perspective on the creative potential of youth, general function and logistics of non-profit work and particular issues immediately affecting youth in this community. This experience has affirmed my career aspiration to work with minority communities and help provide a platform for underrepresented youth to have a voice.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2015 by pestfoggerb448.
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2019-04-23T06:52:54Z
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https://pestfoggerb448.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/human-hair-extensions-hair-extension-can-make-you-a-perfect-style-diva/
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Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance continues its Lincoln Center run through April 3.
In a program essay by Susan Yung for the Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance season (through April 3), guest choreographer Doug Elkins mentions that Taylor’s Esplanade was the first dance he ever saw on PBS’s “Dance in America” and acknowledges its influence on him. Not that you’d guess it at the opening of his The Weight of Smoke, choreographed in collaboration with the Taylor dancers (all sixteen of them). In Esplanade, no one walks lazily onto an empty stage the way Michael Novak begins Elkins’s premiere and looks around to see what’s new in the neighborhood. Justin Levine and Matt Stine’s score blasts some traffic noise and agitated voices to tell us where we are—not that these and other disruptive sounds completely overwhelm the snatches of music by Handel (an aria here, piano notes there) that later seep to the surface of the taped melée.
The Weight of Smoke builds gradually, even though from the outset the movement has a punchy vigor. And the superb performers—new to Elkins’s affiliations with hip-hop, capoeira, and his take on modern dance history—embrace his ideas with everything they’ve got (and do some things that they may have thought they’d never do onstage). No, Madelyn Ho cannot lift Michael Trusnovec, but she can give it a whirl. People saunter on at apparent random, swing their hips, ripple their arms, pal up. Eran Bugge straddles George Smallwood as he rolls; seconds later, she’s standing on one leg on his shoulder, and he carries her away. Elkins orchestrates messiness so skillfully that it’s sometimes startling how swiftly it can transform into temporary unison or counterpoint.
In their smartly casual attire by Karen Young and skillfully lit by James F. Ingalls, these agile folks play against traditional gender roles and occasionally display a comradely sexuality (a hand on someone’s crotch, a quick feel of a breast). Did you ever think you’d see Novak, Smallwood, Trusnovec, Robert Kleinendorst, and James Samson swing their way toward you with a runway strut? What might seem individual and particular becomes somewhat abstracted or playfully treated. No steamy dramas arise. Partners in each of three kneeling couples simultaneously lock in a kiss and then find ways to twist, bend, or rise as they remained attached by the lips.
Elkins might almost have titled the piece Legs in the Air, so often do the dancers upend themselves on one hand or two, and there’s energetic, free-wheeling movement—the kind that makes you think of the stage as a place you’d like to visit. When The Weight of Smoke ends, it does so unceremoniously. The music just cuts out and the stage goes black.
During the second week of the company’s season, the Taylor dancers performed a piece that’s part of Taylor’s own heritage: Martha Graham’s 1948 Diversion of Angels—one of the few from that decade in which Graham did not dance herself. Set to a made-to-order score by Norman Dello Joio (played by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led by Donald York) and with lighting by Jennifer Tipton (after Jean Rosenthal’s original designs), it might be taking place in an Elysian field instead of on a New York stage. During his seven seasons dancing with Graham’s company, Taylor was one of the four men in Diversion of Angels who leap and cartwheel and celebrate love. Three of these and their partners represent the phases of that love. The woman in yellow is a young girl—vivacious and playful, adoring to be swung through the air. The woman in red is more sensual, more in thrall to passion. The woman in white has reached a kind of serenity that still has room for questioning.
Diversion of Angels is one of those perfect pieces—clear, beautifully designed, and full of life and feeling. It was reconstructed by current Graham dancers Blakely White-McGuire and Tadej Brdnik and coached by Linda Hodes, a Graham company member of an earlier generation, and the Taylor dancers perform it with rapturous vitality. Bugge and Novak are the spirited youngest partners, Parisa Khobdeh and Mahoney the passionate ones, and Laura Halzack and Trusnovec the reserved, tender elders. Michelle Fleet, Jamie Rae Walker, Heather McGinley, Christina Lynch-Markham, and Smallwood complete the cast.
A couple of small discrepancies struck me. At times Halzack eases into movements that are embedded in my memory as all-at-once ones. And Khobdeh, a vivid streak of red as she races across the space and a tempest in one solo, performs the famous progress across the front of the stage as if she’d never heard of a Graham “contraction.” The choreography has her repeatedly stepping sideways onto one leg, the other leg held high to the side and her body tilted away from it. Usually that too has been performed as a single, breath-caught move, sometimes followed by a deep contraction, as if the wind had been knocked out of her by her own exaltation. Each time Khobdeh performs this step, she hits the pose and then bends a bit further to the side, giving the step a yielding, almost sentimental look.
The other dance by a guest choreographer this season is Donald McKayle’s 1959 Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder, but although Taylor’s company has the seven strong male dancers the piece requires, they might not get through the rest of the program after performing it. The accomplished men in the guesting Dayton Contemporary Dance Company are streaming with sweat by the time they’ve finished the heavy, forceful blows that toiling in a chain-gang requires. They also jump over and over (although the piece feels a bit long, that length rams home the arduousness of these men’s lives). The men (Devin Baker, Michael Green, Joshua L. Ishmon, Robert Pulido, Alvin Rangel, Quentin Apollo Vaughn Sledge, and Demetrius Tabron) do get a chance to rest or react emotionally to the visions conjured up of the women they’ve left behind. Alexis Britford (excellent) appears as a remembered sweetheart, then as a mother, then a wife. A flower in her hair or a scarf tied over it helps signal that she will tempt, nurture, or support a dreaming man (Sledge and Green are the two soloists). Destan Owans, with Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices, plus guitarist Gary Sieger perform from the pit the fine old songs collected by the Allen and John Lomax and arranged by Robert DeCormier and Milton Okun.
Not all the Taylor works on the programs that I saw are masterpieces. But although Snow White (1983) and Three Dubious Memories (2010) are slight works, the choreographer gives deft comedic twists to plots we know. Snow White’s dwarfs (only five: Kleinendorst, Samson, Francisco Graciano, Michael Apuzzo, and Smallwood) are marvels at clumping round, walking in a squat, capering acrobatically, and hinting at their various characters as per the fairytale seven. But the charmingly playful Snow White (Khobdeh) ends up finding her reflection in the mirror much more absorbing than the strutting, nose-in-the-air Prince (Sean Mahoney) who’s carrying her off. Mahoney also plays the evil, mirror-obsessed Queen, and Heather McGinley twitches around as her poison-laced Apple. All to York’s specially composed score.
Three Dubious Memories brings to mind the 1950 film Rashomon, which was in turn based on a Japanese short story. What fun there is in Taylor’s dance, set to Peter Elyakin’s intriguing Five Enigmas (four sections only and heard on tape) comes from seeing how each of two men and a woman tells a different version of a love-and jealousy encounter in the forest before a mysterious group of seven billed as Choristers, with Samson as the Choirmaster. Perhaps he is the judge and they the jury that can’t decide which of the three is telling the truth. about his/her encounter. The twist is that after the Man in Blue (Mahoney) “remembers” coming upon the Woman in Red (Bugge) and the Man in Green (Kleinendorst) nestled together, and “Green” rages at the sight of “Blue” and “Red” romancing, the men have a guys-only adventure, and the woman wallops them both. The Choristers reach no conclusion, and the three squabble themselves into an exhausted heap.
Taylor delved into antiquity for the lovely, small-scale Images (1977) and Profiles (1979). For the first, Gene Moore costumed the eight dancers like Cretan athletes and maidens (originally, the women’s breasts were covered by flesh-colored net, but as the result of a last-minute decision this season, they were bare), and the accompaniment is delicate piano pieces by Claude Debussy, played by Margaret Kampmeier. Sometimes, in sections with names such as “Totem Dolphins” and “Antique Cortege,” the performers fit into patterns as controlled and two-dimensional as processions on a painted vase, but they also frolic. In the central solo, “Oracle,” Halzack—covering her mouth, her eyes; snaking her arms; tossing her head from side to side—indeed seem to be dragging difficult visions into the small circle of light in which she stands.
In Profiles, to a commissioned score for string quartet by Jan Radzynski, four dancers (Trusnovec, Halzack, Bugge, and Novak) enact what might be the fragments of a lost story. The music sometimes buzzes around them like a swarm of bees or contradicts their composure with drastic imagery. Sometimes one pair freezes in a pose while the other moves. Positions that could be two-dimensional flower into three dimensions when the dancers rotate them.
I can’t recall ever seeing the 1993 Spindrift, and I’d like to see this enigmatic work again. It’s set to Arnold Schoenberg’s haunting 1933 Concerto for String Quartet (after Händel’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7). Donald York conducted Kristi Bennion Feeney and Anca Nicolau (violins), David Cerutti (viola), and Myron Lutzke (cello). “Spindrift” refers to the ocean spray stirred up by wind, and Santo Loquasto’s handsome backdrop by conjures up in the most mysterious and romantic way a glowing red sky, a sea, and a strand. Initially, this design is a smallish rectangle on a blank surface; later, it fills that space.
Initially the eleven clustered dancers too suggest waves and ripples within a larger undulation—two women stepping out of the group and receding back into it, then four men, and so on. Trusnovec seems to be a man apart. He falls a two or more couple of times. You think the dance could involve an initiation; he others create a tunnel of their legs and he scrabbles the way through it. Or is it an oblique drama about a man trying to fit into a playful group—a kind of Robinson Crusoe cast ashore? All the shifting interactions emerge within an ongoing rush of dancing, which eventually he joins—one of them. Nevertheless, he ends almost alone; Ho, on the opposite side of the stage backs away. He raises an arm toward her in a curious gesture that recurs throughout Spindrift; it’s like a summons or even a “hail.” The lights go out.
Trusnovec is as fine now as he was in 2008 as the central figure in Taylor’s Beloved Renegade—perhaps even finer. This great work and the quotes from Walt Whitman’ Leaves of Grass that introduce its sections allude to the poet’s work as a battlefield doctor during the Civil War, and Taylor builds images of wounded and dying soldiers, children playing games, a man and woman in love (Khobdeh and Kleinendorst), a woman who reaches out to the hero (Christina Lynch Markham), and another, Halzack, as (perhaps) his muse. Francis Poulenc’s Gloria—conducted by York and performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the St. George Choral Society—underscores and bears the weight of Whitman’s and Taylor’s themes: love, sensual awakening, sacrifice, and death.
I don’t know how the Taylor dancers have been appearing to spectators in the second or third ring of the former New York State Theater. From my fortunate orchestra seat, I’ve been relishing the gusto with which they attack the jubilant steps, the grave simplicity with which they perform the quieter passages, and the mischief that they bring to comedy. It’s also a pleasure to watch them grow into Taylor’s style. In 2014, it was Francisco Graciano who suddenly seemed to own the steps he was performing. In 2016, Novak, McGinley, and Lynch Markham come across more vividly. But as important as the physical skills they all possess is the way that they see— really see—and respond to one another. My eye goes, say, to Samson offering his hand to a partner so they can run offstage together. He doesn’t just take her hand; through his focus and a slight inclination, he asks her permission (“want to come with me?”). And, for the most part, everyone delineates those subtle aspects of group behavior. Watch the always terrific Kleinendorst, the last (I believe) to touch the shoulder of the dancer beside him in that tight sinking-down circle in Esplanade; he doesn’t embellish or exaggerate the gesture, but makes you feel its firm, yet gentle pressure. Maybe Michelle Fleet goes a little overboard in her first solo bit in that dance, but it’s rare for her—or any of them—to court the audience (unless that’s the point). And it’s through that onstage camaraderie , those small details, and their investment in the moment that they illumine Taylor’s choreography—making his lesser works gleam and his great ones light up the theater.
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http://www.artsjournal.com/dancebeat/2016/03/the-old-and-the-new-dancing-together/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artsjournal%2FnUvn+%28DanceBeat%29
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A dinosaur on wheels… a Cadillac covered in Legos… a tie-dyed school bus… if you see all of these rolling towards you, it doesn’t mean you’re stuck in a surrealistic dream – it probably means you’re watching an Art Car Parade!
An art car is a vehicle that has been transformed through the magic of paint or found objects, and a healthy dose of creativity, into a mobile objet d’art. First originating during the hippie movement of the 60s, the art car phenomenon is still alive and well today. Annual Art Car Parades take place in cities such as Houston, Minneapolis and San Francisco, and also feature prominently in festivals such as Burning Man. Houston’s annual Art Car Parade draws nearly a quarter of a million attendees, testimony to the popularity of these wacky and wonderful automobiles.
“Mutant vehicles” are the more radically-transformed cousins of art cars (as shown above). Mutant vehicles refer to cars that barely resemble our common conception of what a car should look like, because they have been transformed into whimsical mobile creations, like giant red wagons, hot dogs, monsters and even cathedrals.
Artist and non-artists alike have taken to decorating their cars. Those who don’t consider themselves “traditional” artists embellish their cars by covering them entirely with bumper stickers, pennies, Astroturf, Legos, and Barbie Dolls. Fine artists can show off their painting skills by creating detailed and elaborate murals on their cars, usually using enamel or airbrush.
For artists, an art car is an excellent way to show off your art because it becomes a mobile gallery, turning heads on the highway and in parking lots. If you have an art car or decide to transform your car into one, make the most out of the free publicity by adding a bumper sticker with your website address, or by painting your name and website URL somewhere prominent.
This entry was posted in 3-d sidewalk art, Art, Art Basel, art car, Brief Definition of Art History, cars, Chanukah, China and India, Christmas, Claude Monet, dinosaur, eccentric, English, Football, Football Monday, French, Game, God, Hanukkah, Happy New Year, Impressionist painting, John Singer Sargent - American Portrait Painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kids Christmas Art, landscape painter, legos, Miami, Mona Lisa, Monet, Online Paint by Number, Paint by Number kits, Paintings, parade, Patterns, pavement art, Pop Art, Puzzle, Recycling, school bus, Segmation, shipwrecks, Sidewalk art, Snow, Snow patterns, Vincent Van Gogh, wacky, Western Culture, What is the meaning of Christmas, Zodiac and tagged Art, brain teaser, Color by Number, easy, gift, masterpiece, online, online paint, Paint, painting, Segmation on December 24, 2010 by segmation.
I think it is amazing as well! Thanks!
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The balancing of weld work load between executing stations and its robots has a significant influence on achievable production rate and equipment utilization. However, no automatic simulation based method for line balancing has been formulated up to this point. In practice, it is still manually conducted. Therefore in this work we propose two novel methods for load balancing of welds in multi station sheet metal assembly lines to minimize line cycle time. The methods are based on superimposition of the scenes/geometries of all line stations, with maintained robot positioning relative to the work piece, creating a “multi station”. The weld load is balanced between all multi station robots, whereupon the individual robots are combined into stations and coordinated station wise for simultaneous operation. Furthermore one of the proposed methods reduces the subsequent need for robot coordination, by introducing some restrictions on the load balancing: Firstly, for each robot, the weld load is balanced over the other station robots such that the working envelopes are maximally separated. Secondly, for each robot, the weld load is balanced over equivalently positioned robots in other line stations, based on previous station load balancing techniques. The proposed line balancing methods are applied on two industrial case studies which each involves the balancing of about 200 automotive stud welds between 3 stations, each of 4 robots. One of the proposed methods produces line cycle times close to that of the slowest uncoordinated robot, which can be considered a theoretical optimum of the line cycle time. Corresponding algorithm running time is about 30 minutes on an Intel Core 2 Quad with 8 GB RAM.
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2019-04-20T14:51:00Z
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https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/129119
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At the title screen, press R, and your time trial record of Mario Raceway will be displayed.
Press and hold the A button a fraction of a second after the second light turns off for a nice boost to start the race. This works in every mode.
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https://themushroomkingdom.net/codes/mk64
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Essay on Positive and negative Impact of Brexit Free 800 words Essay on Positive and negative Impact of Brexit for school and college student. Brexit: What’s Good and What’s Bad about it? Brexit, or Britain’s planned withdrawal from the European Union, has been on everyone’s mind since the announcement a few months back. Britain’s current Prime Minister, Theresa May, finally signed the letter invoking Article 50 on 30 th May 2017, after much debate and back and forth about Britain’s exit from the European Union between the Conservative and Labour parties, and the citizens of the country. Which begs the question, what is the debate all about? Will Brexit be a terrible move for the nation, economically and politically? Or will it be so beneficial that the little bit of collateral damage can be taken into stride? As it turns out, it’s a bit of both. Let’s begin with what Britain has to gain from Brexit. Sovereignty, of course. Britain would be a completely sovereign nation once more. While being part of the EU does not exactly mean being under the rule of a different nation, there certainly are boundaries. Britain would once more be free to expand her military, and strengthen her ties independently with other powerful nations, such as the United States, 1010 Assignment 1 Physics of the European Union. Freedom to go outside the Common Agricultural Policy. With Brexit, Britain Governance Global Information once again have the freedom to buy anything from anywhere, on her own discretion, whereas being bound by the Common Agricultural Policy considerably restricted her options. This has manifold advantages for Britain; with the world being an open market for the nation, she can now choose from the best producers of commodities, and the best prices. Inflation would be lower, thanks to the fact that more could be bought for less, and lower prices would be greatly beneficial for the poor. Fishing industry will boom again. The EU brought a lot of good things to Britain, but the fishing industry was not one of them. Myopia Marketing once-thriving industry took a major hit when Britain joined the European Union, and many are now keeping their fingers crossed in the hope that fishing will pick up, and Britain will once more take SUPPORT OF THE ON CONVOLUTIONS MULTIPLICATIVE OF GROWTH FREE ASYMPTOTIC as one of the biggest exporters of fish. Apart 14035286 Document14035286 being a major source of revenue for the nation, on a more grassroots level, areas like Cornwall and Grimsby will hopefully flourish again, when the fishing industry picks up and there is more employment for the residents. No more contribution to the EU budget. A considerable portion of Britain’s income goes into its contribution to the EU budget. Not having to o that would mean Outline §2.5 Multiplication of Matrices would mean that that money could now be used to further build and strengthen Britain’s infrastructure. That money could be used to better her industries, or the much-criticised healthcare system. If all looks good, what is the debate all about? As it turns out, there is ample cause for concern as well. A hard hit economy. Even if Britain does save a lot of money by not having to contribute to the EU budget, she still loses a considerable income from the EU. So far, Britain was earning approximately 400 billion pounds from the EU annually by trading a lot of EU- almost 50% of her annual business. That will no longer be coming in, and industries are likely to take a hit. Safety issues. Let’s face it: these are uncertain times, politically speaking. First world countries like Britain and the USA are even more under threat from the global danger of terrorism. Naturally, this is not the time of cutting down on allies, but strengthening ties with them. Being part of the EU meant getting unwavering support from other powerful countries such as France and Germany, while exiting the EU might have some negative consequences diplomatically, especially since powers like the United States are strongly in favour of Britain staying with the EU. After all, the EU is the largest economic bloc in the world, and one of the most powerful. Its safety standards are high, and the European arrest warrant and the Europol are extremely adept at keeping international crime in check. Goodbye to low costs. Being part of the EU basically means being with the world’s largest and most powerful economic Social Day 11am-5pm Sunday ABUNDANCE, and the freedom to move and trade within a huge free trade zone. Brexit would eventually mean that the same trade rules and restriction would be imposed on Britain as on other non-EU nations. Maintaining presence and reaping profits from other nations would become costlier and more difficult, naturally. Moreover, tourism would certainly become pricier, and students would find it more difficult to gain admission to, and be able to economically afford, studying in the rest of the EU nations. By exiting the EU, Britain gains some and loses some. From the overwhelming public vote against Remain, it is clear what people want. How Britain plays her cards after the exit remains to be seen, and will be a true test of the nation’s integrity and fortitude. “Brexit� is a term that refers to a British exit from the European Union. Just similar to Grexit that referred to Greek exit, Brexit has been formulated. Some unfortunate countries sacrificed for the betterment of the EU but soon they became prosperous once again. Brexit impacted countries in both the positive and the negative ways. If you are one of those who voted for Brexit to leave, you might be regretting the same. But if you voted for brexit to On A Policy Second Replacement Based Cache, you might be feeling speechless. Brexit has impacted financial markets in a negative way but still there are many other reasons that are worth considering it. Competitive Economy. If you want to get lots of opportunities for getting a job and higher income, then Visual full Freeman Canada provides Audio BUSINESS must live in a competitive environment. Any country that has economy competitive enough would be a perfect fit for you. South Korea, one of the members of EU is a prosperous nation that is known for exports its goods and automobiles all over the Community form referral Adult SLT. This includes EU as well. Positive Impact of Brexit. The Economy of the country recovered. According to the recent survey, economy of the country started recovering in the month of August. Looking at the real estate world, Markit Household finances Index increased from 47.1 to 49.8 in the next 12 months. The percentage below 50 signals is acceptable and still finance Industries is cautious about it. There are several areas that were impacted negatively by the brexit still people are shopping, eating, and hanging out in cinemas. Governance started listening to people’s voice. Brexit brings governing bodies to listen to AST 2014 12 PM 01:17:58 121KB outline.docx Feb math 190 people want. Majority of population is happy after this brexit. Negative Impact of Brexit. Higher unemployment rate. Before, brexit it wasn’t predicted that brexit vote would impact unemployment of the countries in a negative way. Fear of jobs wasn’t realized before voting for brexit. As per latest news, number of job seekers dropped down after the month brexit voting poll. The rate of employment reached74.5% in the first 3-months after June. As per recent surveys, some firms expressed their reluctance to hire new employees, and cut down the list containing a number of job vacancies. Surprisingly, the Bank of England reported a job loss of approx. 250,000 and confirmed an increase of the 0.7% in unemployment rate in past two years’ time. Increased Inflation rate. The rate the date! Save inflation rose to a considerable higher level in just 20-months’ time and reach 0.6% but still was higher than the inflation rate of Bank of England that targeted level of approx. 2%. Following Brexit votes, it is expected that inflation rate would further rise and impact the inflation level of the country post weaker pound. This drop of currency has increased the rate of imports of the UK and manufacturers and retailers would now charge more from end consumers. It is predicted that the rate of inflation of this Bank of England would rest at 2.4% in next two years’ time. Wrapping Up. There are more negative impacts to positive impacts of brexit. Shall we ignore negative impact over positive?
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http://erzincantsoorgtr.somee.com/dissertation-proposal-help/page-468-2018-09-11.html
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John Burke (February 25, 1859 – May 14, 1937) was an American lawyer, jurist, and political leader from North Dakota. He was the tenth Governor of North Dakota.
Burke was born in Keokuk County, Iowa of Irish ancestry to John and Mary (née Ryan) Burke. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a law degree in 1886. He married Mary E. Kane, a teacher, on August 22, 1891, and they had a son, Thomas, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Marian.
Burke's legal career was established in Iowa and Minnesota before he moved to the Dakota Territory. After North Dakota was admitted to the union, he served in the state's House of Representatives in 1891 and in its Senate from 1893 to 1896. He served three terms (1907–1913) as the tenth Governor of North Dakota.
At the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, Burke enthusiastically supported the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson. Burke swung all of North Dakota's votes to Wilson on the first ballot. William Jennings Bryan, himself a supporter of Wilson and also a good friend of Burke's, wanted Burke to run for Vice-President. Burke demurred, however, due to a promise he had given Indiana delegates for their votes. As a result, Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana was chosen for Vice-President. Burke was named United States Treasurer following Wilson’s election victory in November 1912. From 1913 to 1921 Burke was Treasurer of the United States, under President Woodrow Wilson. Burke ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 1916.
He later served as a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court from 1924 until his death on May 14, 1937. Burke County, North Dakota is named in his honor. His remains are interred in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Bismarck, North Dakota. The State of North Dakota donated a statue of Burke to the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection in 1963. There is also a statue of Burke at the State Capitol grounds in Bismarck, ND.
Statue of John Burke at the State Capitol grounds, Bismarck, ND.
^ Profile Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, ndhorizons.com; accessed April 19, 2015.
^ "John Burke". National Governors Association. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
^ "John Burke". Soylent Communications. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Burke (politician).
National Statuary Hall Collection includes biography and photo of statue.
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Could You Handle Chris Brown's Crotch In Your Face?
Not too sure if our own Niki McGloster could. Pretty sure she'd end up attempting to trade places with Breezy. But check out how one lucky chick in Miami handled all of that bulge.
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2019-04-24T06:24:54Z
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https://www.vibe.com/2011/05/could-you-handle-chris-browns-crotch-in-your-face
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a. The purpose of sight examinations in modern languages is to determine a student's proficiency in reading scholarly texts in German and French (or other approved languages). The student must demonstrate a thorough reading knowledge and an adequate knowledge of the grammatical structures of the respective foreign language by translating passages into idiomatically correct English within a time limit of 60 minutes. Although dictionaries may be used, a solid knowledge of basic and scholarly vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and idiomatic expressions is required. Since these sight exams are meant to test the reading comprehension of the student, passing will depend on an accurate rendering of the argumentation of the original passage and a general understanding of its meaning as a whole.
b. Modern language sight exams are offered once per semester. All students are required to prepare actively and, once some proficiency is obtained, to take the exams every time they are offered until they pass.
c. Modern language requirements are the same for all Ph.D. concentrations. Students must pass one language no later than the Fall semester of the third year. Failure to pass one language by that time will result in probation; failure to pass one language in the subsequent semester will result in dismissal. The second modern language exam must be passed no later than the Fall semester of the fourth year. Failure to pass the second exam by that time will result in probation; failure to pass the exam in the subsequent semester will result in dismissal (see II.F above). A well prepared student will pass two modern language exams by the beginning of the second year.
d. Both modern language exams must be passed before taking Comprehensive Examinations.
a. Sight examinations in modern languages test a student’s proficiency in reading scholarly texts in two such languages: French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, or Spanish. The languages of choice have to be relevant to the research area in which the student intends to specialize, and they have to be approved by the appropriate Graduate Director. A student should demonstrate a satisfactory knowledge of the modern language by translating a passage selected by a Classics faculty member into idiomatic English within a time limit of 90 minutes. A student may use dictionaries, but should have a working knowledge of morphology and syntax and of basic and scholarly vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. A student’s translation should bring out the meaning and the argument of the original.
b. Modern language sight exams take place once per semester. Students should prepare proactively (e.g. by taking courses) and, once they have some proficiency, take the exams each time until they pass.
c. Modern language requirements are the same for all Ph.D. concentrations. Students must pass one modern language exam no later than the Fall semester of their third year. Failure to pass one modern language exam by that time will result in probation; failure to pass one modern language exam in the following semester will result in dismissal (see II.F above). Students must pass the second modern language exam no later than the Fall semester of their fourth year. Failure to pass the second modern language exam by that time will result in probation; failure to pass the exam in the following semester will result in dismissal (see II.F above). Well prepared students should be able to pass two modern language exams by the beginning of their second year.
d. Students must pass both modern language exams before taking ComprehensiveExaminations.
9. Students working on the dissertation must produce a progress report each Spring semester in advance of the annual review meeting detailing what they have achieved to date and their plans for the coming year. Students should submit this report to the Graduate Director and the dissertation advisor. Failure to make satisfactory progress on the dissertation while on departmental funding will result in probation after consultation between the Graduate Studies Committee and the dissertation advisor.
9. Students working on the dissertation must meet with their university committee once a year before March 1.* The student must present written work related to the dissertation to the committee as evidence of progress since the proposal or previous meeting and be prepared to discuss the development of the dissertation. After the committee meeting the dissertation advisor should report satisfactory or unsatisfactory progress to the Graduate Director. Students working on the dissertation must also submit a progress report to the Graduate Director in advance of the annual review meeting in the Spring detailing what they have achieved to date and their plans for the coming year. Failure to make satisfactory progress on the dissertation while on departmental funding will result in probation after consultation between the Graduate Studies Committee and the dissertation advisor.
*Members of the committee or the student may need to be present via telephone, Skype, etc. External members of the committee (i.e., non UC members) are not required to attend the meeting, but are, of course, welcome to do so if available.
1. Students in the Ph.D. program who choose, in consultation with their Graduate Director, to write an M.A. thesis are expected to complete the thesis no later than the end of the second year in the program. In exceptional circumstances a student may request a one semester extension without fellowship support by applying to the Graduate Director. The thesis must be defended by the end of the extension semester or the student will be dismissed from the program. Thesis students may not begin Ph.D. comprehensive exams until the M.A. thesis is defended. After defending the M.A. thesis, students must apply for a thesis M.A. degree on the Graduate School website. There is an application fee, and the student is responsible for formatting the electronic thesis according to Graduate School specifications.
2. Students who choose to leave the Ph.D. program after the second year may, after consultation with the Graduate Director, write an M.A. thesis instead of taking an M.A. exam during their final year of funding.
1. For information for Ph.D. students writing M.A. theses, see VII.F.
VI.C.3 was renamed C.2 with the contents unchanged.
1. Graduate students admitted to the Ph.D. program may choose to write an M.A. thesis with the permission of their Graduate Director. It is strongly recommended that Ph.D. students in archaeology write an M.A. thesis.The faculty as a whole may require a student to write an M.A. thesis in order to remain in good standing in the program.
(a) Graduate students are allowed only two semesters (one fall and one spring) to complete, successfully defend, and submit the M.A. thesis. Students writing an M.A. are required to declare a topic and name a director in writing to their Graduate Director by the end of the semester prior to commencement of the two semesters of M.A. thesis work. Archaeology students who write an M.A. thesis are required to begin the two semesters of thesis work in their second year in the program.
(b) During these two semesters of work students may take 8 hours of M.A. thesis research (CLAS8006) as part of their regular course load. For history and philology students the 8 hours may be taken either in one semester or over two semesters. For archaeology students all 8 hours of M.A. thesis research must be taken in one semester.
2. The M.A. thesis must be defended before the deadline for submission of the electronic thesis in the second semester of work. In the event of failure to defend a M.A. thesis successfully by that deadline, funding will cease at the end of that semester. If the student should successfully defend the thesis and submit it electronically at a future date (but only during a fall or spring semester), the faculty as a whole on the recommendation of the faculty in the student’s subdiscipline (archaeology, history, or philology) may re-instate that student’s fellowship for the beginning of the following semester.
3. For additional information about requirements for completion of a thesis M.A., see section VI.B.1.
The old section VII.F was renamed VII.G with the contents unchanged.
i. For students entering the program with an M.A. degree: 2 problems courses (CLAS7001-7003), 2 documents courses (CLAS7005-7007), and 3 seminars (CLAS9001).
ii. For students entering the program without an M.A. degree: 2 problems courses (CLAS7001-7003), 2 documents courses (CLAS7005-7007), and 4 seminars (CLAS9001).
i: For students entering the program with an M.A. degree: 2 problems courses (CLAS7001-7003) and 4 seminars (CLAS9001), one of which has to be documentary.
ii: For students entering the program without an M.A. degree: 2 problems courses (CLAS7001-7003) and 5 seminars (CLAS9001), one of which has to be documentary.
For your records, I attach our first revision to the new Graduate Handbook. This is now version 4.1. The changes were very minor--a couple cosmetic and a change of a word to make something clear about the 4+1 program. No changes at all to regular graduate requirements.
Version 4.0 of the handbook was a rather extensive rewrite caused by the University's move from the quarter system to the semester system.
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https://classics.uc.edu/index.php/graduate/253-classics-graduate-handbook
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2012 is here, and we’re ready.
Cleveland HubSpot User Group (HUG) kicked off the holidays with HubSpot Enterprise and members from local inbound marketing, digital, and creative firms.
Hosted by PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first VAR firm, HUG members had the opportunity to hear from Chris O’Donnell, HubSpot Product Manager for the contacts (MOFU/leads) team, and former Head of Product Development at Performable.
For the first time in Northeast Ohio, three certified HubSpot VARs were present, and it was good to see new and old faces.
2012 will be a year of results: Firms will continue to be driven by data and disruptive technologies, that will shift the focus from outputs to outcomes. Efficiency and productivity rule: Performance indicators demand that specialists remain well-versed in a host of converging media industries.
Sales and Digital will continue to converge as lower overhead costs, higher performance metrics and limitless economies of scale for startups will transform the landscape. Silos are so 2000 and late. PR, marketing and traditional advertising, branding and communications firms will collaborate with creative, technology and digital in profound ways. Mergers and acquisitions will fuel the rise of complementary, full-service agencies that benefit from diverse and dynamic revenue streams.
Immersion and integration will no longer be an option — across partners, clients/customers and channels. Technology software, platforms and tools drive the market, and those that provide integrated solutions across PR, social, seo, content, web and brand will be best positioned to thrive. A/B testing and mobile (especially games and apps) will lead emerging, “intuitive” services.
Particularly fascinating to me, of course, was our discussion regarding HubSpot Enterprise and its implications for social and seo intelligence.
One of the highlights of the night was when O’Donnell mentioned testing messages. He elaborated on the effect of trying different offers that meet people at a precise touchpoint along the buying cycle : fear-based, description-based and promise based.
So many of us get mired in strategy and tactics: We focus on products, pretty websites or image placement – get lost in a rabbit hole of bells and whistles, rather than simply implementing and continually testing what our readers, subscribers and qualified leads are looking for.
Which is why guys like Chris, Google and HubSpot are around to jar our memory: it’s in the data. Enterprise seems to be taking notes from Facebook, especially in the context of a “frictionless” user-experience: Intelligence driven by consumer behavior.
Bernays would be pleased: psychology and philosophy’s here to stay. Beyond what we say, to how we say it. Understanding not just what we do, but what we don’t do.
Pretty cool. Emotional and practical intelligence are vital differentiators because they are genuine and human, and impart identity to personal and organizational brands.
Accurately predicting consumer behavior in 2012 will depend on professionals willing and able to adapt, take calculated risks and truly reflect the minds of their audiences, across channels.
If performing is the new doing, then being is the new thinking.
*Special thanks to Dia Dalsky for hosting, Chris O’Donnell and Chris Knipper, Founder & President at Kuno Creative for sharing success stories thus far with HubSpot Enterprise. And to end where much of this began, congratulations to Paul Roetzer on his new book, The Marketing Agency BluePrint. We’re proud of you.
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2019-04-19T03:11:11Z
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https://byronfernandez.wordpress.com/tag/kuno-creative/
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The Scholars Circle is a college-wide program designed for the high-achieving student. As a member of The Scholars Circle, you’ll receive special advising including schedule, scholarship, and transfer counseling. You can also participate in several special activities set up for honors students such as clubs, honors colloquia, trips to honors conferences, and theater performances.
The Scholars Program requires that participating students complete a minimum of 15 honors credits in at least three different disciplines. For example you could take honors level classes in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Honors credits must be completed over a minimum of two semesters. Students must maintain a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average to remain in the program and to receive the M.C. Honors Program designation on their transcripts.
Students who do not enroll in The Scholars Circle but wish to take honors classes must still meet The Scholars Circle eligibility requirements.
Students who have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours of honors work, including course work in at least two different academic disciplines, and who have maintained a 3.4 or higher grade point average, are eligible to be recognized as MC. Honors Scholars. For more information about the MC Honors Scholars awards, contact Dr. Lucy Laufe at 240-567-7453 or 240-567-7417.
Students who have completed a minimum of 15 credits of MC Honors coursework in at least three different academic disciplines, and have maintained a 3.2 or higher grade point average, will receive an "M.C. Honors Program" notation on their Montgomery College academic transcripts.
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2019-04-23T12:45:10Z
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https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/honors/scholars-circle.html
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The annual conference provides many networking opportunities and supports ongoing professional development. We want to help ABC members reach their goals and experience all that ABC has to offer. To assist you in submitting a proposal, please read the following guidelines carefully.
Before submitting a proposal that includes other presenters, secure permission to include them in your submission. Inform them that they need to register for, attend, and present at the conference should the submission be approved. Please do not include as co-presenter anyone who has not expressly agreed to be part of your submission and who will not register and attend the conference as your co-presenter. However, they can be listed as co-authors. Co-authors have contributed to the intellectual property being submitted, but they are not expected to present.
Presenters must be either an "Organization Member" or "Organization Guest." A presenter or co-presenter can create a free Organization Guest account (no member benefits), by visiting the ABC membership page at: https://tinyurl.com/yaznm64k. To keep all presenters in the communication loop, please establish the “Organization Member” or “Organization Guest” account prior to submission. A guest account can be created and later turned into membership account; contact abcoffice@businesscommunication.org for assistance.
Once approval notices have been sent, the submitter will be asked to “accept” the approved status within two weeks of the emailed notice by logging in to the submitter’s profile/My Presentations. Approval notices will be sent to the submitter, any co-presenters and any co-authors near mid-June. You can also check submission status by visiting your ABC profile and going to My Presentations.
Any interested person may submit a business communications-related topic, register for, and attend the ABC annual conference. Members receive a discount at the annual conference and with continuous membership, their approved and accepted submission title is archived in the member profile. The full submission is archived if the member is the submitter and maintains continuous membership. Guest members do not receive ABC member discounts nor archived submission details.
ABC REQUESTS ONLY ONE SUBMISSION naming you as presenter or co-presenter, except you may also submit to Research Roundtable, Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable, My Favorite Assignment or Posters.
Your rigorous adherence to the submission process helps us continually improve the conference experience for all. Proposals are reviewed and approved or declined based on all the submission details.
Besides Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable, Research Roundtable, My Favorite Assignment, or Posters, ABC REQUESTS ONLY ONE SUBMISSION naming you as presenter or co-presenter. Did you limit submissions?
You and all co-presenters (if any) agree to register and present at this conference.
A program insert is included in proposal screening and, if approved, will be part of ABC’s archives. Insert should entice attendees with key points of talk. The insert is limited to 60-words. Selection of a particular “Track” does not influence the selection process, but along with “Focus” does help us best schedule your presentation.
Regular Presentation (15 minutes) - You may propose a regular presentation (15 minutes) that will be grouped by the conference chairs with other presentations.
Group Panel (45 minutes) - Three or more speakers on one topic. Depending upon panel size and conference needs, a presentation may be grouped by conference chairs with another presentation.
1. Blind Peer Review - Submission to the optional blind peer review means you are submitting your proposal to our most rigorous review. Proposals will be reviewed blind by peers in the field and held to the highest standards of the field. Not all submissions will be approved, and we will announce the approval rate for use in review materials. Proposals not approved will be automatically routed to the program chairs for regular review.
2. Mentoring - Submit to the mentoring track if you would simply like supportive, constructive feedback on your submission before submitting it for program chair review. If you select blind peer review, do not select mentoring.
We will issue a separate Call for Reviewers and Mentors.
Presenters may enjoy this opportunity to discuss their research in a one-on-one interactive experience with their audience in a more informal setting. This all-day display, with about 20 minutes of presentation time, can reach a wider audience than traditional presentations and offer a richer opportunity for discussion and feedback. As with regular and group sessions, the poster title and description will be listed in the printed conference program. Check the website in early July for poster preparation tips.
Workshops should be 2- to 3-hour, highly interactive, themed events that do not fit into the regular program. Participants should leave with a new approach to teaching, researching, or consulting in the realm of business communication that they can immediately implement. Examples of possible workshops include creating a scholarship of teaching and learning research project, understanding emotional Intelligence and designing appropriate assignments, working with international writers, and developing a solid assessment plan for a business communication course/program. Proposals on thematic topics are most welcome. Indicate in your submission the proposed workshop length.
If you are beginning a new project or have one in progress, and are interested in discussing a new method or theory and how it might apply to your research, or simply getting feedback on an idea, submit a proposal to be part of the 75-minute research roundtable, with 6-10 minutes presentation time.
Look for Calls and submission instructions for the Diversity and Inclusion Roundtable offered by Jacquelyn Lowman and for My Favorite Assignment with Joel Whalen.
We invite proposals written in Spanish to be presented in Spanish at the conference. We hope to offer two sessions. We will issue a separate call for volunteers to read/review proposals submitted in Spanish.
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2019-04-22T02:00:03Z
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https://www.businesscommunication.org/p/cm/ld/fid=711
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Did Debbie Reynolds die from a broken heart?
A story in the New York Times quotes Anne Curtis, SUNY Distinguished Professor and chair of medicine, about broken-heart syndrome after Debbie Reynolds died one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Turns out, yes, one can die of a broken heart and one form of the phenomenon is called Takotsubo syndrome, after the Japanese term for “octopus trap,” because the heart looks as if it is caught from below. Curtis says about 1 percent of perceived heart attacks are because of broken-heart syndrome. The article also appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, News Report Online, Seattle Times.
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2019-04-24T10:17:45Z
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https://www.buffalo.edu/alumni/news/ub-alumni-news.host.html/content/shared/www/news/ub-in-the-news/2016/12/037.detail.html
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Oplev makes sure that the action scenes are vicious enough to unnerve us, while the emotional undercurrents never let up. So it's a shame that the film is ultimately so silly. Victor's nearly sci-fi arsenal of gadgets and guns is just ridiculous, as is hairdresser Beatrice's ability to keep up with him. And as the plot heads for a series of predictably explosive showdowns, we know nothing very surprising is going to happen. But at least it looks terrific.
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2019-04-25T22:20:27Z
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http://www.contactmusic.com/film/review/dead-man-down
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juked
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All I really care about is the mark on his stomach from where he says he was stabbed with a steak knife. It happened at a party, but there’s no time to say more, to tell me the stabbing story. He has to shower soon and get up early. I’ve chosen to be in his room in this way, but I would like to do nothing except run my fingers over where the wound healed, to pretend that part of him is not him, and that it is what I want, and that it is why I’m here. Our first night, in the middle of it, he said I love you accidentally and then I mean I love this. I didn’t notice the mark then, didn’t know he’d been knifed. And I could hear the toads outside croaking at the clouds obscuring the moon, bellowing at them from a bed of clovers the grass cutters would soon take. Tonight, the toads are somewhere else. And I would like to be too.
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2019-04-25T03:43:46Z
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http://juked.com/2018/10/brett-hanley-please-someone-tell-me-about-a-knife-fight.asp
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livejournal
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After clearing the LA Basin, we made a brief stop in Santa Clarita for me to get coffee, then we put miles under us heading toward Bishop. We stopped again at Lancaster and ate breakfast at the Carrows near the Holiday Inn Express where we stayed coming the other way. Lisa drove the next stint out of Lancaster through Mojave, and into Red Rock Canyon, which allowed me to take some photos of the interesting geography going on there.
As usual, follow the links through the photos to see more.
Shortly after CA-14 fed us back into US-395, Lisa pulled over and we traded off again. We made excellent time, getting in to the Vagabond Inn in Bishop just after 3 PM. For us, that's really good for going about 250 miles. It also meant that I was in time for a Day Jobbe conference call at 4 PM for which I was optional but which I did not really want to miss.
They gave us the same room we had going the other way. Lisa was amused to see that the blue tape she'd applied to the blinking lights on the smoke detector were still there.
While I did two hours of Day Jobbe work, Lisa hung out in the hotel lobby reading a book and then when that tired, she went for a walk around the streets of Bishop. She was dressed about the same way she had been during SMOFCon: designer jeans, a red-check shirt, and a coat, with travelswithkuma riding in a backpack. While walking around seeing what there was to see, she was surprised when a shabby-looking guy on a bicycle pulled up to her. She thought he was about to ask for money, and was even more surprised when he started to tell her where the Salvation Army and a local homeless shelter was. Apparently, anyone walking and wearing a backpack (as opposed to driving a car) is assumed to be homeless. Sigh.
After I got done with Day Jobbe, we went to dinner at Aaron Schat's Roadhouse located a short distance from the hotel. There I had a decent if not particularly interesting burger. Lisa's burger was so underdone as to be nearly raw and she had to send it back. The second attempt was much better, and their garlic Parmesan fries were quite good. To try and walk this off, we walked down to Vons and got some egg nog for Lisa and milk for me, then back to the hotel.
Getting some rest tonight seems like a capital idea to both of us. I still have to be up early tomorrow to take the Astro in to the GM dealership to have them fix the headlight relay, and I have to do it first thing in the morning because I have another Day Jobbe conference call at 8 AM so I have to leave enough time to walk back up to the hotel from the dealership. Fingers crossed that I can make it, although fortunately I'm not a required attendee, just an optional one.
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2019-04-21T16:51:59Z
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https://kevin-standlee.livejournal.com/1401134.html
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Recreation
| 0.820373 |
iit
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Britain has built 3,500 large wind turbines at a cost of on the order of $30 billion that, because of wind’s low capacity factor, produce as much power as fewer than two nuclear plants.
Wind is just another form of solar energy, and wind tends to fall off substantially at night.
As Bob Dylan once sang [ from a contrarians point of view]: “The problem my friend is blowing in the wind.” Ah, Schadenfreude [ ask Franz for an explanation, or google it] --it’s an underrated human pleasure.
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2019-04-22T16:14:40Z
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http://health.phys.iit.edu/archives/2012-November/037307.html
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robzombie
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Hurray for Captain Salem! Yep, Sid Haig has joined the cast of THE LORDS OF SALEM as Dean Magnus the other half of the witchfinding duo known as The Brothers.
Sid is best known for cult classics like Spiderbaby, Coffy, Black Mama, White Mama, CC and Company, The Big Dollhouse, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, Halloween and of course he is loved world wide as everyone’s favorite killer clown Captain Spaulding in House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects.
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2019-04-22T14:36:46Z
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https://robzombie.com/2011/11/hurray-for-captain-salem-sid-haig-joins-lords-of-salem/
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sfgate
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Signs hanging in math class are written in several different languages at International High School in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.
The 50 high school students heading to their next class looked like typical teenagers, hauling backpacks, cradling books and laughing. Yet they were far from it.
All recent immigrants, one was an orphan by age 6. Another cared for his sick mother and had rarely gone to school. Several had left home as children, often alone - traveling on buses, trains, cars or by foot to get to a U.S. border.
A few have lived on the street. One is the child of a Hong Kong businessman.
Some can read and write, but not in English. A few can't write the alphabet, even in their native language.
Many arrived in the United States just months or weeks earlier.
Medhanie, 15, came from Eritrea two years ago with little to no schooling. While his English is nearly fluent, thanks to time in front of his American television, his English literacy levels don't reach first grade.
Principal Sonia Geerdes knew every student's name as they passed her in the hall, and she knew every one of their life stories. She also predicted their futures.
Within four to six years, she believes, the students - the first class of the city's new San Francisco International High School - will earn high school diplomas. After that, she's confident most will go off to college.
"Their immigration journeys are incredible," Geerdes said. "But their dreams have not been crushed. Our job is to make it a possibility. We're not shutting off their dreams."
The campus, which opened this year with only a freshman class, is currently housed on the fourth floor of Mission High School - a temporary site. It is expected to grow by a grade each year, reaching a maximum of 400 students.
Despite a strapped budget and fairly stagnant high school enrollment numbers, district officials opened the new school to meet the needs of students who all too often fall through the cracks - if they make it into a classroom at all.
Educating recent immigrants is one of the hardest jobs in the public school system. They often lag academically behind their American peers and don't have a grasp of English. Those who arrive as teenagers have little time to catch up. They drop out in greater numbers, and a quarter of those who stick around through senior year often don't pass the state's required exit exam.
Not unlike at all local schools, some students are illegal immigrants. Some are refugees. Some are legal residents, Geerdes said. State law requires all children to attend school. School officials asked that the students be identified in this story only by their first names in an effort to lessen their fear of reprisal from immigration officials.
Before International opened, new immigrant teenagers with limited English and low levels of literacy often were sent to the district's Newcomer High School. There, they spent a year or so almost exclusively learning the language before transferring to a traditional high school where they typically found themselves behind in credits and forced to sink or swim.
International, modeled on a network of similar schools in New York, offers a four-year track, requiring students to complete the course requirements needed for admission to state universities - something not yet required of the district's other students.
At the school, students don't learn the English language as a separate subject. They learn it while performing chemistry experiments or reading "Romeo and Juliet."
Shakespeare for those who can barely speak or read modern English?
"That's the challenge," said English teacher Jacqueline Fix, looking unconcerned.
Group work is a big part of the educational process, with students from multiple countries, speaking various languages, helping each other learn.
A recent biology class had groups of four students shaking ice cream ingredients in a plastic bag inside another plastic bag filled with ice and salt. They were learning the scientific method, as well as relevant vocabulary, including, "It is so yummy."
The Internationals Network for Public Schools, which now includes the San Francisco campus as well as one in Oakland and 10 in New York, started the model 25 years ago with a school in Queens.
The four-year graduation rate for the 10 schools is 63 percent, which is 11 percentage points above the rate for New York City's English-speaking students and more than double that of the city's English learners.
Within six years, nearly 90 percent of the International students have graduated. The dropout rate is low, and attendance is high.
"These kids have a triple job: They have to learn English; they have to learn (high school) content; they have to learn a new culture," said the network's executive director, Claire Sylvan. The success "comes from very hard work," she said.
Oakland International High School started its third year last week with 220 students on the rolls and new students expected every week of the school year, said Principal Carmelita Reyes.
Early on, it's hard to see success outside the school's walls. Recent test scores show nearly all the students fall below or far below grade level, which shouldn't be surprising given that many couldn't read when they got there.
"Some arrive and know the alphabet and are reading at third-grade level in one year," Reyes said. "In (the annual standardized tests), that is not going to show up."
The long-term goal is that students complete college-prep course work and pass the California High School Exit Exam, Reyes said.
The International schools get about $300 or $400 extra per student from the Internationals Network for Public Schools, money used mostly for training teachers and administrators. The network also paid much of the start-up costs and three-month principal training for the new San Francisco site.
Supporters say every penny is worth the payoff - an education for students who perhaps had little hope of ever getting one.
"It's a courageous battle," said Mary Richards, who oversees the district's small-school program, including International. "That's what we're here to do."
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2019-04-18T16:18:27Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-S-F-high-school-nurtures-immigrant-youth-3286538.php
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Arts
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tripod
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2019-04-23T19:55:51Z
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http://charlottemason.tripod.com/orderform.html
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wordpress
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Here are the Top 10 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of August 27, 2016.
2. Major Lazer feat. Justin Bieber & M0 – Cold Water. No. 5 last week.
3. Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna – This Is What You Came For. No. 3 last week.
4. Twenty One Pilots – Heathens. No. 11 last week.
5. Drake feat. WizKid & Kyla – One Dance. No. 2 last week.
6. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey – Closer. No. 9 last week.
8. The Chainsmokers feat. Daya – Don’t Let Me Down. No. 6 last week.
9. Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling!. No. 4 last week.
10. Rihanna – Needed Me. No. 8 last week.
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2019-04-22T04:38:38Z
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https://fromthetube.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/billboard-hot-100-august-27-2016/
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Arts
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Arts
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hi
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[skilgr.] Anyone who fulfills one or more activities linked to the (theoretical or practical) training function, either in an institution for education or training, or at the workplace.
– help apprentices develop their skills by providing advice, instructions and comments throughout the apprenticeship.
[skilgr.] Hver sá sem gegnir einu eða fleiru þeirra starfa sem tengjast (fræðilegum eða hagnýtum) þjálfunarstörfum, annað hvort við menntastofnun eða á vinnustað.
- Aðstoðað lærlinga við að auka leikni sína með því að leiðbeina þeim, gefa þeim fyrirmæli og gera athugasemdir meðan á samningsbundnu námi þeirra stendur.
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2019-04-26T01:16:33Z
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http://ordabanki.hi.is/wordbank/terminfo?idTerm=524520
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Arts
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Reference
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turner
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Acted on New York stage in "Kicking the Castle Down"
George C Scott. Actor. Married September 14, 1972; third wife.
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2019-04-24T00:48:04Z
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http://alt.tcm.turner.com/tcmdb/person/196764%7C148998/Trish-Van-Devere/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.968069 |
close-upfilm
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If it wasn’t for the rather wonderful apocalyptic and phantasmagoric ending, Gance’s re-purposing/ remake of his own 1919 war epic would be of interest only to students of the Popular Front period in western Europe in the late 1930s.
Jean (Francen) and Francois (Delaître) are Frenchmen fighting side by side in the trenches in 1918. They are old friends but have fallen out over love of the same woman, Francois’ wife, Edith (Noro). Just before they go on a suicidal mission together, Jean swears to Francois that he will stay away from Edith if he survives the war.
Jean keeps his word, although he takes a shine to Edith’s rather young daughter Helene (Lou); instead dedicating himself to an enigmatic project that he thinks will bring world peace. As Europe falls toward the madness of war again, Jean’s invention – it turns out to be a kind of enforced glass, don’t ask me how that brings world peace – is stolen by the war-mongering industrialist (quelle surprise!) who steals Helene away; and who used to be Jean’s line commander, showing himself way back then to have zero leadership skills.
So, Jean unleashes his really secret weapon on the world, his ability to invoke and raise the dead from the huge war memorial at Douauomont. The dead walk again as the film ends, although the last moments of the film show the industrialist convinced that another war may not be such a good thing after all, but that the rise of madness (ie fascism) needs to be stemmed.
The second half of the film is as crazy as it sounds; it’s just a pity that the first, trenches set half is so underwhelming, with some very stodgy visuals and clunky dialogue, typical war film situations that aren’t presented in such a way as to lift them out of the generic.
The second half is as mad-eyed and messianic as Jean himself. Gance was obviously very keen on averting war in 1938 – he even tried to convince notorious Nazi film maker Leni Riefenstahl (Triumph of the Will) to get Hitler to watch J’accuse.
It seems to me that Gance comes a cropper here because he’s trying to popularise and broaden the appeal of his message – the message being ‘I accuse capitalists of provoking another war’. He does this by ticking genre boxes: combat sequences, comrades-at-arms scenes, but also James Whale-like mad scientist and horror and disaster movie elements. It doesn’t really work, and the ending suggests that all involved knew this fantasy wasn’t going to avert anything, popular appeal or not.
However, the raising of the dead sequence is very impressive and utterly unhinged, using superimpositions and I think solarised film to great effect. It’s a technical update on the haunting images from the 1919 film but here we see the effect it has on a series of crowds of people as a great wind and storm of the undead descends on the world. These are images we associate with disaster or post-apocalypse films – J’accuse comes across as an early incarnation of that genre too.
A final mention, of one element I’d have loved to have seen more of: the little community that springs up around the war memorial (basically a bar frequented by the caretakers and run by a woman grieving for both a specific fallen soldier and all fallen soldiers). It’s a great set up for a truly profound ghost film, which is only presented in outlines here.
J’accuse is out in a dual format edition from 24 July 2017.
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2019-04-19T02:37:52Z
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http://www.close-upfilm.com/2017/07/jaccuse-review/
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Arts
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Arts
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pintangle
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Crazy quilt block 94 has a different colour scheme – or a different scheme what I normally use. As regular readers know when I made my I Dropped the Button Box Quilt I pulled everything on the quilt from my stash. Not only did everything come from my stash this quilt is Y2k quilt so another challenge was to use 2001 unique pieces of fabric, lace, braids, charms, buttons or ribbons as it is a Y2K quilt. It lead to some challenging moments and I learn a lot about Crazy Quilting by making it!
Umm.. dont ask me why I have three cat charms on it as I dont remember. As usual you can click on the photo to see a larger version of the block.
On this seam I whipped a line of back stitch that I had worked in scallops. Then I decorated it further with straight stitches and detached chain stitch finished off with seed beads.
In the case of this seam I adapted arrowhead stitch to work it around bugle beads.
The lace on this seam is hand dyed. After attaching it to the block I decorated it with seed beads.
This is triple Herringbone worked in three types of thread. The pale blue is cotton Perle #5. the pale yellow os silk and the last line is a thread spun with twist of metallic gold. It is produced by DMC, sold on reel and called Antique gold.
The last detail I have to share with you is a strip of lace that I decorated with black seed beads then added a line of zig-zag chain stitch using an hand dyed cotton thread. Then I added a line of yellow vintage beads. The buttons are also vintage.
Just ran across you. How beautiful…wondering where I should begin…go back and find block number 1?
Is this the actual size block (pattern)? what size blocks do you prefer or usually make? Thanks in advance.
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2019-04-19T07:21:20Z
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https://pintangle.com/2016/08/11/crazy-quilt-block-94-pattern-hand-embroidery-details/
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Arts
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Reference
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fanpop
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Meloetta Mitte Mitte Kochichi. . Wallpaper and background images in the Lagenda Pokémon club tagged: photo.
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2019-04-21T18:47:05Z
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http://ms.fanpop.com/clubs/legendary-pokemon/images/37772480/title/meloetta-mitte-mitte-kochichi-photo
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Arts
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Reference
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