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Most people are aware of the scandals surrounding the Church of Scientology. These have been covered several times on New Zealand television.
How many, though, are aware that the Scientology is registered as a charity in New Zealand? This means that are tax exempt and people making donations to them, or tithing to them, can claim tax refunds. It also means that, through our taxes, we subsidise the activity of the Church of Scientology.
Our tax legislation defines such activity as charitable for tax purposes. It also provides religious exemption from local body rates.
A lot of New Zealanders would probably be unhappy about this – if they knew! And this charitable status is also available to other religious cults which cause family disruptions and have been exposed as condoning child sexual abuse.
In the old days I used to think that only the adherents of the more established ideologies could laugh at themselves. Communists and Catholics seemed to have skins thick enough to handle this whereas the evangelical, fundamentalists, radical feminists, Maoists and Trotskyists couldn’t see the joke.
Nowadays I don’t know. Communists have all but disappeared. In my experience atheists will laugh along at their own expense, but I am not sure about Catholics. Things seem beyond laughing matters in their organisation.
Anyway, here’s something at laugh at for the religious, the atheist and the Catholic (?).
1: The Rev. Barbie: A creation Rev. Julie Blake Fisher, an Episcopal priest in Kent, Ohio. She comes with a complete wardrobe, etc. I am sure many relgious people will be offended just by the idea of a women being ordained – let alone the doll. See Under God: The Rev. Barbie , The Genius of the Rev. Julie Blake Fisher and Barbie gets ordained, and has the smells-and-bells wardrobe to match.
The virus metaphor has been extremely useful in computing. The parallel with biological viruses is close so the word provides an accurate but succinct description of the phenomena of, and problems created by, computer viruses. And this particular metaphor offends no one.
The idea of a “god virus”, which treats religious ideas in a similar way, also has some traction. Darrel Ray shows in “The God Virus” that this particular metaphor can be an accurate description of the problem. The metaphor is useful. But in this case some people do get offended.
Maybe they overreact? (Religious people often do). Ray does make clear the metaphor applies to other ideological viewpoints besides the religious ones. That it is more general. For instance, he includes communism and Marxism in some of the discussions. He also points out that, just as with ideologies, biological “viruses can be benign, even beneficial in some cases.” Although “parasite” may be a more suitable description of how ideas sometimes work – he wanted “to avoid the negative connotations” of that word.
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2019-04-19T22:23:37Z
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https://openparachute.wordpress.com/category/child-abuse/
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Computers
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This kitchen renovation, takes us to our local area, of Woodstock, NB. A treat from the beginning to end, homeowners Seth and Tammy Keenan allowed us to be part of their home transformation.
With the help of Harold Sharkey and Kevin Prosser of Valley Renovations, the homeowners added an entry, garage, laundry and an addition to accommodate a larger kitchen and dining room.
The home started off with a solid wood kitchen and beautiful granite countertops. The homeowners were ready to brighten up the area by adding light and space.
Our designer stopped in to measure the space and talk with the homeowner about inspiration and designs.
After designs, pickouts, and production were complete, our professional factory installers arrived and began installing the custom kitchen on-site.
Fast forward a bit, and now we have an beautiful living space thoughtfully designed and pulled together by Avondale and our Homeowners.
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2019-04-21T05:00:16Z
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https://avondalekitchens.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/majestic-kitchen-makeover-woodstock-nb/
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Cardiac troponin T and I, echocardiographic [correction of electrocardiographic] wall motion analyses, and ejection fractions in athletes participating in the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.
Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and troponin I (cTnI) are highly sensitive and specific for detecting myocardial damage even in the presence of skeletal muscle injury. In this study, we assessed whether ultraendurance exercise induced cardiomyocyte injury using plasma cTnT and cTnI measurements, quantitative echocardiographic wall-motion analysis, and ejection fraction measurement in athletes who participated in the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. Twenty-three athletes (11 men) who completed the triathlon (3.9 km swim, 180.2 km bike, and 42.2 km run) participated in this study. Blood samples were obtained 2 days before and immediately after the triathlon for the determination of cTnT (Enzymun, Roche Diagnostics) and cTnI (Dade Behring) concentrations. Quantitative echocardiographic wall motion analysis and ejection fraction were obtained on 12 of the 23 participants before and immediately after the race. No subject had detectable cTnT or cTnI or abnormal echo score before the race. Following the race, 2 subjects (9%) had marked increases in both cTnT (0.15 and 0.33 microg/L) and cTnI (2.09 and 4.44 microg/L). Four additional subjects (17%) had moderate increases in cTnT (0.04 to 0.05 microg/L) but no detectable cTnI. Race time correlated inversely with cTnT (r = -0.65, p <0.01). Mean change in the number of abnormal echo segments after the race was 6.5 in those with a marked increase in cTnT and cTnI, 2.3 in those with a moderate increase in cTnT, and 1.7 in those with no increase. Ejection fraction decreased by an average of 24% after the race (p <0.002). Thus, ultraendurance exercise may cause myocardial damage as indicated by biochemical cardiac-specific markers and echocardiography. The cellular nature of this damage and whether it is transient or permanent is unclear at present.
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2019-04-22T13:06:41Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub697666
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No. 8 Hope-None ; Saint Mary's (Ind.)-None .
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https://belles.saintmarys.edu/sports/wbkb/2018-19/boxscores/20190209_729r.xml
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blonde mummy | My Boy. My Life. My World.
My beautiful grown up boy, when I began replacing a birthday card with a blog post, number four felt so far away, and yet here we are. This last year has gone even quicker than the one before, and within it there have been new memories made, new challenges overcome, more lessons learnt, and all the magic and madness that happens in between.
On the eve of your birthday I always find myself feeling exactly the same as the year before; emotional and nostalgic, and really quite overwhelmed with gratitude. A year seems to pass by in the blink of an eye, but in the run up to your big day, I always allow myself to reminisce about everything that led to you being mine. From the surprise of finding out I was pregnant, the long nine months spent throwing up morning, noon and night, holding you for the first time, and of course, watching you grow from a new born right through to the proper little boy that you are now.
Every year when I write your birthday post, I think about all of my favourite moments of that year, and the new branches of your tree that from nowhere have grown. The last few weeks have been beyond hectic, and so this years post is rather late, but it’s given me more time to reflect on our fourth year together, and I really hope that one day you’ll love reading these posts as much as I have writing them.
This year I’ve been completely bowled over by how quickly your confidence has sky rocketed. Your ability to charm and befriend complete strangers wherever you go is quite impressive. Someone only has to be stood still for thirty seconds, and look at you for one, and you’re straight over introducing yourself asking if they want to play. Just yesterday a little girl was standing at a shop door in Albir, and you immediately tugged at my cardigan telling me she wanted to play with you. She wasn’t even looking in your direction but you didn’t notice that, and like a true Romeo, you rummaged in your pocket and whipped out your raisin packet ready to share them so you could somehow start a conversation. Even when you should probably give up, you never do, not until you’ve found a way to connect, and it’s without a doubt one of my most favourite things about you. Your kindness and inclusivity of everyone has me bursting at the seams with pride.
On the other hand, your cheeky personality is growing by the day, and you’re constantly reminding me how easily we can have fun. Just yesterday we sat on the beach and spent ages throwing rocks into the water, you couldn’t have been happier, and nor could I. You make me laugh on a daily basis, and are one of the most inquisitive little humans I know, you’re constantly asking questions, and forever wanting to know why. As you seek to get to the most granular detail, I can almost see the cogs of your brain spinning as you soak up all the information.
Your memory is astounding, and you are always telling me about things that happened months ago, sometimes even years. I only ever have to tell you something once and like an elephant, you never forget.
However, you can still throw the most spectacular tantrum, with the newly added ability to totally patronise me by speaking as though I am both hard of hearing and have the inability to speak much English. You usually finish off by folding your hands across your little body, stamping your foot and telling me off as though you are the parent. I dread think what’s going to happen when you turn 5.
That being said, a few weeks ago, you accidentally whacked me across my arm with a very solid piece of cardboard, neither of us was expecting it to be so painful and it really did take us by surprise. I yelped in pain and your little face was so upset to see me struggling. You immediately said sorry and took yourself off to sit on the stairs. When I asked what you were doing, your face dropped as you told me you were on the naughty step for hurting mummy. I’m quite sure the world heard my heart break into a thousand pieces. You felt so guilty and it took me ages to convince you that it didn’t matter because I knew how sorry you were and that it was an accident. You might be totally bonkers, which I adore you for, but you have so much love and affection for other people, it completely melts me.
When I think about everything I have been through since you were born, having you in my life has given me a purpose. I tried hard to be the perfect mum, because life as a grown up has always been about the expectation of others, but you’ve taught me that I don’t need to be perfect, that you don’t expect anything, except being loved, and that I can do. It’s what I do best. You are the very reason I have gotten up and fought to keep strong, and sometimes it really has been a fight. You are the reason I’ve overcome many obstacles, and the reason I’ve given things a second go. You are the very reason I have a voice and stand up for myself, for us and the things that I am really passionate about. You are the reason I have finally realised who I am. In your four short years you’ve been my teacher and guide in so many ways, and you are always the light that guides me home when I am lost in the dark.
Happy birthday Son, I love you very much and couldn’t be prouder to be your mama.
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2019-04-25T03:46:31Z
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https://blondemummy.wordpress.com/
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light, feminine, georgeous. stunning! good job!
I lke this. original too.
Did you digital remove a chair or is she actually in that position. My feet hurt just looking at it but it is a masterful shot. I am very impressed and that doesn't happen very often.
I don't even know how you managed that position...Just looking at it makes my toes and ankles want to break.
This has been selected as the November 2008 Feature. Congrats!
This has been selected as the November 2008 Club feature!
This has been selected as our November 2008 Feature..
I love this, so pretty, so cute, so... alllalalala.
that was random of me, sorry.
I love the poses in these shots!
ooohh.. I like white balloons!
Do the colors on your pictures fade at all when you upload them to dA?
umm... no, i guess. i haven't noticed that actually.
Oh.. That's sooooo sweet and beautiful. Amazing shot you show! Great work!
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2019-04-21T05:07:19Z
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https://www.deviantart.com/theluckynine/art/0-01-98040383
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websitetoolbox
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Firstly I will say hello as I am new here, My name is Sean and live in Macclesfield.
For the past 4-5 months in my spare time I have been tracing the locations in Macclesfield that were part of Ian's life.
In 1979 Ian Curtis was interviewed in The Castle Pub, Now some sites say it was the Castle Hotel Manchester and others The Castle Pub in Macclesfield.
...states that it was at a pub in Oldham Street, Manchester.
Not sure where the Castle bit comes from though that is usually credited in relation to this interview, but there is the Castle Hotel on Oldham Street as Pat has indicated. This is also not far from the New Hormones offices that were on Newton Street at the time (who were responsible for the cassette).
I presume that the Stuart James (who helped compile it and also engineered the Biting Tongues track) is the same one who produced the JD Picadilly radio session from summer '79?
On a related matter, this is noted as having been recorded in October / November '79. Is there anything to substantiate this?
Possibly recorded on 27th/28th October, coinciding with the Apollo dates?
If this is the interview I'm thinking of - that got released on a 7" picture disc and is virtually inaudible - I read it was recorded in a Yates's Wine Lodge.
I have a theory on this. If October is correct, then it could have only been recorded on either the 4th, 11th, 18th or 25th as these are the broadcast dates for Blankety Blank which you can hear in the background. But they had gigs on all dates except the 11th which was cancelled so that date looks the most likely.
When our work was done over at the Gaythorn, and we had time to kill and beer to sample, we'd often traipse over to the Salisbury (not exclusively JP or FP, anyone who shared Davidsons rehearsal air really, why even Hucknall and fellow elevators came in for a pint or two, (it was a (hawk spit) 'red' pub after-all) my weren't we blessed, sorry I digress) anyhow, I recall one afternoon Ian being interviewed by a couple of folk for a 'cassette magazine', not something I'd forget really (if I'm not mistaken I think the gentle sound of pool balls clinking can be heard somewhere in the background) I've not heard this interview for a very long time, however when I did I recall at the time instantly recognising it as that interview.
I crossed checked my theory (my mate, another musician from those heady days, also has selective memory - but thankfully we fill in the missing bits for each other) it turns out that it could well have been the Castle, Oldham Street, (sorry folks) we'd sometimes do a pub crawl from Yates to Yates (at either end) then end up in 'the Conti' another popular haunt for the single member's of the Davidson 'club' (though Ian did go in on a couple of occasions) does Hooky read this forum?, he can get the Stella in if he does.
Interesting stuff though the slight anomaly is 'Blankety Blank' which I am sure is on in the background and as far as I can remember was only ever broadcast in the evenings. Could it be that a few afternoon pints turned into an evening session?!
Does Wogan frequent these boards? Perhaps he can confirm.
Thursday nights I believe, possibly after TOTP?
Within the first 30 seconds you can hear old Tel saying ''Join me for the Supermatch Game'', followed by the cheesy music. I'm 100% sure it's not a trailer.
That list would suggest the Blankety Blank in the background was 25/10/79.......but Joy Division were playing St George's in Bradford that night. So the programme must have been recorded on 25/10 and aired a day or two later.
They were back in Manchester on the 27th and 28th for gigs at the Apollo, so the interview would have taken place on one of these dates if my deductive powers are any good.
Isolated, see my earlier post about possible broadcast dates. My own feeling is that this would have been recorded on an evening when they had no gig, as to squeeze it in between s/c and gig seems a bit unnecessary.
As for the Supermatch Game I think there were two during the programme - one about half way through and one near the end.
I don't remember there being much in the way of trailers in those days, unlike now.
I think the only thing I can add is that the Castle Pub, Oldham St, was on the radar back then, so it's possible the recording was made there, as for the date, it's quite a dash from the Apollo to Oldham St, though I wouldn't rule out a few beers between sound check and gig, as was oft the case back then.
I have a copy of that interview, no idea where it was recorded but I always thought that Les Dawson was the king of Blankety Blank, streets ahead of Wogan.
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2019-04-18T10:45:05Z
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http://lwtua.websitetoolbox.com/post/ian-curtis-interview-1979-castle-pub-4795620
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This "vignette" by John Cook Kitchens is one of two kitchens that can be used for cooking demonstrations.
For all who have traipsed from open house to open house in search of kitchen and bath inspiration, there's no need to wait for Sundays anymore.
Servco Home and Appliance Showroom, which will unveil its fully renovated space tomorrow, now features 22 kitchen "vignettes" created by 13 Hawaii designers. There are enough ideas for homeowners and industry professionals packed into the 7,000-square-foot space to launch a thousand renovations.
A public celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with TV chef Martin Yan of "Yan Can Cook" conducting demonstrations throughout the day on GE Monogram appliance kitchens created by Studio Becker and John Cook Kitchens. The show kitchens will provide a venue for classes and demonstrations beginning next month.
The renovation brings the showroom into the 21st century, where the old-fashioned notion of simply showing rows and rows of ovens and sinks just isn't enough for consumers long spoiled by home-renovation TV programs and architectural photographs in home and interior-design magazines.
"Before, we had no cabinetry," Servco group Vice President Craig Washofsky said. "We never displayed hoods. People had to choose out of catalogs. One of the challenges is that when people come in looking for finer appliances, to ask them to pick something out of a catalog is not satisfying.
"We started talking about improving our displays, and by inviting the top local designers to create these vignettes, we can better represent the lines."
The kitchen designs embrace a range of styles from Euro chic to modern to Hawaiian contemporary.
"The amazing thing is no two kitchens look alike, and we never told anyone what to do," Washofsky said. "We just gave them the space, and they came up with different designs."
The Hawaii Woodcrafts kitchen display above features granite counters, GE Monogram appliances and cherry wood.
Clients entering through the parking lot entrance will be greeted by a kitchen created by Hawaii Woodcrafts, using GE Monogram appliances, granite and cherry wood.
A conference center was created to provide a space for designers to meet with clients to talk about renovation plans after viewing the many kitchen, bath and shower possibilities.
Hawaii Woodcrafts President Greg Molica has his own Koapaka Street showroom featuring seven of his own kitchen vignettes for residential and commercial clientele, but he said, "There's never enough space to show appliances, and (the Servco showroom) is definitely a nice place for people to browse. I think I'm going to be using it a lot."
Molica's wife, Renee, said, "This will help people like me, who would look at a wall of ovens and not be able to visualize what it would look like in an actual kitchen. It puts it in context."
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2019-04-24T08:06:27Z
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http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/02/03/features/story05.html
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Shopping
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dundee
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We provide a number of services and resources related to sexual health and family planning, including free on-campus testing for STIs and free condoms.
A variety of condoms are available free from the University Health Service (including latex free for those with a latex allergy).
When we are closed they are available from the disabled toilet on the First Floor of the Support Hub or from The Hive on Level 4 of DUSA.
We provide free Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea testing at the University Health Service.
Testing is by appointment only at the University Health Service, Support Hub, Old Technical Institute.
To make an appointment you can phone us on 01382 384168, Email us on healthservice@dundee.ac.uk, or come in and visit us.
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2019-04-21T04:52:19Z
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https://www.dundee.ac.uk/student-services/health/sexual-health-family-planning/
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The USC Bedrosian Center on Governance has joined with prominent private and public agencies to boost Southern California’s sustainability and resiliency in the face of a natural disasters. The result is the SoCal Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Initiative, a cooperative set of recommendations designed by academia and the private sector to prevent or minimize the damage and disruption caused by a major natural disaster.
The joint team’s executive committee, which includes retired USGS seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones as special advisor, present its recommendations to the public in this report.
Email John Bwarie using this link.
Click the cover image to view the PDF.
This entry was posted in Issue Briefs and tagged natural disaster, risk reduction. Bookmark the permalink.
How can I download a copy to study ????
IF you click on the cover image, you are taken to the full PDF. Most browsers will give you the down arrow symbol to download from the browser. You can also find the PDF at the direct link: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/files/2016/06/SCDRRIReport.pdf.
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2019-04-22T13:24:06Z
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https://bedrosian.usc.edu/research-updates/issue-briefs/strengthening-socal-southern-california-disaster-risk-reduction-initiative/
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tripod
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Originally raced in Ireland as Tobair Na Bolgam and won a Tralee in 30.66 and 30.46 for 550. He joined Norah McEllistrim in early 1990 and set out impressively on the Wimbledon strength knocking off A1.
He picked up his first NGRC open in 25.22 for 412 at Wimbledon and won in 29.01 (480), and 28,63 in the qualifying first round of the 1990 Mirror Life Derby. Beaten by Greenfield Madam next time out, Slippys then won again in 28.93. He beat Fires Of War in 28.83 in the quarters. In the semis, Slippys (5-4 fav) led to the third bend where he was badly baulked. He finished fifth and was last in the consolation.
A run of defeats with occasional victories followed and it wasn´t until the Laurels that he refound his form He won a first round heat in 27.90, then again in 27.74 and his semi in 28.18. In the final he was bumped and the first and then beaten three and a half by Concentration in 27.75.
He joined Matt O´Donnel in the winter and returned for the 1991 Derby. In the qualifiers he beat Satharn Lady in 28.92 followed by a 28.81 in the first round. Quest won his second round heat in 28.82 (where old rival Concentration turned in the boxes) from Vics Snowdrop. In the quarters he plugged away but went down by a neck to Ballinderry Ash.
For the second year running, he went out in the semis after disputing the lead to the first turn with kennel mate The Other Toss. He led in the consolation (11-10 fav) but faded late into third beaten three quarters by Vics Snowdrop and Satharn Lady. Slippy returned to Ireland to reach the semi finals of the Irish Derby. He equalled the 550 clock at Dundalk and finished his career with a win in the Waterford Crystal Stakes in 29.36 (.20 slow).
Quest´s comrades included sprint open racer Rebels Pride.
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http://shikarees.tripod.com/Stamtavlor/SlippysQuest.htm
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South African anti-doping agency chief executive Khalid Galant says in a text message that Hogan tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the national championships in April, where he threw a personal best. Hogan's backup "B'" sample also tested positive.
Hogan is a three-time African champion and retained his title at the continental championships last month in Durban, South Africa, two months after the failed test.
Galant says the South African athletics federation must now consider if Hogan, who turns 27 this month, should be stripped of any titles.
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2019-04-22T18:46:20Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/07/14/african-discus-champion-out-of-olympics-for-doping/87083908/
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On a brisk Sunday afternoon in late January, Thorsten Heins towers over a long boardroom table in RIM 10, one of the many sprawling low-rise buildings in Waterloo, Ontario, featuring Research In Motion's logo. The lanky, 6-foot-6 Bavarian physicist is about to officially replace two of Canada's most famous businessmen. He fiddles with one of the company's PlayBook tablets as he waits patiently for them to arrive. "I love this system," he says.
Mike Lazaridis, the man who founded RIM in 1984, appears shortly after, his hair, as usual, combed into an immaculate silver wave above his distinctive heavy-set features. Long-time co-CEO Jim Balsillie, the driven, globe-trotting salesman, arrives last, removing his BlackBerry earbuds as he enters. Including PR reps and two Globe and Mail reporters (I'm one of them), there are seven of us in the room. Even other C-suite executives are said to have no idea that "Mike and Jim," the men who built the country's most valuable technology company—a firm that, in 2007, was worth more than the Royal Bank of Canada—are stepping out of the picture. Most will find out later today in an e-mail sent to senior executives. Some will say they are shocked; some won't be around for much longer.
But everybody, in a broader sense, already knows what has happened up until this point: RIM, once a seemingly unstoppable industry leader, has slipped to pitiable laggard. The company has suffered one embarrassing strategic misstep after another, consistently releasing unsexy products, with glitches, behind schedule, to little or no acclaim. The share price has fallen by almost 90%, from an all-time high of $150 in 2008 to about $17 in January, erasing much of Balsillie's and Lazaridis's vast wealth in the process. The postures around the table are telling. Lazaridis, who will remain vice-chair after this shakeup, leans forward, as if anxious to explain himself. Balsillie, who will stay on the board as a director, at least for the time being, appears impatient, fidgety—though I'm told this is how he usually looks. Their long-time PR rep, Tenille Kennedy, sits quietly beside them, as Mike and Jim explain how they went to the board with their succession plan. On the other side of the table, Heins sits comfortably, hands clasped together, leaning back in his chair. Seated beside him is a new face, Michael Sitrick, founder of an American PR firm that specializes in, among other things, "crisis management," "criminal indictments," "environmental controversies" and "bet-your-company/bet-your-life situations." A little hired help for a not-so-average day. Heins, a mild-mannered former Siemens executive from Munich with a stiff salt-and-pepper side part, insists that RIM is not broken, that it has the ingredients for success, and that he is the man to lead the company at this time. "I know how to do this," he says. "I have the skills to do this." He promises to hire a chief marketing officer. "There's no need for me to shake this company up," he says confidently. "Our product is great." If anything, he adds, "we just need to talk about it more."
In the next 100 days, Heins will have the toughest job in corporate Canada, if not the world. While it may be unfair to analyze the reign of a CEO based on a single fiscal quarter—after all, much of what Heins is shovelling through now is the managerial detritus of the previous administration—it's also the case that RIM may not have much time. (Remember how quickly Palm disintegrated?) From Day One, Heins will be tasked with maintaining momentum in the company's overseas strongholds—emerging markets such as Brazil, Indonesia and Nigeria—while working to stem market share losses in North America, where the handset maker's failures are magnified by an unforgiving competitive landscape that includes Apple and Google. And, more importantly, he needs to release a flawless new BlackBerry 10 device, with a rich application and content portfolio, ideally before kids go back to school. If he doesn't, well, RIM may never recover.
Around 10 a.m. the following day, Heins takes to a stage within RIM 4—another squat company building, this one near the University of Waterloo campus—to address the staff he's now meant to lead. There are about 100 people in the room, and roughly 14,000 employees tuning in from around the world. Lazaridis makes introductions, and stresses how difficult this is and how much he loves the company. Balsillie says much the same, then demands the staff show fealty to a new regime: "I want your word that you will give Thorsten 100% support. Do I have your commitment?"
Heins, who has been with the company since 2007, steps forward. Without a jacket but with a BlackBerry holster secured to his belt, he seems to personify the split messaging that has dogged RIM in the iPhone era, when it has become unclear exactly what a BlackBerry brand stands for: Work? Play? Both? Neither? In one sentence he stresses the need for "flawless execution." In another he proclaims that "we rock in Asia-Pac." He addresses the idea that RIM's internal processes have been "bipolar"—less a nod to the recently strained and dysfunctional co-CEO structure than an admission that RIM needs to be more decisive about its strategy. "It just gives me hurt feelings if we have such great ideas and then we get kind of criticized in the public because we miss it by three months, or we're not complete when we really want to launch something," Heins tells the crowd. "Let's just go rock 'n' roll it," he concludes. "And, you know, we will all be having a lot of fun together. And a lot of success. Thank you."
For a company long ruled by two men with serious cases of founders' syndrome—who often responded to criticism of their management with wide-eyed innocence and denial—this level of clarity about the need to tinker with RIM is refreshing. "I've been at the company for over 10 years," says Wes Nicol, who manages RIM's presence in the Caribbean and the Andean region of South America. "[Heins brings]a fresh energy, and a fresh approach to working together. It really, sort of, energized the company." The pep rally was also a chance to help paint a more relatable picture of Heins, who generally plays up a stereotypical Germanic love of efficiency and process. Heidi Davidson, senior vice-president of communications, lobs him questions e-mailed from staff. Asked how he likes to spend his spare time, Heins mentions a hobby not exactly unknown to computer engineers. "I actually love race simulations on the PC, so I race Formula 1," Heins says. Perhaps because people might get the impression Heins is not a man of action, Heins adds quickly, "I've been in a real car, also, but that's a different story."
Outside of RIM 4, Heins's appointment has not brought an end to the cycle of negativity surrounding the company. Earlier in the morning, following a conference call with analysts, the chorus of "Thorsten who?" has already begun. The Wall Street Journal's Marketplace editor, Dennis Berman, points out on Twitter that Thorsten Heins's name doesn't even auto-fill in a Google search (it does now). Whereas a day earlier, Heins wanted it known that RIM's marketing troubles were his top priority, now it seems Heins himself has become a marketing problem. The company's already-battered stock sinks more than 9% in heavy trading when markets open. On Day One, at least, the bleeding continues.
While Heins's appointment does little to shift the narrative in North America that RIM is sliding into irrelevance, the company's momentum in emerging markets is another matter. Last year, in Africa, for example, RIM saw 741% growth in handset shipments. It's Heins's job to provide fresh clarity, direction and resources to managers of these mystical growth areas, places where very few people use iPhones and the BlackBerry is king.
On the Friday evening after the shakeup, Greg Wade, RIM's managing director for Asia-Pacific, walks into his Singapore office and finds the place buzzing. He stops to take in the scene. "Wow," he thinks. "If you could bottle up this vibe—and it's a true vibe—just imagine what we could accomplish."
Around 4 p.m., Heins walks into the lower level of Toronto's historic Harbour Sixty Steakhouse to meet with a group of Bay Street analysts. In this era of austerity, there are to be no $58 rib-eyes and certainly no $125 double porterhouses—drinks only. There is harsh questioning, and one senior RIM executive exchanges terse words with a respected Big Five bank analyst. Still, BlackBerrys outnumber iPhones in this room by a ratio of 15 to 2, according to Byron Capital Markets' analyst Tom Astle. The BlackBerry brand, while certainly bruised, retains some cachet with this crowd. And, for some of the audience, Heins's humble but assertive tone strikes the right note. These analysts may not think RIM has much chance of turning itself around, but they seem to respect the new CEO's approach, a quiet confidence tempered by a willingness to be more frank about the company's failings. "His style was much lower-key than Balsillie's," says Astle, who points out that Heins demonstrated strong resolve. "I think his personality has brought more transparency to investors, and likely even internally in RIM." Let's face it: Heins was never going to get anything resembling a honeymoon in North America, where RIM's downfall is generally depicted as assured, but, judging from the crowd at Harbour Sixty, the mood seems like it has the potential to shift—at least a bit.
One long-standing complaint is that it's too time-consuming to tweak software to run on each of RIM's many devices, a costly annoyance that turned to strategic indifference as BlackBerry sales waned over the past year. Heins's job in Amsterdam is to trumpet the impending arrival of RIM's BlackBerry 10 platform, which will run across all new phones and tablets.
"It's always great to be back home," he opens. "I consider myself a European kid." He shrugs his shoulders and raises his hands to cue applause. The casual vibe is quickly subsumed by managerial-sounding bravado as Heins goes on to list the countries in Europe where BlackBerry is the No. 1 smartphone. He starts with the Netherlands, which garners polite applause from the crowd, and continues: "The United Kingdom. Spain. Saudi Arabia. United Arab Emirates. Kuwait. And South Africa." Besides the U.K., where BlackBerry market share is slipping, these are not global economic powerhouses. RIM's list of corporate bragging points is dwindling—as its rivals' lists are lengthening. But right now, it's worth Heins's time to play up BlackBerry's global success, over and over again; Saunders needs some good news. Without it, he won't be able to persuade app developers to bother. In that case, Saunders and Heins might as well hang up their own spurs.
RIM releases a software update for its PlayBook tablet. This sounds kind of dry, but the original device—which has great hardware—was hugely criticized for its lack of e-mail, calendar and contact-list functions that BlackBerry phone owners already enjoy. To call this update crucial would be an understatement. RIM has been deeply discounting the PlayBook at retailers since November—reducing the price from as much as $700 to as low as $200—and the general consensus has been that the product is lacking.
Early reviews are favourable, if you look past the obligatory "it would have been nice if it had this at launch" comments. One Toronto-based market analysis firm releases an encouraging report saying the PlayBook now accounts for 15% of the Canadian tablet market. Pay no mind that PlayBooks make up an infinitesimal portion of both global tablet sales and the total hardware RIM sells, or that the discounting led RIM to take a huge writedown of nearly half-a-billion dollars on revalued inventory in December—this type of incremental progress qualifies as full-blown momentum, and provides proof that people are still interested in the very latest BlackBerry experience. It's also a sign of hope for RIM's next-generation operating system, BlackBerry 10, which is a direct descendant of the PlayBook's sleek multi-tasking software.
Few can honestly say they didn't see the cliff coming. Throughout March, bearish industry analysts lobbed increasingly gloomy predictions for RIM. Jefferies & Co.'s Peter Misek said the chance of a negative pre-announcement was greater than 50%. A Barclays analyst titled his RIM note, "Grim and Getting Grimmer." On the morning of March 29, the day the company will report its fourth-quarter earnings, it's hard to see any silver lining in the carnage. The depth of how bad things have gotten is still startling. The first real inkling comes about an hour before the earnings call, when a source tells me that a bunch of senior managers are being let go in another "big shakeup." On the call, the company reports its results, which miss earnings estimates for the fifth straight quarter, and announces the departure of at least two senior executives. A "strategic review" of the business is promised. We learn that Balsillie, too, is resigning from the board. All this, and still no chief marketing officer appointment. (RIM will fill the position on May 8.) I am told that this veritable torrent of bad news, particularly on the earnings call, is deliberate: Get it all out now, a former RIM executive tells me. Set a low water mark and create a positive halo around every single bit of progress from this point on, regardless of how incremental (say, a product being delivered on time, without glitches). The call is also meant to be a bit of a bridge to investors, some of whom have been clamouring for RIM to break itself apart and sell. Heins outlines on the call that his review will consider licensing RIM's software to third parties, and when asked about selling the company, he doesn't rule it out. "There's no guarantee of success," Heins says. One analyst, who doesn't want to be identified, calls me to say with a hint of sadness in his voice: "This is the beginning of the end."
Shortly after noon on April 25, Thorsten Heins waits at RIM 10, in the Quasar boardroom, which sounds like it might have been named by Lazaridis. The room is identical to, but exactly one floor above, the boardroom in which we all met in late January. This time it's just Heins, myself and Tenille Kennedy. The vista looking out over Waterloo's quiet streets is much the same, though the snow has melted. Without prompting, Heins launches into a highly compressed summation of his priorities. He chops the table with his hand when he's accentuating a negative point (denying reports that RIM might abandon the consumer market) and jabs the table with bunched digits, like a pickaxe, when he's elucidating a priority (like the importance of the release of BlackBerry 10). Over the past few months, he says, he has been busy "providing focus to the company, making clear what counts, what everybody needs to work on." Of his company, Heins asks rhetorically, "What's our purpose? Why are we here?"
These are intriguingly existential questions from the CEO of an established company that, despite all of its problems, pulled in revenues of nearly $20 billion in each of the last two years. Heins tells me he has spent the last three months trying to figure out the answers. He's travelled widely, meeting with employees across North America and Europe. "You see tons of BlackBerrys out there," Heins says. He has been interacting with divisions that he previously had little contact with, such as sales. He's met with the CEOs of many of RIM's carrier clients, and launched a worldwide survey of BlackBerry owners analyzing how people use their devices throughout the day. From the outside, Heins says he's hearing that people want RIM to survive, that security is still important to them. "Sharpen your saw, be good at what you're good at," they tell him. "Don't let go on enterprise. This is your core." That, of course, is the quintessential view of RIM: the security-focused corporate wireless service provider. But that doesn't mean Heins thinks RIM doesn't have to change structurally, in big ways. One of Heins's great advantages is that he does not owe his career to RIM, that he sees few sacred cows among those likely coming to the slaughter. "It kind of allowed me to get a clearer view of what fits, and what doesn't fit," he says. "Think of it like a jigsaw puzzle. I kind of figured out a few pieces that I don't need in my puzzle to be successful."
At 9 a.m. on his 100th day as CEO, Heins climbs another stage, this one at the Orlando World Center Marriott. It's the annual BlackBerry World conference, and the mood is upbeat. After thanking developers in the audience for showing up, Heins unveils a new touchscreen BlackBerry 10 device, a prototype both in software and hardware. While an employee shows off the sleek functions—like a camera that lets you zoom in and wind back the frames to open a subject's eyes—Heins looks like a father at his kid's recital. "I'm so excited to have this in my hand and show it to you, because I know how much work has gone into it," Heins says. As the demo continues, he can't help himself. "I love, I love it," he gushes. "This is so cool."
While Heins is on stage—receiving generous applause—Twitter lights up with glowing BlackBerry 10 praise. The markets open, too, but RIM's shares begin to sink. By the end of the day, shares are down 5.8% on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Two days later, they will dip to an eight-year low of less than $12. People are trading on the fundamentals—the company's deteriorating metrics. They're digesting the idea that, barring a takeover or something equally dramatic, RIM has a slow, punishing climb ahead of it.
If RIM is to mount a comeback, it will be based largely on software—an area in which it has traditionally lagged. But it can be done. There was a time in North America when the Big Three automakers looked like they had rusted away; they have since clawed their way back, reinventing themselves. And if you ask Heins what RIM needs to do now to reinvent itself, he lands on an anecdote about the high-powered CEOs whom he meets with regularly. Many of them now carry two devices: their reliable and utterly indispensable work BlackBerry (the Bold is a popular model) and an iPhone they use for fun. "My job," Heins says, is to "make them carry one device." The question is, which one will they choose.
Security niche remains RIM's fragile lifeline, but for how long?
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2019-04-21T18:31:59Z
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/rim-ceo-thorsten-heins-100-days-into-the-toughest-job-in-corporate-canada/article4209860/?page=all
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Arts
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Business
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smugmug
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The Art Ministry Catalog is an ePub (electronic publication) published on Apple's iBooks service. It is a thorough review of the major projects installed by the Art Ministry team for First Presbyterian Church. It contains hundreds of photos and diagrams which outline the work. Thumbnails are miniature versions of the images used in the book as buttons that link to the imagery.Download the book here.
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2019-04-19T10:54:43Z
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https://artministry.smugmug.com/Art-Ministry/Manual
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Arts
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rottentomatoes
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It aspires to Farrelly-level offensiveness, but the PG-13 rating and a dearth of decent gags renders Gold Diggers tame, toothless, and dull.
American independent filmmaker Gary Preisler makes his film debut as a writer/director with the black comedy National Lampoon's Gold Diggers. Twentysomethings Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen) get arrested for the robbery of two sixtysomething women, Doris (Louise Lasser) and Betty (Renee Taylor). The ladies decide to drop the charges and invite the crooks to their space-age mod Beverly Hills mansion. Cal and Lenny come up with a plan to marry the women for their money in hopes that they die within the year. It turns out that Doris and Betty are actually broke and they're planning to marry the boys, kill them, and cash in on their insurance money. After several unsuccessful murder attempts, all four characters end up robbing Doris and Betty's rich uncle. Originally titled Lady Killers but changed to avoid confusion with the Coen brothers' remake of the classic 1955 film, Gold Diggers was shown at the 2003 CineVegas Film Festival.
By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited.
The single punch line that sparks genuine laughter comes three minutes into the film; after that, these marriages are made in comedy hell.
Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.
This is the spectacularly inept directing debut of writer-producer Gary Priesler, who is said to have 12 other movies in development. God help us.
So stupefyingly hideous that after watching it, you'll need to bathe in 10 gallons of disinfectant, get a full-body scrub and shampoo with vinegar to remove the scummy residue that remains.
Don't waste your money. Please. Spare our culture some last semblance of dignity by ignoring National Lampoon's Gold Diggers altogether.
There's bad, there's unwatchable, and then there's National Lampoon.
Truly this is one of the most off-putting, unpleasant and earth-shatteringly unfunny "comedies" I've ever seen.
Para descrever este filme, vou usar um eufemismo: lixo.
Taking a trip to the retirement village and clipping grandma's toenails might be more pleasant that watching this film.
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2019-04-23T22:44:08Z
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/national_lampoon_s_gold_diggers
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microsoft
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Hi, I am Pat Brenner, a Software Design Engineer in the Visual C++ Libraries group. Some time back I wrote about Spy++. Today, I am going to write about another Visual Studio debugging tool, the ATL/MFC Trace Tool, and the tracing mechanism that it interacts with in ATL and MFC.
On Tuesday 28 July we released guidance and updates to assist developers using our Active Template Library (ATL) to prevent creating controls or components with potential security vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities in libraries are a rare, but industry wide issue, that requires broad collaboration and action by the community at large to effectively resolve.
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2019-04-24T23:18:48Z
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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/tag/atl/
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washingtonpost
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A federal judge Tuesday allowed a multistate lawsuit to move forward amid “strong” evidence that the Trump administration acted in bad faith in its push for a controversial citizenship question to be added to the 2020 Census, plaintiffs in the case said.
Judge Jesse Furman of Manhattan’s Southern District also granted a request for discovery, according to New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, whose office filed the case on behalf of 18 states, the District of Columbia, nine cities, four counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The judge gave the defendants, which include the Commerce Department, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and the Census Bureau and its acting director until July 23 to add documents from the Commerce and Justice departments, detail the documents they refuse to produce and give a basis for the refusal.
Furman said he would allow depositions of up to 10 people from both departments. He said he would rule shortly on the government’s motion to dismiss.
A Commerce Department representative said: “We are disappointed that the court in New York did not defer fact discovery until after a ruling on a motion to dismiss. We are confident that the plaintiffs’ case is without merit, that any allegations of bad faith are specious, and that we will prevail in court.” The Justice Department declined to comment.
Litigation began almost immediately after Ross announced in March that a citizenship question would be added to the 2020 questionnaire; at least six lawsuits have been filed contesting it. At the time, Ross told lawmakers he was responding to a December 2017 request by the Justice Department to add the question to better enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Critics say the question, which has not appeared on a decennial survey since 1950, is not necessary for that purpose and that it is a political move meant to reduce response rates among immigrants and their families. Data from the census is used to draw legislative districts, reallocate congressional seats and determine how hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds are spent.
Documents released by the Commerce Department in early June as part of the lawsuits indicated that former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach and former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon had been involved in discussions about the question the previous summer. They also included an analysis by the Census Bureau’s chief scientist warning that adding the question would lead to a less accurate, more costly count.
The plot thickened last month when Ross filed an unexpected memo in the case revealing that he was considering adding the question when he began his job in February 2017 after hearing from other senior administration officials on the subject.
The memo contradicted his earlier sworn testimony on the timing and provenance of the request and appeared to indicate that he was actively discussing the question far earlier than he had indicated.
“It now appears those statements were potentially untrue,” Furman said Tuesday, according to Courthouse News.
Furman’s decision came a day after 17 Senate Democrats sent a letter asking Ross to release “all informal & formal documents” related to adding the question.
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2019-04-25T22:57:42Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/judge-rules-against-trump-admnistration-on-census-citizenship-question/2018/07/03/91fbea9c-7eff-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html?utm_term=.1beb74e58305
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filmtracks
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Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 7:42 p.m.
I'm full aware of that. In case you didn't notice, I stated that (in so many words) in my comment.
Matt - Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 3:21 p.m.
B - Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 3:54 p.m.
CS^TBL - Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 5:33 a.m.
Matt - Thursday, February 16, 2006, at 3:39 p.m.
Eric - Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 7:12 p.m.
Matt - Wednesday, February 15, 2006, at 7:42 p.m.
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2019-04-21T12:17:52Z
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http://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/new_world/index.cgi?read=53
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.373501 |
worldcat
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Toronto : Personal Library, ©1977.
Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- Drama.
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, -- 1870-1945 -- Drama.
Add tags for "Oscar remembered". Be the first.
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2019-04-20T08:45:20Z
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https://www.worldcat.org/title/oscar-remembered/oclc/4355165
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Arts
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unimelb
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Launching a start-up in the ageing industry has been a lonely, winding journey. The tech kids playing ping-pong in their co-working spaces can’t believe my customers are over 40 years while the giants in the aged care industry want to talk care and medical support. Many times, I have wished upon a shining star for a network of peers as my guide… or at least to share a glass of pinot on a bad day. I’m sure I’ve made mistakes that have been made before, I’m sure I have some insights that you will want to know, I’m sure my peers are out there somewhere, is it you?
I didn’t look far for evidence that networks and communities are vital for healthy business ecosystems and healthy living. Jana Matthews’ article in The Conversation newsletter popped up in my emails this morning – ‘It takes a community to raise a start-up’. Top of the pile on my desk, George Vailant’s ‘Ageing Well’ insists social connections are top priority for wellbeing at every stage of life. Perched on my book shelf Matthew Liebermann’s book ‘Social’ argues that social networks are the foundational level on Maslow’s hierarchy - equal to food and water. And that was all in a 1-metre radius… need I go on?
I founded a social enterprise last year, Future Smith, which keeps people connected to social circles and engaged in purposeful activities as they transition in retirement. But what’s that saying about cultivating your own garden first?
Don’t you feel a little lonely out there on your own? I do. Let’s make this network come to life.
I’m keen to hear from you if you want to participate in networking events for businesses in the ageing industry. I’m looking at April for the first of the series.
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2019-04-18T15:14:34Z
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https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/ageing-industry-network/newsletter-issue-10/are-you-my-peer
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Arts
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Business
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cbc
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Do your videos have Closed Captions or Described Video?
Why doesn't the audio match the picture on CBC News Network?
Why am I hearing a narrator describing the action in a CBC TV show?
How do I find a CBC Radio frequency?
What are the CBC frequencies in my area? Is there reception in my area?
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2019-04-21T18:11:01Z
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https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-us/categories/115000249693-Help-with-CBC-Radio-and-Television-Services
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Arts
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News
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txstate
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We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information to third parties, except as required by law. Texas State University is a public institution, some information collected from our website, server log information, emails, and web-based forms, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act.
For example, when our online giving form asks you to enter personally identifiable information for online transactions, your information is protected using Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS encryption). Any information you supply is encrypted when you send it from your browser to our server.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. If you are uncomfortable sharing your personal data on the Internet, please contact us at the email address below.
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We may occasionally decide to change our privacy statement, especially as new features are added to our website. If there are changes to this statement, we will post those changes here so you are always aware of what information we collect, and how we use it. If at any point we decide to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify you and it’s your choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.
If there are any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or dealings with this website, you can contact us by email at webprivacy@txstate.edu.
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2019-04-25T03:44:50Z
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https://www.tr.txstate.edu/privacy-statement.html
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Arts
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Business
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chinadaily
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China, US to hold 4th strategic dialogue in D.C.
Beijing -- China and the United States will hold their fourth round of strategic dialogue in Washington from June 20 to 21, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced here Tuesday.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will co-chair the dialogue, Qin said.
This dialogue mechanism, which is built in accordance with the consensus reached by Chinese and US state leaders, is an important platform for the two countries to communicate on strategic and political level, the spokesman said.
He said both sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning China-US relations on the basis of previous three rounds of dialogue.
· China, US to hold 4th strategic dialogue in D.C.
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2019-04-21T03:20:27Z
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-06/12/content_892579.htm
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Arts
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News
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chicagotribune
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The second time has turned out to be the charm for Aon Corp.
The Chicago-based company announced Monday that it is selling two underwriting units for about $2.75 billion in a pair of cash deals, enabling it to focus almost entirely on its insurance brokerage and consulting arms in the future.
Planning to use the proceeds to feed its share repurchase program, Aon has reached definitive agreements to sell its Combined Insurance Company of America to Ace Ltd. for $2.4 billion and its Sterling Life Insurance Co. to Munich Re AG for $352 million.
Aon disclosed last July that it was again considering a sale or spinoff of its Combined unit. Plans in 2001 to divest the unit were called off as a stock market falloff and economic slump derailed a number of corporate spinoffs and initial public offerings.
Combined has a storied history in Chicago. It was founded by insurance entrepreneur W. Clement Stone about 80 years ago. Combined and its subsidiaries, including Sterling Life Insurance Co., provide accident, health and life insurance coverage in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia, mainly through more than 7,000 agents.
Aon said Monday it will use the $2.6 billion in after-tax proceeds and dividends to boost share repurchases in a previously authorized program.
"Through these divestitures we have further simplified our global organization and successfully executed our strategy to exit the lower margin and more capital intensive insurance underwriting business," Greg Case, Aon chief executive, said in a statement. "Our core assets will now be more strategically aligned as we expand our capabilities to better serve our risk brokerage and consulting clients."
Aon itself will continue to make acquisitions to build its brokerage and consulting business, Case said in an interview Monday.
In 2007 Aon made about $250 million in acquisitions. Over the last 30 months Aon has invested about $500 million in both acquisitions and investments, Case said.
"We'll continue to do that and look for things to do that will help us build our firm," he said. "But our goal is not acquisitions but to drive impact for our shareholders and our clients and our people."
Case declined to say how many potential purchasers looked at the two businesses but he said Aon received "great interest" from strategic buyers such as Ace and Munich as well as financial buyers such as private equity firms.
The increased share repurchase program reflects the board's confidence in the momentum of the business, he added.
Through the close of trading Monday Aon had repurchased $1.82 billion in shares under a $2 billion share repurchase program authorized in November 2005 and increased in November 2006.
The deals are subject to closing adjustments.
Aon shares rose 40 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $49.40 Monday. The stock is up about 40 percent in 2007.
"Greg Case continues to execute his announced strategy of focusing Aon on its core insurance brokerage business -- by selling off its underwriting units. Case took a big step toward completing that strategy with today's announcement," Celent analyst Donald Light said.
Ace may be trying to hedge its bets on the softening property-casualty business, its primary business, by strengthening its presence in the personal accident and supplemental health business, Combined's main business.
"This could be a win for both Aon and Ace," Light said.
The Sterling deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter, with the Combined sale expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter.
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MWC: What weird and wonderful mobile sights caught our eye in Barcelona this year?
More than 60,000 delegates from 200 countries took in the sights at this year's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona - a record number of attendees, according to event organiser the GSMA. When not attending keynotes, meetings or pressing each others' flesh, the 30,000-plus C-level executives in attendance could be seen strolling around La Fira: 58,600 net square metres of exhibition and business meeting space given over to all things mobile for four days in February.
On the conference floor, booths for network infrastructure giants rubbed shoulders with familiar brands in the mobile gadget field: HTC, LG, Motorola, RIM, Samsung, to name a few. But dig a little deeper and all manner of weird and wonderful mobile kit was on show - from 3D haptics and wooden smartphones to liquid-repellent nano-coating and an Android invasion. Click through the following pages to check out some of the things silicon.com encountered at this year's show.
Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo was showing a prototype device containing an embedded camera to demonstrate what it described as "touchable 3D". A user interacts with the digital chameleon by using the pen, as shown above. The lizard appears to track the position of the pen before shooting its tongue out towards the tip - causing the person holding the pen to feel a sudden jolt.
The sensation is created by an electric current being sent to a coil behind the 3D display which interacts with a magnet in the tip of the pen.
While the tech is not in any phones yet, NTT Docomo said it is aiming to use the screen tech in future kit.
From a magnetic pen to a tablet-stylus combo - HTC's first tablet, the Flyer, which was unveiled at MWC, also asks users to grip a pen-like object. In this case, the battery-operated stylus, pictured above right, is designed to be used in addition to fingers to interact with the Flyer's screen - which is both a capacitive and digitised display.
HTC's name for this digital doodling kit is Scribe - offering mobile users a new old way to interact with tablet tech.
Another tablet with a twist that caught our eye is ViewSonic's ViewPad 10 Pro slate, pictured above. The Windows logo may loom large but look closely and you'll also see an Android icon sitting in the start menu.
The device runs Android 2.2 as a virtualisation on top of Windows 7, so users can switch between Microsoft's OS and Google's mobile platform without having to reboot the slate. ViewSonic plans to update the WinDroid slate to Honeycomb - Android 3.0 - in future, according to a spokesman.
Say hello to the dual-core Motorola Atrix. Slot the dual-core smartphone in the back of the laptop dock, pictured above, and the phone switches from Motorola's Motoblur UI, running atop Android 2.2, to offer a desktop PC-like experience via a desktop-style UI called Webtop - running on the dock's larger screen and full-sized keyboard. Convergence anyone?
From a laptop that's actually a phone, to an oversized phone that's pretending to be a laptop. The Acer Iconia Smart, pictured above, packs a whopping 4.8-inch widescreen display, running at a resolution of 1024 x 480 pixels, to enable full web page viewing in landscape mode.
And from a smartphone with a widescreen, to a mini-smartphone with just 2.6 inches of screen real estate. The HP Veer, pictured above, may be small - measuring just 54.5mm x 84mm x 15.1mm and weighing a mere 103g - but it still packs a punch, with an 800MHz processor, support for Adobe Flash 10.1 and 8GB of internal storage. The Veer runs HP's webOS 2.0.
Smooth edges have been sanded to perfection on this smartphone with a real wooden backplate. The Sharp SH-08C Touchwood, pictured above, was on NTT Docomo's stand. The wooden portion of the device is made from trees that have been cut during forest-thinning operations, so the operator touted it as an eco-friendly option.
From smooth to simple, mobile maker Doro was demonstrating its range of phones for older people, which are designed without lots of bells and whistles, to make calling and texting easy.
Another bit of kit on show at MWC11 was this Powermat wireless charging prototype for in-car charging. The wireless charging system does away with power leads and plugs but does require a receiver to be attached to the phone - usually in the form of a case.
Once the receiver is attached, the phone can be charged simply by placing it on the wireless charging mat - here built into a Chevrolet's centre console. The car maker will launch a car with wireless charging built into the interior this year, according to a Powermat spokeswoman.
Powermat was also showing off a prototype of the wireless system built into the base of this desk lamp. The system can also be incorporated into the surface of the desk itself, said the spokeswoman.
From wireless charging to nano-tech. P2i was showing off its nano-coating liquid-repellent Aridion technology, by dipping treated tissues in this bowl of coloured water.
Instead of absorbing the liquid and becoming soaked, the tissues stayed bone dry - with water droplets beading on the surface and running off when shaken. The nano-tech coating has already been used commercially on walking shoes but a P2i spokesman said the company is also aiming it at mobile phones. So in future, dropping your phone in a puddle - or worse - may not be such a tragedy.
Talking of paper, Google chairman Eric Schmidt could be seen clutching a sheaf of tree pulp during his MWC keynote. Schmidt talked about a mobile-enabled future - likely decades out - where no one would ever be lost in space again, lost for ideas, or lost for friends.
"We can help figure out what you should be spending your time on. We can give you a priority list that's tailored to you. You're not lost [because of GPS and location tech in your phone]... you can talk to whoever you want to and, even better, you're never lonely - there are always people around you. And if you're not physically with people, they're certainly online with you 24 hours a day," Schmidt said.
"You're never bored because not only are there things to do but we can suggest people new things to do - so a life-long life of entertainment and knowledge is possible. And you're never out of ideas because we can always suggest new ideas, what you can do next, what's important. Imagine a calendar of all the world's events, all of the interesting things that are going on. All of a sudden it's a potpourri for all of us to choose from, all because of the ability to understand what you care about, get that to you in real time on these new mobile devices and use the supercomputers that are in the cloud to properly sort them so you're not completely overwhelmed."
It was not lost on silicon.com that the Google exec was leaning on old-tech paper for this future-gazing keynote.
Another massive visage from the world of software loomed large at MWC. Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire 20-something founder of Facebook popped up in a recorded video message during HTC's press conference. The mobile maker unveiled a pair of Facebook phones but Zuckerberg told delegates to expect dozens of such handsets this year.
From Facebook to Foursquare. Dennis Crowley, co-founder of the location check-in service, checked in to MWC for a mini keynote. Crowley talked about how location software has the power to change people's "real-world behaviour" - showing off these heat-maps of New York which indicate where the most check-ins occur.
"Imagine if you could do this in real time," he said, adding that for some businesses Foursquare check-ins are replacing traditional loyalty programmes, and noting how game mechanics are helping to drive custom to venues. The company offers retailers a stats dashboard which Crowley likened to Google Analytics.
"More check-ins drive more stats, more stats drive more information about your customers, more information about your customers combined with the new tools that we're building - which we'll be rolling out at the end of this quarter - allows you to build customer affinity and loyalty and retention programmes, as well as programmes to drive new customer acquisition," he said.
Foursquare grew 3,400 per cent last year, according to Crowley, growth he described as "crazy - getting crazier".
Another kind of data visualisation was on show at MWC. Network kit maker Ericsson built this scaffolding installation to illustrate "the networked society". The metaphor may or may not have intended to include this man carrying a laptop and struggling to walk through the web of connections.
Events going on in the world outside filtered into La Fira. Here, two telecoms execs from the Egypt On Pavilion celebrate the fall of Hosni Mubarak and urge delegates to visit their stand with a sign that reads: "We did it, Egypt is free".
It wouldn't be a tech trade show without hired female help being used to try and make something dull look interesting - in this case, the women in question are dressed like extras from an episode of Flash Gordon.
Another costume-wearer garnering eyeballs at the show was Mozilla's Firefox - looking very out of place amid the suits and lanyards.
From a cuddly fox to Angry Birds - the Rovio invasion was also in evidence at MWC.
But it was Androids that were everywhere at MWC11 - the first year Google had its own presence. Collectible pin badges and plastic figurines, shown above, of Google's Android emblem could be found scattered around the Fira at various booths, encouraging delegates to visit the different stands - truly gamification in action.
Google's MWC stand was more like a camp. Android-land took over a large portion of the main hall of the Fira. The display space included a conveyor belt of various Android smartphones, developer pods for app makers to show their wares, a giant Android slide and a free smoothie bar, pictured above. If the photos don't do it justice, check out our video of Android fever at MWC..
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Over the weekend, I read Giorgos Papantoniou’s and Niki Kyriakou’s article in the most recent AJA, “Sacred Landscapes and the Territoriality of Iron Age Cypriot Polities: The Applicability of GIS.” Not only was it great to read something on Cyprus in the AJA, but it was cool to read something on the neighborhood of Kition where we worked for the last 15 years. Papantoniou and Kyriakou’s project focused on the western extent of Kition’s control in the Iron Age whereas our project studied a site, Pyla-Koutsopetria and Pyla-Vigla, to the east of the city.
Papantoniou and Kyriakou studied legacy data from the small Iron Age sanctuary site of Vavla-Kapsalaes which was identified by the Vasilikos Valley Project. They consider whether this site is a border sanctuary between Kition and Amathous further west and whether it marked the edges of Kition’s or Amathous’s territorial, political, and economic control. By drawing upon data produced by a rather robust GIS, they were able both to propose a method for assessing such situations and to propose that Vavla-Kapsalaes (and several other nearby sites) would have likely been under Amathousian control for most of the Iron Age. In this way, the article contributes to the decade old debates concerning the spatial organization of the city-kingdoms of Iron Age Cyprus and serves as a useful reminder that Rupp’s famous application of Thiessen polygons to propose political boundaries between the various polities on the island was provision and suggestive rather than definitive.
This conclusions, however, only scratches the surface of this complex article. Papantoniou and Kyriakou develop a dynamic model to assess the relationship between the sanctuary at Vavla-Kapsalaes and the Iron Age political and economic centers at Kition, Amathous, and Idalion. The model integrated at a micro-regional and regional level stable resources and features of the landscape from the presence of arable land, copper rich pillow lavas, river valleys, passable routes, and visibility.The authors set these more stable features of the landscape against the artifacts from Vavla-Kapsalaes, the iconography present at the sanctuary, the ebb and flow of Iron Age settlement in the Vasilikos valley, and the history of the larger urban centers nearby. The results is a highly nuanced and complex analysis that remains suggestive and dynamic rather than stable and structural. This kind of analysis, of course, is particular appropriate for borderlands and liminal regions which would have drifted over time between central power centers and also served as a locus for territorialization of these larger polities.
I’ve often wondered whether a more robust analysis of the regional and micro-regional characteristics of the neighborhood of Pyla-Vigla would produce similarly complex and nuanced results. The site of Vigla almost certainly possessed an Iron Age sanctuary which likely stood on a major route between the kingdoms of Salamis and Kition. The late Iron Age fortification of the area, its prominent coastal position, and its rapid expansion in the Hellenistic and Roman period suggests that the micro-region of Pyla-Koutsopetria and Pyla-Vigla transitioned from a zone of religious and military activity in the Iron Age to an area of settlement after the Hellenistic and Roman rulers of the island suppressed the political autonomy (and rivalry) of the city kingdoms.
What is the most intriguing aspect of Papantoniou’s and Kyriakou’s study is its willingness to consider the limits of a territorial model for understanding Iron Age polities on Cyprus in general. While no one denies that the city kingdoms were territorial states, the margins of their political, economic, religion, and even cultural control need not be articulated in purely territorial terms. In the conclusion they note that human affinities and identities, including spiritual and emotional attachments to particular places and practices, do more to shape the nature of territorial control than neatly defined borders.
This conclusion has a particularly salient modern significance as in the modern era we’ve witnessed rigid political borders defining the rights of individuals in ways that often defy, subvert, or attempt to redefine their cultural, religious, or social connections to the wider world. As the authors show, despite the tendency for GIS to produce rigid and linear marks on maps, the integration of GIS technologies and historical models allow us to trace territorialization as a continuous process in the past. This offer a useful reminder that border have never been impermeable marks on the landscape, but continuously negotiated and dynamic spaces.
I’m jet lagged and a bit crowd addled here in Barcelona, but I wanted to share Colleen Morgan’s blog post on the panel to which I’ll be contributing this week at the European Association of Archaeologists meeting.
My paper is rough and like everything, always in the process of being revised, but my hope is that between listening to what the other panelists say and reading their papers, I’ll have something worthwhile to contribute (and even if I don’t, I feel pretty confident that I’ll get something out of the meeting.
Go here to check out the panel.
This week on the Western Argolid Regional Project, I’ve been running a few queries that compare the data from our original survey field walking and subsequent efforts to expand the assemblages present in these survey units. We termed these later efforts “resurvey” on WARP and thought they might be useful both to expand our generally small assemblages into something a bit more susceptible to functional analysis and to calibrate our recovery rates (as David Pettegrew and I did on the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project).
The challenge with this kind of analysis is how do we compare two different assemblages. In general, these two assemblages did not produce the same specific types of artifacts on the basis of our narrow typologies (i.e. the odds seem small that we’d find, for instance, two examples of the same African Red Slip form or even two examples of a Classical cooking pot), so that is not a very useful way to compare things.
To open up the potential for meaningful overlap, I did a quick comparison of our resurvey units and our initial survey units to see if they produced the same period. This involves comparing the exact periods present in the finds from our first walking of the units to those found in either re-walking the units or in total collection circles with 2 m radius. Generally speaking there was some overlap between periods from each collection type. A few units producing over 50% of the material from the same periods, but most resurvey units produced material that had much lower overlaps (10%-20%). In this context, overlapping periods represent specific chronological period overlaps, such as Classical or Early Roman. This does not account for overlaps that are more broadly defined, such as when one assemblage produced Classical pottery and the other produced Classical-Hellenistic. This is the next step in analysis is to see if resurvey produced chronological (as opposed to simply period) overlaps. This is a more complicated query and not ideal for analysis in the field.
We also compared the artifact densities per hectare from the resurvey units and the original survey units. As we demonstrated on PKAP, looking more carefully at the ground produced significantly higher densities. The highest density resurvey unit – which consisted total collection circles with 4 m diameters – produced densities that were over 100,000 per ha, for a unit that produced a density of only 1,700 artifact per ha through standard field walking practice. (Despite this massive difference in density, the unit produce a period overlap of over 50%!). Other units showed a similarly massive increase in densities with the resurvey units often producing nearly the same amount of pottery as the original survey units which covered much larger areas.
The differences between the two densities likely reflect three trends. First – and most obviously – a team of two or three scouring a 4 m diameter total collection circle for 10 minutes is like to find more pottery than a field walker, standing upright, and scanning 1 meter to either side even at a leisurely pace. Total collection circles were also much more likely to be placed in high density areas. After all, part of the goal of resurvey was to produce more a robust assemblage of material for chronological and functional analysis. Finally, total collection resurvey circles tended to be in areas of the unit with higher surface visibility. For each survey unit we recorded the average visibility for the entire unit. We did the same for the total collection resurvey units and they generally were 20%-40% higher visibility than the original survey units.
Last week, Annemarie Weyl Carr asked if anyone could offer a summary of a recent publication that they might share with the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute’s newsletter. I thought it would be fun to share my most recent book on the Bakken, which in very real ways had its origins in the Eastern Mediterranean and on Cyprus, in particular.
So here’s my little write-up. It’s another attempt at writing in a more breezy and accessible style.
My first season excacating on Cyprus was in 2008. At that time, I had completed four seasons of intensive pedestrian survey at the site of Pyla-Koutsopetria, a coastal site located some 10 km east of Larnaka and just inside the British Base at Dhekelia. I was carrying the controller of a differential GPS unit across slopes of loose soil at the coastal height of Vigla while an unlikely colleague, Bret Weber, dutifully held the rover in place and leveled it as I recorded the point. We did this thousands of times on our way to making a high-resolution DEM of our site. It was boring work but gave us plenty of time for conversation.
Bret Weber was the project’s cook and camp manager, and he’d help out in the field almost every day. He also had a PhD in Western History and had almost completed his Masters in Social Work. He was deeply active in issues surrounding housing both in our home town of Grand Forks, North Dakota and in his scholarship in 20th century urbanism and social welfare. As we took point after point, we discussed the Bakken Oil Boom that had just started to rumble in western North Dakota and the growing rumors of life in the temporary “man camps” that had popped up across “the patch” to accommodate the influx of works. Those who couldn’t find room in a hotel or in a man camp ended up squatting in the Williston Walmart parking lot, and in various make-shift camps across the Bakken counties. At the same time, our work at the site of of Vigla where we clicked off point after point, revealed what we thought was probably a 4th-century mercenary camp, housing soldiers who occupied this prominent fortified height on the Cypriot coast during the tumultuous early Hellenistic era. We wondered about life in an ancient camp and whether the mercenary camp was similar to the encampments and short-term settlements that for millennial served miners in the Troodos mountains. Our field work, the history of settlement and extractive industries on Cyprus, and important work of archaeologists and historians to unpack the relationship between the two, framed our discussion of what was going with settlement and extractive industries in western North Dakota.
When Bret and I returned home we continued to reflect on our fieldwork conversations, we read extensively on the organization of settlement and extractive industries in a global context, we recruited a range of colleagues to our project, many of whom were Mediterranean archaeologists, and, finally, in 2012, we inaugurated the North Dakota Man Camp Project. The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape (Fargo, ND: North Dakota State University Press 2017) is the first book-length publication from this project.
This book used the genre of the tourist guide to present the bustling and sometimes ephemeral landscape of the Bakken oil patch. The decision to frame our work as a tourist guide once again drew on my experience as a tourist in Greece in the 1990s and then Cyprus in early 21st century which indelibly shaped my view of the landscape. The language of my trusty Rough and Blue Guide for Greece and Cyprus suffused the language of The Bakken, which, like these handy guides, is divided into routes and sites. Our goal was to evoke the modern experience of tourism created, in part, by such iconic guidebooks as Baedeker’s and the Blue Guide which became synecdoches for the informed tourist. More importantly, my summers in Greece and Cyprus as both an informed tourist and an archaeologist reinforced the parallels between these two deeply modern experiences of landscapes. The spaces and places defined and described by both tourism and archaeology are profoundly modern. In short, my time on Cyprus made me aware of my modern way of seeing the world.
In a 1982 essay, the poet Tom McGrath used the phrase, “North Dakota is Everywhere” to reflect on the influence of the prairie state on writers, artists, and readers around the world. In writing The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape, I hope readers familiar with my other archaeological work will see in its pages that maybe “Cyprus is Everywhere” as well.
More on the Historiography of Late Roman Cyprus or Writing up the Pyla-Koutsopetria Excavations (part 2).
Recent work on Cyprus has looked to recontextualizing the archaeology of the island in three basic ways. First, archaeologists have sought to continue the long-standing effort to locate Cyprus within the larger Roman, Late Roman, and Byzantine worlds. G. Hill’s and T. Mitford’s argument that Cyprus was a quiet backwater of the Roman East, based largely on historical sources, has been fundamentally challenges by the work of Dimitri Michaelides (e.g. 1996), John Hayes’s publication of the ceramics from the House of Dionysios at Paphos (1991), and the work of John Lund (2003; 2006; 2015). These scholars and their younger contemporaries (e.g. Leonard 2005, Gordon 2012) have demonstrated that during the first seven centuries AD, Cyprus was deeply embedded in the economic life of the Roman East, traded extensively with their neighbors, reflected wider trends across the empire, and exploited their natural and agricultural resources for both public and private expressions of power and wealth. In the 21st century, recent work on connectivity, globalization, revised ideas of insularity, and hybridized culture have shaped our view of Roman Cyprus as a sphere for distinct forms of cultural and economic interaction that extends far beyond monumental architecture. The quantitative analysis of imported and local ceramics, evidence from shipwrecks and ceramic production sites (Leidwanger 2013; Demesticha 2013; Demesticha and Michaelides 2001), and survey and excavation at small harbors, emporia, villages, and non-monumental buildings have all contributed to a view of Cyprus that is deeply embedded in the Roman and Late Roman world. Moreover, by embracing theoretically rich concepts like globalization, insularity, and hybridity, they local the study of Roman and Late Roman Cyprus within a larger conversation about the island that extends from the Bronze Age (e.g. Knapp 2008) across most of antiquity (e.g. Counts 2008).
The long tradition intensive and extensive survey archaeology on Cyprus has contributed to recent efforts to expand the scope of our understanding of Roman period on the island into the non-urban, ex-urban and suburban settlement. This complements a large trend toward rejecting the Finleyean conception of the ancient “consumer” city that merely drew resources from the countryside. In its place, scholars like Horden and Purcell (2000) have proposed a world of densely connected microregions that include both urban and rural spaces. This upset the tidy binary of producer and consumer spaces, and even in urban and rural (Viekou 2009; 2010) in the Roman countryside and offered new contexts to make sense of rural sites. Cyprus, despite its deserved reputation for dense urbanism, had a bustling or “busy” countryside. Hector Catling directed the Cyprus Survey Project in the 1950s and documented the Kornos cave (Catling 1970) and the Dhiorios settlement and ceramic works on the Kormakiti peninsula (Catling 1972). Both of these sites were rural and offered substantial assemblages of both local and regional Late Antique ceramics including kilns for the production of cooking ware vessels at Dhiorios. Excavations in the 1990s by Charalambos Bakirtzis revealed the massive ex-urban site of Ay. Georgios-Peyias with three basilicas, a bath, warehouses and other structure dating, it would appear, to Late Antiquity (Bakirtzis 1995). The initial excavations at Kousopetria by Maria Hadjicosti, at Kopetra, by Marcus Rautman (2003), at Alassa by Pavlos Florentzos (1996), and at Maroni-Petrera by S. Manning (2002) represented a watershed decade in the archaeology of non-urban Cyprus. The excavations at Kopetra and Maroni Petrera emerged from intensive pedestrian survey projects which likewise expanded our knowledge of Roman and Late Roman countryside. Recent work in the Troodos mountains by the Troodos Areas Environmental Survey Project (Given et al. 2013), for example, has demonstrated that the Troodos mountains continued to be exploited for iron into the Roman period and a number of other survey projects have produced a “busy countryside” of sites ranging from villages to isolated farmsteads (Rautman 2003), production sites, and even monumental Christian architecture (Procopiou 2013). While the excavation of these sites often added to the catalogue of Christian churches, more importantly, they also expanded our knowledge of the fabric of non-urban places and the productive landscape of the island and demonstrated the connections between non-urban spaces and the wider region. The Cyprus that emerged from this research was less a series of dots along the coast of the island, and more a tapestry of interconnected regions that includes places both on the island and in the wider Mediterranean.
Finally, Scholars of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Cyprus, like so much of the Eastern Mediterranean, have increasingly placed the island chronologically within “the long Late Antiquity” which recognizes fundamental continuity between the 5th and 8th or even 9th centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean. For Cyprus, “long Late Antiquity” is complicated and punctuated by at least two Arab raids on the island that disrupted political and social life on the island and left their marks in both the architecture and archaeology. These raids, however, rather than being points of discontinuity in Late Antiquity, marked the start of the famous, if controversial, condominium period on the island that embodied aspects of both continuity and discontinuity in the island’s political arrangement and relationship with neighboring regions. Andreas Dikigoropoulos’s 1962 dissertation defined 7th to 10th century Cyprus in the famous phrase of the 8 th century pilgrim Willabald as “betwixt Greeks and Saracens.” His attention to the architecture of these centuries built upon A.H.M. Megaw’s studies of the vaulted churches of Cyprus (Megaw 1946), and, more recently, C. Stewart (2008, 2010) has continued to study the architecture of this period as a key to the island’s social, economic, religious and political status during these centuries. D. Metcalf (2004, 2009) and L. Zavagno (2011; 2011-12; 2017) have collated evidence from coins and seals to track continued ties between the economic and political ties between Cyprus, the Arab Caliphate to the east and Byzantine state in Anatolia and the Aegean. Important work has also focused on understanding the chronology of Late Roman ceramics both on Cyprus and across the region. P. Reynolds (2014; 2010), J. Vroom (2004; 2005; 2007), A. Vionis (2009), and P. Armstrong (2009), among many others, have pushed some common ceramics types, namely forms of widely traded Late Roman red slips and common transport amphoras, from the 5th and 6th century into the 7th and even 8th centuries. This work, in turn, has challenged the dating of buildings and sites on Cyprus by pushing destruction levels later than the Arab raids and demonstrating the urban areas continued to be economically connected and vital into the later 7th or even 8th centuries.
Writing up the Excavations at Pyla-Koutsopetria on Cyprus, Part 1.
A few weeks ago, I boldly complained (in my head) that this is the February of Pyla-Koutsopetria. Since then, my colleagues and I have been working frantically to get the second volume of our work at the site of Pyla-Koutsopetria on Cyprus completed and ready for submission. The second volume documents our three seasons of excavation and a couple of seasons of early excavation at the site by the Department of Antiquities on Cyprus.
I was tasked with wrapping up the conclusion while I have most of the basic summary work done, I’m working this week on the historiographic components of the conclusion that frame my more summary remarks. I’m arguing that contemporary archaeology of Roman, Late Roman, and Byzantine Cyprus is primarily concerned with three things: first, it continues the tradition of placing Cyprus within the economic and political context of the Roman East; second, it has expanded from being a largely urban archaeology (with a few notable exceptions) to an archaeology invested as much in the landscape and countryside as in the monumental urban centers; and finally, work on Cyprus has contributed to the growing interest in the “long Late Antiquity” in the Eastern Mediterranean that argues from continuities between the 5th and 8th or even 9th centuries there.
Historically, urban archaeology has dominated the study of Roman, Late Roman, and Byzantine Cyprus. The impressive urban sites of Paphos, Kourion, Salamis, Soloi, Amathus, and even Polis-Arsinoe have received the majority of archaeological attention. This has largely followed long-standing interests in the Iron Age kingdoms of the island and the island’s reputation as one of the most urban landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean. For Late Antiquity, this attention to urban contexts produced a bumper crop of monumental Early Christian basilicas and excavations at Paphos, Amathus, Kourion, and Salamis revealed multiple examples of elaborate Christian buildings. The emphasis on urban sites and Christian buildings contributed to argument for long-term continuity of settlement on the island from the Iron Age into the Roman and Late Roman periods. Moreover, it provided archaeological evidence for the antiquity of these urban episcopal sees that represented the famously autonomous Cypriot church in antiquity and demonstrated ecclesiastical continuity into the modern period. The archaeological attention received by monumental Christian architecture exerted a formative influence over the trajectory of Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology on the island. Church plans, architectural typologies, and less frequently decorative techniques, particularly mosaic and wall painting, formed the basis for interpreting the place of Cyprus in the both the history of Late Roman and Byzantine architecture, and in the Eastern Mediterranean. From G. A. Soteriou’s ambitious arguments for the central role of Cypriot churches in the development of Byzantine architecture more broadly (1935; see Davis and Stewart 2014) to A.H.M. Megaw’s famous article that asked whether Byzantine architecture on Cyprus was metropolitan or provincial (1974) and Slobadon Curcic’s 2000 reformulation of that question as provincial or regional, architecture, floor plans in particular, provided evidence for the relationship between Cyprus and the rest of the Mediterranean world. Unfortunately, in many cases, these urban churches remain little known beyond their plans (and their impressive remains) with few receiving careful publications and only two, the Episcopal Basilica at Kourion and the South Basilica at Polis, resting on a thorough study of stratigraphy supported by the analysis of small finds and context pottery. As a result, these buildings remain difficult to date archaeologically. Moreover, in many cases, these buildings remain detached from their larger urban contexts as excavators either focused their attention on monumental architecture or chose primarily to publish the results from this work. There are obvious exceptions to this, of course, at Salamis, Paphos, Kourion, and Polis, but the overall unevenness of both publication and excavation has made it difficult to contextualize Cypriot architecture and urbanism within the larger Roman and Late Roman world.
Recent work on Cyprus has looked to recontextualizing the archaeology of in three basic ways. First, archaeologists have sought to continue the long-standing effort to locate Cyprus within the larger Roman, Late Roman, and Byzantine worlds. G. Hill’s and T. Mitford’s argument that Cyprus was a quiet backwater of the Roman East, based largely on historical sources, has been fundamentally challenges by the work of Dimitri Michaelides (e.g. 1996), John Hayes’s publication of the ceramics from the House of Dionysios at Paphos (1991), and the work of John Lund (xxxx). These scholars and their younger contemporaries (Leonard xxxx, Gordon 2012, xxxxxx) have demonstrated that during the first seven centuries AD, that Cyprus was deeply embedded in the economic life of the Roman East, trading extensively with their neighbors, reflecting wider trends across the empire, and exploiting their natural and agricultural resources for both public and private expressions of power and wealth. In the 21st century, recent work on connectivity, globalization, revised ideas of insularity, and hybridized culture have shaped our view of Roman Cyprus as a sphere for distinct forms of cultural and economic interaction that extend far beyond monumental architecture. The quantitative analysis of imported and local ceramics, evidence from shipwrecks and ceramic production sites, and survey and excavation at small harbors, emporia, villages, and non-monumental buildings have all contributed to a view of Cyprus that is deeply embedded in the Roman and Late Roman world.
Yesterday I received an offprint of an article from the Palestinian Exploration Quarterly authored by my colleague Michael Brown. Michael Brown worked with the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project from 2006-2010 (or thereabout) as a collaboration between our project and his dissertation research. This collaboration culminated with his excavating a number of trenches at the fortified Late Bronze Age sit of Pyla-Kokkinokremos in 2007 and 2008 with teams from our project as well as contributing to our intensive survey of the site, working with us to do electrical resistivity at Pyla-Vigla and Pyla-Koutsopetria, and helping us process the artifacts from our excavations and survey. Working with Michael wasn’t always easy (mostly because we had no idea really how to collaborate and directing our first excavation in 9 trenches, at 3 sites extending over a kilometer apart was stressful), but we learned a tremendous about from him and will always appreciate his patient collegiality. (Plus, he’s a first rate story teller!).
As you should be able to tell in this article, the Pyla-Kokkinokremos excavations were remarkably successful for a series of small exposures and they contribute useful, new knowledge about this important Bronze Age site even though it has been subject to two major excavation campaigns subsequent to Michael Brown’s work. The success of his work at the site wasn’t, however, without its challenges and while I am not particularly qualified to discuss the significance of this site in its Late Bronze Age context, the story surrounding this publication was pretty edifying for me and my team.
As I’ve already noted, we had to learn to work with a colleague from a rather different tradition of archaeological work, and that was interesting (and at times frustrating). We also had to navigate a much more complex political landscape than we had anticipated. We had permission to excavate the site, we had a viable research question backed by both intensive survey and geophysical data, and we had an experienced workforce to conduct the excavation and analysis of the find. The excavations, more or less, went off without a hitch, but once we had begun to present the material from the site, things nevertheless got complicated. The most significant past work at the site had been done by a major figure in Cypriot archaeology who had strongly held (at the time), if idiosyncratic views of the history of the site. He argued that Pyla-Kokkinokremos was a settlement of Mycenaean refugees who had fled from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces in Greece and settled in Cyprus. Whatever the plausibility of this argument and however much our work directly challenged it, the argument rested on a particular reading of the archaeological evidence at Kokkinokremos and Paleokastro-Maa. The result of this discontinuity between our work and previous scholarship led to us being discouraged from continuing our research and a few tense meetings between our project and various figures in the Department of Antiquities and the Cypriot archaeological establishment. It was all pretty stressful and since our main focus had been on the Hellenistic and Late Roman phases of work in the area, I think we were happy enough to put those days behind us.
We did learn an important lesson – and one that we had understood from our work in the Corinthia where internecine struggles often rippled out from longstanding beefs at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and across the pages of academic journals and monographs – that archaeology is political and personal. The problems that emerged from our work at Kokkinokremos had less to do with the archaeology itself and more to do with the personalities involved, the place of the site within certain master narrative of Cypriot history, and our own status on the island. In any event, bygones are bygones and it is remarkably gratifying to see this publication and for it to be the inaugural publication of the excavation phase of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project.
One drum that I’ll continue to beat is that when we conducted intensive pedestrian survey of the site of Kokkinokremos, it produced a distinct scatter of Roman and Late Roman material. These were not just random finds, but accounted for nearly 35% of all material from this site. Excavations have not produced any identifiable Roman period architecture or features (at least as far as we know), but that doesn’t make the ceramic signature go away. Moreover, Kokkinokremos is a plateau meaning that it is very difficult to imagine the Roman signature appearing at the site on account of erosional processes. Human actions brought Roman material period to Kokkinokremos.
To my mind, there are a handful of plausible explanations. First, it is possible that at some point in the past – probably in the modern period – farmers brought soil to the site to level it or to provide additional topsoil to a landscape susceptible to erosion. This soil may have contained Roman material that were then spread over the top of Kokkinokremos by the plough. A similar explanation could be the material was brought to the site in antiquity with manure (this is usually known as the “sherds and turds hypothesis”) used to fertilize gardens associated with the bustling Roman settlement on the plain below. Considering the absence of perennial source of water on the hill and the thin and sandy soil, it’s a bit hard to imagine that the Cypriot inhabitants of the Roman period saw it as well-suited for market gardens, but that doesn’t make it impossible.
What is intriguing about this scatter, of course, is that it has not been confirmed by excavation. When I’ve queried the current excavators about any post-Bronze Age material from the site, they have always told me that they haven’t come across any. In general, excavation has been seen as a way to confirm survey results and certainly a more reliable method for determining whether the absence of evidence is the evidence for absence. In this case, excavation has demonstrated that the presence of evidence may not be evidence for presence at the site, or, at least, the kind of persistent presence that excavation does well at documenting.
I finally grabbed a few minutes to read Giorgios Papantoniou’s that Thanasis Vionis’s recent article in Land, “Landscape Archaeology and Sacred Space in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Glimpse from Cyprus.” It is a among the first articles to emerge from their “Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus” project which has focused on the area to the west of Larnaka. This article focuses for the most part on the sites around Kofinou in the Xeros River valley in Larnaka District.
This space is interesting to me because it is situated in a very similar location to our site of Pyla-Koutsopetria. Kofinou is approximately 20 km to the west of Larnaka and slightly more inland where as Koutsopetria is 10 km to the east of the Larnaka and a coastal site. They both, however, stand near what many scholars have thought to be the boundaries of the ancient city of Kition and situated along major land routes through the ancient (and modern) countryside (so even if we conceive of ancient borders between states as less lines on the map and more markers along routes of contact, we can understand both Kofinou and Koutsopetria as marking likely edges to the political authority of Kition into the countryside).
1. Landscapes. The first four pages of the article unpacks the wide range of theoretical perspectives that hang precariously on the concept of landscape in Mediterranean archaeology. For anyone interested in Mediterranean landscapes, this is an almost ideal primer and it broadly frames the work of the Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus project. The complexity of landscapes as spaces defined by economic, political, social, and religious activities recognizable through archaeological methods informs the following analysis of the Kofinou region. The awareness that landscapes are diachronic and diverse incorporating different spaces and places at various times and both informing and being the product of myriad experiences. I only wish that the authors made more apparent how the complexities of recent archaeological approaches to landscape inform their reading of the sacred spaces of Kofinou.
2. Site Size and Population. Among the more intriguing aspects of this project is the authors’ willingness to draw upon methods grounded in processual archaeology. In other words, despite the complexities of recent theoretical reflections on landscape and their dependence of post-processual understanding of lives and experiences spaces and places, Vionis and Papantoniou look toward intensive pedestrian survey to understand the extent of settlement at a site. Their site of Kofinou is approximately 13 ha and could support a population of 250-300 families on the basis of available arable land in the vicinity. This was compared to our estimate of 40 ha at Pyla-Koutsopetria from which they estimated a population of perhaps as many as 1000 families.
Whatever one thinks of their estimates population and site size, I’m not entirely convinced that the same formula could be scaled to Koutsopetria. Without getting pedantic, I wish they authors had been more explicit in how they arrived at site size estimates (and this probably applies to our estimated site size as well) and how these can be compared across the island. More than that, though, it would be interesting to consider the functional differences between a site like Kofinou and our site at Koutsopetria. If, as the authors suggest, the Kofinou site is a settlement, then the estimates based on arable land and artifact scatters may well speak to population. In contrast, we’ve argued that Koutsopetria is a small emporion and perhaps a transshipment site for agricultural produce (particularly olive oil and perhaps wine) from the region. In other words, much of the build up space of the site would not have been settlement at all, but warehouses, production facilities, and, of course, the ecclesiastical compound associated with the excavated basilica. This isn’t to suggest that people didn’t live at Koutsopetria, but it’s functional purpose would serve to define its extent. The absence of massive quantities of cooking pots at Koutsopetria, for example, tends to suggest that much of the space was not concerned with habitation or settlement, but storage and processing of good for export.
3. Diachronic Landscapes. I was particularly intrigued by their effort to think about the diachronic landscapes of Cyprus and to balance the various aspects of places from geology and topography, to history, memory, and long-term structural organization of Cypriot sacred and settled space.
Border zones like Kofinou and Koutsopetria have seen both historical investment starting as early as the Iron Age with sanctuaries which inscribed the landscapes with persistent places even after the political and economic contingencies of border zones abate. The appearance of a Early Christian basilica at Koutsopetria, for example, might have less to do with successive Iron Age and Hellenistic sanctuaries and more to do with diachronic landscape of the place and accretion of successive rounds of material investment that built upon both the practical realities of a natural embayment, proximity to inland passages, and the presence of easily defensible coastal heights, and the social and cultural realities of marking the landscape with fortifications, sanctuaries, and settlements.
The relationships that form these diachronic landscapes are likewise variable and depend upon the place of the site and island within larger networks. Indeed, their very visibility and definition often relies on the presence of recognizable artifacts imported to the site or monument types familiar based on their presence elsewhere on the island or in the region. In other words, the diachronicity of landscapes is something that includes the archaeologist in the longterm history of sites as well as its location in Cypriot landscape and its place within the relational structures of disciplinary knowledge.
A week worth of conversations with David Pettegrew is pretty challenging and invigorating stuff.
Part of the great value of doing field work is the conversations during downtimes. David and I have been immersed in working on the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology for the last two years, but we’ve been chatting about other projects – including our next book project, An Introduction to Early Christian Archaeology.
We also discussed the strange tension between public humanities as opportunities for student learning, but also as having to compete with myriad distractions of modern life from video games and movies to work, sports, kids, and other media. A significant challenge for the historian or public humanist, who often works constantly between an academic and public audience, is finding ways to present what we know and do in a way that competes with professionally generated media. We’re underfunded amateurs who are often expected to bring students into projects that are intended to compete for attention with highly paid professionals capable of slick production, with access to marketing teams, skilled programers and developers, and massive media markets.
At the same time, we celebrated the potential of “punk projects” with low costs, modest goals, and do-it-yourself practices. As we contemplate the demise of the National Endowment for the Humanities we began to imagine a world where competition for grants could give way to greater impulse for collaboration and the often large, lavish (but not always even in humanities terms) grants and projects funded by the NEH would be replaced by denser networks of collaboration among humanists. To be clear, I don’t think that more organic and DIY practices could replace the sustained and systematic investment and leadership of the NEH, but I do wonder whether there are positive, alternative ways to think about how the humanities works.
Invariably, David and I also talked about intensive pedestrian survey archaeology. We reflected a bit on the rise and decline of methodology as a central feature of the discourse of intensive pedestrian survey in the Mediterranean. I offered the observation that with the growing acceptance of intensive survey among Mediterranean archaeologist has blunted the apologetic tone so prevalent in survey literature in the immediate aftermath of the Second Wave survey projects. It’s hard to know for certain if this lull is real or just the maturation of the conversation which results in fewer blockbuster methods articles and more incremental change. At the same time, it is clear that the way that we talk about intensive survey practice and methods has become more confident and perhaps less critical and reflexive.
Finally, we’ve talked about our work at Pyla-Koutsopetria. We have a small, but tightly controlled body of data from three(plus) seasons of excavation and five worth of study that now almost ready for publication. The most interesting conversation focused on our careful and exhaustive (and exhausting) analysis of the plow zone assemblage from the site of Pyla-Vigla. This assemblage could be compared profitably to the assemblage produced during intensive pedestrian survey to offer a small, but well-controlled case study for the relationship between the surface, plow zone, and subsurface remains.
We usually circle back to our work at the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey and various ways to prepare a “final publication” that at least leads researchers to our data (when it’s fully published) if not to a particular set of conclusions or interpretations.
Most conversations with David conclude with the refrain that we have too many projects and too many top priorities, but I think we both agree that this is better than being bored!
Despite having written and blogged about slow archaeology and the importance of being in the landscape and various expressions of embodied knowledge, I’m nevertheless always surprised by how time with ancient artifacts helps me think through archaeological problems.
The last two weeks in Cyprus have focused on the artifact assemblages from the site of Polis-Chrysochous and Pyla-Koutsopetria. At both sites, we’re working to finish processing artifacts from excavations. Over the past decade, we read most of the ceramics from these sites and documented their type with brief descriptions. A handful of objects, however, receive more detailed descriptions and study. Generally speaking these artifacts represent the most chronologically or functionally diagnostic types from the assemblage. We focused on fine table wares, amphora, and cooking pots at Polis and Koutsopetria and spent a good bit of energy looking carefully at each artifact and preparing a catalogue entry.
This kind of work has got my thinking about the end of antiquity in Cyprus and the role that various types of artifacts have in understanding the end of the kinds of economic and social pattern that have historically defined antiquity. Individual classes of ceramics from Roman red slip fine wares (particularly African Red Slip, Phocaean Ware, and Cypriot Red Slip (LRD)) not only provide elusive dates for end of ancient patterns of trade connecting production sites and consumers across the Mediterranean but reflect tastes in pottery types (as well as foodways) that persisted for half a millennium. The same can be applied to cooking pots and even humble transport amphora. This intersection of economic patterns and social habits embodied in these tiny, broken sherds fascinated me over the last two weeks and located the world of antiquity in smallest fragment of the past.
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Óengus of Moray (Oenghus mac inghine Lulaich, ri Moréb) was the last King of Moray of the native line, ruling Moray in what is now northeastern Scotland from some unknown date until his death in 1130.
Óengus is known to have been the son of the daughter of Lulach. This was perhaps how he attained the Kingship of the Men of Moray. Óengus' last known predecessor was Máel Snechtai (d. 1085). If Óengus ruled during this whole period, then he would have been the one who incurred the wrath of King Alexander I when the Moravians (people of Moray) murdered Ladhmunn, his nephew and son of Domnall, the son of King Malcolm III by Ingibjorg.
Orderic Vitalis wrote that in the year 1130, Óengus with Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair invaded Gaelic Scotia with 5000 warriors. The Moravians were met by King David's general, an old Anglo-Saxon noble named Edward Siwardsson, causing the Battle of Stracathro. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reported "a great slaughter" . The Annals of Ulster tells that 4000 Moravians were killed, and only 1000 Gaels. The Annals of Innisfallen makes clear that what Orderic Vitalis wrote regarding the battle having taken place in Scotia indicates that it was an invasion. Siward defeated the Moravians and Óengus was killed. The Scoti then invaded Moray, which, as Orderic Vitalis put it, "lacked a defender and lord."
After Óengus' defeat, Moray was probably granted to William fitz Duncan. After his death in 1147, it was to some extent colonized by King David's French, Flemish and English followers, although in the longer term, most of these became Gaelicized.
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A Peer To Peer search Terminology used to ascertain either private or Amateur illicit photographs and or films. Generally these files are alleged to be stolen or shared and the so called models are unaware of these files be distributed.
"Dude, I think I found Tim mom. Oh man... She kinda of hot. Her pict was tagged with QSH on it.
Get a QSH mug for your daughter Nathalie.
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Publisher : London: Novello, 1901. Plate 11258.
3 scores found for "Chanson de matin"
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http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=32173&delstar=1
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There’s no scene that better captures Steven Spielberg’s particular brand of childhood wonder than the flying bikes scene in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Spielberg has always been a master craftsman, but you can truly feel the affection he has for the coming-of-age drama — with a sci-fi twist, of course.
The scene is fairly straightforward: Elliott and his friends are being chased by police and government officials as they try to get E.T. back to his spaceship. After a brief flirtation with victory, they suddenly find themselves surrounded on all sides as their bikes hurtle toward two police cars blocking the road. A moment later, E.T. enacts his magic and all five kids are flying through the air, leading to the iconic image of the five of them against the setting sun (the one of Elliott against the moon is just as magical). Coupled with John Williams’ sweeping score, the scene gains an air of euphoria, as the wiles of a couple kids beat back the Man once again. Watching it again, it has not become any cheesier or lost any of the wonder that it first instilled in me when I saw the film as a kid. Spielberg’s capacity for imagination, and his understanding of the fanciful mindset of kids was encapsulated in this scene. And while Stranger Things offered a great homage, nothing beats the original.
Steven Spielberg’s filmography is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to dramatic, thrilling, and moving scenes, but I have to choose one from my favorite Spielberg hero, Indiana Jones. Near the end of Last Crusade, the Nazis force Indy’s hand by shooting his father (Sean Connery) near the final resting place of the holy grail, leaving Jones with no choice but to retrieve it – and quickly. There are so many great moments in this section of the movie alone, but I’ll narrow my focus to the portion in which Indy conquers three trials in order to reach the grail room.
These moments showcase everything I love about the character all boiled down into just a few minutes. As Jones reads from his father’s journal (further cementing the bond between them, as now their lives are fully in each other’s hands), he must rely on his wits, his physicality, and the groundwork his father did in order to make it through the three challenges. Spielberg perfectly intercuts Connery’s reactions with Indy’s attempts (note the subtle dolly zoom at 3:48, highlighting the importance of faith) and though the two characters can’t hear each other, there’s a dialogue between them as Indy traverses these treacherous trials. Not only is each one exciting in its own way, but the scene is thematically rich as well: Indy is achieving his father’s life-long dream, something Connery’s Dr. Jones Sr. would have attempted himself had he not been the recipient of a Nazi bullet. This isn’t just any old adventure for these characters, either: this is a payoff from all the way back in Indy’s childhood, which gives the scene even more weight. A ticking clock, daring exploits, unexpected twists, and perfect execution: what more could you want from one of history’s greatest directors?
June 6th, 1944. Historically speaking, one day in a long war that cost too many good people their lives. For Steven Spielberg, it’s the iconic D-Day opening to his WWII drama Saving Private Ryan.
Cue Tom Hanks and his platoon storming the Omaha Beach area of Normandy, France (under German control). Nothing but kids floating towards inevitable death packed into glorified armored bowls, “hardened soldiers” puking and praying the whole way. Even Hanks’ hand quivers, knowing what dangers await. Then the transport boat’s ramp is lowered and a blanket of gunfire covers one of the most infamous cinematic beginnings of all time.
You all know the sequence by heart. Allied soldiers must traverse a stretch of sandy devastation that’s littered with German defensive fire. Gun nests rain bullets, artillery explosions leave massive craters, medics must decipher which living, mangled soldiers still have a shot at life and which are already dismembered corpses – war, in every sense, is hell. Spielberg’s scene appropriately conveys such hell. From the nauseating gore effects to barbaric attitudes (“Don’t shoot, let ‘em burn!” shouts a commanding officer while Germans are ignited via flamethrower). From an unstoppable parade of death to the film’s tinkering with sound both above and below water. It’s an ungodly immersion no viewer can escape.
Spielberg’s catalog is filled with award-worth examples, but Saving Private Ryan’s first twenty minutes remains a crowning achievement. Non-stop historical reflection with cinematic devastation on a massive, scorched-earth scale. WWII boiled down to one tragic, triumphant siege in to one of the greatest war movies ever made.
This is a strange pick because Steven Spielberg, for me, tends to be more about the more magic and wonder of his adventure stories. But running through all of my favorite moments from Steven Spielberg-directed films, the one that came on top was the T-rex attack from the original Jurassic Park. I vividly remember watching this scene take place for the first time in the now torn down General Cinemas theater in Shoppers World in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was in the biggest and best theater, the one that was THX certified and has Dolby 5.1 surround sound. I remember the T-Rex’s footsteps shaking the theater. The bass must have been turned up to 10.
The sequence is so masterfully shot as it traps our heroes in a Jeep after the power in the park has been shut down…and in the middle of a horrible storm…and then a T-rex breaks free. Experiencing this encounter from the protagonist’s point of view was both thrilling and scary. I often imagine how this scene would have been filmed by other directors and I can’t image it being constructed any better than it is.
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When the editors of National Geographic choose the winners of their 2013 photography contest -- three top entries that will be published in a future issue of the magazine -- they'll have some truly stunning contenders to consider. Selecting just ten to feature was itself no easy task.
Below, ten photos from this year's contest capture the beauty of the natural world, from waterfalls in Oregon to ancient salt caves in Turkey, with some birds and beasts thrown in for good measure. Captions written by the photographers describe the amount of skill -- and luck -- that went into capturing the perfect shot. Check out our picks, then head here to view thousands more.
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2019-04-19T14:30:12Z
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https://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/the_most_incredible_nature_photography_of_2013/
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I have to be very careful I don’t overextend myself because of the fibromyalgia so I will usually run in intervals (run for 5 minutes, walk for 1). On days that I’m having a flare up I may walk for 2 minutes, but I usually try to stick to one. Have you ever run a 1/2 marathon or marathon? I’d love to hear your tips!!
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2019-04-26T00:35:23Z
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https://fox43.com/2013/01/01/winter-running-brrrrr/
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Latvia’s top symphonic player, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO), reintroduces the international workshop for young composers. Andris Dzenītis, one of Latvia’s most excellent composers, developed the tradition by attracting numerous young authors to workshops in various Latvia’s cities – Dundaga, Cēsis, and Mazsalaca.
The workshops will take place on 19–23 August, 2019, in Rēzekne – a city in the heart of Latvia’s most peculiar region Latgale.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to draw inspiration from the oldest layers of North Latgale’s traditional music.
The workshop lecturers are: Andris Dzenītis (Latvia), Marco Stroppa (Italy/Germany), and Anders Nordentoft (Denmark).
The workshop will conclude with a performance of the participants’ new works in the opening concert of the LNSO Summer Festival at the Latgale Embassy GORS Small Hall.
LATGALE is a glorious lakeland in the southeast of Latvia. It is the poorest and the wealthiest part of the country simultaneously: a region with the least successful economy and the richest traditional culture and music. Historically, the territory of Latvia (and Estonia) adopted Lutheranism in the 16th century, except for Latgale, which was under Polish rule at the time and remained Catholic.
Another specific feature of Latgale is that the majority of population speak the Latgalian, or High Latvian language. This form of Latvian has its own literature, and the relation between the Latvian of the Lutheran regions and Latgale’s High Latvian makes an approximate analogy to the relation between the High German and Low German or even High German and Dutch.
Catholicism and folklore are the two dominant factors of Latgalian cultural identity. It is important to stress that Catholicism and folklore constantly interplay in Latgale: plenty of mixed phenomena have emerged due to Catholic music and poetry fusing with local folklore and traditional music.
It is important to understand the term bolss which has an important role in High Latvian musical terminology. The noun bolss has three meanings: 1) human or animal voice – sound produced by vocal cords, 2) vocal part in polyphonic music, 3) tune. The first two meanings are similar to those of the word ‘voice’ in various languages. The third meaning is used in folk music terminology in the Baltics and among some East- and South-Slavic peoples. It is still used in Latgale.
More information available in the enclosed document.
To apply for the workshop, the candidates have to submit mp3 audio recordings (recommended length 5 to 10 minutes) of two or three previously composed chamber music pieces or any other musical work written for at least four (4) instruments; the respective sheet music scores in digital format (pdf only), a detailed CV, photo and completed application form. All the materials must be submitted electronically to the workshop organizers by May 1, 2019.
The admission commission, comprising the workshop lecturers and members of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, will evaluate the submitted materials and choose five (5) international workshop participants.
The selected composers will be announced by May 15, 2019.
The 5 participants selected by the commission will be invited to compose one short piece (maximum duration 7 minutes) for chamber ensemble of residing musicians.
The commissioned works should follow a common theme – Northern Latgalian traditional songs.
Northern Latgalian traditional song motives, melody or structure should serve as inspiration for your new composition.
The selected participants will have to complete and submit their compositions to workshop organizers until August 1, 2019.
The works must be 90% complete by that date. The workshop will be devoted to working with the lecturers and musicians to refine any details and make viable modifications.
The new works will be performed at the LNSO Summer Festival Opening Concert on August 23, 2019, in the Small Hall of the Latgale Embassy GORS.
The workshop is intended for young composers up to 35 years of age. However, the organizers may allow exceptions.
Each participant will engage in private consultations with all lecturers, present their music, take part in open rehearsals, seminars and discussions over the course of five days (on 19–23 August) in Rēzekne.
All conditions for creative individual work will be provided during the workshop, including accommodation, catering, free Wi-Fi, printer, etc.
The residing musicians will perform the compositions created during the workshop in a single concert. The concert will also be the opening of the LNSO Summer Festival. Everyone will be invited to enjoy the participants’ presentations in an informal atmosphere on every evening of the workshop.
There is a lake situated near Rēzekne. The programme also includes short excursions to a potter’s kiln and the renovated Lūznava Manor. The participants will also have the opportunity to hear a live performance by a folklore ensemble that fosters ancient traditional music.
Participation fee is 300 EUR. It covers all the facilities and activities listed above. However, travelling expenses to Latvia and back shall be covered by the participants.
The application form and further information can be found in LNSO VASARNĪCA 2019 meistarkursi_NOLIKUMS EN OS and LNSO VASARNĪCA 2019 meistarkursi_LATGALE EN OS.
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2019-04-19T15:13:55Z
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http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/home-page/learning-and-creating/international-workshop-for-young-composers/
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It’s that time of the year when friends and family gather for holiday events and good cheer. This is often accompanied by wonderful dessert wines ranging from sweet white rieslings, gewurtraminers, and viogniers in late-harvest, sparkling, and ice-wine formats as well as velvety red ports, black muscats, and late harvest zinfandels. All of these sweet and semi-sweet dessert wines pair well with different types of cheeses, chocolate, cakes, pies, and other delectable dishes such as crème brulee, cheesecake and flan.
A lovely floral nose of roses and sweet apricots, with luscious sweet vanilla and honey on the palate. Good balance of acid and fruit, with a long finish and good intensity of flavor. Drink alone as a dessert or with vanilla cake. The #1 favorite of Kelly, Ally, and Shannon. Available at http://www.harvestmoonwinery.com/.
Complex nose of peaches, honeysuckle, and minerals. Palate of sweet peach and a refreshing lemon zest acidity. Excellent balance of fruit, acid and sugar. Long finish and pleasing complexity. The favorite of Katie. She would drink it with vanilla gelato. Available at: www.chateaustjean.com.
Dark purple black depths. Rich lush berry nose of blackberry, raspberry and blueberries. Spicy with cinnamon and forest floor notes. Not as sweet and jammy as most late-harvest zins – more refined and complex with excellent concentration of fruit and long finish. The favorite of Matt who would drink it with chocolate cake. Available at: http://www.murphygoodewinery.com/.
Matt is from Sherman Oaks, California. He is a Sensitive Taster with a score of 4 on the Wine Tasting Continuum. He prefers dark red wines with big tannins. His scores were: Harvest Moon = Silver-18; Chateau St. Jean = Gold-19; Murphy-Goode = Gold-19, with his favorite being the Murphy-Goode.
Shannon is from Lodi, California. She is a Sensitive Taster with a score of 4 on the Wine Tasting Continuum. She prefers red wines such as cabernet and pinot noir, and is found of a well balanced wine with spicy oak, smooth tannins and firm acid. Her scores were: Harvest Moon = Gold-20; Chateau St. Jean = Bronze-15; Murphy-Goode = Bronze-16, with her favorite being the Harvest Moon.
Katie is from Solvang, California. She is a Sensitive Tasters with a score of 4 on the Wine Tasting Continuum. She enjoys all types of wine with no preference of white over red, but selects wine based on the food and occasion. Her scores were: Harvest Moon = Silver-18; Chateau St. Jean = Gold-19; Murphy-Goode = Bronze-16, with her favorite being the Chateau St. Jean.
Ally is from Novato, California. She scored a 3 on the Tasting Continuum and verified with the PROPO paper that she is a Hyper-Sensitive Taster. She prefers sweeter white wines, fruity reds, Champagne, and sparkling wine. Her scores were: Harvest Moon = Gold-19; Chateau St. Jean = Silver-18; Murphy-Goode = Silver 17, with her favorite being the Harvest Moon.
Kelly is from St. Helena, California. She scored a 1 on the Tasting Continuum and verified with the PROPO paper that she is a very Hyper-Sensitive Taster. She enjoys sweet white wines and fruity reds. Her scores were: Harvest Moon = Gold-20; Chateau St. Jean = Silver-18; Murphy-Goode = Bronze-16, with her favorite being the Harvest Moon.
Each judge is trained in how to complete a Wine Tasting Evaluation form which includes analysis of wine color, aroma, flavor and quality. Quality is determined based on balance, length of finish, intensity, and complexity. Judges are also asked to describe the “x factor” of whether they like the wine or not – and why. See “How We Evaluate Wines” on main menu.
The dessert wines were my favorite wines to taste, all so sweet and delicious! The Harvest moon had very different flavors ranging from vanilla and honey to delicate fruits. I would drink this wine all by itself as dessert, or with a slice of vanilla cake.
It was a lot of fun to taste dessert wines! I was very interested in how different each varietal tasted. Although I enjoyed them all, my favorite was the Chateau St. Jean ’06 Late Harvest Riesling. It was fruity, floral, nicely complex, and very well balanced. I think this wine would be a delicious dessert served alone or paired with creme brulee!
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2019-04-20T15:02:45Z
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https://winestars.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/favorite-california-dessert-wines-for-the-holidays/
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Boog and Lenny. Monster in the Mist. Wallpaper and background images in the Fanboy and Chum Chum Club club tagged: boog lenny.
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2019-04-22T21:01:48Z
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http://it.fanpop.com/clubs/fanboy-and-chum-chum-club/images/27867434/title/boog-lenny-photo
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itv
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Registering to vote in this year's General Election takes less than three minutes - you can register online, and you can even do it on your phone.
But with the deadline to register on Monday 20 April, and with changes to the way we do it, there are fears that many could be left off the electoral register.
Each person now has to register individually, as opposed to previous years where the head of household could sign up on behalf of everyone.
To help you register, we've set up an easy how-to guide.
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2019-04-25T00:06:55Z
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https://www.itv.com/news/border/2015-04-17/how-to-register-to-vote/
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The China-Russia partnership building a widebody plane has sent a request for proposal to potential suppliers of landing gear for its CR929 program, United Aircraft Corp said on Thursday.
United Aircraft’s joint venture with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) [CMAFC.UL] issued the request for proposal on July 31, the Russian company said in a statement.
The list of potential candidates includes companies from Russia, China and Europe, it added.
The company said it expects to receive the responses from suppliers by the end of November this year.
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2019-04-19T01:29:39Z
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-russia-airplane/uac-says-china-russia-wide-body-jet-jv-seeks-landing-gear-proposals-idUSKBN1KN11Q
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honoluluadvertiser
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A mixed musical bag awaits this week with releases from a neglected Hawaiian brother and Big Island popsters hungry for acceptance.
Artist: Nedward "Nicky Boy" Ka'apana, brother of Ledward, formerly of Hui 'Ohana; with an assist from older brother, Keoki.
Genre: Traditional and contemporary Hawaiian, with a dose of world music, too.
The outlook: A rediscovery for his fans, for Ka'apana; a win-win situation.
Our take: An appealing and satisfying reaffirmation of Ka'apana's breadth of talent.
"Wai Ulu" by Ned Ka'apana. Audio sample available in mp3 and RealAudio formats.
Artist: Dan-O (Jim Major, vocals, guitar; Eric Wakely, lead guitar, 'ukulele, harmonies; Mike Funes, bass; Jim Tsuji, drums and ipu).
Label: Stink Eye Records SER 0701.
Distinguishing notes: Swayed by the tragedy and legacy of Eddie Aikau, big wave surfer and Hokule'a crew member who vanished at sea, Dan-O titles its debut CD after a song about the iconic Aikau. The album has a crisp rock sound ("JJ Foley's") that intermittently cools to a folksy flavor ("Heartbeat").
The outlook: The Big Isle rocks; savvy blend of electric guitar with local gear like the ipu and the uke.
Our take: Book 'em, Dan-O.
"J J Foley's" by Dan-o. Audio sample available in mp3 and RealAudio formats.
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2019-04-23T09:54:36Z
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/May/18/il/il04a.html
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The students of Washington State College eagerly gathered in Bryan Hall on February 20, 1919, to hear the debut of a new college song. The Evergreen claimed it “at once scored a hit,” and declared that both the words and music “possessed a swing that might well be described as fully equal if not surpassing any college song written.” A century later, the “Washington State Fight Song” music and lyrics live on virtually unchanged.
Popular music gained prominence at the start of the century, as a greater variety of musical instruments became available and affordable to the general public, and as the first mass-market recorded music on wax cylinders allowed the public to hear songs from original performers. Before television or even radio, community singing blossomed, including college glee clubs and student organizations performing known and original songs.
The 1919 tune wasn’t the first attempt at creating new Washington State songs. While State College songs had been written for many years to the tunes of popular music, a 1914 competition for a new football song was won by Emory Alvord (1915) for “Washington Football War Song.” However, this “winner” failed to gain the hearts of the students.
After World War I, Evergreen issues in January 1919 decried the lack of student enthusiasm in singing the college songs. Some people attributed the attitude to the songs themselves; during World War I energetic and patriotic songs had showcased a community’s support of their soldiers’ efforts, but pre-war Washington State songs lacked that energy.
Two female students, Zella Melcher and Phyllis Sayles, composed a fight song that did bring some energy. Melcher appears to have been quite the socialite, active in class leadership, Pi Beta Phi sorority, the Evergreen and Chinook, several musical groups, and more. She was elected May Queen as a senior. Among her many social activities, Melcher was a charter member of Mu Phi Epsilon, the campus music honorary.
Fellow MPE member Sayles was a talented pianist who had previously attended Northwestern University, where she compiled a book of that campus’s fight songs and wrote various songs for her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. Sayles’s father had worked as a clerk within Indian agencies, and when he moved to Lapwai, Phyllis left Northwestern and came along. She enrolled at WSC in the fall of 1919 to complete her senior year.
Melcher graduated as planned in 1919; Sayles completed her coursework but would not receive her degree for another three years. Both women married in 1922, and Melcher, now McMicken, spent the rest of her life in Chehalis, while Sayles, now Davis, moved to Los Angeles. Both taught music throughout their lives. Zella fell ill while relatively young and died in 1938; Phyllis lived until 1971, passing at the age of 74.
Their legacy, the fight song, remains known not just to Cougs but around the world. The song apparently first aired nationally via NBC radio on May 15, 1934, in a live broadcast of a WSC band and glee club performance at the Davenport Ballroom in Spokane. That performance is the oldest existing “Fight Song” recording, as pressed LPs of the performance were later sold on campus.
The tune became even more widely known when actor John Candy sang the fight song defiantly as “Tom Tuttle from Tacoma” in the 1985 movie Volunteers. Earlier—on June 22, 1983—the fight song had reached new heights as it was played to start the day for the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, in honor of Cougar astronaut John Fabian ’62, on board for his first space mission.
Back on earth, the familiar spirited strains of “fight, fight, fight for Washington State” still ring across campus, just as they did in that 1919 debut.
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2019-04-20T16:48:59Z
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https://magazine.wsu.edu/2019/02/02/fight-fight-fight-still-flying-high/
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i tried to download the current gridengine Version with WinCVS and TortoiseCVS.
because of this i can't download the complete source.
does anyone have an idea what is wrong or how the problem can be cleared?
See mail thread refered by issue URL for hints on a possible resolution.
Not relevant to source or, probably, current VCS.
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2019-04-24T13:57:20Z
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https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/ticket/246
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Computers
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eventful
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Sorry, you missed The Political Economy of Ge... at Jefferson Market Libraryâ"New York Public Library.
You missed The Political Economy of Ge... at Jefferson Market Libraryâ"New York Public Library.
We're generating custom event recommendations for you based on The Political Economy of Ge... right now!
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2019-04-22T10:12:28Z
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http://newyorkcity.eventful.com/events/political-economy-gender-/E0-001-122531838-4
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Recreation
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wa
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71.36.020 Plan for early periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment services.
[2003 c 281 § 4; 1991 c 326 § 13.] Repealed by 2007 c 359 § 13.
71.36.030 Children's mental health services delivery system — Local planning efforts.
[1991 c 326 § 14.] Repealed by 2007 c 359 § 13.
71.36.050 Report on implementation status.
71.36.900 Part headings not law-1991 c 326.
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2019-04-22T05:06:39Z
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https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/dispo.aspx?Cite=71.36
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Health
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komando
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In the wake of the Ferguson controversy and other protests over officer-involved shootings in recently, more and more police departments are outfitting officers with body cameras. President Barack Obama even proposed spending around $75 million to help departments buy cameras. But, what happens if the officers don't turn the cameras on? One policeman in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was fired after he failed to record a shooting in which a 19-year-old woman died.
Officer Jeremy Dear shot and killed the woman during an altercation in April. He was wearing a body cam but did not have it turned on, which the Albuquerque Police Department claimed was against direct orders. The department is already under a microscope after the Department of Justice found it "had used a pattern of excessive force."
The issue was highlighted in today's Wall Street Journal, which features a story about a New Mexico police officer who "was fired for allegedly not following an order to record and upload all contacts with citizens," according to the Albuquerque Police Department and the officer's lawyer.
Should Dear have been fired? The situation isn't cut and dry. The officer and police department are giving conflicting accounts of the situation.
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2019-04-22T20:39:01Z
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https://www.komando.com/happening-now/287197/a-police-officer-was-fired-for-not-turning-on-his-body-camera
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LONDON – London police are reporting a rising number of child abuse cases linked to witchcraft and ritual beliefs.
Police said Wednesday 27 cases have been reported this year. The figure represents an increase over the 24 reported in all of 2013 and 19 the year before.
This includes the case of a child being swung around and smacked in the head as part of an exorcism and other youths being dunked in water to rid them of evil spirits.
The Metropolitan Police have launched a training film to educate personnel about the signs of ritualistic child abuse.
Detective Superintendent Terry Sharpe called it "a hidden crime," which happens when a family or caregivers genuinely believe a child has been taken over by evil spirits.
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2019-04-19T04:45:36Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-police-report-increased-child-abuse-linked-to-witchcraft-ritual-beliefs
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One of our top priorities for the Ohio Scriptorium & Bible Festival is to keep costs low for attendees, especially those traveling from afar; this includes providing meals free of monetary charge for all registered festival attendees. We will aim for a specific main entree theme for the Lunches and Dinners to be provided, such as a “pizza party” dinner, “dawgs & burgers” lunch, “mass transit subs,” etc., and will likely not be able to accommodate individual tastes, dietary restrictions or allergies. We encourage attendees to prepare in advance if there are special food needs in your traveling party.
As there are still expenses that will be incurred for festival organizers to enable this benefit to meal participants, we ask all attendees who are local to the Scriptorium & Bible Festival (within 90 miles of the event) to also sign up to assist in providing some level of food, drink, and/or paper products for one or more of our scheduled meals. Based on last year’s attendance, we expect to have between 125-150 people. Our official numbers will be known by the Registration deadline of May 31, 2019.
Sign-up is included on the Registration Page. Festival organizers will contact you directly to discuss specific needs for particular meals. Donations are accepted and appreciated to help offset festival costs, but are not required or expected. Our sincere desire is to see all attendees fed physically and spiritually.
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2019-04-18T20:36:00Z
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https://ohioscriptorium.wordpress.com/meal-provision/
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A debut novel from Stockholm author Elisabeth Norebäck, Tell Me You’re Mine is a long and interesting thriller, which bodes well for her future career and has already been sold for translation in 33 languages.
Its central character is Stella, a physiotherapist. She has come to terms with the tragedy that has overhung her life but today brings a dramatic twist to it. A new patient has arrived, Isabelle, who catapults Stella into a terrifying nightmare.
Is Isabelle her own long lost daughter Alice who disappeared twenty years earlier at the age of one? Stella convinces herself that this is indeed Alice, who everyone save her believed had been drowned.
Although she is now happily married with a son, Milo, a loving husband, Henrik, and a rewarding career, Stella is driven with revived conviction that this new patient is indeed Alice, even though some years earlier she had mistakenly identified someone else as her long lost daughter.
Now she has no doubts and risks everything in her quest to prove Alice has returned to her. But the road to the truth is far from simple and the further Stella goes the more danger looms.
The pace of the thriller speeds up as the story progresses and becomes a compelling read as Stella breaks through to the true story of what happened to baby Alice.
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2019-04-22T15:58:54Z
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http://shotsmag.co.uk/book_reviews_view.aspx?book_review_id=2103
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I remember the conversation well even though it happened nearly 40 years ago. Strange how time wipes away so many things but leaves the most mundane moments intact. At any rate, the year was 1978. I had recently turned 11. A friend and I were fantasizing about what it might be like to have a home VCR. In those days, VCRs existed but were so unwieldy and expensive that they were typically only found in corporations and schools. My elementary school had one and, if a teacher wanted to use it, it was wheeled in on a huge cart attached to a television with an enormous 21” screen.
The concept of actually watching a movie at home without being reliant on the vagaries of a television schedule was beyond our wildest imagination. Star Wars on demand. Close Encounters on demand. The possibilities would have seemed endless. There was also the added benefit of being able to record favorite shows to watch later. Today, all of this seems so mundane but back in those days, it was Nirvana. Or perhaps a Pandora’s Box.
TVs in those days came in two flavors: the bare-bones types that were often used in bedrooms (for households wealthy enough to have more than one set) and the console. “Bedroom” TVs were usually in the 12” to 18” range and were sometimes black-and-white. Console TVs were pieces of furniture – cabinets that had a TV built-in. They were usually 21” to 25”. Some really high-end ones were 28”. They were heavy and bulky and used vacuum tubes. When one broke, you called in a TV repairman. All of those things sound foreign today but anyone 40 or older probably remembers them to one degree or another.
By the time I went shopping for my first house in 2000, getting something with a “home theater-ready” room was a priority. I turned down several otherwise lovely places because they didn’t have what I wanted. I finally chose a ranch where the lower level was ready to be configured exactly how I wanted it. The furnace was in the garage so there was no ambient noise from the blower and, as a bonus, there was a working fireplace off to the right of where I planned to set up the TV. Since bigger was better, I went as big as I could go at the time – a top-of-the-line 65” rear-screen projection TV with full 1080p HD resolution (and a $6000 price tag). Weighing in at 300 pounds with a depth of 30”, it dominated the room. But, with the lights off, watching an upconverted DVD on that behemoth was amazing. By 2004, however, I was itching to go even bigger. Rear-screen projection TVs of up to 85” were available or I could go the route of a front-screen projector and exceed ten feet.
Marriage put an end to those grand plans. After sharing my home for a couple of years, my wife wanted something that she could put her stamp on. Unfortunately, “bigger” didn’t mean “better”, at least insofar as a home theater was concerned. My screen shrunk from 65” to 55” (although it also shed hundreds of pounds and about two feet of depth). I ended up in a basement where the on-and-off gyrations of the furnace played havoc with the audio. Eventually, I watched movies in the bedroom on a 45” set. So much for big. Ideally, I would love to have 100” of screen but there’s nowhere in the house that would support something that large so I make do with what I have.
Yet, even as I was striving for something bigger, a growing segment of the market was headed in the other direction.
It started with Netflix – or at least it started in numbers big enough to matter. I’m referring to the concept of watching a movie on a phone or tablet. The first time I saw someone doing this, I scoffed. Really? A movie on a 4” screen? You had to squint to figure out what was happening. The sound was tinny, borderline-inaudible. (Admittedly, a set of quality wireless earphones can do a lot for the latter problem.) Why, I wondered, would you do that to yourself? More importantly, why do it to the movie? When composing his masterpiece, the director never imagined someone would be watching it on such a small screen.
Over the years, however, I have come over to the dark side. Yes, I’ll admit it here – I sometimes watch movies on a small screen. Not a phone – that’s too small for me. (Part of that is because I have “old eyes” and can’t readily identify what’s happening on a phone screen.) But I have probably watched in excess of one-hundred movies on a tablet. Philistine! you cry. I was a little embarrassed at first until I learned that I’m not the only critic who does this. In fact, I’d be hard-pressed to find a critic who doesn’t do this. There’s a reason why many of the screeners are tied to apps. It’s recognized that they are going to be seen in smaller-than-10” dimensions.
Practicality and convenience play a part in the industry’s growing reliance on screener links. Purists resisted this for a long time, insisting that even watching a movie on a large-screen television “devalued” the experience. There was a era when all of the studios hosted special “Academy” screenings of their prestige projects. The idea was that anyone with a “need to see” (primarily members of any group that handed out year-end awards) could attend one of these. They were expensive, however (hiring theaters, shipping prints, etc.), and they became infrequent during the 1990s. Today, they are all but defunct except in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
The initial migration was to DVD screeners. Those were shipped en masse with the hope that voters would take the time to watch them. However, busy critics and Academy members, overwhelmed by the sheer volume, often viewed only a handful. Then along came screener links, designed with phone and tablet-viewing in mind. The strategy works. Studios control these on-line screeners (recipients can’t hoard them the way they can DVDs) and they are more difficult to pirate than physical copies. Equally important is the convenience aspect. A viewer can watch a movie (or part of a movie) almost anywhere, which increases the possibility that a key performance might be seen. A film that might be relegated to the bottom of some stack now gets a chance during a bus or taxi ride or on an airplane.
And that’s just on the industry side of things. Consumers have gravitated toward streaming services with increasing fervor. And almost no one is watching Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu on TVs. The biggest incentive to purchase a subscription is portability. Take a large movie library with you. Watch movies while being a car passenger. Watch them in bed. Watch them while camping.
There are far too many advantages to small-screen watching for it to lose its popularity. Consumers accept it. The industry accepts it. Even purist critics have been forced to accept it. But what about the people who make the movies? How does this impact them?
There’s a difference between watching a character-based indie and a big-budget blockbuster on a phone/tablet. The former translates much better. That’s no surprise. The blockbuster is designed for one thing: shock and awe. It demands a big screen and A+ sound system for maximum immersion and impact. Those things aren’t available on a phone. Watching any Hollywood tent-pole on a 5” screen is going to diminish it, stripping it down to essentials which are often missing. Narrative and character-based dramas, however, rely less on visuals and more on story and, for the most part, these hold up well. My rule of thumb is that the only movies I will watch for the first time on a tablet are the “smaller” ones. I’ll watch tent-poles and blockbusters on my iPad but only after I have seen them at least once in a theater.
For filmmakers who specialize in non-spectacle fare, they have to remember that a significant portion of their eventual audience may be watching on a small screen. Some of them are excited by this, feeling that exposure of any sort is better than the oblivion of a bargain bin. Frankly, I’m surprised at how few indies are showing up on the streaming services. As we move into the future, this trend is likely to accelerate. There may be a time when small and mid-budget films bypass theatrical distribution altogether and when the concept of “home video” refers more to small-screen viewing that watching in a “home theater.” Or, to put it another way, for a movie to work in 2030, it may need to be optimized for 5” viewing.
What about the blockbusters, the $100+M budget-breakers, the Star Warses and superhero action films? Fans alone will keep these afloat in theaters for a long time but, unless studios make changes to curb excessive visual clutter, they will lose out in the long run with those who abandon multiplexes altogether for phone/tablet watching. No spectacle film will work on a small screen unless it offers something substantive. And that’s where a compromise will be necessary – balancing big-screen impact with small-screen content. Scripts will have to be smarter, budgets tighter, and long-term strategies rethought. It’s hard to imagine Michael Bay surviving in this landscape. As long as superhero fatigue doesn’t kill it, the MCU should continue to thrive as long as it evolves. Marvel has already proven capable of small-screen success with their Netflix series; now the company will need to begin tailoring their films to two audiences.
There’s another possibility: two versions of every major film. One, replete with eye-popping special effects and ear-splitting sound effects, would be released exclusively to theaters. Another, less ostentatious version, with stronger story content and less reliance on visual razzle-dazzle, would reach the home & streaming market. It’s an ambitious concept and it may take years – or never – to be adopted.
In an ideal world, I would have a soundproofed, dark room with 8 speakers, a 100” screen, and a luxurious recliner. That’s where I would retire to watch everything. The reality, defined by space limitations in my home and financial constraints (true home theaters are exceedingly expensive), is nowhere close to that. So, for now, I’ll curl up in bed next to my sleeping wife, bring up a streaming app, put on my wireless headphones, and watch something created for a 25-foot screen. That future is here.
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2019-04-26T10:13:19Z
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http://www.reelviews.net/reelthoughts/reelthought_1523718551
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Arts
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Shopping
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urbandictionary
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did you see him? he just took that zone to the face.
Get a Zone to the face mug for your daughter-in-law Zora.
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2019-04-22T16:39:08Z
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Zone%20to%20the%20face
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sfgate
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Mark Adams relaxes with a glass of his Ledge Vineyards wine overlooking the Adams Ranch in Paso Robles. He and his wife, Ciera, own the winery.
It goes without saying that our Winemakers to Watch for 2014 are a forward-thinking bunch. What's more impressive is how well they bridge the worlds of classic and modern California.
Two couples on either end of the state are in full pioneering mode. Sonoma's Megan and Ryan Glaab of Ryme Cellars are best known for their twin Vermentinos, while Alysha Stehly and Chris Broomell of Vesper Vineyards are bringing San Diego County back into the conversation. Yet the Glaabs still adore Cabernet, and Vesper taps that old workhorse, Carignane.
In Santa Barbara, Graham Tatomer believes Gruner Veltliner and Riesling can be California's great whites, while Ledge's Mark Adams is shining a spotlight on his native turf of west Paso Robles.
And John Lockwood of Enfield apprenticed with two masters of the trade on the way to making Syrah and Chardonnay from some improbable corners of the North Coast.
While all see the potential in the unexpected, they're informed by the best of California's past. If they have their way, the state's wine future will be gloriously diverse.
Chris Broomell and Alysha Stehly.
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2019-04-25T02:05:48Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/wine/article/Winemakers-to-Watch-2014-Mixing-tradition-and-5174135.php
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Upgrading to Novell Certified Linux Professional 11 - NEW!
Soil amelioration. Learn about soil amelioration and making decisions on preferred techniques to be used for improving soil. Carry out some research on your own to help the growers improve their soil. This module has been extracted from the Soil Characteristics and Survey Techniques resource.
This module describes the methodology of measuring current and voltage within a circuit using a voltmater and an ammeter.
Beginner Lesson S5 #19 - Tell Me How Much That Is Per Hour in Spanish!
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2019-04-20T14:19:32Z
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https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Orchestrating%20cell%20separation%20in%20plants%20:%20what%20are%20the%20risks%20and%20benefits?start=1160&en&start=4700&end=4720
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Interested in learning about our MS in Business Analytics and Information Management? CLICK HERE.
The Krannert full time MBA business consulting specialization or option will consist of three tracks: business analysis consulting, financial consulting, and marketing consulting. Students selecting this specialization are encouraged to take at least two of the recommended foundation courses and at least two electives courses from one of these three tracks.
Large consulting companies, such as Accenture and IBM Global Services, which provide consulting services to clients in many industries.
Small consulting firms that specialize in a particular area of industry, such as marketing, quality management, supply chain management, and health care.
Business analysts or internal consulting groups within companies that have interest in internal consulting assignments.
Surveys show that consulting has been a very desirable career among MBA students since the 1990s. In recent years, the economy has greatly affected the consulting industry. However, a particular sector of consulting which emphasizes integration of analytical methodologies and modern information technology to generate business intelligence and solve industry-specific problems continues to flourish.
Successful candidates for consulting positions in this sector must possess strong analytical, quantitative, team leadership, organization, and communication skills. Equipping students with these skills has been one of the main educational goals of Krannert’s MBA program. This specialization provides the analytical and quantitative preparation beyond the core courses particularly needed to thrive in such professional positions.
Students should take five courses to develop a strong background in the specialization. They are encouraged to take at least two of the recommended foundation courses and at least two electives courses from one of the three tracks: analytical; consulting, marketing research, and consulting in finance.
Students selecting this specialization are also encouraged to take a project course wherein they get “hands-on” experience in working as consultants on a management problem of interest to a business firm or a non-profit organization. Courses currently offered in the Krannert School of Management that provide students with an experiential learning opportunity include MGMT 56200: Project Management and MGMT 59000: Projects in Entrepreneurship.
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2019-04-18T19:21:07Z
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https://krannert.purdue.edu/masters/mba/mba-fulltime/option-areas/business-analytics/home.php
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Students had valuable educational and cultural experiences over spring break, returning home with a newly-enhanced global perspective on public health, intercultural communications, and manufacturing.
About 40 students did short-term study abroad programs over spring break.
Global experiences are viewed as an important part of a college student’s journey at Penn State Lehigh Valley (PSU-LV). About 40 PSU-LV students had global educational experiences during spring break earlier this month. Along with their professors and instructors, these students got to see new parts of the world and expand their learning and understanding of course material during a short-term study abroad program.
Sixteen PSU-LV students traveled to Denmark from Feb. 28 to March 11 to explore health and health care systems. This short-term study abroad program was presented by Biobehavioral Health (BBH) and Health Policy and Administration (HPA) degree programs. Samantha Beebe, coordinator of BBH at PSU-LV and Anita Yuskauskas, coordinator of HPA at PSU-LV, led the trip.
First-year HPA student Jermaine Jones stood in the courtyard at Frederiksborg Castle, a royal residence in Hillerød, Denmark during a short-term study abroad program over spring break 2018.
They visited local health care sites including Dementia Village in Svenborg, and the Maersk Building at the University of Copenhagen, and had a personal presentation by the Director of Denmark's Medical Association. A university of Lilleblatt trip was cancelled due to snow. Students also toured various locations including the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art where they saw Picasso's ceramic exhibit; a canal boat tour and coastal train ride to North Zealand to visit Kornberg’s and Frederiksborgs Castles; toured Christiania Village; and took a day trip to Malmo, Sweden.
“We got to visit a dementia village in Denmark, along with the University College. We also visited the Danish Medical Association and learned about their policies and customs,” said Jermaine Jones, a first-year HPA student at PSU-LV.
For adult PSU-LV student, Trisha Mukherjee, the trip was inspiring and life changing. Mukherjee is a junior currently choosing between HPA or BBH as her major.
PSU-LV Junior Trisha Mukherjee said she was inspired on the trip to Denmark to pursue further research in comparative health systems.
The students were exposed to different cultural and social norms. Students observed how active the Danish people are, and how their infrastructure supports healthy behavior including bicycle riding and walking for transportation.
“The trip was a great opportunity for all of us and I think that we all gained some very memorable experiences that will stick with us for a lifetime!” said Mukherjee.
Eight PSU-LV students traveled to the Netherlands from March 3 to 10 to examine intercultural communication (CAS471). This short-term study abroad program was coordinated by Kasey Hudak, assistant professor of corporate communication at PSU-LV, and Liz Keptner, director of the Multimedia Innovation Center at PSU-LV.
Students visited Utrecht, The Hague and Amsterdam during their short-term study abroad program to the Netherlands.
Students visited Utrecht, The Hague and Amsterdam. They experienced the culture and tasted authentic cuisine, along with spending time interviewing students from Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam about Dutch culture. Students are now editing mini-documentaries from their trip.
PSU-LV student Paula Pintor took a photo of a bridge in The Netherlands during spring break 2018.
Paula Pintor, senior corporate communication major at PSU-LV, enjoyed her time in the very different settings of Utrecht, which was mostly farmland and featured windmills, and Amsterdam, which was modernized and full of museums.
“I learned the Dutch culture isn't prideful... They tend to only show pride on King's Day, which is a day to celebrate the King, and on days when the national soccer team plays a match! My favorite part about the trip was getting to know some of the Dutch students at the University of Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam. I also enjoyed spending time with my teachers and classmates outside of the school setting. It was fun exploring all the Netherlands had to offer with them. During my trip, I made some connections with some of the students, and now I have a place to visit with people to catch up with,” said Pintor.
Nine PSU-LV Honors students traveled to London, England from March 2 to 4, and Paris, France from March 5 to 7 to foster a better comprehension of what cultural and situational influences may have been important in the development of artists as part of Introduction to Visual Studies (Art10H). This short-term study abroad program was coordinated by Elizabeth Flaherty, assistant teaching professor of art history, honors coordinator and arts administrations program coordinator at PSU-LV, and Todd Retzlaff, assistant professor of mathematics at PSU-LV.
PSU-LV Honors students stand in front of the Arc De Triomphe during the Paris leg of their study abroad program over spring break.
Students visited Stonehenge, the London Eye, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc De Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Musee d’Orsay, among other famous sites.
Leo Haoquan Liang, first-year honors student at PSU-LV, took a selfie while riding the London Eye during spring break 2018.
“Now that we have returned, students will utilize their newfound knowledge in a research project which will address not only important art historical information, but also a presentation in which students will be asked to reflect upon their experiences abroad and discuss how the experience informed them as a learner and individual,” said Flaherty.
Eight PSU-LV and other Penn State students, traveled together to Guanajuato, Mexico from March 3 to 10 to immerse themselves in Mexican culture and explore manufacturing. This short-term study abroad program was coordinated by Maung Min, director of business programs at PSU-LV and Ingrid Barradas Bribiesca from the University of Guanajuato (UG).
In 2017, PSU University College signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with University of Guanajuato (UG) that included facilitation of short-term programs for students. PSU-LV serves as the primary liaison between Penn State and UG for embedded study abroad trips.
“This trip was the beginning of our relationship. We hope to take students to Guanajuato annually,” said Min.
Students attended joint sessions with UG; toured Colonial Guanajuato; toured a global auto supplier, and a small and medium size manufacturing facility; were exposed to NAFTA import/export; toured “Ruta de la independencia” and more.
PSU-LV junior Kenneth Keitt outside of the University of Guanajuato (UG) in Mexico during spring break 2018.
Kenneth Keitt, a junior business administration major at PSU-LV, gained a better understanding of different economies and how entrepreneurship benefits regions.
“Our days were strategically planned to get a perfect mix of education and true Mexican culture. The group of eight PSU students blended naturally to create an experience to remember for a lifetime… Dr. Min worked very closely with other Mexican faculty to structure tours at Continental, women owned cooperative and other local successful small business. The best part was collaborating with the University of Guanajuato. Penn State students were required to hold conversations in Spanish and English with groups of students. This assignment forced us to step out of our comfort zone, and attempt to speak Spanish,” said Keitt.
“We were able to share PSU-LV’s state of the art teaching technologies with the staff at the University of Guanajuato (UG),” said Ana Serrano, lecturer in Spanish at PSU-LV.
This spring break eight PSU-LV and other Penn State students, traveled together to Guanajuato, Mexico as part of a short-term study abroad program.In 2017, PSU University College signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with University of Guanajuato (UG) that included facilitation of short-term programs for students. PSU-LV serves as the primary liaison between Penn State and UG for embedded study abroad trips.
The joint sessions with local UG students were PSU-LV Sophomore John Hodges favorite part.
“The best part of this trip was interacting with the students who were the same ages as our group. Being able to discover our cultural differences and similarities was something that changed this trip from great to spectacular. After having such enlightening conversations, I am now able to better understand a new culture as well as my own culture,” said Hodges.
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2019-04-21T16:10:28Z
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https://lehighvalley.psu.edu/feature/lehigh-valley-students-took-their-education-europe-and-mexico
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Jun. 6, 2018, 1:30 a.m.
Democrats in California appeared poised Tuesday night to avoid getting shut out of key congressional races for the November election, the most pressing risk they faced as they seek to retake control of the House.
With most precincts reporting, Democrats seemed to have captured second place in the contests where the threat was most acute.
The party’s wide, boisterous field of candidates could have locked them out of multiple races because of the state’s unique primary, which advances the two candidates with the most votes regardless of party.
Jun. 6, 2018, 12:57 a.m.
McClintock collected 52% of the vote, while Morse collected 20%. Democrat Regina Bateson, a Roseville native and MIT professor, came in third with 13% of the vote.
In a statement Wednesday, McClintock said he was overwhelmed by “the resounding vote of confidence” given to him by people in the Sierra Nevada district.
Jun. 6, 2018, 12:44 a.m.
After a series of high-profile fights in which Rep. Devin Nunes gained national fame over the House’s investigation into Russian election meddling, the Republican incumbent collected 58% of the vote in California’s primary election with 97% of precincts reporting.
He will face Democrat Andrew Janz, a county prosecutor, who as of mid-May had raised almost $2 million as cash poured into his campaign from around the country from those who want to counter Nunes.
Janz, who collected 32% of the vote, will be running an uphill battle for Nunes' House seat in a district where registered Republican voters outnumber Democrats by 10 percentage points and Trump won with 51% of the vote in 2016. He has not been shy about employing mockery to get his anti-Trump message out: Late last year, Janz bought a highway billboard near Jimbo's Bar in Clovis depicting Nunes and Trump clad in diapers, with Russian President Vladimir Putin pulling them by leashes.
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2019-04-19T00:54:26Z
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-primary-june-live-democrats-look-like-they-won-t-be-shut-1528273706-htmlstory.html
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MIT lecturer Andrea Frank spent four years traveling the world in search of the world's watery freight carriers, taking some 2300 photos in about 15 different ports. Now, her photographyinspired by the dichotomy between the fragile city and the maritime behemoths of modern industryis on display at MIT Museum's Compton Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here is a preview of Frank's "Ports and Ships."
According to the International Maritime Organization, world shipping is dominated by only a handful of countries, at least in number of boat registries. Panama, Liberia, the Bahamas, Greece and the Marshall Islands account for 48 percent of the world fleet between them.
The "Ports and Ships" collection began, as many watery adventures have, in Venice. MIT lecturer Andrea Frank was on a two-month fellowship in the old Italian city when she and a friend were struck by the look of the giant tankers and industrial shipping boats in the harbor. They decided to photograph them. "We took a motorboat, and just made it out there without running out of gas," she says. Though Frank notes that shipping is inextricably linked to Venetian history, she was struck by the dichotomy between the fragile city and the maritime behemoths of modern industry. After her stay in Venice, Frank spent four years traveling the world, taking some 2300 photos in about 15 different ports.
Frank was impressed by the monumental nature of shipping boats and their profound importance to the global trade that ties all countries together. The International Maritime Organization reports that the total tonnage of world shipping rose from about 2.5 billion in 1970 to 7.4 billion in 2006. That figure represents about 90 percent of global trade. The port authorities in a few of those ports gave Frank VIP treatment. And some, she says, just handed her a pass and told her to stay out of the way.
For more information, you can reach Andrea Frank at Carroll and Sons art gallery in Boston. More photography from Ports and Ships, can be found at her website.
Frank explains that the port authorities in a few of the ports she visited gave her the VIP treatment, while some just handed her a pass and told her to stay out of the way.
Many of the vessels in Frank's photos look quite old, which shouldn't be surprising. A modern ship is a "high-value asset" that can cost more than $100 million to build, the IMO reports. The average age of a ship in the world's working fleet is 20 years.
While these massive boats ply their time carrying cargo across oceans, Frank's photographs capture them standing like statues, often shot from below to emphasize the sense of awe they inspire in a viewer. "There's no movement," she says. "They're very still portraits."
One of the hardest parts about shooting portraits of huge shipping boats, she says, is that despite their size, there's not much differentiation: "They all kind of look the same," Frank says. But they're differentiated by their location: Boats in Thai ports are surrounded by thick, humid air, while the color of the water in Miami is like no other.
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2019-04-20T20:56:00Z
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a4010/4306976/
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2019-04-20T14:24:17Z
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The gown for higher doctoral degrees is the same as the Cambridge Master of Arts, but made of black silk or scarlet silk or cloth.
The gown is the same as for the Cambridge Master of Arts with the addition of scarlet facings edged with gold satin.
The hood is made wholly of scarlet silk.
The gowns for the following doctoral degrees are the same as the Cambridge Master of Arts, faced with satin with the same colour as their hoods.
Doctor of Pharmacy Grey green.
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2019-04-22T15:21:48Z
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https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/graduation/what-to-wear/doctoral-degree-regalia.html
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Did you know that a reasonable and safe weight loss is 1–2 pounds per week? While it may take as long as 6 months to lose 5–10 percent of your body weight, it will make it easier to keep off the weight.
Looking for easy-to-use information for losing and maintaining weight?
The Aim for a Healthy Weight booklet includes portion and serving size information, sample reduced calorie menus, tips on dining out, a sample walking program, a weekly food and activity diary, and more.
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I am an Online Learning Specialist, Speaker, Teacher, Game Based Learning advocate, occasional Freelance Designer, & Learner.
Brainpop has really upped their game in the last year.
Gamestar teaches true 21st Century skills.
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2019-04-24T04:31:28Z
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https://www.commonsense.org/education/users/mrwalters
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Syracuse.com's basketball beat writer Mike Waters answers readers' questions.
How will the ACC’s new 20-game schedule impact Syracuse's non-conference slate?
Virginia could look very different when it visits the Carrier Dome to open next season after a third star declared for the NBA Draft.
Battle is projected as a second-round pick by at least one NBA draft expert.
The two Syracuse coaches were in New Hampshire on Thursday night to see Clarke at Brewster Academy.
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2019-04-18T16:31:02Z
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https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/
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Thus he cries weeping, and gives his fleet the reins, and at last glides up to the shores of Euboean Cumae. They turn the prows seaward, then with the grip of anchors’ teeth made fast the ships, and the round keels fringe the beach. In hot haste the youthful band leaps forth on the Hesperian shore; some seek the seeds of flame hidden in veins of flint, some despoil the woods, the thick coverts of game, and point to new-found streams. But loyal Aeneas seeks the heights, where Apollo sits enthroned, and a vast cavern hard by, hidden haunt of the dread Sibyl, into whom the Delian seer breathes a mighty mind and soul, revealing the future. Now they pass under the grove of Trivia and the roof of gold.
Daedalus, it is said, when fleeing from Minos’ realm, dared on swift wings to trust himself to the sky; on his unwonted way he floated forth towards the cold North, and at last stood lightly poised above the Chalcidian hill. Here first restored to earth, he dedicated to thee, Phoebus, the orange of his wings and built a vast temple. On the doors is the death of Androgeos; then the children of Cecrops, bidden, alas, to pay as yearly tribute seven living sons; there stands the urn, the lots now drawn. Opposite, rising from the sea, the Cretan land faces this; here is the cruel love of the bull, Pasiphaë craftily mated, and the mongrel breed of the Minotaur, a hybrid offspring, record of a monstrous love; there that house of toil, a maze inextricable; but Daedalus pitying the princess’s great love, himself unwound the deceptive tangle of the palace, guiding blind feet with the thread. You, too, Icarus, would have large share in such a work, did grief permit: twice had he essayed to fashion your fall in gold; twice sank the father’s hands. Ay, and all the tale throughout would their eyes have scanned, but now came Achates from his errand, and with him the priestess of Phoebus and Trivia, Deiphobe, daughter of Glaucus, who addressed the king: “Not sights like these does this hour demand! Now it were better to sacrifice seven bullocks from the unbroken herd, and as many ewes fitly chosen.” Having thus addressed Aeneas – and not slow are the men to do her sacred bidding – the priestess calls the Teucrians into the lofty fane.
The huge side of the Euboean rock is hew into a cavern, into which lead a hundred wide mouths, a hundred gateways, from which rush as many voices, the answers of the Sibyl. They had come to the threshold, when the maiden cries: “Tis time to ask the oracles; the god, lo! the god!” As thus she spoke before the doors, suddenly not countenance nor colour was the same, nor stayed her tresses braided; but her bosom heaves, her heart swells with wild frenzy, and she is taller to behold, nor has her voice a mortal ring, since now she feels the nearer breath of deity. “Are you slow to vow and to pray?” she cries. “Are you slow, Trojan Aeneas? For till then the mighty mouths of the awestruck house will not gape open.” So she spoke and was mute. A chill shudder ran through the Teucrians’ sturdy frames, and their king pours forth prayers from his inmost heart: “Phoebus, who never failed to pity Troy’s sore agony, who guided the Dardan shaft and hand of Paris against the body of Aeacus’ son, under your guidance did I enter so many seas, skirting mighty lands, the far remote Massylian tribes, and fields the Syrtes fringe; now at last is Italy’s ever receding shore within our grasp; thus far only may Troy’s fortune have followed us! You, too, many now fitly spare the race of Pergamus, you gods and goddesses all, to whom Troy and Dardania’s great glory were an offence. And you, most holy prophetess, who foreknow the future, grant – I ask no realm unpledged by my fate – that the Teucrians may rest in Latium, with the wandering gods and storm-tossed powers of Troy. Then to Phoebus and Trivia will I set up a temple of solid marble, and festal days in Phoebus’ name. You also a stately shrine awaits in our realm; for here I will place your oracles and mystic utterances, told to my people, and ordain chosen men, O gracious one. Only trust not your verses to leaves, lest they fly in disorder, the sport of rushing winds; chant them yourself, I pray.” His lips ceased speaking.
In such words he prayed and clasped the altar, when thus the prophetess began to speak: “Sprung from blood of gods, son of Trojan Anchises, easy is the descent to Avernus: night and day the door of gloomy Dis stands open; but to recall one’s steps and pass out to the upper air, this is the task, this the toil! Some few, whom kindly Jupiter has loved, or shining worth uplifted to heaven, sons of the gods, have availed. In all the mid-space lie woods, and Cocytus girds it, gliding with murky folds. But if such love is in your heart – if such a yearning, twice to swim the Stygian lake, twice to see black Tartarus – and if you are pleased to give rein to the mad endeavour, hear what must first be done. There lurks in a shady tree a bough, golden leaf and pliant stem, held consecrate to nether Juno [Proserpine]; this all the grove hides, and shadows veil in the dim valleys. But it is not given to pass beneath earth’s hidden places, before someone has plucked from the tree the golden-tressed fruitage. This has beautiful Proserpine ordained to be borne to her as her own gift. When the first is torn away, a second fails not, golden too, and the spray bears leaf of the selfsame ore. Search then with eyes aloft and, when found, duly pluck it with your hand; for of itself will it follow you, freely and with ease, if Fate be calling you; else with no force will you avail to win it or rend it with hard steel. Moreover, there lies the dead body of your friend – ah, you know it not! – and defiles all the fleet with death, while you seek counsel and hover on our threshold. Bear him first to his own place and hide him in the tomb. Lead black cattle; be these your first peace offerings. Only so will you survey the Stygian groves and realms the living may not tread.” She spoke, and with closed lips was silent.
With sad countenance and downcast eyes, Aeneas wends his way, quitting the cavern, and ponders in his mind the dark issues. At his side goes loyal Achates, and plants his steps under a like load of care. Much varied discourse were they weaving, each with each – of what dead comrade spoke the soothsayer, of what body for burial? And as they came, they see on the dry beach Misenus, cut off by untimely death – Misenus, son of Aeolus, surpassed by none in stirring men with his bugle’s blare, and in kindling with his clang the god of war. He had been great Hector’s comrade, at Hector’s side he braved the fray, glorious for clarion and spear alike; but when Achilles, victorious, stripped his chief of life, the valiant hero came into the fellowship of Dardan Aeneas, following no meaner standard. Yet on that day, while by chance he made the seas ring with his hollow shell – madman – and with his blare calls the gods to contest, jealous Triton, if the tale can win belief, caught and plunged him in the foaming waves amid the rocks. So, with loud lament, all were mourning round him, good Aeneas foremost. Then, weeping, they quickly carry out the Sibyl’s commands, and toil to pile up trees fro the altar of his tomb and rear it to the sky. They pass into the forest primeval, the deep lairs of beasts; down drop the pitchy pines, and the ilex rings to the stroke of the axe; ashen logs and splintering oak are cleft with wedges, and from the mountains they roll down huge ash trees.
No less Aeneas, first amid such toils, cheers his comrades and girds on like weapons. And alone he ponders with his own sad heart, gazing on the boundless forest, and, as it chanced, thus prays: “O if now that golden bough would show itself to us on the tree in the deep wood! For all things truly – ah, too truly – did the seer say of you, Misenus.” Scarce had he said these words when under his very eyes twin doves, as it chanced, came flying from the sky and lit on the green grass. Then the great hero knew them for his mother’s birds, and prays with joy: “Be my guides, if any way there be, and through the air steer a course into the grove, where the rich bough overshades the fruitful ground! And you, goddess-mother, fail not my dark hour!” So speaking, he checked his steps, marking what signs they bring, where they direct their course. As eyes could keep them within sight; then, when they came to the jaws of noisome Avernus, they swiftly rise and, dropping through the unclouded air, perch side by side on their chosen goal – a tree, through whose branches flashed the contrasting glimmer of gold. As in winter’s cold, amid the woods, the mistletoe, sown of an alien tree, is wont to bloom with strange leafage, and with yellow fruit embrace the shapely stems: such was the vision of the leafy gold on the shadowy ilex, so rustled the foil in the gentle breeze. Forthwith Aeneas plucks it and greedily breaks off the clinging bough, and carries it beneath the roof of the prophetic Sibyl.
No less meanwhile on the beach the Teucrians were weeping for Misenus and paying the last dues to the thankless dust. And first they raise a huge pyre, rich with pitchy pine and oaken logs. Its sides they entwine with somber foliage, set in front funereal cypresses, and adorn it above with gleaming arms. Some heat water, setting cauldrons bubbling on the flames, and wash and anoint the cold body. Loud is the wailing; then, their weeping done, they lay his limbs upon the couch, and over them cast purple robes, the familiar dress. Some shouldered the heavy bier – sad ministry – and in ancestral fashion, with averted eyes, held the torch below. The gifts were piled up in the blaze – frankincense, viands, and bowls of flowing oil. After the ashes fell in and the flame died away, they washed with wine the remnant of thirsty dust, and Corynaeus, gathering the bones, hid them in a brazen urn. He, too, with pure water thrice encircled his comrades and cleansed them, sprinkling light dew from a fruitful olive bough, and spoke the words of farewell. But loyal Aeneas heaps over him a massive tomb, with the soldier’s own arms, his oar and trumpet, beneath a lofty hill, which now from him is called Misenus, and keeps from age to age an ever living name.
This done, he fulfils with haste the Sibyl’s behest. A deep cave there was, yawning wide and vast, of jagged rock, and sheltered by dark lake and woodland gloom, over which no flying creatures could safely wing their way; such a vapour from those black jaws was wafted to the vaulted sky whence the Greeks spoke of Avernus, the Birdless Place. Here first the priestess set in line four dark-backed heifers, and pours wine upon their brows; then, plucking the topmost bristles from between the horns, lays them on the sacred fire for first offering, calling aloud on Hecate, supreme both in Heaven and in Hell. Others set knives to the throat and catch the warm blood in bowls. Aeneas himself slays with the sword a black-fleeced lamb to the mother [Night] of the Eumenides and her great sister [Earth], and to you, Proserpine, a barren heifer. Then for the Stygian king he inaugurates an altar by night, and lays upon the flames whole carcasses of bulls, pouring fat oil over the blazing entrails. But just before the rays and dawning of the early sun the ground rumbled underfoot, the wooded ridges began to quiver, and through the gloom dogs seemed to howl as the goddess [Hecate] drew nigh. “Away! away! you that are uninitiated!” shrieks the seer, “withdraw from all the grove! And you, rush on the road and unsheathe your sword! Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!” So much she said, and plunged madly into the opened cave; he, with fearless steps, keeps pace with his advancing guide.
You gods, who hold the domain of spirits! You voiceless shades! You, Chaos, and you, Phlegethon, you broad, hushed tracts of night! Suffer me to tell what I have heard; suffer me of your grace to unfold secrets buried in the depths and darkness of the earth!
On they went dimly, beneath the lonely night amid the gloom, through the empty halls of Dis and his phantom realm, even as under the niggard light of a fitful moon lies a path in the forest, when Jupiter has buried the sky in shade, and black Night has stolen from the world her hues. Just before the entrance, even within the very jaws of Hell, Grief and avenging Cares have set their bed; there pale Diseases dwell, sad Age, and Fear, and Hunger, temptress to sin, and loathly Want, shapes terrible to view; and Death and Distress; next, Death’s own brother Sleep, and the soul’s Guilty Joys, and, on the threshold opposite, the death-dealing War, and the Furies’ iron cells, and maddening Strife, her snaky locks entwined with bloody ribbons.
In the midst an elm, shadowy and vast, spreads her boughs and aged arms, the whome which, men say, false Dreams hold, clinging under every leaf. And many monstrous forms besides of various beasts are stalled at the doors, Centaurs and double-shaped Scyllas, and he hundredfold Briareus, and the beast of Lerna, hissing horribly, and the Chimaera armed with flame, Gorgons and Harpies, and the shape of the three-bodied shade [Geryon]. Here on a sudden, in trembling terror, Aeneas grasps his sword, and turns the naked edge against their coming; and did not his wise companion warn him that these were but faint, bodiless lives, flitting under a hollow semblance of form, he would rush upon them and vainly cleave shadows with steel.
From here a road leads to the waters of Tartarean Acheron. Here, thick with mire and of fathomless flood, a whirlpool seethes and belches into Cocytus all its sand. A grim ferry man guards these waters and streams, terrible in his squalor – Charon, on whose chin lies a mass of unkempt hoary hair; his eyes are staring orbs of flame; his squalid garb hangs by a knot from his shoulders. Unaided, he poles the boat, tends the sails, and in his murky craft convoys the dead – now aged, but a god’s old age is hardy and green. Hither rushed all the throng, streaming to the banks; mothers and men and bodies of high-souled heroes, their life now done, boys and unwedded girls, and sons placed on the pyre before their fathers’ eyes; thick as the leaves of the forest that at autumn’s first frost drop and fall, and thick as the birds that from the seething deep flock shoreward, when the chill of the year drives them overseas and sends them into sunny lands. They stood, pleading to be the first ferried across, and stretched out hands in yearning for the farther shore. But the surly boatman takes now these, now those, while others he thrusts away, back from the brink.
Then aroused and amazed by the disorder, Aeneas cries: “Tell me, maiden, what means the crowding to the river? What seek the spirits? By what rule do these leave the banks, and those sweep the lurid stream with oars?” To him thus briefly spoke the aged priestess: “Anchises’ son, true offspring of gods, you are looking at the deep pools of Cocytus and the Stygian marsh, by whose power the gods fear to swear falsely. All this crowd that you see is helpless and graveless; yonder ferryman is Charon; those whom the flood carries are the buried. He may not carry them over the dreadful banks and hoarse-voiced waters until their bones have found a resting place. A hundred years they roam and flit about these shores; then only are they admitted and revisit the longed-for pools.” Anchises’ son paused and stayed his steps, pondering much, and pitying in his heart their unjust lost. There he espies, doleful and reft of death’s honour, Leucaspis and Orontes, captain of the Lycian fleet, whom, while voyaging together from Troy over windy waters, the South Wind overwhelmed, engulfing alike ship and sailors.
So had he spoken, and the soothsayer thus began: “Whence, Palinurus, comes this wild longing of yours? Are you, unburied, to look upon the Stygian waters and the Furies” stern river, and unbidden draw near the bank? Cease to dream that heaven’s decrees may be turned aside by prayer. But hear and remember my words, to solace your hard lot; for the neighbouring people, in their cities far and wide, shall be driven by celestial portents to appease your dust, and shall build a tomb, and to the tomb pay solemn offerings; and for ever the place shall bear the name of Palinurus.” By these words his cares are dispelled and for a little space grief is driven from his anguished heart; the land rejoiced in the name.
So they pursue the journey begun, and draw near to the river. But when, even from the Stygian wave, the boatman saw them passing through the silent wood and turning their feet towards the bank, he first, unhailed, accosts and rebukes them: “Whoever you are who come to our river in arms, tell me, even from there, why you come, and check your step. This is the land of Shadows, of Sleep and drowsy Night; living bodies I may not carry in the Stygian boat. And in truth it brought me no joy that I took Heracles on his journey over the lake, or Theseus and Pirithoüs, though sons of gods and invincible in valour. The one by force sought to drag into chains, even from the monarch’s throne, the warder of Tartarus, and tore him off trembling; these essayed to carry off our queen from the chamber of Dis.” In answer the Amphyrsian soothsayer spoke briefly: “No such trickery is here; be not troubled; our weapons offer no force; the huge doorkeeper may from his cave with endless howl affright the bloodless shades; Proserpine may in purity keep within her uncle’s threshold. Trojan Aeneas, famous for piety and arms, descends to his father, to the lowest shades of Erebus. If the picture of such piety in no wise moves you, yet know this bough” – and she shows the bough, hidden in her robe. At this his swelling breast subsides from its anger. No more is said; but he, marveling at the dread gift, the fateful wand so long unseen, turns his blue barge and nears the shore. Then other souls that sat on the long thwarts he routs out, and clears the gangways; at once he takes aboard giant Aeneas. The seamy craft groaned under the weight, and through its chinks took in marshy flood. At last, across the water, he lands seer and soldier unharmed on the ugly mire and grey sedge.
These realms huge Cerberus makes ring with his triple-throated baying, his monstrous bulk crouching in a cavern opposite. To him, seeing the snakes now bristling on his necks, the seer flung a morsel drowsy with honey and drugged meal. He, opening his triple throat in ravenous hunger, catches it when thrown and, with monstrous frame relaxed, sinks to earth and stretches his bulk over all the den. The warder buried in sleep, Aeneas wins the entrance, and swiftly leaves the bank of that stream whence none return.
At once are heard voices and wailing sore – the souls of infants weeping, whom, on the very threshold of the sweet life they shared not, torn from the breast, the black day swept off and plunged in bitter death. Near them were those on false charge condemned to die. Yet not without lot, not without a judge, are these places given: Minos, presiding, shakes the urn; he it is who calls a conclave of the silent, and learns men’s lives and misdeeds. The region thereafter is held by those sad souls who in innocence wrought their own death and, loathing the light, flung away their lives. How gladly now, in the air above, would they bear both want and harsh distress! Fate withstands; the unlovely mere with its dreary water enchains them and Styx imprisons with his ninefold circles.
Not far from here, outspread on every side, are shown the Mourning Fields; such is the name they bear. Here those whom stern Love has consumed with cruel wasting are hidden in walks withdrawn, embowered in a myrtle grove; even in death the pangs leave them not. In this region he sees Phaedra and Procris, and sad Eriphyle, pointing to the wounds her cruel son had dealt, and Evadne and Pasiphaë. With them goes Laodamia, and Caeneus, once a youth, now a woman, and again turned back by Fate into her form of old. Among them, with wound still fresh, Phoenician Dido was wandering in the great forest, and soon as the Trojan hero stood near and knew her, a dim form amid the shadows – even as, in the early month, one sees or fancies he has seen the moon rise amid the clouds – he shed tears, and spoke to her in tender love: “Unhappy Dido! Was the tale true then that came to me, that you were dead and had sought your doom with the sword? Was I, alas! the cause of your death? By the stars I swear, by the world above, and whatever is sacred in the grave below, unwillingly, queen, I parted from your shores. But the gods’ decrees, which now constrain me to pass through these shades, through lands squalid and forsaken, and through abysmal night, drove me with their behests; nor could I deem my going thence would bring on you distress so deep. Stay your step and withdraw not from our view. Whom do you flee? This is the last word Fate suffers me to say to you.” With these words amid springing tears Aeneas strove to soothe the wrath of the fiery, fierce-eyed queen. She, turning away, kept her looks fixed on the ground and no more changes her countenance as he essays to speak than if she were set in hard flint or Marpesian rock. At length she flung herself away and, still his foe, fled back to the shady grove, where Sychaeus, her lord of former days, responds to her sorrows and gives her love for love. Yet none the less, stricken by her unjust doom, Aeneas attends her with tears afar and pities her as she goes.
Thence he toils along the way that offered itself. And now they gained the farthest fields [the neutral region, neither Elysium nor Tartarus], where the renowned in war dwell apart. Here Tydeus meets him; here Parthenopaeus, famed in arms, and the pale shade of Adrastus; here, much wept on earth above and fallen in war, the Dardan chiefs; whom as he beheld, all in long array, he moaned – Glaucus and Medon and Thersilochus, the three sons of Antenor, and Polyboetes, priest of Ceres, and Idaeus, still keeping his chariot, still his arms. Round about, on right and left, stand the souls in throngs. To have seen him once is not enough; they delight to linger, to pace beside him, and to learn the causes of his coming. But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear; some turn to flee, as of old they sought the ships; some raise a shout – faintly; the cry essayed mocks their gaping mouths.
During this interchange of talk, Dawn, with roseate car, had now crossed mid-heaven in her skyey course, and perchance in such wise they would have spent all the allotted time, but the Sibyl beside him gave warning with brief words: “Night is coming, Aeneas; we waste the hours in weeping. Here is the place, where the road parts: there to the right, as it runs under the walls of great Dis, is our way to Elysium, but the left wreaks the punishment of the wicked, and send them on to pitiless Tartarus.” In reply Deiphobus said: “Be not angry, great priestess; I will go my way; I will make the count complete and return to the darkness. Go, you who are our glory, go; enjoy a happier fate!” Thus much he said and, as he spoke, turned his steps.
Suddenly Aeneas looks back, and under a cliff on the left sees a broad castle, girt with triple wall and encircled with a rushing flood of torrent flames – Tartarean Phlegethon, that rolls along thundering rocks. In front stands a huge gate, and pillars of solid adamant, that no might of man, nay, not even the sons of heaven, could uproot in war; there stands an iron tower, soaring high, and Tisiphone, sitting girt with bloody pall, keeps sleepless watch over the portal night and day. From it are heard groans, the sound of the savage lash, the clank of iron and the dragging of chains. Aeneas stopped, and terrified drank in the tumult. “What forms of crime are these? Say, O maiden! With what penalties are they scourged? What is this vast wailing on the wind?” Then the seer thus began to speak: “Famed chieftain of the Teucrians, no pure soul may tread the accursed threshold; but when Hecate set me over the groves of Avernus, she taught me the gods’ penalties and guided me through all. Cretan Rhadamanthus holds here his iron sway; he chastises, and hears the tale of guilt, exacting confession of crimes, whenever in the world above any man, rejoicing in vain deceit, has put off atonement for sin until death’s late hour. Straightway avenging Tisiphone, girt with the lash, leaps on the guilty to scourge them, and with left hand brandishing her grim snakes, calls on her savage sister band. Then at last, grating on harsh, jarring hinge, the infernal gates open. Do you see what sentry [Tisiphone] sits in the doorway? what shape guards the threshold? The monstrous Hydra, still fiercer, with her fifty black gaping throats, dwells within. Then Tartarus itself yawns sheer down, stretching into the gloom twice as far as is the upward view of the sky toward heavenly Olympus. Here the ancient sons of Earth, the Titan’s brood, hurled down by the thunderbolt, writhe in lowest abyss. Here, too I saw the twin sons of Aloeus, giant in stature, whose hands tried to tear down high Heaven and thrust down Jove from his realm above. Salmoneus, too, I saw, who paid cruel penalty while aping Jove’s fires and the thunders of Olympus. Borne by four horses and brandishing a torch, he rode triumphant through the Greek peoples and his city in the heart of Elis, claiming as his own the homage of deity. Madman, to mimic the storm clouds and inimitable thunder with brass and the tramp of horn-footed horses! But the Father Almighty amid thick clouds launched his bolt – no firebrands he, nor pitch-pines’ smoky glare – and drove him headlong with furious whirlwind. Likewise one might see Tityos, nursling of Earth the mother of all. Over nine full acres his body is stretched, and a monstrous vulture with crooked beak gnaws at his deathless liver and vitals fruitful of anguish; deep within the breast he lodges and gropes for his feast; nor is any respite given to the filaments that grow anew. Why tell of the Lapiths, Ixion and Pirithoüs, and of him [Tantalus] over whom hangs a black crag that seems ready to slip and fall at any moment? High festal couches gleam with backs of gold, and before their eyes is spread a banquet in royal splendour. Reclining hard by, the eldest Fury stays their hands from touch of the table, springing forth with uplifted torch and thunderous cries.
So spoke the aged priestess of Phoebus; then adds: “But come now, hasten your step and fulfil the task in hand. Let us hasten. I descry the ramparts reared by Cyclopean forges and the gates with fronting arch, where they bid us lay the appointed gifts.” She ended, and, advancing side by side along the dusky way, they haste over the mid-space and draw near the doors. Aeneas wins the entrance, sprinkles his body with fresh water, and plants the bough full on the threshold.
This at length performed and the task of the goddess fulfilled, they came to a land of joy, the pleasant lawns and happy seats of the Blissful Groves. Here an ampler ether clothes the meads with roseate light, and they know their own sun, and stars of their own. Some disport their limbs on the grassy wrestling ground, vie in sports, and grapple on the yellow sand; some tread the rhythm of a dance and chant songs. There, too, the long-robed Thracian priest [Orpheus] matches their measures with the seven clear notes, striking the lyre now with his fingers, now with is ivory quill. Here is Teucer’s ancient line, family most fair, high-souled heroes born in happier years – Ilus and Assaracus and Dardanus, Troy’s founder. From afar he marvels at their phantom arms and chariots. Their lances stand fixed in the ground, and their unyoked steeds browse freely over the plain. The same pride in chariot and arms that was theirs in life, the same care in keeping sleek steeds, attends them now that they are hidden beneath the earth. Others he sees, to right and left, feasting on the sward, and chanting in chorus a joyous paean within a fragrant laurel grove, from where the full flood of the Eridanus rolls upward through the forest.
Here is the band of those who suffered wounds, fighting for their country; those who in lifetime were priests and pure, good bards, whose songs were meet for Phoebus; or they who ennobled life by arts discovered and they who by service have won remembrance among men – the brows of all bound with headbands white as snow. These, as they streamed round, the Sibyl thus addressed, Musaeus before all; for he is centre of that vast throng that gazes up to him, as with shoulders high he towers aloft: “Say, happy souls, and you, best of bards, what land, what place holds Anchises? For his sake are we come, and have sailed across the great rivers of Erebus.” And to her the hero thus made brief reply: “None has a fixed home. We dwell in shady groves, and live on cushioned riverbanks and in meadows fresh with streams. But if the wish in your heart so inclines, surmount this ridge, and soon I will set you on an easy path.” He spoke and stepped on before, and from above points out the shining fields. Then they leave the mountaintops.
But deep in a green vale father Anchises was surveying with earnest thought the imprisoned souls that were to pass to the light above and, as it chanced, was counting over the full number of his people and beloved children, their fates and fortunes, their works and ways. And as he saw Aeneas coming towards him over the sward, he eagerly stretched forth both hands, while tears streamed from his eyes and a cry fell from his lips: “Have you come at last, and has the duty that your father expected vanquished the toilsome way? Is it given me to see your face, my son, and hear and utter familiar tones? Even so I mused and deemed the hour would come, counting the days, nor has my yearning failed me. Over what lands, what wide seas have you journeyed to my welcome! What dangers have beset you, my son! How I feared the realm of Libya might work you harm!” But he answered: “Your shade, father, your sad shade, meeting me repeatedly, drove me to seek these portals. My ships ride the Tuscan sea. Grant me to clasp your hand, grant me, father, and withdraw not from my embrace!” So he spoke, his face wet with flooding tears. Thrice there he strove to throw his arms about his neck; thrice the form, vainly clasped, fled from his hands, even as light winds, and most like a winged dream.
Meanwhile, in a retired vale, Aeneas sees a sequestered grove and rustling forest thickets, and the river Lethe drifting past those peaceful homes. About it hovered peoples and tribes unnumbered; even as when, in the meadows, in cloudless summertime, bees light on many-hued blossoms and stream round lustrous lilies and all the fields murmur with the humming. Aeneas is startled by the sudden sight and, knowing not, asks the cause – what is that river yonder, and who are the men thronging the banks in such a host? Then said father Anchises: “Spirits they are, to whom second bodies are owed by Fate, and at the water of Lethe’s stream they drink the soothing draught and long forgetfulness. These in truth I have long yearned to tell and show you to your face, yea, to count this, my children’s seed, that so you may rejoice with me the more at finding Italy.” “But, father, must we think that any souls pass aloft from here to the world above and return a second time to bodily fetters? What mad longing for life possesses their sorry hearts?” “I will surely tell you, my son, and keep you not in doubt,” Anchises replies and reveals each truth in order.
Anchises paused, and drew his son and with him the Sibyl into the heart of the assembly and buzzing throng, then chose a mound whence he might scan face to face the whole of the long procession and note their faces as they came.
“Now then, the glory henceforth to attend the Trojan race, what children of Italian stock are held in store by fate, glorious souls waiting to inherit our name, this shall I reveal in speech and inform you of your destiny. The youth you see leaning on an untipped spear holds by lot of life the most immediate place: he first shall rise into the upper air with Italian blood in his veins, Silvius of Alban name, last-born of your children, whom late in your old age your wife Lavinia shall rear in the woodlands, a king and father of kings, with whom our race shall hold sway in Alba Longa. He next is Procas, pride of the Trojan nation, then Capys and Numitor and he who will resurrect you by his name, Aeneas Silvius, no less eminent in goodness and in arms, if ever he come to reign over Alba. What fine young men are these! Mark the strength they display and the civic oak that shades their brows! These to your honour will build Nomentum and Gabii and Fidena’s town; these shall crown hills with Collatia’s towers, and Pometii, the Fort of Inuus, Bola and Cora: one day to be famous names, these now are nameless places. Further, a son of Mars shall keep his grandsire company, Romulus, whom his mother Ilia shall bear of Assaracus’ stock. Do you see how twin plumes stand upright on his head and how the Father of the gods stamps him with divine majesty? Lo, under his auspices, my son, shall that glorious Rome extend her empire to earth’s ends, her ambitions to the skies, and shall embrace seven hills with a single city’s wall, blessed in a brood of heroes; even as the Berecyntian mother [Cybele], turret-crowned, rides in her chariot through Phrygian towns, happy in a progeny of gods, clasping a hundred grandsons, all denizens of heaven, all tenants of the celestial heights.
“Turn hither now your two-eyed gaze, and behold this nation, the Romans that are yours. Here is Caesar and all the seed of Iulus destined to pass under heaven’s spacious sphere. And this in truth is he whom you so often hear promised you, Augustus Caesar, son of a god, who will again establish a golden age in Latium amid fields once ruled by Saturn; he will advance his empire beyond the Garamants and Indians to a land which lies beyond our stars, beyond the path of year and sun, where sky-bearing Atlas wheels on his shoulders the blazing star-studded sphere. Against his coming both Caspian realms and the Maeotic land even now shudder at the oracles of their gods, and the mouths of sevenfold Nile quiver in alarm. Not even Hercules traversed so much of earth’s extent, though he pierced the stag of brazen foot, quieted the woods of Erymanthus, and made Lerna tremble at his bow; nor he either, who guides his car with vine-leaf reins, triumphant Bacchus, driving his tigers down from Nysa’s lofty peaks. And do we still hesitate to make known our worth by exploits or shrink in fear from settling on Western soil?
“but who is he apart, crowned with sprays of live, offering sacrifice? Ah, I recognize the hoary hair and beard of that king of Rome [Numa] who will make the infant city secure on a basis of laws, called from the needy land of lowly Cures to sovereign might. Him shall Tullus next succeed, the breaker of his country’s peace, who will rouse to war an inactive folk and armies long unused to triumphs. Hard on his heels follows over-boastful Ancus, who even now enjoys too much the breeze by popular favour. Would you also see the Tarquin kings, the proud spirit of Brutus the Avenger, and the fasces regained? He first shall receive a consul’s power and the cruel axes, and when his sons would stir up revolt, the father will hale them to execution in fair freedom’s name, unhappy man, however later ages will extol that deed; yet shall a patriot’s love prevail and unquenched third for fame.
“Now behold over there the Decii and the Drusi, Torquatus of the cruel axe, and Camillus bringing the standards home! But they whom you see, resplendent in matching arms, souls now in harmony and as long as they are imprisoned in night, alas, if once they attain the light of life, what mutual strife, what battles and bloodshed will they cause, the bride’s father swooping from Alpine ramparts and Monoeus’ fort, her husband confronting him with forces from the East! Steel not your hearts, my sons, to such wicked war nor vent violent valour on the vitals of your land. And you who draw your lineage from heaven, be you the first to show mercy; cast the sword from your hand, child of my blood! . . .
Then, as his tears well up, Father Anchises begins: “My son, seek not to taste the bitter grief of your people; only a glimpse of him will fate give earth nor suffer him to stay long. Too powerful, O gods above, you deemed the Roman people, had these gifts of yours been lasting. What sobbing of the brave will the famed Field waft to Mars’ mighty city! What a cortege will you behold, Father Tiber, as you glide past the new-build tomb! No youth of Trojan stock will ever raise his Latin ancestry so high in hope nor the land of Romulus ever boast of any son like this. Alas for his goodness, alas for his chivalrous honour and his sword arm unconquerable in the fight! In arms none would have faced him unscathed, marched he on foot against his foe or dug with spurs the flanks of his foaming steed. Child of a nation’s sorrow, could you but shatter the cruel barrier of fate! You are to be Marcellus. Grant me scatter in handfuls lilies of purple blossom, to heap at least these gifts on my descendant’s shade and perform an unavailing duty.” Thus they wander at large over the whole region in the wide airy plain, taking note of all. After Anchises had led his son over every scene, kindling his soul, with longing for the glory that was to be, he then tells of the wars that the hero next must wage, the Laurentine peoples and Latinus’ town, and how is to face or flee each peril.
Two gates of Sleep there are, whereof the one, they say, is horn and offers a ready exit to true shades, the other shining with the sheen of polished ivory, but delusive dreams issue upward through it from the world below. Thither Anchises, discoursing thus, escorts his son and with him the Sibyl, and sends them forth by the ivory gate: Aeneas speeds his way to the ships and rejoins his comrades; then straight along the shore he sails for Caieta’s haven. The anchor is cast from the prow; the sterns stand ranged on the shore.
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A good rain that started late last evening gave some promise for a spurt of bird activity at Turkey Creek. However, it started raining again as soon as we arrived and continued most of the morning. Late in the morning the rain finally stopped and we walked out into the meadow just past the Hackberry trees near the pump house. We stood in one spot for about 1/2 hour watching the amazing amount of bird activity that swirled around us. Most interesting was our male Wilson's Warbler. After most of the warblers left the hammock and Hackberries several days ago, he was seen in his favorite tree about 2 more days, then he was gone or so we thought --- we just hadn't looked in the right place. The meadow is a short distance (100 yards) from his favorite tree -- he now has a new group of friends. He was doing lots of chipping in his raspy voice and once came up out of the tall weeds and perched on top of the chain-link fence surrounding the pump house.
On the way out of the park we saw Pine Warbler, Redstart, and Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Just before we left we walked a short distance into the hammock. It was still dark and dripping from the rain with no obvious warbler activity.
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Most print sources have title pages and copyright pages where you can find the information you need for your Works Cited list. But not all online sources have these pages. This does not mean that Web sources are fair game to excerpt or plagiarize at will, or that you don't have to cite them at all. As a matter of fact, you are still responsible for crediting online sources just as you would do for books and periodicals.
Explore the lesson in this section to learn more about avoiding plagiarism and citing electronic sources.
Lesson: How do I cite online sources?
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2019-04-22T20:56:02Z
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http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?content=web_citing&state=none
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Arts
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Reference
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google
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Help support A.V.P.A.L. by running in the Rockin the Desert Mud Run!
The Town of Apple Valley Police Department created the Apple Valley Police Activities League (A.V.P.A.L.) in 2003. This is a non-profit organization, funded entirely by private donations. A.V.P.A.L. is funded by Support from the community, grants, through a partnership with the Town of Apple Valley and the Apple Valley Police Department. The mission of A.V.P.A.L. is uniting law enforcement and communities by providing youth programs which develop discipline, positive self-image, mutual trust and respect. A.V.P.A.L. offers several different programs to youth in the Town of Apple Valley. These programs were developed after seeing a need for children of the community to learn proper skills to be a successful and productive part of society. The programs range from after school activities at the Youth Center and Fitness Gym to the intervention program known as S.H.O.C.K.
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2019-04-24T00:42:58Z
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https://sites.google.com/avusd.org/avpal/home
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bbc
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Two of Scotland's biggest salmon producers say they have made a breakthrough in the rearing of so-called cleaner-fish to tackle sea lice.
Until now, most of the wrasse used in salmon cages have been taken from the wild, which has caused huge concern among environmental groups.
But researchers say they have been able to "complete the life cycle" by rearing their first brooding stock.
They hope to become self-sufficient in the fish within the next three years.
Cleaner-fish, such as wrasse or lumpfish, live in the same cages as salmon where they attack and eat parasitic sea lice.
Only small numbers of farmed wrasse have so far been deployed in salmon farms, with the majority coming from the wild.
The industry estimates that up to 1.2 million of the fish will be needed to service all of Scotland's fish farms.
It has taken six years to breed wild-caught Ballan wrasse to the point where their offspring are themselves reproducing.
Marine Harvest Scotland and Scottish Sea Farms, which have jointly funded the project, say they believe it is a world first.
Hatchery manager for Marine Harvest, Paul Featherstone, said: "Ballan wrasse provides highly effective, highly natural sea lice control and as such is in huge demand.
"With this breakthrough, we now have proven procedures for breeding, weaning and rearing wrasse, which will both help ensure farmers have a more secure, controllable supply and reduce reliance on wild stocks.
"Over the past three or four years we have been putting out fairly small quantities of farmed wrasse and they have been working very well.
"We've developed techniques now to completely close the farming cycle."
Campaigners have long been concerned with some of methods used to tackle sea lice, including shock treatment where the fish are bathed in warm water so the parasites fall off naturally.
Errors in the process have led to entire stocks - hundreds of thousands of fish - being killed off.
The use of chemical medicines in the cages has also been criticised.
Scottish Sea Farms' head of fish health, Ralph Bickerdyke, said: "These landmark breakthroughs are the result of many years of collaborative research, involving a significant investment of time and money by farmers and academic partners intent on developing natural solutions to the control of sea lice.
"Biological control with cleaner-fish is our preferred option because it is on the back of our overwhelming prevention strategy for sea lice.
"But we will still require the availability of tools such as delousing technologies and other alternative methods, including veterinary medicines, when required."
The environmental group Open Seas has criticised the process of removing wrasse from the wild because of the potential to damage stocks.
The fish are a slow-growing species and the charity is concerned that they would not recover quickly enough if they were over-fished.
Nick Underdown from Open Sea said: "They are nowhere near producing enough wrasse to deal with the problem and in the meantime we are hoovering up our wild wrasse stocks, wiping them out, and there are no precautionary measures put in place to manage this fishery.
"That is no way to manage a fishery. All we have got is a voluntary code of conduct with no stock assessment and no science."
Sea lice live on the outside of the salmon and can cause significant damage to their skin.
They can also be passed to wild stocks if they swim close enough to the edge of the cage.
The industry believes it is getting on top of the problem with numbers at a five-year low.
It has also begun publishing details of the farms which have the highest concentrations of sea lice.
But Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland says the data is not being made available quickly enough and that historical data should also be published.
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2019-04-19T07:28:42Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45110143
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queensu
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The Employment Equity Award was presented to the Young Women at Queen’s Employee Resource Group. Formed in 2015, this group aims to provide professional development and mentorship programming specifically for women on campus. The Young Women at Queen’s group is part of the larger ERG initiative which was developed as a way to promote the career development of equity seeking groups on campus. The mandate of Young Women at Queen’s is to build a professional and social community of women, to interact and share knowledge about women and work, to advocate for women, to strategize career and professional development at Queen’s, to create a framework for mentorship and to leverage the system.
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2019-04-20T05:14:28Z
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http://www.queensu.ca/equity/employment-equity/employment-equity-award/award-2015
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Arts
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Business
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adelphi
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More than 80 health educators from across Long Island and New York City attended the 2016 HealthNets Partnerships in Health Conference hosted by the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education. HealthNets started as a simple “meeting of the minds” for health educators to exchange teaching ideas on various aspects of health education, but has grown into an established conference that celebrated its 15th anniversary with the 2016 conference.
Four breakout sessions—two led by Adelphi alumni—gave conference-goers opportunites to hear new ideas from their fellow educators. Technology has become an increasingly important focus, with more schools distributing tablets to their students. To stay current, health teachers must keep up with technological advances and other innovative teaching methods, such as creating games that promote correlation of risky behavior and outcomes.
In a session entitled “Managing Your Health World,” Charlie Rizzuto M.A. ’11, an Oyster Bay High School educator, presented strategies and technological tools for creating an open and collaborative environment in the health classroom.
Andrew Richter ’03, M.A. ’08, North Shore Middle School, in a session called “A Healthier Tomorrow,” introduced innovative activities that teachers could immediately incorporate into their health classrooms.
During “Fun Ways to Teach Health,” Krista Militelo, Deer Park School District, drew from 22 years of teaching experience to demonstrate some of her favorite health lessons and inspire teachers to energize their old lessons with new ideas and technologies. Joseph Maiello, Harborfield Oldfield Middle School, outlined an “Assessment Plan for Health Education,” to enable teachers to create flexible yet structured plans for teaching.
The conference also featured general-attendance sessions, one of which featured Katie Schumacher, a teacher from Rockville Centre who created Don’t Press Send—a campaign dedicated to educating young people about cyber civics and encouraging them to use technology in safe and meaningful ways. She presented strategies for teachers to encourage student mindfulness and a kind and careful approach to social media and technology.
Schumacher returned to Adelphi’s campus in March, 2017, to speak at TEDxAdelphiUniversity. There, she urged parents to give young people the ground rules, guidelines and tools they’ll need to avoid the pitfalls of today’s digital world. Youngsters, for instance, need to learn to “think about what you’re saying before you act,” interact with one another in social occasions and remember it’s just as “inappropriate to speak to strangers online” via X-box and the like as it is in real life.
Bronwen Pardes, a professor of human sexuality at Nassau Community College, presented a general session discussing the use of anonymous surveys to gather information about students that can then be used to make class discussions more meaningful.
The conference also featured the debut of the One Love Escalation video. Cynthia Proscia, coordinator of the HealthNets event and an Ammon School professor of health studies, works as a facilitator for One Love, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about dating and relationship violence. Teachers and conference attendees were able to connect with the organization, and Proscia now works as a co-facilitator with several alumni to bring One Love to schools and even Adelphi’s own on-campus organizations.
Although attendance has fluctuated over the years, a group of approximately 20 educators have faithfully attended each HealthNets conference. These participants have included new hires from their schools and Adelphi’s health education alumni, sometimes returning as participants, sometimes as presenters.
HealthNets stands out as the first and for many years only conference dedicated exclusively to health education in the greater NYC area. Its 2017 Adelphi event is slated for November 7.
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2019-04-23T02:42:22Z
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https://news.adelphi.edu/au_news/healthnets-15-years-as-a-forum-for-health-education-ideas/
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Health
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reuters
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Rene-Christopher Wollmann, head of Mercedes-AMG’s 2.75 million euros (£2.38 million) Project One supercar programme, has moved to a job at Automobili Pininfarina in a sign that innovation in high end electric sportscars is shifting towards small start-ups.
“Rene Wollmann came to us because he said it was difficult to realise projects like these at a large company,” Michael Perschke, Automobili Pininfarina’s Chief Executive told Reuters.
Start-up carmakers are better able to compete with large established players thanks to advances in virtual engineering and the prevalence of consulting firms that specialise in software and IT systems, like Germany’s Ferchau Engineering and Italy’s Danisi Engineering.
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2019-04-19T22:27:14Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-supercar-startups-focus/in-quest-for-electric-supercars-engineers-head-to-start-ups-idUKKCN1RR0GD
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There are a variety of issues surrounding the topic of water supply. These topics can range from the safety of the drinking water supply to protecting and conserving the supply of water. At the very heart of affecting positive results in dealing with any matters of concern is communication. Communication stimulates education, understanding and idea sharing. Effective communication not only provides information but also seeks response. Local governments are often required to communicate to their citizens about issues of public concern and health. The ability of a community to effectively address these problems depends on the quality of the communication.
How well does the Village of Schaumburg communicate the various issues related to water supply to its citizens?
Probably the most critical aspect surrounding water supply is the issue of safety, specifically the safety of drinking water. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) which became law in 1974 was the first of its kind enacted to regulate water quality under the Environmental Protection Agency. The regulations established under the SDWA govern all public water systems in the United States. The intent of the law at the onset was to provide safe drinking water at the tap (Water: Safe Drinking Water Act, 2011). The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 provided somewhat expanded directives including enhancing the information provided to consumers.
The Consumer Confidence Report Rule was implemented to aid in improving the communications process. The rule mandates that public water suppliers (those who serve at least 15 service connections or regularly serve at least 25 year-round residents) provide their customers with Consumer Confidence Reports, also referred to as Annual Drinking Water Quality Reports (Water: Consumer Confidence Report Rule, 2011). The EPA establishes ten specific informational items which must be included in the annual drinking water quality reports, as detailed on the EPA‘s website. Reports are required to be provided to customers by July 1st annually for the previous year end data. The regulation states in Sec. 141.155(a) that reports must be mailed or otherwise directly delivered to the customer (National Primary Drinking Water Regulation: Consumer Confidence Reports; Final Rule, 1998).
The Village of Schaumburg does indeed provide Annual Water Reports to its customers. Internet access to a total of four years reporting (the current year and three historical years) is available through the Village of Schaumburg website. A review of the Village’s reports reveals that all of the pertinent required information is included in the document; each of the ten items mentioned above can be readily found. Unfortunately, the information provided, with the exception of the actual data relative to sampling results, is almost exactly identical year to year. There is even a published notice calling attention to this fact: “You may notice that most of the wording in this year’s report is identical to last year’s report. That is because the wording is mandated by the EPA and must be in the report every year” (Water Quality Reports, n.d.). Consumers are provided a name and number of an individual to contact with questions about the report contents. Attempts to reach the named individual have proven to be unsuccessful as of this writing.
Relative to report years 2009 through 2011, the only differences to be found are in the layout of the information, graphics, and the headings of one section. Amazingly, an estimated 95% of the information contained in the three years reports is identical, word for word! How does changing the pictures and order of information presented improve communications? Does the practice stimulate consumer awareness or does it implicitly send the message that the information contained in the report is merely to be cast aside and not questioned? Why would a public organization completely waste an opportunity to provide its captive audience with information that would help improve their quality of life in future years?
The regulation: Section 1414(c)(4)(B) also provides that a community water system may include any additional information that it deems appropriate for public education (National Primary Drinking Water Regulation: Consumer Confidence Reports; Final Rule, 1998). The introductory paragraph to the ten requirements referred to above states, “While water systems are free to enhance their reports in any useful way, each report must provide…” (Water: Consumer Confidence Report Rule, 2011). While there is no doubt that the EPA does mandate inclusion of specific information and in many instances provides suggested or even mandated language, it must be noted that it mostly likely did not intend to provide a boilerplate report that requires so little effort as to change the dates and data and call it compliance.
In the yearly reports for 2009 and 2010, there were two sections present that were not included in the 2011 report: Cryptosporidium and Water Conservation. One of the sections present in all three reports includes the section titled “Important Health Information” which directs consumers to the U.S. EPA/CDC for further information available to protect against the possibility of exposure to cryptosporidium (Water Quality Reports, n.d.). The observation here relates to why the paragraph that provided additional information regarding cryptosporidium, a microbial contaminate, was eliminated from the 2011 report. Reasoning would indicate that if the contaminate warrants a specific statement under “Important Health Information,” having additional information readily accessible serves the best interest of the community.
Also present in the 2009 and 2010 reports but absent 2011 is the section on water conservation. It is hard to imagine that information relative to conserving future supplies would not be deemed as appropriate for public education. Does this imply that the Village of Schaumburg considers its Lake Michigan source to be infinite? Worse, does this convey to residents that the Lake Michigan source is infinite?
It should be noted that Schaumburg’s 2011 report does contain a new section devoted to understanding Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) which is an issue of growing concern, primarily due to increased usage of prescription drugs. There are still a great number of people who do not realize the effect that improper disposal may have on water supplies. Efforts to communicate this more recently emerging issue are timely and deserving of continued emphasis.
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2019-04-23T06:10:52Z
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https://futureofschaumburg.wordpress.com/water/water-supply/communication/
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um
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Let me first thank the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia for hosting this important conference. It is an honour to be here as the new Danish Foreign Minister.
In 1949, the American President Harry Truman said in his inaugural address: ”More than half the people in the world are living in conditions approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of those people”. The agenda of this conference contains the elements to make this dream come true.
The Millennium Development Goals have taken us far: One billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. More girls attend school than ever before. And under-five child mortality has been reduced by 50 percent.
Let us celebrate this success. And let us share the success – because the good results have been achieved through our shared efforts. We have proven that progress is possible, when we set concrete and measurable goals – and make the investments and the political choices necessary to reach them. The success of the past gives us good reason to be optimists with regard to the future.
Development cooperation has played an important role in our shared success – and will continue to do so, especially for the poorest countries in the word. Denmark is committed to the UN-target of providing 0.7 pct. of Gross National Income to official development assistance. Denmark has met this target since 1978, and we will continue to do so in the years to come as we pursue the eradication of extreme poverty. I strongly urge others to follow suit!
Public funds for development have been crucial. But the success of the Millennium Development Goals is also – in large part – due to better conditions for trade, for investment and for private entrepreneurship. Allowing and encouraging the powerful forces of the market economy in the service of sustainable development. We should learn from what has worked and what hasn’t. As an old economist once said: “Peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice” is required to carry a state “to the highest degree of opulence".
Openness to trade, investment and the market economy will allow people to build a future in their own countries. Trade is the foundation of stable and prosperous societies. It also carries the biggest potential for reducing poverty. And Africa is still cruelly punished by high transaction costs, tariffs and barriers to trade.
Firstly, Denmark strongly emphasises the need to mobilise the private sector.
The Sustainable Development Goals carries a multi-trillion dollar price tag – far beyond the scope of aid. The money in the private sector is there – and it is needed. But this is not only about money. We need to bring the resources, the technology and the know-how of the private sector to work on the challenges and opportunities of the Post 2015 agenda.
Already today, private capital flows are by far the largest source of capital for developing countries. This trend should be strengthened, and we should have the clear goal that all developing countries can profit from it by making sure that the right enabling environment is in place.
Today, the Danish government together with some of the largest Danish pension funds and the Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) will join the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP), which has been initiated by the World Economic Forum and the OECD. Our goal is that this global public-private partnership will catalyse investments in key sectors, including infrastructure, in developing countries and emerging markets.
Why have we joined? Because we know it works. Just recently, Denmark established the Danish Climate Investment Fund - an innovative public private partnership. This fund has already contributed to significant investments in Africa and other developing regions in wind and solar energy and in energy efficiency. The total climate investments initiated by this fund are expected to be around 1.5-2.0 billion USD – from an initial public investment of less than 100 million USD. It works!
Secondly, for most countries, national resources are the largest sources of development financing.
They are also the basis of a successful social contract. Between governments and their people. Today I will focus on sound tax policies, competent tax administrations and efficient tax collection.
The Danish government pledges to increase Denmark’s support to strengthened tax systems in developing countries, including the fight against illicit financial flows. The main purpose of our new contribution is to strengthen the voice of developing countries in international tax matters. The contribution will be additional to the almost half a billion kroner that we currently contribute to tax and development activities in Danish partner countries.
Also, Denmark – together with Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden – has stopped asking for tax exemptions on goods and services that we provide as part of ODA-projects. We are paying our taxes, where they are due.
Tax is an important tool to secure more domestic resources and opportunities for all. But taxation cannot solve all problems. Strengthened tax systems should focus on generating resources and creating incentives – not on hindering investments and job creation. For instance, it would be detrimental to everybody – not least the developing countries – if we were to impose a global tax on financial transactions. It would only add to the costs of investing in fragile economies.
My third and final point is that Official Development Assistance should be targeted even more towards the poorest countries.
I am proud that the EU countries in May agreed on a fast track deadline for the fulfilment of the Istanbul-commitment - to dedicate collectively 0.15 to 0.20% of Gross National Income to least developed countries in the short term. This is a new commitment. We have to give the poorest countries in the world the means to participate and take advantage of all the opportunities that globalization can offer.
We live in a small world, and it is getting smaller and smaller thanks to trade and investment across borders. And we have good reason for optimism. Especially when we realize that the success and wealth of our neighbour is the foundation of our own success and wealth.
Let's share a pledge to invest and take the political decisions needed for the private sector to do the same.
Let’s share a commitment that all countries, especially the poorest, will take advantage from globalization.
And let’s share the dream of a world without poverty and make that dream a reality.
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2019-04-24T07:50:41Z
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http://ambsarajevo.um.dk/da/om-os/ministrene/tidligere-ministres-taler-og-artikler/taler-og-artikler-KJ/ffd3-july-13-2015/
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Society
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I am lucky that I am really good at my day job and I get the privilege of talking to a lot of recruiters or HR reps if I decide it goes that far. The headhunters that really want to get to know me ask me what my dream job would be and I then read the person and choose my answer between CEO or stay at home Dad.
The truth is stay at home Dad is the real answer but know that I say this with a full and honest reality of what I am saying. I don’t want to be a homemaker or a stay at home Mom… I want to be a Dad that stays home with his kids. A Dad. I could never be what my wife is, she put her career on hold to spend time with kids but she has done so much more than that. She plans meals, has kids on a perfect schedule, educates them so they fit in during play groups and is solely responsible for making everything we do possible. The kids listen to hear and treat her like a superior, an educator, a leader… a Mom.
I want to be a Dad who stays at home. My biggest contribution in the course of day is my speed at which I chase kids around the dining room table or the faces I make to elicit giggles… On my best days I am jungle gym or the apparatus my daughter used for flips.
I am not saying that makes me a bad Dad… I actually strive to be a really great Dad. It just makes my resume for that dream job rather unimpressive or at the very least unqualified. For that I am okay and will gladly trade a day at the office for an hour of table chasing and funny faces. But if that day job ever comes available the one that allows me to just be a Dad… I’ll the first to apply.
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2019-04-23T14:44:11Z
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https://michedwenger.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/stay-at-home-dad/
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Arts
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Kids
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bloomberg
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Bloomberg’s Implementation Specialists are responsible for deploying and supporting Bloomberg’s variety of products and services. This high-profile role requires experience across general technical areas pertaining to hardware, software and networking, in addition to experience with coordinating the implementation of technology solutions. Proficiency in French is required.
In this role you will provide both new and existing Bloomberg clients with platinum customer service, offering your advanced technical skills to offer appropriate solutions.
You will work closely with a range of stakeholders to deliver access to the Bloomberg infrastructure while meeting our clients’ exacting connectivity needs. As a confident and well-organized communicator you will also be responsible for managing key accounts, regularly liaising with market data and technology personnel, as well as telecommunication providers, service vendors, and partner with a variety of internal stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of service to our customers.
Knowledge of networks with an understanding of but not limited to IP addressing, sub-netting, routing, and Secure File Transfer Protocol.
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2019-04-22T04:37:59Z
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https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/London+Implementation+Specialist+-+French+Speaker/64036
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Arts
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Business
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univie
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The individual emphasis comprises 30 ECTS credits in total. It provides students of the bachelor's programmes in Business Administration and International Business Administration (curricula of 2014) with the opportunity to personalise their studies according to their individual interests. This way, their studies will correspond with their career ambitions.
There are different ways to complete the individual emphasis. However, please note that you cannot choose any courses as part of the individual emphasis that are compulsory courses or compulsory elective courses within your degree programme’s curriculum. If you choose an elective subject for the individual emphasis, its content has to be an addition to your degree programme or allow you to specialise in a certain field.
If none of the following offers suit you, please contact the StudiesServiceCenter before you start to attend courses as part of your individual emphasis.
You have the opportunity to choose extension curricula comprising 30 ECTS credits from the University of Vienna’s range of extension curricula. You may also choose extension curricula provided by other faculties.
You can choose either a large extension curriculum comprising 30 ECTS credits or two small extension curricula comprising 15 ECTS credits each.
Please note that you have to register for extension curricula via U:SPACE by clicking the menu items “Studies” and “Extension curricula”.
A list of all extension curricula is available on the Student Point website.
As a free elective subject you may choose any course from the range of courses offered by the Faculty or the University of Vienna. However, please note that you may NOT choose courses as free elective subjects that have a content similar to those of compulsory subjects or compulsory elective subjects of your curriculum.
For example: You completed the compulsory course “Introduction to Private and Business Law” at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics. You may therefore NOT choose the corresponding introductory lecture at the Faculty of Law as a free elective subject. The same holds true for courses from the field of sociology, languages, etc. if they have similar contents.
The content of the selected courses has to be an addition to your degree programme or allow you to specialise in a certain field.
If you select free elective subjects from the range of courses provided by the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, please make sure that you only choose courses offered as part of a bachelor’s programme. Courses from a master’s programme will only be recognised with special approval of the Directorate of Studies.
In accordance with the curriculum, you complete the C.3 module by selecting another occupational field from the range of courses offered in the curriculum (24 ECTS credits). You obtain the remaining 6 ECTS credits in the form of free elective subjects (=alternative extensions) or internships abroad.
You have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad (Erasmus, etc.) where you complete free elective subjects comprising between 15 ECTS credits (minimum) and 30 ECTS credits (maximum). Once you have obtained 30 ECTS credits, you have completed the entire module.
If you obtain less than 30 ECTS credits (but at least 15 ECTS credits), you can complete the remaining 15 ECTS credits in the form of free elective subjects.
If you obtain exactly 15 ECTS credits abroad, you may also complete a small extension curriculum comprising 15 ECTS credits to obtain 30 ECTS credits in total.
If you complete an internship abroad, we can recognise 3 ECTS credits per month. The internship may not exceed a duration of 6 months, amounting to 18 ECTS credits (3x6=18) in total at the most. Please contact the Directorate of Studies before you start your internship to settle all the details and to make sure that your experience abroad will be recognised within your degree programme.
If you obtain at least 15 ECTS credits during your internship, you may obtain the remaining 15 ECTS credits in the form of free elective subjects.
If you obtain less than 15 ECTS credits, you will have to obtain at least 15 additional ECTS credits in another form. This means that you have to obtain at least 15 ECTS credits in the form of an extension curriculum, an internship, an occupational field or a semester abroad, etc. You can gain the remaining ECTS credits needed to achieve 30 ECTS credits in total by completing free elective subjects.
For example: You obtained 9 ECTS credits in the context of your internship abroad. You now have to obtain 15 ECTS credits in another form, e.g. by choosing an extension curriculum. The remaining 6 ECTS credits can be gained in the form of free elective subjects.
The Module Alternative Extention can be filled with a maximum of 15 ECTS. The main purpose is to widen your focus of study and individualize your programme depending on your preference.
Please note that this module should be an EXTENTION. Language courses in the native language as well as repetitions of already passed courses are not supposed to be taken in this module.
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2019-04-22T23:55:11Z
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https://wiwi.univie.ac.at/en/service/studiesservicecenter/courses/individual-emphasis-ba-bwibw/
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Arts
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Business
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google
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Sandy Community First is part of a government programme designed to help people help themselves. The overall programme is called Community First. Sandy is eligible because of the levels of deprivation in parts of the Ward. The programme offers small grants to community groups to support social action projects which improve the quality of life in Sandy.
Sandy Town Council also offers small grants to people who want to improve the place and the community. So the Town Council has decided to join its grant scheme with the Community First programme and allow one panel to administer both pots of funds.
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2019-04-24T04:30:55Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/sandycommunityfirst/
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Arts
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Society
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instyle
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Mindy Kaling made her first big public appearance on Thursday since giving birth to daughter Katherine Swati.
Ten weeks after becoming a mother for the first time, the actress, 38, joined her A Wrinkle In Time costars Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid to surprise fans at a preview screening of their film at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
Dressed in a blue, red and yellow polka dot patterned black dress by L.K. Bennett, Kaling coordinated accessories with her costars by wearing silver Minnie ears, appropriately dubbing herself “Mindy Mouse” in one of the photos she shared on Instagram.
The four stars even gifted all the fans in attendance Fast Passes to cut the lines for a ride at the theme park!
The fan screening was Kaling’s first event since she welcomed her daughter on Dec. 15 in Los Angeles. Katherine’s middle name, Swati, honors the newborn’s grandmother, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.
VIDEO: Mindy Kaling Attends Her First Public Event Since Becoming a Mom — and It's Magical!
The Mindy Project creator and star missed this year’s Golden Globe Awards in January and Grammy Awards this month though she participated in the festivities as she live-tweeted during both shows.
Though Thursday’s outing was her first in an official capacity, on Sunday, The Office alum enjoyed a mom’s night out with pal and artist Julia S. Powell.
The baby-free night is a rarity for the new mom, according to close friend and costume designer Salvator Perez.
“She’s truly taking her mommy time. I think she’s relishing in [motherhood],” Perez told People at an event on Saturday night.
Kaling’s pregnancy news first broke in July but it wasn’t confirmed until Oprah spilled the beans in October.
The actress revealed that she was expecting a girl and dished on what it was like to have none other than her A Wrinkle in Time costar confirm the baby news.
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2019-04-21T02:49:23Z
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https://www.instyle.com/syndication/mindy-kaling-first-public-event-since-becoming-a-mom
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News
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I remember seeing something that said if the Commission "recognized" any tribes, then the recognition would cease when the commission ceased to be. Therefore, if they rubber stamped the groups on the first day they were able to, those groups could claim they were recognized for four days! Wanna take bets they'll go for it? Print up membership cards with their "state" recognition proclaimed on it? There's a group in south Georgia that were "recognized" through a proclamation by some governor years ago. It never went through any legal process, anyway, they still claim to be state recognized even though they are not on the official state list--and there is some disagreement about exactly who has possession of the "official" document. Deja vu all over again.
Commission on 30 June 2010 unless revoked earlier by legislation.
so if the Stay prevents them from looking at ("reviewing") any application and the Stay prevents them from even just rubber stamping any application, then there will be no "lawfully recognized tribes" and none to remain "validated" past the commission's sunset. Would that be a [fairly] correct conclusion?
the Stay doesn't prevent the Commission from informally "reviewing" applications in the same simplistic way that it's already "reviewed" the culture clubs' applications from the "Cherokee Wolf Clan" submitted by Joe Walters, "Remnant Yuchi Nation" submitted by Lee Vest, and "Central Band of Cherokee" aka "Cherokee of Lawrence County" submitted by Joe White, or the once-expected applications of the "Upper Cumberland Cherokee" aka "United Eastern Lenape Nation" of Herstle Cross & Knoxvill Commissioner Goddard, "Tanasi Council of the Far Away Cherokee" of Memphis Commissioner Henry, and "Chikamaka-Cherokee Band of the South Cumberland Plateau" aka "Chikamaka Band" of Middle TN Commissioner and now "Principal Chief" James Meeks.
the Commission has and will continue to have no authority to officially, lawfully review the applications for tribal recognition and no authority to recognize any groups as tribes.
unless, of course, the Commission gets its sunset date re-set to a future year.
your conclusion is accurate, "there will be no "lawfully recognized tribes"
and [therefore] none to remain "validated" past the commission's sunset."
Ya know, for such fighters of TN Historical Indian's Recognition you all sure do look pretty nervous. Real TN Indians have put fear in you all. Call names, be nasty, you're all showing your real colors...selfish and cowardly. We will see. Two of the out of state indian "organizations" have been lost!! And it ain't over yet.
BTW, if any of the groups were "real Indians" I am sure that everyone here would be supporting them all the way. No one is being scared or selfish except for you culture clubers who think you can't compete with the rest of the people of Tennessee in a fair way.
at today's Joint Government Operations Rule Review meeting.
60 days from today, April 26, 2010 would be .... ah!! Four days before the commission's sunsetting! June 26, 2010. Most certainly not enough time to review ANY application; forget approving one!
it adds another 60 days onto the effective date of the rule.
the effective date of the rule was May 17. add 60 days = ± July 16.
Commission end date: June 30.
Ahh!! Even better! No chance to even look at the rubber stamp!!
Rule 0785-1's new effective date is 17 July 2010.
the TCIA dies in 57 days on 30 June 2010.
on 04/27/2010 by the Government Operations Committee.
The new effective date is July 17, 2010.
A Notice of Stay of Effective Date of Rules was filed on 04/27/1- by the GOC.
The new effective date is 07/16/2010.
Was the rule stayed from April 26, or from the effective date of May 17?
The first date would push it back to May 25, the second to July 16, or thereabout.
the stay is for 60 days.
i presume both committees filed notice of their stay yesterday or today.
which is 63 days from today, and half way through july.
(b) Prior to the effective date of a rule, the house or senate government operations committee may stay the running of the seventy-five-day period required by § 4-5-207 for a period of time not to exceed sixty (60) days. Such stay shall become effective at such time as the committee files written notice with the secretary of state and shall specify the length of effectiveness of the stay. Prior to the expiration date of the stay, such stay may be withdrawn by the committee. Withdrawal or expiration of the stay shall reactivate the running of the balance of the seventy-five-day period that remained upon the date the stay was filed.
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Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden.
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2019-04-25T22:55:24Z
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https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/my-shot-vp-photos-november-2016/
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Prince Harry and the families will pause and remember a very dark moment in which so many innocent tourists lost their lives.
The Duke of Cambridge went on the official Kensington Palace Twitter account to speak of his pride in the team.
The newest addition to the royal family was born on Monday, weighing 9lb 3oz.
Puppets of the royal couple have been vandalised.
The ages of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and how they met are among the most popular searches on Google.
The 600 guests at the royal wedding were invited to a reception, hosted by the Queen, where they enjoyed canapés and the wedding cake.
The couple wed in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The prince and the former actress have become the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, following their wedding ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Idris Elba and Oprah Winfrey were among the first to arrive.
White garden roses, peonies and foxgloves fill the church as branches of beech, birch and hornbeam also feature in the arrangements.
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A music educator once changed the course of Mike Rowe's life, and in his new Facebook video series, he pays tribute to another influential teacher in a big way.
When health issues forced world-class trumpeter Tim Wilson to give up a performance career, he turned to teaching, and gave his talents and treasure to an instrumental music program in an impoverished school district. Mike sought him out and provided a tremendous surprise and... well, better you watch for yourself.
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2019-04-21T14:07:08Z
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https://www.barbershop.org/mike-rowe-is-returning-the-favor-to-an-inspiring-music-educator
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Artist's rendering of the universe's first, massive, blue stars in gaseous filaments, with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at the edges. Using radio observations of the distant universe, NSF-funded researchers Judd Bowman of Arizona State University, Alan Rogers of MIT, and others discovered the influence of such early stars on primordial gas. The team inferred the stars' presence from dimming of the CMB, a result of the gaseous filaments absorbing the stars' UV light. The CMB is dimmer than expected, indicating the filaments may have been colder than expected, possibly from interactions with dark matter.
This updated timeline of the universe reflects the recent discovery that the first stars emerged by 180 million years after the Big Bang. The research was conducted by Judd Bowman of Arizona State University and his colleagues, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
In a study published today in the journal Nature, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University report that a table-sized radio antenna in a remote region of western Australia has picked up faint signals of hydrogen gas from the primordial universe.
They also determined that the gas was in a state that would have been possible only in the presence of the very first stars. These stars, blinking on for the first time in a universe that was previously devoid of light, emitted ultraviolet radiation that interacted with the surrounding hydrogen gas. As a result, hydrogen atoms across the universe began to absorb background radiation — a pivotal change that the scientists were able to detect in the form of radio waves.
Certain characteristics in the detected radio waves also suggest that hydrogen gas, and the universe as a whole, must have been twice as cold as scientists previously estimated, with a temperature of about 3 kelvins, or –454 degrees Fahrenheit. Rogers and his colleagues are unsure precisely why the early universe was so much colder, but some researchers have suggested that interactions with dark matter may have played some role.
Rogers’ co-authors are lead author Judd Bowman of Arizona State University (ASU), along with Thomas Mozdzen, Nivedita Mahesh, and Raul Monsalve, from the University of Colorado.
The antennas and portions of the receiver were designed and constructed by Rogers and the Haystack Observatory team; Bowman, Monsalve, and the ASU team added an automated antenna reflection measurement system to the receiver, outfitted a control hut with the electronics, constructed the ground plane, and conducted the field work for the project. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization provided on-site infrastructure for the EDGES project.
The instrument was originally designed to pick up radio waves emitted from a time in the universe’s history known as the Epoch of Reionization, or EoR. During this period, it’s thought that the first luminous sources, such as stars, quasars, and galaxies, appeared in the universe, causing the previously neutral intergalactic medium, made mostly of hydrogen gas, to become ionized.
Scientists believe that when the first stars turned on, they provided ultraviolet radiation that caused changes to the hydrogen atoms’ distribution of energy states. These changes induced hydrogen’s single electron to spin in alignment or opposite to the spin of its proton, causing hydrogen as a whole to “decouple” from the background radiation. As a result, hydrogen gas began to either emit or absorb that radiation, at a characteristic wavelength of 21 centimeters, equivalent to a frequency of 1,420 megahertz. As the universe expanded over time, this radiation became “red-shifted” to lower frequencies. By the time this 21-centimeter radiation reached present-day Earth, it landed somewhere in the range of 100 megahertz.
“As soon as we switched our system to this lower range, we started seeing things that we felt might be a real signature,” Rogers says.
The dip in radio waves was stronger and deeper than theoretical models predicted, suggesting that the hydrogen gas at the time was colder than previously thought. The radio waves’ profile also matches theoretical predictions of what would be produced if hydrogen were indeed influenced by the first stars.
Mary Beth Griggs writes for Popular Science about a new Nature study where researchers have identified cold hydrogen dating back to 180 million years post-big bang. “Some of the radiation from the very first stars is starting to allow hydrogen to be seen,” says Alan Rogers of the Haystack Observatory.
The Nature Podcast, hosted by Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell, highlights research from the Haystack Observatory and Prof. Li-Huei Tsai’s findings around Alzheimer’s and its connection to brain waves.
Paper: "Detection of 21 cm absorption of the cosmic microwave background 180 million years after the Big Bang."
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https://news.mit.edu/2018/astronomers-detect-earliest-evidence-yet-hydrogen-universe-0228
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Thundarr the Barbarian and his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel wander a devastated future Earth and fight evil wherever they find it.
WonderCon 2012 - Full Schedule Announced!
An astronaut, stranded on a primitive planet in a distant universe, fights against the tyranny of the Overlord.
A team of cyborgs protects Limbo from Mon Star and his gang.
Spider-Man battles crime in New York City with the help of Iceman and Firestar.
A young man leads a small band in search of his father while fighting the forces of Sawboss using the various vehicles they carry with them.
A family of cyborg superheroes fights evil around the world.
Matt Trakker leads a team of masked crimefighters with a fleet of hidden function vehicles against the forces of V.E.N.O.M.
A team of humanoid cats fight evil in their adopted home world.
The Quest family and their bodyguard investigate strange phenomena and battle villains around the world.
This series focuses on five lion robots and their pilots as they fight the evil forces of King Zarkon and Prince Lotor.
The most powerful man in the universe, He-Man, goes against the evil forces of Skeletor to save the planet Eternia and to protect the secrets of Castle Grayskull.
The story of the adventurous Jonny Quest who travels with his father and his friends around the world.
The year 1980, from out of the void of Saturday morning tv comes a runaway show, hurtling between the Superfriends and the latest Scooby Doo revamp. It's a show of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But this show burst its bonds to fight for freedom. With his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage and his fabulous Sun Sword against the forces of boring cartoons. He is Thundarr the Barbarian!
Thundarr was the greatest adventure cartoon of its day. Combining great characters with an imaginative setting and incorporating designs from such masters as Alex Toth and Jack Kirby, it transcended the usual Saturday morning fare. It boasted writing from comic book greats Steve Gerber and Martin Pasko, and direction from Doug Wildey, creator of Jonny Quest. The only strike against it was the strict guidelines from network censors tended to hamstring the action; but, the creators found interesting ways to deal with the handicap.
Thundarr is the big dumb barbarian who punches first and asks questions later. Ookla is the leonine biped who growls and smashes things. Ariel is the Asian sorceress with a knowledge of the lost past and is the voice of wisdom and reason.
The world is a post-cataclysmic Earth, with long dead cities and devastated lands. It is populated by humans, mutants and evil sorcerers/scientists. There are giant, savage beasts and monstrous war machines. What's not to like?
The late 70's/early 80's cartoon adventure shows were a pretty tame lot. The Superfriends had moments, particularly Challenge of the Superfriends, and Filmation's Tarzan and Batman shows were pretty entertaining; but nothing could hold a candle to Thundarr. It was so imaginative and so much fun you had to watch it. Sure it borrowed/stole from every sci-fi idea under the sun, but so did Star Wars and other works of print and celluloid sci-fi. There are no original stories; just retellings. Yes, the Sun Sword looked like a lightsabre and many of the villains conjured up Darth Vader, but Flash Gordon had flaming swords in the 30's and Vader bore close resemblance to the Lightning, from the serial Fighting Devil Dogs.
One of my great pleasures is watching the episodes on tape, along with Jonny Quest and Batman, the Animated series. All are great adventures, put together by master craftsmen. Too bad all cartoons, and even live shows, don't reach this level of quality. Now where's the DVD collection?
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Nearly seventh months on from the EU referendum, Irish Consul General in Edinburgh Dr Mark Hanniffy will offer his perspective on the implications of Brexit for Ireland and British-Irish relations. Prof Christine Bell (The University of Edinburgh) will respond following the Consul General's remarks.
Prof Christine Bell is now unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.
Dr Mark Hanniffy took up the post of Consul General of Ireland in Edinburgh in May 2016. Before moving to Scotland, he was Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Unit at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Dublin, having joined the Irish Diplomatic Service in 2007. Among other assignments, he served in Ireland’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and on secondment as a Policy Advisor to the Houses of the Oireachtas.
Prof Christine Bell FBA is Professor of Constitutional Law, Co-Director of the Global Justice Academy and Assistant Principal (Global Justice) at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include constitutional and international law, gender and conflict, and legal theory.
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Know what not to blog about. Things like private information—both yours and other people's—and personal details that you don't want to share with people close to you shouldn't be topics for your blog.
Blogging about other people is fine as long as you don't harass or discriminate against them, but be aware that they may see your content and retaliate.
Check out other blogs in your category. Once you've established your blog's topic and goal, research other blogs that use the same topic and/or your preferred style of writing to see how they engage their audiences.
You shouldn't outright copy a blog you admire, but you can take inspiration from the tone, layout, or language used for the blog content itself.
Blog name — Come up with a name that you feel comfortable sharing with others. This may be a combination of your interests, your blog's content, and/or a nickname; just make sure that your blog's title is both unique and easy to remember.
Blog design — You probably won't be able to design your blog's layout exactly the way you want to, but having a general idea of the color scheme and font type before you go to create your blog will make it easier to find a template you like.
Open the service's website on your computer.
Promote your blog on social media. Once you've created your blog and made a few posts, you can increase your blog traffic by posting a link to your blog on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
You might even consider using the blog's address in your bio or as your "Company Website" on social media.
Research keywords for your posts. "Keywords" are words which both pertain to your blog's topic and have a high search engine rating. Using keywords in your blog posts will make it easier for people who look up those words to find your content.
Keyword generator sites such as http://ubersuggest.io/ or https://keywordtool.io/ will come up with a list of words that relate to your blog's topic.
Users tend to appreciate visual input alongside text, so adding images to your blog is a good idea even if you aren't worried about search engine optimization.
Missing a post by a day or two once in a while is fine, though you should consider making a note on social media that your post will be late.
Open WordPress. Go to https://wordpress.com/ in your computer's web browser.
Click Get Started. It's a link in the upper-right corner of the page.
What would you like to name your site? — Enter your blog's name here.
What's the primary goal you have for your site? — Type in a one-word category, then click a category that fits your blog in the resulting drop-down menu.
Click Continue. It's at the very bottom of the page.
Enter your preferred address for your blog. In the top text box, type in whatever you want your blog's URL name to be.
Don't include the "www" or ".com" part of the URL here.
Click Select next to the "Free" option. This option will appear below the text box. Doing so selected the free address for your blog.
Click Start with Free. It's on the left side of the page. Doing so will take you to the account creation page.
Enter an email address. Type the email address you want to use to create your account into the "Your email address" text box.
Enter a password. Type a password for your account into the "Choose a password" text box.
Click Continue. It's a blue button at the bottom of the page.
Click the "Activate [blog name]" email from "WordPress".
Click Continue. It's in the middle of the original tab on which you created your WordPress account.
Add a theme to your blog. The "theme" dictates how your blog looks. Scroll down to the "Customize" heading, click Themes, and select the theme you want to use for your blog. You can then click Activate this design at the top of the page.
Start writing. You can start your first blog post by clicking Write in the upper-right side of the window to bring up the post window; at this point, you're free to begin creating content for your blog.
Open Blogger. Go to https://www.blogger.com/ in your computer's web browser.
Click SIGN IN. It's in the top-right corner of the page.
If you don't have a Google Account, create one before proceeding.
Click Create a Google+ profile. It's a blue button on the left side of the page.
Click CREATE PROFILE. It's at the bottom of the page.
Click Continue to Blogger. You'll find this option near the bottom of the page.
Click CREATE NEW BLOG. It's in the middle of the page.
Enter a blog title. Type your blog's title into the "Title" text box.
Select a blog address. Type the address you want to use into the "Address" text box, then click the address that appears below it in a drop-down menu.
If Google indicates that the address is already taken, you'll need to choose a different address.
Select a theme for your blog. Click a theme in the "Theme" list.
Click Create blog!. It's at the bottom of the window.
Click No thanks when prompted. Doing so takes you to the blog's dashboard.
Start writing. Click New post at the top of the page to open the blog post window; at this point, you're free to begin creating content for your blog.
How old do I have to be to start a blog?
Provided you have time and parental permission, any age is fine. However, you do open yourself to online criticism and rudeness, so bear that in mind before starting a blog.
Can I be an anonymous blogger?
Yes, on the Internet you can always remain anonymous. If it asks for your name, just say a word relating to your blog as your first name and "Blogger" as your last name.
Can I create a blog without an email?
No, you can't create blog without an email. You must have an email in order to create an account on blogging platforms, like Blogger and Wordpress. When you sign up for an account on these sorts of websites, they will usually ask you for your email first.
How do I start a blog for profit?
Try posting ads on your blog's page. Do blog pieces promoting other products or business, and ask for samples to critique -- sometimes the companies will be glad to help, especially if you have a decent level of readership. Or, you can sell a few things that relate to your blog.
How do I combine my blog and my website?
There are many blogging platforms that you can add to an existing website, but it can be an involved process if you want the style to match. Wordpress.org and Ghost are two of the most popular options, and they both have community support forums that can help you get started.
How do I choose a good blog address?
Ideally, the URL and blog title should be the same. Pick a short name that's memorable and easy to say and type. If you plan to make money off your blog, spend the time to do keyword research. There's plenty of advice on this topic from experienced bloggers.
Lots of content, no long gaps between content, and plenty of social media presence. You can also look into search engine optimization (SEO), but focus on advice related to quality content and choosing good titles. SEO "tricks" and "hacks" are mostly worthless.
I'm writing material that might eventually become a book. Is there a way to protect the content I put on my blog?
It's worth reading a (short) book about online copyright law before you start a project like that. The exact requirements vary based on your location, but it's a good idea to put a copyright notice at the bottom of every page. A unique title for your blog will also make it easier to catch people who steal your content.
Can you design your own templates on Blogger or Wordpress?
You can design templates on Wordpress and Blogger by editing any existing template to meet your needs.
Blogging is basically branding and not a key source of income (at least not for everyone), right?
No. Blogging can also be done for personal reasons. It isn't really branding, and yes, not all people profit from it.
Can I put pictures or videos on my blog? How? I didn't find it on instructions above.
If you want to maintain a blog for your business, but you aren't confident about your writing skills, hire a professional writer to write your posts for you.
Be wary of unwarranted attention. Don't give out personal information such as your full name, your location, or other identifying attributes.
Remember that what you post is visible to the world, so be careful about how much information you share. Also, in certain countries, blog posts that are critical of the government or otherwise "offensive" could get you into serious trouble. Be smart about what you post.
To start a blog, think of a topic you’re passionate about and brainstorm ways to write about it to help others. Take a look at similar sites and tailor yours so that it stands out from the crowd. Come up with a name that will attract attention, with keywords to help it pop up in a search engine. Choose a platform, like WordPress or Blogger, and write a few posts, making sure to proofread. Once you publish your first few posts, start promoting your blog on social media to drive up traffic. For topic ideas and technical tips on getting your blog running, read on!
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https://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Blog
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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been fascinated with Universal Studios, Hollywood! Many of my favorite shows were filmed there including Alias Smith and Jones and Battlestar Galactica. The Hardy Boys even filmed a whole episode where the boys were chased around the backlot by an evil phantom.
When I was a teenager, I got to go to Universal for the first time and it was as magical as I knew it would be. Many years later, I moved from there to here, bought a Universal Studios pass then visited several times a month, mostly to ride the tram around and around.
I started collecting Universal Studios memorabilia around that time. My collection isn’t huge but I still add to it now and then, when I find something cool. And I found several cool things recently, so here we go.
The mug you see above was a carefully maneuvered Christmas gift. I found it on eBay and offhandedly told my husband how much I loved it. What’s unusual about the mug is the coloring. It’s a light brown with baby blue and baby pink highlights. It’s also textured. Very cool.
The mug looks like it’s from the seventies but the Conan the Barbarian show art on one side places it closer to the late 80’s, early 90’s. The mug also features the Battle of Galactica, the ice tunnel, Jaws and the western stunt show. The mug was made by Karol Western, a company that makes all kinds of souvenirs and it was made in Japan.
The other item was a random find at a thrift store. I was blown away because even though we hit at least 2 thrift stores a week and we live only an hour away from Universal, we rarely ever find Universal items when we thrift. Maybe it’s because most of the goods go home with tourists. I’d probably have a better chance of finding an item at a Goodwill in Kansas.
This particular thrift store is a tiny, mom and pop place that’s overloaded with stuff. We’d visited the store once before and never noticed the Universal souvenir plate hanging next to the register. We visited the store just after Christmas and while we were haggling over the price of an old vacuum, I spotted it. The owner said the plate had been hanging on the wall since the day he bought it, part of the inheritance from the former owner. Meaning, I somehow missed it the first time we were there. When I asked the price, he laughed and said he never thought about selling it but since I was so excited, he’d let it go for $150.
Luckily, he was joking. We ended up paying $27 for both the vacuum cleaner and the plate. This one comes from the same era as the mug as it also features Conan but not Galactica – so maybe it’s a little later. It also features a tram with headlights piercing the darkness, Jaws, the western stunt show, the Psycho House (my favorite pic on the plate) and the parting of the Red Sea.
The center block is devoted to the old, animatronic King Kong attraction which was destroyed in a fire back in 2008. The new King Kong is interesting, but the old one was much more fun.
I have a third item to show you but it’s so special, I’m going to wait and give it its own post.
Use the comment box below to tell me about your latest Fandom Find!
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2019-04-21T16:40:26Z
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http://cynthiaboris.com/2015/01/fandom-finds-universal-studios-mug-and-plate/
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Superboy #68 (DC, 1958) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white pages. Notoriously scarce in high grade -- CGC has certified just four copies higher than FN+ 6.5, and none as high as this astonishing copy. The origin and first appearance of Bizarro has made this key issue the most valuable in the title's long run, except for the first 15 issues, issued years before. Curt Swan cover. It good, you bid now, or we am sad! Overstreet 2008 VF/NM 9.0 value = $610; NM- 9.2 value = $850. CGC census 4/08: 1 in 9.0, none higher. From the David N. Toth Collection.
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https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/superboy-68-dc-1958-cgc-vf-nm-90-off-white-pages/a/828-41335.s
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When both constables get involved in a pair of hugely intricate murder cases, one of them of the serial variety, each reveals investigative strengths that give an already strong narrative an extra edge, all of which promises more good things ahead for Greenaway’s RCMP series.
Greenaway’s greatest strength in Cold Girl lies with her writing, in particular how she is able to describe the setting.
The strong sense of place turns the setting into another character.
Both he [Dion] and Greenaway have made impressive debuts...headed toward genuine crime-fiction acclaim.
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http://dundurn.com/books/Cold-Girl
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The facilities consist of seven buildings in a variety of architectural styles together with several recreation areas from the professional all weather sports pitch to the leafy dining break out garden.
The school’s modernised reception facility is now located in the administrative zone of the purpose built Languages College which fronts Munster Road.
Built an Edwardian construction in 1908 by the London County Council Schools Board to a Victorian design, the main block retains old world style - a dedication to the tradition and commitment to girls’ education on the site since the turn of the century.
Classrooms are located around the modern library at ground floor level, around a large traditional Victorian hall on the first floor and around former high ceilinged Art rooms with extended window lights on the third floor, now converted to the provision of three modern ICT suites.
The teaching of technology, now known as “resistant materials”, food technology, art, textiles, product design drama and music and instrumental tuition take place in a special block built for the purpose circa 1985. It is a single storey building of double storey height, constructed with a steel portal frame forming an environment of space and light in equal measure ideal for the pursuit of these creative activities. Teaching facilities include workshop equipment, a “dark space” drama suit, a music technology suite complete with keyboard linked PCs and a cooking suite with purpose designed food preparation points.
Our brand new state of the art Science blocks are currently under construction and are due for completion in Summer 2020.
The new Science and gym block will boast bespoke Science labs, staff rooms and a prep room, alongside a double-heighted gym. The main gym will have associated changing rooms, showers, storage areas and offices. Indoor sports including hockey, netball, dance, rowing machine action and health and stamina building will be practiced here to compliment the external all-weather facilities.
The building of ultra-modern design complete in recent years provides light and airy teaching classrooms and staff offices to support the specialist languages status of the school. The prime facility is the interactive languages laboratory in which students can participate in a wide variety of independent language based activities under the supervision of language specialists.
The detached, single storey, purpose built dining facility constructed circa 1995 shares the same red brick theme and opens on to a grassy courtyard with ornamental cherries giving an area of tranquillity at the heart of the site. The free draining synthetic grass is much loved by the students and complemented by the planted garden areas here and at other green corners of the site.
The modern kitchen facilities allow the production, presentation and enjoyment of a modern synthesis of freshly prepared, wholesome and nutritional food given the street food edge to attract healthy eaters.
A recent major investment, the site contains a new all-weather artificial sports pitch, fully safe and enclosed at the rear of the site.
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2019-04-26T08:35:17Z
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https://fulhamcross.squarespace.com/school-facilities
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Arts
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Recreation
| 0.881527 |
music-scores
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This is the music-scores Couperin sheet music section for Clarinet. We currently have 1 file available for download.
We have Couperin Clarinet sheet music for the following skill levels.
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2019-04-19T22:59:22Z
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https://www.music-scores.com/instrument/composer.php?instrument=Clarinet&name=Couperin
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.171801 |
google
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The Friends of Carolina Sandhills Refuge will be hosting our 6th Annual Youth Fishing Day at Oxpen Lake. The event is Saturday, June 7 from 8:30-11:00a.m. with a cookout at Lake Bee to follow. This event is for youth under the age of 16. Fishing rods, bait and tackle will be provided or you can bring your own! Parents may help their children, but are not allowed to fish. Please bring a bucket or stringer to take your catch home. There will be door prizes and goody bags for all participants. Preregistration is required and will open May 1, 2014. Call the Refuge Office at843/335-8350 or email carolinasandhills@fws.gov with the youth's name, age, adult contact name, and adult telephone number.
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2019-04-19T03:09:53Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofcarolinasandhills/home
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Arts
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Recreation
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wordpress
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A good old fashioned Stephen King horror story. It’s about time he tried to scare me again!
Check It Out: Orbit Holiday Sale!
Orbit Short Fiction for $0.99!!!
BOOK OULET BLACK FRIDAY HAUL!!!
So I wanted to buy a lot, and I mean a lot more books than I actually a did. The deals were unreal!!!! However, I was able to control myself – kind of – and get a “reasonable” amount of books. Although in my excitement, I did goof up a little with one thing. Here is what I picked up though!
A must read for all fans of the Night Angel Trilogy, and especially those who are interested in learning more about Durzo.
*Please not that this is prequel novella of a series. Meaning that if you read beyond this point, you will learn somethings about the story, that authors does not revel until the second and third books of the series.
Brent Weeks finishes off his epic trilogy with another action-paced, fast-paced story. A great final book for a very impressive debut series.
*Please not that this is the third book of a series. Meaning that if you read beyond this point, you will encounter some spoilers from the previous books.
Shadow’s Edge picks up exactly where book 1 left off – it’s a fast-paced, action-packed, page-turning, keeping you up all night reading, kind of book.
*Please not that this is second book of a series. Meaning that if you read beyond this point, you will encounter some spoilers from the first book.
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2019-04-24T16:42:36Z
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https://mylifemybooksmyescape.wordpress.com/2014/12/
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Arts
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News
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foxnews
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A veteran skydiver was killed in Michigan after attempting a difficult stunt that ended with him striking a tree and a pedestrian.
Kenneth Ryan Bernek, 34, of Waterford, was trying a “swooping” maneuver in the skies over Ray Township on Saturday before he lost control. The stunt requires a skydiver to fly close to the ground at a high speed for a long distance, one of his colleagues told the New York Daily News.
Michigan state police say Bernek, who is a member of the Midwest Freefall Sport Parachute Club, hit into a tree before colliding with a 53-year-old woman who was in the landing area.
It was not clear why the woman was in the landing area, but she is expected to be released after being sent to a hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries, the Macomb Daily reports.
Medical responders performed CPR on Bernek after the accident, but he died at a hospital.
Bernek had completed 1,800 dives and joined the club in 2002, the New York Daily News reports.
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2019-04-20T00:26:29Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-skydiver-strikes-tree-woman-in-fatal-accident
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Arts
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Sports
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wordpress
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After a bit of research I discovered the problem was in the network. This backup connect to serveral servers to work (Legato Server, a recover catalog and other database becouse of be a duplicate). Maybe a cut down of miliseconds order was enough to crash the restore. To verify the network stability and repeat the Rman Script solve the problem.
After many probes I have discovered that password file is wrong. I performed a scp from prod to dev. When I send the file again it works fine.
Today I was performa a duplicate database when I got the next error.
Okay, it is my fault, I forgot set the cluster_databsae to FALSE. It came from a RAC and have value of TRUE. It is so easy as change this parameter.
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2019-04-19T02:17:03Z
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https://sql1.wordpress.com/category/rman/
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Arts
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Computers
| 0.989661 |
uky
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Communication juniors and seniors are invited to attend the fall 2018 Student-Alumni Networking Night on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. at the Hilary J. Boone Center, 500 Rose Street, Lexington KY 40506.
This event will connect COM majors with successful UK Department of Communication alumni who will share tips on successful interviewing, launching a professional career, finding the best career “fit” and more. There will be food and great discussions!
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2019-04-26T02:47:54Z
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http://comm.uky.edu/2018-student-alumni-networking-night/
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Arts
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Computers
| 0.296747 |
google
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Thank you for the time that you are taking to complete this Annual Report. Filing an Annual Report each year, as well as inducting and ordering induction materials at least once every two years are the requirements for retaining your active charter status. Please know that we will be reading it with great interest! Thank you for all you do to encourage your students and maintain a dynamic French program in your school. Bonnes vacances!
Would you be willing to contribute an article to the "Bourse aux idees" section of the SHF-JAF publication, L'Elan? If so, on what one activity or program?
If your high school's French Honor Society celebrated National French Week, please describe your most successful activity.
If your high school's French Honor Society held an induction ceremony, please share one aspect of the ceremony that was well received.
If your high school's French Honor Society has sponsored activities, please describe your most successful one.
If you have 1 or 2 pictures that you would like to share from your induction please attach the file.
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2019-04-18T17:20:15Z
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEzgqWHWRye_TTWpeKu6H0RnRvMo8VAKSQM2LfHt4KC72XeA/viewform?usp=send_form
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.303629 |
wordpress
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Years past and my sister continued with her studies to university and I had to go and look for a job. Because I couldn’t sit around doing nothing. So I continued with my dance.
And after couple of months I was hired to be a dancer and a product specialist for a big marketing company in South Africa. I was so excited because my dance manager made sure that he got jobs for me and other girls I used go dance with in my crew.
Life moved on and my sister finished her course. And she started job hunting, she tried all she could but she never got a job. So my company was looking for a dancer and I knew that she danced very well so I recommend her to come and work with me in the same company. Because we use to dance together. Five months later she got pregnant.
And my father blamed me for her pregnancy. He told me I should not have taken my younger sister to the big city. But it was not my fault because she had that boyfriend from the university and I knew nothing about it. Even though I used to see the guy with her. But it was not on my place to tell her what to do. Even though I have talked to her as my little sister to be careful.
But my father did not understand all that. He felt betrayed, because she was his favorite daughter. And she disappointed him, because he had high hopes for her. To change our situation at least. Nine months later she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and two months later came back to work. But she did not stop sending CV’S to different companies.
A year past and nothing was coming out. And she continued to work in the same company with me, but different regions and locations. One day I met two strange girls in the hotel and they requested to speak with me. I was surprised and shocked because I didn’t know them. So I told them I will meet up with them later.
So later on I went to their hotel room as I promised but I took my team leader with me, she was like a mother to me. So as I entered their room. One of the girls started telling me things about myself and most of them I knew about them. I was afraid and shocked. How could this young beautiful white girl know so much about me and my family. She told me am going to use my loose people so dear no me. She explained everything to me.
But she did not tell me the time, years or even months. My team leader told her to stop, because I was already not feeling comfortable any more around her. So I left their bedroom and everything she told me started playing like a dream in me. But months past and everything was going smoothly. My family and friends were ok. Until one day.
i was saying beautiful to you..
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2019-04-26T03:51:13Z
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https://tashneevmavee.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/journey-of-my-life-chapter-14/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.223235 |
adobe
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William Eggleston was an American photographer that was born on the 27th of July 1939. As a boy he was very creative, he enjoyed playing piano and drawing, he was always drawn to visual media.
he is best known for having vibrant, bold colours in his images, and very much credited with increasing recognition for colour photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. his solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1976 is considered a pivotal moment in the recognition of colour photography as a contemporary art form.
he was invited to photograph the 1982 production set of john Huston's film Annie. over his years he has travelled the world, photographing things/people/places that interests/inspires him.in 1998, he took a series of photographs in England called 'english rose', he's has visited places such as south Africa, china, japan, France.
there is a trust dedicated to the representation and preservation of his work, the director of the Eggleston Artistic trust is his two sons.
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2019-04-23T23:56:23Z
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https://spark.adobe.com/page/X8xleAPa4ueGD/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.774518 |
nypl
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American poet and journalist.
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence. The manuscripts and typescripts comprise a draft of a poem by the author and a manuscript note, as well as a poem by Louise Robinson Waite. The correspondence comprises letters from the author, dating from 1881 to 1919, to Julian Hawthorne, I. M. Stoddard, Louise Robinson Waite, and others, as well a letter relating to the author, dated March 10 [n.y.], from Ethel Wilcox Hauptman to Louise Robinson Waite. There are letters to Ella Wheeler Wilcox from Paul Börnsen and from Robert M. Wilcox, dating from 1882 to 1917.
Previous owners include Joan Howe, W. T. H. Howe, and Louise Robinson Waite.
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2019-04-18T20:25:10Z
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http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19335
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.812679 |
independent
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Dublin hotels experienced a fall in revenue per available room last month, following over two years of positive growth.
Outside the capital the figure remained positive, new figures show.
This comes on the back of a controversial Vat hike in the last Budget as well as increased competition.
Dublin revenue per room fell 1.6pc in February, with occupancy down 1.0 percentage points. In Regional Ireland, revenue increased 3.5pc last month, while occupancy edged up 1.3 percentage points.
Despite intensive lobbying and dire predictions that it would result in job cuts and unprofitability, the Government decided in last October's Budget to return a special 9pc Vat rate it had introduced during the downturn for certain sectors, to 13.5pc.
Despite the headwinds in 2019, Joseph Quinn, analyst at Davy Stockbrokers, said he believes Ireland’s largest hotel group, Dalata, should "outperform" the broader market.
"Additionally, Dalata’s FY18 results outlook comment that Quarter One “trading across our three regions is in line with our expectations” further supports this view," Mr Quinn added.
In London both revenue and occupancy was up marginally in February. While in the rest of the UK there was a fall in both revenue per available room (down 2.7pc) and occupancy (down 0.3 percentage points).
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2019-04-21T13:20:35Z
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https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/revenue-from-hotel-rooms-falls-in-dublin-remains-positive-across-the-regions-37933098.html
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Arts
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Business
| 0.94827 |
squarespace
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HIIT GYM is a fitness programme designed around the science of EPOC. By monitoring your efforts with our 5 zone heart rate system we can make sure you are always working out to your correct intensity and motivate you if you are not. Our workouts are different every day and consist of 20 minutes of High Intensity Interval Training followed by cardio elements to help burn fat and increase your fitness. After each session you are emailed your results, to ensure your metabolism is fired up and you see increases in your energy the goal is to spend at least 20 minutes in the “orange” zone.
No not at all, our heart rate monitoring system ensures you are at your correct intensity. Your personal trainer keeps a close eye on you not just intensity but also your exercise technique. Whilst your trainer is there to encourage you to push yourself so you always get better they are not there to kill you!
How do I book a free week trial ?
All online and really simple, click on your location, online store and select free week trial. The system will guide you through to set up your account. When you are ready click on the tab HIIT classes and your free week will start from your first session. The team will know it is your first session with us and so help you get set up and find out more about what you are looking to achieve.
If you aim for 2-3 sessions a week you should start to see a difference in about 4 weeks. Every studio is equipped with the latest IN BODY which measures your lean muscle and body fat %. This is a great tool for you to monitor your progress rather than being focused on “weight loss” which often results in lean muscle loss - hence many put more weight back on when crash dieting.
Yes every studio is designed for easy and fast access, so you are in - workout - out. If you have to get ready for work or a date with have private shower and changing facilitates.
How do I book my sessions?
You can book all sessions via our online booking system or click on the app buttons to download your studios app, this will make it quicker and easier.
All memberships are offered on a no contract basis, we ask for a 3 month commit just so you stick with it and see the results you were looking for. We are aimed at being better than a personal trainer but at less that a quarter of the price! Memberships are based on the number of workouts you will be attending and start from £39 per month, we also offer a number of pay as you go sessions which start from just £10 per session. All prices are shown on your studio’s booking system under the online store tab.
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2019-04-22T14:00:48Z
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https://simon-bateman-elgl.squarespace.com/faq
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Arts
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Recreation
| 0.519581 |
cokemachineglow
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The whimsy of The Books has gone, replaced by a melancholic whisper of sorrow. Where The Lemon of Pink was more of a re-working of Thought for Food, Lost and Safe removes much of the chaotic elements of its predecessors, substituting a more focused, and therefore cohesive approach to their cut-and-paste style. The vocal samples join together in a way that presents an ambiguous narrative, one that may not necessarily tell a story, but gives off an array of emotions: regret, fear, nostalgia, loss.
What a Books fan will undoubtedly notice with the first track, “A Little Longing Goes Away,” is the lack of their trademark samples of fragmented vocals. Instead, Nick or Paul (not sure which, their website is maddeningly unhelpful) sings, his whispery tenor flanging over a droning organ, not quite unlike The Dead Texan.
Which isn't to say The Books have completely flipped; they've just, in a manner that may split Books fanatics,matured. Besides, it's not like all of Lost and Safe is attempting to forge new ground. “Be Good to Them Always” and “If Not Now, Whenever” have all the unmistakable qualities of The Books: the bizarre sound clips, the chopped guitar, the electronics.
However, Lost & Safe best transcends the capricious nature of its preceding albums when Paul and Nick consciously distance themselves from their previous work. “It Never Changes to Stop” starts off simply, a sweet number circling around an echoing banjo refrain and Zammuto’s cello work. Halfway through the track, a voice suddenly cuts in, something of a cross between Dubya and R. Lee Erny. We listen as he chastises a class: “LOOK UP HERE… nobody talk, nobody move.” It’s isolation from any point of relevance makes it all the more haunting.
There is no “Tokyo” here, no “All Bad Ends All, songs that mesh frenetic acoustic strings into fantastically catchy and up-tempo beats. What we have instead is “An Animated Description of Mr. Maps,” a song revolving around violent, crashing drums. A narrator begins midway through the song, describing the man (42, 5’8’’, unusually strong, bearded, has a pipe, who might very well be living abroad) each syllable punctuated by a snare drum. Who is he? Is he a relative? A friend? A stranger? A science experiment? A science teacher? An amalgamation of American machismo with European intellectualism?
Hardly poetic, but certainly to the point. Lost & Safe cannot be called an anti-American, and therefore anti-Bush album. There is nothing specifically referencing the U.S., other than the aforementioned quote. However, the general tone evoked by many of the excerpts more than suggest that The Books have had enough with American culture and foreign policy.
De Jong and Zammuto have sampled the American way of life and it has left a sour taste (a viewpoint made even more refreshing that it is not in the form of acoustic Americana). It has made them cynical for the better.
Like misbegotten children climbing on the back of their older and indifferent brothers, most artists who have taken on a personal quest to attack our current regime choose to inarticulately rant and rave with every public appearance. The Books are more avuncular in nature, white-haired and weary, sitting on their porch and shaking their head in disbelief as they watch us burn ants with magnifying glasses. Lost & Safe is the byproduct.
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2019-04-22T19:04:09Z
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http://cokemachineglow.com/records/books-lostandsafe-2005/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.196104 |
deseretnews
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A leopard can't change his spots. But we're talking about real people.
The criminal justice system of the United States is overburdened, understaffed and incredibly inefficient. Recidivism and a revolving door keep too many perpetually trapped in the system. Likewise, addiction rehab centers are bursting at the seams, often producing equally dismal results. Is there a better approach to changing behavior? What can be done? We explore non-government solutions with someone who was locked up and locked in that broken prison system. Dave Durocher, managing director at The Other Side Academy, provides a look into an innovative and revolutionary approach transforming criminals into contributing citizens -- on this week’s episode of "Therefore, what?"
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2019-04-20T10:48:24Z
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https://cdn.deseretnews.com/podcast/therefore-what/episode/89174128-49e1-45b3-8df0-a92f0154d33c
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.450161 |
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