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fineartamerica
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Nicely composed and processed - love the light and colors. I can certainly see why this old truck was so popular. Saw it among the Once a Month Club featured images and really liked it.
Very very nice! I like the atmosphere.
Thank You so much, Caitlyn!
Taken at car show. This Old Chevy truck had to be one of my faves! It was decked out all the way around!!!! Hope to add more images of it soon!!!! Literally was hard to get pictures of this Awesome truck, it was smothered by photographers!
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2019-04-24T02:11:51Z
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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/this-ol-chevy-kristie-bonnewell.html?product=greeting-card
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Arts
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Recreation
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architecturaldigest
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Dede Pratesi, center, at home with her son, Federico, his wife, Gaia, and their children, Margherita and Athos.
Even a marriage of true minds can harbor differing opinions. Thirty-five years ago Dede Pratesi’s husband, Athos, brought her to Tuscany from Milan, where they were raising their four children, to see Villa Lunardi, a 17th-century stone manor steeped in regional details. Athos, the late head of the century-old luxury linens firm that bears his family name, had spotted the ten-bedroom house while hiking in the hills north of Florence. Characteristically, Athos saw an opportunity; Dede saw missing roof tiles and hip-high weeds in the courtyard. Inside, the ornately patterned marble floors were blackened from neglect, and the delicate frescoes on the coffered ceilings were crumbling.
Athos ultimately won Dede over, and then, slowly, so did the house. “Now I love it, tanto,” says Dede, who has made the villa and its nearly 100 acres her primary residence since the leadership of the company passed into the deft hands of her son, Federico, following Athos’s death in 1995.
At first the family used the estate as a getaway, and Dede spent her weekends overseeing the restoration of the frescoes and the marble tile, as well as the humbler, softer, and more easily damaged cotto-tile floors in the less formal rooms. While no major rebuilding was necessary, the time-consuming labor of bringing the house’s long history to life was highly demanding. “Believe me, it was a worse nightmare than any construction work,” Federico attests.
Founded in 1906 by Athos’s grandfather (who, company legend has it, embroidered his first set of linens to woo his bride-to-be), Pratesi was soon providing sheets and pillowcases to Florentine nobles. Under Athos’s stewardship, the firm catered to the modern royalty of Hollywood, several of whom became the family’s personal friends.
The villa has been thoughtfully restored over the past 35 years.
“Que carina,” says Dede, beaming at the mention of Elizabeth Taylor, who once checked out of a hotel because the beds were not outfitted with Pratesi linens. Dede tells of arranging for the actress’s hospital bed to be made up with a set of lace-accented sheets. Taylor, in turn, made a customer of her friend Michael Jackson, after ordering him a sleeping bag made of Pratesi black silk jacquard.
Both Athos and Dede traveled frequently, and the exotic shapes of the Ming dynasty and Indian Raj treasures they brought home complement the villa’s mostly French Provincial and Italian furniture. Against this background Dede has mixed in a few modern accents, such as an iconic Warren Platner wire table by Knoll. To counter the hard surfaces of the floors, Dede frames every window with formal curtains and favors richly upholstered sofas and chairs. In her textile choices, she isn’t daunted by the bold tile underfoot, pairing the floors’ intricate variations on brown, black, and white with fabrics in mod orange and yellow, or with traditional but exuberant patterns by Manuel Canovas and Colefax and Fowler.
Her next undertaking may be a swimming pool, which she has long forbidden. Protective of the home she once reluctantly accepted—“real Tuscan houses don’t have pools!” she cries—her resolve has nonetheless melted in the face of entreaties from her seven grandchildren. A difference of opinion, after all, can be the start of something grand.
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2019-04-22T20:53:23Z
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https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/dede-pratesi-tuscan-villa-article
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Arts
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Business
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livejournal
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So, if you're a fairly large ISP (who got that way not by having customers choose your service but by buying out bunches of small independent ISPs), and you've decided to roll out a (completely unnecessary and functionality-reducing) rewrite of your mail system over a major holiday weekend with no warning, will you actually have anyone manning the "24 hour" support line who can explain why your customers are not able to get their mail with their POP client?
I haven't tried to answer this empirically. I think I'm too tired to try tonight, so I'll send an email to the apparently-deprecated email support address and see if anyone has responded by tomorrow.
My only comment - see if you can change isps . . . E and I use Speakeasy, and have for years (with a small break when we moved and they were not yet servicing our new area). They are a national company based out of Seattle. The have a number of packages of service to choose from. They warn you ahead of time of servce changes, they have a great support system both on line and phone. Their support staff always seems knowledgeable (even if it takes a bit of waiting to get to them) And they have some system that does NOT require you to use your phone line so you could drop your phone line entirely and still have DSL.
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2019-04-21T00:37:57Z
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https://tigertoy.livejournal.com/87340.html
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Arts
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Computers
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wordpress
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As limited editions go, it’s all a matter of taste, and the clear demonstrator design may or may not appeal to you (the Yamanaka’s barrel is intended to represent the glittering sunlight striking the waves of the lake). What is noteworthy, however, is the nib. Platinum manufactures the nibs for their high-end Nakaya line, and as I understand it the Soft Fine and Soft Medium nibs have until recently been reserved for Nakayas only. The Soft Fine débuted in the current Platinum Century #3776 lineup several years ago; I had the chance to get it then, and it’s marvellous, soft but with a jaunty spring to it. (The SF nib was also available for the Shoji.) Now the Soft Medium nib has been made available for the first and probably the last time within the Century line, along with the usual Fine, Medium and Bold nibs, with the Yamanaka. (According to stationery journalist Tsuchihashi-san’s review of the pen, soft nibs cost more to make because the plates need to be thinner; around the middle of his review, there is a picture where you can see the difference in shape between a regular M nib and an SM nib.) So this is the one chance to get a taste of the SM nib without paying Nakaya prices. SM nibs are said to account for 400 out of a total of 3,776 units manufactured; each pen comes with a serial number.
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2019-04-24T23:47:11Z
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https://pencilsandotherthings.wordpress.com/category/brands/platinum/
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Arts
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Shopping
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cnet
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Super Stickman Golf 2 delivers everything you'd expect from a fun 2D golf simulator and doesn't force you to make any in-app purchases to enjoy the game. More than a great game, this title is an example of what a freemium app should be.
Addictive gameplay: Super Stickman Golf 2's straightforward aim-and-hit gameplay challenges you without frustrating you, featuring excellent ball mechanics and responsive controls. The big challenge comes from the 20 creatively designed fairways whose fantastical shapes and portals, moving obstacles, repulsor magnets, and sticky pink goo add excitement to an otherwise slow-paced game.
Plenty of rewards and customizations: As you play and complete courses, gain experience, and collect gold bux (the in-game currency), you can unlock new courses and power up your character, as well as customize it with new forms (zombie or ninja, among others), hats, balls, and several power-ups, all of which are compelling enough to keep you playing. On top of all these, there is also a silly hat lottery, and no less than 64 achievements, each of which can bring you cash.
Engaging turn-based multiplayer mode: You can play against another human opponent by taking turns before each hole and complete a course over a period of hours, days, or even weeks; you can join as many as 25 simultaneous matches with an in-app purchase. This clever approach makes the multiplayer mode extremely accessible even if you're playing the game in snippets. A more hectic multiplayer mode is also available, Race Mode, in which you race as many as seven other local network players for a cup.
Cannot resume a course: You can pause at any time during a game, but if you return to the main menu without having completed all holes -- whether you do it deliberately or by mistake -- you cannot resume from where you left but have to start all over again. A warning that you'll lose your progress would be helpful.
Whether you're a golf fan or not, Super Stickman Golf 2 offers an entertaining and challenging gaming experience that requires not only skill, but also patience. While it's only 2D, it looks charming and the gameplay can quickly become addictive. If you enjoy playing games on your Android smartphone or tablet, this is a good option to try out.
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2019-04-26T10:27:12Z
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https://download.cnet.com/Super-Stickman-Golf-2/3000-2117_4-75885072.html
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Sports
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baltimoresun
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There's some major-league grumbling among Orioles season ticket holders who received their new seat locations at Oriole Park at Camden Yards last week.
Some longtime customers feel they've been shoved aside and given less desirable seats.
"Our company [Shepherd Electric] has had the same four box seats since the Orioles came here in '54," says an unhappy Chuck Vogel.
"They've bumped us over two sections farther down the leftfield line. I went down there last week and looked around and we should be in section 54. Instead, they've got us in section 58. I'd like to see who has those seats that should be ours in 54."
Mary Lou Lamartina has had the same seats for 30 years in the second row in section 3, just beyond "ballboy" Ernie Tyler's seat beside the backstop. Now the Orioles have her in the eighth row, in section 44, farther down the third base line.
Lou Michaelson, the Orioles vice president for sales, said yesterday he's receiving complaints, although they're not "overwhelming."
Explains Michaelson: "The configuration of the dugouts at the new park is so different that it throws everyone off balance. Also, the seats are 12 to 15 feet closer to the field in the new park.
"We took time even before invoicing to consider the needs of the customers. We're going to do tours to show these people their new seats. As far as the owner [Eli Jacobs] goes, he hasn't taken much at all."
The Orioles have a selling and public relations job ahead of them explaining all this to their most important constituency -- their ticket holders.
* While most of the college basketball teams around the state struggle this winter, an amazing success story continues at Johns Hopkins.
The team there is 10-0, even though Hopkins has never, until now, been a basketball school. Even the Blue Jays' sixth-year coach, Bill Nelson, is puzzled.
"I'm not sure why we're winning all these games," he confesses. "One of these days we have to go on the road. We've only played three games away from home.
"Our kids are pretty serious [10 of them are either engineering or pre-med students]. They don't fool around in practice.
"One thing that helps is that so many of them played on championship teams in high school. They're used to winning.
"Jay Gangemi's school in Rochester was 21-2 and New York State champs in their class. Luke Busby came from a school in Ohio that was 23-2, regional and sectional champs.
"Michael Rotay and Frank Grzywacz were on a team in Ambler, Pa., [Wissahickon] that was 28-2 and a state semifinalist. Brian Markey's team [Dallastown, Pa.] was 22-4 and went to the second round of the state tournament. Mike Shatzel's school in Buffalo won the state championship -- although they did it without him. He was out with appendicitis."
Nelson's bunch of winners next play tomorrow night against Ursinus. At home, of course.
* Baltimore will host the Atlantic Coast Conference football banquet for the second time on Feb. 14 at the Hyatt Regency. The conference was impressed enough with the job done here last year after 30 years in South Carolina to bring it back here.
Besides having all the ACC coaches, including Maryland's Mark Duffner, and the all-conference team members here, the ACC Alumnus of the Year Award will be presented to Don McCauley, a former North Carolina halfback who went on to play for the Baltimore Colts.
Crown Central Petroleum chairman Henry Rosenberg is once again chairman of the prestigious banquet. Tickets are available from the Quarterback Club at 296-7500.
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2019-04-20T08:52:08Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-01-14-1992014183-story.html
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Sports
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uwa
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Are you interested in how we learn, remember and think? Have you ever wondered how we control our movements? Psychologists are interested in how and why people behave the way they do. Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and behaviour, and is a challenging and wide-ranging discipline.
The Psychological Science major will provide you with a scientific understanding of our psychological processes and the relationship of these processes to brain function. You will also develop an understanding of how these psychological processes are affected by ageing, brain damage and disease. Students hoping to pursue further study at postgraduate level leading to professional accreditation as a psychologist should complete the Psychology double major.
During the major you will be exposed to sensitive topics (e.g. depression, suicide, trauma, eating disorders). You will also be required to demonstrate skills across a variety of different formats and contexts (e.g. written assessments, participation in practical work, contribution to group discussions, oral presentations), and so it is important to carefully consider whether you are able to cope with the demands of a psychology major and whether there is anything that would impact upon your ability to complete the requirements of the major.
Students are able to (1) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of psychological processes and their relationships with neurobiology; (2) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the scientific method in psychology; (3) demonstrate critical thinking in psychology including an appreciation of the use of the scientific method to study psychological processes; (4) demonstrate skills in the analysis and presentation of quantitative data; (5) demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills; and (6) work effectively as a team member in solving problems.
The following example illustrates how the Psychological Science degree-specific major can be included in the Bachelor of Science course.
The following example illustrates how the Psychological Science degree-specific major can be combined with a second major in the Bachelor of Science course.
Psychological Science can also be taken as a second major.
The following example illustrates how Psychological Science can be included as a second major in an undergraduate degree course.
Psychological Science can also be taken as a degree-specific major.
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2019-04-18T18:39:03Z
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http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/majordetails?code=MJD-PSYSC
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Arts
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Science
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sco
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Gavin Reid is Chief Executive of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, one of Scotland’s National Performing Companies. Prior to joining the SCO in 2016, Gavin spent ten years as Director of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, he studied the trumpet at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before pursuing a freelance career performing and teaching. He was Principal Trumpet of Manchester Camerata from 1989-2001 and was responsible for developing their education and outreach programme between 1996-2002. Gavin was appointed General Manager of Manchester Camerata in 2002 and in 2004, became one of the first Fellows on the Clore Leadership Programme – a major initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation aimed at developing and strengthening leadership across the cultural and creative sectors.
He is a Trustee of IMPACT Scotland (International Music and Performing Arts Charitable Trust), the organisation established to create a new mid-scale performance venue – and home for the SCO - in the heart of Edinburgh City Centre. In October 2018 Gavin was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, having previously served as a Governor from 2012 to 2018.
Gavin Reid was elected Chair of the Association of British Orchestras in November 2017.
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2019-04-20T21:08:08Z
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https://www.sco.org.uk/your-orchestra/who-s-who/895-gavin-reid
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Arts
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Arts
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unomaha
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A concern in some Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities is that the nutritional needs of the residents are not being met and there is a significant risk factor for malnutrition and increased mortality. Many LTC residents do not fully partake in the dining experience due normative (e.g., to a lack of ability to taste and smell their food) and non-normative age changes (e.g., olfactory changes caused by aging, age-related diseases and medications) as well as the environment in which the food is being served (e.g., social factors). The purpose of this study was to identify interventions designed to promote healthy eating among residents in Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities. Specific areas of concern were: eating and normal aging, the social aspect of eating and the environment of the dining experience. Possible interventions are discussed such as consideration of food preferences, flavor enhancers, the number of people the residents eat with, time of day and where they eat. Although food enhancements appear to be the most effective intervention, it is clear that any intervention will include multiple factors.
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2019-04-20T00:26:28Z
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https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/srcaf/2013/schedule/102/
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Arts
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Health
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bookbrowse
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From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives.
Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents. For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow.
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her most devastating work of fiction to date.
Normally she stayed on the balcony, reading, or kept to an adjacent room as her brother and Udayan studied and smoked and drank cups of tea. Manash had befriended him at Calcutta University, where they were both graduate students in the physics department. Much of the time their books on the behaviors of liquids and gases would sit ignored as they talked about the repercussions of Naxalbari, and commented on the day's events.
The discussions strayed to the insurgencies in Indochina and in Latin American countries. In the case of Cuba it wasn't even a mass movement, Udayan pointed out. Just a small group, attacking the right targets.
All over the world students were gaining momentum, standing up to exploitative systems. It was another example of Newton's second law of motion, he joked. Force equals mass times acceleration.
Manash was skeptical. What could they, urban students, claim to know about peasant life?
He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors. But Subhash strove to minimize his existence, as other animals merged with bark or blades of grass" (p. 11). How do the differences between the boys both strengthen and strain the tie between them?
Does Subhash's decision to make it "his mission to obey (his parents), given that it wasn't possible to surprise or impress them. That was what Udayan did" (p. 11) follow a pattern common among siblings? What part do their parents play in fostering the roles each boy assumes?
Readers looking for a plot-driven narrative might not find The Lowland to be their cup of tea. An expert chronicler of the human condition, Lahiri’s work has always been deeply introspective, relying less on external “action,” relentlessly propelling onward nevertheless. In The Lowland, she again mines the complex emotional landscape of her characters, chiseling away at stone with a fine scalpel. (Reviewed by Poornima Apte).
Starred Review. Though Lahiri has previously earned greater renown for her short stories, this masterful novel deserves to attract an even wider readership.
Starred Review. Lahiri attains new heights of artistry—flawless transparency, immersive intimacy with characters and place—in her spellbinding fourth book and second novel, a magnificent, universal, and indelible work of literature. An absolute triumph.
In The Lowland, Udayan Mitra, one of the two brothers in the story, gets pulled into India's nascent communist movement that kicked into high gear in the 60s, especially in the state of West Bengal where a fair portion of the novel is set.
The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging.
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2019-04-20T03:13:09Z
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https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/2939/the-lowland
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Arts
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Arts
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radioworld
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Codec specialist Tieline has introduced a tool for marshaling codecs scattered across remote location but connected by the internet.
The TieLink Traversal Server is designed to locate, link and manage a codec network.
TieLink Traversal Server provides NAT traversal, often a sticking point in dealing with remote codecs. In addition it adds discovery of network attached codecs and facilitates the introduction of new codecs. It will also organize contacts lists and groupings along with working with the company’s Cloud Codec Controller.
Tieline says it is free to use with all G5 Genie and Merlin codecs. Traversal Server licenses can be purchased for Bridge-IT and Bridge-IT XTRA codecs.
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2019-04-19T18:57:17Z
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https://www.radioworld.com/show-news/nab-show/tieline-simplifies-codec-ip-networking
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Arts
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Shopping
| 0.246454 |
bbc
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After years of materialising and then dematerialising, the legendary Tardis from the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who is finally about to be going, going, gone.
The time machine which resembles a normal police box is the highlight of an auction of television props and costumes to be held this week.
But the buyer may have to dig deep into their pockets to take it home.
On the face of it, the Tardis looks very ordinary.
The boxes were actually used in the days before police radios, for locking up criminals while assistance was called using the telephone on the outside.
The famous blue light on the top flashed when there was a call for an officer, rather than when it was disappearing into thin air in the TV series.
Although the boxes were once a common sight on UK street corners, they are now remembered more for their extra-terrestrial role.
Instead of a dark, confined space for villains, the Doctor's box had an interior which was light and airy to say the least.
Indeed estate agents would have loved to try to sell its compact yet spacious features, because a technological trick meant the Doctor and his companions certainly travelled in comfort.
The fact that Tardis stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space gives a clue into how the space inside was expanded.
Any fan of the Doctor will offer that information, and also explain why it looked like a police box.
The Tardis should have blended into the scenery wherever it went, but it developed a fault whilst in London and never regained its adaptability.
This model has several million miles on the clock - and one not-so-careful owner.
Many different Doctors may have taken the controls, but technically they were all regenerations of the Doctor as he made his way through time and space.
But prospective purchasers are unlikely to want a full service history.
Auctioneer George McManara says there has been plenty of interest in the ultimate piece of Who memorabilia.
"Perhaps there's a Doctor Who museum, or Doctor Who fanatics who will come and pay loads of money for it," he said.
"We don't know what it will go for but there is no reserve and the highest bidder will get it."
The Tardis is being sold along with other relics from TV's past - including an entire Old Bailey courtroom from the series Rumpole.
The auction also includes the original cell door that kept the public safe from one of TV's favourite rogues, Norman Stanley Fletcher, played by Ronnie Barker in the BBC prison comedy Porridge.
Another famous opening available is the front of the country's most famous terraced house - No 10 Downing Street.
There is also a bust of one of the men who lived behind it - Winston Churchill.
But Lot 688 - the Tardis - is the prop that is attracting most attention.
"It's bigger than I expected," said one woman who wondered just how large it really was when you step inside.
Meanwhile a man looking around reminisced about his boyhood spent hiding from the Doctor's mortal enemies behind the sofa.
"I was scared of the Cybermen and the Daleks," he admitted.
There have already been dozens of enquiries about the Tardis from potential new owners.
But the auctioneers are refusing to speculate on what the machine will go for - it is simply impossible to put a price on a time machine, particularly one that is held in such affection by the Doctor's fans.
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2019-04-21T08:21:24Z
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/186737.stm
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Reference
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proboards
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Kind of reminds me of that kid from "Foxtrot"
The first test build went pretty well. There are some minor tweaks to be made, but overall the model came together nicely.
Please note: I normally would not equip my mech with two laser cannons and two dual laser cannons, but those are the only weapons that I've designed so far.
Wow. That looks great! Nice job. Is that going to be in the Horde?
You are the 2.5D master!
Can't wait to build it and add it to my Terra Force army!
That is absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see what else you come up with!
That is one cooooool looking mecha. Great job on the 2.5d man that looks great from all angles!
Yea - what he said.
Absolutely freakin' awesome job. Time to lay down the law 2.5D-style!
Fantastic. Seeing it on that hex like that reminds me of playing Mechwarrior to death as a kid. He would totally overheat with that gear, but with the interchangeable parts it looks well worth it. Couple SRMs...some Machine guns...Oooo just like Christmas.
Not as menacing as the old-style Warhammer mech from the old FASA Battletech game (my favorite battlemech in that game).
Nice mech (or mecha?) though - looking forward to see the 2 other mechs and more weapon variants.
I haven't had a play of them yet, but they certainly read well.
Very cool, I was waiting to see it built. Looks like you designed it well, to look good from every angle.
The medium mecha is complete (except weapons) and I've finished the basics of the heavy mecha.
Basically I rescaled the medium version, and then tweaked the details. I kept the size of bolts, screws, and other details the same because I figured there should be a standard size. I don't know if this same technique will work with the light mecha, but I'll try that next.
I can see myself getting back into mech-based wargaming just because of your designs--are there any plans on doing other vehicles (tanks, gunships, etc)?
The basic game will be Mechs only... I hope we can do Vehicles/Infantry in the first expansion, and perhaps close support/transport aircraft in the second expansion... that's the plan anyway.
Nice. Will the weapons be the same scale on the Heavy Mecha, but you just get more of them?
Same max number of weapons, but yeah, you can mount bigger ones on heavy mechs.
Sounds like a good system. I was thinking of maybe having twice the number of light weapons on a hardpoint since it is a heavy mech. At least that was how I used to build them in various PC games. Not very strategic, but fun.
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2019-04-23T08:08:32Z
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http://cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/835/15mm-mecha?page=2
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Arts
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Games
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prweb
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ROKITT, a technology company that offers enterprise data management and data discovery product that enables customers to simplify management of their complex web of disparate data assets, announces the appointment of Geoff Massam as a new member of ROKITT’s Board of Advisers.
Geoff is Co-Founder, President, and COO of untapt, a fast growing FinTech startup, and a Member of the Advisory Board of ROKITT as well as iRise. Prior to founding his own company, Geoff moved through a number of Managing Director roles at Deutsche Bank, including CIO Investment banking IT and CIO Equities IT. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he worked as a Director at Merrill Lynch running their FX and Rates IT business units. As a member of the ROKITT Advisory Board, Geoff brings a unique combination of senior experience in Financial Services Technology, combined with a strong network of relationships and experience of building a tech start up from the ground up.
"ROKITT is intently focused on delivering best-of-breed enterprise data management and discovery product and has a tremendous opportunity to help its customers address some of their most complex data issues," said Massam. "I am excited to join ROKITT’s dynamic management team and contribute my experience and leadership to assist in catapulting ROKITT to the next level."
ROKITT was founded in 2014 and is focused on solving the challenges of DATA! Having worked in some of the most demanding IT environments in the world, our people bring the agility, skill and experience required to build best in class metadata product. We are proud to be certified as a women’s business enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
ROKITT ASTRA automatically discovers and self-learns data relationships with up to 90%+ accuracy to helps organizations to quickly and accurately baseline the enterprise data landscape. ROKITT ASTRA utilizes machine learning to uncover hidden data relationships while providing a powerful visualization technology to empower organizations to understand and leverage data across several areas of the business.
For more information about ROKITT ASTRA visit http://rokittech.com.
All media inquiries should be directed to Verrion Wright, Media Relations for ROKITT at 551-225-3807, 201-936-4176 or verrion.wright(at)rokittech(dot)com.
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2019-04-23T19:20:55Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/05/prweb13388802.htm
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Arts
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Business
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umaine
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Text below is an excerpt from UMaine News Update.
The browntail moth is an invasive species that was introduced into northeastern North America in the late 1800s. In the past several years, the population and range of the browntail moth has grown significantly, with more than 24,000 acres in Maine defoliated by their caterpillars in 2005. In addition to tree damage, the small toxic, barbed hairs on the caterpillar’s body present a serious concern for public health. The tiny hairs can induce painful poison ivy-like rashes and serious respiratory distress in those who come into contact with them. The irritating urticating hairs detach from the growing caterpillars and become airborne as they molt, settling on line-drying clothing, backyard picnic tables and patio furniture, and the ground surrounding the infested trees. Once in the environment, the hairs can retain their toxicity for three years.
Dr. Eleanor Groden, a professor of entomology in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, focuses her research on understanding the natural enemies of the browntail moth — the various parasitoids, fungi and viruses that target the caterpillars, and may be used to help curb the rapidly expanding moth populations affecting Maine’s communities. UMaine’s research is part of a larger initiative, one in collaboration with Charlene Donahue, an entomologist with the Maine Forest Service, as well as a growing network of concerned citizen groups who seek to monitor and identify new infestations and develop pest management strategies in areas experiencing an outbreak.
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2019-04-23T08:28:53Z
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https://sbe.umaine.edu/2017/08/28/research-grodens-laboratory-targets-browntail-moth-infestations/
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P.S. That drought in Texas has followed an exceedingly COOL winter and spring.
"Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures warmed roughly 1.53°F (0.85ºC) from 1880 to 2012, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In the Northern Hemisphere, where most of Earth's land mass is located, the three decades from 1983 to 2012 were likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years, according to the IPCC."
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2019-04-20T23:12:49Z
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https://www.fodors.com/community/europe/prices-in-spain-1013195/page2/
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1a2998 2008-09-19 Martin Stjernholm #if constant(__builtin.PollBackend) constant SmallBackend = __builtin.PollBackend; #elif constant(__builtin.PollDeviceBackend) constant SmallBackend = __builtin.PollDeviceBackend; #else constant SmallBackend = __builtin.SelectBackend; #endif //! @decl program(Pike.Backend) SmallBackend //! //! This is the most suitable backend implementation if you only want //! to monitor a small number of @[Stdio.File] objects.
75a9f6 2011-12-04 Arne Goedeke // precompile.pike checks for this #if constant(__builtin.__HAVE_CPP_PREFIX_SUPPORT__) //! This constant exists and has the value 1 if cpp supports //! the prefix feature.
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Can a psychiatrist reliably predict whether someone will go on a shooting rampage? The question has come into renewed focus due to the recent release of the clinical notes written by a psychiatrist on James Holmes, a.k.a. "The Batman Killer."
On July 12, 2012, 25-year-old James Holmes pulled out four guns in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado. It was a late-night premiere screening of The Dark Night Rises during which he slipped out after the first few minutes of the showing and left the emergency door propped open. Soon afterward, he returned wearing full commando gear, including a bulletproof vest and set off a series of gas canisters. Holmes then opened fire on the movie audience, later going outside to shoot at terrified patrons as they tried to flee. In all, he killed twelve people and wounded another seventy. According to witnesses, Holmes was "calm and detached" after he finished his shooting rampage and police soon found him standing outside his car which was parked behind the theatre. His hair had been dyed bright orange and he referred to himself as "The Joker", the central villain of the previous Batman movie. Despite Holmes being heavily armed, police managed to arrest him without incident. He then told officers that he had booby-trapped his apartment with explosive devices. The devices were later disarmed by a bomb squad.
In the investigation that followed, police would later determine that Holmes (dubbed the "Batman Killer" by the press) had a long history of mental health problems, including being assessed by Dr. Lynn Fenton, a University of Colorado psychiatrist, who had seen Holmes while he was still a student there. In fact, Holmes had mailed a notebook to the psychiatrist just hours before the shooting. The notebook described the homicidal thoughts that he was experiencing in the weeks leading up to the shooting as well as his violent plans though the notebook would not be discovered until days afterward. While the notebook had originally been addressed to Holmes' parents, he apparently reconsidered and sent it to Dr. Fenton instead. He also reportedly called a crisis help line minutes before the shooting, apparently in the hope that someone would talk him out of what he had been planning.
While Holmes managed to avoid the death penalty in the subsequent trial (the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision), he would later be convicted on twenty-four counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder before being sentenced to life in prison without parole. During the course of his trial, he was seen by two other psychiatrists who both concluded that he was legally sane at the time of the shooting despite evidence of mental illness. All that remained was the question of what had motivated him to carry out the shooting and whether Dr. Fenton or other mental health professionals who had dealt with him might have prevented the killings. As a result, her clinical notes on Fenton would be carefully examined during the course of his criminal trial. Though she acknowledged that Holmes had admitted homicidal thoughts during their sessions together, she stated that he refused to provide specific details saying that she would "lock him up" if she knew the truth.
As part of her background check on Holmes, she determined that he had no weapons permits and no significant history of violence on his student record. Despite her findings, she was concerned enough to consult a second psychiatrist about the case as well as notifying the campus threat assessment team and Holmes' mother. Her final conclusion was that Holmes "does not currently meet criteria for a mental health hold...He is not gravely disabled and has no evidence of suicidal ideation. Longstanding homicidal ideation but denies any specific targets and there is no current evidence he is angry at the grad school (or anyone else)."
What she didn't know was that, even as he was attending sessions with her, he was also buying a small arsenal of assault weapons and practicing daily at a nearby gun range. He also started the notebook that would list his deadly plans. The shooting rampage occurred just two months later.
While Dr. Fenton would later be sued over her failure to place him on a mental health hold which might have prevented the shooting, the case was later dismissed.
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2019-04-19T08:39:27Z
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https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2018/07/understanding-the-batman-killer.html
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The INFE is an opportunity for graduate-level engineering and policy students studying in the areas of nuclear material safeguards to visit advanced operating nuclear fuel cycle facilities to gain experiential understanding in facility operations, nuclear materials management, and applied nuclear material safeguards. The INFE is jointly led by subject matter experts at Texas A&M and ANL. The chosen participants will consist of students from relevant academic programs at various U.S. universities as well as national laboratory employees.
and the Zwilag Nuclear Waste Interim Storage Facility in Wurenlingen, Switzerland.
All academic participants will be selected by NSSPI and ANL. Travel expenses (airfare, lodging, and M&IE) for academic participants will be covered by NSSPI.
Applications will be accepted until March 31st, 2019 and selections will be made by April 12th, 2019. Notifications will be sent out shortly thereafter, and the inclusive travel dates for the INFE event will be from June 15-22.
The number of open positions depends on travel costs (estimated between 10 and 12 students from various US Universities). Depending on lodging locations, participants may be expected to room with one other student of the same gender. All participants are expected to visit all facilities with the group, participate in all planned activities, and exhibit professionalism during the entire event. Transportation between facilities and activities will be via train or bus. There is a possibility that participants may be asked to provide a short briefing of their respective academic program and/or research activities during one or more visits. Priority will be given to American citizen graduate students working in the field of nuclear safeguards. More information will be provided closer to the date of the event. Email any questions to cgariazzo@anl.gov.
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2019-04-19T00:19:57Z
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https://nsspi.tamu.edu/7th-international-nuclear-facilities-experience-infe-europe-2019/
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Requested for grants and donation information.
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I understand and agree to behave in a respectful manner towards all SoDA instructors, students, materials, and locations at all times. My right to attend class(es) can be revoked should I not adhere to a proper behavior code.
For valuable consideration received, I hereby grant SoDA and its legal representatives and assigns, the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish photographs/videos of my child in class at SoDA, for editorial trade, advertising and any other purpose and in any manner and medium; and to alter the same without restriction. I hereby release SoDA of its legal representatives and assigns form all claims and liability relating to said photographs/videos.
This Fee applies to new students attending SoDA classes for the first time.
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https://www.pacrep.org/SoDAClassForm
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Past interviews with Dolly Parton on her life and music. Meryl Streep on playing Julia Child in "Julie & Julia." Helen Mirren and her memoir, "In the Frame."
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2019-04-20T10:48:18Z
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https://charlierose.com/videos/20089
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Gold construction provides a lovely glow. Details: 7-mm diameter Pierced Post backings 14k gold Size: One Size. Color: Multicolor. Gender: Female. Age Group: Adult.
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2019-04-23T18:34:42Z
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https://people.com/shop/moricci-moricci-womens-earrings-14k-gold-textured-moon-stud-earrings-p0fc22692cadae8d5dbe4deedaa42ebf9.html
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With Inktober 2018 upon us, I have been asked to write about my participation in this challenge last year, and what an energising and inspiring experience it was!
Inktober was created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve his skills with ink and to develop what he calls “…positive drawing habits”. Inktober has now exploded worldwide, and now occurs every year in October, with a list of daily prompts to challenge artists to create an ink drawing every day for that month.
I had first heard about Inktober a few years ago, but felt it was beyond me, until last year when I discovered that one of my favourite illustrators was going to take part. She was going to go with her own theme rather than follow the official Inktober prompt for each day, and this I found liberating.
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2019-04-22T18:55:23Z
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https://www.accessart.org.uk/taking-on-inktober-challenge/
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As a change from our usual programmes we invited the soprano Alice Bishop and pianist Simon Marlow to provide an evening of song with piano on Friday 26th April. Split between the two genres, the recital started with two songs by Purcell--"Music for a while" and "Sweeter than roses"followed by three keyboard sonatas by Scarlatti in D minor,B minor and C major. Each of these gems were in different styles, the last being a scintillating and brilliant example of countless similar works requiring great keyboard skills. Two more Purcell songs--"My mother bids me bind my hair" and "The mermaid" followed by Haydn`s "Theme and variations in F minor" for solo piano concluded the first half.
After the interval the artistes proffered three songs by the inimitable Gabriel Faure--"Les roses d`ispahan" "Mandoline" and "En Sourdine"and two of his six piano sonatas--No.4 in E flat and No.3 in A flat....Brahm`s "O wusst ich doch den Weg zuruck" and "Unbewegte, laue Luft." Quilter`s Song of the blackbird",--"Drink to me only with thine eyes" and "Love`s philosophy"completed a recital by two fine musicians who combine with consummate skill and brilliance to great effect as was abundantly clear by their well deserved and enthusiastic applause.
Alice has a particular love of performing the classical song repertoire. She has given many recitals in London and the South East, frequently being asked back for repeat visits.
Her ever-growing repertoire is wide and varied, enabling her to put together rewarding recital programmes that are much enjoyed by audiences. If desired, programmes can be arranged around particular themes.
Her interest encompasses songs by contemporary composers and she recently gave the first performance of an extensive song cycle by St Johanser.
"A warm lyric soprano with a glorious voice and a particular gift for communicating"
Simon Marlow read music at Cambridge University, studied the piano with Ivey Dickson and Lilli Raeburn, and chamber music with Manoug Parikian.
Among the many musicians Simon has worked with, he has built an outstanding partnership with Ivo-Jan van der Werff, the Medici Quartet violist, with whom he has recorded music by Max Reger and a CD of all the viola/piano works of Arnold Bax. They recently made a round-the-world tour with concerts in New York, New Zealand and Hong Kong, where they also gave a series of master classes at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
His life has taken a number of unexpected directions, including working for ten years with the Lucis Trust, an educational charity.
But central to his interests is his busy musical career which features frequent concert appearances in Britain and many other European countries as well as recitals in the United States, Sri Lanka and Iceland. He has appeared with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, broadcast and made several recordings.
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2019-04-18T14:40:58Z
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https://sites.google.com/gurcms.org.uk/www/events/23
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki's CAPERNAUM ("Chaos") tells the story of Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the "crime" of giving him life. CAPERNAUM follows Zain, a gutsy streetwise child as he flees his negligent parents, survives through his wits on the streets, takes care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw) and her baby son, Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole), being jailed for a crime, and finally, seeks justice in a courtroom. CAPERNAUM was made with a cast of non-professionals playing characters whose lives closely parallel their own. Following her script, Labaki placed her performers in scenes and asked them to react spontaneously with their own words and gestures. When the non-actors's instincts diverged from the written script, Labaki adapted the screenplay to follow them. While steeped in the quiet routines of ordinary people, CAPERNAUM is a film with an expansive palette: without warning it can ignite with emotional intensity, surprise with unexpected tenderness, and inspire with flashes of poetic imagery. Although it is set in the depths of a society's systematic inhumanity, CAPERNAUM is ultimately a hopeful film that stirs the heart as deeply as it cries out for action.
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2019-04-21T08:20:13Z
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http://esquiretheatre.com/movie/271746/Capernaum-(Capharna%C3%BCm)/2019-02-15
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A lot of very significant earth-shattering events have taken place on July 8. On that date in 1992, for example, the new Florida Marlins unveiled to a breathlessly awaiting world the uniform they'd wear while playing baseball in Miami. No kidding, it really happened.
On that very same day, as proof that events of great importance tend to come in pairs, the people of Austria installed Thomas Klestil as their president.
In 1982 "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" opened at Alvin Theater New York City. It lasted for just five performances. In 1977 Miss Sabra Starr finished history's longest recorded belly dance — a monumental 100-hourlong belly-shaking extravaganza, while in 1974 the New York Yankees shortstop Jim Mason tied the record with four doubles in a nine-inning game.
In 1972 England's Prince Richard married Birgitte of Deurs, both then faded into obscurity and were never again heard from but we assume they lived happily ever after.
In 1946, the memorable performance of "Tidbits of 1946" opened at the Plymouth Theater New York City and lasted for exactly eight performances, providing short-term employment for the cast and a financial headache for the investors who backed this ill-fated adventure in the arts.
Not everything of signal importance took place on July 8 in the 20th century. In 1693, for example, New York City authorized America's very first police uniforms, and in 1796 the U.S. State Department issued the very first American passport.
In 1849 a Bronx street was christened St. Paul's Place, and there was no ACLU protest over this apparent violation of the doctrine of separation of church and state, probably because there was no ACLU at the time.
In 1891 the high for the day was a mere 61 degrees in both Baltimore and Philadelphia, and nobody blamed the cooling on global warming, probably because it happened before Al Gore invented global warming. And in 1895, the world celebrated the opening of South Africa's Delagoa Bay Railway.
If all these mind-boggling historic July 8 moments in history fail to convince you of the monumental importance of that storied date, consider this: on July 8, 1926, I was born.
In other words, today, Tuesday July 8, is my birthday — my 82nd. Henceforth, I will be working on my 83rd year. I'll admit that the importance of this event pales in comparison to such monumental events as the historic naming of St, Paul's Place in the Bronx, or the celebrated nuptials of Prince Richard and his Brigette, but it has great meaning for me.
Were it not for the fact that I have achieved the feat of living 82 long years, I wouldn't be around to write this column and look forward to a festive meal tonight (my favorite taco salad prepared expertly by Mary, my daughter) with two of my sons. Matt and Peter, Peter's wife Paige, and two of my daughters, Mary and Connie, my grandson and, a lot of granddaughters and, of course, mon chef, Mary.
In the event that some of you may wonder what you have to look forward to in the event that you live as long as I have, let me explain a few of the advantages of living that long.
To begin with, you no longer have to spend money on toothpaste and tooth brushes. You simply put your teeth in a glass filled with water and a denture cleaning tablet that fizzes and does the job brushing used to do and by morning you'll have sparkling clean teeth with barely any effort. Just pop 'em in and go about your business.
The time you save by not having to brush your teeth every day can be put to use by wandering around trying to remember where you put your eyeglasses, or learning exactly why it was you came into that room in the first place, or trying to remember your longtime next door neighbor's name which is hidden somewhere right on the tip of your tongue.
If you've reached the stage I have, you will find yourself looking back frequently, seeking to find whatever parts of your body may have fallen off. And you'll wonder why that guy on television always seems to be whispering instead of speaking in a voice that you can hear. You will envy the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" who could deal with his creaking joints simply by oiling them.
You will also develop a keen ability to recognize how much better things were "in your days," and to frequently remind younger folks how far from the beaten path their misbegotten generation has strayed.
You will make a lot of new friends whose names begin with Dr. And you'll be seeing them almost weekly for a host of complaints, along with the folks in the pharmacy who magically seem able to interpret the unreadable prescriptions your friends the Dr.S scribbled on little slips of paper.
Among your new friends will be those who share your longevity and with whom you can compare your maladies and derive comfort in knowing that you are not alone in your infirmities.
These are called the golden years by people who haven't yet reached them. For those who have, lead might seem a more appropriate metal.
See what you've got to look forward to? And, by the way, things were much better back in my day.
Note: July 8 events courtesy of http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/july_8.html.
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2019-04-21T02:18:19Z
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https://www.newsmax.com/brennan/july-8/2008/07/08/id/324455/
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Sanders talks about what his "Medicare for All"
"It guarantees, like every other major country on Earth, health care to every man, woman and child in this country," Sanders told CBS News' Ed O'Keefe.
But when asked if his proposal is considered socialism, Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, denied it.
"No. Actually it is not. It's similar to what the Canadians have," he said.
Under the Sanders plan, all Americans would be covered by a government-backed program like Medicare. All necessary health care would be covered -- but at a cost. Some put the price tag at $25 to $32 trillion over the next decade.
"What's expensive and what's unsustainable is the current health care system," Sanders said of the potential cost. "We are spending twice as much per capita as any other nation."
"So basically Blue Cross Blue Shield would be reduced to nose jobs?" O'Keefe asked.
"Something like that," Sanders said.
His bold position on the future of the health insurance industry doesn't account for the thousands of jobs that would be lost if companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield are no longer needed.
We reached out to Blue Cross Blue Shield for a response but have not heard back.
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2019-04-23T22:55:52Z
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-2020-on-medicare-for-all-role-of-insurance-companies/
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Harald Cerny (born 13 September 1973) is a former Austrian football midfielder. He played mostly for TSV 1860 München.
He started his career with ASV Hinterbrühl and FC Admira/Wacker where he played in the different youth teams. At the age of 19 he went to Bayern München where he started the professional career. The first two years he played for the second squad but in the 1992/93 he played in the first team giving his debut versus Eintracht Frankfurt. 1993 he went back to Austria playing with FC Admira/Wacker . After Wacker Innsbruck in the 1994/95 season he went back to Munich but played for Bayerns rival TSV 1860 München. With 268 matches, 238 of them in the Bundesliga, for 1860 he is the record holder of the club. Due to injuries, he ended his career in 2007.
Cerny made his debut for Austria in March 1993 against Greece. He played 47 matches and scored four goals.His last international was an April 2004 against Luxembourg. He was also in the squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. There he played two matches versus Cameroon and Chile.
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Independent designers and retailers have been slowly consolidating their position in the contract furniture industry. Now they’re ready to give established businesses a run for their money.
A coffee table with a base of repurposed cast-iron fencing, chairs made out of scraps collected from neighboring wood shops—these were the kinds of furniture that Brooklyn-based company Uhuru crafted in its Red Hook workshop in the first five years of its existence. Then, at a party in 2009, a designer at Uhuru met a VP from the burger joint Shake Shack. “He was basically doing the rollouts for all their new restaurants, so we just sort of started a relationship,” says Jason Horvath, who cofounded Uhuru in 2004. “They really poured some fuel on our growth.” Within a year, Shake Shack was making twice as much revenue as McDonald’s in its New York locations; it now has 130 restaurants. Uhuru provided the furniture for those outlets, which paved the way for it to set up its own contract division in 2012, executing workplace and hospitality projects and multiplying its turnover by ten in the next three years. It launched its first line of contract furniture, called the Essentials Workplace collection, at ICFF last year.
Uhuru is not alone in having this kind of story. In the past three years, the American contract furniture industry has seen quite a lot of upheaval. The biggest brands, such as Herman Miller, Knoll, and Haworth, went on an acquisition spree, absorbing a whole slew of residential brands. Then some big names in residential furniture, like West Elm and Room & Board, began to dip their toes in the commercial market. In the midst of this transition, a group of much smaller brands has cannily responded to the same market conditions—the redefinition of the office as a collaborative, creative space and the design aspirations set by the offices of tech start-ups—by investing in new capabilities and new talent.
Each of these companies has found its own path to success. Philadelphia’s Amuneal and New York–based Dune have invested in new, significantly larger manufacturing facilities to power their expansion into custom contract projects. Skram Furniture Company, which operates a solar-powered facility in Burlington, North Carolina, built its reputation for finely crafted, sustainable furniture in the high-end residential segment before starting to take on hospitality and workplace projects.
Popular design retailers have followed suit. This month, Los Angeles–based A+R—which became known for bringing European brands like Hay, Muuto, and Menu to the United States—is opening a 7,200-square-foot showroom focused on the contract market, which now accounts for more than 70 percent of its sales. Design Within Reach (DWR), which, ironically, was founded with the idea of making contract furniture accessible to general consumers, rebranded its contract division this past February.
For Dune, 2012 brought a new challenge. Richard Shemtov, who founded the company in 1998, had just landed a dream commission—seating elements for all the public areas in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Then Hurricane Sandy struck, flooding his factory with four feet of water from the Passaic River. “The flood destroyed everything, and the damages were not covered by insurance. We had completed almost 50 percent of MoMA’s order,” Shemtov remembers.
Tech start-ups have been the stars of the postrecession economy and have infected other sectors with their flexible-but-fast work culture. “If you look at most of the people we’re working with, they’re disruptive and they’re changing something in their industry,” Horvath says. “They’re asking for something different.” Thanks to their nimble design and manufacturing capabilities, smaller businesses are perfectly positioned to provide that. Plus, being from the same generation doesn’t hurt. “After all these years, I’m finally doing business with people my own age,” Amuneal’s Kamens jokes.
Other cultural factors have played into the rise of smaller contract furniture manufacturers—one of the biggest being the maker movement. Designer A. Jacob Marks started Skram in 2001 by designing and making all his furniture by hand because he has a strong belief in craftsmanship and what it can do for the town of Burlington. And as Skram has grown—at a rate between 15 and 30 percent each year—he has tried to keep those values alive. “Instead of doing several dozen jobs a year, we do several hundred jobs a year now, but I still see everything go through,” he says.
For their part, the retailers find that nurturing emerging design talents gives them an edge over bigger companies, which became rather risk-averse around the time of the recession. “We continue to find it a hallmark of our brand to introduce new and fledgling design houses to the North American market,” Apodaca says. Exclusively representing some of those, like Danish design firm Friends & Founders, provides A+R’s clients with some distinctive choices.
Their bet on the contract market having paid off, Amuneal, Dune, Skram, and Uhuru now face a new challenge—growing and competing in a landscape with some pretty big players. In this, they have an important lesson to learn from DWR, not just because it has been operating in the contract market longer but also because it has a unique relationship with the companies whose products it carries in its stores.
The emerging businesses do recognize the value of having original inventory. Having displayed workplace products at NeoCon last year, Uhuru is presenting its Totem storage collection at this year’s fair. Amuneal’s product line, showcased at its new New York showroom, includes the customizable Collector Shelving System. Dune and Skram both presented new pieces during NYCxDESIGN last month.
But the battle for the contract industry isn’t going to be easy, especially since many established manufacturers are trying to massage their giant businesses into providing custom services—Steelcase’s experiments with digital fabrication are one example (see p. 98). In the long term, however, the newer companies have the odds in their favor—they understand digital-era entrepreneurs and they are bringing fresh talent into the furniture industry. If they can manage the balancing act between maintaining a catalog and offering unprecedented levels of customization, the future could very well be theirs.
Restaurateur Danny Meyer’s burger chain, Shake Shack, was Uhuru’s first contract client. The two companies have continued to work together, most recently on Shake Shack’s new Fulton Center location in New York. “We’ve done almost 10,000 chairs for them now,” Horvath says.
Restauranteur Danny Meyer's burger chain, Shake Shack, was Uhuru's first contract client. The two companies have continued to work together, most recently on Shake Shack's new Fulton Center location in New York. "We've done almost 10,000 chairs for them now," Horvath says.
For the offices of the New York–based architecture firm Sawyer Berson, Dune created custom desks and tables for the executive offices and conference rooms, in addition to a desking system.
Columbia University’s Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, which was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and opened to critical acclaim last year, has lobby seating produced by Dune.
Amuneal’s Collector Shelving System and Light were important elements of Colum McCartan’s design of the Eventi Hotel in New York.
For the jeweler John Hardy’s Soho showroom (opposite), Amuneal collaborated with the firm Design Republic to create custom storage solutions.
At the New York office of Dots Game Design Studio, designed by Sheep + Stone Interiors, “everything but the cushions in this photo is from A+R,” Apodaca says—including the tables, lights, seating, desks, and the New Order file cabinet system from Hay.
A+R has introduced Danish brand Friends & Founders to the U.S., with products like the La Pipe chair.
A+R has introduced Danish brand Friends & Founders to the U.S., with products like the Knockout table.
Skram Furniture Company has been taking advantage of the growing crossover between the residential and hospitality segments by developing products that serve both, like the Lineground Lowdown media unit.
Skram Furniture Company has been taking advantage of the growing crossover between the residential and hospitality segments by developing products that serve both, like the Altai dining table and bench, and the Lineground armchair.
DWR provided furniture for the Rockwell Group–designed Union Square Cafe, which opened at a new location in New York last year.
The retailer has been an American conduit for a number of notable European brands, including Normann Copenhagen (Amp chandelier).
The retailer has been an American conduit for a number of notable European brands, including Muuto (Fiber side chair).
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2019-04-19T16:39:51Z
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https://www.metropolismag.com/interiors/independent-designers-unseating-contract-furniture-industry/
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I dreamed of doing just that during those long hours on the back of a John Deere tractor. Today, at age 62, my odds of working in the Oval Office don’t look good. But that’s OK, because the dream served its purpose.
The things a child who wants to be president does — doing well in school, practicing public speaking, reading widely, participating in student government, going to college, etc. — also equip you to succeed in other fields. In my case, they led to the extraordinary privilege of talking with you and other Denver Post readers in what is now my 36th year with the West’s finest newspaper.
Years ago, I read an article by an African-American teacher that made the same points I just made about how the boy who dreams of being president also prepares himself for life. In sad contrast, the teacher said, many black boys dream only of being stars in the NBA. Their chances of living that dream aren’t much better than mine were of being president. But their fall-back position is far worse.
That’s because instead of doing the things I did to be president, some young blacks spend huge amounts of time playing basketball. Alas, if you don’t make the NBA, there really isn’t much of a market for dribbling skills.
Today, at long last, those signs are coming down. In a year when the Democrats are odds-on favorites to win the presidency, their race is down to a black man and a white woman, barring an upset by John Edwards in South Carolina today.
That means black boys, brown boys and all girls today can dream the same dreams I dreamed a half- century ago, with the same beneficial effects. It means my granddaughter Marlena can dream the same dreams my grandson Oliver can. And it means this amazing thing we call America is continuing to bring still more people into its glorious vision.
The media is besotted with that question. CNN had a show recently on “race vs. gender.” Polls say Barack Obama’s appeal is strongest with African-Americans. Hillary Clinton draws best with women and Latinos.
When the delegates meet in Denver in August, one of these special dreams will have to go on hold, while the other moves ahead. I can’t predict which dream will prevail. But history does say we’ve faced this choice before.
Feminist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a strong abolitionist before the Civil War. After the slaves were freed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony split with ex-slave Frederick Douglass and other male allies by refusing to support the 14th and 15th amendments — because they granted the right to vote to male ex-slaves but not to any women. Douglass and other black leaders feared including women in the 14th Amendment’s vision of “equal protection of the laws” would prevent its passage.
The split had tragic consequences for both sides. Women had to wait for the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 to win voting rights.
Blacks in the South, in contrast, lost their rights — and often their lives — to the vicious “redeemer” regimes that restored white Supremacy after Reconstruction ended. For millions of black Americans, the rights supposedly granted in the 14th amendment were meaningless until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 made them whole.
There is a lesson in this history: black child, girl child, your dreams are one. Unite behind what you have in common and reject efforts to divide you. Regardless of which of you first wins the symbolic office of the presidency this year, you have both already changed history.
com) is deputy editorial page editor of The Denver Post.
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2019-04-24T11:55:03Z
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https://www.denverpost.com/2008/01/25/black-child-girl-child-today-your-dreams-are-one/
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1924. Wood engraving, signed and dated in block lower right, faded title and other annotation in lower margin, 15.2 x 20.8cm. Slight stain to centre of image, minor crinkles to upper margin.
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2019-04-19T16:46:01Z
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https://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/pages/books/CL166-49/l-roy-davies-aust/rankin-s-homestead
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Ai-Ai delas Alas’ son Sancho posted a video of the exact moment she had learned of her Cinemalaya win as best actress for “School Service.” The Facebook vid showed the comedienne weeping buckets at the dinner table. She was unable to attend the ceremony because of a previous appointment.
“I never thought I would win because there were many good performances this year,” Ai-Ai told the Inquirer.
She shared the honor with nominees Glaiza de Castro (“Liway”), Celeste Legaspi (“Mamang”), Iza Calzado (“Distance”), Yayo Aguila (“The Lookout”) and Perla Bautista (“Kung Paano Hinihintay ang Dapithapon”).
She likewise dedicated the award to her children and husband, director Louie Ignacio, producer Baby Go and costars, specifically the child actors, and Joel Lamangan and Joe Gruta, who portrayed her brother and father, respectively.
Her reinvention from box-office star to acclaimed indie actress is one for the books, she conceded. Thus far, she is the only comedienne who has won both the Metro Manila Film Festival and Cinemalaya best actress awards.
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2019-04-21T00:18:20Z
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https://entertainment.inquirer.net/288723/ai-ai-shares-cinemalaya-win-5-nominees
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apple
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Explore the world through captivating visual stories by award-winning Reuters photojournalists.
This immersive app for iPad reimagines news photography to bring images and information to life. Winner of 30 awards for innovation, photojournalism and design. iTunes Editors Choice.
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Eine sehr gelungene App! Die Apps von Reuters: Ein Vorbild für alle Nachrichten Apps.
This App is just epic!
Beatiful app, but sadly sometimes your favorites & followed persons just disappear.
I'd really like to bookmark the best articles, but at the moment this is not possible.
This problem exists for very long time. PLEASE fix it.
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2019-04-20T01:20:24Z
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https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/the-wider-image/id566306890?mt=8&uo=4&at=11ltMW
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Last year, we had a chance to use our new Food Cart to join both the cities of Troutdale and Wood Village in their tree lighting celebration. We are looking for volunteers to pass out cookies and hot chocolate.
December 1st 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Our times for set up and clean u – 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm) at the Fred Meyer Store.
December 7th 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Our times for set up and clean up – 4:30 – 7:30 pm) in downtown Troutdale.
Mommies, join us for a special Thanksgiving edition of mommies time on Wednesday, 11/14, from 9:30AM-10:45AM. We will have a Bible story, special craft, and yummy treats. Bring a friend!
Guys, gather here at The Chapel on Saturday 11/10, for food, fellowship and accountability, at 9:00 AM. Sons and Grandsons are welcome to attend.
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2019-04-20T08:35:04Z
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https://thechapelconnection.wordpress.com/2018/11/
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★ Online streaming service Amazon Prime has announced a multi-year deal with HBO to host several of its former TV series, including “Deadwood”, “The Sopranos”, and “The Wire”. Earlier seasons of current shows such as “Girls”, “True Blood”, and “Veep” will also be included but not HBO’s biggest hit, “Game of Thrones”. The first HBO programs will become available to US subscribers only on Prime Instant Video beginning May 21st.
★ Sony Pictures and toymaker Mattel are partnering to create a live-action movie focused on the iconic ‘Barbie’ doll. The comedy will be written by Jenny Bicks (“What a Girl Wants”). Sony sees the film as a global franchise and plans to go into production by the end of the year. It’s the 2nd collaboration for Mattel and Sony. “Masters Of the Universe” was based on Mattel action figures.
★ And today’s edition of “People” magazine features actress Lupita Nyong’o atop its annual ‘World’s Most Beautiful’ listing. Nyong’o won an Oscar for her work in “12 Years a Slave” and recently landed a contract with Lancome Paris. She takes over the crown from last year’s title-holder, Gwyneth Paltrow. When making the announcement Wednesday, a magazine rep said there was really no contest this year; Lupita seemed like the only choice.
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (ABC/CityTV) – Tonight Sam Smith f/Drake (“In the Lonely Hour”). Rerun.
• “Last Call With Carson Daly” (NBC) – Tonight Capital Cities (“In a Tidal Wave Of Mystery”). Rerun.
• “Last Week Tonight” (HBO) – Sunday former “Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver (37) debuts his new weekly series that’s part of a 2-year commitment to the comedian. 35 episodes are planned this year, airing on the network’s most high-profile night of programming.
• “Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson” (CBS) – Tonight St Paul & The Broken Bones (“Half the City”).
• “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV2) – Tonight Fitz & The Tantrums (“More Than Just a Dream”). Rerun.
• “Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS/Omni1) – Tonight Naughty Boy f/Sam Smith (“Hotel Cabana”).
• “Nashville” Concert Tour – Tonight in Chicago IL the TV series goes on-the-road for its 1st-ever tour, with Charles Esten, Chris Carmack, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, and Sam Palladio performing. Dates in Washington DC and NYC are also planned. Hayden Panettieere is not participating. The mini-tour is in support of the show’s 4th soundtrack, out May 6th.
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (New Orleans LA) – Tonight the 1st weekend of 2 gets underway. The lineup for the 45th edition includes Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, Eric Clapton, Foster the People, Robin Thicke, and Vampire Weekend. This is jazz?
• Stagecoach Country Music Festival (Indio CA) – Eric Church, Jason Aldean, and Luke Bryan are headlining the 3-day 2014 edition. Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Lee Brice, and Shelby Lynne are also on the bill.
• “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV2) – Tonight Alicia Keys & Kendrick Lamar (“The Amazing Spider-Man 2”).
• Alice In Chains – Tonight in Tulsa OK they embark on a 21-date Spring tour that runs through May 24th in Council Bluffs IA. The band is still touring in support of its 2013 album, “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”.
• Coldplay – A handful of intimate live shows in support of their upcoming album “Ghost Stories” get underway tonight in Cologne, Germany. They’ll next play NYC May 5th; then Los Angeles on May 19th, the day “Ghost Stories” is released.
• “Frozen” – The Disney soundtrack continues to dominate the album sales chart, now racking up its 11th week at #1, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
• Justin Timberlake – The staff at Crystal Cologne nightclub in Cologne, Germany were thrilled when he dropped a tip equivalent to $3,920 after a night out. Understandable, considering the drinks for his entire crew were on the house. He’s in town as part of his ongoing European tour.
• MIA – Sunday in Washington DC she begins a string of North America tour dates that culminate in an appearance at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington state on May 24th. The tour comes in support of her latest album, “Matangi”.
• One Direction – Tonight their 2014 “Where We Are” stadium tour starts off in Bogota, Colombia, followed by a series of gigs elsewhere in South America, as well as the UK, Ireland, and western Europe. North American dates begin August 1st in Toronto ON.
• “Brick Mansions” ( PG-13 Crime Drama ): In his 2nd-to-last movie, the late Paul Walker plays an undercover Detroit cop who navigates a dangerous neighborhood with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord. Co-stars David Belle, RZA, Gouchy Boy. A remake of the 2004 French film “District B13”.
• “Locke” ( R-Rated Thriller ): Tom Hardy plays ‘Ivan Locke’, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager who receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence. Co-stars Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott.
• “The Other Woman” ( PG-13 Romantic Comedy ): Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and model-turned-actress Kate Upton star in this comedy about a woman who, after discovering her boyfriend is married, befriends his wife. Then another mistress comes forward, and together they all plot revenge. Sort of “The First Wives Club” (1996) reworked for present-day.
• “The Quiet Ones” ( PG-13 Horror ): A university professor and a team of his students conduct an experiment on a young woman and in the process uncover terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces. Said to be inspired by actual events. Stars Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Erin Richards. Shot on location in Oxford, England.
• Opening in limited release: “Blue Ruin” (Thriller); “For No Good Reason” (Documentary); “The German Doctor” (Historical Drama); “Walking With the Enemy” (War Drama); and “Young & Beautiful” (Drama).
YOU CAN’T LICK BEER … OR CAN YOU?
WHICH AIRLINE HAS THE RUDEST FLIGHT ATTENDANTS?
Tea is more popular in France than coffee is in Britain.
TV actor Giancarlo Esposito (“Revolution”) is 56; Movie actor Jet Li (“The Expendables”) is 51; Pop-rock guitarist Jimmy Stafford (Train) is 50; Movie actor-comedian Kevin James (“Grown Ups”) is 49; Country musician Jay DeMarcus (Rascal Flatts) is 43; Alt-rock drummer Jose Pasillas (Incubus) is 38; Movie actor Channing Tatum (“Magic Mike”) is 34.
Rock singer-guitarist Jim James (My Morning Jacket) is 36; Indie rock drummer Patrick Hallahan (My Morning Jacket) is 36; Pop-rock singer-guitarist Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) is 30; Pop singer Nick Noonan (Karmin) is 28.
• “Hairball Awareness Day”. Any cat owner who’s ever stepped on a fresh wet one is already well aware! The usual cat hairball isn’t round but tubular, approximately 1 cm (a half-inch) in diameter and about 4 cm (1.5 in) long.
• “Malaria Awareness Day”, the 7th annual observance with the ultimate goal of eradicating malaria on the African continent. Step 1 is providing mosquito nets for prevention.
• “Hug an Australian Day”, to show our appreciation for all the friendliness, humor, and support Aussies have given us over the years.
• “Kids & Pets Day”, an annual celebration of the magical connection between children and animals.
• “Pretzel Day”, honoring the world’s oldest snack food. They were made as early as 610 AD by monks in France & Italy using dough scraps formed to represent a child’s arms folded in prayer.
• “Sense of Smell Day”, an annual event sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute on the last Saturday of April. Many children’s museums and science centers focus on how the sense of smell plays an important role in daily life.
• “World Intellectual Property Day”, established by WIPO in 2000 to celebrate content creators, and to raise awareness of how patents, copyright, and trademarks impact our daily lives.
• “World Penguin Day”, an annual excuse to salute one of the few natives of Antarctica by wearing penguin colors … black & white.
• “World Tai Chi Day”, saluting the martial art that’s performed in slo-mo.
• “World Veterinary Day”, celebrated annually on the last Saturday of April to honor the medical professionals who work to maintain animal health.
• “Freedom Day”, a South African public holiday celebrating the country’s first post-apartheid elections held 20 years ago on this day (1994). This year’s public holiday is on Monday.
• “Pet Parents Day”, honoring those who consider pets a part of their family. For all the treats you’ve given, for all the poop you’ve scooped, on this day we honor you!
☎ How many items have you checked off your bucket list? Share.
Question: While doing THIS, you are likely to consume 25% more food than you intended.
Answer: Snacking in a movie theater.
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2019-04-25T06:03:37Z
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http://www.thebullsheet.com/show-prep/april/april-25-2014
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Posted on February 19, 2013, in Boston Bruins, NHL and tagged Boston Bruins, Brad Marchand, henrik lundqvist, new york rangers, NHL, sports, winnipeg jets. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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2019-04-20T05:02:45Z
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https://whatsbrewininsports.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/bruins-daily-player-of-the-week-feb-11-17-2013/
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indiatimes
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The aviation ministry is planning to allow operation of small aircrafts. This nod could give wings to Anand Mahindra’s aviation plans in the country. To start with single engine planes with a minimum of 4-seat capacity may be allowed.
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2019-04-19T03:35:17Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-now/policy/aviation-ministry-plan-to-allow-operation-of-small-aircrafts/videoshow/45177647.cms
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Tower, the world’s biggest operator of mobile phone towers, has applied to list its shares in Hong Kong in what could become the city’s second $10 billion offering this year.
The company, formed in 2014 with the merging of the towers operations of China’s three state-backed telecoms providers, filed its application for an initial public offering (IPO) on Monday.
The application comes a little more than a week after Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi filed for an IPO that could also raise as much as $10 billion.
It would be the first time the city has hosted two mega-flotations since 2010, when insurer AIA and Agricultural Bank of China raised $20 billion and $22 billion respectively, Thomson Reuters data shows.
China Tower is expected to seek a valuation of up to $40 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the plans.
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2019-04-21T23:36:29Z
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https://in.reuters.com/article/china-tower-ipo-idINKCN1IF1J0
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Need an English text corrected immediately? Send your text to Chatting Cat!
PROS: The average wait time for text correction is 5 minutes or less. You can submit everything from papers to resumes to business emails for screening by native English speakers in the USA or UK. Chatting Cat is a good alternative to Lang-8 which is free, but can take a few hours.
CONS: Chatting Cat does little to vet its tutors who rake in $1.00 for 300 words or so of text, while students pay about double that for text edits.
Write texts in the language your learning and receive corrections from native speakers.
PROS: For language learners who need help writing in another language, you’d be hard-pressed to find a site better than Lang-8. Native speakers usually correct your texts in a matter of hours. Though sites like italki offer social language learning with similar features, Lang-8 wins with both quality and quantity of native speakers in many languages.
CONS: Despite being around for so many years, it’s still pretty glitchy! Sometimes corrections aren’t saved.
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2019-04-21T04:37:36Z
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https://languagelearningdirectory.wordpress.com/category/writing-help/
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swarthmore
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I applaud Day's attempt to remove belief from the realm of the mind and to reconstitute it in terms of social pragmatics. However, Day's emphasis on belief presentation remains problematically psychologistic. To escape the Machiavellian implications and to restore dignity to belief, a relational formulation is invited.
Kenneth J. Gergen. (1993). "Belief As Relational Resource". International Journal For The Psychology Of Religion. Volume 3, Issue 4. 231-235.
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2019-04-26T16:08:19Z
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https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/932/
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citypages
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"Weed makes you hungry, happy, creative, and sleepy," not hankering to shoot a cop.
Sounds like there isn't any evidence that he was high at the time, since THC can stay in your system for awhile after you use it (depending on the user). So unless he had a hand in his gun, hand on the wheel, and a hand on a joint, and there is a picture of this, it sounds like a bunch of B.S. Especially since he only had 2 hands.
Also, I thought the audio from the police car as they were pulling him over said that he had a wide nose and looked like someone who had just committed a crime. So I don't know how you change your story to "I could smell weed from the car so I pulled them over."
Lastly, weed makes you hungry, happy, creative, and sleepy. So while he shouldn't have been driving if he was using, because driving under any substance is bad (especially coffee), he would have only been a threat to a McDonald's dollar menu.
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2019-04-20T18:24:18Z
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http://www.citypages.com/news/if-he-was-smoking-weed-philando-castiles-greatest-threat-was-to-mcdonalds-dollar-menu/406909015
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Psychology 515, Colloquium in Experimental Psychology, both Fall and Spring semesters of first year in the program.
Three semester hours of a research practicum course (Psychology 505 or 509) to be taken during the first year. The goal is to prepare the student for undertaking the MA thesis.
Statistics 521-522 or 531-532, or an equivalent sequence.
Psychology 420 or 565, History and Systems.
Any 600-level course approved by the Student Advisory Committee may be included.
Six semester hours of Psychology 500, Thesis.
Students must earn a grade of B or better in all courses that are to count toward the 32 hour total.
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2019-04-24T10:53:57Z
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https://psychology.utk.edu/grad/ma_curriculum.php
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Brevard County, Florida, is home to several cities of note including Cape Canaveral, Melbourne, Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island. It is on the northeast coast of Florida, in an area known as the Space Coast for its association with NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Its claim to historic fame is that Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon was thought to have come ashore on the coast near Melbourne Beach. Brevard County is home to many pet-friendly hotels.
If you're visiting Florida with the hopes of seeing a space shuttle launch, or because you want to visit Kennedy Space Center, go ahead and bring that four-footed member of the family. Several hotels welcome family pets. The Residence Inn, Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral (marriott.com) offers suites with full kitchen areas and separate sleeping quarters.
The Best Western Oceanfront Hotel and Suites (bestwesterncocoabeach.com) offers an affordable family vacation the entire family can enjoy. Located on North Atlantic Avenue, the Best Western is on a barrier island minutes from Cape Canaveral and the east coast surfing capital. Guests may bring up to two pets and there is a $15 to $25 per-stay fee, as of 2011. Many of the premium rooms, such as the balcony beach front rooms, are off-limits to guests traveling with pets, so be sure you double-check if you want an ocean view but are traveling with your dog.
LaQuinta Inn (lq.com) at 7200 George T. Edwards Drive in Melbourne welcomes dogs of all sizes. Furthermore, they do not impose a restriction on the size of the dog, or how many dogs you can have in your room. There is no extra pet fee. Breakfast is included in your room rate, as are high-speed Internet, free parking, fitness room and swimming pool. The LaQuinta is an all-suite hotel close to Patrick Air Force Base, Space Coast Stadium and the Brevard Zoo. If you like freshly made waffles in the morning, LaQuinta has you covered.
The Hilton Inn (hilton.com) on Rialto Boulevard in Melbourne welcomes guests traveling with up to two dogs under 75 pounds each. It imposes a $50 per-stay cleaning fee. It offers standard guestrooms as well as suites. A fitness center and swimming pool are on the premises. The rooms are equipped with a spa tub and free Wi-Fi. There is an on-site restaurant. Guests traveling with pets can order a dog bed, treats and special dishes for their dogs. It is close to the historic downtown Melbourne shopping district, the Brevard Zoo, King Center for the Performing Arts and local beaches, as well as Kennedy Space Center.
A., Michelle. "Brevard County Florida Dog Friendly Hotels." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/brevard-county-florida-dog-friendly-hotels-53486.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
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In 1979 an exciting performance was captured of a trio of masters, Stephane Grappelli on violin, Joe Pass on Guitar and Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass (also known by the abbreviation NHOP). This trans-generational, all string ensemble swings with a power that is unmatched by many a bigger and more varied band. These expert musicians play with such feeling and precision that they get a big, big sound is despite the smallness of the group.
The repertoire consists of well loved standards played faithfully to the jazz swing style but given so much life that there is no sense of digging up the past. The music is undeniably present. All the tunes are played slightly up tempo from standard from which is derived great momentum. Pass and NHOP often play tastefully around each other providing fills while backing Grappelli as on "Time After Time." However when NHOP plays straight walking time he uses his expert dynamic control to keep the music driving as on the up beat "Let's Fall in Love." It really is amazing just how swinging his bass fiddle is!
None of this is wasted on Grappelli, of course. He swings on top with a non-stop liveliness decorated with his super fast trade mark arpeggios. His tone is sweet but bright and sharp when needed. Listen to the melody statement on "I'll Remember April" with the many lively and impassioned fills and melodic enhancements. He also shows that his soloing ability includes some of the more adventurous harmonic and melodic ideas as on the ballad "I Can't Get Started."
However Pass and NHOP also get ample time to shine on solos. "How Deep is the Ocean" is a Pass NHOP duet with Pass showing his exquisite chord melody playing and NHOP playing in a Scott LaFaro type accompaniment with much solo room for both. Pass also cooks on "It's Only a Paper Moon" and NHOP goes beyond normal ability on his fast solo work on "I'll Remember April."
A live concert of a small group that swings very big has been preserved for our enjoyment. These musicians play strongly and immaculately cohesive. If you like music that really swings with melody that sings and floats, you'll love this album.
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2019-04-20T20:46:08Z
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https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tivoli-gardens-stephane-grappelli-fantasy-jazz-review-by-aaj-staff.php
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Don't think of saying goodnight yet, it's only just gone one.
She'd look at it and him and say 'Now that's enough of that!
His wife said, 'If you do, your'll have to go without your clothes.
You'll help them with the hose machine?
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2019-04-23T04:10:03Z
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http://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-P/Put-On-Your-Slippers.htm
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Dude. I’m getting super excited for Keep Holding On. I finished the whole writing/revision/copyediting process last summer, which seems like forever ago. But soon it will be June 14 and Keep Holding On will be out in the world.
For now, you can read the first chapter on my website.
Congrats to the winner of my Facebook Keep Holding On giveaway, Betsy H.! You guys told me some amazing ways you’re planning to help make the world a better place this spring. I am proud of each and every one of you.
Cassandra Bankson – This girl is fearless. It takes immense courage to reveal your true self to the world, which Cassandra does on her YouTube. Although my acne wasn’t as bad as Cassandra’s when I was a teen (hers is really improving – you GO girl!), my face was a horror show. Cassandra shows us her face without makeup and her steps for concealing acne in this video. I wish Cassandra was around when I was in high school. She would have made me feel better about myself, just like she does now for her tons of followers. Cassandra Bankson is a freaking rock star.
Lady Gaga – The Born This Way Foundation was founded by Lady Gaga and her mom. It’s an initiative to create an atmosphere of love and caring among teens, particularly in schools. Lady Gaga’s philosophy is right on: our existing culture of intolerance can be changed over time if enough of us work to change it. The three pillars of her foundation are safety, skills, and opportunity. Lady Gaga explains SSO here. Snaps for Mother Monster.
The Bully Project – The documentary Bully is an uncensored look at bullying in our schools. You can share your bullying stories here and pledge to take a stand against bullying here. Bully will be out on March 30. Ironically, it received an R rating. Which is like saying the truth about how mean kids speak and act is so gruesome the kids they’re tormenting can’t watch. It’s saying kids can’t watch something they see every single day at school. This rating will prevent the kids who need help the most from seeing the film. You can sign the petition to give bully a PG-13 rating instead of R.
Regular readers of this blog know that my new book, Keep Holding On, focuses on the consequences of bullying. I decided to write this book to share some of my own experiences from when I was bullied pretty much every day. School was a nightmare for me. When I was being relentlessly tormented in junior high and high school, I felt like no one understood my pain. I know what it’s like to never feel safe at school. So I totally understand teens who tell me about their own agony and isolation. The thing is, there are lots of us who have survived bullying and are struggling every day to survive now. Please know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Stay strong and never give up.
Yay, spring is officially in the house! I was going to post on March 20, aka the vernal equinox, aka the Best Day Ever, but I was too busy with outdoor funtivities. I look forward to the vernal equinox more than any other day all year. This was the first one I can remember where it actually felt like spring on the first day of spring. Spring usually arrives along with crazy low temperatures or a snowstorm. I am just SO happy with this gorgeous spring week.
And can I just say the vernal equinox Google Doodle was the most adorable I’d ever seen?
Other exciting things have been happening. I went to a new eye doctor who referred me to a specialist. Guess what the specialist said? I’ve been walking around with the wrong glasses/contacts prescription for, oh, four years. Without glasses, I can only see a few inches in front of me clearly. Plus I have astigmatism in both eyes. Which is a problem when I wear regular contacts. The astigmatism means that different parts of my eye have slight variations in vision. Dr. Amazing fitted me for the right contacts – different prescriptions, designed for astigmatism – and I can totally tell the difference. My contacts are actually comfortable! The computer screen isn’t blurry! I don’t get dizzy in Zumba when we do fast spins anymore! It’s a springtime miracle.
As if all that wasn’t exciting enough, there was a cute guy looking at frames at the same time I was. We totally bonded over eye-related freakouts. Like how I can’t stand the air puff thing and how it took me forever to be able to put in contacts. He’s the same way! It was such a good day all around. You know those smooth days when everything seems to fall into place? It was 71 degrees, I was outside all afternoon in a tee, and City Bakery finally had their elusive peanut butter cookies. I’ve lived here for 16 years and that was the first time I got to try their legendary peanut butter cookies because they always run out. It was just one of those days when the Universe made sure everything came together.
My new glasses will take a bit longer to get used to. My current frames have a sneaky little crack you can hardly see. The crack makes it impossible for the frames to take new lenses. Which means I have to give up these frames I love so much. These frames that have seen me through many book drafts and events and concerts and amazing New York experiences. I just have to take a deep breath, select new frames, and move on. Which was traumatic to hear at first. Change is often traumatic, but I’m working on welcoming all change the Universe brings instead of fighting it.
Have you entered my Facebook giveaway to win an ARC of Keep Holding On yet? Today’s the last day. Just like my Facebook fan page, then comment in the giveaway thread with one thing you will do this spring to make the world a better place.
A certain movie coming out today is already making the world a better place. I’ll be attempting (unsuccessfully, I’m sure) to avoid Hunger Games crowds by seeing the movie this Sunday instead of tonight. Whichever day you’re going and whatever you’re doing over this gorgeous spring weekend, may the odds be ever in your favor.
We have an amazing week ahead of us. The vernal equinox is tomorrow. It’s felt like spring for most of this winter, but it will be awesome when spring is officially in the house. The Hunger Games will be dazzling us on the big screen. Plus I have exciting apartment stuff going on, like picking out new wood floors and hopefully rocking my co-op board interview. I’m stoked.
In celebration of spring, I’m giving away another ARC of Keep Holding On over on my Facebook fan page. Entering to win is easy. Just like my page and leave a comment in the giveaway thread!
2. Leave a comment in the giveaway thread telling me one way you will try to make the world a better place this spring.
1. Comments must be made by Friday, March 23 at 11:11 pm.
2. One winner will be randomly selected.
3. The winner will be messaged on Facebook and announced on my page.
4. This giveaway is open to US residents only. However, if you live abroad and have a contact in the States who can receive the prize for you, it can be sent to their address.
The vernal equinox is the one day I look forward to the most all year. To me, it represents new possibilities, a fresh start, and everything that is shiny and new. I can’t wait to hear how you will spread the love this spring!
When I read Looks by Madeleine George back in 2009, I was completely blown away. Madeleine George is one of those writers whose words shine so brightly you need shades to read her books. So when her new novel came out yesterday, I did a little happy dance.
This is one of those addictive books where you have to stay up late reading it, eyes burning out of your head at three in the morning, knowing you’re going to pay for it the next day but not caring.
This is one of those books where every sentence is such a masterpiece you have to read them over and over again, basking in the glow of literary perfection.
Want to know more? Check out the summary on Goodreads. Then get ready for some really good reading time.
Well, it’s that time of year again. The NYC Teen Author Festival is back! Friendly neighbor David Levithan has organized another impressive line-up from March 26 to April 1. How does he do it? He has skills like that.
Saturday, March 31, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 1, 1:00-1:45 p.m.
Monday, March 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 28, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Check for updates on times and Manhattan library locations at the NYC Teen Author Festival Facebook page.
Friday, March 30, 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday, March 30, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 31, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 1, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Good news! I’ve submitted my new book to my editors. This is mainly just good news for me, as it means that I get a week or so off while they read it. Then I’ll go in for a meeting to discuss revisions. Until then, I have some time to catch up on everything that gets put aside while racing the clock to meet a deadline. Plus I’ll get to enjoy a whole week of temperatures in the 60s. In the winter! This winter has been such a gift. It’s a good thing I’ve been documenting it here. I never want to forget the way Mild February made me almost like winter. So yeah, it will be a good break to switch gears and focus on things other than writing for a little while. Like my new apartment.
In case you missed the billboard I rented about it, I bought an apartment here in downtown Manhattan. It was my dream for, like, ever. I found it at the end of January, signed contracts in February, and now the co-op board is reviewing my application package. They should be setting my interview date soon. After I have board approval, we can start renovations. Let’s hope the board approves of true love. That’s what me and my new BF (aka apartment) have.
Planning the renovations has been ridiculously fun. My architect and I took a field trip to the Architects & Designers Building, which has many showrooms featuring appliances, fixtures, tiles, and furniture. I have been psyched out of my mind to start selecting fixtures. There’s something about getting to choose the exact kitchen faucets and towel racks and drawer pulls and doorknobs I want that makes me giddy. Fixtures are my drug of choice.
That’s my guy on the right. The whole freezer drawers thing looks so fancy. Actually, the whole freezer thing is fancy, given that I haven’t had a freezer for the nine years I’ve been living in my current place. Ah, the sacrifices we make for location. The first thing I shall put in my new freezer will be a box of old-school popsicles. It will be epic.
…those refrigerators are adorbs, but I had to stay strong), it was time for fixtures. We had no idea what we were about to discover.
Discovering Fantini blew our minds. First off, I should explain that my architect and I have the same taste. We’re both into minimalist streamlining with clean, smooth lines. So it’s no surprise that we love the Italian designers. Look at all those fun colored knobs when you go in! I’m into the sleek, polished chrome look, but they were so freaking cute.
Water comes out of those holes on the left. Cool, right?
Now that Fantini has shown me exactly which fixtures I want, I can move on to things like furniture. I am happy to report that I’ve found my new couch. This will be my very first grownup couch! Where more than two people can sit! We’re talking 11.5-foot sectional, coffee table, the works. I’d been dreaming of a big, puffy couch my whole New York life. So I decided to go all the way. When I arrived at the couch store and said, “I’ve come for the Big Kahuna,” it sounded like a line from a movie. But it was real life. And now I have a really big couch! Puffy. My look is all white walls with pops of color. The couch is bright red in a soft microfiber. It’s going to be beautiful. And have I mentioned puffy?
One last thing about Fantini. Leaving that showroom was not easy. But I have a Knowing that I’ll be back. Dreaming big is the first step in turning your dreams into reality. Let’s turn our wishes into fixtures together. Dream big, everyone!
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Claudio Marchisio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo marˈkiːzjo]; born 19 January 1986) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Italian national team. A product of the Juventus youth system, he spent a large portion of his career at his hometown club, with the exception of a season-long loan spell at Empoli, winning seven consecutive Serie A titles between 2012 and 2018, and four consecutive Coppa Italia titles between 2015 and 2018. He was the club's second vice-captain, behind Giorgio Chiellini, before his contract was terminated in 2018 and subsequently signed with Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg.
Since making his breakthrough in the 2008–09 season, Marchisio has often been compared to former Juventus and Italian midfielder Marco Tardelli by the Italian press, due to his energy, tenacious style of play, and good reading of the game, as well as his ability to seamlessly switch between offence and defence. A hard-tackling, versatile, and dynamic box-to-box midfielder, with good vision and technique, he is able to play as a defensive midfielder, as a playmaker, or out wide, but his preferred and most effective position is in the centre. Though right-footed, he is also competent with his left, as evidenced by his penchant for attempting a shot or scoring goals from outside the penalty box with both feet, if given the chance.
At international level, Marchisio has represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and at the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups; he also took part at UEFA Euro 2012, winning a runners-up medal, and at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, where he won a third-place medal.
Born in Turin, Marchisio is the youngest of three children and was raised in the comuni of Chieri and Andezeno, where his parents run a family business and continue to reside. His family were Juventus fans and season ticket holders and he used to be a ball boy at the Stadio delle Alpi. As a child, he was interested in various sports and joined the youth football team at Fiat's satellite sports club Sisport, where he was later scouted by Juventus youth coaches at the age of seven. A talented middle-distance runner and skier, he began vocational training as a surveyor after the mandatory schooling age of 16, in case his football career did not work out, but eventually dropped out to concentrate on football.
While in the youth system, Marchisio played as a forward and as a trequartista (offensive midfielder), modeling himself after his childhood hero Alessandro Del Piero, until he was switched to a deeper midfield role at the age of 16, due to his slender physique. During the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons, he was called up to train with the first team numerous times by Fabio Capello and given a squad number. He made the bench for the game away at Cagliari but remained an unused substitute. Later that season, he captained the Primavera side to their first Campionato Nazionale Primavera title in 12 years and a runner-up finish at the Viareggio Tournament in his last full season with the Primavera squad.
After being included in the preseason friendlies, Marchisio was promoted to the first team permanently following Juventus' relegation to Serie B due to the Calciopoli scandal and given the number 15 shirt. On 19 August 2006, he made his first team debut in the Coppa Italia third round, coming on as a late substitute for Matteo Paro in a 3–0 win over Martina. In September, he captained the Primavera team for the last time in the Supercoppa Primavera, thrashing old rivals Internazionale 5–1. He then made his league debut on 28 October against Frosinone as a late substitute for David Trezeguet and made his first start in the following match against Brescia. As the season progressed, he established himself in Didier Deschamps' side and ended the season as first-choice central midfielder. He capped a fine season with an assist for Del Piero's match opener in the 5–1 thrashing of Arezzo, a result which secured immediate promotion to Serie A mathematically.
On 25 July 2007, Marchisio was loaned out to Empoli for the 2007–08 season with good friend and fellow youth product Sebastian Giovinco to gain first-team experience. He made his Serie A debut on 26 August against Fiorentina and European debut the following month in the UEFA Cup against FC Zürich. Although he did not score any goals, he tallied two vital assists and was a regular starter when available for the Tuscan club under both Luigi Cagni and Alberto Malesani. Unfortunately, Empoli were unable to avoid relegation and he was recalled to Turin by the recently appointed manager Claudio Ranieri.
After his impressive performances for Empoli, Marchisio returned to Juventus for the 2008–09 campaign and made an impressive Champions League debut, playing the full 90 minutes against Artmedia Petržalka in the Champions League third qualifying round, second leg. In November, former Milan and Fiorentina striker Stefano Borgonovo wrote about him on La Gazzetta dello Sport: "Marchisio has everything needed to play at the highest level...[He] has personality, reminds me of the great Marco Tardelli." Under Ranieri, he eventually established himself as first-choice due to injuries and lackluster performances from other midfielders. He further established himself in the starting eleven after a man-of-the-match game against Milan in pouring rain that earned him rave reviews from the media. He quickly became a firm favourite amongst the Bianconeri fans and they voted him as their Player of the Month for December on the club website. Five days after his 23rd birthday, he scored his first Serie A goal, the match-winner against Fiorentina. Less than a week later, he was rewarded with an improved five-year contract extension. His season was interrupted by a series of minor injuries in April, which resulted in him being sidelined for almost a month, and he returned to the starting eleven for the penultimate matchday away at Siena, marking it with a goal and an assist for captain Alessandro Del Piero's second goal of the match in a 0–3 win and then setting up Vincenzo Iaquinta's opener in a 2–0 home win against Lazio, a result that ensured a second-place finish for the Bianconieri. When the season ended, he was continuously linked with various clubs, but Director of Sport Alessio Secco ended all speculation by listing him as one of the "untouchable" players. His good performances did not go unnoticed by Italian national team coach Marcello Lippi, who later handed him his senior international debut.
Marchisio continued to be first choice under Ciro Ferrara and later Alberto Zaccheroni mainly due to his versatility and consistency in midfield. During the beginning of the 2009–10 season, he had a good run of form, winning Man of the Match awards in four consecutive matches and being voted Player of the Month for September by registered members on the club website but picked up a knee injury in the loss to Palermo at the beginning of October. After surgery, he was sidelined for one month-and-a-half and made his comeback as a last minute substitute in the Champions League group stage tie away at Bordeaux on 25 November. On 5 December 2009, he scored the winner in a 2–1 home win over Internazionale in the Derby d'Italia, where he showed incredible composure to drag the ball with both feet before dinking it over the stranded Júlio César. Three days later, he set up David Trezeguet to score the opening goal of the game in the decisive Champions League 1–4 home loss against Bayern Munich. At the end of the year, he was voted Juventus Player of the Year for 2009 by fans on the club website. In the Europa League round of 16 tie against Fulham on 11 March 2010, he captained the team for the first time when David Trezeguet handed him the captain's armband after being substituted at the 62nd minute, as vice-captains Gianluigi Buffon and Giorgio Chiellini missed the match through injury and Del Piero remained an unused substitute. He scored an equalizer against Catania on the second-last away matchday to keep Juventus in a Europa League spot and, despite Juventus' dismal season, was one of the few players to escape the mass criticism from the press.
Despite a disappointing 2010 FIFA World Cup campaign, Marchisio began the season as first-choice under new manager Luigi Delneri. After a slow start to the season, he began to thrive in his role as a wide midfielder. In September, he marked his 100th appearance in a Juventus shirt with a goal against Udinese in a 4–0 win. He started his first match as captain against Roma in April. On 17 May 2011, Juventus announced that Marchisio had signed an improved, five-year contract with the club. His semi-bicycle kick goal against Udinese in January was voted Goal of the Season by fans on fansite vecchiasignora.com.
Marchisio started the 2011–12 season well by scoring Juve's final goal in the opening match, a 4–1 win over Parma. Under former Juventus legend Antonio Conte, he was played alongside new signings Arturo Vidal and Andrea Pirlo to great effect and were dubbed the "M-V-P" midfield by the press and fans. He scored a late double to break the deadlock in the 2–0 win at home against Milan, the first time he has ever scored more than one goal in a match. On 20 November, he scored in his second consecutive league game and surpassed his personal season record of four goals by scoring the last goal in a 3–0 win over Palermo. He scored his first Coppa Italia goal, the match winning goal against Bologna in extra time to send Juve to the quarter-finals. His good form during the first half of the season earned him a nomination for the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award and a place in the Serie A Team of the Year. On 18 March, he ended a three-month goal drought with a header in the 5–0 thrashing at Fiorentina and dedicated it his second son, who was born earlier that week. He scored his ninth goal of the season against Lecce in his 200th career match to take his goal tally for the season into the double figures. The following match, he won his first Scudetto after Juve won 2–0 against Cagliari and runners-up Milan lost 4–2 in the Milan Derby against Inter, although Juventus were defeated in the Coppa Italia Final by Napoli. He ended the season with ten goals in league and cup matches.
With the departure of captain and club legend Alessandro Del Piero in June 2012, it was speculated that Marchisio would "inherit" the number 10 jersey but he declined, stating that he was a midfielder, not a striker, and had grown accustomed to his number 8. He captained the team on the opening match of the season against Parma in the absence of captain Gianluigi Buffon and first vice-captain Giorgio Chiellini. In November, he scored his first-ever goal in a UEFA club competition in the Champions League group stage home fixture against Nordsjælland. He also assisted Fabio Quagliarella's equaliser against Chelsea. He was one of four Juventus players nominated for the 2012 UEFA Team of the Year and was voted into the Serie A Team of the Year at the Oscar del Calcio awards. Although he played fewer matches compared to last season due to suspension and a minor injury, he contributed crucial goals to his side, including the match winner against Siena and a brace against intercity rivals Torino as Juve won a second consecutive league title. Marchisio also scored in the first leg against Celtic in the Champions League round of 16, which Juventus eventually won 5–0 on aggregate to progress on to the quarter-final stage, where they were eliminated by eventual champions Bayern Munich.
Marchisio with Juve in 2013.
During the 2013–14 season, Marchisio was mostly competing with French youngster Paul Pogba for a spot in the midfield three. He struggled with an injury sustained during the club's 2013 Supercoppa Italiana victory, and was mainly used as a substitute during the first half of the season during league games, starting in Champions League/Europa League matches instead. Partly due to Arturo Vidal's absence due to knee surgery, Marchisio started more matches in the last few months of the season – his four goals all came during the latter half of the season. In April against Bologna he made his career 200th Serie A appearance. He scored Juve's last goal of the season on the last matchday of the season, a 3–0 win over Cagliari. Juventus were able to win their third consecutive title that season, and their 30th overall, with an Italian record of 102 points. Juventus were eliminated in the group stage of the Champion's League, however, although they managed to reach the semi-finals of the Europa League, where they were defeated by Benfica.
The 2014–15 season was a watershed season for the midfielder as he reached several milestones: his 200th (Serie A) and 300th (all competitions) appearances for Juve and first Coppa Italia title and Champions League final appearance. Marchisio scored his first goal of the 2014–15 season, under new manager Massimiliano Allegri, on 13 September, a 2–0 home win over Udinese. On 15 February 2015, he made his 200th appearance in Serie A with Juventus, scoring a goal in a 2–2 draw against Cesena. On 7 April 2015, Marchisio returned from a short injury lay-off for the second leg of the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia against Fiorentina and made an immediate impact, sending in the cross which led to Alessandro Matri's opening goal and setting up Leonardo Bonucci's goal from a corner in a 3–0 win, which allowed Juventus to progress to the final of the competition. However, his yellow card in the game meant that he would be suspended for the final, a 2–1 extra time victory over Lazio. Marchisio made his 300th appearance in all competitions for Juventus in a 3–2 home win against Fiorentina on 29 April. In the absence of Andrea Pirlo due to injury, Marchisio occasionally deputised as designated corner and indirect free kick taker. On 2 May, he took part in Juventus's 1–0 win over Sampdoria, which allowed the club to capture the Serie A title for a fourth consecutive time. On 16 May, he scored the winner against Inter in the Derby d'Italia, the first time he has scored from the penalty spot during a match. In the Champions League Final loss to Barcelona, he started the counterattack with a backheel pass that led to Álvaro Morata's equalizer, but the eventual winners scored two more goals to win 3–1. With 52 appearances, Marchisio was one of three players, the other two being Bonucci and Argentine midfielder Roberto Pereyra, to make the most appearances for Juventus across all competitions that season. Although he did not score as many goals as in previous three seasons, he tallied the second most assists, only one less than top scorer Carlos Tevez. He was named in the UEFA Champions League squad of the season and voted Player of the Season for 2014–15 by registered users of vecchiasignora.com, the largest Italian-language Juventus fansite.
At the end of the season, Marchisio was the subject of transfer rumours as his present contract was due to expire next summer. On 6 July 2015, however, he signed a five-year extension, keeping him at his hometown club until the 2019–20 season. Marchisio was ruled out for a month after sustaining an injury to an adductor muscle in his right leg in his first league appearance of the season on 12 September 2015, as Juventus drew 1–1 at home to Chievo. On 24 November, Marchisio was nominated for the 2015 UEFA Team of the Year. On 15 March 2016 it was announced Marchisio would miss the second round of 16 leg of the Champions League against Bayern Munich on 16 March due to a muscular problem in his left calf. He returned to action on 2 April, in a 1–0 home victory over Empoli. Two weeks later on 17 April, Marchisio suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury during Juventus' 4–0 home victory over Palermo after an awkward fall with a challenge on Franco Vázquez, which ruled him out for the rest of the season as well as the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. After a successful surgery to his left knee on April 19, it was confirmed he would be sidelined for six months. After Juventus clinched their record fifth consecutive Serie A title on 25 April, the club's captain and goalkeeper Buffon dedicated the victory to Marchisio.
On 26 October 2016, Marchisio returned to the pitch after six months on the sidelines in a 4–1 home win over Sampdoria. He scored his first goal since his injury in the 3–1 win away at Sevilla during the Champions League group stage. The season saw Marchisio reach two milestones. On 15 April 2017, he made his 250th Serie A appearance for Juventus in a 2–0 away win over Pescara. On 21 May 2017, he started in the last home fixture of the season against Crotone, which Juventus won 3–0 to seal a historic sixth consecutive Scudetto, which made Marchisio one of only six players to have been in the squad for all six successful seasons. On 3 June, Marchisio came on as a substitute in his second Champions League Final in three years, but Juventus were defeated 4–1 by defending champions Real Madrid.
Marchisio sustained another knee injury during the first match of the 2017–18 season on 19 August against Cagliari. He did not make it to the starting line up until 5 November, in a 2–1 home win over Benevento. Just before the start of the 2018–19 season, on 17 August 2018, it was announced that Marchisio had left Juventus following "the agreed termination" of his contract, which ended the 25 years Marchisio spent in the Juventus system.
Marchisio playing for Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2018, in a training match.
On 3 September 2018, he signed a two-year contract with the Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg. On 16 September 2018, Marchisio made his debut for Zenit in a 2–1 away win over Orenburg, coming on as a substitute in the 71st minute.
Marchisio in Italy's Euro 2012 quarter-final match against England.
Marchisio was initially called up in early May to the Italy under-21 squad for the 2007 European Championships but eventually withdrew due to injury. He made his under-21 debut in June 2007, the group opening game of the 2009 European Championship qualifying, but his debut ended rather unfortunately as he was injured in a collision barely ten minutes into the match while attempting an effort on goal, although the shot would lead to Robert Acquafresca's opener seconds later. Eventually, he became first-choice during the latter stages of the campaign. He scored a 12-yard volley at the 2008 Toulon Tournament against Turkey in a 2–1 win, as Italy went on to win the tournament, and was subsequently called up to the Olympics that summer but was forced to return home due to an injury. In May 2009, Pierluigi Casiraghi named him in the final squad for the 2009 Under-21 European Championship. At the tournament, he started every game and, despite missing the semi-final loss to Germany through suspension, was one of several Azzurrini stars tipped to make the senior squad, also being named to the Team of the Tournament.
On 12 August 2009, Marchisio made his senior debut, starting in the friendly against Switzerland that ended goalless and was praised by Marcello Lippi during the post-match interview. Lippi later revealed that he had intended to call Marchisio up earlier but agreed to leave the youngster to Casiraghi's U-21 squad until to the end of the European Championships. Marchisio played his first competitive match for the Azzurri in the World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria in his home stadium and became a first-choice pick for Lippi's squad. He was forced to withdraw, however, from the remaining qualifying matches against the Republic of Ireland and Cyprus after being diagnosed with a knee meniscus injury that required surgery. He was named in the 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup but had a relatively uneventful tournament due to Lippi's preference for playing him in an unfamiliar playmaker role.
Marchisio scored his first ever international goal in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Serbia on 7 October 2011, barely a minute after kick-off. It was the 250th goal scored by a Juventus player for the Italian national team.
After a good 2011–12 season with Juventus, and a successful qualifying campaign with Italy, Marchisio was named in the final squad for UEFA Euro 2012 by Cesare Prandelli, and he started every match alongside Andrea Pirlo and Daniele De Rossi in midfield, in Italy's surprise run to the final, where they were defeated 4–0 by reigning European and world champions Spain.
Under Prandelli, Marchisio became an established member of the Italy national team, and he was named in the final squad for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, in which Italy finished third. Marchisio came on as a substitute and assisted Sebastian Giovinco's match winning goal in Italy's second group match against Japan, which allowed Italy to advance to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup for the first time in their history.
After becoming a regular during Italy qualifying matches, Marchisio was later also selected to be a member of the Italy squad that would take part at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. On 30 May 2014, he captained the senior team for the first time during the pre-World Cup friendly against the Republic of Ireland after Riccardo Montolivo, captain for the match, was carried off the pitch due to a fractured leg.
At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Marchisio scored his first international goal at a major UEFA/FIFA tournament and Italy's first goal of the World Cup, a 25-yard shot against England during the Group D second opening match in an eventual 2–1 win. He appeared in Italy's next two group matches, which both ended in 1–0 defeats to group winners Costa Rica, and runner's up Uruguay. In the final group match against Uruguay, he was controversially given a straight red card in the 59th minute, his first red card as an international. The referee's failure to send Luis Suárez off for biting Giorgio Chiellini and the fact that Uruguay went on to win 1–0 further added to the controversy. Italy finished third in their group and were eliminated from the World Cup in the group stage for the second time in a row.
On 27 March 2015, Marchisio suffered an injury during a training session with the Italian national team, prior to the Euro 2016 qualifying match against Bulgaria. Although it was initially feared that he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which would have ruled him out for six months, it was later confirmed that the injury was a sprain, and that he would only be out for several weeks. However, his former Juventus coach Antonio Conte, now the national team coach, reportedly received death threats from irate Juventus fans and was publicly criticised by John Elkann, the president of the holding company which controls FIAT and Juventus and cousin of club president Andrea Agnelli. After rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in April 2016, Marchisio was ruled out of UEFA Euro 2016.
Under Conte's successor, manager Gian Piero Ventura, Marchisio appeared as a starter in a 3–0 friendly victory over Uruguay at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, held on 7 June 2017, but was replaced by Riccardo Montolivo in the first half after sustaining an injury.
Claudio Marchisio taking a picture with a fan in Toronto in 2011.
Marchisio is known for his versatility and ability to play anywhere in midfield, as seen in various formations and positions he has been played in by his coaches. He has been used out wide in both a three- or four-man midfield, or as a defensive midfielder, but his preferred and most effective position is that of a central midfielder, where he is given the license to freely switch between defensive and attacking positions, instead of being limited to a single role. He is sometimes classified as an attacking central midfielder (known as a mezz'ala in Italian football), due to his penchant for scoring goals, rather than as a traditional deep-lying "creative" central midfielder (known as a regista in Italian football) in the mold of Andrea Pirlo. In the English language media he has been described as a "box-to-box midfielder" as he is neither a pure defensive nor an attacking midfielder, although he is able to play in both positions when necessary. He has also occupied a deeper playmaking role for his team, in particular after Pirlo's departure in 2015, in which he has been praised for his ability to spread the ball wide, or dictate play in midfield with his passing. A former forward, with an eye for goal, he has also been fielded in more advanced roles, as a deep-lying forward or attacking midfielder in a 3–5–1–1 formation. Regarded as a precocious talent in his youth since his emergence in Juventus's starting line-up, Marchisio's physical strength, pace, energy, positional sense and tactical awareness in his prime allowed him to excel in the centre in a box-to-box midfield role, and enabled him to establish himself as one of the top midfielders of his generation in Italy, Europe, and the world. In spite of his ability, however, he has been known to have a tendency to be injury prone.
Known for his adaptability, Marchisio's role has evolved over the years as managerial styles and tactics have changed. During the early years of his career, he was paired in the centre alongside a defensive midfielder such as Felipe Melo in a four-man midfield and was left to play more of an offensive and creative role. During the 2011–12 season at club level, he was deployed effectively alongside Pirlo and Chilean international Arturo Vidal in Juventus's three-man midfield in their 3–5–2 formation under Conte. A large part of Juventus's success in Italy that season was due to the fact that Marchisio and Vidal were able to interchange quickly between defensive and attacking positions and compensate for Pirlo's defensive weaknesses by leaving playmaking duties to the latter; this formation allowed all three midfielders to contribute with 19 league goals, almost a third of all goals scored by the team that season, as they went on to win the league. Under Prandelli's tenure with the Italian national team, Marchisio has played a similar role in supporting Pirlo alongside Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi, and has also played as a false-attacking midfielder on occasion. Since 2014, at club level, with Massimiliano Allegri's switch in tactics, as well as Marchisio's injury struggles, and Pirlo's subsequent departure in 2015, Marchisio has been played in a much deeper, creative role, usually in front of the back-line, where he effectively provides the link between defence and offence by intercepting balls and disrupting the opposition's play where necessary, while also looking to orchestrate attacking moves with his passing after winning back possession.
There are few flashy moments, few showpiece 30-yarders or slaloming runs past four challenges. Instead, he’s consistent, a sort of Italian Denis Irwin: lots of matches where the good work goes unnoticed, plenty of seven/eight out of 10 showings.
One of Marchisio's key strengths is his ability to switch from defence to offence seamlessly after winning back the ball, while remaining tactically disciplined in either role; his athleticism, tackling, vision, range of passing, and good reading of the game enables him to break down the opposition's play, and quickly transition the ball forward to create chances for his more attack-minded teammates. Marchisio is also gifted with flair, agility, and excellent technique, as well as good dribbling skills and close control in tight spaces. These attributes, as well as his ability to pass and shoot with both feet, despite being naturally right-footed, make him a threat in the opponent's half, especially in or outside the penalty area; if given the chance, he has been known to attempt a shot on goal, either from distance, or by finishing off a teammate's pass after making late runs from behind into the area, – as exhibited by his goals against Cagliari in January 2014, Luxembourg in a June 2014 friendly, and England at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Following Pirlo's departure, he has also developed into an effective corner and indirect free kick taker.
Due to his composed yet hard-working and tenacious style of play, Marchisio has garnered comparisons to Juventus legend and 1982 World Cup winner Marco Tardelli by the Italian press, who was arguably one of Italy's greatest "two-way" midfielders. Marchisio has also cited Steven Gerrard as one of his major influences. In addition to his qualities as a footballer, Marchisio has also been credited with personality and leadership; indeed, since breaking into the first team, he developed a reputation as a big game player for the club, due to his penchant for scoring or setting up "clutch" goals during important games. During his first Serie A season with Juventus, all three of his goals were decisive – being either match-winners or the opening goal of the match. He has also scored crucial goals against Juventus's derby rivals, Internazionale and Torino.
Marchisio holds up the FARE T-shirt and show his support for the FARE Action Weeks 2011.
Marchisio married Roberta Sinopoli in June 2008 and they have two sons, Davide (born in August 2009) and Leonardo (born in March 2012). His wife, a former nationally-ranked junior tennis player, supported Juve's crosstown rivals Torino as her father used to play for the Torino youth teams as well as various clubs in the Serie C2 and Serie D. Marchisio has his wife's birthday tattooed on the inside of his arm and occasionally kisses it when celebrating a goal.
Marchisio is affectionately known as Il Principino ("The Little Prince"), a nickname he acquired from Juventus teammates early in his career due to the way he dressed and for his composed behaviour on the pitch; the nickname was later popularised by the Juventus-supporting Premium Calcio football commentator Claudio Zuliani. Some fans and observers have also dubbed him the "De Rossi of Turin," in reference to his national teammate Daniele De Rossi of Roma, due to their similar playing style, as well as the fact that both are local born and bred youth products, and are tipped to be future captains of their respective clubs.
Marchisio was featured on the Italian cover of EA Sports' FIFA 13, alongside global cover star Lionel Messi.
Throughout the 2017–18 season, Marchisio appeared in the Netflix docu-series called First Team: Juventus.
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Jeremy Scahill: Why Won’t the Media Take Obama to Task for Targeted Assassinations?
Why didn't the media question the "parade of jingoism" surrounding Democrats' celebration of President Obama's foreign policy in Charlotte last week?
Last week, speakers at the DNC trumpeted the killing of Osama bin Laden to bolster President Obama’s foreign policy credentials, and the cable news pundits went along for the ride. But on Sunday’s Up with Chris Hayes, The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill criticized how the media managed to conveniently overlook some of the more controversial aspects of Obama’s foreign policy, from targeted assasinations of American citizens to the women and children killed in the administration’s wide-scale drone campaign.
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IMG_20161227_172151 – Upton Iron — Hand. Forged. Goods.
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Summary: After some wannabe-artistic shots of people on the track team at West Beverly, Brandon chats with the coach, Chapman, for a newspaper article. Steve is paranoid that Chapman said something to Brandon about him. He’s worried he’ll be cut from the team. Kelly and Donna talk to Kyle, who Donna is surprised isn’t dating Kelly. (He’s possibly gay, remember.) Steve’s all jealous. Elsewhere, Brenda asks Cindy to tell Brandon to stop teasing her about her driving.
The guys on the track team want to give Brandon a wedgie, since he wrote some not-so-nice things about him for the paper. Steve tries to get in on the act. Brandon says he can probably outperform Steve at other sports. Later, Brandon tells Andrea that Chapman’s putting him on the track team, and she notes that he can now write about sports from the inside. He thinks it’s unethical. Actually, he wants an excuse to quit sports reporting. Andrea considers taking over the beat for him.
Brenda asks to be allowed to drive Brandon’s car whenever he’s not using it. Jim thinks that’s reasonable, but Cindy says that’s just because he’s never driven with her. Jim wants them to give her confidence. When Brandon comes home, Brenda gives him the news that he’s now sharing his car with her. He’s surprisingly okay with it. Steve, on the other hand, is ticked because Brandon is now running in his place on the team.
Dylan tells Brandon he shouldn’t have agreed to let Brenda drive his car since now she’ll want to drive his. Brandon says she’s not actually that bad a driver. Brenda drives around with Donna and David, rear-ending a woman at a light. There’s very little damage, so the other woman says she’ll just let it go, though they exchange phone numbers just in case. Brandon works out with the rest of the track team, making a joke about steroids to a guy named Burke. It makes everyone freeze.
Brenda freaks out about Brandon’s reaction to her fender-bender and the dent it left in the front bumper. Donna tells her to keep quiet and play dumb. Brenda claims she’s a horrible liar, especially when it comes to her brother. When Brandon gets home, he doesn’t notice that anything’s wrong, so she decides to take Donna’s advice and not say anything.
Steve runs into Kelly at the Peach Pit and flirts with her, but she’s planning an early-morning run with Kyle. Steve thinks they’re sleeping together. He talks to Brandon about the track team, which Brandon doesn’t think is that talented. Steve thinks he’ll be more comfortable with the team soon, then tells him that joking about steroids is a bad idea. They fight about doping and Steve gets mad that Brandon always has an answer to everything.
Andrea comes by after hours so Brandon can talk to her about a possible article about steroid use at West Beverly. Andrea asks if that means he’s back on the paper; he says he never left. She knows how he feels about going undercover since she did when she wrote a story about the cafeteria. She also knows how it feels to be in a battle opposite a friend. The next morning, Kelly and Kyle go for their morning run and he tells her he likes getting to be himself around her.
Steve tells Burke that he talked to Brandon about the “program,” and though he’s not on board, they can trust him. During their next workout, Brandon asks Burke for something to help him get stronger. Burke doesn’t take the bait. At home, Jim gets a call from the woman in the fender-bender, and Brenda has to come clean about the accident. Jim is reasonably angry with her for not mentioning it since she’s on his insurance. The woman is now complaining of whiplash and blaming Brenda.
Brandon meets up with Kyle, who’s figured out that Brandon’s doing an article on steroids for the paper. He admits that a lot of guys are doping and it needs to stop before someone gets hurt. In exchange for anonymity, Kyle agrees to answer Brandon’s questions. At school, Brenda gives exposition letting us know that she’s not in trouble for the fender-bender. Brandon makes up with Steve before telling Andrea he’s having second thoughts about publishing his article since it could hurt a friend of his. She offers to take over as point person.
Brandon tells Steve that the paper is about to publish an article about steroids, so if he has any in his locker, he should get rid of them ASAP. Not long after, Chapman confronts the team, telling them that practices are canceled until the users come forward. Tony thinks Steve is the source. Burke tells them to keep cool because Chapman won’t cancel the whole season. Tony warns Steve to tell Brandon to watch his back.
Brenda and Dylan take flowers to the woman from the accident (Rosemary), but she tells them she can’t talk to them because there’s a lawsuit coming. She notes that Brenda’s driving record could be affected. Rosemary wanted a settlement for her pain, suffering, and physical therapy, but Jim wants to go through the insurance company. She totally doesn’t want Brenda to get in trouble or anything, but could she talk to her father? This leads to a fight between Jim and Brenda about compassion and taking responsibility vs. being snowed by a con woman.
Steve goes to the Peach Pit to confront Brandon about not actually quitting the Blaze. Brandon admits that he asked some questions and uncovered some things. Steve tells him he just started taking steroids, but he quickly decided it’s not worth it. Now he needs to prove to the other guys that he wasn’t the source. He wants Andrea to write something defending him, thinking Brandon can get her to do it. Brandon won’t do it since he needs to protect his source. Steve shows some lame roid rage and gives him a lamer warning, which Kelly sees and hears.
The next day, Kelly asks Kyle to tell her the real story about what’s going on with the team. She presses him to help clear Steve’s name. Later, Kyle spots Steve and Andrea talking about the article he wants her to write. Brenda argues with Dylan about how Jim told her she can’t have any more contact with Rosemary. Steve gets angry over Andrea’s refusal to print his statement, telling Dylan that his so-called friends are more interested in putting out the paper than defending him. He accuses them of organizing a witch hunt. Dylan reminds him that Brandon is super-loyal and awesome.
Brandon, Steve, and Kelly recap the situation at the Peach Pit, where they’re joined by Brenda and Dylan, the latter of whom just let the former drive his car. After Brenda leaves with Brandon’s car, everyone hears a crash and runs outside. It’s just a garbage truck. Ha…ha?
Thoughts: Tony is played by Michael Cudlitz, who’s been in pretty much everything, most recently Southland.
I’m pretty sure Brandon says “sho ’nuff.” Brandon, don’t make me hurt you.
The guys on the track team wear some pretty awesome ’90s workout clothes, including a shirt that shows Burke’s belly button.
Why does Brenda keep driving David and Donna places? Why don’t she and Dylan just double-date with them? Or tell them to take a bus?
Love it! I’ve only just found your blog so you may have already covered this, but how annoying was it when Brandon would say things like “seldom right and wrong again”? Answer: very.
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I was right! – Boo-Ya! Incredible Hulk Out Oct 21st!
Marvelousnews.com reports that The Incredible Hulk is comikng out Oct 21st – which is what I said! Man,. I love when I’m right! Click on the image for the link! – Have a good weekend!
I found this custom – man those mighty muggs are quite perfect for customizing! The King Hulk comes with a sword and an axe and looks really perfect. Click on the image for the auction – the only thing is that the auction has a reserve, and I’ve already told you how I feel about reserve auctions… (ugh!) What not just do a Buy It Now or Best Offer? Those make WAY more sense.
These are just a couple of packs that are out right now. They have party plates and cups – Okay, listen, I didn’t buy these! They were bought for me! I love my Hulk collection but what the hell am I going to do with these? You can’t even display them! I love the action figures – I love the statues – I really love the comics – but I never get this kind of crap. Hey I love the Hulk but this is a little overkill. So, until my birthday, I have a few party packs to decorate my room.
I know that’s a crappy thing to leave you with over the weekend – but I have the final SHS figures from wave 2 coming up next week as well as Wave 3 arriving Tues. or Wed. I have a lot better for next week as well as the review for Skaar #’s 2 & 3 – I waited to give a review for #2 because… well, I forgot. Sorry. See you Monday Hulkatics!
So, yeah, it holds all the new Hulk movie figures perfectly – all but the 2-packs – but it is great and has the Hulk’s head, chest and right arm on top of the figure holder. I was pretty psyched because this was the first item that was given to me from the Hulk movie memorabilia. Then of course the Toys R Us display and the SHS box from Wal-Mart. What? I didn’t show you the SHS box yet? Oh just wait! It’s awesome! Coming soon!
Hulk Season 5 – Out Oct. 21st!
Take a look at the cover art to the final season of this series. It’s due out on October 21st – as well as the COMPLETE SERIES set! To see it click on the image and go to the site that announced it. Now, they haven’t mentioned the Hulk movie release date yet – but I am betting it’s going to be on the same day. Mark my words!
While the Gamma Charged Abomination has still eluded me I did find the third Abomination figure made from the movie. It’s the 2-pack with the Emil figure. The Emil figure fits snugly inside the Abom figure – but again, much like the Mutating Hulk figure, there has to be a sacrificein articulation. The waist does not move – but he does come with a pair of nun-chucks! Much like in the movie where the Abom broke off some concrete poles and used them in the final fight this figure has the chucks to swing around! I am still pretty impressed by the likeness in the Emil and Banner figures. Emil looks just like Roth! The Banner figure looks just like Norton. They may fit in perfectly with the G.I. Joe figures – and can you imagine!?! Hulkbusters against G.I. Joe figures! The Hulkbusters would win for sure! They have to deal with the Hulk on a daily basis – what do the Joes have to handle? A couple of guys in silver masks who scream alot? Please… no contest!
Close up - of the sweet nun-chucks!
Aaaauuuuggghhh! Where is Hulk’s arms!?! Why is the Hulk such a fatty!?! And where did he get those fantastic bunny ears! Goodness gracious.
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Citation LACTUCA CANADENSIS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 1193. 1759.
Type: CANADA: Without data, Kalm s.n. (lectotype: LINN 950.7). Lectotypified by Fernald, Rhodora 40: 481. 1938.
Cicerbita canadensis Cicerbita canadensis (Linnaeus) Wallroth, Sched. Crit. 434. 1822. BASIONYM: Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus 1759.
Cicerbita elongata Cicerbita elongata (Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) Wallroth, Sched. Crit. 434. 1822. BASIONYM: Lactuca elongata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow 1803.
Lactuca canadensis var. elongata Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. elongata (Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) Farwell, Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2: 46. 1923. BASIONYM: Lactuca elongata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow 1803.
Lactuca canadensis var. typica Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. typica Wiegand, Rhodora 22: 10. 1920, nom. inadmiss. BASIONYM: Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus 1759.
Mulgedium integrifolium Mulgedium integrifolium Cassini, in Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. 33: 299. 1824, nom. illegit. BASIONYM: Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus 1759.
Sonchus pallidus Sonchus pallidus Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 3: 1521. 1803. BASIONYM: Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus 1759.
Lactuca canadensis forma angustata Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, forma angustata Wiegand, Rodhora 22: 11. 1920. TYPE: CONNECTICUT: Hartford Co.: Southington, 1896, Bissell 333 (holotype: GH).
Lactuca canadensis forma angustipes Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, forma angustipes Wiegand, Rhodora 22: 10. 1920. TYPE: NEW YORK: Cayuga Co.: Sheldrake, 1919, Eames & Wiegand s.n. (holotype: BH?).
Lactuca canadensis forma exauriculata Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, forma exauriculata Wiegand, Rhodora 22: 11. 1920. TYPE: MASSACHUSETTS: Essex Co.: Wenham, s.d., Faxon s.n. (holotype: GH).
Lactuca canadensis forma stenopoda Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, forma stenopoda Wiegand, Rhodora 22: 11. 1920. TYPE: OKLAHOMA: Kay Co.: Stink Creek near Tonkana, 1913, Stevens 1812 (holotype: GH).
Lactuca canadensis forma villicaulis Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, forma villicaulis Fernald, Rhodora 41: 574. 1939. TYPE: VIRGINIA: Dinwiddie Co.: W of Burgess Station, 16 Jul 1938, Fernald & Long 8903 (holotype: GH; isotypes: PH, US).
Lactuca canadensis var. integrifolia Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. integrifolia (Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray, Manual, ed. 5. 281. 1869. BASIONYM: Lactuca elongata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow, var. integrifolia Torrey & A. Gray 1843; Lactuca integrifolia Bigelow 1824, non Nuttall 1818.
Lactuca canadensis var. latifolia Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. latifolia Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 349. 1891.
Lactuca canadensis var. longifolia Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. longifolia (Michaux) Farwell, Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 2: 45. 1923. BASIONYM: Lactuca longifolia Michaux 1803.
Lactuca canadensis var. obovata Lactuca canadensis Linnaeus, var. obovata Wiegand, Rhodora 22: 11. 1920. TYPE: MASSACHUSETTS: Norfolk Co.: Maugus Hill, Wellesley, 1897, Williams s.n. (holotype: GH).
Lactuca elongata var. integrifolia Lactuca elongata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow, var. integrifolia Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 496. 1843. BASIONYM: Lactuca integrifolia Bigelow 1824, non Nuttall 1818.
Lactuca elongata var. longifolia Lactuca elongata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow, var. l ongifolia (Michaux) Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 296. 1843. BASIONYM: Lactuca longifolia Michaux 1803.
Lactuca steelei Lactuca steelei Britton, Man. Fl. N. States 899. 1901. TYPE: MARYLAND: Montgomery Co.: Chevy Chase, 22 Jul 1897, Steele s.n. (holotype: NY; isotype: US).
USA Florida Leon Co. 30 Jul 1966 D. Laker s.n.
USA Florida Hernando Co. 18 Jun 1988 R. Mears s.n.
USA Florida Levy Co. 11 Jul 1979 B. F. Hansen 5984 Sheet 2 of 2.
USA Florida Levy Co. 11 Jul 1979 B. F. Hansen 5984 Sheet 1 of 2.
USA Florida Lake Co. 10 Aug 1986 R. F. Daubenmire s.n.
USA Mississippi Lincoln Co. 26 Jun 1956 J. D. Ray, Jr. s.n.
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With the launch of the new theme “LEADING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES”, Interdisciplinary Programs Office, IPO, organises the Instagram Photo Contest. We believe that youngster should break through traditional boundaries to pursue their dreams, and IPO, as an education pioneer, will provide tremendous support to our students to achieve their goals. There should be no limitations in learning, experiencing and exploring. Through this photo contest, we encourage everyone to explore and share “without boundaries” happy moments in daily life!
With the support of Union Medical Healthcare, 2018 spring term’s Corporate Project challenged students to improve patient journey at General Practice (GP) clinics. The project aims at providing students with hands-on experience in solving complex real business problems and polishing their advanced skills in design thinking and executive communication.
The International Student Innovation Competition 2018, held at Shanghai from 6 to 15 July 2018, gathered students from Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management (T&M-DDP), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HESSO) and ShanghaiTech University (SHTECH). Students teamed up with peers from different universities were challenged to create a new product/ service to solve a health problem in China.
IPO New Videos Go Live!
With IPO’s new branding theme “Leading Without Boundaries” being launched in the coming academic year, we are excited to share our new branding videos with all of you!
Let our students introduce IPO by taking you around the campus and be inspired by the sharing from our faculty and students!
Prof. Christine LOH has newly joined the Division of Environment at HKUST as Chief Development Strategist. She believes in the power of co-learning that brings together the people and knowledge from different fields including academia, government and public institutions to influence the decision makers. She thinks the China and HKSAR governments and private sectors are paying more attention to environmental and sustainability issues. It is definitely a big area to grow in future and demanding many young professionals from diverse disciplines to work together to make a difference.
Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management (T&M-DDP) invited Dr. Augustine CHOW, Chairman of Harmony Asset Management Limited, to share how to create “Trigger” to innovate various aspects of life and business world at the Executive Forum with over 100 students in Spring term of 2018.
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Staff, Hilltop, "The Hilltop 3-17-1937" (1937). The Hilltop: 1930-40. 80.
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I am so glad you shared it again! It is a precious post and I love the photo! And I love you and your tender heart.
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etty looked up from her magazine. She said mildly, You're late.
Hm-m-m. But before providing vacations it'd be nice if Providence turned up a missing jewel deal, say. Something where you could deduce that actually the ruby ring had gone down the drain and was caught in the elbow. Something that would net about fifty dollars.
Simon said, mournful of tone, Fifty dollars? Why not make it five hundred?
I'm not selfish, Betty said. All I want is enough to pay me this week's salary.
Money, Simon said. When you took this job you said it was the romance that appealed to you.
Hm-m-m. I didn't know most sleuthing amounted to snooping around department stores to check on the clerks knocking down.
Simon said, enigmatically, Now it comes.
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Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith, GCStJ, FRHistS (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Riley-Smith was the eldest of four children born into a prosperous Yorkshire brewing family. His maternal grandfather (to whose memory he later dedicated his book What Were the Crusades?) was the British Conservative Party MP, John Craik-Henderson (1890-1971).
He attended Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his BA (1960), MA (1964), PhD (1964), and LittD (2001).
Riley-Smith taught at the University of St Andrews (1964–1972), Queens' College, Cambridge (1972-1978), Royal Holloway College, London (1978–1994) as well as at Emmanuel (1994–2005). His many respected publications on the origins of the crusading movement and the motivations of the first crusaders have deeply influenced current historiography of the crusades.
He was appointed a Knight of Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.
Riley-Smith was a convert to Catholicism. He married Louise Field, a portrait artist, in 1968. Their three children include the singer/songwriter Polly Paulusma.
Jonathan Riley-Smith died on 13 September 2016.
In an appreciative obituary, a senior colleague described Riley-Smith as "quite simply the leading historian of the crusades [of his generation] anywhere in the world".
Ibn al-Furat (1971). Jonathan Riley-Smith (ed.). Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders: Text. 1. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. W. Heffer.
Ibn al-Furat (1971). Jonathan Riley-Smith (ed.). Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders; selections from the Tarikh al-duwal wa'l-Muluk. 2. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. Cambridge: W. Heffer.
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In a food processor, pulse nuts till they become a fine powder.
Add remaining ingredients to the food processor and combine until dough begins to clump.
On your dehydrator sheets, spoon cookie dough onto sheets and pat down till the cookie is 0.5 to 1 cm thick.
Set dehydrator to 110 F for 32 hours.
Preheat oven to 350F. Spray non-stick spray onto a mini muffin tin (should hold 32 mini muffins).
In a large mixing bowl combine all wet ingredients (flax egg, apple cider vinegar, soy milk, pumpkin, vanilla, olive oil, cane sugar).
Fold your dry ingredients( flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger) into your wet ingredients.
Once fully combined, scoop mixture 1 tbsp at a time into your mini muffin tin.
Bake for 10-15 minutes or until a knife inserted through the center or a doughnut comes out clean.
To make icing: combine all three ingredients. You may need to add more icing sugar or pumpkin in order to get an icing like consistency. Store in fridge over night.
In the morning, dip doughnut into icing then into sprinkles. Repeat for every doughnut.
Enjoy with a hot cup of coffee or cleansing green tea!
Per heat oven to 350F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine mashed bananas, pureed peaches, olive oil, sugar and molasses.
Fold your flours, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt into your wet mixture (banana mixture).
Oil a 9×5 inch loaf pan. Pour your dough into the pan.
Bake bread for 1 hour +/- 10minutes. The top should be lightly browned and a knife inserted through the center should come out clean.
Scone: In a large mixing bowl, combine all scone ingredients. Once formed into a sticky ball of dough, transfer to a well floured counter surface. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out till it is 1/2 inch thick. Using a circular cookie cutter (I used a cup), cut dough with cookie cutter and place onto a cookie sheet, these are now your scones. Continue to form and roll out dough until you have used up all your dough.
Dip scones into melted butter and place back on cookie sheet. Make an indent in each scone using your fingers.
Place a teaspoon of jam into each indent and top with 3 slices of peach. Repeat for all scones.
Dust each scone with cinnamon.
Place scones in oven at 350F for 12-15 minutes or until slightly brown.
Combine ground flax and water; set aside for 10 minutes. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix.
Add all wet ingredients to dry and mix well. Finally add flax mixture. If final mixture is too watery add more quinoa or bran flakes, if too dry add more nutmilk.
In a large skillet, heat coconut oil on medium-high heat for 2 minutes. Pour pancake mixture onto oiled skillet using a 1/3 cup measuring cup. Cook on one side for 3 minutes, flip and cook on other side for 3 minutes or until pancake is firm.
Serve with slice fruit, Canadian maple syrup, earth balance vegan butter and a smile!
In a VitaMix blender or food processor, combine all ingredients except coconut. Make sure to blend on a low setting. You want the mixture to be the same consistency of ice cream. If you need to add more soy milk, feel free to do so.
Scoop into bowl and garnish with coconut. Consume immediately.
In a high speed blender or food processor, grind the soaked almonds and spelt until the mixture is that of flour like consistency.
In a large mixing bowl, pour the blended mixture in and add all remaining ingredients except the goji berries.
Using a cookie cutter or your hands, form dough into heart shapes and place on a dehydrator sheet (no need for paraflex sheets, your dough should be thick enough to sit on a standard dehydrator sheet).
Once all dough has been used, place one or two goji berries on top of each cookie and press firmly into cookie.
Dehydrate cookies for 4-5 hours or until they have a chewy on the inside, firm on the outside texture.
Serve with a cup of tea or homemade nut milk.
Combine all crust ingredients in a food processor or high speed blender.
Blend until consistent crumb mixture forms.
Spread crust mixture on the bottom of a small spring cake pan. Press crumb mixture firmly down. Set aside when making the cream.
Combine all cream ingredients in a food processor or high speed blender.
Blend until consistent and creamy mixture forms.
Spread creamy mixture on top of your crust base.
Place lemon slices on top of cream. Place in freezer for 2-3 hours. Take out of freezer 20 minutes before consuming.
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Interested in Studying in the USA????
~Her experience as a student in the U.S.A.
Saturday, May 29th at 1pm. Room G5.
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2019-04-23T06:37:14Z
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https://alcrabat.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/professors-and-their-passions-lecture-two/
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During my recent visit to the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham, Rich Crane gave me a tour of the facility. It included a room, I think he called the Concept Center. It was a little theatre type of arrangement around a series of work areas or work styles. Microsoft uses the room for demo’s that go WAY beyond some silly PowerPoint slide show. Here are a few pictures I took while I was there.
Another city office. I’m not sure of the location.
The home office. It’s Western Massachusetts.
I got an invite to take part in a lab at the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham. I took advantage of it. I’ll use this post to describe the experience so that anyone else with the opportunity will know what to expect.
First, you recieve a very explicit set of pre-requisites. You need to install the SQL Server Upgrade Assistant, a tool that Microsoft licensed Scalability Experts to create for them. You have to run this against a small database, >25gb. The tool backups up all the databases from the server (so you need to put it on to a test box, rather than try to move an entire production system worth of databases). It then starts a trace that captures all the calls made to the database. I spent two days working with one of my application teams to get a server set up, the app connected, and a good set of tests run on the server to capture about an hour’s worth of trace data. It was at no point hard to meet the requirements, it just took time to get everything set up just right. They recommend you single thread the trace, meaning, just have one user run all the tests. This is because, when run without any extra work, Profiler, which replays traces, is single threaded. This can lead to unrealistic errors, especially blocking and deadlocks.
Once I had everything, I went to Waltham (a two-hour commute… the less said the better) to run the tests. The lab set up was impressive. They had a seperate room for each of the four companies that sent someone to the testing facility. We had a solid workstation (running Windows 7 by the way, fun stuff) and a set of servers on a seperate lan inside each room. The servers were running on HyperV, Microsoft’s virtual server software. Unfortunately, we did run into a snag here. Each server was supposed to have 100gb of space to accomodate the copy of the database as well as a restore of it and some more room besides. The virtual machines were configured to run on a system that only had 140gb of storage to start with. I filled that with my database during the initial set up (I ran the processes on three servers simultaneously). That put us out of commission while the MS techs went about fixing everything (which they did, quickly). It was just the pain of being first.
The documentation on the labs was very complete. Few steps were left to the imagination. Any where that had ambiguity, a second set of documentation cleared up nicely. With one exception. They did want to you to restore the System db’s. It made sense to do it, but I checked both sets of documentation and it wasn’t there, so I thought, hey, what I do know, MS is on top of this… Wrong. Had to restart, again.
Once all the initial configuration issues were done, it was simply a matter of walking through the lab. The first step was to establish a baseline, so I played back the trace on a 2000 server. Then I did an in place upgrade to 2008 and ran the trace and an upgrade to a new install using a restore and ran the trace there. All the results could then be compared.
Over all, it was a good session. Rich Crane, Rob Walters and Sumi Dua from Microsoft were very helpful. I picked up a few tips on doing upgrade testing and got to do it away from managers and developers, making quite a few mistakes along the way. Now maybe I can do it in front of them with fewer mistakes. I liked the Upgrade Assistant tool since I’m pretty lazy, but it didn’t do anything earth shattering that you couldn’t do on your own.
One tip worth repeating, if you’re using the Upgrade Assistant to capture a trace, it doesn’t put filtering in place. You can open the trace file, filter out the databases, by ID, that you don’t need, and then save a new copy of the trace file, just for the database you’re interested in. Thanks for that one Rich.
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2019-04-25T02:19:01Z
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https://scarydba.wordpress.com/tag/microsoft-technology-center/
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Industrial statistician to make determinations of prevailing rate.
(1) All determinations of the prevailing rate of wage shall be made by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries.
(2) The time period for recovery of any wages owed to a worker affected by the determination is tolled until the prevailing wage determination is final.
(3) Notwithstanding RCW 39.12.010(1), the industrial statistician shall establish the prevailing rate of wage by adopting the hourly wage, usual benefits, and overtime paid for the geographic jurisdiction established in collective bargaining agreements for those trades and occupations that have collective bargaining agreements. For trades and occupations with more than one collective bargaining agreement in the county, the higher rate will prevail.
(4) For trades and occupations in which there are no collective bargaining agreements in the county, the industrial statistician shall establish the prevailing rate of wage as defined in RCW 39.12.010 by conducting wage and hour surveys. In instances when there are no applicable collective bargaining agreements and conducting wage and hour surveys is not feasible, the industrial statistician may employ other appropriate methods to establish the prevailing rate of wage.
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2018 c 242 § 1 and by 2018 c 248 § 1, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
Prevailing rate to be paid on public works and under public building service maintenance contracts—Posting of statement of intent—Exception.
This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.
Prevailing rate to be paid on public works—Apprentice workers.
Vocationally handicapped—Exemption from RCW 39.12.020—Procedure.
The director of the department of labor and industries, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulations provide for the employment of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by physical or mental deficiency or injury, under special certificates issued by the director, at such wages lower than the prevailing rate applicable under RCW 39.12.020 and for such period as shall be fixed in such certificates.
(1) In establishing the prevailing rate of wage under RCW 39.12.010, 39.12.015, and 39.12.020, all data collected by the department of labor and industries may be used only in the county for which the work was performed.
(2) The department of labor and industries must provide registered contractors with the option of completing a wage survey electronically.
Effective date—2015 3rd sp.s. c 40: See note following RCW 39.04.320.
Findings—Intent—2003 c 363 §§ 201-206: See note following RCW 49.04.041.
Contract specifications must state minimum hourly rate—Stipulation for payment—Residential and commercial construction work.
(1) The specifications for every contract for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of any public work to which the state or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws is a party, shall contain a provision stating the hourly minimum rate of wage, not less than the prevailing rate of wage, which may be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics in each trade or occupation required for such public work employed in the performance of the contract either by the contractor, subcontractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or any part of the work contemplated by the contract, and the contract shall contain a stipulation that such laborers, workers, or mechanics shall be paid not less than such specified hourly minimum rate of wage. If the awarding agency determines that the work contracted for meets the definition of residential construction, the contract must include that information.
(2) If the hourly minimum rate of wage stated in the contract specifies residential construction rates and it is later determined that the work performed is commercial and subject to commercial construction rates, the state, county, municipality, or political subdivision that entered into the contract must pay the difference between the residential rate stated and the actual commercial rate to the contractor, subcontractor, or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or any part of the work under the contract.
(1) Upon complaint by an interested party, the director of labor and industries shall cause an investigation to be made to determine whether there has been compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted hereunder, and if the investigation indicates that a violation may have occurred, a hearing shall be held in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. The director shall issue a written determination including his or her findings after the hearing. A judicial appeal from the director's determination may be taken in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW, with the prevailing party entitled to recover reasonable costs and attorneys fees.
A complaint concerning nonpayment of the prevailing rate of wage shall be filed with the department of labor and industries no later than thirty days from the acceptance date of the public works project. The failure to timely file such a complaint shall not prohibit a claimant from pursuing a private right of action against a contractor or subcontractor for unpaid prevailing wages. The remedy provided by this section is not exclusive and is concurrent with any other remedy provided by law.
(d) That portion of the progress payments which is properly allocable to the contractor or subcontractor who is found to be in violation of this chapter. Under no circumstances shall any portion of the progress payments be withheld that are properly allocable to a contractor, subcontractor, or supplier, that is not found to be in violation of this chapter.
The amount withheld shall be released to the director to distribute in accordance with the director's determination.
(3) A contractor or subcontractor that is found, in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, to have violated the requirement to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars or an amount equal to twenty percent of the total prevailing wage violation found on the contract, whichever is greater, and shall not be permitted to bid, or have a bid considered, on any public works contract until such civil penalty has been paid in full to the director. If a contractor or subcontractor is found to have participated in a violation of the requirement to pay the prevailing rate of wage for a second time within a five-year period, the contractor or subcontractor shall be subject to the sanctions prescribed in this subsection and as an additional sanction shall not be allowed to bid on any public works contract for two years. Civil penalties shall be deposited in the public works administration account. If a previous or subsequent violation of a requirement to pay a prevailing rate of wage under federal or other state law is found against the contractor or subcontractor within five years from a violation under this section, the contractor or subcontractor shall not be allowed to bid on any public works contract for two years. A contractor or subcontractor shall not be barred from bidding on any public works contract if the contractor or subcontractor relied upon written information from the department to pay a prevailing rate of wage that is later determined to be in violation of this chapter. The civil penalty and sanctions under this subsection shall not apply to a violation determined by the director to be an inadvertent filing or reporting error. To the extent that a contractor or subcontractor has not paid the prevailing wage rate under a determination issued as provided in subsection (1) of this section, the unpaid wages shall constitute a lien against the bonds and retainage as provided herein and in RCW 18.27.040, 19.28.041, 39.08.010, and 60.28.011.
Fees authorized for approvals, certifications, and arbitrations.
(1) The department of labor and industries may charge fees to awarding agencies on public works for the approval of statements of intent to pay prevailing wages and the certification of affidavits of wages paid. The department may also charge fees to persons or organizations requesting the arbitration of disputes under RCW 39.12.060. The amount of the fees shall be established by rules adopted by the department under the procedures in the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW. Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the fees shall apply to all approvals, certifications, and arbitration requests made after the effective date of the rules. All fees shall be deposited in the public works administration account. The department may refuse to arbitrate for contractors, subcontractors, persons, or organizations which have not paid the proper fees. The department may, if necessary, request the attorney general to take legal action to collect delinquent fees.
(2) The department shall set the fees permitted by this section at a level that generates revenue that is as near as practicable to the amount of the appropriation to administer this chapter, including, but not limited to, the performance of adequate wage surveys, and to investigate and enforce all alleged violations of this chapter, including, but not limited to, incorrect statements of intent to pay prevailing wage, incorrect certificates of affidavits of wages paid, and wage claims, as provided for in this chapter and chapters 49.48 and 49.52 RCW. However, the fees charged for the approval of statements of intent to pay prevailing wages and the certification of affidavits of wages paid shall be forty dollars.
(3) If, at the time an individual or entity files an affidavit of wages paid, the individual or entity is exempt from the requirement to pay the prevailing rate of wage under RCW 39.12.020, the department of labor and industries may not charge a fee to certify the affidavit of wages paid.
Intent—Captions not law—2008 c 285: See notes following RCW 43.22.434.
The public works administration account is created in the state treasury. The department of labor and industries shall deposit in the account all moneys received from fees or civil penalties collected under RCW 39.12.050, 39.12.065, and 39.12.070. Appropriations from the account may be made only for the purposes of administration of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the performance of adequate wage surveys, and for the investigation and enforcement of all alleged violations of this chapter as provided for in this chapter and chapters 49.48 and 49.52 RCW. During the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium the legislature may direct the state treasurer to make transfers of moneys in the public works administration account to the state general fund. It is the intent of the legislature to use the moneys transferred in the 2017-2019 biennium to support apprenticeship programs.
Effective date—2006 c 230: See note following RCW 39.12.070.
(7) On the effective date of the contract of service, if the nature of the work performed requires registration under chapter 18.27 RCW or licensure under chapter 19.28 RCW, the individual has a valid contractor registration pursuant to chapter 18.27 RCW or an electrical contractor license pursuant to chapter 19.28 RCW.
Failure to provide or allow inspection of records.
Any employer, contractor, or subcontractor who fails to provide requested records, or fails to allow adequate inspection of records in an investigation by the department of labor and industries under this chapter within sixty calendar days of service of the department's request may not use the records in any proceeding under this chapter to challenge the correctness of any determination by the department that wages are owed, that a record or statement is false, or that the employer, contractor, or subcontractor has failed to file a record or statement.
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https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=39.12&full=true
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Gold and silver stocks glit tered as the brightest issues on Wall Street yesterday. Selected oil stocks also gleamed with gains.
But for the market generally it was another day of down ward‐drifting prices. There was no gold‐rush fervor either in the volume total, as turnover on the New York Stock Ex change limped along at 9.2 mil lion shares.
The New York Times com bined average retreated 3.03 points to end at 420.56.
After displaying token gains in the first 90 minutes of trad ing, the Dow‐Jones industrial average slid gently lower to finish at 756.43 with a decline of 2.95 points. This indicator is hovering just about where it was two months ago.
The General Motors strike, which entered its seventh week today, continued as a prime depressant upon the economy. Shares of the nation's biggest manufacturing concern felt the pressure first‐hand, falling 1⅛ points to 70⅞ as a big loser among the blue chips.
American Telephone, down ⅜ to 42¾, ranked as a small loser in the blue‐chip category. Ma Bell has rung up four straight fractional declines since the company disclosed plans last week to market $500‐ million in debt securities.
Four leading gold stocks posted their highest prices of 1970. This reflected develop ments in London, where specu lative demand helped to send the free‐market price to its highest level in more than a year.
In a stock market that re mained sensitive to earnings and dividend news, Campbell Red Lake Mines made its brisk advance despite reporting substantially lower net income for the latest 9 months.
Observers said that the rise in silver issues might have got ten some impetus from the golds, but that mainly the sil vers appeared to reflect an increase in the commodity fu tures market.
In November,. the United States Treasury is expected to stop holding its weekly auction of about 2 million ounces of silver and this would have some effect in restricting supplies. Callahan Mining and Sunshine Mining each gained more‐than a point. New York & Honduras Rosario climbed 2 points to 22⅝.
Oil issues provided the only two gainers on the active list. Ashland Oil rose 2⅝ to 26¾ while Natomas added ¾ to 51. Ashland said one of its sub sidiaries is associated with a group headed by Cities Service —climbing 2 points to 45⅞— that reported a show of oil in a well being drilled in the Java, Sea.
Natomas, which traded as high as 53¾ yesterday, also gained by virtue of an overseas development. The oil‐explora tion company has reported on the testing of an oil well off shore of Indonesia.
Monsanto, unchanged at 32, was the most active issue.
Telex, the second most heavi ly traded stock, dropped 1⅜ to 21¾. It led the exchange in turnover last week when it rose 3⅜ points.
Aetna Life & Casualty, No. 3 on the active list, fell 3 points to 37¼. Another insurance giant, Travelers Corporatiori, dropped 2 points to 27 in ac tive trading.
Overall, the Big Board showed 485 advances and 765 declines as well as 15 points and 5 lows.
Du Pont eased ⅞ to 117⅛ The nation's largest chemical producer said it expects to show lower profits both for the fourth quarter and for all of 1970, citing the impact of the General Motors strike. DuPont earned $7.35 a share last year and so far this year its net income has lagged behind 1969 figures.
Meanwhile, some ofervers in Detroit take the view that the strike by the United Auto mobile Workers might end by Christmas or earlier. But others predict that the shutdown could extend into 1971.
While most glamour stocks turned downward, the biggest point loser was International Business Machines, falling 5¼ to 289¾. It had gained 7 points on Friday.
In the absence of any basic stimulus for stock prices, in vestors reacted to specific de velopments on the profit and dividend fronts.
Molybdenum, which reported a third‐quarter loss, against a year‐earlier profit, slipped ⅝ to 22¾ and made a new low.
A low also was registered‐by American Hoist & Derrick, which seduced its dividend. It eased ⅝ to 9¼.
Foxboro, which omitted its I dividend for the second sue cessive quarter, dropped 1⅞ to 22.
Todd Shipyards fell 3 points to 23¾ after disclosing a drop lin six‐month earnings. Its per centage decline in price was the biggest of any common stock on the exchange.
Murphy Oil, on the other hand, rose 1¼ to 29¼ and posted a high after Showing a substantial gain in quarterly net income.
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2019-04-22T02:30:19Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/27/archives/big-board-drifts-to-lower-ground-but-gold-and-silver-stocks.html
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11,263+ has been factored into 78-digit and 174-digit prime numbers. This was a successful test of new linear algebra enhancements by Ilya Popovyan.
Message 761 - Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 12:48:32 UTC - in response to Message 757.
Wooo, It's Prime Time. 4 months and still running!
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2019-04-20T13:01:16Z
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https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/forum_thread.php?id=309
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Two trips to the Garden Isle, Kauai with an emphasis on landscape photography. Some beautiful places include Polihale beach, Moalaa beach, Anahola beach, Kalalau trail, Blue Hole waterfall, Waimea canyon, Kilauea waterfall, Makaleha waterfall and Hopii stream. That's just a small list, but the photos tell the story.
Guardian Falls: if you hike here, you are truly tough and adventurous.
February 2011: Guardian of Paradise. One of my favorite photos from my Kauai trip, this is Guardian Falls on the Wailua River. This places is deep, deep in the jungle and took us a half day to reach. We were rewarded with a private paradise of jungle showers and smooth rocks: this is a super place to take a swim! This shot was taken just as we were leaving to go back to civilization and shows the huge waterfall in its' lush canyon. Enjoy!
August 2006: Hanakapi'ai Falls. The biggest waterfall on the Kalalau Trail. Just getting close, I was covered in a fine mist.
Look out Below: a frightening gaze over the edge on Kauai's North Shore.
Koi Colors as they swim slowly.
Unnamed Falls listed in the guidebook, located just beside the road.
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2019-04-20T20:49:06Z
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https://gordonsmith.smugmug.com/Landscapes/-Hawaii-Tonga/Kauai/i-TgP9dsf/
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Extreme weather and warming temperatures are putting us on track to face the hottest year in human history.
A look into what heatwaves are and why they are nature's silent killer.
Heatwaves, tropical cyclones, a high fire risk and what scientists are warning to be the hottest year in human history.
This is what Australia is in for in the new year — and it looks like the severe weather system that will cause all of that is already taking hold now.
The Climate Prediction Centre in the US says there is an 80 per cent chance a full-fledged El Nino has already started.
But while the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has us on “alert” for El Nino, it says the system that brings with it hot temperatures hasn’t formed just yet.
As a result of global warming, weather experts are predicting 2019 could be the hottest year ever as temperatures continue to climb.
The 20 warmest years have all been in the past 22 years, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), with the top four in the past four years.
It’s recent “State of the Global Climate” report warns if El Nino develops, 2019 is likely to be warmer than 2018.
Across the world 1600 people died from heatwaves this year.
And no one under the age of 32 has ever experienced a cooler-than-average month.
“Every fraction of a degree of warming makes a difference to human health and access to food and fresh water, to the extinction of animals and plants, to the survival of coral reefs and marine life,’’ WMO deputy secretary-general Elena Manaenkova said.
BOM’s latest “El Nino — Southern Oscillation” report has said we don’t have an El Nino yet.
“Trade winds weakened in the last fortnight, leading to further warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean, but collectively, the atmosphere has yet to show a consistent El Nino signal,” it said.
“This suggests that the tropical Pacific atmosphere and ocean have yet to couple (reinforce each other), a process that would sustain an El Nino, and result in widespread global impacts.
A recent report on El Nino’s impacts on temperature, rain and fire in a warming climate suggests these will get worse as the climate continues to get warmer.
There have been 27 El Nino events since 1900, with seven of Australia’s 10 driest years on record during one of those events.
Events can last for as little as six months or as long as two years, occurring every three to five years.
A recent report in the Medical Journal of Australia highlighted how the climate was threatening Australian lives, with heat stress alone costing $616 per employed person per year.
“The first 10 months of 2018 could be described as the world’s climate on steroids, wreaking havoc across the world, continuing the relentless march of setting new temperature extremes, rainfall records, increases in severe tropical cyclones, droughts, fires and sea level rise,” report co-author Dr Liz Hanna said.
“Climate change can be linked to the deepening consequences, the rising human toll, loss of human lives and livelihoods, and further erosion of our children’s future.
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/why-2019-could-be-the-warmest-yet/news-story/8a29d084afae0b9b4aed649f3bc517cf
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New York, August 26, 2010—The New School Board of Trustees announced today the appointment of David E. Van Zandt, dean and professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, as the eighth president of the university. The New School, which offers some of the nation's most respected degree programs in the humanities and social sciences, design, public administration, and the performing arts, has transformed in recent years into a major urban university that remains faithful to a history of civic engagement and democratic ideals.
The search for a new president began in March 2010. The search committee, which included student, faculty and administrative representation, was charged with presenting to the Board of Trustees a demonstrated academic leader who valued the university's tradition of discussion and dissent. In order to ensure transparency, The Board of Trustees hosted a website, to provide updates on the search process and invite comments and nominations from the community.
"This search attracted a terrific array of candidates," said Laura Frost, associate professor of literary studies and a member of the search committee. "David Van Zandt is an outstanding scholar and administrator and has demonstrated an intellectual affinity with our colleagues and our students. An innovative thinker who is dedicated to academic excellence, he has built bridges among the practices of law, business, and the social sciences throughout his career. He is uniquely qualified to lead The New School."
The New School, based in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village, is a legendary, progressive university inspiring undergraduates, graduate students and others to catalyze change in an inconstant world. Founded in 1919 as a hub of intellectual freedom by a group that included Charles Beard, John Dewey, and Thorstein Veblen, The New School today is a major degree-granting university comprised of distinct academic divisions. 10,500 students are enrolled in 91 degree programs in the humanities and social sciences, design, public administration, and the performing arts. In addition, the university's campus welcomes 3,544 adult learners in more than 650 continuing education courses every year. The New School holds hundreds of public programs that exemplify its commitment to democratic practice and social justice. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu.
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The Brazen Head kicks off its monthly craft-beer series this week; for each edition, a different brewery will offer a range of special suds at reduced prices. Brooklyn Brewery is up first, with kegs from its limited Brewmaster's Reserve on tap. Options include the Companion Ale, Mary's Maple Porter and Black Ops. Between 6 and 8pm, score $4 mugs of the stuff; pours will be $5 for the rest of the night.
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2019-04-18T10:31:40Z
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https://www.timeout.com/newyork/food-drink/tap-attack-brooklyn-brewery
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i want to thank you for your valentine greeting to me and for the rose you left on my user page! this message may be duplicated, i'm still unsure of where messages get returned. but in any case, thank you for thinking of me and i hope you had a great day.
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2019-04-26T04:54:47Z
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https://gaeln.livejournal.com/18716.html?thread=36636
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See the full project website.
Our aim is to better understand and learn from ongoing climate change adaptation action, which is a complex, dynamic, interdisciplinary issue cutting across many traditional sectors (e.g. water, agriculture, forestry, health, tourism, transportation, environment/natural resource management, politics, economics).
How do you capture complex knowledge in one context and scale up to other contexts?
How do you make this captured information accessible to adaptation practitioners and decision-makers?
To address these challenges, the UNDP Innovation Facility is supporting an initiative working closely with the University of Warwick, through the UNDP Country Office in Cabo Verde and the Canada-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Facility (CCAF)1. The aim of the project is to apply integrated methods and visual analytics to learn from experience on climate change adaptation. The initial phase focuses on work ongoing in Cabo Verde, with the aim to scale up to other countries within the CCAF and UNDP’s broader climate change adaptation portfolio.
1 The Canada-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Facility (CCAF) is a global umbrella programme encompassing six national adaptation projects working to enhance resilient livelihoods in Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Haiti, Niger, Mali, and Sudan. It aims to find strategies for documenting results, sharing experiences, and replicating good practice across these participating countries. More information is available here.
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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/archive/visualising-climate-change/
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Ginger earned her B.A. in music from Dickinson College, going on to receive an M.M. in guitar performance from the Peabody Conservatory in 1988. She teaches classical guitar both privately and at local colleges, and she also tours regularly with Ensemble Galileii and has done special outreach programs for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. For the past 5 years Ginger has performed nearly every Friday at Walter Reed National Hospital, volunteering to soothe and encourage our wounded warriors. David, who also received a Bachelor's from Dickinson, went on for an M.A. in musicology from George Washington University and Ph.D. in the same field from Catholic University. He teaches American music history at the Peabody Conservatory. David is especially active in telling the story of "The Star-Spangled Banner;" he also recently appeared on the PBS series "History Detectives." "Anthem," co-produced with brother Mark Hildebrand, has been broadcast nationally. David is frequently interviewed on National Public Radio, for whom he also wrote and narrated his own program "Broadside to Anthem: Music of the War of 1812."
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2019-04-22T16:42:20Z
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https://www.colonialmusic.org/about-the-colonial-music-institute-david-and-ginger-hildebrand/who-we-are/biographical-summary-david-ginger.html
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Like most of you out there, we were relieved when Jay Leno finally ceded his seat at the Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon (effective next year), who's been killing it night after night on the Late Show. We're looking forward to a new era of Jimmy's signature style of comedy. Here's a look back at our 10 favorite skits from the Late Show.
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2019-04-24T07:59:22Z
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https://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/best-jimmy-fallon-skits.html
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An article has surfaced in the Christian Telegraph reporting on an expert’s 10 commandments for calling a pastor. The link below will take you to the article. My tip – start with the pastoral epistles rather than this bloke.
The Kazakh government continues to put pressure on foreign missionaries attempting to obtain visas to stay in the country. The Kazakh church is prepared for matters to get worse, reports MNN.
"Foreign involvement for the purpose of missionary work in Kazakhstan becomes increasingly difficult to happen," confirms Eric Mock, vice president of Ministry Operations for Slavic Gospel Association.
Norwegian news network Forum 18 conveys a number of instances in which the Kazakh government has denied visas to foreign missionaries of various minority faiths. A missionary visa, as it is, lasts only 180 days and cannot be renewed.
Mock says there is some fear that the visas will become even more restrictive. According to Forum 18, the Nur Otan Party has even created a document calling for further crackdown on "non-traditional faiths." Forum 18 quotes a report as saying, "The Nur Otan Party should devote special attention to the activity of non-traditional religious movements of destructive character. The destructive impact of such movements is very great."
With clear contempt toward the presence of evangelical Christian missionaries as well as missionaries for other minority faiths, the church as well as ministries like SGA need to prepare for any change. "[We need to] be sure that we do not assume that the world that we minister in today is the same that we minister in tomorrow," says Mock.
Whether or not missionary presence is increasingly restricted does not directly affect SGA, since their ministry mainly focuses on helping nationals. Still, won’t a crackdown harm the church? Mock says not as much as you might think.
"There is one thing that I saw [in Kazakhstan] that mostly encouraged my heart," explains Mock. "I saw a group of ethnic Kazakh young men who God has raised up with a passion to reach their own people. I had not really seen that in the past; it [had been] more of a Russian Baptist influence, but now I’m seeing Kazakh Baptist."
As long as changes don’t happen too abruptly, Mock says he believes the church will be able to handle any blows headed their way. The energy generated by young church leaders could be just what the Kazakh church needs to become self-sustaining. "With this new generation coming up, I think even with law changes, God has raised up this younger generation to make a profound impact for the sake of the Gospel."
If laws are passed too quickly or even just gradually, their effects will still of course be evident in the church. Mock says the best thing that we can do for them now is to pray. "There is nothing more important than praying for the believers in Kazakhstan to be passionate in reaching their own people, and to see more churches planted with that same commitment to advance the Gospel."
One community in Punjab Province faces threat from grenade, another from bulldozer.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, July 13 (CDN) — Christian communities in two areas came under attack in Punjab Province earlier this month.
In Sargodha, an unidentified motorcyclist on July 1 tossed a grenade in front of the gates of St. Filian’s Church of Pakistan, next to a small Christian-owned amusement park where children were playing, Christian sources said.
One of the owners of the playground, Shehzad Masih, said the hand-made grenade was thrown just before 9 p.m., when hot summer weather had cooled and the park was crammed with parents and their children. It did not explode.
Masih said children told him that after throwing the grenade, the motorcyclist sped away, disappearing into the traffic of University Road in Sargodha, a major street where government offices are located. Masih said police confirmed that it was an explosive device that did not go off.
The Rev. Pervez Iqbal of St. Filian’s said the Bomb Disposal Squad and New Satellite Town police took the grenade away. High-ranking police officials cordoned off the area, declaring a “High Red Alert” in Sargodha, he added. He and Masih said the whole area was evacuated.
“By the grace of God, that hand grenade did not go off, and there was no loss of life or property despite the fact that the alleged militant made his best efforts to throw it close to the entrance of the church, possibly inside the church,” Iqbal said.
A retired member of the army who now serves as a clergyman told Compass that a standard hand grenade normally has eight ounces of explosive material capable of killing within 30 to 50 yards.
“Nowadays Muslim militants are able to make their own hand-made grenades,” he said on condition of anonymity, adding that the explosive content in the undetonated grenade has not been revealed.
Area Christians said the attempted attack comes after many Christian clergymen and heads of Christian organizations received threatening letters from Islamic militants.
In spite of the incident, the following Sunday service took place at its usual time.
Iqbal told Compass that police have taken no special measures to protect the church building since the attempted attack, though a police patrol vehicle is stationed outside the church gate.
“This is the only measure taken by the police to beef up security at the church,” he said.
At a small village near Sheikhupura, Punjab Province, a church building and Christian homes came under threat of demolition on July 5. Islamic extremists issued threats as, accompanied by local police, they intended to demolish the Apostolic Church Pakistan structure in Lahorianwali, Narang Mandi, with a bulldozer, area Christians said.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Rana Rauf led Narang Mandi police and the extremists in an attempted demolition that was averted with the intervention of Christian leaders who called in district police.
The attempted assault followed the arrest on July 1 of local influential Muslim Muhammad Zulfiqar, who had forcibly stopped renovation of a church wall on that day; he was released the same day.
“Rana Rauf disdainfully used derogatory remarks against Christians, calling them ‘Gadha [donkey],’ and said they go astray unless a whip is used to beat them and show them the straight path,” said Yousaf Masih, a Christian who also had been arrested and released on July 1, when Rauf, Zulfiqar and the extremists stopped the renovation work.
Another area Christian, Zulfiqar Gill, told Compass that the Islamic extremists threatened the Christians in the July 5 incident.
“They said that if we ever tried to rebuild the walls or renovate the frail Apostolic Church building, they would create a scene here like Gojra,” said Gill. On Aug. 1, 2009, Islamic assailants acting on a false rumor of blaspheming the Quran and whipped into frenzy by local imams attacked a Christian colony in Gojra, burning at least seven Christians to death, injuring 19 others, looting more than 100 houses and setting fire to 50 of them. The dead included women and children.
Khalid Gill of the Christian Lawyers’ Foundation said Zulfiqar has tried to illegally obtain the church property and attacked the structure twice previously in the past two years. Younas Masih said Zulfiqar demolished one of the church walls on Oct. 8, 2008, and local Christian Akber Masih said Zulfiqar set aflame the tents and decorations of a Christmas Service at the Apostolic Church Pakistan in 2009.
In each case, Christians filed charges against Zulfiqar, but because of his wealth and influence he was never arrested, area Christians said.
A Deputy District Officer Revenue report states that Zulfiqar has illegally occupied land and wishes to seize the church property and the house of an assistant pastor. Zulfiqar has already demolished the house of the assistant pastor, Waris Masih, according to the report.
Lahorianwali is a predominantly Islamic village of more than 350 Muslim families and only 36 Christian families, sources said.
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2019-04-25T21:56:27Z
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https://pbaptist.wordpress.com/tag/calling/
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Emerging trends are vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to improve the safety and comfort of the drivers by providing real-time traffic congestion information, collision warnings, and allowing firmware updates over the air. Computing and communication in the vehicle is thus integrated with monitoring of entities in the physical world resulting in the creation of a cyber-physical system (CPS). However, allowing the physical world to interact with the in-vehicle network introduces a number of security risks including cyber attacks targeting vehicle functionality and maneuverability. Thus, there is an emerging need for securing vehicles against these attacks. A roadmap for the automotive industry is to follow a defense-in-depth approach. There are substantial challenges for securing vehicles against cyber attacks, and design and implementation of security solutions must be made with careful consideration to the resource-constrained ECUs and the real-time constraints in the in-vehicle network.
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2019-04-19T14:54:07Z
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https://research.chalmers.se/publication/69890
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The work Bankruptcy and finance : speech of Hon. John Davis, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, October 26, 1893 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Brigham Young University. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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2019-04-24T14:16:56Z
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http://link.lib.byu.edu/resource/74DVO4QYrnI/
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Congratulations Dean Hill, well deserved.
Congratulations Jonathan! Knowing you for over 14 years I have witnessed your passion and drive for the students and staff of Pace U. You vetted me to enroll and complete my DPS degree from Pace and I am forever grateful! Great job my friend!
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2019-04-20T03:15:55Z
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http://seidenbergnews.blogs.pace.edu/2018/07/17/jonathan-hill-reappointed-as-dean-of-the-seidenberg-school-of-computer-science-and-information-systems-at-pace-university/
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Matt Ross, the actor-turned-director who recently helmed the acclaimed Captain Fantastic, has lined up a new project in the science fiction thriller Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Based on the original novel by Tom Sweterlitsch, Tomorrow and Tomorrow was found by Entertainment 360, who then brought it to producer Mark Gordon at The Mark Gordon Company. From there, the two took the project to TriStar, where it sold in a competitive auction.
In addition to both writing and directing Captain Fantastic (currently nominated for an Academy Award), Ross is a regular on HBO’s Silicon Valley, playing the antagonistic Gavin Belsom.
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2019-04-25T14:43:15Z
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https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/818113-matt-ross-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
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Today, RFcnn.com, a famous RF connector manufacturer, has launched an SMA RF connector promotion. All of the newly released items are provided at very low prices.
Today, RFcnn.com, a famous RF connector manufacturer, has launched an SMA RF connector promotion. All of the newly released items are provided at very low prices. According to the CEO of the company, the first 20 buyers will receive extra discounts before Oct. 24, 2013.
As a senior engineer of the company states, an SMA (SubMiniature version A) connector is a semi-precision coaxial RF connector developed as a minimal connector interface for coaxial cable with a screw type coupling mechanism. It is made for use from DC to 18 GHz.
The CEO of RFcnn.com says, “We offer a wide range of RF connectors for customers worldwide. We are now one of the most popular RF connector wholesalers, and this is supported with lots of facts and figures. Please note that the promotion is valid until Oct. 24, 2013,” says the CEO of the company.
In addition, the innovation-based company provides excellent pre-sale service and after-sale service. Its quality checks and standards are quite strict, meeting the highest global quality standards. It ensures that each product delivered is of top quality.
RFcnn.com is an online outlet of Zhenjiang Fourstar Electronics Co. LTD, which is a China-based company that aims to provide customers high quality products at the lowest possible prices. Customers can try the company’s products through sample orders with a long-term contract. Most of the customers come back soon after their first deals.
More details about the company’s top quality SMA RF connectors can be found at: http://www.rfcnn.com/SMA-Female-For-PCB-Board-Edge-Soldering-RF-Connector-97.html.
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2019-04-18T19:34:51Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11222082.htm
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A man that police were looking for on an arrest warrant was shot inside a Wisconsin children’s hospital Thursday and taken into custody.
The shooting happened inside the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, which was on lockdown after reports that there was an active shooter inside the building.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. said they encountered the man – who was not named -- holding a baby in the hospital’s neonatal unit. When they told him he was under arrest, he placed the baby down and then took off running down a hallway,pulling a handgun out.
Officers shot the man several times. He is now being treated at another area hospital. No one was injured in the shooting and Clarke Jr. said the baby and its mother are doing fine.
He added that authorities do not immediately know the relationship between the baby and the suspect.
The man was wanted on a warrant for felon in possession of a firearm.
Click for more from Fox 6 News.
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2019-04-23T02:59:17Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-wanted-on-arrest-warrant-shot-inside-wisconsin-childrens-hospital
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After crossing 130 miles on ferry from southern Spain to the tiny Spanish enclave of Melilla, a finger of Africa curling into the Mediterranean, travelers are greeted with the sight of a 16th century fortress, whose stone ramparts overlook a steep cliff.
Hiding along the cliffs and in woods, runaway children are watching the ferry as it docks, and the line of trucks waiting to board it for the return voyage to Spain, seeing them as their tickets to riches.
Held by the Spanish since 1495, Melilla, a small port city once famous for its bustling trade in beeswax and goat skins, shares a seven-mile border with Morocco, defended by a 20-foot-high triple-reinforced fence threaded with barbed wire and topped with blades. It’s meant to keep out migrants from sub-Saharan countries who don’t have passports to enter legally. Despite mesh so fine that fingers can’t grab hold of it, thousands of foreigners successfully scale the barrier annually, using hooks to hoist themselves up and jump across it, though many are injured in the process.
Moroccans can enter legally, and tens of thousands do each day through the one pedestrian control point along the border. Most are workers and shoppers who return at day’s end, but some are hoping to make their way from Melilla to the European continent. Among those entering alone, and not leaving, are boys as young as 8, many of whom make the trip with their parents’ blessing.
“They want to go to work and help their family, especially their mother and siblings in Morocco,” says Spanish photojournalist José Colón, who for the past 15 years has been photographing street kids in Melilla and Ceuta, another Spanish enclave 250 miles away, across from Gibraltar. Some, he says, “want to be footballers” — playing for famous soccer teams.
And hundreds of these kids are camping on concrete slabs along the docks at night, under bridges or in nearby caves: Street kids are hiding out in abandoned cars, even sleeping in trash cans and foraging through dumpsters and the municipal dump to survive and make good on their dream of a better life on the mainland.
According to Save the Children, last year more than a thousand unaccompanied foreign minors, mostly from Morocco, arrived in Melilla and Ceuta. By law, as unaccompanied foreign minors — known as menas — these kids can’t be returned to Morocco once they’ve entered these Spanish territories in Africa. Instead, when discovered, they’re locked up in overcrowded juvenile centers, such as La Purísima, that NGO groups criticize as being substandard and rife with maltreatment and violence; last week, a teacher there was arrested for stabbing a pupil. Many of the students escape to live in the streets.
But life on their own is more dangerous — and not only because they’re dealing with the basics of survival and always hiding from the police. It’s because they do “the risky” as they call their only hope of getting to the mainland by stowing away on a ferry for the five-hour trip across the Mediterranean to the Spain. The usual way to do this is to crawl under ferry-bound trucks and hide between the axles. Sometimes they get trapped; recently one teen traveled on the underside of a tour bus for 160 miles in blazing heat before passengers heard his cries. Other have been fatally run over while attempting the maneuver.
Truck drivers are now wise to their ploys: At the sight of the boys, they floor it. Thus even finding a vehicle for clandestine transport onto ferries may take weeks, months, sometimes years of trying while camping out in Melilla, where human traffickers are reportedly now on the prowl for the street kids, sometimes getting them addicted to sniffing glue in hopes of taking control of their lives.
Upon the ferries’ arrival back in southern Spain, police search arriving vehicles with dogs, and migrants they discover are sent back to Melilla. Nevertheless, it’s estimated that some 10 percent of the 20,000 illegal migrants, including adults, who attempt to leave Melilla and Ceuta do eventually make it to mainland Spain; they’re aboard nearly every ferry that leaves. Last year, when a ferry crashed into the port in Malaga, police discovered that of the 150 on board, seven were stowaways.
And the number of kids entering Spain by themselves — whether by hiding on ferries or trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya in flimsy vessels — is increasing. According to Save the Children in its report “Los Más Solos” (Those Most Alone), 6,414 unaccompanied foreign minors showed up there in 2017 — a 60 percent jump over the nearly 4,000 who arrived in 2016.
The work of award winning photojournalist José Colón has been shown in Spain, Italy, USA, Germany, France and Brazil as well as in various international magazines. He has artistically collaborated with the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, the Museum of History of Barcelona and the Museum of History of Zaragoza. He is currently based between Barcelona and Seville, where he works with several international newspapers and photo agencies.
Melissa Rossi, a writer based in Barcelona, is the author of the geopolitical book series “What Every American Should Know.” (Plume/Penguin).
Trump warns Iran’s Rouhani to ‘Never, ever threaten’’ the U.S.
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2019-04-25T00:37:32Z
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https://ca.style.yahoo.com/alone-street-children-melilla-risking-get-spain-180325292.html
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What is black history? Many people go to school and are taught that black history started as far back as slavery. This is not true. black history has the most influence on the history of America today. Did you know that Santa Claus is real and he is black? Saint Nicholas is indeed black and the facts are in Europe. Did you know that the first people to discover America was Africans? Yes Africans were all over the world building pyramids. Did you know that Buddha was also Black? This is taboo because its too much to talk about. People fail to realize the Egypt is in Africa and the true Egyptians were black. I am not talking about this because I think it about that time we start researching our real history and not buy what they are selling.
Black history is more than slavery, we are Kings and Queens of the riches land, Africa.
Thank you for reading I hope this doesn’t’ make you mad but hey the Truth does hurt.
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2019-04-19T12:17:25Z
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https://haitianbarbiek.wordpress.com/category/respect/
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Lintong Co., Shaanxi, China. Panoramic view of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum.
Lintong Co., Shaanxi, China. Short view, clay armored warrior.
Lintong Co., Shaanxi, China. Short view, clay battle-robed warrior.
Lintong Co., Shaanxi, China. Short view, parts of clay horses.
Lintong Co., Shaanxi, China. Exhibition Hall at Museum of Qin Dynasty.
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2019-04-21T17:41:57Z
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic?type=boolean;view=thumbnail;rgn1=sourcetypedetail;select1=phrase;q1=Photographer%2520%2528Original%2529%253A%2520Unknown
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Saul Perlmutter. Photo: Roy Kaltschmidt,LBNL.
Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter is featured in the British national paper, The Guardian, in the "Rational Hero" series.
Perlmutter is an astrophysicist at the Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley. He talks about his discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and why he isn't afraid to fail.
Every month The Guradian features a scientist in their "Rational Hero" series who discusses their work, struggles and achievements. Read more.
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2019-04-25T12:12:13Z
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https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/saul-perlmutter-science-about-figuring-out-your-mistakes
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“I didn’t know it would be like this,” says 22-year-old Dang Lirong as she searches job postings for anything related to medicine at a Beijing employment fair.
“I took the major because I thought it would give me a good job,” Dang says, adjusting her black-frame glasses. After four years of toil at college in Hebei and a year interning at a Beijing hospital, she has yet to land full-time work.
Dang is among 7.5 million college graduates entering China’s job market this summer, the most ever and almost seven times the number in 2001. Their dreams are colliding with an economy growing at the slowest pace in a generation, adding pressure on policy makers to spur the employment-intensive services sector.
Compounding the challenge is a yawning skills gap between what the economy needs and what graduates want to do. The country’s services and innovation-led new economy is doing better than the polluting heavy industries of old, but they’re not expanding quickly enough to absorb the swelling ranks of aspiring attorneys, biologists and other young professionals.
Graduates last year most wanted to be secretaries, teachers, administrators, accountants and human resource managers, yet the top five needed by employers were salesmen, technicians, agents, customer service staff and waiters, according to a 2014report from Peking University and the website ganji.com, which helps companies to hire.
Too PickyMa Chao, a mechanics major, avoided talking to employers looking for salesmen at a different jobs fair at an exhibition center in Beijing’s east.
Ma said his family lives close to Beijing, so there’s no rush to find work to pay for his own living expenses.
Zhou Xiaozheng, professor of sociology at Renmin University in Beijing, says graduates -- most of them from single-child families -- are getting pickier. Many are “boomerang kids” or “moonlight clan,” he said, the first phrase referring to those that rely on their parents after graduating while the second refers to those who live paycheck to paycheck.
The irony for China’s youth: the more educated you are, the tougher it is to find work. The unemployment rate for 16 to 25 year olds with a college degree or better was 5.6 percent in the first quarter, compared with 4.7 percent for those who didn’t finish high school, according to Gan Li, director of the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance and a professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.
The salary gap between a 22-year-old whose family spent tens of thousands of yuan on a four-year degree and an assembly worker at the same age is also shrinking. The average monthly wage of those six months out of college was 3,487 yuan ($562) in 2014, according to a June report from MyCOS Research Institute, based on a nationwide survey of 264,000 responses. That increased 7.3 percent from 2013, slower than the 9.4 percent rise in average wages nationally and the 9.8 percent jump for migrant workers.
Jobs Mismatch“Only when more high-end services jobs, especially those in research and development, are created will the college employment problem be solved,” said 21st Century Education’s Xiong. China needs to further open the state-controlled media, telecommunication and finance sectors to absorb more educated workers, he said.
The encouraging news for China’s wave of graduates is that the services sector is growing faster than total output. Investment in science and technology services and telecommunication and software services both surged more than 30 percent last year.
Lyu He is among hiring managers looking for graduates at the same jobs fair that Dang attended. She needs 200 young salespeople to go to restaurants, shops and massage parlors to promote a mobile app that pings product and services ads based on users’ location.
Twenty-two-year old Guo Rui is among those who have bent the dreams of youth to match economic reality. After studying television production and working short stints at TV stations and newspapers, she ditched plans for a life on screen because the pay just didn’t cut it. She now works as a property sales agent in Beijing, earning about 20,000 yuan a month.
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2019-04-26T08:42:52Z
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http://cfswahyan.weebly.com/home/dreams-collide-with-china-slowdown-for-job-seeking-graduates
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The day went well. The developer from yesterday's shouting match was in a much better mood and was among the people who thanked me for getting involved and helping to defuse the situation. I followed up with what I hope were some good further insights into our roles on the project and why we need to settle disagreements the way we do, which will hopefully help to avoid that situation in the future. At the end of the day, the manager who previously told me that I needed to work on some personality issues said that the reports have improved a great deal, which was nice to hear. Now that I'm more conscious of how I appear to other people and how I need to appear, given my position, I think I'm doing a much better job overall of interacting with people, and the confirmation helps me feel better about how I'm doing. I asked a few people to take on some responsibilities that are moving our process considerably faster, and I think I bore out my decision to evaluate all of our designs when I caught something rather interesting in one of them - the developer was using fake keystroke events to change which row of a table was selected, with a comment stating that he'd tried a particular function but couldn't get it to work. It seemed strange to me that something so fundamental wouldn't work, so I did some digging in the Javadoc and discovered that there was a different function that appeared to be a more correct way of making that selection - something like one function merely setting the internal variable that they read to figure out where the selection was, while the other generated the necessary events to its listeners. I asked him to evaluate that function for a potential redesign, and he resubmitted the design using that function. It's all about having a second, objective pair of eyes looking at what we propose to do and making sure we're doing it correctly.
I finished watching The Mutants last night, which I thought was a very good Doctor Who arc - not one that I hear much about, but I felt that it dealt with its issues well and had plenty of interesting characters, although the science, while not exactly a reversal of the polarity of the neutron flow (but very, very close), was a little hokey. But then, it always is. Sometimes, it's a relief when the answer is aliens because that means it's not a hitherto unknown property of matter and energy that happens to behave in a way nobody's ever observed before. I don't know what particle reversal is, but I'm pretty sure it would be neither an eversion ray nor an atmosphere stabilizer if it existed at all. Anyway, next up is Frontier in Space, which has to be impressive, but I can't imagine I'll have time to watch it any time soon. I forget how many months this one took.
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2019-04-20T00:59:34Z
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https://nidoking.livejournal.com/2012/07/25/
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About Me serious and kind. Lover of animals and likes people.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by I would try to get rid of the republican party as it has been lately. I am so tired of the current way things are being mis treated and lied about.
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2019-04-23T06:20:55Z
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https://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?view=personal&pid=894344565
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columbia
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This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s until the authorities decided that his ideas were dangerous, banning Kronrod's publications until his death in 1984. Kronrod argued that while national ownership and democracy are the dominant relations of socialism, commodity-market relations nevertheless have an important role to play in the planned economy. This revelatory book includes the first translation of one of Kronrod's key essays, "Socio-oligarchism—Pseudo-Socialism of the Twentieth Century," and introduces Kronrod's thought to the English-speaking world for the first time.
David Mandel teaches political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He has written extensively on workers and their movements in the Russian Revolution, the Soviet period, and after the collapse of the Soviet system. He has been actively involved in labor education in Russia for the past 25 years.
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2019-04-26T02:46:59Z
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https://cup.columbia.edu/book/democracy-plan-and-market/9783838211084
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theatermania
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Cooper departs the production to star in Tootsie.
Christina Sajous will join the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Lilli Cooper will depart Broadway's SpongeBob SquarePants on Sunday, July 22, with Christina Sajous joining the company as Sandy Cheeks beginning Tuesday, July 24.
Cooper leaves the production to star as Julie Nichols in the Chicago world-premiere production of Tootsie.
Based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants is described as follows: "Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage."
The musical will end its run at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, September 16.
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2019-04-24T08:28:06Z
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https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/christina-sajous-to-take-over-for-lilli-cooper_85794.html
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WASHINGTON, D.C. � NAB Show New York was named last month as one of the fastest-growing trade shows by �Trade Show Executive� magazine. The largest media, entertainment and technology convention on the East Coast, NAB Show New York showcases the best in next-generation technology for media, entertainment and telecom professionals with conferences and workshops focused on television, film, satellite, online video, live events, advertising, corporate A/V, production and post.
�Trade Show Executive� ranked the 2016 NAB Show New York as one of the top 50 fastest-growing shows in the categories of total attendance and net square feet of exhibit space. Held November 9 � 10, 2016 at the Javits Convention Center in New York, NAB Show New York had a record 8,806 attendees representing a 22 percent increase over the 2015 show. The exhibition featured 362 companies spanning 63,011 net square feet of exhibit space, a 15 percent increase over 2015.
The 2017 NAB Show New York will be held October 18 � 19 at the Javits Convention Center, and as previously announced, will co-locate with the Audio Engineering Society's East Coast convention.
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2019-04-23T04:40:35Z
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http://nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=4102
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I'm thinking about booking a cruise, sailing next month and need to find the least expensive way to get from home to the pier in San Francisco. The only time we ever used a taxi it cost over $100. Hoping to find something less expensive. Checked Uber and apparently they don't service my town. BART is a possibility (which station in SF is the closest?), but with luggage may not work. I usually take more on a cruise than for other travels. Would appreciate any suggestions.
BART would bring you to Embarcadero stop which would be your best bet and you could take a taxi from there but if you have lots of luggage, BART might be a challenge. How about the Ferry from Berkeley or somewhere in East bay. This would drop you off at the Ferry Building and from there easy cab ride to Cruise terminal. Could you not bribe a friend to take you. go early and take them out for lunch or dinner or breakfast depending on when your cruise leaves the port of SF.
Thanks for responding Shar. Good to know either Embarcadero station on BART or Ferry Building on ferry would work. Ideally someone would drive me, but at the moment I don't know who that would be, with most friends working. Thanks again. I'll check with cruise line and AAA. Haven't used a TA for years!
It's good to see back on Fodor's Giovanna! I hope you are getting along well. It sounds like you're thinking about embarking on a cruise, good for you!
Oh Giovanna, I too am happy to see you back on Fodor's. I will be on the cruise to Mexico with you! I can't wait to meet you. Your posts on your dear Angelo helped me get through a very tough time when my mother passed away.
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2019-04-23T04:13:53Z
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https://www.fodors.com/community/cruises/getting-to-pier-27-san-francisco-from-the-east-bay-1033130/
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Market sentiment remained negative in the absence of any positive trigger amid sustained capital outflows.
Bajaj Auto, Asian Paints and Infosys were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.
NEW DELHI: Shares of Arshiya (up 9.97 per cent), Hindusthan National Glass (up 8.16 per cent), Motilal Oswal Financial Services (up 6.73 per cent), Mukand (up 5.64 per cent), Astra Microwave (up 5.20 per cent) and Kitex Garments (up 5.01 per cent) surged over 5 per cent despite negative market sentiment.
Global cues are uninspiring. Trade conflict between the US and other economies of the world continues to be a key concern for investors.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 84 points down at 10,631, while the BSE Sensex was down 248 points at 35,175 around 11:15 am.
Barring IT and teck, all sectoral indices were suffering losses on BSE.
In the Sensex kitty of stocks, 10 stocks were advancing, while 21 were declining.
NYPC, ONGC and Vedanta were among the top losers in the Sensex index.
On the other hand, Bajaj Auto, Asian Paints and Infosys were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/share-market-update-these-stocks-surge-over-5-despite-negative-market-sentiment/articleshow/64822996.cms
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This guest post is from a Peach Sister in the US.
" As the month of September is here, I am reminded that I am a cancer survivor.
That being said, it makes me sad that we are not all survivors.
I think of all who have passed because of cancer.
My family and friends have been hit with this disease.
I cry during this month, and through the year for them.
I cry for me; the guilt and the happiness of being here.
I am thankful for the Doctors and Nurses who helped me survive the painful aspects of cancer.
Strangers who walked up to me and prayed right in the middle of a store (yep, that happened a couple of times).
My sisters Nancy and Patti who were there every single time I needed them.
My daughter Nassreen who took notes when I couldn’t.
My sweet heart Brian for all the head holding when I was puking everywhere!
I am thankful for the people who surrounded me then and now.
If you would like to write a guest piece for the blog then please get in touch via the contact form.
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2019-04-19T03:08:09Z
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https://wombcancersupportuk.weebly.com/blog/welcome-september-by-sharon-champagne
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A Chick-fil-A trailer is selling chicken sandwiches outside Tractor Supply on Lee Highway.
Fans like Lexington resident Martha Robey stood in line for an hour for a sandwich on Wednesday.
Two employees sold 200 original chicken sandwiches within one hour. They had to call the Chick-fil-A in Staunton to bring more.
The trailer is open Wednesday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
It serves wraps, salads and drinks in addition to the sandwiches.
Adam Butler, managing partner of the Chick-fil-A in Staunton, said the trailer is a test for market potential.
Ben Rising, a junior at the Virginia Military Institute, said he plans to be a loyal customer.
“I’m pretty excited for the food truck, I definitely plan on eating there,” he said.
Lexington resident Karen Redmon said she stopped at the trailer to take photos before its opening on Wednesday.
| Jimmie Johnson III contributed to this story.
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2019-04-23T16:03:58Z
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https://rockbridgereport.academic.wlu.edu/2019/04/04/chick-fil-a-comes-to-lexington-trailer-style/
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SEDA have recently joined forces with LoveMilton, a Glasgow based charity providing construction courses and volunteering opportunities for local Milton residents. Together they have formed SEDAbuild, a new school promoting ‘hands on’ ecological construction courses, workshops and volunteering opportunities across Scotland.
SEDAbuild will be running their first ‘Green Roof Course’ at the end of October. Over three days participants will learn the theory and practical application of designing and building a small green roof. We are delighted to announce that we Dusty Gedge joining us as our Saturday guest tutor.
Dusty is a recognised authority, designer and spokesperson on green roof building and is the founder of Livingroofs.org and co-founder of greenrooftraining.com. He will share his passion and knowledge of green roof construction with the team and will lead a full day of building on site. The course will cover, preparation, waterproofing, edge detailing, drainage, substrate, planting and maintenance and participants will be fully involved in every stage of the green roof building process.
The course will be located in Milton, Glasgow and will provide a valuable green roof for an outdoor classroom at a local primary school.
If you have any questions or would like more information please don’t hesitate to contact me. Tickets can be booked through Eventbrite on the link below. I have also included some useful links for Dusty Gedge and attach here the SEDAbuild Green Roof Course Poster with further course details.
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https://scotland.landscapeinstitute.org/conferencescpdseminars/seda-build-green-roof-coure/
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Professor Douglas McWilliams' new book The Flat White Economy - about how digital enterprise is transforming London - is in the public eye for substances rather harder than coffee. Footage recently emerged of the author allegedly smoking crack at a North London drugs den; now he has stepped down from his job as chairman of the City think tank CEBR. All of which has seemingly drowned out all scrutiny of the book's contents. It's an enlightening read - but here are four arguments with which we take issue.
Granted, current trends suggest this will be the case. But the Flat White Economy - named after the preferred coffee-shop order of the East London tech whizzes that comprise it - is all about disruption. It involves companies that transform, re-think and create as a matter of professional urgency, which means its course can change in rapid, radical ways. Forecasting digital trends in five years', let alone ten years' time is extremely difficult.
That's further compounded by the fact that technology tends to evolve in line with Moore's law. This states that computer processing power doubles year on year. In other words the rate of change is geometric (1, 2, 4, 8) rather than linear (1, 2, 3, 4): it is much faster than our brains tend to think. That's why technologies seem to come out of the blue. Smartphones, 3D printing and personal genome sequencing are all products of the last few years, yet we imagine that they have been around for far longer.
So who's to say that there won't be an innovation within the next ten years that fundamentally disrupts the tech sector and how its organised, rendering the basis of McWilliams' prediction irrelevant? Also, three words: Dot Com crash.
All well and good. But McWilliams' chief proposal for how to actually engineer this is a "social" one. "Each region should compete," he writes, "to make its migrants feel that they will be given significant social status when they return." But he doesn't say what this would look like in practical terms. A local government simply stating that's somebody is important - presumably by inviting them to events or involving them in local projects - is far from affording them true celebrity status and the respect of the community. Plus, what kind of egoist would choose manufactured small-town recognition over the financial, commercial and social benefits that come with being in London?
To make the Flat White Economy work for the wider country, McWilliams would scrap the current model whereby London taxes finance high levels of public spending outside the capital.
Instead, he wants to use those taxes to pay for income and corporation tax breaks for economic activity in the regions.
Effectively, he wants to create regional tax havens. Having pondered whether EU law would even permit this, he concludes that "it should not be beyond human abilities" to find a way of doing so within the rules. Presumably in the same way that it should not be beyond human abilities to take advantage of such a tax haven without having to give much back in return.
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2019-04-20T12:51:29Z
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https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/flat-white-economy-review
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For the kofta: Mix together the ground beef, breadcrumbs, coriander, cumin, garlic, onions, cilantro and 1 teaspoon each salt and pepper. Form the mixture into 1-ounce balls.
For the sauce: Heat the oil in a pot. Fry the onions until translucent. Add the garlic and 2 1/2 cups water; bring to a boil. Stir in the tomato paste, split peas, coriander, paprika, turmeric, dried plums, sweet peppers, tomatoes, cilantro and some salt and black pepper. Add the kofta, then cover the pot and reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
Serve with the basmati rice.
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2019-04-19T15:29:24Z
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https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/kofta-chalao-4635084
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Do you have anything to ask regarding Turkey? Further travel tips? Or you would like me to help you with your travel plan, holidays and shopping?
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2019-04-22T18:06:14Z
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https://istanbulohistanbuldotcom.wordpress.com/contact/
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It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or cherish enough, this connection between soul and landscape — between our own best possibilities, and the view from our own windows. We need the world as much as it needs us, and we need it in privacy, intimacy, and surety. We need the field from which the lark rises — bird that is more than itself, that is the voice of the universe: vigorous, godly joy. Without the physical world such hope is: hacked off. Is: dried up. Without wilderness no fish could leap and flash, no deer could bound soft as eternal waters over the field; no bird could open its wings and become buoyant, adventurous, valorous beyond even the plan of nature. Nor could we.
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2019-04-20T07:01:00Z
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https://radiatingblossom.wordpress.com/2015/03/
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©2007 Publications International, Ltd. See how far you can stretch the surface of water.
It may be hard to believe, but you can stretch the surface of water. See just how far you can stretch it in this science project for kids on states of matter.
Step 1: Fill a small plastic cup all the way to the top with water.
Step 2: Hold an eyedropper filled with water close to the surface of the water in the plastic cup, and gently release the water drop by drop.
How many drops can you add to the plastic cup after it is "full"? Can you see that the water level actually rises above the top of the cup? Water molecules attract one another strongly so that the water holds together.
Water drops are more elastic than you think. Go to the next page to find out how you can splice and reconnect them.
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2019-04-20T12:51:40Z
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https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/crafts/science-projects/science-projects-for-kids-states-of-matter7.htm
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A membership association which aims to promote Hawke's Bay as an international education destination has been approved by the Department of Internal Affairs to be registered as both a charity and incorporated society – a first of its kind in the country.
Last week members of Learning Hawke's Bay voted to proceed to become incorporated. Chairwoman Geraldine Edwards was also voted to stay on as the interim chair to see through the remaining procedures.
"Learning Hawke's Bay and its members work extremely hard to promote Hawke's Bay as an education destination. International students coming to study in the region contribute significantly to local economy and create jobs," Edwards said.
International students contribute about $20 million to Hawke's Bay's economy and support more than 200 jobs, according Education New Zealand's economic benefit analysis of international education.
The organisation has 18 members, including Eastern Institute of Technology, New Horizon College and 16 primary, intermediate and secondary schools from Hastings, Napier and Dannevirke.
Learning Hawke's Bay regional manager Wenhua Yang said its new status meant it could become a legal entity and operate more effectively.
It has been operating under the wing of the Hastings District Council, funded by membership fees, Education NZ, Hastings District Council, and Napier City Council.
Learning Hawke's Bay supports members' marketing efforts by producing collateral promotion materials such as videos, brochures, and online resources; developing innovative products such as GameOn, which combine education experience with sports, tourist and other relevant activities to support local businesses and education providers; and organising events such as mayors' welcome functions for new international students to the region.
It is also developing initiatives with the Chamber of Commerce to support local businesses to benefit from skills of international graduates, and with the Citizens Advice Bureau and Multicultural Association to provide targeted advice for international students to help ensure they have a positive experience in Hawke's Bay.
"We will continue to work with the councils and Education New Zealand to manage the work programmes that are jointly funded by them to continue to promote Hawke's Bay as an international education destination," Yang said.
"We welcome the new objective of enabling regions to share benefits of international education, according to the recently released draft government international education strategy. We look forward to seeing government policy and funding follow this strategic direction. Provincial regions are very different from Auckland and other main centres, and we need government support to keep raising the profile of our region in an increasingly competitive international market."
Last month the society led a successful marketing mission to China involving Tamatea High School principal Robin Fabish and other delegates from Lindisfarne College, Napier Girls High School, Taradale High School and William Colenso College.
Fabish said it was an eye-opener. He gathered first-hand experience and knowledge about China, the biggest market for international education, and developed many useful contacts for potential co-operation with overseas partners, which will support his vision of educating his school students to become global citizens.
The Learning Hawke's Bay delegation visited education agencies, China Scholarship Council, Guangzhou Study Abroad Association, and several schools in Shanghai, Beijing, Jinan and Guangzhou. They ran seminars and presentations to hundreds of education consultants, and thousands of parents and students, in both face-to-face and online settings. This mission was part of the central regions' collective marketing trip to China involving Manawatu, Taranaki and Whanganui.
Four regions signed memorandums of understanding with EIC Education, one of the largest international education consultancy firms in China, and with Zhonghuang Whampoa International Education Group which has nine international schools in China.
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2019-04-23T12:06:18Z
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12086884
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Planes, Trains, Automobiles; But Bicycles?
BLUMENAUER: These bike and pedestrian projects actually create more jobs per million dollars than just dropping asphalt for roads. So I think that it’s more than a step backwards, I mean it is really an assault on 20 years of progress.
GELERMAN: But the Republican author of the bill says states should decide how to spend the money.
MICA: So sometimes bike trails were actually short changed in the process and people had to come to Washington on bended knees.
DAVIS-WALLEN: If we want to make wooden guitars for another 178 years, we've gotta use the woods that are available to us and we've got to maintain those forests in a sustainable manner so that we can keep doing it. These stories and more, this week on Living on Earth - stick around!
ANNOUNCER ONE: Support for Living on Earth comes from the National Science Foundation and Stonyfield Farm.
GELLERMAN: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, MA, it’s Living on Earth, I’m Bruce Gellerman.
GELLERMAN: We recall it as a simpler time when kids on Schwinns rode their bikes to school and suburban sidewalks were actually used for walking. Federal statistics indicate as recently as 30 years ago two thirds of our kids biked or walked to school. Well, that has certainly changed.
GELLERMAN: Today, less than 13 percent of our kids use the old foot-mobile, or ride their two wheelers to class. Making children more mobile was what the Federal Safe Routes to School program was all about. It started in 2005 but could soon come to a screeching halt. It’s one of the programs on the chopping block as Congress considers a new federal transportation bill. Earl Blumenauer is a Democrat from Oregon, and a dedicated cyclist, Congressman, welcome to the show.
BLUMENAUER: Thank you very much.
GELLERMAN: Did you ride your bike to the office today?
BLUMENAUER: You know, I did, continuing a 15 year tradition here on Capitol Hill of bringing a bike instead of a car to Washington DC. It’s one of the best parts of my day.
GELLERMAN: What’s at stake in the proposed Republican-sponsored Transportation Bill in terms of biking and walking?
BLUMENAUER: Well, it is arguably the worst piece of transportation legislation I’ve seen that has been proposed. Not just in the 15 years I’ve been in Congress, but for many years before that. It would take away the transportation enhancement program option, which is the most popular program in the entire federal transportation arena where we had requirements to be spent on bike and ped - that’s stripped away.
It eliminates a requirement that states provide bike and pedestrian accommodation when there’s major bridge replacement. It repeals the Safe Routes to School program which has been so instrumental in trying to make sure that kids can get to school safely on their own - to make sure that there are bike lanes, that there are curb cuts, that there are sidewalks for heaven’s sakes - common sense steps that make our kids safer, and frankly give our families more choices so that people aren’t having to shuttle kids to school and have another traffic jam in the neighborhood every morning.
GELLERMAN: Yeah, I guess that 20 percent of the traffic in the morning, during rush hour, is from parents dropping off their kids!
BLUMENAUER: It’s astounding. In so many communities now, you have kind of a double blip for the morning commute because there are people who are rushing around in the morning and before they go to work, they are congregating around schoolyards. The more we can do to make children safe getting places on their own, the better off everybody is going to be.
GELELRMAN: I was reading some statistics from the Federal Highway Administration. They said if all our kids walked to school or rode their bikes to school, we’d add 12 billion hours of exercise time, save 160 million gallons of gas.
BLUMENAUER: Yeah, it’s astounding when you think of the cumulative affect that would occur if children could travel safely, or just generally. A quarter of the trips in the United States, one quarter of the trips, are a mile or less. On trips like that, I beat my friends in a car. And again, I’m burning calories, instead of fossil fuel.
GELLERMAN: But you know, back when it first started in 1992, I guess it was, when the federal government first funded money through the transportation bill for biking and walking, it started off modestly enough at 23 million dollars, they had 50 projects back then. Now, it’s 1.2 billion dollars and three thousand projects.
BLUMENAUER: Absolutely, it’s just exploded. Now, those first projects twenty years ago were very important because they set the tone. Now over the course of the last six years, there were major projects in the Economic Recovery Act that the President had for big bike and trail projects. This has been something that has been building and it would be a shame to lose that federal underpinning that leverages so much more.
GELLERMAN: Supporters who want to continue federal funding for bicyclists and walkers, they say things like 12 percent of our trips are made by biking and walking, and yet 1.6 percent of federal money that is spent on transportation goes to cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.
BLUMENAUER: That’s a critical point, and even more of a disparity is the fact that 16 percent of the accidents are bike and pedestrians. So, it’s a significant portion of the mode split everyday, but it is more dangerous on average, and it gets a tenth of the resources that would be dictated if you were just trying to make people safer. It’s ironic when we’re looking at the health of the economy - these bike and pedestrian projects actually create more jobs per million dollars than just dropping asphalt for roads.
When we’re concerned about the health of the population, taking away resources that make it easier for family members to get out and be active - move - to be able to improve their individual health. And we’re concerned about the health of our communities, to take away essential investments that allow our transportation systems to work better for everybody, it is more than a step backwards, I mean it is really an assault on 20 years of progress.
GELLERMAN: What are the chances of this bill passing, of these programs getting gutted?
BLUMENAUER: Well, I think the bill is so outrageous, and there are other serious problems with it, for example - unrealistic funding, suspension of environmental protections and community involvement, that it is likely to make the bill dead on arrival. But I am concerned that we have these very destructive provisions that start working their way into the process.
So I think it’s important for people to react quickly, firmly, indicate that it’s not acceptable. If everybody who cares about cycling makes their views heard, this assault will go away and we’ll get back to strengthening the partnership rather than trying to weaken it.
GELLERMAN: Well, Congressman Blumenauer thank you so very much. Have a safe ride from the House to your home!
BLUMENAUER: Thank you Bruce, I will.
GELLERMAN: Democrat Earl Blumenauer of Oregon is founder of the Congressional Bicycle Caucus.
GELLERMAN: The bill he railed against was written by Congressman John Mica. The Florida Republican is chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. His proposed legislation is 846 pages long and projects spending 260 billion dollars over the next five years. Congressman, welcome to Living on Earth!
MICA: Good to be with you. Good to talk about transportation!
GELLERMAN: Well, we just spoke with Congressman Blumenauer, and he wants to know why you want to zero out funding for bicycles and walking.
MICA: (Laughs.) Well, we aren’t doing that in the bill. What we are doing is eliminating a mandate for what’s called ‘enhancements,’ and actually devolving to states so that local communities and states don’t have to come to Washington and to ask for the money. So we think there will be even less red tape and states can do more or less according to what they desire.
GELLERMAN: So, if a state wants to build more bike paths they can, if they don't want to build any, they don't have to.
MICA: Oh, absolutely, absolutely. I’m a strong supporter of the bike trail program. We’ve had a ten percent set aside of highway money for enhancements, and it went, actually, beyond just bike trails, it could be used for anything, for plantings, for whatever’s considered an enhancement. So sometimes bike trails were actually short-changed in the process, and people had to come to Washington on bended knees.
GELLERMAN: Well, most of the money in your bill would go to highways. It would link federal money for roads with drilling for oil. How does that work?
MICA: Well, right now you pay 18.4 cents per gallon, that comes into the federal highway trust fund - trucks pay more with diesel fuel - that goes into the trust fund and that’s used to support the national interstate system. Unfortunately, we’ve been spending in the neighborhood of 50 billion and we take in about 35 billion, so we’re short. And President Obama has opposed increasing the gas tax, Republicans are opposed to that - so you have to have another source of revenue.
So what the Republican leadership has agreed to, and Republicans, is let’s enhance some of our own energy production, and from actually the point of production, we get royalties and other fees that are set now, we’ll put that into the trust fund to make up the balance.
GELLERMAN: So, the revenue stream would be coming from drilling for oil- the fees that the companies would pay.
MICA: Yes, new energy, which does two things: it does allow more domestic production, so we’d become less dependant, we’ll have more supply, that should bring the cost down for consumers. So, we think it’s a win-win. Eventually, we’ll have to probably do away with the gasoline tax because we have the issue of electric cars who pay no fee, we’ve got gas cars, we’ve got fuel-cell cars coming on line. And the trust fund is actually depleting because cars are going further and paying less - that’s a problem.
GELLERMAN: So, would you want drilling off the coast of Florida, your state?
MICA: Well, it depends. I’ve always been a strong advocate of going after energy. We have an incredible natural gas supply off of Florida and I think you can relatively safely go after it, but you have to be concerned. If you’re doing deepwater drilling, you can’t issue a permit, like the Obama Administration did, without having the proper checks, without having the proper monitoring by inspectors.
GELLERMAN: But your bill calls for environmental streamlining, expediting permits by limiting environmental impact reports.
MICA: Well, first of all, that’s not correct. We don't limit any of the current environmental standards. What we do is two things: first, if you have an extensive period of time for the review, we try to consolidate that, so something that might have taken a year, we try to get it done in six months.
But some of these studies and reports go on forever, so we consolidate the amount of time. Again, not changing any requirements or lowering any standards, what we’re just trying to do is get a quicker review process, because almost all of these projects are projects that are in existing footprints. Now for a project that is going through the wilderness or some new uncharted area, it may take longer.
GELLERMAN: One section of your bill calls for private participation in public transportation. I’m reading it, maybe I’ve got this wrong, but you’d allow companies to build private express lanes attached to public highways.
MICA: Absolutely. And what we did in the bill is, we have thousands of miles of interstate and we said - you cannot toll any existing free lanes on the interstate, but what you can do is take some of that existing right-of-way, some of them have inside safety lanes, that can be converted with smaller safety lanes, but be just as safe, and you can turn that into a toll road, again keeping the free lanes free.
And the private sector can build these pretty quickly, they’re a lot more efficient than the public sector and they can return money to the state and to the project. So the free lane goes faster, and people who can pay get on the new lanes and they’re paying for that new capacity - pretty fair, isn’t it?
GELLERMAN: Well, philosophically, I’m wondering - you’re creating a two class society.
MICA: Absolutely not. You’re helping those that can’t pay, and allowing them to get to work and have their roads less congested, and you’re finding a way for those that can pay a little bit more to help pay for that. So we think it’s the most equitable way.
GELLERMAN: Am I reading your bill correctly, that you’re calling for federal funding for Amtrak to be cut by 25 percent?
MICA: Well, we are making some cutbacks. There have been huge increases on Amtrak. In addition, the administration and in the various stimulus bill, gave them another three billion dollars over a three-year period. If you add all this together, we’re subsidizing every single ticket on Amtrak close to 100 dollars. So we think that we shouldn’t be spending that much, and I’ve actually called for the private sector to start coming in to look at operating some of these lines because they can provide more efficient service, do it more cost effectively - they do it cheaper.
GELLERMAN: So privatize rail traffic.
MICA: Yes, I think there are good opportunities for that where it makes sense. We still want to support a national system, but the private sector can do some remarkable things if they’re given an opportunity to fairly compete. You don’t like these answers, but that’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
GELLERMAN: (Laughs). John Mica is Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Congressman Mica, thank you very much.
MICA: Great to be with you!
GELLERMAN: We checked Congressman Mica’s figures on Amtrak's subsidies. The issue is contentious…controversial and not easily answered. The statistics are old, and many variables aren’t taken into account, but according to the Department of Transportation, on a per passenger mile basis - back in 2002, the federal government subsidized rail traffic 21 cents a mile, public transit 16 cents and commercial planes got a penny.
GELLERMAN: Just ahead: Cleaning up a Cold War mess; is the waste from nuclear weapons too hot to handle? Keep listening to Living on Earth!
GELLERMAN: It's Living on Earth, I'm Bruce Gellerman. It's been said that ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’ Well then, for researchers at Penn State University, our liquid trash may prove to be quite the trove. The scientists are developing “microbial fuel cells” - devices that harvest electricity when minute life forms feed on wastewater.
Glenn Zorpette of the Eye-Triple-E Spectrum, National Science Foundation program, "The Water-Energy Crunch: A Powerful Puzzle," has our story.
WATSON: This treatment plant collects the wastewater from the whole Penn State campus.
ZORPETTE: PhD student Valerie Watson stands on a bridge surveying a brown waterfall.
WATSON: Basically it’s just sewage, it’s what coming out of your toilets, it’s what going down your drains or your garbage disposals.
ZORPETTE: Watson uses a stick scooper to fill liter plastic jugs with the yellowish water. But, crucially, there’s more than just waste in wastewater—there are bacteria, feasting on it.
WATSON: We’re here to collect the bacteria that would normally be doing this process while exposed to oxygen. But we’re gonna take them out and we’re gonna put them in our own reactor.
ZORPETTE: Our “reactor” is a microbial fuel cell—a promising new energy technology, using bacteria, digesting wastewater, to produce electricity. And we’ll come back to these jars of sewage. See, wastewater of almost every variety contains organic matter. And that organic matter has energy, which bacteria are able to release in the form of electrons. Bruce Logan, who heads a Penn State environmental engineering lab, explains.
LOGAN: They rip electrons out of the organic matter and they have to go somewhere, and in our body, we send those electrons to oxygen, but we don't give them oxygen in a microbial fuel cell. So the only way the electrons can get to react with oxygen is to flow through the circuit.
ZORPETTE: Electrons flowing through a circuit is electricity. But the irony is, we currently spend electricity to remove organic matter from water—to the tune of 1.5 percent of our nationwide use. It goes to aerators, pumps, and lights for the buildings. Logan says that someday, microbial fuel cells installed at wastewater treatment plants could generate that much electricity while cleaning the water.
LOGAN: We could look at not only not using that electrical energy, but actually being a net electricity producer. That would be a really good thing for society.
ZORPETTE: For instance, that Penn State water treatment plant? Logan calculates its 2.6 million gallons of sewage daily could someday provide enough power to run 84 nearby houses.
ZORPETTE: So, back to that sewage. In the lab, Valerie starts assembling a microbial fuel cell. These test versions are clear plastic cubes small enough to hold in your hand. On one end: the anode, which looks like a bottle-cleaning brush. This is what the bacteria will grow on. On the other end, a circle of carbon cloth with platinum painted on. That’s the cathode. Valerie fills the cell with the sewage sample we collected at the plant. A wire connects anode to cathode, with a resistor put in between. And voila: a tiny bacteria battery.
WATSON: And so now here freestanding on its own we can have electron flow through the microbial fuel cell.
ZORPETTE: The bacteria continue doing what they were doing before, eating the waste. But the key difference is: that now they’re deprived of oxygen. In the absence of oxygen, some bacteria can pass electrons to a solid surface—the anode, in this case. In our test cell, electricity will begin to flow through the wires about 2 days later, as the electrons settle on the anode and begin their work.
ZORPETTE: If you imagine this on a large scale, water at a wastewater treatment plant would flow through these chambers on its way through the processing. Microbes would digest the sewage, clean the water and produce electricity. It would look almost identical to how water treatment looks now—just, instead of electricity going in, it’d be coming out.
On a smaller scale, the lab at Penn State still has lots to learn about the tiny critters that power their microbial fuel cells. PhD student Rachel Wagner is studying which microbes thrive in a fuel cell, and why. She looks at how they’ve adapted to better pass their electrons to the anode.
WAGNER: If we can figure out what genes are turned on when a microbe is in a microbial fuel cell and using the anode as a terminal electron acceptor, then we can manipulate those genes.
Rachel Wagner examines which microbes will work best in the fuel cells.
ZORPETTE: But the secret to success probably lies on the other side of the cell—the cathode—says Bruce Logan.
LOGAN: I think right now the central challenge is designing these systems so that they're not really big and really expensive. And mostly, that boils down to designing an efficient cathode.
ZORPETTE: Today, the best cathodes are made of platinum, which is expensive. Other, less-efficient cathodes, have to be really big to produce substantial power.
LOGAN: We're really putting a lot of energy and effort into addressing that problem in a way that doesn't use precious metals and can be done with, you know, a reasonable amount of volume of reactor.
ZORPETTE: If these engineering hurdles get worked out, the potential energy savings and versatility of microbial fuel cells could transform water treatment. They could provide energy to treat water off the grid, in developing countries or remote areas. They could use almost any kind of wastewater as fuel. In State College, Pennsylvania, they’re thinking: clean water at no net energy cost.
LOGAN: We're just trying to answer the question, can we guarantee society water? That's a pretty basic thing. You can argue about cars and buildings and heat and cooling or whatever, but you got to have water.
ZORPETTE: It’s a big guarantee—carried on the backs of the tiniest of workhorses. I’m Glenn Zorpette.
GELLERMAN: Our story is part of the Eye-Triple-EE Spectrum, National Science Foundation program, "The Water-Energy Crunch: A Powerful Puzzle."
For more information, go to our website loe.org.
- USA Today story: "Cleaning up a Cold War Mess"
GELERMAN: Coming up – finding new timber to preserve the sonic timbre for fine guitars. Stay tuned to Living on Earth!
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GELLERMAN: It's Living on Earth, I'm Bruce Gellerman. Just ahead, two stories – new woods for high end guitars and forget the hills, it's the trees that are alive with the sound of music. But first, this Note on Emerging Science from Raphaella Benin.
BENNIN: There’s at least one species that may thrive on our warming planet: that’s the tapeworm that spends most of its life inside the stickleback fish.
The worms are a common parasite found all over the northern hemisphere; they live mostly in oceans and lakes. The temperature of these waters is usually comfortable for both the worms and their host fish, but researchers at the University of Leicester in England were curious how the creatures’ relationship might change as global warming heats up the planet.
The scientists put fish infected with the tapeworms in two seperate tanks: one heated to the water temperature of an average British summer's day -- 15 degrees Celsius -- and another five degrees warmer. The worms in the hotter waters grew faster and larger, and were ready to produce their eggs sooner. But the fish didn’t fare as well. Their growth was stunted and their reproductive abilities damaged. And even though they were suffering, the sickly stickleback fish sought out warmer spots in the tanks. And the worms not only appeared to fill the bodies of the fish but control their behaviors, too.
This study is among the first to look into the possible effects of climate change on the relationships between parasites and hosts. And while the future seems hot and bleak for some animals, including the stickleback fish, the tapeworms are looking forward to their day in the sun. That’s this week’s Note on Emerging Science. I’m Raphaella Bennin.
GELLERMAN: The makers of high–end guitars are at a crossroads. After decades of using the wood from special hardwood trees to get that perfect tone, today - the oldest and best forests are rapidly vanishing. The situation has some who craft fine acoustic guitars searching for eco-friendly ways to keep their businesses, and the music going. Reporter Ann Murray from the environmental radio program Allegheny Front in western Pennsylvania has our story.
GUITAR STORE CLERK: Here, brother, have some picks.
MURRAY: Visit any music store that sells premium guitars and it’s like taking a virtual trip to forests all over the world. John Bechtold, the owner of Pittsburgh Guitars, pulls out a catalogue for a high-end acoustic guitar manufacturer.
BECHTOLD: This chart shows where their wood is procured from. Canada, Japan, Brazil, India.
MURRAY: Forests in these countries produce woods... mahogany, rosewood and spruce to name a few, that have been used by generations of guitar makers.
MURRAY: These traditional "tonewoods" have stood the test of time for a reason: they produce a clear resonant sound; they're durable and beautiful.
MURRAY: With just 20 percent of the world’s intact forests remaining, the oldest trees that produce the best tonewoods are vanishing fast.
PAUL: The cold truth is we're quite simply running out of a lot of the species that have been used for hundreds of years to make musical instruments.
MURRAY: That’s Scott Paul, forest campaign coordinator for Greenpeace. He says guitar makers aren’t the main reason for the depletion of tonewoods.
PAUL: The global consumption is just really reaching, to say the obvious, unprecedented levels.
MURRAY: Homebuilders, furniture companies and paper mills have been gobbling up these species for decades. By the 1940s, over-harvesting all but wiped out Adirondack spruce, the wood most commonly fashioned into guitar tops before World War II. Prized Brazilian rosewood became scarce by the mid 1960’s because of illegal logging.
In 1992, it was restricted from international trade. Charlie Redden, wood buyer with Taylor Guitar Company, thinks the loss of Brazilian rosewood was his industry’s wakeup call.
REDDEN: As an industry, we simply didn’t manage that the way we should have. So we’ve taken a really tough look at what role we play in using those materials.
MURRAY: Redden says guitar builders need to keep the remaining tonewood forests healthy. Taylor and other acoustic guitar makers have asked for help from groups like Greenpeace, the Environment Investigation Agency and Greenwood.
REDDEN: They have those resources to help communicate with the governments in each of those areas so we can work on the same page as far as forest inventory and sustainability to ensure those forests are managed properly.
MURRAY: Taylor is partnering with Greenwood in Honduras. They're teaching local people to manage and export mahogany.
MURRAY: This Greenwood video shows sustainably harvested trees in the Honduran rainforest. The trees that are being cut have been tagged with bar codes that are linked to their GPS location. Greenwood says this tracking process has stepped up compliance with local forest regulations.
MURRAY: Until 2008, wood importers in the United States didn't have to follow the timber laws of other countries and essentially could import illegally harvested wood. Greenpeace estimates that new federal regulations have helped to reduce the illegal timber trade by 40 percent. Redden thinks industry and government intervention have come just in time to save some of the forests that produce traditional tonewoods.
REDDEN: I'm hopeful that we will start to see better forest management plans so our industry can continue to make those guitars indefinitely.
MURRAY: Other guitar manufacturers aren't as hopeful. They point to the slow re-growth of forests and political instability in countries where many of the remaining tonewoods are located. Because of these limitations, Martin Guitar Company wants to go in another direction with its production of premium guitars.
MURRAY: At Martin's factory in Nazareth, PA, Brian Bailey's handsanding the cherry wood sides of a guitar body.
BAILEY: We file it down and go over it with a fine file to make it real smooth.
MURRAY: How is this wood to work with?
BAILEY: Good. It’s hardwood and it works very easily.
MURRAY: It's one of the sustainably certified guitars Martin makes with so called alternative tonewoods. Upstairs in the factory's offices, Linda Davis-Wallen says that Martin is trying to move musicians away from rare tonewoods that have been the mainstay of high-end guitar building.
DAVIS-WALLEN: Many musicians get very involved in many different movements and particularly environmental ones and yet they want the instrument they play to be very traditional which means it’s made out of all the wrong species. For instance, the ones that are most endangered, instead of helping us move forward with something that’s more sustainable and available.
MURRAY: Customers aren't beating down doors to buy Martin’s eco-friendly guitars. Of the 100,000 or so instruments the company makes each year, only 150 are made with nontraditional woods such as maple, koa and cherry.
DAVIS-WALLEN: If we want to make wooden guitars for another 178 years we’ve gotta use the woods that are available to us and we've got to maintain those forests in a sustainable manner so that we can keep doing it.
MURRAY: Martin is making an effort to get the word out. Dealers have to sign a contract saying they'll educate customers about alternative woods. Martin also has its tonewood ambassadors. Laurence Juber, once the lead guitarist with Paul McCartney's band Wings, and now a Grammy winning composer, has a signature line of Martin guitars. He designed his instrument with North American maples.
JUBER: The maple guitars do not have the same appeal as a rosewood guitar does, but once the perception arises that you can actually get a great sound out of these instruments, then I think it will start to ease. But that doesn’t help Martin right now.
MURRAY: Juber and others think change will come slowly to the acoustic guitar world and that will have consequences for old growth forests around the globe.
MURRAY: For Living On Earth, I’m Ann Murray.
GELLERMAN: You can tell a lot about an instrument made from wood by studying the pattern of annual tree rings - the instrument's age, where it came from. The study’s called dendromusicology. Well, Austrian artist Bartholomaus Traubeck takes tree rings one step further. He turns them into music – in a composition he calls "Years".
To make tree-ring music, Traubeck saws thin cross sections from trees, then, applying a mathematical formula, he plays the platters on a device that looks a lot like a turn-table.
TRAUBECK: The tree slice is turning like a disk and the tone arm is constantly being moved to the inside of the disk like on a regular record player. The difference is that basically it’s just a camera and this camera is a modified camera, a very fast one, and the camera has just moved in and it waits until there is a tree ring passing the camera's field of view and then it is translated into a sound. Sometimes it is a series of piano tones, sometimes it’s just one sound and the melody is defined, for instance, by the rate of growth. In essence, I play the tree’s year rings.
GELLERMAN: This first piece that you recorded, what kind of tree did you use?
TRAUBECK: It’s a fir tree and it’s very minimalistic because it grows very fast and therefore it has big gaps in between the year rings.
GELLERMAN: It’s a very dark piece of music.
TRAUBECK: Yeah. I have an algorithm that defines what kind of tree gets what kind of mixture of scales, and this is by the color of the tree and the overall texture of the wood and stuff like that. So, whenever you put a fir tree on, you will get C minor, usually- that’s a little dark sounding.
It’s sort of a poetic translation into music. Every time you put the record on, even though it’s the same slab of tree, it will be slightly different, because I would have to start at the exact millimeter point of the record every time, which I can’t. If I would have to say what part of the music is coming from me and my decisions and what part is coming from the tree, then I would have to say, I guess 50/50.
GELLERMAN: So, different trees produce different music?
TRAUBECK: Yeah, sure. If I put on an ash tree, it produces some completely different piano music.
TRAUBECK: The ash tree is kind of… it has a very interesting texture, the year rings are very close together, it’s very compressed and it’s very complex. It has a lot of information in there and they grow really differently from something like a fir. And I think you can really hear that.
TRAUBECK: But you can really hear the structure. There are some rhythms, if you listen closely, that always repeat. For example, with this one, I really know that there is a part where the tree grew in a special direction a little bit more than another one, and you can really hear this with every revelation.
GELLEMAN: What happens when it goes by a knot or a crack in the wood?
TRAUBECK: It usually interprets that as a signal. It computes that the same way as it would do with year rings. And since there’s a lot of signal, there’s a lot of sounds at the same time - it’s like just hitting your fists on the piano.
GELLERMAN: So, why did you use a piano? Could you have used a guitar or a cello or an orchestra?
TRAUBECK: Yeah, I could have, but I felt that a piano is an instrument that always sounds a little pleasant any way you play it. It’s an instrument that people are really used to - to the sound and the feel that is associated with it.
GELLERMAN: We’re going to hear the walnut music, if you could just describe that for us.
TRAUBECK: There’s so much data in there, and at the same time there’s not. Because my machine reads a lot by brightness and contrast, and the walnut piece is very dark. There’s a lot going on without a lot of progression, actually.
GELLERMAN: Yeah, it’s got a nice beat, but I don’t know if I could dance to it.
GELLERMAN: Do you like the music, the sound of this music?
TRAUBECK: The sound of this machine?
TRAUBECK: (Laughs.) I don’t like it anymore to be honest. I’ve worked on this quite awhile now. At first, I found it really fascinating, but like anything, I have to forget it for awhile to be able to listen to it again. So, right now, it’s a little too much for me. But, yes, I really do like it.
GELLERMAN: Bartholomaus Traubeck, thank you very much.
TRAUBECK: Yeah, thank you for the interest. I’m looking forward to whatever you are doing with it.
GELLERMAN: Bartholomaus Traubeck is an Austrian media artist. This cut is from a slice of Common Spruce. The music goes round and round at our website LOE dot org.
Years - 'scratching' from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
GELLEMAN: Santa Cruz, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of California, is a rugged landscape but a vast number of plants and animals call it home, including the Pacific Chorus Frog. And when the winter rains come, the frogs can be heard singing its praises. Mark Seth Lender got wet… and an earful…when he recorded the chorus.
GELLERMAN: Living on Earth is produced by the World Media Foundation. Our crew includes Bobby Bascomb, Eileen Bolinsky, Jessica Ilyse Kurn, Ingrid Lobet, Helen Palmer and Ike Sriskandarajah, with help from Sarah Calkins, Gabriela Romanow, and Sammy Sousa. Our interns are Mary Bates and Sophie Golden. Jeff Turton is our technical director. Alison Lirish Dean composed our themes. You can find us anytime at LOE dot org – and while you're online, check out our sister program, Planet Harmony. Planet Harmony welcomes all and pays special attention to stories affecting communities of color. Log on and join the discussion at my planet harmony dot com. And don’t forget to check out the Living on Earth facebook page. It’s PRI’s Living on Earth. And you can follow us on Twitter - @livingonearth, that's one word. Steve Curwood is our executive producer. I'm Bruce Gellerman. Thanks for listening!
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