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Today I have a inlay frame shaker card to share featuring the adorable new You Make My Heart Melt Stamp Set and coordinating dies. I used the awesome new Linked Chain Circle Frames to create an inlay frame for this winter-themed shaker!
The Wild Wisteria Cardstock for the front of the shaker frame was trimmed down to 4" x 5 1/4" and the Linked Chain Circle Frames was used to die cut the frame opening. The Linked Chain Circle Frames was also die cut from Lavender Fields Cardstock. The frame was backed with a transparency and then the Linked Chain Circle Frame was inlaid into the design for an interesting shaker window. I love the detail of the frame and then inlay style really makes it pop more than just a solid chain link!
Patterned paper from the new Graphic Grid Pastels Paper Pad perfectly compliments the cardstock. A 1 1/4" strip was adhered along the bottom edge of the front of the card. A sentiment from the You Make My Heart Melt Stamp Set was stamped on with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder before being adhered where the lighter purple cardstock and patterned paper meet.
Snowflakes from the were stamped on the clear window using white StazOn Ink.
Images from the You Make My Heart Melt Stamp Set were stamped on smooth white cardstock, colored in with Copic Markers, die cut with the coordinating dies, and adhered to the card front as shown.
Detail was added to the ice, hearts, cat's nose, and owl's beak with Glossy Accents. White "snow drops" were adhered Nuvo Crystal Drops in Simply White.
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Runners have to take care of their knees if they hope for a successful career.
Yes, the knee again. Unlike bursitis, runner's knee, or iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS), affects a band alongside the knee, which is why this condition is often characterized by sharp lateral pain in the knee area [source: Fredericson]. This pain usually recurs within a predictable time or distance from the start of a run [source: Nessel].
ITBS is basically an inflammatory problem, so anti-inflammatories should help alleviate the immediate symptoms. If you find yourself suffering from this injury, your best bet is to take a week or two off from running to recuperate.
When you've recovered enough to start running again, proper stretching and warmups should help reduce the pressure that causes the inflammation. Another recommended prevention strategy is to strengthen your gluteus medius (hip muscles) using step exercises [source: Nessel].
ITBS, along with all of the injuries we've discussed, can usually be prevented by warmups and stretching, and not taking on too many miles too soon. Take your time, enjoy the sport and stay healthy.
Bergeron, Michael. "Muscle Cramps During Exercise: Is It Fatigue or Electrolyte Deficit?" Current Sports Medicine Reports. Vol. 7, No. 4 (suppl). 2008. Pages S50-S55.
Cantin, D. and Marks, R. "Corticosteroid Injections and the Treatment of Achilles Tendonitis: A Narrative Review." Research in Sports Medicine, Vol. 11, Issue 2. April 2003. Pages 79-98.
Fields, Karl B. et al. "Prevention of Running Injuries." Current Sports Medicine Reports. Vol.9, No.3. May/June 2010. Pages 176-182.
Fredericson, Michael; Wolf, Chuck. "Iliotibial Band Syndrome in Runners: Innovations in Treatment." Sports Medicine. 2005. Pages 176-182.
Gotsch, K. et al. "Non-Fatal Sports- and Recreation-Related Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments - United States, July 2000-June 2001." MMWR Weekly. Aug 23, 2002. Vol.51, no.33. Pages 736-740.
Nessel, Ed. "Injury Spotlight: Iliotibial Band Syndrome." Running and Fitness News. January/February 2009. Vol. 27, No. 1. Pages 16-19.
O&P Business News. "Stress Fractures of the Foot Most Common Among New Runners." O&P Business News. Aug 2010. Page 38.
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Marathon runners may be prone to acute kidney injury, a condition that can cause swelling, pain and even seizures. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.
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Meet Weather Live Free. The most beautiful weather app ever. Don't let bad weather take you by surprise. Whether it is cloudy, raining, snowing or even stormy outside, Weather Live Free will provide you with current weather conditions and forecast in your city and multiple locations all around the world. Cold or warm weather, it will magically come alive on the crisp screen of your Mac. You won't even have to look out the window as Weather Live Free will make you feel like you are already outside. With an innovative technology Weather Live implemented into the app, we made it possible. Features: Weather forecasts and local time for multiple locations all around the world - Search for a specific location by postcode, zipcode, latitude/longitude, IP, city/town name - Live weather scenes reflecting real-time weather conditions - Adjustable layout, check the basic information or go advanced. Choose weather parameters you want to be displayed in the layout settings. Deep weather details: 7-day and 24-hour weather forecast - "Feels Like" temperature - Dew Point temperature - Today's Max and Min - Wind direction and speed - Wind Chill - Humidity and precipitation information - Visibility details - Sunrise/Sunset and Moonrise/Moonset time - Pressure in inches, mm or mbar - Fahrenheit/Celsius and Miles/Kilometers - 12 or 24-hour time format - Day time and Night time modes. More features: Easy navigation between cities: swipe either to the left or to the right to switch between locations. Customizable layout: All weather details- Text only Get Weather Live Free and be prepared for any weather.
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The team of David Guidoni and Alfio Costa, better known as the musical duo DAAL in prog circles have been captivating the progressive rock community ever since they unleashed their debut "Disorganicorigami" back in 2009. The band has always dabbled in the visionary fusion laced possibilities of progressive space rock and classical music mixed with ample doses of electronica and decorated with dark experimental elements which makes them stand out from the crowd. After a four year absence from the scene after their lauded "Danced Of The Drastic Navels," DAAL is back with not just one new album but TWO! These two albums stand separately from each other with completely different approaches but complement each other quite well. Whereas "Navels Falling Into A Living Origami" is the more experimental of the two and tackles a fifty minute continuous stream of sound that constitutes a mere track and looks more to the future than past glories, DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS on the other hand is more in the classic DAAL sound and less experimental.
This one was designed to have a vintage sound that has less instrumentation than its counterpart. While "Navels Falling" has a total of eight musicians on board, DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS is more basic and only has four which finds Alfio Costa on keyboards and mellotron, Davide Guidoni on drums and percussion, Ettore Salati on guitars and Bobo Aiolfi on bass. While not technically a single track album, the music also has a free flowing effect that connects all the tracks and in this case there are ten untitled tracks that serve as subdivisions for the overall concept of a descent into darkness. This album was described to me as a return to the sound of "Dodecahedron" only without the experimentation, so in effect this is a stripped down, bare bones type of DAAL album that finds simplicity in its quartet played format that takes a no nonsense prog rock approach. As usual, everything these talented perfectionists touch turns to gold since despite the overall simpler setting, the band manages to perform another excellently produced space rock. This one has a lot more presence of guitar than "Navels Falling."
DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS stands out from other DAAL albums in that it implements the mellotron as the main instrument and is distinguished by many of the subtleties that the instrument provides. While the mellotron has jumped to the forefront with its dominate role, the guitar and bass offer unique counterpoints as well with the jazzed up drumming workouts the perfect complementary effect to create some of the coolest proggy workouts in the genre. This one is entirely instrumental unlike "Navels Falling" which found a short vocal performance towards the end of its run. DECALOGUE has a long running time of nearly 71 minutes but provides another escapist's prog paradise for those who like lengthy progified jams that simmer in space rock mode and have occasional outbursts of heavier distorted action to offer some contrast. While most of the tracks are shorter in length, two extend past the ten minute mark with "Chapter II" hitting the sixteen minute mark.
DAAL has established itself as one of the best underground prog bands on the scene today that maintains an attachment to the traditional sense of the genre but yet manages to find its own niche in a modern day world. It's astonishing that while many bands take a decade or more to create a followup album, these guys conjured up not one, but TWO brilliant albums to bring about in the year 2018. Which of these albums any particular listener loves more will depend on taste. For those who prefer a darker and more experimental approach to the electronically induced space rock that DAAL dishes out, then they will prefer the "Navels Falling" album (which i do) but for those who love a more vintage classic sound that eschews the eccentrics then DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS will be your ticket to that spaced out proggy rock bliss. Any way you slice it, DAAL remains one of my favorite contemporary prog bands for good reason. They always deliver the goods on a totally professional level with beautiful melodic motifs dressed up with all the right prog and spaced out touches. Another winner for DAAL.
Italian team of ALfio Costa and DAvide Guidoni are back with what is BY FAR their greatest contribution to prog world. If you get a chance to see the AMAZING video presentations of their music (on YouTube), do so. As a matter of fact, all of the songs here sound and feel as if they should companion videos. (Maybe they do!) The band is definitely expressing their curiosity with the dark side of the cosmos. I want to add that the production values on Decalogue are exceptional: the sound quality is incredible and the CD artwork is one of the best I've ever encountered--mediæval-inspired art perfectly matched to the songs and subject matter and simply gorgeous!
The engineering and sound production are impeccable--it does NOT get better than this--and the instrument selection and combination throughout the album is creative and compelling, with clarity and distinctiveness to all instruments no matter how many layers DAvide ALfio use in construction. Perhaps there is a little over-use of Mellotron and Fripp guitar noodling.
Five stars; a masterpiece of modern instrumental progressive rock music.
After 4 years of silence, the dynamic duo of Davide Guidoni and Alfio Costa , known as DAAL have reappeared with a couple of albums, Decalogue of Darkness and the Navels Falling into a Living Origami, two more monuments of modern progressive experimentation that stretches the sonic boundaries once again. This is not neo, symphonic, or RPI but a rather strange brew of synthesized electronics, percussive propulsion and dreamy configurations that surely define, after a lengthy and high quality discography, their own place in the progressive music universe. Davide is one of the premier drummers in the world, a masterful craftsman who has adorned many significant Italian prog albums, while Alfio has made his name with Prowlers and Tilion. Kind of fitting that I got my ears honed to this on Halloween, as its quite a fitting soundtrack to the yearly goblin-laden event.
Decalogue of Darkness offers up quite a panorama of mind-music compositions, laced with imagination and substance, the dynamic duo adding guitarist extraordinaire Ettore Salati (RedZen, Soulengine, The Watch among many others) and Prowlers alumnus Bobo Aiolfi on bass to the mix. The entirely instrumental work has strong melancholic tendencies , at times eerie and spectral, yet always on the verge of experimentation. There are some definite King Crimson moments everywhere, with vast mellotron swaths that breathe dense clouds into the forlorn piano musings, deft cymbal work that rekindles images of vintage Bruford and the guitars often Fripping amazing as on the blistering track Chapter 8 . Wow!
The adventure begins with the masterful Chapter I , a heady, mellotron-drenched, bass-infected introduction, expertly propelled by manic drumming and sensitive percussion. The guitar slashes are overwhelming , the intensity raw and powerful. A better soundtrack ouverture is hard to come by. Just plain brilliant! The stage is set for a wild hour of extravagant creativity and artistic genius. The massive 16 minute + Chapter II is more dissonant, obscure and eerie, the colossal mellotron leading the way through a maze of sonic corridors, densely cinematographic and laden with furtive angst. The tinkling piano surges ahead amid the chaos while the arrangement remains confrontational, very much in an Anekdoten -like configuration, with occasional Twilight Zone chime/tick-tock noodlings. The densest and most complex piece on the recording, it requires patience and attention to detail. The second part halfway in is even more spectral, cacophonic and tumultuous, as Davide ransacks his drum kit along the way, a poly-rhythmic octopus given free reign. The under-pinned Frippian guitar licks are doom-laden and acerbic, once again we are reminded of classic Larks Tongues-era KC, ultimately leading to a stunning Arabic tinged electric guitar solo that keeps on giving. Gargantuan finale, explosive mayhem, call it what you want , this is absolutely awesome. The soft ending is unexpected.
Chapter III keeps the pedal to the floor, at least in terms of mellotron dominance, unabashedly serving up massive windswept waves of sound, the fury suddenly abated by gentle servings of acoustic peace where the mighty 'tron shows both its grace and pomp. The cymbal work is noteworthy, the rolling bass figurines etched within the groove, but the big white keyboard remains firmly in control. The contrasts between serene and explosive are truly appealing .
Turning into a rockier expanse, Chapter IV gets a full-on King Crimson disguise, as Davide is killing it on his kit, a fine observer of Giles and Bruford, Ettore ripping (Fripping) hard and fast, while Bobo keeps it all in play. Alfio's keys remain firmly entrenched in mellotron land. This is another awe-inspiring and intricate piece of music. Chapter V delves more into psychedelia, what with the odd swirling guitar licks setting up a very defined groove, well propulsed rhythmically and sonically dense. The trick here is how it suddenly veers into an uncomfortable numbness (sorry Floyd!) and belltolling kind of apocalypse. Chapter VI offers a return to almost normal sounds, the axe carving a luscious melody that stands strong and true, the piano acting as an accessory to the crime, though interferred by more mellotron cascades, but with a KingC meet PinkF feel that is overt and obvious. Love this immensely as its the most accessible and instantly memorable track on the disc. The outro is gently divine!
The next Chapter is the magic 7 and it reinvents the spooky sense earlier, the piano playing Twilight Zone like motifs once again, with brash guitar slashes helping the mood along, evolving into pastoral themes where the flute mellotrons reign supreme. The surreal arrangement then veers into effect-laden mayhem that really elevates the sense of doom and gloom succesfully. The Chapter VIII is a highlight event, a sprawling piece that showcases the Crimsonian elements that continue to define modern rock music fifty years later, the sacred union of colossal orchestrations (i.e Mellotron), the supple acoustic guitar ornamentation that also relies on technically inspired electric phrasings, bruising bass guitar underpinnings and a delirious world clas drum exercize. Disturbing, confrontational, nervy, on the edge of painful, the listener is thrown on a roller coaster of emotions, with contrasting chimes, elegance and medieval musings. Scary! By far the ultimate track on thsi masterpiece. The accessory Chapter 9 has Alfio caressing his ornate piano in dreamy fashion, drenched in fabulous mystery and reverie. This is all restraint and reflection, a celestial , cristalline moment amid all the confusion. Like my pal BrufordFreak stated, « pure and simple »! Amazing!
The finale is an epic 10 minute composition that encompasses all the elements that highlight DAAL's creative juice. This is what modern prog music should sound like in the hands of uncompromising artists. Beautiful guitar arpeggios , dreamy piano sensibilities and luxuriant percussive rhythms, that swell into a masteful Ettore Salati guitar romp that hits all the emotional buttons, as the mighty mellotron elevates the track to absurd heights , a slight nod to Yes' ''Soon oh Soon '', before veering off into the murky, dense and overwhelmimg sunset. Davide once again pushes the enveloppe with mythical prowess. In awe, I am!
The cover art is utterly sublime and very descriptive of the sounds generated by the band, a serious masterpiece of prog which will delight many fans. This is what modern prog music should sound like in the hands of uncompromising artists.
This is the other new release from the contemporary Italian masters DAAL. Whereas "Navels Falling into a Living Origami" consists of a single 49-minute piece of music, "Decalogue of Darkness" is a 71-minute instrumental prog album divided into ten chapters without separate track titles. This time all music is composed by Alfio Costa (Mellotron, Moog sub 37, piano, synth and samplers). Davide Guidoni handles drums, acoustic percussion, noises and samplers, and the duo is accompanied by guitarist Ettore Salati and bassist Bobo Aiolfi.
I can't say this would be anyhow less inspired album, but personally I prefer "Navels" which feels more like an adventurous journey and which in the end seems to have more variety in the soundscape. Mellotron is very central in "Decalogue", undoubtedly making the listener's associations to the early King Crimson even more evident than what DAAL's originality would deserve; despite the Mellotron and all the 'Crimsonesque' details there may be, also this album has a unique, timeless personality instead of copying some music made over 40 years ago.
For those wishing for a track-by-track approach I advice reading especially BrufordFreak's long review. As funny as it feels to say out loud, occasionally I feel this album is relying TOO heavily on the familiar, thick Mellotron sound. For example Chapter Five starts delicately in a way that reminds me of Popol Vuh (Hosianna Mantra era) but then it all returns to the same old 'tron thickness. In my opinion the best things here are more spacey, acoustic moments (such as 50% of Chapter Six, and Chapter Nine completely) without the Mellotron. Also "Decalogue of Darkness" is clearly meant to be listened as a whole, but the 10-part form makes it possible to return to one's favourite parts much easier than on the one-part "Navels". The best track on its own is the second longest, Chapter Ten (10:20). It's "the most melodically engaging" as BrufordFreak points out.
Even though I didn't quite find the similar enthusiasm to this album as the three preceding reviewers (or as I myself had for "Navels Falling into a Living Origami" some weeks earlier), I can sincerely agree on its artistic value. If you're fond of dark instrumental prog featuring lots of Mellotron, this is EXACTLY the album you want to have. The 12-page leaflet features intriguingly morbid photographs to accompany the dark-toned world of this music.
For over a decade now, the duo of Italian multi-instrumentalists Davide Guidoni and Alfio Costa have been honing a distinctly modern sounding mix of dark electronics, doom-laden symphonic grandness, senses-shredding avant-garde experimentation and neo-classical sophistication under the Daal banner, each new release consecutively raising the bar even further for their always high-quality and intelligent works. But 2018 has brought not only one, but two superior releases from the pair (or three if you want to include Davide's superb electronic side-project B-Rain's `Echoes from the Undertow' CD as well!), and rather than being a double album merely split into separate discs, they are instead two completely stand-alone works that hold their own unique sounds and identities, even if both are instantly recognizable as Daal. The first is `Decalogue of Darkness', and it is the most lavish and darkly articulate defining symphonic musical statement so far from Costa and Guidioni.
A spectral pantomime of eerie electronic tip-toes patter around `Chapter I's infernally searing Mellotron strings, grinding guitar blasts courtesy of frequent Daal collaborator Ettore Salati of Redzen/SoulenginE/Ex-The Watch, Alfio's stalking piano, slithering bass from Tilion and Prowlers musician Roberto `Bobo' Aiolfi and Davide's bashing drum menace, this intense opener being very Goblin and L'Albero del Veleno-like indeed!
Hmm, in prog-terms, is just over sixteen minutes long enough for a piece to be considered a true epic?! Well, either yes or no, `Chapter II' is exactly that, and here the duo offer an elegant showcase of grandiose Mellotron themes all serenading each- other in between bursts of Anglagard-esque strangling n' twisting guitar runs and a touch of King Crimson-like ominous majesty. A pounding oppressive beat over ghostly piano and the dirtiest of scratchy Mellotron reeks of Italian occult legends Jacula/Antonius Rex at the start, the icier reflective moments remind of melancholic acts like White Willow and Landberk, and the entire piece takes on a crushing, overwhelming intensity...and just when you think it's winding down, they bring it all back for a final feral storm of wailing guitar n' Tron noise that would make King Crimson envious - phew!
The shorter `Chapter III' could easily have popped up on an Anekdoten album with its downbeat piano interludes constantly blasted by defiant Mellotron bursts and brisk up-tempo sprints, the suffocating `Chapter IV' could be an `Islands'-era Crimson outtake with its skittering percussion rattles and creeping bass murmurs, and `Chapter V' is a mournful introspective theme (one of the strongest on the disc) that sounds like a lost Giallo horror film soundtrack from the Seventies.
Achingly beautiful piano reflections and heartfelt guitar ruminations are confronted by torrid Mellotron slivers throughout `Chapter VI', slab-heavy guitar riffing, vacuum-like distortion and jazzy discordant mania is met with ethereal ambient synth breaks throughout `Chapter VII', and there's an aggressive brooding menace that permeates all of `Chapter VIII' (just listen to that putrid mud-thick bass vomiting throughout the middle!). The ghostly ballad `Chapter IX' is dreamy and shimmers with unease (and nice that the band keeps the piece very intimate), and ten-minute closer `Chapter X', with its cross of regal guitar strains, reflective synths and achingly melancholic piano fleetingly calls to mind classic era Genesis and brings a sweeping orchestral-like magnificence (with some brief tasty up-tempo bursts in the middle too), and it's a relief that the duo resist the urge here to make a lot more racket and violence.
Although it probably didn't need to run for seventy-one minutes, and some listeners might ask for the first time `Can there be too much Mellotron?' (response from the prog masses likely being any combination of `No!/Heathen!/Off with his head!'), there is no denying the sheer power and richness of refinement throughout `Decalogue of Darkness'. Some may find the first half so blustery and bombastic that it proves overwhelming, but the second reveals itself to be even stronger with some deceptively lovely and incredibly strong musical themes rising up throughout. All together though, symphonic prog works don't come much more luxurious, inspired and crowd-pleasing than `Decalogue of Darkness', and it's another superb addition to the Daal catalogue.
DAAL is a project from Italy, headed by core members Alfio Costa (keyboards) and Davide Guidoni (drums). They are having a very productive phase in the back. With the result of two studio albums, plus a solo project produced by Davide, which he recently released under the moniker B-Rain. When necessary, while acting like an entire rock band, there is some exquisite support available due to Ettore Salati (guitars) and bass player Bobo Aiolfi. According to the album title it may go for a dispute over religious themes, though lyrics aren't available, for the simple reason that this is completely instrumental. Obviously evaluated in the eye of the beholder. The booklet pictures are going for a strong cinematic orientation, including exorcism, horror, mysticism and similar, just in the vein of fellow countrymen Goblin maybe.
In any case, when listening to 'Decalogue Of Darkness', you are experiencing an eclectic symphony across 10 chapters, which means a running time of about 70 minutes in total. Chapter I turns out to be a wonderful opener. Alfio Costa's effective mellotron input strikes immediately. A somewhat bittersweet lift-off, very nice main melody. Corresponding to the visual concept DAAL are providing a rather dark mooded sound, though not really depressive anyhow. Davide Guidoni puts out all the stops too, with diverse gradiations of rock and jazz. He's a prolific drummer for sure. You will find variations such as deeply moving parts dominated by symphonic patterns, furious interplays, heavy rocking turns as well as melancholic acoustic guitar and piano driven interludes. I would especially point out Chapter X as a very profound partition. Well, can't name another prog album yet which is that blatantly mellotron drenched. Something special, bravo!
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My imagination is wild, taking off in directions I can hardly keep up with sometimes. Probably everyone imagines what they would do if they won a million dollars. I would bulldoze my house and start again. Or my neighbours and I can go in and all bulldoze our houses and make condos to keep one and rent out others in the summer for lots of money.
That’s normal imagining stuff. The bad habit of my imagination is having negative conversations with people who like to give me advice and/or poke fun at me. Oh, they are terrible!….. in my head. My ex was the worst! It took me years to get his criticism out of my head…. out of my…. own…. head!
I’ve had friends come and visit and be a little critical or just not supportive (enter giving me advice) and weeks later I’m still arguing in my head.
It was only a few years ago I realized they weren’t saying this to me, I was saying this to me. It was a revelation.
Not easy to stop, though. Now I’m trying not to dwell on the situation where I invited a bunch of people to start Game Night and no one is coming. I live in a neighbour hood of women who hang out together and have a bully/ring-leader they all obey. Six or seven years ago I kicked her out of my house and she’s still holding it against me! (LOL) Anyway, the point is…… I imagine them laughing at me that no one is coming to play games with me. I think they would rather laugh at me than with me.
I don’t want to stray off point here; sometimes what we worry about is just our own imagination.
I am the same way, my imagined conversations/confrontations are the worst! And, yes, it is hard to destroy that tape and create a new but YOU can do it. At the risk of giving advice, lol, every time that tape starts, turn it around and compliment yourself, think of things about you that are positive – you’ll be destroying the bad and replacing with good (versus just not thinking of ‘bad’ and leaving a void). Also, do things you enjoy for you or do them with other people you know, enjoy your property and your home disregard what those women are (possibly) saying or doing – soon they will wonder why you are so happy without them.
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2019-04-20T00:14:53Z
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https://nkhatoon73.wordpress.com/tag/asian-eid-clothes-online/
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philly
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin speaking at a news conference here last Thursday.
While New Orleans residents chuckled at Mayor Ray Nagin's negative assessment of Philadelphia's cleanliness in a speech on Saturday, folks here may not find the comments so funny.
"Let me tell you something," Nagin said to some of his constituents during a town hall meeting in New Orleans Saturday. "You ought to go to Philly and you will appreciate how clean New Orleans is."
" . . . We still have some work to do but we definitely beat them by a long shot."
His remarks were a bit incongruous considering that he had praised Philly when he was here just two days before.
"To all the people of Philadelphia, we thank you; we applaud you," he said during a news conference here.
Nagin and members of his administration were in Philadelphia to learn how the city deals with its blight problems.
They toured a range of neighborhoods that showed how efforts by the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative had changed areas like Northern Liberties and University City.
The group also toured neighborhoods that are on the cusp of gentrification, such as West Kensington and other areas in West and North Philadelphia.
"We wanted to show them different types of neighborhoods, to show what revitalization looks like," said Eva Gladstein, director of NTI, who declined to comment on the mayor's negative remarks.
But she said that the neighborhoods she and the delegation visited were pretty much free of litter.
"It was a few days after the Nor'easter so maybe there was some," she said.
"But there wasn't a significant amount of litter."
Overall, Gladstein said the group was receptive to NTI's work. It was Nagin's second trip to Philadelphia. The first was before Hurricane Katrina in 2004.
After the hurricane, Philadelphia reached out to about 1,000 people displaced by the storm. The Registered Nurses Response Network sent 300 local nurses to the Gulf and many volunteer students and staff from local universities went to help.
Ceeon Quiett, a spokeswoman for Nagin, said his comments were taken out of context and that he praises the city's efforts in solving its blight issues.
She said what Nagin meant was that New Orleans beat out Philadelphia in maintaining cleanliness in its most visited sections.
In fact, she said Philadelphia's NIT will serve as the model for rebuilding New Orleans.
"Driving around Philadelphia, we saw that it has its issues," Quiett said. "Philadelphia has struggles keeping clean just as New Orleans."
Describing the increased effort to powerwash streets and provide more manual cleaning as the "Disney World-like" treatment, Quiett said areas like the French Quarter are now immaculate.
"The mayor just said that to show what a long way we have come," said Quiett.
Staff writer Damon Williams contributed to this report.
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2019-04-25T06:37:24Z
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https://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070423_Mayors_jibe_irks_Philly.html
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Arts
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mlive
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A 13-year-old Bay City boy was riding his bicycle when he was struck by a car this afternoon, dying of his injuries shortly thereafter.
About 1 p.m., Bay City Police officers and medical personnel were dispatched to the scene of the crash at Wenona and Salzburg. The badly injured teen bicyclist was transported to Bay Regional Medical Center, where he died shortly after arriving.The driver of the vehicle, an 85-year-old Bay City woman, was uninjured.
Officers determined the driver of the vehicle was heading south on Wenona and was in the process of turning right onto Salzburg when her car struck the boy on his bike. The boy had been traveling east on Salzburg and was attempting to cross the intersection at the time of the collision.
A Michigan State Police Accident Reconstructionist assisted the Bay City Police officers at the scene. The Bay City Police Department is continuing the investigation.
For approximately two hours, traffic on Salzburg and Wenona was rerouted, while Lafayette Bridge was also closed.
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2019-04-23T06:48:29Z
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https://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/2009/07/bay_city_teen_dies_in_bicyclec.html
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Arts
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Kids
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deviantart
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Check out Southwest Art Magazine October 2012 issue. I am featured in their first drawing portfolio. Mid October one of my pieces will be published in Strokes of Genius 4. It's crazy exciting!
I'm currently illustrating for an upcoming novel. The newer surrealistic pieces are the result of said novel, including this piece called The Woman and The Rake.
Hello! You are an inspiration to me to get better at art/to continue to draw and improve! Thank you so much for all the wonderful artwork you do! You are such an amazing artist.
Thanks for the Fav on Ghost Dina. Hope all is well with you!
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2019-04-20T19:31:16Z
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https://www.deviantart.com/artizd
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Arts
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Arts
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foxnews
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NEW YORK – During a years-long court fight over an idiosyncratic copper heiress' $300 million estate, a New York criminal investigation quietly examined how she and her finances were being looked after, though no one was ever charged.
The Manhattan district attorney's confirmed Thursday that it has ended its investigation into Huguette (OO'-gheht) Clark's circumstances. It's not immediately clear when.
Spokeswoman Erin Duggan says "the case is closed, barring any new information." NBCNews.com first reported the development.
Clark died at 104 in 2011. Her father was Montana copper baron and U.S. Sen. William A. Clark, who founded Las Vegas.
She elected to spend her last 20 years in a hospital, despite mostly being well enough to live in her Fifth Avenue apartment or mansions in Santa Barbara, Calif., and New Canaan, Conn.
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2019-04-25T08:27:26Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/criminal-probe-into-life-of-nyc-hospital-dwelling-copper-heiress-has-ended-with-no-arrests
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Arts
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News
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oup
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Reference Entry. Subjects: Biochemistry. 47 words.
Hong-Ming Liu and Lei Nie.
May 2015; p ublished online September 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 4378 words.
Kristina McCambly, Raymond C. Kelly, Ted Johnson, James E. Johnson and W. Craig Brown.
Chunhua Zhou, Linfei Su, Weiding Shang, Zhihuan Rong, Mengmeng Sun, Kai Zhang, Xiaowei Shi and Qiao Wang.
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 3683 words.
François Coudoré, Denis Roche, Sandrine Lefeuvre, Delphine Faussot, Eliane M. Billaud, Marie-Anne Loriot and Philippe Beaune.
November 2012; p ublished online June 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 4573 words.
Christine Moore, Cynthia Coulter and Katherine Crompton.
Can Peng, Jixin Tian, Mengying Lv, Yin Huang, Yuan Tian and Zunjian Zhang.
February 2014; p ublished online January 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 4479 words.
Minmin Zhao, Weijing Ding, Shuang Wang, Meng Gao, Shan Fu, Juan Zhang, Tao Li, Yin Wu and Qiao Wang.
February 2015; p ublished online June 2014 .
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Qianqian Xie, Liping Ding, Yun Wei and Yoichiro Ito.
March 2014; p ublished online March 2013 .
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Xinsheng Wang, Qi-nan Wu, Yanfang Wu, Chengying Wu, Wei Yue and Qiaoli Liang.
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 2274 words.
Georgia Ch. Lainioti and George Karaiskakis.
September 2013; p ublished online January 2013 .
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Lihong Wang, Guangli Yan, Aihua Zhang, Hui Shi, Hui Sun and Xijun Wang.
January 2015; p ublished online May 2014 .
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Haitao Liu, Jiushi Liu, Jin Zhang, Yaodong Qi, Xiaoguang Jia, Bengang Zhang and Peigen Xiao.
April 2016; p ublished online February 2016 .
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Kun-jun Mao, Ping Huang, Fu-qiang Li, Xiang Li and Jian-wei Chen.
October 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
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January 2015; p ublished online March 2014 .
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Guoru Liu, Shi Qiao, Tiebing Liu, Hongyan Yu, Wei Wang, Yujin Zhou, Qingyan Li and Songlin Li.
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Li Xia, Pu-Yue Ouyang, Wen Gao, Tao Yi, Xian-Tao Zhang, Zhen-Dong Zhao and Hua Yang.
Journal Article. Subjects: Chemistry. 3264 words.
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2019-04-19T01:59:54Z
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http://oxfordindex.oup.com/search?q=batch%20elution
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Reference
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cosplay
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I saw that Jam Project will be at Boston this year and I'd love to see them.
What do people normally bring to have them sign if not CDs or paper? We had Nabeshin sign an Excel box set last year but this isn't the same sort of thing (singers vs director). I was thinking of bringing a dragonball poster I have signed by Akira Toriyama for Hironobu Kageyama to sign too, but I am not sure that will ruin the value.
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2019-04-21T12:12:02Z
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https://cosplay.com/archive/thread/dyd73x/jam-project
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Arts
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Arts
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elle
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Fans were devastated when Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney announced their split in July 2016. However, the pair have remained friends, proving that not every relationship has to end acrimoniously. And in the latest display of friendship, Kinney attended Lady Gaga's concert at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Friday.
Other people attending the Joanne world tour date spotted Kinney in the crowd, and were obviously excited that he'd turned out to see his ex perform. As Lady Gaga wrote on Twitter, her performance at Wrigley Field was particularly important, because she's the first woman to headline there.
I've spotted taylor kinney at gaga's show. Please rekindle.
While this doesn't necessarily mean a reunion is on the cards, it's heartwarming to know that Lady Gaga and Kinney are still on great terms, and turn up to support one another during important moments in their lives.
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2019-04-23T06:18:19Z
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https://www.elle.com/culture/music/news/a47662/lady-gagas-ex-boyfriend-taylor-kinney-went-to-her-chicago-concert/
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wordpress
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Have you any sweet & sour Imelda dear?
I’ve moved further into direct action territory when it comes to overriding the complex. I recently bought some hugely efficient oil-filled electric radiators, but the programming manual is beyond belief – as in, would you believe the radiators have an alarm system to tell you when you’ve left a window open. So there you are – in the middle of a winter so cold you have to use electric radiators – and you gaily walk about the bloody house opening windows in a wanton manner…thus requiring you, as a brainless dingbat, to be told you’ve done it.
So I have purchased from the local DIY shed 3 mechanical timers into each of which I have plugged the apparatus and hey presto, they come on and off without any stupid messages on the readout saying ‘A serious fault has occurred’ or something equally f**kwitted…because they aren’t electronic and they weren’t made in China.
Each morning at 7.30 am, the rads come on for an hour. Oddly, as I walk about the small converted grange, no windows are open. Iddislike todallyfeckinweird.
Have you any dirty money Baron Green?
The creation of a Slog hairstyle involving length but no ponytail continues. Quite a bit of amateur hacking has been involved, but things are gradually moving in the right direction. Immediately after being washed, the tonsorial parallel is Donald Trump, which later settles down into Oscar Wilde. The next day – with a little water and judicious use of the brush – I am become the rakish Reginald Grytpipe-Thynne, theatre producer and part-time society Spiv.
The idea in the end is to blend eccentric Einstein with Bill Nighy, and become the thinking woman’s beefcake. But then, great humour emerges from the difference between human aspiration and human achievement.
Actually, what I’d really like to do is not just copy George Martin’s hairstyle, but have made a similar contribution to giving pop a gentlemanly dash of lasting value.
Have you any soft tomatoes Mother dear?
Earlier at The Slog: Is Draghi after a Golden Jubilee?
For short term benefit using expensive electric : I have found found fan heaters the best If……………you use them at the highest setting , the heat must circulate in the room faster than it leaks away!
Same rule for kettles….the faster it heats the water , less time for leakage loss.
Most fans have a thermostat to shut it off if you forget ? Old farts never forget ..It’s five minute ago that’s the problem.
John , have they given you a date yet for the sectioning ?
All electric heaters are 100% efficient without exception, cheap or expensive.
It’s not actually possible to make them any other way.
So buying expensive ones is totally foolish.
The other benefit is they are easily automatically controlled which can make a small saving.compared with manual control.
Also you use portable ones for very local heating.
It’s possible to make a small saving using cheap night electricity but this needs storage heaters and an eye kept on the weather prediction for next day. These are non-portable and cost more. There is inevitably some wasted heat here as the technology is not perfect.
You have been sold a pup.
P.S. Laughter is indeed the best medicine, mind you if the real fools weren’t trying so hard to make us all ill we wouldn’t need so much of it.. As far as Draghi and his ‘dragoons’ are concerned, it has nothing to do with economics, it’s ergonomics…. what they feel comfortable with. GM splendid too.
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2019-04-24T01:50:49Z
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https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/at-the-end-of-the-day-726/
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Arts
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Reference
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virtualmuseum
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After the whistle blew at the end of the work day, working-men who poured out of the factories that were packed into Hamilton’s 19th-century downtown core often stopped by another common fixture of working communities: the local tavern. The tavern was a place for Hamilton’s working men to relax together. It was often also a cheap place to find lodgings, and served as an employment information centre. The working-class tavern was an important place for talking and organizing.
After Dan Black’s Club Ho use opened on James Street in 1866, it quickly became a favourite meeting place for Hamilton craft unions. Free from harassment by employers or city officials, Dan Black’s Club House offered an open forum for discussion.
Workers from the car and locomotive shops of the Great Western Railway at the foot of nearby Stuart Street frequented the Club House. Their union, a local of the British-based Amalgamated Society of Engineers, proclaimed Dan Black “the Landlord of our Club House,” and presented him with a pipe and a ring for his wife. In late January 1872, Dan Black’s Club House played host to meetings of moulders, blacksmiths, machinists, and carpenters and joiners.
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2019-04-19T04:53:43Z
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http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/community-stories_histoires-de-chez-nous/nine-hour-league_a-ligue-des-neuf-heures/story/dan-blacks-clubhouse/
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Arts
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Business
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oregonstate
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Oriana, a GTA in the speech communications department here at OSU, will be leading a workshop on how to combine empowerment, leadership, and improv.
Your LinkedIn profile is your first impression on future employers! Learn the best strategies on keeping it up to date and how to write engaging content that will grab their attention!
For all of you financial aid recipients, come to this interactive workshop to learn the “why” behind your award letter, to understand what it actually means, and to get connected to resources and information to make an informed decision about student loan borrowing. Bring your financial aid questions!!
Do you find it hard to delegate? Are the leaders in your organization always doing everything? Committees will allow your organization to be more productive, will allow members to choose activities that interest them, and can serve as training grounds for future leaders. Learn how to create and run effective committees with this workshop.
What is Sports Business? How did this club begin? Learn all about this new club and how you can get involved and become a member. This event will feature interactive brainstorming sessions with club leadership and potential members. Come with ideas!
Do you have an artistic side that you've always wanted to integrate into the business world? Meet with Kim and learn about how her skills contributed to a record breaking 105% growth rate for one year with Nvoicepay!
OSU professors have valuable advice for students that extends beyond the classroom! Come listen to Randal Smith and get the inside scoop on the best ways to study for upcoming exams.
John is a strong believer in being a hands on leader! Learn about how Human Resources is a vital part of a succesful business strategy!
Hear from Polly Lisicak about being an intern with Oregon State Productions.
Madeleine Smith, Student Producer, will talk with you about working for the ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK.
Talk to Polly Lisicak, ORANGE MEDIA NETWORK Student Producer about an incredible internship experience!
Dr. Dan Lykins will talk to you about the choice to attend law school after completing your Business degree.
The energy industry is faced with new challenges and exciting opportunities driven by changing customer expectations, rapidly evolving technology and new competitors. Join us as we discuss the business of meeting our customer’s need for an energy product that is not only safe, reliable and affordable but one that is also cleaner and more secure. Refreshments provided!
Hear from two Nike Vice Presidents to learn about successful strategies and methods of this global athletic wear enterprise. Matt Bolte and Tim Sheerin will answer your questions about the company and what it is like to work for Nike.
Learn about the banking industry from three President & CEO's of banking insitutions. Panelists include Jeff Bailey (Bank of Eastern Oregon), Linda Navarro (Oregon Bankers Association) and Gordon Zimmerman (Citizens Bank).
Interested in Global Opportunities? Come listen to Elizabeth Mills talk on the "The 4 P's of International Internships" at 10:00 am and "Outbound: how to job search for overseas positions" at 12:00 pm.
Interested in studying abroad? Learn about programs specifically for Business and Design majors that can fit into your graduation plan. Returning students or visiting exchange students may join the session to share about their experiences or their culture. Get the most up to date information about the application process, your next steps and what it’s like to study abroad through the College of Business! Appropriate for all students to attend.
The energy industry is faced with new challenges and exciting opportunities driven by changing customer expectations, rapidly evolving technology and new competitors. Join us as we discuss the business of meeting our customer’s need for an energy product that is not only safe, reliable and affordable but one that is also cleaner and more secure.
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2019-04-22T10:51:56Z
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https://business.oregonstate.edu/week-business/spring-week-4
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Arts
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Sports
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utwente
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Techfak students can make use of the repository mirror at: http://hmigit.ewi.utwente.nl/git/ Contact Herwin van Welbergen for login info. It contains the following repositories: Asap.git, AsapDemo.git, AsapResource.git, HmiCore.git, HmiEnvironment.git, HmiDemo.git, HmiResource.git, hmibuild.git.
Repositories are located at e.g. https://projects.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/git/asap.git, login with your CITEC username + pass. See https://projects.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/projects/soa for the repository list. Hendrik Buschmeier, Ramin Yaghoubzadeh or Herwin van Welbergen can give you access to the the soa repositories (see http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/soa/members/ for contact info). Contact Thilo Paul-Stueve if you need new repositories to be created; make sure to mention that they should be created within the Soa project.
This creates a private key and a public key in the .ssh dir of your home directory. You then need to append the public key to the authorized_keys file in the .ssh dir of the home directory of the server (yourlogin@hmirepo.ewi.utwente.nl).
You should now be able to login (e.g. ssh yourlogin@hmirepo.ewi.utwente.nl) without password, or using pass phrase you've set for your keys when creating them with ssh-keygen. If this fails, use ssh -v to troubleshoot. You can use multiple v-s (e.g. ssh -vv) to get more debug information.
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2019-04-22T15:17:54Z
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http://asap-project.ewi.utwente.nl/wiki/GitRepositories?version=18
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Arts
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Home
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bbc
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Lighthouse celebrates 200 years shining Jump to media player It is 200 years to the day since Robert Stevenson's Bell Rock lighthouse first illuminated the North Sea, 11 miles from the Scottish coast.
Arctic blast covers lighthouse in ice Jump to media player Frozen water sprayed from a lake in the US state of Ohio transforms a lighthouse into something more like an ice sculpture.
Close-Up: Mombasa's lighthouse Jump to media player For the last forty years, hundreds of locals in Mombasa, Kenya have gathered in the city's lighthouse pier area on Sunday evenings.
It is 200 years to the day since Robert Stevenson's Bell Rock lighthouse first illuminated the North Sea, 11 miles from the Scottish coast.
The granite tower has saved countless ships from peril and still remains an essential life-saving aid to navigation despite advances in radio and satellite technology.
Scotland correspondent Glenn Campbell visited the Bell Rock to find out why it is so important.
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2019-04-20T22:49:22Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-12330017/bell-rock-lighthouse-celebrates-200-years-shining
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Arts
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News
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ucalgary
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An introduction to themes and methods in public policy studies. The practical and normative problems facing governments in initiating, formulating, enacting, and implementing policy will be discussed. May include case studies.
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2019-04-25T21:08:02Z
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https://poli.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/courses/f16/POLI357?destination=profiles%2F218-42297%2Fcourses
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Arts
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Society
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umanitoba
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Abstract Background Home visiting programs focused on improving early childhood environments are commonplace in North America. A goal of many of these programs is to improve the overall health of children, including promotion of age appropriate vaccination. In this study, population-based data are used to examine the effect of a home visiting program on vaccination rates in children. Methods Home visiting program data from Manitoba, Canada were linked to several databases, including a provincial vaccination registry to examine vaccination rates in a cohort of children born between 2003 and 2009. Propensity score weights were used to balance potential confounders between a group of children enrolled in the program (n = 4,562) and those who were eligible but not enrolled (n = 5,184). Complete and partial vaccination rates for one and two year old children were compared between groups, including stratification into area-level income quintiles. Results Complete vaccination rates from birth to age 1 and 2 were higher for those enrolled in the Families First program [Average Treatment Effect Risk Ratio (ATE RR) 1.06 (95 % CI 1.03–1.08) and 1.10 (95 % CI 1.05–1.15) respectively]. No significant differences were found between groups having at least one vaccination at age 1 or 2 [ATE RR 1.01 (95 % CI 1.00–1.02) and 1.00 (95 % CI 1.00–1.01) respectively). The interaction between program and income quintiles was not statistically significant suggesting that the program effect did not differ by income quintile. Conclusions Home visiting programs have the potential to increase vaccination rates for children enrolled, despite limited program content directed towards this end. Evidence-based program enhancements have the potential to increase these rates further, however more research is needed to inform policy makers of optimal approaches in this regard, especially with respect to cost-effectiveness.
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2019-04-21T05:22:14Z
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https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/30885
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Arts
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Health
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nsw
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to announce the winners of the sixth annual Young Archie competition, which celebrates the talent of budding young artists from around Australia.
In the spirit of the iconic Archibald Prize, the Young Archie competition invites children and teenagers aged five to 18 to unleash their creativity and submit a portrait of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life.
Entries were judged by guest judge Abdul Abdullah, a leading Australian artist and four time Archibald Prize finalist and three time Sulman Prize finalist with Victoria Collings, Art Gallery of NSW community engagement manager.
“This year’s winning portraits all offer compelling insights into the relationships and perspectives of our young artists. They also demonstrate impressive creativity and very importantly, self expression,” Abdullah said.
“This is the second year I’ve judged the Young Archie competition and it continues to fill me with excitement to experience the creativity of young people, and possibly the next generation of Australian artists,” Abdullah added.
Part of the family program for the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition (12 May – 9 September 2018) the Young Archie competition is a much loved part of the Gallery’s calendar.
Maud Page, deputy director and director of collections at the Art Gallery of NSW, said the Young Archie competition highlights the Gallery’s continued commitment to fostering the creativity of children.
“It’s incredibly inspiring to see children and families so engaged in the Young Archie competition which attracts entries from across Australia. The exhibition of the finalists and winners’ works is a highlight of the annual Archibald Prize where they are enjoyed by thousands of visitors,” said Page.
The Young Archie competition is proudly supported by presenting partner ANZ. This year ANZ has extended its support of the Young Archie competition by increasing the prize money for finalists and winners. Young Archie finalists receive a cash prize of $50 and the four winners each receive a cash prize of $200, an increase of $100 from past years.
Finalists also receive an art pack from S&S Creative and an Archibald 18 catalogue. Age category winners are also awarded an art pack from S&S Creative, an Archibald 18 catalogue and a family pass to a paid exhibition at the Gallery.
Fred Ohlsson, ANZ group executive Australia congratulated the winners and finalists of this year’s Young Archie competition.
“The Young Archies provides a stage for the artists of tomorrow and an opportunity for young talent to be nurtured and celebrated. As presenting partner, ANZ is proud to support the next generation of Australian artists and we are delighted to continue our long history supporting the arts and community in New South Wales,” said Ohlsson.
Finalist works are on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the family program for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition until 9 September 2018.
Artworks with an honourable mention are displayed at the SH Ervin Gallery in The Rocks, alongside the Salon des Refusés 2018 exhibition.
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2019-04-25T06:43:06Z
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https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media-office/winners-2018-young-archie-competition-announced/
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Arts
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Kids
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wordpress
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FIFTEEN: How’s about tellin a story. – Folks, whack 'em.
FIFTEEN: How’s about tellin a story.
Did you know that cars love fruits?
They love watermelons and bananas.
They love really sweet apples and citrus-y oranges as well.
Why do they love fruits?
Maybe it’s a secret they won’t tell us?!
Either way, if you want to make friends with cars, fruits are the key.
Hey car, why do you guys love fruits so much?
As much as cars love fruits, they HATE olives even more.
They hate dry olives and salty olives.
They hate black olives and green olives.
If the fruit tastes like olives at all, cars will be very upset.
Why do cars hate olives?
Well, just one olive makes a car’s face turn sour.
Just one single speck of olive makes a car snort black smoke.
If you want to prepare fruits for cars, make sure it’s not olives.
these are all great fruits for cars.
Hey car, how do you feel about olives?
I like the post it was entertaining. I think you were trying to connect to Volkswagen’s everday motoring pleasure by letting us know what cars like and don’t like. I think some people may question whether or not it was 45 minutes of work. I have the same problem with some of my posts, it helps to have a brief explanation before or after letting us know your inspiration and process.
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Hams, Emily, Colmont, Chantal S., Dioszeghy, Vincent, Hammond, Victoria Jayne, Fielding, Ceri Alan, Williams, Anwen Sian, Tanaka, Minoru, Miyajima, Atsushi, Taylor, Philip Russel, Topley, Nicholas and Jones, Simon Arnett 2008. Oncostatin M receptor-beta signaling limits monocytic cell recruitment in acute inflammation. Journal of Immunology 181 (3) , pp. 2174-2180.
Although the IL-6-related cytokine oncostatin M (OSM) affects processes associated with disease progression, the specific function of OSM in the face of an inflammatory challenge remains unclear. In this report, a peritoneal model of acute inflammation was used to define the influence of OSM on chemokine-mediated leukocyte recruitment. When compared with wild-type and IL-6-deficient mice, peritoneal inflammation in oncostatin M receptor-beta-deficient (OSMR-KO) mice resulted in enhanced monocytic cell trafficking. In contrast to IL-6-deficient mice, OSMR-KO mice displayed no difference in neutrophil and lymphocyte migration. Subsequent in vitro studies using human peritoneal mesothelial cells and an in vivo appraisal of inflammatory chemokine expression after peritoneal inflammation identified OSM as a prominent regulator of CCL5 expression. Specifically, OSM inhibited IL-1beta-mediated NF-kappaB activity and CCL5 expression in human mesothelial cells. This was substantiated in vivo where peritoneal inflammation in OSMR-KO mice resulted in a temporal increase in both CCL5 secretion and NF-kappaB activation. These findings suggest that IL-6 and OSM individually affect the profile of leukocyte trafficking, and they point to a hitherto unidentified interplay between OSM signaling and the inflammatory activation of NF-kappaB.
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Disability is a universally difficult concept to define and assess for social assistance and social insurance purposes. The ways in which access to disability welfare rights are defined and allocated remain especially neglected in the Global South. This thesis examines the administration of the disability grant (DG) in South Africa, where unusually generous disability benefits exist alongside very high levels of unemployment and poverty. It focuses on the role of doctors, who must confirm that applicants for the DG are disabled, serving as gatekeepers, and thus as 'street level bureaucrats' within the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). Observations of doctor-claimant interactions in clinics and hospitals showed that disability assessments are sites of contestation between doctors, claimants and the state over how social security rights should be allocated. Doctors struggled to balance their roles and obligations as medical professionals, gatekeepers and moral agents, in a context where issues of employability and disability are hard to separate. In the face of heavy workloads and significant pressure from claimants to recommend grants, doctors employed coping strategies that distanced and objectified patients. Despite efforts by SASSA to curb their discretion, doctors inserted their own subjective understandings of disability and deservingness into the assessment process as they interpreted and applied DG policy in their interactions with claimants - bending the rules for people they thought were 'deserving' and rigidly applying the rules in 'undeserving' cases. Variation in doctors' decision-making reflects different ways of framing disability cases. The interpretive schemas that doctors used to organise and make sense of cases were shaped by their social background and dispositions, work environment, professional and personal norms and values, and ideas about distributive justice. Framing is also an interactive process and was influenced by claimants, who brought their own agency to bear on the assessment. The concept of framing contributes to street-level bureaucracy theory by capturing the pluralism of norms and ideas that ground street-level actions, whilst allowing us to observe and explain patterns emerging in street-level decisions. It is also useful in examining the relationship and potential conflicts between professional expertise, social norms and values, and bureaucratic rules. The study also shows the need for scholars of street-level bureaucracy to consider the influence of citizen agency on policy implementation. The challenges and pressures doctors faced in categorising disability, combined with patients' misunderstanding of and resistance to these categories and related demands to be included in the system, demonstrate significant gaps in the design and application of social security and poverty alleviation policy in South Africa.
Kelly, G. 2016. Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment. University of Cape Town.
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You might have read about Men's Health Fitness Editor Adam Campbell's standup workstation last year...basically, he stands at his computer, rather than sits at a desk.
Well, researchers from the Mayo Clinic (ref: British Journal of Sports Medicine 2007;41:558-561) have come up with the walking workstation, to help reduce obesity. Will it work?
Researchers hooked subjects up to a walking workstation - essentially, a treadmill at a stand-up desk - to determine how many calories a subject could burn during a workday, all while walking at a self-selected velocity (an average of 1.1 mph).
When sitting in chairs, the subjects burned 72 calories per hour. However, when using the walking workstation at 1.1 mph, subjects burned an average of 191 calories per hour.
The researchers concluded walking workstations used for as little as 3 hours per day could help people lose up to 60 pounds in a year.
However, let me add my professional opinion. To me, this is nothing more than wishful thinking. Why? Because as I found in a previous study, even 6 hours of hard cardio per week results in only an average of 6 pounds of fat loss in a year.
So could this easy walking while you work really lead to longterm weight loss?
If an office worker is obese, it would be much easier for them to cut out 300, 500, or even more calories from their nutrition plan by eating better. And that would have a more significant impact.
But, if this can't hurt, maybe it can help. I guess we'll see if this actually goes mainstream...if it does, it will almost be shameful to rely on that for your exercise. The generations before us came over and cleared the land, worked hard, and here we are, reduced to walking at 1.1mph on a treadmill just so we don't weigh 400 pounds. Pretty lame.
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Xavier Villaurrutia Award - 1976 for his novel, "Terra Nostra"
Venezuelan Romulo Gallegas Prize - 1977 for his novel, "Terra Nostra"
One of Mexico's finest writers and one of my favorite to read, especially in college, was Carlos Fuentes Macias. He is Mexico's most distinguished celebrated writer. In fact, he was the most admired writer in the Spanish-speaking world, although sadly he never won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which I believe was a big mistake. He, did, however win many other prestigious prizes for his writings which were prolific.
Fuentes wrote short stories, plays, novels, poetry and essays during this writing career. His fiction many times told stories of tangled love. And because he spent his youth, until the age of sixteen, overseas he was able to view Latin America and Mexico itself as a critical outsider.
He wrote in almost every genre of writing including opera in which he wrote a libretto. He never wrote an autobiography feeling too much mortality if he engaged in writing one. There have been several biographies written about him and his life.
His writing left a deep imprint on Mexican life and the writing world in general. His novels were topical and ambitious and brought alive Mexico's cultural and people for the world to see.
He was one of the early writers to use the motif of magic realism which became popular in all of Latin American literature. Magic realism is writing and portraying the unusual, surreal, and fantastic as an everyday, mundane occurrence in life. It usually represents or symbolizes a point the author is trying to get across or portray. Magic realism is still used in Latin American literature today. Fuentes was one of the forerunners to use this in his literature.
Fuentes was also part of the writing era called 'El Boom', an explosion of Latin American writers from the 1960's and 70's. His contemporaries were Columbian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peruvian, Mario Vargas Llosa , and Argentinian, Julio Cortazar.
His political views were important to him and expressing them was important to Mexico. Actually, he was more ideological and idealistic than political. He embraced justice and basic human rights regardless of political labels. And, these ideas were in his writings and a large part of the themes of his novels.
Fuentes was a leftist socialist for most of his adult life. For example, he supported Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, but ended up turning against Castro when he clearly realized he was nothing more than a corrupt dictator.
He always sympathized with the Indian rebels in Chiapas, the southern Mexican state as they also fight for equality and justice and what they view as a corrupt Mexican government.
He even weighed in on American politics and felt George W. Bush and his administration were wrong over its anti-terrorism tactics and immigration policies, which he felt were unduly harsh.
He was also critical of Hugo Chavez, former Venezuelan leftist leader and called him a "tropical Mussolini" and recognized his corruption in government.
His own country of Mexico did not escape his wrath and criticism either. Fuentes was very critical of Mexico's inability to stem it's drug violence.
Carlos Fuentes was born in 1928 in Panama City, Panama to Mexican parents. His father, Rafael Fuentes, was a member of the Mexican diplomatic corps and so he lived his first sixteen years outside of Mexico and in different foreign embassies. And much of his youth was spent in several South American countries and the U.S.
In 1936, his family was transferred to Washington DC where he learned to speak English fluently and attended public schools. By 1938, Mexico nationalized its foreign oil holdings much to the dismay of the U.S. In fact, there was a national outcry from the U.S. because of its neighbor's socialist decisions rather than capitalistic. Fuentes was ostracized by his American classmates because of Mexico's action.
Fuentes later said this was this event in his life when he began to understand himself as Mexican, and it was this nationality that was written about so much in his novels. He also said he chose to write in the language of his father because he believed Spanish offered him more flexibility and meaning.
In 1940, the family again was transferred and this time to Santiago, Chile. It was here, that Fuentes began his writing career. He was published in several school newspapers and literary magazines.
Fuentes credited these stories from his grandmothers as inspiring him to write and become a story teller also. His parents were supportive of his decision to have a writing career, but his father insisted he study law which he did. He studied in Mexico at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and also studied in Switzerland.
During this time he also wrote for the Mexican newspaper, Hoy (Today) and began writing and publishing short stories. Fuentes felt it was through writing literature that his voice could be heard.
When he had finished his law degree, Fuentes then entered the Mexican diplomatic corps.
Have you ever read anything written by Carlos Fuentes?
Carlos Fuentes traced the history of modern Mexico and Mexican culture during his writing career in his layered stories that explored the universal themes of love, memory, and death.
He wrote his first novel, Where the Air is Clear (1958) and it became an immediate success and literary sensation in Mexico. It was a biting social commentary with interior monologues with portrayals of the subconscious. It is the story of a man, Federico Robles, who abandons his revolutionary ideals and becomes a powerful financier.
The novel is a portrait of the inequality and moral corruption in modern Mexico that Fuentes had observed. This novel established Fuente's writing reputation and he left the diplomatic corps to devote all his time and energies to writing.
In 1959, Fuentes moved to Havana, Cuba at the height of the Cuban Revolution. Here he wrote pro-Castro articles and essays until he became disillusioned with Castro and saw him for what he really was - not interested in establishing true socialism, but in establishing a corrupt Communist dictatorship.
He then returned to Mexico and worked on his next novel, The Good Conscience (Las Buenas Consciencias). This novel was the illustration of the privileged middle class. It was about a privileged young man whose impulses toward social equality are suffocated by his family's materialism. It was described as "the classic Marxist novel."
Next, he worked on his masterpiece novel, The Death of Artemio Cruz which was published in 1962. It is the story of his character, the same name as the title, as a bedridden ailing newspaper baron who looks back at his life and his climb out of poverty to his heroic exploits in the Mexican Revolution.
Cruz realizes his failure in seeing through the revolution and continuing to support the promise of a more egalitarian Mexican society. He realizes the grand failure of the revolution was in allowing the new government and society to become so corrupt. This is considered Fuentes' greatest novel.
Through the heavy use of interior monologue and explorations of the subconscious he paints a portrait of the inequality and moral corruption of modern Mexico. In writing this novel, Fuentes was influenced by the work of American filmmaker, Orson Wells and his film, Citizen Kane.
Fuentes uses many literary parallels that Wells used in his film - close up, cross cutting, deep focus and flashback. Fuente's independent thought and reputation for supporting leftist causes and revolutions led to his being denied visas to enter the U.S. in the 1960's. It was not until 1967, with the intervention of the U.S. Congress, that his travel restrictions to the U.S. were lifted against him. He then traveled to the U.S. and taught at several Ivy League Universities: Brown, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Cornell.
In 1975, Fuentes was appointed Mexican ambassador to France, but resigned two years later. His resignation was to protest the appointment of Gustave Diaz Ordaz as ambassador to Spain.
When Ordaz was president of Mexico in 1968, he ordered Mexican troops to open fire on student protestors in Mexico City and Fuentes disdained this action and Ordaz as a person. I guess Mexico had its own "Kent State shootings".
In 1985, he wrote and published The Old Gringo, which received wide recognition in the U.S. It was the first book by a Mexican novelist to become a best-seller north of the border. It is the convoluted tale about American writer, Ambrose Bierce, who disappeard during the Mexican Revolution of 1848. It explored the ways in which revolutionary ideas eventually become corrupt.
The Old Gringo, was made into an American film in 1989, starring Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Smits.
In 1975, he published his most ambitious novel, Terra Nostra, which tells the story of all of Hispanic civilization. That is a huge, huge subject to cover. In this novel, Fuentes shifts between the 16th and 20th centuries seeking roots of contemporary Latin American society and the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americas.
Fuentes wrote his last novel in 2011, Destiny and Desire, which is a sprawling work. It is a comedy, satire, allegory, fantasy, and brilliant political commentary. It is a partial parody of the novel War and Peace, a novel that competes with history.
In this written work, Fuentes makes coded allusions to recognizable celebrities and evokes the work of Spinoza and Machiavelli. It also includes ghosts, graves, murders, and a talking severed head.
The severed head is a victim of the Mexican drug gang wars and through this novel he speaks openly about the Mexican drug gang wars and their torture and brutal killings and duly criticizes the Mexican government for not doing more to stop this scourge in his country.
All his writings left an indelible mark on Mexican writings and culture and portrayed the modern Mexican life and culture for the rest of the world to see. He is one of Mexico's most important writers and leaves behind so many novels and short stories that also tell the history of Mexico, its people, and culture for all of us to learn from and enjoy.
Carlos Fuentes is Mexico's quintessential writer, author and novelist.
Mexico's Wilderness Provides a Safe Haven for Several Species of "Big Cat," like the Jaguar.
Mike, you have read Fuentes. Good. I have read his short stories, but not his novels. I need to do that! I do like him and think he is so talented and sometimes doesn't get the accolades that he should. I thought he should have won the Nobel Prize during his lifetime because his works are just as good as the other Latin Americans. Thanks for reading this.
Hello Suzette, I found The Old Gringo a very interesting read. Carlos Fuentes is a talented author. Oh, wait, you know that.
teaches: I read his short stories in college and always liked them. My professors were from Spain and Latin America - Mexico, Bolivia, and Argentina so I guess they made us aware of Fuentes. Plus, I studied Spanish in Guadalajara, Mexico and at the time Fuentes was all the rage there. I wish they would have given him the Nobel Prize as I feel his writings were just as important as the others. Of course, Garcia Marquez I still consider the best of them all, but I just love his use of magic realism in all his writings.
I don't remember studying Fuentes in college Spanish classes, but I hope that they do list him as important to literature. Very interesting hub on this writer.
Eddy: Thank you for reading and for your comments. Glad you enjoyed this!
So interesting Suzette and thank you for sharing.
Kim, thank you so much for your lovely comments. I am so glad you enjoyed reading this. Marquez is probably my next hub. It has taken me awhile to get around to these Spanish speaking authors. The original magical realist - well that could be up for discussion. I learned Fuentes, but it could be Marquez - who knows. They were both writing at the same time and both using magic realism in their writing. I will say Marquez' 100 Years of Solitude was published in 1967 or there abouts, and it was a more popular novel so maybe that's how he got credit for it. I really didn't get into Marquez' writings until he won the Nobel Prize which was in the 80's. Regardless, they both were brilliant at using it in their novels and it is mostly a Latin American writing motif. You are so sweet as I would love to lunch with you too. There is so much we could discuss! I so enjoy your writings too. I just finished a hub on Octavio Paz you can peruse when you have time.
Per usual, a fascinating hub about a fascinating writer written by one of my favorite writers. Smiles. Though somewhat familiar with Fuentes, I am more aware of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I had always thought Marquez was the original magical realist. I am wondering why my college professors lead me to believe so. Naturally, this is a stellar hub worthy of V+/share. Plus, I just want to say an extra thank you for being such a supportive friend. Like I told another hubber, I wish you lived close by so that I could treat you to lunch. Thanks for being you.
Genna: I particularly like that quote also - I think it is so true of all of us here that write. Thanks so much for your insightful comments and I'm glad you enjoyed this hub. Thanks for your visit - most appreciated.
Thank you Faith, and I am glad you enjoyed reading this. Yes, his novels are fascinating and really do give a good portrait of what it means to be Mexican and all that goes with it. Mexico has had such a revolutionary history with the peasants constantly trying to fight for equality and the governments being so corrupt and he portrays this in all his writings. Thanks so much for your comments and as always they are most appreciated.
Excellent write of a fascinating man and writer! After reading your wonderful piece here, I want to read his work for sure.
Beautiful work as always, dear suzette.
Thank you, Jo. Glad you enjoyed this and thank you so much for reading and for your comments.
An interesting read, and a new fascinating author to sample. I'll be looking out for his books in the future. Excellent work as always.
cmoneyspinner: Thanks so much for your visit and I'm glad you could make his acquaintance! LOL Thanks so much for pinning this and I am glad your enjoyed this and found it interesting.
Bill: I so glad you read this and found it interesting and informative. He is really the best writer in the Spanish-speaking countries. I read many of his short stories during college and he is such a good writer. Thanks so much for your visit - most appreciated.
Met somebody I never knew today. I collect and share biographies and bi-snapshots via Pinterest. Pinned this!
What a fascinating man and what a wonderful mini-biography. I was unaware of this man so thank you for the information about him.
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२०१३ सम्यक बुद्धांचा प्रवास अ जर्नी ऑफ सम्यक बुद्ध भारत Screenplayed and directed by Praveen Damle, based on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s book The Buddha and His Dhamma.
^ staff (27 June 2007). "'Buddha' with a message of peace". Indiaglitz. 21 January 2013 रोजी पाहिले.
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Adrian Stone - The Dream Captain"
Only Krel and Alan Davey himself have come this close to duplicating the '90s HAWKWIND sound. Okay, some people might say that Starfield and the above-named artists play classic '70s-style Hawkwind, but if that's the case, so does the '90s Hawkwind. The production techniques and modern electronic instrumentation used here give this a sound akin to Space Bandits, Electric Tepee or Love in Space. I'll try not to mince words here: these two musicians calling themselves Starfield have Dave Brock's guitar-tuning and style down to a tee, and Alan Davey's bass as well.
The album begins with two tracks that exemplify this approach perfectly, the above-mentioned qualities joined with the expected British vocal delivery. The space-rock synthesizer is all over the place, but doesn't seem to create any textures beyond what the 'Wind has already covered in recent years. Brief ambient synth passages are followed by driving stacatto drum attacks. Things get a bit more interesting with the following two tracks, which delve into electronic space-ambience combined with some modern electronica loop-effects, though even the tribal drums of "In the Trees" still resemble Hawkwind's "Space is Not Their Palestine" to some degree. Still, originality-factor aside, these tracks are pretty effective and continue to reprise a cool vocal-chant heard since the beginning of the disc.
The disc's peak is definitely hit with the next sequence, "Ruler of the Sun" being an intro to one of the most powerful space-rock tunes of the age, the title track. During the segue between the two, synthesist Captain Black comes up with one of the most beautiful space-age synth warbles ever created, which could have been used a bit more extensively (I had to try looping it on the radio). "Return to Earth" begins with the "Angels of Death" riff, but beyond that takes off deeply into space with a wonderfully driving drum-beat, a masterfully rising bass riff and a powerful vocal, while the inherent Hawk-synth keeps all afloat. From here things again lapse into fairly derivative territory, mixing more ambient space interludes with standard Space-Brock. For example, "Spiritualize" takes off with the mid-section riff of "Levitation". I really dislike giving a mostly-negative review to something which I should love for its recipe and spirit. After all, this is not much more derivative of Hawkwind than Krel. But overall there's something in the latter CD that just brings across Hawk-power more excitingly than most of the material on this disc. I think I'm more open to "derivative" music than many people I've corresponded with, so it's not just that; hence, what we're looking for here is much less tangible than the idea of "orginality" and requires the more elusive quality of "feel". Now it's up to you.
For more information you can email Starfield at starfield@supanet.com.
Contact via snail mail c/o Starfield Feedback; PO Box 44; Bude; EX 23 9Y D; England.
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This course will survey the major developments in the two decades following the end of World War II, a fascinating yet misunderstood era when Americans simultaneously enjoyed unprecedented prosperity but grappled with a rapidly evolving domestic landscape fraught with new insecurities. Among the topics covered will be the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, McCarthyism, suburbia, and the changing role of women. We will also examine other significant aspects of American life during this era, including comic books, the rock & roll revolution, and the rise of television. Requirements will include a midterm, final, one paper, and several short homework assignments.
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Although Ethiopian sanctuary Café Desta moved into the building where Stone Avenue, Sixth Avenue and 18th Street join, it wasn't until 5 Points moved in that that area morphed from kind of seedy into chic and tendy. Heck, even the New York Times had to give this little breakfast and lunch spot a serious shout out. That's because everything from the sparkling rose lemonade to the pistachio cardamom shortbread to the herby, refined breakfast toast to the Korean-inspired Seoul Sister sandwich is completely and utterly perfect. Not only is the food expertly executed, but the relaxed, yet hip digs are on point too. If this place isn't one of your favorites already, it will be now.
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A Department of Interior decision clears another hurdle for the Tohono O'odham tribe in its effort to build a casino near Glendale's sports and entertainment district.
The Tohono O'odham tribe moved a step closer to its bid to build a casino near Glendale.
The Department of Interior reaffirmed its decision that the tribe's land is not in Glendale's boundaries.
The tribe said the casino would generate about 3,000 jobs and $300 million in annual economic impact.
Southern Arizona's Tohono O'odham tribe on Thursday moved a step closer to winning its contested bid to build a casino near Glendale's sports and entertainment district.
The U.S. Department of the Interior reaffirmed its decision that the tribe's land at 95th and Northern avenues is not within Glendale's city boundaries.
The 54 acre parcel is poised to become part of the Tohono O'odham Reservation, where the tribe could build a casino if it clears the remaining legal hurdles.
The decision was issued by Kevin Washburn, Bureau of Indian Affairs assistant secretary.
The state, Glendale and the Gila River and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian communities have opposed Tohono O'odham's proposed West Valley casino and filed legal challenges.
Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. said the ruling will allow the tribe to replace land that was flooded by a reservoir.
"The nation is eager to move forward to use our replacement land to create thousands of new jobs in the West Valley," Norris said.
Federal legislation allowing the Tohono O'odham to acquire replacement land excluded property "within the corporate limits" of a city.
The Valley tribes argue that a 2002 gaming compact barred additional casinos in metro Phoenix.
The Gila River tribe has three Valley casinos south of Phoenix, and the Salt River tribe has two casinos east of Scottsdale.
The Tohono O'odham tribe has three southern Arizona casinos.
Gila River Gov. Gregory Mendoza said Tohono O'odham's proposal "poses a direct threat to the balance of tribal gaming in our state."
Salt River President Diane Enos said that the federal ruling could lead to the Tohono O'odham establishing other reservation pockets on county islands in the Valley on which to build casinos.
The two tribes are pushing for federal legislation to block additional tribal casinos in metro Phoenix.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to do that last year, but the Senate did not act on the measure.
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake have scheduled a Senate hearing July 23 on the American Indian gaming bill, according to a statement issued by the Salt River tribe.
The Tohono O'odham tribe bought the potential casino site in the early 2000s.
The land is surrounded by Glendale on three sides and Peoria to the north, but is not within the boundaries of either city.
The tribe is seeking reservation status for the site to replace more than 10,000 acres flooded in 1978 by the Painted Rock Dam west of Gila Bend.
The tribe announced its plans to seek reservation or trust status for the West Valley site in 2009.
The state and the two Valley tribes filed a federal lawsuit in 2011 arguing that the 2002 Indian gaming compact bars additional Valley casinos.
A year ago, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell ruled in favor of the Tohono O'odham tribe, saying there is nothing in writing that bars another local casino.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also sided with the Tohono O'odham but asked the Department of the Interior to further clarify the issues of whether the tribe's 54 acre site is within Glendale.
The Department of the Interior concluded that the land is not within Glendale's limits.
That clears the way for a final ruling from the 9th Circuit Court on the compacts governing Indian gaming and the issue of additional casinos in metro Phoenix.
The Gila River tribe, in a statement, said it will review the Interior ruling to decide whether to take further legal action.
Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers said in an e-mail that he hadn't read the ruling and that he needed time to "review it and receive advice from the city's legal counsel to better understand what this means to the city of Glendale."
The Tohono O'odham tribe said its West Valley casino would generate about 3,000 jobs and $300 million in annual economic impact.
Arizona Republic reporter Kaila White contributed to this article.
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An electronic equipment communications system consists of electronic equipment and at least one or more control terminals and external storage devices connected via a repeater. Communications between the repeater and electronic equipment is performed by an external storage device communications system that connects the entertainment system to external storage devices connected to the external storage device connectors of the repeater, and control signals output from the electronic equipment are input to the repeater via this external storage device communications system. The data rate of the external storage device communications system is higher than that of the control terminal communications system, so high-speed switching of the repeater can be implemented by control signal from the electronic equipment.
MXPA02004971A (en) 2002-09-18 Method for data communication between a vehicle and a remote terminal.
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Recreation
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wikipedia
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Under-12 aged nippers in start position before their swim in Stanwell Park, dressed in local SLSC uniform.
Surf Life Saving Clubs (or SLSCs) are volunteer institutions at Australia's beaches. The clubs conduct surf lifesaving services on weekends and public holidays, and in the 2014-2015 season they saved 12,690 people. They also host many beach sport activities, such as Nippers, surf carnivals and other competitions. The SLSCs are responsible for the education of Lifesavers including operation of Inflatable Rescue Boats (IRBs) and maintaining radio communication with other beaches and air rescue resources.
^ a b Moody, Sherele (January 3, 2016). "Surf Life Saving Australia: Safety at the beach isn't cheap". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
This page was last edited on 19 February 2018, at 18:06 (UTC).
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2019-04-22T21:58:31Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_Life_Saving_Club
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Arts
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Sports
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arts
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This article reflects on the coming together of two pedagogic practices – museological teaching practice and learning development – to develop a form of object-based self-enquiry. This teaching practice has emerged from a shared practitioner interest in the use of museum and special collection objects as mediating artefacts (Vygotsky, 1978; Engeström, 1999) for increasing learning awareness. It considers the design and development of workshops which use museum objects as a focus for surfacing student self-perception of the role of values, assumptions and habits of mind in meaningful learning, particularly where these become influenced by disciplinary ways of thinking and practicing.
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2019-04-19T21:14:58Z
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http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13909/
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Arts
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Arts
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princeton
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This catalog is a list of courses that the department may offer in a given year. Not all courses in the catalog are offered every year.
-View the Registrar's course offerings page for courses offered this semester.
-Students and faculty can refer to the Undergraduate Announcement for the academic year undergraduate course information.
Undergraduate courses are in the 100 - 400 listing. Graduate courses are in the 400 - 500 listing.
Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social science students. Topics will be drawn from current issues and events, and will include discussion of how computers work, what programming is and why it is hard, how the Internet and the Web work, security and privacy.
Classes: Two 90-minute lectures. Self-scheduled computer laboratory.
An introduction to computer science in the context of scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The course will teach basic principles and practical issues, and will prepare students to use computers effectively for applications in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines. Topics include: hardware and software systems; programming in Java; algorithms and data structures; fundamental principles of computation; and scientific computing, including simulation, optimization, and data analysis. No prior programming experience required. Video lectures, one or two classes, two preceptorials.
Prerequisite(s): No prior programming experience is required. Satisfies the SEAS computing requirement.
Classes: Two 60-minute lectures and two 60-minute preceptorials.
Prerequisite(s): COS 126, ISC 231-234, or approval by the COS placement officer.
This course surveys the most important algorithms and data structures in use on computers today. Particular emphasis is given to algorithms for sorting, searching, and string processing. Fundamental algorithms in a number of other areas are covered as well, including geometric algorithms, graph algorithms, and some numerical algorithms. The course will concentrate on developing implementations, understanding their performance characteristics, and estimating their potential effectiveness in applications.
Prerequisite(s): COS 126 or approval by the COS placement officer. Enrollment is limited to undergraduate students. Any graduate student interested in enrolling must apply by application only. Please contact ckenny@princeton.edu for the application..
See ELE206 Department of Electrical Engineering.
See MUS314 Department of Music.
See MUS 315 Department of Music.
Prerequisite(s): Students wishing to take the class should email the professor stating their musical and computer-science experience, describing their interest in the course.
A study of the design and analysis of operating systems. Topics include: processes, mutual exclusion, synchronization, semaphores, monitors, deadlock prevention and detection, memory management, virtual memory, processor scheduling, disk management, file systems, security, protection, distributed systems.
Prerequisite(s): 217 and 226 or instructor's permission.
Understand the design and construction of compilers. Concepts include syntax analysis, semantics, code generation, optimization and run-time systems. Translation of imperative languages (such as C), functional languages (such as ML), and object-oriented languages (such as Java) will be studied. Students will implement a complete compiler for a small language.
Prerequisite(s): COS 217 and COS 226 or instructor's permission.
See ORF363 Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering.
Provides a broad introduction to different machine learning paradigms and algorithms, providing a foundation for further study or independent work in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. Topics include linear models for classification and regression, support vector machines, neural networks, clustering, principal components analysis, Markov decision processed, planning, and reinforcement learning.
Prerequisite(s): MAT 201 or 203; MAT 202 or 204; COS 226; ORF 245, ORF 309 or MAT 385 or permission of instructor.
An introduction to the principles of typed functional programming. Programming recursive functions over structured data types and informal reasoning by induction about the correctness of those functions. Functional algorithms and data structures. Principles of modular programming, type abstraction, representation invariants and representation independence. Parallel functional programming, algorithms and applications.
Prerequisite(s): COS 226 or with permission of the instructor.
This is a course about the practice of programming. Programming is more than just writing code. Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves & others. At the same time, they must be concerned with compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications. Students will have the opportunity to develop these skills by working on their own code and in group projects.
Prerequisite(s): 217 and 226 (as corequisite).
An introduction to mathematical topics relevant to computer science. Combinatorics, probability and graph theory will be covered in the context of computer science applications. The course will present a computer science approach to thinking and modeling. Students will be introduced to fundamental concepts such as NP-completeness and cryptography that arise from the world view of efficient computation.
Prerequisite(s): COS 126 and 226 (or sufficient mathematical background), and MAT 175, 202, 204. COS 226 can be taken along with COS 340 in the same term. Please contact the professor directly with any questions you may have..
See MAT375 Department of Mathematics.
This course introduces algorithms for analyzing DNA, RNA, and protein, the three fundamental molecules in the cell. Students will learn algorithms on strings, trees, and graphs and their applications in: sequence comparison and alignment; molecular evolution and comparative genomics; DNA sequencing and assembly; recognition of genes and regulatory elements; and RNA structure and protein interaction networks. Students will also implement algorithms and apply them to biological data.
Prerequisite(s): COS126, COS226. Some exposure to discrete math and basic probability (e.g. COS340).
See WWS351 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Classes: Two 50 minute lectures and one precept.
Prerequisite(s): Students should have some background in either technology (computer science, engineering) or the social sciences (especially economics, politics, and sociology)..
An introduction to computer architecture and organization. Instruction set design; basic processor implementation techniques; performance management; caches and virtual memory; pipelined processor design; design trade-offs among cost, performance, and complexity.
Cross-listed as ELE375 Department of Electrical Engineering.
Classes: Two 90-minute classes, one self-scheduled hardware laboratory.
See ELE381 Department of Electrical Engineering.
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2019-04-19T14:23:08Z
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https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/catalog
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Arts
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Computers
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weebly
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I have this obsession with going as hard as possible in the gym, in the kitchen, in life in general. #beastmodeON is my motto. My secret energy boost? Super Food Maca Root, because I too want to be an Incan Warrior! Ok maybe I'll settle for warrior princess.
Maca root is used in both the supplement and cosmetic industries. When ingested Maca boosts energy, endurance and your metabolism aiding in fighting belly fat. It also stimulates the endocrine systems balancing hormones in both men and women. What does that mean? For men it is known as "Peru's Natural Viagra" and also boosts sperm health. For the ladies it is used to boost energy, increase libido, improve fertility, improve skin and even used as a natural therapy during menopause. It is even know to help the body add a little to those lady curves. Basically Maca gets your body's hormones in check so your body can work like it was meant to. Little research has been done on the topical properties of maca but there are skin creams, scrubs, masks popping up boasting maca as the active ingredient because what little studies have been done show that it does tighten and clarify the skin giving a more youthful glowing appearance. I suffer from acne and my pretty beastmode in the gym is not helping so I have begun my maca skin care regimen this past week and will follow up with a review in a month.
Also be sure to read the label, start with about half the recommended dose, stay at that for awhile, ease into it, don't want you bouncing off the walls and unfocused. True Story, I've seen this! To sum it up, put down that Coke, Diet Coke, Red Bull, Energy Shot. Let go of artificial energy. Do as the Incan Warriors did before battle, try some Maca Root!
Yes this is a great mood elevator. Enhances mojo & passion. Love this post.
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2019-04-24T20:26:36Z
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https://wanderingeyes.weebly.com/health/spotlight-on-superfoods-maca-root
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Arts
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Health
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time
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Burma’s first census in three decades has reignited long-smoldering tensions in the nation’s restive west, leading to attacks on aid workers. The U.N. is also facing accusations of complicity in a discriminatory census that does not allow members of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority to identify themselves as such on census documents.
Late last week, mobs in Rakhine (or Arakan) state launched assaults on international aid organizations, sacking 14 buildings. More than 70 foreign and local staff were evacuated from the state capital, Sittwe, on Friday.
“Rakhine employees are being threatened by their own community to not work for NGOs, in some cases being physically beaten or family members threatened,” said one aid worker, quoted by the news website Asian Correspondent. The aid worker asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
Boats and vehicles used to deliver aid have also been destroyed, meaning food, clean water and medical supplies will likely run out soon.
Rakhine extremists fear that international aid agencies are biased toward the persecuted Rohingya, and have resorted to violence to enforce an official refusal to recognize the Muslim minority in the population survey.
Around 140,000 Rohingya live in squalid displacement camps following sporadic pogroms over the past two years. They are incorrectly regarded as “Bengali” land-grabbers from neighboring Bangladesh — even though they have lived in Burma (officially known as Myanmar) for generations — and are denied citizenship. They also face strict curbs on marriage, reproduction and travel.
The two-week process to collect basic demographic data on Burma’s estimated 60 million people began on March 30. “If we ask a family about their ethnicity and they say Rohingya, we will not … accept it,” presidential spokesman Ye Htut told reporters on Monday, according to the Irrawaddy.
His statement appeared to backtrack on an earlier government pledge to allow the Rohingya to self-identify on census documents.
Abu Tahay, chairman of the Union Nationals Development Party, which represents the Rohingya, confirmed that Rangoon residents were not allowed to register as Rohingya on Tuesday.
William Ryan, Burma spokesman for the U.N. Population Fund (formerly known as the U.N. Fund for Population Activities and still abbreviated by its former initials UNFPA), says that “UNFPA is very concerned by this apparent departure from the procedure for the census.” However, he declined to comment on whether the $75 million, U.N.-funded project was now being turned into a discriminatory tool.
According to Human Rights Watch, the U.N. body is at fault for originally agreeing to conduct the census according to the 135 ethnic groups as set out by xenophobic dictator General Ne Win in his 1982 Citizenship Law. The Rohingya are not among those groups.
“These ethnic classifications risk exacerbating already vexing identity issues as part of the fragile nationwide ceasefire process, and within very diverse communities in ethnic areas,” said the New York City–based group in a statement.
Other Burmese groups representing ethnic minorities such as the Kachin, Wa, Pa-O and Mon have also raised concerns and pledged limited cooperation with the census.
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2019-04-21T12:57:36Z
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http://time.com/44891/burma-census-rakhine-rohingya/
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Arts
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News
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ucd
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Score = 183 bits (464), Expect = 1e-61, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 152 bits (385), Expect = 1e-49, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 126 bits (316), Expect = 4e-39, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 121 bits (304), Expect = 3e-37, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 119 bits (299), Expect = 2e-36, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 111 bits (277), Expect = 3e-33, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 111 bits (277), Expect = 4e-33, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 110 bits (276), Expect = 7e-33, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 109 bits (272), Expect = 2e-32, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 108 bits (270), Expect = 5e-32, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 105 bits (263), Expect = 5e-31, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 104 bits (259), Expect = 2e-30, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 104 bits (259), Expect = 4e-30, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 103 bits (256), Expect = 5e-30, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 99.8 bits (247), Expect = 2e-28, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 95.9 bits (237), Expect = 1e-26, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 94.0 bits (232), Expect = 2e-26, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 80.5 bits (197), Expect = 5e-21, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 69.7 bits (169), Expect = 4e-16, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 29.6 bits (65), Expect = 0.76, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 28.5 bits (62), Expect = 1.9, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 28.1 bits (61), Expect = 2.6, Method: Composition-based stats.
Score = 28.1 bits (61), Expect = 2.9, Method: Composition-based stats.
Score = 28.1 bits (61), Expect = 2.9, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
Score = 27.7 bits (60), Expect = 4.1, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
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2019-04-20T19:17:52Z
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http://ygob.ucd.ie/cgi/browser/blastgob.pl?ver=Latest&gene=KLTH0E00990g&org=kthe&array=8%7CKpol_1043.75%7CKpol_1043.74%7CKpol_1043.73%7CKpol_YGOB_1043.72%7CKpol_1043.71%7CKpol_1043.70%7CKpol_1043.69%7CKpol_1043.68%7CTPHA0E00170%7CTPHA0E00180%7CTPHA0E00190%7CTPHA0E00200%7CTPHA0E00210%7CTPHA0E00230%7CTPHA0E00240%7CTPHA0E00250%7CTBLA0E01700%7CTBLA0E01710%7CTBLA0E01730%7CTBLA0E02110%7CTBLA0E02100%7CTBLA0E02090%7CNDAI0F00250%7CNDAI0F00260%7CNDAI0F00270%7CNDAI0F00280%7CNDAI0F00290%7CNDAI0F00300%7CNDAI0F00310%7CNCAS0G00210%7CNCAS0G00220%7CNCAS0F03400%7CNCAS0G00230%7CNCAS0G00240%7CNCAS0G00250%7CNCAS0G00260%7CKNAG0L02160%7CKNAG0L02150%7CKNAG0L02140%7CKNAG0L02120%7CKNAG0L02110%7CKNAG0L02100%7CKAFR0D02200%7CKAFR0D02210%7CKAFR0D02220%7CKAFR0D02230%7CKAFR0D02240%7CKAFR0D02250%7CCAGL0H06633g%7CCgla_YGOB_Anc_5.707%7CCAGL0H06611g%7CCAGL0H06589g%7CCAGL0H06567g%7CCAGL0H06545g%7CSuva_9.36%7CSuva_9.37%7CSuva_9.38%7CSuva_9.39%7CSuva_9.40%7CSuva_9.41%7CSuva_9.43%7CSkud_9.16%7CSkud_9.17%7CSkud_9.18%7CSkud_9.19%7CSkud_9.20%7CSkud_9.21%7CSkud_9.22%7CSmik_9.17%7CSmik_9.18%7CSmik_9.19%7CSmik_9.20%7CSmik_9.21%7CSmik_9.22%7CSmik_9.23%7CYIL152W%7CYIL151C%7CYIL150C%7CYIL149C%7CYIL148W%7CYIL147C%7CYIL146C%7CAnc_5.708%7CAnc_5.707%7CAnc_5.706%7CAnc_5.705%7CAnc_5.704%7CAnc_5.703%7CAnc_5.437%7CAnc_5.702%7CAnc_5.701%7CAnc_5.700%7CAnc_5.699%7CZYRO0B16456g%7CZYRO0B16434g%7CZYRO0B16412g%7CZYRO0B16368g%7CZYRO0G06556g%7CZYRO0G06578g%7CZYRO0F10098g%7CZYRO0G06600g%7CZYRO0G06622g%7CZYRO0G06644g%7CZYRO0G06666g%7CTDEL0B02120%7CTDEL0B02130%7CTDEL0B02140%7CTDEL0B02150%7CTDEL0B02160%7CTDEL0B02170%7CTDEL0B02180%7CTDEL0B02190%7CTDEL0B02200%7CTDEL0B02210%7CTDEL0B02220%7CKLLA0A00484g%7CKLLA0A00506g%7CKLLA0A00528g%7CKLLA0A00539g%7CKLLA0A00550g%7CKLLA0A00572g%7CKLLA0E02245g%7CKLLA0A00594g%7CKLLA0A00616g%7CKLLA0A00638g%7CKLLA0A00660g%7CAFR292W%7CAFR291C%7CAFR290W%7CAFR289W%7CAFR288C%7CAFR287W%7CAER404C%7CAFR286W%7CAFR285C%7CAFR284W%7CAFR283W%7CEcym_4013%7CEcym_4014%7CEcym_4015%7CEcym_4016%7CEcym_4018%7CEcym_4019%7CEcym_4020%7CEcym_4021%7CSAKL0E15048g%7CSAKL0E15026g%7CSAKL0E15004g%7CSAKL0E14982g%7CSAKL0E14960g%7CSAKL0E14938g%7CSAKL0G02596g%7CSAKL0E14916g%7CSAKL0E14894g%7CSAKL0E14872g%7CSAKL0E14850g%7CKLTH0E00902g%7CKLTH0E00924g%7CKLTH0E00946g%7CKLTH0E00968g%7CKLTH0E00990g%7CKLTH0E01012g%7CKLTH0E01034g%7CKLTH0F15994g%7CKLTH0E01056g%7CKLTH0E01078g%7CKLTH0E01100g%7CKLTH0E01122g%7CKwal_55.19663%7CKwal_55.19675%7CKwal_55.19678%7CKwal_YGOB_Anc_5.705%7CKwal_55.19688%7CKwal_55.19691%7CKwal_55.21415%7CKwal_55.19697%7CKwal_YGOB_Anc_5.701%7CKwal_55.19707%7CKwal_55.19716%7CYKR097W%7CYKR096W%7CYKR095W-A%7CYDR370C%7CYKR095W%7CYKR094C%7CSmik_11.361%7CSmik_11.360%7CSmik_11.359%7CSmik_4.636%7CSmik_11.358%7CSmik_11.357%7CSkud_11.337%7CSkud_11.336%7CSkud_11.335%7CSkud_4.639%7CSkud_11.334%7CSkud_11.333%7CSuva_11.334%7CSuva_11.333%7CSuva_11.332%7CSuva_2.542%7CSuva_11.331%7CSuva_11.330%7CCAGL0G02541g%7CCAGL0G02535g%7CCAGL0G02519g%7CCAGL0A02860g%7CCAGL0G02497g%7CCAGL0G02475g%7CKAFR0H00160%7CKAFR0H00170%7CKAFR0H00180%7CKAFR0H00190%7CKAFR0H00200%7CKAFR0E03820%7CKAFR0H00210%7CKAFR0H00220%7CKAFR0H00230%7CKNAG0C06640%7CKNAG0C06630%7CKNAG0C06620%7CKNAG0C06610%7CKNAG0C04890%7CKNAG0C06590%7CKNAG0C06580%7CNCAS0A03160%7CNCAS0A03170%7CNCAS0A03180%7CNCAS0A03190%7CNCAS0A03200%7CNCAS0A03210%7CNDAI0E05080%7CNDAI0E05070%7CNDAI0E05060%7CNDAI0E05050%7CNDAI0B05690%7CNDAI0E05040%7CNDAI0E05030%7CTBLA0I01690%7CTBLA0G01030%7CTBLA0G01020%7CTBLA0A02800%7CTBLA0I01680%7CTPHA0D04640%7CTPHA0D04620%7CTPHA0J02600%7CTPHA0D04610%7CTPHA0D04600%7CTPHA0D04590%7CTPHA0D04580%7CKpol_YGOB_Anc_5.704%7CKpol_1016.4%7CKpol_2001.75%7CKpol_2001.74%7CKpol_2001.73%7C
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Arts
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Health
| 0.102621 |
byu
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The work 19th century books : including a collection of Cruikshank, miniature & extra-illustrated books, fore-edge paintings, bindings, sets, numismatics, theater & dance, curiosa, cookery, music, etc. : Thursday, January 7, 1982 at 1:30 PM, exhibition from January 4th to time of sale 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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2019-04-23T04:52:17Z
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http://link.lib.byu.edu/resource/6LsNpr0_DKo/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.969482 |
tripod
|
Carrier: An animal having a recessive gene in its genetic make-up. A black animal that has a hidden recessive Dun gene, could be termed a carrier of dun. Sometimes the term carrier is used in co-dominant traits.
Chromosomes: The cell material which acts as the means for transporting genes during cell division.
Codominant: an allele that causes the heterozygous form to appear like an intermediate between the homozygous recessive and the homozygous dominant form. (All three look different from each other.) Example: Short-legged, (heterozygous form) is the intermediate between the Long-legged (homozygous recessive), and Bulldog (homozygous dominant). It may be important to note that recessive, dominant, and co-dominant are clinical terms, i.e. they are based on the outward appearance of the animal.
Dominant: an allele that causes the homozygous dominant form and the heterozygous form to look the same as each other. Example: You cannot tell a homozygous polled or a heterozygous polled animal apart. They are both polled.
Genes: The units or factors of heredity that are responsible for the expression of any characteristic. Genes are tiny segments of protein contained in all cells. They normally occur in pairs and form the bridge of inheritance from one generation to the next.
Genotype: The genetic make-up of an animal. Compare to Phenotype.
Recessive: an allele that affects an animal's appearance only if it's present in the homozygous state. Example: A black animal that is heterozygous for red is still black. The animal has to have two red alleles to appear red. Black is dominant, red is recessive.
Heterozygous: having two different alleles for a genetic trait.
Inbreeding: Practice of mating animals more closely related than the average of the population. Examples: full brother to sister, sire to daughter, or son to dam.
Homozygous: having identical alleles for a genetic trait.
Lethal Gene: A gene which causes the death of the calf, usually before or at birth. Most gene pairs causing inherited lethals must be in the homozygous (pure) condition to be fatal to the calf. By this definition the gene that causes the short-legged Dexter is a lethal gene, but in it’s heterozygous form – therefore not in it’s fatal form.
Mutation: A rare change in the DNA.
Phenotype: The way the animal appears. Example: An animal that is phenotypically Red may have a genotype that includes hidden Dun genes.
Probability: The likelihood, chance or odds of the occurrence of any particular event. The odds of getting a heifer are 50:50 or 1:1.
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2019-04-22T11:58:52Z
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http://bellefourchedexters.tripod.com/Articles/Genetic%20Terms.htm
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Arts
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Science
| 0.337622 |
altervista
|
During the summer and fall 1941, Zavod 1 was producing MiG-3s at a rate of about 500 for month; the aircraft was widely diffused in VVS units.
The production was reduced after October 1941, due to the moving of the factory from Vnukovo, near Moscow, to Kuybyshev, in the Urals, to save it from air raids and from a possible occupation by advancing German troops.
"Shot downed "Rata" on the way to -Karatscher- 7.10.41".
For German soldiers, all single fighters were "Rata", all SBs were "Martin Bombers".
The plane looks to have had an hard landing.
On the tail, we see traces of a star and of a dark number 9, possibly deleted with a lighter shade of paint.
This plane, captured by the Germans, features the "za rodinu" ("for homeland") inscription on its side.
The photos were taken in different times, probably during fall 1941. Although its tail wheel doors are still of the early style and the lack of its engine cowling, some details of the engine cowling are typical of late type MiG-3s.
Note the apparent deletion of the star on the tail with green paint.
These aircrafts are flying over Moscow, probably during the fall of 1941. Note the underwing rockets, the fixed tail wheels and the opened canopies. The camo is green and black.
Pilots of unknown unit before night combat mission. Moscow front.
At first, only few pilots of the Moscow PVO were trained for night operations.
This excellent unpublished photo shows many Soviet pilots and ground crew with different styles of uniforms, some of archaic army type.
The aircraft is a late production MiG-3 with pipe for inhert gas near the exhaust stack, with radio mast, with slats and underwing gun pods. Note the unusual painted propeller blades and the compressed air bottle on the ground.
The aircraft and the pilots are of 180 IAP (later made a Guard regiment as 30 GIAP), 6 IAK PVO, on the Borki airfield near Moscow..
In August 1941 the 180IAP faced combat in Rzhev region. On October 13th, 1941 the regiment was located in the airfield Yorshi, north to Rzhev. After this airfield was sieged by Germans the regiment moved into Taldom, near Tver. They landed at Borki airfield on 17th of October 1941.
As a date for the photo, one could hypothize late October or November 1941 because of traces of snow in combination with some archaic elements (uniform and gun pods) and the apparent absence of mud.
An aircraft with the slogan "Smert nemetskim okkupantam!" (death to the German occupants!).
The aircraft has a thin outline around the stars. The front part of the spinner appears slightly lighter; it could be white or red.
Here is another shot of the same aircraft. On the background is visible another aircraft, probably yellow or azure 1.
Note the partially white spinner.
Here is a MiG-3 of the 7 IAP, Leningrad front, in October 1941.
The stars look white, but this could depend on the type of film used; it can be seen on many photos of that period.
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2019-04-21T10:15:02Z
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https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/mig3/fall.html
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.396283 |
penguin
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, read by Rina Takasaki.
Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time afterwards.
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2019-04-25T01:44:40Z
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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305722/territory-of-light/9780241383087.html
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.816297 |
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Q You can't say you don't have hospitality around here.
just run through the President's schedule. He's up on the Hill now, speaking to the Senate Democratic Caucus Issue Conference. The capable Mr. Siewert will provide a readout of that to the pool afterwards.
Q Who's doing the readout on the Democrats?
MR. LOCKHART: Jake. He's up on the Hill with the President.
MR. LOCKHART: The subject of the radio address is the administration's efforts to fight breast cancer, and what we'll be doing in our budget this year on that front. And that's about it.
Q He hinted today that he's got an Irish thing in the works.
MR. LOCKHART: No, I don't think so. I think he was saying that, obviously, we're at an important point here and that he is going to remain involved. But there's nothing particular beyond, at a variety of levels in our government, trying to convince all the parties of the importance of fully implementing the Good Friday Accords as the way to move to a new period in Northern Ireland.
Q What about Austria? He says that Secretary Albright will mention something. Is the U.S. going to make an official change?
MR. LOCKHART: Well, obviously, we expressed our concern quite openly to the Austrian government about those who perpetrate the kind of beliefs that have been articulated, and our view of their inclusion in a government. The Austrian government has gone forward now, and I do expect that sometime within the next hour or two, Secretary Albright will make a statement that will outline our government's response to that. So I'm going to leave it to her to do the specifics.
Q Joe, on the tobacco assessment, how will the White House or the administration come up with the number of these 18-year-olds who are smoking -- I mean, an exact number -- and then assess this penalty?
MR. LOCKHART: Well, we will look at an industry-wide number. We certainly have good numbers on teen smoking. And we've set the goal of reducing teen smoking by half. And the penalty will be put in place, based on the tobacco industry not meeting that goal and based on how badly they don't meet the goal. And I think the assessment is $3,000 per smoker.
Q Those numbers are derived from survey data?
MR. LOCKHART: Yes, we have very good data out of HHS and CDC each year that quantifies the problem we have and enables us to structure this penalty program in a way that will either provide for penalties to the tobacco industry or meeting our goal, which is certainly much preferable, because this is health policy rather than tax policy, of decreasing teen smoking.
Q What is the figure supposed to be cut from? In half, but what's the actual number, and is it through 2004?
MR. LOCKHART: It is supposed to be cut in half and will remain in effect until 2004. I don't have the exact number here of where it is now, but the goal is to cut that number in half.
Q What's the mechanism for collecting this money?
MR. LOCKHART: The mechanism is putting a penalty on tobacco companies.
Q You mean a tax or an assessment?
MR. LOCKHART: It will be an assessment for each, $3,000 for each. And the $3,000 as an annual assessment represents twice the lifetime profits the industry is expected to make from each child, that is before they become adult, before they become or are hooked on cigarettes.
Q But this wouldn't be a civil or criminal fine, would it?
MR. LOCKHART: This would be an assessment that the government levels on an industry.
Q Would you take 3,000 times the number of underage smokers and then divide it by the number of tobacco companies and each one would pay that amount?
MR. LOCKHART: Obviously, there is more work to be done on the actual mechanism, but we are looking at the industry as a whole. We want to work individually with the tobacco companies, so there is obviously some flexibility in how we do it. But the bottom line is the tobacco companies have indicated that they want to cut teen smoking; we believe that there ought to be a penalty in place to make sure they do because we have found in the past the tobacco industry doesn't always follow through on their word. And if their commitment to cutting teen smoking is true, they should have nothing at all to fear from this proposal. If their commitment is not one that's real, then I think we will see opposition to the proposal.
MR. LOCKHART: We have a variety of studies that indicate that the marketing practices of the tobacco companies have a direct link to teens smoking early. We know that teens are sensitive to price, which is one of the reasons we've proposed the 25-cent tax increase. So this is a multipronged effort to fight a real and quite serious public health problem in this country.
MR. LOCKHART: It is certainly our belief that the tobacco industry, through their marketing practices, could cut teen smoking. They have acknowledged that they have set a goal to not have teens smoke. We think that if they take the appropriate steps, teen smoking will reduce. And if they don't, we think they should be penalized for it.
Q Well, last year's proposed 55-cent tax increase went nowhere. What makes you think that things are going to be different this time around?
MR. LOCKHART: I think this is certainly -- we've come at this problem in a number of different ways. I think this is a balanced approach and it is certainly our hope that lawmakers on Capitol Hill will take this proposal and understand the public health implications of it and understand that the public is demanding some action on this.
Q What about store owners that continue to sell cigarettes to underage kids?
MR. LOCKHART: There is an aggressive effort by some of the people who were standing just here a moment ago to fight that problem and that continues.
Q Could the tobacco industry simply not advertise or target their advertising toward teens, or should they actually advertise against smoking, try to actively discourage them?
MR. LOCKHART: Well, certainly, as good public citizens, it would be a contribution to our society as a whole if they took steps towards discouraging teens from smoking. But what we can address are their practices that market to young children. And the evidence is overwhelming that they have done so. And I think it's important that as we move forward and deal with this as a public health issue, we take the steps that are appropriate to make sure that that practice ends.
MR. LOCKHART: Obviously, there are some issues we will have to work out with the tobacco industry and we look forward to working with them.
Q Going back to this weekend, any more on when the President and the First Lady will go up to Chappaqua?
MR. LOCKHART: I expect the President to go up tomorrow. Hopefully, before this briefing is over, I will have a week ahead. But, if not, we will put it out on paper shortly. I expect the President to come back Monday morning.
Q Will he introduce the First Lady? Will he speak at her announcement ceremony?
MR. LOCKHART: The only thing that I know about the event so far is the First Lady is intending to announce her candidacy. The details -- the rest of the details of that event, I will let you know once they inform me.
Q Joe, also, in light of what happened in Illinois and Governor Ryan's decision, the President is being urged to suspend any federal executions. Is that something that the White House is contemplating?
Q There are some in line, though.
MR. LOCKHART: Let me say this. I think the President was certainly concerned by the issues raised by the Governor of Illinois and commends him for taking a serious look and making sure the system works properly.
We did receive a letter from Senator Feingold yesterday that's being reviewed by Counsel's Office now. Again, I think this is an issue that primarily and overwhelmingly is dealt with on the state issue. But we will look at any concerns that are raised by interested parties. But, again, it is not an issue that we have faced at the federal level, at least in the last seven years.
Q Well, but there are prisoners, there are federal prisoners who are under death penalty. And there are some, I think there is at least one, that is supposed to come up in the next couple months.
Q Is the President going to follow this recommendation that they review -- make certain that innocents have not been condemned to death? Is there some kind of review that the President is going to make?
MR. LOCKHART: Listen, the letter from Senator Feingold came in yesterday. It is being reviewed by the Counsel's Office. If there are legitimate concerns that are brought to us, we will look at the concerns. But I can't predict anything beyond that until we have had a chance to study the issue.
MR. LOCKHART: No. I said that I couldn't answer the question. So you can try to supply answers, but I'm still not going to give one.
Q No, I'm just trying to find out what your answer is.
MR. LOCKHART: Well, you can take some time after and reflect on it.
Q Thank you. So you're not going to do anything?
Q -- the Counsel's going to look at it?
MR. LOCKHART: The Counsel got the letter yesterday. I think I've made very clear in my answer that this is something that is of concern to the President as raised by George Ryan. I said that before; I said that yesterday. I don't have anything more to add.
Q Let me draw you out on the logic of the cigarette initiative. If cigarette manufacturers are responsible for underage use, are car manufacturers responsible for kids stealing cars and going on joy rides, or any abuse of their products?
MR. LOCKHART: I don't have any evidence that car manufacturers did anything to market the theft of cars to youth in this country. I have some evidence that cigarette manufacturers did.
Q But, certainly, Joe, though, alcohol is marketed very widely in ways that are attractive to children. So should there be, or will the administration propose, an assessment on alcohol?
MR. LOCKHART: Mo. I think we have -- there have certainly been a lot of efforts with the alcohol and spirit distillers industry to work together on reducing youth drinking. There's been -- you've seen a sort of sea change in this country on things where -- on drunk driving, where community groups, interest groups, working together with government and industry. We think on tobacco, this is a particularly serious public health question and requires this kind of response.
Q Joe, in this briefing you said there were some due process issues that are unresolved in this method of assessing the fines, it's not exactly complete. Will all that be spelled out in the budget, or in a precise legislative language you'll send to the Hill?
MR. LOCKHART: No, I don't think it is. Let me get with Bruce on, if you have any specific questions on the mechanism.
Q Well, without the specific number, is there a budgetary assumption related to the -- provisions? In other words, do you assume in the ten-year forecast that you're going to get some money related to that?
MR. LOCKHART: Yes, obviously, when you do a budget, you've got to have some assumptions. I don't have them available to me now, and those will be available on Monday.
Q What does Monday look like? Comes back Monday morning?
Q Then he does the budget?
MR. LOCKHART: Does the budget.
MR. LOCKHART: No, he makes a budget statement, and then there are, as is the custom, a number of officials from the White House will brief you on the budget. And then a number of the agencies will have their briefing as we move forward.
Q Then he'll go off? Then he goes off in the afternoon? I mean, I'm trying to find out if there's a big time span between him leaving the White House.
MR. LOCKHART: No, I think he goes almost immediately down to the Democratic meeting, which is in -- is it Homestead? Hot Springs? Yes, I think that's Homestead.
Q Obviously, the tobacco tax proposal is a sign that the budget will be fully paid for, continuing on the path of fiscal responsibility.
MR. LOCKHART: I think the President has indicated that this budget will certainly heed the evidence of the fact that fiscal discipline has a direct relationship to the unprecedented economic expansion we're now enjoying, and we will continue on that path.
Q Chairman Arafat said yesterday, or asked yesterday, the United States if it would get involved in what he described as serious difficulties with Israel over the land transfer. Does the President have any reaction, or can you give us any update on anything that's been happening on that front?
MR. LOCKHART: I can't give you an update, only to say as I said yesterday, these land transfers have historically been difficult working through, but we do expect both parties to adhere to the agreement they've made, and to continue working toward a framework for a final agreement.
MR. LOCKHART: We're certainly not going to engage in a public debate on this subject. Obviously, these issues need to be worked through the parties. We stand ready to help. Ambassador Ross has been there, is there, to help through this process, but I'm not going to get into public map drawing here.
I've got the week ahead. Saturday, February 5th, the President will deliver his weekly radio address at 10:06 a.m. The President and the First Lady will depart the South Lawn for New York at about 2:50 p.m.
MR. LOCKHART: I really have no idea. I'd check with the First Lady's Office.
They will arrive around 5:00 p.m. with no public schedule for the remainder of the day.
On Sunday, the President will attend the First Lady's announcement of her Senate candidacy, 3:00 p.m. SUNY Purchase campus. No public schedule following the announcement. On Monday, the President will depart Westchester at around 8:30 a.m., returning to Washington. He will arrive at the White House at 10:10 a.m. to release the FY 2001 budget in a ceremony in Presidential Hall, open press.
Following the ceremony, the White House budget team will brief the press on the FY 2001 budget in Presidential Hall. The President will depart at about 10:30 a.m. to Hot Springs, Virginia, to address the House Democratic Caucus, which is closed press. Return to the White House at about 4:00 p.m.
Q Is he going by helicopter?
MR. LOCKHART: I think so. I heard a discussion about this on both ways a couple of weeks ago and I don't remember how they resolved it, but I think it's helo.
Tuesday, the President will present a Medal of Honor recipient at 2:30 p.m. in the East Room, open press. There will be a DNC dinner Tuesday evening at a private residence -- private residences, so maybe there's two of them.
Q Is the Medal of Honor -- have you disclosed who gets it?
Q Doesn't that require an act of Congress, the Medal of Honor?
MR. LOCKHART: I don't know. I'll tell you, the last 10 minutes haven't helped, but you never know. (Laughter.) We're not until Tuesday yet.
Wednesday, the President will travel to Texas for fundraising events -- McCallum, Texas. Also to Dallas in the evening, returning late at night.
Thursday, the President will release the economic report to the President. That's done by CEA. That's just a pool release, a photo on it, of Mr. Baily presenting the report to the President.
Friday, no public schedule. Saturday, the President does his weekly radio address, 10:06 a.m. Do we have travel Friday afternoon? Let me check on Friday, because there's something here I'm not sure of. Okay, we'll get back to you on Friday afternoon.
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Garvey Avenue is a west-east thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley.
Garvey Avenue starts off as Ramona Boulevard at Eastern Avenue in Los Angeles' Eastside. Upon entrance to Alhambra, the name changes to Garvey Avenue. In addition to Alhambra, it runs through cities like Monterey Park, Rosemead, and El Monte. Garvey Avenue is one of Monterey Park's main commercial thoroughfares. It terminates at Durfee Avenue. For much of its length, it runs parallel to Interstate 10; the frontage roads for Interstate 10 in West Covina and Covina are named Garvey Avenue N and Garvey Avenue S.
Metro Local line 70 and Metro Rapid line 770 run on Garvey Avenue, with the former running between Ramona Blvd and Santa Anita Avenue, and the latter running between Atlantic Blvd and Santa Anita Avenue.
^ Nathan Landau. Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California. p. 94.
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(Radio.com) Ed Sheeran has been announced as the latest artist to headline this year's edition of England's famed Glastonbury Festival. He joins previously announced headliners Radiohead and the Foo Fighters.
Sheeran will headline the five-day festival's Sunday lineup. Sheeran shared the announcement on Instagram on Thursday (March 16th). Alongside a picture of cows grazing, he wrote, "Can't wait @glastofest x."
The performance comes he gets ready to launch a massive tour later this year that will keep him on the road into early 2019. It will mark his only festival performance of 2017. Read more here.
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Strikes have played a significant role in the economic, political, and social life of the United States throughout its history. From strikes by shoemakers, printers, bakers, and other artisans in the era of the Revolution through the bitter airline strikes two centuries later, workers repeatedly tried to defend or improve their living and working conditions by collectively refusing to work until specific demands were met.
Since the early 1880s, when reliable statistics were first compiled, American workers have struck with a frequency roughly equal to that of their peers in Europe. Strikes in the United States, however, have tended to last longer than elsewhere, with a mean duration between 1881 and 1974 of twenty days. Accordingly, the total number of workdays lost in strikes proportionate to the size of the work force has been higher in the United States than almost anywhere else in the world.
The United States also has had the bloodiest labor history of any industrial nation. The first strike fatalities were two New York tailors, killed in 1850 by police dispersing a crowd of strikers. Since then, according to one estimate, well over seven hundred people - mostly strikers - have died in strike-related violence, and the total may be much higher. Some died in famous incidents, such as the 1913 Ludlow Massacre, when National Guardsmen attacked a tent colony of striking Colorado miners, or the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when ten supporters of a steel strike were killed by Chicago police. Most, however, died in little-noted confrontations with company guards, private detectives, scabs, or police.
Although wage disputes have been the single most common cause of strikes, workers have walked off their jobs for many reasons, including efforts to win union recognition, shorten the workday, gain or defend control over the work process, improve working conditions, and protest the disciplining of unionists. Strikes have been called to exclude nonwhites or women from jobs and, more rarely, to protest racial discrimination. Unlike elsewhere, political strikes over non-work-related issues have been uncommon.
Strikes have played a major role in both the rise and fall of unions (though many have occurred without union involvement). Often strikes have stimulated the formation of new unions or union federations. The first citywide labor federations, formed in the 1820s and 1830s, grew out of strikes by artisans seeking to shorten their workday. Over a century later, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was indirectly an outgrowth of a wave of strikes by industrial workers. Conversely, failed strikes have destroyed many unions. The American Railway Union, for example, was unable to survive the defeat of its 1894 strike against the Pullman Car Company. More recently, the mass firing of striking air traffic controllers by the Reagan administration led to the demise of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
---About 24 million immigrants. 60% from Southern and Eastern Europe, about 25% Northern Europe (Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia), 15% other (Asian Mexican, etc).
Approximately 35,000 workers a year were killed annually in work-related accidents from 1880 to 1900. Injured workers totaled another 536,000.
Between 1905 and 1920, there were an average of 2000 fatal accidents in the coal mining industry every year.
The unemployment rate before World War I rarely fell below 8% for full-time jobs. Underemployed workers probably counted for about 25% of the work force. A minority of urban workers had full-time year-round work.
Before 1920 about one in every four non-farm children under fourteen worked full-time.
Before the 1930s less than half of Americans received more than a grade school education.
In the era of dramatic industrialization following the Civil War, the most powerful of the big business corporations were the railroad companies. In order to protect their profits during the economic depression that had begun in 1873, they companies had reduced the pay of railroad workers by ten percent.
In 1877 they announced another ten percent reduction in the workers' pay, and also that railroad employees would be required to use company hotels when away from home, which meant a further reduction in real wages. On top of this, they decided to reduce the work-force - which meant unemployment for some and intensified labor for those remaining.
On July 16, a spontaneous strike erupted in Martinsburg, West Virginia and quickly spread to cities from St. Louis and Chicago to New York and Baltimore - hitting Pittsburgh on July 19.
To "keep the peace" and break the strike, state militia units from Philadelphia were ordered to Pittsburgh. (Militia units from Pittsburgh were deemed unreliable because they sympathized with the strikers.) On July 21, six hundred troops arrived from Philadelphia. Led by Superintendent Robert Pitcairn of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a posse of constables with arrest warrants for the strike leaders, they found themselves confronted by crowds of men, women and children. The crowds, loudly protesting the troops' presence and expressing support for the strikers, sought to prevent military action. The militiamen responded with a bayonet charge that resulted in injuries and provoked a hail of rocks from some sections of those assembled. The troops then opened fire on the unarmed men, women, and children, scattering them - and leaving at least twenty dead (including one woman and three small children) and twenty-nine wounded.
Workers from other cities and towns in Pennsylvania joined in the strikes or in rallies and meetings supporting the strike. General strikes, mass demonstrations, and sometimes violent confrontations rocked cities in many other states as well, though none exceeded the violence of the Pittsburgh battles.
"The great strike--The Sixth Maryland Regiment fighting its way through Baltimore," Harper's Weekly, August 11, 1877.
4 May -- 13 - 1400 participated in a meeting at Haymarket Square, called by anarchist August Spies, Knights of Labor, and many socialists unions and international anarchists, protesting the use of police force to disperse strikers.
At 10 P.M. when 180 police arrived to order the crowd out, a bomb thrown into their midst killed 7, and wounded at least 60. It was assumed that an anarchist threw the bomb and raids were conducted on all known radical groups, including trade union leaders.
Judge Joseph E. Gary presided over the trial of Samuel Fielden, speaking when the bomb was thrown, August Spies, Albert Parsons, Michael Schwab, Adoph fisher, George Engel, and Oscar Neebe, who were charged with conspiring to kill.
Although no evidence linked specific persons to the incident, the prosecution focused on their radical beliefs and advocacy of violence to achieve goals. This political trial resulted in 7 convictions (the 8th defendant hung himself).
be murderers or accessories before the fact As a result, an anti-radical and anti-union feeling swept the American public mind.
5,000 steelworkers struck Andrew Carnegie's steel plant near Pittsburg PA.
A pitched battle erupted between the strikers and 300 Pinkertons hired by plant manager Henry Clay Frick who had been hired to protect the strikebreakers. Seven guards were killed.
George Pullman , Pullman Palace Car Co., had established a model town for his workers near Chicago which promoted a clean healthy atmosphere, giving Pullman a public image as a benevolent, paternalistic industrial captain.
The panic of 1893, worse in US history at that time, caused a wage cut by 1/3, but no lower rent on company housing nor price reduction at company stores. When Pullman fired a suspected union organizer, a strike grew ugly by 1894.
Eugene Debs , leader of the American Railway Union , aided strikers by refusing to handle railroads using Pullman cars, encouraging other unions to join.
The strike was ended by a court injunction, based on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, after which President Cleveland sent in 10,000 federal troops (because of "interference" with the US mail), who along with 2,000 state troops smashed the ARU.
the short distance to their nearby Pullman-owned homes and apartments.
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BAKU, 27 November 2014 – Young people from eight countries will meet in Gandja today to exchange experiences on youth participation in decision-making.
BAKU, 10 October 2014 - High ranking government officials, international community and civil society came together to discuss initiatives on making Baku a truly accessible city at a round table organized by ADA University and UNICEF.
BAKU, 8 September 2014 – Mr. Andro Shilkadze has been appointed new Representative for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Azerbaijan.
BAKU, 19 June 2014 - UNICEF Azerbaijan and BP on behalf of its partners in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC), Shah Deniz and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) projects today signed an MoU in Baku to confirm their intention to cooperate.
BAKU, 2 June 2014 - On International Children’s Day, UNICEF and the “28 Cinema” have teamed up to communicate the importance of children’s rights and starting with speaking up on the issue of violence against children.
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And just like that, the year is over.
Su Bin held up a large yellow box, her smile stretching from ear to ear. Inside the box, Su Bin had the entire ensemble for a hanbok, a traditional Korean dress. She told me she was going to wear it to an audition in Seoul and that she would send me a picture.
“My mother wants to give you hanbok for your birthday!” Su Bin translated excitedly.
That’s such a big gift! I thought. It would be very generous of her, but I assumed she would forget by the time my birthday came around in December.
“I travel soon in January,” I told Ye Bin, giving her my itinerary for my trip to Vietnam and Thailand.
During the winter break, I met Host Mom at her fitness center so we could go to Busan and buy a hanbok together. Hanbok is usually custom-made, so I had to choose which colors I wanted and have my measurements taken. Host Mom does not drive, so a friend of hers offered to take us. One friend turned into three friends, and the five of us went to a hanbok shop.
Once there, I stepped into the dressing room and changed into the large slip that you wear under the hanbok. I stood on a stool as the shop owner showed me a few different colors.
“Paransaek johahae,” Host Mom said. She likes blue.
Choosing a turquoise jacket and a bright pink skirt, the shop owner helped me dress, as Host Mom and her friends cooed, “Yeppeuda!” So pretty.
Despite being a teacher and having students look at me all day, I feel uncomfortable being the center of attention. I liked the colors of this hanbok, and after trying a few more, chose the blue jacket and pink skirt. I was relieved when the shop owner finished measuring me and ushered me off to the dressing room to change back into my jeans. While I was changing, Host Mom chose the accessories to accompany the hanbok (tassels, shoes, a purse). We left the shop, ate noodles together, and went home.
As I started packing my suitcase, I realized that we never picked up my hanbok. Ye Bin had mentioned it recently, but Host Mom had been so busy that we had not gone back to Busan to claim it. Last week, it was delivered to our home and Ye Bin said she wanted to take pictures with me. So, here are a few!
This is me with my host nephews.
And this is me with Ye Bin.
I am overwhelmed by their generosity, and I will always treasure this beautiful part of Korean culture and expression of familial love.
Over the weekend, some friends and I went to the famous Mud Festival in Boryeong, a beach town on the west coast. Usually, we travel on our own, but for this trip, we used a tour company called Enjoy Korea. The tour included a direct bus and a room in a pension near the beach. With the 5+ hour distance from Gyeongnam, we thought it was the easiest (and least expensive) way to travel to the other side of the country. It was also the best way to spend the most time together for our last weekend in Korea.
Earlier this month, I submitted some student pieces to Open Window, an online student magazine connected to Fulbright’s Infusion. Open Window had a contest for the best pieces written in English, and my students won first and third place!
As an inexperienced teacher, I have not written much about my teaching ideology, nor have I shared much beyond some of the successful lessons that I have had. As students prepare for final exams and I finish creating my last few lessons, I’d like to discuss my take on what it means to be a cultural ambassador in the classroom and how I have used my English lessons to fulfill this role.
I love Host Mom dearly, but spending time with her always leaves me hopelessly confused.
I have seen little of my host family for the past few months, so I’ve been spending a lot of time by myself or traveling with friends. After spending the previous weekend out of town, I decided to stay around Gimhae for this weekend and catch up on some reading. Apparently, Host Mom had other plans.
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2019-04-20T07:08:25Z
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https://janineinkorea.wordpress.com/blog/
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Shopping
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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AT&T Inc.* (NYSE: T) today announced the filing of a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering (IPO) of a minority interest in the Class A common stock of Vrio Corp., a holding company for its Latin American digital entertainment services unit, DIRECTV Latin America.
A registration statement on Form S-1 relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful, prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a holding company. AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
Information set forth in this news release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.
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2019-04-26T00:47:21Z
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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180307005563/en/ATT-Announces-Filing-Registration-Statement-Potential-IPO
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nih
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J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2017 Jan;165(Pt B):258-267. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2016.06.014. Epub 2016 Jun 28.
Additive effects of low concentrations of estradiol-17β and progesterone on nitric oxide production by human vascular endothelial cells through shared signaling pathways.
Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 750 Channel View Drive, Port Aransas, TX 78373, United States. Electronic address: yfpang@utexas.edu.
Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 750 Channel View Drive, Port Aransas, TX 78373, United States. Electronic address: peter.thomas@utexas.edu.
Potential cardiovascular benefits of low-dose formulations of estrogens and progesterone (P4) for treating climacteric symptoms in postmenopausal women remain unclear because information is lacking on their combined vascular effects. Protective effects of low concentrations (5nM) of P4 and estradiol-17β (E2), alone and in combination (P4+E2), were investigated in a nongenomic model of vascular protection which measured acute increases in nitric oxide (NO) production by cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Treatment with 5nM P4+E2 for twenty minutes significantly increased NO production and endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) phosphorylation, whereas 5nM treatments with either steroid alone were ineffective. The 5nM P4+E2 treatment also increased phosphorylation of ERK and Akt, mimicking the effects of higher concentrations of P4 and E2 alone. Pre-treatment with inhibitors of PI3K (wortmannin), Akt (ML-9), and MAP kinase (AZD6244 and U0126) completely blocked the NO response to 5nM P4+E2. Combined 5nM treatments with specific estrogen and progesterone receptor agonists showed an involvement of membrane progesterone receptor alpha (mPRα, also known as PAQR7), G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER), and estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), but not ERβ, in P4+E2 stimulation of NO production. P4+E2 also exerted genomic actions, increasing mPRα, GPER, cyclooxygenase-1, and prostacyclin-synthase mRNA levels. Taken together, the results show that a low concentration of P4+E2 rapidly increases NO production in HUVECs through mPRα, ERα, and GPER and involves common signaling pathways, PI3K/Akt and MAP kinase. These in vitro findings suggest that low doses of E2 and P4 may also have some beneficial cardiovascular effects in vivo when administered as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for post-menopausal women.
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2019-04-20T10:50:51Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27369115
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Arts
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Science
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commonsensemedia
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Extra helping of potty humor in 8th installment.
Snowstorm tale lacks some punch but stays funny in 6th book.
Exciting, funny, futuristic thriller about online games.
Edgy, clever gay-themed tale about teens with same name.
Magical, inspirational story perfect for reading aloud.
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2019-04-18T19:34:28Z
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https://www.commonsensemedia.org/reviews/age/8/age/15/category/book/tag/parents-recommend-21605
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Games
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foxnews
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Easter became a festival of apology across the Christian world Sunday as church leaders issued mea culpas for grievous sins committed against children and God, The London Times reported.
The pope was one of the few who failed to refer at all to the crisis that is tarnishing the image of the Church worldwide -- and that has even embroiled the leader of the Anglican Communion, Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
In Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledged his own role in putting the reputation of the Church before justice for abused children, apologizing "with all my heart" but stopped short of the resignation that many believe is inevitable.
Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, admitted that "serious sins" had been committed within the Catholic community. Preaching at Westminster Cathedral, he said: "Talk of sin is not always popular -- unless we are talking about other people's sins. In recent weeks the serious sins committed within the Catholic community have been much talked about.
"For our part, we have been reflecting on them deeply, acknowledging our guilt and our need for forgiveness.
"This is the journey of Holy Week. Indeed, to appreciate the message of this great Christian feast we have to begin with our own sin and shame."
The sermons reflected one of the most dramatic Easters in living memory for Church leaders and the congregations, more used to listening to age-old and often anodyne messages from the pulpit about the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
At Canterbury Cathedral, Williams issued his own apology to the Catholic Church in Ireland for saying that it had lost "all credibility."
A statement released by the Archdiocese of Dublin last night said: "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, this afternoon telephoned Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to express his deep sorrow and regret for difficulties which may have been created by remarks in a BBC interview concerning the credibility of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
"Archbishop Williams affirmed that nothing could have been farther from his intention than to offend or criticize the Irish Church." Archbishop Martin, the second most senior Catholic in Ireland, responded to a rare breach of ecumenical protocol by Williams in an interview with BBC Radio 4.
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2019-04-23T00:36:05Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/sin-and-shame-catholic-church-offers-easter-apologies
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Arts
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News
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louisville
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Mountain-side view of coal miners' dwellings, Alva, Kentucky, 1944.
House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, oecus.
House of Julius Polybius, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, atrium.
House of Julius Polybius, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, faux double door.
Plan of the northern section of Kahun, built during the reign of Senwosret II near modern el-Lahun. Includes: western quarter for workers; eastern quarter; officials' residences; Senwosret II's residence.
House of Julius Polybius, Pompeii, Italy, exterior view, peristyle, east side.
House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, Italy, interior view, atrium and tablinum.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Pasiphae and Daedalus.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Pasiphae and Daedalus, detail, Pasiphae.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Pasiphae and Daedalus, detail, Daedalus.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Triumph of Dionysus [Dionysos].
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], plan of T-form triclinium with Pasiphae and Daedalus and Triumph of Dionysus [Dionysos] mosaics.
The area outside these panels is covered with geometric mosaics of different patterns. (NOTE: For detailed descriptions of the individual mosaics, see the individual records for "Pasiphae and Daedalus" and "Triumph of Dionysus").
Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, plan.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Achilles Revealed, detail, Achilles (left) and Odysseus (right).
Monastery, Saint Gall, Switzerland, schematic plan.
Village of Romulus, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy, model.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Eros and Psyche, detail, Psyche.
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2019-04-19T01:00:13Z
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http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/search/field/subjec/searchterm/Dwellings/mode/exact
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Arts
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libsyn
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In this episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Graham Cooke. Graham is a worldwide speaker and an Author of more than 21 books. Best selling author, Graham, talks about how he received a prophetic word years ago about writing that changed his life and helped him partner with God. Join in on the conversation as Shawn and Graham discuss how writing didn’t come naturally at first and what happened to make this process in his life turn on!
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2019-04-22T01:04:38Z
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http://exploringtheprophetic.libsyn.com/exploring-the-prophetic-with-part-2-ep-38
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Arts
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Arts
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autopics
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84502 - A. Costanzo Tiga FA81 - Sandown 1984. Order a Photographic Print or a Download. How the Photo Download Works. Once we have received payment, we will e-mail you a jpeg file within 48 hours, which will print up to a 8x12 inch photograph.
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2019-04-24T00:16:19Z
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http://autopics.com.au/open-wheelers-1984-1/
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Arts
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Business
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wgntv
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Is the magic back for the Cubs? This latest video put out by the team on last night’s game certainly makes a strong case for that argument.
Homers in slow motion. Hat tips. Maddon’s fury. A nail biting finish. And it’s all set to a pretty epic soundtrack.
That’s a good strategy, Cubs. Let’s keep it up.
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2019-04-20T03:23:48Z
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https://wgntv.com/2017/10/19/big-win-calls-for-epic-video-and-the-cubs-deliver-with-one-at-a-time/
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Arts
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Sports
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wikipedia
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The Women's giant slalom competition of the Innsbruck 1976 Olympics was held at Axamer Lizum.
The defending world champion was Fabienne Serrat of France, while Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll was the defending World Cup giant slalom champion and Switzerland's Lise-Marie Morerod led the 1976 World Cup.
^ a b "Final Report - XII. Olympische Winterspiele Innsbruck 1976" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIIth Winter Olympic Games 1976. LA84 Foundation. 1976. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "Alpine Skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Women's Giant Slalom". Sports Reference. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^ "1975 World Cup standings". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
^ "1974 World Championships results". FIS. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
This page was last edited on 25 November 2018, at 00:12 (UTC).
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2019-04-22T10:27:08Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_skiing_at_the_1976_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_giant_slalom
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Sports
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etsu
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Defaulting on a loan means that a student has failed to meet the agreed on terms of his/her loan promissory note, and now faces legal actions by the lender. With a little planning defaulting can and should be avoided.
Borrowers should avoid default at all costs!
Borrowers who have difficulty making loan payments should contact the lender as soon as possible to see which options are available to them. Borrowers who try to avoid their lender could lose out on some readily available repayment benefits and options.
Don’t get discouraged! If you are in default on your federal student loan, there are options for getting out of default, including loan repayment, loan rehabilitation, and loan consolidation. Find out more about how to get your loan out of default.
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2019-04-18T10:40:27Z
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https://etsu.edu/finaid/repayment/loantips.php
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§ 2.2-1829. Reports of Auditor of Public Accounts; Fund deposits and withdrawals.
A. On or before December 1 of each year, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall report to the General Assembly the certified tax revenues collected in the most recently ended fiscal year. The Auditor shall, at the same time, provide his report on (i) the 15 percent limitation and the amount that could be paid into the Fund and (ii) the amount necessary for deposit for the next fiscal year into the Fund in order to satisfy the mandatory deposit requirement of Article X, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia. The Governor shall include any such amount in his budget bill submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to § 2.2-1509. A schedule of deposits may be provided for in the Appropriation Act.
B. If the report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, pursuant to subsection A, indicates that the annual percentage increase in the certified tax revenues collected in the most recently ended fiscal year is eight percent or greater than the certified tax revenues collected for the immediately preceding fiscal year and that such annual percentage increase in the certified tax revenues for the most recently ended fiscal year is also equal to or greater than 1.5 times the average annual percentage increase in the certified tax revenues collected in the six fiscal years immediately preceding the most recently ended fiscal year, the Governor shall include in his budget recommendations, submitted to the General Assembly in the subsequent session pursuant to § 2.2-1509, an additional amount for deposit to the Fund in excess of any mandatory deposit to the Fund required by Article X, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia. Such additional amount shall be equal to at least 25 percent of the product of the certified tax revenues collected in the most recently ended fiscal year multiplied by the difference between the annual percentage increase in the certified tax revenues collected for the most recently ended fiscal year and the average annual percentage increase in the certified tax revenues collected in the six fiscal years immediately preceding the most recently ended fiscal year. Any such additional deposits to the Fund shall be included in the Governor's budget recommendations submitted to the General Assembly in the subsequent session pursuant to § 2.2-1509 only if the estimate of general fund revenues prepared in accordance with § 2.2-1503 for the fiscal year in which the deposit is to be made is at least five percent greater than the actual general fund revenues for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
C. The State Comptroller shall draw such warrants as appropriated and the State Treasurer shall deposit such warrants into the Fund. No amounts shall be withdrawn from the Fund except pursuant to appropriations made by the General Assembly in accordance with § 2.2-1830. However, if any amounts accrue, such as through interest or dividends, to the credit of the Fund in excess of the 15 percent limitation calculated by the Auditor of Public Accounts, any excess shall be paid into the general fund pursuant to Article X, Section 8 of the Constitution of Virginia.
D. For the purposes of the Comptroller's preliminary and final annual reports as required by § 2.2-813, all balances remaining in the Fund on June 30 of each fiscal year shall be considered to be a portion of the fund balance of the general fund of the state treasury.
1992, c. 316, § 2.1-191.2; 1993, c. 26; 2001, c. 844; 2003, cc. 755, 759; 2011, c. 725.
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2019-04-22T10:12:18Z
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https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title2.2/chapter18/section2.2-1829/
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Business
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harvard
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Federal-tribal criminal justice is “a complex maze” of multiple systems, “created piecemeal over time,” “imposed,” and “alien to locals,” said Carole Goldberg (right), the 2006 Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard. “Major restructuring” needs to happen. Justice, she said, should be culturally appropriate and include intergovernmental cooperation, respect, and trust.
At Harvard Law School (HLS) Nov. 8 for the first day of a two-day conference titled “Tribal Courts and the Federal System,” Troy Eid, chairman of the Indian Law and Order Commission (ILOC) started his talk with a quiz.
The share of all juveniles in federal detention that are Native American, answered by a student from Tufts: two-thirds.
True: Most Native American juveniles are transferred to federal custody, even when tribes want to charge them locally, due to the Major Crimes Act of 1885 and the Juvenile Justice Act of 1938.
“[This] has been treated as if it cannot change, like the tablets of Moses,” said Eid, whose commission, established by the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, has spent the past year interviewing members of more than half of the federally recognized tribes in the country in preparation for a report to be delivered to the president and Congress.
How many Native American juveniles are tried and sentenced as adults? Thirty-two percent. Off reservation, the number is 2 percent.
Problems, Eid said, include systemic underfunding, jurisdictional complexity, and lack of consistent support, access to federal courts, and reliable data.
In trips to four reservations in Alaska, to villages not connected by roads and frozen for much of the year, the commission found scant Internet service, $16 quarts of milk, and gas at $12 a gallon. The official unemployment rate: 80 percent. So the bulk of Native sustenance comes from hunting and fishing — yet tribes are subjected to laws and treaties that restrict their fishing, severely in some cases.
“The entire system is designed as if these indigenous people do not exist,” Eid told the conference.
The conference was the first of its kind at Harvard Law School, bringing together tribal judges, scholars, and policymakers. The audience of about 50 included tribal members of the Harvard community, professors, and students from Harvard and neighboring universities. It was streamed to 200 viewers via the Federal Bar.
Carole Goldberg — 2006 Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard; vice chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles; and ILOC commissioner — followed Eid.
Federal-tribal criminal justice is “a complex maze” of multiple systems, “created piecemeal over time,” “imposed,” and “alien to locals,” she said.
Goldberg said that “major restructuring” needs to happen. Justice, she said, should be culturally appropriate and include intergovernmental cooperation, respect, and trust.
A talk by Kristen Carpenter, professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, and a 1998 graduate of HLS, covered the importance of decriminalizing Indian religions.
Carpenter focused on U.S. v. Winslow Friday, which addressed a violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Friday had killed a bald eagle for worship purposes, without obtaining the proper permit. The case, eventually sent to a tribal court, illustrated complexities at the crossroads of Native American religious freedom and the protection of wildlife.
The keynote speaker was Kevin Washburn, of the Chickasaw Nation, recently confirmed assistant secretary for Indian affairs and Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard in 2007-08.
Washburn stressed that economic development can decrease crime on a reservation, and said that he is confident tribal leaders are better able to make decisions on local allocation of resources than he can in D.C.
The ILOC’s report, to include recommendations for improvements to the system, is expected to be presented to the president and Congress in April.
Cass Sunstein returned to Harvard Law School more than three years after he left to serve as the Obama administration’s regulatory czar. In his talk on Nov. 7, he discussed behavioral-economics concepts, such as libertarian paternalism, choice architecture, and hard and soft paternalism, with real-world applications still at the front of his mind.
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2019-04-26T07:55:51Z
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/law-and-disorder-on-the-reservation/
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Our studio model involves 2 separate 2-hour sessions per week, with a maximum of 78 students in each section.
Although it is an introductory course, it is taught by many of our regular faculty members (usually two faculty members, two GTAs and one or more undergraduate students per 78 students in each section).
This is neither a traditional lab, traditional lecture, nor a “computer lab”. Elements of all of these are combined to allow students with various learning styles to achieve success in learning introductory biology.
We have good evidence that this studio format is very effective in teaching introductory biology when compared to traditional lecture/lab courses at LSU, Ohio State University, and Cornell University. These data were published in 2008, in a journal called CBE: Life Sciences Education.
The Division of Biology thus commits a lot of resources (two full-time faculty members and two GTAs) for each of the 8 -10 sections every semester (as well as one section in the summer semester).
Why do we teach the course in this format?
Because we have data to show that the studio method is a more effective way to teach science than the traditional lecture/lab combination!
There are many pieces of evidence that bolster this conclusion, and one of them is shown in the figure below from M. Sundberg, "Assessing the effectiveness of an investigative laboratory to confront common misconceptions in life sciences", chapter 9 in Student-Active Science: Models of Innovation in College Science Teaching, edited by A.P. McNeal and C. D'Avanzo, Saunders College Publishing, 1997.
Sundberg compared learning of 11 key concepts by LSU students in a traditional lecture/lab situation to students who learned those same concepts in an "investigative" or "active-learning" environment similar to our studio format. In ALL cases, students in the investigative class learned more and retained it longer. So if the goal is to learn Biology, the active-learning format is superior.
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2019-04-20T06:58:41Z
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https://www.k-state.edu/biology/pob/studio.html
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We are the USC Roski first-year Master of Fine Arts students and we are planning an academic trip to New York City! Adrian Piper is an American artist who has inspired us for many years. We plan to travel to New York next month to experience her exhibition A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016, on view this year at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from March 27 through July 22. It will be a true high point for us.
To make this trip possible, we need your help to raise $8000 to cover our travel expenses for the 3-day trip.
We are excited about our first cohort trip and the opportunity to see one of the most important exhibitions of this generation. We are performance artists, painters, photographers, object makers and social practitioners. Many of us have studied Piper’s work for years, and this opportunity will enhance our personal and collective practices. In addition to Piper's exhibition, we will also be using every available minute to connect with New York artists, gallery owners, and others figures in the local art community.
Launching this first trip is vitally important to us. As artists, we strive to experience - in person - art in important circumstances like this exhibition, and we always walk away influenced in ways that transform our perspectives. Traveling to this exhibition will be one of those transformational experiences.
Please help us get to New York City by making a contribution today. A gift of any amount gets us closer to Piper's show!
Pays for one subway trip for the entire cohort.
Helps one student buy meals for a day.
Two gifts of $100 will purchase the admission tickets for the full cohort.
Provides one night of lodging for one student.
Supports the airfare purchase for one student.
Supports nearly all the needs for one student artist on this exciting journey!
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2019-04-21T12:22:05Z
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https://ignite.usc.edu/project/8932
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Arts
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cutoutandkeep
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You can also use this technique to make bracelets to. You can make it as colorful as you want. Sometimes you can even make a pattern.
Cut out a bunch of cubes.
Leave a bit of room and put on a drop of glue then roll it completely, but not to tight or else it won't come of. If the glue your using doesn't work then use a glue gun.
slip it of the stick, and you got your first bead.
Make a lot of them, and if you later find out that you don't have enough just make more.
Take your string (or yarn) and measure how long you want it to be around your neck, and cut it. I'm going to loop it around two times. You could also just make a bracelet.
tightly wrap a piece of tape around an end of the string.
Bead the rest of the string but leave a little room.
tie the ends together and wear it.
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2019-04-22T00:12:51Z
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https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/eco-friendly-magazine-bead-necklace
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Arts
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Arts
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washingtonpost
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Though it was a landmark moment in the still-unfinished struggle for gender pay equity, the news about President Kennedy signing the Equal Pay Act on June 10, 1963, did not make the front page of The Washington Post. Instead the story about the law ran on the front of the The Post’s “For and About Women” — the decidedly less edgy precursor to The Style section — on June 12, 1963.
The news about the Equal Pay Act ran on the front of The Post’s “For and About Women” page on June 12, 1963.
More than five decades later, the gap remains a stubborn problem. In 2015, women earned 83% of what men earned, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of median hourly earnings of both full- and part-time U.S. workers.
The struggle for women continues.
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2019-04-26T12:45:00Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/04/on-equal-pay-day-heres-how-the-washington-post-relegated-the-equal-pay-act-signed-by-kennedy-to-the-womens-page/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c7c288308a55
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worldbank
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The weather here is absolutely freezing cold, dark and grey. Although Denmark is my home country, I think my many years in Africa and the Middle East have inoculated me in such a way that my system cannot really take this dreary weather. But it is pretty. There are Christmas lights everywhere and a cheery mood throughout the city—even on the packed Metro in the morning.
So what is this COP 15 all about? And why is it so hard? Getting 192 countries to agree on something is inevitably going to be pretty complicated. And once this involves serious compromises, technology, big bucks, and equity and lifestyle issues, it gets all the more difficult.
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2019-04-23T20:39:02Z
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http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/dmblog/category/countries/denmark
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Arts
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Society
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ubloom
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One of the amazing things about Protea- is their ability to offer Long Term Beauty! The Protea flowers- are intricate, unusual and different from your everyday flowers. Protea use color, texture and appearance to attract pollinators… this is why so many of the varieties look like birds. Birds are attracted to their feather like appearance- thinking it’s an engaging potential partner that’s interested in mating… some of the petals even look like feathers.
A wreath like this graced the cover of Sunset Magazine.
This is ingenious- and helps in pollination – but it also provides a long-term enjoyable benefit- The Protea Flowers- dry incredibly well- with exceptional color and texture. I visit the Resendiz Brothers farm in the Protea Episode of “J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom” – Mel Resendiz is known for his Beautiful Protea Wreaths- that have even adorned the cover of Sunset Magazine. The wreaths attract a great deal of attention… for their incredible color, texture and natural appearance.
Pink Mink Protea – transform into a wonderful dried accent flower- that lasts for months!
Down the line- these Protea Wreaths dry- and transform- into a long lasting keepsake. I’ve had one of these wreaths as a decoration in my home for years. I love the way the vibrant colors of the Protea- transform into a natural appealing palette of browns, tans, beige and rust… and it happens gradually… it’s a wonderful experience in itself.
J Schwanke- shares the long term beauty of Banksia Protea on Life in Bloom!
This transformation – happens with many of the varieties- Mink, Queen, King, Banksia… I especially love how the Orange Banksia- when hung upside down- in a cool dark location will hold almost all of it’s color- and become a long term beautiful accent for your home. Protea truly are a flower gift that keeps on giving- they are spectacular- fresh- and transform magically into a long lasting keepsake after drying!
*Bonus Content- Check out this show- where I show in detail- how to dry protea- It’s a Christmas themed show- but it shows the potenial of these Long-Term Beautiful Flowers -First Hand! Watch this Fun with Flowers and J episode featuring Dried Protea!
The Video is on My J Schwanke Youtube Channel- be sure and subscribe to my channel – Thank you!
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2019-04-24T09:49:16Z
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https://ubloom.com/blog/2019/04/13/long-term-beauty-dried-protea/
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Arts
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Home
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nytimes
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Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesLaila Orr, 19 months old, eating a popsicle last summer at a market in Brooklyn.
SATURDAY’S PUZZLE — If you ever want to look at your daily crossword puzzle in an entirely different way, take a gander at the “Analyze” feature on Xword Info. Just go to any puzzle on the site, scroll down and click the “Analyze this puzzle” button.
You’ll find all sorts of interesting statistics about the puzzle you chose, but as a constructor, one of the things I find fascinating are the “unique” words in each grid. Puzzle makers are always on the lookout for new and unique entries, and there’s an informal competition to see who can get a brand-new word, name or pop culture reference into a grid before anyone else.
There are only a few in Barry C. Silk’s grid today, but no matter; it was a tough but pleasurable solve. What surprised me more than anything else was that a common word like CRUCIAL has never appeared before. I could almost predict that the nifty ALPHA RAY was new; even the poker phrase I CHECK seemed fresh. But the Xword Info site has tracked more than 6,600 New York Times puzzles (starting with the beginning of Will Shortz’s tenure as editor in 1993), and I just find myself gobsmacked when a word that common has never graced a grid.
Other than that, there’s some spiffy wordplay up in here: Not paying your electric bill might cut your power in half, but so will a SQUARE ROOT, and if you count carefully, you might find five N’s in “ninth inning”. Pretty cool.
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2019-04-19T15:23:51Z
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https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/half/?rref=XWordInfo
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That was totally awesome. You, sir, just made my evening.
Gawd, I'll never look at tomatoes the same way again.
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2019-04-22T04:07:11Z
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https://www.newgrounds.com/reviews/portal/368717/1/date/33
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Antibiotic prophylaxis can be given to prevent surgical site infection or to avoid bacterial infective endocarditis and prosthetic joint infections as a result of bacteremia following surgery. Although prophylactic antibiotics are rarely warranted for clean dermatologic surgery, there is increasing support in the literature for their judicious use for selected high-risk cases. This article discusses the host co-morbidities, wound characteristics, body sites, and complex surgical procedures associated with increased dermatologic surgical site infection and goes on to review the evidence for and against antibiotic prophylaxis in its various forms. Updated guidelines for prevention of infective endocarditis and prosthetic joint infection following dermatologic surgery are also outlined.
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2019-04-24T00:29:33Z
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https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/25113/
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The Amarillo Symphony has been making music in the Texas Panhandle since 1924. We are a registered non-profit that employs 85 first class musicians whose passion and joy for music shines through in every performance.
Enriching life in the Texas Panhandle through great orchestral performance and educational and community engagement.
Inspiring our community through shared musical experience.
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2019-04-25T04:13:04Z
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https://amarillosymphony.org/about/
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typepad
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304 posts categorized "Twitter Links"
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #GrowthMindset, #introversion, #JoyOfReading, #literacy, #MentalHealth, #PersonalizedLearning, #ReadAloud, #SocialMedia, college, libraries, parenting, research, and teachers.
In #YA, Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? Lots of food for thought in this @NewYorker piece by @xwaldie ow.ly/ldcl30o8Qoc | My friend @MsYingling is quoted, too!
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #ExtraCredit, #Focus, #homework, #JoyOfReading, #KidLitCon, #reading, #ReadingAloud, #ScreenTime, #WorldBookDay, #YA, parenting, publishing, schools, and teaching.
"Despite the very good intentions behind giving #ExtraCredit, the results are damaging to just about every aspect of #education" says @GaryArmida @TeacherAndAdmin ow.ly/BqG230nUGyp | Post also calls #homework "damaging"
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2019-04-25T16:28:49Z
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https://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/twitter-links/
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"The increasing performance and durability of cutting tool inserts have created metallurgical challenges for production foundries to produce near-net shaped castings within strict dimensional tolerances. In order for foundries to take full advantage of the increased cutting speed capabilities, it becomes necessary to reduce machining allowances and produce much more stable casting surfaces. To accomplish this, a better understanding of the complex microstructures formed within the first 0.120 in. (3 mm) of the mold/metal interface (as-cast surface) is necessary. The goal of the work presented here was to examine the microstructures formed in the near-surface region of gray iron castings, determine what was responsible for formation, and how these microstructures behaved during the machining process. A series of experiments were performed to evaluate the effect of graphite flake morphology, matrix microstructure, and alloying elements on near-surface machinability. Three-dimensional cutting forces, quantitative metallography, and high-speed photographic measurements were used to evaluate the behavior of flake graphite, ferrite, coarse/dense pearlite, steadite, and carbides during the machining process. Data from the experiments also indentified the importance of inoculation practice, cooling rate, and mold sand properties on the final near-surface microstructure/machinability behavior. A case study was then performed for industrial brake rotor castings produced from class 35 gray cast iron, in which diagnosis of a machinability problem proved to be near-surface microstructure related. It was found that a combination of mold sand properties and inoculation practice were responsible for surface free-ferrite/graphite morphology microstructural defects"--Abstract, page iii.
© 2009 William Dewey Peach, All rights reserved.
Peach, William Dewey, "The effect of near-surface metallurgy on the machinability of cast iron" (2009). Masters Theses. 7138.
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2019-04-21T14:54:45Z
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http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/7138/
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Miles of uncrowded white sand beaches, an infectious laid-back vibe and a conspicuous lack of flashy high-rise hotels give Anna Maria Island an appeal that’s increasingly hard to find among Florida’s beach resort areas. Seven miles long, Anna Maria is a barrier island off the central west coast of Florida near Bradenton. Although the island has no camping areas, five campgrounds -- all but one for RVs only -- lie within a 16-mile drive of Anna Maria.
In the quaint fishing village of Cortez, Buttonwood Inlet RV Resort (buttonwoodinletrvresort.com) is less than a mile east of Bradenton Beach, the southernmost of Anna Maria Island’s three communities and accessible directly via the southern bridge from the mainland. The small beach town has a number of excellent restaurants, many of which specialize in locally harvested seafood. This resort has more than six dozen campsites, all with full hookups and reserved exclusively for RVs. Facilities include an outdoor swimming pool, recreation hall with TV lounge and game room, coin laundry, picnic pavilion, boat ramp, restrooms and dump station.
Also in the village of Cortez, Holiday Cove RV Resort (holidaycoverv.com) is 1.1 miles east of Bradenton Beach and a short drive from Coquina Gulfside Park, a public beach that’s part of the Manatee County Parks system. Holiday Cove caters exclusively to RVers and has close to 100 sites with patios and full hookups, including cable TV and Wi-Fi. Amenities at the campground include a clubhouse with big-screen TV and fitness center, outdoor swimming pool, sundeck, putting green and coin-operated laundry facilities. Well-behaved pets are welcome.
With sites overlooking the bay that lies between the southern part of Bradenton and the city of Sarasota, Sarasota Bay RV Park (sarabayrvpark.com) is 2.1 miles east of Bradenton Beach. Also nearby are many area attractions, including the South Florida Museum in Bradenton and the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota. This sprawling RV park has more than 200 sites, all with full hookups. Among the park’s other facilities and services are a heated outdoor swimming pool, hot tub, recreation hall, restrooms, showers, exercise room, shuffleboard court, picnic area, fishing dock, boat ramp, propane service and dump station.
Lone Oak Park (lone-oak-park.com), in the small city of Palmetto, is 11 miles east-northeast of Holmes Beach, the Anna Maria Island town across the northern bridge from the mainland. This park is also a good base for day trips to St. Petersburg, across the Sunshine Skyway, or Tampa, 44 miles north. For RVs only, the campground has dozens of sites, most with full hookups. Other amenities include two recreation halls, a bathhouse with showers and restrooms, Wi-Fi and coin-operated laundry facilities.
If you’re looking for a place to pitch your tent, Frog Creek RV Resort & Campground (frogcreek.us.com) north of Palmetto is the closest tent-friendly campground and 16 miles northeast of Holmes Beach. One of the campground’s biggest attractions is its attractive natural setting, along the banks of Frog Creek and shaded by ancient moss-draped live oaks. Open to both RVs and tents, the campground has nearly 200 sites, more than half with full hookups. Facilities include a clubhouse with full kitchen, game room and TV lounge, free Wi-Fi, pet playground, heated swimming pool, bathhouse with restrooms and showers, picnic areas and coin-operated laundry facilities.
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2019-04-25T01:51:56Z
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https://getawaytips.azcentral.com/campgrounds-near-anna-maria-island-florida-4062.html
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Pests are very harmful for the growth of plants. They can cause severe damage to the flowers, fruits and vegetables. Using chemical pesticides is not the best option as they cause harm to the environment. They also leave behind pesticide residues on the fruits and vegetables, rendering them unsafe for healthy as well as for human consumption.
However, there are many organic pesticides that can be prepared at home to control the menace of pests. Let us read about one such home-made pesticide.
An easy way to prepare organic pesticide at home is by using vegetables.
Take 113 grams (1/2 cup) of hot peppers with 113 grams of onions or garlic cloves.
Chop the vegetables and blend them together in an electric blender to form a thick, chunky paste.
Warm 500 millilitres (2 cups) of water and add the vegetable paste to the water.
Mix the ingredients thoroughly and transfer the contents to a glass or plastic container.
Allow the solution to stand undisturbed in a sunny location for the next 24 hours.
Strain the mixture with the help of a strainer and collect the water of the solution in a neat container. This vegetable-induced water is the pesticide.
Transfer the pesticide into a clean spray bottle.
Spray your plants with this organic pesticide once in five days.
This pesticide generally causes the pests to scatter after using it for three to four times on them and prevents them from returning during the rest of the season.
Across the world carbonated drinks have become staples with meals and even otherwise. Despite numerous studies that show the sugary carbonated drinks as having adverse effects on general health and wellbeing, the drinks are very popular.
Along with the popularity of carbonated drinks, hypertension has become an equally recurrent disease. There might be a possibility that drinking soda is related to the occurrence of high blood pressure.
A study conducted by the American Medical Association reviewed how caffeinated beverages affected blood pressure on a group of 155,594 white women. At the beginning of the study all the women had normal blood pressure readings. Over a period of 12 years, 21 percent of the women reported hypertension diagnosis.
Is coffee just as dangerous as soda?
The same study concluded that women who drank anywhere between one and several cups of coffee were no more likely than somebody who drank no coffee at all to get hypertension.
However, when the consumption of caffeinated sodas increased, whether diet or regular, the risk of hypertension also increased proportionately. Women who drank more than four cups of soda per day faced a 60 % risk of contracting high blood pressure.
While the study is not conclusive in any way, it does add to the fact that caffeinated and carbonated drinks are not a healthy choice to make. So next time instead of reaching for a soda, think about organic cane juice, you may be making a healthier choice.
Despite being one of the most crucial organs in our body, the kidneys are often overlooked. Diseases like kidney stones can easily cripple and bring Hercules to his knees. Chronic kidney disease is a fatal disease that will gradually stop renal function.
Home remedies at the onset of the symptoms can help you manage your kidney health without expensive drugs and hospital care.
Salt – Convenience foods and frozen foods tend to have high salt content. Fresh, organic produce is a better choice as they are minimally processed.
Parsley – Known as a kidney cleanser, organic parsley is a perfect solution for healthy kidneys. Organic parsley is free from pesticides and other processing chemicals and safer than normal parsley.
Herbal teas – Certain blends of green and herbal teas are known to be beneficial to health.
Cranberry juice – When the kidneys are inflamed or irritated, cranberry juice is known to restore health to the kidneys, preventing any further infection from developing.
Aloe Vera juice – Packed with healing and antioxidant properties, Aloe Vera can be grown at home and used for a wide range of remedies.
Extra virgin olive oil – Is known to soothe inflammation and is therefore best used to slow the progression of renal disease.
Water – Nearly all kidney issues in their juvenile stage can be remedied simply by drinking more water.
While all these remedies can help you regain complete kidney health, serious and chronic diseases should be treated by a professional doctor.
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2019-04-24T08:57:54Z
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http://www3.siba.fi/pitchprimer/new_york_giants_sign_travis_beckum
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This unique interdisciplinary graduate program delivers research and application of building physics fundamentals to the interaction between components of a building, its users and the environment. Newly established PhD degree in building science for Fall 2019 expands research opportunities in this growing field. This high-quality, professionally relevant program prepares students for careers in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry or academia.
Master's degree in Building Science, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related Applied Science field.
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2019-04-20T08:53:25Z
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https://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/building-science/
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The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
"We hope that all governments seize this opportunity to improve their relations with Iraq and to work for peace and stability in the region," Rice said in remarks prepared for delivery to a Senate committee. Excerpts were released in advance by the State Department.
After first rejecting much of the Baker-Hamilton Report, the White House is now embracing a key component of it — engaging directly with Syria and Iran, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod.
The move reflects a change of approach by the Bush administration, which previously had resisted calls by members of Congress and by a bipartisan Iraq review group to include Iran and Syria in diplomatic talks on stabilizing Iraq.
"I am pleased to announce that we are also supporting the Iraqis in a new diplomatic offensive: to build greater support, both within the region and beyond, for peace and prosperity in Iraq," Rice said, adding that U.S. and Iraqi officials agree that success in Iraq "requires the positive support of Iraq's neighbors."
At the White House, press secretary Tony Snow told reporters the administration is "happy that the government of Iraq is taking this step and engaging its neighbors. And we also hope and expect that Iran and Syria will play constructive roles in those talks."
But Snow cautioned people to be patient, noting that "this is one where the agenda is being set up by the government of Iraq. And the conditions, especially for bilateral conversations with the Iranians, are pretty clear."
The administration in recent weeks had increased its public criticism of Iran's role in Iraq, charging it with supplying deadly weapons, including advanced technologies for the most lethal form of roadside bombs. The administration also has accused Syria of harboring anti-Iraqi government forces and allowing weapons to cross its border.
Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates testified Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the administration's budget request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Iraqi government announced in Baghdad that it is preparing the meeting for mid-March, and that invitees include members of the Arab League and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
The conference will focus on reconstruction issues and economic development as well as security, adds Axelrod.
Syria will be represented at the conference by Ahmed Arnous, an aide to the foreign minister, an Iraqi Foreign Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plans had not yet been formally announced. Other Arab countries and Iran have not confirmed their attendance or the level of delegates they would send.
Rice said the mid-March meeting will be held at the sub-ministerial level. That is to be followed, perhaps as early as the first half of April, by a full ministerial-level meeting with the same invited countries, plus members of the G-8 group of leading industrial powers.
"I would note that the Iraqi government has invited Syria and Iran to attend both of these regional meetings," Rice said. She also noted that the Iraq Study Group, headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, had recommended inviting Iran and Syria to such a neighbors meeting. At the time of that recommendation in December, President Bush rejected that diplomatic approach.
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2019-04-22T09:13:10Z
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-and-us-invite-syria-iran-to-meet/
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Gerald Schoenfeld of the Shubert Organization told an interviewer recently that he'd rather hear people talking about going to the theater than about going to see "Cats."
Schoenfeld himself goes to the theater. We saw him downtown at a matinee of Israel Horovitz's "North Shore Fish" the other Sunday afternoon. But the Shuberts and their competitors, the Nederlanders, are pushing the notion that the theater's basic function these days is providing the public with Big Events--like the Shuberts' "Cats."
This season's examples are "Les Miserables" and another Andrew Lloyd Webber show, "Starlight Express." Each cost as much as a battleship and was designed to run for a decade. Against such firepower, who wants to see a nice little play by Horton Foote?
Yes, plays are still being produced in New York--Off Broadway. Often that's good for the play. Foote's "The Widow Claire," for example, is a perfect fit for Circle-in-the-Square's downtown house on Bleecker Street.
You wouldn't want to see this play in a picture-frame Broadway house, at Broadway prices. The context would be wrong. It isn't a peak experience. It's a thoughtful comedy about a young fellow (Matthew Broderick) who comes calling on a red-headed widow (Hallie Foote--the playwright's daughter) and sees that he's not old enough to handle her. It belongs right where it is.
Unfortunately, when the Tony awards are being handed out on TV later this spring, we won't hear anything about "The Widow Claire." Nor will we hear anything about Arthur Miller's new one-acts downstairs at Lincoln Center--"I Can't Remember Anything" and "Clara." Nor will there be a mention of Horovitz's "North Shore Fish" at the WPA Theatre on 23rd Street. These may be very worthy plays--but they weren't done on 44th Street.
We will hear plenty about Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound." In fact, we already have. Time magazine has declared it to be one of the best American plays of the decade--or was it the half century? I found it the least effective of Simon's three Brighton Beach plays, more earnest than the others but hardly the exorcism of family ghosts that some of the reviews suggested.
We are not talking O'Neill here. We are maybe talking Moss Hart, if Hart had written a serious comedy about growing up in Brooklyn. "Broadway Bound" isn't chopped liver. It has some first-class one-liners and a lovely performance from Linda Lavin as the mother. It should make a good movie, if Simon opens it up and shows us the brothers breaking into TV. For services rendered to Shubert Alley, he deserves the Tony he'll get for "Broadway Bound." But family drama isn't his metier.
It is Foote's metier. He had two Off-Broadway productions this winter, all part of the same Texas cycle--"The Widow Claire" and "Lily Dale" at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. The latter wasn't at all well-acted, and the lines fell flat. The former was beautifully acted, and the lines hung in the air like smoke.
Foote is a Chekhovian--or a Southerner. His plays have to be acted and listened to with patience. His characters talk and talk and talk, quite often about nothing.
But under the talk, you can make out what they want. Which they often don't get. Which is not always a tragedy. At the end of "The Widow Claire," one realizes that the point of the story was what didn't happen: that by being too shy, or too polite, Broderick lost his moment with the widow--luckily for him.
The one American playwright least likely to write this way is Arthur Miller. That's why it's a delight to come across his "I Can't Remember Anything" at Lincoln Center. This has Geraldine Fitzgerald as an old woman who isn't as vague as she seems and Mason Adams as an old man who isn't as past-it as he feels.
Again, their conversation is one thing, the information flowing between them something else. The New York critics only heard the conversation and thought that Miller was starting to repeat himself--and it's true Gregory Mosher's direction was a bit too objective. But there's a lot going on in this little play, and the audience in the small Forum Theater had their antennae out.
The audience also picked up on the companion play, "Clara," in which a good man (Kenneth McMillan) considers that he may have traduced his murdered daughter by teaching her to trust the world too much. It's a situation that would not occur to a younger writer, and McMillan plays tellingly. Neither of these plays is a major work, but each belongs in the Miller canon. Horovitz's "North Shore Fish" is a disappointment. The premise sounds interesting: the last day of a frozen-fish plant in Massachusetts, Horovitz's home turf. But rather than depict the day realistically, the playwright throws in something convulsive every 10 minutes--a fight, a hint of a murder, even a childbirth scene.
Would it be unfair to say that this play is full of red herrings? Less, already! On the other hand, maybe Mr. Schoenfeld will buy it for a musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn't written a show for 10 minutes.
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2019-04-25T06:24:36Z
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Cemal Burak Tansel, ed, States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017; pbk £22.00.
The inspiration for this collection is Ian Bruff's 2014 article on the rise of 'authoritarian neoliberalism' (Bruff 2014). Bruff argued that authoritarianism can be observed 'in the reconfiguring of state and institutional power in an attempt to insulate certain policies and institutional practices from social and political dissent', and identified three principal strands to authoritarian neoliberalism (AL): '(1) the more immediate appeal to material circumstances as a reason for the state being unable, despite “the best will in the world,” to reverse processes such as greater socioeconomic inequality and dislocation; (2) the deeper and longer-term recalibration of the kinds of activity that are feasible and appropriate for nonmarket institutions to engage in, diminishing expectations in the process; and (3) the reconceptualization of the state as increasingly nondemocratic through its subordination to constitutional and legal rules that are deemed necessary for prosperity to be achieved' (Bruff, 2014: 115-6). AL did not represent a wholesale break with pre-2007 neoliberal practice, but was 'qualitatively distinct' because of 'the shift toward constitutional and legal mechanisms and the move away from seeking consent for hegemonic projects' (116), a shift, he added, that was 'the result of sustained political activism that built upon precrisis trends' (120). So 'under authoritarian neoliberalism dominant social groups are less interested in neutralizing resistance and dissent via concessions and forms of compromise that maintain their hegemony, favouring instead the explicit exclusion and marginalization of subordinate social groups through the constitutionally and legally engineered self-disempowerment of nominally democratic institutions, governments, and parliaments' (116). Bruff drew primarily on the work of Stuart Hall and Nicos Poulantzas, and was concerned with Thatcherism in particular and the shift from social democracy in Europe in general, though he gestured towards the wider applicability of the concept; and among examples given of the 'qualitative shift' were the British Office for Budget Responsibility created in 2010, the 'debt brake' constitutional amendment adopted in Germany in 2009, and the generalisation of such measure across the EU thereafter. Such measures, he argued, 'are ... increasingly preemptive, locking in neoliberal governance mechanisms in the name of necessity, whatever the actual state of play'; and the same trend was exemplified, at EU level, by the Fiscal Compact, the Euro Plus Pact, and the Outright Monetary Transactions initiative, with its thrust towards 'the creation of a permanent, continent-wide conditionality regime aimed at all governments' (123-4). Bruff viewed these initiatives as 'a response both to a wider crisis of capitalism and more specific legitimation crises of capitalist states' (124), but concluded that 'a state’s own crisis intensifies at the same time as its strategies of displacement (for example, the aforementioned constitutional and quasi-constitutional changes) seek to stabilize the contradictions and dislocations emanating from socioeconomic restructuring without granting material concessions to subordinate social groups', and that therefore that 'the attempted “authoritarian fix” is potentially more of a sticking plaster than anything more epochal' (125). This led him to talk up the prospects for a renewal of social democracy on the basis of a turn to non-traditional antistatist politics as reflected in the Occupy, Indignados and related movements.
Building on this, Tansel's introduction to this collection initially poses two questions: '(1) What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? (2) What are the mechanisms and processes with which the core components of neoliberalism effectively reproduce themselves in the face of popular opposition?' (2). Reasserting 'the exigency of understanding neoliberalism as a regime of capital accumulation and of recognising the key role that states play in its protection and reproduction' (ibid), he follows Bruff in suggesting that AL involves a 'set of state strategies with which the variegated pressures of neoliberalism are maintained and shielded from popular pressure', as 'contemporary neoliberalism reinforces and increasingly relies upon (1) coercive state practices that discipline, marginalise and criminalise oppositional social forces, and (2) the judicial and administrative state apparatuses which limit the avenues in which neoliberal policies can be challenged' (2, emphasis mine); authoritarian liberalisms entail a 'transformation of the "normal" operation of the capitalist state' and a 'qualitative shift from the intrinsic "illiberal" propensities of neoliberalism', operating through a preemptive discipline which simultaneously insulates neoliberal policies through a set of administrative, legal and coercive mechanisms and limits the spaces of popular resistance against neoliberalism', and are 'marked by a significant escalation in the state's propensity to employ coercion and extra-legal intimidation, which is complemented by [quoting Poulantzas, 1978: 203-4] "intensified state control over every sphere of social life ... (and) draconian and multiform curtailment of so-called 'formal' liberties"' (3). AL 'subjects individuals, collectives and populations to economic, financial and corporeal discipline', and its strategies, again, 'are marked by an explicit predisposition to insulate policymaking from popular dissent through coercive, administrative and legal deployment of state power', with 'a particular disciplinary effect'; and the 'panoply of neoliberal policies enacted in different spatial and scalar contexts ... are increasingly geared towards protecting the pillars of neoliberal accumulation (4, emphasis mine). At the same time, Tansel takes a cue from Bruff's initial account to stretch the concept from its original focus on Western Europe to cover capitalist states more generally and particularly those in the global South, arguing that the adoption of neoliberal reforms in such states should be seen as 'a strategy adopted by state managers to tackle extant or budding economic and/or political crises' (9), and at the same time that 'state responses to the economic and political crises of capitalism can - and increasingly do - assume similar forms both in formal democracies and in traditionally defined authoritarian regimes' (11).
More was wrong with Bruff's article than I have the space to detail here, but briefly the presentation of constitutional and legal rules intended to insulate governance from dissent as an authoritarian deviation rather than as constitutive of representative liberal democracy (never mind neoliberal governance) reflected a strikingly uncritical view of the latter - Ayers and Saad Filho (2015: 601), in an article cited by Tansel (p. 3, with reference to the 2014 online first version), suggest that 'during periods of relatively stable accumulation the greater legitimacy of democratic regimes, due to their inclusive political rights and attachment to constitutional rules, allows them to impose exclusionary economic policies and insulate elite interests from mass pressures more efficiently than most dictatorships. Nevertheless, in times of crisis or when the established order is thought to be threatened, naked force will be deployed': this is surely both the consensus critical view, and correct. As regards timing, the various measures to enforce budget discipline Bruff highlighted in the European Union followed the same disciplinary logic of the introduction of the euro itself a decade earlier, and were preceded not only by a slew of comparable EU and related legislation, but also by the adoption of fiscal responsibility laws in New Zealand (1994) and a host of other countries thereafter, all with the active involvement of the OECD, the IMF, or both (Gordon, 2016), and broader conditionality dated back much further elsewhere in the world. So despite his best efforts, Bruff's authoritarian neoliberalism turned out to be virtually indistinguishable from Gill's 'new constitutionalism'/'disciplinary neoliberalism' (just as his appeal to non-traditional antistatist movements directly echoed Gill's 'post modern prince')' and its close resemblance to an approach set out a quarter of a century ago (Gill, 1992) casts serious doubt on the thesis that AL is new, as of course does the identification of the same logic by Poulantzas in the 1970s. In addition, there was a fundamental contradiction between the idea of a qualitative shift in neoliberal governance and that of a fragile and temporary "authoritarian fix"; and that in turn was the result of the counter-posing of 'the explicit exclusion and marginalization of subordinate social groups through the constitutionally and legally engineered self-disempowerment' on the one hand and 'neutralizing resistance and dissent via concessions and forms of compromise that maintain their hegemony' on the other. This arose from the error of treating the regime of accumulation and the mode of governance as if they were one and the same, and informed by the same logic. Despite the fact that he drew explicit attention to Hall's analysis of Thatcher's 'authoritarian populism', Bruff underestimated the potential for hegemonic appeals fused with the logic of discipline/exclusion (remember 'TINA' - 'There Is No Alternative'), and even for apparent material concessions - such as the rising minimum wage in the UK, which is an attempt to force capital to become more productive, but still lends itself to a rhetoric of inclusion. He was mistaken too to suggest that a politics of exclusion and insulation of core areas of policy from popular challenge could not be combined with the kinds of appeals he associates with the radical right. In fact, all kinds of combinations are possible - in the Netherlands, as Bruff notes (126), neoliberals ally with the 'radical right'; in the UK, May steals their clothes and swallows them whole; in France, Macron stands on the ground of global neoliberalism, highlighting the fact that there is an alternative, but insisting that it is nasty, divisive, and dangerous. So Bruff's core claim, in regard to the potential for progressive politics, that AL weakens the state at the same time that it strengthens it because of its iron logic of exclusion, is over-simplistic.
With this starting point, then, Tansel has dealt himself a tricky hand to play. And indeed he draws further attention to a fundamental weakness of the AL thesis , referring (4) to Marx's depiction (from July 1844) of the English system on pauperism as one that 'no longer sets out to eliminate it, but which strives instead to discipline and perpetuate it (Marx, 1975: 409) - suggesting that the core strategies of AL preceded the introduction of liberal democracy itself, as indeed they do. The enduring imperative to subject workers to the discipline of capital, and to oblige them to sell their labour power to the capitalist by eliminating alternatives, is constitutive of the 'bourgeois mode of production'. With the extension of the world market over the last three decades, Western Europe has been subjected to competitive pressures from which it was relatively immune before, with the result that conditionality, once restricted to the 'developing world', has become universal. And to his credit, Tansel acknowledges the weaknesses of the concept of AL even as he seeks to employ and develop it. He is emphatic at the outset that his argument 'should not be read to the effect that the deployment of coercive state apparatuses for the protection of the circuits of capital accumulation is a new phenomenon, nor should it lead to the assumption that the pre-crisis trajectories of neoliberalization have been exclusively consensual. In advancing the analytical utility of authoritarian neoliberalism, we are not asserting that the violent, disciplinary and anti-democratic means with which capitalist states remove the barriers to accumulation should be understood as an innovation of neoliberalism' (2); his account of the lineages of AL is prefaced by the statement that this introductory chapter 'conceptually and empirically maps the emergent patterns of authoritarian neoliberalism and the signal continuities they represent vis-à-vis the structural and intersecting inequalities inherent in capitalist societies' (5, emphasis mine); he remarks in a footnote that the focus on criminalisation and marginalisation 'should not be read to the effect that neoliberalization simply results in the dismissal of progressive causes or marginalised groups and communities', as 'emancipatory goals shared and advanced by progressive movements continue to be adopted and subsequently neutralised by powerful transnational organisations as well as nation states and companies' (ft. 15, p. 21); and he closes the chapter with the final thought that 'notwithstanding our focus on the constitutive role of authoritarian state power and the utilisation of state apparatuses in maintaining capital accumulation, consent-making activities and efforts by the states , policymakers and transnational organisations to (re)constitute neoliberal "common sense" should still be seen as integral components of the hegemonic status neoliberalism continues to enjoy' (19). All these points are very well made.
And in fact, States of Discipline turns out to be well worth reading, though not quite for the reasons you might expect. Admittedly, it fails in its aspiration to be 'an initial step towards formulating a new research agenda underpinned by "authoritarian neoliberalism" as a conceptual prism through which the institutionalization and employment of a number of state practices that invalidate or circumscribe public input and silence popular resistance can be illuminated ... as part of a broader strategy inherently linked to the reproduction of capitalist order and of its logics of exclusion and exploitation operating at the intersections of class, gender, race and ethnicity' (3). Only a handful of contributions refer to the introduction at all, and none addresses its agenda directly; and, crucially, there is no conclusion to draw the collection as a whole together and move the agenda forward. In short, there is no sense of a group of scholars interactively engaged on a common project. At the same time, only five authors refer to Bruff's essay (one being Bruff himself). Clua-Losada and Ribera-Almandoz (Chapter Two) take from Bruff the idea that the removal of key decisions from democratic control 'is not a new process but rather the continuation of a key characteristic of neoliberal governance' (29), then move straight into a detailed analysis of the impact of two recent Royal Decree Laws that are the culmination of three decades of reforms to the labour market, and a case study of the 1999 privatization of Telefónica (now Movistar), and resistance to 'reform' in its hived-off subcontractors. Sébastien Rioux (Chapter Five) picks up too on the use of constitutional and legal changes to reshape the purpose of the state, in a study of the restructuring of public welfare and food assistance programmes in the United States in the shift from welfare to workfare, and offers it as an example of the way that measures to stabilize contradictions and dislocations without granting material concessions intensify the crisis of the state (88, 102). Annalena Di Giovanni (Chapter Six) invokes Bruff's emphasis on 'the role of the state in the protection and reproduction of capital accumulation' and the constant resort to anti-democratic constitutional changes (111) in her analysis of the transformation of Istanbul between 2003 and 2013, and presents the 'crazing' of Istanbul (that is, its transformation through megaprojects designated as 'crazy' by their political promotors) as 'a city-branding exercise contingent to an authoritarian neoliberal political economy', in which public input is marginalized (114, 123). And Brecht de Smet and Koenraad Bogaert (Chapter Eleven) preface their account of passive revolutions attempted in Egypt (ending in failure) and Morocco (a relative success) with a single opening sentence recalling Bruff's associating AL with a loss of hegemony and a shift towards extraordinary modes of governance (211).
These are solid and interesting individual case studies. Clua-Losada and Ribera-Almandoz highlight the limited extent of prior democratization in Spain, the prevalence of low productivity and high unemployment, and the huge transfer of wealth from the public to the private sector arising from the privatization of 'large and profitable companies' in the context of EU convergence criteria established by the 1992 Maastricht treaty (36), and describe the struggles of out-sourced, sub-contracted and 'self-employed' workers in a context in which trade unions and established left-wing parties as much as corporations and the 'neoliberal' state are the enemies of resistance. Rioux documents the 'discovery' of chronic hunger and malnutrition on a massive scale in the US in the 1960s, the response in terms of food assistance programmes, and their subsequent evolution in the war on welfare under Reagan and Clinton among others, concluding with a wealth of evidence that the 'neoliberal assault on the social safety net has restored the conditions of capital profitability, which produces an army of working poor for whom food and economic insecurity have become the norm' (102). Di Giovanni describes a combination of city branding through megaprojects and such initiatives as the successful 2010 European Capital of Culture bid, and large-scale housing projects managed by the Housing Development Association (TOKİ), detailing the increasing scope given to executive orders and the like. And De Smet and Bogaert outline contrasting trajectories, hinged on the relative political capacity of Morocco's royal family on the one hand and Egypt's secular developmentalist regime on the other, and leading to the restoration of hegemony in the first case, and its collapse in the other.
It is principally through these chapters that the merits of the collection emerge, and its value turns out to lie not in its development of AL, but in the critique that it offers to the attentive reader. The weaknesses of Bruff's argument I noted above and the cautions expressed by Tansel are reinforced throughout, with the result that little is left of AL as originally formulated. The case studies identify what may be termed at most 'authoritarian moments' related to the governance of capitalist social formations, but the antecedents, content, connections and outcomes differ from case to case. In Spain, the episodes described, arising from a perceived need to impose labour reform in order to facilitate/force labour flexibility and competitiveness, reflected the inability of the Spanish state to overcome the compromises made in the transition to democracy, and particularly 'to subdue and discipline labour' (43). Conflicts over this dated back to Spanish entry to the EU, and there is a constant history of to-and-from between attempts at social dialogue and its breakdown or abandonment. The PSOE under Zapatero (2008-2011), which made extensive use of royal decrees, itself introduced the 2010 Decree law on Urgent Measures for Reforming the Labour Market, while continuing to seek agreement through concessions and dialogue, as did Rajoy's successor PP government. So attempts to secure hegemony were never abandoned, but have rather alternated with authoritarian moments in a dialectical process that is as old as the governance of capitalism under representative liberal democracy itself, and older. Rioux's account of food assistance programmes certainly documents the disciplining of labour through hunger, but also reports the rise in the combined cost of the programmes considered from US$4.1 billion to US$21.7 billion between 1980 and 2011-12 (101). This is not an authoritarian fix at all, but a 'welfare fix', and the pressures upon it (the imperative to maintain incentives to work, the size of the welfare bill, and the delegitimating extent of desperate need) are not at all illuminated by the AL approach. Di Giovanni's account highlights the rigidity and one-sidedness of Bruff's account, describing a strategy that both attempted a positive hegemonic strategy premised on the offer of ownership of a 'modern' home, and targeted marginal groups - Roma, and casual migrant workers - for forcible displacement (itself another hegemony-building strategy, of course). De Bret and Bogaert produce the most comprehensive critique, suggesting first of all that although 'contemporary neoliberal politics indeed appear as an extraordinary, authoritarian deviation' from the perspective of the Western post-war period, 'the history of capitalist development since the nineteenth century suggests that revolutions both in the global North and the global South have always shown the limits of bourgeois democracy and a tendency towards more authoritarian forms of state power' (211). The polite suggestion is that the model can indeed be applied beyond post-war Western Europe, but that it will collapse as a consequence. This points to an optical foreshortening which is widely shared, and which mars many otherwise excellent essays in critical political economy: 'Instead of the norm, the post-Second World War class compromise, democratisation and welfare state were the unique outcomes of 'extraordinary' economic and (geo)political conditions', bookended on either side, and more so in the earlier period, in which Gramsci, as they remind us, 'understood the rise of Fascism and authoritarianism in the 1920s and 1930s as the "normal" political forms of that capitalist epoch' (ibid). Second, they draw on Thomas (2009: 162-5) to make the important argument that a 'shift towards more authoritarian policies does not necessarily entail a hegemonic crisis' if 'force is grounded in popular consent' (212). This disposes of the argument that authoritarian moves necessarily make the state more fragile. Third, as noted above, they contrast a relatively successful attempt maintain hegemony through limited liberal reform in Morocco with its failure in Egypt. The extended case studies underline the impossibility of abstracting an iron logic of the kind represented by AL from 'quite different national trajectories of political and economic struggle and transformation, respectively provoking and blocking revolutionary outcomes' (214). As elsewhere, Moroccan rule has oscillated between repression and conciliation, and the current royal démarche, which faltered after the 2016 elections, is still by no means guaranteed to succeed. But the conclusion is inescapable - it is a methodological error to impose a general model on specific cases, when the logic governing the general model abstracts away from the specific internal logics of all the possible cases concerned.
Against this background, Bruff's own contribution, on the hardening of 'soft' EU law and its implications for the 'social model', exhibits some misconceptions that may have shaped the AL thesis in the first place. His suggestion that the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) adopted in 2000 was 'initially concerned with the relatively voluntary and dialogical sharing of different examples of 'best practice' from across the EU on social themes such as unemployment and welfare policy', whereas since there has been 'a steady "hardening" of these mechanisms towards more punitive and centralized processes based on the assumption that there is in fact a singular (neoliberal) best practice to be applied across the EU at the behest of the European Commission' (149) is mistaken. The Lisbon Council that gave rise to the Lisbon agenda redefined social protection as a 'productive factor'; the OMC was an integral part of it, and as such 'a key element in a hierarchy of policy modes, at the same time subordinate and complementary to the ‘harder’ modes of the Community Method and binding regulation in monetary and fiscal areas' (Cammack, 2007: 3, and Box 1, p. 5). From the start it was not only an instrument to promote convergence around desired pro-competitiveness policy orientations, but also a specifically hegemony-building instrument, and designed as such, and Bruff himself provides direct evidence of this from the European Council (158). The idea of an atmosphere of open policy debate around genuine alternatives giving way to a harder neoliberal line is therefore a puzzling misrepresentation - guidelines, surveillance, benchmarking, mutual learning and peer review were linked and graduated processes intended to complement 'harder' treaty-based mechanisms, against the background of the single market and the introduction of the euro. And indeed Bruff documents the contested reconceptualisation of the 'European Social Model' from the early 1990s as the commitment to 'welfare, social partnership and the mixed economy' (153) came under pressure, identifies the 1994 European Employment Strategy (1994) an an important trigger (157), and goes on to detail an integrated and contested 'long-term project to secure competitiveness through multi-scalar meta-governance' (Nunn and Beeckmans, 2015: 930-31) which is entirely at odds with the notion of a later shift from a pluralist and consensual approach to a narrowly neoliberal and disciplinary one, and with the AL thesis as a whole. In sum, this is an excellent case study (despite the baffling focus on 'facet methodology'), but it reiterates what others have said already, and undermines some of the key claims of the AL approach. In the end, Bruff is reduced to arguing that the two outcomes compatible with the AL thesis, the fracturing of the system by way of its instabilities or its repudiation, are 'currently unlikely' (165).
The remaining case studies focus on Cambodia, China, Greece, and Turkey, the commodification of internal security, gender issues in academic research, and the management of international migration. All are clear, sensible, informative and well-researched contributions that can be read with profit, and if a couple of them draw substantially on previous published work, they still read as coherent essays in their own right. But for the most part they do not add much to reflection on or development of the concept of AL. Simon Springer (Chapter Twelve) on Cambodia stays firmly within his own problematic and reprises his familiar argument that patronage plays an important part in shaping neoliberal politics there, but does not bother to address the implications for AL - a pity, as patronage, if managed successfully, provides political support, strengthens elite control over the majority, and marginalises potentially disruptive groups - and therefore constitutes a powerful force for retaining and building hegemony (Cammack, 1982). Kean Fan Lim (Chapter Thirteen), in a good essay on China which contains an insightful analysis of the hukou system, dutifully inserts a paragraph linking back to Tansel's introduction into a section of otherwise unamended text carried over from an earlier publication, but leaves it largely to the reader to tease out the implications of hegemony-building strategies around 'neoliberalization' in an explicitly authoritarian regime. The key here is the point that 'the Chinese case demonstrates how neoliberal logics were selectively integrated within and subsequently reinforced authoritarian capacities that were already an integral part of the Chinese party-state' (258). Panagiotis Sotiris contributes a fine account of the disciplining of Greece by the EU-led troika, confirming in the process that there is considerable mileage in the idea of an authoritarian turn specifically within the EU, and that Bruff would have been better advised to stick to that rather than abstract away from it - here the key point is that 'European integration represents a form of neoliberal constitutionalism without democracy' (181). Bariş Alp Özden, İsmet Akça and Ahmet Bekmen (Chapter Ten) provide a good empirical and analytical account of the rise of the Turkish AKP (Justice and Development Party), opening up a perspective on the 'shifts, cracks and conflicts emerging during the integration of peripheral or semi-peripheral countries into globalisation' (189) which might have been a cue for further consideration, involving Cambodia, China, Egypt and Morocco too, in the conclusion that is not provided. It also provides a window onto some excellent work on Turkey. The remaining chapters Three, Four and Seven), by Kendra Briken and Volcker Eich, Wendy Harcourt, and Luca Manunza respectively, all have merits as independent essays, but they cry out for better integration into the themes of the volume, on the parts of the editor, and the authors themselves.
All in all, then, the major casualty of the volume is the concept of authoritarian neoliberalism itself. It turns out, as a theoretical proposal, to exemplify perfectly a fault highlighted by Marx in the Grundrisse: bringing things that are organically related (in specific ways in particular social formations in this case) into an accidental relation and a merely reflective connection (Marx, 1973; 88). The strictures expressed there apply.
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A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate the grand visions of Net services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun.
A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate--at least temporarily--the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Charlie Northrup, the chief executive of software developer Global Technologies, holds one of the earliest patents that describe how diverse computer systems can talk to servers connected to the Web and run software on multiple platforms. Sound familiar? That's just the kind of service Microsoft is pushing with its .Net strategy, a wide-ranging plan for moving business computing applications such as calendars, word processors and e-mail onto the Web.
The concept of Web services has been simmering for several years and is now starting to come to a boil. Microsoft and Sun both held conferences last week to advance their rival plans, with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates calling on programmers to rally to the .Net scheme and Sun executives countering with details about their iPlanet products.
Northrup applied for the patent in 1994, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1998 awarded him patent 5,850,518--dubbed "Access Method Independent Exchange." While it is unclear how much credit is due Northrup, his patent is referenced in portions of separate patents owned by Microsoft, IBM and Novell. Those citations give Northrup some firepower to pursue infringement claims, according to patent experts.
"I am not claiming infringement right now. The goal was to protect what I was doing so the big companies can't come along and say 'You can't do that anymore,'" said Northrup. "If I hadn't had the means to file for the (patent), clearly we wouldn't be in the game. At least we have a pawn in the chess game."
Obtaining a patent, however, is no guarantee of an eventual payoff.
A few years ago, for example, several Net companies were awarded patents for everything from search technology to computer-based postage metering. But the promised pay day failed to materialize when other companies ignored the patents or the potential for licensing revenue was much less than anticipated.
In the case of Northrup's Web services patent, Novell said citing another patent doesn't mean the company is using or licensing the technology.
"Rather, any company making a patent application is required by the patent office to cite...any similar inventions the company is aware of," a Novell spokesperson said on behalf of the company's legal department. "Essentially we are saying, 'Here's an example of a similar, existing patent, and here's how Novell's invention is different.'"
With the high expense of filing patents and continuations--follow-up claims that buttress earlier ones--the 39-year-old Northrup said he is hoping to win some funding to keep his team on the playing field. Depending on the vision or direction a potential investor has for the patents, a new backer could spell trouble for the companies rushing toward Web services.
"If a group got a hold of (the patents) that just wanted to be a shark, they could file all the additional claims and continuations and then assert the claims against various players in the industry," said Northrup. "That might not be beneficial for the industry."
The long-standing issue of software patents is now at a crossroads. Some camps are trying to strip these kinds of patents of their power, while others are trying to reinforce their role in the industry. However controversial, though, software patents are unlikely to disappear and seem to become even more entrenched.
Indeed, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), whose mandate is to develop industry standards for Web technologies, is embroiled in a major tug-of-war because of a new policy under consideration that could allow the use of patented technologies in its standards. Companies that hold those patents could end up charging royalties for their use.
The payout in the game could be sizable, and Northrup isn't the only contender coming forward to claim that Microsoft is infringing on patents as the software giant moves to launch its .Net services.
Patent battles are standard fare in the technology sector. Many claims become embroiled in lengthy lawsuits and countersuits. Small companies take on bigger ones, big ones pick on companies large and small. Here is a partial list of recently launched claims and suits.
AT&T in June filed suit against Microsoft, claiming the software giant infringed on its patent for a technology that allows high-speed transmission of telephone calls and video over the Internet.
E-Data, a small New Jersey-based company, since 1996 has been battling software makers Intuit, Broderbund, AOL Time Warner and others, alleging that it owns a patent that controls Internet software downloads.
Xerox sued Palm in 1997, claiming that it patented the handwriting-recognition technology that Palm uses in its handheld devices.
Unisys last year pushed the major portals to license GIF patent, for a ubiquitous image file used on the Internet.
Symantec notified its rivals in February that it owns a pair of patents that control its methods for updating virus software. The Symantec patents, for "Multi-tiered Incremental Software Updating" and "Backtracked Incremental Updating," allow data that is frequently updated to be efficiently patched.
Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com have been tussling since 1999 over Amazon's 1-Click technology, a feature that allows returning customers to purchase items by simply pressing a single button without the need to re-enter billing and mailing information. Apple recently licensed the technology from Amazon.
Intouch Group, a digital music company in Berkeley, Calif., last year sued Amazon, AOL Time Warner's Entertaindom, Liquid Audio and others, alleging that they infringed on its patent for downloadable and streaming music.
Earlier this month, InterTrust Technologies, a digital-rights management company, expanded a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft's .Net framework as well as features in Office XP and Windows XP infringe on InterTrust's technology patents. Microsoft denied the original claims and has returned fire, claiming that InterTrust infringed on some Microsoft patents.
Individuals and small companies have a long history of acquiring patents and then offering to license or sell them to large companies whose business strategies may lean on the patents. More often than not, it is less time-consuming and less expensive for the large players to buy out the patent holder than to litigate.
"There are people that are doing nothing more than mining their original Internet patents," said Kevin Rivette, a patent specialist and co-author of "Rembrandts in the Attic: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Patents."
During the summer, database developer Oracle acquired Strategic Processing, a company that owned a patent that many consider one of the earliest in the area of online marketplaces--a segment that Oracle is betting heavily on. The patent, dubbed "Interactive Market Management System," was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1989 and has been cited by Microsoft, IBM and Priceline's founder Jay Walker.
The patent allows different buyers and sellers, as well as financial institutions and package shipping services, to communicate over far-flung databases and systems. The patented system has a database with user information that is accessed online by the parties involved in a transaction--just the kind of service that IBM, CommerceOne, Ariba and others promote for their business-to-business marketplaces.
If a competitor had acquired this patent, Oracle could have faced a serious challenge to its e-business software push. Oracle declined to comment on how it might use the patent or what it paid for Strategic Processing.
"In my opinion, Oracle bought it because they couldn't afford to keep it out there," said Rivette. "The more citations a patent gets, the more likely it will be valuable and have implications for the players citing it. There are more of these kinds of patents sitting out there."
Indeed, Northrup's patent may serve as another example of an attractive early mover catching the eye of dominant players. His patent describes how to send information and specifications between systems, and Northrup said he will receive another two patents by the end of 2001 that buttress his earlier claims.
The companies that reference Northrup's patent either declined to speak about it or downplayed its importance relative to their own patents.
"It is not an IBM patent, so we cannot comment on it," said an IBM spokeswoman.
Microsoft also said it would not provide details or comments about its relationship with specific patents.
Novell's explanation for citing earlier patents--essentially calling them just a footnote--fits a common strategy, according to legal experts. When a company realizes that it may be in danger of violating someone else's patent, it will try to get its own in a carefully worded claim that seeks to skirt the existing patent.
"They can show it is substantially different, and everyone will go their merry way unless the original patent holder actually sought to enforce his alleged rights," said Jason Epstein, a patent attorney with the law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman & Caldwell in Nashville, Tenn. "At that point, you would have the lawsuit."
Northrup says that citing a patent to emphasize the differences is hardly a watertight argument, and patent experts back him up.
"You build off the shoulders of existing patents," said Rivette. "The next patent might be different, but you may need this patent to build the product created by your newer patent."
But given the toll that the patenting business can take on individuals and small companies, the juggernauts are likely to keep rolling, using the time-tested tactic of litigating until the smaller player relents as its financial support is sapped.
"I think people in the patent business are primarily there to settle, not to disrupt," said Chris Le Tocq, an analyst at Guernsey Research. "Any settlement with (Northrup) is unlikely to be so large as to disrupt the effort Microsoft is attempting to tap."
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Is it possible that we make the single healthiest California wine?
In the last year, we've seen a growing trickle of requests for our Tannat, often from people who are not our typical wine consumers. The most recent of these was a request from a gentleman in Mississippi (which is unfortunately not a state to which we can ship) asking for whichever wine we make that contains the highest percentage of Tannat.
Tannat is a thick-skinned grape native to south-west France that makes wonderful dark, dense, smoky wines renowned for their ageworthiness. We imported it to Tablas Creek in 1996 thinking it would be a good blending component. It turned out to be too dominant to play a minor role in wines based on other varieties and as a result we pulled it out of the blends. We have been producing a small amount of one of California's only Tannat-based wines since 2002.
Do I think that the Mississippi gentleman is a Basque transplant who has had to leave his sources of Madiran at home? It doesn't seem likely. Neither his nor the other requests we've received ask for wines that have the flavor profile of Tannat. Instead, these requests appear to be driven by recent research suggesting that Tannat is the single healthiest grape to consume.
The correlation between red wine consumption and health (particularly heart health) has been recognized for some time, and burst into American consciousness following the 1991 French Paradox broadcast on 60 Minutes. However, the mechanism by which red wine contributes to health has not been well understood, neither why red wine (and not, say, white wine or other forms of alcohol) is so beneficial, nor whether different red wines or different farming or fermentation techniques provide different levels of protection.
"The higher OPC concentration in wines from southwest France is due to traditional wine-making, which ensures that high amounts of OPCs are extracted, and to the flavonoid-rich grape Tannat, which makes up a large proportion of grapes used to produce local wines in the Gers area but is rarely grown elsewhere."
If thicker-skinned, darker red wines contain more procyanidins, I am not surprised that Tannat should rank at the top of Dr. Corder's list. Its skins are so tenacious that it is often difficult to de-stem, and the wines are dense, dark, spicy and tannic. According to Dr. Corder's measurements, Tannat wines contain three to four times more procyanidins than other red wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon.
While making one of California's only Tannats seems enough to put us in the running for healthiest wine in California, I find Dr. Corder's identification of traditional winemaking as a contributing factor to the OPC levels in French Tannats also very appealing. If it is possible, as Dr. Corder asserts, that wines that are less processed, with longer fermentations, less or no filtering and fining, and a minimal reliance on technology exhibit higher concentrations of OPCs, then it's possible that the Tablas Creek Tannat is the single healthiest wine made in California.
We're grilling ribs tonight. I think I'll open a bottle of Tannat to celebrate!
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Brutalist buildings are known for their heft, often described as ‘monstrosities,’ demonized for their apparently intrinsic inability to relate to us on a human scale. They’re blocky and oversized, nearly always made of concrete, and almost mythical in their iconic simplicity whether you love them or hate them. The Oriel Window House in Yokohama, Japan might be described in those terms if not for a simple deviation from the norm: layers of glass that look lighter than air interspersed between the heavy concrete floors.
From outside, what you see is what appears to be a solid concrete core punctuated by three belts of glass: a narrow one on top, a wider one in the middle, and another narrow one at the bottom. This glass wraps around the sides of the building, creating transparent enclosed verandas that completely change the character of the building, inside and out.
Step inside and you’ll find that the building isn’t nearly as solid as it looks. A cutout stretching from the first floor to the third creates a sort of atrium around which the various levels are organized, so inhabitants can benefit from all three glassy light wells no matter where they are in the house. The daylight penetrates the blocky structure, giving it a surprisingly bright and airy feel.
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2019-04-20T05:21:07Z
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https://weburbanist.com/2018/02/05/brutalist-style-lightens-up-with-lots-of-glass-at-japans-oriel-window-house/
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We are happy to present this new Internships, Jobs, & Careers page! See below for information and links to internships and jobs.
Follow the boxes to the right to help through the different stages of your progression, from curious student exploring options for professions all the way to fully employed person giving back through mentoring.
The Career Development Center serves all Loyola students and alumni as a source for career assessment; career education courses and guides; job search advising; and mentoring. Career Advisor Christie Asif serves as the IES student liaison. Please take advantage of these valuable services and resources from the time you arrive at Loyola, through graduation and beyond. They are here to help you succeed!
For employers, we provide clear links to the resources of the Career Development Center on how best to reach our talented students with those exciting opportunities.
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SoA PhD student Lola Ben-Alon will compete in CMU’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. This is the second year in a row that Lola has made it to the 3MT Championship.
Eight doctoral students, each of whom have won a preliminary round of competition, will explain years of research to a non-expert audience in under three minutes during the finals of Carnegie Mellon University's 3MT championship round. The event begins at 4:30pm on Tuesday 26 March in the College of Fine Arts' Kresge Theatre; doors open at 3:45pm.
Ben-Alon's research deals with the challenges of using earthen building materials, which offer sustainable alternatives to conventional materials used in construction. The environmental and policy measures she is working on are intended to help policymakers include earthen materials in mainstream construction projects, resulting in broader adoption development of a healthy, low impact, built environment.
"I want people to be curious in regard to alternative, more sustainable, materials and methods our built environment can be comprised from," Ben-Alon said. "I love my field of research and enjoy every single day of my doctoral degree. In this sense, I hope my enthusiasm will inspire other graduate students to pursue research in the direction that excites them most."
The event, in its sixth year at Carnegie Mellon, started at the University of Queensland in 2008 and has been adopted by hundreds of institutions. The Three Minute Thesis Championship is open to the public. A panel of judges, including last year's second place winner, Navid Kazem, will select the first-, second- and third-place winners.
Additionally, there are two audience-based awards: the People’s Choice Award is a vote taken of the in-house audience, and the Alumni Award. The 3MT Championship is livestreamed from CMU’s main Facebook page, as well as the pages for the University Libraries and every college. Alumni can watch the competition on the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association Facebook page, where they can participate in the voting to select the Alumni Award winner.
Learn more about the competitors on the CMU News site.
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2019-04-20T16:20:57Z
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https://soa.cmu.edu/news-archive/2019/3/21/soa-phd-student-lola-ben-alon-to-compete-for-3mt-championship
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Jarvis DeBerry is an editorial writer at NOLA.com | The Times-Picyaune in New Orleans.
George Bush flew over us. Barack Obama sent his deputies. But both eventually landed, and both leave behind plenty more work toward our recovery.
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https://www.thenation.com/authors/jarvis-deberry/
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The regulation of NAT1 mRNA by alterations in polyadenylation site usage.
Unravelling risks in Parkinsons disease - Pharmacogenetics of brain sulfotransferases involved in dopamine metabolism.
Transcriptional regulation of sulfotransferases implicated in neurodegenerative disease.
Arylamine N-acetyltransferases are central to cancer cell survival via protein acetylation/deacetylation homeostasis.
Kadlubar, FF, Minchin, RF, Teitel, CH, Turesky, RJ and Ilett, KF (2002) ATP-dependent kinase-catalyzed activation of N-hydroxy hetero-cyclic amines. Drug Metabolism Reviews, 34 27-27.
Minchin, RF, Carpenter, D and Orr, RJ (2001) Polyinosinic acid and polycationic liposomes attenuate the hepatic clearance of circulating plasmid DNA. Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, 296 3: 1006-1012.
Minchin, Rodney F., Orr, Rebecca J., Cronin, Andrew S. and Puls, Rebecca L. (1999) The pharmacology of gene therapy. Croatian Medical Journal, 40 3: 381-391.
Ward, BK, Mark, PJ, Ingram, DM, Minchin, RF and Ratajczak, T (1999) Expression of the estrogen receptor-associated immunophilins, cyclophilin 40 and FKBP52, in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment, 58 3: 267-280.
Ratajczak, T, Woollatt, E, Kumar, P, Ward, BK, Minchin, RF and Baker, E (1997) Cyclophilin 40 (PPID) gene - Map position 4q31.3. Chromosome Research, 5 2: 151-151.
Estimate of the pore size of the large mechanosensitive ion channel (MscL) of Escherichia coli.
Cruickshank, C, Minchin, RF, LeDain, AC and Martinac, B (1997) Estimate of the pore size of the large mechanosensitive ion channel (MscL) of Escherichia coli.. Biophysical Journal, 72 2: MPO63-MPO63.
Cruickshank, CC, Minchin, RF, LeDain, AC and Martinac, B (1997) Estimation of the pore size of the large-conductance mechanosensitive ion channel of Escherichia coli. Biophysical Journal, 73 4: 1925-1931.
Kendrick, T., Mus, A. M., Minchin, R., Leedman, P. and Klinken, P. (2004). The chromatin remodeller ATRX is a thyroid hormone responsive gene with a potential role as a repressor of erythropoiesis. In: Faseb: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/8th Congress of the International Union for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/8th Congress of the International Union for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Boston, MA, (C195-C196). 12-16 Jun 2004.
Modulation of the drug metabolising enzyme arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 regulates the response to chemotherapy in cancer.
Metabolic profiling of cancer cells following arylamine N-acetyltransferase inhibition pathways to cell growth and survival.
Transcytosis of nanoparticles across cell barriers role of receptor binding and internalisation.
Mapping the binding of intracellular proteins to engineered nanoparticles.
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2019-04-23T00:06:46Z
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To purchase a sponsorship or tickets, or to donate, CLICK HERE.
Laura Leigh Hughes is an accomplished actress, known for the film Virtuosity, The X-Files, and others. She is also the founder of The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company and sits on the Advisory Council. Naturally, Laura Leigh has been one of our biggest champions for 26 years!
Malcolm M. Mays is an actor, Grammy-nominated musician and filmmaker who co-directed his first short film at age 15. Malcolm recently starred in two seasons of the John Singleton series Snowfall on FX, and he is currently working with Warner Bros. and Overbrook Entertainment to write, produce, and direct upcoming films. A system-engaged youth and theatre arts education alumni, Malcolm has been a supporter of The Unusual Suspects since 2017, and has even performed as one of our Page Play readers at Camp Gonzalez and Dorothy Kirby Center (LA County Probation Camps).
Nina Tassler was named Chairman, CBS Entertainment, in February 2014. Serving as President since 2004, she led CBS Entertainment to be named America’s #1 Network during 12 of the 13 years of her tenure before announcing she would step down at the end of 2015. Currently a Producer, Nina is a partner/co-founder in PatMa Productions alongside acclaimed director/producer Denise Di Novi. Under PatMa, the team is developing a variety of film, television and theatre projects with an emphasis on inclusion. Additionally, in 2017, Tassler successfully published her first book, “What I Told My Daughter: Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women” through Simon & Schuster. Jerry Levine is an actor, director, and producer. As an actor, Jerry played the iconic character, “Stiles,” opposite Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf, and then went on to star in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July opposite Tom Cruise. Jerry has appeared in over one hundred episodes of television, and in addition to his acting work, Jerry has helmed over one hundred episodes of TV. Most recently he served as the Co‐EP and directed all episodes of Hit the Road (DirecTV’s Audience Network), starring Jason Alexander. Jerry was the longtime Producer/Director on the hit series Everybody Hates Chris and has directed episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Raising Hope, and Monk among many others. Jerry also created ACT ONE, a production company sponsored by Showtime, Paramount, and Viacom. Together, Nina and Jerry have supported our programs for almost a decade.
An invite-only night of entertainment celebrating the work of our youth, and the power of our theatre-based programs to heal, educate and enrich those we serve. Every dollar raised goes towards our vital programs. Come for a lively night of cheer, staged readings, high-end live-auction items such as VIP Vegas package, personally-catered dinner by Top Chef Neal Fraser & personal wine tasting hosted by sommelier Dana Farner and raffle, gourmet food, cocktails and fun. Guests include a VIP roster of celebrity, entertainment, corporate and sports figures. VIP guests are also invited to an exclusive spirits tasting and education by Blinking Owl, Orange County’s First Craft Distillery.
For more information on sponsorship packages CLICK HERE.
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2019-04-22T14:24:25Z
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way. The next round of talks are scheduled to begin in Riga on 20 March.
Kostis Stephanopoulos and Prime Minister Kostas Simitis, BNS reported.
Croatian police officers firing on an unarmed retreating Muslim crowd.
reported on 25 February. The order became public knowledge last week.
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2019-04-22T00:17:14Z
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http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/news/omri/1997/02/970227II.html(opt,mozilla,pc,english,,new)
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It is not easy to get something original from something really really famous. I've tried to achieve the result in shooting the world famous Mont Saint Michel through my personal style; so great clouds, a high sky, and warm and rich colors. Sincerely I hope I have got the result of doing something "mine". If not, Mont Saint Babel it is mine anyway!
Date Uploaded: Oct. 23, 2015, 8:07 p.m.
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2019-04-26T10:47:50Z
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/altered-images/mont-saint-babel/
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This entry was posted on August 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm and is filed under amazing, business, buy, color, comfort, feet, fun, game, great, grip, idea, new, product, shoes, site, skin, style, toe, toes, Uncategorized, walk. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-22T12:06:11Z
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https://wowza4667.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/toe-shoes/
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Voyageur Press has joined forces with renowned rock journalist Phil Sutcliffe for the brand new book, AC/DC - High Voltage Rock n' Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History. This tome—the first complete illustrated history published about this legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee—arrives October 15th, 2010 to celebrate four decades of pure rock n' roll, perfectly mixing expertly researched text and many never-before-seen photos. This heavy duty 224-page volume follows AC/DC’s long-and-winding career, from the early days as a bar band in Australia, through the tragic passing of singer Bon Scott and their massive comeback success with one of rock's all-time classic (and best-selling) albums, Back in Black.
Featuring over 400 illustrations (including handbills, posters, backstage passes, and vinyl from around the globe, as well as rare candid and performance photography), and a special “spinner” cover image of Angus Young, AC/DC - High Voltage Rock n' Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History is sure to appeal to both the longtime fan and the newcomer. Sidebars by rock's finest journalists weighing in on various eras of the AC/DC are included throughout the book, as well as an album-by-album analysis, and info on the guitar gear championed by the Young brothers. While many AC/DC fans have heard and experienced the group live on stage numerous times over the years, there has simply never been a book which has chronicled the group's entire history as vividly as AC/DC - High Voltage Rock n' Roll: The Ultimate Illustrated History.
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2019-04-21T12:54:48Z
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https://www.guitarworld.com/news/acdc-illustrated-retrospective-book-be-released-month
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COMPANIES are set to profit from a new business network launched by New East Manchester Ltd. (NEM).
MEMBERS of the network and New East Manchester look to the stars.
The urban regeneration company hopes that the New East Manchester Business Network will benefit as many as 3,000 businesses in the area, helping to ensure that firms can make the most of the regeneration taking place in the area.
The network promises to offer information and advice to help businesses grow, facilitate the development of business-to-business supply chains, help the formation of trading partnerships with other local businesses and act as a strong voice to lobby local and central government on common issues. The network also plans to arrange monthly meetings with key speakers and offer support and advice to fellow members.
Speaking at the launch event at One Central Park, Robert Hough, chairman of NEM, said: "The network will not just be a 'talking shop'. We will monitor the financial benefits of membership to local businesses to ensure it makes a real difference."
Tom Russell, chief executive of New East Manchester added: "The economic regeneration of east Manchester underpins the entire renewal process. East Manchester businesses play a crucial role in building up the local economy but we also need to attract new businesses into the area to increase employment opportunities and accelerate the other positive effects of regeneration. The aim of this initiative is to be a conduit for change."
Sarah Sheldon from local company GH Sheldon and secretary of the New East Manchester Business Network said: "I have no doubt the New East Manchester Business Network will be a great success. Everyone knows there are businesses in east Manchester but not all the businesses know each other. This is a positive move towards uniting this important community and becoming a combined voice."
More information on the New East Manchester Business Network can be obtained by calling 0161 223 1155 or by visiting the website at www.neweastmanchester.com .
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2019-04-25T04:47:58Z
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/network-gives-firms-a-boost-1025600
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Hinds fans have been clamoring for a new release since the Spanish quartet's stellar debut Leave Me Alone in 2016, and the group is gearing up for a return with the announcement of their second record. I Don't Run is due out on April 6 and features the single "New For You," which premiered on January 19 with a soccer-themed video.
Their first record was a breakout success, a fuzzy and enchanting collection of garage and indie rock filled to the brim with earworm guitar melodies and infectious group vocals. Their debut was produced by Diego García of The Parrots, and for I Don't Run Hinds is co-producing with Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor). American and European tours were also announced surrounding the album, with the U.S. leg kicking off in Boston on May 7.
"We’ve been on the other side of music for so many years. We do the kind of music we'd love to listen to, we give the kind of gigs we'd love to watch," Carlotta Cosials told Pigeons & Planes in 2016. "We seriously love our fans. They get our jokes and our way of living and I think they know we love them."
Check out "New For You" below and read our digital cover story on Hinds. Also get acquainted with nine more of our favorite indie rock bands from 2017.
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2019-04-25T04:02:04Z
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https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2018/01/hinds-announces-new-album
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