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This bad boy scored a cool million on the Scoville scale. This sauce is roughly 450 times hotter than Tabasco and is crafted with pure habanero extract. To give you an idea of how hot that extract is, it takes 12 pounds of peppers to make 2 ounces of extract. It's pretty much just mouth fire. Fun fact, if you have something stuck in your eye, use a drop of Mad Dog's Revenge to get rid of your eye... and then still burn your mouth.
This sauce has a Scoville rating of 7.1 million. Remember Mad Dog's Revenge and its 1 million Scoville units? Probably not, because this sauce will blow your mind. The Source is a food additive, and it's basically made to make your chili spicier. The 1-ounce bottle claims to be good for 100 pots of chili and should be "respected." Just like that fine bottle of Scotch on the shelf, you can't purchase The Source unless you're 21 years of age. It's because it's spicy.
This sauce makes all the other sauces on this list taste like a refreshing glass of watered-down milk. This beast of a sauce will make you understand all of the secrets of the world. (Probably not, but it'll defs burn your mouth. A lot.) The sauce has a Scoville rating of... wait for it... 16 million. It's extremely hard to come by, and if you can find a bottle, expect to drop some serious coin. Just 2.5 ounces of the stuff goes for nearly 400$. You'll never run out, though, because it's so hot, just pretending to use it will make your food spicier than you could ever handle.
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2019-04-24T12:32:56Z
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https://www.askmen.com/fine_living/wine_dine_archive/hottest-sauces-in-the-world.html
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artnet
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Should you talk to the DA? Not without an attorney by your side.
Art dealers facing a sales tax investigation might want to read this story.
Here’s the rub: If you happen to get caught up in the latest art sales tax examination being conducted in secrecy by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, or another government agency (see Manhattan DA Launches Secret Art Sales Tax Investigation and What You Need To Know When Art Sales Tax Investigators Knock On Your Door), what do you do? Who do you turn to? We have the answers.
Last time we explored how to respond if —or, for some of our readers, when—you are first contacted by the government. Today we’ll address a thorny issue which often arises in the early stages of these investigations: whether to speak, or not to speak, directly with the investigator or prosecutor. That, friends, really is the critical question.
The answer, not surprisingly, is. . .it depends. Your status in the investigation will largely determine whether it is in your best interest to sit down with prosecutors for a formal interview (known in the world of criminal law as a “proffer”). Determining that status, however, may not be so easy.
But first, let’s review some basic legal terminology. The lucky recipient of a government subpoena falls into one of three categories: witness, subject or target. A “witness” is a neutral observer who is not involved in the event or transaction in any way. For example, a pedestrian who sees a car accident. At the other end of the spectrum lies the “target”, who by definition is the one likely to be charged with a crime; in our example, the driver of the speeding car that hit the blind art handler in the crosswalk. In the vast middle is the “subject,” who is involved in some manner in the event or transaction and whose actions may or may not be illegal; here, the driver of another car whose actions may or may not have contributed to the accident (for example, by causing the speeding car to swerve).
Most people in a government investigation fall into the category of subject, which is not as comforting as being a witness, but certainly better than being a target. But here’s the rub: subjects sometimes turn into targets, and therein lies the risk of agreeing to a proffer.
How, you may wonder, can I determine into which of these three categories I fall? Fortunately, there is a straightforward solution: The very first thing your attorney should do (after cashing your retainer check) is to call the prosecutor and ask, “Is my client a witness, subject or target?” While federal prosecutors may often still answer this query with a direct response, the Manhattan DA’s Office has very recently abandoned that practice and now will generally only say that it does not believe that the recipient of the subpoena was involved in any criminal activity, if that in fact is its belief. If the DA chooses not to answer your lawyer’s question, then this silence should speak volumes.
Either way, do you agree to meet with prosecutors and investigators at a proffer session? If your lawyer, reading between the lines, determines that you are a target, then the answer is “no”. If you are likely to be charged, then there is no need to give the DA additional ammunition by making statements that would only increase your chances of ending up with a disagreeable cellmate. Prisons are filled with people who thought they could talk their way out of a bad situation.
If you are truly only a witness without any stake in the investigation, then the answer may similarly be “no thanks”. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose if, for whatever reason, you knowingly make a false statement during your interview. We know of a number of situations in which a person walked into a proffer session innocent of any crime and later found himself in handcuffs, charged with perjury or obstruction. That said, we don’t mean to discourage good citizenship, and assisting law enforcement in combating crime is always a good thing — provided your rights are protected.
If you are a subject and your lawyer determines that the DA hasn’t quite figured out what to do with you, then you might consider meeting with the prosecutor (with a savvy attorney by your side, naturally) to try to convince the DA that his interest in you is misplaced. A number of our clients over the years who had credible stories and could back up their statements with solid evidence have effectively used this strategy, and happily for them that was the end of their legal troubles. If, however, you believe you can persuade the DA to stop investigating you based on your persuasive charm alone or—worse yet—a fabricated tale, we suggest you re-read the preceding paragraph and think twice before committing legal hara-kiri.
If you do agree to be interviewed, then make sure you know the rules. A proffer session is governed by a complex written agreement that sets forth your rights as well as your risks. Most importantly, the agreement gives you a limited form of immunity for your statements relating to the investigation at hand, and only that investigation. As we tell our clients, you can’t go into a meeting about a sales tax problem and admit, by the way, to killing your spouse, with the bright idea that you can now get away with murder.
Incidentally, your attorney’s ability to obtain immunity is the very reason you shouldn’t speak with investigators alone outside of the context of a proffer session. Investigators are not empowered to grant immunity, and any incriminating statements you make to them will definitely be used against you.
Regardless of your status in the case, the DA can always compel you by subpoena to appear before a grand jury should you turn down the request for a proffer session. Your grand jury appearance is governed by a completely different set of complex rules, however, which we will touch upon in a following article in this series.
Next up: Nothing worked, and you have been formally charged with sales tax evasion. Now what?
Thomas C. Danziger, Esq. is Managing Partner in the firm of Danziger, Danziger, & Muro, LLP, which specializes in art law. Georges G. Lederman, Esq. spent 10 years in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office before becoming of counsel to Danziger, Danziger & Muro, LLP, where he specializes in white collar crime and art law litigation.
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2019-04-26T13:00:40Z
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https://news.artnet.com/market/emergency-advice-for-art-dealers-facing-a-sales-tax-investigation-246812
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brunel
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Since mid-2016 there has been a vast amount of jokes, comedy and satire about the EU referendum and Brexit. Is Brexit funny? Is it controversial for comedians to joke about Brexit? Where are all the pro-Brexit comedians? In this blog post – originally published on the LSE Brexit blog – Brunel University London’s Dr Simon Weaver and Dr Sharon Lockyer look at the cultural significance of comedy about Brexit.
Article reproduced with permission of the LSE Brexit blog.
Dr Simon Weaver is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at Brunel University London.
Dr Sharon Lockyer is a senior lecturer in Sociology & Communications at Brunel University London and the director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research.
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2019-04-23T10:15:12Z
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https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Is-Brexit-funny
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wordpress
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pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods, for nothing now will come to any good.
alas, as you know, lost was not on this week. WHY is a question we all inevitably ask in this situation.
but, because you were so patient, here are two treats.
1. episode title list of episodes 9-14. some of these are rather dubious, (see 13), but, what can you do? also included are my equally-dubious conjectures for what we will discover in each.
5×9 – Namaste — dr. marvin candle. naked. or just in the episode. making some homemade videos. about the dharma initiative.
5×10 – He’s Our You — an episode about the others? “he’s our you” reminds me of the whole “are you him?” thing. maybe a “who’s the leader” type ep? also could be something about someone seeing a different version of themselves from another time.
5×11 – What Happened, Happened — Daniel has to face his future as the guy who prompted Charlotte to return to the Island. Or some sort of proof that the lost-ies always went back in time to be Dharma in the 70s.
5×12 – Dead is Dead — John Locke? Only an ethereal being? Drop Dead Fred guest appearance?
5×13 – Some Like it Hoth — obv Darlton came up with this. The Island becomes a frozen tundra. Or was, in the past, hence the FROZEN donkey wheel. Hoth was always one of my favorite scenes in Star Wars.
5×14 – The Variable — who changed things? Ben? Is Ben the variable? If Desmond is the CONSTANT, who is the VARIABLE? Maybe Des becomes the variable? WHO IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING?
2. embedded clip to help you through your week-without-lost grief.
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2019-04-26T14:10:19Z
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https://eyeoftheisland.wordpress.com/tag/wh-auden/
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Kristin and Andy married and started a sled dog kennel. While this work was enormously satisfying, Kristin became determined to complete the Iditarod the 1,000-mile dogsled race from Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.
Kristin Knight Pace was born in Fort Worth, TX and graduated with honors from The University of Montana with a degree in photojournalism. After writing for several newspapers and magazines, she left the publishing world to lead a life worth writing about one of adventure. In 2009, she took to the road with her two dogs and drove north to Denali National Park, where her quiet life revolved around the nurturing of 10 dogs and the maintenance of a remote cabin. What was supposed to be a five-month stay turned into years on end, and now she has found and married the love of her life, become the Lead Backcountry Ranger for Denali National Park, and realized her dream of running dogs through the wilderness of Alaska. Kristin finished the 2015 Yukon Quest and the 2016 Iditarod.
dogsledding across the tundra, but because of her fearless approach to life. A bad marriage, a failed business, a betrayal-none of this keeps her from pursuing her Alaska dream. A brave story, beautifully told."
This Much Country 4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 2 reviews.
You can never go wrong with a memoir that is about a woman finding her way in this world in the most unusual place with dogs! This was a quick read for myself that had me flipping the pages just to see what will happen next for Kristin. You get the heartache that Kristen went through in her first marriage that lead her to the place that she would finally find her happy ending. Just reading about how she survived that first winter in Alaska made myself remember the time that I lived in North Dakota and could truly relate to her saying that there is a temperature below freezing that isn't so bad but knowing what just a couple of degrees can mean as well. I think the whole finding herself while running a sled dog kennel was cool in the sense that Kristen discovered how tough she really is while finding love all at the same time. If anything, this is a great book for anyone who loves dogs and loves to read about a person who finds their way in this world that starts with heartache and leads to a happy ending! Thank You to Kristin Knight Pace for sharing your story with the world! I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book from the Publisher!
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2019-04-24T14:44:27Z
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-much-country-kristin-knight-pace/1128997335?ean=9781538762400&st=AFF&2sid=Hachette%20Book%20Group_8040641_NA&sourceId=AFFHachette%20Book%20Group
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Wastewater professionals who are interested in becoming certified Wastewater Collection Operators in Idaho are invited to attend Wastewater Collection Operators Certification Training.
This two-day class covers a review for those preparing for the Wastewater Operators - Collection III and IV Certification examinations. The purpose of this class is to prepare wastewater professionals in Idaho to pass licensure exams by providing them with all of the information that is required by the ABC need-to-know criteria. It will cover various topics pertaining to the exam as well as information regarding collection systems, including collection system cleaning techniques and equipment, CCTV equipment and usage, collection system management, lift station maintenance, pump and motor operation and maintenance, as well as various other equipment operation and maintenance. There will be a strong emphasis on wastewater math. Federal regulation regarding collection system capacity, management, operation and maintenance will also be discussed.
Keith Slack holds an Idaho Class IV Collections License and has over 10 years of experience with wastewater collections. Keith has experience with pipeline maintenance, operating hydraulic cleaning equipment, lift station maintenance and repair, operating CCTV equipment to evaluate existing infrastructure, as well as collection system repair and rehabilitation, including working on several trenchless rehabilitation projects.
The course fee is $75, which includes two days of training and course materials. Please bring a pencil and calculator to class, and lunch is on your own.
the "Subscribe to this page" link at the top each training page.
This training has been approved for 1.2 wastewater IBOL CEUs. You must attend both days to receive the CEUs.
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2019-04-18T12:19:34Z
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https://www.deq.idaho.gov/assistance-resources/conferences-trainings/wastewater-collection-operator-iii-and-iv-exam-review/
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Business
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wlv
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The Beauties of the Bosphorus; by Miss Pardoe, Author of “The City of the Sultan,” Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its Environs, from Original Drawings by W. H. Bartlett.
London: Published for the Proprietors, by George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane. 1838.
London: R. Clay, Printer, Bread-Street-Hill.
1) T.p. epigraph: [“This is a grand sight, from off the ‘Giant’s Grave.’ / To watch the progress of those rolling seas / Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave / Europe and Asia.” Byron.]; from George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto 5 (1821), st. 5, ll. 35-38.
2) Dedicated ‘To the Most Excellent Vizir Mustafa Réchid Pasha, Mushir, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte, Decorated with the Nisham of Honour [...] Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour of France, of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, and of Isabelle of Spain’ [Mustafa Reşid Paşa (1800-1858), Ottoman statesman and diplomat].
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2019-04-25T00:22:43Z
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http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/texts/1129
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wordpress
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Recreating the Handmade Look for less!
This week I’ve been working on a theme trying to create a printed invitation that has the look of a handmade invitation!
It’s a great way to save money on your wedding stationery. Anyway, below is my take on a navy and lime theme with a vellum effect overlay. The jewel at the top in the centre is meant to be holding the ‘vellum’ in place (on the handmade version this section with the printing on would swing freely).
As always I would welcome your comments on this one.
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2019-04-19T02:56:45Z
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https://invitesbyjustjane.wordpress.com/tag/elegant/
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Arts
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wordpress
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The first place to visit in Porto is definitely the city center. Everything is nearby, therefore you don’t need any public transportation. However, if you have time, I suggest you to take just a small tour with the ancient tram operating inside the city center, it is absolutely a unique experience!
Rua Santa Catarina: start the itinerary from this fascinating street, full of historical buildings, shops and cafes. Stop by for a coffee at the Majestic Cafe, probably the most popular one in the city.
Capela das Almas: this wonderful chapel is located in Rua Santa Catarina and it catches your attention immediately from the outside, thanks to its beautiful tiles representing the life of San Francesco d’Assisi and Santa Catarina.
Praça da Liberdade: this is the main square of the city. Many important buildings are located around this place, such as the City Hall and the Clerigos Church. This is a baroque masterpiece of the city formed by the Church, the House of the Clergymen (secretariat and infirmary) and the Tower, and are the most representative of the activity of the painter/architect Nicolau Nasoni in Porto, the city where he worked from 1725 to the time of his death in 1773.
Once you pass the Praca da Liberdade, you will arrive at Sao Bento station. Besides being the city train station, this place is an open air museum, with its wonderful tiles and frescoes in the main hall.
From Sao Bento station, take the Avenida Vimara Peres and turn to the Calçada de Vandoma, and you will arrive at the Se, the main city cathedral, a great mix of Roman and Gothic style.
Palacio da Bolsa: this is a massive neo-classical building that is the former Stock Exchange. From there, go towards the river and you will get to Praça da Ribeira, a wonderful place from where you can start a walk along the river (via Cais da Ribeira) or grab something for lunch in one of the several restaurants and cafes.
After a relaxing break , it is time to taste the main Porto product: Porto wines! In order to do this, first we have to cross the famous Luis I Bridge, a majestic bridge that dates back 1886. Once we cross the bridge, we have a huge choice of Porto Wine cellars to visit. You can get in one of those and have a guided tour, with someone explaining and showing you all the process to make Porto Wine, the different kind of Porto wines produced, and end up the tour with a great taste of this delicious product.
Something very interesting in this side of the river is also the citadel, where you can go up and admire the view of entire city.
If the first day is dedicated to the city, the second day is dedicated to landscapes and culture.
Foz: it’s time to abandon the river side and admire the ocean side! Take the bus n 1 from Sao Bento station and in 20mins time you will get to Foz, the most sophisticated area of the city with bars and restaurant with views on the ocean. With a small walk from there you can get to Castelo do Queijo and Parque da Cidade, the biggest park in the city.
After this nice walk and view, take the bus back to Sao Bento, and from there take the metro to Casa da Musica. This twelve-storey, irregular-shaped building was designed by world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas exclusively for musical performances. It opened in 2005 and for admirers of architectural marvels it justifies a visit to Porto on its own.
From Casa da Musica take the bus 3,18,19,21 or 78 and get to the Serralves Museum, a contemporary art museum in a striking minimalist building by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alvaro Siza Vieira. Like the Guggenheim, there is no collection permanently on display, with temporary exhibitions taking up the entire space, as well as that of the separate “Casa de Serralves,” a pink Art Deco construction located in the surrounding formal gardens (which are magnificent and worth a visit in their own right).
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2019-04-20T14:31:21Z
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https://crazyplaneat.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/2-days-in-porto/
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Arts
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bbk
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Born on the Champs Elysées in Paris in 1834, George du Maurier was a British author and cartoonist for satirical magazine Punch. In the latter capacity he notably dealt, in a light-hearted manner, with Darwin’s theories. His horror novel Trilby, published in 1894, was one of the most popular of its time. Set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris it memorably features the character Svengali, a Jewish rogue, musician and irresistible hypnotist. Indicative of the novel’s success is that the very terms “svengali” and “trilby” (to denote a type of hat), both originate here. Du Maurier died in Paddington, London, in 1896.
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2019-04-19T00:57:33Z
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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/deviance/unconscious1/TheUnconsciousandArtist/DuMaurier/index.htm
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riverfronttimes
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'Tis the time of year when Nutcrackers abound. Not just the hand tool that busts open your chestnuts for you, but the Tchaikovsky ballet about a young girl's Christmas dreams. Saint Louis Ballet stages a grand version of the beloved show, one that features 21 professional dancers and more than 80 students. How do they get all those people on one stage? That's choreographer Gen Horiuchi's secret. Watch as Clara enters a Christmas wonderland rife with dancing snowflakes, a growing Christmas tree and a dramatic battle between the nasty Mouse King and brave Nutcracker soldier who whisks Clara away to the Land of Sweets via sleigh. Saint Louis Ballet's The Nutcracker is presented at at 7 p.m. Friday and 2:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (December 20 through 22), and then at 7 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 and 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday (December 26 through 29) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Boulevard and Natural Bridge Road; 314-516-4949 or www.touhill.org). Tickets are $28 to $52.
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2019-04-24T00:40:21Z
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https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/grand-ballet/Content?oid=2505120
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Arts
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Arts
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literock969
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Congratulations to Linda Scully, the Lite Rock Teacher of the Month for November.
Mrs Scully is a 6th grade social studies teacher at Hammonton Middle School..
She was nominated by her student Gianna LoDuca for her passion for the job and for making learning fun.
Mrs.Scully wins a membership to Island Gym and a Lite Rock pizza party for her class from Capri Pizza in Northfield. For submitting the nomination, Gianna LoDuca is now qualified for a $2000 scholarship from Lite Rock.
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2019-04-26T13:02:25Z
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https://literock969.com/making-learning-fun-at-hammonton-middle-school-teacher-of-the-month/
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Arts
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Kids
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wordpress
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I was very pleased to see that my first pair of released grey partridges are still hanging around the remains of the game cover. I was worried about them after five and six foot high snow drifts buried their feed hopper, but was planting blackthorn trees in the new hedge this morning and heard a very familiar little chuckle coming from the open field behind me. I had to look for some time before I saw the two little shapes dustbathing on a pile of molehills fifty yards away. Their camouflage really is quite impressive, and by the time that I had run back to the car for the camera, I then had to look hard to find them again.
It really was a huge pleasure to see these birds. Grey partridges were originally a bit of an offshoot of my black grouse project, but they are fast becoming firm favourites. Deep stripes of snow still run in parallel lines across the remains of the game cover, but in two months it will be under a new mixture of seeds. I was particularly impressed with wild flower mixes last year, and I was thrilled that the radish flowers attracted enough insects to draw in a family of spotted flycatchers. I need to put some thought into precisely what I will sow this year, and I’m already looking forward to it.
Having spent four years dancing around the issues presented by a long forty yard wide band of sitka spruce trees across the middle of the Chayne, the past few weeks have been spent taking matters into my own hands. The wood is too small to make it viable for a proper harvester to come up on the hill and take the timber out, and during the twenty five years since it was planted, the ditches and drains around the upper reaches of the wood have made access impossible, even for soft tracked vehicles. These trees are now destined to do nothing more than rise up to a critical height before gradually falling over like leggy weeds and crushing the fences. During their lives, they will probably do little more than give crows somewhere to nest and provide goshawks with perches from which they can survey the open moor. For every reason, these trees need to be knocked over, and given the terrible access, the majority of wood will have to be left where it falls. I can extract most of the timber from the track which runs along the south side of the trees, but carrying logs by hand over five hundred yards of wet bog from the northern end of the strip is just not worth my while.
Having established the mission, you would think that it is pretty straightforward to knock over a sitka plantation. I suppose that in principle, the job is quite easy, but when you’re trying not to let anything fall onto the fences which run on either side of the strip, complications do start to arise. During the autumn, I felled all of the trees on the west side when the prevailing south westerly wind was pushing them into the plantation. These trees just leant inwards and rested against the main bulk of the plantation. Over the past few weeks since the wind has been in the east, I repeated the process on the other side of the wood (which runs from north to south), so that all the trees on the outside were leaning in towards the middle. With a few irritating exceptions (mainly doubled trunked trees which had too much weight on the outside and just sat back on the saw no matter what I did), I then reached a stage when a one hundred yard long section of trees had been folded in on itself.
The bulk of the trees in the middle of the strip then needed to be removed. After a few failed experiments, I found that the best way to knock these trees over was by cutting them diagonally across the trunk in a single straight line, starting high on one side and working the saw down until the weight of the tree began to shift and press against the bar. I would then pull the saw out and cut in from the bottom at the same angle. With a sudden jolt, the whole tree slips diagonally off its stump but is held in a vertical position by the canopy above. It’s then either possible to keep putting these diagonal cuts in until the tree has vanished into a series of slanty sections or just moving on to the put the same cut into the next one. With the trees on the outside leaning in, the weight was distrubuted like a safety net so that nothing could fall out of the wood and damage the fence.
I daresay the main reason why this diagonal cut has not received widespread attention as a felling technique is because it is somewhat dangerous. Nine times out of ten, the tree falls off the stump exactly as you hope it will. But without leaving a hinge to control the direction that the tree will fall (as per conventional tree felling), there is the odd curve ball. This is particularly true when you have ten or fifteen trees all off their stumps leaning all their weight in a particular direction and, working under a particularly thick canopy, you fail to spot it. There were one or two hairy moments, but it’s all part of the fun of killing sitka spruce trees.
I am extremely encouraged by the progress I’ve made on getting rid of this wasted strip. When it was planted, there wasn’t a great deal of thought put into how it would be harvested, so rather than let it grow cold and draughty, this particular section is now lying dead on its side. I’m planting birches and rowans where I can find gaps in the brash, and as the years go by, more gaps and bare ground will appear. I’ve seen how quickly self-sown sitkas come back under the wreckage of clear fells, so if my birch wood does develop a sitka understorey, I will not be altogether heartbroken, provided it stays low and stunted. A chainsaw may help to keep it low.
Just worth recognising the first anniversary of the “big fire” which I was involved in last year on a hill down by the Solway Coast. Over the course of twenty four hours, a thousand acres of heather went up in smoke as a routine back burning exercise got out of control. I doubt that I will ever forget that sequence of fear, exhaustion and excitement, and I must say that is as close to being in a war-zone as I ever hope to be.
The word “epic” is thrown around a great deal these days, but it’s hard to think of any other way to describe the eerie thrill of seeing grouse flying in pairs through sheets of orange flame at midnight, when the fire stretched on a head that was hundreds of yards wide, criss-crossing back and forth on the broken ground and raking through banks of scree and rank heather. Likewise, seeing fire trickling with relentless energy through moss and stones despite energetic beating still makes my hair stand on end with horror. At one point, we tried to make a stand and burn back into an area of fire as it approached. Waiting in the darkness, the torrents of smoke slowly crept towards us until, at fifty yards away, the heat scorched our cheeks and sent us dashing back to the low ground, defeated and without a hope of regaining control. Roe deer stood in small groups in the open fields like sheep, evicted by the smoke and wondering what was happening.
I will never be wholly comfortable with the idea of heather burning again, but that is probably a good thing. Fire is a great deal more than a simple management tool, and while there’s no doubt that it is indispensable as a means of managing heather, seeing it run wild is certainly a humbling experience.
Now that the dust has settled, it’s obvious that the despite the chaos and upset, the fire has done a great deal of good for the heather on the hill. New plants are already coming back, and there are now carpets of blaeberry where before there was nothing but knee-high swathes of mature heather. In a few years, things will be looking very bright, but the main loss in the meantime is not having a huge amount to burn this spring.
A picture of the fire (bottom, centre) taken by weather satellite 400 miles above the surface of the earth.
It is interesting to see SNH’s push to celebrate Scotland’s “Big Five” in the name of “2013: Year of Natural Scotland”. The animals chosen to represent Scotland’s wildlife are red squirrels, grey seals, red deer, otters and golden eagles. It is difficult to see the purpose of the Year of Natural Scotland other than appealing to that marginal but significant body of people who are apparently so devoid of inspiration and vigour that they blandly sit around waiting for government bodies to suggest activities for them to do. For these folk, the Year of Natural Scotland is a veritable bonanza of guided walks, demonstrations, colouring-in sessions and opportunities to leave sandwich boxes under hedges. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so cynical.
My interest in the “Big 5” comes down to the fact that these are the animals that we want to show the world. It says a great deal about Scottish conservation to (in the butchered words of Burns himself) “see oorsels no’ as ithers see us, but as we want ithers tae see us”.
It did make me laugh to remember that the expression “Big 5” was first coined to describe the five African species which were traditionally found to be the hardest to hunt on foot (elephant, rhino, leopard, lion and buffalo). It conjured up mental images of tourists flocking to Scotland to shoot squirrels and otters, but I suppose that the expression has been so far distorted into the realm of the binocular safari now that it only has resonance as a box ticking tourist’s phrase.
SNH’s “Big 5” were apparently chosen in order to generate discussion and controversy, so I will try to indulge in neither of these. Suffice it to say that four out of those five species probably deserve their places.
Whoever thought that seals needed to be included ought to have their head examined. Perhaps my time working on a hebridean fishing boat have soured me against those overweight, salmon-munching water hogs, but it does seem a travesty when there are so many endangered species which deserve a bit of publicity. I daresay seals were chosen largely because it’s easy to see them – a conspicuous species allows families with small, cold children to get involved. It would be nice to include ptarmigan on the “Big 5” list, but getting people out of the car and up a munro to see them creates a number of problems.
It seems then that these animals have not only been chosen on account of their symbolic status, but also because the average member of the public who doesn’t know or care about wildlife can (with a minimum of effort) feel engaged. And I suppose that’s the point of it.
Since I don’t want to enter the discussion, it would be too much for me to put forward my own Scottish “Big 5”.
But it would be black grouse, wildcats, killer whales, short eared owls and red deer.
Now that the thaw is starting to set in, it seemed worthwhile to try and finally get up to the Chayne. After all, having been snowed into the house for two days and beginning to get a touch of cabin fever, the seven mile walk up to the farm and back suddenly had the appeal of variety. It’s not much more than two miles from my house to the Chayne as the crow flies, but the nature of the land has meant that the road winds far off to the east, before doubling back on itself and crossing a network of burns on its way uphill. The direct route is largely through blocks of forestry, so walking on foot is a compromise between the road and a number of shortcuts which roughly resemble a straight line.
After an hour and half with a backpack full of wheat, I started to struggle, so it was a pleasure to finally dump the wheat where it was most needed in the two hoppers which the grey partridges are using. One had run out altogether, and the other was down to its final scraps. Footprints in the snow revealed where the partridges had been picking through the remains of the rotten turnip seeds which they’re being fed at the moment. I was starting to phase out their feeding as the spring came in, but it seems like the so called “hungry gap” has been unexpectedly protracted. The snow has started to recede during the past few hours, but the deepest drifts may well take weeks to vanish.
Once up on the hill, I came across some quite impressive snow drifts, including one which had blown eight feet high through a gateway and stretched back to a fine taper almost twenty yards away. With the exception of a few determined skylarks and a raven, there was not much to be seen. The snipe were congregating around the burns which still had visible water gurgling slushily down them, and I followed the tracks of an otter for a short stretch where it had scrambled over the powdery stones and splashed through the peaty ice.
Having posted yesterday about the snow, I have now to report that the situation has deteriorated quite dramatically. There has been no real snow for the past twelve hours, but the powder that we received yesterday has simply shuffled around into a more comfortable situation. The drifts are harder, taller and more angular than they were, and a constant mist of stinging grit comes swirling around them. The dykes have almost vanished, and the grating powder hisses like an army of adders as it scours out the space between the coping stones, leaving an ugly jaw of broken teeth where a wall should be. Gradually, the drifts have built ramps over all obstacles, and the hawthorns down by the loch fan out the spray like the smoke from a dozen chimneys. It’s as if the valley is on fire, swirling vicious white fumes from the south east – fumes which scrape and sculpt the stubborn drifts into solid artefacts – making it appear as though something substantual is under those sharp, mathematical curves. In fact, it’s merely a trick of the wind – the physical manifestation of draughts and currents in the air.
Some are simply waving dunes, like the snaking mound which now runs in a rampart three feet high across the yard. Others express the meeting point of a number of slicing eddies – there are sculpted cliffs and breakers like this one in the photograph. Six feet high at its peak, this particular drift has crept like sand until it stood squarely over the partridge breeding pen which I photographed yesterday. It took half an hour to dig it back and let some sunlight into the pen, and I half expected to find dead birds lying beneath the powder. As it was, I finally cleared enough to lift the outer door and saw a hen partridge poking her head meekly out of the sarking board box at the other end of the enclosure. They’re both doing very well under several feet of snow, and I made sure that they had access to their feeder and drinker before going on to check on the other birds. Three hours later, the waving drift has almost entirely rebuilt itself and should probably be cleared again before dark.
It was interesting to watch my pet blackcock digging a snow shelter for himself, scratching the powder behind him like a foraging hen and finally settling down in a hollow space about the size of a rugby ball. As I type, there is a thee inch square hole in the drift which indicates where he is lying, but it would otherwise seem like an empty pen. I’ve hung an old bedsheet up one side of the pen to give him some shelter, but the way the icy grit swirls and bends around obstacles, it doesn’t seem to be doing much good.
Next door’s keeper came over to tell me that he had tried and failed to get out onto the main road. Drifts which were higher than the roof of his land rover were piled up between the dykes on the way down to the low ground, and the road out onto his side of the hill is heaped up over eight feet high with snow. Judging by the weather forecast, there is no end in sight. The snow has stopped falling, but the way it is now moving suggests that there could be some real problems ahead if this swirling mist starts to freeze.
I’m worried about my partridges up on the hill, but getting up there to make sure my hoppers are full is out of the question. I have to hope that they’re tucked in somewhere out of the wind, because otherwise they won’t last long.
The snow which was promised has arrived in full swing. We’ve had about a foot so far, but incessant winds have blown it all over the place so that it’s three or four feet deep at the backs of the dykes. Some of the corries up on the hill have filled with snow and vanished altogether, and travelling further afield than the wood shed is not an option. There’s none of the eerie silence of winter snow – just a caustic roar which rumbles on and on without ever seeming to slow down. I wonder if half the snow which is currently flying horizontally past my window is actually coming off the hill behind the house rather than out of the clouds.
The partridge laying pens had almost vanished by the time I got up this morning, and it wasn’t easy to find them amongst the hulking mounds of white powder. The keeper on next door’s estate came over and we both agreed that the day was more or less a write-off. Having defrosted the partridges’ water and emptied the dog, the day has now become a matter of keeping the stove full of wood and throwing bread crusts out of the window for the chaffinches.
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2019-04-22T06:26:37Z
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https://gallowayfarm.wordpress.com/2013/03/
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One of the highlights of each week is Thursday Stamp Club. Each child has the opportunity to start a stamp collection. For some this will be a lifelong hobby. For others it is a fun way to learn about many interesting topics. We are finishing up out fall projects now and in January we will be picking a stamp or series of stamps to write a research paper. We will find out why that person or subject is on a stamp!!
Whether we like it or not!!
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2019-04-20T12:32:02Z
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https://barton.mpls.k12.mn.us/Welcome
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On the contrary his opponent is a personal injury lawyer in his family’s shady mob connected law firm. On the Utica School Board, he’s raised taxes and increased spending ever year. He is just not ready or tested to take on the challenges of Albany.
He will use his family’s vast resources to distort Greg’s record and smear his name. This is the only course of action he has as his experience and record as a injury lawyer and tax and spend school board member do not match up to Greg’s.
The emphasis there is mine.
A quick Google search reveals that the Democrat is 32 year-old Utica school board member and attorney Anthony Brindisi. This interview reveals him to be anything but a New York City, Upper West Side, mob-connected socialist Paladino smears him as.
I’ll be contacting the Brindisi campaign today to ask them to respond to Paladino’s poorly chosen and defamatory accusation.
(With updated video courtesy WIVB). Fred Dicker is the dean of the Albany press corps. Well-respected and thorough, he writes for the right-wing Murdoch rag the New York Post. He’s been at it for decades and has received every award available for him to receive.
As the scrutiny from press corps outside Buffalo intensifies around the locally untouchable developer, Paladino made a vulgar, pointless accusation about Andrew Cuomo’s first marriage to Kerry Kennedy – older news is hard to come by.
Republican Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino threatened to murder columnist Fred Dicker.
I don’t really know what the hell Carl’s problem is – if he’s willing to go nuclear on Cuomo’s failed marriage (which ended long ago), then Carl’s protestations against inquiries into his own sordid personal life ring hollow. You can’t have it both ways. Evidently, Carl’s campaign doesn’t like that a grown woman with whom Carl slept 10 years ago was spoken to and photographed by the NY Post.
But I hope people like Dicker keep pushing, prodding, looking, and provoking. We already know Paladino doesn’t have the character to be governor. We already know he has no strategy for policy success should he win. We’re coming to learn he doesn’t even remotely possess anything approaching the temperament to handle life as a public servant.
I think Billy Batts is Fred Dicker, and Carl is Tommy DeVito, and Dicker sort of told Carl to get his f-ing shinebox.
…and I learned about Strength.
Yes, stength. And persistent, courageous, etc. – it all reads like something a brainwashed cult follower would write about their dear leader. But the reality is uglier.
Last Sunday, at Cheektowaga’s Pulaski Day Parade, Supreme Court candidate Betty Calvo-Torres was marching with supporters, as were Carl Paladino and his supporters.
One Paladino supporter shouted at one of Calvo-Torres’ supporters, “Why don’t you go back to the West Side…You don’t even speak English.” Some of Calvo-Torres’ marchers who heard this were just kids. Calvo-Torres confronted Paladino and Rus Thompson over the incident.
I can’t figure out whether it’s inspiring, courageous, motivating, determined, strong, or persistent for Paladino to call Western New York’s only Latina judge “honey”, but I’m sure cowardly Caputo’s derivative talking duck can explain all of it.
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2019-04-21T14:34:22Z
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https://buffalorecord.wordpress.com/tag/insanity/
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My torch wasn't snuffed at the Twilight LAS community. I got another vote against for a pretty graphic tale of Jacob helping, um . . . train Edward for his wedding night. (I know, I know. Where is this stuff coming from?) But it took four negative votes this time to off the unlucky author.
A huge congratulations to scribbled_mess, who just joined my flist a couple weeks ago. She won the day with a great tale of Edward in a monastery, getting a little peace from the voices in his head. This was a fantastic turn-around for her, since she was on the other side of the vote (with me) during the last round.
I did better at the LAS community for The Tudors; I actually got one vote FOR my story! There were only eight entries, however, and 22 in the Twilight challenge. Once again I was impressed by all the good work. I feedbacked several of the stories this evening, and it's not hard to find something positive to say about any of them. I'm still disappointed that the percentage of voters to writers is pretty poor. When it gets down to two or three stories left, we'll need some divine intervention, I think.
Anyway, I spent much of Labor Day laboring at the mpreg community that LJ turned over to Charlie a few months ago. She actually complained to the Admin about some of the sick stuff being posted there since the moderator went missing. And--surprise!--they handed it over.
The place was a mess. It's been around for six years or so, but it's never been moderated much. So nothing was tagged and a bunch of stuff was just WRONG. I re-structured the style and added some links, tagged every entry and put up a New Moderator post. We may not be able to get anything going there--nothing much ever has gone on--but it's better than letting it sit and gather dust and spam. Charlie and I both think 'gen' groups and communities are never that good an idea. People want to rally around their specific interest, and from what I've seen, the mpreg communities that are specific to a fandom or pairing (like Harry/Draco, for instance) are the ones that are successful.
But, you know what? I might be ready to re-visit my love of this genre (not-so-veiled threat) . . . so why not fix up a home for it?
aaw, thank you for the congrats! And well done on your Tudors vote.
Also, I thought your story was interesting (and didn't deserve to be marked down) but I think with twilight fandom, the fans are less receptive to slash, making it riskier as a story choice. But there's still everything to play for. It ain't over till it's over!
Glad you are having time to write and play some games. Nicole was so excited about her first day of school that she couldn't sleep well and kept waking up, then she heard her Mom up early and woke me up. She just beat me real bad at a game of Aggravation before we ate breakfast. She brushed her teeth after eating yogurt.
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2019-04-21T11:00:33Z
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https://mistressmarilyn.livejournal.com/203289.html
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The Hospitality Garden is a small plot of organic vegetables and flowers that is maintained by students and faculty from NY City College of Technology (City Tech). It is now located within the high production Brooklyn Grange at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and was created in order to provide students with an opportunity to experience the fun, work, and beauty that comes with growing plants that can be used by culinary and pastry students in the Hospitality department at City Tech.
DIRECTIONS: If you go to google maps and type in “brooklyn navy yard” you get the best view. The Hospitality Garden is on the roof of Building #3, where the Brooklyn Grange has an urban farm.
The best way to get there is to enter at Clinton Ave at Flushing Ave — the main entrance. Security will ask where you are going and perhaps will ask to see i.d. Once in the gate you head s.w. along South Street (parallel to Flushing) –about 2 city blocks–until you get to a large building on your right. That is the loading dock area for bldg #3!
If you ever have time to go to the garden it is best to do it the first time w/ a garden club member, because it is a little hard to navigate. That is why on this website, there is a Garden Calendar page that lists dates we will be gardening there. We hope you can experience this garden, so contact mhellermann@citytech.cuny.edu OR garden club president Shellita Orie: shellitaorie@hotmail.com if you plan to visit or have questions.
Because the academic year does not exactly coincide with the best time to grow vegetables in the northeast coast of the U.S., we are experimenting with pushing and pulling the plant and harvest dates, moving them outside of the usual seasons, in order to have produce during the spring and fall semesters at college.
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2019-04-21T03:15:55Z
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https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/hospitalitygarden/sample-page/
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate confirmed former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as U.S. agriculture secretary on Tuesday, a job he plans to use to promote renewable energy including biofuels and put healthier food in America’s school meals.
Vilsack was among five of President Obama’s cabinet nominees to be approved on a unanimous vote a couple of hours after Obama took office.
With 100,000 employees, the Agriculture Department has a portfolio that ranges from antihunger programs like food stamps to running the national forests, paying crop subsidies, promoting farm exports, aiding rural economic development and directing agricultural research.
Nearly one-fifth of Americans live in rural America.
As secretary, Vilsack, 57, will face two tasks immediately — working with Congress to renew USDA’s child nutrition programs, which cost more than $15 billion a year, and deciding whether to tighten USDA’s eligibility rules for farm subsidies.
During his confirmation hearing last week, Vilsack said the child nutrition programs, which include school lunch and breakfast, could be a tool for ending childhood hunger by 2015, a goal set by Obama. He said he wanted to bring more fruits and vegetables into schools and more locally grown food.
The related Women, Infants and Children feeding program, costing $6 billion a year, also needs reauthorization this year.
A lawyer, Vilsack has no direct experience in agriculture but during two terms as Iowa governor, ending in 2006, was active on agricultural issues.
The last farmer to serve as agriculture secretary was Jack Block, of Illinois, in the early 1980s, in the Reagan era.
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2019-04-21T04:52:42Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-obama-agriculture/senate-confirms-vilsack-as-agriculture-secretary-idUKTRE50J7ND20090120
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This Github repository contains raw data and code to explore open-source neurophysiology data analysis tools within an included Jupyter notebook. Software dependencies are listed within each data supplement folder, and can be downloaded with Docker via the associated Github repository described in the related data catalog record: Software: Docker image with JupyterLab, Python 3, Python 2, and R. The supplementary data were collected from electrophysiological recordings of the musk shrew vagus, a model system to investigate gut-brain communication.
Data files, full list of dependencies, and author-supplied instructions and information.
Download data files or access Binder link through Github. More information and instructions are available through the associated publication.
Rosenberg DM, Horn CC. Neurophysiological analytics for all! Free open-source software tools for documenting, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing using electronic notebooks. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Aug 1;116(2):252-62.
R package for analysis of factorial experiments.
R package for data visualization.
App to create, edit, and run documents containing computer code and rich text.
Python module for loading and saving multiple electrophysiology data formats.
Python module for electrophysiology data analysis.
Open-source data analysis Python library.
R package for splitting, applying, and combining data.
Open-source interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
Python package for arithmetic and conversions of physical quantities.
R package to restructure and aggregate data.
Interface for using R within Python.
Python module for machine learning.
Collection of Python software for scientific computing, including NumPy and pandas.
R package to analyze spike trains.
Docker image containing software needed to analyse these data files.
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2019-04-24T04:10:55Z
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https://datacatalog.hsls.pitt.edu/dataset/27
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The sanctuary of the Libertad synagogue in Buenos Aires. Image courtesy of the Jewish Virtual Library.
When I was an MFA student at Bennington, I spent six months studying Jewish literature with my advisor David Lehman. (The paper I wrote that semester is fifteen years old now and I'd revise it if I had the time, but if you're curious, it's called Nu: what makes Jewish literature so Jewish, anyway?) During that six months I read all sorts of poetry and prose, including two volumes in the Jewish Latin America series edited by Ilán Stavans (who I heard speak at Williams a few months ago.) Novels including Cláper (Venezuela) and The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Argentina) reminded me that the Ashkenazic immigration story familiar to most North American Jews is paralleled by the story of Jews immigrating to South America, many to Argentina.
My great-aunt Vera (of blessed memory) and great-uncle Carlos emigrated to Brazil and lived there for many years before coming to the States. (My middle name, Evelyne, honors their daughter who died when I was a child.) And the grandmother after who I am named emigrated to Mexico and came to San Antonio once she became engaged to my grandfather who already had residence in Texas. So I'm keenly aware that Jews who left Europe came to the Americas through doors other than Ellis Island (see the Galveston Movement)... and went to places even further south than San Antonio where I was born and reared. But since I read those books at Bennington I hadn't thought much about the Jews of Argentina, until we planned a vacation there.
Buenos Aires is home to a sizeable Jewish community, including many synagogues and even a rabbinic school (associated with the Conservative movement, it's the only rabbinic seminary in the southern hemisphere.) Before we left on our vacation I did some reading about Jewish Argentina, and promised myself that I would try to daven b'tzibbur (with a community) while we were there. The day before we left the country, I went to daven shacharit at Argentina's oldest synagogue, Congregacion Israelita de la Republica Argentina (CIRA -- here's their Spanish-language Wikipedia entry, since the English one is pretty paltry) also known as "Libertad" because it overlooks a small plaza of the same name. According to the Fundación Judaica, CIRA was founded in 1862; the current building was constructed in 1897 and remodeled in 1932.
I must have been the tenth person to arrive. I got there around 10am, expecting the service to be well underway, but found instead a handful of people chatting in Spanish in the enormous ornate sanctuary. In front of us, a half-dome adorned with gold mosaic spelled out the words of the shema, topped by a round stained-glass window featuring a star of David. Above the ark I could see the workings of a massive pipe organ. About three minutes after I got there, the small crowd moved to the pews at the front of the room, and beckoned for me to join them, and began to sing.
The service was entirely in Hebrew, which was great, because my liturgical Hebrew is much more fluent than my conversational Spanish! The person leading periodically called out page numbers in Spanish, which I was sometimes able to follow but other times not. Thanks to DLTI, I know the matbe'ah tefilah (structure of the service) well enough to be able to navigate even an unfamiliar bilingual siddur.
At first I thought the davening was lay-led. Different pieces of the service were led by different people, all from the pews; no one set foot on the bimah until the Torah service began. One man played hand-drum (extremely well; later he would step onto the bimah and play a small electronic piano to accompany the removal of the Torah from the ark.) Three men and one woman led different parts of the service, shifting leadership between them with ease. I recognized some tunes (the "Elohai Neshama" was one I first learned at Elat Chayyim years ago, and hearing it again felt like encountering an old and dear friend) but others were new to me, fast-paced and rhythmic.
A couple who will be married this week were honored with the opportunity to remove the Torah from the ark. I saw maybe six Torahs in the ark when it was opened. We used a tiny one, which was carried around to everyone at the beginning and end of the service by the engaged couple, as a way of honoring them in the days before their chuppah. After the Torah reading, a man lifted it effortlessly for all to behold and then a little girl of maybe eight or nine dressed it in its velvet robes again.
The Torah service consisted of seven aliyot, in the classical Conservative mode, though each one was quite brief so it went quickly. I was honored when the gabbai came to me and asked for my Hebrew name so that they could give me an aliyah. On the bimah there was a laminated card with the Torah blessings written on it in transliterated Hebrew. This is common in shuls in the US, too, but the Spanish spelling ("Baruj ata," etc) was oddly disorienting to my eyes. (Fortunately I was able to ignore what was written on the card in front of me, and just chant the Hebrew words I know.) The engaged couple was called up for an aliyah, too. Members of the congregation held a rainbow-striped tallit over their heads and we sang a song of joy and good fortune to bless their coming union.
After an abbreviated haftarah (reading from the Prophets), we sped through a musaf (additional) amidah and then moved into the ramp-down of the service. The man in the pink shirt, who I'm pretty certain was the community's rabbi, offered a brief d'var Torah in Spanish. My Spanish isn't so great (and Argentine Spanish turns out to be quite different from the Mexican Spanish of my childhood, at least to my untrained ear) but I understood him to be speaking about Pesach, which is coming soon. Pesach is when we read Song of Songs, and the tradition understands it as our festival of spring. Of course, in the Southern hemisphere these days are the beginning of autumn! But, he said, we can still celebrate the springtime of our lives during this season, as do this couple who will be married in a few days.
Before I left, I chatted briefly with the man in the white shirt and white kippah, whose English was fortunately far better than my poor Spanish. I wanted to thank the rabbi for welcoming me, but he was deep in conversation with the other visitor of the morning -- a man from Singapore who belongs to the Jewish community there -- so instead I wished the fiancés mazal tov and said a heartfelt muchas gracias to everyone I passed on my way out.
What was most wonderful for me was the chance to experience something intimately familiar (the traditional Shabbat liturgy) in a setting which was entirely new (the huge beautiful sanctuary; melodies which I hadn't heard before; fast-paced Hebrew inflected with Spanish sounds.) This makes a powerful case for preserving Hebrew as our language of prayer: it is amazing to be able to go anywhere in the world where Jews gather, and to be able to join in praising the Holy One of Blessing in the same familiar words I've known all my life.
Meister Eckhart is said to have remarked that the first and most fervent prayers are "please" and "thank you." Davening with the Concregacion Israelita de la Republica Argentina definitely offered me many reasons to say thanks. Thanks, CIRA, for a wonderful chance to daven in your midst!
These don't merit a whole post, but I figured I'd toss the links in here. For those who are interested, here are my four Argentina photosets: Buenos Aires | Patagonia | A day on the glacier | Colonia del Sacramento.
Technorati tags: Argentina, BuenosAires, CIRA, synagogue, Shabbat.
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2019-04-19T00:58:11Z
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https://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/04/shabbat-morning-at-the-libertad.html
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gigmasters
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Looking to book a band like Grateful Dead or Phish so that guests can kick back and enjoy great music all day long? You’re in the right place! GigMasters has plenty of fun Jam Bands available for bookings in the Hannah, ND area. Pick out your favorite today.
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2019-04-25T12:36:20Z
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https://www.gigmasters.com/search/jam-band-hannah-nd
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Search engines are an easy and direct way of getting your content noticed online.
Increasing traffic to your WordPress blog isn't rocket science. But it does require patience, using certain traffic-generating methods and keeping your blog up-to-date with fresh content. There are four methods in particular that help to increase your visibility on the Google search engine. Although the methods can help you get more hits to your site, it doesn't always mean you'll be at the top of Google searches, as that depends on your competition in your specific niche of blog content.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become a well studied methodology, as many websites heavily rely on search engine traffic to get noticed. SEO, in the context of a WordPress blog, involves loading your blog posts with keywords that you anticipate a person will search using Google. The keywords should appear naturally in the post, with the majority of the searchable keywords to appear in the top half of the post. Additionally, a WordPress blog administrator should install a plugin that controls the page's HTML meta tag information. The title of the blog should be consistently displayed in the same line of meta data with the post's title.
The WordPress blogging platform lets you tag each post with a set of keywords. You should freely use this feature, as most blog layouts place those tags at the bottom or top of the post. Adding these tags are important, as it indicates to the Google search engine what a particular blog post is about.
Make sure you categorize each blog post. WordPress automatically groups these category posts into its own individual page, which can be searched and indexed by Google. The easier you make it for Google to find your content, the more likely your blog is discovered by people through the search engine. When naming categories on your blog, make it short and simple. Stick with one or two words for a category name. A category name is seen by Google as another keyword.
A backlink is a link that comes from an external website. The goal is to get other websites, blogs and social networks to link to your content. The more often this happens, the more likely your website or Web page will appear higher in the rankings for a particular keyword. Google ranks heavily backlinked websites higher, because it sees it as social proof that other people find the content on the site as relevant. You can get backlinks by commenting on other people's blog posts, having people tweet your links on Twitter or by forming a link sharing partnership with other webmasters.
Mitchell, John. "How to Increase Hits in a WordPress Blog in Google Searches." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/increase-hits-wordpress-blog-google-searches-34278.html. Accessed 26 April 2019.
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2019-04-26T14:29:28Z
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https://smallbusiness.chron.com/increase-hits-wordpress-blog-google-searches-34278.html
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A little cool, but the sun was bright and the sky was clear. Currently, it's 52˚F.
Today, I did (wait for it) 1,870 words on The Tinadlos Asset. That's 3,557 words in two days, in about eight hours of writing. Plus, this morning I edited everything I wrote yesterday.
Spooky finished a new necklace. She also finished the new Edward Gorey biography, Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery (2018).
getting in the car to go to the market, I very nearly stepped on a freshly deceased Southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris). I think I know the cat who did the deed.
We made a modest and delicous St. Patrick's Day dinner. I cooked a big pot of cabbage (with carrots, onions, cloves, garlic, thyme, and parsley), and Spooky made a marvelous shepherd's pie. And we had it with Guinness. Sadly, no soda bread was to be had hereabouts, and we didn't realize this until it was really too late to bake any ourselves.
I hung my flag this morning, facing south.
14, 15, and 16 were added at the suggestion/insistence of Andrew K. Rindsberg, my mom, and Susan Shwartz, respectively.
Current Music:The Pogues, "The Broad Majestic Shannon"
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2019-04-20T00:50:26Z
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The invention of the world wide web in 1989 coincided with the harmonisation of the European Union’s trade mark laws. At that time, the possibility that advertisements could be interactive, precisely targeted and produced spontaneously in response to consumers’ actions does not appear to have been envisaged.
That meant that the law, on its literal interpretation at least, didn’t quite fit the new world of electronic commerce. Fortunately, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has shown versatility and adapted and developed the law through its decisions so that it functions as it does today.
Over the course of the last few years, we have seen a large number of references to the ECJ relating to the use of trade marks as keywords. Senior courts in France, the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom have all sought guidance as to precisely under what circumstances bidding on brand owners marks will constitute trade mark infringement on the part of the search engine and the advertiser.
The iPit blog contains summaries of the law and each of the decisions on Google AdWords here, running from Google France to Interflora via L’Óreal v eBay, Die Bergspechte and Portakabin.
takes unfair advantage of the reputation of the mark without due cause (free-riding).
Where advertisements merely offer alternatives as opposed to imitations, the advertising function will not be affected. In those circumstances, the use is justified in the interests of competition, subject to not affecting any of the other functions of the trade mark.
Intermediaries, such as Google and eBay, will be liable where they play an active role in the creation of an advertisement, or are made aware – or should have been aware as diligent economic operators – of an infringing advertisement and fail to remove it expeditiously.
Commercial communications are essential for the financing of information society services and for developing a wide variety of new, charge-free services.
The ECJ has followed a consistent pattern as it strives to strike a balance between (i) the promotion of competition in the online environment by allowing fair use of trade marks (ii) the protection of consumers from deceptive practices and (iii) the investment businesses make in promoting their brands.
All iPit posts on Google AdWords can be found here.
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2019-04-23T22:03:11Z
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https://robertwcumming.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/keyword-advertising-in-the-eu-where-are-we-now/
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People continued to arrive and a comrade that was still on his way, informed us that the next train from Cologne was also packed with people…….
Hambacher Forest: Many cops evicted Paragraph 11 yesterday. Some arrests and evictions were very rough. Paragraph 11 was evicted but Black Socks, Ghost Town and Quality land are still standing. Ghost Town will be evicted today.
Many cops evicted the ground structure of Paragraph 11 yesterday. Some arrests and evictions were very rough. Every time that we had the impression that journalists were not looking that closely, one or two cops stabbed people with their batons or pulled them by the ears.
Some people were hidden under the underwood and were sawed out. That was not completely unproblematic and dangerous. Nobody was brought to the detention center.
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 1. Oktober 2018……….
On Oct. 1st eviction of Paragraph 11 took place, a tree house build by a Guild of Traveling Carpenters as a community space for those blocking RWE coal in Hambach Forest.
It became a true community during Monday resistance against Fossil Fools forces of repression and destruction that have been ravaging and destroying all forest occupations, tree houses and cutting 100s of trees for last 3 weeks plus in what has been the biggest police operation in the history of North Rhine – Westphalia.
With paragraph 11 being the last of over 30 tree houses destroyed in this 3rd of large waves of historic tree-top evictions in Hambi. First eviction took place in 2011 and at the time was the longest and most expensive in Federal Republic of Germany history(this time this record has been surpassed again) second occurred in 2014 with destruction of Monkey Town.
With both previous waves of cops washing up on our green shores looking now like gentle breezes, however those actions were also complete clearing of all at the time tree houses in the forest. Those previous act of repression however only invigorated and amplified the resistance, multiplied exponentially the number of activists, ideas and treetop homes in the forest and generated public discussion of why such large resources in the time of economic austerity, ecological collapse and climate change are being spend to support and subsidize RWE’s toxic and climate killing opencast mining.
Another dynamic that has also always been directly proportional to the level of repression has been solidarity which this time also became a weapon with hundreds coming to support, surround and fortify the surroundings of Paragraph11 beginning a week before and leading to the eviction, while thousands took part in demonstrations and actions world-wide to support the cause of saving and defending this unique and irreplaceable forest.
Beginning on Thursday police presence increased in the area and Friday road was made to the occupation with hundreds coming on both days and blocking the surrounding roads reclaiming the area under P11 and finally on Saturday and Sunday building large, all around barricade walls with crawl space inside preventing the barricades being picked up of moved by heavy equipment.
On Monday the CO2ps were massing in the thousands around the forest and started coming unto the road in front of P11 around 8:00 and came into the forest and surrounded paragraph11 an hour later.
The walls all around were the height of 2 meters and formed a 3 layered spiral, and at first the police just maintained the kettle around the activists inside of a fortified village protecting the Tree and its tree house in center. Then CO2ps started working together with RWE contractors who cut the barricades with chainsaws, until getthting to the second layer of barricades that they begun to cut as well until finally responding to urgent calls that people were inside and proceeded to take them apart by hand, this had to take place before the operation could move further and cops showed their frustration by being aggressive towards those who were pulled from the inside.
This frustration has almost become indicator that something was done right and someone did manage to get on their nerves. At that time on team of cops was loaded into a bucket of a bulldozer, while another team was breaking through the barricade on the others side with the help of RWE contractors.
Before going in they were joined by additional police brigade. They came over the barricade in a raised bulldozer bucket sprayed those on top of barricade, who at the time were holding signs and trying to appeal to them, with pepper spray.
Grabbing and pushing down the blockaders some of the cops fell down the barricade face first while taking some of the activists down with them.
Aggressive destruction took place next with cops not only grabbing, hitting and pulling down all who were not already sitting down under the tree and even took their agression out on all the hanging tarps that were pulled down, ripped and cut and then on anything else such as any resisting pots, backpacks and jackets that got in their way which were kicked with great gusto…………..
Although we usually don’t publish calls of NGO’s like Greenpeace Or BUND, we make an exemption for this demo, as it’s on the same day as the action of Ende Gelaende, October 6, 2018. The demo will be really big and creates headaches for the cops. Where to concentrate on? There are many tweets and Facebook event pages about travel options to Hambacher Forest on October 6. There will also be a bus from Amsterdam.
Originally published by Busride to Hambi: Join the Protest! Facebook event page. Edited by Enough is Enough.
People have blockaded the further destruction of Hambacher forest for more than 6 years and have built over 60 treehouses to protect it from the expansion of the mine.
Even though thousands of people have put their bodies on the line to end the coal extraction, and more than 750.000 people signed a petition against it, the German government and the company RWE continue their dirty business.
Call-out for action on 6th October 2018, organized by #EndeGelaende-local groups at #HambacherForest by Ende Gelaende.
Over the last weeks, the police have supported the coal company, to clear the blockades and the tree houses to prepare the clearing of the forest for further expansion of their mining operations. In order to raise the stakes, most of the German environmental NGOs agreed to have a mass demonstration together near Hambach on the 6th of October!
On the 6th of October, we are arranging a free bus from Amsterdam to Hambi for people who want to join the mass protest on Europe’s key climate battleground! The protest is taking place in the Hambacher Forest on the edge of one of the biggest lignite mines and is aimed against the destruction of the forest to make way for the expansion of the mine and to celebrate the inevitable End of Coal!
The bus will leave on the 6th of October at 07.30 @ Orlyplein, Amsterdam (the entrance of the train station Sloterdijk) and will return there the same day around 23.30.
On the way we will make a stop at Station Oud Zuilen, Utrecht to pick up people that live in that area. Gathering Oud Zuilen 08.15, bus leaving 08.30.
The first 40 people will get a seat. The rest will be informed whenever there is a free spot.
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2019-04-23T21:02:39Z
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https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/updates-resistance-grows-to-hambacherforest-destruction-mass-demo-oct-6th-save-endcoal/
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Ahmed Abukhater, GISP, is an architect, environmentalist, and urban and regional planner by trade. Throughout his career, he served in a variety of senior positions in both governmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the Global Director of Product Management at Pitney Bowes, Esri’s Global Industry Manager for Planning and Community Development and Director of PLACES (Planning, Architecture, Construction, Engineering and Sustainability), and GIS Manager and instructor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Abukhater’s experience ranges from the technological and practical aspects of planning to public policy and implementation matters. He has frequently served as a keynote speaker in a number of areas, including GIS solutions and geospatial intelligence, sustainable community development, natural resources planning, social and environmental justice, and trans-boundary water resources management and conflict resolution. His research examines the social, economic and environmental factors that drive the 21st century urban development, resource access and allocation, and conflict prevention and resolution.
Abukhater holds a Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, a dual Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering. Throughout his career, Dr. Abukhater has authored numerous publications, served on many governing and advisory boards, and received more than 20 prestigious awards for his work.
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2019-04-24T09:57:57Z
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After Sonny and Cher had a few hits on the pop charts, it seemed making a movie was the next logical step. 1966's Good Times does this with self-awareness in check. The duo simply play themselves, with Sonny being keen on doing a movie but Cher (whose full name is Cherilyn Sarkisian, just in case you were wondering) doesn't feel so much about it preferring to just concentrate on music. Sonny meets with big-time film producer Mordicus (George Sanders) who talks him into signing a contract to have him and Cher star in his movie- but after reviewing the script they discover it's simply awful. Mordicus then gives them ten days to come up with something better- otherwise they'll have to either do the movie with his bad script or else "never work in this town again."
Thus goes the setup for three comic sequences as Sonny conjures up movie ideas. First running into a kid playing cowboy (Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown), he thinks up a Western setting with himself as a bumbling gunslinger who keeps dropping his bullets, with Cher as a chorus girl at the local saloon. His other ideas are a Tarzan take-off and a private eye movie, each of which work in one song and otherwise run just a bit too long, as some of the sketches in their later TV show did- the advantage here is that at least you won't have to hear a laugh track along with them. George Sanders appears in all of these as a different ‘bad guy.' In between these ‘dream' sequences we get to see the two of them at their real-life home as they ponder whether commercial success is more important than making art that's true to themselves, with more songs worked in here as well. There's also plenty of self-deprecating humor between them which would become a big part of their TV show.
Your enjoyment of this movie will largely depend on your appreciation for Sonny and Cher, as they are the primary focus here with a flimsy plot that just gives them reasons to sing and joke onscreen. This is yet another one of those movies that improves with age, as the visual styles of the era are fun to look back on now, as are the pop songs which aren't too memorable but hold the movie together.
Kino's Blu-Ray looks very nice, with a clean transfer (presented in a full-screen 1.78 ratio) free of any digital tinkering that looks just like a good film print. Most of the colors are bright without being excessive, showing off the era's clothing and interior decorating styles. The mono audio, encoded in 2-channel DTS Master Audio, is a bit sub-par for a musical but this was a time when only the really ‘big' movies got stereo mixes. Quality is adequate but definitely has that optical-sound flavor to it. Subtitles are included in English only.
Director William Friedkin, this having been his first feature film, appears in an interview segment running about 20 minutes where he talks a bit about his friendship with the two stars of the movie and how they tended to compose their songs. He also mentions that the three "fantasy movie" sequences were shot first, and the rest was mainly improvised around them.
Nobody's going to mistake Good Times as a masterpiece of cinema, but it's harmless fun that's even more fun to look back on more than fifty years later. If you enjoyed their early-70s TV series (part of which was available on a great DVD set which is now out of print) then you can't go wrong here.
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2019-04-23T22:38:22Z
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https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/73378/good-times/
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Proposed biosensors can be classified into three groups, i.e., immunoassay-based, molecular amplification-based, and nanoparticle assembly-based. The principal motivation is to develop and optimize biosensors for out-of-lab and point-of-care testing.
Immunoassay-based biosensors described in this thesis employ antibodies as the bio-recognition element for the detection of bacteria cells/fragments or proteins. Two typical immunoassay formats, i.e., direct and competitive format, are studied and compared for bacteria detection. In addition, in the protein biomarker detection, MNP chains are formed in the presence of target analytes as well as in the external rotating magnetic field. The high shape/magnetic anisotropy of the chains provides better optomagnetic performance.
Two different molecular amplification methods, i.e., rolling circle amplification (RCA) and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), are described under the topic of molecular amplification-based biosensors. In RCA-based biosensors, DNA probe modified MNPs bind to the amplicons after amplification. In LAMP-based biosensors, MNPs are either modified with primers that keep growing during the amplification, or are co-precipitated with the by-product (Mg2P2O7) of the amplification.
The design of the nanoparticle assembly-based biosensors described in this thesis is based on duplex-specific nuclease (DSN)-assisted target recycling and core-satellite magnetic superstructures. In the presence of target microRNA, DSN cuts the DNA scaffold of the core-satellite assembly, releasing MNP satellites that can be quantified by the sensor.
Different kinds of target analytes, i.e., pathogens or cancer biomarkers, are detected at the aiming for rapid, low-cost and user-friendly diagnostics.
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2019-04-21T23:02:10Z
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http://www.samfak.uu.se/kalendarium/event-sv/?eventId=34870
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Jackson, O. Matthew, Ehud Kalai, and Rann Smorodinsky. 1999. Bayesian Representations of Stochastic Processes Under Learning: deFinetti Revisited. Econometrica. 67(4): 875-893.
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https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/research/researchdetail?guid=bccd2063-bf5c-476e-be75-31ea041938c5
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The exhibition was held at PizzArte, New York, 2018.
Kim, H.S. "Welcome to Art Garden", exhibit. PizzArte, New York, 2018.
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https://scholarship.haverford.edu/finearts_facpubs/438/
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Jenna found yoga as a student at Virginia Tech where she attended yoga classes at the on-campus gym. She moved to San Diego from the east coast after her graduation in 2008 and has grown to love the practice of yoga. Through her practice she discovered the healing benefits of yoga both on and off of the mat and hopes to help students learn about yoga beyond the physical asana practice.
She completed a 200 hour teacher training with YogaWorks in April 2012 and the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga 200 hour teacher training with The Chopra Center in November 2014. Jenna is passionate about living a healthy and active lifestyle while enjoying the journey along the way. She has a true passion for her yoga and meditation practice and is happiest when she's on her yoga mat. Jenna primarily practices Ashtanga yoga, hot Vinyasa Flow, and the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga.
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2019-04-20T14:14:20Z
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While in Paris, I had the chance to sniff fragrances from Phaedon, the Paris niche perfume house founded in 2011 by Pierre Guillaume (who also owns Parfumerie Generale and is behind Huitieme Art). The line previously had seven eau de toilettes, but, this summer, Mr. Guillaume launched seven more fragrances that are all “High Concentration Eaux de Parfums.” The new creations were all made by Pierre Guillaume in collaboration with various perfumers.
I obtained samples of three of the fragrances, thanks to the kindness of the Paris niche boutique, Sens Unique, a fantastic store which I will rave about in another post one day. The perfumes in question are: Tabac Rouge (Turkish Blend), Rouge Avignon, and Pure Azure. For reasons that will soon become clear, I’ve decided not to follow my usual course of doing a lengthy, comprehensive review for each fragrance individually. Instead, I’ll merely provide a brief synopsis and my impressions for all three perfumes in a single post.
Turkish Blend is a quintessentially Art Deco composition. Turkish tobacco absolute and incense make up the core accord, spare, dry and perfectly balanced. As in Tamara de Lempicka’s paintings, the “color” palette is pared-down and vibrant: ginger, cinnamon and a lick of honey. In the base notes, musks, bolstered by warm, powdery Siam benzoin, blend the scent with your skin. Androgynous, stylized and luxurious.
Turkish tobacco absolute, incense, ginger, cinnamon, honey, musk, powdery notes and benzoin.
Tabac Rouge is, in a nutshell, a simpler, slightly less forceful, lighter version of Tom Ford‘s Tobacco Vanille. The major differences to me are that the Phaedon version is fractionally less sweet than its cousin, lacks a fruited base, has weaker sillage, less density, and doesn’t quite take on the Yankee Candle Plum Pudding undertone of Tobacco Vanille.
Like Tobacco Vanille, Tabac Rouge starts with a strong blast of honeyed tobacco that is infused with incense and vanilla, and dusted with spices in a potent blend that eventually turns softer, airier, more powdered, and more vanillic in nature. The differences that exist are largely minute, and one of degree. As noted above, Tabac Rouge lacks a plum pudding undertone, but it also feels much more honeyed to me. In fact, the honey was much more pronounced on my skin than the vanilla which seemed less significant than in Tobacco Vanille. A much bigger difference is that Tabac Rouge feels much softer and lighter than the Tom Ford fragrance. It doesn’t have the latter’s dense, thick chewiness, but it does have its longevity.
Tabac Rouge, travels a well-worn path of combining tobacco and incense. It is fine but it didn’t ever rise to a level of something I would be reaching for when I am in the mood for tobacco and incense. If you like these notes and want a lighter simpler take on them Tabac Rouge could fill the bill.
I like Tabac Rouge more than he did, but I too would get my incense and tobacco fix elsewhere.
A Gothic composition, as opulent and dark as the shadow of the Papal Palace looming over nations and centuries… The carmine red of the papal stole is conjured with a fleshy, spicy rose facetted by ylang-ylang and raspberry. In the heart notes, waxed woods, cocoa bean, black truffle and earthy smoky vetiver lure us into the private apartments of the Supreme Pontiff. Gilt moldings and religious ornaments glint in the firelight while gray tendrils of smoke rise from a censer burning sandalwood chips mixed with musk and amber.
raspberry, ylang-ylang, rose, cacao pod, hinoki wood, tuber [black truffle], vetiver, sandalwood, musk and amber.
Rouge Avignon opens on my skin with a bouquet of honeyed sweetness and delicate florals that soon turn into a fleshy, fruited, purple rose. A strong heaping of sharp, almost clean musk ensues, and deep down in the depths, there is a very noticeable dose of cocoa powder. The latter is soon overwhelmed by the syrupy, jammy rose, and doesn’t really appear again until a few hours later. I honestly don’t smell raspberry as the fruit, per se, in its own right but, instead, an amorphous, almost berry-like fruitiness.
Something about the overall combination and my skin chemistry has produced instead an accord very similar to a patchouli rose. It’s a profusion of abstract dark berries and syrupy sweetness, much like the purple patchouli I loathe so much. In fact, I’m reminded of Frederic Malle‘s Portrait of a Lady, only Rouge Avignon has a greater degree of musk that feels a little synthetic, along with extremely muted, minor hints of something dark in the base. I’m not the greatest fan of fruited, syrupy, patchouli-like roses, and I don’t like Portrait of a Lady, so I confess that I’m equally underwhelmed here.
I really enjoyed the foodie heart of Rouge Avignon but I must confess the strength of the rose and raspberry in the top notes took some getting used to. I think I will revisit this in the chill of the fall.
By the standards of CaFleureBon with their positive, laudatory take on everything, that simple confession speaks volumes. As for the issue of seasons, it’s almost December here, and I’d like Mr. Behnke to know that Rouge Avignon is still a painfully sweet, berried rose from start to finish.
There are only a few minor changes in the fragrance’s primary backbone and theme. After a few hours, a subtle touch of sweetened powder emerges, as does a slightly earthy, murky, brown funk with a faint undertone of cocoa. On my skin, it’s never the “foodie heart” that Mr. Behnke talks about, at least not in any dominant or substantial way. Still, there is some minor darkness deep down in the base, and that turns Rouge Avignon from a scent that begins as Portrait of a Lady into something closer to Tom Ford‘s Noir de Noir. Rouge Avignon is lighter, airier, thinner, and more synthetic in feel than both those fragrances, and it also lacks Noir de Noir’s powdered violet nuance, but the similarities struck me repeatedly nonetheless.
At the end of the day, I simply don’t find the sum-total of Rouge Avignon to be all that interesting. Actually, I grew to hate it quite intensely. The rose is painfully, almost torturously sweet for my tastes, and the perfume feels wholly unoriginal. The list of notes is fantastic, but the reality on my skin is primarily of a very fruited rose with sharp, very synthetic musk, and only a modicum of a dark, earthy heart. However, if you’re looking for something in the general vein or family of Portrait of a Lady, but much lighter and airier, then you should consider Rouge Avignon. It is a much better bargain at $160 (or €120) for a large 100 ml bottle, than Portrait of a Lady which costs $340 for that same sized bottle. The same goes for Noir de Noir which Tom Ford sells for $210 for 50 ml. Rouge Avignon has moderate sillage, turns into a skin scent after four hours, but has good longevity.
This giddy balancing act of a scent carries us high above the cliffs of the Aegean Sea, where azure skies contrast with the blinding whiteness of fishermen’s villages… The fragrance of fig trees and orange blossom, the warmth of vanilla and spices, the sensuousness of jasmine rise from the shores of the Mediterranean. In the base notes, the mouth-watering warmth of tonka bean is brought out by a delicately salty note. A “Mediterranean Oriental” hovering between the radiant and the animal….
fig, orange blossom, vanilla, spicy notes, jasmine, tonka bean and salt.
Pure Azure opens with an explosion of whiteness that is both clean and verging on the florid. There is orange blossom, tinged with hints of a more bitter, woody, spicy neroli, and then a big burst of saltiness that is truly wonderful. It’s a visual landscape of white with orange blossoms that are languid, sweet, indolic, utterly lush, and, yet, also fresh. There is spiciness and a definite sense of greenness underlying those orange blossoms, but it is the initial sprinkling of saltiness that really captured my interest.
Unfortunately, it soon fades, but it is replaced by an interesting fig note. Like the orange blossoms, the fruit is simultaneously sweet, fresh, and green. There is none of the leathery darkness that figs can sometimes take on. Instead, there is an almost milky quality that evokes a slightly unripe fruit in late Spring, before the summer heat has turned it fleshy, dark, and gooey. Deep down in Pure Azure’s base, there are touches of vanilla, but it’s never custardy, heavy, or rich.
Pure Azure has a beautiful medley of notes, but what is initially so great about it is the paradoxical mix of freshness and lushness. The orange blossoms have hints of lush, heavy, indolic ripeness, but not quite. It’s as though the sweet flowers are almost green, with a dewy, light feel that truly feels fresh.
The scent is crisp (though not like a cologne), feels very summery, and most definitely meets Phaedon’s goal of recreating the Mediterranean coast. (I actually saw Capri more than an Aegean island, but let’s not quibble about lovely places where fresh flowers bloom in the warm, salty air.) The best way I can describe Pure Azure’s feel in my mind is to refer to a crisp white shirt worn against a man’s tanned skin (à la Kilian Hennessey), instead of the more common or traditional visual associated with indolic white flowers, namely, languid courtesans reclining with ripe, white flesh and heaving bosoms.
On the negative side, however, Pure Azure’s opening has an undertone of soapiness, as well as an increasingly strong blast of white, clean musk that, unfortunately, feels very synthetic. Both elements help underscore the fresh crispness of Pure Azure’s opening, but I would have been happier without the splitting headache that the musk gave me for a few hours. Despite that, I generally liked Pure Azure’s opening stage because of the green touch to the flowers and fruit.
The freshness doesn’t last long. About 75 minutes in, Pure Azure turns into a simple, honeyed floral, as the jasmine emerges and the white musk recedes to lurk underneath. The jasmine soon becomes fully integrated into the orange blossoms, and both are completely drenched in sweetness. The honey is not heavy syrup, however, but more like agave nectar which is both sweeter and lighter. Despite the lack of density, it’s very potent, transforming even that clean, laundry, white musk into something warmer.
Pure Azure soon turns rather abstract, feeling like a soft cloud of blowsy, ripe, white florals, with heavy honey, a dollop of musk, and the faintest smidgen of salt. It’s like a floral cousin to Mona di Orio‘s Eau Absolute, only lighter, airier, and without citric elements. In its final moments on my skin, Pure Azure is a nebulous smear of honeyed sweetness with just a vague hint of something floral behind it. I like honey, which my skin tends to amplify, but I have to admit, I was taken aback by how quickly and by how much it dominated Pure Azure. I know it’s probably my skin’s fault, but it was all too much for me by the end. Too linear, too simple, too boring.
My favorite of the new collection was a surprise to me as with a name like Pure Azure I was expecting a variation on an aquatic theme. Instead I was treated to a fantastic summer floral which appealed to me on many levels. Fig and orange blossom open Pure Azure on a bright accord. Vanilla and jasmine turn things sweeter and deeper. Tonka and a bit of a marine accord cut the sweet without making it go away. For almost the entire time I wore Pure Azure I was in the midst of a grove of fig trees, orange trees and jasmine swirling in and out of each other. I ended up wearing this on a day the thermometer hit 100 and it was perfect for that kind of heat. It wasn’t cloying or too much it was just right.
Pure Azure was significantly less interesting on my skin than on his, but I can see why he liked it so much. I smelled pretty much all of them at Sens Unique, and Pure Azure captured my interest the most at first sniff. Nonetheless, my feelings are highly qualified because I struggle with the potency of the clean, fresh synthetics, as well as with the way Pure Azure veers so sharply to the other extreme of warm, almost indolic sweetness. I also wish Pure Azure had a more complex evolution than mere honeyed florals in its later stage.
My problem with the new Phaedon line isn’t that many of them seem derivative, but, rather, with their extreme sweetness. Pierre Guillaume is a chap known for having a very gourmand touch with his Parfumerie Generale fragrances, and the Phaedon line doesn’t seem to be an exception. It’s simply too, too much for my personal tastes.
The synthetics may also help explain why the line has such good longevity on my perfume-consuming skin. The Phaedon fragrances consistently lasted over 11 hours, with some tests almost approaching 13 hours, depending on quantity. The sillage was potent at first, and the fragrances very forceful, but they are all uniformly airy in feel, lack density, and turn into something that is generally quite soft. On average, it took between 4 and 4.5 hours for them to become skin scents, though they were usually easy to detect up close.
Judging by what I’ve sniffed as a whole and tested in specific, I think the Phaedon line is generally pleasant, and good value for those who want a more affordable, lighter, softer cousin to some existing fragrances on the market. They’re not my personal cup of tea, but I can see the appeal.
Cost & Availability: Tabac Rouge, Rouge Avignon and Pure Azure are all eau de parfums that comes in a 3.3 oz/100 ml size and which costs $160, €120, or £95. In the U.S.: you can purchase Tabac Rouge, Rouge Avignon and Pure Azure from Luckyscent, though the first two are currently sold out and can be back-ordered for December delivery. Pure Azure is in stock. Samples of all the fragrances are generally available for purchase. Elsewhere, the Phaedon line is at NY’s Osswald Parfumerie, which also offers a US-only sample program for telephone orders. 10 samples for $10 with free domestic shipping. Outside the U.S.: You can buy all three perfumes directly from Phaedon, which also offers samples of all 14 of its fragrances (7 EDP, and 7 EDT) in a Discovery Set which costs €40 for 14 x 1.5 spray vials. The set is sold out at the time of this review. I should add that Phaedon doesn’t provide any information as to the countries they ship to, and if they limit things just to the EU. In the UK, you can buy Phaedon from London’s Bloom Parfumery which sells each Eau de Parfum for £95, along with samples. In Paris, Tabac Rouge, Phaedon and all Pierre Guillaume’s other brands are carried at Sens Unique in the Marais district. They don’t have an e-Store, but they have teamed up with DesFragrances for online orders. In Switzerland, I found Phaedon at Osswald Zurich; in Russia, I found the line at Lenoma and Lesse Parfum; in Poland at Galilu; and in Italy at Profumeria Gini. For the full list of retailers carrying the Phaedon line, you can turn to the company’s Stockist page. Samples: many of the sites linked above offer samples for purchase. I obtained mine from Sens Unique in Paris. For American readers, Surrender to Chance does not carry any of the new Phaedon Eau de Parfums at this time, so your best bet is Luckyscent.
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Perhaps your skin wouldn’t bring out *quite* so much honey, Vicki, but I still don’t know how you’d like the second phase. I know it’s the salt part which caught your attention for Pure Azure, but it is very fleeting and minor. It’s a pity, as that was a really lovely touch to go with the orange blossoms.
Phooey. Honey scares me. A lot. I don’t really find many fragrances that I have to scrub but my last was a sickly sweet honey bomb. All of these seem to have it prominently. I had been curious about Tabac Rouge too.
I happened to be testing Tabac Rouge when your post reached me, so it was interesting to compare impressions. Tobacco Vanille is a scent that I dislike a good bit because of the heavy, overripe plum in the base, but I do love tobacco notes, so I thought that Tabac Rouge would be a great substitute. My impressions were very similar to yours except that I got a little more vanilla and, fortunately, a little less honey. At the two-hour point it has faded to a skin scent; this always happens, and in fact I’m lucky to get two hours. The cinnamon is fairly pronounced at this point. Overall a great scent for weekend mornings like this one, when it’s cold and blustery out and I’m drinking great coffee and have no hurry to get out of bed. I will definitely want to keep a decant around because this will also be a terrific winter work scent, pleasant enough for me, familiar enough not to bother my colleagues, zero sillage (on me) after the first hour. Breaks no new ground, but not every scent needs to. However, the vanillic tobacco scent that I will love and buy a full bottle of is still out there somewhere. I was thinking of trying SSS Tabac Aurea next. Any thoughts about that one?
I will probably try a sample of True Azure because some parts of it sound attractive, and it sounds like the kind of thing that will fade so quickly on me that the other phases won’t be a problem for long ;-).
Anyway, I have Kalemat for tobacco vanilla amber scents, Chergui for softer things, and a large decant of Tobacco Vanille that I never use because of the Plum Pudding feel, so I don’t need Tabac Rouge but it’s certainly one of the better ones in the line, imo. And SO much of a better deal than the TF!
With regard to Pure Azure, the first part is incredibly pretty — clean, white synthetics or no synthetics. REALLY pretty! In fact, that opening phase made it easily my favorite of the line based purely on the first 40 minutes or so. Afterwards, though, well….. hmph.
I think you should both give SSS Tabac Aurea a chance. It’s one of the stranger scents I own/tried, a very different spin on the tobacco note, and I mean that in a good way. It’s sweet, yes, and maybe a bit honey-ish even (or maple syrupy? but not too sugary). Amazing nevertheless.
Tabac Rouge was much more interesting than Tobacco Vanille, but maybe that’s just me. I agree with you, Kafka, that it is too honey-ish, too sweet for its own good. I expected more…oomph, and, knowing my insatiable self, maybe more – patchouli? 🙂 Something darker, more rounded.
In order to explain better where I am coming from, in terms of tobacco scents, my favorites – so far – are Miller Harris Feuilles de Tabac and Aramis Havana.
Only for you, Bruno, would I consider a perfume that is known to have ISO E Super in it! It is not one of the SSS fragrances that I have a sample of, and I draw the line at spending money on buying a vial, but if I have the chance to try it, I will.
Portrait of a Lady is one of my most beloved perfumes, but I wouldn’t want a torturously sweet rose on my skin even for 5 minutes. The tabac rouge on the other hand might be something I’d enjoy.
These all sound interesting but if they smell like something else that I already have and like/love (Tobacco Vanille and POAL), I am not compelled to pay for samples. Lucky for me, I can check these out the next time I go to Osswalds.
Regarding the backdrop of the picture of Pure Azure, it sure looks like the coast of Santorini but then again the Greek islands and heart-stopping pictures of these islands on the Aegean probably all look the same.
I’m not surprised by your reaction. If I may ask, did you order a sample vial prior to your actual decant, like from Luckyscent, etc., or did you receive it via one of the groups?
My first reaction in the store was positive, then quickly turned negative, especially as the scent on my clothing was utterly overwhelming and heinous. (NEVER put Tabac Rouge on clothing!) It’s better on skin, and I’ve come around a little.
But I would definitely never wear it or want it for myself. For me, Kalemat fits what I’m looking for in a tobacco-amber-vanilla fragrance much more.
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2019-04-21T22:04:11Z
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https://akafkaesquelife.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/phaedon-tabac-rouge-rouge-avignon-pure-azure/
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Learn how the Opportunity Corridor was developed and were we are today with design and construction.
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Archived Cleveland Opportunity Corridor project documents from public meetings, steering committee meetings and community meetings.
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2019-04-22T18:36:40Z
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40 000 հեծյալ և 200 000 հետևակային («Աքքայի կործանման ողբը»).
Delaville le Roulx, Joseph, ed. Cartulaire general de l’ordre des Hospitaliers, no. 4157; translated by Edwin James King, The Knights Hospitallers in the Holy Land (London, 1931), pp. 301–2: amended by H. J. Nicholson.
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2019-04-23T22:49:50Z
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https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%84%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB_%D5%BA%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4_(1291)
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Ben Boychuk at RedBlueAmerica writes with insight about a plethora of education problems—all of which are made worse by virtue of federal intervention and, Boychuk argues, the agendas dominating teacher’s unions. Particularly galling is the anointing of "rockstar" level superintendents with exorbitant salaries, budgets and perks in some of the country’s worst school districts. Of course, the market (such as it has been manipulated by federal intervention, regulation and tax dollars) dictates that "good" people won’t do this job without such accoutrement. They’re asked to come in and perform the duties of a Messiah, after all. Messiahs cost money and—apparently—lots of it. It’s a real question, however, whether these Messiahs have to answer to any reliable authority for their savior activity. The staggering dropout rates in many of their districts probably suffice for an answer to that question.
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2019-04-21T12:22:48Z
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http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2008/04/of-rockstars-drop-outs-and-leaving-kids-behind.php
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At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more sure of his own judgment and more isolated from anyone else’s than at any point since he took office.
In less than two weeks, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California will take the speaker’s gavel held until now by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and subpoena-wielding House Democrats will be empowered to investigate Mr. Trump’s family, business, campaign and administration. At some point after that, he will face the results of whatever Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finds about campaign ties to Russia and obstruction of justice.
At some point after that, Ms. Pelosi may come under enormous pressure from her liberal base to open an impeachment inquiry, and many Republicans anticipate a battle over whether Mr. Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors even if they hold enough votes in the Senate to block removal. Amid all that is a rising budget deficit that will shrink Mr. Trump’s domestic options and signs of a possible economic downturn that would undercut his most potent bragging point.
Yet even with a 38 percent approval rating in Gallup polling, Mr. Trump has dominated the national conversation as no other modern president has, and his base thrills at his fights with the establishment, seeing him as a warrior against self-satisfied elites who look down on many Americans. Determined to maintain that base, he has insisted — despite the seemingly long odds — on his pledge of a border wall, aware that abandoning his signature campaign promise would make him less authentic, the quality that his voters often cite as his appeal.
As a result, a partisan war may be just what he wants. He has privately told associates that he is glad Democrats won the House in last month’s midterm elections, saying he thinks that guarantees his re-election because they will serve as a useful antagonist. That may be bravado, but history provides some support. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, his Democratic predecessors, both endured even bigger midterm setbacks and went on to win re-election.
Both sides gamely talk about possible cooperation on issues like rebuilding the nation’s tattered network of roads, bridges and other infrastructure. “The opportunity in the era of divided government is to work with both sides to get something done for the country,” said Representative Josh Gottheimer, Democrat from New Jersey and co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
Recent days showed the possibilities when Congress overhauled the criminal justice system, the most significant bipartisan domestic legislation of Mr. Trump’s tenure. Mr. Trump has hopes of winning bipartisan support for his new trade deal with Mexico and Canada. But one congressional Democrat said the party has gone from thinking it could make deals with Mr. Trump to believing he must be stopped at all costs because he is so dangerous.
Mr. Trump has struggled with fellow Republicans lately, too. They objected loudly to his decisions to draw down troops from Syria and Afghanistan and pushed through a Senate resolution essentially rebuking his handling of Saudi Arabia after the assassination of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who protested the troop pullouts and Mr. Trump’s cavalier approach to America’s alliances, sent shudders through Republican ranks.
House conservatives, meanwhile, revolted against Mr. Trump when he seemed to retreat on his demand for border wall funding to avert a government shutdown. At the same time, Senate Republicans, who had voted unanimously to keep the government open without the wall money Mr. Trump had demanded, were angry when he reversed course and refused to sign such a measure.
Such conflict comes with a cost. Mr. Trump has a way of stepping on his own successes. The border wall fight overshadowed his signing of the criminal justice overhaul. The abrupt way he decided to withdraw from Syria overshadowed the military victories against the Islamic State. Mr. Trump’s focus during the midterm campaign on a caravan of migrants overshadowed the positive economic story he had to tell before the latest stock market gyrations.
Some left in a cloud of corruption allegations, including his health and human services secretary, his Environmental Protection Agency chief and, most recently, his interior secretary. Others left after clashing with Mr. Trump. Mr. Mattis was the last of the so-called axis of adults seen by some as tempering a volatile president, following the ouster of Rex W. Tillerson as secretary of state, H. R. McMaster as national security adviser and John F. Kelly as chief of staff.
But Fred Fleitz, who worked for nearly six months this year as chief of staff for John R. Bolton, the current national security adviser, said the new team is more cohesive and better suited to Mr. Trump than one constantly undermining him.
“He came in as the ultimate outsider and he brought in some unorthodox policies that worked and he tried some things that didn’t work, and one of the things that didn’t work was bringing in some staffers who didn’t work, like McMaster and Tillerson,” Mr. Fleitz said.
In a recent public talk, Mr. Tillerson said out loud what others say in private, that Mr. Trump often pushes for actions that exceed his authority and does not like it when told he cannot do something. He bristles at constraints and expresses envy of autocrats like President Xi Jinping of China who do not have to deal with independent power centers like the Federal Reserve or the courts.
In recent days, Mr. Trump has asked aides whether he can fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chairman he appointed, telling advisers that Mr. Powell will “turn me into Hoover,” a reference to the Great Depression-era president. During a meeting with German car executives this month, Mr. Trump threatened to impose higher fuel efficiency standards on their imported cars than required on American vehicles even though aides told him he could not do that.
And he can be hard on his staff. He regularly curses at them, some say. Even his humor can be abrasive. When Larry Kudlow, his economics adviser, returned after a heart attack this year, the president ribbed him in front of aides. “Larry, you’re here six weeks and you had a heart attack?” Others laughed uncomfortably.
More recently, the president has told associates he feels “totally and completely abandoned,” as one put it, complaining that no one is on his side and that many around him have ulterior motives. That extends even to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was credited for helping push through the criminal justice bill, praise that Mr. Trump took note of.
Longtime associates said Mr. Trump’s relationship with his children has grown more removed and that he feels he does not have a friend in the White House. He disagrees with Mr. Kushner and Ivanka Trump much of the time, but cannot bring himself to tell them no, leaving that instead to Mr. Kelly, according to former aides. That made Mr. Kelly the heavy, they said, and therefore the target of their ire until he was finally forced out.
Mr. Trump has spent far less time lately with older friends. The sense of isolation was on display at this month’s holiday parties when he appeared for a few minutes, took a few perfunctory photographs with preselected guests and then disappeared back upstairs rather than mingle. He spent part of this preholiday shutdown weekend alone until Melania could return from Florida.
For election night in November, he insisted on throwing a lavish party in the East Room and originally wanted aides to be on display for his guests, a simulation of officials gathering election return information like aides did at Trump Tower in 2016. When White House officials warned that a party would look discordant given the likelihood of losing the House, he insisted on going forward anyway.
Of late, allies concede, the news has been particularly grim. He was infuriated by his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal scheme to pay hush money to women to keep quiet about alleged affairs with Mr. Trump before the 2016 election, a scheme he said Mr. Trump had directed.
Still, for all the reports of a fuming president alarmed at possible impeachment, Mr. Trump rarely expresses such specific anxiety out loud, associates said. Instead he expresses frustration, anger, mania — all of which aides read like tea leaves to discern what lies beneath.
No one outside of Mr. Mueller’s office, of course, knows for sure what he will report, but so far he and other prosecutors have drawn a devastating picture of a president surrounded by people who have lied to the authorities, cheated on their taxes, skirted campaign finance laws and secretly worked for foreign interests. The question is what Mr. Mueller will say about Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump has not helped himself with decisions that opponents use to draw a narrative of a president unusually deferential to Russia, including his withdrawal of troops in Syria, which drew the public approval of President Vladimir V. Putin.
More recently, Mr. Trump has taken to spending time reminiscing about the happier days of his candidacy and his 2016 victory. He spent the fall showing different groups of visitors what he calls his love letters from North Korea’s iron-fisted dictator, Kim Jong-un, expressing admiration for Mr. Trump. And he still takes joy in aspects of the job, primarily those that demonstrate power. “The roads closed for me!” he declared to friends this year after a motorcade ride.
But those highs have been hard to recapture. The days are filled with conflict, much of it of his own making. More advisers are heading for the door. The divisions are widening, not closing. If it is a “war every day,” there are no signs of peace.
Follow Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman on Twitter: @peterbakernyt and @maggienyt.
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2019-04-25T15:48:41Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/22/us/politics/trump-two-years.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM is developing an all-electric enduro that could be in showrooms within two years.
The competition-ready ride features a lithium-ion battery that provides 40 minutes of riding time "under race conditions" and can be charged in just one hour, according to Hell for Leather. KTM isn't saying much about the bike, but by following the all-electric path blazed by startups like Zero Motorcycles and Quantya, the company seemingly is betting batteries are the future of off-road riding.
KTM is keeping the specs under wraps but says the prototype Zero Emission Motorcycle produces 29.5 foot-pounds of torque.The battery and motor weigh 17 kilograms (about 37.5 pounds). That may seem heavy, but electric bikes don't need an exhaust system, fuel tank and other parts. No word on what the KTM EV weighs, but the all-electric Zero X we rode tipped the scales at a bantamweight 140 pounds and was good for 57 mph.
Off-road bikes lend themselves to electric power because they're typically ridden short distances, so range isn't that big an issue.
Electric motors also provide gobs of torque, a big plus in motocross riding. And as Hell for Leather notes, going green doesn't just help the environment, it could preserve or even expand off-roaders' access to land.
More info at photos at Hell for Leather, which provided the photo.
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2019-04-24T08:30:21Z
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https://www.wired.com/2008/10/ktm-builds-a-ra/
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The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has undergone an exciting transformation in recent years. The changes are mostly behind the scenes, but they have already contributed to something Army sustainers care deeply about: improved military readiness. DLA has accomplished this through a number of initiatives that operationalize its support to the warfighter.
What does "operationalize" mean? Our customers have traditionally viewed DLA as largely a wholesale, static supply chain organization. What we're doing better is translating what DLA does into immediate, actionable information that is more relevant to our military services. DLA must view success through the same lens as the warfighter. In the Army's case, success is defined as fully mission capable weapon systems and maximum readiness.
In spring 2018, DLA rolled out the Service Readiness Dashboard, a comprehensive tracking tool that has become the centerpiece of our efforts to operationalize support to the services. We have always been good at addressing consumable and depot-level repairable requirements at the aggregate level, but we were not able to relate our support particularly well to the readiness of specific weapon systems.
The Service Readiness Dashboard provides a common operational picture by combining data from the services' automated systems with DLA's wholesale data. Through that combination, we are able to see DLA's operational impact on service weapon systems and requirements.
This new tool improves our capabilities in other ways as well. While we used to collectively review our agency performance metrics monthly, recent advances in data management and data science have made it possible for us to address the readiness of key weapon systems in near-real time. We can respond more quickly and accurately to critical materiel and supply availability issues, and we are more predictive in our support to service readiness.
As director, I access the Service Readiness Dashboard nearly every day. So do the commanders of our six major subordinate commands and other key leaders across the agency. But more importantly, our DLA professionals now have a powerful decision-making tool to help them prioritize their work. As a result, we have seen significant improvements in our materiel support to Army readiness.
The bottom line is that five of the Army's big six weapon systems (Abrams, Black Hawk, Bradley, Stryker, Apache, and Paladin) have seen substantial improvements in material availability at the DLA level. For example, our data from January to December 2018 shows our material availability for the M1A1 Abrams tank increased by 6.6 percent. Material availability for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went up by almost three percent. The Service Readiness Dashboard has helped us focus on what is important to keep these weapon systems fully mission capable.
Granted, DLA's material availability at the wholesale level is different than Army supply availability. Nonetheless, by any objective measure, DLA's overall materiel support to the Army has enhanced the readiness of the Army's big six systems.
The future for the Service Readiness Dashboard points to greater levels of definition. For example, the dashboard tells us the systems that are "not mission capable supply." That supply may be service supply or DLA supply. But there is another level of definition required, because in the services' not mission capable supply category, there are some DLA impacts not currently taken into account. So we are working toward greater definition to break out the DLA impact on this category.
We also plan to include metrics for industrial support in Army depots. Right now, the dashboard is focused on support to operational units. Soon we will be able to view our impact on the industrial support, which will give us a much more comprehensive picture. We are very excited about the additional capability the dashboard brings to DLA's ability to operationalize our support to the services, and to date, the Army has been a strong partner.
DLA's organizational structure includes three centrally selected commanders for its regional commands: DLA Indo-Pacific, DLA CENTCOM & SOCOM [Central Command and Special Operations Command], and DLA Europe & Africa.
These commanders oversee the critical capabilities closely linked to the J-4 sections of the combatant commands they support. Incidentally, DLA CENTCOM & SOCOM and DLA Europe & Africa are commanded by Army colonels.
DLA's transformation over the past three years has made all our elements in those regions centrally led and commanded by our regional commanders, giving warfighters a single point of contact through which to access all DLA capabilities.
Within the Army, the regional commands are also linked with the theater sustainment commands. We consider this a critical element and a significant multiplier that extends DLA's capability and support to the services in their areas of responsibility.
These regional commands are comparable to the Army Materiel Command's Army field support brigades. They provide full service for all DLA capabilities in a combatant command area of responsibility. This has greatly strengthened our relationships with the combatant commands and improved the support we provide to the Army and the joint force.
The linchpin for synchronizing these new operational concepts is the transformation of the DLA Joint Logistics Operations Center to the Agency Synchronization Operations Center (ASOC). The ASOC will provide a better, more comprehensive common operating view of DLA's mission support and business processes.
DLA is organized into six major subordinate commands, three regional commands, and several critical functional directorates, such as our Procurement and Acquisition Directorate or J-7.
The ASOC will dynamically fuse the functions and expertise of nearly every mission function DLA performs with our national account managers for each service, our combatant command representatives, and whole-of-government liaisons. This new approach will enable DLA to better focus and communicate the support it provides to the warfighter and our whole-of-government partners.
A principal element located in the ASOC will be the Army National Account Manager (NAM) team. The NAM will work side by side with the functional subject matter experts across DLA who affect critical Army issues. One-stop shopping with more streamlined support to the NAMs will translate to even more responsive support for the Army.
One of the most challenging areas for any organization of DLA's scope--and a critical aspect of operationalizing DLA's support to the Army--is the accuracy of demand planning and forecasting. Are we ordering the right items and in the right quantities? Are we ordering items that will have an immediate impact on service readiness? Are we over ordering or under ordering? Collectively, we must ensure we are spending the services' and the Department of Defense's precious dollars on items that positively impact readiness. I cannot overemphasize how much of a team effort between DLA and the Army this must be.
In July 2018, we invited expert demand planners from the services to join us at DLA for the first Demand Planning and Forecasting Summit to provide us with the best projection of their demand for fiscal years 2019 and 2020. This important face-to-face session revealed more demand than we were aware of--about 20 percent more.
This more accurate demand figure allowed DLA to proactively address the increase well in advance of need. We also gained insight into what weapon systems might see less demand or be headed for obsolescence. Thanks to the participation from the Army G-4 and Army Materiel Command, the summit was extremely successful in identifying projected non-Army-managed class IX (repair parts) requirements for the next two years.
We took this process one step further. Once we received the requirements from the services, we invited about 175 critical industry partners to an industry day. There, we passed along what industry could expect from DLA in the coming months.
Through demand planning and forecasting summits and industry days, we are getting ahead of service requirements and posturing the agency to help the services improve readiness in the future.
Although many of these operationalizing efforts are internal to DLA, for the Army majors assigned as support operations officers in brigade combat teams, the lieutenant colonels commanding brigade support battalions, the G-4s in tactical divisions, and the sustainment brigade commanders who support those divisions, our goal is for you to see improved supply availability that leads directly to improved readiness.
Make sure you know who your local DLA forward representative is; there is one on every major Army installation. That person or element can be of enormous benefit to you and is a direct link to DLA headquarters and each one of our major subordinate commands. Use this capability to the fullest. Through them and the other enterprise organizations that support the Army, you'll see an improvement in your readiness.
Before I close, I'd like to leave you with a couple of thoughts. DLA is a great place for Army sustainment professionals to serve. In my estimation, DLA is an agency not as well known to our junior leaders, field-grade officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers, but it is a rewarding joint assignment that you should seek.
Furthermore, the alignment and interdependencies between DLA, the Army G-4, and the Army Materiel Command will grow even stronger in the decades to come. As I like to say, to describe the Army as our customer just doesn't cut it--we are partners. None of us can support the warfighter without the others. The enterprise perspective you will gain at DLA will benefit you throughout your career. I look forward to seeing you at DLA.
DLA is dedicated to improving our support to the warfighter. Over the past year and a half, we have made wise investments in an effort to ensure the Army gets what it needs. In fact we've made nearly $250 million in investments in authorized stockage lists, forward stocking initiatives, weapon systems support, and other readiness drivers.
DLA is fully committed to aligning with the Army G-4, the Army Materiel Command, and others to ensure we understand what the Army needs to improve readiness and that we are supporting those requirements.
Our strategic plan contains five lines of effort, but the one that is central to everything we do and that will never be compromised is "Warfighter First." DLA has been and always will be a Warfighter First agency.
Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams is the director of the Defense Logistics Agency. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Hampton Institute and a master's degree in business management (logistics) from Penn State. He is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and the National War College.
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2019-04-24T12:00:23Z
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https://www.army.mil/article/219020/operationalizing_dlas_support_to_the_army
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Floor 1066 has been invaded by Normans.
In the event of a sudden loss of skyscraper pressure, oxygen masks will drop down from Floor 1062 to the floors below.
flicky1991 wrote: You'd have to show me a plural-looking singular that truncates without the "s" to convince me that the same applies to "mathematics".
Floor 1042 contains faculty offices for about a twentieth of the LUXS physics department.
Floor 1038 is another floor owned by the Lowermost University of the Xkcd [sic] Skyscraper. It consists mainly of laboratories for the Departments of Pedagogy, Penology, and Proctology. It is difficult to tell which are which.
Floor 1027 believes itself to be a prime number, but is mistaken.
Floor 1024 contains a hydroponic coffee plantation, converting Floor 1022's productivity into beans that Floor 1023 can process into gourmet coffee.
Considered collectively, Floors 1022 thru 1024 represent another perpetual motion machine.
Floor 1012, logically enough, contains faculty offices and lecture halls for the Lowermost University's Department of Sciuriology.
Floor 995 contains all floors (and only those floors) which do not contain themselves.
Floor 939 contains a colony of bats who wonder would it would be like to be human.
Floor 933 has a bunch of U.V. lamps. It's where people from Floor 932 go when they want a tan.
Floor 929 is under arrest for the murder of Floor 921. Floor 929 has the right to remain silent. Anything Floor 929 says may be used against it in a court of architecture. Floor 929 has the right to consult a draftsman; if it cannot afford a draftsman one will be appointed for it.
taixzo wrote: Rosetta has landed - but Landing has not been updated. I wonder if Randall will add a final closing frame for this?
Yeah, he really should. Wonder if he just forgot.
Floor 829 is unoccupied. If you would like to rent office space, please contact the tower manager.
Floor 821 is not out of order. It's in exactly the right place. The other floors are the ones that are out of order. If all of them were correctly rearranged, 821 would be fine.
Floor 814 contains an Olympic-size swimming pool filled with sulfur trioxide.
Also a sign: "No lifeguard on duty. Swim at your own risk."
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2019-04-25T04:55:13Z
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http://forums.xkcd.com/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&author_id=319938&start=120
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Remarkable solution is among the very best functions to selecting a bed mattress from this company. Their beds are applauded for supplying superb worth of what you pay, as well as whatever includes a lifetime guarantee. The benefits of good rest are countless. Numerous sleep specialists as well as customers alike believe Dream Cloud uses one of the very best ways to appreciate those benefits to their max. To make sure, this is among one of the most enticing instances of memory foam bed mattress you are going to locate. Also, Forbes ranked Dreamcloud as the best memory foam mattress in 2018.
Those mattresses can start in the $3000-dollar variety, with Shifman mattresses typically going for even more than 6 grand. Dreamcloud is one of the only hybrid bed companies to offer a lifetime service warranty on their items.
In order to appreciate everything these bed mattress have to supply, we need to consider the different materials that bring these bed mattress to life. The even more you discover about this bed mattress, the simpler it is to understand why they have actually ended up being so popular with people looking for affordable deluxe bed mattress.
The heat-treated cotton pads are an additional function to these beds. These maintain the air conditioning experience of the mattresses. The top notch foam is then integrated with the coil system we pointed out before. You will certainly likewise wish to pay interest to the soft, super-comfy Euro-top. These contouring pillows give the body with supreme comfort. Latex is additionally made use of in the creation of the Dreamcloud. The sidewalls are also intensely strengthened in the production procedure. This ensures a bed with several of the very best side support to be discovered anywhere. Despite where you sleep on the bed, you are going to be getting the very best rest possible.
These bed mattress are kept in mind as well as celebrated for being built to last. Your DreamCloud bed acquisition will consist of one totally free cleaning. This is valued at about $300, as well as it kicks in after you’ve had the bed for at least one year.
If you keep your DreamCloud for greater than five years, DreamCloud will certainly recondition the mattress, restoring it to its former magnificence. The impressive part? DreamCloud will certainly do this for definitely on the house. They appear to be rather committed to maintaining their customers as Dreamcloud fanatics for the foreseeable future. Taking benefit of these attributes, it appears reasonable that you will have the ability to take pleasure in the bed for a very long time to come.
When it concerns buying the most effective bed mattress, firmness is naturally something you are most likely to bear in mind. You want something that is versatile in this field, yet you definitely additionally want something that will keep your specific demands in mind.
To that end, keep in mind that these mattresses are just built at the medium-firm degree. Luckily, Dream Cloud provides an astonishing 1-year trial of their mattress.
PRO: The cost is quite simply fantastic. As we stated in the past, this is one of one of the most inexpensive luxury hybrid beds we have actually ever before seen.
PRO: The products are several of the finest ever before made use of to develop a bed. Inspect the testimonials, and also you will discover a bed mattress that almost anyone can delight in. A huge part of that boils down to the materials they make use of.
PRO: Remember that a crossbreed bed can suggest obtaining the very best of all globes. DreamCloud incorporates coils with memory foam to give you an impressive experience.
PRO: The 1-year test and also life time guarantee makes the possibility of at the very least trying this mattress much more attractive.
PRO: White glove services ensure your bed will certainly last for several years ahead.
CON: At 15″, this bed mattress could be a little bigger than what you are used to.
CON: The absence of multiple firmness levels can be a little discouraging to some. Still, there is a superb opportunity that you are mosting likely to fall for whatever this product brings to the bedroom.
Just placed, the DreamCloud bed is an example of the hybrid luxury mattresses that have actually ended up being so prominent in current years. Those beds can begin in the $3000-dollar array, with Shifman mattresses commonly going for even more than six grand. In order to value everything these bed mattress have to supply, we need to consider the various materials that bring these mattresses to life. The even more you find out concerning this bed mattress, the much easier it is to comprehend why they have ended up being so preferred with individuals looking for affordable luxury beds.
If you maintain your Dream Cloud for more than five years, DreamCloud will refurbish the bed mattress, recovering it to its previous splendor.
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2019-04-22T09:59:44Z
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War canoe appearing at celebrations in honor of the clan chief. Ekowe, Bomo clan. Central Ijo artist, Nigeria, 1979. Photo by Martha G. Anderson.
The Niger River forms a vast network of waterways, tropical forests, and mangrove swamps before it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The Ijo have lived in this remarkable environment for several millennia, and their beliefs echo its striking contrasts between land and water, rainy and dry; Ijo art and ritual often involve canoes and other prominent features of the riverain landscape. Unlike their relatives in the eastern delta, who were heavily involved in trade and created a series of city-states, Ijo living west of the Nun River supported themselves largely by farming and fishing; their clans were united only by descent and allegiance to common war gods. These gods no longer honor warriors for taking human lives, but the Central and Western Ijo continue to value masculine strength and assertiveness. References to their warlike past abound in shrines, rituals, and masquerades, and ceremonial war canoes still appear at festivals, including those held for war gods.
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https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/21
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A function executing device for executing a function by utilizing a consumption article may be provided with a device main body, a sensor, an information output device, and a controller. A consumption article housing case for housing the consumption article may be mounted on the device main body. The sensor may detect the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case mounted on the device main body. The information output device may output information to the exterior in a case where the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case mounted on the device main body has become less than a predetermined quantity. The controller may prevent the information output device from outputting the information twice or more in a period between a time where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body and a time where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body.
This application claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-024441, filed on Feb. 2, 2007, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference into the present application.
The present invention relates to a function executing device for executing a function by utilizing a consumption article.
A printer that executes a printing function utilizing a consumption article such as, for example, toner, ink, etc. is widely known. Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2001-228761 teaches a system comprising a printer, and a service center connected with the printer via a remote communication network. The printer comprises a sensor that detects the quantity of toner within a toner cartridge. When the sensor detects that the quantity of toner is equal to or below a predetermined quantity, the printer sends a toner low signal to the service center. The service center can thus recognize that the toner cartridge must be replenished.
The present inventor discovered that, with respect to one consumption article case (in the toner cartridge in the above example), the sensor may detect multiple times that the quantity of a consumption article within the consumption article case has become low. Various causes for this may be conjectured. For example, the sensor may operate incorrectly and perform detection a plurality of times. Further, even in the case where the sensor is functioning correctly, external actions (vibration, for example) may affect the consumption article case and cause the consumption article within the consumption article case to move (to undulate, for example), and as a result detection may be performed a plurality of times.
In the case where the sensor has detected that the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article case has become low and this detected result is utilized, various problems can occur when this detection is performed a plurality of times for the one consumption article case. For example, in the conventional technique described above, when the quantity of toner is detected by the sensor to be equal to or less than the predetermined quantity, the toner low signal is sent from the printer to the service center. If detection is performed a plurality of times for the one toner cartridge, the toner low signal is sent a plurality of times. In this case, even though one toner cartridge needs to be replenished, the situation will occur that a plurality of toner cartridges will be replenished. The present specification teaches a technique capable of dealing with the situation in which it is detected a plurality of times that the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article case has become low.
The present specification teaches a function executing device for executing a function by utilizing a consumption article. The function executing device may comprise a device main body, a sensor, an information output device, and a controller. A consumption article housing case for housing the consumption article is to be mounted on the device main body. The sensor may detect the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case mounted on the device main body. The sensor may detect the quantity of the consumption article quantitatively, or may detect whether the quantity of the consumption article has fallen below a predetermined threshold (for example, less than a predetermined quantity below). The information output device may output information to the exterior in a case where the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case mounted on the device main body has become less than a predetermined quantity. Various contents may be adopted as this information. For example, the information may be a simple signal, may be the remaining quantity of the consumption article, may be the quantity of functions that are predicted to be capable of being executed from the remaining quantity of the consumption article (for example, the number of sheets of printing), or may be a message demanding that the consumption article housing case to be exchanged. The controller may control the information output device. The controller may prevent the information output device from outputting the information twice or more in a period between a time where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body and a time where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing ease is mounted on the device main body.
With the function executing device, the information is output to the exterior in the case where the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case has become low. However, in the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed a plurality of times for the same consumption article housing case, information detected from the second time onward is prevented from being output to the exterior. That is, information is not output to the exterior a plurality of times even in the case where detection is performed a plurality of times for the same consumption article housing case.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a printer system of a first embodiment.
FIG. 2 shows a flow chart of a process executed by a printer.
FIG. 4 shows a schematic view of a printer system of a second embodiment.
FIG. 6 shows a flow chart of a process executed by a PC.
FIG. 7 shows a schematic view of a printer system of a third embodiment.
FIG. 8 shows a flow chart of a process executed by a printer.
FIG. 9 shows a flow chart of a process executed by a PC.
A first embodiment will be described with reference to figures. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a printer system 2 of the present embodiment. The printer system 2 comprises a printer 10, a personal computer 40 (hereafter termed PC 40,) the internet 60, etc.
The printer 10 comprises a casing 12, a printing device 16, a print number counter 18, a mount sensor 20, a mount number counter 22, a toner sensor 24, a controller 26, and an I/O port 28. The casing 12 houses the devices 16 to 28. A toner cartridge 14 is mounted in a manner capable of removal on the casing 12. The toner cartridge 14 houses toner. The printing device 16 utilizes the toner housed in the toner cartridge 14 to print onto a print medium (printing paper or the like). The print number counter 18 counts and stores the number of sheets of the print medium (hereafter termed ‘print number’) printed by the printing device 16. The print number counter 18 accumulates and stores the print number. That is, the value of the print number counter 18 is not cleared.
The mount sensor 20 detects whether the toner cartridge 14 is mounted on the casing 12. The mount sensor 20 of the present embodiment has a known configuration (for example, the configuration taught in US Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0034625; the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference into the present application). A description of the detailed configuration of the mount sensor 20 is omitted. The mount sensor 20 detects that a new toner cartridge 14 is mounted on the casing 12. The mount sensor 20 cannot detect that a used toner cartridge 14 (a toner cartridge 14 that has already been mounted on the casing 12) is mounted on the casing 12. The mount number counter 22 counts and stores the number of times a new toner cartridge 14 is mounted on the casing 12. The initial value of the mount number counter 22 is set to ‘0’. When the mount number counter 22 detects by means of the mount sensor 20 that a new toner cartridge 14 is mounted on the casing 12, the mount number counter 22 counts up by ‘1’.
The toner sensor 24 detects the quantity of toner in the toner cartridge 14. The toner sensor 24 normally outputs either a high state or a low state to the controller 26. In the case where the quantity of toner in the toner cartridge 14 is greater than a predetermined quantity, the toner quantity sensor 24 outputs the high state, and in the case where the quantity of toner in the toner cartridge 14 is equal to or less than the predetermined quantity, the toner quantity sensor 24 outputs the low state. The toner quantity sensor 24 of the present embodiment has a known configuration (for example, the configuration taught in US Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0034625). A description of the detailed configuration of the toner sensor 24 is omitted.
The controller 26 performs various processes in accordance with programs that have been set in advance, and exerts general control over the operation of the printer 10. The contents of the processes executed by the controller 26 will be described in detail later. The I/O port 28 is connected with the PC 40. The I/O port 28 is capable of outputting information to the PC 40. The I/O port 28 is capable of inputting information output from the PC 40. The contents of this information will be described in detail later.
The PC 40 comprises an output time print number storage 42, an output time mount number storage 44, a mail address storage 46, an internet communication device 48, a controller 50, and an I/O port 52. The output time print number storage 42 stores the print number that is being stored by the print number counter 18 when a warning mail (to be described) is output. The output time mount number storage 44 stores the mount number that is being stored by the mount number counter 22 when the warning mail is output. The mail address storage 46 stores an email address of a destination of the warning mail. In the present embodiment, the mail address storage 46 stores the email address of an administrator (for example, a supplier) who exchanges the toner cartridge 14. The internet communication device 48 executes internet communication (for example, sending and receiving email) in accordance with a command from the controller 50.
The controller 50 performs various processes in accordance with programs that have been set in advance, and exerts general control over the operation of the PC 40. The contents of the processes executed by the controller 50 will be described in detail later. The I/O port 52 is connected with the printer 10. The I/O port 52 is capable of outputting information to the printer 10. The I/O port 52 is capable of inputting information output from the printer 10. The contents of this information will be described in detail later. Further, the I/O port 52 is connected with the internet 60.
Next, the process executed by the printer 10 will be described. FIG. 2 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the printer 10. Moreover, only the process relating to the present technique is shown in this flow chart. Processes not closely related to the present technique have not been shown. The process of FIG. 2 is executed by the controller 26 of the printer 10. The controller 26 monitors whether a new toner cartridge 14 is mounted (S2). In the case where this has been detected by the mount sensor 20, the controller 26 determines YES in S2. In this case, the controller 26 causes the mount number counter 22 to count up by ‘1’ (S4). When S4 ends, the process proceeds to S6. In the case where S2 is NO, also, the process proceeds to S6. In the present embodiment, a configuration has been adopted in which the controller 26 causes the mount number counter 22 to count up. However, a configuration may equally well be adopted in which the mount number counter 22 counts up automatically.
In S6, the controller 26 monitors the execution of printing. In the case where printing has been executed by the printing device 16, the controller 26 determines YES in S6. In this case, the controller 26 causes the print number counter 18 to count up by ‘1’ (S8). The print number counter 18 counts up each time one sheet of print medium is printed. When S8 ends, the process proceeds to S10. In the case where S6 is NO, also, the process proceeds to S10. In the present embodiment, a configuration has been adopted in which the controller 26 causes the print number counter 18 to count up. However, a configuration may equally well be adopted in which the print number counter 18 counts up automatically.
In S10, the controller 26 monitors the input of an information request from the PC 40. This information request is output periodically from the PC 40. In the case where the information request from the PC 40 has been input to the I/O port 28, the controller 26 determines YES in S10. In this case, the controller 26 outputs the following to the PC 40 (S12): the print number being stored in the print number counter 18, the mount number being stored in the mount number counter 22, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 (high state or low state). When S12 ends, the process returns to S2. In the case where S10 is NO, also, the process returns to S2.
Next, the process executed by the PC 40 will be described. FIG. 3 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the PC 40. Moreover, only the process relating to the present technique is shown in this flow chart. Processes not closely related to the present technique have not been shown. The process of FIG. 3 is executed by the controller 50 of the PC 40. The controller 50 outputs the information request to the printer 10 (S20). As a result, the print number, the mount number, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 are output from the printer 10 in S12 of FIG. 2. The print number, the mount number, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 are input to the I/O port 52 (S22).
Next, the controller 50 determines whether the detected result from the toner sensor 24 input in S22 is low state (S24). In the case where S24 is YES, the process proceeds to S26. In the case where S24 is NO, the subsequent processes are skipped and the process returns to S20. In S26, the controller 50 compares the mount number input in S22 with the output time mount number being stored in the output time mount number storage 44. In the case where the former and the latter are the same, the process proceeds to S28. In the case where the former is greater than the latter, S28 is skipped and the process proceeds to S30. In S28, the controller 50 subtracts the output time print number being stored in the output time print number storage 42 from the print number input in S22. The controller 50 determines whether the value obtained by this subtraction process is less than or equal to 100. In the case where S28 is YES, S30 and S32 are skipped and the process returns to S20. In the case where S28 is NO, the process proceeds to S30.
In S30, the controller 50 outputs the warning mail to the email address being stored in the mail address storage 46. The warning mail contains a message that the toner quantity in the toner cartridge 14 has become low. As a result, the administrator who exchanges the toner cartridges 14 can learn that the toner cartridge 14 needs to be exchanged. Next, the controller 50 clears the stored contents in the output time mount number storage 44, and stores the mount number that was input in S22 therein (S32). A new output time mount number is thus stored in the output time mount number storage 44. Further, the controller 50 clears the stored contents in the output time print number storage 42, and stores the print number that was input in S22. A new output time print number is thus stored in the output time print number storage 42. When S32 ends, the process returns to S20.
The printer system 2 of the present embodiment has been described in detail. For example, in the case where the new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted on the printer 1 for the first time, the mount number of the mount number counter 22 becomes ‘1’. The output time mount number of the output time mount number storage 44 remains ‘0’. In the case where, in this state, the low state is detected by the toner sensor 24, the controller 50 of the PC 40 outputs the warning mail. At this juncture, ‘1’ is stored in the output time mount number storage 44. That is, the output time mount number becomes ‘1’. Since the mount number and the output time mount number are both ‘1’ even if the low state is detected again by the toner sensor 24, NO is determined in S26 of FIG. 3. In this case, as long as NO is not determined in S28, the warning mail is not output to the exterior. In the case where the toner cartridge 14 has been exchanged for a next toner cartridge 14, the mount number becomes ‘2’ (and the output time mount number remains ‘1’). In the case where, in this state, the low state is detected by the toner sensor 24, the controller 50 outputs the warning mail. At this juncture, the output time mount number becomes ‘2’ (and the mount number remains ‘2’). Unless NO is determined in S28, the warning mail is not output to the exterior even if the low state is detected again by the toner quantity sensor 24. By adopting the present system 2, it is possible to prevent the warning mail being output to the exterior a plurality of times for one toner cartridge 14 even in the case where the toner quantity sensor 24 has determined the low state a plurality of times. As a result, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which a plurality of toner cartridges 14 is replenished even though only one toner cartridge 14 needs to be replenished.
As described above, the mount sensor 20 cannot detect that a used toner cartridge 14 is mounted. In the present embodiment, the warning mail is output even in the case where a used toner cartridge 14 has been mounted and the toner quantity thereof has become low. That is, in the case where the low state is detected by the toner sensor 24 while the mount number and the output time mount number are the same, the print number since the previous warning mail was output is checked (S28). If the print number is equal to or greater than 100 sheets (S28 is NO), it is determined that the toner quantity has become low due to a used toner cartridge 14 having been mounted and printing having been executed, and the warning mail is output. With the present embodiment, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which the warning mail is not output even though the used toner cartridge 14 needs to be exchanged.
The output time mount number that is being stored in the output time mount number storage 44 could also be termed a ‘number of times a warning mail is output for a new toner cartridge 14’. Consequently, the output time mount number storage 44 could also be termed a ‘warning mail output number storage’. The process of the controller 50 does not change irrespective of which terms are used, and the effects above can be obtained.
A second embodiment will now be described. The description will concentrate on points that differ from the first embodiment. FIG. 4 shows the configuration of a printer system 102 of the present embodiment. The printer system 102 comprises a printer 110, a PC 140, etc. The printer 110 of the present embodiment is not provided with the mount number counter 22 (see FIG. 1). A status storage 130 is added to the printer 110. The status storage 130 stores either a flag ‘0’ or a flag ‘1’. When the mount sensor 20 has detected that a new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted, the status storage 130 stores the flag ‘0’. When the warning mail is output from the PC 140, the status storage 130 stores the flag ‘1’. A controller 126 of the present embodiment executes a process that differs from that of the first embodiment. The contents of this process will be described in detail later. The PC 140 of the present embodiment is not provided with the output time mount number storage 44 (see FIG. 1). A controller 150 of the present embodiment executes a process that differs from that of the first embodiment. The contents of this process will be described in detail later.
A process executed by the printer 110 will be described. FIG. 5 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the printer 110. The process of FIG. 5 is executed by the controller 126 of the printer 110. The controller 126 monitors whether a new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted (S50). This process is the same as S2 of FIG. 2. In the case where S50 is YES, the controller 126 stores the flag ‘0’ in the status storage 130 (S52). When S52 ends, the process proceeds to S54. In the case where S50 is NO, also, the process proceeds to S54. In S54, the controller 126 monitors whether information showing the warning mail having been output (hereafter termed ‘output information’) has been sent from the PC 140. In the case where the output information from the PC 140 has been input to the I/O port 28, the controller 126 determines YES in S54. In this case, the controller 126 stores the flag ‘1’ in the status storage 130 (S56). When S56 ends, the process proceeds to S58. In the case where S54 is NO, also, the process proceeds to S58.
The processes from S58 to S62 are the same as S6 to S10 of FIG. 1. A description of these processes has been omitted. In the case where S62 is YES, the controller 126 outputs the following to the PC 140 (S64): the print number being stored in the print number counter 18, the flag ‘0’ or ‘1’ being stored in the status storage 130, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 (high state or low state). When S64 ends, the process returns to S50.
Next, the process executed by the PC 140 will be described. FIG. 6 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the PC 140. The process of FIG. 6 is executed by the controller 150 of the PC 140. The controller 150 outputs the information request to the printer 110 (S70). As a result, the print number, the flag, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 are output from the printer 110 in S64 of FIG. 5. The print number, the flag, and the detected result from the toner sensor 24 are input to the I/O port 52 (S72).
Next, the controller 150 determines whether the detected result from the toner quantity sensor 24 input in S72 is low state (S74). In the case where S74 is YES, the process proceeds to S76. In the case where S74 is NO, the subsequent processes are skipped and the process returns to S70. In S76, the controller 150 determines whether the flag input in S72 is ‘0’. In the case where S76 is NO, the process proceeds to S78. In the case where S76 is YES, S78 is skipped and the process proceeds to S80. The process of S78 is the same as S28 of FIG. 3. In the case where S78 is YES, S80 to S84 are skipped and the process returns to S70. In the case where S78 is NO, the process proceeds to S80.
The process of S80 is the same as S30 of FIG. 3. Next, the controller 150 clears the stored contents in the output time print number storage 42, and stores the print number that was input in S72 therein (S82). Next, the controller 150 outputs the output information to the printer 110 (S84). As a result, the flag ‘1’ is stored in the status storage 130 in S56 of FIG. 5.
In the case for example where the new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted on the printer 110 for the first time, the flag of the status storage 130 becomes ‘0’ (see S52 of FIG. 5). In the case where, in this state, the low state is detected by the toner sensor 24, the controller 150 of the PC 140 outputs the warning mail. The flag of the status storage 130 becomes ‘1’ (see S56 of FIG. 5) when the warning mail is output. Since the flag is ‘1’ even if the low state is detected again by the toner sensor 24, NO is determined in S76 of FIG. 6. In this case, as long as NO is not determined in S78, the warning mail is not output to the exterior. By adopting the present system 102, as well, it is possible to prevent the warning mail being output to the exterior a plurality of times for one toner cartridge 14 in the case where the toner sensor 24 has determined the low state a plurality of times. As a result, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which a plurality of the toner cartridges 14 is replenished even though only one toner cartridge 14 needs to be replenished.
A third embodiment will now be described. The description will concentrate on points that differ from the first embodiment. FIG. 7 shows the configuration of a printer system 202 of the present embodiment. The printer system 202 comprises a printer 210, a PC 240, etc. A print number counter 218 of the printer 210 does not accumulate and count a print number. A count value is cleared in the print number counter 218 when the toner cartridge 14 is mounted. That is, the print number counter 218 counts and stores the number of sheets printed by the printing device 16 since the toner cartridge 14 has been mounted. Further, a mount sensor 220 of the present embodiment is capable of determining whether a new or an old toner cartridge 14 has been mounted. The mount sensor 220 that has this function is taught in US Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0034625. A controller 226 of the present embodiment executes a process that differs from that of the first embodiment. The contents of this process will be described in detail later. The PC 240 of the present embodiment is not provided with the output time print number storage 42 (see FIG. 1). A controller 250 of the present embodiment executes a process that differs from that of the first embodiment. The contents of this process will be described in detail later.
A process executed by the printer 210 will be described. FIG. 8 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the printer 210. The process of FIG. 8 is executed by the controller 226 of the printer 210. The controller 226 monitors whether a new or a used toner cartridge 14 has been mounted (S100). In the case either toner cartridge 14 has been mounted, YES is determined in S100. In the case where S100 is YES, the controller 226 clears the print number counter 218 (S102). Next, the controller 226 determines whether a new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted (S104). In the case where a new toner cartridge 14 has been mounted, YES is determined in S104, and the process proceeds to S106. In S106, the controller 226 causes the mount number counter 22 to count up. This process is the same as S4 of FIG. 2. In the case where a used toner cartridge 14 has been mounted, NO is determined in S104, S106 is skipped, and the process proceeds to S108. The processes from S108 to S114 are the same as S6 to S12 of FIG. 2. A description of these processes is omitted.
Next, the process executed by the PC 240 will be described. FIG. 9 shows a flow chart of the process executed by the PC 240. The process of FIG. 9 is executed by the controller 250 of the PC 240. The processes from S120 to S126 are the same as S20 to S26 of FIG. 3. In S128, the controller 250 determines whether the print number (the print number since the toner cartridge 14 has been mounted) input in S122 is less than 100 sheets. In the case where S128 is YES, S130 and S132 are skipped, and the process returns to S120. In the case where S128 is NO, the controller 250 outputs the warning mail (S130). Furthermore, the controller 250 clears the stored contents of the output time mount number storage 44, and causes the mount number input in S122 to be stored therein (S132). When S132 ends, the process returns to S120.
By adopting the present embodiment, as well, the warning mail is output in the case where a used toner cartridge 14 has been mounted and the toner quantity thereof has become low. That is, in the case where the low state has been detected by the toner sensor 24 while the mount number and the output time mount number are the same, the print number since the toner cartridge 14 was last mounted is checked (S128). If the print number is equal to or greater than 100 sheets (S128 is NO), it is determined that the toner quantity has become low due to a used toner cartridge 14 having been mounted and printing having been executed, and the warning mail is output. With the present embodiment, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which the warning mail is not output even though the used toner cartridge 14 needs to be exchanged.
(2) the number stored in the first storage device is greater than the number stored in the second storage device.
In the case for example where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body for the first time, the number of times of mounting (may be termed ‘mount number’ hereafter) stored in the first storage device becomes ‘1’. The number of times stored in the second storage device (may be termed ‘output time mount number’ hereafter) remains ‘0’ That is, the condition (2) described above is satisfied. In the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed in this state (in the case where the condition (1) described above is satisfied), the controller controls the information output device such that the information output device outputs the information to the exterior. The mount number at this juncture is ‘1’, and this value is stored in the second storage device. That is, the output time mount number becomes ‘1’ (and the mount number remains ‘1’). If detection is again performed in this state, both the mount number and the output time mount number are ‘1’ and do not satisfy the above condition (2), and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. In the case where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted, the mount number becomes ‘2’ (and the output time mount number remains ‘1’), and the above condition (2) is again satisfied. In the case where detection is performed in this state, the controller controls the information output device such that the information output device outputs the information to the exterior. The output time mount number becomes ‘2’ at this juncture (and the mount number remains ‘2’). Even if detection is again performed in this state, the above condition (2) is not satisfied, and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. When the above configuration is adopted, it is possible to prevent the information being output to the exterior a plurality of times for one consumption article housing case.
The initial value of the first storage device does not necessarily have to be ‘0’. Further, in the case where the consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body, the mount number of the first storage device may be counted up only by ‘1’, or may equally well be counted up by another number. That is, the interval of counting up can be set freely. Further, in the case where one consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body, the mount number of the first storage device may equally well count down. In this case, the above condition (2) is changed to: ‘the number stored in the first storage device is smaller than the number stored in the second storage device’. However, this case is the same for realizing the present technique.
The function executing device may be configured by only one machine (for example, a printer), or may be configured by two or more separate machines. In the latter case, the function executing device may for example be configured by a printer and an information processing device to be connected to the printer. In this case, the function executing device may equally well be called a function executing system. The printer may comprise the device main body, the sensor, the first storage device, a printing device that prints on a print medium by utilizing the consumption article, and a printer side output device that outputs the number stored in the first storage device and a detected result of the sensor to the information processing device. The information processing device may comprise the information output device, the controller, the second storage device, and an input device that inputs the number and the detected result output from the printer.
The first storage device may count the mount number when either a new or a used consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body, or may count the mount number only when a new consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body. In the latter case, the following situation may occur. If for example a used consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body while both the mount number and the output time mount number are ‘10’, the mount number does not count up, and consequently the mount number remains ‘10’ (the output time mount number also remains ‘10’). In this state, the consumption article (for example, toner or ink) in the consumption article housing case continues to be utilized in printing. Since both the mount number and the output time mount number are ‘10’, the information is not output even if the consumption article quantity has become less than the predetermined quantity. The information is not output even though the used consumption article housing case mounted on the device main body needs to be exchanged. In order to deal with this situation, Configuration 1 or Configuration 2 below may be adopted.
(3) the number stored in the third storage device is greater than a predetermined number.
With the Configuration 1, the number of print media that have been printed since the information was last output is checked in the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed while the mount number and the output time mount number are the same. In the case where the number of print media is greater than the predetermined number, it is determined that the consumption article quantity has become low due to a used consumption article housing case having been mounted and printing having been executed, and the information is output. With this configuration, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which the information is not output even though the used consumption article housing case needs to be exchanged. Moreover, in Configuration 1, the controller may prevent the information from being output in the case where the number stored in the third storage device is less than the predetermined number.
(3) the number stored in the fourth storage device is greater than a predetermined number.
With the Configuration 2, the number of print media that have been printed since the consumption article housing case was mounted on the device main body is checked in the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed while the mount number and the output time mount number are the same. In the case where the number of print media is greater than the predetermined number, it is determined that the consumption article quantity has become low due to a used consumption article housing case having been mounted and printing having been executed, and the information is output. With this configuration, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which the information is not output even though the used consumption article housing case needs to be exchanged. Moreover, in Configuration 2, the controller may prevent the information from being output in the case where the number stored in the fourth storage device is less than the predetermined number.
(2) the number stored in the first storage device is greater than the output number stored in the fifth storage device.
In the case for example where the consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body for the first time, the mount number becomes ‘1’. The information output number remains ‘0’. That is, the condition (2) described above is satisfied. In the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed in this state (in the case where the condition (1) described above is satisfied), the information is output to the exterior. At this juncture, the information output number becomes ‘1’ (and the mount number remains ‘1’). If detection is again performed in this state, both the mount number and the information output number are ‘1’ and do not satisfy the above condition (2), and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. In the case where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted, the mount number becomes ‘2’ (and the information output number remains ‘1’), and the above condition (2) is again satisfied. In the case where detection is performed in this state, the information is output to the exterior. The information output number becomes ‘2’ at this juncture (and the mount number remains ‘2’). Even if detection is again performed in this state, the above condition (2) is not satisfied, and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. When the above configuration is adopted, as well, it is possible to prevent the information being output to the exterior a plurality of times for one consumption article housing case.
The initial value of the first storage device and/or the fifth storage device does not necessarily have to be ‘0’ but can be set freely. Further, the interval of counting up (or counting down) of the mount number and/or the interval of counting up (or counting down) of the information output number does not necessarily have to be ‘1’, but can be set freely.
With this configuration, it is possible to prevent the situation from occurring in which the information is not output even though the used consumption article housing case needs to be exchanged.
(2) the second status is being stored in the status storage device.
In the case for example where the consumption article housing case has been mounted on the device main body for the first time, the second status is stored. That is, the condition (2) described above is satisfied. In the case where detection of the low quantity of the consumption article is performed in this state (in the case where the condition (1) described above is satisfied), the information is output to the exterior. At this juncture, the first status is stored. If detection is again performed in this state, since the first status is being stored, this does not satisfy the above condition (2), and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. In the case where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted, the second status is stored, and the above condition (2) is again satisfied. In the case where detection is performed in this state, the information is output to the exterior. The first status is stored at this juncture. Even if detection is again performed in this state, the above condition (2) is not satisfied, and consequently the information is not output to the exterior. When the above configuration is adopted, as well, it is possible to prevent the information being output to the exterior a plurality of times for one consumption article housing case.
The contents stored as the status include various formats. For example, ‘0’ may be stored as the first status and ‘1’ may be stored as the second status. Further, a status that is for example the combination of two numbers may be stored. For example, for the first status, two numbers may be stored such that the difference between the two numbers is ‘0’ and, for the second status, two numbers may be stored such that the difference between the two numbers is ‘1’. Furthermore, the status storage device may be a predetermined memory area that stores ‘1’ and ‘0’, or may be a switch located between the sensor and the controller. This switch may relay (or not relay) when the quantity of the consumption article has become equal to or less than the predetermined quantity, and may not relay (or relay) when the quantity of the consumption article is greater than the predetermined quantity.
(2) outputting information to the exterior in a case where the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case mounted on the function executing device main body has become less than a predetermined quantity.
The computer program may prevent the information from being output twice or more in a period between a time where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the function executing device main body and a time where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the function executing device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted on the function executing device main body. By utilizing this computer readable medium, it is possible to realize an information processing device that does not output information to the exterior a plurality of times for one consumption article housing case.
The information processing device may be requested to output information (the mount number, the detected result of the sensor, etc.) to the printer. The information processing device may determine whether to output information showing that the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case has become low in accordance with the information that is output from the printer.
The information processing device may output the information showing that the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case has become low via a remote communication network (Public Switched Telephone Network: PSTN, an internet network etc.). Moreover, the information processing device may store an email address. The information processing device may output the information showing that the quantity of the consumption article within the consumption article housing case has become low to the email address.
The embodiments are described above in detail, but these examples are merely illustrative. Various changes and modifications to the technique taught in the embodiments described above are possible. Variants of the above embodiments are given below.
(1) The initial value of the print number counter 18 and/or the initial value of the mount number counter 22 may be a number other than ‘0’. For example, in the case where the initial value of the print number counter 18 is ‘N’, the initial value of the output time print number storage 42 may also be ‘N’. Further, in the case for example where the initial value of the mount number counter 22 is ‘M’, the initial value of the output time mount number storage 44 may also be ‘M’.
(2) The interval by which the mount number counter 22 counts up may be a number other than ‘1’.
(3) The status storage 130 of the second embodiment may be provided on the PC 140.
(4) The devices 42, 44, 46, 48, etc. provided on the PCs 40, 140, and 240 may be housed within the printer 10, 110, 210. In this case, the systems 2, 102, and 202 can be realized by the printer 10 alone.
(5) In the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the print number counter 218 of the third embodiment may be adopted instead of the print number counter 18 and the output time print number storage 42.
a controller that controls the information output device, wherein the controller prevents the information output device from outputting the information twice or more in a period between a time where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body and a time where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted on the device main body.
a printing device that prints on a print medium by utilizing the consumption article.
the information processing device comprises the information output device, the controller, the second storage device, and an input device that inputs the number and the detected result output from the printer.
the controller prevents the information output device from outputting the information in a case where the number stored in the third storage device is less than the predetermined number.
(2) the number stored in the first storage device is greater than the output number stored in the second storage device.
(2) the second status is stored in the status storage device.
(3) the number stored in the first storage device is greater than a predetermined number.
wherein the computer program prevents the information from being output twice or more in a period between a time where the consumption article housing case is mounted on the function executing device main body and a time where the consumption article housing case is dismounted from the function executing device main body and a next consumption article housing case is mounted on the function executing device main body.
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2019-04-22T05:45:02Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US7742707B2/en
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Arts
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wordpress
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What is Word of Mouth ?
How we can make others to talk about us ?
It is very simple. Do Good , Be Good and See Good. Do not be selfish and at the same time try to prove others that your help is not for any future benefits. Try to make understand your Genuine.
If you are Technology Professional, do not think others as your competitor. Your Colleagues are going to be Marketing Agents for you. They need to recognize you and then your immediate boss.
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2019-04-23T08:15:31Z
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https://divakars.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/word-of-mouth/
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Arts
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mit
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This class has NS.101 as a prerequisite.
NS.202 will not be offered this semester. It will be instructed by S. Smith.
In the Spring 2016 Subject Evaluations, NS.202 was rated 6.3 out of 7.0. You can find more information at the Naval Science (NS) < MIT site or on the NS.202 Stellar site.
ROTC subjects do not carry academic credit at MIT, but they can be counted toward the PE requirement. Up to two points per year with a maximum of four points. NS.101 Introduction to Naval Science Introduction to naval science. General introduction to the US Navy and Marine Corps.
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2019-04-20T02:36:54Z
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http://textbooksearch.mit.edu/class/NS.202
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latimes
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Solemn Soviet citizens gathered behind lines of police cordoning off a black-draped Red Square today as news of President Konstantin U. Chernenko's death spread through the city.
Within an hour after the official media announced that the 73-year-old leader had died Sunday, black bunting and red Soviet flags bearing the hammer and sickle fluttered from buildings and lampposts along the huge Kremlin wall.
Soviets flocked to the red-cobblestoned square near the Kremlin and stood silently to watch officials prepare the ground for Chernenko's burial in the select Kremlin cemetery.
Curiosity brought some to Red Square. Others came out of grief for the frail man whose illness kept him from public view for much of his 13-month rule and whose television appearances in recent weeks evoked only pity.
"I just feel so sorry. It is so sad. He was so ill," one elderly woman said. "He was a good-hearted man, but so sick. He had trouble breathing."
Not all Soviets were as concerned. Shoppers thronged in the nearby GUM department store, where long lines waited for bottles of Georgian wine and blank tape cassettes from the West.
Two young women, laden with string bags stuffed with oranges, barely stopped when asked who had died.
"Who cares?" one said over her shoulder.
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2019-04-21T20:58:13Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-11-mn-33978-story.html
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Shopping
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europa
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This sector covers wholesale and retail sale of any type of product; the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; the provision of short-stay accommodation for visitors (in apartments, hotels, camping grounds, hostels, and dormitories etc.) and other travellers (e.g. students or migrant and seasonal workers); the provision of complete meals and drinks fit for immediate consumption (in pubs, bars, restaurants and so on) and the provision of transport for passengers or goods by rail, pipeline, road, water or air and associated activities (such as parking and storage facilities) including the renting of transport equipment with a driver or operator.
In 2017, the share of distribution & transport in total EU employment was 23.93%.
During the period 2012-2017, the employment level of distribution & transport in EU changed by 7.31%.
In the period 2016-2030, employment for distribution & transport in EU is projected to change by 8.64%.
Wanted: engineering and science, maths and computer science graduates and post-graduates to fill jobs linked to an increasing demand for clean vehicles.
The Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills is a new framework for strategic cooperation to address short and medium-term skills needs in a given economic sector.
Maritime transport was not included in the Paris Climate Agreement, yet its CO2 emissions could reach 17% of total global emissions by 2050. Join ITF expert Olaf Merk for the latest on what would be needed to help us prevent breaking the <2°C deal on Wednesday 6 July.
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2019-04-20T02:46:29Z
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https://skillspanorama.cedefop.europa.eu/en/sectors/distribution-transport
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shirley-manson
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Garbage’s Shirley Manson doesn’t stand for violence against women. That’s why she kicked an unruly fan out of an Atlantic City gig on Friday, May 25.
The rockers were just getting to the middle of their hit song «Stupid Girl» when Mason noticed an unnamed man beating up a woman in the front row. After several punches were thrown at the female fan, Mason demanded the assailant stop, while halting her band in the process.
Mason blew a kiss to the attacker as he exited the building before launching back into «Stupid Girl.» According to Gigwise, the disappointment in the air was palpable, so Shirley introduced her band to the crowd while trying to make peace with what had just happened.
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2019-04-25T06:36:36Z
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http://shirley-manson.org/?p=157
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Arts
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manchestereveningnews
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Desperately-ill Ella Chadwick, six, has received a kidney donated by her grandmother, Christina.
An inspirational little girl has undergone a potentially life-saving operation...thanks to her nana.
And while the fragile youngster’s progress is being constantly monitored, initial signs are that the operation has been a success, with both Ella and her devoted gran said to be recovering well.
Speaking from Ella’s bedside in London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, the little girl’s relieved mum, Karen Hughes, 32, said: “Ella is doing well and so is her nana.
Ella, from Whitworth, and a pupil at Tonacliffe Primary School pupil, had both her kidneys removed after developing the rare congenital nephrotic syndrome. She has undergone 38 operations in her young life.
In 2010, her dad, Martin, donated one of his kidneys but her tiny body rejected the organ and she was initially told she would not be able to have another transplant, leaving her reliant on dialysis and shortening her life expectancy.
But experts carried out further tests and found that gran Christina, 59, a mental health nurse from Smallbridge, could be a new donor.
The wait for the transplant has been a harrowing ordeal for Ella and her family, with the surgery called off twice because she was not strong enough to risk the operation.
They now face a further anxious wait and a long stay in London while Ella’s progress is monitored and are hoping and praying the transplant is a success.
Though in pain following the surgery, Ella is showing daily improvements, and has even made some pizzas with a play specialist in the hospital.
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2019-04-25T02:48:27Z
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/ella-chadwick-kidney-operation-girl-7110795
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Recreation
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jt
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Bob Newhart: I had a great time, did you have a great time tonight? [ audience cheers ] Des’ree!
Bob Hartley: Oh, my God! Honey, honey, wake up!
Emily Hartley: What is it, Bob? Did you have another dream?
Bob Hartley: Yeah! It was.. it was horrible! I dreamed I was hosting “Saturday Night Live”.
Emily Hartley: “Saturday Night Live”? Is that show still on?
Bob Hartley: I don’t know! [ pause ] But thank God it was a dream. Good.. good night, honey.
Emily Hartley: Good night, Bob.
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2019-04-24T14:14:49Z
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https://snltranscripts.jt.org/94/94lgoodnights.phtml
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wordpress
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challenge that has received little attention from the language research community.
libraries and tools now available.
to build it, and the roadmap ahead.
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2019-04-23T13:52:53Z
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https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/hackage-cabal-and-the-haskell-platform-the-second-year/
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radford
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Peghead of Butch Robins' 1990s era Gibson Granada. Butch Robins was born May 12, 1949 in Lebanon, Virginia and has been a professional musician most of his life. In addition to a successful solo career, he was a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper's band, Charlie Moore's band, the New Grass Revival and other bands. He currently lives in Virginia and is still a working musician. Orville Gibson founded The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902. Over the years the company has changed names and locations and today is known as Gibson Brands, Inc and is headquartered in Nashville, TN. The company is known for having made some of the finest banjos, mandolins and guitars.
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2019-04-21T08:16:06Z
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https://monk.radford.edu/records/item/12409-gibson-butch-robins-peghead
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Arts
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strolen
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Beneugenics is the systematic biological grading of a person's individual genetic code. This produces both a letter score and a numeric score. This is commonly known as a IV, or Individual Value.
What are the Beneugenic Scores?
S Scores are considered 'Superior' and all are deliberate and artificial in nature. Even in the most accomplished athlete, brilliant scientist, or most beautiful person, there is a massive backlog of genetic information that is functionally garbage, inheritable diseases, and remnant viral DNA.
SSS - this score is mythically rare and represents the perfect human being, a paragon of perfect genetics. This is the vaunted 100% that beneugenecists are seeking.
SS - slightly more common than the SSS grade, the SS grade genome is 95-99% quality and represents deliberate engineering, genetic screening, and so forth to produce this specimen.
S - the most common superior grade, the S specimen is 90-94% perfect.
A - at 80-89% perfect, A grade specimens are very rarely seen in nature, and are much more commonly found in second and third generation genetically screened families. They might not seem especially bright, strong, accomplished, but they will have far above average health, almost no inheritable diseases, and are slowly emerging as a superior genus of humanity. Given enough time, these A grade genomes and their support system would eventually become a new species, relegating Homo Sapiens to a more primitive position.
B - at 70-79% perfect, these specimens represent first generation genetic screenings and are increasingly common. There are cultural factions who argue that this level of genetic engineering represents creating a Human+ genus and is a clear violation of the conventions against such. This doesn't dissuade parents from having their genetics and their unborn child's genetics screened and scrubbed to remove known triggers for Cancer, diabetes, and a litany of other diseases.
C - 60-69% perfect, this represents the best of modern humanity and is present in less than 5% of the natural gene pool. These are the people who are record breaking athletes and those who set standards for what is attractive in a physical partner.
D - 50-59% perfect, the second largest segment of the gene pool, D grade represents normal baseline human.
NR - not rated, the largest segment of the gene pool. NR genomes have significant problems, such as predisposition to inheritable diseases, to actual damage to the genome itself.
NR Grades are a point of contention, as there are two major societal forces that collide at this point. One side is grading genomes and kicking many genomes out for having undesirable factors such as carrying code for autism, mental illness, physical disability ranging from cerebral palsy to blindness. The other side contests that these are not inferior or flawed, just different, and attempting to remove these differences from the gene pool is tantamount to genocide against the disabled and genetically atypical.
Beneugenics is a voluntary system, which is growing in popularity in the Cosmic Era and is acting as a sort of genetic background check. Many dating and match making services make use of the Beneugenic scale, along with personality matrices, and specified points of interest in matching potential partners.
HACKED! - a hacker is going around and exposing the beneugenic scores of people who've paid to have them concealed, such as famous celebrities and politicians, revealing that many proclaimed A and S grade people are actually just C or lower who had money. Counter-point, there is a hacker who will change your grade in the system for money, meaning you can take your NR grade genetic material and be treated like an SS grade stud.
Standing Stud - people with exceptional scores can sell their genetic materials for profit. No one wants to buy common grade when there is S grade. A genetically superior PC might find themselves accosted by buyers of genetic material (need it for clone stock, for making babies for rich people, to turn into STEM cell material, the uses are extensive, for male and female material).
Genism - someone with a low or NR score might find themselves discriminated against in certain areas and functions. A phenominal athlete with a sterility gene, a brilliant scientist with ALS, an incredibly talented dancer with a gene weakness to tuberculosis, all would be NRs. Many would be treated like the CE equivalent of Quasimodo.
Personal Accessory Network - many PANs are set up to display the owners age, preferences, credit scores, and more to viewers, a citizen of the CE who had an exceptional genetic score would certainly put it on their network, showing their genetic value and viability.
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2019-04-26T15:45:47Z
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https://strolen.com/viewing/Beneugenics
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Arts
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nme
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The Charlatans have announced plans to host a one-off charity concert in memory of former drummer Jon Brookes, who died earlier this year.
The band, fronted by Tim Burgess, will play London’s Royal Albert Hall in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity on October 18. Tickets for the gig will go on sale at 10am on Friday morning (September 20) here. Brookes passed away peacefully in hospital on the morning of August 13, with his family at his bedside.
In the wake of Brookes’ death, Burgess reveals that the band have received tributes from fans around the world. Burgess writes: “We’ve had messages from all over the world from people sharing memories of Jon – kids who’d borrowed his drumkit, drummers inspired by his style, but most of all people saying he was one of the friendliest, funniest and thoughtful people that they’d ever met.” To read the full blog click here.
Brookes had been receiving treatment for a brain tumour since suffering a seizure on tour in Philadelphia in 2010. Though he continued to perform with The Charlatans – he was back on stage a month after his US collapse – he underwent several operations and received radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He suffered a relapse in September 2012 and was operated on as recently as July this year.
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2019-04-26T13:48:55Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-charlatans-24-1251327
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Arts
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Arts
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usda
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Learn More: Resources for Parents and Teachers!
GET PASSES FOR YOUR STUDENTS!
As a fourth-grade educator, you can download an activity and print paper passes for each of your students!
PLANT ANATOMY: WHAT MAKES A TREE A TREE?
Why do trees have rings? Why do the rings look different in different parts of the tree? What is the cambium?
Greens, reds, yellows, oranges: Why do leaves change color?
Natural Inquirer is a science journal written by Forest Service scientists for students of all ages!
North American Association for Environmental Educators has more than 5,400 links divided among 300 categories!
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2019-04-20T16:19:48Z
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/rogue-siskiyou/learning/parents-teacher
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Arts
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Science
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williams
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Free lunch and roundtrip transportation provided (bus departs from the ’62 Center loop at 8 am and returns by 8 pm). For more information and to RSVP, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/wmopenhouse2018. All are welcome to attend! Please contact wmadmissions@williams.edu with any questions.
Can’t make it? Request more information about the program to speak with an admissions representative who can answer your questions, put you in touch with faculty, current students, and alumni, or schedule an individual campus visit.
« Volleyball: Williams vs. Connecticut Col.
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2019-04-23T15:09:26Z
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https://events.williams.edu/event/williams-mystic-open-house/
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Arts
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Sports
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nymag
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As the Second Avenue Subway’s now-it’s-for-real-we-promise groundbreaking looms, the Times takes a wary walk down memory lane to recall three similar ceremonies in the seventies. A Willie Neuman–narrated video revisits the consecutive groundbreakings at 103rd Street (1972), Canal Street (1973), and 2nd Street (1974). “The line had at least three groundbreakings,” says the author.
Oh, at the very least. As Greg Sargent reported in New York three years ago, the first mayoral pickax swing over the star-crossed project occurred way back in 1925, when the mayor was John Hylan. The next time the line came close to reality was 1950, when voters approved a $500 million bond issue to finance it. No pickax action that time: The MTA quietly funneled the money into repairs of existing lines instead. Ten years later, Nelson Rockefeller got involved, which eventually led to the seventies rash of groundbreakings with similar non-results. In a bit of ready-made symbolism, Mayor John Lindsay’s swing failed to crack the asphalt in 1972. We’ll see how Spitzer does on Thursday.
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2019-04-26T14:04:41Z
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2007/04/second_avenue_groundbreaking_f.html
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Arts
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News
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ucsb
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The Students for Mascot Change held a public forum on April 13 at the Student Resource Building multipurpose room to listen to students’ opinions concerning the recent movement for mascot change. Roughly 15 people, including students and administration, were present at the forum to voice their support or concern against the change.
Although the Mapache, the Spanish word for raccoon, was a popular contender for the change, individuals at the forum spent more time discussing the financial implications of a mascot change. People also talked about modifying the image of Olé the Gaucho rather than replacing him altogether.
A petition called “Change the UCSB mascot to a Mapache” on Change.org has gathered 2,648 signatures. In addition, the Mapache has been a trending subject for memes on the “UCSB Zesty Meme Cuisine for Horny Teens” Facebook page.
James Ferraro, another student representative of Students for Mascot Change, asked whether people should change the mascot when the forum started.
Next, Mario Infante, another student representative of Students for Mascot Change, went into the history of the Gaucho and how he became UC Santa Barbara’s mascot.
Next, Ferraro asked the forum to discuss whether the current mascot has racial implications.
Vahalia’s comment was met with general approval from the forum, but there were a few people who had a different opinion.
“The image will be very different but you can keep the name so you don’t have to change everything,” Vahalia said.
As a result, the forum discussed alternate choices for a mascot who could still be called the Gaucho.
“We could have a horse as a mascot because it combines everyone’s ideas. Horses have powerful names like Mustang, and ours could be called the Gaucho,” Vahalia said.
“I like the idea of another representation, but I dislike the horse idea because our rival Cal Poly is the Stallions. In addition, there are too many schools with a bear as their mascot. The Gaucho is unique, and I don’t want to be like those schools,” Zapata rebutted.
The forum also discussed practical ways in which the student body can get involved with the movement. There was a consensus for an increase in education about the Gaucho so that the general population can be more informed.
“This doesn’t have to be a demand for the administration. Y’all can just start doing this. We can just create a campaign and a movement. We don’t have to bring pitchforks to Chancellor Yang,” Armistead said.
Phelan and Infante also suggested implementing an art contest where students can design the new mascot and installing murals and exhibits to educate the general public about the mascot change.
“People are going to ask why we are changing the mascot,” Phelan said.
Leave the damn mascot alone. God you are idiots. Go Gauchos!
I’m going to fight this garbage tooth and nail when the Fall quarter begins.
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2019-04-21T08:08:26Z
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https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2018/04/financial-implications-on-the-line-for-mapache-mascot-advocates
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What do bored people in Milwaukee do?
Shoot “pass me a beer” trick shot videos.
3. You’ve enver asked yourself this about ninja turtles before… but man, it makes sense doesn’t it?
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2019-04-25T12:34:01Z
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https://ohitrunsbackwards.wordpress.com/page/2/
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I'm thinking back at what attracted me to Alexander Technique...a really loooong time ago, in 1976. Strangely enough, it wasn't to improve my terrible twisted posture, which was very, very depressing sight.
enlightenment! It's true he moved much lighter and easier than me. I can remember how he would reach up to smooth away the crink in my forehead that I didn't realize I was doing to myself.
What convinced me to do AT and made it fun was the attraction of being able to change my consciousness. AT didn't use the coersion of will, but something else mysteriously indirect that made whole my analytic ego attachments. The all-points-awareness experiences were exciting. Sometimes I'd have a creative flash of insight. My perceptual sensitivity woke up, along with the awareness of my body. My motives to keep learning were driven by having a way to address a split I recognized between my intention and how I mostly floundered to bring about learning or change. Later, I realized my whole self was a lot happier too.
When I applied the Alexander Technique to learning to sing, it gave me a significant insight about why I kept half my throat was closed. I knew that when I was a baby, I had an ear gristle cropped off by rubber banding, (in the 1950's doctors were so thoughtless.) This punishment trained me as a baby to tense up the side of my neck - which affected how I learned to walk as a toddler because I unknowingly kept it tense. Of course, all hell broke loose when my hips became one piece in my late teens...nobody could tell me why. I developed a mystery limp at 17 with no injury to start it, but now that I knew the Alexander Technique principles, it suddenly made sense. All this came clear when I talked to someone else who had the same banding-to-crop done to their ear when they were a baby, with different disasterous results of back problems. My tourqued posture actually stopped bloodflow to my femur at my knee and caused the bone to crumble - surgery didn't help. I still had the limp at 23 until I began to study Alexander Technique. If I hadn't, I have no doubt that by now I would not have knees.
I've assummed that what motivated me to continue learning AT, probably wouldn't motivate others, because my experience was so unique...but maybe that's an erroneous assumption.
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2019-04-25T16:31:26Z
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https://dialoguers.livejournal.com/8250.html
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Kew Gardens has announced a new science strategy, outlining where it will focus its research in the coming years.
Plans include digitising its extensive plant and fungi collections, an annual health check of the world's flora, and hosting an MSc course in taxonomy.
However, the London-based botanical centre faces a pared-back future: funding cuts have left it with an annual deficit of £5m.
Just under a quarter of its core science jobs have gone.
Some have raised concerns that the loss of 47 research posts places its world-class reputation under threat.
Prof Kathy Willis, director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, told BBC News: "We've cut back to the bones, and my job is to now rebuild around this new science strategy.
"Kew, over 255 years, has built up this extraordinary collection, both living and dried, of plants.
"But we've never really looked at what can we do with these collections, what global questions, what critical challenges can be addressed using this incredible resource."
The new strategy will focus research on climate change, food and fuel security, poverty, disease and ecological scarcity.
But while there are new initiatives, which also include a children's plant festival, some areas are going.
Work on restoration ecology, the science of repairing damaged habitats, will end. And there has been some criticism that the science jobs were cut before the strategy was unveiled.
Despite the new plans, Kew's financial future remains uncertain.
In 2014, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced it was cutting Kew's annual budget by £1.5m.
On top of this, rising overheads and a reduction in funding from the Kew Foundation, the charity that supports the gardens, have left a black hole of £5m a year.
"We have a world-leading institution and it is under threat," said Zac Goldsmith MP, whose Richmond Park constituency includes Kew Gardens.
"When you have something that is a world-beating institution - and it's impossible to exaggerate how much of a gem, how much of a jewel Kew Gardens is - you look after it," he told BBC News.
"And we're talking about tiny figures in the context of Defra's overall budget. It just seems to me to be an act of vandalism to inflict that level of cutbacks on an institution of that sort."
More than 100,000 people signed a petition against the government's decision, and scientists and the public have expressed their concerns to the Science and Technology Select Committee, which is holding an inquiry into Kew's funding. It will release its findings in the coming weeks.
Prof Georgina Mace, from University College London, is a fellow of the Royal Society. She gave evidence to the select committee's hearing in December.
"Building up collections, in libraries, herbaria, museums and so on, are not things you can start and stop," she told BBC News.
Last year, the government said it was giving Kew two one-off payments. In September, it allocated £1.5m of extra money, and a further £2.3m was announced in December to plug the funding gap until 2016.
"Although it is good for them that there have been these short reprieves, that is not the way to fund long-term science. You cannot maintain major facilities, expertise and collections when money is coming and going unpredictably.
"From what I have seen, they are pretty close to minimum critical mass at the moment. More cuts could mean it simply cannot function as an international plant centre with the reputation it has at the moment."
Defra said that it had managed to provide a "relatively good" settlement for Kew in 2015-16, and that the government had committed £6.6m in funding for its Millennium Seed Bank and £10m over four years for Temperate House.
"Kew is a world-leader in plant science and research," a spokesperson said.
"We are proud of the vital work carried out by Kew - that is why we have given it on average more money per year from 2010 than in the preceding three years. Through its restructuring, it will be able to maintain a world-class science facility for future generations."
There is no doubt that this is a turbulent time in Kew's history, but Prof Willis says she is hopeful that Kew will find a way to adapt and survive.
"We are rebuilding around the new science strategy, but also we have to look at alternative ways of raising our own funding as well. It is a global resource - and we have an extraordinary collection here."
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2019-04-23T00:53:52Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31555497
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oregonstate
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2019-04-25T09:00:16Z
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https://career.oregonstate.edu/students/handshake
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technovelgy
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A great boring machine accidentally heads straight down toward the center of the Earth.
"It is a mass of solid diamond!"
Margaret screamed. She could not say one word.
"Yes," said he, "I believe the whole central portion of the earth is one great diamond. When it was moving about in its orbit as a comet, the light of the sun streamed through this diamond and spread an enormous tail out into space; after a time this nucleus began to burn."
"Yes, the diamond is almost pure carbon; why should it not burn? It burned and burned and burned. Ashes formed upon it and encircled it; still it burned, and when it was entirely covered with its ashes it ceased to be transparent, it ceased to be a comet; it became a planet, and revolved in a different orbit. Still it burned within its covering of ashes, and these gradually changed to rock, to metal, to everything that forms the crust of the earth." She gazed upon him, entranced.
"Some parts of this great central mass of carbon burn more fiercely than other parts. Some parts do not burn at all. In volcanic regions the fires rage; where my great shell went down it does not burn at all. Now you have my theory. It is crude and rough, for I have tried to give it to you in as few words as possible."
"Oh, Roland," she cried, "it is absurd! Diamond! Why, people will think you are crazy. You must not say such a thing as that to anybody. It is simply impossible that the greater part of this earth should be an enormous diamond."
"Margaret," he answered, "nothing is impossible. The central portion of this earth is composed of something; it might just as well be diamond as anything else. In fact, if you consider the matter, it is more likely to be, because diamond is a very original substance. As I have said, it is almost pure carbon. I do not intend to say one word of what I have told you to any one—at least, until the matter has been well considered—but I am not afraid of being thought crazy. Margaret, will you look at these?"
He took from his pocket some shining substances resembling glass. Some of them were flat, some round; the largest was as big as a lemon, others were smaller fragments of various sizes.
"These are pieces of the great diamond which were broken when the shell struck the bottom of the cave in which I found it. I picked them up as I felt my way around this shell, when walking upon what seemed to me like solid air. I thrust them into my pocket, and I would not come to you, Margaret, with this story, until I had gone to my office to find out if these fragments were really diamond. I tested them; their substance is diamond!"
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2019-04-21T10:54:56Z
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http://technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecNewsList.asp?BkNum=871
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Too many people who should not have guns do: Leonard Pitts Jr.
On the day after the recent massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., police in Newport Beach, Calif., took a man into custody for allegedly firing more than 50 rounds from a semiautomatic handgun in the parking lot of a shopping mall. He aimed into the air and no one was hit, though one person was hurt slightly while running away. Police say 42-year-old Marcos Gurrola was destitute and frustrated with his circumstances. Firing dozens of rounds at the sky was his way of venting.
There is, you will notice, nothing about one side of that argument that precludes the other. Reasonable people who had their country's best interests at heart could have bridged the distance between the two many dead bodies ago.
What are rather more plentiful are lawmakers in thrall to the gun lobby and to an ideology that finds more to fear in a paranoid fantasy (jackbooted government thugs coming to seize your guns) than in an objective reality (innocent people repeatedly, senselessly, unnecessarily dying).
Then one hears Sen. Joe Lieberman suggest that video games may have played a role in the shooting. And Mike Huckabee says maybe it happened because the government no longer mandates prayer in schools. And Bob McDonnell, Virginia's Republican governor, suggests the teachers should have been armed (as if the problem is that there were too few guns in that school). And hope chokes.
We have paid and continue to pay an obscene price for this lesson some of us obstinately refuse to learn. We paid it in Tucson, Ariz., and we paid it on the campus of Virginia Tech. We paid it at Columbine High and at a midnight showing of a Batman movie in Aurora, Colo. We've paid it in Compton, Calif., and Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Norcross, Ga., We've paid it in Gilbert, Ariz., Bechtelsville, Pa., Prince George's County, Md., Bay City, Texas, Copley, Ohio, Lauderdale Lakes and North Miami, Fla.
Now we pay it in Newtown, in the blood of teachers and young children. We have paid more than enough.
And our choice could not be more clear. We can continue with acts of moral masturbation. We can harrumph and pontificate about how the problem is video games or the problem is a lack of prayer or the problem is too few guns.
Or we can finally agree that the problem is obvious: too many people who should not have guns do.
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2019-04-20T16:14:00Z
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https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2012/12/too_many_people_who_should_not.html
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Prince Phillip is one of the most progressive 迪士尼 male characters that were initially born into royalty even judging 由 the modern standards.
As the audience is introduced to his adult self it’s established distinctly and beforehand that he is not invested in leading a snobbish, pompous and obnoxious life style when it comes to his daily activities and would rather take a walk 由 himself and with his favourite horse than hang out and surround himself solely and strictly with people of his class/royal background for the sake of upholding his status. He is capable of maintaining a princely grace while remaining true to his interests and without complaining about how burdening, unspectacular and boring his luxurious life is - rather than complaining Phillip takes it upon himself to put effort and energy into making his existence entertaining, adventurous and thrilling without crossing the line into mindless partying 或者 intense process of throwing money away 由 acquiring unnecessary but immensely expensive material items. When Phillip first sees Aurora and hears her 唱歌 it’s worth highlighting a crucial point of him being an exceptionally good listener - he doesn’t interrupt her in order to flirt 或者 engage her with his irresistible good looks but carefully, attentively, closely listens to WHAT she sings about and conveys through her song which gives him a raw sketch of the type of a relationship she prefers. Aurora doesn’t merely look 前锋, 期待 to any type of a romantic involvement, she needs someone to - paraphrasing slightly - “sing with her” which essentially symbolizes her desire to find a person that would complete her, interact with her on both emotional and physical level, perceive her wishes and outlooks on what she expects from romance. Yes, she wants it to be a 爱情 at first sight which she is well within her right to aspire to achieve, not settling for any less than what she longs for. Aurora needs someone who is going to instantly appreciate her with no additional complications entailed 或者 having/being obligated to prove her worth. Phillip mindfully gets the grasp of the concept and respects that hence initiating the conversation and being the one to prove to her that he is deserving of being 给 a honor of a 秒 glance. Making her dream come true - quite literally - as awkwardly and hesitantly as possible he tries to the best of his ability for their first meeting to be a special, memorable and pleasant experience for Aurora - once again, because rather than being smitten with her gorgeousness and outlining plans for impending marriage he listened with care and consideration to the way her idea of romance works.
After spending the evening together Aurora is being enormously confused about her feelings and further actions thus attempting to run away and at one point straight up stating they should “never” see each other again. Being that close to facing an irreversible and irrevocable rejection Phillip, remarkably, doesn’t switch to offended “friendzoned/nice guy” stereotype whose efforts weren’t payed off (along the lines of “I bought her 晚餐 and she 说 she doesn’t want to 日期 me!”) and insists that maybe they could meet tomorrow letting HER decide and have the final word on the subject and the final word ends up being “today”. Seeing as Aurora is considerably 更多 smart and thoughtful than people tend to give her a credit for she reasonably picks her Aunties’ cottage for their 下一个 日期 rather than choosing to run away with a stranger 或者 agreeing to go to his place without informing her guardians (my precious underrated Aurora is the most appropriate and fitting 皇后乐队 material seeing as not only does she have an exemplary sense of responsibility and dignity but in the light of the upcoming events she graciously marks herself as one and only 迪士尼 princess who always and with no petty arguing induced 由 teenage angst chose to place her princess duties and obligations above personal goals and needs, not for once compromising 或者 neglecting them even when her 心 was breaking into million tiny pieces after being bluntly informed her entire life was a lie and she now has to carry an additional weight of being in charge of the Kingdom - for now as a princess and one 日 as a Ruler - but most importantly can never reunite with the first person she ever developed genuine and overwhelming feelings for. But fine, back to the center of the post which is Phillip and his poignantly refreshing characterization).
Once back palace the lovesick prince is confronted 由 his father and talked 由 the latter into arranged marriage which is supposed to occur for political reasons and Phillip, rather than deviating from a natural attraction he felt towards the peasant girl in the woods who - as he thought at the moment - wasn’t from his league regarding social standing and reducing their shared moments of emotional connection to simple but frustratingly short term communication, directly addresses the outdated nature of his father’s values, accuses him in not being progressive enough and intends to marry a girl with no royal privileges (again, based on what Phillip knew at that point) because after listening, processing and UNDERSTANDING what kind of a relationship/romance she strove for he respected and accepted her outlook, being willing to give her a fairy tale and ask for her hand since he already fell in 爱情 with her “at once”, just like in her song. Out of all the princes Phillip has the most regard for his significant other’s desires and wishes. And obviously, he goes to the cottage where they were to meet instead of conforming to his father’s - the King, mind 你 - and society’s problematic notions of marriage. He isn’t in the same disadvantageous situation as Aurora who was ripped from her parents at infant age due to a vengeful sorcerer attempting to murder her and was provided with no choice other than to reunite with her loving but estranged mom and dad that had to make a grand sacrifice of never seeing their daughter growing up on behalf of her safety. Phillip, on the other hand, had an extensive amount of freedom and used it wisely and for the sake of standing for the right thing and defy unreasonable societal norms.
Obligatory mention of the fact that Phillip was not a skilled and professional warrior 或者 a knight in shining armor, but a prince who indeed received some basic sword fighting lessons along with a dozen of other disciplines he was likely forced to study such as economy, finances, management and diplomatic approach towards the relationship with other Kingdoms. Yet once his beloved ends up in danger he instantly and fearlessly throws himself into the battle against seemingly insuperable forces such as fire, ivy with giant thorns and a dragon. Note that the narrative doesn’t resort to traditional “male savior” storyline making Phillip work in a team with the 精灵 who performed most of the physically challenging and dangerous work whereas Phillip obediently and readily followed their orders because he is not a misogynist with a firm belief he knows better and would never risk Aurora’s life for the sake of stealing a spotlight and getting a shining moment for himself. Having fiercely defeated and overcome major obstacles he finds out the only way for Aurora to recover from a deathly eternal sleep is a 吻乐队（Kiss） of true love. The 吻乐队（Kiss） itself is a necessary and quite literally ONLY measure that can save Aurora’s life and if a person is informed they can bring someone back from dead - even if 说 person is a total stranger and not an individual 你 have formed an emotional bond and interacted romantically with previously as in case with Phillip and Aurora - 由 merely planting a 吻乐队（Kiss） on their lips anyone with a modicum of human decency would do it (especially considering it were the 精灵 who determined this way for Aurora’s awakening and not Phillip and they were clearly 更多 knowledgeable on dark magic and how it can be dissolved). Similarly to Ariel and Eric, Aurora and Phillip get their “it was 你 all the time” moment, facing a grand realization about being destined all along but what’s fundamentally important is the fact that - contrary to the concept of arranged marriage - their 爱情 story played out in accordance with the decisions and choices they made together, building up their fate and happiness and completing each other.
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2019-04-21T00:11:17Z
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http://zh.fanpop.com/clubs/disney-prince/articles/220168/title/why-prince-phillip-one-most-progressive-disney-princes
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umass
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A typical schedule for a Ph.D. program candidate is shown below. For a detailed description of the academic requirements, policies, and procedures, see the Ph.D. Requirements page.
Agricultural Extension - Everything you wanted to know, but didn't know to ask!
Opportunities for students, postdocs and faculty.
This site is maintained by Plant Biology, an interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Life Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences.
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2019-04-25T15:56:34Z
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http://gpls.cns.umass.edu/pb/admissions/phd
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Arts
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cam
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> inductive star :: "('a ⇒ 'a ⇒ bool) ⇒ ('a ⇒ 'a ⇒ bool)"
> refl: "((star r) x x)"
> | step: "(r x y) ⟹ ((star r) y z) ⟹ ((star r) x z)"
> Then it suggest that “star r” is transitive and invite the reader to prove it.
> that simple, but it was.
> lemma star_trans: "((star r) x y) ⟹ ((star r) y z) ⟹ ((star r) x z)"
> 1. ⋀x y za.
> of the goal to prove.
> Amazingly, it was still able to prove the goal by simplification.
> should I really see it as an issue?
> Thanks for any pointers and feeling on the topic.
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2019-04-21T07:03:16Z
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https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/cl-isabelle-users/2012-July/msg00295.html
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kqed
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SACRAMENTO — The California Assembly said Monday it denied a former lawmaker's appeal of an investigation that found he sexually harassed a lobbyist in 2016.
Former Assemblyman Matt Dababneh had appealed the finding that he likely pushed the lobbyist into a bathroom at a Las Vegas party and masturbated in front of her while urging her to touch him. Lobbyist Pamela Lopez publicly made the accusation against Dababneh last December and submitted a complaint to the Assembly Rules Committee, which hired an outside investigator.
The lawyer hired by the Assembly to investigate the allegation interviewed more than 50 people and reviewed relevant documents, according to the letters released by the Assembly on Monday.
In his appeal, Dababneh argued she did not interview some character witnesses he provided. He said he was denied due process because the Assembly didn't provide him with a copy of the investigation report.
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2019-04-20T13:16:36Z
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11689147/assembly-rejects-former-lawmakers-appeal-of-sexual-misconduct-finding
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gsa
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Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-1861) first visited Scotland in 1842 when they were both 23 years old. What began as a puppy love turned into a life-long affection for the country, its landscape and its architecture. Their passion culminated in 1852-56, when they had their holiday home Balmoral Castle built in the remote hills near Aberdeen, following a design by the Aberdonian architect John Smith (1781-1852) and his son William (1817-91). This article will analyse Balmoral Castle as an example of what we will call built unionism, that is, a building that promoted the royal couple’s agenda of underlining the union between England and Scotland and the strength of the British nation. At the same time we will show how this building communicated ideas about national revival that at the time were developing in many European countries, and particularly in Germany.
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2019-04-18T13:32:03Z
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http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/3627/
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Arts
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Home
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fanpop
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Ugly Dog. . Images in the Dogs club tagged: dogs.
Poor shame though eh !!
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2019-04-20T16:23:54Z
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http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/dogs/images/9135410/title/ugly-dog-icon
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foxnews
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PALMAS, Brazil – A noisy demonstration has broken out during the World Indigenous Games as native Brazilians angry over a land demarcation proposal streamed into the sporting arena.
Several hundred indigenous protesters filled the arena during Wednesday's 100-meter dash competition, forcing the suspension of the day's sporting activities.
The demonstrators are angry about a proposed constitutional amendment that would put the demarcation of indigenous lands into the hands of Brazil's Congress, which is largely dominated by the big agriculture lobby.
A commission in the Chamber of Deputies approved the proposal late Tuesday. It must make its way through the Senate and be signed by President Dilma Rousseff to become law.
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2019-04-24T21:53:13Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/protest-erupts-during-world-indigenous-games-over-controversial-land-demarcation-proposal
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Sports
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starbulletin
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A screening committee for the state Probate Court has recommended the appointment of Honolulu lawyer Allen K. Hoe, First Hawaiian Bank Senior Vice President Corbett A.K. Kalama and former city Budget Director Ivan M. Lui-Kwan as candidates for one position as trustee for the Kamehameha Schools.
Kalama headed a community working group that advised U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka on the unsuccessful bill for his federal recognition bill for Hawaiians.
Hoe's son, 1st Lt. Nainoa Hoe, was killed in Iraq in January 2005.
The public is invited to provide comments for the candidates before 4 p.m. Dec. 1 to the Trustee Screening Committee c/o Inkinen & Associates, 1001 Bishop St., Pauahi Tower, Suite 477, Honolulu, HI 96813.
All comments will be submitted to the Probate court.
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2019-04-22T14:54:11Z
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http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/11/01/news/story06.html
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Business
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christopherwood
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an Honours degree in Drawing & Painting in 1984.
He has been a full-time professional artist since his first one-man exhibition in Edinburgh 1987.
Collections include: HRH Prince Charles the Duke of Rothesay; the Bank of Scotland; Aberdeen Asset Management; United Distillers; Edinburgh University; Lennox Lewis; The Demarco European Foundation; MacRoberts Solicitors; Premier Property Group; Phoenix Equity Partners and many other private and corporate collections around the world.
He is married with two children and two step-children.
He lives and works in the coastal town of Dunbar, near Edinburgh.
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2019-04-23T09:06:42Z
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http://christopherwood.co.uk/biography.html
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Arts
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wordpress
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This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of football fans complaining about the lack of accessibility in FIFA. For those fans watching in black and white, I guess the guy kicking the ball is one of the players.
You might think that this is a fixable problem, and it certainly would be if UEFA asked a Computer Scientist. Apparently there are 76 teams in the UEFA Champions League (I cheated and asked Wikipedia). Each team wears a “home” kit and an “away” kit (I guessed that one). So, how many ways are there of choosing 2 teams from 76, counting “home” and “away” matches as distinct choices? A bit of A-level maths tells me that this is P(76, 2) or 5700.
5700 is a lot of unique games that might be chosen. Of course, I have simplified this, I haven’t looked into things like group matches, or different rounds in the tournament, so the possible number of different games in the season will be a little different. However, the point is that if you had to design kits for all those teams so that no matter which team played which a colour-blind fan could tell them apart, you’d be designing for a very long time indeed.
Is all that design really necessary though? Or is there maybe some other way to think about the problem that might make it a little easier? In Computer Science this problem is very similar to something we call hashing. When we hash some data we want to store it so that similar data is kept together and cannot be easily confused with other data. A simple example would be voting slips. If we have three political parties, Left Wing, Right Wing, and Raving we want to put all the ballot papers into three buckets, one for each party (we can ignore the spoiled papers). We don’t care to differentiate between ballot papers, since every vote is equal, we just need to put each one into the right bucket so we can count them. The only important criteria for organising our data is that the Left Wing votes shouldn’t get muddled up with the Right Wing or the Raving votes.
Placing the votes into buckets is simple and makes intuitive sense. Is there a neat way to organise the football shirts like this? Can we find a simple hashing function that will work for team kits? Here is a really simple suggestion: every team has a home kit with some configuration of block colours and emblems. Every team also has an away kit which is striped. It doesn’t matter what the colours are or what writing or graphics is on each shirt. It doesn’t matter whether the stripes are vertical or horizontal or what thickness or colour they are – each team can be easily differentiated by fans, whether colour blind or not.
This entry was posted in public_engagement and tagged away kit, color blind, color blindness, colour blind, colour blindness, computational thinking, computer science, footbal, hash function, hashing, home kit, soccer. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-24T02:17:20Z
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https://snim2.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/fixing-soccer-with-computational-thinking/
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Beautiful Winter-White Ivory Church Rhinestone Studded Easter Formal Derby Hat.
Large FOAM flower on a black satin headband (light weight 4 oz).
New Church Kentucky Derby Wedding Organza Wide Brim Hot Pink Dress Hat. Head Girth is 22 5/8". Adjustable for the smaller fit. We will do our best to resolve those problems.
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Wide-brim hats may have more specific cleaning needs than more compact hat styles.
Feather hats and similarly delicate toppers will be spot-clean only.
Ladies’ hats and caps that are dark or black may need to be washed separately from other accessories and clothes.
Be sure to check your product for special care instructions.
What style of hats are most commonly worn for special occassions?
Dress hats for women typically favor one color, but they certainly do not have to be solidly that one color or exactly the same color as an outfit. Many are a neutral color, such as black.
Dress hats can often have fancy ribbons, bows, and/or sinamay or organza flowers.
Dress hats can be fancy brimmed hats or elegant cloche-style hats.
Brimmed dress hats come in a variety of brim widths.
Dress hats can be plain black or full of flair to express yourself.
What women’s dress hats are right for the derby?
Derby hats vary from black to brightly colored.
Hats for the derby are more likely to be multicolored in fun patterns. Some can include polka dots and eye-catching, extra-bright colors or pearls and other jewelry-inspired elements.
A derby dress hat is more likely to have a floppy or wide brim.
Many fashion cap designs include feather details.
What size derby or dress hat is right?
Many formal fashion hats and derby hats are one size fits most.
Cap sizes vary between a small size around 21-1/8inches (54 centimeters) and a large size 22-1/4 inches (62 centimeters) around.
Some dress hat sizes are adjustable.
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2019-04-21T15:22:52Z
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https://www.ebay.com/b/Womens-Formal-Hats/131476/bn_221471
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The department offers students a variety of ways to earn recognition for and apply their work in history. Here, we will detail the fieldwork and internship possibilities we offer, the awards and scholarships students can aspire to, and the honors graduates might attain.
Internships provide students with high impact and hands-on learning opportunities that will prepare them for the job market. As majors apply their learning in history to real-world applications, they also build links between the university and the region. Through internships, student projects can have a lasting impact and convey the knowledge and critical thinking of our field to the broader public. Our department has connections to various regional groups who regularly offer our students these learning opportunities. Historic Huguenot Street and the New Paltz Town historian allow students work right in town. With public or private transportations, students can also take advantage of internships with Vassar Brothers Hospital, New Paltz Rural Cemetery, Gomez Hill House in Marlboro, and the Jacob Leisler Institute in Hudson. We also have had students establish internships at the Hurley Heritage Society, the Ulster County Clerk’s office, the D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, and many other locations. Students can also reach out to historical sites and institutions on their own and the department works with them to formalize the internship for credit. We have had some students with prominent internships in the recent past, such as one at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Museum of the City of New York, the Tenement Museum of the Lower East Side, New York Historical Society’s Center of Women’s History, and the Palace Theater in Albany.
Visit the History internship blog.
As our students approach graduation, we formally recognize the work of our top students. Every year, a group of faculty review seminar papers to select the one that best achieves the goals of developing a well-argued and well-researched original work of history. We also choose our top undergraduates and graduates each semester to be recognized in a university-wide ceremony.
The university has a select number of scholarships that our students may be eligible for. We issue calls for student applications through our email list and announce opportunities in classes.
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2019-04-20T13:15:26Z
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https://www.newpaltz.edu/history/internships-and-awards/
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The transition from elegant Little Lord Fauntleroy suits, kilts, sailor suits, and dressy short pants to casual blue jeans and baggy trousers for boys is an interesting study in social history. The mod boy of today would hardly recognize his counterpart of 100 years ago who might have found himself outfitted in a delicate lace collar and fancy velvet knee pants, sailor suits, or kilts. Parents at the time dressed formally and insisted that their children also dress smartly to reflect well on themselves and to demonstrate their social status. Gradually styles changed in the mid 20th Century to more realistic short pants and knickers before the modern incarnation of sneakers, casual baggy jeans and sweatshirts.
Parents, especially mothers, used to choose their sons' clothing and until they were older teenagers, the boys had little say in the matter of fashion. Children, especially well off children, were often dressed in fancy, formal clothes--even for play. The modern child would find clothing common a century ago highly restrictive and uncomfortable. It would certainly inhibit an active child who wanted to enjoy the playground in the comtemporary scene. The modern child, even very young children, have a great deal of say in how they dress, often demanding expensive designer clothing. Today children are major arbritors of fashion and even very young boys have considerable influence as to what clothes are purchased for them. Many also have considerable disposable income, either through alouances or for teenagers, part time jobs. The fashion industry understands this very well and eagerly seek to supply what they than the modern boy desires. Informal styles are now in vogue with children rarely dressing up and, in many cases, only under considerable duress.
Figure 1.--Mothers in the late 19th century dressed their boys in Little Lord Fauntleroy suits, fancy velvet suits with lace collars. Often the boys had curls or long hair and to ballance such fancy outfits they would have their picture taken with decidely boyish artifacts such as a toy cannon, or in this case an early tricycle.
The images in this web site depict the clothes which reflect the modes and manners of the times in which they were made and worn. They will hopefully delight the eye and also touch the heart. The clothes from the more recent era will no doubt recall some associations and many memories from the readers own childhood. I hope it will bring back treasured memories from yours. I certainly hope you will share some of those memories with us.
Our web page takes a look at the development of boys clothes over the past 500 years, from 1500 to date. First and foremost we describe actual fashions and styles. In some ways boys' clothes have made a full circle from clothes just like their fathers with no consideration to childhood to special juvenile styles after the late 1790s back to dressing children in adult styles since the 1960s. Our web site is, however, not just a fashion site. We also seek societal changes over the years have been reflected in changing fashion. We also attempt to capture what the parents (mostly mothers) and the boys themselvs thought about the fashions of the day. There frequestly was some disparity between what mothers and boys have wanted. Only in the modern era, however, have boys generally gotten their way.
This web page is divided into several major sections. Most are still under construction. In fact, our site is likely to stay in a continual stage of construction as visitors contribute there own personal experiences as well as historical insights. We incourage you to peruse all the available sections. Please let us know if you have any comments or additional information to add. Perhaps you are knowledgeable about a specific style or period. Surely you know something abour current fashions. Maybe you have read a biography with interesting details about how famous person was dressed. Or perhaps you recall a movie or television show acurately depicting period dress. We would be especially interested in any memories you might have about your boyhood clothes and experiences concerning those clothes. Any of this would make an interesting addition to our web site.
Trouble with reading English? Please go to our translation pages, just click here for translations in Deutch, Espanol, Frances, Itlaliano, y Portuguese>>>>>>>Translations. Please let us know if these translations are accurate and readable on your computer. If sufficent interest is shown we will develop additional translasted pages. Of course you know that you can translate pages of interest on Altavista.
Art: We have developed detailed information on art work, including paintings and illustrations, of children by different artists in several different countries.
Catalogs and magazines: Biographical details Here we have archived information from catalogs and mazines in various decades from a number of different countries.
Chronologies: Review the evolution of boys' clothing styles over the past five centuries with a special emphasis on the period after 1800 up to modern days.
Clothing styles: A review of major clothing styles and boyhood memories.
Countries: Information about boys clothing styles in countries all over the world. We welcome input from readers on their country.
Girls clothes: Some basic information about girls clothing. Here we would like to partner with someone iteresting in expanding our still limited coverage.
Hair styles: We have developed information on a wide range of hair styles and trends in different countries.
Frequently Asked Questions: Here are the answers to questions you have been asking about our site.
Links to clothing retailers: HBC has been asked by so many visitors for retail outlets that offer classic children's clothes, that it has decided to begin a list. We are just beginning, however, to compile our list. If you know of a company offering classic, traditional styles, please let us know.
New pages: HBC is constantly adding pages to its expanded site, now one of the largest fashion sites on the internet. Click here if you would like to see what we are currently woring on.
Thank you for your interest in this web site. I would be very interested in hearing your comments. I am looking for any historical material, articles on clothing, interesting pasages from biographies/autobiographies, old-time photographs of your family, even personal remberences of the more modern clothing styles, or any other pertinent material. Perhaps you have some interesting ideas about further additions. I would greatly appreciate any new material you could provide. I know many of you will not have historical information, but we all have photographs and remember some of our favorite and least favorite boyhood clothes.
This web site is still under construction. In fact it is a living document, growing as visitors provide additional information and photographs. Quite a bit of work to be done. Check back soon for several new additions.
Mailing List: HBC had an active mailing list which all contributors can request. If you are interested in a periodic update on our work on HBC, just send an e-mail to HBC asking to be put on our basic mailing list. We will then keep you informed of major HBC projects! It couldn't be more simple.
Thank you for your many kind comments about my web site. I have also greatly appreciated your many helpful suggestions and fascinating contributions. In fact, I have received so much new material that I can no longer accomodate it on this web site. I have decided to create a new web site incorporating the material here with more detailed historical data and discussion, more photographs, paintings, drawings from catalogs and magazines from each period, more personal remeberences, synopsis of movies showing period dress, and biographical information on what various historical figures and current notables wore as boys. As you may know, graphics require a huge amount of disc space. As a result, I could only put a relatively few photographs on this web site and no drawings or paintings. This precluded the use of much informative material. In particular I was unable to include images from before photograhy was developed and refined--because of the size of the files. Many paintings from the 18th and early 19th centuries will, however, be included in the expanded site. I now have the expanded web site up and functioning. Come have a look. There are now nearly 500 pages and over 700 images. Details on the new Boys' Historical Clothing expanded web site and how to acess it can be obtained by clicking here >>>>> BHC Expanded Site.
This Antique Photograph Ring site owned by HBC.
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2019-04-24T03:09:30Z
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http://histclo.tripod.com/
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Holding one of her three small children in her arms, Kim Farbak stood on Westwind Drive in New Lenox on Tuesday afternoon watching firefighters across the street hose down the smoldering remains of the new home her family was set to move into in September.
A fire that flared up shortly after noon reduced two nearly completed houses--Farbak's and a neighboring structure in the Bluestone Bay subdivision--to mounds of charred timbers.
New Lenox Fire Protection District Chief Ken Hossack said both houses were unoccupied, and none of the 25 firefighters from five area departments was injured battling the flames in the 800 block of Westwind Drive.
The cause of the fire, which broke out after plumbers who had been working in the Farbak house went to lunch, is still under investigation, Hossack said.
"There's a lot of I-don't-knows when [houses] are unoccupied like this," he said.
Winds carried the flames to the house next door, he said. Another nearby home sustained some minor damage, with siding on the upper level peeled off by the heat.
Reports indicated smoke from the fire was visible as far away as Peotone to the southeast and as far west as Shorewood, he said.
Firefighters from Frankfort, Mokena, Manhattan and Homer Township assisted the New Lenox department in fighting the fire, which intensified when a gas line caught fire.
But by 3 p.m., only a few New Lenox firefighters remained on the scene to extinguish all remaining embers. "We finally got the gas shut off," Hossack said.
A fire in an unoccupied home is "unusual, but, yes, it does happen," the chief said.
Kim Farbak; her husband, Jack; and their three children, Alyssa, 6, Jackie, 3 1/2, and Andrew 2, were stunned. "It gives you a bad, sinking feeling," she said.
But the family, which now lives in Thornton, is ready to start again, she said.
"They'll just have to dig up here," Kim Farbak said. "I was just hoping my kids could start school [in New Lenox] in September."
She recalled her most recent visit to the construction site. "The windows were in. It was so beautiful, and I was so excited.
"Thank God, no one was injured," she said.
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2019-04-25T17:30:40Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-19-0007190265-story.html
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Twitter is becoming more proactive in its search for revenues — witness, for example, the decision earlier this week to start syndicating Promoted Tweets in users’ Timelines. Does that mean the company is going to start competing with the developers who created the Twitter-based tools that have made the service so successful? In a Q&A session at Mashery’s The Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco yesterday, Forbes National Editor Quentin Hardy put that question to Twitter’s Director for Platform Ryan Sarver.
No, said Sarver, just the opposite. Twitter’s primary goal, he said, is on “creating opportunity for the entire ecosystem.” That means the company is focused on two things: Bringing on new users and syndicating revenue out to developers. “The more users you bring on board, the more opportunity there is for developers,” Sarver said. So Twitter’s focus is on “the new core casual audiences.” “If we don’t help explain the value to them, and they don’t stick around, we lose that opportunity for revenue,” he said.
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2019-04-19T00:47:03Z
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https://www.fastcompany.com/1700496/twitter-exec-were-not-competing-developers
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Home > Browse > Le préservatif, votre ange guardien au 7ème ciel!
Le préservatif, votre ange guardien au 7ème ciel!
Je m'informe. Je me protège. Je suis solidaire. = I keep informed. I protect myself. I show solidarity.
The condom, your guardian angel in 7th heaven!
Photo of a young couple, with the man holding a condom package in front of the woman's face.
Le temps passe. Pas le SIDA. = Time passes. Not AIDS.
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2019-04-19T03:05:03Z
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https://aep.lib.rochester.edu/node/48610
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Chemoradiotherapy and gefitinib in stage III non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor and KRAS mutation analysis: cancer and leukemia group B (CALEB) 30106, a CALGB-stratified phase II trial.
This study evaluated the addition of gefitinib to sequential or concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer.Between May 2002 and April 2005, 63 patients were entered before the study closing early. All received two cycles paclitaxel 200 mg/m and carboplatin area under the curve 6 intravenous plus gefitinib 250 mg daily. Poor risk stratum 1 (> or =5% weight loss and/or performance status 2) received radiotherapy 200 cGy for 33 fractions (6600 cGy) and gefitinib 250 mg daily. Good-risk stratum 2 (performance status: 0-1 weight loss and <5%) received the same RT with gefitinib 250 mg daily and weekly paclitaxel 50 mg/m plus carboplatin AUC 2. Consolidation gefitinib until progression was started after all toxicities were grade < or =2.Acute high-grade infield toxicities were not clearly increased compared with historical CRT data. Poor-risk (N = 21) median progression-free survival was 13.4 months (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.4-25.2) and median overall survival 19.0 months (95% CI: 9.9-28.4). Good-risk (N = 39) median progression-free survival was 9.2 months (95% CI: 6.7-12.2), and median overall survival was 13 months (95% CI: 8.5-17.2). Thirteen of 45 tumors analyzed had activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, and 2 of 13 also had T790M mutations. Seven tumors of 45 had KRAS mutations. There was no apparent survival difference with EGFR-activating mutations versus wild type or KRAS mutation versus wild type.Survival of poor-risk patients with wild type or mutated EGFR receiving sequential CRT with gefitinib was promising. Survival for good-risk patients receiving concurrent CRT plus gefitinib was disappointing even for tumors with activating EGFR mutations.
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2019-04-20T10:43:03Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub795013
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OMAHA, Neb. - Warren Buffett's company reported a $1.5 billion first-quarter loss as it wrote down its ConocoPhillips investment and mostly unrealized derivative losses helped drag Berkshire Hathaway's results below last year's roughly $900 million profit.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday it recorded a loss of $990 per share in this year's quarter, down from the $607 net income per Class A share reported in the same period a year ago. This was Berkshire's first quarterly loss since 2001's third quarter when the company suffered large insurance losses as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Buffett already acknowledged a mistake in last year's purchase of a large amount of ConocoPhillips stock when oil and gas prices were near their peak.
Berkshire says it sold 13.7 million of its 79.9 million shares of ConocoPhillips during the first quarter to generate a loss that can offset past capital gains taxes.
Berkshire's revenue fell 9.5 percent in the quarter, to $22.8 billion from last year's $25.2 billion.
Berkshire officials say the company's operating earnings are a better measure of how the company is performing in any given period because those figures exclude derivatives and investment gains or losses. Berkshire reported $1.71 billion in operating earnings in this year's first quarter, which was down nearly 12 percent from $1.93 billion in operating earnings a year earlier.
Officials at Berkshire typically do not comment on quarterly earnings reports, and they did not immediately respond to a request on Friday.
But Buffett said during the company's annual meeting last Saturday that Berkshire's utility and insurance businesses performed fairly well during the quarter because neither is greatly affected by the recession, but two one-time items affected the utility earnings. He said insurance underwriting profit should be up slightly because it's not tied to the recession.
Many of Berkshire's other businesses, such as its jewelry stores, Shaw carpet, Acme Brick and Clayton Homes, have been hurt by the recession and corresponding slowdown in consumer spending.
Berkshire owns more than 60 subsidiaries including insurance, clothing, furniture, and candy companies, restaurants, natural gas and corporate jet firms. Berkshire also has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
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2019-04-26T00:04:45Z
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https://www.newsmax.com/finance/companies/berkshire-hathaway/2009/05/12/id/330043/
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All teams competing in Calisthenics competitions must follow rules and guidelines.
All teams competing in calisthenic competitions must adhere to the following rules and guidelines.
The Australian Calisthenic Federation Rules Committee set National Rules, which are the standard for all competitions and items throughout Australia. The Committee comprises delegates from all States and Territories who represent coaches, adjudicators and competition administrators.
Under the ACF Flexible Rules Policy (Appendix 1 – ACF National Rules), States/Territories are able to vary four of the rules to encourage and assist participation, and to meet theatre requirements.
The National Rules generally apply to technical issues in relation to choreography and the construction of items, for example; the inclusion of props, elevated steps and the correct use of apparatus.
The Special Victorian Rules are set by Calisthenics Victoria’s Competition Committee (as distinct from the State Championships Committee) and relate to the running of competitions, health and safety regulations and more recently the time limits for competitive items.
All metropolitan and country competitions in Victoria, excluding Royal South Street Ballarat, are registered with Calisthenics Victoria and must abide by the “Guidelines for Team/Solo Competitions”.
As per the 2019 Solo Competition Rules found on this page please take not of the changes to rules regarding places in solo/duo competitions (metro competitions only).
Please visit the Team & Solo Grading page for grading resources.
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2019-04-21T06:15:06Z
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http://calisthenics.asn.au/competitions/rules-and-guidelines/
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MADRID, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Spain’s Catalonia region will hold early elections on November 25, regional president Artur Mas announced on Tuesday.
Catalonia generates one fifth of the Spanish economy but is also the most indebted Spanish region. Mas’s call for greater tax autonomy was rejected last week by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, prompting the regional leader to call the early vote in a speech to the Catalan parliament in Barcelona.
Mas’s conservative Convergence and Union (CiU) party would likely win an absolute majority in elections, strengthening his mandate to press on towards independence and delivering a blow to Rajoy who has called for national unity to counter the country’s debt crisis.
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2019-04-24T01:51:52Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/spain-catalonia-elections/spains-catalonia-region-to-hold-early-elections-on-nov-25-idUKE8E8GI01L20120925
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Early in June, PwC released its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2016-20, that said the Indian entertainment and media (M&E) sector is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.3% over the next four years to cross $40 billion by 2020.
The report outlined a much positive growth story in India vis-a-vis global outlook of 4.5% growth. Brand Equity got a chance to analyse the emerging trends of the sector with Frank D'souza, leader - entertainment and media, PwC India.
One of the main observations that D'souza made was that over the last one decade, consumers have been getting extensive access to multiple media options. Hence, the challenge today for brands is more about grabbing the attention of these users who prefer consuming free media. For the long run, both brands and the media should start offering these users content that’s worth paying.
According to D'souza, in the social media era, users are the best marketers. Thanks to the reach that it delivers. Brand managers should start shifting their focus from “how to go about marketing” to making products and services that can market itself. The people who are fueling these trends are primarily under the 35 of age. This is a population who may not necessarily pay much for data and whose attention span is fickle. New media companies need to come up worthy content to scale up their monetization plans.
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2019-04-26T11:41:11Z
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https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/marketing/in-the-social-media-era-users-are-the-best-marketers-pwcs-frank-dsouza/54257636
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Recently I’ve been into taking more baths and relaxing, leading me to discover BATH BOMBS! Delightfully colorful and scented fizzy fun that I am now addicted to. I started with frequenting Lush, but then I decided to explore etsy, and HaloSoap does not disappoint!
When Lush had the rose collection out I instantly fell in love with it’s seductive feminine scent! After perusing etsy I decided to try the large Rose Water Bath Bomb 4 pack from Halo Soap. I had no expectations except that I wanted it to smell nice and maybe turn the water pink.
It arrived super fast and came with a lovely citrus soap sample which I am now pining after. The bath bombs came safely wrapped, with some thoughtful bath bomb essentials like silica packets to keep them dry and fresh along with a drawstring pouch for those bombs that have flowers in them. Normally I love when there are flower bits but sometimes it can be hard to clean up! The scent was lovely and just what I wanted. It did turn the water a nice pastel pink, with roses in it and the scent stayed on my skin all day making me feel lovely. I think my favorite thing was that it left my skin so moisturized and soft. Sometimes bathbombs do not have essential oils in them but the ones that do really pamper your skin!
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2019-04-22T16:29:00Z
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https://cupcakesmakeup.wordpress.com/tag/bath/
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Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog: May sketch challenge entries...and a WINNER!
May sketch challenge entries...and a WINNER!
"Wow, this sketch was so timely and perfect-- I needed a very special baby shower card, and this was exactly the inspiration that I was looking for. And I loved it so much that I went ahead and made two more cards (thank you cards this time). I made myself a template to paper-piece the sunburst, and I had a great time playing with paper, glue, and my sewing machine :) Thanks again!"
"I can’t tell you enough how much I love these monthly challenges! They totally inspire and motivate me to make something pretty, so thank you for that."
"Thanks for the chance to play--love the sketch, & it was fun to translate it into an interactive card! :)"
We love that you're loving these monthly challenges!
Congratulations Mandi! Please send us your mailing address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com with "May Sketch Challenge Winner" in your reference line and we'll get that prize out to you!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our May challenge! We loved seeing so many entries! Our next challenge will be announced tomorrow so be sure to check in with us!
Super cards! It's interesting and inspiring to see the different takes of the same sketch.
GREAT DESIGNS FROM THAT SKETCH!
THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION & CONGRATS!
Wonderful cards across the board!!
Love all the takes on the cards. Thanks for picking me.
Love all the takes on this cool sketch! Thanks, SCT, and congrats to Mandi!
Wow I can't believe how many variations of the sketch was. Some lovey cards from your followers. Think ofI got try and do one Similar. Thanks for sharing all these ideas.
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2019-04-19T06:35:53Z
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https://scrapbookandcardstodaymag.typepad.com/scrapbook_cards_today_blo/2017/05/may-sketch-challenge-entriesand-a-winner.html
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Arts
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Reference
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zap2it
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American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, NCIS and The Mentalist led overall viewing for the week ending March 29. NBC placed only one show in the most-watched top twenty list, ER, at number twenty.
The more important (but unheralded) weekly rankings among 18-49 year olds look a bit different. Some of the information is in the chart below, but several shows that don’t make the overall top twenty are in the top ten among 18-49 year olds; Hell’s Kitchen, The Office, Family Guy, The Biggest Loser and Lost you can view the full 18-49 top twenty show rankings and see for yourself. Please note, if you don’t see an 18-49 ranking in the table below it just means the show was not among the top 26 shows with adults 18-49 that we saw the rankings for.
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2019-04-24T15:02:07Z
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https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/sdsdskdh279882992z1/american-idol-dancing-with-the-stars-ncis-and-the-mentalist-lead-weekly-viewing/
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Arts
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News
| 0.205627 |
shu
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All Seton Hall University alumni are given access to Alumni Navigator, an exclusive job search platform for Seton Hall Alumni. This resource not only serves alumni but current students as well. Depending on your year of graduation, you may remember utilizing a similar tool as an undergraduate. Regardless, we hope you will take advantage of this service that Seton Hall is proud to offer you.
Alumni Navigator is a database that holds thousands of posting for professional opportunities of all levels. Alumni are not only able to search job opportunities but also, post opportunities in their respective organizations that he/she may like to promote to fellow Pirates.
In the subject line of the email, please write: Alumni Access to Alumni Navigator. Upon submitting your request, The Career Center will verify your information with Alumni Relations and within 24 hours, you will receive a confirmation email, allowing you access to Alumni Navigator and including next steps to login to the platform and set up your account.
Where do I sign in if I have an existing account?
If you have already created an Alumni Navigator account as a student, please login here to access to job search platform.
To sign-in, click here and use your SHU PirateNet short name, then “forgot password”. Instructions to change your password will be sent to your SHU email address.
Bookmark this login screen and continue to use your new password to access the system.
Go to your “profile” and change you SHU email address to your personal email.
We will keep Alumni Relations updated, so you can start searching for jobs right away.
Having trouble setting up your account or logging in?
Please contact The Career Center at careers@shu.edu or (973) 761-9355.
Find more benefits and services exclusively for Seton Hall Alumni, similar to this opportunity and others, at www.shu.edu/alumni.
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2019-04-26T02:26:43Z
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https://advancement.shu.edu/benefits/career-center-alumni-navigator
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Arts
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Business
| 0.749674 |
adobe
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Trust a battle-tested, high-performing application server that simplifies web and mobile application development.
What’s new in the 2018 release of Adobe ColdFusion?
The all-new Performance Monitoring Toolkit to monitor Servers. All-around functionality results in code that flies 30% faster, without ever compromising on overall security and performance.
Slash coding time and effort while developing web and mobile applications that are robust and scalable.
Rely on the most secure development platform to bullet-proof your applications. Use an array of trusted tools and proven techniques to secure your server.
Widen your outreach and grow your business by unlocking the power of APIs. Build a more successful, cost-effective API program by managing, securing, and transforming APIs across their lifecycle.
This free, fully functional version of ColdFusion is for local host development of applications that will be deployed on either standard or enterprise servers — and that can be simultaneously accessed from only two remote IP addresses.
This deployment option enables you to quickly set up a development or demonstration instance of ColdFusion without running a full installer. It’s ideal to run a ColdFusion programming instance for testing and debugging purposes.
Download Win64, Linux64, Mac, War64 files.
Easily create, deploy and run applications by using containers. Package your applications with all the parts it need to ship as a single package.
A platform ideally suited to create scalable, high-performing web and mobile applications.
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2019-04-24T22:30:40Z
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https://www.adobe.com/br/products/coldfusion-enterprise.html
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Arts
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Business
| 0.886426 |
upenn
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Create a three-dimensional SolidWorks model of the Penn logo. Save your model file as "101-Teaser-Crest-PennKey" and submit it via Canvas before the start of your studio session.
1. Figure out how to bring the image file into SolidWorks.
3. Separate different geometry into different sketches.
5. Learn how to name items in your feature tree to keep things organized.
6. Realize that some of this is up to your creative interpretation, so everyone's part will look a bit different.
P.S. Fully defining splines is very difficult, so it is OK if your sketches for this teaser are blue.
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2019-04-26T06:26:52Z
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https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~medesign/wiki/index.php/Courses/101-Teaser-Crest
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Arts
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Reference
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state
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AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 85-3-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CLARIFY THAT CERTAIN INTANGIBLE ITEMS MAY BE SELECTED BY A DEBTOR FOR EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION ON THE SAME BASIS AS CASH, SUBJECT TO THE CUMULATIVE VALUE LIMITATION; TO AMEND SECTION 85-3-17, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CLARIFY THE EXISTING EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION OF PROCEEDS STEMMING FROM A CLAIM BASED ON PERSONAL INJURY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
(vii) Any item of tangible personal property worth less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
(f) Assets held in, or monies payable to the participant or beneficiary from, whether vested or not, (i) a pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus or similar plan or contract established to provide retirement benefits for the participant or beneficiary and qualified under Section 401(a), 403(a), or 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (or corresponding provisions of any successor law), including a retirement plan for self-employed individuals qualified under one of such enumerated sections, (ii) an eligible deferred compensation plan described in Section 457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code (or corresponding provisions of any successor law), or (iii) an individual retirement account or an individual retirement annuity within the meaning of Section 408 of the Internal Revenue Code (or corresponding provisions of any successor law), including a simplified employee pension plan.
85-3-17. (1) The proceeds of any judgment or settlement not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) recovered by any person on account of personal injuries sustained shall inure to the party or parties in whose favor such judgment may be rendered or settlement made, free from all liabilities for the debts of the person injured.
(2) Proceeds not exceeding Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) accruing to any chose in action based on personal injuries sustained shall inure to the party or parties in whose favor an eventual judgment may be rendered or settlement made, free from all liabilities for the debts of the person injured.
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2019-04-21T12:54:41Z
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http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/SB/2200-2299/SB2200IN.htm
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Arts
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Business
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wordpress
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The feed does not appear to exist. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL.
Thing is, these feeds exist. I’ve unsubscribed and resubscribed and still get the error message. I’m ready to subscribe to a new feed-reader. I’m too lazy – I mean busy – to go to all of these sites to check for new content every day (in the case of Renee, several times a day – dang you are prolific!).
ETA – I’m trying out Google Reader, even though I fear Google is taking over the world. The layout’s kind of boring but so far it seems to be doing what I need it to do without a lot of drama.
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2019-04-20T14:30:37Z
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https://harrietsdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/
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Arts
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Home
| 0.099391 |
ntu
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Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE) Scheme is a cryptography system that allows a third authorized party to read encrypted cipher text. A kind of PRE based on bilinear pairing is used in this project to realize a cloud storage model that has an improved security level to avoid intolerable loss. A location sharing android application and the corresponding server are deployed in this project to realize the PRE scheme. This report is to describe the motivation, algorithm of PRE and implementations of client application and servers. The following are covered in this report. 1. The motivation, demand and development of PRE cryptography system. 2. The background of cryptography and how the PRE scheme is caught. 3. The design and implementation of android application and java servers; Analysis of the final program. 4. Demonstration and conclusion of the scheme.
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2019-04-24T23:20:39Z
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https://repository.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/68368
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Arts
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Computers
| 0.981213 |
adobe
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Adobe After Effects provides a wide range of compositing tools. You can easily import composites made in After Effects into Premiere Pro.
To create a composite from multiple images, you can make parts of one or more of the images transparent so that other images can show through. You can make portions of an image transparent using any of several features in Premiere Pro, inlcuding mattes and effects.
To make an entire clip uniformly transparent or semi-transparent, use the Opacity effect. You can set a selected clip’s opacity in the Effect Controls panel or Timeline panel, and you can fade a clip down or up over time by animating opacity.
If you simply want to create a fade to black, consider applying a transition such as Dip To Black to the clip instead of animating opacity keyframes manually.
When part of a clip is transparent, transparency information is stored in its alpha channel.
Images can also be composited together without modifying the transparency of the clips themselves. For example, you can use Blending modes or some of the Channel effects to blend image data from multiple clips into a composite.
Clips on upper tracks cover clips on lower tracks except where alpha channels indicate transparency. Premiere Pro composites clips from the lowest track up, to create a composite of clips on all visible tracks. Areas where all tracks are empty or transparent appear black.
Rendering order affects how opacity interacts with visual effects. The Video Effects list is rendered first, then geometric effects such as Motion are rendered, and then alpha channel adjustments are applied. Within each effects group, effects are rendered from the top down in the list. Because Opacity is in the Fixed Effects list, it renders after the Video Effects list. If you want opacity to render earlier or later than certain effects, or if you want to control additional opacity options, apply the Alpha Adjust video effect.
You can choose how to interpret the alpha channel in a file in the Interpret Footage dialog box. Choose Invert Alpha Channel to swap areas of opacity with areas of transparency, or choose Ignore Alpha Channel to not use the alpha channel information at all.
If you have difficulty identifying which parts of a clip are transparent, choose Alpha from the Program view menu in the Program Monitor. Another way to see areas of transparency is to add a bright solid color matte on a track below the image you are keying.
Color information is contained in three channels: red, green, and blue. In addition, an image can include an invisible fourth channel, called an alpha channel, that contains transparency information.
An alpha channel provides a way to store images and their transparency information in a single file without disturbing the color channels.
When you view an alpha channel in the After Effects Composition panel or a Premiere Pro Monitor panel, white indicates complete opacity, black indicates complete transparency, and shades of gray indicate partial transparency.
Many file formats can include an alpha channel, including Adobe Photoshop, ElectricImage, TGA, TIFF, EPS, PDF, and Adobe Illustrator. AVI and QuickTime (saved at a bit depth of Millions Of Colors+), also can contain alpha channels, depending upon the codecs used to generate these file types.
For instructions on how to export video with an alpha channel (transparency), see this post.
Alpha channels store transparency information in files in one of two ways: straight or premultiplied. Although the alpha channels are the same, the color channels differ.
With straight (or unmatted) channels, transparency information is stored only in the alpha channel, not in any of the visible color channels. With straight channels, the effects of transparency aren’t visible until the image is displayed in an application that supports straight channels.
With premultiplied (or matted) channels, transparency information is stored in the alpha channel and also in the visible RGB channels, which are multiplied with a background color. The colors of semitransparent areas, such as feathered edges, are shifted toward the background color in proportion to their degree of transparency.
Straight channels retain more accurate color information than premultiplied channels. Premultiplied channels are compatible with a wider range of programs, such as Apple QuickTime Player. Often, the choice of whether to use images with straight or premultiplied channels has been made before you receive the assets to edit and composite. Premiere Pro and After Effects recognize both straight and premultiplied channels, but only the first alpha channel they encounter in a file containing multiple alpha channels. Adobe Flash recognizes only premultiplied alpha channels.
Keying is defining transparency by a particular color value (with a color key or chroma key) or brightness value (with a luminance key) in an image. When you key out a value, all pixels that have similar colors or luminance values become transparent.
Keying makes it easy to replace a background of a consistent color or brightness with another image, an especially useful technique when you work with objects too complex to mask easily. The technique of keying out a background of a consistent color is often called bluescreening or greenscreening, although you don’t have to use blue or green; you can use any solid color for a background.
Keying in Premiere Pro is performed with keying effects. For more information, see Keying effects.
You can use a Garbage Matte effect to blend images. For more information about using the Garbage Matte effect, see Eight-Point, Four-Point, and Sixteen-Point Garbage Matte effects.
You can blend clips with a matte (typically, a black and white image, or an image from the Titler.) using the Track Matte Key effect. For more information, see the article, Track Matte Key effect.
Expand the view of a track, if necessary, by clicking the triangle next to the track name to expand its options.
If necessary, click the Show Keyframes button , or the Hide Keyframes button , and choose Show Opacity Handles from the menu. A horizontal opacity control rubber band appears in all the clips of the track.
If no keyframes exist on the track, the rubber band appears as a straight horizontal line across the entire track.
Select the Selection tool, and drag the opacity control rubber band up or down.
Select the Pen tool, and drag the opacity control rubber band up or down.
The opacity value and current time appear as a tool tip as you drag.
(Optional) To animate the Opacity effect over time, first set keyframes. Select the Pen tool. Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) on the opacity control rubber band with the Pen tool wherever you want to set a keyframe. Then drag each keyframe up or down to set its value. For example, to fade a clip in, create a keyframe at the beginning of the clip and another a few seconds later. Drag the first down to the bottom of the clip at 0 opacity. Drag the second up to 100%.
For information about adjusting opacity in the Effect Controls tab in the Source panel, see “Opacity” on the page: Fixed effects.
You can use either the Selection tool or the Pen tool to move keyframes or Opacity handles. To adjust the smoothness of the animation, change the keyframe interpolation from linear to Bezier.
If you want to apply the same amount of transparency to an entire clip, simply adjust the clip’s opacity in the Effect Controls panel.
It’s often most efficient to import a source file already containing an alpha channel defining the areas that you want to be transparent. Because the transparency information is stored with the file, Premiere Pro preserves and displays the clip with its transparency in all sequences where you use the file as a clip.
If a clip’s source file doesn’t contain an alpha channel, you must manually apply transparency to individual clip instances where you want transparency. You can apply transparency to a video clip in a sequence by adjusting clip opacity or by applying effects.
Applications such as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator can save clips with their original alpha channels, or add alpha channels, when the file is saved to a format that supports an alpha channel.
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2019-04-20T01:13:51Z
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https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/premiere-pro/using/compositing-alpha-channels-adjusting-clip.html
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.101273 |
nsw
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Our office currently requires disability supported accommodation providers to notify our office of any incidents in which police are called in response to the behaviour or conduct of a resident, commencing from 1 September 2017. The purpose of the information is to analyse the data to gain a comprehensive picture of the types of matters in which police are called, identify themes and patterns, and to inform our monitoring of the implementation of the Joint Protocol.
brief information about what occurred.
The below information is based on the incidents that occurred in the five months from 1 September 2017 to 31 January 2018.
On average, 35 providers notify incidents each month (a range of different providers).
On average, 98 clients are involved in the notified incidents each month (a range of different clients).
To enable us to obtain a comprehensive picture of the types of matters in which police are being called, we take a closer look at a sample of matters each month. Among other things, we examine the circumstances that led to the involvement of police, opportunities for prevention, the response of police, and actions to minimise recurrence. As part of our closer examination of the sample of matters, we review information recorded in the Police databases. The selection of matters is intended to capture a range of providers, regions, and type of behaviour (as well as particularly serious matters).
Police contact appeared to be warranted in 76 matters (49%) – including where there was imminent risk of harm to self and/or others.
Police contact was potentially warranted in 21 matters (14%) – including cases where it was not clear what action had been taken by staff to de-escalate the situation prior to contacting police.
It was not evident that police contact was warranted in 36 matters (23%) – including matters where staff indicated that contact with police was to comply with the provider’s ‘operating procedures’ or to get an Event No; the incident involved verbal threats only; and where police were contacted after risk had been mitigated, with the aim of sending a message to the client.
There was insufficient information in 21 matters (14%) to make an assessment as to whether contact with police was warranted – for example, the information from the provider and police contained insufficient details about the circumstances. We have sought further information from providers in relation to these matters.
There appears to be scope for further work between providers and police to more effectively deal with matters involving clients leaving and/or not returning to premises. For example, developing risk-based response plans between local police commands and providers in relation to clients who regularly leave the premises without staff knowledge and/or support.
There are issues relating to the use of Apprehended Violence Orders (AVOs) that are taken out against residents. There has been a range of matters in which an AVO has been taken out against a resident to protect a staff member, and the staff member has continued to work with the person. In 40% of these matters, the resident has then breached the AVO.
We are seeing evidence of strained relationships between police and disability services where there is increased regular contact with police for incidents that do not appear to be emergencies, regardless of whether the contact is initiated by the service or another party (eg: neighbours).
In a number of incidents, the situation appeared to be escalated by the actions of the support worker – eg: where the staff member confronted the resident, or actively placed themselves in the path of a resident with escalated behaviour.
Where police have been called by staff in response to lower-level behaviours between clients, it has not always been evident that staff have had a discussion with either client prior to calling police.
We have also identified positive practices between providers and police. For example, a police officer updated the police database to include information about strategies that help to reduce the aggression of a resident when police attend incidents (such as playing certain music on their phone).
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2019-04-22T08:09:52Z
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https://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/what-we-do/about-us/facts-and-figures/community-and-disability-facts-and-figures/joint-protocol
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Arts
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Business
| 0.663408 |
tommunch
|
Once again we have great angst and worry in our lives. This time it’s again caused by fires - an all-too-common theme in the summertime West. There’s just an abundance of dry fuel combined with hot and windy days, and one spark is all it takes. I’ve seen all kinds of emotions in the mountain towns affected - fear, anger, empathy, love, confusion, peacefulness, vigilance. I can relate to all of these. The power of the unknown and the uncertainty of the future is something we live with everyday, but it isn’t quite as present as when a giant monster cloud of smoke and ash is bearing down on us. I know everything will be okay even if it doesn’t resemble what I know now. People will rebuild and the mountains will recover in their own beautiful ways. That is what always drives me. I believe that there is always more love to be shared and a better future to be found - it’s just how we choose to look at it. We can be fearful and doubting or we can be loving and supportive of ourselves and each other. All things will pass. All of these forces are part of us, and that is again part of the magic and mystery of the universe and our time here.
Monday and Tuesday last week at the Royal Gorge Bridge were great! Monday was one of the most beautiful days I can remember there - perfect weather and beautiful views. Tuesday I got to interact with so many people on the visitor deck, and that was even cooler!
Thursday was an impromptu fundraiser for the firefighters at the Yellow Pine as the fire was just getting going and no one knew that Cuchara and the Yellow Pine would be evacuated the very next day. We couldn’t get meat from the barbecue people in Alamosa with La Veta Pass being closed temporarily and then permanently, so Lee and the staff arranged for a free sandwiches and appetizers meal with all moneys contributed going to the La Veta Fire Protection folks. Unfortunately we didn’t get a lot of folks to come out - once again there was too much angst in the air with the approaching fire.
Saturday was a wonderful party for my niece Laura and her fiancee Josh that was really fun. Really looking forward to your wedding, you two!
Sunday was a fundraiser for VFW Post 4051 arranged my RV friends Galen and Sue Steele. I immensely enjoyed talking to these folks and sharing an afternoon with them. We didn’t raise quite as much money as we had hoped, but it was all good.
Sunday was also my First-Sunday Online Living Room Concert. I definitely was more contemplative with the fire on my mind, and I picked a number of songs that fit the mood. Many said it was just what they needed.
Monday and Tuesday 12:30-4:30 I’m back at the Royal Gorge Bridge. I’m on the south side by the bridge both days this week. If you have family in town or are traveling through please stop by and enjoy some music.
Monday night I’m playing a private tribute to local women veterans and active service members that should be rewarding. I love doing these kinds of events.
Thursday I won’t be at the Yellow Pine for the barbecue. Please send good thoughts and energy to all those fighting the fires and displaced and affected by this ongoing situation. The Yellow Pine is the headquarters for the firefighting operations in Cuchara with their big pastures for structural and firefighting operations and even a helipad and the pond for water supply.
Saturday I also won’t be at Art in the Park in La Veta. They’ve had to cancel all their Independence Day weekend celebrations this year with the fire. Again send them good energy.
Saturday I will be doing a special concert at Philmont Scout Ranch for the staff and the folks who are down to dedicate a new building for the staff association. I love playing for the folks at Philmont, and with no campers there until the middle of July this will be a special chance to do a show with lots of energy and camaraderie amongst the staff. I’m really looking forward to it!
That’s it for this week. Remember that angst is just a reminder that we are here a short time and should enjoy it to the fullest.
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2019-04-18T18:16:49Z
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http://tommunch.com/blog/blog/monday-july-2-dealing-with-angst
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Arts
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Recreation
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wordpress
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Which is basically correct. Santa as we know him today is a composite of sorts, but his oldest (and truest?) form is that of Odin leading his ghostly yule procession through the sky. This older Odin meme is then later overlaid with Christian elements, such as St. Nicholas (who, by the way, is Greek, not Turkish — Turkey didn’t exist in the 4th century), and Sinterklaas stories of central and northern Europe, but many of the Germanic pagan elements still survive surrounding yule/Christmas, such as elves, yule logs, etc.
Interestingly, there’s a similar parallel with the character Gandalf of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien, a professor of Germanic languages, clearly modeled Gandalf after Odin — the “grey wanderer” known by many names — but this is overlaid with certain Christian elements, such as Gandalf sacrificing himself for the Fellowship and then later resurrected (although resurrection is not unknown in Germanic paganism, such as the promise of Balder’s resurrection).
Nonetheless, both Santa and Gandalf both suffer from one irredeemable sin in the eyes of the Cathedral: They’re white. Cathedral’s answer: Dump’em or darken’em.
Regarding John Derbyshire’s response to my recent post on the increasing ghettoization of Christianity, one might add that this ghettoization goes beyond Christianity. One could give many examples, but I’ll limit it to a few.
Children’s entertainment: One of the most popular children’s shows in the USA right now is Dora the Explorer, some low-brow mestizo form of entertainment that teaches kids Spanglish and was dreamed up by Latino-savvy consultants. We’ve come a long way from D’Aulaires, Sutcliff, and Marshall in a short span of time.
For adult examples of ghettoization, just watch NFL football, which has turned into a showcase for black thugs.
And then there’s the exporting of America’s ghetto culture.
In particular, I think of the 2005 riots in France, where many of the African rioters were wearing American ghetto clothing (e.g. NY Yankees hats on sideways, etc.) and flashing gang signs at the cameras.
Has America reached rock bottom?
Perhaps we’re reaching the terminal stages of what Alexis de Tocqueville labeled the “tyranny of mediocrity,” where this final stage of American depravity culminates in what Elizabeth Wright more recently called the “negrophilia” of American entertainment.
Of course, this isn’t meant take away from the ghettoization of Christianity, which is a more global phenomenon — occurring not only in the USA but also in Africa and Latin America. The empowered wretched of the Earth are coming home to roost.
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2019-04-25T16:18:31Z
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https://occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/category/film-tv-multimedia/
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Arts
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Kids
| 0.639551 |
gatech
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Come join Facebook for a fun Puzzle Hunt Event!
Our internal Facebook engineers and scientists have created fun brain teaser problems to be solved!
There will be food, SWAG, prizes for winning teams and a fun evening.
Have the opportunity to also chat with the Facebook recruiting and engineering team. Resumes will be accepted!
Must be a Georgia Tech student to attend.
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2019-04-20T12:19:05Z
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https://www.cse.gatech.edu/calendar/day/2019/02/19/13268
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Arts
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Recreation
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wordpress
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August | 2012 | WHAT A FEELING!
In Wings of Desire, director Wim Wenders has created a beautiful visual universe, a unique world that somehow combines the lush black-and-white of such heavenly Hollywood fantasies as Here Comes Mr. Jordan with the more down-to-earth realities of Wenders’ modern Germany. It’s a world both rapturous and unfulfilling, lyrical but also sterile.
Which are exactly the contradictions that Wenders wants. Wings of Desire is Wenders’ most magical film, an unexpected flight into Capraesque fantasy from the director of such angst-ridden modern-day movies as The American Friend and Paris, Texas.
Wenders’ main character here (the screenplay is by Wenders and Peter Handke) is a melancholy angel, played by the superb Bruno Ganz. This angel spends his time watching people, jotting down their behavior in a notebook. He and the other angels, who dress in long overcoats and wear pony tails, pass through Berlin and observe, and are seen only by little children.
These angels are immortal. They move through eternity, but they do not feel anything. One day Ganz commiserates with a pal angel (Otto Sander); “I’d like to feel some weight to me,” he says, and dreams of someday being able to touch and taste things, take off his shoes under a table and stretch out his bare feet. It is possible for these angels to take the plunge into the world of the living, but they would lose their immortality.
Ganz eventually comes to the decision to become human, fueled in part by his infatuation with a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin); while watching her perform, he sees her in a brief, vivid flash of color (the cinematography is by Henri Alekan, who four decades ago photographed Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast). Also on the scene is an American actor (Peter Falk), who is shooting a World War II movie in Berlin. Falk, who is called by his own name in the film and even subject to a couple of “Columbo” jokes, establishes an odd bond with the lonely angel.
At two hours and 10 minutes, Wings of Desire is undoubtedly too long for any conventional telling of this story. But Wenders’ films do not bow to any conventional rules, nor should they. This movie drifts along at its own spellbinding pace, its languid narrative an inextricable part of its impact and meaning.
The opening hour is a dreamlike survey of Ganz’ travels through the angel world. One of the most striking aspects of this existence is the angels’ ability to hear the thoughts of humans; thus the soundtrack is filled with the unspoken fears and dreams and desires of people.
The movie becomes giddy when Ganz finally casts his lot with humans. Yet there’s nothing silly about his eventual encounter with the sad trapeze artist, or his conclusion upon sampling earthly reality that “It happened once, and so it will be forever.” One of the great things that this lovely movie communicates is the sense that eternity is going on right now.
Must’ve run out of space, or I would’ve mentioned Nick Cave. This movie’s a beaut.
Wolf at the Door chronicles two decisive years (1893-4) in the life of Paul Gauguin from his arrival back in Paris after painting in Tahiti, until his return to the South Pacific. It was, according to the film, Gauguin’s last fling at trying to live in civilization, and it was a complete failure.
Gauguin is played by Donald Sutherland, who plays it intelligently, if never thrillingly. I suppose this performance is somewhere between a couple of previous cinematic approximations of the Gauguin character—the different approaches of Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life and George Sanders in the fictional The Moon and Sixpence.
Sutherland does not attempt an accent or anything like that; the movie is a potpourri of nationalities before and behind the camera, as is the case with most international co-productions.
At the lowest moment, an inheritance arrives, which will support his time in Paris. Gauguin tries to organize a colony of artists who will return with him to Tahiti, though this dream falls apart. He also dallies with many women, including a Javanese girl who models for him and shares his room.
It is an interesting period in his life (it included an encounter with a cranky August Strindberg, played by Max von Sydow), and the movie is a trim enough telling of it. It’s seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old neighbor girl who idolizes and romanticizes Gauguin.
The movie is essentially a Danish production, directed and produced by Henning Carlsen, a veteran Danish filmmaker.
Carlsen’s Scandinavian scrupulousness keeps the film tidy and decent. But that approach is hardly suitable to deal to Gauguin’s raging primitivism, and a fuller account of the artist’s life awaits a gutsier, more romantic film—and, probably, a more volcanic actor.
Henning Carlsen is still alive; he did adaptations of Knut Hamsen’s Hunger and Pan, 30 years apart. I’d watch this movie again, because the story of Gauguin is so hard to resist, but I do remember being disappointed by Sutherland’s take on the role.
Francois Truffaut’s Confidentially Yours would like to be a good bottle of champagne: giddy, nutty and dry. But Truffaut may have left the cork out of the bottle too long.
He’s been devoting his time to dark, serious movies lately—such as the little-seen The Green Room and The Woman Next Door—and perhaps he’s forgotten how to create his special kind of magic.
Not that Truffaut has ever been merely bubbly; but even in primarily dramatic movies such as Jules and Jim and Day for Night, he conveys a wonderful sense of the joys of life and the movies, although those joys sometimes turn out to be fleeting.
Confidentially Yours self-consciously tries to recapture some of the magic; it’s a knockabout whodunit, with lots of clever twists and turns and a pair of engaging performances from Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
It’s being pushed as a kind of homage to the American film noir genre that Truffaut loved so much when he was a young film critic. Actually, this movie doesn’t bear much resemblance to the feverish fatalism of film noir; it’s much more of a lark. And Truffaut has always been too loose-limbed a director to really recreate an American style, which he tries to do periodically. He’s much more successful on his own idiosyncratic turf.
Anyway, Trintignant plays a businessman who is accused of murder. The evidence is persuasive: First his wife’s lover is found shot to death; then just a few hours later, Trintignant’s wife is herself the victim of the killer.
We can’t be absolutely sure that Trintignant is not guilty; that’s part of the tease. So the focus shifts to his feisty secretary (Ardant), who determinedly sets out to find the murderer herself—while the boss hides out in the rear of his realty office.
Misadventures ensue as Ardant somehow bumbles her way to the solution. Confidentially Yours is something of a showcase for the leggy Ardant, who is Truffaut’s current discovery. She gets to go undercover, crack wise, and generally handle herself as a Rosalind Russell-style girl Friday, whose combative relationship with her boss may be hiding more affectionate feelings.
She proves more resourceful than the local police—who aren’t amused when she keeps turning up at the scenes of murders.
If the police are not amused, the viewer may be, as Truffaut alternates the detective work with whimsical interludes. It’s all sort of cute and predictable, and it’s enjoyable as a cat-and-mouse exercise, if a rather flat one.
But Truffaut seems to be trying a bit too hard to make up for his recent moody work; as though he were nudging the audience and saying, “See? I can still be charming.” There were times when I had the feeling we were being clobbered over the head with light-heartedness. And that isn’t a good feeling.
Truffaut did not survive the year, and this was his last film, although nobody knew that at the time. I have never watched it again. If it’s not one of his best films—and his best films are among the best anybody ever made—at least it stands as a tribute to a woman, and a tribute to movies, which are two things Truffaut knew something about. I think I know what I mean by “loose-limbed” style, even if I don’t express it particularly well in the space of a newspaper review. Truffaut was rigorous, but even when he would do a Hitchcock or a science-fiction picture (or a film noir, as in Mississippi Mermaid), the results didn’t really resemble the work of his models, but they did look like Truffaut movies.
Power is one of those behind-the-scenes peeks at the wheeling and dealing of political campaigns, always a ripe subject for movies (after all, so little madness needs to be invented). As it happens, Power is not an unusually distinguished essay on the cutthroat gamesmanship that we all know and love, but it’s certainly enjoyable enough.
The main player in this drama is Peter St. John (Richard Gere), a high-stakes public relations wizard with an 85 percent success rate with political candidates. He is introduced to us in a series of glimpses at his various projects.
First, he’s attending the speech of a South American candidate/client, whose rally is suddenly interrupted by a terrorist bomb. When the candidate gets a little blood on his shirt, St. John rushes over with his camera crew, fairly exultant with the public relations possibilities. He excitedly tells the candidate to wear the blood-stained shirt at every subsequent public appearance.
Next, St. John is off to New Mexico, where he oversees the candidacy of a Senate hopeful (Fritz Weaver), then to Seattle for a meeting with the incumbent governor (Michael Learned, once the mother on “The Waltons”). She needs special help in smoothing over her recent divorce, and its impact on the fall campaign.
But St. John’s most pressing public relations gig is the Ohio Senate race. The incumbent (E.G. Marshall), an old friend, pulls out of the running, abruptly. St. John is pursued by a mysterious power broker (Denzel Washington of “St. Elsewhere”) to back another Ohio candidate, one whose resources are vast, but whose intentions are suspect.
In other words, quit worrying about the issues and concentrate on the makeup and the hair. St. John creates the kind of devious TV commercials and publicity ploys with which we’ve become all too familiar over the years.
But strange things are happening: St. John’s rooms are bugged, his plane is searched, and his ex-wife (Julie Christie), a reporter, is finding some fishy finances connected with Marshall’s wife (Beatrice Straight).
It all sounds complicated, and it is, but it’s enjoyably mounted. Sidney Lumet (and his fine photographer, Andrej Bartkowiak) can orchestrate this sort of intricate setup with clarity, if little subtlety (The Verdict and Prince of the City are other examples). And he recognizes the satire of much of David Himmelstein’s script.
Gere is well-cast as the shallow media hypester, although he does less well with the character’s moral awakening. Gene Hackman does some tasty work as Gere’s friend/competitor. Kate Capshaw is attractive decoration as Gere’s assistant.
It’s the kind of aggressive slickery that, by rights, ought to make Lumet, Himmelstein, and co., just a bit queasy.
It didn’t land like Network, that’s for sure. The political stuff looks like child’s play from a perspective 25 years on, and sort of looked like child’s play then. Karl Rove, where were you in ’86?
Let’s get the official tsk-tsking out of the way: Road House is a violent, tasteless, unbelievable movie that has no redeeming social value whatsoever. With that said, we can talk about how much fun it is.
Road House is shameless, but it’s also irresistible. Patrick Swayze, who hasn’t had a film released to theaters since he struck gold with Dirty Dancing two summers ago, stars as “the best cooler in the business.” Translation: he’s a glorified bouncer who gets hired at bad clubs and bars and turns them around. He weeds out the deadbeats, throws out the drunks, chases the dope dealers.
After an opening sequence in which we see his brand of Zen pugilism (he sews up his own wounds), Swayze is hired to manage a rundown roadhouse in a small town outside Kansas City. After he arrives and begins to clean the place up, he comes to realize that the town is run by an evil landowner (Ben Gazzara), who has his hands in everybody’s pockets and his goons on everybody’s backs. Inevitably, Swayze is going to have to teach this guy a lesson and make the town safe.
Swayze receives a bit of help from his mentor, the now-graying king of the bouncers (Sam Elliott, who has played a few cowboys over the years, in a sly performance). The movie skillfully mixes Swayze’s martial arts, his philosophizing (“Pain doesn’t hurt,” “Nobody wins a fight”), some kissy face, good roadhouse music, as well as at least one fistfight every six minutes. It doesn’t come close to being respectable, but Road House is a brawling good time.
I know what you’re thinking: I underrated it. True. Some movies hit the sweet spot where the ridiculous becomes sublime; Road House, you are it.
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is a little like the old “Rocky and Bullwinkle” show. You know the thing is aimed primarily at 11-year-olds, and the characters are all idiotic, but jokes keep whizzing past that are neither idiotic nor pre-adolescent.
In fact , this movie is pretty funny. But where “Rocky and Bullwinkle” was sly, Bill & Ted is goofy. It makes certain demands on the viewer; you’d better have a high tolerance for cretinous dialogue and vacant, glassy-eyed stares.
Bill and Ted (played with unfailing vacuousness and in perfect Valley-speak by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, respectively) are two high-schoolers who are flunking out of history class. When the teacher asks who Joan of Arc was, they’re stumped: “Noah’s wife?” And they wonder whether Marco Polo refers to a watersport.
For some reason, these two dorks are chosen by an emissary (George Carlin) from the 27th century, who lends them a time machine in the form of a telephone booth. With this, they’re able to travel around through the centuries, pick up interesting historical figures, and come back in time to present a really bodacious final report, and thus avert the most dreaded F.
That’s the concept. And there aren’t many complications along the way. The movie, written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon and briskly directed by Stephen Herek, touches down in a variety of historical locales but never stays long enough for anything to get stale. From the wild West, the boys take Billy the Kid; from ancient Greece, Socrates (“a most bodacious philosopher”). They grab Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Lincoln, and Sigmund Freud (who is greeted in the Vienna of 1900 with a friendly, “How’s it goin’, Frood-dude?”).
There’s also room for some low comedy when the time travelers return to the presnt and deposit the great figures in a shopping mall. Billy the Kid and Socrates try to put the make on a couple of babes (this doesn’t sound like the Socratic method), but Freud ruins things by showing up at the wrong moment, corndog in hand (though sometimes a corndog is just a corndog). “Way to go, egghead,” Billy snarls.
The movie’s characters are so moronic they become strangely endearing after a while, and it’s all over before it wears out its welcome. In short, most bodacious.
A genuinely funny movie. I guess I couldn’t figure out a way to make the duo’s pronunciation of “Socrates” understandable, which is a shame. And just a few days ago, Reeves announced that he’d signed on for a new sequel, which might be a good idea if only to alter the memory of the DOA Bogus Journey.
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The College’s centenary celebrations commenced with a Mass of Thanksgiving on Saturday 17 March in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Newman College. The Centenary Dinner followed in the St Mary’s College Courtyard.
The first Centenary Public Lecture was presented by Professor Anne Steinemann on Tuesday 1 May in the Frewin Room.
Topic: Hidden hazards in everyday products and indoor environments.
The second Centenary Public Lecture was presented by Sr Jane Kelly ibvm on Tuesday 11 September in the Frewin Room.
A luncheon was held for alumnae of St Mary’s Hall, 126 The Avenue, Parkville, on Saturday 27 October 2018 at 12.30-2.30pm at the Hall. This luncheon was an opportunity for alumnae of St Mary’s Hall to revisit the Hall and reconnect with old friends.
All alumni and friends of the College were invited to the Centenary Garden Party held in the College Courtyard on Saturday 27 October at 5.00pm.
The Centenary Concert was the highlight of our celebrations.
It was held on Sunday 2 December 2018 at 2.30pm in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit and at St Mary’s College.
Afternoon tea followed in the St Mary’s Frewin room.
The Artistic Director of the concert was Ms Genevieve Lacey.
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